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On Colorado’s northeastern plains, where the pencil-straight horizon divides golden fields and blue sky, a farmer named Danny Wood scrambles to plant and harvest proso millet, dryland corn and winter wheat in short, seasonal windows. That is until his high-tech Steiger 370 tractor conks out. The tractor’s manufacturer doesn’t allow Wood to make certain fixes himself, and last spring his fertilizing operations were stalled for three days before the servicer arrived to add a few lines of missing computer code for $950. “That’s where they have us over the barrel; it’s more like we are renting it than buying it,”...

A man driving a U-Haul "went on a rampage" in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Monday morning, according to a New York City councilman. The New York City Police Department confirmed that a male suspect was taken into custody at Hamilton Ave and Columbia St. The New York City Fire Department said eight people were injured. Councilman Justin Brannan tweeted. "Several people were hit and badly injured. We have no idea of motives at this time, but this wasn't an accident." NYPD's bomb squad is at the scene to check the truck for possible explosives. "I have been briefed on the developing...

Marco Goecke was apparently furious about a review of one of his shows by journalist Wiebke Hüster. He allegedly confronted Ms Hüster during the half-time break of another show and smeared a paper bag filled with dog excrement on her face. Ms Hüster's employer, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), said police were investigating. The initial review of Mr Goecke's show, In The Dutch Mountains, was described by Ms Hüster as like being "alternately driven mad and killed by boredom". Mr Goecke said he believed the damning review had cost the Hanover Opera House subscriptions and threatened to ban her from...

You have just finished the "European leg" in Prague. There are different opinions between East and West, North and South. How did you experience these tensions? Jean-Claude Cardinal Hollerich (General Relator of the World Synod and Archbishop of Luxembourg): Tensions are normal in the Church. One should not be surprised by tensions. There are also tensions within each individual Church, not to mention the German Church. So tensions are normal. But we were also able to experience the communion, the community of the Church. We appreciated each other and listened to each other. That is also very important. We do...

Kirby now speaking for Karine as she is unable to discuss anything intelligently.

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Two cheap and common drugs could be re-purposed as the first specific treatment for people who experience a type of stroke linked to nearly half of all dementias. A clinical trial has shown that isosorbide mononitrate and cilostazol, which are already used to treat other heart and circulatory diseases, can safely and effectively improve the debilitating outcomes people experience after lacunar stroke, particularly when they're used in combination. Lacunar strokes affect at least 25,000 people in the UK each year. They're thought to be caused by cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD), where small blood vessels deep within the brain become...

While some Republicans blame the COVID-19 vaccine or “wokeness” for the Army’s recruiting woes, the military service says the bigger hurdles are more traditional ones: Young people don’t want to die or get injured, deal with the stress of Army life and put their lives on hold. They “just don’t see the Army as something that’s relevant,” said Maj. Gen. Alex Fink, head of Army marketing. “They see us as revered, but not relevant, in their lives.” […] Guiding the Army’s efforts are surveys intended to help pinpoint why young people dismiss the Army as a career. […] Officials said...

Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 8:11–13Friends, in today’s Gospel, the Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign from heaven. They are testing him because they have no faith or trust in him.Faith is an attitude of trust in the presence of God. Faith is openness to what God will reveal, do, and invite. It should be obvious that in dealing with the infinite, all-powerful person who is God, we are never in control.This is why we say that faith goes beyond reason. If we can figure it out, calculate precisely, predict with complete accuracy, we’re in charge—and by definition, we...

The mood among Russia’s special forces and the FSB began to change dramatically in the fall, when Russian troops abandoned Kherson, suffering the latest of many humiliations for the Russian army. ''' We’ve known most of our contacts in Russia’s special forces and the FSB for years, and none was particularly religious before the war. Now a wave of mysticism has descended on them; the apparent trigger being a growing understanding that the war is not going to end anytime soon. '''

Homosex Activist Leads “Liturgy of the Word,” Will Soon Be a Communion HelperThe transvestite Kurt Dedich, 72, appears in Bonn, Cologne Archdiocese, as a presider of “liturgies of the word”, writes Katholisch.de (11 February).He uses the stage name Curt Delander or "Zarah Leander" when he goes around in women's clothes.Dedich was raised Catholic, then fell away from the Faith, began a career as a homosex activist in the 1970s and had no contact with the Church for decades.Twelve years ago, he made contact with a pastor in Bonn and, after that, had his first performance as a transvestite singer in...

