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Lauren Coll Quality f news: Celebrity Who? Ariana Grande What? Ariana Grandes new music video "Thank you, next" broke Youtube's records. When? In 24 Hours Where? Youtube Why? Ariana included references from old movies and her ex's which made the music video entertaining and popular due to her idea of "thank u, next" How? The audience thought of the idea that "ex's" help better your self. 

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Lauren Coll Quality f news: Celebrity Who? Ariana Grande What? Ariana Grandes new music video "Thank you, next" broke Youtube's records. When? In 24 Hours Where? Youtube Why? Ariana included references from old movies and her ex's which made the music video entertaining and popular due to her idea of "thank u, next" How? The audience thought of the idea that "ex's" help better your self. 

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Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" video is a bona fide overnight sensation: It has smashed YouTube 's all-time record for most views in the first 24 hours of release.

The video, an homage to female-driven movies from the early 2000s, dropped at 12 p.m. PT on Friday after weeks of buildup - and set the record in just under 22 hours. As of Saturday at 9:35 a.m. PT, "Thank U, Next" had 46 million views, pushing it past the previous record holder, K-pop supergroup BTS, which notched 45.9 million views for their "Idol" music video in the first 24 hours in August.

[ UPDATE: "Thank U, Next" garnered a record 55.4 million views in its first 24 hours, YouTube said on Monday. Earlier, a YouTube rep had said the video had been viewed "over" 50 million times over the first 24-hour period.]

In addition, according to YouTube, "Thank U, Next" set the record for most-viewed video that used YouTube's Premiere scheduling feature with 829,000 viewers watching simultaneously at its peak. Grande fans sent over 516,000 chat messages during the video debut, also a record for YouTube Premieres. The initial traffic spike caused a delay in comments posting to the video, according to YouTube.

The video (on YouTube at this link) is saturated with references to movies "Mean Girls," "Bring It On," "13 Going On 30" and "Legally Blonde." It features cameos by "Mean Girls" actors Jonathan Bennett and and Stefanie Drummond - with Kris Jenner as the dancing/camcorder-brandishing mom. It also includes appearances by YouTube stars Colleen Ballinger and Gabi DeMartino, Jennifer Coolidge ("Legally Blonde"), singer Troye Sivan, and "Thank U, Next" co-songwriters Tayla Parx and Victoria Monét.

The video for "Thank U, Next," a bittersweet ode to old flames, also includes references to Grande's exes including "SNL" performer Pete Davidson. The record-breaking video was directed by Hannah Lux Davis.

Here's the previous ranking of the 10 most-viewed YouTube music videos in the first 24 hours, according to YouTube:

1. BTS, "Idol" - 45.9 million
2. Taylor Swift, "Look What You Made Me Do" - 43.2 million
3. Eminem, "Killshot" - 38.1 million
4. Blackpink, "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du" - 36.2 million
5. Psy, "Gentleman" - 36 million
6. BTS, "Fake Love" - 35.9 million
7. Twice, "Yes or Yes" - 31.4 million
8. Nicky Jam feat. J. Balvin, "X (EQUIS)" - 29.7 million
9. XXXTentacion, "Sad!" - 27.7 million
10. Adele, "Hello" - 26.3 million

Meanwhile, on Thursday (Nov. 29), Grande released four-part docu-series "Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman Diaries" on her YouTube channel. The series follows the pop star on her 2017 concert tour through the creation of her third studio album, "Sweetener." All episodes are available to watch to YouTube Premium subscribers now; the first is free to view (and had more than 4.3 million views as of Saturday) and the others will be available for free weekly through Dec. 20.

Grande's "Thank U, Next" music-video premiere Nov. 30 elicited shout-out tweets from multiple celebs, including from Kris Jenner and Troye Sivan:

today has been very special. the thank you, next video

also my birthday

- christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) December 1, 2018

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Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" video is a bona fide overnight sensation: It has smashed YouTube 's all-time record for most views in the first 24 hours of release. The video, an homage to female-driven movies from the early 2000s, dropped at 12 p.m.

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Quality f news: Human interest
Who: Mars one Company
What: Mars immigration plan is under way with many volunteers
When: The crew will be sent in 2032
Where: A Dutch company
Why: People want to live on mars and this is the chance to go live on mars but it’s a one way trip and there’s no coming back but people continue to volunteer.
How: With our current technology it is possible to go up to mars but it’ll take more time because the volunteers are not trained

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Thousands are lining up for a one-way trip to Mars! Book your flight now!

