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Currently the fashion industry relies more on mass market sales. The mass market caters for a wide range of customers, producing ready-to-wear garments using trends set by the famous names in fashion. They often wait around a season to make sure a style is going to catch on before producing their own versions of the original look. To save money and time, they use cheaper fabrics and simpler production techniques which can easily be done by machine. The end product can therefore be sold much more cheaply.[7][8][9]
Giorgio Armani was born on July 11, in 1934, in Italy. Armani is an iconic and unique fashion designer. His popularity skyrocketed in America in the 1980s with his men's 'power suits'. Armani attracted an enviable fashion following in the 80s with the unstructured jackets and soft trousers in mineral hues. With more than three decades in the business, Armani has enjoyed a longevity as a designer experienced by few others.
Donatella started to work for her brother Gianni in the late 1970s, serving as his muse and adviser. Then she became the designer for the company's Versus line in the 1980s. After her brother was murdered, in 1997, she became creative director of the Versace Group. Donatella made sure that Versace shops would be on different fashion centers around the world, particularly Milan and New York. Top celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Madonna have endorsed the company's collection of clothes, accessories, fragrances and home furnishings.
When Christian Dior launched his "New Look" collection in 1947 he radically changed the direction of mid-century fashion, bringing the world a new idea of luxury from post-war Paris. Bustier bodices, bell-shaped skirts, rounded shoulders and cinched waists made Dior's work different and irreverent. Dior took the world by storm, never producing an unpopular collection during his administratcion as the head of Dior brand.
Known for his stunning couture designs and his sophisticated women's tuxedo jackets (known as le smoking), Saint Laurent was destined to carve out his own identity, but his career was not without its challenges. After a poorly received collection at Dior, which featured hobble skirts and other unusual designs, he was sent into mandatory military service. The stress of being in the army (although he lasted only 20 days) took a tremendous toll on the sensitive designer. He suffered from teasing and hazing by his fellow soldiers, and he soon plunged into a nervous breakdown; he was sent to a mental hospital for treatment.
"A/W is always a moment for incredible outerwear, and this season it was no exception. For the most part, it was the bigger the better; oversized shapes, duvet dressing, blanket capes and more," says Elizabeth von der Goltz, Net-a-Porter global buying director. "Oversized cannot be mentioned without talking to the trench coat and the bigger the better with billowing sleeves at JW Anderson, cape draping at Burberry and classic maxi coats at Khaite. Big coats marked the opening of the Max Mara runway in blue, yellow and teal. Hot pink was the favourite at Jacquemus and Valentino, whose oversized silhouettes gave this typically feminine colour a masculine twist. And last but not least is the puffa jacket, which received an elegant update with a new reference to duvet dressing. Padding, quilting, floral embroidery and organza layering came from the likes of Margiela, Dries Van Noten and Toteme."
Top-handled and either cutesy and retro or super-sleek in plain leathers, the most influential bag trend of the season will most definitely be anything that feels extra-ladylike and old-fashioned. Although jumbo totes and teeny-tiny mini bags could also be seen on the autumn runways, neither is particularly practical, unlike these this breed of elegant styles. "I find when something is vintage that piece has a much longer staying power since the style feels inherently classic, like the frame bag," says Lisa Aiken, Fashion Director at Moda Operandi. Roomy enough to fit your essentials into, classic enough to last an eternity and offered in enough variations to girls with multiple style personalities sated indeed.
The Pantone colour system is an internationally recognized colour referencing system where thousands of shades are numbered. If you want to select your color story, you can use Pantone to develop color standards. Pantone is a color forecasting site. Each color swatch is labeled and categorized with numbers and letters, so you can find your true color easily for designing.
London has long been the capital of the United Kingdom fashion industry and has a wide range of foreign designs which have integrated with modern British styles. Typical, British design is smart but innovative yet recently has become more and more unconventional, fusing traditional styles with modern techniques. Vintage styles play an important role in the British fashion and styling industry. Stylists regularly 'mix and match' the old with the new, which gives British style that unique, bohemian aesthetic that many of the other fashion capitals try to imitate. Irish fashion (both design and styling) is also heavily influenced by fashion trends from Britain.
Christian Louboutin was born in France in 1963. He was expelled from school at age 16 and started working for the brilliant shoe designer Charles Jourdan two years later. In the early 1990s, Louboutin launched his own line of women's shoes. He added his legendary red soles in 1993. The Louboutin brand is one of our favorites and his wonderful and unique shoes are all we want.
So many fashion houses have adopted certain features for clothing, which later on become their business cards. It seems simple at first sight, but looking into it, we realize that those are the characteristics that make those brands stand out. Examples of such can be the following: black and red lace in Dolce and Gabbana collections, expressive asymmetry in Antonio Berardi clothes and so on.
Formal education: While not required, many of your competitors will have an associate or bachelor's degree in fashion design or a related field. As a fashion design major, you will take classes in color, textiles, sewing and tailoring, pattern making, fashion history, and computer-aided design (CAD) and learn about different types of clothing such as menswear or footwear.
In this stage designer create a brand name or logo. The philosophy and identity of a range can be continued into promotional activities such as branding and styling. To promoting and marketing fashion goods it is very important. Normally the branding would be a graphic designer's job. It is the interesting use of the language or words can produce visual effects, such as, iMac (Internet ready Macintosh computer), O2 (mobile phone provider), FCUK (French Connection United Kingdom).
A vibrant fashion style is reserved for the lady who wants to say "Hey, look at ME, world!" This energetic and intense fashion style typically features garments with wild patterns and exaggerated embroidery as well as asymmetrical designs and tons of colors. Most of her wardrobe will be lined with super light and pastel colors that draw the attention of everyone's eyes, no matter where it's worn.


