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For swimmers looking to gain an edge on their competition, the notion that simply donning a high-tech swimsuit — the surface of which was inspired by shark skin — could lead to a first-place finish is powerful.It’s also one that’s almost completely misplaced, said George Lauder, the Henry Bryant Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology.Experiments conducted in Lauder’s lab and described in the Feb. 9 issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology reveal that, while sharks’ sandpaperlike skin does allow the animals to swim faster and more efficiently, the surface of swimsuits such as the Speedo Fastskin II has no effect when it comes to reducing drag as swimmers move through the water.“In fact, it’s nothing like shark skin at all,” Lauder said of such swimsuit material. “What we have shown conclusively is that the surface properties themselves, which the manufacturer has in the past claimed to be biomimetic, don’t do anything for propulsion.”That’s not to say that the suits as a whole do nothing to improve performance.“There are all sorts of effects at work that aren’t due to the surface,” Lauder said. “Swimmers who wear these suits are squeezed into them extremely tightly, so they are very streamlined. They’re so tight they could actually change your circulation and increase the venous return to the body, and they are tailored to make it easier to maintain proper posture even when tired. I’m convinced they work, but it’s not because of the surface.”By comparison, Lauder said, the research showed that the millions of denticles — tiny, toothlike structures — that make up shark skin have a dramatic effect on how the animals swim by both reducing drag and increasing thrust.“What we found is that as the shark skin membrane moves, there is a separation of flow. The denticles create a low-pressure zone, called a leading-edge vortex, as the water moves over the skin,” he said. “You can imagine this low-pressure area as sucking you forward. The denticles enhance this leading-edge vortex. So my hypothesis is that these structures that make up shark skin reduce drag, but I also believe them to be thrust-enhancing.”Importantly, however, the phenomenon was only found when the skin was attached to a flexible membrane. When placed on a rigid structure, no increases in swimming speed were seen.“In life, sharks are very flexible. Even hammerheads and large ocean sharks are quite flexible,” Lauder said. “If you watch a shark swim, the head does not move very much, so it could be that the denticles on the head are mostly reducing drag, but those on the tail are enhancing thrust. But we don’t know what that balance may be. Ultimately, though, one of the key messages of this paper is that shark skin needs to be studied when they’re moving, which hadn’t been done before.”Studying how shark’s skin helps them move through the water, however, is no easy proposition, and one that, for obvious reasons, can’t be done using live animals.To perform the tests, Lauder and his team obtained samples of the skin of mako and porbeagle sharks and tested them alongside two other materials, the high-tech swimsuits and a material that featured tiny grooves, or “riblets,” which has been explored as a way to cut fuel consumption on aircraft and reduce drag on sailboats.To conduct the tests, each of the materials was mounted on two forms, one a rigid, winglike structure and the other a flexible membrane. Each was then attached to a robotic arm mounted on a low-friction device suspended over a recirculating tank. To measure the speed at which the apparatus “swims,” researchers turned up the flow in the tank until the device returned to its starting point.Understanding how water flowed over each material, however, was trickier.To get at the problem, Lauder and his team relied on a technique called particle image velocimetry, which uses a laser to illuminate millions of reflective particles in the water. Using a high-speed camera that records at up to 1,000 frames per second, researchers can observe how the particles move and see where and when vortices form.“I’ve thought for years that the literature on shark skin needed an upgrade,” Lauder said, explaining his motivation for the research. “Once we got going, I thought it would be fun to look at the Speedo materials, because we don’t have a lot of quantitative information on the effect of surface structure.“Going forward, we want to try to image the flow as close to the surface as we can reasonably get,” he continued. “The other direction we are exploring is to make an artificial shark skin and then manipulate it — delete every other denticle, make them twice as large, or change the spacing — and see what effects that may have.”Funding for the research was provided by the National Science Foundation.
