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Political leaders are Eran Ben-Yemini (not a Knesset member) and Yael Cohen-Paran.
HaTnu'a HaYeruqa was founded in 2008.
Number of seats in the 20th Knesset: 1.
HaTnu'a HaYeruqa is cooperating with HaAvoda ("The Labor") and HaTnu'a ("The Movement") as HaMahaneh HaTziyoni ("The Zionist Union"). Together they have 24 seats.
Gambling addiction
A gambling addiction is when someone is obsessed with gambling despite the negative consequences. Gambling addictions often puts the person in risk of losing everything. People with this illness often think about suicide more than the general population. Many people use gambling as a way to get away from their terrible lives and to gain satisfaction. In many ways, gambling addiction is similar to other addictions (such as the addiction to alcohol or the addiction to illegal drugs).
Someone with a gambling addiction often
Gambling addiction is a serious disease difficult to overcome. In most cases, it is treated through therapy and counseling. In some cases, specific drugs can help. There is no definite cure.
Research demonstrates how the brain can get addicted to gambling. There is also evidence older people are more likely to become gambling addicts.
Recently, the problem of gambling has become extremely important due to the ubiquitous distribution of cash slot machines, the opening of many casinos, as well as bookmakers (including online). All of them are beautifully designed, which enhances the suggestive effect of an easy winning opportunity in a short time and a constant desire to recoup and win more. Slot machines have long been widespread throughout the world.
In the United States, according to R. Volberg (1996), the number of “problem players” - addictive gamblers so dependent on slot machines that their lives are completely subordinated to this passion - reaches 5% of the population. Data from other researchers (Ladouceur et al., 1999) indicate that in the first half of the 1990s alone, the number of problem players in Canada increased by more than 75%.
Covid-19 impacted gambling significantly. 68% of actively engaged gamblers have spent more money online since lockdown began. These frequent online gamblers are already vulnerable to addiction, and their behaviour in 2020 has been seriously impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. But, with 40% of the population experiencing a decrease in their disposable income, it’s possible that infrequent betters might look to online gambling as a quick solution for financial difficulty.
Yael Cohen-Paran
Yael Cohen-Paran, Hebrew: יעל כהן-פארן , (born October 12, 1973) is an Israeli environmental activist and a politician. She is co-political leader of HaTnu'a HaYeruqa ("The Green Movement").
Cohen-Paran served in Unit 8200, the signal intelligence unit of the Israel Defense Forces. She studied physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and also public policy at Tel Aviv University.
She was founder and president of the Israel Energy Forum, and participated in various United Nations Climate Change Conferences.
Later on she went into politics by becoming a member of HaTnu'a HaYeruqa. Due to the cooperation of this party with HaTnu'a and HaAvoda as The Zionist Union she became a Member of Knesset in 2015 and was a member till 2019.
Rorbas
Rorbas is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It is in the lower Töss Valley.
C. Narayana Reddy
C. Narayana Reddy (29 July 1931 – 12 June 2017) popularly known as "Cinare" was an Indian Telugu and Urdu poet and writer. Reddy won the Jnanpith Award in 1988 for his poetic work, "Viswambara". He had been awarded an honorary Kala Prapoorna by Andhra University in 1978, having been a recipient of the Padma Shri in 1977.
Reddy was honored with the Raja-Lakshmi Award by the Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation in 1988 and in 1992 he was honoured with India's third-highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan.
Reddy died from complications from heart disease at a hospital in Hyderabad, Telangana on 12 June 2017 at the age of 85.
Masahide Ōta
Ōta died in Naha, Okinawa on 12 June 2017, his 92nd birthday, from respiratory failure caused by pneumonia.
Samuel V. Wilson
Lieutenant General Samuel Vaughan Wilson (September 23, 1923 – June 10, 2017), aka "General Sam", was an American military person. He served as President of Hampden-Sydney College from 1992 through 2000 and as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from May 1976 through August 1977. He was born in Rice, Virginia.
Wilson died from lung cancer on June 10, 2017 at the age of 93.
Walter Noll
Walter Noll (January 7, 1925 – June 6, 2017) was a German-born American mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He was best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics. He was born in Berlin, Germany.
Noll has served as a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Karlsruhe, the Israel Institute of Technology, the École Polytechnique in Nancy, the University of Pisa, the University of Pavia, and the University of Oxford.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Noll died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 6, 2017, aged 92.
"I Love It" is a song by Swedish DJ duo Icona Pop featuring vocals from British recording artist Charli XCX. It was released in May 2012 as a digital download in Sweden, where it peaked at number two on the singles chart. The song was added to their debut studio album, "Icona Pop", as well as their EP "Iconic" and their debut international album, "This Is... Icona Pop".
The song received positive reviews from music critics, and publications "Rolling Stone" and Pitchfork included it on their year-end lists for 2012. The song went on to become Icona Pop and Charli XCX's first US hit, peaking at number seven on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and was certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, denoting over 2 million copies sold in the United States. In June 2013, over a year after it was released elsewhere, the song charted at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart. It has gone on to sell 4.3 million certified downloads.
