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Tom Brady tosses 500th career touchdown as Patriots roll to 38-24 win over Colts

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Tom Brady tosses 500th career touchdown as Patriots roll to 38-24 win over Colts

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Quality of news: Sports
Who: Tom Brady
What: He scored his 500th career touchdown pass
How: He tailed the ball to the new Patriots addition, Josh Gordon
Where: Indianapolis
When: October 4, 2018
Why: He made the touchdown pass to help his team win the game

Tom Brady tosses 500th career touchdown as Patriots roll to 38-24 win over Colts

Posted by Curtis Crabtree on October 4, 2018, 11:42 PM EDT

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Tom Brady tallied the 500th touchdown pass of his career to new Patriots addition Josh Gordon as New England rolled to a 38-24 victory over a depleted Indianapolis Colts roster on Thursday night.

Rookie Sony Michel rushed for 98 yards and a touchdown, James White caught 10 passes for 77 yards and a score and Julian Edelman added 57 yards on seven receptions in his return from suspension for the Patriots. Brady finished the night with 341 yards on 34 of 44 passing with three touchdowns, two interceptions and a rushing touchdown.

Brady became the third player in NFL history with 500 touchdown passes along with Peyton Manning (539) and Brett Favre (508). Gordon, though, was the 71st player to catch a touchdown pass from Brady, which set an NFL record.

Brady tossed a 1-yard touchdown to Cordarrelle Patterson and scored on a 1-yard quarterback sneak in building an early 14-0 lead for New England. After a 45-yard Adam Vinatieri field goal, Brady hit White for a 6-yard score and Stephen Gostkowski converted a 45-yard field goal of his own to give the Patriots a 24-3 lead at halftime.

Andrew Luck led the Colts to a touchdown drive on their second possession of the second half to begin to close the gap. Luck connected with tight end Eric Ebron for a 14-yard score to narrow the lead to 24-10. A pair of Brady interceptions set up another Indianapolis scoring drive to make it a one-score game. Luck connected with Erik Swoope for a 13-yard touchdown to cut the lead to 24-17.

But Brady and the Patriots would respond, marching 75 yards on six plays with the 500th touchdown coming to Gordon to push New England's lead to 31-17. A juggled pass by Zach Pascal was intercepted by Jonathan Jones and Michel would scamper 34 yards for a touchdown on the next play for the Patriots to put the game out of reach at 38-17.

Luck and Ebron would connect on a 1-yard score in the closing minutes to bring the final score to 38-24. Ebron caught nine passes for 105 yards and two touchdowns for the Colts.

Luck finished the night with 365 yards passing with three touchdowns and two interceptions on the night. He attempted 59 passes with 38 completions against the Patriots, which ranks as the second-most attempts in his career behind last Sunday's 62 attempts against Houston. If Frank Reich and the Colts were concerned about the reps on Luck's shoulder, the usage over the last two weeks doesn't show it.

The 341 passing yards are the most for Tom Brady in the regular season since Week Three last year when he threw for 378 yards against the Texans. It's his first 300-yard passing game in regular season since Week Eleven last year against the Oakland Raiders.

The Colts suited up just 44 players for the game due to a number of injuries heading into the game. A handful of players got banged up during Thursday's game as well.

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Tom Brady tosses 500th career touchdown as Patriots roll to 38-24 win over Colts

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Tom Brady tallied the 500th touchdown pass of his career to new Patriots addition Josh Gordon as New England rolled to a 38-24 victory over a depleted Indianapolis Colts roster on Thursday night.

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Red tide may be ‘natural,’ but scientists believe coastal pollution is making it worse

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Red tide may be ‘natural,’ but scientists believe coastal pollution is making it worse

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1 Christina Defelipe
2. Proximity
A. Who?  - Vince Lovko, other marine and environmental scientists
B. What? A federal study a decade ago concluded that man-made pollution exacerbates red tide, and it is widely believed that red tide, made up of Karenia brevis algae, gets seeded offshore at the bottom of the Florida shelf and carried inshore by bottom currents. As the algae gets close to coastal waters polluted by a host of sources, from farm and lawn fertilizer to leaky septic tanks, it can grow more intensely and create toxic blooms.
C. How?  This year’s red tide, the widespread death of fish began littering beaches and clogging canals as well with larger marine life, including sea turtles, dolphins, manatees and even a whale shark.
D. Where? Florida
E. When?  This year’s red tide first appeared in October off Sarasota. In June, it deepened.
F. Why?  Many people believe Florida politicians and business like Big Sugar are the cause.

