Pianist Van Cliburn has died at 78

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY

Pianist Van Cliburn died Wednesday at age 78 of bone cancer, his publicist confirms. The music legend became famous in 1958 at the young age of 23 when he won an international piano competition in Moscow at the height of the Cold War, returning home to a parade in his honor and the beginning of five decades of fame.

"Van Cliburn was an international legend for over five decades, a?great humanitarian and a brilliant musician whose light will continue to shine through his extraordinary legacy," publicist Mary Lou Falcone said in a statement. "He will be missed by all who knew and admired him, and by countless people he never met."

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Legendary pianist Van Cliburn is seen here in 2012.

Harvey Lavan Cliburn took his nickname from his middle name. Born in Louisiana in 1934, he came into the public eye when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition, held in Moscow in 1958 as the Cold War raged. Though just 23, in a sense he had been preparing for the contest for a decade, making his orchestral debut in Houston at age 12, entering Juilliard at 17, and playing Carnegie Hall at 20.

"The lanky young man from Texas stunned the world by traveling to Moscow and winning the Soviet Union's most prestigious piano competition," wrote Tim Madigan in Cliburn's hometown newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 2012. "He had done so by playing Russia's most beloved music. The Cold War thawed a little then."

Despite the heated political climate, Cliburn stayed above the fray. "Oh, I never thought about all that," he told the New York Times in 2008. "I was just so involved with the sweet and friendly people who were so passionate about music."

When Cliburn returned to the United States the victor, he was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York, believed to be the only parade of its kind ever accorded a classical musician.?

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President Barack Obama presents the 2010 National Medal of Arts to Van Cliburn in 2011.

"I appreciate more than you will ever know that you are honoring me, but the thing that thrills me the most is that you are honoring classical music," Cliburn said. "Because I'm only one of many. I'm only a witness and a messenger. Because I believe so much in the beauty, the construction, the architecture invisible, the importance for all generations, for young people to come that it will help their minds, develop their attitudes and give them values. That is why I'm so grateful that you have honored me in that spirit."

After the victory, he reportedly always carried a good-luck five ruble coin once owned by his hero, Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff. Cliburn's later recording of the?Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 became the first classical record to be certified platinum.

Cliburn's many awards include?The Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by President George W. Bush, the National Medal of Arts presented by President Barack Obama, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Russian Order of Friendship presented by President Vladimir Putin on behalf of the Russian people.

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Rick Springfield's Dr. Drake is returning to "GH"!

By Drusilla Moorhouse, TODAY contributor

For fans of Rick Springfield, this is just what the doctor ordered: The "Jessie's Girl" singer is returning to "General Hospital," reprising his role as Dr. Noah Drake.

Even better, reports People, he'll be joined by his son, Liam Springthorpe. (Springfield was born Richard Springthorpe.) The young actor-musician, who will play an undercover cop, isn't expecting to share scenes with his famous father.

Springfield debuted on the ABC soap opera in 1981 -- the same year "Jessie's Girl" topped the charts and earned him a Grammy award for best male rock vocal performance. Since we last saw Noah Drake in March 2012, Springfield says the good doctor has been "going to Doctors Without Borders and going around the world helping people."

"He lost his wife and became a drunk and regretted all these terrible, sinful ways and then cleaned his act up when he almost died from the alcohol," Springfield told People about the troubled neurosurgeon.

Noah Drake returns to Port Charles in April 2013.

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Delaware pageant winner resigns, denies sex tape

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) ? Pageant officials say Miss Delaware Teen USA has resigned amid allegations she appeared in an online sex video.

But Melissa King says she's not stepping down because of the sex video that has surfaced. King, who is 18, told The (Wilmington) News Journal (http://delonline.us/12a6FM2) she was aware of the video, but denies appearing in it.

Pageant officials say King is being represented by Hagerstown attorney J. Gregory Hannigan. The attorney told the newspaper that a statement on the resignation will be issued.

Pageant spokeswoman Dara Busch says the pageant's runner-up will replace King. The pageant's website lists Hailey Lawler of the Newark area as the 2012 runner-up.

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Sterling struggles after UK debt downgrade

LONDON (AP) ? The British pound is recovering after dropping against the world's leading currencies as markets reacted to a downgrade of the U.K.'s cherished triple-A credit rating.

During early trading Monday, sterling dropped to $1.5069 against the dollar ? its lowest level since July 2010 ? before bouncing back to $1.5144. Against the euro, the pound hovered around 18-month lows with one euro worth 0.8745 pound.

The pound was in focus in the wake of last Friday's decision by Moody's to downgrade the U.K.'s credit rating by one notch from the top AAA to AA1. The agency says sluggish growth and rising debt are weakening the British economy's outlook.

Two other major rating agencies ? Fitch and Standard & Poor's ? have also warned that they may downgrade the U.K. as well.

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Preventing chronic pain with stress management

Feb. 25, 2013 ? For chronic pain sufferers, such as people who develop back pain after a car accident, avoiding the harmful effects of stress may be key to managing their condition. This is particularly important for people with a smaller-than-average hippocampus, as these individuals seem to be particularly vulnerable to stress. These are the findings of a study by Dr. Pierre Rainville, PhD in Neuropsychology,

Researcher at the Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de g?riatrie de Montr?al (IUGM) and Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at Universit? de Montr?al, along with ?tienne Vachon-Presseau, a PhD student in Neuropsychology. The study appeared in Brain.

"Cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal glands, is sometimes called the 'stress hormone' as it is activated in reaction to stress. Our study shows that a small hippocampal volume is associated with higher cortisol levels, which lead to increased vulnerability to pain and could increase the risk of developing pain chronicity," explained ?tienne Vachon-Presseau.

As Dr. Pierre Rainville described, "Our research sheds more light on the neurobiological mechanisms of this important relationship between stress and pain. Whether the result of an accident, illness or surgery, pain is often associated with high levels of stress Our findings are useful in that they open up avenues for people who suffer from pain to find treatments that may decrease its impact and perhaps even prevent chronicity. To complement their medical treatment, pain sufferers can also work on their stress management and fear of pain by getting help from a psychologist and trying relaxation or meditation techniques."

Research summary

This study included 16 patients with chronic back pain and a control group of 18 healthy subjects. The goal was to analyze the relationships between four factors: 1) cortisol levels, which were determined with saliva samples; 2) the assessment of clinical pain reported by patients prior to their brain scan (self-perception of pain); 3) hippocampal volumes measured with anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); and 4) brain activations assessed with functional MRI (fMRI) following thermal pain stimulations. The results showed that patients with chronic pain generally have higher cortisol levels than healthy individuals.

Data analysis revealed that patients with a smaller hippocampus have higher cortisol levels and stronger responses to acute pain in a brain region involved in anticipatory anxiety in relation to pain. The response of the brain to the painful procedure during the scan partly reflected the intensity of the patient's current clinical pain condition. These findings support the chronic pain vulnerability model in which people with a smaller hippocampus develop a stronger stress response, which in turn increases their pain and perhaps their risk of suffering from chronic pain. This study also supports stress management interventions as a treatment option for chronic pain sufferers.

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LaHood Cries Sequester; McCain's Benghazi Appetite In Insatiable

Outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood played the role of town criar warning the peasants of the coming sequester cuts on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. LaHood rang his bell and warned of the 4 percent reduction coming to his old department that would spell layoffs for federal employees. Oh, and also, it will make flying even worse. "In the end, there has to be some kind of furlough of air traffic controllers, and that then will also begin to curtail or eliminate the opportunity for them to guide planes in and out of airports," LaHood said. He said they're already looking at where they can possibly make cuts if a deal isn't reached. "This sequester is very serious business, and it requires us to make the reductions that we're making," LaHood said. "It requires us as painful as it is to furlough the people that we're going to have to furlough.? And we're taking it very seriously." But just because the Transportation Department is getting prepared and LaHood is playing Paul Revere doesn't mean he doesn't think a deal is off the table. Far from it. LaHood still thinks there's time on the clock for Republicans a Democrats to get together and get a deal done. (Oh, good, another last minute deal, said everyone still suffering from fiscal cliff flashbacks.) On NBC's Meet the Press, LaHood seemed optimistic this might happen. "If Republicans and Democrats get together this week and take a look at the president's plan, which he put on the table to save $85 billion, this does not have to happen," LaHood said "There is still time to reach a compromise." LaHood really believes in the possibility of a deal getting done. "I hope so. I do.?It's been done before. It was done at the 11th hour to save us from going under the fiscal cliff.?It can be done again.?And it can be done by Friday."

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One person who doesn't think the sequester is that big of a deal is Sen. Tom Coburn. On Fox News Sunday,?Coburn said he feels the administration is "absolutely" exaggerating the sequester's potential effects. If anything, he feels the cuts should happen. "There?s easy ways to cut this money that the American people will never feel... not cutting spending is going to be disastrous for our country," Coburn said.

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Sen. John McCain said he expects Chuck Hagel to finally be confirmed as Defense Secretary this week on CNN's State of the Union. "The president deserves an up-or-down-vote," McCain said. "Now Democrats will say, 'We've never done that before, well they have, and they did with [John] Bolton and John Tower and others. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't give Chuck Hagel an up-or-down vote, and we should." Then McCain gave his passive aggressive outlook on the chances that Hagel actually gets positively voted through when the vote does happen. "I think it will happen, barring some additional revelation concerning his comments about Israel and all those other unfortunate things he's said in the past." The topic eventually switched over to the President's other pending national security nomination, CIA nominee John Brennan. On that, McCain thinks Republicans may try and delay it for more Benghazi answers just like they did to Hagel. "Look, I don't want to put a hold on anybody. But the American people deserve answers about Benghazi. There are so many questions that are still out there, including what was the president doing the night Benghazi happened?" McCain said. Translation: Look, I don't want to do this thing, but I'm totally going to do this thing because it worked the last time. "He needs to answer these questions. And they say, why now? It's the only time we have maximum leverage -- that's just a fact of life around Washington," McCain said. McCain also wants Brennan to address the?waterboarding?answer he gave in his first hearing again. "Mr. Brennan said that he was opposed to waterboarding and torture, but at the same time he said it had saved lives," McCain said. "I'd like to know what lives were saved, because the information I have is it saved no one's life. There's a lot of misinformation."

