Vote For Els Mercken
Hi everybody, I play in the Johann Strauss-Orchestra ...
... will you vote for me in a competition to win a garden?
The link is http://www.wineentuin.be/tuin/71 and you may send this link to all of your friends! Thank you!!!!
The above is a special request Els sent to our site. She is trying to win a Garden Makeover. Let's everyone show our appreciation for the beautiful music she provides us as part of the Johann Strauss Orchestra! Vote for Els !
I HAVE GONE TO THE SITE AND VOTED FOR ELS ! I HOPE SHE GETS HER GARDEN MAKE-OVER.
I am voting for her and shall keep my fingers crossed that she gets her garden makeover.
So did I Sally.
Did you read the comentaries? The whole orchestra (includes André himself) voted for her.
Adriana - Blumenau/Brazil
Proof the JSO loves their Orchestra Family. They are supportive of one another.
That's the way it should be. All the World should love one another.
I went to vote too. I'd like to see a before & after picture.
ok, I went to vote but can't read dutch so how do I vote?
I had a translator -- -translate the page and voted on that page.
With all the beautiful violin music Miss Merchen gives to us-Andres fans-she deserves to return home to a nice beautiful relaxing garden, and to enjoy-sipping on a cool Pena Conlada; I hope she wins. We all need to petition Andre to give Miss Els a good raise$$$ so she could afford a Goldfish Coy pond, I know the Dutch love to swallow those fish raw! I have seen Andre do it! To each there own I say! Ha,Ha.-Just a thought.The best to Miss Mercken. Kyle S. USA
Hi Sally
I think I voted for Els to win a garden but my Dutch is pretty limited. Hope she gets one.
Cheers
Pauline
Thank you all very much!Don't forget to confirm your vote in the email you get from "gardina plantencentrum" "bevestig je stem" otherwise the vote is not counted in.....
Did vote, hope I did it right?
Me too. Left her a comment also. I could not read much!
Well, I voted, I hope it went through!
My comment posted, so I'm thinking that it did.
Els, I hope you win!! We'd love to see a picture when you get it completed!
I voted for you Els, looking forward to seeing you on 23 June 2009, here in Phoenix, AZ. I will be sitting in the front row, wearing Chartreuse colored clothing & my JSO photo T-shirt.
please stay active in Facebook, I hope you will accept me as a "FRIEND"
If you want to vote for Els click here:
http://www.wineentuin.be/tuin/71
Scroll down the page until you see a big green check mark followed by: Stem op deze tuin
Click on: Stem op deze tuin
In the first blank space, enter your email address.
In the 2nd blank space, enter your phone #
In the 3rd blank space .. try placing any number
Look a little lower & enter the two words you see
Now click on: Stemmen (which means, vote)
You will now get an email. You must click on the very long URL, this confirms your vote which will now be counted.
I hope I've got this straight for everyone else, like me, that doesn't read or speak, Dutch
Thanks Bill, that helps a lot. I'm sure many of us were confused, I know I was but I finally did get it right because I got the e-mail conformation. I hope she wins.
Your welcome, Shirley.
It took me 50 minutes of switching between the place to vote & a web translation site to figure it out.
Did you leave a message for Els?
PLease....if this help you, please say something. If you are still puzzled, let me know & I'll try again to simplify the instructions
Thanks for help.
I did what you said and received the email. But when clicked on the link for confirmation, I get "De code is niet correct!".
in the confirmation email there is a 1 word link Ignore that one
then there is a long long link that must be 5 inches long.....click on that link
Thank you very much Bill.
I'm clicking on the long link
http://www.wineentuin.be/deelnemer/nieuwestem/71/3a9e3ddff03e69d4a4b7fbc5d939fc70
and always get the same. So I must be doing something wrong. Can it be that in Europe is already May and voting is too late? Does anyone know when is a cutoff date?
Thanks again and all the best.
I get the same Jolanta!
Thank you Sally.
Do you get the same on your link or mine?
Hugs
I used my link. I have cookies enabled too. hummm
Hello everybody,
I'm really gratefull for all your efforts. I will contact the competition-webmaster to ask about the votingproblems. If you do as Bill wrote, there should be no problem. There are two links in the mail: a very short one "hier" and the long one.The competition ends the 16th of mai. Of course you may forward the link http://www.wineentuin.be/tuin/71 to all of your contacts....I need about 500 more votes I think to win for sure....
Thank you all very much!