This Equipment (benzene synthesizer) is developed to produce benzene used to determine Radiocarbon content.
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According to the Goldman Sachs Group, nickel and palladium are set to outperform in an uneven global economy, reports Glenys Sim for Bloomberg.
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by Barbara Mujica
Every time Cándida López saw a strange car in the street, she reviewed in her mind the most efficient ways to commit suicide. If Riqui were dead, two Marines would knock on her door and recite some canned speech, the same speech they always gave when they told a mother her child had made "the ultimate sacrifice." Then they'd go out and have a beer. And what about the mother? Pills, thought Cándida. Just drop off to sleep and never wake up. Or carbon monoxide. "Too bad I don't know how to use a gun," she said out loud.
But what if Riqui were injured? There would be a call, probably from some hospital in Baghdad or the medical center in Landstuhl. A lot of the guys airlifted to Landstuhl never made it home alive. Or else they came back too battered to lead normal lives. She'd read all about it in La Opinión.
The doctor had told her to stop reading the news, stop watching Univisión, stop listening to the radio, but she was addicted. She checked the Net ten, maybe twelve times a day. Whenever a bomb went off or a plane went down, she got down on her knees and prayed. "Please, Holy Virgin, don't let it be Riqui."
"What's the point of checking the news?" her friend Carolyn chided. "All it does is upset you."
"I know," sighed Cándida. She felt chained in a prison of helplessness.
"I heard about a grandmother who joined the Army," she told Riqui before he left. "She went over to Iraq to cook for the troops to be near her grandson. What if I did that?"
"Forget it, Mom!"
"Riqui..." Cándida felt as though a rough-edged stone were lodged in her throat. "You're my only son, my only child..."
"Everything will be fine, Mom. The guys all protect each other."
"Dios te oiga, hijo. I hope God is listening."
The phone rang. Cándida flinched. She stood there staring at the black object hanging on the wall as though it were a dead rat.
Finally, she picked up the receiver. "Hello?" she said.
"Hey, Cándida. It's Carolyn. You okay?"
Cándida exhaled in relief.
When she'd left El Salvador in 1985, the civil war was raging. The FMLA was ambushing anyone with a cow or a radio and putting a gun to his head. Private property was evil, they said. Whatever you had belonged to the revolution.
"We don't have to worry," insisted Cándida's husband Ricardo. "We don't have anything they want." But he was wrong.
One night, as Cándida was putting the children to bed, she felt strangely uneasy. Suddenly, an explosion sent her reeling. There were only two rooms in the miniscule house, the bedroom and an all-purpose room for cooking, eating, and everything else. That's the room that had a door, and someone had shot it open.
"Hide!" she ordered.
Riqui, then three, dove under the cot, but it was too late for eleven-year-old Nélida. The soldiers—a gang of ragtag thugs who called themselves guerrillas—were already in the room. One of them grabbed the girl and pulled off her dress, while the others threw Cándida to the floor. Then they undid their pants and took turns.
When Ricardo got back from his Uncle Raúl's house, the first thing he noticed was that the chicken coop was empty. He stopped in his tracks and scrutinized the yard. Feathers and eggshells and human feces were strewn everywhere. Ricardo's temples started to throb and his fingers turned icy. The door to the house had been blasted to pieces. The pots and pans that normally hung on the wall were missing.
He found his wife hysterical and writhing with pain. His inert daughter was sprawled in a pool of blood. Cándida was babbling something—boys, rape, Virgen María. He couldn't make out the words, but he'd already grasped what had happened. Next to Nélida lay a shattered, bloodied statue of the Holy Mother. It had been the only object of beauty in the house. They'd smashed it over Neli's head, probably to silence her, or maybe just for fun.
Ricardo crumpled. Their beautiful child—her wide, tiger eyes; her smooth brown skin; her full lips and budding body.
They buried her in the village cemetery. Ricardo held little Riqui in his arms and watched his uncles and cousins lower the casket into the ground. He was a poor, insignificant man, but he wasn't going to let those brutes get away with this crime.
"I'm going to join the army," he vowed. "I'll take care of them."
"The government soldiers are just as brutal as the guerrillas," countered his cousin Juan. "What you need to do is get out of here. Find a coyote who'll sneak you through Mexico and over the U.S. border."
"Who has money for a coyote?"
"We could pool our resources."
"How much could all of us put together? Coyotes charge three or four hundred dollars a head." Ricardo inhaled on his foul-smelling cigarette.
"At least enough for Cándida and Riqui," said Uncle Raúl. "Or if not, you can borrow money from Tello. He's financed a lot of people. They pay him back once they get there. I hear you can make forty or fifty dollars a day in the U.S. A day! Imagine! You'll be able to pay Tello back in a couple of months."
Tello was the owner of the only store in the village of San Teófanes. He sold everything from chicken feed to beer to ladies' panties.
Uncle Raúl lit a cigarette with trembling hands. His skin was as fragile and crinkled as a used paper bag and his fingers, as knotted as ropes. But his mind was sharp. Ricardo was listening.
"You owe it to your son. You have to get him out of here."
"What if they get caught?"
"The coyotes know all the secret routes. After Cándida gets settled, you can follow."
"Holy Virgin," moaned Cándida. But she knew Uncle Raúl was right.
She crossed the border stuffed into the hidden compartment of a truck, her son tucked under her. The driver put them on a bus to Los Angeles, where a Salvadoran woman named Vilma, who routinely scoured the station for newcomers, offered them a room for $100 a month.
"I don't have that kind of money," Cándida told her.
"You will," said Vilma.
The barrio streets were strewn with garbage, and the walls covered with lurid graffiti. Everywhere men who reminded her of the hooligans who had raped her and Neli hung around smoking and spewing obscenities. They made her shudder.
Vilma got her a job in a restaurant washing dishes. Riqui went too, because she had nowhere to leave him. At night, she attended English classes at the local church. That's where she met an Ethiopian woman named Aisha who told her about a family in Beverly Hills that was looking for a live-in nanny.
"Get out of this neighborhood before it's too late," said Aisha. "Before the gangs get to your boy."
"He's just a baby."
"Exactly. There's still time."
Cándida had just escaped from a war zone, but the barrio was a war zone too. She took the nanny job.
"Stay in touch!" said Vilma when Cándida moved out. "Come eat tamales and pupusas with me on Sundays."
"I will," Cándida assured her.
And she did. She wasn't in the least homesick for San Teófanes, but she loved the familiar aromas of Vilma's kitchen. She loved hearing her local dialect and catching up on news. Vilma's little group gave her a sense of community in this new and alien country.
Beverly Hills was like some sort of fantasy—blocks and blocks of manicured lawns, soaring palm trees and crimson oleanders, driveways with exotic automobiles. Janine McGovern, Cándida's employer, was an attorney with too much to do, so it was up to Cándida to get the children off to school and care for the house. She and Riqui had their own room with a bathroom and a toilet that flushed. Before long, Riqui was in a neighborhood school free of marauding gangs. Everything would be fine, thought Cándida, as long as she could stay out of sight of the immigration authorities—la migra—and didn't do something stupid like apply for refugee status. Mrs. McGovern had told her that less than three percent of the Central Americans who applied got it. By applying, you only attracted attention to yourself.
"Sorry," she said. "Even though I'm a lawyer, I can't help."
In two years Cándida had learned passable English. She took a second job in a little beauty shop on Beverly Boulevard, shampooing the heads of elegant ladies on Saturdays. She was saving up to bring Ricardo to Los Angeles. It was at the beauty shop that she met Carolyn, a beautician with frizzy blond hair and a heart of gold beating under an enormous bosom.
Every month, Cándida sent a money order to Tello to pay off her debt, and another one to Uncle Raúl to ease his burdens. Uncle Raúl couldn't write, but Tello occasionally sent a note with news from the community. Juan's wife had just had a baby girl. Raúl had bought a cow and two goats, which he watched like toddlers. Ricardo had joined the army, and no one had seen him in months. Cándida went to church and lit a candle for her husband.
"Virgen," she prayed, "even though they abused you in our house, please don't abandon us."
Eventually the letters stopped coming. By now Cándida had paid off the debt to Tello, but she was still sending money orders for Uncle Raúl. She tried to call—telephone service was now available in San Teófanes—but no one ever answered.
She explained the problem to Vilma, who promised to ask around.
It took a few weeks, during which Cándida prayed a lot and cried a lot. When the answer finally came, it was devastating. Government troops had overrun San Teófanes, ransacked Tello's store, stolen Raúl's animals, and shot everyone but the few folks who had managed to flee. Now there were phones, but no one to answer them.
"And Ricardo?"
"Nothing about Ricardo."
"He might be dead."
"He might be," said Vilma matter-of-factly. "After all, it's a war."
"I will never, ever let my son go to war," said Cándida.
By 1992 the conflict in El Salvador was over. Thousands of Salvadorans headed back home, but Cándida decided to stay put. She'd left Mrs. McGovern a couple of years before. Carolyn had convinced her to study for her high school equivalency diploma and a beautician's license. Standing over fussy ladies for hours at a time, mixing dye, combing curls, remembering who had just gotten a divorce and who'd vacationed on the Riviera was exhausting, but Cándida didn't complain. She had a little apartment in Santa Monica and a used Toyota. If only it weren't for la migra, she could relax. But la migra was a constant worry. What if they popped into the beauty shop and dragged off all the illegals? It would be a nightmare for her, of course, but also for the owner, who had been kind to her. And what about Riqui, now in fifth grade and more gringo than guanaco?
One day in 1997, Mrs. McGovern called her. There had been a terrible earthquake in Central America, and the U.S. government had passed a relief act allowing undocumented Nicaraguans and Salvadorans to stay in the country.
"Now I can get you a green card," said Mrs. McGovern.
"Well," said Cándida to herself, "I've been through my own personal earthquake, so maybe I qualify."
"Any news about Ricardo?" added Mrs. McGovern.
"No, ma'am. Nothing."
Cándida had just gotten up and turned on the radio when the blaring voice of the newscaster announced that a plane had rammed into the World Trade Center in New York. Cándida assumed some amateur pilot had swiped the wall. "Idiota!" she said out loud.
She switched to the music station, where they were playing "Ni tú ni nadie." Cándida hummed along, lost in her calculations of Riqui's school expenses—he had just begun classes at Santa Monica College. Suddenly, an announcer interrupted. A second plane had flown into one of the towers, he said, and a third was headed for Washington, D.C.
Cándida felt her stomach tighten. She remembered things. A presentiment of danger. An explosion. Guerrilla thugs stomping through the house. Neli's screams. The statue of the Virgin crashing to the floor. "No," she whispered. "No."
A few months later she returned to the apartment to find Riqui in the living room with a Marine Corps recruiter. "Oh, God," moaned Cándida. "¿Qué es esto?"
Riqui had grown into a handsome boy. He'd have been tall in El Salvador, but here he was average height, about 5 feet 10 inches. He had the same tiger eyes as his sister, the same wide brow and smooth brown skin. His black hair draped over his forehead seductively. He grabbed a shock of hair in his hand and smiled broadly at his mother.
"Take a good look, Mom, 'cause the next time you see me, I'll have a buzz cut!"
"You just started college, Riqui." She was struggling to stay calm.
"This country gave us a home, Mom. And now we're at war."
Cándida started to sob. "But we're not citizens," she said finally.
The recruiter, a tall black man with a no-nonsense demeanor, gazed over her head. "He's nineteen years old and a legal resident, ma'am. He can sign up."
The recruiter left. Riqui sat on the table, legs wide, eyes twinkling, already with that cocky Marine grin.
She had to admit she was proud. But she was also scared, so scared she felt nauseous.
"Listen, Mom," said Riqui, suddenly serious, "a long time ago...back there...you protected me. I couldn't defend you...or my sister." His voice was gentle. "But I'm never going to let anything bad happen to you again."
Cándida was still sobbing and shivering.
"Look," said Riqui. "I'm going to show you something."
He went into his room and came back with a paper. Under the image of an eagle with outstretched wings were the words "U.S. Citizenship and Naturalization Services." He pointed to the text he had highlighted in yellow: "Special provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) authorize U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to expedite the application and naturalization process for current members of the U.S. armed forces and recently discharged members."
"You see, Mom? If I serve, we can become citizens. No more worrying about la migra or renewing green cards."
"Don't do it for me, Riqui. I'd rather live in the shadows forever."
Days later the phone rang. When she thought about it afterward, it felt as though the whole scene had taken place in slow motion. It was the call she'd been expecting—and dreading. An official was calling from San Salvador. Ricardo was dead, he said. No details.
Cándida steadied herself against the wall. Now her son was going off to war. Would there someday be another call? She had already lost her daughter and her husband. "Oh, Holy Virgin," she prayed, "watch over him."
The sleeplessness started even before Riqui left for boot camp. During the day, Cándida dozed on her feet. At night, she lay awake for hours, calculating Riqui's chances for survival. So far, only thirty-seven U.S. soldiers had died in Afghanistan. A tiny number. But if it was your kid who got hit... She started taking Excedrin PM—first one, then two, three, four. When she did fall into a fitful sleep, she dreamed of bombs and burning tanks. During the day, she contemplated suicide.
"Honey," said Carolyn, squeezing Candida's shoulders, "you have to get some help." Furrows had formed over Carolyn's brow. Her chin had grown spongy. But her hair was still blond—she knew how to apply hair color, after all—and she was still as kind and caring as ever. Cándida thought she was lucky to have her for a friend.
The doctor wrote a prescription for Ambien, but it didn't help. In March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq, and in August, Riqui announced that he was being deployed. He was full of bravado. Lots of loud music and talk of kicking ass.
Cándida became morose and obsessed with the news. She began to suffer from shortness of breath. She prayed, but found no relief. Gloom followed her around like an ugly black dog. Strangely, at the salon, no one but Carolyn knew anything was wrong. Cándida somehow kept up appearances, even though she felt as though she were suffocating.
Every day, she e-mailed Riqui. Weeks went by without a response.
"Sorry, Mom, I've been working," he explained when he finally called her. He made it sound as though he were shuffling papers at an insurance office.
It was late January 2004, and she hadn't heard from him since Christmas.
"They'll notify you right away if I'm dead," Riqui had joked. "If you don't get a call or a visit, don't worry."
Every time she heard about the death of an American soldier, she felt guilty because she felt relieved. It was a relief that it wasn't Riqui, but awful that some other woman just like her would be mourning.
She felt guilty about other things as well. Riqui had put his life at risk to protect her. To get her citizenship, so she'd never have to worry again about la migra or the green card. "Don't bother about me, Riqui," she whispered into the shadows. "Just stay alive."
One night she took more Ambien than she was supposed to, and then lay in bed staring into the dark.
The jangle of the telephone jolted her upright. A call in the middle of the night! She gasped for breath and clutched at the receiver.
There was no one.
Still, no one.
Cándida sat in the dark, hyperventilating. The digital clock with the bright green numbers read 1:32. Finally, she hung up.
She spent the rest of the night waiting for the phone to ring. "They'll call back," she told herself. But they didn't. The same feeling came over her as the day Vilma had told her that Ricardo was probably dead. She was certain that this would end the same way.
But then, after a month, Riqui called.
"Are you okay?" Cándida asked breathlessly. "The phone rang one night...I thought...something might have happened."
"No, nothing has happened." His voice sounded decisive.
They chatted a few minutes about nothing, and then Riqui asked suddenly, "When did you receive that call?"
"January...it must have been around the twenty-fifth. It was 1:32 in the morning. I'm certain about the hour."
"¿Hijo?"
"No, nothing." He said good-bye and told her not to worry, the way he always did.
But Riqui knew what had happened on January 25. It was a day he would never forget. Lieutenant Metzer had sent him to a town outside of Ramadi rumored to be harboring an al-Qaeda operative. His instructions were to observe what he could. He was to carry a military-issue cell phone with him to keep Metzer informed. He and four other Marines started out early in the morning, but right before they arrived, Riqui realized he didn't have the phone. He tried to remember where he'd left it. He thought back over the last few hours and recalled giving it to one of the Iraqi interpreters to make an authorized call. He thought the man had given it back, but now he wasn't sure.
At 11:32 a.m.—1:32 a.m. in Los Angeles—Riqui López's phone set off a bomb in Ramadi that killed one Marine and left three critically injured. Riqui would have been a casualty too, if Metzer hadn't sent him on a mission. Riqui should have died that day. Somehow, the phone called his mother. How it happened, Riqui couldn't explain.
When Riqui left the Marines in 2006, the first thing he did was apply for U.S. citizenship. As soon as he got it, he could sponsor Cándida. One night, he took his mom out to dinner and told her the story about the phone.
Cándida felt as though the hand of God were stroking her cheek. "It was the Virgin calling to let me know you were okay," she said. "Only I didn't know how to interpret the message."
"Yeah, Mom," Riqui said. "I'm sure that's it."
Barbara Mujica
is a novelist, short-story writer, scholar, and theater director. Her latest novel, I Am Venus (Overlook, 2013) explores the identity of the model for the famous Rokeby Venus, the only extant nude by seventeenth-Spanish painter Diego de Velázquez. The novel was a winner of the 2012 Maryland Writers' Association fiction competition in the category, "Historical Fiction."
Mujica's critically acclaimed novel Sister Teresa (Overlook, 2007; paperback: Penguin, 2008) depicts the life of Teresa de Avila. A play based on the novel premiered in Los Angeles in November, 2013.
Mujica's novel Frida (Overlook, 2001; paperback: Plume, 2002) was an international bestseller that has appeared in seventeen languages. Based on the tumultuous relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Friday was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate.
Mujica has won several prizes for her writing: the Trailblazers Award from Dialogue on Diversity, the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award, the Pangolin Prize, and the E. L. Doctorow International Fiction Competition. She is also a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize for Fiction.