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Sen. Claire McCaskill thinks it's pretty gross how some people dragged Chuck Hagel's name through the mud during his confirmation process. On Fox News Sunday, she acknowledged that Hagel didn't do well in his hearing, but argued there's been enough belly aching and he should be allowed to do his job already. "Did [Hagel] have the best day that day? Of course not," McCaskill said. "But having said that, he?s qualified [and] I think it?s despicable the way his character has been impugned by other people." She thinks it's about time Hagel be confirmed. "It?s time for us to come together and unite behind him so he can do the best job possible," McCaskill said.?

Rep. Mike Rogers is the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and also a Republican. He's not excited about this sequester business, not one bit, for it means bad things for the Defense departement. On ABC's This Week, Rogers argued for some flexibility to allow departments to try and lighten the blow should the sequester axe fall. "There will be an impact on national security, there's no doubt," Rogers said. "So it's really only 2 cents on the dollar over the whole federal budget, but they've scrunched that down into seven months and highlighted, or at least put most of the burden, on the Defense Department.?So that is going to have an impact."

Sen. Patrick Leahy said the Senate will eventually?have some kind of gun bill passed on State of the Union. "I think we will,"?the Vermont Democrat said. But it's going to have to require some team work, something the Senate and the House haven't received very much praise for recently. "I don't want it to be a partisan bill -- I'm working with both Republicans and Democrats," he said. "Unless we work with both Republicans and Democrats, we'll pass nothing." But Leahy implied Republicans are holding out for new border security measures before a gun legislation will ever pass, something he thinks they need to give up on. "If you say there must be total [border] security before we can move forward, that's never going to happen," Leahy said. "This administration, the Obama administration, spent more on border security than any administration in history - there are still going to be some people getting through."

Education Secretary Arne Duncan attacked lawmakers for the never-ending fiscal game that's putting pressure on school districts to constantly expects cuts in federal spending and leading to teachers losing their jobs on CBS' Face the Nation. "There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can't come back this fall," Duncan said. Some school districts are already laying people off because they expect Congress and the Senate to let the sequester happen, which would cut federal funding. These are teachers. Won't someone think of the children? "We don't have any ability with dumb cuts like this to figure out what the right thing to do is," Duncan said. "It just means a lot more children will not get the kinds of services and opportunities they need, and as many as 40,000 teachers could lose their jobs." What's at the forefront of Duncan's argument is that avoiding the sequester shouldn't be this hard. "The fact that this is so easily avoidable is why I'm so angry," he said. "If folks would just work together, compromise, find the middle ground, we wouldn't put districts and families and children through this much trauma. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever." Duncan said the inability for Republicans and Democrats to work together is the root of his anger. "Sequester was set up to be painful to everybody, recognizing the dysfunction of Congress, to be so painful it would force people to come to the table," Duncan said. "And the fact that people in Congress are so tone-deaf to what's really going on in their districts ... that to me is unimaginable."

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Consumers Taking on More Credit Card Debt

Consumers? borrowing habits took a turn for the worse in the final three months of last year, as late payments and outstanding balances rose significantly. However, experts say this is in line with seasonal movements and may not indicate a new emerging trend.

The average amount of debt carried by consumers in the fourth quarter of 2012 rose 2.5 percent to $5,122 from the previous three months, when balances stood at an average of $4,966, according to new data from the credit monitoring bureau TransUnion. However, it should be noted that the totals seen at the end of last year were also down 1.6 percent from the $5,204 observed during the same quarter in 2011.

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At the same time though, the national rate of delinquencies totaling 90 days or more rose to 0.85 percent of all accounts, up from 0.78 percent in the same quarter the previous year, the report said. It also increased somewhat significantly from the third quarter of 2012, when it stood at just 0.75 percent.

?The fourth quarter traditionally results in higher credit card balances and delinquencies, much of it to do with the holiday shopping season,? said Ezra Becker, vice president of research and consulting in TransUnion?s financial services business unit. ?Though serious delinquencies have risen seven basis points in the last year, average credit card debt has actually dropped, which is a sign that consumers continue to manage their credit well. Both credit card delinquencies and balances are below historic norms.?

The trends seen now are still better than norms seen in recent years, the report said. For every fourth quarter over the previous decade, average 90-day delinquency stood at 1.06 percent of all outstanding balances, and borrowers owed an average of $5,389, both of which are significantly higher than what is being observed today.

Further, the latest findings also showed that consumers are once again steering away from opening new credit cards, as originations in the third quarter of 2012 slipped 2.4 percent on an annual basis, the report said. Further, the rate of new cards granted specifically to those with low credit ratings slipped somewhat to 30.51 percent of all accounts from the previous year?s 30.63 percent.

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Consumers drastically changed their borrowing habits during and immediately following the recession, but experts have long predicted that bottomed-out delinquency rates and debts would begin climbing in subsequent years as Americans slowly regained their financial footing.

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Tebow cancels talk at controversial Dallas church

DALLAS (AP) ? New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow has backed out of an appearance at a Baptist mega church in Dallas run by a pastor who has created controversy with his remarks about gays and other faiths.

Tebow tweeted Thursday that he canceled a scheduled April 28 appearance at First Baptist Church due to "new information that has been brought to my attention."

