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38 free events take place in New York City on Thursday, January 28, 2010.
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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, January 28, 2010

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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   
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7:30 am
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Other | Ice Skating in the City


The 170' x 100' rink features free admission ice skating. Whether you are looking to skate before going to the office, through the lunch hour, with friends at a party, with a date, or for a spin under the stars at a holiday party, this is the perfect destination.
   
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8:00 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.
   
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9:30 am
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Workshop | Introduction to MS Word


Learn to create documents and reports using this word processing program. Topics include: creating, editing, formatting, printing, and saving documents. Introduction to Computers is a prerequisite.
   
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Spreadsheet Basics with MS Excel 2003


Hands on using wireless laptops. Introduction to the features of Excel 2003. Topics include entering text & formulas, moving & copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
   
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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.
   
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11:00 am
$6

Lecture | Living in Sin: Neighborhood Experience of Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles' Melrose


Iddo Tavory is a PhD candidate at UCLA. His dissertation is a historical and ethnographic study of everyday community and religiosity in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Los Angeles. Other than that, he is involved in work regarding the links between interaction and the AIDS epidemic in Malawi, and more theoretical writings regarding methodology, time, culture, and interactionist theory.
   New York
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | The Middle East in a Multipolar World


Dilip Hiro speaks about the fast-changing political and economic ties between the Middle East and the emergent Great Powers -- China, the European Union and Russia. Born in the Indian sub-continent, Hiro has published 31 books and contributed to another 16. He is most recently the author of After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World. He has also written scripts for theatre, television drama and cinema.
   New York
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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.
   
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1:00 pm
$6

Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | 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.
   
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Job Seekers Career Resources: Vault and Wet Feet


Explore careers and employers with online insider guides from Vault and Wet Feet.
   
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3:15 pm
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Workshop | Uncovering Your Family History: Introduction to Genealogical Research


The library boasts one of the country’s largest free public collections of genealogical tools; this class introduces some key resources. With skills learned here, you might find the name of an ancestor on a ship’s passenger list or discover the names of family members I historical census records.
   
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3:15 pm
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Lecture | The Skinny on Body Fat: The Developmental Origins of Obesity


The 2009-2010 David Seegal Alpha Omega Alpha Lecture will be given by C. Ronald Kahn, M.D. Kahn is the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
   New York
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4:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings by Richard Baker and Louisa Matthiasdottir


Baker's recent still-life paintings are populated by flowers, vases, books, old magazines and photographs. Matthiasdottir's small landscapes are of the artist’s native Iceland and of Maine.
   New York
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5:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Shakespeare's Keyboard


William Shakespeare was neither a Mac nor a PC. But he was familiar with the keyboard, and, more importantly, with the principles behind the keyboard. In this illustrated lecture, English Professor John Michael Archer will read a few sonnets by Shakespeare in light of the Renaissance printing house, musical instruments, and the role of repetition in poetic language. His lecture will provoke key questions concerning technology and its relation to poetry. Can technology be reduced to machinery? Do technological principles take precedence over technical objects? Is poetic language technological in principle because it is a form of making or creation, or is it opposed to technology? Can Shakespeare help us decide if there is a choice here, and to decide what choice to make as we think about technology
   
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Barbara Bloom talks about her work


Bloom is a renowned conceptual artist whose intricately crafted installations and witty artist's books have been exhibited internationally, Bloom was born in Los Angeles, in 1951. She won the Aperto prize for best young artist at the 1988 Venice Biennale, and has since had one-person shows at the Serpentine Gallery, London (1990), the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio (1996), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998). She lives and works in New York City.
   New York
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5:15 pm
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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   
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5:45 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Photography Shows: Cynthia MacAdams' Feminist Portraits, 1974-1977 / Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' Supermodels of the 70s and 80s


A pair of exhibitions featuring a juxtaposition of images of prominent feminists and supermodels from the 1970s and 80s.
   New York
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6:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Gotham and its Garbage: A History of Public Waste, Public Health and the Department of Sanitation


A slide lecture by Robin Nagle, Anthropologist-in-Residence for the DSNY, with Ben Miller, Former Director of Policy Planning, DSNY and author, Fat of the Land. Nagle teaches anthropology and urban studies at NYU and runs the NYU Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program. She is working with colleagues at the DSNY and NYU to found the New York City Museum of Sanitation. Her book, Picking Up, will be out next year.
   
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Israel's Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir and Germany's Zamirchor Bayreuth perform music by German, Israeli and American composers


Israel's Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir with Germany's Zamirchor Bayreuth will be performing music by German, Israeli and American composers. Under the leadership of German-born soprano Babara Baier and the Israeli pianist and conductor Isaak Tavior, Zamirchor Bayrueth stands as a wonderfully powerful collaborative project. Jersualem Oratorio is the largest choral enterprise in Israel. Founded in 1987 with the support of the Jerusalem Foudnation and the Culture Department of the Jerusalem Municipality, the choir now includes 200 singers ranging from children and students to professionals and retirees. Presented by the Consulate General of the State of Israel and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany present, this is a musical tribute for Holocaust survivors to commemorate International Holocaust Memorial Day which falls on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Special Guests - Consul General of the State of Israel, Asaf Shariv, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Horst Freitag and Rabbi Arthur Schneier.
   New York
6:00 pm
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Lecture | Jurassic Central Park: Dinosaurs in the History & Rocks of New York


Most people associate dinosaurs with distant destinations but you don't have to travel far to find dinosaur fossils. The New York region has a long history of dinosaur studies and is host to rock formations that may yet answer important questions about the Mesozoic Era. Join Dr. J. Bret Bennington of Hofstra University on a tour of the history and geology of the dinosaur remains preserved in our own backyard.
   
