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Re: Washington DC Area Bogleheads

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Hi Washingtonians -
Are we having a chapter meeting Sunday May 20th?
ps this is my first post, but I did meet you all in January.
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Meeting this Sunday at 2 PM

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AzWDC wrote:Hi Washingtonians -
Are we having a chapter meeting Sunday May 20th?
ps this is my first post, but I did meet you all in January.
AzWDC
Yes - We are meeting this coming Sunday May 20 at 2 PM at the usual place. Many previous posts on this thread have directions for getting to the Washington Plaza Hotel by car or Metro.

If you join the local group we send out two emails to local group members the week before the meeting informing everyone about the meeting. You can join the local group at the following link.
http://finance.dir.groups.yahoo.com/gro ... =dir&slk=4

At this point there are no specific topics. If you have topic suggestions you can post them here, or at the DC Diehards page.

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Re: Meeting this Sunday at 2 PM

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We are meeting this coming Sunday July 15 at 2 PM at the usual place. Many previous posts on this thread have directions for getting to the Washington Plaza Hotel by car or Metro.
Link to directions.
http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtop ... t#p1230540

If you join the local group we send out two emails to local group members the week before the meeting informing everyone about the meeting. You can join the local group at the following link.
http://finance.dir.groups.yahoo.com/gro ... =dir&slk=4

At this point there are no specific topics. If you have topic suggestions you can post them here, or at the DC Diehards page.

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Re: Washington DC Area Bogleheads

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To all DC Area Bogleheads,

Starting with our next local Bogleheads meeting (September 16, 2012) the time will change to 1 - 3PM, instead of 2 - 4PM.

After our July 15, 2012 meeting, the restaurant manager asked if we could move our starting time one hour earlier to allow them enough time, after we leave, to set up for their dinner crowd.

So, all of our future local DC Area Bogleheads meetings, will be from 1PM to 3PM, instead of 2PM to 4PM. The location will remain the same:

Washington Plaza Hotel
10 Thomas Circle, NW
Washington, DC 200005
(In the back part of the restaurant).

Remember, we meet on the third Sunday of every odd-numbered month.

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We have received some misleading calendar invitations for the next D.C. Bogleheads meeting. The meeting will take place on Sunday, 16 September, 1pm-3pm (time change from before).

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Re: Washington DC Area Bogleheads

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Victoria is right. Our Sunday meetings will no longer be from 2-4, but from now on will be from 1-3. This is at the request of the manager of the restaurant who needs the period from 3:30 - 5:00 to prepare the restaurant for the evening meal. Also the blizzard of erroneous calendar notifications should have stopped since Yahoo Groups has upgraded the calendar function since July. At least I hope they have stopped. :happy But the change over has not exactly been glitch free. :D

The first part of this Sunday's meeting will be devoted to two informative presentations made at the 2012 Retirement Research Consortium (RRC) Conference held in early August in downtown Washington. Nobel Laureate Robert Merton's presentation on best practices for household retirement planning and Sita Slavov's presentation on deciding if and how long you should delay taking Social Security benefits.

Here is a link to Merton's presentation slides. https://www.nber.org/programs/ag/rrc/rr ... tation.pdf

Here is a link to Sita Slavov's presentation slides. https://www.nber.org/programs/ag/rrc/rr ... %203.3.pdf

Here is a link to a summary of the Slavov and Shoven paper.
https://www.nber.org/programs/ag/rrc/rr ... Slavov.pdf

I think reviewing and discussing these presentations will be both very interesting and very informative.

Note to those who haven't been to prior meetings - We meet in the back of the restaurant of the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington, DC. The hotel entrance is on Vermont Avenue on the northeast side of Thomas Circle. Thomas Circle is the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, 14th Street, Vermont Avenue, and M Street in NW Washington.

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Re: Washington DC Area Bogleheads

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cool - i think pittsburgh area bogleheads should start a similar meetup! :) i suppose being a newer boglehead should not make me hesitate to organize such an event..

edit - oh, i see this is a dedicated forum for this (just saw on frontpage). replied to pgh chapter topic :)
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BobK,
Good meeting. I have a much better understanding of Merton's presentation.

