Did Illinois Really Make It To Number One

Sunshine in Southern Illinois sparks a tour through weather, taxes, jargon, quakes, space delays, and a curious alien wager, anchored by a value-for-value spirit and real-world honesty. We balance humor with care, naming what matters and praying for those in harm’s way.

• local spring weather, yard prep, and listener weather checks
• Illinois topping tax burden rankings and what that means
• corporate jargon we hate and how it harms clarity
• studio authenticity, open windows, and new listener guide to episode 138
• earthquake counts, regional patterns, and solar activity
• Middle East tensions, human cost, and a prayer for mercy
• NASA Artemis delays, engineering humility, and new targets
• the “insider bet” on aliens and what markets really measure
• closing thanks and how to support the show

Transcript

Opening Banter And Midwest Setup

Bruce 0:00

I told you Illinois would be number one.

Capella 0:04

Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast, the worst podcast in the unknown universe. Or at least that's what some people say. We prefer to think of ourselves as charmingly rough around the edges. We're passionate about podcasting and the value for value model, where creators and listeners connect directly. We believe in keeping our content free and open to everyone, because who needs another paywall, right?

Bruce 0:25

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast. I'm Bruce.

Sunny 0:32

And I'm Sunny. Welcome aboard. We're glad to have you.

Bruce 0:39

We are, we are. This is episode 139, and we're recording it in our studio in the Midwest, Southern Illinois, and it is Friday the sixth of March.

unknown 0:59

Yay!

Sunny 1:00

That's a good thing, isn't it, Bruce?

Bruce 1:03

Well, we're still around, so that's a real good thing. You doing all right, Sunny?

Sunny 1:09

I am doing great, Bruce. It is awesome.

Spring Weather And Yard Talk

Bruce 1:14

It is. It is a wait for it. 73 degrees today. Sun shining. Now there's a lot of water in the ground. We've got some mud puddles uh in the yard. We've had a lot of rain, so we shouldn't have to worry about catching up with the uh the water table because it should be getting back to where it should always be.

Sunny 1:42

Oh yeah. The grass is green. You're gonna have to mow.

Bruce 1:48

Yep, the grass is green. It's uh gonna be time to mow here pretty quick. Probably as soon as the ground gets dry, I'm gonna have to go mow. Boo-hoo! Oh, you poor baby. Well, at least I got a new lawnmower this year to mow with. Or actually it was new last year. I only got to mow with it about three or four times.

Sunny 2:11

Well, you can't even say it's time to change the oil.

Bruce 2:16

No, but I'll probably mow once with it and then change the oil just to have it changed.

Sunny 2:22

Well, good for you. You're just on the ball.

Bruce 2:29

Well, I figured what we would do since we're already talking about how nice it is and warm and beautiful, that we would kind of talk about the weather in other areas really quickly.

Sunny 2:43

Okay. Yeah, it's been kind of weird weather. We've had a lot of storms already that this spring. I mean, it's been really lots.

U.S. And Global Weather Check

Bruce 2:58

Lots, okay, yeah. Well, we have had uh uh some bad storms, thunderstorms, uh not very many tornadoes yet in the country, but we've had some big thunderstorms. So there's that. And we always pick out a couple areas in the country that we can compare our weather to. So one of them is Spokane, Washington. That's where one of our listeners live, and uh we want to pick it out today. So right now in Spokane, Washington, it's 40 whole degrees. Yep, it's mostly cloudy. The wind's running about seven miles an hour south-southwest, the air quality is 20, which is good. The pressure's rising 30.32, and the visibility is 10 miles. So they it it's really nice, but it's cold. Um they've had some really weird weather. They've been warmer there than we have most of the winter, and now that we've got 70 degree weather, guess what? They're back down to 40 degrees, so they're cold. I want to do the next one, Bruce. All right, that sounds like a deal.

Sunny 4:17

And for the next one, we're doing Phoenix, Arizona, and right now it's 66 degrees and sunny. Yay! It's supposed to get up to 73 there. The wind's six miles an hour, air quality's 19, pressure's 29.96 level, and visibility's 10 miles an hour.

