Francis Bull (4 October 1887–4 July 1974) was a Norwegian literary historian, professor at the University of Oslo for more than thirty years, essayist and speaker, and magazine editor.

Early and personal life
Bull was born in Kristiania, son of medical doctor Edvard Isak Hambro Bull (1845–1925) and Ida Marie Sofie Paludan (1861–1957). He was brother to theatre director Johan Peter Bull, historian and politician Edvard Bull and genealogist Theodor Bull. Through Edvard Bull he was the uncle of historian Edvard Bull. He was also nephew to military officer Karl Sigwald Johannes Bull, grandnephew to Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bull, great-grandson to Georg Jacob Bull and great-great-grandson to Chief Justice Johan Randulf Bull.

In June 1924 he married Ingrid Berntsen (1896–1976).

Career
Bull finished his secondary education and enrolled at the University of Oslo, mainly being tutored by Gerhard Gran. As a student Bull wrote the monographs Conrad Nicolai Schwach (1908) and  (published 1911). The last work earned him the cand.philol. degree. His doctoral dissertation of 1916 was titled .

Bull was appointed professor in Nordic literature at the University of Oslo in 1920, succeeding the aging Gerhard Gran. In addition to lecturing he co-edited the literary history  (four volumes, 1924–1937). He worked on  for many years, and as a byproduct of this endeavor he wrote hundreds of entries in the biographical dictionary Norsk biografisk leksikon, of which Gerhard Gran and Edvard Bull were two of the editors-in-chief.

Bull was editor-in-chief of the journal Edda from 1925 to 1960. He was chairman of the board of Gyldendal Norsk Forlag from 1925 to 1968, and a board member of the National Theatre from 1922 to 1956, with the exception of the years 1941 to 1945. Norway was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940, and because the National Theatre board did not abide by the directions from the Nazi government, Bull, along with board members publisher Harald Grieg and banker Johannes Sejersted Bødtker, was arrested in 1941.  Bull spent three years in a concentration camp, Grini. As he had an excellent memory, he was able to continue his lecturing in prison, by holding secret lectures for co-prisoners. Due to this, Grini was nicknamed "the People's University" by some. A collection of these lectures was published as  in 1945. Bull won recognition for this, and was a popular public speaker and lecturer after the war.

Bull was chairman of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters several times between 1941 and 1957, again except for 1941–1945. He held an honorary degree at Aarhus University from 1946, and was decorated as a Commander with Star of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1957. He retired as a professor in 1957, and died in July 1974 in Hørsholm, Denmark.

References

External links
Family genealogy

1887 births
1974 deaths
Writers from Oslo
Norwegian essayists
Norwegian literary critics
Norwegian magazine editors
Norwegian literary historians
University of Oslo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Grini concentration camp survivors
Members of the Norwegian Academy
20th-century  Norwegian historians
20th-century essayists


Christ's Church may refer to:

Churches in Canada
 Christ's Church Cathedral (Hamilton, Ontario)

Churches in China
Christ's Church, Changsha
Christ's Church, Changshu
Christ's Church, Changzhou in Jiangsu
Christ's Church, Fuyang District in Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Christ's Church, Jinan in Shandong
Christ's Church, Jinyuan in Shanxi
Christ's Church, Tangxi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Christ's Church, Mochou Road in Nanjing, Jiangsu
Christ's Church, Nanjing in Jiangsu
Daosheng Christ's Church in Gulou District of Nanjing, Jiangsu
Christ's Church, Qingdao in Shandong
Christ's Church, Shenzhen
Christ's Church, Shangcheng District in Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Christ's Church, Siming District in Xiamen, Fujian
Christ's Church, Tianshui Subdistrict in Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Christ's Church, Ürümqi in Ürümqi, Xinjiang
Christ's Church, Wuxi in Jiangsu

Churches in Lithuania
 Christ's Resurrection Church, Kaunas

Churches in Scotland
 Cill Chriosd

Churches in the United States

Alabama
 Christ's Church (Birmingham)

Arizona
 Christ's Church (Parker)
 Christ's Church of the Valley (Peoria)
 Christ's Church (Phoenix)

Arkansas
 Christ's Church (Fayetteville)

California
 Christ's Church (San Dimas)

Colorado
 Christ's Church (Evergreen)

Florida
 Christ's Church, Jacksonville
 Christ's Church, Fleming Island
 Christ's Church (Ocala)

Georgia
 Christ's Church, Camden County

Hawaii
 Christ's Church (Kapolei)

Illinous
 Christ's Church (Effingham)

Indiana
 Christ's Church (Ft. Wayne)
 Christ's Church (Butler)

Kansas
 Christ's Church (Holton)

Missouri
 Christ's Church (St. Peters)

New York
 Christ's Church (Brooklyn)
 Christ's Church (Rye)

Ohio
 Christ's Church (Mason)

Oregon
 Christ's Church (Monmouth)

Pennsylvania
 Christ's Church (Royersford)

Tennessee
 Christ's Church (Chattanooga)

Utah
 Christ's Church (The Righteous Branch)

Washington
 Christ's Church (Federal Way)

See also
 Church (building), a building used for worship in Christianity
 Christ Church (disambiguation)
 Church of Christ (disambiguation)
 Christian Church (disambiguation)


Esker is an unincorporated community in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.

Geography

Esker (pronounced EEE-skir) is located in central Wisconsin approximately four miles east of Stevens Point on U.S. Highway 10 near Portage County Road K (to the north).  Esker is less than a mile northeast of Custer in the town of Stockton (Lat: 44° 31' 15.3" Lon: -89° 26' 04.4").

History
Esker was once a budding settlement to the north of Custer, boasting the St. Mary's Parish and surrounding subdivisions up on the hill.  Today, after the restructuring of U.S. Highway 10 into a four-lane freeway and ramp-interchange with County Road J, Esker is split: "Custer Square" only has access out to County Road J on its west side while Esker Road, Summit Lane, and Lloyd Court are only accessible via County Road K to the east. Many have considered Esker to be a general part of the unincorporated community of Custer, which is downhill and closer to the railroad tracks.

Notes

Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Portage County, Wisconsin


Murieḷḷos is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain.

There are 31 people living in the parish.

There are two villages in the parish, Murieḷḷos Cimeiru and Viḷḷarecho.

References

Parishes in Quirós


Dmitri Vadimovich Alekseyev (; born 28 February 1973) is a former Russian professional footballer.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 1993 for FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi.

External links

1973 births
Footballers from Saint Petersburg
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi players
FC Elista players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
FC Rubin Kazan players
FC Luch Vladivostok players
FC Metallurg Lipetsk players
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod players
Russian Premier League players
FC SKA-Khabarovsk players
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players
FC Dynamo Bryansk players
Soviet men's footballers
FC Druzhba Arzamas players
FC Krasnoznamensk players


The Children's Home of Pittsburgh, established in 1893, is an independent non-profit organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The organization's mission is "to promote the health and well-being of infants and children through services which establish and strengthen the family," including adoption, day care and pediatric health care.

In March 2007, the Children's Home moved to Penn Avenue in the Friendship neighborhood of Pittsburgh.  It added "Lemieux Family Center" to its name in recognition of ongoing support from the Mario Lemieux Foundation.

History
The Children's Home was founded by the Reverend W.H. Thompson in 1893 as the Pennsylvania Children's Home Society, to care for orphaned children and find them permanent homes. The first Children's Home was located on Penn Avenue in the Wilkinsburg neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Children's Home Society expected adoptive parents to tell their children their medical and social history; as early as 1927, society refused to allow an adoption if the prospective parents were not willing to inform the child.

In 1935, after several location changes, the Society settled in the Shadyside neighborhood and officially changed its name to the Children's Home of Pittsburgh.  After moving one more time in 1969, the organization now resides on Penn Avenue in the neighborhood of Friendship.

In the 1980s and 1990s, two medical programs were introduced.  The first was the Transitional Infant Care hospital, which opened in 1984 for the families of premature babies. The second was Child's Way, which opened in 1998 and offers day care services.

In the early 2000s, demand continued to grow for the Children's Home's services and the opening of the new location provided the space necessary to continue to further develop these programs. In 2008, the Children's Home received a federal grant of $307,414 to partially finance its expansion.

Adoption

Originally, the Children's Home only housed children who were eligible for adoption, and it was reported in 1941 that every child was adopted within a year.

Now, the organization's licensed infant adoption program offers individual counseling and support groups for birthparents, adoptive parent counseling and education, family studies, short-term foster care, infertility-related counseling, a research and reunion program, and community adoption education.

References

External links

1893 establishments in Pennsylvania
Organizations based in Pittsburgh
Organizations established in 1893


Graham Clarke (born 27 March 1974 in Ballygalget, County Down) is an Irish sportsperson.  He plays hurling with his local club Ballygalget and was a member of the Down senior inter-county team from 1993 to 2012.

Playing career

Club

Clarke plays his hurling with his local club in Ballygalget, and first came to prominence on the club’s minor team in the late 1980s.  He was goalkeeper on the team that captured four consecutive county championship titles in that grade.  Clarke later joined the club’s senior team and became the first-choice goalkeeper at the age of sixteen.  He won his first county senior championship winners’ medal in 1990, following a defeat of Ballycran.  Clarke later lined out in the Ulster club final, however, Dunloy won by 0–17 to 2–4.

Two years later in 1992 Clarke added a second senior county title to his collection.  Ballygalget, however, were subsequently defeated by Cushendall in the Ulster club final.

Clarke’s side went into decline following this defeat as Ballygalget lost the next four county championship finals.  The team bounced back in 1997 and a defeat of Portaferry gave Clarke a third county winners’ medal at senior level.  Ballygalget made it two-in-a-row in 1998 before later lining out in another provincial club decider.  Ballycastle McQuillan’s provided the opposition on that occasion, however, after a draw and an exciting replay that featured extra-time Ballygalget were the victors by 1–14 to 1–12. It was Clarke’s first Ulster club winners’ medal.  Ballygalget were subsequently defeated by Rathnure in the All-Ireland semi-final.

Ballygalget made it three county titles in-a-row in 1999, with Clarke adding a fifth county winners’ medal to his collection.  His club subsequently surrendered their Ulster club title to Cushendall.

After a period out of the limelight Ballygalget returned in 2003 with Clarke collecting a sixth county winners’ medal.  It was the first of another three-in-a-row for Ballygalget and for Clarke.  The third of these victories was subsequently converted into a second Ulster club title for Clarke.  The club was later defeated in the All-Ireland semi-final.

