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and representing croft , ron lowe, ron? [applause] we have mcdonalds and their representative did not make it and the last one on the list, ross bargo who has been with us for many years, tracy tran, tracy? [applause] tracy has not made it yet. so really, thank you very much. and for joining us and hope to see you again next year. and its so special that our new police chief is with us. and would you like to say a few words? [applause] >> i dont think that that was actually a question....

we have mcdonalds and their representative did not make it and the last one on the list, ross bargo who has been with us for many years, tracy tran, tracy? [applause] tracy has not made it yet. so really, thank you very much. and for joining us and hope to see you again next year. and its so special that our new police chief is with us. and would you like to say a few words? [applause] >> i dont think that that was actually a question. [laughter] im just really pleased to be here. i wa...

and representing croft , ron lowe, ron? [applause] we have mcdonalds and their representative did not make it and the last one on the list, ross bargo who has been with us for many years, tracy tran, tracy? [applause] tracy has not made it yet. so really, thank you very much. and for joining us and hope to see you again next year. and its so special that our new police chief is with us. and would you like to say a few words? [applause] >> i dont think that that was actually a question....

>> i dont think that that was actually a question. [laughter] im just really pleased to be here. i wasnt prepared to say anything. but just the culture and what it does for the community, it really does leave me without much to say other than thank you for everybody does. and thanks for having me. [applause] >> thank you, chief. and thank you, claudine. i hope you were able to meet some. greeters in the lobby before the event started. and you may have noticed they were selling these li...

lowe, ron? [applause] we have mcdonalds and their representative did not make it and the last one on the list, ross bargo who has been with us for many years, tracy tran, tracy? [applause] tracy has not made it yet. so really, thank you very much. and for joining us and hope to see you again next year. and its so special that our new police chief is with us. and would you like to say a few words? [applause] >> i dont think that that was actually a question. [laughter] im just really pl...

for best social and cultural coverage. so again we say congratulations to you. [applause] >> thank you all so much. as much as i wanted hyphen to win i was hoping this would mean lisa would get our speech out of the way and i wouldnt have to be up here to talk. but i do want to say thank you so much again to the same people, to the asian pacific american heritage celebration committee, to the award judges, and i also want to honor our co-nominees as well, q -- kqed and new american. ou...

[applause] apparently, tonight is hyphens night. so congratulations to hyphen. [applause] a quick word about the organization. it was founded in 2003. its a volunteer run nonprofit news and culture organization that illuminates asian america through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends shaping the fastest growing ethnic population in the country. it engages people through our print magazine, website and events to fulfill the commission to tell the un...

chinese, affirmative action for nominating us and being a community partner, both in terms of providing us space. but also providing us a lot of support and advice. and friendship as weve done our work. i also want to thank you as a larger asian pacific american community as we feel like hyphen is just a part of the community. and we feel like theres such incredible diverse scompit complexity within our community -- diversity and complerksity within our community and hope to express as...

>> thank you all so much. as much as i wanted hyphen to win i was hoping this would mean lisa would get our speech out of the way and i wouldnt have to be up here to talk. but i do want to say thank you so much again to the same people, to the asian pacific american heritage celebration committee, to the award judges, and i also want to honor our co-nominees as well, q -- kqed and new american. our culture is so diverse and complex and naturally that means we need more than one voice t...

stories of asian americans with accuracy, nuance and complexity. to showcase emerging artists, creators and leaders of our community and to build a socially and politically aware community through media, dialogue, and cultural events. its been honored by chinese for affirmative action, with the flames of justice award in 2008, nominated by the utney reader for -- for utney independent press award, best new title in 2007 and in 2010 for best social and cultural coverage. so again we say...