Torkham tensions: Guns fall silent as ‘truce’ takes effect

TORKHAM / ISLAMABAD:
Guns fell silent on the Pak-Afghan border in Khyber Agency on Wednesday after three days of skirmishes between border guards of the two countries that left one Pakistani military officer dead and 19 others, mostly civilians, injured.

The fighting erupted along the Torkham border Sunday night and continued sporadically over the next three days, apparently after Afghan forces resorted to ‘unprovoked firing’ to disrupt the construction of a gate at the busy border crossing between the two militancy-plagued neighbours.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to de-escalate tensions on their border, said the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad on Wednesday after he was summoned to the Foreign Office over the death of Major Ali Jawad Changezi of the Frontier Corps in the Afghan firing.

In a Facebook post, Dr Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal said he had had ‘productive meetings’ with the Pakistani leadership on the Torkham issue. “Agreed on ceasefire, de-escalation of tension, drawdown of military buildup and steps forward for an amicable solution,” he added.

There was no official reaction to Zakhilwal’s claim from Pakistan. The Foreign Office said in a statement that Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry summoned the Afghan envoy over the death of Major Changezi.

A senior Foreign Office official objected to the use of word ‘ceasefire’ by Ambassador Zakhilwal insisting the two sides were not at war with each other. “There are tensions on the Torkham border and both sides are in contact to defuse the situation,” the official told The Express Tribunerequesting not to be identified by name.

Foreign Secretary Chaudhry urged the Afghan government to take immediate steps to put an end to ‘unprovoked’ firing. He stressed that Pakistani authorities were undertaking construction works on their side of the border to regulate the movement of people as well as vehicles with a prior agreement of the Afghan government.

He expressed concern over continued firing by the Afghan security forces for the past few days with a view to disrupting the construction works aimed at strengthening effective border management.

The foreign secretary rejected Afghan allegations that the construction works were in violation of the agreements and understandings reached between the two countries. “These works are being undertaken on the Pakistani side and were started after the two sides had agreed on them during the meetings held last month,” he added.

Underscoring the importance of border management for strengthening mutual security and checking infiltration of terrorists and militants, Foreign Secretary Chaudhry emphasised the need for resolving the issue through constructive engagement.

Meanwhile, border guards on both sides of the Durand Line hoisted white flag, a symbol of truce, at the Torkham border without formally declaring a ceasefire. Subsequently, Pakistani authorities resumed work on the construction of the border gate as part of the comprehensive border management plan.

A weekly flag meeting between senior officials of the two countries could not take place due to hostilities. Officials from both sides discuss border issues in a flag meeting which is held every Wednesday.

Earlier, Afghan forces again opened ‘unprovoked firing’ Wednesday morning when Pakistani authorities resumed construction of the Torkham border gate, local tribal sources told The Express Tribune.Two Pakistani border guards were wounded in the fresh firing.

Sources in Afghanistan said that six Afghan servicemen have been killed and over two dozen wounded in border clashes with Pakistani troops since Sunday. Tensions escalated on Tuesday amid reports that Pakistan Army had sent reinforcements and heavy weaponry to the Torkham border. There was similar troop buildup on the Afghan side of the border.

Though tensions have seemingly de-escalated, Torkham town remains under curfew which was clamped on Monday. Most of local Shinwari tribesmen have already abandoned their houses and shifted to their relatives in the neighbouring Landikotal town. However, thousands of Pakistani and Afghan nationals have been stranded on both sides of the border since hostilities began between the two countries.

Kids’ Choice Awards Best Dressed: Zendaya, Peyton List & More

Kids’ Choice Awards Best Dressed: Zendaya, Peyton List & More

From Zendaya to Fifth Harmony, so many stylish stars stepped out for the KCAs! See who topped our Kids’ Choice Awards best dressed list & VOTE for who YOU think rocked the best get-up of the night.

The Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards red carpet in LA on March 12 was the place to be, as so many stylish young stars stepped out in glam get-ups! In fact, these outfits were almost too cool to slime, (almost). From Peyton List to Zendaya and Fifth Harmony, see who topped our KCAs best dressed list & VOTE for who YOU think rocked the best look of the night.


Selena Gomez is seriously stylin’ these days. After taking Paris Fashion Week by storm in a slew of sexy, daring ensembles she was back in LA — and just in time to help kick off the Kids’ Choice Awards! While she sported everything from plunging necklines and thigh-high slits in Paris, she totally switched up her style as she opened the show — and we loved her pretty, pink look.

The Fifth Harmony gals love to keep their looks coordinated and that’s just what they did at the show, proving that your closest friends make the best accessories — especially on the red carpet! We love the way they always rock show-stopping looks. They have killer confidence on the red carpet. Join Amazon Prime For Free – Thousands of Movies & Shows Anytime

Zendaya loves to switch up her style and can pull off practically anything — and her latest look for the KCAs was no exception! We love the way she doesn’t shy away from trying new trends — she constantly serves up major style inspiration.

While these gals totally topped our list, they weren’t alone! See who else wowed us with their stellar style at the Kids’ Choice Awards and VOTE for who YOU think rocked the best get-up at the show. Did you have a favorite?
                                                                         

Daylight Saving Time 2016 is Here, Clocks Spring Forward

Daylight Saving Time 2016 is Here, Clocks Spring Forward
Don't forget to change those creaky old clocks around your house that don't automatically adjust to Daylight Saving Time.


It’s always nice to have extra daylight after work or school to enjoy the evening and we’re about to get another hour as we spring ahead into Daylight Saving Time.
Fun fact: Though many people refer to the day clocks spring forward as the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, it’s technically Daylight Saving Time.

This year, Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 13.

The time change officially takes place at 2 a.m., but you don’t have to spring out of bed and move the big hand on your clock ahead an hour. The change is automatic for most smartphones, computers, tablets and other digital devices.

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If you’re still using an analog alarm clock, you’ll probably want to move it ahead before you go to sleep on Saturday, or when you wake up the next morning.

The start of DST is also a good time to change the batteries and make sure your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors are in working order.

A brief history

Ben Franklin was only kidding when he suggested 232 years ago that towns should employ the use of church bells or cannon blasts, if necessary, to wake citizens at sunrise so they could take full advantage of sunlight – a thrifty alternative to pricy candle power.

More than two centuries later, the joke's still on us.

Daylight Saving Time is no longer just an amusing idea; it's taken hold with a vengeance.

Twice a year we're forced to adjust our sleep habits, synchronizing our biological and digital clocks in order to squeeze more sunlight into our waking hours.

Meanwhile, sleep researchers insist we should be cutting back on our waking hours if we really want to live long and prosper.

So here we are, caught somewhere between popping sleep aids and chugging Red Bull, not sure how to feel about our collective changing of the clocks.

David Prerau, recognized as one of the country's leading experts on our human quest for saving time, has devoted much of his life to chronicling the history and science of DST.

He served as a consultant to Congress back in 2005 when it enacted a law extending Daylight Saving Time as an energy saving measure, and he also has been a consultant on DST to the United Kingdom Parliament. He holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T.

Although Franklin certainly gets a historical nod for his amusing social commentary about our waste of perfectly good sunlight, Prerau points to British early riser and golf fanatic William Willett as the godfather of Daylight Saving Time.

"He used to go for early-morning horseback rides and wondered why nobody else was up enjoying this beautiful time of day," Prerau said.

Willett detailed his time-wise idea in a pamphlet, "The Waste of Daylight," and spent years lobbying Parliament in vain to adopt daylight-saving time – he died in 1915 before that would happen, Prerau said.

Germany was right on time, however. Seeing merit in Willett's bright idea, they adopted it in 1916 to conserve energy and resources during World War I. That launched a daylight-saving domino effect in countries around Europe.

Britain was finally shamed into adopting the policy three weeks after Germany.

Not to be left in the dark by our European counterparts, the U.S. officially adopted Daylight Saving Time for the first time during WWI, and again during World War II.

But it was not without controversy, even then.

By the end of WWI, city dwellers learned to love daylight saving, Prerau said. But country folk, still in tune with nature's clock, became disgruntled once they realized they'd actually have to rise before the sun if they were to get their goods on outbound trains that, under daylight saving, left town an hour earlier.

