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# Patrice Arent

Patrice M. Arent (born February 3, 1956) is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Utah House of Representatives, representing the state's 36th house district through 2020.

## Early life and career

Arent was born February 3, 1956, in Utah. She received her B.S. from the University of Utah in 1978 and her J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1981. Before becoming a member of the House of Representatives, she worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Utah Attorney General's Office from 1989-1995. She currently lives in Salt Lake City with her husband and two children. She is Jewish.

## Political career

Arent was elected to the Utah House of Representatives in 1996 where she has served as Democratic Whip and Assistant Democratic Whip. In 2002, because of legislative redistricting, she would have had to run against another incumbent Democratic representative to remain in her House seat. Rather than run for a fourth term in the House, Arent successfully ran to represent District 4 in the State Senate. She served in the Utah Senate from 2003 through 2006.
Arent was elected Democratic National Committeewoman from Utah at the 2008 State Democratic Convention. She represented Utah as a "superdelegate" at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, and helped nominate Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for President of the United States.
In 2010, she returned to public office as the Representative of District 36 in the Utah House of Representatives. She was reelected in 2012 with 60% of the vote. She was reelected in 2014 with 67.8% of the vote.
In 2011, the Utah Democratic Party awarded her the Eleanor Roosevelt Award. The award was presented on October 27, 2011, at This is the Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was selected by a committee of past award winners. Past award winners include former Congresswoman Karen Shepherd and State Senator Karen Mayne.
During the 2016 legislative session, Arent served on the Executive Appropriations Committee, the Business, Economic Development, and Labor Appropriations Subcommittee, the House Government Operations Committee, and the House Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee.

## 2016 sponsored legislation

| Bill Number | Bill Title | Status |
| HB0052S02 | Office of Outdoor Recreation Amendments | Governor Signed - 3/21/2016 |
| HB0119 | Straight Ticket Voting Amendments | House/ filed - 3/10/2016 |
| HB0130 | Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Amendments | Governor Signed - 3/29/2016 |
| HB0158S01 | Campaign Funds Restrictions for County and Local School Board Offices | Governor Signed - 3/18/2016 |
| HB0237 | Income Tax Contribution for Clean Air | Governor Signed - 3/21/2016 |
| HB0267 | Charitable Solicitation Act Amendments | Governor Signed - 3/29/2016 |
| HB0275 | Submission of Nonbinding Opinion Questions to Voters | House/ filed - 3/10/2016 |
| HJR006 | Joint Rules Resolution on Ethics Commission | House/ filed - 3/10/2016 |
Arent passed five of the eight bills she introduced, giving her a 62.5% passage rate. She did not floor sponsor any bills during the 2016 general session.
# Frank D. Baker

Frank D. Baker (October 10, 1852 – June 6, 1927) was a Michigan politician. He was an active member in the Odd Fellows, Masons, and Knights of the Maccabees.

## Early life

Born near Biddeford, Devonshire, England on October 10, 1852, Frank D. Baker came to Flint, Michigan by the way of Quebec, Canada in 1856. He graduated from Flint High School in 1872. He then taught school for a while with a one-year stint in La Grange, Illinois. Attending the University of Michigan, he first majored in Literary then after a year switch to the Medicine school in 1877. After graduating in 1880, he set up a practice in Tuscola County, Michigan then for a short time in Edwardsville, Illinois. Returning to the area in 1881, Baker bought a farm in Clayton Township and started the pharmaceutical firm of Miller & Baker. In 1989 the drug business was sold. He also was involved in the real estate business.

## Political life

Baker was elected as an Alderman then as the Mayor of the City of Flint in 1889 for a single 1-year term. Then he was elected Sheriff of Genesee County in 1891.

## Post-political life

Upon his death on June 6, 1927, he was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Grand Blanc.
Political offices :
| Preceded byOren Stone | Mayor of Flint 1889-90 | Succeeded byWilliam A. Paterson |
# Alpine, Wyoming

Alpine is a town in Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,220 at the 2020 census.

## Geography

Alpine is located at the southern end of the Snake River Canyon where the Snake River enters Palisades Reservoir. The town is also known as Alpine Junction since it marks the point where U.S. routes 26 and 89 turn in opposite directions. The two routes run concurrently through the Snake River Canyon from Jackson. In Alpine, Route 89 turns south toward Afton, while Route 26 turns north and follows the edge of Palisades Reservoir to Swan Valley, Idaho. Three rivers come together in the vicinity of Alpine: the Snake, the Salt, and the Greys - the Greys merges with the Snake right at the high water mark of the reservoir, while the Salt discharges directly into the reservoir nearby unless the reservoir is exceptionally low.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.70 square miles (1.81 km$^2$), all land.

### Climate

This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Alpine has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.

