Yongho Kim

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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 that the 6.4 million seniors and disabled individuals across the nation who receive both Medicare and Medicaid (“dual eligibles”) have effective, timely access to prescription medication under the new Medicare Part D prescription drug program.

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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 la luz verde antes de pisar abajo

    Which is translated wrong. It should say “antes de bajarse” (“before getting out of the bus”, not “bejore standing under” – under what?). This problem, though, is way too easy to spot, and it’s unlikely that this glitch is the translator’s fault (such as the other more common ad mistakes which employ the wrong verb conjugation or an inconsistent usted/tu word play).

    Most likely MTA had hired a single interpreter to do jobs in a batch process to save costs, and the translator was isolated from the actual material setting where the interaction betwen sign and reader was taking place – thus was completely unaware of what “stepping down” implied. (It’s fairly obvious once you see the actual stairs that lead you to the back door of the bus, but not if the translator is sitting at the office typing in a Word document at 11pm)

    Some bureaucrats will never comprehend this, however.

  • 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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  • Million Dollar Partners at UToledo (OH) and its Community Organizing program

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  • Colorado College American Cultural Studies External Review

    http://www.macalester.edu/americanstudies/index.htm

    REVIEW OF THE AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM AT COLORADO COLLEGE

    Professor Duchess Harris participated in assessing the curricular scope of the American Cultural Studies Department at Colorado College and offered recommendations as to how it can be developed as a program.

    (Review downloadable as PDF)

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  • Roberto Rodriguez. As America's Latino diaspora evolves, so does the field

    Roberto Rodriguez
    As America’s Latino diaspora evolves, so does the field

    Founded some 30 years ago and at one time believed to be on the verge of extinction, the field of Chicano studies is constantly expanding. As Puerto Rican and Cuban communities grew in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, so did the demand for fields of study particular to those populations. Now, add to that: Dominican and Central American studies. Peruvian and Colombian studies.

    The U.S. Census Bureau estimates there are approximately 35 million Latinos in the country, including the island of Puerto Rico. While approximately 60 percent of all Latinos now living within U.S. borders are of Mexican descent, the immense growth of other Latinos in the country has created large populations of Central Americans — including Dominicans, Colombians and Peruvians — so that this group is now the second-largest Latino population in the country.

    But do these different ethnic groups constitute one larger national group — Latinos — or should they continue to be classified as individual regional groups? Should the study of all these groups be housed under Latino or Chicano studies? Or should each group foster its own field of study?

    As long as the new fields do not subsume the older disciplines and it is not an either/or situation, this expansion is welcome, say many scholars.

    However, others worry more about the ability of Latino scholars — and the scholarship they engage in — to make a real connection with the communities they were created to study, let alone the ability to generate more social action. And as many of the charter members of the Chicano studies field begin to retire, the younger scholars are expanding the definition of Latino studies, not distilling it, which could exacerbate the problem. (more…)

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  • Sorry, but you're not my type

    Sorry, but you’re not my type: Pity the poor South Korean man who is blood type B, pegged by pop culture as a selfish, mercurial cad.
    Jon Herskovitz, Reuters.

    Copyright 2005 National Post. All Rights Reserved. National Post (f/k/a The Financial Post) (Canada)
    April 19, 2005 Tuesday. Toronto Edition

    SEOUL – Lee Sung-san is a 24-year-old South Korean student looking for love and hoping the women he is wooing don’t ask for his blood type.

    Genetics and pop culture have teamed up to make Mr. Lee’s love life miserable. He is blood type B, which nudges him near to the nadir of the dating scene in South Korea.
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  • [DEBATE] peter waterman. International Marxist Embarassment Month?

    From: peter waterman
    To: “debate: SA discussion list”
    Cc: Virginia Vargas telefonica.net.pe
    Date: Apr 12, 2005 3:20 AM
    Subject: [DEBATE] : International Marxist Embarassment Month?

    If we need this kind (See Below) of gushing, this kind of emoting, this kind of identification between Trotskyism/Geuvarismo and particular contemporary individuals or parties, then I really think we should abandon Marxism for Catholicism.

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  • Kawuma Daniel Busuulwa. Tackling Africa's Last Taboo

    Tackling Africa’s Last Taboo
    By Kawuma Daniel Busuulwa
    African Voices, Volume 5, Issue 4. March 2005.

    Africa has always been labeled for its conservatism regards to sexual or gender issues. In most African ethnic cultures, talking openly about issues regarding sex was taboo. Some have gone further to correlate these tendencies with the escalating HIV/AIDS infection rates especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This as many observers argue has resulted into the failure for the more knowledgeable adults to pass on the crucial information in a precise and direct manner to the adolescent Africans. The failure to hit the hammer on the head as the pundits argue is costing Africa many lives in an era where we always need to adjust to such a dynamic world with new physical, economic and social demands.
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  • getting there It’s Not Just Usability by Joel…

    getting there?

    It’s Not Just Usability
    by Joel Spolsky
    Monday, September 06, 2004

    So a good social interface designer might say, let’s not display an error message. Let’s just pretend that the post about Viagra was accepted. Show it to the original poster, so he feels smug and moves on to the next inappropriate discussion group. But don’t show it to anyone else.
    ………..
    Social interface design is still a field in its infancy. I’m not aware of any books on the subject; there are only a few people working in the research side of the field, and there’s no organized science of social interface design. ………

    Over the next decade, I expect that software companies will hire people trained as anthropologists and ethnographers to work on social interface design. Instead of building usability labs, they’ll go out into the field and write ethnographies.

    kathy.lee :: portfolio
    msn messenger whiteboard
    SI 622 evaluation of systems and services

    » created personas and scenarios to frame our evaluations
    » fielded a survey to explore the competitive marketplace for IM applications as well users’ mental models
    » conducted a cognitive walkthrough and heuristic evaluation of the drawing and collobration tools

    mitupv exchange
    an online cultural and educational exchange

    the project’s largest payoffs came from involving the users. We conducted brainstorming sessions with the students to define functional requirements and tailored the development schedule to allow for ample user testing.

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