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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 14, 2009?

47 free events take place on Wednesday, October 14 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 October 14 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 October . 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 Wednesday, October 14, 2009

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

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
9:30 am
Free

Workshop | Introduction to Computers


Sign-up for a free email service, obtain an email address, send and receive email. Introduction to the Internet is a prerequisite.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

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

Lesson | Elements of Nature Drawing


Enjoy drawing in the parks and gardens with a professional artist/educator. Materials provided or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
Free

Other | Oral Cancer Screenings


Screenings are on a first-come first-served basis. No appointment is needed. Testing is quick and painless.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Lecture | The Remarkable State of the Polish Economy


Professor Grzelonska will analyze the Polish economy and discuss her views on why it has been less affected by the global crisis than other European economies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

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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12:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bach at Noon: Organ Works


Features the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:20 pm
Free

Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


Tour of this magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Author Reading | Ivanka Trump discusses her book The Trump Card


The key ingredients for reaching goals, building careers, or taking a blueprint and turning it into a breathtaking skyscraper. Trump recounts the story of her upbringing as the ultimate apprentice, the daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump, and shares the life lessons and hard-won insights that have made her a rising star in the business world.
   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
$6

Screening | Documentary: Steve Lawrence and Phil Lucas' Vis à Vis: Native Tongues (2003)


Indigenous performing artists James Luna (Luiseño) and Ningali Lawford (Walmajarri) compare perspectives on life and society, using dialogue via satellite, scenes of their performances, and video diaries to inform the conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bulgarian soprano Sofia Dimitrova performs Handel cantatas


Program: Handel, Un Alma inamorata and La Partenza Dimitrova has performed as a soloist in Andrew Lawrence-King’s production of La Purpura de la Rosa. She will be accompanied in this concert by Carlene Stober, baroque cello, and Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free

Lesson | Figure al Fresco


Learn figure drawing outdoors with a clothed model and an artist/educator. Materials provided or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Steve Lawrence and Phil Lucas' Vis à Vis: Native Tongues (2003)


Indigenous performing artists James Luna (Luiseño) and Ningali Lawford (Walmajarri) compare perspectives on life and society, using dialogue via satellite, scenes of their performances, and video diaries to inform the conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Artists Reverend Billy & Savitri D. talks about their work


A lecture by Reverend Billy, founder of The Church of Life After Shopping, and Savitri D., the church’s director. The Church of Life After Shopping is an organization committed to educating the public about the consequences of unsustainable consumption.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
Free

Concert | Listen to “The Auerglass,” a two-person pump organ


The Auerglass is a two-person wooden pump organ designed by the artist Tauba Auerbach with her friend Cameron Mesirow of the band Glasser. The instrument cannot be played alone. It requires two people to play. One player has to pump in order for the other to play and vice versa. There is a four-octave scale that is divided so that each of the two players plays every other note. Auerbach and Mesirow will play a composition written specifically for the instrument. It combines music that Auerbach wrote as a child, songs from Glasser and new material. Ida Falck Øien, who creates the costumes for Glasser, has created special costumes with shifting states for the Auerglass players to wear.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Stories: Let Your Accomplishments Talk for You, for Your Business and Career


Most of us get our resume together, talk to recruiters, send out letters, practice interviewing and even network. And maybe because that seems like enough, we stop there. But, what impression are you making? Plan to spend an hour focusing on how you say what you say. You can make a stronger impression on your audience by focusing on your message and how you deliver it. In this talk, you will learn to: Isolate the message(s) you want to deliver; Identify your target audience(s); Learn techniques to deliver your message with clarity and purpose. A presentation by Win Sheffield, a career coach in private practice in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | An Artist Dialogue: Night/Shift


The well-known photographer Lynn Saville will engage in a dialogue with internationally celebrated art critic Arthur C. Danto. They will discuss the artist's new book Night/Shift with color photographs of offbeat New York cityscapes at twilight and dawn. Projected images show the progress of Saville's work from her earlier black and white nocturnes. They will also talk about the surprising occasional ghostlike shadowy figures that have begun to appear in her photographs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Craig Pomranz performs from his CD More Than a Seasonal Thing


