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Osman is an award-winning photographer and cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and Vice. In 2018 and 2019, his photography exhibition, Dear Ayeeyo, was shown in Toronto and London, England. Osman is also the founder of Shoot for Peace, a program fighting against gun violence. See his latest illustration on page 38.

Hanmer's energetic work has been published in The New York Times and National Geographic Kids. He has illustrated several children's books, including 2020's Trending: How and Why Stuff Gets Popular. Hanmer's work is displayed in both private and corporate collections through the Canada Council Art Bank. Find his latest illustration on page 14.

Rinaldi's stories have appeared in Maclean's, Toronto Life and The Walrus. As a former editor of Pivot Magazine, he has won several awards for his business writing. A frequent music reviewer for publications like Maisonneuve, he recently recorded his own album, which will be released later this year under the artist name Longtime Listener. Read his story on page 18.

McBride has written for Report on Business Magazine, Toronto Life and Maclean's. In 2015, he won a gold National Magazine Award for his profile of Canadian filmmaker John Greyson. His biography (传记 ） of the writer Kathy Acker will be published by Simon& Schuster next year. Check out his roundup of uplifting stories from around the world on page 11.

In 1972, my mother announced that we'd spend that summer in Europe. In Rome,we stayed at a fancy hotel with rooms overlooking the Grand Canal. On many mornings,our breakfast arrived on rolling tables. Mum insisted I tip the waiters and make the dinner reservations." How?" I asked." Read guidebooks, and ask local people," she instructed.

She had made a detailed plan with a guiding theme, the Roman Empire(帝国）,which was intended to excite my interest in the past. One day, we took a train to Paris.After pulling into Gare de Lyon, I waited in the taxi while my mother helped a lady get her next train to Nimes."Why did you have to do that?"I complained(抱怨）."When you become a traveler, you help those who need you in the same way you hope others will help you," she said.

In Paris, I finally got to test a theory I'd formed as a 9-year-old while reading a book about the lives of the French. The author's vivid descriptions of their meals led me to conclude that France was a country where everything was delicious. Very quickly, this turned out to be true. The croque monsieur I had when we lunched in a   was the most amazing sandwich I'd ever had. Four days later, we reached England. My mother suggested having breakfast in a cafe. When we sat down at the table over fresh bread rolls and hot chocolates, I couldn't eat. Somehow, I promised myself that I'd have to find my way back to Paris.

In 1986, I moved to France, where I 've lived ever since, mostly writing about food. My late mother eventually took pride in my career." I guess it was that trip to Europe," she 'd say with a knowing smile.

For years, Mark Hager worked as an at-sea fishery observer, going out on New England fishing boats for days or weeks and keeping detailed records of every fish caught or thrown back. The work could be perilous: on one trip, a boat turned sideways in 20-foot seas, and Hager and the crew put on survival suits in case they had to jump overboard. But the counting was essential to protecting the ecosystem.

In the early 2000s, the fishing industry began fixing video cameras on boats, so that humans could track the data from ashore. In 2019, Hager and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute launched a company, New England Marine Monitoring, based in Portland, Maine, to provide technology support for ships using electronic monitoring. His team has to watch hours of video footage (镜头), look for each moment when a fish is discarded (丢弃), then make a note of the species and the time it was discarded. In ten hours of video, there might be 45 minutes between each case of a discarded fish.

When Hager consulted with other scientists, they came up with a new idea. Now, Hager and his team are using their notes as training data for an artificial intelligence (AI)algorithm (算法)-programming the AI to scan (扫描) the video footage and indicate points of interest along the timeline for a human to look through. “Instead of ten hours of video, we’ll be able to look at about 100 pictures, which we can do in about 20 minutes,” Hager says.

The result could save time and money, but Hager has a bigger goal. He wants to prove that AI algorithms can be used to count every fish that’s caught and discarded. To be effective, the algorithm will need to be able to identify the total volume of a fish haul (一网的捕鱼量), count containers of fish,and potentially even count and measure individual fish. Using video monitoring to count a small amount of the total catch is one thing. Using it to count the entire haul on a ship is a huge challenge — one that has never been achieved before.

On a hot summer day, Julie DiNardo was preparing for a road race like many runners do. But unlike many runners, she placed her three young children into the stroller(婴儿车）she would push throughout the 10-kilometer run.

That day, August 26, 2016, Julie earned a spot in Guinness World Records, setting the record for "Fastest 10km pushing a triple pram(三人婴儿车）(female)."She ran it in 49 minutes in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Julie, now 33, has been a runner since age five. In her 20s, she ran a race almost every weekend. But she didn't know stroller racing was a thing until she ran across an article three years ago in Runner's World,featuring a woman who did just that.

Julie is half of a rather athletic couple. Her husband, Lenny DiNardo, played baseball for six years and today is an analyst at New England Sports Network. Lenny,39, is still in tip-top shape, but says Julie is the better athlete. Julie ran eight races in2018, six of them with a stroller. She has set other Guinness records, too- fastest half marathon pushing a double stroller, and fastest half marathon pushing a triple stroller.

Julie says her kids- Abby, 6; Lenny, Jr, 4; and Audrey, 2- love being part of the racing, and she loves" knowing that when they grow up, they'll be able to understand they were part of the record." Already, they 're aware of what's happening." At every race that I ran with my kids, all of them cheered at the top of their lungs,' Go mama! Go mama, go! '"she says.

“Organized events began to take hold about eight years ago after factories began building running-friendly strollers," says Jennifer Flanigan, who founded a group called The Stroller Run." I was a runner before," she says. But having kids complicated her running routine." You wanted to go out for a run, but you did not want to leave your children behind at home. There was that guilt. As soon as we got strollers that were able to run long distances, many of us regained our freedom."