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Vince Lovko, a phytoplankton ecologist at Mote Marine Lab, crisscrossed the waters off Longboat Key in his lab's Yellowfin fishing boat earlier this month with a crew of researchers, sampling sea water from a red tide that has slushed around Southwest Florida for nearly a year and littered beaches with dead manatees, sea turtles and rotting marine life.

Every few yards, dead herring, grass eels and pinfish floated by, peppering the water like a toxic stew. The water, cloudy and yellowish, looked like it was flushed from a toilet.

Lovko is part of a team tracking the tide and trying to fine-tune widely circulated satellite maps that show much of the state's Gulf Coast glowing bright red with toxic tide. But as Florida's summer of slime winds into fall, scientists like Lovko have also found themselves caught in an uncomfortable position: trying to referee a complicated and contentious political fight amid a heated election year where their research is getting twisted by competing interests - and sometimes leaving the public confused.

Just after Lake Okeechobee exploded with a massive blue-green algae bloom and water managers began flushing it to the coast, the red tide that started months earlier deepened, with the worst of the fish kills appearing in coastal waters fed by the vast lake's western relief outlet, the Caloosahatchee River.

The agriculture industry and some state regulators pushed back on any connection, calling red tide "naturally occurring." That's true. Outbreaks have been reported for centuries.

But a federal study going back more than a decade concluded that man-made pollution worsens red tide. That makes the lake, laced with high levels of the fertilizer nutrients phosphorus and nitrogen, a likely source. What's not clear, since the same nutrients get flushed from the coast, is whether it's definitely a source.

"That's some of the work that still needs to be done to conclusively answer, or at least somewhat conclusively answer," Lovko said.

One reason for that continuing uncertainty: Despite decades of recurring problems, the state has focused mostly on tracking red tides once they arrive, not on the pollution that's driving them. Over the last decade, the state gutted water quality monitoring that might help scientists understand red tide dynamics while shrinking agencies that investigate water and regulate pollution. Even those satellite maps Lovko is working on contain a fair amount of inaccuracy when toxic waters wash ashore.

"We think we understand this but we're flying blind," said University of South Florida oceanographer Bob Weisberg, echoing the frustration felt by University of Florida blue-green algae expert Karl Havens earlier this month. "We've never been able to get the state of Florida to commit, and it's further hampering our ability to predict red tide."

Too much money gets spent on bureaucracy, he said, and too little on actual investigation.

"That's been the problem in Florida as long as I've lived here," said Weisberg, whose lab issues annual red tide forecasts. "It's all political."

That's because some of the state's biggest political players have also been blamed for some of its worst pollution.

Earlier this month, U.S. Sugar issued a press release insisting lake water had nothing to do with the red tide.

"The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission(FWC) states in its frequently asked questions that red tide is not caused by nutrient pollution (urban or agricultural) and additionally, is not made worse by it, either," the release said. It also quoted Mote scientists from a Palm Beach Post story saying lake water did not "initiate" the tide.

In fact, FWC's web page clearly states that once red tides near shore, "they are capable of using man-made nutrients for their growth." And two days later, Mote environmental engineer Tracy Fanara tweeted a clarification saying lake releases could help sustain a bloom.

"If you have a [freshwater] cyanobacteria bloom, you know you have excess nutrients but [the cyanobacteria] might be lessening it as it gets out," she said. "But it's still a sign. That's an environmental ecological response to high nutrients."

Scientists widely agree that red tide, made up of Karenia brevis algae, gets seeded offshore at the bottom of the Florida shelf, then carried inshore by bottom currents. As the algae gets close to coastal waters polluted by a host of sources, from farm and lawn fertilizer to leaky septic tanks, it can grow more intensely and create toxic blooms.

"Once it's blooming, it does require nutrients to sustain a bloom," Weisberg said. Rotting fish can help feed it, but algae can also use nutrients flowing off land, he said. "So the lake runoff will not cause the red tide, but it can help sustain a red tide."

