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Golden Star Announces Appointment of Executive Vice President & Head of Sustainability
TORONTO, Nov. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - Golden Star Resources Ltd. (NYSE American: GSS; TSX: GSC; GSE: GSR) ("Golden Star" or the "Company") announced today that Philipa Varris has been appointed Executive Vice President, Head of Sustainability of Golden Star. Philipa currently holds the role of Vice President, Corporate Responsibility with the Company and will join the executive team to be located in London, effective January 1, 2020.
Following health, safety, environment and communities (HSEC) leadership roles in Australia and Papua New Guinea, Philipa has spent nine years in Golden Star's business units in Ghana and brings a wealth of institutional knowledge and specialist technical expertise to the executive team.
Andrew Wray, Chief Executive Officer, commented:
"Corporate responsibility and its component environment, social and governance (ESG) elements are critical to maintaining our social license and integral to the success of our business. Golden Star has been recognized as an industry leader in environmental and social responsibility and the appointment of Philipa to the executive team recognizes the ongoing leadership and differentiation that Golden Star intends to make in this arena for enhanced value, risk management and sustainability. I look forward to Philipa's, and the wider corporate responsibility team's, support as we further develop our business."
All monetary amounts refer to United States dollars unless otherwise indicated .
Golden Star is an established gold mining company that owns and operates the Wassa and Prestea underground mines in Ghana, West Africa. Listed on the NYSE American, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Ghana Stock Exchange, Golden Star is focused on delivering strong margins and free cash flow from its two high-grade underground mines. Gold production guidance for 2019 is 190,000 – 205,000 ounces at a cash operating cost per ounce of $800-$8501. As the winner of the PDAC 2018 Environmental and Social Responsibility Award, Golden Star is committed to leaving a positive and sustainable legacy in its areas of operation.
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By Amy Crawford
"Especially as a teacher, I believe very strongly in the full development of a child -- in balance -- and Dorn and I are both a little too intellectual in our thought processes, so it was a worry for me to begin home schooling because I knew it would be hard for me to not have intellectual expectations … it still is. I want their bodies to develop, not just their heads, you know," says Diane. But with an emphasis on art in the home, and a theme of unification to the Waldorf method of teaching, the Van Dommelens manage to achieve a sense of balance between home life and schoolwork, even though both occur in the same space.
A Waldorf education is designed to be experiential, and is taught in blocks, or "intense units." Dorn explains, "The thing that's nice about Waldorf -- whether it's home school or in the school -- is there's a theme, there's a thesis to it, there's this idea that unifies everything. It's not just arbitrary." For example, when the children studied the math blocks, "every morning we would read a story about a famous mathematician, followed by writing a small little piece about what they took out of that," Dorn says.
Dorn, Robin and Eve
A "Greek block" means not only studying and writing about the Greek gods and mythology, but also incorporating a Greek feast, complete with lentil stew and meditation. "In the fifth grade they learn history through stories," Diane says. "Eve, for example, is doing a lot with Greek culture, but this year her literature proper is Greek myths, so she's studying them as literature, and the other myths she was studying coincide with the history of the culture, so they overlap."
"Lang had composition, which was perfect for reading and writing about great literature," says Diane, "He has proper history blocks, so he wrote an out-take of what we read on one side, and then some kind of inspired composition on the other side. Right now he is doing a self-directed Renaissance block. He said, 'please, let's do history!' and he also wanted to explore the self-directed aspect."
Lang wanted to take on his own project, so a lot of the challenge is figuring out how to do that. He's had reports before but not a whole block where he just read books and writes essays. Diane says that he's written some thought-provoking essays, which is a big step for him. Lang is able to read something and tell his parents what it said word for word verbally, giving an oral presentation, but he has had trouble writing things down.
"It's one thing to read and tell what something says, it's another thing to process it and interpret it. So, I think it's going well, says Diane. "There're some struggles. It's hard work. It's hard to write, especially when you're thirteen. We're saying, here are some books, answer these questions -- you know, 'what is a Renaissance man?'
We're on the fourth draft of one of these essays, with lots of red ink still being spilt on them, which is good, but it's hard. But, it's better he learn it now than when he's 19."
Emphasizing Art
Wall art at the Van Dommelens' home.
Artistic representation is important in the Waldorf School, and the Van Dommelens tend to over-emphasize art in their family, since it is connected to "feelings and emotions" in the Waldorf philosophy. Painting is a regular activity around their house, and most recently, Lang has been taking classes from Peter Brondz, a local potter, twice a week. Diane adds, "Peter's a really strict teacher, so it really ... it's not just for fun."
This emphasis on art doesn't worry Diane and Dorn. "I'm very much a believer in liberal studies. If Lang decided never to go to college, to become a production potter, I'd be happy with that," says Dorn.
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On the Black Bloc
Salar Mohandesi February 12, 2012
The "internecine ultra-left argument of the moment," says the Wall Street Journal, is the debate over the "black bloc." And if this debate has led the WSJ to talk about "ultra-leftism," it's clearly a debate we have to address.
In a report called "Activists and Anarchists Speak for Themselves at Occupy Oakland," Susie Cagle reminds us that the recent major instances of street-fighting, which have been cited by liberals critical of the black bloc, force us to abandon the stereotype of ski-masked vandals breaking windows. She writes:
The buildings Occupy Oakland marched toward were not targeted for destruction, but for squatting, for organization and for political and community building. And the protesters who came armed with plastic, wood and metal shields, who both moved on and defended others from the police, were not a bloc, were not dressed in black and did not move as one unit.
"Black bloc is not a lifestyle choice, but a tactical one," Cagle argues. She points out that the only recent manifestation of the black bloc was during the November 2nd "general strike," when bank windows were smashed, "STRIKE" was spray-painted on a Whole Foods, and the Travelers Aid Building was briefly occupied, all by a group clad in black.
But somehow, even though all sides acknowledge that the real issue is street-fighting as such, the black bloc has become the representative figure of the debate, summing up the tension between "nonviolence" and "diversity of tactics," property destruction and legal marches, anarchism and liberalism.
This is no accident. The history of the black bloc reveals a great deal about our current moment – it can even help us to understand the nature of squatting. But before tracing this history, we should deal with definitions.
Strategy and Tactics
Since much of the contemporary debate over the black bloc has revolved around the meaning of a "diversity of tactics," a concept which actually emerged nearly a decade ago, let's take a moment to define "tactics." This means defining "strategy" as well, since the two terms have no meaning outside their relationship with each other.
