Eberswalde: Mars Landing Site Candidate
Nina Dobrev took some time out of filming The Perks of Being a Wallflower to talk to the New York Post about the season finale and season three of The Vampire Diaries, as well as her role in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
When asked about what she wanted to see her for character, Elena, in the upcoming season, Nina said, ?To be completely honest, I?d love for her to smile a bit.? She later continued to say:
She needs to begin to have a real life again, because right now she?s consumed by chaos. There needs to be a light at the end of the tunnel. She needs to feel again, and have relationships again because everyone in her life has been suffering so much, it?s becoming an action sequence as opposed to this girl going through her life.?
Even though she is excited to not have the pressure of a lead role in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, she is excited to come back to her role in The Vampire Diaries.
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(ALICIA CHANG, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) LOS ANGELES -- After years of poring through images from space and debating where on Mars the next NASA rover should land, it comes down to four choices.
Scientists in the close-knit Mars research community get one last chance to make their case this week when they gather before the "judges" ? the team running the $2.5 billion mission that will soon suggest a landing site to NASA, the ultimate decider.
The stakes are high. Location is everything when it comes to studying whether the red planet ever had conditions that could have been favorable for microbial life.
The upside is that all four candidates are relatively free of dangerous boulders and other hazards that would pose a threat to rover Curiosity upon landing. The size of a mini Cooper, Curiosity is scheduled to launch in late November after a two-year delay.
With no real engineering showstopper, scientists are haggling over the scientific merits of the locations and trying to convince the rest of the tribe why Curiosity should land at their preferred spot.
"All four of these places are compelling places on Mars to study. There's not a loser among them," said landing site scientist Matt Golombek of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, one of the meeting's leaders.
But like in any contest, there can only be one winner in the end. Here's a look at the final cut:
_ Gale crater located near the Martian equator possesses a 3-mile-high mound of layered mineral deposits.
_ Mawrth Vallis is an ancient flood channel in the Martian northern highlands that is rich in clay minerals.
_ Eberswalde crater in the southern hemisphere contains remnant of a river delta.
_ Holden crater, close to Eberswalde, is the site of water-carved gullies and sediment deposits.
The shortlist was culled from nearly 60 hopefuls in a selection process that began in 2006. Some scientists broke up into teams to pore over close-up images snapped from the eagle-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the various locations and presented their findings at meetings. After technical woes pushed back Curiosity's launch, the community regrouped and considered more places.
Research scientist Steve Ruff of Arizona State University stayed on the sidelines for much of the debate. No longer.
He said he will make a pitch for Mawrth Vallis, the only spot where Curiosity can conduct science experiments as soon as it lands. For the other three sites, the rover would need to drive outside its landing zone to reach interesting targets.
Mawrth is the sole locale "that contains the scientific goodies," Ruff said.
It can be slow going to get to a destination. Just look at the driving record of the twin Mars rovers, which took months to trek several miles.
"You could eat up a substantial portion of your mission just driving where you want to go," said Ruff, who called it an unnecessary risk.
Astronomer Jim Bell of Arizona State University, who goes back and forth between favoring Gale and Eberswalde craters, agreed it was chancy, but thinks it's worth it.
"We won't be putting on blinders and heading east or west without stopping," said Bell, who is part of the mission's camera team. "There's a clear pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but there are also some neat things to do along the way."
Planetary geologist John Mustard of Brown University was disappointed when the site he was rooting for, the Nili Fossae region, a series of deep fractures in the Martian crust, was rejected because it was deemed too dangerous to land.
He now supports going to Mawrth because he thinks it's the most diverse.
"It's not a one-trick pony. You've got more than enough compelling outcrops that one can test," he said.
After the community input, the team will meet in private to mull over the pros and cons of each site and eventually recommend one to NASA. The space agency has the last say, but it usually follows the advice of its researchers. A final decision is not expected until late June or July.
Smithsonian geologist John Grant, who is co-chairing the meeting, said he hopes there's more clarity about the strengths and weaknesses of the final four.
"There's a big investment in this rover. We want to make sure that it goes to the best possible site."
View the possible landing sites (below).
