Video Gaming & Lifestyle

Do you play games? Do you love them? If yes, what kind of games you right now have in your PC or games-collection-wallet.? Computer gaming is also an addiction and everybody knows that very well. But users of video games dont believe so. Everyone especially kids are often seen playing video games on their PCs(Personal Computers). “Anyone who has experienced it knows all too well – video game addiction is real” says an auther of video-game-addiction website.

This is a controversial issue that when first video game was produced. But according to my search and research, William Higinbotham produced first video game named ‘Tennis for Two’  in 1958. In 1962, Steve Russel, a young MIT programmer invented ‘SpaceWar’ which was the first video game ever invented for computer use. For using on TV sets, Ralph Baer created first video game called ‘Chase’ for TV sets. SpaceWar was liked by many guys at that time. After the great launch of PC (Personal Computer), playing games has appeared to be craze or something like addiction among youngsters. People especially kids love to enjoy playing games at home. In this desperate world of distress, if someone gets happiness by playing games, it appears to be great thing to do.

But there are disadvantages of playing these video games too. In playing games, youngsters waste their lots of energy and time. After playing a lot, they watch the time and say, “Oh it’s ___am or pm, I didn’t realize…” All this addiction leads them to discontentment and discontinuity in life. There are also social adherence too. You are playing your favorite game and suddenly, you listen a calling tone, you notice your close friend is making a call to you. You watch back to your PC-Screen and dont receive the call. You might think, “I’ll receive the call after completing this round of game.” This slowly makes you away from your social circle. Parents also get worried and talk from different perspectives that you may not feel good at them.

Apart from excessive use of PC games, these are also hazardous in growing a kid up. Most of the gamesare of fighting ones. Kids playing fighting games become distracted mentally. Their blood circulates more than that of an averege person. Their minds are filled with blodd, murders, fights & other illegal activities. Users in lots of games is supposed to kill many innocent person in the game in order to reach the final destination (round). And once, you are in final round of the game, you are to kill lots more fellows to win the game. According to video-game-addiction.org, “Today on Amazon.com, one of the most popular video games being sold is titled “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.” In this game, players can take on the role of either a U.S. or British soldier who is sent to military “hot spots” to defeat the world’s most dangerous enemies. Like other games in its genre, the images are near lifelike and the violence is graphic. As the level of violence in video games has increased, so has concern for the effects on those who play – especially those who play a lot. Many are quick to point out that most school shootings in recent years have been carried out by avid gamers, and their games of choice were always dark and violent.”

There are many stripping games (Adult Games) too in the market. In these games, user, after completing rounds gradually, gets reward of one item of clothes of girl removed.  According to Wikipedia, “Strip games are party games, usually involving more than one player, where players remove clothes when they lose a card hand, points in a game, or otherwise fail to come out ahead.” Such games can be very dangerous for the guys who are not still mature. They cannot resist being away from the opposite sex. So these games are also sex appealing. But what to do? Such games demanded by people are being produced by producing companies. And this willl continue untill users are organized, rationalised and awared of all consequences games can cause.

Let Them Learn Themselves, Finally

I bet you have also tried to advise someone like your friend, brother, niece or nephew, son or daughter or even any stranger. But result was a damaging behaviour. You cant help the ones who dont want to be helped. In this article you are going to learn why you should let them go and let them learn all the cold things by themselves, finally.

I do sure that in life sometimes, you have come across the people who dont care about any kind of your help. They dont follow pieces of your advice.
Elders advise but youngsters just ignore and carry on. And this is not confined to youngsters only. Sometimes, they get embarrassed at others’ help. Reasons can be many One of those is; you are not helping people etiquettely i.e. the way you are helping can be irritating for them. Another reason is that you are too much helping them. And in the end if you find nothing like two above given reasons, then there’s always one reason; ‘They dont want to be helped’, so let them learn by themselves, finally.

