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Adam "MCA" Yauch, along with fellow Beastie Boys Michael "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "King Ad-Rock" Horovitz, urged everybody to "make some noise" and "fight for your right to party" in the mid-1980s. In the process they broke down racial barriers and helped rap music migrate from the streets of New York into America's mainstream.

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Yauch, who died Friday after a three-year battle with cancer, had been unable to attend the band's April 14 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was 47.

The Beastie Boys, who brought punk rock sensibilities to hip-hop, released eight albums including six platinum ones, and sold more than 40 million records. Over the years, the group's sophomoric rhymes evolved to deal with more serious issues. The 1986 breakthrough Licensed to Ill spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 9 million copies. The group's most recent album, Hot Sauce Committee, was released in 2011 to critical acclaim.

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"Yauch always served as the band's emotional core," says Chris Weingarten, Spin magazine senior editor. "In the 1980s, his swarthy rasp was the beer-saturated link between Schoolly D and the suburbs, a gargle that served as the ambassador for rock kids to understand rap's swagger. In the 1990s, that same gravelly voice matured into the band's conscience, its grown-man center, its proud-to-be-grey-haired elder, a world-weary good-guy for the new alternative nation."

Yauch, who in addition to rapping played bass in the band, didn't limit himself to music. He was born to Jewish and Catholic parents, but became a practicing Buddhist as an adult. He co-founded the Milarepa Fund in 1994 and was a vocal activist in the Free Tibet movement. Under the pseudonym Nathaniel Hornblower, he directed several Beasties' videos and the feature-length Awesome; I F---in' Shot That! in 2004. He also directed the 2008 documentary Gunnin' for That #1 Spot, about elite high school basketball players. Yauch opened the New York City recording studio Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2002 and the film distribution company Oscilloscope Pictures in 2008.

Yauch is survived by his wife Dechen Wangdu and daughter Tenzin Losel.

Tonight at 8 p.m. ET/PT, MTV News will present a one-hour live special remembering Yauch from its Times Square newsroom and hosted by MTV News' Sway Calloway. The special will highlight the Beastie Boys and Yauch's career through music videos, performances, MTV moments and remembrances from his peers. The special will re-air at 11 p.m. ET/PT on MTV2.

Sometimes it can be hard to admit, but when we’re stressed, have a ton of crap on our minds and/or our emotions are out of whack, we are just not very creative. And try as we might, as much as we know getting into some kind of creativity will help us feel better, its just super difficult to be that creative person we know is deep inside us.

On the other hand, being in a certain types of mental or emotional states may spur on creativity! Depression may have a bolstering effect to everything you create. It may even spur some creativity you didn’t know you had in you.

I am bipolar, and in the past have been in both these predicaments in a cyclical nature. The times when I am too emotionally and mentally stressed to create anything and those times when I am on the cusp of severe depression or climbing higher into a mania. Interestingly the times when I have been depressed or manic are very creative times for me. However, once I’ve passed what I call “the point of no return,” the emotions take total control and I can’t achieve anything creative or otherwise. But those times when I was almost touching “the point of no return” I was immensely creative and produced a lot of interesting pieces.

(I have been very stable emotionally and mentally since moving to Ohio, and during the last year I have not been past “the point of no return,” thankfully, because it’s just not a good place to be in. I have learned many techniques to handle my lengthy and severe mood swings that go along with having bipolar, I’ll write more about that in future posts.)

I wonder if other artists have any difficulty with creativity or surges of creativity when dealing with mental or emotional stress.

I would love to hear your answer to the question “Do you find that your mental or emotional state directly affects your ability to create art?” Post your answer in the comments below.

Do you find that your mental or emotional state directly affects your ability to create art?

Vas Littlecrow: Yes.  Since art is a reflection of how I live, it’s almost impossible for it not to be affected by my mental or emotional state. – vaslittlecrow.com

 

Delisa Carnegie: A little. It isn’t whether I can or can make something, but what I will make and how it will turn out. I do find I that being in a certain mood helps with poetry though, like it should be sad and full of heart break and longing. Lol. – thecreativityrebellion.com

 

Charlene Slimp: My mental state absolutely affects my ability to create art. There’s this whole huge spectrum of emotional states and ways of being and that’s reflected in the art that I create. But sometimes, when I get into those really bad depressions or am just drained of all my energy, I can’t create. I don’t even want to. The whole idea of creating art just makes me sadder. When I’m in a good place, I have so many ideas and concepts that there’s no way I could remember them all or even try to write them down. I have pages and pages of ideas that I can still work through if I am somehow uninspired (which hasn’t happened yet.) – educatedsavage.com

 

Kesha Bruce: I’m passed the point in my art making process where I allow my mental state to dictate the type of work I make or when I make it.  I have deadlines.  I can’t wait around for inspiration or for the right mood to present itself.  I get in the studio and get to work.  I take full responsibility of my own mental state. – keshabruce.com

 

Abigail Markov: Yes. The more intensely I feel, the more I like the work I create. My ability to surrender thought and control and trust my own instincts and reactions while painting contributes as well, though it also depends on the kind of work I am doing. I tend to tailor what I work on to what I am feeling.

