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I found this story about Sarah Kennedy taking over her dad's auto repair shop a great read. It's from a magazine (Ratchet + Wrench) that covers the auto care industry, but I think there are some great lessons for agriculture, particularly how good communication practices can help any business run better:
In the context of machinery repair and service,
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It's safe to say that the songs of most progressive hard-rock bands inspire Hollywood big-shot Mark Wahlberg to consider making a movie based on the lyrics. But that's not the case with Coheed & Cambria, the New York-based band led by Claudio Sanchez (not to be confused with the NPR correspondent). Each of the band's seven albums is a concept album following the sci-fi storyline based in The Amory Wars. In July, at Comic-Con, came word that Wahlberg and his production company Leverage (responsible for "Boardwalk Empire" and "Entourage") would bring Sanchez's story to the big screen. The Amory Wars, Sanchez said in a phone interview, was developed as way for him to express himself while hiding behind fictional characters. "They're all about me, but I'm stretching the truth so it's fiction," he said. "It was a way for me to deal with [being a frontman] and hide behind a façade. It allows me that distance, though I'll always be insecure." Special guests are Between the Buried and Me, and Russian Circles.
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One of the main objectives of this blog is to let you see behind the scenes at our company. A common misconception is that opera is snobby -- and by extension, that those of us who love opera are stuck up! I always laugh when this comes up, because the people I work with are some of the wackiest, funniest, and most wonderful people around. We have a pretty great work environment, and occasionally we even throw off-the-wall celebrations, like our Royal Wedding High Tea:
Anyway, to introduce you to these wonderful people, I'd like to run a monthly Meet the Staff post, featuring different members of our company. This month (in case you haven't already learned enough about me), I'll be the guinea pig. Have something you'd like to know about us? Leave it in the comments!
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All the sheet music that anyone uses at the opera comes through me! Well, not actually THROUGH me. That would be messy.
No, really: what is it you do?
See this post. (link: http://www.portlandopera.org/blog/jess-crawford/2011/06/27/introducing-p...)
How long have you worked at the opera?
Since October 3, 2005. Six seasons! Holy cow.
Were you involved with music before working with the opera? Are you a life-long opera fan, or new to the art?
I've been involved with music since I was a young child. I began playing piano at the age of seven, took up the clarinet at nine, and played in bands and orchestras throughout middle and high school. (In addition to clarinet, I experimented briefly with tenor saxophone and flute). I went on to study music in both undergraduate and graduate school, and have both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree.
As for opera? I had very little interest in it before I began here. I had only seen one opera in my life: Carmen, on a french class field trip in the ninth grade. I don't remember a thing about the performance, except that I nearly missed the return bus at the end of the night! After college I initially set out to work in a symphony library, but when this job came up it was a perfect match for my experience, and I was longing to be in Portland. I've loved working in opera ever since I arrived. Every production has a million different details, and the job is never the same twice. I love the costumes, and the scenery, and all the tiny funny little things that make a show so special. Although I don't fall in love with every opera we produce, I enjoy all of them.
Do you have a favorite opera?
I LOVE Nixon in China (Portland Opera - 2006), and have listened to it probably hundreds of times. I tend to be a fan of modern, English language opera, which apparently puts me in a minority! I was truly enamoured with 2009's Orphee, and am a sucker for any Benjamin Britten opera.
Are you from Portland originally?
No. I grew up in Maryland, and went to college in Syracuse, NY. And I don't miss the snow one bit.
What do you do in your spare time?
What spare time? JUST KIDDING. I own a 9-year-old horse named Cookie; I board her down in Oregon City. I ride her (and do barn chores) about four days a week. I also love to garden, and have a community garden plot that I tend to most of the year. Otherwise, I like to go on bike rides around town with my boyfriend, visit many of our city's wonderful parks, and have recently developed a serious fondness for Korean TV. No joke.
What's the craziest/funniest thing that's ever happened to you in your position?
HARD TO SAY. There was the time when we realized -- at our first orchestra rehearsal -- that a bunch of measures of an offstage band part in Rigoletto were missing from all the orchestra parts, and I spent a weekend reconstructing them, while frantically teaching myself our brand-new music notation software as I went. I drank nine cups of coffee in 24 hours.
There was the time when one of our clarinetists arrived late to a performance and I was mere moments away from having to sub in myself -- my first time playing in a year -- because the conductor refused to start without having the second clarinet part covered. It would have been my Portland Opera Orchestra debut!
There was the time when I nearly had to play a tree onstage at the very last minute because one of our supernumeraries was feeling sick. A tree. It would have been awesome but fortunately she perked up and went on.
There was the time I got to shake Philip Glass's hand. Philip Glass!!
What's the best part about the job?
Probably just getting to be in rehearsals. It's great fun watching the singers put the show together from behind the scenes. There are usually lots of inside jokes and laughter in rehearsal; the audience rarely gets to see that, although it does come out as rapport between the actors onstage. And I love when we've first brought a production to the theater for rehearsals. I love being able to roam through the mostly empty house, listening to the orchestra from various seats; I love hearing the way singers vary their performances from night to night. Those tech nights can sometimes, if the production is running smoothly, feel very cozy. Everyone backstage is focused on doing their job, and we are just all there in the theater, late at night, trying to get this show right. There is no feeling like it.
What's the hardest part of the job?
The tedium. The first ten hours of marking orchestra parts is nice; you get to listen to the radio and work undisturbed on a task that requires a lot of attention to detail but not a lot of mental energy (usually). But the other 50-90 hours of doing it start to get very, very boring. And your hand starts to hurt from writing so much.
