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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.
Materials on the outside of the building may have helped the fire spread
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.
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.
Automatic fire alarm system may have failed
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.
Community response
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.
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 is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.
In 2010, 75,388 people lived there.
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 is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.
In 2010, 7,210 people lived there.
The county seat is Goliad.
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.
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 is the idea to create housing opportunities (usually flats) for people who have trouble finding a flat on the free market.
Usually, this means that there is a maximum rent.
Very often, the government pays part (or all) of this rent.
People who get the apartments or flats need to meet certain criteria.
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.
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.
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.
2017 crimes
2017 in Virginia
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
14 February 192423 August 1946: Miss Patricia Mountbatten
23 August26 October 1946: The Honourable Patricia Mountbatten
26 October 194627 August 1979: The Right Honourable The Lady Brabourne
27 August 197913 June 2017: The Right Honourable The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
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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.
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).
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).
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 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. and the Costa Rica national football team.
He currently wears the number 1 shirt for both teams.
1 Includes UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup matches.
Sergio Romero (born February 22 1987) is an 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 (born 3 September 1970) is an 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.
Spencer Karen Grammer (born October 9, 1983) is an American actress best known for her roles as Summer Smith on the Adult Swim animated science fiction series Rick and Morty and as Casey Cartwright on the ABC Family  college comedy-drama Greek.
She is the daughter of Kelsey Grammer.
Cladding is placing one type of thing on top of another in a layer to make something like a skin.
This can protect whatever is underneath the cladding from the weather, or it may make it look beautiful.
For example, Rainscreen cladding is one form of weather cladding.
It protects things from rainwater and keeps it from getting too hot or cold.
The cladding does not need to be waterproof.
Some cladding only makes the rainwater or wind flow another way to control run-off.
For example, rainscreen cladding can make water on a rooftop flow away from some parts of the building so the water does not come inside.
Cladding may also stop noise.
Cladding applied to windows is often referred to as window capping and is a specialized field.
The flag of Spain () has three horizontal stripes of red, yellow and red.
It is also known as la Rojigualda.
It was adopted 19 December 1981.
Fireproofing is making a part or a structure resist a fire, while still keeping the function it was designed for.
Fireproofing is a passive fire protection measure.
There are different levels of certifications; higher levels of certification mean that a part or a structure can withstand a fire longer.
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.
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 (7 March 1925 – 6 June 2017) was a Belgian marxist sociologist and Catholic priest.
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.
He was a professor at the Université catholique de Louvain.
The Church and Revolution: from the French Revolution of 1789 to the Paris riots of 1968, from Cuba to Southern Africa, from Vietnam to Latin America, by François Houtart and André Rousseau.
Translated by Violet Nevile (1971)
Religions and ideology in Sri Lanka, Colombo, Hansa, (1974)
El campesino como actor, Managua, Ed.
Nicarao, (1982)
Religion et modes de production précapitalistes, Bruxelles, editions de l'ULB, (1992)
Sociología de la Religión, Mexico, Plaza y Valdés, (2000)
Mondialisation des Résistances (with Samir Amin), Paris, L'Harmattan, (2002)
Haïti et la culture dans une commune vietnamienne, Paris, Les Indes Savantes, (2004)
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 represented Ward 1 in Washington, D.C. from 1999 through 2015.
He was born in Wishaw, Scotland.
Jim Graham's Official Homepage
Metro - About Metro - Biographies  WMATA biography
Guide to the Jim Graham Papers, 1973-2006, Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University
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.
P. N. Bhagwati, Brief biography at Supreme Court of India
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).
Anglicans in Istanbul, Letter to "the Times", 2 February 2007
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.
Biography on Right Livelihood Award website
blog about a german TV documentary
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).
Ik Ramayan hor (One More Ramayana)*Niuṃ-jaṛa
Satt begaane
Kehar Singh di maut (Kehar Singh's Death)
Ishaka bājha namāza dā hajja nāhī
Bhajian bahin (Broken Arms)
Ikka sī dariā
Jhanāṃ de pāṇī
Aise jana wirale sam̆sāre
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.
Representative Kenneth Veenstra official Iowa General Assembly site
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.
A sandwich panel is a kind of composite material, which is usually made of two components: A small outside layer (which is the same on both sides), and an inside layer, which is used to get certain properties, for example insulation or fire resistance.
Aluminium is often used for the outside part - the respective panels are also known as Aluminium Composite Panels.
