Reader Finds Out Where To Find Shockabsorber Bras

A reader of the online site Independent has asked where she can find good, comfortable and durable workout wear including shockabsorber bras. The reader said that it was part of her New Year’s resolutions to get fit and train for a mini marathon. The reader also lamented the fact that workout wear can be pretty pricey and that she wondered if there were stores or brands that carried affordable workout wear items including shockabsorber bras.

In response, Independent website writer Roxanne Parker said that there were several brands that offered pretty affordable workout clothes including for example the shockabsorber sports bra. Parker shared that A Penneys, for instance, has launched a workout wear collection available in coral and black or black and blue. She said that the range includes shorts, 3/4-length running pants, full-length running pants and running jackets ranging from €5 to €12.

Meanwhile, the Forever 21 branch found in the Jervis Street Shopping Centre also has an extensive selection of colourful workout wear. For €9.75, the customer can avail of a cropped aerobic top and for €17, a customer can buy hoodies and workout pants.

Parker also stressed that while sports bras may be a little pricey, a woman should never scrimp on these especially on shockabsorber bras. “Wearing something without support can cause back ache and discomfort, slowing you down and ruining your workout,” she wrote. Shockabsorber bras, she said, can actually play two roles - as a bra and as a sports top.

Girl Guides Collect Bras To Raise Breast Cancer Awareness

A girl guide group in Dargaville has collected thousands of bras. This, in an effort to reach a world record and to fulfill a program related to breast cancer.

Dargaville's Girl Guide group has collected 170,000 bras for a world record attempt on the longest bra chain and to also help raise awareness on breast cancer. The said Girl Guide group from Dargaville took two years to complete the gathering of 170,000 bras.

This weekend, the members of this group will hook the bras together in order break the existing world record made in Australia. The world record of bras chained together in Australia had 166,000 bras.

The members of Dargaville Girl Guide group are all optimistic that their 170,000 bras will break the world record. They shared that the idea started during Girl Guiding's Pink Star Challenge in 2010 to raise awareness about the detection of breast cancer.

Robyn Martinovich, Girl Guide Spokeswoman, said that the idea came to her in early 2010 as she was flipping through the Guinness World Records book. She said that it might be a good idea to have the longest bra chain and that it would also suit a breast cancer awareness program.

Hence, the girls' goal was not only to achieve the world record but to raise awareness of breast cancer.

"I know we have managed to do this [raise awareness] from the hundreds of letters of support we have received," Martinovich said.

After this weekend, the representatives of Guinness will officially determine whether or not the girl guide group has broken the world record.

Gill Higgins Investigative Report

A reporter has shared her shock and disbelief when middle aged men apparently “answered” a fictitious 14 year old girl that they “planted” in an Internet chat room.

The television reporter, Gill Higgins, said that she decided to plant a fictitious 14 year old girl to see what the reaction would be like from other chatters in that Internet chat room. Higgins works for TVNZ’s show called “Close Up.”

The television reporter, however, got the shock of her life when middle aged men instead swarmed around the fictitious 14 year old character within minutes. These men even tried to ask the fictitious teen intimate questions such as those about her supposed bra size. The men also made explicit comments.

Higgins said that one man even displayed a video cam of himself where he was entirely naked. Another man also chatted with the fictitious little girl with his wedding photos in the background.

"We were gobsmacked," said Higgins. The TVNZ show “Close Up” will be back on air via TVOne at 7 pm.

There have been many similar investigative reports such as this. There are many reporters who try to see what kind of men and women would “attack” teens who try to chat online. Psychologists say that people who try to “hit on” young children or teens are called paedophiles and under the law, there are respective fines and jail time for these kinds of offenses. To date, thousands of paedophiles around the world have already been caught.