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Deleting Email Improves Business | Business Productivity Tips

It would be surprising to no one if you found me in front of my computer with 8 or more tabs open in my browser. I run a business that focuses on digital marketing and we?re doing well. So it?s not surprising that I need a plethora of online resources to help me conduct my business, is it?

Perhaps it might be surprising that when I find myself getting really busy, the first thing I do to decrease my workload is close browser tabs. Next, I go through and I delete emails. Sure, there may have been valuable information in them. But that valuable information does nothing for me if I can?t achieve the core goals of my business.

Now, of course, I don?t randomly delete emails with no sense of guidance. I target a specific type of email: ones that include things I need to read. Client emails stay. Emails from my business partner are kept. Friends and family get a pass, too. But newsletters and blog posts can quickly get the axe if they are distracting me from the work I need to do.

One thing I?ve found is that I produce lower quality work at a slower rate when I?m juggling a myriad of distractions.

It makes sense really. Having all those emails of things I simply HAVE to read and browser windows of things I MUST check out leaves me feeling pressured. I rush. I skim. Nothing gets my full attention. That?s not fair to me and it?s certainly not fair to my clients or my partner. So I delete. I close browser windows.? Then I breathe a sigh of relief and move on to the items that really drive things forward.

I?d love to hear your thoughts: how are you managing your email so that it doesn?t get out of hand?

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Kristin has spent her career designing marketing applications that are easy to use, making technology adoption easy on businesses and their clients. She loves nothing more than to patiently show people that technology doesn't need to be scary (even though it sometimes feels like it does).

Mobile World Congress 2013: best of show

Another Mobile World Congress has come and gone. While we weren't treated to a mountain of device launches, as seen in previous years, we definitely all came away with some favorites. LG outed a few handsets, HTC's One made its first public appearance and Firefox OS made a grand entrance with additions to the new platform from a few different handset makers. And, on the wireless side, we were treated to what has to have been the biggest NFC love fest we've ever witnessed. Follow on past the break to check out some of our favorites from this year's MWC, then weigh in and let us know what you think about the show.

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Peripherals, Sony, HTC, Nokia, Google, LG, HP

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Sony intros MDR-X05 headphones: massive Simon Cowell-endorsed bass, small footprint

Sony intros MDRX05 headphones massive Simon Cowellendorsed bass, small footprint

Is this really happening, again? Why, yes, it is. Following up on its massive MDR-X10 bass-pumping headphones from last year, Sony and Simon Cowell have introduced the MDR-X05. As you might take from the name, the cans are basically a smaller addition to the series, packing 40MM drivers (down from 50) and a few more color options (red/black, red/red, white/silver, red/silver and black/silver) -- some of which do the headphones more justice than the silver/red colorway we got our mitts on previously. As far as we can tell, by the way, these are very likely a re-badge of the MDR-X400 headphones for the American market. As you'd expect, the cans fold flat for storage and feature an iDevice-compatible inline remote and mic.

Gallery: Sony MDR-X05 hands-on

Unlike the X10, the tangle-proof flat cabling isn't removeable and connects using both earcups, but the connections seem robust enough to handle a good bit of torture. Because the same materials and finish are used on the X05 as the X10, the headphones feel virtually the same in-hand -- a bit plasticky, but solid overall. The headphones may be smaller, but they still manage to feel nearly as cosy and isolate a fair amount amount of external noise as their bigger brother, mostly because they're packing the same style of plush memory foam earpads. As far as sound quality goes, the bass push on these is just as smooth and open-sounding as the X10, but the high-end is noticeably harsher -- we definitely felt the need to turn on "treble reducer" in our iPhone's EQ settings. If you're bass-hungry ears are interested, the X05 headphones are up for pre-sale at Sony's online store for $200 (100 less than the X10), but the smaller discount won't make them look any less loud on your ears while you're out and about. You can expect 'em to hit shelves March 22nd. For now, find more details in the press release after the break.

