Welcoming The Year Of The Ox...Great Pix

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A Power Point Presentation based on some great Chinese New Year Photos showing the Celebrations for the Year of the Ox. The photos and captions are from the Net ... sent to me through a forwarded email.

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A woman walks under red lanterns at a shopping mall in Shanghai January 16, 2009. Red decorations are customarily used by Chinese people all over the world to usher in the Lunar New Year, which falls on January 26 this year. The Year of the Ox is celebrated this year. (REUTERS/Aly Song)

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Chinese New Year celebrations begin in Liverpool, north west England on January 25, 2009. The city's Chinatown is home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe, with many of the original members of the community arriving as seamen in the nineteenth century. (PAUL ELLIS/AFP/Getty Images)

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Steam and smoke engulf visitors to Longtan Park from stalls cooking food during a fair celebrating Chinese New Year in Beijing January 25, 2009.

(REUTERS/David Gray) #

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Passengers holding stools line up to buy tickets in front of a railway station in Kunming, Yunnan province, China on January 16, 2009. China warned on Thursday that the mass

migration home over the Chinese New Year holiday would be especially hard due to lack of train tickets and told rail officials to "use their brains" to ensure things run

smoothly. (REUTERS/Stringer) #

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Passengers are seen crammed inside a carriage of a train at a railway station in Lanzhou, Gansu province, China on January 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer). #

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A man lights candles in a temple during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations to mark the Year of the Ox in Chinatown in Jakarta, Indonesia

on January 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Enny Nuraheni) #

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Performers take part in the opening ceremony of a temple fair on the eve of Chinese New Year in Beijing, China, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009. Temple fairs opened across the city as Chinese prepared to celebrate the year of the Ox. (AP Photo/

Elizabeth Dalziel) #

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A woman burns incense and prays for good fortune at the Baiyun Temple in Beijing on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year January 26, 2009.

(JASON LEE/Reuters) #

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A Chinese man prays at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on January 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Bazuki

Muhammad) #

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An elderly couple sits under lantern sculptures of mandarin orange trees as they gather to usher in the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Singapore

on Saturday Jan. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) #

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A man peers out from his costume during the opening ceremony for the Ditan Temple Fair in Beijing on January 25, 2009. (LIU JIN/AFP/Getty

Images) #

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A woman, center, photographs performers at the opening ceremony of a temple fair on the eve of Chinese New Year in

Beijing, China, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel) #

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Fireworks illuminate the skyline as people celebrate the Year of the Ox in Beijing, China on January 26, 2008. (LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Buddhists rush to stick incense sticks in an urn at a local Chinese Buddhist temple on Monday Jan. 26, 2009 in Singapore. Every year, hundreds of Buddhist believers gather at a temple where they will vie to place their incense sticks in an urn at midnight marking an auspicious start to the

Chinese lunar new year. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) #

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Local residents crowd into Lung Shan Temple in Taipei on January 26, 2009 to offer prays for the new Lunar New Year. (SAM

YEH/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Two men launch a hot-air lantern to send New Year's wishes up to the sky in front of the Hanoi Opera House during Lunar New Year celebrations in

Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) #

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People watch fireworks to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Tianjin, China on January 25, 2009. (REUTERS/Vincent Du) #

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Local residents crowd into Lung Shan Temple in Taipei on January 26, 2009 to offer prays for the new Lunar New Year. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty

Images) #

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A performer smokes a cigarette during a break from a show celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year at a temple fair in Beijing January 24, 2009.

(REUTERS/Christina Hu) #

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A man prepares fireworks at a temple to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Hefei, Anhui province, China on January 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Jianan Yu) #

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Artists dressed in Qing Dynasty costumes take part in a performance to worship heaven and pray for good harvests, at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China on January 26, 2009, where the emperors of the Ming and

Qing Dyansties would traditionally pray for bumper crops twice a year. (LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Women perform during the opening ceremony of the temple fair at Ditan Park in Bejing, China on January 25, 2009. (REUTERS/Reinhard Krause) #

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An inmate waves a balloon during a ceremony to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival at the Chuanxi Prison on January 24, 2009 in Chengdu of Sichuan Province,

China. A total of 500 inmates who behave well in prisons in Sichuan Province are allowed to spend the Chinese New Year at home. (China Photos/Getty Images) #

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A visitor uses a mobile phone to take photographs of a giant lantern in the shape of an ox in Tianjin Municipality, China on January 23, 2009.

(REUTERS/Vincent Du) #

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A man sorts dumplings in a kitchen at a village in Daxing, south of Beijing, China on Saturday Jan. 24, 2009. Villagers gathered Saturday to make thousands of meat dumplings in preparation for a feast to celebrate Chinese New Year, which begins Monday. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) #

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A man puts the finishing touches on a statue in front of a temple at the Chinatown district in Singapore ahead of the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration on January 17, 2009. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A Muslim woman maintains her tangerine trees, imported from China, as she waits for customers at her roadside stall in Jakarta, Indonesia on

January 23, 2009. Tangerine trees are only sold once a year in Jakarta for the Chinese New Year. (REUTERS/Enny Nuraheni) #

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Earthquake survivors have their Chinese New Year Eve's dinner at their temporary house settlement in Yingxiu town, in southwest China's Sichuan

province Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009. (AP Photo) #

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A Chinese man recites prayers at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on January 18, 2009.

(REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad) #

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A boy runs through shadows cast from Chinese lanterns hanging at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on January 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Bazuki

Muhammad) #

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An actor dressed as the Chinese God of Fortune poses outside a shopping mall in Hong Kong on January 14, 2009 as part of the sales promotion for the upcoming Chinese Year of Ox starting January 26.

(REUTERS/Bobby Yip) #

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Workers put up decorations made of red lanterns at Thean Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on January 13, 2009. (REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim) #

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South Koreans, who fled to from North to South Korea during the Korean War, kneel behind a wire border fence and bow in front of delicacies offered to their parents and relatives in

North Korea to celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Imjingak Pavilion, near the border village of Panmunjom, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

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Chen Ting, a Beijing Opera artiste from the Jiangsu Art Group of China, applies make-up for a Chinese Spring Festival performance at the Manoel

Theatre in Valletta, Malta on January 19, 2009, ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations on January 26. (REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi) #

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The moon passes in front of the sun, during a partial solar eclipse, as it sets over Manila Bay, in the Philippines on January 26, 2009.

(REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco) #

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The End Happy New Year

May you develop the Ox-like qualities

of determination, strength of purpose,

resilience and diligence.With Metta,With Metta,

Bro. Oh Teik BinBro. Oh Teik Bin