After a 2005 red tide exploded and persisted for 17 months, spreading fish kills across three states including Florida, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched a six-year research project. Researchers concluded the sources of nutrients that feed red tides are "multiple, diverse and complex," and included runoffs from estuaries like the one fed by the Caloosahatchee.

What's not well understood is why and how much those coastal nutrients influence outbreaks, Weisberg said.

In a 2007 study, Larry Brand, a University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science phytoplankton ecologist argued that increasing pollution has worsened red tide.

"It's a natural thing. You can go back 500 years. What I argue is that it's much worse today and that's the result of human-generated nutrients," he said. "Obviously, it's political. There's no one source and obviously some sources are more important than others."

But Lovko, the Mote ecologist, isn't convinced and said Brand reached his conclusion based on records that included inconsistent sampling.

"One of the things we don't know because there's not measurements, or sufficient measurements of it, is how much, for example, nutrients flowing through the Caloosahatchee from Lake Okeechobee actually make it out to the coastal system," he said. "It's easy to make the assumption. ... That's what the public has been assuming. But we can't. That's not how science works."

But in his study, Brand said he accounted for differences in sampling methods and potential increase in monitoring that might skew numbers. And he still found that between 1954 to 1963 and 1994 to 2002, algae amounts increased by 13 to 18 times.

What's not well understood, Brand said, is why red tide explodes some years and not other years, and whether other species of phytoplankton are beating the red tide to the nutrient soup.

Ocean water is filled with a host of phytoplankton that can consume nutrients and battle each other for dominance. Karenia brevis, named for retired algae expert Karen Steidinger, who spearheaded research at the state's St. Petersburg marine lab, exists throughout Gulf waters, not just on the bottom offshore. Scientists routinely find it at background concentrations near shore in years where there are no fish kills.

"We don't have a good understanding of what exactly is controlling the outcome of that competition, so that explains the year to year variability," Brand said. "There's no consensus at this point."

But understanding why is not what the state of Florida is paying Mote to do.

"What we're funded to do is monitor. We're not funded to answer specific questions," Fanara said.

Lovko says there are also unanswered questions about the relationship between offshore and inshore populations of red tide phytoplankton.

"What we don't know is how the offshore population is any different, the supposed seed population that initiates and starts moving toward shore as opposed to the cells we already have increasing," he said.

Which is exactly the kind of information that could help Weisberg, who bases his yearly forecast on the pattern of currents that carry algae ashore. When the Gulf's shifting Loop Current crosses the West Florida Shelf, it pushes nutrients from the deeper bottom onto the shelf to fuel the Karenia algae, he said.

"What is terribly missing is the ability to go offshore on a regular basis where we believe the red tide forms and sample the organism itself as well as the nutrients," he said.

There are other knowledge gaps.

Scientists use satellite imagery that looks at surface water to monitor the density of red tide, but images tend to be less precise the closer they get to shore, where information is most needed. Near shore, tannins from mangroves and shoreline vegetation and other organic molecules can interfere, Lovko said.. And it only works on sunny days.

This year's red tide first appeared in October off Sarasota. In June, it deepened. Massive fish kills began littering beaches and clogging canals with bait fish and larger marine life, including sea turtles, dolphins, manatees and even a whale shark.

The turn for the worse followed record-breaking rain that prompted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin flushing water from the lake, already filled with blue green algae, down the Caloosahatchee River. Water from sugar fields on the east side of the lake was also allowed to backflow into the lake from swelling canals, enough to cover about 48 square miles with a foot of water. The tides also coincided with a wave of Saharan dust, another source of nutrients for a different algae that can feed red tide.

"Last year we had a bloom and it never fully went away," Weisberg said. "What's happening this year is the confluence of two things: residual cells from last year and new cells coming to the coast from the middle of the Continental Shelf where conditions were conducive to bloom development."

Beyond polluted runoff from yards, farms, ranches and even phosphate mines, researchers are examining other suspects that could have helped feed the latest bloom.

▪ One notion is that Saharan dust, the same wind-borne material that can dry out potential tropical storms, could play a role. Researchers say the iron-rich dust can feed Trichodesmium, a saltwater cyanobacteria that pulls nitrogen from the air, allowing it to grow in water with few nutrients. When African dust is heavy, it can fuel Trichodesmium, which can then become food for red tide algae both offshore and inshore.

