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Water damages to your exterior siding and windows from dripping rain gutters or gutters that are misaligned.
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There are lots of aspects you need to consider when selecting a gutter and downspout cleaning company. Rain gutter cleaning expense ought to absolutely be among those elements, but it shouldn't be the primary driving force behind any choice that you make. You should definitely do your due diligence and take a look at pricing so you can be sure that you aren't being overcharged by the company you select to deal with.
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The objective of Bloxorz is to tumble a rectangular block through each stage and deposit it into the square hole at the end. Using a series of bridge-opening switches, teleporters, and block-splitting switches, solve the puzzle each stage presents to move on to the next of the game's 33 levels. To play Bloxorz use the arrow keys for control to tumble the block around the play field, but don't let it fall off the edges. The round switches can be just rolled over to trip, but the "X" switches require a little more weight, so you'll have to stand the block on end to trip them.
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Gladstone Williams helped organize a chamber of commerce. He was also the first Chamber President.
Small park built on town square – for a children's summer program.
Clinton Youth Council established – primarily for recreational purposes.
Youth Carnival becomes annual event.
Pushed for south bypass for College Street/Highway 80.
Pushed for the first fire station, truck and fire chief.
Recreational opportunities were a major emphasis.
Idea of separate school district for Clinton is born.
Clinton Jaycees becomes active and along with the Youth Council, represent the primary advocates for change during this period.
Community swimming pool is built.
Clinton Baseball Association is formed and a field is built near Olde Towne.
Planning & Zoning Commission is established.
Clinton Chamber of Commerce is officially incorporated.
Chamber supports efforts to build a city library.
Chamber starts the "Citizen of the Year" recognition. Distinguished Service award is added later.
Clinton Public School District is established.
Parks & Recreation Department is established.
Chamber supports the change to the ward system for electing city aldermen.
A divided Chamber helps defeat the first North/South Parkway bond issue.
The Arts Council is formed.
Diane Newman becomes Executive Director of the Chamber. The Chamber becomes an active advocate once again.
Chamber helps pass a bond issue to build a new Public Safety Complex.
Chamber endorses bond issues to add air conditioning to Clinton Public Schools and the North/South Parkway. A/C passes – Parkway fails again.
Chamber begins sponsoring the citywide July 4th celebration.
Chamber begins the Leadership Clinton program.
Chamber leads the support as the North/South Parkway wins huge legal battle.
The original Kids Town Park is built from an idea generated by Leadership Clinton.
City builds a new wastewater treatment facility.
Chamber supports a $12.5 million bond issue to build the new high School.
Chamber supports a $17.5 million bond issue for a new elementary school & athletic facilities at the high school.
Chamber supports bond issue to fund Traceway Park improvements, Brighton Park, and a new Public Works Building.
Diane Newman retires, and T.J. McSparrin is hired as Executive Director of the Chamber.
Chamber supports a $23.5 million bond issue to build new schools and fund Improvements. Despite the poor economic climate – the bond issue passes with a record approval rate of 87%.
The Chamber introduces the CCYL – the Clinton Chamber Youth Leadership Program.
The Chamber resurrects Leadership Clinton – which had been dormant since 2007.
The Chamber begins a "Shop in Clinton" emphasis.
The Chamber launches an extensive social media emphasis and communication effort.
Continental Tire announces plans to build $1.4 billion plant near Clinton.
The Chamber redesigns its logo, website, and other marketing materials.


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A 'Russian' Writer Born in the U.S.
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the name of Michael Cunningham's most recent novel. The book is called, "By Nightfall."
On most days, author Michael Cunningham sits in his studio in lower Manhattan and writes. On a good day, he says he writes several pages; on a bad day, he forces himself to write at least one sentence. Fortunately for his readers, most of his days go well. He has written six novels, including "The Hours," which in 1999 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and the PEN/Faulkner Award, a book about Provincetown, Massachusetts, and several screenplays. Although he has traveled widely, he had never been to Moscow. That changed in late November, when he was invited by the U.S. State Department's Speaker Program and Corpus Books, the publisher of his works in Russian, including his most recent novel, "By Nightfall." He had a packed program of meetings with his Russian readers, but still found time to visit with an old friend, Moscow Times columnist Michele A. Berdy, to talk about the duties of a novelist, the uniqueness of Russian readers, and his surprisingly controversial private life.
Q: How did you imagine Moscow before you came here?
A: The current American idea about Moscow is that it is some hybrid of Tokyo and the Wild West, that it is incredibly prosperous and has as many Pradas as we have delicatessens in New York City, and that gangsters are driving their Mercedes on the sidewalks, shooting at random pedestrians.
Q: When your friends in the U.S. ask you about Moscow, what are you going to tell them?
A: That the vitality of the city is palpable even from a moving cab. That it is inspired and chaotic and full of energy. It's full of greed and life and fear and all the qualities that animate the great cities: New York, Tokyo, maybe Berlin, London. There is a fabulous combination of hope and discouragement and incredible materialism. Food, beautiful clothes, beautiful stuff. Will it end tomorrow? Maybe, so we better grab it while we can.
I've been staying at the Ritz-Carlton, which is full of more men in suits who are clearly doing some kind of damage to the world than in any other place I've been. … I'm not so drawn to the more benign places in the world. I like Zurich and Copenhagen. But I prefer a place like Moscow where there is so much going on. There are so many schemes and plans and old women hobbling along looking for change dropped on the sidewalk alongside 25-year-old women wearing — on a Sunday afternoon — $25,000 worth of clothes.
Q: Your works are informed by much-loved British and American writers and set in specific time periods in America, and yet you have passionate Russian readers. How and why do your novels work in Russia?
A: What I do is more emotional, more earnest, more psychological than a lot of what is fashionable in America right now. A lot of American books are wry and ironic and satirical. It's something that I get criticized for in America, but it seems that that's a quality that works very well for Russian readers. I may be a Russian writer born accidentally in America.
Q: What questions have Russian readers asked you?
A: Russians ask questions unlike questions I have encountered anywhere else. One man asked me, "What is the meaning of life?" No one has ever asked me that question before. A woman asked me, "What are your dreams?" I started to talk about my aspirations. She said, "No, I want to know what you dream about at night" — which seemed a very personal question in a room with 150 other people. Russians want to pose the big questions.
Q: Was your homosexuality an issue here in a way that it wasn't in other places?
A: I really hadn't been in a country that is still so fixated on the gay question. In most places, including in the U.S., it's agreed that the rights of gay people are a given. I'm not even talked about as a "gay writer." I'm considered a writer who is gay and white and American and tall with brown eyes and flat feet — this is all part of what I bring to my view of the world, which is reflected in my novels. One of the duties of the novelist is to try to see the world, on the one hand, in toto, and on the other hand, to bring to that world what the world may have shown you because you are black, because you are a woman, or because you are gay.
For quite some time the gay thing has been a non-issue. I can't think of the last time a journalist or a member of the audience in another country wanted to know about the gay stuff. But it has not failed to come up in any conversation in Russia. I mean no offense to the Russian people when I say that I am a little bit mystified that a country this advanced, a country of such sophistication, and such high culture and such high thought is still struggling with the question of whether or not gay people are sort of strange and icky and unsuitable to be presented in society.
Q: Did you have the sense that there were people in the audience who were thinking, "Thank God someone is saying this"?
A: People actually said that to me: "Thank God you are saying this." On a television show I talked openly about being gay and expressed my hope that people who hate gay people can find a way to stop hating gay people — not just for the sake of gay people, but for their own sake. I cannot imagine that it's good for anybody to sit in a parlor thinking: I hate people who are unlike me. People have expressed to me what felt like undue appreciation for what felt to me like a perfectly simple and obvious statement.
Q: Do you want to come back?
A: I would come back to Russia tomorrow.


