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Posted: December 15, 2012
Jacksonville, FL ? Jason Sadler has come up with a rather clever way to make some extra cash. The Florida man offered to legally change his last name for all of 2013 to the name of the company that offers him the most money. Sadler?s last name auction ended earlier this week. HeadsetsDotCom reportedly paid $45,500 as the last name auction winner.
Beginning on January 1, Jason Sadler will officially be known as Jason HeadsetsDotCom for an entire year. The last name auction is not the young entrepreneur?s first unique idea to help make ends meet. His first business, IWearYourShirt.com began in 2009. In his first unusual career approach Sadler wore a different client t-shirt every day and pushed the brand utilizing online social networking websites, Oddity Central notes.
During an interview with CNN Money Jason Sadler had this to say about his emerging business:
?I wore a different T-shirt for 800 days straight. No day off. I?d make online videos wearing the T-shirts, just going about my daily life.?
Sadler tweeted about the brands emblazoned on the t-shirts he wore, posted about them on Facebook and even created a one-hour live show on Ustream to talk about his clients. As shocking as it may sound, the t-shirt wearing entrepreneur was so successful by 2011 that he hired five employees and reportedly earned $250,000 a year in revenue. Sadler?s clients included Nissan, Starbucks, and Zappos.
The last name auction idea was prompted by Sadler?s desire for funds to back his business startup. He created an internet auction on BuyMyLastName.com and solicited brands to bid on the renaming him for a year. The name change will be entirely legal. Jason?s driver?s license, passport, social media profiles and all other forms of personal identification will feature the Jason HeadsetsDotCom moniker.
Jason had this to say about his newest money-making idea:
?Tons of people have told me I?m an idiot for trying to sell my last name. I think I?m willing to push the envelope further than most and willing to see it through. More companies could benefit from doing the same, instead of adding to the noise.?
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Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/439778/florida-man-auctions-off-his-last-name-for-45000/
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Increasingly I am finding that so much of the fitness & fitness blogosphere is a strange place which I am seeing more as a form of gnosticism. ?Let me explain:
Gnosticism I suppose is something of a theological term. ?From Wikipedia
Gnosticism comes from the Greek: gnosis which means knowledge.?Some religions and sects mostly in the few hundred years before and after Christ are said to be gnostic or practice gnosticism.
This is because these religions believe that there is a special, hidden knowledge that only a few people may have.
these religions believe that there is a special, hidden knowledge that only a few people may have.Gurus & Salesmen
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So often we treat our interest in Health and Fitness this way. ?We are on a constant search for the ?"special, hidden knowledge". ?The are looking for the secrets: the special diet, the new routine, the amazing new supplement or exercise. ?And on this search we become vulnerable to the gurus and to the marketing people.
The gurus are the purveyors of this special knowledge. ?They have their own unique approach to diet or exercise which so often is put forward as the One True Way. ?We gather around them in tribes or sects: RenEx, Crossfit, RKC or whatever. ?Paleo, WAPF, Primal.
As in cults and sects behind it all often there are those who see the congregation as a source of income. We buy the ebooks, the newsletters, the DVDs because we want the secret knowledges.....
We have gurus pedalling their secrets....which you can buy in a ?29.95 ebook. ?(Now I feel guilty as I am hawking my ebook in the top right!)
The mainstream
All this goes along with a mistrust of "the mainstream". ?There is a scepticism about the conventional wisdom. ?We see ourselves as brave reformers, asserting our truth, nailing our theses to?the?doors of the church of the medical and fitness professions. ?We know better....
The thing is that the mainstream is often right! ?I know lots of research scientists and while they are not perfect, they are on a professional scrutinised search for truth. ?Journalists simplify and sensationalise, but the scientists are generally on an honest journey to find what works and how to get better.
It is difficult!
