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In Changing Times, We Place Our Bets on People
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I ntroducing the 2015 Promise and Mentor Award Winners
Attend any conference, ask any industry
and customers that the world literally runs
guru these days, and the answer is the
on our technology. Our infrastructure is
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SSPI and Korn Ferry to Partner on 2nd Annual Satellite Industry Workforce Study
same. The satellite industry is facing more
invisible to most of them, but we are a
change, more competition and greater
platform for innovation that changes the
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Filling Up Your Car by Satellite
opportunity than at any time in the past
world every day. They won’t work for us,
SPI Educational Fund: More Than S Just Scholarships
fifty years. It’s exciting, it’s scary and it
buy from us or regulate us properly if they
doesn’t look likely to stop, as new launch
don’t even know we exist.
T eaching People to Fish in GEO, MEO and LEO
companies, new satellite constellations
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by Robert Bell, SSPI Executive Director
and new frequencies move into a business that still ticks to the clock of a 15-year
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in partnership with Korn Ferry, creates a
March.
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I spoke with a graduate student recently
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time I remember young people saying
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Congratulations Intelsat extends congratulations to the nominees and winners of the 2015 SSPI Promise & Mentor Awards and joins the satellite community in celebrating the mentors who are engaging the next generation of satellite leadership and the future leaders who are choosing to pursue careers in our industry. Here’s to the leaders of tomorrow as they join with us to envision… connect… and transform our industry… and the world.
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2015 PROMISE AWARD WINNERS SSPI’s Promise Award recognizes young industry professionals who, in the view of their employers, have the talent and motivation to advance into leadership positions within the satellite business.
ETHAN LUCARELLI Associate, Wiley Rein LLP
JENNIFER SALMON Payload Manager, Space Systems Loral (SSL)
Working in Wiley Rein’s Telecom, Media and Technology practice group, Ethan Lucarelli has become a specialist in regulatory, policy, privacy, security and transactional matters related to satellites, broadband, and both international and domestic information and communications technology (ICT). His work has included advocating for satellite service providers before the FCC on various matters of spectrum policy and emergency communications; analyzing satellite industry developments for investment firms targeting the MSS/ATC sector and hybrid satellite-terrestrial businesses; and advising on day-to-day licensing and regulatory matters for diverse satellite industry clients in the MSS, FSS, DBS, and SDARS sectors. In the past year, Ethan was selected by one of the largest publicly-traded international mobile satellite service operators for a temporary, partial-week placement in its legal department advising on domestic and international regulatory matters. What was initially a short-term assignment has evolved into a five-daya-week secondment, which has made Ethan an integral part of the client’s team.
Jennifer Salmon joined SSL as a Test Verification Payload Engineer in 2006, just after graduating from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She demonstrated her talent as a leader in planning and coordinating investigative passive intermodulation testing of a very complicated antenna configuration that pushed the power limits of SSL’s test range. In this role, Jennifer helped multiple internal SSL organizations, including systems engineering, thermal engineering, and the test range team, work together to develop procedures that protected both personnel and equipment while performing a complex test never before attempted at spacecraft level. The results of this testing eventually culminated in the publication of a white paper which Jennifer co-authored. Her talent and dedication soon led to promotion to section manager for the Payload Systems Engineering group, where she managed and mentored numerous Payload Systems engineers through the design, analysis and definition of performance requirements on their payloads. This end-to-end experience from design to test equipped her for her next step, which was promotion to her current position as Payload Manager. She is one of the youngest individuals ever to serve Space Systems Loral in that role, yet already manages the payload for a high-profile, highly advanced Ka-band broadband multi-beam spacecraft with the highest capacity and largest number of components ever included in an SSL payload. She has successfully led her team in optimizing the payload architecture, component selection and layout for best performance, and SSL’s customer has praised her leadership, technical knowledge and the performance of her team. Jennifer also mentors mid-level and junior engineers to support their advancement inside SSL all while raising a newborn and toddler at home.
