Monday, November 30, 2015
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Dylan Thomas - Do not go gentle into that good night
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
From The Poems of Dylan Thomas, published by New Directions. Copyright © 1952, 1953 Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1945, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1967 the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1971 New Directions Publishing Corp. Used with permission.
Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
From The Poems of Dylan Thomas, published by New Directions. Copyright © 1952, 1953 Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1945, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1967 the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1971 New Directions Publishing Corp. Used with permission.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Monday, November 23, 2015
Experiment: How to cool things faster
identical bottle 3:
watter
fridge
napkin
laser thermometer
When: tonight
Where: home
Who: everyone
watter
fridge
napkin
laser thermometer
When: tonight
Where: home
Who: everyone
Landmark cases #1: Marbury v. Madison
http://landmarkcases.c-span.org/Case/1/Marbury-v-Madison
Law is rules about what is right and what is wrong based.
- There are laws of universe. That is something different.
Law is defined by people.
Law is changing.
Law is interpreted by courts.
- Supreme Court of The United States. SCoTUS
- 9 Circus Courts
- local courts
Constitution is the fundamental law of US.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Law is rules about what is right and what is wrong based.
- There are laws of universe. That is something different.
Law is defined by people.
Law is changing.
Law is interpreted by courts.
- Supreme Court of The United States. SCoTUS
- 9 Circus Courts
- local courts
Constitution is the fundamental law of US.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Friday, November 20, 2015
Monday, November 16, 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Monday, November 9, 2015
unbranded
Their project
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1978488989/unbranded
In the news
Their book
http://www.amazon.com/Unbranded-Ben-Masters/dp/1623492807
Their documentary
http://watch.unbrandedthefilm.com/
Sunday, November 8, 2015
How Unexpected
Very cute little animation.
demo reel
https://vimeo.com/81440400
Created by Sara Kim
http://simplisticflow.blogspot.ca/
demo reel
https://vimeo.com/81440400
Created by Sara Kim
http://simplisticflow.blogspot.ca/
Saturday, November 7, 2015
A message from Brian
http://www.briananderson.me.uk/
https://vimeo.com/58768471
https://app.box.com/s/6jw8evldn58owa33bkcbxgxdkibqus5z
Hello from Britain has a long history in China and people are always asking me how it all started!
So………. READ ON!
Since I was 11 years old all I have wanted to do with my life is to work for a Radio Station. When I was 14 I had wires running up and down my street connecting a small studio in my bedroom to my neighbours houses. I used to make programme for them.
For many yeas before coming to China I was the controller of a Radio Station in Scotland. My ambition had been achieved. I was working for a Radio Station and had even won top awards. And.. the Radio Station gave me free use of a car.
The "dream" of MOST Western people is to live in the countryside That seems very different to the thinking of Shanghai people but of course the countryside in China is not YET as well developed as the cities!
In MY Scottish countryside we have digital telephones, electricity and water and sewage disposal. Milk is delivered every two days, the post is delivered each day and the rubbish is taken away each week. We also have cars and my nearest town is 25 kilometres away and it takes 17 minutes to drive there.
BUT…….. I had achieved my ambitions and was BORED. I love Scotland very much but it is a big world and all I was seeing of it was what I saw on Television. I wanted to see it for myself.
NO WHERE is "Further away" than China so in 1988 I decided to take a look. Although I was controller of a Radio Station I did NOT have much money so a Radio Station in London paid for my air ticket in exchange for me making a Radio programme about China!
I was utterly fascinated by what I saw here during my first visit. The people were warm, friendly and almost unbelievably curious. I really did feel like a spaceman.
Radio is my life and during my first visit I listened to YOUR Radio. It was cold and boring. "How come the Chinese are so friendly and how come that friendliness does NOT come over the Radio" That was a question I have asked myself many times here but LESS since the changes to Radio in Shanghai in 1992.
I was offered the chance in both Beijing and in Shanghai to produce Radio programmes. They said they could not pay me because they were too poor so I would have to find advertising and pay THEM!!! That may sound FUNNY but it is not TOO unusual in the Radio business especially in America.