In 2008 Clarke won his ninth county senior championship winners’ medal following an eleven-point win over Portaferry.

In 2010 Clarke won his tenth county championship beating Ballycrane 3-19 0–12.

Inter-county

Clarke first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Down minor hurling team in the late 1980s.  He was only fifteen years-old when he captured an Ulster Minor Hurling Championship title in 1989, following a defeat in a replay of Antrim.  Down were subsequently defeated in the All-Ireland semi-final.

Clarke made his senior debut for Down in a challenge game against Meath in 1993.  It would be another few years before he became Down’s first-choice goalkeeper for the championship.  Following Noel Keith's retirement Clarke made his senior championship debut in 1997.  That year he won an Ulster Senior Hurling Championship title following a 3–14 to 0–19 defeat of Antrim. Down, however, were subsequently beaten by Tipperary in the All-Ireland semi-final.

The next few years proved to an unhappy time for Down's hurling team as Antrim and Derry reclaimed their status as the standard-bearers in the provincial championship. Clarke lined out in further Ulster finals in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2008, however, he ended up on the losing side on all six occasions.

In 2005 a restructuring of the championship saw Down being entered in the Christy Ring Cup, effectively a competition for the ‘second-tier’ hurling teams.  Clarke’s side reached the final of the competition in their debut year.  Westmeath provided the opposition on that occasion, however, Down were defeated by 1–23 to 2–18.  The team, however, failed to build on this in subsequent years, and in 2009 lost to Carlow.

Honours
 10 Down Senior Hurling Championship 1990 1992 1997 1998 2003 2004 2005 2008 2010
 2 Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship 1998 2005
 1 Ulster Senior Hurling Championship 1997
 1 Ulster Minor Hurling Championship 1989
 1 All-Ireland Poc Fada 2010
 1 National Hurling League Division 2 2004
 1 Christy Ring Cup All-Star 2007

Inter-provincial

Clarke has also lined out with Ulster in the inter-provincial hurling competition.  He had little success with his province as Ulster have failed to even qualify for the Railway Cup final in recent years.

References and sources

Sources

Teams

1974 births
Living people
Ballygalget hurlers
Down inter-county hurlers
Ulster inter-provincial hurlers
Hurling goalkeepers


This is a list of nations that are represented by lacrosse national governing bodies. This list indicates which countries have participated in the five international lacrosse competitions sponsored by World Lacrosse, which oversees international lacrosse.

Table key

World Lacrosse members

Source:

Independent national organizing bodies

References

Notes

lacrosse, national
Governing


The Clouds of Northland Thunder is the second full-length studio album by Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn. It was released 13 May 2009. Its single, "He Sleeps in a Grove", was the third Amberian Dawn song to have a music video produced.

A bonus track on Amberian Dawn's third album End of Eden shares its title with the album.

"He Sleeps in a Grove", "Incubus", "Kokko – Eagle of Fire","Willow of Tears", "Shallow Waters", "Snowmaiden", "Saga", "Lionheart", "Lost Soul", "Sons of Seven Stars", and "Morning Star" are featured as downloadable songs on the Rock Band Network.

Track listing

Personnel
Amberian Dawn
 Heidi Parviainen – vocals, lyrics
 Tuomas Seppälä – guitar, keyboards, orchestral arrangements, producer
 Kasperi Heikkinen – guitar
 Emil Pohjalainen – guitar
 Tom Joens (as Tommi Kuri) bass guitar, producer
 Joonas Pykälä-aho – drums

Guest/session musicians
 Peter James Goodman – additional vocals on "Incubus"

Production
Lari Takala – engineer
Tero-Pekka Virtanen – mixing
Svante Forsbäck – mastering

References

External links

 The Clouds of Northland Thunder at Encyclopaedia Metallum

Amberian Dawn albums
2009 albums


Pedroveya is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 30. (INE 2011)

Villages
 Pedroveya
 La Rebollá

Parishes in Quirós


Love and Other Obsessions is the eighteenth album by the American jazz group Spyro Gyra, released in 1995 by GRP Records.

Track listing
 "Lost and Found" (Jay Beckenstein) – 5:09
 "Ariana" (Jeremy Wall) – 5:07
 "Serengeti" (Dave Samuels) – 4:54
 "Fine Time to Explain" (Scott Kreitzer) – 4:40
 "Third Street"  (Beckenstein) – 4:48
 "Group Therapy" (Beckenstein, Scott Ambush, Julio Fernandez, Joel Rosenblatt, Samuels, Tom Schuman) – 5:45
 "Horizon's Edge" (Beckenstein) – 5:01
 "Let's Say Goodbye" (Kreitzer, Anthony Pompa) – 4:32
 "On Liberty Road (for South Africa)" (Ambush) – 5:52
 "Rockin' a Heart Place" (Beckenstein, Rosenblatt) – 5:23
 "Baby Dreams" (Schuman)  – 4:43

Personnel

Spyro Gyra
 Jay Beckenstein – saxophones, arrangements (1, 5, 6)
 Tom Schuman – keyboards, arrangements (6, 11)
 Julio Fernandez – guitars, arrangements (6, 10)
 Scott Ambush – bass guitar, arrangements (6, 9)
 Joel Rosenblatt – drums, arrangements (6)
 Dave Samuels – vibraphone, marimba, mallet synthesizer, marching drum, arrangements (6)

Additional Musicians, Arrangements and Vocals
 Russell Ferrante – keyboards (3), arrangements (3)
 Steve Skinner – drum programming (2)
 Sammy Merendino – drum programming (5)
 Bashiri Johnson – percussion
 Chieli Minucci – arrangements (2)
 Alex Acuña – arrangements (3)
 Vaneese Thomas – vocals (2)
 Billy Cliff – lead vocals (3, 4), backing vocals (8)
 Keith Fluitt – backing vocals (4, 8)
 Jana Jillis – backing vocals (4, 8)
 Anthony Michael Pompa – backing vocals (4, 8), arrangements (8)
 Barrington "Bo" Henderson – lead vocals (8)
 Deniece Williams – lead vocals (8)
 Wondress Hutchinson – backing vocals (8)

No Sweat Horns
 Scott Kreitzer – saxophones, alto flute, flute, bass clarinet, horn arrangements, arrangements (4, 7, 8)
 Randy Andos – trombone, bass trombone
 Barry Danielian – trumpet, flugelhorn

Production
 Jay Beckenstein – producer
 Jeremy Wall – associate producer
 Scott Kreitzer – co-producer (4, 8)
 Doug Oberkircher – recording, mixing
 Larry Swist – additional recording
 Robert Sicilliano – assistant engineer
 Ted Jensen – mastering
 Cara Bridgins – production coordinator
 Hollis King – art direction
 Alba Acevedo – graphic design
 Laurie Goldman – graphic design
 Lois Greenfield – photography
 David A. Wagner – photography

Studios
 Recorded and Mixed at BearTracks Studios (Suffern, New York).
 Mastered at Sterling Sound (New York City, New York).

References

External links
Spyro Gyra official web site

1995 albums
Spyro Gyra albums
GRP Records albums


Buco-Zau is a town and municipality in Cabinda Province in Angola. The municipality covers 1,979 km2 and had a population of 32,792 at the 2014 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid 2019) is 37,741.

References

Populated places in Cabinda Province
Municipalities of Angola


Cacongo (Guilherme Capelo or Lândana) is a town, with a population of 15,000 (2014), in Cacongo municipality, Cabinda Province, in Angola. The former Lândana municipality is now known as Cacongo, and the town is sometimes still known as Lândana. It is located on Lândana Bay about a kilometer south of the mouth of the Chiloango River.

History

At the time of the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th century the village was populated by the Kongo people, and was part of the Kakongo Kingdom.  The Portuguese, Dutch, British and French traded along the coast in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the Portuguese formally occupied the town in 1883 following a treaty with the local king, prior to the Treaty of Simulambuco.

References

Populated places in Cabinda Province
Municipalities of Angola


Ricao is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 77 (INE 2011).

Villages

References

Parishes in Quirós


Dimorphite, chemical name arsenic sesquisulfide (As4S3), is a very rare orange-yellow arsenic sulfide mineral. In nature, dimorphite forms primarily by deposition in volcanic fumaroles at temperatures of 70–80 °C (158–176 °F).  Dimorphite was first discovered in such a fumarole near Naples, Italy in 1849 by the mineralogist Arcangelo Scacchi (1810–1893). Since its discovery, dimorphite has been found in the Alacrán silver mine near Copiapó, Chile.  It has also been reported from Cerro de Pasco, Peru, and the Lavrion District Mines in Attica, Greece.

Properties and applications

Dimorphite has two crystal forms, Α- and Β-. This property gives rise to its name, which comes from the Greek for "two" and "form."  Dimorphite transitions between its α- and β- forms at around 130 °C (266 °F).

Dimorphite can be synthesized by melting arsenic and sulfur together in the proper molar ratios in vacuum.

Initial research indicates the possibility of using synthetic dimorphite in the development of gas sensors, due to the semiconductive properties of dimorphite.

References

Arsenic minerals
Sulfide minerals
Orthorhombic minerals
Minerals in space group 62


Count of São João da Pesqueira (in Portuguese Conde de São João da Pesqueira) was a Portuguese title of nobility created by a royal decree, dated from 21 March 1611, by King Philip II of Portugal (aka Philip III of Spain), and granted to Dom Luís Álvares de Távora, Lord of Távora.

In the 17th century this family received new honours: a royal decree of King Afonso VI of Portugal, issued on August 6, 1669, created the title of Marquis of Távora (in Portuguese Marquês de Távora) and granted it to Dom Luís Álvares de Távora, 3rd Count of São João da Pesqueira.

In 1759, these two titles were extinguished once the 4th Marquis was executed following the Távora affair.

List of the Counts of São João da Pesqueira (1611) and Marquesses of Távora (1669)
Luís Álvares de Távora (c.1590- ? ), 1st Count of São João da Pesqueira;
António Luis de Távora (c.1620-1653), his son, 2nd Count of São João da Pesqueira;
Luís Álvares de Távora (1634- ? ), his son, 3rd Count of São João da Pesqueira and 1st Marquis of Távora;
António Luís de Távora (1656–1721),his son, 4th Count of São João da Pesqueira and 2nd Marquis of Távora;
Luís Bernardo de Távora (1677–1718), his son, 5th Count of São João da Pesqueira;
Leonor de Távora (1700–1759), his daughter, 6th Countess of São João da Pesqueira and 3rd Marchioness of Távora, married to her cousin Francisco de Assis de Távora, 3rd Count of Alvor;
Luís Bernardo de Távora (1723–1759), her son, 7th Count of São João da Pesqueira and 4th Marquis of Távora. Executed.