Harvard researchers have teamed up with local fire departments to tackle a health care mystery: How does the firehouse itself increase cancer risk among firefighters?Led by postdoctoral fellow Emily Sparer, researchers including students from Harvard and MIT tested air quality in three older Boston firehouses and examined the results against air quality in a newer Arlington station, renovated roughly a decade ago to minimize transfer of pollutants from the truck bay to living quarters.Compared with conditions inside a burning building, firehouses may seem benign places. But because firefighters spend so much time in the firehouse, even low-level exposure might be hazardous, said Professor Glorian Sorensen, director of the Harvard Chan School’s Center for Work, Health, and Well-Being and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Center for Community-Based Research, who has overseen the research.Diesel exhaust, for example, is a carcinogen, and in older firehouses — Boston’s date from the 1800s to 1980s — the truck bays are near the living quarters. Also, the design of the buildings is such that air flows easily through doorways and the hole in the floor for the fire pole, Sparer said.“[Fighting fires] is very important, however, a lot of firefighters actually don’t spend the majority of their shifts fighting fires,” Sparer said. “They respond to car accidents or are at the fire station, where there might be other kinds of exposures that haven’t been looked at.”Sparer’s team investigated three locations at the four stations — truck bay, kitchen, and outside the building — and conducted interviews with firefighters about living conditions and health habits.Arlington Deputy Fire Chief John Kelly demos a device that ventilates exhaust fumes from the muffler of a fire truck. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff PhotographerThe pilot study, supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, examined two types of pollutants: tiny particles generated in fossil fuel combustion that have been shown to be harmful, and potentially cancer-causing chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The results were published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.The research showed that age and layout of the station affected how effectively truck exhaust was captured and vented, that pollutants at each station were highest in the truck bays, and that pollutant levels in the living areas — where the firefighters spend a substantial amount of time — were lowest in the Arlington station designed to restrict air flow from the truck bay.The results not only show that building design is an important factor in protecting firefighters, Sparer said, they also support the case for a larger study on which recommendations for interventions can be based.The project launched about two years ago, when the Boston Fire Department approached Dana-Farber to discuss concerns about anecdotal evidence of high cancer rates among city firefighters. Institute officials referred them to Sorensen, an expert on cancer in the workplace. Sorensen turned the project over to Sparer, who had just begun her postdoctoral fellowship.Boston Deputy Fire Chief Jim Hoar, who heads the department’s Safety, Health, and Wellness Division, said it is well accepted among firefighters that cancer is a serious occupational threat.“It’s not just the folks who are active-duty, it’s the ones who retire,” Hoar said. “‘Here’s your gold watch after 40 years on the line.’ You’re 65 years old and you don’t make it to 66 or 67.“The hardest thing for guys who’ve been on [the job] like myself, 20 years or a little bit more, is you start to hear about guys you worked with cheek by jowl. … There are a lot of those folks, too many to mention, who didn’t make it.”Arlington Deputy Chief John Kelly described the same pattern. Early in his career, Kelly thought that older firefighters developed cancer mainly due to age, like the rest of the population. But as more research linked pollutants and disease, his thinking changed.The Arlington firehouse in the new study was renovated about a decade ago to separate the truck bay from the living quarters, Kelly said. The original truck bay was longer, he said, and gym equipment and a card table were located at the end of the bay, exposed to diesel fumes from the engine. Soot from the diesel exhaust used to settle throughout the station.“You’re sitting on a couch covered in it,” Kelly said. “Your clothes are always dirty and you just didn’t think anything of it. Very few of our guys have died without cancer over the last 10 years.”With the new design, the truck bay was shortened to make room for a separate kitchen, and the gym was moved to the basement, away from truck exhaust.High cancer rates in firefighters have been documented in several studies, Sparer said, including a recent report that examined work- and health-related data between 1950 and 2009 for 30,000 firefighters in Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco. The research showed an elevated rate of cancer diagnoses and deaths for firefighters, mainly for digestive, oral, respiratory, and urinary disease. In addition, firefighters were about twice as likely to develop malignant mesothelioma, a rare cancer related to asbestos exposure.The study also showed that younger firefighters had more cases of certain types of cancer, such as bladder and prostate, than expected, that chances of lung cancer increased with time spent at fires, and that chances of dying from leukemia increased with the number of fire runs.Diesel fumes aren’t the only firehouse cancer threat, Sorensen said. Toxins can be absorbed by gear and released in the station. Some stations have industrial washing machines to clean gear, but many still don’t. Unusual job shifts are another factor, Sparer noted. While most OSHA regulations regarding workplace pollutants are based on the conventional eight-hour shift, firefighters typically work 24 hours at a time.“These guys are sleeping, eating, exercising, training, reading a book, hanging out at their workplace,” Sparer said. “And so, in a given shift of 24 hours … they can be in the station for a long period of time.”Though an ideal fix would be to renovate all older firehouses to separate people and pollutants, that solution is expensive and won’t happen overnight. Hoar said the average age of a Boston firehouse is 76 years, with some built for horses and wagons. Right now the city has three renovations underway or in planning.In the near-term, one obvious improvement would be to ensure that all firefighters get basic cancer screenings. Sorensen said other simple interventions should be considered, such as efforts to encourage better dietary practices.“We are trying to look at what are the exposures, what are the opportunities for potential intervention,” she said.
