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By Tom Lisanti
I admit it. I am a Troy Donahue fan.
There I said it. Not surprising since I love and have been writing about
Sixties starlets for over ten years. If there ever was a male version of a
starlet, it was Troy. I purchased the DVD box set Warner Bros. Romance Classics
Collection featuring four of his early Sixties movies and recently viewed My Blood Runs Cold (1964) from Warner
Bros Archive as a DVD-on-Demand. The pairing of Troy Donahue as a loon and Joey
Heatherton as the blonde he desires in this suspense film didn't burn up the
silver screens across the country and left most critics cold, but the coupling
of America's favorite bland blonde boy with the Ann-Margret wannabe made for
bad cinema you just got to love.
By 1964 Troy Donahue had reached super
stardom and was one of the most popular young actors at the time, but he was
extremely unhappy with the roles being offered him. He could be lackluster at
times and was by no means a great actor, but with his looks Troy didn't have to
be, as his boy-next-door charisma made teenage girls (and some men) swoon. His
film career began in 1957 with small roles in a number of films including Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Summer Love (19580, Live Fast, Die Young (1958), and Monster on the Campus (1958) before he was cast opposite Sandra Dee
as tortured naïve young lovers in A
Summer Place (1959) for Warner Bros. The film, beautifully filmed off the
coast of Carmel, California doubling for Maine and featuring a lush score by
Max Steiner, was a huge hit especially with the teenage set. The studio wisely
then signed Donahue (who shared the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer –
Male for his performance) to a contract. He then co-starred on the lightweight
TV detective series Surfside 6
(1960-62) in between essaying the romantic leading man in a series of glossy
romances (most directed by Delmer Daves) opposite some of the prettiest
starlets of the day.
In Parrish (1961) he is a tobacco farmer and was described as being "more than a boy. He was not yet a man—dangerously in-between…and between three girls!" They were Connie Stevens as an easy farm gal, Diane McBain as a bitchy gold digger, and Sharon Hugueny as a sweet rich girl. In Susan Slade (1961) he is a struggling writer in love with Connie Stevens who harbors a dreadful secret (her little brother is actually her illegitimate son!) and doesn't think she deserves happiness. Donahue won the Photoplay Gold Medal Award for Most Popular Male Actor of 1961 and continued his streak of glossy romantic dramas with the lush travelogue Rome Adventure (1962) as a grad student who falls for librarian Suzanne Pleshette (whom he was married to for a short time) though he is involved with worldly older woman Angie Dickinson. He played yet another college student in Palm Springs Weekend (1963) who on Spring Break has a fling with local gal Stefanie Powers. Then there was a change of pace role as a cavalry officer in the Raoul Walsh directed westernA Distant Trumpet (1964), but to keep his teenage girls fans happy he is torn between widow Suzanne Pleshette and snooty Easterner Diane McBain.
Balking at any more romantic hero roles, Warner Bros. put Troy Donahue on suspension. Donahue defended himself and commented, "There comes a time in every performer's life when he wants to branch out and play a real, dimensional character." After five months without work, producer/director William Conrad cast him as Ben Gunther in My Blood Runs Cold (1965). Conrad opined, "The kid's an actor, and a good one." On the surface Ben looks like the typical Donahue role a romantic who sweeps a spoiled socialite off her feet claiming that they are reincarnated lovers. But in fact he is a murderous psycho who has escaped from the loony bin.
With much fanfare, Carol Lynley was announced as Donahue's love interest (she was one of the few baby doll blondes who hadn't worked with him before) and Jeffrey Hunter was cast as her almost fiancée. However, when filming began in late September 1964, Lynley and Hunter were replaced by Joey Heatherton and busy TV actor Nicolas Coster.
Sultry blue-eyed blonde Joey Heatherton was a late comer to the baby doll brigade of nymphets of the late Fifties/early Sixties. The daughter of song-and-dance man Ray Heatherton known to TV audiences as the "Merry Mailman," she began ballet training at an early age and came under the tutelage of George Balanchine. Her interests quickly turned to acting and singing. She made her Broadway debut in her mid-teens as part of the ensemble in the hit musical The Sound of Music in 1959 and a year later co-starred with Jane Fonda and Dean Jones in the play There Was a Little Girl. She headed to Hollywood soon after and had to turn down Lolita because of her disapproving daddy. Her film debut was as the cheatin' whorin' wife of dumb air force veteran Nick Adams who is falsely accused of killing one of her lovers in Twilight of Honor (1963), which snagged her a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer – Female. She then beat out a number of starlets when cast as Susan Hayward's daughter, a red-haired nymphet, who carves up her mother's lover in the trashy high gloss soap Where Love Has Gone (1964) before being mesmerized by Troy Donahue's ramblings of reincarnation in My Blood Runs Cold.
Troy Donahue was very excited about the movie (even with his new co-stars) and exclaimed to Louella Parsons, "I love this picture! I've never done a chiller before. In fact, until now I seldom did anything other than smoke cigarettes and drive off in a car."