Sandwich panels are used in situations where high structural rigidity and low weight are required.
They are also used for cladding, eg.
to add insulation, fire resistance, or simply to make a surface look more beautiful.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Earl Bakken's Website
The Bakken Museum Homepage
Schlieren (Zürich German: Schlierä) is a city of the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
The city of Schlieren Official website
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.
Julius Schreck (1925–1926)
Joseph Berchtold (1926–1927)
Erhard Heiden (1927–1929)
Heinrich Himmler (1929–1945)
Karl Hanke (1945)
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.
PIR is used in rigid thermal insulation.
PIR foam panels laminated with pure embossed aluminium foil are used in making of pre-insulated duct that is used for heating, ventilation and in air conditioning systems.
Prefabricated PIR sandwich panels are manufactured with corrosion-protected, corrugated steel facings bonded to a core of PIR foam and used extensively as roofing insulation and vertical walls (e.g. for warehousing, factories, office buildings etc.).
Other typical uses for PIR foams include industrial and commercial pipe insulation, and carving/machining media (competing with expanded polystyrene and rigid polyurethane foams).
Effectiveness of the insulation of a building envelope can be compromised by gaps resulting from shrinkage of individual panels.
Manufacturing criteria require that shrinkage be limited to less than 1% (previously 2%).
Even when shrinkage is limited to substantially less than this limit, the resulting gaps around the perimeter of each panel can reduce insulation effectiveness, especially if the panels are assumed to provide a vapor/infiltration barrier.
Multiple layers with staggered joints, ship lapped or tongue & groove joints greatly reduce these problems.
Health hazards
PIR insulation can be a mechanical irritant to skin, eyes, and upper respiratory system during fabrication (such as dust).
No statistically significant increased risks of respiratory diseases have been found in studies
Fire risk
PIR is at times stated to be fire retardant, or contain fire retardants, however these describe the results of "small scale tests" and "do not reflect [all] hazards under real fire conditions"; the extent of hazards from fire include not just resistance to fire but the scope for toxic byproducts from different fire scenarios.
A 2011 study of fire toxicity of insulating materials at the University of Central Lancashire's Centre for Fire and Hazard Science studied PIR and other commonly used materials under more realistic and wide-ranging conditions representative of a wider range of fire hazard, observing that most fire deaths resulted from toxic product inhalation.
The study evaluated the degree to which toxic products were released, looking at toxicity, time-release profiles, and lethality of doses released, in a range of flaming, non-flaming, and poorly ventilated fires, and concluded that PIR generally released a considerably higher level of toxic products than the other insulating materials studied (PIR > PUR > EPS > PHF; glass and stone wools also studied).
In particular, hydrogen cyanide is recognised as a significant contributor to the fire toxicity of PIR (and PUR) foams.
100mm PIR insulation board (cited as the RS5000 product of Celotex, a Saint-Gobain company) was proposed as the columnar and horizontal external insulation to be used in the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, London; subsequently "Ipswich firm Celotex confirmed it provided insulation materials for the refurbishment."
On 14 June 2017 the block of flats, within 15 minutes, was enveloped in flames from the fourth floor to the top 24th floor.
The causes of the rapid spread of fire up the outside of the building have yet to be established.
It should be noted that flames can occupy the cavity between the insulation material and the cladding, and be drawn upwards by convection, elongating to create secondary fires, and do so "regardless of the materials used to line the cavities".
Polyisocyanurate Insulation Manufacturers Association
Polyisocyanurate Insulation energy savings, by Center for the Polyurethanes Industry
It is in the Wehntal.
Schönenberg is a former municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Schwerzenbach is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Official website of Seegräben
Dinosaur Museum
Jucker Farm
During the 19th century Indian society had various social and religious problems in the Indian society.
Several movements were started to help reform the society various "samajs" were formed.
These included the Prathna Samaj, the Satya Shodhak Samaj, the Theosophical Society, and others.
The Brahmo Samaj was one of these.
It was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in the year 1828.
It can also be said as the first attempt by the Indians to reform their religion and end its harmful practices.
While under Keshab Chandra Sen it was able to make great progress and set up many branches across India.
The Brahma Samaj helped reform the Indian society.
Some of its important reforms were to end the practice of sati (the widow committing suicide on her dead husband's funeral pyre), opposing the worship of many gods, ending costly sacrifices and meaningless rituals.
