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The Line Up at The Neon this Week
November 10, 2021 By Jonathan McNeal
Wow! It felt really good to be busy again! THE FRENCH DISPATCH became our biggest opening of 2021, and we are thrilled. THANK YOU! It will certainly be sticking around. If you need to see LAST NIGHT IN SOHO, Thursday afternoon will be its last screening. On Thursday evening, we'll open Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical film BELFAST – don't miss this one!
We're adding an award-winning new film to our Virtual Cinema this weekend, too – a powerful indigenous story set during Canada's Oka Crisis in 1990 – BEANS.
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Synopsis for BELFAST: "Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s." (Focus Features) This incredible, award-winning film will certainly garner a "Best Picture" nomination this year. Starring Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds, and introducing Jude Hill. I know that we have a lot of Judi Dench fans…and she is irresistible in this film. Her scenes with Ciarán Hinds are bliss. Don't miss this one on the big screen! During Opening Week (Nov. 12-18), the 1:15 screening each day will feature Open Captions (this means captions will be projected on screen). Click the image below to watch the film's trailer.
NEW IN OUR VIRTUAL CINEMA
Synopsis for BEANS: Available starting Nov. 12! "Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990." Click the image below to watch the wonderful trailer and gain 72 hour access to the film for $12.
CONTINUING IN OUR VIRTUAL CINEMA
Synopsis for SISTERS: "For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him reveal where their brother is. When the past catches up, the three sisters have no choice but to put their differences aside." (Distrib Films) Click the image below to watch the trailer and gain 72 hour access for $10.
To read more about all the films that are still available in our Virtual Cinema, please visit our WEBSITE. Here's a LINK with a video I made about how Virtual Cinema works. Our Virtual Cinema is slowing down, but we still want to bring new films now and again that deserve to be seen that you can enjoy from home! More titles are on the way…stay tuned!
"SHOUT FOR JOY! brings the power and passion of Jeremy Winston Chorale International to the big screen. Filmed in the beautiful sanctuary at Kettering Seventh-day Adventist Church, this short film showcases the exceptional artistry of this nation's most outstanding vocalists and musicians. Along with in-depth artist interviews and discussions, the music will feature classical, spirituals, and a cappella gospel. It shares the story of this non-profit organization and how it uses music to change the world. All proceeds support scholarships for collegiate music students." (taken from press notes) Tickets are $20 each and available on THE NEON's website or at our box office during traditional operating hours. This event will take place Tuesday, November 23 at 7:30.
We're delighted to bring JULIA REICHERT: 50 YEARS IN FILM to Julia's hometown. The retrospective, which was curated and organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts, premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in May 2019. The film series then traveled to Los Angeles, Houston, Minneapolis, Portland, Cleveland, Louisville and Madison before the pandemic shut everything down. Reichert said, "It means so much to me to share these films again with Dayton audiences, many who weren't even born yet when these films came out." Attendees at the first screening on Nov. 21 will receive a complimentary souvenir program and will be treated to an artist talk from Reichert before screening her very first feature film – GROWING UP FEMALE. 4 dates have been set and more titles and dates will be determined in early 2022. Tickets are $10 for each screening and are now available on our website and at our box office. More details about each selection will be available in upcoming newsletters. Here's the schedule:
Sunday, Nov 21 at 4:00 – GROWING UP FEMALE & Artist Talk
Wednesday, Dec 1 at 7:00 – UNION MAIDS and THE LAST TRUCK
Wednesday, Dec. 8 at 7:00 – SEEING RED
Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 7:00 – JULIA'S HIDDEN GEMS: 4 SHORT FILMS
We recently got a new delivery of NEON t-shirts and hoodies…perfect for the movie-lovers in your life. Get 'em while you can.
THE NEON wants to keep our Staff and Patrons safe! Our Board of Directors has sought advisement from Combined Health Dayton & Montgomery County and the Center for Disease Control. Masks will continue to be required for all guests age 6 and higher until further notice. On Oct. 1, 2021, we began our new policy that will be in effect until further notice – all patrons aged 12 and over will be required to present proof of vaccination with a photo ID or a negative COVID-19 test from the last 72 hours. (Self-administered tests will not be accepted. Test results must include name, test result, and a timestamp within the past 72 hours.) We will continue to monitor the community's health data and amend our policies based on guidance. Please stay tuned to THE NEON's website for the latest updates. A couple helpful hints!! Take a single picture of your photo ID and your vaccination card in the same shot. You'll be able to flash this photo at our box office, and that will work as proof enough for us. If you have a smart phone, you could also download the app that most folks in NYC are using to get into movies, Broadway shows and restaurants – NYCCOVIDSAFE. This app will have you take a photo of your ID and your vaccine card – and it saves you from having to hunt for a photo on your phone. I downloaded it, and it's very easy to use.
Please remember – We ask that you arrive before showtime to allow for checking everyone in before the auditorium gets dark!
If you know anyone or organization who might be interested in some old speakers and subwoofers, please send them my way.
Filed Under: On Screen Dayton, The Featured Articles
About Jonathan McNeal
Jonathan McNeal, a graduate of Wright State's Motion Picture Production program, has been managing THE NEON in downtown Dayton since the Fall of 2001. Having grown up in a small town in northeast Ohio, the idea of an independent movie theater that showed hard-to-find films seemed like something that could only be found in a major metropolis. Upon moving to Dayton in the early 1990's, finding THE NEON was a was like finding a new home.
McNeal's film work includes the documentary of Dayton's beloved drag troupe - THE RUBI GIRLS. The doc premiered in San Francisco in 2003 and played across the country and as far away as Australia. The film continues to be played at night clubs and on college campuses as an educational and outreach tool.
McNeal himself has been a part of the performance troupe since 1997.


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News Release 31-Oct-2016
A common heart problem caused by cancer therapy avoided blood vessel treatment
image: Electromicroscopic image of damaged endothelial cells in the heart of a doxorubicin-treated mouse. The researchers found that in mouse heart, doxorubicin leads to blood vessel rarefaction, which was prevented by treatment with gene therapy using the VEGF-B growth factor. view more
Credit: Ilkka Miinalainen, University of Oulu.
Researchers at the Wihuri Research Institute and the University of Helsinki, Finland, have found that some of the harmful effects of a commonly used cancer drug can be alleviated by using gene therapy that stimulates blood vessel growth in the heart.
Doxorubicin treatment, which is commonly used in a variety of cancers, leads to cardiac atrophy and body wasting. The researchers found that in mouse heart, doxorubicin leads to blood vessel rarefaction, which was prevented by treatment with gene therapy using the VEGF-B growth factor.
As advances in cancer treatment have decreased deaths from cancer, doxorubicin-induced heart problems have become an increasing problem. The new findings give hope that in future the heart could be protected by gene therapy, allowing more thorough cytostatic cancer treatment. "Thus, the cancer itself would be treated more effectively and the adverse effects could be avoided", explains Markus Räsänen, MD, who made the discovery during his thesis studies.
"Doxorubicin, a cytostatic agent of the anthracycline class, that was used in this study has been a target of intensive research in the scientific world for a long time, and its role has been described in thousands of research articles. This research article is the first one, where blood vessel-directed therapy has a clear protective effect against the doxorubicin toxicity", says Dr. Riikka Kivelä, who supervised the study.
"Our findings show, that especially the endothelial cells, which form the inner surface of the vessels in the heart, have an essential role in the protection against the cardiotoxicity. More preclinical studies are needed though for the development of VEGF-B gene therapy for cardiac protection in patients" elaborates Räsänen.
The results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
This research involved scientists from the Wihuri Research Institute and the Universities of Helsinki, Jyväskylä and Oulu. Funding was provided by the Wihuri Research Institute, the Academy of Finland, the Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, the Finnish Cancer Foundation, and the European Union People Programme (Marie Curie Actions).
MD Markus Rasanen
markus.rasanen@helsinki.fi
Office: 358-294-125-569
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Q: weight-unbalanced AVL tree Believing the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVL_tree

AVL trees are height-balanced, but in general not weight-balanced nor μ-balanced;[4] that is, sibling nodes can have hugely differing numbers of descendants.

But, as an AVL tree is:

a self-balancing binary search tree [...]. In an AVL tree, the heights of the two child subtrees of any node differ by at most one

I don't see how an AVL could be weight-unbalanced since -if I understood the definition of an AVL tree well-, every sibling will have approximately the same number of child  since they have the same height +/- 1.
So, could you give me an example of an AVL tree which is unbalanced ? I did not succeed to find one. Thus, or I misunderstood the definition of an AVL/unweighted tree, or the wikipedia article is false...
Thanks

A: You are correct in your understanding that an AVL tree is defined by the nearly-uniform height of its edge nodes, but your confusion appears to be about the difference between node position and edge weight.
That is: In an AVL tree, the depth of the edge nodes will the same +/- (but not both!) one. This makes no claims as to the cost associated with an edge between the nodes. For an AVL tree with a root node and two children, the left path may be twice as expensive to traverse as the right path. This would make the tree weight-unbalanced, but still maintain the definition of an AVL tree.
This page has more information: Weight-balanced tree - wikipedia
From Wikipedia:

A Binary Tree is called μ-balanced, with , if for every node N, the inequality:

holds and μ is minimal with this property. |N| is the number of nodes under the tree with N as root (including the root) and Nl is the left sub-tree of N.