The problem is the theory has never been tested, said Joe Prospero, a professor emeritus at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science who is nicknamed the "father of dust."

"We have these various pieces and there have been measurements of iron, and it's been modeled. But in real life there's been no close study," said Prospero, who was among the first scientists to recognize the global impacts of African dust. "It's just based on the fact that we have seasonally measured dust here in Miami. But no one has gone, to my knowledge, to the west coast of Florida and actually seen if there's a response and an increase of iron in water."

▪ Some scientists also believe that hurricanes, like Irma, may have an influence. In addition to dumping heavy rain and washing nutrients off land, a hurricane, especially one as large as Irma, can move huge amounts of water around the Gulf. As Irma headed up the Gulf Coast for a second landfall on Marco Island, it sucked water off the southwest coast, said Rosenstiel oceanographer Nick Shay. When water flowed back ashore, it came from the bottom layers where Karenia brevis thrive.

"We have to understand not only the surface currents, but the bottom currents," he said. "When we start piecing this together, maybe the whole Irma thing was a preconditioning state."

Deepwater oscillations generated by hurricanes can also continue for a prolonged period and potentially push more algae toward the coast, he said.

"So while the surface layer may be back to normal, what's happening in the deeper layers can last a month or more," he said.

Whether the lake releases worsen red tide or not, scientists stress that the damaging blue-green algae blooms fouling inshore waters alone argue for an overhaul of water quality research and standards and the solutions to each may be different.

"You take red tide out of that picture completely and it doesn't in any way lessen the compelling argument for reducing [pollution] in Lake Okeechobee," Lovko said. "That's something that needs to happen."

Scientists instead say more research needs to be directed at finding causes and not just monitoring. Since this year's red tide evolved into a full-scale crisis damaging businesses and drawing national headlines, Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency and ordered $6 million spent to help with cleanup and tourism. But Weisberg worries that's just election-year grandstanding.

"I've been very successful at making people mad at me, but at some point how do you make a change? It's politics. Mote got a bunch of money. Why? Because they're plugged in," he said. "Unless we get more in-depth reporting on serious problems, we're never going to make a change."

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Florida's red tide is 'natural' but pollution makes it worse | Miami Herald

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Vince Lovko, a phytoplankton ecologist at Mote Marine Lab, crisscrossed the waters off Longboat Key in his lab's Yellowfin fishing boat earlier this month with a crew of researchers, sampling sea water from a red tide that has slushed around Southwest Florida for nearly a year and littered beaches with dead manatees, sea turtles and rotting marine life.

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Quality of news: Prominence/Celebrity
A. Who? Conor McGregor
B. What? "Conor McGregor Is Changing for the Worse Just When the UFC Needs Him Most."

C. How? Conor McGregor is becoming different beacause of the depth of his trash talk.
D. Where? Press conference
E. When? 10/4/18
F. Why? "He had incredible one-liners"

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Remember back when Conor McGregor's acerbic tongue and quick wit were the life of the MMA party?

Those were the days, weren't they? Back before all the cars and the yacht and the whiskey and the trouble with the law; back when McGregor was still a hungry young man who had no Euros in the bank, but had a noggin full of world-changing, history-making dreams.

He was a salve for a sport that was growing increasingly boring and needed a savior. But it wasn't just his mouth, or his penchant for trash-talk. We'd seen trash talk before. There isn't anything special about trash talk for the sake of trash talk.

What made McGregor different was the depth of his trash talk. His smarts. He dropped had incredible one-liners, sure, but in the middle of those one-liners, he dropped little nuggets that made you sit back and think: Man, this guy knows his stuff.

And he did. McGregor loved mixed martial arts. He was possessed by the whole of it. Before he ever became a fighter, he was a fan, attending events and taking photos with his favorites. He never lost that passion for the sport, not even as he started becoming a household name. Just in the way he talked, you could tell you knew everything there was to know not just about his opponents, but about everyone else in his division, and about everyone else in every other division.

The lead-up to McGregor's showdown on Saturday night with Khabib Nurmagomedov makes one thing clear: Those days are gone.

