Art therapist Felicity Kodjo watches over a patient during the art therapy workshop.
In Dakar, psychiatric patients attend regular art therapy classes to help treat mental disorders ranging from addiction to schizophrenia. The therapy can be a useful technique to complement traditional forms of psychotherapy. Psychiatrists in the Senegalese capital's main hospital see it as an essential part of the healing process.
Inside the psychiatric wing at Dakar's main hospital, Hôpital Principal de Dakar, Atta, a young Togolese, is standing in front of a blank canvas. He picks up a brush, dips it into indigo blue paint and begins sketching the contour of two doves.
Across the table from Atta is a tall, Senegalese man, very carefully painting in the helmet on the head of a commando figure. Souleyman is a soldier who has been stationed in Senegal's conflict-ridden Casamance for the last 19 years.
Souleyman says he is here because he has had to kill people in his job, and has been suffering terrible nightmares. Every few months he comes to the hospital to see the doctor and to attend art-therapy classes. Souleyman says he feels good here because he does not need to think. He can relax and completely de-stress.
Art as psychotherapy is still relatively new in Senegal. Dr. Tabara Sylla, the hospital's chief psychiatrist, has been an advocate of art therapy since 2004, when the program began with the help of a local group known in the Wolof language as "Man Is the Helper of Man."
Dr. Sylla uses art therapy, medication and classical forms of psychotherapy in her practice, treating everything from chronic depression and autism to alcohol abuse and schizophrenia.
At first the project started as a way to keep patients busy in the afternoon, Dr. Sylla says, rather than have them sitting around smoking. It soon became clear that art was creating a communication bridge between patient and doctor. More and more now, she says, art workshops have become essential therapy - so much that she cannot imagine this psychiatric unit without them.
Traditionally, in Senegal - as in many other parts of Africa - ceremonial dances or chanting have been used as forms of therapeutic release. Felicity Kodjo, a Togolese artist, is one of five leaders of art-therapy workshops at the hospital. She believes there are important parallels between traditional forms of therapeutic expression and the art workshops.
Kodjo says the many traditional types of "soft medicine" in Africa can help relieve mental distress. In Senegal this includes forms of hypnotism and ceremonial events such as the "ndeup", which puts participants in a type of trance. Kodjo says the traditional techniques work like art therapy, because they are emotive, pushing people to confront powerful feelings and to move beyond obstacles.
She says art therapy is a type of mental comfort that brings relief; the interpretive elements are visible in a patient's work through repetition of images, colors and actions. A first drawing of a bird, for example, can be fairly banal. But, she says, if a patient continues to paint birds, then we can start asking key questions. This is especially useful with patients who do not speak but only communicate through images.
Dr. Sylla explains that she rarely attends the workshops herself, because it is important that patients have a neutral space to create, without doctors present.
The chief psychiatrist looks through patients' dossiers regularly, to gauge the workshops' progress. Dr. Sylla says this can help during later personal interviews, particularly with those suffering from illnesses that inhibit verbal expression such as autism, or some forms of depression.
Dr. Sylla says the patients' artwork shows how their emotions are evolving. In interviews, she adds, the most importanrt thing is to let patients interpret their own images and tell doctors verbally what they have drawn.
Artwork by the patients in Dakar is sold at local craft fairs. There also are plans to exhibit their work at a biennial art festival beginning in May called Biennale des Arts de Dakar, known as Dak'Art 2012, scheduled May 11-June 12.