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Rita Ora and Canada's own Tessa Virtue are just a few celebs sharing about the toll negativity can take on our body confidence. They also share how to deal.
The most challenging thing about confidence is how hard it is to find it. No matter how fit or fabulous others think you are, we always tend to focus on the things we don't quite like about ourselves whenever we look in the mirror.
And while you may think the famous faces in Hollywood are immune to those self-deprecating thoughts, we can assure you they're not. There are entire businesses built on criticizing celebrities' appearances (we see you, E! Fashion Police), so if anything, being a celebrity makes confidence that much more elusive.
Yet, somehow, they've managed. They've found ways to rise above the critiques and the trolls and learn to truly love themselves, so we're taking a cue from them and sharing five of their best tips.
Kim Kardashian West blames the media for giving her Body Dismorphia. Find out what that is.
Rita Ora explained her workout philosophy to Shape magazine (and it's a good one): "I didn't start working out to get skinnier — I started working out to feel better. And I think it's important for women to know that. Don't be obsessed with being thin. You just have to be fit, healthy, and strong." Amen, sister.
Canadian Real Housewife Roxy Earle says this popular form of social media keeps her confident.
Lovato also shares more about her health issues here.
What others see as an enviable asset, we often see as a flaw in ourselves. Take U.S. gymnast Ali Raisman. When she was younger, kids used to make fun of her muscular arms. She told People that it took a total perspective shift to get over the teasing and appreciate what those muscular arms had done, and continue to do for her.
Rihanna addresses comments about her being "thick" in a unique way.
Virtue shares how she stays optimistic and open-minded to what life throws at her.
We all have our days. If that is you today, check out our killer confidence tips. You will not regret it.


