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Faculty Study Seminars provide a means for faculty with common interests to learn more about a teaching-related topic. Each group meets four times a semester, at times mutually agreed to by participants, to read and discuss a teaching-related book (books provided by OID). Your only obligation is to read and to show up for discussion.
To sign up for a group, e-mail the facilitator noted below with your contact information (e-mail and phone) and a copy of your semester schedule (noting the times you cannot meet). You will be contacted once an initial meeting date is set. For more information about Faculty Study Seminars, contact Anne Kelsch , 777-4233.
Spring 2014
Writing in the Senior Capstone: Theory and Practice (National Resource Center, 2013) by Lea Masiello and Tracy Skipper.
Capstones or senior-level "culminating experiences" are usually designed to help students integrate and synthesize learning they've gained across a major or the entire curriculum. Many of those capstones feature writing assignments as a convenient means of asking students to both practice and demonstrate high-level intellectual skills they'll need upon graduation: the ability to reflect, conceptualize, plan, research, problem-solve, integrate, and evaluate. In a new book, Writing in the Senior Capstone: Theory and Practice, Lea Masiello and Tracy Skipper examine writing assignments used in capstone from two key perspectives.
First, the book draws on the literature to examine what's known about the ways that writing can help students achieve a number of desired outcomes including improved "critical thinking, mastery of disciplinary content, and oral and written communication." They also describe evidence that writing assignments can promote development of other traits and skills likely to be valuable once students leave college, including collaboration, independence, and innovation.
Second, the book provides ideas for "maximizing the usefulness of writing in the capstone." It's easy to add a writing assignment to a course, but it can be considerably more difficult to identify strategies for ensuring that the assignment fulfills its intended purpose. Bringing extensive experience with both capstone courses and writing across the curriculum, Masiello and Skipper draw on their years of experience combined with a rich and deep knowledge of the literature to offer "detailed strategies" and "practical suggestions" for using writing more effectively within the capstone. In the second half of the book, they provide ideas for enhancing the usefulness of various kinds of assignments ranging from the informal and unrevised through portfolios and research projects.
In this Faculty Study Seminar, facilitated by Joan Hawthorne, participants will read and discuss the Masiello and Skipper book, while also bringing in their own experiences and ideas. Since the book is short and unintimidating (Masiello and Skipper are very readable writers), group members will also have an opportunity to extend the discussion beyond the text itself in response to topics and issues of shared interest.
If you are interested in participating, contact Joan Hawthorne at firstname.lastname@example.com or 7-4684.
Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice, 2nd ed. (Jossey-Bass, 2013) by Maryellen Weimer .
As faculty we strive each semester to improve our teaching. Maryellen Weimar, a noted researcher on effectiveness in the college classroom, would argue that teaching should not be our primary focus -- student learning should be. And while the two seems obviously linked, for the most part we function on the assumption that if there is teaching, there is learning. Weimar asks that we test that premise and design our courses in a way that ensure the kind of learning we want for our students really is occurring. Ultimately she reminds us that our courses should be designed to facilitate more and better learning for our students, and that research has established methods that work in accomplishing that goal.
This is a thoroughly updated edition of a classic, well respected text. Weimar offers a comprehensive introduction to learner- centered teaching, including a review of current practice in a variety of disciplines. There is also a good overview of research in support of learner-centered practice and in-depth discussion of the impact of student developmental issue on the effectiveness of this approach. The book is practical as well with concrete examples, handouts, and sample assignments dealing with very real concerns such as overcoming student resistance, developing self-motivated learners, and effective evaluation and assessment of learning.
In the words of one reviewer, "If you're discouraged by the task of teaching poorly prepared passive learners who seem to resist deep learning and prefer surface approaches, you will gain much from this book. "
If you are interesting in joining this Faculty Study Seminar, contact Anne Kelsch at firstname.lastname@example.com or 777-4233.
Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty (Harvard University Press, 2013) by James M. Lang
When we discover students cheating in our classrooms the initial impulse is often to either internalize the blame ("If I had only done something differently") or attribute the blame to the student's moral or motivation deficiencies. In the new book, Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty , author James Lang proposes that cheating is the result of both teaching methods and student choices and he provides clear and specific suggestions for how instructors can essentially eliminate cheating before it starts.
Lang's book is divided into three sections. The first section provides a history of student cheating in higher education and proposes that cheating is not a new phenomenon, instead its history is at least as long as the history of the American university system, itself. Lang briefly describes who is cheating but he quickly shifts his focus to try to answer the question of why students cheat in the first place. Lang's case studies provide concrete examples of the type of classroom environments and teaching methods that, according to Lang, unintentionally foster an environment that encourages student cheating.
T he remaining sections provide practical applications of his findings that allow instructors to learn how to become better teachers. Lang shows teachers that by identifying the types of cheating they encounter in their classes and reevaluating their teaching methods, teachers can ultimately develop a culture of academic honesty extends beyond individual classrooms to the larger university.
In this Faculty Study Seminar, facilitated by Kimberly Stewart, participants will read and discuss Lang's book, while also sharing their own experiences and interpretations of the text and its suggestions. The book is very clearly and accessibly written while examining controversial issues. As a result, group members will have an opportunity to discuss the applicability of his findings in the context or their own classroom and teaching experiences.
If you are interested in participating, contact Kimberly Stewart at email@example.com or 7-6381.


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As he remembered it, Frank Broyles' first day of work as a Georgia Tech assistant football coach in 1951 was also the same day that Larry Morris first practiced with the Yellow Jackets. They were two Decatur Boys High grads trying to impress coach Bobby Dodd.
Said Broyles, later head coach and athletic director at Arkansas and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, "He immediately showed that he could play college ball just as he could high school."
Over the next four seasons, Morris only surpassed that first impression. Morris died Wednesday at the age of 79, his place as an all-time great in Tech history firmly in place.
"As a player and as a human being, he was one of the best," said Pepper Rodgers, a teammate and later a Tech coach.
The Morris playing résumé paints a broad picture of his dominance. A four-year starter and a two-way player at center and linebacker, Morris was three times first-team All-SEC and a team captain as a senior. He was a bright star during the peak years for Dodd, when the Jackets had a 40-5-2 record over Morris' four seasons, won two SEC titles, four bowl games and a share of the 1952 national championship with a 12-0 record.
"He was quiet and always trying to please and do his part without being a standout or trying to show off," Broyles said. "He was very much a team player and he encouraged everybody by the way he practiced and played."
Playing alongside George Morris (no relation), he was a punishing linebacker, agile, smart and full of fury. As a Jacket, he may have been at his best in his final game against rival Georgia, on a rain-soaked field in Athens. He played the whole game and was credited with 24 tackles as Tech held off the Bulldogs 7-3 on Nov. 27, 1954.
"The entire Tech team had to play inspired football to win this one but victory would not have been possible without one Larry Morris, who played the defensive game of his career," wrote Harry Mehre, the former Georgia coach who later was a football analyst for the Atlanta Journal. "Morris was everywhere, including rushing the passer. He stopped plays over the middle, off the tackles and around ends."
He was later named to the All-SEC 25-year team spanning 1950-1974 and in 1992 was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, one of 12 Tech players to be enshrined. A Decatur native, he is one of the best players the state of Georgia has ever produced, a standout at the high school, college and pro levels. The seventh overall pick of the 1955 NFL draft, Morris played 12 seasons for the Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Bears and Falcons. He was the MVP of the 1963 NFL championship game for the Bears. He was known as "the Brahma Bull."
