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The bride and groom both got ready in Irvinestown, while Shaciara and her bridemaids got two vintage wedding cars, Kieran the the groomsmen had to make their way to the chapel on bikes.
The ceremony was held in Devenish Parish Church where Fr McGourty celebrated his last marriage as he was being moved the The Rock church in Ballyshannon.
After the couple met their friends and family at the doors of the chapel we then headed towards Castle Archdale for some photos.
It was then onto the Cavan Crystal hotel for the wedding reception.
After the meal and speeches it was onto the wedding band to entertain the guest for the rest of the night.


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The new Cheech and Chong.
The title character in "The Beach Bum," a stoner-poet named Moondog, is the part Matthew McConaughey was born to play, and he is indeed at his McConaughey-est here: grinning, giggling, pontificating, publicly urinating, stumbling hazily from one party to the next, just generally living his best life. But the film is written and directed by the aggressively abrasive Harmony Korine ("Trash Humpers," "Spring Breakers"), so Moondog's "best life" also includes almost missing his daughter's wedding because he's banging a waitress, breaking out of court-ordered rehab, and mugging an old man for cash to buy drugs with Zac Efron (in the James Franco role). Korine finds these things adorable and hilarious, all the more so because Moondog gets away with everything, the li'l rascal. The whole movie is an unwitting tribute to white privilege.
Is this a me problem, not a Harmony Korine problem? Maybe. But I'm the one writing the review, so you're stuck with it. Korine shows undeniable talent and craftsmanship, with a playfulness that occasionally serves him well. "Spring Breakers" was appalling too, but mesmerizing and cautionary: a fun nightmare. "The Beach Bum" feels like a nightmare too, only it doesn't acknowledge that it is one. Gleeful anarchy is one thing; this is malevolent anarchy, bad luck for anyone who isn't Moondog.


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Back in 1986, a new summer event was introduced in Traverse City - the Grand Traverse Area Parkinson's Support Groups Summer Forum. Maxine Meach, organizer of that first Forum and chairperson of what is now called Parkinson's Network North, thought her group would be fortunate to attract 20 guests. 75 people showed up!
Meach credited the Parkinson's Network North's own exhibit which every year earns high praise as attractive, well stocked with good materials and staffed by knowledgeable individuals. The 2018 exhibit will again be designed and manned by long-time PNN Board member Hettie Molvang, a retired NMC Professor of Clinical Nursing and, says Meach, "a fearless advocate for funding for Parkinson's research and the health care needs of Parkinsonians and their care partners".
The Summer Forum is presented by PNN's Education Committee and is a masterpiece of planning. Since last September, when the 2018 Forum's "Today's Help; Tomorrow's Hope" theme was chosen, Committee members have lined up guest speaker Dr. Peter LeWitt, panelists (4), sponsors (12), exhibitors (27) and the venue (Hagerty Center). Committee member Chris Esper explained that "all the exhibitors are businesses and providers relating to services, research and products specific to persons with neurological conditions." The Resource Fair, i.e. the exhibits, will be open 8.15-9.15am on Forum day and will remain open for the day. As to what she most likes about the Forum, Esper, a former school principal, spoke of the high quality of the speakers and educational opportunities. Best of all, she said, is seeing people share their experiences and strategies for coping with the challenges of life with Parkinson's.
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Gate Well, dear fans, what terrible and mysterious, it's your finest hour. Team talented director Joe Dante finally finished a long and painstaking work on his new picture 'Gate'. The film is, it would seem convoluted, but that he and interesting. Young parent family, in the face of my mother and two sons, Denis, pretty, seventeen years old and still very little seven-year Lucas, left rough and noisy New York City from financial considerations, and move to a small provincial town Bensonvil. Young boys and Denis Lucas, who are accustomed to a fun and eventful life, such movement was necessary not to their liking.
In addition to new home mom children account for a lot more work and time favorite sons is not so much. For Denis in this hole a joy, it turns out their young neighbor young Julie is even nothing, and perhaps you can spend more of his time to conquer her young heart. Despite all of this is the life of the boys, in general, sleeping and not varied. What would you least like to entertain himself and his new girlfriend, Julie and Danny Lucas tasted everything vicinity of their homes. They sniffed and explored every nook and corner of the quarter.
But then, one day, the guys in the basement of his house will come across a very interesting and understandable phenomenon. They just stay in the basement, something like the hatch. Children, without hesitation, to open up this most curious well, without knowing that they opened the gates to the underworld. And then it all started. They are quiet and pacified life, which was previously moment turns into a brutal struggle with their own fears.