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Rise of Akhilesh Yadav
PHOTO: India Today
It was the earthy pragmatism and indefatigable spirit of Akhilesh - the 39-year-old MP from Kannauj, a seat that he will now have to leave - that captured the imagination of the politically pivotal state's electorate, putting even the high-profile campaign of Congress scion Rahul Gandhi in the shade.
After undergoing his intermediate education at Dholpur Military School in Rajasthan, he joined Mysore's Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering for the bachelor of engineering course. Within two years, his classmates heard him speak the local Kannada dialect fluently.
While the SP looked lumbered with an ageing leadership, the legacy of having taken several anti-modern positions like rejecting computers, an antediluvian commitment to eradicating English and a Luddite aversion to machines, Akhilesh had been working on a change of image for the party, down to even riding the latest model of bicycles.
Pursuing his studies in Australia altered the mindset of the son of the soil. Free laptops to students were promised in the manifesto and computers introduced at the party office despite old-timers scoffing in disgust. Professionals, instead of musclemen, were given tickets. The symbols of Goonda Raj were removed. The politically incorrect muscleman D.P. Yadav was denied a ticket even though his case was sponsored by party stalwarts like SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's brother Shiv Pal Yadav. These were Akhilesh's baby steps in leadership.
Akhilesh was in the thick of action right through the seven-phased elections - the young leader addressed 410 public meetings and covered 20,000 km in the state by a chopper, 12,000 km during his statewide rath yatra, and 250 km on the SP's poll symbol, the bicycle. He also repackaged the staid cycle symbol as an 'umeed ki cycle (cycle of hope)'.
Akhilesh is a natural with crowds. Even while sitting in his bus (he undertook a 9,000 km kranti rath yatra from September to January covering 215 constituencies), he was always seen communicating- whether waving to the crowds outside or furiously typing SMSes on his BlackBerry.
Regarded not so long ago as a mere chip off the old block, Akhilesh began his political innings and became an MP as well as the SP's state president by virtue of being Mulayam Singh Yadav's son. The year 2012, however, proved a turning point for him. At 38 and a father of three, Akhilesh is at that stage of his political life when he is old enough to inspire hope and young enough to motivate change.
He returned from Australia after pursuing a course in environment engineering at Sydney University in 1998, he had also begun speaking English with ease. Another change was Akhilesh shedding his inhibitions and becoming an extrovert, one of his closest pals told India Today. He has low-profile friends from the past and you could try befriending them, but first you'd have to know who they are.
He is a fitness freak, coming from a family of wrestlers. Whenever he is in Saifai, Akhilesh takes 10 rounds of the Chandgi Ram Stadium, which translates into 5 km. He loves soccer and his favourite club is Manchester United, though his favourite player is Real Madris's Critiano Ronaldo.
The party's youth brigade has been handpicked by Akhilesh. A former radio jockey Naved Siddiqui is the lead speaker at his meetings. Another youth V.J. Chauhan is a technical assist, keeping Akhilesh connected with the outside world through his i-pad and Blackberry. Deepak Mishra and Ashish Yadav handle his public relations and media and advise him on the campaign trail.
Uttar Pradesh is set to get its youngest chief minister in 38-year-old Akhilesh Yadav, with the Samajwadi Party (SP) legislature party unanimously electing him as their leader at a meeting in Lucknow on March 10, 2012.
In the wrestling ring of UP politics a new element has been introduced successfully. The young star and now the new Chief Minister of India's politically most important state, Akhilesh Yadav, had been groomed to take over the responsibility of riding the cycle back to power. And he has done exactly that.
While Mulayam is Netaji, the son is Bhaiya for the party workers. He is seen both as a continuity of the old and the promise of the new. The graduate in environmental engineering readily rolls up his sleeves and takes to the streets. He was arrested last year for launching a three-day protest against the BSP government. He is also the other Yuvraj.
Midway through the Uttar Pradesh polls, with the signs of a Samajwadi Party (SP) resurgence, there was a feverish interest in the brand new young Netaji. 'After six months of hard work, it looks like Delhi has suddenly discovered me.' Akhilesh Yadav, son of Samajwadi Party chief, laughed at the compliment that he has suddenly become the new darling of the media-the other crown prince of Avadh.
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The event, which is being held by United in conjunction with the Official Supporters' Club, will run from 2pm until 5pm.
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What is the maximum length of Ethernet cable I can use?
How long can an Ethernet wire be?
At what length does Ethernet cable lose speed?
Does the length of Ethernet cable make a difference?
Will a shorter Ethernet cable reduce ping?
What's the max distance for a Poe cable?
How much power can be transmitted over one Ethernet cable?
How to get the long distance power over Ethernet?
Which is the best Ethernet cable for long distance?
Ethernet – 100 meters (328 feet) There are a few different versions of ethernet cable, but they all have a maximum distance of 100 meters (328 feet). It should be noted that Cat7 cable has harsher distance limits than Cat5e, Cat6, and Cat6a.
A single run of Ethernet cable is designed to work over a maximum distance of 100 meters, or 328 feet. Beyond 100 meters, the signal will begin to weaken and possibly reduce the overall speed and reliability of the network connection. The 100-meter limit is a recommendation by the manufacturer.
An ethernet cable does not reduce speed. The maximum length of the cable is 328 ft, so the cable length cannot cause significant delays. However, if you use a cable that is longer than 328 ft, your network will be weak and will reduce the overall reliability and speed of your network connection.
In simpler terms, there's a limit to what the length of the cable can be. Although there is no defined limit to what the size of an ethernet cable can be, longer cables can cause some reduction in latency. This reduction is mainly because of the distance a signal has to travel within the cable.
Longer Ethernet cables can be slower as latency increases the further the signal has to travel. However, Ethernet signals travel at around two thirds the speed of light, so you likely won't notice any difference when comparing shorter lengths of cable.
You can enter your UTP cable or select a resistance per 1000 feet for the cable size you want to use. Also you can enter your injector power (volts) and the current (watts) required by your POE device. 300m is the typical max for poe with data. So just POE will be fine.
The PoE provides the solution to transmit the power and network communicating over single Ethernet cable. It saves the installation cost. However the PoE has limited of 100 meters which has relative to both network communicating and voltage drop of the power. In the IEEE802, the maximum network distance is 100 meters between two IP devices.
However, the energy loss inline the cable still need to be considered. As only two twisted pair is used to transmit the power, similar as 22AWG copper cable. Only 7.91W remain power left at the end of 400 meters. the missing power is converted to the heat in the twisted pairs.
Ethernet cable with pure copper is the best choice for repeating the PoE. Basing on our test, the maximum PoE distance can shorten down to 60 meters when we use low cost copper clad aluminum cable, and it can achieve up to 120 meters after we replaced with cat6 pure copper cable.
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District Energy Facility
Rethinking the Future - Runner-Up, Institutional (Built), 2022
Chicago Athenaeum – American Architecture Award, Winner, 2022
Dezeen Awards, 2022 - Architectural Lighting, Longlisted
Architizer A+, 2022 - Factories + Warehouses Finalist, Architecture + Photography & Video Finalist
World Architecture Festival, 2022 - Shortlist for Production, Energy & Recycling
World Architecture Festival, 2022 - Highly Commended Project for Best Use of Colour Prize
World Architecture News, 2022 - Finalist, Urban Landscape
The Plan Award, 2022 - Finalist, Production
A'N Best of Design Awards, 2021 - Winner, Infrastructure
BSA Honor Award for Design Excellence, 2021 - Honor Award
Metropolis Planet Positive Awards, Civc Cultural Finalist, 2021
DNA Paris Awards, 2018 - Honorable Mention
The new 56,000 sf District Energy Facility (DEF) sets the stage for a state-of-the-art, cost effective, and sustainable utility generation and distribution system for Harvard's Allston campus that also makes a significant contribution to its urban design.
The building's compact cubic form with rounded corners allows for maximum flexibility of future development around it while maintaining a singular bold and refined presence. A wrapper of metal fins forms a screen around the facility, with petal-like elements set at varying degrees of openness to reveal or conceal the various equipment areas within. The exterior fins are most open at the structure's corner entry and the round thermal energy storage tank, and most closed on its service sides. On the public face of the building, the fins are raised above the ground to reveal the main equipment hall to passersby.
In addition to the many benefits of a district energy facility, the construction of the new DEF contributes to the design of infrastructure in the urban and campus form. Formerly relegated to the "backyard" of a campus with little visibility, today's infrastructure plants are more centrally located to serve multiple buildings in a district and therefore face the pressures of relating in scale to nearby structures as well as mitigating noise and air quality. An innovative approach is required to celebrate their energy and robust beauty and to make them a good neighbor.
The DEF was the first new building to be completed on the Allston campus, therefore carrying the responsibility of setting a high standard of quality and design as well as of creating a visible demonstration of sustainable practice in building, landscape, and storm water management. Flexibility and innovation were key goals for the design of the project, which provides chilled water, hot water, and electricity to the new campus. Resiliency is a key feature, with equipment elevated above flood levels, black-start cogeneration, and micro-grid integrations. A thermal energy storage tank supports efficient equipment use. The DEF began providing utilities to the new Science and Engineering Center in 2019, before its completion.
The DEF's site, at a pivotal location in the development area south of Western Avenue, makes the facility a highly visible presence from all sides. As a permanent support facility, its building and site design complements future campus evolution, including open space, academic buildings, and research and development spaces.


