It was a simple Monday. Of those who start with burning coffee and itchy eyes. This one will end with a blazing sky and drowning pupils. The pretty fault with sincerity. To these humble words which, while pretending to seek nothing, find everything. In the absence of the captain didn’t let us down. That Monday when we started reading it, nor the following days. The latest collection of poems by Cécile Coulon unearths what we want to silence, forget, minimize. For comfort, for flight, for pain. It unearths the fragility of intimacy, the cracks in the heart, the big questions and the flowers that grow back following winter. Without misery and with fair modesty.
2 + 2 = a new French video game development studio. Baptized “ZeDrimeTim”, the structure has just been officially launched and brings together a quartet of leaders, all shareholders associates, with very different CVs. On the one hand, Mika Tanguy et Gilles Aujard, from the world of cinema and animation and who will be respectively general manager and president. The other, Cedric Lagarrigue et Romuald Capron – two veterans of the video game industry and references in the French ecosystem -, who will officiate as chairman of the strategic board and executive producer.
To finance itself, the company completed a funding round led by Bpifrance. “The project is very solid because it combines sizes from diverse creative universes, which makes it possible to bring a differentiating touch to the video game sector”, underlines Anne Villette, senior investment director of the Creative Industries division of Bpifrance. In ZeDrimeTim’s agenda, three games are scheduled for the next six years. The first of them is scheduled for 2024 (on PC and consoles) and happens to be the origin of the project.
The story began during the last confinement. Passionate regarding video games and familiar with the Unreal Engine, which is used to design video games and which is also increasingly used for the special effects of animated films, Mika Tanguy and Gilles Aujard have time to kill because their activities in the seventh art are at a standstill. They then begin to work on a game project. A few months later, the duo gives birth to a prototype – a platform and action-adventure title where the player embodies an octopus caught in the open sea and who will have to lead a long quest to get back to it – immediately thrilling anyone they present it to.
“A game that has the potential to reach the general public”
“I was blown away by the potential. It is very effective both in game mechanics and in the world of characters. Publishers were already interested in signing their game as a co-production, but we decided to create a studio together,” recalls Cédric Lagarrigue, founder and former boss ofFrench publisher Focus Home Interactive (the number two in France behind Ubisoft) where he had unearthed the nuggets Farming Simulator, “MudRunner” or Pro Cycling Manager and who puts a foot back in the operational four years following his departure.
Entitled “Darwin’s Paradox”, the title will have a budget of development nearly 2 million euros. “It’s a game that has the potential to reach the general public thanks to the Pixar touch that Mika Tanguy and Gilles Aujard manage to bring back. The game is very colourful, very playful, specifies Cédric Lagarrigue who is now senior advisor for the investment bank Alantra. If a platform or a consoler is interested in a temporary exclusivity of the game by financing production costs and marketing operations, we will choose this path which has worked very well for games like ‘Rocket League’ or ‘Fall Guys’. But we will also discuss with publishers. »
In the meantime, it’s time to recruit for ZeDrimeTim which intends to go up initially to regarding fifteen employees. A task devolved to Romuald Capron, the former director of the Lyon studio Arkane – owned by Microsoft following his takeover of ZeniMax Media for 7.5 billion dollars at the start of the 2020 school year and known for its Dishonored license and the game “Deathloop” – which he left a few months ago. “ We are looking for profiles of video game programmers as well as animation and cinema professionals,” he notes. An alloy that must become the hallmark of ZeDrimeTim.
You may rest in sleep alone or with a partner, the matter does not need to be studied, and every person knows the way that comforts him and helps him relax, and thus maintains his physical and psychological health.
But new research suggests that sleeping next to someone may have an effect on sleep. Where researchers from the University of Arizona showed that adults who share a bed with another, sleep better than those who sleep alone, according to the newspaper “Express”.
The results of the study, published in the journal Sleep, also reported that sleeping with a partner led to less severe insomnia, better mental health, reduced fatigue, and a lower risk of sleep apnea.
However, if someone shares a bed with a child, they face an increased risk of insomnia and less control over their sleep.
Sleeping next to the husband is better!
Study co-author Brandon Fuentes said, “Sleeping with a partner appears to have significant benefits for sleep health, including reduced risk of sleep apnea, severity of sleep insomnia, and overall improvement in sleep quality.”
Dr Michael Grander, from the University of Arizona, said: “There are very few research studies exploring this, but our findings suggest that sleeping alone or with a partner, family member or pet may affect our sleep health.”
Data is not enough
But at the same time, he saw that the number of studies in this area is less than other studies, so more data is needed in order to reach a conclusion.
It is noteworthy that health experts usually recommend that all adults get at least seven hours of sleep per night.
Especially since sleep deprivation or not getting enough of it, due to various and multiple disorders, can affect the cognitive function of the individual, which one study found to weaken following 16 to 18 hours of wakefulness.
Hong Kong veteran actor Shen Wei has the title of “Generation Traitor”. In 1985, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for his “Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldier” directed by MacDonald. His death at the age of 71 has brought grief to his family, friends and fans.
Shen Wei began to star in movies in the 1970s, and played countless treacherous and cunning villains. His representative works include “Police Story 3”, “Supremacy”, “Knife and Horse”, “Swordsman” and other movies and TV series. Screenwriter and other behind-the-scenes work, faded out of the screen in 2000, and settled in Beijing, mainland China.
According to Hong Kong media reports, Shen Wei fell into a coma in 2019 due to pneumonia and respiratory failure, and multiple organ functions were damaged. After being rushed to the hospital, he was transferred to the ICU for intubation. In 2021), he also returned to film the mainland online drama “Layout”. Now that he has passed away, his friend confirmed the bad news and revealed that Shen Wei passed away peacefully.
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