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Prep Time: 30 min
Cook Time: 38 min
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- 1 box(es) devils food cake mix
- 3.9 ounce(s) chocolate instant pudding mix
- 1.25 cup(s) water
- 1/2 cup(s) vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon(s) vanilla
- 1 cup(s) semisweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 & lightly mist a 13x9 pan with cooking spray.Combine cake mix,pudding mix,water,oil,eggs & vanilla into the prepared pan.Stir with fork until well blended.Fold in chocolate chips.place pan in oven.
- Bake 38-42 minutes then place on wire rack to cool 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile make frosting:Combine 1 stick butter,3 tbsp cocoa powder,4 tbsp milk, & 1 tsp vanilla in saucepan over medium heat and cook stirring until butter is melted and mixture comes to a boil,2 minutes.Remove from heat and stir in 3 cups powdered sugar,sifted, until smooth.Pour frosting over top of cooling cake spreading to sides.Let frosting sset for 15 minutes then slice & serve.
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Lisa Flynn, the former Portage Township secretary-treasurer, showed up at the courthouse on Tuesday with $8,000 in the hopes that she would be placed on Cambria County's Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program.
The problem was, that represented only about half the total due to replace money she allegedly stole – including more than $10,000 of taxpayer money – while working for the township, Supervisor Richard Olshavsky said.
"When you add in the cost of the forensic audit, it totals $20,800," Olshavsky said.
Olshavsky and Supervisor Elwood Selapack said they want to see the township fully reimbursed as part of any plea deal.
Defense attorney Michael Filia's request for a continuance was denied by Judge Patrick Kiniry, and Flynn was ordered to show up Thursday for jury selection for her trial.
Filia later said he hopes to work something out before then but provided no specifics.
The case already has been postponed five times.
A sixth continuance was opposed by Cambria County Assistant District Attorney Beth Bolton Penna.
Flynn, 47, of the 700 block of Orchard Street, Portage, was charged in May 2012 with forgery, tampering with records, receiving stolen property and theft by deception.
Authorities allege she stole $10,484 from the township during the time she was employed there from 2007 until March 2012.
Flynn was responsible for issuing payroll checks and checks for day-to-day expenses. Authorities alleged she forged names on checks and deleted copies from township records. The thefts were uncovered during a routine audit by Wessel and Co., authorities said.
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Lowering the cost of your home heating and driving your car may be a little easier thanks to some little-known parts of the new energy law that takes effect January 1.

There's some great new credits in the energy law, but not every product for the home accounts, and the rules for hybrid cars are really tricky.

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Rick Scott on the Occupy Movement: "I'm Glad People Come Out and Tell Us What They Think"
The controversial governor was asked about the protests, which spread to Florida this week, by Tampa Bay Fox affiliate WTVT this week.
"What's happening is I think people are frustrated with where the world's going," Scott said.
"I tell you what, in my race, the biggest frustration people had was jobs. And they're frustrated because they believe government kills jobs, whether it's taxes, or regulation or permitting. So I think people are fed up with the fact of, that, 'I want a job.'"
"And so I won my race because I had a plan for jobs," he said. "I think we're going to solve these issues -- and I'm glad people come out and tell us what they think -- by creating an environment where people can get jobs, and that's what I think about every day."
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So, no, the protesters do not "believe government kills jobs, whether it's taxes, or regulation or permitting." In fact, many would like to see more taxation, regulation and permitting. But at least he wasn't a Herman Cain-style jerk about it, and for Scott, well, that's a faint step in the right direction.
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Cause of Homelessness in America is Diverse
As someone, who was worked for a homeless shelter for over five years and whose job description sometimes meant signing in walk-ins and staffing the phones for referrals, I have met many homeless people. I can tell you that they are a mixed bunch. However, from my experience, there are four major reasons why someone is homeless:
- They lost their job, their home and they are only temporarily homeless. However, this depends on why they lost their job and their home in the first place.
- They are drug dependent and, that is why they lost their job and their home. Those who are homeless in this category perhaps may not be so temporary. Drug dependency tends to keep someone down. Jobs are difficult to keep and unfortunately — again from my experience — they tend to be thieves in general, though there are exceptions to the rules.
- Mental illness — many individuals end up on the street because they cannot take care of themselves. There seems to be different degrees of mental illness in some of the homeless people I have met and seen. There are those who can function and communicate, who do end up in many of the homeless shelters, and there are those who do not or cannot communicate with anyone.
- Opportunist — are those who may be homeless, but then maybe not. Opportunists make a living off the street, such as panhandling, hustling, mugging, and con games. They are the most visible and they are the stereotype that many people judge the homeless in a general sense, from this group of people because this is whom the public sees.
Though these are the basic reasons for homelessness from my perspective, these categories sometimes cross and a homeless person may be a member of more than just one group.
I have met all different types of homeless people, they all have a story to tell, and they all have come from somewhere and most of them are loved by someone. Some have families who want them to come home and some have no families at all, or at least that want them.
Many are shunned, yet some can fit into any crowd, be it a crowded subway station or even the most elegant restaurant. Many are just families, trying to get by, and yet some are hustlers, thieves, and drug addicts.
Many are veterans of the armed services that have served our country valiantly, yet when they need our help, we have failed to find a way to help them.
Some are just young teens who have run away from home or perhaps they are no longer welcome at home. Many end up selling their bodies and many end up so addicted to drugs they will do anything for their next fix.
There are elderly people on the street who suffer from mental illness or dementia and can barely keep a post box, let alone a home. I have seen men and women who lived by pushing stolen grocery carts down the street with all their earthly belongings in it.
Then there are those who are the most detached from the world around them, searching trash cans along the street for their next meal. Cardboard box homes, barely enough shelter from a cold freezing wind, are the home of many whom for one reason or the other; refuse to stay in a shelter.
They become victims of crime, robbed, beaten and even murdered on the street. They are found frozen to death in storefront entryways and beat up or murdered and thrown into dumpsters in alleyways. The ones who are the most defenseless — the elderly and the mentally ill — are those who are targeted most, because of their vulnerability.
Homeless shelters can only do so much and they cannot force someone to come in out of the cold. I think many of the mentally ill on the street should be institutionalized because they cannot care for themselves. Politics have ruled and many, who should be taken care of because of their illness, are simply dumped into the streets to fend for themselves.
We can never cure homelessness entirely but much of it should not exist in such large numbers in a nation that by far has the highest capital of any nation. Perhaps we can fix some of it, like improving our housing for the homeless and fixing our mental health laws in this country so that those who are deemed unable to take care of themselves can be cared for.
Some of us only think about the homeless when the Holidays roll around. Because of our Holiday spirit, we feel much more generous, but homelessness is year round and our giving will always be limited because homelessness goes much deeper than a free meal and a place to sleep.
The long-term solutions are not always clear to see and the solution for one homeless person is not the solution for another. Let us all remember the old saying that "You cannot judge a book by its cover". Each has their own story and each traveled down a different road to get where they are at, the same as the rest of us. The road back will be just as difficult and just as different.
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The Australian Greens will suffer at the ballot box because the party doesn't have the same appeal it had with former leader Bob Brown, senior government frontbencher Anthony Albanese says.