I could certainly SEE that the Radio workers here were poor and their working conditions at that time were not good either. BUT it was obvious that China was developing at incredibly high speed and I found it an exciting opportunity but HOW to begin?
First I needed to start a "Company" Now that brings us to a great difference between our two societies. In China the people think of a "Company" as being something that is BIG but OUTSIDE of China that is not at all true!!!!!! Anyone can start a Company! Its very easy! ……. It costs RMB 1000.
The next problem is what do I CALL my "Company" I wanted a name that Chinese people would find attractive. During my first visit EVERYONE was talking about "Open Door" so I thought why not a ………. WINDOW.
But I needed an ADVERTISER! It was a lucky co-incidence that DHL had just opened in Shanghai together with its partner SINOTRANS. DHL in London agreed to support me as an experiment.
We started "Hello From Britain" in August 1989. I used to record the programmes at 3 oclock in the morning in the studios of the Radio Station in Scotland and send them to Shanghai by DHL.
WHAT A RESPONSE!!!!!! It was really an exciting day when the first letters arrived from our Shanghai listeners. They were sent to me by the Radio Station in Shanghai because I did not have enough money to come back to Shanghai at that time!!
I came back to Shanghai again at the end of 1989. I took unpaid leave from my work in Scotland and came for a week to have more meetings. I then went to Hong Kong and worked for the Radio Station there for 4 weeks. In Hong Kong they pay VERY WELL!!! Four times more than my work in Scotland. That gave me enough money to pay for my air ticket! In Hong Kong I also went to see potential advertisers……..
Many of them were snobbish and rude and some of them laughed at me. "How can an ENGLISHMAN make a Radio programme in China they said!!! Anyway……. Chinese Radio is VERY BORING they said"
Then I went to see Nescafe. They were polite and quite friendly but I think they thought I was a little mad.
I went back to Scotland and spent three weeks non stop sitting in front of my computer writing them a full proposal for a programme in Shanghai. I then found a Chinese student in Scotland and recorded a sample programme and sent it to Nescafe in Hong Kong together with my proposal.
I hardly slept for two weeks waiting for their reply.
They said YES but we had to re-negotiate the price with the Radio Station and I did NOT have enough money to buy the air ticket to come back. I sold 10% of my company to a Scottish Lawyer for 10,000 RMB and flew back to re-negotiate the contract in Shanghai.
Nescafe agreed to support me for a six month experiment and I sat down and worked out how much it would cost to spent several months in Shanghai flying with the cheapest airline and staying in the Seventh Heaven Hotel. I also needed some professional machines. I worked out my sums and calculated that I could JUST cover all the costs but ONLY if I paid MYSELF two thirds of what I had been getting in Scotland.
I resigned from my work in Scotland. They thought I was mad and I went to Shanghai with two digital tape recorders, 1,000 songs and a cheap computer. My bank agreed to give me an overdraft of 5,000 Pounds.
I will never forget the experience of producing the first Nescafe programme in the studios in Shanghai and will never forget what they said to me after we had finished the first programme……
"What do you think? Are we professional like in your country?" I did not know how to answer.
We also began to record Hello From Britain in the studios in Shanghai with my translator JANE. It was great fun to be able to make HFB in a style that was MUCH more lively because of the excellent simultaneous translation from Jane!
A few days later the listener letters began to arrive. I was deeply moved by the response to Nescafe Music Time and the INCREASED response to Hello From Britain. The only way I can describe it was that it felt like a MOUNTAIN of…. LOVE. Somehow I think we seemed to have touched the hearts of the people. It was a wonderful feeling that has never left me.
The differences between us see at times to be impossible BUT through MUSIC and through the RADIO I think we have found a precious way to begin and expand our understanding of each other. Through the hard times ahead it would be and it still IS that FEELING that gives me the energy to continue.
It was a condition of my contract that I bring two people from Shanghai Radio to Britain. The trip cost 3,300 pounds and I did not have it. I begged for it from a charity in Hong Kong and got it for free because they thought I was mad but "interesting" The trip would have cost more but we saved money by staying in my house and with friends. I also borrowed a car from my ex Radio Station!
