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November 20, 2014 | November 2014, Spotlight Interviews Comments (0) |

Spotlight Interviews|NFL Super Bowl Champion And Fight For Life Foundation CEO Marlin Jackson

Marlin Jackson, Founder and President of the Fight For Life Foundation is a graduate of the University of Michigan. During his time at University of Michigan, Jackson served as team captain for the Michigan Wolverines football team and was also selected as a two-time First team All Big Ten and All-American selection.

After an NCAA career, Marlin Jackson was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft 2005 by the Indianapolis Colts; the accomplished Ohio-born professional athlete had a brief stint with the Philadelphia Eagles before retiring in 2012. During his successful tenure with the Indianapolis Colts, they defeated the Chicago Bears in NFL Super Bowl XLI.

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October 23, 2014 | October 2014, Sports Comments (0) |

#InspirationalInterviews| IAAF Diamond League 2014 Champion And Two-Time Olympic Medalist Dawn Harper Nelson

Professional Track Athlete Dawn Harper Nelson is a two-time Olympic medalist, winning the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and the silver medal at the 2012 Olympics in London (12.54), in the women’s 100-meter hurdles.

The East St. Louis, Illinois native started her track career at East St. Louis High School, East St. Louis, Illinois, where she graduated from high school as a six-time, three each in 100-meter and 300-meter hurdles, Illinois High School State Champion, garnering the attention of UCLA‘s Track & Field Head Coach, Jeanette Bolden, who traveled from Los Angeles to St. Louis, MO to personally recruit her and offer a full athletics scholarship. She would attend UCLA, known for having one of the best programs for the 100-meter hurdles and launched the careers of six-time Olympic Medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee and two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Gail Devers.

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October 23, 2014 | Featured Slider, Fitness, October 2014 Comments (2) |

#InspireLSFitness| Are We Born To Run?


 I changed my style of running 6 months ago. I will take you through my own journey with regards to thoughts and feelings and how my body reacted. I will however not explain exactly how to run this way because the scope and intention of this article is to discuss running per se and not a manual on how to run.

Whether we believe human beings were created or evolved, one thing is certain – we are natural runners.

We have always been surrounded by animals that are natural predators. The tiger can bite, The leopard can run, but what can we as humans do?

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October 6, 2014 | Featured Slider, Fitness, Health, October 2014, Wellbeing Comments (0) |

#InspireLSFitness| The Pros & Cons of Tae-Bo

In this latest article from the #Pro & #Cons series,  I feel to do something a little bit different to what I usually do. Instead of the simply listing the pros and cons of this chosen fitness regime, I will also give you a brief insight into the exercise. Not only in terms of what parts of the body it works but also highlighting how the fitness phenomenon started.

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October 3, 2014 | October 2014, Sports, Spotlight Interviews Comments (0) |

Spotlight Interview| One-time WBC International Heavyweight Boxing Champion Johnathon Banks

Naturally gifted one-time WBC International Heavyweight Champion and former IBO Cruiserweight Champion, Johnathon Banks, grew up in Southfield, MI with consuming hopes and dreams of aspiring to become a Professional Athlete after his fight-loving Grandmother boldly envisioned when he was merely two weeks old.

Since Johnathon Banks’ professional boxing debut in 2004 in an intense Unanimous Decision victory against DeAndre McCole in Uncasville, CT, the accomplished Michigan-born athlete has since competed in 31 marquee bouts, earning 29 decisive wins with 2 losses on his impressive resume.

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September 22, 2014 | Beauty, Beauty & Haircare, Featured Slider, September 2014 Comments (0) |

| Make Up Your Day/Make Up For Daytime

Day light can be unforgiving, and acts almost like a magnifying glass for the makeup you have applied, highlighting any mistakes you have made in ways that artificial lighting or night light won’t do. Tres annoying huh? But fear not, if you follow these simple steps you will have your best face on ready to face the day ahead confidently without worry!

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August 26, 2014 | August 2014, Fashion, Featured Slider Comments (0) |

#FashionsFinest| Rita Ora X Adidas Originals

It’s only a number of days before music star and face of many high profile brands, Rita Ora launches her global collaboration with Adidas Originals. I’m a major fan of pastels shades; which have reared their heads on and off the catwalk this year.

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August 13, 2013 | August 2013, Fashion Comments Off on Fashion Finds| New Fine Jewellery Brand RUIFIER |

Fashion Finds| New Fine Jewellery Brand RUIFIER

New fine jewellery brand RUIFIER  is set to launch in September.

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