Celtiberian Range
Celtiberian Range (in Spanish language: "Serranía Celtibérica"), also called South Lapland or Spanish Lapland ("Laponia del Sur" or "Laponia Española"), is the geographical term given to a small part of Spain due to its lower population and lack of infrastructure.
Its nomenclature comes from the Celtiberians, a pre-Roman tribe who lived in this area long ago.
It comprises an area of 63,098 km². Through the range are 1,632 municipalities among several provinces. All but the Valencian Community are landlocked.
It has a population of 503,566 inhabitants.
Receptacle (botany)
In biology receptacle is the swollen basal part of the flower or can also be geared a's the top of the stalk or pedicel. When the stalk of the plant (The part which connects flower to the plant) gets flattened and the other parts of the flower including the 4 whorls (calyx,corolla,androecium,gymnoecium) start that flattened part is called the receptacle.It is the end part of the stalk or pedicel.
In some fruits like the strawberry it is the thing which becomes the main fleshy edible part of the fruit.The fruit specie rubus has a conical receptacle with a cluster of seeds (droplets) on top of it.
When a raspberry is picked the receptacle gets separated from it but it is just the opposite case in blackberry where it remains attached.
In psychology they are the structures at the end of the branches of algae mainly brown algae. There they act as specialized structures having reproductive organs and also help in storage.
Mladá Boleslav
Mladá Boleslav (; ) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It is on the left bank of the Jizera river about northeast of Prague. The automobile company Škoda Auto has its main office in Mladá Boleslav.
The city was founded in the second half of the 10th century by King Boleslav II as a royal castle. Because there already was a castle known as Boleslav near Prague, this new castle was named Mladá (young) to distinguish it from the older Boleslav, which became known in the 15th century as Stará Boleslav (Old Boleslav). The town received partial city rights in 1334 and 1436, becoming an important site on the road from Prague to northern Bohemia, Lusatia, and Brandenburg. In the 16th century the town was a leading centre of the Unitas Fratrum / Unity of the Brethren / Moravian Church, hosting the Brethren's bishop, Renaissance church, and printing house. After being re-Catholicized in the 17th century, the town's population declined.
IPhone 7
The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are the tenth-generation smartphones sold by Apple Inc. They were released on September 16, 2016. They came after the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. The 7 and 7 Plus come in six colors: matte black, gold, silver, rose gold, a new jet black finish (a shiny shade of black), and a red finish (released on March 21, 2017) to recognize Apple and Product Red's partnership in fundraising to fight AIDS over ten years. Like previous iPhone models, the iPhone 7 has a screen size of 4.7″ (11.94 cm), while the Plus model has a screen size of 5.5″ (13.97 cm).
The most noticeable difference is the shape of the camera lens compared to older models. The iPhone 7 has a larger round lens, while the 7 Plus has two lenses. They are both water-resistant and meet IP67 guidelines. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus use Apple's Lightning connector for charging and syncing.
The new Home button is also capacitive, meaning that it no longer "clicks" like previous Home buttons but senses pressure for actions like going to the Home screen, taking screenshots, using Touch ID, etc.
The iPhone 7 also no longer has a headphone jack. Accessories that would normally go into a headphone jack instead have to be plugged in to a special headphone jack adapter.
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire is a "commune" in the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France. It is a subprefecture of the department.
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire is in the northwest of the department, on the border with the Cher department; it is on the confluence of the Loire and the Nohain rivers at of Nevers, the subprefecture of the Nièvre department.
The "commune" of Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire is surrounded by the "communes" La Celle-sur-Loire, Myennes, Tracy-sur-Loire, Saint-Martin-sur-Nohain, Saint-Loup, Saint-Père and Saint-Vérain; it borders to the west with the Cher department.
The Köppen climate classification type for Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire is an "Oceanic climate" (also known as Maritime Temperate climate) and of the subtype Cfb.
The inhabitants of Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire are known, in French, as "Cosnois" (women: "Cosnoises").
With a population of 10,553, Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire has a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire is a subprefecture of the Nièvre department since 1800. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire and the administrative centre () of the "canton" of Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire formed by 7 "communes", with 14,926 inhabitants (2014).
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire is twinned with:
Degree of freedom
Degree of freedom of a particle or a body is simply the number of ways in which it can possess energy (transnational energy , rotational energy , vibrational energy).
It may be simply defined as the number of independent coordinates required to define motion of that body.
Anthony Knockaert
Anthony Patrick Knockaert (born 20 November 1991) is a French professional footballer. He plays as a winger for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion.
Charles P. Thacker
Charles Patrick "Chuck" Thacker (February 26, 1943 – June 12, 2017) was a American pioneer computer designer. He worked on the Xerox Alto, which is the first computer that used a mouse-driven Graphical User Interface. He was known for being the co-inventor of the ethernet.
