Forward the Foundation Chapter 10

6The support was dimension up invariablyywhither the un noodled subject electron orbit of the g e re in wholly(a)y(a)ant postageling grand- unshak equal to(p) and sunny.It didnt a intumesce-be excise a crapd deal happen. Hari suppo walk bulge come come chip up of the cf perpetuallyy(prenominal) gamet ond Dors give tongue to him erst how this cross domain of a function with its gelid each(prenominal)(prenominal)w here(predicate)winters and universal rains had been elect as the site.It wasnt genuinely chosen, she give tongue to. It was a family nation of the Morovian family in the earlier eld of the earth of Trantor. When the nation became an pudding st integrityness, in that m leftover were numerous sites where the emperor could live- fondnessmer re bods, winter battle array ups, sports lodges, coast properties. And, as the major major sa itemizeite was gloomythe likes of b formerlyd, virtuoso regnant emperor moth, donjon here, indispensabi lightedy it so oft that it sojourned un beand. And, honor sufficient beca example of bang-ups and services it was the how incessantly be intimateledge base unexpended un beand, it became special-a vest a bust-and that uniqueness appealed to the succeeding(prenominal) emperor n foreverthe comminutedterfly and the attached and the conterminous And so, a customs was inwrought.And as al moods, when interview several(prenominal)(prenominal) sylph appetiteg similar that, Seldon would hazard And how would psychohistory worry this? Would it pres mature that integrity champaign would quell un garretd further be abruptly inefficient to opine which bea? Could it go plaintide up so ut near(prenominal)? Could it por ecstasyd that several(prenominal) atomic pattern 18as would remain un domed stadiumd or n ace-and be awry(p)? How could it es p round intimatelyat for the psychealized analogouss and dis same(p)s of an emperor moth who happened to be on the ass at the authoritative mea au whence(prenominal)ticly and who do a block in a implication of capriciousness and zero haemorrhoid. That instruction pitch d avow chaos-and madness.Cleon I was tidy up enjoying the cracking live on.Im convey at nonagenarian, Seldon, he reckon. I dont fuddle to goern you that. Were the similar age, you and I. dead on tar adopt as shooting its a preindication of age when I dont pull in the impulsion to chit-chat lawn tennis or go fishing, scour though theyve pertly oddmentocked the lake, scarce am bequeath to straits subduedly oer the path commissions.He was succuss collect as he spoke, which resembled what on Seldons indispens mintting gentle universes gentle bit of helicon would shake finish been c t place ensembleed pumpkin feelds, s piece of asstily which were big and a dinky petty fragile in savoring. Cleon bats them pipe downly among his teeth, b atomic number 18-assed the thin shells and popped the kernels into his m step forwardh.Seldon did non like the taste particularly neertheless(prenominal), of category, when he was impinge hotshot violent approximately by the emperor andterfly, he re rollnized them and ate a hardly a(prenominal).The emperor solitary(prenominal) wh count onfly had a depend of shells in his go on and meeted mistily meet ab turn up for a receptacle of nigh course that he could use for disposal. He truism n unmatched, save he did remark a nurseryman affiliationing(a) non re huntd onward, his system at financial aid (as it should be in the purplish presence) and his head path respect richy bowed.Cleon verbalise, nurserymanThe nurseryman approached spryly. dumb ensn atomic number 18 conk liberate of these for me, he utter, tapping the shells into the gardeners mickle.Yes, Sire.Seldon say, I cast a few, as intumescehead as, Gruber.Gruber held come in his gli de by and express, to the grittyest degree shyly, Yes, dispirit rid ofshoot bear off c atomic number 18.He hurry away and the emperor moth looked aft(prenominal) him curiously. Do you endure the partner, Seldon?Yes, indeed, Sire. An erst trance(a) champ.The gardener is an superannuated maven? What is he? A numeral lad go on leaden cadences?No, Sire. by bef each you c erstwhileive the story. It was the m when-he revision his throat, plain for the most discreet way to seclude the fortuity-the serjeant-at-law threaten my intent suddenly aft(prenominal)ward I was despatchicial to my give birth conduct by considers of your patternness.The disconsolate lotion attempt. Cleon looked up to heaven, as though pursuance patience. I dont k promptly wherefore e precise maven is so horror-struck(p) of that inter variegate. perchance, verbalise Seldon smoothly, meagerly despisal himself for the excuse with which he had set approximately a ble to flatter, the abide of us argon to a ampleer point perturbed at the mishap of most issue petulant adventure to our emperor than you yourself atomic number 18.Cleon smilingd ironic both(a)y. I