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From the New York Times: Review of Secret Service Agents Follows White House Car Crash
Two senior Secret Service agents are under investigation for allegations that they crashed a government-issued car into a White House barricade after a night of drinking last week, prompting a new inquiry into personal misconduct by employees of the beleaguered law enforcement agency, officials said Wednesday.
The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service, is investigating the March 4 incident, according to a Secret Service spokesman. Officials said the two agents may have been drunk as they ran their car through security tape and then careened into a barricade at one of the entrances to the White House grounds.
One of the agents was a top member of President Obama’s protective detail, officials said.
From the
Washington Post:
The dollar will soon be worth more than the euro
You can see the dramatic decline in the Euro in this chart.
There's a currency war going on, and the United States is losing. As of Wednesday, the euro had fallen to a 12-year low of $1.05, down from as much as $1.39 just last year. That's a 30 percent drop in 11 months, to be exact, and there's no reason to expect it to stop anytime soon.
Now a strong dollar is good for anyone who's planning a trip overseas, but it's bad news for anyone who's planning on selling stuff there. That's why stocks fell, with markets sliding into negative territory for the year this week, as multinationals that depend on foreign sales took another hit. After all, it's not just the euro that's falling against the dollar, but almost every other currency in the world, too — with Turkey and South Africa's falling more than most on Tuesday.
Why is the dollar up so much? Well, the simple story is that the stronger your economy, the stronger your currency. The slightly more complicated version, though, is that currencies go up when monetary policy is relatively tight, and down when it's relatively loose. Now these should just be different ways of saying the same thing — since central banks raise rates when growth is too strong and cut them when it's too weak — but that's not always the case. Sometimes central banks make mistakes, like Europe did, and tighten policy when the economy is still weak, and sometimes they mistake zero interest rates, like Japan did, for easy policy when the economy is so weak it needs even more help than that.
But in any case, it's a lot simpler now. The U.S. economy is doing well enough that it's getting ready to raise rates, and the rest of the world is slowing down enough that it's cutting them.
From the
Los Angeles Times:
Immigrant border surge dips; crossings forecast to rise in summer
The number of Central American children and families illegally crossing the southern border, particularly in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, is likely to be smaller this year than last, but large enough to overwhelm shelters and courts, new Border Patrol statistics and projections show.
There were 12,509 unaccompanied youths, most of them from Central America, caught at the southern border during the first five months of the federal fiscal year that began in October, down 42% compared with the same time period last year, according to the latest Border Patrol figures. A total of 11,133 family members were caught at the border during this time period, 21% fewer than the same period a year before.
That means the Border Patrol is on pace to catch about 39,000 unaccompanied children and about 53,000 members of families on the southern border this fiscal year, according to Adam Isacson, a senior associate at the nonprofit Washington Office on Latin America, or WOLA. Isacson based his projection on past immigration patterns, which tend to increase March through July.
If the projections hold, it would represent a 43% decrease in unaccompanied children and an 23% decrease in family members this fiscal year compared to last.
But even with the projected decline, the number of family members crossing the border illegally would be more than triple the number in 2013, when 14,855 crossed.
From the
Associated Press:
Ferguson chief resigns in wake of scathing federal report
The police chief in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson resigned Wednesday in the wake of a scathing Justice Department report prompted by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer.
Calling Chief Thomas Jackson an “honorable man,” Mayor James Knowles III announced the city had reached a mutual separation agreement that will pay Jackson one year of his nearly $96,000 annual salary and health coverage.
Jackson’s resignation becomes effective March 19, at which point Lt. Col. Al Eickhoff will become acting chief while the city searches for a replacement.
From
Reuters:
Kerry tells Republicans: you cannot modify Iran-U.S. nuclear deal
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Republicans who control Congress on Wednesday they would not be able to modify any nuclear agreement struck between the United States and Iran.
Kerry said he responded with "utter disbelief" to an open letter to Iran on Monday signed only by Republican senators that said any deal would only last as long as U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, remains in office.
