#David Tisserand

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L'ATTENTE DANS LA VIE DU CROYANT

Le croyant, qui a affirmé qu’il s’attend à l’Éternel et qu’il répondra certainement, n’attend d’aide et de secours qu’en Dieu seul.

Ce Psaume peut être vu comme la continuation du Psaume 38. Le croyant est toujours sous la discipline du Père. Dans ces deux psaumes, nous considérons les voies de Dieu en gouvernement envers le croyant, suite à un péché qu’il a commis. Dans le Psaume 38, il fait appel au secours divin (v. 23). Ici, il fait appel aux compassions divines pour être délivré. Il réalise ce qu’exprimera le prophète Jérémie dans ses lamentations : « Mais, lorsqu'il afflige, Il a compassion selon sa grande miséricorde » (Lam. 3 : 32).

À la suite de ce qu’il a déclaré précédemment (Ps. 38 : 14-15), le croyant reste muet dans ses souffrances et devant les méchants qui le guettent et le provoquent ; il ne veut pas pécher de sa langue et désire se garder du mal (voir 1 Pi. 1 : 10). Jacques nous rappelle combien la langue peut faire de mal ; il nous donne un résumé de ce qu’elle est capable de faire (voir Jac. 3 : 5-10). Mais la Parole nous dit aussi que la langue du juste est précieuse « comme de l’argent choisi » (Prov. 10 : 20a), et combien est bonne « une parole dite en son temps », ou à propos (Prov. 15 : 23 ; 25 : 11). Recherchons et apprécions les paroles du Seigneur Jésus, paroles de grâce et de vérité qui ont fait et font tellement de bien à ceux qui les écoutent et ne laissons « tomber à terre aucune de ses paroles » (1 Sam. 3 : 19), les serrant et les gardant dans notre cœur.

Ce silence du psalmiste sous la main de Dieu montre aussi son entière soumission à la discipline paternelle que Dieu exerce envers lui et sous laquelle il s’incline (v. 10). Si nous demeurons « soumis au Père des esprits », nous comprenons le but de sa discipline exercée « pour notre profit, afin que nous participions à sa sainteté » (Héb. 12 : 9-10). Mais la douleur du psalmiste est exacerbée et finalement, il ne tient plus : sa bouche s’ouvre, il est « plein de paroles » et son esprit le «presse» (voir Job 32 : 18-20).

Il nous faut apprendre qu’il y a « un temps de se taire, et un temps de parler » (Ecc. 3 : 7). Que Dieu nous donne la sagesse de savoir quand nous devons rester muet : voyons par exemple l’attitude d’Aaron après le grave péché de ses fils que Dieu a mis à mort (Lév. 10 : 4). Qu’Il nous montre aussi quand nous devons parler, à l’exemple d’Élihu (Job 33 : 2-3), après les vaines paroles des trois amis de Job). Pensons à l’attitude exemplaire du Seigneur Jésus, muet dans toutes ses souffrances (És. 53 : 7 ; Marc 14 : 61 ; 15 : 5) et ne parlant que pour rendre témoignage de qui Il était (Marc 14 : 62 ; 15 : 3).

Alors David parle, mais c’est à Dieu, pour exprimer qu’il se remet à Lui et accepte les souffrances de sa part, pour son bien final. Il expose devant Dieu le sentiment de son extrême faiblesse ; il regarde à la brièveté de sa vie et désire apprendre par cela la fragilité et la vanité de l’homme sur la terre (v. 5-7 ; comp. Ps. 90 : 12). Le peu de jours de la vie de l’homme est souvent évoqué dans la Parole de Dieu, par diverses images : ici, « la largeur d’une main » (v. 5) ; ailleurs « une pensée » (Ps. 90 : 9b) ; « l’herbe » que l’on coupe et qui sèche (Ps. 90 : 5b-6), ou « la fleur de l’herbe » qui se fane, sèche et passe (És. 40 : 6-8 ; 1 Pi. 1 : 24 ; Jac. 1 : 10-11), « une vapeur qui paraît pour un peu de temps et puis qui disparaît » (Jac. 4 : 14) ; vanité, souffle ou ombre (Job 7 : 16 ; Ps. 144 : 4 ; Ecc. 6 : 12 ; 9 : 9) ; une navette de tisserand (Job 7 : 6) … Puissions-nous nous laisser enseigner par Dieu « à compter nos jours, afin que nous en acquérions un cœur sage » (Ps. 90 : 12), réalisant que « nos temps sont en sa main » (Ps. 31 : 16), qu’Il en a déterminé la succession et la durée. Comment employons-nous le temps qui nous est imparti sur la terre et dont Dieu seul connaît la longueur ? ....

Puis nous avons le verset central de ce psaume : « Et maintenant, qu’est-ce que j’attends, Seigneur ? Mon attente est en toi » (v. 8). David réalise qu’il ne peut se confier qu’en Dieu. Rechercherait-il l’aide de l’homme ? - Il est environné de méchants ; chercherait-il des forces en lui-même ? – Il n’est que faiblesse. Lorsque l’homme en a fini avec les autres et avec lui-même, alors Dieu peut intervenir car Il est la seule aide et le seul secours de celui qui est dans la détresse ou la souffrance. C’est à Lui que David demande la délivrance de son péché - « toutes mes transgressions » - et de l’opprobre de ceux qui ne connaissent pas Dieu - l’insensé – (v .9 ; voir Ps. 14 : 1). C’est Dieu qui a frappé en discipline, c’est Lui qui guérira en grâce (voir Job 5 : 18).

Le psalmiste dispose maintenant sa prière devant Dieu ; il supplie, il pleure, il s’humilie. Certainement Dieu entendra sa prière - « mon cri » - et ne sera pas « sourd » à ses larmes (v. 12), il les « verra » (voir És. 38 : 4), et Il le relèvera. C’est ce que nous voyons au Psaume suivant.

A suivre...

