Designed for sport activities like climbing and rappelling this 25-meter-tall tower consists of six cubes of local wood piled atop one another irregularly around a structural core of steel columns there arent any match using your search terms Ateliereen Architecten just completed a 25 meters high viewing tower in Ruesel The project is composed by six wooden boxes made out of half logs (from the park) supported by a steel skeleton Project description by Ateliereen Architecten: In the Netherlands over 50 spots are marked on the map as starting points for recreational use of the rural landscape People are encouraged to park their cars at these locations instead of at other the nomination motivated a local sports merchant to found an outdoor sports park with sport facilities like climbing and abseiling is the main attraction Straight flight staircases raise in between and cross the cubes several times in different positions The third one is the start platform for a rope slide and a high rope track In the top box people can enjoy a panorama view of the surrounding landscape and there is a starting platform for abseiling The athletes on the 13 meters high climbing wall are observed by visitors of the adjacent bistro Huge stacks of logs can be found in the surrounding production forest The cladding of the tower consists of the same halved The climbing of the stairs is a surprising experience because of the different intersections of stairs and cubes and the varying directions of the cladding The use of wood makes the object fit in it’s setting The orthogonal (unnatural!) shapes on the other hand create an exciting composition Activate the Wp-related-posts plugin to see the related post list! XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong> Volume 9 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01663 Genes encoding thermostable variants of the photosynthesis heat-labile protein Rubisco activase (Rca) from a wild relative Oryza australiensis were overexpressed in domesticated rice (Oryza sativa) Proteomics was used to quantify the abundance of O australiensis Rca (Rca-Oa) in the resulting plants Plants were grown to maturity in growth rooms and from early tillering until immediately prior to anthesis they were exposed to daytime maximum temperatures of 28 and 45∘C and constant night temperatures of 22∘C Non-destructive measurements of leaf elongation and photosynthesis were used to compare the null segregant with a transfected line in which 19% of its total Rca content was the recombinant O and seed number were measured at final harvest Traits at maturity after heat stress at 45∘C correlated strongly with recombinant protein abundance Seed number was far the most responsive trait to an increase in Rca-Oa abundance Leaf elongation rates (LER) and tiller number were significantly greater in the transformed plants in the first two weeks of exposure to 45∘C but tiller numbers later became equal in the two genotypes Gas exchange measurements showed that T-Oa-19 had faster light induction of photosynthesis but not significantly higher CO2 assimilation rates indicating that the carbon gain that resulted in large yield improvement after growth at 45∘C was not strongly correlated with an instantaneous measurement of steady-state photosynthesis When plants were grown at 40∘C daytime maximum there was no improvement in the final biomass panicle or seed number when compared with 28∘C indicating that the threshold for heat damage and beneficial effects of the thermostable Rca recombinant protein was between 40 and 45∘C which corresponded to leaf temperatures in the range 38–42∘C The results suggest that the thermotolerant form of Rca from O australiensis was sufficient to enhance carbohydrate accumulation and storage by rice over the life of the plant dramatically improving yields after exposure to heat throughout the vegetative phase to our knowledge this is the first report of a transgenic crop incorporating a single RCA gene to test growth and developmental heat tolerance Our hypothesis was that small instantaneous improvements in photosynthetic carbon gain in the transgenic plants exposed to heat will cumulatively result in major impacts on yield we propose that plants that fix CO2 more efficiently during successive weeks of vegetative growth during high temperature can subsequently re-mobilise these carbohydrates into grain The impact of a variant form of RCA throughout the lifecycle is not predictable a priori and thus long-term observations of these aspects of plant performance in transgenic plants are essential the efficiency with which the RCA transgene was expressed was estimated using multiple reaction monitoring high-resolution proteomics (MRM-HR) thus enabling correlations between the phenotypic responses and the level of O australiensis recombinant Rca abundance and total Rca protein abundance By observing plants growing at optimal and supra-optimal temperatures through various stages of phenology these experiments provide the most credible evidence for the role of Rca in heat tolerance and the potential for improvements through the use of variants of the