In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.

Input: Consider Input: Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| Briton Steve Easterbrook next in line as Thompson retires after investor frustrations at McDonald’s poor performance 
  
 McDonald’s has announced the departure of its chief executive just days after the world’s biggest fast food chain reported its first fall in sales in 12 years. 
  
 The company, which is losing US market share to rivals such as Shake Shack and Five Guys, said Don Thompson would step down as McDonald’s president and chief executive on 1 March. 
  
 McDonald's sales slump: what's on the menu for the new boss? Read more 
  
 He will be replaced by Briton Steve Easterbrook, the company’s chief brand officer and former boss of McDonald’s in the UK and northern Europe. 
  
 Thompson, who became chief executive in 2012, had worked at McDonald’s since 1990 when he joined as engineer. He was axed following pressure from investors frustrated at the company’s poor performance. Last week McDonald’s reported a 15% fall in annual profits to $4.7bn. 
  
 “It’s tough to say goodbye to the McFamily, but there is a time and season for everything,” Thompson said in a press release after the markets. “I am truly confident as I pass the reins over to Steve, that he will continue to move our business and brand forward.” 
  
 McDonald’s shares, which have fallen by nearly 6% over the past year, rose 3% in after-hours trading following the news of his exit. 
  
 On a conference call to discuss the poor results on Friday, Thompson said: “We’re changing, and we’re doing it aggressively. However, it will take time, especially in our larger markets, for customers to notice the comprehensive changes that are under way.” 
  
 He said 2014 was a “challenging year” in “each of our geographic segments”. He warned that McDonald’s, which serves 69 million customers at more than 36,000 outlets across the world, “continues to face meaningful headwinds”. 
  
 Easterbrook said: “I am honoured to lead this great brand, and am committed to working with our franchisees, suppliers and employees to drive forward our strategic business priorities to better serve our customers.” 
  
 Easterbrook joined McDonald’s in London in 1993. He rose quickly to become the boss of all southern UK stores in 2001, and in 2006 became CEO of McDonald’s UK. In 2007, Easterbrook became president of McDonald’s northern Europe overseeing 1,800 restaurants in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland. In 2010, he was promoted to president of McDonald’s Europe, where he was responsible for the operations of nearly 7,000 restaurants in 39 countries. 
  
 He briefly left McDonald’s 2011 to become CEO of PizzaExpress and later Wagamama. He returned to McDonald’s in June 2013 joining its head office in Illinois as global chief brand officer. 
  
 McDonald’s chairman Andrew McKenna said the board was confident that Easterbrook “can effectively lead the company to improved financial and operational performance”. |||||

Output: After a rough couple of years at the top, McDonald's CEO Don Thompson says it is time to say "goodbye to the McFamily." Thompson, who has been with the world's biggest restaurant chain for almost 25 years and took charge in 2012, is leaving after a major sales slump and a 15% drop in annual profits, reports Forbes. Thompson, who joined McDonald's as an electrical engineer and says he eats there every day, will be replaced by chief brand officer Steve Easterbrook, a former accountant who will be the chain's first British CEO, reports the Financial Times. McDonald's shares have fallen around 6% over the last year but they jumped 3% after news of Thompson's departure, reports the Guardian.


Input: Consider Input: BELLEFONTE -- A popular Penn State professor died slowly after being pushed from a rock quarry ledge, possibly remaining alive and immobile for days, according to testimony heard Wednesday in Centre County Court. 
  
 That testimony from a state police investigator also revealed more details about what police say was an attempt on the life of Penn State associate professor Ronald Bettig that occurred a few days before he fell from the quarry ledge. It also hinted at a romantic relationship between his two alleged killers -- 32-year-old Danelle Geier and 39-year-old George Ishler Jr. -- whom police say are related as niece and uncle. 
  
 Grier on Wednesday waived her preliminary hearing on the charges against her. The testimony came during a preliminary hearing for Ishler. When it ended, counts of murder and related offenses were bound over for trial in county court. 
  
 The lead investigator in the case, state Trooper Brian Wakefield, said Geier and Ishler killed Bettig because they thought they stood to inherit money from him. They had tried and failed to drown him on a trip the trio took to Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on Aug. 10. 
  