Sudoku rules are extremely simple. A square board is divided into nine identical 3 x 3 squares - there are nice cells in each of them.
Your task is to fill all the cells of the board with numbers from 1 to 9. Each digit can appear only once in each row and each column of the board.
Similarly, digits cannot repeat in any of the nine 3 x 3 squares.
To solve the Sudoku puzzle you do not have to guess each digit - just follow the simple rules of logic. We will provide you with some basic guidelines so that you can solve your first puzzles faster on the example of Sudoku board number 1121552. Read them keeping in mind the rules of Sudoku mentioned above.
The picture below is a section of a line of 3 x 3 squares of the sample board. The square on the left contains number 1 in the third row. The square on the right side contains number 1 in the first row. Since, as we know from the rules of Sudoku, every digit can only appear once in each row, number 1 cannot be placed in any other cell in the first and third rows. We also know that each 3 x 3 square must include all digits, so we must also place number 1 in the central square. The only cell of the square where number 1 can be placed has been highlighted in the picture.
Often it is necessary to combine information from 3 x 3 squares, rows and columns. The following section illustrates a situation in which the digit 9 may be placed in only one cell in a square. This cell has been highlighted in the picture.
Finally, let's look at whole board. At first glance you can not see that only one digit can be inserted in the highlighted cell. Consider the options that we have to reject: numbers 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8 have already been placed in the 3 x 3 square; numbers 2 and 9 can not be inserted due to their presence in the same row; 3 also can not be used because it is already in the same column. The only possibility for this cell is the number 4.
Every correctly filled cell is a key to solving the next, unfilled cells and the whole Sudoku board.
These principles and guidelines will be enough for you to solve easier Sudoku boards and will be useful for solving higher difficulty boards. Remember that you should not guess - all the information you need to complete the game are on the board. Over time, and with each subsequent game, you will build your own set of logical tools that will allow you to efficiently and quickly solve the next, more difficult puzzles.


