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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Jobs Near the Water
By The Mainebiz News Staff
Yesterday
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery plans to hire 250 new employees over the next seven months, adding to the 110 new apprentices enrolled in its training program this month.
Paul O'Connor, president of the Metal Trades Council at the shipyard, told Seacoast Online that about $85 million in construction work has been or will be started at the yard in 2010. He says that work is performed by outside private contractors, who will bring their crews to the yard. However, the net gain of jobs will only be 160, as 200 workers are slated to leave this year through attrition.
The facility will hire a variety of new workers, including machine tool operators, welders and electricians. Eddy also told the newspaper the shipyard will also recruit applicants for engineers, engineering technicians and administrative positions. Shipyard officials said the new hires are needed to work on the Navy's new Virginia-class nuclear submarines and the USS Virginia is scheduled to arrive at the shipyard for a scheduled overhaul this October, according to the website.
Yesterday
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery plans to hire 250 new employees over the next seven months, adding to the 110 new apprentices enrolled in its training program this month.
Paul O'Connor, president of the Metal Trades Council at the shipyard, told Seacoast Online that about $85 million in construction work has been or will be started at the yard in 2010. He says that work is performed by outside private contractors, who will bring their crews to the yard. However, the net gain of jobs will only be 160, as 200 workers are slated to leave this year through attrition.
The facility will hire a variety of new workers, including machine tool operators, welders and electricians. Eddy also told the newspaper the shipyard will also recruit applicants for engineers, engineering technicians and administrative positions. Shipyard officials said the new hires are needed to work on the Navy's new Virginia-class nuclear submarines and the USS Virginia is scheduled to arrive at the shipyard for a scheduled overhaul this October, according to the website.
Friday, February 26, 2010
electricians part of Google attack?
The University of Michigan is closely monitoring developments following allegations that cyber attacks were launched from the China campus of a university with ties to U-M.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with which U-M has a joint institute, is a central focus of an investigation into global cyber attacks on American companies like Google. The attackers reportedly gained access to the American companies’ servers in 2009 and spread malicious software in hopes of stealing sensitive information.
Analysts familiar with China’s political system and a professor who taught last summer at U-M’s Joint Institute with SJTU in Shanghai said they weren’t surprised the attacks may be connected to other branches of the Shanghai school.
University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman signs an agreement in 2005 establishing a Joint Institute with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Federal investigators have traced global cyber attacks on companies like Google to SJTU computers in China. U-M's Joint Institute with SJTU, however, has not been tied to the attacks.
Photo courtesy of University of Michigan
But U-M, which sends about 10 engineering professors a year to teach at the Joint Institute, has no plans to reconsider its relationship with SJTU unless further evidence implicates its international educational partner.
“The Joint Institute provides an excellent opportunity for students from both schools to study abroad and come to better understand the implications of globalization,” James Holloway, associate dean for undergraduate education for U-M’s College of Engineering, said in an e-mail.
Internet protocol addresses for SJTU computers were identified as the source of attacks that resulted in security breaches at Google, which immediately threatened to leave China, according to the New York Times.
Technology experts told AnnArbor.com it’s possible investigators won’t be able to determine the exact location of the attacks. Attackers may have shrouded their operation under the guise of IP addresses from SJTU computers.
But SJTU is essentially controlled by China’s Communist government, which is actively involved in clandestine cyber intelligence operations. China’s government has denied any involvement in the cyber attacks.
David Munson, dean of U-M’s College of Engineering, which operates the Joint Institute along with SJTU, said he doesn’t see much reason for concern.
“We don’t know anything other than what we’ve read in places like the New York Times, and there isn’t any indication that the Joint Institute, which is our initiative over there, is involved in any way,” Munson said. “There isn’t any reason to believe that our relationship would be affected.”
U-M spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said evidence tying SJTU to the attacks isn’t firm.
Cyber attacks and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
“It’s way too early to talk about how this will affect the relationship,” he said. “This is one incident where no one is really sure where the source is. It’s clearly one of those things where we’re watching the situation closely.”
Munson and U-M professors said they don’t teach advanced computer science skills to students at the Joint Institute with SJTU, although some basic algorithmic and computer programming skills are taught there.
U-M officials stressed the Joint Institute consists of electrical and mechanical engineering students, not computer science majors.
“The focus here is really on engineering,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s not computer science programming.”
SJTU, which has more than 30,000 full-time students, is a sprawling university with a broad range of expertise and initiatives.
