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Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Saturday,

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Speaker 2: the twenty second of November. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Billy

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Speaker 2: fit Simon's. It's a pleasure to be here on a

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Speaker 2: Saturday morning. Yeah, happy weekend time, and it's good news time.

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Speaker 2: I know it's been a little while since we've done

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Speaker 2: an episode like this, but festive celebrations are ramping up.

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Speaker 2: The end of year is in sight, and what better

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Speaker 2: time to take a moment to reflect on the good

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Speaker 2: that's in the world than right now.

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Speaker 3: Billy, you're right, it's festive season. I feel like everyone

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Speaker 3: is in the mood for some more good news, and

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Speaker 3: so we are starting today off with two OZSI sporting

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Speaker 3: legends who were honored this week.

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Speaker 2: Yees starting off strong with the Sport Australia Hall of

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Speaker 2: Fame Induction and Award Scala. So they were held in

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Speaker 2: Melbourne on Monday and Formula one driver Oscar Piastre and

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Speaker 2: seven time World Surfing champion Lane Beachley were awarded Australia's

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Speaker 2: most prestigious sporting honors. So the Don Award that's named

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Speaker 2: after Sir Don Bradman is given to an athlete or

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Speaker 2: team every year whose achievements over the past year have

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Speaker 2: most inspired the nation, and this year that honor went

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Speaker 2: to Piastree, Melbourne's very own, the nine time Grand Prix winner.

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Speaker 2: Organizers said, quote Pastre is carving out his own legacy,

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Speaker 2: transforming Australia's Formula one aspirations into reality and inspiring the

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Speaker 2: next generation of champions. Pastre called it a massive privilege

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Speaker 2: to win an award in Bradman's name, and this all

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Speaker 2: comes as the twenty four year old navigates the tight

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Speaker 2: race that he's in behind his McLaren teammatee Orlando Norris

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Speaker 2: for the driver's championship. Fingers crossed. Oscar scores big in

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Speaker 2: Vegas this weekend off the back of this exciting award.

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Speaker 3: And you are the biggest F one fan that I

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Speaker 3: personally know. So I'm excited about that news for Oscar Piastre,

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Speaker 3: but I'm almost more excited about that news for you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: A win for Oscar is a win.

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Speaker 3: For Okay, you were telling us about the Dawn Award,

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Speaker 3: but I'm going to be telling you about the Dawn Award.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what the Dawn Award is? No, Billy, Okay,

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Speaker 3: So it's named after Dawn Fraser. Do you know who

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Speaker 3: she is? Oh?

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Speaker 2: I am familiar with the swimming legend.

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Speaker 3: She is an eight time Olympic medalist and the whole

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Speaker 3: point of the award is for it to be awarded

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Speaker 3: to someone who has demonstrated courage and bravery that has

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Speaker 3: changed sport for the better. This week, Ossie icon Lane

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Speaker 3: Beachley won the Dawn Award. So Beachley became an advocate

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Speaker 3: for her sport. She is a surfer after being shocked

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Speaker 3: by the state of women's surfing when she joined the

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Speaker 3: pro tour in nineteen ninety, She reflected upon receiving this award,

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Speaker 3: through compromises, sacrifices and battles, we achieved pay equity in

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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen. Now women can truly aspire to be seen

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Speaker 3: and respected in what was once a male dominated environment.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Billy, Next up, I want to tell you about

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Speaker 2: a new study on the social lives of magpies.

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Speaker 3: I think magpies and good news is an oxymoron. I

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Speaker 3: don't know how those two things go together.

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Speaker 2: I hear you, but I'm going to change your mind

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Speaker 2: because the University of Western Australia has been investigating the

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Speaker 2: relationship between magpie intelligence and their social connectedness. This is

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Speaker 2: measured through play, aggressiveness, vocal interactions and physical proximity. So

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Speaker 2: researchers tested magpies in urban environments around Perth and what

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Speaker 2: they called key developmental milestones. Magpies who were more connected

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Speaker 2: in their social networks were able to successfully look after

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Speaker 2: themselves earlier in life. So, for example, they could forage

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Speaker 2: for food independently at a young age and take care

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Speaker 2: of themselves. Doctor Lizzie Speechley from UWA School of Biological

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Speaker 2: Sciences said, quote The findings highlight the importance of the

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Speaker 2: social environment during early life to the development of cognitive

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Speaker 2: skills of magpies.

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Speaker 3: Fun fact, when I was fourteen, I was swooped by

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Speaker 3: a magpie and that is why I don't like them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough. I was swooped as a twelve year

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Speaker 2: old and it's never.