`"One tough guy," said Dick Inman, a teammate of Morris' and a member of his wedding. "He had no fear on the football field and basically he was kind of a gentle person."
Morris, married to wife Kay for 55 years, went on to success in insurance and real estate. In 1980, the NCAA gave Morris one of its highest honors with a Silver Anniversary Award, given to former athletes for their achievements in college and in the 25 years since the end of their college playing days.
"When they were on top, they were very giving people," Inman said.
However, perhaps due to the brute force Morris both delivered and received over dozens of games and hundreds of practices, dementia captured his later years. A 2007 AJC column by Furman Bisher said that Morris had showed advanced signs of the disease in the 90's, and that he was unable to carry on a lucid conversation. Care for Morris and poor business decisions blamed on the dementia wrecked the family's finances.
Said Inman, "He has had a long struggle."
December 21st, 2012
11:52 am
As a teenager, Larry Morris was was one of my idols, along with Hardeman, Tease, Mitchell, et al.
December 21st, 2012
11:54 am
God bless you Larry. Rest in peace.
December 21st, 2012
12:02 pm
Sad to hear he finally passed. It has been extremely tough on his family the last few years while he was in the home. He just didn't remember people or things from his life anymore. He was such a good man. He would help coach some of the teams his son Chan played on at NYO @ Chastain Park. He will always be fondly remembered.
December 21st, 2012
12:10 pm
Sorry for your loss.
December 21st, 2012
12:13 pm
he played center AND linebacker?
interesting combination. i don't think we'll see someone play those two positions again at a high level.
December 21st, 2012
12:21 pm
He was one of, if not the, best football Jacket ever. It is a mixed blessing, since his later years were so unkind to him and his family, but he left a wonderful legacy. Damn Good Jacket. Rest in Peace.
December 21st, 2012
12:24 pm
He went up to scrimmage with Franklin Brooks and Ray Allan
December 21st, 2012
12:35 pm
Hell of a Football player, may he rest in Peace!
December 21st, 2012
12:36 pm
That was one hell of a trio!
They don't make players like that anymore…
December 21st, 2012
12:37 pm
A GREAT player, as well as student and businessman.
This state is better off for him having passed our way.
Blessings to the family and friends.
Thank you, Mr. Morris. R.I.P.
December 21st, 2012
12:43 pm
One just hopes the next AD will have an appreciation of the greatness of players like Morris and the teams they played on, and will take inspiration from that to re-invigorate the football program. As the old guard of Dodd's era slowly fades, I wish we'd stop playing "small ball" on the field, in recruiting, and on the national scene. Condolescences to the Morris family, and best wishes to every Jacket for the Christmas and New Year holidays.
December 21st, 2012
12:44 pm
Had the opportunity to meet Mr. Morris shortly after his MVP performance in the NFL Championship game for the Bears. A very gracious man and one of the truly great Georgia Tech stars. My sincere condolences to his family and friends – a great loss for the City of Atlanta and State of Georgia.
December 21st, 2012
12:57 pm
I don't believe he was 89. Probably your math is wrong. I think he was about my age since he was freshman in 1951 when I was sophomore. 79 perhaps?
December 21st, 2012
1:13 pm
Yes Larry was born in 1933 so he was 79.
December 21st, 2012
1:32 pm
Those were great GT teams, and Morris was a great player. I recall him playing a year or two with the Falcons. I didn't think Larry was still playing into his 50's.
December 21st, 2012
1:52 pm
GT Great! May you rest in peace!
December 21st, 2012
1:53 pm
I got to know his son when he was playing for Auburn. Great player for AU and a great guy as well. Condolences to the Morris family. God speed, Larry.
December 21st, 2012
1:59 pm
WWW, yes he played center and linebacker at Tech and he was great at both. When I was growing up, he was my favorite Tech player Almost everybody played both ways back then due to rules restricting substitutions. A piece of trivia; Chuck Bednarik played both center and linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles just a few years later. I believe that he was the last NFL player to play on both sides of the ball full time. One has to wonder, in light of what recently has come to light, whether Morris's long football career might have contributed to his later dementia.
December 21st, 2012
2:28 pm
Rest assured,what made him great also took him.
December 21st, 2012
2:31 pm
But I think that back when palyers played both ways the center linebacker combination was quite common. And please don't forget Lum Snyder, Ray Beck, Lamar Wheat, and Hal Miller. These guys were great.
December 21st, 2012
2:35 pm
Was Larry related to George Morris?
December 21st, 2012
2:39 pm
From the article it is easy to see that Larry Morris was heckuva Jacket and pro baller plus a great human being as well. May he rest in peace.
December 21st, 2012
2:41 pm
i have a book my dad bought me back in 1973 about those years. good times….i wish today's kids would allow themselves to understand the history of tech.
December 21st, 2012
2:55 pm
Not only a Great football player but a great man…Rest in Peace…
December 21st, 2012
3:14 pm
A great player from an era when Tech football was supreme. Hopefully, we can get back to that level some day. Rest in peace, Mr. Morris.
December 21st, 2012
3:16 pm
Did George "Buster" Humphrey play for GT with Mr Norris?
December 21st, 2012
3:36 pm
When I was a kid and didn't know any better, I was a big fan of those great Tech teams of the 50's. In my opinion, Larry Morris was the best Tech player (and one of the best in the nation) of that or any other era. Great with the Bears also.
December 21st, 2012
4:13 pm
The Jacket nation has lost one hell of a football player, business man, and human being. May he rest in peace.
December 21st, 2012
4:16 pm
First college game I ever saw was that 7-3 win over UGA.
Back then even the quarterbacks played defense.
December 21st, 2012
4:32 pm
I played for Franklin Brooks at Decatur 67 and 68. Mr. Morris got me a scholarship offer to South Carolina in 69. The two toughest men I have ever known, uncompromising and fair. May both legends rest in peace.
December 21st, 2012
5:01 pm
Hell of an engineer!!!
December 21st, 2012
5:24 pm
My Dad was at Tech in the early 50's and talks all the time about Larry Morris and those great Tech teams. A great man and a helluva engineer!
December 21st, 2012
5:48 pm
Rest easy my friend.
December 21st, 2012
5:48 pm
good god, 24 tackles in one game!?
December 21st, 2012
6:44 pm
I met Mr. Morris, Billy Lothridge and Billy Martin as an 8 year old playing for the Blackwell Bears in Cobb County all those many years ago. As an awe struck kid my life long love for GA Tech Football was formed. I can now look back 45 plus years later and still those men as the heroes they were to me. May God keep Larry's family and may he rest in peace.
December 21st, 2012
8:44 pm
As great a football player as he was (the best) he was an even greater family man and mentor. god bless mr.morris. you are a true legend we can be all proud of.
December 21st, 2012
9:52 pm
Sad to see where Tech is now in football……. they were once the best. Morris was the best of the Jackets.
December 21st, 2012
10:02 pm
Went to Murphy high school with his beautiful wife. The former Kay Wilder. I was a few years behind her but always had a big crush on Kay. She was a very sweet and friendly gal. God bless and rest in peace Larry.
December 21st, 2012
10:05 pm
The stuff legends are made of. He was a man when he graduated from Decatur. For Tech fans – a pleasure to watch on the field – an inspiration to fellow team mates – college and pro. Thankful I had the opportunity to watch him play. Know he's now cheering on the Jackets from his "sky box".
December 21st, 2012
10:07 pm
Flo – Ri – Duh
December 21st, 2012
9:52 pm
Sad to see where Tech is now in football
Not really. It is sad to see the pathetic state of the Government Educational System. The lack of parents that push their kids to be SMART and work hard in school. It is sad that kids think getting passed along and PRAYING they make it to the NFL is a realistic goal.