Source : Bible-notes. Org, Philippe Fuzier

L’attente dans la vie du croyant

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STALKER 2 And Other Ukraine Game Devs Condemn Russian Bombings

STALKER 2 And Other Ukraine Game Devs Condemn Russian Bombings

A Ukrainian serviceman rides atop a military vehicle past Independence square in central Kyiv on February 24, 2022.Photo: Daniel Leal (Getty Images) Last night Russian tanks moved across the border into Ukraine. The invasion saw bombings near the capital Kyiv and elsewhere, with the ensuing fighting leading to the deaths of over 40 Ukrainian soldiers, The New York Times reports. The attacks come…

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Nuits-Saint-Georges, objectif Terre-Lune

De l’astronome Félix Tisserand (1845-1896) à la mission Apollo 15 en passant par l’œuvre de Jules Verne, l’histoire d’amour entre Nuits et la Lune ne date pas d’hier. La cité vigneronne espère bien la prolonger avec une nouvelle cuvée Terre-Lune en quête d’espace.

Le beffroi de Nuits-Saint-Georges © Jean-Baptiste Feldmann

Par Geoffroy Morhain Pour DBM80

Sur la place du…

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Episode 500 - ALL The Guests

FIVE-HUNDRED EPISODES of The Virtual Memories Show?! Let's celebrate this milestone episode with tributes, remembrances, jokes, congrats, non-sequiturs, and a couple of songs (!) from nearly 100 of my past guests, including Maria Alexander, Jonathan Ames, Glen Baxter, Jonathan Baylis, Zoe Beloff, Walter Bernard, Sven Birkerts, Charles Blackstone, RO Blechman, Phlip Boehm, MK Brown, Dan Cafaro, David Carr, Kyle Cassidy, Howard Chaykin, Joe Ciardiello, Gary Clark, John Crowley, Ellen Datlow, Paul Di Filippo, Joan Marans Dim, Liza Donnelly, Bob Eckstein, Scott Edelman, Barbara Epler, Glynnis Fawkes, Aaron Finkelstein, Mary Fleener, Shary Flenniken, Josh Alan Friedman, Kipp Friedman, Michael Gerber, Mort Gerberg, ES Glenn, Sophia Glock, Paul Gravett, Tom Hart, Dean Haspiel, Jennifer Hayden, Glenn Head, Ron Hogan, Kevin Huizenga, Jonathan Hyman, Andrew Jamieson, Ian Kelley, Jonah Kinigstein, Kathe Koja, Ken Krimstein, Anita Kunz, Peter Kuper, Glenn Kurtz, Kate Lacour, Roger Langridge, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, John Leland, David Leopold, Sara Lippmann, David Lloyd, Whitney Matheson, Patrick McDonnell, Dave McKean, Scott Meslow, Barbara Nessim, Jeff Nunokawa, Jim Ottaviani, Celia Paul, Woodrow Phoenix, Darryl Pinckney, Weng Pixin, Eddy Portnoy, Virginia Postrel, Bram Presser, AL Price, Dawn Raffel, Boaz Roth, Hugh Ryan, Dmitry Samarov, Frank Santoro, JJ Sedelmaier, Nadine Sergejeff, Michael Shaw, R Sikoryak, Jen Silverman, Posy Simmonds, Vanessa Sinclair, David Small, Sebastian Smee, Ed Sorel, James Sturm, Mike Tisserand, Tom Tomorrow, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Kriota Willberg, Warren Woodfin, Jim Woodring, and Claudia Young. Plus, we look at back with segments from the guests we've lost over the years: Anthea Bell, Harold Bloom, Bruce Jay Friedman, Milton Glaser, Clive James, JD McClatchy, DG Myers, Tom Spurgeon, and Ed Ward. Here's to the next 500 shows! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

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1 Samuel 17

4 Un homme sortit alors du camp des Philistins et s'avança entre les deux armées. Il se nommait Goliath, il était de Gath, et il avait une taille de six coudées et un empan.

5 Sur sa tête était un casque d'airain, et il portait une cuirasse à écailles du poids de cinq mille sicles d'airain.

6 Il avait aux jambes une armure d'airain, et un javelot d'airain entre les épaules.

7 Le bois de sa lance était comme une ensouple de tisserand, et la lance pesait six cents sicles de fer. Celui qui portait son bouclier marchait devant lui.

45 David dit au Philistin : Tu marches contre moi avec l'épée, la lance et le javelot ; et moi, je marche contre toi au nom de l'Éternel des armées, du Dieu de l'armée d'Israël, que tu as insultée.

46 Aujourd'hui l'Éternel te livrera entre mes mains, je t'abattrai et je te couperai la tête ; aujourd'hui je donnerai les cadavres du camp des Philistins aux oiseaux du ciel et aux animaux de la terre. Et toute la terre saura qu'Israël a un Dieu.

47 Et toute cette multitude saura que ce n'est ni par l'épée ni par la lance que l'Éternel sauve. Car la victoire appartient à l'Éternel. Et il vous livre entre nos mains.

48 Aussitôt que le Philistin se mit en mouvement pour marcher au-devant de David, David courut sur le champ de bataille à la rencontre du Philistin.

49 Il mit la main dans sa gibecière, y prit une pierre, et la lança avec sa fronde ; il frappa le Philistin au front, et la pierre s'enfonça dans le front du Philistin, qui tomba le visage contre terre.

50 Ainsi, avec une fronde et une pierre, David fut plus fort que le Philistin ; il le terrassa et lui ôta la vie, sans avoir d'épée à la main.

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Les fabricants de denim japonais ont-ils vraiment importé des vieux métiers à tisser américains ?

On entend souvent dire que les entreprises japonaises produisent ou ont produit leurs tissus selvedge sur des machines à tisser importées des États-Unis. Dans la réalité, ce fait relève plus du mythe que de la vérité. David Marx, un des experts sur les liens entre la culture du vêtement japonaise et américaine, le confirme dans une interview pour NoManWalksAlone.

Ci dessous une la version traduite - traduction brute Google Translate - sur la question qui nous intéresse. L’interview complète et originale est disponible ici sur NoManWalksAlone.

David Isle : En parlant de jeans, pouvons-nous parler du mythe selon lequel les fabricants de denim japonais ont acheté les vieux métiers à tisser selvedge de Levi's ? Cette histoire est très répandue dans la blogosphère. Comment cela a-t-il commencé et comment savez-vous que ce n'est pas vrai?

W. David Marx : À ce stade, ce mythe est si répandu que même certaines personnes chez Levi's le croient. Je l'ai entendu pour la première fois à la fin des années 90. Je pense que tout cela remonte au fait qu'Evisu est devenu un acteur important en Occident, mais je ne sais pas à quel point Evisu était intentionnel en essayant de propager ce mythe.

