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hash Hello, everyone, this is
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folks, as you know that Ramadan
is going on and I am invited at

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many places to cover the event.
So for this broadcast, I am covering

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the event of MCMF NMCMC and it
is Montgomery County Executive as well as Montgomery

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County Muslim Foundation and the Montgomery County
Muslim Council and their envil lefta dinner which

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was held on April four, twenty
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today, I will show you thirty
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the next on April twenty eight,
I will show you the second one and

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the third part of the series will
be on April twenty seventh. After that

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there will be a couple of places
where I went for Aftar, So that

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So now, folks, this is
the prior of mc MFN MCMC and the

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Neeutenant Governor spoke in it, and
of Maryland as well as the County Executive

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is spoken it. And then there
was a message to know from Honorable Chris

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van Holland, the Senator of Maryland. So you will see the program in

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three parts, and one is today, then it will be followed by NESUI

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on April twentieth, and then it
will be on April twenty seven. So

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please tune in and to let me
know in comments how you like it.

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And this is the flyer and this
is what they gave you know, a

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booklet where it says twenty twenty two
at a glance, faith in action MCMF.

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A flyer having said that now rebels
game. You play play the first

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part of the movie. Hello every
One. This is from Hello Sean Hartley

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line from the Every County Tower.
And here I am and I just wanted

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to play. Yeah, can I
tell you guys? Yeah, I'm from

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Hollywood Radio and Talk fourteen. You
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person every chapter. Actually, thank
you. It will come on my radio

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and TV show. That's why contact
information. Please kindly take your saints.

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Thank you. And I'm the president
of Montgomery County Muslim Foundation. I'm wanted

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to be the MC for the Liftar
event being posted today in partnership with the

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Office of County Exective and Boomery County
Muslim Council. I welcome you all.

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We will begin the program with the
recitation of the Holy Qurana and we hereby

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invite Imam ar Chad to kindly to
a grand recitation and with translation he will

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also doing We're doing the invocation for
the event. Imam Earl Chad is served

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as the Director of Religious and Youth
Affairs at the Islamic Center of Maryland since

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twenty nineteen. He grew up in
Indiana and accepted Islam when he was fifteen

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years old. Imam Chad graduated with
a degree in Islamic and Arabic Studies from

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the College of Islamic and Arabic Studies
and as a university KAIO. I hereby

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by Imam chair and Chad to please
join me on the stage to do the

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desitation. Thank you, Thank you
yes, yes, Imsha Muljian this mean

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Rahman Rahmi even yeah you Laddin man
whom Laddin I mean public lecon yam man

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hu that fam and can I mean
kumarbon al safer in mean am in while

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Laddin and unaun time on his skin
Famon lecum in kunzunt adam shah Ramadan and

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Laddy un ziai hi who then as
you baby hit him mean and who the

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phone upon fam and hid them in
kumolier woman, can I'm even in fair

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don't mean im mean you're real?
You read kumos well it took me took

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had k what you the like everybody? And in heb oji bud fell ester

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gi boony when you mean when you
mean b lahom your shooom sold up the

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long Nati read the translation. Shall
oh you who believe fasting has been prescribed

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upon you, as it was prescribed
upon those before you, so that you

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perhaps might be mindful of God a
prescribed number of days. But those who

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are ill or on a journey,
then lend them fast an equal number of

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days afterwards. For those who can
only fast with this extreme difficulty, compensation

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can be made by feeding a needy
person for every day not fasted. But

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whoever volunteers to give more, it
is better for them. Yet to fast

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is even better for you, if
you only knew. Ramadan is the month

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of the Quran. Ramadan is the
month in which the Quran was revealed as

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a guide for humanity, with clear
proofs of guidance and a standard to to

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distinguish between right and wrong. So
whoever is present during this month, than

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they should fast. But whoever is
ill or on a journey, let them

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fast, and the same number of
days afterwards. God intends ease for you.

