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3 Practices to Help You Open to Your Creativity, Even in the Middle of a Crazy Life
How do you tap the creative flow in the middle of a hairy, busy, chaotic life? I use these 3 practices.
Many times people believe they need blocks of time to create, a cottage, a servant, a veranda in Bali, or maybe just a peeling garret in France. But as someone who runs a business, speaks, travels, coaches, and seems to have more demands than hours in the day, I can't have my creative life be separate from ordinary life. I can't wait for the ideal circumstances to generate content for my email newsletters, blogs, books, or products. I can't wait for the fields of time, cheese and wine. So how do you create sanctuary for your creative self in the middle of chaos? How do you create a portal? How do you turn on the tap when maybe you're tapped out or life is pulling you in too many directions?
Here's 3 Quick Suggestions to Expand Time and Creative Flow:
- Create a Dedicated Practice
I don't like the word discipline because my creative self bolts from the room when she hears that word. She may even throw paint at the walls on her way out to a spree. But practice is devotion. It's showing up. It's being in the room. It's tending the fire, or at least being in the room where there's a fireplace. Commitment goes beyond preference or mood or hormonal chemistry. Julia Cameron in The Artist's Way recommends "morning pages," 3 pages of stream of consciousness writing. Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones, teaches "Freewriting," stream of consciousness writing in focused 15 minute increments. Zen meditation practices have you follow your breath or repeat a mantra. I go to a yoga class on Wednesday nights whether or not I have a lot of work unfinished or I'm in the mood to stretch into a warrior pose. I get into the room. I'm at the bus stop waiting for the magic bus. I don't know the schedule of the magic bus, when it might come. But I'm there. I'm available. I'm going to catch that ride.
- Apply Kindness: Bring In Da Honey!
You will use your time wisely if you approach it with self-love and mercy. The inner critic loves to show up on this dance floor and call the shots. You will expand your time, if you're not wasting it– worrying about wasting it. If you are listening to kindness, you can't be listening to cruelty and urgency. If you are listening to encouragement, you can't be ravaged and discouraged. If you are listening to praise, you will be rejuvenated. Praise will make you relax and relaxation is the secret to creativity. I've never been creatively flush, while anxious. When my blood constricts, so do my ideas and insights. Kindness allows me to try new things, start over, write bad stuff, trust myself, and sing myself a buoying song. It makes things possible. Kindness won't make you weak. Kindness will make you strong. If you're encouraged, you will show up. If you're discouraged, you may overeat, drink, complain, and walk out of the room. Kindness is sticky glue.
- Be Present: Wipe the Past and The Future Off Your Shoes Before Entering
Your dedication to your art or self-inquiry or business venture is a meditation practice. It's a chance to experience the transcendent. There are a thousand secret doorways in every moment. You will only see the door handle when you stop talking about everything you have to do, what you should have said, and what you could have done. I think of being present as traipsing down a long white hallway, where I block out all thoughts about the future or past. I invite myself into the kingdom of innocence. I can start all over here. I can meet myself again. I can meet myself today. I can do all things. All things are possible when I'm present. All things are an experiment. All things are yet to be discovered. There are no mistakes. There are no deadlines. There are no potholes or trap doors. Everything is new. Everything is waiting for my current relationship to it to be established. When I give my mind and heart this break from life, this "do-over," I find it leads to new capacities within me. There is something about the restiveness of being free from the past and future that allows my mind to penetrate the problem, object, observation, experience before me with new eyes, full eyes, true eyes. There is something about being present that unscrews the lid. When you're in love, the same room lights up and you see all the secrets and promise. When we are present, we're in love.
Try it out. Take these 3 tools for a spin. Don't worry about doing it perfectly. Just do anything. You can accomplish so much more than you dreamed possible in just small segments. Your big dreams deserve small steps. And those small steps will lead you to enormous intrinsic dedication. Just get your feet wet. Or else, I suppose, you could get a garret.
I'm excited for you! I'd love to know your thoughts or questions or experience.


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By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON Norman Hsu was politician's dream who became a nightmare. He knew people, hosted fundraisers, solicited donations. And he was an unabashed fan of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Now in disgrace, his role as one of Clinton's top money bundlers will dog him and her presidential campaign while law enforcement authorities investigate his business and political dealings.
Eager to sever her links to Hsu, the Clinton campaign this week returned $850,000 in contributions linked to his fundraising activities. But Hsu's troubles aren't over and the spotlight on his political connections won't recede easily.
Hsu is the latest poster boy for rogue fundraising, a man whose political shoulder rubbing reinvented him and then did him in. For Clinton, Hsu threatens to be an unwelcome reminder of the fundraising scandals that pursued her husband and the Democratic Party in the 1990s.
Joseph Birkenstock, a former chief counsel for the Democratic National Committee, said it would be unfair to link her presidential campaign to 12-year-old instances of money laundering and Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers for major Democratic donors.
"But given her last name," he said, "the bar is somewhat higher for her politically than it would be for others."
Though Clinton was by far the biggest beneficiary of his fundraising, Hsu touched many with his largesse. Even Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who is leading one investigation of Hsu, received $2,000 from Hsu during his last re-election campaign. His spokeswoman says the district attorney has put the money into an escrow account pending the outcome of the investigation.
Hsu sat on the board of trustees of The New School, whose president is former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb. He was co-chairman of a gala New York benefit last October in honor of the late Robert F. Kennedy. Bill Clinton, there to receive an award, thanked the evening's benefactors, "especially our friend Norman Hsu."
Now, the Manhattan prosecutor is investigating whether Hsu used a financing scheme to steal $40 million from Source Financing, an investment fund founded by one of the organizers of the 1969 Woodstock rock festival.