It's easy to blame the money. We are all desperate to get our hands on more of it. We all want to be rich. Most of us never come close. The lucky few who actually obtain life-changing money often find themselves spiraling out of control. They morph from who they once were into something less likable.
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And you can't really blame him. I shudder to think what would happen to me if I received an influx of $100 million in one day. I'd probably end up alienating everyone who has ever loved me while buying a lot of things I absolutely do not need. I do both of these things on ocassion, anyway, and I have certainly never made as much money as McGregor.

But it's unfortunate, really, because the McGregor we have now? He's far less interesting than the McGregor we used to have.

He's not as funny, not by a mile. He's kind of a jerk, when you think about it. He's always been offensive, but now there's no humor to his offensiveness, and sometimes there's a bit of racism to go along with it. He has substituted cleverness for loudness, which is not remotely interesting.

Again: You can't really blame him. He's a product of his environment. His environment has changed. He has gone from living and dreaming along the streets of Crumlin, shadow boxing the air and dreaming of fighting for fame and wealth, to having more wealth than he ever imagined.

It's hard to dream when nothing in the world is out of reach.

But the UFC had no choice in bringing him back. They need McGregor, and they need him badly. The 2018 UFC roster is mostly devoid of stars, which is bad timing given they're about to pack up and move over to ESPN. They need people who people pay to see, and not just in regular numbers, but in eye-watering, record-breaking numbers. There's only one man who can provide that.
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So they had to bring him back; otherwise, they not only lose out on a ton of money, but they also risk giving him the opening to strike out fully on his own. He might be a handful to deal with, but the idea of McGregor actually competing against the UFC? It probably sends chills down the spine of Endeavor executives.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't quite a bit more excited about this fight week than your usual, run of the mill fight week. There's something in the air. It's just that, we used to be able to depend on McGregor to waltz into Las Vegas buoyed by the traveling Irish, ready to conquer the city and the country and the world. By the time the press conference ended on Thursday, he'd whipped us all into a frothy mess. He loved the cameras. They loved him. He was everywhere. We couldn't wait for Saturday night.

This time, it's different. He's not doing much in the way of media. There's a press conference this week, but given how cringe-worthy his press conference act has become since that terrible world tour for the Mayweather fight, I'd say it's not really worth looking forward to. He'll curse a lot. A lot. He'll call Khabib all sorts of names and talk about how he's the king and Khabib is nothing and blah blah blah. He'll blather on about his whiskey and his ridiculously ugly yet expensive line of suits. It's become routine. We know what to expect. There's a lot of yelling and posturing and arrogance, and it's just not that much fun anymore. Red panty night? That was hilarious and fun. What we're seeing now is bluster for the sake of it.

That's the worst part of all of this, I think. McGregor used to keep us on our toes. He watched everything and read every story we wrote and could reference them deftly while cutting his opponents down a few sizes and leaving them wondering what the hell happened.

Nowadays, it's just a lot of noise, with the only differences being the decibel level. He's still the most fascinating person in the sport, but loudness is not a replacement for the kind of intrigue McGregor used to bring to the sport.

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Conor McGregor Is Changing for the Worse Just When the UFC Needs Him Most

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Ed Mulholland/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images Remember back when Conor McGregor's acerbic tongue and quick wit were the life of the MMA party? Those were the days, weren't they?

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Drunk birds cause havoc in Minnesota town

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Drunk birds cause havoc in Minnesota town

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1- Michelle Olivo
2- Quality of News: Unusual Nature
3- Identify:
A. Who?- Birds
B. What?- Flying under the influence and are causing havoc
C. How?- By smashing into windows, cars, and the ground.
D. Where?- Minnesota.
E. When?- First week of October 2018.
F. Why?- An early frost has caused berries to ferment and when the birds eat them it gets them drunk.

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Birds have been flying under the influence in Minnesota - smashing into windows and cars after getting sloshed on fermented berries, according to reports.

Police have racked up half a dozen calls about the tipsy birds causing a ruckus in Gilbert, a city about an hour north of Duluth, Fox 9 reported Wednesday.

"We've sort of nicknamed it 'berry benders' now that these birds are on a berry bender," Gilbert Police Chief Ty Techer told the network. "The young birds' livers can't process it as well. They seem to be loopier, for lack of a better term."

