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Australia is fast becoming a hot place to do startups
Posted by: roger in Venture Capital, startup, NBN, Incubator on Feb 14, 2011
Australia's entrepreneurs have long lamented that if you really want to create a successful global technology startup that you have to leave Australia and go to Silicon Valley. It's just too hard to do startups in Australia, they say. The market is too small, there's no big tech companies doing real product development here (it's just Sales and Marketing), the government doesn't support tech startups well enough, there's not enough venture capital, the tax structures are wrong, employees would rather get a fat pay check than equity, people here are more interested in having a great lifestyle than putting in the hard yards…. These are just a few of the excuses that have been offered as to why we don't have a thriving tech startup scene. Well guess what? I think that the tide has turned and that Australia is about to become one of the next hotspots for startups. Let me tell you why…
It's the Economy Stupid!
The world has seen most established western economies implode over the past 3 years. While bailouts have be de rigueur for the US and most of Europe, they merely treat the symptoms of economic malaise and do little to redress their cause. In fact, it can be argued that the bailouts are a kind of Ponzi scheme that merely shifts the problem of too much debt from the private sector into the public sector where it will hide for a little longer before it ultimately has to be solved. Some of the squeals we're hearing from the PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) could well portend the arrival of another set of shocks to the credit markets and a repeat of the slide of 2007.
Now look at Australia's economy. In stark contrast to elsewhere, the unemployment rate currently sits around 5.0%. There's a huge regular flow of capital into the equity market from Superannuation, Australia's a compulsory retirement savings plan that requires all employers to contribute a minimum of 9% employee earnings. And finally house prices have largely held up, despite all the doom and gloom. Yes there is quite a bit of mortgage stress around, but while unemployment is low people will still find a way to service their debts and house prices will likely hold.
What this all adds up to is a relatively insulated economy in which the consumers are still willing to spend and into which new offerings can be introduced.
Australia's Consumers are Great Proxies for the US and Love Tech
While Australia's consumers are small in number they are pretty good proxy for advanced economy consumers around the world particularly those in the USA. Australian's love their tech and will "give things a go" to see if they work or not. One only has to look at the love affair Australian's have with smartphones and tablets. There's over 2.1 million iPhones in Australia, at least 600,000 iPads, and pretty much anyone over 12 years of age who can afford a phone has one.
All of this means that if you want to try out an idea on the other side of the world, you can do so safe in the knowledge that whatever mistakes are made will largely be contained in Australia and have little effect on consumers in other markets. Conversely any wins that are had can be shouted from the tree-tops having had the most of the risk removed and being safely deployable.
Simply put, Australia is a great test market.
Its Cheaper Than Ever to Start a Company
Some 10 years or more after Scott Nealy proclaimed "the network is the computer" we're finally seeing what this really means. Amazon, Google, Saleforce, Rackspace and countless other players are showing that infrastructure is no longer something that you buy outright, it's now something that you rent as you need it. The implications of this shift are profound.
No longer do startups need to secure a big chunk of change to buy boxes before they can even start, they just sign up to could provider to rent a small slices of a few server and a basic pay as you go data plan. But it get's better. Amazon's EC2, Google's App Engine, and Salesforce's Force.com all provide the means to scale up the basic infrastructure that underpins the delivery of websites. Need more servers, more bandwidth, a bigger database, multi-continent replication with live replication? No problem, this is now largely built right into the base offering. Basic scaling is now no longer an issue. Once it does become an issue, your probably got a winner on your hands with enough regular to take care of it.
Labour is now something that also scales. Design, coding, marketing, accounts, legals… in fact pretty much anything that you don't have inside your team can now be outsourced to experts around the globe who will work for you on a part time basis and more often deliver a great result. Interestingly, one of the biggest players in this space is the Australian company freelancer.com.
In this new world, the excuse "I can't start a company because I don't have skill X" no longer holds water. Provided you have good customer focus and know how to manage distributed teams it's possible to keep the core competencies of business model, customer engagement, brand, design, and technical architecture and outsource most everything else.
Everyone will have Access to Broadband (whether they think they need it or not)
The importance of Australia's much praised and maligned National Broadband Network (NBN) in company formation will be crucial factor in differentiating Australian based startups from those based elsewhere. I've written about the NBN before in a blog post back in March of 2009 on why I think the NBN will yield some great opportunities that I'd like to revisit here in this one. For a deeper dig again take a look at the NBN Myths Site.
Regardless of whether you think the NBN is the best thing since sliced bread, an expensive white elephant, not needed, a complete waste of money, or a folly of the government of the time, the NBN will become a reality. Those who say that we'll never need the bandwidths on offer, or that the technology will become obsolete fail to understand both the history and technology of communications and technology. History teaches that the advent of each new communication technology results in the emergence of new ways of doing business and entertainment that the vast majority people would never have guessed possible up until that point. From the technical standpoint fiber is the solution. Current best practice for a single fibre over 200km is 69 Tbit/sec (that is 69,000,000 Mbit/sec). There's plenty of headroom for expansion and any advances in communication technology will only see further improvements to this speed over the existing fibre plant.
Perhaps the biggest and most important feature of the NBN is ubiquity, its presence alone will be a huge game changer. Companies looking to deliver new services over the internet to customers will now have a major headache removed from their business plans. The question of "what do we do for people who don't have adequate connectivity?" is now effectively rendered moot: If a company comes up with an idea that requires interconnectivity of a particular flavour to customers, any customer who could afford to pay for the company's service will now be able to choose a plan sufficient to access it. This means they can put their energy and talents into creating a great experience that is available to everyone without having to worry about laggards as there needn't be any.
Incubators are Springing Up Everywhere
When I first returned to Australia from the US in 1999 there wasn't much startup action happening and over the next 5 years as the dot-com bubble burst many of the big tech employers, such as Motorola and Nortel, pulled up stumps and left. Over the past 5 years we've seen some of these big employers replaced by Google (thanks to its acquisition of Lar and Jens' Rasmussen's Where2) and some local upstarts that have succeed in going global, most notably Atlassian (who last year took a $60m placement from Accel partners, but more on that later). But what's more interesting is what's happening at the small end of town.
Three years ago we saw Pollenizer first establish itself as a Startup Factory that helped entrepreneurs get their companies kickstarted on a combination of fee for service and a slice equity and now as an incubator that helps entrepreneurs with the business side but in need of help with tech. Another incubator, Startmate, has also just started that takes the converse of approach of helping founders who have tech but need business help and want to go to the US. In the middle of this year we'll see another incubator, Pushstart, commence operation with what will be a different take again. [Full disclosure: I am one of the founders of Pushstart and not able to divulge more at the time of writing]
What's important about all these incubators is not that they're all loosely based on the Y-combinator / Techstars model of leveraging the "cheaper than ever to start" phenomenon mentioned earlier, providing $20,000 -$25,000 of cash funding, and a 3 month in-house mentoring program. What is interesting is these incubators are self-organizing to service different market needs and while they're based in Sydney many of the mentors come places other than Sydney and span more than one incubator. A much more holistic less fragmented community is definitely emerging.
Access to Capital is About to Explode
The last several years have been pretty grim for Australia's technology entrepreneurs. Bootstrapping on the smell of an oily rag, followed by a quick transplant to Silicon Valley has tended to be the way to the way to go. The cancellation of the Commercial Ready grant scheme was widely lamented and hurt a number of promising startups that had already invested significant effort in the application process. The last twelve months however have seen a change.
First, the $196m Commercialisation Australia Grant Program came online and provided an avenue to top up the funding that is available for upskilling entrepreneurs, proof concept validation, and early stage commercialisation. While this program has been a help to the well positioned, it is competitive and a little tricky to gain access to. Fortunately, the Federal Government also runs two other programs that are requirements based (i.e. not competitive) that offer about the same level leveraged uplift: The Export Market Development Grant (EMDG) program and the R&D Tax Credit. To be sure that requirements are met, startups are best advised to engage professional consultants to help prepare the paper work for these grants, but even after they have been paid it's not unusual to stretch $1 investor capital into $1.40 of expenditure or more using the combination of properly prepared EMDG and R&D Tax Credits.
Second, we're finally starting to see the emergence of a genuine multi-stage pipeline of capital for startups at all stages of need / maturity.
As mentioned earlier there are a number of incubators (Pollenizer, Startmate, and Pushstart) that can provide $20k - $25k in funding to get a company going. Around these incubators many of the same people also run regular angel diners being run that introduce seed-stage startups to angels where investments of $150k - $400k are made. Some examples (by no means exhaustive) include Innovation Bay (Sydney), Angel Loft (Sydney), Sydney Angels (Sydney), Brisbane Angels (Brisbane), SA Angels (Adelaide), Melbourne Angels (Melbourne), and Aurellius Digital (Melbourne).
In addition to a number of funds coming specifically designed to make placements in the $300k - $4m range. Typically these funds take advantage of the Early Stage Venture Capital Limited Partnership (ESVCLP) structure provided the Federal Government. ESCVLP usually manage up to AUD$50m and are of particular interest to Investors since the Revenue and Capital Gains are tax-free (the rub is that losses can't be distributed). The Federal Government also runs an Industry Investment Fund (IIF) program that enables investors to get government co-investment on dollar for private dollar matching basis ($20m + $20m) to create a ten year fund of up to AUD$40m. At the time of writing three such funds have been approved, more details can be found here.
The combination of ESVCLP and IIF are slowly opening up the gates for early stage investment. Notably one Melbourne-based ESVCLP fund Adventure Capital, has made one investment and has 3 term sheets outstanding before it even has its website up or closed its capital raise. Clearly there is significant latent demand. Further the fund's CTO and General Partner Adrian Vanzyl serves also serves as the CTO for one of Blumberg Capital's large US-based VC funds thereby providing a quicker path to a large US round for the right company should one be required for a startup that needs to move to the US. [since I wrote this Brad Howarth has published a great article on Anthill that talks about funding and Adventure Capital in particular]
Beyond this mid tier level funding we have the standard funds of $100m or more, the Starfishes and SXVPs both of whom have open funds and good track records. Interestingly, I'm also aware of at least one larger fund with $250m+ or more under management that is planned to launch this year as well.
Third, we're starting to see a number of Entrepreneurs achieve sizable success and some exits for their businesses. As was mentioned earlier Atlassian, took at $60m placement form Accel Partners in July 2010, but more importantly the business continues to be headquarter in Australia. Accel also made an investment in OzForex in November 2010.
The Ecosystem is Emerging
Finally, we're also starting to see a much more collaborative ecosystem emerge. I've really noticed a big change in the conversations I'm having with people in all parts of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. There really seems to be an awakening that when people help each other, whether it is to confirm a customer need, to refer them to someone else, or to help them understand where they need to focus their attention next to improve the startup's offering, everyone wins. Less energy and time are wasted on unproductive directions, deal flow improves, and the community as a whole creates more value and more opportunities for people to participate.
People are now not just paying lip service to this way of thinking they are actively backing it up with their actions.
One way this manifests is via a measurable thawing between what was traditionally a rivalry between Melbourne and Sydney (and other Australian capitals too). There is definitely a much greater crossover in terms of investment, people, and deals between cities than ever before.
Another way is the way we're seeing people choose to help each other is via the choice to actively seek out co-working opportunities AND to pass on war stories while doing so. This is really starting to take off in Sydney and we're even seen entrepreneurs band together to access office space en mass in a more structured permanent way. An example of this is Fishburner based in the Sydney suburb of Ultimo who offer startups space on a per desk basis at well below market rates. The shared learning that spaces such as this provide is invaluable and can take months of a small companies timeline to creating a viable product and becoming cashflow positive.
This phenomenon of co-working is one that I expect that we'll see more of going forward, particularly in Sydney. The reason for this is that the Barangaroo development between Darling Harbour and Walsh Bay will see a huge turnover in real estate in the Sydney CBD as the bigger companies take advantage of the opportunity to aggregate multiple small leasholdings into cornerstone leases in new the new stock that is built. Remnant real-estate for startups will be available everywhere and I fully expect to see the emergence of a "remnant" secondary market for startups in offices between permanent leases to emerge.
So is Australia a great place to do a startup?
written by Tony Hollingsworth, February 18, 2011
I'm thrilled to see you cover an Australian perspective on startups - well researched. I am going to share this now with a few friends on Twitter who I hope will engage in discussion here too.
written by Leni Mayo, February 18, 2011
Agree with the general theme though for mostly different reasons. The startup scene in melbourne is the best it's ever been and getting better.
written by Roger Kermode, February 18, 2011
written by Phil Morle, February 19, 2011
written by Leni Mayo, February 19, 2011
Just on melbourne, briefly:
- post-secondary education - engineering and entrepreneurship especially (not marketing) are emitting a steady stream of talent
- inner-city lifestyle and transport
- small formal and semi-formal institutions: churchill club, AIMIA, AIIA, isoc-au, auDA, ANZA,
- domestic category-dominant marketplace-style businesses in melbourne (seek, realestate, carsales, yellow pages)
- flourishing global-facing businesses - could name a dozen of these but forgive the quick plug for http://99designs.com - which is larger than all it's competition combined
- the investor scene is slowing picking up steam
- recycling of folk who've exited tech business
- network of person-to-person relationships b/n melbourne and esp Silicon Valley is denser than it's ever been
- co-working spaces, meetups are mushrooming
- quiet, small-scale, low-key, but consistent behind-the-scenes support from state govt
All underpinned (as you said), by a general sense of optimism and prosperity.
written by Roger Kermode, February 19, 2011
The Victorian government is also stepping up to help things accelerate. For example, they're subsidising Victorian companies to participate in ANZA's Fasttrack program for market entry to the US and China.
Melbourne in particular is definitely heating up for startups.
written by David Wilks, February 19, 2011
Increase your font size by at least one point or move to a two column layout. At 61 my brain is still as sharp as the day I was born but, alas, my eyes aren't
written by Roger Kermode, February 19, 2011
written by Nick Gonios, February 20, 2011
Having been entrenched in the local tech start up space for over 12 years, Australia's tech startup ecosystem is eventually coming out of the 'chasm'
written by Roger Kermode, February 20, 2011
written by Gretchen20Petty, June 01, 2011