 "When they were in Delaware, [Ishler] stated that he did dunk Bettig while in the ocean, but that he felt he couldn't do it [hold him under] and didn't continue," Wakefield said. 
  
 Wakefield added: "[Ishler] stated he was to dunk Bettig and Danelle was to wrap her legs around him to hold Bettig down under water." 
  
 According to the trooper, the trio returned to the State College area on Aug. 12, and went directly to the Blackhawk Quarry in Potter Township, luring Bettig with the promise of a marijuana harvest. It was there that Wakefield said Bettig was pushed from an 80-foot ledge. Police believe Ishler pushed him, while Geier waited in the car with her toddler son. 
  
 It took five days for Bettig's body to be discovered. But Wakefield said a pathologist believes he may have remained alive for up to two days, immobile and possibly unconscious. A medical examiner has ruled the cause of death "blunt force trauma due to a fall." 
  
 Wakefield said Bettig was likely still alive then when Geier and Ishler returned to the scene eight hours later to plant Bettig's belongings and vehicle there. They had hoped to make it look as though Bettig had been there on his own and accidentally fallen, Wakefield added. 
  
 Police say investigators first found the professor's car at the quarry days after he and the vehicle were first reported missing. His body was found soon after, with buzzards hovering above it. 
  
 Police say it was Geier and Ishler who filed the missing persons report days after their return from Delaware. 
  
 According to Wakefield, they went from concerned friends to prime suspects after someone reported seeing a woman matching Geier's description at the quarry on that date. 
  
 Geier and Ishler were arrested and charged. Police say they confessed in conversations with law enforcement. 
  
 In an informal conversation with a trooper after his arrest, Ishler claimed that while he had carried out the murder, Geier was the driving force, Wakefield said. Wakefield said Ishler told the female trooper that Geier's sway over him derived from the "power of [a female private part]." 
  
 Bettig had befriended Geier and Ishler months before his death, and she had moved into his home in Lemont with her child at the beginning of the year. Since then, there have been conflicting reports of Bettig's romantic involvement with Geier, and Ishler's romantic involvement with her. 
  
 More consistent are the reports of an increasingly fraught relationship among the three of them in the days and weeks leading up to his death. 
  
 On Wednesday, Wakefield said Geier told him that she and Ishler had grown to resent the professor's sharp tongue and criticisms of them and Geier's child-rearing habits. 
  
 "She said she was upset because Bettig criticized the way she raised her child and was belittling Ishler, saying there were many things she had had enough of." 
  
 But while it may have been personal for Geier, police say Ishler told them that he sought to claim an inheritance from the media studies professor. He said Bettig had recently updated his will to include them. 
  
 Wakefield said officials found such a handwritten document in Ishler's home. But the trooper said it's not clear if Bettig's signature on the item is valid, while the rest of the note was admittedly penned by Ishler. 
  
 Ishler's defense questioned the proof behind such claims in Wednesday's hearing, saying the investigation of this case is far from finished. 
  
 They also argued that some law enforcement claims against their client, or about the things he's alleged to have said while in their presence, lack documentation. ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. |||||

Output: Penn State professor Ronald Bettig may have taken as long as two days to die after he was pushed from a ledge and fell 80 feet to the bottom of a quarry, a court heard Wednesday. The lead investigator on the case testified that a pathologist believes the 56-year-old professor died slowly and was probably immobilized by the fall, PennLive reports. State Trooper Brian Wakefield was testifying at the preliminary hearing of 39-year-old George Ishler Jr., who is accused of pushing Bettig into the quarry on Aug. 12. Wakefield said Bettig was probably still alive eight hours later, when Ishler and alleged accomplice Danelle Geier, 32, returned to plant his possessions and vehicle at the scene to make it look like an accident. His body was found Aug. 17, with buzzards circling over it. Wakefield testified that Bettig had been romantically involved with Geier, who had moved into his home along with her infant son, reports the Centre Daily Times. But there was tension between Bettig, Geier, and Ishler, who was described as a friend of Bettig who was also romantically involved with Geier—despite being her uncle. Wakefield testified Geier told him that in the weeks leading up to the killing "she was upset because the professor criticized the way she raised her child and was belittling Ishler." He testified that Ishler told police the killing was to claim an inheritance from the professor and that on Aug. 10, they had planned to drown him during a beach visit and make it look like an accident but found that they couldn't go through with it.


