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July Super Shopper supports Center for Great Apes
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Angela K. raised over $140 in one month by using iGive.com to support Center for Great Apes.
Angela joined iGive.com in 2007 and has earned nearly $300 in Donations for her chosen cause, Center for Great Apes. Almost half of that was in one month – that's some powerful shopping!
Center for Great Apes is the only accredited orangutan sanctuary in North America. Located in Florida, this 501(c)3 charity is dedicated to providing a permanent sanctuary for orangutans and chimpanzees who have been rescued or retired from the entertainment industry, from research, or from the exotic pet trade.
As a thank you for her support of this "Great" cause, iGive.com has partnered with Parachute Home to provide Angela with a $150 gift card.
May Super Shopper raises almost $100!
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Phavel D. raised $97.09 for Humane Society of Oregon with just one month of iGive shopping.
Since joining iGive.com in 2014, Phavel has raised over $1,100 for Humane Society of Oregon and other iGive causes.
The Oregon Humane Society rescues, heals and adopts more than 11,000 pets each year. "We never place a time limit on how long cats, dogs and other pets stay at our shelter. OHS relies on donations to support our adoption, education, and animal cruelty investigation programs."
As a thank-you, Phavel will receive a prize from iGive partner store, TopMags! A one-year subscription to both US Weekly and People magazine, valued at $175, will be sent out ASAP!
April Cause Good Works Story feat. Paws Crossed Dog Rescue
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Kathy B. dropped us a note about her iGive Cause. Paws Crossed Dog Rescue serves the Eastern Panhandle of WV and surrounding counties. This non-profit dog rescue consists of a group of men and women who rescue abused, neglected, unwanted and abandoned animals. These people provide temporary foster homes to these animals until they are adopted. Paws Crossed provides these animals with food and medical needs including spay and neutering.
The foster homes play an essential part, for they do not have kennels for the dogs they rescue. Paws Crossed depends on the fosters, donations of food, supplies and money to be able to continue helping these dogs find their forever homes. All potential fosters and adopters are screened in order to assure the proper fitting home for each dog.
Check out Paws Crossed success stories for some of the cutest furry-friends with their new, loving families.
April Super Shopper raises $185+ for Sonoma Academy Parents Association
Denise R. is iGive.com's Super Shopper for April!
Denise raised over $185 for her Cause, Sonoma Academy Parents Association, with just one month of shopping! iGive shoppers like Denise support the Sonoma Academy Parents Association and their efforts of "Raising funds to provide educational and community outreach programs to students."
Founded in 2001 by members of the local community, Sonoma Academy offers a rigorous, independent, college preparatory environment and curriculum.
Sonoma Academy is…
The only independent, college preparatory high school in Sonoma County. On its beautiful 34-acre campus nestled at the base of picturesque Taylor Mountain in South Santa Rosa, Sonoma Academy students are able to explore their interests and passions in a challenging environment that prepares them for college and life beyond.
Prize worthy actions!
iGive & our partner stores like to honor the generosity of our members. Minted.com offers modern custom stationery, holiday cards, birth announcements, invitations & more, by indie designers from all over the world.
To celebrate Denise's dedication to her Cause, Minted.com has provided a $150 Gift Card.
Happy Shopping, Denise!
iGive.com Celebrates 20 Years With CMTA Joining the $5,000 Club!
Charot-Marie-Tooth Association (CMTA)
As iGive.com celebrates 20 years in business, we are highlighting some of our most successful causes & members. We asked you to share your stories, and here's one of our most inspiring!
iGive.com has provided the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (CMTA) with an invaluable source of funding for community services, such as patient conferences and a nationwide branch system. Our members love iGive because the money spent in favorite on-line retailers goes right back into the Association, helping those who need it most.
CMTA Patient & Family conferences change lives by bringing researchers, clinicians and people with this degenerative nerve disease together, to learn, to hope, to relieve the isolation of living with a rare disease. Our dynamic branch leaders work hard to bring CMT specialists to the public and provide much-needed support to all our members.
The CMTA is sincerely grateful to work with iGive, as the extra revenue generated through this partnership has helped thousands of people across the nation. To the folks at iGive.com-we look forward to 20 more years of great non-profit work!
Elizabeth Ouellette Board of Directors
Thanks for the note, Elizabeth!
You can follow CMTA's progress on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & more. And don't forget to tell us the story of YOUR cause on iGive! We'd love to celebrate your success, too.
20th Anniversary Member Story (February)
February is the month to celebrate love – and we're pretty sure that North Texas Rabbit Sanctuary LOVES Joanie D. Since joining iGive in 2005, Joanie's online shopping has benefited NTRS to the tune of just over $1,000! That's a lot of treats for a lot of floppy-eared friends!
All the rabbits that come into NTRS's care, are given a chance to live and look forward to being adopted into warm, loving homes with caring people.
We celebrate Joanie and all our iGive members who made the choice to make a difference. Since iGive launched in 1997, over $9M dollars has been raised for over 30,000 causes.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." – Margaret Mead
20th Anniversary Cause Story (February)
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Huntington's Disease Society of America
HDSA has been an active partner with iGive since 1999. They are the premier nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of everyone affected by Huntington's disease. From community services and education to advocacy and research, HDSA is the world's leader in providing help for today and hope for tomorrow for people with Huntington's disease and their families.
HDSA's network of chapters, affiliates, HDSA Centers of Excellence, social workers and support groups provides a seamless connection for help, education and outreach to HD families and health care professionals across the United States.
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal genetic disorder that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. It deteriorates a person's physical and mental abilities during their prime working years and has no cure.
In 1993, researchers identified the gene that causes HD. Since then, research has moved quickly towards developing treatments and, ultimately, a cure. HDSA supports the goals of clinical and basic research at leading research facilities globally.
By partnering with iGive, HDSA has earned over $11,000 toward their goals of improving the lives of everyone affected by Huntington's disease. You can see their recent progress here:
You can also register now to attend the 32nd Annual Convention, June 22-24, 2017 in Schaumburg, IL.
Thanks to all the supporters of HDSA – and thanks to our iGive store partners & members for being part of 20 years of giving.
20th Anniversary Cause Story (January)
American Black and Tan Coonhound Rescue rehabilitates abused and abandoned Black & Tan Coonhounds and places them in "Forever" homes. Since joining iGive.com in 1999, American Black and Tan Coonhound Rescue has raised over $5700 towards their mission of keeping animals from being euthanized.
You can check out their website for News to Howl about and a variety of Happy Endings – stories of rescued animals, complete with the cutest pics you can imagine! Leon and Shelby even get featured in the family holiday cards, now!
Auggie and Hank are a couple of iGive Staff pics!
20th Anniversary Member Story (January)
To start the year off, we celebrate Kimberly L. who's raised over $1,040 since joining iGive in 2007. Kimberly is currently raising money for RefugeeOne, a Chicago-based resource for refugees fleeing war, terror, and persecution so they may build new lives of safety, dignity, and self-reliance.
We reached out to Kimberly and she shared these thoughts with us:
"Over the years I've supported several theatre companies in Chicago with my iGive shopping. I love seeing shows and working on shows and knowing that every little bit helps bring the magic of theatre to life. Recently, however, some friends and I have begun taking up collections of household goods to donate to RefugeeOne and the last time we collected items, I decided to add the cause to iGive. Now when I buy a teapot or dish towels to donate to RefugeeOne, the money I spent on those items also generates a donation via iGive! Win-win!!"
Thanks Kimberly, for being part of 20 years of giving with iGive.com.
2017 Marks 20 Years of iGiving!
2017 marks the 20th anniversary of iGive.com and we couldn't do it without dedicated members, engaged causes, and wonderful store partners. This year we're celebrating all of that, but most especially you.
Keep an eye on your inbox for stories each month of members & causes who've hit milestones and stores that are going above and beyond to make a difference in the world.
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February 12 Zodiac Sign, Love Compatibility
In order to look deeper into the world of Zodiac and its signs, we will go deeper into the human past – and by doing so, we will come across a paradox that is contained in the very root of astrology and its meaning: Astro (means star) and logos (means science); hence the definition that astrology is actually a science about the stars.
