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Thirty-two years of protection, education, advocacy & sanctuary
PAWS' 2016 International Captive Wildlife Conference a Huge Success!
More than 200 people from around the world attended the PAWS' 2016 International Captive Wildlife Conference in San Andreas, California, which took place on November 11 and 12. Attendees heard from 26 speakers and expert panelists, who addressed issues concerning bears, big cats and elephants, and enjoyed a special afternoon on "next wave" sanctuaries.
PAWS President Ed Stewart (pictured above) opened the conference by welcoming attendees and providing a lively history of the organization. He introduced each session - big cats and bears on the first day, and elephants and "next wave" sanctuaries on the second - which included featured speakers followed by a moderated panel discussion with the presenters and additional experts. Panel participants represented diverse backgrounds, including animal protection organizations, zoos, science, conservation and academia.
Friday's lively discussion on Big Cats featured panelists (L-R) Carney Anne Nasser, Senior Counsel for Animal Legal Defense Fund; Joel Parrott, DVM, President and CEO of the Oakland Zoo; Carson Barylak, Campaigns Officer for the International Fund for Animal Welfare; Bill Nimmo, Founder and President of Tigers In America; Carole Baskin, Founder and CEO of Big Cat Rescue; and Howard Baskin, Advisory Board Chairman of Big Cat Rescue.
The first day's Big Cats session focused largely on the scourge of roadside zoos and cub petting and the rampant breeding that is needed to sustain these businesses - while causing the suffering and deaths of tigers, lions, cougars and other cats. The Big Cat Public Safety Act, which would close a loophole in existing federal law that allows the continued breeding of big cats, was offered as a solution. (Watch PAWS' newsletters for more information on this important bill and how you can help.)
Following the panel, the organization
Tigers in America
premiered its new video, "The Entertainers." This short documentary provides a compelling history of tigers in entertainment, covers the issue of breeding for roadside zoos and cub petting and photo sessions, and closes on a hopeful note by showing tigers in various sanctuaries, including PAWS.
(You can view the video here.)
Detroit Zoological Society CEO Ron Kagan, left, served as moderator of the panel discussion about bears in captivity. Panelists included (L-R): Bobbi Brink, founder of Lions, Tigers and Bears; Jamie Sherman, UC Davis/California Department of Fish & Wildlife; Pat Lampi, Executive Director of the Alaska Zoo; Julie Woodyer, Campaigns Director, Zoocheck; Dr. Jackie Gai, Director of Veterinary Services, PAWS; and attorney Brittany Peet, PETA Foundation.
The Bears session followed Big Cats, and included four featured speakers that addressed the natural history of black bears; the lives of bears in the wild versus those living in captivity; issues involving bears in Canada, including the capture of wild bears for zoos; and the breeding and use of bears in roadside zoos, for photo sessions, and as exotic "pets." During the panel discussion, Bobbi Brink, founder of
Lions, Tigers and Bears
in California, chillingly told the audience that the fates of hundreds of captive-bred bear cubs are unknown each year - we simply don't know where they go.
In future newsletters, PAWS will be writing more about the problem of breeding big cats and bears for petting zoos and roadside facilities. Many of our sanctuary residents share this background, and we can testify to the suffering and lifelong problems these animals experience.
The first day of the conference was followed by an Ice Breaker party for attendees that featured amazing food prepared by MJ Espiritu-Gerometta of Pivotal Foods, an all plant-based foods company. MJ also prepared the conference lunches and snacks, which received rave reviews.
Attendees at the Ice Breaker were treated to a performance by Jeff Newland and Lance Taber (Taber is known for his work on music video games, including Guitar Hero) of a song specially composed for PAWS, titled "Moment for Pause (PAWS)." Written by Kelcey Hall Taber and produced by Kelcey and Lance Taber, the song is
available for purchase
Google Play
, with all proceeds going to PAWS. A music video of "Moment for Pause" also was played at the conference.
View the video here.
Saturday's discussion on elephants was moderated by Chris Draper (left), Associate Director for Animal Care and Welfare, Born Free Foundation. Panelists included (L-R): Ed Stewart, President and Cofounder, PAWS; Catherine Doyle, Director of Science, Research and Advocacy, PAWS; Scott Blais, CEO and President, Global Sanctuary for Elephants - Brazil; Jackie Gai, DVM, Director of Veterinary Services, PAWS; Janice Zeitlin, CEO, The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; Dr. Keith Lindsay, Collaborating Researcher, Amboseli Elephant Research Project, Kenya; and Bob Jacobs, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, Colorado College.
The second day of the conference began with a session on elephants, and covered such topics as conservation and the trade in ivory and live elephants; the state of elephants in captivity; the health and welfare of captive elephants; and a fascinating presentation on the elephant brain and cognition by neuroscientist Dr. Bob Jacobs, who was featured in the
National Geographic
special, "Mind of a Giant."
Adam Roberts, CEO of Born Free USA and Board Secretary for the accrediting organization Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS), opened the last session of the conference on "next wave" sanctuaries.
The final session of the conference addressed "next wave" sanctuaries for chimpanzees, captive cetaceans, elephants, big cats and bears. While
The Whale Sanctuary Project
is still in the planning stages,
Project Chimps
is caring for chimpanzees retired from medical research,
Global Sanctuary for Elephants
-Brazil recently received its first two elephants who were once used in circuses, and the organization
Four Paws
is caring for bears and big cats at its sanctuaries in Europe and in South Africa, where it is also fighting the canned lion hunt trade.
On Sunday morning, conference attendees visited PAWS' ARK 2000 sanctuary. Here they listen to Sanctuary Manager Brian Busta (right), and meet Asian bull elephant Nicholas.
On Sunday, November 13, conference attendees visited PAWS' ARK 2000 sanctuary, a 2,300-acre, natural habitat refuge. Ed Stewart, Sanctuary Manager Brian Busta, and Director of Veterinary Services Dr. Jackie Gai spoke to the visitors, telling them the stories of our elephants, big cats and bears and educating them about the lives that they now have at our sanctuary.
PAWS President and Cofounder Ed Stewart talks about elephants at Sunday's ARK 2000 tour.
Save the Date!
The next PAWS International Captive Wildlife Conference will take place in Los Angeles in November 2018, with three days of outstanding presentations and panel discussions on a broad range of captive wildlife topics. See you there!
Visit PAWS Facebook page to
view more photos
from this year's International Captive Wildlife Conference.
Thank You to
Who Helped Make This Year's International Captive Wildlife Conference Possible!
Our generous sponsors who provided support for the conference:
All the speakers, moderators and expert panelists who shared their insight and expertise, inspiring conference attendees:
View List Here
Chef MJ Espiritu-Gerometta (right) with volunteer Jill
Melchione Spinelli.
The Chefs:
MJ Espiritu-Gerometta of
Pivotal Foods
who created the plant-based
lunches and hors d'oeuvres served at Friday evening's Ice Breaker;
and Cindy Anderson and Rachael Silva, who provided vegan and gluten-free baked goods including breakfast bars, cupcakes, cookies and fruit tarts
for the conference and Ice Breaker.
Cupcakes by Cindy Anderson and Rachael Silva.
Mountain Oaks School
This year's conference site.
Special thanks to Joel Sanchez and Claudia Davis.
In Kind Donations - Ice Breaker Reception
Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi
Michael David Winery
Stevenot Winery
Twisted Oak Winery
Our Amazing PAWS Volunteers!
Cindy Klein Anderson, Sylvia Arispe, Priscilla Chalmers, Priscilla Davis, Linda Dodge, Chuck Espiritu, Barry Gardner, Rhianna Gardner, M J Espiritu-Gerometta, Kitty Good, Ruth Huffman, Michelle Humphreys, Olivia Humphreys, Galen Hazelhofer, Janelle Kessler, Lonnie Jones, Leilani Lagge, Lorrie Morris, Kyleigh Saunders, Rachael Silva, Jill Melchione Spinelli, Nancy Stehura, Lori Swearingen, Bert Vue, Donna Wilhelm and Kerry Worgan.