Je pense qu'il est clair sous plusieurs angles le mythe n'est pas vrai. (Félicitations à Paul Trynka et Kiya Babzani, qui ont créé beaucoup de mythes.)

- Tout d'abord, il n'y a pas de «métiers à tisser Levi's» : Levi's achetait du denim selvedge à Cone Mills.

- Ensuite, Cone Mills a déclaré qu'ils n'avaient jamais vendu de métiers à tisser au Japon. Apparemment, ils ont tous été mis à la ferraille pour leur poids en métal.

- Troisièmement, ce sont de vieux métiers à tisser Toyoda qui sont utilisés pour fabriquer du denim selvedge au Japon et qui sont de bien meilleure qualité que les métiers à tisser Draper utilisés chez Cone Mills. J'ai lu une interview d’un gars de Cone Mills qui disait que lorsque les Japonais ont lancé leurs métiers selvedge, ils ont également sorti leurs vieux métiers à tisser Draper, et ils ont juste eu beaucoup plus de problèmes mécaniques que les japonais. Donc l'idée que les entreprises japonaises achèteraient ces vieux métiers à tisser américains - qui sont incroyablement lourds et difficiles à importer et fonctionnent de manière moins fiable - n'a pas vraiment beaucoup de sens.

- Le quatrième est que chaque personne que je connais qui a travaillé en étroite collaboration avec ces petites usines japonaises qui fabriquent du denim selvedge n'a jamais vu un seul métier à tisser Draper en service. Je pense qu'à un moment donné, quelqu'un aurait une photo d’un métier à tisser Draper de Cone Mills utilisé au Japon.

L'autre chose à comprendre à propos du denim selvedge est que les États-Unis avaient une histoire dans la fabrication de denim selvedge non pas parce que c'était du denim selvedge, mais simplement parce que tous les denim était autrefois fabriqué sur ces métiers à navette à laize étroite. Au fur et à mesure que la production augmentait, ils avaient besoin de métiers plus grands et plus modernes, et les vieux métiers navette ont donc disparu.

Etant donné que le Japon n'a vraiment commencé la production de denim qu'en 1972 ou 1973, ils l’ont faite sur des métiers à tisser très modernes. Kurabo était fier d'être le premier au monde à fabriquer du denim sur des métiers à tisser Suisse Sulzer de haute technologie. Ce n'est que lorsque la marque Big John a lancé la ligne Big John RARE en 1980 qu'une marque japonaise a même envisagé de commander la production de denim selvedge à ses usines japonaises. Il n'y avait donc vraiment aucun héritage dans la fabrication de denim selvedge jusqu'à ce que les marques veuillent se lancer dans la reproduction de styles anciens. Et à Okayama, ils avaient de très bons métiers selvedge pour fabriquer des toiles pour la voile qui est une très grande industrie à Kojima.

Ainsi la plupart - sinon la totalité - des métiers à tisser utilisés par les tisserands de denim japonais, tels que Kurabo, Kuroki, Kaihara ou même la marque assez confidentielle Momotaro, proviennent du constructeur japonais Toyoda. Comme expliqué par David Marx, les métiers à tisser sont des articles complexes et lourds, et il n'y aurait aucune raison d'importer les métiers américains au Japon, étant donné le grand nombre de métiers Toyoda déjà présent disponibles et de bonne qualité. Le métier à tisser automatique Toyoda a été introduit sur le marché japonais vers 1924, par Sakichi Toyoda. Le type G était extrêmement populaire et a été produit dans une version sous licence par la société britannique Platt Brothers. Ce fût un tel succès qu’il a permis à la société Toyoda de se développer dans la production automobile, sous le nom de Toyota, en 1937.

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Bluesy browses through the gloom, Stares of despair in the darkest of her days. Spare a day in her everyday life, Run around the same old uptown, Run alone when it all falls down, Ground down when no one’s around. Takes balls to Be A Girl sometimes, Takes guts to rise again with pride Takes love to smile again all through the pain Takes nerve to brave the spite of this world Takes bliss to stand still and sing. Regardless, joyful the whole day through.

A l’instar d’un mélancolique Neil Young qui jadis chantait Old Man, look at my life, Manon Cluzel des Uptown Lovers invoque un regard sur sa vie quotidienne  dans le clip de leur deuxième single, Be A Girl, extrait de leur premier album, By Your Side, attendu ce 4 Octobre 2019.

La vidéo capture une scène de vie, et présente un tableau tâché de colère, tristesse et morosité.

Le mini-film ouvre sur le son d’une guitare candide et innocente (Benjamin Gouhier) à la joie de vivre prononcée, avant de voir une chanteuse qui coule ses larmes, seule, dans son bain, brisée par la dureté de la réalité de cette Terre.

“Why is it so difficult to live on this Earth, without anger, without hatred?”

Le code couleur de la vidéo réalisée par Gabriel Bourdat soutient bien l’idée de l’écriture pour Be A Girl. En effet, les vêtements d’un blanc immaculé dont se vêtit Manon au début, suggèrent sa pureté ainsi que sa vulnérabilité. Dans sa désillusion, mille questions hantent ses pensées, et pour elle, le seul moyen pour nous de comprendre ce qu’elle ressent, est de vivre une journée avec elle.

Seule dans cet appartement, habitée par un vide profond, Manon nous invite dans l’intimité de sa chambre, dans l’intimité de son coeur. Elle nous fait vivre le quotidien d’une fille, du réveil, à la toilette, jusqu’au maquillage avant sa sortie en ville.

Pendant ce temps, l’orchestration progresse. Chaque élément arrive en temps. Josselin Soutrenon à la batterie impulse lentement le groove, avant l’entrée des joueuses percussions par Mathieu Manach et David Doris. La montée de l’orgue initiée par David Bressat donne frissons. Les émotions grimpent à leur paroxysme jusqu’à tout relâcher au moment du refrain… de quoi donner les larmes aux yeux.

L’orchestration offre l’espace nécessaire à la chanteuse pour prendre le temps de s’exprimer et d’élever sa voix, et projeter une multitude d’images.

La voix touchante de Manon et cette écriture qui progresse crescendo sans rush ni précipitation font la force des Uptown Lovers, dont on dit que la musique donne une sensation d’arrêter le temps.