December 21st, 2012
10:11 pm
I used to sell chemicals to a former GT great Henry Hair. I got to meet both Larry and George in Henry's office. Great men and great Yellowjackets.
December 21st, 2012
10:14 pm
Larry Morris was an All-American player and is listed as one of college football's all-time greats. Coach Bobby Dodd had some great teams during the 1950s, with many great players, and Morris might have been the best.
Rest in peace.
December 21st, 2012
10:50 pm
One of my heroes from long ago and far away—-RIP
December 21st, 2012
11:05 pm
Larry Morris was a great person. I am very sorry that he had such a tough time in the last several years, Larry. You will always be remembered.
December 21st, 2012
11:41 pm
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December 22nd, 2012
2:26 am
I had the pleasure and Honor to meet him on the golf course at East Lake when I was 16 years old, I was so awed it took me a couple of holes before I remembered to give him my name.
December 22nd, 2012
6:27 am
This guy was one of the reasons I am a Tech fan. RIP Mr. Morris.
December 22nd, 2012
7:48 am
I had the honor of briefly getting to know the Morris family when I played youth football at Chastain with his son (also a terrific player). Larry Morris made a lasting impression simply by the way he carried himself and treated others around him with dignity and respect. Rest in peace Larry, may the good Lord comfort your family.
December 22nd, 2012
8:01 am
I was a student at Tech when Larry played. He was admired on campus for his personal being as well as his football skills. I later had the privilege of playing against him in a church softball league in Decatur during his off season. He was the same, genuine, unpretentious person then as he was on campus.
A fine man.

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Beginning Sunday night, July 28, the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) will begin final resurfacing on MD 410 (East West Highway) from Park Avenue to MD 650 (New Hampshire Avenue) in Takoma Park, Montgomery County. Weather permitting, the work should be complete by late August.
To complete the work, SHA may temporarily close one lane within the project limits weekdays, between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm and overnight, Sunday through Thursday, between 9:00 pm and 5:00 am. All work is weather permitting. Read SHA's press release here:
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"They're a little nervous," Castle said as her students took the stage in costumes portraying playful animal and storybook characters. "This is the biggest crowd they've performed before."
Prior to Thursday, the children had rehearsed their production for an audience of five, she said.
After years of teaching her third-graders how to perform on stage, Castle, now a kindergarten teacher, decided to take on the challenge of teaching kindergartners the same thing.
Castle said that people had told her it was impossible to teach such young children how to perform on stage, but on Thursday, her students proved those people wrong when they performed 10 songs that included "Here Comes Goldilocks" and "Someone's Been Eating My Soup."
Leila Montour said she enjoyed playing Goldilocks.
"My favorite part was sleeping on the beds," she said, referring to her character testing each of the beds used by the three bears. "It was fun."
Castle said the children had a month to prepare for their performance.
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Wed, Oct 1, 7pm
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Eric Bunge, AIA is a co-founder and Principal of Brooklyn based nARCHITECTS and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP. The practices ongoing work includes a winning design for the groundbreaking adAPT NYC competition to design Manhattans first micro unit apartment building (in construction); Pierscape at Chicagos Navy Pier, a competition-winning project led by James Corner Field Operations (in construction); and the Wyckoff House Museum in Brooklyn.
In addition to these projects, nARCHITECTS is designing buildings and public spaces in Calgary, Seattle, Columbia, Md., Buffalo, Cleveland, and New York City. Recent work also includes Manhattans Switch Building, the ABC Department Store Facades in Beirut, Lebanon, and the bamboo MoMA/P.S.1 Canopy and Forest Pavilion in Taiwan.
MoMA/P.S.1 Bamboo Canopy and Forest Pavilion, Taiwan/nARCHITECTS (Photo: Iwan Baan)
Bunges lecture will focus on the balancing act between control and indeterminacy that he and co-founder Mimi Hoang confront in the work on current projects, which the firm refers to as Buildings & Almost Buildings.
Fri, Oct 3, 7pm
The Steps
Stefano Passeri holds a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc, a Master of Philosophy from the University of London, and a Bachelor of Science from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He is the recipient of the AIA Henry Adams Medal and the 2013 SCI-Arc Gehry Prize for Best Thesis. Passeri has worked for Crab Studio and Pop Studio in London and New York and Xefirotarch in Los Angeles. His current research focuses on aspects of architectural representation, interiority, and monumentality. His work has been exhibited and published in Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Seoul and can be found at stefano-passeri.com.
Office Building, Stefano Passeri, SCI-Arc Gehry Prize 2013
Wed, Oct 8, 7pm
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Joshua Prince-Ramus is Principal of REX, an internationally acclaimed architecture and design firm based in New York City, whose name signifies a re-appraisal (RE) of architecture (X). Operating across many scales, REX consistently challenges and advances building typologies, and promotes the agency of architecture.
Seminal projects include the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas; the Vakko Fashion Center in Istanbul, Turkey; and the Seattle Central Library. The subject of numerous international exhibitions and publications, the work of REX has been recognized with many of the professions top accolades, including the American Institute of Architects National Honor Award in 2005 and 2011. Current projects include the Mercedes-Benz Future Center in Stuttgart; a 125-meter tall, dynamic, sunlight-responsive installation shading the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas; a $480 million, 80-story tower in Kuala Lumpur; and a 47,000 SF private residence on Long Island.
The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas/REX Architecture (Photo: Iwan Baan)
REX is fundamentally driven to advance architectural agency. "We believe it is time for Architecture to do things again, not simply represent things. Departing from the modus operandi of most contemporary practiceswhere a formal agenda supersedes a projects intractable realitiesREX emphasizes performance, a hybrid of program, organization, and form calibrated to each clients aspirations and each projects constraints. Unprejudiced by convention or a preconceived aesthetic strategy, we return to root problems and doggedly explore them with a critical naiveté. Sometimes we discover uncharted territory; sometimes we rediscover forgotten territory that has renewed usefulness; sometimes we reaffirm conventions with assured conviction. Through this process, we expose solutions that transcend those we could have initially or individually imagined, and aspire to produce designs so functionally specific that they offer profoundly unique aesthetic experiences."
Monday, Oct 13, 7pm
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
The planet is in big trouble. A degraded environment, incompetent nation states, soul-less multinationals, and exponential growth in population and expectations have led to an urban crisis. With over half of us already living in cities a number that increases by over a million people a week and with over half of those in slums, action is urgently needed. The repertoire of modern urban development megacities, sprawl, hyper-density, divisive zoning is clearly not up to the task. What can be done? The city itself distributor, juxtaposition engine, hive, compact is central to the answer, critical both as a logical increment of democratic governance and as a potentially radically sustainable environment. Can cities be organized and designed to take responsibility for the thriving of all citizens of earth? Are there urban forms and practices that can align our ecological footprints with our political space? How Green Is My City will speculate about this, using examples drawn from two decades of the speakers design research.
Michael Sorkin is Principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio, a design practice working at all scales with a special interest in the city and green architecture. The studio has undertaken major projects including the design of new cities, districts, and buildings in locations around the world. Sorkin is President and founder of Terreform, a non-profit institute dedicated to research into the forms and methods of just and sustainable urbanism.
Sorkin is President of the Forum/Institute for Urban Design, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at The City College of New York,and has been Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at Cooper Union, Yale, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Harvard, sci-ARC, Aarhus, and other schools. Author or editor of 17 books on architecture and urbanism, he is the architecture critic for The Nation. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 2013 Sorkin won the National Design Award as Design Mind.
