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How to Break Into the Game Industry Part 3: On Writing for Games and the Impossible…ish Dream. | Vancouver Sun
▻http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/07/30/how-to-break-into-the-game-industry-part-3-on-writing-for-games-

This week’s blog is the third in a three part series detailing tips and tricks on how to break into the Video Game Industry. Today we’re going to focus on writing and, as with last week, we’ll look at skills and education needed to apply for a permanent job in the industry, as well as what is needed to work on your own projects.

So you want to write video games.

#écrire #jeux_vidéo

La grippe #chiroptère marque le pas.
Le nouveau #coronavirus n’est décidément pas très contagieux : pas de nouveaux cas depuis l’alerte initiale. Il a fait cependant une nouvelle victime : le médecin qui l’a détecté et a déclenché l’alerte s’est fait virer de l’hôpital de Djedda où il bossait (j’imagine selon la règle administrative universelle, pas de vagues !) Il propose désormais ses services à son pays d’origine l’Égypte, pour aider au dépistage parmi les pélerins de retour du hadj.
Excellente synthèse sur le *_Star de Toronto du 21/10/12 : ▻http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/1274934--new-sars-like-virus-discovered-before-it-causes-outbreak

Pas d’alerte sanitaire majeure pour le hadj en cours actuellement. Les directives sanitaires pour se préparer au pèlerinage (avec tout un paragraphe sur le nouveau # SARS-like virus, il faut dire l’info est sortie en plein milieu des préparatifs) : ▻http://www.onislam.net/english/health-and-science/special-coverage/457635-going-to-hajj-your-health-kit.html

Un peu avant, on avait confirmation que l’origine animale était très probablement la chauve-souris : Study of new SARS-like coronavirus suggests it comes from animals, possibly bats , dans le Vancouver Sun du 18/10/12 (décidément la presse canadienne est en pointe sur le sujet).
▻http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Study+SARS+like+coronavirus+suggests+comes+from+animals+possibly+bats/7409508/story.html

Enfin, la responsable des maladies infectieuses du ministère de la santé d’Abou Dabi avertit de rester vigilant.

Dr Hosani said that some people believe the new virus should not be taken seriously and is not a separate disease. “Maybe, but we have to plan for the worst case scenario, even if there are only two cases,” she said.

De 7 days in Dubai , du 25/10/12,
▻http://www.7daysindubai.com/8216-ready-disease-outbreaks-8217-says-Abu-Dhabi/story-17168472-detail/story.html

Incidemment, on y apprend que les contaminations alimentaires bactériennes progressent, notamment dans les labour camps .

There were 627 cases of food poisoning from bacteria, up from 288 in the first half of 2010 and 420 in the first half of 2011.

She said she knew of one labour camp canteen that had to be closed in the Western Region earlier this year because of a food poisoning outbreak.

En prime, une superbe photo de chauve-souris de Andrew Burgess (une roussette (?) ( fruit bat ou flying fox ) reproduite par le Vancouver Sun_* :
▻http://www.vancouversun.com/health/7409428.bin

War on drugs prevents end to AIDS, by Evan Wood, Vancouver Sun
►http://www.vancouversun.com/health/drugs+prevents+AIDS/7005785/story.html

It’s clear that aggressive drug law enforcement strategies by governments continue to drive the HIV epidemic
 
Remarkably, the group among the most hard hit by HIV/AIDS is largely absent from the 19th International AIDS Conference. People addicted to intravenous drug use suffer extreme human rights abuses under a myriad of misguided policies in many areas of the world, and are barred entry to the United States. To add further injury, the issue of drug addiction has received scant attention at the conference, especially when compared to the impact it has on driving HIV infection.

#drogue #sida #santé

From South Africa’s gold mines, billion-dollar class action emerges (Vancouver Sun)
►http://www.vancouversun.com/business/business/6337526/story.html

They came on horseback or by foot, trudging through Lesotho’s highlands and clutching tattered identity documents to back their claims that South Africa’s gold mining firms ruined their lungs. Source: Vancouver Sun

Superbe reportage :: From South Africa’s gold mines, billion-dollar class action emerges | Vancouver Sun
►http://www.vancouversun.com/business/From%20South%20Africa%20gold%20mines%20billion%20dollar%20class%20action%20emerges/6337526/story.html

The men - some South African, others from neighbouring Lesotho - worked deep underground for many years, often with insufficient protection. They inhaled silica dust from gold-bearing rocks and later contracted silicosis. A disease which causes shortness of breath, a persistent cough and chest pains, it makes people highly susceptible to tuberculosis, which kills. It has no known cure.
The miners are led by Richard Spoor, a provincial lawyer who won a case last year that laid the legal ground for claims for compensation.

#santé #mines #silicose #travail #afrique_du_sud #cdp