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He does not intend hardship. God
intends ease for you. He does

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not intend hardship. So that you
may complete the prescribed number of days and

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proclaim the greatness of God for guiding
you, and so that perhaps you might

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be grateful. When my servants called
upon me, or when my servants ask

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about me, I am truly near. I respond to the caller when they

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call upon me. So let them
respond to my call and to believe in

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me, so that they might be
rightly guided. I mean. So,

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it's with great pleasure and great humbleness
that I stand here to open this less

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gathering of friends, a family of
communities coming together in a time to celebrate

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the gift of our faith, the
gifts of Ramadan. And you know,

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we start by saying thank you to
our friends from the other faith communities.

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Obviously thank you to you know,
our elected officials for putting this wonderful event

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together. But we start with the
prayer, and that prayer is Dear God.

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We ask you, in these moments
of humbleness, in these moments of

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fatigue and thirst and hunger, to
accept our fast. We ask you,

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in this time of humbleness to allow
us to understand that our strength does not

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come from food and water. Our
strength. Our strength comes from our faith,

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our faith in You and in the
principles and the teachings which you have

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guided us to to be better people
and stewards of those around us and the

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world around us. We ask you, in these moments of humbleness to accept

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our efforts. We ask you,
with sincere thankfulness, to bless our communities

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to accept our acts of worship.
We ask you to allow us to be

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messengers of your truth, to show
the world that belief is not in vain,

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to show the world that belief matters, and that belief uplifts people and

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makes the world a better place.
That our belief can make us stronger and

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better even in our differences, in
our disagreements. We ask you to help

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us understand the blessing of community,
the blessing of family, the blessing of

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friendships that we make with those who
are Muslim and those who are not Muslim,

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who see the good in us and
we see the good in them,

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that we might work together to make
the world a more ideal place. A

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minimula Usafia's drain and thank you so
much your mom chat. I would like

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to not invite mister Asa Hussin from
the Magumi County Huston Council to join me

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to welcome all of you. Salam
uaecum, good evening and welcome to our

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family, community members, elected officials, and hopefully category will all fall into

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together. Friends. My name is
Asif Hussein. I'm the president of the

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Montgomery County Muslim Council. We welcome
you here today on this beautiful yet a

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little bit warm spring day to our
annual if Thought event jointly host by MCMF

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Moncgomery County Muslim Foundation MCMC Montgomery County
Muslim Council, and of course our wonderful

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County Executive Mark Eldrich. Thank you
very much for being here today. MCMC

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is focused on promoting civil and political
engagement, representing the Montgomery County Muslim community

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as well as many others in Montgomery
County. It is through this engagement that

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we remain a vibrant community, one
that is well connected with elected officials in

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Montgomery County and across the state of
Maryland. I hope that in the coming

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year you will all see an increase
in your own personal political engagement political affairs

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important election of twenty twenty four next
year. Notwithstanding, please reach out to

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us here at MCMC. We're always
on the lookout for those who are interested

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in getting involved in whatever capacity that
may be. I would be remiss if

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at this time I did not acknowledge
and remember a few tremendous losses that we

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had in our community, specifically to
the MCMC and MCMF families, stalwarts in

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our community about a year and a
half ago, roughly mister to Fail Ahmed

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and just a few months back doctor
Gaila Rahman, both were I cannot do

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justice to what they represent to our
community. To our organizations as individuals.

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But just a little bit they all
mentioned is that they were both had the

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wherewithal to be founding members of MCMC
back in two thousand and one and subsequently

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of mcm in terms of the social
work that MCMF does. Again, they

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were founding fathers of these organizations and
really were at the forefront of promoting will

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some causes across the county and at
the state and the really even at national

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levels. We asked that we remember
them and use their guidance their example to

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help us remember what's important and build
upon the great work that they helped establish.