Some DC Bogleheads may be interested in a presentation on Oct 20 from 930-1200 "Securing your Lifetime Income Stream," at the Alexandria Va Marriot Courtyard by Robert Carlson of the Retirement Watch website . It is not a freebee and will cost from $28-$38 depending when you register. the talk is sponsored by Better Investing ( mag of NAIC) and AAII. He is currently chairman of the Bd of Trustees of the Fairfax County Employee's Retirement System which has $3 billion in assets. It is the Saturday after the BH meeting in Philadelphia.

I do not know much about him, but one of his books is in a bibliography in the Wiki. Any feedback is welcome.
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BobK,

Thank you for a fantastic presentation!

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VictoriaF wrote:BobK,

Thank you for a fantastic presentation!

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Re: Washington DC Area Bogleheads

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Thanks guys,

Here's a video of Merton giving a very similar talk at MIT last year. This talk covers more than his talk in DC last month. So you can start at the 16 minute mark to see the part that's very similar to his DC presentation. This presentation isn't as long as it looks, because people at MIT asked lots of questions after Merton's presentation.

Link. http://video.mit.edu/watch/lunch-and-ke ... ance-6878/


And here is a link to the Squared Away blog at the Boston College Center for Retirement Research. Lot's of good short articles on retirement including summaries of many of the presentations made at the Retirement Research Consortium Conference last month.
http://fsp.bc.edu/squared-away-blog/

Given the quality of the material being covered, it would have been hard to screw up today's presentation. :wink:

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Re: Washington DC Area Bogleheads

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We are having the next meeting this Sunday, 18 November 2012, same place, recently changed time (1300-1500).

BobK (bobcat2),
Are you planning to come to this meeting? If yes, can we discuss your recent post Things I learned about finance this year? Your four learned/reviewed topics are as follows:
bobcat2 wrote:1) Real life annuities allow one to price retirement.
2) The level of real interest rates is of critical importance when making household financial decisions.
3) Being willing to concede retirement outcomes at the high end of your distribution of investment outcomes can buy you a lot in terms of meeting your retirement income goal.
4) The probability of being alive in a given retirement year is an important consideration when deciding how much to plan to spend in a given retirement year.
I would like to get clarification on #3, i.e., whether this only implies buying an SPIA, or there is more to it? As for #4, considering that the probability of surviving at each advancing age is decreasing, how practically to reflect it in one's financial planning? This also seems at odds with #3, i.e., if in the extreme one transfers all assets into real income, then there is no difference between the age of 79 and the age of 99.

I also expect that once we start discussing these topics, many other interesting comments will come up.

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1) Real life annuities allow one to price retirement.
2) The level of real interest rates is of critical importance when making household financial decisions.
3) Being willing to concede retirement outcomes at the high end of your distribution of investment outcomes can buy you a lot in terms of meeting your retirement income goal.
4) The probability of being alive in a given retirement year is an important consideration when deciding how much to plan to spend in a given retirement year.

I would like to get clarification on #3, i.e., whether this only implies buying an SPIA, or there is more to it?
I also expect that once we start discussing these topics, many other interesting comments will come up.

Thanks,
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Hi Victoria,
I plan to be there tomorrow. I have felt all along that #3 is at least as important as the other three points, but that it in addition is the hardest point for most people to understand - and that includes me. :D

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Re: Washington DC Area Bogleheads

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I don't know if the person who posed the question for his personal financial situation in the last meeting has read the link below:
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insigh ... ing-112012

Perhaps, he knows all this already and maybe even read it but just posting for others' reference.
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was there a meeting in Jan already? I assume the next one will be in march, right?
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BornInCA wrote:was there a meeting in Jan already? I assume the next one will be in march, right?
Right, on 17 March.

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VictoriaF wrote: Right, on 17 March.

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baw703916 wrote:
VictoriaF wrote: Right, on 17 March.

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I guess we should wear green? :moneybag

Brad
Right. But there will also be crowds. Do you think Bob K may change the date as he did with the Inauguration?

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VictoriaF wrote:
baw703916 wrote:
VictoriaF wrote: Right, on 17 March.

Victoria
I guess we should wear green? :moneybag

Brad
Right. But there will also be crowds. Do you think Bob K may change the date as he did with the Inauguration?

Victoria
We discussed this at the January meeting and decided to keep the March 17 meeting as scheduled.

Hope to see you both on St. Patricks Day.

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Rager1 wrote:We discussed this at the January meeting and decided to keep the March 17 meeting as scheduled.

Hope to see you both on St. Patricks Day.