Mr Albanese says Dr Brown's absence will have a real impact on the Green's vote at the next federal election, due to be held by November 30.
Dr Brown resigned as Greens leader in April 2012 and Christine Milne was installed as the party's head.
"People will understand that when they vote for the Greens party, they're voting for people who are very often at the fringe of politics rather than someone like Bob Brown, who I think, has some mainstream appeal," Mr Albanese told ABC Television on Monday.
The transport minister also denied the Labor brand was toxic in NSW and said federal Labor had stood up well in the last poll.
He said voters in his inner-Sydney electorate of Grayndler were unlikely to repeat their performance at the 2010 federal election when his formerly safe seat became marginal.
Mr Albanese's margin of 24.93 per cent dropped to 4.23 per cent over Greens candidate Sam Byrne - whose primary vote catapulted him past the Liberal candidate in the seat Mr Albanese has held since 1996.
"I would expect we'll return to normal, and the coalition will finish second in my electorate," Mr Albanese said on Monday.
In the 2011 NSW state election, the 16-year Labor government was booted from office with a swing about 16 per cent to the coalition.
Mr Albanese acknowledged the party had "issues" in NSW.
"(But) at the last election we stood extremely well here in my home state," he said.
"People do draw a distinction between the different levels of government."
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott began campaigning in Auburn in Sydney on Sunday.
The coalition are targeting several seats in western Sydney where there are three of Australia's 10 most marginal electorates - Lindsay, Greenway and Reid.


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What would you do if the one you loved was diagnosed with cancer?
When photographer Angelo Meredino's wife was diagnosed with cancer, he did what he does best: capture her story through the lens of his camera.
In "The Battle We Didn't Choose" from PKN Cleveland Vol. 22, hear Angelo's simultaneously heart-breaking and amazing story, and his thought-provoking approach to life and love.
Ladies and gentlemen, what you are witnessing is the beginning of the end of the greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen: America.
Enigmatic artist Seph Lawless uses his photographs to capture the abandoned, neglected areas of America as a metaphor for our decaying society. In "Autopsy of America" from PKN Cleveland Vol. 21, we see that by transforming social media into a social movement, Seph hopes that his work will spark political debate and constructive dialogue.
We hope that you were able to make it out to PechaKucha Night Cleveland - Volume 21, which took place last Friday evening at the citadel of free speech, The City Club of Cleveland. It was a yet another truly magical evening here in Cleveland listening to amazing, creative and inspiring stories.
As many have noticed, space was fairly limited at about 450 people, and we needed to distribute tickets via our Facebook page(still FREE:) to make sure we did not take the venue beyond their capacity. If you were not able to make it out, have no fear, we video taped the entire evening and are planning on posting those presentations as soon as we can process them. A special thanks goes out to Dan Moulthrop, Carrie Miller and everyone at The City Club of Cleveland for making that such an amazing partnership and evening. We are looking forward to partnering with them on many events in the future.
Also, if you did not have a chance to make it out, or you did and just can't get enough inspiration, you have another opportunity TONIGHT to be inspired. The event titled "DesignDiversity - Powered by PechaKucha" takes place at Take 5 in downtown Cleveland. The event doors open with a Happy Hour from 7-8pm and the presentations will start at 8pm. The presenter list is pretty amazing and features 5 African American creative professions and will be emcee'd by Jennifer Coleman. Presenters include:
Terran Washington Designer, Little Jacket Michele Crawford Intern Architect, Robert P. Madison International Jason Russell City Planner, City of Lakewood Diane Davis-Sikora Associate Professor, Kent State University College of Architecture & Environmental Design Arlene Watson Principal and Creative Director, Möbius Grey LLC
Event Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/410030872466336/
We hope you can make it out to the first "Powered by PechaKucha" event in downtown Cleveland. We are going to be working hard throughout 2014 to not only bring you GREAT PechaKucha Night events, but we are going to be aggressively working with various organizations to fill the calendar with Powered by PechaKucha opportunities in between. What is "Powered by PechaKucha" you ask? Powered X PKN events are one-off events that are separate from regular city-based PechaKucha Nights, but still utilize the 20 images x 20 seconds format. The events will be completely organized by other organizations and oftentimes have very different focuses, but PKNCLE is going to do what it can to support each event it can to help everyone tell their creative stories.
If you are interested in hosting a "Powered by PechaKucha" event, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will definitely reach out to talk about the process.
Cheers to an amazing, inspiring and creativity filled 2014!
-PKN Cleveland Creative Team
Michael Christoff Raseem Parker Aseem Garg Emily Bacha Trent Boerner Heather Lenz David Purpera
Whoever said, "If you're board then you're boring" must not have seen these stunning cardboard works.
In today's Presentation of the Day, "Salutation to Corrugation" from PKN Cleveland Vol. 9, we hear from artist Mark Langan who, one day received a large amount of corrugated cardboard boxes from his neighbors, and decided to do something amazing with them.
His three-dimensional works are composed entirely of recycleable material, and have become popular among eco-friendly movers and shakers.
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PKN Cleveland gets some nice coverage following its latest event, Vol. 20, held this past Friday.
The Cleveland Museum of Art's "MIX:Muse" program boasts "something different every month." Last night's collaboration with the fine folks PechaKucha Night Cleveland elevated both programs to a whole other level.
The packed museum Atrium only began to tell the story.
Dubbed "an evening of art, discussion and cocktails," it was far more than your average mixer. Mix:Muse took on a dizzying view of what Cleveland's present and future is and will be.
Read the full article here.
Cleveland.com has a rundown of PKN Cleveland's upcoming, momentous Vol. 20 evening. Cleveland's organizer Michael Christoff was interviewed about PechaKucha, here's what he had to say:
"It's really the only event that I know of in the city where the director of Cleveland Metroparks can speak and get same amount of time that an artist no one has ever heard does ... That leveling of the playing the field — and the equitable opportunity for a presenter to impress people with what they're passionate about — is pretty compelling."
PKN Cleveland Vol. 20 will be held this coming Friday, October 4th at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Find the full rendition of this article online here.
Yet another month has come and gone, autumn is upon us, and once again a few fresh bottles of cold, creamy presentations sit on your doorstep.
Here are the Top 5 Presentations of the Day for the month of September 2013:
"On Clouds" by Mark Petrick.
"From Batman to Lincoln" by Christy Spurlock.
"Because I Said I Would" by Alex Sheen.
"The Beauty of the Derelict" by Eric Pattison.
"Silent Dinner Parties" by Honi Ryan.
(photo courtsey of the Cleveland Museum of Art)
On this coming Friday, October 4th, the 20th PechaKucha Night Cleveland is going to take over the Atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art as we join MIX:Muse for a Friday evening of art, discussion and cocktails! Four reasons you don't want to miss this event:
- PechaKucha is going to be amazing in the beautiful new atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art as we project directly on the recently renovated 1916 building.
- Everyone else you know is going to be there. With over 1,250 people typically attending the monthly MIXatCMA event and the normal 500-700 crowd at PechaKucha, this is not going to be the event you want to miss.
- Tickets to get in are only $8! It has never been more affordable to see the world renowned special exhibition Sicily: the Art of Invention
- The slate of PechaKucha Night presenters is amazing.
