INTERVIEW – Celik: Stronger than Steel / Interview with legendary bodybuilder Petar Celik by Djuradj “George” Vujcic, Canadian journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of the Urban Book Circle.
Petar Celik is a Serbian bodybuilder born on December 25, 1949 in Belgrade. He completed elementary and secondary school in Backa Palanka. He was Mister Serbia and Mister Yugoslavia eighteen times, a European Champion three times and a World Champion ten times. He acquired the title of bodybuilding professor in Belgrade in 1998 after acquiring the title of higher coach two years earlier at the Faculty of Physical Culture in Novi Sad. He was an associate professor of bodybuilding at the Higher School for Sports Coaches in Belgrade, he founded the first bodybuilding club in Yugoslavia in 1971 and he currently works as a fitness trainer in the Petar Celik Institute of Pliancy in Novi Sad. In this interview with the Urban Book Circle’s editor-in-chief Djuradj Vujcic, the Father of Serbian Bodybuilding as he is often called spoke about his beginnings, correct nutrition, a healthy way of living and the importance of spiritual and physical.
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Celik: Stronger than Steel
– Interview with legendary bodybuilder Petar Celik –
Petar Celik is a Serbian bodybuilder born on December 25, 1949 in Belgrade. He completed elementary and secondary school in Backa Palanka. He was Mister Serbia and Mister Yugoslavia eighteen times, a European Champion three times and a World Champion ten times. He acquired the title of bodybuilding professor in Belgrade in 1998 after acquiring the title of higher coach two years earlier at the Faculty of Physical Culture in Novi Sad. He was an associate professor of bodybuilding at the Higher School for Sports Coaches in Belgrade, he founded the first bodybuilding club in Yugoslavia in 1971 and he currently works as a fitness trainer in the Petar Celik Institute of Pliancy in Novi Sad. In this interview with the Urban Book Circle’s editor-in-chief Djuradj Vujcic, the Father of Serbian Bodybuilding as he is often called spoke about his beginnings, correct nutrition, a healthy way of living and the importance of spiritual and physical.
Djuradj Vujcic: Mr. Celik, how did you decide on bodybuilding? What was bodybuilding like at that time?
Petar Celik: I began pursing bodybuilding in a way which was the only way possible back then as that was before the affirmation and recognition of that sport in the country at that time – Yugoslavia. The first National Championship was held in Belgrade’s Trade Union Hall in 1968 although I began bodybuilding four years earlier. There were no books, no clubs, no trainers, no one at that time knew what bodybuilding even was. I had an older friend, by descent a German, and he was receiving magazines from Germany and that was the way we were acquiring knowledge – reading that foreign literature. Of course, that wasn’t enough, but it was “something.” Along with that, I watched foreign movies like Hercules with American actor Steve Reeves in the main role and Reg Park too. They had developed bodybuilding figures which inspired us here. Later there was an actor too by the name of Mark Forest… Even Sean Connery was a competitive bodybuilder but not many people know that here. Before the first National Championship, the magazine Tempo published lessons about exercising to develop muscles and that was a very sought-after text. Everyone awaited Wednesday to buy that magazine because that was the day it arrived at kiosks throughout the country.
Djuradj Vujcic: Who did you look up to when you were starting out?
Petar Celik: When I was starting out, I tried to model myself after Steve Reeves. Later I was more stylistically oriented towards Frank Zane and Arnold Schwarzenegger. After I realized that I should go my own path and develop my own model of a future champion. I stopped copying others and in fact, that’s when things turned around for me. In 1972, I began publishing my magazine called Hercules – the Yugoslavian magazine for a healthy, strong and nicely shaped body. At first it had a circulation of 3000 copies but about ten years later that grew to 57,000 copies. Later, I wrote books, had a small factory that made protein supplements, I competed, and I was the most popular and most successful bodybuilder from Yugoslavia.
Djuradj Vujcic: There’s an urban legend that Celik (which means steel in Serbian) isn’t your original surname. Is there any truth in that?
Petar Celik: My surname Celik is a surname that’s hundreds of years old and it’s older than the arrival of the Ottomans in our region.
Djuradj Vujcic: How important is sacrifice in bodybuilding? It seems to me that many people say they want the bodybuilder physique but they aren’t ready for certain sacrifices?