I have two friends; Irfan & Mehran. Irfan is (also) uncle of Mehran. Mehran is keen to make lots of girlfriends. Irfan tries to stop him, thinking his career is damaging because of this habit. He advises, advises a lot, by different ways; telling him about the mis-haps and bad consequences of all this. But Mehran is the one who doesn’t put an ear to Irfan’s pieces of advice. Even now Mehran has begun to avoid him, at last. He doesn’t accept him as his friend or nephew or a well-wisher. Why? Actually Mehran doesn’t want to be advised. Sometimes, some people see nothing except what they want to. They are crazy about things they love whether those ones are bad. They learn no-sooner or never. Jinah Poonja once told his son Muhammad Ali Jinah (Founder of Pakistan) the two ways of learning in life:
1. You, follow the pieces of advice given by elders.
2. You, learn by doing all things by yourself.
But he also told his son that first way is better as it saves time and energy. Now it is upto you; choose option one or two. But I’d advise you (as I know you probably follow advice) to save precious time and energy by choosing option one.

Finally, I’d like you to share your experiences related to this in comments.

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Nature is Beauty

Have you ever seen sun coming out in the morning? Have you been in the jungle or a garden? Have you come across some delivery of a baby? You might be thinking that I’m joking or so. And let me ask one more question “Have you ever pondered over these natural phenomena?” We normally dont put any attention to them actually. Do you know why is so? Yes. Because there’s perfection and beauty in nature that we really think it’s normal.

Suppose if natural phenomena become abnormal. Everything will change. Everything means every thought and every act. But how beautifully nature has shown its beauty in those everything around us or someone else’s. Sun lights up our world. The beauty is exposed in its light. Flower blossoms giving its youth to weather. Fruit get riped and we eat and even use them for different purposes. Life revolves around nature. Because nature itself gave birth to life. And this is a universal fact that only life can feel and see the beauty as life itself is a beauty. Nature is beauty and if we deeply think the nature is infact ‘HE-The-Only’ who’s beauty and loves beauty as said in Quran,
“Allah is beautiful and loves beauty”

Leaders are made!

Leadership is defined as the ability to get others to follow you willingly. I’m neither a leader nor an expert of the subject ‘Leadership’. I just have some ideas to share which I am sure you’d like to consider to bring out a leader in you.

Lots of people are of view that leaders are born. A leader is made, not born. Even you can be a very good leader at your present or recquired level. What you are supposed to do as a leader is to follow simple instructions given out here.

First, let’s take Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinah’s way ‘Unity, Faith, Descipline’. Add determination and commitment also. Try to unite people by giving strong arguments. Strong argumentation recquire good studies and experience. Strong studies come from reading books, googling related search, attending trainings, workshops etc. While experiences come from putting yourself in related situation or interacting to already experienced person(s). Keeping faith in what you’re doinf. Keep faith in you. Possibility of achieving goals is directly proportionalto how much you keep faith in you. Stay organized. This keeps you to stick to your goals. Getting yourself disciplined means to get others diciplined. This also makes you popular in your field. Commitment and determination are also one of the five pillars earlier discussed. Always fullfill your commitments and to your goals come what may.

A good leader is the one who listens to new ideas calmly. Opennes is one of the core qualities of a good leader. Yesterday, I happened to join a political open meeting. There the leader at the stage faced complaints, criticism totally new ideas and suggestions from totally new audience. But all was fine at the moment. Actually, this all was made fine by the leader with ability to listen to new things with smile and patience. Another technique he utilized as “the use of humor”. People become bored sometimes and dont respond you positively. This detracks the people and sometimes leader himself/herself too. The best trick to tackle this is to use humor. The use of humor definitely causes the people to smile and to feel better. Now calm people will follow and listen to you with more attentive and peaceful mind. People also praise this behavior even if you’re not with them anymore.

Focus on what went wrong and why. Evaluate your words&actions. This strongly stimulate people to follow you and even stand by you during even hard times. There’s always a room for perfection. So improve things, then improve the unimproved things and so on to make yourself more improved leader.

