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Wedding planning is filled with so many decisions, some more stressful than others. But, of course, the biggest choice you're making is to spend your life with one another! Diane's favorite part of the ceremony she and Mark crafted themselves was "You fell in love by chance, but you're here today because you're making a choice. You both are choosing each other." Another wedding decision that fell in the easy-to-make category was their venue–Diane and Mark never looked at any other places, but knew The Bleckley Inn was they one for them. They personalized the beautiful space with DIY pieces created by Diane and her maid of honor, including that amazing ceremony backdrop–they handmade it to be over seven feet tall!
Thanks to Ryan & Alyssa for sharing Diane and Mark's wedding with us!
I had tried on over 50 dresses and couldn't find a dress that reflected my personality. I finally decided to try on dresses that were over my budget and came across a designer named Leanne Marshall. I tried on my dress and instantly fell in love. As I tried on more and more dresses, I found myself comparing every one to this dress. It was the perfect mix of romantic and fun, but best of all, IT HAD POCKETS!! It was unlike any dress I have ever seen. When people saw it, they all said the same thing: "That is such a Diane dress." I felt like it was made for me.
Describe your wedding flowers. I love greenery and bouquets that look like you just walked through a garden and picked up flowers to bring home to your mother. My florist took my vision and ran with it. We used white spray roses, pale pink stock, seeded eucalyptus, silver dollar eucalyptus, dusty miller, hypericum berries, baby's breath, wax flower, and spirea.
Did you write your own vows? If so, what was your favorite phrase, verse or line? We decided to write the majority of our ceremony script, and while we were doing research, we came across some sweet lines to incorporate into the script. A personal favorite was, "You fell in love by chance, but you're here today because you're making a choice. You both are choosing each other. You've chosen to be with someone who enhances you, who makes you think, makes you smile, and makes every day brighter".
What made you choose your ceremony and reception venues? Did they have any special significance to you? Five years ago, I was a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding, which took place at The Bleckley, and I fell in love with it! When we got engaged, we did not look at any other venue. This was our first and only choice.
Did you have something borrowed, blue, old, and new? If so, do tell! I borrowed a bracelet from a bridesmaid. Another bridesmaid brought a blue garter that she had been worn at her wedding (which I was a part of and caught the bouquet at). My something old was a pair of antique earrings given to me by Mark's mother, which had been worn by his grandmother. The new item I wore was a wedding gift from Mark. He surprised me with a Clemson class ring, which I have always wanted.
My matron of honor is the most amazing baker and cake artist. She came up with a remarkable design based off of my love of Aztec and geometrical design. There were three separate cakes, and each tier differed in size, texture, and technique. My favorite feature was the way she hand-painted a beautiful watercolor design on wafer paper, which she then transferred to the bottom tier of one cake. The cake we cut in to was a vanilla cake with fresh strawberries and strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream, topped with a white chocolate drip. The other cakes were a mix of vanilla cake with chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream and chocolate cake with dark chocolate fudge buttercream.
How did y'all meet? Tell us your love story. It all started in the summer of 2007. Mark and I were both students at Clemson University and applied for a bartending position at a bar/restaurant that was opening up in downtown. We worked side by side for two years and casually hung out with the same crowd. One day, a coworker jokingly sent a flirtatious text to me from Mark's phone, which sparked an exchange of messages and funny conversations. Over the course of a few weeks, we started seeing each other in a different light. We began dating in early 2009 and became inseparable. We maintained a long distance relationship while I finished my last semester in Clemson. After graduation, I had a big decision to make: move back home to Charleston, or head up North to Virginia with no job and no friends and take a chance on this relationship. It was the best decision I ever made. After six years of dating, two years of living together and raising a stubborn but adorable little French bulldog, Mark popped the question!
Tell us about the proposal! On a random Sunday afternoon, I had been out photographing a maternity shoot. When I arrived home, I gathered my equipment and walked towards the door leading into the kitchen. As soon as I grabbed the handle, something caught my eye–there was a note stuck to the door. It read: "10 Reasons I Love You. Please take your time and read each one before proceeding. I love you! -Mark." I opened the kitchen door to find a bunch of rose petals creating a path for me to follow. As I made my way into the kitchen, I found the next note: "You are naturally beautiful. You look gorgeous with or without makeup. I love you!" As I continued to follow the path, the notes just kept getting better, and I started to realize that this was not just a sweet gesture–it was much more. The last note was at the opening to the living room. I turned the corner and the world around me melted away. There was Mark down on one knee. He started speaking, and I started crying. I dropped my camera equipment, and the words he had gone over and over in his head didn't even sound like English to me. All I heard was "Will you marry me?" I fell to the floor and into Mark's arms. I was so surprised and in shock. What went from an ordinary day of photography turned in to the most memorable day of my life. We popped a bottle of champagne and celebrated at an amazing dinner on the water.
When did y'all get married? April 23, 2016
How many friends, family members, and loved ones attended your wedding? 160
Did you decide to do a first look? Why or why not? No, we did not do a first look. We wanted to wait until that perfect moment when our eyes met for the first time as I walked down the aisle. It was magical. He did not take his eyes off of me.
Our favorite detail of the wedding was: The triangle backdrop. My matron of honor and I came up with a design that would be the focal point of our ceremony backdrop. We measured, cut, nailed, painted, and screwed each triangle so that the whole thing would stand over seven feet tall. It was the largest puzzle I have ever done!
What Southern details or traditions did you include in your celebration? What was Southern about your wedding? Our food. We had shrimp and grits, pulled pork, BBQ pulled chicken, cornbread, and smoked gouda macaroni and cheese.
If you are comfortable responding, what range did your wedding budget fall into? $25,000-$50,000
What was one way you saved money or cut costs at your wedding? We saved money in many different ways. I am a graphic designer and DIY junkie, so between my creative MOH and me, we designed, created, and implemented every detail, from the invitations, to the koozies, to the table runners, to the triangle paper garland. We may have saved money, but we didn't save time.
What advice do you have for folks currently planning a wedding? Don't procrastinate. Stay organized.
What's next for you as a couple? What memories are you looking forward to making together? Starting a family.
Photographer: Ryan & Alyssa Photography | Planner: Kellie Conner of Jubliee Wedding and Events | Venue: The Bleckley Inn | Florist: Kimberly Cabe | Cake Baker: Jennifer Grove | Caterer: Sullivans Metropolitan Grill | Rentals: Event Rentals Anderson | Band: Six Stylez | Bride's Gown: Leanne Marshall | Bride's Shoes: Steve Madden | Bridesmaids' Dresses: Donna Morgan and Adrianna Papell | Menswear: Jos A. Bank | Cake Topper: Touch Of Clay by Dawn Stubitsch


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - More than 26 tons of cocaine worth at least $715 million was brought ashore Thursday in Florida following multiple recent seizures by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Navy in the eastern Pacific.
Coast Guard officers said at a news conference Thursday that the drugs brought to Fort Lauderdale came from 27 separate vessel interdictions and five bale recovery operations off Central and South America over the past three months.
Pallets containing the drugs, many wrapped in brightly colored plastic and some bearing labels such as "white sugar" or "pork," covered the entire flight deck of the 418-foot Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton.
Vice Admiral Karl Schultz, Coast Guard commander in the Atlantic, said the seizures are part of an effort to target vessels bringing cocaine north by sea from Colombia, Peru and Bolivia before the loads reach land and are divided up into much smaller amounts for smuggling into the U.S. and Canada.
Cocaine seizures at sea result in three times more drugs intercepted than all U.S. land-based law enforcement efforts combined, Shultz added.
"When we interdict drugs at sea, they are large quantities," he said. "That's kind of the impact of doing this at sea."
Authorities say about 100 suspected smugglers were detained in the various interdictions. Some are being prosecuted in South Florida, one reason the Hamilton brought the cocaine to Port Everglades. The Hamilton, a national security cutter, is based in Charleston, South Carolina.
Commodore Craig Baines, commander of the Royal Canadian Naval Atlantic Fleet, said two British Columbia-based vessels were responsible for seizing more than 3,000 pounds of the cocaine offloaded Thursday as part of the joint operations.
"It is a tangible example of our collective efforts to keep narcotics off our streets while at the same time promoting regional security," Baines said.
In the federal fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, Schultz said similar operations at sea resulted in the seizure of more than 221 tons of cocaine and numerous arrests. The cocaine brought ashore Thursday represents 75 percent of the drugs seized so far this fiscal year, he said.
