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Explored March 22, 2022
Gail Halvorsen (1920, Salt Lake City – 2022, Provo), the "Candy Bomber"
This is a classic Berlin photo subject: a Douglas C-47 Skytrain "Rosinenbomber" on top of the roof of the German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum). This C-47 was one of the airplanes that supplied West-Berlin with food and other goods during the Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949), when Soviet occupation forces had blocked all entranceways to West-Berlin, and the only way to keep the "half city" West-Berlin alive was via airplanes: the Berlin Airlift which, during the most intense times, saw airplanes landing on Tempelhof Airport at 90-second intervals.
The Berliners soon called those airplanes "Rosinenbomber" (raisin or candy bombers), because they did not only deliver CARE packages (CARE: "Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe") and other goods essential for survival, but also chocolate and candies, and therefore would always be eagerly awaited by the children of West-Berlin. This so-called "Operation Little Vittles" was founded by the most famous candy bomber pilot, Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen of the United States Air Force, who was the first pilot to drop candy via miniature parachutes to the children during landing approach of Tempelhof airport. While at first unauthorized, "Little Vittles" became a regular part of Berlin Airlift, and a nickname given to Halvorsen by the Berliners was "Onkel Wackelflügel" (Uncle Wiggly Wings), because a trademark "trick" of his during landing approach was to "wiggle" his plane's wings so the children would know it was his airplane.
By the end of Berlin Airlift on 30 September 1949 25 raisin bomber crews had dropped 23 tons of candies to the Berliners, and Halvorsen was, among other awards, given the Congressional Gold Medal for founding "Little Vittles". In 1974, Halvorsen received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Throughout his life, Halvorsen has remained closely linked to Berlin. He was commander of Tempelhof airport from 1970 to 1974, and he returned to Berlin on several occasions, so for the 60th anniversary of Berlin Airlift in May 2009 where, as a passenger of a Rosinenbomber, he dropped 1,000 chocolate packages over Tempelhof airfield. In 2019, 98-year-old Halvorsen visited Berlin for the last time as guest of honour at the 70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.
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... Ist dieser Rosinenbomber, eine "Douglas C-47 Skytrain" und ein echter Berliner Foto-Klassiker auf dem Dach des Deutschen Technikmuseums, sicherlich nie geflogen. Im Gegenteil, bei der engen Taktung der Starts und Landungen auf dem Flughafen Tempelfof (zu Hochzeiten wurde Tempelhof im 90-Sekunden-Takt angeflogen) war äußerste Präzision erforderlich.
Der berühmteste Protagonist der Berliner Luftbrücke war sicherlich der US-amerikanische Air-Force-Pilot Gail Halvorsen (1920–2022), der die Idee zur (zunächst nicht offiziell von "oben" abgesegneten) Operation "Little Vittles" hatte. Um den Berlinern (und insbesondere den Berliner Kindern), die während der Berlin-Blockade 1948/'49 am Rande des Tempelhofer Flugfelds sehnsüchtig auf die Versorgungsmaschinen warteten, eine Freude zu machen, verpackte er kleine Portionen mit Süßigkeiten in Taschentücher und warf diese mit Miniaturfallschirmen beim Landeanflug ab. Diese "Rosinenbomber"-Aktion sprach sich in Windeseile herum und die Schar der am Flugfeld wartenden Kinder wuchs beständig. Damit die Kinder seine Maschine unter den vielen startenden und landenden Flugzeugen auch sicher erkennen konnten, bewegte Halvorsen beim Landeanflug die Flügel, was ihm den Spitznamen Onkel Wackelflügel einbrachte.
Zum Ende der Berliner Luftbrücke am 30. September 1949 hatten 25 Rosinenbomber-Besatzungen rund 23 Tonnen Süßigkeiten über dem Tempelhofer Flugfeld abgeworfen. Eine Aktion, die Halvorsen anlässlich des 60. Jubiläums der Luftbrücke im Mai 2009 wiederholte, indem er, dieses Mal als Passagier eines Rosinenbombers, 1.000 Schokoladen-Päckchen über dem Flughafen Tempelhof abwarf. Halvorsen blieb Berlin auch nach der Luftbrücke verbunden. Von 1970 bis '74 war er Kommandant des Flughafens Tempelhof. 1974 wurde ihm auch der Große Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland verliehen. 2013 nahm er an der Einweihungsfeier einer nach ihm benannten Schule in Berlin-Dahlem teil. 2019 besuchte er, mittlerweile 98 Jahre alt, anlässlich des 70. Jahrestages des Endes der Luftbrücke Berlin ein letztes Mal.
Das Foto ist ein HDR aus einer Belichtungsreihe mit drei Bildern, zusammengefügt in HDR Efex. Wenn Ihr in das Bild hineinzoomt, konnt Ihr unterhalb des Rosinenbombers Menschen stehen sehen. Ich wusste gar nicht, dass man die Terrasse betreten kann – bei meinem nächsten Besuch im Technikmuseum steht ein Besuch der Plattform also auf jeden Fall auf dem Programm :)
93% of the residents in Lapu village is Gurung according to the 2011 government statistics. Gurung people is an ethnic minority occupying 2% of the population of Nepal. They speak a Tibeto-Burman language like most of the ethnic minorities in Nepal. They are related to the peoples in Tibet, Indo-China, and Yunnan Province of China.
Economic situations of the ethnic minorities in Nepal differ considerably depending on respective ethnic groups. Newari people who are dominant in the Nepal business circle is the richest. Thakalis and Sherpas who often engage in tourism businesses are also richer than the Nepali majority who are dominant in the politics.
Economic situation of Gurung people is not as good as the above but is better than the national average. Mercenary as Gurkha soldier has been their traditional livelihood, and their remittance is important for Gurung villages.
The national economy of the Philippines is the 45th largest in the world, with an estimated 2010 gross domestic product (nominal) of $189 billion.Primary exports include semiconductors and electronic products, transport equipment, garments, copper products, petroleum products, coconut oil, and fruits.Major trading partners include China, Japan, the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia.Its unit of currency is the Philippine peso (₱ or PHP).
A newly industrialized country, the Philippine economy has been transitioning from one based on agriculture to one based more on services and manufacturing. Of the country's total labor force of around 38.1 million, the agricultural sector employs close to 32% but contributes to only about 13.8% of GDP. The industrial sector employs around 13.7% of the workforce and accounts for 30% of GDP. Meanwhile the 46.5% of workers involved in the services sector are responsible for 56.2% of GDP.
The unemployment rate as of July 2009 stands at around 7.6% and due to the global economic slowdown inflation as of September 2009 reads 0.70%. Gross international reserves as of February 2010 are $45.713 billion. In 2004, public debt as a percentage of GDP was estimated to be 74.2%; in 2008, 56.9%. Gross external debt has risen to $66.27 billion. The country is a net importer.