If you could travel back in time to any performance in history, which would it be?
The premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. The audience was so incensed, they STORMED THE STAGE. Imagine if we were that passionate about new classical music!
If you could have any mythological creature as a pet, what would you adopt?
Gaudior, from Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time" series. Gaudior is a unicorn, but he also has wings like a Pegasus, and a beautiful, multi-phonic singing voice. And he flies through the stars. And he's NICE.


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At Comic Con today, I went as Black Cat. This is a shitty picture and there will be better ones of my whole costume coming up but I just want to say something.
Black Cat's costume has a fair amount of cleavage (conservative compared to many other female comic characters but a good amount as far as what I've ever shown). I guess I was not surprised to have a couple men ask to pose with me and then do some doofy "WHOA LOOK AT THOSE KNOCKERS" poses. I just make a really ugly face when I see they're doing it. One guy with the social graces of a lemur said to me "I was this close to wearing that same outfit. My breasts are large and supple and I think it would have been nice." Nope. Stop talking.
But aside from guys being doofy and awkward (but clearly not foul-intentioned), I did have my first truly skeezy experience at Comic Con today.
And my first truly empowering moment as well.
This group of men from some kind of Stan Lee fan club blah blah internet video channel blah blah asked to interview with them on camera about Comic Con. I said well okay, sure. Camera is rolling. The "host" is a middle aged, rotund dude. It's an all-male crew and lots of people (mostly guys) were beginning to crowd around. The following is the interview as burned in my mind. Keep in mind that I expected this to be about Comic Con in general.
- Him: I'm here with…
- Me: Mandy, aka Felicia Hardy aka Black Cat
- Him: ..And she is HOT. Do you think I'm hot enough to pull that off?
- Me: Uh, I'm not sure, I've never seen you in drag.
- Him: I've got a great ass. Go on, spank me.
- Me: (look at his large ass, popped up mere inches away from me then look into the camera like are you kidding me . No thanks. I may hurt you, I'm a lot stronger than I look.
- Him: Aw come on!
- Me: No, seriously. Stop.
- Him: Damn, alright! Well let me ask you an important question then…what is your cup size?
- Me: (big talk show smile) That is actually none of your fucking business.
- Him: Oh! I think that means to say she's a C.
- Me: I actually have no breasts at all, what you see is just all of the fat from my midsection pulled up to my chest and carefully held in place with this corset. It's really uncomfortable, I don't know why I do it.
- Him: (to the male crowd) Aw, come on what do you guys think? C cup?
- —a few males start to shout out cup sizes as I stand there looking at this guy like this has to be a fucking joke, then look at the crowd and see that no amount of witty banter or fiestiness will stop making this whole thing fucking dumb. It was clearly a ploy to single out cosplaying women to get them to talk sexual innuendos and flirt with this asshole and let him talk down to them simply because they were in costume and were attractive. Whether I'm in a skintight catsuit or not, I'm a fucking professional in everything I do and I don't need to play nice for this idiot.
- Me: This is not an interview, this is degrading. I'm done. (I walk away)
- Him: (clearly dumbfounded and surprised) ..Come on, it's all in good fun!
- Me: Being degraded is fun? That was unprofessional and I hope that isn't your day job because you can't interview for shit, my man.
And the entire crew and the crowd were SILENT. NOTHING. SHOCK, HONEY. It felt like I was in a heated fog, full of rage and pride and I sashayed away feeling like the most badass motherfucker in the whole damn room, but kind of also on the verge of tears. A slow build of applause would have been appropriate, but from the looks on people's faces, they were just completely not expecting me to do what I just did- which was really nothing more than speaking up for myself. It wasn't something one should feel brave for doing but crazy for not doing when necessary.
It's because many people at these cons expect women cosplaying as vixens (or even just wearing particularly flattering costumes) to be open/ welcoming to crude male commentary and lecherous ogling, like our presence comes with subtitles that say "I represent your fantasy thus you may treat me like a fantasy and not a human in a costume". And maybe that will always be how the majority of people see us. But that does not mean we have to put up with shit that crosses the line, it does not mean we owe them a fantasy, it does not mean we dress up to have guys drooling over us and letting us know that we turn them on. It is not all about your dicks, gentlemen. So I encourage cosplaying women everywhere to be blunt and vocal with their rights, their personal boundaries, and their comfort level at conventions. I actually encourage girls to be brashly shameless about these things, to not be afraid to speak up if you feel uncomfortable and to let the person doing it know that they are crossing the line. Don't keep quiet because you're scared of what they might say or think- because if you say nothing they will continue to see what they're doing as OK.
Hell yeah.
Fifty Things Wrong with Fifty Shades of Grey
This is the second post in my series on BDSM and feminism. My challenge to myself was to make a list of 50 reasons why the widespread appreciation of 50 Shades of Grey is not so ideal, despite the fact that I generally think women enjoying sexually explicit material is a good thing. I thought it would be difficult to think of all those things while pointing out new problems every time, not just giving examples. I was wrong. It was really easy.
Trigger warnings for discussions of BDSM, assault, child abuse, sexual abuse, rape, and stalking. Also, spoilers through 50 Shades of Grey and the sequels.
Part One: Problematic Treatment of Consent in the books
1. Ignoring consent
2. Reacting to the sentiment "no, I don't want to have sex with you right now" by threatening to tie the speaker up, taking their clothes off, and… having sex with them.
