The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories. There's good
news on the breast cancer front. A ten year study of more than half
a million women found that the number of people who die after a breast cancer
diagnosis has decreased by two thirds since the nineteen nineties. Between nineteen ninety three
and nineteen ninety nine, you had a fourteen point four percent risk of dying
within five years. That risk has fallen a four point nine percent for women
diagnosed between twenty ten and twenty fifteen. It found that the risk of death
had decreased across nearly all age groups. They think the reasoning is better screening
and they're catching things earlier. Police officers used a freshly baked muffin to rescue
a scared dog. A German shepherd was in an Arizona canal and the dog
was kind of exhausted and couldn't figure out how to get out of the water.
The dog initially refused to come close to a police officer. That's when
another officer came in with a unique plan, bribing the dog with pumpkin muffins.
The officer's wife had baked the muffins for his shift. A spokesperson said
Officer Sorenson was able to use the muffin as a tool to get the dog
close, which time he grabbed on to his collar and moved him from the
canal. The dog was reunited with his owner, who lived down the street.
Good news out of California. California's Lake Oreville is back to one hundred
percent capacity for the first time since twenty nineteen. It's the state's second largest
reservoir. In twenty twenty one, it was at just percent of its capacity,
so low that a major hydroelectric power plant had to be shut down for
the first time since it had opened in nineteen sixty seven. Meanwhile, on
Iceland, the government said it's suspending this year's whale hunts, so good news
if you're a whale at least through the end of August. The Humane Society
called it a major milestone and compassionate whale conservation. The Food Minister of Iceland
said, I've taken the decision to suspend whaling. The Humane Society said there's
no humane way to kill a whale at sea, and we urged the minister
to make this a permanent band. Whales already faced so many threats in the
ocean's pollution, climate change, entanglement in fishnets, ship strikes that ending cruel
commerce whaling is the only ethical conclusion. Robert Reid is the head of C
Shepherd UK and said the decision is a huge blow to other whaling nations.
Quote. If willing can't be done humanely here in Iceland, it can't be
done humanely anywhere. I am Patty Callahan Henry, I am Mary kay Andrews,
I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends in Fiction is
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streaming platform. Hey, good news. You know that plant you brought to
the office in two thousand and nine, It's now six hundred feet long.
Dez and Alle Brennan work at Protective Solutions. Back in two thousand and nine,
they brought in a small, potted ivy cutting they just wanted to brighten
up the office. Fourteen years later, the plant has grown to almost six
hundred feet long. It's sprouts new shoots that require pinning up across office walls.
Ali said, it started off as a bit of a laugh, but
we wouldn't be without it. Now we have to get another one if it
ever went. The ivy grows at an impressive rate of six inches per month
and covers almost the entire office. Said. We try to keep it off
the desk so it doesn't get in the way, but it hangs down and
it's joined out on the monitors. It makes it a huge difference to the
office. We can't envision the place without it. The office itself is only
fifty by twenty five, so the ivy has had a criss cross the ceiling
back over itself a few times. Ali says it's a big talking point when
customers come in. People ask if it's real, but I'm not sure.
Whatever you get a fake on this big although plant, watch out, She
says. If it continues to grow, they might have to bring machettes to
the office to hack through the growth. And that is your five good news
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