My Blood Runs Cold is beautifully filmed in black-and-white on location on the Monterey Peninsula in Northern California, where shots of crashing waves on the rocky shoreline and homes high on the bluffs gives it a nice gothic affect. The movie starts off like any other Donahue romance. His motorcycle-riding drifter Ben Gunther flirts with beautiful blonde socialite Julie Merriday (pouting Heatherton channeling Connie Stevens right down to the wispy speaking voice) who has just run him off the road in her snazzy sports car. He asks to see her again despite the presence of stoic Coster as her sophisticated boyfriend Harry (shades of rivals Hampton Fancher in Parrish or Bert Convy in Susan Slade). The only difference is that, in this movie, Ben insists he and Julie are reincarnated lovers from a past life. Julie at first pooh-poohs that idea. At dinner, upstanding Ben impresses Julie's controlling tycoon father Julian (Barry Sullivan) and charms her flamboyant Aunt Sarah (Jeannette Nolan whose wardrobe and hair styles are even more outrageous than Joey's).
Chic Julie wisely still doesn't buy Ben's reincarnation ramblings until he gifts her with a locket of her great-great grandmother (who she is a dead ringer for) found in a hidden underwater cave, which they swim to and Aunt Sarah confirms Ben's stories of the Merriday clan.
Tender Ben quietly reels in Julie ("When he gets near me, I fall into a thousand pieces."), who partly goes to him in rebellion against her disapproving daddy who now thinks Ben is a gold digging grifter while Julie calls him "the most fascinating man I ever met." The girl doesn't get out much obviously. Once he has Julie, Ben begins to unravel flinging his body around the room while flailing his arms as if he is having a seizure or about to turn into a werewolf, which may have helped the picture. After the caretaker of Julie's home turns up dead, number one suspect Ben convinces Julie to run away with him and they sneak off into the night on his boat as a huge storm hits. After they reach calm waters, Ben has another of his thrashing seizures topside while Julie accidentally discovers Ben Gunther's diary below. Realizing that Ben is an imposter who made up the reincarnation tales, Julie confronts him just as a rescue helicopter flies over head. Knowing that the authorities are after him, Ben pilots his boat back to shore and then drags Julie around with the police in hot pursuit. He winds up on the top of the Del Monte Sand Plant and after trying to strangle Harry, suffers another seizure and falls to his death.
My Blood Runs Cold was much too talky and not scary or suspenseful enough to attract thriller fans (all murders are off-screen and not a drop of blood flows). Donahue's unstable character most likely turned off his fan base as well who were used to him playing the good guy. Reviews didn't help either and most critics felt Donahue didn't make the character believable. In his defense, he most likely was hampered from showing Ben's insanity from the get go as the director wanted the audience to keep guessing if he really was the reincarnated lover of Heatherton's ancestor so Donahue plays Ben sympathetically. Instead they should have gone for high camp and had Donahue go for broke playing the obvious loon from the start. The "mystery" drags on way too long and by the time of the revelation the audience is asleep. It is fun trying to guess what hair style will Joey sport or what will she wear (her outfits range from a baby doll negligee to tight blue jeans to a form-fitting evening dress) in her next scene.
Performance-wise Heatherton is surprisingly quite effective, and though the chemistry is lacking between her and Troy, makes for an interesting, and well-coiffure, heroine. She performs with conviction and when at the beginning when she tells Ben to stay away from her, you believe it.
While doing press interviews for the movie, Donahue defended his risk taking role and remarked, "In this business if you stand still, the parade eventually passes you. I figured it was time to try to and annex the more adult segment of the audience. Sure, I want to hold on to the teen-agers. With my fingers crossed and some luck I think I can manage to do both." Unfortunately, Troy was proven wrong and lost both. Warner Bros. did not renew his option and (as with his female counterpart Sandra Dee when she went freelance), the roles in A-productions dried up for him. He finished out the Sixties in such mediocre fare as Come Spy with Me(1967), Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967), and The Lonely Profession (1969).
Movie-wise, Joey Heatherton fared even worse. Despite her determination not to be typed as a sexpot ("I want to be a good all-around actress, not a sex symbol….which would attract attention for awhile. But to repeat the old vaudeville joke—what are you going to do for an encore?") she was due to her myriad appearances on all the top variety programs of the day (Hullabaloo, The Dean Martin Show, The Hollywood Palace,The Andy Williams Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, This Is Tom Jones, Dean Martin Presents The Golddiggers, etc.). This is where Heatherton's sizzling personality shown through best singing, dancing, and shimmying sexily clad in costumes highlighting her curvaceous figure in front of a live audience. In between, she found time to entertain the troops in Vietnam as part of Bob Hope's USO tours also appearing on his variety specials and did land one dramatic role that as Curley's wife in the acclaimed Of Mice and Men (1967) for television. She even released a few singles during this period including "My Blood Runs Cold" but none of them charted. Despite her amazing popularity especially among men, the tantalizing sex symbol unjustly didn't appear on the big screen until seven years after My Blood Runs Cold in the awful Bluebeard (1972) starring Richard Burton.
Amusingly, cult director John Waters paid tribute to Troy Donahue and Joey Heatherton when he cast them as parents of some of his teenage characters in his musical comedy send-up on Fifties juvenile delinquent movies Cry-Baby (1990) starring Johnny Depp. Unfortunately, they do not share a scene together as Troy is paired with Mink Stole and Joey with Joe Dallesandro.