Reviewing the scientific literature some things are decided....lots are held provisionally.? ?But the obvious thing is that a lot of it is hard to understand! ?It is rarely as simple as we like to make out. ?The processes and systems of the body are very complicated. ?The scientists that study them work hard for years to develop the knowledge necessary to look into these things. ?? Yet somehow we run to the bloggers. ?Why do we think that we should be getting our health and fitness knowledge, even our health advice from a blogger not a medical professional?
The Gnostic approach makes us feel special
Rejecting the mainstream also makes us feel special, better than the others. ?We know a better way and are not so simple and deceived as to believe the conventional. ?PRIDE is at the root of this of course. ?We want to think of ourselves as so much better than the others, elevated above the drones.
Simplicity, Persistence, Habit
What if it is all actually a lot simpler. ?I think it is time to reject the search for the special knowledge and embrace the basics. ?A sensible diet. ?Exercise. ?Sleep. ?Social interaction. ?Stress management. ?Time outdoors.
Most of all though the need is for persistence. ?Just keep going.
I have been guilty
I have been guilty of all of this and still am....but I am trying to moderate it. ?I have jumped at paleo, kettlebells, HIIT, low carb, whatever the current trend is. ?Some - like interval training - has science behind it, but it is rarely as sensationalist as we make it out to me.
Is there still interest in the simple path? ?Walk lots, do resistance training, eat well and sleep? ?Where is the cash in that?
Source: http://conditioningresearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/gnosticism-in-health-and-fitness.html
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's main center-left party, leading polls for next year's election, criticized calls for Prime Minister Mario Monti to run for a second term, a move one of the party's leading figures said would be "morally questionable".
The Democratic Party (PD) has supported Monti's technocrat government in parliament. But, while it has pledged to continue his fiscal discipline and wants him to stay on in some role after the election, it says he should stay out of the campaign, which polls suggest he would lose anyway.
"It would be illogical and in a certain sense morally questionable if the professor were to enter the race against the main political force which supported him in his reform efforts," Massimo D'Alema, a former prime minister and an influential center-left elder statesman told Friday's daily Corriere della Sera. "I have great esteem for him and I hope he doesn't."
center-right candidate Silvio Berlusconi has offered to stand aside to allow a Monti candidacy.
European politicians from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to French President Francois Hollande also heaped praise on Monti and at a meeting of European center-right parties on Thursday, he was urged to run in the election.
Monti avoided public comments on his political future, telling a news conference in Brussels it would not be "either possible or appropriate" for him to speak on the matter. But in an interview with an online religious magazine, Monti said Italians had earned respect for their economic sacrifices.
"Italy did not derail and it will succeed", Monti told Francescan magazine sanfrancesco.org.
Industry Minister Corrado Passera also declined to comment on whether Monti would be a candidate in the vote, expected by February, "at least for now".
"I'm confident that our work will continue under a new government and a new parliament," Passera said at an Italy-American conference in New York. He added that he thought the worst was over for the euro zone's third-biggest economy and that it would improve in the second half of 2013.
Monti's austerity measures have helped reduce borrowing costs since he took over in a financial crisis last year. Italy's public debt nonetheless rose above 2 trillion euros ($2.62 trillion) for the first time in October, the Bank of Italy reported on Friday.
PD party leader Pier Luigi Bersani said on Thursday he would call on Monti to perform some kind of role immediately after the election. But he has said it would be better for the respected former economics professor to stay out of the campaign.
Opinion polls suggest Monti would be defeated if he ran, and PD officials say that would make it harder for him to replace President Giorgio Napolitano, who must step down by April.
"He would have been a political competitor not 10 years earlier, or something like that, but last week," Stefano Fassina, the main PD spokesman on economic affairs told Reuters.
POLL NUMBERS
Napolitano, who named Monti to replace the discredited Berlusconi a year ago, said last month that Monti's special lifetime seat in the Senate would not allow him to make an election bid.
Monti also would be cautious about associating with the scandal-plagued Berlusconi, whose position switches have caused frustration and alarm across Europe and in his own party.
Berlusconi reiterated criticisms of Monti's austerity programs on Friday and said he would be obliged to lead the center-right if Monti did not accept the role.