See also
List of Marquesses in Portugal
List of Countships in Portugal
Count of Alvor
Távora affair

External links
Genealogy of the Counts of São João da Pesqueira, in Portuguese
Genealogy of the Marquesses of Tavora, in Portuguese

Bibliography
”Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil" – Vol. III, pages 281/284; Vol III, pages 533-538. Published by Zairol Lda., Lisbon 1989.

Sao Joao da Pesqueira
Tavora
1669 establishments in Portugal
Marquisates


John Witte Jr. is a Canadian-American academic. He is a Robert W. Woodruff University Professor and a McDonald Distinguished Professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, and is director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion there.

He is series editor of the Emory University Studies in Law and Religion by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, and general editor of the Law and Christianity Series published by Cambridge University Press.

Education

Witte received a BA from Calvin College in 1982, and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1985.

Books

As author:
 Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
 Sex, Marriage and Family in John Calvin’s Geneva I: Courtship, Engagement and Marriage (with Robert M. Kingdon) (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005)
 God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006)
The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
 The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
 Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction (with Frank Alexander) (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
 No Establishment of Religion: America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty (with T. Jeremy Gunn) Oxford University Press, 2012)
 Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction (with M. Christian Green) (Oxford University Press, 2012)
 From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition, 2nd ed. (Westminster John Knox Press, 2012)
 The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Church, State, and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Faith, Freedom, and Family: New Studies in Law and Religion (Mohr Siebeck, 2021) (edited by Norman Doe and Gary S. Hauk)
The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
 Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 5th ed. (with Joel A. Nichols and Richard W. Garnett) (Oxford University Press, 2022)
 In Defense of the Marital Family (Brill, 2023)
 Raíces protestantes del Derecho (Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, 2023)

As editor:
 Herman Dooyeweerd, A Christian Theory of Social Institutions (Magnus Verbrugge, trans.) (Paideia Press, 1986)
 Christianity and Democracy in Global Context (Westview Press, 1993)
 Harold J. Berman, Law and Language: Effective Symbols of Community (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

As co-editor:
 The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion (with Frank S. Alexander) (American Academy of Religion Studies in Religion Series, 1988)
 Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives (with Johan D. van der Vyver) (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996)
 Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives (with Johan D. van der Vyver) (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1996)
 Human Rights in Judaism: Cultural, Religious and Political Perspectives (with Michael J. Broyde) (Jason Aronson Publishers, 1998)
 Sharing the Book: Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism (with Richard C. Martin) (Orbis Books, 1999)
 Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective (with Eliza Ellison) (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005)
 Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Family Life in Interdisciplinary Perspective (with Steven M. Tipton) (Georgetown University Press, 2005)
 Sex, Marriage, and Family in the World Religions (with Don S. Browning and M. Christian Green) (Columbia University Press, 2006)
 The Teachings of Modern Protestantism on Law, Politics and Human Nature (with Frank S. Alexander) (Columbia University Press, 2007)
 The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism on Law, Politics and Human Nature (with Frank S. Alexander) (Columbia University Press, 2007)
 The Equal Regard Family and Its Friendly Critics (with M. Christian Green and Amy Wheeler) (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2007)
 To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600 (with Philip L. Reynolds) (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
 The Teachings of Modern Orthodox Christianity on Law, Politics and Human Nature (with Frank S. Alexander) (Columbia University Press, 2007)
 Proselytism and Orthodoxy in Russia: The New War for Souls (with Michael Bourdeaux) (Orbis Books, 1999; repr. ed. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2009)
 Christianity and Law: An Introduction (with Frank S. Alexander) (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
 Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honour of Charles Donahue (with Sara McDougall and Anna di Robilant) (Robbins Collection, 2016)
 Christianity and Family Law: An Introduction (with Gary S. Hauk) (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
 The Protestant Reformation of the Church and the World (with Amy Wheeler) (Westminster John Knox Press, 2018)
 Christianity and Global Law (with Rafael Domingo Osle) (Routledge, 2020)Great Christian Jurists in German History (with Mathias Schmoeckel) (Mohr Siebeck, 2020)Christianity and Criminal Law (with Mark Hill, Norman Doe and R. H. Helmholtz) (Routledge and CRC Press, 2020)The Impact Series on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies,'' 10 volumes (with Michael Welker and others) (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020-23)

Personal life
Witte is married to Eliza Ellison, a theologian and mediator. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.

References

Emory University faculty
Harvard Law School alumni
American legal scholars
Calvin University alumni
1959 births
Living people
Legal historians


The Samsung Behold SGH-T919 is a touch-screen, 3G candybar-style mobile phone introduced by Samsung late in 2008. The Behold is one of the first Samsung mobile phones released to have a touch-screen along with the Samsung Omnia, the Samsung Instinct, the Samsung Eternity, and the Samsung Tocco. The Behold is the "American" release of Samsung Tocco, which is only sold in Europe, Asia and Australia so the features and design of both of these phones are similar. Some of the Behold's biggest competitors were Apple's iPhone, T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream), LG Dare, Samsung Instinct, and Samsung Eternity. It was only available only to customers of T-Mobile.

Interface
The interface on the Samsung Behold is called TouchWiz which is upgraded from the one that was on the Samsung Omnia. With TouchWiz, the Behold got features like "flashy 3D effects, new gesture controls, better integration of photos and contacts, and more haptic feedback."

Criticisms
Overall, Ginny Mies of PC World concluded that the Samsung Behold "is a well-designed touch-screen phone with an impressive feature set"
however many reviewers state that there are a few "flaws" that they notice when using this mobile phone. Contributor Wireless and Mobile News states that the biggest drawback of the Samsung Behold compared to one of its major competitors, the Apple iPhone, is the lack of Wi-Fi on this touch-screen phone.
The Samsung Behold's "target [audiences] [are] 21 to 35 year [olds]"
who are looking for a mobile phone that could do nearly everything.

The browser that comes with the Behold is not as sophisticated as the Apple iPhone's safari and with larger websites, it only allows the user to see only a portion of the website.
In the email function on the Behold, the user can only choose from the 13 different email providers given and cannot add their own onto it. Some users may find that the QWERTY keyboard is bit small but after a while, users may be able to get used to it.

With the TouchWiz interface that the Samsung Behold has, it allows for little personalization options for the home screen such as the limited wallpapers options and no screen savers but it does allow for using a photo that is taken with the camera on the Samsung Behold as the wallpaper. Also, the Behold's phonebook only allows the user to search for contacts' names through first names which could be a hassle.

As for the Samsung Behold's camera, while photos taken outdoors seem to be clear and vibrant, reviewers feel photos taken indoors turn out to be "fuzzy with colors being on the dull side when taking shots from far distances."
There is a flash on the Behold's camera but it is only useful when taking photos at a closer range (around three feet). As for the video application, users were dissatisfied with the quality of the footage taken because the highest quality of the videos could only be 320 X 240. Users felt that there were very few options for the video application and that the sound the videos produced were very low and users had to listen very closely to hear the sound. Mostly, this 5.0 pixel camera phone works just as well as a normal camera.

Minor dislikes of the Samsung Behold that will vary with differing tastes are the simple design of the music player, for users who wish to use the Samsung Behold as a business handy phone, it does not allow for Microsoft Office documents to be opened but it allows PDF files to load, lacking a standard headphone jack.

Video
The Samsung Behold features the music video "Somewhere Else" by YouTube celebrity, Jodie Rivera a.k.a. VenetianPrincess.

Developments
Samsung claimed "to have represented exactly one quarter of all touchscreen phones shipped in 2008", estimating "that it produced about 10 million models of various kinds". Five million of these were the F480, alternately known as the Tocco in some countries and the Behold for T-Mobile.

While Samsung is responsible for 25% of all touch-screen shipped in the year 2008, the Apple iPhone represents 33.3%, approximately one third of all touch-screen shipped in the year 2008. Other touch-screen competitors include LG, HTC, and Palm that make up for the rest of the touch-screen shipments.

References

External links
 Samsung Behold (SGH-t919) - T-Mobile - mobile phones
 Samsung Behold Updates

Samsung mobile phones
Mobile phones introduced in 2008


Silicone granulomas are a skin condition that occur as a reaction to liquid silicones, and are characterized by the formation of nodules.

Formation of a granuloma is a common tissue response to a range of foreign bodies. Silicone can be directly injected into tissue as part of a cosmetic procedure or it can leak from silicone implants. The formation and consequences of silicon-induced granulomas is not well described or understood. The extent of damage that they cause is controversial.

Localization
 Lymph node: Granulomatous lymphadenitis
 Skin: Granulomatous dermatitis
 Penis
 Breast: Granulomatous mastitis
 Face: Granulomatous facial reaction

Effects
Silicone-induced granuloma can be associated with fever, calcitriol-mediated hypercalcemia,  reactive amyloidosis.

Gallery

See also
 Granuloma
 Skin lesion

References

Skin conditions resulting from physical factors
Silicone-induced lesion


Widowed Persons Service is an American organization designed to provide support for widows and widowers by people who have themselves lost a spouse.

AARP established Widowed Persons Service in 1973. As of 1998, WPS had a network of around 300 chapters.

References

Organizations established in 1973
1973 establishments in the United States
Widowhood in the United States


Salceo is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Quirós, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 112 (INE 2011).

Villages

References

Parishes in Quirós


Shriya Kishore is an Indian beauty queen. She was crowned as Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth 2009 in Mumbai on 5 April 2009. She became a semifinalist in Miss Earth 2009.

Biography
Shriya was born on 12 May to Nirupama and Colonel Sanjay Kishore. She went to Lawrence School in Lovedale, Ooty.

Shriya had graduated with a bachelor's degree in Hotel Management (BHM) from the Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration (WGHSA) at the Manipal University in Manipal, Karnataka, India in 2008. She joined WGSHA in 2004 as part of the 19th Course of the college.

Kishore has a younger brother, Divij Kishore, a corporate lawyer with a leading Mumbai law firm.

Femina Miss India 2009
Kishore won the Miss India Earth title at the Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2009 beauty pageant in Mumbai. Pantaloons Femina Miss India is a beauty pageant in India that selects its winners to compete in Miss Earth, Miss Universe, and Miss World. She won, along with Ekta Choudhary, who was crowned Miss India Universe 2009 and Pooja Chopra who was crowned Miss India World 2009. Kishore was crowned by Miss India Earth 2008 Tanvi Vyas.