A tactic, it is often said, is a specific set of maneuvers used to win a localized engagement. A strategy, on the other hand, is the way these discrete engagements are coherently strung together to realize a broader objective. The two therefore form a reciprocal relationship in practice as well as in theory. Without a strategy, tactics only produce isolated skirmishes; without tactics, a strategy is only an unfulfilled dream.
Militant confrontation through street-fighting, which has been personified by the black bloc today, is a tactic, since it represents a specific way to win a specific encounter. It can stand alone or be complemented by a number of other tactics, such as peaceful marches, boycotts, or even voting, to name just a few. Calling for a "diversity of tactics" just means that all such tactics should be left open for future engagements. But this innocuous and seemingly obvious position, which, in theory, could refer to every imaginable tactic, has now come to adopt a highly specific meaning. The phrase no longer refers to the need to pursue a plurality of positions, but rather to the question of the continued viability of a single tactic: street-fighting, especially within the black bloc paradigm.
The obsession over the black bloc in the past few months is a distorted reflection of the very real predominance of this tactic in contemporary struggles. This is somewhat odd, because in our current cycle of struggle, the black bloc has genuinely appeared in only a few areas, mainly the Northwest United States. But while the tactic's geographic reach is somewhat localized, its presence in the movement's collective imagination has grown to immense proportions. It seems like the black bloc is everywhere, a palpable reality, something everyone has to take a side on – even, and perhaps especially, those who haven't actually seen it in action firsthand.
But it's precisely the continued obsession with this single tactic that prevents us from seriously interrogating the necessary other term in this relationship: strategy. The discussions over the so-called "diversity of tactics" indicate the problem: by focusing all our energies on disputing the merits of a tactic, we end up neglecting strategy altogether. A "diversity of tactics" has little to do with strategy; in fact, it seems to replace strategy with liberal pluralism. The question isn't whether to pursue a "diversity of tactics," but rather: what kind of strategy allows us to effectively incorporate a diverse range of tactics?
It soon becomes clear that the hypertrophy of this tactic is actually a direct result of the atrophy of any corresponding strategy. As Alberto Toscano has recently written, "if something marks out the contemporary resurgence of theoretical interest in communism, across its various species, it is the almost total neglect of the question of strategy." We might also add that since strategy and tactics can only exist in a reciprocal relationship, the deformation – or perhaps even absence – of former can only lead to a destabilization of the latter.
The symptom of this destabilization is the compulsion to repeat. The tactic of street-fighting is now being repeated obsessively, overcompensating for the shortage of strategy. At its crudest, this just means repeating the same thing over and over again in the hopes of forcing some kind of breakthrough; some claim that the repetition of a tactic will in itself generate a strategy.
Others suggest that a tactical defeat might produce a strategic victory. On the one hand, this position implies the conceptual collapse of two distinct categories into one; on the other, it seems to represent the very essence of teleological thinking. Though they're related, strategies don't organically emerge out of tactics. Suggesting that the repetition of a single tactic will naturally and spontaneously give birth to a strategy does not do justice to the complexity of their relationship.
We have a militant tactic without a correspondingly militant strategy, locked into compulsively repeating the bloated tactic in order to miraculously produce the absent strategy. And since this whole impasse is being represented by the dramatic image of the black bloc, we should trace the history that led us here.
A Genealogy of the Black Bloc
The roots of today's black bloc reach back to the experiences of the European "autonomist" movements of the late 1970s and early 1980s. At that time, capitalists in a number of states were consciously undermining the militancy of the mass worker by shifting to a new régime of accumulation. This restructuring was characterized by systematic decentralization, flexibilization, and territorial disarticulation of the production process. This shift, which has somewhat simplistically been regarded as a move away from industrial factories towards the more dispersed production of services, information, and knowledge, involved a transformation of the terrain of the city. On the one hand, public spaces once used by the proletariat – such as youth centers, parks, and meeting places – were destroyed. On the other hand, spaces once used by the great industrial companies – such as warehouses, factories, sheds – were being abandoned as capitalists reoriented their business practices. In Italy, for example, Pierpaolo Mudu notes that by the late 1990s, "industrial property across a total area of 7 million sq m had been vacated in Milan alone."
The Italian working class responded to this restructuring by launching another cycle of struggle in which these abandoned buildings were seized all over the North, once the heartland of Italian heavy industry, and antagonistically transformed into bases of autonomous proletarian power. In fact, the first of these bases, or what would later be called "social centers," arose in the vacant spaces of Milan in 1975. Though the social centers, which began to cohere into a kind archipelago of liberated spaces, or what would later be defined as "Autonomia," engaged in a broad number of activities – facilitating political debates, offering legal advice, organizing solidarity actions for marginalized groups, establishing libraries, holding concerts, reaching out to surrounding neighborhoods, and so on – their significance for the Italian communists was in their role as "modern-day soviets," or centers of autonomous power developed in direct opposition to the state.
The revolutions of the twentieth century were sparked by the challenge of syndicalism, which advanced the idea of self-management in workers' councils – in Russia called soviets. Paolo Virno, who participated in Autonomia, has tried to theorize the general logic of the soviet form, no doubt strongly inspired by the social centers of his own time. Virno describes soviets as "the organs of nonrepresentative democracy," the space in which the coöperation and creativity that capital increasingly relies upon for production can take on an independent public existence. Their goal is to "emancipate virtuosic coöperation from its present connection with waged labor." In this regard the social centers are recasted as historical attempts to reanimate the soviet form for a context marked by "post-Fordism," and the visible importance of knowledge and communication in the rapidly expanding service sector.
Soviets have historically been the foundation for revolutionary explosions; Virno writes that they "interfere conflictually with the State's administrative apparatuses, with a view to eating away at its prerogatives and absorbing its functions." This does not mean reproducing the state – for Virno, the soviets break totally with the the "normativity of comand," the bureaucratic ideals of "representation and delegation":
Whether it is a question of the distribution of wealth or the organization of schools, the functioning of the media or the workings of the inner city, the Soviets elaborate actions that are paradigmatic and capable of blossoming into new combinations of knowledge, ethical propensities, technologies, and desires.
The social center form of soviet power, though made famous early on by the Italians, was by no means limited to them – a very similar phenomenon took place in Germany. Though there was a "German Autumn" of militancy in 1977, the movement only really picked up a few years later, when the squatters first began to consolidate. Soon after 1980, the squatters movement took the initiative, retaking hundreds of homes throughout West Germany, and the "Autonomen" brought the soviets home. They began to form their own councils, organize national congresses of squatters, and, as in Italy, used their social centers to eat away at the state.
