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From left to right: Juan Pablo Martínez, Cristina Balari and Mayara Lima of Brazil collective, ACD-fashion the collective Brazil, ACD-fashion participated in Ibagué, Maquila and 2012 fashion in the Auditorium of the knowledge as well as gateway. The five conferences that have been made to date received a very good response from the visitors. (Photo: HELMER PARRA / EL NUEVO DÍA)

"Designing a trend and not from a tendency", was the center of the talk conducted by Monica Gomez and Carolina Agudelo of the Universidad de Los Andes, while "Design as innovation strategy" was the name Arturo Tejada gave to the Conference which closed tomorrow in the Auditorium of Ibagué, Maquila and 2012 fashion knowledgelocated on the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce of Ibagué.

The international share of the day was in charge of Cristina Balari, Mayara Lima, Juan Pablo Martínez of the collective Brazil ACD-fashion with the theme "Fashion conscious... future sustainable", a concept that manages the brand Brilac giving fashion with a green conscience.

The collective collection catwalk was the night of Wednesday, August 29 dazzling to attendees of the "Great gateway" tent.

Cristina Balari, representative of the brand, said to be interested in using Colombian labor, since for her the main obstacle to tailor is little labour qualification which is the location where the Brilac factory is situated.

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9: 30-11 a.m.
How to identify waste in the production of garments
Arturo Rodriguez - TC2

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The personal image through fashion
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4 Beauty Tips Straight From a Photo Shoot - Allure Magazine (blog)

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One of the best parts of my job as Allure's beauty writer is getting to be on the set at photo shoots. I've picked up tons of amazing beauty tips from watching the best of the best in action. After each shoot, I come back with fresh advice to share in the pages of Allure—and to bolster my own makeup routine. For the September issue's "Fall in Lust," I was lucky enough to watch makeup artist extraordinaire Tom Pecheux perfect fall's eight best makeup trends. Here are some of the tips I've been incorporating into my own daily routine ever since:

Upgrade your cotton swabs: Instead of basic ones, try out extrathin cotton swabs such as these from Muji. Use them to sharpen the perimeters of your eye makeup (trace the edges with a dry swab) or to remove lipstick smudges in a flash.

Curl just your outer lashes: It will have the effect of lifting your eyes and making them appear bigger, explains Pecheux. Use a mini eyelash curler, such as Vincent Longo Mini Eyelash Curler.

Experiment with liner: If you're going for smoky eyes, try lining your lower inner rims with creamy black pencil and then erasing that line with a swab. "What's left over near the lashes will create a soft, degraded look," he says. "Just lining the inner rims makes the eyes look too small."

Bold lipstick requires prep work: You really do need to outline and fill in lips with a matching pencil first. It stops the lipstick from smudging, bleeding, and fading unevenly.

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Pro bike: Vincenzo Nibali's Cannondale Slice RS

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 Liquigas-Cannondale's Vincenzo Nibali won the 2010 Vuelta a España and placed third in this year's Tour de France, thanks in no small part to his ability against the clock. Last year Cannondale put Nibali on a prototype Slice RS; for this season, Nibali and the rest of his squad have stock 2013 Slice RS machines for efforts against the clock.

Thenew-for-2013 Slice RS get a complete overhaul from the currently available 2012Slice. Departing from a standard fork, head tube and stem configuration to asleek integrated front end, the bike also features proprietary horizontal-pullbrakes that are tucked behind the fork and under the seat stays.

Cannondale’s2012 Slice models — Carbon 4 Force and Carbon 5 105 — come withtraditional road calipers mounted on the front of the fork and on the seat-staybridge.

Nibali first rode a prototype of the Slice RS at the final Giro d'Italia timetrial in Milan last year. BikeRadar's technical editor James Huang spotted histeammate Basso on the Slice RS at last year's USA Pro Challenge.

