Apple iPad mini vs Google Nexus 7: Spec comparison

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Size and weight

The iPad mini shapes up at 200 x 134.7 x 7.2mm and weighs 312g, against the Nexus 7?s dimensions of 199 x 120 x 10.45mm and 340g weight. So while the devices are pretty much the same height, the iPad mini is wider - yet still thinner and lighter - reflecting more favourably on its overall form factor.

Display

The Nexus 7 has a 7in IPS LCD screen with a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels (216 PPI), which trumps the 1024 x 768 pixels (163 PPI) of the iPad mini. Some may prefer the larger 7.9 screen of the latter however, with its thinner bezel accommodating more room in which to operate.

Storage and memory

The Nexus 7 comes in 8, 16 and soon, 32GB offerings, while the iPad mini will available as a 16, 32 and 64GB model. Neither has a card slot for additional memory.

Processor

The Google-Asus manufactured tablet boasts a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor clocked at 1.3GHZ. We don?t know about the speed of Apple?s A5 chip, but its dual-core engine is likely to lag behind the Nexus 7.

Software

The Nexus 7 runs the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, with the iPad Mini running the much-maligned iOS 6.

Camera

The iPad mini offers more in this department with a 1.2-megapixel front camera and a 5-megapixel rear, while the Nexus 7 has only a 1.2-megapixel front-facing cam. Both devices record video in 720p.

Battery

This is a dead heat on paper. Each party claims its tablet can last for 10 hours.

Connectivity

While the Nexus 7 does not even come with integrated 3G, the iPad mini boasts super-fast 4G LTE connectivity on the more expensive models. The cheaper additions are Wi-Fi only like the Nexus 7.

Price

The Nexus 7 was noted for its excellent value on release at ?159 for the 8GB model and the imminent 32GB edition is expected to cost ?200. This makes Google?s product much more of a budget device, with the iPad mini?s price range starting at ?269 for the Wi-Fi only 16GB version, and ending at ?529 for the 64GB LTE model.

?	iPad mini	Google Nexus 7
Display	?	?
Screen size	7.9in	7in
Resolution	1,024 x 768 pixels	1,280 x 800 pixels
Pixel density	163 PPI	216 PPI
Type	IPS LCD	IPS LCD
Processor and battery	?	?
Family	Apple A5	Nvidia Tegra 3
Cores	Dual-core	Quad-core
Clock speed	Unconfirmed	1.3GHz
Battery	10 hours (claimed)	10 hours (claimed)
Storage and memory	?	?
Internal memory	16 / 32 / 64GB	8 / 16GB
Card slot	No	No
RAM	TBC	1GB
Camera	?	?
Megapixels	Front: 1.2MP Rear: 5MP	Front: 1.2MP Rear: none
Video	720p	720p
Dimensions	?	?
Size	200 x 134.7 x 7.2mm	199 x 120 x 10.45mm
Weight	312g	340g
Operating System	iOS 6	Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Price	?Wi-Fi / Wi-Fi + Cellular ?269 / ?369 (16GB) ?449 / ?349 (32GB) ?529 - ?429 (64GB	?159 (8GB) ?199 (16GB) ?200 (32GB) - TBC
UK Availability	?	Now

Source: http://feeds.thinq.co.uk/~r/thinq/rss/~3/Hi4JiG3WgpM/

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Election Paves Way for Tax Reform (WSJ)

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iPad Mini starts at $329, is thinner than a pencil

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Rosa Golijan , NBC News

"This isn't just a shrunken down iPad,"?Phil Schiller,?Apple's senior?vice president of worldwide marketing, said as he showed off the all new iPad Mini during Apple's media event on Tuesday. "It's an entirely new design."

The iPad Mini is 7.2 millimeters thin (that's about as thin as a pencil). It weights 0.68 pounds, which is as light as a standard pad of paper.?These measurements make the iPad Mini 23 percent thinner and 53 percent lighter than the third-generation iPad.?The tablet is a 7.9-inch device with a?1024??768 pixel resolution.?"Easy to remember. 7.9, 9.7," Schiller said, contrasting?the measurements of the?iPad Mini and the regular iPad.