It became clear, however, that these militant spaces could never escape state repression. From the very beginning, in fact, the Autonomen were on alert, knowing themselves to be under attack, prime targets for the police. After the "Free Republic of Wendland" – a liberated space in Gorleben – was violently dispersed in 1980 by the largest deployment of police in Germany since Hitler, and after a wave of systematic attacks on squatters in West Berlin in December of that year, it became obvious that if they were to survive, the Autonomen would have to protect themselves in more militant ways. Groups of armed Autonomen, whose power was rooted in the social centers, quickly emerged to defend these spaces. A necessary task, no doubt, but one which would eventually consume all the energies of the movement, polarizing the Autonomen and weakening their solidarity.
"As their militant actions became attacked even by their allies," notes historian George Katsiaficas, "radicals became increasingly autonomous – some would say isolated – from mainstream protesters and came to constitute their own source of collective identity." These militant groups, who now engaged in offensive strikes as well strictly defensive maneuvers, began to forge a collective identity through the monopolization of a single tactic: militant confrontation through street-fighting. By the mid-1980s, as repression continued to escalate, these militant groupings solidified their cultural identity, sometimes in opposition to the rest of the movement. "The black leather jackets worn by many people at demonstrations and the black flags carried by others signalled less an ideological anarchism than a style of dress and behavior," Katsiaficas writes. Black clothes, black flags, ski masks, helmets, and punk became "symbols of a way of life." It is here that the modern black bloc was born.
But it was precisely at this point, when the black bloc began to fuse itself into a distinct entity, that the autonomous movements that originated it actually began to decline. This was the historical reality underlying the ideology of the black bloc. The tactic, in fact, emerged in large part as a way to stop this internal disintegration. Many activists believed that their instability was purely the result of state repression, and they assumed that the organized defense of the social centers would actually reverse this process of decomposition.
In truth, the autonomous movements, in both Germany and Italy, were on the verge of collapse. As they developed a strongly internal and oppositional identity, they found themselves increasingly incapable of reaching beyond the hegemony of a single proletarian figure. They failed to link with different layers of the working class, and were unable to form a coalition with the broader masses. Earlier in the century, when soviets were first born, this had meant linking the proletariat to the peasantry. In the late 1970s and 1980s, it meant linking the "advanced" sector of the proletariat, in this case the "social worker" – or less contentiously, a kind of amalgam of students, youth, and precarious workers that drifted through a disintegrating welfare system – to the rest of the working class. Unable, or perhaps unwilling to link the different segments of the class together, the black bloc became nothing but the rudiments of a defensive military force.
The eventual disappearance of the social centers, however, did not necessarily entail the disappearance of those militant groupings that were originally created to protect those besieged spaces. In fact, they lived on, but their function grew more and more ambiguous. In the mid-1990s, for example, some activists in Italy decided to form Tute Bianche, or the "White Overalls," as a direct response to the disintegration of the surviving social centers. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri describe the grouping:
The youths in the social centers began to recognize the new paradigm of work that characterized their experiences: the mobile, flexible, precarious work typical of Post-Fordism… Rather than the traditional blue overalls of the old factory worker, white overalls represented this new proletariat… They claimed they were the 'invisible' workers, since they had no fixed contacts, no security, no basis for identification. The whiteness of their overalls was meant to represent this invisibility. And this invisibility that characterized their work would also prove to be the strength of their movement.
The White Overalls represented a final attempt to revitalize the social centers in light of changed historical conditions. When it became clear, after 2001, that the effort had failed, that their social basis could not be resuscitated, and that their particular form of struggle had reached its historical limits, the White Overalls decided to disappear.
The fate of the black bloc would be different. The tactic was reborn, and in fact truly came into its own, only after being transplanted to the United States – specifically Seattle in 1999 – where a movement comparable to the German Autonomen had never existed. This geographical distance powerfully represented the historical distance between the reborn black bloc and its constituting organs in the earlier cycle of struggle. The American black bloc, unlike the White Overalls, was not born in the social centers.
It was really with the eruption of the anti-globalization movement, stretching from around 1999 to 2003, that the black bloc tactic, now totally disconnected from the very idea of the social centers, began to survive independently by refashioning itself into something other than just a tactic. The vast majority of those who formed the ranks of the black bloc in Seattle had no direct memory of the German Autonomen of the early 1980s, separated by a sharp generational divide, and so had little choice but to reconstruct a new identity for themselves. The rebirth of the black bloc came at a price: the insurmountable contradiction between its existence as a tactic and its existence as an identity. Though the defeat of the anti-war movement, the onset of the Bush years, and the decline of an organized Left, forced the black bloc to more or less disappear as a material tactic, it paradoxically consolidated its identity, granting it a mystical afterlife that is being resurrected and fetishized today.
A Floating Tactic
After decades of capitalist restructuring, there are no longer squatters to defend. With the definitive dismantling of the welfare state that once provided the conditions in which autonomous movements could emerge, and the violent repression of the social centers that remained, the squatters who once formed the social basis for the black bloc have disappeared.
Separated from these foundations, the black bloc has continued to live on as a kind of floating tactic. Now in its afterlife, the idea of the black bloc explicitly reproduces a single tactic in the hopes of rediscovering the strategy it emerged from. At a superficial level, it was a street-fighting tactic that used black clothes and masks to anonymously confront the state, and occasionally destroy property. But after its death and rebirth, the black bloc has become a particular ideology of street-fighting: the use of confrontation with police to displace contradictions internal to the movement. And the movement is left to oscillate between two supplementary ideologies, two unconscious strategies, in the name of the "diversity of tactics."
The first involves deliberately planning police confrontations in the hopes of spectacularizing the movement for liberal consumption. More of a formula than a strategy, it is applied indiscriminately, with little concern for the specific context, and paradoxically makes the survival of the movement dependent on getting the state to listen.
The second involves trying to force the social centers, once the base of the black bloc, back into existence. Cut adrift, without the social centers that first called them into being, the black bloc ideology now tries to institute them by force. The extraordinarily hostile legal situation, and the overwhelming military power of the state, turn the taking of the building into a framework for street-fighting. And to a certain extent, it's difficult to think past the performative gesture of reconstituting a social space, which seems to be the goal in itself, rather than the actual construction of the center. We have no reason to believe that a social center can be constructed in the context of street-fighting. The armed Autonomen never created the squatters' centers; it was the archipelago of autonomous spaces that created the armed Autonomen. And recent experience indicates that in the context of an advanced neoliberalism, social centers probably won't be the form that organized proletarian self-activity will take today.