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A New Year, Life Itself, and Being-Toward-Death
My wife and I saw the film Life Itself the other evening. Watching a movie about death was our way of welcoming in the new year and the start of a new school semester; a way of reminding ourselves that as time continues inexorably to pass, we are all inescapably hurtling toward oblivion.
Life Istelf is about the life and death of the Chicago Sun Times movie critic Roger Ebert. I became familiar with him when I was a kid and would religiously watch the PBS television show called Sneak Previews that he hosted with Gene Siskel. It was a one of a kind program consisting of two guys (Siskel and Ebert) sitting around and arguing about the latest motion picture releases. Often the arguments got very passionate, which was part of the fun. Despite their emotion, the exchanges between these two hosts were never superficial. They always gave considered and reflective reasons for admiring or loathing the various films under review, engaging one another in intelligent discussion that always was tinged with a sense of humor. It was clear that the two of them were rivals; however this rivalry contributed to the program's edgy, yet good natured, character.
One of my most vivid memories of Sneak Previews was the episode during which the two critics reviewed George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. When it was first announced on their program that they would, the following week, discuss this film, I was so excited. As a kid, Romero's Night of the Living Dead was one of my favorite movies of all time. I was a freshman in high school when Dawn of the Dead was released, and for me this was the most exciting event of the decade. The problem was that due to issues with the ratings board, Dawn of the Dead was to gain only a very limited release. The MPAA had decided that its violent content warranted an "X" rating, which Romero refused to accept, so he ended up defiantly releasing it without any cuts to content and without any rating. This, however, meant that many theaters would not show the film; and this in turn meant that many fans might not be able to see it.
The fact that a national program like Sneak Previews would review a film like Dawn of the Dead, which was on the margins of the mainstream, was actually quite extraordinary. What was also notable was that both Siskel and Ebert, who often had widely differing tastes, both gave the movie a "thumbs up," as they both admired its brash and intelligent social commentary. With this episode, my admiration for these two critics was cemented, and in me they had a fan for life.
Ebert's life, as chronicled in Life Itself, was very full and unusually unified. I was fascinated to learn how single-minded he was throughout his career in pursuing a single passion: writing and talking about films. He began working as a newspaper reporter at the age of 15, and in college he was the editor of his school newspaper while also working at the Chicago Sun Times, where, after graduation he eventually became the in-house film reviewer. In 1970 he worked with Russ Meyer, scripting Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. In 1975 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his film criticism and also started the TV program Sneak Previews with Gene Siskel. After Siskel's death from brain cancer, Ebert continued his movie review show, which still airs today as At the Movies. His entire life seems to have been incredibly focused with no real distractions or side-tracks. If the film is to be believed, the only really dramatic setbacks he ever experienced involved a bout with alcoholism early in his career, and his fight with cancer at the end of his life.
Life Itself begins with scenes of Ebert in the hospital as he undergoes treatment for the disfiguring cancer that will eventually kill him. Due to radiation therapy that he underwent as a child, Ebert ended up contracting cancer of the thyroid and jaw when he was in his 60s, going through increasingly aggressive surgeries until his entire lower jawbone was finally removed. Remaining was a flap of skin, roughly defining his lower lip and chin, which remained hanging beneath his upper row of teeth. Looking at the front of his face, you could see through this flap to his chest. Where his tongue and throat once were, nothing remained. The manner in which the remanent of his jaw hung, lax and loose, made it appear as if he had a perpetual smile on his face, masking what must have been been a great deal of pain and discomfort.
The imagery of Ebert's disfigured face really stayed with me after watching this movie. The face is the most unique and distinctive aspect of a person's appearance, and to have it progressively sliced away and disfigured must be terrifying and depressing to a degree that I just cannot imagine. As the title of the film hints, perhaps the fact that Ebert was willing to go to such extremes in order to salvage a chance at life extension is evidence that nothing about the physical body is really as precious as "life itself." I'm not sure if I was in the same circumstances that I would have the bravery to go through with such aggressive surgery.
It was, in any case, extremely heartwarming to see how Ebert's friends and family continued to treat him, after his surgery, with a sense of humor and love. His grandkids gave him a toothbrush for a Christmas gift – something that was utterly useless to a man lacking a lower jaw – and Ebert, unable to speak, accepted it by rolling his eyes upwards and hitting himself over the head with the gift in mock outrage. He obviously appreciated the joke, just as it was obvious that his wife and grandkids loved him dearly.
Life Itself was a very moving film. For me, the most powerful thing about it was to see how Ebert and his family faced not just death, but Ebert's progressive surgical disfigurement with resolve and courage. While Roger Ebert's writing and movie reviewing are what defined his career, the way that he faced his death is what imbues his story with themes of universal human interest.
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I'm afraid of their feelings being hurt.
It's hard to believe my youngest is three and a half years old already. It makes me terribly sad to think of how fast time is going and want nothing more than to slow it down. I used to think I wanted a third baby, but after the chaos that's been the past year and a half, I think two may be it for us.
I'm trying to raise my son to be a sweet, kind, and caring individual. I'm trying to teach him right from wrong, how to spread love to others, and what words are and aren't acceptable to say. He's always been very intelligent for his age, and I sometimes have to remind myself he's still so young. He may be three but he acts five, leaving other kids to think he's older than he is.
I don't want to be the parent that smothers her child and keeps him in a bubble. But at the same time, I'm terrified of what he may learn from other kids. I've been at the playground and heard young kids calling each other "gay" or "stupid", and that's not okay with me. I'm hoping that he never repeats things like that because he knows it's wrong to say, but my biggest fear? His feelings. I'm afraid of kids being mean to him or not letting him play.
It's already started. The other day at summer camp, I saw tears forming in his eyes right before I left. I called him over and asked him what was wrong and he told me that two of the other boys didn't want to play with him. It broke my heart. How do you explain something like that to a three year old? So I said "well not everyone is going to want to play with you all the time and that's okay, baby. There are plenty of other kids here, so why don't you go find someone else to play with?" His teacher sat the other boys down and explained how they were hurting my son's feelings. And then two seconds later, all three of them were off running and having a great time.
I know, they're kids. But not for long. Soon they could be that loner in middle school who gets made fun of or that weird girl in high school who kicks her locker three times. Those are someone's children. And as a parent, it breaks my heart to know that kids treat each other that way. We can raise our children to spread love and kindness but no matter what we do, we can't control how others will treat ours.
It's scares me. Because seeing my children upset makes me upset and makes me want to solve their problems and make them feel better. But I know that I'm not always going to be around to do that. How do you come to terms with that? As a mom, how do you find the peace of mind that your kids will be okay at school? Or daycare? Or wherever?
I know it's only going to get worse as time goes on and I'm trying to find the inner peace that it will all work itself out. That if he's kind, others will be kind to him too. However as we've all witnessed from human nature, that's not always the case. So how do you trust that your kids won't have to deal with bullying or exclusion? What can we do as parents to prevent that? Can we?
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Biological Diversity Patent Plant Variety Protection
Pest Policy: Confusion, Capture or a Fetish for the Foreign?
by Shamnad Basheer October 30, 2017
Policy-making is curious business. Particularly when it comes to technology. How else does one explain the following conundrum confronting our agro-biotech landscape?
One the one had, the government appears more or less convinced that BT cotton (patented technology belonging to Monsanto) has developed pest resistance (against the pink Bollworm) and does not work anymore. And yet on the other, it wants this patented technology to disseminate widely in a cheaper and more accessible manner to the poor farmer. Forcing one to ask: If the technology does not work against pests, why advocate for its wider adoption? And yet this precisely is what the Maharastra government is seeking to do, if a recent news item is to be believed.
I extract as below:
"In the wake of pesticide-related deaths of farm workers in Vidarbha, the state government has written to the Centre asking it to denotify the Bt cotton seed strain Bollgard II (BG II), pointing out that it was no longer resistant to the pink bollworm pest. This is the second letter the state has sent to the Centre this year on the failed pest resistance of the genetically modified seed.
"We have written to the Centre to denotify BG II from the Bt cotton category due to loss of its efficacy against the pink bollworm," said state agriculture secretary Bijay Kumar. The state has suggested the seed be downgraded to a hybrid, which will lead to a drop in its price." If BG II is denotified, it may result in a reduction in price from the present around Rs 800 a packet to Rs 400 a packet. Farmers can use the money saved in meeting the additional cost of plant protection," said Kumar."
This comes close on the heels of a show cause notice issued by the Ministry of Commerce to Monsanto asking why its patent should not be revoked, since it was no longer "effective" against pests. As I'd noted in an earlier editorial in the Hindu:
"The DIPP proceeding is a particularly interesting one, given that Section 66 of the Patents Act has been invoked, an exceptional provision that provides for revocation on grounds that the patent is "mischievous to the state or generally prejudicial to the public". The key contention appears to be that the patent is no longer effective, given the pest resistance that developed over time. A ground not likely to pass muster with a court of law, given the rather high bar for invoking Section 66. Quite apart from the fact that it appears a tad bit paradoxical that while one wing of the government (the Ministry of Agriculture) has recently issued a draft notification qualifying GM technology as an industry "standard" that must mandatorily be licensed on FRAND (Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) terms to as many seed companies as possible, another one (DIPP) insists that the technology is useless!"
Is this just plain policy level confusion or a concerted attempt at getting the better of Monsanto? A concert orchestrated by the government in consultation with seed companies? A regulatory capture of sorts, if you will? Only time will tell. But this much appears clear. None of the parties involved in these legal skirmishes give two hoots about the poor farmer, in whose name they all speak.
We all love to hate Monsanto. But if we care about the rule of law, then we must take issue with this blatant subversion of the policy process. A tad bit hypocritical to agitate against the government when it flouts the rule of law by snatching away our precious freedoms (right to speech etc), and yet remain silent when it flouts the same rule against parties that we love to hate.
As I noted earlier: "Whatever be our personal predilections against GMOs, it is a matter of deep concern that government agencies appear to be flouting the rule of law with impunity."
This sector must be regulated in a transparent and thoughtful manner and not through "abusive law-making" processes designed to favour one set of stakeholders in what is otherwise a private commercial dispute.
In the end however, I'm still left wondering as to why our government insists on putting all of its eggs in one BT cotton basket? Why aren't we encouraging a diverse range of crops and crop varieties? Here again, as I'd noted in the Hindu opinion piece:
"Shouldn't our government be encouraging a diversity of approaches in Indian agriculture, entailing both GM technology and the more traditional processes that have stood the test of time? More so, when nature has taught us time and again that the best of technologies can never really match up to the wisdom of an innate evolutionary process."
I was recently introduced to "black" rice from Manipur. And found it extremely nutritious and nutty. So tasty that it does not really need any spicy curry to relish it with. Better still is the fact that it boasts a whole host of medicinal properties, including serving as a potential cure for cancer.
We have many such varieties (including my personal favourite Navara from Kerala), but are slowly losing out on this diversity owing to our mad rush to monoculture and homogenise. Apparently, from more than 100,000 varieties in the 1970's, we are now down to around 6000!
We need to nurture and nourish our biological diversity and promote a plurality of approaches. Unfortunately our colonized mindset still means we tend to favour the foreign over native indigenous breeds. When, much like our street dogs ((paradoxically called the "pariah"), the indigenous could well turn out to be most robust of the lot.
As this article rightly notes: "Nature must truly be baffled that we seek to annihilate what has survived and flourished, while we nurture and conserve what can be artificially created."
Will be able to transcend our fetish for our foreign? But more importantly, will we stand up for the rule of law…and denounce regulatory capture wherever and whenever they crop up? (no pun intended). Only time will tell!
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Examining the Draft National IP Policy; Stakeholder meetings to be held
The Notice on Plant Breeders' Rights (I)-The Apparent Conflict between the Patents Act and the Plant Varieties Act
The Notice on Plant Breeders' Rights (II)- Who is to monitor Seed Prices?
Government Withdraws Guidelines Fixing FRAND Terms on the Licensing of Bt Cotton
Analyzing Subject Matter Excluded from Patenting in the Backdrop of Lawsuits Involving Monsanto
Patent Punches over Bt Cotton (Monsanto vs Nuziveedu): Bt it or Eat it?
Tags: IP Policy, Monsanto, Transparency
Shamnad Basheer
Prof (Dr) Shamnad Basheer founded SpicyIP in 2005. He is currently the Honorary Research Chair of IP Law at Nirma University and a visiting professor of law at the National Law School (NLS), Bangalore. He is also the Founder of IDIA, a project to train underprivileged students for admissions to the leading law schools. He served for two years as an expert on the IP global advisory council (GAC) of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2015, he received the Infosys Prize in Humanities in 2015 for his work on legal education and on democratising the discourse around intellectual property law and policy. The jury was headed by Nobel laureate, Prof Amartya Sen. Professional History: After graduating from the NLS, Bangalore Professor Basheer joinedAnand and Anand, one of India's leading IP firms. He went on to head their telecommunication and technology practice and was rated by the IFLR as a leading technology lawyer. He left for the University of Oxford to pursue post-graduate studies, completing the BCL, MPhil and DPhil as a Wellcome Trust scholar. His first academic appointment was at the George Washington University Law School, where he served as the Frank H Marks Visiting Associate Professor of IP Law. He then relocated to India in 2008 to take up the MHRD Chaired Professorship in IP Law at WB NUJS, a leading Indian law school. Prof Basheer has published widely and his articles have won awards, including those instituted by ATRIP and the Stanford Technology Law Review. He is consulted widely by the government, industry, international organisations and civil society on a variety of IP issues. He also serves on several government committees.
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S Mauria ICAR October 31, 2017 at 11:10 am