There's a dual-core A5 chip, a FaceTime HD camera in the front, a 5MP iSight camera in the back, a Lightning connector, and all the usual iPad guts, of course. From the sounds of it, the iPad Mini contains the power of the iPad 2, with some slight upgrades (and a much smaller body). ?According to Schiller, the iPad Mini has a 10-hour battery life, which is about?on par with the battery life Google advertises for the Nexus 7.

Schiller took several jabs at Google's popular 7-inch tablet, ouf course, pointing out that???unlike the Nexus 7???the iPad Mini has over 275,000 apps specifically designed for tablets available to it, rather than a bunch of scaled-up phone apps.

"We took the time to create a product that was a concentration of, but not a reduction of, the original product,"?Apple's senior vice president of industrial Design, Jony Ive, pointed out in a video shown during the media event.

Like the iPad, the iPad Mini has a line of accessories such as Apple's Smart Covers, naturally. "It is every inch an iPad," a commercial shown during the event emphasized.

The iPad Mini starts at $329 for a 16GB Wi-Fi-only model. 32Gb and 64 GB Wi-Fi-only models are available for $429 and $529, respectively, while their LTE-capable counterparts are priced at $459, $559, and $659, for the 16GB, 32GB, and 63GB versions, respectively.

Pre-orders start on Oct. 26. The Wi-Fi-only models will ship a week later, on Nov. 2. The LTE-enabled models will ship about two weeks later.

Want more?tech news or interesting?links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/ipad-mini-starts-329-thinner-pencil-1C6632132

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Good morning. At 6:51am EDT this morning, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russian...

Good morning. At 6:51am EDT this morning, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin will leave Earth in a Soyuz spacecraft for a two-day journey to the International Space Station. The launchpad is located in Kazakhstan, an area four times the size of the U.S. state of Texas, spanning Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They?ll be welcomed by the current crew, Suni Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoside, who passed over Kazakhstan 27 September 2012, snapping pictures, including this one. NASA TV has all the action beginning at 5:30am http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

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Mood Mate: Great Mental Health App, Could We Get One Like It ...

Sometimes the time for an app has just come.

Launched on World Mental Health Day?on October 10, a new mental health app already has?more than 1,500 downloads and a #3 ranking among free Health & Fitness apps?and, lest we forget, a mention on Twitter by none other than Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair?s former spokesman who now campaigns on mental health.

It?s got the properly British name of Mood Mate, as the application comes out of the University of Reading, where researchers are studying whether an iOS app could, as they write, ?help people with low mood and anxiety to find and seek local treatment.?

And after all my beefs about mental health apps not being backed up by research (see ?We Know There?s an App For That?But Often Research Lags Behind Mobile Mental Health App?Claims?),?this app continues the research even as it is being utilized.

Alex Gyani, a researcher at the University of Reading Department of Psychology, devised a way for people to use an app?and for research data to be gleaned from it at the same time.

Mr Gyani said: ?Having a randomised [forgive the spelling; he's a Brit] controlled trial built into an app that is available on the iTunes store is a fantastic way to conduct research ? and the more participants we can recruit, the more we will learn.?That?s why an app is such a great way to conduct a trial like this one.?

He continues, ?We hope it will enable us to find new ways to help people suffering from mental health problems in the UK get the psychological treatments that have been shown to work.?

So users of the app become subjects when they download it. People are only eligible to be part of the study?although given the number of downloads, seems like people who are not officially part of the study find the app useful, as well?if they?re suffering from anxiety or low mood.

The study is structured so that two-thirds of those who download the app are asked to monitor their moods for 30 days and are given information about where to find local services where they can receive mental health help, without going through a GP, the equivalent of a primary care physician.

