Tales from the Morgue

1996: 20 years later, Tim Floyd retains vigor, class

12/23/1996

Bill Knight / El Paso Times

Tim Floyd sat calmly on press row, chatting with old friends, signing autographs. Children, young adults, older fans came politely up to Floyd, asking for his signature.

"Merry Christmas, Tim Floyd," he signed over and over and over.

Another victory was behind him. His basketball team was ranked fifth in the nation. He warmly, casually, confidently embraced celebrity.

Life is good.

Though Floyd seems to have that Dick Clark disease - he looks exactly the same as he did 20 years ago - much has changed in his life since his days as graduate assistant and then assistant coach for Don Haskins at UTEP.

Today he is the high-profile coach at Iowa State, Big Eight Coach of the Year last year ... runner-up for National Coach of the Year. Just a couple of months shy of his 43rd birthday, he is one of college basketball's hot young commodities.

Floyd came to Haskins in 1977 as a graduate assistant, fresh out of college, admittedly not knowing much, but ready to work. And work hard. In the beginning, he made all of $10,000 a year.

Smiling that familiar smile, Floyd said, "I got a raise up to $16,000 and thought I was doing pretty good."

Finally, after helping recruit UTEP to five straight 20-win seasons and regular visits to the NCAA Tournament, Floyd was courted by Abe Lemmons at Texas. So he got a raise to $28,000 a year.

Now, after successful stints as head coach at Idaho and New Orleans, Floyd commands more than half a million dollars a year. Long way from that $10,000.

Floyd steered his car into his beautiful home - a two-story affair in a wooded picture-postcard scene, a house nearly a century old - and Don Haskins cracked, "Tim, this looks just like the house you had in El Paso when you were making $10,000 a year."

Floyd obviously holds Haskins in high esteem ... just as Haskins did his old college coach Henry Iba.

"We do everything here the way Coach Haskins taught me," Floyd said. "Straight up man-to-man defense. What you're seeing is basic El Paso defense."

Floyd's team destroyed East Tennessee State 77-49 Saturday night in the Iowa State Holiday Classic. And Floyd knew Haskins was watching.

"I was on edge at the beginning of the game," he said. "I didn't stand up as much. I kept my butt on the bench, just like I did when I was in El Paso coaching for Coach Haskins.

"At about the 7-minute mark, I called a time out and told my guys `You're not just getting graded. My butt is, too. So if you don't play hard, you won't stay out there on the floor.'

"I'd love to lie to you and tell you I didn't know where Coach Haskins was sitting. But I did. I knew exactly where he was," Floyd said.

But Tim Floyd is no longer just Don Haskins' assistant coach. He has reached a degree of celebrity ... with prospects of greater celebrity well within his reach.

He won 23 games his first season at Iowa State, advancing to the NCAA Tournament. Last year, picked for the conference cellar, with no key players returning, he won 24 games - and the Big Eight Tournament.

Recently, Floyd signed one of the top recruits in the nation. Indiana's Bobby Knight wanted him. So did virtually every other coach in the nation. Floyd got him by visiting the player's family in Slovakia. He was the only coach to make that visit.

Promise fulfilled

That, though, has always been the Floyd way.

Not many people in El Paso ever saw him without either a suitcase in his hand or a phone plastered to his ear. He was always outworking everyone else, always traveling to see a recruit or talking to him on the phone.

Haskins grinned and said, "Mr. Iba told me once not to give up on that young assistant. He's gonna be all right. He's gonna be a good one. I told him I knew it. And he was right."

Sunday morning, Floyd pulled off his jacket and showed everyone his old sweatshirt ... a faded gray job with orange letters: "UTEP Athletics."

Floyd's wife Beverly said, "I remember when we got that raise from $10,000 to $16,000. It was so good. It seemed like more at the time than we got when we came here."

Life was good then. Now it is better than good.

Tim, Beverly and their beautiful 15-year-old daughter Shannon still have some roots in El Paso; many old friends.

It has been a long journey from El Paso to Ames. Yet Floyd retains three elements that always set him apart to everyone who ever met him - a devilish sense of humor, an untiring work ethic and class with a capital C.

A small boy walked up to the Iowa State coach and asked for an autograph. "Could you sign this other one for my brother? It's his birthday."

