Happy New Year - The Year of Horse

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This Year Of The Horse Sounds Better Already

By Anthony Tao February 1, 2014 12:16 pm

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BBC uses a slightly different Chinese zodiac.

This sounds best when spoken in a proper British accent.

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fortunately, there's redundancy on the interwebs...

Chinese New Year: BBC subtitle blunder reads 'Welcome to the year of the *****s'

BBC News' subtitle system got lost in translation, declaring this the year of the *****s rather than year of the horse during its Chinese New Year coverage
Tomas Jivanda

Sunday 02 February 2014

Friday saw the start of the Chinese new year, with this being the year of the horse.

Unfortunately the BBC News subtitle system didn’t understand the memo quite right, and instead declared this the "year of the *****s", much to the embarrassment of the channel.

“Welcome to the year of the *****s. People around the globe celebrate,” read the subtitles.

Noticing the blunder, a number of eagle eyed viewers were able to quickly grab a screenshot and post it on Twitter.
Chinese New Year 2014: Year of the Horse predictions

@tirnaog09 wrote: “Happy Chinese New Year, according to BBC Subtitles it should be an interesting one! :-)”

@Bobie_Bobzy added: “Happy New year of the #*****s from the #BBC. Bullé!”

This isn’t the first time the BBC’s subtitles have had somewhat of a malfunction, the Archbishop of Canterbury has been referred to as the “Arch ***** of Canterbury”, while during coverage of the Queen Mother’s funeral there was a call for “a moment’s violence”.

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I thought this was just Mr. Creosote.

Woman's stomach 'explodes' after eating too much over New Year holiday



A 58-year-old woman reportedly had her stomach removed after it 'exploded' from overeating and drinking too much booze during the Spring Festival, the web portal Modern Express reported this week.

On February 6, the story of a patient who experienced a "stomach explosion" from eating too much over the holiday began circulating across social media. Seeing as unfounded rumors floating around Weibo have a tendency of taking off on news media platforms, ahem, reporters looked into the story and found that, in fact, hospitals see some 12 cases like this per year.

According to a post by a nutritionist at the Beijing Friendship Hospital, the middle-aged woman was sent to a hospital in Suzhou, Jiangsu province an hour after she experienced severe abdominal swelling due to overeating, and was diagnosed with gastrectasia.

During her operation, gases containing ethyl alcohol burst from the patient's stomach and came in contact with the surgeon's electrical surgical knife, reportedly causing a fire, according to the post.

Wang Hao, a chief physician at the Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital in Jiangsu province explained to reporters that while it's not necessarily a "stomach explosion", his hospital encounters one or two cases of extreme gastric dilatation or perforation every year.

Wang added that for the stomach to catch on fire is a possibility, but very rare. "There is a lot of alcohol in the stomach, and the surgery was done with an electric knife. For a fire to occur is not impossible, but this is rare," he said.

"Normally, people will stop eating when they feel full. However, drinking alcohol during a rich meal can make people ignore their body's signals, and they eat too much," he said.

The 58-year-old woman had her stomach removed entirely, but the doctor said if such a case is not promptly treated, it can easily lead to death.

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I didn't make it out this year sadly.

'Terracotta Warriors' march on 'San Francisco Chinese New Year's Parade 2014'
San Francisco Chinese New Year's Parade
February 15, 2014


The annual 'San Francisco Chinese New Year's Parade 2014' celebrating the 'Lunar New Year' trotted through the streets of the city to Chinatown on Feb 15. This is the "Year of the Horse", the seventh of all the animals of the Chinese zodiac, and those born during this year are considered energetic, optimistic, charming and wise.

The history of this spectacular parade hails from the Gold Rush when over 50,000 Chinese came to California. Since the 1860's, Chinese Americans have held an annual parade in Chinatown, San Francisco, on Grant and Kearny.

One of the front entourages was the Tat Wong Kung Fu Academy dressed as the ancient "Terracotta Warriors", a wise choice since the burial site of first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang from 210–209 BC, included warriors and horses protecting him in his voyage to the underworld.

Mayor of San Francisco Ed Lee took the opportunity to light up 50,000 firecrackers at the parade start, which descended into a protective steel cage, not the first time exploding bamboo was lit during the parade route.

One of the film related entourages were the young warrior comrades of "Mulan", the heroine in the Walt Disney animated 1998 film who chose a fast horse to get away as quickly as possible. The film was set during the Han dynasty in China.

There were plenty of dragons, of course, including a 150 ft one rode by the San Francisco Police Department. Another 110 ft dragon was mounted by Yau Kung Moon school, a southern Shaolin Kung Fu system based in San Francisco.

Parade delegates included the San Francisco Hung Sing Lion Club, the oldest Chinese martial arts club in the USA for over 100 years. The Shaolin Temple USA was also a respected addition to the parade, the first official North American branch of the world famous Songshan Shaolin Temple in the Henan Province of China. Headquarters are in San Francisco. This was the original Shaolin Temple established in 495 AD and the birthplace of Chinese Chan (Zen) Buddhism and Shaolin Kung Fu.

This year's Parade Marshall Major Kurt Chew-Een Lee was the first regular U.S. Marine Corps officer, and the first of Asian descent. Lee earned the Navy Cross under fire in Korea in September 1950, serving in the 1st Battalion 7th Marines. Lee was seated next to Rep Pete McCloskey in a chauffeured automobile, who has just returned from a military reunion in North Korea.

Recognizable corporate sponsors featured horse themes. Chinese immersion schools included Wah Mei, the first Chinese-English bilingual preschool in San Francisco established in 1974, and Alice Fong Yu , the first Chinese immersion K-8 public school in the USA. This year's Alice Fong Yu students painted the murals for one of the floats featuring huge handmade horses.

Several marching bands were featured, as in other parades, including one playing Kurt Cobain’s "Smells like Teen Spirit"; the title of the song came from Kathleen Hanna who wrote the slogan on Cobain’s wall. There were also quite a few colossal 'money gods' roaming the streets of San Francisco.

Two major goodbyes are the tradition of each San Francisco Chinese New Year's Parade, the largest Chinese New Year's Parade outside Asia and one of the top ten parades of the world: the retirement of Miss Chinatown USA, and for 2013, Karen Li from Houston Texas, now Harvard bound - and goodbye to the "Year of the Snake".

The evening's finale was the breathtaking luminous presence of the fiery red and gold 268 ft long "Golden Dragon", symbol of the Emperor - the son of heaven, power and vitality.

Gung Hay Fat Choy to the "Year of the Horse".

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