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Donna McKechnie is that increasing rarity: a Broadway legend whose vitality defies the years (was A Chorus Line really four decades ago?). She can now be seen back on the London stage in director-choreographer Drew McOnie’s production of The Wild Party, at the newly named Other Palace playhouse through April 1. McKechnie inherits the part of the seen-it-all Dolores that brought a 2000 Tony nomination to the role’s originator, Eartha Kitt, when the George C. Wolfe-Michael John LaChiusa musical premiered on Broadway. McKechnie spoke to Broadway.com about the thrill of returning to her second home—London—and about her own history with wild parties. Did you see The Wild Party on Broadway in 2000?I did but without remembering all that much about it, though, of course, I remember Eartha [Kitt], who was very inspiring to me in a role that fit her like a glove. She was perfect. But while I loved the music and lyrics, what I didn’t see enough of in that [production] was the party; there wasn’t enough dancing. Our take on it is very different—this is a whole other thing. How do you feel about this company and your director-choreographer, Drew McOnie?To my mind, Drew is a little genius: it’s almost if he’s created another stage language. I can’t think of anyone like him, really. Sometimes when you work with John Doyle, say, you get these surreal stage patterns but no dancing whereas Drew supports the feeling of the piece with movement throughout. As for the company [which includes Frances Ruffelle in Toni Collette’s role of Queenie], everyone is a triple threat. Will people who saw the Broadway version feel as if they are seeing something fresh?I think so, yes. My 11 o’clock number [“When It Ends”] is now more of a 10:45 o’clock number [laughs] in that it’s been moved a tiny bit earlier so that the central love affair has a more sweeping feel at the end and isn’t interrupted by a song of reflection. The thing with Drew is that everything he does is so organic: it reminds me of the way Michael [Bennett] used to work. Drew can do anything in my book right now. What’s your take on the character you play, Dolores?What I like about her is that she knows what she’s talking about: she’s a survivor. She can’t live in denial anymore, so what she wants is to have one real moment, which the score gives her big-time in that song. What Dolores needs to discover is that love is the answer, and from the inside out. She has to forgive herself and to love herself, and to realize that about her big number is to take a journey with it. Didn’t you refer elsewhere to Dolores as “Cassie grown up”?Maybe at one point but I actually think she’s me grown up, and I’m still discovering the journey with her. I’ve had great experience in terms of leading companies and being part of great theatrical ventures. I have a reference of my own that’s real, and it’s wonderful for me to get to use it.Did this character remind you at all of Carlotta in Follies, who gets a similarly themed number in “I’m Still Here”?Yes, but then a lot reminds me of Follies, given that I have done Sally, Phyllis and Carlotta in that show, all at different times. I should be in the Guinness Book of World Records. The difference with The Wild Party is that there are no ghosts: everything exists in the here and now. Have you put a bid in to join the National Theatre’s forthcoming revival of Follies, starring Imelda Staunton and Janie Dee?I’m going to have to check that one out! Maybe this time I could play the old soprano [who sings “One More Kiss”], but I’m not quite old enough for that one!Have you seen the London premiere of Dreamgirls, a show you must have known from its inception, given your history with its creator, Michael Bennett? Not yet, but I am dying to, of course. I would love to see it because it sounds like a very