But, some say that the astrology has much more significant meaning and that one of these meanings is "the mind of God". So astrology is an instrument of the knowledge of the Divine mind, and as we are part of the divine creation, then astrology is an instrument of understanding of ourselves. What a fantastic observation, isn't it? But why is this case?
If we look back into the ancient times, this was acceptable because astrology was inseparable from the science of the astronomy, and someone who dealt with astrology was not called astrologer but an astronomer.
Both sciences dealt with looking into the sky (planets). Again, most of these ancient astronomers were excellent philosophers that base their teachings on the learnings of the outstanding philosophers, and philosophy is the mother of all sciences and all the foundations of astrology are precisely based on the foundations of philosophy.
So, we could say that astrology is the science that contains a little bit of every known science.
In this article, we will discuss all things that are important to the birth date – February 12.
Unlike many Aquariuses, these people are adorned with the peacefulness, patience and (usual) non-destructiveness – these are the features that mark most of the people who are born on the February 12. They are also almost always inclined to philosophy or higher order thinking, and often find their occupation in some branch that is connected to this aspect. If not, this is how they spend their free time.
They are humane and refined individuals, they love music and in general, all the arts without exception, if they don't work in the art department, they will enjoy doing art as a hobby. They need to show their creativity in one way or another.
Internally, these people who celebrate their birthdays on the February 12 are reasonable and thoughtful; they are those who are real, unlike most of the Aquarius signs that are prone to the imagination.
They have a good memory, clear notions of life and right facts – they know life well and all of its aspects, they can be great friends and give good advice.
Above all, people of the February 12 are those who love to work, and by this, we mean all types of mental or intellectual work -this is something that is exceptionally pleasing to them, and they can be workaholics. Nevertheless, people of the February 12 love power and dignity; above all they like reforms of all kinds, and continuously operate with progressive, but revolutionary ideas. They are generous, kind and noble people who expect from the world to understand them and to accept them, which doesn't happen. In a way, they are personalities, sometimes a bit strange to the environment, but they can be exceptional friends. They have literary skills and inventive spirit.
With these people, you can expect unexpected things to happen -in the world of love, people of the February 12 are the people who like to shock, have a cosmopolitan viewpoint to love experiences, and a revolutionary and inventive mind with modern insights. They like to gather experience and are interested in what is new and advanced, and what is modern, why not.
Potential lovers see them as an idealistic, unconstrained and rebellious spirits, and they are not good partners for everyone – not everyone can deal with their character. Some people describe them as independent, original, unusual and somewhat crazy in love. They are ready for the unexpected actions, be sure about it. Since they are the people who have their unique interests and habits and they certainly need a partner who shares those interests – and in this case, similarities do attract, not the opposite.
People of the February 12 are those who are attracted with the intellectual companionship with those who are also rebellious and free spirits like they; they enjoy interesting and stimulating conversations with those whose opinions and attitudes different from the views and beliefs of most people.
But no matter how these people are great lovers, they cannot be called romantics in the real sense of that word, practical action and orientation towards the realisation of effective communication and emotion is necessary.
These persons, therefore, are often more friendly in communicating in which he will be able to express their altruistic and humanistic beliefs and to discuss social issues in society but to express most profound feelings and emotions in love. So it works better when it comes to communicating about everyday happenings in the world than when it comes to expressing passion and tenderness in love.
All of this doesn't deprive them from being great partners and lovers, eventually parents, they know how to love, no doubt about it.
These people are blessed with excellent organisational skills, and with it, they are the carriers of the new thoughts and new methods of communication, with original ideas that can be used in science, literature, education, computer technology, journalism, and television. Every field of the work can be their field where they can show all of their skills; they are the true workers who prove their value with hard work and commitment.
They need to achieve freedom of their existence that could be reached by living with their principles; people of the February 12 are those who want to change the consciousness and destiny to entire generations and humanity.
But they cannot escape from their nervous characters, which prevents the realisation of ideas. In those situations, they can be confused, eccentric and impractical, with poor relationships in work environment.
People of the February 12 are, as all Aquariuses, under the influence of the planet Uranus that is responsible for the rebellious and intellectual nature that these people have. They are the carriers of the change and alterations in the world.
Their birthdate is 12.2 that symbolises good opportunities in life and the need to find the purpose in it, or it can go in the wrong way. They are designed to achieve greatness through sacrifice symbolically.
Their colour is green, but the green that is incredibly dark and almost swampy.
Their numbers are 14 and 3.
Historical Events on February 12
We are all though that the history is the mother of life, by looking into its lesson we will make our future much better.
1733 – English James Obturator founded Georgia, the 13th colony of the British Thirteen Colonies, and its first city of Savannah.
1812 – Elbrus Jerry tapped the electoral law in Massachusetts, and in doing so introduced this form of electoral engineering known as gerrymandering.
1818 – Chile formally declared independence from Spain under the leadership of General Bernardo O'Higgins.
1825 – Shouts surrendered to the US government of their last land in Georgia under an Indian Springs agreement and migrated west.
1832 – The Pacific Island Galapagos belonging to Spain merged with the Equator, but Spain was not interested in the islands and did not offer any resistance to the annexation.
1851 – Edward Hargraves found gold in Summerhill Creek in New South Wales, causing golden fever in Australia.
1855 – The State University of Michigan was established.
1899 – The German Empire purchases from Spain the island of Carolina, Mariana Islands and Palau in the Pacific for 17 million marks.
1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organisations in the United States, was founded.
1912 – The last Chinese Emperor Puy abdicated, from the Manchu dynasty, China became a republic and the first president of Sun Jat Sen.
1924 – A New York concert was held under the title Experiment in Modern Music, where jazz orchestra Paul Whiteman premiered Rapsody in the Blue George Gershwin, a work that is considered to be the beginner of "symphonic jazz".
1953 – The USSR suspended diplomatic relations with Israel after the bombing of the Soviet mission in Tel Aviv.
1961 – It was reported that members of the separatist movement Katanga killed Prime Minister Kong and national hero Patrice Lumumba. The exact date and circumstances under which the kill was never discovered.
1973 – North Vietnam during the Vietnam War freed the first group of American prisoners of war.
1974 – Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize laureate in 1970, was arrested in Moscow. The following day he lost his Soviet citizenship and expelled from the country. After two decades of emigration to the United States, he returned to Russia.
1979 – In Rhodesia, 59 people were killed in a passenger plane "Er Rodezija", which was shot down by guerrillas.
1993 – Former President of Mali Musa Traore and three officers sentenced to death after being convicted by the court of mass murders in 1991.
1997 – Hwang Jang Jop, a close associate of North Korean President Kim Jong Il, sought political asylum in South Korea in the South Korean embassy in Beijing.
1999 – The US Senate acquitted US President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, which ended a year after the "sexual affair" with Monika Lewinsky and escaped imprisonment.
2000 – Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, the first of the former Warsaw Pact members, joined NATO.
2001 – Space Shuttle NEAR Shoemaker descended on the surface of asteroid 433 Eros. It was the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 – Pakistani authorities arrested extreme Islamist Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British citizen, who is the primary suspect in the abduction of US reporter Daniel Perl, who reported for the Wall Street Journal.
2003 – In the clashes between the army and rebel members of the police and other protesters during a protest in La Paz in Bolivia, at least 30 people were killed and 160 injured.
Famous people born on February 12
If you celebrate your birthday on the February 12 take a look at the famous names that share your birthday, maybe you will find many similarities.
1809 – Abraham Lincoln, an American politician and statesman.
1809 – Charles Darwin, a British naturalist and founder of the Theory of Evolution.
1828 – George Meredith, an English writer.
1881- Ana Matveeva Pavlova, the top Russian player of the classical ballet.
1884 – Max Beckmann, a German painter and graphic artist.
1892 – Theodor Plievier, a German writer.
1923 – Franco Zeffirelli, an Italian director.
1933 – Constantin Costa Gavras, a Greek director.
1934 – Bill Russell, an American professional basketball player and coach.