Thereare a few notable modifications to Nibali's bike. The first is the componentgroup. Instead of the new SRAM 2012 Red, Nibali has an older SRAM Red group,plus a SRAM Force front derailleur marked SRAM Red. Although SRAM later added asteel cage to its Red group (and then substantially beefed up the cage for the2012 edition), the original Red front derailleur featured a titanium cage,which some riders found too flexy. So, some teams opted to run a Force cagebranded Red.

The hidden Naero-Tec brake

Now,the 2012 Red front derailleur is not officially compatible with non-SRAMcranks, so some teams that use non-SRAM cranks are choosing to keep older Redon the bikes for flexibility. Nibali has a 54-tooth SRAM ring on his bike here,but SRAM says Cannondale's normal rings are not compatible with 2012 Red.

"Thereason is we haven’t had the chain rings to go with Cannondale’s proprietarycrank," said SRAM's Michael Zellmann. "The same thing applies forsome Specialized bikes with Specialized cranks. A lot of the bikes have theoriginal SRAM Black Red."

Behind the scenes: note the SRAM Force derailleur marked Red, and the Naero-Tec brake tucked under the seat stay

Anothermodification is the use of grip tape on the aero bars, on the tops of theextensions and on the tops of the horns. This allows for grip without any drag(or cushioning).

AnotherUCI rule — one that defines the bike's length — comes in to play with howNibali sets up his shifters. Using SRAM return-to-center shifters, Nibali setsthe neutral position pointed down, to save a few centimeters off the measuredlength of the bike.

SRAM's RTC shifters set down, plus grip tape on the extensions

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For wheels, Liquigas-Cannondale slides a Mavic Comete disc into the bike's horizontal dropouts, and puts a Cosmic Carbone 80 up front. Interestingly, the new Mavic CXR 80 carbon wheel is more aero than the Cosmic Carbone 80, according to Mavic.

"The rim profile, tire, and CX 01 blade give CXR 80 much better aerodynamics, especially at a higher yaw (crosswind)," said Zack Vestal, Mavic USA's communications manager. "Even with the blade removed, the CXR is still faster. The CXR wheels are also lighter by about 150g. The original CC 80 are probably in service here and there due to durability, narrower profile (brake compatibility), and the basic limitations of team supply (getting enough wheels out to teams with the right timing)."

Completebike specification:

Frame: Cannondale Slice RS, 56cmFork: Cannondale Slice RSStem: Cannondale System Integration Handlebar: Vision TriMax Carbon Si CSI, 41cmFront brake: Cannondale Naero-TecRear brake: Cannondale Naero-Tec Brake levers: SRAM 900 TTFront derailleur: SRAM Force/RedRear derailleur: SRAM Red Shifters: SRAM RTC Aero ShiftersCassette: SRAM 1090, 11-23Chain: SRAM RedChain rings: SRAM Red Black TT 54/42Crankset: Cannondale Hollowgram SL, 172.5mmPower Meter: SRMComputer: Power Control 7 (not shown)Bottom bracket: Custom machined steelPedals: Speedplay Zero with custom colorsWheelset: Mavic Comete disc with Cosmic Carbone 80 frontFront tire: Mavic Yksion GripLink, 23mmRear tire: Mavic Yksion PowerLink, 23mmSaddle: Fi;zi:k Ares

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Too bad Nibali won't be racing it next year, because he is moving to Astana.

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Nectar Hydro tablets review

3 out of 5 stars

"Work as well as any hydration tabs if you like the taste, and offer pretty good value too"

Mon 27 Aug 2012, 12:00 pm BSTBy Triathlon PlusThe Nectar range of sports nutrition products is expanding rapidly and the latest additions are these sports hydration tablets. They come in three different flavours. 

As far as we could tell there’s nothing revolutionary about the ingredients; each tab makes up a hypotonic drink containing five ION electrolytes (sodium, potassium, magnesium, chloride and calcium). 

They are low calorie, giving just 1.3-2kcal per 100ml, so you can use them alongside other carb products to keep you hydrated during a hot race. 

