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YouTube video from the American Cuemakers Association Awards Dinner 2011. Some of the transcript follows:
On behalf of all the members i would like to thank you all for attending tonight this is our annual awards banquet. I hope you all enjoy that and then we're all glad to see you here. With that jerry mcwhorter is going to be our gracious mc for the evening. He will go through the program and he will do all the announcing. So, Jerry if you'd like to come up here .
Thank you, Dave, thanks so much for coming everybody. As you all know, the ACA spares no expense and has hired the best talent they could afford. i'm the only one signed up for free, so, I'm him. Thank you so much for coming. The ACA is darn near 20 years old that's something we're going to talk about more. Hopefully, we'll do something special next year. It's been a great association for all of us and we're grateful that this has turned into such a fun event. We've got a lot of things to go over tonight and a lot of fun moments that we'll be able to talk about. But first of all we want to acknowledge our sponsors that help all of this happen: Diamond Billiards.COM and Simonis our two primary sponsors. Ivan was here a few minutes earlier but had to to leave for other reasons but we want to thank them and acknowledge them. They help make all this stuff happen. Now the cameras they're flashing already. I feel like a celebrity. It's a wonderful thing. As long as we're acknowledging important people, I would like to get the board members of the ACA to stand up and the different officers of the ACA to stand up that we can acknowledge them for all of their hard work they all want to look around and see if the other guy does i want to thank them very much they they do a lot of extra work they do work throughout the year and our constant communication with each other to make all of these events and all the different programs we have work. We want to again thank them.
I know many of you guys have been watching the news and the earthquake in japan and the tsunami is just such a heartbreaking experience that's continuing to unfold with a lot of bad news. With that in mind, one of the things is that we've really become a family
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with the industry and the japanese friends that we've made have all been very important to our businesses but
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very important to us personally and the aca had an idea that we wanted to go
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to each of the aca members and take a collection of funds as uh for the japanese tsunami relief
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fund and many of the queue makers we all get together and and contributed money to that dave jacoby has uh cl
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klein the the secretary treasurer has taken the money and then they've converted into an aca
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check and dave jacoby has a check that he would like to present and if we could get keu haro to come up
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as kind of our uh staff where are you
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keohara many of you know please come come join us for a moment
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he is a is our staff photographer for the 20 years that we've been uh in association with the
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aca and he writes many articles in japan and is a great been just a great friend to the industry as a translator and is
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bringing players over and and just a big supporter so we want to ask you to take the responsibility
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that we would like to have dave present this check to you and it's a blank check so when you get home we want you to find
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a relief organization that you think would be best suited and fill that name in and make that donation on our behalf
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yes thank you go ahead but i just i like to reiterate what jerry
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said uh through the years the japanese dealers and buyers and and customers they've not only become
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business partners or whatever they're a lot of good friends and i'm sure a lot of the queue makers a lot of people here have been over there
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and i've personally had dinner with kyle and it touches us deeply to see what
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happened and it really hurts our feelings and this is a small token of our appreciation
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what is the amount that we have seventeen hundred and five dollars
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and it was donated by the queue makers in the association today thank you very much yes so please
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make your choice and and uh and fill the check in and let us know i do i do want to add also um if any of
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you would like that didn't know about the program didn't know what we were doing would like to make a donation please do that
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uh with with the aca tonight and we'll again write another check tonight and make that happen so any of you in the
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room that feel like that's something that you'd like to participate in please do that thank you haro you've got a important
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job a little bit high stand tall young man
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check one two okay uh the first over uh i'm sorry but i'm not a good english
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speaker sorry for my bad english ability so my some misunderstanding may happen so uh
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but anyway how can i say right after
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we got to here we suddenly realized it's
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a very very huge disaster no one has experienced the tsunami and
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the earthquake the the 8.8 or 8.9 uh we japanese used to have an
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earthquake uh frequently so but um you know what six point something or seven point
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something is big enough eight point something it's no one could imagine so
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even though uh many people are just in case of emergency in the tsunami but
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um the speed of the tsunami 600 miles
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per hour no one could
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survive i heard that let's say
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thousand people um the town uh only seven thousand people
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uh survived and uh ten thousand people still missing missing means uh i don't know
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or nobody knows um me personally um
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tried to contact with my family's relatives but telephone communication was so busy so i
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my phone call could not go through so it took two days that all my families
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and relatives are safe
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but um uh still the casual number of casualties piling
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up uh let's say not currently let's say 1500 people were killed
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were missing but uh it's not uh total even now it's that number is
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piling up so uh it's kind of the national disaster
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and i i thought myself why i'm here i should go back to japan
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immediately because i can do nothing when i'm here
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but um my wife called me yesterday she encouraged me you should you have to
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stay here you stay here and do your job covering the event taking pictures for
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the japanese magazine that all you should do now is you can do anything after you go back to
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japan so you think about supporting family relatives after you go back to japan
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right now that's the reason why i'm just focusing this event the covering supervis expo
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for the japanese magazine and try to extend how beautiful
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the american poor cute american pool world is to the japanese readers
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and um uh i was so moved um many american queue makers collectors
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and friends uh said to me you are our family so
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you know i'm i'm not american i'm just i'm a japanese nationality is different but you all
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guys treat me or treat our my friends as a family
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so how world is small and i was so moved by that
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uh relationships you know what uh we buy queues and pay money and got to find
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queues there is just a transaction but a relationship among us among japanese and
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american people is it's just priceless
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we can we can not trade that relationship it's a trust and joy
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to communicate you know different countries people so thank you for all
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and uh i i cannot my english is not not
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