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Facebook Open-Sources BOLT, Google Introduces VR180 Creator for Linux, 2018 Open Source Job Report Now Available and More
by Jill Franklin
News briefs for June 20, 2018.
Facebook yesterday announced it is open-sourcing BOLT, its "binary optimization and layout tool that accelerates large-scale applications". According to the Facebook post, "BOLT optimizes placement of instructions in memory, thereby reducing CPU execution time by 2 percent to 15 percent. Unlike previous tools to address instruction starvation, BOLT works with applications built by any compiler, including GCC or Clang. Today, we are open-sourcing BOLT so that engineers everywhere can use it alongside complementary technologies like AutoFDO to achieve performance gains for their apps."
Google recently introduced VR180 Creator for Mac and Linux. This new tool makes it easy to create and edit high-quality VR videos. To learn more about VR180 Creator, visit here, and to download, go here.
The 2018 Open Source Job Report is now available from The Linux Foundation and Dice. Some key findings include: "Linux is back on top as the most in-demand open source skill category, making it required knowledge for most entry-level open source careers" and "Containers are rapidly growing in popularity and importance, with 57% of hiring managers seeking that expertise, up from only 27% last year."
openSUSE Tumbleweed has three new snapshots this week, adding a bunch of improvements for KDE users—most notably, the update to Plasma 5.13. In addition, the Linux kernel updated from 4.16.12 to 4.17.1 and fixed some btrfs and KVM issues. See the openSUSE blog post for a description of all the updates.
Keepsafe yesterday launched a privacy-focused mobile browser. According to the TechCrunch post, you can lock the browser with a PIN or use Touch ID, Face ID or Android Fingerprint. You also can block social, advertising and analytics trackers, but still allow caching and cookies, or you can open a private tab, which erases everything as soon as you close it. The browser is available for free on Android or iOS.
Jill Franklin is an editorial professional with more than 17 years experience in technical and scientific publishing, both print and digital. As Executive Editor of Linux Journal, she wrangles writers, develops content, manages projects, meets deadlines and makes sentences sparkle. She also was Managing Editor for TUX and Embedded Linux Journal, and the book Linux in the Workplace. Before entering the Linux and open-source realm, she was Managing Editor of several scientific and scholarly journals, including Veterinary Pathology, The Journal of Mammalogy, Toxicologic Pathology and The Journal of Scientific Exploration. In a previous life, she taught English literature and composition, managed a bookstore and tended bar. When she's not bugging writers about deadlines or editing copy, she throws pots, gardens and reads.
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When is the February 2017 solar eclipse?
This month a solar eclipse will occur and be visible in certain areas around the world. The moon will pass in front of the sun on February 26, leaving a small halo of light around it. It will then be visible across the South Atlantic Ocean and will end in south-western Africa at sunset. The natural event will start in Chile and be seen across parts of southern South America in the morning.
When Start the Solar Eclipse?
This month's solar eclipse will begin at 12:10 UTC, reach its maximum point at 14:58 UTC and set at 17:35 UTC. Of course, up here in the far reaches of the northern hemisphere, we won't be able to witness the event.
Chile can see annular solar eclipse.
Annular Solar Eclipse soon over.
Thank you for followving this beautyfull events in our site. Come back next time The Great American solar eclipse when we present for you the TOTAL eclipse.
Clouds are unfortunately hiding the eclipse from the telescope providing our LIVE feed in Africa. We are currently streaming an image of the Sun which will not be eclipsed.
This eclipse was also visible at the South Pole, but only as a partial solar eclipse. At this moment, the inhabitants of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station are presumably packing away their eclipse glasses as the Moon leaves the outer rim of the Sun's disk.
O eclipse solar agora em São Paulo.
The Argentinian coastal town of Camarones is the last South American location to witness the annular phase of this solar eclipse. With clear skies, the around 1,000 inhabitants will be able to see the ring of fire, as the Moon positions itself directly in front of the Sun.
Weather permitting, thousands of people in the Chilean city of Coyhaique are now witnessing the ring of fire that is characteristic for an annular solar eclipse. It will be visible for about 1 minute. The reason why the Moon doesn't cover the Sun completely, like during a total solar eclipse, is that it is currently quite far away from Earth, so it appears smaller than the Sun.
Ring of fire has just formed!
The areas mentioned earlier can so far only see a partial solar eclipse. The ring of fire (annularity) that is typical for an annular solar eclipse is not visible yet from any location on Earth. But that is about to change. 3 minutes to go to annularity!
In cities close to the annular path, like in Rawson, Argentina, the eclipse will still be a stunning sight as a large partial eclipse. In Rawson, the eclipse starts in a minute and reaches the darkest point in just under an hour and a half, at 13:43 UTC.
And it begins! Somewhere in the South Pacific, about 2100 km (1300 mi) west of mainland Chile, the Moon begins to move in front of the Sun at this very instant.
In 1 hours, the Moon will start moving in front of the Sun.
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun.However, the distance between the Earth and the moon at the moment of the eclipse can dictate the type of eclipse that spectators will see.As a result, the moon does not always block out the entire sun.This bright ring of sunlight around the moon at the height of the annular solar eclipse is how it earned the nickname the "ring of fire" eclipse.
As more than half of the Sun's disk is now obscured as seen from large parts of southern Chile and Argentina, the inhabitants of Antarctica's northernmost research stations, such as the Belgrano II Base, are able to see a smaller partial eclipse - weather permitting.
The eclipse—during which the Sun will all but disappear as the Moon crosses its path—will be most visible in a 100-kilometre (62-mile) band cutting through Chile, Argentina, Angola, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tis the season… eclipse season that is, as a spectacular "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse marks the end of the first of two eclipse cycles for 2017. And although the annular path for this eclipse passes through some sparsely populated parts of the southern hemisphere, we just might get some amazing live views, courtesy of modern technology and some intrepid observers willing to adventurously trek after the shadow of the Moon.
Unlike many of the uncertainties in life, eclipses are sure to happen, a certainty ordained by orbital mechanics. Well, okay, the Vogons could always blow the Moon to smithereens this fine Thursday afternoon… but otherwise, we're in for a true celestial show.
This month, the new Moon on its orbital tilt is set to pass between the Earth and the Sun, transforming the ball of fire into a brilliant ring of light. But astronomy buffs will want to know how to see the 2017 annular solar eclipse on on Feb. 26 — because most of the world's population will have to do quite a bit more than just "look up" to witness this remarkable celestial event. But with a little ingenuity (or, y'know, access to a livestream), you should still be able to witness this gorgeous, fiery event.


During Occupy, similar questions were asked. "What are the demands [for the government]?". It seems to nearly always be the case that when a, lets use the term activist (although i don't like that term), is queried by a "non-activist", lets say, it generally takes the form of "What do you demand/expect/hope/etc [government agency] will do to make some event happen?" An assumption of the motive and goal is always made.
I've written before about the subservient syndrome society as a whole seems to be suffering from and I believe this line of questioning stems from this syndrome and the growing difficulty to conceptualise anything other than dependence.
The government's and international corporation's heavy investment and interest in public relations serves to influence the public and convince them that what those supposedly trying to influence the government on Twitter or protests or whatever isn't actually true. So, we won, we influenced the government. They already know all about it, every issue, they issue reports on them all the time but these reports explain the problems in a very different light.
Perhaps, the point of activism or the distribution of important information is to influence those around you. Who cares about influencing the government? If the people as a whole decide to do something, the government must either follow in line or risk falling out of power. After all, a slave has a poor chance of convincing his owner to let him go free, however a slave has an excellent chance of convincing his fellow slaves they are in fact, slaves.
Even if we could influence the government to work on our behalf, they're slowly giving away their powers of sovereignty and control. Credit ratings and central banks already run the world.
There is no point in wasting our time with the government, the real question I'm interested in is - have I influenced you?


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El Centro M. T. Abraham de Artes Visuales es una institución sin ánimo de lucro. Su oficina central está ubicada en París, Francia, y sus colecciones están guardadas en Ginebra, Suiza. Fue fundado por los descendientes de Mansur Tamir Abraham después de su muerte en 1999. Su intención declarada es promover la apreciación pública del Modernismo, Impresionismo y Arte moderno ruso y europeo, reuniendo piezas que pueden ser prestadas «únicamente para propósitos de exhibición y estudio por parte de instituciones públicas».

Historia

La organización fue fundada en 2004 por la familia de Mansur Tamir Abraham. M. T. Abraham (nacido el 27 de abril de 1912) nació en Aden, Yemen cuando esta estaba ocupada por los británicos. Abraham fue una autoridad legal en derecho africano y asiático y Gran Bretaña le confirió la George Medal (Medalla de Jorge) por su labor. Asimismo, Abraham fue un meticuloso y ávido coleccionista de arte, centrado mayormente en obras de arte de origen ruso y de Europa Occidental. Muchas de las obras que recopiló se consideraban en su momento sin importancia. Abraham falleció el 9 de enero de 1999 a los 86 años de edad.

