| Defense Department Awards Unique Asbestos Destruction Project to A ...
NEW YORK, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A-Conversion, LLC, a privately-held New York firm, was given a Department of Defense contract to construct a transportable, modular, asbestos conversion system for field deployment at its installations using the ABCOV Method to destroy its asbestos. The sole-source $1.27 million contract, awarded by the Pentagon's Contracting Command of Excellence, will employ the patented ABCOV Method, a non-thermal, Environmental Protection Agency approved, mechanical-chemical asbestos conversion process, developed by Tony Nocito. "The ABCOV method is an extremely reliable process that has the potential to save taxpayers millions of dollars in future asbestos liabilities," says Nocito. "The development of this transportable, modular asbestos conversion system by the Department of Defense will eliminate the potential danger and costs of transporting asbestos containing materials through their installation's neighborhoods and eliminate the Government's landfill liability," Nocito adds.
Louis Winnick, 85, housing advocate
MANHASSET, N.Y. - Louis Winnick, an economist who helped guide the investments of the Ford Foundation and promoted low-income home ownership, has died. He was 85. Winnick died Saturday at a hospice in Manhasset, on Long Island. The cause of death was mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer that his daughter Pamela Winnick attributed to exposure to asbestos when he worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II. Winnick was born in Romania and came to Brooklyn when he was a year old. He graduated from Brooklyn College and earned a graduate degree in economics at Columbia University. He worked for the New York City Planning Commission and the Housing and Redevelopment Board before joining the Ford Foundation in 1962. He served as deputy vice president in the national affairs division from 1968 to 1986.
World’s Longest Living Mesothelioma Survivor
Mesothelioma patients can speak with Paul Kraus who is perhaps the world's longest living mesothelioma survivor. The next free teleconference is scheduled for August 22, 2006. Sign-up form is available at: http://www.survivingmesothelioma.com/speak-to-paul-kraus.cfm All mesothelioma patients are invited to attend. (PRWEB) July 20, 2006 -- Mesothelioma patients can now speak directly to Paul Kraus, perhaps the world's longest living mesothelioma survivor.
In 1997, Paul Kraus was diagnosed with mesothelioma. Because his disease was widely spread, his doctors told him that they could not cure him and that he should start putting his affairs in order. Instead of giving up, he created his own path to healing. "Dr. Andrew Weil wrote that any illness can be conquered through radical lifestyle change because our bodies are made with powerful self-healing capacities.
Union leader represents more than labor in state
BIRDS LANDING - With a cigar between his lips and a shotgun slung over his shoulder, state labor leader and Contra Costa native Jim Kellogg is the very picture of a man's man. In the testosterone-charged morning, Kellogg joined 90 shooters blasting away at fist-sized clay discs whirring over the grassy landscape in this Central Valley hunting preserve. "After we're done shooting, I'll have a beer and then I'll be a real man," joked Kellogg, a tall and well-built 62-year-old wearing blue jeans and a state Fish and Game T-shirt and cap. The scene, like Kellogg, is deceptively simple. "People have a tendency to underestimate Jim," said longtime friend and Contra Costa Supervisor Mark DeSaulnier. "He doesn't say much and he doesn't have a formal education.
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