"Rural people bombarded Congress with requests to repeal Daylight Saving Time," Prerau said.

Among them, New Hampshire Gov. John H. Bartlett, who in April of 1920 went right to the top, urging President Woodrow Wilson by telegram to inform senators and congressmen "that New Hampshire demanded prompt action to remedy the injustice being done the rural communities through changes in railroad schedules to conform to daylight saving hours."

Bartlett didn't know Wilson was a big fan of daylight saving.

When Congress voted to repeal daylight-saving legislation, Wilson vetoed it. And when Congress voted a second time to repeal it, Wilson vetoed, again.

"It was an interesting time in history," Prerau said. "Because then Congress voted to override Wilson's veto – that's how contentious it was," Prerau said. "If you look back in history, not many things are passed by overriding a presidential veto."

In his 2005 book, "Seize the Daylight," Prerau includes all kinds of historical anecdotes about the chaos that ensued over the random nature of daylight saving until federal legislation finally standardized it in 1966.

One of his favorites is the one about the bus ride that spanned 35 miles and seven time zones between Ohio and West Virginia.

"It became nationally famous as a sort of curiosity. People rode the bus just to change their watches seven times," he said.

Prerau believes the upside of Daylight Saving Time isn't economic; it's the lifestyle benefit. People have more time to mingle and recreate.

"People don't like driving in the dark, and daylight savings reduces traffic accidents. Crime is reduced also, because of that extra hour of daylight," he said.

Savings in electrical energy is only about 1 percent, said Prerau. "Which may sound low, but if you think of it as something you get for free, it's a good side benefit."

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 went into effect as of 2007, extending Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. by three-to-four weeks in the spring and one week in the fall. Since then, more studies are in the works to see if increased use of air conditioning may actually negate whatever savings were originally calculated, Prerau said.

"There's going to be more studies, and if they end up being negative, Congress may want to reconsider," Prerau said.

"But I doubt it. There's the other problem, of having to reprogram computers and clocks. It was a big deal for companies last March. And having gone through that once, people may be reluctant to change back," Prerau said.

Time will tell.

Either way, looks like Daylight Saving Time is here to stay. Prerau, for one, isn't losing sleep over it except, perhaps, on March 13, 2016.

Reporting by Paul Milo

Ciara, Russell Wilson are engaged

Ciara, Russell Wilson are engaged


(CNN)Grammy award-winning singer Ciara and Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson are engaged to be married, the NFL star announced on Instagram.


"She said Yes!!! Since Day 1 I knew you were the one. No Greater feeling... #TrueLove @Ciara," Wilson said.


In a picture posted Friday to the singer's Twitter account, Wilson took a knee while the couple was vacationing in a tropical locale. People magazine reported Ciara and Wilson were in the Seychelles Islands.


"I feel complete," she wrote.


Wilson, 27, is one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL, last year signing a four-year contract extension worth a reported $87.6 million. He guided the Seattle Seahawks to a Super Bowl championship in 2014 but, with his team on the verge of a game-winning touchdown, threw a last-minute interception in 2015 in the championship contest.


He has been married once before to his high school sweetheart.


Ciara, 30, has released six studio albums -- five of which hit the top 10 on the U.S. R&B charts. She has been nominated for five Grammys, winning one for best short-form video. She has one son with her former fiance, rapper Future.


Ciara and Wilson have been dating since early 2015. The couple has been very public about their decision to abstain from premarital sex.



Neither announced a wedding date.

Trump supporters, protesters clash after Chicago rally postponed

Chicago (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign on Friday postponed a rally in Chicago amid fights between supporters and demonstrators, protests in the streets and concerns that the environment at the event was no longer safe.

The announcement, which came amid large protests both inside and outside the event at the University of Illinois at Chicago, follows heightened concerns about violence in general at the GOP front-runner's rallies. Illinois holds its Republican primary on Tuesday.

Hundreds of demonstrators packed into an arena, breaking out into protest even before Trump had shown up. At least five sections in the arena were filled with protesters.

"Mr. Trump just arrived in Chicago, and after meeting with law enforcement, has determined that for the safety of all of the tens of thousands of people that have gathered in and around the arena, tonight's rally will be postponed to another date," the Trump campaign said in a statement. "Thank you very much for your attendance and please go in peace."

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Several fistfights between Trump supporters and protesters could be seen after the announcement, as a large contingent of Chicago police officers moved in to restore order.

Supporters of Trump still inside chanted "We want Trump" after the event was canceled. Protesters, meanwhile, shouted "We shut s*** down" and "We stumped Trump." Others chanted "Bernie" as supporters whipped out Bernie Sanders campaign signs.


Some protesters were being detained and forcefully carried out.

Maria Hernandez, a 25-year-old community organizer, broke out into dance as a Trump campaign staffer announced that the rally had been canceled.

"I've never been more proud of my city," Hernandez told CNN.

Hernandez, who came out to protest Trump, said the Republican front-runner's immigration policies, as well as racial divisions in her city, pushed her to show up and protest Trump's planned event.

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"I'm protesting because I'm black and Mexican and I'm not sure where he wants to deport me to, but I deal with racism daily in Chicago and I've had enough," she said.

One Trump supporter said he was "disappointed" that the event was postponed.

"Protesters have won now," Marlin Patrick, 55, told CNN. "We just feel as if the protesters have taken over."

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Debi Patrick, a 53-year-old Trump supporter who lives outside Chicago, said there should have been more security planned for the event, but said she didn't blame Trump for the atmosphere at the rallies, saying people are responsible for their own behavior. Asked if she would still vote for Trump on Tuesday, she said, "Absolutely, more than ever."

But, Patrick said, "This is scaring the hell out of me, trying to leave here."


"Until today, we've never had much of a problem," Trump later told CNN's Don Lemon. Asked if he had any regrets about the charged rhetoric at his rallies, Trump was defiant.


"I don't have regrets," Trump said. "These were very, very bad protesters. These were bad dudes. They were rough, tough guys."

Authorities made five arrests, said Chicago Interim Police Superintendent John Escalante. One of those arrested was Sopan Deb, a CBS reporter covering the Trump campaign.

Two officers suffered injuries, he said. One was hit in the head with a bottle.

Some 300 officers were on hand for crowd control, according to Escalante. The Trump campaign didn't consult with authorities before calling the event off, he said.

The Chicago Police Department was "confident" they could provide adequate security to protect Trump, his supporters and protesters, Escalante said.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel praised officers' effort under difficult circumstances.

"For all of us who cherish the ideals upon which our country was founded, the hateful, divisive rhetoric that pits Americans against each other demeans our democratic values and diminishes our democratic process," he said in a statement.

"I want to thank the men and women of the Chicago Police Department for their hard work tonight in unexpected circumstances, and their continued commitment to protecting people's first amendment rights."

A crowd of protesters outside the rally site had been steadily growing throughout the afternoon. Earlier Friday, 32 people were arrested in protests both inside and outside Trump's rally at the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis, police said. Thirty-one people were charged with disturbing the peace, and one was charged with third-degree assault. St. Louis police declined to provide further details.


Protests spill into streets



Soon after the event was postponed, scores of protesters -- a racial mixture of whites and blacks, Hispanics and Asians -- spilled out into the streets near the university, which is located in the city's downtown.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside a parking garage adjacent to the arena, where police set up a human barricade to allow supporters to go to their cars and leave. More than a dozen police officers on horseback were there.


"Let's go, let's go," one Chicago police officer told Trump supporters in a truck. "Go home."


One supporter, who didn't give his name as he drove out, said the situation was dangerous and that he felt unsafe as protesters shouted at his car.


At one point, a man on the third floor of the garage leaned over the edge and shouted at protesters, "I don't support Trump."


A protester responded, "You f***ing neo-Nazi prick, come down here."


Aureliano Rivas, 18, a Mexican-American high school student from Chicago, told CNN he was protesting because "we have to stand our ground."



"We shouldn't let racism happen like this," said Rivas, who was shouting "F*** Trump" as Trump supporters drove out of the garage. In response, Rivas said, supporters were flipping him off.

