Region – Rabbits in the dunes are not well. Where ecologists in the first half of the last century still spoke of a veritable plague of rabbits in the dunes, it is now necessary to look hard to discover the last rabbit. Nature is suffering, says the Dune Conservation Foundation. Rabbits are not native to the Dutch dunes, it is …
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Theo Spierings brings a wealth of international experience to ForFarmers
Theo Spierings is the new CEO of animal feed company ForFarmers. The news was announced by the company this week. He succeeds Chris Deen who is stepping down as CEO due to illness. Spierings studied food technology at HAS Den Bosch and rose to prominence in the Dutch agricultural sector as director of Friesland Foods. As CEO, he led the …
Read More »Liam Lawson wins the strategic F2 sprint race
Liam Lawson wins the Abu Dhabi F2 sprint race. At the end sprint the Carlin driver crosses the line first, taking fourth place in the championship. Richard Verschoor who of pole left, crossed the finish line second followed by Felipe Drugovich who completed the podium. On the first lap, where Richard Verschoor started from pole position, Jehan Daruvala and Enzo …
Read More »Anne van Damme brakes with her new single “Car”
“Yeah, sure, a lot happened. The feeling of being overwhelmed, having to keep all kinds of balls in the air. You actually want to hit ‘stop’, hit the brakes. And indeed with a piano, because now we have a real piano in the house. I wrote a lot about that. Some songs were really piano songs, so they also have …
Read More »CWI spin-off DuckDB Labs on a US adventure
Database company DuckDB Labs, a spin-off of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), founded startup Motherduck in America with some database veterans. This young American company received $47.5 million this week from technology investor Andreessen Horowitz, among others. With this, the company is building a cloud service on top of the open source DuckDB database system. DuckDB was started in 2019 …
Read More »EuroTier: power supply with battery or robot
At the EuroTier in Hannover, Germany, food in particular seems to be making the transition to electric drives or robotics. The demand for (more) capacity or simply for more practical work also continues to exist. Strautmann presented its fully electric mixer. The ePrimius with 400 volt battery for 80 kWh of energy was developed in collaboration with Kahu EV LP …
Read More »Bloemendaal hockey club, main supplier of the World Cup in India: “But as unobjective as I am, I would have preferred to see Maurits Visser in goal”
National coach Jeroen Delmee of Dutch men’s hockey has announced his final selection for the world championship in India, which begins in January. Hockey club Bloemendaal are the main supplier with five players, but if it had been up to coach Rick Mathijssen, goalkeeper Maurits Visser would have been chosen as the first goalkeeper and not, again, as the second …
Read More »VVD deputy: ‘According to the Americans, the design of the EBI is wrong’
MP Ellian (VVD) received feedback in the US on the design of the extra secure institution in Vught. A prison for serious criminals, like the EBI, should never be housed in an existing penitentiary. Because serious criminals can come into contact with others there. by Joost van der Wegen Visit VVD MP Ulysse Ellian said this week during the Justice …
Read More »EU opens door to ‘loss and damage’ if China pays
At the UN climate summit in Egypt, the European Union nevertheless showed its willingness to discuss a new climate aid mechanism for developing countries. But then big economies like China will have to pay. Loss and damage, aid to countries severely affected by the impacts of climate change, was one of the main contentious issues at the Egyptian climate summit. …
Read More »New consortium secures breakthrough to make business parks more sustainable
Growing network congestion poses a challenge to business parks in the Netherlands. Currently, businesses in business parks cannot be connected to the grid because there is no room for new connections. In addition, there is often no possibility to connect solar panels or other sustainable solutions to the grid. Smart Business Parks make it possible to sustainably connect business parks …
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