Tom Lisanti is the author of seven books on Sixties Hollywood including his latest, Dueling Harlows: Race to the Silver Screen. Visit his web site www.sixtiescinema.com
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The Mystery of Jupiter By Katharine King Hunter
The story, The Mystery of Jupiter, came to Author Katharine King Hunter one day after she and her students were discussing the planets. One of them said, "Ms. Hunter, you know Pluto is no longer a planet of interest because it is so small. It was decided that it was no longer important." Hunter thought about this for a while and decided to make Pluto well known again by making him the hero of this story.
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The grid operator highlighted gas's role in making heating, industry and transport greener.
But the report noted how the UK reliance on gas is at odds with ministers' Clean Growth Strategy.
Some 80% of homes in the UK currently use gas for heating, while gas was burned to generate 42% of the country's electricity in 2016.
Carbon capture and storage
National Grid highlighted roles for hydrogen, biogases and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) in decarbonising the gas system.
But it noted that "the ability to keep options open is key".
Luke Warren, Chief Executive of the Carbon Capture & Storage Association (CCSA), said: "We strongly support National Grid's recommendation that the first CCUS projects must be in operation in the 2020s.
"Industry and government must now work together to deliver a CCUS deployment pathway that enables the UK to benefit from this critical technology."
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The report noted the effect that decarbonising the gas system could have on the wider economy.
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There is one great lie in the digital age, that you can fix anything in post-production.
Perhaps that is an exaggeration, a competent digital artist can take the canvas of a photograph and use his skills to recreate an image (or at least construct it as it should have been). However, this takes time and great expense and at that point you start to wonder why you even bothered to start with the base of a photograph.
In the above example, taken more than a year ago, I was just toying with manual exposure and managed to hit just the wrong combination of aperture, shutter and ISO as I moved from outside to in to get a very dark photo of a very attractive marine biologist. Bringing up the exposure the result is noisy and full of purple fringing in rather annoying places, and the focus makes it look a little more like a painting than a photo.
Individually most of these are not insurmountable challenges. Color and exposure are especially easy to compensate for (unless either is completely shot) through conversion to black and white. Making an image monochromatic reduces the amount of information in an image, which in turn makes it a lot easier to work with from a recovery perspective.
It also has the advantage of looking dramatic and artistic, done right there's something very special about black and white photography.
That isn't to say every black and white image you see is a cover up of a photographer's mistakes, just as often it's a purposeful choice to heighten the impact of a photo rather than bring one back from the dead.
Poor composition can be fixed in post-production as well. If a background is cluttered or there is too much negative space it's a breeze to crop the photo down to eliminate unwanted objects. If the framing is too close to crop a photographer can apply a blurring action to the background that makes all of that clutter run into itself and seemingly disappear while the subject pops out of the photo.
The real challenge is bring out information that is no longer there for one reason or another. In any number of procedural cop shows or science-fiction movies they're enhancing grainy digital photos to recreate faces from a few pixels in a crowd or spotting some other minute detail within mere moments. In truth digital photography is a binary world, either you've got the information there or you don't.
A common problem with digital photography are blown highlights or shadows. Here the camera cannot capture the full range of a photograph (say bright sunlight versus deep shadows) so it turns dark areas into pools of black and bright into puddles of bright white. The information in those places, shapes in the shadows or the outlines of clouds is gone from the photograph forever.
Another issue is the crop. While above I said it's possible to use cropping to fix sins of composition it's only possibly if your first image had a good deal of space. If the opposite is true you won't be able to crop or recompose the photo, which might make it tough to print. At the other extreme if your subject disappears into the photo when you recrop you may find that the subject is not in focus, or there is not a favorable amount of detail.
Focus and motion blur are also potential deal-breakers especially as you reach extremes. At the moment there aren't any good ways to easily bring a subject into focus.
The biggest problem, especially in wedding photography, isn't about the photograph that didn't turn out quite right, it's the photo you didn't get at all. In those important moments, a first glance or first dance if you don't get it right the first time then that moment is gone forever and no amount of work in the digital darkroom will find it.


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Women Behind racing reunion planned for fall at Los Alamitos.
March 21, 2014
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Carol Cooper, a board member of the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association, said that plans are underway to once again hold a Women Behind Racing Reunion during Los Alamitos Equine Sale weekend on Friday, October 3, at Los Alamitos Race Course.
Cooper is one of the founding members of Women Behind Racing that was very active at Los Alamitos during the late 1980s through the mid 1990s. Women Behind Racing held a reunion event a couple of years ago on Equine Sale weekend.
"We put the event together in about two months and we had over 80 ladies show up for the reunion," Cooper said. "We are hoping that with a little more notice that we can have over 200 ladies join us this time around. Will it happen? I don't know, but we are sure going to try. We are inviting ladies in the industry, whether they're old, young or new to racing."
Cooper still remembers the day that the Women Behind Racing was formed.
"We had a meeting at Los Alamitos Race Course back when Marge Everett owned the racetrack," she said. "Shirley Schvaneveldt and her daughters helped organize it as did my good friend, Barbara Rhynes, who has since passed away. Janet (VanBebber) James, Jill Treasure and many other ladies joined us for that first meeting. Jill named us Women Behind Racing. We eventually got some horsemen involved. Denny Ekins and James Lackey helped us out and Bob Baffert also helped out with some of our events. At one point we had around 150 members."