You must prove yourself a good leader by putting ‘attention on work-in-hand’. You can prepare a to-do-list on your mobile-phone, notebook or a laptop for you. Through this, you become an insipiration for people around you. Take responsibilities and ultimately people get hope which is a good sign for your leadership.

Prove that you’re alive. You’ll consider this ridiculous but yeah I mean it. Express what you dislike and like with strong argumentative background. Stand for a cause.

No To Valentine’s Day

Again Valentine’s Day has arrived. Again young people are seen in parksm hotels and other private rooms. Media also has designated this as ‘Love day’ to make it more popular among our society. I think there’s very short amount of love they have as they express their love in small, secured rooms confined to one person or so. I don’t know what kind of love they’ve.
Now let’s have a critical look on this day with different aspecrs and perspectives that whether it’s really a love day and how much is it important to us Muslims.
First of all let’s have a look according to historical perspective. There’s no historical background which is accepted by all with accredited facts regarding this day. According to some prestigious publications, Valentine is collective name of martyres. First Valentine was of Rome and 2nd hailed from Terni. It’s said that Roman Emperor Cladius || executed Valentine on Feb 14 496 AD for he against the will of Emperor arranged for marriages of non-married people. In Emperor’s view, only non-married people could create a good army for his empire. Another Valentine of Terni was also executed by King-of-that-time for not converting from Christianity to Paganism. Point here to be noted is that Valentine was originated from history of Rome which is Western Country and all events were about history of Rome, Christianity or Paganism, than why we guys celebrate this day when it doesn’t belong to us!

Acording to religious perpective it doesn’t have not any background and is not permissible in Islam. Acording to Wikipedia, it is traditionalannual commemoration held on Feb 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. So this is just traditional day – not the religious one. Now the question is ‘Wheather it’s not religious, is it permissible in Islam?’ answer is ‘As discussed earlier this is celebrated by intimate companions and intimate companions are the ones who have emotional and physical relationship with each other. They can be spouses but at the same time they can also be other than them ‘Na-Mehrams’ as called by Islam. So according to Islam we cannot even see Na-Mehrams, so being Muslims how can we celebrate love with Na-Mehrams.’ and this is what the most of the Muslims know very well. Now another question is created that ‘Is its celebrations permissible for spouses?’ answer to this question is ‘Yes but why only on this fixed day/date. Change date&name of this day so that its historical, cultural and traditional connection to the West finishes.’ Apart from that we’re Muslims and we have our own festivals and we don’t need any invented and newly established festivals like this as this day was also established by christian Pope Gelasious | in 496 AD.

Let’s see it through social aspect, it is said that this day is celebrated to express love and affection through different ways. And those different practices I’ve observed are:

<3 Exchanging cards, confectionary, messages through various media.

<3 Having dating, romance and even sex

<3 Other immense vulgar ideas are also on Internet.

So do you really think all this suites our society?
In the end thinking economically, for celebrating this current Valentine's Day 17.6 billion dollars have been consumed according to Guardian Statistics. All for what? All for love? If so, why don't we donate all this amount of money to any welfare organizations or distribute this among the needy to EXPRESS LOVE TO WHOLE MANKIND.

Every Sunrise Brings New Hope

Sunrise With New Hope

Essay: “Every Sunrise Brings New Hope”

“Every sunrise brings new hopes for people.” It is the natural phenomenon that the whole world enjoys.
According to Wikipedia, It is the “feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best”
When we talk about ‘Sunrise’ and ‘New Hope’ actually sun gives advantageous light due to which our Earth gets life. It is the center of the solar system. In the same way, ‘New Hope’ is the center of existence of life, giving light to it. Sunlight is always symbol of new hope. A new day of life starts with it. When a man’s failures and circumstances are killing him, a new hope pops as a new soul. Hope is a key concept in all the religions. Allah Tala has selected ‘dawn’ as the time for Fajjar Prayer so that sunrise may be viewed. This also depicts the importance of sunrise and its relation to new hope.
Research has emerged showing the relationships between several psychological constructs and health. Optimism is one of these concepts and has been shown to explain between 5–10% of the variation in the likelihood of developing some health conditions. Sunrise is an encouraging sign. Walking is the lightest form of exercise. The best morning walk is the one that is begun with sunrise. The one who does so, lives longer. According to researches, hope in the mind brings peace and new ways to explore wonders of the nature. The relationship between hope and health has also been studied with regards to physical symptoms, coping strategies and negative affect for those suffering from diseases like asthma and fibromyalgia.