Essentially, this means that the children in an AVL tree are not necessarily evenly distributed across the lowest level of the tree. Taking N as indicating the root node of the tree, one could construct a valid AVL tree that has more children to the left of the root than to the right of it. With a very deep tree, there could be many nodes at this bottom level.
The definition of an AVL tree would require that they all be within one of the deepest point, but makes no guarantee as to what node they are a child of with respect to a node N.

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sibling nodes can have hugely differing numbers of descendants.

I was just scratching my head about this and the fact that my AVL implementation produced trees that were not ultimately lopsided, but which had smaller and larger "distant cousin" subtrees inside.
I sketched this out to reassure myself:

The red nodes have a balance of 1, the green ones -1, and the black ones 0.  This is a valid AVL tree in that the height difference between two sibling subtrees is never more than one, but there are (almost) twice as many nodes in the right subtree as the left one.

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Microsoft Visio Professional is a comprehensive diagramming and drawing package. It can be used to convey information from a more visual perspective, through the creation of flowcharts, organisation charts, technical drawings, timelines and calendars. Visio can also be fully integrated with all other Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.


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Q: Heightmap in Shader not working I'm trying to implement GPU-based geometry clipmapping and have problems to apply a simple heightmap to my terrain. For the heightmap I use a simple texture with the surface format "single". I've taken the texture from Catalinz's XNA blog.
What I'm trying to do is just getting the single float value from the texture at the vertex world coordinate and apply the value to the Y-Value of the Vertex. I'm applying the heightmap through the shader, because there is no fixed grid in-code it could be applied on. What I've tried so far was using the tex2Dlod function, but there seems to be no output or an output of 0. The Direct X vertex shader's code looks like this:
float4 worldPos = mul(float4(pos.x,0.0f,pos.y, 1.0f), worldMatrix);
float elevation = tex2Dlod(HeightmapSampler, float4(worldPos.x, worldPos.z,0,0));
worldPos.y = elevation * 128;

Where HeightmapSampler is a point-mirror sampler of the heightmap texture. Here is the output, I actually get no elevation:

And here's the heightmap I'm using:

A: Forgot that Texture coordinates are in Texels, so multiplying it with the texels fixed it.
float elevation = tex2Dlod(HeightmapSampler, float4(worldPos.x*texel, worldPos.z*texel,0,0));


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Q: redirect with variable I'm sorry if I ask a silly question.
if in view $this->load->view('some_view', $data);, can I use it on redirect like this redirect('some_controller', $data)?
once again, sorry if I asking a silly question, thank you

A: Unfortunately no, you cannot do this that way - but you could perhaps use session "flashdata".
$this->session->set_flashdata('my_data', $data);
redirect('some_controller');

Then in "some_controller":
$flash_data = $this->session->flashdata('my_data');
if ($flash_data)
{
    $this->load->vars($flash_data);
}

There could be issues with large amounts of data, so I would suggest finding another approach if possible.

A: echo "<script type='text/javascript'>
    window.location.href='http://localhost/some_controller/$data';
    </SCRIPT>";


In a muted ceremony at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Mr. Colom turned to Mr. Arbenz's son Juan Jacobo and asked for forgiveness on behalf of the state.
The overthrow in 1954 of Mr. Arbenz, a former army colonel whose policies attempted to narrow the chasm betwen the country's tiny elite and its impoverished peasants, squashed a 10-year effort to build a democratic state.
Under a succession of military rulers who took power after the coup, Guatemala descended into three decades of a brutal civil war in which as many as 200,000 people died, many of them peasants killed by security forces.
The Eisenhower Administration painted the coup as an uprising that rid the hemisphere of a Communist government backed by Moscow. But Mr. Arbenz's real offense was to confiscate unused land owned by the United Fruit Company to redistribute under a land reform plan and to pay compensation for the vastly understated value the company had claimed for its tax payments.
"He was simply trying to create a middle class in a country riven by extremes of wealth and poverty and racism," Mr. Schlesinger said.
Under Mr. Colom, Guatemala has taken steps to address its legacy of repression. Prosecutors have won long sentences for soldiers convicted of one of the civil war's worst massacres, and police files have been opened for families to trace the last moments of relatives who disappeared during the conflict.
The president's apology was one of a number of steps that the government agreed to take to restore Mr. Arbenz's name and his role in the nation's history after five years of negotiations overseen by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington.
The Arbenz family is seeking an apology from the United States for its role in the coup, he said.
The government is also revising the school curriculum and has renamed a main highway and a museum wing after Mr. Arbenz. At Thursday's ceremony, Ruth del Valle, the president of the presidential human rights commission, presented a copy of a memoir written by Mr. Arbenz's widow, Maria Cristina Vilanova, to their son Juan Jacobo Arbenz Vilanova.
The agreement with the family is "an example of how these processes — the search for justice and reparations for victims of the armed conflict or violations of human rights" are irreversible, Ms. Del Valle said in an interview.
Kara Andrade contributed reporting from Guatemala City, Guatemala.


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American darting legend killed in tragic car accident.
American darting legend Rick Ney (1961-2017) has tragically passed away after being involved in a fatal motor-vehicle accident in Pennsylvania on Sunday afternoon. Ney was reportedly driving a 2015 Jeep Patriot when he collided head-on with a tractor trailer, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ney emerged during the 1970's American darting boom and enjoyed tremendous domestic success during his career. He won the US Open in three consecutive years between 1980-1982, whilst he also triumphed at the ADO National 501 Championship in 1990, before retiring from the competitive scene a few years later.
Nevertheless, the highlight of his career came in 1985, when he played an integral role in America's WDF World Cup winning side. Ney joined Tony Payne, John Kramer and Dan Valletto in securing gold for the US team in Brisbane, Australia, where they defeated defending champions England 9-0 en route to glory.
Ney's televised debut came in 1980 at the News of the World Championships in London. Six years later, Rick went on to reach the final of this prestigious event, where he was beaten by former World Championship finalist Bobby George.
Ney also appeared in the BDO World Professional Championships on four separate occasions, losing out to huge names in all of his appearances. His best run came in 1988, where he performed brilliantly to reach the semi-finals. He defeated Magnus Caris, Chris Johns and Dennis Hickling, before succumbing to eventual winner Bob Anderson.
In both 1984 and 1987, Ney was beaten in the second-round by five-time world champion Eric Bristow, whilst his final World Championship appearance came in 1989, when he suffered another second-round exit at the hands of two-time world finalist Dave Whitcombe.
Rick Ney's tragic passing was confirmed in a statement released by the American Darts Organisation on Monday afternoon, where they described him as "one of the all-time greats of American darts". Condolences go to Rick's family and friends at this very sad time.
Wright: Chizzy's got more talent than I have!


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Thanks. Worked great on Ubuntu 8.04 server. Connected to it with globalSAN on OS X. Yay!
I follow most of the steps except, I am doing it in CLI way. The question is, for the ISCSI target, after the installation of iscsitarget and iscsitarget-source, is there a need to build the iscsitarget kernel module by hand? I installed both packages using aptitude install iscsitarget iscsitarget-source. The problem I came across is: the iscsi-trgt kernel model not found when I try to /etc/init.d/iscsitarget start. Maybe the synaptic package manager took care of the kernel building?
Without using USB ? Where was USB involved? How on earth would this be achieved with USB instead?