Petar Celik: As a youngster, I pursued music. Alongside gymnasium I also graduated from the Lower Music School but I realized that there is no point in being a jack of all trades. That means that one path should be chosen at the right time, and one should persistently follow it and pursue it until the end. That’s how you succeed! Without sacrifice, you cannot succeed not only in sport but in anything. It’s necessary to be hard-working, disciplined, industrious, persistent, to learn languages, read literature, travel, measure up against other successful people and so on.
Djuradj Vujcic: How important is nutrition and can someone get a healthy body naturally?
Petar Celik: Experts agree that success in bodybuilding depends even up to 80% on what or how you eat. Many think that it’s enough to train and that results will come by themselves after a certain amount of time. But one should learn the secrets of correct nutrition from the standpoint of health and the standpoint of sport. Learning that and using that path, I acquired the knowledge and that was why I was in the position to have my own protein supplements store.
Djuradj Vujcic: Is there too many chemical substances in bodybuilding today? Did that kind of thing exist earlier?
Petar Celik: When I was starting out, no one knew anything about that. Even years later. That came from the West. Everything about that over there is meant to make money and that’s why means are not chosen. They say about Americans that in the first half of their life they sell their health for money then, if they succeed in that, in the second half of their life they want to buy their health back with that money. But it doesn’t work. Health is to be taken care of while you still have it and sports should contribute to that and not harm your health.
Djuradj Vujcic: How important is it for young people to be physically active? Today in the Western world we can see an obesity epidemic among children. How important is it for children to be healthy?
Petar Celik: Young people and children playing sports is of national interest – under the condition that our statesmen are patriots and that they understand this fact. Namely, the human body is created in a way that the condition that “we’re healthy” is that we’re physically active because when someone doesn’t partake in physical activity – whether it’s through their job or through sport – then the body of that person suffers and if that goes on for a long time it leads to degeneration and illness!
Djuradj Vujcic: Today, young people read books less and less. How important is it for young people to read and to work on themselves not only physically but mentally every day?
Petar Celik: I’ve always read and educated myself. I do that even today. For me, that’s something I put under the “must” category. It’s only a question of whether or not someone wants to get muscles or if they want something in their head as well because focusing only on what you eat and how your muscles look is a limitation in understanding the world and one’s own position in the world. People think that if they build their figure that all doors will be open for them, that they will be rich – which is all a big fallacy. One thing is building up your body and your muscles and another is knowing to place yourself in public or knowing how to position yourself in society or knowing how to materialize all that. Among all this, it takes many years during which it’s important to remain HEALTHY – in your mind and in your body. And on that test many usually fall and they fall usually due to limitations of the mind which is tightly related to reading, studying – with general knowledge. Not just knowledge from sports.
Djuradj Vujcic: People often say that they don’t have money for bodybuilding. Does a person have to break away from trying to survive financially to pursue bodybuilding? Is an existential battle a challenge or an excuse?
Petar Celik: For someone to pursue bodybuilding, it’s not necessary for them to have serious financial standing. Namely, if someone is to go to the gym, that costs less per month than what some people spend on cigarettes and the occasional drink at the bar. That is in regards to having access to gym equipment so you can pursue the sport. OK, someone will say “and food?” Food is expensive because many who don’t do bodybuilding spend quite the amount per month on food. Now, to orient ourselves, let’s take a monthly salary of 30.000 Serbian dinars/RSD (399 CAD) as an example and let’s assume that person doesn’t have to pay rent using this salary – assuming they live with their parents’ apartment or house and that they don’t live alone. Therefore, that person from the aforementioned 30.000 RSD can spend 15.000 RSD (189 CAD) on food. From that money, someone can spend 10.000 RSD (126 CAD) on eggs. How many eggs can you buy with that money? When you buy eggs in bulk at places where they do re-sales, for 10.000 RSD you can buy 1100 eggs. That’s 37 eggs and 37 eggs is more than what is necessary for bodybuilding. But, to be sure, that sum covers enough eggs per day and with that enough protein for someone who is a serious bodybuilder. So, 5000 RSD (63 CAD) remains for other foods – because we didn’t spend the entire 10.000 RSD on eggs. With the remaining money, people can buy fruit – obviously the less pricey kind. When apples are in season, that’s a kilogram of apples per day. Taking into consideration that on average, apples at a market in the Winter cost 70 RSD (88¢ CAD) per kilogram, 5000 RSD multiplied by seventy gives us 71 kilograms of apples – an amount nobody needs for a duration of thirty days. Meaning, even half of that is too much. This leaves us 2500 RSD (32 CAD) because we’re not going to spend all our money on apples. So, along with apples and with the remaining 2500 RSD monthly (that’s the minimum that remains as we didn’t eat all the eggs or all the apples) we can eat cabbage, carrots (because they’re cheap but healthy) every day and along with that we can eat the occasional garlic or onion, parsley leaves or celery leaves. That would in effect be enough which goes to show that someone who really doesn’t have enough money – if we assume that person has 15.000 RSD month for food – that using this rationalized way of eating, they can satisfy their food needs to progress in bodybuilding.