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Situated in the far north of New Zealand, Kaitaia Walkway winds through lush broadleaf and podocarp forest. The forest canopy offers shade for walkers during the summer months and some shelter from the wind and rain during winter.
Kaitaia Walkway's northern section is built on top of an old formed roadway, providing easy walking conditions, while the southern section is more rugged and includes some river crossings. The southern section features a lookout offering beautiful views over the surrounding area.
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Researchers at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL are working on projects to tackle different forms of tuberculosis (TB) with shorter treatment programmes. The STREAM project is looking at multidrug-resistant TB, the TRUNCATE project is looking at drug sensitive TB, and the SHINE project is investigating new, shorter treatments for children with TB.
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MALAYSIA is being given a bad name by some monster employers of domestic workers. Adelina Lisao, from Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia, who died on Sunday as a result of injuries sustained while in employment in Bukit Mertajam, is sadly the latest case that has sent shockwaves among Malaysians. There have been others before who have suffered in silence like Adelina. They only come forward when they reach a breaking point, or, like Adelina, when they are taken to hospital for treatment. Although they form a very small percentage, there are others like Adelina who are abused and neglected. Injuries on the head and face as well as wounds on Adelina's limbs were evidence of such abuse and neglect. But, what is worse is the internal pain, the pain of one who could not cry out for help. Adelina must have cried a lot in silence. Perhaps, the dog that kept her company heard her cries. But, her heart must have shed tears, too; sadly, she appeared not to have told anyone.
How could people be so cruel to one of their kind? Are all Malaysian employers of domestic workers this heartless? We do not think so. There will be domestic workers who sing the praises of some Malaysian employers. But, that is not the point. The scary thing is that there are, amidst us, sadistic employers. And such menacing monsters must be dealt with swiftly and severely. For some strange reason, these monsters seem not to have learnt from the Nirmala Bonat case. In 2004, the 19-year-old was burnt with an electric iron, beaten in the head with kitchen utensils and scalded with boiling water by her employer, a 36-year-old housewife, who is serving a 12-year jail term for causing grievous harm. The housewife was also ordered to pay RM349,496 in damages for Nirmala's civil claim against her. More recently, in May 2013, a Malaysian couple were sentenced to 24 years in jail for starving their Cambodian domestic worker to death.
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90-year-old cargo ship transformed into bed and breakfast...on the edge of a cliff!
A BOAT lover has given a retired cargo ship a new lease of life by transforming it into a bed and breakfast perched perilously on the edge of a cliff.
The 90-year-old Benson Ford, which once carried cars and production parts, as well as illustrious characters such as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, now sits on a cliff edge overlooking Lake Erie, Ohio.
Images from videographer Nick James show how the hotel's historic features have endured to make this cliffhanger of a holiday home truly unique.
The Benson Ford has four floors with a deck exterior and all the original features are still visible in the pilot house, captains office and a number of cabins.
However, a few upgrades have been installed to bring the ship up to date for modern guests, including a garage, game room, bar area, four bathrooms and a modern kitchen.
"In the parlour you can just imagine Thomas Edison and Henry Ford sitting smoking their cigars"Nick James, videographer and tour guide
Nick, who conducts tours of the hotel, said: "The most incredible part is standing at the helm and the way the boat hangs over the cliff it actually feels like you are out on the open water.
"I love the history that is still all around in the Benson Ford.
"In the parlour you can just imagine Thomas Edison and Henry Ford sitting smoking their cigars.
"When you're there it feels as though you step back in time and they could appear at any moment."
Built in 1923, the ship was used to carry parts for the Ford Motor Company across the lakes in America.
When it was decommissioned in 1986, new owner Frank J Sullivan decided to scrap everything apart from the forward superstructure.
Without the permission of the local people, he perched it on the edge of the lake and set it up as a hotel.
Current owner, Bryan Kasper, said: "Everyone that sees it is intrigued to look inside and I think everyone that looks inside is amazed at the woodwork throughout the ship.
"Also from the bow it almost feels like you are on the water because of its close proximity to Lake Erie.
"I love the deck on the fourth floor - It's a great place to enjoy a cocktail overlooking the lake and the nearby cliffs and watching the sunset is amazing from there.