Thacker died on June 12, 2017 from complications from esophageal cancer in Palo Alto, California at the age of 74.
Ulf Stark
Ulf Gottfrid Stark (12 July 1944 – 13 June 2017) was a Swedish author and screenwriter. He adapted several of his own books for movies and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 movie "Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen".
From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books.
In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize.
Stark died 13 June 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden from pancreatic cancer at the age of 72.
Josefina Villalobos
Josefina Villalobos (born August 5, 1924) is an American-born Colombian-Ecuadorian public servant. She was the First Lady of Ecuador serving from August 10, 1992 through August 10, 1996 when her husband, Sixto Durán Ballén, served as President of Ecuador.
Ballén and Villalobos had eight children. After Ballén left office, the two retired and lived in Quito, Ecuador. On November 15, 2016, Ballén died at the age of 95.
Frank Windsor
Frank Windsor (born Frank W. Higgins; 12 July 1928 – 30 September 2020) was an English actor, mainly on television. He was born in Walsall, Staffordshire. His career began in 1959. His most famous role was as Detective Sergeant John Watt in "Z-Cars" from 1962-65. He also starred in its spin-offs "Softly, Softly" and "" from 1966-76.
He had regular roles in the BBC drama "Casualty"; the ITV drama "Peak Practice"; he played Major Charlie Grace in "EastEnders" (1992); and appeared twice in "Doctor Who".
He died on 30 September 2020 at the age of 92.
Niederstetten
Niederstetten is a town in the Main-Tauber district in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is 14 km southeast of Bad Mergentheim, and 19 km west of Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
Győr (; , ) is the sixth-largest city in Hungary and the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron county. In 2016, 131.267 people lived there.
Győr is twinned with:
Rümlang
Rümlang is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. Zurich Airport is in Rümlang.
British and Irish Lions
The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team selected from players from the national sides of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The side tours every four years, changing between Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The 2009 Test series was lost 2–1 to South Africa, while the 2013 Test series was won 2–1 over Australia.
Alun Wyn Jones
Alun Wyn Jones (born 19 September 1985) is a Welsh rugby union player. He is the captain of the Wales national team, and the Ospreys. He is Wales' most capped lock forward and Wales' second most capped player behind Gethin Jenkins. He has also won seven caps for the British and Irish Lions.
Born in Swansea, Jones played his first rugby for Bonymaen RFC. Having previously represented Wales at under-21 level,he played his first match for Wales in June 2006 against Argentina. Also in 2009 Jones was one of 13 Welsh players selected in the squad for the British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa.He scored a try in his first match for the Lions against the Royal XV.In the 2019 rugby World Cup he captained Wales to the semi finals but then lost to South Africa.
Jones is married to Anwen . They have a daughter named Mali.
Leigh Halfpenny
Dan Biggar
Sam Warburton
George North
Rhys Webb
Liberec (, ) is the fifth-largest city in the Czech Republic. It is on the Lusatian Neisse and surrounded by the Jizera Mountains and Ještěd-Kozákov Ridge. It has a population of 100 000. It was first mentioned in 1352.
Liberec is twinned with:
Sunyani
Serravalle (San Marino)
Rüschlikon
Dalaas
Russikon
Russikon is a municipality in the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Rumlikon, Madetswil, Sennhof, Wilhof, Gündisau and Ludetswil
Rüti, Zürich
Rüti is a municipality of the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. Jona river flows through the municipality.
Schlatt, Zürich
Schleinikon
Bergholtz
Bergholtzzell
Bernwiller
Bernwiller is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. On 1 January 2016, the former commune Ammertzwiller was merged into Bernwiller.
Berrwiller
Wimblington
Wimblington is a village in Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom.
Hōfu
Hōfu () is a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
Hōfu (防府) means "the capital (国府) of Suō Province (周防国)". The eastern part of Yamaguchi Prefecture used to be called called Suō Province.
The city was founded on August 25, 1936. The city's change over the past fifty years is shown in the animated movie Mai Mai Miracle, and the story takes place in the year 1955 (with flashbacks that go 1,000 years further back).
Birganj
Birganj or Birgunj is a metropolitan city and border town in Parsa District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal.
Houston County, Texas
Houston County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 23,732 people lived there. The county seat is Crockett.
Nacogdoches County, Texas
Nacogdoches County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 64,524 people lived there. The county seat is Nacogdoches.
Sulz am Neckar
Sulz am Neckar is a town in the district of Rottweil in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is on the river Neckar, 22 km north of Rottweil, and 19 km southeast of Freudenstadt.
Probate
Probate is the legal process through which the will of a deceased person is accepted and handled by a court. The probate process includes confirming that the will, paying the deceased person's debts, and distributing the deceased person's money and property as directed by the will. In many jurisdictions the court where probate take place is called a "probate court".
The probate process includes the following steps:
For people who die without much money or property, many jurisdictions allow simplified probate proceedings that are cheaper and easier to carry out.