Law enforcement authorities say the FBI also is investigating whether Hsu used straw donors to contribute to political candidates, reimbursing them for their donations in violation of federal law.
Meanwhile, Hsu is in a Colorado county jail, held for skipping a court appearance in California on an outstanding fugitive warrant. Hsu pleaded no contest in 1992 to a felony charge stemming from what prosecutors said was a $1 million Ponzi scheme. He was expected to serve up to three years in prison, but fled California before he was sentenced and seemingly disappeared.
The Los Angeles Times revealed his fugitive status last month after The Wall Street Journal raised questions about his fundraising practices.
Hsu turned himself in on Aug. 31 in Redwood City, Calif., and posted the $2 million bail with a cashier's check. But he failed to show up in court for a Sept. 5 appearance. The following day he was discovered ailing in an Amtrak train, while worried acquaintances in New York fretted over a suicide note that bore his name.
The note arrived last week in the office of the Innocence Project, a legal group that helps prove prisoners' innocence through DNA testing. Innocence Project officials were so alarmed by the note -- sent by FedEx -- that they promptly notified the authorities.
With its dramatic twists and multiple prongs, Hsu's case has provided a steady diet of news stories over the past three weeks.
That the Clinton campaign -- and other Democratic candidates -- had failed to detect his status as a fugitive has prompted Clinton and her rival John Edwards to announce that they will now conduct criminal background checks on their fundraisers.
Federal law permits donors to give only $2,300 to candidates for each election. But in a presidential campaign where candidates are raising millions and forgoing public financing, fundraisers who can solicit and bundle money for candidates are highly prized.
"It is surprising to me, given the fact that cumulatively the presidential campaigns have raised in excess of $250 million dollars, to have only one individual rise to the top as a problem," said Paul W. Houghtaling, a political finance expert who was hired by the DNC to set up a compliance system after the 1996 scandals.
Jenny Backus, a Democratic consultant not affiliated with any campaign, predicted more campaigns would encounter their own fundraising troubles.
"This campaign cycle is so awash in money and people are raising money at such a rapid pace, I don't think that there is just one Norman Hsu out there and I don't think this is going to be an issue that hits just one party," she said.
In returning the money to donors, the Clinton campaign said donors could contribute again if they demonstrate that the money is coming from their own funds. This week, Clinton told reporters, "I believe that the vast majority of those 200-plus donors are perfectly capable of making up their own minds about what they will or won't do going forward."
How much of the money Clinton can recoup remains to be seen.
"I'd be surprised if they get much of that money back," said Birkenstock, the former DNC counsel. "The feeling is, if it was not good enough before, why is it good enough now?"
Houghtaling predicted only 10 percent of the donors would contribute again. He said the Clinton camp could have simply sent letters to donors asking them to verify that the money came from their own funds, returning money that could not be justified.
"But they created more of a controversy by summarily returning $850,000 without asking any questions," he said.
John Catsimatidis, a longtime Clinton fundraiser, said many of Hsu's donors are probably legitimate contributors and said he would not have returned the money.
"I would have probably put it in escrow someplace."
Associated Press Writers Pat Milton in New York and Paul Elias in San Francisco contributed to this report.
(This version CORRECTS Joseph Birkenstock's title to former chief counsel for the Democratic National Committee)
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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We rather confusingly described England as "the only cricketing nation in the northern hemisphere" when India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and the West Indies also lie in that geographical area (India's problems at home spare Dravid a full one-day inquisition, page 8, Sport, August 23). The statement was intended to mean that England is the only first-class cricket country locked into a typically northern European summer season.
A panel showing total British consumer debt in the article headlined Consumers' debt overtakes gross domestic product, page 27, August 23, mistakenly highlighted a figure of £1.3bn when the correct figure given in the report was £1,345bn - or more than £1.3 trillion.
The words of an Italian policeman were mistranslated when we had him say that a Mafia killing had taken place on "the eve of Ascension day" (A mafia feud that began with a row over a firework leaves six dead, page 3, August 16). Ascension day was on May 17 this year. August 15, the date on which the shootings took place in Germany, was the Feast of the Assumption in the liturgical calendar.
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CANNES, France, May 22 (Reuters) There have been enough show-stopping, jaw-dropping moments in Cannes this year to make the film festival's 60th anniversary memorable, even if the tone of many movies has been sombre.
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie and director Michael Moore have made most of the headlines at the halfway stage, although both presented films outside the main competition.
Music has played its part, with Irish rockers U2 performing on the red carpet for hundreds of fans and ''Control'', about the tragic life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, wowing critics.
And comedian Jerry Seinfeld lightened the mood with a high-wire descent from the top of a hotel building dressed as a bumble bee to publicise an upcoming animation picture.
Among those contesting the Palme d'Or is a hard-hitting Romanian film set in the dying days of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's rule, and a bloody, yet funny tale by the Coen brothers from the United States.
David Fincher's ''Zodiac'', already out in US cinemas, is another of the country's five competition entries that impressed critics, while Chinese director Wong Kar Wai's English-language debut ''My Blueberry Nights'' won only muted applause.
Two French entries are in the running.
''Love Songs'', a musical by Christophe Honore, was panned in many reviews, but its upbeat tempo stood out from a selection of films that generally painted a bleak picture of the world.
And ''The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' had journalists in tears with its portrayal of the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered a stroke and communicated only by blinking.
''There's a problem with the festival this year, as with some other years -- I don't think I've seen the whole range of life on the screen,'' said film critic and writer Mark Cousins.
''It is a tragic, even funereal view of life.'' He added that the standard of the competition so far had been good, and that Quentin Tarantino's ''Death Proof'' and Emir Kusturica's ''Promise Me This'' may lighten the gloomy mood.
Both screen in the second half of the festival.