En 2004, sus hijos y nietos hicieron de su colección el Centro M. T. Abraham de Artes Visuales, organización sin ánimo de lucro. Su actual presidente es Amir Gross Kabiri, su sede se encuentra en Ginebra, Suiza, y su oficina central en París, Francia.

Misión
La misión declarada del centro es promover la apreciación pública del Modernismo, Impresionismo y Arte moderno ruso y europeo reuniendo piezas que pueden ser prestadas «únicamente para propósitos de exhibición y estudio por parte de instituciones públicas». El centro tiene un programa de préstamo, mediante el cual pone a disposición obras para su exhibición pública en instituciones acreditadas, incluyendo museos que generalmente no tendrían los medios para organizar esta clase de exposiciones.

Su misión educacional es promover «exhibiciones que estimulen una apreciación y comprensión del arte, su historia, contexto y significado». Las exposiciones patrocinadas por el centro son acompañadas por programas educacionales para niños y jóvenes, llevados a cabo por artistas, educadores y otros profesionales del arte. El centro también proporciona apoyo a jóvenes artistas y estudiantes de Estudios Judaicos.

Colecciones
Hasta 2011, el centro cuenta con una colección de más de trescientas obras de arte de más de cincuenta artistas, centrada en el Modernismo europeo y ruso de fines del siglo XIX y del siglo XX. Los géneros cubiertos por este período incluyen el Impresionismo, Postimpresionismo, Constructivismo, Cubismo, Cubo-Futurismo, Neo-Primitivismo, Rayonismo, Suprematismo, y Futurismo. El centro cuenta con una colección completa de esculturas de Edgar Degas, que ha sido prestada a instituciones tales como la Galería Nacional de Arte en Sofía, Bulgaria el Museo de Arte de Tel Aviv en Israel, y el Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno. La siguiente es una lista parcial de los artistas incluidos en la colección:

Avigdor Arikha
Alexei Chostenko
Salvador Dali
Edgar Degas
Natalia Goncharova
Boris Grigoriev
Menashe Kadishman
Raffi Kaiser
Boris Kleint
Moshe Kupperman
Mikhail Larionov
Uri Lifshitz
Nadav Lifshitz
Lazar Lissitzky
Kazimir Malevich
Zwi Milshtein
Joan Miró
Roberto Matta
Vera Pestel
Nikolai Pirosmani-Shvili
Vladimir B. Rosine
Henri Rousseau
David Shterenberg
Sergei Senkin
Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Titov

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Enlaces externos

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 M.T. Abraham Center en Facebook (Oficial)

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Our drive from Manchester to Buxton included a couple of family history stops. The first was Glossop, in the hills just east of Manchester. The parish church we were looking for appeared to have been converted to a private mansion. Alison had people married and christened there but we were unable to find anything. My memory of Glossop will be the seemingly unending traffic crawl. There was a good little market hall.
From Glossop we re-joined the crawling queue to get out of the town then headed over the hills on skinny, hedged lanes to the hamlet of Rowarth. There was only a post-box , not even a pub at Rowarth but interestingly there was a row of ten mill workers cottages dating from the early eighteen hundreds when Alison's people were here. It was quite a way from Glossop by road today but probably only an hour or two by foot, so we could understand how these forebears went to Glossop for weddings and christenings. The cotton spinners cottages seem all restored fronts and extended at the back with upmarket vehicles in the driveways. They look quite gentrified which was a bit of a shock.
We chose Buxton as a major focus of our trip because of the music festival, and today sees the opening events. The weather here, is unusually warm and sunny, as it has been for almost the whole of our trip, so the singers in the park bandstand have an idyllic environment. After this warm up we dress up in our finery for the opening gala concert. The opera house here, built in 1903, is a magnificent small, (900 seat) fully fledged opera house designed by Frank Matcham, the leading theatre designer of his age. It does not cope well however with the heat wave we are currently experiencing, and we are very glad we booked early and are down in the stalls rather than broiling on the balconies. The show itself was a showcase for some of the younger singers of the Opera North company and their orchestra. A mix of songs from musicals, arias and orchestral pieces. A good night and an encouraging start to our week here.


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ID-cards issued before 2011 have to be inserted with chip hidden in the card reader and picture facing up. ID-cards issued on and after 2011 should be inserted with chip inside the reader and picture facing down.
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If you get the error message even with other card readers or in another computer then your ID-card is possibly damaged and you should contact nearest service point of Police and Border Guard Board.
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It's a couple of days late but I just came across this blog - Soul Aperture by way of Mari's blog and well here is my list of a couple of the simple things that make me happy and content and remember that life is good.
cool breezes. sunshine. kindness. smiles on people faces. sand in my feet. the smell of the sea breeze. vegemite sandwiches. messy fingers from eating with your hands. sitting on the floor cross legged. just because phone calls. hugs. lemon tea. clean sheets. pillows. flip flops. waterfalls. hand written letters. butterflies. dogs wagging their tails. spontaneous gatherings. children giggling. adults laughing. babies cooing. serendipity. bright colors. flowers. a full moon. melted butter on hot toast. bike rides. long walks. blue skies. sunsets. practical church. sunrises. chocolate cake. unexpected inspiration. words that encourage. goodness. serenity. watching children play. bubbles. scented candles. quietness. calm seas. sea shells. jumping on a trampoline. Hibiscus flowers. diversity. reading. cultural experiences.
But for now it's about Haiti. What a great idea!
Wow, Kari, jumping on a trampoline! I NEVER did that, too sheepish ... I like your sweet list.
What a great list! I like hand written letters. They don't come around too often anymore!
yes, these are such beautiful things.
i love it here, so calm.
ps: i adore this photo.


