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6 Feb 1989
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Gregory Amos
Burton Armus
Wanda M. Haight
Season Ep :
x 08
Main Cast :
LeVar Burton
Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn
Worf Rozhenko
Jonathan Frakes
William T. Riker
Diana Muldaur
Doctor Katherine Pulaski
Marina Sirtis
Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner
Patrick Stewart
Jean-Luc Picard
Wil Wheaton
Wesley Crusher
Guest Cast :
Christopher Collins
Captain Kargan
Laura Drake
Colm Meaney
Miles Edward O'Brien
Peter Parros
Tactical Officer Dukath
John Putch
Ensign Mendon
Brian Thompson
Guy Vardaman
Darien Wallace
When Mendon comes aboard Wesley mistakes him for Mordock, wondering how he could have graduated from the academy to become an Ensign so quickly. But in "Coming of Age", we're told that Mordock is the first Benzite ever to join Starfleet. So how is it possible that Mendon has been in Starfleet long enough to have gone through the academy and graduated?
Kargan tells his officers to speak in Riker's language when he arrives on the ship. Doesn't Riker's universal translator let him understand and speak in Klingon?
A Klingon reveals that his father has lost his honour due to being captured in battle. He says that his father is on their planet, waiting to die of old age or disease, and that he will not speak to him. Riker is aghast at this, incredulous that the Klingon will not talk to his own father. He lectures the man about how he should get in touch with him, etc. This is a nice little scene, very touching and all... and loses all credibility when we learn in "The Icarus Factor" that Riker in fact has not talked to his own father for literally decades, and that he harbours such animosity towards him that he's practically ready to punch the man in the face when they meet.
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Riker beating his subordinate up on the Klingon ship.
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This episode marks the first of many appearances by the Klingon delicacy Gagh.
This is the episode in which we learn that Colm Meaney's character is named O'Brien.
Geordi La Forge and Deanna Troi do not appear in this episode.
The makeup in this episode earned an Emmy nomination.
The Enterprise-D is visiting Starbase 179 to pick up some new crewmembers, including the Benzite Ensign Mendon. The young officer is part of an Officer Exchange Program Starfleet is conducting. Mendon informs Riker that he requested the Enterprise-D specifically, and feels he will be a great help to the ship.
Riker goes to get some phaser practice in with Captain Picard; the Captain points out that a position aboard a Klingon ship has opened up on the Officer Exchange Program, and Riker quickly offers his services since "nobody's done it before". Afterwards Worf gives Riker some advice on serving aboard a Klingon ship, including the fact that as First Officer it will be his duty to kill the Captain if he feels him weak or unfit for command. Riker heads off to Ten Forward and orders a feast of Klingon dishes to celebrate his transfer.
The Klingon ship, the Pagh, arrives and Worf takes Riker down to the transporter room. He gives him an emergency transponder before he leaves, just in case of danger. As Captain Kargan welcomes Riker aboard, Ensign Mendon notices something in a scan of the Klingon vessel's hull. He does not report it, instead following the Benzite custom of beginning a detailed analysis himself first.
The Pagh departs as Riker reports to Captain Kargan. Kargan questions who his loyalty is to, and Riker pledges that he will serve the Klingon ship to the death if need be. When one of the ship's officers, Klag, declares that he doesn't believe Riker, Kargan sits back to see how the Starfleet officer will react to the situation. Riker reacts by beating Klag senseless and informing him that he will obey orders, or else.
Back aboard the Enterprise, Worf detects an unknown substance on the hull. It is a subatomic bacteria that appears to be eating the hull away. Mendon mentions that he noticed it on the Klingon ship, prompting a rebuke from Picard for his failure to report it at the time. Worf also chastises the young officer, though Wesley tries to comfort him afterwards as the crew work to neutralise the threat.
Meanwhile on the Pagh, Riker is eating his first meal in the mess. He comments on how well trained the crew is and talks about cultural differences whilst swapping a few jokes with his new shipmates. Riker comments that he never expected Klingons to laugh, whilst Klag says the same about Humans. Riker and Klag talk about their families; Klag's father is a dishonoured man who failed to die with honour when he was captured by Romulans. Klag, deeply ashamed of this, does not speak to his father any more - claiming he wouldn't know how. Riker points out that his presence on the Pagh proves that people can always learn, and to prove the point he eats some live Gagh.
On the Enterprise, Data has discovered that the subatomic bacteria eat only certain compounds in the hull, and points out that the Pagh has more of those particular compounds. Picard orders an intercept course with the Klingon ship so that they can lend assistance.
On the Pagh, Kargan calls Riker to the bridge and shows him a large hole in the hull. Fortunately the hole opened up into an unoccupied cargo bay, but the damage is spreading rapidly and Kargan is convinced that his ship is doomed. Sensor logs also show the intensive scan of that area of the hull which Ensign Mendon conducted, leading Kargan to think that the Enterprise-D is responsible for the damage. Despite Riker's protests Kargan determines to attack the Enterprise-D, and demands that Riker shares the ship's secrets with him. Riker refuses point blank, stating that while his oath to the Pagh means that he will indeed fight and die with them, he will nevertheless not violate his earlier oath to Starfleet. Kargan is impressed, and informs Riker that he would have killed him as a traitor is he had broken his oath by revealing the Enterprise's weaknesses.