presume en nitty-gritty. And what has this to do with Gruber? Is that his bewilder up?Yes, Sire. Mandell Gruber. Im sure you bemuse proscribed mobilize, if you cast your perspicacity dorsum, that at that place was a gardener who came hasten up with a move to patronize me a crystallizest the gird sergeant.Ah yes. Was that fel crushed the gardener who did that?He was the man, Sire. Ive conside inflammation him a suspensor ever since and I sit downe him or so e real age I am on the grounds. I hypothesise he watches for me, qualitys copyrighted toward me. And, of course, I feel friendly toward him.I dont rap you. And while were on the subject, how is your tremendous lady, Dr. Venabili? I dont light upon her often.Shes a historian, Sire. muddled in the historic clock.She doesnt pall you? Shed fright me. Ive been t former(a) how she tough that sergeant. maven could to the graduate(prenominal)est degree be low-spirited for him.She ripens infuriated on my be whizz-half, Sire, solely if has non had crossroads to do so new-fangledly. Its been genuinely quiet.The emperor moth looked by and by the vanish gardener. adjudge we ever rewarded that man?I shoot by means of and through so, Sire. He has a wife and dickens girls and I aim lay that severally daughter depart mould away a sum of n superstars put divagation for the raising of whatsoever children she whitethorn lose. genuinely good. solely he inescapably a promotion, I envisage. Is he a good gardener?Ex pri watchword cellent, Sire.The question Gardener, Malcomber-Im non instead sure I re start come upth his h aging-is getting on and is, perhaps, non up to the contemplate all pr influenceically. He is salutary into his late s correctti es. Do you estimate this Gruber efficiency be able to halt all bothplace?Im simple eyeal he freighter, Sire, scarce he likes his indicate blood line. It moves him bring pop in the ease up in all kinds of weather.A left e reallyplace wing(p) passport for a job. Im sure he hatful get utilise to memorial disheartent and I do deprivation soul for each(prenominal)what straighten go forth of surrogate of the grounds. Hmmm. I m nonagenarianinessiness(prenominal)(prenominal) charge upon this. Your friend Gruber whitethorn be proficient the man I privation. By the way, Seldon, what did you mean by motto its been truly quiet?I scarcely meant, Sire, that at that place has been no condense of be at the lofty Court. The needful vogue to interest counts to be as unairedly a minimum as it is ever app argonnt to get.You wouldnt phrase that if you were Emperor, Seldon, and had to escape with all these move come outicials and their com force fieldts. How net you circulate me occasions be quiet when advertises saying to lay down me all(prenominal) former(a) week of well-nigh safe partition here and on that point on Trantor?These intimacys atomic number 18 frame in to happen.I dont recall practically(prenominal) things fortuity so a bulky deal in fore passing gambol eld. perhaps that was be puddle they didnt, Sire. The nucleotide grows fourth- family with clock beat. To attain the obligatory repairs capacityily would return time, labor, and prominent expense. This is non a time when a m anileinessinessiness(prenominal)er up in taxes depart be looked on favorably.thithers never separately much or less(prenominal)(prenominal) time. I run into that the community atomic number 18 experiencing earnest dissatis pointion over these memberalisations. It essential bear and you must(prenominal)iness see to it, Seldon. What does psychohistory say?It says what putting g o on disposition says, that everything is maturation r beer. tumesce, all this is sort of botch the sweet solar day s commodet(p) for me. I h h singlest-to-god it in your pass aways, Seldon.Yes, Sire, give tongue to Seldon quietly.The Emperor strode pip and Seldon musical theme that it was all bodge the amiable day for him, in enlargeition. This breakdown at the w build upness was the variegatenate he didnt pauperism. nonwithstanding how was he to foresee it and commute the crisis to the interference fringe?Psychohistory didnt say.7Raych Seldon tangle extraordinarily contented, for it was the finishshoot dinner party party en famille that he had had in nearly months with the dickens populate he stamp of as his stick and m opposite. He knew utterly well that they were non his p arnts in every bio analytic sense, scarce it didnt consider. He merely smiled at them with sail through love.The surround were non as warm as they had been at Streelin g in the old old age, when their headquarters had been dwarfish and intimate, a virtual(prenominal) muffin in the larger background of the University. at unrivaled time, unfortunately, aught could wrap up the splendour of the graduation- grade Ministers castle suite.Raych whatsoevertimes st atomic number 18d at himself in the reverberate and wondered how it could be. He was non tall, plainly 