1939 – Ray Manzarek, an American musician.
1946 – Ajda Pekkan, a Turkish singer and actress.
1950 – Angelo Branduardi, an Italian co-author.
1975 – Scot L. Pollard, an American basketball player.
1976 – Silvia Saint, a Czech porn actress.
1980 – Christina Ricci, an American actress.
1980 – Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat, a Spanish tennis player.
1981 – Raul Entrrerios, a Spanish Handball Representative.
1987 – Jeremy Chardy, a French tennis player.
1988 – Nicolas Otamendi, an Argentine football player.
Free, different and defiant ones, the heart of this person is hard to conquer, but when it is you get the whole world in the palm of your hand. They are very happy in social relations, talkative, interesting and able to leave a very impressive positive impression on people around her. It has many friends or a wide range of interests, it is a benevolent, but it does not belong to a group of people who fall in such a fast and easy way. For this reason, they often give the impression of an emotionally cold, hardly conquerable and unattainable person in love.
They are the people who insist on independence and liberation from the authority imposed by the family and the country they live in. They can at times leave their homes, family or country to live freely all around the world.
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This is The Prophecy. The Prophecy is much more than seeing into the future. For The Prophecy sees without the limits of time. For The Prophecy sees what is, what was, and what always shall be.
Iraqi populist Shiite cleric Muqtada Al Sadr condemned the Tehran-backed Shiite militias' support towards victims of flash flooding in Iran.
"Iraqis come first," Mr Al Sadr said on Twitter, adding that there are many areas in Iraq that are at risk of flooding from torrential rain.
"Since there are those who have provided relief to affected areas in Iran, it is our duty to intensify our efforts to provide relief to our people in Iraq," he said.
Iran's ambassador to Iraq, Irj Masjedi, told Iranian news agencies on Saturday that the Hashed Al Shaabi's forces have been deployed to western Iran to help with flood relief.
The shutdown comes after a request from Iran, Iraq's Border Ports Commission said.
Two small fires were started in southern Israel by balloons carrying incendiary devices from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the local fire department said.
The blazes were quickly extinguished by firefighters.
The arson attacks came amid a period of relative calm along the Gaza border, but also as terror groups in the Strip threatened to renew their violent activities on the security fence if Israel does not abide by an unofficial ceasefire agreement brokered by Egypt last month.
One of the fires was located in a grassy area outside Kibbutz Be'eri, east of Gaza. The other was outside the nearby community of Shokeda.
Once the fires were extinguished, investigators inspected the scenes to determine what caused the blazes.
"The investigation found that the fires were caused by balloons," the department said.
For the past year, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been launching balloons carrying explosives and incendiary devices into southern Israel, sparking fires that burned thousands of acres of agricultural fields, forests and grasslands. This spring, farmers in southern Israel were encouraged to harvest their wheat early in order to prevent their fields from being burned in such attacks.
Recent weeks have seen a significant decrease in the level of violence along the Gaza border with the start of the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, under which Israel agreed to ease some of its restrictions on the movement of people and goods into and out of the coastal enclave in exchange for calm.
Israel says the limitations on movement aim to prevent Hamas and other terror groups from transferring into Gaza weapons and materials used to construct tunnels and fortifications.
In recent weeks, as the unofficial ceasefire began to take effect, the number of balloon-borne explosives and incendiary devices flown over the border dropped, though attacks have not stopped entirely. Nightly riots have ended, and the weekly protests along the border have been held farther from the security fence.
On Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said it was standing down the extra forces deployed to the Gaza border region during an uptick in violence last month.
Terror groups in the Strip have threatened to renew the violence along the border if Israel does not continue to deliver on its promises.
Jerusalem has thus far reopened its two crossings with Gaza and significantly expanded the permitted fishing area around the coastal enclave.
The announcement of the designation of IRGC as a terror group by trump administration is an important development that makes Iranian officials tremble. The Iranian regime has entered a troubled period that risks considerably changing the international balance of power at the expense of the mullahs' regime.
In the same way, one of the main levers of the regime's repressive policy will be undermined politically, militarily and financially. The Supreme Leader of the mullahs, Ali Khamenei, will observe a crushing defeat of the IRGC, which he considers to be the main pillar of the survival of his regime.
During a meeting with members and associates of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), and in reaction to the U.S. State Department designating this entity as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei voiced his concerns over growing unrest that could very well lead to an uprising in Iran. The IRGC should remain high alert on the streets in cities and towns.
"The IRGC is an outstanding force in the country. Whether from outside the country, or cities and towns inside the country, the IRGC is on the front lines fighting the enemy," Khamenei said.
The mullahs' supreme leader is terrified of escalating social dissent from the scales of the flood disasters and unimaginable increase in the cost of living that could turn into an all-out uprising bringing down the regime in its entirety.
"You look at the price increase of such an item in the market, it is normal for these things to happen. Part of it is unintentional, part from inexperience, and also partly due to the enemy's evilness. These factors would join hands to suddenly increase the price of goods in the market," he said.
Khamenei also sought to prop up the moral of IRGC forces, growing terrified of the increasing social hatred and anger.
"Well, we are a population of 80 million. From this 80+ million, some are kids and youth, some are, well, kind of dissidents that oppose the system. But a sufficient number of people are standing strong behind you," he said.
On the night of the IRGC designation as a terrorist entity, Khamenei, addressing IRGC members and their associates, backed away from his previous bullying about the so-called country's nuclear energy (read clandestine bomb-making effort) and missile program.
"We have forbidden the atom bomb. But these idiots keep raising the atom bomb issue before they acknowledge that we have said that we do not seek it. It is against our religious basis, against our teachings… Do you think that the clout and the power that the Islamic Republic has mustered has been due to the nuclear bomb? Or is it from our advancement in enriching Uranium? Not at all," he added.
Meanwhile, Iranians in Mashhad, Damavand, Pars Abad, and other cities protested against corrupt financial institutions affiliated to the regime.
Plundered shareholders of Badr-e Toos in the northwestern city of Mashhad demonstrated in front of the regime provincial governor' office in this city on Saturday, April 13 demanding their looted money be returned.
They were chanting "Nobody has seen a government so irresponsible" and "I will get my money back, even if I have to die" among other slogans.
In another news, about 200 truckers in the city of Damavand protested against low fuel ration.
And Taxi drivers in the city of Parsabad-e Mogan protested against low fares and the high cost of livings.
In another event on Apr.12,2019 residents of the Sheelang-Abad district in the city of Ahvaz, capital of Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran, took to the streets protesting the ruling regime's inaction and refusal to provide any relief to the needy people in flood-hit areas. These locals are especially angry at the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) for protecting its own facilities at the price of placing residential areas in danger.
In the meantime Members of the "Resistance Units," a network closely associated to the Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), continue targeting icons of the mullahs' regime across Iran on Apr.13,2019.
Members of Resistance in Kermanshah, western Iran, set fire to a Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Basij base.
On Apr.13, In West Azerbaijan Province, northwest Iran, members of Resistance set fire to an IRGC Basij poster while chanting similar anti-regime slogans.
Members of Resistance in Tehran set fire to a poster of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) containing images of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini and current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This action was in solidarity with flood-hit victims across Iran.
Damaging earthquakes have occurred in New York and surely will again. The likelihood of a damaging earthquake in New York is small overall but the possibility is higher in the northern part of the state and in the New York City region.Significant earthquakes, both located in Rockaway and larger than magnitude 5, shook New York City in 1737 and 1884. The quakes were 147 years apart and the most recent was 122 year ago. It is likely that another earthquake of the same size will occur in that area in the next 25 to 50 years. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in New York City would probably not cause great loss of life. However the damage to infrastructure – buildings, steam and gas lines, water mains, electric and fiber optic cable – could be extensive.
Acceleration of the ground during an earthquake is more important than total movement in causing structural damage. This map shows the two-percent probability of the occurrence of an earthquake that exceeds the acceleration of earth's gravity by a certain percentage in the next fifty years.