It was fun showing my country to two people from Shanghai and interesting for the FIRST time for me to see MY country from a foreign perspective. BUT the recession was beginning to hit my country hard and the DOLLARS I was receiving from Nescafe became worth less POUNDS each day. I was running out of money fast. I even had to borrow some money to pay for the food we ate in London.
When I returned to Shanghai towards the end of 1990 I had almost nothing.
Then I received a fax from Hong Kong. My work in Shanghai had won an award from a Charity for "Best Media Project 1990". Normally when you win an award for "Artistic" work you get NO money. This time I got HK$ 100,000 and was able to pay my bills.
I was the Chairman, Managing Director, Producer, Engineer, Presenter, Sales Representative and Secretary and ONLY employee of a company that was 2 years old. In the first year before coming to Shanghai I made US$ 100 profit but paid myself NOTHING at all. In the second year even after the award money I LOST US$ 2,500 and was earning MUCH less that I had been getting from my work in Scotland. In those first two years I had given the Radio Station in Shanghai more money than the value of my house and its contents in Scotland.
Then we really started to grow! Nescafe and DHL expanded their programmes in China with fourteen cities for Nescafe and six for DHL. Sony also supported the "Sony Double Countdown" in Shanghai. I built a REAL studio in Scotland and employed more people. Up until the end of 1998 we were employing 5 people and occupying 65 hours per week of airtime in 14 cities throughout China!
We were making a profit. It was not large but averaged around US$30,000 per year. This money was used for equipment and people.
Since it all began we have given Chinese Radio Stations more money than FIVE Western People would earn in their whole lives and we have paid more than US$100,000 to Chinese Hotels.
Now….. I can hear you saying "He is rich now" When my COMPANY makes a profit does it mean that I can go and spend it? That is nonsense and is the thinking of a child. It would also be illegal.
I have NEVER worked for money alone and never wish to be the type of person who does. I am happy to give the money that I do to Chinese Radio Stations because It is the market price and because it is used for their development and modernisation. A businessman who does not SPEND money is either a criminal or the luckiest person in the world!!
What OUR business makes does not need a factory or lots of workers. In a Western country it needs just ONE person to make a programme.
AND….. we now just have ONE person again!
Towards the end of 1998 we were hit by the "Asian Economic Crisis" We lost our contracts with Nescafe and Sony. DHL also reduced their support for programmes in all cities except Shanghai.
So……. From 1999 we are back to where we started!
The year 2000 was OK although we have now lost ALL the profits from previous years and had little money.
Hello From Britain was taken OFF air in Shanghai at the beginning of 2001. We were given no warning of any kind. We were told that this was because of some sort of directive from the Shanghai Municipal Governments Broadcasting Bureau forbidding non Chinese nationals from speaking into a microphone.
The programme continued in Hangzhou until early 2002 when DHL SINOTRANS in Beijing refused to continue support.
The programme was funded by DHL in the UK and Hong Kong from 1989 until the end of 2001.
Producing Radio Programmes in China was a true adventure and I will be forever grateful to our sponsors ALL of which were NON Chinese. But….. it is YOU the LISTENER who made it all worthwhile.
We are ALL "ordinary" people. There is nothing "Intellectual" about a successful Radio Programme. Exactly the opposite! In China you have "The Masses" The Masses ARE China. They deserve a smile and some warmth. They deserve the nice feelings that a good tune and some true words of genuine friendship can bring. But……. the masses are YOU and it is YOU who made our programmes a success.
The response we had from our ORDINARY listeners in China truly made it all worthwhile. We received many HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of letters. When I was in China I also meet may listeners and have even met some Chinese People in Britain and in America who used to listen to the programmes.
The response to our Web site has been MUCH better than we expected and its very encouraging to sit here in Scotland and read what everyone is saying in the guestbook. We are NOT web design experts and the site is maintained by Brian in his spare time.
THANK YOU for your support and THANK YOU for listening!
Without YOU we were NOTHING!!
Now it is all over.
It – sadly – seems hard for some people in China to understand but I did NOT go to China in search of money.