Wed, Oct 29, 7pm
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
The recent work of Atelier Hitoshi Abe will be introduced through the notion of informality. Architecture has long been a formal disciple (stiff, organized and official) but may need to loosen up to take advantage of the opportunities of a quickly moving, globalized, networked and informal world. With an expanded bag of tools and techniques (tectonic, technological, social and political) available to the architect, forms of space and social interaction, that address both other human beings and new technologies, can be cultivated. Through the use of informal approaches to programming, spaces of a blurred, boundless, grey and increasingly heterogeneous character are one way to address the conditions of contemporary life and create critical roles for the architect as agent of social suggestion, instigator of novel collaborations and spatial synthesizer.
Hitoshi Abe has had a decade-long distinguished career as a leader in education. He earned his M.Arch from SCI-Arc in 1988 and his Ph.D. from Tohoky University in Sendai, Japan in 1993. Since 1992, when he won first prize in the Miyagi Stadium competition, he has maintained an active international design practice based in Sendai, Japan, and Los Angeles, as well as a schedule of lecturing and publishing which place him among the leaders in his field.
3M Headquarters, Minnesota/Atelier Hitoshi Abe
The work of Atelier Hitoshi Abe has received numerous awards in Japan and internationally. In 2007, he was appointed professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. In 2010, he was appointed Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Chair in the Study of Contemporary Japan as well as Director of the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.
Friday, Oct 31, 1pm
Room 160
If centuries ago [script] began gradually to lie down, passing from the upright inscription to the manuscript resting on sloping desks before finally taking itself to bed in the printed book, it now begins just as slowly to rise again from the ground. The newspaper is read more in the vertical than in the horizontal plane, while film and advertisement force the printed word entirely into the dictatorial perpendicular. - Walter Benjamin, One Way Street (1928)
Digital interfaces organize attention through processes of framing which produce physical and psychic effects that inform how individuals relate to their environment and to each other. Given the increased blurring of private and public space caused by changes in norms of behavior that todays screens enable, what is architectures role in mediating the relationship between digital interfaces and the human body?
This talk examines the ways in which digital interfaces trouble accepted notions of how individuals receive images and read text and the place of architecture in these exchanges through a close reading of Walter Benjamin's dictatorial perpendicular.
Jake Matatyaou is an educator, researcher, and designer based in Los Angeles, California. Motivated by exchanges across the disciplines of philosophy, politics, art, and architecture, his built and theoretical projects address questions of material and immaterial modes of cultural production and reception. Matatyaou received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from UCLA in 2001, a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University in 2008, and an M.Arch from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in 2012. He has worked in the offices of Leong Leong Architects, Bernard Tschumi Architects, and is the principal of the research and design practice June. Jake also shapes surfboards for his label June Surfboards (www.junesurfboards.com).
Wed, Nov 5, 7pm
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Pita & Bloom is an architectural design studio focused on producing new ways of engaging with the built environment by challenging formal and material conventions. Started in 2010 by Florencia Pita and Jackilin Hah Bloom as a research collaborative, Pita & Blooms current investigations include the methodologies of two-dimensional contouring, developing hyper-digitized building tiles, and studying applications of chromatic color in architecture.
The work of Pita & Bloom to date includes competition proposals for cultural buildings such as the Taichung City Cultural Center in Taiwan, an urban housing ideas project in Maribor, Slovenia and an urban park scheme in San Francisco, California. In January of 2014, Pita & Bloom were called "two female visionaries" in Architecture Magazine's Next Progressives. They were one of five finalists of the prestigious MoMA PS1 YAP competition in 2014 and will exhibit their proposal at MoMA in an upcoming show.
Balloon Frame, MoMA PS1 YAP Competition 2014/Pita+Bloom
Florencia Pita is the principal of FPMod and a partner of Pita & Bloom. She graduated from the National University of Rosario, Argentina, School of Architecture, with licensure. In 1999, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue studies at Columbia University, where she received her Masters Degree in 2001. Her work experience includes the offices of Greg Lynn FORM in Los Angeles, Eisenman Architects in New York City and Asymptote in New York City. Pita holds a full-time faculty position at SCI-Arc and is the editor of the schools biannual publication of student work, Onramp. She has been a visiting professor at the Pratt Institute in New York and Lund University in Sweden.
Jackilin Hah Bloom is the principal of JHB Studio and partner of Pita & Bloom. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the USC School of Architecture and a Masters of Architecture from the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. Bloom has worked for Daly Genik Architects (currently Kevin Daly Architects) in Los Angeles, and Greg Lynn FORM also in Los Angeles, where she completed ten years of experience in the offices pioneering digital design and fabrication work. She currently teaches design studios at SCI-Arc.
Fri, Nov 7, 1pm
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Approaching the architectural practice from the perspective of a student, the lecture hopes to disassemble the notion of star-chitect practices and develop an understanding of the often times chaotic and non-linear inspirations and incidents that lead a practice to a finished design. By recounting through personal experience, the lecture will look at specific projects done under the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, as well as ones own work to understand the growing pains of a young architect, and the optimistic will that inspires design.
Sandy Yum is the principal of XO,Axo with offices in New York and Los Angeles.
Currently teaching at SCI-Arc, her design and research interests range from large urban scale architectural interventions to small furniture designs, with an emphasis on reexamining typologies and their contemporary definitions. Yum received her Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She has worked under several distinguished International firms, most recently of which she was Project Lead at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, New York. She has worked on many award-winning projects with highly acclaimed international status.
Mon, Nov 10, 7pm
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Bernard Tschumi will retrace key moments in the architects practice, arguing two fundamental points. First, architecture must be made out of ideas and concepts before becoming form. Second, it cannot be dissociated from the events and movement of the bodies that inhabit it. In consequence, architecture demands new modes of notation to construct an architectural language capable of embodying the interactions between space, event, and movement.
Covering projects extending from the early Manhattan Transcripts, situated at the borders of art, literature, and cinema, to the recently completed Paris Zoo, Tschumi will inquire into what architecture can be today.
Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays. Major built works include the Parc de la Villette, the New Acropolis Museum, Le Fresnoy Center for the Contemporary Arts, MuséoParc Alésia and the Paris Zoo. His most recent book is Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color, a comprehensive collection of his conceptual and built projects. His drawings and models are in the collections of several major museums, including MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, including in the spring of 2014, a major retrospective.
Wed, Nov 19, 7pm
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Herwig Baumgartner and Scott Uriu, founders of Baumgartner+Uriu (B+U) in Los Angeles, form an internationally recognized design duo operating at the forefront of contemporary design. Their design process has been described as driven by digital techniques and advanced computation that utilizes new technologies and material resources. Their work consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design, experimenting with new spatial concepts, and intensifying existing urban landscapes in pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design.
B+U's recent installation at SCI-Arc Gallery, Apertures, has been received with critical acclaim. In addition, their work has been on view at the FRAC Center in Orleans; the Centre Pompidou in Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles; and the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale. Two monographs have been published on Baumgartner and Urius work. Their designs have also been widely published and discussed in books, magazines and newspapers.
The firm was recently awarded the Maxine Frankel Award for design research, the AIA national award for emerging professionals, the Architizer A+Award for sustainability, and a 2014 City of Los Angeles Artist Grant.
Wed, Dec 3, 7pm
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Sou Fujimoto founded Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. His most important works include the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013, House NA (2011), the Musashino Art University Museum & Library (2010), the Final Wooden House (2008) and House N (2008). In 2012, he participated in the Japan Pavilion exhibition at the International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, which received the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.
