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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
The final game of the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup filled the Rose Bowl to capacity – so much so, it still ranks as the most-watched women’s sporting event in human history. But, upon further review, the “victory” recorded by Team USA needs to have an asterix next to it. Why’s that?
Well, YouTube, in Its Wisdom, just referred me to this video from ABC that somebody uploaded a few years back – check out 2:15 when Team China lost the match because the American goalkeeper launched herself yards past the goal line before the ball was touched during the penalty-kick tiebreaker.
Should the American goalie have been penalized? Of course. Was she? No. There’s your asterix right there.
Leaving aside the issue of handing out asterixeses to 16-year-old gymnasts who weren’t yet 16-years-old, all we can do is look forward next month’s Vancouver Olympics. That’s where a ridiculous new figure skating scoring system (which itself is a knee-jerk reaction to the scandal-plagued 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City) promises a fresh new flurry of asterixii.
Oh well.
Anyway, due to unquestionable YouTube evidence, and on behalf of America, sorry about 1999.
Better late than never…
Tags: 1999, America, apology, asterix, Brandi Chastain, Briana Scurry, cheating, China, chinese, fifa, football, goalie, Mia Hamm, rose bowl, rules, soccer, sports, team, United States, usa, women's, world cup
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Well, it was on this morning at William de Avila Elementary School on Haight Street, where the Chinese language immersion students got to drink fruit smoothies from Bananaman and also got to meet soccer heroine Brandi Chastain. It all had to do with the National Parent Teachers Association’s Healthy Lifestyles Month. All the deets below.
The Jamba Juice Bananaman must be channeling the ghost of Jeff Spicoli. Anyway, the kids loved him. Click to expand:
And here she is, straight out of San Jose, Brandi Chastain herself:
Parents, including knuckle-knocking DCCC member Tom Hsieh, Jr. (Mayor Gavin Newsom’s friend, camera left), were encouraged by Brandi Chastain to get up and start jumping around, to the delight of the students:
Well, that was the medium, here’s the message, after the jump.
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Tags: 2009, Alan Greene, Betsy Landers, Brandi Chastain, Byron Garrett, Byron V. Garrett, CEO, Champion, chinese, dccc, de avila, defender, dual, elementary, english, haight, immersion, inc, Jamba, jamba juice, James White, James D. White, Jr, juice, kindergarden, language, M.D, member, national, National PTA, parent teacher association, President-Elect, pta, school, sfusd, smoothie, soccer, street, team, Tom Hsieh, William, world cup
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle has great shots of the Blue Angels, as per usual. What was unusual this year was lots of fog on Saturday and Sunday. But Friday was nicer.
Let’s take a look.
Propeller tip contrails from the U.S. Marines’ Fat Albert C-130, El Heraldo de Angeles, the Harbinger of Angels:
Sometimes the pilots look the same direction…
…and sometimes not, as explained by Lt. Mark Swinger on SFist.
The pelicans didn’t seem to mind…
…all the commotion:
Loud, loud, loud:
It was not foggy, but a bit humid on Friday practice, as these ghostly forms attest:
This one must have busted a gasket or something, the left cylinder bank looks to have a leak anyway.
See you next year!
Tags: 2009, air show, airplanes, airshow, bay area, blue angels, c-130, cancelled, cloudy, fat albert, fleet week, flight, fog, marines, navy, photos, pictures, pilots, San Francisco, show, team, U.S.
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Get up to speed on the Orwellian Serf’s Emancipation Day here. Today’s protest at the Chinese consulate was relatively small, with about 200 fired-up Tibetans chanting and singing.
Only one lane of Geary Boulevard was shut down to traffic today, as opposed to all four during the last go around: Click to expand:
Fifty years of resistance, 1959-2009:
The horn-honking of solidarity with the protesting crowd from passing traffic was infectious:
A perspective on public relations:
From the Chinese point of view there are perfectly legitimate internal communications (or propaganda, if you prefer) reasons to designate this holiday. It’s a high-profile re-statement of the official Chinese “emancipation” narrative on the annexation of Tibet, an important pillar of legitimacy and a cornerstone of the messaging that is used to this day to justify that annexation to both internal and external audiences. Unfortunately, loaded with unintentional irony as it is, “Serf Emancipation Day” is going to enter foreign ears like a butcher knife coated in rock salt.”
Tags: $28, 28th, avenue, Berkeley, boulevard, China, chinese, consulate, day, department, Emancipation, geary, laguna, liberation, march, niku no hi, police, protest, San Francisco, Serf, serf's, SFPD, street, surf, team, Tibet, Tibetan, union square, Youth Congress, 农奴解放日, 農奴解放日
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Well rejoice, damn you, March 28 is now officially Serf’s Emancipation Day (農奴解放日 / 农奴解放日). The powers that be in China have blocked the YouTube, possibly to avoid the viewing of this particular video (although there could be a host of non Tibet-related reasons for this YT blockage). For her part, “disgusting” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is still hammering China this month about the Tibetan issue.
More locally, there’ll be a few folks in San Francisco commemorating March 28, but they won’t be in a celebratory mood. San Francisco Team Tibet has a bit of info about what will occur at the San Francisco Chinese Consulate tomorrow.
Hopefully people from one side won’t start hanging themselves off of the consulate 30 feet in the air and people from the other side won’t cut any ropes, you know, the way it went down last year on Laguna Street.