3. Not treating safewords as important
4. Not treating contracts as important
5. Joking about the importance of safewords and contracts in a D/s relationship
6. Having a partner sign a D/s contract without telling them it isn't legally binding
7. Not exploring and explaining limits
8. Forcibly preventing a partner from learning about their limits
9. Forcibly preventing a partner from learning about a sexual practice you are encouraging them to engage in
10. Making a romantic relationship dependent on indulging non-mutual kinks
11. Taking sexual advantage of someone who is intoxicated
12. Refusing to allow a partner to masturbate
13. Pushing someone who has never experienced any sexual interest, including maturbation, into a sexual relationship immediately after meeting them
14. Pushing someone who has never experienced any sexual interest, including masturbation, into a kinky sexual relationship immediately after meeting them despite the fact that they have no knowledge about kink
15. Refusing to allow that partner any trustworthy source of knowledge about those kinks other than yourself
16. Forcing a partner to make specific decisions about birth control based on your preferences
Let's wrap up!
Consent is really, really important. Consent is important because it differentiates sex from rape, and consent is important because it differentiates BDSM from abuse. So in a relationship like the one depicted in this series, you would think clear consent would be the number one most important thing. You would be wrong.
The worst part of how consent is treated is that the first book actually addresses the importance of negotiated and informed consent in a D/s relationship, and then procedes to undermine it. Christian, the male love interest, tells the inexperienced (with everything about sex and her body, and clueless about the existence of kink, much less its practice) Anastasia that he's not going to do anything without a contract and a safeword in place.
Approximately five seconds later, he says "Screw the contract" and initiates sexual contact in an elevator.
All of bullet point number two actually happens. She was joking when she sent him an email saying she didn't want to say him again, but he thought she was serious- and his response was to show up and tell her he was going to tie her up and then to have sex with her! He also has sexual contact with her after she drinks mulitple times, despite the fact that she has a low tolerance for alcohol (of course, she's a helpless wilting flower) and they never, ever negotiate having sex is this context.
He refuses to let her get information about BDSM (if she could, perhaps she would realize what a deeply abusive relationship she's trapped in). She is encouraged to look it up online, despite the fact that she's absurdly computer-illiterate and the internet is not exactly full of super-reliable information about BDSM. She literally cannot even speak to her best friend about it.
There's nothing wrong with having sex with an inexperienced partner, and there's nothing wrong with controlling your partner's orgasms in a negotiated D/s context. But you probably shouldn't do both at the same time, since she basically doesn't know what she's giving up, and she isn't given any opportunity to have anything like a normal learning curve about sexual activity. Instead, she's pushed immediately into exactly the kind of sexual relationship her partner wants, which is clearly coercive without everything else bad that's going on.
Part Two: Other Abusive Content in the books
17. Reading a partner's email and phone messages without their knowledge or consent
18. Physically hurting a partner without their informed consent
19. Physically hurting a partner even though it causes them fear
20. Controlling who a partner can and cannot spend time with outside of the relationship
21. Showing up at someone's house after they've literally just emailed you to say they don't want to see you anymore
22. Routinely forcing a partner to eat when they don't want to.
Let's wrap up!
Okay, so Christian is exhibiting some classic signs of a controlling and abusive partner here. Normally, you could cut a guy some slack due to his extremely difficult childhood, but he is literally beating her.
It's fine to hit your partner if your partner genuinely wants to get hit, but Ana in the books is ambivalent at best about any kind of S&M or painplay. There is one extremely telling scene where she is terrified that he's going to spank her again.
Now, as someone who's into this sort of thing, I can say that one of the more fun parts of the whole process is the anticipation. For me, at least, it's arousing and enjoyable to not be sure whether pleasure or pain is coming next.
That is not the same thing as fear, which is how Ana describes her feelings. She says she's afraid of him hurting her again. That isn't something a submissive says, it's something an abuse victim says.
And compared to everything else he does: controlling her other relationships and her communications, stalking her, and even deciding what she can and can't eat after she repeatedly tells him she isn't comfortable turning that control over—it's a clear pattern of control outside of the bounds of any kind of negotiated D/s. He is infiltrating every part of her life and abusing her emotionally and mentally… and then causing her physical pain that scares her and that she doesn't enjoy sexually or emotionally.
That sounds like abuse to me.
Part Three: Problematic Treatment of Women and other minority groups, Feminist Fails
23. The perpetuation of the idea that a woman has no libido or sexual desire of her own until it is "awoken" by a desirable man
24. The man as aggressor and the woman as, essentially, prey
25. Refusal to utter the word "vagina," instead referring to female genitalia as "down there," despite the fact that male genitals are described frequently and in often-bizarrely-metaphorical detail
26. A female character who is just so skinny and naturally feminine that she forgets to eat all the time! That's… that's not what people do. If you regularly forget to eat, you might have an eating disorder. And you definitely need to get that looked into.
27. The good-girl cures bad-boy trope
28. Stating marriage, babies, heteronormative normalcy as the ultimate goal for a young woman and lots and lots of kinky sex with multiple partners as the ultiamte goal for a young man
29. Racial stereotyping of a young man of color (the only vaguely significant character of color) as a scary probable rapist who nice white girls must be protected from, despite the fact that his behavior (which I am totally not condoning) is much less sexually predatory than that of the white male love interest
30. Complete erasure of queer people of all types
31. Typing- that is, the idea that a man only likes women of one physical "type," and thus that his only possible interest in these women is their physical appearance, not their personalities or anything else
32. Excusing the rape of a young boy by a woman. The one good thing the female main character does in the series is condemn the woman who raped her partner when he was 14 and question his continuing relationship with her. However, he completely laughs off her objections and the overall plot of the books somewhat normalizes his sexual abuse.