JOLIE IN HARROWING FILM Jolie has won plaudits for her performance as Mariane Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in 2002.
The harrowing story, with a gut-wrenching finale, is directed by Britain's Michael Winterbottom, and unites Jolie with her partner Brad Pitt, who is a producer.
Moore, who won the Palme d'Or in 2004 for anti-Bush polemic ''Fahrenheit 9/11'', trained his sites on the U.S. health care system in ''SiCKO'', another provocative but entertaining film that portrayed the United States as greedy and uncaring.
Threatened with fines, or possibly even jail as a result of a US investigation into a trip to Cuba he makes for the film, Moore pulled no punches when explaining what the movie really said about his country.
''Our attitude is, if you are falling through the cracks, 'See you! Good luck!','' he told Reuters. ''I don't want to live in a country like that, and I'm not leaving the country I'm in so the country has to change and that's what the movie's about.'' In competition, the favourite at the halfway stage is ''4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days,'' a Romanian tale of courage in the face of a colourless, brutal world.
The Coen brothers' ''No Country For Old Men'' is also among the frontrunners, combining ruthless violence with quick-witted humour and philosophical reflection.
''Zodiac'', a US entry from David Fincher, was generally popular, while ''Breath'', from South Korea's Kim Ki Duk, appears to be the Asia's best chance of victory so far.


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In his first fight since an unsuccessful lightweight title challenge against Ricky Burns last September, lightweight contender Kevin Mitchell (34-2, 24 KOs) scored an eight round decision over journeyman Sebastien Benito (10-7, 3 KOs) in a bout fought at jr welterweight on Saturday night at York Hall in East London. Mitchell dropped the overmatched Benito in round seven, but was unable to get the stoppage. Score was 80-71.
Also on the card, Chris Jenkins (10-0, 5 KOs) stopped Danny Connor (10-6-1, 0 KOs) in round two of the Prizefighter: Light Welterweights final. Jenkins wins £34,000. No big names in this edition of Prizefighter.
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What is your company's blogging strategy?
That is one of the first questions I ask when talking to a client for the first time. I understand it's not a simple question, specially if the company hasn't been blogging yet.
Just to give you an idea, the answer involves things like how often are you planning to publish content, who is in charge of developing this content, what's the plan for front-end interaction, how is it going to be distributed and where. That is of course, besides knowing exactly what is the business goal behind blogging and how it integrates with the rest of your marketing overall strategy.
It's 2am in Santiago, Chile. I arrived yesterday at 1am after a 12-hour flight from Los Angeles that was originally delayed almost 24 hours. I'm finally in my room after a day of meetings and writing a huge proposal. After the February earthquake, I admit I'm not too thrilled about the 16th floor but at least it overlooks beautiful Las Condes business center, so I'll focus on that.
I wrote and published a post before flying since I knew I wouldn't have the time during my stay here. You know, I try to be consistent with that stuff and write at least once a week. It's been almost 48 hours and I barely go back to my blog to see what's up before crashing, I'm really half-way crashed as you can imagine. BUT, I see that my post has more than 200 Retweets and quite a few comments I haven't reply too… I guess I'm not going to sleep yet.
Am I insane? Let me ask you this, if you just finished speaking in front of an audience and now you open for some Q&A time, people start expressing their thoughts on your subject and asking you questions, would you respond to them? or would you ignore them and just stay quiet?
That's what I thought.
Blogging requires of a huge commitment and every company or entrepreneur should ask him/herself a series of questions before diving into the so popular blogosphere. So let me see if I can stay awake a little longer and articulate some of these basic questions…
Let's assume that your business objective and your online goals are clear and aligned. Let's jump right into how are we going to approach this blogging thing.
Content Development
- Who in the company is in charge of this? I understand there is a big chance there's nobody around you so… guess who? Acknowledge that.
- How often are you going to write and publish content? Forget about what everybody says, frequency builds traction and all that stuff. It's fine if it's only once a week, just establish that. You can even consider using an editorial calendar.
- Do you have enough ideas for content? Is this a topic with enough juice that you can write stuff on a weekly basis? Consider keeping a document to write possible headline ideas, see how many you can come up with.
- What is the time and cost that this will take? If the person in charge is one of your employees or maybe it is you, your time has a value too and you're most likely the highest (or the only) salary.
- Again, who is in charge of this? Consider the time spent on this task or the cost.
- Where are you going to distribute the content? Twitter, Facebook?
- If your distribution plan involves social media, what is the strategy for that? it can't only be self-promotion. How are you going to approach social media.
- Are you being consistent with your brand in different social platforms? Key messages, design, etc.
Front-End Interaction
- Who is going to deal with interaction inside your blog?
- Are you going to reply to every single comment? or only the ones that engage in meaningful conversations?
- How quick are you going to reply?
- Should you set up email alerts for those comments?
- How are you going to interact with outside reactions? You can't ignore what happens on Twitter, Facebook and the other platforms that are relevant to you.
- How are you going to monitor those reactions? Is there a tool you're planning on using?
- How are you going to approach those reactions? Are you planning to engage on all existing conversations? or how will you decide when to do so and when to pass?
- What are the metrics that are relevant to your business? Traffic, content engagement, subscriptions, conversions? Or do you only care about Retweets?
- How are you going to measure the impact?
- What tools are you going to use to measure performance? Google Analytics, PostRank?
- How are you planning to adjust your strategy? Based on what results?
Help Me Finish This Post
Is there more? I'm sure there is but I'm falling to sleep and I want to send out the post. Help me by sharing your thoughts in the comments section. What else do you think it's important to consider when planning to start a blog for business?
Final Thought
Not that there are rules for blogging, I don't believe in rules for anything. I think you should be creative in everything you do, specially in business and marketing. But I think the point here is that there are some basic items to consider as an entrepreneur or as a company before jumping in for the wrong reasons, without a strategy or without knowing what it takes to enjoy some success.