One of New York's most treasured saloon singers takes you around the calendar year on his new CD.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Designer Dave Gray talks about his work


Gray is the founder and chairman of XPLANE, an information design consultancy. Founded in 1993, XPLANE has grown to be the world's leading consulting and design firm focused on information-driven communications. Gray spends his time researching and writing on visual business, as well as speaking, coaching and delivering workshops to educators, corporate clients and the public. He is also a founding member of VizThink, an international community of visual thinkers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Trajectories of Value in Pintupi Painting: An Incomplete History of an Aboriginal Painting Movement


Fred Myers will illuminate the local contexts in which Papunya Tula painters worked and the meanings and values that guided their art in the early and mid-1970s, when he lived at the remote outstation community of Yayayi in the Northern Territory of Australia. Giving voice to the artists’ individuality as well as their political, aesthetic, and cultural aspirations, he will establish a broad background for understanding their work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Symposium | “1989-2009: Negotiating Revolution & Furnishing Democracy”


Twenty years have passed since the fall of communism changed the world’s political landscape. The school’s unique legacy made it a natural supporter of the emerging democratic thinking that led to the events of 1989, and it remains engaged with development of democracy in the region. This double legacy is celebrated in an evening symposium that includes Adam Michnik, Ira Katznelson, Christopher Hitchens, and Elzbieta Matynia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Amanda Little talks about her book Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells--A Ride to Our Renewable Future


A lecture and book signing with award-winning journalist Amanda Little, who celebrates the successes of our fossil fuel age while exposing its dire consequences— and points out that the American ingenuity that created our dependence on fossil fuels is the same ingenuity that can free us from them. Real solutions are on the way from a new generation of innovators.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free

Concert | An Evening of Piano and Vocal Music


This cocktail-hour concert features the talents of NYU Steinhardt pianists, joined by performers from Vocal and Instrumental Performance. Reception to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Award-winning author Elizabeth Nunez reads from her novel Anna In-Between


Nunez is Provost at Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York, and an award-winning author of seven novels, including Prospero’s Daughter (New York Times Editors’ Choice; 2006 Novel of the Year, Black Issues Book Review), and Bruised Hibiscus (American Book Award).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Fourteen Stations/Hey Yud Dalet: A Drawing Suite


A lecture/poetry reading by artist Arie A. Galles and poet Jerome Rothenberg. This unique artist/poet undertaking consists of Galles’ large format charcoal drawings, and hand lettered poem/drawings of Rothenberg’s Gematria poems written for this suite. Galles’ drawings, based on World War II aerial reconnaissance photographs, map the sites of fourteen Nazi concentration camps. Rothenberg’s poems are based on the numerical values of each of those camp’s names. The creation of these works was based on a conviction that, despite its gross insufficiency to express the horrors that took place, art bears a responsibility to confront the Holocaust. The presentation will conclude with a Q&A session with the audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Islamic Religious Architecture of New York City


With Ronald J. Brown. Since its founding in 1624 as a Dutch colony the religious architecture of New York City has been dominated by stately and even monumental Gothic, Romanesque, Greek and Roman Classical, and Renaissance architectural styles. With the passage of the Hart-Cellar Immigration Law in 1965, immigrants from the Islamic world began to make the city their home. Today Islamic religious architecture has entered the repertoire of New York religious architecture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Job Search Resources at the Library


A guide to using the library's resources and links to help you research careers and look for jobs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Tribeca Film Festival winner Ian Olds on his documentary Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi


The Fixer is a feature-length documentary that follows the relationship between an Afghani interpreter and his American client, journalist Christian Parenti, until Ajmal is kidnapped and executed. Join director Ian Olds, recipient of the Tribeca Film Festival’s 2009 Best New Documentary Filmmaker, and Parenti, correspondent for The Nation and author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq for a discussion about the social and cultural politics of producing journalism from the heart of the 21st century’s killing fields. Moderated by Saadia Toor, Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, and Fiona Jeffries, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Victor Lavalle, award-winning writer, talks about his work