Asked what he would tell a Trump supporter, Rivas said, "This is wrong. You shouldn't support someone who is racist."


Trump responds



After the protests in the arena ended, Trump did a series of media interviews, including one with Lemon. Trump told Lemon he had no regrets about his rhetoric, attributing the root cause of the violence to economic issues such as unemployment among African-American youths.

"We have a very divided country," Trump said. "A lot of people are upset because they haven't had a salary increase for 12 years."

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Trump also blamed the media for what he saw as an overinflation of the evening's problems. And he said most incidents involving protesters are tame and in control, saying that he has been "very mild" with those who disrupt his events and that his events are gatherings of "great love" that are interrupted by unruly, violent people.

Trump, however, did say he hoped "my tone is not that of causing violence."

"My basic tone is that of securing our borders, of having a country," he said.

Earlier in the night, as protests outside the arena continued, Trump tweeted that he had "just got off phone with the great people of Guam," which holds a Republican convention on Saturday to elect delegates.

"I just got off the phone with the great people of Guam! Thank you for your support! #VoteTrump today! #Trump2016."


2016 hopefuls blast Trump



Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump's main rival for the GOP presidential nomination who declined at CNN's Republican debate this week to blame Trump for violence at his rallies, took a much sharper tone on Friday night.

"In any campaign, responsibility starts at the top," Cruz told reporters in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.

"When you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence," he continued, "you create an environment that only encourages that sort of nasty discourse."

Cruz added that the violence was a "predictable consequence" of Trump's posture toward protesters at his events.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told Lemon that the protests were part of an "organized effort to disrupt a rally. This is not some organic protest."

"But putting that aside for a moment, the tone and tenor of Donald Trump's rallies over the last few months has been disturbing to a lot of people," he continued.

Rubio added, "If you're running for president, you have to understand that that kind of rhetoric from a president -- or a major presidential candidate -- has ramifications," Rubio said. "The images that the world must be looking at now must seem to them like our republic is fracturing."

Ohio Gov. John Kasich blasted Trump in a statement.

"Tonight, the seeds of division that Donald Trump has been sowing this whole campaign finally bore fruit, and it was ugly," he said. "Some let their opposition to his views slip beyond protest into violence, but we can never let that happen."

And Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic hopeful, tweeted during the night that his campaign's message was about unity, a thinly veiled shot at Trump.

"We do things a little different in this campaign: We bring people TOGETHER. #BernieInIL," he tweeted.


But Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., blamed the demonstrators for the unrest.

"Liberals love the first amendment until you say something they don't agree with," he tweeted.



Heightened tensions at rallies



Protests and racial tensions have recently escalated at Trump rallies. On Thursday, a man attending a Trump rally this week was charged with assault after he allegedly sucker-punched a black protester being led out of a Trump event.

Last fall, Trump said a Black Lives Matter protester maybe "should have been roughed up." And despite an announcement at the start of his rallies urging protesters not to be violent toward protesters, Trump in February urged his supporters to "knock the crap out of" anybody "getting ready to throw a tomato" and vowed to pay for their legal fees should they face charges.

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"Knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. OK? Just knock the hell -- I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise," Trump said.

And Trump also said he personally wanted to punch a protester "in the face"during a rally in February.

But at CNN's Republican debate on Thursday, Trump insisted that he did not support violence at his events.

"I certainly do not condone that at all," Trump said, adding, "We have some protesters who are bad dudes. They have done bad things."

CNN's Mallory Thompson, Kristen Holmes, Noah Gray and Jeff Zeleny contributed to this report.

10 Cloverfield Lane Is Fun But It’s Not in the Same League as Cloverfield

10 Cloverfield Lane Is Fun But It’s Not in the Same League as Cloverfield


You’ve probably heard that the new movie 10 Cloverfield Lane started out as an unrelated thriller called The Cellar (or Valencia). And then producer J.J. Abramsdecided to rename it 10 Cloverfield Lane, and make it a “sister movie” to his 2008 sleeper hit. This was probably a mistake, because it underscores that this new film, while entertaining, just isn’t in the same league as Cloverfield.



I’m going to try to avoid any spoilers in this short review, because the surprises in 10 Cloverfield Lane are a big part of how the movie functions. But I’m going to assume that you’re okay with me talking about stuff that was already revealed in this trailer:


As that trailer shows, Mary-Elizabeth Winstead plays Michelle, a woman who’s been in a car accident. She wakes up in a scary mysterious cellar, the captive of a weird guy named Howard (John Goodman) who claims there’s been an apocalypse of some sort and “everyone outside of here is dead.” He’s sort of a doomsday prepper who believes the end actually has come, and now she’s stuck in there with him, plus another guy, Emmett (John Gallagher, Jr). But Howard is a scary wacko, and it’s clear he’s not telling the whole truth.


It’s clear as you watch 10 Cloverfield Lane that it’s still not really connected toCloverfield, beyond their titles. They’re not even really the same genre:Cloverfield is a wild and hectic ride where a giant monster attacks half an hour in and the characters are running through a city under attack, and 10 Cloverfield Lane is a slow, paranoid “trapped in a bunker” thriller.


The great pleasure of watching 10 Cloverfield Lane comes mainly from watching John Goodman’s masterfully weird performance, as a childlike control freak who may or may not have been right to prepare for an apocalypse. Goodman’s usual affability is almost completely subsumed inside a set of twitchy mannerisms, and he manages to keep you completely spellbound by his mercurial behavior—without ever overplaying it. The “redneck” aspects of his character sometimes feel a tad broad, but Goodman manages to make Howard seem like someone you could actually meet.


And the heart of the film is the interplay between Howard and Michelle, who has to figure out if he’s telling the truth but also keep herself safe. Michelle has the most fleshed-out character arc in the film—at the very beginning, we’re told that she always runs away whenever there’s trouble, and then she’s trapped with someone whose first impulse is always to hide. Dealing with that situation changes her, and we get to see it happen. Winstead does a decent job of showing Michelle’s evolution, and she more than holds her own against Goodman.


That said, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a much more conventional film than Cloverfieldwas. When Cloverfield came out in January 2008, I hadn’t seen anything quite like it. We hadn’t had a lot of movies about giant monsters attacking cities, full stop, in the decade since Roland Emmerich tried to reinvent Godzilla. AndCloverfield’s approach to the “monster movie” genre was full of new tricks, both stylistically and in terms of actual storytelling.


By contrast, I feel like I’ve seen a ton of movies like 10 Cloverfield Lane—even just in the past few years. The setup, with three people stuck in a tiny enclosed space with mysterious stuff going on, is a staple of claustrophobic psychological thrillers, especially low-budget or independent productions. (Just in the past half year, there’s been 400 Days and Air, off the top of my head.) When it comes to the “tense psychological drama in a box” subgenre, too, 10 Cloverfield Lane is mostly content to obey the usual conventions.


That said, there are some cool/shocking surprises in 10 Cloverfield Lane, especially in the final half hour. And this is a stylish example of the claustrophobic thriller genre—in fact, the weird mysteries, Bear McCreary’s brassy score and Dan Trachtenberg’s tight, creepily domestic direction all reminded me quite a bit of Abrams’ most famous TV show, in a good way. Several times while watching 10 Cloverfield Lane, I kept thinking, “this could easily be an episode of Lost.”


So I do think it was a mistake to rebrand an unrelated thriller as being somehow connected to Cloverfield. And it’s hard not to see this as a manifestation of Abrams’ great foible as a creator: The love of sleight of hand and manipulating audience expectations. This film’s title is a ruse, a misdirection, a way to set you up to be surprised when you actually get something that’s not even remotely in that same field of clover as that other movie. Sometimes, when Abrams plays with an audience’s expectations, it yields unexpected delights—but in this case, I feel like it backfired, for me at least. I kept expecting stuff that this film didn’t deliver on.


And you know, not everything has to be a franchise. Sometimes a movie can be a standalone, and its own thing, that’s okay. It makes me sad that the only way they could get people to come see this new movie is by branding it with the name of a previous hit.



That’s part of why I’m telling you guys this: I think you’ll enjoy 10 Cloverfield Lane more if you think of it, instead, as a called brand new thriller Valencia.