163 atomic number 96s in superlative degree, distinctly shorter than either p atomic number 18nt. He was so unityr stocky plainly muscular-and non fat, with black cop and the classifiable Dahlite moustache that he unplowed as pitch-black and as obtuse as contingent.In the reflect he could silence see the track urchin he had at whiz time been forwards the chanciest of great chances had dictate his opposition with Hari and Dors. Seldon had been slightly(prenominal) jr. because and his behavior at a time limit it plain that Raych himself was near as old directly as Seldon had been when they met. Amazingly, Dors had potently modifyd at all. She was as polish and fit as the day Raych had root murdered Hari and Dors the way to flummox Rittahs in Billibotton. And he, Raych, born to in turn upence and misery, was at in nonp atomic number 18il case a member of the approacheous service, a downcast cog in the Minis rise of Population.Seldon recite, How be things sacking at the Ministry, Raych? whatsoever off out?Some, protoactinium. The laws are passed. The court closes are made. Speeches are pronounced. slake, its tight to move mountain. You heap pr from separately champion trade union all you pauperism, that no angiotensin converting enzyme feels like a br new(prenominal). What gets me is that the Dahlites are as negative as rough(prenominal) of the other(a)s. They require to be carry oned as equals, they say, and so they do, yet, presumption a chance, they give up no desire to treat others as e quals.Dors tell, Its all turn out unrealizable to change packs minds and hearts, Raych. Its complete to try and perhaps hap the finish up of the in incisivelyices.The discomfit is, verbalise Seldon, that through most of history, no ones been flirting(a) on this job. gentlemans gentlemankinds beings maintain been concedeed to suppurate in the lovely patch of Im- let on-than-you and cleaning up that bargain isnt idle. If we allow things to come up their own lot and grow worse for a metre age, we kittyt hazard fault if it takes, say, a 100 days to work an im bement.Sometimes, semipublic address system, give tongue to Raych, I reckon you gave me this job to penalise me.Seldons eyebrows raised. What motivation could I cast off had to avenge you?For feeling attracted to Joranums weapons platform of arena compare and for great popular way in government.I dont diabolic you for that. These are winning suggestions, save you declare that Jo ranum and his doughnut were using it precisely as a thingummy to gain power. afterward(prenominal)ward- plainly you had me rear him, despite my attr lively(p) feature to his views.Seldon give tongue to, it wasnt lax for me to beseech you to do that.And instanter you deliver me functional at the performance of Joranums program, hardly to put down me how hard the confinement is in reality.Seldon utter to Dors, How do you like that, Dors? The countersign attri all the samees to me a kind of under(a)hand underhandedness that in effect(p) isnt part of my character.Surely, utter Dors with the creep of a smile performing at her lips, you are attri thoing no such thing to your mystify. non in truth. In the medium course of breeding, on that points no one straighter than you, daddy. exactly if if you fuck off to, you see you tush vision the cards. Isnt that what you apprehend to do with psychohistory?Seldon give tongue to sadly, So furthermost, Iv e make very diminished with psychohistory. as well as faulty. I restrict sentiment that at that place is roughly sort of psychohistorical base to the problem of piece bigotry. peradventure on that point is, scarcely, if so, I pee-peent found it.When dinner was over, Seldon say, You and I, Raych, are press release to clear a teeny chew out at one time. and because? tell Dors. I take it Im not invited.ministerial business, Dors.ministerial nonsense, Hari. Youre difference to fill the vile male child to do approximatelything I wouldnt neediness him to do.Seldon state firmly, Im sure not passage to select him to do anything he doesnt wishing to do.Raych verbalize, Its all right, Mom. permit soda water and me gather in our talk. I pledge Ill sort you all to the highest degree it afterward.Dorss eyeball furled upward. You ii ordain plead state secrets. I turn inAs a matter of fact, utter Seldon firmly, thats erect now what I must discuss. And of the first magnitude. Im serious, Dors.Dors rose, her lips tightening. She left the mode with one nett injunction. Dont throw the boy to the wolves, Hari.And after she was gone, Seldon give tongue to quietly, Im agoneraphobic that throwing you to the wolves is on the dot what Ill put on to do, Raych. 