Author: yonghokim
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Education a top priority for Asians
Education a top priority for Asians After-school tutoring in demand as parents aim high BY CONNIE LLANOS, Staff Writer Los Angeles Daily News Article Last Updated:11/05/2006 06:58:32 PM PST SANTA CLARITA – For most kids, the school day is over by 3 p.m. But for many Korean-American students, that is when the real learning begins.…
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Education a top priority for Asians
Education a top priority for Asians After-school tutoring in demand as parents aim high BY CONNIE LLANOS, Staff Writer Article Last Updated:11/05/2006 06:58:32 PM PST SANTA CLARITA – For most kids, the school day is over by 3 p.m. But for many Korean-American students, that is when the real learning begins. “Hagwon” schools are traditional…
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N.O. quotes
“National Guard! Get down!” F E Herbert Defense Complex cityofno.com mentioned in radio – offered residents tips on demolition and rebuilding ECC 9 white workers outside houses, 6 black (5 next to house, 1 next to white) Our Weekly took picture
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Immigrant Day 2006
Leg visit notes Team 3 (Sehwan) tRanscript [edit]Miranda Hazel Miranda: And let me just say that the senator’s district… she represents south corridor of Beverly that is Sen Cedillo’s bill Sungpyo Ma: Oh ok, so you guys support SB 5067? HM: Well I can’t speak for her, but I can only say that she has…
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Continuation of Emergency Coverage: AB 813 Passes Senate
PDF: http://yokim.net/wiki/Image:AB_813_Nunez_to_Advocates.pdf Sacramento Office 1107 Ninth Street, Suite 801 Sacramento, California 95814 Telephone: 916/442-0753; FAX 916/442-7966 www.wclp.org [Tags]medicare, medicare part d, prescription drug, medi-medi, dual eligible, emergency measure, california, legislature, law, medi-cal[/Tags] Continuation of Emergency Coverage Medicare Part D – Update May 11, 2006 AB 813 Nunez/Perata Current state emergency coverage for Medicare Part D…
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CHIRLA is using CivicSpace!
CHIRLA just went from the old plain HTML to this: (CivicSpace powered). Someone in the staff is very, very adventurous. [Tags]civicspace, website design, content management software[/Tags]
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May Day 2006 and the Gulf War
Before hitting Wilshire and Western at 4:00 pm, we are sitting in the lounge watching Fox News, which is broadcasting live rallies in Downtown and Santa Ana. That looks pretty hard to match up. Then we think of our plan for today. Ever heard CNN’s of live Gulf War broadcasting? Iraqui scud missile headquarters used…
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Government Sued over Failure to Implement Medicare Drug Law’s Protections for Low-Income People
Government Sued over Failure to Implement Medicare Drug Law’s Protections for Low-Income People: Challenge Brought on Behalf of More than 6 Million Recipients Oakland, CA; April 26, 2006–A class action complaint was filed today in the U.S. Federal District Court, Northern District of California to force the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure…
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Too much school?
Ana put footnotes in Mac’s April 10 Immigrant Rights March flyer. omg. Compare with Berkeley’s flyer. [Tags]Immigration, Agitprop, Humor[/Tags]
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Sign-up sheet for POSTERING drive
How to do it decide on at least 2 street segments you will be postering on suggested street segments are already posted at the sign-up sheet below, waiting for takers for postering purposes, a city (glendale, cerritos, northridge, torrance) counts as 1/2 street segment (see the K-Town markets excel sheet for markets outside K-Town.) We…
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Leavitt Lies: Medicare Part D Enrollment Numbers
Leavitt says that Medicare Part D was a success because “Around 90 percent of Medicare beneficiaries have enrolled” (DHHS Press Release, 4/4/06) to Part D. This statement is repeated in his Three-Month Progress Report (PDF) “[Seniors] have enrolled” is not the exact phrasing I would use. “[Seniors] have been enrolled” is more accurate. Let’s take…
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alienated translator
Consider this a front-line ethnographic report on translator-original text producer split of a phenomenon that also occurs in the programming front with i18n’s when you step down from the MTA bus, you can see at the exit a sign that reads Wait for green light, then step down and also right below it Espere por…
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Two and half years ago our ethnographic interviewing…
Two and half years ago, our ethnographic interviewing methods professor walked us through what was to come, towards the end of the semester: … What other classes your could take to complement ours? Hmm, I’d say, take statistics. No! Don’t take it here. No need to waste your tuition dollars on an introductory math course.…
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Senate approves nomination of Mark McClellan for CMS administrator
This stuff doesn’t show up on their website anymore nor the Internet Archive, but it’s still on google cache. Senate approves nomination of Mark McClellan for CMS administrator
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Jan 18/W 6:30 LA Delegation to WTO Report Back & Fundraiser
I got an email on the Report Back from the LA delegation to WTO on Jan18. Check out WTO, Food and Dirt, Hong Kong and Koreans from the US, a blog apparently run by several people, including some from the LA delegation. The PDF flier attached to the original email is here.