"Sure," Floyd said, flashing that big-league smile. "What's your brother's name?"

Celebrity fits Floyd so well ... far better than that old UTEP sweatshirt.

Bill Knight covers UTEO basketball for the Times.

1960: Navy Seaplane Makes Landing At Ascarate

04/11/1960

A big U.S. Navy flying boat, its starboard engine coughing and sputtering, jettisoned most of its fuel, then landed in Ascarate Lake Sunday afternoon.

Thousands of El Pasoans, armed with cameras and field glasses, lined the lake shore after police and sheriff’s deputies reopened the park area. The lake area was closed while the aircraft circled and prepared to make a landing in the 3,000-foot long lake.

Pilot of the craft, a P-5-M Martin Marlin flying boat, is Lt. (j.g.) M.T. Burke. He said he made the decision to land in the “pond” in El Paso when the starboard engine began cutting out every few minutes.

“The trouble started around Yuma,” Lt. Burke said, “But it didn’t get serious until we were 50 or 60 miles out of El Paso.” The officer said it was decided to come to El Paso rather than try for Elephant Butte Lake.

Lt. (j.g.) Don Linn, the co-pilot, said it sounded as if several spark plugs in the starboard engine were fouling, cutting out the cylinders.

Before landing, much of the plane’s fuel was dumped.

“We still have enough to get to Corpus Christi,” Burke said.

The flying boat left San Diego early Sunday and was en route to Baltimore, Md., via Pensacola, Fla. The crew of seven were members of a ferrying group which transports planes to various parts of the nation.

Burke and Lin said they were not in the least worried about landing in Ascarate Lake, but taking off again is another matter.

“We’ll have to get the engine repaired first,” Burke said. “Then, we’ll probably need help to get off the ground.”

The plane landed from south to north, then was towed with the assistance of a Sheriff’s Department boat piloted by Deputy Charlie Barker, and a County Recreation Department boat, handled by Earl Thurston, to the north end of the lake.

When Burke telephoned his headquarters to report the mishap, he told the officer that, to get the plane up, “We’ll have to have a good wind, jets and a cool day.”

The plane will be anchored in Ascarate for an “indefinite” period, the officers said. Burke said he and his men possibly could fix the engine, but probably help from the Navy would be forthcoming.

The landing was made safely, if a bit on the noisy side, and Sunday boaters and water skiers, were kept ashore by squads of police.

One of the crewmen remarked that the plane landed “just in time to see the bullfights in Juarez.”

1960: ‘Beached’ Airmen Take Off Today

1960: Rocket Boosters Lift Navy Plane In Safe Takeoff on E.P. Lake 

1960: Navy Ends ‘Leave’ In EP

1945: Betty Wells Can’t Be Cured Of Show Business, It Seems

July 22, 2945

Being in the show business is an incurable malady, if one takes the case of Betty Wells, 20th-Century-Fox starlet who was in El Paso for the week and en route to Hollywood, as an example.

Betty had just come in the Hilton Hotel from Dallas, where she spent five months in a rest home recuperating from a nervous breakdown incurred by the strain of a lengthy tour of South America, Canada and Alaska, plus the unusual canteen and stage appearances people in show business have to go through.

“Even while I lay in bed, too sick to really get up and dance and sing,” the petite redhead said, “I could not resist the tantalizing music coming from my radio, and my toes would tingle with the desire to keep time with the music.”

Five months of just taking it easy in bed for a vivacious person whose dancing and singing career started at the age of three and a half was hard to take, but Betty, who has the determination that nothing will stop her from going on with her career, pulled through.

The 20-year-old star wants nothing else in this world but to keep on dancing and singing. Even her marriage to Claude Wilson of Yuma, Ariz. the day after Christmas, will not stop her. After the first of next year, she will be off to Mexico City to make personal appearances.

Betty is particularly anxious to visit our neighbors to the south because she already has managed to learn enough Spanish to know what is being said about her. Recently “Todo” magazine carried a picture of her which she autographed in her best – and correct – Spanish.

Betty was born Betty Jean Culwell in Dallas, Texas. She weighs 102 pounds and is “five feet, nothing” tall.

Although she has been in the public eye since she was named “Baby Queen” of the Texas Centennial in Fort Worth, it was probably her role in the second edition of “Meet the People” that brought her to the attention of movie producers and she was signed up with 20th-Century-Fox.