At PKN-Volume 20, you will hear Mark Krieger speak about his incredibly ambitious art project, the Children of Honduras; Tom Nix from Cleveland Whiskey will give some insight into his passion for Whiskey and his revolutionary idea that could change the process of distilling - forever; Mark Reigelman, who more of you know than probably realize, will talk about his passion for remarkable, site specific public art; master storyteller Mansfield Frazier leave us wanting more as talks about urban redevelopment, job creation and the fight against recidivism and incarceration; swing dance extraordinaire Valerie Salstrom will enlighten the crowd not only with a remarkable presentation, but also short demonstration by her 14 year old international dance competition winning student duo; Tony Hughes will discuss the relationship between technology and invention and his desire to – from right here in Cleveland - revolutionize the way people create…well…everything; Jack Ricchuito will illuminate the why, what and how of happiness; we will hear from CMA European Art Assistant Curator Cory Korkow and also none other than the Cleveland Museum of Art's Director, David Franklin; Cleveland Metroparks Executive Director Brian Zimmerman will surely WOW us all with his passion for the most beautiful park system in Ohio; and to top it all off, Leslie Friend is going to discuss her passion for aerial acrobatics and then demonstrate the Cirque del Soleil style performances she loves.
The Cleveland Museum of Art will open its doors at 5:00pm and the PechaKucha Night Cleveland presentations will begin PROMPTLY at 7:00pm. You do need tickets. Purchase them prior to the day of the event for $8 here: http://www.clevelandart.org/events/special-events/mix-muse
You can also purchase tickets at the door for $10.
"You can pretend to care, but you can't pretend to show up."
In today's Presentation of the Day, "Because I Said I Would" from PKN Cleveland Vol. 18, founder of social movement "Because I Said I Would" Alex Sheen is focused on the importance of keeping promises.
He has used his movement -- which has people write their promise on a card -- as a means to help people stick to their affirmations and, just like the George L. Bell quote above, follow through with action.


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How They Became... Biffy Clyro
Welcome to the new weekly SPIN.com feature "Name That Band!" inwhich we get the inside stories behind the mysterious monikers of some ofour favorite artists. (See past episodes of Name That Band! here.)
This week we tried something different. We spoke with Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro, who are known to tell false stories about the origins of their name. The tale they made up for us may not be true, but we found it witty and charming nonetheless. Enjoy.
The band's new album, Only Revolutions, hits U.S. shores on March 9.
Why Biffy Clyro: "There's a famous British musician called Cliff Richard," explains singer-guitarist Simon Neil, "and when me and [drummer] Ben [Johnston] were 13 and bored in our little Scottish town of Ayr, we'd think up imaginary Cliff Richard merch products. We thought of things like Cliff Richard coat hangers and Cliff Richard Jesus dolls -- he's a big Christian singer. In the U.K. there's a cheap kind of pen called a Biro pen and we thought about making Cliff Richard Biro pens. We'd call them Cliffy Biros. Somehow that turned into Biffy Clyro. Bizarrely, we weren't high at the time. There's just not a lot to do in Ayr. The weather is terrible."
Previously Rejected Names: "We were called Screwfish for a while. We just used to fling random words together -- Empire State Bastard; Jahames Brown."
Best Band Names Ever: "There's an Irish band called And So I Watch You From Afar. I always liked that name. The band Oceansize has a great name -- it fits their music so much. They sound huge. And I once saw a band whose name was a play on Godspeed You! Black Emperor called Bill Cosby! You Black Entertainer. I thought that was amazing. "
Worst Band Name Ever: "The other night in Switzerland I saw a sticker for a band called Coleslaw. That's an even worse name than Biffy Clyro. Arctic Monkeys is pretty atrocious, but I'm a fan of the band."


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Just outside the door to Lacasa's office is perhaps the most revealing portrait on the wood-paneled walls. Striking a dignified pose with his hand in his pocket and an insouciant look on his face, is a framed mock- oil-painting poster of Cosmo Kramer from the sitcom Seinfeld.
Lacasa likes the picture because it reveals he has a sense of humor, a character trait he displays with some awkwardness, when he does at all. (After his budget-staff director interrupts him about an amendment of several million dollars, he quips, "We spend money here like two hookers with a Victoria's Secret catalogue and a credit card!")
But the Kramer poster is even more revealing for the similarities between the chairman and the fictional character. Both men possess a plethora of random knowledge they delight in exhibiting. Kramer, like Lacasa, appears to benefit from his connections. In the case of the latter, Lacasa has turned his access into business contracts and will likely parlay his chairmanship into big-time campaign donations. A corporate lawyer by trade, Lacasa at one time or another has been involved in a marina company (Southern Cross Marinas), an Internet company (Primestream Corporation), and an airport baggage-cart company (E-Z Tote). He classifies himself as "an entrepreneur." This was Kramer's apparent occupation as well.
This past February 1 the county commission walked into an ambush at Fairchild Tropical Garden. Ostensibly a summit to bring the Miami-Dade legislative delegation and the county commission closer together, for some commissioners it seemed to have the opposite effect.
Lacasa used the forum to unveil his proposal to restructure county government. But rather than entertain criticisms of the proposal, he already had secretly secured the tacit support of Mayor Alex Penelas and his legislative colleagues for the plan, which would turn the local governing system into something closer to the state's structure by eliminating the county manager position and making the commission more like a legislature and the mayor a governor.
Commissioners soon found they were expected not to provide input but to fall in line. "We don't tell the state how to conduct their business," Commissioner Dennis Moss complained in vain.
As it became increasingly apparent that the county commissioners faced a united front, Commissioner Natacha Seijas snapped that unlike the legislators, commissioners didn't have a preprepared script. But while presented almost by fiat, Lacasa's plan has merit.
In the months to come, for those who trooped up to Tallahassee, Lacasa would explain it using his favorite game of strategy: chess. Most came away impressed. In South Florida, where long-term planning often seems anathema, Lacasa is one of the few politicians to articulate the problems facing the county, present a vision for change, and then aggressively pursue it. His long-term vision, which he honed by studying county government across the nation, is refreshing.
Sitting before his big desk, he would line up a bishop, a castle, and a knight to represent the mayor, the commission, and the manager of the current system. Then he would demonstrate. First he explained the problems with the present system, established in 1957. Even those like Sen. Kendrick Meek, who did not approve of Lacasa holding the empowerment zone hostage, acknowledge he has a valid point on public policy. Lacasa believes that with a county budget in the billions, the size of a small state, the commission should be larger, and commissioners compensated with more than a $6000 salary. Lacasa wants to see commissioners focus more on regional issues and less on municipal services such as police, parks, and the building department. The root of the county problem, he believes, is the role of the manager, a position he paints as an autocratic, unaccountable king bureaucrat.
"How powerful?" Lacasa asks rhetorically. "Last year, for example, the commission was responsible for less than $30 million worth of amendments to a $4.5-billion-dollar budget. So essentially the manager's budget is [passed] with a big rubber stamp. One past manager even admitted to me, I won't name him, that he would simply throw each commissioner a million dollars' worth of bones, so the commissioners would spend them in their district -- and that's the extent of the questioning of this proposed budget.
"What I'm saying is, let's eliminate the manager and put the mayor there and the commission above the mayor." Lacasa then removed the knight and put the castle above the bishop.
