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DECEMBER 2002 NEWS
US Asians would like to personally express our hope that the Christmas season of all our worldwide supporters will be filled with thanksgiving and holiday cheer during these historic times. Our invitation is extended to discover the many exciting things and people that are from and/or affecting the Asian/Asian Pacific American communities. Discover the latest events in the following categories FEATURED LEADERS OBITUARIES THEATER ORGANIZATION EVENTS MEDIA NEWS
COMMUNITY LEADERS
MEDIA NEWS
COMMUNITY NEWS
POLITICS
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FEATURED ARTISTS & LEADERS DEBORAH MARR Deborah T. Marr is the CPU architect responsible for Hyper-Threading Technology in the Desktop Products Group. Hyperthreading technology makes a single physical processor appear as multiple logical processors; simply put, the physical execution resources are shared and the architecture state is duplicated for each logical processor. From a software or architecture perspective, this means operating systems and user programs can schedule processes or threads to logical processors as they would on conventional physical processors. From a microarchitecture perspective, this means that instructions from both logical processors will persist and execute simultaneously on shared execution resources. Deborah has been at Intel for over ten years. She first joined Intel in 1988 and made significant contributions to the Intel 386SX processor, the P6 processor microarchitecture, and the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor microarchitecture. Her interests are in high-performance microarchitecture and performance analysis. Deborah received her B.S. degree in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, and her M.S. degree in ECE from Cornell University in 1992. The Cornell graduate is one of a handful of female computer chip designers in a field that is 95% male.
Ms. Kim was born in Taegur, South Korea, and taught and worked as a principal there for over ten years.
She is a survivor of the Korean War and remembers a time in South Korea when "all the country was just ashes, everything was just burned."
She came to the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1959. Kim received her doctorate in education at UCLA in 1970. Her dissertation focused on how vocational education could be improved in South Korea.
She was the first Korean woman to receive a doctorate degree from UCLA.
Kim has served as President of the YWCA of Los Angeles; chair of the Board of the Pacific Consortium on Employment (PACE); vice chair of the Board of the Korean Institute of Southern California; and on numerous other community organizations.
She also has been honored by the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission in its "Bicentennial Salute to Los Angeles Women of the Year" and has received numerous other awards.
East West Players is the first and foremost Asian Pacific American theatre in the country.
EWP is the "place" where Asian Pacific American theatre was born, producing a variety of different plays including traditional classics, huge Broadway productions, and plays specific to the Asian American experience.
Perhaps even more encouraging is that EWP has been a model for the numerous other Asian Pacific American and Asian Pacific Canadian theatres now in existence in North America.
East West Players was founded by nine artists in 1965 and is now home to over 600 ethnically diverse artists each year. Over seventy-five percent of all Asian Pacific performers in the acting unions living in Los Angeles have worked at East West Players.
East West Players has provided training and opportunities to many emerging and professional artists who have gone on win Tony Awards, Obie Awards, Emmy Awards, Theatre L.A. Ovation Awards, and nominated for Academy Awards.
EWP alumni include Mako, John Lone, B.D. Wong, David Henry Hwang, Philip Kan Gotanda, Freda Foh Shen, Roberta Uno, R.A. Shiomi, Judith Nihei, Alec Mapa, Wakako Yamauchi, Amy Hill, Sala Iwamatsu, and Nobu McCarthy.
East West Players has also had the opportunity to work with many respected artists and faculty such as actors Danny Glover, Tsai Chin, Lauren Tom, and Nancy Kwan, directors, Lisa Peterson and Oskar Eustis, musician Dan Kuramoto and instructors Calvin Remsberg and Fran Bennett.
Since its founding, EWP has premiered over 100 plays and musicals about the Asian Pacific American experience and, through its many artistic and educational programs, has held over 1,000 readings and workshops.
EAST WEST’S LATEST PROJECT
Esther K. Chae, Daniel Dae Kim, Matthew Yang King, Kipp Shiotani, Trieu Tran, Gwendoline Yeo and Ogie Zulueta are featured in Andrew Tsao’s version of Shakespeare.
