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give a round to lion's dance and the high school students. good evening! welcome to this year's official celebration of lunar new year city hall. i'm claude en chang with the heritage foundation. our a ap i heritage celebration team of volunteers look forward to this event to provide support to the mayor's office because the lunar new year is the first major celebration of asian and pacific islander heritage in the year. also known the spring festival

in china and many countries in asia. family and friends come together, visit, have good food. wishing each other the best of everything. happiness, good fortunate, good everything in the year. that's when we are doing here right now. the san francisco family coming together celebrating together. so, thank you for being here. >> i will say a few word in chinese now. after all it is lunar new year. [speaking chinese]

>> so this is the year of the snake. snake is known for the great wisdom, moving around, really quickly and with good energy and positive energy. the two words i heard most associated with the year of the snake -- renewal and transformation. renewal and transformation. i believe that this is what we in san francisco can look forward to this year. because -- because we have a mayor who is committed to doing the same. a mayor that is committed to restoring vibrancy in san francisco. to make sure our city is safe. prosperous and a happy place for all families for our buildings. residents and for residents and tourists alike. welcome the host of the upon

event our mayor daniel lurie. [applause] >> good evening. everyone. i'm so appreciative that you all are here tonight on behalf of myself and the city ask county of san francisco. it is my great honor to welcome to you our lunar new year celebration at city hall. tonight we garth upon to usher in the new year but to celebrate the rich traditions. vibrant culture and the contributions of our ap i community. this year as claude uponeen said marks the year of the snake, symbolizes transformation and

believes this will guide us as we embrace the opportunity ahead in 2025. lunar new year is a time to celebrate our shared history and diversity this makes san francisco one of the most if not the most dynamic city instead world. i like to acknowledge, yea. we can clap. i like to acknowledge our host committee sitting in the front row. city add administrator carmen chu. city attorney david chu. the chu association. sheriff paul miomoto, thank you. public defend or money on are jue, supervisor connie chan and cheyenne chen and mahmood. thank you all for ensuring

today's celebration reflect the importance this celebrating lunar new year deserves. today's event would not be possible without the work of claude en and al perez. thank you both for your continued dedication to our city and our community. i would like to acknowledge the representative of the councillor core. the people's republic of china. acting upon general chang thank you for being here. and before i list off all the councillor generals that are here, i like to thank our head of protocol penny cotter, penny, thank you for everything you are doing for our city. we have representatives from australia, greece, columbia. singapore and kazakhstan, thank

you for being here tonight. as we welcome this new year, i am excited about what lies ahead. let this be a time of growth. tune and transformation for all of us. individually and as a city. once again, thank you for joining us and i wish you a heavy, health and he prosperous new year. how did i do. i may get bfrment thank you and enjoy the celebration. councillor generals will you come up.

moving on to introduce the event cohost and san francisco's official family. welcome our friends city administrator carmen chu. >> thank you, claudine to al and the mayor, thank you for making a wonderful upon event like this possible in city hall temperature is a beautiful site to see people on the second floor and the first floor all joining in to celebrate. i don't think i seen a house this packed in awhile for our lunar new year celebration. category you and thank you for makeing upon event possible. i know work guess into this. this it is a wonderful time of year for me and my family my parents wereim grant to the united states. our favorite tradition system this period it is a time when my

family gets together, celebrate, jokes, good times, laugh. reminisce on the year and look forward to the iary ahead and how wonderful to celebrate this celebration and this tradition with our large are city family here the community members here. all of the people who are here in public service and our elected family that is here. i welcome you to city hall and thankful to be here and serve as your city administrator. [applause] with that i would like to invite my cohost to say a few words i invite our city attorney david chu. sheriff miomoto. supervisor connie chan, supervisor cheyenne chen and

mahmood come up and share a few words, yes, rounds of applause. >> good evening, san francisco and welcome to the asian american capital of the us here! we are home to the oldest china town in the united states. one of 3 japan towns. little saigon. our asian americans we built the railroad and wine country. created fortune cookies and technologies and established farm worker rights and the constitutional right to birth right citizenship. we have dhn despite chinese eccollusion, japanese intern am. quake, fire, covid and antiasian hate we are arab ran america and the diverse communities that