Stephen Fishbach's Survivor Blog: 'Brutal Challenge' and a Medical Emergency Test the Castaways in New Ways

Stephen Fishbach's Survivor Blog: 'Brutal Challenge' and a Medical Emergency Test the Castaways in New Ways
This week on Survivor, everybody almost died. After a brutal challenge in scorching 118 degree Cambodian heat, three contestants zonked out from heatstroke, and Caleb took a (Russell) Swan dive that ended with a medevac.

It's really the humidity that kills you.
The Fishy Award goes to Dr. Joe. He stayed calm, cool, and collective while the entire cast twitched and foamed at the mouth like they were extras on The Walking Dead. First Debbie went loopy, then Caleb collapsed and Cydney broke down. Dr. Joe had ice packs, water bottles, and battlefield wisdom for them all. (Though for some reason, just one umbrella?)
Moments of crisis bring out the best in the Survivor team. It looked like chaos, but it revealed such incredible order and discipline: Dr. Joe summoned choppers and intravenous injections with a wave of his hand.
Meanwhile, Jeff Probst hopped from Debbie to Cydney to Caleb, all while narrating the reward challenge, translating what was happening for the viewers, and overseeing a genuine medical crisis. Let's get this guy a fifth Emmy. He really is the best in the business. When was the last time Tom Bergeron called in the helicopters for Dancing with the Stars?
The medical team takes tremendous care of us contestants, but they never coddle us. Dr. Joe monitors our wounds for infection, but he doesn't kiss our booboos. Even when my feet were swollen to prehistoric size, the only aid he could give me was the advice to "try and keep them dry" – not so easy in a monsoon. He reminds me of a very handsome high school gym coach. If you have all your limbs intact, his general prescription is "walk it off." But if you do lose that leg, by god he'll sew it back on with bamboo fiber.

That's exactly how Survivor is supposed to be. Tough – but survivable.

Poor Beauty tribe. You could tell what they were all thinking: "Leave us Caleb, our charming challenge champion. Take Nick instead!"
But alas, the Survivor Gods are cruel, and Caleb was whisked to the skies – though with the promise that he would one day return to save us all.

Oh, And Alecia?

The episode's other elimination was an afterthought. Even Jeff kind of shrugged his shoulders about that whole Tribal Council thing.

"You guys want to just do it here? We spent a ton of money on that chopper. I'd love to save on torch fuel."

I wonder if Scot and Jason let Alecia flub the Immunity Challenge by not tagging in. Losing Alecia before a swap or a merge is a pretty good plan for the two of them, given how thoroughly they've alienated her.
(Another good plan would have been - maybe don't alienate Alecia in the first place.)

Alecia to her credit didn't "pull a Posley" and agree to an early Tribal Council demise. She refused to be bullied out of the game. Nevertheless there was no question at Tribal whose torch would be snuffed.

Poor Alecia. I had high hopes that she might upend the Aggro Trio of Jason, Scot, and Cydney. Though apparently they're actually bullying her as an inspirational lesson to young girls everywhere?

To be fair, it's easy to judge players like Jason and Scot without having walked a challenge in their sneakers. I might get testy with Alecia too, after an hour of digging in scorching sand while she kicked around little clumps in a pointless attempt at "helping."

I've survivored with a couple maddening players myself, who taught me new depths of patience. They come off as bullied underdogs, but ask anybody who played with them, and you'll hear tales of homicide narrowly averted. The long buildup, the agonizing hours of enduring their complaints and sullen glares, never quite translate to TV. When someone finally snaps, that plays great on camera.
I'm not defending Scot and Jason. At best they're being dismissive jerks. At worst, they're sabotaging their own games by treating another player with disdain in front of the entire cast.

But everybody on Survivor is struggling to be their best selves in the brutal elements. Everybody acts a little crazy, irritable, weepy, or mean (with the exception of beautiful, transcendent Tai.) Nobody keeps it completely together for 39 days. That's why it's such an amazing show.

We're lucky if we can walk out of the game ourselves – instead of being shuttled away into the sky.

Now Bette Midler Challenges Kim Kardashian to Use Her Naked Selfie for Charity

Now Bette Midler Challenges Kim Kardashian to Use Her Naked Selfie for Charity
Bette Midler isn't done with Kim Kardashian's controversial selfie.

On Wednesday, three days after the reality star posted the now infamous pic, Midler took to Twitter and challenged Kardashian to make her selfie count.

"@KimKardashian Put your selfie to work…for a good cause! Donate, RT, I'll match $ 2-1," the actress tweeted, providing a link to her charity Stages for Success, which aims to update auditoriums in public schools for children who are interested in performing.

Attached to the tweet is a photoshopped image of the Hocus Pocusstar holding a cardboard sign over her body – and she's wearing only a bra and underwear.
Before asking the mother of two for a donation, Midler took a moment to address Kardashian's tweet from Monday, in which she jokingly asked Midler for nudes.

"@KimKardashian wants me to send her my nudes! I'll send them right over but the lighting's bad right now since she threw all that shade," she wrote.

The two celebs have been going blow for blow for the past couple of days, since Midler criticized Kardashian for posting the snap, saying that she would have to "swallow a camera," if she "wants us to see a part of her we've never seen."

In an out of character Twitter spree, Kardashian hit back at Midler, calling her out for "trying to be a fake friend," referencing a time that Midler sent the Keeping up with the Kardashians star a gift before she attacked her on social media.

Since the debacle started, Mrs. West has shared how embracing her body makes her feel liberated. She has not, however, responded to Midler's charity request.

Hillary Clinton Confronts Prospect of Being Indicted Over Her Private Email Server: 'Not Going to Happen'

Hillary Clinton Confronts Prospect of Being Indicted Over Her Private Email Server: 'Not Going to Happen'
Much of Wednesday night's Univision-sponsored Democratic debate, which took place at Miami Dade College in Florida, was devoted to questioning a handful of Hillary Clinton's past actions, beginning with her using a private email server while serving as secretary of state.

When asked whether she would drop out of the presidential race if she is indicted because of this usage, Clinton became uncharacteristically exasperated.

"Oh, for goodness – it's not going to happen," she said, after reiterating that none of the emails sent over her private server were marked as classified at the time. "I'm not even answering that question."

Clinton, 68, was also asked to address a recent poll showing that only 37 percent of Americans consider her honest and trustworthy.

Obviously, it's painful for me to hear that," she said. "I have very much committed, to the best of my ability, my energies to helping people. I will continue to do that, to demonstrate by my past actions and levels of commitment and plans that people can count on me."

She added: "I am not a natural politician like my husband and likePresident Obama ... I can just hope that people see that I am fighting for them and that I can improve their lives."

Clinton also went head-to-head with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders over several issues, most notably that of their respective immigration policies. Although they were each attacked for their past voting records on immigration bills, both promised that they would not deport undocumented immigrant children or undocumented immigrants without criminal records.

"I am committed to introducing comprehensive immigration reform and a path to legitimate citizenship within the first 100 days of my presidency," Clinton said. "My priorities are to deport violent criminals, terrorists or anyone who threatens our safety."

After hearing the story of an immigrant from Guatemala whose husband was deported, leaving their five children fatherless for more than three years, Sanders, 74, explained his own immigration policy.
"The essence of what we are trying to do is to unite families, not to divide families," he said. "The idea that a mother is living here and her children are on the other side of the border is wrong and immoral. I will do everything I can to unite your family."
In contrast to their strong feelings about immigration reform, when asked outright whether Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a racist, both Clinton and Sanders shied away from giving too harsh of an answer.

"People can draw their own conclusions about him, but I will just end by saying this: You do not make America great by getting rid of everything that made America great," Clinton said, condemning his actions as "un-American" and "not at all in keeping with American values."

Sanders added: "The American people are never going to elect a president who insults Mexicans, who insults Muslims, who insults women, who insults African-Americans."
The debate comes on the heels of Sanders' surprising win in Tuesday's Michigan primary. Although Clinton has won almost twice as many delegates as Sanders so far, the tables could still very well turn in Sanders' favor. 857 delegates will be at stake when Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri voters all cast their ballots on March 15, and states like Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Alaska, Washington, Hawaii, Wisconsin and Wyoming, all of whom will host primaries and caucuses in the next month, "look quite strong" for Sanders, according to FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver.

