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About LA Pride
Christopher Street West (CSW), a 501(c)3 non-profit, organized the world's first permitted parade advocating for gay rights on June 28, 1970, as a response to and in commemoration of the Stonewall Rebellion on Christopher Street in New York City the year prior. Fifty years later, we have built a rich history as an active voice for the LGBTQ+ community across the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. And of course, we continue to produce LA Pride, the second largest Pride celebration in the country. We also organize, sponsor or support a number of events throughout the year with our nonprofit, philanthropic, community, and corporate partners.
Our mission is to create safe and inclusive spaces for self-expression, inspire an authentic sense of activism in the continued fight for equality, and celebrate the unique heritage and diverse cultures of Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ community and its allies.
LA Pride Values
Be Aware We must never forget our past.BE INSPIRED We are all activists.BE UNITED We are one community.BE MINDFUL We must support each other.BE TRUE We must be our most authentic selves.
While it may be true that our community has come a long way since the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969, there is still a tremendous amount of work to do.
We believe that it's absolutely critical for everyone in the LGBTQ+ community alongside our straight allies to acknowledge, celebrate, and learn from our rich history of social revolution. Constantly being aware our past helps to inform our future, making it better and more accepting for generations to come.
LA Pride was founded upon the spirit of activism – and today, continues in the footsteps of its founders.
We believe in inspiring today's generation to come together as a community and take a stand for acceptance and equality. Our goal is to empower the LGBTQ+ community and its allies with essential information, education, resources, events, content, and communications so that everyone within our community can not only find their unique voice, but also use it to inspire positive change for all.
There are people from all walks of life in the LGBTQ+ community.
This incredible diversity has enabled the growth of niche communities – around shared lifestyles, cultures, identities, beliefs, and values – giving every person has a safe space to call "home" within the LGBTQ+ spectrum. We believe the vibrant diversity of our community is our greatest strength. And when we act as a single community, real change happens. This is the true meaning of Pride, and it's something we celebrate in hearts and minds 365 days per year.
It's easy to forget the impact we can make on each other's lives.
Acting as a single community means being mindful and accepting of the diversity that exists within our community. For this reason, we believe that we must always be kind to ourselves, to our friends, to our colleagues, and to those we see as different from ourselves because, in doing so, we will make our community stronger and more able to overcome the political, social, and cultural headwinds that we will inevitably face as we continue to fight for our rights.
Being a part of the LGBTQ+ community means having the freedom to be our true selves at all times.
That's why we believe it's our responsibility to create safe spaces for self-expression, understanding that acknowledging, accepting, and embracing our differences are what make us stronger as both individuals and as a community. Bringing our true selves to everything we do is how we each play an important part in standing up for what we believe in as a community as well as what we want to inspire in the hearts and minds of those around us.
Sharon-Franklin Brown
Sharon-Franklin BrownBoard President
CSW Board President Sharon-Franklin Brown is a national speaker on transgender rights, activist, and Chief Human Resources Officer for the Los Angeles LGBT Center and its nearly 800 employees. A longtime advocate for gender expression and identity, she has spoken out for anti-discrimination policies in education since being terminated from Fayetteville State University, a historically Black university, for being a transwoman.
Sharon is the recipient of the Leadership Award from the Employment Roundtable of Southern California and Los Angeles for her contributions to furthering civil rights in workplace diversity.
Noah Gonzalez
Noah GonzalezBoard Vice President
CSW Board Vice President Noah Gonzalez currently serves as the Head of West Coast Communications for the global fashion brand H&M. Within this role he oversees all entertainment and celebrity strategy, as well as CSR partnerships and special projects. These responsibilities have allowed him to create unique partnerships and initiatives to support local, national and global social impact organizations. In addition to serving on the Board of LA Pride, he also serves on the Board of Directors for The Hollywood Food Coalition.
Gerald Garth
Board Treasurer
Gerald GarthBoard Treasurer
Gerald Garth, CSW Board Treasurer, currently serves as Manager of Program Operations for the AMAAD Institute (Arming Minorities Against Addiction and Disease) providing programs and services to LGBTQ people of color in South Los Angeles. He is currently a Fellow of the California HIV Policy Research Center and serves as editor-in-chief of Chill Magazine-- a print, digital, and social brand designed for Black and Latino men. Gerald will also complete his Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management with Antioch University in 2019.
Mistress Cyan St. James
Mistress Cyan St. JamesBoard Secretary
Mistress Cyan has been a supporter of LA Pride since 2007 when she was named as an Honoree and recipient of The Connie Norman Award. She has been named Woman of The Year three times and Fundraiser of The Year twice, as well as Mentor of The Year. The LA Weekly named her "The Most Respected Dominatrix in Los Angeles", and she has been a guest speaker at Stanford University, UCLA, Occidental College and California State Universities Los Angeles, Long Beach and Northridge. She is currently the President/CEO of Sanctuary Studios, Inc., and Executive Producer of DomCon Los Angeles and New Orleans.
Gregory Alexander
Gregory AlexanderBoard Member
Gregory Alexander is a southern California native who has built his life around a love of culture. From college he spent his days working in fashion and visual design while simultaneously building the nightlife institution A Club Called Rhonda or Rhonda INTL. After quitting his "day job" and focusing solely on Rhonda for years, Gregory chose to branch out into other enterprises, creating a non-profit fraternity of queer travelers called The Wander Boys and joining the board of directors at LA Pride / CSW where he has taken the lead in festival programming.
Jake Brooks-Harris
Jake Brooks-HarrisBoard Member
Jacob is proud to serve on the Board of Directors for LA Pride and bring together his passion for LGBTQ+ activism and developing events and experiences that uplift and inspire. After many years as a marketing executive working with global brands such as Delta Air Lines, Google, and Netflix, Jacob founded ROCK+PAPER, a full-service creative agency specializing in impact-focused, culture-forward experiences. His professional career is built on the belief that magic comes from combining meaningful connections with progressive and transformative experiences, and he is excited to apply that approach to the evolving mission of LA Pride. Jacob graduated from Vassar College and is a huge dog lover, a voracious reader, and has never met a patterned shirt he didn't like.
Candie Davidson-Goldbronn
Candie Davidson-GoldbronnBoard Member
Candie Davidson-Goldbronn joined the CSW Board in 2018, bringing 20+ years of nonprofit and fundraising management experience to LA Pride. Candie currently works at Children's Hospital Los Angeles overseeing Foundation Operations. Prior to joining CHLA, she served as a senior consultant with CCS Fundraising.
When she is not serving as Co-Chair for the Membership Engagement Committee of Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) she is mentoring for the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and San Diego State University's Aztec Mentor Program.
Candie resides in West Hollywood with her wife and two fur-kids.
Kevin KellyBoard Member
Jonathan London
Jonathan LondonBoard Member
Enrique Monagas
Enrique MonagasBoard Member
Enrique currently serves as Senior Counsel at Sklar Kirsh LLP, concentrating his practice on appellate and complex commercial litigation. Previously, Enrique was a Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice and an Associate Attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. There, Enrique was a core member of the trial and appellate teams that secured the historic victories in the federal challenge to California's Proposition 8, Hollingsworth v. Perry.
The case resulted in a landmark decision affirming the equal dignity of gay and lesbian Americans. His work is featured in HBO's documentary film "The Case Against 8," and the books "Forcing the Spring," "Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality," and "Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial."
Tracy Paaso
Tracy PaasoBoard Member
Tracy Paaso joined the Board of Directors in 2018 and has helped increase its collaboration with key economic partners including the City of West Hollywood, West Hollywood Travel and Tourism Board, the Chamber of Commerce, and Sunset Strip and West Hollywood Design District. Her professional career spans 25+ years of diverse industry experience for start-up and Fortune 500 companies in the areas of Finance, Technology, Marketing, Strategy and Partnerships. Using her background as a community builder, innovator and humanitarian, Tracy created "Pride Stride" the first-ever nationwide virtual 5k/10k LGBTQ+ fundraiser to help sustain LA Pride and over 30 other Pride nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Johanna Padilla
Johanna PadillaBoard Member
Johanna Padilla, also known as La Sirena, Los Angeles' "UnTucked Burlesque Mermaid," showcases the beauty of trans bodies while embodying prime Hollywood glamour and the mermaid fantasy through her groundbreaking performances. Johanna is also an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, and an out, proud, and visible trans queer womxn of color who is constantly creating positive impact and change for the LGBTQ+ community through her work in the nonprofit sector, while pursuing her dreams in the fashion and entertainment industry as an actor, model and designer.
