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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 10, 2010?

44 free events take place on Friday, September 10 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 September 10 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 September . 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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44 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, September 10, 2010

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. 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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Workshop | Resumé Lab


Hands-on using wireless laptops. Use this supervised lab time to create and save a resume in Microsoft Word. Assistance with document formatting and proofreading will be available. Please bring a written draft of your resume and a USB drive to save and print your resume. (Please note: This is not an instructor led class or a career advisement session.)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 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

Other | Play Petanque in the Park


Learn to play petanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie, from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC's championship club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free

Other | Play Ping Pong


Hone your ping pong skills at one of two state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge. Sign up with an attendant in the park to reserve a time slot.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair



   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Talk | Resume Renovation


John Crant uses a special lecture-demonstration format and his recruiter’s eye to help you increase the value of the items on your resume by making the necessary cuts. Learn the “3 Second Test” and much more to add value to your resume. Bring your resume and Crant will review it at the end of the session.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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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Jazz | Ayako Shirasaki, Virtuoso Pianist


Ayako Shirasaki is a virtuoso pianist who performs in and around the New York City area. Her techniques range from a "tender touch" (like the late Tommy Flanagan) to "brisk runs" (like Bud Powell) which can be heard on her recent CD Home Alone.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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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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 | Daily Screenings: Constructive Thinking


A showing of the short films Aboriginal Architecture and Living Architecture. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | German Thriller: Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run (1998)


A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 marks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket. 80 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | History of Governors Island Walking Tour


Join a National Park Ranger for this 45- to 60-minute walking tour experience and discover how the role of Governors Island evolved to meet the changing needs of New York City and the nation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:25 pm
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Workshop | Library Resources: Learn ESOL Using Online Resources


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore websites that will help you improve your English language reading, writing, speaking, and listening. This class is for non-native speakers of English who have basic (or higher) proficiency in English, as well as mouse and keyboard skills.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Ido Andy Feldbau, Award-Winning Pianist


Feldbau has been an active figure in his musical life, performing concertos with numerous orchestras (using his own cadenzas) among others with the LA Jewish Symphony, giving festival and other solo recitals, playing live broadcasts on WQXR and the Israel Radio, performing in main recital halls such as Carnegie Hall, Hollywood's Ford Theatres, London's Stainway Hall, The Juilliard School's Paul Hall, Tel Aviv Museum, Jerusalem Theatre, and serving as collaborative pianist to the Tel-Hai International Master Classes for pianists and to several choirs. In recent years, Feldbau won First Prize in the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition, various competitions in Israel and Russia as well as excellence Scholarships awarded by the America-Israel Culture Fund which enabled him to continue his studies in the USA and Israel, Merit Scholarships from The Juilliard School, full scholarships from the Buchman-Mehta School of Music, and scholarships awarded by The Hebrew Free Loan Society, Susan W. Rose, The Kamiya Sisters, The Celia and Joseph Ascher Fund, and Marilyn Hochberg Hammerman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Tour | History of Governors Island Walking Tour


Join a National Park Ranger for this 45- to 60-minute walking tour experience and discover how the role of Governors Island evolved to meet the changing needs of New York City and the nation.
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3:25 pm
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Festival | Howl! Festival 2010


For more than a century, the East Village has been home to poets, jazz musicians, vaudeville and Yiddish theater, artists represented by blue chip galleries and those painting in the subways, rock stars, and performance artists. Building on this tradition and inspired by long time East Village resident Allen Ginsberg's epic poem, the HOWL! Festival was founded in 2003. The mission of HOWL! Festival is to honor, develop, create and produce. With an estimated 100,000 visitors last year, the many performances celebrate local cultural icons and lionize, preserve, and advance the art, history, culture, and counterculture unique to the East Village and Lower East Side.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Installation: Bernard Klevickas' Baroque Bike Rack


Baroque Bike Rack is fabricated from discarded bicycle frames and parts. The reception will include readings by authors Mary Gaitskill, Shelley Marlow, Robert Marshall, and Peter Trachtenberg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Shape Up NYC - Free Nutrition Seminar


At this event, Trisha from Shape Magazine will be leading the discussion on "sugar" and have fun, free giveaways.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Folk Rock: Jo Williamson / James Apollo