Els....Sorry, I made three voting attempts received the message on both the short or long LINK: "De code is niet correct". The website shows 673 votes so far....Here's my email... EDMARTINTX@aol.com ... See you in Des Moines. Cheers !
Thanks, Els , for letting everyone know the voting goes until 16 May .
For everyones benefit ...... Els plays violin, usually wears a blue gown, is blond, & is the screamer...think back to the song Fierfest, the number with the anvil, remember Noel, the french horn player trying to hide his instrument under the skirt of one of an orchestra members.....It was Els skirt that Noel was trying to hide his French horn under.
Hopefully, you will now have a mental image of Els, the person you will be voting for.
I looked at all the things people said to Els on the voting site, most were in a foreign language & I didn't have time to translate the messages, however, I did notice one reply from Liesbeth Mercken.......I wonder if Liesbeth is a sister or mother? Inquiring minds want to know.
Hopefully, I'll have time in a day or 2, to add a photo of Els, that I took during the 2006 concert here in Phoenix
BTW, Els....I just tried to vote again using an entirely different email address & I also got this message after clicking on the very long link to confirm my email address:
De Code is niet correct
I will forward the voting link to my friends as soon as I know the voting problem has been fixed
Hello everyone,
I think that the voting website is OK now ( or at least it was for awhile).
After much frustration of getting "De Code is niet correct "
2 days ago I used my other email address but never got the confirmation email, until today.
And the link WORKED !!!!!!!
Here it is:
http://www.wineentuin.be/deelnemer/nieuwestem/71/049db1e5608b69495c2a1257f7866e10
Then I tried again using "old" email address and it did NOT work.
I'm not sure how it all works but at least i had one success.
Hugs to all.
Well, I did vote three times and each time it came back "De Code is niet correct". Not speaking Dutch, I thought it meant that it has not gone through, but because it happened all three times, I figured I was reading it wrong.
So, after Jolanta said she did the same, I've used another email address and voted again, and hopefully it won't say "neit" this time.
We shall see.
Hi everybody,
The voting-problems only happen with hotmail and gmail is that possible?The webmaster knows about that and they are trying to solve that!
In the mean time: thank you very much for all the support!
Hello Els, thanks for letting us know. I am sure you are getting plenty of votes. I hope you win.
HEY THERE, ANDRE'S GIRL....WELCOME BACK! SENT YOU AN EMAIL TO YOUR OTHER EMAIL BOX.....JUST LEARNED THE TRICK TO VOTING FOR ELS (THANKS TO CHRIS), IF YOU FILL-IN THE THIRD OPTIONAL BOX WITH A RANDOM NUMBER, YOU WILL NOT GET THE ERROR MESSAGE (De code is niet correct) AND YOUR VOTE FOR ELS WILL BE COUNTED!! Cheers!
Thanks for the info, Ed. I see that Els vote total has jumped from 673, yesterday, to 731 today. Now I'm going to forward this topics link to my friends & hope to see another her vote total jump to 800 or 900. <g>
Hello Els,
I used yahoo mail with 2 different addresses. One worked and one did not.
But hopefully you will get enough votes to have a beautiful garden.
Hello Els,
I used yahoo mail with 2 different addresses. One worked and one did not.
But hopefully you will get enough votes to have a beautiful garden.
Hi all,
I am Els' sister and looking at all your comments...THIS IS SO GREAT!!!AMAZING!!!
I hope you all know that your enthousiasm and help is so much appreciated by her! She told me all about this website and your comments and help...
The thing is.. She really diserves to win a nice garden as she not only is a great violin player..she is also the greatest sister!!!
Every vote still helps so keep on spreading the word in every way you can!
Thanks a million...
Take care,
Liesbeth
Hello Liesbeth,
So nice to hear from you. We are doing all we can to help your sister win the garden. We will keep spreading the word for her. We hope she wins. Thanks for posting here. Come back any time and read all the concert reports for Andre and the JSO. Take care and thank you all you are doing on behalf of your sister.
Thanks for de-cloaking & saying something Liesbeth
shhhhhh, Els may have a surprise or 2 waiting for when she gets on stage here in Phoenix on 23 June 2009
Sally, the webmommie of this website, will be at the concert, we'll all be sitting on the front row of the center section
I've sent out an email to all my friends, hopefully that will translate into another 50-75 more votes for Els
I've actually spoken to Els, way back in Dec 2005, however, I'm hoping she won't remember <g> Actually I mis-identified her with another member of the orchestra....nahhhh, surely she wouldn't remember something that happened so long ago, would she? <g>
Sadly, <Bill hangs his head in sorrow> we don't know Els birthday <Month & Day>. We like to wish JSO members a happy Birthday on their BDay; can you help us out, Liesbeth?