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Delaware unveils longshot pitch for Amazon HQ2
Gov. John Carney declines to release details of financial incentive package being offered.
Delaware unveils longshot pitch for Amazon HQ2 Gov. John Carney declines to release details of financial incentive package being offered. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/19/delaware-unveils-its-longshot-pitch-amazon-hq-2/779313001/
Scott Goss, The News Journal Published 2:05 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2017 | Updated 8:13 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2017
The Amazon logo in Santa Monica, California, on Sept. 6, 2012.(Photo: Reed Saxon, Associated Press)
A central location on the East Coast. Some of the fastest internet speeds in the nation. And a relatively low tax burden.
Those are some of the major selling points Gov. John Carney is highlighting in Delaware's formal bid to land Amazon's second U.S. headquarters – a project that promises $5-billion worth of real estate investment and up to 50,000 jobs.
"We believe that Delaware has submitted an aggressive, competitive proposal worthy of Amazon's consideration," Carney said in advance of Thursday's public unveiling of the state's longshot pitch at The Delaware Contemporary art museum in Wilmington.
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Amazon already operates a 1.2-million-square-foot distribution center in Middletown and another, smaller facility in New Castle. But this would be a corporate headquarters with jobs that offer an average salary of $100,000, nearly 40 percent higher than Delaware's median household income.
Delaware's proposal offers two sites as possible locations for the 8 million square feet of office space Amazon is looking to build – a total that exceeds Wilmington's entire stock of office space.
Those sites include a 425-acre property that once housed Evraz Claymont Steel and an 82-acre block of properties along Wilmington's South Market Street, just south of the Christiana River, mostly owned by the Buccini-Pollin Group. A third site, the 82-acre former AstraZeneca campus in Fairfax, is being pitched as a possible location for the 500,000-square-feet Amazon says it will need immediately.
MORE: Just how big is Amazon's proposed new headquarters?
All three properties are within 30 miles of Philadelphia International Airport and the center of a major metropolitan area with more than a million people – both identified as prerequisites by Amazon.
The state's formal submission also includes at least nine letters of recommendation from Delaware's elected officials and local companies, including The Chemours Co., Incyte Corp., Christiana Care and CSC.
Carney even launched a website, OptionsInDE.com, that features a three-minute video – produced by Short Order Production House – extolling the state's affordable cost of living, diverse communities and educated workforce.
Brett Saddler, executive director of the Claymont Renaissance Development Corp., stands in front of the former Evraz Claymont Steel site where Saddler believes Amazon could build a new headquarters. (Photo: Jerry Habraken, The News Journal)
The governor's office is not releasing the actual proposal it sent to Amazon, however.
Citing non-disclosure provisions in Amazon's request for proposals, state officials also are refusing to discuss one of the leading factors Amazon may use in choosing a location for its so-called "HQ2": financial incentives.
"We cannot share that," Carney said. "It's a pretty big number – the largest number I've ever seen as it relates to economic development projects here in our state. But, of course, it pales in comparison to some of the offers made by larger states and cities."
Several of the roughly 50 cities, regions, and states that are submitting bids to Amazon spent the past week touting a jaw-dropping assortment of tax breaks, fee reductions, and grant packages.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday laid out nearly $7 billion worth of incentives tied to a Newark proposal. Pennsylvania officials are reportedly offering up to $3 billion in incentives to bring Amazon to Philadelphia, which is widely believed to be a front-runner for the tech giant.
"It's a tragic overspending orgy," said Greg LeRoy of Good Jobs First, a labor-backed watchdog group that monitors state economic development deals. "These are rotten deals for taxpayers upon which they may never break even."
Those types of deals also are likely outside of Delaware's weight class.
AstraZeneca sold the 80-acre campus of its U.S. headquarters in Fairfax last week. (Photo: GARY EMEIGH/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
The First State's largest incentive package of all time topped out at $110 million – a mix of grants, tax credits and road improvements used to lure AstraZeneca's North American headquarters to Fairfax during the economic boom years of the late 1990s.
If the dollar-to-job formula used to land AstraZeneca were to hold up, it would equal about $1 billion in today's dollars.
New Jersey's $7 billion deal is nearly twice as large as the entire budget for Delaware, which in recent years has allocated just $10 million a year toward economic development incentives.
"When you talk about contributing something meaningful to Amazon in terms of dollars, it's hard to do that," New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer said. "But the basis of our pitch is this: it's an extraordinary place to attract talent, an extraordinary place to access markets and for the cost of living and quality of living we offer, it's hard to do better."
Governor John Carney explains the three sites that have been chosen as the best potential locations for Amazon's new headquarters at an bid announcement presentation Thursday at the Delaware Contemporary. (Photo: Jerry Habraken, The News Journal)
Delaware also is in the early stages of completely overhauling its economic development efforts. Carney last summer eliminated the Delaware Economic Development Office and transferred many of its duties to a new public-private partnership that remains unstaffed.
The state's pitch to Amazon was spearheaded by the Division of Small Business, Development and Tourism, a newly created agency focusing its efforts on supporting businesses already in existence here.
Amazon's open competition for its future second headquarters coming during that transition likely will not impact Delaware's already slim chances.
LeRoy said he suspects Amazon already has a short list of locations and is pitting locations across the country against each other in an effort to simply leverage the best tax breaks.
"The largest criteria is going to be the presence of executive talent, engineers, lawyers, CPAs and marketing brainiacs," he said. "Tax breaks don't raise IQs or produce more engineers."
Yet Delaware's bid does appear to lack some of the inventiveness Amazon said it was looking for when it asked communities to "think big and creatively."
RELATED: 4 wildest stunts for Amazon's second headquarters: Cities compete for 50,000 jobs
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Philadelphia, for instance, rolled out three videos over three days promoting the city's logistics, workforce talent, and livability as part of a campaign titled #PhillyDelivers.
But even that effort looks pedestrian next to Stonecrest, Georgia's offer to de-annex 345 acres and rename the property in the Seattle-based company's honor.
Birmingham, Alabama, placed three giant Amazon boxes around the city and encouraged residents to join a social media campaign. Tuscon, Arizona, sent a 21-foot cactus to Amazon's current headquarters. And Kansas City's mayor bought 1,000 products on Amazon and reviewed them all.
Delaware's pitch video and website never even mention the word "Amazon."
That could be because the state is hoping to use its pitch to attract other companies that are watching the Amazon competition play out.
"This is much bigger than solely Amazon," said Cerron Cade, who heads the state's new economic development division. "This is a conversation and pitch for all businesses that are looking to come and grow right here in the state of Delaware."
John Boyd, a principal with Princeton, New Jersey-based corporate site selection consulting firm The Boyd Co., called that approach a "smart maneuver."
"The HQ2 site search is a powerful platform for Delaware to make its case to a national audience," he said. "The state may be a longshot to win Amazon. But if Philadelphia were to be selected, some of the sites highlighted by Delaware could easily be in contention for some of Amazon's suppliers and vendors."
Amazon is expected to announce its final choice for the HQ2 sometime next year.
Contact reporter Scott Goss at (302) 324-2281, sgoss@delawareonline.com or on Twitter @ScottGossDel.
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March 14, 2019 — Take the next step in this fight and tell us: Why does lowering prescription drug prices matter to you?
March 12, 2019 — AARP Florida supports HB 19, which allows the importation of FDA-approved prescription drugs internationally and would encourage lower costs for Floridians.
January 23, 2019 — Efforts to improve Florida's livability are growing. But the Sunshine State still ranked as the nation's deadliest state for pedestrians, with eight out of the 10 most dangerous metro areas for pedestrians to be found in Florida, according to a new report.
December 11, 2018 — AARP Florida Tuesday urged Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis to work with the Legislature to seek reversal of a state decision to shorten the time period for retroactive eligibility for Medicaid reimbursement from three months to the first day of the month when application is made.


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Cookie Monster er en fiktiv Muppet-figur fra børneprogrammet Sesame Street. Han er mest kendt for sin enorme appetit, og sine kendte udtalelser: "Mig vil ha' kage" og "Om Nom nom nom" (sagt med munden fuld af mad). Oftest spiser han alt som eksempelvis wienerbrød, donuts, salat, æbler, bananer, såvel som almindelige uspiselige ting, som salt og peber bøsser, skilte, servietter, blyanter, kuglepinde, telefoner, motorcykler, Peabody Awards og lastbiler. Alligevel afslører hans navn, at kager er hans foretrukne spise. I en sang fra 2004 afslørede Cookie Monster, at før han åd sin første kage mente han, sit navn var Sid. Med hensyn til debatten om sundhed og børns spisevaner, har Cookie Monster siden 2006 udtalt at kager er en "nogen gange snack", og at han også kan lide frugter.