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1874 Print Overhead Traveling Cranes Gantry Docks Middlesbrough England MAB1
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This is an original 1874 halftone print of an overhead traveling cranes in operation along the docks of Middlesbrough, England. The traveling staging or gantry of each crane has a span of 23 feet center to center of rails, one of the later being laid close to the edge of the quay, and the other in the 6 feet between rails. The clear height is 17 feet 6 inches, which allows the uninterrupted circulation of locomotives, and all kinds of rolling stock on each of the two lines of rails which are spanned by the gantry. The traveling wheels are 12 feet center to center. The framing is composed of a pair of timber uprights, braced and strengthened by cast-iron brackets, and two wrought-iron plate girders, which are connected to the timber uprights by four wrought-iron plate brackets, strengthened with angle irons.
This 137+ year old Item is rated Very Fine +++. Light aging throughout. No creases. No natural defects. No tears. No water damage. Please note there is print on the reverse, and some bleed through visible on this print.
Product Type: Original Halftone Print; Black / White
Grade: Very Fine +++
Dimensions: Approximately 7.5 x 9 inches; 19 x 23 cm
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The men behind QAnon
Experts and researchers said the key to "Q" is hiding in plain sight.
The men behind QAnon: Experts and researchers said the key to "Q" is hiding in plain sight.
For nearly three years, QAnon followers have been feverishly deciphering thousands of cryptic clues and predictions posted online by the shadowy persona of "Q" at the center of a metastasizing movement that experts say is the first far-right extremist conspiracy theory in the modern era to penetrate mainstream American culture and Washington politics.
Yet, a consensus of leading researchers and critics who study and debunk QAnon disinformation told ABC News that a key to identifying "Q" has been hiding in plain sight for years -- on a pig farm south of Manila in the Philippines -- at least until recently.
The rapid online growth of QAnon since early spring -- and a series of trolling incidents that surged through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok before those platforms began banning QAnon groups and hashtags this summer -- has sharpened focus on the forces behind this alternative reality game-like phenomenon.
At least 24 candidates who have "endorsed or given credence to the conspiracy theory or promoted QAnon content" -- 22 Republicans and two independents -- have secured a spot on the ballot in the 2020 congressional elections,according to the media watchdog Media Matters, though it remains unclear how many could actually win their races. Last month, one candidate who pollsters say is almost certain to win her heavily GOP district in Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, appeared to rescind her previous support for QAnon, telling Fox News that "once I started finding misinformation, I decided that I would choose another path."
People who believe in QAnon conspiracies have also been associated with a number of strange and disconcerting real-life incidents in recent years, including a man using an armored truck to block traffic on the Hoover Dam in 2018, and another man accused of fatally shooting alleged New York Gambino mob boss Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali last year because, according to court records, he believed Cali that was part of the "deep state." In June, a New York judge found the suspect mentally unfit for trial and transferred to a mental health facility for further evaluation, the Staten Island Advance reported.
Anthony Comello displays writing on his hand during his extradition hearing in Toms River, N.J., March 18, 2019.Seth Wenig/AP
QAnon clothing and posters have turned up regularly at President Donald Trump's campaign rallies since at least 2018.
Trump, his children and several White House staffers have repeatedly retweeted QAnon-linked content online, according to researchers who track the spread of QAnon. As of late August, Trump alone had amplified social media accounts promoting QAnon content at least 216 times, Media Matters reported.
Last month, Trump made his most extensive comments to date when asked about QAnon during a press briefing at the White House.
"Well I don't know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very much -- which I appreciate," he said, adding, "I've heard these are people that love our country."
A reporter pressed him about "this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals -- does that sound like something you are behind or a believer in?"
"Well, I haven't ... heard that," Trump replied. "But is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing? I mean, you know, if I can help save the world from problems, I'm willing to do it. I'm willing to put myself out there."
Puzzles, prophesies and 'Q drops'
In its broadest outlines, the QAnon conspiracy theory rests on the baseless belief that Trump is secretly battling a global network of billionaire pedophiles, devil-worshipping Democrats and baby-eating Hollywood stars and their "deep state" counterparts embedded in the U.S. federal government's sprawling bureaucracy.
Numerous top Democrats, party supporters, Hollywood stars and other Trump critics have been dragged into QAnon's web and slandered with false and heinous allegations. Last week, Trump fanned these flames when he retweeted a video clip of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that falsely suggested the former U.S. vice president is a pedophile.
Party affiliation is no shield. After Vice President Mike Pence told CBS News on Aug. 21 that he "doesn't know anything" about QAnon but "dismisses it out of hand," he was accused by many QAnon adherents of being a "deep state" agent. Earlier this month, Pence canceled a campaign fundraiser after an Associated Press (AP) report revealed that the couple hosting the event had publicly expressed support for QAnon.
QAnon's messaging is laced with religious allegory, prophesies, puzzle-solving and an emboldening sense of belonging to the right side of an epic battle of good versus evil.
The user "Q Clearance Patriot," known to followers as "Q," purports to be a high-level military intelligence official who leaves clues about the secret battle behind the scenes with "Q drops" -- messages first posted in late 2017 on the anonymous imageboard 4chan, and later on 8chan and its successor, 8kun.
The "chans," as they are known -- where the messages are posted -- are low-trafficked anonymous imageboards populated largely with hate speech, pornography and rhetorical violence.
Instead of registering users, the sites issue users a tripcode -- a unique sequence of code that allows a user's identity to be recognized without storing personal data, a practice that researchers say protects free speech but fuels the spread of disinformation.
It's "Q"'s unique tripcode that allows followers to verify the messages are coming from the same user account -- even as "Q" has migrated from one imageboard to the next.
The "Q drops" are then swiftly interpreted by so-called "Q influencers," archived in searchable databases and disseminated to a much wider audience on aggregator websites like QMap -- which went offline earlier this month after the site's developer was identified as an IT expert living in New Jersey.
From there, the QAnon message spreads into the wider social media ecosystem. In August, the Guardian newspaper tracked 4.5 million aggregate QAnon followers worldwide on Facebook and Instagram alone, though the paper also acknowledged "likely significant overlap among these groups and accounts."
It remains unknown whether the "Q drops" are authored by one or several people or whether they live within or outside the U.S., burnishing the mystique at the heart of the phenomenon.
In 2018, NBC News disinformation beat reporters tracked the initial spread of the QAnon phenomenon to a handful of conspiracy theorists from YouTube and 4chan who banded together and used social media to amplify an obscure thread of political conspiracy to a far larger audience.
Jenn Luizzi, a 27-year-old QAnon supporter from Deerfield Beach, holds a sign at Bayfront Park during a child sex trafficking rally in Miami, Aug. 22, 2020.Martin Vassolo/Miami Herald via Newscom, FILE
What began in 2017 as a political conspiracy theory has since morphed into a meta-conspiracy movement that in sum aims to account for much of the evil in the world, sweetened by the promise of evil's swift demise with "The Storm" -- the perpetually imminent arrest of tens of thousands of "enemy" Americans -- and "The Great Awakening" -- the subsequent, Rapture-like new beginning for the world where believers' faith is recognized and rewarded.
Who is Q?
The two Americans most clearly associated with the author of thousands of "Q drops" dating back to October 2017 are James Arthur Watkins, 56, who gained control in 2015 of the controversial anonymous message board 8chan, and his son, Ronald Watkins, former 8chan administrator and current administrator of its successor, the Watkins-owned 8kun.
Since 2001, Watkins has been living in the Philippines, according to Philippines immigration records obtained by ABC News.
"If he's not 'Q' himself, he can find out who 'Q' is at any time," said Fredrick Brennan, the creator of 8chan and Watkins' former business partner.
"And he's pretty much the only person in the world that can have private contact with 'Q.' He's the only person that -- through the board that 'Q' started on 8chan – can send 'Q' a direct message and get into private contact with basically the leader of this political cult that everybody wants to hear from right now."
Fredrick Brennan, creator of the website 8chan, speaks during an interview with AFP in Manila on Aug. 6, 2019. Fredrick Brennan told AFP in an interview in Manila that he sometimes regretted setting up the unmoderated message board in 2013 -- adding that turning it over to a new owner last year was a mistake.Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images, FILE
Brennan created 8chan in 2013 when he was living in New York City, he said, after dreaming up the idea during a trip on psychedelic mushrooms.
He moved to Manila in 2014 to work with James and Ron Watkins and in 2015 he cut a deal that turned over ownership of the site to the elder Watkins. He continued to work on other Watkins projects until 2018 before splitting entirely and to date remains embroiled in a bitter personal dispute with the family.
Watkins and his son, Ron, who have previously denied being "Q," declined repeated ABC News interview requests and did not reply to a subsequent list of questions from ABC News submitted through his U.S. attorney and in letters delivered to his home and businesses in Manila.
A day after the letters were delivered in Manila and ABC News spoke briefly with Watkins' brother-in-law, an ABC News reporter was blocked from accessing Watkins' primary Twitter account.
'This is not a drill'
Brennan has been actively tracking Watkins-connected or owned businesses and -- when he finds them -- urging internet service providers to deny Watkins a platform.
Late last month, Brennan caused a stir among QAnon researchers when he posted an image of an IP address in a tweet that he said proved that Watkins' 8kun was sharing the same IP address with QMap, one of the largest dissemination websites on the internet for "Q drops," with 10 million visitors a month in recent months, according to the web analytics site SimilarWeb Ltd.
