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Operating experiences of the design, construction, and daily use of automation at a coastal sewage‐treatment works are described. A full description of each automated item of plant is given, together with an overview of the complete scheme. Cost savings as a result of automation are assessed, and improvements in works' operation and effluent quality are outlined. Development of the original project to include an 'expert system' for regulating storm discharges is also given.

To clarify thinking on the subject, the 1955 convention of the American Association of Workers for the Blind will devote time and discussion to various considerations in government provision of financial assistance to blind citizens. In anticipation, it seems appropriate to present here at least parts of the contents of two papers on the general subject that were presented last summer at the General Assembly of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind in Paris, by Capt. M. C. Robinson and H. A. Wood, respectively. Incorporated herein also are pertinent resolutions adopted by the World Council and the Board of Directors of the American Association of Workers for the Blind. The World Council resolution (No. 8) consists of two paragraphs, each of which was originally adopted separately and which were subsequently combined as they appear here. The first paragraph is substantially the same as Resolution V of the International Conference of Workers for the Blind, held at Merton College, Oxford, in 1949; it is quoted in part also in the introductory sentences of Mr. Wood's paper below. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the AAWB subsequent to the 1954 Paris meeting of the World Council, the Board's attitude toward that resolution (No. 8) is reported to have been discussed. After consideration, the Board is reported to have determined that any formal statement of policy could only be made by mandate of the Association membership except that reaffirmation of previously adopted policy could be made. This is what was done in the action quoted herein. The papers prepared for the Paris meeting were, of course, directed toward the international audience comprising the World Council and should be read with that fact in mind. Capt. Robinson is national director of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, for Western Canada, and president of the AAWB (1953–55); Mr. Wood is executive secretary of the North Carolina State Commission for the Blind.—Editor.

On 25 Nov 2001, elections were held in Honduras to select a new president, three presidential designates (who function as vice presidents), 128 members of the Congress (propietarios) & 128 substitutes (suplentes), 20 delegates to the Central American Parliament, & 298 municipal councils. These elections were important in many ways, but the most obvious is that holding a sixth democratic election is a strong indication of the stability of the democratic regime in Honduras. This stability is all the more impressive when viewed against the country's history: the current constitution is the country's fourteenth, installed in 1982; the only earlier regime that endured for a similar period was the 1932-1949 dictatorship of Tiburcio Carias. 1 Table, 13 References. Adapted from the source document.

Looks at believability ratings assigned to news organisations and news personalities by a nationally representative sample of adult men and women. The overwhelming majority of the general public believes most of what it hears, sees, or reads in the nation's press. Perceived 'believability' of the news media is not closely related to those political and demographic variables that typically divide public opinion in America. (Abstract amended)

"The AMX30 Char de Bataille was the standard French Main Battle Tank during the Cold War era. Armed with a smoothbore 105mm main armament (the OBUS-G), AMX30 was lighter and more mobile than other main battle tanks, with excellent acceleration and cross-country agility (which later came into its own during the First Gulf War). For this reason it found a ready export market for those armies that did not want a fully-fledged Main Battle Tank. Foreign customers included Greece, Spain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iraq, Chile, Venezuela, Cyprus, Qatar and Bosnia. French AMX30 tanks saw combat with Division Daguet in the Gulf War and with the Qataris at the Battle of Khafji in the First Gulf War in 1991. Later versions of the tank were still in service in the Middle East in 2019"--