Thank You to All of Our
#GivingTuesday Supporters!
PAWS thanks everyone who donated on #GivingTuesday
, an annual day of charitable giving that takes place on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Because of your incredible generosity, PAWS met its goal of raising $15,000 in 24 hours to purchase a very much needed 4x4 utility vehicle (UTV) for use at our 2,300-acre ARK 2000 captive wildlife sanctuary. Thanks to you, our staff will be able to deliver food, supplies, and TLC more quickly and efficiently to the deserving tigers, lion, leopard and bears who call ARK 2000 home.
Good News for Animals
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California, will no longer offer elephant rides,
after opting not to renew a contract with notorious elephant ride provider Have Trunk Will Travel. The decision precedes a statewide ban on elephant bullhooks that goes into effect in January 2018 - legislation that PAWS co-sponsored - and comes just weeks after TripAdvisor announced it will cease selling tickets to elephant rides and tourism involving public contact with captive wild animals. Congrats to Advocates for the Animals at Six Flags, who worked to end the elephant rides.
Vietnam destroyed a stockpile of nearly 5,000 pounds of ivory and over 150 pounds of rhino horn
in advance of a key international conference in the country addressing the illegal wildlife trade. The destroyed ivory and horns represent some 330 elephants and 23 rhinos slaughtered by poachers. The move is considered a step in the right direction for a country that is one of the world's major transit points and consumers of trafficked wildlife.
Above: Black leopard Alexander with his pine tree branches.
ARK 2000 Holiday Open House,
December 10th
Tickets Now On Sale
We have a limited number of tickets still available for our ARK 2000 Holiday Open House to be held on Saturday, December 10th, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets are $50 for adults, $25 for seniors (60 and over) and $25 for children age 12 and under. If you're planning to attend, we advise you to purchase your tickets early. No tickets will be sold at the gate on the day of the event.
PAWS' 2,300-acre captive wildlife sanctuary, ARK 2000, is located at 1248 Pool Station Road in San Andreas, CA 95249.
Visitors to the ARK 2000 Holiday Open House will board shuttles to the bear, lion, tiger, leopard and elephant habitats. Once you exit the shuttle you will be walking on grass, dirt, gravel, and sometimes paved surfaces, so please wear comfortable shoes. PAWS management, keepers and volunteers will be on hand to tell you about the animals and answer questions. A gift shop will be available on the day of the event. We accept cash, checks and all major credit cards.
If you would like to bring a holiday gift for the animals, we suggest any of the following favorites: apples, oranges, bananas, carrots, squash, pumpkins, melons, pears, unsalted peanuts in the shell, fresh mint leaves and fresh rosemary. You may drop off your gift by the front gate, or near the gift shop table when you arrive, or as you're leaving. The animals thank you!
This event happens rain or shine. Tickets are not refundable.
Two ways to purchase:
Click here to buy online
and print your tickets at home; or call 209-745-2606, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. PST, to charge by phone. Visit our calendar of events page for more information. Ticket sales close on Thursday, December 8, 2016,
or earlier if this event sells out
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Folding wheelchairs and strollers may be taken on most shuttles. Special arrangements for visitors with power scooters and power wheelchairs can be made by calling Kim Gardner at 916-539-5305. Yes, you may bring your cameras. There is no smoking on any PAWS property, including in our parking lots. We take fire prevention very seriously. No pets are allowed on any PAWS property, including in our parking lots. Please leave your pets at home. You will not touch any animals and all visitors will be required to stay a safe distance away from the animals.
A BIG Thank You!
November Amazon Wish List Donors
Brittney, Nui and Nick:
one 30 lb. bag of Blue Buffalo, one 5 lb. Psyllium.
Roslynn Witte
: 2 Probiocin.
Patricia L. Connelly:
one case of copy paper.
Elizabeth Martin:
one #90 bottle of Azodyl.
Carole Bognar:
one #60 bottle of Renal Essentials.
Robin E. Kister:
one 20 lb. Psyllium; two #180 Duralactin.
Anonymous Donors:
one 30 lb. bag of Blue Buffalo, one case of Banker Boxes.
View wish list items that are needed,
but not listed on the Amazon list,
There are many ways you can help PAWS animals:
Adopt A PAWS Animal
If you would like to help our animals, one of the best ways is to become an "adoptive parent," or give a PAWS adoption as a gift to an animal lover in your life. PAWS adoptions are symbolic adoptions only. No animal will be sent!
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. Start selling!
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and Matching Fund Programs
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about what is needed.
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Design Improvements for the Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment System at the American Farm School in Thessaloniki, Greece and their European Context
Faculty Advisor
Addison, W. A.
Faculty Advisor
Bergendahl, John Andrew
The American Farm School
The activated sludge WWTS was redesigned to treat wastewater on-site. Irregular flowrates and alkaline wastewater sources contributed to system inefficiency. To accommodate high flowrate fluctuation, the first aeration and settling tank was redesigned as an equalization basin, improving flowrate and BOD regulation, and a pH adjust was incorporated. With these improvements, AFS meets effluent requirements and achieves quality wastewater for irrigation. This analysis of the impact of agriculture on the Greek environment and the socioeconomic factors affecting progress toward responsible water management examined EU-wide policies as they apply to the relatively adolescent Greek practices in water management. The current economic crisis inhibits efficient policy implementation and funding.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Accepted
April 2017
Environmental Engineering
International Studies
Project Type
Major Qualifying Project
Copyright Statement
All authors have granted to WPI a nonexclusive royalty-free license to distribute copies of the work, subject to other agreements. Copyright is held by the author or authors, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted.
Advisor Department
Humanities and Arts
Advisor Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Fourteen penalties were assessed in the Rangers' 4-2 win in Pittsburgh on Saturday; nine were called in Game 1. On the eve of Game 3, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault took a swipe at the officiating.
"I would say there's a couple of penalties we have taken that were unnecessary," Vigneault said. "On the counter side, I think we have been on the end of a lot of hit situations and stickwork that has not been called. I can think of Derek [Stepan] on his own, three times last game, where there were obvious penalties that had not been called."
Having made his opinion public, Vigneault said: "You've just got to play through it and stay focused. We've always been very disciplined and play hard . . . on the right side of what's tolerated by the league."
Yandle's challenge
With the new coach's challenge on scoring plays that may be offside, Keith Yandle said players on the bench are paying closer attention. "When you're sitting on the blue line, you can let the coaches know if you saw something, give them some input," he said. "We have the eye in the sky and video, but it's just everyone being aware on the bench. We probably weren't as into it before."
Marc Staal's playoff thrill
The thrill of playing with older brother Eric Staal has been surpassed by the playoff games, Marc Staal said. "When we started, just before Game 1, you look across the [locker] room and kind of shake your head. It was pretty cool," he said. "I didn't think I was going to get a chance; I'm pretty fortunate. But now I'm really not thinking about it."
Rookie Skjei is impressed
Skating in the NHL playoffs "is awesome," said rookie defenseman Brady Skjei, 21. In terms of intensity, the only comparison he could make was to the NCAA championship game. In his sophomore year, he played for Minnesota in a 7-4 loss to Union College. Said Skjei, "And that's not really even close to this."


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By Warren Andrews
September 14, 2012, Campbell River, BC (ISN) – Quentin McShane's power-play goal midway through the third period gave the Nanaimo Buccaneers a 5-4 win over the Campbell River Storm in VIJHL action Friday night.
If tonight's game was any indication, it's going to be a fun 8 games head to head between the Storm and Nanaimo Buccaneers.
The night started with Jordie Salas making his second straight start at home for the Storm, while the Bucs slotted Cam Large in between their pipes. And early on, they controlled the roost. Large was tested twice on partial breakaways by Tyson Rennie and Alex Grupe, while Salas denied all Bucs shooters to keep it deadlocked at donuts after 20 minutes. Shots were 9 a piece.