His broad knowledge has also led him to serve, on behalf of a global satellite company, in working groups of the FCC’s Communications Security Reliability and Interoperability Council, where he was the primary support for the company’s chairmanship of a subgroup working on cybersecurity risk management. He also joined the US delegations to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, the 2013 World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum, and the 2014 International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference. Outside of office hours, Ethan is very involved with his alma mater, George Washington University Law School, where, as an adjunct professor, he teaches scholarly writing to students on the Federal Communications Law Journal and he coaches a team of law students participating in the National Telecommunications Law Moot Court Competition. Ethan also is active in Wiley Rein mentoring programs.
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SARAH THOMAS Field Marketing Lead, Global Sales & Marketing, The Boeing Company
2015 MENTOR OF THE YEAR SSPI’s Mentor Award is presented to an executive who is recognized for his or her contribution to fostering young talent, both within his or her organization and throughout the industry.
Sarah Thomas serves as Boeing’s military liaison for the Department of Defense space and ground systems in Colorado. She is responsible for ensuring that changing mission needs are understood and communicated to the Boeing business units that serve them. This work brings her into contact with senior military officers as well as senior executives of her own company. She is the youngest employee and first female employee to serve the company in that job.
CHRIS STOTT Chairman & CEO, ManSat LLC US Chris Stott founded ManSat in 2000 and was instrumental in the formation of the SpaceIsle initiative, which established the Isle of Man as a major domicile and corporate service provider to the commercial space sector. But for Chris, doing business and doing good for the next generation are inextricably linked. He set up the ManSat Fellowship to give students from the Isle an opportunity to fully explore the industry he loves. Every year since its founding in 2000, the Fellowship has helped groups of students attend NASA’s United Space School, exposing them to the industry and its many opportunities and giving them a chance to meet and work with other gifted students from all around the world. Chris is also heavily involved in the Conrad Foundation through ManSat, encouraging students from the Isle of Man to study issues in the space sector and to submit their proposals to the international forum of the Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge. ManSat has also supported opportunities for Manx students to study at NASA’s Lunar and Planetary Institute and a series of scholarships for Manx students to attend the International Space University. In addition, Chris volunteers with many NGOs supporting STEM and STEAM education around the world including the Challenger Centers, the AMAR Foundation, and of course, SSPI itself.
Sarah came to this position through leadership roles in project and program management, business development and systems engineering. Some of her most notable roles include Business Development lead on a large electronics and information systems campaign, Chief of Staff on a major commercial satellite program and Launch Systems Integration Systems Engineer. Through this work, Sarah has built a network of internal and external customers that speak of her with the highest regard. She keeps a battle rhythm of continuous engagement with dozens of internal and external customers – something that requires a great deal of time management and a love for the work that she does. Sarah has the reputation for doing whatever it takes to meet commitments to the projects she leads as well as projects she supports across the company. She also finds time to work in Boeing charitable programs for the Colorado community and is an energetic supporter of STEM education for young girls.
With his encouragement and support, many of Chris’s students have gone on to build impressive careers in the space industry. Chris has been a constant source of inspiration for students across the Isle. In 2004, he arranged the loan of a large piece of Moon rock from the Apollo 15 mission to the Manx National Heritage, attracting thousands of visitors and a visit by the British Astronomical Association. More recently, Chris arranged, through ManSat, for a number of Isle of Man students to compete in the United Kingdom model rocket challenge. Chris is a graduate and member of the Board of the International Space University. He is also a Founding Trustee of the ISU International Institute of Space Commerce, the Manna Energy Foundation and Geeks Without Frontiers, which works to bring renewable energy to developing nations. An honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society, Chris is currently Chairman of the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI).
