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Brent Europe Ltd, Aerospace Systems Group, a subsidiary of Brent Chemicals International plc, has engaged Reg Taylor as consultant to the Non‐destructive Testing sector of its business worldwide. For the past 12 years, Mr Taylor has been chief of NDT Technology at Rolls‐Royce plc, Derby (England), with overall responsibility for the technology within the company and its suppliers, and for the ‘in‐service’ inspection at customers' premises. Based in Iver (Bucks, England), Brent's Aerospace Systems Group supplies the internationally well‐known range of Ardrox penetrant and magnetic crack detection systems, together with surface treatment chemicals — overseas through sister companies and sales agents — to the world's aerospace industries, for use during manufacture and maintenance of civil and military aircraft.

A primary impetus of the modern hospice movement was the disparity, during the later 20th century, between the care provided to persons with illnesses considered “curable” and the treatment – or lack of it – accorded the incurably or terminally ill. In its transformation from a reform-oriented, interdisciplinary response to the needs of the dying to an integrated component of the American healthcare system, hospice care's original mission, target population, and modality of service delivery were all significantly altered in ways that generated new disparities in access to “death with dignity.” This chapter attempts to trace the political, economic, and institutional dimensions of this transformation as reflected in the experiences of one Northeastern hospice during a 6-month period in 2001. Using an analytic approach known as institutional ethnography (IE), the authors focus on the work of the Hospice's Interdisciplinary Group (IDG) to uncover the linkages between local problems in the delivery of hospice care and extra-local sites of power and constraint at the mezzo- and macrolevels of the American healthcare system. The significance of these linkages for patients, frontline workers, and other stakeholders are interpreted from several perspectives. Implications for change are discussed.

This new study carried out at Stirling University examines users' views of support services which are designed to enable them to live independently in the community. The aspirations and experiences of users from three different client groups are considered, in the context of a tangled web of funding mechanisms and statutory powers in Scotland. Published in April this year, the report provides useful insight for practitioners and managers responsible for floating support services.

We deeply regret to record the sudden death of Benjamin Henry Gerrans, F.I.C., at Clapham Park, on August 12th. For many years he had been chief assistant to the late Colonel Charles E. Cassal, upon whose decease he became Public Analyst for Kensington, the Borough of Battersea, additional Public Analyst for the City of Westminster, Public Analyst for the Kesteven and Holland divisions of Lincolnshire, and for the Borough of Chepping Wycombe. At the time of his death he was Public Analyst for the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea and Official Agricultural Analyst for the Kesteven and Holland Divisions of Lincolnshire. In 1895 he was appointed as a Gas Examiner to the London County Council, in 1910 to the Urban District Council of Sittingbourne, and in 1921 to the County Borough of West Ham. For thirty‐eight years he was a member of the Consulting Scientific Staff of the British Analytical Control. His death will be keenly felt by all those who were privileged to know him and to appraise his worth. He was elected an Associate of the Institute of Chemistry in 1888.

1. Aircraft Noise—Its effect on people OF all the environmental noise sources, aircraft noise has received the most notoriety over the longest period of time. Aircraft noise is generally assumed to be a product of the jet age, but in 1939 in the United Kingdom, the Gorrell Committee on Control of Flying gave noise control the highest priority. However, it was not until post‐World War II that the public became disturbed by the continued high level of military aircraft operations, and this disturbance was aggravated by the rapid introduction of jet‐powered aircraft. Civil aviation developed rapidly and, as airports increased in size, and as aircraft movements doubled every five years, the surrounding communities expanded to the airport boundaries. These conditions of growth provided the ingredients for the aircraft noise problem. In the United Kingdom, all the major airports grew from military installations where little regard had been given to the environmental impact of these sites on the surrounding communities.

This paper produced for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation explores the connections between different strands of current social policy: support to strengthen and stabilise communities and neighbourhoods, support and care for individuals living or settling in communities and the potential and willingness of communities to support and act inclusively towards people who are vulnerable or in need of particular services. It posits a central tension between ‘consumerist’ and ‘collective’ approaches to services which may be inhibiting effective policy and practice. Is this actually the case?

The Rolls‐Royce Trent 800, powerplant of the new Boeing 777 twinjet airliner, successfully completed a 150‐hour block endurance test, taking it closer to on‐schedule certification in January.

THE note of the Conference at Harrogate was the question of unemployment in relation to libraries. The arguments advanced were intended for the wider public rather than for librarians, and reproduced a now fairly familiar argument that the issues of books from libraries have increased by leaps and bounds since the beginning of the depression. It is quite clear that many men who normally would not read quite so much have turned to books for consolation and guidance. The fact that branch libraries were closed at Glasgow as an economy measure, and were afterwards re‐opened under the force of public opinion, would emphasize the opinion generally held that in times of economic stress it may be an even greater economy to increase expenditure upon libraries than to curtail it. This argument is, of course, in a region which the average material mind of our governors cannot always reach. It is nevertheless true, and the Conference provided ample evidence of its truth.