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How Russian Golden youth relaxes
With the end of the summer, many of us will forget about rest before next summer, but not our "Golden youth", which publishes in full swing photos from hot countries on their pages in Facebook. Further we offer you take a look at how Russian children of millionaires and billionaires have a rest.
Yusuf Alekperov
26-year-old son of the President of "Lukoil" is in first place in the ranking of the wealthiest heirs of Russian billionaires, according to Forbes. His father, Vagit Alekperov, will give him the largest stake of the oil giant.
Yusuf's instagram is full of cars of all kinds of steepness. He leads his account under the nickname le_chiffre1 (Le Chiffre is a mathematical genius, a great Poker Player and a dangerous offender, the main villain in J.Bond series "Casino Royale").
June: "Goodbye, Moscow!"
On his page (by the way, closed from prying eyes) he confesses in love to cars and to his "sweet wife".
And – go: Germany, Switzerland, Italy … the most expensive resorts in Europe and the most elegant cars.
July: "One of the top Italian restaurants" (Yusuf, far right)
With his blonde wife, Alice: "One day in Portofino"
Returning to Moscow: again sport and street racing and endless tuning of the cars.
This is exactly what gives Yusuf an incomparable thrill.
"BBQ outside"
August: "the best fishing in Siberia. Fishing was successful"
Apparently, the oil tycoon's son popped in at in Kogalym, where locates the main production facilities of Lukoil and where he previously, by agreement with his father, worked a year in the field, in order to "enter into the taste" of the family business.
So why, after such a busy summer, do not meet the fall in the Crimea? His father Vagit Alekperov once said that his family each year rests there, because it's "a very suitable climate there".
Thanks to the inexhaustible paternal generosity, a bright pink of Kira Plastinina logo is recognized around the world.
The founder of dairy giant "Wimm-Bill-Dann" Sergei Plastinin has spent on his daughter's "rare design talent" 5 billion rubles. But despite a powerful promotion involving the brightest stars of glamour, such as Paris Hilton, a lifestyle clothing brand has never brought profits. And in August the media found out that it is preparing for bankruptcy with a total debt of 500 million rubles.
24-year-old Cyrus now seems to be not interested in inventing fashions – she no longer divides thumbnails in social networks, asking her fans' opinion.
After studying at the prestigious business school at Columbia University in New York, she is again looking for herself, and now enjoys life in America and in the most posh resorts.
Bahamas:
Saint-Tropez:
In one of the most expensive tea salons of New York:
Sergey Sarkisov Jr.
The son of the leader of the insurance business in Russia, co-owner of RESO-Garantia Sergey Sarkisov. With his father in Croatia: "Enjoy life on a yacht and think where to go next»
The 20-year-old that "Junior", who identified himself as the "Black Prince" in Instagram, successfully traveled around the world all the summer.
With his brother in Monaco
With friends in Monte Carlo
Villa in Antibes, overlooking the "Bay of billionaires"
Enjoying his holidays
And in the Swiss Alps
There were also Nice, Venice, Marseille and suddenly Ufa, Ulyanovsk and Suzdal
Wherever he traveled, he is always at home on board of a private jet.
Life is a great thing!
Anastasia Beljak
Co-owner of beauty salons Brow Bar Moscow in the heart of the capital. Mikhail Belyakov's daughter, which since the 90s has been one of the biggest tycoons of Moscow refueling business.
Later, he joined the Board of Directors of the Russian Fuel Union, owned a network of gas stations and still busy in the petrochemical industry.
28-year-old miss prefers to bask in the Cote d'Azur, elegant resort of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat is well suited for her.
Especially because Monaco with its luxury, restaurants, boutiques and other entertainment is a stone's throw.
And the girl's dog is also the Instagram star.
In between times, she stays in Naples: to show herself…
…and to look at others (with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, founders of the couture brand Dolce & Gabbana).
Anastasia Fuchs
In July at the same French resort of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat was a splendid wedding of the daughter of Europe's largest construction magnate – Pavel Fuchs.
21-year-old Anastasia was married to an Arab millionaire.
Capital multiplied, but the responsibilities of the classical Arab wife (and any other duties) has not increased – great!
The girl's Instagram is full of pictures of walking…
and luxury resorts.
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In the south of Primorye workers continue destroying the WW2 battery
The Most Northern Railway
3 thoughts on "How Russian Golden youth relaxes"
The new Russian aristocracy. The new Tsars. The poor working peasants are a little better off but not much.
Rob Normann
I am sure its lot of fun to have loads of money. And if they have earned it with honest work, of course they should enjoy it.
Remember the poor, it could easily be you.
Doesn't matter where you live, In Russia or the USA, the wealthy are always there flaunting their wealth and privilege in the face of normal hard working people. Especially their children. Makes me sick. One day soon, all that wealth won't mean a thing.


On the occasion of Art Basel in Hong Kong, international art gallery Hauser & Wirth and museum-retail pioneer K11 will co-present the Roth Bar & Grill pop-up kitchen at COBO HOUSE, a cultural hub for the creative community in the Shek Tong Tsui district of Hong Kong. The week-long collaboration will be open to the public from 25 to 31 March 2019.
Roth Bar & Grill's Hong Kong pop-up kitchen is inspired by the original Roth Bar & Grill restaurant located onsite at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, a pioneering world-class gallery and multi-purpose arts center on a working free-range farm in rural south west England. Roth Bar & Grill combines gastronomy with contemporary art and is a vibrant, informal and convivial eating-place, serving honest, simple and seasonal food with a focus on sustainability.
The pop-up kitchen at COBO HOUSE will continue in this tradition, offering a range of dishes using fresh ingredients sourced locally from Hong Kong's markets and suppliers – relocating Roth Bar & Grill's renowned farm-to-table concept from Somerset to Hong Kong. Steve and Jules Horrell, the husband-and-wife team behind the Somerset restaurant, will be in residence at COBO HOUSE for the week of 25 March. During the pop-up, the venue's usual Korean-infused European dining concept will be enhanced by a bespoke menu and cocktails derived from the flavors of Somerset, including: Homemade merguez sausage, flatbread, yogurt, pomegranate; Pork Milanese, celeriac remoulade, green sauce; Apple croustade, Somerset Cider Brandy crème fraiche, and Somerset Pimms.
Throughout the pop-up kitchen, visitors will find reference points that echo the experience of visiting Hauser & Wirth Somerset, reflecting its core belief in conservation, education and sustainability.
COBO HOUSE's walls will feature artwork installed salon-style, curated by K11 founder, Adrian Cheng and Hauser & Wirth President and Co-Founder Iwan Wirth to incorporate Hauser & Wirth artists alongside works from Adrian Cheng's private collection – including paintings by Mark Bradford and Zhang Enli. This presentation is in homage to the original restaurant environment in Somerset, where the walls are adorned with an intimate and highly personal, salon-style array of works that intertwine with the themes of food, animals and the countryside.
COBO HOUSE will also be transformed by flowers and foliage hung from the ceiling, in homage to the perennial meadow that sits behind the original farm buildings comprising the Hauser & Wirth Somerset galleries, designed by internationally-renowned landscape architect Piet Oudolf.
The collaboration between Hauser & Wirth and K11 was borne from the shared vision of Iwan Wirth and Adrian Cheng – to cultivate an art-centric approach to life. Food comprises a pivotal element of the experience of Hauser & Wirth's galleries, as it brings together a passion for art with an enthusiasm for hospitality, gastronomy, and, above all, community. Hauser & Wirth's galleries in Somerset and Los Angeles both include integral restaurants conceived as social gathering spaces. Hong Kong-based Adrian Cheng introduced the world's first museum-retail concept, K11 Art Mall, fusing together art and commerce. He continues influencing the world by setting game-changing standards in architecture, design, lifestyle, business and hospitality, such as the Victoria Dockside redevelopment project, a 3 million-square-foot art and design district that will redefine Hong Kong's waterfront when it fully opens in Q3 2019.
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and Vice President Marc Payot. A family business with a global outlook, Hauser & Wirth has expanded over the past 27 years to include outposts in Hong Kong, London, New York, Los Angeles, Somerset, Gstaad and St. Moritz. The gallery represents over 75 artists and estates who have been instrumental in shaping its identity over the past quarter century, and who are the inspiration for Hauser & Wirth's diverse range of activities that engage with art, education, conservation and sustainability.
Hauser & Wirth has built a reputation for its dedication to artists and support of visionary artistic projects worldwide. In addition to presenting a dynamic schedule of exhibitions, the gallery collaborates with renowned curators to realize museum quality surveys, and invests considerable resources in new scholarship and research. Since its earliest days, the gallery has forged an academically rigorous, ambitious program of historic exhibitions. Hauser & Wirth has extensive experience in estate management, and is the home of a number of major 20th-century European and American artist estates including Louise Bourgeois, Arshile Gorky Estate, The Estate of Philip Guston, The Eva Hesse Estate, Allan Kaprow Estate, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, The Estate of Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roth Estate and The Estate of David Smith, among others.
The exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong span the breadth of the gallery's program from major 20th century modern masters to leading figures in contemporary art. From 26 March to 11 May 2019, Hauser & Wirth Kong Kong will present the first solo exhibition in the city of works by renowned French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010). The exhibition is curated by Jerry Gorovoy, who worked closely with Bourgeois from the early 1980s until her death in 2010. The exhibition coincides with Bourgeois's first large scale museum tour in China, The Eternal Thread, presented at the Long Museum, Shanghai, and the Song Art Museum, Beijing.
Founded in 2008 by entrepreneur Adrian Cheng, K11 Group combines art and commerce in commercial and residential real estate, and a growing portfolio of brands across different sectors in Greater China and around the world. Marking its 10th anniversary, K11 Group announced its most ambitious Museum-Retail development K11 MUSEA in June 2018, situated at the heart of the new $2.6bn Victoria Dockside art and design district developed by parent company New World Group in Hong Kong, scheduled to fully open in 2019. In addition to its flagship K11 Art Malls, K11 Group also operates K11 Atelier, a network of office buildings for the next-generation workforce; luxury residences for worldly travellers K11 ARTUS; open education platform K11 Kulture Academy; the terrarium-inspired transformative retail concept K11 Natural; consulting and market research institution K11 Future Taskforce; and K11 Art Foundation, China's first not- for-profit to incubate Chinese artists and curators.
Through K11 Group, Adrian's stated aim is to constantly innovate and 'connect China's cultural ecosystem and its emerging millennials and Generation Z with the world,' creating a new global identity for Chinese millennials. By 2023 K11 Group will have gained a footprint in nine cities across Greater China. K11 was recognised by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies in China in 2018, and honoured in 2019 as one of the most innovative companies and the only company from Asia in the global category for the Urban Development and Real Estate sector.


