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The Pembrokeshire Herald
Church cash box thief jailed
Thomas Sinclair
A MAN, who admitted stealing a money box from St Katherine's Church in Milford Haven, has been jailed for 12 weeks.
Sam Maguire, aged 33, of no fixed abode, will also have to pay back the money that was in the box.
He appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates Court on Tuesday (Jul 9), via video link from Swansea prison, to plead guilty to a charge of theft by finding.
Prosecuting, Mr Abul Hussain told the Court: "On March 24, Mr David Roland noticed that the metal pricket stand and the cash box was missing. He viewed the CCTV and noticed a male taking the items.
The police attended and they identified the person from the footage. The items haven't been recovered. The defendant was shown the footage and although he can't remember the incident he said he was sure it is him in the footage. He has little recollection of the incident but he does accept he did it.
"Compensation is being sought in the sum of £575."
Defending, Mark Layton added: "He has pleaded guilty at the first opportunity and I am sure you will give him credit.
"The items concerned, a metal pricket stand that has spikes used to store candles and the cash box was connected in some way.
"He said he stole the stand because the cash box was connected to it. He owed somebody some money and saw this as a way to pay off that debt.
"He has moved out of the area but I am sure he is no longer welcome at the church under any circumstances but he has no desire to go back there.
"This is his first custodial sentence and he tells me he is finding it extremely difficult to manage."
Mr Layton had suggested that the Magistrates could impose a 2-year conditional discharge to leave this hanging over his head should he re-offend.
Magistrates did not agree and sentenced him to 12 weeks in prison. They said they had done this because the offence was committed whilst he was on a community order and that it was a breach of the public trust.
Maguire will have to pay a £115 victim surcharge and £575 in compensation.
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THE UK Government stands ready to revoke legislation governing the relationship between the ports of Fishguard and Rosslare.
The abolition of the current arrangements is a step closer according to Irish newspaper reports of a recent meeting between Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Fianna Fáil's transport spokesperson Robert Troy and Wexford TD James Browne.
According to the reports, Mr Grayling told the Irish politicians that the UK has 'no strategic or economic' interest in keeping the ports' governance structure.
The Irish Government, meanwhile, regards Rosslare as a major part of its Brexit plans and has acquired further land to provide additional facilities there.
The ports are governed by a UK Act of Parliament from 1888, which created the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbour Company.
The Act continued to govern the relationship between the Ports, even after most of Ireland secured its independence from the – then – British empire.
However, the old legislation has – in the view of Irish TD James Browne – hindered the Irish Government's ability to expand activities at Rosslare to the benefit of the local and Irish economies.
Stena Line: Looking at the long term development of both ports
Fishguard and Rosslare ports are part of the one company, namely the Fishguard and Rosslare Railway and Harbours Company set up by an Act of Parliament.
Mr Browne explained to The Herald: "In effect, ownership of the port lies with UK government. But in turn the ports are effectively run as private companies: Irish Rail control and operate the Rosslare end and Stena control and operate the Fishguard side and there is an agreement in place as to the division of profits of the company.
"In Ireland, this complex and archaic ownership model has regularly been cited as an inhibiting factor in the development of the port. In short, no one will invest in a port whose ownership is unclear."
The opportunity is not, however, all on one side, says the Wexford TD: "The decoupling of the two ports, and the transfer of Rosslare to Irish state ownership would free up both ports from this complex ownership model and allow investment in the ports."
Mr Browne also highlighted the potential for growth in economic activity in West Wales' closest trading neighbour: "Dublin Port is so busy that it is turning away business. Rosslare Port is in an ideal geographical location to attract shipping business and to take the pressure off of Dublin. Port. It, in turn, would act as an economic driver for the entire South East of Ireland."
Preseli Pembrokeshire MP Stephen Crabb told us: Stephen: "The importance of the Fishguard – Rosslare ferry connection is unquestionable with 80% of all goods from Ireland passing through Welsh ports.
"However, the historic legal framework for the ports is outdated and does not give either side the freedom they need to develop and innovate. I can well understand why change is being sought at this time.
"I have met with the management on both sides of the Irish Sea to discuss Brexit planning and other aspects of the industry and will continue to do so."
Ian Hampton, Chief People and Communications Officer, Stena Line said: "Stena Line hopes that by removing the historical legislation that governs the status of The Fishguard Rosslare Railways and Harbour Company it will enable Stena Line and the Irish Government to work closer together creating greater opportunity, such as the options for the long term development of both the respective ports."
THOUSANDS of women in Wales who need specialist support for mental health problems during pregnancy or following birth are unable to access the care they need because of where they live. And others needing specialist inpatient care must receive it in England because Wales does not have a mother and baby inpatient unit for women suffering the most severe mental health conditions.
Perinatal mental health problems are one of the most common complications experienced during pregnancy and after birth with up to one in five women – and up to one in 10 dads affected. Symptoms include depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders and postpartum psychosis.
It means that in Wales more than 6,000 new mothers every year will experience a mental health problem during pregnancy or in the 12 months following the birth of their child. If left untreated, these conditions can have a devastating impact on women and their families, making it harder for parents to provide the care babies need for healthy social, intellectual and emotional development.
As the NSPCC launches its new campaign, Fight for a Fair Start, which calls for improved perinatal mental health provision, the charity has highlighted that Wales's seven health boards have just one specialist health visitor and four specialist perinatal mental health midwives between them.
These roles can offer vital early help and continuity of care to mums and their families affected by perinatal mental health problems and help reduce demands on other services which have to support parents suffering problems.
The charity has also highlighted that new mothers experiencing the most severe perinatal mental health conditions are not able to access appropriate inpatient care in Wales because there is no mother and baby unit. Instead, women who need specialist inpatient care are either admitted for treatment in adult psychiatric wards – where they may be separated from their child – or in mother and baby units in England.
Launching Fight for a Fair Start today (19 July) NSPCC Cymru has called for:
Dedicated specialist perinatal mental health midwives and health visitors in each health board area, to help identify and support women and their families affected by perinatal mental health problems.
All women and their families to be able to access a mother and baby unit in Wales.
Greater investment in specialist services to ensure that all women and their families can access high quality specialist perinatal mental health services, wherever they live in Wales
Dr Sarah Witcombe-Hayes, Senior Policy Researcher at NSPCC Wales, said: "New mums and dads in Wales are still not receiving the mental health support that they need to give their babies the best start in life. Experiencing perinatal mental health problems can make it harder for parents to provide the sensitive and responsive care that babies need at such an important time, and that is why it is so crucial to have the right support in place for families.
"Access to this vital support should not be dependent upon where you live. Having at least one specialist mental health midwife and specialist perinatal mental health visitor in each health board in Wales would be a significant step towards ensuring that these problems are identified early and mums and their families receive the best care.
"Greater investment is also needed. The Welsh Government must make sure that all women and their families affected by the most serious problems can access potentially lifesaving treatment and support from a mother and baby unit in Wales when they need it."
North Wales mum Sally Wilson developed postpartum psychosis in 2015 just days after the birth of her daughter Ella but was unable to access the locally-based help she needed such as a mother and baby unit. She said: "I experienced delusions, hallucinations and I was terrified I had harmed Ella but I was admitted to a general adult psychiatric unit, which was scary and traumatic, while Ella went home with my partner.
"In North Wales there weren't any specialist perinatal mental health teams and no specialist mother and baby unit with the nearest two hours away in England. It took me a long time to access the correct treatment and not only did this have an impact on my recovery but it also affected early bonding with Ella.
