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Thank you all for coming, i would like to really briefly introduce bonnie angle with the Breast Cancer fund, she is going to do a presentation for you on prevention, ways to preventolin ks of chemicals in Breast Cancer and ill let her talk about the rest, bonnie, thank you for coming. Alright. Thank you all so much for being here today. Im very excited to be able to give this presentation to you, unfortunately, i was expecting to have a copresenter who had a minor accident and visited the emergency room this morning instead of visiting us, so we have plenty of folks from the Breast Cancer fund...

Here today. Im very excited to be able to give this presentation to you, unfortunately, i was expecting to have a copresenter who had a minor accident and visited the emergency room this morning instead of visiting us, so we have plenty of folks from the Breast Cancer fund and other groups on hand to answer questions, but we are missing our policy geru unfortunately, i dont know how much this audience is familiar with it but weve also been meeting and talking about doing a study of exposures among women firefighters in particular, and so we have some members of that team talking about that her...

Going to present today is what we call our healthy home and Healthy World tours, ill talk a little bit about who the Breast Cancer fund is and then were going to walk through kind of the rooms in your home talking about tips for avoiding exposures that are linked to Breast Cancer and i will talk a little bit about the different chemicals, where theyre found, things you can do to avoid them and also some policies, and then well kind of go beyond the home to talk about the kinds of exposures that might be not within our control in the house but elsewhere. And it looks like i have videos so that ...

Hang in there, were almost done. But this is the day that we get to celebrate applause im calling it the neners. You know whats interesting . Ive been around city hall long enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. So, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast ...

Groups on hand to answer questions, but we are missing our policy geru unfortunately, i dont know how much this audience is familiar with it but weve also been meeting and talking about doing a study of exposures among women firefighters in particular, and so we have some members of that team talking about that here, sharl patton is back there, give a wave, and did rachel step out already . And rachel thought she was going to give a wave but she had to step out to go to another meeting, from the Breast Cancer fund, we have my two science leaders, [inaudible] and janet gray, so science question...