Have there been times when I was in a state of mind where I felt that I couldn’t create? Yes. Intense grief, exhaustion, and apathy make it harder to get out there and work. Some of the periods of depression I deal with as part of my biochemistry are harder to create during, as well. However, I’ve found consistently that the most effective way to deal with those periods, with the exception of exhaustion, is to work. (For exhaustion, it’s just to get a lot of sleep.) – abigail-marie.com

 

Tori Deaux: It does… my best work actually comes from being able to sink into my deepest, darkest emotions.  When I’m staying out of those places, the depth isn’t there.  And if I’m too caught up in anxiety or fears of judgment or exposure, I can’t work in that depth, either.   There’s a very narrow “sweet spot” where my best results come from, and honestly? It’s very difficult to maintain, which is why I haven’t been working in that way recently.  I need a certain amount of emotional safety in order to go into those places and come out again, sanely. – circusserene.com

I would love to hear your answer to the question “Do you find that your mental or emotional state directly affects your ability to create art?” Post your answer in the comments below.

Don’t miss out, there’s more coming up! Join us next week as we delve deeper into our relationships with our art!

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Preliminary reports from Turks and Caicos Police officials indicate that the musician struck a concrete boat slip in a marina on Parrot Cay in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Ja Rule was the only passenger on the personal watercraft at the time of the incident. Specific details are not yet available.

The accident occurred at approximately 8:45 a.m. (UTC/GMT -4 hours).

Additional details and information will be forthcoming.

The Turks and Caicos Islands, in recent years have grown in popularity as a quiet getaway destination for celebrities. The Turks and Caicos Islands consist of 40 islands and cays, eight of which are inhabited. The islands are located 550 miles southeast of Miami, Florida, just below the Bahamas chain and just to the east of Cuba and the island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti.) Technically, the Turks and Caicos are located in the Atlantic Ocean, not the Caribbean Sea.

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When you delete a file on your Mac (or any other operating system), you don’t actually delete the file. The data for each files still resides on your hard disk and given good recovery techniques you can get it back. When you empty the trash all you Mac is doing is removing the entry to where you the file is located. Since the block of data on your disk doesn’t have an entry file associated with it, your Mac will write over the space. This is why files you have stored on your Mac don’t get over written. Now if you want to ensure those files are gone for what ever reason, I am soon going to do a block level duplication of my drive and I only want the actual data, you can erase the free space by over writing it.

This is really simple, it does take a while because your Mac has to physically write to every single block and byte on your drive. When the process is done, any data that was stored in the deleted space will be gone and unrecoverable.

To complete this task, open Disk Utilities located in Applications > Utilities. Select the drive you want to erase the free space on. Select erase from the tab at the top and press the button Erase Free Space.

Erasing free space only involves two button clicks, and a long wait.

An option box will appear, giving you three options. One pass, seven pass or 35-pass. One pass will go over every single byte that doesn’t have a file stored on it and write a set of zeros. Seven and 35 will do the exact same thing, but either seven or 35 times respectively.

One pass will suffice, 35-pass is over kill.

I recommend the one pass setting for pretty much everything but the security conscious. Seven pass is suitable if you have a lot of time, 35-pass if just ridiculous.

You mac will proceed to write to disk. Assuming your can write at an average of 30mb/s (check in Activity Monitor) 1Gb will take 34 secs. So assuming its 2Gb a minute you can quickly work out how long it will take.

During this time Disk Utility will become a bit unresponsive. Just leave it and let it run. It will tell you when it is finished. Note that the process will begin to eat up disk space. Eventually you will have no space left on your main drive. After your disk is full, the app will then delete this file and the process will be complete. Note that when you have no disk space left on your Mac, doing general normal things becomes a bit difficult.

Having no disk space left is normally a worry.

After it has finished your disk will be clean and no other data will be stored. If you want to do this every time you delete a file use the secure empty trash option in Finder.

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Confront him. Otherwise, the only remedy is to take him to court. Before doing so, consider a few things. How important is the stuff he is stealing? Is it more important than your relationship with him? If he is a scumbag and you don't have a good relationship nor intend to, then it probably doesn't matter what you do. The reason I warn you is because I have seen many families torn apart over estates.

Executors are directly responsible for all assets and property belonging to the deceased, and are legally bound to account for such to the probate court. When the estate is probated and there are assets and property unaccounted for the court will take the action needed to investigate the possible mishandling of the estate or illegal actions by anyone. Family members and other beneficiaries may want an accounting, but it is guaranteed that creditors and the IRS will insist on a complete and accurate audit. Any proof of wrong doing will be addressed in accordance with the state's criminal and civil laws.