What things do you want to do before you die?
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beads1985 posted 2 years ago.
I could make a list,
but I think I just want to live well,
be the best person I can be,
be the best daddy I can be,
and of course have fun doing it!! :D
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brittda posted 2 years ago.
POC-Could help you with #4. I have a group I do a rim to rim run/hike with every year. We go down the North Rim and out the South in about 7 hours....usually mid October
Kilimanjero is also on my short list :)
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PrinceofClydes posted 2 years ago.
brittda wrote:
POC-Could help you with #4. I have a group I do a rim to rim run/hike with every year. We go down the North Rim and out the South in about 7 hours....usually mid OctoberKilimanjero is also on my short list :)
Great, britt!
Mid-October, eh?
Six weeks after IMC.
If I make it through #2 I'm there with you.
then, we find the snow leopard.
Geoff
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brittda posted 2 years ago.
Thats why I didn't do it last year...have done it 3 yrs now, but decided to skip it since I was back into marathon training.
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merlinextraligh posted 2 years ago.
Dude, I'm not sure I want a woman who writes poetry about white dwarfs.
And by the way if L'Alpe de Huez is on your life list, you gotta do L'Etape de Tour this year. It finishes on the L'Alpe and it will be an incredible experience.
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beads1985 posted 2 years ago.
PrinceofClydes wrote:
9. Find an attractive, available woman who can do an ironman triathlon,
write a sonnet, and who understands the Chandresekar limit.Yeah, I know the last one is a stretch, but hey, I'm willing to cook..
Geoff
Not that you couldn't find that woman or those women, but if she was that capable physically, attractive, and was a literary and physics brain, would she want any of us?
Maybe, if she was slumming??
Maybe me, for my sheer 'Goofyness'?? , because I have that. :D
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bluebirdbiker posted 2 years ago.
Only one real goal, at least if I can help it. Help my kids grow up knowing how to organize their lives to be happy at whatever they do. For me? Probably never stop being the best I can be at what ever I value.
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jmruns430 posted 2 years ago.
At the top of my list is to run the Boston Marathon, but I'm going to take care of that one in April, so I'll have to start looking for a replacement. Being able to go heliskiing in Alaska is certainly something I'd like to try.
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Triguy98 posted 2 years ago.
1) BASE jump
2) Climb El Capitain
3) Backback across Yellowstone
4) Hut to Hut XC the 10th Mountain huts.
5) Visit every national park in the country.
6) Build a road bike. Including welding the frame.
7) Fall asleep counting stars in the desert.
Life is short. Play hard and get dirty doing it.
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jsoder posted 2 years ago.
1. hitch a ride to space
2. climb Mt. Everest (or something close)
3. do an Ironman
4. sail around the world
5. see the pyramids
6. pet a tiger
7. can't think of anything else
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dr_rios_ec posted 2 years ago.
Now....I dream....and make my list...
1. Compete and finish someday an Iron Man(gosh...some day)
2.Climb the 7 highest peaks of every continental mass...I have already two...5 to go...(Kilimajaro is one of them)
3. Be part of an expedition in the Himalayas, but as a doctor, and try to do at least one mountain over 7.000 mts.
4.Live well, be happy, be free...and harm no one along the way ;)
-Santiago
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Triguy98 posted 2 years ago.
jsoder wrote:
6. pet a tiger
Does it have to be a concious tiger? Volunteer at a zoo or rescue place, and ya'll prolly get your shot.
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Triguy98 posted 2 years ago.
jsoder wrote:
6. pet a tiger
Does it have to be a concious tiger? Volunteer at a zoo or rescue place, and ya'll prolly get your shot.
Life is short. Play hard and get dirty doing it.
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NateDawgK2 posted 2 years ago.
I want to see the steelers when at least one super bowl in my liftetime!!
and I want to know what I look like with a sweet handle-bar mustache, Prefontane style! (just have to convince the old ball & chain to agree to let me grow one)
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Geo posted 2 years ago.
your woman wont let you grow a moustache? hasnt she ever heard of moustache rides?
my list:
backpack for a year on 3 long trails in US.
