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Post by Bonobo on Apr 11, 2010 14:26:32 GMT 1
The white variety of that flower grows wild where I live - and if I remember rightly smells slightly of honey...which is sweet. However, when I said sweet I was referring to your sending us a flower - to the action - which was very nice. Morning Glory grows wild in New England also. My wife has the cultivated variety planted around our home. It is very fragrant. Like this?:  If you like flowers, have a look at Botanical Garden in Krakow: |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 11, 2016 23:52:17 GMT 1
Warmest wishes on Women`s Day !  |
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Post by jeanne on Mar 12, 2016 3:50:15 GMT 1
Warmest wishes on Women`s Day ! Thank you!  |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 13, 2016 23:21:30 GMT 1
On womensday I made this video of migrant women who protested against honour killings and sexual violence against women. The woman I interviewed is a member of the Dutch parliament for the Socialist Party. She is of Turkish-Kurd heritage. The women and men present were mostly Kurds, Turks, Macedonians and some Dutch and other nationalities. It is good that migrants themselves fight against the bad treatment in their own communities, but in the same time violence against women also takes place in christian and secular native European homes.
The images and interview inside were filmed by me, the images of the demonstration I received from a Kurd woman who filmed it with her I-pad.
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Post by pjotr on Mar 14, 2016 0:01:18 GMT 1
Sadet Karabulut Sadet Karabulut (born April 28, 1975 in Dordrecht) is a Dutch politician and former civil servant and trade unionist of Kurdish descent. As a member of the Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij) she has been an MP since November 30, 2006. She focuses on matters of social affairs ( poverty reduction, social assistance, purchasing power and child benefit), emancipation and social integration. From March till November 2006 she was a member of the municipal council of Amsterdam. Karabulut studied public administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and was active in the Dutch National Students' Trade Union ( LSVb). She is a leading member of the Dutch branch of the Democratic Workers' Clubs Federation ( Demokratik Isci Dernekleri Federasyonu, DIDF). In February 2013 Karabulut stated she would refuse to pledge loyalty to the soon-to-be-King, Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander, during his inauguration ceremony. She cited that the procedure was overly ceremonial as she had already pledged allegiance when she was admitted to the House of Representatives. She is also a convinced republican. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B6deration_Demokratischer_Arbeitervereine
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 8, 2017 21:28:13 GMT 1
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Post by jeanne on Mar 9, 2017 2:53:08 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on Mar 9, 2017 18:05:34 GMT 1
Yesterday I interviewed two nice Arnhem women on International womens day, Sanne van der Werff and Sanne Nicholas. They were very cheerful and talked about their initiative and sort of company, the Idea real estate agents.
Sanne Nicholas said that it is International womens day every day for her. She was slightly critical about one day espoecially for women. Because every day it is a day of some theme. It is every day women day. Because every day we are aware that we have a mother, sister, had grandmothers, and have aunts, girlfriends, wives, female colleages, and female neighbours.
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Post by pjotr on Mar 9, 2017 18:23:32 GMT 1
I interviewed a lot of ladies the last weeks. Mariel Hutten from Arnhem for refugees, with her plea for more tolerance and understanding, her buddy project (connecting Dutch citizens to refugees) This documentary is in Dutch language, but the images show the buddy project in Arnhem. The Afghan girl in a short summer dress speaks Dutch 100% perfectly. She came from Afghanistan to the Netherlands 20 years ago with her mother and 3 other shildren (wihout her father). Dutch buddies helped them to integrate and assimilate in the Netherlands. www.human.nl/we-doen-het-zelf-wel/afleveringen/aflevering-4.htmlBy the way not all migrants and refugees integrate perfectly. The Dutch language is very hard for many people with Arab, Afghan, Iranian, Pakistani or African languages. Loes Zuidervaart is a Dutch Roman-Catholic candidate for the election list of the predominantly Protestant Christian ChristianUnion party. The CU changed it's party charter and welcomes all christians today, Protestants, Roman-Catholics, Evangelicals, and other branches of christianity. A lot of conservative or believing Roman-Catholics (the non-secularist Roman Catholics) vote for the ChristianUnion, because they considered the larger Christian Democratic CDA party to be to less christian and to much secular conservative. The competitors of the ChristianUnion are the fundamentalist and ultra-conservative Dutch Reformed SGP party (Orthodox Protestant political party) and the Christian Democrats (CDA). Cathelijne Bouwkamp is and Arnhem candidate for the leftwing liberal, progressive, ecological GreenLeft Party. I interviewed her a few weeks back. |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 9, 2017 18:38:03 GMT 1