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I met a guy the other day who bought his Xbox One day one, used it for a month and put it away. After spending 45 minutes talking to him about why he hates his Xbox One I learned that he was not using his Kinect, or any of the wonderful new features the Xbox One has to offer. A guy who seemed to be afraid of new technology (he still uses Vista on his PC!) he was afraid of the kinect and simply had no idea what his Xbox One was capable of. He thought it was just like his 360 so I started by telling him about the improvements on the new Kinect that are best showcased in my favorite "game" on my Xbox One, Xbox Fitness! I told him how the new Kinect reads your heart rate through the fluctuations in your skin tone, he said he read that it was just a program that generated an estimate of your heart rate, based on statistics (he was a ministry of misinformation), I did my best to set him straight.
I am probably Xbox Fitness' biggest fan, I try to use it everyday. I used to work out heavily, play Capoeira (a Brazilian martial art) and do body building. I was squatting 200 (at 5'2' 118 lbs) and then I got breast cancer. After numerous complications from my surgeries working out with heavy weights is no longer an option for me and going to the gym can be a humbling and painful experience. That is why I love Xbox Fitness so much. I can work out in my living room where no one is watching! Don't be fooled by the word "game"; there is no cheating in Xbox Fitness! The new and improved Kinect lets me know which of my muscles are engaged and which I need to use more (It actually tells you) I admit sometimes I get angry when the Kinect tells me to use my shoulders more but in the end I do get a better workout because of it. Microsoft gives you a selection of famous fitness trainers including Jillian Michaels, Tracy Anderson, Beachbody's P90X's Tony Horton, and Insanity's Shaun T, Jillian is my favorite although we do have a love/hate relationship I know she has my best interests in mind. If you have an Xbox One and and Xbox Live Gold account do yourself a favor and download Xbox Fitness, its free so what do you have to lose except maybe a few pounds?


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A brief workout
Marty McFly made them famous. Mark Wahlberg even more so. Its 30 years since the birth of Calvin Klein underwear, so MH asked model Matthew Terry the current face of the global powerhouse for the workout he uses to ensure he always pulls off the snuggest pairs. Use these moves to build a defined midriff. And look good in your pants.
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Hold onto a pull-up bar and keep your torso still as you lift your legs until they're 90 degrees to your body. For an added challenge, place one foot on top of the other. Repeat to failure.
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Jamie McDonnell will defend his WBA bantamweight title against Japanese sensation Tomoki Kameda for the second time next month.
The Doncaster fighter got off the canvas to beat Kameda on points in Hidalgo, Texas in May.
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In 2016, the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) will return to Lawrenz Gun Club (11Cs4), a large, fortified Mississippian Period village in the central Illinois River valley. While the site is best known for the robust fortifications that were first constructed in the mid-12th century (~AD 1150), investigations in 2015 uncovered a century older cluster of late Lohmann-to-early Stirling Phase structures outside the community's walls. Given the ephemeral evidence of early Mississippian communities in this region, we will be expanding our excavations in this area of the site in 2016 to obtain information on community and household structure/organization, identity and social reproduction, subsistence, and potential interactions with local, terminal Late Woodland groups. Additional work will also be conducted on the fortifications and other archaeo-magnetically detected features within the site's walls.
The field school will run for six weeks from Monday, May 16th through Friday, June 24th. Lab fees associated with this six-credit class will cover lodging and equipment costs. Participants and staff are responsible for their own meals. Registration for this course (i.e., ANTH-P 405: Field Work in Archaeology) can be accomplished through One.IU for undergraduates and graduates currently enrolled at any Indiana University campus. For those currently enrolled at another institution in Indiana (e.g., Purdue, Ball State) or elsewhere, enrolling in ANTH-P 405 is a straightforward process achieved through IUPUI's Non-degree Admissions page. If any issues should arise during the registration process, do not hesitate to contact Dr. Wilson via email (firstname.lastname@example.com). Following course completion, the transfer of these credit hours back to your home institution is easily accomplished.
Undergraduates that are residents of Indiana can expect to spend circa $1,600 for the six credit hours and a $905 course fee for lodging and equipment. The lodging will be at the Panther Creek Lodge in Ashland, IL, which is roughly 20 minutes from the site. Please contact Dr. Wilson for an estimate on weekly food costs. Individuals tend to make their own breakfast and lunches for the field, while dinners are cooked on a rotating basis by all students, staff and faculty involved in the project.
Lawrenz Gun Club is located in a relatively rural area of west-central Illinois, approximately an hour west of Springfield, IL. Participants in the field school are welcome to stay at the lodge in Illinois on the weekend or travel home by personal car. It is approximately a four-hour drive from Indianapolis. Participants will be expected to sign a "Code of Conduct" agreement at the beginning of the field season that applies to their behavior and interactions both at the archaeological site and while staying at the field house.
Location: Lawrenz Gun Club Village (11CS4), Central Illinois River Valley; Beardstown, IL
Dates: May 16th-June 24th, 2016
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Mississippi's Treadwell has surgery to repair broken leg, dislocated ankle
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OXFORD, Miss. – Mississippi receiver Laquon Treadwell is out for the season after breaking his left fibula and dislocated his ankle in the No. 7 Rebels' 35-31 loss to No. 4 Auburn on Saturday night.
Ole Miss spokesman Kyle Campbell confirmed the extent of the injury and said Treadwell had surgery late Saturday night.
The 6-foot-2, 229-pound sophomore was injured trying to score the go-ahead touchdown in the final minutes of the game. The play was initially ruled a touchdown, but it was overturned after replays showed he fumbled just short of the goal line. Auburn recovered the fumble.
Treadwell is the team's leading receiver this season and caught 10 passes for 103 yards and a touchdown Saturday.
Ole Miss (7-2, 4-2 Southeastern Conference, No. 4 CFP) has lost two straight games.


