Danish American Society
The Center for Danish American Cultural Activities in the Greater New York Area
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EVENTS
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 Sømandskirken, New York |
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 Scandinavia House, New York |
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| FEBRUARY | |
| 6:00pm | Course: Danish Language Lessons Den Dansk Sømandskirke Location: 102 Willow Street Brooklyn, NY 11201-2202 The church will be offering Danish lessons from February 1st. Our new teacher is Louise Jensen. There will be a class for beginners and a class for intermediates and advanced students. It is planned to run for 12 Mondays from 6:00 to 7:30pm for beginners and from 7:45 to 9:15pm for intermediates and advanced, both beginning Monday February 1st.
The fee is $200 for all lessons plus materials (mainly photocopies). Please bring the payment to the first class in cash or a check written out to the Danish Seamen's Church. | |
| 7:00pm | Networking:Sustaining Members' Dinner The Danish American Chamber of Commerce Location: Audrey Lounge & Cafe at W New York -The Tuscany, 120 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 The first Wednesday of every month we welcome all Danes living in or visting New York to come join us for a drink at the Audrey Lounge & Cafe (39th Street btw. Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue.) for some after-work fun networking. There will be Carlsberg, so grab a colleague or friend and come join us. | |
| 8:00pm | Concert: New York Scandia Symphony Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue at 38 Street, New York Dorrit Matson, Music Director and Conductor, leads the New York Scandia Symphony in a program that includes Per Norgaard’s Pastorale, Frank Foerster’s Suite of Scandinavian Folk Tunes featuring violist Frank Foerster, and the U.S. premieres of Poul Schierbeck’s Largo – i Danmark er jeg født for string orchestra and Anders Koppel’s Concerto Piccolo for accordion and strings. | |
10:30am to 1:00pm | Children: Fastelavn med børnegudstjeneste Den Danske Sømandskirke Location: 102 Willow Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2202 Børnegudstjeneste begynder kl. 11 og bagefter bliver der slået katten af tønden.
Vi opfordrer alle, børn som voksne, til at komme udklædt og i festhumør!
Arrangementet koster $5 for børn og $10 pr voksen. Tilmelding til Marlene Riascos på legestuen@dankirkeny.org For more info visit: http://www.dankirkeny.org/events/set-og-hoert-.aspx | |
| 6:00pm | Course: Danish Language Lessons Den Danske Sømandskirke Location: 102 Willow Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2202 The church will be offering Danish lessons from February 1st. Our new teacher is Louise Jensen. There will be a class for beginners and a class for intermediates and advanced students. It is planned to run for 12 Mondays from 6:00 to 7:30pm for beginners and from 7:45 to 9:15pm for intermediates and advanced, both beginning Monday February 1st.
The fee is $200 for all lessons plus materials (mainly photocopies). Please bring the payment to the first class in cash or a check written out to the Danish Seamen's Church. | |
| 6:30pm | Film:Forbidden Fruit/Kielletty hedelmä Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue at 38 Street, New York, Ny Directed by Dome Karukoski (2009). Maria and Raakel are 18 years old and belong to a community of Laestadians – a conservative Lutheran revival movement – who live in the remote countryside of Northern Finland. They are both engaged to marry boys from the community and have grown up sheltered from the worldly pleasures one would expect girls of their age to have enjoyed.Forbidden Fruit/Kielletty hedelmä That summer the strong-minded Maria decides to break with the community and flee to the city to experience the forbidden fruits it has to offer. She wants to dance, drink and kiss boys, all the while thinking she can always return to her community and have her sins forgiven when she gets tired of the city. Back home the community elders grow worried for Maria and convince her best friend Raakel to travel to the city to look after her. Soon Raakel too caves in to the pleasures she didn’t know she was longing for. 104 min. | |
| 10:30am | Children: Legestue Den Dansk Sømandskirke Location: 102 Willow Street Brooklyn, NY 11201-2202 Kirkens legestuen er for børn i alle aldre,
og vi mødes i kirken ca. en gange om måneden kl. 10:30.