Heavy medium means the density of water medium is larger than that of water, which including heavy liquid and heavy suspension. Minerals been beneficiated in heavy medium called heavly medium beneficiation, such as magnetite mineral processing,and its density should between that of heavy minerals and light minerals, only in this way can promise the light minerals floating as well as the heavy minerals falling down. As heavy liquid has higher price, heavy floating liquid can be the optimized material in industry producing. Heavy medium and water composed of heavy floating liquid, which magnetite powder belongs to.
Due to Heavy medium magnetite powder has characterized by inertia, higher relative density and easy to recycle, thus can meet the need of coal separation. Magnetite in natural usually exists with other elements which will reduce the density of magnetite powder and affect the magnetic property. Iron ion can be replaced by elements which has close radius such as Ti4+, Mg2+ and Mn2+, which distributes to reduce the magnetic property of magnetite powder, and influences the characteristics of floating liquid as well as increases the consumption of heavy medium.
Inspection should be made to heavy magnetic powder for the benefit of better usage, the process should be include as follows.
Firstly, the moisture content of magnetite powder.
Secondly, particle size of magnetite powder.
Content, particle size and density of magnetic materials are the main elements when choosing heavy medium magnetite powder for coal separation. Daily inspection should be made to the magnetic material content and moisture of -325 mesh, other inspection elements can slack when this index completed.
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Report calls for new Himalayan development policy; stirs political battle in New Delhi.
Ten months after a brutal flood killed thousands of people, leveled riverbank communities, and battered hydroelectric projects across the northern state of Uttarakhand in India's Himalayan region, a panel of experts has concluded that hydropower development significantly amplified the damage.
The committee found that existing oversight practices do not adequately account for how significantly power dams affect the Himalayan gorges where they are being built, and called on India to overhaul its policies and practices for approving new hydropower projects. The 11-member committee recommended the cancellation of 23 hydroelectric projects proposed in Uttarakhand because of the ecological damage they would cause.
The report, 'Assessment of Environmental Degradation and Impact of Hydroelectric Projects During the June 2013 Disaster in Uttarakhand', was submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Forests on April 16, and made public on April 29. The expert panel was appointed in October 2013 at the direction of the Indian Supreme Court to determine whether Uttarakhand's hydropower projects influenced the causes and consequences of the flooding that occurred on June 16 and June 17, 2013. Last summer, weeks after the flood, the Supreme Court also ordered a stay on construction and other activities to brng new hydropower projects on line in Uttarakhand.
The committee's findings this week prompted a flurry of legal and political responses. The Court ordered work to stop on 23 of the 24 hydropower projects identified in Uttarakhand in a study two years ago for the Ministry of Environment and Forests. That study recommended cancelling those projects due to the excessive damage to rivers, fish, and land they would cause.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests, on May 7, asked the Supreme Court to appoint a new study committee on hydropower and the Uttarakhand flood. The Court responded that they needed more information from the Environment Ministry on why such an appointment was necessary.
The findings of Dr. Chopra's committee also were condemned by the Central Electric Authority and the Central Water Commission, two influential energy development agencies that have helped lead India's ambitious program to develop hydropower in Uttarakhand and four other Himalayan states.
The two agencies added that accepting the study commission's findings would grievously hamper Indian hydropower development. India is counting on hydropower to produce 150,000 megawatts of electrical generating capacity – comparable to 150 big coal-fired power plants. Only 40,000 megawatts of hydropower generating capacity exists in India today.
India's power generation: Hydropower, coal, and total generating capacity.. Click images to enlarge.
"Blaming hydro projects for an unprecedented catastrophe and halting construction without any technical or scientific basis will seriously impact energy security," the agencies said.
Since 2003, when India launched a national program to develop more megawatts of electrical generating capacity from hydropower, Uttarakhand has been the most active Indian state for building big and small hydro projects. Fifteen big hydropower projects have been commissioned in the state, 14 others are under construction. Some 39 projects, big and small, are proposed in just two river basins, the Alaknanda and Bhagirathi, according to the Central Electric Authority.
On June 16 and June 17, 2013, following days of torrential monsoon rains, a torrent of water, mud, and boulders roared down the narrow gorges of both river basins. More than 6,000 people died, according to the Indian government, though unofficial estimates put the death toll much higher. The damage to roads, buildings, water systems and hydroelectric infrastructure was so extensive much of it has still not been adequately repaired. The flood washed away 25 small hydro projects, and seriously damaged 10 big projects in both river basins.
The Supreme Court-sanctioned study commission concluded that existing hydropower projects aggravated the damage. The major reasons, said the commission, were the mountains of silt, sand, and boulders that construction crews excavated to make room for at least 30 big and small hydropower projects, and left unmanaged along the riverbanks. The rushing high water scoured the banks, dissolved the mountains of construction spoils, and pushed the mud and boulders downstream, burying low lying communities.
Over the years, community leaders and environmental organizations have worried about the proximity of the spoils piles to Himalayan rivers, warning about the catastrophic consequences of a big flood. This study is the first official Indian government assessment to confirm that spoils piles are hazardous in high water.
"The damage was due to a combination of the quantity of flood water and the sediment loads carried by the rivers," the report said.
The study commission also scrutinized and confirmed other serious risks from Himalayan hydropower construction. Such dams, said the commission, change river flows, damage fisheries, and can ruin riverine ecosystems. The panel also noted, as did a United Nations climate change study seven years ago, that ponds and lakes formed behind big dams are important sources of methane, a climate-changing air pollutant.
The committee recommended that India take a much more comprehensive approach to evaluating hydropower projects.
"The cumulative impact of multiple hydroelectric projects along the same river basin and the threat of a cascading chain of catastrophes in the case of structural failure or even from purely natural causes such as the floods of June 2013 suggest that there is an urgent need for a region or entire basin-based strategic environment assessment rather than individual project-oriented environmental impact assessments that neglect the summation effect," said the report's authors.
India's insurance companies also are responding to the June 2013 flood. Insurers earlier this year raised the premium for hydropower plants across the Himalayas and other regions of the country. Companies like National Insurance Co. Ltd., United India Insurance Co Ltd., and Oriental Insurance Co. raised premium rates two to fourfold for hydroelectric projects after receiving huge damage claims from hydropower companies like NHPC and Jaiprakash Associates, which operate power plants in Uttarakhand that were seriously damaged by the floods.
"Last year's Uttarakhand tragedy completely changed the risk perception of hydro power plants for insurance companies. In response to tenders of power companies seeking quotation for re-insurance, insurers have asked for double or triple the earlier rates for power projects," a senior power ministry official told Indian reporters.
An executive with National Insurance Co. said it was forced to hike premium rates because building and operating hydro projects in the Himalayas has become riskier. "The projects get damaged every year during monsoons. But damage claims during last two years have risen sharply. Last year's Uttarakhand episode has compelled us to change our assessment," a company executive told reporters.
One of the projects, NHPC's 280-megawatt Dhualiganga hydro station, suffered $US 50 million in damage when its turbines and other equipment in the project's powerhouse were submerged by the flood. The company recovered a major chunk of the loss through insurance claims. Other hydropower projects sustained higher levels of damage.
Read it. Thanks for the insights, Keith. I had no idea. I'm thinking the families of those who died in the flood a year ago are thankful to you for caring enough to follow up on what is happening to this issue now. Good man, you are.


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Just a few casual snaps from my weekend in Florida. Had so much fun celebrating my grandma's 90th birthday and frolicking around her perfect little neighborhood in the sun.
Pretty dress, this outfit is adorable.
Looks like you had a fabulous time. Never seen you in sneaks before, great look!
Cute! I love the treatment of the photos here… it gives them a slightly vintage, Floridian feel. Enjoy SXSW! So jealous.
Loving these carefree pics! Ready for the weekend! Have fun at SXSW!!
your grandma must be proud to have such a beautiful grand daughter to fill in her stylish Ferragamo shoes!
Wonderful! Your style is so damned unique.
love how easy your dress is!
That dress is so cute! I hope you're having fun.
That last picture just sums up the carefree summery fell of your outfit!
Love these pictures! It's so fun to see you in such a dramatically different background. You look lovely!