Hamilton Capt. Scott Clendenin said the smugglers are constantly changing tactics, such as using submarine-like vessels that operate just beneath the waves. He said the Hamilton has the most updated surveillance and tracking equipment available, giving the Coast Guard a better chance of catching the smugglers even at night.
"It's a very difficult operating environment. They have an advantage but we are taking over that advantage," Clendenin said.
The seized cocaine typically is kept in a secure location as evidence for criminal prosecutions and is eventually burned by the Drug Enforcement Administration, officials said.
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Stanford Engineering professors are offering three of the school's most popular computer science courses for free online this fall, and at the same time launching an experiment that could transform the way online education is delivered.
The professors are taking technologies designed to enhance learning for Stanford students and extending them to a broad online audience. They are delivering lectures as short, interactive video clips that allow students to progress at their own pace through course materials. They are offering live quizzes with instant feedback. And they are testing new technologies that allow students to rank questions that should be posed to the instructors.
The professors also hope to extend the benefits of Stanford-style education to those who lack access.
"Both in the United States and elsewhere, many people simply do not have access to a high-quality education. By putting out this initial set of courses, we hope to teach some of the latest computing technologies to anyone who wants to learn it – for free," said Andrew Ng, an associate professor of computer science who is teaching a new online machine learning course.
The three courses – Machine Learning, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Introduction to Databases – cover material that forms the basis of some of the most prevalent technologies today, from online shopping to web search and robotics.
"By opening up education, we hope to give more learning, job and advancement opportunities to anyone who wants them," said Computer Science Department Chair Jennifer Widom, who is teaching the database course.
Demand has been enormous. Already more than 58,000 people have expressed interest in the artificial intelligence course taught by Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford research professor of computer science and a Google Fellow, and Google Director of Research Peter Norvig.
"The time is right for this – technology has progressed, connectivity has progressed and video has progressed," Thrun said. "It's thrilling to be able to take Stanford education out into the world to people who can't afford it or wouldn't have access."
Formal registration for the classes kicks off today; classes start on Oct. 10 and extend through December. All three are being offered in partnership with the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD), which brings more than 40 years of distance-learning expertise to the table. Both SCPD students and regular Stanford students, as well as the general public, will have access to the new online learning tools.
Students in the free courses are expected to read course materials, complete assignments and take quizzes and an exam. Thrun said online students should expect to devote at least 12 hours a week to the artificial intelligence course, just as Stanford students do. What online students won't receive, however, is one-on-one interaction with professors, the full content of lectures – or a Stanford degree.
The online courses build on recent innovations by Stanford professors to increase interaction with students. These include ClassX, a video processing platform that facilitates lecture recording; CourseWare, an online course hosting site with social networking features; and OpenClassroom, a web platform designed to share Stanford lectures freely with the world.
In January 2010, computer science Professor Daphne Koller piloted the idea of shifting classroom time from lectures – which are largely passive activities for students – to more engaging activities. She recorded lectures as short videos for students to watch online and used class time to solve problems, host guest lecturers from the technology industry and review material students found difficult.
"The idea was to improve both the classroom experience and the online experience," she said.
She incorporated questions and quizzes into the videos to keep students thinking about the material and help them learn more effectively.
"One of the disadvantages of traditional instruction is how long it takes to get feedback on your work," said Ng. "If you submit homework and get a graded version back a week later, you may already have forgotten much of what you did. With technologies that give you immediate feedback, a student can immediately determine what they do and don't understand, and more efficiently focus their efforts."
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Spike Art Quarterly, No. 34.
Posted in Exhibitions, magazines, writing on January 9th, 2013Tags: artists, curation, Essays, galleries, reviews, Rita Vitorelli, shows, Susanna Hoffmann-Ostenhof
Spike Art Quarterly , No. 34
Spike #34 takes on the concepts of collaboration, participation and collectivity and the way in which these concepts relate to their historical counterparts.
Contemporary life is largely shaped by capitalism, technological progress and a growing irritation with consciousness – what historically is conceived as 'to be oneself'. We no longer invent, but we sample and catalogue; we no longer pursue utopian ideals but rather are bounded by existential necessities; today, we are keen of been reactionary much rather than critical.
How do contemporary forms of collaboration express, and respond to, the contemporary non-antagonism and political indifference? What is the shape and potential of the contemporary collectives who are ever more fluid and anti-utopian?
Articles by Joanna Fiduccia and Carson Chan;,a potrait by Pablo Larios; an interview with the artist collective Am Nuden Da by Gil Leung; reviews, a 6-page image featuring classic artist collaborations, and columns by the Pfaff Brothers.
Language: German / English
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The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has been entertaining audiences for a long time. Its history goes back 146 years — to about the time when professional baseball emerged and before Coca-Cola was invented.
But this substantial chapter in American history comes to a close on Sunday. After years of declining ticket sales and seemingly endless conflicts with animal rights groups, Ringling Bros. will stage its final show in Uniondale, N.Y.
Ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson is one of hundreds of Ringling performers and crew members with extraordinary talents who will be out of a job come Monday. Recruited fresh out of college, where he'd been studying voice performance and training to be a professional opera singer, he became Ringling's first African-American ringmaster in 1998.
"Ironically enough, I will be the very last voice in the 146-year history of this show, so I will be the last person you hear to speak of 'The Greatest Show on Earth' — which is a wild little paradox, to be a first and a last at the same time. I don't know too many people who can say that, in any industry," he says.
In his nearly 20-year career with the circus, Iverson married a fellow performer — a Brazilian dancer turned production manager — and raised two children while traveling from city to city on the circus train. Now 8 and 12 years old, his children also perform with Ringling.
During the circus' recent slate of shows in Virginia, Iverson let NPR into his world. Between performances, he navigates what comes next.
On a trip to FedEx to ship out professional portfolios to prospective agents, he reflects on the absurdity of job-hunting for circus folks — recalling the time consultants came to help them with their resumes.
"How do you do that with circus people? How do you help them write that out? How do you write a resume for superman?" Iverson asks. "It's like, he flies, you know?"
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Treating young people who suffer from insomnia by using online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) could reduce debilitating mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, scientists said Wednesday.
In a large trial published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, researchers at Oxford University's Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute also found that successfully treating sleep disruption eased psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and paranoia.
"Sleep problems are very common in people with mental health disorders, but for too long insomnia has been trivialized as merely a symptom, rather than a cause, of psychological difficulties," said Daniel Freeman, a professor of clinical psychology who led the work.
"This study turns that old idea on its head, showing that insomnia may actually be a contributory cause of mental health problems."
The research involved 3,755 university students from across Britain who were randomized into two groups. One group had six sessions of online CBT, each lasting about 20 minutes, and delivered via a digital program called Sleepio. The others had access to standard treatments but no CBT.
Freeman's team monitored participants' mental health with a series of online questionnaires at zero, three, 10 and 22 weeks from the start of treatment.
The researchers found that those who had the CBT sleep treatment reduced their insomnia significantly as well as showing small but sustained reductions in paranoia and hallucinatory experiences.
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Andrew Welchman, head of neuroscience and mental health at the Wellcome Trust health charity, which helped fund the research, said the results suggested improving sleep may provide a promising route into early treatment to improve mental health.
Freeman added: "A good night's sleep really can make a difference to people's psychological health. Helping people get better sleep could be an important first step in tackling many psychological and emotional problems."


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The Detroit Pistons will try to win back-to-back games for only the second time this season when they visit the lowly Washington Wizards on Saturday in the finale of a home-and-home series.
The 8-21 Pistons ended a six-game skid with Friday's rout of the Wizards in the Motor City. Greg Monroe led five Detroit players in double-figures with 15 points and he also grabbed nine rebounds to lead Detroit to a 100-68 wire-to- wire win over the Wizards.
Detroit is just 3-10 since posting consecutive victories from Nov. 26-28, but the Pistons hope to build off Friday's dominating victory when they visit D.C. on Saturday.
Brandon Knight also dropped in 15 on Friday and Andre Drummond had 11 points and career-highs with 14 rebounds and five blocked shots for the Pistons. Rodney Stuckey had 11 points and Kyle Singler added 10 in the win.
"He's done a great job of coming in and playing with a lot of energy, doing what the coaches ask him to do," Monroe said of Drummond. "He controlled the boards and he controlled the paint. He's only going to get better, but I'm not surprised with anything he's doing right now."
Detroit's 100-68 victory marked the first time the Pistons had held an opponent under 70 points in a game since beating Miami 85-69 on March 27, 2008.