As a CSW Board member, Johanna focuses on inclusive programming for the trans, POC, Black, and sober communities.
Raul Rios
Raul RiosBoard Member
Dara Nai
Dara NaiOperations Manager
Dara Nai joined CSW in 2020, bringing a background in television, digital journalism, and policy research. As a senior writer for the lesbian pop culture website AfterEllen.com during its heyday, she was known for her recaps of dozens of TV shows, irreverent celebrity interviews, and co-starring in the web series, "We're Getting Nowhere," which she co-created. In "Dara and Karman's Hit List" for LOGO TV, she deconstructed the lesbian experience while sitting behind a plastic drum set. Dara has also been the head writer of an indie comedy series, Second Shot, a production coordinator for live TV specials, and inexplicably, a researcher and graphics designer for a sea level rise vulnerability assessment report for a major coastal California city.
Landon Boren
Board Liaison
Landon BorenBoard Liaison
Landon is extremely excited to join LA Pride as the Board Liaison. A Southern California native, Landon grew up in Long Beach, and attended the University of San Francisco where he majored in Communications. Originally starting out in public relations, Landon moved to Los Angeles after graduation where he spent the next five years working in talent management, with a diverse clientele of actors, singers, and performers. He is happy to bring his experience to LA Pride, and feels honored to work for an organization that has made him feel safe and included in his own life.
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CSW Financials
As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, we are required by the IRS to publish our most recent tax returns. Please see our latest IRS and CA filings by clicking the links shown. Due to our fiscal year schedule, financial statements from the previous year are made available in the fourth quarter of the current fiscal year.
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2013 Tax Return
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Board Emeritus
The role of Director Emeritus is a lifetime advisory position that recognizes the exemplary contributions of former CSW Board members who have demonstrated only the highest levels of service and dedication to the Christopher Street West Association. Individuals who have successfully served a minimum of four years on the CSW Board of Directors may only be considered for election to the CSW Board Emeritus.
Rodney Scott (President Emeritus)
Sharon Donning
Hope Hindrichs
Danny Levy
Jerry Lovell
Raymond Rector
Pat Rocco
N. Lee Waddell
Irene Williams
Michael Yates
OUR PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS
Casa del Sol
Casa del Sol is a prime example of how Christopher Street West directly impacts the community. It is a joint project between AIDS Project Los Angeles, and CSW to provide low-income housing for people with HIV/AIDS. CSW purchased the Hollywood property in 1988 and it opened for occupancy in 1993, following various bureaucratic issues and renovation needs. It remains a precedent-setting undertaking, laying the groundwork for all future independent living programs for persons with HIV/AIDS. Casa del Sol was groundbreaking as it was the first low-income housing project for people with HIV/AIDS to receive HUD funding. AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) manages the property, screening prospective tenants and providing ongoing tenant advocacy and support. CSW holds the mortgage and pays the yearly mortgage interest on the property.
USC GLASS Endowed Scholarship
In 1990, Christopher Street West, in conjunction with GLASS — the name of the University of Southern California (USC) LGBT student group at that time — established a $5000 endowment with the purpose of funding scholarship for students pursuing degrees and research for the improvement of LGBTQ+ people around the world. Unfortunately, the scholarship went dormant until it was reinstated in 2017.
The GLASS Endowed Scholarship is awarded to USC students to help them conduct or present research affirming the important role that the LGBTQ+ community plays in society today. The grant is established so that LGBTQ+ identified students can develop their scholarly pursuits without added financial burden. When the scholarship was first established in 1990, being open about one's gender or sexual identity was oftentimes met with financial disadvantages or loss. This scholarship was, therefore, designed to empower students to own their identities and to further the knowledge on topics concerning the LGBTQ+ community.
There is legislation in the works today that threatens to erase the transgender/non-binary community from the federal definition of gender — and beyond. LA Pride understands there is a critical need for advocacy and policy training within this community. Therefore, we are committed to not only amplifying the voices of the transgender/non-binary community but also providing a "PLATform" — wherein "PLAT" stands for "Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy Training" — for these voices to echo through the halls of justice. Our goal is to provide tools and education to enable and empower transgender/non-binary people to become leaders in policy and advocacy, using their own experiences and voices to inspire much-needed change.


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2019 in review: A roller-coaster ride for women's rights and gender equality around the world including India
Miriam Berger, The Washington Post
2019 is ending as it began: With women and allies of all genders leading the charge for political change.
Senator Kamala Harris, gestures while speaking at the "Women's March On Washington" Jan. 21, 2017. (Courtesy: Facebook)
From the streets of Chile and Iraq to Lebanon and Hong Kong, women have been at the forefront of protest movements against crippling economic inequality, corruption and inept government. They are braving live fire, rubber bullets, arrest and even death to deliver one message to those running the show, namely largely men: It's time for them to go.
All over the world, 2019 has also been a year of amplifying alliances between feminist and LGBTQ communities: from legal battles over trans rights and same-sex marriage in Kenya and India, to the movements pushing for more inclusive and gender-neutral language in places such as Germany and Argentina.
It has been a year of loss and pain, as well: the countless women killed by their husbands, brothers and acquaintances; the tragedies of gender-based violence that occasionally generate international headlines before all too often fading from public memory.
Here's a look back at 10 key wins, losses and patriarchy-smashing moments for women's rights and gender equality in what has been a roller coaster of a year.
New Delhi: People stage a demonstration against Supreme Court's decision allowing entry of women in the age group of 10 to 50 years into Kerala's Sabarimala temple in New Delhi on Oct 14, 2018. (Photo: IANS)
1. Women in India made history by entering a men-only temple
The year kicked off with women literally standing hand-in-hand to demand equality.
Millions of devotees each year visit the Sabarimala temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala. That is, except women of menstruating age, who were denied entry as part of a long-standing tradition.
In 2018, India's Supreme Court ruled this prohibition illegal. Several women and girls attempted to enter after the ruling was issued but were pushed back by men, who subjected them to harassment and threats.
So, on Jan. 1, women in Kerala joined hands and formed a symbolic wall stretching over 300 miles to protest what they decried as discrimination.
Two days later, at 3:45 a.m., two women finally pushed their way into the temple: A university professor and a government employee, both in their 40s, entered the inner sanctum of the Sabarimala temple. Their presence set off clashes between protesters and police in the state capital. One of the women's family members disowned her.
It was a historic step forward in both the battle for women's rights and religious freedoms in India, which in recent years has experienced a surge in Hindu nationalism. But there have been steps backward since.
Opponents are appealing the court ruling. And in November, seven women were attacked, including with chili spray, when trying to enter the temple.
2. Canada finally acknowledged its 'genocide' of indigenous women
Canada's 1.6 million indigenous people already knew something was wrong. For decades, their women and girls have gone missing, either vanishing or being killed at alarming rates. Police showed little interest in solving the cases. No one in power was listening.
2019 brought bittersweet clarity. In January, a commission appointed by the government to investigate the phenomenon released its results: The report found what amounts to a "race-based genocide" of Canada's indigenous women and girls, who remained "under siege."
"Genocide is the sum of the social practices, assumptions and actions detailed within this report," the 1,200-page report concluded. It detailed how "appalling apathy" mixed with "colonialist structures" left these women and girls tragically unprotected.
3. Kenya's Supreme Court upheld ban on same-sex relations
Kenya was at a critical fork in the road this year: Would it join South Africa to become only the second African country to legalize same-sex marriage, or would the Supreme Court uphold a British colonial-era law outlawing sodomy and same-sex relations?
In the end, the court chose the latter: In May, it ruled that Kenya's law banning gay sex and criminalizing same-sex relations with up to 14 years in jail did not violate the defendants' constitutional rights.
Activists hope that Kenya's Court of Appeals, which is higher than the Supreme Court, will hear their appeal. In the meantime, they will keep organizing and living their lives.
Worldwide, same-sex relationships are banned in more than 70 countries, almost half of which are in Africa.
4. When women in the Middle East rallied for equality in inheritance and citizenship laws
The future of the Middle East is quietly being shaped by a female-led struggle over inheritance and citizenship laws.
