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Land O’Lakes is quietly undergoing a brand makeover, removing the iconic Indian woman from its packaging after 92 years. Land O’Lakes President and CEO Beth Ford said in a statement that the Minnesota butter company is repackaging its products in time for the company’s “100th anniversary.” “As a farmer-owned co-op, we strongly feel the need to better connect the men and women who grow our food with those who consume it,” Ford said. “Our farmer-to-fork structure gives us a unique ability to bridge this divide.” A spokesperson for the company told the Post Bulletin the branding shift is to focus...

Just months after Chinese officials identified a small cluster of unexplained pneumonia cases in the city of Wuhan, scientists around the globe have broken down the coronavirus at unprecedented speed in an effort to save lives and stop its spread. The first global pandemic of the social media age and the first major outbreak of the internet era has created an explosion of learning. At the same time, studies published on a seemingly daily basis are raising just as many new questions as they’re answering about the deadly virus. SNIP Medical and scientific journals can hardly keep up. Since the...

Brian Dennehy, the winner of two Tonys in a career that also spanned films including “Tommy Boy,” “First Blood” and “Cocoon,” and television, died on Wednesday night in New Haven, Conn. He was 81. “It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related. Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends,” his daughter, actress Elizabeth Dennehy, tweeted on Thursday. The imposingly tall, barrel-chested Dennehy won his first Tony for his performance...

The technocrats are talking about giving people a chip - once they've been vaccinated for the CCP virus, or otherwise proven their immunity and state of non-contagion - so that anyone with the right scanner can easily see that interacting with them is “safe.” Sounds like a great idea, doesn't it? But think about it. Even if you don't care about personal freedom, don't respect concerns for societal liberty. Just think about this a moment. The CCP virus is just the flavor of the month. It's the terrible risk of 2020, the big thing this year. In past years, we...

In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations.President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20. But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data.Six days.That delay from Jan. 14...

After weeks in which the allegation remained largely below the surface, on Sunday, both the New York Times and the Washington Post published lengthy articles exploring former staffer Tara Reade’s assertion that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s. Both articles included on-the-record denials from former Biden staffers and raised other doubts about the veracity of the Reade allegations. Reade’s claims already seemed dubious, for reasons laid out in a tightly researched piece from columnist Cathy Young, published five days before the Times and Post exposés. The allegations, however, posed a problem unique to Biden among leading 2020...

It appears some of the most liberal billionaires in the United States are joining forces with California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) to give pandemic relief funding to illegal immigrants. CNN seemed pleased to mention a list of groups involved in the effort, but the outlet strangely neglected to mention George Soros’s massive Open Society Foundations are also involved.

Of the deaths reported Wednesday, 24 patients were over 65 and 13 of those had underlying conditions. Eleven people were between 41 and 65, seven of which had underlying conditions, and one person who died was between 18 and 40 and had an underlying condition... Countywide, the mortality rate for the illness stands at 3.8%. A total of 472 new cases were also reported Wednesday, and in the last 48 hours, the county counted 1,142 more people who tested positive for COVID-19. Out of the 330 deaths that the county has race and ethnicity information for, 15% were African American,...

If you thought it was odd that Microsoft released a commercial on Good Friday featuring “spirit cooking” occultist Marina Abramović, you weren’t alone. The video had to have comments turned off, accumulating over 24K dislikes with only a few hundred likes in three days before Microsoft decided to take the VR commercial down. But the damage was done. Millions of people watched the video of the controversial “artist” who is heralded by the left for her risqué shows and affection for satanic imagery. They are also becoming aware of her attachment to former Clinton aide John Podesta who was famously...

Paul shares his top tips for people buying guns during a pandemic.

What gives, scroll down and look at the chart of deaths ... https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday extended his statewide shutdown of non-essential functions to May 15, as coronavirus hospitalizations continued to level off — but over 600 new deaths were reported. “New York PAUSE has worked,” said Cuomo of the lockdown during an Albany press briefing. “That’s how we control the beast. “However, we’re not there yet.” In order to prevent the disease from mounting a comeback, the governor extended the policy for another month, a decision that he said was made in consultation with other regional states New York has allied with to plan an eventual economic revival. “I don’t...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday that the border between Canada and the U.S. likely won't reopen to nonessential travel anytime soon as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread. “There’s a recognition that as we move forward there will be special thought given to this relationship. But at the same time we know that there is a significant amount of time, still, before we can talk about loosening such restrictions,” Trudeau said at a daily briefing, according to Reuters. Asked Wednesday if he is considering relaxing restrictions at the border with Canada, President Trump said “our relationship with...

The surge of interest in testing for the COVID-19 pathogen has led to some innovative tests and test strategies, including at-home tests. However, the FDA has indicated that it is wary of both at-home testing and specimen collection in other than supervised settings, a policy that is meeting with criticism from some quarters, but not all. Everlywell Inc., of Austin, Texas, had announced March 18 that it had a test kit available for shipment that would have permitted at-home collection of samples that could have been analyzed via telehealth. The company indicated it had 30,000 such kits available, but the...

Lots of film renditions have been made about the mutiny that occurred on the HMS Bounty or some would correct that to the HMAV Bounty or some such. But only one got close to getting the history right. That version was the last of the films made in 1984 and headed up by Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, starring Anthony Hopkins as Lieutenant William Bligh. I enjoyed watching as a kid the 1960s version of Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando. What an imposing figure on the screen Brando was. He really brought character to his role as Fletcher...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is under fire for being too slow to approve at-home tests in the coronavirus crisis. Earlier this month, the agency announced it would allow labs to sell tests, and apply for emergency approval 15 days later. Several companies jumped to offer their tests in a use-at-home format, and some even began selling them. Most of the tests were to be taken by an individual at home, and then would be mailed to an approved lab for analysis – a process already used for many medical tests. But on March 20, the FDA updated their...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Frontier Communications announced Wednesday that the internet, TV and telephone service provider has filed for federal bankruptcy protection and will implement a restructuring plan to reduce its debt by more than $10 billion. The Norwalk, Conn.-based company filed for Chapter 11 protection Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, according to The Associated Press. The filing will allow the company to reorganize its finances while business operations continue.

February was a frustrating month for my laboratory. We wanted to make tests to detect the virus that causes Covid-19. My virology colleagues had great ideas and solid testing platforms. The Food and Drug Administration told us to stop. Why? Because of a quirk in FDA regulations. Diagnostic tests are currently regulated in one of two ways, and there’s no clear rule to determine which one applies to coronavirus tests. This uncertainty is a big part of why test shortages have caused a national crisis. The VALID Act, introduced in Congress in early March, aims to address the confusion about...

A report at the Epoch Times on Tuesday said that despite the much-ballyhooed grand reopening of Wuhan, the city at the heart of the coronavirus pandemic, and the confident proclamations of Chinese officials that the virus has been all but exterminated, quarantines are being quietly reimposed on residential compounds as new infections spread.

And the national press wonders why it is mistrusted, and even despised? Sen. Tom Cotton was among the first to suggest that the information China was releasing regarding the novel coronavirus emerging from Wuhan might be inaccurate. Cotton raised the specter that the Chinese national virology laboratory in Wuhan could have played a role -- even if inadvertent. For that, he was ridiculed. Cotton is a Republican, so his statement was the press's cue to trot out the tropes: This was just some wacky conspiracy theory. His accusations have already been "debunked." He's a war hawk pitching a "fringe theory"...