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our families who have struggled and sacrificed so we could stand here tonight. thank you so much for this honor. [applause] >> ok, thank you very much. this year, the nominees for lifetime achievement award have all been phenomenal, and they're individuals who have dedicated more than 25 years to advancing education and achieving significant impact in their work tonight, we salute three exceptional nominees, this information is in your program work. here to present the lifetime achievement award, please welcome one of our judges, dr. frank.
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>> wow, lifetime achievement. we have the toughest job. she never gives me easy assignments. the individuals who are here today who are nominated, i know all three of them personally. as many of you know, i recently returned from washington, d.c., to work for the obama administration and the department of education, and we know that education for all of us in this audience and the communities we represent is the key for us. these three individuals have spent their entire personal and professional lives dedicated to ensuring those youth do not end up in the system. and if we had more of the three people we have here, jeff would not have a job. he does a great job with what he does, but marlene it is a woman i met many years ago when i was
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working at the city college of san francisco, and she was a staunch advocate for immigrants who did not have any voice, and she gave them a voice. and she continues to do that today. when i was elected to the school board, should continue to advocate for immigrant rights, esl classes, and i tip my cat. rejected my cap. she was a teacher, principal, deputy superintendent, and the first asian-american superintendent and san francisco public schools. [applause] and elaine, who took me as a freshman many years ago, 19-, and i was a young kid from new york chinatown, and every other word that i started out with came out with "f," and it was
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not "frank." she has been a tremendous mentor to me and thousands of students at uc berkeley. if they are all winners today. i am pleased and proud to announce at tonight's winner is dr. elaine kim. [applause] elaine is very proud to accept this award. she is out of town and could not be with us this evening. let's give her another round of applause in absentia, and thank you very much. [applause] do i get to keep this? [laughter] >> thank you very much. congratulations to dr. kim, and special thanks to our other nominees.
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we were like to thank everybody for all of their hard work for their time in coordinating and organizing the awards process. please could give them a round of applause -- please give them a round of applause. [applause] are your stomachs growling? there is a reception, catered by some of the best agent pacific -- asian pacific ches. at this time, i would like to bring up chris, the owner and chef to speak on behalf of all of tonight's chefs. that is a little nervous. i have been speaking to him backstage. give him a really warm welcome, and make him feel really welcome. [applause] >> good evening. thank you. i had a chance to talk to her
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this evening, backstage. i have to say, does anybody watched "eye on the bay"? she is great. she is one of the best newscasters out right now. anyway, we are very honored tonight to celebrate this heritage, apa heritage and the celebrations of tonight, the nation's chaffs -- the asian chefs. over here, i have a great chef who has worked to get this event together. i was not the greatest chefs, i miss just put on this stage to talk. the people who really do the jobs are the ones behind me. before tonight, i was given a script to talk about, and prior
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to this, i had two glasses of wine. [laughter] we are chefs, not public speakers. we worked very hard tonight to create this great meal, and we are on the ground floor. there are other great chefs. at the same time, we're celebrating and honoring the heritage. i hope that you continue to celebrate this event. i promised backstage i would make this speech short so that you all who are hungry can go up and have your meals. thank you all. [applause] >> you did good!