On the Enterprise, Ensign Mendon has discovered a way to destroy the subatomic bacteria using a tunneling neutrino beam. Picard orders this information be added to the hail that the ship is sending. With no debris in the area they conclude that the Pagh is intact but cloaked, and raise their own shields as a precaution. Kargan refuses to believe the hail from the Enterprise and moves to attack the ship. Riker pulls out his emergency transponder and activates it. Kargan takes the device from him, curious as to what it is. The signal prompts the Enterprise to beam the device aboard, and Kargan with it. Riker declares that he has removed the Captain from command and that he is in charge now. He contacts Picard and orders him to stand down, which he does. On the Enterprise-D bridge an infuriated Kargan pulls his disruptor, but Worf is too quick for him and shoots him down.
The Enterprise-D repairs the damage to the Pagh whilst Kargan is returned. He has a brief face-off with Riker on his own bridge... which he ends by knocking Riker to the floor. Klag comments that Riker truly has come to understand Klingon ways and the First Officer returns to the Enterprise.
A pretty solid episode, this. At this point the Klingons were still very much in development, and it was fascinating to learn more about them. Gene's original Klingon concept was that they were truly awful people, basically out for any advantage they could get, any way they could get it; much like the Terrans in the Mirror Mirror universe actually, where assassination of your superior was a commonplace method of gaining promotion. TNG abandoned this idea, turning the Klingons into something like the old Samurai; their culture became all about strength and honour. Assassination was still a feature... but the idea became part of a system designed to remove those too weak or dishonourable to remain in command. It's a clever way to twist things, and it gave the Klingons a layer of extra depth.
Riker's adaption to the Klingon way of life is well shown; his beating of Klag is a nice moment, and seeing the Klingons relaxing is great - we see them laughing and bantering, ribbing Riker and taking his own ribbing in return.
Where things do fall down a little for me is in the "threat" the episode presents. A "subatomic bacteria"? Come on, that's just silly. And even if such a thing were possible, why not just cut that section of the hull off and throw it away? Surely these ships must be able to replace sections of hull quite easily. Kargan's paranoia about it also seems to come out of nowhere. His people have been Federation allies for years, even decades now. Yet he leaps to the conclusion of a sneak attack based on virtually no evidence, and sticks to it even when presented with evidence to the contrary. I know Klingons are a warrior culture, prone to hotheadedness, but how has this guy lasted in a command with this combination of bad judgment and pigheadedness?
That said, Riker's solution to the problem is a clever one and well executed. It's also nicely done that Kargan comes back to his ship accepting that he was wrong... but still pigheaded as ever. I'm convinced that Riker faced off with him on his bridge at the end precisely because he knew Kargan would give him a smackdown - because he knew that by removing him from command he had made him look weak in the crew's eyes, and this would give him the chance to re-establish his position. That's what Klag meant when he said Riker had learned their ways well, I think.
Overall then a pretty good episode, with just a little silliness.
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"Let there be no mothers/ Let there be no wives/ Let there be no daughters/ And there will be no crimes," read Anubha Sharma to a hall packed with students like her, all listening with rapt attention. A student of Indraprastha College, New Delhi's oldest women's college, Sharma wrote the poem, later published by Indian daily the Hindu, out of frustration after a long argument with her father on the parameters of safety for women.
On Thursday afternoon, she, along with some of her teachers and many of her fellow students, held an impassioned discussion of the infraction of their personal freedom in the aftermath of the horrific Delhi gang rape. Last month, the crime galvanized an entire nation into a flurry of protests, in which Indraprastha students, who hail from all over India, zealously participated. For weeks, teachers and students camped out at protest venues, marched and submitted memorandums to government authorities to make the city a safer place for its women.
(PHOTOS: In India, a Rape Sparks Violent Protests and Demands for Justice)
But even at this female-centric institution, students' day-to-day freedoms have shrunk since the Dec. 16 attack. Curfew for students living in campus dormitories has been brought forward an hour to 9:30 p.m., and girls are now required to seek permission from the college administration before going out with friends and provide details of the friends they are going out with. These measures, the girls were unanimous in saying at the meeting on Thursday, pose a serious threat to their personal freedom. "Every time incidents of sexual assault or molestation happen in any part of the country, we girls face more and more restrictions," one student said during the discussion. "Why should we pay for the crimes men commit? Lock the men up. We are not the culprits!"
They are not, but in the labyrinth of India's complicated patriarchy, women are not just victims but scapegoats. Every time there is a rape — and there have been at least 10 more gruesome rapes reported in the past month, including that of a 7-year-old girl in Goa — knee-jerk reactions from family members and political leaders alike place the onus on women by imposing restrictions on the way they move and how they dress. Indian media recently reported that the government of the northern state of Uttarakhand passed an order stopping women from working after 6 p.m. in both private and government jobs. The regressive edict, conceived by the state government as a way to curb crimes against women, was widely opposed by women's-rights activists and the political opposition, leading the state's chief minister to deny that such an order had ever, in fact, been passed.