In the first case, then, we have a liberal ideology of the present; in the second, a communist ideology of the past. One has led some of the most militant, energetic, and dedicated elements of the movement into unintentional reformism; the other has led these elements into fulfilling the directives handed down from a past that no longer exists.
Neither a liberalism of the present nor a communism of the past is adequate today. The only thing we're after is a communist strategy for the present. Our task is to attempt to lay the foundations for an organization of proletarian self-activity, in a form that is historically appropriate. It means reinventing the "soviets" for our time, as the autonomists did for theirs; discovering, through a process of collective experimentation, a form of struggle that will resonate with the composition of our class, linking together the various layers of that class, and recomposing this disparate body into an antagonistic subject. Only then will we be able to determine the place in our struggle for the tactic of militant confrontation through street-fighting. Without that, without a coherent communist strategy, all we have is a zombie chasing its own shadow.
Author of the article
Salar Mohandesi is a founding editor of Viewpoint and a postdoctoral fellow in History at Bowdoin College.
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Toddler kimonos are increasingly well known these times and are now available from child outfits suppliers all over the world. The models, layouts, colours and materials give mothers and fathers an alternative like by no means before. Having said that, the regular reliable Japanese design baby kimono is nevertheless the 1 to beat in phrases of structure and functionality.
One particular of the primary reasons they are so well-liked is simply because of the 'wrap style'. All new parents will notify you that not owning to pull just about anything more than a baby's head (in particular a new child) makes modifying time considerably a lot easier for all concerned. And it is this ingredient of the toddler kimono that most contemporary variations and variations emphasize as the essential marketing stage.
Even so, the standard Japanese type gives additional than this.
Very first of all, conventional Japanese fabrics and textiles are world renowned for their quality and sturdiness. You can be assured that Japanese fabrics will clean effectively, stay in form and will preserve the vibrancy of their colours. Certainly, standard Japanese dyeing and printing uses fantastic, shiny and lively colors that make infant kimono stand out.
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Life goes on even if payday financial loans will stop to exist just one of these days. Our forefathers lived with their lives without having it. In this latest problem, wherever situations are unstable and make every 1 susceptible to its results and implications, men and women must clearly have other alternatives to resolve their fiscal problems other than the typical payday loan or cash progress service. But or the sake of dialogue, let us suppose that the U.S. Federal government ultimately has decided to outlaw these sorts of firms. What transpires then? Here are some possibilities.
Men and women will have to have not march on the streets to recreate circumstances similar to Occupy Wall Street. But they will surely attraction and request their representatives to foyer for reinstituting this variety of credit. It is also extremely probable that in some countries, credit history businesses of this kind will be forbidden as well thanks to reports of exploiting the lousy and the truth that some agencies will actually guide individuals to sink deeper into credit rating pits as a substitute of alleviating their monetary predicaments.
People today will endure fiscal complications with not much hope of payment because they do not have easier choices when it comes to borrowing income. Owing to worsening financial conditions in some states and nations around the world, banking companies and other lending institutions will put into practice more rigid procedures on credit rating software and additional people today will not have obtain to it. As a end result, much more folks is not going to be in a position to pay out their expenditures, clear up crisis financial crisis, and close up with negative credit score scores.
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It is actually not uncomplicated to visualize a world without the need of credit rating, exclusively from payday mortgage companies. As stated above, individuals will be afflicted but there will be usually detrimental and favourable repercussions. Changes will be produced not only with people's lives but with the total credit history field as nicely.
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Одной из самых выстребованных продукций считается арматура. Её используют для возведения заборов, конструкций, железобетонных плит. Стальной уголок нужен, чтобы формировать прямые углы. Он важен для конструирования оконных, дверных проемов, полок, откосов. Когда в здании большие пролёты, в его фундамент закладывают уголки взамен арматуры.
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Так сложилось, что в наше время алкоголизм – одно из самых распространенных психологических заболеваний в мире. Под данным термином следует понимать систематическое употребление спиртных напитков в любом виде. Алкоголизм – болезнь, носящая разрушительный характер. Притом она разрушает не только лишь человеческий организм, но и жизнь человека. Она в силах погубить любого здорового, счастливого и успешного человека. Поэтому данную проблему необходимо решить. В этом случае свои услуги готова предложить клиника Сана, сайт которой вы можете найти по запросу "клиника Сана Харьков" в поисковых системах.
Этот вопрос очень актуален, потому как большая часть пациентов не признают своего заболевания. Зачастую за помощью приходят их родные и близкие, чтобы избавить человека от зависимости. Стоит отметить, что какие бы усилия не прилагали работники наркологической клиники к полному выздоровлению пациента, без его осознания и понимания проблемы, результат будет сводиться к нулю.
Необходимо сказать, что алкогольная зависимость в этой клинике лечится максимально эффективными методами, которые подходят для конкретного пациента.
Алкоголь – универсальный и уникальный яд. С увеличением доз человек просто теряет контроль над его употреблением и чувством меры. В результате в первую очередь страдает нервная система, возникает привыкание к алкоголю, следовательно, человек уже не в силах отказаться от тех ощущений, которые приносит ему спиртное.
Невзирая на то, что по статистике первенство по количеству хронических алкоголиков закреплено за сильной половиной населения, все же лечение женского алкоголизма – тоже весьма актуальная проблема.
Таким образом, женский алкоголизм лечение которого в определенных случаях необходимо чаще, чем для мужчин, является в наше время серьезной проблемой.
Пиво хоть и является напитком с малым содержанием спирта и вроде как считается абсолютно безвредным, но на самом деле – это очень опасный напиток, который способен сформировать болезненное пристрастие. В связи с этим в наркологической клинике предлагается отдельная услуга – лечение пивного алкоголизма.
Специалисты заявляют, что лечение такого недуга более долговременное и затрудненное. Если обратиться вовремя, проблему можно решить быстрее. В настоящее время лечение алкоголизма в Харькове – очень острый вопрос, но для того, чтобы его решить, и существует клиника Сана, в которой всегда поймут и помогут.