We must always strive toward conversion to the love of Jesus, which changes life and makes of the Christian a witness of the Love of God. The Church expects this witness of Christian life and the Holy Spirit helps us to live the coherence of the Gospel.
The Holy Spirit leads us to live in holiness. Every moment in our lives has a meaning that can draw us to grow in holiness and do God's will. Whether we collaborate with God's grace or not depends on us, because we have free will.
God provides for us in each and every moment of our lives. Each and every day, each and every moment is a gift from God. If each and every day and each and every moment is a gift from God, He also offers us the graces to fulfill it so that we may experience Him and attain the goal of salvation. St. Paul says: "My grace is enough for you…" (2 Cor 12:9).
God never commands the impossible and His grace is always sufficient for us. God makes it possible for every one of us to fulfill our daily tasks with love and generosity.
The tasks entrusted to us in each moment, both big and small alike, in the ordinary routine of our lives are an expression of God's will for us. Thus, live in the present moment and carry out your tasks and offer them up to the Lord for love of God. In such a way, we accept the grace of God and His will for us and cooperate with the grace of God for the present moment.
By trusting and abandoning ourselves to Him, we will experience His amazing divine Providence and this will help us to advance in our spiritual life, as our will becomes more and more aligned with the will of God.
When we are aware of God's grace in the present moment, it helps us to understand more clearly how we should live from day to day trusting in God and in a spirit of self-abandonment.
Most people don't trust God anymore because of many reasons, but ironically, they trust totally their GPS. Sometimes your GPS can lead you to the wrong direction, but Jesus never leads you on the wrong path. Jesus brings you to the truth.