represent san francisco and i want to say to our vietnamese community, to our korean community -- and our [inaudible] community and our mandarin community. and with that i'm going to introduce our sheriff miomoto who will say welcome in every other dialect! >> thank you. city attorney. i don't know how i always have to follow him when we have these celebrations i will try. let me try indonesian. and this is for my wife. i am honored be here representing our community not just representing our diverse a ap i community but also san

francisco. and this opportunity to celebrate together and as carmen mentioned there are so many here it is wonderful to feel all of us together. sharing with each other and in celebration. i get to celebrate new year's twice. japanese tradition the beginning of the calendar year and an among later with my chinese family lunar new year and i'm fortunate to have that in my family and fortunate to share everything with the city family as we move forward with this celebration. thank you. let me introduce now i made it easy i our public defender. >> thank you. sheriff. happy lunar new year to everyone. i'm proud to be the son of indian immigrants and the only

south asian elected public defender in the country and proud and always a joy to see the diversity of our city community and asian community. i want to acknowledge this is black history month and the coalition tw asian communities have been important. in the development and growth of our city. as the public defender, we are committed to protecting rights in the courtroom and creating opportunities. opportunities for all the class we represent and their families that is something that bring mes moonhonor to do this for sab fran. claudine i appreciate you and the talking about importance of trans formation and renewal. as your public defender we are committed to transfoing and look forward to working with the new mayor and the board of supervisors to bring about more transformation and renewal and community safety for all of us,

thank you. >> i'm here to introduce supervisor connie chan. [applause] >> thank you. and first i want to thank you know mayor lurie for being our leading host of the event and thank you city administrator carmen chu for being a gracious mc and host and claudine and al, al is somewhere in the crowd. want to thank both of you for all your effort for putting this together. while we are so diverse, we identify ourselves in different cultures and language we celebrate in unity. that is what is happening today. to see everyone here we celebrate in unity. sending a message that san francisco is here and san francisco is celebrating. we are a sanctuary and will have

a bright and greater future to come. for all of you to be here and part of this i'm grateful and i can be part of this community and this village celebrating together it is amazing for first generation immigrant growing up in china town. i'm also really grateful that now not just me as the only chinese-american member on the board of supervisors the last couple years we now have an addition to the board of supervisors and i'm so grateful to introduce her supervisor chen. [applause] good evening, everyone. thank you again, thank you for being here and celebrating us and san francisco tonight. i would like to go again with the mayors. this will is a year with hope and the year of transformation. this is i year of transformation

that brings hope in the building that expands to san francisco. and i have my daughter and she is here. hi. she is very proud that this is the year of the snake. she is snake moves fast but get things done. i'm hoping and hopeful this is the year of snake that we celebrate pleasurement and celebrating a safer san francisco, a vibrant san francisco and welcome all people from across the state or the nation and internationally to come back to san francisco and celebrate with us next year, lunar new year in here in san francisco. thank you and i want to say a few word in chinese. i grew up in china i would like it say in in mandarin.

now i'm going to introduce my colleague supervisor mahmood. >> i'm mahmood supervisor d5. i'm proud to be the first south asian elected of the board to add balance with the public defender. i'm proud for this to be my first lunar new year celebration it means so much to my family. my parents were immigrants to over 40 years ago. my partner's family as well from china over 40 years ago. they came here classic immigrant story. started a restaurant. ran it for 30 years and they still have in the retiredeen though they should. but this year will be the first

year despite having been in the china town community they will be in the lunar new year parade. i'm glad to be able to give them that opportunity for the first time and that's what the city represents a beacon forim grants and a boekon for small business and beacon of hope we'll ensure as san francisco city hall that continues to be so. thank you feb. for being here and enjoy the rest of the celebration. [applause] >> my fellow cohost. don't think you get off the stage you gotta stay that is part of the job. i would like to invite our board of supervisors to come up and i know we are joined by supervisor fielder, supervisor melgar, supervisor sauter. supervisor walton and engardio and i believe president of the board of supervisor, supervisor mandelman. i like to ask supervisor mandelman to say a few wordos behalf of the board of

supervisors. [applause]. carmen chu! best city administrator in the world. she is so good! and david chu, we are so grateful for the work that you are doing to the right citizenship and stick up for san francisco values. i'm rafael mandelman the d8 supervisor and president of the board of supervisors and i'm happy for cone chan she does not have to be the ap i caucus alone as she did for two years. thank you supervisor chen and we have more than a majority of the o behalf of the board want to wish everyone a happy year of the snake. i want to thank claudine and al for doing this every year. year after year. mr. mayor, this is i think the biggest celebration we had in many years and that is --