Illinois Tops Tax Burden Rankings

Bruce 4:44

All right, well, good job. And uh, yeah. Uh it's cooler there right now than it is here in southern Illinois, so wow. And for our last one, we've got a place called Australia. Yeah, the Australia Plains, and it's 58 degrees there, and it's uh winds eight miles an hour, and the air quality is 18, which is good. The air pressure is 29.98 level, and the visibility is nine miles. So everywhere that we have read, it's been about the same. What do you think about that? I think you're making that up. Actually, I'm not. But right now I just looked up Mount Vernon weather and it's partly cloudy, but it's 77 degrees according to this. So wow. Uh winds 17 miles an hour from the south. Air quality is moderate, it's 55. Air pressure or the pressure, barometric pressure is 29.99 falling, and visibility is 10 miles. So there you go, folks. That's the weather around the world. Uh, if you want any place read off when we do our weather, just let me know, because that's what we're here for, to give you a little bit of fun. A little bit of fun. What about a lot of fun? Well, we'll we'll work on that. Uh, right now, we just want to give them a little bit of weather and not too much, because by the time they hear this recording, it's going to be totally different. So I don't want to spend a lot of time on it. Well, Sunny, you know, when I first uh started recording, I made the comment I told you Illinois would be number one.

Sunny 6:43

Oh yeah, I remember that and I was thinking, number one, what? Uh potholes?

Bruce 6:54

No, close, really close. Uh no. According to the Wallet Hub, uh they have a map and it's got the states listed as high and low taxation. So guess what? Illinois is number one or fifty-one, the highest ranking state with the highest tax rate. Yes. And followed closely behind is New York.

Sunny 7:31

Oh boy, we are so good. We are the highest. That's crazy.

Bruce 7:38

And true, apparently, according to this website, with the highest and the lowest, if you want to know what that is, you ready for that? It is Alaska. And number two lowest is Delaware, and Wyoming is number three. So that's the top states to live in, I guess. And we are the highest.

Sunny 8:09

Yep, there you go. That's a good move for the bad boo, or something like that.

Bruce 8:15

Well, you know, Sunny, I'm not even gonna say anything against that because that boo is very well placed, and we ought to be ashamed in this state to be the highest tax. We we knew it. We knew it. And I will be putting that map on my chapter headers, my chapter picture, so you should see it as I'm talking about it.

Sunny 8:43

I know you just changed gears and you did the whoom and you starting something new, but I gotta say it one more time. What the heck? The highest tax rate, really, Bruce.

Bruce 9:00

Well, uh, like I said, according to this uh website, Wallet Hub, which is uh news, uh yes, highest ranking tax rate of all the states.

Sunny 9:17

Okay. Well, I couldn't let that go with just going to the next subject because it's bad. We ought to move out.

Bruce 9:30

Well, yes, we ought to all move out, and a lot of people are, but then there's people like me and you that can't afford it. We are stuck here, and um our families are not even living in there's a few of our families living here, family members, but most of them have already moved out, done gone away, and they're looking for something better. That's what we need to do.

Corporate Jargon Grievances

Sunny 9:58

All right, I'm gonna do it again, Bruce. Here we go.

Bruce 10:06

Well, now the next article is uh I gotta give it a clap, let's see. I didn't mean to do that, guys. I hit it twice. Sorry about that. But this article I found very interesting, very well written, and kind of comical. So I have a weird sense of humor, so you may not find any of that, but it is by the Wall Street Journal, and it's about the um corporate jargon. And uh when I started reading the article, it it oh yeah, it hit me so funny because I've been around some of that garbage, and that's what I'm gonna call it. And they um they do a lot of that uh corporate talk, and I don't know what it is. People like to use slang in their workplace or uh they like to feel sophisticated. I don't I don't know what it is, but it's comical and it's aggravating at the same time.

Sunny 11:25

You mean they don't know how to talk? That's what you're saying, Bruce.