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Health Sciences, Psychiatry/Psychology
Penn State University Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse Strategic Hires: The Departments of Biobehavioral Health, Human Development and Family Studies, Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, and Sociology and Criminology, in conjunction with the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI; http://www.ssri.psu.edu/) at The Pennsylvania State University, announce five tenure track positions in substance abuse as part of the University's recently launched Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse (CCSA; https://CombatSubstanceAbuse.ssri.psu.edu). We seek colleagues whose research interests and expertise fit within the broad areas of: pathways to addiction, criminal justice and/or spillover effects of substance abuse to families and communities (position descriptions below).
Penn State is committed to building our research, education and outreach capacity to address the complex problem of substance abuse and will hire up to twelve new faculty members over the next four years. These strategic hires will build on our faculty's long tradition of excellence in interdisciplinary and translational research on substance abuse and addiction, including in the University's academic departments as well as centers of research excellence such as the Penn State Addiction Center for Translation (PS ACT); Administrative Data Accelerator, http://www.accelerator.psu.edu; Child Study Center, csc.psych.psu.edu; Criminal Justice Research Center, http://justicecenter.psu.edu/; Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, http://www.prevention.psu.edu; Methodology Center https://methodology.psu.edu/; Population Research Institute, www.pop.psu.edu; Center for Educational Disparities Research http://www.ssri.psu.edu/center-educational-disparities-research; Child Maltreatment Solutions Network http://solutionsnetwork.psu.edu; and Social, Life and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center, https://www.imaging.psu.edu.
CCSA faculty will also have access to research infrastructure in Penn State's cross-university research Institutes, including the SSRI, Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute, http://ctsi.psu.edu/; Huck Institutes of Life Sciences https://www.huck.psu.edu/; Institute for CyberScience, https://ics.psu.edu; Penn State Cancer Institute https://cancer.psu.edu/; and Penn State Neuroscience Institute https://hmc.pennstatehealth.org/neuroscience-institute. Our expectation is that these new colleagues will work actively to build a powerful inter-disciplinary community of scholars focused on illuminating the multi-level processes that give rise to addiction, designing, implementing, evaluating, and disseminating novel, evidence-based approaches for prevention and treatment of addiction and identifying and ameliorating the effects of substance abuse on families and communities.
Salaries are competitive, commensurate with background and experience. An attractive benefits package is available as are startup funds to support the applicant's research program. To apply, applicants must complete an online application https://psu.jobs and provide materials as requested below. Review of applications and nominations will begin immediately and will continue to be accepted until the positions are filled. Expected start date is August, 2019.
We encourage applicants to review all five positions and consider applying to all those that are of interest. Successful applicants will have an opportunity to play a leadership role in the CCSA.
Department of Biobehavioral Health - Open Rank Tenure-line
Position Focused on Substance Abuse.
Campus/Location: University Park Campus.
Job Number: 83861. Link to Job Website: https://psu.jobs/job/83861.
Work Unit: College of Health and Human Development.
Department: Biobehavioral Health.
Description: The Department of Biobehavioral Health (BBH; https://hhd.psu.edu/bbh) in the College of Health and Human Development announces an open-rank tenure-line faculty position that integrates behavioral and biological approaches to examine substance abuse in vulnerable populations. Given youth vulnerability to the onset of substance use and abuse, interdisciplinary and developmentally informed research programs that examine how environmental factors (e.g., early life trauma, developmental stress, impoverished social and physical environments, etc.) interact with biological factors (e.g., brain development, genetics, etc.) to increase adolescent/young adult susceptibility to substance abuse disorders and addiction are of particular interest. Candidates should demonstrate an established interdisciplinary research program and a successful history of external funding that integrates behavioral and biological approaches to examine substance abuse. We welcome candidates with research programs that integrate multiple levels of analysis, including at the biological, social, and/or societal context levels. BBH seeks a faculty colleague who is interested in and committed to participating in an inter-disciplinary community of scholars at Penn State and contributing to the mission of the new Consortium for Combating Substance Abuse. The new Consortium builds on existing interdisciplinary strengths within BBH, wherein research examines substance abuse through a developmental lens and considers both biological and behavioral underpinnings of addiction. The successful candidate also will have opportunities for involvement in one or more centers that provide the foundation for the Consortium, listed above. Candidates should consider how their program of research will connect to mission of one or more of these centers and to Penn State's interdisciplinary environment. The successful candidate also will have access to research facilities and institutes at Penn State as noted above and including the Department's shared Biomarker Core Lab (https://hhd.psu.edu/bbh/about/biomarker-core-lab). Questions about this position may be directed to the search committee chair, Dr. Christopher Engeland at bbhfacultysearch2@psu.edu. Applicants should complete an online application https://psu.jobs/job/83861, including a cover letter that describes research and teaching interests and experiences, curriculum vitae, and 3 reprints or preprints that convey research interests and expertise. Three professional letters of reference should be sent directly from the letter writers to Dr. Christopher Engeland at bbhfacultysearch2@psu.edu, or by postal mail to: Dr. Christopher Engeland, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Biobehavioral Health, 219 Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA 16802. Please indicate "Consortium on Combating Substance Abuse - BBH search" in the subject line of email correspondence.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies - Open Rank Tenure-line Position Focused on Substance Abuse.
Job Number: 83921.
Link to Job Website: https://psu.jobs/job/83921.
Department: Human Development and Family Studies.
Description: The Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS; http://www.hhdev.psu.edu/HDFS) in the College of Health and Human Development invites applications for a tenure-line faculty member at the rank of Associate or Full Professor whose research examines: developmental pathways to substance use, abuse, and addiction and/or the effects of substance abuse on the health and well-being of children, youth, adults, and families. Inherent in this position will be a focus on the translation of knowledge obtained into intervention aimed at preventing substance abuse over the life course and more immediate time scales. Specific focus areas for this position include, but are not limited to, parental drug addiction; substance abuse prevention and intervention; risk and protective factors; environmental climate in the home; marital and co-parenting relations; parent-child dynamics; parental monitoring; family, peer, neighborhood, policy and media influences; policy impact analysis, and how contextual factors impact and interact with genetic, physiological and neurodevelopmental factors. The successful applicant will be a leader in a program of research with demonstrated impact on policy and/or practice, a strong publication record, and a track record of securing external funding. Responsibilities include directing a research program focusing on substance abuse, teaching both undergraduate and graduate level courses, and directing theses/dissertations. An earned doctorate in the behavioral or social sciences and the promise of continued outstanding scholarly accomplishments are required. The successful applicant will have the opportunity for a leadership role in the Consortium for Combating Substance Abuse (CCSA). Rated by the U.S. News and World Report as one of the top developmental science programs in the country, and #1 in a recent survey of HDFS doctoral programs in North America (http://u.osu.edu/adventuresinhdfs/the-hdfs-report-claire-kamp-dushs-ranking-of-hdfs-programs-in-north-america/, HDFS administers graduate, undergraduate, and research programs in its core, signature areas of individual development, family science, prevention/intervention, and developmental methods. HDFS is a dynamic, multidisciplinary and collaborative department, committed to excellence, innovation and impact in understanding and improving the lives of individuals and families in diverse contexts. The successful faculty member will have opportunities to collaborate with the Department's superb group of research methodologists who have expertise in prevention/intervention trial design, administrative/intensive longitudinal data analysis, and within-person/within-family methods that assess, analyze, and interpret daily and real-time information about ongoing individual-environment interactions. HDFS has extensive links with the centers of excellence that provide the foundation for the new Consortium and that provide research infrastructure and extensive collaboration opportunities, as delineated above.
The successful candidate also will have the opportunity to work with colleagues in the Administrative Data Accelerator http://www.accelerator.psu.edu/ to translate research findings into economic and policy-relevant language that will resonate with policymakers and spur policy change. To apply, submit a letter of application, statements of research and teaching interests, a curriculum vitae, at least three letters of recommendation, and selected supporting material (e.g., reprints, preprints) to http://psu.jobs/job/83921. If unable to submit electronically, mail to Ms. Dawn Nelson, Developmental Perspectives on Combating Substance Abuse, Human Development and Family Studies, 119 Health and Human Development Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802. For more information, contact Dr. Jennifer Maggs (jmaggs@psu.edu). Please indicate Combating Substance Abuse - HDFS search in the subject line of email correspondence.
Department of Neural & Behavioral Science - Open Rank Tenure Track Position Focused on Substance Abuse.
Campus/Location: Hershey Campus.
Work Unit: College of Medicine.
Department: Neural and Behavioral Science.
Description: The Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences (NBS; https://med.psu.edu/nbs) in the Penn State College of Medicine, invites applications for a tenure-line faculty position for a clinician/scientist (Ph.D., M.D., or both) with expertise as an established scholar in the study and treatment of substance use disorder and addiction; the position is open rank but a priority is to hire a senior scholar. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with human clinical trials research in the study and treatment of addiction and also will maintain a basic science research program in the study of substance use disorder and addiction. Thus, we expect that this colleague will play a key role in facilitating interactions between clinical and basic science faculty across colleges, departments, centers, and institutes and in furthering translational research in the study and treatment of substance use disorder and addiction. The Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences consists of 17 preclinical faculty scientists across all ranks, and numerous joint faculty from the Departments of Anesthesiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nutritional Sciences, Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, and Radiology. As such, the Department serves as the intellectual hub for neuroscience for basic science faculty, and especially for our clinical faculty. The successful applicant will join a community of scholars at Penn State contributing to the mission of the new Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse and will have an opportunity to play a leadership role in the Consortium and collaborate with faculty in its foundational centers of excellence. This individual also will be able to take advantage of the Department's close ties focal engagement with the Penn State Addiction Center for Translation (PS ACT), Penn State Neuroscience Institute https://hmc.pennstatehealth.org/neuroscience-institute, and Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute http://ctsi.psu.edu/. The individual appointed to this unique position will be encouraged to seek a joint appointment in the Departments of Psychiatry or Neurology and the graduate faculty so he or she can teach and mentor graduate and/or medical students. Review of applications and nominations will begin immediately and continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Interested candidates must complete an online application at http://psu.jobs/job/84570 and should include as attachments, a letter of application, statements of research and teaching interests, a CV, relevant license(s), at least three letters of recommendation, and selected (p)reprints. If unable to submit electronically, mail to Ms. Cathy Hirschbock, Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033. Please indicate Combating Substance Abuse - NBS search in the subject line of the email correspondence. Complete applications will be reviewed as they are received until the position is filled. Questions regarding the position can be sent to Ms. Cathy Hirschbock at chirschbock@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
Department of Psychology - Open Rank Tenure-Track Position Focused on Substance Abuse.
Work Unit: College of the Liberal Arts.
Department: Psychology.
