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Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny mag with five

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good news stories. A couple fleeing the conflict in the

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Middle East. They've been praised for refusing to abandon their dog.

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They had to go through all kinds of hoops to

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get their dog to safety. The couple are based in

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Doha and their flights were canceled, so they traveled by

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road to Riod, then flew to Istanbul and onward to Berlin.

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Along the way, they had to deal with pet travel rules,

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health certificates, vax records, export permits, and special documentation required

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for entry into Saudi Arabia and the EU. They have

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drawn online praise for keeping the dog with them and

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showing that it is possible to evacuate safely without leaving

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pets behind. Meanwhile, the Greek government organized a special evacuation

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flight to bring stranded citizens and their pets home from

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the Persian Gulf. During the conflict, more than one hundred

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passengers and their animals were flown from places like the

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UAE back to Athens after commercial travel became difficult due

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to repeated airspace closures and cancelations. Those officials made the

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point that pets are not luggage. They are part of

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our families. Scientists have developed a breakthrough method that turns

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waste plastic into a key drug used to treat Parkinson's disease.

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Researchers at the University of Edinburgh engineered E. Coli bacteria

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to convert the common plastic used in bottles into a

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frontline medication for Parkinson's. About fifty million metric tons of

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the chemical known as pet are produced each year, making

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it a massive potential resource rather than waste. The process

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works by first breaking the plastic down into teraphylactic acid,

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which the engineered bacteria then transform into L dopa through

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a series of biological reactions. Researchers say it's the first

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time a biological process has been used to create a

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pharmaceutical from plastic waste, offering a more sustainable alternative to

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traditional drug production, which relies heavily on fossil fuels, which

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I think are about to get really expensive. A college

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freshman in Virginia has opened an old fashioned general store.

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Lindsay just graduated from high school and as a freshman

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in Virginia Wesleyan University. Lindsay co owns the marketplace and

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general store in old town Portsmouth with her father Tony.

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The idea came from her childhood, where she spent time

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visiting traditional general stores in the mountains of North Carolina

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fell in love with it. She explained the mission. Portsmouth

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is known for its history, and so we wanted to

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bring back the historical feel, but also the old fashioned

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family place for everyone to come. Her father, who is

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a commercial real estate professional, I'm sure that helped here,

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helped make the idea reality, not just as a business,

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but as a learning opportunity and a way to invest

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back in the community. He said. The store is designed

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to give Lindsay real world experience. Running the shop isn't

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always easy. Foot traffic rises during festivals and holidays and

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drops off at other times. Customers regularly tell the man,

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this reminds me of something I grew up with back home,

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and this is fun. A father and son in Alabama

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cashed in on a restaurant promise. There's been a sign

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hanging for fifty four years. The sign at Windcell's Oyster

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House in Mobile promised unlimited free oysters to any man

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eighty years old who dined with his father well for decades,

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Jim and his son Jimmy wondered if the offer was real.

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Jimmy turned eighty, he showed up with his dad. He

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asked them was the sign for real and they said yes.

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We asked has anybody ever done it? They said no.

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So Jimmy shows up. He's eighty years old, brings Jim Senior,

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who's ninety nine. The restaurant posted on social media. Most

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people read that sign behind the bar and laugh. But

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tonight Jimmy Rush walked in on his eightieth birthday with

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his father, James Rush, ninety nine right beside him, and

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turned one of Winsel's rarest traditions into a real life milestone.

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And yes, the oysters were on the house. Jim Senior

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turns one hundred and July. He said, I have only

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been sick twice in my life, once when I was

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five and once when I was ninety seven. I don't see,

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but I hear fairly well, and that's about it, and

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I don't take any medications at all. But here's the

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really good catch. The deal keeps going. Jim Senior has

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another son who's soon going to be eighty. They might

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do this again in twenty twenty seven, though, So your

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five good news stories for today, have an awesome day,