The movement proposed the belief that God is omnipresent, promoted inter-caste and widow remarriage, opposed child marriage and polygamy, and more.
Brahmo Samajists have no faith in any scripture (holy writings) as an authority.
Brahmo Samajists have no faith in Avatars (gods taking on a bodily form).
Brahmo Samajists denounce polytheism (multiple gods) and idol-worship.
Brahmo Samajists are against caste restrictions.
Brahmo Samajists make belief in the doctrines of Karma and rebirth optional.
Chernihiv () is a city in Ukraine.
Gomel, Belarus
Memmingen, Bavaria, Germany
Tarnobrzeg, Poland
Petah Tikva, Israel
Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Prilep, North Macedonia
Seuzach (Swiss German: Söizi []) is a municipality of the district Winterthur in the Swiss canton of Zurich.
Offenburg () is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
In 2013, about 57,000 people lived there.
Landeck is a town in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
It is the capital of the district of Landeck.
Landeck official website
Stadel is a municipality in the district Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Stäfa is a municipality of the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
It is near Rapperswil on the north bank of the Lake Zurich in the Pfannenstiel region.
Stallikon is a municipality in Affoltern in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
About 3,438 people lived in Stallikon in 2015.
Zenica is the fourth-largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is about  north of Sarajevo and is on the Bosna river, surrounded by a mountainous and hilly landscape.
The city is home to 115,134 inhabitants as of 2013.
Ústí nad Labem (, ) is the seventh-largest city in the Czech Republic.
The area has many mountains.
The city is where the Bílina and Elbe rivers join.
Halton, United Kingdom
Vladimir, Russia
The Thur is a river in north-eastern Switzerland.
Its source is near the mountain Säntis in the southeast of the canton of St. Gallen.
In this canton it flows through the Toggenburg region and the town of Wil.
After Wil it flows through the canton of Thurgau and its capital Frauenfeld.
The final  of the river are in the canton of Zurich.
Bettendorf is a commune.
Lecce is a historic city in southern Italy.
It is in the Apulia region.
In 2015, 95,766 people lived there.
Bettlach, Haut-Rhin, in Alsace, France
Bettlach is a commune.
Steinmaur is a municipality in the district Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Villach (, ) is the seventh-largest city in Austria (after Klagenfurt).
About 70,000 people lived there in 2016.
Settlements in Carinthia (state)
Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German mathematician and philiospher.
In philiosphy, he was one of the proponents of logical positivism.
He developed the Deductive-nomological model, which is also known as Hempel-Oppenheim model.
He also formulated the Raven paradox.
A leeward slope is the part of a mountain that does not face the wind i.e. the slope opposite the windward slope.
Niuean (Niuean: ko e vagahau Niuē) is a Polynesian language spoken by about 8,000 people, the majority of whom live in New Zealand.
There are also Niuean speakers in Niue, where almost the entire population of about 2,000 speak the language, the Cook Islands and Tonga.
The closest relative of Niuean is Tongan, while Māori, Sāmoan, and Hawaiian are also quite close.
Iván Fandiño Barros (September 29, 1980 – June 17, 2017) was an award winning Spanish bullfighter.
He was born in Orduña-Urduña, Spain.
Grudzień was born in Piasek Wielki, Poland.
He won two medals at the Olympic Games: gold in the Lightweight division at Tokyo 1964  and silver at Mexico City 1968.
He also twice won medals at the European Amateur Boxing Championships, silver at East Berlin 1965 and gold at Rome 1967.
Venus Ramey (September 26, 1924 – June 17, 2017) was an American beauty pageant contest, and later an activist.
She won the Miss America competition in 1944.
He was born in Ashland, Kentucky.
Ramey left Kentucky to work for the war effort in Washington, D.C., and won the Miss District of Columbia pageant and then became Miss America in 1944.
She was the first red-haired contestant to win the title.
Leopoldo Sumaylo Tumalak (29 September 1944 – 17 June 2017) was a Filipino Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines He was the incumbent Military Ordinariate of the Philippines since 2005 until his death in 2017.
He was born in Santander, Cebu, Philippines.
Biederthal is a commune.
Pärnu is the fourth-largest city in Estonia.
It has 39,828 people.
Pärnu kaupunki
The Stanley Dynamic is a children's TV show.
It started on YTV on March 19, 2015.
It ended on April 7, 2017.