Bruce 11:30

No, I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying they use some weird um words, but again, it was in the Wall Street Journal, and I'm gonna read part of it to you. Basically, they w they asked their readers some of the terminology or the words that annoy them, and the list they got a long list. And the first paragraph says, an email arrived recently from our IT staff alerting us to zero D vulnerability on our devices that would require an immediate update. Yikes! What exactly did that mean? And was it as bad as it sounds? And that's hard how that article started out. Um then they asked what were some of the words that you find very annoying that you hate the most, and then they wanted people to let them know. So that's what they did. Uh one of the words that popped up was bandwidth. And the guy said, You're not a router, just say you're busy, pal. And uh they kind of give an idea of what was going on because one of the companies actually uh wanted to protect everybody's b bandwidth and eliminate some of the meetings, but then they added extra meetings and extra jargon to go along with the bandwidth, so it was just ridiculous. And uh have you ever been to a meeting about a meeting? My company used to do that. They used to have one of the guys that worked there loved having meetings about the meeting that they were gonna have later. Yeah, think about that. Think about the waste of time that they would do that and get people stimulated to have a meeting about a meeting for later.

unknown 13:27

Yeah.

Bruce 13:28

Like I said, it it uh it just struck me as funny and kind of cute, and I think it's well written, and I would um hold you to the fact that you need to go read it. Yeah. Wall Street Journal, just um just look it up. I'll try to have a shortcut to it. But the title is Leverage, Reach Out, Circle Back, the corporate jar jargon we hate the most. And how could you not love that kind of title, really, man? Go check it out. Here's another one. Circle back. I asked someone to do some research and the response was I'll check it out and I'll circle back to you. Why couldn't they just say, Okay, I'll send you my results or I will follow up on that. And these are real people that had sent these in, they've got their name and where they're from, so it's not made up. And here's one called deep dive. Every time I hear some sea suit type utter the dreaded deep dive, I want to respond, oh really? Not investigate, study, discern, discover, find out about, look into? You had to go deep dive. Did everyone go to the same MBA program? And I'm not going to mention that guy's name either, but that's so funny. How about this one? Hit the ground running. We've all heard that, may have used it, but early in my career as a new employee trainer, I witnessed a manager tell this to a group of new hires on their first day. At the start of the onboarding process. They still had hours of meetings and orientation, they had shown up excited and smiling, and as soon as they heard those words from the manager, I watched their body language immediately shift from excitement to visible to visible tension. Later that day one of the trainees asked me whether they were already behind schedule. It was a light bulb moment for me. The employee had heard hit the ground running hit the ground running, not as a be pro active in your training, which is how the manager meant it, but as you are already late in learning the job. I pass the feedback along to this manager to speak with more clarity, especially with anxious and easily confused new employees. All right, one more. Lean in. Lean into what? Are you dancing with the marcarina? I like the phrase when I first heard it a few years back and when it used it's used in the context of committing to a strategy or a new initiative, but lately it's used for routine tasks such as I'm leaning in to finish payroll, or I'm going to lean in and have lunch. Come on! I like that one.

Sunny 16:53

And I see there's a lot more on there. I bet you already read those, didn't you?

Bruce 16:59

Yeah, I already read the article before I uh brought it up. Yeah, that there's some good ones, man. There's some that's eh, not so good, and there's some that's really good, and I really feel their hate or anger towards those phrases, and it's it's it's really good. I again suggest you go to the Wall Street Journal and look that article up. I'll have a link on my chapter markers. That's one advantage to those guys. 2.0.

Sunny 17:34

We kind of get carried away with the way we talk and phrase things, don't we, Bruce?

Bruce 17:41

Oh yeah. Yeah, I do it bad. I'll get into the habit of saying a certain phrase or word, and I may do it a half a million times for the following week before I just totally forget about it and move on. And I'm really bad about that, and I would suggest that most people are. Uh we're creatures of habit, and we just duplicate something that felt good for us or angry, or you know, whatever the emotion was, and we do it again and again and again, and it drives people crazy.

Sunny 18:23

You can sing that again, buddy.

Windows Open

Bruce 18:26

But I won't. I won't. I have you know that I've got the windows open and I just kicked my mic. Hang on. Yep, I just I didn't really kick it. I smacked it with my pencil in my hand and threw it way off. And I hope I've got it back to where it sounds decent. It looks like it's not hitting the same as it was. Anyway, I'll have you know that I have forgot what I was gonna say.

Sunny 19:00

Way to go, Bruce. That's funny.

