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Weekly News Recap: October 18, 2024

Vincent Duckworth

Weekly News Recap: October 18, 2024

Jaycee Ross, 18, has Angelman Syndrome, a condition that has affected his development and resulted in seizures in the past. He has needed an MRI machine at times. His family helped him raise a steer, which sold for $53,000 to donate toward an MRI machine for Estevan and the area. (Submitted by Carol Ross)

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. – Robert Swan

SOME GOOD NEWS

  • Grandad's secret to 90-year friendship with childhood best friend (Liverpool Echo) We could all use friends like this. "A Merseyside grandad has shared his secret to 90-years of friendship with a former neighbour he met as a young boy. Growing up in 1930s Wirral, George Price, now 96, met his childhood best friend, also called George, when they were both five."

  • VIDEO: 'We were ecstatic': Coast Guard rescues a man clinging to a cooler in open water (NPR) What a miracle. "When you’re looking for a person in an ocean, a physical description isn’t much help. But that’s what the Coast Guard helicopter crew had: The day after Hurricane Milton blasted into Florida’s Gulf Coast, they were searching for a boat captain who was somewhere in the water, wearing a red life jacket, black shirt, and black pants."

  • Doctor running half marathon sees woman collapse, saves her, finishes race (MSN) #Hero "Emergency room doctor Shane Naidoo was nearing the halfway mark of the New Jersey Half Marathon at Newport [...] when a woman running in front of him collapsed on the greenway in Liberty State Park in Jersey City. Naidoo [...] rushed over with four other runners to help and immediately realized the situation was serious. The woman, Chrystal Rinehold [...] was struggling to breathe and could barely speak."

  • Man adrift in frigid Russian seas for 67 days survived by drinking rainwater (CBC) A lucky and determined man. "A Russian man rescued after 67 days adrift in a small inflatable boat in the Sea of Okhotsk described [...] how he survived by battling shivering cold and drinking rain water. Mikhail Pichugin, 46, had set off to watch whales with his 49-year-old brother and 15-year-old nephew. But the boat's engine shut down on their way back on Aug. 9. Initial efforts by emergency services to locate the trio failed."

  • VIDEO: This engineer built a functioning Remy from Ratatouille (CBC) I love that an engineer did this. "As Christina Ernst prepared her Halloween costume for this year, she drew on her engineering knowledge, and the classic animated movie Ratatouille. Her creation received more than nine million views in less than a week, thanks in part to a repost from one of the film's actors."

  • Formerly Classified Documents Get the Fine Art Treatment (New York Times) Weird and...cool. "While scouring the internet some years back for obscure images of foods from the 1970s, Matthieu Nicol, a photo researcher in Paris, happened upon a trove of freely available pictures recently declassified by the U.S. Army. Professionally photographed over a decades-long span ending in the 1990s, the images depicted people in uniforms for diverse military use."

  • Mother-son RCMP duo run patrol together in northern B.C. (CBC) BRITISH COLUMBIA STORY #Canadiana "An RCMP officer in northern British Columbia says she has checked something off her bucket list after carrying out a patrol with her son, a few months before she hangs up the hat on her 38-year career. Cpl. Madonna Saunderson, 60, has served as a media relations officer in Prince George, B.C., for close to 10 years and performed field work for decades before that, having started serving in 1986. Her 26-year-old son, John, graduated from the RCMP training depot in Regina this year, and was given the constable designation at the RCMP detachment in Terrace, B.C. — around 385 km away from Prince George, as the crow flies."

  • VIDEO: Saskatoon man's new card game puts the fun in funeral (CBC) SASKATOON STORY Ha! I love this. "A card game a Saskatoon man made for fun during the pandemic is now being produced for the public after gaining traction on Facebook. Youlogy lets players create characters and follow their life story until their funeral."

TOP TEN STORIES OF THE WEEK

  1. Calgary entrepreneur Manjit Minhas to receive UN Global Citizen Award (Calgary Herald) CALGARY STORY Congrats! Well deserved. "Minhas Brewery and Distillery co-founder Manjit Minhas will be honoured by the United Nations Association in Canada (UNA-Canada) with the Global Citizen Laureate Award [...]The award recognizes Canadians demonstrating leadership in their communities, and promoting the values and mission of the UN. Minhas is receiving the honour for her dedication to supporting gender equality and women-led businesses, and her charitable initiatives that uplift women."

  2. Nordic spa development floated for southwest Edmonton neighbourhood (CBC) EDMONTON STORY I really hope this happens. "The city is eyeing a proposal to build a nordic spa along the river valley in a residential area of southwest Edmonton. Hospitality company Scandinave Group Inc., which operates four spas across Canada, is floating a possible new location in the Brander Gardens neighbourhood, on what's known as the Soaring lands."

  3. VIDEO: Launch tower's 'chopsticks' catch descending rocket booster as SpaceX launches Starship (CBC) I never in my life expected to see this. #Amazing "SpaceX [...] launched its fifth Starship test flight from Texas and returned the rocket's towering first-stage booster back to land for the first time, achieving a novel recovery method involving large metal arms."