I did NOT expand my work in China because of money.
We are all in this world for a short time.
We are ALL going to die.
YOU are going to die.
Sometimes we are presented with an opportunity to help to make the world a better place.
I was given this opportunity in 1989.
I am happy with what I did, and the fact that YOU are reading these words proves that I was right to do what I did.
All of the money has now gone and now I have nothing.
There are SOME Chinese people who made a LOT of money from me and my programmes.
Towards the end I was astounded and disgusted with their greed and selfishness.
It is THEY who will have to live with their conscience and it is unlikely that I will ever return to Shanghai.
As for me……. outside of my window as I write, the sky is blue and the birds are singing.
I am happy.
BRIAN ANDERSON.
Window Communications Hall of fame…..
This is a list of people who have worked with us to make it all possible.
Our Sponsors…… David Allen, Chairman of DHL. Lim Khing Fong, Cindy Lau, Lam Yim, Cassian Cheung, Bernard Kam, Steve Watson and Cheah Yoke Fong from Nestle. Henry Lee from Sony. Peter Crowhurst from the Gloria Plaza Hotel in Beijing. Bert Pinoli from Northwest Airlines. Carole Culioli from Newcastle Brown Ale.
And our Staff…….Katherine MacFarlane – JANE – Monique Sykens – Shirley – Neil Shaw – Norman MacLeod – Xiao Dong – Paula Whitelock – Yeen Yao – Frank Hossack – James Lyon – Norman Barrington – Fang Zhou – Ar Yen – Zen Yong – Christina Gibb and Maggie.
Some of our Ex staff have moved on to other things in broadcasting…….
Katherine MacFarlane is now a TV producer. Paula Whitelock is a successful DJ on Radio Forth in Edinburgh. Norman MacLeod is studying economics at university in London. Jane is now living in Chicago. Neil Shaw is an ACCOUNTANT and still involved with Window Communications. James Lyon is Commercials producer with Northsound Radio in Aberdeen. Frank is running his own company in Shanghai.
Brian has worked in KOSOVO helping to produce information programmes for people affected by the war.
