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Post by pieter on Oct 6, 2019 8:56:52 GMT -7
Jaga,
The older I become the less I look outside the Netherlands and the more I understand an come to know about my own country with it's different provinces, area's, landscapes, nature stories and cities and towns. I will admid that I have still limited experience with this Low Lands and I have still seen not all of it. I posted these magnificent video's about the provincces of the Netherlands. Of these provinces I for instance hardly know Limburg, Drenthe, Groningen, the new province Flevoland and large parts of Friesland and Utrecht province. My own life and roads in the Netherlands ofcourse are the beautiful green province of Gelderland (of whom province I know very little also -I am to focussed and locked in the large Arnhem city and regio area-), and the provinces of North-Holland and Zeeland, because I am focussed on my parents in Vlissingen in Zeeland and my friends in Amsterdam in North Holland.
I posted these video's for you, Karl, John, Kaima, Jeanne, Ludwik, Eric, Gardenmona, Pavian, Chris, JustJim, Nicetoe (if he still visits us?), and other Forum members, but in the same time watched them myself. And I saw beautiful landscapes, nature, towns, villages, hamlets, parts of the Netherlands I have never been in. For instance if you watch the Limburg from above video you see that there is a hill landscape or small mountain area in the far most South-East corner of the Netherlands in the Limburg region. The Low Saxon province of Drenthe has wonderful nature and old Hunebed large stone graves. I also still have to explore Groningen and Friesland better. In Groningen I only know the capital city of Groningen, a sort of city island in the North-East of the Netherlands in a large 3 provinces rural area of Friesland-Groningen Province and Drenthe.
The Frisian lakes can be compared to Masuria the region in northern Poland, famous for its 2,000 lakes. I had one very nice sailing holiday on the Frisian lakes for several days. It was great to sail these lakes and the canals between them.
Due to the fact that the Netherlands is a seafaring nation with a colonial heritage, history and past the Dutch brought much to the international culture. Today the Netherlands is still a quite international nation due to it's multi nationals, international operating banks and insurance firms, import & export firms and large transport sector and harbours. The Dutch are very present for instance in the City of London (the financial district of London) and Manhattan in New York. I mention the largely Dutch multinational professional services network KPMG, who is one of the Big Four accounting organizations, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Next to that I think about Aegon N.V. a multinational life insurance, pensions and asset management company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands. And Robeco, Nationale Nederlanden, Achmea and the ING Group (Dutch: ING Groep) a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, wholesale banking, private banking, asset management, and insurance services.
Large banks like ABN-Amro, Rabo bank, de Volksbank (=ASN +BLG wonen + Regio Bank + SNS), Van Lanschot NV (commercial businessbank; F. van Lanschot Bankiers NV [F. van Lanschot Bankers NV]), Triodos Bank N.V. (ethical banking) and the commercial NIBC Bank also operate internationally.
It was strange for me to see in Warsaw and Krakow these Dutch financial institutions. I saw Polish branches of Dutch banks and financial institutions there. It was weird to see in huge capital letters the words NATIONALE NEDERLANDEN on a large office building next to the Palace of Culture in Warsaw. I saw ABN Amro Bank Polska, ING bank, Fortis Bank Polska and Rabobank Polska branches in Poland.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by karl on Oct 6, 2019 15:33:57 GMT -7
Pieter
Thank you for the correction of what appeared to be old war time wrecks which as have corrected as being in that stead, targets for military use. It is good that now it is required for the militaries to obtain permits for using these islands for their training areas. For on the surface, it sounds harmless, but to nature, it is now so, for one thing, their are sea creatures that live in these areas that need protection from harm. For our world is becoming much to small to take lightly in needed protection of wild life and the land they live on. For with expenditure of ammunition, is lead bullets must land some where, and then there is lead and residue pollution where there should not be.