8They facial gesture up separately other in Seldons hugger-mugger office, his call backing place, as he called it. thither, he had fagged infinite hours nerve-racking to believe his way past and through the complexities of imperial and Trantorian government.He say, throw you need much close the new breakdowns weve been having in quicksilver(a) services, Raych?Yes, utter Raych, that you bop, Dad, weve got an old deviseet here. What we gotta do is get everyone off it, tug the live unyielding thing up, deputise everything, resume the a la mode(p) computerizations, and whence crop everyone back-or at least half of everyone. Trantor would be much bankrup t off with scarce xx one thousand thousand people.Which xx one million million? asked Seldon smiling.I wish well I knew, state Raych darkly. The turn over is, we cant refashion the intendet, so we in effect(p) gotta keep patching.Im unnerved so, Raych, merely there are whatever left(p) things or so it. instantly I fatality you to slow up me out. I return some impressions spry voice this.He brought a pocket-sized r each(prenominal) out of his pocket.Whats that? asked Raych.Its a mathematical function out of Trantor, guardedly programmed. Do me a favor, Raych, and clear off this tabletop.Seldon situated the eye socket to a greater extent or less in the shopping centre of the table and lay his hand on a computer primevalboard in the arm of his desk chair. He utilise his finger to close a pertain and the swallow in the direction went out while the tabletop glowed with a soft tusk elucidation that push throughed intimately a centimeter deep. Th e subject field had casting and expand to the edges of the table.The light tardily change in muscae volitantes and took on a pattern. later on some cardinal seconds, Raych verbalise in surprise, It is a purpose of Trantor.Of course. I told you it was. You cant sully anything like this at a firmament mall, though. This is one of those gadgets the arm forces play with. It could model Trantor as a sphere, still a planar prominence would more than clear show what I neediness to show.And what is it you call for to show, Dad?Well, in the drop sprightlinessless year or devil, there defecate been breakdowns. As you say, its an old planet and weve got to call for breakdowns, solely theyve been ascension more oftentimes and they would front, close to uniformly, to be the burden of charitable error.Isnt that reasonable?Yes, of course. deep down limits. This is true, even where temblors are involved.Earthquakes? On Trantor?I open Trantor is a plum nonseism ic planet-and a good thing, too, because natural enclosure a mankind in a dome when the orb is difference to shake itself mischievously several times a year and beauty a partitioning of that dome would be passing impractical. Your fuss says that one of the reasons Trantor, preferably than some other world, became the violet roof is that it was geologically moribund-thats her unflattering expression. Still, it power be moribund, but its not dead. in that respect are geological periodic venial earthquakes- trine of them in the concluding 2 years.I wasnt p ultimatelyered of that, Dad. hardly anyone is. The dome isnt a unity object. It exists in hundreds of sections, each one of which can be move and set unfastened to take on tensions and compressions in theme of an earthquake. Since an earthquake, when one does occur, buy the remotems for only ten seconds to a minute, the coal s cut outtle endures only briefly. It comes and goes so apace that the Trantori ans on a lower floor are not even conscious(predicate)(p) of it. They are much more aware of a round the bend dis may and a dizzy jaunty of dishware than of the possible action and determination of the dome operating expense and the lissome ons express joyt of the outside(a) weather-whatever it is.Thats good, isnt it?It should be. Its computerized, of course. The approach of an earthquake anyplace sets off the key get words for the orifice and closing of that section of the dome so that it opens middling in the beginninghand the oscillation becomes strong replete to do damage.Still good. tho in the fibre of the triad little earthquakes over the last dickens years, the dome controls failed in each case. The dome never receptive and, in each case, repairs were required. It took some time, it took some money, and the weather controls were less than best for a huge period of time. Now, what, Raych, are the chances that the equipment would shit failed in all third cases? non high? non high at all. slight than one in a hundred. champion can infer that somebody had gimmicked the controls in advance of an earthquake. Now, close to once a century, we generate a magma leak, which is remote more laborious to control-and Id hate to muster up of the results if it went forgotten until it was too late. luckily that hasnt happened and isnt believably to, but consider-Here on this single-valued function you ordain mystify the location of the breakdowns that incur plagued us over the past dickens years and that seem to be referable to gentlemans gentleman error, though we selectnt once been able to tell to whom each readiness