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ILLUMINATI, secret society. The founder was A. Weishaupt, professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria. He intended, through an organization dedicated to education and propaganda, to combat the strong influence of the clergy and especially the ex-Jesuits in Bavaria. Ironically enough, Weishaupt held the chair of canon law, reserved before their expulsion in 1773 for the Jesuits. In 1776, Weishaupt, with a few friends, launched his secret society, which he initially called the Order of Bees; he constructed an entire allegory on the theme of a hive of bees ruled benevolently and absolutely by their queen. Weishaupt had hoped to attract students into his order, but as the organization spread slowly into other Bavarian cities in the next several years, it attracted instead a membership consisting mainly of bureaucrats, clerics, and nobles. The group came to be known as the Order of Illuminati, a name suggesting both the traditional Catholic mystical enlightenment embodied in Saint Augustine and Saint Teresa of Avila and the modern enlightenment expressed by F.-M. Voltaire, P. Bayle, and G. E. Lessing. Like many other young German and Austrian Catholics of his generation, Weishaupt was especially affected by the new intellectual interchange with the Protestant north, the first in two centuries.
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Awesome tour, go around old town and as far as the Jewish Ghetto.
You stop to have lunch at a historic cafe/restaurant.
Tour Guide was awesome, pointed out alot of historic items, landmarks, and really knew Polish history.
Mike was a great guide who gave lots of information. Nice way to get to know the beautiful city of Krakow. Biking went very well, no rush whatsoever. Great!
This tour was one of the highlights of our trip- we had the best time! Mike was great and, for the short amount of time we were in Krakow, we really got a good feel for the city. I highly recommend this tour.
We enjoyed this tour very much
Kathy-Maree H Australia
The owner and guide for the pushbike tour was Mike. He was on time at the meeting point and very easy to talk to. The tour went for 4 hours and Mike had organised lunch at a restaurant in the Jewish Quarter (own expense, a great traditional Polish meal at a special tour price). Mike was extremely knowledgeable and took the tour at an easy pace. Mike was very happy to stop and start to allow us to take photos along the way. The push bikes had wide tyres and even better for the girls, wide seats!!! Very enjoyable tour and worth the money. I'm 54 years old and hadn't ridden a bike in some time but thoroughly enjoyed the day.
Lynn M Australia
Tour guide Mike was excellent. Saw a great deal of the city of Krakow, excellent for a first thing to do!
Absolutely Fabulous! Not only very enjoyable but also truly informative - almost wish I had taken notes or had a little voice recorder to keep all of my facts straight! Mike was my tour guide - Born in Poland, raised in Canada, so his English and Polish speaking skills were perfect. Even took me to lunch where "the locals" hang out. covered roughly 10 miles of history in 1 day
The weather was a bit cold and rainy, but Mike was willing to brave the elements with us and show us interesting places in Krackow. Mike was very knowledgeable about Krackow history and the culture. We had lunch at a very quaint Jewish restaurant in Kazimierez and Mike gave us recommendations for meals and things to do for the rest of our time in Krackow. Seeing Krackow by bike was definitely worth the small fee you'll pay for this unique and interesting tour.
Beautiful city and what a great way to see it. Out in the open with fresh air and a little exercise. The guide was great and we saw a lot of places I know would be missed if one just took a bus tour.
My husband and I had our tour guide, Mike, all to ourselves on a beautiful day in Krakow. The cycling was easy, nice and flat and though the cycles weren't the newest I've seen, they were comfortable and pleasant to ride. Mike was knowledgable, stopping every few minutes to give us info on various buildings and statues and other sights. We cycled along the river on the cycle paths, over a bridge, leaving the Old town behind us and heading into the ghetto and on to the Schindler factory. We stopped for lunch at a fascinating little restaurant in the old Jewish area, Kazimierz, before heading back into town. I was so glad we did this tour as it gave us a much better feel for where everything was and we wouldn't have learned anywhere near as much on our own. And it was so much more fun (and cheaper) than the electric tour cars that do some of the sights we visited. I would heartily recommend this to anyone visiting Krakow.