The 2nd period brought more than enough goals to make up for the lack of red lights in the 1st. Seven goals in all had the fans riding a roller coaster of emotions.
It started after a brilliant save by Salas, with the Storm quickly moving the puck the other way. The Storm's Tyson Rennie got the ball rolling on a brilliant shot set up by the Ninja brothers, Robbie Christenson and Carsen McCullough at 18:01. Rennie's 1st of the new season. 1-0 River City.
Nanaimo's Jordan Levesque answered at the 9:04 mark to tie the game, only to see Alex Benjestorf give the home side the lead just 25 seconds later. Benji's 1st from Jamie Severs and Gibson Doney.
Then the Bucs got rolling, capitalizing on a series of Storm giveaways in their own zone. First it was Lynden Eddy at 7:36, less than a minute later shifty forward Garrett Dunlop added to the Bucs tally, then Levesque's 2nd of the game shorthanded gave Nanaimo a two goal cushion.
Rennie would bulge the twine at 16:59 on the power play, from Christenson and Ryan White, pulling the home side within one after 40 minutes. Shots were 25-18 in favor of Campbell River.
Whatever Coach Rob Voltera said in between periods seemed to spark the Bolts. A wicked wrist shot from the blueline by Mikey Markland was tipped by Alex Grupe just 43 seconds in and tied the game up. It stayed that way until midway through the 3rd, when Quentin McShane made history with his shot on the right wing into a wide open net. His powerplay goal was not only the 1st in the history of the new franchise calling themselves the Buccaneers, but proved to be the game winner.
5-4 Nanaimo. Shots were 36-22 in favour of Campbell River. Buccaneers slide a point ahead of CR for 1st in the North.
The Storm are in action tomorrow (Saturday) when they travel to Courtenay and face the winless Glacier Kings. They were beaten 4-2 in Peninsula. The Saanich Braves moved to 3 and 0 with a 7-4 win over the Oceanside Generals at the George Pearkes arena.


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[0001] This invention relates to systems and methods for extracting solutes from solutions, and in particular to components and methods for solid phase extraction (SPE).
[0002] In conventional solid phase extraction methods, solutes of interest are isolated from solution by running the solution through a solid phase extraction medium (sorbent) such as coated silica particles. A 96-well solid phase extraction plate is typically placed on a vacuum manifold. The vacuum manifold provides a pressure gradient over sorbents in the plate wells, driving the flow of liquid through the wells. The solutes of interest bind to the extraction medium, while the rest of the solution passes on to collection containers. The solutes of interest can then be recovered by running a suitable solvent through the extraction medium.
[0003] Typical extraction plates are monolithic 96-well plates having identical sorbents in all their wells. For descriptions of such plates see for example U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,417,923, 5,047,215, 5,679,310, and European Patent Publication No. 0576602B1. The end user of a conventional monolithic plate cannot customize the sorbents in different wells of the plate in a practical manner. Thus, an end user investigating different assay methodologies and sorbents for a particular application may need a new 96-well extraction plate for each tested condition, even if only a few wells are required.
[0004] The present invention provides an extraction apparatus comprising a vacuum manifold connected to a vacuum source, defining a collection enclosure; a plurality of collection containers disposed in the collection enclosure; and an extraction plate assembly mounted on the manifold and covering the collection enclosure. The extraction plate assembly comprises a base plate mounted on the manifold, and a plurality of extraction cartridges mounted on the base plate.
[0005] The base plate has a top surface and a bottom surface. A plurality of apertures extend through the base plate from the top surface to the bottom surface. Each extraction cartridge has an inlet and an outlet. Each cartridge is removably locked in a corresponding aperture of the base plate with its inlet situated opposite its outlet relative to the base plate. Locking the extraction cartridges to the base plate allows the end user to reuse the base plate, replace used extraction cartridges, and customize the extraction media of the extraction plate assembly. Reusing the base plate allows the end user to reduce the amount of material discarded with each use.
[0006] Each cartridge comprises a solid-phase extraction medium disposed between its inlet and its outlet, for extracting solutes of interest from a liquid sample inserted into the cartridge through its inlet. Different cartridges of the extraction plate assembly may have different extraction media. Each base plate aperture and cartridge outlet faces a corresponding collection container when the extraction plate assembly is mounted on the manifold, such that the collection container receives liquid from the cartridge outlet.
[0007] Each cartridge is preferably locked to the base plate through a snap-in lock. A snap-in lock allows relatively easy insertion and removal of cartridges from the base plate, and allows multiple linked cartridges to be removed from or inserted into the base plate simultaneously, in one motion. Preferably, the base plate has a counteraperture defined in the side wall of each aperture, and each extraction cartridge has a snap-in ridge for engaging a corresponding counteraperture to snap the cartridge into the base plate. Alternatively, each aperture may have a ridge defined in its side wall, and each cartridge may have a corresponding complementary depression for engaging the ridge.
[0008] The counteraperture is preferably situated at the bottom end of its corresponding aperture, along the bottom surface of the base plate, such that the snap-in ridge is positioned along the bottom surface when the cartridge is locked to the base plate. The counteraperture may also be situated within its corresponding aperture, such that the snap-in ridge is enclosed within the aperture when the extraction cartridge is locked to the base plate. Positioning the counteraperture at a base plate edge allows relatively close spacings between adjacent apertures, by relaxing the constraints imposed on the minimum inter-counteraperture spacing by base plate mechanical stability requirements. Closely spacing adjacent apertures allows increased cartridge fluid-holding volumes as a fraction of the total volume defined by the overall dimensions of the extraction plate assembly.
[0009] In an alternative embodiment, each cartridge is locked to the base plate through a screw-in lock. The base plate then has a helical groove defined in each aperture, and each cartridge has a helical thread complementary to the groove, for engaging the groove to screw the cartridge into the base plate.
[0010] The extraction plate assembly does not allow any substantial air paths therethrough other than through the extraction media. If the seal provided by the locking interface is not sufficient, a gasket may be used to establish a vacuum seal along an interface between each cartridge and the base plate. The gasket is preferably positioned between the top surface of the base plate and a lip of the cartridge. The gasket prevents gas flow through its corresponding base plate aperture, outside the cartridge.
[0011] The present invention further provides a method of making an extraction plate assembly and an extraction apparatus of the present invention. The base plate and extraction cartridges are individually manufactured by injection molding, extrusion, or other known techniques. The extraction cartridges are then locked into the base plate. The resulting extraction plate assembly if mounted onto the manifold, and positioned underneath a fluid-handling apparatus.
[0018] In the following description, the term "vacuum" is understood to encompass partial vacuum pressures. The terms "top" and "bottom" are understood to be relative terms characterizing spatial relationships relative to a major plane of a base plate; the terms need not refer to the direction of gravity.
[0019] The following description illustrates embodiments of the invention by way of example and not necessarily by way of limitation.
[0021] As illustrated in
[0022] Manifold
[0023] Support part
[0024] A collection plate
[0025] The vacuum pump connected to air conduit
[0027] The frit-sorbent composite formed by frit disks
[0028] As illustrated in
[0029] Aperture
[0030] A PTFE (teflon) or rubber gasket
[0031] Extraction cartridge
[0032] For a 96-well extraction plate assembly, cartridge
[0033] The distance between lip
[0034] The snap-in attachment of cartridges
[0035] Placing counteraperture
[0036] Placing counteraperture
[0039] Cartridge
[0040] Cartridge
[0044] It will be clear to one skilled in the art that the above embodiments may be altered in many ways without departing from the scope of the invention. For example, the base plate need not be a monolithic molded part, but may include two or more sandwiched flat sections. More than one counteraperture may be used. Various approaches may be suitable for locking the extraction cartridges to the base plate and providing a vacuum seal between the cartridges and the base plate, including for example press-fitting each cartridge into a corresponding tapered aperture in the base plate. Positive pressure may be used to drive the samples through the extraction cartridges, by connecting each cartridge through an individual tube to a positive pressure source. Accordingly, the scope of the invention should be determined by the following claims and their legal equivalents.


