Feel Good Friday
“Since 2005, and especially over the last year, Kaplan has been making this simple improvement on courts in New York City and around the world.” An Artist Is Installing Hundreds of Golden Nets on Community Basketball Courts.
+ Engineers have figured out how to charge electric car batteries in 10 minutes.
+ WaPo: Long-awaited cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition.
+ Missing woman saved after spelling SOS in rocks in Sequoia National Park.
+ Video shows horse going back towards California wildfires to retrieve two other horses. (I’m not getting verklempt, I’m just a little hoarse…)
+ 100-year-old Chiefs superfan all smiles on her first trip to Arrowhead.
+ A popular pub regular has thanked a town that rallied to give his ‘appalling’ home a makeover. (I’ll drink to that.)
+ NYC lawmakers pass bill banning sale of foie gras.
+ ICU nurse adopts man with autism so he can get life-saving heart transplant.
+ Man wins lottery prize on way to last chemo treatment.
+ WaPo: Why 1,000 people offered to crowd-stitch the quilt of a dead woman none of them knew.
+ A top Michigan quarterback commit was forced to retire on Wednesday due to an issue with his heart. Jim Harbaugh is still honoring his scholarship. (Feel Good Friday is so powerful, even a Harbaugh brother can get into the spirit!)
+ Bill Murray applied to work at P.F. Chang’s and the company just offered him a job.
+ And finally, if you didn’t get enough sugar last night, my Halloween overview of the impeachment news including more than 25 pieces of candy.