amazing congratulations. >> happy year of the snake, everybody. that's about as much as i got! [applause] nice job, supervisor. my honor to invite our other elected officials the seszor torres. cisneros. members of the unified school board. please, come on up. now i what you know are thinking are we saying everyone will have a turn at speaking, no. i want to say thank you to our officials for joining us and perhaps i can ask the mayor to come up there is a photo opportunity awaiting us here. and may be i can ask all of my elected family to join in our

lunar new year greeting follow after me. trust what i ask you to say. right? ready. upon happy new year, everybody!

is this working? thank you city officials. next we have our great performance for all of you. from the korean community. warmly welcome kim the teacher for many years in korean traditional dance and with the percussion instrument. please, welcome our korean

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>> next the next is really san francisco tradition. in the united states the lunar new year was launch in the noot first ever stamp honoring the culture of chinese-american in the united states. with the year of the rooster and the historic of that stamp in city in san francisco. and every year since then san francisco hosted the national first day of ceremony or like today the ceremony unveiling of the new year stamp. the stamp is a unique instrument

of communication archifies a part of our culture. and in the case of the lunar now year stamp, the lunar new year series the stamp tells the story of the chinese zoed iac about how during the lunar cycle each year represented by a different animal. today to conduct the stamp ceremony. welcome san francisco post master. thank you. claudine. good evening. my honor to be here from the united states postal service as

we celebrate the year of the snake with the new stamp. i want to thank you our community and leaders for the support. as a post master of san francisco i'm proud to recognize this beautiful and meaningful stamp and valued by the community in san francisco and employees to who celebrate lunar new year. design with families and community together as you have done today. to celebrate the unveiling of this stamp. the postal service is proud to celebrate the nation's history and heritage through our stamp's program. the lunar new year collection and the most successful stamps live in the history of the postal service. no surprise considering 1.5 billion people around the world mark the events. for more than 3 decades the postal service proudly issued

stamp celebrate the lunar now year the tradition, now moving toward the heritage starting in san francisco. with the 1993 unveil nothing 2020 the pestal service introduced the third lunar new year series a 6 stamp in the will city of 12 stamps will continue through 2031. with the stamps of the year ram, monkey, dog and bull. the year of the snake stamp features 3 dimensional snake created by an artist with art director and antonio [inaudible]. the beautiful in lunar new year [inaudible] that series of what is a take on the long tradition of paper art crafted created the

year of the [inaudible]. out of hand printed paper, cut, scored and foeldzed into shape. embellished with paint and other paper elements. and then for the layer of papier-mache. the mark was photographed on a white background. those born in year of the snake wise and deep thinking. making them proefficient philosophers, writers and teachers, that's you. like the snake, we have adopted improved efficiency and embraced innovation to service to our customers. we can share the snake many qualities to have in our communication, wisdom in judgment and [inaudible]. the stamp is available now at

any post office including the china town station. you can order them at the convenience of your home at usps.com. as you add the stamp to your collection or use it to mail lieuar new year, our hope that year of the snake stamps live peace, joy and comfort, to and you your family. thank you again for it is an honor to celebrate a meaningful stamp for the community of san francisco. now i like to ask mayor lure tow come and the snake stamp forever. [applause] the cohost to come

up, please.

>> thank you very much i hope everybody bias a stamp. send a letter to the person that you have been wanting to. you know this love letter you were supposed to send last year all of those cards go get your stamps. i'd like to introduce two pillars of our community individuals who have been integral in representing our community. people helping to organize our lunar new year parade and the festivities this be happening across the city. upon donald lu heading the chinese chamber of commerce. welcome.

i'm going speak in chinese.

happy new year. mayor lurie, member of the board of supervisor. elected officials. acting council and council general and all member of the council for the dignitary. welcome to the start of the year of the snake. the [inaudible] in china town was a success. thouz afternooneds of logos coming together to celebrate the traditions. the events sought largest turn out since the panning demmic making a significant revival for china town. the communities resilience in preserving culture and traditions embracing the vibrancy of lunar new year.