Kishore was a wild card entry into the Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2009. She represented India at the Miss Earth 2009 in October.

Miss Earth 2009
Shriya performed well in the long gown competition and became a finalist from the Group - 2. She later entered the semifinals. However, she failed to make the cut as a finalist in the competition.

References

External links

 Miss India - Profile

Femina Miss India winners
Living people
Female models from Mumbai
1986 births
Manipal Academy of Higher Education alumni
Miss Earth 2009 contestants
Miss Earth India delegates


Mercury granulomas is the result of mercury exposure, a skin condition characterized by foreign-body giant cell reaction.

See also
 Granuloma
 Skin lesion

References

Skin conditions resulting from physical factors


Nicola Sala (7 April 1713 – 31 August 1801) was an Italian composer and music theorist. He was born in Tocco Caudio and died in Naples. He was chapel-master and professor at Naples, having devoted himself to the collection of the finest models of printed music.

Biography
Sala studied music in Naples at Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini from 1732 to 1740 under Nicola Fago and Leonardo Leo. Some of his pupils were Carlo Lenzi, Giuseppe Gherardeschi, Benedetto Neri, Étienne-Joseph Floquet, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Louis Julien Casels de Labarre, Ercole Paganini, Gaspare Spontini, and many others.

He probably wrote his first composition, the opera Vologeso, staged first in Rome, in 1737. In 1745 he was accepted as successor to Leo in the position of master of the royal chapel. In the sixties represented some of his works at the Teatro di San Carlo, including the drama Zenobia, composed by his pupil Ambrogio Minoja, was well received. In 1787 he became second master of the Pieta Turchini, where he stayed for 47 years as teacher and director of the conservatory.

He was one of the most important Neapolitan teachers, having taught many musical composers. He wrote several pedagogical treatises, including Regole del contrappunto pratico, published in Naples in 1794. He also wrote several operas, oratorios, masses and cantatas. His music was recently rediscovered by the Conservatory of Benevento, which has headed the institution and the local association Eufoniarché, producing his operas and oratorios each year with the help of palaeographers and Latin scholars of the University of Naples, Rome and Paris.

The well-regarded state-funded music conservatory Conservatorio Statale di Musica Nicola Sala in Benevento near Naples is named for him.

Selected works

Operas
Vologeso (opera seria, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, 1737, Rome)
La Zenobia (opera seria, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1761, Naples)
Demetrio (opera seria, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1762, Naples)
Merope (opera seria, libretto by Apostolo Zeno, 1769, Naples)

Other musical works
Giove, Pallade, Apollo (cantata, 1763, Naples)Il giudizio d'Apollo (serenade, libretto by Giovanni Fenizia, 1768, Naples)Erto, Ebone, Arminio (cantata, 1769, Naples)La bella eroina (prologue, 1769, Naples)
Varie ariaJudith seu Bethuliae liberatio-Giuditta ossia La Betulia liberata (oratorio, libretto by anonymous author, 2007, Benevento)

Theoretical worksRegole del contrappunto pratico (1794, Naples)Principi di contrappuntoElementi per ben suonare il cembaloDisposizione a tre per introduzione alle fughe di tre partiIl modo di disporre a tre sopra la scala diatonicaDisposizioni imitate a soggetto e contrasoggettoFughe con soggetto e contrasoggetto a suono plagaleReferences
 Peter van Tour: Counterpoint and Partimento: Methods of Teaching Composition in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples. 2015. 318p. (Studia musicologica Upsaliensia, 0081-6744 ; 25) , chapter 6.2: "The Teaching of Nicola Sala" .
 Peter van Tour (ed.), The 189 Partimenti of Nicola Sala: Complete Edition with Critical Commentary (Three volumes, 415 pp. Two printed volumes [352 pp.], the third volume is the Critical Commentary [63 pp.]). Edited by Peter van Tour. (Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Musicologica Upsaliensia. Nova Series 27a–c, 2017). .

AttributionThis article is based on the translation of the corresponding article of the Italian Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there at the History section.''

1713 births
1801 deaths
18th-century Italian musicians
18th-century Italian male musicians
Italian classical composers
Italian male classical composers
Italian opera composers
Male opera composers
People from the Province of Benevento


Calai is a town and municipality in Cuando Cubango Province in Angola.

The municipality has an area of  and a population of 22,654 (2014). It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Nancova, to the east by the municipalities of Mavinga and Dirico, to the south by the Republic of Namibia and to the west by the municipality of Cuangar. The municipality is constituted by the communes of Calai, Maué and Mavengue.

References

Populated places in Cuando Cubango Province
Municipalities of Angola


Clarke County High School is a public high school in Grove Hill, Alabama. Its mascot is the Bulldogs and the school colors are royal blue and white. The school runs on a four-block schedule. Christopher Young became the school's principal in 2020. Athletics include boys and girls basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, football, and cheer. The school currently competes at the 2A level in Region 1.

The Bulldogs won state championships in Football (2021), Boys' Basketball (1989), Girls' Basketball (1991), Girls' Outdoor Track, (1979, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991) and Girls' Indoor Track (1983, 1988, and 1991.)

External links
 CCHS website

References

Schools in Clarke County, Alabama
Public high schools in Alabama


Beryllium granulomas is a skin condition caused by granulomatous inflammation of the skin which may follow accident laceration, usually in the occupational setting.

Beryllium and pneumoconiosis
Pneumoconiosis refers to a number restrictive lung diseases resulting from  inhalation of dust and other occupational exposures, leading to inflammation, coughing and fibrosis. Berylliosis is associated with exposure to beryllium in the beryllium mining, aerospace and manufacturing industries. Chronic exposure to beryllium can be histologically characterised by non-caseating granulomas—structures formed in certain infectious and toxin-mediated diseases in which tissue resident macrophages build a wall around the threat, thus nullifying it. Because of this, beryllium associated granulomas are occasionally responsive to steroids and other immunosuppressants [cite].

Beryllium granulomas usually occur in the upper lobes of the lung, hilar lymph nodes and sometimes spreads systemically to distant organs. Exposure to beryllium is associated with an increased risk for cancer [cite].

See also

 Granuloma
 List of cutaneous conditions

References

Skin conditions resulting from physical factors


The Isen is a small river in southeast Upper Bavaria with a length of about 81 kilometres. The Isen rises near Lacken (in the municipality of Maitenbeth, district of Mühldorf am Inn) and flows through one of the most unspoiled regions of Old Bavaria (Altbayern): the Isen Valley.

First seeing the light of day in the district of Mühldorf, the waters of the Isen flow initially into the district of Erding the villages of Isen, Lengdorf and Dorfen, and then return again to Mühldorf district coursing through (Schwindegg, Ampfing, Mettenheim, Mühldorf am Inn and Erharting). Finally it flows into the Inn in the district of Altötting, municipality Winhöring, opposite Neuötting.

The mouth of the Isen where it discharges into the Inn was moved further west to between the villages of Kronberg and Unterau in the municipality of Winhöring in the 19th century during the building of the München–Mühldorf–Simbach railway line. Its original mouth was near the village of Kager. Even today a few marshy spots in the fields and meadows give away the old course of the Isen.

The Isen Valley, with its tributaries, is a Special Area of Conservation (Fauna-Flora-Habitat-Richtlinie or FFH) that is threatened by the construction of the A 94 motorway.

The water quality of the Isen is moderately to critically polluted.
Its tributaries are the Lappach, Ornaubach, Kagnbach and Goldach.

Sources
 Rudolf Angermeier, Adolf Kunzmann: Isengau. Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1978.

References

TV Documentaries
 Die Isen. TV series Topographie by Dieter Wieland. Bayerischer Rundfunk 1981.
 Mein Isental. Nature documentary by Jan Haft. Bayerisches Fernsehen 2007. 45 min.

Rivers of Bavaria
Rivers of Germany


Zirconium granulomas are a skin condition characterized by a papular eruption involving the axillae, and are sometimes considered an allergic reaction to deodorant containing zirconium lactate. They are the result of a delayed granulomatous hypersensitivity reaction, and can also occur from exposure to aluminum zirconium complexes. Commonly, zirconium containing products are used to relieve toxicodendron irritation. The lesions are similar to those from sarcoidosis, and commonly manifest four to six weeks after contact. They appear as erythematous, firm, raised, shiny papules. Corticosteroids are used to ease the inflammation, but curative treatment is currently unavailable.

See also
 Granuloma
 Skin lesion

References

External links

Skin conditions resulting from physical factors


Cuangar  is a town and municipality in Cuando Cubango Province in Angola. The town lies on the Okavango River, opposite the town of Nkurenkuru, Namibia. The municipality had a population of 28,459 in 2014. It is situated close to a fort.

References

Populated places in Cuando Cubango Province
Municipalities of Angola
Angola–Namibia border crossings


EDDC may refer to:

Dresden Airport (by its ICAO code)
East Devon District Council in the United Kingdom
East Dorset District Council in the United Kingdom
Enhanced Display Data Channel (E-DDC)


Fancher is an unincorporated community in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.

Geography

Fancher is located in central Wisconsin approximately halfway between Stevens Point, and Amherst, south of U.S. Highway 10 on County Road K. The general area of present-day Fancher is on County Road K between Townline Road and Lake Thomas Road in the town of Stockton. (Lat: 44° 28' 21.2", Lon: -89° 22' 23.4")

History
Fancher was named for Orson Fancher, who operated the first post office for the area, beginning in 1891. Soon after, the Fancher School and St. Mary of Mount Carmel Church were constructed near the Fancher residence and post office at their present-day locations.

Fancher was considered a "flag stop" for the railroad when it created access for potato warehouses in the area. A blacksmith shop, bar and hotel were constructed near Smokey Road and Fourth Street in the town of Stockton, called "Smokey Spur." That name is still found today in the Smokey Spur Bar.

The old Fox Valley and Western Railroad which once was the "spur" near Fancher has now been incorporated into the Tomorrow River State Trail.

References

External links
 here or visit the Portage County Historical Society.

Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Portage County, Wisconsin


CEN/CENELEC Guide 6: Guidelines for standards developers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities is a document for participants in standardisation activities at CEN and CENELEC that contains guidance for the creation and the revision of standards to ensure greater accessibility of products and services. The document is a "Guide", in other words, not a European Standard (EN). The guide is identical to ISO/IEC Guide 71 and was adopted by both the CEN Technical Board and the CENELEC Technical Board, and published in January 2002. The adoption of CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 resulted from a European mandate to the European standardisation organisations, and the European Commission is funding projects to promote the use of the Guide.