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President Donald Trump and the first lady quietly swept into Iraq Wednesday to pay a holiday visit to US troops, at last making good on the President's promise to travel to one of the war zones he has derided as costly blunders.
After a secret overnight flight from Washington, the President and Melania Trump touched down onto a darkened air strip at Al Asad Air Base west of Baghdad, the dicey security situation still restricting Trump to a clandestine visit more than 15 years after the American invasion.
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He remained on the ground for about three hours, greeting enthusiastic selfie-taking servicemen and women in their dining hall. Photos from the ground showed Trump in a black overcoat and red tie, posing for a picture with troops in fatigues. Melania Trump stood smiling next to him, wearing a mustard-colored blouse.
Trump left behind a slate of troubles in Washington, including a partial government shutdown and an unsteady economy. He's also faced criticism for a series of foreign policy decisions that have left his national security team at odds.
Trump has sought to distance himself from the foreign entanglements he describes as foolhardy mistakes made by his predecessors, including the war in Iraq. He recently ordered a drawdown of the 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan, and a complete withdrawal of 2,000 troops from Syria.
"A lot of people are going to come around to my way of thinking," Trump said of his decision on Wednesday in remarks to a small group of reporters traveling with him.
He hasn't stated plans for the 5,000 or so American troops in Iraq who returned to the country in 2014 to battle ISIS. Trump said in the country on Wednesday he had no plans to pull troops from Iraq, suggesting the country could be used as a base for potential future missions in Syria.
A day earlier, Trump had told troops via video conference that the era of heavy US engagement abroad was ending.
"We're, right now, the policemen of the world and we're paying for it," he said on a Christmas call with troops. "And we can be the policemen of the world, but other countries have to help us."
But regardless of whether Trump likes the wars or not, they are now his; the lives of the young men and women stationed abroad subject to his decisions, whims and orders. And as such, the commander in chief was fulfilling what is viewed as an essential duty in paying them a surprise Christmastime visit.
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Google and Dell have partnered to create enterprise-oriented laptops and 2-in-1 devices running the search giant's Chrome OS, according to The Verge. This is Google's first push to get its Chromebooks into use at large enterprises.
Its operating system (OS) will challenge Windows in these deployments and offer companies a suite of tools to make Chrome OS simpler to roll out and manage. Getting its foot in the door with its cloud-heavy OS could also create an opportunity for telecoms to work with both Google and hardware partners to enable device-level connectivity.
Here's what it means: Dell will be selling a set of new Chromebooks that incorporate key enterprise support and management tools, which Google hopes will prompt corporate customers to begin or deepen their engagement with Google's cloud-based services.
Google and Dell are adding more advanced administration tools to the OS to make it enterprise-friendly. This will enable the Dell Chromebooks to be managed by tools such as VMware's Workspace One, which a company's IT team can use to manage what applications and programs are deployed to the company's hardware.
Companies can specify which apps - either publicly available or privately developed - are included on a laptop by default, as well as automatically distribute OS updates. They can also add tools to enable connection to cloud-based virtual Windows systems, so that computing power can be allocated more efficiently.
This isn't an exclusive partnership, though. Google, per The Verge, is looking to work with other large technology original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) beyond Dell to scale up the deployment of Chromebooks at enterprises.
Because the Chromebooks are designed to integrate with and rely heavily upon Google's services, growing adoption of the devices could boost the company's bottom line as it signs new or expanded deals for cloud-based services with Chromebook customers.
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Sgt 101st Airborne, Iraq 1990
Sergeant of the 101st Airborne Division (Iraq, 1990-1991)
by: Mario Matijasic [ MAKI ]
I remember I was looking forward to new resin figure releases after the Desert Storm campaign in 1991; I was thinking of making a 1/35 scale vignette depicting US Army soldiers entering Kuwait. However, with only several Verlinden figure kits becoming available in the following years, I finally abandoned the whole idea. Almost 20 years after the liberation of Kuwait, Minisoldiers announced several Desert Storm figure releases representing US Army soldiers of 101st Airborne Division. The first figure in this line is Sergeant of the 101st Airborne Division, Iraq 1990-1991 (MS-0012), and there are similar figures in the pipeline which are going to work as a group. I'm really happy to see such nicely sculpted figures in very attractive poses; the idea of a Desert Storm vignette is definitely resurfacing in my mind.
The figure arrived in a clear, very firm plastic box which features unpainted figure box art picture and lists both the sculptor (Dmitry Shevtsov) and interestingly, the painter as well (Anar Aytaliev). I guess painting of the figure is in progress and although all the different modern camouflage patterns will probably take some time, I'm sure Minisoldiers will soon use painted box art picture. Opening the zip-lock bag and reviewing all the parts of the figure revealed very nice molding of the parts. Cast in white resin, the parts are completely clean of imperfections: there are no air bubbles, no flash or seam lines. I must admit I'm not satisfied with the photos of the kit pieces I made; such light colored resin is pretty hard to photograph to show all the details well.
The figure consists of 8 parts:
-	Full body with both legs
-	Left arm
-	Right arm
-	Head
-	Helmet
-	Weapon
-	Extra equipment (2x)
Cleaning the pieces is not difficult; casting plugs are easy to remove while some smaller pieces do not even have the plugs. The fit of the parts is really good and I had absolutely no problems building the figure. Be patient when attaching the arms to the torso and fitting the weapon: aligning the arms to the torso properly and then fitting the weapon should do the trick. However, I'm not quite convinced with the way the figure's right hand holds the weapon… the grip is just not tight enough. I would prefer if the hands were sculpted and cast with the weapon itself; that way the grip would be perfect.
This figure represents a Sergeant of the 101st Airborne Division serving in Operation Desert Storm. The figure is advancing carefully with its weapon ready for any sign of hostile activity. A difficult "in action" pose is very well balanced and the anatomy is spot on.
The figure is wearing the Battle Dress Uniform (BDU). BDU was the standard military uniform in US Armed Forces since September 1981, when it appeared in the woodland camouflage pattern. Initially printed onto cotton-nylon blend twill cloth, the pattern was based primarily on the woodland colors of Northern Europe and it comprised of two shades of green, one of brown and black. A light weight BDU uniform was introduced in 1989 with the pattern printed on 100% rip-stop poplin cloth. The woodland pattern BDUs soon replaced all earlier camouflage pattern uniforms for all wooded, jungle, and tropical environments. The US Army has run trials of many other camouflage patterns and issued environment-specific patterns, most notably the 6-color desert "chocolate chip camouflage". Although the "chocolate-chip" camouflage became well-known during the Gulf War, it was originally designed in 1962. The Army, believing that it might become necessary to intervene in the Middle East conflicts, developed a test pattern using the deserts of southwestern US as a model. When the Arab-Israeli hostilities wound down, the desert pattern was shelved. The 6-color desert pattern was first used 20 years later, during the combined US-Egyptian Army exercise "Bright Star 82", but the first mass-production of "chocolate chip" BDU came with the Western intervention in the Persian Gulf. During the war, the Desert BDU (DBDU) was produced in 100% cotton poplin without reinforcement panels in order to improve comfort in hot desert conditions. However, cost concerns and overall ineffectiveness of the pattern caused the six-color DBDU to be discontinued shortly after the Gulf War. The BDU was phased out in April 2005 and since then it has been replaced in every branch of the US Military. The BDU sculpted on the figure looks really good with realistically shaped folds. The only thing I don't like is a bit over-pronounced cut below the knee level which I would probably sand down a bit.
The figure is wearing Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (PASGT), the armor system consisting of a combat helmet and ballistic vest. PASGT Helmet (nicknamed "K-Pot" or "Fritz" due to its resemblance to the WW2 German army helmet) was first fielded to US military units in the early 1980s, replacing the steel M1 Helmet. The PASGT helmet, available in 5 sizes, provides ballistic protection for the head from fragmenting munitions. It is a one piece structure composed of multiple layers of Kevlar ballistic aramid fabric treated with phenolic PVB resin. The helmet is typically olive drab in color and can be fitted with cloth helmet covers in different camouflage patters. When worn with a helmet cover, it is also often fitted with a band around it that has two reflective patches on the rear intended to reduce friendly fire incidents. The helmet can also be fitted with a Helmet Mount Assembly that allows attachment of night vision goggles. The PASGT helmet has undergone several enhancement programs, which considerably improved helmet comfort, stability and safety. Finally, the helmet was phased out by the MICH Helmet (US Army and US Air Force) and Lightweight Helmet (USMC and US Navy) in 2003. PASGT Vest (also known as "flak vest") was the US military's standard upper torso body armor from the early 1980s, replacing the Vietnam War-era M-69 Fragmentation Protective Body Armor nylon vest. The PASGT Vest features a front opening design, has a ¾ collar, pivoting shoulder pads, two front pockets and two grenade hangers. The front flap and pocket flaps have hook and loop fastener tape closures, while the side overlaps are made flexible through the use of wide elastic webbing. Flak vest was the first body armor in US military that used multiple layers of Kevlar ballistic aramid fabric instead of the ballistic nylon. While incapable of stopping rifle bullets, the PASGT Vest provided better protection against shrapnel and reduced the severity of injuries from small arms fire when compared to the M-69. The superiority of PASGT Vest over the M-69 is not only in ballistic performance, but also in terms of comfort and camouflage properties provided. Overall fit is greatly improved and the vest is more flexible due to both the materials used and the vest design. Because PASGT Vests are only issued in woodland camouflage, desert camouflage covers are available in 6-color and 3-color desert camouflage. PASGT Vest was phased out by the Interceptor Body Armor in 2003. Both PASGT Helmet and PASGT Vest in this kit are perfectly sculpted. I particularly like the PASGT Helmet with all the details; the helmet band with two reflective cat-eyes on its back as well as the unit and rank patch insignia stitched to the side and front of the helmet cover, respectively. Some aftermarket patch decals would definitely come in handy.