50 Years of Enslavement – March 28
Peace March for Tibet (Berkeley Downtown Bart Station) 10 – 12pm
- Tibetan National Anthem
- Opening Statement
- Memang Langlu
- Peace March Begins
- Rally Back at Berkeley Downtown Bart Station
- Announce next programs in SF.
Chinese Consulate Protest (Laguna & Geary St) 2pm – 3:30pm
- Shout Slogans
- Speech by Vice President of Tibetan Youth Congress
- Memang Langlu
- Shout Slogans
- Dentsi Monlam
- March to Union Square in Small Groups without Banners.
- Union Square Event 4:30pm – 6:30pm
- Introduction by MC – Sonam Lama
- Tibetan National Anthem
- Opening Statement (Chemi)
- TANC Executive Member
- TANC Dance group
- BAFOT President
- Vice President of Tibetan Youth Congress (Dhondup Dorjee la)
- Marian Wong (Chinese American)
- SFRTYC (Tsering Choeden)
- Political Theater
- Memang Langlu
- Former President of SFRTYC (Dasang la)
- SFT Speaker
- Candle Light Vigil
- Word of Thanks (SFRTYC – Tsedor)
Tags: $28, 28th, avenue, Berkeley, boulevard, China, chinese, consulate, day, Emancipation, geary, laguna, liberation, march, niku no hi, protest, San Francisco, Serf, serf's, street, surf, team, Tibet, Tibetan, union square, Youth Congress, 农奴解放日, 農奴解放日
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Of course last year’s Olympic protests around the Chinese Consulate at 1450 Laguna near Geary really livlied up the Western Addition / Japantown area in 2008. Let’s review and then see what’s coming up for 2009.
Did this really happen last year? Yes it did. It’s U.C. Davis grad / protest artist Nyendak Wangden hanging off the side of the gosh darn building. It’s supposed to look like she was hung by the neck, but she was safe under the robes in her climbing harness. Safe until somebody on the roof hacked at the red rope causing her to fall. Ouch. Click to expand:
Source unknown This could be a one-of-a-kind photo
How long a fall to the balcony would you say that was? 15 feet or so? Note the absence of the flagpoles in this later photo – those poles got nubbed shortly after the rope cutting incident.
The mise-en-scene from before the rope thang. (NB: The next time you illegally suspend yourself from a building to make a political point, do it above a balcony – it can be a long way to sidewalk otherwise:
But that was then, this is now. More recently, “serial package thrower” Aaron Bassler made the news by throwing items containing wacky stuff (something to do with the “Martian military”) over the fence of the consulate. These objects were treated as bombs by the SFPD. Thusly:
That crime wave is over. What’s coming up in 2009? Well, stuff to do with Tibet – read on after the jump.
And of course, the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square is coming up on June 4, 2009 as well. Just saying.
Concertina wire up on the roof and a decrease in flagpoles are two of the more obvious changes the past year. A recent photo:
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Tags: 2008, 2009, Add new tag, beijing, california, China, chinese, consulate, cut, free, Kendra Zanotto, Nyendak Wangden, Olympics, protest, rope, San Francisco, Square, team, Tiananmen, Tibet
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
This was the scene yesterday in the Western Addition, where hundreds of protesters blocked traffic in front of the Chinese Consulate. Drivers on the Geary Expressway, already wary of dangerous all-electric supercars, should experience a similar gauntlet today.
And then the action heads over to the East Bay.
This was yesterday’s schedule from Team Tibet SF:
In San Francisco
11:30-12:00 PRESS CONFERENCE
12:00-1:30 Peace Rally, Concert at Union Square
March to City hall
2:00-2:30 Rally at City Hall
March to Chinese Consulate
3:30-4:30 Protest at Chinese Consulate
4:30-5:15 Walk back to Union Sqaure
5:15-7:00pm Break. Food and Beverages provided by SF TEAM TIBET
7:00-9:00pm Candle Light Vigil w/ Cultural Show at Union Square
Here is today’s
August 24
12:00-3:00pm Protest at the Chinese Consulate
Evening event at Finnish Brotherhood Church in Berkeley on University Ave and cross
street at Chestnut Ave.
Program: 6:00-10:00pm Dinner, Annual Report, Film, Short Presentation
Tags: 2008, Add new tag, beijing, Berkeley, brotherhood, China, chinese, church, City Hall, civic center, consulate, finish, finnish, march, Olympics, protest, San Francisco, SF, SFPD, team, Tibet
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
You can read about what happened today at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco here – did somebody cut the rope of dangling trespasser Nyendak Wangden causing her to fall 15 feet or so? Well, it could have been worse of course.
But maybe these gentlemen here saw what happened and could help clear things up. You see, they like to hang out on the roof of the consulate when protests are going on. The State Department is looking into things right now. Click to enlarge:
Perhaps they just hang out there to enjoy San Francisco’s excellent air quality?
No matter. These are the same people who recently denied Bay Arean medal-winner Kendra Zanotto a visa to go to Beijing. Why? It seems her interest in Team Darfur played a role.
Sorry Kendra, no soup for you!
Oh well.
Tags: beijing, california, China, chinese, consulate, cut, Darfur, free, Janjaweed, Kendra Zanotto, Nyendak Wangden, Olympics, rope, San Francisco, Sudan, team, Tibet
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