Inheritance laws in many countries in the region are based on a conservative interpretation of Islamic jurisprudence, or sharia law. Under these laws, female heirs inherit half as much as their male counterparts. It's a way of restricting women by making them financially dependent on male relatives and keeping social power and wealth concentrated among men.
Under another set of laws common throughout the Middle East, women can't pass down their citizenship to their children or spouse, while men can. That means the children of a Lebanese woman married to an Egyptian man don't qualify for Lebanese citizenship. These laws are similarly a way of limiting a woman's freedoms – in this case, whom she wants to marry – and a means of controlling and restricting a country's national makeup.
Inheritance isn't the hottest of topics. But changes to these patriarchal laws would reverberate widely, improving the social and economic status of women in the Middle East. The struggle gained even more visibility this year.
In November, a Coptic Christian woman in Egypt won a court case to receive the same inheritance as her brothers, after arguing that Islamic family law shouldn't apply to her. During the ongoing protests in Iraq and Lebanon, women have been at the forefront of the push for change – inheritance and citizenship laws included. Last year, Tunisia's cabinet approved a bill enshrining equal inheritance rights for men and women: The legislation, which is facing some opposition, awaits passage in parliament. All of this is helping to push the issue to the forefront.
5. More men were acquitted of rape because of Spain's antiquated law
Under Spanish law, a victim must be conscious and forcibly assaulted for the crime to count as rape. Critics of the law have repeatedly pointed out the obvious to anyone familiar with sexual assault: Many victims freeze up or can't fight back during assaults as a self-defense mechanism, while consent by its very definition can't be given if the victim is unconscious.
No matter, at least under Spanish law. In October, a court found five men guilty of sexual abuse – but not of rape – after they gang-raped an unconscious 14-year-old girl in Manresa, in the northeastern region of Catalonia, in 2016.
Eleven people said they witnessed the crime. Some also reported being threatened by the assailants, who were ages 19 to 26.
Activists later labeled the men the "Wolf Pack of Manresa," a reference to another high-profile and controversial rape case in 2018, in which five men charged with gang-raping an 18-year-old were at first acquitted of rape before the Supreme Court overturned the decision.
After the initial 2018 ruling and ensuing protests, the government formed a commission that recommended changing Spain's legal definition of rape. That hasn't happened yet.
In the meantime, the Manresa victim is still in counseling, her attorney told the court.
"In another flash, I am crying and someone with glasses is on top of me. There were lots of people" masturbating, the victim had earlier testified. She later added, "It hurt, I don't remember any more."
6. Teens in Argentina led the call for gender-neutral language
It was a year of increasing visibility for gender and LGBTQ+ equality struggles around the world. In Argentina, teens led the way: They championed gender-inclusive forms of Spanish, a language traditionally structured along a male-and-female binary.
"In classrooms and daily conversations, young people are changing the way they speak and write – replacing the masculine 'o' or the feminine 'a' with the gender-neutral 'e' in certain words – to change what they see as a deeply gendered culture," The Washington Post's Samantha Schmidt reported. "Their efforts are at the center of a global debate over gender, amid the growing visibility of non-binary identities and a wave of feminist movements worldwide. A big part of the battle is being waged over language."
As Schmidt found, in Argentina, these gender-neutral forms are growing in popularity, with children's books, university departments, courts, activists and even the new president using this more inclusive Spanish.
7. South Koreans confronted the 'molka' epidemic and rape culture among K-pop stars
In November, K-pop star Goo Hara, 28, was found dead in her apartment in Seoul in what investigators say could have been a suicide. Goo reportedly also had attempted to kill herself six months earlier.
Her personal struggles, which K-pop stars are discouraged from sharing, became public in 2018: That's when she broke another barrier and came forward to accuse her ex-boyfriend of secretly filming them having sex and threatening to distribute the footage.
Goo was not alone. In November, a South Korean court found two male K-pop stars guilty of raping unconscious women, secretly filming the encounters and then distributing the videos – a phenomenon known in South Korea as "molka." The case, one in a number involving male K-pop celebrities, has rocked the lucrative industry, known for its clean-cut music and predominantly female fan base.
The case coincided with growing public attention on – and anger at – endemic misogyny and the molka epidemic. Last year, tens of thousands of women marched in Seoul against molka under the slogan "My Life is Not Your Porn." Still, actual change has been slow to materialize.
As Seoul-based journalist Haeryun Kang wrote in November in The Post, "Most spy cam-related bills, including some that aim to fine or imprison service providers who don't delete such footage from their websites, continue to stall in the National Assembly, leaving the victims of these crimes to continue to try to find justice in a flawed system."
8. Nigeria's #MeToo movement erupted
This year, several #MeToo-style movements took off in Nigeria, as well as other parts of West Africa, as women came forward about the sexual abuse, harassment and rape they have long suffered in silence.
In northern Nigeria, a conservative and mainly Muslim part of the country, a young pharmacist tweeted in February about how her boyfriend allegedly almost killed her. Soon #ArewaMeToo – Arewa meaning 'north' in the local Hausa language – was taking off.
In June, Busola Dakolo, 34, a well-known Nigerian photographer, publicly accused Biodun Fatoyinbo, her former pastor, of raping her twice years ago. After the explosive interview aired, other women contacted Dakolo to tell her that Fatoyinbo, a prominent pastor in the capital, had sexually assaulted them, as well.
The outrage among women that ensued was fierce. But so also was the backlash. Fatoyinbo took a leave of absence from his church but is back at the pulpit now and has denied all allegations. Nigeria's most influential Muslim leader, meanwhile, has formally banned #ArewaMeToo.
9. Chile's feminist battle cry ringing around the world: "The rapist is you!"
Protests broke out in Chile in October against crippling economic inequality and failing government policies – and opened the floodgates for all kinds of dissent with the status quo, gender-based violence included.
In late November, the Chilean feminist collective Las Tesis penned a chilling anthem, "Un violator en tu camino," or "A rapist in your way." The message of female anger and defiance quickly resonated and spread around the world.
"The patriarchy is a judge that judges us for being born, and our punishment is the violence you don't see," the chant begins. It later continues, "It's femicide. Impunity for the killer. It's disappearance. It's rape. And the fault wasn't mine, not where I was, not how I dressed . . . The rapist is you. It's the cops, the judges, the state. The president. The oppressive state is a rapist."
1o. Women symbolized uprisings in Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq
In 2019, uprisings rocked the male-led political establishments in Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq. In Sudan, months of protests culminated in the April ouster of Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the African country's longtime dictator, who has been accused of war crimes. Women in conservative Sudan were at the forefront of the demonstrations. One protester, 22-year-old Alaa Salah, became a symbol of the revolution after a video of her leading chants, while dressed in traditional white garb, went viral. That women, who generally make up half the population, have political grievances and opinions to share is no surprise.
In Iraq, women shouting into megaphones, attending to the wounded, organizing protest camps, feeding protesters and even facing off with security forces have helped to sustain two months of demonstrations, which are challenging the corrupt and sectarian political system set up after the Iraq War.
And in Lebanon, where the public has been protesting for weeks against the sectarianism and corruption plaguing the government, one fearless woman embodied the spirit of the revolution when she expertly kicked an armed man trying to prevent her from protesting. The video went viral.
Now comes the second struggle, say women's activists: to move beyond the fetishization of female protesters and to actually support and institute real gender-attuned political change.
In short: Bring it on, 2020.
