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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 12, 2009?

47 free events take place on Tuesday, May 12 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out May 12 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of May . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, May 12, 2009

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Tour | “Amble Through the Ramble”


Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 am
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Lesson | Tai Chi in the Park


A tai chi class are for all ages and experience levels. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Lesson | Yoga in the Park


Yoga classes for all ages and levels. Some of yoga’s benefits include weight loss, deeper sleep, release from pain and arthritis, and a more youthful appearance. Wear comfortable clothing that allows easy movement. Mats are provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Introduction to MS Excel


An introduction to the basic features of Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet program designed for the Windows environment. Topics include entering data & formulas, moving & copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets. Introduction to MS Word is a prerequisite.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$5

Park Walk | “Views from the Past”


As you promenade through the heart of the Park, imagine yourself living in 19th Century New York City. Learn about the Park's history and how its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, struggled to create the magnificent "Greensward" for the enjoyment of all. Tour lasts approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Dancing | Lunchtime Tango


Sneak away for a midday tango break like workers in Buenos Aires do. Beginner's lessons will be provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Jazz | The Gotham Jazzmen, Dixieland jazz


A jazz sextet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


This series features the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Concert | Music for Oboe and Organ


With Jeff Hale, oboe; and Claudia Dumschat, organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$5 suggested donation

Author Reading | Rusty Staub reads from his book, Few and Chosen Mets


Former Met and Hall-of-Famer Staub selects the all-time greatest players in Mets history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Yelena Grinberg, Piano, performs Beethoven's Variations


Program: BEETHOVEN 32 Variations in C Minor on an Original Theme BEETHOVEN 6 Variations in F Major, Op. 34 BEETHOVEN 15 Variations and Fugue in E-flat Major, Op. 35 ("Eroica")
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$5

Book Signing | Roy White & Darrel Berger sign Then Roy Said to Mickey…The Best Yankee Stories Ever Told


Anecdotes of the Bronx Bombers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Tour of “Textural Rhythms” Exhibition


This is a public tour of the exhibition "Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | The Linear Composition Ensemble


Directed by Jane Ira Bloom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Performance | Momus and Aki Sasamoto's “Love is the End of Art”


A performance by Momus in collaboration with performance artist Aki Sasamoto. Momus will take the dual roles of art critic and unrequited lover, framing and critiquing Sasamoto's performance (which involves lectures, potatoes, stretched utensils, and bungee elastic) with a narrative that slips awkwardly between the abstract and the specific, the public and the private. Dressed as a kuroko, a kabuki stagehand, Momus will hover over Sasamoto's performance like a ghost, occasionally breaking off to sing along with a track from Martin Rev's strange 1996 album "See me Ridin." Sasamoto will completely ignore Momus, as a kabuki actor ignores the stagehands bustling around. She originally created her piece within the insular environment of her psyche, where the only type of love she was concerned with was platonic love for her mother. She did not consider how others might frame her. Love is the End of Art exists between Sasamoto's personal intention and Momus's interpretation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Edward Buzzell's Best Foot Forward (1943)


With Lucille Ball, Harry James and Nancy Walker. A cadet at Winsocki Military Academy sends an invitation to a movie star to come to Winsocki's big dance. The star's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. 94 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Cast members from Next to Normal perform


The original Broadway cast recording has just been released.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Staged Reading | “Final Draft 2009”


Final Draft 2009 is a festival of new play readings presented by the MFA Playwriting class of 2009. Today's readings: GreenRiver by Rachel White. Edith is a young math genius trapped in a tiny and crumbling mining town. Forced to care for her ailing father and wildly rebellious sister, Edith has sadly accepted this life as the only she’ll ever know. This fact has put her in danger of becoming permanently cold and withdrawn – until she meets the loner and drifter, Charlie. Charlie sees beneath Edith’s icy exterior, and recognizes her raw talent and dormant ambition, and she is equally drawn in by him. But when Charlie tries to convince Edith to run away with him, Edith must choose between her beloved family and a true chance at freedom. George Washington Performs “Cato” For His Troops at Valley Forge by Paul David Young, directed by Diana Basmajian. At the end of the cruel winter at Valley Forge in 1778, which killed a quarter of his army, when he was weakened by a vicious cabal and deserted even by his youthful admirer the Marquis de Lafayette, General George Washington turned to theater to save the young United States by ordering the performance of “Cato” to inspire the troops. This play dramatizes this turning point in American history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Using Your Personality to Find Work and Success