REVIEW OF ANDREW TSAO’S “THE TEMPEST |
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APA & MEDIA NEWS
R.I.P. - KAM FONG
SHINSEKI’S FIGHT VS. TERROISM
JOHN WOO’S “THE HOSTAGE
BEAU SIA AND STACYANN CHIN ON BROADWAY
REVIEW - “A DRAGON’S ROAR”
ANNIE GUO
CHINA’S RICHEST BUSINESS PEOPLE
RACISM DURING WWII
Ted Ohira’s (recipient of three Bronze Stars) memory of that white face, that voice so saturated with hate that stated "Hey you dirty Jap."
"After all that combat. I went through five major battles in Europe, and I received lots of awards and medals. … And then one day, in downtown Los Angeles, I hear this: `Hey you dirty Jap.'
"I don't cry. I didn't then. I got mad and I wanted to beat that guy up, but I said `this guy is ignorant.' I had enough of fighting and I just walked away."
REVIEW OF YOYO MA’S “SILK ROAD PROJECT
SHI ANN HUANG
NAVY DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD
“THE ROCK” WINS DIVERSITY AWARD
Johnson's movie credits include "The Scorpion King" and "The Mummy Returns."
BLT’S RELEASE DATES
APA’S ON TV
APA FIRST WEEKEND FILM CLUB
APAIT OBSERVES WORLD AIDS DAY
HEROES OF COLOR
"What we're seeing is the browning of America," says Santiago Pozo, who has served as marketing consultant for Universal films such as "The Mummy Returns" and "Scorpion King." "So young moviegoers want black and brown heroes. When they see the Rock or Vin Diesel, they recognize themselves."
EDITING OF ASIAN FILMS
SHINQ-CHERN (SEAN) LIOU
ACCENT DISCRIMINATION CASE DISMISSED
The agency found no evidence that complainant's accent would have interfered with her ability to perform a Budget Analyst position. On appeal, the Commission found that the agency failed to meet its burden of showing, by clear and convincing evidence, that it would not have promoted complainant during the period at issue even absent discrimination.
MULTIETHNIC MARKETING
ASIAN LANGUAGE MARKETING
The high volume of Asian-language media is no surprise, considering more than 60 percent of Asians living in the country are foreign-born.
Asian-language media garnered $400 million in advertising for the fiscal year 2000, up from $300 million in 1997
INDIAN AMERICAN MARKETING
RACISM TOWARDS INDIAN AMERICAN POLITICIAN
Karen Balderston made her comments about Democrat Swati Dandekar in a Sept. 29 e-mail to a conservative political action committee.
STORIES FROM THE APIA COMMUNITIES
They were consigned to years of virtual servitude by a handful of small-time entrepreneurs who exploit a little-known 16-year-old Compact of Free Association that allows the island residents to settle and work here without
visas.
CHARLES WANG STEPS DOWN
LISA LEAVES “THE VIEW”
QBERT & YOYO LOVE APPLES
UIC’S ASIAN AMERICAN CENTER
UIC’S 1ST HIRE - MARK CHIANG
Chiang and Jun will join the department for the fall semester of 2002. Jun also is a joint hire under the Department of African American Studies.
L.A.’S LACK OF DIVERSITY
However, diversity varies widely across the state - Los Angeles neighborhoods are still highly segregated, while those in Sacramento are far more racially diverse.
CHINA’S RICHEST PEOPLE
1ST VIETNAMESE VOTED TO SCHOOL BOARD
The victory makes Nguyen the first Vietnamese American to be elected to a school board, according to the Asian Pacific American Municipal Officials, a division of the National League of Cities.
TORAICHI KONO - CHAPLIN’S PERSONAL VALET
APA POLITICIANS
51% Asian Pacific American candidates won their elections, 91% of the incumbents won, 43% of the APA candidates were in Hawaii, 30% of the APA candidates were in California and the Japanese/Chinese American communities had the most candidates,
NYC’S ETHNIC BREAKDOWN
The report is especially timely since district lines must be drawn to reflect the results of the most recent Census.
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