In July 2011, the anti-Muslim neo-Nazi killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69 at a Labour Party youth camp on Utoeya island This is Breivik’s second attempt at parole He has served 13 years of a 21-year sentence the maximum penalty at the time of his crimes which can be extended for as long as he is deemed a threat to society Breivik briefly expressed regret for his actions before describing how he was treated “like an animal” in jail and how he would negotiate with the state for his far-right supporters to stop their attacks on society without giving details of any specific attacks “I hereby guarantee that you would not regret it (releasing me),” he told the court “I give you the last chance to give the far-right pity.” under questioning from Judge Lena Fagervold Breivik said “July 22 was necessary” Both sides of his head were shaved to form the letter “Z” The letter “Z” has been a symbol of support for Russia’s war in Ukraine and Breivik on Tuesday described Russian President Vladimir Putin as “the foremost defender of Europeans globally” whose 18-year-old daughter Silje was murdered by Breivik at Utoeya said Breivik showed no real signs of regret “He has his own picture of reality,” she told Reuters from a court room in Sandvika the sixth time Breivik has appeared in court was difficult for victims’ relatives to experience “This brings us right back to 2011 … It is a constant reminder,” she said “(But) this is how our justice system works and we must respect it.” “Is there a danger Breivik will commit crimes against life and health again adding that a fresh risk assessment report concluded the risk of Breivik being violent again remained the same Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Private burial took place under the direction of Trimble Funeral Home memorials may be directed to local animal shelters or the Discovery Shop in Bettendorf Michele Lynn Brevik was the cherished daughter of Karen Grover of Kentucky and Dick Brevik of Florida and graduated from Davenport Central High School where she excelled as a member of the tennis team and the school band Michele went on to earn her degree from St Michele made a difference working at Happy Joe's known for her selflessness and dedication to helping others Her compassionate spirit was evident through her volunteer work at local food pantries as well as her generous contributions to animal shelters Michele also cherished her winter visits to Southwest Florida creating countless fond memories during her time there Michele is survived by her parents; her brother and friends who were touched by her kindness and warmth Michele’s life embodied her belief that "it is better to give than to receive." Her legacy of compassion and generosity will continue to inspire all who knew her The family invites friends to share stories and condolences at TrimbleFuneralHomes.com This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors to Michael and Shirley (Phelps) Brevik in Park River He grew up in Park River where he attended and graduated from Park River High School He attended NDSU for one year before attending University of Mary in Bismark where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business where he held numerous careers throughout his life He held a finance position with the Red Hawks he worked as a team leader and an auditor with Noridian He briefly worked as an over the road trucker before coming back to Noridian he worked in central processing at Sanford Aaron was passionate about bowling and bowled as often as he could and played the occasional game of golf Levi and Joseph Brevik; and many other loving relatives and friends with a time of sharing beginning at 5:30 P.M. Final resting place will be at Calvary Cemetery Wright Funeral Home and Cremation Service-Moorhead Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text 2024—SLB Capturi has reached a significant milestone of mechanical completion of the carbon capture plant at Heidelberg Materials’ cement facility in Brevik With the full-scale carbon capture plant now complete the plant is now ready for testing and commissioning this world-first commercial-scale carbon capture plant at a cement facility will enable production of net zero cement without compromising on the product strength or quality "Reaching this milestone is a testament to the power of working together and the collective determination to make a positive climate impact,” said Egil Fagerland “We look forward to continuing these collaborative efforts as we move toward the commissioning and operational phases of the project The Brevik CCS plant sets a precedent for future carbon capture initiatives where learnings and insights from this groundbreaking project enable others to follow." Due to the inherent emissions of cement production the sector is dependent on carbon capture and storage to reach net zero The carbon capture plant is designed to capture up to 400,000 metric tons of CO2 annually from the cement facility Strong execution support from Aker Solutions and the local industry has been instrumental in completing the construction of this project "The mechanical completion of the Brevik CCS project is a landmark achievement in the decarbonization journey of the cement industry,” said Giv Brantenberg “This project exemplifies our commitment to innovation and the pursuit of solutions that address the pressing issue of climate change We are immensely proud of the dedication and hard work of our teams and partners who have made this possible." The Brevik CCS plant is part of The Longship CCS project Europe’s first complete value chain for the capture The Brevik plant will now move into commissioning phase SLB (NYSE: SLB) is a global technology company that drives energy innovation for a balanced planet. With a global footprint in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating oil and gas, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition. Find out more at slb.com. SLB Capturi is dedicated to carbon removal and reduction solutions. The company’s proven modular technologies enable industries to deploy capture technology at speed and scale, meeting the requirements of tomorrow and the opportunities of today. The company is currently delivering seven carbon capture plants to bioenergy, waste to energy, and cement facilities. Find out more at capturi.slb.com. Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker projects such as Heidelberg Materials’ plant in Brevik could help the industry to a third of its carbon savings by 2050 The 100 metre-tall structure was erected in August with millimetre precision to trap carbon dioxide that spews out of a sprawling cement plant near the old shipping town of Brevik in Norway. Set to be finished by the end of the year, the facility will be the first of a handful around the world to capture carbon in the production of cement they could spur a wave of investments into carbon-free concrete that could prove crucial to meeting the world’s climate targets they could set back a hotly contested technology that the industry is betting on for a third of its carbon savings by 2050 These first plants were “absolutely critical” for reducing costs and risks in the next generation a researcher at Columbia University and co-author of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on solutions Concrete heats the planet more than flights and fast fashion but the industry has taken few steps to clean itself up Although manufacturers have begun to burn cleaner fuels and reuse industrial waste they have struggled to stop emissions from key chemical processes responsible for about 60% of their carbon footprint In a grimy yard at the edge of the Brevik plant surrounded by squawking seagulls and stacks of shipping containers the project manager Anders Petersen climbed up a vast metal tank and pointed to piles of grey limestone and black coal on the ground below The limestone releases carbon dioxide when processed in the plant’s blisteringly hot kilns while the coal is burned for 20% of the energy it needs to hit such high temperatures the container beneath his feet would hold it in liquid form Project manager Anders Petersen at the carbon capture and storage facility in Heidelberg Materials’ Brevik cement plant Photograph: Ajit Niranjan/The GuardianCarbon capture and storage is a key feature in roadmaps to a clean economy drawn up by the International Energy Agency and the IPCC energy-intensive and historically unreliable Activists have criticised fossil fuel companies for pumping most of the carbon they have captured back into production fields to squeeze out more oil and have dismissed investments in the technology as a greenwashing tool to excuse more drilling CCS is the most advanced of the solutions that engineers are racing to bring to market a Norwegian environmental activist and founder of Bellona one of the few big green groups to lobby for the technology said that public perceptions have started to change as the scale of the challenge has become clearer “What is the cost of not doing CCS?” he asked reporters during a press visit to Brevik Cement producers have faced little pressure to cut their pollution but rising carbon prices and increased demand for sustainable alternatives have jolted parts of the sector into action The emissions trading scheme in the EU will phase out free allowances for industry by 2034 and companies including Heidelberg Materials have benefited from subsidies by being first-movers The company says it is also conscious of keeping its social “licence to operate” The German economy and climate minister Photograph: Ole Berg-Rusten/NTB/AFP/Getty ImagesJan Theulen who leads Heidelberg Materials’ CCS efforts said the company had had to develop carbon capture projects in the face of uncertainties such as the future carbon price and political willingness to support the technology “We can’t afford to wait until all these uncertainties have become certainties.” From the tanks overlooking the port at Brevik pipe and then pump the carbon 2.5km beneath the Norwegian seabed a partnership between oil companies Equinor expects to be ready to receive its first shipment later this year as part of Norway’s “Longship” – a push to build the world’s first cross-border carbon capture and storage infrastructure More than 80% of the project funding for the Brevik CCS project comes from the Norwegian government Domien Vangenechten, an analyst focusing on industrial transitions at the climate thinktank E3G, said the Brevik project was a “big deal” for the cement industry but warned against neglecting other solutions Emissions from cement can be reduced by substituting clinker a polluting intermediary product that can be partly replaced by waste materials and lowering demand for concrete – for instance by designing more efficient buildings and cities consumers and taxpayers,” said Vangenechten “we should not put all the eggs in the CCS basket.” Carbon capture equipment at the Brevik cement plant. Photograph: Ajit Niranjan/The GuardianCO2 tanks at the plant Photograph: Ajit Niranjan/The GuardianThe first test of the technology in the construction industry is whether it can bring emissions down as much as its backers promise which relies mostly on waste heat to power the capture process has only enough energy to cover half of its production – for which Heidelberg Materials aims to trap 90% of the emissions The company has launched a dozen more CCS projects in Europe and North America a handful of which cover the full scope of production and target capture rates above 95% Heidelberg Materials has not yet set a price tag for its carbon-free cement and says it will be sold as a unique product that initially forms only a fraction of its total output But the costly upfront investments are likely to prove dizzyingly high for a sector that is used to paying for only a small fraction of its pollution “Cement plus CCS will always be more expensive than just producing cement,” said Gernot Wagner a climate economist at Columbia Business School Concrete blocks at the Brevik plant Photograph: Ajit Niranjan/The GuardianFor customers the good news is that climate-friendly cement should add little to the final cost of an apartment But while carmakers have spurred early investments in green steel by telling suppliers they are willing to pay a premium no obvious lead market exists for clean concrete “There is still much less demand pull for green cement than there is for steel,” said Julia Attwood an industrial decarbonisation analyst at the energy research firm BloombergNEF “Customers further down the supply chain – say or real estate developers – need to put more pressure on their suppliers to source green materials.” the new Nobel Centre in Stockholm became one of the first projects to sign up to Brevik’s carbon-captured net zero concrete Heidelberg Materials expects other potential early buyers to include sustainable architecture firms tech companies – flush with cash and under fire for energy-draining datacentres – and public authorities with strict green procurement rules The road to reaching the mass market may prove rockier The key is now to quickly learn from early projects and bring costs down “to turn low-carbon cement from a curiosity into a commodity” Harriet Laverne (Brevik) (Anderson) Locke was