A breath of fresh air, Brooklyn-based folk singer and guitarist Jo Williamson's voice has been likened to that of a young of Judy Collins mixed with the lows of Sarah Vaughn, the experimentation of Yoko Ono and her songwriting akin to the great Joni Mitchell. James Apollo is restless as a willow in a windstorm. While his music often has some pervasive themes, namely love, loss, loneliness and deceit, Apollo steeps it in so much melancholy that even the most dire of tales has you wondering whether he's cheering for the victim or the cause. And though there may be a sly smile between castanets on his latest, Til Your Feet Bleed, for Apollo, this is about as steady as he's going to get.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Exhibitions: Gerhard Richter's Lines which do not exist / Claudia Wieser's Poems of the Right Angle


Richter's show features approximately 50 graphite, watercolor and ink-on-paper drawings made over a period of five decades from 1966 to 2005. Although Richter is most celebrated as a painter, this exhibition focuses on the artist's works on paper and explores his complex personal relationship with drawing. Wieser's show is the first solo museum exhibition in North America of work by Berlin-based artist. The exhibition presents a site-specific installation of glazed ceramic tiles and prismatic mirrored facets against a background of geometrically patterned wallpaper. In addition to the tile and mirror wall relief, Wieser will show a new series of colorful line drawings that play on the installation's optical and spatial illusions and serve to foreground her distinctive approach to abstraction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Exhibitions: Hebru Brantley's Wait a Cotton Picking Minute / Christophe Roberts' Journey of a Thousand Eyes


From the absurd and blatant to the subtle and subversive, Hebru Brantley’s work explores the stereotypes and racist propaganda found in American mass media, such as early Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons. What emerges is an intelligent and vivid deconstruction of America’s social history and the chilling possibility that we have all in someway been infected by the same subliminal, racially insensitive media virus. By collecting and re-purposing Nike shoeboxes, Christophe Roberts creates striking and meaningful life-size sculptures of wild animals that invite the viewer to consider the environmental impact of the production, sale and consumption of consumer goods. Whether Roberts’ is admiring or admonishing societal norms, he is certainly addressing it ironically. The very strength and power of his sculptures is surely put in harm’s way by the actual medium of his message. However, by re-purposing these raw abandoned geometric receptacles, he renders connotations of renewal and possibility.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Premature: New Works by Jennifer Steinkamp


The Los Angeles-based artist is known for her projected installations utilizing 3-dimensional computer animation. Steinkamp’s works interact between the actual space and illusionistic space resulting in environments where the lines between viewer and object blur. In her new series, Steinkamp will continue to employ large-scale projections and new media technology to create illusionistic environments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | You Can't Get There from Here, a Show of 4 Contemporary Photographers


Featuring work by Stephen Berkman, Marco Citron, Jan Dziaczkowski and Joanna Rajkowska. The world as depicted by these photographers may seem familiar and real, but is, in fact, constructed or deliberately out of synch with our expectations. These artists, using a variety of techniques such as collage, antiquarian processes, and color shifts, create a visual reality that seems tangible and real, but is inaccessible to us in every way except our imaginations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Book Launch: Uwe Reinhardt's: Exhibition Design II


New York exhibition designers present their work in this major compendium of recent international exhibition designs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Installation: Sandow Birk's American Qur'an


Birk translates the Qur'an to enable a western audience to understand the teachings within the text. Birk uses stylized calligraphy, influenced by graffiti, and also incorporates illustrated scenes of contemporary life. In this exhibition there will be seventeen suras, chapters, on view, each 16 x 24 inches on paper.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Painting & Mixed Media: Gary Brent Hilsen's Feminine Wiles


This exhibition spotlights Hilsen's signature subject matter - the female face and form.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photography: Derek Henderson's Mercy Mercer


Henderson was born in a rural town called Napier, in New Zealand. In a town where studying photography was not an option, he became an assistant for an advertising photographer in Auckland, New Zealand, going on to work in London. Wanting to work on more personal projects he returned to New Zealand and completed his second book, Mercy Mercer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sculpture and Works on Paper by Eric Fertman