The Philippine Stock Exchange with the statue of Benigno Aquino, Jr.After World War II, the country was for a time regarded as the second wealthiest in East Asia, next only to Japan. However, by the 1960s its economic performance started being overtaken. The economy stagnated under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos as the regime spawned economic mismanagement and political volatility. The country suffered from slow economic growth and bouts of economic recession. Only in the 1990s with a program of economic liberalization did the economy begin to recover.The Philippines has enjoyed sustained economic growth during first decade of the 21st century. However, as of 2010, the country's economy remained smaller than its neighbors in Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia from both GDP and GDP per capita (nominal).
The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis affected the economy, resulting in a lingering decline of the value of the peso and falls in the stock market. But the extent it was affected initially was not as severe as that of some of its Asian neighbors. This was largely due to the fiscal conservatism of the government, partly as a result of decades of monitoring and fiscal supervision from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in comparison to the massive spending of its neighbors on the rapid acceleration of economic growth. There have been signs of progress since. In 2004, the economy experienced 6.4% GDP growth and 7.1% in 2007, its fastest pace of growth in three decades. Yet average annual GDP growth per capita for the period 1966–2007 still stands at 1.45% in comparison to an average of 5.96% for the East Asia and the Pacific region as a whole and the daily income for 45% of the population of the Philippines remains less than $2.
Other incongruities and challenges exist. The economy is heavily reliant on remittances which surpass foreign direct investment as a source of foreign currency. Regional development is uneven with Luzon—Metro Manila in particular—gaining most of the new economic growth at the expense of the other regions,although the government has taken steps to distribute economic growth by promoting investment in other areas of the country. Despite constraints, service industries such as tourism and business process outsourcing have been identified as areas with some of the best opportunities for growth for the country.Goldman Sachs includes the country in its list of the "Next Eleven" economies.But China and India have emerged as major economic competitors.
The Philippines is a member of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Asian Development Bank which is headquartered in Mandaluyong City, the Colombo Plan, and the G-77 among other groups and institutions
Foto classificatasi 3° al Concorso Fotografico del Mercato del Porcellino edizione 2019 - Firenze, 10 dicembre 2019
I'Renaioli, gli antichi naviganti dell'Arno, con le loro piccole barche senza remi si muovevano sulle acque da una sponda all'altra usando lunghi bastoni spingendosi direttamente dal fondale. Il loro lavoro consisteva nel raccogliere la sabbia (rena) dal fondo del fiume, quella che serviva per la malta, essenziale per erigere i magnifici palazzi di Firenze. Questi erano gli instancabili renaioli fiorentini... Oggi traghettano i turisti sull'Arno regalando a chiunque voglia uno scorcio romantico della Magnifica Firenze e al tramonto, quando l'acqua si increspa d'oro, mettono le barche a riposo, in rimessa sotto gli archi di Ponte Vecchio... Ora come allora.
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"Renaiolo at golden hour"
Photo classified 3rd at the Photographic Competition of the Mercato del Porcellino edition 2019 - Florence, 10 December 2019
I'Renaioli, the ancient sailors of the Arno, with their small boats without oars they moved on the waters from a shore to the other using long sticks pushing themselves directly from the backdrop. Their job was to collect the sand (rena) from the bottom of the river, the one that served for the mortar, ideal for erecting the magnificent palaces of Florence. These were the tireless renaioli of Florence ... Today they ferry the tourists on the Arno giving to anyone who wants a romantic glimpse of the Magnificent Florence and at sunset, when the water ripples with gold, they put the boats to rest, in remittance the arches of the Ponte Vecchio ... Now as then.
The tribes of Bangladesh live in the Chittagong hill tracts region mostly, but they are also found in different parts of the country. The life of the tribal people is very authentic. Buddhists are the majority and the rest are Hindus, Christian, and Animists. The uniqueness of lifestyle, elements of primitiveness, strong bondage of religion that reflects in their rites, rituals and day to day life. Generally, in Bangladesh the tribal families are matriarchal. The history of women is more hard-working than males and they are the main driving force of society.
The is one of the specialties of the Bangladesh tribe community is they are very much self-depended., the tribal girls weave their own clothes, grow their own food and mostly speaking in their own language. They try to live a simple life and each tribe has its own dialects, font, own way of writing, distinguishing dress, and rites and rituals. Their way of life is the most highlighting pint and some of them are still habituated to hunt with bows and arrows like a medieval period. Women are very expert in making beautiful handicrafts that they export to the main city and earn a big amount of remittance. They are generally peace-loving, honest, and hospitable in nature and always greet a tourist with a smile. The worldly material does not attract them that much.
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A church adjacent to Prato della Valle, Basílica de Santa Justina (Abbazia di Santa Giustina).
The high altar solemnly elevated on steps, has the various facades decorated in "remittance of comparison" or "Florentine style" or thin marble inlays on which large pieces of mother-of-pearl, coral, lapis lazuli, carnelian, pearls, and other precious are inserted.
The fine work was carried out between 1637 and 1643 by Pietro Paolo Corbarelli based on a design by Giovan Battista Nigetti , brother of the more famous Matteo Nigetti .
07 October, 1627 , with great pomp, the body of Saint Justina was placed under the altar table. .
Zicht op wachthuis (1848), vanuit de remise (1880).
Het Fort bij Hinderdam, oorspronkelijk uit 1673 werd in 1913 uiteindelijk een fort van de Stelling van Amsterdam. Daarvoor behoorde het tot de Oude-en Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie. Het fort is gelegen op de grens van Utrecht en Noord-Holland, in de Noord-Hollandse gemeente Wijdemeren, op een eilandje midden in de Vecht. Tegenwoordig is het fortterrein natuurgebied en van buitenaf nauwelijks herkenbaar aangezien het eiland volledig is begroeid.
Photo: View of guard House from 1848, from the remittance (1880).
Fort at Hinderdam, originally from 1673 was finally in 1913, a fortress of the Stelling van Amsterdam. Before that it belonged to the Old and New Dutch Waterline. The fort is situated on the border of Utrecht and Noord-Holland, the North Holland town Wijdemeren, on an island in the middle of the river Vecht. Nowadays the fort grounds nature and hardly recognizable from the outside as the island is completely overgrown.
---Has not yet frosted but the foliage is changing. I suppose even 8th graders in primitive Kansas knew why this happened:
---The author [Avis Carlson] talks of the evening in 1907 when she received the 8th-grade diploma from a small-town school in Kansas, USA. She was 11 years, 8 months of age...The piece speaks for itself.... please read. And this was in a one room 16/36 school representing 8-grades in one room taught by one teacher....!
---‘At that point in the history of Kansas education, the county superintendents had a rite known as County Eighth Grade Examinations... Recently I ran onto the questions which qualified me for my 8th grade diploma. The questions on that examination in that primitive, one-room school taught by a person who never attended high school positively daze me.