## Demographics
### 2010 census

As of the census of 2010, there were 828 people, 346 households, and 221 families living in the town. The population density was 1,182.9 inhabitants per square mile (456.7/km$^2$). There were 449 housing units at an average density of 641.4 per square mile (247.6/km$^2$). The racial makeup of the town was 95.2% White, 0.4% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 2.4% from other races, and 1.3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.6% of the population.
There were 346 households, of which 29.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.8% were married couples living together, 5.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 36.1% were non-families. 20.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 1.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.83.
The median age in the town was 36.6 years. 21% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 37.8% were from 25 to 44; 27.3% were from 45 to 64; and 5.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 53.3% male and 46.7% female.

## Education

Public education in the town of Alpine is provided by Lincoln County School District #2.
Alpine has a public library, a branch of the Lincoln County Library System.
# Suzy Wouters

Suzy Wouters (born 5 March 1968 in Leuven) is a Belgian-Flemish nationalist politician for Vlaams Belang.
Since January 2019, she has been a councilor in Scherpenheuvel-Zichem for the Vlaams Belang. A few months later, in the Flemish elections of 26 May 2019, she also became a member of the Flemish Parliament for the Flemish Brabant electoral district.
# John Litz

John Litz (born July 24, 1961) is a United States Democratic Party politician, formerly serving as a State Representative in Tennessee. He represented District 10, Hamblen County.

## Biography

John Litz hold a B.S. degree in Agriculture from the University of Tennessee and makes his living as a farmer, operating Litz Farms in Hamblen County. He was first elected to the General Assembly in 2002 defeating Republican incumbent Stancil Ford. He served as a House member of the 103rd, 104th and 105th General Assemblies serving on the following committees:
* Secretary, House Calendar and Rules Committee
* Member, House Agriculture Committee
* Member, House State and Local Committee
* Vice Chair, House Elections Subcommittee
In November 2006, Litz was re-elected without opposition to a 3rd term. In December 2006, he was selected by the Democratic Caucus to serve as Assistant Majority Leader. In September 2007, Litz announced his intention to retire from the legislature after his current term expired.
# Nano Comics

Nano Comics (full name: Science Stories with a Smile) is a comic series published by the Weizmann Institute of Science. The series, edited by Yivsam Azgad, brings the story of five permanent heroes and five supporting characters working at a scientific research institute that exists, in fact, anywhere and at any time. The protagonist of the series is Nano, a 10-year-old boy whose parents have set out on a long journey through space, and he spends a lot of time in the workplace of his grandmother, who is the cook at the Institute's cafeteria. His natural curiosity leads Nano to engage in scientific adventures at the forefront of scientific research. The other heroes in the series are Femto, an adult senior scientist, with the mind of a child; Giga, a young and energetic multidisciplinary-scientist; Mega, a postdoctoral researcher who conceals the fact that he is a time traveler; Tera, a graphic designer working at the institute, who is often forced to remind her fellow scientists of the simple facts of life. The names of the five main nano-comic characters (Femto, Giga, Mega, Tera and Nano) were proposed by the eighth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof. Haim Harari.
The nano comics move in space and time, exchanging places and cultures, and meeting scientists and their friends with Indians, Chinese, Eskimos, industrial spies and more. Each story has a "scientific text-box" that gives a few simple words about the scientific work on which the story is based. The dialogues of the characters were influenced by conversations between Azgad and poet Meir Goldberg.
The first chapter in the series was published in 2006. In the early years, Yaniv Shimony painted the series. After the retirement of Shimony, in 2010, from the project, the series was co-created by Dorit Maya Gur and Elit Avni Sharon – under the subtitle: "The Second Generation." With the retirement of Gur and Avni Sharon (2015), Lee Zakai began to paint the series under the subtitle "Third Generation". A new chapter in the series is included in every issue of the scientific-popular magazine "The Institute" of the Weizmann Institute of Science and appears on the Weizmann Institute’s “Weizmann Wonder Wander” website. Over the years, collections of "nano comics" have also been published as well as an animated version of comics, all of which have gained popularity among children and science enthusiasts of all ages. The series is translated into Arabic and English.
Several exhibitions of nano-comics travel between schools, community centers and various cultural centers in Israel, and are even sent to science and education events abroad. From time to time, the creators create nano comics workshops for youth (for example, at the "Animix" festival, as well as exhibitions in cultural centers), where comics artists and young scientists guide participants to create their own nano comics. In these frameworks, additional comic artists, including Uri Fink, Tzahi Farber, Amos Elenbogen and Nissim Hizkiyahu have joined.
# Rebecca Chavez-Houck

Rebecca Chavez-Houck is a former Democratic member of the Utah State House of Representatives who represented House District 24 from 2008 through 2018.