A Dutch company is establishing a human colony on Mars. The non-profit organization, Mars One, will send a crew to the Red Planet in 2019 - and because there will be major changes in the human body after a stay on Mars, there'd be no coming back. You have to say goodbye to Earth.

That's what has many across the world so excited. "I'm sick of this planet," said Janet Ross of Sante Fe. I want a new planet. Mars fits me perfectly."

78,000 people have applied to become one of Mars' first immigrants (the company is expecting 5,00,000 applicants). "This is turning out to be the most desired job in history," said Bas Lansdorp, co-founder of Mars One.

Day-to-day life on Mars will be no picnic: The organization says that the daily routine would involve construction work on the colony (installing greenhouses, for example), maintenance of the settlement's systems and research into Mars' climate and geological history-all in an inhospitable environment with unbreathable air and an average temperature in the planet's mid-latitudes of around -58 degrees Farenheit.

But Mars One says it is not looking for applicants with specific skills, such as a science degree, that might be useful during an interplanetary posting. Instead, they are looking for people who "have a deep sense of purpose, willingness to build and maintain healthy relationships, the capacity for self-reflection and ability to trust." They also want volunteers who are "resilient, adaptable, curious, creative and resourceful." Candidates will receive a minimum of eight years training before leaving Earth, the company says.

Candidates hailing from over 120 countries (although the vast majority are from the U.S.) uploaded a video to Mars One's website explaining why they're suitable for the mission.

People are still lining up outside their offices:

In addition to people skills, successful applicants must be good fundraisers too: Mars One plans to raise much of the mission's $6 billion estimated cost through a reality TV show following the applicants as they undergo preparations for the one-way trip to Mars.

Book now! There's only a few seats left!

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Thousands are lining up for a one-way trip to Mars! Book your flight now! A Dutch company is establishing a human colony on Mars. The non-profit organization, Mars One, will send a crew to the Red Planet in 2019 - and because there will be major changes in the human body after a stay on Mars, there'd be no coming back.

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Who?Ariana grande
What?she addresses the terrifying bombing that took place during her Manchester concert in may 2017.
When?November, 29
Where?on a letter for to the fans
Why? To thank them for being there for her
How?posting it on social media.

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(CNN) - Ariana Grande is taking her fans behind the scenes of her "Dangerous Woman Tour" in a new docuseries.

In the fourth episode of the docuseries, which dropped Thursday on YouTube Premium, the platform's paid streaming service, Grande writes a letter to her fans about the terrorist attack.

"I'm writing to you this February 22, 2018. It's been eight months since the attack at our show at the Manchester Arena. It's impossible to know where to start or to know what to say about this part. May 22, 2017, will leave me speechless and filled with questions for the rest of my life."

Grande goes on to write, "Music is an escape. Music is the safest thing I've ever known. Music -- pop music, stan culture -- is something that brings people together, introduces them to some of their best friends, and makes them feel like they can be themselves. It is comfort. It is fun. It is expression. It is happiness. It is the last thing that would ever harm someone. It is safe. When something so opposite and so poisonous takes place in your world that is supposed to be everything but that ... it is shocking and heartbreaking in a way that seems impossible to fully recover from."

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(CNN) - Ariana Grande is taking her fans behind the scenes of her "Dangerous Woman Tour" in a new docuseries. In the fourth episode of the docuseries, which dropped Thursday on YouTube Premium, the platform's paid streaming service, Grande writes a letter to her fans about the terrorist attack.

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A 7-year-old Maryland girl is in critical condition after a truck hit her while she was getting off her school bus.

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Quality of news: Human-intrest or impact.
Who: Skylar Shirriel.
What: She was hit by a pickup truck while crossing the street.
When: 11/27/2018
Where: Bryantown, Maryland.
Why: The truck driver was trying to get to her home.
How: She was struck by a 35-year-old woman driving a Ford F-250 while she was getting off her school bus.

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Southwest Airlines apologizes for mocking girl's name

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B. Apologized for making fun of a little girls name
C. The spokesperson of the airline gave a sincere apology to the family
D. California's John Wayne Airport
E. 2 weeks ago
F. Airline employees were making fun of a little girl named Abcde
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Southwest Airlines has apologised after a member of its staff mocked a five-year-old girl's name.

Traci Redford and her daughter, Abcde (pronounced ab-si-dee), were en route home to El Paso, Texas, from California's John Wayne Airport when the incident occurred.