E-Budo.com > Koryu Bujutsu > Jujutsu > What is fox jujutsu?
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I once trained in a Wado-Kai Karate dojo where there was a sempai who started off in martial arts through jujutsu. He now teaches with a partner in their own dojo. The jujutsu part of the instruction (taught, I think, in seperate classes from karate) was identified by an acquaintance (and a casual student at the dojo) as "Kitsune-Ryu" Jujutsu. What is this "fox-style" jujustsu? Does anyone have a lead on its history? I would appreciate anything you can tell me about it before I actually investigate the dojo.
This is also known as Mulder Ryu and the current master is Dana Sculley. Master Sculley took over the school when Master Mulder disappeared without a trace while investigating the disappearance of his sister.
Sorry, couldn't resist having a little fun.
I am glad that you didn't resist ... I like having a few myself :laugh Thanks!
With even less to contribute, I bid you adieu.
Well, here is what I have been able to find out so far - in the interest of "concluding" the thread I suppose. Apparently Kitsune (Fox) Ryu Jujutsu is a style developed by a Mr. Steve Reynolds. It seems to be rooted in Daito Ryu Aiki Jutsu, hand-to-hand combat from the British SAS (Special Air Service), and Wally Jay's Small Circle Jujutsu. It is said that Mr. Reynolds has also studied Judo, Karate and Kung-Fu.
Apparently Kitsune (Fox) Ryu Jujutsu is a style developed by a Mr. Steve Reynolds. It seems to be rooted in Daito Ryu Aiki Jutsu, hand-to-hand combat from the British SAS (Special Air Service), and Wally Jay's Small Circle Jujutsu. It is said that Mr. Reynolds has also studied Judo, Karate and Kung-Fu.
Just kidding - anyone care to take this one? ever hear of his recieving menjo?
Frankly I couldn't say one way or the other. But I do appreciate your rascally humor. You have just reminded me that I did want to go check out that thread on "Modern Jujutsu". I am curious about the disrepute of synthesized jujutsu styles that crop up all around us. I like some traditions and yet I am not in principal against a person developing what they regard as desirable in practicing their own martial art. I'm open to hearing what said individuals think they have to offer over a less unmixed style of jujutsu.
I can't really add much, but I was under the impression that the British SAS used a system of combatives developed by James Shortt (of Beginning Jujutsu fame), he was a member of the International Combat Military Advisors Group (ICMAG) in the 70/80's and taught there. I could be wrong though, if anyone has more details I'd like to know.


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The UMaine Black Bear women's basketball team will be the #1 seed for the upcoming America East Conference tournament thanks to a 16 point comeback and overtime win vs UAlbany 74-69 Sunday afternoon.
The Bears win the regular season title with a 13-3 record. The win was the 20th of the season (20-9).
The Great Danes finish regular season play at 12-4 and 23-6.
Sutton was 11-for-13 from the field as part of her career-high 27 point day. Blanca Millan added 11. Dor Saar had 11 points and a career-best nine assists.
Once Maine got down by 16 points late in the third quarter the Bears came back to outscore the Great Danes 31-15 for the rest of the day.
3.100 fans were at the Cross Center in Bangor to see the battle for the #1 seed.
The America East tournament begins in Portland at the Cross Insurance Arena later this week. The Black Bears will face the #8 seed (TBD) next Saturday at noon.
First Round - Wednesday, Feb. 28, UMBC Event Center – Baltimore, Md.


I know you are reading this poem as you pace beside the stove warming milk, a crying child on your shoulder, a book in your hand because life is short and you too are thirsty.
Cover Caption: Suffrage parade, New York City, May 4, 1912. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
In 1912, the women in our cover photo marched through Manhattan to demand voting rights, an image that reminds us how slowly notions of equality have evolved, even in America. For another eight years, half of this nation's adults would have no voice in a government purporting to be of and by and for the people.
A century later, women's issues that have drawn broad support in our time are again under fire—reproductive choice and pay equity among them. "Who has a voice in what?" is a question that continues to challenge us, despite growing public approval for expanding freedoms rather than curtailing them.
As editors, they regarded literature as a form of action—as we do now. Poets need not be "the unacknowledged legislators of the world," as Shelley claimed, to make enduring arguments on a vast range of issues, from the intimate to the global (see Jeffrey Harrison's essay on this subject, page 118). A poet's authority proves itself within the context of the poem, or it does not prove itself at all.
Among the many persuasive and provocative authorities in this volume are Marge Piercy on the lost force of old love letters; Jennifer Case on the closeness and estrangements of the classroom; Joanna Chen and Brittney Scott on the brother-sister bond; Carol Moldaw and Gardner McFall on the bewilderment of grief; and Samiya Bashir on "the legendary black man." Conjuring a dialogue between John Henry, steel-driving hero of song and story, and his wife Polly Ann, Bashir's blues-inspired sonnet sequence enacts an argument in which the woman, not her famed husband, has the last word.
"Who we gon' be?" she asks—as if of us all.
Jocko Benoit The Forest of Shhh!
Jennifer Case Why Write of the Students?
Zara Raab reviews White Papers by Martha Collins, The Undertaker's Daughter by Toi Derricotte, Honeycomb: Poems by Carol Frost, and Little Boy Blue: A Memoir in Verse by Gray Jacobik.
Debra Wierenga reviews At Work in the Bridal Industry by Nadell Fishman, Early/Late: New & Selected Poems by Philip Fried, Mechanical Fireflies by Doug Ramspeck, Hemingway: A Desperate Life by David Ray, and What Focus Is by Matthew J. Spireng.