As for the webbing, the figure is wearing the All-Purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment (ALICE) system. ALICE was adopted as US Army Standard in 1973, replacing the LCE and MLCE systems. ALICE fighting load on this figure comprises of the following: Individual Equipment Belt and Individual Equipment Belt Suspenders, First Aid/Compass Pouch, Small Arms Ammunition Pouches and Shotgun Shell Pouch. M1961 Field Pack and M17 Gas Mask are not a part of ALICE system; however, both were a standard issue during the early 1990s and the Operation Desert Storm. The Individual Equipment Belt is constructed of olive drab nylon webbing with black chemical finish adjusting buckles, keepers, and a belt buckle. The individual equipment items are attached by interlocking belt-strap keepers or are hooked through eyelets along the bottom of the individual equipment belt. The eyelets along the top of the individual equipment belt are for attaching the individual equipment belt suspenders. The Individual Equipment Belt Suspenders are Y shaped with three adjusting straps, but four points of attachment to the individual equipment belt and small arms ammunition cases. The shoulder straps are padded with spacer cloth. Each shoulder strap has a web loop and a non-slip buckle on each of the straps in the front and one at the back through which the adjusting straps pass. The First Aid/Compass Pouch is constructed of olive green nylon duck. It has a metal snap-type fastener closure and is attached to the individual equipment belt or individual equipment belt suspenders by a belt-strap keeper with interlocking slide. The pouch is designed to accommodate either the First Aid Dressing or the Compass. The Small Arms Ammunition Pouch is designed to accommodate three 30-round 5.56 magazines. It is constructed of nylon duck and webbing with polyester sheet stiffeners in the front, rear and lid of the small arms ammunition case. The lid is closed by means of a plastic latch. Grenade carrying pockets are located on each side of the small arms ammunition case which are secured by means of a nylon web strap and metal snap fastener. The Shotgun Shell Pouch is designed to hold 12 shells. It is constructed of nylon duck with double metal snap-type closure and is attached to the individual equipment belt by a belt-strap keeper. M1961 Combat Field Pack was originally a part of LCE and MLCE, but it was also frequently used with ALICE system. Constructed of cotton canvas, the Field Pack's placement at the rear of the individual equipment belt led to it being referred to colloquially as the "butt pack". It includes a web handle at the top for hand-carriage, web strap along the side with eyelets for the attachment of equipment with either slide keepers or wire hangers, and a pair of web straps at the bottom of the pack for attaching items like the poncho and poncho liner. Cotton canvas M17 Gas Mask Bag was first issued to the troops in Vietnam War and it was still a standard issue for the US Army until the early 1990's. The bag is usually worn on the left side at hip level with the thick strap around the waist and the thin strap around the left leg. All the equipment pieces, except First Aid/Compass Pouch and M17 Gas Mask Bag, are sculpted on the figure. The details on the equipment are well defined and accurate in every aspect. However, Minisoldiers missed to include another essential piece of ALICE system in this figure kit; two ALICE canteens are a must and should have been incorporated in the kit. A M12 hip holster with secondary firearm would be a good addition as well.
The figure is armed with, what I believe is, a Mossberg 590 pump action shotgun. The shotgun is developed by the Mossberg & Sons company as a "mil spec" modification of the Mossberg 500 shotgun. "Militarization" included strengthening of the receiver and other parts, installation of the vented heatshield around the barrel, bayonet lug and extended magazine, as well as an aluminum trigger guard instead of plastic one. Since 1987 this shotgun is a standard equipment of US Armed forces; while it was officially replaced in US Army with Benelli M1014 semi-automatic shotgun, Mossberg 590 shotguns are still widely used by US Navy and US Marine Corps.
I like this figure very much. It is well researched, nicely sculpted and perfectly cast. The sculptor did a great job on posing the figure; the sense of motion and balance is very good. The details on the uniform and the equipment are very crisp… the facial features are well defined too. I must admit I always had a soft spot for Desert Storm figures and I really hope to see more of this figure line under Minisoldiers label… I'm pretty sure those could prove to be very popular.
Thanks to Anar from Minisoldiers for the review sample.
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The Gulf War 1991 (Osprey, Essential Histories); Alastair Finlan
Victory: Desert Storm (Europa Militaria); Eric Micheletti and Yves Debay
Desert Garb and Gear: Equipment of America's Desert Warriors (Concord Publications); Joel Paskauskas
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Highs: Very nice sculpt and well balanced "in action" pose. The casting is very good and the fit excellent. The details on the uniform and equipment are excellent. This figure line should be a perfect choice for a Desert Storm vignette.
Lows: No ALICE canteens or secondary firearm. Loose fit of the weapon.
Verdict: Recommended.
Mfg. ID: MS-0012
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Unfortunately they used a copy of a WWI/II era shotgun from the Dragon USMC set.
JW is right....that's a Winchester model 1897 pump action SG, and the chances of finding it in the hands of a member of the 101st during Desert Storm are about 0%. Such a shame...
You guys are right... Thanks for correcting me: I wanted to change the shotgun on my figure with M16/203. It just looks better... Mario EDIT: I talked to Anar from Minisoldiers and he says he's going to fix the problem as soon as possible. I'll post more info when I receive it.
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Cardiogenetics
A new era in cardiogenetics
DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/cardiogenetics.2011.e1
Published: Jul 6, 2011
cardiogenetics, next generation sequencing, OMICS.
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Limongelli, G. (2011). A new era in cardiogenetics. Cardiogenetics, 1(1), e1. https://doi.org/10.4081/cardiogenetics.2011.e1
Giuseppe Limongelli *
Second University of Naples, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy.
Giuseppe Limongelli | giuseppe.limongelli@cardiogenetics.it
Unless you have insatiable curiosity about what you are studying, and the willingness to work hard to answer the questions you have posed, I think it's unlikely that you will be successful
Eugene Braunwald (Circ. Res. 2010;106;1786-1788)
Welcome to Cardiogenetics. Why Cardiogenetics? When I received the invitation to join this project my first impulse was to ask: why do we need a new journal? But the answer was there all along. Cardiogenetics is more than just the name of a new journal. Cardiogenetics is an idea.
Giuseppe Limongelli, Second University of Naples, Monaldi Hospital, Naples
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of cytoskeletal proteins in dilated cardiomyopathy. Herz 2000;25:168-75.
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Research and Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Interdisciplinary Working Groups; and Council on Epidemiology and Prevention. Circulation 2006;113:1807-16.
4. Elliott P, Andersson B, Arbustini E, et al. Classification of the cardiomyopathies: a position statement from the European
Society Of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases. Eur Heart J 2008;29:270-6.
5. Schuster SC. Next-generation sequencing transforms today's biology. Nature Methods 2008;5:16-8.
Lia Crotti, Giuseppe Limongelli, Charles Antzelevitch, Ion channels and beating heart: the players and the music , Cardiogenetics: Vol 1, No 1 Supplement (2011): Ion channel diseases: molecular basis, clinical findings, and management
Giovanni Di Salvo, Giuseppe Limongelli, Imaging in Rare Disease: a roadmap for diagnosis , Cardiogenetics: Vol 3 No 1 (2013)
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Alexander McCall Smith Biography
Author and professor
Born August 24, 1948, in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe); married Elizabeth Parry (a physician), 1982; children: Lucy, Emily. Religion: Scottish Presbyterian. Education: University of Edinburgh, LLB and Ph.D.
Addresses: Contact —16A Napier Rd., Edinburgh EH10 5AY Scotland. Website —http://www.random house.com/features/mccallsmith/.
Professor, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland; taught in Swaziland Africa; helped found the law school at the University of Botswana, c. 1980, then served as law professor there; professor of medical law, University of Edinburgh; fiction author, c. 1984—; deputy chairman of Human Genetics Commission for the British government; served as Great Britain's representative on the bioethics commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Awards: Chambers award in children's fiction; SAGA Award for Wit, 2003; Author of the Year, British Books Awards, 2004.
Although he is a worldwide recognized expert on issues of medical ethics, Alexander McCall Smith became better known as the author of best-selling
adult mysteries. His 1998 book The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, focusing on a female investigator in the African country of Botswana, launched his fiction-writing career into international fame and acclaim. The growing success of his books led him to take a leave of absence from his professorship at the University of Edinburgh and give up his advisory posts related to medical ethics to focus on writing full-time.
McCall Smith was born on August 24, 1948, in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (later known as Zimbabwe), where his father worked as a public prosecutor in what was then a British colony. His mother wrote a number of unpublished manuscripts. The youngest of four children, McCall Smith spent the whole of his childhood in that African country. He attended the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo. McCall Smith left Africa when he was 17 years old to continue his education in Scotland.
Entering the University of Edinburgh, McCall Smith studied law and earned two degrees, first an LLB, then a Ph.D. After completing his education, he began teaching law. His first teaching job was at Belfast, Northern Ireland's Queens University. McCall Smith then went back to Africa. He first went to Swaziland to teach, and by 1980, he went to Botswana. There, he helped found the law school and taught law at the University of Botswana. While in Botswana, he also put together and wrote Botswana's criminal code. Though McCall's codification was not put into law, it was later published as The Criminal Law of Botswana and still proved to be very important to legal issues in that country.
McCall Smith eventually returned to Scotland where he became a professor in medical law at the University of Edinburgh. Over the years, he wrote a number of significant articles and books about the law and related medical ethics questions. In 1983, he co-wrote with Ken Mason Law and Medical Ethics which was updated every few years. In 1987, McCall Smith co-authored Butterworths Medico-Legal Encyclopedia with John Kenyon Mason. One interesting title was Forensic Aspects of Sleep which considered, among other topics, the legal culpability of those who were sleepwalking while committing an alleged crime.
As McCall Smith's stature as an expert in medical legal ethics increased, he was given many prestigious positions. He did several year-long professorships abroad including a stint at the law school at Southern Methodist University. McCall also served as the deputy chairman of Human Genetics Commission for the British government and served as Great Britain's representative on the bioethics commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He regularly traveled to London to advise the British government and other places around the globe in his UNESCO position. McCall Smith helped answer hard questions on issues such as how to manage DNA databases and protect the information therein.