Some 160 SJTU students are currently studying at U-M in Ann Arbor through the Joint Institute, Fitzgerald said. About 50 SJTU students had received U-M degrees as of 2005, the most recent data available.
U-M electrical engineering and mechanical engineering professors teach courses to SJTU Joint Institute students in China and in Ann Arbor. The only U-M professor currently working at SJTU in Shanghai is Jun Ni, the dean of the institute. He did not respond to requests seeking comment.
U-M engineering associate professor Mingyan Liu, who taught SJTU students in Shanghai in the summers of 2006 and 2009, said she wouldn’t be shocked if SJTU students were involved in the Google attacks.
“It wouldn’t surprise me at all if students did mischievous things on their own. Perhaps mischievous is not the right world. Let’s say illegal. Students have been known to do that,” Liu said. “If they’re capable, they’re probably intrigued and challenged to do things they’re not supposed to do. That happens all the time.”
But Liu said she would be surprised if SJTU students were coordinating global cyber attacks on behalf of China’s Communist government or its industrial leaders.
“The government can certainly do this on their own. They have the resources,” she said. “Would they actually commission the students to do it? Now that seems far fetched.”
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with which U-M has a joint institute, is a central focus of an investigation into global cyber attacks on American companies like Google. The attackers reportedly gained access to the American companies’ servers in 2009 and spread malicious software in hopes of stealing sensitive information.
Analysts familiar with China’s political system and a professor who taught last summer at U-M’s Joint Institute with SJTU in Shanghai said they weren’t surprised the attacks may be connected to other branches of the Shanghai school.
University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman signs an agreement in 2005 establishing a Joint Institute with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Federal investigators have traced global cyber attacks on companies like Google to SJTU computers in China. U-M's Joint Institute with SJTU, however, has not been tied to the attacks.
Photo courtesy of University of Michigan
But U-M, which sends about 10 engineering professors a year to teach at the Joint Institute, has no plans to reconsider its relationship with SJTU unless further evidence implicates its international educational partner.
“The Joint Institute provides an excellent opportunity for students from both schools to study abroad and come to better understand the implications of globalization,” James Holloway, associate dean for undergraduate education for U-M’s College of Engineering, said in an e-mail.
Internet protocol addresses for SJTU computers were identified as the source of attacks that resulted in security breaches at Google, which immediately threatened to leave China, according to the New York Times.
Technology experts told AnnArbor.com it’s possible investigators won’t be able to determine the exact location of the attacks. Attackers may have shrouded their operation under the guise of IP addresses from SJTU computers.
But SJTU is essentially controlled by China’s Communist government, which is actively involved in clandestine cyber intelligence operations. China’s government has denied any involvement in the cyber attacks.
David Munson, dean of U-M’s College of Engineering, which operates the Joint Institute along with SJTU, said he doesn’t see much reason for concern.
“We don’t know anything other than what we’ve read in places like the New York Times, and there isn’t any indication that the Joint Institute, which is our initiative over there, is involved in any way,” Munson said. “There isn’t any reason to believe that our relationship would be affected.”
U-M spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said evidence tying SJTU to the attacks isn’t firm.
Cyber attacks and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
“It’s way too early to talk about how this will affect the relationship,” he said. “This is one incident where no one is really sure where the source is. It’s clearly one of those things where we’re watching the situation closely.”
Munson and U-M professors said they don’t teach advanced computer science skills to students at the Joint Institute with SJTU, although some basic algorithmic and computer programming skills are taught there.
U-M officials stressed the Joint Institute consists of electrical and mechanical engineering students, not computer science majors.
“The focus here is really on engineering,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s not computer science programming.”
SJTU, which has more than 30,000 full-time students, is a sprawling university with a broad range of expertise and initiatives.
Some 160 SJTU students are currently studying at U-M in Ann Arbor through the Joint Institute, Fitzgerald said. About 50 SJTU students had received U-M degrees as of 2005, the most recent data available.
U-M electrical engineering and mechanical engineering professors teach courses to SJTU Joint Institute students in China and in Ann Arbor. The only U-M professor currently working at SJTU in Shanghai is Jun Ni, the dean of the institute. He did not respond to requests seeking comment.
U-M engineering associate professor Mingyan Liu, who taught SJTU students in Shanghai in the summers of 2006 and 2009, said she wouldn’t be shocked if SJTU students were involved in the Google attacks.
“It wouldn’t surprise me at all if students did mischievous things on their own. Perhaps mischievous is not the right world. Let’s say illegal. Students have been known to do that,” Liu said. “If they’re capable, they’re probably intrigued and challenged to do things they’re not supposed to do. That happens all the time.”