Notorious B.I.G. Quotes And Lyrics: 18 Sayings To Remember Biggie Smalls On March 9 Anniversary

Notorious B.I.G. Quotes And Lyrics: 18 Sayings To Remember Biggie Smalls On March 9 Anniversary


It’s been nearly 20 years since the Notorious B.I.G. was tragically shot and killed March 9, 1997, when he left a party hosted by Vibe magazine in Los Angeles. He was 24. His killer has still not been identified.

The rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was one of the best in the game at the time he was slain. Biggie Smalls, as he was also known, put himself on the map with his debut album, “Ready to Die.” Nineteen years after his untimely death, his masterful lyrics still resonate with fans. To celebrate his life, some of his best quotes and song lines are listed below:

1."Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant."

2. "Biggie Smalls is the illest. Your style is played out, like Arnold wondered, ‘What you talkin' bout Willis?’"

3. "It was all a dream. I used to read Word Up magazine. Salt-N-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine. Hangin' pictures on my wall. Every Saturday Rap Attack, Mr. Magic, Marley Marl, I let my tape rock till my tape popped."

4. "We can't change the world unless we change ourselves."

5. "If you don’t know, now you now."

6. "I’m living every day like a hustle. Another drug to juggle, another day another struggle."

7. "While we out here, say the hustlas' prayer. If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man."

8. "Yes it's me, the B.I.G / Competition ripper ever since 13 / Used to steal clothes was considered a thief / Until I started hustlin' on Fulton Street / Makin' loot, knockin' boots on the regular / Pass the microphone; I'm the perfect competitor."

9. "If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart."

10. "I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain’t coming back from that."

11. "Poppa been smooth since days of Underoos / Never lose, never choose to, bruise crews who / Do something to us, talk go through us / Girls walk to us, wanna do us, screw us / Who us? Yeah, Poppa and Puff"

12. "Take a better stand. Put money in my mom’s hand. Get my daughter this college plan, so she don’t need no man."

13. "Catch me if you can like the gingerbread man."

14. "Forgive me for my disrespect; forgive me for my lies."

15. "I'm seeing body after body and our Mayor Giuliani / Ain't tryna see no black man turn to John Gotti / My daughter use a potty, so she's older now / Educated street knowledge, I'ma mold her now"

16. "If Faith had twins, she'd probably have two Pacs, Get it, Tupac's?"

17. "And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it."

18. "We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us / No heat, wonder why Christmas missed us / Birthdays was the worst days / Now we sip champagne when we thirsty."

Hillary Clinton loses to Bernie Sanders in stunning Michigan primary upset

Hillary Clinton loses to Bernie Sanders in stunning Michigan primary upset


Vermont senator had trailed in polls by more than 20 points but opposition to free trade and growing African American support won votes in rust-belt state

Bernie Sanders pulled off his biggest win of the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday, defeating Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary on a night which also confirmed strong anti-establishment support for Donald Trump in the battle for the Republican nomination.


In an industrial state hit hard by the decline of manufacturing, the Vermont senator’s consistent opposition to free trade deals appears to have been a decisive factor, but he also showed signs of weakening Clinton’s dominance among African American voters.


The shock victory – by a margin of around 3 percentage points when his win was first projected by Associated Press – comes despite Sanders trailing the former secretary of state by an average of 21 points in recent opinion polling.

“What tonight means it that the Bernie Sanders campaign, the people’s revolution that we are talking about, is strong in every part of the country and frankly we believe that our strongest areas are yet to happen,” said the senator at a hastily arranged press conference in Miami.

“I want to thank the people of Michigan who repudiated the polls which had us down 20-25 points and repudiated the pundits who said Bernie Sanders wasn’t going anywhere,” he added.

With 130 delegates, Michigan was the second-largest prize of the election so far, but the proportional system used throughout the presidential primary byDemocrats means Clinton will still end the night ahead thanks to a decisive win in Mississippi.

Her 83-16 point victory there, bolstered by overwhelming support among African American voters, was widely expected and matched similar wipe-outs for Sanders elsewhere in the south. Exit polls showed that 89% of black voters in Mississippi’s Democratic primary supported Clinton and made up 69% of the electorate.

Yet Sanders’ success in Michigan was helped by the fact he significantly improved his performance with African American voters. While Sanders had struggled in the south to get above 15% of the vote with black people, exit polls in Michigan showed the Vermont senator winning 30% of the African American vote. In an electorate that was a quarter African American, the improvement in Sanders’ margin was enough to make the race unexpectedly competitive for him.

The question now is whether Sanders can build on recent momentum to make the national race competitive again.

Before Tuesday’s elections, Clinton was ahead of Sanders by 673-477 pledged delegates and – with the vast majority of super delegates too – was nearly halfway to securing the 2,383 needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.

But she has yet to win a state in the north by a convincing margin – squeaking wins in Iowa and Massachusetts by only a few thousand voters – and Sanders won three of the latest four states voting over the weekend.

Crucially, several big battlegrounds next week share a similar demographic profile with Michigan, including Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, which vote on Tuesday 15 March.

But first, the two candidates are expected to clash again on the economy at a televised debate in Miami on Wednesday night.

Tempers frayed at the last debate in Flint, Michigan, at the weekend, when Clinton accused Sanders of voting against the auto industry bail-out – a charge he vehemently denies and that appears not to have swayed voters at the centre of the US car industry.

As final votes were being tallied on Tuesday night, it appeared Clinton was ahead in Detroit itself, but tied in Flint, where the two also clashed over who was doing more to help the city with its recent water crisis.

At a party for Clinton supporters in Detroit, many were shocked as results began to flood in – especially as just a day earlier their candidate had effectively called on Sanders to drop out and “end the primary”.

“I’m on the edge of my seat,” said US representative Brenda Lawrence of Michigan, a Clinton supporter. “We worked so hard for this.”

Some supporters wandered out of the bar about 10pm, confident that she would pull off a victory.

“We got this,” one woman shouted back at me as she left the bar. She patted the man next to her on the shoulder. “We’re going to win this.”

But Mike Newbecker, a field engineer and business owner based in Newport, Michigan, wasn’t as confident. “You can’t take any state for granted,” he said.

In his view, a loss in Michigan wouldn’t dent Clinton’s prospects but it could energise Sanders supporters and push the Democratic primary into the summer.

“He’s a good guy. I like his message, and we’re going to need his help in the general,” he said.

Death of the "fifth Beatle" George Martin

Death of the "fifth Beatle" George Martin

Like others, drummer Pete Best, bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, pianist Billy Preston or manager Brian Epstein, the title of "fifth Beatle" had often been assigned. And although his work with one of the most famous rock bands and pop of the 1960s will not represented that part of his career, it is through this collaboration that the British producer George Martin, who died in age of 90 years on the night of March 8 to 9, should remain in the history of music popular. Leaving the group the latitude to experiment in the studio, at a time and in a phonographic company (EMI) where it was unusual, bringing his knowledge of music, arrangement for recordings becoming during the ascent Beatles increasingly sophisticated, suggesting the right idea at the right time, George Martin has brought his experience, his ear to the compositions of the group. His death was announced on the night of 8 to 9 March by a tweet drummer Ringo Starr.


Student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Born January 3, 1926, in London, in a modest background - his father is a carpenter - George Martin served in the British Navy between 1943 and 1947 before studying piano and oboe, arrangement and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. This is the department of classical public service radio BBC he made ​​his professional debut before being hired in early 1950 by Parlophone, one of the labels of the Phonographic company EMI Records. He oversees and produced his first recordings - jazz, cabaret music, folk, traditional music, children's discs - and specializes in actors records as Peter Ustinov, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, who win a mainstream success.In 1955, he became head of Parlophone. Rock'n'roll US will soon surge on Europe and Great Britain in particular.
"It is their character, charisma, enthusiasm that attracted me," George Martin, Beatles producer

At the beginning of February 1962, in search of a group that comes in contact with Brian Epstein, the manager of The Beatles. The group, who learned his trade in the clubs of Hamburg and Liverpool, failed to convince the other label. Following a hearing on June 6, Martin decided to sign the group, without being at the time totally convinced. Further tests will take place until the recording of Love Me Do, September 4, with Ringo Starr on drums, who replaced Pete Best. 45- The first rounds of the Beatles out October 5, 1962 with the B-side PS I Love You. Both songs signed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney will provide in the years to come most of the Beatles' compositions.