Ed
Thank you, Ed. See you in March,

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Next Meeting is Sunday, March 17, from 1-3 PM

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Our next meeting is scheduled for 1-3 PM, Sunday, March 17, in the back of the restaurant of the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington, DC. The hotel entrance is on Vermont Avenue on the northeast side of Thomas Circle. Thomas Circle is the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, 14th Street, Vermont Avenue, and M Street in NW Washington.

Here is a link to a post with directions to the hotel.
http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtop ... s#p1276954

I am preparing two short topic presentations.

The first is on the long-term return of stocks and bonds globally since 1900.

The second has two parts. The first part is on the worth of Social Security and Medicare benefits to typical recipients. The second part is an analysis of the value of different Social Security benefit delay strategies depending on the level of real interest rates and how long you expect to receive benefits.

If you have additional topic suggestions you can post them here, or at the DC Diehards page on Yahoo.

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any referrals to some good CPAs/tax advisors would be helpful

thanks in advance!!!
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Next Meeting is Sunday, May 19, from 1-3 PM

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Our next meeting is scheduled for 1-3 PM, Sunday, May 19, in the back of the restaurant of the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington, DC. The hotel entrance is on Vermont Avenue on the northeast side of Thomas Circle. Thomas Circle is the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, 14th Street, Vermont Avenue, and M Street in NW Washington.

Here is a link to a post with directions to the hotel.
http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtop ... s#p1276954

If you have topic suggestions you can post them here, or at the DC Diehards page on Yahoo.

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what happened to the posts since the last meeting (May 2013)?
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Posts made on May 19th (when you had the meeting), are gone due to a server problem. They'll need to be reposted, sorry. :(

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Here's a repost of the link to the Frontline Program that we discussed at the May 19 meeting.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... nt-gamble/

It's quite an eye opener!

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Reposted links:
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When is the next meeting?

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Laura wrote:When is the next meeting?

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Sunday, 21 July. Hope you can make it,

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dc chapter meeting

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[Thread merged into here --admin LadyGeek]

Can someone tell me when, where and at what time is the next Bogleheads Washington D.C. meeting?
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EDIT: Ignore this message, situation fixed.

This should probably have been posted on the local chapters board. In any case I suggest you look at http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=831 and send a PM to someone on that list.
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^^^ I moved the thread into here.

Can someone assist selftalk?
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selftalk wrote:[Thread merged into here --admin LadyGeek]

Can someone tell me when, where and at what time is the next Bogleheads Washington D.C. meeting?
The next DC meeting will be on Sunday, July 21, 2013 from 1-3PM at the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington DC. We meet in the back part of the restaurant.

Our meeting schedule is every odd numbered month, on the third Sunday, at the time and location above.

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I'll be out of town for this one, like the last. Too bad - I hope to catch up in September.

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BillyG wrote:I'll be out of town for this one, like the last. Too bad - I hope to catch up in September.

Billy
For the record, the September meeting will be on Sunday, September 15, 2013.

Same time, same place.

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Rager1 wrote:The next DC meeting will be on Sunday, July 21, 2013 from 1-3PM at the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington DC. We meet in the back part of the restaurant.

Our meeting schedule is every odd numbered month, on the third Sunday, at the time and location above.

Ed
A reminder.

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Hi guys. I'll be in the area and would like to attend with a colleague or two that might also be interested in learning the boglehead philosophy (or just hear from other boglehead folks).

Is that ok?

Does it cost much to attend the meeting?
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StormShadow wrote:Hi guys. I'll be in the area and would like to attend with a colleague or two that might also be interested in learning the boglehead philosophy (or just hear from other boglehead folks).

Is that ok?

Does it cost much to attend the meeting?
It's perfectly OK--we have some new people at virtually every meeting. We meet at a restaurant for lunch, and so the cost is only for your meals.

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Rager1 wrote:
BillyG wrote:I'll be out of town for this one, like the last. Too bad - I hope to catch up in September.

Billy
For the record, the September meeting will be on Sunday, September 15, 2013.

Same time, same place.

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A reminder: we are meeting this Sunday, 15 September,

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Re: Next Meeting is Sunday, May 19, from 1-3 PM

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Our next meeting is scheduled for 1-3 PM, Sunday, September 15, in the back of the restaurant of the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington, DC. The hotel entrance is on Vermont Avenue on the northeast side of Thomas Circle. Thomas Circle is the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, 14th Street, Vermont Avenue, and M Street in NW Washington.

