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Users will be able to search radio content on the basis of music, location and format. The web-based service will also allow people to create playlists.
In a bid to curb the number of plastic bags stuck in trees and littering streets, the City Council has voted 44-2 to mandate that supermarkets begin recycling programs.
“You shouldn’t walk around and have the city’s flower be a plastic bag that’s eternally blossoming in a tree. We want to end that time in our city,” said Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan).
* Place recycling bins in stores.
* Use plastic bags that are clearly marked as recyclable.
* Accept shoppers’ bags from other stores, as well as shrink wrap and dry-cleaning bags.
Some 2,000 stores will be affected, and violators are subject to fines of $300 daily.
Cape Town – The high court has rejected an urgent application to interdict the signing of 27 outstanding renewable independent power producer (IPP) projects.
The North Gauteng High Court on Thursday struck the application by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and Transform RSA from the roll, Numsa spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi confirmed to Fin24 by phone. The union will study the judgment to decide if it wants to pursue the matter further.
The matter was heard in court on Tuesday. Numsa’s legal counsel Advocate Nazeer Cassim argued that the signing of the IPPs could be viewed as a form of economic looting, Fin24 reported.
Hlubi told Fin24 that 30 000 jobs would be at stake if the IPPs were signed. This includes 6 000 workers at Eskom and other partners in the value chain. “We want to remind South Africans to force government to adhere to the Paris Agreement it signed.
Hlubi said it is a significant problem and no solution has been created for it.
Eskom spokesperson Khulu Pasiwe said the power utility is not in a position to speculate over job losses. He said that none of Eskom’s power stations would be closed if the renewable energy IPPs are incorporated.
“The current board of Eskom has not taken a decision to close power stations. We are not in a position to speculate what will happen in future,” he said.
The Department of Energy did not immediately respond to Fin24’s request for comment.
At a briefing earlier in March new Energy Minister Jeff Radebe said the signing of the IPPs has the full support of the president, Cabinet and Eskom.
The 27 projects are expected to create over 61 600 jobs and draw investment worth R56bn to the economy, according to the energy department.
The World Health Organization has announced plans to add gaming addictions to its international list of mental disorders — a move a Calgary psychologist says makes some sense.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared video game addiction a new category of mental disorder.
That won't come as much of a surprise to parents of young gamers — which is where Dr. Brent MacDonald often comes into the picture.
MacDonald is a Calgary psychologist who spoke to The Homestretch about the WHO decision, and how parents or others should deal with someone they think may be addicted.
While there has been a debate raging for years over whether or not to declare video game addiction a mental disorder, MacDonald said the move makes a certain amount of sense.
"Its kind of inevitable," MacDonald said. "When you look at some of the behaviour associated with gaming, and [when you] compare it to a lot of behaviour associated with other kinds of areas people get addicted to, there's a lot of overlap."
What makes games so addictive?
The basic element that gets so many gamers hooked is the instant gratification of it all, MacDonald said.
"As soon as you press a button, you're getting a very basic but very powerful reinforcement, be it sound, be it light, be it an achievement of some sort," MacDonald said. "It's very reinforcing. So it's not surprising to see it become something people have a lot of problems with."
The organization's decision to add video game addiction to its International Classification of Diseases might seem inevitable, but in the United States, there has been a debate raging about that designation — a situation MacDonald says owes more to the nature of scientific research.
"The science of psychology is a bit of a slow moving beast," MacDonald said. "But I'd rather see them take their time and do the scientific research, rather than just say this is just another area of mental disease or mental disorder that's popular right now."
The WHO decision to include video game addiction as a mental disorder does not come with a prescription for how to fix it.
"The diagnostic processes really aren't in place right now," MacDonald said.
Even if the World Health Organization isn't providing much help with how to help kick the habit of Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto, MacDonald suggested a few recommendations for anyone who knows someone who needs to get away from their computer screen.
Set boundaries. "Around an hour a day, depending on the developmental level of the student or child," he said. "When you get to three hours plus — which is not uncommon — unfortunately three hours plus actually has a fairly significant detrimental affect on social interactions and social impact."
Set those boundaries early in the gaming life of your loved one. "Most parents listening are probably saying, that sounds really easy to do but really impossible to actually apply in life. But the younger you can start this, the better because it's something that's not going away. It's a $30 billion a year industry."
Be your own best role model. "Being able to turn it off and walk away from it and just being done with it. And not being (like), 'OK, well, I just have to finish this level,' or whatever it might be. The other major thing is the type of game. If you're with a child and you're home and the child is under a certain age — let's say 14 or 15 — they probably shouldn't be playing a whole lot of really violent video games."
SALT LAKE CITY — A strange thing happened after Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew returned from the moon with lunar rocks: Many of the mementos given to every U.S. state vanished. Now, after years of sleuthing, a former NASA investigator is closing in on his goal of locating the whereabouts of all 50.
But almost no state entered the rocks collected by Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin into archival records, and Gutheinz said many lost track of them.
Now a lawyer in the Houston area, he's also a college instructor who's enlisted the help of his students. They record their findings of the whereabouts of the discovered moon gems in a database.
Many of the Apollo 11 rocks have turned up in unexpected places: with ex-governors in West Virginia and Colorado, in a military-artifact storage building in Minnesota and with a former crab boat captain from TV's "Deadliest Catch" in Alaska.
In New York, officials who oversee the state museum have no record of that state's Apollo 11 rock. In Delaware, the sample was stolen from its state museum on Sept. 22, 1977. Police were contacted, but it was never found.