Stuckey left the game after taking an elbow to the mouth and did not return. He is questionable for Saturday's tilt.
The Wizards, meanwhile, have the fewest wins in the NBA this season with their 3-21 record and they lost for the sixth straight time in Friday's home-and- home opener. It was their eighth setback in nine outings and dropped the club to 1-12 on the road this season.
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Jordan Crawford scored a game-high 20 points while Martell Webster and Kevin Seraphin scored 10 apiece for the Wizards.
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Organisation type | Religion |
First appearance | The Beast with a Billion Backs |
Current status | Inactive, likely disbanded after the Robot Invasion of Heaven |
After time and space was ripped open at the end of Bender's Big Score, a lonely Philip J. Fry journeyed through the anomaly to find Yivo, a giant, planet-sized alien. The entity attached one of its tentacles to Fry's neck and reached into Universe Gamma. Shklee, as it preferred, started taking control of other people by attaching tentacles to people's necks. The controlled people fell in love with that strange being and started Yivo's religion, which was based on worshiping shkler. Because Fry was the first controlled, he was made the Tentacle Pope of the new movement. The entity only revealed its name after all the universe's inhabitants were thought to be controlled.
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- Yivo seemingly took all life forms into the religion, including non-sentient animals such as birds.
Yivo: For a trillion years I dwelled in solitude, contempt with my job and stamp collecting.
Leela: People of everywhere, I have shocking news!
Yivo: Hey, butt out! This is between me and everyone else in existence!
Leela: Yivo talks a lot about love, but what he's actually doing-
Hermes: What shklee's actually doing.
Leela: -is mating with you! [The congregation begins murmuring. Leela pulls out and holds up the sample she examined.] These aren't tentacles. They're gentacles!
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Concerning the virgin Asella. Dedicated to God before her birth, Marcella's sister had been made a church-virgin at the age of ten. From that time she had lived a life of the severest asceticism, first as a member and then as the head of Marcella's community upon the Aventine. Jerome, who subsequently wrote her a letter (XLV) on his departure from Rome, now holds her up as a model to be admired and imitated. Written at Rome A.D. 384.
1. Let no one blame my letters for the eulogies and censures which are contained in them. To arraign sinners is to admonish those in like case, and to praise the virtuous is to quicken the zeal of those who wish to do right. The day before yesterday I spoke to you concerning Lea of blessed memory, and I had hardly done so, when I was pricked in my conscience. It would be wrong for me, I thought, to ignore a virgin after speaking of one who, as a widow, held a lower place. Accordingly, in my present letter, I mean to give you a brief sketch of the life of our dear Asella. Please do not read it to her; for she is sure to be displeased with eulogies of which she is herself the object. Show it rather to the young girls of your acquaintance, that they may guide themselves by her example, and may take her behavior as the pattern of a perfect life.
2. I pass over the facts that, before her birth, she was blessed while still in her mother's womb, and that, virgin-like, she was delivered to her father in a dream in a bowl of shining glass brighter than a mirror. And I say nothing of her consecration to the blessed life of virginity, a ceremony which took place when she was hardly more than ten years old, a mere babe still wrapped in swaddling clothes. For all that comes before works should be counted of grace; Romans 11:6 although, doubtless, God foreknew the future when He sanctified Jeremiah as yet unborn, Jeremiah 1:5 when He made John to leap in his mother's womb, Luke 1:41 and when, before the foundation of the world, He set apart Paul to preach the gospel of His son. Ephesians 1:4
3. I come now to the life which after her twelfth year she, by her own exertion, chose, laid hold of, held fast to, entered upon, and fulfilled. Shut up in her narrow cell she roamed through paradise. Fasting was her recreation and hunger her refreshment. If she took food it was not from love of eating, but because of bodily exhaustion; and the bread and salt and cold water to which she restricted herself sharpened her appetite more than they appeased it.
But I have almost forgotten to mention that of which I should have spoken first. When her resolution was still fresh she took her gold necklace made in the lamprey pattern (so called because bars of metal are linked together so as to form a flexible chain), and sold it without her parents' knowledge. Then putting on a dark dress such as her mother had never been willing that she should wear, she concluded her pious enterprise by consecrating herself immediately to the Lord. She thus showed her relatives that they need hope to wring no farther concessions from one who, by her very dress, had condemned the world.
4. To go on with my story, her ways were quiet and she lived in great privacy. In fact, she rarely went abroad or spoke to a man. More wonderful still, much as she loved her virgin sister, she did not care to see her. She worked with her own hands, for she knew that it was written: If any will not work neither shall he eat.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 To the Bridegroom she spoke constantly in prayer and psalmody. She hurried to the martyrs' shrines unnoticed. Such visits gave her pleasure, and the more so because she was never recognized. All the year round she observed a continual fast, remaining without food for two or three days at a time; but when Lent came she hoisted — if I may so speak — every stitch of canvas and fasted nearly from week's end to week's end with a cheerful countenance.
Matthew 6:17 What would perhaps be incredible, were it not that with God all things are possible,
Matthew 19:26 is that she lived this life until her fiftieth year without weakening her digestion or bringing on herself the pain of colic. Lying on the dry ground did not affect her limbs, and the rough sackcloth that she wore failed to make her skin either foul or rough. With a sound body and a still sounder soul she sought all her delight in solitude, and found for herself a monkish hermitage in the centre of busy Rome.
5. You are better acquainted with all this than I am, and the few details that I have given I have learned from you. So intimate are you with Asella that you have seen, with your own eyes, her holy knees hardened like those of a camel from the frequency of her prayers. I merely set forth what I can glean from you. She is alike pleasant in her serious moods and serious in her pleasant ones: her manner, while winning, is always grave, and while grave is always winning. Her pale face indicates continence but does not betoken ostentation. Her speech is silent and her silence is speech. Her pace is neither too fast nor too slow. Her demeanor is always the same. She disregards refinement and is careless about her dress. When she does attend to it it is without attending. So entirely consistent has her life been that here in Rome, the centre of vain shows, wanton license, and idle pleasure, where to be humble is to be held spiritless, the good praise her conduct and the bad do not venture to impugn it. Let widows and virgins imitate her, let wedded wives make much of her, let sinful women fear her, and let bishops look up to her.
Source. Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001024.htm>.
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So there it is. Manchester United's long search for a major trophy after Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement finally came to a positive end. The Reds' 2-1 FA Cup final victory over Crystal Palace at Wembley brought glory and silverware to the club – and Louis van Gaal the sack. It was the Van Gaal's first taste of success in England, but was swiftly followed by an end to a period in which the Dutchman has increasingly alienated supporters and, critically, failed to deliver on his promises. Retirement beckons, José Mourinho beckons. Louis goes, but it is with a modicum of dignity restored. The same cannot be said for Ed Woodward.
Mourinho's agent, Jorge Mendes, wasted little time briefing media outlets on the new manager's impending arrival. It came moments after Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick jointly lifted the old trophy. Van Gaal knew the inevitability of departure, of course, and brought the FA Cup to his post-match press conference as if to make one final pertinent statement.
If Van Gaal is yet to recognise any fault in two disappointing seasons at Old Trafford, then victory at the last is unlikely to bring enlightenment. He is a proud and stubborn man, although the 64-year-old slips off into the night with a last laugh of sorts, even if he is said to be "said and disappointed" about his dismissal.
Yet, even in the denouement of the Van Gaal era it was a final that could so easily have slipped away from United. In a pattern that has become too familiar over the past 24 months, the Reds dominated possession and chances created, but achieved just three shots on target in 120 minutes of football.
United achieved victory on the back of two superb moments: Wayne Rooney's mazy run and cross to find Juan Mata via Marouane Fellaini, and Jesse Lingard's stunning cup-winning volley in extra time. The Scouser rolled back the years, while Lingard mocked those, including Rant, that have questioned the youngster's quality.
The moment of glory didn't last long though. The headlines on Saturday night were dominated not by United's return to collecting trophies, but Mourinho's impending arrival in M16. For all the former Chelsea manager's many faults – there are many – it is hoped that he will lift the club from cup winners to title preeminence inside the three-year contract that he has reportedly been offered. He can hardly do worse than Van Gaal.
Van Gaal's time ends with silverware, but his dismissal cannot be divorced from a lack of progress. The Dutchman's £250 million outlay on new signings – some recovered via sales – was the biggest single two-year transfer splurge in the club's history and seemingly made little difference to the Dutchman's ability to generate positive results.