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Built in 1879 at a cost of �2,769, the pavilion was officially opened by the Duchess of Sutherland (First Countess of Cromartie, Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower) in 1881. The building served as a grand hall in the Victorian spa village and became the centre of entertainment for locals and visitors, hosting concerts, dances, and cabaret. As a spa village, where the spring water was said to have health giving benefits, many came to drink the water, and those visitors included both royalty and members of high society, referred to as "the Quality" by locals.
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During World War I, many building in the village were requisitioned by the military, and the pavilion served as a hospital for the US Navy.
The military returned to the area during World War II, once again requisitioning many of the buildings.
The building was returned to public use after the war, but like many of the resorts on the Clyde coast, suffered the effect of cheap package holidays to sunny destinations abroad, and falling visitor number during the 1970s saw it struggle for survival into the 1980s. Although it gained a temporary reprieve when it became the venue for a succession of well-known rock bands, both the hall and the village declined in popularity as a destination. The building lay almost completely unused for some 25 years, deteriorating and with its decorative verandas boxed. However, a fund-raising campaign led to its rescue, and the pavilion was taken over and restored by the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust. It reopened in 2004, at a time when tourism has returned both to Scotland and the local area, and has become a popular venue for art exhibitions, weddings, conferences, and other events.
Buyout proposal
In April 2013, the pavilion's directors proposed that the building might be bought out by the local community, and organised a public event to hear local views on the proposal. At the time, it was owned by the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust.[1]
In 2014, pavilion staff will mark the 10th anniversary of its rescue and refurbishment.
General Manager Andrea Muir said: "As we look forward to our 10th year since re-opening, I feel it is vital that we use this opportunity to take stock and fully engage with our audience. Only by doing this will we be able to devise a clear plan for the future. The reason for conducting this research is to ensure that this iconic and well-loved venue continues to have a vibrant and prosperous future and continues to benefit as many people as possible."[2]
New management take over in 2017
Although not the community buyout being sought for the pavilion, it was reported that the property, which is owned by the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust had been taken over from voluntary Strathpeffer Pavilion Association, and would be run by High Life Highland (HLH) for three years.[3]
1 ⇑ Historic Building Preservation, Scottish Historic Building Preservation Trust Retrieved April 19, 2013.
2 ⇑ Buyout plan for historic Strathpeffer Pavilion Retrieved April 19, 2013.
3 ⇑ Historic Strathpeffer Pavilion under new management - BBC News Retrieved 31 March 2017.
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China and Belarus declared a comprehensive strategic partnership shortly before the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013. Despite the official narratives of fruitful bilateral ties, a series of recent developments in Belarus have tarnished the country's image as a relatively stable and predictable partner for China.
BRI Status
Economic Relations
Written by Maryia Danilovich.
The Republic of Belarus established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in January 1992, barely a month after gaining independence from the Soviet Union. Yet, relations with China received more attention in the country's foreign policy only from the mid 2000s, when tensions with Russia, the European Union, and the United States saw the Belarusian regime search for new cooperation opportunities and partners, especially in investment and trade.
Since 2005, following a mutual declaration of intention to cooperate more intensively, China has been referred to as a strategic partner by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his officials. A comprehensive strategic partnership was officially declared in 2013, before the launch of China's Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB), the land component of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This was followed by a 10-year treaty of friendship and cooperation signed in 2015 during a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Minsk. The same year, China–Belarus relations attracted wider international attention when Belarus demonstrated its new long-range multiple-launch rocket system developed in cooperation with China.
In the 2010s, Belarus and China expanded cooperation in different fields, from loan finance and education to cross-regional ties. Still, bilateral high-level political interaction prevailed, setting the tone for other spheres. The partnership with China—perpetually emphasised by Belarusian authorities—was updated with new labels over the years. In 2020, before the dramatic Belarusian presidential elections, bilateral relations were referred to by President Xi as an 'iron brotherhood'. Yet, the ensuing political crisis and massive crackdown on civil society in Belarus led to EU and US sanctions against the regime, to which Alexander Lukashenko responded with threats to block rail freight traffic transiting between Germany and China.
These developments have certainly tarnished the image of the country as a stable and predictable partner for China. Nevertheless, in September 2022, Belarus and China declared their relationship was an 'all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership'. This was, however, a less emphatic description than those announced earlier by Belarusian officials ('iron brotherhood, exemplary all-round strategic cooperation and all-weather partnership')—once again demonstrating the discrepancy between the desired and the real in a shifting international context.
Belarusian authorities demonstrated great enthusiasm for China's SREB/BRI after its launch in 2013, embracing it as a chance to obtain strategic, material, and reputational benefits. The Chinese side, when outlining the advantages of advancing the initiative via Eastern Europe, took an interest in Belarus due to its location, relatively developed transport infrastructure, and the keenness of its long-lasting regime to maintain cordial relations with China. Moreover, since 2014, turbulence in neighbouring Ukraine made Belarus a relatively more attractive and stable partner. Additionally, as a member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) since 2015, Belarus could potentially have facilitated the development of the China–EAEU free-trade zone by implementing Chinese–Belarusian industrial projects and actively supporting integration between the EAEU and the BRI.
In 2015, during a visit by President Xi, both heads of state agreed to jointly promote the BRI and expand cooperation in a wide variety of relevant areas, from trade and investment to information technology and cultural exchanges. They also declared an intention to revive the idea of a China–Belarus industrial park—and that dated back to 2010–11 but had floundered due to administrative clumsiness and limited attractiveness to Chinese investors and companies—declaring it an important joint BRI undertaking. Thereafter, the joint industrial park's 'Great Stone', not far from the Belarusian capital, came to be regarded by both sides as a model BRI project.
Other BRI-related items have been added to the bilateral agenda. During the first BRI forum in 2017, both countries' governments agreed to cooperate on the development of infrastructure, international freight transport, and warehouse logistics. The growth in China–European Union rail freight services worked for the image of Belarus as a transit country along the BRI, as most China–European Union rail connections passed through its territory. Additionally, since 2018, China and Belarus have adopted a mutual visa-free policy.
The Belarusian regime's support for China's BRI has been steadfast over the years, running like a thread through presidential directives on the development of bilateral relations with China from 2015 to today. This has been demonstrated on multiple occasions by officials and state media. Belarusian authorities have tended to overemphasise their strategic cooperation with China and the country's role in the BRI, indicating high expectations of support from China. As for the Chinese side, the partnership has been a functional foundation for cooperation in the spheres of its interests, ranging from trade and economic links with the EAEU via Belarus to medical aid cooperation during the Covid-19 pandemic as part of China's Health Silk Road initiative.
Current Economic Relations
Trade: China is the second-largest source of imports for Belarus after Russia and, largely because of this, is its third-largest trading partner, after Russia and Ukraine. Since the mid 2000s, Belarus has had a strongly negative trade balance with China. In 2021, the value of imports from China reached 2.73 billion USD, while Belarusian exports to China amounted to 1.09 billion USD. Chinese imports consist mainly of industrial goods (equipment, machinery and accessories, and consumer goods), while Belarus exports potash fertilisers and wood (sawn timber, pulp), and, in recent years, has made a strenuous effort to export its agricultural products (mainly frozen beef, poultry, and condensed and dried milk) to China.
In 2022, due to its involvement in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Belarus was sanctioned politically and economically by the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Seeking export and import alternatives, the regime pinned its hopes on China, which took over Ukraine's position as Belarus's second-largest trading partner. From January to August 2022, Belarusian exports to China reportedly more than doubled, exceeding the total for the previous year. Yet, China's exports to Belarus have been slowing, with a 1.4% decrease from January to August 2022 compared with a 29% annual increase in 2021 and a 17.5% annual increase in 2020.
Investment: Chinese investment in Belarus has not been very impressive, totalling 2.6 billion USD, with 1.1 billion USD of that in foreign direct investment (FDI), since 1992. Most of this investment came in the 2010s, with a marked increase between 2014 and 2018. In these four years, China rose to sixth or seventh position among the top-10 investors in Belarus, later dropping back to ninth and tenth place. The increase occurred after the launch of the BRI and the initial impetus given to the joint industrial park.
Data Source: National Statistical Committee of Belarus.
The extent to which conditions in Belarus are favourable for China's investors matters a lot. For instance, Chinese experts and diplomats repeatedly call attention to the shortcomings of the Belarusian economy and hence the risks for Chinese investors and enterprises.
Over the past decade, Chinese net FDI inflows to Belarus fluctuated significantly, reaching a maximum in 2018–19 and decreasing after 2020.
Chinese investment has been directed mainly towards industry and construction, as well as transport and logistics infrastructure. More than 50 investment projects were under implementation in 2021, with most concentrated in the joint industrial park.
Aid: China's aid to Belarus has been provided mainly in the form of non-refundable technical and economic assistance (more than 500 million USD in total by 2022). This began in 2007, but most came after the two countries reached an intergovernmental agreement in 2014 and President Xi's visit to Belarus the following year. The assistance was granted to Chinese contractors to develop infrastructure at the joint industrial park (such as elements of the electrification system and a fixed riverbed) and construct public utilities (for example, social housing and a hospital building). In 2020, the construction of a large stadium and a swimming pool (estimated to be worth 235 million USD) financed by China commenced in Minsk.
Other Finance: Belarus's external debt amounted to 18.4 billion USD in mid 2022. According to the most recent statistical data on the country's public debt from the Belarusian Ministry of Finance, Belarus's external debt to China as of 1 November 2021 represented 1.4% of the total amount borrowed that year. For the second consecutive year, China was Belarus's fourth-largest creditor (with a 4% share). China had previously been among the top-three creditors, becoming the third largest in 2018 (22%) and rising to second position (39%) behind Russia in 2019. By the end of the 2010s, Belarus had received Chinese loans to implement more than 30 projects in transportation, energy, and industry.
An increase in Chinese lending to Belarus followed a 3-billion-USD concessional loan and 4 billion USD in commercial credit lines agreed to during Xi's visit in 2015. Since 2005, Chinese loans tied to specific projects, or loans covering 85–100% of the contract with a minimum 35–60% mandatory participation of Chinese contractors and suppliers, have made China one of the top lenders to Belarus. In 2019, when the debt guaranteed by the state to China increased again (to a share of 39%, compared with 22% in 2018), Belarus managed to secure the first untied Chinese loan (3.5 billion RMB, or about 500 million USD), which was referred to in official reports on public debt as a remarkable achievement for Belarus. According to Belarusian state media, this loan was intended for government debt servicing (debt repayment and interest on outstanding loans) and to support bilateral trade. Chinese official media, on the other hand, reported that the loan would be used for investing in renminbi-denominated assets and trade support.
In 2020 and 2021, more than 5% of Belarus's external debt was in Chinese renminbi. In September 2022, Belarus announced a switch to Chinese renminbi to pay out Chinese loans originally denominated in US dollars.
Key Controversies
Alongside the official narrative of a fruitful bilateral partnership, there have also been controversies related to the practical implementation of cooperation.
Transiting Freight Transportation: The transit of freight transportation between China and the European Union is one of the factors making Belarus attractive for China's BRI. The volume of freight along the northern route of the China–Europe Railway Express was increasing in both directions before the 2020s. According to official statistics, in 2020–21, transport services dominated Belarusian exports of services to China. Yet, the threat to block this rail freight in the summer of 2021, as well as the weaponisation of the instability created by a migrant crisis on the Belarus–European Union border in late 2021, had the potential to create obstacles for Chinese partners, motivating them to launch alternative routes, such as a multimodal route from Xi'an bypassing Belarus via the ports of Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Mukran (Germany). This route was launched in January 2022 by China Railway to 'avoid the unstable operation of the China–Europe train caused by congestion at some traditional stations' in Eastern Europe.
