Category: english
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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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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.
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funky WordPress 2: saved post editing, cat permalink
WordPress 2 (the pseudo official version.. not RC, available under /downloads, but unannounced as of yet under /blog ) bugs/malfunctionings found so far: When clicking previously saved draft posts, the screen moves automatically to /text/?p=POSTID which obviously doesn’t exist yet, and so it shows an error message. The new permalinks structure (neat small .htaccess!) seems…
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LA Holy City Convention, October 2005
Approximately 8,000 koreans gathered in Crenshaw Christian Center Faith Dome (scroll left) in an event called LA Holy City Convention 2005 (성시화 대회) during October 7-9 under the catchphrases “Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole LA!”, “Love Jesus Love LA!” etc. The dome’s capacity is 15,000, which I heard was the original aim of the convention.…
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Tactical adoption of ethnic identity to overcome side vulnerability
I often try to avoid recognition/downplay their weight, in reaction to how much generally (older) people I know seem to have come to cherish recognition to the level of fetish. When the OITs gave the BRU campaign award, I realized that despite my efforts, recognition was successful in stirring my emotions (ie: I couldn’t control…
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"patents" can't "back" drugs
So on channel USA (DirecTV #242), Leptoprin (obesity pills) ads claim that this is a “USA-patent backed product”. Now, a patent can’t “back” a drug. The FDA “backs” (approves/proves) drugs. All a patent does is assuring the pharmaceutical corporation has exclusive rights over the drug as an intellectual property. You can’t get away that easy,…
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sticking around a house with no heating in…
sticking around a house with no heating in the middle of LA winter may be the shortcut to tuberculosis. it’s in my best interests to run away to my uncle’s. soon.
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identifying the sin
A: Teacher what’s this paper? YoKim: it’s the circle of holiness. Who can recall what 전도사님 talked about today? T: Oh me me! YoKim: no someone else besides T… hmm E can you tell everyone what was the message today? E: Nah.. YoKim: ok then let’s have T answer it. Silence! Everyone listen to T.…
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my thought process doesn't seem to follow a fully rational path (re blog layout)
I like my design. A lot. In particular there are some gimmicks here and there I could use for various related (but not the same) purposes – some of them are technically possible, some of them are possible but not semantically correct (from the point of view of WordPress PHP flow) and some just don’t…
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revolutionary trotskyists supporting state intervention?
there were at least 5 groups sellings newspapers and handing out flyers at tonight’s gulf coast resistance movements solidarity fundraising.. wow. One guy handed me this flyer about an event this saturday afternoon (Rally to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Lynne Stewart, and Assata Shakur, Imma Presb Church 4pm) and I heard Mumia’s name before, probably from…
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regarding the lack of supports towards in page…
regarding the lack of supports towards in-page markers (e.g. URL#bookmark) in mediawiki, tinyurl.com managed to implement them. how? dunno