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Miami Dade College Project is Complete!
As a follow-up to our January 12, 2017 post – https://bcilibraries.com/miami-dade-college-library-project-nearing-completion-featuring-bci/ — the Miami Dade College library is complete.
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New York Red Bulls are chasing Aston Villa defender Richard Dunne.
The Daily Star Sunday says the Irish international is keen on the switch from Aston Villa to the Big Apple - with his contract due to expire and Red Bulls offering him £50,000-a-week wages.
Talks between Villa and the MLS club are almost finished - and providing Dunne, 33, is available on a free transfer, the deal could be completed within two weeks.
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Willis launches hoteliers' package
by Gill Montia
Story link: Willis launches hoteliers' package
Willis has joined forces with Lloyd's insurer, Kiln, to launch a policy aimed at reducing the risks faced by hoteliers, given that bad news travels fast in the world of new media.
According to the broker, illnesses such as Norovirus, which is responsible for about 90% of serious stomach upsets, and Legionnaire's disease, a lung infection caught from contaminated water, can ruin a hotel's reputation and balance sheet, overnight.
Fatalities or serious injuries among guests are also likely to lead to empty rooms.
However, the Hotel Reputation Protection 2.0 policy provides cover for incidents that lead to, or are likely to lead to, losses resulting from adverse publicity through any medium, from traditional to new media.
Specifically, the policy covers lost revenue based on RevPAR figures, the hotel industry's standard measurement of revenue per available room.
It will also pay for a crisis management consultant to assist during the first weeks of an incident, providing up to a maximum of €25 million for both this and the reimbursement of the reduction in RevPAR.
Commenting on the launch, Willis' global markets leisure practice leader, Laurie Fraser, says: "In the extremely competitive hotel industry, reputation accounts for approximately 30% to 40% of a business's overall worth."
He adds: "Therefore, damage to reputation, which spreads virally through social and other media channels, can have a significant financial impact."
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Over the last 50 years, research in the fields of endocrinology and immunology has improved our knowledge as to how and why we age. Communication between the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems make it possible for us to adapt and survive in our environment, and hormones are the messengers between these systems. Hormones are molecules that are released into the blood stream and exert biochemical effects on receptor sites to regulate our body's temperature, reproduction, growth, aging and immune functions. As messengers of the central nervous systems, hormones instruct our internal organs on how to function. Unfortunately, both men and women experience a drop in these life-sustaining hormones as they age.
• Weight Gain
• Loss of Muscle Mass
• Degenerative Diseases (Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease, Osteoporosis)
• A Compromised Immune System
• Wrinkling and Thinning of the Skin
• Depression and Stress
• Cognitive Decline
• Insulin Resistance
• Loss of Sex Drive
• Fatigue
• Sleep Disorders
Replenishment of hormones to optimal, physiological levels (not exceeding normal limits) has been shown to alleviate these age-related changes.
Hormones are molecules that are manufactured in the endocrine glands, which include adrenal glands, testes, ovaries, thyroid, pituitary and pineal gland. As the body ages, the levels of hormones diminish. In addition, the specific hormone receptor sites in the cells tend to change with age and become less sensitive and more resistant to hormone stimulation, resulting in a decrease in cellular function, cellular repair, protein synthesis and cell reproduction. All in all, this results in the signs and symptoms of aging that can only be reversed by replacing our hormones to optimal levels to improve hormone effectiveness.
As the levels of hormones decline, so do our physical and mental capabilities. We lose our energy, vitality, strength, physique and health. The deterioration seen in normal aging results in osteoporosis, coronary artery disease, muscle atrophy, sleep disorders, depression, mood disorders and decreased sociability. Much of this is caused by a decrease in hormones. By restoring these hormones to their youthful levels, it is possible to restore our zeal and energy as well as to strengthen and bolster our bodies and minds. We can improve and reverse many of the symptoms and signs that we have come to associate with aging. We can also regain our youthful resilience, which protects us from the stressors of daily life.
Structure is everything when it comes to hormone replacement therapy. Natural, biologically identical hormones mimic the shape and function of our own endogenous hormones. The body treats and processes the same way it has processed its natural hormones for years. They are safer, with fewer side effects, and have been found to have a rejuvenating and proactive effect.
Unfortunately, many of the hormones regularly prescribed are not identical to those found in the human body. These hormones may somewhat resemble our own hormones and may accomplish some of the same tasks, but they are a far cry from what the body is used to and needs. As the body works to metabolize these foreign substances, it may produce toxic by-products, which can cause a wide array of side effects like bloating, mood swings, water retention and more serious problems such as cancer and heart disease.
In light of this, patients should insist on prescriptions from biologically identical hormones only. The quality of life as you age depends heavily on the quality of hormones you take.
It is important to note that proper replacement of hormones involves replenishing all of the deficient hormones back to optimal, more youthful levels utilizing only biologically identical hormones. Which hormones to replenish, how much to replenish, and how to adjust the hormones is the art and science of this new specialty of hormone replacement therapy. We applaud you for taking the first step; now let us help you achieve the quality of life you desire and deserve.
Your age management physician will conduct an initial consultation with you and draw blood for testing. Based on the results of these and other evaluations, your physician will formulate an optimal hormone replacement regimen that is specifically tailored to your needs.
Your personalized program will include prescriptions and recommendations for appropriate dietary supplements, exercise and proper nutritional guidelines. This preventive medicine program is designed to help you feel, function and live your best while preventing age-related decline in health. With optimal bio identical hormone replacement, the focus is on a healthy quality of life for years to come.
Clinical studies have demonstrated that DHEA has a beneficial effect on immune response, sex drive, metabolism and emotional stability. Its effect on the immune system via distribution of stress hormones and its use as a powerful antioxidant demonstrate potent age-resisting capabilities. Other health-related benefits, including support of cognitive function, help the body cope with stress sand protect against heart disease through its effects on lipid body fat.
Failure of memory and lack of mental clarity can be among the most frustrating aspects of aging. Studies indicate that pregnenolone might be beneficial against age-related cognitive decline. Nicknamed the "mother hormone", pregnenolone is a precursor and necessary building block to DHEA, which in turn can convert testosterone, estrogen and progesterone.
This metabolic hormone secreted by the thyroid gland regulates temperature, metabolism and cerebral function, which generate energy and warmth. Insufficient thyroid levels result in fatigue, increased cholesterol levels and increased risk of coronary artery disease. With age, thyroid hormone levels gradually decline resulting in a decreased metabolism, which affects all cells and organs. Low thyroid causes low energy, loss of motivation and thinning hair, skin and nails.
As the first commonly replaced hormone, estrogen has experienced a bumpy ride over the last four decades. Conclusions of studies like Women's Health Initiative have left women scared and vulnerable after menopause. The WHI study only focused on the synthetic non-biologically identical hormones that can have negative effects on the female body. Bio identical estrogen mimics exactly what the body makes. It is essential for muscle tone, skin smoothness, hair texture and sex drive. It may also help deter osteoporosis, Alzheimer's and heart disease. Bio identical progesterone (exactly the molecule your body produces) should always be viewed as the life-long partner of estrogen. They balance each other and work synergistically to promote optimal female health. Progesterone helps stimulate bone growth, healthy heart function and boost mood and well-being.
Although testosterone is the primary male hormone, women also benefit from its supplementation. Levels of testosterone decline with age in men and women. At optimal levels, testosterone increases bone density and bone formation, enhances energy and sex drive, decreases body fat, increases muscle strength, lowers blood pressure and modulates cholesterol levels. Testosterone is an essential hormone that neither men nor women should be without as they age.
Melatonin regulates the circadian rhythm as well as the deep stage of sleep. Studies suggest that the immune system is stimulated during these periods of deep rest. In the January, 1997 issues of the New England Journal of Medicine, melatonin was praised as a powerful antioxidant and a potential anti-cancer agent. In light of hundreds of studies showing that melatonin can scavenge free radicals, induce youthful sleep patterns and possibly slow the aging process, it's a perfect candidate for the anti-aging roster.
These all play an important role in the success of any healthy aging program. Our food sources have changed drastically over the last 50 years with increased use of processed foods, nutrient-depleted soil and a variety of pesticides. In today's society, eating well, along with exercise and proper vitamin and supplement intake, is more important than ever.