---‘The orthography quiz.. asked us to spell 20 words, including abbreviated, obscene, elucidation, assassination and animosity. We were also required to make a table showing the different sounds of all the vowels. Among the other 8 questions was one which asked us to divide into syllables and mark diacritically the words profuse, retrieve, rigidity, defiance, priority, remittance, and propagate.
---‘Two of arithmetic’s 10 questions asked us to find the interest on an 8% note for $900 running 2-years, 2-months, and six days and also to reduce 3 pecks, 5 quarts, and 1 pint to bushels.
---‘In reading, we were required to tell what we know of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, and for another of the 10 questions to indicate the pronunciation and give the meanings of the following words: zenith, deviated, Coliseum, misconception, panegyric, Spartan, talisman, eerie, triton, crypt...
---‘In grammar’s 10 were two directing us to analyze and diagram: There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune'. [from Shakespeare]
--> Source: excerpted from, Small World Long Gone, by Avis Carlson.
Metro de Madrid S.A.: un tren de seis coches de la serie 2000-A en la línea 1. A lo largo de 20 años, entre 1985 y 2005, diversos fabricantes (aunque el principal siempre ha sido CAF) construyeron un total de 374 UT de dos coches para las líneas de gálibo estrecho, que sustituyeron a los coches "Clásicos". Actualmente quedan en servicio 362 UT de los tipos 2000-A (remesas segunda a sexta, 264 UT) y 2000-B (remesa séptima, 98 UT), todas en composición M-R.
Metro de Madrid S.A.: a train of six cars of the 2000-A series on line 1. Over the course of 20 years, between 1985 and 2005, several manufacturers (although the main one has always been CAF) built a total of 374 EMUs with two cars for the narrow gauge lines, which replaced the "Classic" cars. At present, 362 EMUs of the types 2000-A (264 EMUs of second to sixth remittances) and 2000-B (98 EMUs of seventh remittance) are in service, all in the M-R composition.
The Triqui or Trique are an indigenous people of the western part of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, centered in the municipalities of Juxtlahuaca, Tlaxiaco and Putla.
They number around 23,000 according to Ethnologue surveys. The Triqui language is a Mixtecan language of Oto-Manguean genetic affiliation.
Trique peoples are known for their distinctive woven red huipiles (long dress), baskets, and morrales (handbags)
Triqui people live in a mountainous region, called "La Mixteca Baja", in the southwestern part of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
The elevation within the Triqui region varies between 1,500–3,000 m (4,900–9,800 ft).
This high elevation permits low-lying cumulus clouds to envelop entire towns during the afternoons and evenings.
Like many other southern Mexicans, many Triqui men travel to Oaxaca City, Mexico City, or the United States as day labourers or migrant workers.
As the average daily salary of a rural Oaxacan is less than $5 (U.S.) and La Mixteca is the poorest region of Oaxaca, migration and remittances sent back to Oaxaca confer economic benefits to both migrant Triquis and their families in Oaxaca.
Triqui women are more likely to remain in the Triqui region and do not travel as often as Triqui men do.
One of the notable customs of Triqui people is the practice of bride price.
During pre-colonial and colonial times, this was a common practice amongst Native Americans in Mesoamerica, other groups like the Mixtecs of Oaxaca continue practicing a bride price based marriage.
It is typical in Trique culture for a man to offer a bride's family money, food, and other products in exchange for the bride's hand in marriage.
Generally, the husband and wife know each other prior to this arrangement and there is no arrangement without consent.
Those opposed to this custom argue that it appears to them to be like slavery or prostitution.
Those opposed to intervening in this custom argue that consent is required and that this Triqui custom is not conceived of as immoral.
This building was built in 1974, funds from the Wu merchants overseas remittances. Wu businessman never came back, this building for the poor folks to live, not their own holiday mansion. Here lived several families, and now no one is living.The door is written to encourage people's words, for the family, people, social justice.
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Sir Fopling Flutter could best be described as a Dandy.
Of late he has taken to dressing entirely in paper.
This did not prove to be a problem whilst subsisting on the merge stipend benefiting a remittance man banished to the colonies.
He confined his costume fetish to brightly coloured wrapping paper. In winter we would don garments skilfully crafted from glossy fashion magazines, as they offered some protection against the rain that can fall so exuberantly in Sydney.
However since inheriting his father’s considerable fortune he has dedicated his life to searching for ever rarer and more exotic paper articles in which to dress himself, demolishing rare manuscripts, and works of art in the process.
I myself have seen him wearing a waste coat made from original Rembrandt etchings and rumour abounded that he had a pair of underwear made from an unrecorded codex on nuclear fusion by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Last week I saw him marching towards my studio wearing a waist coat made from wallpaper torn from the boudoir of Marie Antoinette, and breeches crafted from maps of New Zealand hand drawn by James Cook.
I immediately removed all my photographs from my studio walls for fear of them being turned into a handkerchief or collar.
Upon arrival he was none too pleased to see the barren walls and left in what could only be described as “a huff”.
After his raucous departure I noticed that one of my Visconti-Sforza tarot cards had disappeared, but it was not a lucky card for Fopling, for moments later he was involved in an horrific accident with a truck carrying bulk glue from the knackers yard, mummifying him instantly in Papier-mâché.
How ironic that it was a humble newspaper that this morning brought me the news that his remains have been distributed between The National Maritime Museum, The Louvre and the Royal Collection where his encrusted private parts are on display with the more famous codex by Leonardo.
Only time will tell what Dan Brown will make of all this.
Last week we had high winds along Lake Ontario. The remittance is these chunks of ice from water spraying up onto the shore from the high wave action.
Bharat Tea Estate in Cameron Highlands is also a popular tourist resort. Most of the workers are unskilled labourers from South Asia.
Md. Belal Mahmud had come over in 2000 on a 'calling' visa through a dalal, having paid 120,000 taka (equivalent to 400,000 now according to Belal). "My father sold his land, so at least we didn't have to pay interest."
16th June 2021 :
Having had a really good night's sleep I was almost ready for anything, the only problem being that the weather wasn't cooperating. Very overcast and flat grey light.
I was having 40 winks this afternoon when the gardening team woke me up; but I was rather glad they did, as I could then find out if the table, in its new place, was going to cause them a problem.
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Luckily for me the "Boss" was here too so I could ask him, rather than just any of the workforce, who don't always work on the same team. He would rather it was there, than next to the hedge as that would block their access to when they strim them. (Which they were doing today). But, he'll know more in a week or two, when they come to cut the grass (weeds).
He said they'll try and get round it, as the chairs do look good on the patio, but would I please water the plants, especially the cape daisies as they're as dry as a bone. Whoops!!
One of the team passing through, while I sat on my chair with a mug of tea.
