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Dining Team Leader / Head Chef (Care Home)
Sunrise of Chorleywood

Job Reference: 007445

Location: Sunrise of Chorleywood

Closing Date: 13/11/2020

Salary: £31,050 up to £38,000, dependent on experience

Employment Type: Full Time

About the role

We are currently recruiting for a Dining Services Manager / Head Chef to join our team at Sunrise of Chorleywood near Rickmansworth.  The Dining Services Manager is responsible for dining operations in the home adhering to Sunrise policies and procedures. You will report to the General Home Manager with responsibility for procurement, preparation and service of food per Sunrise Menu Programme. Your experience will demonstrate financial management of food and dining services and being able to maintain labour costs and manage supplies to budget control expectation.

The Dining Services Manager is responsible for recruitment of all catering staff, leading, supervising and coaching team members identifying any training need requirements. You will deliver a seamless food service ensuring safe food handling at all times for the prevention of food borne illnesses and sanitation cleanliness of all food service areas. Other administration duties will include accurate record keeping, inventory and rotation management of products for regulatory compliance ensuring the smooth running of the kitchen at all times.

About you

Essential Key Duties:

  • Proven experience in similar role as a Head Chef / Catering Manager with hands on experience
  • Possess 706/1 706/2 or equivalent NVQ qualifications
  • Possess intermediate food hygiene certificate
  • Possess knowledge of nutrition and therapeutic diets
  • Supervisory and management experience
  • Ability to handle multiple priorities
  • Ability to delegate assignments to the appropriate individuals based on their skills, roles and interests
  • Possess effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to facilitate small group presentations
  • Competent in organisational, time management skills
  • Demonstrates good judgment, problem solving and decision making skills
  • Demonstration of proficiency in computer skills, Microsoft Office (Windows, Outlook, Excel) and Sunrise applications with the ability to learn new applications
  • Ability to work flexible hours
  • Experience in creative menu writing desirable
  • Ability to train kitchen staff in all areas

What we will give you

We believe that happier employees provide a better level of patient care and delivery in their role.   You’ll receive regular training and supervision, along with development opportunities across the business.

We continue to reward our staff with competitive salaries and a number of employee benefits including.

  • 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
  • Company sick pay
  • Private medical insurance
  • Income protection
  • Life assurance
  • Pension scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Green travel plan
  • Refer a friend incentive
  • Employee Assistance programme
  • Good Samaritan Fund
  • Heart & Soul company recognition programme
  • ‘Your choices’ voluntary benefits – employee discounted scheme
  • Wellbeing programmes
  • Long service awards
  • Recognition programmes
  • Study support
  • Ongoing career development training

About us

Step inside a Sunrise care home and you'll know you've arrived somewhere special. For over three decades we've made each care home a vibrant place where independence, choice, dignity and the highest standards of care are valued above all else.

Sunrise Senior Living delivers resident-centred care services to well over 2,000 residents in the UK. The Sunrise philosophy is founded on encouraging independence, preserving dignity, enabling freedom of choice and protecting the privacy of each resident. This approach reflects the company’s mission, which has remained unchanged since the business was founded in 1981: “to champion quality of life for all seniors”.

In addition to 25 UK care homes, Sunrise has hundreds of other communities in the USA and Canada. Each care home offers personalised care services based on individual need. These range from basic care and help with the tasks of everyday living to more intensive nursing care in those care homes that are registered to provide nursing. Every care home includes a Reminiscence neighbourhood, dedicated to the needs of residents living with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia.

This position is now closed. We are no longer accepting applications for this position.


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Warhol’s Marilyn blows all this mysticism apart. His Marilyn is a Mona Lisa of the highway, the billboard sign, the construction site with its repeating posters bubbled and ripped and distressed by the weather. A peculiar 20th Century kind of weather, that of assembly-line wars, one right after another, and assembly-line diversions, each quickly replaced by identical but paler versions. Ours is a zeitgeist of the disposable. An age of the reproduction.

In the aftermath of World War II, with the hydrogen bomb fresh in everyone’s nightmares, grandeur contracts. The mystery of life and death, that seems held in such tantalizing suspension by the Mona Lisa, falls into irrelevance. Mystery it may be, but of the cheap pulp novel sort, full of quickie murders, false leads, glowing Kiss Me Deadly suitcases that answer no questions at all, and glutted aisles full of mass merchandise. And so the Muse of the Atomic Age becomes a publicity shot of a movie star, rendered in shallow depth, under primary color

For all that, Marilyn is still a daughter of the Mona Lisa, a vessel of mysticism — or rather of what mysticism has become. Whereas Mona Lisa seems to be looking outward on eternity, Marilyn’s flat eyes look only inward at mortality, at perhaps her own suicide. The languid gaze seems full of invitation but the grit teeth warn, stay away.

Warhol did the silkscreens in the weeks immediately following Monroe’s death and purposely chose an anachronistic photo of the actress from the film Niagara, cropping it narrowly.

At the time of her death in 1962, Marilyn was no longer the bouncy punchline of lighthearted sex comedies. Her look had thinned. Her hair was soft and feathery, a modish bouffant favored by Jacqueline Kennedy. She had adopted the Empire style of Camelot.

So the Niagara shot was already nostalgia when Warhol chose it, purposely pointing to the past, opening his work to the interpretations that soon came: His Marilyn seemed a memento mori, a death icon, like the artist’s similar silkscreens of electric chairs and car crashes,

The artist responded in the now classic Warhol fashion, with a dazed look and an oblique statement. “The more you look at the exact same thing,” he’d say when interpretations were pressed upon him, “the more the meaning goes away and the better and emptier you feel.”

This child-like pose of idiot savant, with its fey emphasis on “pretty things” served to make an aesthetic point. artist as know-nothing, as aw-shucks rube. I’m an American, it seemed to declare, and this is the way an American makes art: Quickly, lucratively, tossed off in an hour. From poloroids and movie stills and the front page of the Daily News. “I just leave the camera running,” he explained when he dabbled briefly in film, “and walk away.”

His subject was always The Star, be it Liz Taylor, Chairman Mao, Campbell Soup, the cow on the Borden’s milk carton — all instantly recognizable brands. Mimicking movie stars who orchestrated press-release “real lives” for the public, he fabricated the starring role of “Andy Warhol, a not quite real character who sprayed his hair silver and was at heart an exercise in American mythology.

Here, in the Andy persona, was a sort of celebration of our national anti-intellectual bent and distrust of dogma, academia and the credentialed expert. Here was a blank proclamation of American exceptionalism, where art seemed to create itself out of instincts and impulses alone, rather than cold, pointed reflection.

In this way, and quite ironically, Andy was in a direct line from his immediate American precursors (and most virulent detractors), the paint-splattering, swaggeringly macho Abstract Expressionists. As sort of a fey offspring that came out of the closet, Andy, to those in the intensely competitive New York art scene, not only outstripped the Abstract Expressionists in fame but served as a never-relaxed spoof on their Hemingwayesque self-seriousness.

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Adjournment Debate: Stormwater Management

Mr GARDNER ( Morialta ) ( 16:44 :03 ): It is a great pleasure to have the opportunity to speak on an adjournment debate. Tonight, I want to talk about some of the issues confronting some of my residents caused as a result of the floods last week—in particular, those impacted by the extraordinary damage done to Montacute Road. For anybody who has not had the chance to see some of the footage that is quite easily available on the internet of the way that road has been washed away, it is a healthy reminder to anyone of the power of nature over our human constructions.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mother Nature.

Mr GARDNER: The power of Mother Nature, as the Deputy Speaker correctly advises, over our human frailties. The fact is that we, with our human frailties, must do what we can with our ingenuity and our endeavours to look after our community. We have a community of some several hundred people living in Montacute—

Members interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: There is a lot of noise on my right.