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The Lexington Small School Showdown was a huge success Saturday morning as runners from all over Central Texas participated. Cameron won the varsity boys competition; Liberty Hill won both varsity and junior varsity girls' divisions. Elgin swept the Junior High in boys and girls.
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Part of Lisa Marie Presley's talent is the fan connection
If you weren't hoarse from screaming your lungs out in joy at the Lisa Marie Presley concert at Nashville's Exit/In last night, then you need to get your hearing checked. Or perhaps you need to stay listening to dull music sung by people who have no hand in writing and producing their own stuff. Last night was an incredible show.
View the slideshow - (photos by J Yates)
Presley sounded amazing even during the sound check: clean, clear, strong, and ready to rock, despite the band's performing at a Tunica casino on November 2 and 3. "This show was better," Presley said. "The energy from the (Nashville) audience was amazing." Dressed in a long, black dress with decorative belt, Lisa Marie really showed her chops, belting out an opening introduction to a song before the band jumped in, playing the drums with fervor, and yet stopping to sign autographs from a few front-row fans. A different version of "Idiot" made the song even more hateful; "This is the meanest song I've ever wrote," she confessed on stage (But if you have ever nursed a broken heart, it is the best). Backstage she admitted, "I almost slipped and said whom it was about." This is Lisa Marie Presley: honest, talented, and open.
Presley's concert attendees are an eclectic group. There are folks from all ages, all styles of dress and appearance. "I was an Elvis fan since I was an itty bitty girl," says one mother who brought her grown daughter. "I love Lisa Marie!" A 20-something with bright orange hair tells others, "We traveled to see her in Tunica. Both shows!" Two heavy metal, biker types (with lots of tats) literally gushed over a signed CD cover. A few special needs attendees had incredibly huge smiles when Lisa Marie called out "I love you!" back to fans. Gay, straight, black, white, large, small, and all those in between were screaming out their adoration in between sets.
Presley played most cuts from her latest CD, Storm & Grace. She "told a secret" prior to performing the title track. "I wrote this song about my son," she confessed. Benjamin Storm Keough attempted to not get emotional by the tune, but a few days later, "showed me he had the chorus tattooed on his chest, across his heart." Storm & Grace has a different feel, showing both unabashed anger and shameless adoration.
As usual, there was a meet & greet after the show, and rather than just sign items and move along, Lisa Marie Presley took time to speak with all visitors, pose for photos, and visit. Country singers Tanya Tucker and Crystal Gayle had snuck in, hat pulled low and hair pinned up, to take in the show and welcome Presley back to Nashville. "I love this girl!" Tanya Tucker said of Presley. "She is so talented!"
As Presley and band prepared for Ohio, fans hung around in case they got a glimpse, a handshake, a signed item. "It's the swing state" one band member said, referring to today's election results. "We're kinda scared." It is also the last tour date. Inevitably they will be met with screams, shouts of love, attempts to get a signed item, or more. Lisa Marie will give back. She has that kind of talent.


text: Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be in the desert town of Bani Walid about 150 (95 miles) southeast of Tripoli, a top military commander of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Thursday. Abdel Majid Mlegta, coordinator of the Tripoli military operations room, told Reuters "someone we trust" had said Gaddafi had gone to Bani Walid with a son, Saif al-Islam, and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi three days after the capital fell to rebel forces last week. "They wanted to set up an operations room there and conduct aggressive operations against us," he said. "We have talked to notables from Bani Walid to arrest him and hand him over. They haven't responded. We are assessing our position." The commander said Ali al-Ahwal, Gaddafi's coordinator for tribes, was also in Bani Walid, a bastion of the powerful Warfalla tribe, Libya's biggest. "In four days we will come with up a solution. We are capable of ending the crisis but military action is out of the question right now," Mlegta said. "We cannot attack this tribe because many of our brigades in Benghazi and Zintan are from Bani Walid. The sons of Bani Walid hold the key to the solution." NTC fighters said earlier this week that they were 30 km (20 miles) from Bani Walid. The NTC has given pro-Gaddafi forces in the coastal city of Sirte, the deposed leader's hometown, until Saturday to surrender or face attack.


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Then we moved back to VA when Baby K was only 2 weeks old, now he's almost 2 years old. It was a difficult transition, but luckily I had my friends and family who were here to help out. 4 Months into our lease we decided to purchase another home. We moved into our new home and I immediately starting watching another baby who is only 2 months younger than Baby K. That is baby C and he is my best friend's son. This is how I have been able to stay home with both of the boys. It gives me enough to supplement my husband's income, but not enough to pay for kindergarten.
Z has been in a preschool for the past 2 years. He loves it, I love it, and he has learned a lot. They offer Kindergarten too, but it is expensive. So what do we do? Do we shop around for other schools if we are going to pay for school maybe it should be somewhere he is going to stay. Should we just send him to public school? Should I attempt home school?