## Early life and career

Chavez-Houck graduated from Bingham High School in 1978. She later earned a BA and an MPA both from the University of Utah. She currently lives in Salt Lake City with her husband Martin and two children and works in public relations. She is an Episcopalian.

## Political career

In January 2008 Chavez-Houck was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by Ralph Becker becoming mayor of Salt Lake City. Chavez-Houck was elected to a full term in the legislature in November 2008. She served as minority whip during the 2014 legislative session.
During the 2016 legislative session, Chavez-Houck served on the Executive Appropriations Committee, the Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee, the House Health and Human Services Committee and the House Government and Operations Committee.

## 2016 sponsored legislation

| Bill number | Bill title | Status |
| HB0241 | Computer Abuse and Data Recovery Act | Governor Signed - 3/23/2016 |
| HB0264 | End of Life Options Act | House/ filed - 3/10/2016 |
| HB0285 | Board of Examiners Meeting Notice Amendments | Governor Signed - 3/21/2016 |
| HB0313 | Redistricting Provisions | House/ filed - 3/10/2016 |
| HB0328 | Housing and Homeless Amendments | Governor Signed - 3/22/2016 |
| HJR019 | Joint Resolution for Medicaid Expansion Opinion Question | House/ filed - 3/10/2016 |
Chavez-Houck passed three of the six bills she introduced, giving her a 50% passage rate. She also floor sponsored two Senate bills.
Chavez-Houck introduced HB0264 during the 2016 legislative session that moved to allow for assisted-suicide options. A similar version of the bill had died in the previous year and it also died in the 2016 general session.

## Sources

* ↑ "Miner Details: 2016 Rachel Chavez-Houck (1978)". Retrieved May 30, 2017.
* ↑ "Vote Smart Rebecca Chavez-Houck". Retrieved April 11, 2014.
* ↑ "With Utah Legislature's Mormon supermajority, is it representative of the people?". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
* ↑ "Rebecca Chavez-Houck". RepresentWomen. 2018-08-01. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
* ↑ "Committees". le.utah.gov. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
* 1 2 "2016 -- Legislation(House Of Representatives)". le.utah.gov. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
* ↑ Leonard, Wendy. "Utah Legislature postpones discussion on end-of-life options". DeseretNews.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
# Pixia

Pixia is a freeware raster graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka (丸岡 勇夫, Maruoka Isao). It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art. A successor to ART/fw, a full-color graphics tool developed for Windows 3.1, ver. 0 was released in the fall of 1998 and celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2013. The program is still being upgraded at a high frequency. Although it is freeware, it has advanced functions.
In addition to Pixia, other versions were developed under the names A/PIXIA and Phierha to enhance functions, but they were never officially released. After reviewing those versions, Pixia ver. 5 was released in 2009. Ver. 5 also features significant changes in interface design, among others.
Although ver.4 continues to be supported for users who prefer the conventional interface, the focus of development has shifted to ver.6, resulting in the existence of two series of Pixia.

## Overview and features

The program has a layer function, masks, blending planes, and transparent color planes (filter required). It supports external plug-ins to add data read/write formats and to expand functionality such as integration with other software. Filters and plug-ins are created and published by volunteers on many sites. Some attempts were made to mutually use Adobe Photoshop and Pixia filters.
For a long time, Pixia could not manage GIF files by default because the software was developed before the GIF patent expired. However, since ver. 4 released after the expiration of the GIF patent, GIF files have been available as a standard feature.
There were also multiple language versions for the program, including Japanese, English, French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Chinese (simplified and traditional), and Korean, but only the Japanese and English versions have been released since ver. 4.
In addition to the freeware version, there is also a paid version of the software that comes with Wacom and other tablets with additional material data, among others. Paid filters and downloads with support are also available.

## Reception

A CNET Editors' Review in January 2011 called Pixia "one of the most capable and professional Photoshop alternatives we've tried."
# Mike Sottile

Mike Sottile (born June 7, 1948) is an American politician. He is a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 112th District, serving from 2009 to 2020, and a former mayor of the Isle of Palms. He is a member of the Republican party.
# Orsamus S. Barnes

Orsamus S. Barnes (August 7, 1830 – March 17, 1916) was a Michigan politician.

## Early life

Barnes was born on August 7, 1830, in Broome County, New York. In 1839, he moved to Oberlin, Ohio, due to the breaking up of his father's family. In Ohio, he lived with some siblings and other relatives and attended school for a year. In February 1846, he moved to Wisconsin.

## Military career

On August 16, 1847, Barnes enlisted in the United States Army in Milwaukee to fight in the Mexican–American War. He was a part of the 15th Infantry Regiment. Of the 136 men in his company, he was one of only 26 survivors. He returned to Wisconsin at the end of the war.