An early frost has caused berries to ferment, Techer explained. The weird phenomenon has happened before but it's more prevalent this year because the birds haven't yet migrated south, he said.

"There is no need to call law enforcement about these birds as they should sober up within a short period of time," Techer advised residents in a statement, according to the Washington Post.

Cedar waxwings and American robins gobble fruit such as crabapples, whose sugar turns to alcohol as moisture is lost, according to park ranger Sharon Stiteler.

"Drunk birds are totally a thing. I've had to give sober rides to cedar wax wings from uptown," she joked.

A few years ago, Stiteler found an inebriated waxwing trying to fly into the ground, so she set up a "detox box" for the smashed bird to sober up in before letting it go.

"Much like your drunk friend who sleeps on the couch, it threw up and felt better... I gave it some carbs and some water and it did the flight of shame home," she said.

Stiteler warned that the drunk birds are more susceptible to being snapped up by predators.

"It's something that's happened even before humans," she said. "If you see it happening, try putting it in a box in a dark place where it can kind of sleep things off."

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Birds have been flying under the influence in Minnesota - smashing into windows and cars after getting sloshed on fermented berries, according to reports. Police have racked up half a dozen calls about the tipsy birds causing a ruckus in Gilbert, a city about an hour north of Duluth, Fox 9 reported Wednesday.

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Kim Kardashian's insurance company is suing her former bodyguard for $6 million over Paris robbery

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Kim Kardashian's insurance company is suing her former bodyguard for $6 million over Paris robbery

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NAME: Angelique Miller-Lawson
QUALITY OF NEWS: Prominece/Celebrity
WHO: Kim Kardashian-West’s Insurance Company: American International Group (AIG)
WHAT: Is filing a $6.1 million Lawsuit on Kim Kardashian-West’s former bodyguard Pascal Duvier and his company “Protect Security”
HOW: In an official court document
WHERE: They filed the lawsuit in Delaware
WHEN: They filed this lawsuit on Wednesday
WHY: They’re saying that Duvier and the firm “negligently, carelessly, and recklessly performed their protection, security, monitoring, inspection, and surveying of” Kim and the private apartment that was broken into

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Kim Kardashian's insurance company is suing her former bodyguard for $6 million over Paris robbery

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The insurance company that paid Kim Kardashian West after she was robbed of millions of dollars' worth of jewelry in Paris two years ago is suing her former bodyguard.

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Science confirms what the heart already knows: Hugs really do make you feel better 

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Science confirms what the heart already knows: Hugs really do make you feel better 

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2- Health
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A. Michael Murphy
B. Studied 400 people in an experiment
C. By taking summaries of people’s daily activities, moods and physical interactions
D. In the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University
E. October 3rd, 2018
F. To prove that reaching out and touching someone, consensually, can reduce bad feelings associated withthe  typical ups and downs of our social interactions

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Feeling down in the dumps? Stressed? A little off-kilter because of some disagreement?

Hug it out! A new study suggests that just reaching out and touching someone -- consensually, of course -- can reduce bad feelings associated with the typical ups and downs of our social interactions.

The study from the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, published this week in PLOS ONE, looked at the social interactions of more than 400 people over two weeks. A summary of their daily activities, moods and physical interactions revealed a causal link between emotional states, conflicts and the number of hugs a person gave or received.

"Results indicated that there was an interaction between hug receipt and conflict exposure such that receiving a hug was associated with a smaller conflict-related decrease in positive affect and a smaller conflict-related increase in negative affect when assessed concurrently," the study reads.

In plainer English, hugging helped people feel less poorly after some kind of conflict or negative event during their day.

This effect was seen across all genders and ages in the study, although women reported more hugs than men.

"Our results are consistent with the conclusion that both men and women may benefit equally from being hugged on days when conflict occurs," the study reads.

Interestingly, it did not seem to matter if the huggers were in a romantic relationship at the time of said hug -- the mood-related benefits still stood.

The study was authored by Michael Murphy, a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon. In the study, he says the research could be improved upon by pinpointing exactly what kind of social relationships were involved in a hug -- a stranger or someone you were arguing with, for example, as opposed to a lover or an all-healing embrace from Mom.

"The lack of specificity regarding from whom individuals received hugs also restricted our ability to identify whether hugs from specific types of social partners were more effective than those from others," Murphy wrote.