C’est une musique intemporelle et passionnelle. Ainsi, le code couleur dans la vidéo évolue à partir des envolées du refrain, avec la présence angélique des choeurs (constitués de Jordi Tisserand, Lisa Caldognetto, Anaïs Laugier, Pierric Tailler).

Et, du mossade maron, l’on passe à des couleurs vives, chaudes : belle et apprêtée sans pâlir, elle porte le rouge passion.

“If I am a girl, I have to fight harder”

C’est aussi le rouge de la combativité, prête à affronter le quotidien, fière et forte. Elle traverse ainsi les ponts et divers chemins qui la mèneront de l’antichambre de la colère et du ressentiment, jusqu’à se sentir légère, et vivre libre avec sourire, ivre de paix.

  Plus le film avance, plus la paix de Manon semble imperturbable. Sereine et en confiance, elle marche en reine et laisse derrière elle les gens gambader, sa ville et son esprit en fête.

La moralité de cette vidéo : malgré les jours de solitude et de vide, tant que vous vous défendrez votre amour de soi, votre estime de soi et votre confiance en soi, vous garderez une joie parfaite.

Restez beaux, fiers et droit debout, dans l’adversité comme dans la félicité.

“I’m proud to stay myself.”

A l’instar de Neil Young, Manon Cluzel des Uptown Lovers réclame simplement plus d’amour (love) ici bas.

“Old man take a look at my life I’m a lot like you I need someone to love me the whole day through Ah, one look in my eyes and you can tell that’s true.” – Neil Young.

Crédit Photographie d’entête – Renaud Alouche

Uptown Lovers – “Be A Girl”, La Vidéo Émouvante Qui Met En Scène Une Jeune Femme Inspirante Bluesy browses through the gloom, Stares of despair in the darkest of her days. Spare a day in her everyday life,

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Ubisoft's numbers say subtitles are really jolly popular https://ift.tt/2YoDpQw

95% of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey players kept subtitles on, Ubisoft have revealed, and 50% of The Division 2 players are currently playing with them on too. These surprising statistics and more come from a wee tweetblast this week confirming that yes, subtitles are hugely desirable even in murdergames. Even as someone who often plays with subs on, I’m surprised by the numbers shared by David Tisserand, an accessibility project manager and user research fella at Ubisoft Montreal. Subs: they are good. Subs in video games: they could be better. Conclusion: more and better subs, video games, please and thank you.

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June 26, 2019 at 02:44PM

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Brezilyalı stoper David Luiz Fenerbahçe'ye mi geliyor?

Brezilyalı stoper David Luiz Fenerbahçe’ye mi geliyor?

Brezilyalı stoper David Luiz Fenerbahçe’ye mi transfer olacak. Geçtiğimiz sezon ligi 3. sırada tamamlayabilmiş olan Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü, özellikle defans hattındaki eksiklerini gidermek için büyük planlar yapıyor! Atilla Szalai, Marcel Tisserand, Serdar Aziz ve Sadık Çiftpınar gibi önemli defans hattı oyuncularına sahip olan Fenerbahçe’nin, geçen sezon kulübe katılmış olan Mesut Özil aracılığı…

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Pourquoi t’abats-tu, mon âme, et gémis-tu au-dedans de moi ? Espère en Dieu…Psaume 42.5

Ne dis pas : D’où vient que les jours passés étaient meilleurs que ceux-ci ?, dit l’Ecclésiaste (7.10).

C’est vrai que le présent peut s’avérer difficile; mais avec l’Esprit de Christ nous ne sommes jamais seuls ! En lui nous avons ce bien que Platon évoque ainsi : « C’est un bienfait pour tout un chacun d’être soumis à quelque chose de divin et de raisonnable ».

David psalmodiait : Moi, je suis pauvre et indigent ; mais le Seigneur pense à moi. Et l’apôtre Paul dans ses épreuves arrivait à cette conclusion surprenante : quand je suis faible, c’est alors que je suis fort. Tous nos jours sont un moyen d’apprendre Christ. Surtout dans la fragilité où l’Évangile brille d’autant plus dans le cœur comme un précieux trésor !

Job disait que le temps file plus vite que la navette du tisserand… Alors, ne perdons pas l’occasion chaque jour de rendre grâce au Seigneur. Et quand nous atteindrons notre crépuscule, regardant le passé avec reconnaissance, nous lèverons les yeux de notre âme pour embrasser l’avenir radieux que le Seigneur nous destine. Le jour approche où nous serons tous ensemble dans sa maison, où toutes tristesses et nostalgies s’effaceront dans l’éclat de la lumière de l’Agneau.

Souris mon âme, espère en Dieu, le meilleur t’attend !

Dominique Moreau

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Worth recalling that David Levine told us everything in his Trump portrait, 1988 pic.twitter.com/1TWkUWnzHa

— Michael Tisserand (@m_tisserand) July 5, 2020

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Ubisoft Is Making Accessibility Part of the Company’s DNA (Exclusive)

May 21, 2020 5:00 AM EST

Ubisoft explains what measures are being implemented to further enhance accessibility within its titles and across the company as a whole.

In recent years, game companies have been trying their best to implement the best accessibility practices for video games. One studio that always impresses me is Ubisoft, which seems to strive to improve accessibility features in its games, title-after-title.

As part of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2020, I had the opportunity to jump into a video chat and speak with David Tisserand, the senior manager of accessibility at Ubisoft, to talk about the direction and efforts that the company is taking when it comes to accessibility, and how it wants to embed accessibility into the studios’ DNA.

The Studios

Ubisoft is a vast collection of studios based across the world; even Assassin’s Creed Valhalla reportedly has 15 studios working on the title. However, I was curious about how accessibility is organized across all of these studios, especially between so many different countries. David tells me that the accessibility team is “acting as a hub in the middle of all those teams.”

Essentially, Ubisoft teams are collaborating with one another and sharing past learnings. Where one team may struggle with one accessibility issue, another may have already found the best way to resolve that issue in the past and shares it with the studio. The accessibility team ensures this process is unified across all studios across the world: “The learnings, positive or negative, from any part of the company goes into the hub, and then we can just spread out to all the other teams.”