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Class barriers, entrenched in Bangladeshi society, is often broken overseas. A household help is served in the same queue as wealthy Bangladeshis at a cultural evening in Kajang, outside Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia
As the first strand of Donald Trump's new "comb-over economy" plan, the Republican presidential frontrunner released an immigration scheme that set a new low for unworkable slap-dash positions pandering to a small but hyperactive wing of a primary electorate -- in this case the GOP's Angry-Anglos-R-Us (AARU) wing.
Want proof? As major pillars, Mr. Trump's pie-in-the-sky scheme calls for:
1) Mexico to pay for a CA-to-TX border fence;
2) Until Mexico cries tío and antes up, we'll somehow seize and spend all Mexico-bound remittance payments to build the wall;
3) Meantime, no more new green cards;
4) And we'll immediately deport all undocumented folks;
5) For good measure, El Pompadour proposes to repeal the 14th Amendment promise of citizenship to folks born on U.S. soil. Hell, it's only been part of the Constitution since 1868.
So, halt at the red light. Turn left for Mexico if you're an illegal immigrant, or, if not, head right for the all-American Golden Arches under the light of liberty.
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Bangladeshi migrant worker Abul Hossain says it is against the law to be working at night in construction sites in Malaysia, but it is common practice and expected of the workers. Abul works in a construction site in Ampang in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World
Cover of the book, The Best Years of My Live, launched at the Global Forum for Migration and Development
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County Records Office - An original Shiretown building where all real estate and some other legal transactions were recorded. The records also included County births, marriages and livestock identifiers.
County Tax Office - An original Shiretown building where County citizens made their remittances. The pressed tin interior is a Victorian era addition that contributes to the building’s pleasant ambiance.
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The Albert County Museum is located in Hopewell Cape. The Museum consists of eight buildings on a six-acre site and features twenty-two themed galleries. All of the buildings are original to the site and are part of the overall history.
This small rectangle of land was part of a 738 acre tract originally granted to Robert Dickson Esq. and Jesse Converse on 8 May 1789. The original land grant encompassed all of present day Hopewell Cape. Later, after being acquired by the Municipality of Albert County, this lot was leased to Samual Steward on 22 January 1885 with a 999 year term. Subsequently it was held by the Reid Family of Hopewell Cape for about 100 years: first by Elmo Reid, then Willia, “Bill” Reid and finally by Annabelle Reid Trites and Lloyd A. Trites. The lease was reassigned to the Albert County Historical Society Inc.
Shot in bright sunlight, it looks like noon. Straight down shadows, undesirable for today's photography but essential for shots in 1873 with individual glass plates. By Eadward J. Muybridge, famous for his motion studies. An innovative photographer of historic note.
At age 20, Muybridge emigrated to America as a bookseller, first to New York, and then to San Francisco. Planning a return trip to Europe in 1860, he suffered serious head injuries in a stagecoach crash in Texas. He spent the next few years recuperating in England, where he took up professional photography, learning the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions. He went back to San Francisco in 1867. In 1868 he exhibited large photographs of Yosemite Valley, which made him world-famous.
In 1871 Muybridge shot and killed Major Harry Larkyns, his wife's lover, but was acquitted in a jury trial on the grounds of justifiable homicide. In 1872 he travelled for more than a year in Central America on a photographic expedition.
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CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
THURSDAY OCT. 22, 1871.
A STARTLING TRAGEDY.
Chevalier Harry Larkyns Shot Dead by Edward J. Muybridge, the Photographer- The Sequel to a Scandalous Intrigue. From the S.F. Bulletin, October 19th
Considerable sensation was created In the city yesterday morning by the receipt of intelligence from Calistoga of the deliberate killing of Major Harry Larkyns of this city, by Edward J. Muybridge, the well known photographer. The cause leading to the act of murder was the discovery of convincing proof by Muybridge of the infidelity of his wife with Larkyns, and immediately thereupon he set out to avenge his wrongs, leaving the city in pursuit of Larkyns on Saturday, knowing him to be in the vicinity of Calistoga, engaged In preparing maps of the mines in that locality. He reached Calistoga at 8 o'clock in the evening, and without stopping for food or rest he went in search of his intended victim with a horse and buggy. Larkyns had returned from Pine Flat on Saturday evening and stopped at the Yellow Jacket mine, eleven miles from Calistoga, intending to pass the night there.
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Muybridge traced him, and reaching the spot at about 11 o'clock at night, he sent word to the Major that he wanted to see him. Larkyns was confronted by Muybridge, who, in words of terrible import, said, "This is the reply to the letter you sent to my wife,'' and immediately discharged a revolver. The aim was well taken and deadly. Larkyns had no opportunity to defend himself or to utter a word. He ran a few steps and fell a corpse, with a bullet through his heart. Putting his pistol up, Muybridge surrendered himself to the Superintendent of the mine, and was forthwith conveyed to Calistoga, where he was given in charge to the authorities.
THE WOMAN Connected with this affair was the divorced wife of one Lucius D. Stone, and whom Mr. Muybridge married about four years ago, while she was engaged as a saleswoman in a fancy store on Kearney street.
About a year since an intimacy sprung up between Mrs. Muybridge and Larkyns, which was generally noted with scandalous comments by those acquainted with the parties. Muybridge was absent from his home a great deal of the time, taking views of the coast and interior scenery: but last Spring unpleasant suspicions broke upon him, and an encounter ensued with Larkyns, attended with an exchange of blows, as reported. At all events, Larkyns was seriously warned against continuing his attentions to Mrs. Muybridge, and several acquaintances of Larkyns also cautioned him of his mortal peril in his unhallowed intimacy.
Muybridge sent his wife on a visit to a relative in Portland, Oregon, last Spring, in the hope of finally interrupting the scandalous intrigue, not supposing, it is presumed, that it had extended to the magnitude of criminality. Subsequently, it appears, a clandestine correspondence was continued between the guilty pair, through the medium of a woman who attended Mrs. Muybridge as a nurse, a short time previous to her departure for Oregon. This confidant, of course, was capable of treachery likewise, and when it became necessary for her to employ some extra persuasive influence to collect a demand for $IOO which she made on Muybridge, intercepted letters presented the requisite facility. On Saturday morning the claim of the mutual friend was pressed anew on Muybridge, and letters were exhibited to him to compel his speedy attention to the matter, containing evidence of a most exasperating character. The claim was not immediately forthcoming, as anticipated, but the parties concerned in this peculiar process for collecting a debt have the satisfaction of knowing that it was entirely effective in launching a wretched mortal into eternity within twelve hours after its institution. [The claim was a photo of Muybridge's son, titled, "Little Harry."
Muybridge was at the photograph gallery of Bradley & Rulofson, his place of employment, just previous to his departure for Calistoga, and manifested such a frenzy of despair and rage that his friends were fearful that he contemplated suicide. His subsequent movements, which were deliberate and methodic enough, are already indicated.