(MORE: Sexual Violence in India: How Long Will the Media's Interest Last?)
It was not an isolated transgression. Earlier, Delhi police had issued a list of dos and don'ts for women in the capital to stay safe, including not boarding empty buses and going straight home after school or college. The government of the union territory of Puducherry came up with the bizarre solution of putting girls in overcoats, a move that was strongly opposed by students all over the country, leading civil society to force the government to backtrack. In Haryana, khap panchayats, the all-powerful and all-male informal village councils, have made suggestions that girls should be married off sooner or not be allowed to use mobile phones. These retro diktats, made both before and after the Dec. 16 crime, have many worried that the hard-earned freedom of Indian women is on the line. "It's not just fear about safety. It is an excuse to impose lots of patriarchal strictures," says Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association. "It becomes a mask for anxiety about your daughter's sexuality or a control of her sexuality. That anxiety has no simple solution."
Women, too, are imposing stricter limits on themselves after looking over their shoulders a little too often following the Dec. 16 incident. Many women say they have started dressing more conservatively in response to a society that has repeatedly advised them to be invisible in order to be safe from sexual predators. "Whatever 10 steps we had advanced, this incident has put us back by at least 20 more steps," says Tulip, a 27-year-old publishing professional who lives in New Delhi. Tulip, who has led a blithe life in the capital for the past couple of years, sharing a flat with a few other girlfriends, says she suddenly feels trapped. Her parents, who live in the Himalayan town of Dehradun, get frazzled when she goes out in the evenings. On their advice, Tulip has taken to dressing more plainly so as not to attract undue attention. "One section of society will certainly ask for more restrictions," says social activist Aruna Roy. "[But] if the country shifts back to any regressive position, it will be fought tooth and nail by many of us."
(MORE: After New Delhi Gang Rape, Should the Culprits Be Executed?)
Women like Tulip and Anubha Sharma, the student poet, have showed up by the thousands to protest venues in the past month with placards that loudly proclaimed their opposition to these patriarchal decrees. They have walked the roads at night to reclaim the streets for themselves. They have fought with their parents and family members to reclaim their independence. Many activists believe it is this assertion of freedom at home that prompted such a tremendous social reaction in the public sphere. "I don't think that all the reaction was due to the fear of sexual violence," Krishnan says. "The reaction is also to the assertion of freedom. When a woman starts demanding freedom and rights, that's where the discomfort begins."
This discomfort has led to an increased policing of Indian women in the wake of the Delhi gang rape. But the rape's fallout has also brought out the steel in Indian women, whose voice of protest this time around has been persistently irrepressible. On Thursday afternoon, as the discussion was winding up at Indraprastha College, a group of young girls in their early 20s debated passionately what they could do to counteract the force of this repression. Long-term change might still be a while away, but the unwavering voice of youth might just hasten it. "You will have to give space to the hundreds and thousands of young voices that is the future of India, who have clearly stated that they want justice and freedom, they do not want the clock set back," says Roy. "Today the middle classes have broken their silence, and that gives us hope that there will be no going back to repressive times. We women will continue to fight together in solidarity as we always have."


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Russell Wilson threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns, and the Seahawks dominated the New Orleans Saints, 34-7, in Seattle on Monday night. Seattle (11-1) rode a stifling defense and an efficient offense to a 27-7 halftime advantage and then coasted past New Orleans (9-3) in the second half.
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Repression and stagnation have been the hallmarks of the regime of Aleksandr Lukashenka, the leader of Belarus who increasingly tightened the noose around those who express independent views. A series of fundamentally flawed elections have left Belarus without legitimate executive and parliamentary leadership. Against this backdrop, preparations are underway for parliamentary elections and a referendum later this month. The elections take place in an environment in which the regime has intensified its repression of the remaining independent media and vilification of the opposition and their supporters. Lukashenka is also seeking to manipulate the situation to extend his rule by eliminating constitutional term limits for president, possibly paving the way for him to become a "president-for-life."
As co-chairman of the Helsinki Commission, I have maintained a strong interest in Belarus and have tried to inform my Senate colleagues about the increasingly troubling developments in that strategically located country, whose 10 million people have suffered cruelty at the hands of czars, Nazis, Communists and now, Aleksandr Lukashenka. During my service on the Commission, I have met and come to know many of the courageous individuals, who often at personal risk have spoken out in support of democracy in the face of Europe's last dictatorship, including the spouses of opposition leaders and a journalist who disappeared in 1999 and 2000 because they dared speak to the truth.
Belarus, under Lukashenka, has the worst human rights record in Europe. His regime has increasingly violated basic human rights and freedoms. The goal of the Belarus Democracy Act is to help put an end to repression and human rights violations in Belarus and to promote Belarus' entry into a democratic Euro-Atlantic community of nations following years of self-imposed isolation.
The Belarus Democracy Act authorizes additional assistance for democracy-building activities such as support for NGOs, independent media, including radio broadcasting to Belarus, and international exchanges. It also encourages free and fair parliamentary elections, which have been notably absent in Belarus and which look to be highly problematic when they are held on October 17, judging by the pre-election environment and the regime's tight control over the electoral process.