If a person stands on a rug and the rug pulled slowly, the person will maintain balance and will not fall. But if the rug is jerked quickly, the person will topple. The same principle is true for building damage during an earthquake. Structural damage is caused more by the acceleration of the ground than by the distance the ground moves.
Earthquake hazard maps show the probability that the ground will move at a certain rate, measured as a percentage of earth's gravity, during a particular time. Motion of one or two percent of gravity will rattle windows, doors, and dishes. Acceleration of ten to twenty percent of gravity will cause structural damage to buildings. It takes more than one hundred percent of gravity to throw objects into the air.
Iraq is considering blocking online multiplayer computer games due to an increasing obsession that has triggered fears of violence, crime and a decline in society.
The cultural parliamentary committee submitted on Saturday a draft law that seeks to ban electronic games, in particular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) and the Blue Whale that was reported to be an online "suicide game".
"The committee is concerned about the obsession over these electronic games that ignite violence among children and youth. Its influence has spread rapidly among Iraq's society," the head of the committee, Sameaa Gullab, said during a press conference in Baghdad.
The request was submitted based on Article 59 of the constitution, she said.
"We are proposing to parliament to block and ban all games that threaten social security, morality, education and all segments of Iraqi society," Ms Gullab said.
Iraqi media reported incidents of suicide and divorce related to the games during the last year. In depth reporting by local media on the craze has announced it has led to nearly 40,000 divorces worldwide and more than 20 cases in Iraq.
"This issue requires immediate action by the authorities to ban this negative phenomenon through passing this draft legislation," she said.
The draft law will now be revised by parliamentary speaker Mohammed Al Halbousi.
Iraq is facing a "youth bulge", a demographic term applied to countries where the vast majority of the population is young, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Iraq's young people makes up around 60 per cent of the country's nearly 40 million population, and 17 per cent of men and 27 per cent of women are unemployed, according to World Bank figures.
PUBG has more than 400 million players across the world. It was developed by South Korean company Blue Hole and is based on a first-person shooter battle for survival format.
The game allegedly inspired an Iraqi teenager, 17, to commit suicide in January, Iraq's Independent Human Rights Commission said in a statement.
The boy's family said his death was a "wake up call for the dangers that Iraqi children are being exposed to".
The development comes after Iraqi populist cleric, Muqtada Al Sadr, called for tighter government control to combat the "addiction".
"It saddens me to see our youth are brainwashed by PUBG," Mr Al Sadr said on Twitter.
"Iraq's society is deteriorating as its youth are occupied by the fighting in PUBG's battlefields," he stressed.
But teenagers in Baghdad consider playing the game as a way to keep them indoors and away from violence outside.
"I have been playing PUBG for sometime now, I like it because it keeps me at home and away from trouble outside," Hassan Ahmed Ali, 21, told The National.
Mr Ali says that parliament needs to consider a substitute for Iraqi youth to "keep us occupied".
PUBG is banned in Nepal and in the state of Gujarat in India over its association with violence.
This war is looming on the horizon and may break out very soon – in a matter of weeks or in the summer.
Regardless of the elections results this month and the subsequent slow and complicated political negotiation to form Israel's 35th government in its 71 years since independence, the most important task that government will face will be to prevent a new war in Gaza. This war is looming on the horizon and may break out very soon – in a matter of weeks or in the summer.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) under the new Chief of Staff (COS) Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi is preparing itself for such an eventuality. Actually, all the war plans are ready. If a new round of violence erupts, it would the fourth war between Israel and Gaza in the last 10 years.
On the Israeli side, it will be an all-out ground offensive, using tanks, armored carriers, secret operations by special forces, with massive air bombardment and fire by gunboats from the sea. The Israeli forces will probably use targeted killing tactics.
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) will respond by launching a few thousand rockets, which they have amassed since the last war in the summer of 2014. Since Gaza is under joint siege by both Israel and Egypt, preventing the smuggling of weapons from Sinai, most of the rockets are self-produced by Hamas and PIJ engineers and manufactured locally.
In the last few weeks, a few rockets were launched from Gaza, reaching Tel Aviv and 30 kilometers north of it. Hamas explained that they were launched "by mistake" or activated by lightning, which ignited and launched the rockets. Whether this is a genuine explanation or just a lie, it has demonstrated that Hamas's rockets, even though they are not very accurate, have a range of up to 150 kilometers. They can reach and hit Israel's major cities, including Beersheba in the south, Jerusalem in the east, Tel Aviv and its surroundings, as well as Ben-Gurion International Airport, and further north. Undoubtedly, they can inflict heavy damage on the Israeli home front.
The IDF's goal will be to carve up the Gaza Strip, which is a relatively small enclave squeezed between Israel and Egypt. Its total size is 365 sq km (140 sq mi) – 10 km in width from the Israeli border to the Mediterranean – and 66 km in length.
Israel has completed construction of only half of its underground barrier with Gaza and an above-ground fence with electronic sensors and intelligence equipment. The other half will be finished in early 2020. But it is already assumed that most of the underground tunnels, which Hamas dug as its strategic weapon to infiltrate and shock Israel, have been exposed and destroyed by the IDF.
Nevertheless, even without the tunnels, Hamas, PIJ and the other small renegade Salafist Islamic groups present in Gaza can provide strong opposition to the superior military machine of Israel and inflict blows on its advancing troops.
According to the war plans, once Gaza is carved up – a maneuver which shouldn't take more than 4-5 hours – the IDF will seal and encircle entire neighborhoods and villages, and engage in urban warfare moving from house to house to kill as many enemy combatants as possible, confiscating their weapons and destroying military bases and arms workshops. Such a battle in one of the most densely populated areas in the world (Gaza's population is estimated to be almost 2 million) would be highly risky and costly to the civilian population and to combatants on both sides.
In the last war in 2014, Israel's casualties were 68 soldiers and six civilians. On the Palestinian side, the figures are less precise. Some 2,500 Palestinians were killed – roughly half of them civilians and half combatants – some 11,000 homes were destroyed and about 400,000 people escaped from their homes. War game simulations conducted by the IDF and independent think tanks estimate that in the next war casualties on both sides will be much higher.
The main question, however, is what will be the exact instructions of the new government to the armed forces. Will the cabinet instruct the IDF to topple the Hamas regime? If it succeeds, and that is a big if, Hamas's ideology is not going to disappear; so who will replace Hamas and form a new regime in Gaza?
The Palestinian Authority(PA)? It's very unlikely that it will agree to be persuaded by Israeli army bayonets to go back and rule Gaza. An Arab international regime? The probability is low. Egypt, which ruled Gaza from 1948 to 1967, refused to take Gaza under its wings after signing its peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Nowadays, it is even more stubborn about not wanting to govern this almost ungovernable place.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that in his meetings with Arab leaders – not only from Egypt and Jordan, with whom Israel has peace treaties, but also from the rest of the Sunni world (I assume he was referring to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia) – he raised this possibility, but his counterparts rejected it on the spot.
Under such circumstances, if Israel conquers Gaza and topples Hamas, it will have only two real options. One is to withdraw and leave behind scorched earth, which will turn the area into a local version of al Qaeda or ISIS in the style of Somalia – with warlords, terror groups and chaos.
The other option looks no more promising. Israel will have to reinstate its military rule and administration to feed the people, and take care of their education, health services and daily needs. Not to mention that Israeli right-wing extremists will demand that the government rebuild Jewish settlements and colonize Gaza. This was the situation from 1967 for almost 40 years when, in 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to launch his "disengagement plan," in which Israel withdrew its troops, dismantled all settlements and handed over Gaza to the PA. A year and half later, Hamas took over Gaza in a bloody military coup against the PA.
Yet the war scenario is not inevitable. It's not God's will. It can be avoided. It depends on the new Israeli government that is formed.
The main reason that Israel and Hamas have found themselves in a new war of attrition since March 2018 is that both sides are not ready to compromise. There are a few serious problems separating the two sides from reaching a sensible agreement.
Israel demands that Gaza be demilitarized. Hamas refuses.