Triathlon!
telemark in the winter, as much as possible(not possible here in birmingham)starting jan. '07.
most importantly i want to think positively and be a good influence on all i meet, which is hard being a grumpy sombit*h i am.
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RV posted 2 years ago.
Finish IMWI 2006.
Qualify for Kona - someday....
RV
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Tribro posted 2 years ago.
1. Complete an Ironman (1st attempt August 2006)
2. Have a photo published in a magazine like Outside
3. Be financially self sufficient. Basically just work for myself on my projects and be able to pay the bills :)
4. Travel, travel, travel. Don't do enough of it and would like to see many places before my time is up.
5. Learn how to write (if that's possible)
6. Learn to play the guitar
7. Learn Italian, live in italy for a period of time
8. Always be creative, creating something. Whether photography, videos, websites...
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ChuckyFinster posted 2 years ago.
Not in any particular order:
First the Jennifers...
1. Jennifer Lopez
2. Jennifer Love Hewitt
3. Jennifer Annistan
4. Jennifer Tilly
5. Jennifer Garner
Then the rest...
6. Serena Williams
7. Hally Berry
8. Angelina Jolie
9. Anna Kournikova
10. Alyssa Milano
Oh wait, this wasn't what you meant was it?
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bluebirdbiker posted 2 years ago.
ChuckyFinster wrote:
Not in any particular order:First the Jennifers...
1. Jennifer Lopez
2. Jennifer Love Hewitt
3. Jennifer Annistan
4. Jennifer Tilly
5. Jennifer GarnerThen the rest...
6. Serena Williams
7. Hally Berry
8. Angelina Jolie
9. Anna Kournikova
10. Alyssa MilanoOh wait, this wasn't what you meant was it?
Nice priorities! :D
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watrbg2 posted 2 years ago.
NateDawgK2 wrote:
I want to see the steelers when at least one super bowl in my liftetime!!
I grew up in Pittsburgh and I've seen the Steelers win four but I would love to see them win one more! Go Steelers!
I've been away for 20 years and I still miss my hometown.
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Beldrueger posted 2 years ago.
I've done the road from La Paz to Coroico on MTB bike and by SUV several times. It is quite an event. You're freezing up top and sweating at the bottom. The views are amazing. The mountain biking is not technical, but two people in our group boarded the SAG wagon after minor falls near the cliffs put the scare in them. Blazing up and down the road in an SUV was much scarier than taking the bike down. Use GravityBolivia.com. They cost a little more but have the nicest bikes. Some of the other tour groups have Wal-Mart quality bikes that appear to have last been serviced at the factory ... of course if you really want to be scared ....
My list of things I'd like to do:
1. Visit at least one new country every year.
2. See Antarctica
3. Win a regional Xterra event
4. Tour with another band.
5. Ride the Trans-Siberian railroad.
6. Take a dogsled tour north of the arctic circle
7. Be in times square on NYE. I tried this year, but 3pm was too late to get in.
8. Drive a Lancia Stratos in a vintage rally
9. Win a national Rally racing championship
10. Finish my miata track car exactly as I want it
11. Start another business, retire young, and become an academic
12. Never stop learning
13. Never stop moving and never stop living.
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bluebirdbiker posted 2 years ago.
Interesting for all. What are you doing TO ATTAIN these goals or dreams?
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ChuckyFinster posted 2 years ago.
Well, as far as my top 10, I'm hoping they notice me when I'm running down the street "training".
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beads1985 posted 2 years ago.
bluebirdbiker wrote:
Interesting for all. What are you doing TO ATTAIN these goals or dreams?
First I am going to have my 'LBS' clean my bike, and then win the megamillions lottery. I'll then have a HUGE party.
Of course I'll Invite all of trifuel, especially the 'TGGW'.
BYO Chocolate GU and Cool Whip :D
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Triguy98 posted 2 years ago.
bluebirdbiker wrote:
Interesting for all. What are you doing TO ATTAIN these goals or dreams?
1) BASE jump.. havent even started yet.
2) Climb El Capitain. Need to get to the climbing gym more often.
3) Backback across Yellowstone. Made it a third of the way a couple years ago.. it was too early in the season for a cross park trip, so I settled for a loop. Maybe in a couple more years.
