Once upon a time in the desert

I am not sure if I have alread post this photo here. Despite this doubt, I am now showing to you this picture I took in Tunisia. As anybody knows, Tunisia is a country in North Africa and most of its territory is in the Sahara.
The photo shows the Chott El-Jherid, a salt lake in the middle of the country. A great deal of it is now dry. But they continue to sell its salt to France and other europeans countries.

This place in the picture is in the half way from Douz to Tozeur. The highway cross the desert and we see some tuaregues with their camels.

When the passion ends in blood

 

 

As was Eloa Cristinna Pimentel, shooting dead by her boyfriend Lindemberg Fernandes Alves, in Santo Andre, São Paulo, after 100 hours of kidnapping and false imprisonment, other women, young or adult, are being beaten, tortured, and even offended dead from north to south of Brazil. The main victims of crimes of passion are women. Less than 10 percent of the crimes, according to statistics of justice, have men as victims. Most happens with the end of the relationship, but none of the crimes has to do with passionate love. According to lawyers and psychologists, who kills his former lover is mainly driven by selfishness, jealousy and hatred sick.

 

Maria de Fatima Dannemann

 

The samba "Ronda" of the composer from São Paulo, Paulo Vanzolini, describes the situation: driven by a morbid jealousy, a woman goes out looking for her husband (or lover) by all the bars in the city swears death. In art, kill "with passion" have yielded movies, books, plays and at least one of the soap opera broadcasted currently has just a crime of passion as "motto": A Favorita (Globo network, 21 hours), in which Flora husband of Donatella, Marcelo, for jealousy, envy, spite and a range of feelings even more sordid. In real life, turns and moves a crime of passion plays all editions of all the media so much less poetic.

            The latest crime to stir the country ended in tragedy at the end of last week and involved Lindemberg Fernandes Alves and his ex-girlfriend Eloá Cristina Pimentel.  The commotion surrounding the kidnapping, false imprisonment, torture and all that the girl suffered was so great that other issues such as runoff municipal elections, world economic crisis and even the destiny of Flora and Donatella in the soap opera A Favorita remained in the background . Programs such as Mais Você, by Ana Maria Braga, became a stage of debates about the direction of sick passion that leads someone to kill his former lover. This matter, however, has become theme of a book, written by the prosecutor Luiza Nagib Eluf of Sao Paulo, which analyzed 14 crimes famous in "Paixão no banco dos réus" 

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           The behavior of Lindemberg matches the profile that lawyers, police and psychologists give the passionate murderer who is someone normally calm, never killed anyone, but took a violent conduct for refusing to end the relationship or fall into oblivion by the former loved. But many of the crimes happen behind the scenes of the media. Most cases occur in the suburbs, among people of low income and all the coverage of the press comes down to a footnote on page police. Or not notoriety, this type of crime scares feminist and NGO and is related to domestic violence against women.

 

      The number of crimes has grown throughout the country and Bahia, according to police statistics have been 59 murders of women only in the first half of this year. One of the biggest impact was in Rubem Berta Street, Pituba, when the student's UFBa, Miguel Almeida, 22 years old, killed his former girlfriend, Margaret Andrade, 34 years after a fight. If such crimes and the cause of Beef uprising, protests, there have been a time when men had the right to kill almost lovers "infidels". This can be seen in the movie "The Other" in which, driven by frame palace, Henry VIII sends decapitate Ana Boleyn with the excuse of treason and incest. All right, it did not come to be crime of passion, but in Brazil, until the nineteenth century the husband was entitled to wash his honor with blood in cases of treachery (real or supposed).

           A crime was famous, moreover, in the nineteenth century Bahia. That was when the teacher Joâo Estanislau da Silva Lisboa killed his student and "beloved" Julia Feital with a silver bullet of a house in the street do Rosario, the city center. The girl did not want anything to him, which was much more old (almost always there is a significant difference of age) and of it she lost her life. This right to kill over, but the men still exists in the legal self-defense of honor (now slightly raised). Luiza Eluf,  the prosecutor, said in an interview to a magazine at the time of the launch of the book that even when victim, a woman is always viewed with scorn and inferiority.