"Oh my God," Brennan declared in an Aug. 23 tweet. "This is not a drill, people. Jim Watkins is the owner of QMap.pub."
Brennan told ABC News that the image suggested for the first time that Watkins is profiting from both "Q"'s original posts on 8kun, as well as from QMap.
"These were previously thought to be two separate entities," Brennan said.
Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan, appears in an interview on One America News in Sept. 2019.One America News Network/YouTube
Earlier this month, the fact-checking website Logically identified QMap's developer, or operator, as an IT expert living in New Jersey. The IT executive denied any association with Watkins to Daily Dot, a tech-centric website.
Until it went offline, QMap was hosted by the same content delivery network (CDN) service as 8kun. The CDN only hosts two other domains: Watkins' domains and The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website.
The host service company "was started right … at the end of October, 2019," Brennan said. 8kun launched weeks later.
Numerous QAnon researchers interviewed by ABC News said that Brennan's evidence is a compelling new twist and a further indication of long-suspected ties between Watkins and "Q."
They stressed that it was the access to "Q" -- not the authorship of the posts -- that most interests them about Watkins' role in the QAnon phenomenon.
"Regardless of whether he is doing any direct posting, or encouraging what the content is, the Watkins family and the 8kun crew have a remarkable amount of control over what's turning into an international movement," said Brian Friedberg, a senior researcher at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Affairs, who studies the impact of political disinformation from alternative media and anonymous groups.
Friedberg said that in recent months he has devoted nearly all his time to the QAnon movement, because it has become a "major amplifier of both political and medical disinformation."
Researcher Mike Rains said he has long believed that Watkins is at least in direct contact with "Q" and said that Brennan's tweet appears to be yet another indication of the degree to which the Watkins family controls the QAnon posts dispatched on 8kun.
"It doesn't really matter who is writing the 'Q drops,'" said Rains, a Massachusetts-based researcher who posts frequent critiques of QAnon conspiracies and hosts the podcast "Poker and Politics." "Watkins is the publisher. He is the only source of information that is allowed to get out there."
'QAnonism'
Brennan, 26, said that he moved from New York City to Manila in 2014 at Watkins' invitation to build out 8chan from the Southeast Asian island nation and the two formed a partnership.
The Watkins had learned about him from an Al Jazeera documentary about the challenges Brennan faced living in New York City with osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease, which has confined him to a wheelchair for most of his life, he said. Brennan said he relinquished his role as 8chan's administrator in 2016 and fully broke with the Watkins family two years later, disillusioned, he said, over personal disputes with the family and the increasingly violent and subversive content on 8chan's boards.
In a series of recent interviews, Brennan said that last year's trio of mass shootings -- at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart; two New Zealand mosques; and a San Diego synagogue -- perpetrated by alleged 8chan users finally forced him to reckon with the real-world consequences of anonymous online hate.
Since then, he has been a vocal online critic of the 8chan culture, which he acknowledges that he helped spawn, particularly the growth of QAnon — which he said is dominating the larger far-right extremist landscape online.
"We're seeing [8kun] kind of morphing away from white supremacy and neo-Nazism and into QAnonism," Brennan told ABC News this week. "And Watkins fully endorses that. He has totally backed the 'Q' movement."
Brennan said that a loss for Trump in November could have significant ramifications for the QAnon movement.
"If Trump loses, I think that how a lot of people are going to view it is: the deep state has won. Trump has lost. Our god, essentially, has been crucified," he said. Because, "Trump is -- for many of them -- a god, and they are going to punish Democrats on the other side with political violence. That's what I see happening."
Brennan said that QAnon followers believe a second term for Trump will trigger "The Storm," followed by the "Great Awakening."
"Even if 99% of them can come up with a new narrative and still think 'Q' is true, I think it's very likely that much more than 1% are going to feel betrayed, duped and deceived by not only Watkins but everyone involved in Q[Anon]."
Ron Watkins is the administrator of 8chan and its successor, 8kun, along with his father, Jim Watkins.CodeMonkeyZ/Twitter
'Absolutely crazy'
In August, 2019, 8chan went offline after the site's hosting platform withdrew services in the wake of the El Paso mass shooting. Watkins was called to testify before Congress.
Brennan publicly called on Watkins to shut down 8chan once and for all. Watkins refused, and continued to defend himself and 8chan on his social media accounts and in interviews.
Brennan went on to repeatedly describe Watkins on social media as "senile," and in October, 2019, Watkins filed cyber-libel complaint against Brennan in the Philippines, according to Philippines court records provided by Brennan.
Ultimately, an arrest warrant was issued for Brennan, forcing him to flee the country, leaving his Filipino wife behind, to avoid being jailed in Manila.
"With my [medical] condition, I wouldn't survive in the jail they would send me to there," he said.
Experts in Philippines law told ABC News that cyber-libel cases are rare in the Philippines, with only 15 or 20 cases brought annually. In June, public prosecutors used the same statute to convict Maria Ressa, a prominent Filipino investigative reporter whose news website had been critical of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's administration.
"It was absolutely crazy," Brennan said. "I had to drop everything and leave everything, and I only escaped with a few hours to spare."
Brennan said he is currently living on the U.S. West Coast as he fights the Manila charges.
A month after filing the cyber-libel complaint that would drive Brennan back to the U.S., Watkins relaunched 8chan as 8kun.
'Disarm the Deep State'
Watkins and his son have long denied any direct association with "Q."
"Nobody from our team has had private contact with Q," Ron Watkins told Playboy.com via Twitter direct message in March.
Yet according to researchers, including Brennan, the elder Watkins has been teasing out his association with "Q" -- and profiting from it -- with a growing insouciance in the past year.
Last fall, Watkins arrived to testify before a closed-door session of the House Homeland Security Committee wearing a "Q" pin on his lapel.
He peddles his own "Q" merchandise online and cross-promotes a shape-shifting core group of QAnon influencers who profit through books, videos and other QAnon merchandising, while assisting the wider spectrum of followers in deciphering the posts.
In March, Watkins registered a super PAC in Mississippi called "Disarm the Deep State," which pledges in its mission statement "to educate citizens across the country about the dangers of the Deep State, produce effective campaigns against politicians in the pockets of the Deep State, and support candidates and legislators that will work with us to end the Deep State."
To date, the PAC has raised less than $4,000 and spent less than $500.
Watkins has vigorously defended his imageboards in the past. Prior to his testimony in the House, Watkins released a lengthy statement outlining his defense of 8chan.
Watkins contended that "8chan is the only [online] platform featuring a full commitment to free speech -- a one-of-a-kind discussion board where anonymous users shared tactics about French democracy protests, how to circumvent censorship in repressive regimes, and the best way to beat a classic video game. In this hodgepodge of discussion, down-home recipes are traded, sorrows lifted, and a small minority of users post hateful and ignorant views."
Watkins said in the statement that "moderation is mostly done by volunteers."
"There are no algorithms for content moderation in place. All 8chan moderation relies on human volunteers and one automated 'bot' account ... to remove illegal content or spam, automated or human, based only on keywords," he wrote.
Watkins said that by the fall of 2019, when his statement was composed, 8chan had banned nearly 48,000 users, deleted more than 132,000 posts and 92 discussion boards -- which organize discussion topics by subject matter. The letter also noted that 8chan had complied with 56 U.S. law enforcement requests at that point in 2019.
'Bingo'
James Watkins was born in November 1963 in Dayton, Washington, according to public records.
He grew up on a family farm north of Seattle, the son of a mother who worked for the aerospace giant Boeing and a father who worked for the local phone company, according to an interview he and one of his executives gave in 2016 to news site Splinter, then a Fusion Media Group website.
Watkins joined the U.S. Army at 18, serving in the Army Reserve from 1982 to 1985 and the U.S. Army from 1985 to 1999, according to military records. He first worked as a helicopter mechanic and later as a recruiter. He was promoted to sergeant first class in 1994.
Watkins told Splinter that the Army sent him in 1987 to computer training school in Virginia, and while still working for the Army in the 1990s he launched what a fellow executive described in the interview as a pioneering Asian porn website.
Watkins noted in the interview that he informed the U.S. Army at the time that he was launching a website but did not specify what kind.
Business filings show that N.T. Technology Inc. was founded by 1998 in Washington state by Watkins and two Japanese men, Yoshihiro and Yumiko Nakao. The firm initially sold advertising and later expanded into web hosting. The corporation lapsed in 2003 and business filings for the company appeared again in Nevada in 2005, where the company is currently headquartered. He launched a second company, Race Queen Inc., in Manila in 2005, according to corporation filings.
Tom Riedel, N.T. Technology Inc.'s current president, told the digital site Splinter in a 2016 email that Watkins was a porn pioneer, who "figured out a loophole in Japanese censorship rules," according to Splinter. "Adult material in Japan has to be censored, but ... Japanese people could access content that resides outside of Japan. Bingo."
Riedel and other N.T. Technology executives did not respond to ABC News requests for comment.
An Army spokesperson did not dispute that Watkins was sent to computer training school -- but said that no immediate record was available.
Philippines immigration records obtained by ABC News indicate that Watkins arrived in Manila in October 2001, weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks and has lived there ever since.
People march during a "Save the Children" rally outside the Capitol building on Aug. 22, 2020 in St Paul, Minn. Hundreds of rallies around the country, meant to decry human trafficking and pedophilia, were held, some of which have been linked to social media accounts promoting the QAnon conspiracy.Stephen Maturen/Getty Images, FILE