During a meeting with our colleague Bruno Lesprit, published in Le Monde of 7 January 1998, George Martin recalled: "In fact their first songs were not that good. Only Love Me Do and PS I Love You hold water. It is their character, charisma, enthusiasm that attracted me. And then the flower has blossomed. In less than a year, they began towrite terrifying songs. " The success and soon Beatlemania will come with the 45s next Please Please Me , in January 1963. It is from the sessions of the album Rubber Soul,which appears at the beginning of December 1965 that the Beatles music will is more complex and that the role of George Martin will take important. Strings, winds, keyboards, sound effects will soon dress recordings of the group, in close collaboration with Martin. He will receive the first two of his six Grammy Awards for his productionSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , Album of the Year in 1967.

In 1965, Martin left Parlophone, while remaining the official producer of the Beatles. It is to him that after the band split in 1970, we will look regularly at reissue campaigns, including commemorative operation Anthology in 1995. He founded the Associated Independent Recording structure (AIR) in 1965 and works independent for other artists; what he has done including Gerry & the Pacemakers or Shirley Bassey. He also composed his first film music. One of his most famous is the one that comes in 1973 one of the films in the James Bond series, Live and let die ( Live and Let Die ), the title song is sung by Paul McCartney. He had already produced in 1964 for the song Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey.
Collaborations with Elton John, Kate Bush,


Martin's reputation outside the Beatles led him to work for such diverse musicians as saxophonist Stan Getz in 1969, the jazz-rock band Mahavishnu Orchestra, the trio America, guitarist Jeff Beck, groups or Cheap Trick Ultravox, Neil Sedaka, Elton John, Kate Bush, Celine Dion ... in 1969 he opened the first AIR Studio in Oxford Street, London. In 1979, a second resort is located in Montserrat, West Indies, where the elite street of rock and pop. The studio will be seriously damaged in 1989 following a hurricane, and closed. It's in Hampstead in 1991 that George Martin opened its third facility in a Victorian church. He will find Paul McCartney repeatedly for discs Tug of War, Pipes of Peace , Give My Regards to Broad Street , or on the songs Ebony and Ivory , a duet with Stevie Wonder, or Say Say Say , duet with Michael Jackson.

Gentleman exquisitely polite, George Martin was knighted in 1996 for "services to music and culture, popular."

Death threats, vitriol all in a day's work to block Trump's path to nomination

Death threats, vitriol all in a day's work to block Trump's path to nomination
Capital Download this week with Katie Packer, deputy campaign manager for Mitt Romney in 2012 and now head of Our Principles, the leading super PAC devoted entirely to stopping Trump -- with financing from some of the GOP's biggest contributors.


WASHINGTON — The veteran Republican strategist who is leading a super PAC aimed at blocking Donald Trump from winning the GOP presidential nomination says she wakes up to death threats every morning.

"I don't suggest that's all of Donald Trump supporters," says Katie Packer, organizer of the group Our Principles, now airing millions of dollars in TV ads in Florida and elsewhere targeting the real-estate mogul. "But he does seem to have brought out a group of people that used to feel like they needed to sort of keep quiet because what they say isn't acceptable in polite society, and Donald Trump seems to have given them permission to just speak their mind."

She calls the flood of emails and tweets threatening to kill her, her family and her dog "the most hateful vitriol that I've ever encountered in 25 years in politics," worse than the anti-Mormon messages she received when she was deputy campaign manager for Mitt Romney in 2012.

In an interview on Capital Download, Packer, 48, says Trump, the Republican front-runner who has won 12 of the 19 states' primaries and caucuses held so far, "absolutely" can still be stopped — but not for long. If he wins the winner-take-all Florida and Ohio primaries next week, she acknowledges, "it's much tougher.

The super PAC she launched in January, boosted by a $3 million contribution from Republican mega-donor Marlene Ricketts, has aired ads and sent direct mail to voters portraying Trump as a con man and a fraud who is neither conservative nor a Republican. One 60-second ad, titled "Scam," focuses on students who enrolled in Trump University and are now suing him.

"Don't believe the millions of dollars of phony television ads by lightweight Rubio and the R [Republican] establishment," Trump countered in a tweet Monday. "Dishonest people!"

Packer acknowledges that there's no guarantee the late-starting efforts will undermine Trump, who has brushed off attacks by Republican rivals and furors over his own inflammatory statements. "He's tapped into a lot of anger," she told USA TODAY's weekly video newsmaker series. "And there are a lot of people out there who I think just want to give a big middle finger to Washington, D.C., and they think he'll do that."

Now, her best-case scenario is to prevent Trump from winning the 1,237 delegates needed for nomination at the Republican National Convention in July, starting with a victory in Ohio by Gov. John Kasich and one in Florida by Sen. Marco Rubio. Then, she says, the other contenders, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, could "maybe put together some kind of unity ticket" to amass a majority of delegates.

No matter who wins the nomination, she sees a civil war ahead for the Republican Party. "There is huge disagreement about who should lead our party and what is sort of the core mandate of our party moving forward."

Arsenal ended a run of five games without a win by beating Hull in an FA Cup fifth-round replay to secure a quarter-final against Watford.

Arsenal ended a run of five games without a win by beating Hull in an FA Cup fifth-round replay to secure a quarter-final against Watford.

The Gunners were gifted the lead when Hull's David Meyler set up Olivier Giroud to slot home.

Aaron Ramsey almost scored an own goal to let Hull back in but Giroud volleyed in to extend Arsenal's lead.

Theo Walcott wrapped up the victory for the holders when he side-footed in and then rifled in a late shot.

Relive Arsenal's win over Hull
Giroud and Walcott back in groove

Giroud celebrated the birth of his baby boy on Monday and manager Arsene Wenger hoped it would inspire him to break his 11-game scoring drought.

The France striker was restored to the starting line-up, along with fellow forward Walcott, but the pair initially struggled against Hull, who had not conceded in six previous home games.

The Tigers were employing a three centre-back formation and rarely looked like being breached until Meyler's mistake allowed Giroud to slot in his first goal since 13 January.

Walcott's form has also been a concern and, although he looked short of confidence, he set up Giroud's second before looking like his former self when his late double gave him his first goals in five games.

Despite a return to winning ways for manager Arsene Wenger's side, some Gunners fans held up a banner reading 'Arsene, thanks for the memories but it's time to say goodbye'.
Arsenal's injury troubles mount

The priority for both of these teams are their league campaigns as Arsenal remain in the hunt for the Premier League title, while Hull are challenging for promotion from the Championship.

The home side made seven changes and the Gunners six, with the visitors forced into more of a reshuffle when centre-back Per Mertesacker went off injured early on after a clash of heads with Nick Powell.

Arsenal were playing their sixth game in 18 days and, with centre-back Laurent Koscielny already sidelined, the exit of fellow defender Gabriel in the second half has provided the Gunners with problems at the heart of their defence.

Gabriel's replacement in midfielder Aaron Ramsey lasted only 16 minutes before an apparent shoulder injury ended his participation and Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger now faces a selection dilemma against Watford on Sunday.

His side may be attempting to win a third successive FA Cup but, after their last-eight tie, they will attempt an unlikely Champions League comeback from 2-0 down at Barcelona before returning to league action.
Hull goalscoring struggles continue
Hull's main threat came from set-pieces, with one particular free-kick causing panic in the Arsenal area before David Meyler forced keeper David Ospina into a smart save.


Powell's effort from the rebound was parried and Ahmed Elmohamady slotted in, but the assistant referee had already flagged for an offside decision Hull may feel aggrieved by.

However, Hull failed to capitalise on Arsenal's problems at the back and when a rare chance came their way striker Mohamed Diame sent a header wide from eight yards.