"I will continue to use the platform God has blessed me with to bring Faith, Hope and Love to all those needing a brighter day," Tebow wrote.

The Rev. Robert Jeffress, First Baptist's pastor, confirmed in a phone interview that Tebow called him Wednesday night to cancel.

Jeffress said Tebow told him he would like to speak at First Baptist at some point, but "he needed to avoid controversy right now for personal and professional reasons."

Jeffress has preached that gay sex is sinful, Mormonism is a cult and Islam promotes violence and pedophilia. He said Thursday that First Baptist was being mischaracterized as a "hate church," and that the church's teachings were consistent with historic Christian beliefs.

Tebow wasn't going to speak about anything controversial, Jeffress said.

"We had planned for him to speak very positively about the difference Jesus Christ had made in his life," Jeffress said.

Tebow won two BCS championships and the Heisman Trophy at Florida, but he has struggled to make it in the NFL. He barely played last season after the Jets traded for him from the Denver Broncos, where he started much of the season in 2011 and won a playoff game.

Tebow is a devout Christian who has built a large following through his faith. He has addressed church audiences before. Last year, he spoke to about 15,000 people gathered at an outdoor Easter service north of Austin.

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Bees under the Microscope

Honey Bee Mid and Hind Gut

Much has been written about the continuing disappearance of the honey bee, the corresponding demise of commercial beekeeping and the various culprits that account for the decline or colony collapse disorder (CCD) as it is known in the trade. Ask a dozen beekeepers what is causing CCD and you will receive as many responses: Pesticides, fungi, excessive antibiotics, poor husbandry, loss of habitat, cell phones or the inevitable repetition of History. Hang on! History?

Noah Wilson-Rich Ph.D, the founder of Best Bees, has found that honey bees have endured ?great die offs? on a regular basis. This current decline may just be another manifestation. It is a heated debate that continues alongside a variety of initiatives to solve the conundrum throughout US universities and research institutions.

Gut sample of Beebread

Meanwhile, the backyard beekeeper ? the humble amateur ? has quietly been on the rise. While statistics are hard to come by, the circumstantial evidence is mounting. In Virginia, for example, the number of hives has doubled over the past decade or so. Local beekeeper clubs are seeing record enrollment thanks in part to the publicity surrounding Michelle Obama?s hives in the White House garden. Williams Sonoma?s new Agrarian catalog focuses on beehives (and chicken coops), while the rise of homesteading and the Local Food movement both contribute to beekeeping?s increasing popularity. All intertwine to encourage backyard beekeepers.

Bee Hairs, Nosema Ceranae Spores (white ovals) and Pollen (larger)

Kim Flottum, managing editor of Bee Culture and a long-time pillar of the beekeeping community has maintained a combination of statistics from which he extrapolates that ?backyard beekeeping has grown 30-32% over the past seven years?. He estimates that over half of that growth has been in the past three years. ?Most of the bees are West of the Mississippi where the commercial beekeepers are based. Most of the beekeepers are East of the Mississippi.? In other words, the recent increase in the number of beekeepers is concentrated in the major urban areas in the East, not least due to the relaxation of city ordinances over beekeeping.

This confluence of urban beekeepers and the search for explanations into CCD has led to another trend. Both the newer urban beekeepers and the more traditional, rural beekeepers are increasingly turning to more sophisticated approaches to colony management, to science and in particular, to the practical application of the microscope.

Nosema Ceranae Spores

The newer urban beekeeper is more comfortable with such technology while more traditional beekeepers are turning to microscopes due to necessity. There is a growing awareness of the need for more accurate and earlier diagnosis, of the benefits of immediate on site analysis and subsequently of swifter, targeted treatment of potentially disastrous hive infections.

Part of this growing acceptance of microscopes among beekeepers is the dawning realization that microscopes are not as daunting as their High School memories suggest! In part, it is because the cost of microscopes has fallen.

Nosema Ceranae Spores

The cost is also defrayed by savings on laboratory analysis fees and perhaps more importantly, by the savings implicit in earlier treatment that decreases the risk of CCD. Beekeeper clubs across the country are also investing in microscopes so that more beekeepers have access to what previously was not in their individual budgets.

Many beekeepers, however, still rely on experience and perception alone. With no diagnostic tools beyond their eyeballs, there is a tendency to diagnose hive infections at a more advanced stage of infection. As a result, heavier treatments may be applied with lower rates of success and higher risks of long-term resistance to treatment. Worse, many beekeepers simply dose their hives with antibiotics with no idea of the nature and scale of the problem at all.

Randy Oliver, a leading guru at the forefront of the juxtaposition of beekeeping and science, started an article in 2012 with, ?It is greatly surprising to me ??.how few (beekeepers) make the effort to monitor the levels of parasites in their colonies! Even more surprising is that, despite the considerable expense, many blindly treat their colonies without any idea as to whether their bees are actually infected!? At a 2011 Eastern Apiculture Society conference, a surprising number of beekeepers confessed to this type of blind dosing every Spring ?just in case? their hives were infected. When asked if they do the same with their children, they looked puzzled!