The instructions that come with the tabs say each one makes a strong drink in 500ml of water and a weaker tasting drink in 750ml water – with the lemon/lime flavour we actually found the more concentrated 500ml impossible to finish, but at a weaker concentration it’s refreshingly sharp. 

Each tube contains 20 tabs, which represents good value.

This article was originally published in Triathlon Plus magazine, available on Zinio.

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Vuelta a España 9: Gilbert scores in Barcelona

Gilbert snatched the win from race-leader Rodriguez (Photopress.be)

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After a year of frustration, Philippe Gilbert finally opened his account as a BMC rider when he won stage 9 of the Vuelta a España in Barcelona, outsprinting red jersey Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha). The pair slipped clear on the climb of Montjuic in the finale, belatedly illuminating a stage that had taken the best part of 200 kilometres to ignite.

Rodriguez, a native of Barcelona, was eager to impress on home roads and he shut down an attack from Alessandro Ballan (BMC) before bounding clear of the main peloton with disarming ease on the day’s main strategic difficulty, the 3rd category Montjuic, which came just four kilometres from the finish.

The response from his rivals for overall victory was a sluggish one. Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) had attempted a speculative effort on the approach to the climb but the Spaniard – who returned from suspension in early August – didn’t have the legs to follow that effort up on Montjuic. Chris Froome (Sky) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) were similarly marked absent as Rodriguez stretched out his lead.

It was left to Gilbert and Nicolas Roche (Ag2r-La Mondiale) to try and make up the deficit, with the Belgian eventually leaving Roche behind and inching his way across to Rodriguez’s rear wheel shortly before the summit of the one-kilometre climb. After a brief discussion on the pace-making duties at the beginning of the descent, the pair collaborated smoothly thereafter to carve up the spoils between them.

“The team’s plan was for Alessandro Ballan to attack on the steep climb and I was to wait for the sprint,” Gilbert explained afterwards. “But I realised that the climb was longer than it seemed in the roadbook. Ballan went a bit early and exploded a little, so when I saw Rodriguez up there, I knew I had to follow him. On the last 50 metres of the climb I went full gas and made it across.”

The picturesque descent from the Alto de Montjuic evoked images of the destructive discord between Freddy Maertens and Eddy Merckx at the 1973 world championships, but Gilbert and Rodriguez seemed to quickly understand that they both stood to gain from working together. “I knew he was riding more for the seconds than the win and I knew I would be faster than him in the sprint,” said Gilbert succinctly.

While Rodriguez may harbour some disappointment that he did not triumph on home roads, he had the considerable consolation of buttressing his overall lead still further. A disorganised pursuit behind meant that Froome and Contador both came home 12 seconds down, while the second-placed Rodriguez also picked up an 8-second time bonus for his troubles.

As the Vuelta enters its first rest day, Rodriguez has extended his advantage over Froome to 53 seconds, while he has a minute in hand on Contador, with Valverde a further 7 seconds back in 4th. Rodriguez may be set to struggle in Wednesday’s Pontevedra time trial, but he has prepared accordingly by diligently accumulating seconds over the course of the opening week.

Valkenburg calling

Sandwiched in between the Vuelta’s foray into the Pyrenees and the lengthy rest day transfer across northern Spain, stage 9 seemed destined from the outset to be decided wholly on the streets of Barcelona.

Inside the first kilometre of racing in Andorra, a four-man group featuring Mickael Buffaz (Cofidis), Bert-Jan Lindeman (Vacansoleil-DCM), Javier Chacon (Andalucia) and Martijn Maaskant (Garmin-Sharp) was allowed to go clear, and the quartet dutifully built up a maximum lead of around five minutes without ever threatening to stay clear for the duration.

The break was duly swept up inside the final 25 kilometres thanks to the efforts of a coalition of teams, including Rabobank, Argos-Shimano and BMC, before Katusha began to flex their collective muscle in support of Joaquim Rodriguez in the finale.