Blogging is a great opportunity. Do it. Plan and commit to it. Just sayin'
Thank you all for the comments, retweets and likes. You rock!
Good night from Santiago!


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I remember…I remember the look on my Nana's face when she saw family pull into the driveway. I remember the look on her face when she caught my cousin and I sneaking into the house late one summer night well after curfew.
And, I remember the look on her face the first time she saw me and didn't know who I was.
My story is not dissimilar from the millions of people who have watched Alzheimer's slowly take away a loved one and felt powerless to stop it. We struggle to find an answer to the question, "What can I do?" For me, the answer came in the form of making a film…and this is the story of that journey.
Going home for me has always meant taking a trip back in time, without the assistance of a Flux Capacitor-powered Delorean. My family is from a tiny, turn of the century mill town hidden in the mountains of West Virginia named Cass.
Cass is a magical place…a preserved memory of a different era complete with an old steam locomotive that once hauled timber down from the top of Back Mountain, but now takes tourists from all over the world for a ride through history. It offers us a glimpse of what life was like before smart phones and highspeed internet, and entertainment was found not on a laptop, but on our neighbor's front porch.
For Nana, it was the only place she wanted to be. No matter where she was, she could strike up a conversation with anyone about it usually beginning with, "I'm Dess Kane from Cass, WV," followed quickly by, "Have you ever been to ride the train?"
She would launch into a story about how beautiful it was and invite complete strangers to come visit anytime. She was so proud of this place and this community that she always wanted to share it with the world.
Though I grew up in Pennsylvania, when I look back on my childhood and the stories and events that define who I am as a person, almost all of them can be found in those mountains. It is more "home" than any other place I have lived. Whether it was holidays with my whole family, or the summers when it was just Nana and me, every trip I took home to spend time with her brought me closer to the person I am today.
I learned the basics: make your bed in the morning and turn your socks right-side out before they go in the wash. And I learned the big things that would carry me through the rough times, like the importance of community.
A walk to the Post Office was not just to get the mail, it was to check in on everyone in town and say hello. If she knew someone had been sick, it was to stop in and see how they were feeling–see if they needed anything. And when her health took a turn, her neighbors, friends and family returned the favor. They came to sit with her, talk with her, be with her.
The idea of home is a powerful thing. It can bring comfort and happiness, but it can also bring stress and sadness. Though Nana had lived on her own for many years after my grandfather's passing in 1980, the progression of her Alzheimer's during the last few years of her life slowly but surely brought us closer to an inevitable decision that so many families face today: what do we do when she can't be alone anymore?
The answer to that question is unique to every family and going through that decision process with my Mom (who, after all this, cemented her place as one of the strongest people in the world) was extremely hard on everyone involved. We brought Nana to stay with my folks in Pennsylvania on a trial basis, but before we got even an hour away from Cass she was already asking, "When can I go home?"
The longer she was there, the more insistent she became. As her memory continued to deteriorate, this sense of home was the only thing she wanted. She reached a point where the patterns of daily life were no longer helping and she wandered her own house, unable to recognize the place that she had been living in for over 60 years asking the same question, "When can I go home?"
Though the nurses visited every day, and the community surrounded her with support, we made the decision in early 2008 to move her into assisted living. She went…begrudgingly, of course. The day my Mom took her over to the hospital, Nana asked her how long she would have to stay. "Just until you get a little bit better," she told her. "Then I can go home?" Nana asked. "Then you can go home," my Mom told her…knowing it wasn't true, but that it was the only answer that was appropriate in that moment.
My next trip home in September of that year would be for her funeral. Though in many ways we had been saying good-bye for a very long time, her passing left a void for us that will never be filled. The morning after her funeral I took a long wander and, as I walked the streets and thought of all the stories she had shared over the years on our walks together, I was struck by how her life, including how her battle with this disease, was written all over every nook and cranny of this town.
As a filmmaker, I am always searching for projects that mean something, projects that will have the power to make an impact. During this walk around town, I started to see a story that would allow me to both carry on the legacy that Nana left behind of sharing this place, and also raise awareness about this disease in a way that we hadn't seen before. A story that would show how it affects both those suffering from it and the family and friends around them who are watching their loved ones slowly disappear.
Fast forward three years and, thanks to an extraordinary partnership with the West Virginia Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, we are working to raise the last part of our budget to make not only a beautiful film, but one that we dedicate to all those who have been touched by this disease. We hope and believe that it will inspire others to take action and join the fight.
I can honestly say I have never worked harder on anything in my entire life…but, when I think about what Nana went through, I work a little harder.
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Stout joined the WCYB family in 1968, about six months before Johnny Wood. She served as the secretary in the sales department, right across the street from the current WCYB building.
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Can't say I'm a fan of either one. I like the 11/12 color choices better personally. Thanks for the preview though...
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Personally, I'm glad I got my green '12. The bike looks bad-*** in the sun w/ the metallic green tank and tail. The '13 green looks exactly the same as the '11 green available in non-US markets.
I am personally glad I bought the 2012 green. But hey, colors are a matter of taste.
Just awful. Guess they have not heard the white vehicle fad is over, again. Please Kawasaki, hire someone, anyone, who can do a better than that.
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Nice to see they haven't reproduced the fastest color.
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hmm. I love them both. If those are US colors then I welcome the green style that I fell in love with, but was unavailable. Don't like the red ninja text. Trying to recycle overstock of red stickers? Ugly on the silver and ugly on the white.
I like the red "Ninja" on the fairing but not the "1000" on the tail.
I also see no red shock...