"When it says that Congress could actually modify the terms of an agreement at any time is flat wrong," Kerry, who has been negotiating a deal to rein in Iran's nuclear program in exchange for easing sanctions, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "You don't have the right to modify an agreement reached executive to executive between leaders of a country."
From
The Guardian:
Putin 'politically responsible' for Boris Nemtsov murder – daughter
The daughter of the murdered Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, has accused Vladimir Putin of being “politically responsible” for her father’s death.
Zhanna Nemtsova said that the motive for the killing was related to her father’s role over the last decade as, in her words, the most prominent critic of the president.
“He was the most powerful leader of the opposition in Russia,” she said in an interview conducted in Italy with BBC Newsnight.
“After his death the opposition is beheaded and everybody is frightened. People and politicians … both of them.”
From
NBC News:
Russia Claims Right to Deploy Nuclear Weapons in Crimea
Russia has the right to deploy nuclear arms in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year, a Foreign Ministry official reportedly said on Wednesday.
Mikhail Ulyanov, the head of the ministry's department on arms control, added that he knew of no plans to do so.
"I don't know if there are nuclear weapons there now," Ulyanov was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. " I don't know about any plans, but in principle Russia can do it."
On Tuesday, NATO's Black Sea members Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey joined four other alliance states in a multinational naval exercise just across the water from the Crimean Peninsula.
From
CBC News:
Utah could bring back firing squads due to execution drug supply concerns
Utah lawmakers have passed a bill that would make it the only state to allow firing squads for carrying out a death penalty if there is a shortage of execution drugs.
The passage of the bill by the state Senate on Tuesday comes as states struggle to obtain lethal injection drugs amid a nationwide shortage.
The bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Paul Ray of Clearfield, touted the measure as being a more humane form of execution. Ray argued that a team of trained marksmen is faster and more humane than the drawn-out deaths that have occurred in botched lethal injections.
The bill gives Utah options, he said. "We would love to get the lethal injection worked out so we can continue with that but if not, now we have a backup plan," Ray told The Associated Press.
From
Slate:
Global Warming Is Already Making Alaska Unrecognizable
Alaska is heating up at twice the rate of the rest of the country—a canary in our climate coal mine. A new report shows that warming in Alaska, along with the rest of the Arctic, is accelerating as the loss of snow and ice cover begins to set off a feedback loop of further warming. Warming in wintertime has been the most dramatic—more than 6 degrees in the past 50 years. And this is just a fraction of the warming that’s expected to come over just the next few decades.
Of course, it’s not just Alaska. Last month was the most extreme February on record in the Lower 48, and it marked the first time that two large sections of territory (more than 30 percent of the country each) experienced both exceptional cold and exceptional warmth in the same month, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. All-time records were set for the coldest month in dozens of Eastern cities, with Boston racking up more snow than the peaks of California’s Sierra Nevada. A single January snowstorm in Boston produced more snow than Anchorage has seen all winter. The discrepancy set off some friendly banter recently between the Anchorage, Boston, and San Francisco offices of the National Weather Service.
From
New York Magazine:
(Actually) True War Stories At NBC News
On the
January 30 broadcast of
NBC Nightly News, an image of a CH-47 Chinook with a hole in its tail was shown while Brian Williams recounted an incident that never happened.
While the Williams fiasco might seem to be the cause of NBC News’ struggles, viewed through a wider lens it looks more like the symptom of a much bigger problem. Over the past year, all of the NBC News marquee franchises—Today, Meet the Press, Nightly News—have been badly damaged by bungled talent decisions and control-room shake-ups. Taken together, the upheavals portray a news division that has allowed talent to take over. That was the theme that echoed through interviews with dozens of current and former NBC News journalists, executives, agents, and rival-network officials: “There’s no adult supervision,” one senior NBC executive tells me. “If you don’t manage, it turns into a bad version of Ron Burgundy,” says another ... The story of how things got this bad at NBC begins long before Brian Williams started getting his facts wrong (or at least long before he started getting called out for it). Steve Burke replaced Jeff Zucker as CEO of NBC Universal when Comcast took over the company in 2011. Although Burke was descended from television royalty—his father, Daniel Burke, had run Capital Cities, parent of ABC—he had no experience with news himself. So, a year after becoming CEO, he put all of NBC’s domestic news operations—NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC—under the command of Fili-Krushel, a former ABC television president and Time Warner executive, who, critics point out, also had no news experience.