The BDA includes sense of the Congress language that would prohibit U.S. Government financing, except for humanitarian reasons and U.S. executive directors of the international financial institutions would be encouraged to vote against financial assistance to the Government of Belarus except for loans and assistance for humanitarian needs. The bill also requires a report from the President concerning the sale of delivery of weapons or weapons-related technologies from Belarus to rogue states and on the personal wealth and assets of Lukashenka.
Nearly 2 years after the introduction of the Belarus Democracy Act the situation in that country has spiraled downward. Adoption and implementation of the Belarus Democracy Act will offer hope that the current period of political, economic and social stagnation will indeed end. It shows our concrete support for the courageous individuals, non-governmental organizations, independent media and independent trade unions struggling mightily against the machine of repression. And it shows our support for the people of Belarus, who deserve a chance for a brighter future.


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In July 1989, the American Family Association (AFA) issued a press release condemning NEA funding of so-called "pornographic" exhibitions, including the Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective, The Perfect Moment. After announcing Mapplethorpe's recent death from AIDS-related causes and describing the homoerotic nature of much of his photography, the press release commented on that exhibition, "For pedophile homosexuals, there [is] a shot of a nude little boy, about eight, proudly displaying his penis." The photograph in question was Jesse McBride which, along with a portrait by Mapplethorpe of a young girl staring into the camera with her genitals incidentally exposed, were central to the AFA's and Senator Jesse Helms's opposition to government funding of the arts.
Mapplethorpe's photographs of children were, in the context of the ensuing Culture Wars, just as objectionable as his explicitly homosexual imagery. The AFA's press release not only conflated homosexuality with pedophilia (a tenacious homophobic trope), it equated nudity with sexuality in Mapplethorpe's portraits, which were in fact taken with the permission and in the presence of their parents. The sexualization of children in art is a deeply charged issue for people along the political spectrum and constitutes one of the art world's last remaining taboos, as seen in the response to objects included in the Saatchi Sensation exhibition in the late 1990s and more recently the seizure of work by Bill Henson by government officials.
The anxiety associated with viewing images of naked children within the context of an art museum seems to clash with the fact that photographs of children, clothed or not, are some of the most ubiquitous in our social and familial lives. Any brief perusal of Facebook, Flickr, or an old-fashioned photo album reveals the naïve nudity of children to be common in our quotidian visual environment. Yet the public circulation of such images is under increasing regulation in Western societies: for example, many European countries ban the mass media from publishing images of celebrities' children. Art historian Anne Higonnet, who has examined the history of depicting children in art and visual culture, argues that our active repression of images of child nudity has helped redefine childhood itself, putting a new emphasis on the purity and untouched innocence of youth, with consequences yet to be fully understood.
Claire Henze, Nico, hand on back, 1981, gift of the Estate of Claire Henze
This preoccupation with the appropriateness of photographing children is the subject of the current rotation Young, on display through December 2, comprised of works culled from LACMA's extensive photographic collection. Children have been the subjects of photographic art since the origin of the medium, from Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron to Jock Sturges, Jan Saudek, and Loretta Lux. A selection of twenty prints spanning nearly the entire history of photography, the installation illustrates how photographs of children can both preserve and erode the image of childhood as a moment of pristine innocence. The rotation asks the viewer what—if anything—is wrong with viewing children as the objects of visual interest and visual pleasure.
Lewis Carroll, "Xie" Kitchin with Bucket and Spade, circa 1873, The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation and promised gift of Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Loretta Lux, Study of a Boy 3, 2001, Ralph M. Parsons Fund
These questions have particular relevance to photography. While no one objects to the multitudes of naked putti in a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, photographs of nude children regularly stoke controversy—in part because they document interactions that actually took place between artist and subject, and moreover might evince an imbalanced or exploitative relationship. Concerns about this unevenness of power arise even when the person behind the camera is the parent of the child in front of it, as is the case with Sally Mann, or with the provocative series by Claire Henze (above), who photographed her children in various states of undress from infancy to young adulthood. Examples of work by both of those artists are on display in the show.
Today, our culture is pulling in opposing directions on this issue—both increasing the avenues for the sexualization of children and making vigilant attempts to limit the possibilities of sexual exploitation. At times, artists who seek to comment on this paradox find themselves caught within it. Charlie White, whose work is currently on display through Sunday in The Sun and Other Stars: Katie Grannan and Charlie White, focuses on society's obsession with youth and beauty. As an adult male who frequently portrays adolescent girls, White has triggered some of the same questions as Mapplethorpe's photographs of children, and he responds as follows: "Looking at young people is critical to a society's understanding of itself, and the recording of generations of adolescents is perhaps one of the most viable means of doing this." [from his essay "Minor Threat," in Words without Pictures (LACMA), pp. 185-86] White's interest in this subject is conceptual and self-aware—too intellectual an exercise to ever venture into the dubious territory that wary viewers might project upon it. His work reminds us that these young girls voluntarily (and with parental encouragement) enter into a system meant to exploit their physical appearance and attractiveness for mass consumption.
