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A little British boy fought terminal cancer long enough to meet and name his newborn baby sister and told his devastated parents: “You can only cry for 20 minutes.” Nine-year-old Bailey Cooper battled the disease for 15 months and was determined to hold his new sibling who was due. Mom Rachel, 28, had her in November and Bailey named her Millie — and the day before he died, Bailey was pictured cradling the baby in his arms. Tragically, Bailey died on Christmas Eve — and his proud mom and dad, Lee, 30, said he smiled all the way through his treatment. Rachel said: “We didn’t think he would last that long, but he was determined to meet Millie. It got to the end of November and Millie was born. He hugged her and did everything an older brother would do — change her, wash her, sing to her.” Lee added: “Doctors said he was going to go before Millie was born. He didn’t. He fought and on the way to hospital, he said, ‘We should call her Millie.’” “But the moment after he met her, he began to taper off quickly. He was slipping away.” The family knew Bailey was unlikely to survive to celebrate Christmas but encouraged him to write a list of gifts he would like. But his parents noticed they seemed to be chosen with his younger brother, 6-year-old Riley, in mind. Knowing he was dying, Bailey had planned his own funeral and asked that all guests be dressed in superhero outfits. He told his parents in their last family meeting: “You’re only allowed to cry for 20 minutes. You have to take care of Riley and Millie.” And when his grandmother said she wished she could take his place, Bailey told her: “That is really selfish, Nan. You have grandchildren to take care of.” After being taken to a hospice on Dec. 22, Bailey’s family gathered by his bedside and read him stories to keep him company. Rachel said: “He knew he was not going to be here for Christmas, but we tried to get him to put together a Christmas list. He said he didn’t want to, but we encouraged him to.” “By 11:45 a.m. on Christmas Eve, we were by his bedside. We knew it was not going to be long. We told him, ‘It’s time to go, Bailey. Stop.’” “The moment we said ‘stop,’ he took his last breath and had just the one tear come out of his eye. It was peaceful.” Lee added: “We were going to get everything he asked for. But most of the stuff he asked for were things he never played with.” “They were more suited for his little brother. He had picked everything for Riley because he knew he was not going to play with them.” Bailey first became ill in the summer of 2016 and after a series of tests in September, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which develops in the network of vessels and glands in the body. By the time it was discovered, it was already in Stage Three. Doctors treated the cancer with chemotherapy and steroid medication but were optimistic that Bailey would recover, and in February 2017, he went into remission. Bailey returned to Stoke Lodge Primary School in Patchway, Bristol, about 120 miles west of London, and was subject to regular check-ups and routine MRIs every three months. But when the family went on Easter vacation to a Devon holiday park, they were dealt a devastating blow. Lee said: “On the second day, we were in Paignton Zoo when we had a phone call from the hospital that he had relapsed and they needed him back in. Bailey showed signs that he was breathless and tired.” The family was told there was a 70 percent survival rate and chemotherapy began again. “The doctors threw the book at it and told us even if he survived it, the long-term effects will last for the rest of his life,” Lee said. “He had a stem cell transplant. We had to try everything we could.” In July, the family was told that Bailey was in remission, but by August the cancer had come back — and they were told there was nothing more that could be done. The cancer had spread quickly and lumps were found in Bailey’s chest, lungs, liver and stomach. Hundreds of people turned out to pay their respects to Bailey on Jan. 6, including Bristol Rovers FC captain Tom Lockyer, who struck up a friendship with the young football fan. Lee said: “Bailey smiled through it all. He pulled funny faces and made people laugh, even though he was in so much pain.”

Chicken fingers went flying on an Alabama highway Saturday evening following an 18-wheeler car crash. The sighting prompted a number of hungry drivers and motorists to stop their vehicles and collect the fried snack the next day. Unfortunately, their desire to chow down caused a significant amount of traffic, which is illegal. Shortly after the crash, The Cherokee County Emergency Management released a public service announcement warning those traveling on Highway 35 near the Dekalb County line to not stop their vehicles. “The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office is asking that no one try to stop to get the chicken tenders that were spilled from the 18 wheeler accident last night on Highway 35. You’re creating a traffic hazard! It’s a crime to impede the flow of traffic,” Cherokee County’s EMA wrote on their Facebook page. In addition to creating a traffic hazard, the EMA explained the chicken tenders were unsafe to eat. “Those cases have been on the ground for over 24 hours and are unsafe to consume,” the EMA continued before adding that anyone who stopped to pick them up “could be facing charges.” Alabama officials then made the decision to close down the highway to one lane in order to expedite the cleaning process. However, it wasn’t until Monday afternoon that the tenders were cleared. “The scene on Highway 35 has been cleaned up and the road is now reopened,” the EMA revealed in an update. At this time, it is not clear as to how many people stopped in the middle of traffic to collect the tenders and whether or not those people have been identified and charged.