born Nov She became an Anderson when her mother remarried and soon after she became a proud big sister of three Harriet met and married her best friend and love of her life Harriet and Nathan celebrated 48 happy years together and to that union was added two daughters two sons-in-law and several grandchildren before Nathan passed away Harriet was Nathan’s partner in everything; she was beside him as a pastor’s wife she was his secretary in his construction business and for several years she worked right beside him on the job site and could almost out-shingle him on a good day she and Nathan would travel with their daughters to different churches playing and singing together filling in for pastors when needed Then they would settle down to pastor again for a while and always fixed way too much food when people came over Tanya-Marie (Roger) Foote and Michelle (Brian) Dandurand; 13 grandchildren and great-grandson Waylon Foote and another on the way; sisters and Dorothey Caple; and numerous nieces and nephews Harold Brevik and Mary Anderson; stepfather A memorial service will be held at the Weston County Fairgrounds in the Search and Rescue building on Saturday Condolences may be sent to the family in care of Meridian Mortuary 82701 or expressions of sympathy may also be made online at meridianmortuary.com To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page. Breivik is serving a maximum 21-year sentence for killing 77 people—eight in a bomb attack outside a government building in Oslo and another 69 in a rampage at a Labour Youth camp on the island of Utoya in July 2011 This declaration by Trump was no passing joke or meme The 32-year-old Norwegian considered himself a deep thinker and a big fan of the rightwing and Russian propaganda which argued western civilization was rotting from within because of multiculturalism, empowered women, racial/religious minorities, and liberalism. Putting pen to paper, he wrote: After writing over 1500 pages describing how it’s the essential duty of every white man in the world to marginalize or even kill as many non-white non-Christians as possible Anders Breivik set off a bomb in Oslo’s Government Quarter an island in Tyrifjorden where the Norwegian Social Democratic party’s youth organization There he used a semiautomatic rifle to kill another sixty-nine people He shot and wounded another 41 mostly young people The epigraph to the paragraphs cited above was the polestar of Breivik’s philosophy, one he’d learned from studying the writings and lives of his heroes: Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte. He opened the chapter with it at the top of the page The phrase was most recently quoted three weeks ago — on January 24, 2024 — by El Salvador’s notoriously violent and lawbreaking President Nayib Bukele, who also tweeted: “He who saves his country violates no law.” and then declared himself Emperor in 1804 with those same words: “Celui qui sauve sa patrie ne viole aucune loi.” Emperors like Napoleon and dictators like Bukele don’t bother with trivial details like obeying the law That was also Breivik’s hope for the Scandinavian countries: throw off the yoke of the “globalist” EU and embrace a racist strongman to lead the continent into an era of whites-only paradise Replace “the system” of democracy with a white supremacist Christo-fascist oligarchy Which is why it’s so troubling that Trump tweeted the same Napoleonic phrase that Breivik made famous. The phrase every white supremacist has memorized, along with the fourteen words and the number 88 as code for “Heil Hitler.” It would be a mistake at this point to think that when Trump quotes people like Breivik he’s just trolling us: People are now dying all over the world because a half-billion dollars’ worth of USAID food is rotting in storage; millions have lost access to AIDS drugs that were keeping them alive; children in cancer drug trials have been cut off from lifesaving medication; and federal workers who thought Civil Service would protect them are now on the verge of homelessness And for three weeks he’s been acting on his words So long as he’s “saving the country,” he argues he’s “violating no law.” It’s why he’s defying court orders right now to eject Musk’s teenage hackers from the Treasury Department or restart NIH and USAID funding And, truth be told, six corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court have already ratified the White House’s new American dictator doctrine with the Trump v US decision last July saying that if the president breaks the law while executing “official acts,” he’s immune from criminal prosecution for the crime the Republicans on the Supreme Court said; it simply won’t succeed It’s probably why Trump is now talking about running for a third term — perhaps even pulling a Putin and running for VP with a figurehead for president — because he knows that the minute he’s no longer in power he’ll be facing prison He posted it both on Truth Social and on Xitter And perhaps not just on his own behalf. Kyle Clark, a reporter for 9News Denver, believes it’s a shout-out to the armed insurrectionists Trump recently pardoned: Burning down the homes of undocumented immigrants After all, the rightwing gangs in Russia and Hungary enthusiastically do all these things with the tacit approval of Putin and Orbán And now Trump is doubling down; yesterday he retweeted a rightwinger’s message that he could defy the courts if he chose to because he is “saving the country.” And his fellow billionaire, Elon Musk is burning through our federal government like a California wildfire TS Eliot was wrong: sometimes the world does end with a bang rather than a whimper… Your support helps make our show possible and unlocks access to our sponsor-free feed There is nothing like being in the path of totality during a total solar eclipse it feels like the whole world stands still and yet everything changes," says Corinne Brevik a physicist at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale stars come out as the blaze of the sun's corona becomes visible "It reminds me that we are all part of something so much bigger than ourselves." But only a sliver of the country gets this firsthand view Brevik used money from a National Science Foundation grant to help middle schoolers host a live interactive broadcast that brought together kids within the path of totality with those around the country outside the path It meant thousands of students could share the experience "You can literally watch the kids watching the eclipse and hear that moment of 'Whoa!' " she says "It got a lot of kids who wouldn't necessarily have had a chance to see it out to observe." Brevik was surprised to learn that her grant was one of over 3,400 NSF grants labeled by Sen as "woke DEI" research that may be advancing "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda." equity and inclusion measures across the government "The sole goal was to share what's happening with everybody It's not propaganda; there's no background agenda Brevik was one of many scientists expressing dismay at how their basic research was being labeled The database included research grants from all corners of the country large research institutions and small colleges The list included projects aimed at finding better ways of synthesizing new medications; studying how to make self-driving vehicles safer; investigating how military service could help more women pursue science careers; figuring out why some proteins start to malfunction in ways that can lead to cancer a biologist at the University of Maryland whose research was not flagged but who has received NSF grants "[Cruz] is using his position as a senator to make a big noise about fundamental research and mis-categorizing what's going on in the research and technology sector in this country you find things that we should absolutely be proud of funding." Many of the research proposals that seem wholly unrelated to DEI were likely flagged because they included language about broadening the participation of women and underrepresented groups in science something that Congress has mandated NSF consider in its grantmaking since the 1990s Cruz's office has not responded to multiple requests for comment. A press release accompanying the database says "DEI initiatives have poisoned research efforts eroded confidence in the scientific community and fueled division among Americans … Congress must end the politicization of NSF funding and restore integrity to scientific research." Tammie Visintainer, a professor of science education at San Jose State University, was one of three researchers explicitly called out by Cruz for her work aiming to engage underrepresented students in community-based science who said 'Let me know if you're receiving any threats,' " she says I actually took my name off my office door It felt like I don't need people to know where I am." All NSF grants have to address how the research will impact society including how they'll broaden participation in science "It's one of the two main criteria the National Science Foundation uses to review grants," says Visintainer you need to attend to those things — and should attend to those things — because there are massive issues of inequity and to pretend those aren't real is not based on evidence." Her NSF grant supports a project aimed at helping teachers and students develop community-based science research on the causes and effects of extreme heat and urban heat islands in racially and ethnically diverse communities, which are hit harder than suburban communities "The radical work that is being attacked is students walking around in their community collecting temperature data or looking at maps and identifying a local issue of heat," she says The overarching goal of her work is to try to understand "how do we get students to see themselves as scientists or science type people?" Garces was a first-generation college student my parents are farmers and construction workers," she says she struggled to see a place for herself in science She later won an NSF postdoctoral fellowship to study how fungi interact with plants in ways that can boost resilience under stress That grant also supports her efforts to develop ways of evaluating students in collegiate science classes that broaden participation In an environmental studies class for nonmajors her students could pick the topic for their final project One student decided to put together a visual presentation on climate change that she projected behind her punk band as it played "I think there's a lot of mischaracterization done right now with throwing around of 'DEI' or social justice," she says "There's nothing political about wanting students to learn That is simply giving all students an opportunity to get a good grade and be able to succeed in their future career." argue that they're reining in science that's become ideologically extreme While NSF says they can't stop payments on existing grants because of noncompliance with those orders, the freeze on grants in late January has many scientists worried that funding could still be pulled Many within the scientific community argue it's a direct attack on science that will ultimately hurt Americans "What worries me is that the intent is to dismantle U.S how are you going to get the next advanced materials or quantum computing or the next cancer drug or treatment for heart disease?" Have information you want to share about the ongoing changes at federal science agencies and their effects on research Reach out to Jonathan Lambert via encrypted communications on Signal: @jonlambert.12 Become an NPR sponsor Stay at the forefront of the industrial gas industry with a gasworld subscription and get access to: SLB Capturi has announced the mechanical completion of its carbon capture plant at Heidelberg Materials’ cement facility in Brevik the facility will be the world’s first commercial-scale carbon capture plant at a cement site capable of reducing CO2 emissions by up to 400,000 metric tonnes annually.   The project marks a step forward in decarbonising the cement industry which faces unique challenges due to the inherent emissions of cement production.  