Quote: Ace2Seems like fair justice for someone who refuses to pay their markersQuote: MDawgAs far as unpaid markers, while it is only since about 2000, that the casinos have gotten away with prosecuting them as bad checks, there are unsubstantiated rumors of people being offed for casino debt from the before that time. According to my family, a doctor we knew refused to pay a large sum of markers to the Vegas casinos in the early 1980s and he was mugged and murdered near where we lived, which was to this day a rather uncharacteristic crime for that very affluent area. They eventually caught the person who did it but he had no connections to the area and it made no sense that he would have come there for a mugging, it seemed clear that he had been hired. He wasn't mob or mob connected but rather some low level criminal who, the rumor was, had been paid to do the job.
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Or, exaggerates their gambling stories.
https://zenmoments.org/harold-maude-reach-out-take-chance/
Baccarat.
Two sessions. Was down as much as about -13K on the first ended well ahead. Second session smaller betting won a few K.
I’m solid. Others revere my winning ways. Still, you can admire but don’t look too long. Meaning - I probably won’t allow you to play at my table.
+21400
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
Stay at homes need not apply.
Baccarat.
Got up an even ten K over course of a shoe then dumped it all back to even in just a few hands or so. Ended first shoe ahead +5K. Was going to call it a day but gradually got it back up to where it was and quit.
+10000
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
Baccarat.
Definitely wasn't easy but I was winning almost all of my larger hands. Played four shoes, some up and down, ended quite well. I had a $15K Bank winner where Player started with 4 I started with 5, Player drew a 6 to reduce to 0 (can't lose), I drew a 6 as well still won 1 over 0 (would have been a lot easier if the Player had just drawn a monkey, but hey, reducing-to-0-can't-lose was exciting).
+19500
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
For example in the Day 10 play, I had $15K out there on Bank, Player started with a 4, Bank 5, and Player drew a 6 to hit itself to 0. I PROMPTLY shouted out, "Just give me ten and I won't even look!" 😂
Of course, the house has no power to accept your offer, but it's just funny to make it. Eventually some pit bosses will join in the fun, and next time it happens will step in with an offer!
At least one major Vegas casino is coming out with INSURANCE in Baccarat, which isn't all that different, in a way, from the above concept. Would I take insurance in Baccarat? Would I really take less than my full bet when the other side has hit to 0? I don't think so. But it's fun to play as if you would, and it somewhat clowns the House for putting themselves into a no win situation.
Double Deck BJ. 200 - 5500.
Not a lot of drama. Relatively smooth sailing, probably maxed out at around +17K, left when it started to go downhill some, partly just because got hungry and it was time to end for the day.
+13500
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
Chairman's Club! with a gold plated Player's Card.
Did MDawg achieve this level? Well, if MDawg did not, who could have?
Just a short thirteen months ago Wynn's Player Card tiered levels in Vegas didn't even exist - all were Red.
In 1970, Sinatra had just started a three-week engagement at Caesars Palace when he got into an altercation with Sanford Waterman, Caesars’ casino manager. Sinatra had been playing baccarat for $8,000 a hand at a table where the limit typically was $2,000. He asked Waterman to double the limit to $16,000 (about $115,000 in today’s dollars) and let him play on credit. Waterman refused.
Sinatra threw gambling chips, squeezed Waterman’s throat hard enough to leave marks and threatened, “The mob will take care of you.” Waterman responded by pulling a 0.38-caliber revolver from his waistband and pointing it at Sinatra, which ended the scuffle. But Sinatra cancelled the balance of his scheduled performances at Caesars because, according to his spokesperson, Sinatra was suffering from exhaustion and a recent hand surgery. Sure. (Sinatra returned to play regularly at Caesars in 1974, following his retirement.)
Waterman was arrested but released, as law enforcement and the district attorney assumed Sinatra had been the instigator. The local sheriff, Ralph Lamb, had had enough of Ol’ Blue Eyes’ rudeness and antics.
“If Sinatra comes back to town Tuesday, he’s coming downtown to get a work card, and if he gives me any trouble, he’s going to jail,” Lamb said. “I’m tired of him intimidating waiters, waitresses, starting fires and throwing pies. He gets away with too much. He’s through picking on the little people in this town. Why the owners of the hotels put up with this I plan to find out.”
(In another version of the story, charges were never filed because Sinatra refused to make a witness statement.)
Why is there no apostrophe in Caesars? Because it is not Caesar's Palace (singular) belonging to Caesar - rather, everyone who stays there is considered and treated like a Caesar - so it belongs to all of its guests, all Caesars. Hail!
The song My Way. Yes fits in perfectly here.
From Wiki:
“ Anka finished the song at 5 in the morning: "I called Frank up in Nevada—he was at Caesars Palace – and said, 'I've got something really special for you.'"[6] Anka asserted: "When my record company caught wind of it, they were very pissed that I didn't keep it for myself. I said, 'Hey, I can write it, but I'm not the guy to sing it.' It was for Frank, no one else."”
Double deck BJ. 300 - 16000.