Vi synger danske børnesange, leger, laver lidt arts/craft, og slutter af med en let frokost og en kop kaffe. Året rundt arrangerer vi desuden særligt festlige legestuer som halloweenfest, juletræsfest, fastelavnsfest og meget andet, så hold øje med kirkens kalender eller tilmeld dig legestuens mailingliste. | |
| 11:00am | Film:Skoppa and Skrítla at the Movies/Skoppa og Skrítla í bíó Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue at 38th Street, New York City The lovable Skoppa and Skrítla return to Scandinavia House to present their film Skoppa og Skrítla í bíó/Skoppa and Skrítla at the Movies (Iceland, 2008). The film follows the adventures of the two Icelandic personalities who have previously enjoyed popularity both on television and on stage but are now taking their first steps on the big screen. The film introduces children to the magical world of cinema, while providing quality entertainment for the entire family. Skoppa and Skrítla, the cheery protagonists, are amazing beings from the Land of Adventure, where everyone is celestial, sweet, and sincere. Skoppa and Skrítla at the Movies/Skoppa og Skrítla í bíóThrough song and dance the film offers a message about the wisdom of hopeful wishing and the lasting values of friendship. While leading children on a adventure through wildlife and natural locales, the film stimulates the imaginations of those of an age of awe and learning. 56 min. 11 am in Icelandic; 1 pm in English | |
| 11:00am | Kids:Saturday Morning Storytelling with the H.C. Andersen Storytellers Scandinavia House Location: 260 West 41st Street, New York, NY 10036 Some of New York’s most famous storytellers bring to life exciting tales of mythical creatures and fantastic adventures from Scandinavia and the far North.
February 20: Stories from Sweden & Other Tales told by Regina Ress | |
| 3:00pm | Film: Forbidden Fruit/Kielletty hedelmä Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue at 38 Street, New York, NY Directed by Dome Karukoski (2009). Maria and Raakel are 18 years old and belong to a community of Laestadians – a conservative Lutheran revival movement – who live in the remote countryside of Northern Finland. They are both engaged to marry boys from the community and have grown up sheltered from the worldly pleasures one would expect girls of their age to have enjoyed.Forbidden Fruit/Kielletty hedelmä That summer the strong-minded Maria decides to break with the community and flee to the city to experience the forbidden fruits it has to offer. She wants to dance, drink and kiss boys, all the while thinking she can always return to her community and have her sins forgiven when she gets tired of the city. Back home the community elders grow worried for Maria and convince her best friend Raakel to travel to the city to look after her. Soon Raakel too caves in to the pleasures she didn’t know she was longing for. 104 min. | |
| 7:30pm | Concert: NYNDK Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Transatlantic jazz collective NYNDK returns to the scene with The Hunting of the Snark – an album that sets (mostly) modern 20th century classical composers’ works to post-modern jazz music. As such, listeners are treated to engaging versions of Charles Ives’ The Cage, 1,2,3, and Remembrance, Edvard Grieg’s Adagio (from Piano Concerto in A Minor), a Per Norgard serial composition – Voyage Into the Golden Screen and several others, including the title track by Arne Nordheim and pieces composed by members of the group and named after each of the composers whose work has been utilized. Guest drummer Tony Moreno also makes an appearance with the collective. | |
| 6:00pm | Course: Danish Language Lessons Den Danske Sømandskirke Location: 102 Willow Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2202 The church will be offering Danish lessons from February 1st. Our new teacher is Louise Jensen. There will be a class for beginners and a class for intermediates and advanced students. It is planned to run for 12 Mondays from 6:00 to 7:30pm for beginners and from 7:45 to 9:15pm for intermediates and advanced, both beginning Monday February 1st.