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Francis Crick's Nobel Prize medal to be auctioned

The family of Francis Crick, one of three men who received the Nobel Prize for discovering DNA structure, announced a plan to auction his 23-carat gold medal. Part of the proceeds are to be offered to research institutions.?

By Wynne Parry,?LiveScience / February 26, 2013

The 1962 Nobel Prize gold medal awarded to Dr. Francis Crick for his work in the discovery of the structure of DNA will be offered by his family in a public auction conducted by Heritage Auctions in New York City on April 10 with a portion of p

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Sixty years after the discovery of DNA's spiraling, ladder-like structure first hinted at the mechanism by which life copies itself, one of the Nobel Prize medals honoring this achievement is up for sale.

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Three men who played crucial roles in deciphering?DNA's double helix?in 1953 later received the?Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The family of one of those men, Francis Crick, plans to sell his medal, the accompanying diploma and other items at auction with a portion of the proceeds set to benefit research institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom.

"It had been tucked away for so long," said Kindra Crick, Francis Crick's 36-year-old granddaughter, of the medal. "We really were interested in finding someone who could look after it, and possibly put it on display so it could inspire the next generation of scientists." Francis Crick passed away?in 2004 at the age of 88.?

The value of Nobel gold

There is little precedent for this sale. Nobel medals appear to have changed hands publicly in only a couple of instances. This particular medal, like others made before 1980, is struck in 23-carat gold, and recognizes a particularly high-profile accomplishment in biology, one fundamental to?modern genetics.

The auction house handling the sale, Heritage Auctions, has valued the medal and diploma at $500,000, which is "an educated guestimate," said Sandra Palomino, Heritage Auctions' director of historical manuscripts. Estimates by Heritage's in-house coin experts went as high as $5 million, Palomino said. [See Photos of Crick's Medal & Other Auction Items]

The April auction will also include Crick's award check with his endorsement on the back, the scientist's lab coat, his gardening logs, nautical journals and books. Separately, the family hopes to sell a letter Crick wrote in 1953 to his then-12-year-old son Michael, who is Kindra's father, describing the discovery's meaning. The auction house Christies, which Kindra Crick said is handling the sale, declined to confirm plans to sell this letter.

Out of the box

The medal was not displayed much within Crick's family. Kindra remembers that the Nobel, which she has yet to see herself, was locked in a room with her grandfather's other awards and other family heirlooms after he moved to California at the age of 60. After the scientist's wife, Odile, passed away in 2007, the medal was sequestered in a safe deposit box. Crick's children, including Kindra's father, Michael, attended the award ceremony in 1962, but saw almost nothing of the medal afterward.

Kindra plans to get a look at the medal before the auction.

"My grandfather was not the type of personality to show off," she said. "His conversation tended to be on what's next as opposed to reminiscing about the past ? I guess he always thought there was more to come."

Crick's family hopes to see the medal displayed publicly after its sale; however, Kindra Crick acknowledged that a public auction offered no guarantee a buyer would display the award. But she is optimistic, saying those individuals or institutions with enough interest in science to bid on the medal are also likely to display it publicly. [Creative Genius: The World's Greatest Minds]

Crick's family and Heritage Auctions plan to donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the medal and the other items to The Francis Crick Institute, a medical research institute scheduled to open in London in 2015. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the letter will go to benefit the Salk Institute in California, where Francis Crick studied?consciousness?later in his career, Kindra said.

Sixty years later

On Feb. 28, 1953, according to legend, Crick and his colleague James Watson announced that they had discovered the "secret of life" in a pub frequented by other Cambridge University scientists.

This followed Watson's realization that the molecular bonds between the two types of base pairs in DNA ? adenine with thymine and cytosine with guanine ? were identical in shape, suggesting a double helix with complementary halves, Watson recounts in "The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix" (Simon & Schuster, 2012).