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the decrease in rail freight transiting through Russia and Belarus (of at least 35% by October 2022, as reported by Russian Railways), especially eastwards, increased uncertainty about the scale of operations along the main rail route. Even though a September 2022 declaration by China and Belarus mentioned their intention to ensure the 'safe and smooth running of China–Europe–China trains', the changing international context of Russia's war in Ukraine continues to generate uncertainty.
Joint Industrial Park: Since 2015, thejoint industrial park has been seen in Belarus and China as a model BRI project, but there have been controversies with its development, such as initial discrepancies in the expectations of the park's functions and decreasing attractiveness to investors.
Belarusian authorities initially envisioned the park as a key project for the development of advanced and green technologies, biomedicine, and logistical services, with a view to promoting closer logistical links with Chinese partners within the '16+1' initiative in Central and Eastern Europe. In response, Chinese experts and practitioners pointed to China's experience in the gradual development of special economic zones from much less technologically advanced projects. In the view of Chinese experts, the park should evolve according to market demand, producing products that comply with China's technical standards and focusing on the markets of the EAEU. Furthermore, EAEU regulations requiring a high level of production localisation for automotive industry products to circulate freely on the EAEU market undermined some of China's expectations.
To make things worse, after the start of the political crisis and economic meltdown in Belarus, attempts to consolidate the budget included raising income tax for the park's employees in 2021. All this reconfirmed to Chinese partners the risks of a changing legislative framework and the poor investment climate. Despite an order from Alexander Lukashenko later the same year to improve the legal regime of the park and enlarge its scope of activity, the damage to the park's image could not be entirely undone.
Key Sources
Danilovich, Maryia. 2020. 'Bridging Westward to Open the Gates of Europe: Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia and Belarus.' In How China's Silk Road Initiative is Changing the Global Economic Landscape, edited by Marcus Taube and Yuan Li, 207–27. London: Routledge. Link.
Danilovich, Maryia. 2021. 'Belarus–China Industrial Cooperation: A Blow Up of the Picture.' Blog des Leibniz-Instituts für Länderkunde [Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Blog], March. Link.
Jakóbowsky, Jakub and Kamil Kłysiński. 2021. 'The Non-Strategic Partnership: Belarus–China Relations.' OSW Studies, 81. Link.
Marin, Anaïs. 2017. 'Minsk–Beijing: What Kind of Strategic Partnership?' Notes de L'Ifri: Russie Nei Visions No. 102, June. Paris: French Institute of International Relations. Link.
Rinna, Anthony V. 2021. 'The Beijing–Minsk Partnership and Belarus's Role in China's Economic Relations with the European Union.' China Report 57: 1. Link.
Turarbekova, Roza and Maryia Danilovich. 2020. Belorussko–kitajskie otnosheniya: Ekspertnye ocenki [Belarus–China relations: Expert views]. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Policy Paper, December. Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Link.
Cover Photo: The House of Government at Independence square, Minsk. Credit (CC): Marco Fieber, Flickr.com
Updated on 18 December 2022.
Maryia Danilovich is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen, Germany. Her expertise is in China's foreign policy developments and their implications for Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
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Fiscal cliff or not, it's already rough for federal IT vendors
Former Microsoft exec, Obama donor named new U.S. CIO
Paul Ryan is no friend of tech, yet
Wall Street: Tech more valuable than oil
Will Congress crush tech spending?
Assessing the impact of the Super Committee's failure to reach a deficit agreement
The failure of the Congressional Super Committee to reach a deficit reduction agreement triggers automatic federal spending cuts beginning the next fiscal year, which will likely make a lot of government IT contractors nervous.
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The first indications of how those cuts may impact federal tech spending may appear in the first federal budget proposals expected in February. The impact of the cuts on tech companies may be mixed, say analysts.
Ray Bjorklund, chief knowledge office at Deltek (formerly Federal Sources), believes that federal IT spending will still rise one or two percent in the next budget.
The government, which has been consolidating data centers and moving to public clouds for some services, such as email, to cut costs, views IT spending as an enabler for improving efficiency, said Bjorklund.
The U.S. has already outlined plans to close 962 of some 2,800 data centers by 2015. The government counts any IT facility over 100-square-feet as a data center.
But Bjorklund also warns tech companies that an agency or department may, at the spur of the moment, "pull the plug on a proposed acquisition."
Similarly, Shawn McCarthy, a government analyst at IDC, doesn't believe that IT operations will be hit as hard as some other areas of government. He added, though, that "if a full program is eliminated, any IT systems associated with it are bound to be eliminated."
More than 50 tech companies represented by TechAmerica sent a letter to the Super Committee last week urging it to avoid "the sequestration trigger."
"Sequestration would undermine our national security. Further, this mechanism should be avoided in future deficit reduction efforts so budget cuts can be prioritized and targeted, not precipitous," wrote the industry group.
TechAmerica also asked the committee to reconsider the $4 trillion in deficit reduction that had been discussed earlier by Congressional leaders and the White House. "America's growing national debt is undermining our global competitiveness," the industry group wrote.
Patrick Thibodeau covers SaaS and enterprise applications, outsourcing, government IT policies, data centers and IT workforce issues for Computerworld. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @DCgov, or subscribe to Patrick's RSS feed . His e-mail address is pthibodeau@computerworld.com.
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Timely Winelands celebration for Woolcock and Roux
Written by FS Online Ed on April 14, 2019
Young Stellenbosch rider Hennie Roux gave himself the perfect birthday present when he partnered Waylon Woolcock to victory in the Liberty Winelands Encounter in the Western Cape today.
Roux turned 20 yesterday and celebrated in style with his first major stage race success when the three-day mountain-bike event ended at the Nederburg Wine Estate in Paarl.
Waylon Woolcock (front) and Hennie Roux lead the bunch on their way winning the third and final stage of stage of the Liberty Winelands Encounter mountain-bike race, which ended at the Nederburg Wine Estate in Paarl today. They also won the overall title. Photo: Henk Neuhoff
The pair won their third straight stage when they finished today's 50km route, which started at Le Franschhoek Hotel, in 1:52:49 for an overall time of 5:52:44.
The final-stage runners-up were Renz Rezelman and Thor Hansen, followed by Cobus Swanepoel and Neville Cragg.
The latter team were second in the general classification, with Dawid du Bruin and Michael Dundulakis filling third spot overall.
For Woolcock, it was a return to familiar territory as he regained the title he won with HB Kruger in 2017 when he was still competing as a professional rider.
Shaun Frayne leads the bunch on his way to winning the third stage in the solo men's category when the three-day Liberty Winelands Encounter mountain-bike race ended at the Nederburg Wine Estate in Paarl today. The overall men's solo winner was De Villiers Odendaal. Photo: Henk Neuhoff
He has since retired from pro cycling, but has taken Roux under his wing and was able to guide his young protégé through the demands of stage racing.
Roux said it had been a memorable experience in his fledgling mountain-bike career, which only started in earnest in November.
"It was truly an amazing weekend in my first real stage race ever," he said.
"I was able to learn so much from Waylon, especially how to race smart – when to go harder and when to conserve energy. It was a really good lesson for me."
Having started cycling only four years ago, Roux switched to road racing in 2017.
"But last year I went riding in Europe for a bit and that's when I realised that I was more suited to mountain-biking.
"My strength is that I can ride at my own effort for a long time and since I started concentrating on this discipline I have fallen in love with it.
"So this weekend was very important for my development."
In today's stage, which took place in wet conditions, Roux said it was fairly flat in the first part and the group stayed together until about the 35km mark.
"We just sat on the front until there was a little kicker with a section of deep sand and we just went for it.
"We looked around and could see we had a bit of gap, so Waylon told me just to keep pushing and we were able to maintain that gap until the finish."
Besides his race experience, Roux said he would recommend that all mountain-bikers entered the Winelands Encounter.
"The off-the-bike hospitality is amazing. For instance, today it was quite cold after the rain but there were hot showers for us and the meals have been excellent.
"It's a proper stage race because there were some really testing technical sections yesterday, and they add to the occasion by looking after you so well when the racing is done."
The women's team title went to Sunette Beyers and Alta Kriegler, while Andrew Marsh and Anneke Viljoen were crowned the mixed champions.
Amy McDougall won the solo women's category when the three-day Liberty Winelands Encounter mountain-bike race ended at the Nederburg Wine Estate in Paarl today. Photo: Henk Neuhoff
By coming third in today's solo men's category, De Villiers Odendaal was able to take the overall title, while Amy McDougall won her third stage to claim the women's title.
The 43-year-old Odendaal, from Stellenbosch, said he was "a little surprised" at his win as he had also been third in the first two stages.
"But the top two in the category changed each day so I eventually finished on top of the podium," he said.
Riders took part in the Liberty Winelands Encounter in the Western Cape this weekend, starting at the Boschendal Wine Estate on Friday and ending at the Nederburg Wine Estate in Paarl today. The mountain-bike race covered 146km on trails through the Franschhoek and Paarl regions in the Western Cape. Photo: Henk Neuhoff
"Today I was able to go with the first bunch, with the pace being quite quick. I lost them at the 30km mark but I have fairly good stamina so I was able to keep up the pace and get a time good enough to finish on top."
Stage 3, 50km
1 Waylon Woolcock & Hennie Roux (Henmar Hire) 1:52:49
2 Rens Rezelman & Thor Hansen (Hereford Komikaze) 2:00:38
3 Cobus Swanepoel & Neville Cragg (Hereford Racing) 2:00:51
1 Sunette Beyers & Alta Kriegler (Pool Nurse)
1 Andrew Marsh & Anneke Viljoen (Overberg MTB Events) 2:19:58
Solo men
1 Shaun Frayne 2:03:06
2 William Wakefield 2:07:55
3 De Villiers Odendaal 2:09:32
Solo women
1 Amy McDougall 2:07:53
2 Michelle Lombardi 2:15:31
3 Louise Ferreira 2:19:51
3 Dawid de Bruin & Michael Dundulakis (Hereford Bulls) 6:30:29
2 Corne Barnard 7:17:07
3 Brian Ehret 7:50:16
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Enemies are all round Jerusalem.
1 'You descendants of Benjamin, you must run away to be safe!
Make a noise with the trumpet in Tekoa!
Big trouble is coming from the north.
2 I will send enemies to destroy Jerusalem and its people.
3 Men will come with the sheep that they keep.
They will put their tents all round it.
Each man will have a small part of the land.
4 Get ready to fight against it!
Let us get up and attack at noon!
But the day is getting dark.
5 Rise up. Let us attack in the night.
6 The strong and powerful LORD spoke.
'Cut down the trees', he said.
'Build high hills up to the walls of the city.
It is full of men who hurt other people.
7 It contains so many people who do bad things.
Bad things pour out from it, like water from a well.
It is full of fights and of men who destroy.
8 'Listen to my words', says the LORD, to the people in Jerusalem.
'If you do not listen, I will turn away from you.
6:8Verses 1-8 Jeremiah warns the people to escape from Jerusalem.
9 The strong, powerful LORD spoke again.
'I will let the enemy take everything from Israel.
They will take things like a farmer who is picking his fruit', he said.
10 'I want to speak to people. And I want to tell them what may happen.
But nobody will listen to me.
They close their ears so that they cannot hear.
They hate the LORD's message.
It does not give any pleasure to them.
11 But the LORD is full of anger.
He is so angry that he cannot contain it.
His anger will be like water that pours out on the children in the street.
It will pour out on the groups of young men.
It will cover both husbands and wives.
It will pour over the very old people.
12 I will give their houses to other people.
Other people will take their fields and their wives.
13 'All the people, important and not important, want to get more and more things.
Priests and prophets are all the same.
They all say things that are not true.
14 They tell my people that there is no great trouble.
They say that there is nothing to be afraid of.
But they do not have any peace to give.
15 They are not ashamed of the wrong things that they do.
They seem to think that there is nothing wrong about those things.
They have forgotten how to be sorry.
So they will fall when other people fall.
16 The LORD spoke to the people.
'Stand at the place where the roads cross, and look,' he said.
'Ask where the old ways lead.
Find the good way, and walk along that way.
Then I will give proper peace to you.
6:16Verse 16 The 'old ways' were the laws that Moses had given to the LORD's people.
18 So listen to me, all you countries.
the things that I will do to them.
19 Hear me, people on the earth.
I am causing great trouble for these people.
They will have trouble because they have done many wrong things.
And they have not listened to my words.
They have not obeyed my law.
20 I do not want nice smells from Sheba.
I do not want oils from countries far away.
21 So this is the message from the LORD.
'I will make things very difficult for you people.
Both sons and their fathers will have difficulties.
22 The LORD spoke again.
'Look, an army is coming from the country in the north.
I am calling up a great people from the ends of the earth.
23 They are carrying bows and spears.
They are never kind and they never forgive.
it is like the noise of the sea.
Pain is all over our bodies.
It is like the pain of a woman who is having a baby.
25 Do not go out into the fields.
Do not walk along the roads.
Our enemies have long, sharp knives.
We are afraid that they are all round us.
26 My people must become very sorry.
They wear special clothes when someone dies.
They must wear clothes like those.
They cry with loud voices.
They cry like a man whose only son has died.
They do that because the enemy will quickly come to destroy us.
27 'My people are like metals.
And you must test them to see if they are good.
I want you to watch them.
28 They never obeyed God.
They tell stories that are not true. And they enjoy it.
Their minds are as hard as iron.
They all do very bad things.
29 A very hot fire makes metals clean.
I send punishment like a fire.
But it does not cause bad men to do what is good.
30 God will throw them out like dirty metal.
The LORD will not receive them.