Either way, there doesn't seem to be a downside to consensual hugging.

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Science confirms what the heart already knows: Hugs really do make you feel better

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Feeling down in the dumps? Stressed? A little off-kilter because of some disagreement? Hug it out! A new study suggests that just reaching out and touching someone -- consensually, of course -- can reduce bad feelings associated with the typical ups and downs of our social interactions.

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Justin Bieber Confirms Marriage to Hailey Baldwin

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Justin Bieber Confirms Marriage to Hailey Baldwin

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1. Guillermo Dominguez
2. Prominence/Celebrity
3.
A. Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin.
B. They confirmed their marriage.
C. Stratford Perth Museum posted on Instagram an image of a message Hailey Baldwin had left for Justin Bieber saying "I ❤️ you forever." In the caption they put that she was with her "husband." And in the comments they stated that Justin Bieber had introduced Hailey Baldwin to them as his wife.
D. Stratford Perth Museum.
E. September 30.
F. No reason as to why.
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Over the weekend, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin enjoyed a day at Stratford Perth Museum in Ontario, Canada, where he confirmed they were married.

The museum posted a pic of a sweet message that Hailey wrote for Justin on a blackboard. They captioned the photo, "We were so pleased to have such a warm and special guest visit the museum yesterday (along with her very special husband)."

In the comments section, the museum shared, "Justin very graciously introduced Hailey as his wife."

According to TMZ, Justin and Hailey married last month without signing a prenup. Though Hailey denied it in a now-deleted tweet, the pair tied the knot on the same day they got their marriage license at a courthouse in NYC. During their court visit, preacher Jeffrey Quinn and Justin's friend Josh Mehl were reportedly also present.

It is unknown if they'll sign a postnuptial agreement.

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Justin Bieber Confirms Marriage to Hailey Baldwin - Do They Have a Prenup?

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Over the weekend, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin enjoyed a day at Stratford Perth Museum in Ontario, Canada, where he confirmed they were married. The museum posted a pic of a sweet message that Hailey wrote for Justin on a blackboard.

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Trump is casting Kavanaugh as a victim. He's felt the same.

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Trump is casting Kavanaugh as a victim. He's felt the same.

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1. Patrick Reeves
2. Conflict
3.a Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh
b. Donald Trump mocks the woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her saying he feels for him as he's been in the same situation.
c. Trump gives his opinion on the allegations and thinks Kavanaugh is the victim in this situation.
d. Washington,White house
e. October 3,2018
f. He believes Kavanaugh is the victim in this situation because he says "People want fame. They want money." giving the motives of accusers

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trump is casting kavanaugh as a victim. he's felt the same. - cnnpolitics

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Trump is casting Kavanaugh as a victim. He's felt the same.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday mocked the woman who alleged Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her decades ago. The allegations made against Trump's Supreme Court nominee have dredged up emotions for many -- some who empathized with Christine Blasey Ford who gave tearful public testimony last week, and others, including some vocal men, who fear the ramifications of a false allegation.

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Dolphins' Adam Gase tasked with improving offense that showed glaring deficiencies against Patriots

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Dolphins' Adam Gase tasked with improving offense that showed glaring deficiencies against Patriots

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1. Anthony Chacon
2. Prominence/Celebrity or Local(Sports)
3. Identify:
a. A National Football League (NFL) team Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots.
b. The Miami Dolphins first loss of the regular season against the Patriots. Score 38-7.
c. The Miami Dolphins had trouble when trying to score against the Patriots on 3rd down, had no wide receivers open due to press coverage, and injured players.
d. This took place in Gillette Stadium in Boston.
e. It happened on September 30,2018 and the article was published on October 1, 2018.
f. The Miami Dolphins lost because the Patriots were the better team and the Dolphins had a lot of mistake during the game that ended up losing but the Miami Dolphins are trying to regain that loss by becoming better as a team and beating the next team on Sunday.

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After the first blowout loss of the season where the Miami Dolphins were nearly held scoreless, coach Adam Gase is now tasked with finding a way to get his offense to overcome a defensive game plan other teams may try to replicate the rest of the season.

The Dolphins may still be in first place in the AFC East, but they will need to fix their offensive issues in a hurry with games in the next two weeks against division leaders, with their Week 5 matchup in Cincinnati (3-1) on Sunday up next.