successful production. It seems as if times have changed quite a bit from when A Chorus Line opened on the West End, and I came over only to be voted out by British Equity when it all became very political. That was a tough time for Michael and me, but at least I was able to teach Petra [Siniawski, London’s Cassie]. The whole thing was on the front pages for four days.Do you actively seek out revivals of Michael’s shows, or of A Chorus Line?I genuinely love seeing things come around again and believe in shows coming back because people should see these things anew, though it can be hard for me to see Michael’s shows where I am not seeing his work—where, sometimes, people are telling the story differently just to be arbitrary. At the same time, I understand the need for a new choreographer on a show who needs to express himself artistically. What’s great with A Chorus Line is that there are still people in charge who know the show and what it’s about, and it’s wonderful that it has been so well cared for over the years. That show really did change my life.Does London feel like a second home?Absolutely. I came here to do Promises, Promises way back when because Michael [Bennett] wanted me to do the “Turkey Lurkey” number, so they flew me over for a month, which set a precedent. During the 1970s, I was here quite a few times and then, of course, for Can-Can on the West End during the 1980s and Follies in concert and so many happy memories. Oh, and then there was the BBC live recording of A Chorus Line with David Soul in Golders Green, which was an unforgettable experience, as well. I’m doing my cabaret show here March 19, which will be fun.And what about your own experience of wild parties: surely you’ve been to a few along the way?I know about that stuff but was largely oblivious to it even when it was happening all around me. You can’t do eight shows a week and do drugs—well, I can’t anyway. View Comments Donna McKechnie in ‘The Wild Party'(Photo: Scott Rylander)
Governor Jim Douglas today released the list of appointments made in October, November and December, 2009.Act 264 Advisory BoardKaren Woolsey, BethelAlcohol & Drug Abuse CouncilSandy Mayo, CastletonChild Care Services Advisory BoardGinger Potwin, RandolphVermont Communications BoardDonald Patch, Mount HollyState Board of Dental ExaminersJoanne Bugbee, DanvilleVermont Developmental Disabilities CouncilJames Caffry, WaitsfieldMary Alice Leonard-Heath, HartfordState Emergency Response CommissionAl Barber, HinesburgMichael Collins, EssexJean Peterson, BarreCarl Rogers, BarreDavid Severance, CambridgeVermont Enhanced 911 BoardDonald Patch, Mount HollyNatural Gas and Oil Resources BoardAaron Melville, Saint JohnsburyNew Motor Vehicle Arbitration BoardDavid Baker, Saint AlbansGail Graham, CalaisDorothy Hayden, MontpelierVermont Rail Advisory CouncilDavid Allaire, RutlandGeorge Barrett, BurlingtonJohn Cook, BarnetCharles Hunter, Saint AlbansDavid Wulfson, ShelburneScenery Preservation CouncilKaren McCloud, South HeroGeorge Schiavonne, ShelburneLew Sorenson, DummerstonVictoria Tebbetts, CabotVermont Standards Board for Professional EducatorsSheryl Aliquo, Saint AlbansPenny Chamberlin, NorthfieldLia Cravedi, HinesburgJanet Steward, PlainfieldState Program Standing Committee for Adult Mental HealthLinda Beebe Potter, Saint AlbansLesa Cathcart, Fair HavenLise Ewald, NorthfieldKitty Gallagher, RutlandMartha Roberts, MontpelierState Program Standing Committee for Developmental ServicesJoseph Greenwald, WaterburyGregory Mairs, ShorehamTracy Thresher, BarreAlicia Weiss, PlainfieldTravel & Recreation CouncilEdward Stahl, StoweValuation Appeals BoardSandi Murphy, Enosburg FallsGovernor’s Workforce Equity & Diversity CouncilKara DeLeonardis, BurlingtonRoy Hill, FairfaxJohn Pierce, WillistonJudith Scott, ColchesterLori Valburn, Essex JunctionSource: Governor’s office. 2.2.2010.