It was a difficult brood to manage, with behind-the-scenes infighting often spilling out into the press and even on-camera. By 2012, then–NBC News president Steve Capus had all but stopped speaking to Jim Bell, the executive producer of Today, who Capus feared was angling for his job. Caught in the power struggle was Ann Curry, who was unceremoniously dumped from the morning show after a year of poor ratings in the anchor chair, resulting in a famously weepy on-camera good-bye. Morale was bad, and the press was brutal. Lauer, whom many blamed for Curry’s offing, never fully recovered his reputation. Burke ordered Fili-Krushel to clean up the mess. “He got so fed up with Capus and Bell,” a senior NBC staffer says. Bell left Today in December 2012 to oversee NBC’s Olympics coverage. Two months later, Capus resigned and Fili-Krushel was in the market for a new NBC News president.
From
Salon:
Lawrence Wright on Scientology’s “broken community,” and the complicity of Tom Cruise and John Travolta
Needless to say, the Church of Scientology and its secretive leader, David Miscavige, will not be overjoyed by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s explosive new documentary “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.” But the film’s depiction of the celebrity-centric self-help sect as a micro-Stalinist police state — dogmatic, autocratic and plagued with internal violence and abuse – is only part of the problem. What may be even worse, from the church’s point of view, is that Gibney and his collaborator and central interviewee Lawrence Wright (who wrote the exhaustively researched nonfiction book on which the film is based) depict Scientology as declining and beset by crisis, for all its real estate wealth and reflected Hollywood glamour.
Miscavige and his minions remain well insulated by their millions, but Wright believes the church is now down to a few thousand active members. In terms of pure numbers, there are far fewer Scientologists in America than there are Sikhs or Wiccans or Rastafarians. (Scientology may be on a numerical par with Zoroastrianism, an ancient faith that is likely to die out in another generation or two.) Furthermore, Scientology’s celebrity glitter, which drove the church’s growth in the ‘80s and ‘90s, has faded considerably. Tom Cruise and John Travolta, Scientology’s biggest Hollywood names, are now over 50; there are certainly younger professional actors in the church, including Elisabeth Moss and Michael Peña, but they are nowhere near as prominent or as outspoken. (Will Smith has consistently denied being a Scientologist, although he’s good friends with Cruise and appears to have been influenced by Scientology doctrines.)
From
CNET:
Twitter rule changes clamp down on revenge porn
Twitter is stepping up its battle against user abuse and harassment with new rules that prohibit the posting of revenge porn -- images of nudity or sexual acts posted without the subject's permission.
Twitter said Wednesday it would lock user accounts and hide content reported as being in violation of the new policies. User found to be posting such content for the purpose of harassment will have their accounts suspended, the social network said in an FAQ.
The changes, which Twitter said went into effect Wednesday, come as the social network grapples with bullying behavior it says is driving away users.
From
CBS News:
SAE trustees: "Horrible cancer" entered OU chapter
Leaders of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Oklahoma University issued a statement that says it "discovered that a horrible cancer entered into the OU chapter of of SAE three to four years ago and was not immediately and totally stopped, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan.
"It should have been. We are sincerely remorseful for the pain that this terrible chant has caused and would ask for forgiveness," the statement read.
This comes a day after two students were expelled in connection to the video of SAE members chanting a racist song that was caught on video.
Meanwhile, the University of Texas at Austin is investigating rumors that SAE members there used a similar fraternity song.
