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associations and on l the non profits in the district and of course the children that you just saw, the lity they great? [inaudible] i want to say thank you to everybody for kicking off the xhineies new year, year of the monkey and want to say thank you for our financial district [inaudible] for sponsoring this event. we have the emp rr of hilton and chinatown and whatever is beginning to be here and of course he will kick it off for all of us. this is great year, we have a lot of invasion and expectations just like the monkey. it is clever and innovative and restless and could be mischievous, we just have to watch out for now monkey business this year and in order to do that we have this powerful speed of fire crackers to get all the old spirits out and welcome the new spirits so want to join you and anitea and and have here. [inaudible] mrs. [inaudible] our captain for being here, our community and to say for the next couple of weeks tremendous celebration for all our families, our children, our relatives our frnds, to culminate with a largest evening parade in the whole country february 2