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A SENIOR Thai military delegation will arrive in Phnom Penh next week, Cambodian officials said yesterday, pointing to the trip as a sign of improving ties between the countries.
Thai Lieutenant Generals Niphat Thonglek and Thawatchai Samutsakhon will lead a group set to arrive in the capital on Monday for a three-day visit in which they will meet with senior commanders from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, said Touch Ra, deputy chief of the Thai-Cambodian Border Relations Office at the Choam international border gate in Oddar Meanchey province.
"Their visit is strengthening friendship and cooperation between the armed forces of Cambodia and Thailand," Touch Ra said. "The prime ministers of Thailand and Cambodia have embraced each other, so the lower-level officials will do the same thing."
Prime Minister Hun Sen and Thai premier Abhisit Vejjajiva have held face-to-face talks twice in recent weeks, first in New York and then in Belgium earlier this month. Their meetings followed the August resignation of ousted former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra from his position as economics adviser to the Cambodian government, a tenure that provoked the ire of his bitter rivals in the Abhisit administration.
Thawatchai spoke out last week against claims from the Thai Department of Special Investigation that a group of antigovernment Red Shirt protesters reportedly arrested in Thailand earlier this month had received weapons training in Cambodia. He chided the DSI for airing the allegations publicly rather than through diplomatic channels.
"The best way to approach an issue which could lead to friction is not to mention other countries," Thawatchai said, according to the Bangkok Post. Thai leaders have since backed away from the allegations, saying they will wait for the final report from the DSI before consulting Cambodia regarding its contents.
Chea Morn, the commander of RCAF Region 4, said the Thai delegation would meet RCAF deputy commander-in-chief Chea Dara and Division 3 commander Srey Doek, whose forces are stationed near the Thai-Cambodian border.
Thai Army deputy spokesman Veerachon Sukondhadhpatipak said that he had no information on the visit.


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The 2010s may go down in environmental history as the decade when the fingerprints of climate change became evident in extreme weather events, from heat waves to destructive storms, and climate tipping points once thought to be far off were found to be much closer.
It was the decade when governments worldwide woke up to the risk and signed the Paris climate agreement, yet still failed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions at the pace and scale needed. And when climate scientists, seeing the evidence before them, cast away their reluctance to publicly advocate for action.
The sum of the decade's climate science research, compiled in a series of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), suggests global warming is pushing many planetary systems toward a breakdown.
New studies showed polar ice caps melting and sea level rising much faster than just 10 years ago. Ocean researchers showed how marine heat waves kill corals and force fish to move northward, affecting food supplies for millions of people in developing countries. They tracked changes to crucial ocean currents and concluded that hurricanes will intensify faster in a warming world.
Together, the research showed how important it will be to cap the global temperature rise as far below 2 degrees Celsius—the Paris Agreement goal—as possible.
Feedback Loops on the Greenland Ice Sheet
At the start of the decade, it was unclear how fast the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets would melt. As recently as the 1990s, melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet was balanced by the buildup of new snow and ice, offering some hope that sea level rise would be slow, allowing coastal communities time to adapt.
By the end of 2019, a study published in the scientific journal Nature showed the Greenland Ice Sheet was melting seven times faster than it had been in the 1990s. That's on pace with the IPCC's worst-case climate scenario, with Greenland alone contributing 2 to 5 inches of sea level rise by 2100. Another study, looking at evidence in fossilized shells, showed temperatures are very near a threshold that will melt most of the ice sheet.
Scientists discovered feedback loops and new ways earth's systems interact to melt the ice. Global warming is expanding ice slabs beneath Greenland's snowy areas, hastening runoff and sea level rise. In Antarctica, they showed how global warming is shifting winds and pushing warmer water under floating ice shelves—both of which could contribute to rapid disintegration of ice shelves with a subsequent surge of sea level rise.
"The rate and magnitude of Greenland Ice Sheet mass loss, and of ice loss globally, has been dramatic," said Twila Moon, a climate researcher with the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
How Sea Ice Loss Influences the Atmosphere
Many studies in the second half of the decade showed how important it is to keep the global temperature rise as far below 2 degrees Celsius as possible to avoid triggering tipping points that would have cascading consequences. Arctic sea ice is one of the big concerns.
Even now, in its diminished state, the summer Arctic sea ice is a 1.6 million square-mile shield that reflects incoming solar radiation back to space. The more it melts, the more darker-colored ocean can absorb heat, speeding up the planet's overall warming.
At 2 degrees Celsius warming, Arctic Ocean sea ice will probably melt completely, said National Snow and Ice Data Center climate researcher Walt Meier. "Some ice probably will persist if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius," Meier said. He noted that research has suggested the ice could recover fairly quickly—if greenhouse gas concentrations are reduced enough to drop the temperature.
One intriguing question has been how the loss of Arctic sea ice will affect weather patterns in North America, Europe and Asia.
Melting that much of Earth's icebox could alter wind patterns that shunt weather systems around the Northern Hemisphere, scientists reasoned early in the decade. A study in 2012 suggested a mechanism: Sea ice melt alters the jet stream by reducing the temperature contrast between the Arctic and the mid-latitudes. As the jet stream weakens, it enables areas of rainy weather or hot, dry conditions to linger longer over a given area, leading to extreme rainfall or heat waves and drought.
As the decade ended, studies seemed to support that early conclusion. Research published by Michael Mann, Stefan Rahmstorf and others showed how heat waves, floods and wildfires are linked with a jet stream pattern that, in turn, is related to an over-heated Arctic. In a climate warmed by greenhouse gases, the jet stream is more likely to set up in a pattern that causes extremes to linger longer over Europe and North America.
Arctic Melting Also Effects Ocean Currents
Another major advance in climate research this decade relates to how the melting Arctic will affect a key Atlantic Ocean current that balances Earth's climate by carrying warm, salty water north in the upper layers of the ocean and colder water southward in the ocean depths.
Early in the decade, scientists were still speculating about whether such a slowdown was happening, but now, "for the first time the IPCC has confirmed that the AMOC has slowed down, as predicted by models," Rahmstorf said.
Slowing of the AMOC, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, has been identified as one of the main tipping points in the planet's climate system. Changes in the circulation "have been responsible for some of the strongest and most rapid climate shifts during the Quaternary Period (the past 2.6 million years)," one study said.
Total collapse of the current, still seen as unlikely, would raise sea level by 30 inches around the North Atlantic, but even a slowdown will have a similar effect, to a lesser degree.
"The current is balanced, in part, by the slope of the sea surface as it climbs away from the East coast toward the center of the North Atlantic Ocean gyre," explained Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann. "If the current slows, that slope must decrease, which is accomplished by the sea surface rising along the coast. That can add as much as an extra foot to sea level rise over the next century over parts of the East Coast."
The slowdown will likely push tropical rainfall belts southward, disrupting agriculture and ocean ecosystems. A study in 2016 showed how global warming is shifting other currents in ways that could bring more intense storms to land areas, like the rainstorms that brought record flooding to Japan.
Marine Heat Waves Drive Ecosystem Tipping Points
Scientists have long known that the oceans are absorbing about 93 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases, but it wasn't until the last few years that they showed how that's manifesting in marine heat waves that are driving some ocean ecosystems to tipping points.
The most visible might be the mass die-offs of coral reefs in 2015 and 2016 as the oceans seethed at near record warmth for months on end.
The impacts of another marine heat wave, known as the Pacific warm blob, cascaded through Pacific Ocean ecosystems in 2014 and 2015, causing widespread disruption to the food chain and promoting toxic algae blooms. Another began forming in the Pacific in 2019.