The fee is $200 for all lessons plus materials (mainly photocopies). Please bring the payment to the first class in cash or a check written out to the Danish Seamen's Church. | |
| 6:30pm | Lecture:Jean Sibelius: A Composer’s Life and the Awakening of Finland Lecture by Dr. Glenda Goss Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) came to prominence during Finland’s golden age of the arts. The timing was no coincidence, for Sibelius helped to shape that golden era while in turn being shaped by it. In her talk, Dr. Glenda Dawn Goss, Professor of Musicology at the University of Georgia and 1996 Visiting Professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, will present this national creative tide in the context of Nordic cultural currents and will discuss the vital importance of the wider Nordic world for the creation of that display. The events of Finland’s golden age were fueled by wider geo-political forces in the course of which Finland came under Russian control after centuries of being a part of Sweden. The push and pull of east and west spurred Sibelius and his contemporaries to create a dazzling outpouring of music, art, drama, and literature that endowed Finns with a sense of pride, awakened them to their unique heritage, and defined what it meant to be Finnish.
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| Film:Overseas and Under Your Skin/Maata meren alla Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Directed by Lenka Hellstedt (2008). Overseas and Under Your Skin tells the story of Ida, a young woman who is almost thirty, unemployed, and lives at home with her activist mother, Kati. With all the best intentions, Kati tries to set Ida up with a job at her work. This simply drives Ida to prove to her mother that she can take care of herself. Under the encouragement of her new friend, Ville, Ida decides to do something about her life and takes off for Berlin to find a job, and perhaps herself. Slightly bewildered, but excited by the big city, Ida is having the time of her life. Back in Finland however, her mother finds out she is terminally ill.Overseas and Under Your Skin/Maata meren alla Not wanting to hinder Ida in her quest for independence, Kati neglects to tell her daughter of her condition. 86 min. | |
5:00pm to 6:30pm | Meeting: Annual Meeting Danish American Society Location: The Danish Consulate General, One Dag Hammerskjold Plaza, 885 Second Avenue, 18th Floor (at 47th Street), New York, NY 10017 Our Annual Society Meeting. Everyone is invited. | |
| 5:00pm | Special EventAladdin Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY The Finnish gymnastic group Lahjan Tytöt combines Finnish art and sport in an enchanting combination of high-energy modern dance, group aesthetic gymnastics, and traditional Finnish folk song and dance. The performance at Scandinavia House will tell the story of Aladdin, interpreted through dance and aesthetic group gymnastics. Founded in Turku, Finland in 1971, the club boasts 750 members from age 2 through 80. It has been a formidable presence in national and international competitions, winning the Finnish Cup and taking the silver medal in the world championship. | |
| 8:00pm | Networking: Netværket mødes Den Danske Sømandskirke Location: 102 Willow Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2202 Netværket mødes den 28. januar kl. 20 til biksemad og friskbagt rugbrød i Sømandskirken. Sammen vil vi prøve at finde ideer til, hvad vi kan lave i netværket de kommende måneder. | |
| 6:30pm | Film:Before the Frost/Innan Frosten Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Kurt Wallander and Linda face a religious fanatic intent on carrying out his personal version of God's will, at a brutal cost. Mysterious events mark this suspenseful drama. A flock of swans are burned to death. Shortly thereafter, a young woman is horribly murdered. | |
| 1:00pm | Kids:Festelavn Workshop Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY This holiday originated in Denmark and is sometimes described as a “Nordic Halloween” with kids dressing up in costumes and gathering treats for the Fastelavn feast. Children are invited to dress-up while playing traditional games and learning songs. | |