She has appeared in “Grand Central Murder,” and “Tortilla Flat” and will be starring with Dick Haines and Gene Kelley soon in “Born Bad.” “Pretty Girl,” which will appear eventually, was made under her joint contract with RKO

1999: Survivor recalls Bataan march

April 9, 1999

By Daniel Perez/El Paso Times

Among the loose papers and cards in John H. Ritchley's wallet is a yellow, dog-eared photograph of one man's justice.

Ritchley, an El Paso native, was a young soldier in the Philippines when World War II broke out. He was among the 75,000 U.S. and allied soldiers who were captured by the Japanese military and forced into the 65-mile Bataan Death March that started 57 years ago today.

The retired Air Force technical sergeant said an unknown fortitude kept him going for the three days and nights it took to complete the march. Stopping might get you shoved with a rifle butt; more likely it got you a bullet or a lethal thrust from a bayonet. An estimated 30,000 allied soldiers died during the march.

"It was rough, especially for the young guys who hadn't been there very long," he said. About half of his 630-member 28th Material Squadron perished during the march. "They weren't acclimated to the humidity and the heat. A lot of them died. I don't know what kept me going."

The Northeast El Pasoan survived the march and talked about it Thursday in the den of his Mountain Ridge home. The 86-year-old remembers being sent to work in a coal mine and suffering physical abuse at the hands of his captors - one in particular.

After being freed, Ritchley and two fellow former prisoners chased the barbaric guard who extinguished cigarettes on their backs. After they caught him, Ritchley took the guard's 4-foot-long sword and cut off the guard's head on the second stroke.

The moment was captured by a cameraman. The photo is one Ritchley keeps in plastic in his wallet. He couldn't say why, but he said he still keeps his eye out for another former captor.

He still has the sword; dried blood still stains the tip. Other mementos include the list of POWs from Camp 23 sealed in glass and framed by ornate dark wood.

The start of the march will be commemorated with at least two events in the region.

A short Recognition Day ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. today next to the Prisoner of War Memorial at Fort Bliss National Cemetery.

Participants will include the Eastwood High School Junior ROTC Honor Guard and members of the school's marching band to perform "Taps."

About 100 people are expected, Gerald Vitela, cemetery director, said.

Roughly 2,000 runners and walkers are expected to participate in the 11th annual Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range. The event will start at 6 a.m. April 18 at the Frontier Club.

Military, college ROTC, veterans and family members of prisoners who were part of the original march are expected to traverse the "unfriendly" 25-mile course that includes mountainous and sandy terrain.

This year's event will include a seminar by New Mexico State University ROTC cadets who've researched the Bataan Death March and interviewed survivors. The veterans - Ruben Flores, Weldon Hamilton, Michael Pulice, Ward Redshaw, Winston Shillito and Lorenzo Venegas - will attend and be available for questions and comments.

The one-hour seminar, which will include a short film, will start on the hour from 2 through 5 p.m.

"It's going to be dynamite," said retired Army Col. Gerald Schurtz, commander of an ex-POW chapter in Las Cruces. He's among the organizers of this year's memorial march. His father, Paul W. Schurtz, and uncle, Gerald V. Greenman, were both captured in the Philippines and were in the forced march.

The memorial activity, with the theme "Lest We Forget," is important to New Mexicans because many of those captured were from that state's National Guard unit. When activated, it became the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment.

The motto isn't just to remember the prisoners, but is a warning to the U.S. military to never be caught flat-footed and unprepared for battle, as when World War II began.

Ritchley, his health failing, didn't plan to attend either event. He just planned to celebrate the anniversary by visiting VFW Post 8550, 4714 Titanic, to drink his two beers. It's the only time he drinks anymore.

1904: To Enlarge Fort Bliss

March 1, 1904

REPRESENTATIVE SMITH INTRODUCES A BILL TO THAT END

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Asks for $60,000 for This Purpose and Sets Forth the Many Reasons and Advantages That Would Come of the Enlargement.

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When the Hon. W.R. Smith, congressman for the El Paso district, announced for the nomination, one of the strongest planks in his platform was that which dealt with his favoring the enlargement of Fort Bliss, and it was probably this more than anything else that endeared him to the people of El Paso. This pledge to the people was reiterated by Mr. Smith in an interview with a Times reporter after his election, when in El Paso last fall, just before he left to take up his duties in the national capital as the representative of his constituents.