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And we ask that all of us
remember them and their respective family members

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in your prayers, in your duwas
so we make you off for their mug

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forno, I also would be remiss
if I didn't mention just just I think

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yesterday was are one of our local
beloved leaders, the Imam of Islam Society

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of Washington Area, imm fais Lapon, his wife maymon Han passed away her

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and in fact her Janaza, her
burial prayer and actual purl was actually conducted

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earlier today, So please remember her
and Imaan fais Lapon's family in your prayers

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in your dawas as well. So
I'll turn it back to M Saba here

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for the remainder of the program.
Thank you again for being here today on

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this is our advent. Thank you, and I also joined on behalf mcmf

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to to do the exact sentiments that
fascifist share regarding the Filsa and doctor Denman

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and pail by Mom Faselfan who lost
his wife today. UM now I would

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like to now invite our chair mister
Sultan Choudhri to please come on the stage

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and welcome everyone. Hello, Slavniki, greetings and shallow and peace. Such

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a wonderful evening to welcome you on
a Sunday spring but someone like weather and

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of course thank you for missing all
the TV show that's going on because of

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us, happened in New York.
But it's our joy in our gratitude that

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all our leaders elected and social leaders
could be here to be with us to

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celebrate the blessings of Ramadan. Ramadan
career. It's been distinguished pleasure to welcome

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you our own community members then community
at large in Monty County which is our

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home, as our my colleagues.
Before we expressed the sentiments of the loss

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of our two leaders. I would
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I feel humble standing before you as
chair of FMCMF. Where to Finham used

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to stay so I could never feel
his shoes, but I worked closely with

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both the leaders to find mad Then
Aquila Raman, I worked at the grocery

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stores, collecting food for them,
for the needies, volunteering in different things,

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building community, students, doctor killer
Rahman and many other offers that the

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love and I'm sure there are souls
will be happy to see we are continuing

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the spirit and journey. We'll also
keep our minds Fasulkhan and Mona and Agam

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and her husband and all others that
are bereaving on different causes. This is

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my moment to recognize our elected leaders
that have come to this great gathering,

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local, county, state and federal. Our hearts off to them, and

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I also want to recognize the couple
of ambassadors. They're supposed to be here.

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I don't see them, but but
they didn't confirm that they should be

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here. Mister convey my heart fail. Thanks to the volunteers, donors,

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faith leaders, students, county employees
and all who do so much in helping

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us continue work to achieve our vision
to create a hunger free, hate free

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society. Want to thank our sponsors
who are some of them are here for

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helping us to organize this event.
Their names will see at the back of

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the program agenda, so they're all
good people. We've started this year to

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get some sponsors. I want to
have special thanks to our Asia coordinator Magamenta

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County E. K. Chase of
Faith and our ministern coordinating from the County's

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office. The great people that help
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I'll take a moment to call upon
the audience and beyond those who are not

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yet MCMF member, be members,
get involved, help the community and the

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society, and in a few minutes
we'll see the activities that we do help

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people, those who will need seniors, youth and all kinds of activities.

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So help. And there's no greater
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the volunteers. Were all a volunteers
survives a volunteer and everybody that will see

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volunteers. Of course, we are
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resident of this County. I've been
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I've raised three kids going from Elemtory
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in their own professions, primarily medical
professions. So at this moment, I

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want to take the pleasure and honor
to introduce our County Executive, Mark Alridge

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to come to the stage. And
we all know him, but as he

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was, I will read a little
bit of his in Choke County Executive Mark

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out Ridge is in the second term
at the Montgomery County Executive. He previously

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served three times on the Montgomery County
Council as an at large member, first

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electing two thousand and six. He
served as a Techoma Park City Council member

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from nineteen eighty seven to two thousand
and six. For seventeen years, he

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was a teacher at Rolling Terrace Elementary
School in Tekoma Park. Perhaps that's why

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he is so humble, easy to
reach, and I always think he's guidance.

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As a matter of fact, last
week I was standing here and asking

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his council on different matters. County
Executive court Ridge has focused on overarching vision

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pubmic markam County a more equitable and
inclusive place to live and work. He

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is skillfully addressed the recent pandemic and
the many consequences of businesses and residents and

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workers. Recently, among many other
initiatives, he began and re imagining public

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Safety task Force with diverse community members. We are proud to call him our

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county executive and have him as our
friend. Let's welcome County Executive Mark pel

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Ridge and looked like to many many
days and years of working together. So

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is everybody enjoying the tropical setting we
have prepared for tonight. This is quite

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accidental, I assure you. It's
not so easy to turn on the air

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conditioning and turn off air conditioning in
a building like this. And who was

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expecting the summer today? I was
expecting summer today. So I want to

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thank you all for inviting me here
to talk. I've been working with your

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community for a long time and I
say you do amazing work in this community.