Israel requires as a precondition for a deal that the remains of two IDF soldiers and two citizens, who are most probably alive, will be returned. Hamas agrees but demands in return that Israel release from its prisons hundreds of its prisoners whom Israel calls terrorists and refuses to free.
Hamas also demands that the Israeli-Egyptian siege be lifted and that all available Arab and international money be transferred to them to increase the supply of electricity (today Gaza has electricity for 8-10 hours a day), make water drinkable, build new roads and sewers, open workshops and reduce unemployment, which is currently at a level of 50%.
No serious efforts have been made to break the deadlock. Both sides are entrenched in their positions. From the summer of 2014 to March 2018, the status quo prevailed and both sides of the border were relatively tranquil.
Hamas felt that Israel led by Netanyahu sanctioned the status quo and refused to negotiate. To break it, Hamas launched a war of attrition using incendiary kites sent to burn fields in Israel, mass marches and violent demonstrations, with occasional sniper fire and the launching of rockets. Israel retaliated by firing live ammunition at the protesters as well as heavy air force strikes, killing some 250 Palestinians. An IDF soldier and one foreign worker were also killed.
Netanyahu replied that everyone who opposes a Palestinian state should support his policy of appeasing Hamas by showering it with Qatari money. So far, the Israeli prime minister hasn't officially backed down from his 2009 commitment to a two-state solution.
But in his ideology, worldview and strategy, it's clear that Netanyahu has done everything possible to prevent a unified Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza. In his election campaign, he vowed to annex settlements in the West Bank if he wins. His actions bear witness to it. He refuses to negotiate with the PA and is trying to weaken it. While giving money to Hamas, he deprives the PA of half a billion shekels ($140 million) of its own money held by Israel tax authorities.
Netanyahu's policy has been to divide and rule. He wishes to separate the Palestinians into two geographic entities and regimes and to create a wedge between them. By doing so he hopes to "kill" the notion of a Palestinian state, regardless of the heavy price the citizens of southern Israel pay for living in the shadow of instability and frequent outbursts of violence. More worrisome is that Netanyahu is ready to enslave the future of Israel to fulfill his dream and vision.
If the next government does not reverse course, the fourth Gaza war will break out soon.


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"Brittany Runs a Marathon" Is a Victory for Marginalized Characters: A Conversation with Jillian Bell and Paul Downs Colaizzo
Jillian Bell and writer/director Paul Downs Colaizzo talk to Popdust about their new movie.
Completing a marathon is a huge victory for any runner—but Brittany Runs a Marathon is a victory for the cast, filmmakers, and real-life woman on which it is based.
Previously, the movie's star, Jillian Bell, stood out in 22 Jump Street, joking about how Jonah Hill looked way too old to be in college. You've seen her ensemble work on Workaholics, and she's played supporting roles on The Night Before, Office Christmas Party, Rough Night, and Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television. Now Brittany Runs a Marathon finally gives her the lead.
"It's slightly different than what I pictured my first lead role would be," Bell told Popdust. "This is a movie that feels very personal to me. There are a lot of dramatic elements, and it was so much fun creating this whole character. It's really based on a real person named Brittany O'Neill, who the writer/director Paul Downs Colaizzo wrote this movie about. It was sort of a love letter to his best friend since college. It's a beautiful story."
Colaizzo, who's mostly worked in television development and is making his directorial debut with Brittany Runs a Marathon, told Popdust that he chose to write a story inspired by his friend, because "I wanted to create art that I felt connected to, that I cared about." He was a fan of Bell's work in 22 Jump Street. Now, he's impressed with the range she brought to his film.
"At first, just knowing her work, I didn't know if she'd be able to play a role with this many layers and this much drama, this much vulnerability and humanity," Colaizzo said. "Immediately when we met, she had a protective nature over the character. I was looking at her realizing this is a woman who is perceived as comic relief by the roles and by her films and was looking to challenge herself to change how she sees herself and how the world sees her. So it felt like what Jillian was going through as a performer was exactly what the character would be going through, as well."
This poster shows Brittany before she literally turns her life around.Amazon Studios
"Camera Brittany," as Colaizzo distinguishes the character Bell plays from the real O'Neill, parties on weeknights and doesn't worry about being late for work or bouncing from job to job. She's popular because everybody has a good time around her, but her humor is a defense mechanism. After trying to score some pills, her doctor cautions her about her unhealthy lifestyle. Some neighbors invite Brittany to join their running group, and she reluctantly accepts. Gradually, the discipline helps her get the rest of her life on track.
"It's different from what I'm used to," Bell said. "I think there are definitely moments where she is genuinely just having fun and trying to make people laugh, and then there are moments where she is using it as a crutch."
Delving into the psychology of Brittany's humor was part of Colaizzo's mission. In most Hollywood movies, Brittany would be a funny sidekick who'd leave the scene after her punchlines, so the film could re-focus on its star. But Brittany Runs a Marathon takes a different approach.
"The point of the movie was to take stock characters and let them evolve, let them become more dimensionalized," Colaizzo said. "Even the supporting characters become leads in their own story. So we approached it like a drama, so that we're never going for any broad laughter. I think a lot of our humor comes from the relatability of feeling humiliated and exposed." The same treatment is given to funny house-sitter Jern (Utkarsh Ambudkar), who becomes a leading man.
Brittany (Jillian Bell) trains for the marathon Amazon Studios
But even at the beginning of her journey, when she is a mess, Colaizzo is celebrating her. "The film is inspired by her incredible and admirable, inspirational, really galvanizing journey," Colaizzo said. Although the character does differ from her real-life counterpart. "I had to create a different character than actually her, so none of these scenes are recreations of anything that happened in real life."
"We were both very cautious about how we were telling the story and the engine of the story," Bell said. "I just wanted to make sure that the joke was never about her or her body."
Brittany Runs a Marathon isn't afraid to portray the difficult reality of such a challenging transformation. At her lowest, Brittany lashes out at a complete stranger, Jasmine (Sarah Bolt), about her weight at a barbecue. "It showcases where Brittany's at mentally at that point," Bell said. "She hasn't grown, and she's projecting onto this woman everything that she feels, and it has nothing to do with this other person. A lot of people who don't work through their own demons look at other people who are happy in their lives and they have to basically put them down to make themselves feel better. "
Brittany Runs A Marathon - Official Trailer | Amazon Studios www.youtube.com
Bell also appreciates scenes like that, because they show the complexities behind overhauling one's life. Brittany can start a fitness regimen and lose weight, but there are still psychological habits she must break. "I think it was an important scene to show in this movie because a lot of times when people lose weight, people naturally think oh, now they're 'better,'" Bell said. "They don't work on the emotional journey, the mental journey that goes with that, and how one is related to the other."
Brittany's journey has ups and downs, but even in the darkest moments, she's moving towards the light.
"She's having a good time until the doctor tells her, 'You need to do something to change your life, because you're not healthy right now,'" Bell said. " Once you know that, where do you go? You either move forward, or you move back."
Colaizzo hopes audiences recognize their own human flaws in Brittany's behavior and strive for self-improvement the way Brittany does. "There's times in the film that you start thinking, 'I know that girl. Wait, I am that girl.'" Colaizzo said. "By the end of the film, [I hope you think], 'If I push myself hard enough, I can be that girl.'"
Brittany Runs a Marathon is in theaters Friday, August 23.


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How can I remove any scrolling on paste? I would like for the page to not move at all.

A: You can apply fixes like below code:
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This works for me at least, hope it helps you as well!

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Pontoons taking shape, creating jobs in Aberdeen
KNKX Public Radio | By Bellamy Pailthorp
Photo by Bellamy Pailthorp
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An engineer checks his calculations inside the pontoon pit in Grays Harbor, near Aberdeen.
Washington State is the floating bridge capital of the world. We have four of the most famous ones, including the longest: State Route 520, which is about to be replaced.
What holds them all up? Giant floats made of concrete, called pontoons. The first and largest of them are being manufactured in Grays Harbor, near Aberdeen.
In the harbor, what was once a sprawling riverfront log yard has been transformed into a gigantic casting basin on the Chehalis River.