LaValle is the author of Slapboxing with Jesus, a book of stories, and two novels, The Ecstatic and Big Machine. He has contributed essays to periodicals such as Essence Magazine and GQ. His stories have been included in many anthologies. He has received the Bread Loaf Writers’ Fellowship, the PEN/Open Book Beyond Margins Award, and the Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and PEN/Faulkner Award.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Worldly Perspectives with Clyde Haberman (The NY Times) and Jackson Diehl (The Washington Post)


In this popular and candid series that cuts to the heart of world affairs, Clyde Haberman, New York City columnist for The New York Times and veteran foreign correspondent, talks with renowned journalists. Avoiding sound bites and the clichés of studio-bound pundits, Haberman’s more leisurely approach consistently yields thoughtful conversation and insightful observations from many corners of the world. Jackson Diehl joined The Washington Post in June 1978 as a reporter on the metropolitan staff. He joined the foreign desk in 1981, working as a correspondent in three bureaus: Buenos Aires, Warsaw, and Jerusalem. From October 1992 until November 2000, Diehl worked in several newsroom management positions, including assistant managing editor/foreign and assistant managing editor/national. Diehl was awarded the Inter-American Press Association Award for Interpretive Journalism in 1984 for his coverage of South America, and the Bob Considine Award of the Overseas Press Association in 1990 for his coverage of the 1989 revolution in Eastern Europe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her book Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Undermines America


In her latest original take on American culture, Ehrenreich discusses how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has led to irrational optimism and undermined America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Cornel West discusses the book Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud


New York Times bestselling author West is one of America’s most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, West’s penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | German Cinema: Christian Petzold's Ghosts (2005)


Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fall in love, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. 85 min. In German with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Other | Open Mic Talent Contest


Open Mic talent competition with $7,500 in prizes for comedians, singers, spoken word artists, performance artists, magicians and more as performers get 3 minutes to take the floor and wow the audience. Anyone 21-years or older can compete. The performer with the biggest applause wins.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poets Eamon Grennan and Robert Minhinnick read their work


Eamon Grennan is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. His works include Matter of Fact, The Quick of It and Renvyle, Winter. Robert Minhinnick is a Welsh poet, essayist, novelist and translator. His works include A Thread in the Maze, Native Ground and Life Sentences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Viva Las Vegas reads from her book Magic Gardens


Born a preacher’s daughter, Viva Las Vegas is now a one-boobed stripper (after breast cancer) and a storyteller. In her book, she relates her life of wanderlust and the valiance of following one’s dreams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Francine Prose discusses her book Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife


Prose tells the extraordinary story of the book that became a force in the world and definitively establishes Anne Frank as the writer she always knew she was.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Jazz | Jazz: diverse US-Austrian trio


Loescher, Kondert & Brown Trio. This diverse US-Austrian formation presents a mix of Groove, Hip Hop, Soul and Electronic Sounds all in a Jazz Trio Formation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Paul DeBell reads from his book Decoding the Spiritual Messages of Everyday Life: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know


DeBell presents his book. Contemporary and extremely practical, it shows how to bring spiritual intention to bear on daily routines and specific challenges.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Paul Shaffer, David Letterman's Late Show sidekick, reads from his book We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga


The bandleader gives a full behind-the-scenes account of his life and the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Dance Performance | 4 takes on contemp. dance


4 different takes on contemporary dance: Flavia Bruni / Megan Byrne / Kristin Hatleberg / Eunhee Lee
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Master Class | Jazz Master Class: Kenny Werner


This series continues to foster a dialogue between the music world’s most significant and inspired artists and students from the Jazz Studies Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Other | The Inwood Astronomy Project: Look at the Stars through a Telescope


THIS WILL OCCUR ONLY ON CLEAR NIGHTS, SO PLEASE CALL AHEAD TO CONFIRM. Come look through a telescope at the stars. The Inwood Astronomy Project is the largest public outreach program in New York City, hoping to get 5000 New Yorkers to come look through a telescope for the first time. They will be giving away posters, postcards, and other doodads. There is always a telescope to look through, and a knowledgeable astronomer to answer questions. Bring a flashlight for the climb to the hilltop. Call for details.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Jazz | Roland Heinz Quartet


Roland Heinz is a master of combining chamber music with contemporary Jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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