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The arrival of a number of mega stables for 15,000 pigs on the Logtsebaan in Oirschot seems to have been discontinued for good. The municipal council of Oirschot voted unanimously on Thursday evening to collaborate with the development company Ruimte voor Ruimte, which wants to buy the pig farm, in order to prevent the construction of the stables right next …

Tue, Jun 21, 7:00 PM To read aloud XInterviews and context ZUTPHEN – Theaterwerkplaats in Rode Hoed celebrates its 10th anniversary in a special way on Saturday June 25 with the Zomerhoeden Festival. This takes place in and near the school building at 22 Isendoornstraat, which since January has been the new theater workshop headquarters for people …

The cornerstones of placemaking Placemaking – now “a bit of” buzzword“, explains Slingerland – is the process by which a space becomes a place, the latter being a place that has (more) meaning for people, and where they feel at home. Placemaking is based on three pillars: 1) the physical environment 2) the social connection (with the local community) and …

Below you can see an excerpt from the broadcast of 1 from Monday, June 20. You can also watch the full broadcast of 1 watch it via Gids.tv. Virus Truth foreman Willem Engel was arrested earlier this year on suspicion of sedition. Today was the first session and Saskia Belleman was there. In 1 she reports. Read more under the …

(Photo: Municipality of Leiden). Professor Martine Jager, ophthalmologist at LUMC, was made a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion upon her retirement. In 2021, Jager was named one of the 100 most influential women in ophthalmology worldwide by international colleagues and the international ophthalmology magazine The Ophthalmologist. On the last day of the International Society of Ocular Oncology …

According to Rob Post, president of the Amsterdam-Noord Entrepreneurs Association (VEBAN), investments should be made in a northern axis: “Building should not only be for houses, but also for entrepreneurs.” Entrepreneurs who have already made the crossing see it too. Although the “Nordic identity” should continue to dominate: “There is a kind of Berlin atmosphere here, a lot of room …

Our cells have a clever way of getting essentials like nutrients to the cell, but researchers didn’t yet know exactly how this transportation happened. Now they know a little more. Cells have a membrane, an outer layer through which nothing can pass. When nutrients have to enter the cell from the outside, something very practical happens: special proteins accumulate inside …

OstendThe city of Ostend will work on colonial references in the public space. On Thursday, June 30, Congo Independence Day, the City will kick off the participation process. Together with its inhabitants, the city of Ostend will develop a plan that creates a space to dialogue about colonial references in public space. “In this process of participation, we frame our …

Some beautiful colors in nature are created by pigments, but others, especially shades of blue, by a clever way of reflecting light. Researchers have now taken this trick one step further with a blueberry. If you see a bird with bright red wings, the pigment molecules in those feathers absorb all colors of light except red. But if you see …

Form The shape is perhaps even more important than the size of the table. The shape of a dining table can do a lot with a room. The most common shapes are: rectangular/square and oval/round, but now there are also tables that combine them. Like a rectangular table with rounded corners, so that it is between oval and rectangular. Above …