Highlights are now available on iPhone and iPad
- By Kait
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- 19 Apr, 2018
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Highlights are here for iPhone and iPad! Last December, we launched highlights on Android and we’ve been hearing how much easier it is for Android users to mark and recall important passages in Pocket. This is why we’re thrilled to bring highlights to iOS devices today, so you can start highlighting and capturing ideas you […]
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Highlights are here for iPhone and iPad!
Last December, we launched highlights on Android
and we’ve been hearing how much easier it is for Android users to mark and recall important passages in Pocket. This is why we’re thrilled to bring highlights to iOS devices today, so you can start highlighting and capturing ideas you read and want to remember, share, and revisit again and again.
Your highlights will sync automatically between Pocket on iOS and Android, so if you use both, we’ve got you covered!
For those of you who are new to highlights, creating them is easy! Just open an article and select text you want to remember. Then, select the “Highlight” action above the selection.
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Once you’ve created several highlights in an article, you can tap on any of them to see all of your highlights in one place. Later on, when you’re viewing your list, you can use the Highlights filter to see all of the highlights that you’ve created in Pocket.
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We’ve added some refinements in Pocket for Android as well! The overall highlights UI has been improved, and the Highlights filter has been reorganized and is now easier to read.
Please keep in mind: Highlighting is a freemium feature. Free accounts will be able to create up to 3 highlights per article, while
Pocket Premium
subscribers will be able to create an unlimited number of highlights.
We hope you’re as excited as we are, and can’t wait to hear what you think! Do you find yourself becoming a more focused, active reader? Are you able to more deeply engage with the ideas and insights you discover in Pocket? Please let us know by sending us an email
, or help us spread the word by tweeting a screenshot of something interesting you highlighted today.
– Team Pocket
Highlights are here for iPhone and iPad! Last December, we launched highlights on Android and we’ve been hearing how much easier it is for Android users to mark and recall important passages in Pocket. This is why we’re thrilled to bring highlights to iOS devices today, so you can start highlighting and capturing ideas you […]
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Videotaped Confession Shows A Mother Admit To Beating Her 5-Year-Old Daughter To Death Then Telling Her Husband To Hide The Body
In a recently obtained video confession, an Ohio mother admitted to beating her daughter to death and telling her husband to hide the body. She even went on to explain her motive behind the killing.
While being questioned by investigators with a Stark County police force last January, Ming Ming Chen first tried to claim she had no idea how her daughter, Ashley Zhao, died. Just a day earlier, Ming Ming and her husband, Liang Zhao, had reported their daughter missing, reported Fox 8 Cleveland.
While police searched the restaurant Ming Ming and her husband owned, they took the couple in for questioning. During this time, authorities found Ashley’s body and immediately suspected the parents were to blame.
The lead detective who questioned Ming Ming noted that she showed no emotion after learning the police discovered her daughter was dead.
"I know that you're not crying. You said, 'I don't have nothing left.' Isn't that what you told me? You don't have no tears left, you don't have nothing left. Ming Ming, your daughter is dead," the detective said on the tape.
Eventually, Ming Ming could no longer lie and she admittedd to beating her daughter out of frustration at their home.
"What happened? How did she die?" The detective asked.
"I just killed her and then she died," Ming Ming answered.
The mother also said that after she killed Ashley, she asked her husband to dispose of the body, which he decided to hide in their family restaurant.
"I told my husband to take care of it," Ming Ming told the detective.
When pressured to explain why the beating occurred, Ming Ming said she was overwhelmed with work and became frustrated with her daughters disobedience. She said Ashley had spent significant time in China with her grandparents and when she returned, she was unruly.
"I need to take care of everything from the restaurant. I only have two hands. I'm not four hands girl, I'm two hands. I don't want to do that to Ashley, but you can't control yourself sometimes," Ming Ming said.
On Friday, Ming Ming plead guilty to charges that include involuntary manslaughter and child endangering. She will serve 22 years in prison and will be sent back to China after her release.
- A man was shot after opening his door to police responding to false report
- The suspect was previously arrested for making fake bomb threats
(CNN) A California man was arrested in connection with a prank call to police that led to a man's shooting death in Wichita, Kansas.
The incident is the latest example of swatting, in which a person makes a false report to draw large numbers of law enforcement or SWAT teams to a place or multiple locations.
Wichita Police responded to such a call of a hostage situation on Thursday when they shot a man in his home. Family members identified the victim as 28-year-old Andrew Thomas Finch, CNN affiliate KAKE
reported.
Tyler Barriss was arrested in Los Angeles on Friday after the Wichita Police Department issued a fugitive warrant, Los Angeles Officer Mike Lopez said. Barriss, 25, could be in court as early as Tuesday.