From the
San Francisco Chronicle:
Invest in $17,000 Apple watch? Face reality, some advise buyers
Thinking about spending $10,000 or more for the top-shelf edition of the new Apple Watch? Enjoy an aesthetic the company describes as “timeless and thoroughly modern,” but don’t count on passing it down to your kid.
Apple’s most expensive timepiece — named the Apple Watch Edition — features an 18-karat gold case and a display protected by polished sapphire crystal. Retailing for as much as $17,000 when it hits stores in April, that version aims at the same customers as Rolex and other luxury watchmakers.
While costly mechanical watches have a history of holding, and sometimes gaining, value, today’s smart watches are likely to lose it because obsolescence is written into digital technology. When the Apple II debuted in 1977, it was a marvel of modern computing. Today, it goes for $50 on eBay — less than many typewriters.
For buyers of Apple’s most expensive watches, what will happen when, presumably, the Apple Watch II hits shelves, or furthermore, if iPhones — which the smart watches largely depend on — go out of vogue?
From the
New York Times:
Alabama Looks Into Harper Lee’s Condition
The doubts arose almost immediately when HarperCollins announced last month that it would release a rediscovered book by Harper Lee: Did Ms. Lee — 88, publicity-shy and famously resistant to producing a follow-up to her masterpiece, “To Kill a Mockingbird” — really want to publish a second novel that she wrote and set aside more than a half-century ago?
Weeks later, that question remains a matter of passionate debate. Despite reassurances from her publisher, lawyer and literary agent that Ms. Lee has enthusiastically endorsed the publication, the controversy over the new book, “Go Set a Watchman,” has divided some residents of her hometown here, as well as longtime friends who live elsewhere. One faction argues that Ms. Lee’s mental health is too shaky for her to have knowingly authorized the new book, while the other just as vigorously affirms her competence.
Now the State of Alabama has been drawn into the debate. Responding to at least one complaint of potential elder abuse related to the publication of “Watchman,” investigators interviewed Ms. Lee last month at the assisted living facility where she resides. They have also interviewed employees at the facility, called the Meadows, as well as several friends and acquaintances.
From
The Atlantic:
Disabled and Fighting for a Sex Life
Millie Dollar sashays onto the stage in a green, feathered dress to conclude the evening’s entertainment with a sultry burlesque routine. The capacity audience at the ornate Epstein Theater in Liverpool is enraptured by her sensual beauty.
Burlesque, she says in an interview, gives her a way of communicating through costume, routine and dance—which she does with panache. What the audience can’t see, though, is the hearing condition that means she must work hard to follow the beat during her glamorous routine.
A number of disabled performers have taken to the stage to entertain mainstream audiences in recent years, although in her routines, Dollar (unlike some) does not refer to either her hearing impairment or her depression, which she writes about with candor and insight.
The internationally famed multi-disciplinary performer Mat Fraser has long explored the relationship between disability, entertainment, and sexuality. He is currently appearing in the popular TV series American Horror Story. He said in a recent interview: “When you are disabled the two things people think you can’t do are fight and have sex … so I’ve got a black belt and I’m really good at shagging. The physical pleasures in life are really important to me.”
From
Space.com:
Sun Unleashes 1st Monster Solar Flare of 2015
The sun unleashed its first superpowerful flare of the year on Wednesday (March 11), and the intense eruption was aimed directly at Earth, space weather experts say.
The monster X-class solar flare, the strongest category of sun storms possible, peaked at 12:22 p.m. EDT (1622 GMT) today, originating from a sunspot known as Active Region 12297 (AR12297). NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured stunning video of the huge X-class solar flare as it erupted.
AR12297 has fired off a number of medium-strength flares over the last few days. Wednesday's event ratcheted things up a notch, causing an hour-long blackout in high-frequency radio communications over wide areas, according to scientists with the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado. The SWPC is overseen by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
From
Buzzfeed:
How ISIS Uses Twitter To Recruit Women
In February, three teenage girls left their homes and families in London to travel to Syria and join ISIS.
