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Cleveland Priest Shot While Retrieving Eggs from Chicken Coop

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Cleveland Pastor Shot over Eggs

The Cleveland priest was mugged while he was returning to the church with a basket full of chicken eggs.

Last week, an Ohio court decided to trial two teenagers as adults for attempted murder. Amin Walker and Jaylen Miller, both from Collinwood, have been charged with wanting to gun down a Cleveland priest during a heist gone wrong. Three more teens will be charged in the case, prosecutors declared.

Cleveland Priest Was Mugged While Returning from the Church’s Chicken Coop

According to the court document, on the 12th of December, in the early hours of the morning, Reverent John Kumse, a St. Mary’s of the Assumption priest, left the church and went behind the back to retrieve a couple of eggs from the chicken coup.

Jaylen Miller and Amin Walker, both 16, snuck around the back as well and were hiding in the foliage, waiting for the priest to return. After collecting four eggs, the Cleveland priest returned to the church only to be cut off by Walker and Miller who demanded the eggs and anything of value he had.

Kumse told before the court that the teenagers were armed with pistols. Seeing that the two menacing teens, the Cleveland priest started running towards the church. That’s when Miller and Walker opened fire.

According to the investigators, the duo fired three shots towards the fleeing priest, but only two hit him. Realizing that the third bullet missed him, Kumse got up, fled from the courtyard and asked for help.

The two ran away and got into the getaway car driven by Kenitra Robinson, 18. Miller and Walker were taken into custody later that day after finding the van abandoned on a nearby street.

Fortunately, the Cleveland priest was rushed in time to the hospital, where the doctors managed to save him. The teenagers will answer before the law as adults. As far as their accomplices are concerned, the authorities are going to press more charges.

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Teen with Prader-Willi Syndrome Wins Beauty Pageant

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Anna Hankins, a 15-year-old teen diagnosed during early childhood with Prader-Willi syndrome, has even more reasons to be happy and to enjoy like after she was recently crowned queen of the Miss Amazing beauty pageant. Although the teen is struggling with her weight, she’s a very happy and optimistic person, according to her parents.

Prader-Willi Syndrome is a Rare Genetic Disorder

According to the National Health Institute, only one in 15,000 children are diagnosed with Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic and, unfortunately, incurable genetic condition characterized by abnormal food craving, low muscle tone, and stunted growth.

Anna Hankins is one of the few United States kids who were diagnosed with this condition. According to the teen’s parents, Anna was born prematurely and she had issues taking in any kind of food.

Regrettably, a few years later, Anna started exhibiting strange behavior. In a press interview, the girl’s mother declared that her daughter would eat just about anything she can lay her hands on, and that they even caught her in the kitchen, in the dead of night, preparing a chocolate cake.

For this reason, her parents were forced to put padlocks on the refrigerator and any placed food is stored. However, Anna’s uncontrollable craving for food made her eat discarded morsels from the family’s trashcan.

Now, the teen was put on a 900-calorie diet and she’s not allowed to eat anything fatty or sweet as her body cannot handle food well. Due to her condition, the teen needs help getting dressed and moving around the house.

At times, she needs oxygen as her weight of 380 pounds makes it almost impossible for her to breath properly.

Conclusion

Still, the teen with Prader-Willi syndrome has bright future ahead of her. Only recently, Anna was crowned for the third time queen of the Miss Amazing beauty pageant for persons with disabilities.

Shoplifters Nabbed After Walking Drunk into Police Station

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Police Station and Drunken Shoplifters.

Two shoplifters arrested in a single day after one of them walks drunk in police station.

Because a life of crime can sometimes be construed as a series of unfortunate events, we give you the case of two ‘professional’ shoplifter who got arrested after one of them walked drunk into the police station and asked for a ride home. His partner-in-crime was arrested after showing up to give his buddy a ride.

Shoplifters Were Wanted for Stealing Merchandise on Display, Authorities Declared

On Wednesday, the Delaware law enforcement officials arrested and charged with robbery 34-year-old Christopher McDowell and 48-year-old April J. Wright.

According to the authorities, the dynamic duo was wanted for theft following a grievance filed by a department store owner on the 22nd of February.

