Sports Psychologist Salries

2005 AD The link between ape and protoscimmia: Catania,

Health a few weeks ago (a kind of Fitness a bit 'posh printed on tissue paper, Annex every Thursday in the Republic), published an interesting article on the afternoon naps. This article, whose title is brilliant Lullaby , contains valuable and useful scientific information about the characteristics of the nap (things like, "if we sleep too long a nap too deep anticipate sleep at night '), a short article about naps Chirac, a small interview with Enza Sampò entitled "Tender Is the dawn," a world map with information about the siesta in the world (in Mexico in 1800 striking workers slept along the walls and in Japan a nap in the office is governed by contract) and above the box which I reproduce below, containing some remarkable statistics.

Now, it could be debating for days on the deep reasons that led the editors of Health to choose to split the data in this way rather than another, why you chose to divide the in Italian children, the elderly, islands, center, Lazio and Catania and such in teenagers, mature women, North East, Veneto and Bari? And why does not list the sources? What statistical institute he's busy, and by what method? There is much to say (and laugh), but at the moment this is not what interests me to do. Since the data reported are correct, the thing that leaps to the eye is the percentage of people who make the nap in Catania (the 50%), well above the national average (14.6%) to that of Lazio and Rome (12.5%), islands (18.6%) and children (34.3%) and equal only to the data on the elderly. Now, the percentage of elderly in Catania is not above the national average, is even slightly lower. How possible, therefore, that half the inhabitants of Catania to do the nap? What is the explanation of a given well outside the norm? Is there a scientific explanation, and if so, you may be finding it possible to identify other characteristics of the population of Catania? Is not it strange the silence of the international scientific community on these disturbing data?

However, I have come to the conclusion that in this business there's a lot more irons in the fire than many people would have you believe. I was born in Catania and I live in this city forever, which, although not (yet) conducted any scientific study on this issue, I was able to get close contact with the people of Catania, and spent my entire life with them, to become in some way I Catania. The main problem of Catania, in addition to the connivance of political and mafia, lace and urban decay, is without doubt the traffic ('u cciafficu). Catania is the tenth most populated Italian city. According to the census of 2001, Catania has 313,110 inhabitants, while in 1971 there were more than 400,000. Now, the depopulation of the major Italian cities is a fact, but it is natural to wonder what happened to fewer than 100,000 people of Catania, volatilizzatisi over a few decades. They're all dead? They moved en masse to Pisa, in order to stay close to drpsycho , their illustrious fellow citizen? No, I have just moved house, but did not go very far. Almost all have moved to 5, maximum 10 km, going to live in one of the many villages of the hinterland of Catania. Catania is connected seamlessly to a myriad of towns during the last few years have seen a boom in population, becoming the megaquartieri peripheral. The metropolitan area of Catania has more than 700,000, bringing the town of Etna in Italy in fifth place (after the first of Turin and Palermo) by number of inhabitants. The vast majority of these people, of course, continues working in Catania, and without a network of decent public services, most flock en masse to the streets with their car.

traffic in Catania, then, for structural reasons, would be a big problem. to aggravate it and make it a terrible tragedy and a endless drama, however, is the way in which he lived to locals. The Highway Code is not a cliché, is not very respected here in southern Italy. Just a stroll in Naples or Palermo to realize this. Catania is no exception at all. Follow the paved roads (or patched) of this city is a real entity, and must be equipped a considerable amount of courage to face it. The cars are parked in the third or fourth row ( swear that I'm not joking, a few days ago I was going to stop a car parked almost in the middle of the road by a guy who had to buy a pack of cigarettes) just to leave them right in front to where you want to go. The fact that there is free parking for twenty yards away is irrelevant, why do twenty meters walk when you can park in the street? You have no civic sense, everyone is sure to be the absolute lord and master of the road and the city. Overtaking from the right, dealing with the intersections for no reason, tonnes of rubbish are thrown out the window, the only known arrows are those used by Indians in western movies, stop just an anagram of commercials and no entry is a thing pointless. Who gets the license and learning to drive in Catania, can then drive in any other city in the world. These problems are particularly pronounced in Catania, but at these levels, as I said above, are common to many southern cities.

Something, however, that only exists in Catania. Something unique that makes that a reality Catania abnormal and worthy of being studied scientifically. This is the so-called taliatina . The taliatina is that particular kind of look, if not impossible to understand from personal experience, typical of many motorists Catania. Every language is an alphabet of symbols whose use presupposes a past that the interlocutors share, how to convey to others the immeasurable taliatina , fearful that my memory barely covers? * I will try but failed to give even a vague idea something that I can barely understand. The taliatina is a particular kind of look, I said, typical of many motorists Catania. It is used whenever the car he is wrong. Most obvious is wrong, the more powerful the taliatina. You look while evil, cruel, brutish and horrible to behold, atavistic, ancestral. To look for a while in the throes of Catania taliatina (which is really as if it were seized with a fit, unable to control themselves) means to face the past of mankind, the struggle for survival, the pitiless wars of our ancestors where you only win if it was the strongest and most ruthless of all the others. It means to travel back in time, way behind even before Hobbes' homo homini lupus, "at a time when homo sapiens did not exist (or even homo erectus, homo habilis and Australopithecus afarensis ). It is an incredible experience that can traumatize and mark forever even the most wise and rational. Imagine the scene: a person driving his toy car to go quietly in the gym or run errands, when at one point a guy comes out at full speed from one place in the second row, without putting the arrow, and forcing him to brake suddenly. As soon as the person tries to protest timidly * ZAC * takes the taliatina, with all its cargo and animal ancestral hatred, possibly accompanied by a primitive form of language sub-human, as "mbar, ccchi spacchiu you doing?" (Trad . 'friend, who acciderbola do? "). I defy anyone not to fall into the deepest anxiety in the face of all this.

Now, I am convinced that taliatina is somehow linked to the percentage figure that I quoted at the beginning of this post. In the article on Health, says that the siesta is "The remainder of the daytime sleep of primitive man that today keep the babies and the very elderly, alternating intake of food and sleep." I am sure that if you thoroughly study the genetic characteristics of Catania, the data would be obtained shocking. The Catania are not normal human beings, their DNA has some anomalies in the taliatina and the spread of the nap effects are evident. Not all are so Catania, fortunately. Catania, throughout its history, has undergone a considerable amount of domination, and perhaps some are actually normal Catania direct descendants of the Arabs, the Normans or the early settlers Chalcis, and the modified DNA is a characteristic of someone who has among his ancestors the monkeys living in this area hundreds of thousands of years ago and that, somehow, managed to reproduce by mixing with humans. Perhaps the genetic abnormalities are present in all the people of Catania, only that some are carriers and do not develop symptoms and others do not. I do not know. What is certain is that this is an issue that should be studied in great detail, because could shed new light on the evolutionary history of mankind.


* I thank Jorge and I apologize to him.