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Terminology, Quanx, Quanx abilities
Quanx
Quanx (퀑, Kwong / クォン, Ku~on / 超能者, 超能者, Chāo néng zhě) is a terminology in Denma.
It refers to those with supernatural abilities unexpeplainable by known laws of physics. It also refers to the user. It looks black with the Georg filter. The black color means a hole.
The word Quanx refers to the 퀑 (Kwong), which is The last line of the Youngsoon Yang's previous work, Parallel Lives Episode 110 (Korean). Also, it seems like its name is come from the quantum, because Quanx is related to the laws of physics. In the Seoul Wow Book festival event, on September 30, 2016, the book talk The SF cartoon, a story about the human and the universe was opened. At that time, when the author watched this episode of Parallel Lives and tried to show Quanx in the next work, he considers of the spaceship and the Joseon Dynasty as a candidates. If it was the Taoist magic genre of the Joseon Dynasty, and that he'll trying to named it pheasant (꿩, Kkwong). Because pheasant had come out of it and surprises people.
It seems that this setting was conceived from the Iron Dog John Doe, which is the author's previous work. Eugene orders Taesaja to leave for a while. Taesaja is teleports and disappears. In the 1001, a psychic who uses Memory Reading comes out. In the Sambanijo, when the fetus under great stress, it gains super power and becomes a super-born child (초생아, Chosaeng-a). If it die in that state, it has no previous life, so it can ignore the laws of physics of its planet. Because the only experience it has is the physical laws of the particle age over the wall of space and time. The Quanx is a super power. In the Rami Record, there's a scene where Thomas is taking Degon who's Teleporting Quanx to the base of the gangsters who interfered with Rami's Holy visit, and after that, the gangsters are stuck in the wall.
In the early part of Denma, the Quanx energy color effects aren't appeared or it's appeared the white impact effects. But the story goes on, this is described as the effects containing color. However, it's mostly depicted in orange. Of course, the white impact effect continues to appear at Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 as well.
In the volumes, some characters' Quanx effects are formed. For example, in 2. A.E. link, Maggie's Quanx effect isn't revealed. But volume 1, it's revealed. See Joining.
Here, orange isn't included.
Quanx abilities
Energy colors
Balak Planar Constraint Yellow → Purple
Gatsu Healing Red
Max, Fat killer Partial Teleportation Yellow
Mr. Tear Cut Yellow
Yoon Planar Constraint Red
Hoon Space Distortion Green
Jet Joining Purple
Yahwah Penetration Yellow
When the Ephraimite become Quanx, they only use Electromagnetic Pulse.
Quanx Transcriptome (Transcriptome) can uses Quanx ability.
Devarim's precognitive dream isn't described by the Quanx ability. This ability is common to the Devarim.
Quanxs are so lucky to have their wounds heal so fast and also be immune to any virus include of Space disease.
Some Quanx abilities like Planar Constraint and Barrier are associated with Dimensional Manipulation.
Quanx power limit is a method used by the Silverquick to ensure that a Quanx won't exceed the Quanx power than permit for self-defense. If someone doesn't follow this, they will be punished.
If the original body of the Avatar is Quanx, the Avatar can use Quanx ability.
Quanx have the grades (classes). In A Catnap (37), since Balack is a grade-2 (class two) Quanx so Brown hair holds him with his Binding ability. In (47), the grade-3 (class three) is appears. The user can't use Quanx skills anymore because a grade-3 like Mole face will lose the Quanx ability if the user lose a part of the body that activates the Quanx skills even if the body part is recovered. If the user get a Booster gun or something the user could still work for workplace it might do the same thing as user's skills.
The Quanxs near the Intersecting Space, they shouldn't use their abilities. And inside here, Quanx abilities can't be used. But the Intersecting Space barrier is lifted, Quanx abilities are back too.
Some Quanx deliverers used their Quanx ability in Silverquick is happening more and more often, and if a Quanx ability is used inside Silverquick, the system is set to detect it as a physical anomaly and send out a Transcriptome there way immediately, but for some reason, for every hundred Quanxs, there's always one those Transcriptomes can't pick up, and apart from the reason this keeps happening, the Holy See's command continues to dismiss Yahwah's reports on this matter, all he can does is he add their names to Bahel's hit list to get rid of those uncontrollable potential threats one at a time, making it look like an accident.
The female Quanxs are rare. Currently appeared female characters are Yahwah (?), Edel (Arcel's real identity), female soldier of Carlburn's Quanx Legion, Mayhen, Ponytail, Gaya, No. 1, No. 2, etc.
The Combination (콤비네이션, Kombineisyeon) skills are exist. Lot grabs the two centurions' heads and keeps them from moving. Lot says what they just saw might look simple, but it's a combination of not one, not two, but three Quanx skills. Lot reads two centurions' memories so he checks out Aorica's king. Snowy hair grabs Lot's head and says he's pretty fast, and he shots beam ability to his face. Snowy hair tries to use his beam ability, but his right arm explodes. Lot says that it may look simple, but what Snowy hair see here's a combination of not one, but three Quanx powers. Snowy hair tries to use his beam ability, but his left arm also explodes. Lot says it's four Quanx powers, actually, and if Snowy hair count Memory Reading as well, and what he shot at his face, he countered it back so that it would run inside his body, any minute now, it's gonna burst out from the part where his power's concentrated, little by little. Snowy hair angry and concentrates his body, but he explodes and dies. Orange hair and Daniel have heard of this before, that there are few who can combine Quanx powers, they didn't know Lot was one of 'em. Lot can interference dimension through his Combination skills.
The junkie Quanxs are exist. If someone see a piece of garbage by Georg filter, it'll show that the wavelengths from their bodies show they're beyond recovery, and no amount of training will ever get them back to normal.
Mustache sees Adams and asks him to that's his company's Transcriptomes. He answers the beheaded Quanxs they saw at the entrance of this fridge may also be their work. He thinks how Silverquick could push someone over the edge like this. He vomits. Mustache teleports and pokes to Adams. He surprises and says Mustache is Quanx expert but he's doing something, so he'll outta here. Mustache teleports again and says the Transcriptomes are all dormant, and their connection with their partners must've severed when they got locked up in here, and
The Super-Transcriptome or Transcriptome controller can't recognize Transcriptomes in object Quanx, because their connection with their partners must've severed when they got locked up in object Quanx, and once they got disconnected from their partner Quanxs, they must've remained faithful to their basic instincts to kill Quanxs while they were in the object Quanx, and the quantum communication is disabled in there, if a partner Quanx dies, the Transcriptome manifested by the controller should disappear as well, however, the Transcriptome controller can't sense the Quanx's death nor the physical anomaly being resolved, that's why they're still around with their systems shut down, so they can't disappear nor move. The Quanxs ran for their lives, as for the Transcriptomes who went after them they must've stopped dead on their track the moment their partner Quanx was killed by another Transcriptome, and all the Transcriptomes were to be stopped, the last two pairs have to kill each other's Quanx at the same time, but a neat execution in the middle of all that mayhem. In other to make sense of this situation, there had to have been a last pair who cleaned up all this mess afterwards, and if they come across another dead Quanx, he must've been the last survivor, and if not, that means him and his Transcriptome are still inside the object Quanx.
Each of Transcriptomes individually correspond with a Quanx, and they may all look alike, but each of them has a specific partner, in other words, the people can think of a Transcriptome as a phenomenon where the so-called Super-Transcriptome or a Transcriptome controller recognizes a physical anomaly, and they see a Quanx as an empty hole, and they've the ability to manifest an image, something that can fill up that empty hole in their own way, simply put, Transcriptome is an inner image taken form. When the Quanx inside the cognitive region dies, and the hole gets filled up, it's natural for the physical form of a Transcriptome to disappear shortly after, but they're inside an object Quanx where even the quantum communication gets disconnected, once it's shut, in general, big object Quanxs can't make Transcriptomes, and it's because the system gets overloaded to make up for the overwhelming error, actually, there were a bunch who got overly curious, and made a simulation about this, they hypothesized they can make a Transcriptome out of this sort of object Quanx, surprisingly, if the physical error exceeds a certain point, there can be a massive explosion when the object Quanx and its Transcriptome combine, massive enough to blow up an entire planet.
Here're Quanxs.
Learning process Edit
Usually this is born naturally. But if the people do Mating experiment, this and the corresponding transcription of this, in other words, the Transcriptome is made. It isn't naturally born, and it's artificially created through Mating. No one on planet Bella can explain the how can Mating create them. The researchers are only assuming that it's the survival instinct of the 2 consciousnesses. As the 2 different consciousnesses are forced to combine with each other. Each comes up with a way to protect itself. Here're some examples.
The first is infiltration. For some unknown reason, one consciousness infiltrates and hides inside another. In this case, B takes over A so it seems like B's making all decisions and judgements, but A becomes B's subconsciousness and influences B in every way. In a sense, the people could consider this as the definition of a successful fusion.
The next one that creates artificial Quanx, denial. So like it says, it's about a consciousness denying the existence of the other, which separates the 2 into 2 dimensions. Therefore, although they're in the same place and location they're existing in 2 different dimensions so that they can't influence each other. And it's due to the multi-dimensional property of consciousness. They're together. but they're not. In other to survive, they create an obvious physical error intentionally. So the error results in a physical error of the body, somehow leads to an indescribable phenomenon that's outside of the law of physics. And with the natural reaction to recover the physical error a transcription of Quanx is thus created. This is how people explain the results of Mating.
When people describe naturally occurred Quanxs they say Quanxs are one of the ramifications of physical errors in the universe. Now the people is able to mimic a part of the coincidental error of the universe through Mating of Neuro-scanning. The owners of planets' purpose of crating Quanxs artificially is probably for an unlimited life extension. They want to create formidable weapons and gain more power, more freedom, and more pleasure without anyone interfering with them. Because human desire goes deeper down than a bottomless pit.
The people can get their abilities by the memories that they don't want to remember. Hades had to be lock up to a cube by the tribe, and he says when he get out of a cube, he'll trap everyone who trapped him in this box. Abigail cries and thinks, if he was just a little bit faster he could save his younger sister. Orange hair says that they may be able to see each other, but he's already in another dimension, and he grew up lonely, he locked himself up in his own space, one of the perks that came along was that it progressed into a Quanx ability, he can see Lot right in front of him, but no one can come inside the barrier. Lot says, when someone grows up all alone and even gets bullied, they also develop a desire for attachment, and they crave to get inside someone else's space.
The people who's borrowing the body of the people who're not a Quanx, sometimes they can's use their skills, and it's probably because their body's resisting. The basic techniques that their body could handle, and if they use Quanx skills with an ordinary person's body, it'll overload the body eventually, but of course, the body still adapts to it, that means their consciousness as a Quanx is synchronizing, and as time passes, as the synchronization further proceeds, they'll be able to use more complicated and detailed techniques with intensified physical errors, but at the same time, it'll pressure their body just as much, and after reaching the limit, the body will eventually refuse to be exposed to Quanx techniques, there're two possibilities, the first is where their immune system fails because of the pressure, malignant tumors will grow all over their body which will result in his horrible death, and there's possibility where their body endures and pulls through, but enduring doesn't mean getting over it, there's minor difference along the way, but there's only one conclusion, when the body reaches its limit, it'll break completely.
Society Edit
Quanx seems that it's very frequent to hijack and research Quanx because once it develops it as practical product, it makes a huge money. Silverquick kidnaps them and makes them into deliverers.
There's an organization called Savoy who seizes Quanx and illegally sells Quanx because it's a natural world to make it a possession of a private enterprise by catching it. Kid Quanx can get sold for a high price in the black market. But Quanxs can be Savoy. 3 of Pentagon members are Quanxs. Quanxs have to no chance against the systematic Savoys include the White Police Guards. When the Carlburn's Quanx Squad gets disbanded, the soldiers will lose their jobs and they'll all be hunted down by the Savoys.
Silverquick's station 7 alone carries 2,500 Quanx deliverers on top of 3,500 mixed-sex regular deliverers and staff, totaling up to about 6,000 residents. In the past, Ran explains intergalactic courier business, that church body has been preparing and they need Quanx for courier guys as a part of the business plan and they'll be going on missions without knowing that they're, and he can't tell right now because it'll cost a tremendous amount of time and money. And Ran says the disturbance would be solve the how they control Quanxs. Then Ran says when the people open and close the Intersecting Space while having their vision blurry they get the ability to control Transcriptomes alongside an impressive Mating result, just like him. Kanu's Guardian priest says to Hades that there's been a rumor that the Palace will be shut down and it sounded like that his mission is related to the new business plan of the church, which is intergalactic courier service, and they'll be using Quanxs as the serviceman.
The Duke says when the Church of Madonna's business department asked him to be their business investor he just accepted it thinking it was a great opportunity, because he's interested in logistics, and it means he own the entire market, but when he signed the contract, there was a strange rumor that one of the bases will be filled with service guys who're Quanxs, and he thinks it's strange because they didn't say that during the prospectus presentation. The Duke says he asked them for a clear explanation, but all the See's business department said was that it was for security reasons, his money will be used for a pseudo religion without knowing he wouldn't let that happen. Meanwhile, the Duke unlocks the password, and he says the See which want to take over military supplies companies why they're trying to gather Quanxs to start a business. The Duke sees the top secret of the See, and he suddenly surprised and he excitedly laugh that, if the See want to be crazy they've to be really crazy, so he'll support how much ever they need.
On the planet Carlburn, there's an army founded by collecting Quanx. It's name is Carlburn's Quanx Squad. It has the best intel on all Quanx in the universe eight. The soldiers could get some information about them spread all across the universe eight, except for one the Silverquick, a group disguising itself as a delivery company when in fact it abducts Quanxs.