Charlie White, Portrait from Casting Call, 2010, purchased with funds from the Ralph M. Parsons Fund, © Charlie White
It seems that society has set a trap for photographers who represent the potential for eros among pre-pubescents. This is the cultural condition that Young interrogates. Without providing a definitive answer or satisfactory conclusion, the installation asks viewers: what is it about photographs of children, especially if they are exhibited as aesthetic objects in an art museum, that makes people uncomfortable? Can such images ever be as innocent as they seem?
Ryan Linkof, Ralph M. Parsons Curatorial Fellow, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department


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She figured that leasing her 170 acres to a drilling company could bring an upfront bonus of nearly half a million dollars, plus a monthly royalty when gas starts to flow, enough to pay for a new house, a new barn and her own riding business.
"I have three young girls. My husband left," More said. "I don't want to be on social services. I want to take care of my family with my own land."
But five years later, her natural gas dreams and those of thousands of other New York landowners have faded to frustration as a decision languishes on whether the state should allow fracking, the process of extracting gas by drilling horizontally through the shale and breaking it apart with chemically treated water.
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Some New York landowners fear their golden opportunity has already passed them by because the glut of gas from drilling in other states has brought gas prices way down, reducing the likelihood of big upfront lease-signing bonuses.
Other landowners who don't want gas leases welcome Cuomo's caution and hope fracking never gets approved. Their ranks include many organic farmers, vineyard owners, tourist business operators and town residents who agree with environmental groups that the risks of air and water contamination outweigh the financial benefits.
While More waits for a natural gas payday that may never come, she has had to borrow money to pay her property taxes. She supports her family by managing someone else's property and giving riding lessons. But she's now on the brink of losing her farm in Otego, 73 miles southwest of Albany.
"When they say a few more weeks' delay isn't causing people hardship, they're wrong," More said. "I'm probably going to lose my land to taxes because they wanted to dicker around for two or three more weeks. They've been studying this for five years. Enough is enough."
Dave Johnson, who has a 30-acre pick-your-own apple farm on his mostly wooded 400 acres in Binghamton, said gas drilling money would allow him to replace some worn-out equipment like the tractor that he has to start with a screwdriver. But even more important to him is keeping struggling farms in business through an additional income, and creating new jobs for the next generation.
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New Yorkers have watched other states that sit atop the Marcellus Shale — Ohio, West Virginia and most tantalizingly Pennsylvania just across state lines — ride the fracking boom and suck away at the profit potential of the world's largest natural gas deposit.
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"New York landowners will never recover the revenue that's been lost," said Nick Schoonover, a retired engineer who owns a 75-acre tree farm and heads the Tioga County Landowners Group. "Back in 2009, the market was supporting leases at $4,000 to $5,000 an acre and royalties of 20 percent. That wave has passed. You're never going to see that again."
Kevin Frisbie, a livestock feed producer in the town of Spencer who makes frequent trips across the state line to Pennsylvania, said farmers there who were getting $10,000 a month in royalties are now getting a mere $1,500 because of the lower wholesale price and reduced production. But that's $1,500 more than he's getting from the shale beneath his 120 acres.
"The part that really bothers me is, I'm afraid my 80-year-old father isn't going to live to see it," Frisbie said, his voice quavering with emotion. "He's worked his tail off all his life. I'd like to see him and my mother benefit from this."
In the economically depressed southern half of New York that sits atop the Marcellus, steadily rising operating costs and low milk prices have pushed some dairy farmers to the edge of bankruptcy while they wait for a fracking decision.
"With the cost of grain, fuel and fertilizer so high, and taxes, just in the last year I know of three friends who have sold their cows and their farms stand abandoned," said Judy Whittaker, who has a 550-cow dairy in Whitney Point. She sees gas leasing as a way to ensure her farm's future.
"We've been hoping somebody would come and help sustain our farm, not only for us but for our grandchildren, so they don't have the struggles we've had to face, not knowing where the money's coming from," Whittaker said.
Schoonover fears bankrupt farms will be sold to outside investors from Colorado and other states who have been shopping for land with mineral rights in the region.
"They won't care about protecting the land like the local farmers have for generations," Schoonover said. "They're in it strictly for the money."
While anti-fracking groups depict Pennsylvania's shale gas region as a wasteland of contaminated well water, poisoned cows and an industrialized landscape, members of New York's landowners groups say those claims are greatly exaggerated.
Frisbie said he recently drove through Pennsylvania and talked to 17 dairy farmers. "Not one of them was unhappy that gas had come to their property."
Still, Binghamton apple grower Johnson has taken a cautious approach, banding with other landowners to draw up a model lease with 45 pages of environmental and financial protections. Turning a quick buck is not as important to him as preserving the hilltop farm that's been in his family for 150 years.
"I'm looking forward to drilling," he said. "This could be a good thing to carry on our farms, because I don't know anybody who's not struggling."