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Scotty Moore, The Guitarist Behind The King
By The Dallas Observer, March 1, 2000 by Michael Roberts, Mar 5, 2000
The complaint most frequently levied against Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a conceptual one. Putting up a tourist-friendly, mainstream memorial to what began as anti-establishment music, critics of the Hall say, is the best possible way to snuff out any sense of danger the form might still possess (emphasis on might). After all, museums are for dead things, not living ones. When he's presented with this argument, Scotty Moore, who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in the brand-new "sidemen" category during a March 6 ceremony at New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, emits a good-natured chuckle. "I hadn't really thought about it as a museum, but I guess that's right," he says, in a soft tone marked by a pleasant twang. "I'll try not to move when people pass by me." This self-deprecating remark is characteristic of the man. As the string-strangler behind most of Elvis Presley's best work, Moore, who's in his late 60s, helped shape the sounds of the last half-century. But in conversation, he refuses to overdramatize himself or his contributions to the music for which he's being feted. Despite the Hall of Fame spotlight currently shining on him and the other inaugural sideman honorees (saxophonist King Curtis and bassist James Jamerson, both deceased, plus drummers Earl Palmer and Hal Blaine), he prefers sticking to the shadows, just as he did when he was on stage with Presley, figuratively putting himself in the background of his own story out of force of habit. That's not all bad, of course: Moore's modesty is a welcome alternative to the worshipful pap regularly churned out by the Rock and Roll Myth Machine. And modest he is. He makes it clear that the title of The Guitar That Changed the World!, his 1964 solo album, most certainly wasn't his idea, and he seems dumbfounded to learn that Presley was recently named the 57th most significant figure of the last millennium in a program aired on the Arts & Entertainment network. "There's no question he touched a lot of people," Moore concedes. "But a thousand years is a loooong time." On top of that, he had to be cajoled into participating in That's Alright, Elvis: The Untold Story of Elvis's First Guitarist and Manager, Scotty Moore, a tome he co-wrote with Jim Dickerson that was published in 1998. According to him, "There were just so many books out there that I couldn't see getting into the fray, so to speak. And I thought that everything had been told. But I have a daughter in Memphis who knew Jim, and she was constantly saying, 'Why don't you do something? Why don't you do something?' over several years. So finally I just said, 'If you'll hush, I'll do it. Now, leave me alone.'" Moore's account of the July 1954 night when he, Elvis, and bassist Bill Black recorded the Arthur Crudup blues "That's All Right (Mama)" for producer Sam Phillips at Sun Studios in Memphis is similarly low-key. Many rock historians regard this session to be the genre's single most important event, a seismic experience that permanently altered the pop-music landscape even as its mixing of black and white influences prefigured the civil rights movement. But Moore sees the evening in much simpler terms. "I did an interview with this fella in Amsterdam," he notes, "and he said, 'What did you think of the big bang?' And I said, 'What? What big bang?' And he said, 'You know. The big bang -- when Elvis cut 'That's All Right.'" After a hearty laugh, he clarifies things: "That wasn't the big bang. That was an audition." Elvis passed, as it turns out. But Moore, a native of Gadsden, Tennessee, who got to know Phillips through the Starlite Wranglers, a band he'd helped form after his discharge from the Navy a couple of years earlier, still has a hard time making the moment seem magical. "We did what we were supposed to do, the three of us," he says. "We played a lot of rhythm, and I was trying to throw in some side notes in there, to make it kind of fuller. So I guess we knew it was a little different than the other things we'd been doing. But we didn't have any idea that it was going to be anything special. "It was radio that made the difference," he goes on. "This disc jockey [Dewey Phillips, no relation to Sam] started playing the thing, and he just played it over and over and over and over. It was almost like he got the people in the audience kind of brainwashed by it. But even then, it wasn't like anything happened overnight. We had to pay our dues for about a year and a half. It wasn't until we did our first TV show, with the Dorsey Brothers, that we realized, you know, we'd better hang on." Prior to the rocket taking off, Moore had managed Presley and his band, collectively known as the Blue Moon Boys. These duties were later taken on by Bob Neal and, more famously, Colonel Tom Parker, leaving Moore time to concentrate on playing. Along with drummer D.J. Fontana, the first addition to the lineup, and bassist Black, who died of a brain tumor in 1965, he backed Presley on the hits that established his legacy: "Heartbreak Hotel," "Baby, Let's Play House," "Blue Suede Shoes," "Jailhouse Rock" and so on. But while Moore's clean, energetic riffing and power-glide solos have plenty to do with the tunes' success, he never forgot that he was there to support the singer, not overwhelm him. "I tried to keep it simple -- and simplicity, you know, that's something you have to work at. I listen to some of the things now and I think, I could have played a lot more stuff there. But I'm glad I didn't. Like on 'Don't Be Cruel': I played the little intro on that and played a chord on the very end, and that's all I played during the whole song. But it didn't need anything else. That little rhythm thing Elvis was doing on his guitar and D.J. and the Jordanaires [a vocal quartet often used by Presley] doing that little doo-wop thing...Well, it just fell right in a groove, and I figured, maybe we'd better leave well enough alone. "Sometimes it took quite a while to get it right," he continues, "and the studio people would fuss at us. They'd go, 'Buncha damn amateurs.' But we were constantly trying to find things that we thought would fit the song and not get in the way of the vocal. Besides, it didn't take me long to play every note I knew" -- another laugh -- "so I just wanted to put them to good use." Presley's 1958 induction into the Army didn't end Moore's interactions with the King; he worked on numerous '60s tracks and was a key participant in Elvis' 1968 television special, which saved a career nearly done in by lousy, interchangeable movies and the mainly crummy soundtracks that went along with them. But Moore was involved in other projects as well. He founded his own label, Fernwood Records, which spawned one decent-sized hit (Thomas Wayne's "Tragedy"), and worked for Sam Phillips as engineer and head of production at Sun. (He was involved in the creation of some intriguing and under appreciated work by Charlie Rich, for instance.) And then there was the Epic Records release The Guitar That Changed the World!, an effort that teamed Moore with Presley cohorts Fontana and the Jordanaires, plus studio regulars such as saxophonist Boots Randolph, under the supervision of Nashville super-producer Billy Sherrill. "It was supposed to be one of a series," Moore remembers. "Billy sold CBS [Epic's owner] on the idea that we could do a lot of the Elvis stuff -- volume one, volume two -- and put them in chronological order. And CBS said, 'That's a good idea.' But when it got down to doing the session, they said, 'Maybe you ought to just do some of the bigger hits today, and we'll kind of test it.' And when they did, that was the end of that project. "I know they must have sold quite a few of them, because D.J. and I play Europe every once in a while, and nearly every show, somebody comes up with a copy and wants us to sign it. But th
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Brotherhood has described the US as the "biggest backer of dictatorship" in Egypt after Kerry's allegations about the Ikhwan.
Muslim Brotherhood's Secretary-General Mahmoud Hussein has described the United States as the "biggest backer of dictatorship" in Egypt.
This came two days after US Secretary of State John Kerry accused the Muslim Brotherhood – the group from which ousted president Mohamed Morsi hails – of "stealing" the Egyptian revolution.
"Kerry is twisting facts," Hussein said in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Anadolu Agency on Friday.
On Wednesday, Kerry declared that Egypt's January 25 Revolution, which ended the 30-year rule of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, had been "stolen" by the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Hussein said that the Muslim Brotherhood has swept Egypt's parliamentary and presidential elections via "fair elections".
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Kurt Vonnegut is Wrong, or Alan Explains Drama (with help)
This article has been making the rounds of the interwebs:
Kurt Vonnegut explains drama.
In it he basically says:
because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.
I immediately disagreed with that assertion. One of the comments (#66 from "Susan") started to get at why:
I think that's putting the cart before the horse.
Back in the ancestral environment, day-to-day survival could be pretty dramatic. "Lion ... coming right for us! Run!" "We're running out of animals to hunt and berries to gather. Oh noooo!" "Hey, there's plenty of food in this new place. Yaaaay!"
Now survival pretty much consists of going to work and shopping at the supermarket. Between the legitimate dramatic events -- births, deaths, major life transitions -- the landscape is fairly flat.
Maybe our psyche manufactures drama out of insignificant events the way immune systems in a too-sterile environment develop allergic reactions.
I think that pretty much hits it on the nose for me. I would go further to say that the stories aren't conditioning us to expect drama. Popular stories are dramatic because that's how we're evolutionarily conditioned to expect life to be. When it's not, we need the stories to scratch that itch in our lives.
If we didn't create drama where there is none, we wouldn't know how to react to real drama when faced with it.
I noticed that as a kid when I realized that the things that were important to most of my friends and me weren't really that important at all from a larger perspective. But because we didn't have to worry about things like feeding ourselves, we made the trivial matters before us into life and death struggles.
It makes sense, really. A human animal that's always expecting drama will be prepared for it and be more likely to survive it.
You might think "we haven't lived in the wild for centuries, why haven't we evolved past that?" Keep in mind that humans have been around for about 200,000 years (if you believe in evolution). If you shrink that down to the length of the month of January, all of recorded history (which is just history since the invention of writing—there are huge gaps in "recorded history") would fit into just the last day. We're much closer to the wild than we think.
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What is a pulse oximeter, and why should you care?