"The mayor would nominate the department heads, and the commission would confirm them much like the Senate confirms cabinet posts in Washington. The commission could remove an agency head with an extraordinary vote, say two-thirds.
"The mayor would make a budget request, and the commission, acting like a legislature, would consider it along with analysis by their professional staff. The budget would be passed subject to line-item veto by the mayor. Once passed the mayor would implement it at the department level. Between budget cycles the commission, now full-time and properly paid, would oversee the expenditures and operations of the executive branch. In exchange for the commission's new powers, they would have to accept a limit of two terms of four years each."
Since Miami-Dade's home-rule charter forbids the legislature from interfering with the county's government, in order to enact his changes Lacasa first had to pass a bill that would ask all the voters of Florida to amend the state constitution and allow the legislature to put charter amendments on the ballot in Miami-Dade County. To his great satisfaction, he succeeded this session, and a statewide vote will occur in 2002. Now Lacasa is working on the language of the ballot questions he hopes to put to county residents if state voters approve the changes.


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Anti-Zimmerman hatred is a sickness
Submitted by Redgyl on Mon, 07/15/2013 - 21:59Of course, I'm not on Facebook for ages, and have completely ignored the Zimmerman case until today, so I'm a little bit behind on the details. But one of my friends shared this anonymous letter:
Dear George Zimmerman,
For the rest of your life you are now going to feel what its like to be a black man in America.
You will feel people stare at you. Judging you for what you think are unfair reasons. You will lose out on getting jobs for something you feel is outside of your control. You will believe yourself to be an upstanding citizen and wonder why people choose to not see that.
People will cross the street when they see you coming. They will call you hurtful names. It will drive you so insane some days that you'll want to scream at the top of your lungs. But you will have to wake up the next day, put on firm look and push through life.
I bet you never thought that by shooting a black male you'd end up inheriting all of his struggles.
Enjoy your "freedom."
A black male who could've been Trayvon Martin
This same friend of mine also posted that she herself had had a gun pointed at her face for no good reason. And I had seen a lot of injustice done on her this past year alone that I can only explain as being race-based.
I feel sorry for all of these people who heard the MSM narrative and relived their own personal hells. These people had been taught in our public school system that they originated from slaves, and that they were not freed peacefully, and about the Jim Crow laws and Affirmative Action (the government coercing people to "not be racist"). All of these things teaching them that they are helpless, they are victims, and that they should expect nothing better than their ancestors.
Then these people are told by the MSM that an innocent kid goes through something that rivals what their grandparents went through with the Jim Crow laws, and it does so in a way to remind them of any minor injustice they had personally gone through.
It's almost like post-tramatic stress disorder, only it's more brainwashed in. Yes, racism is real, but so are many other forms of bigotry. Yes, these people have been treated unjustly, but so have many other people.It's one thing to be a victim. It's another matter entirely for that victimhood to be taught to us since first grade.
So I feel sorry for the people who are being taken advantage of by the MSM narrative. How can they objectively look at the facts to see that this is NOT what they've been programmed to see it as: a symbol of themselves and their family since before the US was conceived.
This symbol is stronger than reality. They cannot see the innocent man who is not guilty of the hatred they think he as, because they are too busy reliving their own issues. They don't see Trayvon, either. They only see themselves. Trayvon is a victim by proxy. Zimmerman is guilty by proxy.
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A black man speaks about Trayvon
I really don't believe that much of this is actual public reaction, but more government induced to create a situation that warrants the implementation of martial law and the final destruction of the Constitution.
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I am more sickened by people
I am more sickened by people who are celebrating George Zimmerman. An innocent 17-year old is dead. Zimmerman was the clear aggressor.
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by people who use the appeal to emotion fallacy rather than facts.
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this conversation
wouldn't be happening if people carried flashlights
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i'm a little confused
why is it so easy to make the leap that zimmerman acted on race and martin couldn't possibly have? of the last phone call each man made before the altercation, only one was known to be tossing racial slurs around. maybe martin committed a hate crime. if zimmerman's weapon was concealed martin wouldn't have known he was armed. he might have looked like an easy mark and was, almost.
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When white people
call black people names, it's racist. When black people call white people names, it's cultural.
Please don't ask me to explain it, I have no explanation.
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I was pondering today and I thought it would be cool if you could buy alternate lines, taunts, etc for your champions/summoner. Preferably lines that your opponent could hear too, that way you could show them off in-game. For example, for Twisted Fate you could have a command like '/1' or just the button 1 shout something like "Test your luck!" at the opponent you currently have selected or the whole opposing team. It would be an interesting way to make more flavor, banter with the other team, and raise the immersion level. In general, buying more audio (music, effects, announcers, voices) with riot points sounds like another good way to spend points that wouldn't affect power level.
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Sounds like a good idea. Right audio in right time can properly piss people off. ;]
I sense some spamming of taunts. Make sure to put in a limited amount or a quite long cd for them in that case.
I like the idea. Obviously soundspam could be a problem, but honestly, if they've paid money for riot points they probably don't want to risk a ban losing them their account.
Hmm... Maybe you would get 1 taunt 'cast' for every kill you make in a game? The problem there is that tanks and support characters wouldn't get as many, whereas carries etc. would have enough kills to spam it anyway.
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"Don't play with the sad little mummy!!!" That would be great XD
yeah pretty much buy an 'adios skin' for a char, that'd be interesting
Aww, I thought this was my idea. I fully support this! EDIT: Actually, perhaps not fully, I think it could get really annoying depending on what sounds are for sale. But I DO think it could make alot of money to keep the game afloat. I just hope theres nothing TOO humiliating available for sale that drives off new players/customers.