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Colorado oil and gas industry sues to kill Longmont fracking ban by Bruce Finley, December 17, 2012, The Denver Post
The oil and gas industry on Monday hit Longmont with a lawsuit to kill voters' recent ban on fracking within city limits. The Colorado Oil and Gas Association contends the ban is illegal because it denies mineral owners the right to develop their property and blocks operations that state laws allow. COGA has asked Weld County district court to invalidate the resolution passed by Longmont voters. "We recognize and understand that the citizens of Longmont are concerned about the safety of their environment," COGA president Tisha Schuller said in a written statement. "We hope that the lawsuit can be quickly resolved," Schuller continued, so that industry and the city can cooperate "to address those concerns in a way that does not illegally preclude the safe and responsible development of oil and gas reserves." Longmont leaders vowed to fight back. "We will vigorously defend our charter and the will of the people," City Council woman Katie Witt said. The voters on Nov. 6. changed the city charter to prohibit fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, and the storage of fracking waste in the city. … Colorado residents elsewhere along the Front Range also are pushing to ban oil and gas operations inside municipal limits. Local governments face intensifying pressures as drilling expands close to communities. They've tried to respond to constituents by toughening health and safety regulations that could withstand legal challenges. However, when Longmont's council passed tougher regulations this year, Gov. John Hickenlooper directed state attorneys to sue the city, challenging local authority. "The governor believes Longmont's fracking ban violates the law and we aren't surprised that the city has been sued," the governor's spokesman, Eric Brown, said. State lawmakers have established the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to simultaneously regulate and promote development of oil and gas resources. COGA's lawsuit aims to set a precedent. Hickenlooper on Dec. 6 said the state will not sue Longmont again over the action of voters but that it will support any lawsuit by companies.
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In this July 8, 2014 file photo, General Mills Chairman & CEO Kendall Powell, second from right, joins in applause as he rings the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday opening bell, July 8, 2014. The Minneapolis-based company, which last month announced a cost-cutting plan that will include a review of its manufacturing plants, is working to adapt its offerings as it grapples with the changing eating habits of Americans. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) |
NEW YORK, N.Y. — General Mills hopes a pinch of cinnamon and a dash of fiber will be a recipe for stronger sales.
The Minneapolis-based company is doing things like adding more cinnamon to its Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and rolling out fiber-packed "better for you" cookies to boost the performance of its brands, which include Pillsbury doughs, Betty Crocker baking mixes and Progresso soups.
General Mills executives sat down with The Associated Press this week to discuss these and other ways the company is trying to increase sales, which were essentially flat in its last fiscal year.
The company, which last month announced a cost-cutting plan that will include a review of its manufacturing plants, is working to adapt its offerings as it grapples with the changing eating habits of Americans.
The surging popularity of Greek yogurt in recent years, for instance, blindsided the company's Yoplait yogurts. And the move toward foods people are fresher has hurt Hamburger Helper, which last year was renamed "Helper" in a nod to people who might prefer chicken.
Here are some insights executives shared with AP ahead of the company's investor day in New York City:
General Mills is entering the cookie aisle for the first time with a "better-for-you" cookie. Its new Fiber One cookie has 5 grams of fiber and 120 calories. A Pepperidge Farm chocolate chip cookie, by contrast, has no fiber and 140 calories.
Food makers have been adding nutritional benefits — particularly fiber and protein — to a wide variety of products as to ease the guilt often associated with snacking. Fiber One, for instance, started as a cereal but has since expanded to a variety of snacks, including brownies and more recently, a blueberry streusel bar.
General Mills isn't the first to bet people want healthier cookies; Kellogg's Kashi cookies list 12 grams of whole grains and 4 grams of fiber.
"What consumers often need is a reminder to come back and try brands they've always loved," said Sean O'Grady, senior vice-president of sales at General Mills.General Milles is adding more cinnamon to Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and reformulating Trix cereal to make them taste fruitier. The tweaks will be broadcast in TV ads this summer.
It sounds simple, but the strategy apparently works. Last year, General Mills said it was able to boost sales of Cocoa Puffs by touting their more chocolatey taste.
Still, overall cereal sales in the U.S. have been sluggish in recent years, with people increasingly turning to alternatives like Greek yogurt breakfast sandwiches from fast-food chains.
Figuring out how to get the Chinese to love a bowl of cold cereal in the morning is turning out to be difficult task.
The problem is that the typical breakfast in China is warm and savory, said Chris O'Leary, chief operating officer for General Mills' international division. As such, he said cereal in China is "not a top priority" for General Mills at the moment, but that the company still hopes to crack the market one day.
For now, O'Leary said General Mills has switched to testing in select markets in China, rather than trying to tackle the country as a whole. Without providing details, he said the company is selling a version of Cheerios in those markets.
General Mills executives say convenience stores are turning to packaged foods and drinks as a way to make up for the steep declines in cigarette sales over the years.
So the company is hoping to capitalize by developing products specifically for convenience stores. In Iowa, for instance, it recently tested ready-to-eat Pillsbury cinnamon rolls that come four to a package for about $2. Bethany Quam, president of the company's convenience & foodservice unit, said the idea is to makefoods portable and easy to eat on the go: she noted that 60 per cent of the food purchased at convenience stores gets within 15 minutes in the car.


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"Twin suicide car bomb blasts ripped through an upscale Damascus district Friday, targeting security and intelligence buildings and killing at least 40 people" according to authorities, The Associated Press writes.