"The people of the world deserve this," he said. "They deserve to see something that our astronauts accomplished and be a part it."
20, Apr 2019, EDT. Welcome to the Mexico economic statistics pages provided by the beta version of EconomyWatch.com's Econ Stats database.
Mexico's $1.3 trillion economy has become increasingly oriented toward manufacturing in the 20 years since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) entered into force. Per capita income is roughly one-third that of the US; income distribution remains highly unequal. Mexico has become the United States' second-largest export market and third-largest source of imports. In 2013, two-way merchandise trade reached nearly $507 billion. Mexico has free trade agreements with over 50 countries including Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, the European Free Trade Area, and Japan - putting more than 90% of trade under free trade agreements. In 2012 Mexico formally joined the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and formed the Pacific Alliance with Peru, Colombia and Chile. Mexico's current government, led by President Enrique PENA NIETO, emphasized economic reforms during its first year in office, passing education, energy, financial, fiscal and telecommunications reform legislation. The three-party "Pact for Mexico" reform agenda aims to improve competitiveness and economic growth across the Mexican economy.
GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) MXN 18,135.71 Billion.
GDP Per Capita (Constant Prices, National Currency) MXN 111,166.19 .
GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, National Currency) MXN 142,781.47 .
General government revenue (National Currency) MXN 4,264.55 Billions.
General government total expenditure (National Currency) MXN 5,003.81 Billions.
Total Government Net Lending/ Borrowing (National Currency) MXN -739.263 Billions.
General Government Structural Balance (National Currency) MXN -745.279 Billion.
Fiscal Year Gross Domestic Product, Current Prices MXN 18,135.71 Billions.
GDP (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 14,120.02 Billion.
GDP Growth (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is 2.547 %.
GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 18,135.71 Billion.
GDP (Current Prices, US Dollars) for Mexico in year 2015 is US$ 1,144.33 Billion.
GDP Deflator for Mexico in year 2015 is 128.44 (Index, Base Year as per country's accounts = 100).
GDP Per Capita (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 111,166.19 .
GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 142,781.47 .
GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, US Dollars) for Mexico in year 2015 is US$ 9,009.28 .
GDP (PPP), US Dollars for Mexico in year 2015 is US$ 2,227.18 Billion.
GDP Per Capita (PPP), US Dollars for Mexico in year 2015 is US$ 17,534.44 .
GDP Share of World Total (PPP) for Mexico in year 2015 is 1.962 %.
Implied PPP Conversion Rate for Mexico in year 2015 is 8.143 .
Investment (% of GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is 22.722 %.
Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is 19.892 %.
Inflation, Average Consumer Prices (Indexed to Year 2000) for Mexico in year 2015 is 116.678 (Index, Base Year 2000 = 100).
Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) for Mexico in year 2015 is 2.72 %.
Inflation, End of Year (Indexed to Year 2000) for Mexico in year 2015 is 118.532 (Index, Base Year 2000 = 100).
Inflation (End of Year Change %) for Mexico in year 2015 is 2.131 %.
Import Volumes of Goods Only (Percent Change) for Mexico in year 2015 is 5.346 %.
Export Volume of All Items Including Goods and Services (Percent Change) for Mexico in year 2015 is 8.992 %.
Export Volumes of Goods Only (Percent Change) for Mexico in year 2015 is 8.221 %.
Unemployment Rate (% of Labour Force) for Mexico in year 2015 is 4.25 %.
Population for Mexico in year 2015 is 127.017 Million .
General government revenue (National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 4,264.55 Billions.
General government revenue (% of GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is 23.515 %.
General government total expenditure (National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 5,003.81 Billions.
General government total expenditure (% of GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is 27.591 %.
Total Government Net Lending/ Borrowing (National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN -739.263 Billions.
General Government Structural Balance (National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN -745.279 Billion.
General Government Structural Balance (% Potential GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is -4.092 %.
Fiscal Year Gross Domestic Product, Current Prices for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 18,135.71 Billions.
Current Account Balance (US Dollars) for Mexico in year 2015 is US$ -32.381 Billion.
Current Account Balance (% GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is -2.83 %.
Peggy Nesbitt and Brian Lobdell Jr. were married April 21, 2018 in Sarasota, Florida.
Parents of the bride are Rosemarie Wojtaszek (Cole) of Sarasota, and David Nesbitt of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, all formerly of Wheeling. Grandparents of the bride are Loretta Nesbitt and the late Paul Nesbitt of Wheeling.
Parents of the groom are Jacqueline and Brian Lobdell Sr. of Sarasota.
The couple resides in Florida.
AFTER winning its opening four matches of the season Ararat will face another difficult task against Horsham Demons in round seven in an effort to halt its two-match losing streak.
Rats coach Donna Spalding said she had been frustrated by her side’s second half performances in recent weeks.
She said her side’s defensive end continued to perform well in the Rat’s round six loss but it had faltered at in attack.
Spalding said Kate Bligh had been a notable absence from the Rat’s midcourt during the sides two losses and she would again face a fitness test before being cleared to take on the Demons.
I don’t know how I’ve managed to do this – or what I’ve done to deserve this – but I seem to be on the electronic mailing lists of both Democrats and Republicans.
And they’re both constantly pleading for money.
There are new crises or new important imminent deadlines every week.
I suppose this fundraising tactic must work, because they keep doing it, but I haven’t contributed anything to either side and I don’t know why anyone else would.
They’re just so hard to take seriously.
Last Tuesday, a typical day, I got 11 email political solicitations (with none of them going into my spam filter). I’m pretty sure November 2016 is a ways away, but you wouldn’t know it from these pathetic pleas.
Most of them have odd “sender” names and subject lines. I guess the idea is to make us read them because a brain-dead person might think they were personal messages or because they look so weird.
I was about to delete last week’s pleas in disgust as I usually do, when it occurred to me that all this communication from political organizations doesn’t have to go to waste.
In fact, it’s a wonderful opportunity for democracy.