In 2013, he became the youngest architect to accept the invitation to design the annual summer pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London. Most recently, he won the 2014 International Competition for the Second Folly of Montpellier.
Serpentine Gallery, London, Sou Fujimoto Architects
Among other awards, Fujimoto also received the Grand Prize of the 2006 AR Awards for the Childrens Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Hokkaido, Japan, and the First Prize in the international competition for Taiwan Tower and the Beton Hala Waterfront Center in 2011.


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5 nasty tax surprises
The government doesn't care how much suffering was brought about by unemployment or alimony. You still owe taxes on that and other income you may not have considered.
This post is by Kay Bell at Bankrate.com.
You've always followed the sage advice of the late singer-songwriter Jim Croce: You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, and you don't try to pull a fast one on the Internal Revenue Service.
OK, maybe that last one wasn't one of Jim's lyrics, but the sentiment -- know the consequences before you act -- still applies.
Unfortunately, that's not always easy to do when it comes to Uncle Sam's tax collectors.
The tax law is complex and difficult for even experts to negotiate. Just when you think you've followed all the rules and researched all the angles, a tax regulation blindsides you.
Here are five terrible tax surprises that you might encounter during tax season and how to deal with the consequences.
Unemployment benefits
Yes, it's true. Under tax law, unemployment is considered wage income, and the IRS wants a cut of it.
Now that you're over the shock and anger, what can you do? When you apply for unemployment benefits, consider having federal income tax withheld. This process is similar to regular payroll withholding. In this case, the form you fill out is the federal W-4V, Voluntary Withholding Request, or a similar IRS-acceptable document that the paying agency has created. This way, taxes will be withheld at the rate of 10% of each unemployment payment.
If you feel as if you just can't surrender a chunk of each unemployment check to withholding, you should look into paying estimated taxes. This will help you avoid a large lump-sum tax bill when you file.
You survived the divorce. Now you have the IRS to deal with if you're getting alimony.
Ending a marriage is never a happy event. But at least you got a good settlement, and those regular checks from your ex-spouse are completely warranted. They also are completely taxable.
Alimony, separate maintenance payments and similar recompense from your former spouse are taxable to you in the year you receive them. Child support money, however, is not taxable. If your divorce decree calls for alimony and child support and specifies amounts for each, you owe the IRS only for the alimony payments. To avoid a big bill in April, make your IRS payments on alimony and other untaxed income via estimated tax filings.
The one good tax surprise here is for the ex who's paying spousal support. Those check amounts are tax-deductible.
Forgiven debt
"Forgive but collect" is the IRS motto when it comes to canceled debt.
Getting your credit card bill cut from $8,000 to $4,000 certainly helped your personal bottom line. But it also could be a boon to the U.S. Treasury. Why? The tax law generally considers the amount you get any creditor to write off as earned, and therefore taxable, income to you. Expect the accommodating debtholder to send you (and the IRS) a Form 1099-C or similar statement detailing your discharge of indebtedness as miscellaneous income.
Not every debt settlement, however, has to line Uncle Sam's pocket. Under the Mortgage Debt Relief Act that became law in 2007, some homeowners who are granted forgiveness of mortgage debt won't have to pay taxes on that amount.
There are some restrictions. The forgiven debt amount is limited to up to $2 million, or $1 million for a married person filing a separate tax return. The tax relief applies only to mortgage debt discharged by a lender between 2007 and 2013 (after the latest extension). And the forgiven loan must have been taken out to buy, build or substantially improve a primary residence, not a second or vacation home.
Prize winnings
Think you're pretty lucky because you won $1,000 in a radio contest? Uncle Sam is even luckier. He's due part of your winnings.
Prize winnings are included in the long list of "other" income that tax law says is taxable. And it's not limited to cash awards. You have to pay taxes on the fair market value of any property you win.
Be careful when reporting the value of a noncash price. In most cases, companies and groups that award prizes, cash and property will send you a 1099 form declaring the value of what you won. If your tax return reports substantially less than what the giver claims, your underreporting could mean a long, hard look from an IRS auditor.
And don't forget about gambling proceeds. They're taxable, too, but at least you get the chance to reduce the tax bite here by subtracting any betting losses from your winnings.
Some Social Security benefits
You spent 40 years fattening the U.S. Treasury, thanks to those dang Social Security taxes that came out of every paycheck. Now you're retiring, and it's time to get your tax money back, free and clear, right?
Well, maybe. Maybe not.
Generally, if Social Security benefits are your only income, your benefits are not taxable. But if you collect Social Security plus other income, as much as 85% of those government checks could be subject to tax. To figure out just how much in taxes your Social Security might cost you, you'll have to do some calculating using the worksheet found in your tax Form 1040 or 1040a.
If you discover that you will owe taxes on some of your Social Security benefits, there are two ways to deal with it. You can make estimated tax payments on the government check amounts. Or you can have federal income tax withheld from your benefits by completing Form W-4V, Voluntary Withholding Request, and filing it with the Social Security Administration.
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Maybe if we stopped letting politicians make CAREERS out of politics we could get back to some form of government of the people and for the people. As long as politicians make their living solely through politics the working folks of this world are just going to be ground beneath their boot heels one tax dollar at a time.
Margaret Thatcher once said, the biggest problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money. Once this government has drained all it can from the rich, who do you think they will come after next. Wake Up America. Obama's socialist policies will only work if everyone has some skin in the game, however with nearly 47 percent of the american people not paying federal taxes, they have no skin in the game, and have no problem voting everyone else a tax increase as long as they keep getting their freebies they dont give a rats rear end how much you pay.
People need to wake up.The country/government is bankrupt.it'll be 17 trillion in june or july.The debt is growing at the rate of a trillion every 7 to 8 months.How much longer before everyone gets the freebees it's getting now.I say 5 to 10 years the most.There will be anarchy in the streets.
I see it coming.
hahaha...Obama and demos promise you as much unemployment as you want stay on the gravy
train and then hit you with a tax bill! good for all you who don't work live off the rest of us and now
Obama is stabbing you in the back! now you know how it feels? what a guy uh? and then he raised
the payroll tax on you libs! and here comes Obama care taxes and death panels! and here comes all
the green energy taxes and hikes in cheap energy and food and gas etc....great liberal agenda uh?
I am a military retiree drawing Social Security. As such I pay taxes on 85% of my Social Security. Additionally I pay taxes on my Military Retirement. I am married and my wife and I are (by Law) 100% disabled. I am not complaining but somewhere in the future I would like to be able to tell the government to F... off. Back 50 years ago when I enlisted in the military I was told by my recruiter that I would never have to pay for health care (including my wife) again . Bull...they took that away..Medical care and prescriptions cost me aproximatly 500 dollars a month. Ex wife costs me 1/3 of my retirement and we've been apart for over 20 years ( mind you this is not alimony but separate maintenance demanded by the government.). ( a little over $6,000 dollars a year). Don't forget county and state taxes plus 7% at the grocery store. As The song by Jerry Reed ..."It takes more then this boy makes."
I was under the misconception thea once I turned 65 thta I would be getting some breaks..tax wise...
well I am almost 71 and taxes keep taking more of my menial income.
I call an ugly surprise that famous "offset" the government does on your SS benefit when you start receiving your monthly retirement check from a retirement account at work. They deduct that amount from your SS benefit as an offset, not to allow you to "double-dip" even if you funded the two accounts yourself with the product of your work and through your withheld SS payments from your wages..
We have to thank Mr. Ronald Reagan for that little favor.
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Illuminating Messiaen Photography Contest
Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA) has announced the winners of "Illuminating Messiaen," the photography competition inspired by Oliver Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen.