We had a great afternoon riding around Krakow with Mike. This is a great tour to start with when arriving in Krakow. It is a great way to orientate yourself with the city. Not a strenuous tour, very flat no hills to contend with.
Mike the tour guide was extremely informative and interesting showing us the major historical sites of the city. We had lunch en route and meandered back to Krakow main square. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone
Excellent, Mike excellent guide but main problem was negotiating Krakow traffic. No helmets provided so you pays your money and takes your chance! Mike does tend to race off ahead so trying to keep up was sometimes a problem but I survived! Nice place for lunch.
What a great way to see Krakow !! We really enjoyed the tour and our guide was great !
Very good tour, with a small group and excellent guide. The lunch stop was particularly good
KC2012 Canada
FANTASTIC tour! The tour guide (Mike) was awesome - extremely knowledgeable and personable. We had beautiful weather (actually it was 39.9 celsius that day) and biked all over the city. This is definitely my new favourite way to tour a city from now on! Krakow is full of history and fun facts, not to mention beauty... so get on it and book this tour - you won't be disappointed!
Was anxious but excited about this trip as i'd not rode a bike for 25 years but soon got the hang of it and Mike our tour guide was sympathetic! Mike was friendly, very knowledgeable, and he answered all of our questions about the city and the history, he made the tour fun too!!. We rode for around 14km and it was so much fun. We covered everything from the main square, the churches, basilica, jewish quarter and ghetto, schindler's factory, the river, castle, and much more. This was by far the best tour of Krakow and would recommend everybody who visits to go on this amazing tour.
Was a great way to see the city and my daughter and I enjoyed it immensely and highly recommend this as a way to see the city. The gentleman who took us on the tour was extremely knowledgeable and made the tour very interesting. Loved it
Rosco Australia
This was worthwhile tour, informative, a great way to a good look around and most of friendly. Bikes were well maintained, the only cause of concern is if you are from a country where you drive on the left side of the road, be aware :-) Otherwise it is great and I would do it again, it equals perhaps even surpasses the city tours by the golf cart operators. Enjoy.
Brilliant!!! We would recommend it to anybody, who would like to discover the real Krakow, it's history, people, fantastic places, the soul of the city. Tour guide- kind, friendly and very knowledgable:)
Excellent tour! Great way to see the sights of Krakow, Mike (the guide) was fantastic, his knowledge and enthusium made the trip. Would recommend the bike tour to all who visit the city.
Very enjoyable bike ride, for beginners sometimes it was very congested. Very different way to see the sites and the tour guide was very patient with everybody and introduced us to a great resturant. Would do this again.
Natalie T United Kingdom
Absolutely brilliant tour. A great way to get an overview of a wonderful city. We took 2 children aged 10 and 11 and they enjoyed it too. Very informative and well paced.
We were there for 9am, it started at 12pm, our fault! We turned up again at 12 and were the only 2! Our guide was fantastic and a good laugh. He went slowly (for my sake) and was full of interesting information. There were only a couple of places where we had to cross or ride on roads that we found a little hairy, but then we're not bikers. We stopped outside of Schindler's factory and he told us how to get there from our hotel for a visit. A stop in the Jewish quarter in a very old Jewish cafe made the day. Even if you're not a biker, it is a must for all who can balance on a bike as it set us up for where to walk to on our own, into areas we'd never given much thought to. Well recommended.
Excellent value. Good tour, knowledgeable guide. Fun.

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"You could optionally feed a sacrificial ship (preferably a lvl 1 grey, as it dies fastest) to a base turret to keep opponent base strength really low. The downside is that you cannot autoburn (automatically upgrade ships when inventory is full) because you would level up said grey, which would induce repairtimes. So while you kill bases fast, you spend many clicks manually burning surplus cards in the fleets screen."
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Well here is my newest idea starring Ember McLain. I had her posing so seductively and with a help from a old friend i got to say she's the reason Phantasma was born like that enjoy
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On the program, she introduces viewers to Mexican ingredients and cooking techniques. She also mixes in information about regional cultures and Mexican history and traditions.
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It's got to be the funniest or the saddest spy story of this post-Cold War period, or maybe both. The two, humor and pathos, blend inextricably in Russia. Like good and evil mixing.