Some people will do anything for coconut shrimp. On Wednesday evening, a Florida woman allegedly attacked her parents because they wouldn’t take her to dinner at Outback Steakhouse, a popular Australian-themed restaurant chain. Deanna Seltzer, 28, was charged with one count of simply battery domestic, one count of battery of a person 65 or older, and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Police arrived at a Lake Worth home to find a glass dining room table flipper over, with shards of glass scattered through the area, according to WPBF. They also found a 12-inch decorative knife laying on the kitchen counter. According to Seltzer’s mother, Deanna became enraged when she asked to go to dinner at Outback Steakhouse and was told no. She allegedly punched her mother with closed fists on her chest and arms, and when her father intervened, he reportedly received multiple scratches to his face and upper body. Seltzer also allegedly grabbed the knife and lunged at her father, yelling, “I’m going to kill you.” Seltzer is out of jail on bond, local TV station CW34 reports. A judge ordered her to undergo a mental health evaluation, and was ordered to stay away from drugs, alcohol and weapons. According to the report, it is unknown whether mental health, drugs or alcohol played a part in the incident.

Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch, and to deal with it, evolved an energy-expensive process called photorespiration that drastically suppresses their yield potential. On. Jan. 3 researchers from the University of Illinois and U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service report in the journal Science that crops engineered with a photorespiratory shortcut are 40 percent more productive in real-world agronomic conditions. “We could feed up to 200 million additional people with the calories lost to photorespiration in the Midwestern U.S. each year,” said principal investigator Donald Ort, the Robert Emerson Professor of Plant Science and Crop Sciences at Illinois’ Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. “Reclaiming even a portion of these calories across the world would go a long way to meeting the 21st Century’s rapidly expanding food demands—driven by population growth and more affluent high-calorie diets.” This landmark study is part of Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency, an international research project that is engineering crops to photosynthesize more efficiently to sustainably increase worldwide food productivity with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, and the U.K. Government’s Department for International Development. Photosynthesis uses the enzyme Rubisco—the planet’s most abundant protein—and sunlight energy to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugars that fuel plant growth and yield. Over millennia, Rubisco has become a victim of its own success, creating an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Unable to reliably distinguish between the two molecules, Rubisco grabs oxygen instead of carbon dioxide about 20 percent of the time, resulting in a plant-toxic compound that must be recycled through the process of photorespiration. “Photorespiration is anti-photosynthesis,” said lead author Paul South, a research molecular biologist with the Agricultural Research Service, who works on the RIPE project at Illinois. “It costs the plant precious energy and resources that it could have invested in photosynthesis to produce more growth and yield.” Photorespiration normally takes a complicated route through three compartments in the plant cell. Scientists engineered alternate pathways to reroute the process, drastically shortening the trip and saving enough resources to boost plant growth by 40 percent. This is the first time that an engineered photorespiration fix has been tested in real-world agronomic conditions. “Much like the Panama Canal was a feat of engineering that increased the efficiency of trade, these photorespiratory shortcuts are a feat of plant engineering that prove a unique means to greatly increase the efficiency of photosynthesis,” said RIPE Director Stephen Long, the Ikenberry Endowed University Chair of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology at Illinois. The team engineered three alternate routes to replace the circuitous native pathway. To optimize the new routes, they designed genetic constructs using different sets of promoters and genes, essentially creating a suite of unique roadmaps. They stress tested these roadmaps in 1,700 plants to winnow down the top performers. Over two years of replicated field studies, they found that these engineered plants developed faster, grew taller, and produced about 40 percent more biomass, most of which was found in 50-percent-larger stems. The team tested their hypotheses in tobacco: an ideal model plant for crop research because it is easier to modify and test than food crops, yet unlike alternative plant models, it develops a leaf canopy and can be tested in the field. Now, the team is translating these findings to boost the yield of soybean, cowpea, rice, potato, tomato, and eggplant. "Rubisco has even more trouble picking out carbon dioxide from oxygen as it gets hotter, causing more photorespiration,” said co-author Amanda Cavanagh, an Illinois postdoctoral researcher working on the RIPE project. “Our goal is to build better plants that can take the heat today and in the future, to help equip farmers with the technology they need to feed the world.” While it will likely take more than a decade for this technology to be translated into food crops and achieve regulatory approval, RIPE and its sponsors are committed to ensuring that smallholder farmers, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, will have royalty-free access to all of the project’s breakthroughs.