There were some ups and down, but a relatively steady climb up toward the latter end of the session.
+10200
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
Double deck BJ. 300 - 2500.
More or less leisurely play and had sequences when I was winning most of my hands.
+10600
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
DD BJ. 500 - 25000.
Special limits didn’t help today. Was up and down but mostly down. I probably could have kept playing and tried to end the session ahead but I started thinking about how I’m ahead for the trip and one losing session isn’t going to kill me so I just left.
-19000
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
Quote: MDawgJust as DarkOz can't say "I make $20,000 a week" I can't say that "I make $10,000. a day" in Vegas. Just when I think such a figure is a given, I get a day where I lose that much, or more.
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Well, Darkoz' initial statement as to his earnings was even more flippant (the way I interpret it, anyway) than that...and I tend not to think something that he thought he would be held to as some sort of absolute claim.
That said, I don't know how you (or anyone else) would want an AP or anyone who doesn't have a set salary/hourly to go about saying what they make over x period. I don't make any public claims anyway, but what I make varies based on what I'm doing.
For instance, if I take a day totally off, then I don't make anything that day. If I write, then it depends mostly on how much work I get done that day. If I'm doing AP, then my expectation varies largely based on what it is I am doing that day and how much time I am spending doing it.
With that, the only terms I'd put it in are annual, but as Darkoz says, even that can vary. As far as anyone not named, "Mission146," needs to know, I made more than $0 and less than $1,000,000 last year...and, if pressed, I'll admit it was closer to zero than it was to a million...but that's about as specific as anyone has any right to know.
At some properties, for example at some Caesars Ent. properties, having anything under Diamond practically makes you a second class citizen - unable to even get your car valeted. At such properties the tier level makes a real difference.
Just don’t run out and get those face tattoos, they draw suspicion from the common security people for unjustified reasons.
And I think they should have a tier known as, The MDawg Level.
Keep up the great work.
DD Blackjack. 500 - 15000.
Another loser. Just couldn’t catch a break.
-14000
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I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
Of the casinos at which I play, Station Casinos are pretty much the only ones who send me these sorts of emails. For the others I just book the trips and ask for promo chips directly from my hosts every now and then.
DD Blackjack. 500 - 25000.
Quite a day's play. I walked into one casino, played barely an hour, dumped about sixty K. Took care of some errands, went to another casino, and played literally eleven hours straight. I was up about thirty K after about an hour, then dumped it all in about four hands to go back to flat even. I plodded on, gradually getting to about plus twenty K, and then had some back and forth kept getting stuck at about plus forty to fifty K, and finally, exhausted, ended that session at about one hundred and seventeen K ahead. That is close to some of my records for a single session. Granted, I was driven on to win more by the fact that I had already dumped sixty K elsewhere, but still, quite a session.
Tiring, but rewarding.
+57000 (not including the concession I negotiated at the losing casino).
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
Quote: MDawgDay 16 play.
DD Blackjack. 500 - 25000.
Quite a day's play. I walked into one casino, played barely an hour, dumped about sixty K. Took care of some errands, went to another casino, and played literally eleven hours straight. I was up about thirty K after about an hour, then dumped it all in about four hands to go back to flat even. I plodded on, gradually getting to about plus twenty K, and then had some back and forth kept getting stuck at about plus forty to fifty K, and finally, exhausted, ended that session at about one hundred and seventeen K ahead. That is close to some of my records for a single session. Granted, I was driven on to win more by the fact that I had already dumped sixty K elsewhere, but still, quite a session.
Tiring, but rewarding.
+57000 (not including the concession I negotiated at the losing casino).
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
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I’m more interested in the concession you negotiated! And I ABSOLUTELY would include it in my win/loss for the day!
DD Blackjack. 300 - 20000.
Lot. Of. Action.
+21950
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
DD Blackjack. 300 - 4500.
Pretty mellow session, but still won handily. Just goes to show that if you're winning most of your hands, it doesn't even take much of a spread to win big.
+22300
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
There are times when people have commented that I roll like nothing they’ve even seen - when I’ve actually been calling (and betting) my rolls - five three on the hop! times when I’ve cleared twenty thirty grand in minutes and then just walked. Other times I’ve been unable to hit the point to save my life.
Does this mean that my powers of telekinesis were strong some nights but not others, or that I was lucky some nights but not others?
I haven't played Craps in many years.
Quote: MDawgI was just standing there today, not at the tables, actually, just near one of the casino restaurants waiting on a take out order, and this pretty hot, thin young girl, mmm, I'd say low twenties came up to me and said, "Can I ask you something?" and, just the way she said it put me at ease, so I replied gently, "What?" and she said, "Do you work out?" and I said “Yes, “and she smiled broadly, stroked my arm and said, "I thought so" and I said "Thank you" and she walked away as I walked into the restaurant. Now, in general when that sort of thing happens in Vegas, I think, Working Girl! but, Later I saw her with her friend and they looked very civilian very touristy she was bouncing around happily looking at very touristy attractions in the hotel.
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We actually get paid for working out, it’s called a wellness program with incentives.