While McCall Smith was becoming a highly respected professor and ethics expert, he began a secondary career as an author of fiction. His interest in such writing began in childhood. When McCall Smith was eight years old, he wrote his first book and tried to get it published. In his twenties, he began writing children's books almost by accident. He entered a contest run by Chambers with pieces of children's fiction and adult fiction. McCall Smith won the literary prize for his children's fiction manuscript, and went on to publish about 30 such works. His titles included Film Boy, Suzy Magician, and Children of Wax, a collection of short stories about Africa. The latter was later made into a television series.
By the late 1990s, McCall Smith branched out into adult fiction. After a visit to Botswana, he was inspired to write 1998's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Of the inspirational incident, McCall Smith told Marcel Berlins of the Guardian, "We were going to have chicken for lunch, and there was this woman in a red dress who chased and chased the chicken and eventually caught it, and wrung its neck. I thought to myself: I would like to write about an enterprising woman like that." The character he created was named Precious Ramotswe. She used an inheritance of 180 heads of cattle from her father to found the first all-female detective agency in Gaborone, Botswana.
In The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, McCall Smith had his detective investigate everyday human crimes related to distresses within families. Most had nothing to do with murder, though one missing husband was found to have been eaten by a crocodile. However, American critics often compared Ramotswe to the Miss Marple character in Agatha Christie's seminal mystery novels. McCall Smith wanted to do more than write about an interesting female character. He also wanted to show the positive side of Africa and Botswana, a country that impressed him with its democracy, high moral standards, and human decency. McCall Smith used real people and locations from Botswana in his books.
Although The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency was originally published in 1998, it took several years to find an audience. It received some critical acclaim in Scotland, before word of mouth at independent bookstores in the United States helped the book become a success a short time later. As McCall Smith's book became a best-seller in the United States, its popularity spread to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and into England, Europe, and beyond. Although some readers found it hard to believe that a white Scottish man could understand African women so well, the book and its follow-ups received much critical praise.
After The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, McCall Smith wrote more books featuring Ramotswe and other central characters. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency was followed by 2000's Tears of the Giraffe, 2001's Morality for Beautiful Girls, 2002's The Kalahari Typing School for Men, 2003's The Full Cupboard of Life, and 2004's In the Company of Cheerful Ladies. All the books focused on Ramotswe's investigations into problems in people's lives instead of hard-core crimes. McCall Smith was able to publish a novel a year in the series because he could write at least 4,000 words a day, and, if inspired, as much as 1,000 words an hour.
Because of the popularity of the series, the books were translated into at least 26 other languages and sold millions of copies. Their popularity led to a profitable deal with Random House, a large publishing company, for McCall Smith in 2003. Random House acquired the United States rights to the series and also published other projects by the author. McCall Smith also sold the television rights to at least one of the books to a production company in Africa, where the books also sold well. Film rights were also sold with director Anthony Minghella attached to direct and/or produce.
Because of the gentle humor and focus on human nature, the books' success in the United States seemed unexpected. Some critics believed that they were popular in the United States because of the decay of society and the stress living in a post-9/11 world. McCall Smith told Rodney Chester of the Courier Mail, "We've had enough of mayhem and aggressive social realism and in-your-face stuff. I think people actually want something that deals with the little events in life and drinking tea."
While the success of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and the rest of the series were satisfying for McCall Smith, he also began other adult fiction series. Another female detective was at the center of one series. Isabelle Dalhousie lived in the suburbs of Edinburgh, Scotland, and worked as the editor of The Review of Applied Ethics. She approached getting involved in other people's crimes from the point of view of a moral philosopher. The first book in the series, The Sunday Philosophy Club, focused on a death Dalhousie investigates after she witnesses it. The more traditional mystery novel was generally praised, and the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) bought the rights to turn it into a television series.
Intellectual concerns were also part of another series written by McCall Smith that came out in the early 2000s. Originally written in 1997 and self-published at that time, Portuguese Irregular Verbs was a collection of short stories focused on the rather odd world of three German professors and their inability to function in the everyday world. The primary one was Professor Von Igelfeld, who lived in his academic milieu of Romance languages and worked as a philologist (a person who studies literature and language). McCall Smith wrote the book after being inspired by a German professor he met a conference in the mid-1980s. McCall Smith wrote it to poke fun at academics. The original work was passed around among these intellectuals who appreciated the joke. McCall Smith wrote two other books using these characters: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances.
The prolific McCall Smith had other ideas for series, some of which came to immediate fruition. He wrote a book about an American tourist called Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party, published in 2004. The primary character would be used in subsequent books. Another series was less traditional. Late in 2003, the Scotsman commissioned McCall Smith to write a serialized novel to be published five days a week for six months in 2004. With a story set in Edinburgh, 44 Scotland Street featured 800-word chapters and reader input into the direction of the narrative. McCall Smith wanted the work to be unlike the original works of British author Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century, which also began as newspaper serials.
As McCall Smith became a more popular author, he still maintained his first career as a professor and ethics expert despite the many demands on his time to do book tours abroad and the like. Late in 2003, he cut down his professorship to part-time, and in early 2004, decided to take an unpaid leave of absence for the next three years. McCall Smith also gave up being the vice chairman of the Human Genetics Commission in 2004 and later, his work with UNESCO. McCall Smith's book contracts called for him to produce a certain number of books a year, and despite his prolific writing abilities, he needed the focus to get his work done. However, his success as an author allowed him to give to charities. He gave some money to support families affected by AIDS in Botswana and to Book Aid, which sent books to third world countries.
Although a few critics dismissed his works as too gentle and unassuming, McCall Smith believed in his work. He told Sarah Lyall of New York Times, "There is a role for books that say to people that life is potentially amusing and that there are possibilities of goodness and kindness—that kindness needn't be dull, that it can also be elevating and moving."
Selected writings
(With Ken Mason) Law and Medical Ethics, 1983. Butterworths Medico-Legal Encyclopedia, Butterworths, 1987.
(With Kwame Frimpong) The Criminal Law of Botswana, 1992.
Scots Criminal Law, 1992.
The Duty to Rescue, 1994.
Forensic Aspects of Sleep, Wiley, 1997.
(With Daniel W. Shuman) Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes: Balancing Legal, Psychological, and Moral Concerns, American Psychological Association, 2000.
(With Alan Merry) Errors, Medicine and the Law, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
The Perfect Hamburger, 1984.
Alix and the Tigers, 1988.
Film Boy, Methuen, 1988.
Mike's Magic Seeds, Random House, 1988.
Children of Wax: African Folk Tales, 1989.
Suzy Magician, Random House, 1990.
The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean, Blackie, 1990.
The Tin Dog, 1990.
The Girl Who Married A Lion and Other Stories, Pantheon, 2004.
Portuguese Irregular Verbs, self-published, 1997; Polygon, 2003.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Polygon, 1998.
Tears of the Giraffe, Polygon, 2000.
Morality for Beautiful Girls, Polygon, 2001.
The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Polygon, 2002.
The Full Cupboard of Life, Polygon, 2003.
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, 2003.
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, 2003; Anchor, 2004.
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Polygon, 2004.
The Sunday Philosophy Club, Polygon, 2004.
The 2 Pillars of Wisdom, 2004.
Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party, Polygon, 2004.
Debrett's People of Today, Debrett's Peerage, Ltd., 2004.
Booklist, August 2004, p. 1872.
Boston Globe, June 17, 2003, p. E1.
Boston Herald, October 4, 2002, p. 39.
Commentary, October 2004, p. 86.
Courier Mail (Queensland, Australia), September 27, 2003, p. M3.
Daily Telegraph (London, England), January 2, 2003, p. 19.
Financial Times (London, England), August 21, 2004, p. 14.
Guardian (London), January 21, 2003, p. 8.
Herald (London), March 3, 2003, p. 11.
Independent (London), August 14, 2004, pp. 40-41.
New York Times, September 27, 2004, p. E3; October 6, 2004, p. E1.
Observer, May 2, 2004, p. 25.
People, May 10, 2004, p. 59.
Publishers Weekly, July 22, 2002, p. 75.
Scotsman, May 1, 2002, p. 8; May 7, 2002, p. 8; January 24, 2004, p. 1.
Sunday Telegraph (London, England), December 21, 2003, p. 3.
Sunday Times (London, England), March 12, 2000; February 16, 2003, p. 1.
Time, April 26, 2004, p. 143.
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Posted on 25 January 2023 25 January 2023
THE HISTORIC GARDEN
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In Colorno the Historic Garden is one of the most beautiful garden in Italy. It is a green area of about 11 hectares, fully fenced, which expands on a side of the Palace and it is connected, through and arched vault, to the large courtyard of it.
The façade facing the garden, with its wide double staircase, dominates the wide French parterre divided into large symmetrical flowerbeds designed with low boxwood hedges, which develop around a large circular fountain and which is surrounded by large citrus vases.
Both sides of the fist flowerbeds are flanked by rows of white hornbeam, with fake arched windows that offer striking views of the parterre.
Next to one of the flowerbeds stands an old specimen of Zelkova Carpinifoglia or Zelkova of Caucasus of about 150 years, survived the damage of the Second World War.
On the final part, a central staircase enter a large English-style park, the so called "romantic garden" with a suggestive lake in the center.
The garden is open every day, with free entrance, from 7.30am to 6pm on November, December, January, February and March; from 7.30am to 7pm on April, May and October; from 7.30am to 8pm on June, July, August and September.