But I'm getting ahead of myself, becoming oh-so-philosophical and all too confiding, not to say confusing -- like most of the Russians I would meet on a three-week tour of the old Soviet Union back in 1983. What a country, empire and mystery wrapped in an enigma! My hosts would become quite talkative once the sun had set, the vodka started flowing and confidences were exchanged in a whisper. Or just with a hand signal. As when somebody would point at the chandelier in the middle of the ceiling, meaning: Beware, we're being recorded. The three great pastimes all Russians still seem to share are drinking, talking and secrecy.
Those were the days, my friend, we thought Communism would never end. A succession of geriatric figures sat in the Kremlin and pretended to rule as the whole creaking system began to grind down. But not many noticed much of a difference from the time when Communism was supposed to be in the ascendant, maybe because there wasn't one. Russia, under czar or commissar, remains Russia.
How much Russia has changed even now -- which is all too little -- was illustrated by a brief item in the news just the other day: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quoted as warning any dissenters who didn't have government permission to "peaceably assemble," to use a good old American phrase from the Bill of Rights, that they'd keep getting beaten "upside the head with a truncheon." There in brief you have the difference between the Russian and American ideas of due process. What is a right here is a crime there.
After a few weeks in the old Soviet Union back when it was collapsing on itself, you couldn't tell whether you were lost in a tragedy or a comedy, probably both. The only sure thing was that you were lost. Much like Igor Sutyagin himself, the hero and goat of this spy story.
I'm not even sure if I should call his saga a spy story. A non-spy story would be more like it. It begins innocently enough. A researcher who'd been trained at the grandly titled Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, young Sutyagin had visited the West during the euphoric 1990s, when Communism was pronounced dead and Russia was going to be a free country like any other. Uh huh.
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Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers will deliver the commencement address on May 5 at his alma mater, the University of Mount Union, in Alliance, Ohio.
Capers, 61, graduated from Mount Union in 1972 with a degree in physical education. He went on to get a master's degree in administration from Kent State University in 1975. Capers, a native of Cambridge, Ohio, began his career at Kent State, where he coached from 1972-'74.
As an undergraduate at Mount Union, Capers played both football and baseball. He did not play professional football.
Capers, who is entering his fourth season as the Packers' defensive coordinator, has titled his commencement address "Talent Alone is Not Enough." He is entering his 27th season as a coach in the NFL.
In 1996 when he was with the Carolina Panthers, Capers was named NFL coach of the year. He was chosen NFL assistant coach of the year three times, when he was with the Pittsburgh Steelers (1994), the Jacksonville Jaguars (1999) and with the Packers (2009).
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Liberals would like to think of themselves as committed to diversity, but when push comes to shove, they're just not all that good at it. Fortunately, there's a rainbow-colored light for them at the end of the tunnel, courtesy of artistic conservatives.
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Travelling west downtown, to Dead Sea, Mount Nebo and Madaba all these sites are within one hour drive or less. On the same quick exit route of the city.
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So you've seen our save the date, I've talked about how we want a "minimalistic" style wedding, and I've revealed the venue… but what does it all mean? What will the Sparkler wedding actually look like? Let me try and paint you a picture.
Our wedding vision (really… did I just say "wedding vision"?) started coming to life when we fell in love with bold combinations of black, white and charcoal gray, with punches of bright plum mixed in. Ohhhh look:
Continuing with the "bold" theme, I decided that I HAD TO HAVE chevron stipes. Everywhere. Ok, not everywhere. I don't want our guests having stripe induced seizures during the reception. But I kept finding little bits of inspiration:
Le sigh.
Things slowly started coming together. There was definitely a "look" that we were creating: Clean lines, bold colors, dramatic lighting… oh yeah, we wanted dramatic lighting. Mind you, we were also completely clueless about how much money "dramatic" would cost us. But who cares! We were planning the wedding of our dreams! So I included visions like these in my inspiration:
Hahahaha… oh Miss Sparkler, you were so naive.