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The New York Times on Congo Square
The New York Times has just posted a review about Wynton's Congo Square performed on Thursday night at the Rose Theater. (free registration needed). As you know, Wynton, who has been recovering from a lip injury, didn't touch the trumpet during his new commission (because he conceived his role as conductor only, according to Jazz at Lincoln Center). As a result of the injury, Jazz at Lincoln Center has postponed a concert featuring the Wynton Marsalis Quartet and the Orion String Quartet scheduled for Thursday through next Saturday. The concert will instead take place on Sept. 20, in Rose… Keep reading »
NY1.com on recently premiered Congo Square
NY1.com has just published a new article and a video interview to Wynton, about his latest work: Congo Square. (Real Player required) Congo Square will be performed tonight and tomorrow at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Keep reading »
The Washington Post on Wynton's "Congo Square"
The Washington Post has just published an article about Congo Square. The last work from Wynton and Yacub Addy will be performed May 4, 5 and 6 at Rose Theater Keep reading »
Congo Square reviewed on Playbill Arts
Wynton' s recent Congo Square performance has got a new article/review on Playbill Arts.com Keep reading »
Congo Square's behind the scenes on The Times Picayune
A nice article about behind the scenes, and Wynton directing Congo Square in New Orleans is now on line on The Times Picayune. Keep reading »
Photos and video from the world premiere of Wynton's Congo Square
Yesterday, joined by members of numerous brass bands from throughout the city, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton and the Capital Region-based percussion ensemble Odadaa! marched into historic Congo Square in classic New Orleans parade style Sunday as hundreds of concertgoers danced along behind them. Here you have some photos from the Congo Square rehearsal, and an article on TimesUnion about the world premiere (yesterday) Plus there are also three videos regarding: pre-parade | parade | concert (Quicktime player needed) In the concert video, Wynton sings duetting with Herlin Riley at the tamburine. Tonight, they are going to perform Congo Square… Keep reading »
"Marsalis on Music" reviewed on All About Jazz
Marsalis on Music: The Book & CD Companion to the Public Television Series (from 1995), has just been reviewed on the AllAboutJazz.com Keep reading »
Jazz ABZ at Hamilton Community Theatre
The new Hamilton Community Theatre will present Jazz ABZ, a musical revue based on the book by Wynton Marsalis, April 2 and 9. The production is directed by Randy Forester. Musical direction is provided by Robert Crabtree who performs jazz keyboard and conducts the band. Keep reading »
Central Avenue Breakdown reviewed by the New York Times
"Central Avenue Breakdown", Wynton and LCJO last concert at Rose Theater, has been reviewed by the New York Times and by All Abuot Jazz.com Keep reading »
Pittsburgh Festival reviewed by the New York Times
The recent concert: "Pittsburgh: From the Heart of Steeltown" – that took place on Thursday and Friday, featuring Wynton and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in the Rose Theater, has just been reviewed by the New York Times (free subscription needed) Keep reading »


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Scythe - Rick Scythe
06/04/12 || Curt
Rick Scythe has been kicking around playing underground blackened death metal for many years. Many of you may remember him from his band Usurper who were on Earache records for a while and released awesome albums like "Cryptobeast". Rick is back with a new band, the eponymously named "Scythe", and a new album entitled "Beware the Scythe." The new album is a beast, which harkens back to the golden days of death metal and will kick the shit out of you.
Global Domination: First of all congrats on your album "Beware the Scythe", I personally thought it was a great blackened death album with some thrashy sections as well. How do you feel that this album compares to your past work? To me it doesn't seem like Usurper, but yet it doesn't seem too far from them either
Rick Scythe: Thanks for the positive words Curt! I agree with your description, blackened, death, thrash… all of that can apply to Scythe. I feel we have a balance between classic first wave of black/death/thrash from the early/mid 80's as well as some heavier aspects of late 80's / early 90's death metal, but there is also some 70's hard rock attitude here and there as well as a healthy dose of 80's classic metal spirit to many of the songs. Perhaps it's a weird combination, but it works for Scythe.
I agree, Scythe definitely has it's own approach and the end result I feel doesn't sound like Usurper Jr.,or something generic like that. I would say that anyone really familiar with Usurper would be able to recognize some familiar elements in my riff style and song structures, and of course the "death grunts" no avoiding that. But Scythe for sure has it's own energy. I think where Scythe differs the most is the primal energy of being a 3 piece. Usurper had many moments of big, heavy straightforward stuff, but also had some more complex arrangements, especially on the later albums. Scythe's sound is more geared to be straight forward, the goal is to have every song have non-stop headbanging riffs.
One thing I really like about the album is that it's decidedly old-school in it's sound and presentation. What is it about the 80s and 90s black and death metal style that appeals to you and why do you feel that the style is still relevant today?
To me personally, that style is timeless. Listen to Celtic Frost today or Venom or Mercyful Fate or even old Slayer… those early albums by those bands have stood the test of time. You can't fake that, and you don't know something will become "timeless" until years later, you can't "try" to do that, it just happens out of magic. I like the fact that the first wave of 80's thrash/black/death metal were extreme and raw and over-the-top, but when you listen to the song structures, they had classic, big rock 'n roll chorus', they had stuff you could sing along to, stuff you could head bang and fist bang to – it was rooted in classic rock and classic early heavy metal.
The first wave of 90's death metal like the first couple of Morbid Angel albums or Entombed or Asphyx, Unleashed also had this kind of approach. Songs had memorable chorus', had some traditional song structures and so forth and some of those bands created timeless masterpieces. Even early 90's black metal like Darkthrone and Nifelheim had this classic style which helped those bands to have a classic sound.
I think as the scene evolved in later years, "extreme" metal bands kind of lost ties to the originators and had a goal to only be the evilest, or brutalest or most satanic or most technical or fastest or whatever… it kind of lost the rock n' roll/classic heavy metal spirit.
Also the artwork and presentation; back in the day it was important to have kick ass cover art. It always enhanced the music to have a quality full color painting that was straight up metal. Logos and paintings were important parts that created visuals to go along with the music. Once we got into the late 90's early 2000's many bands just had these cheesy Photoshop covers with all kind of feathery wings and layers of lame computer effects and full sentences for band names. I want to stay true to the old spirit of underground metal.
What do you feel are the standout tracks on "Beware the Scythe"? My personal faves are "Mastermind" and "Tyrannical Strangehold".
Thank you. I think "The Iron Witch" is my favorite track on the album. I also like "Mastermind" a lot too and of course the title track. "Tyrannical Stranglehold" also gets my head banging, I love the chugging guitar riffs and interplay between the guitars and bass on that one.
Live, stuff like "Tunguska Death Ray" and "Eye of the Crow" are a blast to play. Those two songs are meant to be heard live with stacks cranked to 11, sweating you balls off, the stench of sweaty leather and hair flying around a-la Venom circa 1985. I like all the tracks for one reason or another.
How did you go about forming Scythe? Did you already know the other guys for a while?
Basically when Usurper ended things just kind of exploded. We were all burnt out, pissed off and were just kind of "done" with the whole rat race of the scene. I am always writing and working on ideas. Through the years I compiled a lot of songs. Some songs I didn't use because they didn't totally fit with Usurper. So in 2007 I formed this short lived two man project called Nightshade. It was this weird band with a lot of dark haunting elements. Kind of theatrical/art/experimental/horror stuff. Just a complete diversion from Usurper. It was fun to do something different.
Once that band got going Tim joined the band as a live drummer, then he suggested his buddy Dan to play bass. I really clicked with these guys musically even though they were quite a bit younger than me. We had many of the same metal and rock influences.
That band broke up it 2009, so I figured I would just start a solo project. I put the word out online and this guitarist named Joe Martinez answered. He was in a band with Jon Necromancer and Dan Tyrantor before they were in Usurper, back in the early/mid 90's right around the time Usurper was starting out. So I joined with him, then this guy Ben Mulvey joined, who played drums with Joe Martinez in a different death metal band in the late 80's/early 90's. Both great musicians, both great guys and things were really sounding good with them, that's when Scythe became an actual band.
We needed a bassist so I talked to Dan Geist, not only because he was he a killer bassist, but he also was a perfect fit for what Scythe was doing. I considered him a good friend and a true metal warrior. Right when Dan learned the songs and was ready to start jamming with us, we lost our rehearsal spot. Then after a few months I lost contact with Joe and Ben.
I figured at this point I might just retire, but Dan was very dedicated and wanted to keep things going. He talked to Tim who wanted to play drums, so I figured, why not? We got together in late 2010, things sounded and felt great, that's when Scythe was re-born. We were talking about adding a second guitarist, but as we kept rehearsing we said fuck it, let's just keep it a 3 piece.
How do you come up with your lyrics?