As was the case in Andorra on Saturday, and indeed, for much of the 2012 season, Team Sky attempted to take over as the road began to climb on the approach to Montjuic, but their rhythm was upset by Contador’s surprise attack. Although Richie Porte snuffed that move out, the scene was set for aggression on Montjuic, and it was Rodriguez and Gilbert who emerged as the strongest.

For Gilbert, the win comes as something of a liberation after a torrid campaign. Winner of 18 races last season, there has been an inexplicably large gulf between Gilbert’s levels of performance in 2011 and 2012.

“It’s been one year since I last won and I’m very happy to win with BMC,” he said. “It’s a special victory because I had a hard season and I had a lot of criticism from the Belgian press. I never answered but I kept fighting from the beginning of the season to bring the shape back.”

After finding a spark of form on Montjuic, Gilbert will hope to stoke the flames still further as he builds to the world championships in Valkenburg in four weeks’ time. He may yet find Joaquim Rodriguez among his rivals there, although for now, the Catalan has more immediately pressing matters at hand.

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GreenEdgeMatti Breschel (Den) Rabobank Cycling TeamOlivier Kaisen (Bel) Lotto Belisol TeamDennis Van Winden (Ned) Rabobank Cycling TeamTiziano Dall'antonia (Ita) Liquigas-CannondaleMitchell Docker (Aus) Orica - GreenEdgeStephen Cummings (GBr) BMC Racing TeamBertjan Lindeman (Ned) Vacansoleil-Dcm Pro Cycling TeamNacer Bouhanni (Fra) FDJ-Big MatRaymond Kreder (Ned) Garmin - SharpBen Swift (GBr) Sky ProcyclingJulian Dean (NZl) Orica - GreenEdgeNicki Sörensen (Den) Saxo Bank - Tinkoff BankDaniele Ratto (Ita) Liquigas-CannondaleManuel Antonio Leal Cardoso (Por) Caja RuralDanail Andonov Petrov (Bul) Caja RuralMartijn Maaskant (Ned) Garmin - SharpDavide Cimolai (Ita) Lampre - ISDWesley Sulzberger (Aus) Orica - GreenEdgeJens Debusschere (Bel) Lotto Belisol TeamJavier Francisco Aramendia Lorente (Spa) Caja RuralAitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Caja RuralMikhail Ignatyev (Rus) Katusha TeamJuan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spa) AndaluciaJoost Van Leijen (Ned) Lotto Belisol TeamPoints classificationJoaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha TeamJohn Degenkolb (Ger) Argos-ShimanoAlejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar TeamChristopher Froome (GBr) Sky ProcyclingDaniele Bennati (Ita) Radioshack-NissanElia Viviani (Ita) Liquigas-CannondaleAlberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Saxo Bank - 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Catlike Whisper Deluxe helmet review

Tue 28 Aug 2012, 10:00 am BSTBy Triathlon PlusThis top-end lid is worn in the pro peloton and weighs in at a scant 260g for size medium. 

Despite the price, the MPS Fitting System, which does allow good horizontal and vertical fitting, is a basic ‘push together’ type rather than a dial, making on the fly adjustment tricky. 

We were also a bit disappointed by the sharp plastic strap clips under the ears, which needed a little bit of sanding down to avoid irritation. And the use of a comic-style font on the rear looks a little cheap on a premium product. 

Regardless of this, the helmet itself is light and comfy once fitted with a ‘forget it’s there’ quality that’s hard to beat. It’s also got exceptional ventilation, with 39 distinctive oval vents sucking in air even at climbing speeds to keep the head as cool as a helmet can. 

Catlike also claim the design of the vents means impact is absorbed and distributed more effectively in the event of a crash, while the low rear coverage is also a safety bonus.

This article was originally published in Triathlon Plus magazine, available on Zinio.