This stunning work for two pianos is comprised of seven movements that trace biblical themes, from the "Amen of Creation" to the "Amen of the Consummation." The seven winning photographs, selected from categories corresponding to the music's seven movements, will be professionally printed and mounted for exhibition in the Corpus Playroom theater on Maundy Thursday of Holy Week at Cambridge this coming April. The photographs will also be displayed in the Chapel of King's College as part of a concert the same evening that will feature a performance of Visions de l'Amen by London-based concert pianist Cordelia Williams and Director of DITA, Jeremy Begbie.
The response from the larger Duke Divinity community was remarkable. A total of about 125 entries were received from current students, alumni, faculty and staff. The Grand Prize Winner, Kate Roberts, will be awarded a round trip to the UK for Holy Week 2012, which will include tickets to the Easter at King's festival concerts. Each of the seven Category Winners will receive Amazon gift cards worth $100.
"The 'Illuminating Messiaen' project brilliantly exemplifies the imaginative fusion that Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts seeks to promote," said Dean Hays. "The photos submitted stand at the creative junction of music and visual art, while also uniting theology with sound and image. Perhaps it is not too much to say also that the artistic fusion embodied in this project nicely symbolizes the collaboration between Duke and Cambridge that will be celebrated again during Holy Week this year. We are grateful for this rich blending of gifts."
In addition to two juries comprised of Duke Divinity students and professors, DITA was honored by the participation of expert jurors Eric and Candace Law.
Candace Law is a professional artist who works particularly in encaustic painting and other media including cyanotypes on clayboard. Eric Law, retired from executive responsibilities at Ford Motor Company, is a professional photographer, lecturer, and consultant specializing in the digital imaging of artwork for artists, galleries, and exhibitions. He is a former chairman of the Divinity School's Board of Visitors, where he continues service as a member emeritus. The Laws are also patrons of the arts who have supported many projects at Duke Divinity School, including commissioning the stained glass window in the Jones Prayer Room and the statue titled "Reconciliation" on the Bovender Terrace.
Grand Prize winner:
Kate Roberts, MDiv '14
"The winning photograph is a dynamic composition in black and white that gives a strong sense of endless creation, showing the darkness punctuated by points of light flowing out from a white center. It also suggests the majesty of God with the single small figure in silhouette against the bright light. The energy conveyed by this superb photograph mirrors the overall impression on the listener of the music." -- Eric and Candace Law, Jurors
Category winners:
Movement 1 – Kate Roberts, MDiv '14
Movement 2 – Mathew Crawford, ThM '11
Movement 3 – Dr. Norman Wirzba, Divinity Research Professor of Theology, Ecology and Rural Life
Movement 4 – Lynda Ward, MTS '94
Movement 5 – Lynda Ward, MTS '94
Movement 6 – W. David Taylor, ThD Candidate
Movement 7 – Frith Gowan, Duke Divinity Web Content Manager
Category Honorable Mentions:
Movement 1 – Aaron Brooks MDiv '13; Eric Prenshaw, MDiv '11
Movement 2 – Frith Gowan, Duke Divinity Web Content Manager
Movement 3 – Kate Roberts; Eric Prenshaw, MDiv '11
Movement 4 – Mathew Crawford, ThM '11
Movement 5 – Eric Prenshaw MDiv '11
Movement 6 – Eric Prenshaw MDiv '11; Juli Kalbaugh MDiv '13
Movement 7 – Matt Elia, MDiv '13
Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts and the Divinity School gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of The Duke-Semans Fine Arts Foundation and the generous philanthropy of David Crabtree whose support has made this project possible.


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- Deceleration of fusion–fission cycles improves mitochondrial quality control during aging (2012)
- Mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy play a key role in ensuring mitochondrial quality control. Impairment thereof was proposed to be causative to neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, and cancer. Accumulation of mitochondrial dysfunction was further linked to aging. Here we applied a probabilistic modeling approach integrating our current knowledge on mitochondrial biology allowing us to simulate mitochondrial function and quality control during aging in silico. We demonstrate that cycles of fusion and fission and mitophagy indeed are essential for ensuring a high average quality of mitochondria, even under conditions in which random molecular damage is present. Prompted by earlier observations that mitochondrial fission itself can cause a partial drop in mitochondrial membrane potential, we tested the consequences of mitochondrial dynamics being harmful on its own. Next to directly impairing mitochondrial function, pre-existing molecular damage may be propagated and enhanced across the mitochondrial population by content mixing. In this situation, such an infection-like phenomenon impairs mitochondrial quality control progressively. However, when imposing an age-dependent deceleration of cycles of fusion and fission, we observe a delay in the loss of average quality of mitochondria. This provides a rational why fusion and fission rates are reduced during aging and why loss of a mitochondrial fission factor can extend life span in fungi. We propose the 'mitochondrial infectious damage adaptation' (MIDA) model according to which a deceleration of fusion–fission cycles reflects a systemic adaptation increasing life span.
- A differential genome-wide transcriptome analysis: impact of cellular copper on complex biological processes like aging and development (2012)
- The regulation of cellular copper homeostasis is crucial in biology. Impairments lead to severe dysfunctions and are known to affect aging and development. Previously, a loss-of-function mutation in the gene encoding the copper-sensing and copper-regulated transcription factor GRISEA of the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina was reported to lead to cellular copper depletion and a pleiotropic phenotype with hypopigmentation of the mycelium and the ascospores, affected fertility and increased lifespan by approximately 60% when compared to the wild type. This phenotype is linked to a switch from a copper-dependent standard to an alternative respiration leading to both a reduced generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). We performed a genome-wide comparative transcriptome analysis of a wild-type strain and the copper-depleted grisea mutant. We unambiguously assigned 9,700 sequences of the transcriptome in both strains to the more than 10,600 predicted and annotated open reading frames of the P. anserina genome indicating 90% coverage of the transcriptome. 4,752 of the transcripts differed significantly in abundance with 1,156 transcripts differing at least 3-fold. Selected genes were investigated by qRT-PCR analyses. Apart from this general characterization we analyzed the data with special emphasis on molecular pathways related to the grisea mutation taking advantage of the available complete genomic sequence of P. anserina. This analysis verified but also corrected conclusions from earlier data obtained by single gene analysis, identified new candidates of factors as part of the cellular copper homeostasis system including target genes of transcription factor GRISEA, and provides a rich reference source of quantitative data for further in detail investigations. Overall, the present study demonstrates the importance of systems biology approaches also in cases were mutations in single genes are analyzed to explain the underlying mechanisms controlling complex biological processes like aging and development.
- PaCATB, a secreted catalase protecting Podospora anserina against exogenous oxidative stress (2011)
- A differential mass spectrometry analysis of secreted proteins from juvenile and senescentPodospora anserina cultures revealed age-related differences in protein profiles. Among other proteins with decreased abundance in the secretome of senescent cultures a catalase, termed PaCATB, was identified. Genetic modulation of the abundance of PaCATB identified differential effects on the phenotype of the corresponding strains. Deletion of PaCatB resulted in decreased resistance, over-expression in increased resistance against hydrogen peroxide. While the lifespan of the genetically modified strains was found to be unaffected under standard growth conditions, increased exogenous hydrogen peroxide stress in the growth medium markedly reduced the lifespan of the PaCatB deletion strain but extended the lifespan of PaCatB over-expressors. Overall our data identify a component of the secretome of P. anserina as a new effective factor to cope with environmental stress, stress that under natural conditions is constantly applied on organisms and influences aging processes.