Can't say I'm a fan either. Glad I got an 11' before they ran out of good colors.
another vote for green / black I waited 1 full year to get the color I wanted...that being said as long as you love yours that's all that matters.
I'm damn sure glad I got my 11. I really dislike the fact that you can only get two-tone now, and only "pearl" colors. It makes touch-up more difficult, and I just don't like the two tone.
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One of his main goals at Hampshire is to create laboratory programs in the physical sciences and sustainable technology to help all students, regardless of their course of study, with their increasingly probable collision with technological obstacles.
Professor Wirth is an active member of the Environmental Studies and Sustainability Program (ESSP) and is happy to supervise projects exploring the design and adaptation of technologies to lessen their impact on the environment. He is also a committed and experienced practitioner of meditation who periodically offers instruction in this discipline.
Physics II is a calculus-based physics course that covers thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and electromagnetism at a basic level. Project-like labs look at the thermodynamics of Nitinol, building circuits with operational amplifiers and measuring environmental electric fields.
The structures and systems of the Hampshire campus have both obvious and subtle effects on our lives as individuals and as a community. In addition, their design, construction, functioning, maintenance and eventual disposal have long-term effects on the environment and the local and global ecology. We will use these systems to examine a number of ways in which technological decisions can be evaluated in a larger context, and, in so doing, develop tools for evaluating proposals for "greening" our campus. Students will work problem sets, write two papers, read and present original literature to the class, and develop original projects in fields of interest. Evaluations will be based on class participation, problem sets and papers, class presentations and a report on the final project.
The beginning of a three-semester sequence in Physics, this course will concentrate mainly on mechanics with applications to astronomy. Topics will include kinematics and dynamics in one and two dimensions, planetary motion, conservation of energy and momentum, rigid bodies and rotation, and relativity. The course is calculus based and makes heavy use of computer modeling to develop realistic examples. It is highly recommended that students take calculus in the same semester that they begin this course. Weekly laboratory/field work is required. The labs are grouped into three major projects. Evaluations will be based on class participation, problem sets, and laboratory project reports. Co-requisite: Calculus I.
All facets of musical performance, the production of sound, its transmission and alteration by the performance space, and its perception by members of the audience, are candidates for study in acoustics. In this course we will develop the physics of vibrating systems and wave propagation and study the measurement of sound. Topics will include: vibrating systems, wave motion, wave analysis, resonance, room acoustics, and the application of these principles to various classes of instruments. There will be weekly problem sets and a class presentation by each student on a topic of interest. A weekly lab will allow students to investigate various acoustical systems and measuring devices. Students will perform simple experiments, learn to operate the lab equipment, and read papers from the original literature. Students will develop an independent project in musical acoustics. Students will present the results of their large project to the class near the end of the semester.
This course is an introduction to fundamental principles of optics as applied to image formation and holography. Each student will have a chance to produce two white-light visible holograms in our lab, as well as to undertake an individual project dealing with three dimensional image reproduction, holography, or more broadly defined optical phenomena. Topics will include geometric and physical optics, the nature and propagation of light, vision and color, photography, digital imaging, the Fourier transform and holography. Aesthetic considerations will be part of the course as well. Class will meet for one hour and twenty minutes twice a week, plus a lab of at least three hours for experimental investigations and holographic imaging. Projects will likely require more laboratory time. Advanced students wishing to help in the labs and pursue independent work should speak with the instructor.
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I'd wait to install the parts if your tires are already toast. Then get the alignment. Pics might be in the Massive vender section.
I would get it done before you get all the stuff replaced, but only at places that offer a warranty on their alignments. That way you'll be able to get it done now, and free later.
You dont think changing the items will throw the alignment off though?
It will throw your alignment off. Thats why i said go somewhere that has a warranty on their alignments. That way when you install all your new parts you can get it re-aligned free.
You will find it is so much easier to set the rear toe w/ toe-link's. I added Dom's rear chassis brace & toe link's, & Eibach's sportline system last saturday. I just set the rear toe, w/ the stock adjustment to about 0.18 or so on each side, then twist the toe-link's to dial in 0.10 to each side. I found it so much faster, then the stock cam bolt's. It would take me about 15-20 minutes dialing in the rear toe w/ the stock adjustment's, even w/ the bay door's closed, to keep the wind out. I'm not one set w/ in the green and call it good. So add the part's 1st, then align!
I installed all my parts and then went in for an alignment and then later on added the adjustable rear toe arms and control arms and ended up having to get another alignment after that .
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Add all your part's, then align!
Are those toe numbers degrees or inches? Camber is actually pretty good and I wouldn't mess with those settings especially if it's a daily driver.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.–Terrell Owens sits down with a sigh, his long career as a professional athlete/lightning rod perhaps summed up best on this particular November afternoon by the sweat-soaked jersey he wears. On the front it reads "iLove" and on the back, continuing the thought, "Me Some Me."
"Just a shirt," he shrugs.
With its eponymous signature and No. 81 inscribed on its sleeve, though, it's a shirt that tells a story: No matter how trying the times in this uphill climb of a season in Buffalo, Owens remains his own biggest fan. The Bills have been a case study in National Football League turmoil since training camp. Their injuries, ineptitude and coaching follies have accomplished something that would make an opposing defensive guru envious: They've rendered Owens irrelevant, and at times even invisible. For a fellow who loves him some him, this is galling – no wonder, after 14 seasons of bombs and bombast, he's branded this his most trying year.
In a 20-minute interview last week ahead of the Bills' return to the Rogers Centre on Thursday, Owens went from charming to bristling to bored – and always, practised and in control. With no TV camera running, and no editing of the transcript, he's not the volatile figure the world has come to know and in some cases, detest.
Just a football player, a few days away from birthday No. 36 – in football years, 36 is ancient – who finds himself if not in twilight time, then surely seeing the dimming ahead.