33. Presenting the only dominant female character as a rapist
34. Treating female sexual pleasure and orgasm as something bizarre
35. Treating female sexual pleasure and orgasm as something belonging exclusively to a male partner, to bestow or not as he chooses
36. Presenting a character who has never felt sexual attraction to anyone, ever, and has never masturbated, as obviously heterosexual and ignoring the asexual spectrum completely
37. Consistent devaluing of female friendships
38. Painting the normal state of relationships as a dominant man and a submissive woman
Let's wrap up!
My biggest problem with this book is its overall treatment of minorities and serious issues. It is dismissive and gross toward female-on-male rape (the legal definition of sex between the fourteen-year-old Christian and adult Elena). Although Ana actually is horrified by it (good for her!) her partner dismisses her discomfort about it and continues a friendship with this woman afterwards.
There are a lot of nasty sexist tropes in the books, listed above.
There are no queer characters of any type, and the only character of color at all is a rapist because he is deemed an unworthy partner for the beautiful virtuous young white woman.
This is a really, really problematic book, even barring the way it treats kink and the horrifically abusive relationship between the main characters.
Part Four: Kink-Shaming
39. Treating a partner's kinks as something unpleasant to be barely tolerated
40. Someone seeking out a partner they know will barely tolerate their kinks because of internalized kink-shaming
41. Creating the sense that a character's kinks must stem from some "reason" and thus the idea that kinks cannot be natural
42. Associating kinks with extreme trauma from early childhood
43. Treating a kink as something very embarassing, to be kept secret under threat of legal action
Let's wrap up!
It isn't really Ana's fault that she's shocked by Christian's kinkiness. After all, she's completely unprepared for it. But the narrative attitude toward his kinks, and thus toward kinky people in general, is remarkably kink-shaming and sex-negative for something that's explicitly a work of pornography.
The storyline sets up Christian's kink as the direct result of early childhood abuse. Although kink can be influenced by trauma, and many people find it a helpful way to deal when with a consenting and enthusiastic partner, it's hardly the only way anyone could end up a sadist.
Literally, Christian's reason for wanting to engage in BDSM with a long string of dark-haired pretty young women is that they look like his neglectful and drug-addicted mother. The only other kinky characters who get much of a mention in the book are his ex-sub, who goes insane and chases them down with a gun, and Elena, who molested a young teenager.
This doesn't paint a very flattering picture of individuals with an interest in BDSM. Admittedly, Ana has a normal background, but she also doesn't have much of an interest in BDSM. She only does it to please Christian, at least at first.
Additionally, Christian's intense shame about his kink, to the extent of making Ana keep it a secret under threat of legal action (a provision of the contract that he neglects to tell her isn't legally binding!) adds another level of shame for the reader to associate with BDSM. Finally, the plot tends to favor Ana's desire to marry and settle down into a vanilla, heteronormative marriage, setting BDSM as an abnormal sexual fetish which doesn't belong in a committed and loving relationship. A large part of Christian's discussions with his therapist revolve around trying to "cure" his kink (something his therapist rightly says he shouldn't do), showing once again how kink is treated as abnormal in the narrative of the series.
Part Five: General Shittiness
44. The phrase "laters, baby," which is just obnoxious. And the whole "inner goddess" thing, which deserves a special nod for its sheer terribleness
45. Generally terrible writing.
46. Lack of aftercare. The whole second book's plot could have been avoided if Christian weren't genuinely a terrible Dom.
47. This one part where a female character puts her hair in pigtails to make herself look like a child to protect herself from the sexual aggression of her partner. And then he totally gets that that's why she's doing it, and says something along the lines of "that won't protect you." I actually cannot.
48. Plagiarism. Since when is it totes okay to make money off someone else's copyrighted idea?
49. Coopting fanfiction and fanworks, by and large a feminist, queer-positive practice, to make money off an unfeminist, queer-erasing work
50. People are entering into D/s relationship based off the precepts the learned in this book, which is dangerous and frightening.
Criticizing the writing has little to do with my point here, but I couldn't resist.
Perhaps 46 would have fit in better somewhere else, but I shoved it in here. That's right, for somebody who structures all his relationships around D/s, Christian sucks at being a Dom. Maybe it's because he learned it all from his rapist, but he's fairly clueless. Except for rubbing some lotion on Ana's butt one time, he's not very sensitive about aftercare. He leaves her alone after a scene when she's clearly traumatized, and lets her run out without even mentioning that maybe he's sorry or something after he beats her until she safewords. There's also the issue of his ex-sub, who clearly is still deeply under his influence. If he'd ended the relationship in a normal way, maybe she wouldn't be under such an extended case of subdrop related crazy.
47. It happens. I actually can't. Like really.
I'm so in favor of fandom. I've been a writer of fanfiction for years and years, and was in fact in the Twilight fandom for a little while. I've written more D/s porn than most people have read total words in their lives. I'm even in favor of writers finding ways to make money off the fic they love so much. Selling drabbles or auctioning off prompt fills, even changing stories to be original work… I had a friend once who did it in another fandom and was published. But she changed the character's personalities and replaced the plot entirely, just keeping some of the sexy bits that were so thoroughly celebrated. I saw a comparison that shows that something like 93% of the text of 50 Shades is word-for-word identical to the original fic, and that just rings of plagiarism… she even kept Edward and Bella's physical appearances.
49 is probably a whole nother post, about the value of fandom, so I'll just save it.