"In the absence of specialist help, I was fortunate that my partner's research background meant he was able to investigate evidence-based treatment options, I appreciate that is not the case for everyone. I also relied heavily on the charity Action on Postpartum Psychosis to help me recover. Ultimately, this saved my life."
Dr Jess Heron, CEO of Action on Postpartum Psychosis added that they supported the NSPCC Campaign. She said: "Most women who develop Postpartum Psychosis will need admission to a specialist Mother and Baby Unit. It is not right that women who become ill in Wales have to be admitted far away from their families in England, or risk being separated from their infant.
"Psychiatric illness is the leading cause of maternal death in the postpartum year in the UK. We fully endorse the call made by NSPCC for women to have immediate access to a mother and baby unit within a reasonable distance of their home if they need it, and to have access to specialist care within perinatal mental health teams wherever they live."
The NSPCC campaign has been supported by Jo Malone London who also fund direct services to new and prospective parents, focussing on supporting parents with their mental health problems to help them develop secure and healthy relationships with their children.
The NSPCC is inviting people to join the campaign by raising their voice and signing the Fight for a Fair Start petition.
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There were four people on board, three of which were suffering from severe sea sickness. The skipper of the vessel was unfamiliar with the area.
The RNLI lifeboat escorted the casualty to the calmer water of Ramsey Sound and put two volunteer crew members on board to check the condition of the crew and assist with mooring the vessel.
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When aerobatics first came into being in the 1920s, there was no good method for pilots to explain to others what they were going to fly. Some used their own method of shorthand notations, others would describe the maneuver with various words and phrases. But as the sport of aerobatics began to mature and spread into international competition, the need for a standardized method to describe aerobatic flight maneuvers grew due to language differences.
In 1961, the Spanish pilot José Luis de Aresti published an aerocryptographic system to describe aerobatic maneuvers that broke down individual pieces into lines, curves and rotational elements. This Sistema Aresti, or Aresti System, was adopted by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (World Air Sports Federation or FAI) as the official method of aerobatic sequence description at the World Aerobatic Championships in Bilboa, Spain in 1964. Today, the Aresti System – called Aresti for short – is in use worldwide. It allows a Russian pilot to fly a U.S. sequence in front of an Italian judge and no one needs to speak a foreign language to make it happen!
At first glance, Aresti may look like complicated hieroglyphics. But if you understand the basic notations and rules, it becomes a much clearer picture to read and speak.
An introduction to the origin and basic organization of the Aresti Aerocryptographic System describing aerobatic flight programs by the IAC.
For starters, each figure begins and ends with a horizontal line of flight that may either be upright or inverted. The figures will be numbered in the order in which they should be flown, and the start of a figure will have a black or open dot and at the end, a bar.
Competition sequences will be designed to be flown inside the confines of the Aerobatic Box, so the figures will switch directions across the page (and in the air) every two to three maneuvers. Figures are drawn in 2D – left/right, up/down – but the actual flying uses a third axis, to/from. To show a change to the "crossbox" or y-axis, it takes a 1/4 or 3/4 rotation to switch from x to y, and the end bar of a figure flown on this axis will be horizontal, instead of vertical.
This is an Intermediate sequence which shows all of the above.
Lines represent three modes of flight: horizontal, vertical or at a 45° angle. Upright or positive g flight lines are solid, while inverted or negative g lines are dashed and red if color is used. Upright or inverted only describes horizontal lines (or spins). Positive g or negative g describes what is happening to the g-loading of the plane on the other lines and curves and can be thought of as what the pilot is experiencing: are they being pushed down into the seat (positive) or do the feel like they are being "thrown" out of the seat toward the canopy (negative)? Even though a plane flying a loop is inverted on top, it is still a positive maneuver because there is positive loading and a positive angle of attack on the wings.
Circles and partial circles or curves drawn with solid or dashed lines, represent full loops and partial loops from 7/8 to 1/2. Turns look like circles on their sides, can be upright (solid) or inverted (dashed), and will be drawn as 90°, 180°, 270° or 360° of heading change.
To these lines and circles, other symbols can be added to represent rotational elements: rolls, spins and snap rolls. An aileron or "slow" roll is represented by a curved arrow, and a number may be added to indicate "point rolls" – where the pilot pauses then continues the roll, like the hands of a ticking clock – such as 8-point, "8", or two of four quarters, "2x4".
Spins are represented by long, right triangles, and snap rolls are shorter, equilateral triangles. The triangles will be empty/not filled for upright spins and positive snaps, while black or red-filled triangles represent inverted spins and negative snaps. If the arrow or triangle crosses the main line, it indicates a full rotation. If it is drawn on only one side of the line, it shows a partial rotation, which is assumed to be 1/2 unless there is an additional written notation indicating a 1/4 or 3/4 turn.
These arrows or triangles can be combined to indicate more than 360° of rotation and the tips of the symbols will be linked by a small line. However, if the arrows are pointing in opposite directions on he main line, then this indicates separate elements which must be flown in opposite directions back to back. A maximum of two sets of rotational elements are allowed on any one line.
Each figure and optional rotational elements has a "K value", or point value, and a catalog identifier number. For example, a plain horizontal line has a k of 2 and an ID of 1.1.1.1. Add a half positive snap, k of 11 with an ID of 9.9.3.2, and the overall figure has a point value of 13.
In competition, the K value is multiplied by the judge's score that ranges in .5 increments from 10 (perfect!) to 0.0 (so badly flown they ran out of points). So if a judge gives a competitor a 8.5 on the line with a half positive snap (1.1.1.1 + 9.9.3.2) with a k=13, the final point value is 110.5 of a possible 130. This process is repeated for every figure and every judge, with the overall ranking of a pilot in the flight determined by the overall percentage of points won out of the total points possible.
There is an in-depth exploration of these families, Aresti and its rules over at the IAC site written by Brian Howard if you'd like to understand more. The most up-to-date full Aresti catalog may be ordered from Spain (it is copyrighted and not available online).
Head over to the Competition Levels page (coming soon!) to review the current year's sequences.


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What Is The Thickest Interior Layer Of Earth The Thinnest?
The core is the thickest layer of the Earth, and the crust is relatively thin, compared to the other layers.
What is the thinnest layer of the Earth's interior?
The Earth is composed of four major layers: the outer solid crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. The crust is the thinnest layer of the Earth, comprising less than 1% of the volume of our planet.
The plates "float" on the soft, plastic mantle underneath the crust. Typically, these plates move freely, but occasionally they become stuck and generate pressure. The increasing pressure causes the rock to deform until it breaks. When this occurs, a quake is the consequence! Observe how thin the Earth's crust is compared to its other layers.
The seven continents and oceanic plates float on the mantle, which is made of significantly hotter and denser material. Granite and basalt are the two primary rock kinds that make up the crust. The majority of the continental crust is formed of granite. The oceanic crust is composed of basalt, a volcanic lava rock.
Oceanic basaltic rocks are significantly more dense and heavier than continental granitic rocks. Consequently, continents ride atop denser oceanic plates. The crust and top layer of the mantle constitute the Lithosphere, a zone of stiff, brittle rock. Asthenosphere describes the asphalt-like layer that lies under the unyielding lithosphere.
The asthenosphere is the portion of the Earth's mantle responsible for plate movement. The Shroud The mantle is the layer immediately underneath the sima. It is the thickest layer of the planet at 1800 miles. The mantle consists of extremely hot, thick rock. This granite layer even flows like asphalt when subjected to a significant load.