the momentum for this year celebration begin with mayor lurie celebration in china town, which set the tone for an exciting start. to the festivities the mayor recognition of china town's cultural and economic significance energizes the community. and carry in the lunar now year celebration. looking ahead, china town is preparing for the record bricking crowd. the chinese lunar new year street fair and parade. one of this year's most significant event for local merchances more than just a celebration. this event serve a vital economic driver. with accidents 30% of the sale during the month festivities. exciting with renewal sense of community spirit, the year of

the snake is off to a great start bringing practice perity. culture and celebration back in the heart of china town. as we embrailles the wisdom and transformation the year of the snake represent may it bring you health, mos prosperity and success the year happy with peace, happiness and the opportunity. >> the chinese chamber of commerce. thank you aside prosecute parade i know the you have for us. i think we need a rounds of applause to the china sooun tune usa contestants standing here and -- to be at this event. >> i forgot to recognize all the

local beautiful contestants mrs. china town usa and thank you to the assistant of jude and he alex fong our board member. thank you for your participation this year pageant. thank you the chinese chamber show up at the parade on the 15th. when you came in the rotunda to city hall you realize saw the two pandas the two beautiful colorful pandas on each side of the entrance. for this we have to thank the chinese historical society for delivering them. the pandas were 8 in china town in different places on this and bring fortune and luck to the community. thank you. moving forward. before we introduce the next performance i like to give thanks to the experiencing the

lion dance year after year. thank you. and the volunteers. we can't deal without the lion dance. and then all the volunteers that make this event possible. the volunteers that helping with asian american ap i heritage celebration. thomas lee. . grace, of course our one and only al perez entertainment commissioner to produce the show this evening and many other volunteers we have, thank you so much for helping out and supporting. let's thank our volunteers. please! >> and now i like to invite our indonesian performer to join us. this is going to be a treat.

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>> hello we are not done yet. because we have prepared forut grand final performance for the evening. i want to reminds everybody that on your way out now new year celebration without the fortune cookie. on your way out please, pick up your own box of fortune! now the grand final, welcome our filipino performers to perform the -- [inaudible] dance

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there can to the cultural performers i hope you had good fun are you having a good time! thank you for being here. thank you to all the volunteers, sponsors and heritage foundation. chinese chamber of commerce and everyone. we hope to see year and remember to pick up on your way out have a good evening. thank you.

>> i think a lot of times we get in adult lives we are afraid to follow our passions and think life can't be that easy. but i truly do believe i followed my heart this time in my journal in city government i did not know that is where my passion lied. i kept following it and ltd. to great opportunity to serve the city. [music]

>> i'm katy tang the executive director of the office of small business. >> small business contributes to san francisco's economy. they provide the bulk of employment in the city and employing a million people in san francisco. and roughly 90% of the businesses are defined as small businesses. so, they contribute to the economy but also just the quality of life. small businesses are more then and there a place of transaction it is a community center. a play where people gather. know each other and form memories about the city. >> at the office of mall business i run a team this helps report all mall businesses in san cisco whether they are looking to stfrt a new business or expand or perhaps they are feeling with issues. our office is here as a point of

information for anyone with a business that has 100 or nower employees. >> i was growing up i had many ideas of when i wanted to do. i wanted to being an olympic swimmer. and i wanted to men be an architect, you name it i had many ideas for what i wanted do when i grew up. and i never anticipated entering in politics. this opportunity came along wh started working for former supervisor carmen chu and she became the district 4 sunset district supervisor. that was my firstent row in politics and government in a different level. and so when i was finishing up my time working for legislative aid i thought, i will go off and do something else.

may be explore opportunity outside of city government what was then approachedo by this opportunity to also serve as a district 4 supervisor. if not the traditional route that many people think of when you enter in politics. a lot know that is manage than i want to do and run for office. that was not part of my culture and upbringing with manage my parents were wondering why i wanted to go in that role this legislation and important because so many women when have it return to work after having a child feel embarrassed or don't feel comfortable asking their supervisor for will any lactation accommodations. i saw it as an opportunity you could use the position where you have tools creating legislation and pass laws and where people listen to to you help the community and pass cause catharsis important to the city and individuals.

