Is Kristin Wiig Leaving SNL?

'When I do leave, it will be the hardest thing,' Wiig says about her eventual departure from the show.
By Gil Kaufman


Kristen Wiig on SNL
Photo: NBC

No more Target Lady. No More Gillie. No more boozy Kathie Lee Gifford. No more loopy Bjork. On Monday, break-out "Saturday Night Live" star Kristen Wiig heightened speculation that her seven-year run on the show may be coming to an end.

Just days after rumors surfaced that Wiig, Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg could be flying the coop at the end of this season, Wiig was interviewed on Alec Baldwin's popular podcast on Monday and hinted that the end may be nigh.

"I don't know," Wiig said when Baldwin asked if her run on "SNL" could be "winding down" soon. "Everyone has to leave...and I will say that when I do leave, it's not because I'm sick of it and not because I see something better or anything like that. It's just that it's time. When I do leave, it will be the hardest thing."

Even as she became one of the most valuable cast members of the show over the past few years with her many go-for-broke characters and spot-on impressions of everyone from Lana Del Rey to Kris Jenner and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Wiig has tasted the fruits of big-screen success as well thanks to the smash "Bridesmaids".
 She not only co-starred in the film, but also co-wrote it with pal Annie Mumolo, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

The 38-year-old actress, who appeared in bit parts in films such as "Knocked Up," "Adventureland," "Whip It!" and "Date Night," also told Baldwin that she's got some big plans on the horizon that don't involve late-night TV.

"People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff," she said. "There are a couple of things that I'm looking at doing next that aren't comedies at all. One of them is really not at all." Though she would not cough up the details on said dramatic project, Baldwin tweaked her by saying that the versatile comic would have "absolutely no prospects whatsoever" when she left the show.

"It's a really ballsy move on your part because who the F is going to hire you?" he joked about the "SNL" star that executive producer and show creator Lorne Michaels has called one of the top three actors to ever appear on the show.

"I don't know. I may go back to open up a canoe shop," she fired back.

According to her IMDB page, Wiig has a number of movies in the can, including vocal work on "How to Train Your Dragon 2," as well as roles in "The Comedian," "Freezing People is Easy," a re-make of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "Imogene" and "Revenge for Jolly!"

Though an unnamed insider told Us Weekly that Wiig, Sudeikis and Samberg are leaving at season's end and that a pal said, "Kristen was talking about leaving a while ago ... with her movie success, it's no surprise," a spokesperson for Wiig and Sudeikis squashed the talk. "There is no truth to this rumor on both Jason and Kristen's behalf," the spokesperson said.

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Could carriers rebel against the high costs of Apple?s iPhone?

If a carrier, like AT&T, wants to improve profitability on iPhone sales, it has to do so by reducing the subsidy. The only way to reduce the subsidy is to get Apple to drop its pricing, or to sell at a higher contract price

Yesterday, on Wall Street, we saw something rare. An Apple analyst downgraded the stock from a ?buy? to ?neutral? rating. Most analysts who cover Apple are incredibly bullish. So it?s interesting to think about why this analyst, Walter Piecyk from BTIG Research, disagrees. I haven?t seen his research report with my own eyes, so I?m relying on the good reporting done by AllThingsD here. The crux of the downgrade reasoning seems to come down to subsidies.

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SDO and STEREO spot something new on the sun

Monday, April 9, 2012

One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does ? look through the daily images of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

But on this day he saw something he'd never noticed before: a pattern of cells with bright centers and dark boundaries occurring in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. These cells looked somewhat like a cell pattern that occurs on the sun's surface -- similar to the bubbles that rise to the top of boiling water -- but it was a surprise to find this pattern higher up in the corona, which is normally dominated by bright loops and dark coronal holes.

Sheeley discussed the images with his Naval Research Laboratory colleague Harry Warren, and together they set out to learn more about the cells. Their search included observations from a fleet of NASA spacecraft called the Heliophysics System Observatory that provided separate viewpoints from different places around the sun. They describe the properties of these previously unreported solar features, dubbed "coronal cells," in a paper published online in The Astrophysical Journal on March 20, 2012 that will appear in print on April 10.

