clapping . Now because of the special theme of honoring choechlts the committee has decided to present a special recognition award. Lets role the video. All right. Let me just act to out. Help, help, help. Redefining ailing entertainment. Live concerts and events the hottest music videos original shows. And tv. And comedy mixed tv redefining Asian Americans entertainment. Okay. clapping for the longtime time peep kept getting me confused with a guy on lost. I actually saw whatever reason people cuff with me with i dont know if i should be a congratulations to super star ron lee pr i let the cat out of the bag okay. Wow. We are the supply so because of this but it was a good show. So this community slide is about opportunity to promote the arts and really looking at if they want to be on the stage theyre given that opportunity. We look at all the young people who were watching tv and looking at the videos it didnt take us long to understand that this is the cable networking in the country that carries all content it focused on asian arts and we appreciate the work so i want to invite the general manager of mixed city. Thank you for your work thank you. Thank you. Thank you for this amazing honor. Mixed tv has grown so much over the year and 10 millions of household and chicago but San Francisco has a special place in our hearts. And she works with me on mixed tv. We had our first major launch on 2009. We also had our first major event that won lots of awards but San Francisco is where we start mixed tv so basically thank you to the city of San Francisco. The bay area apa committee for your support and we hope to continue wreaking down barriers for the asian communicate. Thank you so much. clapping so i want to name my two amazing co chairs i know that they were here. Once youre part of us you never get to leave. I want to thank all of them. We have actually over 70 or 80 volunteers but theyre all over at city hall for us to get there. Some of us are sitting in front of commuter with facebook and twittering but once in a while a lot of the responsibilities i wish whos going to do all the work . This reminds me ever a celebration and im sure our co chairs feel it, too coming together and doing what they can to make it happen. Somebody asked about us the Asian PacificAmerican Families and for us coming from us volunteers we have thought about one person came to mind over the years i mean, i have worried about every little detail and over the years ive learned that people will take care of this and i learned i can trust this person so this evening we want to thank for all your years of contribution ron clappin clapping . Improvision ron laughter we got the call for the next 9 years; right . Thank you. Its been a real pleasure working with this lady and i really like to organization and ive been helping here for 9 years and its a pleasure every year to see all you porters who come out to work with this program. I hope this program carries on and on for many years and with clau this ladys leadership how can we lose . clapping . I dont want to go back. clapping sorry. I was thinking this was the last time i would be invited here. So at the newly opened jazz center theyve been working to make this innocent a misconduct as well as a surprise and he needs to be recognized for a job well done. Lets give them is an award. As part of this annual tradition its always folded by a reception. Im told there are modern 15 restaurants to oversee the foods for sampling. City hall is a short 3 block walk if you choose to walk off all the calories. The buffet will be waiting for you. Oh, yeah, go in style. Its waiting across the street from the jazz center and its ramp softball. If youre walking well have escorts wait for you. They can only intercity hall from the entrance and there will be a red carpet waiting for you. Once you enter city hall youll be required to go through security. And annoy a finale john has been an educateor he has been performing at the washington, d. C. On may 9th. Ladies and gentlemen, the gentleman john james. I have to perform two pizza lovers song and youll never walk alone it pays contribute attribute to my family to my grandparents and daughter four generates but to the immigrants and american born. So im going to begin with the butterfly love song. Long before shakespeare wrote this theres a famous chinese leniently who are forces to separate and die of traffic circumstances and return to life as butterflies. From that legion theres a chinese melody that originated from all the women in 1923 and that chinese melody later became the theme for the butterflies violin concerto. I honor this from china representing the generation of my grand parents who were chinese immigrants in the United States. I trofrm this in an expression of my own. Dont confuse me. clapping . In ma in clapping after my father died in a two airplane collision over the grand canyon my mom had to singularly raise my sister and me and rogers and hammer stevens youll never walk alone it has carried me throughout my whole life. I recovered the meaning of youll never what can alone when i was for Church Services at a black church. The first time the black congregation sank Thomas A Doris sister take my hand precious lord i heard the lyric through the symptom and i connected the words when you walk through is a storm. I how were you this song youll never walk alone the the soft United States representing the generation of my parents, my father a chooindz immigrant who became a United States citizen and my moth an americanborn chinese and i take this american song and transform is to my own expression this is dedicated to my 17 yearold dauth daughter whos from chinese and one the 3 victims who died at the marathon boston bombings on may 15th. Little listing is a what a 22 years old female student from china who attended the Boston University and she loved music and she loved to play the piano youll never walk alone. clapping wow. This was amazing first of all, that was amazing thank you so much that that was a breathtaking performance and it was amazing. By the way, ive been told weve been joined by Supervisor Scott Wiener and supervisor chu. clapping now id like to turn the Program Offer the rose chung whose the founder of the american pageant. clapping thank you, very much im honored. Its a great pleasure to promote this award i selected this award for someone id like to thank the coordinator who couldnt stand by me by i was Still Standing next to here even though they e she injured her angle. Were here to show our asian pride felt community. Some have never been in front of an audience id like to ask you to applaud these folks as they come up to the stage. Lets welcome our brothers and