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It's often said that the Inuit have dozens of words for snow. Well, researchers compiling a historical thesaurus of Scots at the University of Glasgow have found that that language has over 400 words for snow. They include: flindrikin, a light snow shower, spitters, small drops or flakes of wind-driven rain or snow, feefle, meaning 'to swirl', sneesl, to begin to rain or snow, and nester, to drizzle, rain or snow slightly. There are words more likely to be used by children, too, such as Katty-clean-doors, a child's word for snow, and brizz, to make (a slide), by beating and stamping snow until it is hard and smooth.
Some of these words were discussed on Radio 4's Today programme this morning (listen to the clip here). The website of the Historical Thesaurus of Scots is here.


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This guide will walk you through the steps necessary to clean and repair a faulty keypad on the Samsung SCH A890 phone.
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Remove the battery by pinching and unlatching the clip located above the Verizon logo on the back of the phone.
Lift the battery off the back of the device.
Remove all the screws with a size 00 screwdriver. There are five screws total. Four are easily visible on the four corners of the back plate. The fifth is located in the upper left corner of the device.
Once all the screws are removed, slowly and carefully lift off the back plate. Do this by inserting a spudger between the front and back plates of the device on both sides of the phone.
Once back plate is lifted, the small, silver volume and camera buttons located on the sides of the device will fall off. They are only connected to the phone by the back plate. Remove and do not lose these pieces.
Locate the cover of the head phone jack. The cover is silver and circular and has a headphone image on the front of it. Open the cover to the headphone jack and peel it off the device. Do not lose this piece.
Gently unplug the external speaker wire from the logic board. After the wire is unplugged the back cover should come off easily.
To disconnect the logic board from the main body, unplug the gold ribbon from its outlet.
The logic board fits to the casing by the headphone jack. Simply slide it out of place and remove it from the device.
Once logic board is removed, the back of the Keypad will be visible.
Pull out Key Pad using your fingers to get leverage.
Once the key pad is removed, clean off dust or loose particles.
Make sure the key pad is dry before reintroducing it to the phone. Once a new or cleaned keypad is placed in the cell phone, all keys should work properly.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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By Pat Stacey
I read an on-line story about a Houston criminal court judge that offered defendants an alternative to working a number of community services hours as part of their convictions. The Judge, John Clinton, offered to release those defendants from their community service work if they would read a specific book and then return to court to discuss the book with the judge. Judge Clinton, admitted that his goal was to attempt to mold the punishment to help those involved and not just set them up for future failure. Well the A-C-L-U and a host of criminal defense attorneys lined up to protest the offering by the judge saying the action was unconstitutional and unfair. It all went back to the book it self – titled The Heart of The Problem – which as it turns out is a Christian Bible study book. Now keep in mind that the defendants were not forced to read the book, only offered the book study as an alternative to community service hours. In the end the judge was determined to be legally wrong but is now searching to find other options with the goal of making a difference in the lives of those that pass through his courtroom. It is too bad that the judge cannot even have that as an option in a courthouse that, no doubt, uses the Bible to swear in elected officials. The hypocrisy is evident and it needs to end and that will make for a Better East Texas.


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Mark your calendar for next year's conference:
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More details coming.
The Southeast Credit Union Conference & Expo is one of the largest credit union conferences in the country. The JW Marriott provides the perfect backdrop.
Contact Simi Daniels for information on our 2019 event.
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Exhibition review: True to Life?: New Photography from the Middle East, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, until November 2 2014
With a stunning collection of work by Pre-Raphaelites, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has as many dead white males as you could ever hope to see. Right now, however, residents of this multi-cultural city will find a counterweight to mainstream art history with a two gallery show of Middle Eastern photography.
© the artist / Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
It is also an antidote to the mainstream media. The turbulent region, Morocco to Afghanistan, does after all have an image problem. So while the news agencies focus on conflict, repression and fanaticism, the 14 photographers in this show cut through the stereotypes to reveal a region every bit as diverse as our own Sceptered Isle.
For many the veil has come to be a one-size fits all symbol for the Islamic world and representations of women feature heavily in the show.
Shadi Ghadirian's subjects all wear headscarves, but each holds a deconstructive prop which defies the expectations of women in this part of the world. These include a mirror, a mountain bike, a Pepsi and so on. These black and white shots are set up as vintage but the take out is immediate.
Confronting us from another wall is Raeda Saadeh, who has been called the Islamic Cindy Sherman. Saadeh has photographed herself in a recumbent position which brings to mind orientalist fantasy about hareems and odalisques.
But this Palestine artist meets our gaze head on and she is dressed, fully, in regional newspapers carrying death notices. It is a powerful, discomfiting statement.
Images of the past, or the past preserved in the present, enrich the picture further. Photographer and woman, Mehraneh Atashi has gained access to one of Iran's most restricted boy's clubs: a male wrestling gym where physical and spiritual fitness are pursued in equal measure.
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The shot chosen for this show is of a heroic and gleeful, musclebound man, who seems oblivious to the fact he is posing for Atashi. She appears as a disruptive element in a full length mirror behind him.
But three of the most memorable images from the Middle East are not from the Middle East at all, but rather from the migrant communities in Paris, South Shields and an unspecified destination in Western Europe.
The first of these is an edgy bit of inner city reportage in which you wonder how Mohamed Bourouissa got away with his camera intact. Then you learn that this is a scene from the Parisian Banlieue is a staged scene using friends and acquaintances.
Egyptian Youssef Nabil has meanwhile built links with the Yemeni community on Tyneside. In hybrid dress, mixing west and east, his elder statesmen pose for individual portraits with a dignity that, one imagines, has been hard won (These men were among the first migrants to arrive in South Shields).
Nabil has coloured each of the photographs by hand, giving them a movie-star sheen, and the deft painting is one of the most accomplished aspects of the show.
There's more painting in a large piece by Sükran Moral. Somehow the Turkish photographer has got to the prow of a rowboat taking refugees across a stretch of the Aegean.
Their varied expressions, somewhere between determined and desperate, are set off by a flock of nightingales which perch all over this group portrait. The informative plaque reveals that the birds signify hope in Turkey but the title of the piece is Despair.
That's a mood which might unite both West and (middle) East right now as conflicts in Iraq and Syria draw the rest of the world into their orbit. Taraneh Hemami just about sums it up with a direct piece called Most Wanted.
This takes some ten suspects on a US government mugshot poster and degrades the image to the point where it is little more than a collection of veils and beards. It's international relations reduced to an absurd degree.
If given a choice between reading a newspaper for seven days and checking out this show, you might learn more from the latter. Visitors may well reflect that art shows do more good than airstrikes. True to Life? Is inclusive, informative and impactful.
- Admission free. Open 10am-5pm daily (from 10:30am Friday).
You might also like:
Visual art, film and performance at the seaside: Whitstable Biennale 2014
Curator's Choice: Eleanor Clayton on Nasreen Mohamedi's red triangles and shifting light
London's De Morgan Centre to close as search for new home begins
Visit Mark Sheerin's contemporary art blog and follow him on Twitter.