So to what end are beekeepers using microscopes? First and foremost, a compound microscope is a highly effective diagnostic tool for infections. For example, the fungal infection of Nosema ceranae has proved particularly deadly over the past few years. It has been a prime suspect in the search for an explanation for CCD.

Amoeba (larger 'fried eggs') with honey bee parts

Traditionally, beekeepers have responded to nosema infections without an accurate feel for the stage or degree of infection. Now with a gut sample that is easily prepared on site in the beeyards, they can self-diagnose using a rechargeable LED compound microscope at 400x magnification.

The results are immediate. The Nosema ceranae spores look like horse racing ovals and stand out like beacons. With the addition of a simple hemocytometer, the beekeeper can gain an accurate spore count and, therefore, a more accurate picture of the degree of infection. Within five minutes, the beekeeper has gone from pure guesswork to an informed opinion.

Agave Pollen

Pollen analysis is another common use for a compound microscope. Melissopalynology, or the study of pollen in honey, is not just for the laboratory experts. A simple compound microscope can help identify the dominant pollen in any beekeeper?s honey, although with 250,000 different plants used by the honey bee in the US, most beekeepers may need some point of reference for accurate identification. Pollen analysis helps ensure correct labeling while it is also commonly used in forensic analysis, archeology and pure honey research.

Agavaceae Pollen - Agave havardiana

Low power stereo microscopes are also used for colony management. For example, almost all beehives suffer from mite infections. While eyeballing works well for seeing if mites are present, a stereo microscope is useful to determine what the mite?s identity and therefore, what treatment is required.

Other applications include basic anatomy of the honey bee, training, and for the more advanced practitioner, artificial insemination of the Queen Bee. More recently, Dino-Lite digital microscopes have proved useful tools given their hand-held nature, greater portability and wider range of magnification than the typical stereo microscope.

Asteraceae Pollen - Porophyllum scoparium

Microscopes are but one tool in the beekeeper?s armory to combat the many vicissitudes that face bee hives. They are a small tool within the context of the work that needs to be done in order to resolve the plight of the honey bee in North America. However, they do offer some hope not least because they are simple to use, affordable and widely available for even the newest beekeeper. They are an enabling technology that can lead to improved colony management ? which in itself may lie the solution to the demise of the honey bee.

Images: courtesy of Randy Oliver, and by Gretchen D. Jones, Ph.D., United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Area-wide Pest Management Research Unit

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Josh Duhamel: Seeing Fergie?s Ultrasound Makes Pregnancy Real

"It's very exciting. Seeing that ultrasound is unlike anything you've ever seen. You're like, 'Wow, it's mine,'" the actor tells Yahoo! omg! during a press junket for his new film Safe Haven.

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How to Curb Your Clutter (and Reduce Stress In the Process)

Does this sound familiar? You're on your way out the door and can't find your keys. Looking around, you find stacks of junk mail, magazines, clothes you've worn once but are not ready to wash. After 15 minutes of searching, you're late for that lunch appointment. Now imagine this. You're up late finishing a presentation, and you're really struggling. You look at your computer desktop and it's a total mess. You feel like you're not in control.

Letting physical or digital things pile up can cause you a lot of stress.

Critical Mass of Clutter

Here's what I think happens. When you reach a certain level of clutter, you start experiencing significantly more stress. This is how I imagine it:

The amount of clutter at some arbitrary point A is the "critical mass of clutter." At this level of messiness, you to start losing bills or feel like you can't quickly clean up when it becomes distracting to the work at hand. In other words, going from pristine to a causes you some stress level of C, but getting to the slightly messier B suddenly doubles the stress to D.

Even without catalysts like the need to find something or an imposing work deadline, this heightened level of clutter also makes life less enjoyable. You start to decide against inviting friends over after a nice dinner out. You can't lounge in your favorite chair because it's now a receptacle for miscellany. You don't have enough room on your desk to draw.

Worse, clutter also creates a negative feedback loop that makes you susceptible to creating an even bigger mess. Economists who study littering have some interesting insights here. In one paper, two economists create a model that argues that those living in environments with lots of litter don't mind leaving a piece of litter because it only makes their surroundings a little bit worse (Anderson and Francois 1997). A more recent paper (Dur and Vollaard 2012) reviews numerous studies done on littering and concludes that:

With a few exceptions, these experimental studies find that people litter significantly more often in littered environments as compared to clean environments.

In sum: Critical mass of clutter feeds stress events, reduces quality of life, and creates negative loop of mess creation.

A Proposal: Maintenance Mondays

One of the challenging things about being at a startup (and other high velocity environments) is that there's always something to do in the never-ending lists of next actions. This means that maintenance tasks like improving performance or keeping our shared Dropbox folder organized are never a particularly urgent or important at any given moment?until something bad happens.

We recently started doing Maintenance Mondays at Astrid, inspired by our co-founder Tim's themed days. On maintenance days, our engineers work on addressing our tech debt, performance, bug fixes, and polish. Performance issues can be ignored in the short run, but piled up they can suddenly crash the website. Designating a day to address "maintenance" has been a good model for my personal life too. I've been using Maintenance Mondays to clear out my desktop and tidy up my room.

One Step Further: the One-Minute Rule

I also recently adopted the One-Minute Rule, which makes maintenance days easier. The rule is simple: if something takes a minute or less to complete, do it now. That means hanging up the coat when you take it off and filing a receipt you pull out of your pocket.