Bill in Arizona
Bill@andrerieufans.com
Hey Bill...As of Tueday morning, the vote count for Els is 796. Please tell anyone receiving the error message "De code is niet correct" to use RANDOM numbers in the THIRD box on the ballot (that's the code). Also, please advise everyone that EVERY email address in your home gets to VOTE. So please VOTE everyone. I do not see many Aussie addresses in the votes recorded; please remind our friends Down Under that may also vote to put Els over the top!! Cheers !
I sent out emails that include a link to this topic, which include the instruction to add random numbers in the 3 space.
the vote total is 813 last time I looked.
check your email, and phone message.. I think I've got the way to make Els the WINNER !!!!!!!!
I did it!! Hooray!
Thanks E Martin for telling us about the "random numbers" on the third line! This was my fifth try at voting and it counted!!! I'm happy.
The votes were numbered at 813 just now when I was there.
Els, I certainly hope you win, you sure deserve it. We are all anxiously awaiting to see pictures of your new garden!
Thank you Liesbeth for visiting here and thanks for your nice words.
I'd say you and Els are both very special sisters.
Hi Marlene...please see the note that I pitched to Bill for Voting Updates...There is a website included and it translates nicely if you use babel-fish. Enjoy !
Thank you everybody,to keep you up to date: my votes are now 850....9 days till the end of the competition!!!!Thanks for all the help!!!
If we could we would do it ourselves! We are so hoping for you to win.
I just checked & you are up to 863 votes <g>
Els, we like to wish Johann Strauss Orchestra members a Happy Birthday, on their birthday. Sadly we don't know the month & day you were born. Can you please give us the day & month you were born?
VOTE FOR ELS MERCKEN: Update at 10pm,Wednesday (0600z GMT Thursday morning). Els has 863 votes (stemmen) and in the lead is Micheline Raymaekers with 1463 votes. See the participants and vote totals at eelnemer.stemmen/direction:desc" target=_blank> http://www.wineentuin.be/deelnemer/index/page:1/sort
PLEASE CALL YOUR FRIENDS NOW.
Hello everybody,
The last week of voting has begun....and some adaptations have been made in the top 10....people who cheated are being lowered in votes....so this makes my chances a lot bigger....please keep on voting and spreading!!!!
And thank you for all the efforts!!!
Els
953 total votes, & increasing!
Bill, we sent out our email blast.. The Rieu Report, and now her numbers are on the raise again... 1004 stemmen!!
Please everyone.. VOTE .. and ask everyone you know to VOTE.. send them the English directions or a link to this page if they need it.
Hello everybody,
Only 4 days left....so a major change in tactics is necessary (since the cheaters are not being punished)
I will win half a garden (wich is a lot also!!) if you vote for http://www.wineentuin.be/tuin/39It's the same pocedure, the names are Eva Sanhovel and Jurgen Meyers!They are lovely and honest people, so we worked out a simple but very smart plan!!!!
So please vote for them....I know it's a double effort but you will make 3 people happy instead of only one!!!!!
Thank you!!!!
PS: Careful with the numbers http://www.wineentuin.be/tuin/39 not 71 anymore because there are a lot of links in the messages above
I wish you the best Els! I hope everything works out for you with a new garden. I voted for Eva and Jurgen!!!
Take care always.
Thank you Ed for the very quick response....
No problem.....See you in Des Moines. Take Care.
1025 total votes as of 12 May 2009, 1450 MST
Bill....Please see the note from Els Mercken.... REPRINTED BELOW...........Els wrote:
Hello everybody,
Only 4 days left....so a major change in tactics is necessary (since the cheaters are not being punished)
I will win half a garden (wich is a lot also!!) if you vote for http://www.wineentuin.be/tuin/39 It's the same pocedure, the names are Eva Sanhovel and Jurgen Meyers!They are lovely and honest people, so we worked out a simple but very smart plan!!!!
So please vote for them....I know it's a double effort but you will make 3 people happy instead of only one!!!!!
Thank you!!!!
PS: Careful with the numbers http://www.wineentuin.be/tuin/39 not 71 anymore because there are a lot of links in the messages above..
Hi Everyone.. with this I am going to close the comments on this Entry.
We've all got the links.. now it is up to us to vote for Els.