This flow is caused by significant temperature variations between the mantle's base and its surface. The plates of the Earth move because of the movement of the mantle! The temperature of the mantle ranges from around 1600 degrees Fahrenheit at the top to over 4000 degrees Fahrenheit towards the base! Convection Circulations As a result of the mantle's greater density and thickness, the plates "float" on it like oil on water.
Many geologists believe that convection currents cause the mantle to "flow." Extremely hot material in the deepest section of the mantle rises, cools, sinks, and then rises, cools, sinks, and repeats the cycle to generate convection currents.
The next time you cook a liquid in a pan, such as soup or pudding, you may observe convection currents moving through the liquid.
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When convection currents travel through the mantle, the crust also moves. The crust rides for free on these currents. A conveyor belt at a factory transports boxes like convection currents in the mantle transport Earth's tectonic plates. Exterior Core The Earth's core resembles a ball of very heated metals.
(4000 degrees F. to 9000 degrees F.) The outer core is so heated that all of the metals within it are in liquid form. The outer core is approximately 1400 miles thick and is around 1800 miles under the crust. The outer core is made of nickel and iron that have been melted. Inner Core The deep core of the Earth contains such high temperatures and pressures that the metals are unable to flow like a liquid and are instead forced to vibrate in place as a solid.
Roughly 800 miles thick, the inner core begins about 4000 miles under the crust. Temperatures may exceed 9000 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 45,000,000 pounds per square inch. This is three million times the air pressure at sea level! Answer the following questions with your partner on a sheet of paper.
If you need to look back to get the answers, you should do so. Use the page titles right beneath the questions for assistance. When you have completed the questions, click the Earth button to return to the beginning of the program.1. Identify the four layers of the Earth in sequence from the surface to the core.
What factors induce the mantle to "flow"? What are the two primary metals comprising the outer and inner cores? Describe in your own words the formation of the Earth's layers. "The Four Layers" will be of assistance.
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Which crust is the thinnest and most solid?
Unraveling the Ocean Crust Tapestry Most people are aware that the oceans encompass around 70% of the Earth's surface. Fewer individuals recognize that the crust underlying seas and continents differs substantially. Why this is the case is still a riddle that scientists are attempting to unravel.
Oceanic crust is often formed of basalt and gabbro, two dark-colored rocks.
It is thinner and denser than continental crust, which is composed of andesite and granite, two light-colored rocks.
Due to its low density, continental crust "floats" over the fluid mantle, producing dry land.
In contrast, solid oceanic crust does not "float" as high, resulting in ocean basins with a lower elevation.
After roughly 200 million years, when the oceanic crust cools and grows thicker, it descends back into the mantle under its own weight. Continental crust, on the other hand, may be up to 4 billion years old and is believed to be the result of significantly more complex geologic recycling processes than those that form ocean crust.
If we can comprehend and interpret the relatively easy account of how oceanic crust forms, we may one day be able to decipher the more intricate account of how the continents evolved. In a few locations on Earth, slabs of oceanic crust (called ophiolites) have been driven onto continents, providing geologists with the rare opportunity to examine rock formations that were formerly submerged.
The biggest ophiolite may be found in Oman, close to the Persian Gulf. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution photograph by Peter Kelemen)
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Hubble Space Telescope at 30: Our window into the universe
A look back at the Hubble Space Telescope's legacy and scientific contributions as it completes 30 years in orbit
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Hubble as seen from the space shuttle Discovery during its second servicing mission. Credit: Nasa
By Nitin Sreedhar
In a 2010 interview to the European Space Agency, John M. Grunsfeld, an American physicist and former Nasa astronaut, said that a service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope was like the "holy grail" of "going up there" and doing something that is widely regarded as extremely important. Grunsfeld has been part of three missions to the Hubble, his last one being in 2009.
This year the "holy grail" of space telescopes completes 30 years in orbit. In fact, the Hubble was deployed into low Earth orbit this week (on April 25) exactly three decades ago, after being launched on the space shuttle Discovery a day before.
Over the last three decades, the Hubble has sent back thousands of hundreds of pictures of the cosmos. That is exactly what the space telescope was built for: to study the history and evolution of the universe. Studying distant galaxies and capturing clearer images of the universe are tricky tasks for ground-based telescopes due to interference caused by the Earth's atmosphere. When a telescope looks to the vast expanse of the cosmos to take a picture, the light it is supposed to capture must first travel through the air in our atmosphere. If the air is distorted or turbulent, an image loses its sharpness and appears hazy.
This 'atmospheric distortion' is the reason stars appear like they are twinkling when we look at them in the night sky. "This refers to the distortion of starlight as it passes through the air and results in fuzzy images of space. This is not fun for astronomers," says Poshak Gandhi, associate professor and astronomer at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Southampton. "Hubble was the largest telescope operating in the visible light range to be launched into space. In space, there is no twinkling, which enabled Hubble to capture incredibly sharp images. The combination of its finesse and light-gathering power is what made Hubble unique, even amongst the other Great Observatories," adds Gandhi.
Chief among the Great Observatories
The Hubble was joined by three other magnificent astronomical telescopes as part of Nasa's Great Observatories program: the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Of the four, only Hubble and the Chandra X-ray Observatory remain operational today.
Vishal K Gajjar, a Templeton post-doctoral research fellow at the Berkeley SETI research center at the University of California, explains how astronomers try to look at the entire electromagnetic spectrum (which includes all wavelengths and energies) to get a good understanding of astrophysical objects and processes.
The spiral galaxy NGC 2008 in this image captured by Hubble. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini
Gajjar, who is also a project scientist for the Breakthrough Listen scientific project aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth, says Nasa's Great Observatories programme provided these unique windows into the universe at different wavelengths. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, for instance, looked at the highest energy photons in gamma-rays while other telescopes such as the Chandra Ray and Spitzer observed cosmos at X-ray and infrared frequencies, respectively. "Hubble, on the other hand, was designed to look at the optical light along with also extending some coverage to near-ultraviolet and near-infrared. So, the Hubble was unique and different in terms of the operational waveband to other space telescopes," adds Gajjar.
These infrared capabilities, he adds, allowed the Hubble telescope to see through the dust clouds and observe new stars being born. "Hubble also observed deaths of stars by observing several supernovae events, which helped astronomers to discover the mysterious 'dark energy' responsible for accelerating expansion of the Universe," he adds.
The Hubble Deep Field
Among some of its biggest contributions to the scientific community, the Hubble also helped astronomers understand the correct age of the universe: around 13.8 billion years, a figure previously thought to be somewhere between 10-20 billions years. In 1995, the Hubble sent back an image that showed how small Earth was in the bigger scheme of things. Known as the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), the picture was pieced together after the telescope looked at a random part of the sky for 10 days. The results were spectacular. Gandhi says the HDF is a "striking example" of the awe-inspiring images from the Hubble that have had no equal since. This very 'deep' image of a small field of the sky, shows thousands of distant galaxies and demonstrates the vastness of the cosmos at a single glance, he adds.
The Hubble Deep Field Image shows galaxies back to the beginning of time. Credit: Nasa/JPL/STScI Hubble Deep Field Team
A January 1996 press release from Nasa called the image "one peek into a small part of the sky, one giant leap back in time." Essentially, Hubble scanned just one speck of the sky but still revealed an "assortment of at least 1,500 galaxies at various stages of evolution." As the release explained, because the light that reaches us now from distant galaxies left billions of years ago, we are viewing them at a time when they were younger.