True to his promise, now he comes forward and the other day introduced a bill in congress asking for an appropriation of $60,000 for the purpose of providing suitable accommodations at Fort Bliss as headquarters for two battalions (eight companies) of infantry, two troops of cavalry and one battery of field artillery.

As a prelude to his bill, Mr. Smith sets forth the unsurpassed natural advantages of El Paso for a post and for a headquarters. He points out its unexcelled climate, showing that it was a cure for the climate-fagged soldiers returning from the Philippines, where they had contracted malarial fevers and showing that they quickly recover and recuperate in this high, dry climate, where these complaints are unknown. He points out the government sanitariums at Fort Bayard and Fort Stanton, the climate of which is identical with El Paso.

He points out the nine great railroads which branch out from El Paso in every direction, thus securing for soldiers stationed here ready accessibility from any direction that they might be needed quickly, and shows that the enlargement of Fort Bliss would be but a compliance with the recommendation made by General Fred Grant when he was commander of the department of Texas, that the army posts along the Mexican border should be enlarged and extended. This recommendation was not made through any fear of hostilities with Mexico or through any ill feeling toward that country, but only as a pursuance of a policy indulged in by all nations in making its frontier posts the largest and strongest.

What the enlargement of Fort Bliss will mean to El Paso is inconceivable and what benefits will be derived from the enlargement can best be seen by what the present small number means for the city.

Mr. Smith is keeping his faith with his constituents and his worthy effort is due the commendation of those constituents. By a co-operation on their part in every possible way to secure a successful issue of the bill.

1939: Norma Jean Lusk, Carlsbad Princess, Gets Hollywood Trip

January 1, 1939

Chosen Most Attractive At Sun Carnival; Is Typical Ranch Girl

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An ash blonde with big grey eyes and a flashing smile is Miss Norma Jean Lusk, Carlsbad, N.M., Sun Princess who was chosen Saturday by Miss Albon Lewis, New York actress, to make a trip to Hollywood as the most attractive Sun Princess.

“I can’t realize it,” said Miss Lusk who prefers being called Norma Jean, Saturday afternoon. “Until I got here I didn’t even know there was a contest – and now…”

Norma Jean is the eastern young man’s idea of a typical ranch girl. Pretty and talented, she has ridden all her life and is, her father admits “pretty good with a .22 target riffle.”

Father Is Rancher

Her father, A.E. Lusk, is a cattle rancher with holdings near Lovington, N.M., about 75 miles from Carlsbad. He was born in New Mexico and has lived there all his life. His father was in Lincoln County during the days of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett.

Norma Jean is five feet three inches tall and weighed – the last time she stepped on the scales – 110 pounds.

“Should I tell how old I am?” she asked her father. Mrs. Lusk was “having her hair done.” Mr. Lusk nodded. “I’ll be 16 soon,” said Norma Jean.

“I’ve dreamed about being an actress, but it was always just a dream,” she said. “I’ve had the lead in all our school operettas. I studied diction for about three years off and on when I was a little girl.”

Likes Dietetics

Her ambition to be a dietitian was inspired by the most practical of reason, said Norma Jean.

“I figured there weren’t so many in that field,” she said. “My ambition to be an actress has been a pretty small one, I’m afraid.”

Miss Lusk was introduced as sinner of the Hollywood trip at the annual Pan-Civic Club Luncheon held at noon Saturday in hotel Paso del Norte. About 123 El Paso and Juarez members of the Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Optimist and 20-30 Clubs were present with city and county officials and other civic leaders.

Poised and cool, the winner said she had but one real desire – to meet Capt. John Hughes, retired Texas Ranger and picturesque El Paso figure. Captain Hughes was called to the stand and introduced to her.

To Leave Soon

Norma Jean will leave within eight or 10 days for Hollywood with Miss Karma Deane of El Paso as chaperone. They will be in Hollywood and Los Angeles 10 days. They will stay at the Town House, elite Wilshire Boulevard establishment, and tour the motion picture studios, visit the Santa Anita races, and see the usual tourist attractions.

Norma Jean is a senior in high school ranking after only three years of work, but she will stay a fourth year before getting her diploma she said.