The trick is to create rules that take decision-making out of keeping your life in control. If it's 3pm on Monday, it's maintenance time. If putting away this box of cereal takes less than a minute, in the pantry it goes.

Critical Mass of Clutter | Henry Tsai

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Kenai has a rather prolific history and booming real estate market, as it is known worldwide for its oil, natural gas, ever-growing tourism and flourishing fishing industry, both commercial and private. The Borough has forty-four schools, all of which distinguish themselves with high standards and national ratings, with an impressive teacher/student ratio. The University of Alaska also manages the Kenai Peninsula Community College. Fishing and tourism services, as well as civil service, schools and various other city office positions make up the major employment opportunities in the community.

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Whether you?re new to the Kenai Peninsula and considering buying a home on the spectacular Kenai River, a resident buying additional property, a first time buyer or selling property, the professionals at Kenai Peninsula Real Estate have lived here for years and know the area inside and out. They understand and abide by a code of ethics, professionalism and integrity. Call or email Chris Druesedow for more information on your next Soldotna or Kenai real estate property transaction.

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Powerful people are looking out for their future selves

Public release date: 19-Feb-2013
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Would you prefer $120 today or $154 in one year? Your answer may depend on how powerful you feel, according to new research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Many people tend to forego the larger reward and opt for the $120 now, a phenomenon known as temporal discounting. But research conducted by Priyanka Joshi and Nathanael Fast of the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business suggests that people who feel powerful are more likely to wait for the bigger reward, in part because they feel a stronger connection with their future selves.

In the first of four experiments, the researchers randomly assigned participants to be a team manager (high-power role) or a team worker (low-power role) in a group activity. Afterwards, the participants were asked to make a series of choices between receiving $120 now or increasing amounts of money ($137, $154, $171, $189, $206, $223, and $240) in one year.

On average, low-power team workers were only willing to take the future reward if it was at least $88 more than the immediate one. High-power team managers, on the other hand, were willing to wait for future rewards that were only $52 more than the immediate one.

Joshi and Fast speculated that power holders may be willing to wait for the larger rewards because they feel more connected with their future selves, a consequence of experiencing less uncertainty about their futures along with an increased tendency to see the big picture.

In line with their hypothesis, the second experiment showed that the relationship between power and reduced temporal discounting could be explained, at least in part, by participants' connectedness to their future selves.

A third study showed that powerful people also show this pattern with non-monetary rewards.

In the final study, Joshi and Fast took their research outside the laboratory, asking dozens of people about how powerful they feel in their everyday jobs and how much money they have socked away. After accounting for various factors including total income and socioeconomic status, the researchers found that people who felt more powerful at work and who felt more connected with their future selves had amassed greater lifetime savings.

While powerful people may feel more connected with their future selves and are therefore more likely to save money, they also tend to be overconfident decision-makers.

"It is important to foster awareness of all of power's effects," the researchers conclude, "otherwise, the power holder may make overly risky albeit well-intentioned decisions on behalf of their future self."

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For more information about this study, please contact: Priyanka D. Joshi at priyankj@usc.edu.

The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Power and Reduced Temporal Discounting" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.

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Association for Psychological Science

Would you prefer $120 today or $154 in one year? Your answer may depend on how powerful you feel, according to new research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Many people tend to forego the larger reward and opt for the $120 now, a phenomenon known as temporal discounting. But research conducted by Priyanka Joshi and Nathanael Fast of the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business suggests that people who feel powerful are more likely to wait for the bigger reward, in part because they feel a stronger connection with their future selves.

In the first of four experiments, the researchers randomly assigned participants to be a team manager (high-power role) or a team worker (low-power role) in a group activity. Afterwards, the participants were asked to make a series of choices between receiving $120 now or increasing amounts of money ($137, $154, $171, $189, $206, $223, and $240) in one year.

On average, low-power team workers were only willing to take the future reward if it was at least $88 more than the immediate one. High-power team managers, on the other hand, were willing to wait for future rewards that were only $52 more than the immediate one.

Joshi and Fast speculated that power holders may be willing to wait for the larger rewards because they feel more connected with their future selves, a consequence of experiencing less uncertainty about their futures along with an increased tendency to see the big picture.

In line with their hypothesis, the second experiment showed that the relationship between power and reduced temporal discounting could be explained, at least in part, by participants' connectedness to their future selves.

A third study showed that powerful people also show this pattern with non-monetary rewards.

In the final study, Joshi and Fast took their research outside the laboratory, asking dozens of people about how powerful they feel in their everyday jobs and how much money they have socked away. After accounting for various factors including total income and socioeconomic status, the researchers found that people who felt more powerful at work and who felt more connected with their future selves had amassed greater lifetime savings.

While powerful people may feel more connected with their future selves and are therefore more likely to save money, they also tend to be overconfident decision-makers.

"It is important to foster awareness of all of power's effects," the researchers conclude, "otherwise, the power holder may make overly risky albeit well-intentioned decisions on behalf of their future self."

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For more information about this study, please contact: Priyanka D. Joshi at priyankj@usc.edu.

The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Power and Reduced Temporal Discounting" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.