A gate agent allegedly began laughing and took a photo of the child's boarding pass and posted it online.

Airline spokesperson Chris Mainz offered the family a "sincere apology".

Do we judge people by their name?

The stories behind your first names

In a statement to Buzzfeed News, Mr Mainz said the employee's social media post "is not indicative of the care, respect, and civility" the airline expects.

"We take great pride in extending our Southwest hospitality to all of our customers," the statement reads.

Ms Redford told broadcaster ABC7 that the airline "hadn't done anything" for two weeks after she had filed a formal complaint.

Ms Redford said the gate agent "started laughing, pointing at me and my daughter, talking to other employees", and her daughter had asked her why they were mocking her.

"She said: 'Mom, why is she laughing at my name?' And I said not everyone is nice and not everyone is going to be nice and it's unfortunate," Ms Redford said.

Vocativ, a news and data website, published a piece in 2014 saying there were at that time 328 children in the US named "Abcde", according to the Social Security Administration.

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Southwest Airlines has apologised after a member of its staff mocked a five-year-old girl's name. Traci Redford and her daughter, Abcde (pronounced ab-si-dee), were en route home to El Paso, Texas, from California's John Wayne Airport when the incident occurred. A gate agent allegedly began laughing and took a photo of the child's boarding pass and posted it online.

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Stephen Hillenburg, ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Creator, Dies at 57

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Stephen Hillenburg, the man behind "SpongeBob SquarePants," with his creation at the Tokyo International Anime Fair in 2006. Credit Credit Junko Kimura/Getty Images

Stephen Hillenburg, a former marine biology teacher who created a children's show that ballooned into an unlikely cultural phenomenon, " SpongeBob SquarePants," died on Monday at his home in Southern California. He was 57.

Mr. Hillenburg announced last year that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the neurodegenerative condition known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Nickelodeon, the channel that has been the show's home since its premiere in May 1999, announced his death.

"Steve imbued 'SpongeBob SquarePants' with a unique sense of humor and innocence that has brought joy to generations of kids and families everywhere," the network said in its statement. "His utterly original characters and the world of Bikini Bottom will long stand as a reminder of the value of optimism, friendship and the limitless power of imagination."

Bikini Bottom is the underwater home of the show's title character, a good-natured yellow kitchen sponge, or sea creature, or both, who works as a fry cook, has a pet snail and lives in a pineapple.

With its frenetic 11-minute episodes (two per show), "SpongeBob" proved irresistible to the 12-and-under crowd, and eventually to many much older fans as well.

"Those 11-minute episodes of Hawaiian-slacker whimsy," the critic David Edelstein wrote in The New York Times in 2004, "set against flower-cloud backdrops inspired by Polynesian fabrics and punctuated by ukulele music and SpongeBob's dolphin-on-a-sugar-high chortle, have made Nickelodeon's 'SpongeBob SquarePants' a phenomenon not only with little kids, but also with big kids, college students, stoners, gays - pretty much everyone who walks on land or shells out, so to speak, for the tie-in merchandise."

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SpongeBob and his best friend, Patrick, in an episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants." "A sponge is a funny animal to center a show on," Mr. Hillenburg once said Credit Nickelodeon

The show spawned two movies, in 2004 and 2015, and, last year, a Broadway musical, which was nominated for 12 Tony Awards. (It won one, for scenic design.) It closed in September after 327 performances.

The "SpongeBob" juggernaut stretched far and wide.

"Someone recently sent me a link to a video of Russian soldiers singing the 'SpongeBob' theme song while marching around," Mr. Hillenburg told The Times in 2013. "It wasn't just one group, either. It was a bunch of them."

[Read more on how SpongeBob SquarePants became a meme factory.]
Stephen McDannell Hillenburg was born on Aug. 21, 1961, at Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla., where his father, Kelly, was based. His mother, Nancy (Dufour) Hillenburg, taught visually impaired students.

Mr. Hillenburg graduated from Humboldt State University in California in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in natural resource planning and interpretation, with an emphasis on marine resources. He then taught marine biology at the Orange County Marine Institute (now the Ocean Institute) in Dana Point, Calif.

He had always been interested in drawing as well, and he pursued studies in experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts, receiving a master of fine arts degree there in 1992.

From 1993 to 1996 he was a writer and director on the Nickelodeon series "Rocko's Modern Life," where he worked with a number of people who would help him develop "SpongeBob," including Tom Kenny, who provides the voice of the title character. In a 2001 interview with The Washington Post, Mr. Hillenburg described how the world's most famous yellow sponge came to be.