“Use the Clues of Your Personality to Find a Lifetime of Gratifying Work and Success” - 65% of Americans express dissatisfaction with their work. Join Shoya Zichy, author of Career Match: Connecting Who You Are with What You’ll Love to Do and a past president of the Myers Briggs Association, for a unique interactive session to define your personality group and its implications for your career success. You will take a self-scoring assessment and join others in exercises to learn about your: ideal work environment and boss; natural work-related strengths and potential blind spots; your entrepreneurial style; approach to money and salary negotiation; interviewing strengths; job search tips, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | Design and Sensory Experience


A lecture on the role of sensory experience in design with Anna Barbara. Barbara is coordinator of the School of Fashion and Textile Design at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Other | A Woodlands Wildlife Conversation and Totebag Printing Workshop


Join a fresh alternative to the tired old happy hour scene in this programs for adults. Refreshments are provided and there is plenty of time for mingling. With Maria Hernandez, Wildlife Expert. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Elvis Tribute Show


"The Elvis Tribute Show" is performed by entertainer Steve Charles. "Las Vegas Style" and in full costume, Charles will perform Elvis classics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Keeping Your Relationships Healthy in Stressful Times


Kay Gimmestad leads this interactive workshop that combines discussion and exercises to promote healthy relationships. Participants will have an opportunity to assess the current level of care of their relationships, learn about the conditions that put people under stress, identify the signs and symptoms of stress, get an overview of the "Emotional Competence Framework" as a tool for regulating emotions, become aware of positive communication techniques, learn the rules for fair fighting and create a goal setting plan to put these new ideas into everyday use.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Reading | Sheila Kohler/Dawn Raffel/Victoria Redel/Edra Ziesk, authors


Sheila Kohler is the author of ten books of fiction. She won an O'Henry Prize in 1988 and 2008, as well as the Willa Cather prize in 1998, and was a fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library in 2003-4. Sheila teaches at Princeton University, Bennington College and the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction. Dawn Raffel is the author of Carrying the Body and In the Year of Long Division. A new collection, Further Adventures in the Restless Universe, will be published in March 2010. She is currently Editor-at-Large at More magazine. Victoria Redel is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction including Loverboy, which was also turned into a film. Her latest novel The Border of Truth weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter's awakening to the history and secrets of her father's survival and loss. Edra Ziesk is the author of The Trespasser, A Cold Spring and Acceptable Losses. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Alaska Quarterly Review and Arkansas Review.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Reading | Student Writers Read


Writers and graduating students from the four CUNY MFA Programs in Creative Writing (City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Queens College) come together for readings of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction at the Graduate Center. Join faculty readers Marilyn Hacker and Tom Sleigh and MFA readers Jackie Pervizi, John Reid Currie, Christina Hauser, Neal Gartland, Nancy Haiduck, Justin Earle Turner, Nicole Bufanio, Tina Satter, and Jess Barbagallo for an evening of cross-campus, cross-genre readings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | A Tribute to Poet Jack Gilbert


Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Mary Karr, Henry Lyman, Meghan O’Rourke, Gerald Stern, and others gather to honor the American poet, on the occasion of the publication of his new book, The Dance Most of All.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Chris Gardner reads from his book, Start Where You Are


Gardner is the chief executive officer of Gardner Rich & Company, a multimillion-dollar brokerage with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. An avid philanthropist and motivational speaker, Gardner is committed to many organizations -- particularly those related to education -- and was recently the recipient of the Father of the Year Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Clara Kramer reads from her book Clara's War


Kramer, now 81, was a young girl when Nazi forces invaded Poland in 1941. Kramer and 17 others survived by hiding under what became an SS barracks. Kramer's girlhood diary of the experience is the inspiration for Clara's War. Kramer discusses her new book with editor Virginia Smith.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler read from their book The Crimes of Paris


In 1911 Paris, Detective Alphonse Bertillon, renowned for pioneering crime-scene investigation techniques, is called upon to solve one of the most notorious crimes to hit the city: the theft of the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre. The Hooblers present the true story of that case.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | Futurist soirée