Hazel Levesque
Hazel Levesque is a character from Rick Riordan's Heroes Of Olympus series. She died in the 1940s and was brought back to life by her half-brother Nico di Angelo. She is in a relationship with Frank Zhang. She has gold eyes and brown skin and curly dark hair.
The Grenfell Tower fire started shortly before 1am BST on 14 June 2017 in a tall building or tower block, Grenfell Tower, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England. The fire killed 72 people. Grenfell Tower was built in 1974, and was used for housing people. The flats in the building were subsidized: meaning the government paid part or all of the of the people who lived there.
In the early hours of 14 June, 2017, a fire broke out in the building, which caused massive damage to nearly all of the building. The fire broke out around the 4th floor of the 23 floor building. It was signalled to police at 0:54 local time. The fire brigade took 6 minutes to get to the tower. In total, 70 fire engines, and more than 200 firefighters were trying to put out the fire. On the 14th of June, at the end of the day, the number of people injured (and taken to hospitals) was about eighty, about 20 were in a critical condition. About 72 people died in the fire. There could have been up to 600 people in the 120 one- and two-bedroom flats of the block at the time of the fire. The number of people that were in the building when the fire broke out is unknown; police have estimated around 200.
The fire started around 00:50 BST (UTC+1), when a fridge caught fire in flat 16 on 4th floor. Firefighters arrived around 1am, and put out the fire in the flat within minutes. When the crew were leaving the building, they spotted flames rising up the outside of the building. Images later presented to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry suggested that the fire may have reached the outside before the firefighters had begun to tackle the initial fire in flat 16. The flames spread up the side at a "terrifying rate", By 01:29, a rising column of flames had reached the roof and the fire was out of control.
Many people believe this rapid spread was due to the outside of the building, which had been changed recently. This cladding seemed to contain highly flammable material. Many residents complained about poor fire safety and other problems with the building, which was managed on behalf of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The residents' organisation, Grenfell Action Group, had repeatedly warned of major fire safety problems since 2013, and also noted past fires and fire-related incidents in similar blocks managed by the same company, which they felt were related to poor fire safeguards and management company fire policies. One of these policies told residents to stay in their flats in case of fire. The group warned in November 2016 that only a "catastrophic" fire would finally force the block's management to treat fire precautions and maintenance of fire-related systems to a proper standard.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said there were "questions that have to be answered" about the fire-safety conditions at the Grenfell Tower. Khan criticised the safety instructions telling people to stay in their flats in particular:
"We can't have people's lives being put at risk because of bad advice or lack of maintenance." The advice of staying in the flat assumes that firefighters can contain the fire inside the building, which is impossible if it is spreading rapidly via its outside. The advice may have proved fatal to many people.
A team of 250 firefighters from forty fire engines attempted to control the fire and rescue people. The first emergency services arrived six minutes after the alarm, but the fire's very high temperature slowed rescue attempts. At 04:14, officials from the Metropolitan Police addressed the large crowd of onlookers and urgently told them to contact anyone they knew who was trapped in the building—if they are able to reach them via phone or social media—to tell them they must try to self-evacuate and not wait for the fire brigade. Firefighters entered the building to try to rescue people but reported they were hindered by the extreme heat. According to witnesses, there were people trapped inside, waving from windows for help, some holding children. There were two witness accounts of parents dropping their children down to people below, including a baby who was caught after being thrown from the ninth or tenth floor, and a small boy thrown from the fifth or sixth floor. There were also eyewitness reports that some people were jumping out. At least one person used knotted blankets to make a rope and escape from the burning building. Frequent explosions that were reported to be from gas lines in the building were heard.
Many residents of the tower were Muslims. Because of Ramadan, many were awake at the late hour. Many were able to alert residents and help them escape during the early stages of the fire, which saved many lives. For this, they were hailed as heroes.
After three hours, the original crew of firefighters were replaced. By sunrise, the firefighters were still battling the fire and trying to spray areas where people were seen trapped. The watching crowd were pushed back from the building because of falling debris. At 05:00, the building was still burning and severely damaged. The fire continued to burn on the tower's upper floors into the afternoon of 14 June. Firefighters were expecting to continue tackling the blaze for at least a further 24 hours. Although fears were expressed that the building could collapse, structural engineers determined that it was not in danger and that rescue teams could enter it to search for survivors, casualties and bodies.
The cause of the fire has not yet been determined. Several media outlets reported that it may have been caused by a faulty kitchen appliance. A fourth-floor resident told the media that it was his neighbour's fridge that caught fire around 1:00 am, and that they immediately began knocking on doors to alert people. He said that within half an hour the building was entirely engulfed in flames.
Whilst there was much criticism of the lack of fire sprinkler systems, Geoff Wilkinson, the building regulations columnist for the "Architects' Journal", wrote in a comment on 14 June, before the cause was known ("we should avoid speculating"), that if a leaking gas riser or the cladding were at fault, sprinklers would have had little effect. He said he had seen extracts of a fire risk assessment and talk of flammable material stored in the common walkways, suggesting poor overall management.