There're a lot of people who don't like Quanx. In A Catnap, the Super-Transcriptome says you stupid Quanxs, and in Savoy Gaal, Yahwah says Quanx is piece of shit, and in God's Lover, Yahwah also says all are just a pile of toxic waste. In Pigear, Hoon says thugs like Jet perpetuate the negative stereotypes of them Quanx, and that's what killed his innocent friends. And Tanza says he really can't stand these stupid Quanx. Then President of Pax Industries says these useless Quanxs are always making trouble in the universe. Gosan says those filthy Quanxs are trying to make a deal with him.
The Quanx dealers or scouters or recruiters (퀑 딜러, Kwong dilleo) are exist. They send some Quanxs to other places where Quanx is needed. But some dealers like Ibon (Ivon) secretly give worthless pipsqueaks to Savoys. Ibon, Juwan, Mustache are exist.
This includes Super-Transcriptomes. Yahwah is Hyper-Quanx.
The market get so screwed up in just a few years, and the list is full of idiotic Quanxs the Quanx dealers can't even get it touch with. Nowadays, bunch of scouts from an outer planet out there move from planet to planet, selling off any decent Quanxs to the nobles, there's such a thing as business ethics, and they think they can do whatever they want in someone else's turf.
The Quanx trainers are exist. They gather information about Quanxs, and train and sell them to nobles. Juwan is the top Quanx expert in all of universe eight, but he's still so stingy when it comes to evaluating their combat skills, and he's the most rigorous one in the entire universe eight. Juwan never fail to exceed their expectation, and he's quite a celebrity in this line of work, and it's their lifelong wish to be handed his business card among many Hyper-Quanxs, and which is also why he's sometimes bothered by mediocre, good-for-nothing dealers here and there.
The Hyper-Quanx market in universe eight has grown at an incredible speed, and the main clientele being the wealthy nobles, and they never cease to fight over who has more territories, and it goes without saying that the inevitable violence calls for more firepower, but the U.C.S. strictly forbids any individuals from arming themselves, that's why they started looking for Hyper combat Quanxs as an alternative, and nobles are willing to pay anything for the firepower of a single highly-trained Quanx. The Quanx dealers or trainers search for kinds of battle Quanxs with potentials and help them reshape, so they can get the treatment they deserve as vigilantes of nobles. The Hyper-Quanxs doesn't just accept anyone who knocks on the Quanx dealers or trainers' door, and it won't easy, and after they pass the test, they still have to undergo three years of training which is that only 10% of the chosen Hyper-Quanxs endure through.
The most of the Hyper-Quanxs that come looking for the Quanx dealers or trainers are after money, it's their absolute motivation, and during the initial state of training, they train harder than anyone else, and the tougher the training gets, the harder they train, and it's almost as if they'll make it to the end, but when the training reaches its most extreme limit, most of them quit, and it's the ones who looked the most unpromising and unstable in the beginning, who end up showing the most remarkable perseverance under extreme conditions, and about those 10% who made it through the entire training process, if they had anything in common unlike the ones who gave up halfway, it's that they all had a clear goal other than mere fortune.
Hyper-Quanx Edit
Hyper-Quanx (하이퍼 퀑, Haipeo kwong / ハイパークォン, Haipāku~on / 多重超能者, 多重超能者, Duōchóng chāo néng zhě) is among the Quanx.
In A Dog of Pamana (1), Dike says to Savoy of Urano that he brings at least a Hyper-Quanx to fight him.
According to Blackout (5), normal Quanx can also have Hyper-Level Quanx ability.
According to Sixteen (29), the prison of Internal Affairs is designed to lock up these.
In 14. A.E. (2), Yahwah asks the 2 Internal Affairs inspectors to asks how unpleasant it's to have someone get near their body. The one inspector says they're just regular Quanxs, so they'll never understand the complicated feeling Hyper-Quanx go through.
In God's Lover (2), it's revealed. It's with 2 or more powers.
In 15. A.E. (3-2), White Police Guards are all 100 Hyper-Quanxs. Dike says he just killed one of Hyper-Quanx on the way.
In A Catnap (62), 20 years ago, the Duke says to El that Federick is a combat style Hyper-Quanx that passed all the hardcore trainings so it'll make him feel like he own an army.
White Police Guards was the best job for them. When people become White Police Guards, the Duke gives them a shop that their family can make a living off of, which are chain stores of his business. Even if something goes wrong while they're on duty, their family can still make a living.
In Chapter 2 2. A.E. (6), 20 years later, with enough Quanxs the level of the El's Five Fingers, anything is possible, and they're obscenely strong, and they'd need a special category just for them inside Hypers, and that's how strong they're.
In Kuan's Fridge (6), it's reveals that Juwan truly stood out among the others in the market, which was formed shortly after the Aorica incident 20 years ago.
List Edit
Here're Hyper-Quanxs.
Yahwah: 14. A.E. (2) - Control Transcriptomes, Penetration
Jet: God's Lover (2) - Gravity Manipulation, Joining
Eunguy (Randolph): God's Lover (2) - Enhanced Strength, ?
White Police Guards: 15. A.E. (3-2)
Daniel: Teleportation, ?
Honma: A Catnap (83) - Teleportation, Reflection, Penetration
El's Five Fingers
Federick: Teleportation, ?
Lot: Many abilities
Gaya: Teleportation, Healing, ?
Hades: A Catnap (1) - Cube, Teleportation
Gatsu: A Catnap (13) - Healing, Bang
Blue skin: A Catnap (80) - Repulsion, Quanx Detection
Moab's Hyper-Quanx: Kuan's Fridge (20) - Explosion, ?
White Snakes
Green hair: Teleportation, Banish to Otherworld
Object Quanx Edit
Object Quanx (사물 퀑, Samul kwong / 物体クォン, Buttai ku~on) is among the Quanx.
The object Quanxs of each planet are exist. Kuan's Fridge is an object Quanx with several spaces on the inside and it's really strange because from the outside, it's only five or six meters tall at best, and yet the police tactical team have to use a bird drone just to measure the inside, and it's over 10 kilometers deep, and it's not something an ordinary biological Quanx can open.
According to the intel from the Intelligence Bureau, the story goes that no matter how long someone leave something inside, Kuan's Fridge never rots or rusts, so that's why they named this object Quanx a fridge, then that means it's the perfect place for storing dead bodies or evidence, it was found the planet Moab 20 years ago, and it's not even made of materials from universe eight, and besides they say the dimension inside the fridge keeps growing every year so that really give some people the creeps, and it sounds to them like some sort of dangerous energy keeps building up inside it. After Kuan came across the fridge, the local government looked into it thoroughly, but they couldn't find any legal background to take it away from him, so finders keepers, and it wasn't just found on Moab, but also in other planets in a similar time period, each planet gave them different names, but they're practically the same, but some people don't get it, so much for the universal age, and they just let this be and just share the intel and leave it at that, and U.C.S. also leave it.
Here're object Quanxs.
The object Quanxs of each planet
Kuan's Fridge: Kuan's Fridge (6)
The object Quanx of the planet with Gatsu's race: Kuan's Fridge (25) - This was also discovered on the planet with Gatsu's race 20 years ago.
Rooms of solitary confinement: Kuan's Fridge (70) - They're the objects Quanxs of Silverquick. When Quanx deliverer tries to beat supervisor, Adam arrest and priest put him here. It's name is appears in (68). The priest put a patch on Quanx deliverer's arm. The patch is has two uses, one is for nutritional supplement while he's in there, and the other is for killing himself, and press this button when it gets too scary or if he can't stand it anymore. Some Quanx deliverers can die, and some Quanx deliverers can be crazy. It's not a thing, and it's a space of nothingness, and the solitary confinement is a type of an object Quanx, once the door is shut, it becomes an infinite space, and absolute darkness where there's no light, sound, scent, flavor, or touch, zero-gravity with no space and time, and Quanx deliverer's every sense is shut off, a complete state of panic and as time passes by, his self-identity will be all that remains, and when all his energy is focused on his identity, all his deepest fears that he consciously hid and the monsters that stayed hidden in his unconsciousness will start to open their eyes, one by one, it'll be quiet an experience, and he can just press the button on the top if he can't stand it anymore. Hador is trapped there.
The Quanx abilities without links in the headings are arbitrarily named on this wiki. The arbitrarily named abilities are may change.
Includes the use of Transcriptome (Adams made by Yahwah).
Abilities with articles Edit
They're abilities with articles, not named abilities. This is in order of appearance. The alphabetical order is here.
Equivalent Mass Exchange
Energy Beam
Electromagnetic Pulse
Planar Constraint
Memory Reading
Partial Teleportation
Gravity Manipulation
Space Distortion
Energy Adjustment and Transmission
Earth Mimicry
Liquid Mimicry
Summon Otherworldly Creatures
Banish to Otherworld
Spatial Exchange
Dimensional Manipulation
Unnamed abilities Edit
Joining Edit
First mention or appearance
Sergeant Maggie, Jet, Mayhen 2. A.E. link
Restore the object.
In God's Lover (2), Jet uses this ability and reveals that he's Hyper-Quanx.
Eunguy says with Jet's ability to put things back together.
Pyrokinesis Edit
A deliveryman, Head-Eye, Deliverer that was 5 years ago, Female soldier Eve Rachel (1)
Create and control fire.
A deliveryman uses in a way that the stare and create fire.
Head-Eye, deliverer that was 5 years ago uses in a way that create fire from one's hands.
The female soldier uses in a way that the fire blows in her mouth.
Fire Generation
Pain Inducement; via hands and breath.
Control Transcriptomes Edit
Yahwah, Ran, Transcriptome controllers Eve Rachel (1)
Control Transcriptomes.
Yahwah controls Adams. And Adam is revealed that it's Transcriptome. It's no physical attacks worked.
When Yahwah is kept in custody, Adam is still standing because it hasn't ordered Yahwah to return. When Yahwah stops, also it stops. So Yahwah seems to controls Adams.
The user can use the Transcriptome in avatar format. Yahwah controls Camael (Mama).
Ran says he went through numerous accidents since he started using the Intersecting Space and he noticed some interesting results from them, and he thought that he was a very special being. When the people open and close the Intersecting Space while having their vision blurry they get the ability to control Transcriptomes alongside an impressive Mating result, just like Ran. But the readers don't see why the Transcriptome controllers and Ran (Super-Transcriptome) made. But in original version, one reader conjectured that in the Intersecting Space, some pregnant priestesses (shamans) were Mated with fetus in her, so that the Transcriptome controllers and Ran are a baby-like form. A comment
Command Inducement: Eve Rachel (1), revealed in Pigear (29)
Mind Control: Eve Rachel (1), revealed in Pigear (29)
Motor-Skill Manipulation: Eve Rachel (1), revealed in Pigear (29)
Anti-Gravity Edit
Anti-Gravity Quanx Blackout (4)
Fires anti-gravity waves.
This is able to make the anti-gravity bomb.
Time Stopping Edit
Eyebrow hair, Kuan's Fridge Band of Brothers
Stops time and can move freely in the meantime.
Kuan's Fridge is limited to objects.
Decomposition Manipulation: Kuan's Fridge (25)
Organic Preservation
Freshness Inducement
Psychokinesis Edit
Frog skin, Heimann's henchman, Security Department agent, Pfff, Buzz hair, Green guy Band of Brothers
The supposed ability to move objects by mental effort alone.
Inhuman Strength Edit
Eunguy (Randolph) God's Lover (2)
It's able to exert great strength from their muscles.
In God's Lover, when Ballack start an argument with his green friends for the revenge of his broken leg, Golden hair pulls Ballack and his friends' heads off with his bare hands. And Golden hair is taken by the Adams. Adams beats the Golden hair, Eunguy. Yahwah orders Eunguy has killed Ballack, so he'll has to continue on his mission for him. Eunguy refuses this because he isn't a pedophilic psychopath. Yahwah appears directly in a muscular build and beats Eunguy. Yahwah says Eunguy is pulled everyone's head off in public, and he all are just a pile of toxic waste.
Eunguy goes to Arcel and says he's sorry. At this time, a blackout occurs. Then, when the electricity came back, Yahwah laughs that Randolph has doing well. Perhaps Eunguy had harassed Arcel.
In 16. A.E. (1-1), Adams beats Eunguy. Yahwah says Randolph has been doing fine, but now he refuses. Eunguy says he doesn't want to does that to a kid anymore. Yahwah says Randolph can't always to what he want, so if he doesn't want to, he'll blow his head off right now. Eventually, Eunguy approaches Arcel. Arcel cries and says, Eunguy isn't someone who tortures kids, but he's doing this to him, so he'll get away from him because it hurts. Ivory hair watches this.
Arcel uses his ability. Eunguy says he's sorry. This scene is recorded. Ivory hair says to Jet that the Ringed Baldhead told him to tell him this first that he thinks he has found the Ephraimite Quanx and he heard someone screaming so he went ahead to see what was going on and he confirmed it from the video. Ivory hair shows the video. In the video, Eunguy pinching Arcel everywhere. Jet wonders this guy is really Randolph and asks is pinching the only thing he's doing. Ivory hair answers this guy's strength is inhuman so this couldn't get any more brutal. Jet asks how does the Ivory hair know the guy is got inhuman strength. Ivory hair answers the guy who pulled the heads of the guys who got into a fight with him a few days ago, and it seems like he can't stand anyone standing behind him. Jet is surprised to hear this.
Body Immobilization Edit
One of assassins, Lot 15. A.E. (1)
It's able to freeze people in space.
Those who're suffered by this ability feels their body is shrinking.
Binding Edit
Brown hair A Catnap (38)
It's able to tie the target by rings that keep them confined.
Since Balack is a class two Quanx so Brown hair holds him with his ability.
Balack is released from this by an attack from Black hair who's beats to Brown hair in a fight between the Internal Affairs and the Security Department.
Repulsion Edit
Blue skin A Catnap (72)
It's able to push the target.
When the user's hand shines, the target is pushed backward.
Quanx Detection Edit
It's able to detect Quanx ability.
Blue skin shivers his hand and detects a pursuing team.
Blue skin says he used his detecting ability and there're only them who're Quanxs in the area.
Gas Mimicry Edit
Gas Quanx A Catnap (86)
It's able to transform into gas.
The Duke smokes a pipe and blows cigarette smoke and Gas Quanx is coughs and appears. The Duke says gas Quanx is going to cough up like that so he should asked to him to created a different scene then. Gas Quanx says his bronchial tubes have gone bad after following the Duke's orders, and he got the top secret of the courier business of the Church of Madonna, and he bluffs that he has gotten this by infiltrating into the tight security of the Transcriptome. The Duke orders a White Police Guard shut gas Quanx's mouth up. Gas Quanx mimicries his body into gas and avoids a White Police Guard's hand.
Amorphous Physiology: A Catnap (86)
Enhanced Durability/Invulnerability: A Catnap (86)
Near Intangibility: A Catnap (86)
Invisibility: A Catnap (86)
Detection of Reaction of Living Body Edit
White Police Guards 1. A.E. (3)
It's able to detect reaction of living body.
Multi Dimension Edit
Kuan's Fridge Kuan's Fridge (21)
It has several spaces on the inside.
Pocket Dimension Creation: Kuan's Fridge (21)
Dimensional Storage
Dimensional Border Manipulation
Size Enhancement: Kuan's Fridge (21) → (25)
Crash!: Kuan's Fridge (21) → (22)
Teleportation Negation - Kuan's Fridge (22) - The users can't teleport to the inside or outside only when the fridge is closed.
Time Compression: Kuan's Fridge (25)
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Silver marks the comic book debut of animation veteran Stephan Franck, (THE IRON GIANT, DESPICABLE ME), co-creator of the TV series CORNEIL & BERNIE, and director of the Annie Award nominated SMURFS: THE LEGEND OF SMURFY HOLLOW for SONY PICTURES ANIMATION.
Set in an original universe inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula, SILVER takes place forty years after the events of the novel, into the noir/Pulp era of the 1930's. The miniseries follows the adventures of master thief James Finnigan and his group of conmen, as they team up with vampire hunter Rosalynd Van Helsing—grand daughter of the famed professor, and last of the Van Helsings—and Tao Leu, a young Chinese boy with the gift of second-sight, to steal the Silver Dragon: a mythical treasure hidden in Dracula's castle. What could possibly go wrong?!