Indeed, the closest the home side came was when Ramsey sent a header wide of his own goal and Steve Bruce's men have now scored only once in six games.
Man of the match - Olivier Giroud


Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger speaking to BT Sport: "It was a shock as we lost our two centre-backs in the game and then we lost Aaron Ramsey.

"Mertesacker is not serious, just a little concussion, and I think Gabriel looks all right but for Ramsey I am little bit more concerned.

"It's a thigh injury, but apart from that we have played well."

Hull boss Steve Bruce: "I don't think it's a fair reflection. We've given away two awful goals.

"The one on the first half is one of those horrible ones and when you play against Arsenal - one of the top teams - or anybody for that matter then you cannot give goals away like that."
The stats you need to know
Arsenal scored with their first shot on target in this match - the third successive game that they have done this.
Arsenal have never lost an away FA Cup match against lower league opposition under Arsene Wenger (W12 D4)
The Gunners have won each of their last six visits to Hull in all competitions, scoring at least twice on each occasion.
Hull conceded three or more goals in a competitive home game for the first time since Arsenal won 3-1 there in the Premier League in May 2015.

Will Erin Andrews really get $55 million?

Will Erin Andrews really get $55 million?
Fox sportscaster Erin Andrews won a jury award of $55 million for invasion of privacy because Michael David Barrett, who stayed in a room next to hers in a Nashville hotel, hacksawed away a peephole to videotape her nude and then posted the footage on the Internet. Barrett went to jail for what he did.


In the civil trial, the jury found Barrett responsible for 51 percent of Andrews's severe emotional distress and other damages and found the hotel responsible for 49 percent of her damages. That makes Barrett responsible for a little over $28 million and the hotel responsible for a little under $27 million.

Tennessee, where the trial took place, is one of 18 states where a defendant is only responsible for paying his/her/its share of the damages they caused, subject to certain exceptions, according to a recent survey by the law firm Wilson Elser. It can be any percentage the jury decides and that determination is guided by the arguments of the lawyers and the instructions from the judge. (There are seven states where a defendant is responsible only for its share of fault without exception. Click here to see the full Wilson Elser survey on what the law is in all 50 states.)

The next step will be post-trial motions before this judge about what the judgment will say and who will be responsible for what. Inevitably, the next step will be an appeal.

How this will play out is both simple and complicated.


Here's the simple part. Andrews will collect little money from Barrett. An ESPN report labeled Barrett "a Chicago-area insurance executive who frequently traveled around the country." But the criminal and civil proceedings presumably have drained at least most of his assets. That makes him what's called judgment-proof. That seems unfair, especially since many would agree with Barrett's own assertion that he alone bears responsibility for what happened to Andrews.


But what counts is that the jury disagreed and found that the hotel was almost as blameworthy as Barrett was for Andrews's past and ongoing severe emotional suffering. The jury accepted Andrews's contention that the whole incident wouldn't have happened had the hotel staff not been careless in: (1) telling Barrett that Andrews was a guest at that hotel; (2) disclosing her room number; and (3) granting Barrett's request to be placed in a room next to hers.



The jury rejected the hotel's contention that the incident was entirely the responsibility of a determined criminal, not an inattentive hotel staff. As Andrews reportedly testified, "This could've been stopped." The hotel "could've just called me and said, 'We're putting this man that requested to be next to you [in the adjoining room], is this OK?' And I would've called the cops and we would've gotten him."

Maybe — or maybe not. Reasonable minds can disagree about who has the better side of that argument. That's why we have trials. That's not the complicated part of the story. This is.


Remember that Tennessee is one of the states that splits responsibility for damages but it is subject to certain exceptions.


If the general rule under Tennessee law applies, then the hotel will be on the hook for "only" the $27 million in harm the jury found the hotel caused Andrews (based on the jury's 49-51 percent split verdict).

If the judge decides an exception applies, it could make the hotel responsible for the whole $55 million. A court may conclude that the hotel should have foreseen that, by negligently sharing Ms. Andrews' hotel information with Barrett and agreeing to put him in the room next door, Barrett would intentionally videotape Andrews nude resulting in all of the harm to her that followed. The Tennessee Supreme Court has said that, if the victim of wrongdoing can show all of that, a negligent party like the hotel may be responsible for paying even for the damages caused by an intentional wrongdoer like Barrett.

It's worth noting that the deep-pocketed corporate defendant (Marriott) was dismissed months ago because the hotel where this happened is independently owned and run. The hotel may be only barely more able to pay its share of the judgment than Barrett is able to pay his, depending on the availability of insurance coverage. If the case doesn't settle, the next significant stop may be bankruptcy court.


There is some doubt that Andrews will be able to show that the hotel could have predicted that, according to Barrett's testimony, he would call the hotel closest to the Vanderbilt football game that Ms. Andrews was in town to cover and get hotel reservation staff to confirm she would be staying there by pretending he was in a group with her. And then that hotel staff could have predicted that Barrett would use an in-house employee phone to learn Andrews's room number from staff. And then that hotel staff could have predicted that, by agreeing to Barrett's request for an adjoining room, the hotel was providing him the opportunity to make his invasive video.

Courts don't require hotels or other businesses to be clairvoyant. This may be a reach.


But Andrews doesn't have to show all of that to hold the hotel responsible for the $27 million in damages the jury said the hotel caused her.


Of course, it is also possible that the hotel will end up paying Andrews nothing, that some judges or justices down the line will find that the hotel wasn't responsible at all for Andrews's shattering experience. That's why we have appeals.


Commentary by Dan Eaton, a partner with the San Diego law firm of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek where his practice focuses on defending and advising employers. He also is a professor at the San Diego State University College of Business Administration where he teaches classes in business ethics and employment law.

Clara Rockmore: The story of the theremin virtuoso who inspired Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones

Clara Rockmore: The story of the theremin virtuoso who inspired Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones


Clara Rockmore was a pioneer of electronic music and, had she still been alive, would have turned 105 today.

Rockmore was a master of the theremin - the world's first electronic music instrument and first instrument that could be played without being touched. The theremin inspired the likes of the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and the Beach Boys. And was the instrument that led to the creation of the first synthesizer.

On what would have been her 105th birthday, Rockmore has been commemorated with a Google Doodle. The interactive game teaches you to play the theremin by hovering your mouse over the notes to play a melody.
Who was Clara Rockmore?

Rockmore was a talented musician from a very young age, and she went to be a pioneer of electronic music.

From the age of two she was pitch perfect and could identify melodies on the piano. At four she became the youngest ever violin student to be accepted to the St Petersburg Imperial Conservatory. She had to perform her audition standing on a table, because she was still so small, according to the Nadia Reisenberg and Clara Rockmore Foundation.

Her life was thrown into turmoil when Rockmore's family decided to flee the USSR's revolutionary government. The Reisenberg family - as Rockmore was born - escaped in a horse-drawn carriage.

"It was a long journey," said Nadia Reisenberg, Rockmore's sister. "We had to cross many borders illegally, and we travelled without knowing whether or not we would ever reach a country from which we could get a visa to the US."

The family finally made it to the US in 1921, and soon after Rockmore developed arthritis in her bow arm. But her dream to be a musician wasn't over. In New York she met Louis Theremin, the inventor of the world's first electronic instrument.

"I was fascinated by the aesthetic part of it, the visual beauty, the idea of playing in the air," said Clara, according to the Foundation. "I tried it, and apparently showed some kind of immediate ability to manipulate it."

Rockmore switched to the theremin as her primary instrument and soon became its "star performer".

Rockmore was such a pioneering theremist, the name given to performers who played it, that she influenced the design of consecutive iterations of the theremin. In the late 1920s she helped her friend Louis Theremin add extra features to the design, including "aerial fingering" to change notes.
How did the theremin influence music?

You might recognise the sound of the theremin from the theme song to Midsomer Murders, and films such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, Spellbound and The Lost Weekend.

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page was also known for keeping a theremin onstage, which he played during extended versions of "Whole Lotta Love" and "No Quarter". And Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones used it in the band's 1967 albums "Between the Buttons" and "Their Satanic Majesties Request".