Input: Consider Input: OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Relatives say a Florida girl who swallowed a thumbtack at her preschool remains hospitalized. 
  
 Aundreaa Thompson tells the Ocala Star-Banner (http://bit.ly/1NFAjxk ) that her 3-year-old cousin, Honesty Eads, is in critical condition at a Gainesville hospital. 
  
 Thompson says the family has gathered around Honesty's hospital bed to pray for her recovery. 
  
 Police say Honesty swallowed a yellow thumbtack Monday at her Ocala preschool. According to police reports, another child alerted a teacher on the other side of the classroom that Honesty looked "like a vampire." 
  
 The teacher found Honesty gasping for air and bleeding from her mouth. Emergency room doctors initially couldn't insert a breathing tube down Honesty's throat because of the thumbtack. 
  
 Police and the Department of Children and Families are investigating. 
  
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 Information from: Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner, http://www.starbanner.com/ ||||| A toddler remains hospitalized three days after swallowing a thumbtack at an Ocala preschool. 
  
 A toddler remains hospitalized three days after swallowing a thumbtack at an Ocala preschool. 
  
  
  
 On Thursday, 3-year-old Honesty Eads remained in critical condition at UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, according to her cousin Aundreaa Thompson. 
  
  
  
 Since the incident on Monday, Honesty has had good and bad days, Thompson said. She said the doctors are carefully monitoring her cousin's condition, and as a family they're hoping and praying she will make a full recovery. 
  
  
  
 Honesty’s guardian and aunt has been by her bedside ever since the girl was transferred from Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala to Shands for further treatment, Thompson said. 
  
  
  
 Honesty’s siblings — a brother and sister, ages 5 and 6, who were inside the building when their sister somehow swallowed the thumbtack — were not injured, according to Ocala Police Department officials. Thompson said the children are worried about Honesty. 
  
  
  
 The Department of Children and Families is conducting an investigation, as is OPD. 
  
  
  
 According to a police report, officers went to Kingdom Christian Academy, at 519 SW 10th St., Suite No. 200, about a child not breathing. A teacher told police she was on the west side of the classroom giving her children breakfast when she heard a child say Honesty "looks like a vampire.” 
  
  
  
 Honesty, the report noted, was lying on the floor gasping for air and bleeding from her mouth. The teacher called for help. A second teacher who was nearby, rushed over and gave Honesty CPR. She told others to call 911. 
  
  
  
 Medical officials rushed Honesty to Munroe Regional, where a doctor in the emergency room was at first unable to insert a tube down her throat, according to the OPD report. The doctor then removed a yellow thumbtack. Honesty was stabilized and flown to Shands. 
  
  
  
 Officials at Kingdom Christian Academy said it is a 501(c) organization. Kathryn Crowell is a volunteer and is principal at Kingdom Christian Academy, they said. 
  
  
  
 The academy has been closed for the Christmas holidays since school is out, the officials said, and Brenda Osgood, a supervisor, was the only teacher on duty at the time. According to OPD reports, Osgood was the person who performed CPR on Honesty. 
  
  
  
 The officials said Suite 200 consists of Kingdom Christian Academy, Precious Children Pre-School and Kingdom Community Education Center, and Honesty was injured in the preschool. 
  
  
  
 She is in the pre-kindergarten program, her sister in the VPK program and her brother in the first grade. 
  
  
  
 Contact Austin L. Miller at 867-4118, austin.miller@starbanner.com or @almillerosb. |||||


Output: A little girl who swallowed a thumbtack Monday at her Florida preschool remained hospitalized on Christmas, the AP reports. According to the Ocala Star-Banner, a preschool instructor was on the other side of the classroom when she heard a child say 3-year-old Honesty Eads "looks like a vampire." The instructor found Honesty on the ground, bleeding from the mouth and struggling to breathe. A teacher administered CPR, and Honesty was rushed to the hospital. Before doctors could insert a breathing tube down Honesty's throat, they had to remove a yellow thumbtack, the Star-Banner reports. The girl is still in critical condition, and her cousin says she is being monitored by doctors while her family is "hoping and praying" for a full recovery. Both police and child services are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.