Recently Brian also worked in Cape Town South Africa working to produce information programming aimed at workers throughout South Africa.
Brian has also recently worked in Botswana helping to set up an educational radio drama series to help combat the aids epidemic.
Brian has also worked in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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“来自英国的问候”（ "Hello From Britain"）在中国已经有很长一段历史了，人们时常问我这一切是怎样开始的！
那么……请看！
自打我11岁开始，我的人生理想就是能在广播电台工作。当我14岁时，我已经拉着电线在我住的那条街跑上跑下，把我卧室中的一个小电台和我邻居的房子连接起来，开始为他们制作节目了。
在来中国之前很多年，我是苏格兰一个广播电台的管理人员。当年的雄心壮志已经得到实现，我为一个电台工作，甚至得到了最高的奖励。并且..这个电台让我免费使用一辆汽车。
大部分西方人的“梦想”是能住到乡村去。这似乎与上海人的想法大相径庭，当然中国的乡村还远远没有城市那么发达。
我所在的苏格兰乡村，我们已经拥有了数字电话，还有供电、供水和污水处理系统。牛奶每两天送一次，信件每天送一次，垃圾每星期清理一次。我们还有汽车，最近的镇距离我们只有25公里，驾车只要17分钟就能到那儿。
然而……我已经实现了当年的雄心壮志，进而感到有些厌倦了。我非常爱苏格兰，但这是一个广大的世界，而我却只能通过电视机来观察它。我想亲身去见识这个世界。
在1988年，对我来说，没有一个地方能比中国更加“遥远”了，因此我决定去那儿看看。虽然我已经是一个电台的管理人员，但是经济上我并不宽裕。于是，伦敦的一个广播电台为我支付了机票费用，作为交换，我将为他们在中国制作一个广播节目。
第一次中国之行，我被所见到的一切彻底迷倒了。这儿的人们温和、友好，有着不可思议的好奇心。我着实觉得自己好象是一个太空人。
广播是我的生命，在我第一次访问中国时，我收听了“YOUR Radio”，节目冷淡而乏味。“中国人何以会如此友好，同时这种友好又何以没能渗入到广播节目中去。”我曾多次地问我自己这个问题，但是1992年在上海的节目改观之后就很少问了。
我在北京和上海同时获得了制作广播节目的机会。但是那些人说他们不能付钱给我，因为他们实在是很穷。因此我不得不去寻求广告赞助，再付钱给他们！！！这听上去很可笑，但是在商业广播这一行，这种情况并不是很少见，尤其是在美国。
的确，我看到这儿的电台工作人员很穷，而且在那时，他们的工作条件也不好。但是显而易见，中国正在以难以置信的速度高速发展，我发现了一个令人振奋的机遇。但是，怎样开始呢？
首先，我需要设立一个“公司”。在不同制度的两个社会之间，这给我们带来了很大的差异。在中国，人们认为“公司”是一个庞然大物，但是在中国以外情况绝非如此！！！！！任谁都能搞一个公司，非常便宜！.…..只需花1000元人民币。
接下来的问题是该怎样命名我的“公司”，我想给它起一个对中国人来说都很有吸引力的名字。在我第一次访问中国过程中，每一个人都在谈论“打开国门”，因此我想：不如把它称之为一个……窗口。
但我还需要一个广告赞助商！幸运而又凑巧的是，DHL（敦豪）刚好与其合作者SINOTRANS在上海开设了一个分公司。伦敦DHL同意支持我，权当是试验。
我们于1989年8月开始制作“来自英国的问候”（"Hello From Britain"）。我常常在凌晨3点，在苏格兰的电台工作室录制节目，再通过DHL把节目送到上海。
那是怎样轰动的一个反响啊！！！！！那是一个振奋人心的日子，当我收到第一封来自上海听众的信件那天。他们通过上海的广播电台把信寄给我，因为在那时我还没有足够的钱回上海。
我在1989年底再次回到上海。我是无薪离岗，离开了苏格兰的工作。在上海呆了一星期，多开了几个会。接下来我到了香港，在那儿为一个广播电台工作了4周。香港人付给我的薪酬十分优厚！！！相当于我在苏格兰工作的4倍多。我因此有了足够的钱买飞机票！在香港，我还会见了一些潜在的广告赞助商……
他们中很多人势利而又粗鲁，一些人还嘲笑我。“一个英国佬怎么能够在中国制作广播节目！”他们说。“不管怎么说，中国的广播节目乏味极了！”
于是，我会见了雀巢公司（Nescafe）。他们很有礼貌，文静而又友好，但是我想，他们会不会觉得我有那么一点疯狂。