RCA gene from wild species Plants were grown at day temperatures of 28 and 45°C but constant night temperatures of 22°C with the higher day temperatures imposed after a four-hour ramping period Early non-destructive observations of LER and tillering determined the effects of the transgene during exponential growth Gas exchange was used to demonstrate the effect of the transgene on photosynthesis Plants were then returned to optimal temperatures before flowering in order to prevent heat damage during meiosis Carbon mobilisation and grain filling therefore occurred under optimal temperatures after which numbers of panicles and tillers as well as seeds set and harvested are reported Plants were initially grown at 28/22°C in the light/dark with a 12-h photoperiod [ca 300 μmol m-2 s-1 photosynthetic active radiation (PAR)] plants were either kept at 28°C during daytime or temperatures were ramped up over a 4-h period in the mornings to 40 or 45°C held at this temperature for 6-h and then returned to the dark at 22°C after a 4-h ramping down Relative humidity was kept between 60 and 70% throughout the experiments The cycle was continued until the onset of anthesis corresponding to a heating treatment of 99 days with the genotypes randomly assigned to positions within 10 specially separated blocks across the growth rooms to account for any confounding effects associated with growing position Wild type plants were also grown across the borders of the growing bench to remove any influence of edge effects A segregating line (which also underwent the transformation process) was used as the control null segregant No difference in phenotype and phenology was observed among different null segregants when grown under standard conditions (data not shown) Protein from leaf tissue was extracted from at least three biological replicates of each transformation line Mature leaf blades were harvested and stored at -80°C then ground to a fine powder in a mortar and pestle in the presence of liquid nitrogen Fifty mg of powdered leaf growing zone was immediately suspended in 1.5 mL of 10% trichloroacetic acid in acetone and 0.07% β-mercaptoethanol then incubated at -20°C for 1 h After centrifugation for 30 min at 16000 ×g the resulting pellet was washed with 1.5 mL of 100% acetone followed by centrifugation for 15 min at 16000 ×g The acetone washing step was repeated three times for the complete removal of pigments The colourless resulting pellet was lyophilised in a vacuum centrifuge and resuspended with 400 μL of 2% SDS in 50 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.8) Each sample was reduced with dithiothreitol (10 mM DTT) alkylated with iodoacetamide (20 mM IAA) and then digested with 0.4 μg trypsin (1:25) for 16 h at 37°C The digested sample was dried and resuspended in 50 μL of loading buffer (2% acetonitrile 0.1% formic acid) An initial independent data acquisition (IDA) dataset was acquired at the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility (APAF) allowing the identification of target peptides for later scheduled high resolution multiple reaction monitoring (sMRM-HR) analysis Various target peptides based on translated sequences were used to identify the species-specific Rca isoforms within each transgenic and null genotype extract The most reliable peptides to discriminate the α and β Rca isoforms were SFQCELVFAK for O 10 μL (2 μg) of each digested sample was transferred to HPLC vials for MRM-HR analysis The product ion variation window was +/-0.05 Da for peak integration All samples were freshly prepared for each run the sample was injected onto a peptide trap (Bruker peptide Captrap) for pre-concentration and desalted with 0.1% formic acid The peptide trap was then switched into line with the analytical column (Halo C18 Peptides were eluted from the column using a linear solvent gradient from mobile phase A: mobile phase B (98:2) to mobile phase A: mobile phase B (65:35) where mobile phase A is 0.1% formic acid and mobile phase B is 99.9% ACN/0.1% formic acid at 600 nL min-1 over a 95 min period the column was cleaned with 95% buffer B for 10 min and then equilibrated with 98% buffer A for 15 min before the next sample injection The reverse phase nanoLC eluent was subjected to positive ion nanoflow electrospray analysis The product ion scans were 100 ms in the mass range m/z 100–1500 with the total cycle time of 1.4 s Data were processed by MultiQuant (AB Sciex Four 13C- and 15N-labelled SIL (stable isotope labelled) peptides were used in a subsequent experiment to quantify the RCA isoforms in transgenic plants. The peptide sequences used are shown in Supplementary Table S2 with asterisks denoting the position of the labelled amino acids as follows: K∗ = Lys U-13C6; U-15N2 and F∗ = Phe U-13C9; U-15N Each vial of SIL peptides (1 nmol/vial) was suspended in 500 μL of MQ water The resuspended four SIL peptides were then mixed resulting a mixed SIL peptide stock solution with a concentration of 0.5 pmol μL-1 for each SIL peptide 10 μL of this mixed SIL peptide solution was added into each 10 μg rice protein sample The concentration factor for SIL peptides was 