And I left the worst for last.
D/s is awesome. D/s is fun. Go for it if you really want to.
But don't fucking use Fifty Shades as a guide.
Read the books if you must- obviously, I did. But read other things too. Talk to people who've been in the lifestyle for years. Talk to me, if you can't find anyone more, like, knowledgeable. Use a safeword. Don't do anything that you don't, really, truly, deep-down want to do.
There's nothing wrong with reading problematic porn- I've done it, definitely. But don't base your lifestyle around it, and try seeking out some other things. I could recommend you some really, really good fic.
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Many places that offer food along the Kystriksveien are located off the beaten track. They are, however, well worth seeking out. In the larger towns along Kystriksveien you will find a variety of restaurants. Some of the best places to eat are the hotel restaurants. Find a complete list of restaurants along Kystriksveien.
Fossekailn Restaurant, Namdalseid Fossekailn features a Spanish/Norwegian menu that includes steak, bacalao, marinated wild salmon and Atlantic halibut, as well as a range of tapas.
Overhalla Hotel ;Overhalla Hotel, next to the River Namsen, offers tasty salmon.
The Coastal Museum Norveg, Rørvik/Vikna This restaurant in the Coastal Museum Norveg serves fresh fish from the Vikna area.
Mon AmourMake a detour to nostalgic Mon Amour just outside Terråk in Bindal. Browse around the shop, enjoy the tranquillity in the garden and try one of the exciting dishes from the lunch menu.
Vennesund BryggeIf you come from the south, Vennesund Brygge is located just after the first ferry at the Vennesund ferry quay. Perfect for a lunch-stop when travelling along Kystriksveien.
Klakkskjæret Pub & RestaurantQuality restaurant located at Berg in Sømna. Dishes made with local produce are available every day.
Persplassen KaféNice and cosy café in historic surroundings along the Tosen Road. Enjoy homemade food made with local products served by a French chef. Persplassen Kafé is perfect for lunch or dinner.
Lokalmatbutikken Lokalmatbutikken ("the local food shop") in Brønnøysund sells local food products from the entire Helgeland region.
Torghatten Camping, BrønnøysundLocated on the beach with great views of the area, the restaurant/bar at Torghatten Camping serve local specialities as well as everyday fare.
Hildurs Urterarium (Herbarium) RestaurantIn summertime, the garden restaurant is open for visitors to the herbarium. Try the famous herb pizza made in the stone oven. The main restaurant (Sagstua) is open for reservations all year round – call for reservations.
Vega Havhotell, VegaOne of the best restaurants along Kystriksveien. Every night, Vega Havhotell offers a customised menu focusing on local suppliers. The menu is continental/Norwegian. Highly recommended.
Coffee roastery and restaurant at Forvik, VevelstadEnjoy freshly roasted coffee at Kaffebrenneriet (the coffee roasting factory). Excellent fish dishes are served in the restaurant by appointment. Located at the old trading post just by the ferry quay.
Restaurant 3 kalver (3 calves), Dønna3 kalver serves food based on local recipes, prepared with fresh produce from Dønna and Helgeland.
Langneset at Sleneset, LurøyThe restaurant Spiseriet Fabelaktig, another great option, serves delicious dishes based on seasonal, local produce. To get to Langneset you have to take a ferry or express boat in the direction of Lovund.
Lovund Rorbuhotel, Lovund island, LurøyLovund Rorbuhotel has an international menu based on local produce.
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Suffice it to say when Mitt Romney next talks about U.S. Supreme Court nominations he intends to make as president, he'll point to Antonin Scalia, or Samuel Alito, or Clarence Thomas.
John Roberts, the surprise swing vote in the court's 5-4 decision to uphold President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, has suddenly become persona non grata in certain Republican circles – although friends of the chief justice are putting up a healthy defense. Here's a quick afternoon breakdown:
From Rush Limbaugh:
"The chief justice was hell-bent to find a way to make this law applicable, so he just decided, you know what, as a tax increase, it works, because there's no limit on the federal government's ability to tax….Even when they don't ask for it, the Supreme Court is gonna find a way to make what they want to do legal because John Roberts said it's not our job here to forbid this. It's not our job to protect people from outcomes."
From Joel B. Pollak at Breitbart.com:
"[It] would appear that the Chief Justice may have succumbed to the bullying meted out by President Barack Obama, who attacked the Court in the aftermath of oral arguments in March, when Obamacare seemed headed for certain defeat."
Charles Krauthammer at the Washington Post offers a nuanced defense:
"Whatever one thinks of the substance of Bush v. Gore, it did affect the reputation of the court. Roberts seems determined that there be no recurrence with Obamacare. Hence his straining in his Obamacare ruling to avoid a similar result — a 5 to 4 decision split along ideological lines that might be perceived as partisan and political.
"National health care has been a liberal dream for a hundred years. It is clearly the most significant piece of social legislation in decades. Roberts's concern was that the court do everything it could to avoid being seen, rightly or wrongly, as high-handedly overturning sweeping legislation passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the president."
From Ezra Klein, also at the Washington Post, though on the other side of the aisle:
"The 5-4 language suggests that Roberts agreed with the liberals. But for the most part, he didn't. If you read the opinions, he sided with the conservative bloc on every major legal question before the court. He voted with the conservatives to say the Commerce Clause did not justify the individual mandate. He voted with the conservatives to say the Necessary and Proper Clause did not justify the mandate. He voted with the conservatives to limit the federal government's power to force states to carry out the planned expansion of Medicaid."