It would appear that both McDowell and Wright went inside the store with the intention of returning a defective product. While McDowell talked with a department store representative about a fake refund, Wright was checking the store for accessible merchandise.

After McDowell finished talking with the store’s staff member, Wright allegedly grabbed some of the merchandise put on display and went towards the exit. Apparently, neither the store’s staff nor the security agents were able to stop the woman from walking away with the unpaid merchandise.

The two of them decided to stay under the radar for a while, until Wednesday. According to a Delaware State Police spokesperson, on Wednesday night, McDowell, one of the shoplifters, simply walked inside the police headquarters and kept hollering about a ride home.

Conclusion

Of course, the authorities identified the man and took him into custody. The man was later released after posting his $1,000 bail and was allowed to call a friend or relative to come and pick him up. Fate has it that the person who came to the station for McDowell was none other than Wright.

The authorities arrested the woman and charged her with robbery. It’s not clear whether Wright posted bail or not.

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Google Docs Mistakenly Flags Content as Abusive and Leaves Users Puzzled

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Google locked a few users out of their Google Docs files for no real reason

If you thought Google Docs was a safe place to keep your documents, think again. A number of users have recently reported being locked out of their online files, and informed they had been violating the company’s Terms and Conditions. The real reason seems to be the content of these documents, which Google found inappropriate. Such an issue poses some real security concerns, meaning that your files are not as safe as you thought they were.

Google Docs randomly flags content as abusive

Google has some strict policies when it comes to the content one can share or add into Google Docs. This means the company is seriously against any kind of content protected by copyright, or which might contain pornography, child abuse, hate speech, threats, overly graphic or confidential information.

However, those users who got their files locked away were still puzzled, since their documents didn’t contain any of the violating content presented above. For instance, one of the victims was Rachael Bale, a reported for National Geographic, who had just lost a Google Docs file about wildlife crime.

This raises some real questions about the security of one’s work

An official from Google quickly intervened, and said the incident must have merely been an error. This happened as they were working on a new code, and a series of harmless documents were faultily flagged as inappropriate. However, the fix should come soon, and these users will be able to recover their files.

This incident raises many questions regarding the security of Google Docs files. The fact that users risk losing important work before they have time to edit the content and remove any policy-infringing references, such as copyrighted material, is a huge glitch. This might risk Google a lot of users, as many journalists are now skeptical, and don’t want to see their work put in danger.


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Intense Cheeseburger Emoji Debate Gets Google CEO Involved in the Matter

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The cheeseburger emoji debate convinced the Google CEO to join in the fun

The new cheeseburger emoji proved so controversial that even the Google CEO got involved in the spiced debate. People were outraged by the placement of the cheese in the Google version of the emoji, and this attracted the attention of the company’s CEO. After seeing how disappointed the people were, he decided to assess the problem, and come with a solution as soon as possible.

Google sports an outrageous cheeseburger emoji

One single tweet was enough to start an intense debate regarding the cheeseburger emoji. The Baekdal Media founder, Thomas Baekdal, spotted a significant difference between the Apple and the Google versions of the emoji. The Google version had a different order of the ingredients, with the cheese lying right where it shouldn’t be – at the bottom.

This led to a lot of outrage from cheeseburger fans worldwide, who started debating the perfect arrangement of the ingredients in the popular snack. The original tweet registered a number of 14,000 retweets, and gathered several thousands of people who expressed their opinion on the perfect cheeseburger. Even Gordon Ramsay got involved, and released a tutorial video on how to arrange the ingredients of the snack.

Google’s CEO wants to fix the problem right away

However, everybody knew the cheeseburger emoji issue got to a whole new level when even Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, entered the debate. He couldn’t let the faulty arrangement prevail, so he calmed everybody down through a tweet where he said Google would drop everything and fix the emoji problem.

He said the cheeseburger emoji would receive a fix when users will all agree upon the ideal placement of the ingredients. However, this is unlikely to happen too soon, as there are thousands of tweets on the matter, and users are still arguing. This means that the outrageous cheeseburger emoji with the cheese at the bottom might not disappear so easily.