In a really cool move, the treatments recommended are part of the National Health Service?s ?Improving Access to Psychological Therapies initiative, or IAPT, on which the government has spent ?400 million since 2007,?and are therefore free. [Can you see this happening in the States? Free medical care for mental health? Seems like that could be a big part of the holdup in getting a similar app here Stateside.]

The remaining third just get the information about where to find services without monitoring mood.

The point, you might ask? Researchers are trying to determine whether monitoring mood encourages people to seek out treatment.

You can find more about the app from its Tweets (handle @MindAboveMood), from its website, and from reading the reviews on iTunes?where you can purchase it, as well?for nothing down?if you happen to be British.

Mood Mate would certainly have to be tweaked to fit into an American approach to medicine (and lose the word ?mate,? as well, I?m sure)?but it doesn?t seem all that hard, if someone takes an interest. Well, maybe if you cut out that offering free services, too.

What an utterly unAmerican idea.

Source: http://candidaabrahamson.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/mood-mate-great-mental-health-app-could-we-get-one-like-it-stateside/

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BBC boss faces tough questions over Savile scandal

LONDON (AP) ? The BBC chief says allegations about decades of sexual abuse by its longtime TV host Jimmy Savile ? and the broadcaster's failure to stop him ? constitute a "very grave" crisis for the venerable organization.

Director-general George Entwistle told British lawmakers on Tuesday that it is too early to say whether sexual abuse was endemic within Britain's publicly funded national broadcaster in previous decades.

But, he said, "there's no question in my mind that what we now know happened is a very, very grave matter indeed."

Entwistle said the BBC was investigating historical allegations of sexual abuse or harassment against "between eight and 10" past and present employees, as it investigates whether Savile was at the heart of a wider pedophile ring within the corporation.

Entwistle's testimony before the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee comes a day after the BBC aired a powerful TV documentary about the corporation's role in the expanding sex abuse scandal around Savile, who died a year ago at age 84.

Since Savile's death, scores of women and several men have come forward to say the entertainer ? a longtime host of music and children's programs ? abused them when they were children or teenagers. Police have identified more than 200 potential victims.

The BBC, one of the world's largest and most respected broadcasters, is under fire for failing to stop the abuse and for pulling a "Newsnight" expose on Savile from TV schedules at the last minute in December.

The sex allegations were later aired on the rival ITV network.

The head of the BBC's "Newsnight" program, Peter Rippon, has left his job pending an investigation of his decision to scrap the Savile story.

The BBC documentary on Monday night, which was watched by more than 5 million people, presented the unusual spectacle of BBC journalists grilling their own bosses about why the piece had been dropped.

Entwistle has been in the BBC's top job for just a month after years in senior news and current affairs roles.

The U.K. lawmakers' committee may also want to question his predecessor, Mark Thompson, who led the organization at the time the "Newsnight" report was yanked. Thompson was appointed chief executive of the New York Times Co. in August and is due to take up the post next month.

Few public figures have had as spectacular a fall from grace as Savile, who was knighted for his charity fundraising and praised on his death as a popular if eccentric entertainer.

Since the ITV report earlier this month, his family has removed and destroyed his gravestone, and two charities named after him have announced they will close.

It is not just the BBC that is under fire. Schools and hospitals associated with Savile's charity work stand accused of letting him abuse young people during visits, perhaps fearful that speaking out would cut off their access to his prodigious charity fundraising.

And state prosecutors have acknowledged that they investigated four abuse allegations against Savile in 2009 but did not press charges.

"There is no question that what Jimmy Savile did and the way the BBC behaved ... will raise questions of trust for us and reputation for us," Entwistle told the lawmakers. "This is a gravely serious matter and one cannot look back at it with anything other than horror."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bbc-boss-faces-tough-questions-over-savile-scandal-102312378--finance.html

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Jordan says its foils al-Qaida-linked terror plot

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WSJ Poll: Romney-Obama: It's A Tie: 47-47% - Business Insider

New poll out from WSJ saying it's an absolute dead heat tie: 47%-47% in the Presidential race.