Most of my lyrics are from stuff I read about. Even back to 1996 when I first started writing more lyrics with Usurper it was all inspired by stuff I read. I don't like meaningless words about Satanism or gore or dungeons and dragons. I like stuff that can be just as creepy, or evil, or powerful or majestic, but it needs to be from a personal perspective based on topics that I personally find fascinating, topics that most metal bands don't really explore.
I don't generally write lyrics in narrative form, but rather write words about a topic to create a visual picture. I also like to provide some background info or liner notes for certain songs so people can explore deeper meanings. I am fascinated with ancient civilizations, end time prophecies, cryptozoology, time travel, conspiracies, UFO/monster folklore, technology run amok, and other occult topics – so those elements will always be part of my lyrics. Just because you write about occult or paranormal topics doesn't mean you are an evil person, I don't ever preach to anyone about religion or politics, but sometimes those elements are part of the story so to speak.
The bottom line is, I like to create stories that enhance the music and artwork, but I don't want it to be where someone can't appreciate the song as whole just because they agree or disagree with something. I like things to be vague enough where people can come up with their own interpretations as well. Overall I view metal as entertainment, so the last thing I want to do is bore people with some fanatical ideology or uninspired drivel.
So, to my understanding, Scythe is NOT a solo band correct? If that's the case do you guys all make your decisions on songs, tracklisting, sound etc as a group or do you have the final say no matter what?
Okay, obviously it's called "Scythe", and with this first album I came up with the concepts and I wrote pretty much the entire album, but that doesn't mean the other members didn't contribute. This album contained a lot of stuff I had written for Usurper that we never used, some stuff got re-arranged a bit, but most of it was written before Dan Geist and Tim were in the band. Having said that, I don't want anyone in the band who doesn't have anything to offer. Just because I had a song written doesn't mean the other guys didn't contribute. Dan would add his own bass elements. At times my riffs would inspire him to create like a counter melody or some complimentary bass parts, that happened on many songs. Tim re-wrote a couple lines of lyrics on "Beware The Scythe" and sang some parts, plus he recorded and produced the album. Dan does a lot of vocals with me including some of the main parts and chorus parts too.
We ALL contributed to create the Scythe sound. On the next album, myself and Dan will write a lot of the songs together. We will get to collaborate a lot more writing riffs. I'm sure I will always arrange the songs, write the words and come up with the general concept, but I want this to be a full band effort. Dan Geist is a great bassist and we have very similar views on music. Tim is a great producer and is very creative. We all seem to agree on the music and song order, so it hasn't been a problem yet.
Let's say hypothetically, one of the guys quits the band at some point, sometimes that shit happens, I know it from Usurper. Of course this is just hypothetically speaking, but if it ever happened… the show will go on. But whomever would replace them would have to be able to contribute something, whether it's backing vocals, riffs, enhancements, recording/producing… something. I don't want to be in a band with empty wells or slackers or people who want to just use Scythe as a springboard to get noticed. I have no problem doing the heavy lifting so to speak, but I want everyone in this band to have pride in the band and be able to bring something to enhance Scythe.
The iTunes version of "Beware the Scythe" is supposed to come out this week and so is the vinyl. When is the CD going to be released?
The CD will be released this week as well. Everything should be out by March 28, 2012. RIP Records will release the vinyl first and Primitive Reaction will release the CD. Later, Primitive Reaction will release their own version of the vinyl and RIP will eventually release their own version of the CD. RIP handles USA and Primitive Reaction handles Europe so the cover art is different and unique for each version. If you check www.scythe.us, it has all the info for ordering the album.
I know you are someone who feels that a person should get their music as a physical product (CD, vinyl) rather than as a music file. Why do you feel this way? Do you, yourself ever listen to music by MP3
I should clarify this, I feel if someone likes a band enough to want an entire album, or even some songs, they should support the artist by purchasing the official release. Outlets like iTunes are official versions that the band gets paid for. It's not all about money, it's about pride. So if you want to listen to a band you shouldn't rip them off. An iTunes/MP3 version is perfectly acceptable, but if you are a true fan and are really into the band, I would think you would want a tangible product for your collection. That's what's so cool about releasing vinyl; for the old schooler, it sounds and looks great on vinyl, for the new kid who only uses his iPod, he can have a collection of records for his favorite band without the need for a turntable. Records are bigger and look cooler than a CD.
Yes, I have an iPod, I mainly use it to listen to podcasts, but I also transfered a lot of my CD's on there too. It is great to plug it into my car and never have to listen to the crappy radio. I even bought a few songs on iTunes. Stuff where I just want one song or something, I feel it is kick ass to pay a dollar and get the real song on your iPod. I can honestly say I never once illegally downloaded an album… OK, I don't really know how to do it, but still…
When you were with Usurper you guys obviously didn't get the same amount of attention of other bands of similar style, despite having just as high a level of quality of songs as those bands. Why do you think this was? Anything you would have done differently?
I think it had a lot to do with not kissing enough ass. We knew if you really wanted to be critics darlings and become this breakthrough band you have to be willing to kiss ass and play nice and all that. We never shied away from telling people to fuck off. Even people at the label, or tour promoters or anyone who we felt was showing us disrespect or being unprofessional or just full of shit… was it the smartest thing to do? …probably not. Would I change anything? … hell no! I am very proud Usurper got to tour 17 countries around the world and got to release 6 albums… all on our own terms. I never wanted to be a rock star. It was always about the music. Don't get me wrong, I would love to be rich, but I would never want to be famous. I just want to create quality music.
How do you plan on getting the word out on "Beware the Scythe"? It would be a shame if this wasn't a successful release.
I'm not sure. I want to let as many people know about this release as possible. I want people who actually liked and supported Usurper to know it's out. I want people to be aware that this album is out there, because I believe in this band. But I don't want to sign to a big label. I'm hoping word of mouth and help from the labels will let people know about it. Hopefully the die-hards will find it.
Any plans for shows outside of Chicago?
Not yet. We've had a couple offers and some talk, but we will have to see when the album is out for a while what will be realistic. We won't be going on some tour anytime soon, but I wouldn't mind playing a few select shows in different states or countries in the near future.
Any advice you would give for someone who's looking to play death or black metal?
Play from the heart. Trends come and go. Everyone says they are against trends, yet most bands just starting out are more concerned with fitting in to the new popular sound, rather than crafting their own sound. You don't need to re-invent the wheel, just be honest with what you think sounds cool and don't get too concerned with how you are perceived. If your sound is rooted in a good foundation, you will be able to create something that isn't disposable.
How exactly did you start playing metal?
I started guitar at age 13. I remember taking some lessons and this old guy was showing me these nerdy Mel Bay chords… no offense, but I wanted to play hard rock and early metal stuff and I lost interest. My Mom was pissed because she bought an acoustic guitar and I quit after 4 lessons. I saved up for an electric guitar and just started playing by ear. Eventually I got up to level of being sucky, but just barely good enough. I started in a couple bands in 1986-1990. Then when I finally got good enough where I knew how to write properly and execute properly and I knew how to create music that I wanted to hear, I formed the early version of Usurper in 1992. In 1993 Usurper became a full time band… and here I am today.
Do you listen to any newer bands? Who? If not what albums have you been playing lately?
