Deakin University

Deakin University (or simply DU) is an Australian public university with nearly 40,000 higher education students in 2010. It receives more than A$600 million in operating revenue annually, and controls more than A$1.3 billion in assets. It received more than A$35 million in research income in 2009 and had 835 research students in 2010. In 2009, its academics authored 33 books, 233 refereed conference papers, and 705 refereed journal papers. It has campuses in the coastal cities of: Geelong, Melbourne, and Warrnambool, Victoria. The University was named after the leader of the Australian federation movement and the nation's second Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin.

Organisation

Chancellors

1977-1983 - Peter Thwaites

1983-1987 - Austin Asche

1987-1996 - James Leslie

1997-2005 - Richard Searby

2005–present - David M. Morgan

Vice-Chancellors

1977-1985 - Frederic Jevons

1986-1991 - Malcolm Skilbeck

1992-1996 - John A. Hay

1997-2002 - Geoff Wilson

2003-2010 - Sally Walker

2010-present - Jane den Hollander

Notable Associates of the University

Frank Costa Businessman and Philanthropist

Lindsay Fox Businessman and Philanthropist

Brett Lee Australian Cricketer and Deakin India Research Institute (DIRI) associate.

Academics

Awards and achievements

Deakin has won the prestigious Australian University of the Year award twice. The first award came in 1995-1996 for "Outstanding Technology in Education" in which the then Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating presented Deakin with the award and commended it on its success despite its lack of "sandstones" referring to its short period of existence as a university.

On 25 August 1999, Deakin won its second award when it tied with the University of Wollongong to win the 1999-2000 prize. Deakin's success was for its "Outstanding Education and Training Partnerships". In presenting the award, the Federal Treasurer Peter Costello commended Deakin and Wollongong in stating: "These are two great institutions. They are the best of the best at what they do".

Deakin was also commended with seven Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning at the 2010 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Awards.

In 2005, Deakin's Library was nationally acknowledged for the outstanding provision of off-campus services in the Australian Awards for University Teaching.

Notable faculty

Professor Peter Hodgson, 2009 Australian Laureate Fellow

John Jonas, Birks Professor of Metallurgy, McGill University: Visiting Professor.

Jim Kennan, Former Politician, Adjunct Professor of Law

Ross Oakley, Former Australian Football League CEO: Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business and Law

Hugh O'Neill, University of Melbourne: Adjunct Professor, Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific.

David Parkin, Former coach of Carlton and Hawthorn Football Clubs: Lecturer in Exercise Science.

Justice Mark Weinberg, Chief Justice of Norfolk Island: Adjunct Professor, School of Law.

Research

Deakin is one of Australia's fastest growing research universities. Its combined research funding had increased from A$4.5 million in 1997 to A$35 million in 2010.

In its 2010 allocations, the Australian Research Council awarded Deakin 13 Discovery and 10 Linkage Round 1 awards. The wins placed Deakin 16th in the number of Discovery Grants awarded and equal 6th in the number of Linkage grants awarded amongst Australian Universities.

It has developed meaningful, reciprocal research and educational partnerships in India with the official opening of the Deakin India Research Institute (DIRI) in Hyderabad and more than 50 other Indian research partners.

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Yoga

Stastics show that 1 out of 20 women are breast cancer survivors or are in the middle of dealing with this breast disorder. Breast cancer symptoms vary extensively — from lumps to swelling of the breasts to changes in the skin on breasts — and many breast cancer sufferers, at times, have no obvious symptoms at all. So the question is – how to prevent breast cancer?  Other than altering your lifestyle and limiting your alcohol intake and staying physically active, there are a few yoga asanas which will keep your breasts happy and healthy! 

Importance of a Healthy Lymphatic System

Breast health is sustained by the body's lymphatic system. The lymphatic system helps in keeping potentially harmful substances at bay and ensures a clean flow of blood to the breast cells and tissues by fighting infections. And yoga, by maintaining coordination between breathing and movements, helps in circulation of blood and supplies vital energy all through the lymphatic system.

Yoga Asanas for Breasts #1: Diagonal stretch

In the diagonal stretch asana, the lymphatic system is set in motion by energetic movement and powerful breathing.

Method

• Sit in a comfortable position and place your thumbs on the palms of the hands, right at the base of your little fingers.
• Make sure that you rest your fingers in straight line. Now, slowly pull your arms to the sides, making sure they are parallel to the ground. Your palms should face downwards.
• Now raise your right arm and bring down the left arm.  Breathe in as the right arm goes up and breathe out as the right arm goes down. Continue this exercise for 1 to 2 minutes.