Mr GARDNER: —Cherryville, Castambul , Marble Hill and surrounding districts who rely very heavily on Montacute Road for their everyday business, their work, their play, their leisure activities and, critically and importantly in the months ahead, their safety. We are probably only a matter of weeks—six to 10 weeks, depending on where the delineation is—from fire danger season.

Members interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! There is too much noise in the chamber and I cannot hear a single word the member for Morialta is saying. If you have conversations, take them outside the chamber, please. That means the members to your left as well.

Mr GARDNER: The simple fact is that, with that fire danger season so rapidly approaching, we have a situation where the main arterial road for these communities is currently completely out of action, and the early reports were that it could be out of action for several months. This is a serious concern if a fire were to take place in the Adelaide Hills, for example in the month of November, as we have seen in recent years, of course, last year we saw the Pinery fire in November.

If a fire was to occur south of Marble Hill or Cherryville so that the Norton Summit Road was inaccessible for residents to get out, Montacute Road out of action means we are talking about potentially dozens of cars trying to escape down the Corkscrew Road, a road that everybody would be familiar with from the Tour Down Under cycling race. Members may remember that extraordinary footage of cyclists trying to get around it, but imagine trying to get three or four dozen cars around it an emergency.

Obviously, we want our residents not to be in their homes in the case of a fire. On a catastrophic fire danger day, obviously we want people to have made other arrangements and not be present, but we must prepare for the worst, and preparing for the worst means doing everything we can to ensure that Montacute Road is open in time for the fire danger season. I will go a step further than that.

We have a series of important businesses for Adelaide and South Australia's Christmas season, that is, our cherry growers. These businesses rely on their sales starting on 1 November. They make the overwhelming majority of their profits in those months of November and December, and there are several cherry growers, of course, whose businesses are located on Montacute Road. Those businesses are inaccessible through Montacute Road at the moment, and to get to them, it is a long way around. Of course, it is a long way around up Norton Summit Road, which takes you past a great number of other cherry growers. So, obviously those cherry growers who are living and working in Montacute are very concerned at the moment that they have the opportunity for Montacute Road to be open by 1 November so they can sell their cherries. That is very important for those local businesses.

We understand that, for fire safety reasons in particular, the road must be opened as soon as possible, and for the local economy in Montacute the road must be opened as soon as possible, preferably by 1 November. That then leaves the practical question of: can it be done, how can it be done and who is responsible? This is a council road, it must be said. The Adelaide Hills Council owns the road as a result of a historical anomaly, it seems.

The department relinquished the road to the East Torrens council, which no longer exists, despite the fact that it was an arterial road of a nature that one would expect would normally be in state hands. There are other smaller roads in my electorate—for example, I am thinking of the road that goes along the top of the Morialta Conservation Park picnic area, which goes from a council area up to the entrance to the conservation park's walking trails. That is a state road, yet Montacute Road is not.

So the Adelaide Hills Council does have the legal responsibility for Montacute Road and they understand that, but it is odd that it is a council road. Because of the extraordinary nature of the devastation and the fact that this is an arterial road that is important to service several communities in the Hills in my electorate, it is important for the state government to help out. I spoke to the council's senior administration on the day after the floods and talked about the challenges they had ahead, and they were assessing the damage at the time.

I wrote to the Minister for Transport last week and was pleased that he got in touch with me on Monday to identify that he had had a look at it, and we started making arrangements for me to talk to some of his officers about it. He also, in the house, made some comments on Tuesday to the extent that, and I quote, 'the government is prepared to assist them where we can'. It is important that they do.

I met with senior engineers and officers from the transport department yesterday morning and had a talk about this and impressed on them the critical importance of finding a solution to get this done as quickly as possible and that there may need to be some state government support. They identified some suggestions, one of which was that there might be a two-stage solution where the road could be temporarily opened, at least with one lane but preferably with two lanes, with a quick job by November or December, but with longer term work to be done after Christmas and into next year in time for next year's floods to ensure that such an event would never again cause the same problem. It would potentially be some expensive work.

They have now agreed to sit down with the council, and that is taking place on Monday. I hope that, with the council and the Department of Transport working together, we can find a solution that gets that road open in time and that will provide the long-term fixes needed to improve the quality of the road. If there needs to be support from the state government, that support should be forthcoming. I look forward to keeping the house apprised of developments on this matter. We will be keeping a very close eye on it.


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Just think, the fees you could charge Buffett

Warren Buffett’s emergence as the world’s richest man illustrates the power of compound interest. Warren neither pays nor makes management charges. The effect is larger than you would believe possible.

The news that Warren Buffett is now the world’s richest man led to the predictable round of stories about his frugal habits – the cherry Coke, the well-done steaks and the bungalow in Omaha that has been home for 50 years. There is a point here. Like Bill Gates, whom he has toppled from the top spot, Mr Buffett is primarily interested in the business rather than the wealth that results. Money is a means of keeping score rather than an objective in its own right: the fun, Mr Buffett has said, is watching it grow.

Albert Einstein supposedly observed that the most powerful force in the universe is compound interest, and Mr Buffett’s frugality has enabled compound interest to work its magic. During Mr Buffett’s tenure at Berkshire Hathaway, the S&P 500 index has produced an average total return of 10 per cent. That return reinvested over 42 years will multiply your stake 67 times. But if your investments yield twice as much as that – as Mr Buffett’s have done – your wealth increases not by twice 67, but 67 squared, a factor of 4,500. That arithmetic makes Mr Buffett the richest man in the world.

The calculation illustrates a more subtle point. Mr Buffett’s fortune has come not through growing an investment management business, but from his own share in the value of the funds he manages. Suppose he had adopted a more conventional investment management structure, charging the 2 per cent management fee and 20 per cent of performance common in private equity and hedge funds. How much of that $62bn wealth would have been the property of Buffett the manager – Buffett Investment Management – and Buffett the investor – the Buffett Foundation?

The answer is astonishing. At “2 and 20”, the split is $57bn for Buffett Investment Management and $5bn to the Buffett Foundation. The effect of compounding at 14 per cent, rather than at 20 per cent, is to reduce the accumulated pot by over 90 per cent. Of course, it is unlikely that Buffett Investment Management would have reinvested in its own funds sufficiently to have grown $57bn of assets. There would have been bonuses to pay. And the birthday parties! Eat your heart out Steven Schwarzman: Omaha would never have seen anything like it.

You might argue that the seemingly disproportionate share of Buffett Investment Management is reasonable: after all, Buffett Investment Management is very good. So rework the sum on the assumption that Mr Buffett was mediocre and performed in line with the 10 per cent return on the S&P. That would have reduced his wealth to $930m, below cut-off for the Forbes rich list. But only $170m of that more modest sum belongs to investors: Buffett Investment Management would still have the lions’ share, at $760m.

Worse still, suppose Mr Buffett had been no good at all. If returns had averaged 5 per cent a year, then the Buffett Foundation would have a miserly $32m to pass to Bill Gates’ charities. However, inept but thrifty Buffett Investment Management would still have accumulated $82m.

The results of these calculations are as puzzling as they are remarkable. But the difference between compounding before fees and compounding after fees builds up dramatically over a long period. The Einstein quotation is almost certainly apocryphal, but the sentiment has an element of truth.

Ben Franklin discovered electricity, which probably really is the most powerful force in the universe. But he was also impressed by compound interest and left funds to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia to accumulate for a hundred years. Franklin did actually say that the only certain things in life are death and taxes. He might have added another certainty: over a sufficiently long time horizon, your investment manager will become richer than you. The thought was certainly in his mind when he stipulated that no one should be paid for managing his legacies.

Franklin might have warmed to Mr Buffett’s homespun wisdom. The Sage of Omaha has made more money than anyone else without charging management fees. In the long run, the trust of investors and of investee companies may be the most valuable asset of all. And greed may be the enemy of wealth.