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SSPI and Korn Ferry to Partner on 2nd Annual Satellite Industry Workforce Study Partnership to leverage SSPI’s global membership and Korn Ferry’s recruiting and talent management expertise “Korn Ferry is delighted to be involved in this pioneering project for the satellite industry,” said Clarke Havener, Global Sector Leader for Aviation, Aerospace & Defense at Korn Ferry. “We look forward to building on the foundation that SSPI established with its first year’s report.”
The Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) and Korn Ferry, the preeminent authority on leadership and talent, will partner on development of the Society’s 2nd annual Satellite Industry Workforce Study. The study is the industry’s only multi-company, multinational examination of workforce practices, employee compensation and engagement, and the make-up of the industry’s workforce. The report compares compensation across job categories and regions, and analyzes employee engagement at all levels. It aims to share best practices in attracting and managing talented people, and to spark a management dialogue on collective actions to improve the industry’s performance.
The first workforce report, Are We Winning the War for Talent?, published in March 2015, depicted an industry whose workforce remains stable but which faces drastically changing needs for skills and expertise, and which is in the process of replacing an aging workforce. Yet 60% of companies reported having no formal internship or work-study programs to attract graduates, and all faced the challenge of recruiting into an industry of which students are largely unaware.
“We are very gratified by Korn Ferry’s decision to take part in this research,” said SSPI Executive Director Robert Bell. “The company’s global reputation and expertise in recruitment, talent management and leadership development will make a huge contribution to the study.”
The workforce study is a key part of SSPI’s mission to attract the next generation of talent to an industry in need of its skills, innovation and enthusiasm. The 2016 study report will be published in early March before the start of SATELLITE 2016, the industry’s largest conference and exhibition, in Washington DC.
Join members and leaders of the Society of Satellite Professionals International at the Reform Club in London on December 4th for a celebration of the enormous contributions of the satellite industry to the economy, safety, security, governance, development and health of the planet. The Reform Club is one of the premier social event venues in London. Founded in 1836 and designed by Charles Barry, a leading architect of the day, The Reform Club is a palatial masterpiece that exudes the elegance and class of 19th Century London. This is all great. This is also not why we chose it as the location to host the first ever Better Satellite World Awards Dinner on 4 December. The Reform Club was picked as the location because it holds a special place in the history of our industry. In fact, the very existence of our industry may owe itself to a London winter’s evening at the Reform Club. Why? It is where an elderly Jules Verne, on one of his rare visits to London, kindly met two young friends, Herbert George Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle. Wells and Doyle, both journalists and budding writers at the time, were struggling to have their ‘fantastical fiction’ published. Verne took a liking to them and kindly introduced them to his publisher and the rest was history.
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Decades later, when space industry pioneers such as Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Dr. Robert Goddard, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Werhner von Braun, and even Sergi Korolev were asked why they turned their lives to the pursuit of space, satellites, and rockets… all gave the same answer. Quite simply, they were inspired by the works of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle - all of whom met at the Reform Club. Their works, bolstered by the meetings and resulting connections forged at the Club, were some of the vital sparks of creation that gave birth to our industry. The Reform Club holds a very special place in space history, and its role grows as it becomes the location of the first ever Better Satellite World Awards. We hope you join us on 4 December.
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Stallion Oilfield Services is a customer of the satellite operator SES. It operates hundreds of drilling and production rigs across the United States. The company depends on satellite for voice communications and real-time monitoring of drilling. “Voice and data communications are the lifeline of any oil and drilling operation,” says Pedro Buhigas, Director of Technology. “We never know from one day to the next where we may be asked to go, and what type of communications we may need.”
When you start your car in the morning or cook your dinner at night, chances are a satellite is helping you do it. Sound unlikely? Here’s how it works. We depend on fossil fuels pulled from the Earth’s crust for 82% of the energy we use. The world may not need more carbon dioxide in the air, but we still rely on fossil fuels to power our businesses, heat and cool our homes, cook our meals and move our vehicles. Investment in renewable energy has grown fivefold since 2000, but experts expect us to still be getting 75% of our energy from fossil fuels in 2035.