the plant will enable the production of Net Zero cement without compromising product quality or strength to continue reading you must be subscribed At a time when the world is forced to go digital more than ever before just to stay connected discover the in-depth content our subscribers receive every month by subscribing to gasworld Norwegian class society DNV has awarded a detailed approval in principle (AiP) to the UK-based Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited and Norway-based marine engineering company Brevik Engineering for their design of a 74,000 cbm liquid carbon dioxide (LCO2) carrier the vessel is specifically designed for the Asia Pacific market to enable cost-competitive transport of CO2 This AiP from DNV covers a comprehensive scope across a wide range of disciplines including the assessment of specific technical challenges for LCO2 carriers with special emphasis on cargo tank design including tank integrity analysis and suitability of material With dimensions capped at 290 meters in length and a 12-meter draft to access key East Asian ports the designed ship mirrors the size of a 174,000 cbm LNG carrier It features 15 cylindrical tanks that store 74,000 cbm of liquid CO2 at around -50°C and 6–8 barg The vessel is also designed for future onboard capture of CO2 from the main engine exhaust This achievement is said to mark ‘a significant milestone’ in showcasing the viability of low-pressure shipping technology for CO2 “We are pleased to be collaborating closely with Shell and Brevik Engineering on bringing this innovative gas carrier design to fruition This AiP underscores the importance of joint innovation and collaboration in advancing solutions that support the development of the wider CCS value chain Scale is essential to drive down the cost of CCS and this work demonstrates the feasibility of large CO2 carriers with a low carbon footprint,” Mathias Sørhaug Business Development Director CO2 shipping we are proud to have received this detailed Approval in Principle confirming the feasibility of low pressure shipping with a design that is tender-ready We are excited to see how innovations like this can potentially enhance safety achieve scalability and flexibility to drive cost competitiveness in the implementation of large-scale cross-border CCS,” Lee Teng-Huar Brevik Engineering has brought its experience in marine design and CO₂ ship logistics to the development of this low-pressure CO₂ carrier where the key philosophy has been to reduce technological risk and ensure compliance with current regulations “Based on a comprehensive technology study this innovative design is expected to set new benchmarks in safe and sustainable large-scale CO₂ shipping,” Evert Grødal Carbon capture and storage is set to play a key role in the decarbonization of industry in the Asia Pacific and Singapore are studying the possibility of shipping substantial quantities of their own CO2 to store locations within the wider region This necessitates the development of larger capacity vessels than those currently planned for European CCS projects Low-pressure cargo tank designs are a key enabler to commercialize these large LCO2 ships to enable the transportation of CO2 at a lower cost took delivery of the first two LNG-powered LCO2 carriers the 7,500 cbm vessel duo belongs to a series of four sister ships custom-designed for CO2 transport which is said to be the largest dedicated CO2 shipping fleet globally Daily news and in-depth stories in your inbox The Pioneers of Offshore Engineering GustoMSC part of NOV’s Marine and Construction business is recognized for providing advanced design & engineering consultancy for mobile offshore units and reliable equipment and technical knowledge into realistic & innovative ideas The performance of new and existing jack-ups DNV has awarded a detailed Approval in Principle (AiP) to Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and Brevik Engineering for their design of a 74,000 cubic meters (cbm) liquid carbon dioxide (LCO2) carrier The vessel is specifically designed for the Asia Pacific market to enable cost competitive transport of CO2 It features 15 cylindrical tanks that store 74,000 cbm of liquid CO2 at around -50°C and 6–8 barg Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is set to play a key role in decarbonization of industry in Asia Pacific Low-pressure cargo tank designs are a key enabler to commercialize these large LCO2 ships to enable transportation of CO2 at lower cost “This AiP underscores the importance of joint innovation and collaboration in advancing solutions that support the development of the wider CCS value chain Scale is essential to drive down the cost of CCS and this work demonstrates the feasibility of large CO2 carriers with a low carbon footprint,” said Mathias Sørhaug “Based on a comprehensive technology study and sustainable large-scale CO₂ shipping,” added Evert Grødal Vard has secured a new contract with Taiwanese-based Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) for the design and construction of one Commissioning… On April 30, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) together with several original co-sponsors reintroduced the SHIPS for America Act in the U.S The offshore rig market recovery appears to have taken a pause with demand tapering off and marketed utilization hitting… Fast-growing energy demand is driving the need for technical support and guidance in new locations we excel in creating stunning illuminated yacht names and logos and cutting-edge LED and fiber optic solutions Maritime Reporter E-News is the maritime industry's largest circulation and most authoritative ENews Service delivered to your Email five times per week The real fun “actually isn’t getting to the end the legendary creator of the Diablo franchise and co-founder and president of Blizzard North has expressed concerns about how modern ARPGs have become increasingly fast-paced Brevik offered insights on the trend that he had observed: “I think that a RPGs [ARPGs] in general have started to lean into this: kill swaths of enemies all over the place extremely quickly Your build is killing all sorts of stuff so you could get more drops This kind of rush wouldn’t do good for the overall gaming experience as Brevik believes that the real fun in those games is more about the journey instead of “getting to the end.” This theory also works for MMOs are undergoing a similar fate of rushing about leveling up Brevik was the Project and Design Lead for Diablo II and is still an active player and enthusiastic about the genre even though he left the franchise in 2005 When he was asked if the 2000 title is still the best ARPG compared with the countless titles that have been greatly inspired by it in the following more than two decades he commented that the pacing of Diablo II is “great,” and that could be one of the qualities that helps the game being “endured.”  “When you’re shortening that journey and making it kind of ridiculous 80 level 80LV logo are registered trademarks of 80LV LLC We use cookies on this website to make your browsing experience better. By using the site you agree to our use of cookies.Learn more “I think that a RPGs in general have started to lean into this: kill swaths of enemies all over the place extremely quickly and the screen is littered with stuff you don’t care about […] When you’re shortening that journey and making it kind of ridiculous Brevik also expressed his opinion that Diablo II has endured because its pace of leveling and loot was more slower-paced and “realistic,” that RPG progression should be about the journey and that racing to max level and loot is a problem that’s affecting modern MMOs as well It’s all about speed and things like that,” he’s quoted as saying “I just think that makes a kind of a worse experience And I tend to shy away from that direction.” This is nowhere near the first time that Brevik has had some spicy takes on the genre and the industry overall, as the list below illustrates. We’ll just go ahead and add this one to the pile and see what discussion springs up in the comments The Daily Grind: Do you think MMO subscriptions are greedy WoW Factor: Down with raid nonsense addons We’re finally getting our first glimpse of 12-year-old Camelot Unchained since last year in today’s dev stream The Daily Grind: Do you feel bad about skipping new MMORPG launches The Soapbox: Could an official WildStar revival succeed in 2025 The Daily Grind: How much does voice acting impact an MMORPG Breivik’s lawyer and the court were not immediately available for comment the anti-Muslim neo-Nazi killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69 The lawyer told NTB that Breivik would appeal the decision The court heard Breivik’s petition for parole he said the attacks had been “necessary” The 45-year-old has served 13 years of a 21-year sentence He can apply for parole a year after each rejection His lawyers say he’s been isolated in the prison for 12 years and has no contact with other inmates They said his isolation had left him suicidal and dependent on the anti-depressant Prozac The Justice Ministry says the isolation is relative since he has contacts with guards Contacts with the outside world are limited given the concern he may inspire others to commit violent acts who killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch In the section of the prison where he lives He is allowed to keep three parakeets as pets “Brevik has much more space than any other inmate at Ringerike Prison,” the jail director had told the Norwegian News Agency NTB Anyhow, Second Dinner is already zipping ahead on that last one: It’s replacing Nuverse with US publisher Skystone Games and with the help of our current publisher Nuverse (Thank you!) we’ve already signed agreements and started the work to bring almost all operational and publishing responsibilities in-house at Second Dinner with support from a new U.S.-based publisher This has been a full-team effort between Second Dinner but the partnership just makes sense given the Marvel tie-in David Brevik argues the fun of these games "isn't getting to the end Speaking to VideoGamer Blizzard co-founder and Diablo programmer/designer David Brevik expressed a dim view of the current state of Diablo-like ARPGs arguing that inflated enemy numbers and a deluge of loot and experience have robbed the genre of the friction and weight present in the first two Diablo games “I think that ARPGs in general have started to lean into this: kill swaths of enemies all over the place extremely quickly," Brevik told VideoGamer "Your build is killing all sorts of stuff so you could get more drops and the screen is littered with stuff you don’t care about.” Brevik argues that Diablo 2 had a more "personal and realistic" feel with the amount of enemies onscreen and the powers you could bring to bear against them That’s one of the reasons it’s endured," said Brevik "I just don’t find killing screen-fulls of things instantly and mowing stuff down and walking around the level and killing everything very enticing I just don’t feel like that is a cool experience Brevik criticized the way players of newer ARPGs like Path of Exile or Diablos 3 and 4 are incentivized to level up their characters as quickly as possible to reach an endgame that constitutes the real draw of the experience and argued that the true fun of ARPGs “actually isn’t getting to the end it’s the journey." Brevik concluded by saying “When you’re shortening that journey and making it kind of ridiculous You’ve cheapened the entire experience This 100% hits the nail on the head of what puts me off these games: I'm just built for a slower paced, probably more singleplayer-oriented action RPG along the lines of classic Diablo, Torchlight, or FromSoftware's Soulsborne games repeatable play and leveling up a character as quickly as possible to engage with it I was honestly shocked when a coworker explained to me that you have to make a new character for each League (season with the "real game" being the endgame mapping experience after you hit max level PCG contributor Len Hafer really put a fine point on this feeling back when Diablo 4 first released: "The way I used to enjoy Diablo games has been replaced, and it sucks." At the same time this definitely seems like a generational thing or at least a question of taste: Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2 are bigger than Jesus and maybe also the Beatles I also can't deny the raw lizard brain thrill of clearing waves of throwaway sickos Dynasty Warriors-style with Diablo's dark fantasy aesthetics, but I get those kicks from the wonderfully bite-sized, Diablo-coded Vampire Survivors riff, Halls of Torment Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals Associate EditorTed has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent When he's not playing or writing about games you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch Diablo co-creator David Brevik has some choice words about new action-RPGs and MMOs that have moved away from the grind of earlier games Follow us for daily PC games news, guides and reviews on X, Facebook, Google News, and Steam. 