Footnote: the maths

There is a good deal of variation in the exact ways rates of return are quoted and fees charged, which can add up to significant amounts over forty-two years. The mathematically simplest and consistent approach is to assume continuous compounding at the specified annual rate, and that is the approach used for the calculations. Hence over forty-two years, 20% p.a growth multiplies wealth by e.exp (0.2 x 42) = e8.4. Continuously charged fees of 2% and 20% imply an analogous return of 14% p.a, implying growth by a factor of e(0.14 x 42). The difference between these two numbers in the amount which the investment manager would accumulate if all management fees and charges were reinvested in the managers’ own fund. Calculations using spreadsheets, which employ discrete compounding, may generate slightly different results.

Hence the calculated amounts are

Assume $62 bn = iw e8.4,

i.e. initial wealth = e(ln ($62bn) – 8.4).

At 20%, Buffett Foundation receives we(0.14 x 42)

and Buffett Investment Management w(e(0.2 x 4.2) – e(0.14 x 42))

Calculations at other growth rates are identical

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Between the 9th and 19th centuries AD, Burmese kings had a retinue of craftsmen and silversmiths who were commissioned to craft silverware for their palaces and royal courts. For thousands of years, Burmese silver objects depicted Buddhist symbols and epic mythological scenes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. These sumptuous objects reflected their owner’s wealth and power. Stylistically, Burmese silver often had figures set in high relief, the work was often pierced and the base chased with the maker’s own particular mark or ’signature’. The artists drew their inspiration from nature, adorning their vessels with intricate foliage.  Burmese silver from the Raj period (the time of British rule) typically consists of drinking cups, betel and lime boxes and thabeik bowls (begging bowls). European forms, such as tea sets and other household and personal items, are not found as commonly as in Indian silver, but are occasionally seen. Shan Silver from eastern Burma is a different style of Burmese silver. Floral patterns are seen in low relief densely covering the bowl and zodiac signs are displayed at the centre within roundels.

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Casio XW-G1 Groove Synthesizer review

Casio follow up the release of the XW-P1 performance synthesizer with the XW-G1, a performance-friendly keyboard.

The recently released XW-P1 synth features sound sources similar to those in the hallowed CZ synth series that first hit the shelves in the mid 1980s. Now they are upping the ante and giving us the XW-G1, a synth with step sequence and sample loop capability, as well as fully editable sounds designed for DJs looking to add a live element to their performances.

At first glance the XW-G1 looks like a standard 61-key synthesizer, designed in three main parts. The far left section essentially deals with the tone-editing aspects of the machine; there are four knobs at the top and nine drawbar sliders at the bottom, all of which are fully assignable. In between are the parameter programs, which can be switched between via a set of three buttons at the side. The parameter program section also doubles as the step sequencer event editor, with 16 steps available and laid out in a manner similar to the sequence editors in famous groove boxes such as the TR-808 or 909. The right hand section deals with the navigation of presets and user banks, and also helps the user navigate around the various menus using the rubber buttons;  there is also a handy octave transpose function. The central section houses the main volume control and gives clear access to the three main functions of this synth: performance mode, tone editing mode and the step sequencer. It is possible to tap in the tempo you wish to work at, or simply use the cursor + and – keys. There is a display which helps the user track navigation as well as tempo, bar and beat for the sequencer – this is also where the main sampling record and playback functions are housed. There are further step sequence controls below to facilitate the navigation of various parts and switch between the eight patterns per sequence patch.

“This machine is geared towards DJs wanting to add a live element to their performances”

There are three main modes for the XW-G1 synth, aside from the sampling capabilities, the first of which is performance mode. The synth can be set up to play tones that the user has edited, or sequences and phrases that have been prepared using up to four tones and four separate zones on the keyboard. There is space for 100 user presets in addition to the 100 factory presets that the unit comes with, and the actual keyboard has a nice, springy touch, making it very easy – and fun – to play. Putting your own performance sets together is also an easy operation once you’ve grasped how to edit the zones and assign the knobs via the self-explanatory menu display.

The second mode is tone editing. A performance patch is of course made up of separate tones, and this mode allows the user to add some personality and get creative with sound; simply choose a tone to start with and hit the edit key. Use the cursors to navigate and the encoder to change parameters, then head over to the far left hand section to assign and experiment. A lot of the work flow here is in the vein of how synths were programmed in times past, where you really had to get used to scrolling through different menus. At times this is a bit daunting, but there is still plenty of functionality within this unit, and to set it free you simply have to get to know the logic of the menus. If during the editing process you come up with a hook or a phrase you want to recall for later playback, the phrase sequencer on the front panel makes recording these ideas painless – it’s as simple as choosing a tempo and hitting the record button to start the metronome. There is space for 100 of your own phrases as well as 100 preset phrases.

The third mode for this synth is the step sequencer function. The 16 step sequencer consists up of nine note parts and four control parts. There are limitations to the possibilities presented here, as five of those parts are dedicated to drums, one to bass, two for solo instruments and one for chords. However, the buttons are clearly marked and it is simple to create patterns using the step sequencer buttons on the left of the unit. There are eight patterns for each sequencer patch, making it easy to organise parts into interesting arrangement ideas to jam out as you play. There are different inputs around the back for getting sound into the machine’s in-built sampler as well, which helps broaden the palette of sound possibilities.

Around the back there is an SD card slot for saving work and a USB port (type B) for hooking up to a computer. You can get access the unit’s filters by connecting to the instrument audio in ¼” jack input; there is also a mini jack stereo input and a ¼” mic input with volume control. The main output is a pair of ¼” jacks with a headphone jack next to it. There is also MIDI in and MIDI out/thru, and power is delivered using nine point five volts of DC.

The Casio XW-G1 is, in simple terms, a production workstation with all the functions needed to get a good workflow going. There is quite a bit of choice in the market; workstations have been part of every major synth manufactorer’s product line since the advent of sequencing keyboards in the 1980s. This unit has its niche, however, and is aimed at the DJ who wants to add another dimension to their performances in clubs, and the preset sound sources generally reflect that. The design of the step sequencer is evocative of classic groove boxes, meaning the box exudes anair of familiarity. The ability to sample is a nice touch, and the usability of some of the functions, such as the phrase recorder and the way the step sequencer is organised, lends itself to on-the-fly music making. Some of the more advanced functions are a little trickier, and that might put off those who don’t have the time to really delve into this machine. (However, there is a clearly presented manual.) Although it would have been nice to have clearer access to the mix functions of the sequencer, the XW-G1 has all the tool you need: the more you put into this machine, the more you’ll get out.

Robin Lee

Dimensions 948 x 384 x 124mm
Weight 5.4 kgs
Power 9.5V DC
Sequencer 16 steps, 8 monophonic, 1 polyphonic, 4 control, 8 patterns per sequence
Sampler Loop function, 42/21KHz. 16 bit
Sound Sources HPSS (Hybrid Processing Sound Source), 420 preset, 220 user
Polyphony 64 note (between 1-32 for selected tones)
Keyboard 61 standard size, touch sensitive
Connectivity USB (B) Midi in and out/thru, Instrument in (1/4″), Mic in (1/4″), Audio in (mini jack), stereo outputs (2×1/4″), headphone output (1/4″)
Storage SD card slot

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  1. Wavatar Mitch says:

    Only for the novice who is prepared for many weeks of ‘WTF’ moments. Contrary to the other comment, this is probably the worst user manual every written by Casio: small, eye-straining, convoluted, contradictory. Pity, because the synth is good.

  2. Wavatar alistair young says:

    will this be any good for a novice?


