How to Clean Your House in 30 Minutes or Less

Cleaning house can feel like a gargantuan task, especially when you’ve let things slide for a few days too many. But it doesn’t have to be such a time-consuming undertaking. By incorporating these easy tips into your daily routine and prioritizing the areas that have a knack for getting the messiest the quickest, you’ll find that keeping the house in order is as easy as pie. The only drawback is that now you’ll have to figure out what to do with your new-found free time.

Kitchen:

Do the dishes or place them in the dishwasher after every meal. (5 minutes)
Wipe down counter tops and stove with an all-purpose cleaner after cooking. (2 minutes)
Wipe up any spills and sweep up any crumbs after eating. (2 minutes)
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Bathroom:

Keep sanitizing wipes under your bathroom sink so you can quickly wipe the countertop after each time you wash your face or brush your teeth. (2 minutes)
Once a week, wipe the toilet and seat rim and clean the toilet bowl. By keeping the cleaning products within reach, you’ll be more likely to reach for them even if you’re not doing a major cleaning  (2 minutes)


Bedroom:

If you’ve already started a load of laundry, don’t consider it finished until you fold and put away clean clothes. Doing it right away ensures you’re less likely to have piles of clean clothes on your bed. (5 minutes)

Each morning, clear bedside tables of dishes, books, and reading glasses from the night before. (2 minutes)

Get into the habit of making your bed every morning, the moment you get out of bed. You’ll be happy you made the time when you come home that night. (2 minutes)


Living Room:

Every few days, wipe the tables with a microfiber cloth to pick up dust while you watch TV. (2 minutes)

Break out the Dustbuster to swoop up crumbs on the floor and in the couch cushions. By doing this while you watch TV, you’re integrating the chore into your daily routine, instead of waiting for a deep-cleaning session. (2 minutes)

Before retiring for the evening put away all entertainment gadgets, DVDs, newspapers, and games that have been left out. (4 minutes)

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Apple's iPhone 4S breaks early order record

(Reuters) - People who want the new $200 Apple iPhone 4S may have to get in line on Friday because U.S. wireless phone carriers appear to have sold out.

Sprint Nextel (S.N), which is selling the iPhone for the first time, said it sold all of its $200 iPhone 4S and is not taking back orders. Sprint still is selling more expensive versions of the phone with higher memory.

Rival AT&T (T.N) said on its website on Monday afternoon that customers ordering the same iPhone at that point would not receive their phones for another 21 to 28 days. Verizon's website said it will ship the phones by October 20.

Orders for the latest iPhone, the last product the company introduced before the death of its co-founder Steve Jobs, surpassed 1 million in the first 24 hours, beating Apple's previous one-day record of 600,000 sales for the iPhone 4, according to Apple.

The news pushed the company's shares up 5 percent to close at $388.81 on the Nasdaq stock market.

The new phone, which will appear on store shelves this Friday, disappointed some fans when Apple introduced it last week, but it is proving to be a bigger draw because more telephone companies are carrying it and it will appear in more countries, analysts said.

Another big factor may be Jobs. Massive outpourings of grief and sympathy over his death last Wednesday at the age of 56, along with testaments to his genius and status as a visionary business leader in the media and by Apple products users online may have spurred sales,

"Many potential Apple customers, who have been on the fences before, will probably now want to (buy) it," said Steven Osinski, marketing professor at San Diego State University. "It's no different than when John Lennon was assassinated, sales of Beatles records shot up for a little while."

The initial scepticism from fans on the iPhone 4S was overridden by their desire to honour Jobs, said Barbara Sullivan, Managing Partner of Sullivan, a branding and marketing agency.

"The preorders may also be part of respect for what Jobs has done," she said. "It's almost like putting flowers by his headquarters."

Chief Executive Tim Cook said in a memo to staff on Monday that a celebration of Jobs' life will be held on October 19.

The employee event will be held at an outdoor amphitheatre at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California, Cook said in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.

"Like many of you, I have experienced the saddest days of my lifetime and shed many tears during the past week," Cook said in the email memo. "And I've found comfort in both telling and listening to stories about Steve."

BIGGER ROLL-OUT

The iPhone 4S, which many Apple watchers saw as a minor follow-up to its previous model and featuring only incremental hardware upgrades, is going on sale in seven countries. The previous version was introduced in five.

Stores in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK will start selling the device on Friday. It will be available in 22 countries by the end of October, Apple said.