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience Heidelberg Materials’ flagship Brevik CCS project has successfully achieved mechanical completion on schedule This marks a significant milestone in the journey to full operation of the CO2 value chain and to delivering the first evoZero® carbon captured net-zero cement to customers part of the Norwegian government's Longship initiative is the first industrial-scale capture effort in the cement industry worldwide will be captured and transported by ship to an onshore terminal on the Norwegian west coast the liquefied CO2 will be transported by pipeline to the storage site under the North Sea the carbon capture plant has been integrated into the current cement plant without disrupting the ongoing cement production This is the result of 1.2 million hours of technical precision work by an on-site team of up to 400 employees and external partners “Mechanical completion” marks the point at which all major mechanical components have been installed and the system is ready for testing the project now enters the commissioning phase Brevik holds special significance for Heidelberg Materials as a pioneering project Its progress is followed with great public interest and has already attracted thousands of visitors from all over the world since the experiences and ‘lessons learnt’ from the CCS realisation and operation in Brevik will be valuable for both the cement industry and other process industries General Manager of Heidelberg Materials Northern Europe said: “The Brevik CCS project is a landmark achievement for Heidelberg Materials it demonstrates not only cutting-edge technology but also the strength of the industrial-governmental partnership model our customers across Europe will be empowered to lead the way and build a more sustainable future by incorporating our evoZero® carbon-captured cement and concrete into their projects starting next year.” Based on the expertise gained in Brevik over many years Heidelberg Materials has already launched around a dozen other CCUS projects around the globe To further roll out carbon capture solutions at scale the company is drawing on lessons learned in Norway Suitable storage sites and the necessary infrastructure connecting the emission sources to these sites are a critical factor follow-up projects depend on efficient approval and funding schemes and public sector support Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/europe-cis/02122024/heidelberg-materials-brevik-ccs-project-in-norway-reaches-mechanical-completion/ In the latest episode of the World Cement Podcast Senior Editor David Bizley is joined by Dr Andrew Minson of the GCCA to discuss the ins and outs of the recently launched Low Carbon Ratings (LCR) system Listen for free today » CRH announce good start to the year despite unfavourable weather in the seasonally least significant quarter Embed article link: (copy the HTML code below): This article has been tagged under the following: Already a member? Sign in here Listen to the latest episode of the World Cement Podcast Listen now! Diablo creator David Brevik has shared his distaste for some aspects in current ARPGs and said that when the journey to levelling up is shortened "you've cheapened the entire experience" Brevik, now head of indie publisher Skystone Games, spoke to VideoGamer about his career and his thoughts on the ARPG genre. Brevik was co-founder and president of Blizzard North and served as lead programmer and senior designer on Diablo, and project and design lead on Diablo 2 Brevik criticised the speed at which games today offer player progression "I think that RPGs in general have started to lean into this: kill swathes of enemies all over the place extremely quickly," said Brevik and the screen is littered with stuff you don't care about." Enemy counts in the original Diablo games were notably high for the time but Brevik believes modern games have learned the wrong lesson "I don't find that as kind of personal and realistic as like Diablo 2 I just don't find killing screen-fulls of things instantly and mowing stuff down and walking around the level and killing everything I just don't feel like that is a cool experience "When you're shortening that journey and making it kind of ridiculous While Brevik's comments apply to the recent Diablo games, it also arguably applies to the likes of Path of Exile 2 and Lost Ark "I think that MMOs have definitely pushed in that direction," said Brevik I just think that makes a kind of a worse experience And I tend to shy away from that direction." Blizzard has followed the release of Diablo 4 with a number of seasons and major expansion Vessel of Hatred to extend its longevity, while also battling with endgame imbalances. The expansion's launch in October last year was rocky but still led to a boost in Steam players Path of Exile 2, meanwhile, received a major patch last month after its early access release in December © 2025 Eurogamer.net a brand of IGN Entertainment No part of this website or its content may be reproduced without the copyright owner's permission Eurogamer is a registered trademark of Gamer Network Limited A searchable database of oil and gas debt and equity offerings Prices for top E&P stocks and commodities Rextag database of energy infrastructure assets said it had reached a milestone with the world’s first industrial-scale carbon capture plant at a cement facility SLB Capturi, a joint venture of SLB and Aker Carbon Capture marked a milestone toward efforts to decarbonize the hard-to-abate cement sector with the mechanical completion of the carbon capture plant at cement facility in Norway 2 it had completed construction of the carbon capture plant at Heidelberg Materials’ cement facility in Brevik and is ready to test and commission the facility intermediate storage and loadout facilities Heidelberg Materials’ Brevik CCS plant is being described as the world’s first CO2 capture facility in the cement industry Designed to capture up to 400,000 metric tons of CO2 annually the plant is part of the company’s plans to lower emissions and produce what it calls net-zero concrete “The Brevik CCS plant sets a precedent for future carbon capture initiatives where learnings and insights from this groundbreaking project enable others to follow,” SLB Capturi CEO Egil Fagerland said in a statement Next steps for the Brevik plant include commissioning The cement manufacturing industry is considered a significant contributor of emissions The international non-governmental think-tank said the global manufacturing of cement produced 1.6 billion metric tonnes of CO2 in 2022 accounting for about 8% of the global CO2 emissions This conversation is moderated according to Hart Energy community rules. 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If you’re experiencing any technical problems, please contact our customer care team. and exclusive coverage you need to keep your industry edge Subscribe for free to our newsletters for the latest energy news in any form or medium without express written permission is prohibited Norway: SLB Capturi has reached mechanical completion of the carbon capture unit at Heidelberg Materials' cement plant in Brevik The unit includes the carbon capture system The plant is now ready for testing and commissioning The carbon capture plant is designed to capture up to 0.4Mt/yr of CO2 from one production line at the cement plant this world-first commercial-scale carbon capture plant at a cement plant will enable production of an amount of net-zero cement SLB Capturi is a joint venture between SLB and Aker Carbon Capture "Reaching this milestone is a testament to the power of working together and the collective determination to make a positive climate impact," said Egil Fagerland "We look forward to continuing these collaborative efforts as we move toward the commissioning and operational phases of the project "The mechanical completion of the Brevik CCS project is a landmark achievement in the decarbonisation journey of the cement industry,” said Giv Brantenberg “This project exemplifies our commitment to innovation Anders Behring Breivik arrives at the courtroom for day one of the Ringerike Asker and Bærum district court’s processing of Fjotolf Hansen’s petition for parole It was the far-right extremist’s second bid for freedom after spending more than a decade behind bars The authorities have said Breivik’s parole request should be rejected because there is still a “qualified and real” risk that he will commit another serious violent crime if he is released the Norwegian news agency NTB reported from the hearing Prosecutor Hulda Olsen Karlsdottir said Breivik has not changed his ideological thinking or his political position Authorities in Norway have insisted Breivik has the same rights as any other prisoner arguing that treating him differently would undermine the principles that underpin Norwegian society including the rule of law and freedom of speech Breivik was transferred to Ringerike prison where he is held in a two-story complex with a kitchen several armchairs and black and white pictures of the Eiffel Tower on the wall while three parakeets fly around the complex Breivik was convicted in 2012 of mass murder and terrorism for a bombing that killed eight people in a government building in Oslo and a shooting massacre on Utøya island where he gunned down 69 people at a holiday camp for youth activists from the center-left Labor Party This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Iron Oxide Market Analysis: Industry Market Size Copyright © ChemAnalyst - 2020 | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy Heidelberg Materials’ Brevik CCS project in Norway reaches mechanical completion  HEIDELBERG Materials’ flagship Brevik CCS project has successfully achieved mechanical completion on schedule This marks a significant milestone in the journey to full operation of the CO2 value chain and to delivering the first evoZero carbon captured net-zero cement to customers part of the Norwegian Government's Longship initiative the liquefied CO2 will be transported by pipeline to a storage site under the North Sea Mechanical completion marks the point at which all major mechanical components have been installed and the system is ready for testing The project now enters the commissioning phase ‘We are very proud of this important achievement which positions us as a leader in the global transition to a net-zero economy,’ said Axel Conrads chief technology officer of Heidelberg Materials ‘The project’s progress towards the start of the Brevik CCS plant is testament to our engineering expertise and to the close collaboration between the project team in Brevik the experts in our global Competence Center Cement and our trusted partners for this first-of-its-kind application we have laid the foundation for the next crucial step of commissioning the new equipment We are looking forward to launching the plant into full operation.’ as the experiences and ‘lessons learnt’ from CCS realization and operation in Brevik will be valuable for both the cement industry and other process industries general manager of Heidelberg Materials Northern Europe said: ‘The Brevik CCS project is a landmark achievement for Heidelberg Materials As part of the Norwegian Longship programme our customers across Europe will be empowered to lead the way and build a more sustainable future by incorporating our evoZero carbon-captured cement and concrete into their projects starting next year.’ Heidelberg Materials have already launched around 12 other CCUS projects around the globe jobs events and articles direct to your inbox Subscribe Here Agg-Net is the ‘go-to’ website for key decision makers within the aggregates and recycling industries market reports and industry features provide an independent and informed voice for the industry Agg-Net is the official digital partner for Hillhead providing unrivalled coverage of our June event 7 Regent StreetNottinghamNG1 5BSUnited KingdomTel: +44 (0)115 941 1315 — A professor of geology and soil science from a North Dakota university will be the next dean of the College of Agricultural Life and Physical Sciences at Southern Illinois University Carbondale which is a part of the North Dakota University System will become the first permanent dean of the college pending approval from the SIU Board of Trustees Brevik said the job attracted him because the programs within it span his professional background which includes deep study in both geology and soil science “I started my academic life as a geologist getting my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geology and that fits in well with the School of Earth Systems and Sustainability which fits well with the School of Agricultural Sciences,” Brevik said “I have also taught both geology and soil science coursework throughout my 20 years as a tenure-track faculty member and have published several papers that discuss the intersection of soil science and geology.” “So the college is a really good fit for me professionally,” he said SIU is also about as central to family for myself and my wife as it is currently possible to get Brevik said he will emphasize shared governance and create a student-centered environment that provides Salukis what they need to succeed He also wants to promote excellence in teaching and make data-driven decisions while supporting diversity Fostering international experiences for faculty and students and encouraging interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work across the college and university also are priorities such as alumni and local business and political leaders while seeking additional funding to support the college Brevik said he likes to “dig in and get things done” and that his being detail-oriented will also help him in his new role “I have a willingness to listen to others hear what they are saying and take that into account when making decisions,” Brevik said “This is crucial in a shared governance environment And I have a very interdisciplinary perspective This is important because a dean needs to be an advocate for their entire college not just the discipline they came out of.” SIU’s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs said Brevik’s experience made him stand out and that the people who spoke with him during the search process were impressed Eric Brevik’s interdisciplinary background in soil science and geology uniquely positions him to understand the two colleges that have merged – College of Agricultural Sciences and College of