By Guillermo Saavedra/Diálogo October 25, 2018 A strong earthquake struck the southern Chilean region of Aysén, with its narrow fjords and steep slopes. The tremors caused an avalanche of mountain rock into the waters off the coast of Puerto Chacabuco and triggered a tsunami alert following the abrupt movement in the ocean floor. Faced with this emergency, units of the Chilean Navy deployed to evacuate the inhabitants of the port community. Although the tsunami warning rang, the situation was a drill to prepare the community and local port companies to cope with giant, destructive waves. The Chilean Navy conducted the exercise in early September, with the cooperation of the Navy’s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA, in Spanish) and the Interior Ministry’s National Emergency Office (ONEMI, in Spanish), a government agency dedicated to preventing, coordinating, and managing natural disaster information. The evacuation exercise also focused on testing alert systems and coordination among emergency agencies, the local government, and the Navy. Hundreds of people took part in the event, including units of the Navy’s Port Captaincy in Puerto Chacabuco, members of the local Emergency Operations Committee—under ONEMI—and SHOA members. More than 230 inhabitants of the community also joined the exercise and participated in evacuation plans. Danger zone The scenario consisted of the “consecutive avalanche of six hills into the sea within a specific area [7 miles north of Puerto Chacabuco] due to an earthquake, which would produce a significantly large wave that would hit the city,” Chilean Navy Lieutenant Commander Felipe Rodríguez, port captain at Puerto Chacabuco, told Diálogo. “We also defined the tsunami’s potential arrival time in Puerto Chacabuco.” Once the warning was issued, the community mobilized and proceeded to a central gathering point in town with the support of Navy units. Together, inhabitants and service members made their way to a safe place uphill. “We established a satellite communication point, and activated the Datamar2 network [a maritime network for coordination and emergency] to link the commands of SHOA’s National Tsunami Warning System and activate the tsunami alert module of Puerto Chacabuco,” Lt. Cmdr. Rodríguez said. Managers of local businesses also followed action protocols and coordinated the information received with their workers, contributing to an organized and effective evacuation. Dozens of employees from three fish farms were able to abandon their duties and gather at the evacuation point. The Navy also succeeded in contacting 30 vessels and small boats near the danger zone, allowing them to evacuate under the directions of a Navy maritime unit. Ready for contingency Every year, SHOA plans and conducts training in different regions of the country, including three drills with personnel from ONEMI, the Navy, and other institutions. Exercises test the performance of personnel and the population in real-time for natural disaster situations. “As ONEMI, we tackle the topic of tsunamis through different measures at the national and local levels,” Consuelo Cornejo, head of ONEMI’s National Civil Protection Academy, told Diálogo. The measures, she said, include training, courses, and conferences. “We did internships with SHOA for years. ONEMI officials were trained there, while SHOA officials were trained at ONEMI,” Cornejo added. A simulation such as the one in Puerto Chacabuco takes several days of planning, including briefings with local organizations to communicate the objectives, activate protocols, and provide details of real and simulated actions. Navy and ONEMI representatives also deploy in the area to make contact with the population and give out information on the radio and in local schools. “We worry a lot about people’s security in these events,” Lt. Cmdr. Rodríguez said. “We ensure that warnings don’t cause fear or accidents among the population upon hearing the siren.” The Chilean coast is highly susceptible to tsunamis as Chile lies on the edge of the Nazca, Antarctic, and South American tectonic plates. The risk is a constant concern for the Navy, whose experts at SHOA are leaders in disaster prevention. The experts focus on developing tools and initiatives to improve prevention capabilities and face tsunami occurrences. “The simulation was very important, because it helped reinforce communication among maritime and port authorities who take action on the coast in case a situation like this occurs,” Lt. Cmdr. Rodríguez concluded. “We can avoid [tragedies] if procedures are carried out properly.”