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Nina Dobrev took some time out of filming The Perks of Being a Wallflower to talk to the New York Post about the season finale and season three of The Vampire Diaries, as well as her role in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
When asked about what she wanted to see her for character, Elena, in the upcoming season, Nina said, ?To be completely honest, I?d love for her to smile a bit.? She later continued to say:
She needs to begin to have a real life again, because right now she?s consumed by chaos. There needs to be a light at the end of the tunnel. She needs to feel again, and have relationships again because everyone in her life has been suffering so much, it?s becoming an action sequence as opposed to this girl going through her life.?
Even though she is excited to not have the pressure of a lead role in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, she is excited to come back to her role in The Vampire Diaries.
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Taking center stage for quite the important occasion, Lady Gaga headlined the annual BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend 2011 in Carlisle, England on Sunday night (May 15).
The "Just Dance" songstress made a grand entrance in typical Gaga fashion - as she was wheeled in front of the Carlisle Airport audience while situated inside of a casket.
Making sure to give the fortunate ticket holders their moneys worth, the 25-year-old offered up an energy-invoking set including renditions of her hit songs "Born This Way" and "Judas".
With My Chemical Romance opening up for Gaga, the Mother Monster also delved into a flowing medley comprised of "Telephone," "Poker Face," and "Alejandro".
Following the Big Weekend gig, Lady Gaga is set to head back to the States as she readies for her appearance on the season finale of "Saturday Night Live" on May 21st.
On a side note, the chart-topping singer has also joyously announced quite the Twitter milestone - as she's reached 10 million followers. She tweeted of the feat, "10MillionMonsters! I'm speechless, we did it! Its an illness how I love you. Leaving London smiling."
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A new team at cellar-dwelling NBC is bent on reversing the network's fortunes with a new crop of shows with potentially broader appeal.
The fall game plan includes The Playboy Club, a '60s-era soap about the famed Chicago hideaway and its ties to mobsters and celebrities; Prime Suspect, a remake of the British detective series starring Maria Bello (ER) in the role first played by Helen Mirren; and Grimm, a cop drama set in a world inhabited by fairy-tale characters.
Programming chief Robert Greenblatt, the Showtime executive brought in by NBC's new owner, Comcast, says he sought "bold and original and attention-getting" shows to combat viewers' defection to cable.
A big focus is comedy, where NBC has struggled by airing critically acclaimed shows with too few viewers.
"We need to grow more comedies on our schedule and not just on Thursday, and we need to make the comedies broader," Greenblatt says.
So two new sitcoms will lead off Wednesdays:
New shows in bold, new time periods
in italics. All times ET/PT.
MONDAY
8:00 The Sing-Off
10:00 The Playboy Club
TUESDAY
8:00 The Biggest Loser
10:00 Parenthood
WEDNESDAY
8:00 Up All Night
8:30 Free Agents
9:00 Harry?s Law
10:00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
THURSDAY
8:00 Community
8:30 Parks and Recreation
9:00 The Office
9:30 Whitney
10:00 Prime Suspect
FRIDAY
8:00 Chuck
9:00 Grimm
10:00 Dateline NBC
SATURDAY
Repeats
SUNDAY
7:00 Football Night in America
8:15 Sunday Night Football
? Up All Night, starring Christina Applegate (Samantha Who?) as a frazzled working mom (Will Arnett plays her stay-at-home husband).
? Free Agents, about smitten co-workers on the rebound, starring Hank Azaria. Thursday's Whitney, a relationship comedy starring Whitney Cummings, gets the plum post-Office slot.
Spring reality hit The Voice, ending its first season next month, will be rested until January, when it's expected to provide a compatible Monday lead-in for Smash, a new drama about the makings of a Broadway show. (Another competition, The Sing-Off, will fill the slot this fall.)
And 30 Rock will sit out because of star Tina Fey's pregnancy and return early next year. Low-rated Chuck will finish its run with 13 episodes on Fridays, thanks to a reduced price tag and what Greenblatt calls a "hugely loyal fan base" that deserves a wrap-up to the series.
Also in the pipeline for midseason:
? The Firm, based on John Grisham's novel.
? Awake, about a detective living parallel lives.
? The Celebrity Apprentice, with or without Donald Trump, who's weighing a presidential run.
? Three more comedies, including one based on the life of comedian Chelsea Handler.
Cancellations include the retooled Law & Order: Los Angeles,The Event and Outsourced. And while David E. Kelley's midseason legal drama Harry's Law made the cut, his pilot for a remake of Wonder Woman came up short.
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Taking the stage for the day-long event's grand finale, Jennifer Lopez performed at the Wango Tango concert at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on Saturday night (May 14).