Marine heat waves don't just affect the water. The Pacific warm blob was also linked with California's extreme drought that pushed some inland forest ecosystems past the brink. The large area of stagnant heat over the ocean blocked cooler marine air from reaching the coast, enabling the heat to build up.
Since the 1920s, marine heat waves have become 34 percent more frequent, and research shows about 87 percent of them can be attributed to human-caused global warming.
Potential for West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse
At the start of the 2010s, scientists were just beginning to understand how vulnerable parts of Antarctica are to human-caused global warming. New studies this past decade showed that what was once considered a nearly invincible fortress of ice is crumbling at the edges.
Just a little more warming could push parts of the Antarctic ice sheets past a tipping point that would raise sea level faster and higher than anticipated by the climate assessments commonly used for coastal planning around the world.
"I'd say one of the big things this decade includes the potential collapse of West Antarctica, based on new research," said University of Colorado climate scientist Mike MacFerrin. "Just this year, we have evidence that Antarctica's recent speedup of ice loss is, in fact, human-caused."
Concerns about an abrupt collapse of parts of Antarctica's ice shelves intensified in 2016 with a study suggesting that water from surface melting could seep deep into the ice, refreeze and split off huge slabs of the shelves in a relatively short time. Radar surveys showing the thinning of the Thwaites Glacier helped trigger a massive international research effort to track the melting in that area, and scientists are also watching the Pine Island Glacier for signs of disintegration.
The worst-case tipping point scenarios shouldn't be off the table, said Jason Box, a climate scientist with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
Box said the research showing destabilization of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a key climate science advance of this past decade "that should have been like a real wake-up call moment," he said.
Connecting Climate Change to Weather Extremes
Only a few years ago, scientists were reluctant to connect any specific extreme weather event to global warming.
In 2011 and 2012, Rahmstorf and other scientists triggered debates when they wrote that there was strong evidence linking specific events or an increase in their numbers to the human influence on climate. Since then, scientists who specialize in attribution research have found global warming fingerprints on nearly every heat wave they've studied.
"Looking back over the past decade, it's astonishing how firmly we've moved out to the tails of the probability distribution. Extremes are common and are commonly attributed to human activities," said Oregon State University climate researcher Philip Mote. "We're living the worst-case scenario."
One area of research during the 2010s with ominous findings was how global warming affects the intensity tropical storms, including North Atlantic hurricanes that affect the densely populated East Coast of the U.S. A 2016 study tracked a persistent shift of storm tracks toward that area.
"We've seen extreme events, with every major ocean basin having at least one big, catastrophic hurricane in the last few years," said NOAA climate scientist Deke Arndt. "We had Dorian and Michael, with rapid intensification so early in its development and close to the equator," he said. "Every basin has come up with monstrous storms."
Seeing the Risks, More Scientists Are Speaking Out
The 2010s may also be remembered as the decade when scientists cast away their reluctance to advocate for political and social changes.
The research on global warming is now so compelling that "a growing number of scientists are starting to make increasingly direct, pointed, and public statements about climate change risks to society," said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
"My sense is that a key reason for this is the widening gap between physical reality and political reality," he said. "There is a growing sense that society is careening toward the abyss while we're collectively arguing about whether we should hit the brakes.
"Scientists who work in the climate domain are particularly, sometimes painfully, aware of the consequences that lie ahead if we continue on our current trajectory. And we're also aware that the emissions targets set forth in the Paris Agreement remain largely aspirational; we're currently still on a path to blow right past them."
Read this next from our decade in review series: Earth's Hottest Decade on Record Marked by Extreme Storms, Deadly Wildfires


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Saleh Daraghmeh, shepherd
Since I was a child, I have been wandering from place to place in the Jordan Valley with my sheep and cattle, looking for grazing land. For the past four months, I have stayed in the 'Ein al-Beida area. Every day, I graze my flock. Since we arrived in the area, settlers from Shademot Mehola have been chasing us on the grazing land. Two weeks ago, for example, settlers assaulted my son, 'Abd el-Karim, 11, while he was out with the flock. They put a knife to his throat and frightened him.
Two days ago [24 September 2007], I was grazing my flock about two kilometers north of the settlement. My sister's sons, Muhammad Fawzi 'Abu Mutawe'a, 21, and Jamal, 18, were grazing their cows near me. Muhammad tied his horse to a tree and sat on the ground and Jamal tended the cows. Around 2:00 P.M., I saw a white car heading toward the settlement. It stopped next to a leafy tree, on the side of a dirt road that runs around the settlement. A few minutes later, I saw two men come toward us from the direction of the settlement. I think they had been in the white car.
They ran toward the cows, which were about 200 meters from the external fence of the settlement, and threw stones at them. Jamal went over and asked why they were throwing stones at the cows. I shouted to Jamal to come back and let them stone the cows. I thought that if they came over to us, we could reach an understanding. When Jamal started to come back, the two settlers chased him. He ran and then one of them fired his pistol at Jamal's legs. The settler who fired had a beard and skullcap, and had a dark-brown complexion. He was about 25 years old.
Jamal was startled and continued to run. I went over to the settlers, until I was five meters from them. Muhammad managed to get on the horse and was about 20/> , 30 meters from me. I spoke with one of the settlers in Hebrew and explained that I wanted to come to an understanding. I asked him what Jamal had done and why he had fired.
The settlers passed by me. One of them was holding a pistol. Muhammad asked him what we had done, and then the settler shot him. I saw Muhammad fall slowly from the horse onto his back. I shouted at the settler. I asked him what he wanted, and why he had killed Muhammad. He replied that he hadn't killed him and that I was lying.
He went over to Muhammad, kicked him, and told him to get up. Muhammad didn't move. The settler turned him over and saw the blood, and immediately both settlers started running towards the settlement. I shouted to him and asked him to come back and help Muhammad. I said that I know who he is, but they got into the car and drove off.
I shouted to Jamal to return. I checked Muhammad's pulse and saw lots of blood on his shoulder. I tore a piece off his clothes and wrapped it tightly above the wound to stop the bleeding. I tried to give him first aid and poured water on him. Muhammad asked me if he was going to die, and I calmed him.
I asked Jamal to ride the horse home and get my cell phone. When he arrived with the phone, I called an ambulance from Tubas. I also called my brother-in-law in 'Ein al-Beida, Hamad, and asked him to tell the people that Muhammad had been seriously wounded and was near the settlement. Hamad called a man named Jamal, who works at the settlement. Jamal and his employer, Meir, contacted the army and called an Israeli ambulance. Jamal and Meir arrived and a Hummer jeep with a stretcher pulled up. We put Muhammad on the stretcher and into Meir's car, and he drove him to the road. Then an army ambulance arrived and took him to Rambam Hospital, in Haifa.
Policemen and more soldiers came to the scene and the policemen investigated the incident. They took Muhammad's torn clothes and found the shells of the bullets that the settler had fired. Yesterday, I received a summons to go to the Efraim police station and I went and gave my testimony.
Although I was close to the settler who shot Muhammad, I don't remember what he looked like. I know the other settler well. His name is Yehuda and he is 14-15 years old. I think he is the son of one of the heads of the settlement.
Saleh Mustafa Muhammad Daraghmeh, 42, married with eight children, is a shepherd and a resident of 'Ein al-Beida inTubas District. His testimony was given to 'Atef Abu a-Rub on 26 September 2007 in 'Ein al-Beida.


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How do directors plod through the seemingly never-ending political ups and downs, and what path should a board take when it comes to a host of social issues, such as guns or LGBTQ rights? And how do they go about supporting or opposing regulations, or environmental, social and governance issues without ending up in a political firestorm?
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Distortion of Human Nature in Wuthering Heights
There is no doubt that Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only masterpiece, is regarded as one of the more captivating novels of English literature. What defines Wuthering Heights? Written in a didactic nature, the novel's narrative structure is riddled with mysterious settings, supernatural elements, symbols and so on. Throughout this paper, the distortion of Heathcliff's human nature in Wuthering Heights will be revealed to be a journey portrayed through social discrimination and Heathcliff's childhood experience that tragically lead to Heathcliff's loss of humanity. In fact, Heathcliff's distorted human nature is the consequence of his own split personality, his distorted love tragedy, and the unfair, isolated, and distorted society in which Wuthering Heights is set.