When friends and family started asking us about wedding colors, wedding themes, wedding blah, blah, blah… I decided to whip up one of the fancy boards I had seen floating around the blogosphere. I gathered up all my pictures, spent too much time mushing them around trying to get them just right, and finally came up with something. So I present to you, what I like to call, OUR WEDDING: THE INSPIRATION (sounds like it could be a pretty good movie. No?) It's my first attempt, but what do you all think?
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In addition, the state Democratic Party filed a formal complaint with the State Ethics Commission asking it to investigate "possible improper influence" in connection with the gifts and administration decisions.
Both moves came in reaction to a Philadelphia Daily News report that Corbett and his wife, Susan, accepted $11,343 in gifts from business executives, lobbyists or lobbying firms in 2010 –during his campaign for governor – and in 2011, his first year in office. The newspaper linked many of the gifts, including tickets to sporting events and concerts, to later decisions taken by the Corbett administration that appeared to benefit the givers.


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Nora Pearce said maternity staff "have been promised that there will be more" but extra midwives always failed to appear.
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Maternity services in the UK are under strain due to a lack of trained and experienced staff need to provide "safe, high quality care", the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have said.
Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the RCM backed up a report from MPs which blasted the NHS and Government for a 2,300 void in the number of trained midwives.
Compensation for botched maternity care 'too high'
Compensation paid to new mothers for problems during childbirth is "too high", an influential group of MPs said.
In a damning report into maternity care in the NHS, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found maternity cases accounted "for a third of total clinical negligence payments".
MPs criticise NHS and Government over maternity care
An influential group of MPs has hit out at the Government and NHS for the lack of funding and expertise on maternity units.
The Public Accounts Committee found there was a national shortage of 2,300 midwives and said many maternity units were "running at a loss".
PAC said it was hard to find anyone accountable for "ensuring something as fundamental" as whether the NHS has enough midwives, in a scathing report in maternity care.
The committee reported rates of infection among new mothers and the baby as well as injury to the newborn "are all higher at the weekend".
It added: "Although there have been substantial improvements in levels of consultant presence on labour wards in recent years, over half of obstetric units were still not meeting the levels recommended by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists at September 2012."
Survey: New mothers feel 'bullied' into breastfeeding
New mothers often feel "bullied" into breastfeeding, a survey into maternity care found.
The survey by the Care Quality Commission said 41% of women felt "inadequately supported" when feeding their new baby and that the pressure to breastfeed made them feel isolated and guilty.
One new mother said the feeding issue was "the most upsetting part" of her care.
"Midwives and health visitors make you feel bullied into breastfeeding… I was desperate to breastfeed during my pregnancy, and I was devastated when I couldn't, but the comments and the way you are made to feel guilty is totally unacceptable," the woman said.
Midwifery council: 'NHS fails too many women'
The Royal Council of Midwifery said the "NHS continues to fail too many women," who are not able to see the same midwife during and after their pregnancy.
A survey by the health regulator, the CQC, found only 28% of women can rely on the care of the same midwife over the course of their pregnancy.
Ms Warwick said this is due to the shortage of qualified midwives.
"The RCM's latest estimate is that the NHS in England is short of 4,800 midwives, so it is sadly inevitable that women will see many different midwives," she said.
Health watchdog names 'worsening' maternity services
The health regulator, the Care Quality Commission, has named maternity care trusts that it said provide worse care than they did during the last survey in 2010.
They are:
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHSTrust
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
- Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Lewisham Health Care NHS Trust
- North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Survey: Almost 80% of women 'trust maternity staff'
Here are some of the key findings of a major survey by the Care Quality Commission of women's experiences of maternity services:
- A quarter said they were left alone at a time that worried them during labour and birth (up from 22 percent in 2010)
- Almost one in five said their concerns were not taken seriously
- 77 percent felt they were always involved in decisions about their care (up from 74 percent in 2010)
- 71 percent were able to move around and find a position that made them most comfortable during labour and birth
- 78 percent said they definitely had confidence and trust in the staff caring for them during labour and birth (up from 73 percent in 2010)


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Update on Reyna LizzetteReyna needs a new loan, since she is currently without income and needs to make money. She will in invest the funds in pants, blouses, dresses and underwear for her business. She hopes that this investment will bring stability to the business.