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Schlöben è un comune di 923 abitanti della Turingia, in Germania.

Appartiene al circondario della Saale-Holzland (targa SHK) ed è amministrato dal comune amministratore (Erfüllende Gemeinde) di Bad Klosterlausnitz.

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Il 1º gennaio 1992 venne aggregato al comune di Schlöben il comune di Rabis.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Comuni del circondario della Saale-Holzland


HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. -- Mildred H. Hoffman, 86, died June 23, 2008, at Hackettstown Regional Medical Center, peacefully after a short illness. Mildred lived in Long Valley, (Fairmount Area) N.J., and was born in Peapack-Gladstone, N.J. (Somerset County) on July 28, 1921. She was a daughter of the late George and Edna Bickle Philhower. Mildred retired from Washington Township Town Hall Tax Collectors Office in Long Valley, N.J. She attended Bernardsville High School and graduated from Hackettstown High School, Class of 1940. She was past member of the Fairmount Fire Company Womans Auxilary.
Surviving are her husband of 61 years, Charles E. Hoffman; one son, Lynn Hoffman of Hackettstown, N.J.; one daughter, Shirley and her husband, Jeffrey Nicholson, of Rock Hill, S.C.; one granddaughter, Kathryn Nicholson; and one brother, Earl Philhower of Long Valley, N.J. She was preceded in death by a brother and sister, Gustiv Philhower and Helen Tallon.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 27, 2008, at Cochran Funeral Home, 905 High St., Hackettstown, NJ 07840.
Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, June 28, 2008, at the funeral home. Interment will be private.