Florida House and Senate panels recommended axing hospital payments this week in their first round of budget recommendations.
The nonprofit Florida Hospital in Orlando and the public Jackson Memorial in Miami would be the biggest losers.
Both the House panel and Gov. Rick Scott recommended cutting supplemental payments to Florida Hospital by $49.9 million.
The House health budget committee recommended cutting payments to Jackson Memorial by $28.3 million.
The Senate recommended cutting supplemental payments to Jackson Memorial by $34.3 million and to University of Florida Shands in Gainesville by $16.8 million.
Hospitals in Collier and Lee counties face cuts that, although smaller, still would have a "profound impact," one spokeswoman said.
The Daily News analyzed the budget recommendations, using worksheets from the governor's office, the state's health administration, the Legislature, the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida and other private hospitals.
These proposed cuts would move the House and Senate closer together, but there are still gulfs between the two chambers in terms of amount and method.
The House panel, which is more ideologically aligned with the governor on health care, has proposed cutting $622 million from hospitals, whereas the Senate would cut nearly $260 million.
Most of the House cuts would occur in a methodological approach that would divide hospitals into tiers. The tiers would be based on how many days poor patients who receive health insurance through the state-federal program known as Medicaid spend in their facilities for treatment, versus total days patients spend there.
During a committee meeting last week, the House health budget chairman, Rep. Jason Brodeur, expressed frustration with the convoluted way hospitals receive payments from the state. He cited it as a reason his committee undertook the $477 million exercise.
For one thing, there "seems to be a lack of rhyme or reason for the exemption payments," Brodeur, R-Sanford, said.
The House also has not included money that would draw down federal funding that hospitals can receive for seeing Medicaid patients, saying that policy is outdated.
When Florida decided to not expand Medicaid at the implementation of the Affordable Care Act a few years ago, President Barack Obama's administration threatened to phase out these federal funds. But the Senate and Scott, a Naples Republican, are both including the money in their budgets.
"Since this is an issue and a potential funding source that is incredibly important, I think it is important for us as a Senate to take a stand and say, 'We're going to do whatever we can to help our hospitals help make their case to the federal government,' " said Sen. Anitere Flores, a Miami Republican who chairs the Senate's health budget committee, during the Senate's health appropriations subcommittee meeting Wednesday.
The Senate includes $608 million for the state-federal Medicaid money as new funding in its budget. Although technically correct, that is a bit misleading, hospital lobbyists say. That money is included in the current budget, and if they don't get the money, they will be out even more as they gear up to face add-on and base-rate cuts from the state.
In terms of supplemental payment cuts, Lee Memorial Hospital in Lee County faces $7.7 million from the House and $6.6 million from the Senate.
"Deep cuts to reimbursement will have a profound impact on our smallest and most vulnerable patients," Lee Memorial spokeswoman Mary Briggs said.
NCH Baker Hospital Downtown and Physicians Regional Medical Center in Collier County face cuts of $5 million and $1.5 million, respectively, in the House and $1.6 million and nearly $500,000, respectively, in the Senate.
Tallahassee Memorial in Leon County is up against $7.6 million in cuts from the House and $2.4 million from the Senate.
"As Florida is already ranked 48th in the country for Medicaid reimbursement rates, any cut to the little but vital funding we do have would plummet Florida to the very bottom of that list," said Mark O'Bryant, president and CEO of Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare.
"As a state, our health metrics are ranked in the lowest quartile — showing a clear correlation between our health care investment and the health of our population," O'Bryant said.
Baptist Hospital of Pensacola and Sacred Heart Hospital in Escambia County face cuts of $7.1 million and $5.5 million, respectively, in the House and $2.3 million and $4.7 million, respectively, in the Senate.
Holmes Regional Medical Center and Parrish Medical Center in Brevard County face $6.5 million and $2 million in cuts, respectively, in the House and $2.1 million and over $680,000, respectively, in the Senate.
"We look forward to working with our local representatives on this important initiative and how it may impact Brevard County residents," said Matthew Gerrell, vice president for marketing and communication at Holmes Regional Medical Center.
Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and St. Lucie Medical Center in St. Lucie County could face $5.9 million and $2.1 million in cuts, respectively, in the House and $1.9 million and over $700,000, respectively, in the Senate.


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Q: If 3 integers are divisible by 67 prove that determinant of matrix of their digits is also devisible without direct calculation So we got three numbers:
\begin{align}
737 \\
871 \\
938 \\
\end{align}
are divisible by 67.
Easy to check. Our numbers consist of:
\begin{align}
N=\mathrm{X}\!\cdot\!\mathrm{10}+\mathrm{Y}\\
737=\mathrm{73}\!\cdot\!\mathrm{10}+\mathrm{Y}
\end{align}
So signature of divisibility is:
\begin{align}
if \ \ \mathrm{X}-20\!\cdot\!\mathrm{Y}\ is \ divisible \ by \ 67 \ then \ N \ is \ also \ divisible \\
73-\mathrm{20}\!\cdot\!\mathrm{7}=-67 \ is \ divisible  \ by \ 67
\end{align}
The same with other two integers.
And in this case we need to prove that determinant:
\begin{vmatrix}7&3&7\\8&7&1\\9&3&8  \end{vmatrix}
is also divisible by 67 without calculating determinant itself!
So what is the main idea here? I see, that all digits here are co-factors of integers itselves, so maybe we now should use properties of Laplace formula...but I can't catch how...

A: I will attempt the difficult exercise to avoid the use determinant's properties, stricto sensu.
Let us write the property of divisibility in this way:
$$\underbrace{\begin{pmatrix}7&3&7\\8&7&1\\9&3&8  \end{pmatrix}}_{M} \begin{pmatrix}100\\10\\1 \end{pmatrix}=67\begin{pmatrix}a\\b\\c \end{pmatrix}\tag{1}$$
for certain integers $a,b,c$.
Besides, using Cramer's formulas,
$$M^{-1}=\dfrac{1}{\det M}N$$ where $N=adj(M)$ has integer coefficients (transpose of the matrix of cofactors).
Multiplying LHS and RHS of (1) by $M^{-1}$, we have:
$$\begin{pmatrix}100\\10\\1 \end{pmatrix}=\dfrac{67}{\det M} N \begin{pmatrix}a\\b\\c \end{pmatrix}$$
Considering the last line, we have, for a certain integer $K$:
$$1=\dfrac{67}{\det M}K \ \ \iff \ \ \det{M}=67 K$$
As $67$ is prime, $\det(M)$ is a divisor of $67$.
Remark: As we haven't used neither $10$ nor $100$, it means that  this property is valid for any numeration basis (and, besides, any matrix size, $n \times n$).

A: $\begin{vmatrix}7&3&7\\8&7&1\\9&3&8  \end{vmatrix}=\begin{vmatrix}7&3&707\\8&7&801\\9&3&908  \end{vmatrix}$ by adding 100 times the first column to the last. Now add 10 times the second column to the last and conclude using a determinant property.

A: HINT.-Generalizing, let $a_1b_1c_1,a_2b_2c_2$ and $a_3b_3c_3$ be three integers divisible by a prime $p$ distinct of $2$ and $5$. Show that $\begin{vmatrix}a_1&b_1&c_1\\a_2&b_2&c_2\\a_3&b_3&c_3\end{vmatrix}$ is divisible by $p$.
We have
$$\begin{vmatrix}a_1&b_1&c_1\\a_2&b_2&c_2\\a_3&b_3&c_3\end{vmatrix}=\frac{1}{10^3}\begin{vmatrix}10^2a_1&10b_1&c_1\\10^2a_2&10b_2&c_2\\10^2a_3&10b_3&c_3\end{vmatrix}=\frac{1}{10^3}\begin{vmatrix}10^2a_1+10b_1+c_1&10b_1&c_1\\10^2a_2+10b_2+c_2&10b_2&c_2\\10^2a_3+10b_3+c_3&10b_3&c_3\end{vmatrix}\equiv0\pmod p$$ because the terms of the first row are all divisible by $p$.
REMARK.- Longer generalization to $n$ integers and the corresponding determinant of order $n$, is almost obvious.

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Maya DiRado's DiradSquad edged Connor Jaeger's Jaeg-Train by half a point in Richmond, but it's Cammile Adams and the Adams Family who continue to lead the 2019 SwimSquad Battles.
Kelsi Dahlia took the event, swimming just a little faster than she was this morning. Dahlia took the lead around 35 meters in and never really looked back after that. Claire Curzan shattered her own 13-14 girls NAG again tonight, this time blasting a 58.61. That makes her the first 13-14 girl to ever break 59 seconds in the 100 fly. Farida Osman ws 3rd at the 50 mark, and managed to hold on for 3rd tonight. Amanda Kendall was 2nd at the 50 mark, but was overtaken by Curzan and Osman ran her down on the final 50.
Seems like a very sweet kid, hope her parents will keep the stress and pressures of being an elite athlete separate, so she can still be able to enjoy her childhood!
All the best for her!


As I have noted many times, Top 10 lists are popular these days. Probably in a large part due to the overload of information. People can choose from 1,000s of options these days, but they still just want someone to tell them what the best places to go/see/stay are. They trust the opinions of their friends, family, favourite magazine, other traveller.
Opinions of travel writers count too. Here is the list of one travel writer, Everett Potter. It's good to see that as usual, the list includes a Canadian destination. This time heli hiking with CMH. Good to see that Bhutan is represented too.


I always thought it would be nice if I could find a professional graphics software that could colorize some old black and white family photographs easily… and free!
Luckily I found Recolored.com – a free software application that helps you with the difficult and time consuming task of colorizing black and white photos. Based on computer assisted image colorization, Recolored makes it possible for anyone to achieve professional looking coloring results on any photo.
And it is simple to use too, without need for photoshop skills or much graphic software manipulation knowledge. Just add markings to the different regions of the image, indicating how it should be colorized, Click the Colorize button and let the software colour your black and white photo.
Though Recolored is in beta stage of development, it is available for free download and is free of charge for non-commercial use. Now I can scan all those old black and white photos and color the images to surprise my folks.


