TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
PROBLEM: Google executive Alan Eustace jumped from a helium balloon and fell to earth from over 135,000 feet on Friday, a record. 
  
 Eustace ascended to that height attached to the balloon. He then cut himself loose with a small explosive device and fell to earth beneath an orange-and-white parachute. 
  
 Eustace, 57, remained in free fall for approximately four minutes and 30 seconds before touching down safely in a field near Roswell, N.M. He landed on his feet, somersaulted, and waved. 
  
 Alan Eustace begins his ascent. Paragon Space Development Corporation 
  
 Eustace is a senior vice president at Google. He took a sabbatical from his work at the search giant for the jumping mission. The jump was previously reported by the New York Times. 
  
 He is the second person to break the sound barrier outside an aircraft. In 2012, Austrian pilot and sky diver Felix Baumgartner reached a velocity of 833.9 miles an hour while jumping from 128,100 feet. Eustace reached a velocity of 822 miles an hour. 
  
 “I always wondered: What if you could design a system that would allow humans to explore the stratosphere as easily and safely as they do the ocean?” Eustace said. 
  
 He wore a custom pressurized spacesuit developed by ILC Dover. Paragon Space Development Corporation created the life-support system. 
  
 “I hope we’ve encouraged others to explore this part of the world about which we still know so little,” Eustace said. 
  
 “I knew I had high performing people working for me,” Google CEO Larry Page wrote on Google+. “But breaking the sound barrier falling in a space suit from a 135,908 foot high balloon ride this morning?” 
  
 Alan Eustace before his jump Friday morning. Paragon Space Development Corporation 
  
 Follow @georgia_wells ||||| Google executive Alan Eustace has broken the sound barrier and set several skydiving records over the southern New Mexico desert after taking a big leap from the edge of space. 
  
 Eustace jumped from over 130,000ft in a specially designed spacesuit, beating the mark set by the Austrian Felix Baumgartner in 2012. Eustace hit a top speed of 822mph during a freefall that lasted four-and-a-half minutes. 
  
  
  
 The supersonic jump was part of a project by Paragon Space Development Corp and its Stratospheric Explorer team, which has been working secretly for years to develop a self-contained commercial spacesuit that would allow people to explore some 20 miles above the Earth’s surface. 
  
  
  
 The technology that has gone into developing the balloon, the spacesuit and the other systems that were used in Friday’s launch will be used to advance commercial spaceflight, namely efforts by Arizona-based World View Enterprises to take paying tourists up in a high-altitude balloon and luxury capsule starting in late 2016. 
  
  
  
 As more people head into the stratosphere, the spacesuits could be adapted for emergency rescues or other scientific endeavours, officials said. 
  
  
  
 After nearly three years of intense planning, development and training, Eustace began his ascent via a high-altitude, helium-filled balloon just as the sun was rising. 
  
  
  
 It took more than two hours to hit an altitude of 135,890 feet (41,419 metres), from which he separated himself from the balloon and started plummeting back to Earth. 
  
  
  
 Jim Hayhurst, director of competition at the United States Parachute Association, was the jump’s official observer. He said Eustace deployed a drogue parachute that gave him incredible stability and control despite the massive Mach 1.23 speed reached during the freefall. 
  
 Eustace did not feel it when he broke the sound barrier, but the ground crew certainly heard the resulting sonic boom, Hayhurst said. 
  
  
  
 “He just said it was a fabulous view. He was thrilled,” Hayhurst said of his conversation with Eustace after he landed. 
  
  
  
 The supersonic skydive happened with little fanfare, out of the media spotlight, unlike the 2012 attempt by daredevil Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team. 
  
  
  
 Baumgartner, who was taken aloft in a capsule with the help of millions of dollars in sponsorships, had set the previous altitude record by jumping from 128,100 feet (39,045 meters). 
  