| 3:00pm | Film:Overseas and Under Your Skin/Maata meren alla Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Directed by Lenka Hellstedt (2008). Overseas and Under Your Skin tells the story of Ida, a young woman who is almost thirty, unemployed, and lives at home with her activist mother, Kati. With all the best intentions, Kati tries to set Ida up with a job at her work. This simply drives Ida to prove to her mother that she can take care of herself. Under the encouragement of her new friend, Ville, Ida decides to do something about her life and takes off for Berlin to find a job, and perhaps herself. Slightly bewildered, but excited by the big city, Ida is having the time of her life. Back in Finland however, her mother finds out she is terminally ill.Overseas and Under Your Skin/Maata meren alla Not wanting to hinder Ida in her quest for independence, Kati neglects to tell her daughter of her condition. | |
| 2:00pm | Family: Højmesse v. Julie Sløk Den Danske Sømandskirke Location: 102 Willow Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2202 | | | | | MARCH | |
| 6:30pm | Lecture:Chronic Heart Failure: A Comparison Between Sweden & the United States Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Jan Mårtensson, visiting ASF scholar and Associate Professor of Nursing from the School of Health Sciences and Supervisor at the Primary Care Research and Development Unit in Jönköping, Sweden, compares follow-up care for heart disease patients in Sweden and the United States. Mårtensson also highlights the most important reforms that must be accomplished in heart disease and health care in the near future. Despite a continuing favorable trend in the occurrence of most cardiovascular diseases, heart failure is a significant and growing public health problem. More than 95% of admissions and days of hospitalization involve persons over 65 years of age. In Sweden this group of patients accounts for approximately 20% of all medical care events and 30% of all days of care due to heart disease. In the U.S. patients with heart failure account for about one-tenth of the Medicare population but over one-third of all Medicare spending, presenting an unsustainable burden as the population ages and the demand for in-hospital care increases | |
6:00pm to 8:00pm | Networking: Stambord DACC & DABGO Location: Audrey Lounge & Cafe at W New York -The Tuscany, 120 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 The first Wednesday of every month we welcome all Danes living in or visting New York to come join us for a drink at the Audrey Lounge & Cafe (39th Street btw. Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue.) for some after-work fun networking. There will be Carlsberg, so grab a colleague or friend and come join us. | |
| 6:00pm | Networking: Stambord Danish American Chamber of Commerce Location: Audrey Lounge & Cafe at W New York -The Tuscany, 120 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 The first Wednesday of every month we welcome all of our members and all Danes living in or visting New York to come join us for a drink at the Audrey Lounge & Cafe (39th Street btw. Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue.) for some after-work fun networking. There will be Carlsberg, so grab a colleague or friend and come join us. | |
| 6:30pm | Film:Recipes for Disaster/Katastrofin ainekset Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Directed by John Webster (2008). Recipes for Disaster is a film about climate change and catastrophe. We love to blame the corporations and industries for what's going wrong with the planet, but we are mistaken; it's up to the individual to make a change. Director John Webster shows us that at the core of the impending climate catastrophe are those little failures that we as individuals make every day, and that are so much a part of human nature: all the everyday stuff that we don't do or that we can't help doing that eventually lead to destruction.Recipes for Disaster/Katastrofin ainekset Webster and his family decide to kick the oil habit. Quite simply, they go on with their average suburban lives, but without using any fossil fuels, driving cars or flying in airplanes, or buying anything packaged in plastic, like food, make-up, shampoo, toothpaste or kid’s toys. In this comedy of errors, they find themselves questioning their values and testing their willpower, and ultimately, their happiness. 85 min. | |
| 7:30pm | Film:The Village Idiot/Byfånen Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY A man with long braids and a Native American-style feather in his hair walks into a bank with a bomb around his neck and demands that a sum of money be transferred to an account. It’s obvious that someone is exploiting the man, who is known in the village as being intellectually handicapped. Detective Wallander and his colleagues face a long and complicated investigation that unexpectedly demands an understanding of astrology. | |
