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Poseidon Gin is created from a mix of many local ingredients Cayman Spirits Company has launched a new gin product. The Cayman Spirits Company, which has created a number of original products, has added another arrow to its quiver of beverages. Poseidon Gin, crafted by general manager and distiller, Moises Sevilla, is the company’s latest foray into the spirit world. Dedicated to Greek mythology’s god of the seas, it is a deep blue colour, making it a distinctive-looking tipple. “Ambrosia was the drink of the Greek gods, often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it,” said Sevilla....

While doctors and nurses treat COVID-19 patients on the front lines, behind the scenes scientists are working hard in their labs to come up with ways to battle the pandemic. One thing University of California, Santa Cruz scientists are working on is to create a diagnostic testing lab on campus that will meet the needs of students, staff and the community. Advertisement "It's a really exciting and dynamic project," said UC Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Jeremy Sanford. This testing lab could be the only facility capable of testing samples locally and results could be made available almost...

CHARGE: Fauci is the Front for Deep State Pharma: They Want Top-Down Governance of Our Bloodstreams Dr. V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai holds four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science; a master's degree in visual studies from the MIT Media Laboratory on scientific visualization; concurrently, he completed another master's degree in mechanical engineering and in 2007, he obtained a Ph.D. in biological engineering in systems biology, with his thesis focusing on modeling the whole cell by integrating molecular pathway models. He is also a Fulbright grant recipient. The below video will...

New York doesn’t need any more ventilators and California is in good enough condition to send 500 ventilators to states in worse shape, their governors said on Monday, a sign that the CCP virus curve appears to be flattening in both states. “We don’t need any additional ventilators right now,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters at a press conference after repeatedly warning in recent days that the state needed up to 40,000 of the breathing machines. Cuomo declined to state how many ventilators the state has in stock and his office hasn’t responded to requests for information about...

On day 43,000 of sheltering in place, I decided to make a face mask. For a while they were saying that we civilians didn’t need to wear face masks, but now they’re saying that we should. At least I think that’s what they’re now saying. The only way to know for sure would be to turn on the TV news, and I don’t want to do that because it sounds like this: NEWSPERSON: Coronavirus! Coronavirus! Coronavirus! (snip) And so on, 24 hours a day. Sometimes 30 hours a day. That’s how much coronavirus (Coronavirus!) news there is. Anyway, I think...

Cardinal George Pell is to be released from prison after he won his appeal, and Australia’s highest court on Tuesday overturned his convictions for child sexual abuse. A full bench of seven judges ruled that Pell’s conviction for child sex abuse should be overturned and he should walk free immediately. They unanimously determined that the jury should have had reasonable doubts as to Pell’s guilt and that the jury had not properly considered all the evidence at his trial. Pell, 78, became the highest-ranking Catholic clergyman worldwide to be imprisoned for child sex offenses after he was arrested in 2018...

An Iowa monastery of Trappist monks is offering an unusual but necessary act of charity amid the global pandemic – free caskets to financially struggling families who have lost a loved one. New Melleray Abbey has been making caskets for the public and offering prayers for the deceased since 1999. The monastery announced last week its new initiative to support families affected by COVID-19. “The COVID-19 virus will visit many families that are financially vulnerable and unprepared. In addition to their grief, they will wonder, ‘Where will we lay’ our loved one who has been unexpectedly taken from us,” Father...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized New York City residents on Monday at a press conference for failing to properly distance themselves socially to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. “People, especially in New York City, the level of activity is up,” Cuomo reported during his daily coronavirus press briefing. Partially the weather … made it a nice day. I understand that people have been locked up for some time, but now is not the time to be lax,” he said. “It is a mistake.” Cuomo urged local governments to do more to enforce social distancing rules and raise the...

Turin, Italy, Apr 6, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- Catholics around the world will be invited to pray virtually before the Turin Shroud on Holy Saturday as the world struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Church officials have said. The Shroud, which bears the image of a crucified man and has been venerated for centuries as Christ’s burial cloth, will be displayed via livestream at 5pm local time April 11. Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia will preside over a liturgy from the chapel of Turin cathedral where the Shroud is kept in a climate-controlled vault. It will be broadcast live on television...