Yoga Asanas for Breasts #2: Reach for health

This asana is similar to a martial arts exercise.  The 'snapping back' movement in the asana helps in activating the lymph and breast tissues.

Method

• Sit comfortably on your heels and take the pressure off your knee joints by placing a firm pillow in between your buttocks and legs.
• Now, make a fist of your hands by tucking the thumb inside. Bring your hand to the level of your chests by pulling your elbows back.
• Now extend your arm in a frontward direction in its full length by inhaling powerfully. Now open your fingers as though you were about to grasp something. Then close them by making a fist of your hands and snap the arm to the side of your body as your breathe out.
• Repeat this with other arm and continue for 2 to 3 minutes.

Yoga Asanas for Breasts # 3: Frog pose

This asana ups the flow of energy to all parts of the body.

Method

• Stand in a comfortable position and place your heels together. Now squat down comfortably and keep your heels off the ground.
• Now touch the ground with your finger tips straightening your spine as much as possible.
• Now breathe in and straighten the legs by bringing the head close to the knees. The finger tips should continue to touch the ground.
• Now breathe out and return back to the squatting position.
• Perform this asana for one minute comfortably, and gradually increase the minutes.

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How to Breastfeed a Newborn

Experts say that breast feeding should commence within two hours of birth. The baby may take 80 per cent of the feed in the first 10 mins and then suckle for another few minutes. Remember that babies need to be fed on demand. When the baby is new born, feeding may be required every two to three hours. Every feed duration may vary from 10 to 40 minutes. Breast feeding is recommended till your infant is at least six months old. There are no special steps required to prepare yourself for breastfeeding.

Gynaecologist Dr Suman Bijlani says that one doesn't need to do anything special to prepare themselves for breastfeeding. "No massaging of breast or nipple stretching exercises are needed during pregnancy. Be ready with breastfeeding accessories like nursing bras, breast pads and breast pumps. It is a good idea to get adequate and correct information regarding breastfeeding from your doctor or even attend antenatal lactation sessions. This gives you confidence, which is the best preparation a mother can have," she says. Experts recommend breastfeeding till your infant is at least six months old

Benefits of breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is the simplest and most healthy way to feed your baby and contains the right mix of proteins (the perfect balance of amino acids), fats, sugars, water, minerals, vitamins, enzymes and antibodies for your baby.

It boosts your baby's immunity and protects them from diarrhea, respiratory and ear infections. Breastfed babies show a lower incidence of diabetes, obesity and allergic conditions and also have better cognitive development. Breastfeeding is also an effective birth control technique. If you are less than six months post delivery, are exclusively breastfeeding your baby and haven't yet got your period, you are 98 per cent protected from pregnancy. It creates an environment closest to the womb, which comforts the baby and makes them feel secure. Breastfeeding decreases the amount of blood loss after delivery. 

Breastfeeding tips

• It is important that both mother and baby be in a comfortable position. The baby's body and neck should be in a straight line.
• Hold the baby's body close to yours and at right angles to your own body - bring the baby to the breast and not the breast to the baby.
• With good positioning, latching becomes easy and the baby should be encouraged to suck at the surrounding breast tissue as well, rather than just the nipple.
• Skin to skin contact with the baby immediately after delivery stimulates the baby's instincts to look for the breasts.
• Breastfeed frequently since it ensures adequate breast stimulation to maintain good milk flow.
• Try to keep the breast as empty as possible, either by frequent feeding or by pumping out the milk. This maintains milk flow and prevents problems like engorgement or lumps in the breast.

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what is PCOS?

Polycystic ovary syndrome or PCOS is quite a common hormonal disorder in women and is characterized by ovarian cysts. Though all data says that it affects 5 to 10% of women today, from what we see and hear around us, it feels more like one in every three women - especially in the younger age group. In order to solve the problem of PCOS it is important to understand the root cause behind this hormonal disorder and also what the symptoms are so that it can be dealt with in time.

Symptoms of PCOS:

• Weight gain, or inability to lose weight
• absent or irregular periods
• Infertility
• Excess facial hair
• Thinning hair or male pattern baldness
• Acne and other skin problems
• Mood swings
• sluggishness or lethargy

If you feel you're experiencing even half of these symptoms, it's a good idea to consult a doctor and take the necessary blood tests for hormonal levels, and ultrasound for detecting bulky ovaries or ovarian cysts. 