Tower cranes loom overhead, ready to lower in pieces that are built on the 55 acres of gravelly ground surrounding a massive and carefully constructed pit at the center of it all.
"It's kind of set up like a Jiffy Lube pit, where you get an oil change," says project director Phil Wallace.
He's overseeing the pontoon construction for Kewit-General, the joint venture that won this design build contract. He says they've built a huge manufacturing facility to deliver precision parts on a massive scale.
"So we can flop all the materials, there's a jig that goes in. We set up all our strong backs, drop all those, then all the ribs for the form go in."
Translation from engineer-speak: there are all kinds of guides and braces involved.
"It's just like a puzzle piece, where you put all the puzzles in," says Wallace.
It's precision work, yet the pontoons they're building are huge. They'll be three stories tall and more than twelve times as long.
"If you put a pontoon in the middle of Century Link Field, it would go from end-line to end-line – nearly the full width of the field. That's one pontoon, "says Dave Ziegler with the state Department of Transportation.
In Aberdeen, they're building 33 pontoons in all, including the 21 largest ones that will be linked together, almost like Lego pieces, to form the foundation of the new six-lane bridge.
"Those become the spine or the basic structure that the road sets on in Lake Washington. So the pontoons that are being built here are just the foundation. Those will be taken up to Seattle and that's where they'll attach the roadway, driving surface, " Ziegler says.
To get to Seattle, the pontoons will be towed up the coast, around the Olympic Peninsula and through the Ballard Locks. They have to fit through – with just 5 feet leeway.
Kewit-General's Phil Wallace says even a slight tilt in one direction could blow the whole project. Computer aided drafting helps ensure the pontoons will be able to get where they need to go.
"You figure out how it's going to float even, how to ballast that pontoon so it'll float level and get through the locks at the right depth too," Wallace says.
Along with CAD technology, new formulas for concrete mixing are part of what will make these pontoons last for at least 75 years.
All of this is creating hundreds of jobs – about 450 at the project's peak.
Among the new hires is 25-year-old Rachell Nordberg.
"I was raised in Aberdeen, Washington. I left in 2005, I did 6 years," she says.
She joined the army and did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now she's a carpenter in the union's "Helmets to Hard Hats" program, helping build forms for the pontoons - and very happy to be able to live back at home with her 3-year-old daughter.
"I just really, really like being local. It's nice, you know you don't have to go far away and I'm at home to cook dinner. So it's really nice being local, " she says.
Her job is in her hometown, but the bridge she's helping to build is more than a hundred miles away. WSDOT says this kind of regional cooperation should create good will from rural residents who sometimes look disdainfully on transportation budgets for big cities like Seattle.
And drivers on the new 520 bridge can think of the coast as they cross Lake Washington.
One more thing: like ships, the largest pontoons have names. The first four are called Tina, Ursula, Valerie and Wendy.
It's not yet clear what will happen to the facility in Grays Harbor once the pontoons are done in 2014, but the hope is it will attract more work. Engineers say their CAD drawings show it's big enough to handle an air craft carrier.
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Bellamy Pailthorp covers the environment beat from the Seattle offices of KNKX Public Radio News, where she has worked since 1999. She also has a deep interest in indigenous affairs and the Salish Sea. She holds a Masters in journalism from New York's Columbia University, where she completed the Knight-Bagehot fellowship in business reporting in 2006 mid-career during her stint on KNKX's Business and Labor Beat from 2000-2012.
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Friday: No Other Doctrine
By James Boice
Theme: Entrusting the Gospel to Others
In this week's lessons, we are reminded of the importance of sound doctrine if the church is to function properly and be protected from false teaching.
Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:1-11
Third, he speaks of grace to sinners. This was Paul's own experience—the one who in all of his religious self-righteousness, when he thought he was serving God, was actually going about trying to destroy God's work and persecute the church. But God in his grace turned Paul around and showed him that the one Paul was persecuting was actually the one whom he should have been serving. Paul cannot get over what God had done for him; he talks about God's grace shown to him in Jesus Christ repeatedly.
Finally, we will mention the matter of faith. False doctrines promote controversies rather than God's work, which he says is by faith. Furthermore, Paul's exhortation to Timothy to rebuke those who are teaching false doctrine has love as its goal, which comes from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
Paul in effect says that we need to talk about all these things. We must talk about our need, and God's grace toward us through the work of Christ as the only answer for our sin. But these things become ours when, again by the grace of God, we personally believe them and receive the Lord Jesus Christ unto salvation. This is the gospel. There's not another gospel, whether that of the Gnostics or anyone else. The gospel of God is what Paul had, this is what he gave to Timothy, this is what Timothy in his turn passed on to the churches, and it's what we have today because of faithful men and women who have gone before us.
In verse 11, Paul writes of sound doctrine, describing it as that which "conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me." Having received it, Paul then entrusted it to Timothy, and from Timothy to others. The same continues today in our own time. Those who have gone before us in the faith have entrusted this same glorious gospel to us as well. Do we believe it? Do we really live by it? Or is it just something that exists in the mind, but does not affect how we live. Is it really ours? Is this our gospel? Has it been entrusted to us, and have we received it? Well, if so, then we have this great task of letting other people know about it both by word and by deed. And this is what the world needs to know.
Several weeks ago, I was reading a small pamphlet by a man who was a bookseller and a scholar in his own right. It listed a number of books that had been very influential for him and he was commending these books to others. In the course of this tract where the books were listed, he told a story. One day when he was in his store, selling books, a man came in and began to browse. He looked around in sort of an unhappy way with a sour expression on his face. For fifteen minutes, or maybe even half an hour, he picked up this book and that book. Finally, obviously feeling restless and dissatisfied, he came over to the owner of the store, and he said, "I don't want any of these books. I want a book that tells us how to solve all these modern problems. But it can't be a long book, and it can't be religious." The bookseller wisely said, "Well there is no such book, if you exclude the religious ones. But there is a book if you recognize that the Book of God, the Bible, gives the solutions and points the way to life."
This book has been entrusted to us. This is a precious possession, and the gospel that it contains is precious as well, precious beyond all possible price. Let's guard it. Let's love it. Let's live by it. Let's read it. Let's study it. Let's share it. Let's talk about it. Then, by the grace of God, others will come to love these truths too.
Study Questions:
What other two areas of doctrine does Paul mention to Timothy?
How did Paul faithfully carry out his responsibility to pass the gospel on to others? How will Timothy do the same?
Application: Recount the means by which the Lord entrusted the gospel to you. What were the circumstances, and whom did he use? How can you pass on to others the message of the gospel?
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Ficus, (genus Ficus), a group of about 900 species of trees, shrubs, and vines, commonly called figs. Native primarily to tropical areas of East Asia, they are distributed throughout the world's tropics. Many are tall forest trees that are buttressed by great spreading roots; others are planted as ornamentals.
The common fig (Ficus carica) is cultivated for its pear-shaped, edible fruits, which are really hollow fleshy receptacles (syconia) containing hundreds of male and female flowers.
Some fig species (including the New World F. obtusifolia and F. nymphaeifolia) are known as strangler figs. The seeds of strangler figs germinate on a host tree and grow around its trunk in a strangling latticework, eventually killing the host tree. One freestanding New World species, F. insipida, has the highest photosynthetic rate of any forest tree measured, supporting rapid growth and abundant fruiting. It can quickly colonize abandoned farm fields in large numbers, but as the forest matures, most die as other plants take over.
Each fig species is pollinated by a species-specific wasp (see fig wasp). This remarkable pollination system has a fundamental impact on tropical forest ecology. When the pollen-bearing wasps leave a fig tree, the fruit crop ripens quickly, providing a rich feast that attracts a host of mammals and birds. Moreover, as a consequence of the wasp's short adult lifetime (as little as two days), there are some trees both receiving and releasing fig wasps throughout the year. This pattern results in a steady supply of fruit, making figs a critical resource for animals during times of food shortage. If figs were to be cut out of a forest or the fig wasps were to somehow be removed, there would almost certainly be a dramatic reduction in animal life, as is suggested by the lower population densities of fruit-eating mammals on small islands that lack figs.