Wuthering Heights was first published in 1847 under Brontë's pseudonym Ellis Bell, a gloomy tale following the consequence of one couple's love, hatred, and revenge played out in the Yorkshire Moors. Underlying this twisted tale is the human desire to chase happiness until it is exploited by the cruelty of reality. Thus, Heathcliff is one of the many characters whom's desires warp from whatever healthy and positive portions of his human nature he had into diseased and negative ones. Catherine and Heathcliff share an uncanny similarity in character differentiated by the backdrop of a radically different family background. "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being." However, the characters in Brontë's novel are the unfortunate victims of an unbalanced society, which mars any reality in which Heathcliff's love for Catherine is enough. Catherine's values, vanity and selfishness drive her eventual betrayal to Heathcliff. It can be said that Catherine's betrayal and her choice of a romantic partner in Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff is the fundamental reasoning for the distortion of Heathcliff's personalities. "Have you considered how you'll bear the separation, and how he'll bear to be quite deserted in the world?" In order to "cure" the deep hurt in his heart, his thirst for revenge was fostered as an extreme approach to protect his cowardice, and a result of this distortion of the humanity he had left.
The story occurs in an isolated, rural area of northern England in the 18th century when the Industrial and Agricultural Revolution thrived, accompanied by the profound effects of the technologically stunted socioeconomic and cultural conditions of the times. The rich lived a leisure lifestyle, while the poor struggled to survive. This economic gap between the rich and the poor is the unequal relationship between different roles in the story that reflects this unfair society and eventually leads to revenge and death. Prior to entering Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff was a starving, homeless little boy suffering from this cruel society's discrimination. Although old Earnshaw took him in, Heathcliff's childhood only gradually distorted his spirit. He thought of himself as a person not needed by this world, especially when Catherine looked down on him. Deprived the protection of his parents, Hindley's lash, the cruel world and his bitter life added to his extreme love and hatred. Heathcliff had said, "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them" (Brontë, 2000:89) He swallowed the humiliation, despite being taught that reality wouldn't change. Heathcliff's complex personality emerged from his childhood.
Heathcliff is wild, just as the love between Heathcliff and Catherine is. Their love is fierce and feverish and it leads to the tragedy directly. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same…" Aside from Catherine, Heathcliff is an outsider, but it is their identical nature that draws Catherine and Heathcliff: crazy and susceptible to change. They grow up in the same environment, under the oppression of her brother and their lacking of family warmth drives their need to always run freely in the wilderness. The wilderness is, in itself, the distorted common home to their spirit, where their love is pure without temptation. For Heathcliff, as long as he can get together with Catherine, he will forget all the oppression from Catherine's brother, the rigorous and filthy farm work, reciting the Bible. Catherine is just as wild and evil as he is - his co-conspirator. "...they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge." Heathcliff succumbed to the disguise that Catherine would be together with him forever.
Unluckily, the potential gap between them does exist. Heathcliff represents this underclass of poverty, while Catherine is of the middle class of wealth. To Heathcliff, Catherine's betrayal cultivated his split personality. The question is, what made Catherine give up Heathcliff? The answer was the unfair distortion of the isolated society in which the two existed. "[Hindley] wished earnestly to see her bring honour to the family by an alliance with the Lintons…" Catherine occupied an obvious higher status than Heathcliff, with which she had the free right to choose whom to marry. However, in the Victorian period, the deformed society reflected people in England stripped of freedom and liberty, specifically all women, whom could not direct their own fates. Although middle class women didn't need to work, they still had no freedom. They were merely symbols of property and status by men (their lifelong support). To those women, their life's goal was the end result of marriage. That said, being matched for marriage was how families "transacted" their children. The only other choice aside from a woman's matched marriage would be to elope, an action equivalent to social suicide.
Under such confining circumstances, Catherine was left with this dilemma. "You think me a selfish wretch, but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married, we should be beggar? Whereas, if I marry Linton, I can aid Heathcliff to rise, and place him out of my brother's power" (Brontë, 2000:64). This reflected Catherine's selfishness - she couldn't bear poverty and discrimination from her society as the implication of marrying Heathcliff. So she would marry Linton, a young and rich man rather than her beloved.
The true reasoning behind this decision was the distorted reality that, in the unbalanced society in which she existed, Catherine really had no right in making her decision. If she had, she might have actually married Heathcliff. She didn't because of the entrenched traditional values with which she was infused. Hindley and his wife raised Catherine's self-respect through fine clothes, flattery and reforming her to be dignified. Servants' sneering at Heathcliff and Catherine when they stayed together were also unconsciously influential on Catherine. The effects of all of these factors increased Catherine's vanity, shaped her so she was incapable of rejecting the lure of property and status. "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now." Catherine's painful decision resulted from her split personality, which ironically hurt Heathcliff so much so it led to his distorted split personality.
And so it is that the different family background of Catherine and Heathcliff reflect the social contradiction of the English society Wuthering Heights is set in. Their love distorted social class lines, but the very distortion of their isolated society was the underlying factor as to how each character ultimately lived their lives. Catherine accepts marrying Linton to quench her own desire for material wealth and vanity at the expense of betraying her love and soul. As a result, Heathcliff refuses to forgive her for it. "You teach me now how cruel you've been—cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself…" In terms of Heathcliff, after the betrayal of Catherine, the idea of revenge invades his mind. The distortion of his mind prompts him to take a deadly course of action. The emotion alters from love to hatred and he can't persuade himself to put down the burden of hatred.
Heathcliff angrily left home when his beloved Catherine got married with Edgar Linton. Three years later, Heathcliff returns as the wolf in sheep's clothing; his revenge after Catherine's betrayal contorts into an even crazier, extremely abnormal representation of his distorted nature driven by hate. "Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone." She is responsible for the loss of his humanity, which instigates Heathcliff's appetite to revenge violently for his trampled personality, self-esteem and love with a demonic attitude. "He is ingenious and untrusting in seeking to gain my abhorrence…" In that sense, Heathcliff becomes a cold-blooded killer, his weapon of choice being hate, which kills the people around him. He drives Hindley and Edgar to a miserable death, seizes both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange to himself, and makes it so even their innocent children suffered from his bitter fruit. His distorted nature made it so that with each attempt at revenge, Heathcliff didn't have the slightest pity. "I meditated this plan—just to have one glimpse of your face, a stare of surprise, perhaps, and pretended pleasure; afterwards settle my score…" Although he would come to achieve his revenge target, he becomes insane - a devil full of hatred and malevolence.
The love tragedy in Wuthering Heights is sincere, an emotion only capable of originating from the human heart to be distributed into human nature. Heathcliff had experienced the coldness of life, having developed a strong love and hate in a cruel reality where he carried an unyielding struggle against his miserable fate. He failed all his life to stay together with Catherine, and as long as two decades isolation, suffering the price for his love and hate in a fate crueler than anyone else. That anxiety and anticipation in the loneliness, fear and despair tore his soul apart, little by little eroding his flesh and conclusively putting him to death. Heathcliff's desolate love story is the tragedy of an unjust society, but also the tragedy of the era he stays in. Before he died, he gave up revenge on the next generation, which shows that his nature is good, but the distortion of the brutality of his reality forced him to become cold and even deranged. "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
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Android Best Games
Do you like playing games in your Android phones ? So, you are at right place.
In this article you will see top 14 android best games of all the category which is listed according to Google Play Store top chart games.
Android Games are actually awesome due to the graphics and addictive type of games, so this list will be awesome which contain arcade, fighting, shooting, racing, etc.
Top 14 free Android Games Download.
1. PUBG Mobile
PUBG Mobile is a mobile version of the multiplayer PC shooter Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG for short).