I'm not sure? As far as "new" bands, I mainly listen to whatever Dan throws on after practice. He introduces me to a lot of newer bands, but we always seem to end up listening to old metal most of the time. There are good bands out there. I don't like this new modern wave of wanna-be bay area thrash. It does nothing for me, it's so derivative of early bay area bands that it almost seems like a parody to me. Out of newer bands, I thought Hail of Bullets was pretty cool, Dan played me this band called Devil's Blood that was pretty interesting. Also heard this band Portrait a couple weeks ago that kind of sounded like King Diamond, that was pretty good. I like Devil's Whorehouse… I don't know if that's considered "New". My favorite new band is Stone Magnum. They kick ass. Other than that I listen to old metal, old hard rock, stuff like Goblin too when I'm in the mood. I like to create music so much that I don't want to become too influenced by anyone current.
Scythe (and Usurper for that matter) have a lot of occult imagery in both their artwork and lyrics. I generally take most metal art and lyrics as a form of entertainment much like horror novels or movies, however have you ever been concerned that your music could have a negative influence on someone, or that someone might take it too seriously?
I've always looked at the metal lyrics and imagery as entertainment. The lyrics of Usurper and Scythe more or less deal with hidden side of reality. Occult really just means "hidden" or "secret". I have always concentrated on topics that revolved around the paranormal and tried to make connections to other things. Such as UFO folklore could also be perceived as "angels" or "demons". These type of things have been written about since man first used words.
Then you look at things like gargoyles. These are hybrid beings or chimera creations. They are beasts of the grotesque. If you study art, (which I have extensively), you realize that "grotesque" images were often used by the Church. Enter an old Church and you will see some very strange images. You will see demons, gargoyles, people being debased… all in stone form or paintings. Why??? Because it is powerful and interesting and illustrates the power of good verses evil. It illustrates the evil lurking in the shadows of our humanly existence. Good means nothing if you can't compare it to something evil. Pick up a Bible and you will read about demons, giants, hybrid beasts, UFO's, end time prophecies… does that make the Bible evil? The Bible references Satan way more than I ever have.
If people take things in metal too seriously then they most likely take things like video games too seriously, or cartoons, or movies, or wrestling… I'm convinced this is a very small percentage of people on the planet. These type of people would do evil things even if they never listened to music of any kind. Metal is just an easier scapegoat than bad parenting.
As someone who's played Death Metal for quite a while do you ever feel like you're getting burnt out on it and long to play a different style?
Sure. But that's why I don't consider Scythe or Usurper straight up death metal. I think there is enough other elements in the music that keeps things interesting. I experimented with other music for a bit after Usurper and it was a blast! But ultimately, I love playing thrash/death/black/heavy metal/hard rock. I can see myself doing something slightly different some day again, but it would never be some commercial or popular form of music. I hate plastic commercial pop/commercial rock music.
Are you able to exist on music alone for an income or do you need to support yourself by other means?
No. Music alone doesn't pay the bills. It is very hard to make ends meet playing any form of extreme metal unless you tour like 200 days a year or something. During a period of time in Usurper, I didn't have a regular stable job and I did okay, but it was a struggle. It is much better to have a solid way to pay the bills and make sure it's a job that gives you enough flexibility to take time off when you need to. The last thing I want to do is find myself selling out because I need to make money off my music.
Do you think if Usurper ever ends up turning into one of those unsung bands like Autopsy, At the Gates or Believer who didn't get recognition until well after their demise, do you think you would reform? Or is that stage of your career 100% over?
Nothing is 100% over. Life seems to have a way of going in circles. It's the ouroboros effect. Right now Scythe is my main band. I'm not a guy who ever did side projects, I really like to put full effort into my current band. When people get involved in too many projects it seems to water things down.
Having said that, there is always a possibility of doing something again with Usurper, but the time and reason would have to be right. I think if anything, it would be just myself and Joe Warlord (drums) recording some music. Perhaps General Diabolical Slaughter or Dan Tyrantor adding some vocals in the studio? I don't know. .. I haven't given it too much thought. I know when I see Joe every now and then we usually end up discussing the possibility of recording some new Usurper songs, but only time will tell.
I view things like this: Scythe the band compares to Usurper in way similar to how King Diamond the band compares to Mercyful Fate… they are both connected and if you like one band you will like the other. Both Usurper and Scythe will always be part of me, but right now Scythe is my only priority. Since Scythe is connected with Usurper, and I wrote almost all the Usurper songs, it is only logical that Scythe plays a few Usurper songs at every show. So when people come to a Scythe show they know they will always get to hear a couple Usurper gems.
If Usurper ever does reform or re-record it would have to be genuine. If we ever got one of the line-up's together for a show or something I would prefer for it to be with some form of the classic era, like Jon Necromancer (bass), Joe Warlord(drums), General D. Slaughter(vocals) and myself (guitar), no second guitarist, just the early, classic Usurper feel… unfortunately I don't think that would ever happen. Regardless of what the future holds, Scythe is my priority and no matter what, I want to continue with Scythe. We have a lot of good music ahead of us.


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The Strelka Institute
Amid the businessmen and other locals who flock to the restaurant, conversations about design are a constant.
Lily Idov
For Harkema and other students, the restaurant/bar is an undeniable draw.
The institute has become known for its parties. Here, a DJ plays tracks in the restaurant.
At Strelka, the bar is not just part of the institute, it also helps fund it. About $1 million in annual profits from the restaurant help support the institute's nearly $6.5 million yearly budget.
At Strelka, the bar is not just part of the institute, it also helps fund it. About $1 million in annual profits from the restaurant help support the institute's nearly $6.5 million yearly budget.
Students congregate for a lecture at the institute.
A lecture at the institute.
The Kremlin is visible from the institute, which is housed in a series of buildings once occupied by an old Soviet-era chocolate factory, located on Balchug Island in the Moscow River.
The site was redesigned by Dimitry Likin from the firm Wowhaus.
Students often gather at the bar after lectures and studios.
Translators are a common sight at Strelka. The institute requires students to speak English, and lectures by architects and planners in other languages are translated.
Lindsay Harkema, the sole American in the class of 2013, learned about the institute while studying for her M.Arch. at Rice University in Texas.
The scene at the Palazzo Contarini on the third night of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale was—at least by the standards of your typical design-world social function—downright Fellini-esque. Two girls in red dresses frisked around in a narrow reflecting pool. Danish architect Bjarke Ingels distributed champagne to a select circle of intimates. Elegant men and women came and went by a back door where hired boats alighted noiselessly at a private mooring on the canale.
The party was sponsored by the Moscow-based Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design, an institution whose exact nature was a little unclear to many of the revelers present on that warm night in August. Earlier that afternoon, a young man outside the pavilion grounds had been pressing copies of a smart-looking architecture pamphlet, its spine bearing the words "Strelka Press," into the hands of exhibition attendees. Perhaps Strelka was a publishing house? A few Biennale veterans who remembered Strelka's 2010 party discreetly suggested that the whole operation was an elaborate con devised by ultra-wealthy Russian oligarchs looking for a good time in Venice. Given the scowling security guards posted in every corner, the theory seemed more than dimly plausible.