 


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Apple Purchases the Wireless Charging Company PowerbyProxi

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Apple wants to own the entire wireless charging market

Apple fashioned its latest iPhones with the exquisite wireless charging technology, but it seems the tech giant is not planning to stop here. The company might be looking to overcome the remote charging market, since it has just purchased PowerbyProxi, the New Zealand producer of wireless chargers and adapters.

Apple wants to make wireless charging more accessible

PowerbyProxi is the creator of the Proxi-Module, a platform of wireless data and power which can be used to make regular devices work as wireless systems. By using it, mostly any kind of smartphone might be able to perform wireless charging.

Samsung showed an interest in the company as well, and even invested $4 million several years ago. However, it seems their affairs didn’t quite work out, and Apple now stepped up and made PowerbyProxi its own company.

Dan Riccio, Apple’s Engineering Vice President, confirmed the acquisition of PowerbyProxi. He said this was an attempt to make wireless charging more accessible, and to give more customers the chance to charge their devices more easily. This means that not only the owners of the newest iPhone generation should benefit from the perks of this technology.

Apple will definitely use the landmark technology in future devices

Although Riccio didn’t reveal how much money they did strike the deal for, the sum might be somewhere over $50,000. The chief of PowerbyProxi also admitted the company now belongs to the Apple family. However, it will not move its headquarters, and the employees will continue working from their home country of New Zealand.

This purchase might mean more Apple devices benefitting from the wireless charging feature. However, the company didn’t reveal any of the plans it has for the next generations of iPhones. Their intentions will definitely be made clear with the release of new hardware.
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Google Maps Gives Up the Cupcakes which Counted Your Calories

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Google ditches the offensive cupcakes from Google Maps

Not a long time ago, Google released a new feature on its Maps app, which was meant to show people the calories they would burn if they chose to walk to a certain location. However, this feature didn’t reach the desired effect, so Google decided it was better to ditch it.

The cupcakes showed how many calories you could have burned by walking

The update was supposed to promote activity as a healthy option, and to convince users to walk to their direction instead of taking the car. Therefore, it calculated how many calories they would burn if they opted for this healthier alternative. If you selected the walking route, these calories were displayed as small cupcakes.

However, users didn’t grasp Google’s good intentions, and slammed the new feature everywhere on the web. Most of them took to Twitter to express their disapproval of the cupcakes, and blamed Google for being mindless about those people who struggle with eating disorders or similar issues.

Users didn’t refrain from expressing their disapproval of the feature

Seeing the negative feedback the feature had received, Google admitted the cupcakes were merely an experiment. The company performed a brief session of testing on iOS but, since it hasn’t been welcome by users, the feature will be dumped.

Users had other things to complain about. Since the calories are displayed as pink cupcakes, some of them found they were subtly addressed to women. Others didn’t make such extensive associations, but still found the feature was quite unsuitable for Google Maps. If users are interested in the calories they burn, they have plenty of other designated apps to use.

After this failed attempt, Google will probably stick to keep Maps free of useless updates, and focus more on its strength and advantages.
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Frontier Offered Us the First Glimpse into the Jurassic World Evolution Universe

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Frontier released a preview on the upcoming Jurassic World Evolution

Developers Frontier have just released their yearly livestream expo, and it came with some special surprises for fans. Gamers had dozens of questions regarding Jurassic World Evolution, the long-awaited dinosaur game. Since the game will only be out sometime during the summer of 2018, Frontier decided it was time to let people find out more about it.

Jurassic World Evolution follows the line of the 1993 movie

Therefore, during the livestream in question, the developers came up with some answers about Jurassic World Evolution which kept bugging the fans for quite a long time. Therefore, the game is dedicated to all those who enjoyed the 1993 film, Jurassic Park. The entire atmosphere revives the cinematic experience, and leads players through all the stages in the development of the park.

Therefore, they start from the beginning, where you can collect samples of dinosaur DNA right from the archaeological sites. Then, you can use genetic engineering to raise your own specimens, and build Jurassic Park. The game won’t let players get bored, as they have to take decisions on how to run the park.

The game will put players at test

Also, they have three options they can choose from, when it comes to administrative details. First of all, the park can serve for pure entertainment. Then, you can choose to show everybody how good your security is by managing to keep the huge reptiles from ravaging the surroundings. In the end, you can use it for research purposes, or you can choose a mix of all three.