Charles Vandervaart, Taylor Abrahamse, Madison Ferguson, Kate Hewlett, and Michael Barbuto play the most important people in the show.
The show was almost the winner of a Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Children’s or Youth Program or Series.
It was also one of the best shows at the 2016 Cynopsis Kids imagination Awards for Best New Series.
The show is about Larry Stanley and his cartoon twin brother Luke Stanley as they go through high school.
It's also about the rest of the Stanley family, like Lori, their smart little sister, Lane, their dad who draws cartoons, and Lisa, their mother who works making food.
Main characters
is played by Taylor Abrahamse.
He's the cartoon twin brother of Larry Stanley, and the older brother of Lori Stanley.
He's the only cartoon in the family, but they almost never mention it.
He likes LARP-ing (Live-Action Role Playing), and is bad at sports.
He's able to stretch his body and can bend a lot, but it hurts when he does it.
He can also change his clothes by spinning around.
is played by Charles Vandervaart.
He's the real-life twin brother of Luke Stanley, and the older brother of Lori Stanley.
He's part of the school football team, likes when people pay attention to him, and doesn't understand lots of things, like sarcasm and irony.
is played by Madison Ferguson.
She's the smart little sister of Luke and Larry Stanley.
She's the smartest person in the family.
She's likes studying studying bugs, and loves to make her brothers do things.
is played by Kate Hewlett.
She's Luke, Larry, and Lori Stanley's mom, and also makes food at the Brock.
is played by Michael Barbuto.
He's Luke, Larry, and Lori Stanley's dad, and he draws cartoons.
is played by Josette Jorge.
She runs the Brock.
is played by Michael Gross.
He's Luke, Larry, and Lori Stanley's grandpa, and Lisa Stanley's dad.
Guest characters
David Hewlett played an astronaut named Glenn Parker.
Alan Thick played himself.
Jaleel White played Principal White.
Other websites
On 19 June 2017, at 00:15 BST, police officers responded to a vehicle running over several civilians with a reported "numerous casualties" in Finsbury Park, London.
The attack occurred near Finsbury Park Mosque where the van ran over several worshippers.
The car reportedly crashed close to the Finsbury Park Mosque, with many of the injured seen wearing Muslim attire.
Witnesses have said this is because worshippers were leaving the mosque at the time of the incident.
One person has been arrested in relation to the attack.
The individual, Darren Osborne, has been confirmed to be the attacker.
It is being reported that 10 people have been injured in the attack and one person has been confirmed to have died.
On 23 June, Darren Osborne of Cardiff was charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder.
In early February 2018 at Woolwich Crown Court, he was found guilty on both counts and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Timothy Edward "Tim" Lee Hague (May 9, 1983 – June 18, 2017) was a Canadian mixed martial artist.
He competed in the heavyweight division, most recently for Absolute Championship Berkut.
He became a professional fighter in 2006, and formerly competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, World Series of Fighting and King of the Cage, where he went 11-0 and was the King of the Cage Canada Heavyweight Champion.
He was born in Boyle, Alberta.
On June 16, 2017, he suffered a brain hemorrhage after being knocked out in a boxing match against Adam Braidwood in Edmonton, Alberta.
He died on June 18, 2017 at the age of 34.
Anthony Liscio (July 2, 1940 – June 18, 2017) was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys from 1963 through 1971.
Luring Tony Liscio out of retirement paid off for Liscio and Cowboys
Trading wasn't always so difficult in the NFL
Tulsa Hurricanes bio
Pierluigi Chicca (22 December 1937 – 18 June 2017) was an Italian fencer.
He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the individual and team sabre events and won a team bronze medal in 1960 and team silver medals in 1964 and 1968.
He was born in Livorno, Italy.
Shih Chun-jen (; 2 December 1923 – 18 June 2017) was a Taiwanese neurosurgeon.
He led the Department of Health from 1986 to 1990.
Shih was appointed the head surgeon at Tri-Service General Hospital, a medical institution affiliated with the National Defense Medical Center, in 1975.
Two years later, he co-founded the Taiwan Neurological Society.
He was born in Gosei, Taikō, Taichū Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan.
The majority of deaths took place in Pedrógão Grande when a fire swept across a road filled with evacuees.
Portuguese officials dispatched more than 1,700 firefighters nationwide to combat the blazes and Prime Minister António Costa declared three days of national mourning.