Even the liberal folks at Talking Points Memo are wondering if they've been played:
"All five conservative justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, agreed that the individual mandate exceeded Congress' power under the Commerce Clause. So all those who thought this case might be the first major retrenchment of Commerce Clause law since the New Deal might still be right."
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June 28th, 2012
5:24 pm
What surprises me is how ignorant the folks posting on this blog are. If you have insurance there is no change. President Reagan decided that health care was a right and he passed a bill called EMTALA that we have all paid for since. Your premiums have gone up AND your taxes have risen. Now those who are earning 30,000 can afford to buy their own health care. I know reading is hard work but read the darn bill… Most people want to buy insurance but until now it has not been affordable. BTW.. if you don't want insurance..don't buy it and pay the 100 penalty but don't expect me to pick up the additional cost..pay it yourself.
June 28th, 2012
5:27 pm
How is the bill paid for.. well hello how much has EMTALA cost us over the years… do the research ..you have been paying for it but you paid for double pneumonia rather than a doctor's visit where prescriptions could have been handed out. For those who say leave my medicare and va alone..those are government programs. This program is run by insurance companies so there still is a risk..
June 28th, 2012
5:39 pm
My neighbor is frothing at the mouth on this. It is HIS RIGHT (By Gawd) not to buy insurance (and at 56 and 375 lbs) when he has to go to the hospital, STICK THE REST OF US PAYING, INSURED FOLKS WITH THE BILL! Everyone needs skin in the game. The rest of us have been paying for all these "Patriots" when they need care but are unwilling or unable to buy insurance and unwilling or unable to pay for it. Personally, I am tired of it!
June 28th, 2012
5:46 pm
Hey JPL, what matters here is not affordable healthcare, you moron. It has to do with the Federal Government requiring us all to buy something. It completely tramples all over the principles for which we stand, a free market, and your ability to chose. Why should I have to pay a tax if I decide not to take part in this mandate? It's one more step for the Government to get their hand in my life and us all. NO, the program is not run by insurance companies, it is run by the federal government. THE NUMBER ONE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE THROUGH NATIONAL DEFENSE. Which Obama is also not doing, by not securing our borders and having our guys killed. He won't arm them with the proper weaponry. He said we have to engage them with rubber bullets and bean bags, while drug cartels escorting hard narcotics are coming across with assault rifles and heavy arms.
June 28th, 2012
5:53 pm
RAS, calm down, you don't have insurance and are about to give yourself a heart attack. Of course because you don't have insurance you will die from that heart attack.
Your Republican friends will yell…"LET HIM DIE!!!" so don't expect any help from them.
June 28th, 2012
5:59 pm
Not quite, you sound like an uneducated individual DannyX. It is actually quite the contrary good sir. It will be the Feds telling me when I am 80 that I am too old to undergo surgery when needed. Completely omitting the existence of a patient/doctor relationship. "Just give him some medicine, let him live out his final hours hallucinating."
June 28th, 2012
6:01 pm
Do you really in your right mind, want the Federal Government to control your health care?
June 28th, 2012
6:07 pm
..and you obviously have never partied with Republicans, Democrats are such a bore!
June 28th, 2012
6:18 pm
In theory your health insurance will not go up..What we need is some cost control on medical costs.
We will have to recall ir impeach the dumb deal at the capitol and his cronies. To make GA abide by federal law.
The one thing I do know. mitty was a bad politician yesterday and today he is still a bad politician. Whats a real fact he will be a bad politician tomorrow.
Stop the GOP from holding America hostage
Re=elect President OBAMA.
June 28th, 2012
6:21 pm
Yeah, Repubs, never mind the fact that 80% of adults already have health insurance. By God, no black liberal is gonna take away the right of the other 20% to be stupid!
"Mama always said stupid is as stupid does."
June 28th, 2012
6:22 pm
Here's to MYTH ROMNEY and HIS SUPPORTERS:
Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man (OBAMA) will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens
to be rich (MYTH ROMNEY) will not go unpunished.
June 28th, 2012
6:23 pm
If you watched Lawrence O'Donnel last night you would have heard an explanation of the tax that will be added if you don't get insurance. He read in the law that there is no way that the federal government will try to collect, and IRS is forbidden to collect it. It is one of the provisions in the health care law. Has anybody read it or are you just going on what Fox tells you. The health care law is all good for everybody. If you already have insurance, it does not affect you, and if you don't there are provisions to help you get it, even extra money for people who are really poor. They just don't want people sitting around not trying to help themselves.
June 28th, 2012
6:24 pm
Hang on ERIC HOLDER.
Help is on the way.
The Lord works in misterious ways.
June 28th, 2012
6:27 pm
June 28th, 2012
5:59 pm
Not quite, you sound like an uneducated individual DannyX. It is actually quite the contrary good sir. It will be the Feds telling me when I am 80 that I am too old to undergo surgery when needed. Completely omitting the existence of a patient/doctor relationship. "Just give him some medicine, let him live out his final hours hallucinating."
"Just give him some medicine, let him live out his final hours hallucinating."
June 28th, 2012
6:34 pm
He rewrote the law he did not judge it.
if ti was a tax 2 years ago and it was a tax it would not have passed
roberts is a shill
June 28th, 2012
6:39 pm
Cheney got a heart.How old is he.
June 28th, 2012
6:41 pm
I am happy to know that everyone who can afford ins will have to have it. Many people have dropped ins so we, who have ins would pay for there health care. No more.