500 pmol mg-1 Further mass spectrometry was performed on the TripleTOF 6600 (Sciex) and data analysis as described above Five individual plants from separate blocks were measured at varying times of the diurnal cycle Seven biological replicates were measured for each genotype Values are the mean and standard error of mean (SEM) of 14 biological replicates TABLE 1. Linear regression analysis of the relationship between transgene protein abundance and growth and developmental variables as presented in Figure 1 for the null Rca-Oa-9 Pearson correlation coefficient matrix of growth and developmental variables for the null and Rca-Oa-19 genotypes when grown at the 45°C heating cycle and independent of genotype (n = 56) The T-Oa-19 transgenic line had significantly more tillers than the null segregant after 2 weeks of heat (t = 2.5 p = 0.026) but tiller numbers were equal for the two genotypes four weeks later and at final harvest (p = 0.14 and 0.32 The greater panicle number for T-Oa-19 but no difference in tiller number between T-Oa-19 and the null line at harvest implies that the productive tiller ratio (i.e. the panicle number per tiller number) was enhanced for the T-Oa-19 transgenic line The period over which LER was measured appears on the x-axis of panel (B) Values are the mean and SEM of 5–10 biological replicates Analysis by ANOVA shows LER declined significantly over the diurnal cycle (F = 132 and there was a significant difference in LER between the null and T-Oa-19 lines (F = 4.4 p = 0.0045) over the entire diurnal period The number of tillers for the null and T-Oa-19 transgenic line grown under 45°C daytime maximum temperatures and counted at 2 and 6 weeks after heat imposition The asterisk indicates significance at a p-value of 0.05 Values are the mean and SEM of 14 biological replicates Light-induced and steady-state net photosynthesis (An) for the null and T-Oa-19 transgenic line grown under 45°C daytime maximum temperatures (A) After 30-min of low light (∼30 μmol m-2 s-1) high light (1500 μmol m-2 s-1) was applied and An recorded every 10 s (B) The log transformed mean and SEM of final An minus An at each time point (Af–A) was plotted against time and a linear regression fit in the range 1–10 min The regression slope represents the Rubisco activation rate constant (Ka) with the mean value given and 95% confidence interval presented in brackets (C) A boxplot of the final steady-state An after 40 min of high light All analyses are based on seven biological replicates leaf temperatures were shown to be 2–3°C below the daytime temperatures of 28 the threshold leaf temperature at which an advantage in growth development and reproductive success was seen as a result of the Rca-Oa transgene was in the range of 38–42°C A boxplot comparison of above ground fresh mass (FM) panicle number and seed number for the null control and T-Oa-19 transgenic line grown at daily maxima of 28°C (A,D,G) Asterisks represent significance between the genotypes at a p-value less than ∗0.05 Boxplots represent 16–30 biological replicates sativa and plant phenotype was tested over the life of the plant with a particular view to assessing yield We demonstrate a dramatic improvement in growth and yield of heat stressed rice associated with subtle improvements in photosynthetic potential not the productivity of individual tillers as we observed here suggesting that temperature treatments influence carbon partitioning differently from CO2 enhancement When comparing the most strongly overexpressing line, Rca-Oa-19, with the null segregant during early phases of development soon after 45°C days were imposed, the transgene significantly enhanced leaf elongation and increased tiller number, indicating partitioning of additional photoassimilates to growth (Figures 2, 3) These stimulatory effects were in the order of 10% but were apparent in the first two weeks of heat treatment and therefore subject to amplification in the weeks of exponential growth that would follow While LER is a non-destructive surrogate for growth (cf these instantaneous measurements show both the slump in growth as the duration of heat continues through the day and the consistent and significant gains that are seen in leaves of the most strongly expressing Rca-Oa-19 line The benefit to leaf growth was maintained at each sampling time but the impact of Rca-Oa on root growth and development remains to be investigated also showed that light induction was responsive to the transgene while steady-state photosynthesis responded only weakly These results would suggest that the benefit of thermostable Rca manifests itself through enhanced photosynthetic performance when photosynthesis is in flux Considering these experiments were undertaken in controlled growth rooms one might expect the more dynamic environment of the field to elicit an even stronger response of the Rca-Oa recombinant protein The mobilisation of these stored carbohydrates (principally starch in rice) prior to and after flowering would then account for the very substantial gain in yield that the O australiensis Rca confers on rice plants grown through most of