NPR's Deborah Amos says it's the "first such attack since the beginning of a 10-month revolt" against President Bashar Assad's regime.
Now there's the question of who is responsible.
President Bashar Assad's regime was quick to declare it was the work of terrorists — a claim that supports its contention that it's not at fault for the deaths of several thousand people this year because it is battling armed gangs and terrorists, even though the U.N. has said the regime is to blame for as many as 5,000 deaths.
Those who have been protesting against Assad's authoritarian regime are saying, according to the BBC, that "the government ... staged the attacks to influence an Arab League observer team" that arrived in Syria on Thursday to monitor the situation.
NPR's Amos, who is following the news in Syria from Beirut, says government officials "escorted the [Arab League] monitors through the smoking wreckage even before the dead were removed."
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Starting 2012 with a BANG! (and a giveaway!)
- For one, I've signed up for this Craftsy course... it's free and I'm thinking I can handle making one quilt square a month... by the end of the year that means I'll have a quilt, right? I know how to sew, but I've never quilted more than a super simple top, so it should be a great skill builder! And, if I'm a good blogger it means I'll have a square a month to show you too, right?
- Another thing is that I'm going to Vinyasa Yoga TWICE a week, instead of once. If I write it on my blog then it must be true! Let's just see how long I can keep it up... I already made it once this week!
- I've already cast on for a sweater for me, I need to add another one to my arsenal... I'm making SkyIsle in Donegal Tweed, but as a pullover not a cardigan. It is going to be SUPER wearable. It's been all lace all the time over here and I needed some stockinette stitch to start the year off right!
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Col du Grand Saint Bernard is one of the highest Cycling Cols in the Alps at 2,469 metres (8,100 feet). And one of the longest at 45 kms from the Swiss side.
A Little history
This pass has been used for almost 3,000 years to cross the Alps. Julius Caesar crossed with an army in 57 BC. Today, along the route are signs with drawings commemorating Napoleon's crossing with 46,000 soldiers in 1800.
In the 900's Saint Bernard of Menthon opened a Hospice to provide a safe haven for travellers – the hospice is still operating today.
The Saint Bernard dog was first mentioned in 1709 and has become an icon of the alps. Stuffed versions were on sale everywhere at the top.
Back to Cycling
I prefer beautiful routes to complete routes and I have avoided this great pass for a long time because quite honestly the lower part of the Swiss side is a lousy route. It's on a main road with fast traffic and plenty of tunnels; and trucks heading for Italy.
But as the route climbs, seven kms from the Col, the main road becomes a huge tunnel right through the Alps. And there is a little turn off to the old route (trucks are forbidden). From here on it's a great ride.
My cunning plan: Drive to this turn-off and cycle up. And then descend the other side into Italy until the old route meets up with the main road again.
While purists will be appalled at not "doing the whole climb", this worked perfectly for me and by combining two climbs it still resulted in almost 1500 metres (5000 feet) of climb.
It wasn't just the natilly dressed Italian customs officers that let me know I was in Italy. The road surface was awful on the south side.
EDIT 2012: Since the Tour crossed the St Bernard a couple of years back, the Italian side has been resurfaced. Smooooooth.
A wonderful ride on epic, very high, safe roads. Makes sense to me.
Complete elevation profiles from the Swiss (Martigny start) and Italian (Aoste start) sides:
Here's a link to details of the Col du Petit Saint Bernard. Nearby climb that links France and Italy.


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In The Afterparty Leo Benedictus combines reality and fiction to present a funny, but ultimately moving account of the ups and downs of being a celebrity in today's world.
Leo Benedictus is an award-winning Guardian features writer whose first novel The Afterparty is published in March 2011 by Jonathan Cape. Described as "unlike any novel you've ever read", The Afterparty propels metafiction and metafictive devices firmly into the 21st century, taking the novel-within-a-novel form and giving it a modern twist or two, creating what Benedictus describes as "hyperfiction."
When you add good old-fashioned storytelling, an element of mystery and elegant writing, you have a mind-bending satire that is clever, funny and gripping. The story takes place on an April night when the conventional and sheltered Michael comes face-to-face with the deep shadows cast by the rich and famous. A lowly sub-editor on a London paper, he reluctantly agrees to attend an A-list birthday bash for film star Hugo Marks with the prime objective of sourcing and recording as much gossip as he can. Little does he realise as he makes his way to the exclusive club, that he will soon become the root cause of the biggest piece of gossip of the year. Also attending the party are Marks' junkie supermodel wife, Mellody, and the ridiculously good looking "pop pup" and X-Factor runner up, Calvin. Over the space of a few hours, their four lives become entangled in a PR disaster that no one could have predicted and from which there is no return. The Afterparty is a novel that not only exposes the underbelly of celebrity life, but cuts it open to reveal the guts and gore; sex, drugs, self-promotion and self-loathing that defines a readily identifiable class of celebrities whose lives are frequently smeared across the tabloid newspapers.