THE MURDERED MAN. Major Harry Larkyns, the victim, was well known In the city for a period of nearly two years, rather in the character of an adventurer. From the little that is known of his history, he came from a respectable and wealthy family in England, but became estranged from his relatives in consequence of his reckless and spendthrift propensities, and after wasting his patrimony in riotous living, he was thrown upon his wits for a livelihood. His life-history would, no doubt, afford a romantic narrative. He held a commission in the British army during a portion of his life, and served six years in India. Subsequently he traveled extensively In Europe, and was familiarly acquainted with the attractions and points of interest in the principal cities of the continent. On the breaking out of the FrancoGerman war he entered the French service, and held a position on the staff of General Bourbaki with the rank of Major. This fact was corroborated by a French gentleman who happened to be in San Francisco at a time that Larkyns was in custody of the authorities for certain financial irregularities. The gentleman commended Larkyns as a gallant officer, and in admiration of his conduct in the service of France, be desired to assist him in his emergency, but the favor was not required. Major Larkyns made his first appearance here in the month of January, 1873. He had previously been sojourning for a season at Salt Lake City, with San Francisco as his objective point. While there he fell in with a young Englishman named Arthur Neil, whom he had previously known in Europe, and procured large loans from this gentleman in anticipation of expected remittances, and appointed to accompany him in a tour around the world. The two spent a season of dashing dissipation In this city, made an excursion to Honolulu, and on their return a breech occurred, in consequence of a failure of confidence in the Major's expectation-.
A prosecution followed on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses, and the Major's draft on a fictitious banking establishment in China was a leading feature of the case. The trouble was finally compromised by the Major drawing upon his grandmother, in England, for the sum of $4,000, which amount represented one-half of the expenses of this ostentatious pair of tourists, covering a period of about two months. On being released from this difficulty, entirely penniless, the Major declined the tender of a passage to China and the charity of persons whose sympathy was excited in his behalf, and declared that he would remain here and retrieve his character and his fortunes by his own exertions.
He commenced at the foot of the ladder by working at one of the wharves. He subsequently secured an engagement as translator in a publishing house and also as a reporter on several of the city journals. For a short time this season he acted as agent for Wilson's circus, and latterly had been employed in preparing maps of the mining regions about Calistoga, by which enterprise he expected to gain a substantial start in the world.
The deceased was highly educated and possessed all the accomplishments attainable by travel and good society in all parts of the world. Reduced from affluence to poverty by his reckless habits, his moral principles and ideas of correct dealing did not stand him well in the emergency, and his endeavors to reclaim himself were doubtless retarded in consequence.
He had good qualities, withal, which won him much indulgence, and many will bestow the touching tribute of "poor devil " on his corpse who, by comparison can ill afford the charity. The body of Major Larkyns was brought to the city last evening, and conveyed to the undertaking rooms of Lockhart & Porter, at 39 Third street. It was deposited in a handsome rosewood coffin, provided by friends at Calistoga. The wound made by the fatal bullet was in the vicinity of the heart.
FURTHER PARTICULARS. A gentleman who witnessed the killing of Major Larkyns gives the following additional details of the tragedy. It occurred at the dwelling of William Stewart, Superintendent of the Yellow Jacket Mine, where deceased was spending the night. Mr. Stewart had just returned from the village with his mail, and Muybridge appeared to have followed close behind him. Larkyns was sitting in the parlor with two other gentlemen and a number of ladies, a portion of the company being engaged in a game of cards.
A knock was heard at the door and the visitor invited to enter. A voice replied from without: "I want to see Major Larkyns; I will detain him but a moment." Larkyns rose from the table, excused himself in a jocular manner, and said he would see who the mysterious visitor was. He opened the door and peered for a moment into the darkness, remarking: "Where are you sir; I cannot see you." Larkyns then stepped out of the door, glancing about on either side, and immediately after the voice was heard again: "My name is Muybridge. There is the answer to the letter you sent my wife." Almost simultaneously came the report of the well aimed pistol. Larkyns clapped one hand to his heart, turned about and ran through the house, to the back door, saying: "Let me out," and fell dead. Muybridge rushed into the house and pursued Larkyns with his pistol raised for another shot, when one of the gentlemen present drew a pistol and commanded him to stand. Muybridge then drew his pistol on this person and was on the point of firing when his arm was struck down and he was secured.
Muybridge offered no further resistance, and expressed his gratification on learning that his victim was dead. The funeral of Major Larkyns will be held to-morrow at 1 P. M., from the Church of the Advent, on Howard street.
Razia Sultana worked at Top Glove, but lost her job and went back home. She is back in Malaysia, where she set up a tailor shop in Klang.
A majority of the worlds poorest people today are in Asia - mainly because it holds a majority of the world's population. Of course some Asian countries like Japan and South Korea are not as poor as others like India and Cambodia, with Asian poverty being concentrated in South Asia.
1. Poverty in some Asian countries is largely due to the pressure of population growth on scarce resources and inadequate governments allowing strongly negative caste discrimination.
2. Education, medicine, clean water and sanitation are often inadequate also
3. In some Asian countries land ownership being problematic also encourages poverty.
4. Asia till recently attracted less foreign investment than Latin America, but more of it has been stable longer-term European investment.
Some of Asia has shown good progress on poverty in recent years, like China and South Korea. (in China good progress was notably helped in part by controls on population growth) But Asia, holding the largest populations, still has many extreme poor.
The current world recession is also causing family remittances from overseas workers or migrant workers to fall. As more migrant workers lose jobs in Western Europe and the USA, remittances to their poor families in Central Asia are being hit hard. And the likely prospect for aid in the short term is a sharp fall.
Not too long ago, Colombians fled to Venezuela and elsewhere to avoid the escalating violence and insecurity associated to their country’s drug wars and guerillas groups. Today, it is Venezuelans that have been fleeing to Colombia. With an economic hyperinflation and a repressive government policy, Venezuela is facing a food shortage and health crisis, among many other challenges preventing social welfare and safety. On a daily basis, hundreds of Venezuelans cross the border of San Antonio de Táchira in Venezuela to the city of San José de Cúcuta, Colombia. They go there to look for work opportunities or simply to find safety. There, their work typically consists of carrying out odd-jobs or manual labor to purchase basic goods such as food and medicine.
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion), a new work by Teresa Margolles, is developed after the artist’s fieldwork in this border region. She has traveled there on three occasions, first, in 2017 at the invitation of Bienal Sur in Colombia. During her time in Cúcuta, Margolles engaged with the sites and subjects of forced migration. In one of several actions there, she hired Venezuelans to carry stones across the river, which geopolitically divides the border; in another action, she hired them to knit their narratives into fabrics stained with the local soil. During these exchanges, their manual labor was remunerated, and was always accompanied by conversations with, and documentation by, the artist.