"A sponge is a funny animal to center a show on," he said. "At first I drew a few natural sponges - amorphous shapes, blobs - which was the correct thing to do biologically as a marine science teacher. Then I drew a square sponge, and it looked so funny. I think as far as cartoon language goes he was easier to recognize. He seemed to fit the character type I was looking for - a somewhat nerdy, squeaky-clean oddball."

He drew on the work of Jerry Lewis, Pee-wee Herman and Laurel and Hardy for inspiration, he often said.

"SpongeBob SquarePants" the Broadway musical, with Ethan Slater, center, in the title role, was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won one, for scenic design. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

Over the years the show, which recently passed the 250-episode mark, has attracted a dizzying list of top stars as guest voices - David Bowie, Tina Fey, Mark Hamill, Lewis Black, Betty White and more. More stars turned up in the "SpongeBob" movies, including Jeffrey Tambor, David Hasselhoff and Antonio Banderas.

Mr. Hillenburg was at first reluctant to adapt the "SpongeBob" world for the big screen, but the idea of sending his yellow protagonist out of Bikini Bottom on a grand adventure eventually won him over. The result, in 2004, was "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie," which he directed with Mark Osborne.

"The loud, silly innocence of Mr. Hillenburg's imaginary world, where double entendres seem to bubble up and dissipate faster than you can catch them," A. O. Scott wrote in reviewing it for The Times, "is a welcome antidote to the self-seriousness and brutality that rule so much of the popular culture."

The movie made an estimated $140 million worldwide. The second film, "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water," with Mr. Hillenburg as an executive producer, earned an estimated $325 million worldwide.

Mr. Hillenburg is survived by his wife, Karen (Umland) Hillenburg; a son, Clay; his mother, Nancy; and a brother, Bryan.

The success of his character and his show - the constant references, the countless products, authorized and not - sometimes left Mr. Hillenburg uneasy.

"At first it's both weird and flattering," he told The Times, "and then after a while you get tired of seeing it. It loses preciousness after a while.

"One night I was really beat, we worked really late and went to get food at some takeout place. And I leaned over against this gumball machine, just exhausted, and there was a SpongeBob looking back at me. And it's just, like, 'Oh, brother.' "

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Stephen Hillenburg, a former marine biology teacher who created a children's show that ballooned into an unlikely cultural phenomenon, " SpongeBob SquarePants," died on Monday at his home in Southern California. He was 57. Mr. Hillenburg announced last year that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the neurodegenerative condition known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

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Do the Boston Celtics Have a Jaylen Brown Problem?

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2.Celebrity prominence
3a Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics
3b. Is one of the problems of the Celtics struggles offensively
3c.His offensive stats have dropped from last year with the pickup of Gordon Hayward from injury now with a smaller role.
3d.Boston
3e.November 29 2018
3f.Boston was supposed to be one of the leagues top teams,but the team hasn't been able to figure out balance for offense with all the talent they have.Brown being one of the problems offensively compared to last year where this year he has fallen short on jumpers and has missed close at the basket.

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No one on the Boston Celtics has received a pass for the team's early seesaw act.

Everyone with fault to find is being held accountable, right down to the once-irreproachable head coach Brad Stevens. And yes, they're all just as shocked by their onset sputtering as the rest of us.

"I thought we were just going to take off," Al Horford told the New York Times' Marc Stein. "I thought it was going to be...boom."

The Celtics have been more blah than boom. They own the NBA's second-best defense, but their offense has stumbled and stuttered against a jumbled, if oversaturated, pecking order. They are 25th in points scored per possession and have only been a hair better over their past 10 games, checking in at 19th.

Boston has found some semblance of structure in recent weeks. The offense is 16th in points scored per half-court possession since the start of November, a stark improvement over its 25th-place ranking from October, according to Cleaning The Glass.

Still, the gap between what the Celtics are and what they were universally expected to be remains enormous. It has narrowed ever so slightly but is not on the verge of being bridged.

In their long line of surprising and vexing letdowns, Jaylen Brown's struggles are the most curious. They might even be the most damning.

They're definitely the hardest to explain.

Most of Boston's other disappointments have a root cause. Jayson Tatum needed to stop firing up junky long twos (and he has). The value of Aron Baynes' grit will wax and wane when deployed in small, choppy bursts. Terry Rozier needs a more prominent role to match last season's impact and was never the most efficient scorer in the first place.

