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PVV largest party in Geldrop-Mierlo and Best

Lila Mehrez
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PVV largest party in Geldrop-Mierlo and Best

The PVV became by far the largest party in Geldrop-Mierlo during the House of Representatives elections. The party of Geert Wilders obtained almost 28 percent of the votes. In Best, the PVV also became the largest by far.

This is evident from the final results in these two regional municipalities. In Geldrop-Mierlo, the victory of the PVV was convincing. With 11 percent of the votes, the party distanced itself from the number two VVD. This was followed by NSC and PvdA/GroenLinks.

Convincing

In Best, the victory was also convincing. There, too, the VVD has to make do with 5 percent of the votes less than number 2. Here too, party leader Omtzigt’s NSC completes the top 3.

VVD still the largest

In Son en Breugel, Nuenen and Waalre the picture is slightly different. There the VVD emerged as the largest party. In Son en Breugel the PVV is hot on the heels of the VVD, followed by the NSC and then the PvdA/GroenLinks. In Nuenen and Waalre the same picture, although in these municipalities the number 3 is not Omtzigt’s party to PvdA/GroenLinks.

Turnout relatively high

Turnout Wednesday in Eindhoven’s peripheral municipalities was relatively high. In almost all villages it exceeded 80 percent. In Geldrop-Mierlo, turnout was slightly lower at 79.6 percent. This is still more than the national average, which is over 78 percent.

Leading

Nationally, the PVV took the win. The party of leader Geert Wilders came after counting the votes with 35 seats well above the other parties. He may now take the lead in forming a new coalition.

 

Source: Studio040

For Eindhoven News: Lila Mehrez

Traditional Carnaval kick off is on, but smaller than usual

Simge Tasdemir
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Traditional Carnaval kick off is on, but smaller than usual

After long deliberation, a decision has been made: the traditional Carnaval kick off event ‘3 Uurkes Vurraf’ (three hours in advance) will continue this year, with an audience. But there are fewer people at the start of Carnaval where dozens of artists perform.

“This year we opt for an unadulterated, modest party in Eindhoven”.

“We’re not going for the traditional ‘3 Uurkes Vurraf’ (three hours in advance) with three thousand people in a tent and a large stage,” says Arthur Marres from Omroep Brabant Event Productions. “That is unfortunately one step too far because of the many corona infections. But we are very happy that we can still kick off Carnaval in the purest way. That way, we have the best of both worlds.

Actually, everyone assumed that the ‘3 Uurkes Vurraf’ would be cast in a digital format, just like last year, with a home audience. “That audience is still there,” says Arthur. “They turn their living room into a cosy pub and watch the broadcast cheerfully dressed up. The home celebrants can be seen behind the stage via a fifteen-metre LED wall.”

“So some lucky people can actually be there.”

“The response to follow the Carnaval spectacle digitally has been massive,” says Arthur. “We have received three thousand registrations. Some lucky people can actually be there and we are giving those tickets away via radio, TV and internet. We are currently calculating exactly how many revellers will be able to attend.”

The artists are also very happy to be able to perform in front of an audience again. “It is, of course, very difficult for a Carnaval artist to stand in front of a bare room, while normally you are welcomed by a frenzied crowd in a steaming marquee.”

“When the number of infections skyrocketed, we thought, this is never going to happen.”

For a long time, it was very uncertain: will ‘3 Uurkes’ go ahead or not? “It was a rollercoaster”, the event manager recalls. “On 11 November, we decided that the party would be held in a tent on Stadhuisplein in Eindhoven, and three days later the omikron variant surfaced, which called everything into question. In December, the number of infections skyrocketed and we were heading for a lockdown again. Then we thought: this is never going to work.”

“And when we finally heard that it might go ahead, after all, it was very exciting whether we could get it all sorted out in time to put on such a large-scale event.”

The fact that the party can now go ahead really touches Arthur. “It is the best day of the year for me. ‘3 Uurkes’ is so much fun. I wake up in the morning in a jubilant mood, put on my outfit and in the car on my way to Eindhoven I put on some loud Carnaval music, singing along at the top of my lungs. The smile on my face couldn’t be bigger.

Source: Omroepbrabant

Translation by: Simge Taşdemir

 

 

 

5 Waalre citizens decorated

Bob
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5 Waalre citizens decorated

Yearly, one day before King’s Day, the national Honours List is announced. Every city and village decourates one or more proposed citizens. Tuesday 26 April, acting Mayor Jan Boelhouwer presented five ribbons to people from Waalre who have done important work for the community.

Cor Vermissen (83) was active for decades as a board member of VV De Heikanters and as a referee for RKVV Bergeijk (both football clubs). Harrie de Greef (72) was youth leader and director at RKVV Waalre. He is currently chairman of KBO Waalre (elderly association). In this capacity he ensured that the Klooster (monastary) in Waalre remained open for associations.