Among likely voters, the candidates are now tied, 47% to 47%, in a race that appears on track to be one of the closest in U.S. history.

Mr. Romney has pulled abreast of the president for the first time all year in the Journal poll, erasing a three-point lead among likely voters that Mr. Obama had in late September and a five-point lead earlier that month. Mr. Romney's surge followed his strong debate performance in Denver early this month and a contentious second debate with Mr. Obama last week.

Among Registered Voters, Obama still leads 49-44%, according to the poll.

This WSJ poll is in line with most polls, with the exception of Gallup, which still has Romney with a 6 point lead.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/wsj-poll-romney-obama-its-a-tie-47-47-2012-10

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How You Can Use The Internet To Market Your Business - PDF

How You Can Use The Internet To Market Your Business

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One of the major concerns on affiliate marketing for beginners is how to choose an
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covers affiliate marketing for beginners, how to get started, what to look for, and what to
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Make yourself an expert in any topic on your site. This will give you credibility and a good
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Observe what words were used in conversations so you can use them in other Internet
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It is essential that you find the right places to advertise your business online. For example, if
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Interviewing someone famous in the area of your niche is a great way to increase Internet
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Hong Kong makes its biggest seizure of illegal ivory

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PayPal Here Gets Its First U.S. Retail Deal; Now Sold At AT&T Stores

On eBay's earnings call this past week, CEO John Donahoe revealed that the company's Square competitor, PayPal Here, had landed its first U.S. retail deal. PayPal Here is now being sold at 1,800 AT&T stores across the US. Previously, PayPal only had an international retail deal in Japan with Softbank.

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Ally Financial latest U.S. bank to face cyber attack

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Obama Turns From Jokes to 'Romnesia' Jab

If for a moment Thursday night, President Obama and Mitt Romney could enjoy a brief respite from an otherwise contentious campaign, by today they had put away their jokes and were back to practicing their jabs.

After an evening spent in white ties and tails at the Al Smith dinner gently ribbing each other, the tone of those jokes today turned much more pointed, as the two men readied for their third and final debate in Florida on Monday.

At an event at George Mason University today, the president was still making jokes, but they carried a punch.

"[Romney is] changing up so much and backtracking and side stepping we've got to name this condition he's going through," said the president.

"I think it's called?'Romnesia,'" he added to cheers and laughter. "I'm not a medical doctor, but I do want to go over some of the symptoms with you because I want to make sure nobody else catches it."

After stumping in Virginia today, the president will spend the weekend at Camp David preparing for the debate.

Romney headed to Boca Raton, site of the debate where he will hold a fundraiser and then begin another round of debate prep.

The debates this year have taken on an outsize importance and as the races tightens the stakes for Monday's faceoff could not be higher. Following their first matchup, Mitt Romney received his most significant bump in the polls all year. And following the second debate, Obama had his best day of fundraising ever, including the 2008 campaign.

"This race is close," said Albert May, a professor of political communication at George Washington University. "Anything that moves the polls a point or two is going to be important."

Joking aside, Monday's debate will focus on foreign policy, an area of expertise on which the president has traditionally polled better.

Last week's debate, however, exposed a chink in the president's record, particularly when it came to his understanding and announcing the causes for the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead.

A new report out today suggests that the CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of the attack that there was evidence that terrorists were behind the assault. Romney has scored points on foreign policy by criticizing the president for not quickly and categorically ascribing the attack to terrorists.

"Of course the debate is important," said a Romney campaign staffer unauthorized to speak for attribution. "Given the president's shifting record on Libya, I imagine it will come up in a debate on foreign policy."

"On Monday, the President will discuss how he's kept his promise to the American people to end the war in Iraq in a responsible way, refocus on al-Qaeda, and put forward a plan to end the war in Afghanistan. In contrast, all that Mitt Romney has offered in blunder and bluster. He said he wouldn't move heaven and earth to get bin Laden. He called Russia, rather than al-Qaeda, our number one foe," said an Obama staffer on background.