THE CATHEDRAL OF SAINT MARGARET
The church built in the mid-fifteenth century in late Gothic style, remained unchanged in the facade while in the apse was restored in the nineteenth century.
The interior has noteworthy furnishing: the altarpiece depicting the Martyr dome of Saint Margaret by an unknown Emilian painter of the second half of the eighteenth century, the Madonna and Child, Saint John and SS. Apollonia, Lucia, Agata by Alessandro Bedoli dating back to the seventh decade of the 1500's.
Between 1660 and 1666 was added the Chapel of SS. Sacrament with a set of stuccoes by Domenico and Leonardo Reti and, in 1668, the canvas depicting the Last Supper by Giovanni Venazzi from Pesaro. Noteworthy are also the marble artifacts by the same artists who worked for the Church of Saint Liborio.
The interior owns the monument to Pier Luigi Belloni, a patron of Colorno, sculpted in the neoclassical style by Tommaso Bandini in 1842 for the local cemetery and moved here in 1889.
VENERIA
The passion of Philip of Bourbon for hunting prompted him in 1751 to order the court architect Jean Marie Bigaud to build a Royal Veneria, a hunting lodge that housed dogs, the attendants and the necessary equipment for the driven hunting that the Duke and his retinue usually carried out in the Serraglio.
During the construction of this building, many changes were made by the architect Ennemond Alexander Petitot, who completed the work in 1775.
In the first half of the 1800's the complex was restructured and it is composed of two lateral wings and a central building which has two floors, characterized by eight pilasters topped by a balustrade that covers the roof.
Today it is home to a recreation center.
ARANCIAIA AND MUPAC MUSEUM
The Aranciaia or "Covered house for citrus fruits in winter", was built between 1710 and 1712 thanks to the wish of Francesco Farnese as a winter shelter of citrus vases that adorned the garden during summer.
The interior has two levels: the ground floor, divided by pillars into three naves, once was maintained at a suitable temperature thanks to a cavity in the walls in which was blown hot air produced by a fireplace. The first floor, used as a warehouse for the fodder of horses, is characterized by a suggestive game of ogival arches with oculi dating back to the first half of the nineteenth century.
Nowadays it host the MUPAC, Museum of Landscapes of Land and River, an exhibition of objects that suggest the visitor a reading of landscape as a product of knowledge of man. The museum is ordered in thematic categories and sections as agriculture, arts, crafts and house, hunting and fishing, river transport, school and music.
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An itinerary between nature, history and eno-gastronomy
Food Valley Bike, the cycling route of the Lowland of Parma that joins Parma to Busseto.
Sport, culture and enogastronomy, all suitable for bicycle!
The itinerary of more than 70 kilometres set up a network of municipalities of Sorbolo Mezzani, Colorno, Sissa Trecasali, Roccabianca and Polesine Zibello, with a rich proposal of visits and tastings of culinary specialities of the Lowland.
A slow tourism that combine the pleasure of sport with that for cooking and art.
Bicycle, culture and gastronomy of quality come together in the Food Valley Bike.
The route starts from Parma, in the centre of the Food Valley, city of bicycle riders and temple of iconic flavours of cuisine, to get to Busseto, through the places of Giuseppe Verdi and of the films of Peppone and Don Camillo, of tortelli and salami, of cheese and of amazing protected areas.
From Parma, UNESCO City of Gastronomy and Italian Capital of Culture 2020/2021, known all over the world for Prosciutto, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and pasta, following the bank of Enza stream, pass through the town of Coenzo, reaching the Po River in the town of Mezzani, homeland of the Anolino, until Colorno, with its Ducal Palace and ALMA, the International School of Italian Cuisine.
Along the riverside, the route goes up the Po River to the West and the Land of Verdi, where the cured meats are the protagonists of the table: the Spalla Cruda in Sissa Trecasali, the Ciccioli in Roccabianca and Polesine Zibello where the king of salami is produced, the Culatello. You will arrive in Busseto, where you can taste the Spongata its traditional cake.
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CYCLE TOURISM
"The people of Emilia use the bicycle as a hat, which cannot be abandoned, because it is a part of the person even that it is inopportune. The bike has something of the dog on us, continues company that we takes with even though without get in, to get from the house to the coffee that is twenty meters away."
Cesare Zavattini 19621 Explorations on the Via Emilia
Bici Parma Po
The "Bici Parma Po" cross the province of Parma from West to East intersecting many others routes: "Verdi" from the star, "The Small World" and the "Ciclotaro" nearby Gramignazzo and the Street of the Culatello di Zibello.
The landscape is the classic one of the Great River: poplars and meanders alternate with well-equipped staging points and river docks dedicated to tourism, nature areas such as the Woods of Maria Luigia in Torricella di Sissa and the Parma Morta Natural Reserve in Mezzani.
From Colorno with a small detour on the embankment of the Galasso canal, with a mixed bottom (asphalt, gravel, grass) it is possible to reach the Natural Reserve of Torrile and Trecasali.
From Colorno along the bank of Parma stream and of the Po, it is possible to reach Mezzani and then Coenzo, from where it is possible to continue on secondary roads to Sorbolo and Bogolese, just outside Parma.
Download the map of bike tours in the lowland or pick up it at the Tourist Office
Curiosity, Colorno
Colorno celebrate the passage of Giuseppe Garibaldi
On the morning of 12th April, 1862 Giuseppe Garibaldi see foot in Colorno coming from Parma and headed to Casalmaggiore. He did not stay long, just for a quick stop to say hello to the town and then away to the land beyond the Po. The Municipality did not pay attention to expenses and built a triumphal arch at the entrance of the town, decorated the square, plentiful breakfast for nine people at the hotel Della Posta (six coachmen, one groom and two coaches), and a refreshment with sweets and "sciampagna". To welcome the General there were the major Giovanni Maria Levacher, the council member Antonio Chevé and many other notables. The people welcomed him with great enthusiasm and a young woman, exited by his words of incitement to the fatherland, asked him if she could cut off a lock of his hair. She was certainly satisfied (it seems she was the daughter of the chemist Bocelli, who had fought with Garibaldi). It is not the only relic belonging to the General and present in the civic collection: there is the sabre donated to the General by the French government for the help given in the Prussian war with the Vosges Campaign (1870-71), received in Colorno through his doctor, Timoteo Riboli (1808-1897).
Colorno will later demonstrate its admiration for Garibaldi by dedicating to him the main square of the town and a plaque that is still seen in the same square, dated June 2, 1900, and in memory of the death occurred in Caprera on June 2, 1882.
The Garibaldians of Colorno
The contribution of the inhabitants of Colorno had been effective: 35 of them had volunteered and actively participated in the war campaigns to liberate the South. The names are in the list drawn up by the Municipality after the Unification of Italy.
We want to rememebr them all: «Guzzoni Melchiorre, Braciforte comandante Lodovico, Battioni Leopoldo, Canali Demetrio, Monici Eugenio, Giacomo Valenti, Sporta Giuseppe, Pellegrini Cipriano, Pecchioni Francesco, Gerbella Demetrio, Bocchia Pietro, Zanardi Ernesto, Zanardi Dalmazio, Zanardi Giacomo, Zanardi Giovanni, Morenghi Giuseppe, Fano Mosè, Zoni Parisi Marianna, Garzia Angelo, Geminiani Luigi, Gatti Gaspare, Marchiani Narciso, Papini Adolfo, Piccinini Nicola, Montecchi Annibale, Mazzera Pietro, Piccoli Enrico, Sichel Rutilio, Amoretti Antonio, Avanzini Giglielmo, Geminiani Antonio, Angelini Luigi, Bonazzi Luigi, Negri Luigi, Caldarini Fabiano».
It was a contribution in human strength and in money, for the decision to join the initiative "of the undefeated Our General Garibaldi for the purchase of a million rifles for the defense of Italy". On November 3, 1859 "willing and unanimous", the City Council had deliberated the contest of the Municipality "so striking patriotic proposal with the sum of five hundred lire".
The history of Colorno in the portraits of Carlo Mattioli
In the hall of the City Council there are sixteen portraits of the famous painter Carlo Mattioli (born in Modena in 1911 and lived in Parma, where he died in 1944) of famous people who, as in the municipal archive, were commissioned in 1963 by Augusta Ghidiglia Quintavalle, superintendent of the National Gallery of Parma, characters "who had both by birth and political ties or culture related to the history of Colorno", sovereigns, men of arms and church, artists and writers.
The investment by the Municipality was due to comply the Law 717 – 1949, called law "percent for art", which, inspired by the Art. 9 of the Constitution (promotion of culture), obligates the public institutions at the time of the construction of a new building, to allocate to their landscaping a share not less than 2% of the value of the property, even with the purchase of works of art of painting or sculpture.
In 1964, the historic Longara was finally demolished and the construction of the New Town Hall was started; today it is possible to admire there the half- busts of Maria Luigia, Azzo da Correggio, Zaccaria Olivieri or the Bishop Martino da Colorno
The territory, which extends between the municipalities of Colorno, Sorbolo Mezzani and Torrile, has all the characteristics of the "Lowland", a land of plain and river where the hot summer midday and the motionless afternoon fogs in autumn follow each other, always the same though different. A land good of plantation and strain, land of work and opportunity.
Giovannino Guareschi wrote: "Dense and frozen fog in winter, in summer a ruthless sun beat furiously hammered on the brains of the people and here everything is exasperated. Here political passions explode violent and the fight is hard but men always remain men and here thing happen that cannot happen anywhere else."
Many thing have changed since the times of the so called "Mondo Piccolo" (Small World), however, that of the lowland, is always a world, which is not easy to penetrate and seize. Places where the water, the river and the plain that extends as far as the eye could see represent the protagonists of a village soul that makes this territory evocative and melancholy.
The Bassa Parmense Est is an autonomous local authority, established in 2010, which join the Municipalities of Colorno, Sorbolo Mezzani e Torrile.
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Colorno – the history
The name Colorno derives from the original position of the town at the confluence of the Lorno into the Parma stream: "Caput Lurni" at the head of the Lorno. The territory consisted of lowland lands, touched in part by the Roman colonization that affected the Parma countryside in the second century BC. In the Middle Ages, the lords of Colorno were the Bishops of Parma, to whom the Lombards had given fiefs and powers. In a bishop's document of 1004 and in an imperial bull of 1195, specific mention is made of Colorno and its territory: initially the village consisted of a few houses around a church and the nucleus stood near the current oratory of the Madonna della Neve . The town was important for its strategic position in defense of the city of Parma against attacks from the north; so Colorno was fortified and became the property of the city municipality.
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Yuri Berchiche Izeta, né le  à Zarautz (Espagne), est un footballeur espagnol évoluant au poste d'arrière gauche à l'Athletic Bilbao.