Women Behind Racing published a popular cookbook featuring recipes from many of their members and also organized a fashion show. Cooper is now excited to once again have the opportunity to reunite with past members and new faces in racing.
"We want this to be a great event," she added.
For more information, please contact Carol Cooper at 951-537-7193.
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Barchi recaps current affairs, student safety at Rutgers
Current disaster protocols, environmentally friendly initiatives of the University's 2030 plan and the future of vetting professionals with a history of sexual misconduct are but a few of the topics Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi spoke on with members of The Daily Targum's board yesterday.
Disaster protocol
In light of recent school shootings, Barchi said that the University takes safety on campus very seriously and holds regular meetings to consider new and better practices to undergo in the event of an active shooter on campus. The school also conducts shooting drills all around campus to ensure the preparation of the Rutgers Police Department (RUPD) for crises.
"We spend a lot of time thinking about these things ... We do five or six active-shooter or disaster drills a year complete with gunshot sounds and the whole nine yards. We have a very well-trained team ... You've probably seen some of (the drills) and didn't even know what was going on," Barchi said.
These drills and exercises include various units such as Barchi's central management team, the police and Vice Chancellor Felicia McGinty's Student of Affairs office. Control centers in each of those locations can immediately link the units together in an emergency situation.
In addition to police enforcement measures, Barchi said that it is important to educate the student body and faculty on what they can do themselves and how to prepare for scenarios like school shootings.
The RUPD website offers several emergency resources including videos on options to consider in the event of an active shooter on campus. There are guidelines for students to follow if the shooter is outside versus inside a building. The department also offers training information sessions on the subject.
"It's not so much regular drills as it is education. What the police are doing are, you know, run-hide-attack kind of information sessions, trying to get that information out there to as many students and faculty and staff as they can," he said.
Eco-friendly campus
Rutgers has already adopted several eco-friendly initiatives on campus, including having one of the biggest solar-powered systems around, Barchi said. In 2013, the University implemented geothermal energy on Livingston campus, which takes advantage of stable temperatures underground and uses that as a source for heating and cooling, minimizing the need for fossil fuels, according to a Rutgers News Release.
Other environmental initiatives from Rutgers include buying alternative energy, making its own heat and electricity and being able to fluctuate between natural gas and oil depending on the needs of the state.
The University currently has 7,000 solar panels on Livingston campus that reduce Rutgers' electrical demand by 10 percent, save the school $300,000 each year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1,200 tons per year, according to Rutgers University Community Repository. These steps are just the first of many more renewable energy and sustainability efforts to be taken in the future.
"We're very conservative about the eco-friendly nature of things. We just purchased three electric buses and the goal for our bus system is to be completely electric in the next eight or ten years. As we phase out the old diesels, we bring in the electrics. So every way we can, we're looking to save money and be conscious of the impact of the environment," he said.
Vetting faculty for sexual misconduct
Earlier this semester, Rutgers placed adjunct professor Sombudha Adhikari on administrative leave after realizing he has a history of sexual misconduct from his previous position at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU), according to the Targum.
This incident occurred approximately nine years ago, Adhikari plead guilty to the charges, was released on $5,000 bail and terminated from his position at FDU. Rutgers hired him in 2008, around the time the incident occurred, and renewed his contract in 2015.
Prior to his arrest, Sam Adhikari went by his full name "Sombudha" on Rutgers, Temple University and Montclair State University rosters.
In regard to hiring individuals with a history of sexual misconduct, Barchi said, "We're always concerned about the background of the folks that we hire. Whether it's faculty or staff or anyone else that works at the University or who has contact with our student population especially, and that can be anything from summer camps to graduate students and postdocs in that general classification."
Between one-half and two-thirds of the University already carry out routine background checks for all new hires, Barchi said. The University is extending this to its entirety and will designate it as the benchmark for new hires.
"That's not going to necessarily solve these problems, because there are many ways an action at a different location may not be known or accessible or available to anybody asking those kinds of questions, but it's a step in the right direction," he said. "We will continue to be as vigilant as we can if the situations come to our attention."
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Traders said speculation of more monetary stimulus and talk that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will delay an unpopular sales tax hike and call a snap election appeared to be keeping the yen under pressure.
The dollar, euro and sterling all hit two-week highs against their Japanese peer. The greenback climbed as far as 113.69 yen , the euro reached 127.05 and sterling touched 161.86 yen. The dollar last stood at 113.45.
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Venue: Grace Episcopal Church, Radford
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
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Grace Episcopal Church presents their 114th Annual Pancake Supper on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 from 5:00-7:00 pm.
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Happy Monday!
I loved this past weekend! Maybe the busiest of my life, but one of the funnest for sure!
The Charlottesville Marathon
On Saturday, Abby Codrea and I helped Marty Roddy with the Charlottesville Marathon-sponsored by the Charlottesville Running Company and Main Street Arena! We started at 3:30am and went strong until 2pm. Marty and the rest of the crew kept going for a few more hours. I got to drive one of the Uhaul trucks and "look all important" for the day. We set up and tore down the water stops, handed out water and "Yummy, delicious Gatorade" to the runners, and cleaned up the finishers trash after the race.