"And he has failed to outline a plan to end the war in Afghanistan and even said he would have left tens of thousands of troops in Iraq. We need a President who not only keeps us safe in the world, but also understands the need for steady leadership and keeping us out of endless wars. On these points, Mitt Romney has failed," said the Obama staffer. "This debate might not have as much impact as the first debate, largely because they've tested each other," said May. "It also might not just be about foreign policy, and it won't be just about Libya. They'll talk about Libya, China and Russia. Few elections turn on debates, there haven't been many elections that turn on foreign policy."

According to a comprehensive Gallup study, only two debates between 1960 and 2004 moved the meter and quantifiably changed the direction of the polls and the outcome of the election.

But this year's debates seem to be altering the electoral landscape.

Following the first debate two weeks ago, and a lackluster performance by Obama, Romney saw a sustained bounce in the polls, drawing him close to Obama or putting him ahead of the president nationally, according to a flurry of polls.

The Obama campaign was bolstered today by fresh NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls that found Obama with healthy leads in two key swing states, holding a 51-43 lead over Romney in Iowa and a 51-45 lead in Wisconsin.

The debates matter in another way. President Obama had his best fundraising day ever following last week's debate in New York, according to the AP.

The AP also crunched the numbers to reveal the biggest campaign contributors. Both candidates have big name backers. Hollywood director Jeffrey Katzenberg, Obama's single biggest contributor, gave the campaign $2.5 million. And Sheldon Adelson, who has said he would be willing to give Romney $100 million, cashes in as his biggest supporter with a whopping $34.2 million.

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Scout abuse files release sparks public interest

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? The online release of files showing the Boy Scouts of America's cover-up of decades of sexual abuse has created interest among Americans who want to know who the alleged abusers are and whether people who molested them as Scouts are in the files.

The 14,500 pages of Scout files, from 1959-1985, were posted Thursday on the website of Kelly Clark, the Portland attorney who used the files as evidence in a 2010 lawsuit he won against the Scouts.

The website got more than 200,000 hits within the first few hours of the files' posting, crashing the site.

Release of the files has also prompted a debate on the Boy Scouts' Facebook page. Some people said they'd never allow their children to be involved in the organization and criticized the secrecy of the files. Others described positive experiences in the Scouts for themselves or their children, saying the organization's efforts to prevent abuse have improved significantly.

Clark said his firm has received about four dozen emails from people about the documents. About half came from people who say they were abused when they were in the Scouts and were interested in filing lawsuits.

Some of the emails have given details about alleged abuse, Clark said.

There are also emails from people who tell of other alleged perpetrators who are not in the files.

"We had many people say thank you for posting the documents," Clark said.

At least six people have contacted reporters for The Associated Press with questions about reporting sex abuse when they were in the Scouts. None agreed to speak to the AP on the record.

The Scouts have said they plan to review every file from 1965 to the present and, in cases where it's unclear whether the incident was reported to police, the Scouts said they'll contact authorities.

Deron Smith, spokesman for the Scouts, said Thursday the organization is currently looking through those files to find cases of "good-faith suspicions" so they can be reported to police. The Scout files are filled with unsubstantiated allegations.

In their own review of the files that were released on Thursday, the Scouts found that law enforcement had been involved in about two-thirds of the cases. The organization is going through the remainder to find cases where there seem to be good reasons to alert law authorities.

The Scouts have apologized for not following up. The files were created for the purpose of registering Scout leaders, Smith said, and were considered internal, confidential documents, which is why they weren't always shared with authorities.

Attorney Paul Mones, Clark's colleague, said uploading the files "democratized" information that was only available to lawyers and the Scouts.

"It's a testament to the new generation of communication," Mones said.

The files have been maintained by the Scouts since soon after their founding in 1910. They consist of memos from local and national Scout executives, handwritten letters from victims and their parents and newspaper clippings about legal cases.

The files contain details about proven molesters, but also unsubstantiated allegations. People paging through the files would find both. Clark says there are undoubtedly some people in the files who were wrongly accused, and the Scouts point out that many cases of abuse were dealt with properly.