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Massachusetts Impressions
by Paul Rezendes
The 100 color photographs in this book showcase some of the most beautiful scenery in Massachusetts–from the stunning Berkshires to winding, boulder-strewn streams, and from pastoral, rolling farmland to lush state forests with their resident flora and fauna. Also highlighted are spectacular views of the coast, with its historic lighthouses and charming seaside communities, as well as photographs depicting the state's rich history and culture. It makes a perfect gift or souvenir for resident and visitor alike!
Non-fiction, 80 pages, 9.125″ x 8.125″, published 2009
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With over 150,000 copies in print, this best-selling field guide is a must for nature lovers everywhere. In this revised and updated edition, renowned nature photographer and animal tracking expert Paul Rezendes brings the fields and forests to life with his unique observations on North American wildlife and their tracks and signs. Illustrated with hundreds of his original color and black and white photographs, this book provides complete information on the behavior and habitat of over 50 animal species and shows you how to identify animals by their tracks, trail patterns, droppings, dens, scratches and other signs.
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Master tracker Paul Rezendes has followed bobcat through impenetrable swamps, wrestled a black bear in the Adirondack wilderness, and howled with coyotes at the edge of a moonlit field. Tracking an animal in this way brings deep knowledge of its secrets and its inner world, and Rezendes' spellbinding adventures have given him provocative insights into our essential relationship with nature – and ourselves.
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Martha's Vineyard Seasons: A Photographic Essay
Exploring a landscape, coming to know it intimately, requires time, patience, and intense interest. When an understanding develops between photographer and subject, the depth of its quality shows clearly. The images in this book created from this intimate connection between place and eye and imagination show the proof of that bond between Paul Rezendes and the island he loves. By touring this remarkable island through Paul's photographs, Martha's Vineyard comes alive as "each season offers its own palette of colors, each village its own unique flavor, and each harbor its own scent of the sea."
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Paul's first and most significant book of photographs is Wetlands: The Web of Life coauthored with his wife, Paulette Roy. A coffee table book filled with more than 120 gorgeous vivid color photographs of America's wetlands with accompanying inspirational text, this book is a celebration – a plea for understanding and preservation – of these unique and irreplaceable meeting places of life. Published by Sierra Club as part of their wetlands initiative, a copy of the book was presented to then Vice-President Al Gore and each member of congress to heighten awareness of the need to preserve and protect our nation's fragile and imperiled wetlands.
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Last month, HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Numan VIII, head of the Royal House of Ghassan and members of the Ghassanid Royal Family were officially received by the Grand Mufti of Albania, Dr. Skënder Bruçaj, the highest Sunni Muslim authority in the country.
Dr. Bruçaj, born June 22, 1976 in Malësi e Madhe District, is an Albanian Muslim scholar who has been serving as the Grand Mufti (Albanian: Kryemyftiu) of Albania since March 2014. He is also the current head of the Sunni Muslim Community of Albania and had been Director of the Epoka University and Professor at the Bedër University.
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor discussed with His Excellency his initiative called "Alliance for Peace" regarding dialogue between Islam and the West, fighting the causes of the growing Islamophobia, receiving full support from the Sunni leader. For his work promoting peace between the religions the Royal House of Ghassan has bestowed upon His Excellency the highest rank of the Order of Saint Michael Archangel.
The delegation was composed by the head of the Royal House of Ghassan HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor, the honorary head of the House HIRH Prince Cheikh Selim El Chemor, the International Vice-President of Operations and CEO of the Lebanese Branch of the House Sheikh Dr. Elie Gharios, the President of the Royal Ghassanid Academy of Arts and Sciences and Protestant Grand Chaplain of the Royal House of Ghassan Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher, PhD, ThD, Mr. Martin Wernecke, knight of the Order of Saint Michael Archangel and Mr. Erion Prendi, the CEO of the Albanian Branch of the Royal House of Ghassan.
Last month, members of the Ghassanid Royal Family and also board members of the Royal House of Ghassan have visited the world leader of the Bektashi Order of Sufi Islam at their world headquarters in Tirana, Albania.
His Holiness Grandfather Hajji Baba Mondi (Albanian: Haxhi Baba Edmond Brahimaj) is the world leader of the Bektashi Order or the Bektashi Tariqah (Albanian: Tarikati Bektashi; Turkish: Bektaşi Tarîkatı), a dervish order (tariqat) named after the 13th century Alevi Wali (saint) Haji Bektash Veli from Khorasan, but founded by Balım Sultan. The order is mainly found throughout Anatolia and the Balkans, and was particularly strong in Albania, Bulgaria, and among Ottoman era Greek Muslims from the regions of Epirus, Crete and Macedonia. The order represents the official ideology of Bektashism (Turkish: Bektaşilik).
A large number of academics consider Bektashism to have fused a number of Shia and Sufi concepts, although the order contains rituals and doctrines that are distinct. Throughout its history Bektashis have always had wide appeal and influence among both the Ottoman intellectual elite as well as the peasantry.
The Bektashi have around 150 million followers worldwide and are well-known for promoting inter-religious dialog.
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor discussed with His Holiness his ideas about dialogue between Islam and the west, receiving full support from the Sufi leader. For his work promoting peace between the religions the Royal House of Ghassan has bestowed upon His Holiness the highest rank of the Order of Saint Michael Archangel.
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Numan VIII, members of the Royal Family and members of the board of the Sovereign Imperial and Royal House of Ghassan traveled from different locations in the world as: USA, Lebanon and Germany to meet in Albania. There, they were officially received by the President of the Republic of Albania at the presidential palace and were invited to an exclusive luncheon by the president in honor of the Royal House of Ghassan.
During the same trip, the Royal delegation had the obligation of paying respects to the Royal House of the Albanians headed by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Leka II of the Albanians, sole heir to the Albanian throne. The Royal House has official legal status in Albania being recognized by the republic.
HRH Crown Prince Leka II, a perfect gentleman and a gracious host, received impeccably the members of the Royal family for moments of pleasant conversation and also to establish friendship ties between the Royal House of the Albanians and the Imperial and Royal House of Ghassan.
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor conferred the Order of Saint Michael Archangel to HRH Crown Prince Leka II and received the coat of arms of the Royal House of the Albanians.
Strong ties of friendship were established and a mutual promise of a next meeting in the near future. Also, an official invitation to visit the Ghassanid Royal House in Los Angeles by HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor and the Ghassanid Royal Palace in Kferhata, Lebanon was made by HIRH Prince Sheikh Selim El Chemor.
The Royal House was represented by Prince Gharios El Chemor, Prince Sheikh Selim El Chemor, Sheikh Dr. Elie Gharios, Martin Warnecke and Erion Prendi recently appointed the official representative for the Royal House of Ghassan in Albania.


Melt butter in a medium pot over medium heat.
Add onions and cook until slightly softened, about 6 to 7 minutes.
Add chilies, garlic and flour.
Continue to cook while stirring often to make sure the flour does not burn.
The most natural pairing for this soup is with dark ale as it is an important ingredient. Alternatively, Malbec or Cabernet Sauvignon both pair well with old cheddar and have enough depth for the dark ale in the soup.


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Gilbert gains one Douglas vote in governor primary recount
Joey Gilbert during his appearance on Nevada Newsmakers which aired Feb. 23, 2022.
With the final tally for the Nevada governor's Republican primary in the books, any issue Reno attorney Joey Gilbert has with the election will have to be taken up with the courts.
On Thursday, Douglas County commissioners canvassed the vote in the race after a recount paid for by Gilbert.
Gilbert had already indicated to supporters that he didn't expect much change in the vote totals as a result of the $191,000 recount, and that was certainly true in Douglas County.
Clerk-Treasurer Amy Burgans said a recount increased Gilbert's vote total by one to 3,391, 201 votes short of Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo's 3,593 votes in the county.
County election workers recounted all the ballots the same way they did after Election Day, which took them 11 hours on June 30, the day after Gilbert sought a recount.
Burgans said the additional vote for Gilbert came from a candidate that was further down the ballot and that Lombardo's vote total remained the same.
She told commissioners there were 60 ballots that required adjudication.
One example she gave was where a voter marked four candidates on a mailed ballot and then wrote "no" by three of them and yes by the fourth.
She said the number of votes matched the previous count exactly.
A rotating, bipartisan group worked on adjudication during the original count and the recount. Burgans said it was a different group.
Douglas County Republican Party Chairman James McKalip thanked Burgans and her staff.
"I think this really kind of proves it's a good thing," he said during public comment. "The machines worked, the people did a good job. One error out of that many votes is understandable. The system works and I think we should all be pretty happy with it."
Burgans said Douglas County's share of $3,304.04 hadn't been paid by the Secretary of State's Office.
However, she did announce that her office had received $176,000 from the state for the election and that would be going to the general fund.
Douglas County election workers wrapped up a recount in the Nevada Republican primary race for governor the day after Gilbert filed for a recount.
Of Nevada's 17 counties, Gilbert won Carson City, Churchill, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and White Pine.
But there were 11,944 votes for Gilbert in all of those counties combined, which he won by 3,817 votes. Lombardo won Clark County alone by 28,257 votes.
Douglas completes governor primary recount
Douglas certifies 2022 primary election
The July 8, 2022, R-C Morning Report
Deadline looms for election results
Update: School Board Area 7 a toss-up as mailed ballots roll in