Biographie
Né à Zarautz au Pays basque, d'un père algérien et d'une mère espagnole, Berchiche entre à la cantera de la Real Sociedad où il fait ses premières armes dans le milieu du football avant de partir pour le club rival de l'Athletic Bilbao à l'âge de 16 ans.

Carrière en club

Tottenham Hotspurs (2007-2010)
En , un an seulement après son arrivée dans le club basque, il part pour Londres ou il entre à l'académie de Tottenham.

Malgré des premiers mois prometteurs au sein des équipes de jeunes des Spurs où il brille notamment dans une compétition U18 en Belgique (compétition dont il est élu meilleur joueur du tournoi), les dirigeants du club décident en , de prêter l'Espagnol à un club de troisième division anglaise, Cheltenham Town avec qui il fait ses débuts deux jours plus tard face à Walsall (1-1). Mais en , à la suite d'un tacle violent qui aurait pu compromettre la carrière d'un joueur de Scunthorpe United Henri Lansbury (prêté par Arsenal), il est exclu de l'équipe par l'entraineur de Cheltenham, Martin Allen.

Real Valladolid (2009-2010)
C'est ainsi qu'après sept matches seulement en Angleterre, il retourne en Espagne et atterrit en prêt au Real Valladolid en . Durant la saison 2009-2010, il joue en équipe B, ne disputant qu'une seule rencontre avec l'équipe première (0-0 face à Alméria qui évolue cette saison-là en première division ( et reléguée en fin de saison).

Real Unión (2010-2012)
À l'été 2010 et sans avoir eu la possibilité de jouer avec Tottenham, il est vendu à l'âge de 20 ans au club troisième division espagnole de Real Unión qui évolue à Irun au Pays basque à quelques hectomètres de la frontière française. En deux saisons chez les Basques, Berchiche dispute 45 matches (pour un but).