For those who say they were molested, statutes of limitations in most states would prevent many people from filing lawsuits or criminal charges, Clark said. But in some cases ? like a first-degree sexual assault in New York ? the state has set no time limit.

Legal experts say that aside from the statute of limitations, it could be difficult to bring charges against suspected molesters in the files because victims need to be found, and they need to be persuaded to give evidence.

"Trying to prosecute a case that old, you need to have a willing victim," said Josh Marquis, district attorney for Clatsop County in Oregon.

Victims of abuse years ago may be unwilling to come forward because it would create upheaval in their lives, Marquis said.

With the files now available, law enforcement and the public can do their own checking, something David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said should have been available to those groups all along.

"The Scouts have got to expose, list and severely punish every former employee or volunteer who ignored or concealed child sex crimes," Clohessy said. "Nothing will have a quicker and more long-lasting impact of changing the culture of recklessness and secrecy."

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GM to hire 3,000 workers from Hewlett-Packard

DETROIT (AP) ? General Motors will hire 3,000 workers from Hewlett-Packard, part of a push to bring most of its computer technology in-house.

The HP employees, who already work on GM projects, will help the automaker toward a larger goal: improving the software technology it puts in cars and uses to run its business.

Thursday's announcement is the latest in series of technology moves at GM. The company plans to hire 10,000 programmers and software experts over the next three to five years. It also wants to shift technology work from outside firms into GM and to open four new IT centers.

The former HP workers will help GM consolidate 23 global data centers into two. And they'll try to cut GM's software applications by 40 percent so the company uses more common programs and becomes more efficient, said GM Chief Information Officer Randy Mott.

They'll also find ways to automate a number of corporate functions, saving GM money that will be spent on electronic innovation, Mott said. Once the automation is done, workers will shift to developing software and dreaming up new dashboard devices.

Mott said the employee switch is about GM's needs and has nothing to do with HP's plans to cut 29,000 jobs by October of 2014. Most of the new HP hires are in the U.S., but some are overseas.

HP, based in Palo Alto, Calif., is the world's largest maker of personal computers. It has been hurt as consumers shift away from PCs to smartphones and tablets.

HP is preparing to release a new line of tablets and has been trying to diversify into more profitable lines of technology, such as business software and consulting.

Associated Press

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Tips On How To Find A Bankruptcy Lawyer From Long Island ...

One of the most difficult financial decisions a person may have to make in their life is to decide to file for personal bankruptcy. With such a big decision, you should be sure to know as much about the process as possible. Use this information to help you know if it is the right course of action to take.

Many times people feel forced into filing for bankruptcy. They do not know that debt settlements are available. If your debt is much greater than your income, you could be a candidate for a debt settlement. Many times credit counselors can negotiate with banks and credit card companies to reduce the amount you owe, so that you do not have to file bankruptcy.

Most law firms who deal with filing for personal bankruptcy offer free consultations. Meet with several lawyers for a free consult before hiring any. It is important that you consider how the consultation went and how attentive the lawyer was to your needs. This is a big decision, so make sure a professional handles it!

When filing for personal bankruptcy, waiting till the last minute is not a good idea. One of the major keys of surviving bankruptcy is dealing with it early on. Waiting until it?s nearly too late leaves little time for your financial situation to be analyzed. Not to mention you will incur more financial problems, such as garnished wages.

Trying to exclude family members you owe money to before filing for personal bankruptcy can get you into serious hot water. The court will look into who you pay-off as far as a year back, and if they find you showing favor to family over other creditors, they could invalidate your filing completely.

After filing for bankruptcy, check your credit report to make sure that it was reported the way that it should have been. You want to make sure that any debts that were part of your bankruptcy are now labeled "BK? so creditors know you no longer owe that money.

Bankruptcy Lawyer

Do not try to hide assets or resources, if you are filing for bankruptcy. The advice of a bankruptcy lawyer can help you minimize your losses throughout the process and do so in a legal manner. Your creditors will be scrupulous about double-checking your filing; rest assured that any assets you try to conceal will be found out.