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Rachel Gross lectures at the Contemporary Jewish Museum on June 15, 2017 (Photo/Roger Habon)

‘Zoombombing’ disrupts Jewish Community Library lecture

Rachel Gross was midway through her presentation at a Jewish Community Library event on Sunday, talking about the Jewish cultural history of Crisco. There were close to 200 attendees at the event held on Zoom, the popular videoconferencing app that has become a mainstay of online life during the pandemic.

But not everybody was there with good intentions.

“About halfway through the lecture, I was sharing my screen and somebody started scribbling on it,” said Gross, an assistant professor at San Francisco State University. She wasn’t even sure it was malicious at first. “It took me a minute to find out what was going on,” she said.

The scribbling was the first sally in a “Zoombombing” of the event, with several people yelling out vulgar language and drawing what looked like genitalia and possibly a Star of David on the screen, visible to all.

The disruptors were removed by the moderators, but after a brief pause, others barged in, even addressing Gross by name.

“It turns out, having people say crude things to you by name is pretty upsetting,” said Gross, who teaches in the Jewish studies department at SFSU.

Screenshot from an Anti-Defamation League webinar on preventing "zoombombing."
Screenshot from an Anti-Defamation League webinar on preventing “zoombombing.”

Library director Howard Freedman said the organization had taken recommended security steps for the lecture, including requiring attendees to register with email addresses — information that the Zoombombers themselves provided.

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Howard Freedman

“One of them said as much yesterday,” Freedman said. “’Yeah, now thousands of people have this [link].’” (The link was only for one lecture, not the entire library series.)

The disruption was only momentary. When the trolls attempted to take over the presentation, Freeman and Jewish LearningWorks director David Waksberg removed the troublemakers as quickly as possible.

“They were so, so great,” Gross said. “I was so appreciative.”

She was able to continue her talk undisrupted, although of course everyone was unsettled.

“People said the talk was good, but, yeah, I felt a little rattled by it,” she said.

“Rachel proceeded with such grace,” Freedman said. “I think none of us wanted these people to win.”

The issue going forward, he said, is in figuring out how to continue offering events that are accessible to the community while keeping trolls and Zoombombers out. For public events that are online, there is no way to know whether every attendee is there for legitimate reasons.

“It’s very difficult to vet people, and laborious,” Freedman said.

The organization is regrouping to consider how to tackle the problem.

“For me this was a really valuable learning experience, and it’s going to be the start of a soul-searching process for us,” Freedman said.

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Installing Kali On Hard Disk using usb

Booting and installing Kali from a USB stick is the easiest and fastest method of getting up and running. In order to do this, we first need to create the Kali ISO image on a USB drive.

Preparing for the USB copy

  1. Download Kali linux.
  2. If running Windows, download Win32 Disk Imager.
  3. No special software is needed for a *nix OS.
  4. A USB Key (at least 2GB capacity).

Kali Linux Live USB Install Procedure

Imaging Kali on a Windows Machine

  1. Plug your USB stick into your Windows USB port and launch the Win32 Disk Imager software
  2. Choose the Kali Linux ISO file to be imaged and verify that the USB drive to be overwritten is the correct one.
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  4. Once the imaging is complete, safely eject the USB drive from the Windows machine. You can now use the USB device to boot into Kali Linux.
If you just want to use Kali live, you can stop right here. Reboot and press F-12 or whatever shows up the multiboot menu, select the USB drive and run kali live.

Imaging Kali on a Linux Machine

Creating a bootable Kali Linux USB key in a Linux environment is easy. Once you’ve downloaded your Kali ISO file, you can use dd to copy it over to your USB stick as follows:
WARNING. Although the process of imaging Kali on a USB stick is very easy, you can just as easily destroy arbitrary partitions with dd if you do not understand what you are doing.
In other words, you can completely mess up your hard drive to a state from which repair would required professional help. You have been warned.
  1. Plug in your USB device to your Linux computer’s USB port.
  2. Verify the device path of your USB storage with dmesg.
  3. Proceed to (carefully!) image the Kali ISO file on the USB device:
 dd if=kali.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=512k
That’s it, really! You can now boot into a Kali Live / Installer environment using the USB device.

Adding Persistence to Your Kali Live USB

Adding persistence (the ability to save files and changes across live boots) to your Kali Linux image can be very useful in certain situations. To make your Kali Linux USB stick persistent, follow these steps. In this example, we assume our USB drive is /dev/sdb. If you want to add persistence, you’ll need a larger USB device than we listed in our prerequisites above.
  1. Image the Kali Linux ISO to your USB stick as explained above, using the “Linux Method” and dd.
  2. Create and format an additional partition on the USB stick. In our example, we usegparted by invoking:

     gparted /dev/sdb
  3. Your current partitioning scheme should look similar to this:

  4. Proceed to format a new partition of your desired size to be used for persistence. In our example, we used all the remaining space available. Make sure the volume label of the newly created partition is persistence, and format it using the ext4 filesystem.
  5. Once the process is complete, mount your persistence USB partition using the following commands:

     mkdir /mnt/usb
     mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/usb
     echo "/ union" >> /mnt/usb/persistence.conf
     umount /mnt/usb
  6. Plug the USB stick into the computer you want to boot up. Make sure your BIOS is set to boot from your USB device. When the Kali Linux boot screen is displayed, select “Live boot” from the menu (don’t press enter), and press the tab button. This will allow you to edit the boot parameters. Add the word “persistence” to the end of the boot parameter line each time you want to mount your persistent storage.

  1. I am trying to image kali 1.0.7 into a memorycard size is 4gb, using a card reader and win32 disk imager , but I keep getting an error message, Error 5: Access denied to lock usb, pls can I get help as to wats the problem,

  2. i m getting an error messg when creating a new virtual machine via vmware..its--could not detect which opertng systm is in the disc image..
    plz help me what should i do..

  3. Can I use a HDD for this purpose instead of a USB ??

    1. You don't want to lose all your data in the HDD in case things go wrong. It's like using a swimming pool to store a drop of water. A simple 8 gb flash drive is just perfect.

  4. What will happen to my computer after I install it? I loss my files? I will not get back on Windows ...?
    Thank you in advance,
    Coen (-Sorry, Google Translation)

    1. Search on google for Live OS . Read a bit about it. Kali supports live boot from USB. Learn about that too. Then use it live (recent versions have persistence too).

  5. If you get an Error, "Volume Lock", you must format your USB to 64bit.

    Right click it and look for 32, click it and choose 64 instead.

  6. hahaha most of you are exactly what he meant by "needs a one page guide to download a tool"

  7. Thanks! you saved my life, I tried many tools such usb universal installer, unetbootin, rufus, and others with no luck to install kali from usb on my hard drive thanks again and thanks to GREAT dd command :-)

    1. Ever try BalenaEtcher? It's awesome if you have a mac!

  8. Thanks for your thorough guidance. :)

  9. Is it normal for my USB to be corrupted to FAT32 format for Kali Live after imagin the .iso?

  10. wht is dd commands ?

    1. Al your info is on the net. Just use google m8.

  11. Um when I tried to boot from the USB, my computer said that it "didn't authenticate"
    Please help
    (I'm new at this)

  12. After upgrade linux kali 2018.1 x64 persistence keyborad a mouse dont work !

  13. can i install Kali on internal HDD?

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Yesterday, one new case of Covid-19 was reported, of a person in managed isolation who had arrived from France via Singapore on 25 September.

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While a day or two of complete rest may be necessary for kids after a concussion, any more could leave them feeling isolated and anxious, says Angela Lumba-Brown, a pediatric emergency medicine physician who helped shape new guidelines.
While a day or two of complete rest may be necessary for kids after a concussion, any more could leave them feeling isolated and anxious, says Angela Lumba-Brown, a pediatric emergency medicine physician who helped shape new guidelines.

A couple of weeks ago, eight-year-old Liam Ramsay-Leavitt of Martinez, Calif., was swinging on the monkey bars at school. "And then I just fell on my side," he says. "I was kind of dizzy and I had an achy head."