"It had everything people wanted. The market was disappointed, but the customers looked past the headline to see the content of the device itself," said Hudson Square analyst Daniel Ernst.

The 4S is on the Sprint network, AT&T Inc (T.N) and Verizon Wireless -- three carriers for the first time in United States. In Japan, Apple added KDDI Corp (9433.T) as a distributor.

"Part of what's going to make this roll-out so much bigger is that the availability of the product is going to be much better," said Michael Yoshikami, CEO of YCMNET Advisors, which owns Apple shares. "You are going to see sales records set at a faster pace than people really would expect."

Analyst Colin Gillis said Apple still has a long way to go to meet Wall Street's sales expectations.

"It's not the first million. We know there's a large loyal base of users. They need to sell more than 20 million of these in this quarter to hit estimates," said Gillis. "Apple needs to break records to hit expectations."

Apple also must try to stem market share gains by phones running Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Android software. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), which uses Android, is catching up with Apple in worldwide market share.

AT&T, which had exclusive U.S. rights to sell the iPhone for more than three years, took more than 200,000 orders for the 4S in the first 12 hours after it went on sale.

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3 Reasons Why You're Not Losing Weight at the Gym

You go to the gym, work out, but you still aren't losing any weight. What gives? It's a frustrating scenario but not an impossible one to change. Here are three reasons why you aren't losing weight at the gym and what to do about them.

You're Not Doing Enough (Intense) Cardio Aerobic activity is the most efficient way to burn calories, so make sure you are consistent with cardio workouts. We recommend doing at least 30-45 minutes of cardio, three to four times a week. It's also important to pick the right kind of cardio workout. Studies show that faster-paced workouts help release fat-burning hormones in the body and that interval training is key to losing unwanted belly fat. Still not convinced that you should step up your gym workouts? A recent study said that a 45-minute vigorous workout gets three times the net calories burned compared to the same 45 minutes spent walking; it also increases metabolic rate for up to 14 hours post-workout. To melt away unwanted pounds, choose high-intensity workouts like intervals, running, boot camp, or spin.

You Aren't Really Committed You showed up to the gym, which is awesome. But what's not awesome is how you might be spending your time there — weight loss is as much a mental game as a physical one. Mindlessly walking on the treadmill while flicking through a copy of Us Magazine isn't the best way to go about weight loss, and neither is talking yourself out of a workout once you're there. (You can lose a calorie burn of over 50 calories from just shaving five minutes off of a workout!) Commit yourself by finding a specific goal or personal reason that inspires you to lose the weight and use that as motivation to maintain your fitness routine. Along the way, set smaller goals for yourself and celebrate in some small way when you meet them. This will help you stay focused the entire way through.

You Don't Strength Train Even though cardio is key to weight loss, a good fitness program should incorporate one to two strength training sessions per week. Strength training can reduce overall body fat by three percent in just 10 weeks since muscle burns more calories than fat. And don't forget the after-burn: after an hour-long strength training session, the average woman burns an extra 100 calories over the next 24 hours. Maximize your time by rolling cardio and strength workouts into one. Circuit training intervals and bootcamp-style workouts focus on mixing bursts of cardio with serious strength training moves, but if you don't have time for a long session, perform supersets of compound moves instead.

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Govt releases audio recordings of Lok Pal drafting committee

The government today released audio tapes of Joint Drafting Committee meetings on Lok Pal Bill showing sharp differences and strong arguments between activists belonging to Team Anna and ministers on various provisions in the proposed anti-corruption law.

The nine tapes in CD format covering as many meetings of the drafting committee, which was constituted after activist Anna Hazare's fast in April, were provided in response to an RTI application filed by activist Subhash Agrawal.

The Joint Drafting Committee, comprising five members of Team Anna and an equal number of Cabinet ministers, was formed to finalise the draft of the Lok Pal Bill.

Earlier, responding to an RTI query, the Department of Personnel and Training had said that they require the nod of Law Ministry to make public audio recordings of the close-door meetings of the committee.

According to a conversation, the then water resources minister Salman Khurshid asked the civil society members about the prosecution powers to be given to the Lok Pal.

He asked whether sanction for prosecution will be given by the Lok Pal bench or investigating officers.

In response, former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde tells the committee that in cases of persons like elected representatives, Prime Minister, judiciary and other such positions, Lokpal full bench will decide but investigation will be conducted by officers of Lokpal only on the lines of provisions of CrPC.