Second place winner announced in a telegram sent by Miss Lewis, daughter of Rev. Hunter Lewis of Mesilla Park, N.M., is Miss Kathleen Lewis, Pecos Sun-Princess, and third is Miss Doris Binion, Sul Ross College, Alpine, Sun Princess.

1895: Around Town: Young Ladies Wear Bloomers

“Last night,” said City Clerk Kitchens yesterday, “I saw a young lady wearing bloomers dismount from her bicycle, fish a match from the depths of her pocket, throw up one leg and scratch the match in the good old way and then light her bicycle lamp. The incident called to mind that old rhyme which asserts that ‘a girl may sing and a girl may dance; she may play the piano the livelong day, but she can’t strike a match on the seat of her pants; because she aint built that way!’ Since the bloomers arrived the girl is built that way all right.”

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“I see from the papers,” said an old veteran yesterday, “that General Schofield is being touted in the east as a hero because he has a cup that had a hole shot through it while he was drinking out of the cup. General Schofield has no edge, in that respect, on Col. Geo. W. Baylor, of this county. At Mansfield, Louisiana, one morning while on picket duty Colonel Baylor was drinking tea from a long tea cup, when a bullet whistled through the cup. Colonel Baylor placed his fingers over the holes made by the ball and finished drinking his cup of tin with out moving out of his tracks. And yet Colonel Baylor never thought to boast of the incident as any especially wonderful exhibitions of coolness and nerve.

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“The suggestion of your correspondent ‘Betsy,’ remarked a gentleman to a Times reporter the other day, “relative to El Paso holding one of those old time southern tournaments, where the air knights ride for rings, is a suggestion I would like to see carried out, and I know that a number of the first young men of Juarez would enter the contest. I am a southerner and have myself held the lance in rest as many a spirited tilt and attended the brilliant ball which followed in the south these tournaments are the sport of the aristocracy. This is understood and none but sons of the old representative families ever offer to ride in them. And there would be no difficulty in making the tournament a swell affair in El Paso. I will take pleasure in training the young men for the contest.”

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“Some of the alleged young bloods of El Paso,” remarked a gentleman yesterday, “were raised in the slums of New York or on tough row in some city, if their manners can be taken as indicative of their raising. They go over to Juarez and act as if they thought every lady who walks in the plaza is a woman of easy virtue; and it would do my soul good if some of the Juarez gentlemen would treat some of these alleged young swells to a healthy kicking. It might have the effect of giving them an insight to the instincts of a gentleman. I am reliably informed that two young blackguards from this side of the river insisted on addressing a couple of ladies in the Juarez plaza the other night, and that when a gentleman friend of the ladies entered a polite protest in good English the young toughs guyed the gentleman. The chief of police was notified, but the birds skipped before the could get hold of them.”

1952: Steepest Road In El Paso County Leads To KROD’s Television Tower

December 14, 1952

El Paso’s newest and steepest road leads to the new KROD television tower on the crest of historic Mt. Franklin.

The road was engineered by the Lance Engineering Co. of El Paso and built by the Pecos Valley Construction Co. of Carlsbad. Cost of the road alone is estimated at $36,000.

The road, according to Engineer Paul Lance, is typical of a road to a mountain mine in the Southwest. It is definitely not for public traffic, and in fact can only be traversed by truck or jeep.

Before construction of the road was undertaken, Lance surveyed the possibility of hauling materials for the tower and the house for the men who serve it, to the top of Mt. Franklin by helicopter. He also seriously considered using power driven cables to carry the materials to the crest.

Finally after extensive surveys of Mt. Franklin the road was selected as the most economical and efficient means of getting to the top.

Lance chose the best route which took off from an abandoned quarry well up the side. This meant that much of the road came ready made, since the access to the quarry was still there.

Another advantage of the route is that there was and is no danger of dislodged rocks rolling onto highways underneath. The KROD mountain road sits above an uninhabited arroyo into which rocks shaken loose by blasting fell harmlessly.

Many tons of dynamite were exploded in construction of the road. The job was exceptionally difficult since blasting had to be done ahead of all equipment, and then the road building equipment hauled to the scene of each blast.

Actual construction of the road took six weeks.