Video game dispute could have led to prank
Barriss' digital footprint suggests he was familiar with swatting.
One of his Twitter handles was @SWAuTistic. The Twitter account has been suspended but CNN was able to find a cached copy of the profile that had multiple references to swatting. In a December 22 tweet, he said he was "thinking about swatting" the FBI headquarters.
Two people who knew Barriss through the gaming and online community spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation in that community. One of them communicated with him after the Wichita shooting. CNN reviewed some of their messages.
Wichita police Deputy Chief Troy Livingston
"I was in shock so I messaged him asking him why he'd do that," the friend told CNN. "He said it was stupid and he shouldn't have done it, but I didn't care. He's a grown man who's done this stuff before."
The other friend said the Wichita call stemmed from an argument among two gamers that didn't involve Barriss or Finch. One of the gamers contacted Barriss and asked him to swat the other gamer, the friend told CNN. Barriss "was known in the gaming community for doing stuff like that," the friend said when asked why Barriss would be contacted about swatting.
Barriss was arrested in 2015 for calling in fake bomb threats to CNN affiliate KABC, Glendale Police Sergeant Victor Jackson said. He received a two-year sentence.
"After he got out of jail, he said he did it for attention and to be on the news but that was it. He also said he regretted it and wouldn't do it (again) but that was obviously a lie," one of the anonymous friends said of the 2015 arrest. "I think he feels powerful being able to do stupid stuff like that."
A fake hostage situation call
It's not clear why Barriss allegedly received the Wichita address. The victim's mother told KAKE that her son did not play video games, suggesting a possible case of mistaken identity.
"I hope they charged him with something substantial. It should be a crime of what he did," Finch's mother, Lisa Finch, told KAKE.
In the Wichita prank call, the caller said someone had an argument with their mother; that the father was accidentally shot; and that a brother, a sister and the mother were held hostage, Wichita police Deputy Chief Troy Livingston said.
"We learned through that call that the father was deceased, shot in the head. So that's the information we were working off of," Livingston said. "Our officers came here preparing for a hostage situation. Several got in position. A male came to the front door, and one of our officers discharged his weapon."
Police said they shot Finch after he moved his hands to his waistline, Livingston said. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Livingston said Finch was not armed and nobody was found dead at the home. He called the shooting "tragic and senseless."
"The irresponsible actions of a prankster put people's lives at risk," he said Friday. "The incident is a nightmare for everyone involved, including the family and our police department. Due to the actions of a prankster, we have an innocent victim. If the false police call had not been made, we would not have been there."
But the victim's mother said police shared the blame. "The cops are trying to make this go away and it's not gonna go away. People aren't gonna let it," Lisa Finch told KAKE.
Very simple to pull off
Swatting dates to at least the early 2000s, and the FBI first warned the public
about it in 2008.
Celebrities are often targets of the prank. In 2013 a 12-year-old Southern California boy admitted to making swatting calls
to the homes of actor Ashton Kutcher and singer Justin Bieber. But non-celebrities have been victims, too.
The dangerous scams are usually carried out in one of two ways, and both are incredibly simple.
One is called caller ID spoofing. The quick and free trick, using websites and apps, makes a call appear to the 911 operator as though it is coming from inside someone's house.
A second swatting method sidesteps the traditional phone system altogether. Some swatters use a teletypewriter (TTY) relay -- a phone system created for people who are deaf -- to place 911 calls. The TTY system is appealing to swatters because the Federal Communications Commission requires relay services to keep TTY calls, and callers, confidential.
Even if relay operators believe a 911 call may be a hoax, they're generally prohibited from intervening -- calls must be relayed verbatim.
CNN's Sheena Jones contributed to this report.
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For better or worse, anyone can write a blog post about anything they want. Everyone has a voice and the best voices will rise to the top.
The writer can show their personality:
In blog posts, the writer has more leeway to add in their voice and personality than other types of writing.
Blogs are a great form of mass communication:
You can help people, learn new things, entertain your audience-the possibilities are endless and amazing. Blogging opens up all of these to a very wide audience.
You can make money:
Get the right blog going and you can make a lot of money through advertising and sponsored posts.
It allows people to craft better thoughts:
Instead of reading haphazard, uneducated Facebook statuses, it's much better to see people's thought process in a well-written blog post.
You can establish a community:
Blogging allows you to connect with other individuals who share the same interests. Sharing ideas and opinions within your community helps establish yourself as a thought leader.
Good for SEO:
Keeping content on your site fresh and relevant, you can use your blog to boost the search engine ranking (SEO) of your site and your business.
It brings people back to your site:
If your blog is strong enough and updated regularly, people will come back looking for more and bring traffic back to your site as well.
It's free:
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You can establish yourself as a thought leader:
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