my family immigrated to the united states from taiwan. and they came here in pronl probably late 20's almost 30. and so, they came also in the knowing english limp barely read or write but had to quickly understand english to i can't haveigate services and find a job in america. i grew up in the san francisco sunset district i spent most of my childed hoo up until i went off to college. so when i started working in city government, i think i had mixed reactions about my involvement working government because for some of our parents generation, there is i bit of distrust in government. i think there are questions about why i was entering in this field of work. i think you know when i went in city government i thought about my parents like so many other

who is have to navigate city services and resources english first language and help the indials both navigate, intercept that is on an application approximate signage. it is fulfilling to mow to help people like my parent and feel like government is there to support them and not to harm them. my parents are happy that i retired early from politics and being a district 4 supervisor i could have continued on for a couple more years approximate decided to leave early. i think that over all they were able to see some of my work appear in the chinese newspaper. through that they were able to see i was able to help communities in a tangible way. >> the member of the board of supervisors. >> transportation authority. for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. >> i think about one importance when i was worn in as district 4

supervisor. years ago, and someone actually came up to me during twear nothing ceremony and said, wow, i'm traveling here from canada, and i just i could not believe i saw an asian female worn in in this role a leadership role this meant so much that someone would say that and felt they were inspired by the scene. so -- i hope that as more people see people that look like them and more women coming in positions of leadership than i feel they can doing the same. person this inpyred me is carmen chu who is our city add administrator but also was district 4 supervisor when i worked with her as a legislative aid. at this point, i too, was skeptical of going in politics. i saw someone who had herself

never seen herself in politics. got thrown into it and put her heart and soul and dedication to serve people. and it gave me the confidence to pursue that same job and i honestly would not have either chosen or accepted or considered serving on the board of supervisors were not for carmen. >> if you want to make your business accessible. >> in my role in city government where i have seen the most challenge is people who don't know you and you are here to serve and help them that they classify you as our city government and here to hurt you. so, people will talk to you and -- and just you know treat you disrespectfully. and sometimes i noticed that they might do more to me as a female compared to my male colleagues. but you know i try to be empathetic. one of the most significant

barriers to female empowerment we feel like we have to be 100% meeting all of the qualifications before we think that we are qualified to do a job. if we look at a job description or an opportunity to come your way well is self doubt about whether you can fulfill the obligations of that role. i think that the confidence is huge and sometimes i think we make up for it by trying to gain more experience. more and more and more in whatever we can put under our belts we'll feel better. that may not be the case. we might be qualified with when we have already accomplished. i started rock climbing indoors a couple years ago as an activity to try to spends time with my husband and also to try something new and i finds that

rock climbing there are so many parallels to life. you know when i'm on the wall i'm concentrating and trying to make it to the next piece without falling. there are daying you think i'm not making progress. you come back and wow, i hit another level. and so i feel like in our daily lives and w we think we are not making enough of i change in the city. and sometimes we have to take out time to reflect every day as long as you try and give it your all and you look back you will have made a significant contribution there is no limit to where you go in terms of rock climbing. i want to reminds myself of that in terms of daily life. >> follow what it is you are interested in, what makes you feel excited about wake up every

day. you never know and be open to all the possibilities and opportunity. [music] >> my name is andrew england the owner and collector at real old paper. i'm a native to the bay areaismt grew up in oakland, spent high school years here and lived in hawaii about 10 years. moved back shortly. been in san francisco proper now for about 8 years. when i realized i wasn't a dealer anymore in san francisco, i found openings and decided to opening my own store in north beach in 2016. north beach was a great place to start. i got a neighborhood feel from it. i got involved in the community, but as far as business turnover,

fisherman's wharf is 2 fold, 3 fold because there are so many more people here. we have been here going on 3 and a half years. i started as a hobbyist. i started collecting movie posters in high school. not originals. just favorite. when i mouved to hawaii there was a gallery that specialized in viptage posters and that taught me about the variables beyond movies and that is where this is my career path what iment to d i with irked for them for 8 years, took a portion of pay in store credit so i built a collection basically and turned it into a brz. business. hobby turns business and forch int. i got bitten by the poster bug it spiraled out of control and i needed to a store to outlet my collection. san francisco has always had a

viptage poster dating with 1970 with chicago new york and paris san francisco is a city with a area to buy vintage posters so people appreciate the time capsule and history. all are vintage. most in the store is at least 40 plus years old, some back to the 1800s so we have some 140 years old. they are advertisement,b war propaganda from world war 1 and 2. movie and with travel posters and alcohol and tobaccos. thin pieces of paper meant to last maybe a mujt or 6 weeks. the lowest point was the pandemic. having to close the gallery so i didsant have a web store biltd or outlet and barely a instagram and told all the customers don't buy on line. can't be sure they are authentic or true colors or size or condition. it was very frustrating.

