A | ISLAMABAD -- The United Nations' World Food Program on Wednesday appealed for $19 million to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that has rocked western Afghanistan.Ana Maria Salhuana, deputy country director of the World Food Program in Afghanistan, said it was helping survivors but it urgently needed more funding because “we are having to take this food from an already severely underfunded program.”The group said it is working to provide emergency food assistance to 100,000 people in the region.“Disasters like these earthquakes pound communities who are already barely able to feed themselves back into utter destitution," the WFP said.A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck part of western Afghanistan on Sunday, after thousands of people died and entire villages were flattened by major quakes a week earlier. It was the fourth quake the U.S. Geological Survey has measured at 6.3 magnitude in the same area in just over a week.The initial earthquakes on Oct. 7 flattened whole villages in Herat province and were among the most destructive quakes in the country’s recent history.The WFP said staffers responded within hours of the first earthquakes, distributing fortified biscuits, pulses and other food items to affected families in destroyed villages.“An estimated 25,000 buildings have been destroyed," the group said a statement. “The survivors are currently sleeping in tents next to the rubble of their homes, desperate and afraid of further earthquakes and aftershocks.”The latest quake was centered about 30 kilometers (19 miles) outside the city of Herat, the capital of Herat province, and was 6 kilometers (4 miles) below the surface, the U.S. Geological Survey said. More than 90% of the people killed were women and children, U.N. officials said. The quakes struck during the daytime, when many of the men in the region were working outdoors.Taliban officials said the earlier quakes killed more than 2,000 people across the province. The epicenter was in Zenda Jan district, where the majority of casualties and damage occurred.The WFP said affected families will need help for months with winter just weeks away. It said that if there is funding, the emergency response will be complemented by longer-term resilience programs so vulnerable communities are able to rebuild their livelihoods.The UN body was forced earlier this year to reduce the amount of food families receive and to cut 10 million people in Afghanistan from life-saving food assistance due to a massive funding shortfall. In addition to the earthquake response, the WFP also urgently needs $400 million to prepare food before winter, when communities are cut off due to snow and landslides. In Afghanistan, these include communities of women who are being increasingly pushed out of public life.The initial quake, numerous aftershocks and a third 6.3-magnitude quake on Wednesday flattened villages, destroying hundreds of mud-brick homes that could not withstand such force. Schools, health clinics and other village facilities also collapsed.Besides rubble and funerals after that devastation, there was little left of the villages in the region’s dusty hills. Survivors are struggling to come to terms with the loss of multiple family members and in many places, living residents are outnumbered by volunteers who came to search the debris and dig mass graves.Earthquakes are common in Afghanistan, where there are a number of fault lines and frequent movement among three nearby tectonic plates.。
近日，前NBA球员肯扬·马丁在自己的社媒，谈到了Skip对威少的贬低。
肯扬·马丁：“不。我绝不会容忍任何对拉塞尔·威斯布鲁克的诽谤。我刚看了你那段关于威少的长篇大论，真的很难看下去。
B | 看着真让人反胃。你说了那么多，其实全是废话，只是证明了你是个黑子，而大家早就知道这一点了。
C | 你说你早年没看出威斯布鲁克的天赋，因为你不是萨姆·普雷斯蒂。
D | 你不是总经理。
E | 你根本没有资格在那个层面上评估那种天赋。
F | ”
“但他是第一候选名人堂成员。幸好你没有投票权。不然我们肯定会看到偏见。任何对威斯布鲁克的诽谤都是不可容忍的。很遗憾我们现在不在同一栋楼里了，因为我真的很想当面跟你辩论这件事。任何对威斯布鲁克的诽谤都是不可容忍的。我不会花钱去看太多人打篮球，但我愿意花钱去看威少打球。就因为他对待比赛的态度。”
“你在发言里夹带的那些明褒暗贬的话，还是省省吧。Skip，你的话里没有任何积极的东西。所以我们不会容忍的。
G | 我不会容忍的。那个男人以最纯粹的方式打篮球。每天晚上他踏上球场都是如此。他还在这个联盟里做到了其他人无法做到的事情。所以你说在你的名人堂里他不够格，反正你也没有投票权。所以这毫无意义。”
“兄弟，不是每个人都需要一个平台来一直贬低别人的。送上赞美是可以的。在不夹带私货的情况下承认伟大也是可以的。是的，任何对威斯布鲁克的诽谤都是不可容忍的。
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