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02. My Loving Relationships
03. Evidence Based Treatments for Eating Disorders: Children, Adolescents and Adults
04. Manual of Evidence-Based Research for the Health Sciences Implications for Clinical Dentistry
05. Trends in Exercise and Health Research
06. Towards Best Practices for Surveying People with Disabilities. Volume 1
07. Women's Health in the Majority World: Issues and Initiatives
08. Lactic Acid Cheese Safety
09. Youth Sexuality in the Context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
10. Smoking Cessation: Theory, Interventions and Prevention
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Physical Activity and Children: New Research
Editors: Noemie P. Beaulieu
Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for developing coronary artery disease. It also increases the risk of stroke and such other major cardiovascular risk factors as obesity, high blood pressure, low HDL ("good") cholesterol and diabetes. The American Heart Association recommends that children and adolescents participate in at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day. Increased physical activity has been associated with an increased life expectancy and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. Physical activity produces overall physical, psychological and social benefits. Inactive children are likely to become inactive adults. This book presents new research in the field from around the world.
Expert Commentary: The Relationship between Physical Activity and Socioeconomic Status: the Italian Experience on Children and Adolescents; pp. 1-5
(Giuseppe La Torre, Nicola Nicolotti, Institute of Hygiene Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy, Elisabetta De Vito, University of Cassino, Italy)
Research and Review Studies
Chapter 1 - Physical Activity and Young People: The impact of the Built Environment in Encouraging Play, Fun and Being Active; pp. 7-33
(Sally F Kelty, Billie Giles-Corti, School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Australia, Stephen R. Zubrick, Curtin University of Technology and Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Australia)
Chapter 2 -Youth Aquatic Recreation: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of an Aquatic Lifestyle in New Zealand; pp. 35-63
(Kevin Moran, School of Social and Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Chapter 3 - Inter-Limb Coordination and Constraints in Swimming: A Review; pp. 65-93
(Ludovic Seifert, Didier Chollet, Centre d'Etudes des Transformations des Activites Physiques et Sportives, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Rouen, France)
Chapter 4 - Exercise Capacity and Exercise Training in Children with Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease: With Special Reference to Children with a Fontan Circulation or Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot; pp. 95-116
(Tim Takken, A. Christian Blank, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Chapter 5 - Children's Musculoskeletal System: New Research Perpectives; pp. 117-135
(Sebastien Ratel, Laboratory of Exercise Biology, University of Blaise Pascal, Aubiere, France, Craig Williams, Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK)
Chapter 6 - Mechanical and Metabolic Work during Locomotion in Young Children; pp. 137-153
(Ann Hallemans, Research Group of Functional Morphology, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Division of Neuro- and Physiotherapy, Department of Health Care, University College of Antwerp, Belgium, Patricia Van de Walle, Division of Neuro and Psychomotor Physiotherapy, Department of Health Care, University College of Antwerp, Belgium, Clinical Motion Analysis Laboratory of the University Hospital Pellenberg, Belgium, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KuLeuven, Belgium)
Chapter 7 - Field-Dependent Children: A Less Athletically Skilled and Less Physically Active Subpopulation; pp. 155-175
(Wenhao Liu, Physical Education Department, Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania)
Chapter 8 - Changes in Children's Motivation in Running Programs (Changes in Children's Motivation in Physical Education Running Programs: A Three-Year Study); pp. 177-193
(Ping Xiang, Ron E. McBride, Texas A & M University, Jianmin Guan, University of Texas, San Antonio, April Bruene, Texas A & M University)
Chapter 9 - Development of Motor Error Detection Capability in an Underhand Throwing Task; pp. 195-210
(Melissa A. Fleischauer, David E. Sherwood, University of Colorado)
Chapter 10 - Anaerobic Critical Velocity: A New Tool for Young Swimmers Training Advice; pp. 211-223
(Ricardo Fernandes, Ines Aleixo, Susana Soares, J. Paulo Vilas-Boas, Univ. of Porto, Faculty of Sport, Porto, Portugal)
Chapter 11 - Growth Rates by Children Grades 4-8 on Selected FITNESSGRAM Test Items; pp. 225-239
(Stephen A. Butterfield, Robert A. Lehnhard, University of Maine, Rose M. Angel, Jefferson Village School)
Chapter 12 - Prescribed Aerobic Exercise and the Recovery from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) Among Children and Adolescents: A Randomised Controlled Trail Protocol; pp. 241-252
(Lawrence T. Lam, (CTCPER), The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Discipline of Paediatric and Child Health, the Faculty of Medicine, The Sydney University, Australia)
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A human performance experiment was conducted to investigate pixel parameter requirements for three types of flat-panel display images: an alphanumeric character, an oscilloscope waveform, and a real-world image. Subjects performed similarity judgments between an extremely high-quality image and an image composed of different levels of anti-aliasing and pixel width-plus-pixel separation (pitch). It was found that the effect of pitch had greater influence on perceived image quality for the alphanumeric character and oscilloscope waveform than for the real-world image. The results of this research provide empirical evidence showirg that the pixel pitch requirements for flat-panel systems that are used to display binary, high-contrast images (such as text and waveforms) will be more stringent than for low-contrast pictorial images. The three levels of grey-scale anti-aliasing investigated were found to improve image quality for only the binary, high-contrast images.
Weiman, Novia, "Effects of flat panel display parameters across three application areas upon similarity judgments" (1988). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 3947.


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R.P. Lumber Center Ice Rink and Teen Center
Dec. 20, 2021 Updated: Dec. 21, 2021 4:17 p.m.
A look from one corner of the future rink at the R.P. Lumber Center as construction continued in mid-November.
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A lot of ductwork is needed to heat, ventilate and cool a space as large as the R. P. Lumber Center.
A different perspective of the rink.
More structural items.
Try to imagine it with ice.
Another vantage point.
Water and/or coolant lines have been put down in advance of the ice surface.
EDWARDSVILLE - Construction continues on the R.P. Lumber Center Ice Rink and Teen Center in Edwardsville. Things are starting to get interesting as workers laid coolant and/or water lines in the dirt under what will become the ice surface. The project is on track for a spring 2022 grand opening.
The R.P. Lumber Center is located at the intersection of Tiger Drive and Governors' Parkway, north of Edwardsville High School. The center is the third and final phase of Edwardsville's Better Place to Play initiative. The first two phases were the Splash Pad in Leon Corlew Park behind the city's public safety building on South Main Street and Plummer Family Sports Park, which is located off of Center Grove Road near Interstate 55.


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Q: I'm learning figurative language in reading class What kind of figurative language is an author using when he says the boats, " hiccuped, growled, and whined"?

A: At the most basic level, this is a metaphor:

A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly
  refers to one thing by mentioning another.
[Wikipedia, citing Merriam-Webster]

In this case, the boat is described as doing things that an inanimate object cannot do: actions that would normally be attributed to humans or other animals. The metaphor gives "life" to the boat, making the description of the boat's sounds more vivid.
Furthermore, this particular kind of metaphor is an example of pathetic fallacy:

The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attributing of
  human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not
  human. It is a kind of personification that occurs in poetic
  descriptions, when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves
  dance, or when rocks seem indifferent. The British cultural critic
  John Ruskin coined the term in his book, Modern Painters (1843–60).
[Wikipedia, citing The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy, Glossary
  of Literary Terms and The New Encyclopædia Britannica].

Lastly, it's an example of zoomorphism:

Attributing animal form or other animal characteristics to anything
  other than an animal; similar to but broader than anthropomorphism.
[Wikipedia]

This seems a more exact definition than that provided by Merriam-Webster:

2: the use of animal forms in art or symbolism

While many animals are capable of hiccuping, growling and whining - dogs, for instance - the zoomorphism could be interpreted as specifically referring to humans, in which case it would be anthropomorphism:

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or
  intentions to non-human entities.
[Wikipedia, citing Oxford English Dictionary]

A: I would consider this phrase to be both a personification. It would be a personification since it gives a non-living item(boats) a quality humans would have(they are hiccuping and whining). Merriam Webster describes personification as "attribution of personal qualities"(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personification). Good question!

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A couple lies just off the trail above Sutro Baths, just across Point Lobos Ave. from Sutro Heights, on April 2, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.
The entrance to Sutro Heights, near the intersection of Point Lobos and 48th Avenues, is seen at dusk on April 2, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.
An empty parking lot on the south side of Point Lobos Ave. is seen from Sutro Heights on April 2, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.
A graffito on a stump is seen looking south from Sutro Heights on April 2, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.
Spots of light are seen on the Pacific Ocean looking west from Sutro Heights on April 2, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.
In the San Francisco of 100 years ago, Lands End was exactly that: the remote northwest corner of the city. Working-class families arrived via streetcar to indulge themselves in the commercialized wonders of Playland at the Beach, Sutro Baths and the Cliff House. Or, truly unique, the private grounds of former Mayor Adolph Sutro with its classical sculptures and gardens on a bluff above it all.
The glory that was Sutro Heights.
Today we head to that corner of the city for a walk along the beach or a semi-strenuous bicycle ride or, on Sutro Heights, the ghostly terrain of memories and views. Here you can see how a culture's relationship to the ocean has evolved. And unlike in Sutro's day, you won't be stopped if you bring a bag of peanuts past the stone lions guarding the entrance.
Richard Nixon lends a hand during his 1972 re-election campaign. (via The Chronicle's archives).
Without further ado, here's the third installment in my Hills of San Francisco series. Including not just a former mayor, but a cameo appearance by the 37th president of the United States — definitely playing a good-guy role.