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Love circle on fire by hendrik arie baartman

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MST

Love sickness has historically been viewed as a mental illness brought on by the intense changes associated with falling in love. Ibn Sena the 10th century physician considered to be "the father of modern medicine", viewed obsession as the principal symptom and cause of love sickness. This diagnosis has been out of favor since the collapse of the humoural model and advent of modern scientific psychiatry. However the concept of being "madly" in love is not simply a poetic notion. For some, the ups and downs of love sickness may actually have diagnostic similarities with mental illness. People who find the feeling of love too intense may experience "love sickness", with feelings of anxiety and can have symptons of mania, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), inflated self esteem and depression.A study in The Psychologist, the official publication for the British Psychological Society, concluded that love sickness should be taken more seriously by professionals. According to the author of the study, Frank Tallis, "Many people are referred for help who cannot cope with the intensity of love, have been destabilised by falling in love, or suffer on account of their love being unrequited.

Human rights and labour in Dubai by hendrik arie baartman

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MST

The massive construction projects currently in Dubai have required more construction workers than there are citizens of the city (note: over 80% of Dubai's population consists of expatriates/non-citizens). This has led to massive importation of low-wage workers, mostly from India and Pakistan. [8] Most of these workers are forced to give up their passports upon entering Dubai, making it very difficult to return home. NPR reports that workers "typically live eight to a room, sending home a portion of their salary to their families, whom they don't see for years at a time." Others report that their salary has been withheld to pay back loans, making them little more than indentured servants. [9] The BBC has reported that "local newspapers often carry stories of construction workers allegedly not being paid for months on end. They are not allowed to move jobs and if they leave the country to go home they will almost certainly lose the money they say they are owed. The names of the construction companies concerned are not published in the newspapers for fear of offending the often powerful individuals who own them."

Dutch fishermans dreaming of the past by hendrik arie baartman

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MST

Goodmorning Germans, Americans, planet.

Commedia della arte Bali by hendrik arie baartman

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MST

Balinese people are descendants of a prehistoric race who migrated through mainland Asia to the Indonesian archipelago, presumably first settling around 2500 BC. The end of the prehistoric period in Indonesia was marked by the arrival of Hindu people from India around 100 BC as determined by Brahmi inscriptions on potsherds. The name Balidwipa has been discovered from various inscriptions, including the Blanjong charter issued by Sri Kesari Warmadewa in 913 AD and mentioning Walidwipa. The Hindu Majapahit Empire (12931520 AD) on Eastern Java island founded a Balinese colony in 1343. The empire collapsed slightly before 1500 due to assaults, causing an exodus to Bali. Europeans first discovered Bali when Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman arrived in 1597, though a Portuguese ship had foundered off the coast of Bukit as early as 1585. The Dutch soon established a trade post, and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) started trading from early 17th century. Dutch control of the island was firmly established after a series of colonial wars (18461849). These wars were so fierce (with the entire royal court of the Raja, women and children, plunged into battle armed with kris and spears, preferring to kill each other on the battlefield rather than be taken captive) that afterwards the Dutch governors exercised little influence over the island, generally allowing local control over religion and culture to remain intact. Japan conquered Bali during World War II and maintained control until August 1945. During the Japanese occupation a Balinese military officer, Gusti Ngurah Rai, began to gather a Balinese 'freedom army'. The Dutch returned immediately to reinstate their pre-war colonial administration. But now Balinese rebels were fighting them with Japanese weapons. On 20 November 1946, the Battle of Marga was fought in Tabanan in central Bali. Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai, 29 years old, led his 95 guerrillas in a last-ditch battle in which all were killed by aerial bombardment-a reenactment of the 'puputans' of 40 years earlier. After a series of guerilla type confrontations which served to arouse the wrath of the Dutch, Ngurah Rai finally rallied his forces in east Bali at Marga Rana, where they made a suicide attack on the heavily armed Dutch. The Balinese battalion was entirely wiped out, breaking the last thread of Balinese military resistance. In 1946 the Dutch constituted Bali as one of the 13 administrative districts of the newly proclaimed Republic of East Indonesia, a rival state to the Republic of Indonesia which was proclaimed and headed by Sukarno and Hatta. Bali became part of the Republic of the United States of Indonesia on Dec. 29, 1949. In 1956 Bali officially renounced the Dutch union and became legally a province within the Republic of Indonesia. In 1965, after a failed coup d'etat in Jakarta against the national government of Indonesia, Bali was the scene of widespread killings of (often falsely accused) members and sympathizers of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) by right-wing militias, along with several other parts of Indonesia, most notably Java. Possibly more than 100,000 Balinese were killed by the Indonesian military and associated militias, the exact numbers are unknown to date and the events remain legally remains unclosed[citation needed]. Until today many unmarked but well known mass graves of victims are located around the island.