Jeff Goins an English writer and National Geographic Adventurer says,
“As humans, we need hope. We can’t live without it.
It is the lifeblood to our spiritual survival, and the only thing that pulls us out of the deep trenches of the pain and hurt if life.”

In this world everyone feels disappointed and stressed because of ‘not having enough time to work.’ But this is actually mis-management of time as most of us get up late in the mornings when almost half day has finished and now we have a pile of work to do in a less time. One who can sustain hope in him, can live in all kinds of circumstances as he knows that some way is always out there. Person lives a fit life when he rises early in the morning. A working day always starts with new hope. If hope dies, work dies, and when work dies, life dies.
The one who gets up before sunrise to see its view postponds his old age. He can work longer and harder, he doesn’t feel tired. Rather he feels active and happy.He loves to work.The one who holds the hope in him, has brain that is always clear. Hope is one of the keys to Success.
Emily Dickinson has beautifully said,

“Hope” is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all”

Back from hostel!

This is fairly difficult to write about past because you cannot justify with every moment of it. But it’s necessary to pay tribute to the most respectable parents and teachers and lovely friends who made/tried to make my life beautiful and successful.This is fairly difficult to write about past because you cannot justify with every moment of it. But it’s necessary to pay tribute to the most respectable parents and teachers and lovely friends who made/tried to make my life beautiful and successful. That’s a universal truth that every moment of life brings new experiences.
Two year a fairly long period of B.Com and that of hostel life was totally a new experience for me. Start was very enthusiastic to explore hostel memories and the people around. After sometime, all was not new anymore and I adjusted. But before this ‘sometime’I missed my home a lot. Even I cried thinking that why I’m alone here.
Meeting new people in college premises and getting new ideas was also great. During the 2 year hostel life, I really have found those moments who can cause my smile today and the days after. I alongwith different friends like Azhar Abbas bhai, Tamour Yousuf, Ahsan Shabeer, Salman Tarique, Bilawal and others went to different places and did different things whatever wanted, but being in limiting circle. Sometimes we forget to thank the guys who make our life happy in theri own simple ways. I really appreciate them for being a part of my hostel and educational life in Multan(2009-2011). Today is just an ordinary day, nothing is really special. But tribute to all friends for being around. I always love their company, I’m so blessed that I met them (specially 4-idiots*). Tribute to all teachers during terms of B.Com and room-mates, sessions-mates, class-mates, college-mates and friends for adding beautiful & bright colors to my life.
The period I enjoyed with teachers and classmates at RISE School of Accountancy, Multan and with other friends & jigars in & outside the hostel(s) will always be in my mind. I’m sure that I have committed mistakes to them, but I’m also sure that they will pardon me as they are great. I solute to the greatness of the most kind and respectable teachers and loving friends who ignored my idiocies.
During the B.Com, I came to learn both (Bad&Good) ways to live a life. May God bless all my friends (Specially 4-idiots) to adopt only good ways to live. New secretes of life were open to my eyes during the term. Some people are of view that as input you consume time & money and as output you get only a job or so for the short period of lifetime. But fact is; in return you get a whole student life and learnings which is not a bad deal (exchange) of course. Some brand new terminologies are ever-lasting memory like ph.d, lpcgd, bujh gai etc.
Man learns from hostel life a lot; you should not be over-possessive, materialistic and sometimes over-flexibale for some circumstances as all that glitters is not gold. Meet everybody with sucha smiling friendly behavior that he might wish to meet you again in life. Learn to face the difficulty in life because you cannot hide realities for longer period of time.
Some confessions are; I dont celebrate birthdays usually, but during the last two years at Multan, my birthdays were celebrated by my friends – one of which was celebrated in the street with some pastries only exactly at 12:00 AM 18-Oct-2011 by Azhar Bhai with Imran Saleem and me. we (I with my friends) used to watch almost all the hit movies (of that time) at cinema. We used to sing & shout with felicity on roads, streets and chowks.