"It's been rough here, no question," he said. "But overall, the things that I've learned, they make me think back and appreciate the situations that I was in more – in San Francisco, in Philadelphia. The enjoyment of it, making big plays, getting in the playoffs ..."
If this sounds like regrets, Owens is quick to say no. Under interim coach Perry Fewell, who took over when Dick Jauron was fired last month, the Bills have shown better, even if a playoff push looks beyond them. It's far more than seemed possible a few weeks ago, when an Owens eruption on the sidelines in Nashville seemed to signal his own implosion, and the team's.
Owens is never an easy study, though – the volatility of that moment, caught on TV cameras and instantly decoded by analysts as T.O. being T.O., was seen by his teammates as something else.
"He's got a fire about him that anybody could get behind," said Buffalo running back Fred Jackson. "He was really animated there, talking to the coaches, but because it's him, it's going to be blown up and turned into that kind of story, even if it wasn't like that at all. He was just pointing out a missed opportunity."
"I'm a straight shooter," said Owens. "I'm pretty honest."
For Owens, no matter how quick or how long the pass route, it's never been quite fast enough or long enough to shake notoriety, and the notion that he's in this for himself. In general, there's nothing new in that, wide receivers typically being a skittish, self-centred lot with more than a few divas among them, lining up far away from the trenches and dependent on the glamorous and more celebrated quarterback.
But the Bills' problems on offence this year, firing first their offensive coordinator in the pre-season and then Jauron, have marched in step with offensive line injuries, a season-beginning suspension to running back Marshawn Lynch and questions surrounding QB Trent Edwards. Against all that, Owens has disappeared, gone silent with the media for a week or so, then finally emerged these past three weeks with Fewell calling the shots and backup QB Ryan Fitzpatrick replacing Edwards.
Beyond football, Owens has put himself on to a familiar contemporary playing field. There is a reality show that, after receiving mixed reviews – "Worst reality show ever," assessed the L.A. Times in a comment that surely demands some context – has been renewed for a second season by VH1, to go along with regular interaction with fans on his website and via Twitter.
"There are outlets now where I can let fans know how I feel. I realized it moreso after the reality show, and the response I got. I've always been that person that they saw on the show. But they've never really seen it. They've always heard that I'm a certain way, a certain type of guy – it was hard to defuse what every media outlet was saying."
That history, or at least, the way the sparring and the locker-room politics have been retold, is never far from the top of Owens' mind. Ask him about his oft-repeated contention that he left his last two NFL addresses in Philadelphia and Dallas "prematurely," and Owens doesn't forget, not even after taking a one-year deal and $6.5 million to come to the small-market Bills.
"There are a lot of untruths there. A lot of conspiring, to the point especially in this last situation (in Dallas) to get me out of there. I say that wholeheartedly. I had so many teammates that didn't like that situation. It was the same in Philly – what was being said about me wasn't truthful. ... Commentators were saying that I destroyed the locker room. It was on a week-to-week basis, making me out to be the bad guy that couldn't get along and co-exist – that was so far away from the truth."
So here he is, inside the Bills' practice facility, where it has all turned yet again. Younger teammates like Roscoe Parrish and James Hardy look up to him as an elder statesman. And he is talking about salvaging something from these last few weeks – even beyond, whether it's here or somewhere else.
"You want to walk away from the game under your terms," he said. "I still think I'm keeping myself healthy, eating right – if I keep doing that, I still feel like the sky's the limit for me.
"I've still got it."


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By John Cornyn and Kevin Brady
January 13, 2014
Maintaining the purchasing power of the dollar is critical to a strong U.S. economy and to the economic well-being of middle-class American families. The Constitution grants Congress power over our nation's currency. One hundred years ago, Congress assigned this responsibility to the Federal Reserve. The Fed's centennial anniversary, reached last month, marks an appropriate time for a constructive and bipartisan review of America's central bank's performance over its first century and the proper role for the Fed in the future.
History proves that a sound and stable dollar is the best foundation for robust economic growth. Absent stability, price inflation steals from the pocketbooks of American families, punishes savers and increases uncertainty. This weakens business investment, job creation and real income growth for families, especially for those working to climb the economic ladder.
Even if consumer price inflation remains tame, asset-price inflation can create unsustainable bubbles that devastate the American and global economy when they burst. On the flip side, deflation can be equally destructive, leading to debt defaults, bankruptcies and financial meltdowns.
Unfortunately, the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar over time has been anything but stable. A dollar in 1967 is equivalent to barely 14 cents today.
The past decade of generally accommodative monetary policy has been accompanied by a significant decline in the international value of the dollar. This decline has added to the cost of international commodities such as oil and gasoline.
Europe's financial crisis and global uncertainty helped to restore some of the value of America's currency. Being the best-looking horse in the global glue factory is a dubious honor, though.
There are significant and thoughtful disagreements among policy experts and free-market leaders about whether the Fed should maintain its current policies or begin aggressively reining in its easy-money policies to avoid stoking new asset bubbles or planting the seeds of future inflation.
There are concerns about the dual mandate that Congress placed on the Fed in 1977; picking winners and losers in the credit markets, which jeopardizes the political independence of the institution; the make-up of the Federal Open Market Committee; and the transparency of the Fed.
Perhaps the best way forward is to step back and take a longer view of the institution. We believe the moment is right for an objective, comprehensive survey of the Fed's existing mandate and policy framework. That's why we have introduced the Centennial Monetary Commission Act, which would establish an independent, balanced, bipartisan panel to collect evidence and make recommendations to Congress.
Such an evaluation is long overdue. The Fed's original mission was to provide an elastic currency within the context of the gold standard to combat seasonal financial issues. A hundred years later, its mission has obviously become much broader.