Users will be able to search radio content on the basis of music, location and format. The web-based service will also allow people to create playlists.

In a bid to curb the number of plastic bags stuck in trees and littering streets, the City Council has voted 44-2 to mandate that supermarkets begin recycling programs.

“You shouldn’t walk around and have the city’s flower be a plastic bag that’s eternally blossoming in a tree. We want to end that time in our city,” said Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan).

* Place recycling bins in stores.

* Use plastic bags that are clearly marked as recyclable.

* Accept shoppers’ bags from other stores, as well as shrink wrap and dry-cleaning bags.

Some 2,000 stores will be affected, and violators are subject to fines of $300 daily.

Cape Town – The high court has rejected an urgent application to interdict the signing of 27 outstanding renewable independent power producer (IPP) projects.

The North Gauteng High Court on Thursday struck the application by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and Transform RSA from the roll, Numsa spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi confirmed to Fin24 by phone. The union will study the judgment to decide if it wants to pursue the matter further.

The matter was heard in court on Tuesday. Numsa’s legal counsel Advocate Nazeer Cassim argued that the signing of the IPPs could be viewed as a form of economic looting, Fin24 reported.

Hlubi told Fin24 that 30 000 jobs would be at stake if the IPPs were signed. This includes 6 000 workers at Eskom and other partners in the value chain. “We want to remind South Africans to force government to adhere to the Paris Agreement it signed.

Hlubi said it is a significant problem and no solution has been created for it.

Eskom spokesperson Khulu Pasiwe said the power utility is not in a position to speculate over job losses. He said that none of Eskom’s power stations would be closed if the renewable energy IPPs are incorporated.

“The current board of Eskom has not taken a decision to close power stations. We are not in a position to speculate what will happen in future,” he said.

The Department of Energy did not immediately respond to Fin24’s request for comment.

At a briefing earlier in March new Energy Minister Jeff Radebe said the signing of the IPPs has the full support of the president, Cabinet and Eskom.

The 27 projects are expected to create over 61 600 jobs and draw investment worth R56bn to the economy, according to the energy department.

The World Health Organization has announced plans to add gaming addictions to its international list of mental disorders — a move a Calgary psychologist says makes some sense.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared video game addiction a new category of mental disorder.

That won't come as much of a surprise to parents of young gamers — which is where Dr. Brent MacDonald often comes into the picture.