Read: Top 5 Games like PUBG
In this free-to-play game, you play a combatant in a death match, dropped onto an abandoned island with up to 99 other players. You must scavenge weapons and equipment and fight to be the last man standing.
Game Size : 2 GB
2. Marvel Future Fight
Marvel Future Fight is a superhero-themed video game created by Netmarble Games, and is directly affiliated with Marvel Entertainment under Disney.
There are 191 playable characters. They are organized into 3 tiers, and they can each be leveled up to a maximum of 6 levels.
They each hold battle types that have advantages over one another.
Game Size : 81 MB (Additional data required)
3. Shadow Fight 3
Shadow Fight 3 is an action-RPG fighting game developed by Nekki. It is the sequel to Shadow Fight 2.
Shadow Fight 3 does not utilize flat 2D black shadows to represent fighters. Instead, they are now rendered as life-like three-dimensional characters in a richly animated 3D environment.
The shadows, however, still exist and can be accessed via a new mode known as Shadow Form. While in this form, the characters become a shadow and will be able to perform spectacular physics-defying moves based on the equipped item's shadow abilities.
( My favorite ❤ )
Game Size : 99 MB (Additional data required)
4. Injustice 2
Injustice 2 is a fighting video game based upon the DC Universe. It was developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is the sequel to 2013's Injustice: Gods Among Us.
Injustice 2's storyline centers around Batman and his insurgency's attempt to restore society after the fall of Superman's regime; however, the arrivals of the newly formed supervillain group "The Society" and the alien Brainiac forces Batman to consider freeing the imprisoned Superman to help combat the threats.
Game Size : 1.1 GB
5. Asphalt 9 : Legends
Asphalt 9: Legends features a top roster of real hypercars for you to drive that is unlike that found in any other game, from renowned car manufacturers like Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini and W Motors.
You're free to pick the dream car you need and race across spectacular locations against rival speed machines around the world. Hit the fast track and leave your limits in the dust to become a Legend of the Track!
Game Size : 1.7 GB
6. Need for Speed : No Limits
Need for Speed: No Limits is a free-to-play racing video game for iOS and Android, and a mobile installment in the Need for Speed video game series, developed by Firemonkeys Studios and published by Electronic Arts.
The player must race in "Campaign races" (which is considered the game's story mode), "Car Series races" (where only certain cars may participate to win in-game rewards) and "Rival Races".
Game Size : 1.3 GB
7. War Dragons
War Dragons is a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy game that puts you in control of the ultimate dragon army. Join a guild, help your teammates launch attacks, and hold off enemy raids in true real-time fashion.
War Dragons has more than one hundred unique dragons possessing different attack styles, spell abilities, and classes. Breed your dragons to create an even more powerful army. See if you can unlock the furious behemoth Khrysos and dominate the battlefield.
Game Size : 100 MB
8. Dead Target : Sniper Zombie Shooting game
Dead Target is a free FPS offline game where huge waves of zombies come to you as the tsunami.
You have to Shoot zombies before the invasion come toward you, the dead can come anytime in this Zombie game.
Also Kill zombie by head shot to survive in the truly Shooting game.
Game Size : 82 MB
9. Lords Mobile
Lords Mobile is a free-to-play game which offers in-app purchases.
In this game, there are a total of 44 heroes, 22 of them are free-to-play, which means you can unlock or get them by completing in-game activities or gaining in-game currency.
2 of them are event heroes, only obtainable during in-game events. The remaining ones are "paid" heroes, you can get them only by spending real money.
Game Size : 159 MB
10. Last Shelter : Survival
Last Shelter: Survival is a Massive Multi-Player, Zombie themed strategy war game.
The player will take on the role of a leader of a small Shelter where survivors have to survive a world devastated by an apocalyptic zombie outbreak.
Build your base and develop your own empire. Train your troops and recruit legendary heroes.
Defend your Base and attack your Enemies. Join your allies in a never-ending war for glory and fame.
Game Size : 200 MB
11. War Robots
War Robots (previously titled Walking War Robots) is a freemium mobile app game developed and published by the Russian game developer Pixonic.
It is a third-person shooter with real-time PvP battles in Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) mode. Players operate BattleTech-like robots on a live battlefield.
Game Size : 724 MB
12. Dragon Ball Legends
Dragon Ball Legends is a video game based on the Dragon Ball manganime, in which you become some of the most iconic characters from Akira Toriyama's work and participate in spectacular 3D battles.
The battles take place in real time, so you're able to directly control your character when moving, attacking, or dodging. However, the actions are also determined by a series of cards with energy requirements, which adds a strategic factor to the battles.
In Dragon Ball legends, you can fight online players from all over the world. And as you beat challenges, you can unlock new famous fighters such as Goku, Vegeta or Trunks, although there's also a never before seen character created just for the game, with a new plot arc designed by Toriyama himself.
Dragon Ball Legends is a video game based on the Dragon Ball manganime, in which you become some of the most iconic characters from Akira Toriyama's work and participate in spectacular 3D battles.
Game Size : 62 MB
13. Last Empire – War Zone : Strategy
Last Empire – War Z is a zombie-themed free-to-play war strategy game.
Battle zombie troops and survivors to protect your empire against the upcoming zombie war. Team up with friends from around the world to build an army, increase your zombie defense strategy and participate in special events.
Take part in brutal zombie warfare and build an army to grow your empire – surviving the zombie apocalypse is in your hands in Last Empire – War Z!
Game Size : 172 MB
14. Last Day on Earth – Survival
The survival shooter Last Day on Earth is set in a post apocalyptic world, in 2027 the world saw an outbreak of an unknown infection that destroyed almost all the human race. And it didn't stop there.
All those dead started turning into zombies and those few survivors that have resistance in their blood are trying to survive on the ruins of the once great world.
And now the survival of your character is only in your power! Keep an eye on your character's life stats such as hunger and thirst, collect valuable resources for crafting, create weapons and transport of different types or use what you have at hand: a bat or a road sign. Everything will come in handy for killing dozens… hundreds…thousands of zombies.
Game Size : 170 MB
So everyone, this is the list of top 14 action, fighting, racing games which you would like to play. All the games are mostly popular and having millions of downloads.
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Date Posted: 7/15/2019
Regional Resource Development Specialist
General Description:
Southern Adirondack Independent Living Center is seeking a Regional Resource Development Specialist to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Regional Resource Development Center. The qualified candidate will possess a Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Human Services or a related field with demonstrated expertise in brain injury, physical disabilities and aging, extensive familiarity with HCBS Waivers, and have (5) five or more years' experience providing information, linkage and referral for community-based services and supports including Federal/State benefit entitlement programs. In addition, the qualified candidate must possess excellent communication, supervision, preferred four years (4) managerial skills, and excellent organizational skills. Experience with service coordination and grant funded programs are preferred.
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Natalie Livermore is not the first person I've approached with an invitation to takeover the instagram account at instagram.com/thewellnessalmanac, who has confessed that that is a deeply intimidating prospect.
And then she said yes.
being in this spotlight is a little scary…so I figured if it scares me I should probably try it out!
I am immensely grateful to people who are willing to lean into that discomfort and accept the invitation. (Also, to all those who hedge and sit with the idea and start to scurry away when they see me coming, it's all good! I get it! in good time! Don't run away!)
I am grateful partly because once they say yes, they stop avoiding me. Also, because it's always inspiring to see someone say (deep breath) yes, okay, to anything that challenges them. And partly, because I truly truly believe that a resilient community grows from members who are willing to allow themselves (in all their complexities and vulnerabilities and facets) to be seen. It gives us all permission to be all-that-we-are, not just the shiny, best-foot-forward, for-public-consumption bits. And wow, if we can grow a critical mass of that, if it's not just one person, but more and more of us, what a supportive, strong and freeing place to live…
Natalie is part of my new kindergarten community… but she's also an artist and a scientist, which I find a fascinating combination, so I'm excited to get to know her, and her perspective, better.