Ladies play and important role in the Arnhem culture world, both as managers, directors and as artists, designers, developpers, Public relations and communication people and marketeers. Lea Manders is the chairwoman of the Local Arnhem Central party, which focusses itself on the interests of the Arnhem citizens. In this interview she talks about the importance of facilities for the elderly in neighbourhoods, like good shops nearby, neighbourhood supermarkets and investments of the muncipality Arnhem in neighbourhoods for elderly people. Marte Straatsma is a local Labour Councillor in Arnhem and a classical musician in the Gelderse Orchestra, in which she plays Second violin. In this interview she states that she supports the Pre-care for pregnant low educated or uneducated young women. The Pre-care program is for women during their pregnancy until their child is 2 years old. A lot of these women have a history of special youth care due to neglect, abuse and low intellectual family backgrounds. I aksed her oif she breaks a vicious cycle with this approach. She affirms that with a Yes! hetgeldersorkest.nl/ontmoet-het-orkest/musici/ |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 9, 2017 18:43:36 GMT 1
This is an interview with the Turkish-Dutch Rabia Kamaran, who is a candidate for the National migrant party Denk, Think. She sees Think as an emancipation movement for migrant minorities in the Netherlands. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denk_(Partei)www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/world/europe/dutch-denk-party.html?_r=0This is the new director of Arnhems largest church the Eusebius church, which largely has a secular-cultural function as a place for (Classical) concerts, art exhibtions, and which is a church once a month, but also a place for marriages and funeral meetings. ChristianUnion alderman Anja Haga about the Refugee policies of the Arnhem muncipality |
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 9, 2017 21:15:48 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 9, 2017 21:19:53 GMT 1
Loes Zuidervaart is a Dutch Roman-Catholic candidate for the election list of the predominantly Protestant Christian ChristianUnion party. The CU changed it's party charter and welcomes all christians today, Protestants, Roman-Catholics, Evangelicals, and other branches of christianity. A lot of conservative or believing Roman-Catholics (the non-secularist Roman Catholics) vote for the ChristianUnion, because they considered the larger Christian Democratic CDA party to be to less christian and to much secular conservative. The competitors of the ChristianUnion are the fundamentalist and ultra-conservative Dutch Reformed SGP party (Orthodox Protestant political party) and the Christian Democrats (CDA). Peter, hats off to you for remembering all those details. You must have a memory like an elephant. Do you always know who you are talking to and what political/social/religious stance they represent? |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 10, 2017 1:15:24 GMT 1
Bonobo, I have old parents, old aunts and uncles and due to the fact that I was born late, my Dutch (male) cousins look like uncles, because they are about 20 years older than me. Therefor I was raised with old family stories with the social etiquette, visions, codes (of conducts) and ideas of a pillarized and class society, which the Netherlands were in the 1910's, twenties, thirties, late fourties (after the Second World War), fifties and partly the sixties. Ofcourse or maybe I already explained the complicated historical fabric of the so called liberal Netherlands with it's colonial past and 19th century liberal, democratic constitution. Although equality and solidarity have some status in the Netherlands, the Netherlands is also a refined and very sophisiticated class society. Different than the British and German ones, but also very developped. They don't mention it but it is a society with medieval, tribal, social class and interest layers. There is a saying that says; " The Netherlands is a country of merchants and Protestant ministers." The four main pillars dominated the Netherlands for a great part of the 20th century; (1) The Protestant Dutch Reformed (Calvinist) pillar, (2) the Roman-Catholic pillar, (3) The Social-democratic (Democratic Spcialist) red working class pillar and (4) the secular-humanist, liberal-conservative, general pillar (often upper middle class and high class people with a position in commerce, state or science). There was a huge difference between the Ancien Riche (Old Rich) class of nobility, aristocracy, old merchant families (Patricians) and the noveau riche of the 20th and 21th century, which often have roots in the working class or lower middle classes. The strong regions made and still make it important to a certain degree from which region, which city or area you are coming from. Sometimes it even mattered from which neighbourhood or part of the city or town you were coming from (North, South, East, West and etc.). In Arnhem you have a city dialect, but in that city dialect you also have different versions, the neighbourhood dialects of the Arnhem dialect. For migrants, expats or foreign partners of Dutch husbands or wives the Dutch social structure can be very complicated due to all these social class layers, regional layers and ethnic layers. Even for a Dutchman it can still be complicated. The large Christian Democratic CDA party came to existence in the late seventies after the merger of two Protestant political parties and one large Roman-Catholic political party. The Calvinist (Dutch Reformed) Anti-revolutionairy Party (ARP), the Christian Historian Party (Moderate Dutch Reformed) (the CHU), and the rather conservative Roman-Catholic, Catholic Peoples