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Oprah made up poverty stories?
Oprah Winfrey's cousin has accused the media mogul of embellishing stories of her poverty-stricken background, insisting her famous relative was "spoiled" as a child.
The media mogul has often claimed her family was so poor she was dressed in potato sacks and adopted cockroaches as pets growing up in rural Mississippi.
The TV titan's life comes under scrutiny in new book Oprah, by gossip queen Kitty Kelley, and the tome includes interviews with Winfrey's cousin Katherine Carr Esters.
She alleges Winfrey has exaggerated tales of her poor childhood, claiming that although the family wasn't rich, her cousin was relatively "spoiled" compared to her stories of abject poverty.
Esters says, "Where Oprah got that nonsense about growing up in filth and roaches I have no idea. I've confronted her and asked, 'Why do you tell such lies?' Oprah told me 'That's what people want to hear. The truth is boring.'"
In an interview with EW.com, the book's author, Kelley, adds, "I was having lunch with Ms. Esters, and she was talking about Oprah's lies. And I said, 'Well, are they really lies? They're more colourful stories.' And Mrs. Esters is saying, 'No, those are lies. She said she was raised in abject poverty. Oprah said she never had a pretty dress until she was successful. She was beautifully dressed as a child.' I said, 'Is that the most important thing?' And she looked at me and said, 'No, the most important thing is that we were poor folks down there. But she was raised as an only child, and she had the full and undivided attention of all of these adults who spoiled her to death. And that was the reason she was so precocious and successful.'"
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Oregon State Grange
National Grange
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American Values, Hometown Roots
The Grange prides itself in helping our community prosper through its various programs. We invite you to learn more about our various functions by using the buttons as the top of the screen.
Why we joined
I joined the Chetco Grange in 2011 because a very good friend of mine asked me to, hard to say no to a good friend sometimes so I signed up. I had been inside the hall on many occasions but never really knew what a "grange" was about. As it turned out I fell in love with our great community center and have since become the president.
Sandy G.
Now, at the age of 71 I have spent nearly as much time in Brookings as I did in the beginning of my life, as to my retirement life having been brought to Brookings by my Swedish immigrant parents in 1945. My dad was driven to succeed in life as an immigrant who had hardly any formal school ing before the age of 14. So at 6 months of age I was brought to Brookings with my mom and dad from Klamath Falls, Oregon. Those were challenging times to grow up in a small village like Brookings where there was work in logging and my Dad picked ferns for florists. We lived in a tiny cabin above Hanscams Store and he took odd jobs and worked for the mill and then became involved through sheer determination to be a lily bulb grower of Easter Lilies and that is where a huge development changed our lives and many others in this community. It was so successful and profitable for the willing and the determined Dahlstrom and Watt. Flora Pacifica was our original home and I still take craft classes in my dad's barn. During this time we had our social events and that would be Family oriented potlucks. The Grange was responsible for offering the location and hall to provide the room for large groups, music and dance. This is where all holidays were spent and children were always present. I remember his name was Joe Zump, on Oceanview Drive who was also a bulb grower, who had the best rendition of "Oh Holy Night", and I was young but those Christmas parties were at the Grange. These were all farmers and bulb growers and people who worked the land. Hence the strong agriculture focuses of the Grange. My mom surprised me with a 16th Birthday party with my friends at the Grange. The hall was so large compared to our group but it did not matter. I was deliriously happy. Later in years I had high school friends who came to the Grange for Square Dancing classes. Yes I think we were Junior Grangers. I know for sure that mom and dad were officers of the Grange as their names are listed in a document as to their positions during the 1950's. When it turned out that there would be a Curry County Fair event with a Court who needed to vie for positions, I had to sell tickets to the talent show at the Grange where my classmates and I had to compete for a talent contest. I was terrified but mom was a pusher and I took instructions from an upper classman who knew the "Charleston". I had an original Charleston dress and could not believe I sold the most tickets and won the contest. That meant that I was the Brookings Fair Princess to represent our town in Gold Beach. The queen turned out to be Maureen Walker, yes, the respected Rose Walker family and daughter. We still talk about that experience. So that brings me to the point of graduating from high school here. Then new horizons opened and I went on to the Nursing School that my aunt went to in Portland called Emanuel School of Nursing before she went into WWII as a nurse. I graduated in 1966 and mea a man and married and had 2 children. I worked in a children's clinic until the birth of my children. Long and short I divorced after 8 years and in1976 met my current husband and married in 1976.We raised a blended family of 8and I worked part time at Meridian Park Hospital for17 years as a geriatric nurse. When we became empty nesters we spent a year deliberating about coming back to Brookings for me my home town, where my husband took over another dental practice here known as Brookings Dental Arts. Never been happier, best ever decision. When the Grange reorganized in 2007, I said count me in as our dearest friend of the family was Frank Kelly. He was like my God Father. His wife was my early teacher here and Frank transferred the key to us new members. The night he passed, I held the office of Ceres and it was my duty to drape the Charter for the fallen former members for the Grange. Frank was the last man and it sent chills up my spine. It was so emotional to me and I said I will be with the Grange as long as I can for Frank's sake. You see the Chetco Grange is historic and has been so important for so many reasons for this community. While Farmers are no longer as viable here, it is still a strong component of the Chetco Grange history, and in any capacity should continue on that direction.
Barbara E.
I joined because I wanted to help my community and this was a place I had always knew was community oriented organization.
LaVeeta B.
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Welcome to the Gold Coast
AFIC is pleased to be partnering with Destination Gold Coast. Since the Gold Coast is home to an array of festivals; from music, to food, to major sporting events, it made perfect sense to hold the 2nd annual conference here.
Australia's Gold Coast is a destination waiting to be fully discovered, with so much to see and do.
Whether you're looking at attending AFIC as a solo business traveller or bringing the whole family, the Gold Coast has something for everyone! Please visit www.destinationgoldcoast.com for trip planning tips and information.
Stay on-site at Sea World Resort
AFIC delegates can access special accommodation rates:
Resort / Deluxe Rooms: from $179 per room per night
Premium Double Rooms: from $204 per room per night
Premium View Rooms: from $229 per room per night
Accommodation rates are valid up to three days before and three days after the conference, subject to availability at the time of booking. A further $25 charge applies for both Friday and Saturday nights. All rates include Wi-fi and parking. Breakfast attracts an additional charge.
To book, please contact Sea World Resort's reservations team on 13 33 86.
Why not make it a family holiday? Purchase a discounted theme park pass.
Take advantage of these special deals to access Sea World Theme Park –
Unlimited access to Sea World for $35.00 per person during your stay
Unlimited access to Sea World, Movie World and Wet n Wild for $75 per person
Passes can be purchased when booking accommodation (via the link above), or alternatively upon check-in.
Delve below surface and discover a whole new world of fun and adventure at Sea World theme park. Join an educational adventure in the amazing Affinity Dolphin Presentation or chill out in the shade while the kids cool down in Sea World's newest splash pad attraction, The Reef at Castaway Bay.
Don't forget to stop by and meet Chase and Marshall from PAW Patrol and catch their new show, PAW Patrol On Holiday at the Nickelodeon Stage. Make friends with the magnificent marine life, from dolphins to seals, Polar bears, penguins and more. Learn and laugh as you watch the new and educational Seal Guardians presentation.
The New Atlantis precinct is going to be a game-changer for Sea World. It is a thrilling and immersive new multi-million-dollar precinct which will transform the park into a new era with the three world-class rides – The Vortex now open and The Leviathan and The Trident opening in 2021.
For more information, please visit seaworld.com.au
Flying to the Gold Coast
Getting to the Gold Coast is simple. The Gold Coast Airport well is serviced by Qantas Airways, Virgin Australia, Jetstar and Rex. For full details, please visit www.goldcoastairport.com.au
Contact AFIC's preferred travel agent, Brad Thomas, from Entertainment Travel Partners by calling 02 9280 3767 or e-mail [email protected]. Remember to mention you're attending AFIC!


Window replacement is an inevitable part of owning a home.
Over the years windows can become drafty, hard to open, cracked, warped, and discolored. While this home upgrade costs thousands of dollars, new windows pay for themselves in the money you'll save on energy usage. What's even nicer is that once you've picked out replacement windows, you can use the old window panes for a wide variety of crafts. Who could say no to making good use out of an otherwise old and unusable item?
If you love repurposing, this is the article for you. Keep reading to learn about 5 crafts you make with your old window panes.
For years now chalkboard paint and signs have become all the rage. With an old window pane, you can turn the structure into a unique blackboard, creating a stylish communication center. A chalkboard window works perfectly in the kitchen as it can be used for writing down chores, the grocery list, or it can serve as a fun place to doodle.
To make a chalkboard window you'll need to first clean the window pane to remove all debris. It's also important to wipe any dirt or dust from the glass. Next seal the frame, let it deal, and then tape off the frame to keep the chalkboard paint from seeping into it. Next apply chalkboard paint to the glass. Apply 5-6 thin coats in a well-ventilated area.
Let the chalkboard cure for at least 24 hours. Once dry, it's time to hang it up and put it to good use!
Do you have a green thumb? Have you ever wanted to own your own greenhouse? Using old windows, you can create a cute greenhouse that's ideal for growing herbs, small flowers, and even produce! With a mini greenhouse you can grow starter plants that can be transplanted into a larger garden.
To seal the greenhouse, use caulk to better regulate moisture. You may also want to spray the inside of the greenhouse with weed block to minimize the growth of pesky weeds.
Usually you'd find a wreath hung on a door, but you can create a stunning backdrop using an old window pane. Creating a wreath display is extremely easy and takes less than an hour of your time. This is the perfect way to spruce up a bare wall, especially if the space already has a rustic or farmhouse look.
For this project you'll need a mild cleaning solution to wipe the window down. You may also need to sand and prime the window pane, depending on if you want to apply a fresh coat of paint. Once the window pane is exactly how you want it, hang a wreath on it and hang the display on the wall.
Make the display functional by adding a wooden ledge at the bottom to set knickknacks and other cute display items.
There's never enough mirrors in your home! Mirrors are a great way to make a small space feel larger. By using a windowpane to create a mirror, you can create a unique wall accessory that completes the rustic feel in your home. A mirror windowpane will look great in a bathroom, family room, or even above a fireplace.
To create a mirror using a window frame, you'll need to carefully remove the glass panes. Once removed, the glass needs to be replaced with mirrors that are the same size of the pane. But before installing the mirrors you may want to repaint or distress the window frame, depending on the look you want to achieve. After painting the frame and properly securing the mirrors inside of the frame, it's time to hang up your creation!
Are you looking for a fun way to organize your jewelry? While you could purchase a jewelry box or a necklace stand, an old window is the perfect structure for safely hanging your jewelry.
To create a window jewelry organizer, be sure to first thoroughly clean the window to remove any debris and then remove all of the glass panes. Next, sand and prime the window frame for a fresh coat of paint. A brightly colored window or even a distressed look creates a beautiful piece.
To complete the project, use small hooks or drawer knobs to use for hanging necklaces, bracelets, and even rings.
By reusing your old windows, you can create beautiful crafts that will look great in any room in your home. Repurposing is also a great way to recycle and reuse, so be sure to put your old windows to good use!