It turns out that he had a concussion.

The doctor said he had to miss school for a week — there'd be no homework (he didn't mind that too much) but also no reading, no recess, no video games, no chess club, no activity. "I would just say it's really boring," Ramsay-Leavitt says. "And disappointing."

"It was hard," attests his mom, Michelle Ramsay-Leavitt. "Especially with his energy level. After about three days, I did end up asking the doctor if he could go to school and just kind of sit."

Their physician was following what, for almost a decade, has been the conventional wisdom on treating childhood concussions: Keep kids at home, keep them in a dark room with no screens and minimal stimulation, and ban any sort of physical exertion.

But in light of recent research, this month the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its guideline for treating mild brain trauma, urging physicians and parents to let kids return to school sooner, and allow them to use electronics and ease back into physical activity after just a couple of days of rest.

"That's because for a child, particularly, who is all about curiosity and new experiences, who has so much more energy than their mom or dad, it's almost like a punishment to tell them they have to stay in a dark room," says Dr. Angela Lumba-Brown, a pediatric emergency medicine physician and co-director of Stanford University's Concussion and Brain Performance Center.

While a day or two of complete rest may be necessary, any more could leave kids feeling isolated and anxious, notes Lumba-Brown. And a recent study found that children who rested for one to two days after a concussion reported fewer symptoms, and recovered faster than those who took a strict five-day break from school, work, and physical activity.

The AAP recommendations, as well as guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released in September that Lumba-Brown and her team developed, do suggest that kids' return to activity should be personalized — balancing their need for stimulation with their need for rest.

"Physicians, parents and teachers should all work together with the child to figure out a plan," says Lumba-Brown. "Maybe after two or three days of rest, that means returning to school, but maybe just for a half day at first. Or maybe not, maybe the patient can make it through a whole day without her headache getting worse."

Students should get a reprieve from homework and exams, and do as little or as much as they can, the new guides suggest. They also propose a similar, gradual approach to physical exercise.

"We're not recommending that a kid go right back out into the sports field for practices," explains Dr. Mark Halstead, a pediatrician and assistant professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. who co-authored both the AAP and CDC guidelines. "But they could maybe do some brisk walking or some light work on an exercise bike — things to get their heart rate going."

Aside from resuming physical activity, another big change in the guidelines suggests allowing kids to get back on their phones and computers sooner. "One thing we have to acknowledge with kids nowadays is that they are highly connected socially through their electronic devices," Halstead says. In any case, there's no research to indicate that looking at screens is inherently harmful after a concussion — though in some cases staring at the TV or computer could make post-concussion headaches worse.

For diagnosing concussions and tracking recovery, the older guidelines and the new ones both advise against using CT scans or fMRIs, except in severe cases where doctors suspect hemorrhaging or a skull fracture. That's because concussions rarely show up on these brain imaging tests.

Instead, the AAP and the CDC are directing doctors to go through a checklist of symptoms with young patients, asking them to rate how moody sleepy, or off-balance they feel.

The two organizations do slightly deviate in their use of terminology. The AAP addresses "sports-related concussions" while the CDC guide focuses on "mild traumatic brain injuries" or mTBIs. To most people, the two terms are interchangeable — though technically mTBIs are a subset of concussions, which can describe more severe cases of head trauma. "We try to use the term 'mild traumatic brain injury' mostly because people tend to take it more seriously," Lumba-Brown says. Indeed, there's research suggesting that people tend underestimate "concussions" compared to "brain injuries."

But whatever you call it, it has become clear in recent years that "this sort of injury is more common than we previously thought," Lumba-Brown says. An estimated 1.1 million to 1.9 million children are treated for sports or play-related head injuries in the U.S. each year, though researchers think that many more cases go unreported.

"The difficulty is, not every kid with a concussion is going to get up and start stumbling," says Halstead. "You can't always see the symptoms, like headache or dizziness." Older kids, especially those who are serious about their sports, may not tell adults that they're feeling off. "They may be more concerned about getting to the game, or not disappointing their teammates," he says. That's why adults need to be vigilant — ask kids specifically how they're feeling, and notice when they're acting odd.

At the same time, sports and play are an important part of childhood, he says. "So we don't want to put kids in a bubble, either, just because we're afraid."

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How Food Companies Hide Their Price Hikes

With apologies to the investment bankers and business majors out there, cash is not king. It is a pretender to the throne. More important than money, more important than anything else on the planet in fact, is water. That's the true king.

As California enters its third year of drought, the effect of the water shortage are starting to show its ugly head. I already went through how the drought is increasing prices at fast food chains, but that's only the start. Food companies are also being forced to raise their prices at the grocery store. Problem is, they're not always doing it with as much transparency as their fast food brethren.

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According to the USDA, due to a combination of normal inflation and drought conditions, 2014 supermarket prices are expected to rise by 2.5 to 3.5 percent from their 2013 levels. Simplifying it, a product that cost ten bucks last year will now be $10.25. If you spend $100 for a normal grocery trip, there will now be an extra $2.50 added onto the receipt at the check-out line.

At least, that would be the case if companies played fair and simply changed the prices of their products. But instead, they tend to be a little trickier.

See, companies realize if they end up trying to sell the same item (say, a box of cookies) at a higher price (for $3.25 instead of $2.99), consumers will give it a second thought. It is no longer the automatic purchasing decision it once was. And that's how you lose business. The goal, then, is to sell the product at the same old price. And they do that by decreasing the quantity of the product.

While the same box of cookies may have had 15 cookies in the sleeve last year, it might now only have 13. A small difference, but if you're paying the same price, the product has certainly changed. (This is not a new strategy. A 2009 Consumer Reports investigation found that 50% of all food packaging is just empty space, caused at least partially by companies maintaining the same packaging while offering less and less food inside.) Make sure to keep an eye on that part of the packaging where it lists the amount contained inside.

Another method that food companies use to hide price hikes is by introducing what seems like an entirely new product. Something jazzed up and snazzier than the original, with phrases like "An all-new recipe!" and "For a limited time!" marked in explosive font on the front of the package. While these "new and improved" products may be slightly different, the reason they're changing up isn't because they have a better product to sell. By introducing a "brand new" item to the mix, consumers will (a) be interested in giving this new product a test-drive, which automatically generates a boost in sales; and (b) not be able to compare the amount in this package with the older version.

Food companies can decrease the amount of food inside, raise the prices, really do anything they want to because this item is a "new" product in the shopper's mind. (This concept is perhaps best explained in a short scene in the second season of "The Wire," which you can watch here, keeping in mind that plenty of the language in the clip may not be suitable for folks of a more delicate nature.) It pays to be skeptical of anything advertised as "new and improved." For the most part, the only thing that's truly improved is the company's bottom line.

These are just two of the most obvious examples. The fact is that if food companies pay more money because of the drought conditions, they will pass that cost onto consumers. So while it may seem like the price tag of the item you're getting is the same, it isn't.

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Some River Rafting Companies Are Going With The Low-Flow

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Colorado is called “the mother of  rivers” for a reason: it’s one of the most popular states for river rafting in the country.  But like the rest of our region, unprecedented growth, a changing climate, drought, and wildfires are taking their toll on this multi-million-dollar industry.

Jordan Poythress is at the banks of the Arkansas River near Cañon City, Colorado on a sunny afternoon helping a few customers shake their nerves before a run down the river’s rapids.

Poythress has been a river rafting guide for almost a decade. But he still has to prepare himself for the particular challenges of running down a river with low water.

“As the water comes down,” he said, “we have more obstacles to avoid, more rocks more moves to be made. It is much harder for us.”

Poythress loves his job, but he says when there’s less water in the river it’s not only rougher on the guides’ bodies, it also hurts their paychecks.