MacDonald is a Calgary psychologist who spoke to The Homestretch about the WHO decision, and how parents or others should deal with someone they think may be addicted.

While there has been a debate raging for years over whether or not to declare video game addiction a mental disorder, MacDonald said the move makes a certain amount of sense.

"Its kind of inevitable," MacDonald said. "When you look at some of the behaviour associated with gaming, and [when you] compare it to a lot of behaviour associated with other kinds of areas people get addicted to, there's a lot of overlap."

What makes games so addictive?

The basic element that gets so many gamers hooked is the instant gratification of it all, MacDonald said.

"As soon as you press a button, you're getting a very basic but very powerful reinforcement, be it sound, be it light, be it an achievement of some sort," MacDonald said. "It's very reinforcing. So it's not surprising to see it become something people have a lot of problems with."

The organization's decision to add video game addiction to its International Classification of Diseases might seem inevitable, but in the United States, there has been a debate raging about that designation — a situation MacDonald says owes more to the nature of scientific research.

"The science of psychology is a bit of a slow moving beast," MacDonald said. "But I'd rather see them take their time and do the scientific research, rather than just say this is just another area of mental disease or mental disorder that's popular right now."

The WHO decision to include video game addiction as a mental disorder does not come with a prescription for how to fix it.

"The diagnostic processes really aren't in place right now," MacDonald said.

Even if the World Health Organization isn't providing much help with how to help kick the habit of Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto, MacDonald suggested a few recommendations for anyone who knows someone who needs to get away from their computer screen.

Set boundaries. "Around an hour a day, depending on the developmental level of the student or child," he said. "When you get to three hours plus — which is not uncommon — unfortunately three hours plus actually has a fairly significant detrimental affect on social interactions and social impact."

Set those boundaries early in the gaming life of your loved one. "Most parents listening are probably saying, that sounds really easy to do but really impossible to actually apply in life. But the younger you can start this, the better because it's something that's not going away. It's a $30 billion a year industry."

Be your own best role model. "Being able to turn it off and walk away from it and just being done with it. And not being (like), 'OK, well, I just have to finish this level,' or whatever it might be. The other major thing is the type of game. If you're with a child and you're home and the child is under a certain age — let's say 14 or 15 — they probably shouldn't be playing a whole lot of really violent video games."

SALT LAKE CITY — A strange thing happened after Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew returned from the moon with lunar rocks: Many of the mementos given to every U.S. state vanished. Now, after years of sleuthing, a former NASA investigator is closing in on his goal of locating the whereabouts of all 50.

But almost no state entered the rocks collected by Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin into archival records, and Gutheinz said many lost track of them.

Now a lawyer in the Houston area, he's also a college instructor who's enlisted the help of his students. They record their findings of the whereabouts of the discovered moon gems in a database.

Many of the Apollo 11 rocks have turned up in unexpected places: with ex-governors in West Virginia and Colorado, in a military-artifact storage building in Minnesota and with a former crab boat captain from TV's "Deadliest Catch" in Alaska.

In New York, officials who oversee the state museum have no record of that state's Apollo 11 rock. In Delaware, the sample was stolen from its state museum on Sept. 22, 1977. Police were contacted, but it was never found.

"The people of the world deserve this," he said. "They deserve to see something that our astronauts accomplished and be a part it."

20, Apr 2019, EDT. Welcome to the Mexico economic statistics pages provided by the beta version of EconomyWatch.com's Econ Stats database.

Mexico's $1.3 trillion economy has become increasingly oriented toward manufacturing in the 20 years since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) entered into force. Per capita income is roughly one-third that of the US; income distribution remains highly unequal. Mexico has become the United States' second-largest export market and third-largest source of imports. In 2013, two-way merchandise trade reached nearly $507 billion. Mexico has free trade agreements with over 50 countries including Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, the European Free Trade Area, and Japan - putting more than 90% of trade under free trade agreements. In 2012 Mexico formally joined the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and formed the Pacific Alliance with Peru, Colombia and Chile. Mexico's current government, led by President Enrique PENA NIETO, emphasized economic reforms during its first year in office, passing education, energy, financial, fiscal and telecommunications reform legislation. The three-party "Pact for Mexico" reform agenda aims to improve competitiveness and economic growth across the Mexican economy.

GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) MXN 18,135.71 Billion.

GDP Per Capita (Constant Prices, National Currency) MXN 111,166.19 .

GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, National Currency) MXN 142,781.47 .

General government revenue (National Currency) MXN 4,264.55 Billions.

General government total expenditure (National Currency) MXN 5,003.81 Billions.

Total Government Net Lending/ Borrowing (National Currency) MXN -739.263 Billions.