Djuradj Vujcic: How much do you follow today’s bodybuilders? Does Serbia have bodybuilders that can continue the tradition that you started?
Petar Celik: The problem with today’s bodybuilders – whether in Serbia or in other countries – isn’t in the training but in the fact that the majority of them have a problem with understanding how to orient themselves in regards to how they will pursue bodybuilding. Will it be a in a recreational or competitive manner and what is the path for the latter – if they decide on the latter. They’re young, inexperienced and they’re misguided by propaganda which stems from American sources. That’s a long topic…
Djuradj Vujcic: Was there prejudice against bodybuilders from Eastern Europe when competing outside of Yugoslavia?
Petar Celik: Yes, there were instances of that, of course. But if you’re good and if you’re dominantly better, then you win or in 90% of the cases you win. I mean, I’m not claiming that there aren’t rigged competitions – there are – but one who is persistent and doesn’t give up after the first few losses, that person will have a successful career over time. Of course, for that you need enough years of appearances at competitions.
Djuradj Vujcic: In one interview, you said that people in the past used to live a lot longer. What changed so that people today live shorter and unhealthier lives?
Petar Celik: Earlier in history, people did live longer but they had healthier living environments, they ate only natural and organic foods, the water was unpolluted and the air was cleaner. People have been removed from nature a lot. They don’t sleep when it’s time for sleep. The night shift is an attack on your health and no one has to accept that and if they do accept it, it can only be for a specified amount of time and later they will find a better job. Electricity in the house has changed a lot of things for the better but civilizational progress has a price. The price is health. People get sick. For example, if we look at nature, animals are almost always healthy. While humans lived in tune with nature, it was the same case. Today we have places where sick people go – in large numbers. And from that, a business has been made. Those places aren’t called health centres, they’re called hospitals meaning you go there to be among other sick people. That is the wrong conception. There, they don’t heal you from the causes of your sickness, they remove the consequences. That has become sick as an idea as doctors are paid for sickness and not for recovery and it’s not in their interest for everyone to be healthy. The concept implies that there should be as many sick people as possible as that progresses pharmacy as an industry. Medicine itself has become commercial economic food. That’s what happens when people are exclusively oriented around money. That will ruin the world if people don’t become aware and if they don’t return to traditional values. People should be spiritual, familial and they should try to correctly raise their children. So that others don’t do that in their stead. This is why people have become cruel, soulless, materialists. The body is material but that is also why we should say: IN A HEALTHY SOUL – A HEALTHY BODY!
Djuradj Vujcic: Were the ancient Greeks right when they said a healthy body in a healthy spirit?
Petar Celik: No, that’s a big fallacy. The truth is that the spirit is more important and that the spirit determines the body and not the other way around. The state of the spirit is decisive in regards to circumstances that it’s necessary to first win against your own self and that’s a requirement for success in anything as it is in sport.
