Balance equipment such as Bosu balls, which look like exercise balls cut in half, "Indo Boards or DynaDiscs are all good tools, " Mr. Dean says.

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She spends most of her workday in her living room, which is filled with colorful collections fresh flower arrangements, vintage cookie jars, gnomes, Russian nesting dolls, crochet-covered exercise balls and piles of Technicolor crocheted afghans, all of which serve as inspirations for the bright color mixtures in her art.

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And it looked on the cards almost from the moment that, having to chose bat first at Taunton, Somerset captain Trescothick drove the second ball of the innings to the cover boundary, an exercise he repeated three balls later.

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