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SOLUTION: A 57-year-old Google executive is the world's new space daredevil. Alan Eustace yesterday traveled more than 25 miles up to the top of the stratosphere in a balloon and then parachuted back down to earth in Roswell, NM, at speeds of up to 822mph, reports the New York Times. In doing so, Eustace not only broke the sound barrier and set off his own personal sonic boom, he broke the altitude record set by Felix Baumgartner two years ago. For the record, Eustace hit an altitude of 135,890 feet, besting Baumgartner's 128,110 feet. “It was amazing,” says Eustace, who is also a pilot. “It was beautiful. You could see the darkness of space and you could see the layers of atmosphere, which I had never seen before.” Eustace got help from a company called Paragon Space Development Corporation, which the Guardian reports has been working on a commercial spacesuit tailored for exactly these kinds of stratospheric trips. Someday, tourists may be wearing them. Even the boss is impressed, notes the Wall Street Journal. “I knew I had high performing people working for me,” wrote Google CEO Larry Page on Google+. “But breaking the sound barrier falling in a space suit ...?” (Baumgartner actually fell a little faster than Eustace.)

PROBLEM: Please enable Javascript to watch this video 
  
 Grainy, poor-quality surveillance footage showing the slow gait of a large cat-like animal walking along a street in densely populated Norwalk has created a mystery. 
  
 At first, the person who saw the animal early Tuesday thought it was a mountain lion, but that theory has been discounted by state wildlife officials, City Manager Jeff Hobbs said Friday afternoon. 
  
 The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's "undisputed expert" determined the animal shown in the video is not a cougar, Hobbs wrote in an email headlined "'That's No Mountain Lion,' Says CA Dept Fish & Wildlife Expert." 
  
 "Department officials still cannot definitively identify the type of animal. They will continue to investigate," Hobbs wrote. 
  
 A mountain lion sighting was reported about 3:45 a.m. in the 11000 block of Tina Street (map), according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department lieutenant. That's the time shown in the video footage, dated Tuesday. 
  
 The densely populated residential area not far from the junction of the 5 and 605 freeways is some 20 miles from typical foothill mountain lion habitat. 
  
 The footage, which shows an animal with a large, curving tail, was posted on the city's Facebook page Friday. 
  
 A lion expert told the Los Angeles Times the animal in the footage resembled an African lion. 
  
 State game warden Don Nelson, who examined the video for the state wildlife department along with predator ecologist Becky Pierce, told the Times he thought the video showed a "large older dog, maybe a pit bull or part pit bull." 
  
 A representative of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife visited the neighborhood where the animal was spotted to speak to residents about what to do if they see the animal again, Hobb said. 
  
 Sheriff's Department patrol was elevated in the area, he added. ||||| Is it a lion? 
  
 A dog? 
  
 A Chupacabra? 
  
 Residents in Norwalk, California, are jittery over reports of an African lion possibly roaming the streets. 
  
 So far, only grainy security images of the mysterious creature have emerged, showing the animal prowling along the sidewalk. 
  
 California Department of Fish and Wildlife experts studied that footage. The cat-like animal is not a mountain lion, authorities determined. 
  
 “Department officials still cannot definitively identify the type of animal,” authorities said. “They will continue to investigate.” 
  
 Norwalk Mayor Marcel Rodarte is intrigued by the creature’s appearance. 
  
 “The tail doesn’t seem to match up to the physical traits of a mountain lion, so it is still a mystery,” Rodarte said. 
  
 Authorities with a local zoo claimed all the big cats are accounted for. 
  
 A similar lion scare occurred last year in Virginia -- but that ominous animal turned out to be a bizarrely-coiffed labradoodle named Charles the Monarch. While dog-grooming tricks can confuse people from time to time, the gait of the mystery beast in California has residents concerned. 
  
 “We’ve got dogs and my sister got another little dog, so we’re all just making sure everybody keeps their pets inside,” resident Elizabeth Colon said. |||||

SOLUTION: Surveillance video of ... something ... strolling around Norwalk, California, is becoming the city's "version of Bigfoot," reports the LA Times. State officials don't think the creature in the grainy video is a mountain lion, reports KTLA, but they're not hazarding a guess about what it might be. Among the possibilities getting tossed around: an African lioness, a big pit bull, a leopard, or some kind of big-cat hybrid. "It's still a mystery," the mayor tells ABC News. The animal was captured on video walking across somebody's driveway at 3:44am. "If a lion is out there like that, it shouldn't be happening," says the director of a local big-cat sanctuary. (The hunt for Bigfoot isn't going so well, either.)