At Witte de With, the exhibition A new work by Teresa Margolles consists of a simple action: the six large windows of the gallery space are smudged, rather than cleaned, using shirts stained by the soil and sweat of over one-hundred Venezuelan men that Margolles hired in Cúcuta. This performance at the gallery is staged for the first month of the exhibition; during this time period, the shirts used are each progressively encased in a series of cement blocks, made on site. The initials of the names of each hired worker are then engraved into each sculptural element. Together, these elements progressively form an installation in the space alluding to spatial dynamics set forth by the border-crossers in that region. Also included in the galleries is a portrait of one the participants of Margolles’ action in Cúcuta.
A new work by Teresa Margolles comes from the artist’s long-standing and profound engagement with victims of violent crimes in sites where, for the artist, mending a social fabric that is torn invokes attention and involves care. In earlier works by Margolles, such as her installation In the Air (2003) and her exhibition What Else Could We Talk About? (2009), the artist has used materials like cloths and water employed to cleanse the bodies of victims or sites of violence. In other artworks, such as Lote Bravo (2005), she draws soil from the ground where victims of feminicide were found to create her sculpture installations.
The latter is one of a number of works the artist has made in and about Ciudad Juarez in México, a city that borders the United States and that welcomed numerous migrants from the South of the country as the workforce to the new industries based there since the early 1990s. However, the city significantly suffered the effects of the war on drugs in the past decades. As with Lote Bravo, A new work by Teresa Margolles emerges from field-work in a geopolitical border region where social displacement and precarity is latent. These works also share the proposition of sculpture to encounter an occasion “of being” in the presence of absent testimony.
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Abul Hossain's brother Kamal Hossain, collecting the gift Abul had sent from Malaysia, for their mother
Cameron Highlands is a popular tourist destination in Malaysia. The plantations, however, are run by cheap labour, many from Bangladesh
Bangladeshi workers playing chess after work outside Green Leaves restaurant at Titiwangsa. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia
DEERHOLME, 45 km northwest of Victoria on Vancouver Island, is a rural agriculture district, settled in the early 1900s, that grew up around the early store and post office of Justus E. Williams. When the CNR's Cowichan branch line reached this area in the early 1920s, Logging became important. Another branch line, later abandoned, was built from Deerholme to Cowichan Bay in 1924 so that wood products could be shipped more easily. (written by Andrew Scott)
- from - BRITISH COLUMBIA P0STAL HISTORY RESEARCH GR0UP / Volume 3 - Number 2 - Whole number 10 - JUNE 1994 - From information supplied by Lester Small - The rural district of Glenora lies six miles to the northwest of Duncan and in the early days was mainly a farming region. It was sparsely settled and was served by a small store at the junction of Glenora and Water Roads. As the population grew a Post Office was requested under the name of "Glenora" but the name was refused by the Post Office Department although a previous office of that name had been located southwest of Duncan from 1898 to 1903. The station on the Canadian National Railway was called DEERHOLME and this was approved for the name of the Post Office. The DEERHOLME Post office opened in the Justus Williams store, April 1, 1912, with Justus E. Williams as Postmaster. The office was closed from June 30, 1917 because of lack of revenue. The postmaster stipend was $50 and the revenue for the previous year was only $46.05. Over the next few years the settlement of the Glenora district increased rapidly and as a result the DEERHOLME Post Office, under postal order 2644 dated 28 June 1921, was re-established August 1, 1921 with Justice Williams again being the Postmaster. Justice Williams died in the fall of 1924 at which time his daughter Alice took over as postmistress. She resigned April 6, 1925 and as no person was willing to assume the duties, the DEERHOLME Post Office closed June 30 , 1925. Following the closing of the office mail was delivered on RR 3, Duncan. LINK to the complete article - (page 77 - 78 - bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/bcr/bcr-1994-06-v003n02-w010.pdf
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the DEERHOLME Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
Justus Emmanuel Matthew Williams
(b. 10 October 1854 in Dundas, Hamilton Municipality, Ontario, Canada - d. 22 August 1924 (aged 69) in Duncan, Cowichan Valley Regional District, British Columbia, Canada) - he served as Postmaster at DEERHOLME from - 1 April 1912 to - 30 June 1917 and from - 1 August 1921 until his death - 22 August 1924. LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/119216512/obituary-justus-emmanue... LINK to his Find a Grave site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/228723203/justus-emmanuel_mat...
Clipped from - The Victoria Daily Times - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - 25 November 1902 - Newspaper article - Justus Williams vs Rev. W.W. Baer - A peculiar case is to be brought up in court at Nanaimo before Judge Harrison. Justus Williams, of Duncans, seeks to have Rev. W. W. Baer, pastor of the Methodist church, at Nanaimo, prohibited from preaching. The grounds for asking for such is that the pastor smokes. The matter has been before the courts of the Methodist church, and Rev. Mr. Baer was allowed to retain his pipe as a necessity on account of his suffering from insomnia. Justus Williams now seeks the aid of the civil courts to discipline the clergyman in this respect.
His wife - Mary Jane (nee Bragg) Williams
(b. 11 February 1862 in London, City of London, England - d. 23 April 1941 (aged 79) in Saanichton, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada) - LINK to her newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/119302996/obituary-for-mary-jane-... LINK to her Find a Grave site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/228723348/mary-jane-williams
His daughter - Alice Myrtle (nee Williams) Sheepwash
(b. 14 April 1905 in Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada - d. 11 April 1983 (aged 77) in Duncan, Cowichan Valley Regional District, British Columbia, Canada) - Miss Alice Myrtle Williams served as Postmistress at DEERHOLME from - 9 December 1924 to - 6 April 1925. LINK to newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/119301645/obituary-for-alice-myrt... - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/ec... LINK to her Find a Grave site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/207515479/alice-myrtle-sheepwash
- postal note stamped - / DEERHOLME / ?? 15 / 23 / B.C. / - split ring - this split ring hammer (A1-2) was proofed - 6 July 1921 - split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 16 March 1912 - (RF E / RF E2 / now is classified RF D).
POSTAL NOTE SYSTEM -The Postal Note system was inaugurated throughout Canada on 4th August, 1898. These notes offer a cheap and convenient means of transmitting small sums of money through the mails. Their use is confined to the Dominion. The denominations of Postal Notes are seventeen in number. The following 1898 table gives the different amounts and the commission charged there on:—
20 cents - commission was 1 cent
25 cents - commission was 1 cent
50 cents - commission was 2 cents
$2.50 - commission was 2 cents
$3.00 - commission was 3 cents
$5.00 - commission was 3 cents
Postal Note and Scrip Stamps - Large paper postal notes, which resembled money orders, were once sold at Canadian post offices for the purpose of sending small amounts of money through the mail. They complemented postal money orders, which were used for larger remittances. Postal Note stamps were initially affixed to denominated postal notes to raise their value. Following the discontinuation of the denominated postal notes, the stamps were affixed to postal money orders to make up the cent amounts. For a time, the stamps were also sold loose to the public for the postal transmission of very small remittances. The change in the stamps' inscription from "note" to "scrip" occurred in the 1950s.
