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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 21, 2010?

43 free events take place on Friday, May 21 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 21 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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43 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, May 21, 2010

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Concert | Teen Sensations: The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato


The Jonas Brothers (pictured) -- Kevin, Joe and Nick -- gained popularity from the Disney Channel children's television network. In the summer of 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel movie Camp Rock. The band has released four albums: It's About Time, Jonas Brothers, A Little Bit Longer, and Lines, Vines and Trying Times. They have sold over eight million albums worldwide. Demi Lovato, best known for her role in Camp Rock and its upcoming sequel, released her debut album Don't Forget in 2008. Her second album, Here We Go Again, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. Those attending are advised to arrive at 6:00am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Concert | The Script, Irish Rockers


The Script are an Irish alternative rock band from Dublin. Currently based in London, the band released their debut album of the same name in August 2008. It includes their big hit "Breakeven."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 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. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Concert | American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings: Working Rehearsal


Program: MATTI KOVLER: Unsung Serenade HANNAH LASH: Furthermore ERIC LINDSAY: Samba Koocho Hairy Boocho TAMAR MUSKAL: Water Colors RICARDO ROMANEIRO: Sombras CHRISTOPHER STARK: Ignatian Exercises XI WANG: Symphony No. 1 American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is pleased to announce the seven winners of its 19th annual Underwood New Music Readings. Seven of the nation’s most promising composers in the early stages of their professional careers have been selected from more than 100 submissions received from around the country. The Readings are under the direction of ACO Artistic Director Robert Beaser. The conductors are music director designate George Manahan and José Serebrier; mentor composers are Derek Bermel, ACO’s Creative Advisor, Robert Beaser, ACO's Artistic Director, and George Tsontakis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Lower Manhattan Walking Tour


New York City's best and funniest walking tour. This high-energy tour will take you through the heart of the Lower Manhattan, entertaining you, your friends and family with stories, hidden secrets and relevant information about the Big Apple. The USA’s first capital city, a center of global finance and a tribute to over two centuries of immigration and the American experience - New York City's history is the history of America. And on every step of our tour, expert guides - part professors, part performers - will explain why.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Open Computer Lab


Are you having trouble with your email? Don't know how to cut and paste? Curious about Twitter? Bring your technology questions and get one-on-one assistance!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Screening | The Cholera Paradigm: Infectious Diseases, Climate, and Poverty


Rita Colwell presents two films, Invisible Seas and Coming Clean on Sanitation, which demonstrate the need for an interdisciplinary approach to providing clean water through sustainable and appropriate practices for resource poor environments and to prevent the spread of cholera.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Viola da Gamba Workshop


Renowned musician and teacher José Vázquez is going to give a viola da gamba workshop. The participation is possible not just for viola da gamba players, but rather open to other instruments as well. Existing ensembles are welcome too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Online Social Networking


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn about online social networks and explore some of the most popular websites, including Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
   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
$6

Fair | Street Fair


   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Times Square Tour


Learn about history of world-famous neighborhood with its 40 miles of neon supersigns, prominent theaters, and multiple megastores. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Investing In Stocks: The Basics


Introduces basic investment terms and concepts such as risk and reward, IPO’s, p/e ratios, and relative p/e ratios. Ways to approach the investment decision and alternative stock investments such as mutual funds and ETF’s are discussed. Seating is limited and is on a first come, first seated basis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:15 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Ragtime Piano with Terry Waldo


Ragtime expert and stride pianist, Waldo is protégé of the late Eubie Blake. He has produced over 40 albums and wrote the definitive book This is Ragtime. Along with the book came a 26-part series with the same title for National Public Radio, which fueled the 1970's ragtime revival.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | Advanced MS Word


Learn to create documents and reports using this word processing program. Topics include: mail merge, headers & footers, footnotes & endnotes, Introduction to MS Word is a prerequisite.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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
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Workshop | Fencing in the Park


Take a stab at the modern sport of fencing with masters from Manhattan Fencing Center. No prior experience needed and equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Pacific Heritage Films