Bruce 19:03

All right, I'm back to my what my thought was. I got the windows open. It's a beautiful day. And what that means is uh in our studio, we're next to the highway, so you're gonna hear cars go blowing by. Hopefully, my uh gate uh catches most of that, but if it does it when I'm talking, which I try not to, I try to be quiet for a second, but if if it is at that moment, you're gonna hear the car noise. And I'm not gonna go try to get all those out because that's just part of the show, part of what we're doing. If it bothers you, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna do it in a soundproof booth. I just don't like that. Um if I was telling a story and reading it out loud, yeah, I might have that happen, you know, that way you can focus on the uh story and your imagination can run away with you. But that's not what we're doing. We're a podcast and we're having all those things affect your imagination and w how you picture me, the studio, and what we're talking about. It's all a complete package. So I'm not apologizing. I just want you to know it's gonna be happening and if it bothers you and you don't want to listen to the uh podcast anymore, this episode, or any of 'em, I understand. But if you like the the uh honesty of it and part of the show being part of that, then come back. All right. And speaking of that, while we're talking about that episode 138, last week's episode, I went into in-depth about uh the new uh not the new the where to find the uh podcast, w how to listen to it, uh some of the things we use. And if you're you new to the show to the podcast, go back and look that one up and listen to it. Uh hopefully you'll get some hints. Um we will probably for the next few maybe the next month or so, probably talk about that episode and send you to that episode in case you're a new person, a new listener. If not, we'll have to bore you to death with it. And speaking of that, everybody, welcome to the ugly quacking duck, whether you're from the United States, Southern Illinois, whether you're from the world, uh, from the unknown universe, or even a known universe. Welcome aboard.

Sunny 22:03

We looking at the earthquakes right now. What are they looking like, Bruce?

Middle East Tensions And A Prayer

NASA Artemis Delays And Doubts

Bruce 22:09

Well, the uh seven day report is got quite a bit of 6.0 and above. So let's just go with it. Today, 316, 36, 26, and 7 days back is the seven-day report. We have a total of 2323 earthquakes, all magnitudes, which gives us a 23.23%. We have 2.5 and over 380, which gives us a 16.36%, and then a four point five and over earthquakes one fourteen, which gives us a four point nine one percent, which is about normal. And then for the overall six and greater earthquakes, we had a total of five. We had a six point three in the Fiji Fiji region, a six point oh in the volcanic islands of Japan region, six point two in Indonesia, and then a six point three in the Solomon Islands. That's right around that crescent that we get earthquakes in all the time, and it's it's not letting up. So that gave us an average of four point three nine percent, which is kind of high. Um everything else was about normal, but we had five 6.0 earthquakes, which gave us a higher percentage. Now the sunspots have been more active. We got 73, but they're not as numerous as they have been in the past. So they've the sun's co kind of quieted down. Uh the KP index is running between 133 and 2.67%, and we have uh a quiet geometric storms happening right now. Solar winds 333, so pretty well average stuff happening right now. Yay. Well, I think I'll take a moment and uh discuss one thing. I think I would be very wrong if I didn't bring it up. I don't like bringing political news up or any of that other stuff, but uh we have had uh some circumstances that I need to just mention uh for history's sake. So this podcast is listened to years from now. Maybe they'll have that moment in time also. But Israel and the United States in a joint venture attacked Iran, attacked quite a bit of their property. Uh they attacked a school. I don't know why that happened, but it did. And we're just seeing news bits and pieces. We're not seeing uh the full story, which is normal. And there's been a lot of drone attacks from Iran to a lot of the uh Middle East embassies and things, and I'm not sure where this is going, what it's gonna end like. I do know it's in the father's hands and that all of us need to be praying for the human beings in the Middle East and in all the countries. The little leaders have one agenda and maybe two agendas, and the people, the common people like me, like you, have another one, and most of us just to survive and to please our father and to do what is morally correct uh in his eyes. But um sometimes greed and all that other stuff gets in the middle of it, but normally um the common person is just worried about survival. However, the leaders have other ideas and other things going on and other methods to achieve their goals. So right now we're in the midst of all that being arranged and what they're gonna come out with um is probably not gonna be comfortable for us common people. So my prayers are going to um the individuals that's dealing with that, that's uh having a worry and uh lose loved ones. May the Father's love shine on you and show you mercy just as he has done all of us in the past. I don't think I did that. I just talked about it. Uh that was put in place and has been laid out uh by other people and other spirits, not me. But anyhow, let's shift gears and go back to NASA. Yeah, NASA. Once again, NASA has been uh talking about their Artemis moon program. You know, they had that moon launch uh ready to go and shoot everybody up and orbit the moon to prove that they could, I guess. And then they was gonna send somebody or some people up to the moon, land on it uh in the next, I think next year. But however, because they had to postpone that time and time again, guess what? They got to get back to basics now, they're telling everybody. They just announced that on February 27th, that they were gonna have to overhaul the program. Yep, start back to basics or get back to basics or whatever you want to call it. So they are postponing the Artemis Moon program until when? Well, they're planning on doing it on 2028, and the uh plan is to add another additional flight in 2027, which the astronauts will dock with the new commercial moon landers in low Earth orbit for detailed tests of navigation. So they're they're backing it up, man. They was all ready to go, go around the moon, come back, and go back up and land, but nope. Too many problems, I guess. So what do you think about that, Sunny?