Gordon Hayward's opening slog, while hardly ideal, isn't the biggest bombshell. He's working his way back from a dislocated ankle and fractured leg that required further surgery in May. Stevens has no choice other than to futz and fiddle with a rotation reeling from it all.

Brown's regression is far more difficult to comprehend. Sure, a grace period was always in the cards. The Celtics are returning two stars, Hayward and Kyrie Irving, to an offensive hierarchy that came to use Brown, Rozier and Tatum as crutches by the end of 2018 postseason. Transition was unavoidable, and spot hiccups and failures are part of that process.

But the regular season has hit the quarter-pole. Boston's search for balance and continuity isn't supposed to be taking this long. And Brown, who's currently sidelined with a lower back injury, isn't supposed to be enduring one of most extensive setbacks.

His fit should be noticeably cleaner than that of Hayward or Rozier. Over half of his offensive possessions last year came as spot-ups and in transition. He attempted a larger share of his shots without using a dribble ( 51.5 percent) than Tatum ( 34.3 percent).

Extra ball-handlers and additional mouths to feed shouldn't be throwing Brown into a downward spiral. He retained his breakout label entering 2018-19 in large part because he's more plug-and-play than advertised.

That hasn't changed, which is where the real concern begin to kicks in. The nucleus of Brown's offensive role has barely shifted. More of his attempts are coming as pull-up jumpers ( 17.5 percent), but the uptick isn't drastic. It's smack dab in the middle of last year's overall frequency ( 14.5 percent) and his post-Kyrie injury volume ( 20.2 percent).

This relative consistency holds firm across Brown's shot distribution:

Jaylen Brown's Shot Distribution

Stats via NBA.com and Cleaning the Glass.

Not one of the shifts in his profile is substantive enough to count as a diagnosis. His three-point-attempt rate has barely moved. His looks from the corner are down, but that says more about Boston's application of Gordon Hayward. Brown's free-throw frequency has dipped, but neither he nor this Celtics core has ever been great at getting to line. And he's averaging more drives per game ( 5.1, up from 4.8) while playing fewer minutes.

For the most part, Brown's malaise comes back to his missing shots that went down last year-specifically from beyond the arc.

After hitting 42.6 percent of his corner triples in 2017-18, he's draining those same looks at a 25 percent clip. He's gone from putting down 39.4 percent of his open and wide-open treys last season to just 23.6 percent this year. And so on and so forth:

Jaylen Brown's Three-Point Woes

Stats via NBA.com and Basketball Reference.

Brown is straight whiffing on uncontested looks altogether. Among 101 players who have attempted more than 45 shots with a defender at least six feet away, his effective field-goal percentage ( 34.0) ranks...101st.

A bunch of Brown's jumpers have fallen short. Even when he's in rhythm and not facing strong contests, the makes just aren't there:

Gimmes inside the arc haven't been Brown's friend, either. His accuracy around the rim has dropped by two points, while his efficiency on short mid-rangers has plummeted by 10, per Cleaning the Glass. He's shooting just 38.5 percent on driving layup attempts:

Challenging defenses that aren't yet set has even proved to be a chore:

Botched bunnies and missed open threes are either encouraging or alarming. It depends on how you look at them.

Brown has to get better, because he's already been better. He is better. But by floundering inside his wheelhouse, it is difficult for Boston to ride out the storm. He doesn't affect the offense in enough ways.

Featuring him on the ball more is too risky. He doesn't cough up possession off the dribble, but missed shots can hurt just as much as turnovers. He's passing out of more drives (33 percent of the time), but he's not a setup man. He's averaging fewer potential assists than Bam Adebayo, a big man, while making more passes.

The Celtics aren't asking Brown to create for everyone around him, so that's fine. They have plenty of others to take on that responsibility, and he's not finishing nearly enough possessions for his inconsequential assist splits to receive a full-fledged crucification. But Boston still needs him to be a less predictable offensive player.

Subsisting on assisted baskets isn't a problem. Brown makes quick decisions off the catch. They're just not complicated ones. That absence of variation catches up with him when he's attacking the basket more than any other time.

Some of his drives end prematurely. He'll leave his feet a tick too early and float rather than knife into traffic-a recipe that won't help him increase his trips to the charity stripe:

Many of his challenges are just plain ill-conceived for someone who has yet to ever seem entirely comfortable finishing through any sort of contact, major or minor:

It is in these moments Brown strays from the player the Celtics need him to be. They could live with that if his usual looks were finding nylon. They're not. And Boston's offense is feeling the squeeze.

