Jul 10, 2020
Collection of good news snippets to conclude the week.
Jaguar has submitted a trademark application for EV-Type. No guessing what that's for!
Australia: Following Canada, country suspends extradition agreement with Hong Kong in response to new security law.
The Far Side returns: After 25 years, Gary Larson embraces digital to bring back the iconic comic strip. OGN looks back, and forward.
Moscow: To re-open schools and universities next week.
Scotland: Scots to be allowed to meet indoors as lockdown eases further.
UK: Farm to Fork - new website that lets people buy food direct from their local farms.
US: House of Representatives just passed a measure that provides $22.5 billion over five years to fund replacement of lead service lines, which are the single worst source of lead contamination in drinking water.
Dalai Lama: Here are his Top 5 recommendations for enjoying a long, healthy life.
Massachusetts: A non-profit organisation is giving away wedding dresses to health care heroines in communities across the country.
Umbria: The small village of Castelluccio sits atop a hill overlooking the Piano Grande where fields of lentils and poppies bloom every year, carpeting the landscape with a colorful quilt of blossoming flowers. Enjoy this gorgeous one minute video.
Scientists have finally figured out how to pinpoint malicious drone operators like those that shut down London's Gatwick airport a couple of Christmases ago.
San Diego: A barista at Starbucks refused to serve a client who wasn’t wearing a protective mask in the coffee shop. After the customer complained on Facebook that he didn’t serve her, a kind stranger decided to set up a GoFundMe page for tips for the young barista. $100,000 later, the shocked barista is thankful to all who donated and said that he will use the money to pursue his dreams.
US Supreme Court rules that Trump must handover his tax records. Chief justice John Roberts wrote: “Two hundred years ago, a great jurist of our Court established that no citizen, not even the President, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding. We reaffirm that principle today and hold that the President is neither absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas seeking his private papers nor entitled to a heightened standard of need.”
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