Average grade of the road is 15 per cent, 16 per cent at its steepest. This compares with an 8 per cent grade on Brown Street at its steepest. Grade of the road to Carlsbad over the Guadalupe Pass at its steepest is 9 per cent.

More than 2,000 square yards of rock were cleared at the climax of the road to level the mountain crest for construction of the television tower and adjacent building.

Engineering of the road was not the first job of the nature handled by Paul Lance. Working as general manager for the Dowell Construction Co. in the early days of World War II, he supervised construction of 500 miles, the Yukon Division, of the famed Alaska-Canada highway connecting the United States with Canada. This road passed through mountains, swamps and muskeg and gave Lance experience in building difficult roads.

1902: Officers Run On A Hot Bunch

July 19, 1902

Policeman Halverson Goes to Aid of Watchman Charles and Has His Gun Taken Away from Him

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“FLOCK” OF BLACK EYES

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Yesterday afternoon at about 5 o’clock Lawrence Charles, who has been employed as a watchman in the G.H. shops, was seated in front of the St. George hotel, where he rooms and boards, when two men came along, one apparently intoxicated. Just as the intoxicated man got opposite Charles he lunged forward and grasping the unsuspecting Charles by the throat bore him down. A fierce struggle then ensued. Charles attempting to get free, which he finally succeeded in doing. He then ran into the hotel to get to his room but was met in the hallway by others who evidently were there to join in the mix up. A general fight ensued.

The noise of the scuffle attracted Officer Halverson, who came in and asked that the men stop their racket. He caught one on the nose from the overflow. He also got a little uppercut on the jaw. Judging from the number of men, he saw that it was going to be “ten minutes rough noise,” so he pulled his gun and grappling with the big fellow who had smashed him on the nose, he asked the man to surrender. Surrender was what was least troubling the big fellow. His fighting blood was up and fight he would. A clinch followed. In the breakaway the big fellow took a bite hold under Halverson’s left arm. Halverson got his arm around the big fellow’s body and held him.

Officer Baker, responding to an emergency call over the telephone, came upon the scene at this time and demanded a cessation of hostilities. He also saw one of the fighters with Officer Halverson’s gun. In less time than it takes to tell, Baker had knocked two men down and was going after a third, who took a hurried departure.

Damage done: Officer Halverson, a slightly swollen nose from an overflow blow and one or two small swollen places on the forehead from short arm jabs; Watchman Charles, badly swollen lip from a “smash,” a cut over right ear from what not known, face generally contused, shirt sleeve entirely torn out, hat lost; C. Orman, a brakeman, called by his companion ‘the Kid,’ said, “They never touched me;” L.W. Taylor, the big fellow, a long cut on the top of the head from a blow by Officer Baker’s pistol and one or two contused places on his face.

The Other Side

The foregoing version of the fight was given by the police and Officer Charles. L.W. Taylor gave his version as follows:

“You see, me and the ‘Kid’ have been taking a lay off for a few days and had been bowling up pretty freely. I was in the wash room of the hotel yesterday afternoon, when the watchman was shooting of his mouth about what he could do with anybody trying to ‘do’ him, and I said: ‘A scab or a scab herder don’t look good to me at any time. He made a pass at me and we then mixed. The next thing I knew a general fight was on and I didn’t know there was an officer around until one gave me a crack on the head. We had no business in the row anyhow. There was not a machinist around and the row would not have started if we had not been drinking and the scab herder had not shot off his mouth.”

The recorder will have to untangle the skein of their woes this morning and lay tribute upon the offender.

1960: Burglars Disarm, Slug Sunland Park Guards

March 29, 1960

Photo: Guard Robert Brown points to bullet holes made Monday, guard Frank Ramsey right.

A guard at Sunland Park racetrack was slugged and disarmed early Monday as burglars entered the track area for the seventh time in a month.

Guard Frank Ramsey, 24, was felled by a judo chop across the shoulder as he entered the $50 pari-mutuel section to go upstairs to check the press box.

Ramsey said two men attacked him, and in the scuffle, one of the burglars took his gun.

Another guard, Bob Brown, 34, came to Ramsey’

S rescue and the intruder with Ramsey’s gun fired three shots.

Brown said he fired four shots. There was little light, the only illumination coming from a telephone booth. One of Brown’s four bullets cold not be fond, so it was possible one of the prowlers was hit.