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Christmas Songs, Part 1
W♥M Video #4: Special Holiday Gift Guide
With only a few days left for the Christmas holiday, I'm compiling some Christmas songs for you. There's so many holiday songs that I might do a part two and three, so watch this space.
First off, I've edited together a few video sessions and we're going to call it a Holiday Buyer's Guide or interesting music boxsets and stuff I thought was cool. They weren't necessary released this year (and in fact, I'm pretty sure you couldn't buy some of these items). Anyway, check out the video. The format will change after this, so it'll be the last of this longer format.
So, let's start with some Christmas songs:
Twelve Girls Band - Last Christmas
www.12girls.org
These girls can sure play, but they obviously cannot count, as Twelve Girls Band actually consists of 13 women (see for yourself, count them on the cover!). Apparently they were formed by Wang "father of Chinese rock music" Xiao-Jing through a contest in 2001 and assembled twelve girls, each representing Chinese mythology of twelve hairpins.
Looking at their overwhelming discography, it would seem that they released quite a few live albums (usually with a DVD).
Anyway, their Christmas-themed album, Twelve Girls of Christmas (2005), was released as Merry Christmas To You in Japan. All the familar Christmas songs are done with traditional Chinese instruments, such as the Mandolin and the Gao-Hu (Fiddle), but they are wonderfuly interpretted. Check out this version of "Last Christmas". Wham! never sounded better, right?
Enya - Adeste, Fideles
www.enya.com
If you haven't heard of Enya, then I'm afraid you haven't been in any elevators in the past decade. She bursted onto the charts in the late 80s with that "sail away" song (it's actually called "Orinoco Flow" but who can remember that?)
She's recently resurfaced again in the popular Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings series, and once again secures herself as the queen of New Age music.
This song, "Adeste, Fideles" originally does not appear on Amarantine (2005). After a year, the record company decided to boost its sale by re-releasing the album as Amarantine Special Christmas Edition with a bonus second disc. The second disc is an all Christmas EP, originally released in the states as Sounds of the Season, and in Canada as the Christmas Secrets EP.
They Might be Giants - Santa's Beard
www.tmbg.com
I first heard of this rocking song off their sophomore album, Lincoln (1988), and it's about a jealous husband. The song is about how every year his buddy puts on a red suit and hangs out with his family. Then he would spot his wife wearing his beard and kissing him, etc.
Although the song is old, it resurfaced on Then: The Earlier Years (1997) and again in a special Christmas EP called They Might Be Giants in Holidayland (2001).
Technically this isn't a very traditional Christmas song, but whenever I think of Christmas songs - this is the one that comes to my mind first and foremost because it's so fun and different.
The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
www.thebeachboys.com
I can't overlook the fact that this winterly Christmas song is suddenly transformed to a fun Summer Beach party (with Gidget). It's not one of my favorite Christmas tunes, probably because it's basically the same song as their previous hit "Little Deuce Coupe".
So this song is from their only Christmas album, The Beach Boys' Christmas Album, released in 1964. It topped out at number 6, although the single "Little Saint Nick" faired a little better at #3 on the charts (although this singles version is different than the album version).
Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers - Christmas Without You
www.dollyparton.com ♥ www.kennyrogers.com
I'll be honest with you: I love Country music. I grew up with pop music and one of the songs that I loved when I was a kid was "Island in the Stream", performed by Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton. This was a single from Kenny Roger's album, Eyes That See in the Dark (1983).
These two only released one album together, Once Upon a Christmas (1984), with two singles from this album: "Christmas Without You" and "The Greatest Gift of All".
Their last duet was "Love Is Strange" (1990), which I've never heard.
The Dandy Warhols - The Little Drummer Boy
dandywarhols.com
According to allmusic, this is one of the Dandy Warhols' first EP release (if not the earliest). Strangely the single/EP is not listed on their wikipedia page.
The popular Christmas song tells the story of a young boy who was so poor, he couldn't afford a gift for the baby Jesus. So instead, he wrote and played the drums in tribute as the baby smiles...
I guess, not really much to add to this, except that the Dandy Warhols song was also included on XFM's Cool Cool Christmas Album (2000). I think this album sold very well when it was released and contains a wonderful version of "Feliz Navidad" by El Vez and "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" by Belle & Sebastian.
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It s been a long seventeen years since Jess last saw her grandmother or visited the family cottage set on an idyllic lake in Northern Michigan For all that time, she s been haunted by loss of her innocence and her ability to trust and, most of all, of a profound summer romance that might have been something So when her grandmother leaves the house to her, Jess summoIt s been a long seventeen years since Jess last saw her grandmother or visited the family cottage set on an idyllic lake in Northern Michigan For all that time, she s been haunted by loss of her innocence and her ability to trust and, most of all, of a profound summer romance that might have been something So when her grandmother leaves the house to her, Jess summons her courage and returns to a place full of memories and secrets.There, she stumbles upon old letters and photographs of a time not so much forgotten as buried As she begins to unravel the hidden histories of her mother and her grandmother, she makes a startling discovery about a tragic death that prompted her family s slow undoing With every uneven and painful step into the past, Jess comes closer to a truth that could alter her own path and open a door to a different future.
I love the cover and title of this book. I didn't read the synopsis or any reviews. I hope it's good!The story of three generations of women, Mamie, Margaret and Jess, family secrets. Set on a lake in Northern Michagan I loved the descriptions of the cottages. This is chick-lit, beach, easy read.
Fantastic!This story is captivating. I loved that it was a "summer"story with so much depth. The characters were mesmerizing. I highly recommend this book!!!.
I had hopes for this book because I like how she writes, but I found it very difficult to read the ebook version for all the typos and grammar issues. On one page, the book says Mamie is speaking when it is clearly May. I found I did a lot of mental editing and skimming for content and neither struck me as very good.
Great story of three generations of women, mostly Jess and her grandmother Mamie. The characters are richly written and the changing of time period being written about was in no way confusing here. Had a twist I did not expect, but was a very well written engaging story. Have had this on my Kindle, got it for free, for quite awhile. So glad I decided to read it this hot July summer weekend.
there were interesting aspects to this story: social mores of the early 20th century; Michigan as a backdrop/character; the idea of what makes a family.ly it left me feeling sad and cold was an easy read and I was interested enough in finding out what Jess would ultimately do that I kept reading.
This was a good story; however, I believe I would have enjoyed this book more if I had read it in larger chunks or all at once. The point of view and time period of the story changed each chapter. Because I read it in small bits as I was able to get a few minutes here and there to read, I had to reorient myself to who/when each time I started reading again.
Great story! Wish there was a little more to the ending.
The best part of the book was the last few chapters, that finally explain the pivotal family secrets. The build up to those chapters was slow and predictable.
Really enjoyed the story but would have enjoyed it more if the ending didn't feel so abrupt.
Wasn't expecting to be so pulled in and the twist had me talking to myself.
Great story conceptHORRIBLE typos and quite a few literary errors! Whoever proofread this book should be fired!


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I have never missed a Christmas with my family, even last year when I was at uni, I couldn't wait to get back to Bristol and be with my family.
I have just finished my last assignments of 2016 and I am travelling back to Bristol and staying there for a few weeks until my lectures start again and honestly I can't wait.
Family is so important to me especially at Christmas when it's a special and reflective time of celebrations and gatherings.
Also, this year I am actually very excited for Christmas, like my dad, I haven't been very in the mood for the festive season for the last few years. I'm not sure if it's my age and it's a little boring for me now or if I am just not feeling it. But this year is different, and I am super excited to celebrate Christmas, and celebrate it with the most important people in my life!
Who are you spending your Christmas with?