A revised version was published in December 2014; it is identical to ISO/IEC Guide 71:2014.

Background
In 2000 ISO and IEC published the policy statement: "Addressing the needs of older persons and people with disabilities in standardization work". This policy statement recognised the need to include the requirements of older persons and persons with disabilities during the development and revision of standards. The document stated that this could be achieved by following the basic principles of:

The policy statement also recommended using ISO/IEC Guide 71, which would become available in 2001. ISO/IEC Guide 71:2001: Guidelines for standardization to address the needs of older persons and people with disabilities was published in 2001 and has been widely accepted: it has been used in Japan and was adopted by CEN and CENELEC as CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 (see below). ISO/IEC Guide 71 was also made available in Braille and was the first ISO publication that was made available in this format.

CEN and CENELEC adopted ISO/IEC Guide 71 as CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 as a result of Mandate M/283, which the European Commission gave to the three official European standardisation bodies, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI on 24 June 1999. The text of the mandate pointed out that special needs were addressed in standards related to assistive technology, but that

Guide 6 is part of a wider framework that standardisation organisations can use to support the need for more accessible products and services. The ISO/IEC Policy Statement 2000 "Addressing the Needs of Older Persons and People with Disabilities in Standardization Work" already provided principles and considerations for ensuring that the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities are addressed in the standardisation process.

ETSI, the third European standardisation body to which Mandate M/283 was addressed, did not adopt CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 but continued using ISO/IEC Guide 71 as a reference document. Since 2008 ISO/IEC Guide 71 has a supporting document: ISO/TR 22411:2008: Ergonomics data and guidelines for the application of ISO/IEC Guide 71 to products and services to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities.

In December 2014 CEN and CENELEC adopted the revised ISO/IEC Guide 71: 2014 as CEN-CENELEC Guide 6:2014. This new version of Guide 6 is freely available on the website of CEN and CENELEC.

Content
CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 is a document for participants in CEN technical bodies: Technical Committees or TCs, Working Groups or WGs, Task Forces, Workshops etcetera. These technical bodies are responsible for addressing the needs of persons with disabilities and older people in the standards, specifications, reports or other documents that they produce.

CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 has three goals:
 to inform how human abilities (and disabilities) affect the usability of products, services and the built environment,
 to describe how requirements in standards relate to accessibility and usability of products and services,
 to raise awareness about the benefits of accessible design.

The Guide consists of a few introductory sections followed by 10 other chapters which are called "clauses". The most important chapters are described in the list below.
 Clause 6 briefly describes a process that allows technical committees to consider the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities. It divides the standardisation process into five steps; for each step, the Guide lists one or more issues that need to be addressed.
 Clause 7 and 8 provide tables that relate several types of clauses in a standard (for example, on packaging, the user interface and the built environment) to factors that need to be considered when addressing disabilities.
 Clause 9 provides descriptions of body functions or disabilities and their implications when using products and services.
 The last chapter is a bibliography that provides a list of resources for more specific guidance.

Implementation and uptake
In December 2001, CEN and CENELEC published CEN/CENELEC Guide 2: "CEN/CENELEC Guide 2: Consumer interests and the preparation of standards", which is a republication of CEN/CENELEC Memorandum 2 from 1977. This guide recommends member bodies of CEN and CENELEC to consult with consumer organisations when developing standards that are relevant to consumer interests. CEN/CENELEC Guide 2 is older than Guide 6 and therefore does not reference it.

At the end of 2004, CEN adopted a "Mechanism on the use of the CEN/CENELEC Guide 6" According to ANEC it took two years to develop this mechanism and its adoption followed after "intense lobbying by ANEC". The implementation mechanism has several implications:
 CEN technical bodies (such as Technical Committees and Working Groups) are responsible for addressing the needs of older persons and of persons with disabilities in their standards. They can do this by creating an optional working document that is not part of the standard. (Not every standard is affected by the mechanism.)
 When a standard is reviewed, the technical body can address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities if necessary. When creating a new standard, these needs can be addressed during the standardisation work.
 When appropriate, a technical body can add a statement in the foreword of a standard that states where the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities have been addressed.
 The primary reference document that technical bodies should use when addressing the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities in their work is CEN/CENELEC Guide 6.

CEN/CENELEC Guide 11: "Product information relevant to consumers - Guidelines for standard developers" was published in 2006 and refers to CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 for guidance on informational needs of people with disabilities and older people.

In 2006 CEN sent a questionnaire on the use of Guide 6 to its technical committees. The results showed that 3 out of 275 CEN committees used the Guide 6. ANEC decided to propose to CEN how to take an initiative to change the situation. In 2007–2008, NEN - the Dutch standardisation organisation - and Standard Norge carried out a feasibility study within the European Mandate M/371. One of the findings was that the implementation of Guide 6 faced some difficulties. For this reason, NEN and CEN started an action to promote the use of Guide 6, and in December 2007 NEN proposed the installation of an CEN/CENELEC/BT/WG Accessibility for All. ANEC also supported the creation of such a working group. This led to the creation of the CEN/CENELEC/BT/WG CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 Implementation Mechanism. The working group held a preliminary meeting on 29 October 2008 and its first official meeting on 8 April 2009.

In August 2008, the European Commission published a call for tenders on the subject of "Training of Stakeholders on consultations on standardisation" The main goal of this call is promoting the use of Guide 6:
A guide for standardisers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities (CEN/CENELEC Guide 6), has been developed and is available since 2003 but its use is not widespread. The use of Guide 6 in a more systematic way can certainly help to address the needs of people with disabilities and older persons from a "design for all" perspective.
The use of the guide should be promoted by training two types of stakeholders in the standardisation process:
 the traditional stakeholders in the standardisation process need training on accessibility matters and the use of Guide 6;
 representatives of older persons and persons with disabilities need training on the standardisation process (and CEN/CENELEC Guide 6).

The European project USEM (User Empowerment in Standardisation) also used CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 in its training on standardisation for representatives of older persons and persons with disabilities.

Translations
CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 is also available in other languages, usually as a translation of ISO/IEC Guide 71, for example:
 Dutch: NPR-ISO/IEC Guide 71:2002 nl: ,
 French: ,
 German: ,
 Norwegian: SN-ISO/IEC Guide 71:2001: ,
 Swedish: ,
 Japanese: JIS Z 8071:2003.

See also
 Accessibility
 Universal Design
 Design for All (design philosophy)
 Design for All (in ICT)
 Assistive technology
 Computer accessibility
 Standardization

References

Accessibility
EN standards
Ergonomics


Christopher Eugene Parsons OBE (23. August 1932 in Winchester, Hampshire – 8 November 2002 in Littleton-upon-Severn, Gloucestershire) was an English wildlife film-maker and the executive producer of David Attenborough's Life on Earth, widely regarded as one of the finest and most influential of nature documentaries. As a founding member and a former Head of the BBC Natural History Unit, he worked on many of its early productions and published a history of its first 25 years in 1982. Besides television, he was also passionate about projects which helped to bring an understanding of the natural world to a wider audience, notably the Wildscreen Festival and ARKive.

Film-making career
After obtaining a degree in science from the University College of the South West of England, Exeter, Christopher Parsons joined the BBC in 1955. He began as an apprentice film editor at the newly formed West Region Film Unit in Bristol, England. Here, he worked on a wide range of programmes in the fledgling medium of television, including some of the BBC's earliest natural history films.

In 1957 he was one of the founding members of the BBC Natural History Unit, becoming a pioneer of the genre alongside names such as Peter Scott, Tony Soper, Pat Beech and Eric Ashby. His early work included roles editing and producing Look, the Unit's first series, which was presented by Scott. In 1963 he produced the Unit's first film in colour, The Major, though it was another four years before the programme could be transmitted in colour.

Parsons accompanied his friend Gerald Durrell on animal-collecting expeditions to Australia and Sierra Leone to produce the television series Two in the Bush (1962) and Catch Me a Colobus (1966). In 1968, he became series editor of The World About Us, a new strand of nature documentaries commissioned for BBC Two by then controller David Attenborough. The strand was renamed The Natural World in 1983 and was still on air as of 2012.

When Attenborough began commissioning ambitious landmark documentary series for BBC Two on subjects as diverse as science, economics and art history, Parsons decided that natural history would make an ideal subject for such a venture, and drafted the synopsis of a 13-part series he called Life on Earth. In 1970, he travelled to London to persuade Attenborough to present the series, only to discover that both of them had had the same idea. Financing and filming challenges delayed production, and it was not until 1979 that Life on Earth finally reached the screen. The series drew widespread acclaim and helped to establish the reputation of the Natural History Unit. When it was rewarded with departmental status in 1979, Parsons became the first official Head of the Unit (previous leaders were called senior producers).

In 1982, he received an award for programme excellence from the Royal Television Society and was appointed OBE for his outstanding services to broadcasting. The same year, his history of the first 25 years of the Natural History Unit, True to Nature, was published. After stepping down from his role as Head in 1983, he was appointed to develop commercial opportunities for the BBC by utilising the growing library of archive natural history footage. He set up Wildvision to sell re-packaged programmes and videos internationally, and helped to establish BBC Wildlife magazine in 1983.

Parsons left the BBC in 1988 to return to film production, making for large-format films for museums, zoos and aquaria. In the 1990s he produced a number of IMAX nature documentaries, working with the IMAX Natural History Film Unit and West Eagle Films. These included Mountain Gorillas (1992), The Secret of Life on Earth (1992) and Survival Island (1996), the latter a second collaboration with David Attenborough. His final film was a millennium project about his home village of Littleton-upon-Severn in Gloucestershire.

Other projects
In 1982, Parsons and Peter Scott co-founded the Wildscreen Festival in Bristol, a biennial event which recognises and celebrates the achievements of wildlife film-makers, the first of its kind in the world. At the 1990 festival, Parsons was presented with the Outstanding Achievement Award which is now named in his honour. He went on to co-found and become a patron of the Wildscreen Trust, an educational charity established in 1987 to promote an understanding of the natural world through audiovisual material.

From 1995 to 2000 he was a Director of Wildscreen, overseeing the building of Wildwalk-at-Bristol, a new visitor attraction in the city. Developed with funding from the National Lottery, its aim was to raise awareness of global biodiversity and conservation issues using a combination of live animal exhibits, videos and interactive displays. Recognition for his achievements came with the WWF International award for Conservation Merit in 1990 and honorary membership of the Linnean Society of London, for services to natural history.