Hubble also contributed to some of the other most important results in astronomy over the past two decades. "This includes weighing supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei, measuring the acceleration of the cosmos itself, and catching the collision of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter," adds Gandhi. Shoemaker-Levy 9's collision with Jupiter in July 1994 was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects.
Ever since its mission began in 1990, the Hubble has made more than a million observations. Sitting outside the haze of Earth's atmosphere, it can spot astronomical objects with an angular size of 0.05 arcseconds. According to Nasa, that's like seeing a pair of fireflies in Tokyo that are less than 10 feet apart from Washington DC.
But eventually one of the most productive scientific instruments ever built, will be replaced by a successor. In this case, it's the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which was scheduled to launch in March next year, but now faces a delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. While the Hubble might remain operational till 2030-40, the JWST is now expected to inspect objects and galaxies even further into the universe. "JWST will have about seven times more light-collecting power than Hubble. But its real advantage lies in the fact that it will operate primarily in the infrared range. This opens up a vast new frontier for study, from exoplanets to the very earliest galaxies formed in the universe," adds Gandhi.
Gajjar explains that since light travels at a finite speed, you can consider all telescopes as time-machines to gaze at the history of the universe. "So, while Hubble is able to see as far back in time when the very first young galaxies were around, the JWST will be able to see the birth of the very first galaxies and stars. In other words, it is designed to study the very first light in the universe," he adds.
Along its journey of exploration, the Hubble has had many stumbling blocks -- including the famous flawed mirror problem in its early days, which was eventually fixed in 1993. Funding and a huge cost burden have also been issues related to its continued working. Despite that, Gandhi believes the Hubble is 'emperor' amongst the ranking of telescopes and will remain so: "Hubble's real legacy has been the ability to inspire."


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Green paper promised on Incapacity Benefit reform
By Michael Millar on 16 Mar 2005 in Economics, government & business, Equality & diversity, Latest News, Department for Work and Pensions, Disability
The government is to publish plans in the summer to scrap Incapacity Benefit and replace it with a system focused on helping people into work, according to work and pensions minister Alan Johnson.
The government's approach to tackling Incapacity Benefit was set out in a five-year strategy launched in February. It included plans to replace Incapacity Benefit with two new benefits – Rehabilitation Support Allowance and Disability and Sickness Allowance – and scrap the incremental increase in rates that was seen to be a disincentive to leaving the benefit.
Speaking at the New Beginnings Symposium, Johnson said the plans would sweep aside a system that branded the 2.7 million recipients of the benefit as incapable and help claimants to focus on what they can do, rather than what they cannot.
A Green Paper in the summer will start a formal consultation about how the replacement benefit system will operate, the role of personal advisers and what people will be required to do in the future to access the higher rates of benefit. It will also explore what safeguards and appeals processes should be in the system.
"In the summer we will set out in detail in a Green Paper how we will radically change the benefit system so it reflects all that we have learned about the needs of those on Incapacity Benefit," Johnson said.
"Together – working with employers, GPs, special interest groups and claimants themselves – we can replace the sicknote culture with one of hope and opportunity." The annual bill for Incapacity Benefit is £7.7bn.
Johnson laid out four key areas for consideration:
Fairness – what should be the content of the "return to work activities" that we recognise as beneficial in helping people with health conditions to get back to work.
Security – how to minimise the risks people face when they want to move into work and ensure that they have every incentive possible to try out work.
Inclusion – how to ensure that the Disability Sickness Allowance does not mean that people are written off or have no interest in working but recognises the severity of their conditions.
Results for all – what features the system needs to ensure that it works effectively for people with mental health conditions.
To inform the Green Paper write with comments to:
Incapacity Benefit Reform Team
1-11 John Adam Street
WC2N 6HT


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For this table, a uniform load on the joist never determines the allowable span of the overhang. Only deflection due to the point load or ¼ the length of the main span (whichever controls) limit the length of the overhang. Under a single point load, deflection at the overhang decreases as the main span decreases. Thus for many cases in the table, allowable overhang spans are shorter because the allowable main spans are longer. Where it appears that the overhang spans are inconsistent with the joist spacing, the increased deflection of the overhang is controlling. Where the overhang deflection does not control, the overhang spans are limited to 1/4 the main span and appear consistent with the joist spacing.
For example, the three joists below are the maximum allowable spans for Southern Pine 2x6 joists, which are all deflection controlled. While the allowable overhang span increases as joist spacing increases (widens), it is because the main span significantly decrease in length, which adds stiffness at the overhang. Overall deck length is increased by closer spacing.


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Holiday scam firm wound up
A COMPANY behind the nationwide holiday scam which prompted a wave of concern in Widnes and Runcorn and warnings from Halton's consumer protection officers has been wound up by the High Court.
Investigations revealed less than 30 people out of thousands across the UK received 'prizes' they should have been entitled to.
Earlier this year, the Weekly News was inundated by calls from worried residents who could not understand why they had received letters offering 'free' holidays for a £30 'processing' fee.
The letters told residents they had won first prize in a competition - despite them never having entered a competition.
Now the High Court has liquidated the companies behind the scheme - Incentive Marketing and Direct Travel Ltd - following a DTI probe which found that a staggering 65,000 people had parted with their hard earned cash in the hope of claiming prize holidays in Spain, Portugal and the Canary Islands.
An estimated £3.45m had been sent to the company but only £1.79m could be accounted for.
In July, the council urged people to think twice before handing over their cash and, more importantly, warned of the dangers of signing contracts they were not 100% sure about.
Consumers were also advised to expect long waits of up to 18 months before receiving any holiday prize  but out of the 55,000 letters distributed across the UK just 25 people received the prizes that they were entitled to.
Halton Borough Council consumer officers also thought it suspicious that the company had charged a 'processing' fee rather than a deposit, meaning that if no holiday was forthcoming, the company could not be held in breach of contract and no cash could claimed back.
Nicholas Caddick, counsel for the DTI, said: 'This was obviously a highly profitable venture for those involved in the company but a very unsatisfactory one for the public.'
Holidays Direct, which had traded from addresses in Longnor, Derbyshire, and Bournemouth, Dorset, sent prize letters and brochures to the public announcing that recipients had won top prize in a competition guaranteeing them free flights and holiday accommodation for two in luxury apartments.
The unsolicited letters included a certificate entitling the recipient to a holiday within 18 months providing certificates were returned within seven days and accompanied by the administration fee.
The organisations behind the scheme were wound up in the public interest on the basis that:
* The holiday promotion scheme was unsatisfactory - members of the public had been persuaded to hand over cash on the promise of free holidays that very few were likely to receive.
* The companies attracted a response and payments from members of the public on the basis of untrue or misleading documents containing untrue or misleading promises or assurances.
Speaking in the wake of the decision, MP Melanie Johnson, minister for competition, consumers and markets, gave a stern warning to other companies running similar ventures, that they would be brought to book.
She said: 'Today's judgement will be some comfort to the many people who have lost money to know that this firm has been put out of business once and for all.
'This case has certainly attracted a great deal of attention and many people have been involved. I am glad that no one else will loose out from now on.
'The minority of businesses who think they can get away with deliberately cheating the public should take note  we are not prepared to let you get away with it and we will do everything we can to stop you.'