Anyone familiar with Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, Martin Amis' London Fields or Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, will be acquainted with the concept of metafiction. Metafiction is the literary term that describes a type of fiction that knowingly displays or flaunts fictional illusions by directly drawing attention to the devices of fiction and therefore questioning the link between fiction and reality. However with The Afterparty, Benedictus introduces the reader to "hyperfiction", a self-coined term best described in the author's own words: "A conventional novel presents the reader with fiction (the story in which they lose themselves) in a box of nonfiction (the cover, the author photograph, the Amazon page, the reviews, the author interviews etc). In metafiction, the author puts some of him or herself (usually himself, metafiction is strangely male) inside this box, reminding readers of the book's real origins. This is something they seldom forget for long, in any case, but some still find that it spoils the fictional illusion, and thus the pleasure of the story. Hyperfiction opens the box. Whether reading the book, or about it, it is impossible for readers to be sure of what is true. This is the condition of all reading, but hyperfiction brings it to the surface." Uncertainty is a constant companion when reading The Afterparty – uncertainty about what is true and what isn't; what is real and what is invented; how much of Benedictus' persona in the novel is actually him. This may not be to every reader's taste, but most will find the fiendishly clever Möbius strip of a plot immensely satisfying, as it leads them through every level of the narrative.
As well as introducing us to a new kind of fiction, Benedictus is taking advantage of almost every bit of digital technology available to promote himself and The Afterparty. There are a number of publicity stunts that are advertised at the end of novel, which could be seen as part of the satire and the "hyperfiction" but which Benedictus is happy to admit are also open attempts to win attention for himself and his novel: "If a book needs publicising, isn't it better to include the manner in which it does so honestly within its pages? This is something that "hyperfiction" makes possible. Rather than trying to separate what readers know of the author and their novel, this brings the two together into a continuous story." There are a number of competitions that will be open to readers up to the publication of the paperback edition in 2012, such as tweeting any message a reader wants published in the paperback to #afterpartybook, and emailing reviews and new characters to firstname.lastname@example.com for possible inclusion in a scene at the club in the story. As amusing or innovative these stunts may be, they do remind us about just how fast our digital culture and social media are moving. None of this would have been possible before the advent of email, the Internet and Twitter. However, if all these different media streams continue to merge and cross over, are we in danger of drowning in a flood of digital technology or do books such The Afterparty, with all its post-modern attributes, herald a new and exciting interactive literary age?
For all of these digital developments and the hyperfictive devices, The Afterparty is also – and perhaps more importantly – a cracking good read. It's a smartly plotted and well-written story about people struggling to come to terms with themselves. It's not an original idea in itself, but Benedictus' treatment of the narrative is inspired in that he writes in each of the four main characters' voices (Michael, Hugo, Mellody and Calvin). Every moment is examined from two or more perspectives as the characters' paths cross throughout the evening and night. Each scene is viewed and re-viewed, either in part or in its entirety, which is the literary equivalent of theatre in the round; we can see every conceivable angle. The overall effect is impressive; the characters are brilliantly drawn and the telling and then re-telling of key points in the narrative allows the reader to reflect on the cause and effect of our behaviour and how we impact on each other without even realising. This idea of how we unwittingly shape the course of ours and other people's lives builds throughout the novel until it finally crescendos in an unforgettable way.
Another reason the novel is so engrossing is Benedictus' handling of the celebrity characters. As well as the main characters, with the exception of Michael, real famous people crop up throughout the story, such as Elton John and Gordon Ramsay. As Benedictus readily admits, his experience as a journalist provided plenty of material: "A consequence of writing features for a newspaper is that you do get to sample the strange experience of meeting very famous people. This has not been my specialty, by any means, but I've interviewed Kevin Spacey, Anne Hathaway, Russell Brand, Mike Leigh, Vic Reeves and others in the past … I've always found [it] fascinating, what is it like to be the famous person, surrounded by sycophants and social climbers and journalists and people who resent your success? What is it like when literally everybody on the street knows that you have just broken up with your boyfriend, or used to have a drug problem? What is it like to know that millions of people think you are a certain type of person, while you know that you aren't? … I include many quotes from real celebrities in the dialogue, of course, often in the mouths of the people who spoke it. This felt important, as a way of reminding readers that this book is really very close to reality."
The Afterparty's closeness to reality is hard to escape. As well as the authentic presentation of celebrity, there are numerous references to contemporary television, film and music. Zeitgeist is a handy but often overused label, but one that is perhaps apt here. Not only does Benedictus weave strands of sociocultural realism into his fictional fabric, his novel also reminds us of the divide between us and them – the ordinary and the famous. Whether people take the moral high ground about celebrity or not, most of us would do anything to be Michael and to get to see behind the closed doors, inside the kitchens and bathrooms and witness the lives of the rich and famous first hand. But what Michael soon realises is that once across that divide, once any ordinary person becomes somebody famous, they too often find that there is a price to pay. Beneath the story lies a more sombre message about the modern cult of celebrity – just how easy it is to lose touch with reality. Having entertained his reader with a clever and funny story, Benedictus brings out an ending that is poignant and moving, reminding us that underneath the sheen of fame there are real people with real problems.
The Afterparty was published in March 2011. www.leobenedictus.com.
Rachel Hazelwood