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This paper analyzes a discrete-time infinite-buffer Geo/Geo/2 queue, in which the number of servers can be adjusted depending on the number of customers in the system one at a time at arrival or at service completion epoch. Analytical closed-form solutions of the infinite-buffer Geo/Geo/2 queueing system operating under the triadic (0, Q N, M) policy are derived. The total expected cost function is developed to obtain the optimal operating (0, Q N, M) policy and the optimal service rate at minimum cost using direct search method. Some performance measures and sensitivity analysis have been presented.
Discrete-time queuing models have received considerable growing interest during the last few decades due to their potential applications to a variety of slotted digital computer, communication systems. These queuing models are more accurate and efficient than their continuous-time counterparts to analyze and design digital transmitting systems. Extensive analysis of a wide variety of discrete-time queuing models have been reported in Bruneel and Kim (1993), Chaudhry (2000), Gravey and Hbuterne (1992), Hunter (1983), Takagi (1993), and Woodward (1994).
The queuing systems with control (threshold) policy in which the number of working servers can be adjusted one at a time at any arrival epoch or at any service completion epoch depending on the number of customers have been discussed by many researchers. Surveys of single-threshold continuous-time queues have been reported in Tadj and Choudhury (2005). The batch arrival M/G/1 queueing system with Bernoulli vacation schedule and two phases of service under an N policy have been discussed in Choudhury and Madan (2005). Choudhury and Paul (2006) studied an N policy of model with second optional channel for the batch arrival queue. An M/G/1 queueing system with server breakdowns and startup under NT policy was investigated by Ke (2006). Ke (2008) examined system characteristics and optimal two-threshold policy of a batch arrival M/G/1 queueing system with a modified T policy. Ke and Chu (2008) derived the explicit distributions of the randomized T and N policies for the M/G/1 queueing system. Brouns and Van Der Wal (2006) have analyzed optimal threshold policies in a two-class preemptive priority queue. Choudhury and Deka (2008) discussed an M/G/1 retrial queueing system with two phases of service subject to the server breakdown and repair. An M/G/1 queue with two phases of service subject to the server breakdown and delayed repair has been reported in Choudhury and Tadj (2009). Some related works have been reported in Wang (1995, 2003), Wang et al. (2004), Efrosinin (2008), and Tadj and Choudhury (2009). Cost framework for evaluation of information technology has been discussed in Pathak and Vidyarthi (2011).
Lin and Ke (2009) discussed the optimal operating policy for a controllable queuing model in which cost elements, arrival rate and service rate are all fuzzy numbers. Yang et al. (2008) analyzed an analytical optimization analysis of a randomized T policy for an unreliable server M/G/1 queuing system with second optional service. The busy period distribution of an infinite capacity M/M/2 queuing system operating under triadic policy has been discussed in Rhee and Sivazlian (1990). Wang and Wang (2002) studied the optimization of finite capacity queuing system under triadic policy.
It has important applications in the design of control policies for high-performance computer and telecommunication systems, as well as manufacturing systems. With these two service rate control, the service resources or servers' times can be better allocated to both primary and secondary uses to improve the operational economy of a multiserver queuing system. Fast food restaurant or supermarket cashiers, bank tellers, and telephone service operators are usually multi-task employees. Some of them might perform other secondary jobs when they are not busy and come back to serve waiting customers again when the queue becomes long again. This study is motivated by the popularity of these practical multi-task-server systems and the scarcity of the research work in this area.


America Has Ceded The Heavens To The Tyrants -- And The Renegades. The U.S. has abandoned its quest for the stars, and an old enemy has moved in to fill the void. The potential wealth of the universe is now in malevolent hands. Rebel billionaire Dan Randolph -- possessor of the largest privately owned company in space -- intends to weaken the stranglehold the new despotic masters of the solar system have on the lucrative ore industry. But when the mineral-rich asteroid he sets in orbit around the Earth is commandeered by the enemy, and his unarmed workers are slaughtered in cold blood, the course of Randolph's life is changed forever. Now cataclysm is aimed at the exposed heart of America -- a potential catastrophe that Randolph himself inadvertently set in motion. And the maverick entrepreneur must use his skills, cunning, and vast resources to strike out at his foes hard, fast and with ruthless precision -- and wear proudly the mantle that fate thrust upon him: space pirate!
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I am glad Arrow went through a bit of a reinvention this past season. New faces bring a new enthusiasm to the script and storyline and we are constantly reminded in Season Five that not only is the team simply human, but Arrow is simply a man.
Warner Bros. and DC Comics have created a cult culture following that I want to be a part of. More importantly, I want my kids to be a part of this cult culture. Between the two mega companies, they have brought comic book characters to life in a way that the Saturday morning cartoons of the 1960's and beyond failed to do. They have made the Superheroes real flesh and blood, with real relationships that we can relate to and sometimes see ourselves reflected in their storylines. Arrow was the first "real life" television shows in the 21st century to captivate an audience as it has continued to do so over the past five seasons and while Arrow is still on the darker side of DC, it is still a show I can watch with my pre-teen kids.
What's interesting is that Arrow, now the Green Arrow (aka Oliver Queen), was just a rich boy who was lost at sea. Throughout the series, we have been privy to flashbacks of how Queen became the Arrow - moving from circles of money and partying to a life wherein he felt responsible for the welfare of his entire city. The Green Arrow is not so much a Superhero as he is a vigilante but, nonetheless, you cannot help but fall in love with the calm, cool, collected, and handsome Stephen Amell (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of The Shadows). Despite his upbringing, he has been molded into a rough and gruff assassin at night but by day, he is the Mayor of Star City - clean, handsome, and charming.
Season Five gives the audience more insight into Queen's background and his vulnerabilities. One of the main antagonists turns out to be a confidant of the Mayor's, Adrian Chase (Josh Segarra; Trainwreck), whose alter ego is Prometheus. Prometheus challenges Green Arrow, and ultimately Oliver Queen, in a way unseen in prior seasons. We also see a culmination of Green Arrow's weaknesses in a way never presented previously. Normally, Green Arrow becomes more determined and harder with every villain he brings down but Prometheus almost breaks Green Arrow- or more specifically- Oliver Queen. For the first time, a villain cracks Green Arrow that shows the viewers the human man behind the hood. We are reminded that despite the huskier voice Green Arrow uses on screen or the difference in attire they wear, Green Arrow is simply a man with the same issues everyone else has.