With her previous loan she was able to make profits with this same business. Her family circumstances have improved a little, and she has been able to maintain her business, since she was able to get the credit that she needed.
El préstamo anterior le genero ganancias, porque del mismo negocio cancelo dicho préstamo. Las circunstancias familiares han mejorado un poco y su comercio se mantiene en el mercado, agradece de ante mano le concedan el crédito porque lo necesita.
Previous Loan DetailsReyna lives with her husband and three children. She is married and the owner of a clothing shop. This business was established through her own initiative. She operates her business from 7am to 5pm, every day. Reyna is requesting a loan to buy merchandise for her business such as women's... More from Reyna Lizzette's previous loan »
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Musial, 38, will be allowed to petition for early termination of the commitment, Gonring ruled Monday.
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Magnetar Says It Didn't Help Banks With CDOs 'Built to Fail'
Magnetar Capital LLC, the $7 billion hedge-fund firm that profited in 2007 from wagers that subprime-housing debt would tumble, told investors it didn't help banks create mortgage-linked investments "built to fail."
The firm offered limited input on the selection of securities in the deals and made bets that would pay off if they soured, as part of a "market neutral" portfolio designed to profit no matter what happened, according to a letter to clients yesterday from Evanston, Illinois-based Magnetar.
"There was no embedded view regarding the direction of housing prices, the rate of mortgage defaults or the subprime-mortgage market generally," the firm said in the letter.
Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch unit, Citigroup Inc. and UBS AG are among at least nine banks that underwrote more than 20 collateralized debt obligations whose riskiest slices were bought by Magnetar, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Those CDOs, named for constellations, totaled at least $32 billion.
Magnetar's 11-page letter came in response to an April 9 article on the Web site of ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit investigative journalism project based in New York. The article suggested its CDOs were "built to fail," according to Magnetar's letter.
"The facts in our story should allow readers to reach their own conclusions," ProPublica said in a statement to Bloomberg News. "We see nothing in the story to correct."
Goldman Sachs Sued
The SEC sued Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for fraud on April 16, saying the bank improperly failed to disclose that New York-based Paulson & Co., a hedge-fund firm betting that subprime defaults would climb, had helped choose risky mortgage-based securities to be linked to a so-called synthetic CDO. Paulson then wagered the investment would collapse.
Paulson, which wasn't accused by the SEC of any wrongdoing, said in a statement that ACA Management LLC chose the assets for Abacus 2007-AC1, as Goldman Sachs disclosed to investors. Paulson suggested some individual holdings, according to the SEC's complaint. Goldman Sachs, based in New York, has said the SEC's allegations are unfounded.
Magnetar said in its letter that it didn't select specific securities to be included in its CDOs. Collateral managers for the firm's CDOs included State Street Corp., Marsh & McLennan Cos.'s Putnam Investment Management LLC, GSC Partners and Harding Advisory LLC, Bloomberg data show.
John Nester, an SEC spokesman in Washington, and Steve Lipin, a spokesman for Magnetar, declined to comment.
Magnetar said in the letter it bought the riskiest piece of CDOs, known as the equity, which it expected to return 20 percent annually over six to eight years if mortgage defaults remained low. It also hedged those positions with bets against its CDOs and others at a cost of less than 6 percent annually, the firm said.
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The credit-default swaps that the company used to make those bets represented on average no more than 7 percent of the collateral of its CDO, the letter said. The banks serving as underwriters would know whether its CDOs included those bets, the firm said.
The purchase of a CDO's equity class is usually taken as "an expression of confidence in the structure," said Thomas Adams, a partner at New York-based law firm Paykin Krieg & Adams LLP who worked in the CDO groups for two bond insurers. "It would definitively have been relevant" to other investors that Magnetar wasn't simply making a bullish bet, Adams said in a telephone interview.
Although Magnetar said its portfolio was designed to make money no matter what happened to the value of subprime mortgages, its executives have expressed views on the market.
"Magnetar has been concerned about the excesses in the subprime-housing market since early 2006," David Snyderman, Magnetar's head of global fixed income, said in an interview with Bloomberg News in March 2007. "As a result, we have positioned our structured-credit portfolio such that we are profiting from the recent volatility."