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Bright (2017) Review
René S. Garcia, Jr.· December 26, 2017
Before I get to the review, I'm going to share some related personal information, because it may influence my criticism in ways that I can't recognize. I always try to be as unbiased as possible in my reviews. Even when I don't like a particular film, I make it a point to understand who the film was made for and what the film was trying to achieve, and then I review based on those factors. In this case, the film hits a little too close to home, and I don't know if I'm compensating enough for that.
When I decided to pursue screenwriting back in 2004, the first script I wrote was about a modern-day fantasy world where all of the races from Dungeons & Dragons coexisted ina setting that was very similar to present day America except heavily colored by fantasy elements. I refined the screenplay over the years, always giving it another round of polishing and updating every time I passed it into the hands of an industry contact. I even submitted it to some screenwriting contests and placed as a Top 10 Finalist in one of them recently. Unfortunately, none of those opportunities every panned out. So you can imagine how charmed and surprised I was to discover that Bright was coming out with the same general concept.
My first – and strongest – reaction was that I wanted Bright to fail. I wanted my film to be the movie that contemporary audiences recognized as having melded fantasy with everyday reality. I had worked so hard on the script, and it had been my impetus for almost everything I did related to the entertainment industry from starting this site to all the years I spent covering Hollywood, attending industry parties, and buying dinner for anyone with some influence. To see someone else's similar concept come to life instead of mine was heartbreaking.
After accepting that Bright was going to become a thing, I embraced it. In fact, I now wanted it to do well because I wanted to have something to point at as a success story for my own film. I felt similarly when The Lord of the Rings films came out and reestablished a presence of high fantasy concepts in the minds of moviegoers.
However, when I wrote pitches for my film to managers and executives, I tried citing Bright as a similar film to save time in explaining the world. I thought I was being clever by referencing a movie that was receiving a lot of press. After rejecting me, one executive wrote back:
"The consensus amongst Hollywood execs, BTW, is that BRIGHT is not strong, and only Netflix could make it, because people wouldnt (sic) show up to see it in a theater."
Ugh. That little nugget of wisdom tossed over the high walls of Hollywood crushed my hopes that Bright would be a good film. It colored how I viewed the trailers, which now had a sheen of made-for-TV to them. Finally, the recent articles casting Bright as the worst film of 2017 and others instructing viewers not to watch it prepared me for the worst.
So, with coffee in hand, I settled in for an evening of awfulness the could only be rivaled by Manos: The Hands of Fate. But it never came. In fact, I really enjoyed watching Bright. In many ways, it's the realization of my own film except, perhaps, not as grandiose as my vision. But beyond my personal attachments, it's also just a well-made film that manages to make audiences see past the fantasy and experience the prototypical buddy-cop story that's engrossing in its own right. Now, onto the review.
In this reimagining of present day America, the fantasy races that we're all familiar with, like elves, orcs, humans, and even centaurs, live in Los Angeles going about their daily lives. However, there is a definite hierarchy to the races, with orcs being on the lower rungs of society, making up most of the menial labor and crime element while the elves essentially live in their version of Beverly Hills and maintain all of the seats of power. The humans are somewhere in the middle.
The story revolves around Police Officer Daryl Ward (Will Smith) and his new partner Nick Jakoby (Joel Edgerton), who is also an orc and the first of his kind to wear the badge. After responding to a disturbance in a sketchy part of town, the two officers discover a runaway elf (Lucy Fry) in possession of a magic wand, which is a rare magical artifact of unimaginable and limitless power that only very select few can wield. Those that can are known as Brights. Unfortunately, everyone in town wants the wand and are willing to kill for it.
The anti-hype for Bright is way overblown, but I can also understand why some people won't like it. Any time a story deals with magic, if rules aren't established early, then magic can feel like a "too convenient" way to solve difficult situations. The myth-building also feels a little hokey with characters referencing the return of a dark lord and being part of secret resistance groups that sound like bad clan names from online role-playing games.
Bright wants to be more than just a concept film; it's trying to tell a much larger story full of spectacle and wonder, which is evidenced by all of the references to that larger story in the dialog and ancillary visuals. Unfortunately, there isn't much content that covers the history of the world as understood within the film. So when an orc talks about how his race made the wrong decision 2000 years ago, it's not meaningful to the audience in any emotional way. Also, the humans don't behave as though the fantasy races have always been in their lives. Instead, the world of Bright feels more like the world of Alien Nation, where a foreign population has just recently become fully integrated into human society with the human population still trying to cope. Perhaps another draft or a longer runtime could have shored up some of these weak points. A bigger budget might have also helped secure more filming locations.
The biggest obstacle that Bright places in front of audiences is that it immediately presents a high hurdle for viewers to overcome in order to enjoy the film: They either immediately accept modern day fantasy races or they don't. It's one thing to present fantasy races as space aliens ala Star Trek with elvish Vulcans and orcish Klingons. That concept feels removed enough that audiences can accept it without many questions. It's another thing to present fantasy races as getting some coffee at your local Starbucks. Suddenly, the mind is flooded with thoughts around logistics and how history might be reshaped with dragons still flying in the sky and magic being a real force in the world. That's exactly what Bright tries to display in a very nonchalant manner. If audiences can accept that, then they're going to have a good time. If not, then they write articles commanding others not watch the film.
There was a moment early on that erased my skepticism. A man who looked homeless stood in the middle of an intersection babbling nonsense while wielding a sword. Daryl and Nick arrived to meet the sheriff on site to resolve the situation. They watched the homeless man apathetically and engaged in small talk with each other before getting to work. For a moment, the film captured the mundanity of everyday absurdity that every cop experiences on a long enough timeline and coupled it with the occupational numbness that eventually affects any profession. Suddenly, the fantasy aspect of the film felt secondary. I was free to enjoy the movie.
The entire cast pulls its weight, though some actors offer more than others. Will Smith plays Will Smith as a cop, but somehow I found him less annoying than I typically do. He seems more vulnerable here, and I think this is the most beat-up he's looked in a film. Joel Edgerton steals the show, striking a great balance between rookie cop and foreigner trying to fit in with the dominant population. His character's story is every immigrant's story, and he conveys it well. Noomi Rapace is wasted here as a determined and vicious villain with few lines, but she never ceases to impress with her commitment to even this small role.
There's a lot to like about Bright. Not only does it have a strong overarching plot about protecting a target to help stop a great evil, but it also has an equally compelling subplot that surrounds racism and corruption behind powerful institutional forces. The economy employed by the filmmakers is also fascinating. The opening credits are spent looking at graffiti which detail current race relations without needing expositional dialog, flashbacks, or some other contrivance to orient viewers. Most importantly, Bright succeeds with its core concept. The fantasy world truly felt integrated into modern society. Would I have felt fully satisfied seeing in a theater? Probably not. So in that sense, the executive above was right: Bright wasn't strong enough for a theatrical release. On the other hand, I've seen worse films in the theater too. Make of that what you will.
Ultimately, Bright feels prototypical in the way that it mashes up two genres. There's nothing offensive about it in a storytelling manner, which is why the negative campaigning against it seemed weird. I imagined that there were political machinations behind the scenes as studios maneuvered to somehow slow down Netflix's momentum. However, I recently discovered that writer Max Landis is being accused of sexual assault. In the current climate of Hollywood, an accusation is as good as a conviction. Perhaps the attacks on Bright are a way to attack Landis via his career.
In any event, if you're a Netflix subscriber, then give Bright a chance. It's pretty good.
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René Garcia founded WorkingAuthor.com. He is a professional writer living and working in Southern California. He covers most aspects of the entertainment industry, including film, television, celebrity interviews and more.
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Q: Tensorflow Java API on Spark fails at new Graph() I'm running the Java API of Tensorflow (version 1.8) to evaluate an already trained model on Spark. However, when the code reaches to this command Graph gr = new Graph() the code fails, most of the time, and sometimes it goes through.
This happens both on executors and on the Driver, even if Graph gr= new Graph() is the only TensorFlow command I keep. Using Try-Catch wasn't useful, as when the it reaches this line, the executor fails and exits.
Any idea what might be the issue?