"According to Cleaning The Glass, the Celtics were 8.8 points better per 100 possessions when Brown was on the floor last year. This year, they're 9.8 points worse," Boston.com's John Karalis wrote. "In half-court possessions, against set defenses, the Celtics were plus-5.6 with Brown on the floor last year but are a negative-3.6 this year. Even in transition, where Brown is supposed to shine, they were a plus-6.4 last season, but they're a negative-10.9 this year."

Stevens has talked about upping the pace as a possible remedy. The Celtics are 29th in average possession time following a made shot by their opponent and 18th when grabbing a defensive rebound, according to Inpredictable. A conscious effort to push the ball, particularly on the inbounds, might help Brown settle into a progression. He hasn't ruled the day in transition, but fast breaks give way to easier looks.

Plus, the Celtics have more than enough reasons to believe Brown is just working through a rut. His deviations from what they need are finite, and he's missing looks he's made before. His defense, an issue to start the season, is getting better. He's not fouling as much or having as hard of a time navigating ball-handlers and screens inside the arc.

That's not a license to disregard the bigger picture. Brown's efficiency could do a complete 180, and the Celtics still wouldn't be off the hook. He is extension-eligible this summer, with restricted free agency on the horizon in 2020. The pull to distinguish himself is real, just like it would be for any other 20-something player coming up on his next contract.

"It's definitely been a challenge, and that's a part of this league, a part of life, challenges and things like that," Brown said, per the Boston Herald's Stephen Bulpett. "Just coming out every day and trying to do what's best for the team, but also balancing what's best for yourself and your family. Ultimately if we win, that's number one. And everybody knows that."

Striking that balance will be hard for Brown in Boston, even if the Celtics are winning. Hayward has a $34.2 million player option for 2020-21, when Brown's next deal would take effect. Horford and Hayward (and Rozier) will be on new contracts by then. Tatum is on course to make superstar money one year later, in 2021-22.

The finances get dicey if the Celtics want to keep them all. Their plans for Horford, Irving and Tatum will almost assuredly impact how they handle Brown's windfall. Extension negotiations will be mega-complicated if he doesn't recapture last season's form. Even then, for better or worse, the money is at least something they can control.

What Boston cannot control is Brown's comfort level within a role that doesn't ever figure to call for expansion. Hayward, Horford, Irving, Tatum and Rozier make it tough for him to branch out with any sort of permanency. Shedding one or two would make it more feasible, but banking on eventual departures isn't a suitable resolution.

And that, more so than anything else, is the Celtics' Brown problem. They've laid out a role he's more than capable of handling, of owning, but it comes with a glass ceiling he might not ever fully accept.
Unless otherwise noted, stats courtesy of NBA.com or Basketball Reference and accurate leading into games Nov. 29. Salary and cap-hold information via Basketball Insiders and RealGM.

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No one on the Boston Celtics has received a pass for the team's early seesaw act. Everyone with fault to find is being held accountable, right down to the once-irreproachable head coach Brad Stevens. And yes, they're all just as shocked by their onset sputtering as the rest of us.

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Alabama mall shooting suspect is arrested after a week of shifting police narratives

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WHO: Erron Martez Dequan Brown and Emantic Bradford Jr.
WHAT: Erron was arrested on one count/charge of attempted 🤬 and Emantic was shot and killed by the police officer
WHEN: The shooting happened on Thanksgiving night and Erron was just arrested today.
WHERE: The shooting happened at the Riverchase Galleria Mall in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover Alabama. Erron was arrested at a relative’s house in Fairburn, Georgia.
WHY: It’s not clear yet as to why Erron attempted 🤬, and the State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the police officer who shot Emantic.
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Hoover, Alabama (CNN) - One week after police said they killed an Alabama mall shooting suspect -- then said he probably wasn't the shooter -- authorities say they've arrested the real assailant near Atlanta.

Erron Martez Dequan Brown, 20, was arrested Thursday at a relative's home in Fairburn, Georgia, US Marshals supervisor Frank Lempka said.

Brown faces one count of attempted murder in the Thanksgiving night shooting at Riverchase Galleria Mall, an upscale shopping center in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover.

Moments after the shooting, a Hoover police officer working security at the mall shot and killed a different man -- Emantic Bradford Jr. And over the past week, Hoover police kept changing their story about why Bradford was shot.