Today, in pursuing its employment mandate, the Fed has purchased more than $3 trillion worth of Treasury bonds, federal agency bonds, and federal agency mortgage-backed securities — its so-called "quantitative easing" strategy. Its total balance sheet now stands at $4.1 trillion — four times larger than before the crisis. The Fed has also generated a staggering $2.4 trillion in excess reserves.
So why hasn't this explosion in the monetary base ignited higher general price inflation?
In normal times, commercial banks convert excess reserves into new loans and investments, boosting the demand for goods and services. However, in recent years, commercial banks have been reluctant to lend and invest, and so the Fed's dramatic monetary expansion hasn't increased aggregate demand to the levels we might have expected.
Indeed, despite the Fed's "monetary morphine" stimulus to Wall Street, America is experiencing its weakest economic recovery of the postwar era.
Admittedly, quantitative easing and extraordinarily low interest rates have clearly boosted stock prices. The S&P 500 Total Return Index adjusted for inflation has more than doubled since the official end of the recession in June 2009. America's middle class hasn't been as fortunate. Real disposable income per capita has increased by less than 4 percent. At this point in an average recovery, a family of four would have nearly $11,000 more to spend than the Obama recovery provided. We don't begrudge Wall Street's success, but we do lament the fact that so many middle-class families on Main Street have been left behind.
While families' net worth on paper looks much better today than it did in 2009, will the gains prove illusory? Is America headed for a major stock market correction, or perhaps even another crash? Will the fuel of excess reserves spark general price inflation?
Most importantly, what is the best role and rules for the Federal Reserve to ensure America remains the strongest economy on earth through the 21st century?
These are the thoughtful issues and long-term view the members of the Centennial Monetary Commission would address.
Both Republicans and Democrats have a common interest in getting monetary policy right. Good monetary policy provides the foundation for a strong economy that is essential to eliminating our fiscal deficit.
Given the centennial and the experience of the recent financial crisis, there has never been a more appropriate time to re-examine the Fed's role in American life.
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This is a discussion on Kershaw Leek within the Defensive Knives & Other Weapons forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Gotta Chive, Boa, now a Leek. This thing rocks. Fast opening, dagger like, and razor sharp. Sleak profile that carries easier in the pocket then ...
Gotta Chive, Boa, now a Leek. This thing rocks. Fast opening, dagger like, and razor sharp. Sleak profile that carries easier in the pocket then anything else.
Fantastic. $45 bucks.
Makes a great fist-load too! Nice little knife that would really persuade someone to seek their amusement elsewhere.......
Only have the diminutive Scallion right now - but slick lil number it is.
BOA is next on the list hopefully but have considered a Leek too. (Usually after a coupla soda's too many )
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I carry the Scallion around everyday, great knife if you wear slacks. The leek I carry with jeans or shorts. Love Kershaws assisted openers. Try the Blur - very good knife as well!
I too am loving the new Leek. I bought one at the same time George did. I have been using it all day and go out of my way sometimes just to be able to use it.
There are 2 sounds in the world that strike more fear than any others. A click when you should hear a bang and a bang when you should hear a click.
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I made the mistake of doing a shave the arm hair tests without paying full attention. It freaking filleted a layer of skin with the hair. Holy cow.
The best thing about the Leek is that it's not too scary as to freighten the sheople.
Does the Leek have a pocket clip on it?
I've given Chives as gifts, and I have a Scallion somewhere. Call me girly, but I'd like a Rainbow Leek.
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My wife carries a Leek at all times. I find it a little small for my hand, and prefer the Blur. Both excellent knives at their price points.
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Ed B, yes it has a pocket clip on it.
Betty, I have seen the Rainbow Leek and think that it looks sharp. Might not look so good on a man's slacks/jeans, but it sure is cool looking.
A rainbow leek would be a perfect gift for a discriminating girl.
I have a blackened Leek that is my favorite carry knife. I love the slim profile, except it's so unobtrusive that it ends up going through the wash every now and then when I forget to unclip it from my pocket.
LOL, I have a USB thumb drive that does the same thing.
I sometimes carry my "Random" Leek.
Mine is non serated.
I have some Kydex neck sheaths for the Leek. I can sell them to anyone who wants one for 20 bucks each.
It is indeed a sweet little knife -- razor sharp, needle tipped, opens like a rocket, has great fit and finish. A very classy little pocket blade.
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Ministers were today accused of hypocrisy by publicly attacking the Civil Service while praising senior mandarins in private.
Members of the FDA union, which represents senior public servants, voiced their frustration at their treatment by Coalition chiefs.
"I am sick to death of Government ministers publicly saying, or implying we are useless but privately being very grateful for all the work we do," said one senior civil servant.
Another Whitehall boss stressed: "Many of us in specialist professions have given up better paid jobs to join the Civil Service and it is insulting, upsetting and unfair to be criticised in this way for political point scoring (ministers are often very complimentary in private when no-one is listening)."
A third said: "With constant public statements that we're not doing a good enough job, you have to take with a pinch of salt any internal statement of gratitude for what we do."
The complaints from leading civil servants were highlighted in evidence from the FDA to the Commons public administration select committee.
Dave Penman, the union's general secretary who was giving evidence to the MPs today, said: "Civil servants' morale is being severely tested, not just by flaws in the government's approach to resourcing and remuneration but the hypocrisy of some Ministers to praise their efforts and professionalism in private while populating the press with stories of incompetence and obstruction."
The head of the FDA, which represents 19,000 top managers, diplomats, policy advisers, tax professionals, economists, solicitors, prosecutors, NHS chiefs and other senior civil servants, did not identify any ministers being accused of hypocrisy.
Two years ago, the Prime Minister attacked the "enemies of enterprise" who he said included "bureaucrats in government departments who concoct those ridiculous rules and regulations that make life impossible, particularly for small firms".