Djuradj Vujcic: Why is it so important to you to spread your knowledge to everyone who is interested? You even hold free seminars…
Petar Celik: I’ve entered the eighth decade of my life. I’ve gathered a lot of knowledge and experience and I don’t want to take that with me to the grave. I’m also a patriot, I love my country and my people and I want to help them with my potential. I’ve been in sports over half a century and I’m aware of the advantages that has given me therefore I would transfer my positive experience as a message to the young. That means that they have the freedom of choice but that choice must never be laziness, passiveness, the path of least resistance or nirvana. The selection should lead to progress and by that I mean a healthy way of living, the knowledge that someone who wishes to succeed but doesn’t have money, or an in, when they don’t have behind them a political party, or their family, or money that – with hard and correct work and with persistence – they can achieve a result in sports and can become well-known and recognized and can even materialize that in a certain extent. We have Novak Djokovic as an example. Of course, for that to happen, it’s not enough just to have big muscles but brain cells as well so we return to that ancient thesis that it’s necessary to have a balance between spirt and body. That means you should first meet yourself, find your measure in everything and you should recognize what area you not only want but “can you” succeed in. That should be recognized on time. That’s half the job because who doesn’t understand that at a young age, it’s too late for them. Sport isn’t my only recommendation. It’s useful to recreationally play sports but it’s important to be ambitious and when you choose something – anything – then you should do that as best you can and prove yourself in that field! We are all on this World with some task and it’s important to understand on time what the task is and to go on the correct path. If we know that path, we will save a lot of energy and time and we will be closer to our goal. We’ll be happy when we feel that because it’s nice being successful and being accepted by others as successful!
Djuradj Vujcic: Mr. Celik, how did you decide on bodybuilding? What was bodybuilding like at that time?
Petar Celik: I began pursing bodybuilding in a way which was the only way possible back then as that was before the affirmation and recognition of that sport in the country at that time – Yugoslavia. The first National Championship was held in Belgrade’s Trade Union Hall in 1968 although I began bodybuilding four years earlier. There were no books, no clubs, no trainers, no one at that time knew what bodybuilding even was. I had an older friend, by descent a German, and he was receiving magazines from Germany and that was the way we were acquiring knowledge – reading that foreign literature. Of course, that wasn’t enough, but it was “something.” Along with that, I watched foreign movies like Hercules with American actor Steve Reeves in the main role and Reg Park too. They had developed bodybuilding figures which inspired us here. Later there was an actor too by the name of Mark Forest… Even Sean Connery was a competitive bodybuilder but not many people know that here. Before the first National Championship, the magazine Tempo published lessons about exercising to develop muscles and that was a very sought-after text. Everyone awaited Wednesday to buy that magazine because that was the day it arrived at kiosks throughout the country.
Djuradj Vujcic: Who did you look up to when you were starting out?
Petar Celik: When I was starting out, I tried to model myself after Steve Reeves. Later I was more stylistically oriented towards Frank Zane and Arnold Schwarzenegger. After I realized that I should go my own path and develop my own model of a future champion. I stopped copying others and in fact, that’s when things turned around for me. In 1972, I began publishing my magazine called Hercules – the Yugoslavian magazine for a healthy, strong and nicely shaped body. At first it had a circulation of 3000 copies but about ten years later that grew to 57,000 copies. Later, I wrote books, had a small factory that made protein supplements, I competed, and I was the most popular and most successful bodybuilder from Yugoslavia.
Djuradj Vujcic: There’s an urban legend that Celik (which means steel in Serbian) isn’t your original surname. Is there any truth in that?
Petar Celik: My surname Celik is a surname that’s hundreds of years old and it’s older than the arrival of the Ottomans in our region.
Djuradj Vujcic: How important is sacrifice in bodybuilding? It seems to me that many people say they want the bodybuilder physique but they aren’t ready for certain sacrifices?
Petar Celik: As a youngster, I pursued music. Alongside gymnasium I also graduated from the Lower Music School but I realized that there is no point in being a jack of all trades. That means that one path should be chosen at the right time, and one should persistently follow it and pursue it until the end. That’s how you succeed! Without sacrifice, you cannot succeed not only in sport but in anything. It’s necessary to be hard-working, disciplined, industrious, persistent, to learn languages, read literature, travel, measure up against other successful people and so on.
Djuradj Vujcic: How important is nutrition and can someone get a healthy body naturally?
Petar Celik: Experts agree that success in bodybuilding depends even up to 80% on what or how you eat. Many think that it’s enough to train and that results will come by themselves after a certain amount of time. But one should learn the secrets of correct nutrition from the standpoint of health and the standpoint of sport. Learning that and using that path, I acquired the knowledge and that was why I was in the position to have my own protein supplements store.
Djuradj Vujcic: Is there too many chemical substances in bodybuilding today? Did that kind of thing exist earlier?