He said in criminal cases, PE is registered and if found evidence, regular case is registered and prosecution sanction is given by senior officers. "But investigation is done only by investigating officers," he said.

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New telecom policy puts roaming to rest

Extra charges to end in single-licence regime; operators can share, trade spectrum; infra status for telcos; stocks rise.

The policy envisages a 'one nation-one licence' regime: companies will not have to apply for separate licences in every circle/service area and users will not have to pay roaming charges. A single licence will do across all the 22 service areas in the country.

The policy will allow mobile operators to share, pool and trade spectrum. Spectrum will, in fact, be delinked from licences in future and priced at market value. In the existing policy, start-up spectrum of 4.4 MHz is bundled with the licence.

KEY CHANGES

ONE NATION-ONE LICENCE; roaming charges to be abolished
PAN-INDIA mobile number portability for users
SPECTRUM sharing, pooling and trading between telecom players
DELINKING of spectrum from licence, periodic audit
EXIT POLICY for telecom players on the anvil
REVIEW of Trai Act to address regulatory inadequacies
CREATING a special purpose vehicle to mobilise financing for telecom projects
ADDITIONAL spectrum of 300 MHz to be made available by 2017 and another 200 MHz by 2020
INCREASING rural teledensity from 35 per cent to 60 per cent by 2017 and 100 per cent by 2020
RIGHT TO broadband, 600 million connections by 2020
REVENUE generation to have secondary role in govt policy

CALL TARIFFS MAY RISE

* Operators would have to review call tariffs if roaming charges were abolished, said a senior executive of a leading telco

* Sibal did not give any timeline for the proposals mentioned in the draft policy; he said everything would be done "as we move forward"

* The draft will be put in the public domain for consultations and further discussions before the announcement of a final policy

The department of telecommunications (DoT) will unveil an exit policy for operators. It has been referred to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for formulation. That should aid consolidation in the industry, which has 12-13 players in each circle. DoT will also seek Trai recommendations on the new licensing framework and migration of licences. An additional 300 MHz of spectrum will be made available by 2017 and another 200 MHz by 2020. The telecom sector will get infrastructure status under the new policy.

"We'll ensure adequate availability of spectrum and its allocation in a transparent manner through market-related processes. We'll prepare a road map for the availability of additional spectrum every five years," Sibal said.

The minister ruled out the auction of broadband wireless access spectrum in the current fiscal. "We'll audit spectrum and its use," he said. "In achieving the goals of the national telecom policy 2011, revenue generation will play a secondary role. Our vision is to have broadband on demand."

DoT had started work on the new telecom policy - 2011 in January in the wake of the 2G spectrum allocation controversy. Former telecom minister A Raja and officials of various companies are in judicial custody in connection with that. Operators battling intense competition and low tariffs will be hit by the end of roaming charges. According to industry estimates, roaming charges account for eight per cent of telecom players' revenues.

"There will only be a short-term impact on revenues because of no roaming charges. But, it will definitely increase the usage of services, voice or data," said KPMG's Romal Shetty.

Bharti Airtel stocks closed 2.38 per cent higher at Rs 363.25 on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Monday. Idea closed 2.33 per cent higher at Rs 92.40 while Reliance Communications was up 1.72 per cent at Rs 74.05.

Cellular Operators Association of India director general Rajan Mathews said, "The draft policy has given clarity and a direction to the industry. But, details will have to be worked out. On the abolishment of roaming charges, how the existing licensees will be able to make their licenses pan-India, the new numbering plan, how the networks will be configured -- all these issues will have to be sorted out before any plan."

The policy aims to provide on-demand broadband for all citizens and increase rural teledensity to 100 per cent by 2020 and 60 per cent by 2017 (it is 35 per cent at present). There will be focus on the convergence of TV, internet and internet services. Broadband download speed will be revised to 512 kbps from 256 kbps currently. The policy also aims to make India a hub for telecom equipment manufacturing.

Reacting to the policy draft, Bharti Airtel said in a statement, "It signals the government's focus on future growth areas such as broadband and convergence. Infrastructure status for the sector and rationalisation of taxes and levies will provide relief." "The policy will take the country into the next stage of inclusive growth. We'll actively participate in the government's consultative process with various stakeholders," said a statement by Idea Cellular.

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