Root cause of PCOS. Though there are many causes of PCOS one of the root causes today is insulin resistance or the metabolic syndrome. This is the root cause especially because of the lifestyles we lead as well as carb heavy diets. While most PCOS sufferers are overweight, this condition can even affect the lean. Many are lean but with abdominal obesity, that is when the waist size is disproportionately larger as compared to the rest of the body. This is characteristic of the metabolic syndrome caused by insulin resistance.

PCOS is a hormonal imbalance linked to the way the body processes insulin after it has been produced by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar (glucose). 
Insulin Resistance can cause PCOS in two distinct ways. Insulin resistance reduces the insulin sensitivity of your cell walls. Glucose has to pass through those cell walls to be converted into energy. Insulin assists this process. But since the cell walls have become de-sensitized to insulin, by insulin resistance, the process does not work. Glucose "bounces" off the cell wall, instead of passing through the insulin door to be burned as energy. With the cell door almost closed to it, glucose remains in the blood stream, causing elevated levels of blood sugar, which are sent to the liver. Once there, the sugar is converted into fat and stored via the blood stream throughout the body. This process can lead to weight gain and obesity, key factors in creating Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.

Insulin resistance raises insulin levels in the blood stream. Unhealthy lifestyles and genetic conditions cause the pancreas to overproduce insulin. The de-sensitized cell in turn, overwhelmed by this excess insulin and an excess of insulin "rejected" by the cell then free-floats in the blood stream, creating unbalanced hormone levels in PCOS sufferers. Excess insulin stimulates the ovaries to produce large amounts of the male hormone testosterone, which may prevent the ovaries from releasing an egg each month, thus causing infertility. High levels of insulin also increase the conversion of androgens (male hormones) to estrogens (female hormones), upsetting a delicate balance between the two and having a direct effect on weight gain and the formation of cystic follicles or cysts in the ovary.

Now that we know that this is main reason behind PCOS in about 70% of cases, the way to tackle this is to take care of the root cause that is insulin resistance. In a subsequent post we will look at a diet specific to those who are insulin resistant. Though many men are also insulin resistant, they have no direct impact to fertility as women do in the form of PCOS and thus tend to ignore this condition, which can lead to many heart diseases and heart attacks in the future.

Therefore it is of utmost importance for both men and women to eat a diet and workout in a way that our cells regain insulin sensitivity.

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Oil Supplements

Healthy fats are important for better health and sustainable weight management. Fats, after all, are an important source of energy and intrinsic to joint mobility. A few oils actually benefit us as dietary supplements as they balance out the - oh so important - Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratio. We're talking about the fish oil in our diet (for those who don’t eat fatty fish regularly) and flaxseed oil if you are vegetarian.

Fish oilFish oil is the largest source of Omega 3 fatty acids. It all boils down to the Omega 6:Omega 3 ratio. The ideal ratio is 1:1, which is beneficial to keep inflammation at bay. Omega 6 is mostly found in vegetable oil, fake butter products, processed foods, fast foods and also in nuts like walnuts. Today, due to modern diets the Omega 6:Omega 3 ratios are quite warped in favour of Omega 6 and ensuring that we get enough Omega 3 (through fatty fish or fish oil) is all we can do to balance it out.

Benefits of fish oil
1) Lowers cholesterol – No matter what your current heart health, fish oil plays an important role in preventing coronary diseases and lowering cholesterol levels and keeping it in check.
2) Lowers triglyceride levels – Several researchers have found that one of the benefits of fish oil is lowering the triglyceride levels in the blood and hence once again lowers the risk of coronary diseases. 
3) Reduction of inflammation – Many inflammatory diseases like thyroid inflammatory disease can be reduced with consuming fish oil supplements on a daily basis.  Just a small amount goes a long way in reducing inflammation in many ways.
4) Eliminates joint pains – In the same vein that it reduces inflammation it also reduces joint pain and reduces the risk of arthritis later on.
5) Promotes weight loss – Promotes the weight loss and fat burning better than only diet and exercise. Scientists in Australia discovered that fat loss benefits of fish oil combined with diet and exercise were significantly greater than diet and exercise alone.
6) Reduces soreness from weight training – If you enjoy lifting heavy but do not look forward to the accompanying soreness, you had better start making fish oil part of your diet. The reduced soreness will make exercise not only more enjoyable, but also more frequent thanks to reduction in recovery time.

Flax Seed OilThough I maintain that fish oil is one of the best sources of Omega 3 that you can find, flaxseed oil is not far behind. At the risk of sounding repetitive some benefits of flaxseed oil are: lowering cholesterol, countering inflammation, better skin as it helps treat acne, guards against the effects of aging (read arthritis), help fight prostrate problems and reduce cancer risks.

