Cottton Candy Girl | 20140826 | 1-memo.com | The Amsterdam Nieuwendijk street now reflecting a large print of one of Ed van der Elsken’s early 60s photo’s showing ‘suikerspinmeisje’ girl. | TakeNode ID 331da0c7-fe29-42a0-b590-6832f4256ee4
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1955 Amsterdam Rebels Now | 20140824 | 1-memo.com | The Amsterdam Nieuwendijk street now. In the background is a large print of one of Ed van der Elsken’s photo’s showing Nieuwendijk ‘nozems’ (greasers | halbstarken | blouson noirs | teddy boys) in 1955 – currently hanging (with graffiti) outside in the Nieuwendijk street as part of the wall around a renovation site. | TakeNode ID 07a8543d-4143-4c1d-9163-4ac9515e3df6
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Roman Vishniac Re-discovered | 20140823 | 1-memo.com | Image taken yesterday at the exhibition of Roman Vishniac’s photos at Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum, 2014. Tomorrow (Aug 24th) is the last day of this exhibition “Roman Vishniac (re)discovered”
In that large picture his daughter Mara poses in front of an election poster in Berlin , 1933 . | TakeNode ID f3281589-fde9-4bd2-a15d-1156ece26eb2
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Water Windmiller Pieter van der Burg | 20140821 | 1-memo.com | Great-great-great grandfather ‘Pieter’ van der Burg was a water-miller 200 years ago (from 1811) on the ‘Noorddammolen’ (the North Dam Mill) of the “Oude Pijnackerse polder” (Old Polder of Pijnacker) in South-Holland. The Noorddammolen was demolished in 1861 (a few years after Pieter had died) when a steam pumping-engine was build for the job. This picture from around 1900 shows both the similar neighbouring water mills and the steam pumping engine : in the front first the Zuiddammolen (South Dam mill) – then the chimney of the steam pumping-engine at the site were that ‘Noorddammolen’ of Pieter used to be, finally the Noordmolen (North Mill).
Background on the Noorddammolen – That mill had been rebuild in 1577 after the original mill had been destroyed during the Spanish Siege of Leiden. Further note that Pieter had moved to another mill already in 1815. Image source / part of the info : molendatabase.org | Allemolens.nl.
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Transport XX to Auschwitz DVDs ~ another batch ready today for distribution – now for the Atelier Marcel Hastir (Belgium), the Fondation Robert Maistriau (Belgium/Congo) and Dutch institutes.
Transport XX to Auschwitz DVDs | 20140723 | 1-memo.com
17:35 – Michel enters with transplant.
17:50 – Vygon 6 cannulation
17:52 – 12 mg Heparin IV
17:57 – Transplant
18:00 – 2nd transplant
Activated Clotting Time (ACT) 362″18:05 – Clamps removed
25 Year Islet Transplants • @1MEMO_20140703 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • TakeNode c28e9c36-22bc-4409-b26a-2f9f90d9d39b
July 3, 2014 – Holland, Leiden University Hospital, 25 years ago : Photocopy June 13, 1989 surgery journal highlighting the moment of islet transplantion at our start of a first series of succesfull islets graft transplants in the Netherlands, using a simple yet very novel approach that eventually, recently, became a worldwide standard for transplanting clinical grade purified islets in insulin-dependent diabetic patients.
Link to article on the 25 year timeline of progress in research and patient treatment , here : https://www.cellr4.org/article/128 .
Update 20260319_0943 : adding english translation dutch surgery journal (as quote), and minor text modifications, as part of the process of republishing this post at michelvanderburg.com as part of the science portfolio dd 20260319 https://michelvanderburg.com/category/science/ from the original post at 1-memo•com: 25 Year Islet Transplants | 20140703 | 1-memo.com • URL https://1-memo.com/2014/07/03/25-year-islet-transplants/
#islet #transplantation #diabetes #LUMC #Leiden #history #AZL #UWS #purification #premiere
May 28th, 2014 report* from the Afghan refugees camp in the Saint John the Baptist church at the Béguinage in Brussels (Belgium) – click 1st image to start slideshow
Beguinage Project
In March 2014 I traveled to Brussels, Belgium to meet a group of Afghans living inside an old Catholic church. At the time, nearly one hundred Afghan refugees had set up camp within the walls of the seventeenth century compound. There were camping tents and make-shift walls within the Baroque interior. Respectfully abiding by the teachings of Islam, the main religious practice of the Afghans living in the Catholic church, there was one side for woman and children and one side for males.
Their shoes were piled up outside of the doors of their tents and warm pots of chai were passed around during mealtime. On a sunny afternoon dozens joined in on a game of cricket, cautious to not start a scene or cause too much noise. All they could do at this point was wait for a potential interview date and hope to receive legal status in a country that they could only half-heartedly call home.
A majority of the males I spoke with were well-educated; most speaking French, Dutch, and English in addition to their native Afghan language of Dari or Pashto. Their skills and experiences as translators, guards, and service men in Afghanistan had threatened their livelihood and ultimately forced them to flee their homeland. The priest of the church, Daniel Alliet, opened the space to the Afghan refugees because he disagreed with Belgium’s asylum policy.
One Afghan gentleman, who asked to remain anonymous, told me about his journey to Brussels: “When you are working with America or other organizations in Afghanistan the Taliban is a big problem. I was with the forces in Kandahar Province for one year. This was a big, big company in Kandahar. After one year the Taliban send some letters to my family saying, ‘Your son is working for the enemy.’ And they said, ‘He will come and he will work with us.’ Then I went to my home. And after the Taliban found out about me, I came to Iran, then I went to Europe, and this country.”
At present, the situation continues to evolve: the church is now used as an Afghan community center instead of a shelter, some have been granted alternative housing accommodations throughout the country, and many refugees were granted the right to stay in the country legally. In Brussels, and around the world, Afghans are facing the harsh realities of displacement while others are struggling to resettle without official resident status, nevertheless, their strength is what binds them and they tirelessly continue to fight for justice.
Text: Kristen Cattell / Photography : Michel van der Burg
Special thanks to Isabelle Marchal and the many friends that welcomed us , and also others whose works were on display at the church and are shown in these pictures.
* Update Sept 6th 2015 – Our full report first appeared May 28th, 2014 (via the now no longer existing web site “Rising Afghans”) and is now fully included here.
Republishing of the short second photo report that appeared also then , will follow soon (the Inside Out project by JR – with original portraits by Chiara Ravano – at Salon Mommen, Brussels.)
Update Nov 15, 2015 – Added video “Béguinage shadows”
Update Nov 19, 2015 – Added info (below) on the silent solidarity march for Afghan refugees in Brussels Nov 20th 2013 – “Belgians and Afghans demand justice”
Belgians and Afghans demand justice
Belgians and Afghans demand justice – Video report by Michel van der Burg. Belgians and Afghan refugees demand Belgium changes its asylum policy.
Speeches by Amir Mohammad Jafari (12 y, student and Afghan refugee in Belgium) & Simon Gronowski (Belgian lawyer) 20 nov 2013 on the arrival of the silent solidarity march for Afghan refugees in Brussels. « link to full post »