Do your research before choosing a bankruptcy lawyer. Take advantage of free consultations, and meet with several different lawyers before picking one to work with. Make sure that you choose an experienced attorney who is knowledgeable about the local laws, the preferences of trustees, and has a good working relationship with local judges.

Talk to other professionals before talking to a bankruptcy lawyer. Talk to financial advisers and credit counselors to see if bankruptcy is, in fact, your best option. A bankruptcy lawyer has a conflict of interest, so they are less likely to dissuade you from filing for bankruptcy. Finding an impartial, knowledgeable thirty party will give you the complete picture.

Before you meet with a bankruptcy lawyer, make a complete list of all of your assets. Any assets that are not listed in your bankruptcy case can be seized to pay for your debts. Your lawyer needs to see a list of every asset you own to properly advise you on which type of bankruptcy is best for your unique situation, as well as, to protect as many of your assets, as possible.

Now that you have been provided with some useful information about personal bankruptcy, carefully weigh your options. Making this decision is going to impact your life for several years. If you have considered all of the other options, carefully follow the correct steps to file for personal bankruptcy and prepare for what changes it will bring.

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Where Are the World's Most Common Languages Spoken - Education

• Thursday, October 18, 2012
• English Language

As you probably know by now, I?m a big supporter of picking up a second (or third, or fourth) language. While I learned Spanish and French for purely academic reasons (read: my university forced me to double major so I made a panic decision and chose Romance languages), there?s been a fringe benefit: knowing a language other than English has made traveling the world so much easier and more enjoyable. But with a multitude of languages to choose from, how does a traveler who is actually setting out to improve their travels pick the one that will give them the most bang for their buck?

This infographic from Matador can help you decide. By charting where around the world the ten most common languages are spoken, the map below acts as a nice reference for how to go about picking a secondary language. For instance, if you dream of touring the Middle East someday, you should probably put learning Chinese sentence structure on the back burner and jump right into one or all of the 30 languages that comprise Arabic. That seems pretty self explanatory, but if you look at the map you?ll notice that Arabic is also widely spoken throughout Africa, Europe, and North America, so your new found skill will be beneficial on other trips as well.

Peruse the map of where the world?s most common languages are spoken below, and do yourself a favor by buying the Rosetta Stone for one. Believe me, it?s a not simpler than paying $ 250,000 on a degree in a language that didn?t even make the list.?Merde!

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Mental Health - Learning to Accept Others Despite Their Faults ...

It is often difficult to accept people for who they are. We may judge people for their flaws, but being able to accept others can help you lead a happier and more satisfying life.

Experts have written many books and offered countless words of advice to share how to be more accepting of other people. Below are some of my favorite tips to be more understanding and less judgmental of friends, family and acquaintances.

One must first have a strong sense of self in order to accept others, Stephanie Somanchi, a life coach, said in an email.

?Accepting others begins with accepting ourselves,? Somanchi said. ?Usually, the disapproval we feel is a reflection of an inner aspect we reject in ourselves. By focusing on self-approval we gain the strength to do what is best first for ourselves, which then dissolves the need to judge others.?

In another email interview, Liz Friedman, director MotherWoman, a nonprofit organization that empowers and helps mothers through support groups, said that when women are more open and accepting to others, they begin to have more self-confidence and accept themselves.

She has four strategies that will help you work on your acceptance skills:

1. ?Refrain from giving advice and trying to solve the ?problem.? We want to help. It's a natural instinct. But often that instinct to help is experienced as criticism. Remember the last time someone gave you advice??

2. ?Just listen. This is the most tremendous gift that we can give anyone. Our listening allows them to think more fully, connect with us more deeply and show us who they are and what their challenges are.?

3. ?Remind yourself that every person is doing the very best that they can do under the given circumstances. With support, compassion and encouragement they will be able to act on their best intelligence and seek the support and advice they need.?