* Anyone who receives similar correspondence can contact Halton Borough Council's consumer protection division for advice on 0151 471 7515 or email consumer.protection@halton-borough.gov.uk
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PhD candidate synthetic chemistry: antimicrobial material development and assessment / FHML / School CAPHRI / Department of Orthopedics
Maastricht University, Netherlands
13 Oct 3 Nov Maastricht
Are you challenged by the threat AMR poses to the future of health care? If so, then apply for this challenging PhD position at the University of Maastricht, where in close collaboration with other academic partners and industry, we will work on new material technologies that will have real societal impact and aid in the fight against AMR.
The Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) is a program where the public, stakeholders and researchers jointly identify questions, investigate these and share and implement the knowledge acquired. The aim of this is to further encourage the high-quality science climate in the Netherlands and to realise societal and scientific breakthroughs. Within the NWA programmes, the innovative character should be expressed in interdisciplinarity and the knowledge chain-wide composition of consortia.
NWA is providing a grant of 9.8 million euros to the DARTBAC project: Dutch Antimicrobial Resistance Technology development and Biofilm Assessment Consortium. The industry partners of the DARTBAC consortium contribute an additional 1.3 million euros to the budget. An international interdisciplinary consortium of 23 partners led by MUMC+ investigating dr. Chris Arts will spend the next 6 years researching new technological solutions to the explosively growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The research focuses on the development of alternatives to traditional antibiotics, through the use of new material technology.
DARTBAC will:
From a material perspective, develop new antimicrobial technologies that are not based on classic antibiotics to target infection prevention and -eradication on implant surfaces, in hard tissues, and in soft tissues;
Assess safety and efficacy of these newly developed antimicrobial technologies;
Enhance the therapeutic efficacy of current antibiotics by combination therapy;
Develop a new workflow based of predictive in vitro and in vivo models to test safety and efficacy of newly developed antimicrobial technology in order to shorten the time to-market;
Maintain awareness of the emerging AMR problem in the Netherlands by informing the general public and Health Care Professionals.
The duties of the candidate for this position will consist of setting up, coordinating and conducting experiments; the processing and analysis of the data, as well as writing scientific articles and giving presentations at national and international conferences.
Within Maastricht University Medical Centre communication with especially the department of Medical Microbiology and our industry partner DSM will be pivotal.
Specific scientific tasks for the function include:
Development of novel biomaterials for application in or on medical devices;
In vitro assessment of safety and efficacy of new antimicrobial technologies;
Translation of research results toward clinical implementation.
38—40 hours per week
€2541—€3247 per month
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We seek candidates with a background in synthetic organic chemistry or polymer chemistry and a highly developed interest in biofunctionalization of polymers via chemical or biosynthetic approach. Expertise in structural polymer analysis techniques and molecular/chemical analysis techniques in general is highly preferred. Experience with cell culturing or bacterial and analysis of in vitro cellular and/or microbiological experiments is preferred. Experience with or a keen interest in material-cell interactions would be an asset.
The candidate must be results oriented and a team player must demonstrate good communication skills and project management skills.
The candidate must have strong communication skills both written and orally in the English language. Proficiency in written and spoken Dutch is preferred.
The position is based in Maastricht with direct collaboration with DSM and TU/e, on the interface of industry and academia.
Living in Maastricht / Limburg region or willing to move there is required.
Fixed-term contract: 1 + 3 years.
We offer a full-time position (38 hours/week) at Maastricht University at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School CAPHRI.
The full-time position is offered for four years (1+3), with a yearly evaluation. Your salary would be € 2.541,- gross per month in the first year up to € 3.247,- gross per month in the fourth year according to the PhD-candidate salary scale. On top of this, there is an 8% holiday and an 8.3% year-end allowance.
The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > About UM > Working at UM .
Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 22,000 students and about 5,000 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. For more information, visit www.maastrichtuniversity.nl
Department Orthopedic Surgery of School Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI)
Department of Orthopedic Surgery http://orthopedie.mumc.nl
The Department of Orthopedic Surgery of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) of the Maastricht University Medical Center, in Maastricht, the Netherlands at MUMC+ has a long-standing expertise in translational (pre)clinical research. The Laboratory for Experimental Orthopedics has extensive experience performing fundamental and (pre)clinical research in the field of orthopedics.
The lab hosts a multidisciplinary research team including background in advanced molecular science, biomaterials, biomedical engineering, biomedical sciences, cell biology, health sciences, imaging, laboratory analysis techniques, medical devices research, translational research, that together with the clinical colleagues in the department of orthopedic surgery are being applied on 5 translation research lines (Osteoarthritis and molecular cartilage biology, spine, infection and complex prosthesiology, pediatrics and trauma). We have close collaborations with various medical device industry partners and also with Eindhoven University of Technology.
CAPHRI
CAPHRI works towards better health for everyone through innovative solutions for healthcare and public health care. CAPHRI builds bridges between science and society by conducting research with an inclusive and participatory approach. The research focuses on prevention and innovation ranging from public - and primary health care, to person-oriented long-term care.
Our research has a strong multidisciplinary approach with attention to local, regional and global themes embedded in six research lines: Ageing and Long-Term Care, Creating Value-Based Health Care, Functioning, Participation and Rehabilitation, Health Inequities and Societal Participation, Optimising Patient Care; and Promoting Health and Personalised Care.
Working at CAPHRI means being engaged in an active and inspiring academic setting and making a real contribution to the improvement of care and public health. CAPHRI attracts top scientists from around the world and is known for its comprehensive PhD training programme for young talented scientists.
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For more information about this position, please contact:
Dr. Chris Arts, Associate professor translational biomaterials
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre
Email: j.arts@mumc.nl
* an e-assessment will be part of the selection procedure
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Centerville still dealing with fire fallout
By Chris Potter
Highway Department lost bulk of equipment in fire
BELMONT — The Centerville Highway Department has been working out of pickup trucks as it continues to deal with the ramifications of the Nov. 10 fire that claimed its garage and most of its fleet of equipment.
Bonnie VanHousen, of the Allegany County Office of Emergency Services, provided an update to the Public Safety Committee at the December meeting.
As previously reported — http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/news/20181112/strongcenterville-highway-garage-catches-fire-heavy-equipment-loststrong —
the Centerville Highway Department sustained heavy damage in the Nov. 10 fire.
Centerville Highway Superintendent Kaleb Armison was passing by when he spotted something that didn't look right. Armison stopped to investigate and found a blaze inside the garage.
"Unfortunately there was too much damage before they got there and they lost three of their snowplow trucks, a Gradall, a grader, and a loader that didn't even have a tank of fuel put through it yet," VanHousen said. "We've been in constant contact with them trying to help them in any way we can to get through all of the paperwork processes. It was deemed that it was the wiring in one of the snowplow trucks that caused the fire."
The fire presented an additional challenge as the rest of the month featured one of the heaviest November snowfalls on record. The county has a snowplow truck on loan to Centerville, as do the towns of Rushford and Independence.
The trucks are stored outdoors. The Centerville Highway Department has been working through the insurance process hoping to get a temporary trailer to house operations, but in the meantime VanHousen said crews are working out of their pickup trucks when they're not on the road.
"It's a very slow process so far," she said. "Kaleb has been in contact with them at least twice a week. It's a work in progress."
Fit tests
In other fire news, VanHousen said OES has obtained a fit tester through a grant. The equipment will come in handy with the state's Cancer Bill that mandates insurance coverage for interior firefighters. A fit test is one of the prerequisites for coverage.