          This behavior was seen in the trial of the playboy  Raul (Doca) Street in 1979 when he was tried for the murder of the "panther of Mines," Angela Diniz. In the dock, he claimed to "have killed for love", ended up being acquitted. Two years later, under a huge wave of protest and the effect of the movement "who loves does not kill," Dock Street again been tried and this time he was convicted. The singer was Lindomar Castilho protagonist of another crime of passion in 1981 when he killed his ex-wife Eliana de Grammont. Was described as aggressive and jealous but he spoke on Tuesday saying the crime is disconnected from reality.

          More rare according to statistics, but the times is the woman who kills. One of the most famous cases is that of former actress Michelle Duval who killed the ex-husband Paulo Sergio Alcantara in 1983. Michelle's story is sad moments: at 15 years was raped, turned prostitute. Later, turned actress, married Daniel Filho, made the novel The Well Amado. Disappeared from TV involved, with Paulo Sergio, 16 years younger, that after six years of marriage decided tripudiar saying she was "finished", calling it with adjectives like "old and ugly." One day, Michelle decided wash his honor with blood. He was convicted, served sentence. Today, with more than 70 years, lives in Rio de Janeiro, became plastic artist and lives of the sale of their work.

           There are instances where the crime of passion ends in suicide. Ana Paula Arósio, a major star cast of the Globe went bad times 12 years ago. She was only 21 years in 1996, when they saw the suicide of ex-boyfriend, the businessman Luis Carlos Tjurs, 29. The ex-husband of singer Sula Miranda also committed suicide in 1990. Maite Proença just as a witness of the murder of the mother by her father. But one of the recent cases was the noisiest of editorial director of the State of Sao Paulo, Marco Antonio Pimenta Neves who killed his girlfriend Sandra Gomide. He was 63 years. She was much younger. Reason: not accept the rejection.

            The excuse of Dock Street to "kill for love" no longer convincing lawyers, psychologists or even the police. Psychologists say that there is a difference between the violent emotions caused by unbridled passion and love. In the case of passionate crime, the behavior of the killer is linked to selfishness, egolatria and egocentrism. It's the old thinking that "if it is not mine, is not from anyone." In the case of Beef, at least it is the heart of someone: a patient underwent the transplant and won a new heart the day of his birthday, at the beginning of this week.

 

 

Amazing things

With creative and effort, people can create wonders like these small dogs made with flowers.
I got this picture by e-mail and these flower animals were created in japan where people use to have a lot of patience to do unusual things like that.

Something like Orient

You see the sun rising behind the Medina towers and wall and you can imagine that you are in Middle East. It's because the effect of a sunrise in Tunisia is something magical. When you see the Medina of Sfax in the moment that the sun rises, you believe that god is really your father.

Irish Poetry: Paul Durcan

And That Being so

Paul Durcan

My so is the High Meadow we played in
My cousin and I, when we were young
The high meadow where we danced
Round a fairy ring

My soul is the figure of my first love
Skipping quickly across the sands
Her hair dyed yellow - was that wise? -
Round her laughing eyes

But the High Meadow's been built upon
And that being so and my first love gone
My soul must step in the streets
Round the fire of song

All we can carry in a handbag

I have alread done a list of all the things I use to carry in my handbag. It depends on the situation. If I am out, travelling around, I use to carry many diferent things like pills against headache, needle, line, a rosary, a japamala, lipstick, money, documents...

I used to keep the latest results of the blood laboratorial tests in the bag. I wondered that we never knew what could happen and it had better carry the exams than have to do it again.

Well, a handbag could manytimes reveal a lot about ourselves... And, I think it is the most personal and intimate thing a woman can own.

by Fatima Dannemann

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