SPREADING THE INTELLIGENCE As Pedro noted, today’s energy companies need the talents of engineers, geologists and data analysts in more corners of the world than ever before. But that demand far outstrips the supply. Satellite links let experts work on multiple sites at the same time without ever leaving home. By spreading the talents of their best people around the globe, energy companies can run more of their operations at peak performance and reduce their risks.
Why? In developed nations, demand is largely flat, except for transportation. But emerging economies are growing fast, lifting billions out of poverty, and the rise of their middle classes is powered by fossil fuels. So there is no end in sight in our quest for the Earth’s hydrocarbon wealth. There is a new quest, however, to recover those hydrocarbons in smarter, safer ways that have less impact on the environment. As companies search in ever more challenging places, they also need higher efficiency and lower costs so they can better handle the unpredictable rise and fall of prices. And that’s where satellite and information technology are leading the way.
SpeedCast is a service provider with operations across Asia and Africa. For a UK-based oilfield services company, it created a network that connected all of the client’s offshore rigs to a single global service center. “They estimate,” said a SpeedCast executive, “that centralizing their support for the rigs let them reduce overall costs by 30%.”
THE DIGITAL OILFIELD Oil and gas wells may depend on “roughnecks” to man the heavy equipment, but decisions about where to explore and how to produce are driven by Big Data. Energy companies use sensors to search, manage drilling and inspect for problems. “Digital oilfield” technology finds energy sources we could never find before. It estimates reserves and provides data that helps engineers figure out the best ways to get at them. It monitors equipment and detects failures and potential failures fast. Together, they are getting more out of known reserves and lowering the environmental and safety risks of doing it.
When things go wrong in the energy business, it can have terrible impacts, from the burning oilfields of Kuwait in the first Gulf War to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The same satellite and information technology that boosts performance can also help companies comply better and faster with environmental and safety rules. By capturing and recording data in real-time, satellites show companies where their real risks lie and give regulators powerful tools to drive enforcement.
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A BETTER PLACE TO WORK Satellites and IT make the wellhead a better place to work. They bring in media and Internet connections that let crewmembers keep up with the world and connect with home. In Australia, NewSat and Amstar developed a network for Gorgon, one of the world’s largest natural gas projects, which offers entertainment, Internet and telephone service to crewmembers living on the site. In boom times, the energy sector can have as many as one million job openings going unfilled, according to McKinsey, and a better workplace can help companies compete. Satellite also makes possible remote medical care that improves the lives of crewmembers while saving their employers money. Transporting a sick crewmember just 50 miles by helicopter for medical care can cost up to $10,000. A boat ride from the Gulf of Thailand and emergency jet to Singapore can cost up to $150,000. Remote medical systems let medics at the wellhead collect health data and share it with faraway doctors, who can diagnose, prescribe care and make the decision to evacuate if needed. According to one firm, InPlace Medical, telemedicine lets teams resolve 80-85% of situations quickly without the need for transport, which delivers better care as well as saving money. SAFER PIPELINES The benefits do not end in the oil or gas field. The world’s pipeline networks are key to getting the product to refineries and tanks. There are 2.9 million kilometers of pipeline in just the ten countries with the biggest networks. How can energy companies monitor such a vast web of pipe? They use satellites to gather sensor data on temperature, pressure, vibration and other critical factors. By 2022, there are expected to be 90,000 such sensors in pipelines and another 200,000 in electricity grids around the world. For all of these reasons, the energy sector is expected to invest three times more in satellite in 2022 than it did in 2012. Today, it is spending about 25 cents per barrel of oil on satellite and IT, according to Oil and Gas Investor. That’s a smart move, McKinsey reports, because energy companies can see a 10-25% reduction in operating costs as a result. That explains why nearly 60% of oil and gas executives told Lloyd’s Register in 2014 that future breakthroughs in their business would be driven by “bits and bytes,” not physical hardware. You may not put a satellite in your fuel tank. You may not pop one in the oven. But satellites are helping to secure the high-energy lifestyle we lead while the world searches for more sustainable ways to power our future.