Sunny 30:03

I think you called it. You called it a long time ago.

Bruce 30:09

Yeah, they uh they couldn't they couldn't do it. That's all you can say. We'll see if they can do it in the next couple years. That will be the uh proof in the pudding.

Sunny 30:23

What are you gonna give 'em? A cigar if they win?

Alien “Insider Bet” Audio And Reactions

Bruce 30:26

No, I will just give them a pat on the back, but we'll have to see if they win by fakery or by honesty. That'll be the thing to watch. And our last but not least article is a recording that I have been able to play offline. The Atlantic. The Atlantic is the one that posted it, and it was by Ross Anderson, and I'm just gonna play it in its entirety. It's a seven minutes long. I hope you enjoy it. It's very interesting.

Speaker 3 31:06

You're listening to This Looks Like an Insider Bet on Aliens by Ross Anderson, published on the 25th of February, 2026. This audio article was produced by Audio Journalism app, NOAA, News Over Audio, and 11 Labs using an AI voice. On Monday night, someone placed a peculiar bet on the prediction market Calci. At 7.45 p.m. Eastern Time, a single trader put down nearly $100,000 on the claim that, by the end of December, the Trump administration will confirm that alien life or technology exists elsewhere in our universe. According to the Atlantic's review of Calci's trading data, about 35 minutes after this bet was executed, it was followed by another that was almost twice as large, possibly from the same person. These were market-moving events. For one brief stretch, the market appeared to think that there was at least a one in three chance that the U.S. government will announce the existence of aliens this year. Perhaps this was just some over-excited UFO diehard with a hunch and money to burn, or maybe, as some observers quickly noted, it was a trader with inside knowledge. When this alien prediction market first opened, in December of last year, it didn't attract much action. By early this month, only about $1 million had been traded on it, a pittance compared with the $195 million that has so far been wagered on Calchi for who will be the next chair of the Federal Reserve. But money started pouring in 10 days ago after Barack Obama was asked in a podcast interview whether aliens are real and replied, They're real, but I haven't seen them. Although he later clarified on Instagram that he had meant only to suggest that in our mind-bendingly expansive universe of stars and planets, other life forms are very likely to exist. His remark had already made international headlines. Trump seemed to get a kick out of Obama's flub. A few days later, he accused the former president of leaking classified information and, in a post on Truth Social, directed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other parts of the federal government to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, UAP, and unidentified flying objects, UFOs. It's possible that Trump was simply delighted by the prospect of a slow drip document release that has nothing to do with him or Jeffrey Epstein. Either way, his announcement brought even more money into Calchi's aliens market. One gambling industry site published some X-Files trading advice. Buy on the rumors of congressional hearings, then sell the moment that officials start dodging questions. This week's mysterious and mammoth bets did not get placed until a few days after this flash of interest had mostly gone away. From February 20th to the night of the 23rd, when the peculiar trades occurred, no further alien news was reported, no congressional hearings were held, and no rumors received significant circulation online. Whatever the Monday night whales or whale knew or thought they knew, it doesn't seem to have come from the public information environment, and no one has made bets of that size in the alien prediction market since. The two wagers had some other unusual qualities. When high-volume traders stake out large positions on Calchi, they tend to build them up incrementally in slices to avoid spooking other traders and driving up the price on themselves. Monday's traders, though, plunked their money down all at once, and as a result, they paid more than they needed to. Also, their long-shot bets seem to have no obvious strategic purpose. In theory, positions like these could be used as a hedge. A wager on an unlikely interest rate shift or tariff might offset a business's exposure to such financial news. But it's hard to figure why anyone would feel a need to cushion against the downside risk of alien life, unless they were a publisher of science textbooks. The big aliens exist bets would make sense only if the