I cheered like I was on illegal drugs, made a pile of new friends, and laughed a hundred times or more while I sweated profusely for most of the day!
My facebook status on Saturday at 5:20pm read: Collapse, physical exhaustion. Running a marathon is easier then being a marathon worker-Marty Roddy is a bionic robot!
I only got to cheer for Emily Balsamo at miles 5 and 8, but I cheered the rest of the way by text! So proud of her for pulling off two back to back races! Concerned about her terrible knee injury.
After the race, some of Emily's family from Richmond cooked dinner at our house (so nice of them) and the laughs continued around the dinner table. I fell asleep praying and studying for Sunday's ministry schedule.
Sunday DFC
Church at Destiny Family Center was profound yesterday morning-an understatement! Worship was amazing, the congregation was happy and hyper throughout! At one point, I felt like they wanted me to teach for several more hours! My message was titled: Spiritual Wars, Powers, and Wins: Show Me What You're Spiritually Made Of! Yesterday was a game changer for quite a few people!!
I instructed Bible College/Advanced Ministry Mentorship from 2:30-5:30pm. Every student in this class is bound for legendary things! It's an honor to be doing this again.
Soul Surfer-The Movie
After class, Heaven Balsamo made us a special homemade whipped cream on strawberry shortcake… and we went with friends to the 7:05pm showing of Soul Surfer.
My facebook status this morning: Soul Surfer was A M A Z I N G L Y inspirational. It even exceeded my high expectations! Bucket List: Meet Bethany Hamilton!
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Here are a few of the preliminary designs, wondering how they make you feel. Please post your honest feedback-no flattery.
Click on thumbnail for full image.
My reply to the ship design creator: If people picked up the book and felt like they were boarding the Santa Maria—curious for the better tomorrow… If they felt like people must have felt in Palos Spain in 1492 when Columbus raised his sails… the courage, the intrigue, the stuff that legends are made of. If people feel this, then you have succeeded and this may be our image.
I really like the simplicity design-it showcases a great title! The handprint definitely arrests my curiosity, but it might be too dark.
So far, I've received positive and negative feedback on each of these images. There are several other images that I haven't posted because they didn't make the blogsite cut. The designers are working on additional concepts.
Do you have an idea for us? Notice the tag-line: For The Dream Of A Better Tomorrow
We want to create a modern image, something that appeals to the secular mind-no cliches, something that perfectly encapsulates the essence of Make Me A Legend.
Here are two ideas from my personal assistant, Kristin Via:
- A line of men and women, dressed in armor with some 21 century style showing through… they are standing on a battlefield, holding a flag (neutral flag representing an unrevealed cause). It's dark in front of them, but bright and colorful behind them—with children standing hand in hand without a care in the world because of the legend generation.
- An old armor laying in a field with kids playing around it… one kid looking at it, another looking at the sky… the armor is banged up and partial.
Please post you ideas, help us create the winning image!
That's it for today, have a very fun Monday. With much love…
Dream Big, Live Bold, and Leave a Legacy!
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Russia's defense ministry has announced it is now in the process of establishing two permanent military bases in war-torn Syria after President Putin authorized prior deals with the Syrian government to move forward. Though Russia maintains merely up to ten military bases on foreign soil, the installations in Tartus and Khmeimim will be the most strategically located, allowing for a growing and permanent Russian presence on the Mediterranean, something which has already raised eyebrows in the West.
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I've seen them standing at the sides of our roads, and even watched them carry babies across. (Now those must be teeny!) But watching Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrels eat is always intriguing. And no, I have no idea what this fellow is holding. I know only that he was shoving it into his mouth when he first noticed me — or I first noticed him — and then he removed it. But these creatures are said to be omnivores, so who knows?
I noticed this Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel in the Habitat Conservation area at Wascana Park during the May 2016 Wings Over Wascana Day. He was very close to my path, and stood very still while I took a few pictures — until a guy explaining a nearby water hose to his kid scared this little rodent away.
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New GMO Studies Demonstrate 'Substantial Non-Equivalence'
Studies document substantial differences of GM maize and GM soybean from their conventional non-GM counterparts, exposing a permissive regulatory regime that has failed miserably in protecting public health and biodiversity.
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Several new studies carried out by scientists independent of the biotech industry are showing up glaring differences between GMOs and their non-GMO counterparts. This makes a mockery of the regulatory principle of 'Substantial Equivalence' which has facilitated approvals of GMOs with practically no protection for public health and the environment [1] (see [2] The Principle of Substantial equivalence is Unscientific and Arbitrary, ISIS news).
The principle of 'Substantial Equivalence'
The concept of 'Substantial Equivalence' was first introduced in 1993 by the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), an international economic and trade organisation, not a public health body. The principle states that if a new food is found to be substantially equivalent to an already existing food product, it can be treated the same way as the existing product with respect to safety. This concept has greatly benefited the trade of GM produce, allowing it to effectively bypass regulatory requirements that would apply to novel food and other products including novel chemical compounds, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and food additives, all of which require a range of toxicological tests and can be subject to legal limitations on safe consumption/intake.