His final project was a long-standing passion to establish an electronic database of all the world’s species, first mooted in the early 1980s before the necessary technology was available. The resulting website, ARKive, went live in May 2003. Parsons never lived to see the fruition of the project, succumbing to cancer in November 2002 at the age of 70.  In 2003, the World Land Trust, of which he had been a Trustee, dedicated a rainforest reserve in Ecuador in his memory.

Film and TV Credits
The following is a list of Parsons's main productions:
 Survival Island (IMAX) (1996) – producer
 The Secret of Life on Earth (IMAX) (1994) – producer
 Mountain Gorillas (IMAX) (1992) – producer
 Life on Earth (1979) – executive producer
 The World About Us (1968–1976) – series editor
 Their World (1973) – presenter and producer
 Animals in Action (1973) – producer
 The Man Who Loved Giants (1971) – producer
 Animal People (1967) – producer
 Catch Me A Colobus (1966) – producer
 A Bull Named Marius (1966) – producer
 Look (1955–1964) – editor and producer
 Unarmed Hunters (1964) – producer
 Two in the Bush (1962) – producer
 The Major (1963) – producer
 The Unknown Forest (1960) – producer

References

External links
 Christopher Parsons's oral history at WildFilmHistory

British television producers
1932 births
2002 deaths
People educated at Mount Radford School
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
20th-century British businesspeople


Gymnogeophagus tiraparae is a species of Geophagine cichlid.
Before the scientific description, this fish was referred to with the name Gymnogeophagus sp "San Borja".

It is found in Rio Negro in Uruguay and Tacuari River in the Laguna Mirim basin.
It has a distinct hump on the head. The body is laterally compressed. The largest specimens found have had a standard length of 13 cm.
Gymnogeophagus tiraparae inhabits large rivers with clear water.

This species is probably closely related to Gymnogeophagus gymnogenys.

Gymnogeophagus tiraparae was named after a Guarani woman, Maria Luisa Tiraparae, who discovered the species in the vanished native town of San Borja del Yi, Uruguay.

References

tiraparae
Fish described in 2009


Dirico  is a town and municipality in Cuando Cubango Province in Angola. The municipality was estimated to have had a population of 19,191 in 2020.

The town is served by Dirico Airport and lies on the Cuito River.

References

Populated places in Cuando Cubango Province
Municipalities of Angola


Matthew Hays is a Canadian film critic, writer, film festival programmer and academic. He won a Lambda Literary Award for his 2007 book The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers.

Hays teaches film studies, journalism and communication studies at Concordia University in Montreal, and has reviewed films for the Montreal Mirror. His writing has also been published in The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Xtra!, The Walrus, Vice and The Advocate, and he has been a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival. He was nominated for a 2008 National Magazine Award.

Hays is openly gay.

Hays earned an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University in Montreal in 2008.

References

Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian film critics
Academic staff of Concordia University
Canadian gay writers
Lambda Literary Award winners
Living people
Canadian LGBT journalists
Journalists from Montreal
Writers from Montreal
Canadian magazine writers
Year of birth missing (living people)


The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is a literary award by the American Library Association (ALA) that annually recognizes the "author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year." The winner(s) receive a bronze medal at the ALA Annual Conference, presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) division of ALA.

The award is named for Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, who once said, "Children want the same things we want: to laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained and delighted." It was established in 2004 and inaugurated in 2006 for 2005 publications.

A few runners up are termed Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Books; their authors and illustrators receive certificates.

Criteria
 The book must encourage and support the beginning reader.
 The book must be published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
 There are no limitations as to the character of the book considered except that it will be original and function successfully as a book for beginning readers.
 The author(s) or illustrator(s) must be citizens or residents of the United States.
 The "author(s) and illustrator(s)" may include co-authors and co-illustrators. The author(s) and illustrator(s) may be awarded the medal posthumously.
 The text must be directed at readers from pre-K through Grade 2.
 The illustrations must function as keys or clues to the text.
 Fiction, non-fiction, and poetry are all eligible.
 Reprints and compilations are not eligible.
 Subject matter must be intriguing enough to motivate the child to read.
 The book may or may not include short "chapters."
 New words should be added slowly enough to make learning them a positive experience.
 Words should be repeated to ensure knowledge retention.
 Sentences must be simple and straightforward.
 There must be a minimum of 24 pages.
 Books may not be longer than 96 pages.

Recipients

Multiple awards
 Tedd Arnold received honors in 2006, 2010, and (with Martha Hamilton, and Mitch Weiss) 2018.
 Cece Bell received honors in 2013 and 2020.
 Dori Hillestad Butler received honors in 2018 and 2019.
 Kate DiCamillo won the 2011 award (with co-author Alison McGhee and illustrator Tony Fucile). She received an honor in 2007.
 Jonathan Fenske received honors in 2016 and 2022.
 Kevin Henkes received honors in 2014 and 2016.
 Paul Meisel received honors in 2012 and 2018.
 David Milgrim received honors in 2017 and 2019.
 Greg Pizzoli won the 2014 award. He received honors in 2017 and 2020.
 Antoinette Portis received honors in 2007 and 2023.
 Sergio Ruzzier received honors in 2019 and 2023.
 Cynthia Rylant won the award in 2006 and received an honor in 2015.
 Laura Vaccaro Seeger received honors in 2008 and 2009.
 Corey R. Tabor won the award in 2019 and 2022.
 Mo Willems won the 2008 and 2009 awards. He received honors in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.

See also

References

American children's literary awards
American Library Association awards
Awards established in 2004
Dr. Seuss
English-language literary awards


Water Warfare ( in Japan) is a first-person shooter video game by Hudson Soft for WiiWare. It is the second game in the genre to be released by Hudson Soft for WiiWare (after Onslaught).

Involving combat with water guns, Hudson has described the family friendly game as a "first-person soaker", which holds up Hudson's core design philosophy that prohibits explicit violence between people playing a game.

Gameplay
Along with replacing firearms with water guns of several types (such as water firing machine guns, sniper rifles and rocket launchers), the game also replaces grenades with water balloons, armor with raincoats, and health bars with wet T-shirts, with health regenerated as the shirt dries in the sun or by the player picking up a towel. The water guns are refilled via drinking fountains situated around each level, with the game featuring 8 maps set amongst nature parks, beaches, playgrounds and a Venetian city.

The game features split-screen multiplayer for 2 players and online multiplayer for up to 8 players. Six multiplayer modes are featured including Battle Royale (survival), Deathmatch, Treasure Chest (capture the flag), a team-based Assault mode and Point Rally (race). The game also features a 38 mission long single player campaign, a spectator mode and bots to play against.

Like other Wii games in the genre, Water Warfare uses the pointer function of the Wii Remote to aim and the Nunchuk to move. The game also supports the Wii Zapper and Classic Controller. Unlike other Wii games, the maps change at random every game. For example, a slide that is on a hill in one game would be somewhere else in another.

Reception

IGN's Daemon Hatfield thought the game was "visually ancient" but still fun, though conversely editor Matt Casamassina stated he thought the game was "a laughably bad, dated, shoddily executed FPS". Wiiloveit.com, on the other hand, had high praises for it, describing it as "a fantastic download for Wii owners, whether young or old".

References

External links
 Hudson's Water Warfare site
 Hudson's Bang Bang Kids site

2009 video games
First-person shooters
Hudson Soft games
Video games developed in Japan
Wii-only games
WiiWare games
Wii Wi-Fi games
Water guns


Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Maine since December 29, 2012. A bill for the legalization of same-sex marriages was approved by voters, 53–47 percent, on November 6, 2012, as Maine, Maryland and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote. Election results were certified by the Maine Secretary of State's office and the Governor of Maine, Paul LePage, on November 29.

The 2012 referendum was a reversal of action on a similar bill three years earlier. On May 6, 2009, a bill to allow same-sex marriage in Maine was signed into law by Governor John Baldacci following legislative approval. Opponents of the bill successfully petitioned for a referendum before the law went into effect; voters rejected the law on November 3, 2009, in a "people's veto". Until the referendum result rejected the law, it appeared that Maine would be the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage through the legislative process with a governor's signature, rather than following a judicial ruling. Vermont was the first state to legalize same-sex marriage by statute, but its legislature did so by overriding its governor's veto.

Both U.S. senators from Maine, Republican Susan Collins and Independent Angus King, support same-sex marriage.

Domestic partnerships

In 2004, Maine established domestic partnerships, which provide some of the legal rights and benefits of marriage. A domestic partnership grants couples, opposite-sex and same-sex, inheritance rights, domestic violence protection, and the right to make medical decisions, among others. The legislation was passed by the Maine Legislature and signed into law by Governor John Baldacci on April 28, 2004. It took effect on July 30, 2004.

Same-sex marriage

1997 legislation
I.P. 1 - L.D. 1017, An Act to Protect Traditional Marriage and Prohibit Same Sex Marriages, was passed on March 28, 1997. On March 27, the House of Representatives voted 106–39 in favor, followed by the Senate the following day, which voted for the bill 24–10. The bill would have gone to a referendum if it had been rejected by either Governor Angus King or the Maine Legislature, since the bill was initiated by referendum. The law was repealed in 2012.

2009 legislation
In January 2009, Senator Dennis Damon introduced a bill titled An Act To End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom to allow same-sex couples to marry in Maine. A public hearing took place on April 22 at the Augusta Civic Center because of high levels of interest. The legislation extended the right to refuse to perform same-sex marriages to any "person authorized to join persons in marriage" rather than to clergy only. It did not require that such refusals be based on religious beliefs. The Act also maintained the requirement for genetic counseling in marriage between first cousins of the opposite sex and expanded it to include first cousins of the same sex, despite the inability of persons of the same sex to conceive a child together.

Governor John Baldacci previously opposed allowing same-sex couples to marry, but said he was keeping an open mind.

On April 28, 2009, the Joint Committee on Judiciary endorsed the bill. The vote was 11 in favor, 2 against, and 1 recommending that the issue be sent to the voters via referendum. On April 30, the Senate approved the bill 20–15 in a preliminary vote accepting the Judiciary Committee's majority "Ought To Pass" report. That same day, senators rejected an amendment that would have sent the same-sex marriage question to voters in a referendum and passed the bill by a final vote of 21–14. On May 5, 2009, the House of Representatives passed the bill 89–58. The bill was then sent back to the Senate for a final vote on enactment. On May 6, Governor Baldacci signed the bill into law. Baldacci became the first governor in the nation to sign a same-sex marriage law. The law was due to take effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourned.