Season Five brings in a whole group for Team Arrow. Going for quasi-thug type characters, the team has crude looking outfits instead of tailored outfits like Green Arrow or even Speedy. Their dynamic is rough around the edges and we spend much of the season getting to know the new characters and new storylines as well as getting to know everyone's relationships all over again and it is invigorating to watch. Throughout the Season, we also learn about the new team members' personal lives, quicker than we did with the prior characters. By far, introducing so many new characters and rebuilding the core of the show could have been a disastrous gamble but, in the end, it paid off and Season Five was a huge hit.
Green Arrow can be seen throughout DC's other television shows The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Despite his vigilante status versus superhero status, Green Arrow seems more grounded than the others, almost like a big brother or counselor guiding the newbies to where they need to go and how to get there. The others look up to him as a mentor and Green Arrow plays the part extremely well. The cross-over events bring a great dynamic to the series and provide more depth outside of the one story we are watching.
Arrow: The Complete Fifth Season is presented in 1080p High Definition Blu-ray with an aspect ratio of 1.78:1. As befitting Green Arrow's storyline, which seems to happen mostly at night, the background is really dark with overtones of a greenish tinge. Sometimes it is hard to make out the details of a scene but the actors bring the scenes to life so, really, you don't lose much. While in previous seasons outdoor scenes would have a natural brightness to them, I noticed that the outdoor day scenes were still overcast, possibly mimicking Arrow's mood for much of Season Five.
The audio is presented in DT-HD Master Audio 5.1, which emphasizes the action scenes without being too overpowering. The audio is appropriate for home viewing and provides a clear and crisp soundtrack for those watching even without speakers or a sound system. There is a lot of movement of the actors this season and despite that, the sound system captures exactly what it needs to, ensuring the audience is involved with all dialogue.
The New Team Arrow - Meet the new team as they get prepared to fight alongside with Green Arrow.
Allied: The Invasion! Complex (Arrow) – A documentary of what this season has been about- Oliver's vulnerabilities.
Personally, I am glad Arrow went through a bit of a reinvention this past season. New faces bring a new enthusiasm to the script and storyline and we are constantly reminded in Season Five that not only is the team simply human, but Arrow is simply a man, with weaknesses that can overpower him just like it can to normal, everyday, non-vigilante audience members. This season also reminded us that when we fall down really hard, there are always friends who will make us get up and carry on, whether we want to or not. Arrow: The Complete Fifth Season is a well-placed investment to have in your home.
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We may still be watching our pennies as the New Year approaches, but when it comes to the list of things we want to cut back our spending on, it seems that holidays are the last thing we want to see on it.
The latest PwC consumer behaviour and travel survey has revealed that Brits are more likely give up their passion for fashion, forgoing spending on clothing, shoes and accessories, and their penchant for the occasional takeaway or meal out on the town, rather than their annual breaks over the next 12 months. Commenting on the figures, Head of hospitality and leisure David Trunkfield said: "Hard pressed UK consumers are taking a close look at the holidays they have and thinking carefully about what they do and how best to spend their money.
"They really don't want to give up holidays unless they have to." It seems that rather than strike holidays from their 2013/2014 calendars Brits are opting to get savvier with the way in which they take their trips. According to Trunkfield they are taking shorter foreign holidays, rather than plumping for a staycation, seeking out cheaper destinations and spending less when they get there.... all of which means that holidays are definitely still in over the course of the coming year! The only groups who are exercising more caution over their holiday spending over the coming year are those who are middle aged or less affluent.
The research findings reflect those of the latest the Holiday Confidence Index created by First Rate in partnership with the Institute of Travel & Tourism, University of Wolverhampton and YouGov.
It found that 44% of the 8,000 holidaymakers questioned don't intend to limit themselves to just one break abroad next year, while a further 22% plan to pencil in a minimum of three holidays into their diaries over the next 12 months. The research also revealed that while over half of travellers were planning to keep their holiday spending at 2012 levels, many were keen to claw back costs on their actual holiday booking or when securing their travel money – suggesting that there will still be room for the odd sangria or candlelit dinner for two once on a holiday is underway.
If you are planning a holiday in 2013/14, it is important to secure your travel insurance in advance.


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Everyone has a friend who is amazingly quick with the thank you cards or the note saying just the right thing. She sends it right away, as a matter of courtesy and good manners, which makes you feel great, of course, but also a little guilty that you're not more like her!
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At "Auguste's Cottage" at Allisonville Meadows, it takes just a few notes to get some of the Alzheimer's patients up on their feet and dancing.
But it's much more than just fun -- it's music therapy that's triggering memories that the disease has stolen.
"Music stores itself in the long-term memories very deep in your brain, and even though you have residents who are not able to communicate effectively anymore with words, somehow they can still remember music that was a big part of their lives when they were younger," said Amanda Janz, with the Alzheimer's Association.
At Auguste's Cottage, they've noticed patriotic songs get the most reaction.
In addition to the music therapy program, they use music throughout the day.
"We have music with our exercise program, in the afternoons we have relaxation time, we play soft music," said Ashley Gill, a memory care facilitator.
Science is still searching for a way to help reverse the short-term memory loss that makes Alzheimer's such a terrible disease. But for now music is a promising therapy that puts a smile on the faces of patients and their caregivers.
"I notice how they relax and are uplifted," one caregiver said.


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Q: Angular+TypeScript: How to get method using HTTP Put I am trying to fetch my all dropdown at page load using ANgularJs+TypeScript.I am done with implementing ng-options and ng-init method to load it but there might me some problem thats why i am not able to get my data from my API or to give call to my API.I have given my Code with this question.
Here is my typescript Controller:-
/// <reference path="../interface/interface.ts" />
/// <reference path="../../scripts/typings/jquery/jquery.d.ts" />
/// <reference path="../../scripts/typings/angularjs/angular.d.ts" />

module CustomerNew.controllers {
    export class CreateCustomerCtrl {
        static $inject = ['$scope', '$http', '$templateCache'];
        debugger;
        constructor(protected $scope: ICustomerScope,
            protected $http: ng.IHttpService,
            protected $templateCache: ng.ITemplateCacheService) {
            $scope.create = this.create;
            $scope.getFormData = this.getformData;
        }
        public getformData: (getFormData: any) => {
            $http.get();
        }

Giving Error AS
 It's giving error of "Property or signature expected" & Unexpected token. "A constructor, method, accessor, or property was expected".

A: We need this. and "=" to assign getformData
 constructor(protected $scope: ICustomerScope,
        protected $http: ng.IHttpService,
        protected $templateCache: ng.ITemplateCacheService) {
        $scope.create = this.create;
        $scope.getFormData = this.getformData;
 }
 //public getformData: (getFormData: any) => {
 public getformData = (getFormData: any) => {
    // instead of this notation
    // $http.get(...