Images of Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, were captured on CCTV at London’s Gatwick airport Feb. 18, before the girls boarded a flight to Istanbul, Turkey, Metropolitan Police said. They were later seen leaving a Turkish bus stop, likely en route to the Syrian border and ISIS-controlled territory.
Days before the girls’ departure, a Twitter account appearing to belong to 15-year-old Shamima Begum tweeted to an account associated with a female ISIS member known online as Umm Layth. Umm Layth is the name used online by Aqsa Mahmood, a 20-year-old woman who ran away from her home in Glasgow in November 2013 to join ISIS and marry a militant.
From
Rolling Stone:
Marvin Gaye's Family Seeks to Halt Sales of 'Blurred Lines'
Now that Marvin Gaye's family has won a copyright suit regarding the similarity of Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I.'s "Blurred Lines" and the soul icon's "Got to Give It Up," their lawyer wants to stop the sales of that song.
"We'll be asking the court to enter an injunction prohibiting the further sale and distribution of 'Blurred Lines' unless and until we can reach an agreement with those guys on the other side about how future monies that are received will be shared," attorney Richard Busch, who represents the Gaye family, tells Rolling Stone. "We'll be doing that in about a week or so."
A representative for Thicke, Williams and T.I. was not immediately available for comment.
A Los Angeles jury decided Tuesday that the "Blurred Lines" songwriters infringed on Gaye's 1977 hit "Got to Give It Up" and ordered them to pay Gaye's family $7.3 million in damages. The lawsuit started when the "Blurred Lines" songwriters filed a preemptive suit in August 2013 claiming that the hit single was "strikingly different" than "Got to Give It Up," fearing the Gayes would be litigious.
From
BBC News:
'Top Gear' Halted Over Clarkson Punch
The BBC is expected to scrap the remainder of the current Top Gear TV series after allegations that presenter Jeremy Clarkson punched a producer.
The broadcaster said Clarkson, 54, had been suspended after what it called a "fracas" and has confirmed Sunday's episode of Top Gear will not be shown.
It is understood the two final episodes in the series will also be dropped.
An online petition calling for the BBC to "reinstate" Clarkson has been signed by almost 250,000 people.
From the
A.V. Club:
Vince Gilligan says to quit throwing pizzas on the roof of the 'Breaking Bad' house
Hey, remember that episode of Breaking Bad where Walt tried to make a peace offering to Skyler by bringing a pizza over to the house, only to throw it up on the roof in frustration after Skyler turns him away? And then he goes on a bender and ends up calling Skyler and berating her over the answering machine? That was pretty funny, right? And wouldn’t it be even funnier if you, a person who is not the fictional character of Walter White on Breaking Bad, took a pizza over to the house where they shot that particular scene and threw it up on the roof as a symbol of your own anger issues? Well, it’s not.
Apparently the referential pizza-throwing has become such an issue that Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan was forced to address it on the Better Call Saul Insider podcast, where he said basically that simply doing something you’ve seen on television is not clever and that all you’re doing is making yourself look like a jackass by harassing the elderly couple who have lived in that house for 41 years. Here’s exactly what he said:
“They’re throwing pizzas on roofs and stuff like that. Let me tell you: There is nothing funny or original or cool about throwing pizzas on this lady’s roof. It is just not funny. It’s been done before. You’re not the first.”
From
TIME:
Watch the Trailer For Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
HBO has revealed the first full trailer for the upcoming Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck.
The film, which details the life of Nirvana front man, premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and has received rave reviews, writes Rolling Stone.
Directed by Brett Morgen, Montage of Heck follows the life of Cobain growing up in the Pacific Northwest and ultimately becoming a rock legend. Cobain’s wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean (who is executive producer of the film) also feature heavily.