"I have had to return because of this," he told his own Italia Uno television station. "We're convinced that moderates will never allow the left to win with its policies of more spending and more taxes especially on the middle class."
A potential Monti election vehicle, a centrist group recently set up by Ferrari chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, is polling under three percent in most surveys.
An average of two weeks' opinion polls by website termometropolitico.it gave the PD 32.7 percent, ahead of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement on 16.8 percent and Berlusconi's People of Freedom party (PDL) on 15 percent.
A potential centrist coalition that could back a Monti candidacy polled 9.2 percent.
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(Additional reporting by Francesco Guarascio in Brussels, Paul Ingrassia and Nicola Scevola in New York, Antonella Ciancio in Milan; Writing By James Mackenzie; Editing by Barry Moody and Michael Roddy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italys-left-says-monti-run-morally-questionable-191340269--business.html
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By Randee Dawn, TODAY contributor
He may have been taken "totally by surprise" by his Golden Globe nomination for "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" Thursday, but on Friday, Ewan McGregor joined TODAY's Savannah Guthrie to talk about his next film, "The Impossible" -- a fictionalization of one family's true-life experience of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
"There was something very honest and truthful about the script, I thought," he said. "Brutal, really. Because it was a horrendous situation to get caught up in. But by focusing on this one family it was a unique look at the devastation of that event."
He recognized that there was a "responsibility" to everyone who was caught up in the tsunami, which killed over 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. "We had to focus on making the film honest and true and not letting it spill over into Hollywood," he said.
And, in case "Star Wars" fans needed a little more reassurance, Guthrie made sure that the actor confirmed his interest in returning to that film series (he played Obi-Wan Kenobi as a young man). "George (Lucas) always talked about their being nine stories, so it's nice that there will be nine stories. And if they need me, I'll be there of course."
"The Impossible" opens in limited release on Dec. 21.
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Dec. 14, 2012 ? Electronic devices become smaller, lighter, faster and more powerful with each passing year. Currently, however, electronics such as cell phones, tablets, laptops, etc., are rigid. But what if they could be made bendable or stretchy?
According to the University of Delaware's Bingqing Wei, stretchable electronics are the future of mobile electronics, leading giants such as IBM, Sony and Nokia to incorporate the technology into their products.
Beyond traditional electronics, potential stretchable applications include biomedical, wearable, portable and sensory devices, such as cyber skin for robotic devices and implantable electronics.
"Advances in soft and stretchable substrates and elastomeric materials have given rise to an entirely new field," says Wei, a mechanical engineering professor at UD.
But even if scientists can engineer stretchable electronics -- what about their energy source?
"Rechargeable and stretchable energy storage devices, also known as supercapacitors, are urgently needed to complement advances currently being made in flexible electronics," explains Wei.
Wei's research group at the University is making significant progress in developing scalable, stretchable power sources for this type of application using carbon nanotube macrofilms, polyurethane membranes and organic electrolytes.
This, he says, requires new thinking about materials processing and device manufacturing to maximize energy storage without compromising energy resources.
To reveal a stretchable supercapacitator's true performance, the Wei group examined the system's electrochemical behavior using buckled single-wall nanotube (SWNT) electrodes and an elastomeric separator.
According to Wei, the supercapacitor developed in his lab achieved excellent stability in testing and the results will provide important guidelines for future design and testing of this leading-edge energy storage device.
As they work to refine the technology, Wei has filed a provisional patent to protect his team's research. The work was recently published in Nano Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European leaders, echoing people across the continent, expressed horror in offering condolences to the United States after the school massacre in Connecticut On Friday. In an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande said he was "horrified." "In these tragic circumstances, I want to express my deep shock and sorrow at this act of unspeakable violence at an elementary school that left so many victims," he said. British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement: "My thoughts are with the injured and those who have lost loved ones. ...
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/18-million-android-devices-could-whacked-malware-2013-213737132.html
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