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HOUSTON COUNTY, TX (KTRE) - The Houston County Sheriff's Office has released a photograph of two Apple Springs firefighters who rescued an American flag out of the rubble from Tuesday's tornado.
According to a press release, the firefighters, Logan Presley and Esau Hernandez, found the flag in the woods behind the debris. After bringing it out, they took the time to properly fold it.
At the same location, two other flags were blown off the poles. Before the firefighters left the scene, they re-attached the flags to a utility pole.
The tornado destroyed a feed store near Crockett and caused damage to a bank in Lovelady. The picture is taken at the remains of a travel trailer on County Road 4550.
Representatives of the National Weather Service are on the scene Wednesday to determine the strength of the tornado.
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EME23TX-ATV KIT1 is a complete ATV TX Kit for 5.5MHz that includes all listed below. Requires complete construction, and soldering of some SMD components.
EME23TX-ATV KIT2 is a complete ATV TX Kit for 6.0MHz that includes all listed below. Requires complete construction, and soldering of some SMD components.
EME23TX-ATV KIT3 is a complete ATV TX Kit for 6.5MHz that includes all listed below. Requires complete construction, and soldering of some SMD components.
Kits include the EME154, EME158 KIT1/2/3, EME161A, EME161B, LCD5 module, Header Connectors, SMA connectors, Tuning Knob, 2x momentary switches, ribbon cable, and Instructions. No enclosure is included.
|Frequency Range:
|1020 to 1350MHz
|Frequency Steps:
|100kHz, 200kHz, 400kHz, 500kHz, 800kHz, 1MHz, ( with a 3.2MHz Xtal )
|Display Offset:
|+/- 0 to 3.2GHz
|up to 5 with an optional Band switch
|FM Wideband 20MHz ( adjustable deviation )
|PAL CCIR 405-1 ( Optional NTSC CCIR 405-1 )
|RF Output:
|+13dBm ( 20mW )
|Video Input:
|1v p-p into 75 ohms
|Audio Input:
|Optional sub-carrier 5.5 to 6.5MHz
|Operating Voltage:
|+12 to 14vdc ( +12vdc @ 300mA )
|PC Board Size:
|See the specific Kits for size
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Complete 1.2GHz FM ATV Transmitter
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- Product Code: EME23 TX-ATV KIT
- Quantity In stock: 10
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Your guide to living the good life in Asia
Luxury's new home is in Asia, and the site that covers it is LifestyleAsia.com. Through engaging and authoritative articles, LifestyleAsia.com has become the reliable portal to luxury living, travel, international fashion, dining and entertainment across Asia. We offer interactive, localised content through features, listings, event galleries and videos with city-specific and regional content covering Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
Our Mission
Pioneering the online luxury media space in Asia
We lead the digital media world by being first to deliver the hottest luxury lifestyle news in Asia with an authoritative voice, unique angles and insider knowledge on the cities we cover. Our content is expertly curated with our target audience in mind and freely accessible across multiple platforms to anyone around the world.
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Our content is assigned, edited, and published without interference or influence from sponsors or advertisers.
Our History
Lifestyleasia.com is founded as the pioneer in online luxury vertical publishing in Asia.
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Lifestyleasia.com increases its footprint in Southeast Asia with the launch of Singapore and Thailand.
Lifestyleasia.com launches the first responsive technology site in its niche in Asia. Video content is introduced and the site launches in Malaysia following the successful launch of Thailand.
The site is awarded the prestigious MPAS award for the second year in a row. Version 4 of Lifestyleasia.com is launched.
Traffic is increasingly shifting to smartphone and tablets. Italian luxury brands such as Gucci, Bottega Veneta and Tod's sign regional advertising contracts.
Version 5 of Lifestyleasia.com is launched. New technology includes touch-enabled features, a mobile-first approach, full screen experience and retina display-ready images.
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The site's dedication to serving our jet-setting readers across the region was recognized by the Magazine Publishers Association of Singapore (MPAS) in 2011 and 2012 with its award for the best Digital Media Product of the Year. LifestyleAsia.com's audience reach and site traffic are both audited by effective measure.
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Welcome to the City Gardens Motel, a great place to stay. Owner operated, friendly, clean & comfortable. Five star service at a budget price! The staff at City Gardens pride themselves on offering the very best in service to make customers feel at home.
The rooms are comfortable and well equipped while the motel is within easy walking distance of Traralgon town centre where there are many restaurants, cafes and shops.
City Gardens is an ideal base from which to enjoy the highlights of the Latrobe Valley such as the Tara Bulga National Park and Mt Baw Baw or as a starting point for exploring the Gippsland Plains Rail Trail.


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ST. PETERBURG, Fla. (AP) Kansas City Royals left-hander Jason Vargas was taken to the hospital Wednesday and had an appendectomy.
Royals manager Ned Yost, after Kansas City's 5-4 win over Tampa Bay on Wednesday night, said the surgery went great and that there were ''no complications.''
Yost says Vargas ''started really having severe discomfort'' around 4 a.m. Wednesday.
There was no timetable given for how long Vargas will be out. Bruce Chen could replace Vargas in Sunday's game against Detroit.
Royals All-Star outfielder Alex Gordon was scratched from Wednesday's lineup due to a sprained right wrist. He will have an MRI and see a hand specialist Thursday when the team returns to Kansas City.
Gordon did enter as a defensive replacement Wednesday in the ninth inning. He said the major problem is pain when swinging a bat.
''I don't think it's anything serious,'' Gordon said.
Yost said the injury could ''very well'' impact Gordon's status for next week's All-Star game.
Kansas City third baseman Mike Moustakas was also out of Wednesday's lineup with the flu. He was feeling better late Wednesday, but is not expected to start Thursday.


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All Films.All Above Board.NOW INCLUDES TV SHOWS & TV LISTINGS
Second feature in the Bollywood crime thriller franchise 'Shootout'. Set before the events of the previous film 'Shootout at Lokhandwala' (2007), the story follows real-life gangster Manya Surve, who is portrayed by John Abraham, and his encounter with the Mumbai Police in 1982 in which he was shot dead - the first ever encounter killing by the Mumbai forces. After murdering a man while protecting his crooked brother from a crime boss's henchmen, Manya is sent to prison where he makes both friends and enemies. He manages to escape and soon becomes involved with two mobster brothers Zubair (Manoj Bajpai) and Dilawar Imtiaz Haskar (Sonu Sood). Meanwhile, Inspector Afaaque Bhaagran (Anil Kapoor) attempts to track him down.


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MALIBU, Calif. (KTLA) — The son of a co-creator of the popular children's show 'Barney and Friends' has been arrested for allegedly shooting a Malibu neighbor.
27-year-old Patrick Leach is the son of Sheryl Leach, co-creator of the long-running PBS show about a purple dinosaur.
An unidentified witness found the victim, a 49-year-old man, bleeding on a driveway in the 27000 block of Winding Way on Jan. 9.
That witness also got the license plate number of a fleeing vehicle, which led to Leach's arrest.
The victim was shot in the chest with a .45 handgun, according to sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.
The bullet went through his chest and out his shoulder. He was reportedly in critical condition, but is expected to survive.
Leach is facing an attempted murder charge. He was released on Thursday after posting $500,000 bail.
Investigators have not released any information about what might have prompted the shooting.


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Changing How We Live in the 21st Centrury
I had a revelation today about the change. It is very difficult to switch directions once you set on a particular course, but it is possible. As I watched a martial arts movie about the late great win chun master Yip "IP" Man, I was reminded that it is possible. IN the movie the young version of IP Man would be taught that change is possible.
"…that doesn't mean change is forbidden, change allows flexibility and that allows movement to be adapted. In this (change), that allows for new techniques. Giving us an arsenal…."
I was watching a live national broadcast of an NFL game on Fox when I was watching a Exxon commercial. In the commercial they posited that the world is perpetuated and progressed through our use and development in the use of petroleum products. We use petroleum to make plastics of all kinds and apparently in the construction of various instruments in medical arts. I started to be so amazed at how dependent we are on these technologies. Petroleum, Oil controls the world economy. In order for us to break free from oil's grip we must start to develop or use other materials to do everyday tasks.
How do we change how we live in the 21st century when we are still dependent on 20th century approaches to life. Its very important that we stop living in the shadow of former ideas and move forward to more contemporary ideas. Change is not easy but can be instituted through flexible and innovative approaches as well as ignoring authentic versus inauthentic arguments.


