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Amazing Places to Visit (photo - Amalfi Coast, Italy)
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Looking like a bright star streaking up into a black sky, a rocket took off before dawn today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying an unmanned capsule filled with food, clothes, and other supplies for astronauts on the international space station.
But this robotic cargo ship doesn’t belong to NASA. Instead, it’s owned by a company called SpaceX, which made history by launching the first ever private spacecraft on a mission to the station.
SpaceX has a $1.6 billion cargo-delivery contract with NASA, which is turning routine flights to the station over to industry so that the veteran space agency can start to focus on more ambitious exploration efforts. (NPR)
Photo: Historic @SpaceX #DragonLaunch to ISS. @NASA on Twitpic
History in the making :)
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"The baby is cleaned off, examined and wrapped in a towel. Katie, the Australian midwife, brings the baby to the mother’s face so that she can see her while we are finishing the c-section. The mother makes no expression, but tears roll down her face when she sees her healthy baby."
MSF obstetrician-gynecologist, Veronica Ades, tells the story of delivering a baby for a patient who has already lost her first two and how women’s reactions to these traumatic experiences in South Sudan differ so massively from those in the U.S., where Veronica is from. (via doctorswithoutborders)
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Bach - Cantata BWV 31, Sonata
John Eliot Gardiner & the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra
Bach Cantatas Vol. 22A sneak peek at the 12-13 WCFSO season – to be announced in full in a few weeks – and a nod to the musical history of this weekend’s Easter observance. One year from today we’ll explore the festive music Bach composed for Easter on a program that opens with this stunning gem of instrumental writing.
More than 20,000 photographers from around the world submitted animal snapshots to Nature’s Best Photography mag’s annual contest. Here are a few more of the simply incredible photos.
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The Bad Plus Tackle Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
NPR Weekend Edition
March 20, 2011A few years back I shared a pair of hip hop remixes of Rite of Spring; here is a jazz recasting of Stravinsky’s piece by inventive trio The Bad Plus. [Catch the original this Saturday at WCFSO.]
The Daily Face - April 2, 2012 - Stripes
under eyes: Make Up For Ever HD Concealer in 325
eyeshadow: Illamasqua Eye Shadow in Sex (matte white)
eyeliner: Illamasqua Precision Ink in Abyss, Illamasqua Precision Ink in Scribe
eye brows: MAC Brow Pencil in Fling
eye lashes: MAC Haute & Naughty Mascara
To get this black and white look I began by applying the matte white eyeshadow to the lid from lashline to crease. Then I applied white shadow wrapping around the inner corners of the eyes and blended it onto the inner corners of the lower lid.
Next I applied Illamasqua Precision Ink in Abyss to the top lid in a sweeping wing from inner corner to outer corner. The Precision Ink is fairly easy to apply and also manipulate with a Q-tip if you need to, but I still applied it in stages, first the outer corners then connecting the inner corners. Liquid liner is pretty difficult to apply in one swoop.
Next I applied a thin line of Precision Ink in Scribe (white) directly into the lower lashline, connecting it to the wing of black liner. Directly beneath the white I applied a thin line of black liner and connected this into the wing as well. Then I applied another thin line of the white under the black and brought the line all the way up under the wing. Use the photo as reference for this to make sense.
Last I applied mascara, my faaaavorite thing.
Gonna try this
The Avoidable Crisis of Maternal Death
MSF makes it a priority to provide lifesaving, emergency obstetric care in both acute and chronic humanitarian crises. MSF teams strive to address the five main causes of maternal death: hemorrhage, sepsis, unsafe abortion, hypertensive disorders, and obstructed labour.
In a conflict or crisis, pregnant women are even more vulnerable because health services have collapsed, are inadequate, or are totally non-existent. But these women need access to quality emergency obstetric care whether they live in a conflict zone, in a refugee camp, or under plastic sheeting after a devastating earthquake.
In fact, they need the same help that all pregnant women facing a complication need: access to appropriate medical assistance—skilled medical staff, drugs, and equipment—to save their life and the life of their baby.
Conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, or the complete breakdown of a country’s health system are crises faced by MSF’s millions of patients around the world every day. But a maternal death: that’s the avoidable crisis.
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This is where I’ll be when the zombies come. — Tanya
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