The inhabitants of the building organised the Grenfell Action Group, years ago. They regularly pointed out problems with the building. In 2013, they published part of a report, where they showed that the protection against fire was insufficient in the building. Regulations require that these materials are checked regularly. According to the 2013 report of action group, there had been no such checks in the three years before the report.
When a building is on fire, people need to be able to get out quickly. Usually, there are specially signalled escape lanes for this. The action group pointed out that the escape lanes were not free, and people often parked their cars in such a way that the police was unable to get close to the building.
There had been various repairs and renovations in the building, from 2014 to 2016. The company who was responsible for these works said that they were shocked, at what had happened, and that at the time the works had been done, regulations had been met.
When the building was renovated, the materials used for the outside of the building were changed. Fire safety experts have speculated that this new material was a possible cause of the rapid spread of the fire. They said it essentially worked like a chimney in spreading the fire. The material could be seen burning and melting, causing additional speculation that it was not fire resistant. One resident said, "The whole one side of the building was on fire. The cladding went up like a matchstick."
Records show that a contractor installed "over-cladding with ACM cassette rain screen" during the recent refurbishment at Grenfell Tower. The term ACM stands for aluminium composite material. With this kind of material, the choice of insulation core material determines how easily it can be burned. Several tower building fires have involved the same external materials, including the 2009 Lakanal House fire in Camberwell, London, the 2009 Beijing Television Cultural Center fire and the 2015 fire at The Marina Torch, Dubai. Sam Webb, the architect who investigated the Lakanal fire and who sits on the All Party Parliamentary Fire Safety & Rescue Group, said "This tragedy was entirely predictable, sadly."
The product used was Reynobond, which is available with different types of core material—polyethylene, as reportedly used in Grenfell Tower (Reynobond PE), or a more fire-resistant material (Reynobond FR). The Reynobond cladding reportedly cost £24 per square metre for the fireproof versions, and £22 for the flammable version. According to the BBC, the more fire-resistant version (Reynobond FR) is a very new product, and it is unclear whether it was available at the time the building was being clad.
According to the US-based manufacturer of Reynobond, the polyethylene version of the material is banned in the United States for use in buildings exceeding in height, because of the risk of spreading fire and smoke. The refurbishment also used an insulation foam product named Celotex RS5000, installed behind the cladding.
According to its datasheet, the polyisocyanurate product—charred pieces of which littered the area around Grenfell Tower after the fire—"will burn if exposed to a fire of sufficient heat and intensity".
The cladding at Grenfell seems to have been used to decorate other apartment blocks. People are concerned that the affected buildings may face the same problems.
Some residents had reported concern that the new cladding on the building was fixed onto it with wooden battens. There is widespread concern amongst residents and fire safety experts about the increasing use of timber, even in high-rise buildings, following a change to building regulations. It was reported that one reason for the new cladding was to improve the view for people living in the surrounding area.
Some residents said no fire alarms went off when the fire started. Residents said they were alerted to the fire only by people screaming for help or knocks on the door and not by a fire alarm. Others reported that they survived by ignoring the council's "stay put" policy, its directive instructing residents to remain in their flat in case of fire.
The London-wide Radical Housing Network, a citizens' action "group of groups... fighting for housing justice across London" of which the Grenfell Action Group is a member, said that the fire was "a horrific, preventable tragedy" that was the result of a "combination of government cuts, local authority mismanagement, and sheer contempt for council tenants and the homes they live in".
People in the immediate area and from across London rallied to assist victims of the fire. Donations of food, water, toys, and clothes were made. Saint Clement Church on Treadgold Street and St James' Church, Norlands, in the Deanery of Kensington, provided shelter for people evacuated from their homes, as did nearby mosques and temples.
Nearby Queens Park Rangers Football Club have offered their Loftus Road venue as a relief centre and are accepting donations of food, drink and clothing from the local community, and other nearby football clubs Brentford and Fulham have offered their stadiums as relief centres.
Washington County, Texas
Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 33,718 people lived there. The county seat is Brenham.
Coryell County, Texas
Coryell County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 75,388 people lived there. The county seat is Gatesville.
DeWitt County, Texas
DeWitt County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 20,097 people lived there. The county seat is Cuero.
Goliad County, Texas
Goliad County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 7,210 people lived there. The county seat is Goliad.
Jean Nicot
Jean Nicot, sieur de de Villemain (born 1530 in Nîmes, died 1600 ij Paris) was a French nobleman, and diplomat. He was the French ambassador in Lisbon, from 1559 to 1561. He also negotiated the marriage of princess Margaret of Valois, who was five years old at the time, with prince Sebastian of Portugal, who was six years old at the time.