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Smoking cessation in old age: Less heart attacks and strokes within 5 years

Public release date: 20-Feb-2013
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Professor Hermann Brenner and colleagues analyzed the data of 8.807 individuals aged between 50 and 74 years using data of Saarland citizens. "We were able to show that the risk of smokers for cardiovascular diseases is more than twice that of non-smokers. However, former smokers are affected at almost the same low rate as people of the same age who never smoked," says Brenner. "Moreover, smokers are affected at a significantly younger age than individuals who have never smoked or have stopped smoking." For example, a 60-year-old smoker has the same risk of myocardial infarction as a 79-year-old non-smoker and the same risk of stroke as a 69-year-old non-smoker. Dose and duration of tobacco consumption also have an impact on disease risk. The more cigarettes a smoker consumes per day over a prolonged period of time, the higher his or her risk raises.

The study shows that the positive effect of smoking cessation becomes noticeable within a short period of time. "Compared to individuals who continue smoking, the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke is reduced by more than 40 percent already within the first five years after the last cigarette," says Carolin Gellert, first author of the study. The results suggest that smoking cessation programs, which have concentrated on younger participants up to now, should be expanded to reach out to older people as well.

Last year, Hermann Brenner and his colleagues had already studied the impact of smoking on the overall mortality of people beyond the age of 60. They had used data from international studies without German participation. In their latest study, they have evaluated data from the so-called ESTHER Study whose participants are from Saarland, a state of Germany. They included those individuals who had not suffered a heart attack or stroke prior to study start and whose health status had been surveyed for up to ten years afterwards. In their evaluation, the scientists also took account of the effects of other factors such as age, gender, alcohol consumption, education and physical exercise as well as blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol levels, body height and weight.

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Carolin Gellert, Ben Schttker, Heiko Mller, Bernd Holleczek, Hermann Brenner: Impact of smoking and quitting on cardiovascular outcomes and risk advancement periods among older adults. Eur J Epidemiol. 2013. doi: 10.1007/s10654-013-9776-0.

The German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) with its more than 2,500 employees is the largest biomedical research institute in Germany. At DKFZ, more than 1,000 scientists investigate how cancer develops, identify cancer risk factors and endeavor to find new strategies to prevent people from getting cancer. They develop novel approaches to make tumor diagnosis more precise and treatment of cancer patients more successful. The staff of the Cancer Information Service (KID) offers information about the widespread disease of cancer for patients, their families, and the general public. Jointly with Heidelberg University Hospital, DKFZ has established the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, where promising approaches from cancer research are translated into the clinic. In the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), one of six German Centers for Health Research, DKFZ maintains translational centers at seven university partnering sites. Combining excellent university hospitals with high-profile research at a Helmholtz Center is an important contribution to improving the chances of cancer patients. DKFZ is a member of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers, with ninety percent of its funding coming from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the remaining ten percent from the State of Baden-Wrttemberg.

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Contact: Sibylle Kohlstdt
s.kohlstaedt@dkfz.de
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

Professor Hermann Brenner and colleagues analyzed the data of 8.807 individuals aged between 50 and 74 years using data of Saarland citizens. "We were able to show that the risk of smokers for cardiovascular diseases is more than twice that of non-smokers. However, former smokers are affected at almost the same low rate as people of the same age who never smoked," says Brenner. "Moreover, smokers are affected at a significantly younger age than individuals who have never smoked or have stopped smoking." For example, a 60-year-old smoker has the same risk of myocardial infarction as a 79-year-old non-smoker and the same risk of stroke as a 69-year-old non-smoker. Dose and duration of tobacco consumption also have an impact on disease risk. The more cigarettes a smoker consumes per day over a prolonged period of time, the higher his or her risk raises.

The study shows that the positive effect of smoking cessation becomes noticeable within a short period of time. "Compared to individuals who continue smoking, the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke is reduced by more than 40 percent already within the first five years after the last cigarette," says Carolin Gellert, first author of the study. The results suggest that smoking cessation programs, which have concentrated on younger participants up to now, should be expanded to reach out to older people as well.

Last year, Hermann Brenner and his colleagues had already studied the impact of smoking on the overall mortality of people beyond the age of 60. They had used data from international studies without German participation. In their latest study, they have evaluated data from the so-called ESTHER Study whose participants are from Saarland, a state of Germany. They included those individuals who had not suffered a heart attack or stroke prior to study start and whose health status had been surveyed for up to ten years afterwards. In their evaluation, the scientists also took account of the effects of other factors such as age, gender, alcohol consumption, education and physical exercise as well as blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol levels, body height and weight.

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Carolin Gellert, Ben Schttker, Heiko Mller, Bernd Holleczek, Hermann Brenner: Impact of smoking and quitting on cardiovascular outcomes and risk advancement periods among older adults. Eur J Epidemiol. 2013. doi: 10.1007/s10654-013-9776-0.