Broken Worlds by hendrik arie baartman

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MST

The world's broken promise to our children By Carol Bellamy | December 18, 2004 STANDING ON THE side of a dusty road in northern Uganda earlier this year, I watched a trail of children on a desperate journey. The children were some of the "night commuters" of northern Uganda, the thousands of girls and boys who leave their homes every day at dusk to escape abduction by the Lord's Resistance Army. Recalling the chilling image of children walking away from their mothers and fathers to camp out in the city until morning, I feel the same outrage that I experienced while visiting Beslan, Russia, where militants viciously used children to bring attention to their cause. Surely these two phenomena -- the abduction of thousands of children to become soldiers and sex slaves in Uganda and the deliberate exploitation in Russia of the helplessness and beloved status of children -- are some of history's worst attacks on childhood. Yet as tempting as it is to view such events as evil aberrations, they did not come out of nowhere. They came from a world that routinely exploits and neglects children. When governments allow children to be used in the commercial sex industry, to be swept up in the harshest forms of child labor, or to grow up without clean water, education, nutritious food or basic healthcare, they send an unspoken message that it is permissible to overlook the rights of children. Today more than one billion children are suffering extreme deprivations from poverty, war, and HIV/AIDS. The specifics are staggering: 640 million children without adequate shelter, 400 million children without access to safe water, and 270 million children without access to basic health services. AIDS has orphaned 15 million children. During the 1990s alone, war forced 20 million children to leave their homes. By adopting the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, the nations of the world overcame cultural and religious differences to agree on standards to protect the lives of children. They embraced the idea that childhood refers not just to the time before adulthood, but to a separate and safe stage of life in which children can grow, play, and develop. The appalling conditions endured today by half the world's children speak to a broken promise. Too many governments are doing worse than neglecting children -- they are making deliberate, informed choices that hurt children. The severe threat to childhood posed by poverty, war, and AIDS is highlighted in UNICEF's flagship report "The State of the World's Children," which argues that the failure by governments to live up to the convention's standards causes permanent damage to children and in turn blocks progress toward human rights and economic advancement. When atrocities against children catch our attention, the questions are quick to flow: How could this have happened? How could it have been prevented? How can we ensure that it will never happen again? The answers do not come easily. But we can start by refusing to be outraged by one affront against children while ignoring others. If we decry the hostage-taking of children, we also must refuse to allow millions of children to wither away from diarrhea caused by a lack of clean water. If we are outraged when children are kidnapped by paramilitary groups, we must be more enraged that thousands of infants and young children are dying from AIDS because their families are too poor to afford medicine. After 10 years with UNICEF it is clear to me that the world's sporadic outrage over the most grotesque violations of children -- targeting them in war, chasing them down to become slaves or soldiers -- reflects a broader acquiescence to a status quo that essentially says that, while awful, the daily and routine suffering of children is intrinsic to the human condition. I don't believe that. The business of human and economic development goes on every day, with tens of billions of dollars at stake. These dollars can be invested in ways that help preserve and protect children's lives and well-being, or not. The power to ensure that childhood is the central priority of our investment is well within our command. If children are going to survive and thrive, then we must we put them at the center of development policy and social spending decisions. When we adopt policies in any sphere of public or private enterprise, we should be asking ourselves how they will affect children. We must work for greater investment in the services that mean the most to children, and ensure that national budgets are analyzed and monitored from the perspective of their impact on children. And when we do so, it should be with a full commitment to fulfilling the basic rights of every child, not just a statistical critical mass. Only this kind of commitment will send the resounding message that no violation will go unpunished -- be it a violation against every child's right to survive, to be protected from exploitation, or to grow to adulthood in health and dignity. For 2.2 billion young human lives, childhood is unfolding now.

Brazilian Sunrise by hendrik arie baartman

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MST

Brazilian Sunrise. The decree by President Lula of Brazil to create the 6.4 million hectare (around 16 million acres) conservation area is a great victory for the people of the Amazon battling landgrabbers, cattle ranchers and loggers. The decree calls for around 1.6 million hectares to be permanently protected and totally off limits to logging and deforestation. Another 2.8 million hectares will be used for sustainable logging concessions to prevent deforestation and ensure well-managed forests. Development guidelines will be improved in an additional 2 million hectares of forest. Whilst the 6.4 million hectares is a victory for many communities in the Amazon, it still represents less than two percent of the total Brazilian Amazon. An area one-third the size of the new conservation area is lost every year in the Amazon to logging, soy plantations and cattle ranchers.

The ever moving moments to catch while awake by hendrik arie baartman

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MST

What????Dreams! What kind of dreams? Well, good dreams, bad dreams, nice dreams, terrible dreams, horror. Ohhh.

Shouting and vibrations by hendrik arie baartman

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MST

oh....eh....shouting? Yes.Why? Why, I dont know, just shouting.

Clustering of lines by hendrik arie baartman

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MST

Part of the grafimathematical serie of drawings.

Holy Diablo holy....S...t Celito left us by hendrik arie baartman

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MST

Its a sad day and I am pissed, angry and more............about this situation.I am supporting Celito!!!