The married couple Kees Kavelaars (79) and Nelleke Kavelaars-Flipsen (75) were decorated for their long-standing voluntary work for De Zonnebloem (charity organisation which supports physically disabled people) Aalst Waalre. In addition, the couple has been active with the institution since its establishment. The couple is involved in the transport and distribution of food.

Theo Prinssen receives a ribbon for his activities for the Willibrord parish. He has also been treasurer for Voedselbank (foodbank) Waalre.

Source: Studio040

Translated by: Bob

*Here you can read more on the meaning of  the yearly “Lintjesregen’. (In Dutch).

Professor Bert Meijer wins the Van ‘t Hoff medal 2022

Beena Arunraj
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Professor Bert Meijer wins the Van ‘t Hoff medal 2022

The medal is awarded once every ten years for outstanding and groundbreaking work in the field of chemistry, excluding biochemistry. Bert Meijer is the second recipient ever. The prize was first awarded in 2011. 

”I am very honoured.”-Bert Meijer

Meijer happily shares “I see it as a wonderful appreciation for the research that the many students, PhD students and postdocs in our group have carried out over the decades.”

Meijer receives the prize because he has been working on stereochemistry for many years. He introduced the chemical form, which made him world-renowned. Stereochemistry is the study of the spatial structure of compounds and molecules and the consequences of how substances react to each other. With this contribution, Meijer more than met the criteria to receive the medal. The winner’s work must therefore be excellent and groundbreaking.

Rightful winner

According to the jury chairman Wybren Jan Buma. ”Meijer is regarded worldwide as one of the founders in his field. His work has pioneered the mechanisms underlying chemical self-assembly. He has shown that these materials offer unique opportunities to successfully develop solutions.”

Medal

The medal is named after the Dutch chemist JH van ‘t Hoff. The Dutch chemist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901. The first winner of this award, Ben Feringa, went on to win a Nobel Prize in 2016.  As a result of the pandemic, the ceremony took place a year later than planned.

URE builds all-new self-driving racing car after ‘intense shock’

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URE builds all-new self-driving racing car after ‘intense shock’

It was a great shock: the URE 15 electric racing car burned down under the watchful eye of the students. Less than six months later, however, the students have built a new car: the URE16. The new car will be presented on Thursday afternoon.

That URE16 (named after the student team: University Racing Eindhoven, ed.), had to be built without the students being able to fall back on the old model.

“That indeed made the task more difficult,” says Joos Kat, team manager of URE. “Normally we can use the old car when testing software and hardware. We didn’t have that option now, so we had to use an even older model for those tests – not ideal.”

‘Always alert’
But the students have learned from the accident. “It was a severe shock for everyone but the most important thing is that no one was hurt. The driver was able to get out of the car quickly enough. We have now built in extra security. With the previous car, we met all safety requirements. We have learned that even though you follow all the procedures, you always have to stay alert.”

“The value of building the car is the experience we gain with it, we make everything ourselves.”
Joos Kat, team manager of URE

But burned down or not, the autonomous racing car URE 16 has changed a lot from the previous model. This was not by necessity, Kat explains. “Those plans were already there before we lost the previous model.”

Conversion
“The drive shaft used to have 400 volts, which is now 600 volts. We have designed a new battery pack and new engines,” the team manager explains. “The biggest change compared to the URE15? It’s in the design of the chasis. With the previous car it took us four hours to build it up from a self-driving model to a controllable model. That is no longer necessary. We have built all the functions for autonomous driving into the chassis. Conversion now only takes a few seconds.”

Prizes
With these changes, the student team wants to compete again for the prizes for both autonomous racing and electric racing. “At the autonomous race last year in Spain, we came first,” says Kat. “With driver in the car, we came second in Assen. We want to compete for prizes with this car too.”

Because with those awards, the students get a confirmation of their good work, Kat explains. “It’s not like we’ll immediately come up with innovations with this car that we could apply in industry when we’re done studying. The value of building the car is the experience we gain with it. We make everything ourselves, write the software ourselves. That practical knowledge is enormously valuable when we start our careers.”

Full calendar
But it is not that far yet. First, the students have a summer full of races ahead of them. “In three and a half weeks we will be in Assen for the electric race. In mid-August there is an unofficial world championship in Germany, where we will race both autonomous and electric, and we finish again in Barcelona, with the autonomous race,” Kat says.

Source: Studio040

Family festival in Eindhoven library during Children’s Book Week

Lila Mehrez
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Family festival in Eindhoven library during Children’s Book Week

The Bieb Familie Festival is open in the library of Eindhoven. This event is dedicated to the start of the Children’s Book Week.

The theme of this year’s Children’s Book Week is Gi-Ga Green. Nature is often a source of inspiration for writing children’s books. The library of Eindhoven has included this theme in the activities at the festival.