On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Futurism, Enzo Salomone will perform a reading of futurist poems accompanied by the music of the Ensemble Dissonanzen, one of the most interesting bands on the contemporary Italian scene.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lesson | Introduction to Meditation


Intended for all levels. No meditation experience necessary. Sharon Salzberg is the instructor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Jazz | Jazz Voices


Directed by Joan Stiles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Knitting Group


   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | María Celeste Arrarás reads from her book Make Your Life Primetime


Emmy Award-winning Telemundo/NBC star Arrarás delivers a thoughtful collection of candid anecdotes originally intended to be a compass of life for her own three children, but will draw in both the young and old with its intimacy and warmth.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Piano Class Performance


Featuring Bartok's Mikrokosmos Vols 4-6. Geoffrey Burleson, director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Piano Class Performance


Featuring Bartók’s Mikrokosmos, Volumes 4-6. Geoffrey Burleson, director.
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Author Reading | Pulitzer winner Jeffrey Eugenides reads from his book The Virgin Suicides


Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. This unforgettable first novel about adolescence is told by a "collective" narrator whose wry, intelligent voice speaks for an eclectic band of teenage trespassers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Elmore Leonard reads from his book Road Dogs


The author of LaBrava and Out of Sight launches three characters from previous novels on a collision course in this new book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Extension Division Student Composers


This concert will feature new works by Mannes Student composers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Party | Give Peace A Chance


Book launch benefit celebrating the 40th anniversary of John and Yoko’s historic Bed In. With a Give Peace a Song Cabaret. Celebrate the 40th anniversary of John and Yoko's famous Bed-in for Peace 1969 in Montreal. Get a sneak preview of the photo exhibition that will open May 26 in Liverpool. Launch Joan Athey's new book. Brooklyn-born photographer Gerry Deiter, on assignment for Life Magazine was the only photographer there the entire eight days. Special guests Guitar Legend Gary Lucas and composer Steven Lynch will be on hand to add to the proceedings plus more surprise quests. The Cabaret includes a presentation of Bed-in images, a reading from eye-witnesses to the recording of Give Peace A Chance, a special guest -- writer Charles Childs (who worked with Alex Haley on Roots) presents excerpts from his unpublished interview with the couple. Climb into bed and talk peace like John and Yoko did. Local musicians rock the room with their favorite John Lennon songs. This is also a fundraiser for music writer Paul Williams. He sustained a head injury in 1995 while cycling and needs 24 hour care for the dementia that has recently manifested itself.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Concert | SonarSound NY, electronic dance music


With Marcel·lí Antunez, ReacTable, d.a.r.y.l., Del Palo Soundsystem: Griffi + Dj2D2 featuring Aqeel, Fibla + Árbol, Balago, Hidrogenesse, DJ/Rupture and Prefuse 73. Barcelona’s annual Sonar festival is a premiere destination on the international electronic dance music scene. Making its first U.S. appearance, SonarSoundNY takes over with multimedia art: installations, performances, and electronic, hip hop and alternative dance music by some of the most influential talents from New York, Catalonia, and the Balearic Islands.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Jazz Voices


Directed by Janet Lawson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Performance | The Luvely Rae's One Night Stand


An evening of burlesque where naughty novices and experienced ecdysiast entice you to surrender to the possibilities. Audience Participation is advised. Performances by Victoria Privates, Selina Varius, Atta Girl, Ula Uberboosom, Kay Cazzo, Bella Fighetta, Misty Lux and many more! Hosted by: The Luvely Rae
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Café de Concert : Brahms, Mozart, Kreisler, Schumann


Aksel Kolstad, piano; Catharina Chen, violin; Nicholas Gallas, clarinet Program: Brahms Scherzo for violin and piano Mozart Sonata for violin and piano in E minor Fritz Kreisler solo pieces for violin Schumann/Kolstad solo works for piano Brahms Sonata for clarinet and piano in F minor Café de Concert redefines Classical Music: performed with great young musicians the concerts mimic the 18th and 19th century classical performances at cafés, with none of the stodginess that accompanies most classical concerts today, and brings the atmosphere of a rock and roll concert to the music of Grieg, Schumann, Handel and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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