    // we need to use this.
    this.$http.get(...
 }

This could be some more complex example of the above TypeScript controller defintion:
module CustomerNew.controllers
{
    export interface ICustomerScope extends ng.IScope
    {
        create: Function;
        getFormData: Function;
    }
    export class CreateCustomerCtrl {
        static $inject = ['$scope', '$http', '$templateCache'];
        debugger;
        constructor(protected $scope: ICustomerScope,
            protected $http: ng.IHttpService,
            protected $templateCache: ng.ITemplateCacheService) {
            $scope.create = this.create;
            $scope.getFormData = this.getformData;
        }
        public getformData = (getFormData: any) =>
        {
            this.$http.get("url"); // ...
        }
        public create = () => { }
    }
}

Check it in this typescript playground compiler/transpiler

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The Ben Miller Band is set to return with Choke Cherry Tree via New West Records this Friday, January 26th, 2018. The Joplin, Missouri-bred combo's third album and second New West Records release introduces a retooled lineup with Miller and fellow founding member Scott Leeper joined by new additions Rachel Ammons and Smilin' Bob Lewis. The pair's multi-instrumental skills bring added authority to Miller's rootsy new compositions while maintaining the high energy level that originally endeared the band to its fans. The 11-song Choke Cherry Tree was produced by Chris Funk of The Decemberists whose own multi-instrumental abilities helped expand the band's sonic options. The album features guest appearances from Jenny Conlee and Nate Query (also of the Decemberists), Dan Hunt of Neko Case's band, Ural Thomas, Rev Shines of Lifesavas, and more. Choke Cherry Tree also features an appearance by the renowned saxophonist Ralph Carney (Tin Huey, Tom Waits) who passed away on December 16th, 2017. The consistently compelling album offers new examples of Miller's deceptively unpretentious songcraft, beneath whose ramshackle exterior lurks sturdy, infectious melodies and resonant, emotionally insightful lyrics. PopMatters is hosting a stream of the entire album, stating, "The Ben Miller Band became studio rats on their latest album and the attention to detail has produced the finest record of their career." Hear the album in its entirety HERE. American Songwriter stated in their 4 out of 5 Star review, "Ben Miller takes a huge step forward and is now poised to push his organic, rickety yet sturdy roots music to the next level" while Innocent Words offered "Choke Cherry Tree is easily their best effort yet, an expansive mix of blues, folk, Americana and just enough swamp rock to make Leon Russell proud," adding "It'll be interesting to see if they can top themselves on the next outing -- a tough task given how solid Choke Cherry Tree is." Rolling Stone Country previously premiered the video for album track "Akira Kurosawa," commenting, "A stomping rocker that boasts a monstrous, wicked riff and compelling hook, 'Akira Kurosawa' is a stream-of-consciousness rumination on film and the nature of creating art." Kurosawa, an incredibly influential Japanese filmmaker, is widely regarded as one of the most important filmmakers of all time and the video features clips from many of his films. See it HERE. Guitar World Magazine also recently premiered the video for the song "One More Time," calling the band "a wild, roots-rocking combo." See it HERE. Choke Cherry Tree is available digitally, as well as compact disc & vinyl via NEW WEST RECORDS. The Ben Miller Band are currently on their initial North American tour in support of Choke Cherry Tree and have also announced additional North American Tour dates supporting Buddy Guy (Please see all dates below, with more headline dates to be added).
Since its formation in 2004, the Ben Miller Band has staked out an iconoclastic niche that's established them as both a one-of-a-kind creative unit and a grass-roots fan favorite. Channeling a century's worth of far-flung American musical influences into rousing songcraft that radiates with smarts and soul, Miller's tunes achieve a musical and emotional depth that belies the materials (and the musicians') rough exterior. Word of their charismatic live shows spread and the band has astounded audiences across North America, the U.K., and Europe, where they've toured to rave reviews (including a high-profile tour of Europe with ZZ Top, thanks to the patronage of avowed Ben Miller Band fan Billy Gibbons). Their early D.I.Y. approach extended to the lo-tech, largely self-built instruments the band members still play on stage, including Miller's thrift-shop guitars and banjos and Scott Leeper's one-string washtub bass.
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Cleveland Scene – "In Advance of His Beachland Concert, Singer-Guitarist Ben Miller Talks About His Eclectic Approach"


We are officially expats. The movers showed last Monday and packed what was left of our belongings into neat symmetrical boxes all cataloged and labeled. A snapshot of where our life stopped in Boston ready to be picked up 6 weeks later in Abu Dhabi. As the plane taxis down the runway and the wheels lift off the ground I am filled with excitement and fear.
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I met Lily at MIT. She changed my life. For the better. Now we are both off to London. Together. Eight days to contemplate our new life and prepare for our next adventure. Abu Dhabi.
I traveled to Orlando this week to visit my mother. I had known that the 'urban development' squad had severely affected the area, but it did not prepare me for the barren landscape I encountered. Gone were all the small shops and lunch counters. The streets were now 4-6 lane wide auto mobile conveyor belts with no chance that those ferried would slow down and drop out to frequent local shops on their way in to work and return their McMansions on the outskirts of town. This urban renewal planning fiasco slowly choked the life out of the small towns that developed around Orlando proper over the last century. Everywhere you turned there were empty corner lots, decayed structures boarded up with lease signs and no sign of a heartbeat of what once had been a vibrant small community. Over 50 years of politically based decision and bad planning had reduced once vibrant communities such as Eatonville, Winter Park, Maitland to a shell of their former selves.
As I drove (there is no way you could get out and walk) through these communities it was not hard to be overrun with a feeling of tiredness and despair evident the recent attempts to reconstruct what was left of these towns. One word came to mind – Disneyfication – an attempt to reconstruct these run down communities into a cookie cutter facsímile of the Disney pseudo-utopian Celebration City. There is no sense of the lived in by the living in and around the reconstructed streets.
Later, as I sat in my mother's house I started to think about the contrast between the city I grew up in and the city I am going to see grow up in Abu Dhabi, Masdar City. A gruesome, tortured urbanization compared to a well thought out urban space that reinforces a dense population and community space. A city developed by Sir Norman Foster on the combination of the Arab understanding of physical and social structure wrapped in 21st century construction materials and technology. A place purposely built for human inhabitants to move around and interact free of metalic machines grumbling along concrete superhighways.