First, Hoover police said a 21-year-old suspect -- later identified as Bradford -- shot and wounded an 18-year-old man and a 12-year-old innocent bystander.

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Alabama mall shooting suspect is arrested after a week of shifting police narratives

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Hoover, Alabama (CNN) - One week after police said they killed an Alabama mall shooting suspect -- then said he probably wasn't the shooter -- authorities say they've arrested the real assailant near Atlanta. Erron Martez Dequan Brown, 20, was arrested Thursday at a relative's home in Fairburn, Georgia, US Marshals supervisor Frank Lempka said.

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1- Christina Defelipe
2. Unusual
3.
a) Göran Ekström, multiple researchers and @matarikipax, an earthquake enthusiast who discovered the waves.
b) After the U.S. Geological Survey's real-time seismogram display showed a peculiar ripple, multiple spectators and scientists are struggling to produce an explanation for this.
c) The popular theories are that the movement was caused by the movement of the island, magmatic movements offshore, a slow earthquake, and possibly a submarine.
d) Mayotte, a French Island near Madagascar.
e) November 11th.
f) Scientists have been working for weeks and still do not know why the siesmic waves occurred.

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On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UT, a mysterious rumble rolled around the world.

The seismic waves began roughly 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island sandwiched between Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar. The waves buzzed across Africa, ringing sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. They traversed vast oceans, humming across Chile, New Zealand, Canada, and even Hawaii nearly 11,000 miles away.

These waves didn't just zip by; they rang for more than 20 minutes. And yet, it seems, no human felt them.

Only one person noticed the odd signal on the U.S. Geological Survey's real-time seismogram displays. An earthquake enthusiast who uses the handle @matarikipax saw the curious zigzags and posted images of them to Twitter. That small action kicked off another ripple of sorts, as researchers around the world attempted to suss out the source of the waves. Was it a meteor strike? A submarine volcano eruption? An ancient sea monster rising from the deep?

"I don't think I've seen anything like it," says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at Columbia University who specializes in unusual earthquakes.

"It doesn't mean that, in the end, the cause of them is that exotic," he notes. Yet many features of the waves are remarkably weird-from their surprisingly monotone, low-frequency "ring" to their global spread. And researchers are still chasing down the geologic conundrum.

Why are the low-frequency waves so weird?

In a normal earthquake, the built-up tensions in Earth's crust release with a jolt in mere seconds. This sends out a series of waves known as a "wave train" that radiates from the point of the rupture, explains Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at the University of Southampton.

The fastest-traveling signals are Primary waves, or P-waves, which are compression waves that move in bunches, like what happens to an extended slinky that gets suddenly pushed at one end. Next come the secondary waves, or S-waves, which have more of a side-to-side motion. Both of these so-called body waves have relatively high frequencies, Hicks says, "a sort of ping rather than a rumbling."

Finally, chugging along at the end come slow, long-period surface waves, which are similar to the strange signals that rolled out from Mayotte. For intense earthquakes, these surface waves can zip around the planet multiple times, ringing Earth like a bell, Hicks says.

However, there was no big earthquake kicking off the recent slow waves. Adding to the weirdness, Mayotte's mystery waves are what scientists call monochromatic. Most earthquakes send out waves with a slew of different frequencies, but Mayotte's signal was a clean zigzag dominated by one type of wave that took a steady 17 seconds to repeat.

"It's like you have colored glasses and [are] just seeing red or something," says Anthony Lomax, an independent seismology consultant.

Mayotte's volcanic roots

Based on the scientific sleuthing done so far, the tremors seem to be related to a seismic swarm that's gripped Mayotte since last May. Hundreds of quakes have rattled the small nation during that time, most radiating from around 31 miles offshore, just east of the odd ringing. The majority were minor trembles, but the largest clocked in at magnitude 5.8 on May 15, the mightiest in the island's recorded history. Yet the frequency of these shakes has declined in recent months-and no traditional quakes rumbled there when the mystery waves began on November 11.

The French Geological Survey (BRGM) is closely monitoring the recent shaking, and it suggests that a new center of volcanic activity may be developing off the coast. Mayotte was formed from volcanism, but its geologic beasts haven't erupted in over 4,000 years. Instead, BRGM's analysis suggests that this new activity may point to magmatic movement offshore-miles from the coast under thousands of feet of water. Though this is good news for the island inhabitants, it's irksome for geologists, since it's an area that hasn't been studied in detail.