June 28th, 2012
6:45 pm
I don't agree with this ruling, but can you imagine if Chief Justice Roberts would have sided with the conservatives? All these fine "progressives" would have been going out of their mind, crying about activist judges. So now we at the point where "the people" can decided the issue with their vote, like we thought we did in 2010. It's a Republic folks, no matter which side of the isle you are on.
June 28th, 2012
6:50 pm
"the right" to healthcare? or "the right" for me to pay for their healthcare?
June 28th, 2012
6:52 pm
Sometimes I wonder if Republicans can even read. Maybe that's why they listen to Fox News for all their talking point.
If they would smarten up a bit and learn to get facts instead of 'opinions' they might be better off. And as someone said up in one of the previous posts, I'm tired of paying for the people who can afford insurance and don't get it and then expect free treatment at the hospitals. Who do you think pays for it?
As for the government interfering and telling people what to do, why don't you have the same feeling when it comes to women's health. Then you think it's perfectly fine for the governement to dictate what can be done and what can't. Hypocrites!
June 28th, 2012
6:53 pm
double – yea but this is the first heart he ever had, at least according the Nancy
June 28th, 2012
6:54 pm
Curls to Justice Roberts! He has restored my faith in the Supreme court's Integrity! ThecAmerican people are the winners. Hopefully, the intelligent electorate will give Obama a resounding victory this fall so all aspects of the affordable health act can work for them! God Bless you Justice Roberts!
June 28th, 2012
6:59 pm
What are you people talking about, you're uneducated!
June 28th, 2012
7:00 pm
June 28th, 2012
7:01 pm
Boy these conservative nuts are having seizures. It's sad. What's even more sad is that people who need healthcare the most are the ones so adamantly opposed to this law. My coworker nearly filed bankruptcy because of his wife's medical bills but can't say enough about how he hates Obamacare. Oh yeah, he's also $40,000 in debt with student loans.
June 28th, 2012
7:03 pm
you're a moron
June 28th, 2012
7:03 pm
Hope you enjoy bending over to China!
June 28th, 2012
7:09 pm
Charles Krauthammer had it right when he said:
"National health care has been a liberal dream for a hundred years. It is clearly the most significant piece of social legislation in decades. Roberts's concern was that the court do everything it could to avoid being seen, rightly or wrongly, as high-handedly overturning sweeping legislation passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the president."
But what this means is that America has in its Chief Justice a man of irresponsible focus; the aim of his sense of responsibility is to protect the image of the Supreme Court and not the freedom and economic health of his country. His job was to determine the constitutionality of the matter before him and NOT offer an "out" to the White House by changing the legislation, which he did by determining the mandate is really a tax. That twas not his job nor was it proper. He is, after all, merely human – but the country desperately needed him to be a grownup and not act like a junior high school kid obsessed with image. Lady Liberty hangs her head low tonight and tears are streaking her face.
June 28th, 2012
7:12 pm
@Sandra – YES!
June 28th, 2012
7:14 pm
Silly conservatives… it was one of your own that came up with the idea of the mandate in the first place. Or was the Heritage Foundation a bunch of effete liberal socialist pansies back around 1990?
June 28th, 2012
7:40 pm
Well said Nancy
June 28th, 2012
7:44 pm
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June 28th, 2012
7:51 pm
Essentially this health care mandate is a new tax to be imposed on the middle class. As usual the middle class bears the brunt of this decision. What i'd like to know is, since when can the Supreme Court levy taxes? If their decision means a tax, than they are responsible. Isn't that unconstitutional?
June 28th, 2012
7:57 pm
Who knew the Supreme Court could choose a president, but it happened with horrendous results, maybe they've righted their ship.
June 28th, 2012
8:01 pm
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June 28th, 2012
8:41 pm
Obama Does It Again. SORRY GOP @ – 6:24 pm –
AMEN, Mr.Holder you will not be left out to dry based on Lies and Half truths.
GOOD will overcome EVIL …..ALWAYS!
Remember, Jesus too was persecuted wrongly during his time here too!
Those that did it, were probably Republicans too!
June 28th, 2012
8:42 pm
Even though this bill does not eliminate the private insurance market, my answer is : YES, I want to have the government run my insurance, I am counting the days off until I turn 65.
I worked at a VA hospital and Naval hospital, and the care in there was AMAZING. I use to have Tricare/Champus, and think it is the best insurance around.
When the lifetime and annual limits are lifted I will be able to sleep better;, many of us who have seen hard tragedies strike, KNOW limits can be reached much too quickly.
Today is an historic day. We can be humane society.
June 28th, 2012
8:46 pm
Looks like Roberts is a better chess player than Obama. Can't wait until we all qualify for the kind of heroic treatment Teddy received. His son Patrick the Addled sent out a fund-raising letter warning that the TEA party would go on a rampage if the court upheld Obamacare, but it was the DNC that reacted by sending out hateful bigoted profane tweets. Jake Tapper finally called them on it.
June 28th, 2012
8:48 pm
Chief Justice John Roberts is a coward. He stands for nothing! That this Health Care bill was shoved down the throats of all Americans, without their consent, and he has the audacity to turn a blind eye to that fact, is unconscionable.
He should be ashamed of himself. I am ashamed of him representing me and our forefathers.
June 28th, 2012
8:50 pm
Oh Yes, I want to give a shout out to George BUSH! THANK_YOU!
You could not have chosen a better Supreme Court Chief Justice.
This is the FIRST and only thing I have been able to agree with BUSH that he has done as President.
P.S. NO, you are not being missed and you are STILL NOT wanted BACK in The WHITEHOUSE! even the Republicans will agree with me on that one.