We look onto a darkened stage with sets built of battered planks, hot pink, sheltering a ragtag collection of apparitions and shades. Shadows to solids, this mysterious band would be impossible to identify were it not for the characteristic tilt of the head, the isolated gesture, the defining bulge. We look for the familiar clues, seeking to fill the void and projecting bits of ourselves onto their blank screen. These props or sculptures become receptacles for our most private thoughts and memories, dream-catchers for the insomniac. Fertman's work has been seen at the Sculpture Center, Museum 52, Guild and Greyshkul, in “Off the Books! curated by Benjamin Degen and the “Brucennial” with the Bruce High Quality Foundation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sculpture: Sean Raspet's As If Written In


A new body of sculptural work, this solo exhibition reveals Raspet’s continuing exploration of how spatial imagination is complicated by the constant proliferation of media imagery and technologies. Also opening: Death Never Sleeps, a solo exhibition featuring new videos and paintings by Alex Hubbard.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Video & Painting: Alex Hubbard's Death Never Sleeps


Hubbard continues his parallel investigations with both video and painting and explores transformations between states of order and chaos. In his videos, the evolving tableaus of slight-of-hand magic tricks and blunt manipulations of hapless objects operate according to their own unique logic in which no clear goal or final desired state can be determined. Serving as unexpected counterpoints to the videos, his paintings in fiberglass sheets, resin, silkscreen, and acrylic on canvas result from the layering of basic actions such as tearing, cutting, pasting, and pouring.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Video Sculpture: Pipilotti Rist's Heroes of Birth


This will be the Rist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, and will include the debut of two video installations as well as a more intimately-scaled video sculpture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Jazz | Karrin Allyson, Grammy-Nominated Jazz Singer


A jazz quartet performance featuring one of many performers from Jazz at Lincoln Center's new Coca-Cola Generations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Screening | NY Export: Opus Jazz, a Filmed Jerome Robbins Ballet


Shot on location in New York City, “NY Export: Opus Jazz” takes Jerome Robbins’ groundbreaking 1958 ballet and re-imagines it for a new generation. Watch the film, which includes a scene shot at the rail yards, and listen to a post-show talk by producers and dancers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Screening | An Evening of German Short Films


Introduction and Q&A with the director Michael Blume. Films in German with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Darin Strauss reads from his book Half a Life


The true story of how one outing in his father’s Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jonathan Green reads from his book Murder in the High Himalaya


The unforgettable account of the brutal killing of Kelsang Namtso—a seventeen-year-old Tibetan nun fleeing with the group to Dharamsala to escape religious persecution.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | On the Comic Novel with Sam Lipsyte and Jess Walter


Wry, bitter, and laugh-out-loud funny. Authors Jess Walter (The Financial Lives of the Poets) and Sam Lipsyte (The Ask) come together to discuss their comic novels. Walter chronicles the descent of his protagonist from journalist to neighborhood drug dealer in his darkly funny, yet tender novel. Lipsyte’s latest novel follows Milo Burke, a failed painter from queens who works in the development office of a mediocre college, as he makes “the ask” of his life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Percussion Master Class/Recital with Amphion Duo


New percussion and marimba music. Jonathan Haas, Director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Writers Karen Lord and Julia Holmes read their work


Two novelists recently published by Small Beer Press, the spectacular publisher of speculative fiction. Lord is in town from Barbados to read from her debut novel Resistance in Indigo, a retelling of a Senegalese folktale. She'll be reading alongside Julia Holmes, a Brooklyn local, whose own debut Meeks is a strange mesmerizing tale of a young man working to find his bachelor's suit so he can be married and avoid a life of drudgery.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Machicoti and Trio Triumvirum perform Medieval music


Machicoti (pictured), the all-female medieval ensemble, and Trio Triumvirum, the new all-male trio, will perform a gorgeous array of Medieval music for 3 voices, both secular and sacred. Concert will conclude with pieces for 6 voices. Machicoti (Amy Bartram, Artistic director, soprano, lute; Beth Cullinane and Grace Check, sopranos); Trio Triumvirum (Aaron Lauber, countertenor, Christopher Mueller, tenor; Eric-Peter Mortensen, baritone).
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
$10 suggested donation...

Discussion | A Dialogue with Playwright Jose Luis Ramos Escobar


A conversation with the award-winning Puerto Rican novelist and playwright tol mark the New York premiere of Escobar's play The Smell of Popcorn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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