The game won’t be easy, as it will test the players’ ability to deal with the unexpected. Therefore, they will have to deal with emergencies, such as biological hazards which threaten your dinosaurs. Frontier developers provided plenty of screenshots from Jurassic World Evolution, where they present the surroundings and the mechanics behind the gameplay.

Fossilized Fecal Matter Shows How Herbivorous Dinosaurs Sometimes Cheated and Ate Crustaceans

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Hadrosaurs ate crustaceans to get extra proteins

A recent study on fossilized dinosaur fecal matter revealed an interesting truth about them, which contradicts the previous theory on the diet of herbivorous specimens. As their name says, scientists thought they fed exclusively on plants. However, the traces found in these fossils revealed they sometimes ate some meat.

Crustacean traces were hidden in fecal fossils

Researchers discovered some 75 million years old fecal fossils belonging to hadrosaurs, a species of dinosaurs well-known for being herbivorous. However, the analysis of these fossils revealed this species didn’t always choose plants for dinner. They found traces of crustaceans in the fecal matter, together with particles of wood coming from coniferous trees.

However, these were not the only fossil samples containing traces of crustacean shells. Some other coprolites, which are actually remains of dinosaur droppings, contained the same traces, and these remains were present in the Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah. This area was a favorite for hadrosaurs, so they might have occasionally cheated on their plant-only diet.

The bone and teeth structure of these hadrosaurs was typical of animals living closer to fresh water. There, their preferred meal included conifers and fern. The Kaiparowits Plateau was rich in sources of fresh water, as well as conifers and other similar plants, so it quickly became the ideal area where hadrosaurs could live.

Crustaceans were a sure source of proteins for the reproductive periods

Researchers revealed these dinosaurs chose to eat wood and crustaceans during the periods of reproduction. Such food was a good source of calcium, and improved their protein levels when they most needed them. The decaying wood contained plenty of small insects and creatures, which are a valuable source of protein, while crustaceans provide many other nutrients.

In fact, more herbivorous dinosaurs fed on unusual food for them, such as crustaceans, during reproductive periods. These creatures are a sure source of proteins for tough times, and easy to catch for dinosaurs which weren’t used to hunting. The study on hadrosaurs was published in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Sleep Deprivation Can Reduce Depression Symptoms, Claims New Study

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According to a new study, sleep deprivation might be a helpful, short-term way of improving the symptoms of depression.

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine found that sleep deprivation might actually help reduce the symptoms of depression. Results from the research show that up to 50 percent of the people suffering from depression might temporarily benefit from a short-term lack of sleep.

Sleep Deprivation Combats Depression But Is Not a Solution

The lack of sleep is often regarded as a symptom of a depressive mood disorder. It has long been thought that lack of sleep results in an irritable mood. However, it might seemingly also help curb some depression symptoms.

Elaine Boland, the study’s lead researcher, explains that individuals across different populations benefitted from the loss of sleep. This was not noted to hold regardless of the type of deprivation, be it partial or total. The sort of medicine administered as well as what the definition of response was or how the outcome was measured also seemingly did not affect the results.

Researchers took into account both partial (20-21 hours without sleeping) and total sleep deprivation (36 hours without sleeping). Their analysis included data gathered from sources dating between 1974 to 2016.

The connection between a lack of sleep and improving one’s mood actually goes back to 19th century Germany. Psychiatrist Johann Christian August Heinroth asserted that a lack of sleep seemed to improve melancholia symptoms in his patients. He even used sleep deprivation as a therapeutic tool for melancholic patients.

The therapeutic use of deprivation in a clinical setting is still a controversial subject since the lack of sleep is often associated with the possible development of mental illness. However, as some researchers suggest, one night of deprivation could lead to the brain being able to reset its circadian rhythm the following evening.

While deprivation seems to provide some temporary relief from the symptoms of a depressive mood, it should not be used on the long-term. It should also not come in the way of making helpful lifestyle changes. Ones that will promote a more sustainable improvement in mood.

The study’s findings and results are presented in a paper released in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 

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