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude is among several ministers who have criticised the Civil Service.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- The skyrocketing fiscal deficit needs urgent control but historical high unemployment and uncertainty of the economic recovery will make this task more difficult for the U.S. government, a senior analyst on U.S. economy told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Steven Hess, vice president and chief analyst of U.S. sovereign rating of leading rating agency Moody's Investors Service, said if the government can not reduce the deficit, which rolled to the highest level since World War Two during the last fiscal year, to a much lower level over the next few years, then the government's financial position will become much more difficult.
U.S. deficit has hit headlines again recently. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday called on the United States to keep its deficit in control, which can not only stabilize the U.S. dollar exchange rate but also bolster the world's economic stability and recovery. On Tuesday, Robert Hormats, the undersecretary for economic, energy and agricultural affairs of the U.S. State Department, said his government will narrow the fiscal deficit as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) once the economic recovery is solid.
3A Rating
More than two weeks ago, Hess warned that the United States may loose its 3A rating, the highest in Moody's scale, if it can't lower its deficit to a sustainable level in the next three to four years.
The U.S. government posted a record deficit of 1.417 trillion U.S. dollars in the year ended September 30, accounting for 10 percent of its GDP. Stimulus package to combat the severe recession and a series of bailout rescues to banks and automakers have put heavy burden on government spending.
Obama administration has predicted that deficits would top 1 trillion dollars through fiscal year of 2011.
The sovereign rating, mainly the probability of default on government bonds, of United States has been 3A since 1917. It will not change in the next 18 months as Hess has given a "stable" outlook of U.S. rating. But if for some reason the deficits are larger and the debt rises more rapidly than the government projected, then Moody's would have to reconsider what to do about the rating, Hess said.
"The ability of the government to pay (its bond on time) is based primarily on its budget and its ability to generate revenues, that in turn is dependent on economic conditions," Hess said. Usually when economy slows, tax revenues may fall because corporate profits and individual incomes are down, as in last fiscal year U.S. tax revenue fell by more than 16 percent.
"We are going to wait and see in the next budget, which will come out in February, what measures are proposed by the U.S. administration to reduce the budget deficit," Hess said. The current projections for the budget deficit for the next ten years show it falling down to somewhere between three and four percent of GDP and remaining at that level after another two or three years. But Hess said that level is still relatively high, and debt will continue to rise as percent of GDP, and as percent of government revenues, over that 10-year period.
Exit Schedule
When Hormats spoke to university students in Beijing on Tuesday, he said it is important the United States doesn't withdraw its stimulus too early.
Data shows that much of the 3.5 percent growth in third-quarter GDP was driven by government spending. Car sale and housing sale retreated once the effect of government programs like cash-for-clunkers or tax rebate faded.
Hess agreed that it is not "advisable" for the government to raise taxes or to cut expenditures during a recession, and a large deficit helps the economy for a period.
While many are concerned about fourth quarter's economic growth with less stimulus helping effect, Hess said he thinks the recovery going forward will remain positive. "We are not thinking that there is going to be a double dip or a W shape recession," he said.
But he pointed out that consumption growth will not be as rapid for the next a couple of years as it was prior to the recession, because households are fairly highly indebted, and their assets have lost value during the financial crisis.
"Therefore, we will not see a rapid bounce back. Our expectation is that real GDP will grow somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 percent in 2010," Hess said.
He said he expected the Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates sometime in second half of 2010, "if they do it at all." Fed will continue to reduce some of the monetary stimulus, which it already begun, and wait on the interest rates front until they are sure that the recovery is self-sustaining, Hess said.
China's Concern
As the largest foreign holder, China has been expressing concerns on its assets in U.S. government bonds. Hess agreed that one thing China would really like to see is much lower U.S. deficit level.
"Historically, ratings have been correlated with interest rates that are paid on government bonds," Hess said. "The interest rates paid on lower rated bonds are higher than the interest rates paid on higher rated bonds."
So, hypothetically, in case United States loses 3A rating, the treasury price falls and interest rate goes up, the bond will worth less in terms of book value to whoever holds it.
Despite issues like this as well as trade disputes and Renminbi exchange rate, both United States and China have "fundamental interest" in cooperation, Hess said. Having been rating Hong Kong and Macao for more than a decade and having visited Chinese mainland dozens of times, Hess is very familiar with the greater China economy.
Hess said he imagined President Obama will try to find "areas of common ground" for both countries when he visits China later this month.
Both countries are moving in the right direction in tackling the global imbalances, which is "a positive move," Hess said.


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Faulty flue caused Zibbibo fire in Palo Alto
Original post made on Jul 20, 2009
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Comments (5)
a resident of Barron Park
on Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43 am
Is the restaurant still open? If not, when is it expected to re-open?
a resident of Barron Park
on Jul 20, 2009 at 4:07 pm
They have the best roasted mussels. (No pun intended)
a resident of St. Claire Gardens
on Jul 21, 2009 at 7:36 am
Never pay full price for construction products. and Taxi cab drivers make terrific carpenters as well.
a resident of Midtown
on Jul 21, 2009 at 11:22 am
I worked there for a number of years. There were THREE fires during my tenure. One was a mystery fire in the linen closet. The second was a grease fire caused by poor training and supervision. The third was caused by faulty construction. At the grill station nails had been driven through the back wall into the studs. The nails acted as a heat conductor. The nails were hot enough to cause a fire inside the walls. Are these three fires plus the most recent one enough to prompt some scrutiny from PAFD? I hope we can prevent loss of life.
a resident of University South
on Jul 21, 2009 at 11:34 pm
The restaurant is expected to be closed for a month or more.
By the way, the name is spelled Zibibbo.
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