Guides get paid by the trip, not by the hour.  “So when the water goes down,” Poythress said, “our hourly goes way down. We’re working harder for the people out here.”

Right now he says the river is running at about a third of the volume it was at this time last year.

Tony Keenan in Poythress' boss and an owner of Whitewater Adventure Outfitters. He's been in the rafting business since the 80s, and he said there are always ups and downs. This year, he said, hasn't been the best.

"2016 was solid, 2017 was solid—poof! This year snowpack numbers were significantly less," said Keenan. "I mean anybody that went skiing this year saw for themselves that snowpack was pretty thin, particularly in certain parts of the state."

But it hasn’t been the worst year either, at least for the Arkansas River. Keenan said it’s been manageable, mainly because of water releases they get from reservoirs upstream.

It’s part of an agreement called the Upper Arkansas Voluntary Flow Management program between rafting outfitters, fish and wildlife conservationists, state parks, and water agencies. The deal aims to keep optimal flow in the river for various uses, including recreation.

The agreement is voluntary, so Keenan and his competitors are not guaranteed anything, but he said everyone knows the rafting business brings in tourism dollars for the whole region. He said Colorado Springs Utilities, for example, knows that people visit the area for outdoor recreation, like hiking, climbing, and rafting, so it behooves them to release enough water to make the river runnable.

“It's good for them as well as us,” Keenan said.

Outfitters on some of Colorado’s other rivers, like Alex Mickel, have not been so lucky. Mickel is the president of Mild to Wild Rafting and Jeep Trail Tours in Durango, Colorado.

As of very recently, the comapny is no longer offering raft trips down their local river - the Animas. The water levels have just gotten too low.

Unlike the Arkansas, the Animas is a free-flowing river. There are no reservoirs upstream of Durango to release extra water from, so Mickel doesn’t have that kind of insurance policy.

Mickel said they actually had enough water for most of the summer, "because even at low water,” he said, “the river can be a ton of fun. There's lots of maneuvering, there's fun drops. It’s a great time.”

But the massive wildfire near Durango this summer squelched the area’s tourism. Mickel was hopeful they could rebound after that, “but, well, that was really curtailed from the lack of flow that we ran into last week,” Mickel said.

He said if it rains more in the alpine areas near the Animas headwaters they may be able to start taking raft groups out again through October, but they will already have missed peak season.

So, he said, “it’s gonna be a little more beans and rice this winter than normal.”

It’s an uncertain time as continued population growth and a changing climate put stress on Colorado’s streams and rivers. Rafting outfitters will have to keep going with the flow -- even if that could mean no flow at all.

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Quick Fire Questions with Chef Thomas Rhodes

May 4, 2020

Twickenham Stadium is potentially the world’s greatest rugby venue and is the Home of England Rugby. With the stadium playing host to England's major international fixtures such as the Guinness Six Nations and Quilter Internationals every year, there is always plenty of world class rugby on show. To compliment that, Twickenham has become known for its culinary excellence, serving up luxury dishes to thousands of guests every game. This is no mean feat, and the man leading the way for Twickenham is Executive Head Chef, Thomas Rhodes.

Thomas has been Executive Head Chef at Twickenham for almost 3 years2020 and has over 10 years chef experience working with the likes of Heston Blumenthal. He oversees all our hospitality facilities at Twickenham and does a fantastic job providing the highest quality food experiences for our guests. Thomas sits in the hot seat to answer some of our burning quick fire questions…

What do you enjoy cooking and do you do all the cooking at home?

Roast dinners, I think there are so many levels of skill in making a roast at home, timings and getting everything cooked and hot at the right time. Also, making perfect roast potatoes!!

No, my girlfriend Louise enjoys cooking, so we share the cooking pretty evenly.

What is your favourite restaurant?

Cornerstone in hackney, really good food by Tom Brown, chilled out restaurant and great background music.

What’s your favourite dish/meal? Why have you chosen this dish and how much of a cook do you have to be to prepare it?

My favourite thing to cook has to be steak and chips. You don’t need a huge amount of knowledge trick to a good steak is starting with the steak at room temperature, rubbing it in oil and salt then into a hot heavy frying pan and finishing it in bubbling butter. With the chips, treat them the same as you would your roast potatoes.

Are there any foods you don’t like to eat or use when cooking?

I’ve been vegan since June 2019, so I don’t eat anything that’s animal based. However, I still do cook it.

What’s the funniest moment you’ve had in a kitchen?2020

Kitchen humour is very different to general humour, chefs have a very unique sense of humour and most of the funny moments aren’t ‘clean’ enough for print.

Best moment of your career so far?

Being appointed Executive Head Chef of Twickenham.

If you could prepare a meal for anyone, who would it be and what would you make?

Alive; Queen Elizabeth II, whatever she wants… she is the Queen! But I would image something along the lines of a Beef Wellington, something classic.

Dead; Henry VIII, Tomahawk Steak, duck fat fried chips, Béarnaise sauce.

What do you think is the most challenging ingredient to work with and why?2020

Fish, there is such a fine line between it being undercooked, perfect and overcooked.

Favourite sporting moment of all time?

26th May 1999, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scoring in the 93rd minute to complete the treble for Manchester United.

If you had one wish what would it be?

To go back in time, and be able to work in more kitchens and work for more chefs in their primes. Big ones for me would be to work for Marco Pierre White in his prime and work for Gordon Ramsay when he first opened Hospital Road.

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PLEASE NOTE; Some of the policies  below may be altered at this time due to the current Covid regulations., including hours of operation, tastings and forms payment.

There are general rules of business that we MUST abide by in order to follow ethical and legal business practices. They may be few but we hold them in high regard.

  • The legal drinking age in Alberta is 18 years of age. We ID anyone under 25.
  • If you are under the influence of alcohol, it is against the law for us to serve you
  • If you live outside the province of Alberta, please do not ask us to ship your order. It is illegal to do so.

  • We are located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and state our prices in Canadian dollars ($CDN).
  • 5% Goods and Services Tax (GST) is added to all online orders.
  • Prices are subject to change at any time and without notice.
  • We cannot guarantee availability of a product at the time of your order.
  • A restocking fee may be charged on returns - with the exception of faulty products.

Following are some of the questions we answer most often about the store and customer service.

Where are you located and hours of operation
Do you have a monthly wine club?
Do you offer wine tastings?
Can I book a private corporate tasting?
Can I order corporate gifts?
Do you deliver?
Do you give discounts?
What forms of payment do you accept?

Cancellation and Refund Policies

Where are you located?

Calgary, Alberta, in the trendy neighborhood of Kensington. The street address is 1257 Kensington Road NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We are only minutes from downtown and have plenty of parking available for your convenience behind our store.

What are your Store Hours?

  • Monday - Wednesday 10:00am - 6:00pm
  • Thursday & Friday 10:00am - 8:00pm
  • Saturday 10:00am - 8:00pm
  • Sunday 11:00am - 6:00pm
  • We are open on most holidays except Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day

Do you have a Monthly Wine Club?

Yes we do! Wine and Beer! Its actually a gift club. You can send yourself or a loved one monthly wine treats. You can subscribe on line under the Gifts tab, Gift Club, and we’ll get right on it! Or, you are welcome to contact us at 403.283.8000 or toll-free at 888.283.9004. You can email us any questions you may have at [email protected]. Remember, we can only deliver within Calgary.

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Do you offer wine tastings?

Yes, and we also offer tastings of single malts and beer! To see what we offer and register, check out our Tasting schedule. Most Saturday afternoons from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. you can also enjoy informal wine tastings. Come in and ask an expert about the wine we are sampling that day.

Private Tastings?

Yes. Private tastings can be arranged either at our store or at a location of your choice. For our in-store tastings, we can accommodate groups of 20 people for sit-down functions or 30 people for stand-up/cocktail style functions. Read more....

Can I order corporate gifts?