By Jackie Dove August 19, 2020
Today's wearables are already stuffed to the gills with all kinds of health sensors, from electrocardiograms to sleep trackers. The most recent addition is the pulse oximeter, and it's starting to show up in the latest, most high-end smartwatches and fitness trackers. But what is it, and should your next device have one?
Trackers that measure blood oxygen
Should you consider this feature?
SpO2 and the Apple Watch Series 6
Pulse oximeters measure blood oxygen level — how much oxygen is present in your blood and how well it is transported to the extremities (blood pressure monitors are different). Medical pulse oximeters are simple, non-invasive gauges that often clip on to an extremity, like a finger, toe, or earlobe, to take measurements based on a combination of LED red and infrared light. These measure the varying rates of light absorption to determine the level of oxygen in the blood.
For wrist-based wearables, an on-screen widget shows a blood oxygen percentage alongside altitude readings to calculate the levels of oxygen in the blood. This can be useful for hiking, alpine sports, and other elevation-related activities. Another use for the "pulse ox" reading is diagnosing sleep apnea, a common sleep disorder in which blood oxygen levels drop during sleep.
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In smartwatches and fitness trackers, pulse oximeters are often referred to as SpO2 sensors. Not all pulse oximeters work the same way, and it's hard for most medical civilians to judge whether its findings are significant or accurate. Some have you place a finger on the back of the device for measuring, while others can sit happily on your wrist as you hold completely still for that check. Not all fitness wearables have them, but they are becoming more popular as another feature to look for when considering a purchase.
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SpO2 sensors are starting to appear in the high end of mainstream products. Garmin, for example, packs this feature into its Garmin Vivosmart 4, the Garmin Venu, Fenix 5X and 6X, and Forerunner running watches. Fitbit and Withings are also featuring SpO2 sensors on a host of devices. Fitbit's Ionic, Versa, and Charge 3 devices include a light-based SpO2 sensor paired with its branded fitness app.
It may be early days for these features, at least on some products. A Digital Trends review of the Fenix 5X Plus made this observation:
… the Fenix 5X Plus ships with a pulse oximetry sensor that will measure blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) levels. For most people, this sensor won't provide any meaningful data, but alpinists who are climbing at high elevations can use this measurement to gauge their altitude acclimation … The Pulse Ox sensor shows promise but it has one major flaw — you need to be still. Very still. So still that it is difficult to get a reliable reading, and we ended up never using the feature.
The Withings brand has committed to the pulse oximeter tech with the Withings Pulse Ox and its latest ScanWatch, which it demoed at CES 2020. The ScanWatch specializes in sleep apnea detection and will track oxygen saturation levels through the night as the wearer sleeps. The device, like other similar ones, has not been cleared by the FDA yet, though approval is expected this year.
The Garmin Vivosmart 4 can log blood oxygen levels during sleep while recording the results in your sleep data. However, the device does not specifically alert you to sleep apnea, and you must analyze the data yourself.
If you are a hiker or aviator, engage in high-altitude sports, or suffer from sleep apnea, you may benefit from a watch or tracker with a built-in SpO2 sensor. Note that some devices turn this feature off by default because of the negative impact on battery life. The primary function of a pulse oximeter is to gather health data and notify you of any unusual readings. A normal blood oxygen saturation rate is around 95% with slight variations. Readings that come in consistently below 90% may prompt you to get a checkup, at the very least to verify the accuracy of the readings and to figure out an approach to mitigate any problem the device may have uncovered.
Rumor has it that one of the new health features debuting for the upcoming Apple Watch Series 6 could be SpO2 tracking. 9to5Mac pointed out iOS 14 code that reveals that a new Apple Watch could detect blood oxygen levels and alert users if it detects levels falling below a certain point. Apple reportedly has made a deal with Taiwan-based ASE Technology to bring biosensors to the Apple Watch that facilitate SpO2 tracking.
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Misalliance – Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond
Writer: George Bernard Shaw Director: Paul Miller Reviewer: Richard Maguire The full title of Bernard Shaw's 1909 comedy is Misalliance: A Debate in One Sitting, but the Orange Tree has wisely chosen to omit the subtitle of its latest production of lesser-known works by the Irish playwright. There is debate here, but this is a more light-hearted Shaw than we ...
The Divide Parts 1 and 2 – King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Writer: Alan Ayckbourn Director: Annabel Bolton Reviewer: S.E. Webster Incredible though it may sound, 2017 is actually Alan Ayckbourn's debut at the Edinburgh International Festival. The prolific playwright, whose plays have been translated into more than 35 languages, is finally treading the floorboards at the Festival with his new work The Divide. Having united with the Old Vic and handed ...
The Grapes of Wrath – Nottingham Playhouse
Writer: Frank Galati adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck Director: Abbey Wright Reviewer: Claire Going John Steinbeck's 1939 novel is widely acknowledged as an epic tale of struggle and unity, and Frank Galati's stage adaptation has been lauded, winning a Tony Award back in 1990. What a shame, then, that Abbey Wright's new production of The Grapes of Wrath never quite ...
I Am Thomas – Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Writer: Told by an Idiot Music: Iain Johnstone Lyrics: Simon Armitage Director: Paul Hunter Reviewer: Gareth Davies A little bit of local history is brought to life at the Lyceum as the life of Thomas Aikenhead, the last person to be executed in the UK for blasphemy, is given a vivid, musical-comedy treatment. Described as a brutal comedy with songs, ...
The Oresteia – HOME, Manchester
Writer: Aeschylus Adaptor: Ted Hughes Director: Blanche McIntyre Reviewer: Dave Cunningham If you're a theatregoer there are certain types of play that you feel obliged to experience. As the Greeks pretty much introduced theatre to the western world their tragedies are high on the list; but this doesn't make them easy to watch. Aeschylus' The Oresteia, with themes including the ...
The Ghost Train – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Writer: Arnold Ridley Director: Paul Hunter Reviewer: Taylor Simmons Reminiscent of The 39 Steps, Arnold Ridley's The Ghost Train is a 1920s mystery thriller drama which continues to be re-imagined and performed since its London debut in 1925. The story follows a group of travellers who have been stranded at a remote railway station – a station with a dark, ...
A Farewell to Arms– The Lowry, Salford
Writer: Ernest Hemingway Adaptor/Directors: Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The centenary of World War 1 has been marked the staging of a number of plays that reflect the atrocity of the conflict by emphasising, say, the number of causalities. imitating the dog take a different approach. Their adaptation of A Farewell to Arms is as much a ...
Othello – Curve, Leicester
Writer: William Shakespeare Adaptors: Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett Director: Scott Graham Frantic Assembly's reputation as one of the most exciting practitioners in modern theatre is well-deserved. Originally staged in 2008 and winning Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett a TMA Theatre award for best direction, Othello is as fresh and as exciting as it was during the original tour. Othello ...


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Ukraine under the junta is marching back to Europe, which means that it is marching with fascist columns on the east, and Europe is marching forward too, trying to put some democratic makeup on the faces of the fascist shock troopers, while the Russian government is trying to utter the best passable compliments to its Ukrainian and Western "partners" with gentle reminders of their joint responsibilities. At the same time, the Kremlin and Putin's fans are now turning what have been mere hints into ever louder rebukes to the antifascist resistance in east Ukraine to the effect that they are at best misguided fools.
Dnipropetrovsk is a firewall of pro-government sentiment in a restive region ..."I called them in and told them there is a red line," said Borys Filatov, the deputy governor who made a fortune as a corporate lawyer. "I said, you can wave your flags and shout anything you want. But if you try to take over the building, there won't be any of this 'Please leave,' like in Donetsk. We will shoot without warning. We will kill you." He paused and seemed to ponder how his take-no-prisoners message sounds to an outsider. "I am sorry if I sound brutal," he said." The West and its journalists were deeply in awe.
1. crackdown to be undertaken "irrespective of public opinion"
2. "gain" to be obtained: "decimation of activists and pro-Russian voters"
7. adults ought to be "relocated to [concentration] camps"
9. even children under 13 are to be moved away to concentration "facilities"
14. Everything on the ground and the whole course of the junta's so-called ATO or "anti-terrorist operation" conforms to this plan and fits it to a t.
This plan makes both the junta and RAND criminal organizations and war criminals.


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In an often contentious confrontation between pro and con forces Tuesday night, the five-member board heard nearly 90 minutes of comments from more than a dozen speakers, with each side making often emotional appeals to sway the board.