The coronal cells occur in areas between coronal holes ? colder and less dense areas of the corona seen as dark regions in images -- and "filament channels" which mark the boundaries between sections of upward-pointing magnetic fields and downward-pointing ones. Understanding how these cells evolve can provide clues as to the changing magnetic fields at the boundaries of coronal holes and how they affect the steady emission of solar material known as the solar wind streaming from these holes.

"We think the coronal cells look like flames shooting up, like candles on a birthday cake," says Sheeley. "When you see them from the side, they look like flames. When you look at them straight down they look like cells. And we had a great way of checking this out, because we could look at them from the top and from the side at the same time using observations from SDO, STEREO-A, and STEREO-B."

When the cells were discovered in the fall of 2011, the SDO and the two STEREO (short for Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft each had widely different views of the sun. Thus, as the 27-day solar rotation carried the coronal cells across the face of the sun, they appeared first in STEREO-B data, then in SDO, and finally in STEREO-A, before starting over again in STEREO-B. In addition, when one observatory looked down directly on the cells, another observatory could see them from the side.

The researchers used time-lapse sequences obtained from the three satellites to track these cells around the sun. When an observatory looked down on one of these areas, it showed the cell pattern that Sheeley first noticed. But when the same region was viewed obliquely, it showed plumes leaning off to one side. Taken together, these two-dimensional images reveal the three-dimensional nature of the cells as columns of solar material extending upward through the sun's atmosphere, like giant pillars of gas.

To round out the picture even further, the team turned to other instruments and spacecraft. The original SDO images were from its Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, which takes conventional images of the sun. Another instrument on SDO, the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), provides magnetic maps of the sun. The scientists superimposed conventional images of the cells with HMI magnetic field images to determine the placement of the coronal cells relative to the complex magnetic fields of the sun's surface.

First of all, the magnetic field bundles lay centered inside the cells. This represents a clear distinction between the coronal cells and another well-known phenomenon known as supergranules. Supergranules also appear as a large cell-like pattern on the sun's surface, and their delineated edges are created as the sideways motion of solar material sweeps weaker magnetic fields toward their boundaries. Supergranules, therefore, appear to have enhanced magnetic fields at their edges, while the coronal cells show them at their centers.

Second, the scientists learned more about how the coronal cells were related to other structures on the sun, in their location between a coronal hole and a nearby filament channel. The cells consistently occurred in areas dominated by magnetic fields that point in a single direction, either up or down. In addition, the fields of the nearby coronal hole are what's known as "open," extending far into space without returning to the sun. On the other hand, the field lines in the cells were "closed," looping up over the filament channel and connecting back down to the sun.

The side-by-side nature of these open and closed magnetic fields ? open in the coronal holes, and closed in the coronal cells ? led to another scientific insight. In some of the movies, a large loop of solar material called a "filament" erupted from the adjacent filament channel. The coronal cells, with their closed field lines, disappeared and were replaced with a dark coronal hole and its associated open field lines.

"Sometimes the cells were gone forever, and sometimes they would reappear exactly as they were," says Sheeley. "So this means we need to figure out what's blowing out the candles on the birthday cake and re-lighting them. It's possible that this coronal cell structure is the same structure that exists inside the coronal holes ? but they're visible to us when the magnetic fields are closed, and not visible when the magnetic fields are open."

It has long been known that isolated plumes occur intermittently inside coronal holes when very small active regions erupt there. Presumably, these eruptions are providing glimpses of discrete coronal structures similar to the more permanently visible candles adjacent to the holes. When a portion of a hole closes, the candle-like structure is suddenly lit up by the appearance of cells.

In addition to SDO and STEREO, the team went back to historical data on ESA's and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), which has provided observations since the previous sunspot minimum in 1996. They did not find coronal cells in 1996 or in the years around the recent sunspot minimum in 2008-2009, but they did find numerous examples of cells in the years around the intervening sunspot maximum in 2000. The recent increase in sunspot activity together with the improved observations from STEREO and SDO may explain why the cells were discovered in 2011.

The team also constructed Doppler images ? images that show how quickly and where solar material in the sun's atmosphere moves toward the viewer ? of the coronal cells using the Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on the Japanese Hinode spacecraft. These images show that the centers of the cells move upward faster than their boundaries, further rounding out the physical image of these giant candles with a section rising from the middle.