Absolutely. We have quite a reputation for beautiful gift packages. Not only can we help you pick the perfect gift, we will be happy to wrap your gift in one of our signature bags, boxes, baskets or crates. Read more...

Do you deliver?

Our provincial liquor laws dictate that we cannot ship orders outside of Alberta. But we deliver within Calgary city limits. That's the quick answer, but there is more. For details, read our delivery policy.
You are welcome to contact us at 403.283.8000 or toll-free at 888.283.9004. You can email us at [email protected] or send a fax to 403.283.4283.

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Do you give discounts?

Yes. We give a standard 10% discount on WINE orders of 6 - 11 bottles and a 15% on over 12 bottles of wine. Not all wine is discountable. To be eligible for our quarterly 10% no minimum purchase discount, subscribe to our wineline newsletter. Want to read the fine print on our discount policy?

What forms of payment do you accept?

We accept  Visa, Mastercard and American express online.  We do not accept personal cheques.  If you are interested in setting up a corporate account, give us a call at 403.283.8000 or toll-free at 888.283.9004.

Cancellation Policy

  • You may cancel your order at any time prior to pick-up or delivery.
  • A re-stocking charge may apply except on faulty products.
  • To cancel, contact [email protected] or call 403.283.8000, toll-free 888.283.9004.

Refund Policy

Unopened Products: Refunds may be given for unopened product in saleable condition. A re-stocking charge may apply. We cannot accept a return on any product that has been used or where the packaging has been altered in any way.

Opened Products: Refunds or exchanges are given for spoiled wine only when the contents are still in the bottle. Empty bottles are not accepted for refund.
Sale Products: No refunds or exchanges on sale items.
Refunds without original purchase receipt or verification of KWM purchase are not accepted.

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Coronavirus live updates: Estimates say a quarter of North Dakota oil wells sit idle

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first national data on how the pandemic is hitting doctors, nurses and other health care professionals.

Live updates continue on Wednesday, April 15, at this link.

Key updates for Tuesday, April 14, 2020:

  • Reports say companies have shut 4,600 oil wells in North Dakota since the start of March
  • Between 10% and 20% of U.S. coronavirus cases are health care workers, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • President Trump meets with former coronavirus patients
  • Dr. Fauci says US 'not there yet' on key steps to reopen economy
  • New York Governor Cuomo says Trump can't force states to reopen
  • The worldwide number of coronavirus cases is likely to reach 2 million Tuesday. The U.S. total may reach 600,000 with a death toll of more than 25,000 Tuesday.
  • Britain says it's death toll has increased by hundreds after including those who died in non-hospital settings such as nursing homes.
  • Tokyo Olympics organizers say they have no backup plan beyond holding the Games in July 2021.
  • Tour de France will not start on June 27 as scheduled
  • Thousands of American Airlines pilots and flight attendants accept voluntary leave or early retirement
  • Some meat processing plants have closed as workers get sick, increasing concerns about a meat shortage in the U.S.
  • Some car insurance companies have started offering small discounts due to fewer cars on the road and collisions due to the lockdowns.
  • From Monday, April 13 live blog: More than 80 million Americans should get stimulus money by Wednesday.

There have been 582,607 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States as of midnight ET Tuesday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University. Of those, 23,628 have died and 44,261 have recovered. The U.S. has conducted more than 2.9 million tests.

Worldwide, there have been 1.9 million confirmed cases with nearly 120,000 deaths and nearly 450,000 recoveries.

For most people, the virus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause severe life-threatening illness, including pneumonia.

RELATED: 80 million should get stimulus checks by Wednesday, Treasury says

Regulator: Thousands of North Dakota oil wells idled

A top state oil regulator estimates that North Dakota producers have idled thousands of wells — amounting to more than a quarter of the oil wells in the state — as the U.S. oil industry crashed during the coronavirus outbreak.

State Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms said Tuesday that companies have shut 4,600 wells since the start of March. The idled wells account of about 260,000 barrels per day of oil, The Bismarck Tribune reported.

Operators are temporarily idling wells that produce smaller quantities of oil, in addition to wells that flare large amounts of natural gas.

Helms said oil industry estimates indicate even more rigs will stop drilling for oil in North Dakota. He said the rig count could bottom out at 50% to 75% below pre-pandemic levels. On Tuesday, 33 rigs were active in North Dakota, down 18 from the March average.

“We’ve lost about 40% of our drilling rigs in just three or four short weeks,” Helms said.

Trump begins Tuesday's White House briefing with an update about the World Health Organization

President Donald Trump says he has directed a halt to U.S. payments to the World Health Organization pending a review of its warnings about the coronavirus and China.

Trump says the outbreak could have been contained at its source and spared lives had the U.N. health agency done a better job investigating reports coming out of China.

The president says the world depends on the World Health Organization to work with countries to make sure accurate information about health threats are shared in a timely manner.

Trump claims the organization failed to carry out its “basic duty” and must be held accountable.

But Trump says the U.S. will continue to engage with the organization in pursuit of what he calls meaningful reforms.

President Trump says that he will be speaking with governors from US states either on Wednesday or Thursday. The president said he will not pressure governors to open their states back up.

CDC details cases involving health care workers

Between 10% and 20% of U.S. coronavirus cases are health care workers, though they tended to be hospitalized at lower rates than other patients, health officials reported Tuesday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first national data on how the pandemic is hitting doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. Medical staff have also been hit hard in other countries: Media reports said about 10% of cases in Italy and Spain were health care workers.

The data is important new information but not necessarily surprising, said Dr. Anne Schucaht, who is running the U.S. agency’s response to the outbreak.

Compared with U.S. cases overall, larger proportions of diagnosed health care workers were women, were white, and were young or middle-aged adults. That’s consistent with the demographics of who works in health care, researchers said.

Playstation offers free games, $10 million 'creative funding'

As part of its efforts to encourage people to stay home and practice social distancing, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Tuesday it will be offering two games for free.

"To support Play At Home, PlayStation will try to make those occasionally dull moments more exciting by offering Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and Journey available for free* for a limited time through digital downloads from April 15 at 8pm PDT through May 5, 2020 at 8pm PDT Once you redeem the games, they are yours to keep," Sony Interactive Entertainment President & CEO Jim Ryan said in a blog post.

Ryan added that Sony has developed a $10 million fund to support its independent game developers. More info about the fund, including participation criteria, will be made available soon, Sony explained

Paul Manafort seeks release from prison due to virus threat

President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is seeking early release from prison due to health risks from the coronavirus, according to Politico and CNN

Manafort's lawyer wrote in a letter to the federal Bureau of Prisons that the 71-year-old is at "high-risk" and requested he be transferred to home confinement to serve the remainder of his more than seven year sentence, Politico reported.

The prison where Manafort is being held, FCI Loretto, currently has no cases of coronavirus, according to CNN, but his lawyer noted in his letter that it's only a matter of time.

As of Tuesday morning, the Bureau of Prisons had yet to respond to the request, one of Manafort's lawyers confirmed to CNN.

Congress delays return to Washington until at least May 4

The House and Senate have pushed back their next meeting until at least May 4 to protect lawmakers from the coronavirus pandemic. That's a change from their plan to convene in Washington next week to consider new legislation to prop up the hard-hit U.S. economy.

The average age of lawmakers is right around 60, with many leaders decades older and part of a vulnerable age group. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday the decision follows the advice of health experts who urge people to continue social distancing. The House made a similar announcement on Monday.

Fauci: 'We're not there yet' on key steps to reopen economy

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday the U.S. does not yet have the critical testing and tracing procedures needed to begin reopening the nation's economy, adding a dose of caution to increasingly optimistic projections from the White House.

“We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on, and we’re not there yet,” Fauci said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Fauci said a May 1 target is “a bit overly optimistic” for many areas of the country. Any easing off the strict social-distancing rules in place in much of the country would have to occur on a “rolling” basis, not all at once, he said, reflecting the ways COVID-19 struck different parts of the country at different times.