## Career and education

Barnes lived in Wisconsin for about seven more years. There, he attended common school, taught classes, and worked at wagon shops. In the spring of 1855, Barnes returned to Oberlin, and continued his education there. In 1860, Barnes moved to Lenawee County, Michigan. In 1863, he moved to Eaton County, Michigan. In Michigan, he was a farmer. He held nearly every type of township office, including supervisor and constable. Barnes was a Republican ever since the party formed. On November 5, 1878, Barnes was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives, where he represented the Eaton County 2nd district from January 1, 1879, to December 31, 1880.

## Personal life

During his second time in Oberlin, Barnes met Elvira L. Spooner. On February 19, 1857, Barnes and Spooner married in Oberlin. Together they had two children. Barnes was a Church of Christ minister.

## Death

Barnes died on March 17, 1916, in Girard, Kansas.
# Pollution of the Pasig River

The Pasig River in the Philippines suffers from a high level of water pollution and efforts are being made to rehabilitate it.
After World War II, massive population growth, infrastructure construction, and the dispersal of economic activities to Manila's suburbs left the river neglected. The banks of the river attracted informal settlers and the remaining factories dumped their wastes into the river, making it effectively a huge sewer system. Industrialization had already polluted the river.
In the 1930s, observers noticed the increasing pollution of the river, as fish migration from Laguna de Bay diminished. People ceased using the river's water for laundering in the 1960s, and ferry transport declined. By the 1970s, the river started to emanate offensive smells as a result of waste from swine and poultry establishments in the area where protected Marikina watershed is located (Pinugay, Baras, Rizal) and in the 1980s, fishing in the river was prohibited. By 1990, the Pasig River was considered biologically dead.
In 2017, a study on river plastic emissions into the world’s oceans cited the Pasig River as the world’s eighth most polluting river in terms of unwanted micro and surface concentrations of plastic waste entering the marine environment.
In 2021, a research by the American Association for the Advancement of Science on the world's rivers ranked the Pasig River as the largest contributor of plastic waste to the world's oceans, additionally claiming that 28% of the rivers causing plastic pollution globally are in the Philippines.

## Rehabilitation efforts

Efforts to revive the river began in December 1989 with the help of Danish authorities. The Pasig River Rehabilitation Program (PRRP) was established, with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources as the main agency with the coordination of the Danish International Development Assistance.
Gina Lopez launched in 2009 the Kapit-Bisig para sa Ilog Pasig project.
In 1999, President Joseph Estrada signed Executive Order No. 54 creating the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) to replace the old PRRP with additional expanded powers such as managing of wastes and resettling of squatters. The administration of President Noynoy Aquino allocated PHP10 billion to clean the Pasig River.
In 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte abolished the PRRC, transferring its functions, including "all necessary and incidental powers," to the Manila Bay Task Force, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, and the Department of Public Works and Highways, two months after firing PRRC executive director Jose Antonio Goitia for alleged involvement in corrupt activities.
# Felix Strackx

Felix Strackx (born 4 February 1955) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Vlaams Belang party. He was a member of the Flemish Parliament from 1995 to 2014.

## Life

In 1978 Strackx graduated as a dentist at the Catholic University of Leuven. In August '78 he started a dental practice in Aarschot.
In January 1995 he became a provincial councillor of the newly established province of Flemish Brabant for the Vlaams Blok, but he did not remain in this position for long because he was chosen as a member of the Flemish Parliament on 21 May 1995.
He was reelected to the Parliament in 1999, 2004 and 2009, but did not stand in the elections of May 2014. In December 2014 the executive committee of the Flemish Parliament granted him the title of Honorary Member of the Flemish Parliament.
He also has been a councillor of Tremelo from January 2007 till May 2013.
Since then he lives in Ostend near the sea.
On the website of the Flemish Parliament Felix Strackx is mentioned 3768 times in reports, interventions and parliamentary initiatives, among which 32 Decree Proposals, 50 Motions for a Resolution, 133 Motions and 104 Amendments.
# Eddie Mannis

Eddie Mannis (born April 14, 1959) is an American former politician, who was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2020-2022. He represented the 18th House District as a member of the Tennessee Republican Party.
Mannis, a businessman from Knoxville, previously ran for mayor of the city in the 2019 Knoxville mayoral election, winning the first round but losing the runoff to Indya Kincannon. His victory in the 2020 Republican state house primaries was initially challenged by candidate Gina Oster on the grounds that Mannis had voted in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, but was upheld after Mannis affirmed that he is a moderate Republican and voted crossover solely to prevent Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren from becoming the Democratic nominee.
Alongside Torrey Harris, Mannis was of the first two openly LGBT state representatives elected in Tennessee.
Mannis did not seek a second term to the legislature in 2022.