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On a recent trip, I took lots of photos of their beautiful outdoor lily pond.
I never know which visit to the garden or which set of photos will inspire a new future painting.
If you are an artist today, photos are one of the great sources of inspiration available to you. I love my volumes of photos taken through the years because no matter what the season, I can turn to them for creative inspiration at any time.
Taking lots of photos throughout the year enables me to always have a garden full of blooms to draw from, even in mid-winter.
Enjoy each and every new bloom in your own garden, making sure to take lots of photographs you can enjoy all year long.


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Do you really count as a cougar just because you WANT to date younger men, even if all of the younger men clearly cannot stand you? And I have a follow up:
Or is that what makes you an "extreme" cougar?
Why is this show called Extreme Cougar Wives if none of them are Wives?
Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that all of these women are virgins?
Stephanie knows about Octavio and the senator, right?
Why do they pretend like that 56-year-old woman has to sneak out of her boyfriend's house when there is a camera crew following both of them and also a camera crew in the living room following his mom?
Why can't it be November 25th right noooooowwwwwww?!


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$100 Larry Clark Photos for One Week Only
Ever dreamt of owning a Larry Clark photograph but never quite had the moneys to spend on it? Well for only $100 that dream can finally become a reality. As a celebration for this 71st birthday, the Kids director decided to offer a very special gift to his fans by going through an archive of photos he took between 1992 – 2010 and sell them at a more accessible figure than the average $10,000 price point.
The sale will be available in L.A.'s Ooga Booga in Chinatown and will last for only a week starting tomorrow. So you better grab your skateboards and cruise to your one-time opportunity!
On his website, Clark's explains that his sale decision is for "all the kids that come to my shows in thousands and could never afford 10 to 15 thousand dollars for a print (…) this is a pay back to all the skate rats and collectors who would like a souvenir so I can die happy."
The cannon includes on-location photos taken by Clark while filming some of his most famous films like Kids, Bully, and Ken Park, as well as portraits, self-portraits, and even outtakes from a calendar shoot he did for Supreme. So if the lines that wrap around the Lafayette store are any indication of the fandom surrounding Larry Clark, Supreme, Chloë Sevigny, and anything else related, you better start figuring out where you're gonna set up camp and what you're gonna say when you call in sick for the upcoming week.
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Cigarette smokers frequently argue that the reason they don't stop smoking is that quitting would make life more depressing. But new research indicates the opposite is true. Persons who quit in a clinical trial actually showed lower signs of depression for weeks and months after giving up the weed.
Smokers who quit were happiest during periods of abstention, and if they began smoking again their moods turned darker, according to psychologist Christopher Kahler of Brown University, lead author of a study in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Participants in the study who never quit smoking were the most depressed of all. Those who quit entirely were the least depressed at the beginning of the months-long study and they remained the happiest throughout the project.
"We're still puzzling about why that's the case," Kahler said in a telephone interview. "A sense of personal triumph makes a lot of sense. The people in this study were really motivated to succeed. And when you succeed at something that's important to you, you naturally feel better."
But he concedes that many ex-smokers complain that "they felt miserable for weeks" after quitting, and many say they resumed smoking because they felt depressed or anxious or irritated about something in their lives. Yet in this study, the less people smoked, the less they suffered from depression.
Whether Smoking Increases or Decreases Depression Is Debated
The study probes an area that has not been widely studied and the question of whether smoking increases or decreases depression is still a bit up in the air. It's not clear yet whether these findings would apply to everybody, because all the participants were classified as "heavy social drinkers" of alcohol, and 90.7 percent were non-Hispanic whites.
In fact, this wasn't even the initial goal of the study, which was funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Kahler and his colleagues at Brown and the University of Southern California set out to determine if abstaining from alcohol could help people quit smoking.
So they ended up with 236 men and women who volunteered for the study. All of the participants were "heavy drinkers," meaning the men had at least 14 drinks per week and the women had at least seven drinks per week.
Study Revealed Surprising Clues About Depression and Smoking
Abstaining from alcohol had an insignificant effect, Kahler said, in helping participants quit smoking. But the data also contained surprising clues about depression and smoking.
"People say they can't quit because they are going to feel worse psychologically, but we just don't see that," he added.
The participants, averaging 41.5 years of age, really wanted to quit because they enrolled themselves in a rigid clinical program. They were biochemically tested for smoking at 2, 8, 16, and 26 weeks after the date they were supposed to quit.
They were administered a breath test, because smoking leaves carbon monoxide on the breath, and a blood test reveals traces of nicotine, both of which would show if the participant had smoked even a little in the preceding few days.
Ninety-nine of the participants smoked throughout the study, and showed the highest levels of depression, 44 were able to quit for two weeks, 33 abstained for two to eight weeks, 31 quit entirely. The rest were erratic, quitting and resuming at various times.
For Study's Participants, Quitting Led to Happier Outlook on Life
The study noted that "there was significant variability in depressive symptoms based on abstinence (non-smoking) patterns. Those abstinent at all time points (2, 8, 16 and 26 weeks) had particularly low levels of depressive symptoms at baseline, which remained low throughout the follow-up. Smokers who transitioned from smoking to abstinence and back to smoking showed the lowest levels of depressive symptoms when abstinent, while those who were never abstinent showed gradual increases in depressive symptoms over time."
Quitting, at least in this study, clearly led to a happier outlook on life.
"There's no doubt that quitting smoking is a lot of work and requires a lot of persistence to get through some craving and some negative moods, and nicotine withdrawal," Kahler said "That said, those people who succeeded in quitting were less depressed than they were when they started."
It may be hard, he noted, but "being successful feels good enough to overcome" the demons that haunt the person who is trying to stop.
Studies Continue to Demonstrate Importance of Quitting Smoking
The Brown research is only one of several studies released this week showing just how difficult it can be to stop smoking, and just how important it is to do so.
Scientists in Germany revealed that their research shows that smoking actually thins the brain, especially in the cerebral cortex, an area that is responsible for higher-order functions, like language, information processing and memory. Reduced thickness in that region has been associated with impaired cognition and reduced intelligence.
That same area is also associated with impulse control and reward processing, leading the German researchers to conclude that nicotine may trigger the reward system, thus becoming addictive, in the very part of the brain that is thinning.
Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, reported that exposure to nicotine during pregnancy can affect the newborn, possibly causing such mental disorders as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. That research was conducted on rats.
Negative findings like those turn up so frequently that one wonders why anyone smokes, and why anyone even starts.
Brown's Kahler speculates that most people start young and don't realize they may be making a lifelong commitment to tobacco.
"Most people start in adolescence," Kahler said. "So understanding why people smoke means understanding why adolescents make some of the decisions they make. They are focused very much on the short term" and they don't think they will be smokers a few years down the road.
"But some get hooked and addicted," he added. "Nicotine sets up a physical dependence and smoking sets up a psychological dependence."
But New Year's Day is just around the corner. Maybe it's time to dust off that old resolution, and get happy.


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