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BikeRadar Deals of the Week – Mountain Bikes

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Lapierre Xelius 200 Compact review

The Xelius frameset is the top race model in the Lapierre line-up, with a naturally aggressive ride and the position to match. You’re paying for the frame quality in the componentry though, which makes it slightly heavy and leaden for the price. 

Ride & handling: Aggressive race position offset by high weight

While most big manufacturers position their 55cm size in the middle of their range, our 55cm Xelius sample counts as the large out of the three size options. This means a 570mm top tube that stretches reach out further than you’ll find on other bikes.

The narrow 400mm bars also give it a thin shouldered feel that’s definitely oriented towards the tucked elbow race crowd, not relaxed cruising. It certainly feels the part with your head down and heart rate up, showing no signs of suffering any loss of power delivery from having a conventional bottom bracket and spindle size rather than a BB30 setup. 

The alloy bar and stem might add weight, but they give a firm setup for stomping a gear round when you’re out of the saddle. The same can be said of the Mavic Aksium/Aksion wheel/tyre combo, which are stiff and anchored under power but relatively heavy. 

Mavic’s black-valved wheel and tyre combo look slick but they’re a weak link

There’s no doubting the extra componentry weight does sap some of the potential get-up-and-go from the frame though, with the Xelius surging forward rather than snapping into life as you apply the pressure. 

The narrow bars and slightly high bottom bracket also mean a firmer hand is needed to tip the bike into corners and then hold it there if the radius or road conditions change. The Aksion tyres and alloy seatpost also give a harsher top note to the ride on rougher sections compared to the suppler tyres and more compliant carbon equipment on some similarly priced bikes.

Thankfully, Lapierre haven’t just laid up the carbon for giving you and the opposition a battering though. While it’s got a precise and obedient feel to it when heading into corners and a strong sense of purpose underfoot, the Xelius isn’t remotely punishing.

Even with the stock tyres there’s a definite sense of glide and float over even the worst road surfaces. Spending some of the test on an upgrade Zipp wheel and Schwalbe tyre set really confirmed in our minds just how much potential the Xelius has as a great base to upgrade from, as well as its suitability for aero bars and deep-section wheels. 

You can’t ignore the fact that in its stock shop floor format it’s noticeably off the pace compared to other lightweight bikes. It’s disappointing because the frame is well worth the money but the kit is well off the mark.

Frame & equipment: Pro level frameset with weighty extras

The Xelius frame is a full carbon monocoque with tapering triangular top tube and angular down tube running smoothly back from the tapered head tube. The curved aero blade fork also gets a carbon steerer to keep weight under 400g. 

The bottom bracket is a conventional external screw-in design stiffened up by flared ends to both the down tube and seat tube. Multi-shape chainstays swing right in alongside the tyre before curving back out, while the straight seatstays blend into a narrow wishbone above the rear brake. 

Gear cabling is internal, but the rubber shrouds constantly loosened and fell out. The full length outer brake cabling through the top tube also adds a few needless grams. 

Despite being significantly larger in overall dimensions than most 55cm frames, our sample frame still just ducked under the magic one-kilo frame weight barrier. There are only three frame size options available too, so if you’re particularly tall or small then you’ll have to forget about the Xelius.

The Xelius is definitely a race bike when it comes to ride position

Buyers using a Top Trumps style shopping technique are going to be disappointed with the Lapierre, as the high quality frame has obviously eaten into the complete bike budget. We’ve no complaints about the smooth, functional Ultegra stop-go gear, but the Tiagra cassette they’ve tried to sneak through is significantly heavier than Ultegra. 

More significantly, while the Aksium wheels are solid and dependable performers, they’re heavier and less responsive than some. 

The black-stemmed inner tubes and matching logos of the Mavic tyres are a nice aesthetic touch. The actual ride is noticeably wooden, and the alloy bars and seatpost aren’t light either, all of which leaves the Xelius relatively heavy.

This article was originally published in Triathlon Plus magazine, available on Zinio.