In the wake of growing controversy last fall surrounding the El Paso mass shooting, the Philippines National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Philippines National Police (PNP) both launched investigations into Watkins, as first reported last year by WIRED magazine.
An NBI official told ABC News last week that the bureau's investigation into Watkins was closed, and the findings turned over to the PNP. Philippines police officials said their investigation into Watkins remains open but has not to date resulted in any criminal charges.
Yet, in a previously unreported development in January, the Philippines Bureau of Immigration's (BI) Investigations Division determined that James Watkins was a risk to the public interest, a designation called an "undesirable alien," according to Philippines immigration records obtained by ABC News.
Watkins "is the owner and operator of 8chan, a hate filled forum/website which hosts trolling and serves as go-to resource for violent extremists and white supremacists," the bureau of immigration's charging sheet states.
The designation is administrative, not criminal and "it basically means you're deportable," said Jathniel Shao, an Ohio-based immigration attorney with an office in Manila.
"Being deemed undesirable by the [Philippines] Bureau of Immigration is not uncommon," Shao said. "Even if you do something stupid when you're drunk or get in a fight with the wrong people, anyone can file a claim with the BI about any alien. It's the BI commissioners' discretion whether to pursue further action."
Immigration documents show that Watkins sought authorization to return to the U.S. and was given a travel window of Aug. 27, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2021, before he is expected to return to appeal the undesirable alien designation. He departed for the U.S. on Sept. 4, though it's unclear where he is currently living. Benjamin Barr, Watkins' U.S. attorney, did not reply to an ABC News email last week requesting information about Watkins' current whereabouts.
Reached earlier this month at Watkins' home in a gated community in the Pasig City section of Manila, a man who identified himself as Watkins' brother-in-law confirmed to ABC News that Watkins had returned to the U.S., following his son Ron's earlier return stateside. The brother-in-law also said that in June, Watkins sold the pig farm south of Manila where he'd been living with his family for years.
While officials with the bureau of immigration declined to specify what prompted the Watkins investigation, Brennan told ABC News last week he thinks he knows what happened.
"Wow, it worked," Brennan said, when notified of Watkins' immigration designation.
He went on to explain that after Watkins filed a cyber-libel complaint against him last fall, Brennan hired a local Manila attorney to accompany Brennan's wife to repeatedly complain in person about Watkins to one of a handful of commissioners at the bureau of immigration's Manila headquarters, arguing that Watkins' history of web hosting Asian pornography and anonymous forums like 8chan from the Philippines should compel his designation as an undesirable alien.
"We were basically playing his own game back at him, because he chased me out of the country first," Brennan said.
Brennan said he bets Watkins stays in the U.S.
"I would be shocked if he really ever returns now that this immigration case is going," Brennan said.
"If you're a foreigner there you really have to prove you're not undesirable," he said. "The bureau of immigration can deport anyone for any reason or no reason and the only person who can overturn it is Duterte."
"And that'll never happen."
Immigration records show that Watkins must return by Jan. 31, or he would be placed on a blacklist and barred from reentry to the Philippines.
ABC News' Nicholas Tucker contributed reporting from New York and Luis Martinez contributed reporting from Washington, D.C.
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This is so funny,
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the future of America, there is no going back from trump.
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How QAnon uses religion to lure unsuspecting Christians
Some Christian conservatives are falling for QAnon, which uses emotionally fraught topics such as suffering children to draw converts to their unhinged conspiracies.
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Diversion on top of diversion on top of diversion.....
How the 'parasite' QAnon conspiracy cult went global
QAnon began life as a uniquely American phenomenon. Since the pandemic started, however, the popularity of the virtual cult has exploded internationally and created a dilemma for platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
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Even if I didn't know who Watkins is that looks like the face of someone who doth protest too much about childporn and sex trafficking.
It just so happens he founded 8chan so I think it's safe to say the dude has hard drives full of gross shit at the very least.
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"I've never experienced [X] so obviously it isn't real and we should all ignore it"
The GOP starts forging a new alliance with QAnon
As tech platforms battle with QAnon conspiracy theorists, some Republicans are opening the door to the fringe group.
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Here are the QAnon supporters running for Congress in 2020
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The QAnon conspiracy theory is rooted in the chan message boards. Here are 86 current or former congressional candidates who embrace it.
Multiple supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which got its start on far-right message boards, are running campaigns for Congress in 2020.
The conspiracy theory, which revolves around an anonymous account known as "Q," started on far-right message board site 4chan, later moving to fellow far-right message board site 8chan, which has since relaunched as 8kun. (Beyond the QAnon conspiracy theory, 8chan/8kun has been linked to multiple instances of white supremacist terrorism, including the 2019 massacre in El Paso, Texas.)
The "Q" account's claim -- and the conspiracy theory's premise -- is that President Donald Trump was working with then-special counsel Robert Mueller to take down the president's perceived enemies, the "deep state," and pedophiles. Multiple adherents to the conspiracy theory have been tied to acts of violence, including multiple murders and attempted kidnappings, and an FBI field office released a memo in May 2019 that listed QAnon as a potential domestic terrorism threat.
Currently, among these candidates who have endorsed or given credence to the conspiracy theory or promoted QAnon content:
Twenty-seven candidates -- 25 Republicans, one member of the Independent Party of Delaware, and one independent -- have already secured a spot on the ballot in November's general election by competing in primary elections or by fulfilling other requirements needed to get on the ballot.
Of those 27 candidates, five are from California, four are from Georgia, three are from Florida, two each are from Illinois, Arizona, and Delaware, and there is one each from Colorado, Nevada, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Oregon, Ohio, and Texas.
Three candidates, one in New York and two in Massachusetts, are running as Republican write-ins in November's general election.
One candidate, in Louisiana, is running in the state's nonpartisan blanket primary in November.
In total, 80 of the current or former candidates are Republicans, two are Democrats, one is a Libertarian, one is a member of the Independent Party of Delaware, and two are independents.
NBC Town Hall moderator Savannah Guthrie asked Trump if he would "disavow QAnon in its entirety." Instead, Trump falsely said "I know nothing about QAnon," adding, "I do know they are very much against pedophilia."
Fanatically devoted to President Donald Trump, the QAnon faithful believe -- baselessly -- that the world is run by a globalist cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles and cannibals controlled by the "deep state," Hillary Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, and Hollywood celebrities including Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and others.
According to QAnon's creed, these malevolent powers traffic and imprison children, sexually abusing them and drinking their blood, which supposedly contains a life-extending substance. In their absurd mythology, which they take literally, Trump is the superhero, here to save the children from the Satanists in a secret war.
"QAnon is a virtual cult that began in late 2017.
The most basic QAnon belief casts President Trump as the hero in a fight against the "deep state" and a sinister cabal of Democratic politicians and celebrities who abuse children. And it features an anonymous government insider called "Q" who purportedly shares secret information about that fight via cryptic online posts.
Travis View is a conspiracy theory researcher who co-hosts the podcast "QAnon Anonymous."
The theory's believers "always fantasize that they are saving children and they're bringing criminals to justice," View says. "But QAnon only hurts people. It has helped nobody."
He went down the QAnon rabbit hole for almost two years. Here's how he got out
This man was sucked into QAnon for two years. Here's how he escaped the virtual cult.
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watched the video, learned a new word.
doxxed The practice of revealing another persons personal information on the Internet. It is often done as revenge.
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Kind of like what Nebraska did by posting Dim's facebook posts, except Dim publicly posted that information here on the forums and it was done after Dim repeatedly referenced such posts. That was a funny day
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Pretty easy to get "doxxed" when you've already told everyone who you are and where you live.
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I would enjoy a 3rd season of that show. Was greatly entertaining. It would answer a few cliff hangers, like why isn't he registered to vote? Why doesn't he intend on voting? What is the lib stance on pedophilia? Are all libs pedophiles? I would take everyone off ignore for that debut episode.
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Please don't call libertarians "libs". That's a term used to describe liberals and they don't deserve to be lumped in with the toilet party. Call them what they are: economic flat-earthers
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I always saw lib as a derogatory name, so its fitting imo. Calling them ECO-flat earthers is derogatory to flat earthers.
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Ermagherd a libertard.
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It's hard to argue against a phrase like "save the children." Which, presumably, is why QAnon uses it as a hashtag. The growing online conspiracy cult has co-op…
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//  Copyright Beman Dawes and Daryle Walker 1999.  Distributed under the Boost
//  Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file
//  LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