Science,” she said he has an exceptionally strong research record and experience in securing research grants Brevik has prior administrative experience as a department chair is familiar with student recruitment and uses a data-driven problem-solving approach The people who interacted with him noted that he is personable and approachable.” Brevik earned his doctorate in soil science at Iowa State University in 2001 He earned a Master of Arts in geology at the University of North Dakota after earning his Bachelor of Science degree in geology there in 1992 Brevik was an assistant professor of geosciences at Valdosta State University from 2001 to 2005 also serving on the graduate faculty there from 2002 to 2007 He became an associate professor there in 2005 He became an associate professor of geology and soils at Dickinson State University in 2007 and was promoted to professor in 2012 He served as chair of the Department of Natural Sciences from 2012 to 2018 Brevik teaches courses in geology and soil science and coordinates the environmental science degree program while also advising students involved in undergraduate research Brevik’s research interests include combining information from soil science and geology soil genesis and the impact of humans on soil properties and processes education and links between soil science and culture Brevik is an active member of the European Geoscience Union the International Union of Soil Sciences and the Soil Science Society of America View Description 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM - Student Center The Exchange More SIU Events »Law School Commencement5/9/2025 View Description More SIU Events »Spring Recital View Description More SIU Events »View all Events Email Webmaster Submit an Announcement » Submit a Calendar Event » Brevik is responsible for the iconic Diablo 2 David Brevik had a lot to say about modern-day ARPGs But it does raise a question: do modern gamers really crave the slower methodical gameplay Brevik is reminiscing about Let me share a little secret: it’s impossible to please Diablo players it was praised for its story and campaign—arguably the best in the franchise Players criticized its pacing and lack of meaningful endgame while Diablo 2 fans have spent years farming Baal without reaching max level the same grind is considered intolerable in a modern Diablo game.In our interview with the developers last year Rod Fergusson addressed this disconnect: "When you launch something you're always doing it with a set of assumptions We had the assumption that D4 was meant to be more D2-like And so one of the assumptions was that people were going to be okay with the long grind for the Unique or an Uber Unique in particular You can go three years before you find the Uber you're looking for this is what people love about the progression of D2 And so we launched that way with D4 and we found out very quickly that if you don't give me my Uber in my season then I'm upset."Translation: Blizzard tried the slow-burn approach of Diablo 2 but faced immediate backlash The result now is Increased mob density and a legendary loot rain closer to Diablo 3—a shift I personally enjoy something Blizzard has openly acknowledged It's super unfortunate as some knock-ons occurred. Quality of releases has been a big topic and something the team is acutely aware they need to be better at. It won't be overnight but its one of the big things a lot of focus will be on.February 4, 2025 The creator of Diablo might not be a big fan of Diablo 4 lead designer on the original Diablo game and the person most often credited for the ARPG series' creation Talking to VideoGamer Brevik railed against the blistering pace of much newer ARPGs it's pretty obvious that he's referencing Diablo 4 and "I think that ARPGs in general have started to lean into this: kill swaths of enemies all over the place extremely quickly,” Brevik said and the screen is littered with stuff you don’t care about." Diablo has always been about clicking things to death and not a whole lot more and I say that with extreme fondness for the series as someone whose first online obsession was the original Diablo Brevik seemed to be arguing that it's the pace of the death clicks that was slower and more deliberate back when he was at Blizzard "I don’t find that as kind of personal and realistic as like Diablo 2 As someone who plays and mostly enjoys Diablo 4 There's definitely something to be said for the older Diablos' restraint in terms of enemy density and player builds that helps foster a thicker Brevik left Blizzard in 2003 and would eventually take on a role as advisor for the Chinese version of Path of Exile He later started up Graybeard games and released a new action-RPG called It Lurks Below to positive reviews Major describes new low-pressure design targeted at Asia-Pacific region as ‘tender-ready’ Classification society DNV has given approval in principle to Shell International Trading and Shipping Co and naval architects Brevik Engineering for the design of a 74,000-cbm liquefied CO2 carrier. 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If you are a performing artist wishing to hone your craft or if you want expert coaching in stage presence the Aurora Cultural Centre has a "unique opportunity" for you The summer 2025 Brevik Collaboratory is seeking 15 passionate musicians and multidisciplinary performers ready to elevate their artistry according to an Aurora Cultural Centre news release "Whether you’re emerging or mid-career this unique opportunity offers professional development and performance experience — all within a paid summer residency," the centre stated The program includes 18 professional development sessions focused on stage craft Highlights include workshops on financial literacy Produced by the Aurora Cultural Centre and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts this eight-week residency takes place at the newly revitalized Brevik Hall in the heart of Aurora Town Square Selected artists will receive an honorarium and must attend daily 90-minute training sessions (Monday to Friday) throughout July and August The residency will conclude with a series of outdoor Saturday concerts at Aurora Town Square featuring performances by Brevik Collaboratory artists Applications are now open online until April 18 CV and statement of intent on how this opportunity will further their career Selected artists will be notified the week of May 12 This opportunity is open to Canadian citizens and permanent residents The residency is for individual artists only; bands and ensembles do not qualify Apply online at AuroraCulturalCentre.ca/brevik-collaboratory More Spotlight > He wanted to save Norway. Just a few hours before detonating the bomb, Breivik e-mailed a fifteen-hundred-page manifesto to a thousand recipients, in which he said that we were at war with Muslims and multiculturalism and that the slaughter of the campers was meant to be a wake-up call. He also uploaded to YouTube a twelve-minute video that revealed, with propagandistic simplicity, what was about to happen in Europe: the Muslim invasion. Like many Norwegians, I cried when I learned what had happened, and in the days following. The assault penetrated every defense, for the deaths we were used to seeing in the media had always happened in other places, in foreign cities and countries, but this had happened in our own world, in the midst of things so well known and familiar that we couldn’t see it coming. It had happened at home. An initial court-ordered psychiatric review concluded that Breivik suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, but a second review diagnosed only “dissocial personality disorder” and “narcissistic traits.” The court ruled that he was not psychotic. What can prompt a relatively well-functioning man to do something so horrific? In the midst of a stable, prosperous, and orderly country? Is it possible to ever comprehend it? A few months before Breivik carried out the assault, he visited his former stepmother and told her that soon he was going to do something that would make his father proud. His mother had left his father when he was one, and it had been years since Breivik had spoken to him. He wanted to be seen; that is what drove him, nothing else. “Look, I’m hurt,” he said. “This will have to be bandaged up. I’ve already lost a lot of blood.” “You’ll get no fucking plasters from me,” muttered the policeman who was taking messages between the interview room and the room next door, where they were in contact with the staff in Oslo. “I can’t afford to lose too much blood,” Breivik said. “And I’ve lost half a litre already.” He claimed that the blood loss could make him pass out. While the plasters were being applied, Breivik wondered why he was bleeding. He remembered hitting his finger when he shot a victim in the head at close range. Something had flown into his finger and then popped out again. It must have been a bit of skull, he told the officers in the room. The cut was logged as five millimetres long. The interrogation could continue. Breivik’s concern for the tiny cut on his finger, which occurs just minutes after he has taken the last of seventy-seven lives, and the remarkable insensitivity to which this testifies, could perhaps be attributed to the fact that he was high on stimulants, as well as intoxicated by the murders themselves, and so had been placed in a state of unreality—were it not for the fact that, years later, there is no sign that he has changed. He is a person filled to the brim with himself. And that is perhaps the most painful thing of all, the realization that this whole gruesome massacre, all those extinguished lives, was the result of a frustrated young man’s need for self-representation. As that initial interrogation was winding to a close, Breivik was asked to undress. Seierstad describes it thus: Finally, he was standing there in a room of uniformed men in his underpants. He started posing, trying to look macho. Now he was all for having his picture taken. He looked into the camera and thrust out his chest. His hands were clasped at one hip while he held his body taut in a classic bodybuilding pose, to make his muscles bulge as much as possible. For a moment, the policemen were nonplussed. In another setting, another crime, it might have been ridiculous, but here . . . it was grotesque, it was simply incomprehensible. What does it take to kill another person? Or, to put it another way, what is it that prevents us from killing? “The two things that really drew me to vinyl were the expense and the inconvenience.”Copy link to cartoonCopy link to cartoonLink copied Even in the military, where killing is not only socially acceptable but something that soldiers are encouraged to perform, the inner resistance to killing another is so strong that it must be broken down systematically. This still means that, under certain circumstances, conscience, shame, and the insight that other human lives are inviolable can be set aside. We know that such circumstances do arise, and not only for soldiers. Hannah Arendt writes in “Eichmann in Jerusalem”: And just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody “Thou shalt not kill,” even though man’s natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler’s land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: “Thou shalt kill,” although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Breivik’s deed, single-handedly killing seventy-seven people, most of them one by one, many of them eye to eye, did not take place in a wartime society, where all norms and rules were lifted and all institutions dissolved; it occurred in a small, harmonious, well-functioning, and prosperous land during peacetime. All norms and rules were annulled in him, a war culture had arisen in him, and he was completely indifferent to human life, and absolutely ruthless. That is where we should direct our attention, to the collapse within the human being which these actions represent, and which makes them possible. Killing another person requires a tremendous amount of distance, and the space that makes such distance possible has appeared in the midst of our culture. It has appeared among us, and it exists here, now. The most powerful human forces are found in the meeting of the face and the gaze. Only there do we exist for one another. In the gaze of the other, we become, and in our own gaze others become. It is there, too, that we can be destroyed. Being unseen is devastating, and so is not seeing. And he had no one there to correct him—his eyes were cast down. (Translated, from the Norwegian, by Kerri Pierce.) The island, named Utoeya, pokes out of a glacial lake called Tyrifjorden twenty-five miles west of Oslo. It slopes up steeply from the jetty, and Adrian is at the top of the hill, near the cafeteria. He is 21, though it's only his first year at the summer camp for young liberals. Already he is charmed, almost smitten, by the place. _This, _he thought after he arrived on a clear Norwegian day, really is a piece of heaven on earth. There are three more bangs. Adrian sees six or seven people—he's not counting—sprinting up the slope toward him. "Run," they're screaming. "He's shooting! Run!" Another three bangs. But Adrian does not run. He does not recognize the noises as