| 3:00pm | Film:Recipes for Disaster/Katastrofin ainekset Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Directed by John Webster (2008). Recipes for Disaster is a film about climate change and catastrophe. We love to blame the corporations and industries for what's going wrong with the planet, but we are mistaken; it's up to the individual to make a change. Director John Webster shows us that at the core of the impending climate catastrophe are those little failures that we as individuals make every day, and that are so much a part of human nature: all the everyday stuff that we don't do or that we can't help doing that eventually lead to destruction.Recipes for Disaster/Katastrofin ainekset Webster and his family decide to kick the oil habit. Quite simply, they go on with their average suburban lives, but without using any fossil fuels, driving cars or flying in airplanes, or buying anything packaged in plastic, like food, make-up, shampoo, toothpaste or kid’s toys. In this comedy of errors, they find themselves questioning their values and testing their willpower, and ultimately, their happiness. | |
| 6:30pm | Lecture:The American Girl Reading & book talk with Monika Fagerholm Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY In 1969, a young American girl named Eddie de Wire travels from Coney Island to the swampy coast of Finland and drowns in a marsh while wearing a red plastic raincoat, her premature death becoming part of local folklore. As her mythology builds, two imaginative and ferociously devoted young friends—Sandra and Doris, each with their own troubled history—search for hidden meaning and answers to Eddie’s demise. The girls construct their own world, their own language, and their own rules. But playing adult games has adult consequences, and what begins as two girls striking matches leads to an inferno that threatens to consume them and tear their worlds apart.
Featured artists and filmmakers include: Kristjan Zaklynsky, Icelandic Love Corporation, Lina Bjørn Larsen and Anna Wolf, Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir, Una Lorenzen, Hermann Karlsson, Múm, Seabear, Nico Muhly, and Valgeir Sigurdsson with Bonnie “Prince” Billy. $9 ($6 ASF members) | |
| 6:30pm | Film:The Brothers/Bröderna Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY A wealthy couple is found dead during a military exercise, murdered in their stately home, and Wallander is under pressure from his superiors in Stockholm to find out who killed them. The emerging evidence seems to point to an act of revenge for a 20-year-old transgression. | |
| 11:00am | Kids:Saturday Morning Storytelling with the H.C. Andersen Storytellers Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Some of New York’s most famous storytellers bring to life exciting tales of mythical creatures and fantastic adventures from Scandinavia and the far North.
March 13: Stories from Finland & Other Tales with Swedish Ballads told and sung by Johanna Hongell-Darsee | |
| 6:30pm | Lecture:The Viking in the Wheatfield, Lecture & reading with Susan Dworkin Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY New York City author and journalist Susan Dworkin’s newest book takes the reader into the world of Bent Skovmand (1945-2007), a brilliant Danish plant scientist who fought to preserve and expand the world’s wheat supply. For 35 years Skovmand collected, multiplied, and documented the world’s wheat varieties, helping to protect the harvest against mutant plagues and revolutionary climate change. Before his untimely death in 2007, he worked to develop the so-called “Doomsday Vault” on Norway’s Arctic border where nations store their crop seeds under tons of ice and rock as insurance against catastrophe. | |
| 6:30pm | Film & Lecture:Mannequin in Red/Mannekäng i rött Film screening with lecture Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Directed by Arne Mattsson (1958). A private detective doubling up as a fashion mannequin, a head designer with lesbian inclinations and a mean, wheelchair-based fashion house matron ominously accompanied by a white cat…welcome to the strange world of the couture salon “La Femme,” where the elegant surface soon starts to peel, revealing what’s hidden and repressed underneath. | |
| 6:30pm | Film:The Darkness/Mörkret Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY A child sits alone in a parked car on a deserted road with no adult in sight. Her father has been reported missing, and the mother is in a psychiatric institution, unresponsive and apathetic. Due to Detective Wallander’s failing health, Linda takes the lead in the case. It will touch her deeply as she discovers that the child has been unscrupulously tricked, exploited, and humiliated. Linda has never been so committed to solving a case. | |