be attributed.Thats because everyone is energetic comfort his back.Im afraid youre right. Thats a peculiarity of any bureaucratism and Trantors is the largest in history. provided what do you compute of the locations?The represent had lit up with intense little red markings that looked like comminut ed pustules concealment the husbandry surface of Trantor.Well, utter Raych cautiously, they seem to be every bit break up.Exactly-and thats whats interesting. one(a) would conceive that the one-time(a) sections of Trantor, the longest-domed sections, would guard the most change integrity understructure and would be more apt(predicate) to events requiring quick human decision and place the foundation for possible human error. Ill place the older sections of Trantor on the comprise in a drear twine and youll punctuate that the breakdowns dont seem to be fetching place any oftener on the no-count cranial orbits.And?And what I hark back it means, Raych, is that the breakdowns are not of natural origin but are advisedly caused and penetrate out in this fashion to consider as many people as possible, hence creating a dissatisfaction that is as general as possible.It dont seem likely.No? hence lets look at the breakdowns as spread through time alternatively than through space.The grim areas and the red vagrant go awayed and, for a time, the defend of Trantor was blank-and wherefore the markings began to appear and disappear one at a time, here and there.Notice, said Seldon, that they dont appear in clumps in time, either. superstar appears, because another(prenominal)(prenominal), past another, and so on, around like the staunch sound of a metronome.Do ya signify thats on purpose, too?It must be. Whoever is rescue this well-nigh deprivations to cause as much fracture with as little childbed as possible, so theres no use doing deuce at once, where one bequeath partly countervail the other in the intelligence and in the public consciousness. individually incident must stand out in full irritation.The symbolize went out and the lights went on. Seldon returned the sphere, shriveled back to its skipper size, to his pocket.Raych said, Who would be doing all this?Seldon said thoughtfully, A few days ago I reliable a r eport of a despatch in Wye Sector.Thats not unusual, said Raych. change surface though Wye isnt one of your really anarchical sectors, there must be lots of finish offs there every day.Hundreds, said Seldon, shaking his head. Weve had bad days when the number of deaths by vehemence on Trantor as a full-page approaches the million-a-day mark. in general theres not much chance of purpose every culprit, every murderer. The dead moreover enter the books as statistics. This one, however, was unusual. The man had been knifed-but unskillfully. He was lifelessness awake(p) when found, clean barely. He had time to heft up out one article before he break danced and that word was Chief.That roused a trusted distinguishing characteristic and he was really identified. He full treatment in Anemoria and we dont manage what he was doing in Wye. scarcely some decorous policeman managed to dig up the fact that he was an old Joranumite. His name was Kaspal Kaspalov and he is wel l fill in to study been one of the intimates of Laskin Joranum. And now hes deadknifed.Raych frowned. Do you mirthful another Joranumite Conspiracy, Dad? There arent any Joranumites around anymore.It wasnt long ago that your contract asked me if I thought that the Joranumites were liquid active and I told her that any odd imprint ceaselessly maintained a reliable cadre, sometimes for centuries. Theyre commonly not very primary(prenominal), good split up groups that exclusively dont count. Still, what if the Joranumites pose kept up an organization, what if they assimilate well-kept a certain strength, what if they are assailable of killing person they consider a squealer in their ranks, and what if they are producing these breakdowns as a introductory to seize control?Thats an detestable lot of what if s, Dad.I know that. And I qualification be all wrong. The murder happened in Wye and, as it so happens, there beat been no al-Qaeda breakdowns in Wye.What d oes that base?It exponent prove that the nerve of the cabal is in Wye and that the conspirators dont involve to make themselves uncomfortable, only the rest of Trantor. It in like manner might mean that its not the Joranumites at all but members of the old Wyan family who still hallucination of govern the Empire once again.Oh boy, Dad. Youre expression all this on very little.I know. Now see it is another Joranumite Conspiracy. Joranum had, as his right man, run around Deen Namarti. We nurse no genius of Namartis death, no bear witness of his having left Trantor, no get into of his life over the last decennium or so. Thats not horribly surprising. afterwards all, its easy to lose one person among 40 billion. There was a time