Over the next three weeks, various workshops will be held in the library. For example, children can draw animals, craft insects and go on a treasure hunt.

For more information, visit de Bibliotheek Eindhoven.

Sources: Studio040 and de Bibliotheek Eindhoven
For Eindhoven News: Lila Mehrez

The ‘Shit Show’ at DDW: ‘Our poop can save the world’

Bob
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The ‘Shit Show’ at DDW: ‘Our poop can save the world’

The moment designer Fides Lapidaire found out that poop can make the world a more sustainable place, she set to work on this discovery herself. She collected people’s feces and then converted it to compost. The compost was used to grow vegetables, which were made into a meal.

That meal is a sandwich with humus and beets. Lapidaire is in her own food truck this week on Ketelhuisplein at Strijp-S. During Dutch Design Week, she will show what can be done with human poop. Most of the ingredients she uses are grown in a special garden. This garden is not fertilised with animal manure, but with that of herself and other people who donate their feces.

‘Poop sandwich’
Next to the food truck, the doors of the toilet-house are wide open. Here is the friendly request to DDW visitors to run an errand. Not everyone is immediately eager to sink their teeth into the innovative piece of bread. “I think it’s weird. Because it comes from ourselves and now I’m eating it. That’s just weird”, one young visitor says.

Passersby think it is a bit funny, but they like the initiative. Many of them did not know that human poop can make food more sustainable.

Documentary
On Thursday, Lapidaire’s new documentary will premiere at the Natlab. The film shows the entire process: from the moment the feces is collected, to eating a ‘poop sandwich’. The goal is to make this way of providing food more debatable.

Source: Studio040

Translated by: Bob

Large flea market in the IJssportcentrum

Lila Mehrez
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Large flea market in the IJssportcentrum

Bargain hunting in the IJssportcentrum Eindhoven. The ice rink in the Genneper Parken will turn into a flea market this month. Hundreds of stalls fill the rink.

Furniture, special paintings, toys and clothing. There is something for all ages at the Eindhoven flea market. It is also possible to rent a booth yourself.

Stalls

The stalls can be visited all day on Sunday 11 June in the IJssportcentrum. Adults pay €3.50 entrance. Children up to and including 12 years old can enter for free.

 

Source: Studio040

For Eindhoven News: Lila Mehrez

Rainy summer doesn’t dampen fun

Bob
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Rainy summer doesn’t dampen fun

Rain, wind and cold. The weather this summer is not the weather hoped for. Still, day trippers and tourists are enjoying themselves in the Eindhoven region.

The disappointing weather is not stopping tourists from exploring downtown Eindhoven. “I love summer, even if the weather is a little less”, a tourist from Switzerland says. “We are still doing what we wanted to do”. Another tourist is also having a great time, even though she has changed her plans a bit. “I can’t do everything, but there’s some very good shopping to be done in Eindhoven”.

Prehistoric Village

At the PreHistorisch Dorp, visitors also keep coming. A family from Utrecht is having a great time. “It’s a mindset. We decided it’s fine weather for outdoor activities. We are enjoying ourselves”, one woman says. Her children are having a good time. “As long as there are puddles to stomp in and acorns to pick up, they’re all fine. With young children, this weather is better than forty degrees”.

Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers, who spends two months living like a woman in the Middle Ages, finds it as cozy as ever: “We have fires lit everywhere and all kinds of activities that can also be done indoors or under a canopy”, she says. “Even though it rains, it’s actually very ‘gezellig”. Her temporary lifestyle does present a slightly bigger challenge, though: “Clothes get dirty sooner, and it’s harder to get them dry. You can only do that with a fire, and then it smells like smoke again”, she explains.

Camp

For most people, the weather doesn’t matter much, but some still regret it. “I do hate it”,  a boy from Belgium, who is at camp, says. “We wanted to do a lot of fun things that we can’t do because of the rain. We have to bike a lot so we are constantly soaking wet”.

Last week, visitors to campsites in the region didn’t let the disappointing weather get them off the hook either. The rain will continue for now.

Source: Studio040

Translated by: Bob

 

Tribute to first female counsellor

Lila Mehrez
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Tribute to first female counsellor

Few know who she is, Janna van Bekkum-van Gorkum. Yet she has been of great significance in Eindhoven. She was the first woman on the city council exactly 100 years ago. Her great-granddaughter and the municipality are now reflecting on that.

Van Bekkem-van Gorkum was a member of the municipal council from 1923 to 1926, not long after women’s suffrage was introduced. She was an ambitious woman. In addition to political work for the Social Democratic Workers’ Party (SDAP), she was also the mother of four children in a socialist family.

Pride

“I am very proud of my great-grandmother. It was very special what she did, in a real man’s world at the time. I am proud of her ideas, perseverance and ambition. She was also a very sweet mother,” says great-grandchild Inge Wessels.

 

Source: Studio040

For Eindhoven News: Lila Mehrez

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