2017 wildfires
Fires in Europe
The Deseret alphabet () is a writing system invented in the 19th Century in America by the Mormon Church.
A group of leaders called the Board of Regents created it.
They were from Brigham Young University.
Brigham Young wanted all letters to match sounds, to make reading and writing easier for immigrants.
Teachers taught the alphabet in the school system at the time.
Between 1854 and 1869, books, newspapers, street signs and mail used the new alphabet.
Even though the LDS church tried very hard to support the alphabet, it wasn't continued for very long.
Creation (1847–1854)
Church leaders Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball were part of the Board of Regents that made the Deseret alphabet.
Other important creators were George D. Watt and William W. Phelps.
Before they decided to use the Deseret alphabet, the Board of Regents thought they would use Pitman style alphabets.
On 29 November 1853, they came together to vote.
Then, Willard Richards, who was sick when the Board of Regents had talked about which alphabet to use, saw the Pitman style alphabet.
He said it looked too much like the English alphabet, and he wanted to start over with something new.
His words convinced Brigham Young and the rest of the Board of Regents to make the Deseret alphabet.
Less than two months later, the Board of Regents approved the first 38-letter Deseret alphabet.
In the Deseret alphabet, capital letters ("majuscule" or upper case) look the same as the lower case ("minuscule") letters, except the capital letters are larger.
In the chart below, the "Glyph" is the letter shape, and next to it is the letter's name, which is how it sounds.
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Deseret Alphabet Translator  Converts standard orthography to Deseret alphabet and vice versa
Deseret to IPA converter Converts Deseret input to International Phonetic Alphabet
On 19 June 2017, the driver of a car containing guns rammed the car into a police vehicle on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France.
He was immediately killed by police.
At 3:40 pm Paris local time in Paris a man attempted to ram his vehicle into a police car on the heavily guarded Champs-Élysées.
The car contained an AK47 assault rifle, handguns, and a gas canister.
The attacker was killed and the  incident is under investigation as possible terrorism.
2017 crimes in Europe
Helen Sarah Freedhoff (January 9, 1940 – June 10, 2017) was a Canadian theoretical physicist who studied the interaction of light with atoms.
She was born in Toronto, Ontario.
She gained her doctorate at the University of Toronto in 1965 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College in London.
Freedhoff was the first woman appointed as a physics professor at York University in Toronto, and is believed to have been the only woman professor of theoretical physics in Canada at the time.
She married Stephen Freedhoff while an undergraduate, and had two children, Michal Freedhoff and Yoni Freedhoff.
Luis Lusquiños (27 November 1951 – 17 June 2017) was an Argentine politician.
He was born in the San Luis Province.
He had the highest number of absences in the 2005-2009 period.
He was appointed Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers during the brief presidency of Adolfo Rodríguez Saá.
Ivan Dias (14 April 1936 – 19 June 2017) was an Indian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was born in Bandra, a suburb of Bombay.
Dias was Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 2006 to 2011, having served as Archbishop of Bombay (1996–2006) and papal diplomat in the Balkans, East Asia, and West Africa.
Archdiocese of Bombay
Career highlights at Catholic-Hierarchy.org
Article at AmericanCatholic.org
Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student.
He was imprisoned in North Korea from March 2016 to June 2017 after being convicted of "hostile acts" against the country.
Warmbier, then 21 years old, confessed to stealing a political propaganda poster from a hotel and was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor.
The United States made diplomatic efforts to seek Warmbier's release.
A U.S. State Department spokesman said Warmbier's harsh sentence was a response to U.S. sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear activities.
According to his father, Warmbier's confession was forced and he was abducted by the North Korean government for political purposes.
Warmbier fell into a coma in North Korea and was released in June 2017, after nearly 18 months in North Korea.
According to North Korean authorities, Warmbier's coma was a result of botulism and a sleeping pill, but U.S. physicians cast doubt on that claim.
Warmbier arrived in Cincinnati on June 13 and was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center for immediate evaluation and treatment.
He was diagnosed with "severe neurological injury."
Warmbier died on June 19, 2017, in Cincinnati, six days after his return to the United States from complications of cardiopulmonary arrest caused by botulism and sepsis.
He was also suffering from pneumonia and kidney failure.
Brian Cant (12 July 1933 – 19 June 2017) was an English actor, television presenter and writer.
He was best known for his work in BBC television programmes for children from 1964 until his death in 2017.
He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk.