When someone has had success in beating off a global pandemic, shouldn't they maybe get some kind of laurels? At a minimum, it would makes sense to learn what they learned so as to get the same result. That's how actual science works, or at least, it did. Not to the global bureaucrats of the World Health Organization (WHO), which can't stop telling African countries on a continent that has great success in beating COVID, what to do. According to the Burning Platform:Scientists are said to be “mystified” as to how Africa fared so well, completely ignoring data showing that...

Archbishop: Proselytise Despite Francis' Defeatist Sermons against It!Vatican II includes a "deliberate ambiguity" allowing for a "tendentious interpretation,” retired Brussels Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard, 82, told NcRegister.com (February 9).A former bishop of his [probably Namur Bishop André Charue, 1977] told him some years after Vatican II that he regretted an interpretation of Lumen Gentium claiming that the doctrinal authority of the bishops came "from below and not from Christ." The bishop suspected that this misinterpretation was intended.Léonard expects that Francis' synod will seek to "undermine" and "relativise" the male priesthood and the sexual complementarity of man and woman.On the abuse hoax,...

Ranked choice voting is the answer to a question only a bureaucrat would even think to ask. To simplify, RCV is a voting method used most recently in the 2022 Alaskan congressional election which Sarah Palin notoriously lost -- that in theory blurps out a winner that is actually (really really trust us on this) the most representative of the wishes of the electorate. This magic trick is accomplished by people voting for their first choice, second, etc. and then the numbers are added up and moved about and cut and pasted and then the registrar of voters announces a...

BRUSSELS (AP) – NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Monday that Ukraine is using up ammunition far faster than its allies can provide it and putting pressure on Western defense industries, just as Russia ramps up its military offensive. “The war in Ukraine is consuming an enormous amount of munitions and depleting allied stockpiles,” Stoltenberg said. “The current rate of Ukraine´s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. This puts our defense industries under strain.” According to some estimates, Ukraine is firing up to 6,000-7,000 artillery shells each day, around a third of the daily amount...

VIDEOGet Woke, Go Broke. We have seen this happen many times yet many companies keep on repeating this very avoidable mistake. The latest feckless victim is Bad Bath & Beyond which went WOKE in 2021 by banning MyPillow from its stores and now is going BROKE with mass store shutdowns throughout North America. And it is Mike Lindell who is having the last laugh on BB&Y.

The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies. "U.S. citizens residing or traveling in Russia should depart immediately," the U.S. embassy in Moscow said. "Exercise increased caution due to the risk of wrongful detentions." "Do not travel to Russia," it added.

Conventional wisdom has it that Karine Jean-Pierre owes her position as Biden’s press secretary to affirmative action. She is black, female and lesbian, all of which make her a “pioneer” and a shatterer of “glass ceilings.” But maybe, just maybe, she is put out in front of the public to normalize the sort of incoherence we get from her boss on a regular basis. The theory may be that people will get used to hearing words mangled and used to incoherence. Those qualities were on display yesterday when KJP went on MSNBC to be interviewed by Jonathan Capehart of the...

Norfolk Southern Railroad and the Environmental Protection Agency released a list of chemicals and hazardous materials on Sunday carried by a train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. The derailment, which occurred on February 3, caused a fire that lasted several days. Officials decided to initiate a controlled release of the chemicals to mitigate the risk of an explosion; all residents within one mile of the crash site were told to evacuate, although they were permitted to return to their homes on February 8. Norfolk Southern provided the EPA with a list of cars affected by the crash and the...

A Georgia judge has said he will reveal portions of a grand jury report later this week detailing the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s alleged election interference in the Peach State. The Monday ruling follows a probe by Atlanta’s top prosecutor into whether the 76-year-old Trump and his allies conspired to commit voter fraud after a January 2021 recording revealed the 45th president pressed the state’s top election official to alter the results of the 2020 presidential election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote that he would keep secret the grand jury’s recommendations for the inquiry that...