- The S-adenosylmethionine dependent O-methyltransferase PaMTH1: a longevity assurance factor protecting Podospora anserina against oxidative stress (2009)
- PaMTH1 is an O-methyltransferase catalysing the methylation of vicinal hydroxyl groups of polyphenols. The protein accumulates during ageing of Podospora anserina in both the cytosol and in the mitochondrial matrix. The construction and characterisation of a PaMth1 deletion strain provided additional evidence about the function of the protein in the protection against metal induced oxidative stress. Deletion of PaMth1 was found to lead to a decreased resistance against exogenous oxidative stress and to a shortened lifespan suggesting a role of PaMTH1 as a longevity assurance factor in a new molecular pathway involved in lifespan control. Key words: Podospora anserina, knock-out, reactive oxygen species, flavonoids, ageing, O-methyltransferase
- When life comes to an end: lessons from microbial aging models (2010)
- Aging of biological systems ultimately leads to death of the individual. In humans, organ failure as the result of functional impairments after stroke, cardio-vascular disease, tumor development, neurodegeneration and other diseases are certainly crucial in bringing life to an end. But what happens in individuals with no obvious disease or disorders?
- Alternative oxidase dependent respiration leads to an increased mitochondrial content in two long-lived mutants of the aging model Podospora anserina (2011)
- The retrograde response constitutes an important signalling pathway from mitochondria to the nucleus which induces several genes to allow compensation of mitochondrial impairments. In the filamentous ascomycete Podospora anserina, an example for such a response is the induction of a nuclear-encoded and iron-dependent alternative oxidase (AOX) occurring when cytochrome-c oxidase (COX) dependent respiration is affected. Several long-lived mutants are known which predominantly or exclusively respire via AOX. Here we show that two AOX-utilising mutants, grisea and PaCox17::ble, are able to compensate partially for lowered OXPHOS efficiency resulting from AOX-dependent respiration by increasing mitochondrial content. At the physiological level this is demonstrated by an elevated oxygen consumption and increased heat production. However, in the two mutants, ATP levels do not reach WT levels. Interestingly, mutant PaCox17::ble is characterized by a highly increased release of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) hydrogen peroxide. Both grisea and PaCox17::ble contain elevated levels of mitochondrial proteins involved in quality control, i. e. LON protease and the molecular chaperone HSP60. Taken together, our work demonstrates that AOX-dependent respiration in two mutants of the ageing model P. anserina is linked to a novel mechanism involved in the retrograde response pathway, mitochondrial biogenesis, which might also play an important role for cellular maintenance in other organisms.
- Regulation of the mitochondrial transition pore: impact on mammalian aging (2011)
- Commentary on: Hafner AV et al. Regulation of the mPTP by SIRT3-mediated deacetylation of CypD at lysine 166 suppresses age-related cardiac hypertrophy. Aging. 2010; 12:914-923.
- Modulation of the glyoxalase system in the aging model Podospora anserina: effects on growth and lifespan (2010)
- The eukaryotic glyoxalase system consists of two enzymatic components, glyoxalase I (lactoylglutathionelyase) and glyoxalase II (hydroxyacylglutathione hydrolase). These enzymes are dedicated to the removal of toxic alpha-oxoaldehydes like methylglyoxal (MG). MG is formed as a by-product of glycolysis and MG toxicity results from its damaging capability leading to modifications of proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. An efficient removal of MG appears to be essential to ensure cellular functionality and viability. Here we study the effects of the genetic modulation of genes encoding the components of the glyoxalase system in the filamentous ascomycete and aging model Podospora anserina. Overexpression of PaGlo1 leads to a lifespan reduction on glucose rich medium, probably due to depletion of reduced glutathione. Deletion of PaGlo1 leads to hypersensitivity against MG added to the growth medium. A beneficial effect on lifespan is observed when both PaGlo1 and PaGlo2 are overexpressed and the corresponding strains are grown on media containing increased glucose concentrations. Notably, the double mutant has a 'healthy' phenotype without physiological impairments. Moreover, PaGlo1/PaGlo2_OEx strains are not long-lived on media containing standard glucose concentrations suggesting a tight correlation between the efficiency and capacity to remove MG within the cell, the level of available glucose and lifespan. Overall, our results identify the up-regulation of both components of the glyoxalase system as an effective intervention to increase lifespan in P. anserina. Key words: Podospora anserina, aging, lifespan, glycation, glucose, methylglyoxal, advanced glycation end products
- A Genome-Wide Longitudinal Transcriptome Analysis of the Aging Model Podospora anserine (2013)
- Aging of biological systems is controlled by various processes which have a potential impact on gene expression. Here we report a genome-wide transcriptome analysis of the fungal aging model Podospora anserina. Total RNA of three individuals of defined age were pooled and analyzed by SuperSAGE (serial analysis of gene expression). A bioinformatics analysis identified different molecular pathways to be affected during aging. While the abundance of transcripts linked to ribosomes and to the proteasome quality control system were found to decrease during aging, those associated with autophagy increase, suggesting that autophagy may act as a compensatory quality control pathway. Transcript profiles associated with the energy metabolism including mitochondrial functions were identified to fluctuate during aging. Comparison of wild-type transcripts, which are continuously down-regulated during aging, with those down-regulated in the long-lived, copper-uptake mutant grisea, validated the relevance of age-related changes in cellular copper metabolism. Overall, we (i) present a unique age-related data set of a longitudinal study of the experimental aging model P. anserina which represents a reference resource for future investigations in a variety of organisms, (ii) suggest autophagy to be a key quality control pathway that becomes active once other pathways fail, and (iii) present testable predictions for subsequent experimental investigations.
- Impact papers on aging in 2009 (2010)
- The editorial board of Aging reviews research papers published in 2009,which they believe have or will have a significant impact on aging research.Among many others, the topics include genes that accelerate aging or incontrast promote longevity in model organisms, DNA damage responsesand telomeres, molecular mechanisms of life span extension by calorierestriction and pharmacologic interventions into aging. The emergingmessage in 2009 is that aging is not random but determined by agenetically-regulated longevity network and can be decelerated bothgenetically and pharmacologically.


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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2013 Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals for States (CABHI-States) grants. The purpose of this jointly funded program is to enhance or develop the infrastructure of states and their treatment service systems to increase capacity to provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated/integrated, and evidence-based treatment services; permanent supportive housing; peer supports; CMHS-funded peer navigator(s); and other critical services to persons who experience chronic homelessness with substance use disorders or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. The outcomes will include: 1) assisting states to develop strategies associated with addressing the needs of individuals who experience chronic homelessness; and 2) increasing the number of individuals placed in permanent supportive housing and enrolled in Medicaid and other mainstream benefits (e.g., SSI/SSDI, TANF, SNAP).
The major goal of the CABHI-States program is to ensure, through state and local planning and service delivery, that the most vulnerable individuals who experience chronic homelessness receive access to sustainable permanent housing, treatment, recovery supports, and Medicaid and other mainstream benefits. To achieve this goal, SAMHSA funds will support four primary types of activities.
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CMHS funds will support the fourth primary activity, peer navigator(s):
SAMHSA has demonstrated that behavioral health is essential to health, prevention works, treatment is effective, and people recover from mental, substance use, and co-occurring mental and substance use disorders. To continue to improve the delivery and financing of prevention, treatment and recovery support services, SAMHSA has identified eight Strategic Initiatives to focus the Agency's work on people and emerging opportunities. More information is available at the SAMHSA Web site: www.samhsa.gov/About/strategy.aspx. This program is aligned with all Strategic Initiatives and specifically Recovery Support. If your application is funded, you will be expected to: 1) develop a health disparities impact statement. This statement should utilize grantee data to identify subpopulations (i.e., racial, ethnic, sexual/gender minority groups) vulnerable to health disparities; and (2) develop a plan to decrease the differences in access, service use and outcomes among those subpopulations. This plan should include use of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care. See Appendix I of this RFA: Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities.