This discovery was the result of a combination of approaches; Watson and Crick built models, trying to determine how the molecules known to make up DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) fit together. Meanwhile, two of their colleagues, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, created images by bouncing X-rays off DNA crystals.

One of Franklin's images,?called Photograph 51, provided key evidence of a helical shape.

Crick, Watson and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in 1962. Franklin did not because she passed away in 1958, and the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously.

Form means function

In the years prior to this discovery, scientists knew of the existence of DNA (a type of molecule known as a nucleic acid), but not what it looked like or its true function. They also knew genes carried traits from generation to generation, but many scientists believed genes to be made of proteins, said Jan Witkowski, executive director of the Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

The discovery of the structure of DNA was key to understanding the molecule's function as the code for genes. Watson and Crick understood this, but when they described their discovery in a paper in the journal Nature in April 1953, they wrote coyly of the implications: "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for genetic material." [Code of Life: Photos of DNA Structures]

However, in the letter to 12-year-old Michael, dated March 19, 1953, Crick drew a diagram spelling out the scientists' theory of how DNA replicated: the double helix and its base-pair rungs separated to create templates for new strands.

"In other words, we think we have found the basic copying mechanism by which life comes from life," Crick wrote to his son. The scientists signed the letter, which appears in "The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix," "lots of love, Daddy."

A geneticist himself, Witkowski lists the discovery of the structure of DNA as one of the three most pivotal accomplishments in biology, along with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and?Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance. ?

"Of course, it wasn't so much what each discovery was in itself, but what avenues it opened up and what it led on to," said Witkowski, who with Alexander Gann, edited the "Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix."

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Video: Sequester squabble: Anticipating spending cuts

>>> but the reality is that this is going to happen on friday. the president and the senate are not going to get a bill passed and to you and have your chamber approve that bill before friday. i mean, the sequester is going to happen.

>> at this point, i would agree. it looks that way. but hope springs eternal .

>> welcome back to "hardball." that was speaker john boehner last night in an interview with cbs. those spending cuts will happen it would seem. and president obama was on capitol hill today to unveil the statue on parks. he's not meeting until friday night. winston churchill said there's two kinds of success. initial and ultimate. it depends on which they will find. robert gibbs of course is famous. he served as president obama 's first white house press secretary . and beat me on jeopardy. and michael steele is the former chair of the republican committee. both are msnbc in house thinkers. this is important. the public isn't liking this subject. i don't like it. i don't want to hear about it again. but friday night there's going to be this dramatic sort of sitting together. the president is going to sit with these leaders. what can possibly get done before midnight when the act is already in effect basically? the government's going to stop spending $85 billion.

>> i don't think anything's going to happen.

>> why did the president call them down to meet?

>> i think quite frankly they're starting the negotiations for what's going to happen a few weeks or a few months into this when people start feeling the real pain in these communities. i don't think it's theater. i think it's the beginning of how we're ultimately going to get out of this. nobody's going to move at this point unless republicans are going to talk about tax revenue to make this balanced.

>> and democrats are willing?

>> democrats are willing to expect spending cuts and do a lot more on entitlements and walk away from tax revenue . nobody's going to do that.

>> who goes through the door first here, right?

>> yep.

>> why respect learen't leaders able to get through the door at the same time?

>> because they're largely idiots. and the fact of the matter is they allowed this thing to get to this point and lose control of it, quite frankly . you hit the right word. this is theater. this is the president coming to the table on this after the fact. why not --

>> let me -- we all think we're smarter than politicians. sometimes they operate under scary conditions. i think john boehner is scared most of the time. listen to what ron johnson -- now, he's a tea party candidate guy. he's a senator from wisconsin. he told fox news earlier this week that speaker bainoehnerboehner's in trouble with his own party. let's listen to ron johnson . decide if he's right.

>> i don't quite honestly believe that speaker boehner would be speaker if that happens. i think he would lose the speakership.

>> does he have a gun to his head?

>> yeah, he does. look. we just raised $300 billion in taxes.