4) Hut to Hut XC ski 10th Mountain huts.
5) Visit every national park in the country. 10 of em now, with quite a few more coming up next summer.
6) Build a road bike. Including welding the frame. I can MIG weld, need to learn TIG and find a mentor.
7) Fall asleep counting stars in the desert. Next year. Early Summer in Moab.
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RV posted 2 years ago.
bluebirdbiker wrote:
Interesting for all. What are you doing TO ATTAIN these goals or dreams?
Finish IMWI 2006 - Registered and In training.
Qualify for Kona - someday.... - Just have to get older and faster - and one of those is easy.
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vollenda posted 2 years ago.
Before I die, I want to...
1. Complete an Ironman.
2. Ride my bike across the US.
3. Ride my bike thru Europe.
4. See all of the archeological sites I've read about.
5. Visit every continent on earth.
6. Learn how to scuba dive and go swimming with the fishes (a phobia of mine).
7. See my nieces and nephew grow up.
8. To steal one from tribro...have my pictures published.
How? Keep swimming, running, and riding. Keep taking pictures. Pay off my current debt and start saving for my trips. Or find a rich "sponsor". ;)
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qb ant posted 2 years ago.
Where to start.......
Run the NYC marathon (my hometown)
Bike throughout Europe
Start my own business (catering)
get certified to scuba
raise my kids to be happy, healthy adults
and when I'm done with the above, retire to a farmhouse in Tuscany :)
"90% of the game is half mental" Yogi Berra
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MaverickUNC posted 2 years ago.
This is kind of funny. Before graduating HS I wrote up a list of 100 things I wanted to do before I died (including driving a NASCAR Pace Car...) but here are my favorites:
1) Become a military (Army) officer
2) Finish an IM (Florida 2006)
3) Hike the AT
4) Adventure Race
5) Become fluent in another language
6) Be Happy
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Beldrueger posted 2 years ago.
bluebirdbiker wrote:
Interesting for all. What are you doing TO ATTAIN these goals or dreams?
1. Visit at least one new country every year.
I'm right on target with this one, and running a little ahead of schedule. Next stop is Ecuador.
2. See Antarctica
There are Anartic cruises. They are pretty pricey, so I figure this will come later.
3. Win a regional Xterra event
Training every day.
4. Tour with another band.
I'm on hiatus between bands. I toured when I was younger. I'm writing my own songs now, but probably won't join another band for another year or so.
5. Ride the Trans-Siberian railroad.
Ten day trips are pretty reasonably priced. This is on my list after exploring more of South and Central America.
6. Take a dogsled tour north of the arctic circle
Dogsled tours are also reasonably priced .. I wonder if I could do a dogsledding tour and the Trans-Siberian railroad on the same trip?
7. Be in times square on NYE. I tried this year, but 3pm was too late to get in.
We'll head out earlier.
8. Drive a Lancia Stratos in a vintage rally
Lancia Stratos prices have been going up lately. It'll be a while until I can get one. First I need to get another garage.
9. Win a national Rally racing championship.
Well I won the North American Rally Cup for Production GT cars in 1997, but it was more by default. I'd like to rally again, but I don't plan on this for another 5-10 years. Xterra fills that need right now.
10. Finish my miata track car exactly as I want it.
The car is in storage at the moment, so I need to find a garage I can rent in Philly and get back to work on it. I plan to do this when the weather turns nicer. All the major work is done. I just need to sort the suspension and clean up some of the bodywork.
11. Start another business, retire young, and become an academic.
Well I just applied to the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and I feel good about getting in. My focus will be on entrepreneurship and building the knowledge and networks I need to start another business.
12. Never stop learning
13. Never stop moving and never stop living.
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Anton posted 2 years ago.
It's really interesting to see what is on folks lists...It's interesting too, to see the age of respondants and the things they want. Age groups for life lists!
I have a list but share only with those dear to me...Not that I don't like you guys and all but...I have learned to hold my cards close to my chest.
I've done many of the things that are in your dreams and some of your dreams are things I've never thought of before...so I may make a few additions!
My only comment would be to you Triguy!