United lost 10 times in the Premier League this season to finish fifth in a campaign where lowly Leicester City captured the title. If anything fifth might flatter the most prosaic United side in a generation. The team's group stage exit from the Champions League was equally hard to stomach for a club used to dining at the finest restaurants. There can be little surprise that Woodward finally ended Van Gaal's tenure a year early, if some five months too late to actually save a season.
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Van Gaal's failure to match minimum expectations – third in the Premier League and Champions League knock-out football – is compounded by a sense that the he never truly fell in simpatico with the club. Van Gaal failed to adjust a bland playing style, nor was he able to differentiate Old Trafford's polite reception from supporters' genuine sentiment of frustration. Whatever the clichéd 'United Way' has become over the years it is not Van Gaal's way and the newly retired Dutchman was not about to change habits established during four decades in the game.
Van Gaal's second season ended with the club scoring just 49 goals in the Premier League; the same total as fourth-from-bottom Sunderland. It has proven to be two years of gut-gnawing inhibition, far from the exciting promise of a manager that once captured the European Cup with a team full of teenagers. On the few occasions to counter the observation, Van Gaal's team appeared liberated not by the manager, but a sense that young players simply did not follow his instruction. They were soon pulled in line, or dropped altogether.
In fact Van Gaal's faith in young players remained far from steadfast despite increasing focus from United's marketing department on the number of kids drafted into the first team squad. During his two years in Manchester some 14 players from the academy appeared in the first team, although only Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard truly became established. The latter's future is far from guaranteed, with Lingard having benefited more from his ability off-the-ball than his talent on it.
The Dutchman has dropped more youngsters than he has proffered long-term opportunities, as Cameron Borthwick-Jackson and Timothy Fosu-Mensah will attest. Neither made the FA Cup final team, while others, including Tyler Blackett, Reese James, Saido Janko, Donald Love, James Weir, Adnan Januzaj, and Andreas Pereira have been sold or frozen out. Borthwick-Jackson's omission in favour of the perennially disappointing Marcos Rojo confused many, while Fosu-Mensah has not started a game since giving away a penalty in the semi-final.
Far from a scholarly professor to up-and-coming talent, Van Gaal has proven to be a tough schoolmaster for whom one mistake is reserved the cane. In the end the Dutchman's inherent pragmatism won out over fans' romanticism.
Yet, that very same didactic tendency also served to alienate players throughout his squad. Van Gaal's refusal to adjust his tactics even in the face of senior players' disillusionment is stark. The Dutchman knew best, always. Monday-morning video analysis sessions became a much-hated chore, while Van Gaal's tendency towards big brotherism created an increasing amount of tension in the squad. There will be few players sorry to see the back of him.
Van Gaal's tactics alienated both players and fans. The focus became increasingly restrictive, with possession used not as a way of overwhelming opponents, but ensuring defensive security. The common pattern of United failing to score in the first half of games, especially at home, was matched by a dreadful record on the road – few shots hit the target let alone led to goals scored.
Not since Dave Sexton patrolled the Old Trafford sidelines has the football been quite this dull. Van Gaal's process-driven approach sucked the creativity out of the team. Long gone are the days when Ferguson would send his team out with little more tactical instruction than "enjoy it" and "lads, it's Spurs." Classroom lectures resulted in football that sold all the benefits of watching paint dry.
The tendency towards conservatism, the insistence on over-analysis, the fury when instructions are ignored or forgotten; Van Gaal showed little interest in individual talent beyond the team ethic. Talented players were reigned in, their joy limited. His inability to draw the best from Angel di Maria, Memphis Depay, Adnan Januzaj and Andreas Pereira is telling. Juan Mata featured in most games, but was often restricted to a more limited role on the right.
Then there is the manager's tendency to use square pegs in round holes – sometimes as many as seven players out of position. And while flexibility is one thing, almost all of Van Gaal's games featured players in roles that were sometimes not comfortable, and often not ideal. Di Maria played in five different positions during his 27 games for the club.
Supporters craved entertainment, but Van Gaal brooked at any suggestion he wasn't delivering. Fans' politeness in the face of United's dour fare rarely broke ranks at Old Trafford. Fans jeered Anthony Martial's substitution for Marouane Fellaini in United's narrow win over CSKA Moscow last winter. Eventually they booed Van Gaal's end-of-season speech. By then it was too late, of course. Yet, in general, Van Gaal left with the impression that 'a win is a win' – and United finished the season with the best home record of all.
In the end there is little doubt supporters are happy at Van Gaal's demise. Drunken chants of "Jose Mourinho" on the journey back from Wembley confirmed as much. The club had little choice but to make the change. It's the results, stupid.
But neither could Woodward trust Van Gaal to get the best out of whatever fresh spending is planned this summer. The executive takes some blame for that, but Van Gaal's voice remained the loudest voice at Old Trafford. The successes are so few. The hits were accidental or not of Van Gaal's design: Anthony Martial and Luke Shaw, for example. Elsewhere, players on which he signed off have hardly been major successes: Ander Herrera, Victor Valdes, Daley Blind, Morgan Schneiderlin, Matteo Darmian, Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Van Gaal can point to an injury record that was at times lengthy. United's small squad, he said, was a decision made to promote opportunities for younger players. That excuse is a busted flush. Van Gaal's rush to youth turned out to be desperation, not strategy. Instead, the small squad and an intensive training regimen that never relented despite the brutal Premier League pace, subjected United's youngsters to exposure in the worst possible circumstances.
The poor squad balance is entirely the Dutchman's fault. After all, it was his decision to sell both Danny Welbeck and Javier Hernández leaving, at times, the team desperately short of attacking options. Van Gaal was also insistent on not bringing in an experience centre-back, leaving Daley Blind exposed and the manager too fearful to open up his tactics.
Mourinho will bring a cocksure history only slightly tempered by the events at Chelsea this past season. His critics point to the Portguese's instinctive caution and the "anti-football" in the face of superior opposition. Yet, at both Chelsea and Real Madrid his teams exceeded or came close to a 100 goals in a single league season. Mourinho can be amusing, inspiring and yet provoke cringeworthy embarrassment too. He may well arrive as the "humble one," having chased the United job for eight years. Yet, he will also remain entirely uncontrollable. It is the essential dichotomy United has now signed up for.
Mourinho also brings trophies, of course. Lots of them. While more exciting, younger, and perhaps politically safer choices were available on the continent, after two failed experiments Woodward could hardly afford to take another chance. Whatever his faults Mourinho's results fit a pattern, and he is always box-office.
Van Gaal proved to be neither; results poor, entertainment limited. He leaves the club effectively sacked by Mendes' press briefing at around 8pm on Saturday night. Woodward should have controlled the narrative. Yet again a United manager leaves the club humiliated by those who appointed him.
Fans will move on quickly though. For the Dutchman, there will always be Wembley.


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Pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction.
That's what nuclear power plants are. And that's another very big reasondemonstrated again in recent days with the disclosure that two of the Brussels terrorists were planning attacks on Belgian nuclear plantswhy they must be eliminated.
Nuclear power plants are sitting ducks for terrorists. With most positioned along bays and rivers because of their need for massive amounts of coolant water, they provide a clear shot. They are fully exposed for aerial strikes.
The consequences of such an attack could far outweigh the impacts of 9/11 and, according to the U.S. 9/11 Commission, also originally considered in that attack was the use of hijacked planes to attack "unidentified nuclear power plants." The Indian Point nuclear plants 26 miles north of New York City were believed to be candidates.
As the Belgian newspaper Dernier Heure reported last week, regarding the plan to strike a Belgian nuclear plant, "investigators concluded that the target of terrorists was to 'jeopardize national security like never before.'"
The Union of Concerned Scientists in a statement on "Nuclear Security" declares: "Terrorists pose a real and significant threat to nuclear power plants. The 2011 accident at Fukushima was a wake-up call reminding the world of the vulnerability of nuclear power plants to natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. However, nature is not the only threat to nuclear facilities. They are inviting targets for sabotage and terrorist attack. A successful attack on a nuclear plant could have devastating consequences, killing, sickening or displacing large numbers of residents in the area surrounding the plant, and causing extensive long-time environmental damage."
A previously arranged "Nuclear Security Summit" is to be held this week in Washington, D.C. with representatives of nations from around the world and with a focus on "nuclear terrorism."
Last week, in advance of the "summit" and in the wake of the Brussels suicide-bombings at the city's airport and a subway line, Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said: "Terrorism is spreading and the possibility of using nuclear material cannot be excluded. Member states need to have sustained interest in strengthening nuclear security. The countries which do not recognize the danger of nuclear terrorism is the biggest problem."