A: We figured what is the issue:
The Java API of tensorflow has dependency on Visual C++ redistribution. When we run it on Spark some of the machines miss the dependency *.dlls. This causes JVM crash.


The Internet is full of exciting stuff. If you are all out of ideas and don't feel like going to YouTube, Instagram and Facebook all over again, take a look at our suggestions below.
The phenomenon known as Internet forums is slowly dying out. However, it has been replaced by one mega-forum called Reddit wherein all the web geeks can be found. It is a forum about everything, and it also has the biggest community in the world. Mind you, Reddit users are a brilliant bunch, and the site is often a source of the most interesting topics you can find on the Internet. If you are a type of person who likes to discuss ideas, make sure to register on Reddit. You'll not be disappointed!
Playing casino games in an actual land-based casino has become slightly outdated. Nowadays, you can access slots, roulettes, blackjack, poker, and many other casino games in just a couple of clicks. You can kill time and become a millionaire if you are lucky enough. Make sure to read about various online casinos and choose the one you like the most!
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Remember the days when you used to sit next to your older sibling and watch them play games on a PC or a console? It was as entertaining as if you were playing it. That's the reason why Twitch is mainly targeted at gamers. Twitch tries to recreate that experience by allowing live streams of video games. At one point, they moved on and have become open towards all sorts of live streams!
The comics may not be as popular as they were thirty years ago, but some people still enjoy reading about the adventures of superheroes and other interesting comic-book characters. This Quora thread is filled with various suggestions of websites that allow you to read comics for free. If you enjoyed Marvel and DC comics back in the day, you would be happy to find out that even some of them can be found for free on the web.
Ever since Google revolutionized the way we view maps, we have been able to spin the globe, point with a finger on our desired destination and immediately see the streets from the first-person perspective. This gave birth to a very unusual activity – searching for interesting stuff that the Google car managed to film by accident. Try it. It's fun!
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We think that we understand how gravity works, but do we really? Well, most of the time we are not even aware that it's the only thing that keeps us grounded and down to earth (pun intended). However, if you want to see how small objects revolve around the bigger ones that attract them via gravity, you should check out this utterly useless but immensely fun site called Gravity Points. All you have to do is click with your mouse to create gravity points and watch other smaller dots being attracted to them. Watch out not to create a black hole!
If we managed to help you kill boredom – great! If not, use Google, the best friend of many bored people on the Internet who would rather explore new stuff than revert back to the old patterns repeated on the social media back and forth.