their vegetative development in 45°C days AS and BA wrote the initial draft of the manuscript with subsequent input from AG and JVR AS was supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (No AS and BA are inventors named on a patent application pertaining to this work The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest We thank Stefanie Van Laere for help with plant growth Izabela Matyszczak for help with gas exchange measurements Aaron Phillips for help with statistical analysis and Nancy Van De Steene for vector construction and Eveline Bossier for plant transformation and Bart den Boer for manuscript suggestions Proteomic services were undertaken by Xiaomin Song and Mark Molloy at APAF with the infrastructure provided by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2018.01663/full#supplementary-material FIGURE S1 | Gene expression analysis of independent transgenic lines for the three genotypes T-Oa-9 Expression is given as the fold-change in target gene relative to a protein kinase reference gene (TIGR Identifier:LOC_Os06g48970.1) FIGURE S2 | The gene expression and protein abundance of the three O Gene expression is presented as the fold-change in the gene of interest relative to a protein kinase reference gene Protein abundance is presented as recombinant O australiensis Rca as a percentage of the total Rca content (endogenous + recombinant) TABLE S1 | Nutrient solution contents used for growing rice and at final pH 5.4 TABLE S2 | SIL peptides for identification of the proportions of Rca from O australiensis in protein extracts from transgenic plants These peptides were used in combination with protein extracts in order to identify precise retention times of native peptides in mass spectra and thereby quantify the specific Rca isoforms from each species Charge and the Q1 ions used to identify individual peptides are shown in the table TABLE S3 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WILLEMSTAD - On Wednesday, December 28, the Governor of Curaçao, Her Excellency Lucille George-Wout, on behalf of His Majesty King Willem-Alexander, had the honor to present Mr. M. Daou and Mr. R.J. van Reusel as Member of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Due to private circumstances, both gentlemen were allowed to receive the decorations in a small group during the Special Occasion.   Mr. M. Daou received his award because of his contribution to the International Shooting Sport Federation and his achievements in shooting sports in general.   Mr. R.J. van Reusel received his award partly because of his enormous commitment to veterans, war victims and the military heritage on various fronts.   Photo: The Governor of Curaçao, Her Excellency Lucille George-Wout with Mr. Daou (left) and Mr. van Reusel (right).  Homeowners will pay an average of 4.8 percent, or 45 euros, more in municipal taxes and levies in 2025. This is evident from a sample survey by the homeowners association Vereniging Eigen Huis (VEH) into housing costs in 113 municipalities that have already published the figures. Although the average increase of 4.8 percent seems limited, there will be significant outliers again next year, said VEH. In municipalities like Reusel-De Mierden, Barendrecht, Overbetuwe, Hillegom, Rijssen-Holten, and Druten, the costs will increase by 10 to 17 percent. Homeowners will pay between 70 and 180 euros more, according to the research that De Telegraaf first reported about on Friday. The differences between municipalities are large. The highest increase in the sample is, just like this year, in Renkum in Gelderland, where the property tax (ozb), the most decisive component of municipal housing costs, will increase by 39 percent next year. In the past two years, the property tax for a homeowner here increased by an average of 277 euros. Municipalities like Albrandswaard, Schiermonnikoog, and Ridderkerk are also charging their residents at least 15 percent more. In 12 municipalities in the sample, the property tax will decrease next year. The largest decrease is in Dongen by 4.8 percent. That saves homeowners there approximately 20 euros per year. VEH warned that local housing costs could increase considerably again next year. Deficits in the municipal budgets will have to be covered by a higher tax on homeowners. “Despite the predicted financial deficits in 2026, municipalities are not yet anticipating this with a property tax increase,” said the organization. © 2012-2025, NL Times, All rights reserved. A 92-year-old Newtown man whose cousin was killed in the bloody fighting to liberate a Dutch village is seeking memorabilia and items which can be used in a forthcoming exhibition in Holland to mark the 75th anniversary of the action. Over the years Penry Thomas has made pilgrimages to the scene at Reusel, west of Eindhoven, where his 21-year-old cousin Corporal Jim Hunt lost his life on September 25, 1944. Penry's visits have seen him build up contacts over there, including with those behind a local museum who are planning to stage a commemorative event in Reusel in September to mark the anniversary of the liberation which involved soldiers