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Speaker 3: Really laid me Yeah, it never leaves.

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Speaker 2: Maybe because those magpies didn't have enough social connectedness.

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Speaker 3: Well, they came to the wrong place by swooping me

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Speaker 3: for social connectedness. I gave them none of that. Okay,

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Speaker 3: moving on, what's next?

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Speaker 2: Well, Billy, if magpies stress you out, I have a

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Speaker 2: good one for you. Have you ever considered meditation, because

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Speaker 2: the good news is it's been shown to improve brain function.

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Speaker 2: Researchers at the University of California, San Diego analyzed subjects

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Speaker 2: who attended a meditation and healing retreat. And Billy, I

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Speaker 2: know that you are not against a bit of a

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Speaker 2: healing retreat.

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Speaker 1: Why am not?

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Speaker 3: I actually have gone to a health retreat before as well.

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Speaker 4: I loved it.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 2: In this study, those researchers observed rapid and wide ranging

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Speaker 2: changes in brain function and found that meditation reduces connections

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Speaker 2: in parts of the brain associated within a chatter.

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Speaker 3: I feel like that's what you hear that meditation is

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Speaker 3: amazing and for the people who it works for, I

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Speaker 3: feel like it really works for them. But then you

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Speaker 3: also hear from people like me who sometimes it feels

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Speaker 3: like meditating does the opposite of calming you down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I completely understand that feeling. I think the

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Speaker 2: experts say it's not about achieving complete quiet and inner piece,

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Speaker 2: it's about sort of persevering through that. And one of

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Speaker 2: the reasons and from this study, that it might be

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Speaker 2: worth persevering, is that it's not just about brain function

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Speaker 2: being improved by meditation. Researchers also identified benefits to blood biology,

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Speaker 2: finding that the retreat engaged natural physiological pathways, promoting patients metabolism, immunity,

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Speaker 2: and pain relief. It's actually the first time in the

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Speaker 2: world that a study has comprehensively quantified the biological effects

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Speaker 2: of multiple mind body techniques administered together over a short period.

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Speaker 2: So like the program at this healing retreat, and one

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Speaker 2: of the studies authors said, the findings show that our

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Speaker 2: minds and bodies are deeply interconnected. Quote what we believe,

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Speaker 2: how we focus our attention and the practices we participate

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Speaker 2: in can leave measurable fingerprints on our biology.

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Speaker 3: That is so interesting. I never would have thought that

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Speaker 3: it would have benefits for your blood.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, inflammation, Who would have known?

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Speaker 3: All right, Last, but not least, we are wrapping things

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Speaker 3: up with a good news story from the art world.

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Speaker 3: Masterpieces by some of history's most celebrated painters will be

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Speaker 3: displayed to the public for the very first time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought we'd finish on a classy note. Let's

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Speaker 2: take it high browbilly, that's.

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Speaker 3: What we need for a Saturday.

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Speaker 2: We're talking Monnet, Renoir, Matisse, Dega, Picasso, to name a few.

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Speaker 2: This is a really interesting story out of Germany, where

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Speaker 2: this one family, over four generations, has built up one

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Speaker 2: of Europe's largest private art collections, known as the Shaft Collection. Now,

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Speaker 2: the collection has its own fascinating history. At one point

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Speaker 2: it included over two thousand artworks that many of them

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Speaker 2: were actually destroyed or stolen during World War II, and

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Speaker 2: in the years after the war, a woman named Marguerite

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Speaker 2: Schaff worked really hard to save the collection, which was

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Speaker 2: built up by her father, Otto Gerstenberg. Eventually, Marguerite left

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Speaker 2: the surviving artworks to her sons, who have now said

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Speaker 2: the collection deserves to be seen publicly. So that decision

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Speaker 2: means that over the next three months, an exhibition in

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Speaker 2: Berlin is showcasing the collection of about one hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty renowned works spanning three centuries. So if you're heading

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Speaker 2: to Europe for a white Christmas might be worth adding

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Speaker 2: it to your itinery.

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Speaker 3: Let's hope that the louver robbers don't get anywhere near that.

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Speaker 3: All right, good one, Billy, thank you, and on that

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Speaker 3: we will be ending on a high. That is all

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Speaker 3: we've got time for today. We hope these stories brought

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Speaker 3: a little bit of sunshine to your weekend. We will

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Speaker 3: be back to regular programming on Monday morning with your

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Speaker 3: next deep dive. Until then, enjoy the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Bye.

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