"One of the wonderful things about SDO is the way the observations can be combined with other instruments," says Dean Pesnell, SDO project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. " Combining data from SDO, STEREO, SOHO, and Hinode lets us paint a picture of the whole sun in ways that one instrument can't."

The discovery of coronal cells has already increased our knowledge of the magnetic structure of the sun's corona. In the future, studies of the evolution of coronal cells may improve scientists' understanding of the magnetic changes at coronal-hole boundaries and their effects on the solar wind and Earth's space weather.

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Woods matches worst 4-round score at Masters

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) ? Tiger Woods arrived at Augusta National as a favorite to win his fifth green jacket. Instead, he left with his worst score as a pro.

A 74 on Sunday put Woods at 5-over 293 for the Masters, which was his worst four-round score since he posted the same number as a first-time amateur way back in 1995. He shot a 291 in 2007, but that was good enough for second that year, when it was windy and bitterly cold. When he left the course Sunday, he was tied for 41st, the same spot he finished in 1995.

"It was an off week at the wrong time," he said.

Woods never broke par on the course where he was so dominant that Masters officials were accused of trying to "Tiger-proof" it when they redesigned parts of it. Worse, he was just 1 under for the week on the par 5s, where he normally collects birdies by the handful.

"If I look back on the week, I played the par 5s atrociously," he said. "This is a golf course you just have to dominate the par 5s, and I did not do that at all this week."

Expectations that Woods would win again skyrocketed two weeks ago when he won at Bay Hill ? his first PGA Tour victory in 30 months. But things began unraveling when he closed with back-to-back bogeys Thursday, and he went into a full-scale meltdown Friday with a flurry of wayward tee shots, blocked approaches and missed putts from close range.

He cursed the bad shots or took mock swings in anger ? sometimes doing both. After a poor tee shot on 16, booted his 9-iron about 15 yards.

The boorish behavior drew criticism from some fans, and he could be subject to discipline by the PGA Tour.

Tour policy states that players can be disciplined for conduct unbecoming a professional even at tournaments that are co-sponsored or approved by the PGA Tour, such as the major championships. The tour doesn't comment on discipline, however, so whether he's fined might never be known.

"It's just the way it is," Woods said Sunday. "I'm trying to compete, and unfortunately I just didn't play well this week."

Woods has been stuck on 14 major championships, four shy of Jack Nicklaus' record, since winning the U.S. Open in a playoff in 2008 ? on a broken leg, no less. Since then, there's been the sex scandal that cost him his marriage and several sponsors, and injuries have kept him off the course for long stretches.

Now his problem is his swing. He's been reworking it with Sean Foley for more than 18 months, and it remains a work in progress.

"What's frustrating is I know what to do, and I just don't do it. I get out there and I just don't trust it at all," Woods said. "I can get it on the range, I can get it dialed in there. We'll work on the same things and it feels really good, and I go to the golf course and I just don't quite trust it. It just means I just need to do more reps."

When Woods won at Bay Hill, many saw it as a sign that he had mastered the changes he'd made with Foley. But his shots wound up all over the place, and he complained that bad habits were creeping back into his swing, saying he had "the Hank backswing, with the new downswing."

Woods worked with Hank Haney from 2004-10.

"When you get into tough situations, you revert back to your old motor patterns," Woods said. "That's kind of what happened to me this week."

But he has no doubt he's on the right path.

"You're still always working on little things. I know the big things that we're working on are done, but it's the little things, too, now," Woods said. "The details sometimes can be magnified. Especially on a golf course like this, it doesn't take much. You're a yard off here or there, which happened to be quite often, and next thing you know, I'm 40, 50 feet away."

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Biden gets another Twitter presence

Vice President Joe Biden, in his role as the most high-profile, aggressive Obama campaign surrogate, gets a new Twitter presence, the Obama campaign announced Monday. Tweets from the vice president himself will be signed "-Joe," just like tweets from President Obama are signed "-bo."

According to a campaign official, @JoeBiden was Biden's Twitter handle during the 2008 presidential primary ? but it was discontinued after he accepted the VP nod from Obama.

The official (and more staid) Office of Vice President Biden will remain @VP.

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