At the end, the opposition won, with the town board voting 4-0, with one abstention, to enact a stay on wind turbine development pending a town study to measure the potential impacts on "public health, safety and welfare, as well as other resources of the Town of Sanford." The moratorium lasts at least 90 days for the planning board-initiated review. The moratorium also prohibits erecting new meteorological towers by the sponsor to measure wind speed.
Calpine wants to install 27 turbines — four in the Town of Windsor, and 23 in the Town of Sanford — capable of producing 124 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply about 90,000 homes. The turbines will measure, at maximum, nearly 670 feet from the base of the tower to the uppermost tip of the blade. A typical cellphone tower stands 100 to 200 feet high.
The project, known as Bluestone, is now undergoing an extensive review process by the state Public Service Commission. A decision on whether the installation will get the go-ahead is expected by the end of the year.
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Sanford, with a population of about 2,500, is clearly a town divided. The controversy is not unique to Sanford. Similar debates are being heard in Chenango and Steuben counties, where wind turbines have also been proposed.
On one side are the landowners leasing the hilltops to Calpine for 23 wind turbines planned for the town. The landowners stand to be paid annual stipends for use of their land. Neither Calpine nor the state Public Service Commission, which is overseeing the project review, will divulge the lease payments. However, an early disclosure document indicates that lease payments for landowners hosting the turbines will be between $2,500 and $30,000 annually.
More:Broome residents concerned about wind project that would power 90,000 homes
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Supporters contend the project will bring much-needed economic development and tax revenue to the community that skirts Route 17. They scoff at claims that the project will spoil what opponents say is the community's treasured wooded setting. They also note the community's general acceptance of hydrofracking for natural gas before it was banned in the state five years ago. Supporters say the payments will provide sustenance to the landowners, some of whom are trying to scrape by.
Objections raised
On the other side are other residents in this rural town that lies just west of the West Branch of the Delaware River, about 30 miles east of Binghamton, who contend the wind turbine installation will cause a raft of health maladies, disturb a critical golden eagle habitat and migration path, and depress land values.
"You've had plenty of time to consider these issues," said Chris Stanton, of Calpine.
Yet, many of the 70 people attending the meeting were clearly in favor of stalling the project for further study.
"There's so much to learn that you haven't even looked at," said Angela Olson. "We need the moratorium to protect out community."
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Q: Launch directions from Android Wear app Hi Android developers,
Google Maps Micro (Maps for Android Wear) does not work like the Google Maps for smartphone. The app just crashes when using the classic intent :
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("google.navigation:q=48.649469,-2.02579"));
startActivity(intent);

So, how to start directions from an Android Wear app?
Julien

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Have you read up on my successful and exciting times at Baltimore Comic Con?
Most people are never cooler than you thought.
the older I get, the more I see that. very true.
Not sure if I mentioned this but the cartoon comes up only as a box with a red x in Google reader.
D&D was way cooler thanks to Tom Hanks and his attempt to jump between the twin towers in the movie "Mazes & Monsters" which made all of us think if we played D&D we were gonna whack out and lose our minds.
The Cartoon was pretty cool, from what I remember, but I think the draw to D&D for me back in the day was that it was always talked up as being so taboo. We had a lot of great times around the board, spent more time joking and just being cool with each other than actual game play.
My great times with friends back in HS and college involved Mario Kart, Smash Brothers & Golden Eye on the n64, and long competitive nights of uno. yes, UNO. We did not mess around with Uno. We played by a point system and made the "draw-2/4″ cards cumulative. Damn, I miss that.
….. yeah, I couldn't POSSIBLY imagine you being into this stuff.
i used to play the first version back in highschool, after they changed the system i wasnt so impressed.
don't fix things that aren't broken, eh?
Although i don´t feel geeky at all hehe.
to me, the definition of "geek" is to totally and fully embrace a hobby or interest… just as D&D fans will "geek out" over fantasy role play and such, sports fans "geek out" over stats and games. I am a Cleveland sports geek as well as a comic strip geek!
Gee. Now I wonder if I'm as cool as I think I am. Probably not, huh?


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Finding hope by fixing a gene
July 21, 2016 By Roger Meissen in Research Tags: genetics, SMA
Lorson lab publishes research on a new therapeutic path to help treat spinal muscular atrophy
By Phillip Sitter | MU Bond Life Sciences Center
Erkan Osman shows iImages of neuro-muscular junctions. Osman, a post-doctoral fellow in Chris Lorson's lab, co-authored research in the journal Molecular Therapy that details work in binding a synthetic nucleic acid to a normally useless motor neuron backup gene to help treat spinal muscular atrophy. | photo by Phillip Sitter, Bond LSC
Imagine you are forced to jump out of an airplane.
Luckily, you find a parachute that even has a backup chute. You leap out of the plane and free-fall.
You pull the cord to open your parachute, but it doesn't open. Don't panic, though, you have a backup. But, you pull that cord and nothing happens. Now you face the reality of a death as firm and un-yielding as the ground rushing into your view.
This air disaster mirrors the mechanism and mortal threat posed for people born with the genetic problem that causes spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
Chris Lorson's lab at the Bond Life Sciences Center would like to change that situation by making an effective genetic backup to the defective gene that results in SMA. The journal Molecular Therapy, a publication of Nature, recently accepted their findings for publication.
The defect occurs in a specific gene called Survival Motor Neuron (SMN). If the SMN gene is defective because of mutation, this causes a deficiency of the SMN protein it is supposed to produce. Without this protein, the neurons that control muscle movement malfunction. Signals cease to stimulate muscles.
Muscles that are not stimulated atrophy, grow weak and waste away. At first this happens with the skeletal muscles, which leads to loss of motor function for simple activities like walking and swallowing. If it happens with the muscles that control breathing, you die.
News of the disease often presents a devastating prognosis. Infants have it worst; babies diagnosed with SMA only have a life expectancy of two to five years from birth.
Fortunately, our bodies have a sort of backup for the SMN gene, another one called SMN-2. But, like a useless backup parachute for an unlucky skydiver, SMN-2 isn't actually very good at producing proteins of the quality needed to stave off SMA. It might just be a vestigial trait on its way down the evolutionary drain — it doesn't even exist in the closest primate relatives of humans.
Discoveries in the Lorson lab look to make the SMN-2 gene an effective backup, and their recent publications indicate that this may be a viable possibility for future SMA treatments.
Christian Lorson studies the genes that cause SMA when they fail to adequately function. His team's on a backup gene that greatly extended life expectancy in mouse studies. | photo by Phillip Sitter, Bond LSC
"What we've been working on in the lab is a potential therapeutic, and what it does, it's a large small molecule that is called an antisense oligonucleotide, or ASO," Lorson said. "And this is something that is essentially a synthetic piece of nucleic acid that is able to go in and bind to a specific sequence within a gene."
Once bound to SMN-2, the ASO is designed to alter mRNA splicing, "essentially, the editing of a gene," Lorson said. Speaking in terms akin to products leaving a factory, Lorson said that the attached ASO makes SMN-2 produce good quality proteins, the ones that it wasn't able to produce before.
In other words, suddenly the backup protein-factory that was making poor-quality products is now pumping out top-of-the-line stuff that will work.
Previous research identified a strong ASO contender to experiment with, and Lorson said current research is about optimizing an ASO to extend survival times in mice with SMA — from just 13 days to five months after only one injection at birth.
Lorson stressed that his lab's achievement doesn't promise a fast cure for SMA. He said it is unlikely a single compound will address the full gambit of effects that people with SMA suffer, especially given that people can be identified as having SMA at any time from birth through later in life — often late onset SMA tends to be less severe than diagnosis as an infant.
There's not yet any single compound treatment for SMA that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Lorson said, so he cautions against getting hopes up of for a revolutionary treatment for SMA coming onto the market soon — "Near future but not tomorrow."
He acknowledged, though, that "from a research perspective, things seem to be moving at lightning speed, but if you are a patient or a family member, things can never go fast enough, so I think there's a realized sense of urgency, whether or not it's for patients who don't have the disease yet, are not born, or for patients who have had the disease for a decade and are wondering when their opportunity would come."
Lorson's work is funded in part by Cure SMA, FightSMA and the Gwendolyn Strong foundations. Erkan Osman, a post-doctoral fellow in Lorson's lab and the first author on the most recent paper, won the emerging investigator award from FightSMA and Gwendolyn Strong in 2015.