Regulatory agencies including the US Food and Drug Administration, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare, generally base their GM food safety regulations on substantial equivalence.
There are many good reasons for consumers to feel unprotected by these regulatory policies, not least because the principle itself is designed to be as flexible and open to interpretation for the approval of just about any and every GMO submitted. In practice, the principle allows the comparison of a GM line to any existing variety within the same species, and even to an abstract entity made up of ingredients from a collection of species. This means that a GM variety can have all the worst traits of many different varieties and still be deemed substantially equivalent [1, 2]. Traits used for comparisons are also based solely on gross and insensitive chemical compositional tests such as levels of carbohydrate, protein and sugars. This process cannot even begin to tackle safety issues. Ironically, for the GMOs to be patentable as they are, a clear novelty, i.e., a difference or non-substantial equivalence is indeed required.
Independent assessments of substantial equivalence have shown how this ill-defined practice is not only inadequate but untrustworthy [3- 5], and the new studies most clearly confirm this.
Studies in Egypt showed substantial non-equivalence and toxicity for GM corn
In April 2013, an Egyptian publication led by Professor El-Sayed Shaltout at Alexandria University found that Monsanto's 810 Corn (Ajeeb-YG®), modified to express the insecticidal Bt Cry1Ab gene, has increased total protein, crude fat, crude fibre & total saccharides and decreased starch content compared with non-GM Ajeeb corn. Abnormal levels of certain amino acids, fatty acids and elements were also recorded [6]. These compositional differences only gave the merest hint of the toxicity of the GM corn revealed in previous male rat feeding studies conducted by the same team documenting a wide range of organ and tissue abnormalities [7, 8]. Liver cells displayed vacuolation and fatty degeneration. The kidneys had congested blood vessels and dilation of renal tubules. The testes showed signs of necrosis and desquamation of spermatogoneal germ cells lining the seminiferous tubules. The spleens were congested with slight lymphocytic depletion. The small intestines showed hyperplasia and hyperactivation of mucous secretory glands, with necrosis of intestinal villi. Most certainly, the GM corn was not substantially equivalent to non-GM corn.
GM and non-GM soybeans not substantially equivalent
A more recent study led by Thomas Bøhn at the Norwegian Centre for Biosafety [9] tested 31 batches of whole soybeans from Iowa, US in three categories: 1) GM glyphosate-tolerant soy; 2) unmodified soy cultivated using conventional "chemical" regime and 3) unmodified organically cultivated soy. The three groups were analysed for chemical contamination (organochlorine, organophosphorus, pyrethroides, PCBs, glyphosate and AMPA (aminomethylphosponic acid – the major degradation product of glyphosate) based on the list of pesticide brand names used by the farmers) as well as nutritional content. Testing pesticide levels is important as substantial equivalence assessments for GM glyphosate-tolerant soy were not previously done with herbicide residue in the crop despite common knowledge that glyphosate is actually taken into the plant, and also alters the metabolism and biochemistry, and hence the chemical composition of crops. Any assessment of its equivalence is obviously irrelevant when glyphosate is not included.
The results couldn't be clearer. As shown in Figure 1, glyphosate and AMPA were only present in GM soy samples and not at all in conventional non-GM and organic varieties. In the GM-soy samples, the concentration of AMPA (mean concentration = 5.74 mg/kg) was on average nearly twice as high as glyphosate (3.26 mg/kg). Other herbicides were detected: Fluazifop-P a selective phenoxy herbicide, was found at a concentration of 0.078 mg/kg in one of the GM-soy samples, malathion was found at a concentration of 0.02 mg/kg in one of the conventional soy samples and Dieldrin was found at a concentration of 0.002 mg/kg in one of the organic soy samples. No other residues were detected. Additional testing for pesticide residues in pooled samples of GM, conventional and organic soybeans showed trace-levels of Alpha-endosulfane, Trans-nonachlor and Trans-chlordane, all close to the detection limit of 0.05 µg/kg and in all soy types. Dieldrin was also found in very low levels with 0.51, 0.45 and 0.6 µg/kg in GM, conventional and organic soybeans, respectively.
Figure 1 Gyphosate and its metabolite AMPA present only in GM soy
The researchers looked at chemical composition of the soy samples including composition of protein, fat and sugar content, as well as individual amino acids, vitamins, fatty acids and elements. Organic soy samples show significant differences from both GM and conventional non-GM soybean samples, with higher and lower levels of protein and saturated fats respectively, plus significant differences in levels of total as well as individual levels of amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. A further statistical multivariate analysis of the compositional results found without exception that each individual soybean sample could be discriminated statistically into their respective agricultural background, even excluding the data on glyphosate/AMPA levels. The organic soybean was nutritionally superior to both conventionally grown non-GM soybean and GM soybean.
Profiling technologies for biosafety analyses
Profiling technologies, such as proteomics, allow the simultaneous measurement and comparison of thousands of plant components, in this case proteins, without prior knowledge of their identity. These methods are now being employed by independent scientists to provide a more thorough, unbiased and global profile of GM crop composition for risk assessment.