However, a main mission of the IAEA, ever since it was established by the UN in 1957 has been to promote nuclear power. It has dramatically minimized the consequences of the catastrophic accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima and routinely understated all problems with atomic technology.
The "Nuclear Security Summit," with the IAEA playing a central role, is part of a series of gatherings following a speech made by President Barack Obama in Prague in 2009 in which he said "I am announcing a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world."
In a press release this past August, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said this week's meeting "will continue discussion on the evolving [nuclear terrorism] threat and highlight steps that can be taken together to minimize the use of highly-enriched uranium, secure vulnerable materials, counter nuclear smuggling and deter, detect, and disrupt attempts at nuclear terrorism."
And, like the IAEAformed as a result of a speech by U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower promoting "Atoms for Peace" at the UNofficials involved with nuclear power in the U.S. government and the nation's nuclear industry have long pushed atomic energy and downplayed problems about nuclear power and terrorism.
As the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) says in its "Nuclear Security" statement, "The adequacy of a security system depends on what we think we are protecting against. If we have underestimated the threat, we may overestimate our readiness to meet it. The NRC [U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission] has sometimes used unrealistically modest assumptions about potential attackers. The design basis threat (DBT) is the official definition of the security threats power plant management is required to protect against….After 9/11, UCS criticized the DBT for nuclear plants on these grounds, among others."
UCS says the NRC "ignored the possibility of air-and water-based attacks…it did not address the possibility of large attacking groups using multiple entry points, or of an attack involving multiple insiders…it concentrated on threats to the reactor core, failing to address the vulnerability of spent fuel storage facilities." Since 2011, says the UCS, the NRC "finally revised its rules to address the threat of aircraft attack for new reactor designsbut at the same time has rejected proposed design changes to protect against water- and land-based attacks."
There is "also concern about the testing standard used," notes UCS. "In July 2012, the NRC adopted the new process. However, as a result of industry pressure, the standards were watered down.."
Further, says UCS, testing is "currently required only for operating reactors, leaving questions about the adequacy of protection against attacks on reactors that have shut down, but still contain radioactive materials that could harm the public if damaged."
A pioneer in addressing how nuclear power plants are pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction has been Dr. Bennett Ramberg. As he wrote in his 1980 landmark book, Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy: An Unrecognized Military Peril, despite the "multiplication of nuclear power plants, little public consideration has been given to their vulnerability in time of war."
As he writes in a piece in the current Foreign Affairs, "Nuclear Power to the People: The Middle East's New Gold Rush," spotlighting the push now by many nations in the Middle East to build nuclear power plants, "Whatever the energy promise of the peaceful atom, evidently lost in the boom are the security risks inherent in setting up reactors in the Middle Eastand not just the commonly voiced fear that reactors are harbingers of weapons. The real risk is the possibility that the plants themselves will become targets or hostages of nihilist Middle East militants, which could result in Chernobyl and Fukushima-like meltdowns."
"Given the mayhem that Islamic State (also called ISIS) and kindred groups have sown in the region and their end-of-days philosophy, the plausibility of an attempted attack on an operating nuclear power plant cannot be denied," writes Ramberg.
In fact, the plausibility of an attempted attack cannot be denied in the Middle Eastor anywhere in world.
Says Ramberg: "If terrorists did strike a nuclear power plant in the Middle East, the nuclear fallout would depend on the integrity of reactors' own containment systems and the ability of emergency personnel to suppress the emissions, a difficult challenge for even the most advanced countries, as Japan found in Fukushima. Ongoing terrorism, civil strife, or war at the time the reactor is compromised would only complicate matters."
Moreover, he notes, "all nations in the Middle East share an increasingly practical alternativesolar energy."
Nations around the world, likewise, would be able to get along fine with solar, wind and differing mixes of other safe, clean, renewable energynot susceptible to terrorist attack.
All 438 nuclear power plants around the world today couldand shouldclose now. The insignificant amount of electricity they generatebut 10 percent of total electric usecan be provided by other sources.
And green energy makes for a less costly power and a far safer world in comparison to catastrophic-danger prone and unnecessary nuclear power. We must welcome energy we can live with and reject power that presents a deadly threat in so many ways.


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Spacerock, Classic Riffs, Indie, mal ein, zwei Takte Metal - alles geht's zusammen, alles lässt sich durch den Wolf drehen. Aber fast nur bei MOTORPSYCHO dröhnt das trotzdem eigenständig, trotz der Melange ist das Signature Sound, aus dem Hohen Norden und seit 89'.
Verwirrt? Also nochmals: MOTORPSYCHO aus Norwegen, eine Band wie ein Eckpfeiler für die Rockszene, weil sie Genres verbindet und wie kaum eine andere ineinanderfliessen lässt, ohne dabei Purist*Innen vor die Rübe zu stossen und das seit knapp 30 Jahren.
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After graduation their ways parted, but less than two years later, in 1989, they again met – this time in Trondheim, where Bent attended university and worked as a DJ at the local college radio station. Having started a band for fun with Kjell Runar 'Killerkjell' Jensen and a couple of other DJ friends from work, 'Aural Blow-job' were in need of a new guitar player when a chance meeting on the bus rejoined the two. Later that fall, a record hunting trip to London provided the fledging power trio with a new name, and Motorpsycho was born.
Recording their first demo tape in January 1990, and playing their debut gig supporting TRBNGR at UFFA in Trondheim in April, the young band gigged as much as possible around Norway in the following months. They recorded what became their debut album Lobotomizer in Oslo in December 1990, signed with Oslo-based indie label Voices Of Wonder in May 1991, released the album in September, changed drummers and brought in Håkon Gebhardt to replace Killerkjell in October, and played their first foreign gigs in Denmark in December(!).
The new recruit was a friend of Snah's from their year at Gauldal folk high school. A Tromsø-born multi-talent, Gebhardt was exactly what was needed at exactly the right time, and a new musical chemistry soon blossomed. Recording their sophomore effort, the Soothe mini-album, in the local Brygga Studio in Trondheim in January 1992, and following the mini album with two 7" singles later in the year to increasingly better acclaim, the band's fortunes were on the rise when they in September added a fourth member, noise enthusiast and art school student Helge 'Deathprod' Sten. With his arrival, an avant-garde influence crept into the bands hitherto pretty straight-up post-hardcore psychedelic guitar rock, and when the quartet came out of Brygga Studio in December 1992 with double-LP Demon Box under their belt, a new standard was set.
Arguably still one of their finest efforts, and certainly the album on which their reputation was made, Demon Box was perceived as a radical shift in focus for the band, but in reality Deathprod's arrival had basically removed the young band's blinders and opened up their horizons to all the music they were interested in: no longer were there rights or wrongs and all forms of musical expression was from now on valid if done right: musical diversity was redefined as an asset and was from now on to be indulged. A huge success locally, Motorpsycho was the happening band in Norway when a third European tour that fall in support of the Mountain E.P. presented the band to enthusiastic European audiences.
After finishing the recordings that in the fall of 1994 were released as behemoth triple album Timothy's Monster early in the year, a burned-out Deathprod threw in the towel and retired from touring. He was retained as a co-conspiracist and producer for the next decade, but live his role was supplanted by a variety of members in the following years. The first addition was Brygga Studio owner/engineer Lars Lien who reported for keyboard duties for two tours in support of the Another ugly EP in 1994 before handing the hot seat over to light engineer-turned keyboardist-turned guitarist Morten Fagervik the following year.
Timothy's Monster was a logical extension of the free-for-all musical universe Motorpsycho established on the Demon Box, and in many ways surpassed its predecessor both artistically and commercially. It was released on EMI records domestically, and on the newly established Stickman Records outside of Norway, marking the start of a long and fruitful relationship that continues to this day.
The album was a success: the acclaim was wider and the audiences bigger, so when the innocent c&w-flirt/side project Soundtrack from The Tussler was sprung on an unexpected public mere months later, confusion reigned supreme for a week or two. This was the first incarnation of the less serious, playful side of Motorpsycho shown to the public. The grunge era had been anything but light and playful, and the climate of the day dictated that artists preferably behaved surly and as if they had heroin habits, so when Motorpsycho and a few friends released c&w versions of their own songs in an homage to Gram Parsons, Jerry Garcia, Doug Dillard and other first generation longhair-country purveyors, quite a few minds were blown. What was this?
