The 600 foot office plant PLUS A pumpkin muffin helps save a dog

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The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mac
with five good news stories. There's good

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news on the breast cancer front.
A ten year study of more than half

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a million women found that the number
of people who die after a breast cancer

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diagnosis has decreased by two thirds since
the nineteen nineties. Between nineteen ninety three

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and nineteen ninety nine, you had
a fourteen point four percent risk of dying

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within five years. That risk has
fallen a four point nine percent for women

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diagnosed between twenty ten and twenty fifteen. It found that the risk of death

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had decreased across nearly all age groups. They think the reasoning is better screening

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and they're catching things earlier. Police
officers used a freshly baked muffin to rescue

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a scared dog. A German shepherd
was in an Arizona canal and the dog

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was kind of exhausted and couldn't figure
out how to get out of the water.

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The dog initially refused to come close
to a police officer. That's when

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another officer came in with a unique
plan, bribing the dog with pumpkin muffins.

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The officer's wife had baked the muffins
for his shift. A spokesperson said

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Officer Sorenson was able to use the
muffin as a tool to get the dog

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close, which time he grabbed on
to his collar and moved him from the

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canal. The dog was reunited with
his owner, who lived down the street.

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Good news out of California. California's
Lake Oreville is back to one hundred

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percent capacity for the first time since
twenty nineteen. It's the state's second largest

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reservoir. In twenty twenty one,
it was at just percent of its capacity,

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so low that a major hydroelectric power
plant had to be shut down for

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the first time since it had opened
in nineteen sixty seven. Meanwhile, on

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Iceland, the government said it's suspending
this year's whale hunts, so good news

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if you're a whale at least through
the end of August. The Humane Society

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called it a major milestone and compassionate
whale conservation. The Food Minister of Iceland

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said, I've taken the decision to
suspend whaling. The Humane Society said there's

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no humane way to kill a whale
at sea, and we urged the minister

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to make this a permanent band.
Whales already faced so many threats in the

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ocean's pollution, climate change, entanglement
in fishnets, ship strikes that ending cruel

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commerce whaling is the only ethical conclusion. Robert Reid is the head of C

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Shepherd UK and said the decision is
a huge blow to other whaling nations.

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Quote. If willing can't be done
humanely here in Iceland, it can't be

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done humanely anywhere. I am Patty
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I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy
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led by four longtime friends, the
four of us, with more than seventy

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five published books between us. Through
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the books we've written, the books
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streaming platform. Hey, good news. You know that plant you brought to

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the office in two thousand and nine, It's now six hundred feet long.

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Dez and Alle Brennan work at Protective
Solutions. Back in two thousand and nine,

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they brought in a small, potted
ivy cutting they just wanted to brighten

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up the office. Fourteen years later, the plant has grown to almost six

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hundred feet long. It's sprouts new
shoots that require pinning up across office walls.

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Ali said, it started off as
a bit of a laugh, but

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we wouldn't be without it. Now
we have to get another one if it

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ever went. The ivy grows at
an impressive rate of six inches per month

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and covers almost the entire office.
Said. We try to keep it off

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the desk so it doesn't get in
the way, but it hangs down and

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it's joined out on the monitors.
It makes it a huge difference to the

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office. We can't envision the place
without it. The office itself is only

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fifty by twenty five, so the
ivy has had a criss cross the ceiling

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back over itself a few times.
Ali says it's a big talking point when

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customers come in. People ask if
it's real, but I'm not sure.

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Whatever you get a fake on this
big although plant, watch out, She

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says. If it continues to grow, they might have to bring machettes to

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the office to hack through the growth. And that is your five good news

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