As a result, viewers were flooded with advertisements starting in the spring, accusing Ms. Collins of selling out to special interests or caving to Mr. Trump. And that spending — perceived as coming from outside the state — did not sit well with many Mainers.“If you pump $100 million in here, you’re trying to buy the election,” said David Libby, 65, a boilermaker from Rumford. In a state tilting away from Mr. Trump, Ms. Collins appeared to be easy pickings, and donors poured money into the state. For weeks before the election, polls showed Ms. Collins struggling for survival, outspent two-to-one by her rival. But on Nov. 3 she won by eight points, in large part thanks to a groundswell of support in small towns.In Rumford, which flipped Republican in 2016, voters thought the reasons were clear: The Gideon campaign, they said, was too focused on national politics. It was too negative, they complained. And it cost too much money, too much of it from outside the state.- Advertisement – – Advertisement –
“It was like being a local in Woodstock in 1969,” said Dan Shea, a professor of government at Colby College. “When it first started, it was exciting and fun, but by the end, it was muddy and dirty. My guess is that there were diminishing returns by September.”Targeted spending on advertising does, of course, work in some cases. Mark Kelly, the Democratic Senate candidate in Arizona, was buoyed by $38.7 million in donations in the last three months of the race, and defeated Martha McSally, the Republican incumbent, in a traditionally conservative state.But Maine offers an example of how a nationalized, big-money effort can backfire. Maine’s media market is tiny and the cost of advertising so low that the campaigns were hard-pressed to spend the money they had.- Advertisement –
At today’s 19th session of the Tourist Board of the Croatian National Tourist Board, Kristjan Staničić was unanimously appointed the new director of the Main Office of the Croatian National Tourist Board.Namely, after interviews with all seven candidates, who also had the opportunity to present their programs, the Commission for the implementation of the Public Tender for the selection of director of the Main Office of the Croatian Tourist Board unanimously proposed Staničić to the CNTB Tourist Board as the best candidate. The session of the Tourist Council was chaired by the Minister of Tourism and President of the Croatian Tourist Board Gari Cappelli, who at the beginning of the session informed the members of the council about the quality of the process of electing a new director.”I am extremely glad that Kristjan Staničić has been elected General Manager of the Croatian National Tourist Board. He is a true professional with many years of experience in tourism, which I am sure will give great impetus to further positioning Croatia as one of the most attractive tourist destinations. These values have been recognized by the profession, and this is supported by the fact that the director Staničić was elected by a unanimous decision of the Tourist Board. Croatian tourism has great potential for growth and development and I am sure that through joint cooperation we will make Croatia even more competitive and recognizable in the world.” pointed out the Minister of Tourism Gari Cappelli, adding that the decision was not easy given that excellent candidates and top experts with a respectable CV applied for the competition. “I am sure that a good part of the candidates in the future will give their contribution to the further development of Croatian tourism and find their place within the tourist system.” said Minister Cappelli, thanking the current director of the Croatian National Tourist Board, Ratomir Ivičić, for the good cooperation and successful management of the CNTB Head Office.Kristjan Staničić was born on October 1, 1973 in Koper, he is married and the father of one child. He graduated from the Faculty of Hospitality Management in Opatija. He also completed a one-year study at the Diplomatic Academy in Zagreb and a master’s degree at the Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management in Opatija. Although he started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he worked from 1996 to 2001, among other things as a secretary at the Croatian Embassy in Ljubljana, Staničić also has a very rich experience in the tourism sector. He also worked as an assistant director of marketing and sales for Hotels Novi, and was a member of the Management Board of that company. He also held the position of President of the Management Board of Liburnia Riviera Hotel, President of the Management Board of the Crikvenica hotel company Jadran and the position of Executive Director of Sales and Marketing, and then President of the Management Board of Hotel Bernardin from Portorož in Slovenia.Staničić participated in the preparation of strategic documents in the field of tourism: Tourism Development Strategy of the Republic of Croatia, Strategic Plan for Tourism Development of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Strategic Plan for Tourism Development of the City of Opatija, Strategic Marketing Plan of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Croatian Hotel Employers Association (UPUHH), and was also the vice president of the Croatian Hotel Employers Association (UPUHH) from 2010 to 2016, a member of the Tourist Board of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Tourist Board from 2006 to 2013, and member of the Council for Congress and Incentive Activities at the CNTB from 2007 to 2012. He speaks English, Italian and Slovenian, and is fluent in German and French.By the way, unofficially, the following seven candidates applied for the competition: Dejan Bosak from Ugo group, Davorko Obuljen – former President of the Management Board of Hotel Maestrali and former Deputy Prefect of Dubrovnik-Neretva, Joško Stella – Director of the Split-Dalmatia Tourist Board, Katarina Miličevićfrom the Institute of Tourism, Tonči Glavina – co-owner of a tour operator for children and youth tourism and the first specialized hostel for young people Eklata and director of the Business Incubator Klis doo, one candidate from the hotel industry, and Kristijan Staničić who was also elected director for the CNTB Head Office.