it was a struggle until this opportunity presented itself and when i moved into this location on the wharf, there was still nobody here yet. we hadn't officially reopened but i rolled the dice, spent everything i had left to build this place out, and give it one last shot. it worked out very well. it worked out very well. >> here we have the 1971 for the fight. ali and frazier first meeting.o. there is a lot that appreciate the story and understand the esthetic and message and nuances within the graphic. the champagne [indiscernible] wonderful piece. it carries both styles. it has the [indiscernible] in his garb. he has shoes and fits the earlier periods, but done in the style of art deco and that is what we offer and part of the experience knhing into the store. we will walk through the

purchase and explain how we preserved it, what are the imperfections and what does the imagery mean. you have the older story and the newer story, pasted over the top. we will give you all that information. about everything. it may not be your favorite piece until you heard the story. i are think i always had in the back of my mind a second location outside the state. i dream is tokyo, but i do a lot of consulting in las vegas with pon stars group so thought about opening a shop in las vegas. we like to branch out at some point. we are from here and where the company started and where we'll stay, we may just also open another store. i love being here. this is where my family is, this is where i was raised and not ready to leave that behind cht yes, people are looking for this store and there are fewer and fewer store fronts, brick and mortar like ours that outlet this thing. we offer the experience. i think it is very desirable

collective subject matter because we are less and less acustoms. you can pick it while looking at it. examining the flaws and scale and color. you know what you are getting because you get that exact one. poster art is my area of expertise and i have affinity for. poster art especially they are not meant to last are under appreciateated. real paper, the vintage gallery is 777 beach street, tuesday-saturday 11-5 and monday 12-5.

>> the wild type is cultivated sea food company, meaning we create directly from the cells, fish and other sea food animals. there is so much around

conservation of salmon. there used to be so many salmon and now all most done. none. we care about creating a food product that is nutritious, that is free of all contaminants that are unfortunately found in all our sea food today. so, where we where right now is in what we call the fishery, so right behind us is a sushi bar. this used to be a brewery we did miner upgrades so soon we will be able to serve diners here so they can try wild salmon. right over there shoulders they are able to see where it came from. if you are one of the people that likes having super fresh sea food, this is about as fresh as it gets. we want guests to interact with the people who create it, get to know them and be part of this movement is of creating sea food for 21st

century and beyond. ♪♪ ♪♪ i'm shawn quigley the founder of paxton gate that's where we are here on ra11sia street. >> it started more of a quirky gardening store. we leaned in this quirky side over the years and started with insects and learned how to hydrate them and symmetrical or natural poses.

which then went into small taxidermy. i saw interest in the oddity side and purposely expanded that to more of a natural side oddity store. this i interesting mechanical parts in the beetle. african porcupine is cool. they look at their eyes. i grew up on what many call a farm but it was in the to us. we raised animals it a garden i was involved with plant. had a rock collection. collection goes from your basic house plants to an air plant. avoid this term people happening they survive on air alone they do need water. i went to school for business here and finishing up at sf state.

and this idea fell in my lap and masterfuled my interests and i learned a lot over the years. i like to view it as like a museum experience. rather hahn sales people they might be like dossants they are not hard selling you but more conveying informing or knowledge about the products. teeth, that's the giant shark that would get up to 60 feet long. we are launching class we did them before the pandemic. a bunch of hand's on learn to do things classes that we are getting around to relaunching. this is our insect spreading kit. inside is a striped needles, forceps, instructions and the other tools you need to take up

the hopy of spreading insects. had is a prize to many people is 80% of the stuff we get is from vendors or merchants. people think do you tremendous finding these. i don't get to do this. that is a still born kitten that had one eye. the most common question is, is it real. almost everything is. we have replicas like the sabre tooth tigers and things that would be present low expensive to procure and sell or illegal we'll do replicas we have, lot of real stuff. ♪♪