mardi 6 août 2013
samedi 3 août 2013
Jane Green's last novel, The Beach House, was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured her largest audience yet. From the sunny green lawns of Connecticut to the cafés of London to the sandy beaches of Nantucket, Green draws from her own life to craft each delicious story and the resulting tales resonate with women everywhere.
Dune Road is another fun and fearless adventure that will take Green's many fans from laughter to tears and back again. The novel is set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town. Our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous-and famously reclusive-novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it-including some who fancy the writer for themselves. Dune Road is the story of life in an exclusive beach town after the tourists have left for the summer and the eccentric (and moneyed) community sticks around. Dune Road will surely be the book to pack in beach bags next summer.
Dune Road is another fun and fearless adventure that will take Green's many fans from laughter to tears and back again. The novel is set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town. Our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous-and famously reclusive-novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it-including some who fancy the writer for themselves. Dune Road is the story of life in an exclusive beach town after the tourists have left for the summer and the eccentric (and moneyed) community sticks around. Dune Road will surely be the book to pack in beach bags next summer.
jeudi 1 août 2013
EXPO 67 / États-Unis-d'Amérique
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À l'intérieur du pavillon, diverses expositions sont présentées. Le cinéma américain et plusieurs aspects du monde du spectacle y occupent une place importante. Les beaux-arts sont représentés notamment par des œuvres du mouvement pop art et op art (arts visuels). On y relate également l'arrivée et la vie des premiers colons européens en terre américaine. De plus, les visiteurs peuvent en apprendre davantage sur les réalisations et les projets des astronautes, tout comme sur leurs outils de travail. Ces expositions illustrent bien le thème du pavillon : l'Amérique créatrice.
Le dôme géodésique, offert à la ville de Montréal par le président Lyndon B. Johnson, abrite aujourd'hui la Biosphère, un centre d'observation environnementale.
mercredi 31 juillet 2013
Météo / juillet 2013
Neige : N/SPluie : 99.8
Maximum : 23.9 / 31.5 le 19 juillet
Minimum: 20.8 / 2.5 le 25 juillet
Nuages: 6/10
Vents : 10km/hr /45km le 19 juillet
dominants : NE
dimanche 28 juillet 2013
Behind the well-known U.S. security organizations-- the FBI and CIA among them--lies a heavily guarded, anonymous government agency dedicated to intelligence surveillance and to a highly specialized brand of citizen protection. Shock waves of alarm ripple through the clandestine agency when Washington, D.C., police detective Ryan Kessler inexplicably becomes the target of Henry Loving, a seasoned, ruthless "lifter" hired to obtain information using whatever means necessary. While Loving is deft at torture, his expertise lies in getting an "edge" on his victim--leverage--usually by kidnapping or threatening family until the "primary" caves under pressure.
The job of keeping the Kessler family alive falls to a man named Corte, a senior federal protection officer known as a "shepherd." Uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a passionate board game aficionado, he applies brilliant gaming strategy to his work. For Corte, the reappearance of Loving--the man who, six years earlier, had tortured and killed someone close to him--is also an opportunity to avenge his friend's death. The assignment soon escalates into a fast-paced duel between Corte and Loving, a dangerous volley of wits and calculated risks.
As he shepherds the Kesslers to a concealed safe house, Corte must anticipate Loving's every step as the lifter moves in on his prey, and with the help of razor-sharp investigator Claire DuBois and his longtime ally, FBI agent Paul Fredericks, pinpoint which of Kessler's seemingly insignificant cases has triggered Loving's return. As the team digs deeper, each of the Kesslers comes under close scrutiny, and in captivity their family bonds are stretched to the breaking point--as the lifter draws near, Corte must ultimately choose between protecting his charges and exposing them to a killer in the name of long-awaited revenge.
vendredi 26 juillet 2013
La Lune influencerait le sommeil -
Le Dr Christian Cajochen et ses collègues de l'Hôpital psychiatrique de l'Université de Basel ont enregistré les électroencéphalogrammes de 33 bénévoles pendant leur nuit pour découvrir que leurs habitudes de sommeil suivaient un cycle de 29,5 jours, soit le cycle lunaire.
À la nouvelle Lune, ils ont observé que les participants dormaient en moyenne 20 minutes de moins, qu'ils prenaient 5 minutes de plus pour s'endormir, et que leur temps de sommeil profond diminuait de 30 %.
Les chercheurs reconnaissent que ce n'est pas l'effet gravitationnel de la Lune qui cause ce cycle et émettent l'hypothèse que nos habitudes de sommeil suivent un « rythme sélénien » similaire au rythme circadien (quotidien) et au rythme circannuel (par saison).
Le détail de ces travaux est publié dans la revue Current Biology.
En 2012, des chercheurs de l'Université Laval ont d'ailleurs montré qu'il n'existe aucun lien entre les phases de la Lune et la fréquence des troubles psychologiques.
Pas moins de 80 % des infirmières et de 64 % des médecins pensent que le cycle lunaire affecte la santé mentale des patients
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