I asked if David ever looks at other studios’ bad features as a way of seeing what other studios are doing wrong, and what Ubisoft can learn from them. He clarified that he does keep eyes on the industry as it’s good practise, but “I would go further than that,” he explains, telling me how he looks more towards the reactions from the community and what the community shares with him and his team. Something I was incredibly glad to hear.

“The learnings, positive or negative, from any part of the company goes into the hub, and then we can just spread out to all the other teams.”

As an example, I’ve expressed my disappointment online about Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 2 releasing a trailer without subtitles readily available. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s cinematic trailer was another instance where I shared my opinion on the lack of subtitles. I brought this up with David, who actually (on the day that the trailer was released) worked to get them enabled as quickly as possible.

“Internally we [the accessibility team] are collaborating with everything.” He explains, “So when you think about the release of a trailer, for example, there is a mix of the marketing team, PR teams, dev teams, and now the accessibility team is part of those discussions.”

I wanted to know David’s thoughts on burning captions into trailers so that they’re permanently attached to the video no matter where they’re shared. We discussed how unfeasible this would be, as it requires uploading numerous trailers; one with subtitles, one without, foreign languages, and audio-described trailers. It would be a lot of videos to manage. However, David did say he wants to see platforms, such as YouTube, allowing multiple accessibility features available for the viewer at once. For example, he proposed giving channels the options to upload subtitles, audio tracks, and audio-description tracks all on the same video, making that one video more inclusive to audiences with different accessibility needs.

Assassin’s Creed Accessibility Origins

David originally started pushing for stronger accessibility while working full-time on Assassin’s Creed Origins. Once that game was released in 2017 and the project was over, David tells me that he and a group of co-workers who helped with the accessibility made a presentation detailing everything they had learned, successes and failures, from adding more accessible features to the game. He gives an example, saying they learned that “Retrofitting accessibility later in the development process is much more complicated than thinking about accessibility at the beginning of the design process.”

At the time of Assassin’s Creed Origins’ development, the accessibility focus on this new, greater scale was still fresh territory for Ubisoft. For example, the subtitle sizes weren’t increased until later in development, but once it was increased, the team focused on increasing subtitles in every other Ubisoft title. David mentions that it was post-Origins that the actual dedicated a11y team or accessibility team at Ubisoft was created. Learning these features throughout the development of the game allowed them to carry those practices over to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey from the beginning, which in turn, allowed for more accessibility features to be added with the extra time saved. As a result, Odyssey allows control remapping on all platforms.

Despite the numerous subtitle sizes available in Origins and Odyssey, there’s still no full control over subtitles, which isn’t all that bad because the subtitles themselves are done well. But David explains that adding such control is “a question of time and resources” and that Ubisoft will be trying different things and pushing options for them further on future titles.

Involving Advocates

Ubisoft continues to learn about the challenges faced by disabled players by speaking directly to them. David mentions how they’re always listening to the community. In 2018, disability advocates (otherwise known as “A11Ys”) being loud on social media sparked the company to start sending out review copies to advocates and disabled content creators at the same time as mainstream outlets. “We want to change the DNA of the company,” he tells me, explaining that Ubisoft wants to embed accessibility into its development process.

In sending copies to disability advocates, not only is Ubisoft including them and recognizing them as a valid outlet, but the reviews and accessibility-focused content from them reaches their target audience; an audience that wants to know the state of accessibility within the game and whether or not it’s suited to their needs to enjoy it. Additionally, the comments and concerns raised allow developers and the accessibility team to look at this criticism and improve the current title being worked on, or improve a future title.

Things happen early on in production too, so it isn’t just review copies that help to address those concerns. Ubisoft runs, as David describes, “Accessible Design Workshops” that take place internally. The company invites disabled advocates to the studio to sit down with developers and give their input and help developers shape the games’ accessibility features.

Blind Accessibility Focus

“There is still a lot to do and we want to continue improving,” he says. “This year, we wanted to put the emphasis on trying to help our dev teams making games more accessible to blind gamers.”

David tells me of the workshop process and experience with one advocate they invited to Ubisoft Montreal before the world suffered a pandemic. Brandon Cole, who is a blind player and features in Ubisoft’s latest video, was invited to the studio for two days to sit down with the developers. During this workshop, the developers shared concepts and features and Brandon shared his experiences, explaining his disability, and whether these features would work for him. David mentions, “By designing the game the right way with the right features, we can make our games more accessible to blind players.”

He goes on to tell me that blind gamers are even included in the conversation when the studio releases a trailer, allowing them to be involved and feel welcome to collaborate with the studio. Essentially, David wants blind players to feel as if they can speak to Ubisoft, be that through social media, or customer support and express their issues. In turn, Ubisoft wants to be able to fix those issues by sharing these concerns internally, making the DNA of the company more accessible going forward.

“Ubisoft continues to learn about the challenges faced by disabled players by speaking directly to them.”

Personally, I’ve always felt that if developers took an active stance on accessibility early on, they’d have more accessibility features available from day one. I asked David if he feels that research and taking action early in development would help a game’s day one situation. “Yes, the answer is straight away, yes. There are no questions asked,” he chuckles. “It has a lot of value.”

Developers at Ubisoft learn a lot from this research, and David tells me how the experience of meeting the players through workshops is an experience that stays with them throughout their career, with accessibility then tucked into the back of their minds.

“The best way to start a project is to make sure that players are talked about in the development process,” he says. Not only that, but David tells me that in addition to QA testers, Ubisoft also has QA accessibility testers that focus specifically on accessibility in the title. “Our QA accessibility team evaluates the accessibility of our games during the development process and post-launch as well,” he explains.

Involving the community

It’s not just in-game that Ubisoft is targeting. David mentions how they want to start “making the whole experience around our games accessible,” by introducing more ways to consume content. This includes Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s audio-description trailer, speaking to customer support, and even navigating the official websites for each game. In a nutshell, David wants anything Ubisoft to be inclusive.

Being front and center with in-game accessibility features seems important to David. He mentions Ghost Recon: Breakpoint’s accessibility blog that went live in 2019 a few weeks before the game launched. “We wanted to inform players before the game was out about what they could expect in the game,” he says. The blog post detailed an extensive list of what would be available from day one and was honestly a fantastic example of giving disabled players the information they want to know prior to purchasing a title.

The accessibility team at Ubisoft noticed the positive reaction from the community to this blog post. “The reaction was so positive and very useful,” he admits, telling me they reported back to the teams and mentioned the positive reaction online, encouraging them to do more of the same for future games. “We’re working with the marketing and PR teams to see what we can do this year and next year to try to inform the community as early as possible.”