The German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) with its more than 2,500 employees is the largest biomedical research institute in Germany. At DKFZ, more than 1,000 scientists investigate how cancer develops, identify cancer risk factors and endeavor to find new strategies to prevent people from getting cancer. They develop novel approaches to make tumor diagnosis more precise and treatment of cancer patients more successful. The staff of the Cancer Information Service (KID) offers information about the widespread disease of cancer for patients, their families, and the general public. Jointly with Heidelberg University Hospital, DKFZ has established the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, where promising approaches from cancer research are translated into the clinic. In the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), one of six German Centers for Health Research, DKFZ maintains translational centers at seven university partnering sites. Combining excellent university hospitals with high-profile research at a Helmholtz Center is an important contribution to improving the chances of cancer patients. DKFZ is a member of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers, with ninety percent of its funding coming from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the remaining ten percent from the State of Baden-Wrttemberg.

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New Boeing contract splits engineers, tech workers

Workers begin to validate returned ballots at the headquarters of the union for Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Tukwila, Wash. Members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) are voting on a contract offer from the company and whether to authorize a strike. The union represents 23,000 employees, mostly in the Puget Sound region. Negotiations began in April and union members rejected one offer in October. The previous contract expired in November. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Workers begin to validate returned ballots at the headquarters of the union for Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Tukwila, Wash. Members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) are voting on a contract offer from the company and whether to authorize a strike. The union represents 23,000 employees, mostly in the Puget Sound region. Negotiations began in April and union members rejected one offer in October. The previous contract expired in November. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

A pair of ballots are dropped at the headquarters of the union for Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Tukwila, Wash. Members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) are voting on a contract offer from the company and whether to authorize a strike. The union represents 23,000 employees, mostly in the Puget Sound region. Negotiations began in April and union members rejected one offer in October. The previous contract expired in November. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Stickers sit on a table for members at the headquarters of the union for Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Tukwila, Wash. Members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) are voting on a contract offer from the company and whether to authorize a strike. The union represents 23,000 employees, mostly in the Puget Sound region. Negotiations began in April and union members rejected one offer in October. The previous contract expired in November. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Rachel Freeman drops off her ballot at the headquarters of the union for Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Tukwila, Wash. Members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) are voting on a contract offer from the company and whether to authorize a strike. The union represents 23,000 employees, mostly in the Puget Sound region. Negotiations began in April and union members rejected one offer in October. The previous contract expired in November. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

With a model 757 over his shoulder, Ernest Griffin drops his ballot at the headquarters of the union for Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Tukwila, Wash. Members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) are voting on a contract offer from the company and whether to authorize a strike. The union represents 23,000 employees, mostly in the Puget Sound region. Negotiations began in April and union members rejected one offer in October. The previous contract expired in November. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

SEATTLE (AP) ? Boeing Co.'s engineers have accepted a new four-year contract while technical workers rejected their offer and voted to authorize a future strike.

The union representing both groups had recommended rejection of the contract because it would not provide pensions to new employees. They would have a 401k retirement plan instead.

The union called that unacceptable, but the Chicago-based aerospace company said the change was important to its future.

The vote tallied late Tuesday came as the company is trying to solve battery problems that have grounded its new 787s.

The engineers and technical workers in the union work on plans for new planes and solve problems that arise on the factory floor. The two units bargain at the same time, but their contracts are separate and independent agreements, the union noted.

While a strike by the technical workers is not imminent, the vote means the negotiating team can call one at any time, said Bill Dugovich, spokesman for the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace.

The engineers' vote means those 15,500 employees have a new contract in place, Dugovich said. Union negotiators hope to resume contract talks soon on behalf of the 7,400 technical workers, he said.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner said in a statement that the company was pleased with the engineers' vote but "deeply disappointed" in the technical workers' rejection of what he called the company's "best and final" offer.

"The realities of the market require us to make changes so we can invest in new products and keep winning in this competitive environment ..." Conner said in his statement. "That's why our proposal to move future hires to an enhanced 401(k)-style retirement plan is so important, as we have repeatedly emphasized over the course of these negotiations."

Boeing spokesman Doug Alder said the company is legally obligated to have discussions with SPEEA, but he noted Conner's statement about the importance of the 401k transition for future hires.

"That remains our position," Alder said.

Union members rejected one contract offer in October. The previous contract expired in November.

SPEEA went on strike for 40 days in 2000.

"With this second rejection by technical workers of Boeing takeaways, it's time for the company to stop wasting resources and improve its offer to reflect the value and contributions technical workers bring to Boeing," SPEEA Executive Director Ray Goforth said in a statement. "That way, we can avoid a strike and focus on fixing the problems of the 787 and restoring customer confidence in Boeing."

The latest labor unrest is happening as U.S. regulators launch an open-ended review of the 787's design and construction. Last month, a battery on a parked 787 caught fire in Boston. On Jan. 16, another 787 made an emergency landing in Japan after another battery problem.

All 50 787s that Boeing had delivered so far are grounded until the issue is resolved.

The union's nearly 23,000 employees are mostly in the Puget Sound region. Union leaders believe a strike would shut down Boeing production lines in Everett, Wash., where its big planes are made, as well as in Renton, Wash., where it cranks out the widely used 737.

The factory-floor assembly work is done by the members of the International Association of Machinists. The Machinists approved a new, four-year contract in December 2011, after a walkout in 2008 that contributed to a 3?-year delay in delivering the first 787.

It was also a factor in Boeing opening a plant in South Carolina, where laws make it more difficult to unionize.

Associated Press

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