The term postal scrip designates small adhesive gummed-and-printed pieces of paper used in conjunction with the postal notes system. Postal notes were introduced in 1898. In 1928, the smallest available denomination of postal note was a ten-cent note. In 1932, postal note (adhesive) stamps were made available to the public in denominations of one, two and five cents. The 1930s was a time of acute depression in the economy. Canadians were counting every penny. In 1940, the Post Office department decided that postal note stamps should be referred to as postal note scrip or, for short, postal scrip, to avoid confusion with postage stamps. In 1949, because of changes to the money order system, money orders were issued on a denominational basis and the department replaced entirely the postal notes with an improved system of money orders. Some scrip was still in stock and may have been issued by postmasters until the directive discontinuing the sale of scrip in 1951. In fact, scrip was apparently available up to the early 1970s. Old habits die hard. Written by John Willis and Tom Hillman.
Even though they do the same jobs, the living conditions of Malaysian workers in the tea gardens in Cameron HIghlands are much better than the conditions for Bangladeshi workers.
Many in Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia, get only a few hours off for prayers during Eid ul Fitr. These construction workers in Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur are back at work after prayers.
Not too long ago, Colombians fled to Venezuela and elsewhere to avoid the escalating violence and insecurity associated to their country’s drug wars and guerillas groups. Today, it is Venezuelans that have been fleeing to Colombia. With an economic hyperinflation and a repressive government policy, Venezuela is facing a food shortage and health crisis, among many other challenges preventing social welfare and safety. On a daily basis, hundreds of Venezuelans cross the border of San Antonio de Táchira in Venezuela to the city of San José de Cúcuta, Colombia. They go there to look for work opportunities or simply to find safety. There, their work typically consists of carrying out odd-jobs or manual labor to purchase basic goods such as food and medicine.
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion), a new work by Teresa Margolles, is developed after the artist’s fieldwork in this border region. She has traveled there on three occasions, first, in 2017 at the invitation of Bienal Sur in Colombia. During her time in Cúcuta, Margolles engaged with the sites and subjects of forced migration. In one of several actions there, she hired Venezuelans to carry stones across the river, which geopolitically divides the border; in another action, she hired them to knit their narratives into fabrics stained with the local soil. During these exchanges, their manual labor was remunerated, and was always accompanied by conversations with, and documentation by, the artist.
At Witte de With, the exhibition A new work by Teresa Margolles consists of a simple action: the six large windows of the gallery space are smudged, rather than cleaned, using shirts stained by the soil and sweat of over one-hundred Venezuelan men that Margolles hired in Cúcuta. This performance at the gallery is staged for the first month of the exhibition; during this time period, the shirts used are each progressively encased in a series of cement blocks, made on site. The initials of the names of each hired worker are then engraved into each sculptural element. Together, these elements progressively form an installation in the space alluding to spatial dynamics set forth by the border-crossers in that region. Also included in the galleries is a portrait of one the participants of Margolles’ action in Cúcuta.
A new work by Teresa Margolles comes from the artist’s long-standing and profound engagement with victims of violent crimes in sites where, for the artist, mending a social fabric that is torn invokes attention and involves care. In earlier works by Margolles, such as her installation In the Air (2003) and her exhibition What Else Could We Talk About? (2009), the artist has used materials like cloths and water employed to cleanse the bodies of victims or sites of violence. In other artworks, such as Lote Bravo (2005), she draws soil from the ground where victims of feminicide were found to create her sculpture installations.
The latter is one of a number of works the artist has made in and about Ciudad Juarez in México, a city that borders the United States and that welcomed numerous migrants from the South of the country as the workforce to the new industries based there since the early 1990s. However, the city significantly suffered the effects of the war on drugs in the past decades. As with Lote Bravo, A new work by Teresa Margolles emerges from field-work in a geopolitical border region where social displacement and precarity is latent. These works also share the proposition of sculpture to encounter an occasion “of being” in the presence of absent testimony.
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We both had a chance to pose with this group and this is the best we could do.
Sad.
So sad.
Kind of hard to tell who is real and who is not here, especially when you're driving by on the highway.
(note to Subway: Please send remittance for product placement to...)
Migration has allowed Sahanaz Parben to place her son in an elite cadet college, normally the domain of the well-to-do. She’s bought property in Bangladesh, and when she goes back she hopes to set up on her own.
This building was built in 1974, funds from the Wu merchants overseas remittances. Wu businessman never came back, this building for the poor folks to live, not their own holiday mansion. Here lived several families, and now no one is living.
Madeira diferente -
Agriculture and tourism do not provide enough income for the rural population of the Azores or Madeira and islanders continue to emigrate, some on a seasonal basis. Remittances are important, especially in the Azores.
Not too long ago, Colombians fled to Venezuela and elsewhere to avoid the escalating violence and insecurity associated to their country’s drug wars and guerillas groups. Today, it is Venezuelans that have been fleeing to Colombia. With an economic hyperinflation and a repressive government policy, Venezuela is facing a food shortage and health crisis, among many other challenges preventing social welfare and safety. On a daily basis, hundreds of Venezuelans cross the border of San Antonio de Táchira in Venezuela to the city of San José de Cúcuta, Colombia. They go there to look for work opportunities or simply to find safety. There, their work typically consists of carrying out odd-jobs or manual labor to purchase basic goods such as food and medicine.
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion), a new work by Teresa Margolles, is developed after the artist’s fieldwork in this border region. She has traveled there on three occasions, first, in 2017 at the invitation of Bienal Sur in Colombia. During her time in Cúcuta, Margolles engaged with the sites and subjects of forced migration. In one of several actions there, she hired Venezuelans to carry stones across the river, which geopolitically divides the border; in another action, she hired them to knit their narratives into fabrics stained with the local soil. During these exchanges, their manual labor was remunerated, and was always accompanied by conversations with, and documentation by, the artist.
At Witte de With, the exhibition A new work by Teresa Margolles consists of a simple action: the six large windows of the gallery space are smudged, rather than cleaned, using shirts stained by the soil and sweat of over one-hundred Venezuelan men that Margolles hired in Cúcuta. This performance at the gallery is staged for the first month of the exhibition; during this time period, the shirts used are each progressively encased in a series of cement blocks, made on site. The initials of the names of each hired worker are then engraved into each sculptural element. Together, these elements progressively form an installation in the space alluding to spatial dynamics set forth by the border-crossers in that region. Also included in the galleries is a portrait of one the participants of Margolles’ action in Cúcuta.