Well, aside from a bit of r'n'r in public, it was one of the first steps taken on the road to turning the public's perception of Motorpsycho around. From being perceived as 'a group that plays hard rock', to being accepted as 'a musical collective that plays whatever music they feel like, but with a certain thumb-print and a definite identity' – i.e. a band defined not by genres or form, but by content and a certain je ne sais quoi – took a bit of doing: This concept was new in Norwegian music and hard to understand for quite a few people, but it had at least as many positive ramifications for the band as negative over the following two decades. In short, although it scared off as many punters as it gained, it was a vital turning point and a prerequisite for the band's longevity and continued existence.
This genre-flirt helped the band shift focus for their next release Blissard: Maybe it's more interesting and more of a challenge to make a shorter, focused album than to make another all-indulgent triple thingy?' Producer Deathprod certainly thought so, and with the two-guitar line-up of Gebhardt/Ryan/Sæther/Fagervik the band decamped for Atlantis Studio in Stockholm, Sweden, to record their next album. This new mindset needed a new method, and the band found themselves so far out of their comfort zone that the recordings at first were perceived as too flawed to merit release. This was a first, and presented a steep learning curve for the still young band, but the ensuing panic – rerecording and remixing – at least 'fixed' the album in their ears, and Blissard was finally released in early 1996, eventually going on to win the Norwegian Grammy-equivalent Spellemannsprisen for best rock record. In 2012 it was also the subject of a book by noted Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad, making it a canonised work of a different order altogether.
But back then the chemistry was off, and the band took steps to remedy the situation. The second guitar was deemed redundant and the self-inflicted limitations in scope were felt to be limitations in ambition as well, so they both had to go. For the next sessions, this time in Athletic Sound studio in Halden, all bets were therefore off as the revitalised power trio returned to trusting their instincts over their intellects. The result was Angels and Daemons at Play, a sprawling experimental work that to some felt incohesive and unfocused, but was embraced with open arms by the great unwashed. After the uphill struggle to land Blissard, the free flow of ideas under this new regime seemed to release something extra in the band, and such was the relief felt by the boys that they actually recorded backing tracks for seven of the album's fifteen songs in one five-hour spurt! Even so, the stylistic variety on display confused some listeners, and perversely – to further compound the ambivalence quite a few people felt about the album's lack of a distinct direction in this period – it was decided that their first album for Sony Norway should be released as three companion pieces – as singles/EPs – over three consecutive weeks, before a boxed version, a shortened single CD version and a double LP – each with different track lists – was released properly in early 1997. In spite of all this confusion over formats, the album did well, and Motorpsycho again received a Spellemannspris for their efforts.
Over the last couple of years leading up to 1998's Double album Trust us, Bent had taken to playing more and more guitar on stage, letting Snah handle bass duties by playing Moog Taurus pedals. This approach opened up a different angle on song arrangements, and to a more modal feel in much of the new material. The songs became longer and had less chords, and the monolithic, epic feel this gave much of the music from the period is still held in high regard amongst Psychonauts. Trust Us is for many the high point of Motorpsycho's 90s output. The album was again recorded in Halden, and managed to be both an artistic and a commercial success, despite its saxophone wig-outs courtesy of Trygve Seim, and its seemingly anti radio-friendly music.
The regular 6-8 weeks the band spent on the road both domestically and in Europe each year in this period, made them a pretty exciting live act. This was documented in 1999's first installation of the (still ongoing) 'Roadwork' series of live recordings released by the band, Heavy metal iz a poze, hardt rock iz a leifschteil, that contained recordings from their 1998 European tour. As a document it represented the band in this period well, and wisely focused on the ever more important improvisational side of the band. It was – in short – a challenging listen for the uninitiated!
As the millennium approached, the band felt the one-chord, drony sound of their last two releases was done to death, and when they reconvened after a summer holiday that saw the birth of drummer Gebhardt's first solo album ( '…plays with himself'), the general consensus was to try to shift the focus from the recent overindulgence in soundscapes back to the art of songwriting. The recording sessions (again in Halden) yielded almost twenty new songs, half of which were hard avantrock songs and half of which were properly orchestrated psych pop nuggets. the decision to split the material over two different releases gave the hard rocking mini-album Barracuda an almost cartoonish hard rock feel that a few fans had problems taking seriously (and who knows if they were supposed to or not?), but the main album itself, Let them Eat Cake, presented a seismic shift in musical focus that has reverberated through the Motorpsychodelic universe ever since: a tip of the hat to the top dogs of the sixties pop renaissance, this was as close to 'sunshine pop' as Motorpsycho ever got, and by adding a dash of southern rock into the mix, the result was fresh but still recognisably motorpsychodelic.
The recordings involved string quartets and horn sections, 'teenage pop symphonies to god' galore, mellophone chorales and singing saws, and displayed a pop flair never previously showcased in the band's history. The album won yet another Spellemannspris and topped the charts, and is still regarded a stone classic in the Motorpsycho canon.
To execute all these string section arrangements and keyboard driven songs, the band turned to an old friend from Trondheim, Baard Slagsvold. With a background from the music conservatory and Norwegian late-80s pop phenomenon 'Tre Små Kinesere', Baard brought a pop sensibility to the band that was fresh. He was also more of a jazz guy than a rocker, and his preferences helped shift the bands's musical focus yet again, helping them sing three-part harmonies and playing both jazzy piano solos as well as the string arrangements on the Mellotron live.
Although most fans found this new, improved Motorpsycho interesting and exciting, some also had issues with this 'popified' version of the band. The constant touring and the massive exposure the band experienced in this era saw them at their commercial peak, but even if nothing was expressed by anyone involved at the time, in retrospect one can see the cracks beginning to appear: The writing sessions for what was to become the Phanerothyme (2001) and It's a Love Cult (2002) albums were fragmented affairs, with each of the three main members of the band writing and demoing his own material. Little attention was paid to the performance side of the new songs, and almost no rehearsals previous to the recording sessions resulted in two albums of almost over-composed and nearly un-performable music. To the composers these albums were artistic successes (and listened to out of context today they feel razor sharp in their pop perfection), but to the audiences at the time, Motorpsycho probably felt like they were a bit too insular and willful in their affairs and as the new millennium dawned, both the band and their audience felt like the wave the band had ridden for ten years had crested and the world had moved on.
After the fall tour of 2002, which was documented on the Roadwork lll: the four norsemen of the apocalypse segment of the Haircuts DVD (2008) and on the In the Fishtank (2003) album recorded in Holland with the horn section from Jaga Jazzist that summer, Motorpsycho was for all intents and purposes over. …But for one thing: the old c&w giggle Soundtrack from The Tussler had gained an almost legendary status in the intervening years, and had become so rare that it was being bootlegged and reached indecent prices on the secondhand market. To remedy this, the album was remastered and expanded and rereleased in 2003 to massive acclaim, and as a fun idea, the original band was reunited for a few gigs. This was such a success that a further probe into the dark heart of c&w was deemed appropriate, and that winter the recording sessions for the album that became Motorpsycho introduces the International Tussler Society (2004) began. This process was documented on the album's accompanying DVD, and even lead to the band undertaking a European tour. Billing themselves The International Tussler Society, the band averaged three-hour shows and left both themselves as well as the continental Psychonauts that were in on the fun sweaty, tired and ever so slightly dazed. The album was a surprise hit as well, and received praise from well outside of the expected quarters.
This fertile and fun period ended in the fall of 2004 with half the band doing session work and the other half contemplating their future. There was uncertainty in the air, the burnout was still zapping energy everywhere, and when the call went out that the time had come to fire up the old Motorpsycho engine again, Gebhardt passed. After 14 years of guerrilla warfare he'd had enough, and wanted to try his hand at other things. The split was as weird as these things are, but the involved parties remain friends to this day and there are no bad feelings.
So, then… what do you do when you find yourself without a drummer, and the wolves are at the door? Well, you buy a drum kit, rehearse like mad for three months and then go and do it all yourself in yet another studio! Black Hole/Blank Canvas was recorded in The Void studio in Eindhoven, Holland in the summer of 2005, and was co-produced by the band and their long-serving sound engineer Pieter 'Pidah' Kloos. The album was played and sung by Snah and Bent in its entirety (except for the drums on one song), and was a return to the rockier material that is their natural state and common musical 'ground zero'. It was the album that would decide if there was any life left in the old warhorse and if carrying on under the same name made any sense, or if the jig was up and it was all over.