Quote: Marcusclark66Quote: MDawgI was just standing there today, not at the tables, actually, just near one of the casino restaurants waiting on a take out order, and this pretty hot, thin young girl, mmm, I'd say low twenties came up to me and said, "Can I ask you something?" and, just the way she said it put me at ease, so I replied gently, "What?" and she said, "Do you work out?" and I said “Yes, “and she smiled broadly, stroked my arm and said, "I thought so" and I said "Thank you" and she walked away as I walked into the restaurant. Now, in general when that sort of thing happens in Vegas, I think, Working Girl! but, Later I saw her with her friend and they looked very civilian very touristy she was bouncing around happily looking at very touristy attractions in the hotel.
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We actually get paid for working out, it’s called a wellness program with incentives.
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Really!?! How does your boss decide how much ‘wellness’ you have achieved? Does treadmill pay you more than recumbent bike?
Quote: SOOPOOQuote: Marcusclark66Quote: MDawgI was just standing there today, not at the tables, actually, just near one of the casino restaurants waiting on a take out order, and this pretty hot, thin young girl, mmm, I'd say low twenties came up to me and said, "Can I ask you something?" and, just the way she said it put me at ease, so I replied gently, "What?" and she said, "Do you work out?" and I said “Yes, “and she smiled broadly, stroked my arm and said, "I thought so" and I said "Thank you" and she walked away as I walked into the restaurant. Now, in general when that sort of thing happens in Vegas, I think, Working Girl! but, Later I saw her with her friend and they looked very civilian very touristy she was bouncing around happily looking at very touristy attractions in the hotel.
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We actually get paid for working out, it’s called a wellness program with incentives.
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Really!?! How does your boss decide how much ‘wellness’ you have achieved? Does treadmill pay you more than recumbent bike?
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My health insurance plan has a wellness program. I get a prepaid Visa card sent to me as rewards for having checkups and keeping track of my steps walked.
Quote: AlanMendelsonQuote: SOOPOOQuote: Marcusclark66Quote: MDawgI was just standing there today, not at the tables, actually, just near one of the casino restaurants waiting on a take out order, and this pretty hot, thin young girl, mmm, I'd say low twenties came up to me and said, "Can I ask you something?" and, just the way she said it put me at ease, so I replied gently, "What?" and she said, "Do you work out?" and I said “Yes, “and she smiled broadly, stroked my arm and said, "I thought so" and I said "Thank you" and she walked away as I walked into the restaurant. Now, in general when that sort of thing happens in Vegas, I think, Working Girl! but, Later I saw her with her friend and they looked very civilian very touristy she was bouncing around happily looking at very touristy attractions in the hotel.
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We actually get paid for working out, it’s called a wellness program with incentives.
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Really!?! How does your boss decide how much ‘wellness’ you have achieved? Does treadmill pay you more than recumbent bike?
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My health insurance plan has a wellness program. I get a prepaid Visa card sent to me as rewards for having checkups and keeping track of my steps walked.
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Exactly we get that and more. Entitled, Wellness Program Incentive. Also get large discounts on our health premiums and we get almost free memberships to various health clubs as well as a few other benefits and perks as well.
Different from a checkup and it is called a ‘physicians screening’.
DD Blackjack.
An unwanted repeat of the Day 16 session where I dumped a ton in one casino, and then won it all back plus a bit in another.
+950 (Again, not counting the concession from the losing casino.)
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
But how do you know when to place your larger bets? EVERY time you lay it out there you seem to win, and most of the time with a natural hand.
I watch, I look, I try to figure out what it is you're doing, and I just can't figure it out.
Luckily, neither can the House!
DD Blackjack. 500 - 2500.
These are the sort of sessions you want - short, uneventful and sweet.
+10600
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
DD Blackjack. 500 - 16000.
Heavy action. Lot of back and forth.
+1950
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
Don't play with money you can't afford to lose!
DD Blackjack.
Fairly heavy action, some back and forth, ended well.
+10900
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.
When your buddy at the other table gets zapped with a cattle prod, take your money and runQuote: MDawgWhen I play Baccarat people come up to me constantly and ask -
But how do you know when to place your larger bets? EVERY time you lay it out there you seem to win, and most of the time with a natural hand.
I watch, I look, I try to figure out what it is you're doing, and I just can't figure it out.
Luckily, neither can the House!
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DD Blackjack. 500 - 20000.
Heavy action. Lot of back and forth. I was down as much -60000 at one point.
-20000
Note: Lately, for security reasons, session reports are not necessarily presented in real time corresponding directly to the day played.
I'm willing to present a side Challenge. If anyone doubts that any one, just any one of the Session reports I present during this trip is not entirely accurate, throw down a red flag! Put up a mere ten grand in cash, let's work out how to verify the Session to your satisfaction using the Wizard as the judge, and winner takes the twenty thousand.
I'll contribute five hundred from my end for the Wizard's time if the Challenger will do the same, so that's $19,000. to the winner of this side Challenge.
This Side Challenge remains good for the duration of this particular Vegas trip.