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Homeless crisis 2016: How the city responded and what it plans next
David Kroman
As Mayor Ed Murray will often remind the public, Seattle is not unique among West Coast cities when it comes to homelessness. While the country as a whole has seen a drop in the number of people living on the streets, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, BC, and Seattle have all seen significant jumps. In reminding people of this trend, the mayor seems to be begging patience and tempering expectations.
But trend or no, City Hall 2016 has been both manic in its efforts to cap and reduce the homeless population, and also mired in Seattle Process.
The year started in an emergency and it will end in an emergency. Mayor Ed Murray's homelessness state of emergency proclamation in November, 2015, while successful in forcing the issue and spurring the opening of new shelter beds, will likely be met once again with a yet-higher number of people living on the streets.
While the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced a $58 million shot in the arm to Washington's homelessness efforts, the mayor is not holding out hope that much more help is on the way in a Trump administration.
The tone of the year was set in its early weeks, when two people were shot dead in the Jungle, the former home to hundreds beneath I-5 and on the slopes of Beacon Hill. Remarkably, it happened as Mayor Murray was giving a speech on the future of places like the Jungle. The mayor has always held the conviction that spaces like the Jungle are inherently and endlessly unsafe. The shooting reinforced this for him, and would dictate the debate's terms for most of the year.
Following the Jungle shooting was news that the homeless population was up 19 percent from the year before, 32 percent over the previous two. This launched a strangely bifurcated debate: one about long-term solutions, one about immediate action and so-called "sweeps" of unsanctioned homeless encampments.
For months, City Hall largely tabled discussion of long-term strategies as private consultant Barbara Poppe, a former director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, audited the system.
Meanwhile, the conversation around encampments and temporary shelter dominated. Councilmember Sally Bagshaw took much more of a front seat this year than in past, promising to work toward opening 1,000 new beds and converting more shelters to 24-hour spaces. In a more perfect world, Bagshaw imagined a cyclical system in which shelters fed into heroin treatment centers, which led into more opportunities for housing.
When it came to the "unsanctioned" places people camped, the conversation created tension among elected officials and boiled over into the public sphere unlike almost any other policy question. Murray has defended his strategy of what he calls "clean-ups" and what opponents refer to as "sweeps" — moving people out of off-limits spaces. While Murray said they were necessary for public safety reasons, advocates and a majority of the Seattle City Council questioned whether there was any better alternative.
The debate came to a head around the Jungle. Murray has long hoped to empty it of its residents, but has received pushback and delays every step of the way, including from political allies like Bagshaw. His reaction to this pushback was occasionally heated, although he's so far managed to come out looking cooperative.
Eventually, the Jungle was cleared, but not before a police officer shot a man.
The debate over encampments reached new heights with a proposal from advocacy groups like the ACLU and Columbia Legal Services that would have overhauled the rules for ejecting people from locations around the city. Proponents said it would make a bad situation better, but it was quickly painted as the city legalizing camping. It was so highly publicized that even out-of-town politicians like Sen. Mark Miloscia (R-Federal Way) and then-candidate for governor Bill Bryant weighed in.
The proposal was countered with milder pitches from Councilmember Bagshaw and Mayor Murray. All three are still on the table.
Meanwhile, Poppe came out with her report on the long-term solutions, which has also set off furious debate. In short, it recommended doing away with any transitional housing for the homeless and immediately placing people in the private market. The idea is it is cheaper and just as effective as systems Seattle uses now, but many are concerned it cannot be scaled.
Now, of course, comes the question of Trump and a HUD led by neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Upcoming budget renewals and promises of tax reform have raised doubts about the future supply of affordable housing and aid for homeless services. Murray seems to be increasingly serious about running a tax levy for homelessness as a stopgap against more federal cuts.
In 2017, the two major things to watch on this issue will be the competing proposals for what do about homeless encampments and the implementation of the mayor's Pathways Home report, built around Poppe's recommendations. But those won't be the only things.
The city needs to find a site for its promised Navigation Center, a 24-hour, full-service shelter based on a San Francisco based center. Recommendations from a regional task force on the opioid epidemic will be debated. And amid all of this, Murray will be running for reelection. He will be desperate to show more progress before next fall's ballots drop.
This series made possible with support from Northwest Harvest. The views and opinions expressed in the media, articles, or comments on this article are those of the authors and do not reflect or represent the views and opinions held by Northwest Harvest.
David Kroman is formerly a reporter at Crosscut, where he covered city politics.


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199-acre Porter County farm sells for state record price at $17,306 per acre
Stan Maddux, Correspondent, (Munster) Times of Northwest Indiana
Sunday, November 21, 2021 8:15 PM
This Porter County farm sold for a state record per-acre price. Provided
VALPARAISO — A Porter County farm sold this month for a whopping $17,306 per acre, nearly double the average price for top quality farmland in the state.
The record price was achieved Nov. 9 during an auction conducted by Kraft Real Estate Auctions featuring more than 50 bidders.
"It was just a barn burner of a sale," said Jonathan Kraft, who auctioned off the property at 510 East 100 South in Morgan Township outside Valparaiso.
Kraft said the 199 acres, belonging to the estate of Lawrence Grieger, went for slightly more than $3.4 million.
The buyers are two farmers in neighboring LaPorte County with plans to use the ground for expanding their operations, Kraft said.
According to Purdue University, top quality Indiana farmland in August averaged a record $9,785 per acre, up 14.1% from the same time last year.
Recently, Kraft said, a nearby realtor sold a farm for about $12,000 per acre while a farm in the southeast part of the state fetched roughly $16,000 per acre at auction.
In August, Beck's Hybrids placed the winning bid at more than $14,000 per acre for a farm in Tipton County.
Kraft said he's scheduled to auction off a 168-acre farm Dec. 1 and is curious how high that bidding will go.
"We'll see if that market holds true," he said.
Kraft said one reason for the skyrocketing prices is people, including nonfarmers, worried about the declining value of their cash and investing that money in land to get an upper hand on high inflation.
He said land purchased at top price could later be worth less but in the long run rises in value.
Michael Langemeier, an agricultural economist at Purdue University, agreed.
"There are people out there with money, and they're looking for a place to park it," he said.
Langemeier said other contributors to soaring prices are continued very low interest rates and higher farm profits the past two years.
"That's just a perfect combination for strong land values," he said.
Kraft said he expected the land to go for about $12,000 per acre, but that amount was exceeded in super active early bidding.
"It was a pretty exciting few moments for sure," he said.
Langemeier said farmers often keep bidding when the price no longer makes sense for other investors because farmers can make money by keeping the land in production until they're ready to sell for a higher amount.
Kraft said Grieger quit farming the ground he owned for much of his life in response to the rising price of seed. Nothing was produced on the farm for about 10 years until a friend of Grieger's, who was the executor of his estate, planted soybeans in the spring.
© Copyright 2022, nwitimes.com, Munster, IN


Group Rides - Cycling Sports Center-Let's Ride!
During the warmer months we have weekly group rides on Wednesdays.
On Wednesdays evenings we have 4 different groups that will do different mileage and paces.
There will also be options to ride on some Saturdays and Sunday.
On the weekends the routes and pace will depend on turn-out.
This was created for the love of the sport, to ride with fellow cyclists and and enjoy the open road.
Let's get together, before we get much older, Let's Ride!
All group rides will vary in average speed/pace, depending on elevation, weather conditions and the turn out of each group.
*It is mandatory to wear a helmet, bring an appropriate amount a water and nutrients, be friendly and courteous to fellow riders, and of course have a great time!
It is highly encourage that you stay with the group of people you left with in the beginning of the ride. Always be courteous of slower riders and wait up for them after a hill. If you must separate from the group make sure you have a friend with you.
Weekly rides will be posted on the Strava club page and Facebook.