Cairo (AFP) — Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox church has decided to suspend prayers preceding Easter celebrations later this month as part of efforts to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. The church, which last month ordered the closure of churches and suspension of services nationwide, said the decision was taken on Thursday during a meeting chaired by Pope Tawadros II. “Prayers, including Holy Week services, which are considered the most important rituals in the Coptic Orthodox church, will be suspended” until the pandemic is contained, a statement posted on Facebook said. Holy Week prayers precede Easter Sunday, which this year...

The wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that she's facing the same problems as millions of other Californians who are dealing with empty store shelves, closed schools and home confinement as social distancing measures take hold to slow the spread of the coronavirus. “One rose amidst all of this — family dinners and no late night homework stress," tweeted Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who has four young children. “And nice to not have kids shuffling home late from sports and activities. And yes, unfortunately the thorn — we run out of toilet paper, paper towels, and Kleenex tomorrow. I wish...

Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™, interviews long-time friend, thinker, and amateur researcher David Cracchiolo about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Key topics covered: -How serious is the situation, really? -Getting to the truth about effective, approved Coronavirus (COVID-19) treatments, specifically hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc sulfate. -Why President Trump is under attack for his response. -Why some believe they can gain from a prolonged pandemic. If you care about your health and the health of your loved ones (and I know you do!), then tune in to this important episode. SEE VIDEO VERSION of this podcast. David Cracchiolo https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?… Dr. Vladmir...

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All RusÂ’ called on the holy clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church to continue to perform the religious services in the churches and to continue the Mystery of the Holy Communion even if the faithful are not present in the churches because of the instructions given by the authorities regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Patriarch Kirill, according to ANA-MPA, also called on the clergy and the faithful to pray more to the Lord asking Him to save the world from this deleterious pandemic, while pointing out that the flock and the clergy will be temporarily deprived...

HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA PELL VERSUS THE QUEEN 2020 [HCA 12] Today, the High Court granted special leave to appeal against a decision of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria and unanimously allowed the appeal. The High Court found that the jury, acting rationally on the whole of the evidence, ought to have entertained a doubt as to the applicant's guilt with respect to each of the offences for which he was convicted, and ordered that the convictions be quashed and that verdicts of acquittal be entered in their place. On 11 December 2018, following a...

The chair of Wisconsin's state Democratic Party on Monday blasted a U.S. Supreme Court decision that required all absentee ballots be posted by Tuesday to be counted in the state's election. Ben Wikler tweeted Monday afternoon that he was "about to explode" after the Supreme Court reversed a lower court's ruling ordering the state to accept absentee ballots sent any time before April 13, a move that was initially meant to expand participation in the primary during the coronavirus outbreak. "I am about to explode. The five GOP US Supreme Court justices just overruled two lower courts and shut off...

A Democratic state representative from Detroit has recovered from coronavirus and she says it was the combination of the drug hydroxychloroquine and President Trump that saved her life. State Rep. Karen Whitsett's husband is an engineer at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and the two believe they were exposed to COVID-19 through his job. Whitsett said she started experiencing shortness of breath, sinus issues, and swollen lymph nodes and tested positive for the virus on Monday. Her doctor prescribed hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to prevent and treat malaria and also used to treat lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and medical conditions. Trump has touted...

I have some friends who are uhm...not Republicans and they are insisting The President declare some sort of national Emergency under some assumed imprimature, of which, I am unaware he is able to do under the Constitution. Then, after two weeks, we can be done with it and go back to business. What say you Freepers? Heck, they say they will even respect him Really?

The tweet was sadly deleted for some reason.....

Who, Me? Another week is upon us, and while April continues to be an uncertain beast, we will always have Who, Me?, and another story from the more sinful niche of The Register's readership. Today's tale comes from "Sam", who whisks us back to his teenage years in the 1990s, and a network of Windows 95 machines in the school library. Doubtless suspicious of what shenanigans the students might get up to, the CD-ROM readers had been disabled, although a single floppy drive remained in each. The restriction made the loading of "nefarious files", as Sam put it, a tad...

Major supermarket chains are beginning to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths, leading to store closures and increasing anxiety among grocery workers as the pandemic intensifies across the country. A Trader Joe’s worker in Scarsdale, N.Y., a greeter at a Giant store in Largo, Md., and two Walmart employees from the same Chicago-area store have died of covid-19, the disease the novel coronavirus causes, in recent days, the companies confirmed Monday. Though more than 40 states have ordered nonessential businesses to close and told residents to stay home to stem the spread of the virus, supermarkets are among the retailers...