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SSPI Educational Fund: More Than Just Scholarships by Tamara Bond-Williams The SSPI Educational Fund is our engine for connecting talented young people with careers on the High Frontier of space to help our industry compete with better-known tech sectors in the global war for talent. One way we do this is through our scholarship program, where we issue checks to deserving students. While the actual checkcutting is meaningful (and, if you are parenting or have parented a college student, you might remember how books, fees, and late-night snacks add up throughout the year), the check-cutting is merely the tip of the iceberg of what SSPI accomplishes every year through its scholarship program. Each year, we put out a call for scholarships, and students from around the world respond. We choose the best from the crop of applicants each year, and, besides cutting a check, we also extend an invitation to those students to the industry’s premier networking event, the Hall of Fame Benefit Dinner (nee Gala). As well, in partnership with Access Intelligence, we extend complimentary registration to the largest dedicated satellite show each year. For most of these students, this exposure is an amazing first experience of seeing the breadth and depth of opportunity within our industry. If we only did this, it would be profoundly impactful, and worthy of the Society’s investment in our educational programs. But we also partner with organizations to ensure that the message of satellite is preached, far and wide. One such organization is the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC). Funding by SSPI makes it possible for 2-4 students from around the world to attend the annual Space Generation Advisory Council Congress, which provides space policy recommendations to the United Nations and precedes each year’s International Aeronautical Congress.
SSPI selects students with a focus on satellite technology and applications from launch and propulsion to earth observation and data analysis. SSPI executives and members attend to represent the Society and participate in working groups. It is another way we let young people passionate about space know about career opportunities in satellite. We have also partnered with the Students for the Development and Exploration of Space (SEDS) to provide sponsorships for local SEDS chapter projects focused on satellite. This year, we embarked upon an exciting and innovative competition – “Satellites Around Mars” – leveraging the enthusiasm and excitement of space exploration with the nuts and bolts practicality implied by realizing that a communications system, powered by satellites, will certainly be necessary to make that exploration human-accessible. The competition paired 11 teams drawn from the SEDS chapters at 10 universities across the United States to SSPI members who stepped forward to mentor the teams. Each team’s assignment was to research and report on the technical and cost feasibility of putting satellites around Mars as a foundation for exploration and colonization. The judging now complete, SSPI will present the winning teams with cash prices at SpaceVision 2015, the annual SEDS conference. Your support of SSPI, participation in this evening’s Future Leaders Dinner, and the special auction, all help fund our educational initiatives, as we continue to engage the next generation of talent that will power the industry today, tomorrow, and beyond.
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THE SOCIETY OF SATELLITE PROFESSIONALS INTERNATIONAL
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SALUTES THE 2015 SSPI PROMISE AND MENTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS Chris Stott
Bryan McGuirk
Dawn Harms
ManSat
ViviSat
Chair
President
Boeing Space Systems International
Tony Rayner Eutelsat Secretary
Treasurer
Michael Aloisi
Christine Ehrenbard
Ed Giovannini
Carmen Gonzalez-Sanfeliu
Viacom
CBS
Ericsson
Intelsat
David Kagan
David Myers
Dave Rehbehn
Thomas Van den Driessche
ITC Global
Datapath
Hughes Network Systems
Newtec
Ric VanderMeulen
Bill Weller
Alan Young
Elias Zaccack
Viasat
John Hane Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman General Counsel
Space Systems Loral Encompass Digital Media
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Teaching People to Fish in GEO, MEO and LEO by Louis Zacharilla, Director of Development, SSPI Yet when it comes to you being a part of this campaign, either through a no-cost endorsement or financial support for events like the one in London or the upcoming Future Leaders Dinner in New York, the idea of corporate social responsibility being embraced because it is “the right thing to do” is so ludicrous as to be almost laughable. Excuse me, but there is no obligation by anyone to do anything for anyone else except as it serves their own self-interest. You merely need to listen to an interview with Vladimir Putin or any national leader to understand quickly that “protecting the national interest” is a reflection of the physical, intellectual and moral borders we have built around ourselves as a means of self-preservation. This is not a condemnation or a surrender to cynicism. As Walter Cronkite, the legendary CBS news anchorman in the USA used to say at the close of each broadcast, “That’s the way it is.”