Peace and People

Peace which we often talk about is not what we just say, rahter it’s what we do and observe. It’s something more then the mere end of fight in the society. Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Peace is a simple but fascinating word in sturcture but in its meanings it’s one of the most complicated terminologies incorporating different forms into it i.e. liberalisation, justice, development, simplicity, unity, rationality, harmony, high ethical values, prosperity, individual flexibility and the list continues. For any society to enjoy peace, developmental strategies and projects are needed to be carried out. Because through these strategies and projects, two things are born:
1. Hope to live better.
2. Employment.
Due to hope to live better, people are stimulated to work. That work makes money to dwell life better and thus peaceful atmosphere is created. While no hope and no employment create worse condition where people have got two options:
1. To Be Pessimist
2. To Be Optimist
There’s undoubtedly very strong and direct relationship between social welfare work and peace. In this regard, youth has got much importance because a single young guy is actually a complete generation as s/he is to produce, reproduce and so on. In the world of frustration, the most told falsification is “I am fine.” Peace is what the whole world badly needs today. For that purpose, every individual is recquired to engage himself/herself into some fruitful activity. Not only governmental departments or NGOs but also every individual has to play a very crucial role to create peace and ultimately preserving our world. Without bricks and blocks, you’ll never be able to construct a building, so is the case with individuals and society. First, every individual has to be peaceful in his/her daily life. Second, some more active members of the society must do some developmental task and awareness programmes for the welfare of other people, as Holy Quran says,
“And s/he’s the best who brings about profit for other people.”
By doing this, they will not have time to involve themselves into anti-peace activities. Third, some more active special groups of society must investigate the reasons behind inhumane acts and then create awareness among the guys who are responsible for that. After all doing this, we’ll live in an ideal peaceful society but for achieving all this, first step is a must step.

Nawabi Sochien

Thoughts of having a king-like, luxurious & royal life are here called Nawabi Sochien. Youth will have to quit thinking like this. Having desires and dreams of having Mercedes, BMWs, Honda’s Accord etc. doesn’t change your status. Is our status & respect limited to these luxurious things only? Are these materialistic things compulsory for a respectable life. Personality of a person does not depend upon having Blackberries, Chevrolet or any other costly cellfones, cars, dresses etc. Chinese people make much use of bicycle to go around. Why cant we? To travel around we should make us of Public Transport and just walk through the lanes, if needed. Respect does not go down by doing these humble & simple things. Patrol consumption will be lessened through this and ultimately we are contributing to the development of our country, so we must be happy and proud to do so.

Life – the Gift by Allah

Thanks to God that I can touch, I can listen, I can see, I can smell, I can taste. Definitely it’s a beautiful gift by Allah Almighty that He’s provided me with Life. I can walk, I can talk, I can move where I want to. Now this is my will that where I’m gonna go to. What I talk about is my choice.

Valentine’s Day for us!

Valentine's Day - A Slap of The West

Today is the Velentine’s Day Feb. 14. First of all, let’s have a look at the short history of Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day according to Wikipedia, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions, established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD. Valentine is the collective name of several martyred saints of ancient Rome. Saint Valentine was arrested and imprisoned upone being caught marrying Christian couples and aiding Christians who were at that time being prosecuted by the Claudius in Rome. Helping Christians at that time was a crime. Point here to be noted is that this day totally belongs to History of Rome and Christian Society. This day has no religious background, rather it’s traditionally a day in which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offerings, confectionary, and sending greeting cards.