Well, released in March 2006, the album was a moderate success. But with the boost in confidence this gave them they recruited a couple of old friends (Øyvind Brandsegg on lumina, and Jacco Van Rooij on drums) to help them out, and once again took to the road. The somewhat ragged and under-rehearsed band that toured Europe in the spring of 2006 didn't exactly set the world aflame, but the feedback was good enough to deem the experiment a success, and the decision to keep the band name felt justified. The problem though, was that it all kinda felt like a project but 'needed' to be a proper band.
Cue Kenneth Kapstad, the fastest drummer in the known Psychoverse.
When participating in a project with stand-in-psycho Øyvind Brandsegg in the summer of 2006, the two main psychos met the young whizz kid drummer extraordinaire Kenneth Kapstad for the first time. A common love for Ian Paice's early work for Deep Purple (and a fierce run through Burn by that band), the question was popped, and the next phase of the Motorpsychodelic tale began.
A graduate from the Trondheim Jazz Conservatory, Kenneth is a schooled jazz drummer with a thing for Nicko McBrain. This pretty much sums up this human octopus, but only begins to describe the music the band has made since his induction into the ranks of Motorpsycho.
If the opening salvo of 2008's Little Lucid Moments didn't get your pulse racing, nothing will. Recorded with Helge Sten in Halden, the high octane rock machine of the early 90s was reborn, and with a new supercharged engine the album – lyrically a meditation on the wonder of fatherhood – felt like waxed crystal meth. The album featured a few slightly more ambitious song structures than previously attempted (the title cut was a 'suite', no less!), and was essentially a collection of four extended workouts over a theme. The album put Motorpsycho back on the map as a genuine musical force to be reckoned with, and also marks their first collaboration with Norwegian avant-garde/jazz label RuneGrammofon. After a decade with Sony records, the boys felt they needed a change of scenery and some new lifeblood pumped into the business end of things too, and opted for the small but well reputed Oslo based label. RuneGrammofon now shares the release rights and responsibility for handling Motorpsycho's music with good ol' Stickman records throughout the multiverses, and has aligned the band with a musically more adventurous breed of artists than their previous collaborators did.
A short US tour in the summer of 2008 ended up with the boys spending three days recording with Steve Albini in Chicago. These recordings were later worked on in Trondheim and released as the vinyl only Child of the future LP in 2009. This was perhaps a bit too premature to cash in on the big rebirth of vinyl as the public's preferred medium, but serves as a great tribute to the pleasures of the 12" vinyl album, and was a great 20th anniversary present to themselves!
To this day, the two last EPs Motorpsycho recorded for VoW in the early 90ies are the only Motorpsycho releases that still have not been issued on vinyl.
As the new line-up found its footing, it became clear to the songwriters that they were a bit stuck in their ways and that an outside influence probably was needed to shake things up a bit. A few brainwaves and six months later, they found themselves in Propeller Studio in Oslo working with Kåre Chr Vestrheim, a man renowned as much for his eclectic taste as for his commercial savvy, and the man who more or less single-handedly designed the music heard on Norwegian radio over the last decade. Trusting his taste and judgement, the band left the song selection and production details to him and were content to let themselves be produced for the first time. And did it ever pay off! Heavy Metal Fruit released in 2010 was yet another big success that, as well as continuing the band's increased fascination with long, convoluted song structures, showcased all the best sides of the band (or at least the producer's favourite sides!) and cemented this last line up's reputation as the premier Norwegian progressive rock band of the last 20 years.
The next chapter in this less than thorough sprint through the 25-year history of Motorpsycho was by many people perceived as a detour. The Death Defying Unicorn (2012) was the end product of a two-year process that involved the Molde international jazz festival, Trondheim jazz orchestra, Trondheimsolistene, master fiddler Ola Kvernberg, keyboard wiz Ståle Storløkken and the same production team that steered HMF to such sterling highs.
The rock opera (yup – a proper one! no bull!) started as a commissioned work for the Molde Int jazz festival. It was composed by the band and Ståle Storløkken in tandem, and involved a horn section from the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and a string section from Trondheimsolistene.
The initial version performed at the festival in the summer of 2010 was an instrumental jog through most of the various musical moments that two years later made up the bulk of the album version, but it wasn't until the writers realised the music needed some kind of narrative to make sense in an album format that the lyrics were conceived and written. Telling the story of a shanghai'd boy pressed to serve as crew on a voyage to find 'The Hollow Lands' and his physical and psychological journey to eventually find himself destined to be dinner in an open boat in the middle of an empty ocean, this nautical/mythical odyssey set in the 19th century somehow actually made the music make sense (or was it the other way around?). It is a serious work that is seriously demanding to listen to, but the reward is staggering if one likes anything Motorpsychodelic. The band and Ståle even toured the piece around Europe in the spring of 2012, and while it remains the biggest, most time-consuming, most challenging and most expensive piece of music the band has ever made, everyone involved felt it was all well and truly justified when the stage performance sold out two full houses at the Norwegian national opera house in the fall of 2012. No detour, it is probably the strongest distillation of the motorpsychodelic spirit recorded so far.
All action brings reaction, and having finally laid the unicorn to rest the band felt like getting back to basics. They booked two weeks in their old haunt Brygga Studio, snagged Swedish guitar legend Reine Fiske as a co-producer/ second guitar player, and in October 2012 recorded basic tracks for twenty new 'normal' songs, five of which made the deadline for the spring 2013 release of Still Life with Eggplant. This is the first Motorpsycho album ever to feature two equally talented guitar players, and this obviously dominates the sound and feel of the record. It is a guitar album through and through, and even if it's pretty out there in moments here and there, it is a fairly 'normal' album by Motorpsycho standards. This, and the, er… shall we say 'prosaic' title?, seems to have lead some pundits to write it off as an 'in-betweenie' or a less than full-on release. They couldn't be more wrong. While the fact is that most folks buy the pitch and swallow the bait you lure them in with without batting an eye, it's a pity that you sometimes have to tell people how to feel. In this instance, the less than pretentious title probably threw a few people off the scent, but the notion that the lack of a libretto and unicorns makes any piece of music less ambitious, interesting or worthy is patently absurd in the Psychoverse.
Whatever confusion the title may have brought, the fact is that the interplay and good vibes created by Reine's participation on the spring 2013 tour of Europe inspired further study into 'the sacred art of weaving' as one Olympian calls it, and a second session was recorded in the same studio in the late summer of 2013. These two sessions yielded the collection of songs found on the studio album Behind the Sun. While the title neither evokes unicorns nor eggplants, the music is of a clear lineage and in many ways builds on both these tangents of motorpsychodelia. The 'Hell' sequence started with parts 1-3 on Still Life with Eggplant is continued and wrapped up here, with the four remaining parts making it one of the longest pieces Motorpsycho have ever written. At the same time, The Magic & the Wonder and Cloudwalker, for example, continue the shorter song focus initiated on Still Life with Eggplant, making Behind the Sun a well-balanced and coherent work that solidified Motopsycho's standing and gained the band new fans.
2014 was a busy year, and Motorpsycho actually managed to finish two more projects in addition to the Behind the Sun tour that spring.
Firstly, they turned into a record company and self-released a crowdfunded book/box of 7" singles that was hand-packed and shipped in installments to about one thousand investors. The first package went out in summer and the last one in November. The music on these 7" singles were the remaining fragments from the big Brygga studio motherlode, songs that fit neither on Still Life with Eggplant nor on Behind the Sun and that didn't feel like a proper standalone album. This limited edition book/box of course went under the radar of most Psychonauts, but everyone that got their hand on a copy felt it was worth the investment. The Motorpnakotic Fragments was meant for the initiated and exists in a special zone of its own.
The second big project conducted during the first half of 2014 was a commissioned work. Written on demand by the St. Olaf Festival in Trondheim, En konsert for folk flest was again co-written by Ståle Storløkken, but didn't really involve unicorns. It was rather a meditation on 'people' – politically, culturally, semantically – and was played only once in the summer of 2014. It was recorded and filmed, and in the spring of 2015, an LP/CD/DVD/book was released to wide acclaim. Musically well off to the proggier side of Motorpsychodelia, and lyrically one of a kind in the Motorpsycho canon, it is an exciting addition to the band's ever expanding discography that even features the author Johan Harstad's brilliant 'Manifest for folk flest' in both Norwegian and translated into English. Talk about a multi-format behemoth!
At the end of 2014, yet another commissioned performance took place, again with Ståle on board. This time the occasion was the 100th anniversary of the Norwegian Technical Museum, and the one-off show was played in the museum's big hall in Oslo.