"Jeff (Luckey) and I have both been trained on it," VanHousen said. "We will have all six of our deputy coordinators trained on it so we can fit test any fire departments that are lacking in fit testing. Some only do physicals, they don't do fit testing. In order to be covered, they have to be fit tested. We have the equipment and the training now so we can do that for all of our fire departments."
The committee approved appointments to the fire advisory board. They include: Kevin Gagne - Alfred, Heidi Wilmart - Birdsall, Judson Stearns Jr - Alfred Station, John Wilson - Cuba, Richard Paul Edwards - Allentown, Gerald Gayford - Fillmore, Emily Ormsby - Almond, Carl Green - Friendship, Rick Abbott - Angelica Richard Bunk - New Hudson, James Wooley - Belfast, Sherman Gage - Richburg, Brandon LaValley - Belmont, Dan Metcalf - Rushford, Terry Richardson - Bolivar, Tim Voss - Short Tract, Kym Duthoy - Canaseraga, David Helmer Sr. - Wellsville, Randy Whitesell - Andover, Alan Mills - Wiscoy-Rossburg, Dennis Graves - Whitesville.
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If you are considering bees as a hobby or as a sideline business, there are things you will want to keep in mind before making that decision. Since there are many factors involved with making money with the honeybees produce, you might want to start doing it as a hobby. There is a significant amount of money in the start-up of beekeeping. Before investing any amount of money in your beekeeping project, you might want contact beekeepers in your area. As a rule, they will more than happy to share their experience with you. Most beekeepers love keeping bees and to them it is just a "hobby", but they can give you some insight into beekeeping. Take plenty of notes. More likely than not you will need them.
In making the decision of becoming a beekeeper, you will want to consider the safety of family, friends, and neighbors. You wouldn't want someone to get stung that is allergic to bee stings. The best course of action on that account is to ask your neighbors and friends, if any of them are allergic to bees. You will also be able to find out if there might be someone who would not like beehives so close to their proximity. You will also want to check with the county you live in. You will want to know about any ordinances or laws prohibiting beekeeping.
You will also want to consider whether or not you have a location that would be conducive to maintaining bees. You will also want to consider where the bees will have to fly to retrieve nectar and pollen. Keeping plants they like close by is not a bad idea either. Since bees need water every day, you might want to have water for them close at hand. You don't want them visiting the neighbor's swimming pool. Here is a list of spots unacceptable to the health of the bees.
How many months of the year will pollen and nectar will be readily available to the bees?
Will you have to feed them in order for them to survive and how much of the year?
Is there a water supply available year round for the bees? They need water every day.
You will need to consider what will be underneath the bees as they fly to get the nectar and pollen they require. The bees will defecate as they are flying and their feces will leave spots on everything below them. The feces can even ruin the surface of a vehicle. There are methods to use to force the bees to fly at a higher altitude, such as.a tall fence or thick tall plants near the hive.
You want the hives accessible year round.
You will want to avoid low spots for your hives because they hold the cold, damp air too long.
You will also want to avoid high spots for your hives because that would be too windy.
These are just some of the things you will want to consider before taking on this hobby.
During a nectar flow, many of the older workers will be in the field hunting for food. This is the best time to examine the colony. During the summer more bees will be in the hive and the situation can change, especially between the nectar flows. There can be some robbing going on at this time, which will make the bees even more defensive at any intrusion to their hive. Leaving the colony open for more than a few minutes can accelerate a robbing as can leaving cappings or honey exposed. It will become a necessity to reduce the entrance of a weak colony to prevent stronger hives attempt to rob from it. A honey flow will reduce the likelihood of robbing.
The mood of the bees can have a lot to do with the weather or the time of day. On the days of rainy weather, cool temperatures, early in the morning or late in the afternoon will be more likely to make them angry and they will attack. Always inspect them on warm, sunny days in the middle of the day when most of the bees are foraging.
Keep a constant warm water supply for the bees to cool the hive and dilute honey to feed t heir young. They will collect water from the closest water source. If you do not have a constant supply of shallow water for the bees, they will look for it somewhere else, like the neighbor's pool, birdbath or wading ponds. The bees are more likely to drown in those sources. If you have a water supply for them when they first fly out in spring, they will not go anywhere else for water. Once they find a water source, it is hard to keep them from going back to it.
A beekeeper must keep the bees in control every time the hive is open. A typical hive can house thousands of workers all capable of stinging. There are measures a beekeeper can take in the open that he can not take in the city because of the closeness of other people.
Smoke is the most important tool for the beekeeper opening a hive. Smoke should be used in moderation, but the smoker should be capable of producing large volumes of smoke on short notice. The beekeeper must smoke the entrance of the hive, under the cover, and periodically smoke the frames while the hive is open. Try not to jar the hive or the frames as that may anger the bees, which will make it hard for a beekeeper to do his work. The beekeeper must work quickly and carefully. By going through the frames several times a year, the beekeeper keeps the frames movable. Remove any excess combs.
Using gloves when working with bees make the beekeeper clumsier and he may lose control of the hive. The stings that the gloves are protecting you from are easily removed and the pain quickly passes.
One of the most important pieces of clothing a beekeeper wears is the veil. Bee stings on the face can be very painful and there is the possibility of damage to the eyes and ears.
If by chance a bee gets inside the veil, walk away from the hives and remove the bees. Never remove the veil when you are in with the hives.
Use protective clothing to avoid getting hive product on your regular clothes, and to protect sensitive areas of your body. Avoid dark or rough textured clothes. Bees are able to hold on to a rough texture material than smooth material. Wear white or light colored coveralls. If you are not using boots, do not wear dark socks. Boots that fasten over the coveralls or in the coveralls should be worn. A windbreaker jacket will help you to avoid being stung. Pants, veil, sleeves should be fasten securely to prevent bees from getting into your clothes. If a bee does get into your clothing, squeeze it in the clothing or walk away from the hives and open up your clothing to allow the bee to escape. Before handling bees, do not use any sweet smelling cologne, hair spray or any other products. The odor may irritate the bees or attract them. Glove should be used sparingly. Gloves are useful during bad weather or when moving colonies, but gloves can hinder the manipulating of the colonies. Without the interference of gloves, you will find that the bees respond better to a lighter touch.
As a beginner you will want to contemplate the number of colonies you want to start out with. Two or three is a good number to start off with because it will give you a chance to compare the two colonies, such as the growth and the production.
2 shallow 10-frame supers with frames.
You can buy this equipment new or used. If it is used you will want to make sure it is in good condition. Also have it examined by the Apiary Inspection Service for any possibility of disease. The equipment will run you $250 or more. If you are really talented and ambitious you can build your own hives. Just make sure you have the dimensions correct because bees will build combs where you least want them.
Intruders are going to get stung by the bees protecting the hive. As a beekeeper you will have to be prepared to receive your share of stings. If you have any fear of bees or of being stung, you will have to conquer those apprehensions. As you gain confidence and more adept at the handling of the bees, the stings will happen less frequently.
One of the tips you will want to learn is when to manipulate bees. You can open and examine the bee colonies on days that are warm and sunny with no wind. The older bees will be out searching for food on those days. The older bees will stay in the hive on colder, windy and rainy days.
When there is an abundance of nectar, bees are much easier to examine than when there is a shortage of nectar. Plying them with sugar syrup may help, but not always.
Spring is the best time to examine the bees because of smaller populations.