Throughout the world, celebrations for Valentine’s Day are observed. West has prevailed its traditions through a fairly sophisticated term called “Globalization”. Golobalization & modernization is nothing but a trap of the West. Some redical feminists started a social work for saving women and they replaced the taditional Valentine’s Day with the V-Day. The V-Day website proudly states that the ‘V’ stands for Victory, Vagina and Valentine. Surely ‘Vulgarity’ should also be added to the list.

In Pakistan its celebration is increasing poularly. This owes to Pakistani Media to a large extent and to the people of IRP(Islamic Republic of Pakistan). Media is imposing the days like Valentine’s Day, Basant etc as we cannot live without them. Television Channels are promoting westernized society thus killing our own identity. Non-Mehram girls & boys openly meet on Valentine’s Day which is a funereal of our culture. Celebrating this day encourages BF/GF (Boyfriend/Girlfriend) culture which totally unlawful in Islam. It’s imitating of anti-Islamic culture and cause of vulgarity.
Noble Prophet (SAW) said,
“Whoever imitates/resembles a people/nation is one of them”
Valentine’s Day is rite of immodesty. The development (positive-modernisation) is only through virtuousness, modesty & chastity. We must boycott the days/events like Valentine’s Day to avoide character destroying.
Romance & love has a definite position in Islam and we should not discourage to show them but that they should be in purest form as directed by Islam. Concluding these facts, I must say Islam is the complete religion so there’s no need for invented-opinions/events to celebrate. We must also realize that we are a separate nation established on Islamic Ideology. Spread Love But In Its Purest Form.
Jazakallah!

My Blogging in 2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2010. That’s about 3 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 26 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 96 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was February 10th with 42 views. The most popular post that day was About Me.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were abdulrauf.net.tc, zzsst.co.cc, slashingtongue.com, obama-scandal-exposed.co.cc, and facebook.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for www.abdulrauf, barkat of shabe barat, andul bakra, shabe barat, and golden wordz.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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About Me February 2010
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My Photos July 2010
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Salient Points of 2010-2011 Budget of Pakistan June 2010

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Friends February 2010

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My Favourites February 2010
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Animals – For Sacrifice on Eid ul Azha

1. The animal has to be one of the cattle approved by the Sharia (Cow, Camel, Goat, Sheep etc.)
2. The animal has reached the required age. The adult age is: (a) One year for a goat, sheep, lamb (b) Two years for a cow (c) Five years for a camel.
3. The animal is free from an obvious defect like a one-eyed animal whose defect is obvious, a sick animal whose sickness is obvious, a lame animal whose limp is obvious and an emaciated animal that has no marrow in its bones
4. The animal is in full possession of the one who is offering the sacrifice; i.e. it is not stolen or taken by force, not of joint possession or held in pledge
5. The animal can not be sold or given away once selected or bought for sacrifice, unless exchanging for something better.

3 Reasons That A Girl Wana Marry

There’re three things that a boy must have if he wana get married with a girl. 3 Top attractions that a girl wana marry with you, man:

1-Your Status
2-Your Attitude
3-Your Beauty

1-Your Status is the most important thing in your life towards which a girl is attracted. Well, in our society, status includes Family Status, Monetral Status, Social Status. Family Status refers to a good, honorable family while monetral status refers to what you have in your bank account, wallet, property and what kind of secure job you have. Your status is more appealing as more and more money and security of job you have. And I think it’s not bad if parents of girl(s) want their daughter(s)’ future monetrally secured. It’s quite natural attraction for a girl[or girl's parents] that her husband should be able to provide her [& her offspring afterwards] with clothing, food and a home to live in with peace, for which money does matter. I am rather not saying that girl or a girl’s parents should be materialistic, there’re other things too, that play very vital role in matriamonial life/decisions.

2-Your Attitude also does matter.

I stopped searching for God today (via "I Am Who I Am.")

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Because I realised He is here. Today I stopped asking who He is because I can see He is the One who manifested Himself in Nature. And we are part of nature, even though we're trying to deny it. Some people speak about the law of attraction. Well, I would simply call it the law of Love. … Read More

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