>> on the top 1%.

>> you raised taxes. go to the fundamentals, chris. i don't care if it's the top 1% or the bottom 50%.

>> the top cares.

>> i'm sure you do care.

>> let's not make conjecture part of this show.

>> that is an issue for a lot of the republican leaders in the house.

>> so the word tax is

>> it's not just the word tax. it's the idea we've raised taxes and we haven't gotten cuts in spending.

>> ronald reagan put together a tax reform bill that got rid of a lot of loopholes. so since when is tax reform bad?

>> it's not bad. the problem is we had a huge cut for ten years that created this spending cut problem that we were trying to dig out of. we're trying to remember the economic tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 that were supposed to create this fabulous economy. i'll let the people of america judge the efficacy of those tack cuts. you know, michael you talk about everybody stepping through the door at the same time. even as you say republicans are not putting revenue on the table. senator johnson's comment was the most insightful and important comment that will happen in washington this week.

>> when he says president boehner isn't alive if they talk taxes?

>> because the republicans can't get out of this box. they do, they guarantee themselves one thing. john boehner would lose his job as speaker. and if someone says let's do more revenue and you're republican, the only thing you're going to guarantee is a primary challenge from the right and probably a loss.

>> and i submit the other side of that box is a president who cannot put real cuts in entitlement reform on the table with his base.

>> you think that's actually true?

>> if it's not true, why doesn't he do it? where is the --

>> i'm with you in a sense. i think he can. because i think big city liberal democrats even if they see a deal on the table, a lot will vote for it. as the tea party fearing.

>> let's test that and see if it's true.

>> am i right or wrong? would the liberals go along with it if there was a deal?

>> so you're going with a --

>> yes, the president would.

>> this is good. progress.

>> the president's put changed cpi, a better way of calculating --

>> explain.

>> basically again, it's a better way of calculating -- more accurate way --

>> to figure out what's in the bag. it decides what inflation rate effects the average person.

>> right. here's my question. we know the president's going to put that on the table. tell me. boehner just sat with scott pelley . pick a journalist, anybody. what revenue are you putting on the table?

>> he wanted to cut -- he wanted to raise taxes for the top 1%. we did.

>> this is the game. this is the game.

>> this is not the game. tell me what cuts have we made? what cuts have we made? okay. the president is for change cpi. where is it? i don't see the proposal. i don't see the bill. is harry reid presenting that?

>> let's take a look at this la latest polling. rather than emphasizing the country by a five point margin they think obama is focused on unity over partisanship. when we asked whether americans agree with what republicans are proposing to do nearly 6 in 10 disagree with the republicans. nobody is mother teresa here. nobody thinks they're sticking their neck out any further than they have to pop but why do the republicans -- why is your brand of your party so sticky right now.

>> because we have messaged this horribly.

>> what's the message they're not getting out?

>> it's been all over the place.

>> what is the right message?

>> the right message is to really -- as we should have said from the beginning focus on how to create jobs in the country and tie that to spending. we've not done that. we've not given a way forward that really lays out exactly what the cost is to this economy for the level of spending that we've been doing.

>> i'm going back to --

>> can i make one final point?

>> sure.

>> why is it when we put on the table a serious discussion about cutting the spending of this country, all of a sudden that's partisan and we're not --

>> i know that. i think most of the people -- i do --

>> to be fair, michael, we have to do three things to get our fiscal house in order. we have to reduce spending, we have to do something on entitlements, and something else on revenue. i think the point of the sequester is this is taking a meat ax to the budget. this is not -- hold on. this is not identifying things that we know don't work and we should eliminate. i mean, this --

>> this was your proposal. this came from the white house .

>> here's the game again.

>> okay.

>> you know why you're upset and he's not? you know why he's playing this game and you're not? because remember --

>> some people are serious about spending.

>> and in the beginning carter benefitted. he beat teddy kennedy with this. as these things drag on, drag on for months, they blame the top guy. they just do.