"I think it was just a combination of what they were doing, we didn't execute right [and] we probably missed a couple of opportunities," Gase said on Monday, recapping the 38-7 loss to the Patriots.

"Nothing went right. Nothing we did was good. It just was not a good game."

Quarterback Ryan Tannehill opened the game with a 22-yard pass to receiver Kenny Stills, but finished completing just 11-of-20 passes for 100 yards, with an interception and a quarterback rating of just 47.9.

The Dolphins were plagued by a number of issues in their first loss including: receivers unable to get open due to press coverage, costly penalties and injuries on the offensive line, a stagnant rushing attack for the second week in a row, and mainly, one of the worst third-down conversion rates in the NFL, limiting opportunities.

"We went out there expecting to win. We tried to win the whole game," said former Patriots receiver Danny Amendola. "We tried to score every time we got the ball, and it didn't happen for one reason or another. We have to get better this week.

The Dolphins were 1 of 9 on third down before their final drive where they converted on two third-down plays with backup Brock Osweiler in the game to relieve Tannehill. Running back Frank Gore scored his first touchdown of the season as a result of the drive.

The Dolphins first third-down conversion came on a run by Kenyan Drake on third-and-1 as the first half ended. They finished 3 of 11 on third down, and faced situations of third-and-long (typically 6 yards or longer) on eight of those plays.

Five third-downs plays were more than 10 yards from a first down, with four of those situations as a result of a penalty on an earlier down.

"When our only third-and-short is the last play of the half, that's not good," Gase said.

"The last two games have been not as good as what we need on first and second down to where we're putting ourselves in position for third-and-short."

To make matters worse, the Dolphins defense allowed the Patriots to convert on 10 of 15 of their third-down plays, keeping their defense and quarterback Tom Brady's offense on the field during the rout.

Here is the Sun Sentinel's report card, evaluating how the Miami Dolphins performed in Sunday's lackluster 38-7 loss to the New England Patriots.

(Omar Kelly)

Also, the Dolphins were gashed by Patriots running backs Sony Michel and James White. Michel, a rookie who played at American Heritage Plantation, ran for 112 yards and his first career touchdown, while White, a St. Thomas Aquinas alum, scored a rushing and receiving touchdown.

Conversely, the Dolphins' rushing attack was abysmal.

Gore finished with 11 carries for 41 yards mostly in the game's final drive.

But Drake, the starter, had just 3 rushing yards for the second consecutive week, and has only eight carries in the last two games. Drake declined to talk to reporters on Sunday and Monday.

Against the Raiders last week, Gore and Drake had 11 carries for 15 yards.

"It's going to be our job to find a rhythm and not put ourselves in a bad position behind the chains," said right tackle Ja'Wuan James.

"We can't get behind the sticks early on first down where you force yourself to have [to] pass because of the penalties in those situations. If we can stay ahead of the sticks, and get a rhythm and get on schedule, we can get those runs in."

The Dolphins offensive line lost two starters during the game as James, who did not want to share his injury, left the game in the second half, and center Daniel Kilgore tore a triceps muscle in the first half and is done for the season, according to a league source.

Miami was forced to replace Kilgore with Travis Swanson, whose poor snap to start a Dolphins drive resulted in a turnover and White's 22-yard rushing touchdown on the ensuing play that gave the Patriots a 17-0 lead in the second quarter.

Backup offensive lineman Sam Young, who lined up at tight end for a few plays in the first half, finished the game for James at right tackle.

And, the Dolphins played without their best receiver who can create separation in DeVante Parker after he suffered a quadriceps injury in practice last Friday.

Wilson, who accounted for two touchdowns last week and had just four catches for 19 yards against the Patriots, said the Dolphins need to do a better job of getting in manageable situations without penalties moving forward.

Still, losing to a division rival in blowout fashion leaves a mark.

"You're as good as your last game," Wilson said. "We took a big L. We all have to play better."

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Dolphins' Adam Gase tasked with improving offense that showed glaring deficiencies against Patriots

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After the first blowout loss of the season where the Miami Dolphins were nearly held scoreless, coach Adam Gase is now tasked with finding a way to get his offense to overcome a game plan other teams may replicate for the rest of the season.

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