Another famous proponent of the theremin was Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Wilson thought the instrument's high-pitched, otherworldly voice was magical. The main melody of "Good Vibrations", the Beach Boys' first number one track that sold a million copies, was played on a theremin.

The theremin's greatest influence on contemporary music was probably its impact on Robert Moog, the creator of the first voltage-controlled synthesizer.

The Beatles, the Doors and the Byrds all used Moogs as part of their search for "psychedelic" sounds. When the Rolling Stones had a Moog shipped from the US customs officers spent three hours taking it apart to look for drugs.

The Devastating Truth Behind Marcia Clark’s Leaked Topless Photos

The Devastating Truth Behind Marcia Clark’s Leaked Topless Photos
The People v. O.J. Simpson only told part of the story.
BY
JOANNA ROBINSON


After some astonishing courtroom antics, incriminating L.A.P.D. testimony, and the mother of all perms, this week’s episode of The People v. O.J. Simpson ends in devastation after a topless photo of Sarah Paulson’s Marcia Clark is printed in The National Enquirer. Clark, publicly humiliated once more, dissolves into tears in the courtroom. It was a sharply-observed examination of sexism that happened to air on International Women’s Day. So did this all really happen to Clark? It all did and, in fact, it was even worse.

Speaking about the media circus at the time of the trial, Clark told Vogue last January, “There was no privacy. I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn’t even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn.” And in February she appeared on The View to say that watchingAmerican Crime Story was like “reliving a nightmare.” She called it a “painful experience” and said every bit was “awful and hard for me.”

But, surely, the hardest part had to come tonight as Clark was forced to relive the moment when her private photos were splashed across the pages of the National Enquirer. In FX’s fictionalized version of events, Clark says that it must have been her ex-husband, Gabriel Horowitz, who sold her photos. In truth, it was her ex-mother-in-law, Clara Horowitz, whosold her out to The National Enquirer. Woman on woman betrayal is always worse.

The photo was taken in 1979 and showed Clark topless on a St. Tropez beach with then-husband Horowitz. In the print edition, her breasts were censored with a black bar. Though Simpson’s lawyers weren’t directly responsible for the damaging photos, the so-called Dream Team was allegedly the inspiration. Clark wrote in in her 1997 memoir Without A Doubt:


In my mind’s eye, I could see Gaby and me and our Italian train-conductor friend. We were playful and giddy. I’d shed my top. It was so innocent. . . . I later learned that a private eye, hoping to curry favor with the Dream Team, had tracked her down in Israel and put her in touch with the Enquirer.

And, just as it played out in The People v. O.J. Simpson,Judge Lance Ito did dismiss the court that day. As Clark tells it, “I overestimated my own strength. No sooner had I taken my seat at the counsel table . . . I felt the tears welling up in my eyes. . . . Lance must have caught my distress, because, in a singular act of compassion, he quickly managed to recess court for the day.”

And even though the jury allegedly never saw the photos—they were sequestered thanks to some brutal fake photos of a battered Nicole Brown Simpson that had also been printed inThe National Enquirer—the damage to Clark’s reputation was done. The FX show reverses the timeline to show Clark having to publicly defend herself as a mother before the Enquirer spread. In fact, the photos ran in early February and Clark’s battle with her estranged husband Gordon didn’t hit headlines until March.

At the time Susan Reimer of The Baltimore Sun wrote a piece titled “Marcia Clark’s Trials Have Now Begun Outside the Courtroom.” It reads, in part, “I knew that when the National Enquirer ran those ancient photos of her in a topless bathing suit, it was only a matter of time before somebody went after Marcia Clark’s ability to mother her young sons.”

According to Reimer, pre-trial Clark didn’t have to concern herself much with her gender in the professional arena. “The earliest profiles of Clark described her as a foul-mouthed pool player who traded whiskey shots with cops in her off hours,” Reimer writes. “Her boss couldn’t say for sure that she had a family. A sharp mind and a sharper courtroom tongue. Just the kind of pit bull to put up against Simpson’s expensive legal talent.”

Clark describes it a little differently telling Vogue that as the “only female in the special trials unit for many years” she faced a “fair degree of sexism” but that “everybody kind of got over it when they saw you doing your job.”

But after she was thrust into the public spotlight, Clark’s experience changed entirely. As this week’s episode lays out, Clark appearance was under constant scrutiny and that narrative bled into pop culture. In a 1995 stand-up bit, comedian Dana Carvey fictionalized Clark having a hair-related melt down.

She was told to “talk softer, dress softer, wear pastels” and was forced to release a statement in defense of her parenting that read: “I am devoted to my two children, who are far and away more important to me than anything. I feel it is inappropriate of me to discuss details of my marital dissolution case or child custody issues in the media.”

For its part, The National Enquirer tried to put a positive empowering spin on their invasive photo spread captioning the photos as “the tough legal eagle as the world has never seen her: a carefree young woman enjoying fun, sun and the good life while romping on the world’s playgrounds.”

But while there’s certainly a feminist angle to Clark proudly being whoever she wanted to be whenever she wanted to be, the lack of consent here saps all self-empowering positivity. This was just the most egregious incident in a long public battle Clark fought against sexism.

Clark is, at least, grateful that the FX series has prompted more discussion about how women in the public eye are treated. “People will talk. That’s a good thing,” she toldPeople. “Sexism, no one wanted to talk about it. The S word never happened and no one wanted to talk about it even when I did the lecture tour. Women would stand up to me and say, ‘I didn't feel any sexism in the workplace.’ Good for you. And [series producer Ryan Murphy] did that, and I think that took guts and vision, and so it’s an amazing job.”

And not enough has changed. At the time of the trial, Reimer wrote of Clark’s public battle, “Only Hillary Clinton has gone through more repackaging for a public that still hasn't decided if it wants women to work, let alone be good at their jobs.” Fast forward 20 years and Clinton and her gender are back on trial and, ever the classy publication, the National Enquirer has re-posted the Clark photo on their website—this time without the benefit of censorship— in honor ofAmerican Crime Story.

Champions League Results: Final scores and news from Tuesday

We now know two of the quarterfinalists in this year's Champions League. On Tuesday, Real Madrid got past Roma to advance while Wolfsburg did the same against Gent. The Spanish and German teams are through into the final eight of Europe's top club competition. Here are the final results, what to know and tomorrow's schedule.


1. Real Madrid, as good as it gets when it comes to the Champions League

With the win, in which Cristiano Ronaldo found the net, Real Madrid was a bit fortunate. Roma had various chances and could have been up as much as 3-0 in the first half. But, the Spanish club did enough to hold on with Keylor Navas playing really well in goal, and it just continued the team's domination in the competition. Real Madrid has 10 Champions League titles and has now qualified for the quarterfinals six straight years.

2. Wolfsburg is gonna be a tough one for anybody

Wolfsburg was fortunate in getting Gent in the draw, but the Germans played very well and remained organized to advance. Now, depending on how things play out, most teams would prefer to get Wolfsburg in the next round, but it won't be a push over. After adding Julian Draxler this season, the club has taken a step up in play and looks more composed moving forward. It won Group B which including PSV and Manchester United, and the club was able to take care of the Belgians who were riding high through a fantastic defensive display for most of the 180 minutes. Wolfsburg will be the underdog in the next round unless they play PSV.

3. Mo chances, Mo problems

I really, really like Mohamed Salah. The former Chelsea and Fiorentina man, who is now with Roma, is someone I rate highly and I think can be one of the top talents in the world if his progression continues. He is confident and skilled, but he didn't look like it on Tuesday. He missed three fantastic chances which could have seen Roma back into the tie with Real Madrid. Even in second half with plenty of time, he messed up. Watch this.

Wednesday's schedule

Two more places will be booked in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Zenit hosts Benfica trailing 1-0, while Chelsea is down 2-1 while hosting PSG. Note that the Zenit-Benfica game starts at noon ET due to the time difference by playing in Russia.

All times ET
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016
LEAGUE HOME AWAY TIME PROVIDER
Champions League Zenit Benfica 12:00 pm ESPN Deportes
Champions League Chelsea PSG 2:45 pm FS1