Repeal campaign

The day after Governor Baldacci signed the Act, opponents of same-sex marriage launched a campaign to repeal it through a voter referendum. The campaign was successful in placing the question on the ballot, and on November 3, 2009, it passed by a vote of 53% to 47%, repealing the law.

2012 initiative

On June 30, 2011, EqualityMaine and Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) announced plans to place a voter initiative in support of same-sex marriage on Maine's November 2012 ballot. The title of the citizen initiative was An Act to Allow Marriage Licenses for Same-Sex Couples and Protect Religious Freedom, and the text of their proposed ballot question was:

On July 27, 2012, Secretary of State Charlie Summers released the final wording of the ballot question. The question on the November ballot read:

On January 26, 2012, supporters delivered over 105,000 petition signatures for the initiative to the Secretary of State's office, exceeding the minimum of 57,277 required signatures. The Secretary of State announced on February 23 that the office verified 85,216 signatures, qualifying it for the November 2012 ballot. The 2012 campaign to legalize marriage for same-sex couples in Maine was led by a group called Mainers United for Marriage. Several groups had also formed in opposition.

On November 6, 2012, in a reversal of the vote three years earlier, Maine became one of the first U.S. states to approve same-sex marriage through a ballot initiative and the fifth New England state to legalize same-sex marriage. The results were a reverse of those seen in the 2009 referendum, with 53 percent in favor and 47 percent opposed. Maryland and Washington voters also approved same-sex marriage the same day. The definition of marriage in the state of Maine is now the following:

Taking effect
The law took effect on December 29, 2012, 30 days after the election results were certified by Governor Paul LePage on November 29. The 29th being a Saturday, most town and city offices would not be open until Monday, December 31, to issue marriage licenses. However, Augusta and Gardiner announced that they would open with limited hours on the 29th to issue licenses. Brunswick said they would issue licenses from 9 a.m. to noon that day, but by appointment only. Portland announced that they would open City Hall at 12:01 a.m. on the 29th to issue marriage licenses and perform weddings. City spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said that City Hall would be open until 3:01, but that anyone in line before then would be given service. Additionally, Portland and other communities, who planned to be open, stated that any couple who wanted a marriage license that day would be given one, not just same-sex couples. Some municipalities, such as Farmington, Lewiston and Auburn, said they would not open on the 29th, due to little demand in those locations. Some also stated that they could not afford to open, or saw no need to open just because the law was changed.

The first same-sex couple to marry were Steven Bridges and Michael Snell, who married at Portland City Hall just after midnight at 12:25 a.m. More than 40 same-sex couples married in Maine that Saturday, December 29, in at least 10 municipalities: Augusta, Bangor, Brewer, Brunswick, Falmouth, Freeport, Gardiner, Hallowell, Portland, and South Portland.

Native American nations
State law grants the Penobscot Nation, the Passamaquoddy Tribe, and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians jurisdiction over the marriages and divorces of tribal members. As a result, the state same-sex marriage law does not apply to these tribes, though tribal members may still request a marriage license from their county clerk. It is unclear if same-sex marriage is legal in these tribes. It is also unclear if marriages performed under native custom, known in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy as  (), and in Abenaki as  (), are recognized as valid on the reservations.

Economic impact
A University of California, Los Angeles research study from February 2009 estimated that extending marriage to same-sex couples in Maine would have a positive impact on the state's economy and budget. The study found that same-sex weddings and associated tourism would generate $60 million in additional spending in Maine over three years, creating 1,000 new jobs. The state would see an increase of $3.6 million in revenues over the next three years, resulting from increased sales tax revenues of approximately $3.1 million and new marriage license fees of $500,000. In calculating the net benefit to the state, the study approximated that half of Maine's 4,644 same-sex couples, or 2,316 couples, would marry in the first three years that marriage is available to them. The study also estimated that approximately 15,657 same-sex couples from other states would come to Maine to marry.

Marriage statistics
In the twelve months that followed the implementation of same-sex marriage in Maine, a total of 1,530 same-sex couples had married, according to the state's Office of Data, Research and Vital Statistics. This comprised 16% of all marriages recorded in Maine in that time. Marriages between women outpaced marriages between men by a tally of 970 to 560.

Public opinion
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| Public Religion Research Institute
| align=center| March 11 – December 14, 2022
| align=center| ?
| align=center| ?
|  align=center| 82%
| align=center| 18%
| align=center| <0.5%
|-
| Public Religion Research Institute
| align=center| March 8 – November 9, 2021
| align=center| ?
| align=center| ?
|  align=center| 75%
| align=center| 23%
| align=center| 2%
|-
| Public Religion Research Institute
| align=center| January 7 – December 20, 2020
| align=center| 214 random telephoneinterviewees
| align=center| ?
|  align=center| 77%
| align=center| 22%
| align=center| 1%
|-
| Public Religion Research Institute
| align=center| April 5 – December 23, 2017
| align=center| 359 random telephoneinterviewees
| align=center| ?
|  align=center| 71%
| align=center| 25%
| align=center| 4%
|-
| Public Religion Research Institute
| align=center| May 18, 2016 – January 10, 2017
| align=center| 594 random telephoneinterviewees
| align=center| ?
|  align=center| 59%
| align=center| 32%
| align=center| 9%
|-
| Public Religion Research Institute
| align=center| April 29, 2015 – January 7, 2016
| align=center| 460 random telephoneinterviewees
| align=center| ?
|  align=center| 56%
| align=center| 35%
| align=center| 9%
|-
| New York Times/CBS News/YouGov
| align=center| September 20 – October 1, 2014
| align=center| 1,531 likely voters
| align=center| ± 2.8%
|  align=center| 63%
| align=center| 27%
| align=center| 10%
|-
| Public Religion Research Institute
| align=center| April 2, 2014 – January 4, 2015
| align=center| 300
| align=center| ?
|  align=center| 63%
| align=center| 30%
| align=center| 7%
|-
| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| November 8–11, 2013
| align=center| 964 voters
| align=center| ± 3.2%
|  align=center| 54%
| align=center| 37%
| align=center| 9%
|-
| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| August 23–25, 2013
| align=center| 953 registered voters
| align=center| ± 3.2%
|  align=center| 53%
| align=center| 38%
| align=center| 9%
|-
| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| January 18–20, 2013
| align=center| 1,268 Maine voters
| align=center| ± 2.8%
|  align=center| 53%
| align=center| 43%
| align=center| 4%
|-
| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| November 1–2, 2012
| align=center| 1,633 likely voters
| align=center| ± 2.4%
|  align=center| 53%
| align=center| 42%
| align=center| 5%
|-
| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| September 17–18, 2012
| align=center| 804 likely voters
| align=center| ± 3.5%
|  align=center| 52%
| align=center| 40%
| align=center| 8%
|-
| Maine People's Resource Center
| align=center| March 31 – April 2, 2012
| align=center| 993 registered voters
| align=center| ± 3.11%
|  align=center| 58%
| align=center| 40%
| align=center| 2%
|-
| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| March 2–4, 2012
| align=center| 1,256 voters
| align=center| ± 2.8%
|  align=center| 54%
| align=center| 41%
| align=center| 5%
|-
| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| October 28–31, 2011
| align=center| 673 voters
| align=center| ± 3.8%
|  align=center| 51%
| align=center| 42%
| align=center| 8%
|-
| Goodwin Simon Strategic Research
| align=center| May 18–24, 2011
| align=center| 1,003 likely November 2012 voters
| align=center| ± 3.1%
|  align=center| 53%
| align=center| 39%
| align=center| 7%
|-
| Public Policy Polling
| align=center| March 3–6, 2011
| align=center| 1,247 voters
| align=center| ± 2.8%
|  align=center| 47%
| align=center| 45%
| align=center| 8%
|-

See also
 Domestic partnership in Maine
 LGBT rights in Maine
 Same-sex marriage in the United States

Notes

References

2012 in LGBT history
Maine
LGBT rights in Maine
2012 in Maine


Silica granulomas are a skin condition which may be caused by automobile and other types of accidents which produces tattooing of dirt (silicon dioxide) into the skin that then induces the granuloma formation.

See also
 Granuloma
 Skin lesion

References

External links

Skin conditions resulting from physical factors


Longa is a town and commune in the municipality of Cuito Cuanavale, province of Cuando Cubango, Angola. As of 2014, the commune had a population of 15,104 people over an area of .

References

Populated places in Cuando Cubango Province
Communes in Cuando Cubango Province


Biedes is one of six parishes (administrative divisions) in Las Regueras, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 279 (INE 2011).

Villages
 Biedes
 La Estaca (L'astaca)
 La Braña
 Marinas (Mariñes)
 Meobra (Miobra)
 Parades
 Recastañoso

Parishes in Las Regueras


Mavinga  is a town and municipality in Cuando Cubango Province in Angola. One of the three municipalities in Angola. Predominantly inhabited by the Mbunda and municipality had a population of 27,196 in 2014. It comprises the communes of Mavinga, Cunjamba/Dime, Cutuile and Luengue.

See also
Luengué Hunting Reserve
Mbunda language
Mbunda people

References

Further reading

Populated places in Cuando Cubango Province
Municipalities of Angola


Rivungo  is a town and municipality in Cuando Cubango Province in Angola. It is situated on the Cuando River. The municipality had a population of 33,053 inhabitants in 2014.

References

Populated places in Cuando Cubango Province
Municipalities of Angola


The White House Office of Public Engagement (OPE) is a unit of the White House Office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Under the administration of President Barack Obama, it combined oversight of OPE and the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs (IGA) under the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs (OPE-IGA). President Donald Trump restored the prior name of the Office of Public Liaison (OPL) and re-separated IGA. President Joe Biden changed the name back to OPE but kept IGA separate in his administration.

The current director of public engagement is former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, who assumed office in June 2022. On February 27, 2023, it was announced that Bottoms would be replaced by Stephen K. Benjamin in April 2023.

History
The Office of Public Liaison has been responsible for communicating and interacting with various interest groups. Under President Richard Nixon, Charles Colson performed public liaison work. President Gerald Ford first formalized the public liaison office after he took office in 1974, giving Nixon administration veteran William J. Baroody Jr. a mandate for OPL to become "an instrument for projecting the image of a truly open administration (in contrast to Nixon's) and to secure Ford's election in 1976. Under Baroody's direction, the office incorporated outreach efforts with consumers and women that had been located elsewhere in the White House, and the overall staff grew to approximately thirty. At the core of its activities was an aggressive campaign of regional conferences that enabled the nation's first un-elected president to tour the country in a campaign-like atmosphere and prepare the way for an eventual reelection campaign."