Magnetar was started in late 2005 by Alec Litowitz, who previously worked at Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group LLC. He specialized in trading the stocks of merging companies. Snyderman also worked at Citadel before joining Magnetar.


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At first after reading the other reviews here, I was skeptical. Finally the ther nite, I just figured to let a SA try it on me so I could see for myself. I was wearing eye makeup with the Too Faced " the naked eye " palette. I figured it was a good time to try it. What better time to see if you could even notice the pigment and did it really add anything to the combo I was weaing. Well, it showed up beautifully, and paired with the naked eye palette it really looked good. If you are afraid of buying this, thinking it won't show up or even make a difference in the appearance of my FOTD, think again. It really gave my eye look an appearance of sophistication with a touch of glamour. Try it, I think really really be surprised on how beautiful it is, and how many ways to wear it. I never use pigments on my cheekbones or lips. On me it looks garish. Not with naked. I used it on my cheekbones and it really illuminated them instead of making it seem like I was trying to look 18 again. Try it, you will be pleasantly surprised!
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Reading the reviews on here I decided to make the plunge. I really wish I hadn't now. I'm NC30 and on me this doesn't show. It's so boring and blah. There are other nudes that have a much better colour payoff than this. I don't even know why it is called pigment to be honest. The formula generally is really boring. You could get cheaper dupes for this easily. If you're going to do a pigment though then it should be done right - Golden Olive or something would be much more worth your hard earned cash than this. Disappointed :(.
Update: Ok, I realised I was unduly harsh. It looked boring in daylight and I still think it doesn't
show up on NC30 and the likes. However it makes an excellent cheek highlighter....though it has big glittery particles in it so if you're not into glitter this wouldn't work for you. I also think applied wet this pigment looks lovely. I've used it on top of a frosty white eyeshadow and it looked lovely. Therefore I increased my lippies and would purchase again though I doubt I'd need to x
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I LOVE this pigment!!! I got it a couple Xmas's ago in a sample pack and used that little vial up in about a year. As soon as it was done I HAD to go out and purchase another (which I was able to buy just before they made the jars smaller) and have kept the original small vial to help with transporting it. I mix this pigment with universal mix and wear them everyday! I will continue to buy this product over and over again!
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MAC hit it 0n the n0se when they made this pigment:)) I use it f0r an everyday neutral l00k. Just swipe all 0ver my lid w/ MAC`s soba in my crease & were ready to gO!!! I will definitely keep buying this pigment over&over=)
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I love Naked pigment, I actually prefer it to Vanilla as it is less frosty and more subtle. I am about NW15 for reference. It is a beigey-nude shot through with subtle gold shimmer. Very versatile, I can wear it on the lid or as a browbone or cheek highlight. I like wearing it over Brule to give a great sheen effect on the lid. I managed to get a jar of this in the larger size from my counter *just* before they changed them, and needless to say I've barely made a dent in it.
I put a small amount in a 5g jar so that it's more portable and I won't run the risk of spilling or losing the full jar, and I haven't even finished it yet! Naked is one of the few MAC pigments that is worth investing in, it would suit most skintones and it's very pretty for everyday.
Age: 25-29
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I really adore Naked. It's a soft, warm, fleshy peach. (I think "fleshy" is a disturbing word, but it's a good description.) It's very soft and easy to work with. It's not shimmery, but I would say it gives a lovely healthy luster to the lid. It's got some "golden" undertones, but I don't look at it and say, "GOLD!" I say, "Hey, that's a warm goldISH hint in there." That's what I say. It's beautiful for a neutral day looks, but paired with deeper colors can be a great striking and dramatic night look. It also works great as a highlighter for the ole cheeks. It's multifunctional, so you feel like you're getting more for your money since MAC pigments are pricey. You get so much product, though! Bottom line: Love it. I always want to have this on hand.
Age: 19-24
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Eyes: Brown
I have a sample jar of this pigment, and it is very pretty. It basically has no colour (on me) but has a subtle shimmer. I think this is a nice pigment to wear, as the name suggests, when you do a 'naked' eye look with liner etc. I dont reach for it often because I am not generally a pigment person, but i do think this is very pretty.