A new work by Teresa Margolles comes from the artist’s long-standing and profound engagement with victims of violent crimes in sites where, for the artist, mending a social fabric that is torn invokes attention and involves care. In earlier works by Margolles, such as her installation In the Air (2003) and her exhibition What Else Could We Talk About? (2009), the artist has used materials like cloths and water employed to cleanse the bodies of victims or sites of violence. In other artworks, such as Lote Bravo (2005), she draws soil from the ground where victims of feminicide were found to create her sculpture installations.
The latter is one of a number of works the artist has made in and about Ciudad Juarez in México, a city that borders the United States and that welcomed numerous migrants from the South of the country as the workforce to the new industries based there since the early 1990s. However, the city significantly suffered the effects of the war on drugs in the past decades. As with Lote Bravo, A new work by Teresa Margolles emerges from field-work in a geopolitical border region where social displacement and precarity is latent. These works also share the proposition of sculpture to encounter an occasion “of being” in the presence of absent testimony.
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The Trobriand Islands, also known as the Kiriwina Islands are a group of raised coral atolls located 120 miles directly north of the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The famous anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski wrote about the Trobriand Islanders seduction and marriage ritual in the 1920s, and described them as "islands of paradise and love". The Trobriand Islanders, who call themselves Boyowans, are closely related to the people of eastern New Guinea.
The language they speak is called Kiriwina or Kiriwinian, from the name of the main island.
The population of the Trobriands (12 000) appears to be very stable. There are 80 named villages on the main island Kiriwina. Other important islands are Kaileuna, and Vakuta Kitava.
The Trobriands are covered with rich heavy soil well-suited to yam and taro cultivation. There are two main seasons, a rainy season from December to March and a dry season from May to October. Planting, sailing, and harvesting are usually accomplished between these two seasons. Fauna include a large variety of fish and shellfish, as well as parrots, prolific bush pig, and European pigs, now widespread. Flora includes primarily taro, yams, coconut, sugarcane, and bananas.
The inland settlements are arranged in two or more concentric rings around a central ceremonial plaza used for community-wide rituals. The first ring consists of the yam houses, and the second ring of the dwellings that face them. The chief's house often stands in the central ring of storehouses facing the plaza. Behind the houses are the gardens, and beyond those the groves of fruit trees.
We discover there a peaceful and heavenly way of life. Children are early respected and empowered, young people have sexual freedom before marriage, and fathers take care of their children to connect with them, because they are part of the maternal clan. In this society, the magicians have an important role, for fishing feasts, or illness. The Trobriand Islanders are known for their beautiful handicrafts, and carved wooden objects.
The arrival of missionaries and the Australian trusteeship, in the late 60’s, marked the decline of a society based on sharing. But the Trobriand Islanders have made great efforts to preserve their traditional culture. The dance is common, especially during the feast of yams. They use woven bracelets and shell necklaces. Because they have resisted to all missionaries efforts, Trobriand’s dance retains its original sensuality.
These Trobriand Islands have a matrilineal culture that revolves around the yam, but also a unique version of the game of cricket, originally introduced by Methodist missionaries. They have white sand beaches, coral lagoons and tropical forests. Tourism has become less important than it was in the past, because of reduced air service. Sources of cash income are scarce and islanders depend largely on remittances from family members working in Port Moresby and Alotau.
© Eric Lafforgue
In attesa del prossimo servizio su una delle tre linee delle Ferrovie Emilia Romagna che partono da Reggio Emilia, l'ALn 077 di T>per riposa all'esterno di una rimessa del Deposito di Reggio Santa Croce.
Waiting for the next service on one of the three lines of the Ferrovie Emilia Romagna that depart from Reggio Emilia, the Aln 077 of T>per rests outside of a remittance of the deposit of Reggio Santa Croce.
Not too long ago, Colombians fled to Venezuela and elsewhere to avoid the escalating violence and insecurity associated to their country’s drug wars and guerillas groups. Today, it is Venezuelans that have been fleeing to Colombia. With an economic hyperinflation and a repressive government policy, Venezuela is facing a food shortage and health crisis, among many other challenges preventing social welfare and safety. On a daily basis, hundreds of Venezuelans cross the border of San Antonio de Táchira in Venezuela to the city of San José de Cúcuta, Colombia. They go there to look for work opportunities or simply to find safety. There, their work typically consists of carrying out odd-jobs or manual labor to purchase basic goods such as food and medicine.
Trayecto — Fase 1. La entrega. Fase 2. A través. Fase 3. Inclusión (Trajectory— Phase 1. The Remittance. Phase 2. Through. Phase 3. Inclusion), a new work by Teresa Margolles, is developed after the artist’s fieldwork in this border region. She has traveled there on three occasions, first, in 2017 at the invitation of Bienal Sur in Colombia. During her time in Cúcuta, Margolles engaged with the sites and subjects of forced migration. In one of several actions there, she hired Venezuelans to carry stones across the river, which geopolitically divides the border; in another action, she hired them to knit their narratives into fabrics stained with the local soil. During these exchanges, their manual labor was remunerated, and was always accompanied by conversations with, and documentation by, the artist.
At Witte de With, the exhibition A new work by Teresa Margolles consists of a simple action: the six large windows of the gallery space are smudged, rather than cleaned, using shirts stained by the soil and sweat of over one-hundred Venezuelan men that Margolles hired in Cúcuta. This performance at the gallery is staged for the first month of the exhibition; during this time period, the shirts used are each progressively encased in a series of cement blocks, made on site. The initials of the names of each hired worker are then engraved into each sculptural element. Together, these elements progressively form an installation in the space alluding to spatial dynamics set forth by the border-crossers in that region. Also included in the galleries is a portrait of one the participants of Margolles’ action in Cúcuta.
A new work by Teresa Margolles comes from the artist’s long-standing and profound engagement with victims of violent crimes in sites where, for the artist, mending a social fabric that is torn invokes attention and involves care. In earlier works by Margolles, such as her installation In the Air (2003) and her exhibition What Else Could We Talk About? (2009), the artist has used materials like cloths and water employed to cleanse the bodies of victims or sites of violence. In other artworks, such as Lote Bravo (2005), she draws soil from the ground where victims of feminicide were found to create her sculpture installations.
The latter is one of a number of works the artist has made in and about Ciudad Juarez in México, a city that borders the United States and that welcomed numerous migrants from the South of the country as the workforce to the new industries based there since the early 1990s. However, the city significantly suffered the effects of the war on drugs in the past decades. As with Lote Bravo, A new work by Teresa Margolles emerges from field-work in a geopolitical border region where social displacement and precarity is latent. These works also share the proposition of sculpture to encounter an occasion “of being” in the presence of absent testimony.
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