Description: The Department of Psychology in the College of the Liberal Arts http://psych.la.psu.edu/ announces one tenure line faculty position to start in Fall 2019; the position is open rank, but hiring an established scholar is a priority. We seek a candidate whose research is focused on substance abuse during adolescence, broadly defined and/or on consequences for children of substance abuse in parents. The successful candidate will affiliate with the graduate training program in developmental or child clinical psychology and should have an established and influential research program in one or more of the following areas: developmental pathways to substance abuse, including prenatal exposure; negative spillover of parental substance abuse on children's development, including on substance use during adolescence; impact of adolescent substance abuse on families and communities; basic research on biological, cognitive-affective, and social-familial mechanisms that can inform both developmental models and intervention efforts; and development and evaluation of interventions to prevent and treat adolescent substance abuse or to mitigate effects on families, including effects on parenting. We welcome candidates with research programs that incorporate multiple levels of analysis, including social and societal context. The successful applicant will have an opportunity to play a leadership role in the CCSA. We seek a faculty colleague who is interested in and committed to participating in an inter-disciplinary community of scholars at Penn State contributing to the mission of the CCSA. In addition to co-funding by the SSRI, this position will be supported by the Child Study Center (CSC; csc.psych.psu.edu), which is housed in the Department of Psychology and functions as a university-wide translational research center that supports and advances developmental science aimed at promoting positive educational, health, and mental health outcomes for children, adolescents, and families. Opportunities also include collaborations with the other centers of excellence that form the new Consortium, as delineated above, as well as with the PSU Psychological Clinic, the CSC's satellite centers in urban areas throughout the state, and the Africana Research Center (http://arc.la.psu.edu/). Interested candidates must complete an online application at https://psu.jobs/job/84241, and should include as attachments a letter of application, statements of research and teaching interests, a CV, at least three letters of recommendation, and selected (p)reprints electronically. Complete applications will be reviewed as they are received until the position is filled. Questions regarding the application process can be emailed to Kelly Confer at kym3@psu.edu, and questions regarding the position can be sent to Stephen Wilson at sjw42@psu.edu.
Department of Sociology and Criminology - Open Rank Tenure-line Position Focused on Substance Abuse.
Date Announced: 11/8/18.
Department: Sociology and Criminology.
Description: The Department of Sociology and Criminology in the College of the Liberal Arts (http://sociology.la.psu.edu/) invites applications for a tenure line faculty position to begin in Fall 2019; the position is open rank, but hiring an established scholar is a priority. We seek an outstanding social scientist whose research is directed at documenting, understanding, and reducing the direct and collateral consequences of substance abuse for individuals, families, and communities. We are particularly interested in adding to the department a scholar whose research addresses the consequences of substance abuse for one or more of the following set of outcomes: child and adolescent development, criminal behavior and criminal justice contact, drug policy and its impact, adverse health outcomes, family functioning, labor markets, and community vitality. Priority will be given to candidates with a strong record of policy-relevant research, translational activities, or community outreach, as well as a strong external funding record or the possibility of developing such a record. This position will be closely linked to the resources and opportunities available in several Penn State centers and institutes, including the Penn State Population Research Institute (PRI; http://www.pop.psu.edu/), Criminal Justice Research Center (CJRC; http://justicecenter.psu.edu/), and Administrative Data Accelerator (http://www.accelerator.psu.edu/). To apply, please submit a cover letter outlining your qualifications for the position, a curriculum vita, and the names of three references at https://psu.jobs/job/84023. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Questions about the position should be directed to Professor Eric Baumer (epbaumer@psu.edu). This is a cluster ad that should not accept applications directly, but is meant to reroute interested individuals to the posting most appropriate with their expertise.
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Gilmour could be set for loan move
Chelsea midfielder Billy Gilmour could be allowed to leave Chelsea on loan before the transfer window shuts next week.
The 19-year-old Scot made his sixth appearance of the season in the FA Cup win over Luton Town on Sunday at Stamford Bridge and generally had an impressive game in the centre of midfield alongside Mason Mount.
However, with opportunities likely to be limited during the rest of the campaign a loan might be in his best interests in order to secure regular first-team football to aid his development.
Gilmour began his youth career with Rangers before making the trip south of the border in 2017 to join the Chelsea academy.
He is highly rated by the club, and there is no suggestion that any loan move for him would include an option to buy.
That is opposed to the case with Fikayo Tomori whose move to AC Milan has been completed, with such an option included in his loan contract.
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Present a marked astringency, a balanced tannin non-tannin ratio, a remarkable capacity to combine with hiding fibers ensuring a particularly tight and elastic grain. They also have excellent light fastness because hydrolysable tannins are not subject to oxidation.
With a higher pH compared to the other ones, are less astringent and therefore penetrate more easily and rapidly. Although the sweetened extracts for some characteristics are completely different from the astringent types, they have the same light fastness and capacity to become fixed to the hide, while producing a more mildly tanned leather.
Astringent and sweetened chestnut extracts can be blended either by themselves or with cathecol type extracts, phenolic syntans, naphthalene and phenol-naphthalene syntans.
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Ready Yet? Get Set: Nickelodeon And Kenan Thompson To Revive ALL THAT
1990s Nickelodeon was prime Nickelodeon. Am I biased? Yes. But that doesn't mean I'm wrong. One of the huge shows they had then was All That, which was a kids' version of Saturday Night Live. Nostalgia is the most addictive drug in the world these days, and Nickelodeon wants to take advantage of that.
Variety reports that the network has enlisted Kenan Thompson to bring the show back. Kenan was on All That when it first premiered, and went on to his own show with Kel Mitchell, called Kenan and Kel. After that, Kenan joined Saturday Night Live, and is now the longest running tenured cast member ever. So he's pretty familiar with this sketch comedy thing.
The best part? According to Brian Robbins, President of Nickelodeon, some old cast members will return to be on the show along with the new cast.
"We think there's a great opportunity to find the next pool of stars. We want to bring the show back in a real fun way. This summer, we are going to bring back a lot of the original cast and the cast through the years, and let them introduce the new cast of 'All That' to the world." He suggested the program would be "a sort of mash-up of some of the old sketches and a lot of new sketches."
One of the most famous sketches from the show was Good Burger which involved both Kenan and Kel. It was so popular it even spawned a movie in 1997. Back in 2015, they did a Good Burger sketch on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The clip might give you an idea of how the veterans will be incorporated on All That.
Kenan was my favorite Nickelodeon personality. His involvement seals the deal: I will stop, look and watch – especially when the veterans show up. Kenan loves the show and when Robbins suggested he be Executive Producer, he didn't hesitate to take it.
"It means everything to me. It was my first job that I ever had. It gave me an opportunity. Every time [Robbins] does that, he has been right on the money. He has done it infinite times in my life."
Things will happen fast, as All That is returning this summer. One thing I hope they don't change is the theme song from TLC, which I love. If they have someone else cover it, that's fine. But the song should stay the same.
Source: Variety
Tags: All That, Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Nickelodeon, Reboot, Relaunch
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Google sales hit a speed bump in Q1
Total sales grew by 12 per cent, below analysts' projections
Zach Miners (IDG News Service) 24 April, 2015 07:10
Google's sales rose 12 per cent during the first quarter, the slowest rate of revenue growth since 2013, while the amount it charges for ad clicks continued to drop.
Total sales for the period ending March 31 came in at $US17.3 billion, missing consensus expectations of $US17.5 billion from analysts polled by Thomson Financial Network.
After subtracting traffic acquisition costs, the portion of revenue paid to partners that distribute its ads, Google's sales were $US13.9 billion, the company reported Thursday.
Google's net income was $US3.59 billion, up 3.9 per cent from the same period last year. Its adjusted earnings per share, which excludes certain expenses, also rose, by nearly 5 per cent to $US6.57, but below analyst projections of $US6.60.
The company's paid clicks grew 13 per cent compared with the first quarter of 2014. The growth rate in paid clicks has also been slowing progressively. Meanwhile, Google's cost per click, the amount it charges for ads, dropped by 7 per cent.
Google's revenue growth has slowed in recent years as people have shifted more of their online activities away from the desktop to devices like smartphones and tablets and to mobile apps. That has put pressure on Google's critical search and display ads businesses, which have been strong on the desktop.
As a result, Google has been working to demonstrate the value of mobile as a platform for services. Just this week, it changed its algorithm to give a boost in search results to sites optimized for mobile devices. The company is also trying to make it easier for consumers to move between mobile web sites and mobile apps, by improving a technology known as "deep linking."
And the company is in the early stages of launching Project Fi, a mobile Internet service that acts as an alternative to traditional carriers by letting users switch between multiple networks and does not charge consumers for unused data.
Google does not break out its revenue into separate desktop and mobile categories.
Google and Facebook still attract the majority of marketers' digital ad budgets in the US, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
Zach Miners covers social networking, search and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow Zach on Twitter at @zachminers. Zach's e-mail address is zach_miners@idg.com
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System One Services is currently seeking a Construction Project Manager for a direct hire position located in Kansas City, MO.
The Project Manager is responsible for the direction and performance of field operations and construction management for assigned project(s), ensuring work is performed in conformance with the project objectives and requirements. Principal areas of responsibility are safety, cost estimating, schedule, construction operations, quality, staffing, material control, field-based procurement, client relations, business development, and integrated project delivery. Single or multiple project assignments may be required.
Capable of managing multiple small projects as well as those with a TIC above $25MM.
Implement and maintain effective management, planning, and cost control systems in cooperation with the project team.
Determine construction staffing requirements, roles and responsibilities in cooperation with the project team under the guidance of the Corporate Policies Manual and company management.
Assist with pre-construction activities relevant to assigned project work.
Prepare or assist pre-construction manager with the project budget.
Work with estimating department to prepare buy-out plan.
Work with procurement department to prepare procurement strategy.
Develop a project execution plan.
Assist with implementation and maintenance of effective construction safety program, coordinate with Project EHS Technician if staffed appropriately.
Review and approve construction operation plans.
Review and approve project change order requests.
Review and approve applications for payment.
Provide monthly forecasting for all projects, including internal general conditions costs.
Review contingency plans for potential problems concerning labor activity, fire, storms, etc.
Track and report on all project costs.
Identify and evaluate risk that may have an impact on the project.
Approve and support project quality control program.
Remain knowledgeable of Client prime agreement.
Remain knowledgeable of subcontract agreements, purchase order terms and conditions, and sub-consultant agreements.
Administer contract documents in accordance with policies and procedure for the maximum benefit of the company.
Initiate and attend Client meetings.
Initiate visits to the engineering office to coordinate construction requirements with design operations.
Provide support and guidance for project personnel.
Implement and maintain a labor relations program (when working with union contractors).
Advise management of developments that may affect project profit, costs, schedules, and client relations.
Establish and maintain communications between Client and Subcontractors to ensure accurate and timely flow of information.
Develop and issue monthly status reports to keep management informed on construction progress, direct and indirect construction costs, and other project activities.
Participate in business development activities and promote product Client relationships.
BS Engineering or Construction Management, or equivalent.
5 years of field/office construction experience.
Team-oriented individual capable of managing others.
Demonstrated success in managing the construction scope on mid-sized projects.