gunfire, and the words being screamed are so implausible as to be fantasy. People simply do not shoot one another in Norway. Adrian is not so much afraid as curious. He hears more bangs. Two people at the top of the slope fall, abruptly and awkwardly, in midstride. Adrian steps off the main path, out of the way of the others charging up the hill. But still he does not run. He wonders if he is witnessing an elaborate ercise, if perhaps the organizers are trying to show hundreds of young campers what it would be like to live in a war zone. He senses other kids around him, also moving in a slow half-crouch. In the middle distance, he sees a girl coming out of the showers. She's wearing gray sweatpants and a gray sweatshirt with auf stenciled on it. Apparently she did not hear the bangs or the screaming while she was in the showers, because she is walking calmly along the path toward the man with the guns. The distance between them closes. She is only a few feet from the man when she stops, tenses. It looks to Adrian like she senses something is wrong, like she wants to run. The man raises his right hand. He shoots her in the head. Adrian thinks it looks nothing like it does when someone gets shot in the movies. The man stands over her, fires once more. Her body jerks. Seven hours before the shooting begins on 22 July, Gro Harlem Brundtland makes the short ferry crossing from the shore to Utoeya. She was Norway's first female prime minister and is affectionately known as "the Mother of Norway." She is scheduled to stay through dinner at the camp. On Utoeya, Gro will be visiting her granddaughter, who is in the AUF. One of the Oslo newspapers, _Verdens Gang, _decides to do a light feature on the occasion, and a reporter and a photographer are dispatched to follow Gro around the island. Sara Johannessen, the photographer, takes pictures of Gro speaking in the cafeteria and laughing with campers and touring Utoeya in a pair of borrowed boots. Rain falls, intermittent but hard, and Gro decides to cut short her visit. She leaves after lunch. The ferry docks on the mainland just before three. On the other side, where Sara has parked her blue Toyota, she coas Gro and her granddaughter to stand together for a portrait. The picture is static and clumsily posed, like an amateur's snapshot, but Sara is pretty sure they have never before been photographed together in the national media. This is my scoop today, Sara tells herself, this horrible picture. Thirty-five minutes after Sara takes her horrible picture, a white Volkswagen panel van slips past a no-entry sign into a plaza below a seventeen-story high-rise. The building is known as H-Block, and it is part of the government complex in central Oslo. It houses, among other agencies, the prime minister's offices on the top floors. The driver parks near the main entrance. He lights a fuse that is connected, in the back of the van, to a mixture of fertilizer, diesel, and aluminum that weighs slightly more than a ton. The driver then walks three blocks north, toward a silver Fiat Doblò. A surveillance camera records a grainy image of him: He's wearing body armor and a riot helmet, and he's carrying a pistol. The fuse has a burn time of slightly more than seven minutes. Sara is a block away, and her car is still rolling when she hears a dull thump and low rumble, and she knows something terrible has happened because of the concussion that comes with the sound. You could feel it in your stomach. Sara turns the corner toward the side of H-Block where the bomb went off. There is a smoking crater where the lobby door used to be. Draperies in red and white flap in glassless windows: They've nearly all blown out. Small fires burn. There are bodies, and parts of bodies, on the pavement: Eight people were killed when the Volkswagen exploded, and investigators will find more than one hundred pieces of the dead scattered in the streets and even on rooftops. There is a lot of blood. Sara photographs the wreckage and the wounded and the rescuers. She photographs a woman who has blond hair and a bloody blue shirt and a foot-long wooden stake poking out of her head. It's part of a window frame from her tenth-floor office, and it stabbed, like a javelin, between her skin and her skull. She is one of nine people badly wounded by the explosion. More than 200 others suffer minor injuries. It all seems unreal, Sara thinks. I keep waiting for someone to yell, "Cut! More blood! More fire!" After a lecture on student politics, Munir's phone begins to chirp with tweets and texts. There has been an explosion in Oslo. He tries to find out more online. The early reports are sketchy. There is brief speculation that a gas main might have ruptured. But it becomes clear within a half hour that a bomb has been detonated and that the government block was the target. At 4:30 P.M. the kids on Utoeya pack into the cafeteria for a meeting. They are wet from the rain, and the air inside is moist and hot. They know only that there has been an explosion in Oslo, and they are at once frightened and confused. This is little Norway, Adrian Pracon tells himself. Things don't explode. Adrian follows her to the main building. He wants to be useful. He offers to buy fizzy drinks and snacks for the staff getting the screens set up, and he leaves to go back up the hill to the commissary. His mother calls as he steps outside. She is in her native Poland, visiting family. Both of Adrian’s parents are from Poland. They fled during the crackdown on the Solidarity movement, afraid they would be arrested with the other leftists. His parents are one reason Adrian is involved with the AUF, which is pro-immigrant. My parents did good. They had a future here, and I have a good future. Why kick them out? Adrian lights a cigarette on the lawn. His mother has seen the news about the bombing in Oslo, which is being televised across the planet. She wants her boy to go home. "No, I’m not going to go home," he tells her. "We’re in the safest place in Norway." He dials her number. She is giddy with relief. Through a window in the cafeteria building, Elisabeth sees Cathrine walk by outside. Cathrine points a thumb up so her little sister can see it, but tentatively, more of a silent question than a statement. Elisabeth smiles, gives her sister a thumbs-up in return. Their father is safe in Halden. Freddy and Elisabeth talk for sixteen minutes and forty seconds. Elisabeth complains about the rain, teases that she might want to come home if the sky keeps emptying on the island. If it’s still raining Saturday, Freddy teases back, he’ll bring her a survival suit, and maybe a pair of goggles, too. The man who parked the white van at H-Block takes his helmet off and sets it on the passenger seat of the silver Fiat. He has two guns in the car. One is a nine-millimeter semiautomatic Glock pistol, and he’s etched mjölnir on the grip. Mjölnir is Thor’s hammer. The other gun is a .223-caliber Ruger Mini-14 rifle, and he calls that one Gungnir, which is the spear wielded by the Norse god Odin. He has named the Fiat Sleipnir—after Odin's eight-legged horse—but he's stuck in traffic. The drive should take less than forty minutes on clear roads. But because he's blown up central Oslo, the city is evacuating and the roads are jammed. He has not factored panic and chaos into his plan. The landing for the ferry to Utoeya is at the bottom of a trail from a two-lane road that runs by the shore. The man pulls off the road at about four twenty but does not drive down the trail. He knows the ferry, an old military landing craft called M. S. Thorbjrn, leaves on the hour, and he believes waiting with the captain for forty minutes is too much time for too many questions. As five o'clock approaches, he shows his ID—his picture above the word politi and below the badge number L109—to the ferry captain. The man explains that he has been sent to make sure the island is secure. The captain helps the man lug a heavy case on board the Thorbjrn. On Utoeya, the man is met on the lawn by Monica Bsei and Trond Berntsen, an off--duty policeman volunteering as the island's security guard. Trond wonders why no one from the police has contacted the island. Trond asks if the man knows certain other officers. It does not appear that he does. The man suggests they all go up to the white building, where he can more fully explain. Trond and Monica turn, walk across the lawn. The man shoots Trond in the back and the head, five rounds in all. He shoots Monica once in the back and twice in the head. At the top of the hill, near the cafeteria, Adrian hears sharp bangs. Like a hammer, he thinks, striking a piece of metal. Munir stays in the cafeteria building after the meeting about the bombing ends. He is hugging a friend when he hears a series of pops. They sound like firecrackers or balloons, and Munir is annoyed. Who would do such a childish thing at a moment like this? Then people crash through the doors, panic on their faces, screaming for everyone to run. Munir yells for the kids to get out, to keep low, stay beneath the windows. Everyone drops, and the floor is covered with crouching bodies, like a knee-deep pond rippling toward the back exit. One head rises. "Wait," a voice says. "What are we running from?" Munir realizes he doesn't know. He walks to the door and peeks out onto the flat clearing. There's a girl on the ground. She's not moving, and blood is leaking from her head. He can't decide if it's real. He backs into the building. Through a window, he sees a man in a black costume, holding a gun. Wow, Munir thinks. How fake is that uniform? Another pop. The gun seems real, and even if it's not, Munir is worried that campers will trample each other in their panic. He tries to bring some order to the stampede. The shooting is closing in. Munir can hear shots near the windows, the door, then inside. There are so many bangs. The man shoots a boy eight times, another five times. He kills five girls with eighteen bullets. Then he moves to the next room. He kills five more there. Some of the kids, they don't even move, as if they're paralyzed. But most of them run. Munir sprints out the door while the man is still killing people in the building. He heads toward the soccer pitch and then beyond, where Utoeya slopes down to an open rocky beach called Bolshevik Bay. The ground is soaked with rain, and Munir slips, falls, gets back on his feet. There are others with him, but his vision narrows to the beach. He realizes there is no place to hide at Bolshevik Bay. Swim, swim, swim, he tells himself, you can't hide here. He kicks off his shoes, strips off his shirt. Munir and his three friends break for the cafeteria building. He is the fourth in line, legs churning. The shooter sees them. Bullets spit dirt and mud from the ground. Munir nears the clearing where he stumbled on the way down. He falls again. One of his friends turns but does not stop. "Munir," his friend screams, "if you want to live, get up and run." Freddy's phone rings at five twenty-five. It's Elisabeth, and she's screaming. She forms no words that Freddy can understand, and if there is noise in the background, he does not hear it. I don't know. The brain, it locks up. All I hear is my daughter screaming. He does not know why she is screaming, does not know what has happened in the ten minutes since Elisabeth joked about the rain. His friend Anita Eggesvik is with him. She also has a daughter on the island, Marthe, who is Elisabeth's close friend. Anita calls her while Elisabeth screams in the background. "You must help Elisabeth," she tells Marthe. "Run to Elisabeth." Marthe tells her mother, "There is a policeman on the island shooting people." Elisabeth is crouched against a wall, holding her phone to her right ear. Marthe tells her, "Come, we must run." But Elisabeth doesn't move. She stays there, ducked down against a wall. Freddy hears his daughter scream for two minutes and seven seconds. And then the man in the police costume shoots her in the left temple. The bullet goes out the right side of her head and destroys her phone. Then the man shoots her twice more. Tyrifjorden is stinging cold. Adrian swims ten meters, then thirty. He's wearing boots, green pants, and a T-shirt, and soon he feels the lake pulling him under. He's going to drown, and he wonders if he's going to drown for some stupid ercise, for a prank. That's a lousy reason to die. Adrian starts to swim back to the island. But the water is still sucking him down. He sinks, kicking and thrashing. His toe scrapes a rock, settles on it. He can stretch, tip his head back, get his face out of the water. He makes a slow, floating leap toward Utoeya, lands on another rock, then another. Eventually he can stand properly, and then he can walk. The water is up to his chest, then his navel, his waist, his knees. The man with the guns is standing in the trees above South Point. He's pointing his rifle toward a knot of kids farther out in the lake. Plumes of water spray up around them, timed to the bangs from the shore. Adrian decides the bullets are real. Adrian does not move. He is standing knee-deep in the lake, completely exposed. The others in the water are off to his right, maybe far enough that Adrian is out of the man's peripheral vision. He believes he might be invisible if he stands completely