Some OPL heads used the office to push their own agendas. Midge Costanza used her time at OPL to broaden the influence of gays and lesbians in White House policy. Faith Ryan Whittlesey used her time at OPL to increase the influence of the Christian right and anti-communist groups, such as the Contras in Nicaragua.

Future cabinet secretary and U.S. senator Elizabeth Dole headed OPL under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1983. Directors during Bill Clinton's administration included future cabinet secretary Alexis Herman, Maria Echaveste, Minyon Moore, and future John Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill.

In May 2009, Obama continued this theme and renamed the Office of Public Liaison the Office of Public Engagement. Under the Obama administration, the Office of Public Engagement had been referred to as "the front door to the White House, through which everyone can participate and inform the work of the President."

In April 2009, actor Kal Penn was named an associate director in the Office of Public Engagement. His role was said to include outreach to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and the arts community. Prior to the appointment, he was a permanent cast member in the television series House, and his acceptance required him to be written out of the series.

President Donald Trump initially announced his intention to appoint Anthony Scaramucci to oversee the Office of Public Liaison in his administration, pending a review of Scaramucci's finances by the Office of Government Ethics. However, George Sifakis was appointed instead in March 2017.

Joe Biden announced on November 17, 2020, that the office will be known as the Office of Public Engagement in his incoming administration, and was most recently headed by Cedric Richmond until his resignation in May 2022, when he was replaced by Adrian Saenz in an acting capacity.

List of directors
The following have held the office of Director of Public Liaison at the White House:

Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs
During the Obama administration, there was a director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs who sat above the public engagement director and intergovernmental affairs director.

References

External links
 White House Office of Public Engagement
 White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
 Official website from the presidency of Barack Obama

Executive Office of the President of the United States
Public Liaison
Presidency of the United States
1974 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Government agencies established in 1974


The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the National League Central division. Originally known as the Alleghenys, they played in the American Association from 1882 through 1886, and have played in the National League since 1887. The first game of the new baseball season for a team is played on Opening Day, and being named the Opening Day starter is an honor, which is often given to the player who is expected to lead the pitching staff that season, though there are various strategic reasons why a team's best pitcher might not start on Opening Day. The Pirates have used 71 Opening Day starting pitchers since they began to play as a Major League team in 1882. The Pirates have a record of 69 wins and 60 losses in their Opening Day games.

The Pirates have played in several different home ball parks.  Between 1882 and 1909 they played in two parks called Exposition Park and in Recreation Park. They played in Forbes Field from 1909 to 1970 and Three Rivers Stadium from 1970 to 2000 and they have played in their current stadium, PNC Park, since 2001. They had a record of no wins and one loss in the first Exposition Park, four wins and no losses in Recreation Park and no wins and two losses in the second Exposition Park. They had a record of four wins and two losses at Forbes Field and a record of five wins and eight losses at Three Rivers Stadium. Through 2010, they have a record of two wins and one loss at PNC Park. That gives the Pirates an overall Opening Day record of 15 wins and 14 losses at home. They have a record of 54 wins and 46 losses in Opening Day games on the road.

Bob Friend has made the most Opening Day starts for the Pirates, with seven.  Babe Adams and Frank Killen each made five Opening Day starts for the Pirates, and Deacon Phillippe, Howie Camnitz, Cy Blanton and Bob Veale each made four Opening Day starts. Ed Morris, Pud Galvin, Wilbur Cooper, Ray Kremer, Rip Sewell, Steve Blass, Dock Ellis, Rick Rhoden, Doug Drabek and Francisco Liriano all made three Opening Day starts for the Pirates. Several Pittsburgh Pirates Opening Day starting pitchers have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, including Galvin, Burleigh Grimes, Waite Hoyt, Jim Bunning, and Bert Blyleven. Bunning was elected as both a United States congressman and senator from Kentucky after retiring from baseball.

The Pirates have won nine National League titles, in 1901, 1902, 1903, 1909, 1925, 1927, 1960, 1971 and 1979. They went on to win the World Series in 1909, 1925, 1960, 1971 and 1979 (the modern World Series began in 1903). Sam Leever was the Pirates Opening Day starting pitcher in 1901, Phillippe was the Opening Day starting pitcher in both 1902 and 1903, Camnitz was the Opening Day starting pitcher in 1909, Emil Yde in 1925, Kremer in 1927, Friend in 1960, Ellis in 1971 and Blyleven in 1979.

Key

Pitchers

References

External links
Pittsburgh Pirates Opening Day Starters and Results – Baseball-Reference.com

Opening day starters
Lists of Major League Baseball Opening Day starting pitchers


Carbon stains are a skin condition characterized by a discoloration of the skin from embedded carbon, usually occurring due to accidents with firearms or firecrackers, or from a puncture wound by a pencil, which may leave a permanent black mark of embedded graphite, easily mistaken for metastatic melanoma.

See also
 Soot tattoo
 List of cutaneous conditions

References

Skin conditions resulting from physical factors


Santuyanu () is one of six parishes (administrative divisions) in Les Regueres, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 358 (INE 2015).

Villages
 Andayón
 Ania
 Llazana
 Oteru
 Santuyanu (capital)
 Trescañeu
 Viau

References

Parishes in Las Regueras


Piatt Park (est. 1817) is the oldest park in Cincinnati, Ohio. The urban park stretches two blocks between Elm Street and Vine Street on Garfield Place/8th Street. The park is owned and maintained by the Cincinnati Park Board.

History
In 1817 John H. Piatt, a steamboat builder, and his brother, Benjamin M. Piatt, a Federal Circuit Judge and father of Civil War general Abram S. Piatt, gave  to the city on the condition it be used "for a market space". Its close proximity to the Sixth Street Market probably prevented the carrying out of the original wishes of the donors, and on June 19, 1868, the land along Eighth Street was formally dedicated to park uses.

Bronze statues of US Presidents from Ohio stand on either end of the park, with a sculpture of James A. Garfield facing Vine and one of William Henry Harrison facing West toward the Covenant First Presbyterian Church across Elm.

The Garfield statue, by Charles Henry Niehaus, was commissioned in 1883 and unveiled in 1887. Due to the presence of the statue of Garfield, the city park was known for a time as Garfield Park, officially receiving its designation as Piatt Park by the Board of Park Commissioners in 1940. The James A. Garfield statue was originally at the center of the street crossing of Garfield Place and Race Street. In 1915 it was moved into the park close to the same intersection. It was again moved during the renovation of Piatt Park in 1988 and now stands at the Vine Street entrance to the park. In 1994 the statue was vandalized with a painted anarchy symbol which seeped into the stone pedestal and is still somewhat visible.

The bronze equestrian statue of a uniformed General Harrison on horseback by Louis T. Rebisso of the Cincinnati School of Design and his student Clement Barnhorn was dedicated in 1896. The North side of the pedestal states, "Ohio's First President" and the South side has his name "William Henry Harrison". The statue is odd in that there is no saddle on the horse, so the stirrups seem airborne. It is notable for being the only equestrian monument in Cincinnati. The monument originally faced East toward Vine Street but was moved in 1988 to its present location.

Flanking Race Street in Piatt Park are two circular reflecting pools with granite slabs that mirror the surrounding urban landscape. Beneath a curtain of water that flows over the granite surfaces are carved symbols for water, air and land. Cincinnati artist Stuart Fink’s fountain was dedicated in 1989 in memory of local delicatessen owner Isadore “Izzy” Kadetz, who died in 1983.

Gallery

See also
Lytle Park
List of sculptures of presidents of the United States

References

Parks in Cincinnati
1817 establishments in Ohio


Damouré Zika (c. 1923 – 6 April 2009) was a Nigerien traditional healer, broadcaster, and film actor. Coming from a long line of traditional healers in the Sorko ethnic group of western Niger, Zika appeared in many of the films of French director Jean Rouch, becoming one of Niger's first actors.  As a practitioner of traditional medicine, he opened a clinic in Niamey, and was for many years a broadcaster and commentator on health issues for Niger's national radio.

Early life
Zika was the son of a Zarma speaking traditional healer and fisherman, near the town of Ayorou on the Niger River.  It was there, in the 1940s, that he began working with the French ethnographer and filmmaker Jean Rouch, who was then working as a French colonial hydrology engineer. Zika came from a long line of Sorko healers and spirit mediums.  He met Rouch after ten Sorko workers in a construction depot which Rouch supervised were killed by a lightning strike.  Zika's grandmother, a famous possession medium and spiritual advisor, presided over a ritual for the men, which Rouch later claimed sparked his desire to make enthographic film.

The two became friends, and Rouch began in 1950 to use Zika as the focus of his films demonstration the traditions, culture, and ecology of the people of the Niger River valley. The first of 150 in which Zika appeared was "Bataille sur le grand fleuve" (1950-52), portraying the lives, ceremonies and hunting of Sorko fishermen.

Films
By the late 1950s, these films became longer and more narrative. "Jaguar" (filmed 1954-1955) stars Zika as a Songhai noble traveling for work to the Gold Coast.  Filmed a silent ethnographic piece, Zika helped re-edit the film into a feature-length movie, and provided dialog and commentary for a 1967 release.  By that time Rouch was producing long narrative films, many of which Zika appeared in, becoming one of Nigerien cinema's first recognizable actors.  Zika was among those injured in the 2004 car accident near N'guigmi in which Rouch died.

Healthcare and broadcasting
Continuing his study of traditional medicine, Zika became a licensed practitioner and began a long career as a broadcaster, hosting a fortnightly show on Niger's state run Radio Voix du Sahel.  Zika used his fame to finance a clinic in Lamordé, a district on the right bank of the Niger in Niamey.  There he provided free care for the indigent for many decades.  Zika died in Niamey after a long illness on 6 April 2009, with his age reported as somewhere between 85 and 86. He is survived by four wives, 35 children and 80 grandchildren.

Notable films
Jaguar (filmed 1954-55, released 1967): Actor, editor, sound
Petit à petit "Little by Little" (1971): Actor
Cocorico! Monsieur Poulet "Cocka-doodle-doo Mr. Chicken" (1974): Actor
Babatu (1976)

References

Nigerien film actors
1920s births
2009 deaths


Ambaca  is a town and municipality in Cuanza Norte Province in Angola. The municipality had a population of 61,769 in 2014.

In the 17th century, the Portuguese colonial authorities built a fort in the village of Camabatela, near the Lucala River margin.

References

Populated places in Cuanza Norte Province
Municipalities of Angola