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A new blood test could help to safely cut hospital stays for children with cancer who develop a fever, a new study has shown. The study reveals the blood test can help doctors to distinguish between children whose fever is a sign of serious illness and those who are safe to go home. High temperatures are common in children undergoing treatment for cancer due to their lowered immune system. The commonest approach in the NHS is to keep children in hospital for up to a week while antibiotics are administered in case the fever is a symptom of a serious...

Remember “Doug,” the huge potato a New Zealand couple found in their garden last year? I wrote about him at the time:Advantage: USA!…a charming little story out of New Zealand. It seems a couple found this huge potato growing in their garden. Since they didn’t plant it they’ve no idea how it got there. Colin explains that their gardening technique consists of “throw(ing) a bunch of cow manure and straw onto their garden and see what happens.”Come to think of it that’s pretty much how we got our potato, too.And we seem to be having the same trouble with our...

OPLINE Disney said Friday it “regret[s]” a high school drill team performance at Walt Disney World this week that was widely condemned for its racist depiction of Native Americans, claiming it did not know the group would chant “Scalp ‘em!” and promising that it has put measures in place to prevent similar incidents in the future—a response advocates criticize as still being insufficient.

Jessica Luckett, dressed in a Women with Guns and Attitudes club T-shirt, sits on her living room couch with her gun in hand in Chicago, IL on Feb. 23, 2022. Jessica Luckett got her first gun at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and it opened her eyes to the various laws and policies governing legal firearms ownership. She works remotely for a nonprofit and lives alone in a West Pullman townhouse on the southern tip of Chicago. She often visits family and friends in Englewood, a high-crime neighborhood on the South Side where she grew up. For Illinois residents...

Mayor Adams opened the door Friday to scrapping a city rule requiring NYPD officer applicants to have earned college credits. Adams, himself a retired NYPD captain, entertained the idea after a closed-door meeting with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, whose administration recently scrapped a similar requirement for the Windy City’s police department. “I like what the mayor is doing in the recruitment. We’re hearing all over the country that there is a requirement problem with police officers,” Adams said during a joint press conference with Lightfoot at Chicago City Hall after their sit-down. “There were historical barriers that were preventing people...

March 14 (Reuters) - A worsening drought in the southern U.S. Plains is threatening the region's winter wheat crop just as the Russian invasion of Ukraine dents global supplies. Some farmers in southwestern Kansas, the top U.S. wheat producing state, have not received much measurable rain or snow since October. Winter wheat is planted in autumn, lays dormant in winter and begins sending up green shoots in spring. Proper soil moisture is critical at this stage for the crop to thrive. More than half of Kansas was classified as under severe drought or worse as of March 8, the driest...

There’s all the difference in the world between Putin and Tchaikovsky In the three weeks since Vladimir Putin launched his shocking invasion of Ukraine, the West has surprised the world with the severity of the economic sanctions it’s imposed. No one has been more surprised than Putin himself, who believed the West too soft and his own nation’s oil too crucial to the global economy. How the West can further support Ukraine — while also avoiding the not-insignificant risk of a nuclear war — is a complex question. It will not be answered, however, by indulging in ugly prejudices or...

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While they have us freaking out about “Ukraine,” our overlords are moving swiftly to rendition all of us into the global cyber-gulag of a social credit system, enabled by a digital currency doled out (or not) by the central banking system. This report, from December, 2021, “assess[es] market opportunities for infrastructure support of the social credit market”—i.e., how to make a lot of money helping to set up that cyber-prison. Unless you’re reading it for “market opportunities,” you’re likely to be chilled by its dystopian implications. One way to start fighting this development is to go back to using cash...

Old Joe Biden’s handlers have essentially erased the Southern border, and as a result, illegals are streaming in at a rapid clip. Even the New York Times, a reliable Leftist propaganda organ, admitted last October that “migrants were encountered 1.7 million times in the last 12 months, the highest number of illegal crossings recorded since at least 1960.” A new record could be set in 2022, as the UK’s Daily Mail reported Thursday that “more than 170,000 migrants are waiting on the Mexican-side of the U.S.-Mexico border to cross and claim asylum” once the Biden administration trashes, as it is...