This week marks the end of my time at MIT. When I leave on Friday, I will have been here for 10 years, 11 months, and 16 days. 4002 days. It is had to imagine that I have been here for this long. I remember showing up to Tang Hall and getting my room. Up in the corner of the 24th floor. Now, I have a PhD – 8 years in the making, three years of Post Doctoral work, and I met one of the most amazing people in the world, who agreed last year to spend the rest of her life with me.
Along the way, I have met some incredible people. Jarrett, who officiated our wedding and has been there every step of the way since our beginning. Kerry, who came with Lily and has been an amazing friend. Eric and Zary, fellow MITers whom I kind of brought together (at least that is the story I am telling). Charles, for those out there and realistic conversations on the pursuit of science and scientific thought. Peter, who I can always count on to get things done. Will, who has been a true and loyal friend for some long years now. John Essigmann, who has been a terrific mentor and friend to me. Joost, who always plied me with libations and conversation. And many, many more. Too many over the years to recount here.
Lily and I are leaving soon, and arriving later this month, at Masdar Institute a brand new graduate research institute in Abu Dhabi. I will be a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department.I am excited about the opportunities ahead of me, but also mindful of the responsibility that comes with this opportunity. It will not be easy, but it will be very rewarding.
It is not a good bye, but a so long to MIT and Boston. We will be back soon.


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Three Calgary hospitals dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks as cases rise across the province
Dylan Short
Aug 24, 2021 • Last Updated August 24, 2021 • 3 minute read
The Peter Lougheed Centre hospital was photographed on Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Photo by Gavin Young/Postmedia
Three Calgary acute-care centres have had COVID-19 outbreaks declared, as cases and alarm in Alberta's health-care system continue to rise.
The Foothills Medical Centre had an outbreak declared Aug. 18 after one patient tested positive. The Peter Lougheed Centre received the same designation three days earlier with one patient and one worker contracting the virus. Two units at the Rockyview General Hospital also have declared outbreaks after two patients on one unit at the facility tested positive Aug. 17, and a patient and staff member on another unit tested positive Aug. 21.
"If it's apparent that (a case is) hospital-acquired, then we consider it an outbreak," Alberta Health Services spokesman Kerry Williamson said in an email Tuesday.
Information posted on the AHS website states that additional measures are being implemented in these facilities. The measures include placing infected individuals in isolation and asking staff members to use self-assessment tools to screen for symptoms. Visitation restrictions are also in place to help stop the spread of the virus.
The latest outbreaks come as warnings are being raised over the province's health-care system capacity.
Emergency room doctors across Alberta recently warned that bed closures and increased demand on the province's health-care system could lead to issues with timely access for patients. COVID-19, alongside mental health and addiction-related patients and people delaying treatment were all attributed as factors for the increased demand.
On Tuesday, the Opposition NDP raised a warning over the amount of "red alerts" EMS crews are experiencing in Calgary. The party released a statement saying documents they received through freedom of information requests showed the amount of times ambulances were not available to respond to a call increased by nearly 300 per cent when compared to 2018 numbers.
The documents show there were 3,569 red alerts in Calgary between June 2020 and May 2021.
"EMS is always under pressure but this is a new level. For families seeking urgent care in the largest city in Alberta, this is flat-out dangerous," NDP health critic David Shepherd said in a statement.
Williamson said red alerts do not mean AHS is unavailable to respond to an emergency, but that they are a tool to show where additional resources are required. He said most of these alerts are in place for a few seconds to a few minutes.
"Albertans can be assured that when someone calls 911 for an ambulance, EMS will always respond," said Williamson. "AHS has increased the number of paramedics by nine per cent over the past two years, from 2,659 in 2019 to 2,891 in 2021 to date."
Williamson said AHS continues to see an unprecedented number of calls due to several factors, including heat-related calls this summer and an increased number of opioid-related calls. He said all call numbers are on the rise.
Meanwhile, COVID-19 cases continue to rise across Alberta as a total of 629 new cases were identified Tuesday. There are now 7,931 active cases in the province, the most since late May.
The Calgary Zone accounts for 2,422 of those active infections, a number marginally lower than the Edmonton Zone's 2,468 active cases.
There are 258 people being treated for COVID-19 in Alberta hospitals, including 57 in intensive-care units. Calgary Zone hospitals are treating 83 COVID-19 patients.
A total of 2,355 people in Alberta have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
In response to the increasing threat of a fourth wave of COVID-19, the Alberta Medical Association released a statement Tuesday calling for the provincial government to mandate health-care workers to get vaccinated.
"We are making a public call for mandatory vaccination of all health-care workers," AMA president Dr. Paul Boucher said in an online statement. "As we look back on the outbreaks experienced in health-care settings and face the prospect of a fourth wave with more contagious variants, mandatory vaccination of health-care workers is essential. It will help protect our patients, staff and colleagues."
dshort@postmedia.com


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Bruno Fernandes explains why he let Marcus Rashford take Man Utd penalty
Date published: Tuesday 24th November 2020 10:40
Bruno Fernandes insists it does not matter who gets the goals as long as Manchester United are winning.
Fernandes scored two goals to set United on their way to victory against Istanbul Basaksehir in the Champions League on Tuesday night.
However, when United won a penalty to go 3-0 up, the Portugal international did not take it. Instead, he allowed Marcus Rashford to do the honours.
Hence, Fernandes* declined the chance to score a hat-trick. After the game, he explained why.
"Of course every player wants a hat-trick," he told BT Sport. "But after the game in the Premier League I told Rashford that he could take the next one so I remembered that and also he's one of the top scorers in the Champions League so it's important for him to get the confidence.
"It doesn't matter who takes the penalty as long as the team scores."
Instead, the highlight for Fernandes was his opening goal, which was a sweetly struck half-volley from outside the box.
"It was a really good goal," he admitted. "I always say we need to be ready outside of the box to these kind of situations or sometimes to stop the counter.
"This time was to shoot maybe next time I will have to fall and take a yellow card."
Fernandes tells United not to relax
Overall, Fernandes – who went off with about half an hour left – was satisfied with United's performance, which puts them in a commanding position in their group.
"I think we played really well," he said. "We started the game with the right mentality – strong, intense. First half was important to get three points today.
"We're in a good position but can't relax. We have to think of the Premier League now and win the next game on Sunday and after that we don't have much time but we have some time to think of the next Champions League game."
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