Next-Generation Potential Impact

One thing I was interested in knowing was the possible impact of next-generation platforms and accessibility, with the PS5 and Xbox Series X expected to release later this year. Of course, David isn’t a technical expert, nor is he a programmer. Despite that, he says, “Having more CPU or GPU is definitely giving more freedom to development teams to innovate and do things that technically was impossible before now.” However, he’s unsure if these platforms will help revolutionize accessibility, but he is determined to help Ubisoft “get the basics right.”

Future Goals for Ubisoft

Steve Saylor, an accessibility advocate who runs a YouTube channel and creates content for Can I Play That?, told me that David once said he had a goal to ensure that by 2020, all Ubisoft games will launch with a basic level of accessibility, such as control remapping, colorblind modes, etc. Now that we’re in 2020, I wanted to know what David’s goals for the future are.

“We gave ourselves some goals that, fortunately, we managed to achieve on most of our games,” David states. But for the future, he mentions Ian Hamilton, an accessibility specialist who always looks at what more could be done within video games; “I’m doing exactly the same, following his lead. Now that we are close to achieving that level, what could we do more?”

“Our QA accessibility team evaluates the accessibility of our games during the development process and post-launch as well.”

Making a game accessible for sightless players is David’s goal for the future, but he knows it’s going to be a journey that can only be helped by collaborating with the right players. “This year, we were thinking, ‘Okay, we’re doing the basics, trying to refine them, to polish them and make them the best they can be. Where are we still missing information? Do we still need to progress?’ And that’s where I came to the conclusion that we should involve sightless players as well in the communication and try and improve on that front.”

David also wants to ensure that the end-to-end user experience is accessible. He explains that customers can open accessibility tickets to provide feedback directly to developers at the studios if customer support cannot answer the ticket. He wants to “close the loop” ensuring that the services and content by Ubisoft are as accessible as they can be, and work to continue to actively improve things at the studio.

I think that Ubisoft has been doing a good job over the last few years with ensuring more recent titles are as accessible as they can be. But what’s even more exciting is that Ubisoft continues to want to strive for more accessibility support, and it continues to listen to the community. A lot of the time, raising concerns about a game can feel as if you’re shouting into the void online, but knowing how proactive the accessibility team is being leaves a lot of hope for the company’s future. I’m certainly excited to see more features as well as improvements for existing features to come from Ubisoft. In addition, it’d be fantastic to see other studios follow suit across the industry, listening to, and supporting disabled players in the early stages of development.

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• A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. – Randy Pausch • A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That’s my philosophy, too. – Pamela Sue Martin • As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn’t given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. – Bill Bryson • At your next dinner party, try playing the following game. Challenge everyone around the table to produce a single drug that can cure people of an illness, other then antibiotics. If you come up with anything, stop whatever you are doing and call me. – Lynne McTaggart

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer? – Richard Carmona • Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left. Think it over… no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid… antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine • Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations. Any analysis of the real cost would have to look at such things as the rise in food-borne illnesses, the advent of new pathogens, antibiotic resistance from the overuse of drugs in animal feed, extensive water pollution from intensive agricultural systems and many other factors. These costs are not reflected in the price of fast food. – Prince Charles • Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic. – Joel Fuhrman • I don’t expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics. – David Bowie • I don’t prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones – my body is my temple, and I treat it as such. – Suzanne Whang • I don’t take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots. – Alicia Silverstone • I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, ‘I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.’ – Hans Selye • I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria. – Andrew Weil • I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage … Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me. – Gabrielle Daleman • I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment – sore throats, earaches, flus – warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription. – Carre Otis • I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous. – Charlize Theron • I mean, you’ve got to protect human health beyond everything, and so we think eliminating shared-use antibiotics is the right way to go. – Craig Wilson • I think it’s really important that people can look at this show and be offended by it. Hopefully, then people will understand that this is still very much a problem we need to solve in other parts of the world. At least we have antibiotics. – Eve Hewson • I would not like to live in the past because you don’t get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don’t get antibiotics. You don’t get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don’t want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim’s in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway. – Woody Allen • I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. – Stephen Colbert • If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger. – Andrew Weil • In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care. – Laurie Garrett • Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to and even little things might make a big difference, so I wear eyeglasses because my eyes aren’t particularly strong, before there were eyeglasses someone at my age would probably not be good for much. – Carl Zimmer • Medicine, which I wouldn’t be without, has also been a force for… less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we’ve certainly increased the risk of asthma. – Robert Winston • Much better than it has been all week. I got sick again this week, so I wasn’t really able to breathe. I was on antibiotics (until Wednesday). This program was so great coming here. I felt more confident than I ever have all season, more calm, more relaxed, bending the knees. So even that program with the one mistake … you can’t be perfect all the time, but for me that was a great skate for me and I’m happy with how it went. – Gabrielle Daleman • Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn’t explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place. – William A. Dembski • Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns. – Robert Tisserand • One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did. – Alexander Fleming • Our diagnosis and treatment of of tension myositis syndrome represent yet another instance of what is possible when the power of the mind is mobilized for healing the body. It’s not magic; it is as scientific as the appropriate use of antibiotics, for science encompasses everything that is true in nature. – John E. Sarno • Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. – Ezekiel Emanuel • People are going to start realizing, why take those antibiotics that are extracts of mushrooms? Why not just have the mushrooms? – David Wolfe • People call me an optimist, but I’m really an appreciator … years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery…. When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I’m grateful for computers and photocopiers … I appreciate where we’ve come from. – Julian Simon • Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. – Ingrid Newkirk • Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past’s death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born. – Yanis Varoufakis • Since we’re living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I’d group together as a ‘war on bacteria,’ if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won’t effectively get nutrients out of the food we’re eating. – Sandor Katz • Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill. – Margaret Chan • Somebody said to me the other day, ‘You know, it’s really senseless, what you’re doing. There’s always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you’re just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].’ My answer is, ‘Okay, then, let’s start with your grandchild. Don’t buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don’t take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It’s against life-against humanity-to think that way. – Audrey Hepburn • Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics. – Ron Reagan • Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don’t pay much attention to: Eating meat. The meat production industry, the industrial production of meat, uses an immense amount of antibiotics.We’re now running out of antibiotics that deal with the threat of rapidly mutating bacteria. A lot of that just comes from the meat production industry. Well, do we worry about it? Well, we ought to be. – Noam Chomsky • Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. – Dave Barry • The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic – in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea – known to medical science is work. – Thomas Szasz • The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness of our antibiotics so that they grow faster, and then slaughter them with little regard to their suffering so that we can feed off their corpses, will seem to most people unthinkably cruel and barbarous – sort of in the way that we think of medieval punishments, or Europeans today think of the death penalty. – Dale Jamieson • The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I’d have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics. – Jane Haddam • The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology. – Andrew Revkin • There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn’t happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. – Jonathan Safran Foer • There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines. – Bernie Siegel • Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics. – Archie Kalokerinos • We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe – to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare. – Mark Hyman, M.D. • We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That’s the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics. – Bill Gates • We kill with antibiotics and antiseptics, and if our slaughter is ineffectual we use surgery to expel the offending organ from our presence. We destroy the body in order to save it. – Robert Svoboda • When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant. – Bonnie Bassler • When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species. – Moby • Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats in the future. Our immune system develops in combat. If, at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger. – Andrew Weil • Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) and antidepressants (to make it feel better). It endured regular steroid injections from both monetary and fiscal authorities. And it still has no real muscle. – Caroline Baum • You have climate change and antibiotic resistance which are two of the biggest horses of the apocalypse, and they’re basically breathing on our necks, and there’s no political will or effort being expended to deal with them. – Moby