A bit played out and in need of some other input, Motorpsycho took most of 2015 off, but started work on the NTM music in late winter and continued all year. The original band played Demon box in its entirety at the Slottsfjell festival in Tøndsberg in summer, but much of the year was spent looking backwards.
October 2015 found Motorpsycho the focus of a retrospective exhibition at the Norwegian National Museum of Rock, Rockheim: "Supersonic Scientists". In conjunction with this major look back at more than 25 years of Motorpsychodelia, time felt ripe for the first-ever Motorpsychodelic anthology, and the band themselves curated the double LP/CD Supersonic Scientists – a young person's guide to Motorpsycho. Containing one song from every 'normal' studio album since 1993, it is in no way a comprehensive affair, but it is hopefully a nice primer for those who somehow have missed out. Concurrently, Falck Forlag released a book of essays – with the same title – on all things Motorpsychodelic, written by 15 or so psychonauts, journalists, musicians and other notables, each focusing on a song from the album. The Demon box band performed the album three days in a row the first week of the exhibition, and the band's 25th anniversary was properly celebrated, albeit a year or so late…
Finished just days after the Supersonic exhibition opened, the next chapter in the 'psychronicles' was revealed. Based on the music written for the NTM concert, markedly slower and more epic than most of the material done with Reine, and – when Ståle, due to other commitments, had to bow out of the 2015 recording of the music – a trio album, "Here be Monsters" was recorded in fits and starts over the first 8 months of 2015. Slower than usual in the making, it turned into an album of introspective and thoughtful music looking as much at the monsters within as those out there in the universe. It was designed as night music, for those nights when you just can't seem to get any shuteye, and leans rather towards the psych-side of motorpsychodelia. Released in February 2016 and toured in March and April it was a qualified sucsess, but it was also to be the last album and tour by this line up of the band.
Kenneth Kapstad left the fold after the European spring tour, and the mothership again had to take some time to reasess its purpose and find itself. An amiable split, this nonetheless forced the remaining two to have a serious rethink and to find a new way forward.
Having already written 90mins of new music for the play 'Begynnelser' (beginnings) in January, late summer and fall saw HM and B use this period of uncertainty in the best way possible: by working creatively together within a different framework while trying to make sense of this new state of affairs. 'Begynnelser' is a play – and will later be a novel – written by famed norwegian novelist Carl Frode Tiller, staged and directed by the free theatre group De Utvalgte and performed at Trøndelag Teater in Trondheim over 6 weeks in September /October 2016, with an expanded MP playing live in the pit every evening. HM and B had much needed help from 'utility Psychos' Pål Brekkås or Tos Nieuwenhuizen in performing what in essence became a 190min marathon work for more than 40 shows, a first for the band and a really solid growth experience, taking the edge off the chaos inevitable in the loss of a band member.
This music, along with a filmed performance of the play, was released in a ltd ed 2×10" / CD / DVD format in June 2017, and stands as a proud document of the project.
By December 2016 however, a new recruit had entered the MP fold. Tomas Järmyr is a young graduate from the Trondheim Jazz Conservatory, and a swedish 8 year resident of Trondheim. A member of many band constellations, most famous amongst which is probably Italian noise band Zu, Tomas brings new energy and a slightly different focus to the MP drum seat. Younger than the others, his influences are distinctly more modern but his style is versatile and his style already fits in well in the psychoverse.
This new blood has made its mark already: in March the new band ventured to California to record their new opus. Recorded both in White Buffalo studios in L.A. and at Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, "The Tower" will be the first music released by this new look Motorpsycho. Lyrically primarily concerned with the political uphevals and global, seemingly violent and 'wrong', changes for the worse, musically it is a good old fashioned double album that certainly exhibits the versatility of this new band. It is undoubtedly a Motorpsycho album 'in the tradition', but in addition to proving that the band still can deliver in their usual distinctive way, it also shows off new possible musical directions the band might explore in the future. Time will show.
Scheduled for a september 2017 release, "The Tower" will be toured intensively both in Norway and abroad.
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Executive Order 13084—Consultation and Coordination With Indian Tribal Governments
The United States has a unique legal relationship with Indian tribal governments as set forth in the Constitution of the United States, treaties, statutes, Executive orders, and court decisions. Since the formation of the Union, the United States has recognized Indian tribes as domestic dependent nations under its protection. In treaties, our Nation has guaranteed the right of Indian tribes to self-government. As domestic dependent nations, Indian tribes exercise inherent sovereign powers over their members and territory. The United States continues to work with Indian tribes on a government-to-government basis to address issues concerning Indian tribal self-government, trust resources, and Indian tribal treaty and other rights.
Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish regular and meaningful consultation and collaboration with Indian tribal governments in the development of regulatory practices on Federal matters that significantly or uniquely affect their communities; to reduce the imposition of unfunded mandates upon Indian tribal governments; and to streamline the application process for and increase the availability of waivers to Indian tribal governments; it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Definitions. For purposes of this order:
(a) "State" or "States" refer to the States of the United States of America, individually or collectively, and, where relevant, to State governments, including units of local government and other political subdivisions established by the States.
(b) "Indian tribe" means an Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. 479a.
(c) "Agency" means any authority of the United States that is an "agency" under 44 U.S.C. 3502(1), other than those considered to be independent regulatory agencies, as defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(5).
Sec. 2. Policymaking Criteria. In formulating policies significantly or uniquely affecting Indian tribal governments, agencies shall be guided, to the extent permitted by law, by principles of respect for Indian tribal self-government and sovereignty, for tribal treaty and other rights, and for responsibilities that arise from the unique legal relationship between the Federal Government and Indian tribal governments.
Sec. 3. Consultation. (a) Each agency shall have an effective process to permit elected officials and other representatives of Indian tribal governments to provide meaningful and timely input in the development of regulatory policies on matters that significantly or uniquely affect their communities.
(b) To the extent practicable and permitted by law, no agency shall promulgate any regulation that is not required by statute, that significantly or uniquely affects the communities of the Indian tribal governments, and that imposes substantial direct compliance costs on such communities, unless:
(1) funds necessary to pay the direct costs incurred by the Indian tribal government in complying with the regulation are provided by the Federal Government; or
(2) the agency, prior to the formal promulgation of the regulation,
(A) in a separately identified portion of the preamble to the regulation as it is to be issued in the Federal Register, provides to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget a description of the extent of the agency's prior consultation with representatives of affected Indian tribal governments, a summary of the nature of their concerns, and the agency's position supporting the need to issue the regulation; and
(B) makes available to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget any written communications submitted to the agency by such Indian tribal governments.
Sec. 4. Increasing Flexibility for Indian Tribal Waivers. (a) Agencies shall review the processes under which Indian tribal governments apply for waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements and take appropriate steps to streamline those processes.
(b) Each agency shall, to the extent practicable and permitted by law, consider any application by an Indian tribal government for a waiver of statutory or regulatory requirements in connection with any program administered by that agency with a general view toward increasing opportunities for utilizing flexible policy approaches at the Indian tribal level in cases in which the proposed waiver is consistent with the applicable Federal policy objectives and is otherwise appropriate.
(c) Each agency shall, to the extent practicable and permitted by law, render a decision upon a complete application for a waiver within 120 days of receipt of such application by the agency. The agency shall provide the applicant with timely written notice of the decision and, if the application for a waiver is not granted, the reasons for such denial.
(d) This section applies only to statutory or regulatory requirements that are discretionary and subject to waiver by the agency.
Sec. 5. Cooperation in developing regulations. On issues relating to tribal self-government, trust resources, or treaty and other rights, each agency should explore and, where appropriate, use consensual mechanisms for developing regulations, including negotiated rulemaking.
Sec. 6. Independent agencies. Independent regulatory agencies are encouraged to comply with the provisions of this order.
Sec. 7. General provisions. (a) This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive branch and is not intended to, and does not, create any right, benefit, or trust responsibility, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity by a party against the United States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any other person.
(b) This order shall supplement but not supersede the requirements contained in Executive Order 12866 ("Regulatory Planning and Review"), Executive Order 12988 ("Civil Justice Reform"), OMB Circular A-19, and the Executive Memorandum of April 29, 1994, on Government-to-Government Relations with Native American Tribal Governments.
(c) This order shall complement the consultation and waiver provisions in sections 4 and 5 of the Executive order, entitled "Federalism," being issued on this day.
(d) This order shall be effective 90 days after the date of this order.
William J. Clinton
The White House,
May 14, 1998.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:24 a.m., May 18, 1998]
William J. Clinton, Executive Order 13084—Consultation and Coordination With Indian Tribal Governments Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/225431