But Liu said she would be surprised if SJTU students were coordinating global cyber attacks on behalf of China’s Communist government or its industrial leaders.
“The government can certainly do this on their own. They have the resources,” she said. “Would they actually commission the students to do it? Now that seems far fetched.”
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Creating Jobs for Electricians
By David Johnson
Special to The Times
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THE jobs crisis in Washington has been well-documented, but nowhere has the lack of jobs hit harder than in the construction industry. As the head of the statewide coalition of construction unions, representing 50,000 workers, I have seen our industry endure 23 straight months of job losses and account for nearly a third of all jobs lost in the state in 2009.
We are usually prepared as an industry for an unemployment rate of around 9.5 percent, which is where statewide unemployment stands right now; but instead the construction industry is experiencing an average of 35 percent unemployment, and as high as 50 percent in some parts of the state.
In previous lean times, our state's construction workers were able to find work in others parts of the country, such as car plants in the Midwest or oil refineries off the California coast. But our country is in the middle of the worst economy since the Great Depression, and even those jobs have dried up.
There don't seem to be many hopeful signs in sight. Experts say commercial construction, which accounts for 40 percent of the construction industry, will probably continue to decline nationally and statewide until the third quarter of 2011.
Our Legislature, however, has the power to help. While our state lawmakers have proposed several bills this session to create jobs, which we appreciate, we as an industry have focused much of our efforts on House Bill 3147 and Senate Bill 6789, companion bills that would remove a major barrier to bringing data-center construction — and thousands of jobs — back to Washington.
The legislation would authorize a temporary sales-tax exemption on the purchase and installation of computers and energy equipment for new data centers in rural counties. The bills have legislative support from both parties and from all parts of the state, and data-center builders and owners have already testified that they would build quickly in Washington if the tax burden were lifted.
It was not so long ago that the data-center industry was thriving in Eastern Washington, which has the inexpensive hydropower, temperate climate and fiber-optic infrastructure that data-center operators covet. Just a few years ago, we had up to 1,000 construction workers on duty at one time in Chelan, Douglas and Grant counties on multiple data-center projects. For the state's electricians alone, the projects amounted to work for 900 people, 2.7 million hours worked and $8.6 million to the local economy.
But in November 2007, everything changed. That was when the state attorney general determined that data centers do not qualify for an existing sales-tax exemption designed to attract business to rural areas.
Since then, no data centers have been built in Washington, and the industry has moved elsewhere. Just last month, Facebook announced it was building a data center in Prineville, Ore., instead. Google, Disney, Apple and even Seattle's Amazon have seriously considered Washington data centers and decided against them because of the tax climate.
Each of these data centers provides hundreds of construction jobs, 30 to 50 permanent high-wage jobs for operations and property-tax revenue for years to come — all for parts of the state that need it the most.
The data-center legislation in Olympia would bring a growing high-tech industry back to the state, create an economic stimulus for rural Washington and provide hundreds of jobs for our state's working families. It is an opportunity that our Legislature can't afford to pass up.
David Johnson is executive secretary of the Washington State Building and Construction Trades Council, a coalition of 15 construction unions across the state.
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THE jobs crisis in Washington has been well-documented, but nowhere has the lack of jobs hit harder than in the construction industry. As the head of the statewide coalition of construction unions, representing 50,000 workers, I have seen our industry endure 23 straight months of job losses and account for nearly a third of all jobs lost in the state in 2009.
We are usually prepared as an industry for an unemployment rate of around 9.5 percent, which is where statewide unemployment stands right now; but instead the construction industry is experiencing an average of 35 percent unemployment, and as high as 50 percent in some parts of the state.
In previous lean times, our state's construction workers were able to find work in others parts of the country, such as car plants in the Midwest or oil refineries off the California coast. But our country is in the middle of the worst economy since the Great Depression, and even those jobs have dried up.
There don't seem to be many hopeful signs in sight. Experts say commercial construction, which accounts for 40 percent of the construction industry, will probably continue to decline nationally and statewide until the third quarter of 2011.
Our Legislature, however, has the power to help. While our state lawmakers have proposed several bills this session to create jobs, which we appreciate, we as an industry have focused much of our efforts on House Bill 3147 and Senate Bill 6789, companion bills that would remove a major barrier to bringing data-center construction — and thousands of jobs — back to Washington.