Unmasking the unknown
March 1, 2016 By Justin L. Stewart in Research Tags: Arabidopsis, Bond Life Sciences Center, Dan Leuchtman, decoding science, genetics, Immune System, Mannie Liscum, mice, mizzou, MmSRFR1, plant science, research, SRFR1, Walter Gassmann
Scientists explore genetic similarities between plants and mice
University of Missouri PhD Candidate Daniel L. Leuchtman peers through an Arabidopsis plant. Leuchtman has been experimenting with replacing a gene in the plants immune system with a similar gene from mice. | Photograph by Justin L. Stewart/MU Bond Life Sciences Center
By Justin L. Stewart | MU Bond Life Sciences Center
Almost two-thirds of what makes a human a human and a fly a fly are the same, according to the NIH genome research institute.
If recent research at the University of Missouri's Bond Life Sciences Center is verified, we'll soon see that plants and mice aren't all that different, either.
Dan Leuchtman studies a gene in Arabidopsis plants called SRFR1, or "Surfer One." SRFR1 regulates plant immune systems and tell them when they are infected with diseases or illnesses. Leuchtman studies this model plant as a Ph.D. candidate at MU, splitting time between the labs of Walter Gassmann and Mannie Liscum.
His research involves breeding Arabidopsis plants missing the SRFR1 gene and then replacing it with the MmSRFR1 gene.
A series of Arabidopsis plants show the differences between the plants, from left, without SRFR1, with MmSRFR1 and with SRFR1. | Photograph by Justin L. Stewart/MU Bond Life Sciences Center
So, what is MmSRFR1? Leuchtman and company believe it's the animal equivalent of SRFR1, though they aren't fully aware of all of its' functions.
"We're actually one of the first groups to characterize it," Leuchtman said.
Arabidopsis plants missing the SRFR1 gene struggle to grow at all, appearing vastly different from normal plants. Leuchtman says that a plant missing the SRFR1 gene is a mangled little ball of leaves curled in on itself. "It's really strange looking."
While his experiments haven't created statuesque plants equal to those with natural SRFR1 genes present, the Arabidopsis plants with MmSRFR1 show a notable difference from those completely lacking SRFR1. Leuchtman says the plants with MmSRFR1 lie somewhere in between a normal plant and one lacking SRFR1.
University of Missouri PhD Candidate Daniel L. Leuchtman poses for a portrait in a Bond Life Sciences Center greenhouse. Leuchtman has been experimenting with replacing a gene in Arabidopsis plants immune system with a similar gene from mice. | Photograph by Justin L. Stewart/MU Bond Life Sciences Center
"At its' core, it's more understanding fundamental biology. How do we work? How do organisms tick? How do you go from DNA in a little bag of salts to a walking, talking organism?" Leuchtman said. "The more you know about how an organism functions, the more opportunities you have to find something that makes an impact."
Understanding spit
October 8, 2015 By Roger Meissen in Research No Comments Tags: Arabidopsis, genetics, nematodes, plant sciences, soybean
Scientists find how nematodes use key hormones to take over root cells
Roger Meissen | Bond Life Sciences Center
This Arabidopsis root shows how the beet cyst nematode activates cytokinin signaling in the syncytium 10 days after infection. The root fluoresces green when the TCSn gene associated with cytokinin activation is turned on because it is fused with a jellyfish protein that acts as a reporter signal. (N=nematode; S=Syncytium). Contributed by Carola De La Torre
This is a story about spit.
Not just any spit, but the saliva of cyst nematodes, a parasite that literally sucks away billions in profits from soybean and other crops every year.
Researchers are working to uncover exactly how these tiny worms trick plant root cells into feeding them for life.
A team at the University of Missouri Bond Life Sciences Center collaborated with scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany to discover genetic evidence that the parasite uses its own version of a key plant hormone and that of the plants to make root cells vulnerable to feeding. Their research recently appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Melissa Mitchum
Cytokinin is normally produced in plants, but these researchers determined that this growth hormone is also produced by nematode parasites that use it to take over plant root cells.
"While it's well-known that certain bacteria and some fungi can produce and secrete cytokinin to cause disease, it's not normal for an animal to do this," said Melissa Mitchum, an MU plant scientist and co-author on the study. "This is the first study to demonstrate the ability of an animal to synthesize and secrete cytokinin for parasitism."
Reprogramming another organism might sound like a far out concept, but it's a reality for plants susceptible to nematodes.
Cyst nematodes hatch from eggs laid in fields and quickly migrate to the roots of nearby plants. They inject nematode spit into a single host cell of soybean, beet and other crop roots.
Carola De La Torre
"Imagine a hollow needle at the head of the nematode that the parasite uses to penetrate into the plant cell wall and secrete pathogenic proteins and hormone mimics," said Carola De La Torre, a co-author of the study and plant sciences PhD student with Mitchum's lab. "Nematodes use the spit to transform the host cell into a nutrient sink from which they feed on during their entire life cycle. This de novo differentiation process greatly depends on nematode–derived plant hormone mimics or manipulation of plant hormonal pathways caused by effector proteins present in the nematode spit."
These effector proteins and other small molecules in their spit cause the root cell to forego normal processes and create a huge feeding site called a syncytium. In a short period of time, this causes hundreds of root cells to combine into a large nutrient storage unit that the nematode feeds from for its entire life.
Being able to convince a root cell to do the nematode's bidding starts with a takeover of the plant host cell cycle — which regulates DNA replication and division. This implies that a plant hormone like cytokinin is involved, says Mitchum. Cytokinin normally regulates a plant's shoot growth, leaf aging, and other cell processes.
Proving the relationship
While Mitchum's lab had a hunch that cytokinin was key to this takeover, proving it took some creative science.
De La Torre and Demosthenis Chronis, a postdoctoral fellow MU at the Bond LSC depended on mutant Arabidopsis plants to explore the relationship. "One of the great things about using Arabidopsis as our host plant is the vast genetic resources of cytokinin and hormone mutants that are available through the scientific community," De La Torre said.
She infected Arabidopsis that contained a reporter gene called TCSn/GFP with nematodes. This gene is associated with cytokinin responses within the plant cells and is fused with a jellyfish protein that glows green when turned on. So, De La Torre saw nematodes activated cytokinin responses in the plant early after infection when her plants emitted a green fluorescent glow under the microscope.
Next, she infected plants missing the majority of their cytokinin receptors with nematodes. Then she started counting nematodes present.
"After a careful evaluation of nematode infection, we observed less female nematodes developing in the receptor mutants compared to the wild type" De La Torre said. "The nematodes could not infect well, and that was a clear piece of evidence suggesting that cytokinin plays a main role in plant–nematode interactions."
Another experiment looked at Arabidopsis containing a reporter gene called GUS that was fused to the regulatory sequences of the cytokinin receptor genes. All three cytokinin receptor genes were activated where the nematode was feeding.
A final experiment used a mutant that created an excess of an enzyme that degrades cytokinin, finding that a base level of plant cytokinin was also necessary for nematode growth.
"The simple statement is that the cytokinin receptors were activated in response to nematode infection and the mutants did not support growth and development of the nematodes," Mitchum said. "This shows that if you take away the ability of the plant to recognize cytokinin the worms are unable to fully develop."
An international collaboration
Mitchum's team did not work alone.
The lab of Florian Grundler at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, Germany, was also on a mission to uncover if genes in the nematode controlled cytokinin activation. They had identified a key gene in the beet cyst nematode that makes the cytokinin hormone. When they took away the ability of the nematode to secrete cytokinin certain cell cycle genes were not activated at the feeding site and the nematodes did not develop. Now we know that the nematode is also secreting cytokinin to modulate the pathways.
De La Torre took that information and found the same gene in the soybean cyst nematode.
Now, Mitchum's team is trying to find how this key gene might work differently in other nematode types, like root-knot nematode as part of a new National Science Foundation grant. They hope this will help lead to better resistance in future crops.
"Understanding how the nematode modulates its host is going to help us exploit new technologies to engineer plants with enhanced resistance to this terribly devastating pathogen," Mitchum said. "Technology is changing all the time, we're gaining new tools constantly, so you never know when something new is going to allow us to do something specific at the site of nematode feeding that will lead to a breakthrough."