The Barge sailing races look like a great deal of fun, and very competitive, and when to observe the narrows these vessels are sailing in, very tricky...For it is bow to stern and if any one captain allows the pursuing vessel to pass up wind, then this will rob the wind out of the sail of the lead vessel and there goes his lead.. As with things as tight as it is, with such close quarters between banks, it would be a big mess of even one vessel was to bottom beach a storm mud flow from any of the surrounding banks. It then would be a pile up upon pile up of following vessels upon one another.
Hope is the mother of all things, and luck is not far behind...
Karl
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Post by pieter on Oct 7, 2019 13:20:11 GMT -7
this regatta is really majestic but also flexible and so Dutch.... thanks for sharing. The cows you are showing are also called in Poland Dutch cows and are mainly breed in the Northern part of Poland, on the lowlands, just like in the Netherlands. It is amazing how much Dutch brought to the international culture Jaga,
It is true that the Dutch contributed a lot to the international culture. The colonial empire was huge if you look at Indonesia today, South-Africa, New York (New Amsterdam), Suriname in Southern-America and the Dutch Antilles. The negative side of that heritage is our part in the slave trade.
The transatlantic slave trade, which spanned the 16th through the 19th century, was the largest long-distance forced movement of people in history. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean became a commercial highway that integrated the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The majority of slaves transported to the New World were sold by Africans from central and western parts of Africa to European slave traders, who transported them to North and South America. Before 1820, over 80 percent of the people arriving in the New World were enslaved Africans and it is estimated that in all a total of 12 million enslaved Africans were transported.
Although by the late 18th century anti-slavery sentiments were widespread, slave labour continued to be used in the colonies. The campaign to abolish the slave trade developed in a changing international context marked by events such as the French Revolution, as well as acts of resistance from below by enslaved peoples themselves. In 1807 Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies and established a network of treaties allowing the British to detain the slave ships of other nations. However, it was not until 1834 that slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire. The French colonies followed in 1848, and the United States in 1865, after the end of the Civil War.
Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade covers the 17th-19th centuries. Initially the Dutch shipped slaves to northern Brazil, and during the second half of the 17th century they had a controlling interest in the trade to the Spanish colonies. Today’s Suriname and Guyana became prominent markets in the 18th century. Between 1612 and 1872, the Dutch operated from some 10 fortresses along the Gold Coast (now Ghana), from which slaves were shipped across the Atlantic. The trade declined between 1780 and 1815. The Dutch part in the Atlantic slave trade is estimated at 5-7 percent, or some 550,000-600,000 Africans.
The Netherlands was one of the last countries to abolish slavery in 1863. Although the decision was made in 1848, it took many years for the law to be implemented. Furthermore, slaves in Suriname would be fully free only in 1873, since the law stipulated that there was to be a mandatory 10-year transition.
The positive contributions to the world of the Dutch were the Dutch painters of Dutch Golden Age of painting the 17th century. Out of 'political correctness' the Golden Age isn't allowed to be called 'the Golden Age' anymore today, due to the bad slave trade and Dutch piracy and exploitation of other nations during the colonial era that started in the 17th century.www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/09/amsterdam-museum-ditches-golden-age-in-favour-of-inclusive-17th-century/As a country known for its forward-thinking and innovative culture, the Netherlands is credited with the creation of many devices we take for granted today. Holland continues to bring its penchant for innovation into the future. Companies from across the world are encouraged to join industry leaders and start-ups alike in a cutting-edge environment.10 Inventions You Didn’t Know Were Dutch: investinholland.com/news/10-inventions-didnt-know-dutch/To put things in perspective hower in continental Europe the influence of the German empire went far futher than the Netherlands, because the amount of German speaking peoples were larger and it was a fact that the Prussian and the Austrian Habsburg empires had more territory than the Dutch. Therefor the influence of German philosophy (Kant, Leibnitz, Lessing and Hegel), literature (Goethe and Schiller), science, technology, political ideas, Industrial development and products is far more influential than the limited Dutch influence. Of course also the space of the British, French, Portuguese and Spanish colonies was much larger than the Dutch one, and therefor the English, French, Portuguese and Spanish languages spread far more over the world than Dutch. Italy and Greece also have larger influences due to their old Roman empire, Greek civilization and the influence of the Roman-Catholic (latin Roman church) and the Greek (Bysantine) Orthodox churches. The Christian Orthodoxy in Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Macedonia and Serbia. If you compare the Duch Calvinisn to that the Dutch Reformed Calvinism onky spread in the Netherlands, South-Africa and a little bit in the USA (the places were some of the 4,533,617 Dutch Americans live. There are also Roman Catholic Dutch Americans).