Though both of these are good for vital Omega 3’s, meat eaters would be better off with fish oil as the DHA and EPA found in fish oil (which play a big role in the formation of brain and retinal tissue) are more useful than ALA found in flax seed oil.

Strict vegetarians, go for flaxseed oil, but for the rest of you, fish oil it is all the way.


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Top 10 Sexiest Luxury Ads

Ashton Kutcher and Alessandra Ambrosio for Colcci: Photographed by Steven Klein, the 2010 Colcci jeans Fall/Winter ad campaign shows a very slick Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore’s toy boy husband, lying besides an equally glossy-looking Victoria Secrets Angel Alessandra Ambrosio. So hot.

Natalie Portman for Christian Dior: Natalie Portman poses in nothing but a black bow headband for the new Miss Dior Cherie perfume ad. The 30-second ad (watch it here) shows the Hollywood actor roaming the streets of Paris and ends with Portman lounging across a sofa removing a bowtie from her neck while the perfume’s signature bottle rests on a pillow nearby.

Kate Winslet for Lancome: Kate Winslet, remembered for her nude scene in Titanic, bares all again for the Lancome L'Absolu Nu ad. Winslet wears nothing but a shade of the luxury lipstick and a sheet in this sexy ad.

Tamara Mellon for Jimmy Choo: Not too many CEOs will pose sexily to promote their products. But Mellon, who heads the luxury shoe brand chose to expose her décolletage (very tastefully) in an ad for Jimmy Choo’s first fragrance.

Megan Fox for Armani: Megan Fox has posed provocatively in jeans and a bra-and-panty set in in Armani’s the new Summer/Spring 2011 ad campaign. Fox, who is the face of Armani jeans and underwear for women, is seen as a worthy successor to Victoria Beckham by many.

Raphael Nadal for Armani: He might have replaced the more chiseled Christiano Ronaldo, but tennis ace Raphael Nadal manages to smoulder rather sexily in Armani’s jeans/briefs ad campaign.

Julianne Moore for Bvlgari: This Bvlgari ad is so hot, it’s actually been banned in several countries. We guess looking at Julianne Moore in nothing but Bvlgari accessories and a few lion cubs to cover her modesty was just too much.

Scarlett Johansson for Moet & Chandon: GQ magazine’s Babe of the Year 2010 stands up to her title in the ad for luxury champagne brand Moet and Chandon. The 2011 ad campaign shows the Iron Man 2 star draped in a sexy white gown, surrounded by bottles of Moet champagne. Scarlett Johansson has been the brand ambassador for the champagne brand since 2009.

Kirsten Dunst for Buvlgari: Bulgari loves to sit pretty women and big cats next to each other in its ad campaigns. The svelte Kirsten Dunst poses in nothing but a satin sheet, with a lion for company in Bulgari’s Mon Jasmin Noir perfume ad. The Spiderman star does ‘sexy’ very, very well.

Chris Evans For Gucci: Chris Evans, of Captain America and Fantastic Four fame, oozes raw sexuality in Gucci’s Guilty for Men perfume ads. A hirsute Evans is a nice change from the otherwise too-perfect male models we usually see in such ads.

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Shaving Cuts

The Blade: A sharp blade slices through facial hair at skin level. A dull razor can do that too, but it also hacks a bit on facial skin.  The blade also must be clean, so pass it under running water, or dip it in your mug between strokes. If you medically need to be shave-cut proof, your best bet is an electrical shaver  

Pre-Shave Preparation: Pre-Shave Lotion  There are some people who, after reading our article about shaving with olive oil have eliminated the need for pre-shave lubrication. However, even if you're feeling conservative and manly, a bit of your regular moisturizer, or a pre-shave lotion rubbed into the beard will go a long way for a softer beard and a better shave.  

Warm Water:   As we have mentioned in many of articles on shaving,  rinsing your face with warm water makes your pores open up, and your beard absorb a bit of the water (so it's easier to slice through). And now that your facial hair are prepped for surgery, have your shaving kit at hand to get to work before your stubble gets dry, hard and lazy again.  

The Shave: Don't shave against the grain. At least not on your first drive on the stubble course. Use short, downward strokes.

Adjust your grip for different facial contours; the neck, lips and chin are problem areas for a lot of men. Get the skin flat by pulling the skin down (for your lips), or up (for chin and neck) If you really must, try to shave as much stubble as possible before reapplying shaving cream/ gel and and gently lifting the beard against residual grain.

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