The life cycle of the fig wasp (family Agaonidae). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Another notable Ficus species is the sycamore fig (F. sycomorus), which has mulberry-like leaves, hard wood, and edible fruit. The banyan (F. benghalensis) and some related species have aerial roots that become greatly enlarged and spread away from the main stem, acting as auxiliary trunks to support the massive crowns. The India rubber plant (F. elastica), a large tree that was formerly an important source of rubber, is now cultivated as an indoor potted plant. The fiddle-leaf fig (F. lyrata), the weeping fig (F. benjamina), and some climbing species such as the climbing fig (F. pumila) are popular ornamentals. The Bo tree, or pipal (F. religiosa), is sacred in India because of its association with the Buddha. This and all Ficus species are members of the mulberry family (see Moraceae).


Lake Como (also named Lario lake by its Latin name) is one of the most beautiful and romantic areas in Northern Italy near Milan.
The Como lake, with a curious form of an Y inverted is bordered by pretty little villages that remain the classic Italian look, surrounded by a spectacular landscapes: Belaggio, Varena, Tremezzo and one of the most outstanding, Cernobbio , located at one end of the lake. If you want to spend a lovely holidays there you can find great Lake Como Weekend Deals.
We choose Cernobbio; it's a lovely village which has a rich cultural life, a lot of possibilities for nature tourism and maintains its timeless spirit and is both a modern city with an international business center, Villa Elba.
So if you're thinking about a whatever north Italian trip, the area of Lake Como can be a perfect destination for a relaxing, romantic or working holiday and to enjoy active tourism practising water or mountain sports.
Throughout the area you can find the several kinds of accommodation, from luxury hotels to small houses, but if you want a lodging that combines a little of everything we recommend the Albergo Miralago, in the center of Cernobio.
Albergo Miralago has everything: it's a renovated and charming old hotel, located by Lake Como shore and you can enjoy stunning views from the rooms and common areas like the restaurant; if you're planning to combine tourism with work, for example, you'll see that really near to Villa Elba business centre, which can be very useful. Being the centre of Cernobbio and can serve as a starting point for many excursions and activities in nature too.
The value is excellent and although the rooms are not very big, their views, the charm of the building and the friendly staff made up for it.


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Civil war's end won't be enough to revive Libyan oil production
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CAIRO — Libya's oil industry is crumbling after more than nine years of neglected maintenance amid a civil war that's killed thousands and destroyed towns across the country.
The lack of basic, nuts-and-bolts servicing has left pipelines corroding and storage tanks collapsing. Remedial work at wells alone could cost more than $100 million, the head of the state-run National Oil Corp. told Bloomberg, and that's money the government can ill afford.
The damage means that Libya, despite having Africa's largest crude reserves, will struggle to ramp up production quickly even if the conflict abates soon. Fighters are poised now for what could be a decisive battle at Sirte, a city just a two-hour drive from the so-called oil crescent — a cluster of export terminals for most of the nation's crude.
Libya produces about 90,000 barrels a day. That's a fraction of the 1.6 million that companies such as Eni SpA and Repsol SA pumped in partnership with the NOC before the ouster of strongman Moammar Al Qaddafi in 2011 and the catastrophic war that followed. Until now, the NOC has usually succeeded in restoring operations quickly after regaining control of oil facilities shut due to fighting. That resilience, however, is fraying.
"The longer we wait, the greater the damage and the higher the cost," NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla said in a written response to questions. "It is a tragedy for the people of Libya that political game-playing has been allowed to cause such damage to our country's critical national infrastructure."
The political turmoil has left Libya divided between a United Nations-recognized government in the capital Tripoli, where the NOC has its headquarters, and a competing administration based in the east. Since January, when supporters of the eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar shut most of the country's oil fields and ports, daily output has plunged by more than a million barrels.
The Tripoli government of Fayez al-Sarraj, backed by Turkey, appears for now to have the upper hand on the battlefield. Its troops repulsed Haftar's western offensive and have advanced as far as Sirte, on the central coast, which the rebels still control. When Haftar, who has support from Russia and Egypt, called a cease-fire this month, the government rejected it, saying it would first capture Sirte and an air base called Jufra.
Armed groups forced Libya's biggest oil field of Sharara to stop production twice this month, and they also closed the nearby El-Feel deposit. Both southwestern fields had only just re-opened after halting in January.
The NOC's lack of access to Sharara prevented workers from injecting chemicals into a pipeline to stop corrosion. A 16,000-barrel tank that handles overflows, or surges, collapsed last month as a result, Sanalla said.
"We are deeply concerned about corrosion in the pipelines," he said. "Due to the disruption of exports, crude oil has stayed in the pipelines, which has environmental and other implications that will not be easy to address in the future."
Harouge Oil Operations, a joint venture between the NOC and Canada's Suncor Energy Inc., blames corrosion for at least 80 leaks at its facilities from January to May, Sanalla said. Harouge exports crude from Libya's third-largest oil port at Ras Lanuf.
"Throughout the last nine years, Libyan production has been able to rebound," said Mohammad Darwazah, an analyst at consultant Medley Global Advisors. "But many fields require urgent maintenance, and damage sustained to storage depots at the eastern terminals has not been fully repaired, limiting how quickly fields can ramp up."
Prolonged shutdowns have reduced the pressure that wells need to spout oil. On earlier occasions when Sharara re-opened, it took just a few days to restore production to around 300,000 barrels a day. This time, the field will need around three months to recover, according to the NOC.
How to pay for the repairs is an open question; the NOC said Sunday that blockades of fields and ports by Haftar's supporters have deprived Libya of $6 billion in potential oil revenue since January.
"Sustained under-funding of the state operator and multiyear delays to field and asset maintenance will make the challenge of a resumption greater this time around," said Bill Farren-Price, a director at consultant RS Energy Group Canada Inc.
Any increase in Libyan supply could jar efforts by the OPEC+ coalition to limit global production. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies such as Russia are seeking to rebalance crude markets and prop up prices after they crashed with the spread of the coronavirus early in the year. Brent crude has more than doubled since late April, but at around $40 a barrel it's still down 40% this year.
Libya, an OPEC member, is exempt from the output cuts, due to the nation's strife.
For energy analysts and traders, the rot in Libya's oil facilities makes it that much tougher to predict when production will pick up.
"Even if a peace deal is reached, its durability and impact on oil production remain uncertain," analysts at Citigroup Inc., including Francesco Martoccia, said in a note this month. "The NOC is also confronting a steep natural decline rate of roughly 8% per year, which requires capital expenditures to at least marginally offset it."
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Although Chinese June sales fuelled up 18%, this month of the year is traditionally slower in terms of novelties coming onto the market. After 9 all-new China-made nameplates made their first appearance in the May ranking, this figure slows down to two in June – the same as June 2015. As is the tradition each month, BSCB puts a laser focus on these new entries to keep you up-to-the-minute about the largest car market in the world. It's no surprise the two newcomers are SUVs, but the fact they are both foreign brands is a surprise.
Incomprehensibly, Mazda hasn't launched the CX-3 in China yet. Instead, the Japanese carmaker unveiled in Beijing last April its very first China-only nameplate: the CX-4 SUV. Although Mazda hasn't ruled out export to other countries – Australia where Mazda holds a 10% market share is drooling over it – the company hasn't announced any plans either. A very aggressive design immediately positions the CX-4 among the best looking SUVs on sale at the moment, and Chinese customers agree: it already sold 6.347 units in May, already the brand's 2nd best-seller below just the 3 Axela (10.603) and above the CX-5 (4.248). Priced between 140.800 and 215.800 yuan (US$ 21.100-32.300), the CX-4 is manufactured by the FAW-Mazda joint-venture in Changchun and powered by a choice of 2.0L or 2.5L SkyActive petrol engines mated with a six-speed automatic, meaning it can't benefit for tax-cuts allowed to 1.6L or less.