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from __future__ import print_function

import argparse
import os
import random
import sys

import boto3

__version__ = '1.9.0'

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
    description="""
    SSH into an ec2 host where a tag matches the given value. In the case there
    is more than one such instance, one will be chosen at random. Any extra
    arguments are passed to ssh directly.
    """
)
parser.add_argument('-t', '--tag', type=str,
                    default=os.getenv('EC2_HOST_TAG', 'Name'),
                    help="Tag to match, defaults to 'Name'")
parser.add_argument('-u', '--user', type=str,
                    default=os.getenv('EC2_SSH_USER', 'ubuntu'),
                    help="Which user to connect with, defaults to 'ubuntu'")
parser.add_argument('value', help="The value for the tag to match")

def main():
    args, unparsed = parser.parse_known_args()

    if '@' in args.value:
        username, value = args.value.split('@', 1)
    else:
        username = args.user
        value = args.value

    host_name = get_host_name(args.tag, value)

    if not host_name:
        print("ec2-ssh: no hosts matched", file=sys.stderr)
        sys.exit(1)

    command = [
        'ssh',
        '-t', '-t',
        username + '@' + host_name,
    ]
    if unparsed:
        command.extend(unparsed)

    print("ec2-ssh connecting to {}".format(host_name), file=sys.stderr)
    sys.stdout.flush()
    os.execlp(*command)

def get_host_name(tag, value):
    for host in get_dns_names(tag, value):
        return host

def ec2_host_parser():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description="Output ec2 public host names for active hosts in random "
                    "order, optionally match a tag which defaults to 'Name' "
                    "or environment variable EC2_HOST_TAG."
    )
    parser.add_argument('value', type=str, nargs='?',
                        help='the value the tag should equal')
    parser.add_argument('-t', '--tag', type=str,
                        default=os.getenv('EC2_HOST_TAG', 'Name'),
                        help='which tag to search')
    return parser

def host():
    args = ec2_host_parser().parse_args()
    instances = get_dns_names(args.tag, args.value)
    random.shuffle(instances)
    for instance in instances:
        print(instance)

def get_dns_names(tag, value):
    conn = boto3.client('ec2')

    filters = [
        {
            'Name': 'instance-state-name',
            'Values': ['running'],
        }
    ]
    if value:
        filters.append({
            'Name': 'tag:' + tag,
            'Values': [value]
        })

    data = conn.describe_instances(Filters=filters)

    dns_names = []
    for reservation in data['Reservations']:
        for instance in reservation['Instances']:
            if instance.get('PublicDnsName'):
                dns_names.append(instance['PublicDnsName'])
            elif instance.get('PublicIpAddress'):
                dns_names.append(instance['PublicIpAddress'])
            elif instance['PrivateIpAddress']:
                dns_names.append(instance['PrivateIpAddress'])
    return dns_names