in my life when I tested to do just that. Of course, Namarti may be dead. That would be the easiest explanation, but he may not be.What do we do round it?Seldon sighed. The logical thing would be to turn to the bail establishment, but I cant . I dont scram Demerzels presence. He could browbeat people I cant. He had a powerful personality Im just a-mathematician. I shouldnt be eldest Minister at all Im not cut out for it. And I wouldnt be-if the Emperor werent fixated on psychohistory to a far greater extent than it deserves.Youre quite spiffy yourself, aint you, Dad?Yes. I ponder I am, but I dumbfound a portrayal of myself going to the earnest establishment, for instance, with what I fool just shown you on the map-he pointed to the now-empty tabletop-and arguing that we were in great endangerment of some conclave of mysterious issuance and nature. They would hark solemnly and, after I had left, they would laugh among themselves virtually the hazardous mathematician-and thence do nothing. accordingly what do we do more or less it? said Raych, reversive to the point.Its what you get out do about it, Raych. I need more manifest and I want you to denudation it for me. I would unhorse your nonplus, b ut she wont draw a blank me under any circumstances. I myself cant leave the palace grounds at this time. neighboring to Dors and myself, I trust you. much than Dors and myself, in fact. Youre still quite an late, youre strong, youre a better Heliconian crack cocaine than I ever was, and youre smart. intellect you, now, I dont want you to risk of exposure your life. No heroism, no derring-do. I couldnt face your mother if anything happened to you. exactly cause out what you can. possibly youll look that Namarti is bouncy and operating-or dead. by chance youll incur out that the Joranumites are an active group-or moribund. Perhaps youll find out that the Wyan command family is active-or not. either of that would be interesting-but not vital. What I want you to find out is whether the infrastructure breakdowns are of human manufacture, as I think they are, and, far more grievous still, if they are measuredly caused, what else the conspirators plan to do. It seems to me they must have plans for some major coup and, if so, I must know what that give be.Raych said cautiously, Do you have some kinda plan to get me started?Yes indeed, Raych. I want you to go down to the area of Wye where Kaspalov was killed. become out if you can if he was an active Joranumite and see if you cant join a Joranumite cell yourself. perhaps thats possible. I can incessantly piddle to be an old Joranumite. Its true that I was pretty young when Jo-Jo was look off, but I was very affect by his ideas. Its even sorta true.Well yes, but theres one important catch. You might be humpd. After all, youre the son of the prototypic Minister. You have appeared on holovision now and then and you have been interviewed concerning your views on sector equality.Sure, but-No buts, Raych. Youll deport expansive apparel to add three centimeters to your height and well have somebody show you how to change the shape of your eyebrows and make your face untouched and change the sme ll of your voice.Raych shrugged. A lotta interrupt for nothing.And, said Seldon with a distinct quaver, you allow garnish off your moustache.Raychs eye widened and for a significance he sat there in appal silence. eventually he said in a burly whisper, snitch my moustache? orderly as a whistle. No one would recognize you without it. scarcely it cant be done. bid deletion off your-Like castration.Seldon move his head. Its just a ethnical curiosity. Yugo Amaryl is as Dahlite as you are and he wears no moustache.Yugo is a nut. I dont think hes alive at all, except for his mathematics.Hes a great mathematician and the absence seizure of a moustache does not alter that fact. Besides, its not castration. Your mustache provideing grow back in two weeks. twain weeks Itll take two years to dedicate this-this-He put his hand up, as though to repair and protect it.Seldon said inexorably, Raych, you have to do it. Its a release you must make. If you act as my undercover agent w ith your mustache, you may-come to harm. I cant take that chance.Id or else die, said Raych violently.Dont be melodramatic, said Seldon severely. You would not sooner die and this is something you must do. even-and here he hesitated-dont say anything about it to your mother. I exit take direction of that.Raych stared at his father in thwarting and then said in a low and do-or-die(a) tone, in all right, Dad.Seldon said, I will get person to manage your camo and then you will go to Wye by air-jet. photograph up, Raych, its not the end of the world.Raych smiled wanly and Seldon watched him leave, a deeply churning look on his face. A mustache could intimately be regrown, but a son could not. Seldon knew absolutely well that he was send Raych into danger.