Real Sociedad (2012-2017)
Le , il est de retour dans son club formateur, signant un contrat avec la Real Sociedad qui décide dans la foulée de le prêter au club voisin d'Eibar, qui évolue au troisième échelon du football espagnol. Disputant 67 matches en deux saisons sous le maillot rouge et bleu d'Eibar (inscrivant au passage 7 buts), il participe grandement au deux montées successives connues par le club basque qui rejoint pour la première fois de son histoire la première division à l'été 2014 après sa première place en Segunda Division. Designé dans l'équipe-type de la saison 2012-2013 en Liga Adelante, et après deux années de prêt, Berchiche retrouve naturellement la Real Sociedad à l'été 2014. Dès lors, il s'impose sur le côté gauche de la défense basque, où en trois saisons, il joue 88 rencontres (pour 3 buts).

Paris Saint-Germain (2017-2018)
Recruté la même année que Neymar et Kylian Mbappé, Berchiche signe un contrat de quatre ans avec le PSG le . Son transfert évalué à 16 millions d'euros le lie au Paris Saint-Germain jusqu'en 2021. Il joue son premier match officiel le  en remplaçant Layvin Kurzawa en fin de match, lors de la quatrième journée de championnat contre l'AS Saint-Étienne. En concurrence avec Layvin Kurzawa, Unai Emery le titularise pour la première fois lors d'une victoire 1-5 face au FC Metz le  en championnat.

Le  il inscrit son premier but sous les couleurs parisiennes lors de la  journée de Ligue 1 au Parc des Princes, contre Caen. Sous la tunique parisienne, il fait également ses débuts en Ligue des champions, face au Real Madrid.

Dans un entretien accordé au Journal du dimanche le dimanche , Yuri Berchiche pointe le niveau de la Ligue 1 qui ne permettrait pas, selon lui, au PSG d'être au rendez-vous en Coupe d'Europe. Au cours de son unique saison parisienne, il remporte le championnat et toutes les coupes nationales.

Athletic Bilbao (depuis 2018)
Le , après avoir disputé 44 rencontres avec le Paris Saint Germain (2 buts), Berchiche signe un contrat de quatre ans avec l'Athletic Bilbao, contre 24 millions d'euros.

Carrière en sélection
En 2006, Berchiche dispute six rencontre avec l'équipe d'Espagne -17 ans.

Depuis 2014, il évolue régulièrement au sein de la Sélection du Pays basque aux côtés de joueurs issus de la région comme Mikel San José, Raúl García ou Carlos Gurpegui.

D'origine algérienne par son père, Yuri Berchiche a décliné à l'été 2016 une proposition de porter les couleurs de la sélection algérienne. Il l'explique au quotidien espagnol El Diario Vasco : « J'étais en vacances avec ma petite amie quand j'ai reçu un appel de l'adjoint de l'équipe nationale algérienne. [...] Je l'ai remercié pour l'intérêt mais j'ai dit non. »

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Footballeur espagnol
Joueur du Cheltenham Town FC
Joueur du Real Valladolid
Joueur du Real Unión Club
Joueur de la Real Sociedad
Joueur de la SD Eibar
Joueur du Paris Saint-Germain
Joueur de l'Athletic Bilbao
Naissance en janvier 1990
Naissance à Zarautz

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This post follows on the earlier discussion of the first four chapters of The High Cost of Free Parking.
Shoup sets up parking requirements as a great planning disaster. If an individual developer chose to dedicate more of his land to parking than his customers demanded, he would lose money on the margin. If he is a major property owner and somehow made this mistake repeatedly at many properties, we might consider it a disaster. But a planning disaster occurs when no individual loses a lot of money in this type of error, but rather we all lose some. Shoup explains that parking requirements breed demand for more parking. By subsidizing driving, these rules lead more people to become drivers and encourages sprawling development. This in turn creates an increased demand for free parking and leads to higher parking requirements, since many cities base these requirements on the peak number of people who would like to park at a building for free, leading to the parking disaster we have today.
Shoup explains that oftentimes parking requirements are so onerous that they dictate development both in use and in architecture. For example, Los Angeles' "dingbat" apartments which are apartments built on stilts over driveways were created to fulfill requirements for covered parking. This chapter includes the empirical evidence that I find most persuasive so far, a study of changes in development after Oakland implemented a parking requirement in 1961. For new developments in the two years after the regulation went into effect, residential construction costs increased 18% per unit, housing density decreased by 30%, housing investment decreased by 18%, and land values fell by 33% compared to the four years before the requirement. This is strong evidence that in Oakland, at least, parking requirements, rather than demand for parking, drive parking supply.
Parking requirements also make existing development less flexible. As he explains, the specificity of requirements for each land use mean that buildings can rarely be used for something with higher requirements than current uses. Shoup points out that this obstacle toward reusing existing buildings creates incentives to pursue greenfield development where it's cheap to build required parking, leaving properties vacant in center cities.
Shoup points out that the costs of parking requirements do not fall evenly on everyone. They act like a regressive tax because low-income people who are less likely to be car-owners and make fewer car trips receive fewer benefits but all of the costs. Additionally, they encourage people to become drivers who, in a world without parking requirements, might prefer to use other transportation modes. Parking redistributes wealth from those with preferences for making frequent, short car trips to those who drive less or don't drive at all.
The title of this chapter is somewhat misleading because it focuses on the cost of parking generally without distinguishing whether or not these spaces would have been built absent parking requirements. Shoup details the cost of constructing parking structures, using data for garages on UCLA campuses, finding that the average cost of each space built from 1961-2002 is $22,500 in 2002 dollars. Unsurprisingly, underground parking is significantly more expensive that above-ground parking. Since parking is usually built underground when land is more valuable, we can see that parking requirements are more expensive in more expensive areas. Using the assumptions of a 4% interest rate and a 40 year amortization period, Shoup calculates that the average parking spot at UCLA costs $127 per month.
Because free parking induces people to drive more than they otherwise would, Shoup also discusses some of the externalities of parking. As more roads induce more driving, so do more parking spaces. He estimates that each parking spot at UCLA has monthly external costs of $73 in traffic congestion and $44 in pollution, for a total of $117 per month. He points out that while in 2002 the average debt-financed parking spot costs UCLA $201 per month and has $117 in externalities, students paid $54 for parking passes.
Because we pay for free parking in the costs of all other goods, we often don't have a good idea of what it really costs. Shoup cites a study from Mark Delucchi who estimates that the total cost of off-street parking in the United States from 1990-1991 was between $79 billion and $226 billion per year. Drivers during that time paid about $3 billion of that cost in lots that charge for parking. He also compares parking costs to the cost of roads and vehicles, finding that using conservative estimates of the cost of parking spaces, our stock of parking is worth more than both our stock of vehicles and our stock of roads. He argues that charging for parking would be a more effective way to reduce traffic congestion than congestion tolls.
Shoup proposes a thought experiment about what would happen if we treated phone service the way that we treat parking, requiring those who receive calls to pay for all of the calls they receive free to callers. This policy would increase the demand for telephone service, leading to minimum telephone requirements and even more calling. It's funny how this chapter feels very dated even though the book was published only seven years ago.
Shoup suggests that cities can improve their parking policies by allowing developers to pay for spaces in public parking garages rather than requiring parking on site. This policy introduces design flexibility, reduces waste in parking spots for proximate businesses that experience peak parking demand at different times, allows existing buildings to be reused more easily, and allows people to park in one place and leave their car there while they visit multiple businesses.
Cities that offer the option of in-lieu fees for parking offer interesting insight into the costs of parking for developers because when developers choose to pay the fee rather than build parking, they forgo the value that parking adds to their property. Thus when developers choose to pay in-lieu fees, they are less than [cost of building parking space – capital value of the space].
This chapter includes interesting data on the parking requirements and in-lieu fees charged across cities. Shoup demonstrates that there is essentially no relationship between these two variables. This suggests that city planners do not take into account the opportunity cost of parking when they set requirements, ignoring that demand slopes down.
This section provides some convincing empirical evidence, but I think at times Shoup stretches this evidence to undermine his own case. The Oakland case gets exactly to what I see as the relevant question: How do parking requirements influence development? In a free market, it's quite possible that some business and residential developments would provide free parking for their patrons, and we need to know how parking requirements increase the supply of free parking.
Shoup relies heavily on data on the cost of parking at UCLA because of its availability. However, I think it would strengthen his case to acknowledge that the UC system might not embody efficiency in development. He points out that students pay less for parking passes than a conservative estimate of the cost of the spaces. However, UCLA students don't pay market price for many university services. It's not clear that parking should be singled out as the one part of the university that taxpayers shouldn't subsidize.
In chapters 6 and 7, Shoup doesn't make an attempt to distinguish between the free parking that would be provided absent parking requirements and the total free parking that we have today. He verges on suggesting that it's wrong for retailers, universities, or housing developers to provide free or below-market-price parking because parking is expensive and suggests parking maximums should be in place rather than parking minimums. I think his case is stronger when he sticks to the problems with parking requirements rather than free parking in general, and I hope the rest of the book includes further studies like the evidence from Oakland.
Great point that the problem is not really free parking. The problem is the fixed requirement which is just a pretense of knowlege.