still. He hears the man with the guns yell, "I'm going to kill you all." Adrian is close enough to see his face, which turns bright red. "You're all going to die!" Then the long gun is pointed at him. Adrian sputters, "No, don't shoot," but the words come from his throat in a muffled splatter of water and air. He imagines his grave, his parents standing over it, his Australian shepherds, Mike and Bella, pawing the ground. He thinks, This is a shitty way to die. The man stares at Adrian through the gunsight, as if he's deliberating. He does not say anything. Adrian does not say anything. Seconds pass, slowly. Then, abruptly, the man lowers the gun and steps away behind the trees. Adrian wonders if the rifle jammed. But then he hears two more pops in the distance, probably near the schoolhouse. Håkon does not believe this. He has worked in North Buskerud for eight years, and he has never been to Utoeya, because there's never been any need. Also, police in Norway do not shoot people. This is a sick joke, he thinks. But the phones keep ringing. Phones are ringing in South Buskerud and Oslo, too. He realizes, very quickly, that this is not a joke. Already, commandos are racing from Oslo. Håkon sends two of his officers to the ferry landing, and he heads behind the station with another man to hitch the red police boat to the back of a Volvo. Hege Dalen and her fiancée, Toril Hansen, are preparing to celebrate at their camp on the eastern shore of Tyrifjorden, in a plot by the road where they've parked an RV and, attached to it, erected a sitting room under an awning. This is their second summer at Utvika, and 22 July is Toril's daughter's tenth birthday. They're planning a party. The rain keeps the women and the girl inside the enclosure. The television is on, and they are watching the reports from Oslo. And then they hear noises from Utoeya, which is not unusual. Sounds carry across the water. The noise that Hege hears, that everyone at Utvika hears, is a series of staccato cracks. Is that fireworks? she thinks. Yes, she believes it is, and she is annoyed. Don't they know what is happening in Oslo? The fireworks keep popping, the rain keeps falling, the television glows. Hege hears engines, and tires on the dirt road. Through the clear vinyl, she sees a black SUV leading a convoy toward the jetty. She recognizes them as Deltas, Norway's elite police unit. Then she watches as the convoy spins around, turns back up the path, and speeds out of Utvika. She finds this odd. Hege and Toril and other campers walk to the jetty. And then they see the kids, dozens of them, bobbing in the water. They are only heads and flailing arms, scattered like lobster buoys across the lake. The jetty is the closest point to Utoeya, but the kids are moving in all directions, like atoms smashed loose. Hege does not know what is happening, but she knows it is not good. Håkon pilots the red boat through a corrugated-metal tunnel in the middle of a causeway. He's steering south, toward Utoeya's ferry landing, but when the boat emerges from the tunnel, Håkon sees the black SUVs and the flashing blue lights of the Delta units at the foot of the causeway. He turns the boat hard, then slows and eases up to the boulders. Eight Delta operatives pile in. Their combined weight pushes the bow down onto the rocks, grounding the boat. Håkon can't get it to move. The police shuffle toward the back. The stern briefly dips and water sloshes over the gunwale, but the front rises clear. Håkon reverses, turns toward Utoeya, throttles the engine. It runs for a minute, maybe two, then quits. Water has fouled the fuel system. The engine won't restart. Norway's elite police are stalled and adrift. Munir is hiding next to one of the cabins in front of the cafeteria building. Nettles prick and tear at his skin. Raindrops fall on the leaves and spook him; they sound like footsteps, like someone is coming, like he's been discovered. He moves deeper into the thorns, but slowly, silently, stopping after every step to fluff the wet leaves and hide his tracks. At the corner of the cabin, he turns over a leaf so he can see its dry, lighter side. He figures out he can use it as a sort of mirror: He positions it so the leaf will catch a shadow if anyone is sneaking along the wall toward him. A helicopter is thumping overhead. There are more shots. From the water, he hears the engines of small boats. He does not know how long he has waited in the nettles, but he decides he has two choices. He can continue holding out for someone to find him, or he can get to the water. He calculates his odds, then sticks his head out of the thorns. He spots a girl hiding nearby. He scuttles over to her, not covering his tracks this time but still as silently as possible. The girl isn't making any noise, and Munir whispers for her to keep quiet and stay with him. Together they sneak down to Bolshevik Bay. They see bodies on the beach ahead. None are moving. Closer now, and Munir can see blood. He counts five bodies at Bolshevik Bay and three on the rocks nearby. He recognizes most of them as friends. But he cannot cry out, and he cannot hesitate. We have to keep it together, because we don't know where the shooter is, he thinks. But we are broken. Munir tells the girl to get into the water, to swim away quietly. She grabs Munir and pulls him into Tyrifjorden, and they thrash from the shore. They are halfway across the lake, aching with cold, when police in a small boat putter up next to them. Munir is wary—the man shooting kids on the island was dressed like a policeman—but what choice does he have? He climbs into the boat. Adrian collapses on the rocks next to the gray sweatshirt wrapped around his phone and his wallet. Rain is falling again, and he's shivering in his wet clothes. He strips off his blue tee, puts on the sweatshirt, and lies with his legs in the water. For some reason, his legs aren't as cold if he keeps them in the lake. He doesn't want to call his mother, and he's worried his father's bad heart will give out if he calls him. He dials the police but he can't get through. He logs on to Facebook. "Someone is shooting on Utoeya," he types. "I love you all." Then he calls his friend Svein, on the far shore of Tyrifjorden. "Send help" is the only part of the conversation he'll remember. Adrian is alone on South Point, and he decides to stay there. The shooter has already made one pass along this shoreline, already moved on to other targets. Lightning doesn't strike twice, he tells himself. His phone rings. It's a reporter from the newspaper in Skien, his hometown, wanting to know what's happening. "I've seen five people dead," Adrian tells him. "Call the police." The reporter wants Adrian to send a picture. Adrian says he'll try. "Don't call anyone else," Adrian says. He's worried a buzzing phone might attract the shooter. He calls the police again, gets through. The operator tells him officers are on their way, the very best officers. Adrian wants to know if they're coming in a helicopter, and the operator says yes. This reassures him. Then he waits. Across the water, he can see the strobing blue lights of police cars and ambulances. Above him he hears the chop of a helicopter, and he watches it hover for a few seconds. They promised me a helicopter, he thinks. The helicopter flies away. It makes another pass. It belongs to a news crew. He hears hushed voices and feet padding from the bottom of the western cliffs. Then he sees kids, maybe twenty of them, coming around the last rocks before South Point. A girl sees him shivering, drapes a raincoat over his shoulders, and wraps her arms around him, trying to keep him warm. There is talk of swimming away. Adrian says no, he's talked to the police. "They are coming," he says. "They said just to stay safe." Then some of the kids are ducking and juking, peeking over the rise. "Is he coming?" They bob their heads, trying to see through the trees and bushes. "Is he? Oh God, I think he is." The kids are frantic, fear rising in their voices. "He's coming, yes, fuck, he's coming." And then the man with the guns is there. Two kids sprint past him, toward the interior of the island. A few more stomp into the water, start to swim. Adrian just lies on the rocks. He's exhausted. He's almost drowned once. He can't swim away, he can't run. He pretends he's already dead. And when he makes that decision, it's as if a switch is tripped in his central nervous system. His body stops shaking, his teeth stop chattering, and he is perfectly still. But his heart is pounding. He is stretched out on his side, his left arm splayed above his head, the rain jacket still covering his right shoulder and part of his face. He pushes down hard against the rocks, tries to subdue his heart. It does not work. The shooter is near him now, down on South Point. The bangs are impossibly loud. Adrian remains completely still, but he opens his eyes. He sees a girl, stripped to her underwear and knee-deep in the lake, crying hysterically. A hole appears in her back. Then a second one. The girl is still screaming and still stumbling farther into Tyrifjorden, and then she goes quiet and tumbles over. Adrian notices the water is red. He closes his eyes again. More shots, and he feels the deadweight of a body fall across his legs. Don't move. Don't breathe. Beneath the jacket, where his face is hidden, he raises an eyelid enough to see a sliver of rocks. A black boot steps in front of him. Then a second. He feels heat at the back of his head. It's from the muzzle of the Ruger, hot from dozens of bullets already fired through it. It lingers, the warmth spreading to his neck. Then there is an incredible noise. Adrian believes his head is exploding. He feels a twitch in his shoulder, like the flick of a finger, but his head feels like it's been torn apart. Adrian waits, then opens his eyes. The shooter is gone. He realizes he has been shot, but the wound does not seem terribly serious. The bullet was surely meant for his head, but the rain jacket obscured the shape of his skull: The round grazed the back of Adrian's neck and hit his left shoulder. His left ear seems to have taken the worst damage, absorbing the shock wave as it bounced off the rocks. He can't hear out of it. There are ten kids on South Point. Five are dead; the other five are wounded. One of them, a girl, is in the water, upright but limping. Adrian helps her out of the lake and sees a wound in her right leg. There is no blood, just a hole deep and round as a golf ball. They sit together. The blue lights are still flashing across the water, but the helicopter is gone. Adrian tweets: "Shot on Utoeya. Many dead." He turns to the girl. "It would be really nice," he says, "to have a cigarette now." "Yeah," she says without looking at him. "Do you think the shop is open?" The girl laughs and Adrian laughs, and then they laugh about their water-wrinkled fingers and the cabaret scheduled for tomorrow night that probably won't happen, and they keep laughing, because there is nothing else to do until someone finally gets them off Utoeya. Two Delta squads land on Utoeya in commandeered civilian boats at 6:25 p.m., seventy minutes after the shooter disembarked from the ferry pretending to be a policeman. Four men go north, where the survivors point. For more than an hour, gunshots have echoed around the island, and so no one is sure where the shooter is, or even if there is only one. The second team, six officers, move south, toward the schoolhouse. They find the man in a clearing at 6:35, the Ruger on the ground, the pistol in a holster. He holds his arms out to either side, not straight up like a cornered criminal but waist-high and palms up, like a saint embracing his flock. A commando yells for him to get on the ground. Another tells him to get on his knees. "What should I do?" the man asks, his voice calm and flat. "Do you want me to get on my knees or lie on the ground?" The police want him on the ground. And then they are on him, cuffing his hands, one officer's knee in his back. "You are not my targets," the man tells them. "I consider you comrades." He had planned to kill everyone on the island, to drive them, panicked, into Tyrifjorden to drown—_to use the water as a weapon of mass destruction, _he would later explain.Also, he wanted to film himself beheading Gro Harlem Brundtland. Still, with the eight dead in Oslo, Anders Behring Breivik killed seventy-seven people on 22 July, the bloodiest day in Norway since World War II and the worst mass murder by a lone gunman in modern Western history. It is written, densely and ponderously, with a pretense of scholarship. It is also historically illiterate and thematically illogical and can be reduced to an index card: Liberals are willfully enabling radical Muslims to destroy European civilization. Therefore, liberals must be killed. Breivik never denies committing the crimes, only that they are, in fact, criminal acts. He believes Islamicization is an existential threat to the West and that hunting teenagers at a summer camp and blowing up office workers and pedestrians is the brutal yet necessary beginning of a counterrevolution. He fears only that he, and thus his ideas, will be found insane. Freddy doesn't know where either of his daughters are, and Anita doesn't know where Marthe is. They are in Halden, a