Plastic Bag Knitting

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her ability to tap into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she explores what happens when a young woman's past -- a past she didn't even know she had -- catches up to her just in time to threaten her future.

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it.

In shock and confusion, Delia must sift through the truth -- even when it jeopardizes her life and the lives of those she loves. What happens when you learn you are not who you thought you were? When the people you've loved and trusted suddenly change before your eyes? When getting your deepest wish means giving up what you've always taken for granted? Vanishing Acts explores how life -- as we know it -- might not turn out the way we imagined; how doing the right thing could mean doing the wrong thing; how the memory we thought had vanished could return as a threat. Once again, Jodi Picoult handles a difficult and timely topic with understanding, insight, and compassion.

 Moment Factory is a new media and entertainment studio specialized in the conception and production of multimedia environments combining video, lighting, architecture, sound and special effects to create remarkable experiences. Beaucoup de succès Suzanne dans ton nouvel emploi  comme CFO.

 

Misère de Misère comme dans les annonces de sacs à ordures; mon sac de recyclage à laché... Thanks Shirley pour avoir tout remis dans un autre sac!.

Semaine des Enseignantes et Enseignants

Merci à tous nos profs!
Pendant la Semaine des enseignantes et des enseignants, du 3 au 9 février 2013, prenons un moment pour témoigner notre gratitude au personnel enseignant du Québec. Celui-ci mérite toute notre reconnaissance pour sa contribution essentielle à la société. Il a la responsabilité de transmettre aux jeunes des connaissances indispensables à l’accroissement de leur potentiel et au développement de leurs compétences.

Nous avons toutes et tous une enseignante ou un enseignant qui a marqué notre parcours scolaire et même notre vie. Par ses méthodes d’enseignement, sa philosophie, son dynamisme, son originalité et son dévouement, ce professionnel a influencé positivement notre parcours et modelé une facette de notre personnalité. Profitons de la Semaine des enseignantes et des enseignants pour raconter nos histoires et rendre hommage aux femmes et aux hommes qui nous ont inspirés.

Ensemble, montrons-leur que nous les apprécions à leur juste valeur!

Message de la ministre

Les enseignantes et enseignants du Québec portent, au quotidien, une importante responsabilité. Ils transmettent à nos enfants un bien des plus précieux, celui de la connaissance, qui ouvre la voie à l’épanouissement, à une meilleure compréhension du monde, à l’exercice de leur citoyenneté et à la liberté de choisir la vie dont ils rêvent.

Cette tâche complexe et exigeante, les enseignants l’accomplissent avec toute la rigueur, la passion et le cœur qu’elle implique. Ils méritent notre admiration et notre soutien.

La Semaine des enseignantes et des enseignants nous donne une occasion privilégiée d’exprimer notre gratitude à ces femmes et à ces hommes remarquables, qui jouent un rôle primordial dans le développement de nos enfants et de notre société.

J’invite donc les élèves, les parents et toute la population à se joindre à moi et à rendre hommage au personnel enseignant en cette semaine qui lui est consacrée. Remercions-les d’être à la fois piliers du savoir, éveilleurs de curiosité et bâtisseurs d’avenir.

Ensemble, soyons « Un Québec fier de ses enseignantes et de ses enseignants ! ».

Marie Malavoy
Ministre de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport

Fred la marmotte québécoise vs Phil la marmotte américaine

Si l'on se fie à la marmotte nationale du Québec, Fred, le printemps sera tardif.

Au cours d'une cérémonie qui a réuni des centaines de personnes, tôt samedi matin, à Val-d'Espoir, en Gaspésie, la marmotte Fred est sortie de son terrier et a vu son ombre. L'hiver devrait donc se poursuivre pour au moins six autres semaines.

Fred donne sa prédiction sur l'arrivée du printemps depuis 4 ans maintenant. L'événement se tient sur le perron de l'église de la petite municipalité, située près de Percé. Au cours des trois premières années, Fred ne s'est trompé que lors de la première édition de l'événement. Cependant, Fred ne s'entend pas avec ses collègues ontarienne et américaine pour les prévisions.En Ontario, Wiarton Willie a prédit un printemps hâtif. Et la plus célèbre des marmottes, Punxsutawney Phil, en Pennsylvanie, n'a pas vu son ombre non plus, ce qui signifie que la fin de l'hiver approcherait à grands pas.  (La Presse Canadienne)

On this February 2nd, 2013,the One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Annual Trek of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club at Gobbler’s Knob….