of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. "My friends are asking if I can obtain any appropriate items such as uniforms, caps, badges, diaries, letters or books connected with the liberation or with the RWF's campaign in Europe which would enhance the proposed exhibition," he said. Anyone who can help Penry can contact him at 01686 627315. Over 80 soldiers from Jim Hunt's battalion died at Reusel, and among those killed on the same day was Major Lord Michael Davies, of Llandinam. Penry said: "Originally Jim was from one of the London areas, but when his father retired from the police in 1942 they moved to Newtown, living in Severn Square. "He used to help my brother and me with homework. He was a big hero to us really. Then when he was 18 he was called up. "He was the Bren gunner for his platoon. What we were told was that they were lying in a field of potatoes just outside Reusel and were pinned down, in among the rows. Some of the soldiers up front called 'Can Corporal Hunt bring his Bren gun?' There was a message back: 'Corporal Hunt is dead.' "I was away at teacher training college in Bangor and my mother wrote to me to tell me." On a trip to Holland Penry visited Jim's grave in a war cemetery at Valkenswaard, which is some distance away. "It was very emotional and made me very sad, but I was also happy to have been able to acknowledge what these fellows had done." And on another trip he tracked down the field – which had been built on by houses – where Jim had been initially temporarily buried before later being reburied at the war cemetery. He saw the family who owned the field, and had helped British soldiers who were recovering the bodies. "Jim's helmet was buried with him and they had kept that. The husband showed me the actual spot where Jim was first buried." Penry has not thought about going to the 75th anniversary commemorations, but added: "If I was invited to go, I would go. I don't like to poke my nose in." Reusel was the scene of several days' fighting involving Welsh soldiers at the end of September 1944, but the German defenders held out, and the village was only taken when they retreated early in October. The municipalities of the Kempen region are currently making use of CBS’ dataset expertise, manpower and organisational services in the following pilot programmes: All CBS data on housing in the five municipalities of the Kempen region are aggregated and merged with municipal data on residential profiles and care institutions. Partly on the basis of this study, a new safety and security vision is being formulated. The state has set a target of reducing the amount of non-recyclable waste to 100 kilos per person per year by 2020 The target is proving particularly hard to reach in cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants where the volume of waste not being recycled is as high as 245 kilos per person The paper bases its claim on figures from national statistics agency CBS and the infrastructure ministry Separating waste into fruit and vegetable matter paper and glass is still seen as the most efficient way of reducing non-recyclable waste But two towns were the target is being reached – Reusel-de Mierden and Horst aan de Maas – charge locals for each bag of non-recyclable waste they hand in In Reusel-de Mierden in Noord-Brabant province locals each produce just seven kilos of non-recyclable waste a year Groningen University professor Maarten Allers told the paper that local authorities worry that people will start dumping their rubbish if they are charged for every kilo of left-over waste ‘But only a couple of councils which introduced pay per rubbish bag schemes have stopped so their fears may be groundless,’ he said We could not provide the Dutch News service without the generous support of our readers Your donations allow us to report on issues you tell us matter and provide you with a summary of the most important Dutch news each day Many thanks to everyone who has donated to DutchNews.nl in recent days We could not provide this service without you Please help us making DutchNews.nl a better read by taking part in a short survey The average WOZ value in the municipality of Eindhoven in 2021 was € 273,713 It is expected that this year the WOZ value will be on average € 298,488 within the municipality of Eindhoven Six different taxes are calculated on the basis of the WOZ value The most well-known is the property tax (OZB) the property tax rate in 2022 will be 0.1071% for homeowners homeowners pay the water board levy and income tax (box 1) each year based on the WOZ value the WOZ value of the houses in Reusel-De Mierden rose the most The most expensive houses are currently in the municipality of Vught The average WOZ value of a home there is 423,000 euros The WOZ value follows the price developments of owner-occupied homes The WOZ values ​​in 2022 have therefore been calculated according to the values ​​of the houses on 1 January 2021 So also the rental properties and unsold homes The amount of houses also changes due to new construction and demolition and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value"