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Q: datepicker issue storing wrong value Using Datepicker I have 2 problems.
1) when the page loads I want the field to display todays date 01/10/2013. Instead it displays 01/01/0001...however if the user clicks on the field and the datepicker calendar appears, todays date will be highlighted on the calendar, why is it being high lighted on the calendar but displaying wrong date in the field
2)If the user selected a date from the datepicker it stores whatever date is selected plus an additional 2013....so user selects todays date, 01/10/20132013 will be stored in the field.
Any Help on how to resolve this. thanks guys
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A: For your first point, you may try to initialize your datepicker removing the uppercase in dd/MM/yyyy. This should solve this matter : dd/mm/yyyy.
And for the second part, year format seems to be only yy. By adding twice "yy", the datepicker display twice "2013".
I hope this help.
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Islamic fundamentalist movements are neither new, or prevalent nor permanent in Islamic societies. While these movements tend to draw on Islamic sacred text and historical traditions in articulating their vision for social and political change and strategies of popular mobilizations, fundamentalism is not the inevitable outcome of those resources.
Apart from getting its inspiration from the texts, this phenomenon should also be understood as an indigenous and spontaneous response to profound social, political and economic crises, rather than either pre-dominant among Islamic societies at any given point in time, or permanent where it does occur. Like any other social movements, Islamic fundamentalism is a product of interaction of certain external and internal actors and factors, and tend to evolve and adapt over time in response to changes in its local and broader context and re-evaluation of its objectives and strategies.
As such, fundamentalist movement should be seen as both products and agents of social change in Islamic societies and communities. These movements emerged as a result of certain configurations of factors and processes in each case, and seek to influence the course of events in favour of their own social and political objectives.
This public lecture will examine these arguments even further, by drawing some experiences of a few Muslim countries that were often associated with radicalism and fundamentalism in the name of Islam.


This blog began with a foray into parts unknown in 1996, as I dipped my toe into the big, scary Internet where every stranger was a serial killer and the whole thing was new. Through several different iterations, from that GeoCities website I started to my first blog at WordPress.com and on to this site, it's been fun.
Well, it's been work AND fun and even a little tiny bit of income, but mostly it's just been fun. But all things eventually end.
You know I've been quiet this past year. It's been a busy year, which, if you follow me on Instagram @MommaKnows or @TerrapinSilver you have seen the changes.
The boys, our two youngest, are growing up.
He's come a long way since three-times-weekly therapies and speech and sensory seeking and DISAPPEARING at the most inopportune times. Well okay, he still disappears but at least now a quick text is all it takes to find him. Autism and ADHD will always be part of him, but they are not ALL of him.
He is looking forward to adulthood. He got his driver's license in August. He received a Career and Technical Education scholarship for $3000 to attend a local welding school. He graduated from welding school and he's applying for jobs now. He has a future. He's found a niche he loves and is comfortable operating in. He will be able to support himself and live on his own. This has always, always been our hope, prayer, and GOAL.
D2 had the busiest summer of his life.
He was enrolled in a STEM high school's summer Beginning BioMedical Science program. He went from 7:30am-3pm, Monday thru Friday. He also worked from 3:30-5:30 at the dojo four afternoons a week, so that didn't leave much time for… anything. Usually, he'd just eat a sandwich in my car on the way to the dojo. He came home from work, had dinner and a couple of hours' downtime before heading back to the dojo for classes, five nights a week.
In September, he began classes at the Community College in the Running Start program. He will earn his high school diploma from the college while also earning his AA degree. Last quarter he had two English classes (they were linked) and Philosophy 101. He doesn't mind his courseload and is adjusting to the new routine. He's cut back a couple nights a week of work so he has homework time. This quarter he is taking Physics, an online computer class, and Sociology.
And I'm home alone every day.
This is a weird change!! I'm not complaining though. I enjoy it but it is strange to be alone all day. The dogs are getting more attention now than they used to. Haha! My dad lives with us, so I do run errands and take him to appointments too. I've also been exploring my creative side again, doing embroidering and making sterling silver spoon rings to sell locally and in my Etsy shop, Terrapin Silver.
I haven't decided yet what I want to do with this site.
For now, it will remain and I've even pondered a few new posts on helping a teen with Autism adjust to adult responsibilities. Oh, and THAT has been an interesting series of events for sure! But I just don't know yet.
I'm available by email as always. I answer all post comments either on the site or via email directly. I am also still blogging a little bit on my other site, Not Like Other Girls. This is my next stage of life blog and nothing like this homeschool blog has been.


When you are staying in one of our villas in Canaries on the island of Tenerife, make sure that you take advantage of the great shopping available and not just the usual gifts aimed at tourists that you will find in many of the larger centres. You can find authentic gifts in many places in Tenerife, superb food and wine, the latest fashions and electronic goods all at great prices.
If it is great fashion that you are looking for in Tenerife, then many of the larger towns such as Playa de las Americas and Costa Adeje have all the best Spanish fashion chains and some of the more upmarket places have the best designer names too. However, for more unique designs and at even more affordable prices then head to where the locals go for the best fashions, which can be found in the old quarter in La Laguna. La Laguna is a great place to visit with historic architecture but at Icod de los Vinos there are stylish fashion boutiques with truly original items for sale and definitely the place to go for fashion while on holiday in Tenerife in villas in Canary islands.
Spain self-catering gives you the chance to shop in local markets, prepare local specialities yourself and also eat out in great local restaurants and to sample the regional cuisine. There are of course lots of supermarkets where you can get lots of great produce easily and cheaply but better still is to head to one of the local agricultural markets or farmers markets to buy the best vegetables, spices and fish. The best markets can be found in the North of the island but can be hard to get to, so the biggest can be found in la Laguna and Santa Cruz. The market in La Laguna which is next to the Plaza del Cristo is open every day until 3pm except on Sunday. Buying wine in Tenerife is also great value and great tasting, so make sure that you visit a vinoteca, which is a specialist wine shop, normally selling tapas too and find the best local wines to drink in your Spain holiday villa.
If you are buying gifts to take back with you, then try to find local handicrafts from one of the craft fairs. You can usually find these in the main Plazas in the larger towns most Sundays or visit workshops to buy the best creations from local artisans. Stay in one of our villas in Canaries and experience the great range of shopping available in Tenerife.