What has been cool about the success of the industry’s new Better Satellite World campaign is the enthusiasm people have shown for it, especially people who, through their jobs in the satellite community, make these stories Reality. Since we asked you to give us your stories, they have been pouring out. They range as widely as the spectrum of human activities, but have a unifying theme: satellites really do make this planet economically and socially viable and, yes, better. What has been fascinating to me is how our story-telling has unlocked long-hidden urges! While people in our own industry know that satellites help drive cars, enable better wine to be made and improve education, it was if it had been a family secret that could not be told! I guess this reflects an “old school” mentality, built on professionalism, pride and perhaps an assumption that groups like the WRC know what we are really all about. As Michel de Rosen told me in an upcoming interview for Satellite Executive Briefing, it simply ain’t so. Not even WRC knows that a ruling for the cellular industry would actually work against it! What is best about the campaign is that the stories and the “better world” they enable are not part of a charitable contribution of some unsold capacity, or VSAT dishes donated for an emergency or as a sophisticated PR stunt. These stories really are about how satellites enhance innovation, make money for shareholders of airlines and energy firms and help tackle our most dangerous, collective challenge: the sustainability of the place we all call home. So do not confuse the Better Satellite World campaign, and the investment we and others (including Milbank, ManSat and Intelsat) have made in our new Better Satellite World Awards program in London on 4 December, for example, as an exercise in CSR (corporate social responsibility.) For sure, we are a highly responsible industry; in part because we launch stuff that can blow up and put other stuff in orbit that is so complex, precise and important that there is no other way to be than “responsible” every hour of the day.
And we accept that. That is why we do not separate CSR from the economics of the satellite industry. As Hollywood does not separate the spiritual experience that a great film can offer from the fact that there is a box office to deal with. That’s the way it is. So the campaign, which continues, and our new awards program, which debuts in December, will be the continuation of a narrative that I believe reflects the best of business and the moral code we want to live by. Stop using clichés like CSR and “doing well by doing good.” Read the stories; send us more. We prove that we ARE all of those things, not as a gesture but in our profession. I am proud to own that, and I hope that you are too.
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To the 2015 Promise Award Winners:
We had the privilege of leading SSPI...
...We count on you to lead our industry into the future. From the Past Chairs and
Emeritus Members of the
SSPI Board of Directors
Where will the most important people in the satellite industry be on March 8? The SSPI Hall of Fame Benefit Dinner offers a unique opportunity to network and visit with clients, customers, suppliers, colleagues and industry friends. From the champagne reception to a gourmet meal to the presentation of awards, the Hall of Fame Benefit Dinner is always the talk of the industry. On that night, SSPI will hold its annual Chairman始s Chai Reception. This invitation-only reception welcomes the C-Suite of the most important companies in our industry, including established players, their customers and innovative new entrants. It offers a relaxed and intimate atmosphe atmosphere for conversation and networking at the end of a long day in meeting rooms, and before the excitement of the Hall of Fame Benefit Dinner.
March 8, 2016 Gaylord National Convention Center National Harbour, MD
The hightlight of the night will be the induction of honorees into the SSPI Satellite Hall of Fame. Nominations for inductees close on November 30, 2015. For more information or to submit a nomination, visit www.sspi.org.