Daily screenings of films including "Rolling Down Like Pele" and "American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i "
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Performance | Theatre for One


This is a portable, 4-foot-by-9-foot performing arts space for one performer and one audience member that turns public events into private acts, making each performance a singularly intimate exchange. Theatre for One will be presenting magic, poetry, dance, puppetry and theatre pieces created specifically for this venue. Open Hours are 1—3, 4—6 and 7—9pm. Performances are 5-10 minutes long. Weather permitting. Entrance inside the booth is on a first come first serve basis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Classic Swedish Cinema: Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966)


With Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann and Gunnar Björnstrand. A famous actress is stricken with a psychosomatic loss of speech and placed under the care of Nurse Anna at an isolated seaside cottage. After a time, the relationship between the nurse and her patient results in the merger of the two personalities until the nurse begins to exhibit the symptoms of her charge. 81 min. In Swedish with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Teach Yourself Using Online Resources


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore Library databases and free websites that will help you learn a variety of skills and subjects. Prepare for many academic, civil service and professional licensing exams using LearningExpressLibrary, available from home with your library card.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Screening | Pacific Heritage Films


Daily screenings of films including "Rolling Down Like Pele" and "American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i "
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Investment Choices: What is Right for Me?


This class is designed to help investors focus on their goals, to recognize the potential risks and rewards of different investments, to teach some basic information about different asset types, and to help match individual goals to investment choices. Also, review useful information sources.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Film | Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno & Kurt Engefehr's The Yes Men Fix the World (2009): The Joke's on Who?


The film consists of a several pranks on major corporations and governmental agencies that are performed by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (in real life, Jacques Servin & Igor Vamos) who fancy themselves serious anti-globalization activists. The two pose as executives from Exxon, Dow Chemical, Halliburton and the H.U.D. They give faux corporate interviews pretending to be Dow executives in which they supposedly announce setting up a $12 billion fund for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal disaster that killed 1,773 people. The BBC fell for this prank and aired the faux interview. This caused Dow's stock plummet. Our mindless heroes celebrate their power, but fail to realize that most of Dow's stock is held by pension funds; in other words, regular working class retirees. The dynamic duo conveniently found a few such victims who claimed to enjoy the hoax and its impact on Dow's stock. 87 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Author Reading | John Logan discusses his Tony-nominated play Red


Logan will talk about his history as a writer, how Red came to be and take questions from the audience. Logan has written 14 plays including Never the Sinner, Hauptmann: Speaking in Tongues; Scorched Earth and John LoganRiverview. His new adaptation of Ibsen's The Master Builder appeared on the West End in 2003. Logan's work as a screenwriter includes Sweeney Todd (Golden Globe award); The Aviator (Oscar, Golden Globe and WGA nominations); Gladiator (Oscar, Golden Globe and WGA nominations); The Last Samurai; Any Given Sunday, and RKO 281 (WGA award, Emmy nomination).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Waterfront and Ship Tour


Come tour the museum’s latest exhibition on the great French ocean liner SS Normandie. Educators will guide you through the exhibit while music of Cole Porter and D’jango Reinhardt take you back to the 1930s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Screening | Experimental Films by Maya Deren


Maya Deren (American, 1917–1961) was a visionary of experimental film in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren, who received the first Guggenheim Foundation grant for “creative work in the field of motion pictures” and formed the Creative Film Foundation to broaden support for experimental film, made and self-distributed her own films until her untimely death at the age of forty-four. Films: Meditation on Violence 1948. Directed by Maya Deren. Music arranged by Deren. 12 min. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti 1977. Compiled and edited by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito, from footage shot by Maya Deren in Haiti. 50 min. Program: 62 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Reading | Girls Write Now


Girls Write Now is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing guidance, support, and opportunities for New York City's underserved or at-risk high school girls. The events feature NYC high school writers, the professional writers who mentor them, and special guest speaker Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of Picking Bones from Ash.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Mary Ellen Carroll discusses her book MEC


