Feel Good Friday

“She did not die because her midwife used a low-cost, low-tech intervention that was pioneered here and in other maternity wards in some of Africa’s poorest places, and that is now saving lives across the continent.” An 80-Cent Plastic Pouch Is Saving Thousands of Women From Dying in Childbirth.

+ US added 165,000 jobs in October, trouncing expectations.

+ There’s a new feeling in America as kindness drives out cruelty (with a little nudge from gas prices…)

+ Yosemite visitors join forces to perform extraordinary rescue on Half Dome.

+ Scott Colom Flips Forrest County, Named for Ku Klux Klan Founder. (It sure looks like he’s gonna flip the whole state…)

+ “The Golden State Valkyries’ championship parade, like almost everything the team has done in its brief lifetime, felt flawless, unique and perfectly Bay Area. A uniting, inclusive, delightful bolt of energy.” (Those are going around this week…)

+ In a mental, physical and logistical feat, William Goodge ran a marathon distance in all 50 states in 22 days, 17 hours, 16 minutes and 34 seconds.

+ Rescuers save roe deer trapped in ice in Russia’s Far East

+ No more Cybertrucks; Musk moves on from the angular metallic flop. (I view this as a road beautification project.)

+ Jesse Welles, a modern-day protest singer, sings about the midterms.