Here is a link to a post with directions to the hotel.
http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtop ... s#p1276954

If you have topic suggestions you can post them here, or at the DC Diehards page on Yahoo.

I send out email reminders of our local meeting the week before the meeting via our Yahoo Groups page. Recently Yahoo upgraded their Yahoo Groups service. Typically this means they made it worse. This most recent upgrade is no exception to that general rule. I am no longer receiving the email reminders, but Victoria is receiving them. Are other DC members receiving the reminders this week? Please post here whether you have received or not received the reminders this week.

In checking the feedback section for Yahoo Group moderators I see that this now appears to be a widespread problem for Yahoo Groups since the "upgrade". I have sent my "helpful comments" on this issue and another faux pas of the latest upgrade to the Yahoo Groups feedback forum. :)

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Bob, did you go to the retirement symposium this summer? If so, can you summarize any important ideas from the symposium this Sunday?
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SGM wrote:Bob, did you go to the retirement symposium this summer? If so, can you summarize any important ideas from the symposium this Sunday?
I did go & I will try to summarize Sunday.

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Re: Next Meeting is Sunday, November 17, from 1-3 PM

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Our next meeting is scheduled for 1-3 PM, Sunday, November 17, in the back of the restaurant of the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington, DC. The hotel entrance is on Vermont Avenue on the northeast side of Thomas Circle. Thomas Circle is the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, 14th Street, Vermont Avenue, and M Street in NW Washington.

Here is a link to a post with directions to the hotel.
http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtop ... s#p1276954

If you have topic suggestions you can post them here, or at the DC Diehards page on Yahoo.

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The Philly chapter has formally acknowledged grabiner's last meeting and is returning him back to your area. Subject: Philly Chapter meeting - 9 Nov 2013
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LadyGeek wrote:Also discussed:

grabiner was unable to attend the Philly chapter meeting due to a personal obligation. We conveyed the status of his recent home purchase in the Washington D.C. area, which will be documented in a forthcoming thread. He will return to the Bogleheads D.C. chapter for future meetings. (Thanks for everything you've done.)
And thanks to all of you as well; I'll keep in touch with the Philly chapter in case I happen to be in Pennsylvania when you meet. (I am moving about 120 miles from the regular meeting place, so I won't be able to join you regularly.)
I don't know if he can attend this meeting, but we (Philly chapter) have none scheduled until Feb 2014.
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LadyGeek wrote:The Philly chapter has formally acknowledged grabiner's last meeting and is returning him back to your area. Subject: Philly Chapter meeting - 9 Nov 2013
grabiner wrote:
LadyGeek wrote:Also discussed:

grabiner was unable to attend the Philly chapter meeting due to a personal obligation. We conveyed the status of his recent home purchase in the Washington D.C. area, which will be documented in a forthcoming thread. He will return to the Bogleheads D.C. chapter for future meetings. (Thanks for everything you've done.)
And thanks to all of you as well; I'll keep in touch with the Philly chapter in case I happen to be in Pennsylvania when you meet. (I am moving about 120 miles from the regular meeting place, so I won't be able to join you regularly.)
I don't know if he can attend this meeting, but we (Philly chapter) have none scheduled until Feb 2014.
Just as the U.S. capital has moved from Philadelphia to D.C. so does Grabiner.

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MARC now runs on weekends

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On 7 December, MARC started running on weekends. Maryland Diehards may consider it as another option for getting to our meetings.

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Re: MARC now runs on weekends

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VictoriaF wrote:On 7 December, MARC started running on weekends. Maryland Diehards may consider it as another option for getting to our meetings.
I updated the transit directions in the first post; the train schedule is good for a 1:00-3:00 meeting.
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Re: Washington DC Area Bogleheads

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Greetings and Happy New Year! Is there still a regular DC group that meets and if so when/ where?
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Re: Washington DC Area Bogleheads

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dcrefugee wrote:Greetings and Happy New Year! Is there still a regular DC group that meets and if so when/ where?
Yes, we meet regularly on the 3rd Sundays of odd numbered months. The next meeting is on 19 January 2014, a week from tomorrow, at 1:00-3:00pm. The place is the restaurant at the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, Washington, D.C. Please see the 1st message in this thread for the details.

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Re: Washington DC Area Bogleheads

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What is covered at the meetings? Is there a presentation? I live nearby.
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