Advertisement Comment Advertisement Allan Saint-Maximin is on Arsenal’s summer shortlist (AFP via Getty Images)Mikel Arteta is targeting Newcastle United winger Allan Saint-Maximin after receiving glowing reviews from Arsenal’s scouting team, according to reports.The 23-year-old has been in excellent form since the Premier League restarted last month with a goal and three assists in four matches.Newcastle United paid £16 million to sign Saint-Maximin from Nice last summer and the midfielder has attracted widespread interest following his debut season in the Premier League.According to the Northern Echo, Saint-Maximin ‘features prominently’ on Arteta’s summer shortlist, while Arsenal’s recruitment staff have delivered ‘a series of positive reports’ on the winger.ADVERTISEMENTHowever, the report claims that Arsenal’s move will depend on whether Newcastle’s takeover goes through as the club’s new Saudi owners are unlikely to want to part with Saint-Maximin. Allan Saint-Maximin has three goals and four assists in 22 Premier League games for Newcastle (PA)Saint-Maximin still has five years remaining on his contract with Newcastle.AdvertisementAdvertisementWhen asked about the possibility of Saint-Maximin being sold this summer, Newcastle boss Steve Bruce said last week: ‘There’s no chance of Allan leaving. No chance at all.‘I wouldn’t put a price on Allan now.‘When you look at the level of money we bought him for, he’s arguably the best pound-for-pound signing in the Premier League. ‘You show me another better. When you look at what he’s produced for us, we have probably got the buy of the season. He’s blessed with unique skills, which he’s got in abundance.More: Arsenal FCArsenal flop Denis Suarez delivers verdict on Thomas Partey and Lucas Torreira movesThomas Partey debut? Ian Wright picks his Arsenal starting XI vs Manchester CityArsene Wenger explains why Mikel Arteta is ‘lucky’ to be managing Arsenal‘There have been one or two moments when I’ve lost my temper with Allan.‘He needs to be reminded of certain things now and again but the great thing about him is he just loves playing football.‘He’s like a kid in the playground with a ball; players with real natural ability are like that. Whether he’s dribbling against his dog in the back garden or whatever, he enjoys the ball.’Follow Metro Sport across our social channels, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. For more stories like this, check our sport page. Metro Sport ReporterMonday 6 Jul 2020 1:10 pmShare this article via facebookShare this article via twitterShare this article via messengerShare this with Share this article via emailShare this article via flipboardCopy link110Shares Mikel Arteta targets Allan Saint-Maximin as Arsenal prepare bid
Provincial Veterinarian Renante Decena,co-chair of the Provincial ASF Task Force, also led a team during the conductof inspection and monitoring. BACOLOD City – The provincial government of Negros Occidental ordered 43establishments to pull out all processed pork products coming from Luzon andidentified African swine fever (ASF)-affected countries. ASF is a contagious hemorrhagic viraldisease among domestic and wild pigs that can spread rapidly regardless ofborders. During the inspections conducted invarious local government units, teams checked canned goods such as sausage,pork and beans, luncheon meat, and processed foods such as hotdogs, longganisa,and tocino. A team of the Negros Occidental Provincial African swine fever (ASF) Task Force checks the processed foods being sold in a local supermarket on Dec. 9. Some 43 establishments have been ordered to pull out from their shelves all pork products which originated from Luzon and identified ASF-affected countries. NEGROS OCCIDENTAL PROVINCIAL ASF TASK FORCE “Any violation of the provincialordinance will be penalized,” it said. Negros Occidental, the country’s numberone backyard hog producer, with a PHP6-billion swine industry, has enforcedsince September 18 the ban on the entry of pork and pork products from Luzon. The directive came as simultaneousinspections were conducted province-wide by various teams in supermarkets,grocery stores, and similar establishments as the ASF Prevention Ordinance ofNegros Occidental took effect on Monday. The province’s ASF Prevention Ordinanceprohibits the entry of live pig, boar semen, pork, and pork products, includingfood items containing pork originating from, and/or processed in Luzon andcountries affected with ASF. Outbreak has been reported in Asiancountries such as China, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea and Mongolia, and withactive cases found in 17 other countries. As of Wednesday, the task force postedon its Facebook page that about 64 pork products were found in theseestablishments, which were given three days to pull out the said items fromtheir shelves. The ordinance cited the ASF outbreak inseveral areas of Luzon such as the provinces of Bulacan, Rizal, Pangasinan,Pampanga, Cavite, Nueva, and also Quezon City. On November 26, Governor Eugenio JoseLacson and Vice Governor Jeffrey Ferrer signed Provincial Ordinance 2019-024,otherwise known as “The ASF Prevention Ordinance of Negros Occidental”, to keepthe province virus-free. (With a reportfrom PNA/PN)