June 28th, 2012
8:50 pm
Buying and Eating Broccoli,
Thanks to the wisdom of Chief Justice Roberts we now know that…
If you do not buy a $2.00 head of broccoli you will have to put 20 cents in the fine jar.
However, if you do buy the broccoli, you still do not have to eat it.
He also warned about excessive broccoli fines, so hey Ma, there are limits!
June 28th, 2012
8:55 pm
Obama lied and gave the working poor and middle class the largest tax increase in American history and you libs thank him for doing this.
June 28th, 2012
8:58 pm
Obama will go down as the 2nd greatest President, behind Abe.
June 28th, 2012
9:00 pm
32 million peeps, just said hope and change is working for me.
June 28th, 2012
9:13 pm
I guess I was wrong when I said that the Supreme Court would overturn Obamacare. Now I feel like a complete jerk, but I'll spin this some kind of way in favor of the conservatives.
Obama – 1
Repubs – 0
June 28th, 2012
9:28 pm
The Bush failures continues!!!!
June 28th, 2012
9:34 pm
Ras, since you obviously have high regard for your intelligence, would you explain to me the value that for-profit insurance companies add to health care. Mine seems to have no problem determining what I need. It uses economic sanctions to try to force me into the care of the providers that it prefers. It has doubled my premiums over the past ten years while expending on me an infinitesimal fraction of what I've paid. Yet, it seems to have hundreds of millions of dollars to expend on promoting and protecting its corporate interests; most of which, if not obviously inimical to mine, I cannot deduce as being particularly beneficial . The experts declare that our for-profit health care system is the world's highest in cost, but ranked somewhere between 26th and 37th in overall performance. Isn't that the definition of inefficient and ineffective? When the Affordable Care Act was under consideration for adoption, the president of the American College of Cardiology decried: "Ten years ago, the US healthcare system was declared 'broken,' and it has not improved." That was an eminent physician describing our health care system pre-Act. So please, explain to me what I don't understand about the advantages of your cherished free market when it comes to health care. And, by all means, enlighten me as to how your declaration of freedom to go without coverage should be accorded any respect by me and others when that has adverse consequences for us.
June 28th, 2012
9:40 pm
Isn't it ironic that the individual mandate to prevent "free riders" and assure that a system is sustainable was a Republican idea supported by Romney, Gingrich, et al. Only when the Democrats decided to go along with the Republican proposal in lieu of a single payer plan did it suddenly become a treasonous socialist concept.
June 28th, 2012
9:54 pm
I think it is an absolute disgrace that our country doesn't provide nationalized health care, but I did (and do not) support the mandate. (And did not support it when it was a republican proposal, either.) I want to see a single-payer system, preferably by just expanding Medicare to cover everyone.
I am glad to see President Obama get a politcal win, but I must admit I don't understand the ruling. You can't be forced to buy a health insurance policy or else be in violation of the law and have to pay a fine. But you CAN be forced to buy a health insurance policy or else have to pay an additional tax?
June 28th, 2012
10:07 pm
Conserrrrrrrvatives are all talk.
If they thought their imaginary 'free market' would do the trick, they would have repealed 'McCarren-Ferguson' a couple of decades ago.
Never heard of McCarren-Ferguson?
It is the law that allows insurance companies to limit their activities to each individual state, where they can buy (oh excuse me) 'elect' an insurance commissioner to be at their service and ensure they extract maximum profit (confiscation) from every premium dollar.
When it comes to health care, the 'group' is Americans and each should be rated along with the 300 odd million others rather than pared down to the 'groups' most profitable to the insurance industry and gouged appropriately.
Talk show liars pontificate about 'selling insurance across state lines'. That is not the same thing as it would just allow for low quality (covers nothing) policies that would give the illusion of coverage through low cost.
Congress could repeal McCarren-Ferguson tomorrow as nothing is stopping them, except an intravenous infusion of campaign cash from the insurance industry.
Health insurance companies REDUCE the purchasing power of your premium dollar. They don't add anything!


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Tuesday night will make the fifth night blogger Clayton Kelly will spend in the Madison County jail.His name and actions have attracted national media attention. But not in the way he originally planned.
"It's not a big conspiracy that somebody was leading him astray. And then got him going down the road and he couldn't stop," said his attorney Kevin Camp.
Kelly told Camp, he was researching a story about Cochran and a possible mistress. He wanted to bring home the point that it was taking place while his wife was in St. Catherine's. Kelly's attorney says he used this visitors pass to park and get the picture on Easter Sunday.
"He was being fed information the story itself, not information to go and take the photo," said Camp.
Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest says they're leaving no stone unturned.
"At this point, the investigation has shifted to try to determine whom those individuals were and what information if any that they may have passed along to Mr. Kelly," explained Guest.
Electronics were taken from Clayton Kelly's home. Investigators are hoping clues will be inside.
"Attempting through subpoenas, search warrants, various other investigative methods to try to determine who those individuals were that Mr. Kelly was speaking with," said Guest.
The timing comes with the Senate primary just 2 weeks away. Jackson State University professor Dr. D'Andra Orey thinks only time will tell when it comes to impact at the polls.
"In this particular case, it could be an assault on the personal rather than an assault on the policy," described Orey. "And for that reason, folks can suggest that he just simply went too low on his blow."
Even if there's never a direct link made to one of the campaigns, Orey believes voters are paying close attention.
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Clayton Kelly will have his preliminary appearance in Madison on Thursday. His attorney is hoping they can have the $100,000 dollar bond reduced at that time.
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