A new study conducted in Brazil by Agapito-Tenfen and colleagues at the Federal University of Santa Catarina is an example of this type of analysis, with global protein expression analysed in GM MON810 compared with the non-GM maize control grown in two different environmental conditions. Analysis of the total leaf-derived proteome showed 32 differentially expressed proteins (out of an average 458 and 643 detected proteins for each condition) between GM and non-GM maize with most of them involved in carbohydrate metabolism, stress response as well as genetic information processing such as post-translational modification of newly made proteins [10]. Sixteen proteins were differentially expressed between GM and non-GM maize at each of the two growing locations (Campos Novos and Chapecó). In Campos Novos, the experiment found 8 proteins detectable only in the GM samples, the remaining 8 were absent in the GM samples. In Chapecó, there were seven proteins exclusive to GM plants and seven to non-GM plants. 2 proteins showed quantitative differences in expression. For example, glyceraldehydes 3-phosphate degydrogenase (GAPDH) and fructose-biphosphate, ferredoxin-NAPD was exclusive to GM plants in Capos Novos and relate directly to energy metabolism. When it comes to carbohydrate metabolism, this is consistent with previous studies that found increased sugar levels in MON810 plants, with up 14, 7 and 1.8-fold increases in glucose, fructose and sucrose respectively [11]. Indeed, maize plants go through many developmental stages in their leaves that exclusively rely on carbohydrate metabolism. Further, transgenes with high constitutive promoters have been shown to have a high energetic cost e.g. cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter [12, 13], which the authors speculate may cause a problem for transgenic plants.
Stress response genes e.g. those related to glutathione metabolism (glyoxylase 1 and IN2-1), peroxidises and pathogenesis-related protein were expressed only in non-GM plants. It was also revealed that 2-cysteine peroxiredoxin BAS1 (2-CP) proteins are over-expressed in GM plants from both locations. Peroxidases are of great importance for eliminating H2O2 resulting from oxidative phosphorylation.
Four genetic information processing proteins were differentially expressed. Two of these were only present in GM plants from Campos Novos, the adenine phosphoribosyl transferase (APT), and the ATP-dependent Clp protease ATP-binding subunit ClpA (Clp-ClpA). APT works on adenine salvage in plants, while Clp-ClpA proteases exert unfoldase activity, playing a key role in regulating the availability of certain short-lived regulatory proteins. Chaperonin protein and S-adenosylmethionine synthetase 1 were upregulated in non-GM plants. S-adenosylmethionine synthetase 1 is involved in transmethylation of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides and fatty acids. Interestingly, many of these genetic information processing proteins are directly related to gene expression control.
This study is the first of its kind to use such technologies to assess how both the environment and genotype can influence plant composition in Brazil and highlights the routine profiling analyses now widely available for proteins, transcripts and metabolites that are still not required by governments for regulatory approval as they should be.
Of further note in this study is the effect of environmental conditions on the composition of crops. GM proponents often argue that other factors such as environmental conditions as well as hybrid varieties determine the composition and physiology of a plant but genetic modification can influence such conditions. Indeed, the environment did cause variation in composition of the crops, but interestingly, it appeared that the GM maize protein expression profile was more affected by the environment.
To conclude, the numerous differences demonstrated between GM varieties and their non-GM counterpart may well impact consumer health and biodiversity, and clearly exposes the substantial equivalence principle as pseudoscience. In reality, genetic modification causes very real and substantial, unpredictable and uncontrollable changes in the host genome including mutations, and rearrangements as well as new transcripts and proteins. Further, glyphosate and GM crops have already been shown to cause damage to both health and the environment in many independent studies (see [14] Ban GMOs Now, ISIS special report). This is now fully confirmed in the new studies.
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What you're saying is that the GM Soy test which you espouse as a proof of 'substantial difference' had for one of it's test parameters an organic soy bean that had no pesticide applied to it whatsoever, and yet a non-organic pesticide was still detected in the sample? Huh? Are you trying to shoot yourself in the foot. Who in the world would take that test seriously, when you just pointed out that there was a contamination in your samples?
GM; bad! GM science; really bad! GM regulation; really really bad; GM companies, evil!
I'm with you all the way there, but you can't fight their shitty science with your own. If you are to make a convincing argument, please at least make it air-tight first.
The fact remains that pesticides and herbicides are blown around by the wind and are now in the water supply, contaminating fields that are "organic." I buy organic because it means that there is LESS of these substances on my food, not because I think that they are absolutely clean of them. Once these things have been released into the environment, there is no way to have any products that are absolutely free of them that are raised within the same region.
Don't get me wrong Tara, I too prefer eating things that haven't been deliberately modified to be adapted to and then deliberately sprayed by poisons. That is not a very appealing food source to me at all. But the point here is that if anyone is to prove scientifically that there is something wrong with these GMO's (and not the poisons themselves) then any experiment that is conceived to test that hypothesis must be performed in 100% controlled laboratory conditions. If the experiment cannot guarantee perfectly controlled conditions then any contamination that occurs becomes an uncontrolled variable which invalidates any results of the test. Which means you can no longer prove beyond a doubt that the problem is the GMO alone. It is as simple as that.