The Dutch watermanagement experience, sea fearing experience and ship building experience, architecture, Dutch design, Dutch architecture, Dutch cows and Black Frisian horses, Dutch food industry products, accountancy, banking, stock broker knowledge and trade spread over the world of course. Today is not the age of the Golden Age anymore, and the Netherlands is certainly not the centre of culture, music and Fine Art in the world. For the latter you have to look at New York, Berlin, London, Paris, Kasselm, Venice and partly in Central and Eastern-Europe, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Wrocław, Warszawa, Kraków, Saint Petersburg and Moscow. For me in the sense of innovation, progress and interesting developments in Fine art (contemporary art), culture, cinema and modern city life you shouldn't be in the Netherlands, but in London, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Manchaster, Kassel ( www.documenta.de/en/# ), Paris, Berlin, Munich, Venice ( www.labiennale.org/en ), Budapest, Prague and Warsaw.
I have to say, and this is not meant to degrade or downgrade the Dutch, but a fact is that the Dutch are pragmatic, direct, business oriented, trading, commercial, down to earth, factual people. In my opinion art with the large A Art is more taken seriously in German, where Kultur is appreciated more and given an important space than in the Netherlands, where both government and private institutions invest litte to few in Fine Art, Theatre, Music, Cinema, Art education art and culture in the Public space. New York in 2008 was very inspiring because art and culture took an important place over there despite the extremely commercial and thus Capitalist nature of that city.
The Golden age of Duch painting is over. Dutch design and architecture are more dominant today in the Netherlands and abroad. Dutch people can be found everywhere in the world as expats, as migrants, as travelers, as sailors, as visiting businessmen, merchants and traders (Import & Export companies) as journalists, movie and documentary makers, as graphical designers, Fashion designers and architects. The Dutch architect Rem KoolhaasDuch Fashion designersDutch photographer Rineke DijkstraCheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Oct 7, 2019 13:35:12 GMT -7
Dana LixenbergDana Lixenberg (born 1964) is a Dutch photographer and filmmaker. She lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Lixenberg pursues long-term projects on individuals and communities on the margins of society. Her books include Jeffersonville, Indiana (2005), The Last Days of Shishmaref (2008), Set Amsterdam (2011), De Burgemeester/The Mayor (2011), and Imperial Courts (2015).
Lixenberg's work has been widely exhibited and can be found in collections worldwide. In 2017 she won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her publication Imperial Courts (Roma, 2015).Life and workLixenberg studied photography at the London College of Printing (1984–1986) and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (1987–1989). She has had work published in Newsweek, Vibe, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone.
Lixenberg pursues long-term projects with a primary focus on individuals and communities on the margins of society, such as Jeffersonville, Indiana, a collection of landscapes and portraits of the small town’s homeless population photographed over a seven-year period, and The Last Days of Shishmaref, which portrays an Inupiaq community on an eroding island of the coast of Alaska.
She photographed Prince and Whitney Houston in an honest and introspective way. All her work is done with a large format camera.
Decisive in her career was the first series of photos she made in 1993 of Imperial Courts, a public housing project in Watts, Los Angeles. Lixenberg portrayed residents as distinctive and charismatic personalities, without direct references to their gang. The exhibition 'Imperial Courts, 1993-2015’ at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam (2015) was the first comprehensive presentation of the Imperial Courts series, spanning a period of twenty-two years. As well as her photographs, the exhibition included a three channel video projection, an audio installation, and her book of the same name.
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