Forest Hills’ Corinne Conover knows how important dogs can be to seniors and those suffering from illness. Her life is dedicated to aiding those with autism as well as Asperger syndrome, but lately she has dedicated her time to an unexpected demand. Walking dogs for the sick and elderly in her community is one she has decided to dedicate the time she does not spend with clients, saving the people who need help money they could be spending on healthcare. But in the eight months since she began what is now known as “Paw It Forward,” members of the community have swarmed her rank looking to help out, but there is one problem: with over 50, she has more volunteers than dogs that need walking. “The volunteers are willing and able and ready to go, but we have less dogs than we have volunteers,” Conover said. “The overwhelming response I got from the community boards with people who really wanted to step up and volunteer, I had no idea. I thought it was just going to be me and my little rescue dog helping a few people in the neighborhood.” Quillnilla Shtatlender, 78, lives off Yellowstone Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, and at her age finds it difficult to give her dog Rumi the attention he needs while her daughter Olga is away. The cancer patients Conover works with vary in age with the youngest being a 27-year-old Hodgkins lymphoma patient and one of the older being a senior citizen who suffers from brain cancer. But Conover keeps the names and conditions of the people she helps confidential since many do not wish to make their conditions known to their neighbors. “The senior citizens love it for the companionship because they’ll invite us in and they’ll want to talk and hang out for a little bit before we take out their dog, so there’s a connection there with the person too and not just their dog,” Conover said. Conover takes her own dog, 12-year-old yorkie-poodle Sonny, on every walk with her, each of which can last between one and two hours. To prevent there being a “revolving door” of strangers through her client’s homes, Conover prefers to assign one to two volunteers to each person she helps. This familiarity creates a healthy relationship between the two parties. Conover has meetings planned with a lawyer to establish Paw It Forward as an official nonprofit organization, and in mid-May, date pending, she will have a fundraiser to finance a website. She has lived in the community for about eight years, where she met her husband six years ago, since moving to Queens from Long Island. Conover plans to keep driving the organization forward with more dogs and more volunteers, but warns those interested in getting involved that working her clients is a commitment. The Forest Hills resident has also teamed up with Forest Park Barking Lot Vice President Esta-Joy Sydell at events to promote her program. If you’re interested in the program, Conover can be reached at 516-554-1268 or by email at CorinneConover[@]aol.com with the subject line “Paw It Forward.”

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But what are they going to do with all the T-shirts they made up? The owner of a soon-to-be-opening French-Vietnamese restaurant in New Hampshire is set to meet with the city manager of Keene following concerns that the eatery’s name sounds like a profane phrase. Pho Keene Great, which is not scheduled to open until March 1, had already displayed a small sign prominently featuring the name, which is a play on both the Vietnamese dish pho (pronounced “fuh”) and the name of the town. City Manager Elizabeth Dragon said the owner, Isabelle Jolie, hadn’t gotten permission to hang a sign displaying the name outside the restaurant. Jolie has since had it removed. The restaurant’s Facebook page has also been polling social media users, asking if they think the name of the restaurant is offensive. “The issue is pending a meeting with the city manager and her team,” the restaurant wrote in its post, which found that 97 percent of respondents found the name to be “fun” rather than offensive.

Kathy Griffin’s 98-year-old mother, Maggie, is suffering from dementia. Griffin shared the sad news in a series of tweets, describing the situation as “heartbreaking.” “The pic below, taken in September, was the last time I was able to have a proper/coherent conversation with her,” Griffin wrote, along with a photo showing her with Maggie. “Since that photo was taken, she has rapidly fallen into the throes of dementia,” the comedian continued. “This is never easy for any child, I know this is a reality that millions of people deal with every year. But when it comes to my mom this is particularly hard because her sharp mind was everything.” Griffin wrote that her mother — who earned a large following for her funny and charming appearances on her daughter’s show “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List” — is not in any physical pain and is receiving round-the-clock care. “In terms of how she is now, at this point she only knows my name and I love you,” Griffin wrote. “I know many of you know what that reality is like...I'm still grappling with it.” Griffin went on to share a number of videos of her mother that she cherishes and asked fans to share some of their favorite Maggie moments as well. Her tweets were met with an outpouring of support and sweet messages. “We all felt we knew Maggie through your Twitter posts & now we all share your pain as you lose a part of her,”tweeted “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill. “Sending her love & warm wishes.” Griffin, meanwhile, tweeted that she replies “you do!" whenever fans say they feel like they know Maggie personally from watching her. “She never put on a show, she was the show," Griffin wrote. Griffin’s reality show, which aired on Bravo, ran for six seasons from 2005 to 2010. Here are some of Maggie’s most memorable moments on “My Life on the D-List”: Her Bucket List A 2009 episode centered on Griffin trying to fulfill different wishes on her mom’s bucket list — but she quickly learned it didn't take much to satisfy her mom. “I like to see a nice play here and there. A nice play. I still love going out to dinner,” Maggie said when asked what was on her bucket list, prompting jokes from her daughter. “I require very little in my life,” Maggie said. “I just mostly want to get a real good night’s sleep.” When pressed for more, Maggie said she’d like to meet Betty White and Don Rickles, which her daughter managed to make happen. Maggie’s Advice There were multiple times when Maggie gave advice to her daughter on the show — with hilarious results. In one instance, Maggie — with a glass of wine in hand — suggested Griffin perform as a cheerleader if her performance at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center went awry. “You’re a girl. They love that,” Maggie said. “Just go in and you flirt a little bit and all that kind of stuff. If it gets a little dull or you think, like, you’re sinking, you know, wave a few pom poms and dance around a little bit. “Even if you just wave them and say, ‘Let’s have a cheer for the good ol’ USA.’ ” Maggie on Facebook Another famous scene featured Kathy and her co-worker writing a series of vulgar comments using Maggie’s Facebook page and watching her freak out about them. “I don’t even know what that means,” Maggie says at one point. “And I don’t think I’m going to like it if I find out.” Meeting with Lauren Conrad about Muumuus Griffin brought her mom with her to discuss how to market a line of muumuus with Lauren Conrad. The scene humorously begins with Maggie referring to Conrad as “LC,” though Conrad later says she’d rather go by Lauren after Griffin asks for her preference. They then decided that their best bet was marketing the dress as a “Maggie Drinking Blanket,” and Griffin admires how her mom is hitting it off with the star of “The Hills.”