Dude! I've been on The Big Stone and am training for a solo...you are gonna have to move out of Tampa and leave the faux rocks behind...!
Too all of you...May ALL your dreams come true....even yours Chucky!
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh
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brittda posted 2 years ago.
I don't really have a list. At one time I did, but as I have gotten older I have done and experienced so much that if I were to die tomorrow, I will have done more in nearly 37 years than most will ever hope to (and like Anton said, many are on your lists many are not) I have been quite lucky actually. Now my goals have refocused to just be the best I can be at what ever it is I decide to do.
One piece of advice; don't ever stop working to attain your goals, and don't let any one tell you you cannot do them.
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dr_rios_ec posted 2 years ago.
brittda wrote:
One piece of advice; don't ever stop working to attain your goals, and don't let any one tell you you cannot do them.
........................AMEN
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bluebirdbiker posted 2 years ago.
Anton wrote:
...........I have a list but share only with those dear to me...
Oh! I feel jilted! What, we're not!?!? You spend part of almost each day with US. You don't love us?
Anton wrote:
Too all of you...May ALL your dreams come true....even yours Chucky!
I think we should all bow to Chucky if he gets his goal gentlemen. :D
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Anton posted 2 years ago.
If Chucky is succesful...my life really WILL have been an abject failure. :)
Sorry TripleB...I just don't know you well enough yet!
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh
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PrinceofClydes posted 2 years ago.
Don't be too hard on yourself Anton. We haven't seen Chucky yet.
Maybe he's really David Hasselhof?
I wouldn't bet against DH scoring a few Jennifers. He's up there in the looks dept. along with Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck.
Sadly, the Jennifers don't seem to care what your bike split is.
Most posters have grasped the concept. I'm inspired by some of your posted items - beldreuger & Lisa want to see Antarctica & the other six continents. I'm up for that. I have three to go.
Some are too vague for this list. "Being the best person you can be" is admirable, but doesn't quite fit the list of "things you really, really, really want to do before you die." "like watching nieces grow up" or "be happy," similarly, doesn't quite make this list, only because it is simply the minimum expected of all of us.
I also expect that everyone on trifuel would put on their list, either an Ironman tri or perhaps the World Age-Group Oly distance Champs.
But sled-dogging the arctic (Beldreuger) climbing El Cap (tri-guy) are just the sort of thing I was hoping to hear.
Libor wants to know what you're doing to achieve them. I thionk that's another thread altogether. Set your mind free of limitations, but without being silly. Sure, we all would like to win the lottery but that's in the category of things we can't control.
Driving a motorbike in the Dakar Ralley or running the Marathon Du Sables, is something you could conceivably do on your own merits, see the difference?
Who else is holding onto a dream, something that is driving them to do before checking out of Hotel Earth?
Geoff
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PrinceofClydes posted 2 years ago.
merlinextraligh wrote:
Dude, I'm not sure I want a woman who writes poetry about white dwarfs.And by the way if L'Alpe de Huez is on your life list, you gotta do L'Etape de Tour this year. It finishes on the L'Alpe and it will be an incredible experience.
Hey merlin,
I checked L'Etape Tours. They are all sold out for this year but ranging from 400 to 800 pounds seems like a decent price. Maybe another time. I wouldn't mind doing it alone either - more time to stop and take pictures or to smell the roses, instead of a mad, sweaty, grind up the hill with the other lemmings!
also, any girl who can complete an IM can write sonnets about anything she likes in my book! For me, there's something special and beautiful about the quality of mind necessary to grasp these divergent subjects, but there are others of course. :)
Bring her on!
Geoff
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Noel posted 2 years ago.
Hey Geoff,
it's a sad alternative, but Tacx has a videocycling DVD of the Marmot Tour, it includes the Alp d'Huez climb... something to keep you happy with for the time being and it costs about $5-10...
Noel.
just trying to help out here...
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kylie posted 2 years ago.
A limited list...
(1) IM Canada (your faults... thanks to your race reps and stories)
(2) Go to New Zealand (yes, this again might involve the IM there...)
(3) Do an adventure race in another country* (not counting Mexico.. yes, it's another country, but close to home, and I did one there already)
(4) Do a multi-day AR
(5) Take "A Crazy Me and My Bike" journey (unsure on details of this one)
(6) Help a student earn their black belt.