So Phillip. Are you saying that since we've reached a point where everything is already contaminated, there is no way to prove the GM crops are more or less healtheir than non GM crops? Isn't this the same approach the tobacco giants took in the past by making it impossible for anyone to prove their lung cancer was due to smoking, because the air we all breathe is contaminated.
Maybe you aren't aware that pesticides can stay in the soil for *decades*, which means that land transitioned to organic can be contaminated for a long time. I think the point of that study was to test soybeans that were actually being put into the food supply–you know, real-world sources and applications. Those kinds of tests should definitely be done so that we can see how the GMOs are truly holding up and testing out in reality.
That an organic crop was contaminated by a conventional pesticide only means that the land has been poisoned at some point in its life–directly or by drift. If anything, this should be a lesson to Big Ag trolls and lackeys that their pesticides DO persist much longer than they're willing to admit to anyone.
You fundamentally misunderstand "substantial equivalence." This doctrine is how new plants are tested: they assume that a new variety is substantially equivalent to the parent variety and then test for differences.
Well, James, maybe they shouldn't automatically ASSume that the plants are "substantially equivalent". And maybe we shouldn't put too much faith in a word and definition that was made up by an economic and trade organization rather than by scientists and farmers…
Sorry, the definition was coined by scientists at a conference. And you would surely agree that if I breed a new corn variety, you'd like to know how it differs from previous corn varieties. That should catch anything: allergens, poisons, whatever.
Well, obviously, they didn't catch everything or they buried what they didn't want publicly known–or they simply didn't do enough testing.
Since this article does not give any links to the actual papers, it is difficult to evaluate its assertions. It sounds like the article refers to the discredited and withdrawn Seralini paper. The paper by Bohn has been crticised here: https://bit.ly/1pKjE2f. I'd like to read the Brazilian paper, though, as it sounds interesting. Do you have a link?
None of these are peer-reviewed studies in scientific journals. I am sure some exist since they are referenced above, and I would to read them.
Hi James. The links I provided were articles showing how Seralini's study was not "discredited".
If you want references for the article above, please see the links at the very top, where it says: "A fully referenced and illustrated version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here."
Since it seems I have to pay to see that paper, I guess I wont' see it. Wayne Parrott's group deconstructed Seralini's paper here: https://bit.ly/1mb9TmP and in fact, it was discredited by 6 French science organizations within 24 hours of its publication. The main problems were small sample sizes and the use of S-D rats which get tumors anyway if given access to all the food they want for 2 years. And most of the rats in that paper got tumors whether fed GM or not. It was simply inconclusive at best.
I've seen a lot of articles like that you linked to, which is why I put up the links above for you. At least read the first one ("the stats stand up").
But, if you want to discuss further, I would ask why we would possibly want GMOs in the first place? Please consider that GMOs are born out of the symptoms of industrial agriculture (i.e. trying to find ways to persevere with a system that isn't working, and is only doing damage to people and place). Taking a 'systemic' approach to a healthier path is not only critical, but it entirely does away with any 'need' for GMOs (which are a 'solution looking for a problem'). Please consider:
No 'techno-fix' will solve the massive problems we're facing in soil erosion and depletion, soil and water pollution (agri-chemicals and fertilisers), water wastage, peak oil (equating to peak food if we don't change systems fast), etc. etc. GMOs have no answers for these things – but rather just further entrench and capitalise on a failing agricultural model. Biologically, chemical-intensive farming can only be a finite endeavour. I studied soil science myself.
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Yes, James…like so many other scientific papers and journals, you unfortunately do have to pay to have access.
The Seralini study has *not* been discredited by anyone that matters; only by the biotech industry and their lackeys. The same rats were used in some of Monsanto's own safety studies, and they also had small sample sizes–PLUS they only did 3 month studies. This study was much more thorough and indicative of life-long feeding habits. Do you think biotech intends for people to eat GMOs for only a few years of their lives? Lol. From cradle to grave is more like it. Aside from that, inconclusive studies are accepted in the journals *all the time*, and they are used as an initiation into more research that should be done. There's no reason for that paper to have been retracted, as hundreds of scientists around the world have pointed out….
But this is not a link to a legitimate peer-reviewed journal as far as I know. Certainly it is not to be found in PubMed. Any scientist reading the Seralini paper would find numerous technical problems, and most of those who ave criticized are academic scientists, not those in industrial positions. Calling people "lackeys" is not conducive to reasonable discussion, however. So Monsanto did 3 month studies and that is OK, but Seralini used the same rats for a much longer study where they were guaranteed to develop tumors and that is good science? If his paper is so persuasive, why has Seralini not submitted to another journal? That would be his best line of defense.
I could care less if the biotech trolls don't like the truth (that they are essentially "lackeys" for the industry). The truth *does* hurt sometimes, doesn't it?
I like how you've turned things around. That's typical. I can't tell you how many times I've seen that maneuver. It's okay for the industry to use a certain type of rat, but it's not okay for other scientists to use it? How convenient.
Those that forced the retraction admitted that the only reason they did so was because the results were inconclusive…and I've already pointed out that many other studies are still on the record even though their results are also inconclusive.
There's really nothing you can say here that will change the facts, so you're wasting your breath/time. Not everyone is as gullible as the GM-industry would like…


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