Petar Celik: When I was starting out, no one knew anything about that. Even years later. That came from the West. Everything about that over there is meant to make money and that’s why means are not chosen. They say about Americans that in the first half of their life they sell their health for money then, if they succeed in that, in the second half of their life they want to buy their health back with that money. But it doesn’t work. Health is to be taken care of while you still have it and sports should contribute to that and not harm your health.
Djuradj Vujcic: How important is it for young people to be physically active? Today in the Western world we can see an obesity epidemic among children. How important is it for children to be healthy?
Petar Celik: Young people and children playing sports is of national interest – under the condition that our statesmen are patriots and that they understand this fact. Namely, the human body is created in a way that the condition that “we’re healthy” is that we’re physically active because when someone doesn’t partake in physical activity – whether it’s through their job or through sport – then the body of that person suffers and if that goes on for a long time it leads to degeneration and illness!
Djuradj Vujcic: Today, young people read books less and less. How important is it for young people to read and to work on themselves not only physically but mentally every day?
Petar Celik: I’ve always read and educated myself. I do that even today. For me, that’s something I put under the “must” category. It’s only a question of whether or not someone wants to get muscles or if they want something in their head as well because focusing only on what you eat and how your muscles look is a limitation in understanding the world and one’s own position in the world. People think that if they build their figure that all doors will be open for them, that they will be rich – which is all a big fallacy. One thing is building up your body and your muscles and another is knowing to place yourself in public or knowing how to position yourself in society or knowing how to materialize all that. Among all this, it takes many years during which it’s important to remain HEALTHY – in your mind and in your body. And on that test many usually fall and they fall usually due to limitations of the mind which is tightly related to reading, studying – with general knowledge. Not just knowledge from sports.
Djuradj Vujcic: People often say that they don’t have money for bodybuilding. Does a person have to break away from trying to survive financially to pursue bodybuilding? Is an existential battle a challenge or an excuse?
Petar Celik: For someone to pursue bodybuilding, it’s not necessary for them to have serious financial standing. Namely, if someone is to go to the gym, that costs less per month than what some people spend on cigarettes and the occasional drink at the bar. That is in regards to having access to gym equipment so you can pursue the sport. OK, someone will say “and food?” Food is expensive because many who don’t do bodybuilding spend quite the amount per month on food. Now, to orient ourselves, let’s take a monthly salary of 30.000 Serbian dinars/RSD (399 CAD) as an example and let’s assume that person doesn’t have to pay rent using this salary – assuming they live with their parents’ apartment or house and that they don’t live alone. Therefore, that person from the aforementioned 30.000 RSD can spend 15.000 RSD (189 CAD) on food. From that money, someone can spend 10.000 RSD (126 CAD) on eggs. How many eggs can you buy with that money? When you buy eggs in bulk at places where they do re-sales, for 10.000 RSD you can buy 1100 eggs. That’s 37 eggs and 37 eggs is more than what is necessary for bodybuilding. But, to be sure, that sum covers enough eggs per day and with that enough protein for someone who is a serious bodybuilder. So, 5000 RSD (63 CAD) remains for other foods – because we didn’t spend the entire 10.000 RSD on eggs. With the remaining money, people can buy fruit – obviously the less pricey kind. When apples are in season, that’s a kilogram of apples per day. Taking into consideration that on average, apples at a market in the Winter cost 70 RSD (88¢ CAD) per kilogram, 5000 RSD multiplied by seventy gives us 71 kilograms of apples – an amount nobody needs for a duration of thirty days. Meaning, even half of that is too much. This leaves us 2500 RSD (32 CAD) because we’re not going to spend all our money on apples. So, along with apples and with the remaining 2500 RSD monthly (that’s the minimum that remains as we didn’t eat all the eggs or all the apples) we can eat cabbage, carrots (because they’re cheap but healthy) every day and along with that we can eat the occasional garlic or onion, parsley leaves or celery leaves. That would in effect be enough which goes to show that someone who really doesn’t have enough money – if we assume that person has 15.000 RSD month for food – that using this rationalized way of eating, they can satisfy their food needs to progress in bodybuilding.
Djuradj Vujcic: How much do you follow today’s bodybuilders? Does Serbia have bodybuilders that can continue the tradition that you started?