He was best known for presenting Play School and for starring as Brian the Farmer in Dapplewood Farm.
On 28 November 2010, he received the special award at the Children's BAFTAs for his work in children's television.
Brian Cant Honoured at the 2010 British Academy Children's Awards
Joshua Michael Peck (born November 10, 1986) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and YouTube personality.
He is best known for playing Josh Nichols in the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom Drake & Josh.
He began his career as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his role on The Amanda Show.
He has since acted in films such as Mean Creek, Drillbit Taylor, The Wackness, ATM, and Red Dawn, along with voicing Eddie in the Ice Age franchise.
He also starred as Gerald in a lead role with John Stamos in the series Grandfathered.
He formerly voiced Casey Jones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
He also starred in a Netflix comedy, Take the 10, along with Tony Revolori.
Peck was born in New York City, New York, where he attended P.S. 40 and The Professional Performing Arts School.
His parents were unmarried at the time of his birth and he has never met his biological father.
He grew up with his mother, Barbara, who is a career coach, and his maternal grandmother.
Peck is Jewish, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
He had asthma during his childhood, and often stayed indoors watching old sitcoms.
He was inspired to become involved in stand-up comedy when he was eight years old.
Peck subsequently appeared at TADA!
Youth Theater and performed stand-up comedy at Carolines on Broadway for the Audrey Hepburn foundation.
At the age of 13, he was offered a role on Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show and, at his mother's suggestion, accepted the part and moved to Los Angeles to further pursue an acting career.
Peck made his film debut in Snow Day (2000), and appeared regularly on The Amanda Show until the end of its run in 2002.
He also starred opposite Alex D. Linz and Zena Grey in the theatrical film, Max Keeble's Big Move, which was released on October 5, 2001.
In 2001, he guest starred in an episode of the NBC drama ER called "Thy Will Be Done".
During this period, Peck appeared in several independent films, including Spun and 2004's Mean Creek, for which he received critical praise.
He was cast as Josh Nichols, opposite Drake Bell's Drake Parker, in another Nickelodeon sitcom, Drake & Josh, which began airing in 2004 and gained Peck recognition among young audiences.
Peck's character, Josh Nichols, was smart, funny, and organized, but was always being tormented along with Drake by Megan Parker (Miranda Cosgrove), Drake's younger sister.
Both characters sing in a remake of the song "Soul Man" by Sam and Dave.
In 2006, Bell and Peck starred in their own TV movie called Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, and in 2007, they starred in a sequel called Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp.
Josh was nominated for Favorite Television Actor at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for his work on Drake & Josh.
Peck also made his debut as a director in the Drake & Josh episode, "Battle of Panthatar".
He also directed his co-star Drake Bell's music video for the theme song to Drake & Josh, "Found a Way".
He has also appeared in the series finale of What's New, Scooby-Doo?,
an episode of Codename: Kids Next Door called "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E.", and the direct-to-video New Line Cinema film Havoc.
Peck returned to the character of Josh Nichols in 2008 for the television film Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh.
In 2006, Peck appeared in the independent film Special, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and voiced Eddie, one of two possum brothers, in the animated sequel, Ice Age: The Meltdown, which was released on March 31 of that year.
Peck played a high school bully in 2008's Drillbit Taylor, and starred in the films The Wackness (released July 2008), American Primitive, Safety Glass, and reprised his role as Eddie in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
In 2011, Peck had a cameo role on the hit Nickelodeon show Victorious as an audience member for a play Jade wrote.
In 2012, Peck starred in the remake of Red Dawn, and once again reprised his role as Eddie, in Ice Age: Continental Drift.
In 2013, he began voicing Casey Jones in Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
In 2014, Peck appeared as Danny Norwood in the pilot of The Rebels, one of Amazon Studios' five adult test pilots released on Amazon Video in early 2014.
In 2015, Peck was cast as a lead in the comedy series, Grandfathered.
He starred alongside John Stamos.
Grandfathered premiered on September 29 and has gained generally favorable reviews from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.
Both Peck and Stamos are nominated for a 2016 People's Choice Award in the category "Favorite Actor In A New TV Series".
In 2016, Peck was cast as Ross in the FOX series Pitch.
He appeared in 2 episodes as a statistics analyst.
The series was cancelled after 10 episodes.
In the fourth season of Drake & Josh, Peck was noticeably thinner.
He said: I made a conscious effort to lose weight because I knew I could be happier as well as being healthier.