From
The Hollywood Reporter:
The Uncensored, Epic, Never-Told Story Behind 'Mad Men'
Don Draper lived on hard drives for half a decade before anybody paid him any notice. In 1999, Matthew Weiner, then an unfulfilled writer on CBS' Ted Danson sitcom Becker, spent his every off-hour doing research on the 1960s: what people wore, how they decorated their offices, what they ate and drank (and smoked, and drank some more). Then, over six days in the spring of 2001, he sketched out his vision for a show about the staff of a boutique advertising agency — Sterling Cooper — and its stylishly debauched head pitchman. Nobody bought the script, but it landed Weiner a 45-minute call from David Chase, who hired him as a writer on HBO's The Sopranos.
Weiner's Madison Avenue opus sat in a drawer for another three years — until a cable network with zero experience in original scripted programming (formerly American Movie Classics) stepped in and self-financed a pilot. Today, nine years later, Mad Men, which on April 5 begins its final seven episodes, is a pop cultural phenomenon that not only has made stars out of its cast of unknowns — Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss and John Slattery — but also transformed AMC into one of the most influential networks on the dial and set off cable TV's gold rush for scripted dramas.
From the
Wall Street Journal:
Tim Burton to Direct Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ for Disney
Disney is betting that the man to make you believe an elephant can fly is Tim Burton.
The filmmaker behind “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,” “Batman,” “Big Eyes” and “Alice in Wonderland” will direct Disney’s coming live-action remake of “Dumbo,” Walt Disney Pictures president of production Sean Bailey said.
“Dumbo,” which is still in development and doesn’t have a release date, is one of a number of new films based on Disney animated classics that the studio has in the works, including this week’s “Cinderella,” next year’s “The Jungle Book” and “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass,” and a new “Beauty and the Beast” expected in 2017.
From the
Des Moines Register:
Slipknot Guitarist Stabbed in the Head By His Own Brother
A guitarist in the Grammy-winning Iowa band Slipknot was severely injured Wednesday in what Clive police called a knife fight with his brother.
Both men were hospitalized. Clive police identified them as Mickeal Gordon Thomson, 41, of Clive and Andrew John Thomson, 35, of West Des Moines. Citing Slipknot's manager, KCCI-TV reported that Mickeal Thomson is the Mick Thomson who performs with Slipknot.
Corey Taylor, lead singer of Slipknot, wrote a Twitter message Wednesday saying, "Mick Update: from what I've heard he's okay. We're sending him all your thoughts. Thank you for that."
From
Billboard:
Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars Notch 10th Week Atop Hot 100
Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring Bruno Mars, hits hallowed ground atop the Billboard Hot 100: It reigns for a 10th week, joining the exclusive club of leaders that have reigned for double-digit weeks.
As the collab dominates again, Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" spends an eighth week in the runner-up spot, but as an impressive consolation prize, it makes its own headlines on Billboard's pop and adult radio airplay charts.
As we do each Wednesday, let's run down the key numbers in the top 10 of the sales/airplay/streaming-based Hot 100:
"Funk!," released on RCA Records, becomes just the 29th No. 1 in Hot 100 history to lead for at least 10 weeks. If 29 seems like a high number, that's out of 1,041 leaders dating to the chart's Aug. 4, 1958, debut. In other words, only 3 percent of all Hot 100 No. 1s, now including "Funk," have logged rules of 10 weeks or more.
Some at-ten-tion-getting trivia: The first song to lead for at least 10 weeks? Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life," for 10 frames in 1977. The last before "Funk"? Pharrell Williams' "Happy," which led for 10 weeks last year and went on to become the Hot 100's No. 1 song of 2014. The song with the most weeks at the summit: Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day," which ruled for 16 weeks in 1995-96.
From
Cosmo:
So... How Many People Have You Had Sex With?
Just for fun, Elite Daily put a bunch of couples in a room and had them share aloud the number of people they've had sex with to each other for the first time.
"The number? Jesus. OK. Can we not say the number?" a man asks to silence. "When I was in college, those numbers got stupid," one man says. Another woman tells her partner she was "definitely more sexually adventurous in her youth."
One couple (who has been together 16 years!) is unsurprised to hear each others numbers. He says he's had sex with 100 people. She laughs.
Love is grand.