| 6:30pm | Film:What No One Knows/Det som ingen ved Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (2008). Thomas Delauren is an emotionally-stunted children’s entertainer with a divorce looming over him. A strenuous family dinner reunites Thomas with his sister Charlotte who confesses she has important information about their late father that she wishes to divulge at a later time. When Thomas arrives at their scheduled rendezvous point he is met by police officers who deliver the terrible news that his sister drowned while swimming.What No One Knows/Det som ingen ved Knowing that his sister was a strong swimmer, Thomas becomes suspicious of her death and as he is going through her personal affects he discovers documents about their father’s past as an intelligence officer during the Cold War. These documents prove to be dangerous in Thomas’ hands as an attempt is made on his daughter’s life. Dark images, intense clips and haunting music set the mood in this political thriller that raises questions about the increasing presence of surveillance cameras in our society. 99 min. | |
| 6:30pm | Film & Lecture:Smiles of a Summer Night/Sommarnattens leende Film screening with lecture Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Directed by Ingmar Bergman (1955). The 1956 prize-winning comedy Smiles of a Summer Night ushered in an international audience for director Ingmar Bergman. Set in turn-of-the-century Sweden, four women and four men attempt to juggle the laws of attraction amidst their daily bourgeois life. When a weekend in the country brings them all face to face, the women ally to force the men’s hands in their matters of the heart, exposing their pretensions and insecurities along the way. Chock full of flirtatious propositions and sharp-witted wisdom, Smiles of a Summer Night is one of film history’s great tragicomedies, a bittersweet view of the transience of human carnality. | |
| 7:00pm | Concert:The Music of Schumann & Gade Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY This concert is a special presentation by the Mannes College Piano and Voice Departments, exploring the music of Robert Schumann and Niels Gade, featuring such pieces as Schumann’s Arabesque in C major for piano, op. 18 and Gade’s Violin Sonata. Since 1999, Mannes College of Music has presented a series of year-long music festivals, each with a different unifying theme featuring gifted young artists, distinguished faculty, and renowned guests. | |
| 6:30pm | Film:The African/Afrikanen Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Members of the Social Democratic party in Ystad are putting up campaign posters for their candidate, whose fight against anti-immigrant forces and the town’s racial prejudices are his main priorities. When a train rolls into Gdansk, Poland with a dead black man on board, it appears that he was murdered in Ystad, where the train originated. Most of the evidence points to a racially motivated crime, but then the investigation takes an unexpected turn. | |
| 3:00pm | Film:What No One Knows/Det som ingen ved Scandinavia House Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (2008). Thomas Delauren is an emotionally-stunted children’s entertainer with a divorce looming over him. A strenuous family dinner reunites Thomas with his sister Charlotte who confesses she has important information about their late father that she wishes to divulge at a later time. When Thomas arrives at their scheduled rendezvous point he is met by police officers who deliver the terrible news that his sister drowned while swimming.What No One Knows/Det som ingen ved Knowing that his sister was a strong swimmer, Thomas becomes suspicious of her death and as he is going through her personal affects he discovers documents about their father’s past as an intelligence officer during the Cold War. These documents prove to be dangerous in Thomas’ hands as an attempt is made on his daughter’s life. Dark images, intense clips and haunting music set the mood in this political thriller that raises questions about the increasing presence of surveillance cameras in our society. | | | | | APRIL | |
| 6:00pm | Celebration: The Queen's Birthday The Danish American Society Location: Danish Consulate General, 885 Second Avenue, 18th floor, New York, NY 10017 April 16, the Queen will be turning 70 and this will be celebrated with a members only lunch at the Consulate General of Denmark. Further details will follow, so for now just save the date! | | | | | MAY | | | | | JUNE | | | | | JULY | | | | | AUGUST | | | | | SEPTEMBER | | | | | OCTOBER | | | | | NOVEMBER | | | | | DECEMBER | | | | | JANUARY | | | |
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