//  See http://www.boost.org/libs/integer for documentation.

//  Revision History
//   22 Sep 01  Added value-based integer templates. (Daryle Walker)
//   01 Apr 01  Modified to use new <boost/limits.hpp> header. (John Maddock)
//   30 Jul 00  Add typename syntax fix (Jens Maurer)
//   28 Aug 99  Initial version

#ifndef BOOST_INTEGER_HPP
#define BOOST_INTEGER_HPP

#include <boost/integer_fwd.hpp>  // self include

#include <boost/integer_traits.hpp>  // for boost::integer_traits
#include <boost/limits.hpp>          // for std::numeric_limits

namespace boost
{

  //  Helper templates  ------------------------------------------------------//

  //  fast integers from least integers
  //  int_fast_t<> works correctly for unsigned too, in spite of the name.
  template< typename LeastInt >
  struct int_fast_t { typedef LeastInt fast; }; // imps may specialize

  //  convert category to type
  template< int Category > struct int_least_helper {}; // default is empty

  //  specializatons: 1=long, 2=int, 3=short, 4=signed char,
  //     6=unsigned long, 7=unsigned int, 8=unsigned short, 9=unsigned char
  //  no specializations for 0 and 5: requests for a type > long are in error
  template<> struct int_least_helper<1> { typedef long least; };
  template<> struct int_least_helper<2> { typedef int least; };
  template<> struct int_least_helper<3> { typedef short least; };
  template<> struct int_least_helper<4> { typedef signed char least; };
  template<> struct int_least_helper<6> { typedef unsigned long least; };
  template<> struct int_least_helper<7> { typedef unsigned int least; };
  template<> struct int_least_helper<8> { typedef unsigned short least; };
  template<> struct int_least_helper<9> { typedef unsigned char least; };

  //  integer templates specifying number of bits  ---------------------------//

  //  signed
  template< int Bits >   // bits (including sign) required
  struct int_t
  {
      typedef typename int_least_helper
        <
          (Bits-1 <= std::numeric_limits<long>::digits) +
          (Bits-1 <= std::numeric_limits<int>::digits) +
          (Bits-1 <= std::numeric_limits<short>::digits) +
          (Bits-1 <= std::numeric_limits<signed char>::digits)
        >::least  least;
      typedef typename int_fast_t<least>::fast  fast;
  };

  //  unsigned
  template< int Bits >   // bits required
  struct uint_t
  {
      typedef typename int_least_helper
        <
          5 +
          (Bits <= std::numeric_limits<unsigned long>::digits) +
          (Bits <= std::numeric_limits<unsigned int>::digits) +
          (Bits <= std::numeric_limits<unsigned short>::digits) +
          (Bits <= std::numeric_limits<unsigned char>::digits)
        >::least  least;
      typedef typename int_fast_t<least>::fast  fast;
      // int_fast_t<> works correctly for unsigned too, in spite of the name.
  };

  //  integer templates specifying extreme value  ----------------------------//

  //  signed
  template< long MaxValue >   // maximum value to require support
  struct int_max_value_t
  {
      typedef typename int_least_helper
        <
          (MaxValue <= integer_traits<long>::const_max) +
          (MaxValue <= integer_traits<int>::const_max) +
          (MaxValue <= integer_traits<short>::const_max) +
          (MaxValue <= integer_traits<signed char>::const_max)
        >::least  least;
      typedef typename int_fast_t<least>::fast  fast;
  };

  template< long MinValue >   // minimum value to require support
  struct int_min_value_t
  {
      typedef typename int_least_helper
        <
          (MinValue >= integer_traits<long>::const_min) +
          (MinValue >= integer_traits<int>::const_min) +
          (MinValue >= integer_traits<short>::const_min) +
          (MinValue >= integer_traits<signed char>::const_min)
        >::least  least;
      typedef typename int_fast_t<least>::fast  fast;
  };

  //  unsigned
  template< unsigned long Value >   // maximum value to require support
  struct uint_value_t
  {
      typedef typename int_least_helper
        <
          5 +
          (Value <= integer_traits<unsigned long>::const_max) +
          (Value <= integer_traits<unsigned int>::const_max) +
          (Value <= integer_traits<unsigned short>::const_max) +
          (Value <= integer_traits<unsigned char>::const_max)
        >::least  least;
      typedef typename int_fast_t<least>::fast  fast;
  };

} // namespace boost

#endif  // BOOST_INTEGER_HPP

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      by Captain Quincy Allen

      Chapter XXV: "The Secret of the Sealed Packet-Conclusion"

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            1911

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            English

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            Allen, Q. (1911). The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf; or, Rescuing the Lost Balloonists.New York: Grosset & Dunlap.

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	"About me!" exclaimed Joe, looking amazed.

	"Talk to me about surprises!" ejaculated Jerry. "Frank does love to knock us all silly!"

	"How could your father know about Joe, here?" demanded skeptical Lawyer Bluff.