>> there's no game here.

>> he says our message isn't right but now his message is let's blame somebody else for how we got in the mess.

>> i'm just pointing out a fact to you. i'm just saying. you want to ignore the role of the white house putting this in place.

>> is the president doing everything right here?

>> no. nobody is doing everything right.

>> can you say the president's not doing everything right here?

>> no, he can't.

>> i just did.

>> then do. can i hear you?

>> i said nobody is doing everything right. everybody's going to get mud on their shirt.

>> i feel that.

>> let's hope this isn't a game. let's hope this is a series of serious proposals.

>> when they start closing down government spending in defense and those people in stores start closing, we'll see impact. thank you for joining us.

>>> up next, republican tactics only mccarthy could love. there he is. and he's back. he's got a new name and

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IMF to cut U.S., global growth forecasts if sequester implemented

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, was briefly hospitalized due to her bipolar disorder, the actress' spokeswoman said on Tuesday after video emerged of Fisher giving an unusual stage performance. The video came from a show Fisher gave aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean last week, according to celebrity website TMZ, which posted the clip. The clip shows Fisher, 56, singing "Skylark" and "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," at times appearing to struggle to remember the lyrics. ...

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After 2 days of big gains, stocks turn mixed

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, photo, a trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Stocks are edging higher in early trading on Wall Street, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, held back by a weak economic growth report for the final quarter of 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The stock market on Thursday plodded rather than soared, flicking between small ups and downs after two days of triple-digit gains.

Big-name companies reported higher quarterly earnings, and the government reported that the jobless claims are falling and that the economy did better last year than first expected. But Washington's budget battle cast a pall over the market, with spending cuts set to automatically kick in Friday and no sign that the two political parties might work out their differences beforehand.

The Dow Jones industrial average darted between small gains and losses in early trading. At mid-morning, it was down three to 14,072. That tamped down some of the buzz from the last two days about when it might top its record high. The Dow hit its highest point, 14,164.53, in October 2007, before the effects of the financial crisis had manifested themselves.

Also at midmorning, the Standard & Poor's 500 was up two at 1,518. The Nasdaq composite edged up five to 3,167.

The economic data, while enough to edge the market higher for parts of the morning, painted a picture of investors' low expectations more than one of robust growth.

The government said the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the last three months of 2012. That's hardly ideal, but it's better than the previous estimate. Originally, the government thought the economy had shrunk 0.1 percent in the period.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid also fell last week, which economists described as mildly encouraging.

"We still have work to do, still a lot of headwinds to face," said Steve Sachs, head of capital markets at ProShares in Bethesda, Md. "But long story short, we're in a better position now than we were three years ago."

The past two days have been good for the stock market. The Dow gained a combined 291 points after reports showed that Americans are more confident and are buying more homes. Investors were also relieved by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's avowal that the Fed will keep trying to prop up the economy with bond purchases and other programs, although that also does signify that the Fed thinks the economy is doing poorly.

In Washington, lawmakers were preparing for another fiscal cliff. Automatic government budget cuts are set to take effect Friday, slashing spending in the defense industry and elsewhere. The cuts are happening because Democrats and Republicans haven't been able to compromise over the budget, and Thursday gave no indication that they will do so any time soon. Congressional leaders weren't scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama on the matter until Friday, after the cuts have already kicked in.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged down to 1.89 percent from 1.90 percent late Wednesday.

Among companies making big moves:

?Groupon, the coupons website, plunged 21 percent after reporting late Wednesday that its quarterly loss had expanded. The stock fell $1.26 to $4.72.

?J.C. Penney fell 19 percent. Investors were unnerved by the quarterly loss the department store reported late Wednesday, which was larger than they were expecting. The stock dropped $4.10 to $17.06.

?A number of retailers and restaurants reported results Thursday morning. Wendy's, Domino's and the clothing chain Chico's were all up after reporting higher profit and revenue.

Associated Press

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