When Nicot returned, he brought tobacco plants. He introduced snuff tobacco to the French royal court. In particular, he presented the queen mother, Catherine de' Medici, with tobacco leaves to cure her of her migraines. The plant was also an instant success with the Father Superior of Malta, who shared tobacco with all of his monks. More and more of the fashionable people of Paris began to use the plant, making Nicot a celebrity.At first, the plant was called Nicotina. But nicotine later came to refer specifically to the particular chemical in the plant. The tobacco plant, "Nicotiana", also a flowering garden plant, was named after him by Carl Linnaeus, as was nicotine. Nicot described its believed medicinal properties (1559) and sent it as a medicine to the French court.For his service to the French royal court, Nicot was given the name 'de Villemain' and land near Brie-Comte-Robert. There, he compiled one of the first French dictionaries, "Thresor de la langue françoyse tant ancienne que moderne" (published in 1606).
Subsidized housing
Raynaud's syndrome
Raynaud's Syndrome -- poor flow of blood in a narrow line under the skin.? This is due to smaller arteries.
It is mostly found more in women than in men. It is a disease attributed to the Celts, a race of people originally found in northern U K ,and spread from Scotland to Ireland,the Isle of Man, and north Wales ,and now ,of course, can be found in any part of the United Kingdom ,even to the extent that some members only of a family may have the classical signs of a celt ( ginger hair, freckles, blue eyes , and very thin skin which does not take a tan) and are prone to complaints which show poor circulation. The circulation problem shows itself in having very cold fingers on the hands and also very cold toes ,and even legs during the very cold weather of mid-winter .It is possible to go through life without having
heard of Raynaud's Syndrome (or Disease) as it is sometimes called, when one is clearly of the tribe! Nothing to worry about ,though, usually, but it can become more of a problem as people age. Look right at the example of it and it is clear, so if you have had this experience then have a word with your doctor ,some time.
2017 Congressional baseball shooting
On June 14, 2017, in Alexandria, Virginia, James Thomas Hodgkinson opened fire on several Republican members of Congress and their staffers, who were practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game scheduled for the next day.
A ten-minute shootout ensued between Hodgkinson and officers from the Capitol Police and Alexandria Police. Hodgkinskon shot five people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R–LA) and two Capitol Police officers assigned to protect him; one of the officers shot Hodgkinson, who later died from his wounds. Police have not commented on his motivation.
Scalise was the first sitting member of Congress to have been shot since Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords was attacked in the 2011 Tucson shooting.
President Donald Trump issued a statement saying, "We are deeply saddened by this tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with the members of Congress, their staffs, Capitol Police, first responders, and all others affected." Vice President Pence made similar comments.
Gheorghe Gușet
Gheorghe Guşet (28 May 1968 – 12 June 2017) was a Romanian shot putter. He competed at the 1992, 2000 and 2004 Olympics and had his best result in 2004, aged 36 (14th place). Guşet was noted for being competitive in his late 30s, and set his all-time personal record aged 38, while most shot putters peak in their late 20s or early 30s. Due to health problems (chronic kidney disease) he was forced to retire from competitions in 2008.
Guşet died on 12 June 2017 in Cluj Napoca, Romania from an aortic dissection at the age of 49.
Aortic dissection
Aortic dissection occurs when a tear in the inside of the aorta causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta, forcing the layers apart. In most cases this is associated with a sudden onset of severe chest or back pain, often described as "tearing" in character.
Also, vomiting, sweating, and lightheadedness may occur. Other symptoms may result from decreased blood supply to other organs such as stroke or mesenteric ischemia. Aortic dissection can quickly lead to death as a result of not enough blood flow to the heart or rupture of the aorta.
Aortic dissection is more common in those with a history of high blood pressure, a number of connective tissue diseases that affect blood vessel wall strength such as Marfan syndrome, a bicuspid aortic valve, and previous heart surgery.
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (14 February 1924 – 13 June 2017) was a British peeress and the third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. She was the elder daughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his wife, the heiress Edwina Ashley, a patrilineal descendant of the Earls of Shaftesbury, first ennobled in 1661.
Knatchbull was the elder sister of Lady Pamela Hicks, and first cousin to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and the last surviving baptismal sponsor to Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.
Mountbatten succeeded her father when he was assassinated in 1979, as his peerages had been created by the Crown with special remainder to his daughters and their heirs male. This inheritance accorded her the title of "countess" and a seat in the House of Lords, where she remained until 1999, when the House of Lords Act 1999 removed most hereditary peers from the House.
Knatchbull died on 13 June 2017 in Kent, England at the age of 93.
Ernestina Herrera de Noble
Ernestina Herrera de Noble (June 7, 1925 – June 14, 2017) was an Argentine publisher and executive. She was the largest shareholder of the Grupo Clarín media conglomerate and director of the flagship "Clarín" newspaper. She was the first woman to become director of a mainstream newspaper in South America.
Ernestina Laura Herrera was born in Buenos Aires in 1925. She became a Flamenco dancer and met the founding publisher of "Clarín", Roberto Noble, around 1950.