Bees will usually tolerate a moderate beekeeper manipulation for 10 to 15 minutes. It is best not to keep the hives open any longer than you have to. Brood examinations should never be drawn out. When examining the hives, if bees become noisy or very nervous, the hive needs to be closed. If there is honey in the combs, they will attract robber bees unless there is an over abundance of nectar. If robbing start, you will need to stop examinations for the rest of the day and reduce the entrances to the hives. Once the robbing starts it is difficult to stop.
If you need to manipulate a colony, have a lighted smoker that omits cool smoke. Before you open the hives, you want to puff smoke into the entrance of the hive. Move on to the other colonies allowing time for the bees to react to the smoke. Keep your smoker handy because you will need it while you are making your close inspections of each colony. If you have some of the bees looking at you, make them scatter with a few puffs of smoke. When you are around the bees, you should move smoothly and carefully so that you don't alarm the bees. When prying off the cover to the hive be as gentle as possible, bees are sensitive to vibrations. Avoid any jolting of the hives. After removing the cover to the hive, work from the back or the side of the hive. Remove the frame nearest the outside to be examined. If robbing is not a problem, lean the frame against the outside of the hive to give you more room to work. If robbing could be a problem make sure to cover the hives and never leave a frame out in the open.
If you are going to examine all the boxes, start with the lowest one. Make sure the boxes you are not examining stay covered. After examining the lowest box, examine each box after it has been replaced on the lower one.
When you need to remove the frame, pry it loose with the hive tool. With a firm grip on the loosened frame, gently lift it, trying not to scrape the bees on the adjoining frame. Leave the frame outside of the hive or box, to give you a larger working area. If you scrape the comb, do leave the bits and pieces in the hive or box. Only scrape comb that it in the way, scraping is irritating to the bees.
There are several ways to acquire bees. No matter the method you choose spring is the best time to purchase bees. Listed below are methods by which to acquiring bees.
When purchasing established colonies, the equipment will not require any assembly. Since the queen is already laying eggs, will be able to judge her brood pattern. The chance of producing a honey crop the first year with an established colony is very good. The previous owner should be able to give you any history or background information of the bees.
If you are a beginner, a strong colony may be more than you are ready to handle. The equipment may be old and need replacing, or it may not be standard equipment.
The nucleus colony is a smaller colony of bees taken from an established colony. The "nucs" hives have fewer frames than a standard hive. The nucleus colony consists of only four or five frames instead of the standard 10-frames. They can house extra queens and they can be used to raise new queens. The nucleus colony comes with the four or five frames of brood, honey and pollen, a laying queen, and every frame should be full of adult bees.
Nucleus colonies are less expensive than established colonies. The queens are usually new, giving you the opportunity to judge her brood pattern. If the nucleus colony has a strong nectar flow, there is a possibility of a honey crop the first year. Usually they can be purchased locally. Since the nucleus colony is not as strong as an established colony, they may be easier for a beginner to handle. You still need to have them inspected for disease.
Package bee producers produce package bees in southern United States. The package bees consists of 2 or 3 pounds of bees, a queen in a separate cage, and a canister of sugar syrup used to feed the bees during transport. They are shipped in a special screen mailing cages through the U.S. Postal Service.
The package bees are cheaper than the established or the nucleus colonies. Beginners should be able to handle them easily. The possibility of the broods having a disease is slim.
The package bees may not produce a honey crop the first year. It will be more difficult to judge the queen with no brood. Because of the strain of being transported, a queen may be out-dated which can lead to an unproductive queen. If the weather is bad, you will have a difficult time in introducing the bees into the hives. The bees will have to be fed until the start of the nectar flow.
Swarms can be a fun way to get bees, and they are free. They can be easily collected and placed in prepared equipment. It is usually a good idea to introduce a new queen as soon as possible to the swarm. The swarms can be rather large by they can be easily handled.
You will not get a brood so you will not be able to judge the new queen. The swarms are unlikely to produce honey crop the first year, but that does depend on the size of the swarm. The availability of swarms is very unpredictable.


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Transfer D-Day Latest: Five Clubs Complete Ridgewell Signing
Ridgewell... Versatile (Img: Ronnie Macdonald)
Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Coventry City, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers have all completed the signing of Liam Ridgewell.
The versatile defender, 27, has completed each of the relevant medicals and will make his Wolves debut in tonight's Molineux clash with Liverpool, most likely in a defensive midfield position as a replacement for the suspended Karl Henry.
On what promises to be a busy night for Ridgewell, he will also travel to Leeds with Chris Hughton's Birmingham squad for their match at Elland Road, and he shall also line up at the heart of Andy Thorn's back four as Coventry City take on Blackpool at Bloomfield Road.
Tomorrow night shall see Ridgewell making his second Aston Villa debut as they welcome QPR to Villa Park, while he shall simultaneously operate at left-back for West Brom as they travel to Martin Jol's Fulham.
In a joint statement, Alex McLeish, Chris Hughton, Andy Thorn, Roy Hodgson and Mick McCarthy said: "We are delighted to welcome Liam to the club and we hope that his versatility shall prove invaluable to us as we fight relegation/chase promotion/consolidate a mid-table position (delete as applicable).
"We appreciate that the lad will have his work cut out training and playing for five different teams at the same time, but we've been showing him videos of Bugs Bunny playing baseball and he seems to be responding well.
"We would all also like to make it clear that Craig Gardner is welcome back from Sunderland whenever he likes. We miss him, and his proclivity for twenty-five-yard screamers."
Ridgewell said: "Oi down't wanna take the Slough train, oi wanna take the fast train!"
He added: "Kipper tie?"
Transfer D-Day Latest: Phil Brown Appears On Telly
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When I first started blogging one of the first blogs I read regularly was Miss Foodwise. It was just a beautifully written and photographed blog with many, many recipes I wanted to actually eat. So I have been a fan of Regula Ysewijn long before meeting her at a food blogging event and I have enjoyed hearing about and seeing the journey of this book long before it came to be.
When I met her then and every time I've met her since, she has been dressed impeccably in red with matching makeup and accessories making her one of the most vibrant people I've come across – visually but also creatively. The words artist, fashion designer, graphic designer and photographer don't somehow seem enough to describe the talent and creative genius that she is. Just take a look..
Despite her Belgian roots, Regula is one of the most British people I have ever met. She has been writing about British food and posting luscious pictures of it for a few years now but her knowledge of its history is unrivalled in my opinion.
Name a dish. Any British dish and I am certain that Regula will be able to give you a detailed account of where it originates from, how it came to be and how to make it. She'll talk you through the places to eat and where to avoid it. Luckily for us, she has written some of this vast knowledge down in a book published just a few weeks ago. A beautiful book not only written by herself but designed, photographed and illustrated in partnership with her equally talented husband Bruno.
The book starts with a definition of pudding – you'll learn about boiled, steamed, baked, batter, bread, jellied and milk puddings. Following that is a comprehensive history of puddings starting even before the Romans, who incidentally set out the first black pudding recipe. Where it got interesting for me was around the 14th century when The Forme of Cury was compiled with court cooking – Blank Mange, Baked Custards, Cheesecakes and Fritters were all eaten around the table at the time. She then moves on through medieval, elizabethan and Victorian times before bringing us up to date with modern day influencers such as Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson and Le Cordon Bleu.
Regula has spent time adapting these ancient recipes with modern ingredients and in doing so gives good advice about flours, spices and cooking techniques throughout the book. What's worth noting is that you might not like some of the recipes that you thought you would because the traditional version uses flavours that have been weaned out over the years. For example, I was most disappointed that one of my all time favourite puddings from school – Rice Pudding – was first made with beef broth or the drippings from mutton and served as a savoury dish. Regula does however add suggestions for modernising the recipes to suit today's tastebuds. With the rice pudding for example she suggests adding almond milk but still no sugar to give a sense of what the pudding would have tasted like. You may want to read her blog post on the Rise of Rice Pudding which goes into more detail about how this dish evolved.