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I want to acknowledge the earlier mentioned
of the people who were lost and

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to Fail Hmad, doctor Rahman and
Faisal Khan's wife. But I just want

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to call you know kind of a
special attention to the role that to Fail

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played and the role that doctor Rockman
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as many of you know, Ranford
County Council and the same year I ran

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and at one to Fail did not
prevail, but to vail and I that

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we were both running for four seats, actually wound up talking about each other

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when we were in these debates.
We were not arguing. We're like,

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we agree with each other. And
but what failed that he was the first

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Muslim to step forward into the community
and take a political stance and to fail.

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What's very deliberate about that. He
understood that the way to gain acceptance

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in a society that is not always
as welcoming as it should be is to

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stand up and say who you are
and who we are, and to call

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on us to come together as a
communicate. And that's what to Fail did.

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And his loss is certainly a major
loss in this community. And I

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was like, doctor Rachman did the
same thing. He didn't run for office,

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but he ensured that there was political
engagement, that the Muslim community was

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aware of the issues that were in
Montgomery County. And he was a powerful

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voice for justice. And I still
remember the conversations I had with him as

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he probed to understand better things that
he didn't know but he wanted to know.

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And I appreciate the ability of somebody
to not be certain about everything,

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but to be able to try to
learn from who's around them. And I

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thought, you know, we've had
great Muslim leaders here and brought us to

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a much better place. I believe
every time I think you know people here

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from my office, Yen is our
Asian liaison, Aba Elberai is with Muslim

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community, and k Chance is our
faithfully as on. So we have three

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important people who make a point of
being making sure that your community is engaged

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with everybody else in Montgomery County.
And I think you and I appreciate over

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the years that when one community was
attacked, the ability of all communities to

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come together. And I would say
it's one remarkable thing about this country on

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a good day, except for some
people, is the ability of everybody to

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recognize the common humanity of everybody else. And you'd be engaged in a project

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to try to build a society in
which everybody has a place, that everybody

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is recognized for the value and the
worth they bring to the table, and

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that we can all work with each
other. And your community has certainly been

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exemplary and that I thank you for
your health clinics and to remind people all

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the time that your health clinics serve
more non Muslims than Muslims. And it's

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another example of a contribution to the
entirety of the Montgomery County community. And

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I think it's important that everybody in
the county understand the role that you all

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have played here. I'm happy to
be here to celebrate Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarik.

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Thank you very much for coming,
and I'm glad the county and good

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host. Like I said, I
wish it was cooler in here, but

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it is what it is, and
we'll get by the evening. I'm sure

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this is, you know, really
significant holiday and it's nice to be sharing

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food together and to share conversations with
each other there. And I've always look

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forward. I've been coming to these
events for years. I'll be going to

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a number of iftars over the coming
weeks. Make sure I probably see every

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mosque in the county over the coming
weeks. It's important that you all see

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us out in the community, that
you just don't come to us, but

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that we also come to you.
And I wanted you to know that I

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take this seriously and I understand the
importance of everybody feeling respected and included in

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this community. I don't want to
thank this community for helping us get through

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the worst of COVID. I'm not
going to say COVID is over. I

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got Timothy friends who are still getting
COVID, so it's clearly not over.

