Vera B. Rison

Vera Bea Rison (February 14, 1939 – August 31, 2015) was a Democratic member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 through 2002.

Born in Shelby, Mississippi, Rison received her high school diploma from the Mott Adult Night School. She worked at Genesee Memorial Hospital from 1969–1990, and was elected to the Genesee County Board of Commissioners in 1986, serving for ten years. Considered one of the Flint area's most fervent champions, Rison was also director of human resources at the Amy Jo Manor housing complex, a member of the Genesee County Community Mental Health board, the Genesee County Substance Abuse Services board, and the Jobs Central Workforce Development board. In 1994, she received the A. Philip Randolph Institute Civil Rights Human Rights Award.

For her dedication, the Vera B. Rison Women's Shelter of Hope and Vera Rison Library were named in her honor.

Rison became the first House member in recent memory to forgo any committee assignments when she did so in the 1999–2000 session.

This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Vera_B._Rison

Vera

Vera may refer to:

People

Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)

Vera (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name)

Vera, stage name of Heidi Puurula (born 1971), Finnish musician

Places

Argentina

Vera, Santa Fe, a city in the province of Santa Fe

Vera Department, an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the province of Santa Fe

Brazil

Vera, Mato Grosso, a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region

Canada

Cape Vera, an uninhabited headland on Devon Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.

Croatia

Vera, Croatia, a village in Croatia, municipality Trpinja, Vukovar-Syrmia County.

Italy

Vera, Italy, a frazione in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto, Italy

Norway

Vera, Norway, a village in the municipality of Verdal in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway.

Spain

Vera, Almería, a municipality in the province of Almería, Andalusia

Vera de Bidasoa, a municipality in the autonomous community of Navarra, Spain

This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Vera

Bitstream Vera

Vera is a group typeface (font) with a liberal license. It was designed by Jim Lyles from Bitstream, and it is closely based on Bitstream Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It is a TrueType font with full hinting instructions, which improve its rendering quality on low-resolution devices such as computer monitors. The font has also been repackaged as a Type 1 PostScript font, called Bera, for LaTeX users.

Vera consists of serif, sans-serif, and monospace fonts. The Bitstream Vera Sans Mono typeface in particular is suitable for technical work, as it clearly distinguishes 'l' (lowercase L) from '1' (one) and 'I' (uppercase i), and '0' (zero) from 'O'.

Unicode coverage

Bitstream Vera itself covers only common punctuation and the Latin alphabet with some diacritics. It comprises only 300 glyphs. Because of its liberal license, the DejaVu fonts project is expanding it with additional glyphs and styles, which it releases into the public domain.

With over 80% installation base, the DejaVu fonts have been gaining on the role as sans-serif default fonts in GNU/Linux. On Windows and Macintosh systems, DejaVu is practically unknown, whereas Bitstream Vera Sans has installation bases of 25% and 20%, and 79% on Unix, according to a survey.

This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Bitstream_Vera

location on Google Map