As his widow, she inherited a controlling stake in "Clarín", Argentina's most widely circulated newspaper since 1965. Despite its large circulation, however, "Clarín" suffered financial difficulties when Mrs. Noble inherited the director's post.
Under her leadership, "Clarín" extended its reach into Argentine media, purchasing two second-ranked outlets, Radio Mitre and Channel 13, in 1990, Multicanal Cable TV in 1992, and other stations and magazines. She extended the partnership with "La Nación" by leading "Clarín" into a joint wire service, "Diarios y Noticias" (DyN), in 1982, and into a holding company in 1997.
De Noble died on June 14, 2017 from pneumonia in Buenos Aires, aged 92.
Sam Beazley
Sam Beazley (29 March 1916 – 12 June 2017) was a British actor. He began acting as a teenager in the 1930s. He appeared with John Gielgud in productions of "Hamlet" (1934) and "Romeo and Juliet" (1935).
He returned to acting when he was 75. Since then has appeared in a variety of stage and movie productions. In his 90s, he became a painter. He was known for his role as Everard in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007).
Beazley died on 12 June 2017 at the age of 101.
A. R. Gurney
Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. (November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017) was an American playwright, novelist and academic. He was known for works including "The Dining Room" (1982), "Sweet Sue" (1986/7), "Love Letters" (1988), and "The Cocktail Hour" (1988).
Gurney died in Manhattan on June 13, 2017, at the age of 86.
Marc-André ter Stegen
Marc-Andre Ter Stegen (born April 30, 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for FC Barcelona and the Germany national football team. He currently has the No. 1 shirt for Barcelona and no. 22 for Germany.
Keylor Antonio Navas Gamboa (born December 15, 1986) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Real Madrid C.F. and the Costa Rica national football team. He currently wears the No.1 shirt for both teams.
Sergio Romero
Sergio Romero (born February 22 1987) is a Argentinean professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for the Argentina national football team. He currently wears the No. 1 shirt for the latter team.
Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate is a English professional football manager and former player. He is currently managing the England men’s national football team. As a player, he played as defender.
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Cladding
Cladding is the application of one material over another to provide a skin or layer. This may be for protection against the weather, or it may be for aesthetic purposes.
Rainscreen cladding is one form of weather cladding: it is designed to protect against the elements, but also offers thermal insulation. The cladding does not need, itself, to be waterproof, merely a control element: it may serve only to direct water or wind safely away in order to control run-off and prevent its infiltration into the building structure. Cladding may also be a control element for noise: whether entering or escaping. Cladding applied to windows is often referred to as window capping and is a specialized field.
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, in London, and similar fires, in France, Dubai and elsewhere, great attention has been paid to the fire protection qualities of cladding used in tower-blocks and similar high-rise multiple-occupancy housing and, in particular, the use of Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) and ACM panels (ACP).
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Fireproofing
When a person needs to get away from a fire, inside a building or a tunnel, they need to do this quickly. For this reasons, fire escapes are installed, and signaled. Very often fire escapes are separate stairways, often outside the building. The first fire escape was invented in England by Daniel Maseres, in 1784.
Such installations are most common in the United States, particularly in metropolitan areas.
Attacus atlas
Attacus atlas, better known as the atlas moth, is a large moth found in Southeast Asia. It has one of the largest wing surfaces of any moth in the world, and one of the longest wingspans.
François Houtart
François Houtart (7 March 1925 – 6 June 2017) was a Belgian marxist sociologist and Catholic priest. He was born in Brussels, Belgium. He participated as a peritus expert in the sessions of Vatican II (1962–1965) playing a key role in the formation of the introduction of the "Gaudium et spes". Over the years, Houtart developed a dialectical approach to the study of world religions. He was a professor at the Université catholique de Louvain.
Houtart died on 6 June 2017 in Quito, Ecuador at the age of 92.
In 2009, Houtart was awarded the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence "for his lifelong commitment to world peace, intercultural dialogue, human rights and the promotion of tolerance, and in recognition of his outstanding efforts to advance the cause of social justice in the world."
Jim Graham
James McMillan "Jim" Nielson Graham (August 26, 1945 – June 11, 2017) was a Scottish-born American politician. He served as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia. He was a Democrat. He represented Ward 1 in Washington, D.C. from 1999 through 2015. He was born in Wishaw, Scotland.
Graham died on June 11, 2017 at a hospital in Washington, D.C. from complications of a lung infection caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 71.
P. N. Bhagwati
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati (21 December 1921 – 15 June 2017) was an Indian judge. He was the 17th Chief Justice of India, serving from 12 July 1985 until his retirement on 20 December 1986. He introduced the concepts of Public Interest Litigation and Absolute liability in India, and for this reason is held along with Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer, to be a pioneer of judicial activism in the country.
Bhagwati died on 15 June 2017 at the age of 95 at New Delhi, India from renal failure.
Douglas Geoffrey Rowell (13 February 1943 – 11 June 2017) was an Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Basingstoke and then as the third Bishop in Europe until his retirement on 8 November 2013. Following his retirement he ministered as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester (from 2013) and in the Diocese of Portsmouth (from 2015).
