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June 29, 2011
I’ve decided it’s not the big manufacturing industries that are fighting tooth and nail for Australia to stop the introduction of a carbon tax.
It’s not the big end of town – the companies pumping the pollution into the atmosphere – that want to have their say about why they shouldn’t have to pay more to produce.
It’s the boutique down the lane and the mass-market clothes chains that I think have conspired with the energy companies to corner the carbon market.
All you have to do is take a stroll [...]
June 29, 2011
TAKE a three-hour session with self defence instructor Suzanne Daley and you’ll be oozing street confidence that could rival Lara Croft or a Charlie’s Angel.
Attending my first self defence class on Tuesday night, I was admittedly dubious as to how relevant the skills would be in a low-crime community such as Warwick (my class-mates possibly picked up on that when I turned up in ugg boots).
But I soon learnt, along with another 30-odd women, that self-preservation is not just about back-flipping a would-be attacker when [...]
June 29, 2011
The ‘I f*cking love this game’ highlight of the season?
It’s half time, Wigan Athletic are 2-0 down at home to West Ham all but relegated and boos are resonating around the ground while 4,000 Cockneys give it ‘Bubbles’. I’m having a pint with my mate and this old fella comes up to us ’37 years I’ve been a season ticket holder and I won’t be here next year thanks to that clueless Spanish idiot’, my response is typically blunt being in the particularly crude form of ‘make [...]
June 28, 2011
Sie sorgen für ein komplettes Outfit, sind überaus vielfältig und haben insbesondere für Frauen Suchtcharakter: Schuhe – eine Modewelt für sich, die grenzenlos zu sein scheint. Wer Schuhe kaufen will, muss nicht lange danach suchen: Zahlreiche Fachgeschäfte bieten Herren- und Damenschuhe in allen möglichen Ausführungen an, passend zur Jahreszeit und aktuellen Modetrends. Auch in Online-Shops werden Schuhe zunehmend verkauft – mit Erfolg. Immer mehr Verbraucher greifen auf das Internet zurück, um sich kostengünstig Schuhe aus einer riesengroßen Angebotsvielfalt zu sichern.
Besonders im Damenbereich ist das Schuhsortiment mehr [...]
June 28, 2011
You might say the future of Crocs (CROX) is perfectly clear. At least that’s what Sterne Agee analyst Sam Poser tells Breakout when asked to explain why he not only maintains his buy rating on the funky footwear company after its stock has gone from $2 to $25 in the past three years but actually just raised his price target to $30.
"Ballerina translucents," Poser says, as he list a few of the new Crocs products that are driving sales. "And the new Chameleon, too."
You can practically hear the [...]
June 27, 2011
FOR seven angry girls about to spend nine nights in the desert, these teenagers seemed remarkably cheerful.
Yesterday was the first day of the first Young Women’s Program run by Evolve, a not-for-profit organisation that works with troubled teens. The team leaders have been taking wayward boys on wilderness treks for almost two decades. But the rising numbers of young women in trouble with the law in the past six years has convinced Evolve’s management it’s time to give at-risk girls an outback adventure of their own. [...]
June 27, 2011
The Federal Court in Perth has fined an online ugg-boot trader for misleading conduct over bogus "Australian Made" claims.
The e-tailer, Marksun Australia was slapped with a penalty of $430,000 after an investigation by The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed that Marksun was falsely claiming it ugg boots were made in Australia when they were actually made in China.
According to a statement by the ACCC this morning, Marksun promoted the Chinese-made ugg boots via a registered trade mark “Marksun Products Ugg Boots from Australia”, [...]
June 27, 2011
Sinead Stubbins looks at the best gear for girls on the slopes this season.
IT’S that time of year again, when snow bunnies rug up and head to high altitudes for the ski season. Only the brave and the foolish would choose their alpine wardrobe based entirely on fashion. Check out MW’s pick of the essential gear to pack before hitting the summit.
Jacket
First things first. Your jacket needs to provide ample insulation to protect you from the elements as well as be waterproof. While you can [...]
June 27, 2011
They shared the glassy eyes, the stilted smile and the artificially shiny blond hair, but Paris Hilton’s wax figure at Madame Tussauds in New York was wearing an outfit that might have made the real celebrity practically melt with shame: The dummy was dressed in a velour tracksuit, a belly-baring, body-hugging artifact of the early aughts.
Even when her wax lookalike debuted in 2005, Hilton’s once-trendy tracksuit had begun its mutation into the comfort wear of the attraction’s tourists and a uniform of the masses.
Every 10 years or [...]
June 26, 2011
If you could only have one child, would you prefer it to be a boy or a girl? Honestly? Here it is: 40 percent of Americans prefer to have a son and only 26 percent a daughter. This is the result of the Gallup poll of 1947 and — hold your breath — of 2011. The Gallup researchers have asked Americans a variation of this same question ten times since 1941, with little variance in the result. Oh, boy! Do prejudices ever change? Let’s take a closer look: [...]