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But the worst of it seems to
a pastor. Now, I stood with

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you in Gaithersburg giving out food to
people who needed food. I've been in

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your clinics. I've seen the work
you've done on first when we are trying

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to get people tested so we could
figure out who had of it, and

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then when we're giving out vaccines,
and you've played a continual role in making

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sure that this county got through COVID
as well as we did. And we

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wouldn't have succeeded if it hadn't been
for people in this community. How every

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community did what we did. So
I appreciate everything you've done from a Germy

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county, all the work you do
to make this an inclusive and welcoming place

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that I want to assure you,
and I know I speak for everybody on

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the Council and in county government,
that all of us are committed to building

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the community where we all see each
other and as part of a common thread,

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engaged in a common pursuit of building
a better society and making sure that

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everybody has a place and a role
in that society. So again, thank

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you for giving me a couple of
minutes. Thank you for being here,

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and I'll be back up three a
proclamation and I'm going to guess having last

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going to come up next. Thank
you very much. Thank you County Executive

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Mark el richere cet a big support
to MCMA, friend to the entire community.

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And today we are where we are
is because of the support of our

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county executor and the county council member. So thank you so much. Please

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give them a big handy. Now
I'd like to invite our council member,

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President Evan Glass, who's also friend, a great friend of the community.

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He's president, a large member of
the Mine at large member of the Mencomery

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County Council. He's the first openly
LGBTQ individual to serve on the council of

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this role now in his second term. Council President Glass is a chair of

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the Transportation and Environmental Committee and a
member of the Economic Development Committee. Evan

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Glass has volunteered with us many many
times on food drives. So thank you,

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thank you, please join me.
Thank you very much, Slava.

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Good to see you all Aslama lacom
you know. First off, thank you

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to mc MF and to mc MC
for helping organize this evening's event and for

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all the work that you do in
our community. It is so appreciated not

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only by those who seek your services, but by the diverse community that we

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all call home here. And before
I go further, I want to recognize

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a number of my colleagues who are
joining me here this evening. Council Member

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Sydney Kats is here, Council Member
Gave Albernaz, one of our new council

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members, Kate Stewart, another new
council member, Don Ludkei, and Council

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member Lauranne Sales is represented by her
chief staff and thank her. I have

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the honor of serving as president for
what is the largest and most diverse council

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we have ever had here in Montgomery
County. But we can there's always room

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to increase that diversity, and in
the coming years. I hope we get

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to add a Muslim member of the
council. So we've had work to do

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here to add to our beautiful diversity. But it is also Holy week.

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Not only are we in the holy
month of Ramadan, but we are about

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to embark on Passover and also on
Easter on Sunday, and I look forward

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to celebrating this at the Iftar with
all of you tonight and tomorrow. And

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at this time there is a commonality. It's about introspection, it's about mindfulness,

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it's about humility, and I think
that is what all of us bring

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and all of us need to be
mindful of as we do work with our

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neighbors and create this community that is
loving and compassionate and caring. And so

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as we continue celebrating the holy month, as we celebrate Eastern Passover, we

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have to keep those feelings and motivations
close to us because we have to be

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good neighbors. And as we celebrate
our beautiful diversity. All one point one

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million people here in Montgomery County,
recognizing that the four of the ten most

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diverse communities in the entire country are
here in Montgomery County. It is why

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we all choose to live here,
to be good neighbors, to care for

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others, and to be compassionate in
our work. And I just want you

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all to know that the Council will
continue being good partners with each and every

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one of you. We will continue
being compassionate, not only in our policies,

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but in our budgets as well.
And we're about to embark on that

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converse station, a six point eight
billion dollars budget that is full of compassion.

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And so I hope that we get
to hear from you in the weeks

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ahead as we talk about turning our
compassion into action. But for this evening

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and for the rest of this month, I want to say thank you and

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look forward to celebrating with all of
you. Cheers, the folks. It

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was about one of empty emty a
far like the breaking of the fast and

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in elaboration. County Executive disorganized organization
does it every year. And this show

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was dedicated to the founder of MCMC
NMCMFA orly I used to call him the

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fair Uncle and his beautiful wife Sitanti, who are no more with us.

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Stanti and the fill Uncle listening in
heaven. This is dedicated to you and

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also their daughter, Samina Emma is
my best friend. So Samina, if

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you are listening, this is dedicated
to your wonderful parents. Having said that,

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friends, now I want to remind
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