The 41-year-old singer took to her part in full force, looking stunningly-seductive in a skin-tight, glittering silver catsuit.
Showing off the talented and seasoned artist she is, J Lo flawlessly eased through her set in the midst of a major technical glitch that cut off all sound during her "On the Floor" performance.
After a second, successful and crowd-pleasing try at the song, Lopez took to her Twitter to laugh off the situation, writing, "Really?!! The whole sound system goes down? But..... "NO ONE HOLDS MOMMA DOWN!!!!" Haha!! LIVE SHOW, SPEAKERS OUT, FUN TIMES!"
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Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill and Victoria?s Secret model Lily Aldridge were recently wed at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California on Thursday, and details are slowly spilling out about the ceremony. Lily wore a beautiful custom gown by Vera Wang while Caleb whore a Gucci Suit, as the couple said their vows beneath a big tree with twinkling lights.
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But before the ceremony began, the couple started their morning off with a family breakfast, where a source says, ?There was a relaxed vibe and everyone took their time eating and taking in the nice weather?. The breakfast was followed by some time at the pool, where these shirtless photos of Caleb and Jared Followill were taken.
During the wedding, which took place just before sunset, Lily couldn?t help but cry, and the couple spent their first night as newlyweds in the Lilac Cottage for $1,200 a night. ?It was a perfect day,? Caleb said on Friday.
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Shoot 'em up style: Foster the People's Pumped Up Kicks is the kind of record that sneaks up on listeners. Even with its insidiously catchy chorus - multitracked falsetto voices singing "All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks/You better run, better run, outrun my gun" ? it often requires several repeats to realize that it's a creepy character study of a kid playing with his father's firearm. By that point, of course, they're hooked: Pumped Up Kicks is already a top-five hit on USA TODAY's alternative-rock airplay chart, and it's picking up steam at alternative-adult radio, too.
Head case: "For me, the song's not about the external story of what's happening, it's more about what's going on inside his head," says keyboardist/guitarist Mark Foster of Pumped, which has sold more than 222,000 downloads. "The kid's an outcast, he doesn't fit in ? he's like a cowboy kid living in a city. It's about his mental breakdown."
Torches tunes: Foster formed the Los Angeles-based trio in 2009, and Pumped went viral in early 2010. The band released a four-song EP in January and will put out its first full-length album, Torches, on May 23. The band's broad-ranging pop music relies heavily on synthesizers and dance-rock beats but is difficult to pin down stylistically. "We want to make music that's multigenre and doesn't really have any boundaries but is still something you could sing along to," Foster says.
The name game: Initially, Cleveland native Foster, 27, was going to call his trio ? which also consists of drummer Mark Pontius, 26, and bassist Cubbie Fink, 28 ? Foster & the People. But enough of his friends misheard the name ? and liked the mangled moniker better ? that he eventually switched. "'Foster the People' ? that's like 'Take Care of the People,' 'Do Something for the People,'" he says. "The first few shows that we played were for charities. It kind of clicked: Foster the People, that's us."
Choir boy: In places, Foster the People's vocals, with their penchant for heavy reverb and falsetto, resemble French band Phoenix on a Beach Boys bender. Foster's love of vocal parts may trace back to the four years he spent as a youth singing in the Cleveland Orchestra's choir. "That was my professional debut, being on stage in front of 3,000 people and playing five shows in a row," he says. One of the highlights: singing Mahler's Eighth Symphony under the direction of the legendary choral director Robert Shaw. "That was a milestone moment for me, musically," he says.
Knowing the score: Foster has a background in scoring music for film and television, including some work for comedian/actor Andy Dick. "He's super off-the-cuff," Foster says. "As a musician, you have to be on your toes to follow where he goes." Foster also roomed with the late actor Brad Renfro, who moonlighted as a guitarist with the band Frodad. "I produced the last song that he recorded before he died," Foster says.
Building on the buzz: After generating one of the biggest buzzes coming out of April's Coachella music festival, Foster the People already has sold out half the dates on its second U.S. tour, which starts June 1 in Portland, Ore. On the road, the group supplements its sound with two musicians who add harmonies and melodic parts. That's a good thing, because the band members do a considerable amount of switching around of instruments. "We've got a lot of gear on stage," Foster says. "If there's something that nobody can play, if all of our arms are tied, we'll sample it and trigger it live."
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