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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Senior Care in The Energy Corridor TX: Could Your Attitude Impact Your Parent's Ability to Adapt to a New Caregiver?
Could Your Attitude Impact Your Parent's Ability to Adapt to a New Caregiver?
Senior Care in The Energy Corridor TX: Could Your Attitude Impact Your Parent's Ability to Adapt to a New Caregiver?
Adapting to a new caregiver is hard for everyone. Is your attitude impacting your parent's response to that caregiver? If you're trying too hard to mediate interactions, it can make it hard for your parent to rely on the senior care aide. Here are things you need to make sure you're not doing.
Watch what you say about the caregiver when your parent is around. You may not agree with the choices the caregiver makes. That's okay. Don't voice your opinion around your parent. Talk to the caregiver privately and address concerns without your parent's knowledge.
When you're around your parent, make sure you're being positive. You don't want to give your parent any reason to be negative when it comes to the senior care he or she is receiving.
It may be tempting to dive in if your parent is unhappy, but you must resist that urge. Let the caregiver use his or her training to handle potential problems. You have to have faith in the caregiver's training. If the caregiver needs help, the caregiver will come ask for your help.
The goal of senior care is to help your parent be independent while aging at home. To make sure this happens, you need to step back and let your parent try to do things independently. It can take a few attempts, but your parent will be delighted when they are successful. It will boost confidence and self-esteem.
As an example of ways you might be parenting your parent, look at this situation. One woman struggled with socialization. Her daughter grew accustomed to cutting her off and finishing her sentences when she was trying to talk to her aide.
If your parent has Alzheimer's and is trying to come up with the right words, let your mom or dad come up with it. Resist the urge to fill in blanks and finish something that's causing difficulty.
Use your parent's desire to be independent to your advantage. While your parent is doing things on his or her own, you can go out with friends, your kids, or your significant other. Give yourself a break.
Caregivers support your parent's independence and provide you with the chance to have a break. Respite care is a service that you need to discuss when you talk to a senior care specialist.
You'll need to be there for your parent with the adjustment to senior care, but you also need to push your parent into independence. Call a senior care agency to learn more.
If you or an aging loved one are considering senior care in The Energy Corridor, TX, please call the caring staff at At Your Side Home Care. We will answer all of your senior care questions. Call today: (832) 271-1600.