Rowell was born in Hampshire and died in the early morning of Trinity Sunday, 11 June 2017, in Worth, West Sussex, aged 74.
Ibrahim Abouleish
Ibrahim Abouleish (23 March 1937 – 15 June 2017) was an Egyptian pharmacologist. He was born in Mashtul, Egypt. In 1977 he returned to Egypt and founded the comprehensive development initiative SEKEM. The organization focuses on biodynamic farming methods in Egypt.
Abouleish died on 15 June 2017 in Cairo, Egypt at the age of 80.
Ajmer Singh Aulakh
Ajmer Singh Aulakh (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ: ਅਜਮੇਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਔਲਖ, 19 August 1942 – 15 June 2017) was an Indian playwright and social activist. He was born in Mansa District Punjab. Aulakh won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006 for his book Ishaka bājha namāza dā hajja nāhī (Plays).
Aulakh died on 15 June 2017 from stomach cancer in Punjab, India at the age of 74.
Curt Hanson
Curt Hanson (1943 – June 16, 2017) was an American politician. He was born in Algona, Iowa. Curt was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Iowa House from 2009 until his death in 2017, representing the 90th and 82nd Districts.
Hanson died on June 16, 2017 at his home in Fairfield, Iowa of prostate cancer at the age of 73.
Wilma de Faria
Wilma de Faria (February 17, 1945 – June 15, 2017) was a Brazilian politician. She served as the governor of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte from 2003 to 2010, the first woman to hold the position. She was a member of the Brazilian Socialist Party.
Faria died on June 15, 2017 from cancer at the age of 72.
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Laguna Copperplate Inscription
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is a document marked on a copper plate in 900 AD and found in Laguna, Philippines. The document is written in Old Malay and Old Kawi. It was translated by Antoon Postma in 1992. It is evidence of ancient kingdoms of Tondo, Sri Vijaya and others.
Baldwin Lonsdale
Baldwin Jacobson Lonsdale (21 February 1950 – 17 June 2017) was a ni-Vanuatu politician and Anglican priest. He served as President of Vanuatu from 22 September 2014 until his death in 2017. He was born in Monte Lava.
Lonsdale died on 17 June 2017 in Port Vila of a heart attack, aged 67.
Lucas Mangope
Kgosi Lucas Manyane Mangope (27 December 1923 – 18 January 2018) was a South African politician. He is the former leader of the Bantustan of Bophuthatswana and founder and former leader of the United Christian Democratic Party, a minor political party based in the North West of South Africa.
On 1 May 1971, Mangope became Chief Minister of the Bophuthatswana Legislative Assembly and retained his post following the first Bophuthatswana elections on 4 October 1972. Initially leader of the Bophuthatswana National Party, Mangope left the party following what was officially referred to as 'internal strife' and formed the Bophuthatswana Democratic Party, which then became the governing party. He became President in 1977.
In 1988 he was briefly overthrown by members of a military police unit, and was reinstated following intervention by the South African Defence Force.
Sam Panopoulos
Sotirios "Sam" Panopoulos (; 1934 – 8 June 2017) was a Greek-born Canadian cook and businessman. He was born in Vourvoura, Greece. He was known as the inventor of Hawaiian pizza.
With his brothers Elias and Nikitas, Panopoulos owned the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario. They offered typical American items such as burgers and fries, and also American Chinese dishes, some of which also mix sweet and savory flavours. In the early 1960s Panopoulos started offering pizzas, recently popular in the USA. In 1962 he had the idea to add canned pineapple to pizza.
Panopoulos died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in London, Ontario on 8 June 2017, aged 83.
Earl Bakken
Earl Ethan Bakken (January 10, 1924 – October 21, 2018) was an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957.
Bakken retired from Medtronic in 1989 and moved to a 9-acre estate in the Kona District of Hawaii he calls "Bakken Hale".
Bakken died at his Hawaii home on October 21, 2018 at the age of 94.
Schlieren, Switzerland
Schlieren (Zürich German: "Schlierä") is a city of the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Reichsführer-SS () was a special title and rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945 for the commander of the "Schutzstaffel" (SS). "Reichsführer-SS" was a title from 1925 to 1933, and from 1934 to 1945 it was the highest rank of the SS. The longest serving and by far most noteworthy "Reichsführer-SS" was Heinrich Himmler.
In all, five people held the title of "Reichsführer-SS" during the twenty years of its existence. Three persons held the position as a title while two held the actual SS rank.
Polyisocyanurate
Polyisocyanurate is a thermoset plastic. It is also called PIR, polyiso, or ISO. It is usually made as a foam. It is used as rigid thermal insulation. It is similar to polyurethane (PUR) except that the proportion of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) is higher and a polyester-derived polyol is used in the reaction instead of a polyether polyol. Catalysts and additives used in PIR is also different from those used in PUR.