party (KVP). Until today the CDA has strong ARP and KVP wings, although the Calvinists and Roman-Catholics can get along very well, because they are all Christian-Democrats (Maybe you could compare the Dutch CDA with the present Polish PSL, Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, the Polish People's Party and the German CDU of Angela Merkel). Dutch Roman-Catholics are very divided in their vote, because many of them vote for the CDA (due to the KVP wing in it), but also many Roman-Catholics vote for the liberal-conservative VVD party, the social liberal and progressive D66, Dutch Labour (PvdA), the Socialist Party (which has Southern, Brabant, roots, and Brabant was a Roman-Catholic province in the past). And today a lot of Roman-Catholics from especially Limburg, but also some Brabant cities vote for Geert Wilders PVV. Geert Wilders himself is a Limburger, a Southerner. He was born and raised in the Limburg city Venlo in the southeastern Netherlands, near the German border. Todays Dutch christian parties: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apel_Chrze%C5%9Bcija%C5%84sko-Demokratycznypl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChristenUniepl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polityczna_Partia_Protestant%C3%B3wpl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partia_Antyrewolucyjna_(Holandia)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Historical_Unionen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_People%27s_PartyThe ChristianUnion came to existance after the merger of two small christian polticial parties, the GPV and RPF: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gereformeerd_Politiek_Verbond / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Political_Leaguepl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformatorische_Politieke_Federatie / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformatory_Political_Federationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrician_(post-Roman_Europe)pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrycjat_(%C5%9Bredniowiecze_i_nowo%C5%BCytno%C5%9B%C4%87) |
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Post by jeanne on Mar 10, 2017 1:36:41 GMT 1
Thank you very much, Bonobo; now I feel appreciated!!  I am glad you feel so. At the same time I am worried that the American males in your vicinity allowed such a situation to happen - namely, that you felt unappreciated before. (  I didn't mean to give that impression...there are American males around me who are appreciative. What I didn't say clearly enough was that now I feel appreciated on this forum...which was actually said in irony because I really do feel appreciated here and most of our "arguments" are in good fun! |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 10, 2017 1:46:48 GMT 1
Loes Zuidervaart is a Dutch Roman-Catholic candidate for the election list of the predominantly Protestant Christian ChristianUnion party. The CU changed it's party charter and welcomes all christians today, Protestants, Roman-Catholics, Evangelicals, and other branches of christianity. A lot of conservative or believing Roman-Catholics (the non-secularist Roman Catholics) vote for the ChristianUnion, because they considered the larger Christian Democratic CDA party to be to less christian and to much secular conservative. The competitors of the ChristianUnion are the fundamentalist and ultra-conservative Dutch Reformed SGP party (Orthodox Protestant political party) and the Christian Democrats (CDA). Peter, hats off to you for remembering all those details. You must have a memory like an elephant. Do you always know who you are talking to and what political/social/religious stance they represent? Dear Bo, I try very hard to know what political/social/religious stance they represent, but there are so many local politicians, representatives of all these political parties, that I can't know them all personally. So my honest answer is I don't always know who I am talking to and what political/social/religious stance they represent? I am human and also local tv interviewers and camjo's make mistakes sometimes. I try to read about, follow and discuss subjects or topics these politician are bussy with. I collect their Motions, amendments, press releases, political programs, statements (on Twitter, Facebook, on their blogs and websites) amd I talk with the public relations & communication department fellows and ladies of the muncipality of Arnhem, with civil servants, aldermen- and women and the major. I have contact with the local branches of the National political parties and with the local political parties. Often I held informative and knowledge talks with the people I interview, before I go to the TV interview recording myself. I do this kind of job for more than 10 years now and therefor have followed local politics since october 2006. But still I don't know everything and the political files are huge. Often I have a disadvantage towards the written press and other poeple with close access to the aldermen, major and high ranking public officials (Civil servants). I know all political parties and most of their policians, but do not always know what their motivations and inner convictions are. Politicians can look like a Sphinx, a poker face or stoics. They often manage to hide their emotions and control their temper in hot debates. Sometimes a polician flips and than you have a circus at the city council. But most often these politicians are very decent and long meetings can last all evening into the early hours of Tuesday. Cheers, Pieter |
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