You're reading Apocalypse Hunter Chapter 116: The Hive Part 2 at Wuxiaworld.world. Please visit our website regularly to update the latest chapters of the series.
The huge cave was large enough for ten people to walk in together, and the current situation could be surmised from the many places that had collapsed and caved in.
"Whoever built this cave must have relocated or died."
In the dim tunnel, everyone was using night vision. Flashing lights in the dark would be a foolish move.
"Are we going to the entrance? Or to the exit?"
Zin was asking whether they were going through the route they had entered the cave or from where they had exited it when they made their escape in the past.
"We're going through the exit. The entrance is on a cliff with no exit."
Going through the entrance would be unwise since they had fallen in rather than reaching the Hive through a crack on the ground. Even though their escape was hectic, the two remembered the exact route they had used to pull it off.
Some memories could never be forgotten, and this one had left a powerful impression on both of them.
There would be instant panic if the citizens found out about a web of caves beneath the city, and if monsters came from the tunnel made by a giant monster, they would wreak havoc on the city.
There should also be a lot more exits and entrances they didn't know about, and most of those should be unusable by humans.
Yoohwan moved about with his attention on the camera, looking here and there, perhaps to store data in his helmet. They were going to come up with a plan to destroy the Hive using that data.
Perhaps due to the CP that even monsters could not withstand, the inside of the tunnel was silent and solemn. Grasping the situation, Zin asked, "Yoohwan, is your objective to destroy the Hive?"
"I've lived just for that."
Even after betraying the hunters, he had gone on his own path.
"Because I lost too much here, that was all I could think about."
He had experienced things that didn't even compare to having pockmarks on his face. Although he didn't speak out, Taehone knew how Yoohwan felt.
He had lost a student he had trained to hunt with him, a colleague who had been with him for as long as his career. Hunters sometimes teamed up to do jobs, especially more so in the city. Taehone had had a partner like that, and now, Taehone and Yoohwan were that to each other.
Because they had lost everything overnight, life had not progressed a single step from there.
Every move made after that was made to come back here.
But it didn't just end with them coming back here. For now, they had to complete the reconnaissance without dying and return to the city.
"Do you remember what the Hive was like?"
"It was very messy and… dirty. I couldn't understand how there could be such a big underground space," answered Taehone.
"You'll soon see it for yourself."
Yoohwan walked on as if it would be faster to see. Perhaps because of the enormous toxicity here, there were no monsters, and they had no encounters with wanton enemies until they reached the entrance of the Hive.
Between the cracks in the tunnel, there was a hole from where it seemed possible to slide down.
Taehone and Yoohwan had climbed up desperately like insects. Without hesitation, one by one they slid down to the real Hive.
"Even the air seems different."
They could feel the heavy, sticky air swirling around their necks. It had seemed to be just a cave that had been cut through a rock, but as they came down, Zin and Ramphil could already tell that something had changed.
A threatening sound, seemingly from nowhere, reverberated. In the distance, sounded a strange noise that could be the monsters fighting or the monsters mating.
They were quiet, but the sounds in the distance were something that Zin was hearing for the first time. On the wall, were dried up things that could be membranes or mucous, and mysterious underground plants were covering the area like vines, moving slowly, like living creatures. The vines that were all over the place made the underground space look like a cave occupied by a huge tree.
The breathing underground plants also looked like tentacles.
Both Taehone and Yoohwan became as stiff as stones. Taehone's only hand was twitching slightly.
Because the air and atmosphere had changed, it was almost as if the four of them had entered a different world, and the two who had experienced that other world needed time to reflect on their fears and overcome them.
"From here on, I stand at the front."
The guiding was over. Therefore, Zin, who was now the most capable of dealing with the situation, took the lead. Zin took out his Phantomvein and put it on his back, while his right hand held the AKM assault rifle with shells filled with buckshot.
From then on, there was no telling what could happen, and he had to pay attention to the environment with his entire body.
The passage leading down was spacious, and the sounds from the distance seemed to resonate on the walls as Zin looked around. It was impossible to know whether it was dug up, or whether that huge underground space had been created by the colonies. The wriggling of living walls was a horrible sight that would scare most people.
Zin walked slowly, checking everything in sight. The others followed behind him carefully.
"I imagined there would be a Hive, but it's such a weird space… The wall seems to be moving, almost alive. There are strange creatures out there, but they don't live underground like this… Fortunately, I don't think it's harmful."
If making a full lap wasn't possible, they were to retreat. While considerable autonomy was guaranteed in the operation, Zin could already feel the competing world of countless monsters in the distance.
Ramphil was thinking the same.
The place seemed too strange to see it as just an ecosystem of monsters made up of countless colonies. The odour in the air, the strange vegetation that covered the surroundings, and the branching roads that seemed like they had been made by drilling the ground, all of those things felt like they had always existed.
When there was a fork in the road, Zin didn't waste time thinking. The way back was being kept in his head anyway. All he had to do was to go back the way he came, so Zin followed every path whenever there was a fork.
Suddenly he heard a sound nearby, so he raised his hand and stopped his team. In front of them, was a corner they had to go around.
It was the sound of a predator having a meal. Zin prepared his weapon and slowly approached it alone, thrusting his head into the corner.
A human monster with nasty tentacles all over his body was hunched over and feverishly chomping on something.
It was the grotesque plant that made up the wall.
But the plant shrieked and bled dark red blood every time the vicious tentacle monster bit into it, as if it were alive. Zin couldn't even guess where the noise was coming from or where the monster was biting it.
At Zin's signal, others stayed in place and didn't budge.
Zin had never seen such a monster before in his life.
That was why thinking was unnecessary.
The answer to dealing with things you didn't know was simple.
You had to fight it.
As soon as the black mist came out of his body, Zin disappeared from where he was standing.
And in the next moment, Zin's Phantomvein struck the head of the tentacle monster.
In one blow, the monster that had been struck in what had seemed like its head, exploded rather than being sliced. Zin did not stop, striking the remains of the tentacle monster several times.
In a way, he was mincing rather than slicing.
After hitting it four times in just a second, Zin looked down at the monster that had quickly turned into a piece of meat. The meat was wriggling, but it was certainly dead.
The other three came slowly. It was quite bizarre to see the body of a monster and the plant that it'd been eating wiggling.
"I-I can't believe you just killed the monster so… so quickly."
Taehone looked stunned, and so did Yoohwan.
"Why do you have a funny look on your face when you took care of it?"
But Ramphil asked something else. Although the hunt had been successful, Zin's face was grimly hardened.
"Even though I activated the Darkbone, I had to attack it four times to kill it."
He had approached at a moment's notice and had surprise attacked the monster in the middle of a meal. But as soon as the sword had struck it, the tentacles on the body had become entangled and hardened. He had sensed and reacted to the attack in that short period of time.
That's why Phantomvein hadn't cut the monster but destroyed it. Yoohwan stretched his right hand toward the wriggling tentacle.
A torrent of blue flames burned the tentacles. The tentacles wriggled in the blazing heat of the fire and soon became a lump of charcoal, unmoving.
"When you run into the ones that have tentacles here, you have to treat every tentacle as individual creatures. They all move individually."
"The tentacles are not coming out of the body. Rather, we have to consider that it's another creature called the tentacle that's attached to the monster."
Therefore, each tentacle as a separate organism could sense danger. So, in fact, what Zin had killed had not just been a monster, but a collection of tentacles.
Zin's face was hardened by the fact that even such a small monster couldn't be killed in a single strike while Darkborn was activated.
"The tentacles grow and shrink arbitrarily."
Taehone spoke of the tentacle-type monster, which was common in the Hive. The tentacles grew and shrunk freely, but the most important thing was that they could also make themselves thin. Just like they had just witnessed, their strength could change as well.
"Because they can make themselves into whips or blades, it's better to shoot the tentacled ones from afar."
How Zin had just handled the monster was a fairly dangerous way.
The tentacles could turn into a spear to attack the enemy, and at the same time, a shield to protect themselves from attacks by covering the body and adding to its defense.
"Even if you shoot from a distance, the reflexes of these tentacles are fast enough to respond to bullets."
A bullet was always faster than sound, unless you use subsonic bullets. However, the reflexes of the tentacles were quick enough to react to incoming bullets.
And the two said that the tentacle monster was the most common type of monster he'd find. Most of them had tentacles, although they differed in size and shape.
Even monsters at the bottom of the food chain, eating plants on the wall, had reflexes that went beyond the speed of sound.
Zin muttered with a bitter smile, "Maybe people have been delusional so far."
"It might be ridiculous to think that monsters from the Hive have come up to the surface."
It could be that the monsters in the big cities were from an entirely different place, and the Hive might just be a settlement, and no single monster had ever come up from it.
If these monsters were to come up, no ordinary hunter would be able to take them down.
Existing monsters might simply have lived on the surface or in the city in from the start, and the Hive could've been discovered by accident and had had nothing to do with the monsters on the surface.
Taehone and Yoohwan also nodded solemnly, as if they considered that statement to be true.
If damage on the surface had nothing to do with the Hive, then there was no reason to destroy the Hive.
Destroying the Hive would not get rid of the monsters on the ground, so there might be a reason for Dominator to go through with their plans.
Despite Zin's anxiety, the reactions from Yoohwan and Taehone were the opposite.
They had to wage a great war of nerves to catch one of these monsters, and sometimes, a few hunters were sacrificed.
But with Zin, even if he said that the monster was powerful, it didn't change the fact that he had destroyed it in a second.
Naturally, Zin had a scary look on his face, to put it mildly.
An unpleasant feeling was already climbing up his back.
While scouting the Hive, the reconnaissance team avoided the enemy as much as it could be avoided.
There was no need to raise awareness by unnecessarily attracting the attention of the monsters. Even with the silencer, the shots were relatively loud, so they tried to avoid attacking as much as possible. Fortunately, Zin knew how to be out of the enemy's sight, even in places he had never been before.
It was somatic empirical knowledge only permitted to those who had walked countless times through uncharted land.
Taehone and Yoohwan couldn't help but admire Zin as they watched him calmly continue the covert operation. From a vantage point where they could see the enemies but the enemies couldn't see them, they moved about, definitely focused entirely on reconnaissance.
The monsters did not see the the reconnaissance team, and Zin knew better than anyone how to move silently.
The Hive was a space that had many paths and huge spaces. There were, of course, relatively more monsters in huge spaces. The Hive was certainly a massive land that included a significant amount of space.
There weren't just the tentacle monsters. The deep darkness, which was detected by infrared cameras, suddenly started to wiggle like smoke from all over the place before engulfing the monsters.
Just like that, the tentacle monsters swallowed by the black smoke staggered and, suddenly, began to shoot tentacles all over the place.
The tentacles controlled by spirits began to be destroyed for no reason, and the other monsters who saw that fled.
Evil spirits, who suddenly appeared out of nowhere and vented enormous fear toward their surroundings, were merely spreading insanity around the surrounding space. Taehone and Yoohwan seemed to remember the time when they were seized by that fear and shot their colleagues.
Other than Zin, the other three were susceptible to such fears. The evil spirits had not yet detected them, but if they were to face something like that in the future, they needed a plan to deal with it.
Zin signaled for the group to move closer to him. Hiding behind the rock, the four gathered together, and Zin took out spell wand.
"Using the letters Myeong, Kyung, Ji, Soo, I'll use the clear mirror spell."
Usually that required a ritual, but with the energy of the Darkbone, such process was unnecessary.


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