Never Trumper Adam Kinzinger is vowing to keep Trump from becoming president again if he runs in the 2024 elections. He says Trump “cannot be president again.”Kingziner says: “If Donald Trump gets the Republican nomination there are many of us that will move heaven and earth to ensure he doesn’t win. I think that’s the most important thing. He cannot be president again.”[snip]

South Korea reported 400,741 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, shattering previous records, despite the country having one of the highest vaccination compliance rates in the world. Senior health official Sohn Young-rae believes that the case spike is the “last biggest challenge” for the country before herd immunity is achieved and the country can go back to normal. “If we overcome this crisis we will step closer to returning to normalcy,” he said. South Korea has been forced to abandon certain COVID-19 restrictions as they have done nothing to reduce case loads, which has resulted in the public souring on the...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem1 Peter 11 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.Praise to God for a Living Hope 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope...

MAR-A-LAGO, FL—In a speech this week, Trump hinted strongly that he will run for reelection in 2024. He then ginned up excitement for his potential campaign by promising that if re-elected, he will turn Fauci into a piñata and let every American take one good whack at it. "Dr. Fauci! What a beauty that guy is huh? You all don't like him, do you? No, I didn't think so! Fauci—not the brightest. Some might even say he's a loser idiot. Some are saying that," said Trump as the crowd cheered with delight. "We're gonna turn him into a piñata! A...

Adrian Kellgren’s family-owned gun company in Florida was left holding a $200,000 shipment of semi-automatic rifles after a longtime customer in Ukraine suddenly went silent during Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the country. Fearing the worst, Kellgren and his company KelTec decided to put those stranded 400 guns to use, sending them to Ukraine’s nascent resistance movement to help civilians fight back against a Russian military that has been repeatedly shelling their apartment buildings, schools, hospitals and hiding places. “The American people want to do something,” said Kellgren, a former U.S. Navy pilot. “We enjoy our freedoms, we cherish those things....

Anthony Fauci hinted, in an ABC News podcast Friday, that he might not have to be carried out of the National Institutes of Health in a pine box. At 81, the mendacious midget should carefully consider whether he should buy green bananas, let alone work too much longer. Yet Dr. Fauci is not acting like someone ready to exit the scene. He has appeared on ABC, PBS, and CNN in the last few days. It seems he was making the rounds to talk about the BA.2 variant, a more transmissible strain of omicron. It’s not a good sign that the...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE LEVITICUS CHAPTER 10 Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command. 1 2 MICHAEL YOSEF ROBINSON "Strange Fire" 3 4 So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of when he said: ‘Among those who approach me I will show myself holy; in the sight of...

University of Virginia swimmer Emma Weyant won second place in the women’s 500-yard freestyle championships, losing to a man, Lia Thomas. Many viewers took to social media to congratulate Weyant for actually winning first place. A tweet by the University of Virginia (UVA) Swimming and Dive account, which congratulated Weyant — who attends UVA — for winning second place, “with the third-fastest time in UVA history.” Weyant also won a silver medal in last year’s Summer Olympics. The university’s tweet garnered thousands of comments by social media users, many of whom correct UVA, and informed the school that Weyant had...

Kamala Harris is a nightmare to work for, reportedly refusing to do her 'homework' her staff prepare for her and then blaming staff when her ignorance makes her a laughingstock to the public. Not surprisingly, she hasn't been able to keep staff. That was news a few months ago, and the bad public relations from it died down with the news cycle. But it doesn't mean the flight still isn't happening. The Daily Mail did some interesting digging and found this: Kamala Harris is losing her ninth staffer since June in deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh, who is moving to...

@Schwarzenegger I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share. 9 Minute Video...