Despite an oeuvre spanning more than twenty years and a disavowal of any signature style, Mary Ellen Carroll has throughout her career been investigating a single, fundamental question: what is a work of art? The resulting multifarious, provocative and often wry outpouring in architecture, writing, performance, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, sculpture and painting has been collected into this book, the conceptual artist’s long-awaited first monograph.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | The Art Bazaar


The Art Bazaar opens its doors this weekend to 20 unrepresented artists to exhibit and sell their work. A great opportunity to discover and buy new and unique artwork directly from the artists under one roof.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Jazz | Blues/Jazz Band: Alex Levin Trio


Originally from Philadelphia, Levin has performed as a leader and a sideman for the last fifteen years. He has played with multiple vocalists and instrumentalists since returning to New York in 2001. He has appeared at clubs throughout the city, and can most frequently be found leading his own trio at such clubs as Kavehaz, Detour, Rue B and Night and Day. Besides leading his trio, he performs regularly with vocalists Ayana del Valle and Heather Moran. He has composed numerous pieces, and has arranged music for top vocalists, including Paulette McWilliams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Celebrating Jazz Cultural Theatre, the Jazz Venue


One-on-One with Barry Harris & Willard Jenkins, plus a Barry Harris short film.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Deborah Asiimwe's Forgotten World: Child Soldiers


Directed by Liesl Tommy. This multimedia play investigates the lives of child soldiers in Uganda and other international areas of war. The play follows six dead children through the eyes of a photographer who captures the children's memories through images, while considering her conflicting role as artist and activist. Forgotten World explores the boundary between art and exploitation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Sunset Singing Circle


Sing together. Share rounds and folk songs. No experience necessary. All ages welcome. Bring a favorite song. Led by folksinger Terre Roche.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Forum | US Social Forum: Organizing Regional Power


Local folks (activists, organizers, interested strangers) are invited to participate in a five-part series building towards the second United States Social Forum to be held in Detroit this June. Come for discussion and to get started.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Wadji Mouawad's The Sentinel


Acclaimed author Wajdi Mouawad will be joined by his dear friend, actress and singer Jane Birkin, for a special reading of his work. When Birkin and Mouawad first met, they immediately shared a strong bond of mutual respect and admiration, both as artists and humanitarians. Birkin and Mouawad will read Mouawad’s The Sentinel—a personal work written for Birkin—among other pieces. In English & French with English supertitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | MFA II Concert: Student Choreography


A festive finale of works choreographed by recent graduates of the MFA in Dance program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Screening | 3 Short Films by Carolee Schneemann


Viet Flakes 1965. Directed by Carolee Schneemann. Sound collage by James Tenney. 11 min. Fuses 1964–66. Directed by Carolee Schneemann. Silent. 18 min. Plumb Line 1971. Directed by Carolee Schneemann. 18 min. Program 47 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Other | The NYC Spelling Bee


An adults-only spelling bee offering erudite fun to all, returns with co-hosts bobbyblue and Jennifer Dziura. Relive or redeem your grade school humiliations, but with beer! Sign up at 6:30.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Concert | Latin American Music: Magos Herrera


A musical giant throughout Latin America who’s supremely-schooled in combining Mexican, Cuban, Brazilian, and jazz styles into the most compelling amalgamations, Magos Herrera is a treasure, writing “poetic, astonishingly beautiful songs…[that are] bold, thrilling and effortlessly global” (NPR).
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 pm
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Party | GUMBO Party


A monthly party for gay nightlife welcomes guys and gals to what OUT.com calls “one of the hottest new parties in NYC.” With Guest Co-Host Fabulis.com
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 pm
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Open Mike | No Shame Open Mic Performance


Audience, arm yourself. A performance evening unlike any open mic in New York, No Shame grants performers five minutes to blast beyond the normal duties of pleasing, amusing, and entertaining - in fact, performers are encouraged to risk their audience's displeasure, alienation, boredom, confusion, and rage. You, No Shame participant, are invited to read somber fiction onstage, to take a nap, to take off your clothes, to make a sandwich, to describe graphic sexual acts. "Dare to be brilliant, dare to fail." Sign-up at 11:30pm, show at midnight.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 pm
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