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Eyes: Brown
This is my first MAC Pigment and I really love it. The colour is a pale nude beige with micro shimmer all throughout...and a lot of it! So steer clear if you don't like shimmer. I would compare this to UD Virgin in the Naked palette, they are almost identical in color except Virgin is more frosty and Naked is more shimmery. I've been using it every day over my entire lid and inner corner. It works great with any colour and really brightens up the eye area. I love how it gives that sexy "wet" look. If you use it with other matte colours they will all end up looking shimmery, but it blends everything together very nicely to give a beautiful sheen so I like it for this reason. I took a lippie off because there is glitter fall out with this. MAC prices are very reasonable and even though they are now giving less product it's still worth it in the end because you will NEVER finish this! Overall this is a gorgeous versatile product to have in your collection.
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I LOVE this product. I got it with a holiday pigment collection and just finally got the full size, even though it'd still take me an age to get through the smaller vial. I love this as a wash of colour all over the lid, I'm an NC40 so it does show up nicely against my skin. It's nothing dramatic, but it does a wonderful job of brightening the eye area and is my go-to everyday look.
I was a bit peeved at MAC for the price increase/product size decrease, but honestly it'll take me so long to get through all this that it doesn't matter much in the end. Plus that wouldn't stop me from repurchasing this if I did run out. It's a HG product in my book!
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I think that this is my second fave pigment (Vanilla being the first) It's really just such a beautiful wash of colour. I love using it to blend in my other eye-shadows together. It really gives you that well blended effect. I've never tried it as a highlighter but I plan on doing so soon. The only thing that angers me is how MAC downsized the pigments by 2 oz and still charges the same amount. What's up with that??
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A place where first/birth/natural/real mothers share news and opinions. And vent.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
How Birth Mothers Survive 'Mother's Day'
Why not read the newspaper? Too many Mother's Day stories abound, even Modern Love in the New York Times could not resist and hit us with a whammy--an open adoption story for Mother's Day: Open Adoption--Not so Simple Math, what a good idea, how timely!
But remind yourself: Come Monday Mother's Day will be over for another year. It's only a day. It's only a day. Use that as your mantra.
Letters Lead to an Alternative Universe Daughter sent me the above illustration and it seemed perfect to share. Our story continues as we have met and are just as connected and close as our emails led us to believe we would be. Having her come into my life was truly a blessing, as was Tony's children and their families, as was my granddaughters--now two of them!--life goes on. I know that when I am blue, it will pass. Even when I was crying into my teacups the other day, I could tell myself: it will pass. That often gets me through the worst times.--lorraine
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This birthmother survives Mother's Day in part because of fellow moms like you who completely understand my life as a first mom.ReplyDelete
Happy Mother's Day to you!
Many hugs and thoughts going to you today, Lorraine, just as they're doing to every woman who has shared your experience.ReplyDelete
Great article, worth a share every Mothers Day for us with sucky reunions especially. Funny that I see you have an Alternate Universe Daughter. I have one as well, one of the bonuses of going to support groups is seeing that there are some adoptees cruelly shut out of their mothers lives and wouldn't even come meet them once or talk to them! One such woman, a young, beautiful adoptee named Heather gave me my first "Mothers Day" card. It was a black & white card with a jonquil on the front and had a comment, "For Some of Us, It takes Two" Happy Mothers Day! It's a poignant reminder every Mothers Day that for all the moms & found kids that suffer this day without them or any acknowledgement... that there are so many others and we come together where ever (online, in person etc.) and our lives are enriched. I feel like that the Day before Mothers day should be one to celebrate the adoptive mothers as THEY are not the real moms here and need to feel inferior if anyone. Also, I might point out that as it is said, no one can make you feel inferior unless you let them! Be strong out there and carry on!ReplyDelete
Who is my alternate universe daughter?ReplyDelete
Letters Lead to an Alternative Universe Daughter
She sent me gorgeous flowers yesterday...I will post them at the blog since I can't add pics to the comments. I feel blessed to have her in my life. Oddly enough, today she is going to Saginaw, MI to a wedding. Well, that's cryptic to anyone who hasn't read Hole In My Heart yet and only a very few have...since it's in production.
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