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Blitz posted 2 years ago.
PrinceofClydes wrote:
Not impossible dreams, just things you really, really, really want to do. Call it making your life meaningful if you like.My list:
7. Climb Alpe d'Huez on my bicycle.
Geoff
I saw a German lady in her 50s on an old schwinn, painted pink with a little wagon attached make it up this mountain. If she did it, you can do it too, but I would suggest you use another color, or the crowd will think you are trying to copy her, or that you are "in support of " Jan Ulrich.
Blitz
BTW Floyd's Mennonite parents showed up at the Tour, and held signs that read..."we are in support of Floyd Landis" If you chose to do this POC, I will come and hold up a sign that say "I am in support of POC" I will wear different clothes than Floyd's parents did, so as not to embarrass you.
Who needs a man when you have a Kuota Kalibur to wrap your legs around.
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thehitman posted 2 years ago.
Blitz wrote:
I saw a German lady in her 50s on an old schwinn, painted pink with a little wagon attached make it up this mountain. If she did it, you can do it too, but I would suggest you use another color, or the crowd will think you are trying to copy her, or that you are "in support of " Jan Ulrich.
Blitz
PoC - Just don't wear your pink thong. Jan's got better things to look at! ;)
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bluebirdbiker posted 2 years ago.
Yes, he has his priorities straight I see.
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Noel posted 2 years ago.
Jan is a big tit himself
I saw him on TV not too long ago.. damn Jan, Basso is gonna make you hurt chubby!
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Okay things I want to do before I die:
1) Finish the IM Frankfurt, Germany under 11 Hours.
2) Finish an Oly. Tri with one of my best friends, who hasn't started with tri's, but if he does, I promised him, we'd finish together.
3) Compete in the Military World Triathlon Championship.
4) Learn Japanese and visit Japan ( I can speak some Japanese, but boy is it limited)
5) Tara Reid
6) Lindsey Lohan
7) Amy Lee ( the singer of Evanescence)
LAST THREE NOT IN THAT ORDER
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thehitman posted 2 years ago.
Noel wrote:
Jan is a big tit himself
I saw him on TV not too long ago.. damn Jan, Basso is gonna make you hurt chubby!
Noel.
Lance and Eddy Merckx are picking Jan to win the TdF this year.
He obviously likes it on the podium.
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Noel posted 2 years ago.
He wasn't even on the podium in 2004 and last time he was 3rd..
Okay, he does train hard, but in 2004 he was only on the right weight on the very last day he HAD to... I think that is sloppy for someone of his profession. But even then, I admire his persistence. He does deserve to win though. Lance was worried about him for a good reason all those years..
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RV posted 2 years ago.
Noel wrote:
He does deserve to win though.
Nope. No one "deserves" to win. If he puts in the required time and takes the win then fine - but no one not even LA deserved to win. Wins are earned.
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Noel posted 2 years ago.
Okay, yeah I guess if you look at it that way..
What I meant to say was; he needs to work for it, DESERVE it, but I think a lot of people would have gone nuts, just finishing behind the same guy every time, when before Lance, Ullrich had one the Tour. He could have just quit, but he didn't, remember when Mayo just quit and just left the Tour, Ullrich just kept going, eventhough he had no prayer.
Noel.
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Not impossible dreams, just things you really, really, really want to do. Call it making your life meaningful if you like.
My list:
1. Qualify to race Ironman Hawaii. - I need to be 3hrs faster
but each five years older I become, the qualifying times get slower.
2. Ride the "Highway of Death" near La Paz, Bolivia
3. Experience sunrise & sunset at Ayer's Rock in Oz.
4. Hike down and up the Grand Canyon - seen it, haven't hiked it.
5. Climb Kilimanjero
6. Publish a million words.
7. Climb Alpe d'Huez on my bicycle.
8. Have a thousand people pay to hear me speak.
9. Find an attractive, available woman who can do an ironman triathlon,
write a sonnet, and who understands the Chandresekar limit.
Yeah, I know the last one is a stretch, but hey, I'm willing to cook..
Geoff
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