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What happens when discontent in a marriage leads to an addiction to guy on guy(s) porn? Is the situation worse when it’s alien guy on guy(s) porn? And what happens when the alien guy on guy(s) porn is infected with a computer virus? These riveting issues were probed rather deeply on last night’s episode of THE ORVILLE, the 2nd of the season. Didn’t the original STAR TREK have the same plot in one episode?

A woman was nearly run over in her own bedroom after an Ohio man plowed through the wall of her apartment in his truck, according to reports. Dan Magnuson, 60, sent text messages threatening to “kill and/or cause bodily harm” to the unnamed victim hours before he crashed his pickup truck into her apartment. “He said he was putting on his death clothes and that he was on his way, and for me to get ready and get mine on, because he’s going to kill me,” the woman told WLWT5. The man believed he was in a relationship with the woman and became enraged. The victim, who was not hurt during the incident, told cops she was praying in bed over the situation shortly before the crash. At the moment of impact, she was on the phone with Magnuson. Cincinnati police took Magnuson into custody at the scene of the crash at the Savannah Gardens apartment complex, FOX19 reported. He was charged with felonious assault and menacing by stalking. The hole in the side of the building was boarded up following the incident. Magnuson has been arrested three times in 2006 in relation to assaults on women, according to court records obtained by FOX19. He was charged with domestic violence in 2006 after he pushed a woman out of his residence and struck her in the face twice. Two years later, Magnuson was charged with assault, disorderly conduct and criminal damaging or endangering after a bar fight. He was charged with assault a third time in 2013, but that case was later dropped. The victim of Magnuson’s road rage told WLWT5 that she’s worried about her safety since he is the maintenance man in the apartment complex where she lives.

Do the wave! A new residential complex finally completed in Denmark after more than a decade is taking buyers on a ride with a unique undulating facade. With five flowing, nine-story humps reflecting against the Skyttehus bay in Vejle (roughly 150 miles west of Copenhagen), the building, dubbed Bølgen (Danish for “Wave”), looks waterpark ready. In fact, its designer — renowned Nordic design house Henning Larsen, known for the Copenhagen Opera House, Denmark’s Moesgaard Museum and Harpa in Reykjavik, Iceland — was reportedly inspired by Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House. “The land surrounding Vejle is unique for its rolling hills, which are an uncommon sight in Denmark,” says Søren Øllgaard, partner and design director at Henning Larsen. “We feel our design merges our own contemporary designs with a strong sense of local identity.” It’s no slow roller either. The eye-catching 150,000-square-foot, 100-unit apartment building is moving faster than a tsunami, with three out of five “waves” fully sold or rented and just seven units remaining overall, according to the building’s website. However, a top floor, roughly 2,700-square-feet, duplex is still available, asking just over $2 million. The apartment complex has also picked up a number of design and industry awards over the years, including a local prize for Building of the Year, Britain’s Civic Trust Award and architecture’s prestigious ABB LEAF Award. Call it a real estate flow rider.

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[MEDIA=twitter]1080482772907638784[/MEDIA] This squirrel’s on a roll! Online video posted this week showing a Big Apple squirrel enjoying a crispy egg roll from way up in a tree has captured the hearts of those hungry for a worthy successor to Pizza Rat. The Twitter account WhatIsNewYork posted the seven-second clip Wednesday with the caption: “Doesn’t look like this squirrels first egg roll.” Social media users got a kick out of the bizarre footage, which garnered more than 75,000 views by Thursday morning. “So much for the New Year’s resolution,” Twitter user @KFCavanaugh tweeted. User @Miss_Kitty52 tweeted: “Forgot the sauce.”

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