Mitchum is a Bond LSC investigator and an associate professor of Plant Sciences in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. The study "A Plant Parasitic Nematode Releases Cytokinin that Control Cell Division and Orchestrate Feeding-Site Formation in Host Plants" recently was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant #IOS-1456047 to Mitchum). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funding agencies.
Scientists uncover how caterpillars created condiments
June 22, 2015 By Roger Meissen in Research 6 Comments Tags: Bond LSC, Brassicales, cabbage butterfly, evolution, genetics, plant science
The next time you slather mustard on your hotdog or horseradish on your bun, thank caterpillars and brassica for that extra flavor.
While these condiments might be tasty to you, the mustard oils that create their flavors are the result of millions of years of plants playing defense against pests. But at the same time, clever insects like cabbage butterflies worked to counter these defenses, which then started an arms race between the plants and insects.
An international research team led by University of Missouri Bond Life Sciences Center researchers recently gained insight into a genetic basis for this co-evolution between butterflies and plants in Brassicales, an order of plants in the mustard family that includes cabbage, broccoli and kale.
Chris Pires | Image by Roger Meissen, Bond LSC
The team published these new insights online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in June.
"We found the genetic evidence for an arms race between plants like mustards, cabbage and broccoli and insects like cabbage butterflies," said Chris Pires, an MU Bond Life Sciences Center researcher and associate professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences. "These plants duplicated their genome and those multiple copies of genes evolved new traits like these chemical defenses and then cabbage butterflies responded by evolving new ways to fight against them."
A biting taste
While you might like the zing in mustard, insects don't.
Compounds, called glucosinolates, create these sharp flavors in plants to defend against caterpillars, butterflies and other pests. Brassicales species first evolved glucosinolate defenses around the KT Boundary — when dinosaurs went extinct — and eventually diversified to synthesize more than 120 different types of this compound.
For most insects, these glucosinolates prove toxic, but certain ones like the cabbage butterfly evolved ways to detoxify the compounds.
"Seeing the variation in the detoxification mechanisms among species and their gene copies gave us important evolutionary insights," said Hanna Heidel-Fischer, a lead author on the study based at the Max Plank Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany.
To look at these genetic differences, the team used 9 existing Brassicales genomes and also generated transcriptomes — the set of all RNA in a cell — across 14 Brassicales families. This allowed the team to map an evolutionary family tree of sorts over the millennia, seeing where major defense changes occurred. This family tree was compared with the family tree of 9 key species of Pieridae butterflies, which includes the cabbage butterfly.
Pires and his colleagues identified three significant evolutionary waves over 80 million years, where plants developed defenses and insects evolved counter tactics.
Pat Edger | Image by Roger Meissen, Bond LSC
"We found that the origin of brand-new chemicals in the plant arose through gene duplications that encode novel functions rather than single mutations," said Pat Edger, a former MU post doc and lead author on the study. "Given sufficient amounts of time the insects repeatedly developed counter defenses and adaptations to these new plant defenses."
This back-and-forth pressure resulted in the evolution of many more species of plants and butterflies than in other groups without glucosinolate pressures.
Proving an old concept
Co-evolution is not a new idea.
About 50 years ago two now-renowned biologists, Peter Raven and Paul Erhlich, introduced the idea of co-evolution to science. Using cabbage butterflies and Brassica plants as a prime example, the two published a landmark study in 1964 advancing the idea that two species can mutually influence the development and evolution of each other.
To explore the genetics of how this works, Pires' lab partnered with Chris Wheat, professor of population genetics in the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University.
"Using Ehrlich and Raven's principles and models, we looked at the evolutionary histories of these plants and butterflies side-by-side and discovered that major advances in the chemical defenses of the plants were followed by butterflies evolving counter-tactics that allowed them to keep eating these plants," Wheat said.
Chris Pires and colleagues mapped the evolution of Brassicales and butterflies to find how each evolved to combat the defenses of the other. | Courtesy Chris Pires
This research provides striking support for the ideas of Ehrlich and Raven published 50 years ago.
"We looked at the patterns 50 years ago, and found conclusions that proved correct," said Peter Raven, professor emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden and a former University of Missouri Curator. "The wonderful array of molecular and other analytical tools applied now under leadership of people like Chris Pires, provide verification and new insights that couldn't even have been imagined then."
Understanding more about how plants and insects co-evolve could one day lead to advances in crops.
"If we can harness the power of genetics and determine what causes these copies of genes, we could produce plants that are more pest-resistant to insects that are co-evolving with them—it could open different avenues for creating plants and food that are more efficiently grown," said Pires.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published the study, "The butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications," in June. The National Science Foundation (PGRP 1202793), the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Academy of Finland provided the funding for this research.
SoyKB: Leading the convergence of wet and dry science in the era of Big Data
June 10, 2014 By Paige Blankenbuehler in Research Tags: big data, big data initiative, Bond Life Sciences, computer science, data, dry science, genetics, hightroughput data, mizzou, research, science, soybean, University of Missouri, wet science
Yaya Cui, an investigator in plant sciences at the Bond Life Sciences Center examines data on fast neuron soybean mutants that are represented on the SoyKB database.
The most puzzling scientific mysteries may be solved at the same machine you're likely reading this sentence.
In the era of "Big Data" many significant scientific discoveries — the development of new drugs to fight diseases, strategies of agricultural breeding to solve world-hunger problems and figuring out why the world exists — are being made without ever stepping foot in a lab.
Developed by researchers at the Bond Life Sciences Center, SoyKB.org allows international researchers, scientists and farmers to chart the unknown territory of soybean genomics together — sometimes continents away from one another — through that data.
Digital solutions to real-world questions
As part of the Obama Administration's $200 million "Big Data" Initiative, SoyKB (Soy Knowledge Base) was born.
The digital infrastructure changes the way researchers conduct their experiments dramatically, according to plant scientists like Gary Stacey, Bond LSC researcher, endowed professor of soybean biotechnology and professor of plant sciences and biochemistry.
"It's very powerful," Stacey said. "Humans can only look at so many lines in an excel spreadsheet — then it just kind of blurs. So we need these kinds of tools to be able to deal with this high-throughput data."
The website, managed by Trupti Joshi, an assistant research professor in computer science at MU's College of Engineering, enables researchers to develop important scientific questions and theories.
"There are people that during their entire career, don't do any bench work or wet science, they just look at the data," Stacey said.
The Gene Pathway Viewer available on SoyKB, shows different signaling pathways and points to the function of specific genes so that researchers can develop improvements for badly performing soybean lines.
"It's much easier to grasp this whole data and narrow it down to basically what you want to focus on," Joshi said.
A 3D-protein modeling tool lends itself especially to drug design. A pharmaceutical company could test the hypothesis and in some situations, the proposed drug turns out to yield the expected results — formulated solely by data analysis.
The Big Data initiative drives a blending of "wet science" — conducting experiments in the lab and gathering original data — and "dry science" — using computational methods.
Testament of the times?
"Oh, absolutely," Joshi said.
Collaboration between the "wet" and "dry" sciences
Before SoyKB, data from numerous experiments would be gathered and disregarded, with only the desired results analyzed. The website makes it easy to dump all of the data gathered to then be repurposed by other researchers.
"With these kinds of databases now, all the data is put there so something that's not valuable to me may be valuable to somebody else," Stacey said,
Joshi said infrastructure like SoyKB is becoming more necessary in all realms of scientific discovery.
"(SoyKB) has turned out to be a very good public resource for the soybean community to cross reference that and check the details of their findings," she said.
Computer science prevents researchers having to reinvent the wheel with their own digital platforms. SoyKB has a translational infrastructure with computational methods and tools that can be used for many disciplines like health sciences, animal sciences, physics and genetic research.
"I think there's more and more need for these types of collaborations," Joshi said. "It can be really difficult for biologists to handle the large scope of data by themselves and you really don't want to spend time just dealing with files — You want to focus more on the biology, so these types of collaborations work really well.
It's a win-win situation for everyone," she said.
The success of SoyKB was perhaps catalyzed by Joshi. She adopted the website and the compilation of data in its infant stages as her PhD dissertation.
Joshi is unique because she has both a biology degree and a computer science background. Stacey said Joshi, who has "had a foot in each camp," serves as an irreplaceable translator.
Most recently, the progress of SoyKB as part of the Big Data Initiative was presented at the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Dec. 2013 in Shanghai. The ongoing project is funded by NSF grants.