4. ?Practice, practice, practice. Every moment is a new moment to practice acceptance and non-judgement. Don't criticize yourself for the internal critical voices in your head. We all have been trained in judging others from an early age. It will take time to unlearn this habit.?

Source: http://www.empowher.com/mental-health/content/learning-accept-others-despite-their-faults

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TV Ratings Sunday: Football Beats Baseball,'Revenge' & 'The Mentalist' Up, 'Once Upon A Time & '666 Park Avenue' Down

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Scoreboard	NBC	FOX	CBS	ABC	UNI
Adults 18-49: rating/Share	5.6/14	2.7/7	2.2/6	2.1/5	1.1/3
Adults 18-34: Rating/Share	4.8/14	2.5/7	1.5/4	1.6/5	0.8/2
Total Viewers (million)	14.703	8.078	10.412	7.010	2.906

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Due to the nature of live? programming the ratings for NBC (NFL Football), CBS (Football Overtime) FOX (NFL Overtime and MLB Baseball) are approximate and subject to more than the typical adjustments in the final numbers. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings.

NBC was number one among adults 18-49 and with total viewers.

On NBC, Sunday Night Football (Packers/Texans)? from 8:30-11:00PM earned a 6.9 adults 18-49? rating, up 11% from last week's 6.2 fast nationals.

On FOX, NFL Overrun earned a 6.2 adults 18-49 rating.?The OT?earned a 4.4 adults 18-49 rating. The MLB Baseball playoffs earned a 1.9 among adults 18-49.

On ABC,? America's Funniest Home Videos earned a 1.4 adults 18-49 rating, down 7%? from last week's 1.5. Once Upon A Time garnered a 3.0 adults 18-49 rating, down 12% from last week's 3.4. Most of your predictions were a little optimistic.? Revenge scored a 2.7 ,up 4% from last week's 2.6 adults 18-49 rating. 666 Park Avenue scored a 1.5 down 12% from last week's 1.7 rating

On CBS, the start of all primetime shows were delayed approximately 22 minutes due to Football overtime, increasing the likelihood that the ratings will be adjusted in the finals. From 7-8PM,? 60 Minutes/Football earned a 2.6 adults 18-49 rating, down from last week's 3.6. The Amazing Race matched last week's 2.6adults 18-49 rating. The Good Wife scored a? 1.7 adults 18-49 rating, even with last week. The Mentalist earned a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating, up 25% from last week's series low of? 1.6.

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Broadcast primetime ratings for Sunday, October 14, 2012:

Time	Net	Show	18-49 Rating/Share	Viewers (Millions)
7:00	FOX	NFL Football -Live	6.2/18	17.05
	CBS	Football Overrun - Live/60 Minutes	2.6/7	12.56
	NBC	Football Night in America Past 1 - Live	1.9/5	5.73
	ABC	America's Funniest Home Videos	1.4/4	5.77
7:30	FOX	The OT - Live	4.4/12	11.59
	NBC	?Football Night in America Part 2 - Live	3.3/9	9.08
8:00	NBC	?Football Night in America Part 3 - Live?	5.3/14	14.23
	ABC	Once Upon A Time	3.0/7	9.14
	FOX	MLB Baseball: Cardinals at Giants (8-11PM) - Live	1.9/5	6.00
	CBS	The Amazing Race	2.6/6	9.42
8:30	NBC	NFL Football : Packers at Texans? Live (8:30-11PM)	6.9/16	17.72
9:00	ABC	Revenge	2.7/6	8.21
	CBS	The Good Wife	1.7/4	9.04
10:00	CBS	The Mentalist	2.0/5	10.62
	ABC	666 Park Avenue	1.5/4	4.92

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Nielsen TV Ratings: ?2012 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Definitions:

Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live baseball game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Time Shifted Viewing ? Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data ? Live, Live+Same Day?(Live+SD)?and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day?(Live+SD)?include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

For more information see?Numbers 101 and?Numbers 102.

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