Petar Celik: The problem with today’s bodybuilders – whether in Serbia or in other countries – isn’t in the training but in the fact that the majority of them have a problem with understanding how to orient themselves in regards to how they will pursue bodybuilding. Will it be a in a recreational or competitive manner and what is the path for the latter – if they decide on the latter. They’re young, inexperienced and they’re misguided by propaganda which stems from American sources. That’s a long topic…
Djuradj Vujcic: Was there prejudice against bodybuilders from Eastern Europe when competing outside of Yugoslavia?
Petar Celik: Yes, there were instances of that, of course. But if you’re good and if you’re dominantly better, then you win or in 90% of the cases you win. I mean, I’m not claiming that there aren’t rigged competitions – there are – but one who is persistent and doesn’t give up after the first few losses, that person will have a successful career over time. Of course, for that you need enough years of appearances at competitions.
Djuradj Vujcic: In one interview, you said that people in the past used to live a lot longer. What changed so that people today live shorter and unhealthier lives?
Petar Celik: Earlier in history, people did live longer but they had healthier living environments, they ate only natural and organic foods, the water was unpolluted and the air was cleaner. People have been removed from nature a lot. They don’t sleep when it’s time for sleep. The night shift is an attack on your health and no one has to accept that and if they do accept it, it can only be for a specified amount of time and later they will find a better job. Electricity in the house has changed a lot of things for the better but civilizational progress has a price. The price is health. People get sick. For example, if we look at nature, animals are almost always healthy. While humans lived in tune with nature, it was the same case. Today we have places where sick people go – in large numbers. And from that, a business has been made. Those places aren’t called health centres, they’re called hospitals meaning you go there to be among other sick people. That is the wrong conception. There, they don’t heal you from the causes of your sickness, they remove the consequences. That has become sick as an idea as doctors are paid for sickness and not for recovery and it’s not in their interest for everyone to be healthy. The concept implies that there should be as many sick people as possible as that progresses pharmacy as an industry. Medicine itself has become commercial economic food. That’s what happens when people are exclusively oriented around money. That will ruin the world if people don’t become aware and if they don’t return to traditional values. People should be spiritual, familial and they should try to correctly raise their children. So that others don’t do that in their stead. This is why people have become cruel, soulless, materialists. The body is material but that is also why we should say: IN A HEALTHY SOUL – A HEALTHY BODY!
Djuradj Vujcic: Were the ancient Greeks right when they said a healthy body in a healthy spirit?
Petar Celik: No, that’s a big fallacy. The truth is that the spirit is more important and that the spirit determines the body and not the other way around. The state of the spirit is decisive in regards to circumstances that it’s necessary to first win against your own self and that’s a requirement for success in anything as it is in sport.
Djuradj Vujcic: Why is it so important to you to spread your knowledge to everyone who is interested? You even hold free seminars…
Petar Celik: I’ve entered the eighth decade of my life. I’ve gathered a lot of knowledge and experience and I don’t want to take that with me to the grave. I’m also a patriot, I love my country and my people and I want to help them with my potential. I’ve been in sports over half a century and I’m aware of the advantages that has given me therefore I would transfer my positive experience as a message to the young. That means that they have the freedom of choice but that choice must never be laziness, passiveness, the path of least resistance or nirvana. The selection should lead to progress and by that I mean a healthy way of living, the knowledge that someone who wishes to succeed but doesn’t have money, or an in, when they don’t have behind them a political party, or their family, or money that – with hard and correct work and with persistence – they can achieve a result in sports and can become well-known and recognized and can even materialize that in a certain extent. We have Novak Djokovic as an example. Of course, for that to happen, it’s not enough just to have big muscles but brain cells as well so we return to that ancient thesis that it’s necessary to have a balance between spirt and body. That means you should first meet yourself, find your measure in everything and you should recognize what area you not only want but “can you” succeed in. That should be recognized on time. That’s half the job because who doesn’t understand that at a young age, it’s too late for them. Sport isn’t my only recommendation. It’s useful to recreationally play sports but it’s important to be ambitious and when you choose something – anything – then you should do that as best you can and prove yourself in that field! We are all on this World with some task and it’s important to understand on time what the task is and to go on the correct path. If we know that path, we will save a lot of energy and time and we will be closer to our goal. We’ll be happy when we feel that because it’s nice being successful and being accepted by others as successful!
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