“You have engineers who want to nail the landing, and so they look for the place on the planet that is the safest place to land. They would like it to be a flat, barren landscape with nothing interesting,” he said. Perseverance is expected to touch down at Jezero Crater a jagged, rocky area that will make for a tricky landing and has never before been explored by a rover..

Amid the pandemic, Wray said that more shoppers are turning to curbside pickup, delivery and shipping options for their chocolate needs. But the store should still see a good amount of foot traffic leading up to Feb. 14. For this one, I defer to Times contributor Joe Meazle, because I think he nailed it on this description: you think of Alvin Youngblood Hart only as a Handy and Grammy award winning interpreter of roots and blues music of bygone eras (as many seem to continue to try to do), you would be missing the majority of what the multifaceted artist has thus far and continues to create. It would be akin to judging a bowl of gumbo base solely on a single ingredient, a folly to be sure. That fine gumbo has a roots and blues component, sure enough, but there is also R soul, and good ol fuse blowing Southern rock roll, just to name a few of the ingredients.

There are certain side effects of not wearing the glasses that are prescribed to you. These include headache, blur vision and distortion. Trying to focus on near objects without the glasses will leave you squinting and strained eyes. In a world where runways have gone digital, one does occasionally find oneself longing for the days of an absolute barn burner of a catwalk like, say, the literal barn set pastoral dream that Karl Lagerfeld created for Chanel in 2010. Models emerged from tall piles of hay and stomped their way through the set in their vertiginous clogs like miniature Marie Antoinettes on their way to the Hameau de la Reine to play rustic for the day. Prince was there! And Rihanna!And as far as I concerned, the Florence + the Machine moment at Chanel Spring 2012 can only be topped by its predecessor, Lily Allen and band, emerging from under the grass to perform “Not Fair” her ode to unsatisfying sex to close out the French fashion house Spring 2010 show.In contrast to the free flowing chiffons and cream colored tweeds of the models, Allen looked every inch the rockstar in a black and gold sequined mini dress with giant feathered shoulders, black platform heels over tights and feathered, fingerless gloves.