The legislation would authorize a temporary sales-tax exemption on the purchase and installation of computers and energy equipment for new data centers in rural counties. The bills have legislative support from both parties and from all parts of the state, and data-center builders and owners have already testified that they would build quickly in Washington if the tax burden were lifted.
It was not so long ago that the data-center industry was thriving in Eastern Washington, which has the inexpensive hydropower, temperate climate and fiber-optic infrastructure that data-center operators covet. Just a few years ago, we had up to 1,000 construction workers on duty at one time in Chelan, Douglas and Grant counties on multiple data-center projects. For the state's electricians alone, the projects amounted to work for 900 people, 2.7 million hours worked and $8.6 million to the local economy.
But in November 2007, everything changed. That was when the state attorney general determined that data centers do not qualify for an existing sales-tax exemption designed to attract business to rural areas.
Since then, no data centers have been built in Washington, and the industry has moved elsewhere. Just last month, Facebook announced it was building a data center in Prineville, Ore., instead. Google, Disney, Apple and even Seattle's Amazon have seriously considered Washington data centers and decided against them because of the tax climate.
Each of these data centers provides hundreds of construction jobs, 30 to 50 permanent high-wage jobs for operations and property-tax revenue for years to come — all for parts of the state that need it the most.
The data-center legislation in Olympia would bring a growing high-tech industry back to the state, create an economic stimulus for rural Washington and provide hundreds of jobs for our state's working families. It is an opportunity that our Legislature can't afford to pass up.
David Johnson is executive secretary of the Washington State Building and Construction Trades Council, a coalition of 15 construction unions across the state.
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Thomas Friedman / Syndicated Columnist: Seven years after Saddam, Iraq's fate still an open question
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Electrician Thank You
Feb. 23, 2010
KALAMAZOO--The retirements of three faculty and 25 staff members were approved by the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees at its February meeting.
Trustees also signed off on the return of four administrators to the faculty as well as a military-related faculty leave. The resignations of five faculty members were also accepted.
Retiring faculty members
All of the faculty members who are retiring are doing so with emeritus status.
Dr. Bruce M. Haight, professor of history, 45-1/2 years of service, effective April 30, 2015
Dr. Barbara Speas Havira, associate professor of history, 46 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2015
Dr. Richard L. Hodges, associate professor of accountancy, 25 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2010
In addition, the previously announced posthumous retirement of Dr. Elen M.C. Cutrim, a professor of geography who died April 15, 2009, was changed to Feb. 18, 2010.
Retiring staff members
Following is a list of the staff members retiring, in order of length of service.
Carl W. Doubleday, associate director of the School of Music, 42 years of service, effective June 6, 2010
Theodore J. Petropoulos, director of the Bernhard Center, 41 years of service, effective March 9, 2010
Kathryn A. Dalman, accountant in plant accounting, 33 years of service, effective April, 23, 2010
Margie P. Johnson, manager in Dining Services-Valley II, 33 years of service, effective Feb. 28, 2010
Cindy Lou Thorpe, custodian in Facilities Management-auxiliary custodial, 32 years of service, effective Feb. 28, 2010
Robert E. Norlin, carpet cleaner in Facilities Management-custodial and support services, 32 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2009
Linda Jones, skilled trades helper in Facilities Management-maintenance services, 31-1/2 years of service, effective March 31, 2010
Jewell M. Street, assistant director of the Office of Institutional Equity, 31 years of service, effective March 17, 2010
Dawn Southworth, finance assistant in the Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships, 30 years of service, effective April 30, 2010
Annie Marton, custodian in Facilities Management-building custodial and support services, 25-1/2 years of service, effective April, 30, 2010
Ruth A. Bosch, registered nurse in the Sindecuse Health Center, 24-1/2 years of service, effective Feb. 28, 2010
Raymond H. Wolfram, manager of campus construction in Facilities Management-campus facilities, 24 years of service, effective April 26, 2010
Sabine J. Hayes, head cook in the Bernhard Center Dining Services, 24 years of service, effective Nov. 30, 2009
Joanne K. VandenBerg, office associate in Extended University Programs-Muskegon Regional Site, 23 years of service, effective April 30, 2010
Linda Doremus, manager of facilities and events for the Bernhard Center, 23-1/2 years of service, effective Feb. 28, 2010
David L. Bunch, carpet/tile layer in Facilities Management-maintenance services, 23 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2009
Randy D. VanAvery, carpenter in Facilities Management-maintenance services, 22-1/2 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2009
Jeanne L. Bloemsma, office assistant in the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 22-1/2 years of service, effective March 31, 2010
Janice S. Weaver, utility person/cash operations in Dining Services-Draper, 21-1/2 years of service, effective April 30, 2010
Rosanna F. Metoyer, coordinator of business operations in Auxiliary Enterprises, 21 years of service, effective Nov. 30, 2009
Patricia Nelson, office associate in the Department of Philosophy, 19-1/2 years of service, effective Jan. 31, 2010
Patricia S. Pulphus, senior clerk in the WMU Bookstore, 19 years of service, effective Feb. 28, 2010
Andrew C. Huang, systems specialist in Extended University Programs-Online Education, 16-1/2 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2009
Michael J. Woodhams, licensed electrician in Facilities Management-maintenance services, 12 years of service, effective Oct. 22, 2009
Elinor R. Zantjer, utility food worker in Dining Services-Davis 10-1/2 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2009
KALAMAZOO--The retirements of three faculty and 25 staff members were approved by the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees at its February meeting.