  4. VIDEO: Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich smashes women's marathon world record in Chicago (CBC) #Wow Congrats! "Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich put on a performance for the ages as she obliterated the women's marathon world record in Chicago on Sunday, taking nearly two minutes off the previous best to win in a time of two hours nine minutes 56 seconds."

  5. VIDEO: Nobel Updates: Peace Prize Is Awarded to Japanese Group of Atomic Bomb Survivors (New York Times) Timely and important recognition. Congrats to all. "Nihon Hidankyo is a grass-roots movement of survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The group’s efforts have helped establish a “nuclear taboo,” the Nobel committee said."

  6. How Hydrogen Combustion Engines Could Outpace Fuel Cells (Hydrogen Fuel News) Go hydrogen! "Hydrogen combustion engines are emerging as a viable alternative to traditional fossil fuels in the quest for cleaner, more sustainable energy sources. Unlike hydrogen fuel cells, which convert hydrogen into electricity through a chemical process, combustion engines burn hydrogen to generate mechanical power, similar to conventional gasoline engines. This method promises an eco-friendly solution with reduced greenhouse gas emissions, making it an attractive choice for minimizing the transportation sector’s carbon footprint."

  7. Energy disruptor: Former University of Calgary professor David Keith talks about climate solutions as if the cost mattered (CTV) CALGARY STORY "Is geoengineering the environment ready for its closeup? The New York Times thinks so, and a former University of Calgary professor is at the heart of a controversial conversation about how to cool down the planet. That man, Canadian David Keith, who is a professor of geophysical science at the University of Chicago, was in Calgary last week speaking at Energy Disruptors Unite!, a conference that featured a blend of regulators, industry heavyweights, climate scientists, youthful environmental activists, journalists – and an astronaut."

  8. Cybersecurity breach at Calgary Public Library forces closure of locations across the city (CBC) CALGARY STORY Eeek! "All Calgary Public Library locations closed [...] after a cybersecurity breach compromised some systems, according to a spokesperson."

  9. Why your brain could be the next frontier of data privacy (CBC) The next frontier, complete with opportunities...and challenges. "Imagine a future in which a wearable device tells advertisers when you're in the mood for chocolate, or lets your employer know when you're not paying attention at work. Or where a medical implant that's supposed to save your life ends up being used against you in court. These are some of the scenarios that people in the emerging field of neural privacy are worried about — and they say some are already closer to reality than you might think."

  10. How millions of oysters could protect coastlines against climate change (CBC) Go oysters! "In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy ravaged the U.S. eastern seaboard. The storm surge, flooding and winds caused extensive loss of life and damage in Tottenville, a neighbourhood surrounded by water on three sides in the Staten Island borough of New York. In addition to its geography, however, the area had previously lost a natural protective barrier due to years of overfishing and pollution: oyster reefs. Reefs are formed when oysters cluster together and grow on top of hard submerged surfaces such as rock or marine debris. They can buffer the impact of stormy waves and shoreline erosion."

SEVEN LIFE AND CAREER HACKS

  1. Did You Know ChatGPT Can Generate Excel Tables? (Nick: The AI Guru) A little AI nerdiness to end the week.

  2. Quantifying ‘The Kevin Bacon Game’: A Statistical Exploration of Hollywood’s Most Connected Actors (Fanfare) If you love movies and like math (I do), this one is for you.

  3. Mastering OSINT: How to Find Information on Anyone (OSIN Team) Prospect researchers know all of this. Now, we do too.

  4. 8 Powerful Marketing Tools You’ve Never Heard Of (But Should Be Using) (The Startup) There are some great tools in here including a a great heat map tool called CrazyEgg.

  5. The Five Reasons Most People Can’t Cook (And What You Can Do Differently) (Tastyble) Such a great article. And, right on the money. I always start my cooking by cleaning the kitchen.

  6. Grandma’s Dutch Oven Is Still the Best Pot in the Kitchen (At Home Publication) I love Dutch Ovens.

  7. How to Run Efficiently: The Key Role of Your Hips in Performance (Runner's Life) For me, this is a revolutionary idea and one I am definitely going to try.

TOP THREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK

  1. How a teenager rallied the kids of Estevan to help raise $4M toward MRI machine (CBC) ESTEVAN STORY I love this story "Eighteen-year-old Jaycee Ross may not have had any idea what his family was starting when they decided to donate a steer in his honour to the local health foundation. But after the steer raised more than $50,000 at auction for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine in Estevan, it sparked a wave of giving among other kids in 4-H, and has helped the local hospital foundation raise an eye-popping $4.2 million in just five months toward the major purchase."

  2. Yagen makes $100M donation to Military Aviation Museum (Virginia Business) "Gerald 'Jerry' Yagen, founder of the Aviation Institute of Maintenance and Centura College, has made a $100 million gift to Virginia Beach’s Military Aviation Museum, including his private collection of 70 vintage military [aircraft.]"

  3. VIDEO: Taylor Swift donates $5 million to Hurricane Helene and Milton recovery efforts (Western Mass News) "Taylor Swift is donating millions of dollars to help those affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot released a statement on Wednesday, confirming Swift’s donation."

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