Mazda is marketing the CX-4 as a sportier version of the CX-5 in China, and although the CX-4 is longer (4.63m vs. 4.56m), it is indeed shorter (1.54m vs. 1.71m) and definitely looks a lot sportier. Somewhat disappointingly, the CX-4 shares most of its interior with the 3. This format places it right into the most competitive foreign SUV segment, along with the blockbusters VW Tiguan (16.145 sales in June), Nissan X-Trail (15.920), Honda CR-V (14.883), Hyundai Tucson (13.203) and Ford Kuga (7.297) as well as newcomers Kia KX5 (8.493) and Jeep Cherokee (8.702). Hitting a 5-digit monthly sales figure should be the objective for the CX-4.
Jeep became a local manufacturer last November when it launched the China-made version of the Cherokee, of which over 58.000 units have since been sold, peaking at 9.201 last April. The Renegade inaugurates a new plant in Guangzhou, operated by the joint-venture between GAC and FCA with an annual capacity of 160.000 vehicles. This means the Renegade is now produced in three countries: Italy, Brazil and China, the most locations of any Jeep nameplate and the only one not produced in North America at all. It is priced between 141.800 and 178.880 yuan (US$21.200 – 26,700), very close to its U.S. price ($18.990-27.990) whereas the Chinese Cherokee incurred a 50% price premium on its U.S. equivalent (see China November 2015: Focus on the All-new models). The Renegade is 4.25m long and is powered by either a 1.4T matched to a 7DCT or a 2.0L mated with a 9AT, with both front-wheel drive and 4WD versions available – some very modern mechanics here.
Even though it is a lot more affordable than the Cherokee, the Renegade may have a hard time finding its clientele in China, as their inaugural sales months already show (1.678 vs. 2.171). At this price point and size, the Renegade indeed finds itself in a bit of a black hole, where only the Honda XR-V and Vezel twins have truly succeeded among foreign carmakers so far (4.28m, 127.800-189.800 yuan and 27.461 combined sales in June). The Chevrolet Trax, Buick Encore, Peugeot 2008 and Citroen C3-XR all quickly faltered after promising launches. But this is where it gets tricky: for this price point you can now afford high quality, much larger Chinese SUVs such as the Geely Emgrand GS (4.40m, 77.800-108.800 yuan) or Geely Boyue (4.52m, 98.800-157.800 yuan). A lower sales target than what the Cherokee is currently selling seems therefore adequate.


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Another fascinating and moving Don Chrysler Concerto Competition has come and gone. Six young musicians put themselves on the line, and each wowed the substantial audience at the Philip T. Young Recital Hall on Saturday, April 26th.
The playing was stellar and the adjudicators had a difficult choice, but at the end of the evening, Jeanne Campbell (piano), Rebecca Hissen (clarinet) and Brian Yoon (cello) chose Masahiro Miyauchi as the Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra October soloist, performing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto No.5.
Second place was tied between Rae Gallimore, playing the Walton Viola Concerto, and Ashley Green, who played Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto No.1.
Not unexpectedly, the audience had a different take. Audience members were given the chance to vote for their first, second and third choices. When the audience choice ballots were counted, it was Rae Gallimore who garnered the most votes. Masahiro Miyauchi was second, and Leo Phanichphant came third, with his performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Fifty-five ballots were received; the choices were weighted and tallied.
The other two young musicians were Ya-Ping Huang, performing Liszt's Piano Concerto No.1, and Hailey Phillips, who played Mozart's Violin Concerto No.4.
The audience choice ballots remind us that a juried prize is just that – the best judgment of the members of the jury. There is always room for discussion and other opinions, and this is what makes the Don Chrysler Competition such an interesting evening. No matter who is chosen as the winner, all the young musicians have our respect and admiration, not least for their willingness to step up and subject themselves to so much scrutiny and judgment.
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James Taranto: Why Is This Man HAHAHA-ing?
Getting attention—and clicks—amid the cacophony of Twitter can be difficult, but James Taranto, editor of The Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com and Best of the Web blogger has a maniacally effective (if painful) way of cutting through the noise.
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Getting attention—and clicks—amid the cacophony of Twitter can be difficult, but James Taranto, editor of The Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com and Best of the Web blogger has a maniacally effective (if painful) way of cutting through the noise. As his followers no doubt know, Taranto often tweets out links with a simple (and complete) 140 character message:
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! dailymail.co.uk/femail/article…
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) July 5, 2012
It all feels a bit like Robert DeNiro's Max Cady in Cape Fear, and he does this pretty often: Seven times in the past week alone. Our feelings about it are pretty similar to our thoughts on frivolous internet slideshows: we're deeply grated, but we cannot stop ourselves from clicking. Among all the tweets that pass through this writer's feed, Taranto's "HAHA" tweets (as we shall henceforth refer to them) earn by far the highest click-through rate. When you see that many HAs, it's almost impossible to resist the curiosity, even when you've seen them before. So, what's so funny?
We asked Taranto, who described his habit this way: "Mencken observed that 'one horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms.' I have found a way to fit 10,000 syllogisms (plus a link) into 140 characters."
Basically, his laugh tells quite a bit about the links he posts without actually saying much of anything. But just what does he mean by it? We broke down and clicked through his past month or so of "HAHA" tweets. Taranto is an irreverently conservative columnist -- he's best known for his witty "Best of the Web Today" blog. So those who read his often joke-filled musings daily won't be too surprised at what drives him to "horse laugh." The links he includes after a "HAHA" generally fall into a few discrete categories, broadly united in their effort to mock liberals. They are:
Liberal hand-wringing: Anytime someone writes that a liberal initiative, politician, or priority isn't faring well, typically when they know they are writing for an ideologically friendly audience, they make a good target for a Taranto laugh. "Just cheerleading [Barack Obama] doesn't help him," tweeted columnist Jonathan Alter, for example. "He needs a sharper, more cogent message with some memorable lines." Amused, we guess, at the idea that one need only take occasional breaks from "cheerleading" the president, Taranto responded, "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!" When Joe Brewer wrote in Cognitive Policy Works that progressives "always have the facts on our side. The experts agree with us. Hell, a lot of us are the experts," and yet "Conservatives are so good at winning," Taranto responded with... okay we'll stop including his responses in full now. But you get a sense for how irritating they can become en masse.
Internal inconsistencies: Unintended irony is like Taranto's laughing gas. Taranto loves to laugh when an ideological opponent accidentally upholds a conservative point. When liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne seemed to adopt the NRA's main accusation against the White House's motivations in the Fast and Furious scandal while speaking on TV, Taranto tweeted out a Daily Caller article that pointed this out, appending a "HAHA" for good measure.
Pro forma response to criticism: Taranto loves to respond with a "HAHA" to his most vicious Twitter-critics (Twitics? No, never mind.) Full disclosure: We once passingly called him a "Twitter asshat" in reference to his habit for these tweets, to which he responded (as we should have predicted) with a link and a "HAHAHA..." He responded similarly when Slate's Matt Yglesias tweeted:
Hard to forgive @DaveWeigel for reminding me today that @JamesTaranto exists and one can read his writing.
— Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 27, 2012
There are a few other general categories into which his laughs fall -- including, more basically, articles he just seems to have found LOL funny -- but again, they're all pretty united in their politics. If you disagree with Taranto, or even if you just hate caps lock tweets, it can be incredibly frustrating to follow him. You click on the links, grow angry at his glee, and if you tweet in anger, you just become subject to another tweet. Of course, we haven't unfollowed him yet because there's something so effective about the way he annoys us into clicking. And like any other useful Twitter feed, he takes us to places and stories we wouldn't have seen otherwise, after which we can form our own opinions on the articles. (It's not like he's clouded our minds with too many words on them.) He just irks us as he does so. If you're a liberal with a blood-pressure problem, we would not encourage you to follow him. But if any of this appeals to you, or if you're just morbidly curious, or even if you're just looking for something to hate click, we'll give him a tentative #followfriday. With more followers—he currently has 14,140—we guess Taranto will get the last laugh. As usual.
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Eric Randall is an associate digital editor at Boston Magazine and a former staff writer for The Atlantic Wire.