Trustees also signed off on the return of four administrators to the faculty as well as a military-related faculty leave. The resignations of five faculty members were also accepted.
Retiring faculty members
All of the faculty members who are retiring are doing so with emeritus status.
Dr. Bruce M. Haight, professor of history, 45-1/2 years of service, effective April 30, 2015
Dr. Barbara Speas Havira, associate professor of history, 46 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2015
Dr. Richard L. Hodges, associate professor of accountancy, 25 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2010
In addition, the previously announced posthumous retirement of Dr. Elen M.C. Cutrim, a professor of geography who died April 15, 2009, was changed to Feb. 18, 2010.
Retiring staff members
Following is a list of the staff members retiring, in order of length of service.
Carl W. Doubleday, associate director of the School of Music, 42 years of service, effective June 6, 2010
Theodore J. Petropoulos, director of the Bernhard Center, 41 years of service, effective March 9, 2010
Kathryn A. Dalman, accountant in plant accounting, 33 years of service, effective April, 23, 2010
Margie P. Johnson, manager in Dining Services-Valley II, 33 years of service, effective Feb. 28, 2010
Cindy Lou Thorpe, custodian in Facilities Management-auxiliary custodial, 32 years of service, effective Feb. 28, 2010
Robert E. Norlin, carpet cleaner in Facilities Management-custodial and support services, 32 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2009
Linda Jones, skilled trades helper in Facilities Management-maintenance services, 31-1/2 years of service, effective March 31, 2010
Jewell M. Street, assistant director of the Office of Institutional Equity, 31 years of service, effective March 17, 2010
Dawn Southworth, finance assistant in the Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships, 30 years of service, effective April 30, 2010
Annie Marton, custodian in Facilities Management-building custodial and support services, 25-1/2 years of service, effective April, 30, 2010
Ruth A. Bosch, registered nurse in the Sindecuse Health Center, 24-1/2 years of service, effective Feb. 28, 2010
Raymond H. Wolfram, manager of campus construction in Facilities Management-campus facilities, 24 years of service, effective April 26, 2010
Sabine J. Hayes, head cook in the Bernhard Center Dining Services, 24 years of service, effective Nov. 30, 2009
Joanne K. VandenBerg, office associate in Extended University Programs-Muskegon Regional Site, 23 years of service, effective April 30, 2010
Linda Doremus, manager of facilities and events for the Bernhard Center, 23-1/2 years of service, effective Feb. 28, 2010
David L. Bunch, carpet/tile layer in Facilities Management-maintenance services, 23 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2009
Randy D. VanAvery, carpenter in Facilities Management-maintenance services, 22-1/2 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2009
Jeanne L. Bloemsma, office assistant in the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 22-1/2 years of service, effective March 31, 2010
Janice S. Weaver, utility person/cash operations in Dining Services-Draper, 21-1/2 years of service, effective April 30, 2010
Rosanna F. Metoyer, coordinator of business operations in Auxiliary Enterprises, 21 years of service, effective Nov. 30, 2009
Patricia Nelson, office associate in the Department of Philosophy, 19-1/2 years of service, effective Jan. 31, 2010
Patricia S. Pulphus, senior clerk in the WMU Bookstore, 19 years of service, effective Feb. 28, 2010
Andrew C. Huang, systems specialist in Extended University Programs-Online Education, 16-1/2 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2009
Michael J. Woodhams, licensed electrician in Facilities Management-maintenance services, 12 years of service, effective Oct. 22, 2009
Elinor R. Zantjer, utility food worker in Dining Services-Davis 10-1/2 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2009
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Electricians Supprt Cancer Awareness
Press Release
For immediate release: 22 February 2010
Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign,
DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org
Local electrician’s marathon effort to fund breast cancer research
Budding runner Ben Skingsley from Woodford Green, Essex has pulled on his running shoes to train for the Virgin London Marathon in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign.