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Morning everyone!! My name is Natalie Livermore of #idiotsavantart and I'll be taking over this week!! I'll be sharing my life as an artist, Medical lab worker, mother, musician and lover of life, ceasars and all that good stuff. We will take a moment to look at how grief, mental health, physical health and healing can be a big part in pointing you down the right path. Up to this point I've been a fairly behind the scenes person so being in this spotlight is a little scary…so I figured if it scares me I should probably try it out! Have a great day everyone!!! #takeoverbynat #wellness #idiotsavantart #hashtag


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We have dealt with so many things in life, we are yet to confront many more. Dealings and sufferings are like input and output in a simple machine. You give a little effort and then it results as output. Sometime we need to consider ourselves while using simple machine of life. Either we are in entrepreneurial life or social life or any being professional, we need to be cognizant. We need to set ourselves in a chair, thinking twice or thrice with a cognition questioning on own, 'Are they making us dull? Stationary? Passive? Robotic?' We get frustrated very quickly, we get demotivated very rapidly, and we lose our intuition and take a decision without cognition. We don't need to blame it on the revolution of modernization on human civilization but there are frequent impacts that has been misunderstood and mistaken widely.
I want to indicate some points that needs to be explained well by human Scholars
- Impact of technology and artificial intelligence on human development
- Loss of energy and existence of human-self caused by dependency on technology
- Loss of naturalism and socialism in human beings
- Less input with an expectation of high production
- Dissatisfaction and forlornness
Let's talk relatively with the point by taking an example of a business person. A Person seeks an ideas and knowledge on commencing a business from next businessman or may be taking an idol person. He/she wants to follow the philosophy what the afore one has followed. The idea and resolution he/she abstracted from the next one does motivates him/her in moving forward. Since then he/she comes to know the requirement of investment, technology, raw factors and utilities. All what he/she did research was on web or an internet instead of getting into things practically and from ground execution. He/she gets demotivated because of knowing of an inability and deficient.
This is an example how human beings have believed so firmly on non-natural things, non-living elements like technology and how they are getting frustrated and demotivated with their feedback. This is serious how human beings have been creating stigma for themselves.
Success is not about your application and ownership on the technological things, its all about your reliability, your physical effort and tendency to meet the requirements by your own through research, exploration and dedication. We humans have different vision, different goals and ambition, so its not mandatory that one should approach the same way other has followed. It's a must for every one of us to get on feet and take an action for their success, instead of depending on things that won't take us anywhere.
We also have been so parasitic on getting things through simple machine. Getting work done through simple machine does make our work simpler. But we are mistaken yet. We have been granting even simplest things in the hand of technology that can be operated by human self. Simultaneously, that has brought most of humans into frustration, demotivation and passive structured. We must be conscious that, it is humans who invented machines not machines who invented human beings. This has created a hindrance on human existence. There has been extinction of physical effort of human beings in most of the developmental sector, It's not that we should blame technology because most of the dynamics and revolution are done by technology even but we need to know how to consider a human life as an existence of human along with the use of technology instead of taking world as robotic and parasitic. We need to live most of the portion of human life in a natural way. Natural as mean happy, inspired and fairly.
'To be success in life is not all about the amount of investment we make, nor about the technology and utilities we have or nor about the income we celebrate. It's all about how are we creating our life, how delighted are we and how natural are we living.'
With no any offense, this article is only based on how overuse of technology has created dullness and passiveness in human beings. Because of their dependency on technology for doing even simplest things has now created loss of human existence. Technology are must to use and utilize for revolution, change and development. But it's all about the choices to be made, to use or not to use depending on the situation and nature. If human beings are passive in physical world, then the world will be only named as robotic world which can have adverse impact on nature.


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Death penalty report: why the 3 dissenting voices aren't convincing
If the Law Commission's report on death penalty was meant to force a wider debate, three of its members have ensured it has begun in earnest.
Justice Usha Mehra, Sanjay Singh and PK Malhotra dissented from the panel's majority recommendation that the death penalty be abolished for all crimes save terrorism and waging war against the nation.
Read more: Was President Kalam right? Does the death penalty only stalk the poor?
The majority says it put in the lone caveat on terrorism and waging war as it was needed to safeguard national security.
It, however, hopes that the movement towards absolute abolition will be "swift and irreversible".
The dissenters aren't convinced. They believe India is not yet ready to drop the sentence from the statute books or restrict its scope.
Here are their main arguments and whether they have any merit.
Dissenter 1: Justice Usha Mehra
Justice Mehra, a former judge of the Delhi High Court, makes two main arguments in her dissent note.
One, by the time a death penalty case reaches the Supreme Court, it has passed scrutiny of the high court and the sessions court. This should be enough to trust the soundness of the final judgment.
Two, prescribing punishment for crimes is the right of the legislature, not court. And courts ought to show deference to the wisdom of the elected representatives.
Most of the other points she makes are either subjective or emotional. She assesses, for instance, that the report lays "too much emphasis" on the human rights of those given the death sentence while ignoring the human rights of their 'innocent victims'.
Recalling the serial murders of children in Uttar Pradesh's Nithari village in 2005-06, Justice Mehra asks, "What other sentence could have been given to the 'Nithari' (killer)?"
She also shifts the debate from constitutionality to "wisdom" by asserting that courts ought to defer to the wisdom of the legislature, which alone has the right to prescribe punishment for crimes.
Lastly, she rejects the possibility that a convict can be reformed. "How can a terrorist be reformed whose main aim is to destroy the peace of the society, if not the society as such?" she asks.
Dissenter 2: Sanjay Singh
Singh, the legislative secretary to the Ministry of Law and Justice, substantiates his disagreement by saying that the constitutionality of the death penalty has repeatedly been upheld by the Supreme Court.
He forgets to mention though that the reference to the Law Commission on this subject came from the apex court itself.
Singh refers to the much-discussed interpretation of the death penalty as a deterrent, saying if it's abolished, "the fear that comes in the way of people committing heinous crimes will be removed".
This concern, however, is addressed in the panel's report in detail. It concludes that "the fact that there exists a criminal justice system which punishes criminal conduct is by itself a deterrent". Therefore, the report adds, it is not necessary that punishments by themselves be harsh or excessive.
Singh's most contentious argument, perhaps, is that the panel should not recommend "something which has the effect of preventing the state from making any law in the interest of the sovereignty and integrity of the country".
But how exactly will a recommendation from the Law Commission prevent the state from making laws? Singh doesn't explain.
The judiciary is an arm of the state and well within its rights to make a recommendation to another arm. Of course, the executive or legislature then has the prerogative to accept or reject the suggestion.
Backing the existing proviso of awarding death only in the "rarest of rare case", Singh emphasises the need to frame guidelines on what constitutes the "rarest of rare".
Dissenter 3: PK Malhotra
Malhotra, the law secretary and an ex-officio member of the commission, begins by saying that abolition of the death penalty is an "eventual goal".
He, however, adds that someone planning to commit a crime should be aware of its "implications". And if these implications keep getting waived, the law itself would cease to exist.
The objective behind punishing a convict, Malhotra argues, is to establish "an example for the rest of humanity" so that it will deter "perverted minds from committing such crimes".
He even quotes former US President George W Bush, hardly a poster boy for progressive jurisprudence, to argue that the death penalty "saves other people's lives".
Malhotra recalls that while studying the Anti-Hijacking Bill, a parliamentary committee had suggested the provision for death penalty if somebody dies during a hostage situation.
This will of the Parliament, he argues, reflects that the "Indian society is yet to mature for total abolition of death penalty".
Now, a sound debate
The Law Commission has done a commendable job studying the issue in detail, giving unambiguous recommendations and also noting the points of disagreement.
It's report, indeed, is a good start for a wide debate on abolishing the death penalty altogether.
The debate though should be informed by facts, reason and a shared understanding of the direction in which civilisation, and this nation, should progress.