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Bien choisir

Bien choisir

1 SEPTEMBRE 2020

Choisissons ce qui est juste, voyons entre nous ce qui est bon. Job 34.4

« Choix et conscience sont une seule et même chose », écrivait Jean-Paul Sartre¹. C’est pourquoi, si j’étais maçon, je construirais un pont pour relier les hommes plutôt qu’un gratte-ciel pour les dépasser. Si j’étais ébéniste, je fabriquerais des bancs et une grande table pour rapprocher les hommes, plutôt que des paravents pour les séparer. Si j’étais tisserand, je fabriquerais un drapeau pour unir des hommes plutôt que des mouchoirs pour pleurer les guerres. Si j’étais politicien, j’avantagerais le fruit du travail plutôt que celui de la spéculation. Si j’étais peintre, j’utiliserais des couleurs lumineuses pour les œuvres qui plaisent à Dieu, et sombres pour ce qui l’attriste. Si j’étais photographe, je montrerais la beauté du monde et les gens qui s’aiment, mais aussi, pour les alerter, la misère et les dégâts que le péché engendre. Si j’étais écrivain, je transcrirais la vérité pour convaincre les hommes de leur besoin de Dieu, plutôt que de raconter leurs œuvres et leurs suffisances. Enfin, si j’étais votre fils, ou votre père, ou votre frère, ou un ami proche, je vous prendrais à part pour vous encourager de tout mon cœur à lire la Bible pour y découvrir Dieu en Jésus-Christ. Car il n’y a pas meilleur choix pour l’homme durant sa vie que de chercher Dieu, d’être réconcilié et en amitié avec lui.

Dominique Moreau

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__________________ Lecture proposée : Psaumes 25 De David. Éternel! j'élève à toi mon âme.2 Mon Dieu! en toi je me confie: que je ne sois pas couvert de honte! Que mes ennemis ne se réjouissent pas à mon sujet!3 Tous ceux qui espèrent en toi ne seront point confondus; Ceux-là seront confondus qui sont infidèles sans cause.4 Éternel! fais-moi connaître tes voies, Enseigne-moi tes sentiers.5 Conduis-moi dans ta vérité, et instruis-moi; Car tu es le Dieu de mon salut, Tu es toujours mon espérance.6 Éternel! souviens-toi de ta miséricorde et de ta bonté; Car elles sont éternelles.7 Ne te souviens pas des fautes de ma jeunesse ni de mes transgressions; Souviens-toi de moi selon ta miséricorde, A cause de ta bonté, ô Éternel!8 L'Éternel est bon et droit: C'est pourquoi il montre aux pécheurs la voie.9 Il conduit les humbles dans la justice, Il enseigne aux humbles sa voie.10 Tous les sentiers de l'Éternel sont miséricorde et fidélité, Pour ceux qui gardent son alliance et ses commandements.11 C'est à cause de ton nom, ô Éternel! Que tu pardonneras mon iniquité, car elle est grande.12 Quel est l'homme qui craint l'Éternel? L'Éternel lui montre la voie qu'il doit choisir.13 Son âme reposera dans le bonheur, Et sa postérité possédera le pays.14 L'amitié de l'Éternel est pour ceux qui le craignent, Et son alliance leur donne instruction.

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• A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. – Randy Pausch • A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That’s my philosophy, too. – Pamela Sue Martin • As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn’t given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. – Bill Bryson • At your next dinner party, try playing the following game. Challenge everyone around the table to produce a single drug that can cure people of an illness, other then antibiotics. If you come up with anything, stop whatever you are doing and call me. – Lynne McTaggart