The electrician will join thousands of runners at the starting line on Sunday 25 April in memory of his mother Tracy who sadly passed away from breast cancer in 2001 aged 38.
Ben said: “I want to run this marathon to raise money and awareness for a very worthy cause. I hope the sponsorship money I raise will be able to contribute and help others to survive this disease so that families do not have to suffer the loss of a loved one, like mine. Running the marathon will also hopefully make my mum proud of me.”
To help Ben reach his fundraising target of £1,500 please visit www.justgiving.com/ben-skingsley and donate what you can.
If you have a place in this year’s Virgin London Marathon and would like to join Ben on Campaign’s running team, please call the Events team on 0207 749 3700 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org. As part of the team you will automatically become members of Linford’s All Stars – a new exclusive club captained by Linford Christie, who offers all his supporters helpful training tips and nutritional advice.
Ends
Picture caption: Ben Skingsley
Notes to editors
• Breast Cancer Campaign aims to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure
• Currently it supports 112 research projects, worth over £16.8 million, in 42 centres of excellence across the UK and Ireland
• Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women
• In the UK, nearly 46,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that’s 125 a day
• Visit www.breastcancercampaign.org
• Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg’s blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/
• Breast Cancer Campaign is campaigning for all candidates standing for election to Westminster to sign up to the breast cancer research pledge: www.breastcancercampaign.org/election
Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign,
DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org
For immediate release: 22 February 2010
Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign,
DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org
Local electrician’s marathon effort to fund breast cancer research
Budding runner Ben Skingsley from Woodford Green, Essex has pulled on his running shoes to train for the Virgin London Marathon in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign.
The electrician will join thousands of runners at the starting line on Sunday 25 April in memory of his mother Tracy who sadly passed away from breast cancer in 2001 aged 38.
Ben said: “I want to run this marathon to raise money and awareness for a very worthy cause. I hope the sponsorship money I raise will be able to contribute and help others to survive this disease so that families do not have to suffer the loss of a loved one, like mine. Running the marathon will also hopefully make my mum proud of me.”
To help Ben reach his fundraising target of £1,500 please visit www.justgiving.com/ben-skingsley and donate what you can.
If you have a place in this year’s Virgin London Marathon and would like to join Ben on Campaign’s running team, please call the Events team on 0207 749 3700 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org. As part of the team you will automatically become members of Linford’s All Stars – a new exclusive club captained by Linford Christie, who offers all his supporters helpful training tips and nutritional advice.
Ends
Picture caption: Ben Skingsley
Notes to editors
• Breast Cancer Campaign aims to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure
• Currently it supports 112 research projects, worth over £16.8 million, in 42 centres of excellence across the UK and Ireland
• Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women
• In the UK, nearly 46,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that’s 125 a day
• Visit www.breastcancercampaign.org
• Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg’s blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/
• Breast Cancer Campaign is campaigning for all candidates standing for election to Westminster to sign up to the breast cancer research pledge: www.breastcancercampaign.org/election
Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign,
DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org
Monday, February 22, 2010
Electricians Dies for Country
The Associated Press
Posted: 02/20/2010 10:12:07 PM PST
Updated: 02/20/2010 10:12:07 PM PST
SAN DIEGO—The Navy says a 36-year-old sailor from San Diego was killed in an electrical accident aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.
In a statement released Saturday, the Navy says Electrician's Mate Chief John G. Conyers suffered severe electrical shock while conducting routine work as the ship underwent repairs at North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego Bay.
Conyers was taken by ambulance to Sharp Coronado Hospital, where he was pronounced dead Friday afternoon.
The statement says Conyers was an 11-year Navy veteran and is survived by a wife and daughter.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
Posted: 02/20/2010 10:12:07 PM PST
Updated: 02/20/2010 10:12:07 PM PST
SAN DIEGO—The Navy says a 36-year-old sailor from San Diego was killed in an electrical accident aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.
In a statement released Saturday, the Navy says Electrician's Mate Chief John G. Conyers suffered severe electrical shock while conducting routine work as the ship underwent repairs at North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego Bay.
Conyers was taken by ambulance to Sharp Coronado Hospital, where he was pronounced dead Friday afternoon.
The statement says Conyers was an 11-year Navy veteran and is survived by a wife and daughter.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
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