"The location of the swarm is on the edge of the [geological] maps we have," says Nicolas Taillefer, head of the seismic and volcanic risk unit at BRGM. "There are a lot things we don't know." And as for the November 11 mystery wave, he says, "it's something quite new in the signals on our stations."

Since mid-July, GPS stations on the island have tracked it sliding more than 2.4 inches to the east and 1.2 inches to the south, according data from Institut National de L'information Géographique et Forestière. Using these measurements, Pierre Briole of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris estimated that a magma body that measures about a third of a cubic mile is squishing its way through the subsurface near Mayotte.

The early period of rumbling was also overprinted with what seemed to be the P- and S- waves of tiny tremors, explains Lomax, who spotted the faint pings by filtering out the low-frequency signals. Such pings are commonly associated with magma moving and fracturing rock as it squirts through the crust. But even those signals were a little strange, says Helen Robinson, a Ph.D. candidate in applied volcanology at the University of Glasgow.

"They're too nice; they're too perfect to be nature," she jokes, although she quickly adds that an industrial source is impossible, since no wind farms or drilling are taking place in the deep waters off Mayotte's shores.

Ekström thinks that the events on the morning of November 11 actually did begin with an earthquake of sorts equivalent to a magnitude 5 temblor. It passed by largely unnoticed, he suggests, because it was what's known as a slow earthquake. These quakes are quieter than their speedy cousins since they come from a gradual release of stress that can stretch over minutes, hours, or even days.

"The same deformation happens, but it doesn't happen as a jolt," Ekström says.

These slow types of quakes are often associated with volcanic activity. At the Mount Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a similar slow earthquake and low-frequency waves were linked with a magma chamber collapsing. Slow quakes were also stunningly frequent during the most recent fiery run of Kilauea in Hawaii, which produced nearly 60 of these events between May and the end of July, sending seismic waves around the world.

Assembling the geologic puzzle

So what is actually causing the super-slow vibrations at Mayotte? A submarine eruption could produce these low rumblings, but evidence for such an event has yet to materialize.

Most current guesses revolve around resonance in a magma chamber, triggered by some type of subsurface shift or chamber collapse. The resonance itself can be any type of rhythmic motion, like sloshing of the molten rock, or a pressure wave ricocheting through the magma body, Ekström explains. Studying the intricate features of the seismic waves could yield clues to the size and shape of the molten material lurking below.

"It's like a music instrument," says Jean-Paul Ampuero, a seismologist at the Université Côte d'Azur in France. "The notes of a music instrument-whether it's grave or very pitchy-depends on the size of the instrument."

The signal's odd uniformity could be due, in part, to the surrounding rocks and sediments, Lomax adds. Perhaps the local geology is filtering the sounds and only letting this single 17-second wave period escape.

Robinson agrees with this idea, noting that the geology here is extremely complex. Mayotte sits in a region crisscrossed by ancient faults-including fracture zones from the final breakup of the southern supercontinent Gondwana. What's more, the underlying crust is somewhat transitional, shifting between the thick continental crusts and the thinner oceanic crusts. Perhaps this complexity drives the simplicity of the escaping waves, Robinson says.

For now, though, the lack of data makes it tough to say more about the wiggly forms. Hicks' preliminary models hinted that the waves emanated from subsurface inflation, rather than a magma chamber draining or collapsing. But with a little additional data, the model flipped and pointed to chamber deflation instead.

It also could be a bit of both, notes Robinson: "Some collapse mechanisms, you can get inflation and deflation occurring at the same time," she says. Or sometimes they can alternate, pumping up and down like Earth's fiery lungs.

"It is very difficult, really, to say what the cause is and whether anyone's theories are correct-whether even what I'm saying has any relevance to the outcome of what's going on," Robinson says.

BRGM plans to do ocean bottom surveys to get more detailed information about the region and investigate the possibility of a submarine eruption. In the meantime, the seismic sleuthing continues with the data that's available. Whether the cause is ordinary or extraordinary remains to be seen, Lomax says, but the science-and the fun-is in the chase.

"Depending on what field and what time in history, 99.9 percent of the time, it's ordinary, or noise, or a mistake, and 0.1 percent, it's something" he says. "But that's just the way it goes. That's the way it should go. That's scientific advance."

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to clarify the source of the data and analysis on Mayotte's geological movement and subsurface magma body size.

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Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why

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On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UT, a mysterious rumble rolled around the world. The seismic waves began roughly 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island sandwiched between Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar. The waves buzzed across Africa, ringing sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.

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