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Introduction The 1985 earthquake in Mexico City served as a sobering reminder of the destructive effects that earthquakes can have on well‐constructed and engineered buildings. The collapse of some 120 tall buildings in steel and reinforced concrete, many designed to a modern earthquake building code, and serious damage in several hundred more, might suggest that modern methods are powerless to prevent catastrophe in an extreme event. Less informed observers even concluded (erroneously) from the generally good performance of 18th and 19th century masonry buildings in the earthquake that we have somehow lost the art of earthquake resistant design which our fore‐fathers knew. The reasons for the selectiveness of attack and the poor performance of modern construction in the Mexico earthquake have been widely discussed (for example, Booth et al.1) and are reasonably well understood.

Introduction In a previous paper, I discussed the techniques for ensuring the earthquake resistance of new buildings. Experience of past earthquakes demonstrates that incorporating the methods and advances of the last 30 years in the planning, design and construction of new buildings is the best way of minimising loss of life and investment during major earthquakes.

Enumerates the origins and early development of outdoor advertising in the USA, stating that in early times (pre‐newspapers) most signs or symbols over shops, or handbills, were copied from the UK. Goes on to identify the areas and years that newspapers began to appear and make an impression, and gives breakdowns of how and where they started and grew to become formidable forces in the media‐starved years back then. Furthers the point that outdoor advertising in the USA evolved at a similar, but much slower, pace than in the UK. Posits that large circuses had an impact with regard to outdoor advertising and in particular Phineas Taylor Barnum, who was the first to use large illustrated posters for effect, and this soon caught on.

May 16, 1968 Building — Safety regulations — Roof of fragile materials — Safe means of access — Employee working from roof to knowledge of employers — Convenient but not necessary to do so — Not proper place from which to work — Employers' failure to inspect roof to see that safe — Whether negligent — Fall of employee through roof — Whether employers in breach of statutory duty — Whether roof place where employee “has…to work” — “Have to pass over” — “Ladders” — Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1948 (S.I. 1948 No. 1145), reg. 31(3) — Construction (General Provisions) Regulations, 1961 (S.I. 1961 No. 1580), reg. 7(1).

A clean, dry compressed air supply from an Ingersoll‐Rand ML‐5.5 SSR compressor is critical for a new method of powder coating being used for the first time in the world to glaze pottery at Stoke‐based Just Cats & Co. Installed by Chesterfield‐based AE Industrial, the local authorised distributer for Ingersoll‐Rand, the compressor supplies air to a modified version of a powder coating process from Simple Heat of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

Women with learning disabilities are at high risk of losing their children, yet their experience of this process remains under‐investigated. This study looks at the experiences of eight mothers with learning disabilities who lose custody of their children. In‐depth, semi‐structured interviews were conducted to explore their experiences. Findings suggest that concern about the women's parenting tend to be raised by other people, rather than the women themselves. Many of the women appeared not to understand the process of their children's removal, and said that they felt bullied and victimised by it. All blamed their violent partner or the social workers for what had happened, while some blamed their ‘learning disabilities’. All commented that they had received inadequate support from both services and their families before and after their children were removed. All described intense feelings of loss. The psychological impact seemed to reinforce their feelings of powerlessness and brought the salience of their learning disabilities into focus. Service and clinical implications are addressed.

THE coining of the phrase “work study” implies that someone wanted, without a noisy grinding of axes, to give time and motion study, as practised, a boost. So “work study” was born, all the old techniques were dressed up in a “new look,” and the whole show was presented to industry as “different”—it was a box‐office hit.