1
00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:10,919
Speaker 1: Calaruga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Juddie Mack with five

2
00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,119
good news stories. Caritas, the global Catholic charity, has transformed

3
00:00:15,119 --> 00:00:19,239
one of Pope Francis's former popemobiles into a mobile medical

4
00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,120
clinic for children in Gaza. That's an idea that the

5
00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:27,000
late Pope personally approved. The vehicle, originally a Mitsubishi pickup

6
00:00:27,039 --> 00:00:31,320
converted into a popemobile for Francis' twenty fourteen visit to Bethlehem,

7
00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,799
has been refitted by Caritas Sweeten to function as a

8
00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,240
pediatric clinic capable of treating up to two hundred children

9
00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,960
a day. One of the cardinals said that the converted

10
00:00:41,039 --> 00:00:43,119
vehicle stands as a symbol that the world has not

11
00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,840
forgotten the children of Gaza. Meanwhile, at the Australian Institute

12
00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,479
of Marine Science, artificial intelligence is being leveraged to help

13
00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,200
restore coral reefs after recent bleaching events following the autumn

14
00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,000
spawning season on the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists or looking

15
00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,679
to give the corals a helping hand by dropping coral

16
00:00:59,759 --> 00:01:03,600
large down onto degraded reef segments, but in an effort

17
00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,280
that would be near impossible to achieve with humans, making

18
00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,920
the decisions. A robotic assistant called the Deployment Guidance System

19
00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,280
DGS scans the seafloor and determines the best place for

20
00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,840
the coral to spawn before dropping small ceramic coral analogs

21
00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,519
down within three feet of the targeted area. Coral seating

22
00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,519
has become an urgently targeted, science based practice around the world,

23
00:01:23,599 --> 00:01:26,200
with the last twenty years seeing marine scientists finally figure

24
00:01:26,239 --> 00:01:28,959
out how to time spawning events, capture coral larvae, and

25
00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,560
breathe them in aquarium tanks. The ceramic analogs are designed

26
00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,640
to offer protection to juvenile coral while they grow to adulthood.

27
00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:39,799
Doctor Ben says the technology is not about machines replacing humans,

28
00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,560
it's about humans working with machines. A recent election in

29
00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,760
Virginia had not only a surprise result, but people were

30
00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:50,959
surprised at how civil everybody was. Cameron is nineteen. He

31
00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,959
decided to run against the incumbent Conservative for seat on

32
00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,959
the county Board of Supervisors. But here's the catch. He

33
00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,040
had a campaign against his beloved, ice cool Civics teacher

34
00:02:01,239 --> 00:02:05,040
mister Bell, who was currently holding the seat. Cameron called

35
00:02:05,079 --> 00:02:08,599
mister Bell's favorite teacher. Mister Bell described Cameron as a

36
00:02:08,599 --> 00:02:11,759
wonderful young man and in a refreshing political twist, mister

37
00:02:11,759 --> 00:02:14,840
Bell often defended his opponent's age on the campaign trail,

38
00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,840
rather than going to easy attack. He said, yes, he's young,

39
00:02:17,879 --> 00:02:19,719
but he's really invested in trying to make a difference.

40
00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,840
The race was neck and neck until the end. Cameron

41
00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:27,000
won by ten votes. Mister Bell conceded and said he

42
00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,120
would have been formidable against any opponent against whom he

43
00:02:30,159 --> 00:02:34,120
would have run. A man in Portland became homeless after

44
00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,759
a series of personal tragedies. He's been reunited with his family. Meanwhile,

45
00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,680
his two hundred and fifty pound pet pig has found

46
00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,520
safety at Oregon's largest farm animal sanctuary. Tony lost his

47
00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,039
job after burst appendix and then lost his wife. He

48
00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,120
wound up living out of his car with his dog

49
00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,919
and Roscoe, the pig that his wife had adopted three

50
00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,840
years earlier. The community identified Tony as somebody needing help.

51
00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,520
Within day, the sanctuary agreed to take the pig. Executive

52
00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,879
director Gwen personally transported Roscoe the pig and witnessed an

53
00:03:03,879 --> 00:03:07,000
emotional farewell between James and the pig. Rosco the pig

54
00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:10,360
is now settling into sanctuary life. Living with one hundred

55
00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,400
and thirty other pigs, Roscoe will have access to open

56
00:03:13,439 --> 00:03:17,719
forest areas, mudwallows, and seasonal acorns. When James gets back

57
00:03:17,759 --> 00:03:20,120
on his feet, they plan to arrange a reunion. Mit

58
00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,639
engineers have developed a faster way to extract drinking water

59
00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,719
from aer harvesting materials, using ultrasonic waves instead of heat

60
00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,680
you see. Traditional atmospheric water harvesting systems rely on the

61
00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,960
sun to evaporate water that could take hours or even days.

62
00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,039
The new method uses a high, frequently ultrasonic device that

63
00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:41,759
vibrates the material and shakes the water molecules free within minutes.

64
00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,439
Lead researcher Sevet Lana says the breakthrough salms one of

65
00:03:45,439 --> 00:03:48,879
the biggest bottlenecks in atmospheric water harvesting, recovering water quickly

66
00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,719
enough for real world use. And those are your five

67
00:03:51,879 --> 00:03:54,439
good news stories for today. You have an awesome day.