But what is Strelka, really? "One of the interesting aspects of it is that it's hard to define," says Ilya Oskolkov-Tsentsiper, a founding father of the institute. "It's a place and a project." The idea for the organization first emerged in 2009—in Venice, incidentally, during the Art Biennale—when Oskolkov-Tsentsiper, a digital and publishing entrepreneur, was having a conversation with a small coterie that included the billionaire Russian investor Alexander Mamut and the architect Dmitry Likin. The subject was a compound on Balchug Island in the Moscow River, formerly part of the massive Red October chocolate factory that had thrived in the old Soviet Union. The site's new tenant, Art Strelka, had converted the buildings into mundane studios and galleries, says Oskolkov-Tsentsiper: "It wasn't interesting, and it was dying."
Restaurants had been colonizing the waterfront strip across from the island for much of the last decade; the group gathered that day in Venice was certain that the art galleries (named Strelka, Russian for "arrow", after the island's slender tip) were headed the same way, and that an opportunity would be missed to make the site over into something more inventive, more vital.
The collaborators agreed that Moscow, long bedeviled by poor planning and bad architecture, suffered from an even more essential underlying condition: a paucity of public engagement in the design of urban space. "The problem is the lack of people who are capable of introducing change," Oskolkov-Tsentsiper says.
In no time at all, he had cranked out a 10-page proposal for a dual education-and-events space that would give Moscow a unique cultural hub with international reach—and that would produce the kind of graduates capable of reimagining the city's urban landscape.
Mamut, the billionaire investor, instantly agreed to help underwrite the project. And together the team—joined by a friend named Varvara Melnikova—reached out to Rem Koolhaas, an acquaintance of Melnikova's who was interested, she says, in "trying to create something more critical about Russia." Bringing with him a vision for a research-driven urban laboratory, Koolhaas came aboard as quasi-official dean, and the Strelka Institute was born.
Today, the institute is about midway through its third academic year, with 38 students enrolled in its one-year degree program. It hosts a thriving public schedule of lectures, film screenings, and other events, and its press, headed by English critic Justin McGuirk, has been issuing a series of provocative titles with a focus on long-form architecture journalism.
In Venice, the institute's presence extended beyond the glitzy soiree to include engaging roundtables with Koolhaas and English designer Farshid Moussavi. In Russia, museum exhibitors have turned to Strelka's loose orbit of theorists and practitioners to advise on major exhibitions, while developers have tapped them to consult on high-profile architecture competitions. A restaurant/bar at the institute has become a major hub of Moscow nightlife—particularly in summer, when hordes of locals crowd the rooftop patio to admire the skyline views.
Party in the front, hothouse for design thinking in the back: Strelka's double identity differentiates it from just about every other architectural-pedagogical project. But it remains to be seen how influential Strelka's reformist mission can be in a city like Moscow, where corruption often hides behind a veneer of glamour, and where the local power elite and the institute's progressive thinkers may turn out to be an incongruous match.
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Climate crusader Schwarzenegger profits from deforestation
June 11, 2014 | 2508 views
In advance of the 2014 UN Climate Summit to be held in September, we asked some of the world's leading social entrepreneurs and innovators to share with us their perspectives, insights and solutions on how best to tackle, in a catalytic way, the many challenges associated with climate change. Participating organizations in this discussion include Forest Trends, Friends of the Earth Middle East, Independent Diplomat, Global Witness, Healthcare Without Harm, Root Capital and Skoll Global Threats Fund. Stay tuned for updates!
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Palestinian Director, EcoPeace Middle East
Jordanian Director, EcoPeace Middle East
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Director, Climate Change, Skoll Global Threats Fund
June 11, 2014 | 2508 views
Huge tracts of forest have gone up in smoke in California, Arizona and Alaska in recent weeks, lending strength to claims that wildfire season is no longer seasonal in parts of the US, but happens all year round. The increased frequency and ferocity of wildfires is one of the topics of James Cameron's Years of Living Dangerously, a Showtime documentary series that concluded this week and dramatically illustrates the causes and effects of global warming.
Global Witness' own investigations into the drivers of climate change meanwhile revealed a twist in the documentary's behind-the-scenes plot – one of the show's biggest stars is bankrolling the very destruction he campaigns against.
"People are used to seeing me play the hero, standing up to the toughest bad guys…Today I'm taking on a real life bad guy, one that threatens all of humanity – climate change." The unmistakable voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger narrates as we see him donning a yellow fire-proof coat and addressing a crowd of firefighters in a forest clearing.
Schwarzenegger is both executive producer of Years of Living Dangerously and one of its hosts. He is shown embedded with firefighters in Idaho, tackling wildfires which are now gobbling thousands of acres of woodland year round.
In a parallel crusade, the series sends Harrison Ford to Indonesia to visit endangered orangutan reserves and make a personal appeal to the country's president to halt deforestation. Ford flies over the smouldering remnants of some of Indonesia's supposedly protected tropical forests, cleared for palm oil cultivation.
This creates what's known as black carbon, Ford learns, fine particulate matter that contributes to global warming. Scientists he consulted say that since 1990 Indonesia has lost a quarter of its forests. And globally an area of forest the size of Germany is being cleared each year.
As the documentary demonstrates, forest loss is both a trigger and impact of climate change. Fewer trees mean more heat-trapping greenhouse gases, which increase temperatures to the point that in arid climates forests can self-combust. Globally, deforestation contributes about the same amount of CO2 as exhaust fumes from transport.
The logical response would be to stop trees from being cut down in the first place, but efforts to do that have consistently failed. This is because of both the unfounded belief amongst policy makers that logging brings development, despite evidence to the contrary, and the vast profits to be made from products like palm oil, soy and beef that are cultivated on deforested land. Among the most obvious profiteers are the businesses and officials that strike the deals. But sometimes – wired through the capillaries of international markets – profits from forest destruction turn up in the most unexpected of places. Including Arnold Schwarzenegger's bank account.
As Years of Living Dangerously's illustrious investigators were being deployed across the globe, Global Witness was on a mission of its own, to find out who – knowingly or otherwise – is financially linked to companies that are bulldozing through our forests. We are researching financial flows to reveal which well-known banks and institutional investors have collectively financed 50 of the world's major tropical forestry companies.
One of the most prolific is Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), a major US investment firm that holds more than three-quarters of a billion dollars' worth of shares in logging and palm oil companies, including one previously linked to illegal logging and arms trafficking during a brutal civil war in Liberia; and palm oil companies in Indonesia that Harrison Ford cites in Years of Living Dangerously as particularly destructive.
Schwarzenegger is part-owner of DFA, which manages US$338 billion for clients worldwide.
Arnold Schwarzenegger does aspire to be a real-life climate hero. As governor of California he spearheaded a raft of progressive environmental policies, and co-founded the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force, a subnational collaboration between 22 states across five continents. But DFA, Schwarzenegger and his people have consistently evaded this issue, refusing to consider this to be a hypocrisy worthy of divestment. In Years of Living Dangerously there is a strong recurring theme about facing truths through up-front conversation. It's a shame then that one of its executive producers cannot do the same.
Deforestation is hard-wired into the international financial system. As the holders of bank accounts, bonds or pensions we need greater assurances that the institutions we invest in aren't funding the destruction of the world's last standing forests. Until those demands are met, even campaigns by the biggest stars in Hollywood will make little difference. Their money and potentially ours will keep flowing into forest loss, and ultimately forest fires.


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