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that was not so bad. wasn't he great? nothing to be nervous about. [applause] chris, you are preaching to the choir. the key to all of the chefs tonight, making this a success. thank you. [applause] >> i forgot something. of it like to toast the mayor, happy birthday, mayor. i am sorry, mayor, i'd drink before you, backstage. >> how old are you? i met at how young. we also want to congratulate joe, so please show your congratulations to her, and all of the participating restaurants, and enjoy the sample food tonight. [applause]
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and i think we can what welet yu go. at the end of tonight's ceremony, please proceed upstairs to the green room. please be sure to get a ticket from the usher as you leave because it is your ticket to enter. also, please hang on to the ticket because many of the restaurants you will be sampling food from tonight are offering a 10% discount when you show that ticket at their restaurant. but don't move yet, because the tickets will not be passed out and the doors to the green room will not be open until our program here has finished. and good news, we are about halfway through. [laughter] only another hour and a half ago. keating, kidding. time now for the grand finale. for that, i'd like to turn this
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over to rose. >> it is a pleasure to coordinate this sekhmet so that you may enjoy a rich cultural elegance of our various asian communities. please at applaud them. let's give them a warm welcome. ♪ >> ♪ somewhere over the rainbow way up high there's a dream that you dream of once in a lullabye oh, somewhere
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and the dream that you dare to oh, why, oh, why acn'can't i? i see trees of green red roses, too all watch them grow for me and you when i think to myself what a wonderful world well, i see skies of blue and i see clouds of white and the brightness of being and i think to myself got a wonderful world - what a wonderful world
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the colors of the rainbow so pretty and the sky the faces of peacople going by how do you do? i love you i hear babies cry and i watch them grow they'll learn much more than we'll know and i think to myself what a wonderful world world someday i wish upon a star with up where the clouds are far behind me
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where trouble melts like lemon drops high above the chimney top that is where you'll find me somewhere over the rainbow bluebirsds fly and the dream that you dare to oh, why, oh, why can't i? well, i see trees of green and red roses, too i will watch them bloom for me and knew and i think to myself at what a wonderful world well, i see skies of blue
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and i see clouds of white and the brightness of being i like the dark and i think to myself what the wonderful world the colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky also wrote the people passing by i see friends shaking hands saying, how do you do? i, i love you i hear babies cry and i watch them grow they will learn much more than we will know it and i think to myself
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what a wonderful world world sunday i wish upon a star with up where the clouds are five behind mare behind me or trouble mislike lemon drops high above the chimney top that is where you'll find me ♪ >> thank you so much to the cultural procession community. we are glad that we got together yesterday to reverse this. at this time, with like to invite the mayor and the first lady to the stage. [applause]
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please make a wish in blowout the candles -- and blow out the candles. [laughter] [applause] we would like to thank peter of the california culinary academy, a person here to say a few words about this beautiful cake. >> thank the. mr. mayor, on behalf of the california culinary academy, where like to wish you a happy birthday. this is made and designed by our very own pastry chefs. chefs, please come out. and one of his many students. this cake is totally edible. and we made enough that it will
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we're going to remove the cake so that it can be cut and you could each have a piece. meanwhile, we will have the finale, and we ask everybody to stand up and dance, ok? we would like to ask the elected officials, the dignitaries, commissioners, come up to the stage! we're going to ask the mayor to stay on the stage so we can watch him boogie. everyone, come on up. hi, dean, , not. all right, party in the house! come up! ♪
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[applause] >> great. whoo! ok, , like to ask our cultural profession folks to gather around the mayor for a group photo. please gather around, thank you. and we need to back up a little bit, thank you. all right. is the mayor a great dancer or what? we need to get him to boogie down at his campaign. a reminder, pick up your ticket, please, as you had upstairs to the green room, at the
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>> sanrio famous for the designs for hello kitty. i thought i would try to make it as cute as possible. that way people might want to read the stories. then people might be open to learn about the deities and the culture. ♪ they reached out to make about five or six years ago because of the book published. they appreciated that my work was clearly driven from my research and investigation. after i contributed my artwork, the museum was really beside themselves. they really took to it. the museum reached out to me to see if i would be interested in my own space inside the museum.
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i tell them that would be a dream come true. it is the classical, beautiful indian mythology through the lens of modern design and illustration and storytelling. they're all of these great sketch as i did for the maharajah exhibition. i get a lot of feedback on my artwork and books. they complement. they say how original the work is. i am the first person to say that this is so derived from all of this great artwork and storytelling of the past. the research i put into all of my books and work is a product of how we do things that a-- at pixar. sometimes you will see him depicted monkey-like or as
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superman. i wanted to honor his monkey coloring. i decided to paint him white with a darker face. it is nice to breathe new life into it in a way that is reverent and honors the past but also lets them breathe and have fun. it is almost a european notion to bring these symbols and icons from southeast asia. they decorate their deities. it was a god they interacted with every day in a human way. the most important thing has been to create work that is appealing to me. i want to see vishnu to pick did in a modern way.
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it dawned on me by reinterpreting the deities in a way that is modern and reverent to the history, i am building a bridge for young and old audiences to make friends with the culture and these icons to learn their stories. ♪ >> welcome to district -- need your district supervisor. we're here with supervisor john
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avalos, from district 11, which includes the excelsior, and will sign, our mission, and crocker amazon neighborhoods. supervisor avalos was elected to the board in november of 2008. we are going to get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. welcome and thank you for joining us today. tell us a lot about your background, where you grew up, went to school, the job you worked. >> i was born in a town called and los angeles. it was a lot of working-class folks. my father was a shore worker, my mother was an office worker at usc. my parents were divorced when i was 10 years old, and i moved to the east coast for six years before going back to california after high school. i went to school at uc santa barbara, grte
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