Punxsutawney Phil, the King of the Groundhogs,

Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of Prognosticators,

Weather Prophet without Peer,

was awakened from his borrow at 7:28 am

with a tap of the President’s cane.

Phil and President Deeley conversed in Groundhogese and Phil directed him to the chosen Prognostication scroll.

The President tapped the chosen scroll and

directed Phil’s Prediction be proclaimed:

My new Knob entrance is a sight to behold

Like my faithful followers, strong and bold

And so ye faithful,there is no shadow to see

An early Spring for you and me. (NBCNews.com)

Le village de Punxsutawney, où Phil a son terrier, observe la tradition depuis le XIXe siècle.

Brome / moyenne du mois de janvier 2013

Pluie : 14.6
Neige: 35.0
Maximum :-5.6 / 14.0 le 30 janvier
Minimum : -12.5 / -31.5 le 3 janvier
Nuages : 7/10
Vents : 12km / 50km le 31 janvier
dominants : SW

Météo / moyennes des mois de janvier

 

Météo/Brome - janvier 2013

 

               '' Merci, mais y'a pas de risque que j'embarque dans la laveuse pour prendre ma douche ''
 Ah ces traductions....( Protégez-Vous.ca)

 

Maintenant que les points sont enlevés Sabrina dit : J'ai faim! Can we go eat? She hasn't eaten anything normal in 7 days. Still nothing acidic for 4-5 weeks.  (Vraiment raisonnable Sabrina!)

It's been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton's college graduation and almost as long since he'd been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once a highly regarded ophthalmologist, Jack's career took a dramatic turn after a tragic accident that destroyed his family. But that, too, is very much in the past: Jack has remarried-to longtime colleague and fellow medical examiner Laurie Montgomery-and is the father of a young child. But his renegade, activist personality can't rest, and after performing a postmortem on a young college student who had recently been treated by a chiropractor, Jack decides to explore alternative medicine. What makes some people step outside the medical establishment to seek care from practitioners of Eastern philosophies and even faith healers?

Jack's classmate Shawn Doherty is now a renowned archeologist and biblical scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose taste for good wine and generally deteriorating health are taking a toll on his career. He has recently obtained permission for a final dig beneath Saint Peter's, and despite his long-standing grudge against the Catholic Church, begins his research-which eventually takes him to Jerusalem and Venice -only to make a startling discovery with ecclesiastical and medical implications. And when Kevin Murray, now Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, gets wind of Shawn's findings, he's desperate to keep them from the public. Kevin has strong political ambitions within the Church, but his association with Shawn threatens to undermine them. Kevin turns to his old friend Jack to help protect an explosive secret-one with the power to change lives forever.



It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together. Struggling to rebuild their lives after Lizzie's death, he reunites everyone at Lizzie's childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. And there, over one unforgettable summer, Jack will begin to learn to love again, and he and his children will learn how to become a family once more.  Très émouvant!

 

 

 

Sophie n'aime pas les raisins

 

Mathieu - Bromont

 

Sabrina - Bromont

Mathieu, Laurie et Max fabriquent des flocons de neige ...en papier!

From legendary storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford, a spellbinding story of four women transformed by old memories and surprising revelations when they meet again at a school reunion in Paris.As students at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Alexandra Gordon, Kay Lenox, Jessica Pierce and Maria Franconi share the challenges and excitement of developing their various artistic talents to the fullest under Sedgwick's caring and demanding guidance. But once best friends, they part enemies, and after graduation they go their separate ways, pursuing careers and establishing lives in different corners of the world. Alexandra, a set designer, becomes a leading figure in New York's theater world. Kay, who marries and moves to Scotland, designs a successful line of clothing. Jessica, an interior designer, makes her home in California, while Maria returns to her native Italy, where she continues to work in her family's textile business.each of them, the arrival of an invitation to Paris to celebrate Anya Sedgwick's eighty-fifth birthday stirs up complicated feelings: Nostalgic memories are colored by poignant regrets, and the reluctance to revisit their own pasts mixes with curiosity about the other women. It is ultimately their desire to deal with unfinished business that convinces all of them to attend the party. During three eventful weeks in Paris, they visit their old haunts, rekindle ties, and awaken in one another the sense of wonder, adventure, and possibilities they had shared so long ago