traders actually believed that they would pan out, perhaps because they knew something about a hushed-up discovery that the rest of us are about to find out. When I asked Ben Schindel, an expert on prediction markets, about the trades, he told me that they could have been made by an inexperienced and sloppy trader. The other possibility is that it's an insider. Prediction markets are designed to convert private knowledge into public prices. Their proponents argue that they tell us more about the world than polls do, and certainly more than individual pundits do, because they aggregate the convictions of lots of people who have real money on the line. But certain features of the platforms, the possibility of enormous profits, the pseudonymous accounts, and the opportunity for crypto-based transactions, have made them magnets for insider trading. Kalchi did not respond to a request for comment on this story. Today, Kalchi announced that it had taken action against an employee of the YouTuber Mr. Beast for improperly trading on markets having to do with the show and reported him to government regulators. Earlier this month, Israeli authorities charged a civilian and a military reservist with using classified military intelligence to place bets on polymarket related to Israeli operations. Last month, a new polymarket account placed a large bet on Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro being removed from power before the end of the month and cashed out more than $400,000 after the U.S. military did just that. Members of Congress are starting to call for a ban on public officials making these bets. Some people are even using AI to surface large suspicious trades that don't correspond to any news, but this may become more difficult if trading volume continues to increase. Shane Copeland, the CEO of Polymarket, has described prediction markets as global truth machines. On subjects where official information sources are suspect, they may instead serve as paranoia generators. Thanks to a fair amount of government bumbling and decades' worth of pop culture, everyday Americans are already predisposed to assume that they're being lied to about alien life. People seize on the tiniest scraps of evidence to justify their belief that Earth has already received interstellar visitors. They have put their faith in blurry pictures and videos, unverified rumors about crash sites and autopsied bodies. Even an offhand joke from a former president was eagerly interpreted as a long-hoped-for disclosure, and now someone, somewhere, is betting a small fortune that the truth is about to come out, and the rest of us are left to decide what, if anything, that actually tells us about the world. That was This Looks Like an Insider Bet on Aliens by Ross Anderson. This audio article was produced by audio journalism app NOAA, News Over Audio, and Eleven Labs using an AI voice.

Bruce 38:27

Okay, well that sounded like AI all the way. Even the the report sounded like AI building up uh more uh stuff, stuffing than needed. So that's kind of interesting, but I thought it was fun, and uh the article was eh, but it was good to have a little bit more audio to insinuate that there may be something happening. What do you think about that, Sunny?

Sunny 39:01

Oh my Bruce, I think you steeped to the low low.

Value For Value Support And Farewell

Bruce 39:07

I don't know what you're talking about, low low. I think that was pretty cool. I liked it, and it gives everybody something to think about. But we're out of time, so we're gonna say adios to everybody. We're gonna let Capella come in and tell you about value for value for before we say bye.

Capella 39:33

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Bruce 40:12

Well, everybody, thank you for being part of our show. We really do appreciate it. We hope you got some kind of enjoyment out of it and some kind of news at the same time.

Sunny 40:24

Yeah, and we hope you come back too.

Bruce 40:27

That's yeah, that's a given. We hope and pray that you can enjoy what weather we have, and we hope that things will turn out good for the world.

Sunny 40:40

Yeah, I totally agree with that, Bruce. We need a better uh lookout or a look or something good.

Bruce 40:52

You got tongue-dyed.

Sunny 40:54

I did. I was trying to think of something smart to say, but not smart aleck.

Bruce 41:00

Oh, well, there you go. That was part of the problem. I do that all the time. I try to think of something smart, but not smart alec, and oh, I can't do it. Anyway, we're gonna say goodbye to everybody. Gonna bid you farewell. Our hopes and prayers are with you. May the Father's love and blessings go with you every day. 73, everybody.