PROBLEM: You might want to rethink your New Year’s resolutions if you’ve pledged to swear less, because scientist have found the foul-mouthed among us are the most honest. 
  
 In a study titled: 
  
 Frankly, we do give a damn: The relationship between profanity and honesty 
  
 researchers from the Universities of Hong Kong, Stanford, Cambridge and Maastricht found a link between profanity and honesty. 
  
 The researchers say profanity can include sexual references, vulgarity, offensive slang and anything else considered socially inappropriate. 
  
 They first asked a group of 276 participants about their swearing habits, as well as how honest they were in different situations, and found the most honest people were also the heaviest swearers. 
  
 They also found that people were much more likely to use swearing as a way to express themselves and their emotions, rather than in an anti-social or harmful way towards others. 
  
 In a second study the researchers tested these findings in a more real-life setting, by analysing the status updates of more than 73,000 Facebook users. 
  
 They measured for honesty (previous research shows liars prefer to use third-person pronouns than first-person ones and more negative words) and profanity. 
  
 Again, they found that honest people were more likely to use profane language. 
  
 Then, they used previous data to compare the integrity levels of US states with how often they swear – where they found the same conclusion. 
  
  
  
  
  
 The researchers say swearing is often used to express one’s feelings, which suggests people who do this more regularly portray themselves in a more honest light. 
  
 More: Frequent swearing linked to high intelligence, study finds 
  
 More: Every British swear word has been officially ranked in order of offensiveness 
  
 More: 11 of the most brilliant swear words from around the world ||||| Swearing may be considered impolite and vulgar, but a new two-part study has revealed a more gracious attribute for those with an off-color vocabulary: Honesty. According to the research, people are more likely to swear as a way to express themselves, rather than cause harm to others, and the more an individual swears, the more honest they are likely to be. 
  
 The researchers found that while liars are known to prefer third-person pronouns and negative words in their speech, honest individuals are more likely to use profanity. According to the researchers, that's because swearing is often used to express one’s feelings, and people who do this more regularly portray themselves in a more honest light, The Independent reported. 
  
 Read: How Swear Words Work To Inflict And Relieve Pain 
  
 “The consistent findings across the studies suggest that the positive relation between profanity and honesty is robust, and that the relationship found at the individual level indeed translates to the society level,” the study read. 
  
 For their report, the team of international researchers asked a group of 276 participants about their swearing habits as well as how honest they were in different situations. In addition, they analyzed the status updates of more than 73,000 Facebook users, measuring for honesty and profanity. In the second study, the same team used previous data to compare the integrity levels of US states with how often they swear. All the experiments had the same result: honesty was associated with higher levels of swearing. 
  
 Past research has suggested that swearing may also be a sign of increased intelligence. A 2016 study found that individuals with higher levels of verbal intelligence, that is intelligence associated with oral language, tended to use more swear words. 
  
 “Taboo or ‘swear word’ fluency is positively correlated with overall verbal fluency. The more words you generated in one category meant the more words you generated in another category, orally and verbally,” Dr. Timothy Jay, of the Department of Psychology at Massachusetts College Of Liberal Arts and author of the study, previously told Medical Daily . 
  
 See Also: 
  
 People Who Curse And Swear May Actually Have Higher Verbal Intelligence 
  
 The Benefits Of Swearing |||||

SOLUTION:
When profanity goes up, so does integrity. Wait, what? That's what researchers from Stanford, Cambridge, and beyond report in a study they've titled, "Frankly, we do give a damn: The relationship between profanity and honesty," in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. They ultimately found that swearing is used more as a means to express emotion than as an anti-social tool to harm or disparage others, and thus those who swear more tend to be allowing their true selves to shine through, reports Indy100. To test this, the team first surveyed a group of 276 people about their swearing habits and levels of honesty, and found that people who curse the most tend to be the most honest. To get past the reliance on self reporting, the researchers then analyzed the status updates of more than 73,000 Facebook users, measuring both profanity and honesty based on previous research showing that liars tend to write in the third person and deploy more negative words, reports Medical Daily. They then compared that same data with integrity levels among US states. "The consistent findings across the studies suggest that the positive relation between profanity and honesty is robust, and that the relationship found at the individual level indeed translates to the society level," the researchers write. (Apparently women now drop the F bomb more than men.)