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer? – Richard Carmona • Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left. Think it over… no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid… antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine • Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations. Any analysis of the real cost would have to look at such things as the rise in food-borne illnesses, the advent of new pathogens, antibiotic resistance from the overuse of drugs in animal feed, extensive water pollution from intensive agricultural systems and many other factors. These costs are not reflected in the price of fast food. – Prince Charles • Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic. – Joel Fuhrman • I don’t expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics. – David Bowie • I don’t prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones – my body is my temple, and I treat it as such. – Suzanne Whang • I don’t take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots. – Alicia Silverstone • I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, ‘I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.’ – Hans Selye • I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria. – Andrew Weil • I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage … Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me. – Gabrielle Daleman • I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment – sore throats, earaches, flus – warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription. – Carre Otis • I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous. – Charlize Theron • I mean, you’ve got to protect human health beyond everything, and so we think eliminating shared-use antibiotics is the right way to go. – Craig Wilson • I think it’s really important that people can look at this show and be offended by it. Hopefully, then people will understand that this is still very much a problem we need to solve in other parts of the world. At least we have antibiotics. – Eve Hewson • I would not like to live in the past because you don’t get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don’t get antibiotics. You don’t get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don’t want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim’s in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway. – Woody Allen • I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. – Stephen Colbert • If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger. – Andrew Weil • In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care. – Laurie Garrett • Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to and even little things might make a big difference, so I wear eyeglasses because my eyes aren’t particularly strong, before there were eyeglasses someone at my age would probably not be good for much. – Carl Zimmer • Medicine, which I wouldn’t be without, has also been a force for… less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we’ve certainly increased the risk of asthma. – Robert Winston • Much better than it has been all week. I got sick again this week, so I wasn’t really able to breathe. I was on antibiotics (until Wednesday). This program was so great coming here. I felt more confident than I ever have all season, more calm, more relaxed, bending the knees. So even that program with the one mistake … you can’t be perfect all the time, but for me that was a great skate for me and I’m happy with how it went. – Gabrielle Daleman • Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn’t explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place. – William A. Dembski • Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns. – Robert Tisserand • One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did. – Alexander Fleming • Our diagnosis and treatment of of tension myositis syndrome represent yet another instance of what is possible when the power of the mind is mobilized for healing the body. It’s not magic; it is as scientific as the appropriate use of antibiotics, for science encompasses everything that is true in nature. – John E. Sarno • Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. – Ezekiel Emanuel • People are going to start realizing, why take those antibiotics that are extracts of mushrooms? Why not just have the mushrooms? – David Wolfe • People call me an optimist, but I’m really an appreciator … years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery…. When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I’m grateful for computers and photocopiers … I appreciate where we’ve come from. – Julian Simon • Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. – Ingrid Newkirk • Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past’s death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born. – Yanis Varoufakis • Since we’re living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I’d group together as a ‘war on bacteria,’ if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won’t effectively get nutrients out of the food we’re eating. – Sandor Katz • Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill. – Margaret Chan • Somebody said to me the other day, ‘You know, it’s really senseless, what you’re doing. There’s always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you’re just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].’ My answer is, ‘Okay, then, let’s start with your grandchild. Don’t buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don’t take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It’s against life-against humanity-to think that way. – Audrey Hepburn • Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics. – Ron Reagan • Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don’t pay much attention to: Eating meat. The meat production industry, the industrial production of meat, uses an immense amount of antibiotics.We’re now running out of antibiotics that deal with the threat of rapidly mutating bacteria. A lot of that just comes from the meat production industry. Well, do we worry about it? Well, we ought to be. – Noam Chomsky • Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. – Dave Barry • The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic – in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea – known to medical science is work. – Thomas Szasz • The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness of our antibiotics so that they grow faster, and then slaughter them with little regard to their suffering so that we can feed off their corpses, will seem to most people unthinkably cruel and barbarous – sort of in the way that we think of medieval punishments, or Europeans today think of the death penalty. – Dale Jamieson • The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I’d have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics. – Jane Haddam • The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology. – Andrew Revkin • There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn’t happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. – Jonathan Safran Foer • There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines. – Bernie Siegel • Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics. – Archie Kalokerinos • We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe – to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare. – Mark Hyman, M.D. • We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That’s the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics. – Bill Gates • We kill with antibiotics and antiseptics, and if our slaughter is ineffectual we use surgery to expel the offending organ from our presence. We destroy the body in order to save it. – Robert Svoboda • When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant. – Bonnie Bassler • When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species. – Moby • Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats in the future. Our immune system develops in combat. If, at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger. – Andrew Weil • Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) and antidepressants (to make it feel better). It endured regular steroid injections from both monetary and fiscal authorities. And it still has no real muscle. – Caroline Baum • You have climate change and antibiotic resistance which are two of the biggest horses of the apocalypse, and they’re basically breathing on our necks, and there’s no political will or effort being expended to deal with them. – Moby

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D'où vient le mot Tweed ?

Dù vient le mot Tweed ? Autant vous le dire tout de suite, on marche sur oeufs. Car sur ce sujet, il est courant de trouver tout et son contraire. Ce qu’on peut dire, en préambule, c’est qu’il est communément admis que ce fût chez les tisserands de Hawick que le terme “Tweed” fût employé pour la première fois pour désigner l’emblématique tissu écossais que l’on connaît aujourd’hui. A vrai dire ce fût même accidentellement qu’il fût employé. Enfin, disons plus précisément qu’il s’agit de la version rapporté par David Bremner dans son livre Industries of Scotland. Une histoire que l’on peut résumer comme suit.

En 1826, un marchand de tissu de Londres, James Locke, reçoit sa commande du tisserand William Watson & Sons. Sur l’étiquette figure l’inscription “Tweels” - dialecte écossais signifiant twill. Selon la légende, cette écriture était illisible. James Locke lit à la place le mot “Tweed”. Ce qui n’est d’ailleurs pas illogique que ces tissus s’appellent ainsi puisqu’ils principalement utilisés à cette époque pour la chasse et la pêche, activités qui se tenaient à proximité de la rivière Tweed. Le malentendu a continué lorsque que le marchand a commandé un autre envoi de “Tweed” à William Watson & Sons. Le tisserand ne corrige pas l’erreur mais, au contraire, il décide de l’adopter pour tous ses tissus similaires.

Une variante de cette histoire serait que la personne ayant mal interprétée le mot “tweel” soit un certain Mr Harvey de Ebenezer Harvey & Co après que Thomas Watson de William Watson & Sons ait facturé une pièce de tissu pour des pantalons. Et enfin que le tout ait eu lieu en 1832 et non 1826. Quoi qu’il soit, comme expliqué par Fiona Anderson dans son livre Tweed, s’il est difficile à croire que des professionnels connaissants parfaitement le mot “tweel” aient fait cette confusion avec le mot “Tweed”, il est plus fort probable que le mot tweed ne soit juste un dérivé des termes “tweel” et “tweedle”.

L’entreprise William Watson & Sons a désormais disparue mais on considère souvent que Lovat Mill en ait l’héritière. Fondée en 1882, elle est l’une des dernières usines de production de Tweed de Hawick. Son usine est d’ailleurs située à quelques pas de l’endroit qu’occupais jadis William Watson & Sons.

Note : contrairement à ce que laisse sous-entendre la photo d’illustration, le mot Tweed n’est pas né dans les îles Hébrides extérieures mais dans la région des Scottish Borders.