General Government Structural Balance (National Currency) MXN -745.279 Billion.

Fiscal Year Gross Domestic Product, Current Prices MXN 18,135.71 Billions.

GDP (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 14,120.02 Billion.

GDP Growth (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is 2.547 %.

GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 18,135.71 Billion.

GDP (Current Prices, US Dollars) for Mexico in year 2015 is US$ 1,144.33 Billion.

GDP Deflator for Mexico in year 2015 is 128.44 (Index, Base Year as per country's accounts = 100).

GDP Per Capita (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 111,166.19 .

GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 142,781.47 .

GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, US Dollars) for Mexico in year 2015 is US$ 9,009.28 .

GDP (PPP), US Dollars for Mexico in year 2015 is US$ 2,227.18 Billion.

GDP Per Capita (PPP), US Dollars for Mexico in year 2015 is US$ 17,534.44 .

GDP Share of World Total (PPP) for Mexico in year 2015 is 1.962 %.

Implied PPP Conversion Rate for Mexico in year 2015 is 8.143 .

Investment (% of GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is 22.722 %.

Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is 19.892 %.

Inflation, Average Consumer Prices (Indexed to Year 2000) for Mexico in year 2015 is 116.678 (Index, Base Year 2000 = 100).

Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) for Mexico in year 2015 is 2.72 %.

Inflation, End of Year (Indexed to Year 2000) for Mexico in year 2015 is 118.532 (Index, Base Year 2000 = 100).

Inflation (End of Year Change %) for Mexico in year 2015 is 2.131 %.

Import Volumes of Goods Only (Percent Change) for Mexico in year 2015 is 5.346 %.

Export Volume of All Items Including Goods and Services (Percent Change) for Mexico in year 2015 is 8.992 %.

Export Volumes of Goods Only (Percent Change) for Mexico in year 2015 is 8.221 %.

Unemployment Rate (% of Labour Force) for Mexico in year 2015 is 4.25 %.

Population for Mexico in year 2015 is 127.017 Million .

General government revenue (National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 4,264.55 Billions.

General government revenue (% of GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is 23.515 %.

General government total expenditure (National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 5,003.81 Billions.

General government total expenditure (% of GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is 27.591 %.

Total Government Net Lending/ Borrowing (National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN -739.263 Billions.

General Government Structural Balance (National Currency) for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN -745.279 Billion.

General Government Structural Balance (% Potential GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is -4.092 %.

Fiscal Year Gross Domestic Product, Current Prices for Mexico in year 2015 is MXN 18,135.71 Billions.

Current Account Balance (US Dollars) for Mexico in year 2015 is US$ -32.381 Billion.

Current Account Balance (% GDP) for Mexico in year 2015 is -2.83 %.

Peggy Nesbitt and Brian Lobdell Jr. were married April 21, 2018 in Sarasota, Florida.

Parents of the bride are Rosemarie Wojtaszek (Cole) of Sarasota, and David Nesbitt of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, all formerly of Wheeling. Grandparents of the bride are Loretta Nesbitt and the late Paul Nesbitt of Wheeling.

Parents of the groom are Jacqueline and Brian Lobdell Sr. of Sarasota.

The couple resides in Florida.

AFTER winning its opening four matches of the season Ararat will face another difficult task against Horsham Demons in round seven in an effort to halt its two-match losing streak.

Rats coach Donna Spalding said she had been frustrated by her side’s second half performances in recent weeks.

She said her side’s defensive end continued to perform well in the Rat’s round six loss but it had faltered at in attack.

Spalding said Kate Bligh had been a notable absence from the Rat’s midcourt during the sides two losses and she would again face a fitness test before being cleared to take on the Demons.

I don’t know how I’ve managed to do this – or what I’ve done to deserve this – but I seem to be on the electronic mailing lists of both Democrats and Republicans.

And they’re both constantly pleading for money.

There are new crises or new important imminent deadlines every week.

I suppose this fundraising tactic must work, because they keep doing it, but I haven’t contributed anything to either side and I don’t know why anyone else would.

They’re just so hard to take seriously.

Last Tuesday, a typical day, I got 11 email political solicitations (with none of them going into my spam filter). I’m pretty sure November 2016 is a ways away, but you wouldn’t know it from these pathetic pleas.

Most of them have odd “sender” names and subject lines. I guess the idea is to make us read them because a brain-dead person might think they were personal messages or because they look so weird.

I was about to delete last week’s pleas in disgust as I usually do, when it occurred to me that all this communication from political organizations doesn’t have to go to waste.

In fact, it’s a wonderful opportunity for democracy.