Among Fauci's top concerns: that there will be new outbreaks in locations where social distancing has eased, but public health officials don't yet have the capabilities to rapidly test for the virus, isolate any new cases and track down everyone that an infected person came into contact with.

“I’ll guarantee you, once you start pulling back there will be infections. It’s how you deal with the infections that’s going count,” Fauci told the AP.

Key is “getting people out of circulation if they get infected, because once you start getting clusters, then you’re really in trouble,” he added.

Fauci said his public role is important but conceded that the duration of those briefings — Monday’s ran for nearly two-and-a-half hours — was “really draining” and that doesn’t even count preparation and waiting for it to start.

“If I had been able to just make a few comments and then go to work, that would have really been much better,” he said. “It isn’t the idea of being there and answering questions, which I really think is important for the American public. It’s the amount of time.”

Trump meets with former coronavirus patients

President Donald Trump is meeting with patients who have recovered from the coronavirus.

Among the former COVID-19 patients meeting with Trump at the White House is Michigan state lawmaker Karen Whitsett. Whitsett has publicly credited Trump for publicizing the use of an anti-malaria drug — which she says she used during her illness — as a treatment for the disease.

Whitsett thanked Trump again during Tuesday’s meeting and said hydroxychloroquine must to readily available for the people of Detroit, which is in her district.

Trump has promoted the drug as a treatment for COVID-19 although it hasn’t been approved by the federal government for that specific use.

Trump is also hearing from a passenger who was on a cruise ship that experienced an outbreak of coronavirus.

NY governor says Trump can't force states to reopen

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday pushed back against President Donald Trump's claim of “total” authority to reopen the nation's virus-stalled economy, but also insisted “the president will have no fight with me.”

“We don’t have a king in this country. We didn’t want a king, so we have a Constitution and we elect a president," Cuomo said at his daily briefing.

The Democratic governor, whose state has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, was reacting to Trump's assertion Monday that “when somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total.”

Cuomo said restarting the economy must be done in a smart, methodical manner or the hard-won gains of the past month could be lost.

Cuomo referenced critical tweets by Trump and said "the president is clearly spoiling for a fight on this issue.” But he said being politically divisive right now would be harmful.

“The president will have no fight with me,” he said. “I will not engage it.”

MLS says returning in mid-May unlikely

Major League Soccer says its hopes of returning in mid-May are “extremely unlikely.”

In a statement Tuesday, the league said guidance from federal and local public health officials is making it unlikely the league will be able to restart in about a month.

MLS says the goal remains to play as many games as possible, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to potentially play an entire season even if there are enough dates available.

MLS currently has a training moratorium for players through April 24.

NHL extends quarantine for players, coaches and staff

The NHL has once again extended its period of self-quarantine for its players and staff. Players have been asked to self-quarantine through April 30. The directive was originally set to last until March 27 but has been extended several times since.

7 crew of hospital ship docked at Los Angeles have COVID-19

The number of COVID-19 cases among crewmembers of the Navy hospital ship Mercy has risen to seven while it is docked in the Port of Los Angeles to help serve the region’s patients who have not been stricken by the coronavirus, a newspaper reported.

The seven have been isolated off the ship, Cmdr. John Fage, a 3rd Fleet spokesman, told The San Diego Union-Tribune in an email Monday.

The Mercy’s ability to receive patients has not been affected, Fage said.

“The ship is following protocols and taking every precaution to ensure the health and safety of all crewmembers and patients on board,” he said.

IMF: Global economy may shrink 3% due to virus

Beaten down by the coronavirus outbreak, the world economy in 2020 will suffer its worst year since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the International Monetary Fund says. The IMF expects the global economy to shrink 3% this year before rebounding in 2021 with 5.8% growth. It acknowledges, though, that prospects for a rebound next year are clouded by uncertainty. The IMF's assessment represents a breathtaking downgrade. In its previous forecast in January, before COVID-19 emerged as a grave threat, it had forecast moderate global growth of 3.3% this year. But measures to contain the pandemic have suddenly brought economic activity to a near-standstill across much of the world.

Hundreds more have died in Britain than government tally

New figures show that hundreds more people with COVID-19 have died in Britain than have been recorded in the government’s daily tally.

The Office for National Statistics says 5,979 deaths that occurred in England up to April 3 involved COVID-19, 15% more than the 5,186 deaths announced by the National Health Service for the same period.

The daily total released by the U.K. government only includes people who died in hospitals. The higher figure includes deaths in all settings including nursing homes, and cases where coronavirus was suspected but not tested for.

Tokyo Olympics in 2021: Organizers have no 'B Plan'

Tokyo organizers say they have no “B Plan” if the Olympics need to be postponed again.

They say they are proceeding under the assumption the Olympics will open on July 23, 2021. That date was set last month by the IOC and Japanese officials after the spreading coronavirus pandemic made it clear the Olympics could not be held as scheduled.

The severity of the pandemic and the death toll has again raised questions if it will be feasible to hold the Olympics just over 15 months from now.

The Olympics draw 11,000 athletes and 4,400 Paralympic athletes and large support staffs from 206 national Olympic committees.

Tour de France won't start as scheduled

The Tour de France won’t begin as originally planned because French President Emmanuel Macron has canceled all public events with large crowds through mid-July in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Tour organizers say it is now impossible for the three-week race to start on June 27 in the Riviera city of Nice as scheduled.

It is unclear if cycling’s biggest event will be scrapped from the race calendar. New plans are likely to be announced before the end of the month following consultations with the governing body of cycling.

Thousands of American Airlines pilots, flight attendants take leave, early retirement

More than one-third of American Airlines pilots and flight attendants will take voluntary leave or early retirement, according to the Dallas Morning News.

About 4,800 pilots are reportedly being offered voluntary leave while 715 are taking early retirement with partial pay and full benefits. That's in addition to 1,500 who were given voluntary leave for April.

About 7,900 flight attendants signed up for voluntary leave and 760 will take early retirement, according to Dallas Morning News.

Amazon has another 75,000 job openings

Amazon says it has filled 100,000 job openings it announced on March 16 and is now looking to fill another 75,000 positions.

On its COVID-19 blog, the company said the positions include warehouse workers, delivery drivers and shoppers.

Amazon also said it expects to spend $500 million in wage increases worldwide, up from a previously announced $350 million.

RELATED: VERIFY: No, Alexa doesn't blame the government for creating COVID-19

Lockdowns may bring car insurance discounts

People are driving less due to stay-at-home orders to stop the coronavirus from spreading, and consumer groups say that should mean lower auto insurance premiums.

Some companies have responded, but the Consumer Federation of America reports that discounts may be too small and aren’t being applied evenly.

In New York and Washington states, the number of traffic crashes fell by 30% last month. The federation says that means lower costs to insurance companies that should be passed on to consumers.

The group suggests calling your insurer and commenting on social media if they don't offer discounts.

Virus closes some meat plants, raising fears of shortages

Some massive meat processing plants have closed at least temporarily because their workers were sickened by the new coronavirus, raising concerns that there could soon be shortages of beef, pork and poultry in supermarkets.

The meat supply chain is especially vulnerable since processing is increasingly done at massive plants that butcher tens of thousands of animals daily, so the closure of even a few big ones can quickly be felt by customers. For instance, a Smithfield Foods plant that was forced to close in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, after nearly 300 of the plant’s 3,700 workers tested positive for the virus produces roughly 5% of the U.S. pork supply each day.

In addition, conditions at plants can be ripe for exploitation by the virus: Workers stand shoulder-to-shoulder on the line and crowd into locker rooms to change their clothes before and after shifts.

RELATED: Smithfield warns of potential meat shortage after closing plant