CABHI-States is one of SAMHSA's services grant programs. SAMHSA intends that its services grants result in the delivery of services as soon as possible after award. Service delivery should begin by the 4th month of the project at the latest.
CABHI-States grants are authorized under Section 509 and 520A of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. This announcement addresses Healthy People 2020 Mental Health and Mental Disorders Topic Area HP 2020-MHMD and/or Substance Abuse Topic Area HP 2020-SA.
Eligible applicants are the single state agencies for substance abuse in the District of Columbia (D.C.) and the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.
To demonstrate a collaborative effort between the state behavioral health entities, applicants must provide a letter of commitment from the state mental health authority (if applicable), in Attachment 4 of the application. If the SSA and the state mental health authority are one entity, a letter of commitment is not required.
SAMHSA believes the most effective way to accomplish the goals of this three year state-based grant program is to limit eligibility to these 17 states and D.C., due to the high concentration of individuals who experience chronic homelessness that reside in these states. In 2010, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) approved Opening Doors, a Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. One of the goals of this Strategic Plan is to achieve the goal of ending chronic homelessness by 2015. SAMHSA is committed in the effort to achieve this and other goals in the Federal Strategic Plan.
Per HUD's 2012 point-in-time (PIT) information submitted by Continuums of Care , of the total 99,894 chronic homeless persons in the nation, 78,714 (79 percent) were living in the abovementioned 17 states and D.C. In addition, out of the nation's 633,782 homeless people, 473,927 (74.78 percent) were also living in these 17 states and D.C. Furthermore, the 2012 PIT report highlighted that almost one half of all chronically homeless persons (44,736 people or 44.8 percent) were located in smaller cities, counties, and regional Continuums of Care within these 17 states and D.C.
In order to efficiently and effectively impact the goals of the USICH Strategic Plan, it is vital to target the states and communities that represent the highest percentage of chronic homelessness in this country. Limiting eligibility to states that are home to these high-need communities represents a targeted approach to achieve success.
The statutory authority for this program prohibits grants to for-profit agencies.
Proposed budgets cannot exceed $711,818 in total costs (direct and indirect) in any year of the proposed project. Note: Applicants may request up to $661,818 per year for three years from CSAT and up to $50,000 per year for three years from CMHS. The budget must include a separate column for the use of the CMHS funding. Grantees will be expected to track and report the CSAT and CMHS funds separately. Annual continuation awards will depend on the availability of funds, grantee progress in meeting project goals and objectives, timely submission of required data and reports, and compliance with all terms and conditions of award.
Funding estimates for this announcement are based on an annualized Continuing Resolution as reduced by sequestration and do not reflect the final FY 2013 appropriation. Applicants should be aware that funding amounts are subject to the availability of funds.
These awards will be made as cooperative agreements.
For questions about program issues contact
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Co-Occurring and Homeless Activities Branch
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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What would be the family structure of the future?
People are in constant movement, nowadays is many examples of married couples living and working around the Globe both coming from opposite sides of the World, having very little time to spare for their family, will economics and logistics will influence on the future structure of the family?
Topics: family globalization relationships
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Robert Galway 50+Aug 1 2013: Yes.
People are sacrificing family life for lifestyle.
You see the results in the divorce rate, juvenile delinquency courts, and substance abuse programs.
Long term, people will stop wanting to have children and live hedonistic life styles dedicated to themselves.
This mentality takes exactly one generation to be removed form the gene pool.
we are looking for instant satisfaction, quick solutions to problems, early retirements, and letting our investments work so we don't have to work. We are losing the work ethic, patients, grit and integrity required to successfully raise children. We are looking to education facilities, day care facilities and grandparents to raise OUR children.
We are becoming less proactive about solving our own problems and more ready to be a victim some way shape or form to extort money or sympathy from those around us. We are immediately looking to blame our kids, teachers or the education system when our kids do not excel in some subject. We are adverse to being held accountable for our actions and try and get away with as much as possible or win at any cost. We seem to worship consumption of alcohol, sexual innuendos and gigiloish behavior. We buy our way out of problems that should be solved by being held accountable or never become problems in the first place by demonstrating strength and control of character and emotions.We seem to be willing to forgive our athletes, politicians, and sports heroes for acting like criminals, but throw the book at people committing crimes while trying to survive and never forgive those trying to recover from bad decisions leading to confinement. These lessons are being learned by our children as they watch our actions.
Most adults know right from wrong, they just need to choose to live a life that serves as an example for their children.This takes work, sacrifice, and strength of character. Adults need to be willing to do these things to hold the family together.
Aug 4 2013: I do not think the ideal model of family structure of the future will change substantially from the current model, or the model of past generations. This model will be a pair of parents that love each other and their children unconditionally, extended family that supports the marriage and the children it produces. However, with longer life expectancy and more difficult job environments, the number of grandparents living in homes will increase and the amount of time spent by children leaving the home to go out on their own will also increase.
What do I think are the roles in the ideal model? Both parents first do what is necessary for the family to survive, including what is needed to make the marriage survive. Parents need to decide what is the best combination of time spent earning a living vs time spent raising children. In this discussion, the value of quality time spent with children as they learn and grow needs to take precedence over growing family wealth during these formative years. In the event a family can not survive on one income, then options involving child care or assistance from other extended family members might be considered.
I think family models tend to be influenced by many external influences and they need to be strong to be able to handle the peaks and valleys of life. The stress of living on the edge of your credit limit, having two chaotic schedules involving work hours and travel, and trying to balance daycare, healthcare and economic turmoil is a survival challenge to the basic family units. The trade-off associated with having two parents working to improve lifestyle while sacrificing child care and adding stress to the family is a subtle threat to the survival of marriages. This needs to be considered carefully in plans made by parents for the survival of the family.
Aug 5 2013: Thanks Robert, I m glad you are taking part of this conversation, when I look around I see many friends asking them selfs what is the best way to form a family?
some of them say "I have sacrifice my future in order to have a "family" both male or female have this dilema of wasted time and their youth,, It feels many people have experience separation after 8 or 10 years of marriage and they feel lost when "family" is not longer present.
I also see many singles traveling, working, and just going trough life with empty hearts..
Aug 5 2013: .Thanks!
I would "shape a model"
close to the 10,000 years ago norm
in our DNA.
Such as:
a. Husband
The husband half is biologically assigned in charge of food-seeking, habitat constructing, defending, donating all kinds of co-body-safety messages ceaselessly to his wife (kissing, embracing, and so on) .
His ability and smartness come mainly from the ceaseless intimate encouragement of the other half of the marriage ---- the wife.
b. Wife
The wife is biologically assigned in charge of the child bearing, child bring up, house hold, and etc.
She transfers all the physical substantial materials from her own body into the baby's. Also, she exhausts all her spiritual energy to bring up the baby or child ---- the DNA-carrier of both the husband and wife.
That is where her mother-greatness and beauty come from.
Her beauty and virtue are support-enhanced by the ceaseless intimate co-body message from the other half of the marriage ---- the husband.
This is the right way that the husband and wife of a marriage work; and the right way that happy life of the couple comes from.
Then, there will be no issue of gender equality at all.
(Be Happy Validly! p 19).
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