Regula also notes how many of the puddings are not as sweet as we expect them to be today. Sugar, sugar and more sugar has overtaken the simple pleasure of sweetness from fresh or dried fruit.
What I love about this book is the surprises. Well surprises for me anyway. For example Snake Fritters which decorative butter swirls that are made using a butter squirt. Soft dough is pressed though the butter squirt and pushed like a long snake into hot clarified butter for frying. Sound familiar? If I were to say churros would you know what I was referring to? How wonderfully surprising to learn they date back to 1660!
All the way through the book Regula outlines her source material and references and uses crockery and equipment that would have been in keeping with the period.
Finally, and coming back to Regula's blog that mentioned at the start of this post, there are recipes she has shared that are very much her own preference versus any historical adaptation. Sticky Toffee Pudding for example. Her version uses apple sauce which is something I have only ever eaten in Germany or Holland. It's readily available over there and is a wonderful natural substitute for sugar – of which there is a LOT in a standard sticky toffee recipe!
To get a flavour of the book her publisher, Murdoch Books, has produced a preview that you can download. You can buy the book and a limited edition bowl and postcards set on Regula's website or buy the book directly via Amazon where it's currently on special offer for £13.60* It's a stunning achievement and a treasure of a book.
All the photographs in this post are courtesy of and used with kind permission from Regula Ysewijn.
Can't wait to see a copy, the cover is so stunning it's going to really stand out in the shops!


Programmable Slaves combine devices, such as sensors and actuators, into one functional unit that is treated as a DeviceNet slave.
Programmable Slaves greatly facilitate device distribution and functional organization.
They help standardize programming between units and reduce the amount of programming required at the master.
I/O and operational checks can be performed for each functional unit, rather than waiting for final system assembly, as with conventional distributed I/O systems.
• A Programmable Slave can be programmed from a CX-Programmer up to 3 network levels away.
Multiword I/O links and explicit messages are used to control slaves from the master. Log data for communications can be sent in one operation whenever necessary using explicit messages.
Less wiring is required for terminal block expansions, connections to remote devices (such as signal lights or pushbutton switches), and connections to pneumatic valves and other non-OMRON products. Connect using VCTF cable or Special Flat Cable, which allows easy branching.
Connected to bar code readers, Programmable Terminals, and other devices, the Programmable Slave processes data locally to reduce the load on the master.
Just one Unit is required for each distributed block, reducing the number of interfaces for multipoint communications to, in turn, reduce costs.


Camping with the family at Lac Le Jeune near Kamloops, BC. Hot summer weather cause severe thunderstorms to roll through the region bringing heavy rain and hail. Between storms, the weather warms up again and its time to go swimming. Watch out for leeches! On Canada Day, the night sky is clear and its safe to build a campfire. After roasting marshmallows and s'mores, the moon comes out in full under the influence of a zither dulcimer. Binaural sounds, use headphones.


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View from the Cockpit
Lara Battersby
Unit Chief Pilot Mario Carretta gives us an update on the aircraft, night operations, lighting and training...
Pegasus has now flown more than 1,000 hours in the two-year period it has been with us. At the time of writing, it has been taken to Specialist Aviation Services headquarters in Gloucestershire for a period of maintenance. While Pegasus is away, we will maintain
our helicopter service with the MD902 Explorer.
One distinctive feature of the Explorer (which we are often asked about) is that is doesn't have a conventional tail rotor to maintain directional control, instead it is fitted with a NOTAR (NO TAil Rotor) system. The Explorer uses a main gearbox-driven ducted fan within
the helicopter's body and air is then vented through the side and end of the tail boom to get the desired control.
During routine flying, a NOTAR helicopter handles just the same as one fitted with a tail rotor. It is quiet and smooth in flight; the latter being very important when carrying patients.
Excitingly, while in Gloucestershire, Pegasus is also being upgraded to match the latest versions of the AW169 coming off the Leonardo production line. One of the changes is extremely relevant to our role, as it will significantly reduce the time it takes to start the aircraft, by speeding up the time taken for the two main computers to come online.
Having received an emergency call, we aim to get airborne in the shortest time that is safely possible; currently this stands at four minutes and this will reduce to less than three. One minute may not sound a lot to most people, but it is to the patients who are waiting for us to arrive.
The upgrade will also improve our ability to navigate in poor weather using the Global Navigation Satellite System as a reference; it is hoped that this capability will pave the way for us to eventually make approaches direct to hospitals in poor weather.
We have now taken the Bear Paws (see last edition of Beeline) off Pegasus for the summer months as the ground hardens and so our wheels are less likely to sink in. The current system requires the undercarriage to be fixed down, but this slightly restricts the maximum speed and increases the fuel burn. However, Leonardo is currently working on an improved system that will allow the undercarriage to be raised with Bear Paws on and we are View from the cockpit hoping to have this version fitted to the aircraft as we approach the winter.
Night Operations
Our new airfield lighting system at Henstridge is now fully operational. Even when wearing night vision goggles, it can sometimes be difficult to pick out the airfield and our helipad among the lights that surround the area. We now have the hangar flood, helipad and runway lights available to us for take-off and landing, via a radio-controlled switch, which makes it very easy to pick out our aiming point. Having been kept busy during the hours of darkness, I can see us making full use of this improved capability in the months and years to come.
As well as carrying out their primary role, our doctors and practitioners are trained to assist the pilot with cockpit duties in both helicopter types. After an intensive series of ground lectures on aviation subjects ranging from meteorology to navigation, they then receive airborne training before carrying out a check ride in the helicopter. To remain current, they carry out annual refresher training plus a day and night check ride in each of the aircraft.
The refresher training is based around a mandated annual requirement for crew resource management (CRM) training. CRM is defined as the effective use of all available resources for flight crew personnel, to ensure a safe and efficient operation – so it is key to what we do in the air.
We also try to broaden the team's aviation knowledge and recently had a visit from a police drone operator. We often see them when we go to road incidents, so it is useful to further understand their capabilities and confirm deconfliction measures when the helicopter and
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Volunteers are our lifeline, our eyes, ears and voice in the community; we take pride in them, as they do in us.
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Letter from the Chair - Spring 2021
Our Chair of Trustees, Gillian Bryce, looks back over the past six months.
We have an amazing team of volunteers who work incredibly hard on our behalf. So why do these wonderful people donate the gift of time? We asked a few to tell us about themselves and the roles they play in support of the Charity.
Clinical Update Autumn 2019
Last year, DSAA were tasked to 1,394 incidents...
Letter from the Chair - Autumn 2019
The summer months have been a busy period for Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, with a significant increase in the number of patients cared for by our Critical Care Team.
Patient Peer Support
Our first ever peer support event was held on 27th April 2019...
Clinical Update Spring 2019
The past six months has seen an increase in the number of patients treated, as well as ongoing training, development and outreach and some new faces join our team.
Gillian Bryce, Chair of our Trustees, reflects on a busy six months.
Update from the cockpit
Unit Chief Pilot Mario Carretta explains night operations, aircraft modifications and weather stations.


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M.Sc, Electrical Engineering, Manhattan Collage, Riverdal, NY, USA, 1989.
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA, 1997.
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