Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror

What does it take to land the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars? A heat shield, a parachute, rocket engines and the skycrane maneuver.

Planned touchdown is for August 6, at 1:31 a.m. ET Monday  morning (10:31 p.m. PT August 5, Sunday night).

Marilyn Monroe Movies: 5 Great Performances

AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire's 5 great movie performances by Marilyn Monroe:

_ "Some Like It Hot" (1959): It's the best film she was ever in – the Billy Wilder classic is listed as the greatest comedy ever by the American Film Institute – but also, the role of Sugar Kane Kowalczyk is just so quintessentially "her."
_ "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953): Describing her performance as gold-digging Lorelei Lee as iconic would not be hyperbole. Her rendition of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" remains so enduring
_ "The Seven Year Itch" (1955): Here's Monroe again at the center of one of film's most famous images: standing over a New York City subway grate, letting the wind from a passing train send her ivory, pleated halter dress billowing all around her. But the whole performance is a great example of her screen presence in a nutshell: naive, sweet, beguiling and irresistible.
_ "Bus Stop" (1956): A rare opportunity for Monroe to show some dramatic ability. But really, everything she can do is on display here: Joshua Logan's film, based on the William Inge play, offers the full range of Monroe's abilities.
_ "The Misfits" (1961): A poignant pop culture time capsule: This is not just Monroe's final film but Clark Gable's, too. Co-star Montgomery Clift would be dead a few years later. Monroe's then-husband, playwright Arthur Miller, wrote the script for her to give her a meatier role.

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Marilyn Monroe died 50 years ago on August 5th.
Except for The Misfits all movies listed are available from Netflix.

Little Boxes - Walk off the Earth - YouTube

Little Boxes - Walk off the Earth - YouTube

Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) - official video - YouTube

Heard this song on WBRU. Found the video on YouTube.

Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) - official video - YouTube

Indigo Jam Unit

Discovered this Japanese jazz group while listening to JazzRadio.com

From their website:

Formed in Osaka, Japan, in 2005 indigo jam unit consists of Yoshichika Tarue (piano), Katsuhiko Sasai (double bass) Isao Wasano (percussion & drums), and Takehiro Shimizu (drums). Indigo jam unit's full length releases as of April 2011 includes six full length CD albums, starting with "DEMONSTRATION" in 2006, all selling more than 10,000 copies each in Japan. Other releases include the 2009 "Vintage Black" collaboration with label mates Flexlife, and from the same year, "re:common from indigo jam unit", the band's remixes of some of hip hop star Common's songs behind his original voice tracks. Check out their full discography here.

indigo jam unit's unique sound truly rests on the combination of the four members. Tarue's melodic classical-latin-jazz piano up front intertwined with Sasai's solid and groove driven basslines, all standing on the explosive and versatile rhythm section formed by Shimizu and Wasano. Being devoted live musicians, indigo jam unit records all their work in single takes. No overdubs, no click tracks, minimum post processing, and what you hear on the recording is pretty much what happened in the studio during that particular take.

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Agent: Zednik had lifesaving surgery - Yahoo! News

Agent: Zednik had lifesaving surgery - Yahoo! News: "By JOHN WAWROW, AP Sports Writer 27 minutes ago

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik required lifesaving surgery after severing his carotid artery, his agent told The Associated Press on Monday. Zednik was listed in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Buffalo General Hospital, and will continue to be evaluated through the day, attending surgeon Sonya Noor said in a statement released by the hospital."