border town in the south of Norway and 110 miles from Utoeya, but Freddy and Anita drive almost all the way to the island in an hour. Freddy's ex-wife calls, tells him she's spoken to Cathrine. "Hi, Mom," she said. "I've been shot in the stomach and the arm, but it's okay. I'm okay." His ex-wife gives him a number, and Freddy dials it. A medic who loaded Cathrine into a helicopter answers. He tells Freddy that Cathrine has been flown to a hospital. Freddy drives off to find his oldest daughter. Anita stays at the hotel where survivors are taken. At six fifty, Marthe finally calls. She tells her mother that she ran into the water when the shooting started and that she stayed there, neck deep and bitingly cold, until it stopped. But she was alive and uninjured. Freddy doesn't know where Elisabeth is. Adrian and the girl with the hole in her thigh are fetched from the island in a little boat by an old man who complains that the police didn't give him petrol. Adrian finds this darkly amusing: Everyone's got a problem. At the hospital that night, a nurse asks him if he needs anything. "No, it's closed," the nurse says. "But I can get you anything you want." "What I'd really like is a cigarette." The nurse goes out into the hallway and bums one. Then she helps Adrian into a wheelchair and pushes him out onto a balcony so he can smoke. It is against the rules, but no one tells him to put it out. By Saturday night, those who were on Utoeya are divided into three categories. The largest is the survivors, which includes Munir and Adrian and one of Freddy Lie's daughters. The second is the bodies, thirty-seven, that have been removed from the island. The smallest is the sons and daughters who haven't come off the island yet. They are almost certainly dead, and everyone knows that. Anders Behring Breivik has never denied his crimes. He fears only that he—and thus his ideas—will be found insane. Elisabeth Lie is not among the first group, nor the second. Still, Freddy hopes. Maybe she is in a tree, he tells himself. Like a bird. All the bodies are removed by Sunday evening, but Elisabeth's is not autopsied until the following Friday, a week after she was shot twice in the head and then once more because she was close and not moving and Breivik had a lot of bullets. Freddy understands why it took so long to identify her. Seventy-seven people, he thinks. Someone has to be last. At the end of the jetty at Utvika, there is a large rock with wilted flowers at its base and an engraved metal plate attached to its face that says 250 survivors of the Utoeya massacre reached safety at the camp on 22 July 2011. Hege Dalen is now friends with seven of those survivors, all of whom she came to know in the weeks after. Two of them, in fact, planned to rent cabins at Utvika on the anniversary. "We'll have a beer," one told her. She will not share their names. "They have been through enough," she says. She tells me about their mothers and fathers, though, who learned their children were alive and safe at Utvika because of Hege's phone. "For mothers to know someone's taking care of their babies..." She does not finish the sentence, and she seems about to cry. Sara Johannessen clicks through images until she finds a photo of Gro Harlem Brundtland with AUF kids on Utoeya. Gro is wearing borrowed boots, and the girl she borrowed them from is beaming in the foreground. Her name is Bano Rashid. Breivik shot her twice in the head on the Lovers' Trail. "She's dead," Sara tells me. She points to a boy in the same picture. "He's dead." She pauses, seems to count. "Half the people here are dead. He's dead, she's dead, her, her, him, her..." In the days after 22 July, Sara photographed flowers, thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. It began with roses laid that night outside the Oslo Cathedral, and then more came the next day and the next, and when the shops ran out of roses the people brought lilies and orchids and carnations until there were wide seas of blooms at churches and monuments and the whole city was perfumed by blossoms. Sara and her boyfriend opened their apartment for weeks to any of their friends and colleagues who needed a respite. Many did. They talked and hugged and vented and napped and ate. They bought pizzas from the corner market until the stock was depleted, and they drank all of Sara's good wine and the whiskey, too. "It was perfect," Sara says. She seems to blush, but only for a moment: "Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I was glad I was a girl." The men, and they were mostly men, tried to be stoic. Sara didn't have to pretend. "I could sit on laps," she says, "and I could cry." Breivik's trial begins on Monday, April 16, in a courthouse a block from the high wooden barriers still surrounding the government quarter he blew up, and it will last until June 22. Although Breivik pleads not guilty, there are no material facts in dispute. On the fourth and fifth days of the trial, he recounts in detail how he killed seventy-seven people, much as he did last August, when he led investigators around Utoeya to show them where he shot each person. The main question at the trial is whether Breivik was criminally insane on 22 July and, thus, whether he will be locked up forever with or without compulsory psychiatric care. On May 7, a pathologist points at a mannequin in an Oslo courtroom, showing exactly where each bullet struck Elisabeth Lie. Freddy is there, and he knows what the pathologist will say. In the months since 22 July, he has read all the statements and looked at all the photographs and studied all the reports. "That was a way to prepare to be here," he tells me the next day. "That is a way to survive for me. I didn't want to hear it here for the first time." Freddy also has a copy of_ Dagbladet,_ which in that day's edition has a story about Elisabeth and Cathrine, and there is a large photograph of both girls spread across a page, their heads tilted together, both of them smiling. Elisabeth's family didn't want her to be remembered as victim number nineteen on the seventh page of an indictment. "Elisabeth," Freddy says, "she was the perfect one. She was pretty, she had a lot of friends. If one of her friends had a problem, they came to her." And Cathrine? She still gets winded climbing stairs, but Freddy says she's doing better, physically. "Cathrine, she says, ‘Why me? Elisabeth was the pretty one. She had all the friends. Why did she die? Why not me?' " Freddy looks away for a moment, then turns back. "What do you say to that? Speechless." He does not hate Anders Breivik, though he does not refer to him by name. "That fucking maniac" is what he calls him. Maybe he would hate him, certainly he would hate him, if he thought about it. But he doesn't. "I don't give a damn," he says. "Why should I care? I still have two children. I need to take care of them. To hate him, it takes all your energy. From day one, he's been a zero to me." There are times, still, when Adrian will be in a shop or in a crowd on the street and he will see the long barrel of a gun pointed at his chest. The moment always passes, but it's always real, and it's always terrifying. Maybe that's true. On the sixth day of his trial, Breivik explained exactly why he didn't shoot Adrian when he had his first chance. "I thought," he told the court, "that he looked right-wing." Munir Jaber has olive skin and black hair and chocolate eyes. He is the son of immigrants from Eritrea and Morocco, but he is Norwegian by law and birthright and upbringing and culture. He is also one of the people Breivik considers an existential threat and, because Munir is a young, liberal political activist, a legitimate target. This is something Munir is aware of but does not dwell on, which is also because Munir is young and liberal and, as young liberals tend to be, optimistic. "We literally turned our backs on the terrorist the same day, the same hour," he tells me in early May. "We turned our back to the terrorist and turned toward each other, to taking care of each other." His phrasing is deliberate, too. " ‘The terrorist,' " he tells me. "Always write ‘the terrorist,' not ‘the shooter.' " Munir has never spoken about his last hours on Utoeya, but he is supposed to testify in three days, and in the atrium of the building where the AUF and the Labor Party are headquartered, he decides it would be good practice to go through it all. He is thorough and linear. At the precise moment he describes the sound of gunshots inside the cafeteria building, a waiter drops a tray on the lobby floor. It hits with a sharp, echoing slap. Munir startles, then laughs awkwardly. But he does not really want to talk about Utoeya. He wants to talk politics, how there will always be terrorists but they will never be more than a very few, and the answer, the trick, is to engage such people. "To bring out facts," he says. "To have constructive debates." "My values have been strengthened," he says. "I'm more determined to work for the society we believe in, to make opportunities for people to have possibilities in their lives." The boat rounded South Point and motored toward the jetty. A police officer was standing on the rocks, alone. It was Håkon Hval, and he was there at that moment by happenstance: He'd brought the national police commissioner and a television crew to the island so they could film part of a documentary. He did not chase me away—Utoeya is open to the public—but rather helped tie up the boat. I told him why I was there, and he nodded and told me to stay by the water until the TV crew was finished. A cold wind gusted across the lake, and we stood there in awkward silence, as is often the case when lone police officers encounter unfamiliar reporters. "If you want to know anything about the island," Håkon said eventually, "now is the time to ask." Håkon was on the island a few minutes behind the Delta squads. He said the west side was the worst, in terms of the number of dead and wounded. But the survivors were curiously quiet. "They were more or less paralyzed," he said. "They weren't screaming. They were just sitting there." The rain had been heavy on 22 July, and Tyrifjorden was rising. Some of the dead, the ones closest to the water, had to be pulled farther up onshore so they wouldn't float away. That was one of the first things Håkon did on Utoeya, move bodies like driftwood. "There was nothing you could do," Håkon said. "You just had to wait until they ran out of electricity." Oslo’s annual Holmenkollen Ski Festival was getting underway again on Thursday but without the main coaches for Norway’s own ski jumping team or two of the jumpers who won medals at last week’s World Championships They’re all either suspended or been banned from competition by the international skiing federation FIS Head coach Magnus Brevik was formally suspended earlier this week along with a member of the team’s service staff after both admitted to manipulating the ski-jumping suits worn by medal-winning Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang during Saturday’s final competition at the World Championships in Trondheim Assistant coach Thomas Lobben was also suspended just before the season finale now known as Raw Air was set to begin first at Holmenkollen on Thursday and then at Vikersund southwest of Oslo on Friday On Wednesday came news that FIS officials were also banning the jumpers themselves Norwegian officials have insisted they were innocent of the cheating admitted to by Brevik with both Brevik and ski-jumping chief Jan-Erik Aalbu claiming the jumpers bore no responsibility for the “cheating” scandal now referred to as the worst in Norwegian sports history The ban applies to both FIS events and events organized by a national ski association “pending the investigation and adjudication procedure.” FIS also seized all the jumping suits worn by Norwegian teams at the World Championships in both men’s and women’s competitions a member of the Norwegian team that combines ski jumping with racing has been notified that he also is under investigation in connection with a competition last Friday and “provisionally suspended with immediate effect.” “The situation is obviously extremely disturbing and disappointing,” stated Michel Vion He said members of FIS’ “Independent Ethics and Compliance Office” and its administration “have been working steadily to proceed with a broad and thorough investigation as swiftly as possible while also ensuring fairness and due process.” Jumping suits are considered part of the sports’ equipment that “plays an important role” in performance Manipulation of the suits can help the jumpers fly farther “to ensure that competitors are on a level playing field.” with Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reporting how the skiing federation in Poland had wanted Forfang and Lindvik to be banned from competing The Polish team’s head coach said he supported the FIS decision “I think this is about the atmosphere around the athletes,” Thomas Thurnbichler told NRK “It’s hard for the other athletes to see them (Lindvik and Forfang) at the top of the ski jump When everything has been examined and we know what has happened NewsinEnglish.no/Nina Berglund If you like what we are doing, please consider a donation. 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