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Workshop | Resume Renovation


John Crant, author of the Self-Recruiter series, uses a special lecture-demonstration format and his recruiter&#146;'s eye to help you increase the value of the items on your resume by making the necessary cuts. Learn the &#145;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.
   
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | The Growth Catalyst: Reviving New York City's Economy through Infrastructure


As New York City struggles with the great recession, infrastructure development and renewal promise new jobs and long-term growth. Transportation, energy, high technology and communication infrastructure projects are all planned and funded. How quickly will they provide new jobs? Are they already? What are the prospects for long-term structural improvements to the city's economy? And what's missing from the current plans? REMARKS: Christopher O. Ward, Executive Director, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) Seth W. Pinsky, President, NYC Economic Development Corporation FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION WITH: Joan Byron, Director of Sustainability and Environmental Justice Initiative, Pratt Center for Community Development Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association Kathryn S. Wylde, President & CEO, Partnership for New York City MODERATOR: Daniel Massey, Reporter, Crain's New York Business>/i>
   
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Concert | Works for cello, flute and piano


Samuel Magill, cello; Lucian Rinando, flute; and Linda Hall, piano plays works by Boris Tchaikovsky, Lowell Liebermann, and Philip Lasser.
   
6:00 pm
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Workshop | Develop a Strong Resume


Learn to write a resume that highlights your accomplishments and markets you as a results-oriented professional. Look at different types of resumes and how to write them as well as help you prepare to discuss the achievements on your resume with potential employers.
   
6:30 pm
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Workshop | Spreadsheet Basics with MS Excel 2003


Hands on using wireless laptops. Introduction to the features of Excel 2003. Topics include entering text & formulas, moving & copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
   
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Talk | Sugar Blues: Uncover the Mystery of Your Sweet Tooth


Are you constantly craving sweets and want to understand why? Do you want to gain control without deprivation? Join Holistic Health Counselor and Natural Foods Chef Ella Nemcova for an informative visual lecture on a bittersweet topic. Learn the secret names companies use for sugar, which healthy alternatives exist and why you need to know.
   
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6:30 pm
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Talk | The Whys and Wherefores of News Polling


With Gary Langer of ABC News.
   
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Author Reading | David Schmahmann reads from his book Nibble & Kuhn


A wholly original take on the legal thriller.
   
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen discusses his book The Idea of Justice


The transcendental theory of justice, the subject of Sen’s analysis, flourished in the Enlightenment and has proponents among some of the most distinguished philosophers of our day; it is concerned with identifying perfectly just social arrangements, defining the nature of the perfectly just society. The approach Sen favors, on the other hand, focuses on the comparative judgments of what is “more” or “less” just, and on the comparative merits of the different societies that actually emerge from certain institutions and social interactions.
   
7:00 pm
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Screening | Romanian Cinema: Stere Gulea's The Journey (1987)


A remarkable adaptation of Marin Preda’s novel. The action unfolds in the years preceding World War II. Central to it is a village in the Danube Plain, with its complex life, visible and invisible clashes between people, between individuals and various groups, with the villagers’ constant preoccupation for more wealth, in a context of early consolidation of capitalism in the rural area. Against the background of a social shift – which will prove irreversible – the film follows the break-up of a traditional peasant family. 151 min. In Romanian with English subtitles.
   
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Author Reading | Short fiction writer Lydia Davis reads her work


Davis is the acclaimed author of five collections of short fiction, including Varieties of Disturbance (a 2007 National Book Award finalist) and The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, as well as a novel, The End of the Story. Davis is also the translator of many French literary works, including Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust.
   New York
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Workshop | Memoir Writing Workshop


Alexis Wollf presents a Memoir Writing workshop sponsored by Gotham Writers' Workshop.
   
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7:30 pm
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Author Reading | T. C. Boyle reads from his book Wild Child


In his new set of short stories, Boyle reminds us how smart and surreal life is. From a feral boy found in Napoleonic France to a liar who spins unseemly tales to miss work, Boyle's narratives never cease to challenge and entertain. Priority seating.
   
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7:30 pm
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Master Class | Piano Master Class: Seymour Bernstein


The Artist Master Class Series features the pianists of Steinhardt performing and interacting with renowned artists from around the world.
   New York
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7:45 pm
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Concert | FOCUS! 2010 Music Festival: Composing an American Mainstream


Program: ADLER Canto I: In Four Movements ROREM Night Music THOMSON Praises and Prayers CRAWFORD SEEGER Suite for Wind Quintet SCHUMAN String Quartet No. 4 With: Toby Penk, Kathryn Miller, Clayton Chastain, Colin Sieg, trumpets; Elly Suh, violin; Marnie Hauschildt, piano; Carin Gilfry, mezzo-soprano; Byung Hee Yoo, piano; Matthew Wright, flute; Hsuan-Fong Chen, oboe; Shuyue Zhao, clarinet; Brent Foster, bassoon; Nathanael Udell, French horn; The Afiara String Quartet, Valerie Li and Yuri Cho, violins; David Samuel, viola; Adrian Fung, cello.
   
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Concert | Student Recital: Elizabeth Abelson, French Horn


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
   
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