	"Joe, what was your father's name?" asked Frank, eagerness in his bright eyes.

	"Joseph Sprague Abercrombie," came the immediate response.

	"Hurrah! That settles it!" shouted Frank, throwing his hat into the air. His chums could not ever remember having seen him one-half so excited before.

	"Take pity on us!" cried Will, catching the other by the sleeve.

	"Yes, hurry up and tell, or I'll burst!" ejaculated Bluff.

	Jerry shook Frank, in his earnestness, saying:

	"It isn't fair, and you know it! We're chums, and we deserve to be taken into your confidence."

	"Right you are; and now sit down and listen to me. I'm not going to read this letter out, but you can look it over later, as you please. My father says he was just about to come down to Cedar Keys himself, or send a trusted clerk, for the business is very important, you see."

	"And that was why he smiled when you told him where we meant to bring up?"

	"Yes, Bluff, that was the reason. Now you know he is a banker and a capitalist. In times gone by he used to be in Wall Street, so he had connection with many men who were investors. One friend of his, named Joseph Sprague Abercrombie, who was an engineer, entrusted some money to him to invest in certain stocks. By an unfortunate turn of the market those stocks became seemingly valueless. They have lain in his safe for ten years."

	"Say! it's growing exciting! I can see what's coming!" cried Bluff.

	"Meanwhile, my father had lost all track of his once boyhood friend Joe. Then, by a strange freak of fate, the corporation that had issued those stocks suddenly became alive. Everything they owned began to prosper. Their mines turned out rich investments, their timber lands found a big market. The apparently worthless stock, taken from the safe and put on the market at its highest point, brought in a fortune for Joseph Abercrombie or his heirs!"

	"Hurrah!" shouted Will, embracing little Joe in the exuberance of his joy.

	"Talk to me about magic, will you! This thing has the Arabian Nights beaten all to a frazzle, and that's what I think!" laughed Jerry, pumping the hand of Joe vigorously.

	"My father tried hard to locate his old friend. By degrees he found that he had gone South, soon after sinking his little savings in what seemed to have been worthless stock. Then he learned that he had lost his life on the road, and that his family with but scant means, had moved to Cedar Keys, where they were still living, according to what information he could secure."

	"It's great, that's what! And to think that we should have run across Joe here in such a marvelous way!" said Bluff.

	"Yes," spoke up the lad quickly, "and I believe you saved my life, too. I'd been killed by them men, my uncle with the rest; or else I'd tried to escape, and might 'a' lost myself ashore, to died in the swamps. I'll never forget it, never!"

	After all, that evening was by long odds the happiest of the whole trip. They sat around the fire until long after midnight. Indeed, it was hard to get any one to admit that he was sleepy in the least degree.

	"Our last camp, fellows. Perhaps we may never be able to all meet under canvas again," said Jerry as they finally set about seeking their beds.

	If Jerry could have lifted the curtain of the future a bit he would never have ventured that doleful prophecy. There were other camps in store for the four outdoor chums, many of them, and in a country whither their longing souls had often turned—the wilderness around the great Rockies. But it is not our province to mention any of the wonderful adventures that were fated to befall them there. All those things will be duly set down in the next volume of this series, which will be called: "The Outdoor Chums After Big Game; or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness."

	When breakfast had been dispatched in the morning, for the last time the four outdoor chums took down the dear old khaki tent and folded it away reverently. They looked upon it as a friend and comforter indeed.

	Then they went aboard the Jessamine, and started for the city, which could be seen upon the key, over the gleaming, sun-kissed water of the gulf.

	They arrived long before noon, and leaving the boat in the hands of the party to whom Frank bore a letter from his cousin, the four chums accompanied little Joe to his modest home.

	Here the delightful news was broken to the widow of Mr. Langdon's old boyhood friend. Words would be useless to describe her joy. The clouds had rolled away as if by magic, and at last she could see a happy future for herself and her family, marred by only one keen regret, and that the absence of the brave man who had died at his post years before.

	Our boys spent a couple of days in Cedar Keys. Letters were found there from the home folks. At last they started north once more, to resume their school duties, satisfied that they had enjoyed the finest vacation in all their experience.

	Their work in saving the lost balloonists was spoken of in the papers, for the professor would never forget what he owed them. He even took pains to write to Mr. Langdon and praise the conduct of the boys.

	Safely landed again in Centerville, and once more taking up their school work, we shall have to part from the boys.

	"Well, it was a great outing!" declared Will.

	"Talk to me about good times!" came from Jerry. "We never had a better."

	"Right you are," added Frank. "And the photos are all dandy."

	"They'll certainly be fine, to keep and look over in years to come," remarked Will.

	And here we will take leave of the Outdoor Chums and say good-by.

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Q: Connected component in stability theory I am studying Chapter 3, section 2.14 of the book Stability Theory by Lyapunov Direct Method by Laloy.
Given the equations of motion
$\dot{q} = \frac{\partial H}{\partial p}(q, p)$ and $\dot{p} = -\frac{\partial H}{\partial q}(q, p)$, where $H(q, p) = T(q, p) + \pi(q)$.
$T(q, p)$ is the kinetic energy and is positive definite and is $C^1$. $\pi(q)$ is the potential energy, is $C^1$, and $\pi(0) = 0$ and $\frac{\partial \pi}{\partial q}(0) = 0$.
Suppose that the origin q = p = 0 is unstable, that is, there exists an $\eta >0$ such that for all open set $0\in \phi\subset B_\eta$, there exists q$\in \partial \phi$ such that $\pi(q)\leq 0$.
The author says that the set A = {$q \in R^n | \pi(q) \leq 0$ or $||q|| \geq \eta$} is closed and contains the origin. But I din't understand how to show this.
Also, the author says: let $A_0$ be a connected component of A which contains the origin, and suppose that $A_0\in B_\eta$. Then $A_0$ is compact and disjoint from A.
I am having problem in visualizing the set $A_0$. More specifically, I didn't understand how is $A_0$ a connected component of A. Is it a curve starting at the origin, formed by the q's where $\pi(q)\leq 0$?

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I quite often get told that I've got the best job in the world. It makes me feel super lucky to think that other people consider my job to be up there amongst the great ones they'd like to do, and to be fair, I reckon I have the best job in the world too….especially when I get to teach such amazing people to learn to surf! With the Easter holidays setting into motion I have completely adored seeing some of my little surfers, who over the years have now grown up to be not such little surfers back down on the beach and in the water. In fact, some of them are absolutely ripping and could almost teach me a thing or two about surfing!!
I've been instructing now for almost 10 years. It's all I've done since leaving school and I wouldn't have it any other way. Whilst most people think that with my experience I spend most of my time teaching intermediate and advanced surfing, which don't get me worng I completely love to do – there's nothing quite like teaching someone to catch their very first wave. It never grows old……and in fact I would say that seeing someone ride their very first wave is equally as special to me every single time.
I hate to think exactly how many people I have taught to surf. I know it's well up there in terms of figures….but what I really love about my job is how the experience of riding that first wave can change a persons whole life. Almost on a daily basis I bump into one someone I taught to catch their first wave, sat out in the lineup with their own board, own suit and cheshire cat sized grin still enjoying the very same thing that I taught them…..riding waves! I have had postcards from students who've found themselves in the tropical waters of Hawaii surfing, through to people who've packed up their whole lives in order to follow their surfing dreams….the dream that I helped to create.
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