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.

Jogging With Support

Like most running gear, all over the world, it cuts across the sexual category with only slight variations like the shoes, shorts, tops, caps - one necessary running item that is strictly ladies only are the bras.

For bras and running, it seems the further functional the better. Simply picking out something out from your drawer isn't going to cut it also, even though a survey of women in the UK found that there are 73 percent of those who exercise on a regular basis do not wear a sports bra.

You might ask why a sports-specific bra is important. It is for the reason that the delicate connective tissue contained by the breast known as the Cooper's ligament can be strained and stretched by movement, which in turn can set in motion irreversible breast sagging.

Studies conducted by the University of Portsmouth for Shock Absorber, sports bra maker, by means of a "bounce-o-meter" no less, found even women with an A cup averaged 4cm of movement when running with no bra. Possibly as you would have thought, by the time you got up to a G cup that measurement was 14cm.

The study only measured the sponsor’s product but it did show a sports bra cut movement by around 60 per cent not considering bra size.

Owner of Newmarket lingerie store Avokado, Claire Long, has provided some tips on acquiring this essential bit of kit. Her store is specializing in bras for the bigger busted and stocks a range of sports bras running from a D cup up to an HH cup. So, her recommendation on sports bras is pertinent for women of any breast size.

Long is also just getting back into running. She ran as a teen but stopped when a big bust and ill-fitting bras made for an uncomfortable mix.

Long said that runners need a bra that lessens movement and stretching of the breast tissue, but most significantly of all, comfortable.

She says some people want to look good but it's really all about functionality. Even if every woman will go well with a different bra it is vital to get fitted properly.

Lingerie Products Gain Sales In Jeddah

It has been reported by owners and shop assistants that sales have been increasing at lingerie and accessories stores in Jeddah where they have employed women.

Because of the recent progress in women and their capability to work in the country, the owners had until last Thursday to act in accordance with a government order to substitute their male employees. A number of businesses had started employing female staff over the last two months.

The increase in sales is noticed by many as public approval of the Royal Decree issued last year by King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. Customers have allegedly welcomed females working as assistants, supervisors and accountants.

A worker of a lingerie shop in Roshana Mall, Rania Abdul Fattah, said that employing women at lingerie shops is a relief for both customers and Saudi women seeking stable jobs. The owner of this business, who was quick to implement the Royal Decree, noticed a sharp rise in sales over the past two months. She has been particularly busy at the store since the beginning of this week. The women who come in are relieved to see her. They are not shy to ask her help to find the right size and colour, and about special bargains and discounted items.

Even though Fattah enjoys working as a saleswoman, she said there are some negative aspects. She urges business owners to offer their female employees with medical insurance and additional money to face transport costs. She complains that at her prior sales job her salary was only SR2,500, with part of it being spent on paying for private transport to-and-from work. She also said that owners have to pay their workers a minimum of SR3,000 a month, as specified by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Female advocates are pushing for a monthly salary of SR5,000.

The necessary working hours are eight hours a day, divided into two shifts - one in the morning and the other in the afternoon until 10 P.M.

Order For The Closure Of Lingerie Stores

A resident Uzbek government official has appeared to have ordered the shutting down of stores displaying and selling items such as lingerie, for the reason that it is offending the view and thinking of the children.

The Kremlin-sponsored website and television channel Russia Today (rt.com) writes and Uzmetronom.com publishes the story last December 25 that states:

“Women in the Uzbek Capital Tashkent will have to buy their underwear ‘under the counter’ from now on. Local media say Otabek Sadykov took a walk through a local market and was shocked by the sight of bras and panties on sale. He immediately issued an order putting a stop to the display of women’s lingerie in shops.”

The narrative may have appeared in from semi-official uzmetronom.com, but this Russian-language Tashkent-based site often leaks from government sources and covers a variety of scandals and information of the day.

In accordance with the information from our readers, in Sergeli district of Tashkent, all shops retailing underwear are closed, and it has vanished from the shelves of specialized departments in other stores giving out or not disclosing any reason. At the present underwear is being sold underground. Consistent with merchants who were affected they are forced into the underground; the forbiddance on the sale of underwear in the district was imposed by the new khokim - the head of the local administration.

The article goes on to speculate sarcastically that next, recommendations from the commission on spirituality and education will be issued to regulate even the design of underwear and when, where, and how it can be worn -- and purchased only with a husband or wife or close relative present.

Not any of the sources utters whether this command from one khokim applies all over the place in Tashkent, and it appears mainly to be about displays, and not a ban on the sales.

It is also unclear if this new forbiddance stems from any spiritual authorities, even though there have been signs of a bit of a morals movement lately, with a concentrated effort on obscene lyrics in hip-hop music and art works.

This sounds like a chance for Gulnara Karimova, President Islam Karimov's designing daughter, known for her trend triumphs and failures.