我回到了苏格兰，花了整整三个星期，片刻不离坐在我的电脑前，给他们写了一份在上海制作节目的可行性报告。接下来我又找来一个在苏格兰的中国留学生，录制了一个简单的节目。我把这个节目连同我的可行性报告一起寄给了香港雀巢公司。
在接下来等待他们回应的两周我几乎没有睡过。
他们说：“行。”不过我们得和电台就价格问题重新谈判。然而我还是没有钱买机票回去。我把公司10%的股份转让给了一个苏格兰律师，换得了10，000元人民币，坐飞机回去重新谈上海那个合同。
雀巢公司答应先试着资助我六个月。我于是坐下来计算究竟需要多少费用，供我几个月内在上海坐最便宜的航班，并且可以住在“七重天”宾馆。我还需要添置一些专业设备。我算了一个总数，计算在我付给自己只相当于我在苏格兰工资三分之二的情况下，还需要多少钱才能够支付所有的成本。
我辞去了苏格兰的工作。他们都认为我疯了，我只提着两台数码带录音机、1000首歌还有一台廉价电脑去了上海。银行答应给我5，000英镑的透支额度。
我永远不会忘记在上海的工作室录制首期雀巢咖啡音乐节目的经历。也永远不会忘记第一期节目结束之后他们对我所说的话……
“你在想些什么？在你的国家我们的职业是一样的吗？”我不知道怎么回答。
在接下来等待他们回应的两周我几乎没有睡过。
他们说：“行。”不过我们得和电台就价格问题重新谈判。然而我还是没有钱买机票回去。我把公司10%的股份转让给了一个苏格兰律师，换得了10，000元人民币，坐飞机回去重新谈上海那个合同。
雀巢公司答应先试着资助我六个月。我于是坐下来计算究竟需要多少费用，供我几个月内在上海坐最便宜的航班，并且可以住在“七重天”宾馆。我还需要添置一些专业设备。我算了一个总数，计算在我付给自己只相当于我在苏格兰工资三分之二的情况下，还需要多少钱才能够支付所有的成本。
我辞去了苏格兰的工作。他们都认为我疯了，我只提着两台数码带录音机、1000首歌还有一台廉价电脑去了上海。银行答应给我5，000英镑的透支额度。
我永远不会忘记在上海的工作室录制首期雀巢咖啡音乐节目的经历。也永远不会忘记第一期节目结束之后他们对我所说的话……
“你在想些什么？在你的国家我们的职业是一样的吗？”我不知道怎么回答。
两个从上海来的家伙出现在我的国家面前，这是一件很有意思的事情。而且这也是我第一次从国外的角度来打量我的国家，颇有趣味。但是经济衰退沉重地打击了我的国家，我在雀巢公司获得的美圆能兑换到的英镑每天都在减少。我的钱很快花光了。我甚至不得不借钱支付我们在伦敦的伙食费。
当1990年末将至，我回到上海时，我几乎是一无所有了。
接下来我收到了香港来的一份传真。我在上海的工作获得了某慈善组织的“1990年最佳传媒方案奖”。通常你获得“艺术”类的奖是没钱拿的，不过这回我却得到了100，000港币，可以支付我的帐单了。
我是一个已成立两年的公司的董事长、经理、制作人、工程师、代理人、销售代表、秘书以及唯一的雇员。在我来上海前的第一年，我挣了100美圆利润，不过没有一分钱作为工资付给自己。第二年，即便是获了奖之后我还是失去了2，500美圆，而且挣得比我在苏格兰工作时还少。而最初两年，我付给上海那家电台的钱却超过了我在苏格兰的房子连同里面所有财产的价值。
接下来我们真正开始成长了！雀巢和DHL开始扩大节目在中国的播出范围，雀巢达到14个城市，DHL也有6个。索尼（Sony）也在上海搞了“索尼双十佳”。我在苏格兰建立了一个真正的工作室，雇了更多的人，直到1998年底我们的雇员已有5个人，我们的节目在14个城市每周播放总时间达到65小时。
我们赚钱了。虽然不多，大概每年30，000美圆。这笔钱用于设备和工酬。
自打工作开始以来，我们付给中国的广播电台的钱超过了五个西方人终其一生所能赚到的总和，而且我们付给中国宾馆的钱也超过了100，000美圆。
现在……我听到你说：“他发财了。”当我的公司赚钱了，是不是意味着我就能花钱走人。这是胡说八道，小孩才这么想。而且这么做也是犯法的。
我从未仅仅只为钱工作，我也从来没想成为这样的人。能够付钱给中国的广播电台我觉得很高兴，因为首先价格公道，其次是因为这笔钱他们能用于发展并紧跟潮流。一个不需要花钱的商人是个罪犯，同时也是世界上最幸运的人。
我们的生意不需要工厂和大量的工人。在西方，只要一个人，一个节目。
而且……我们现在又只有一个人了！
到1998年末，我们受到了亚洲金融危机的冲击。我们失去了与雀巢和索尼的合同。DHL也减少了除上海以外其他所有城市的节目投入。
于是……从1999年开始，我们退回到了起点。
2000年还算不赖，虽然我们损失了前些年赚到的所有利润，而且几乎囊空如洗。
“来自英国的问候”在2001年初在上海被停播了。我们事先也没有接到任何通知。我们被告知，是由于上海市政府广电局下达有关指令，禁止外国人做广播播音主持人。
这档节目在杭州一直播出到2002年初，直到北京DHL中外运拒绝继续提供支持。
英国和香港DHL资助这档节目从1989年一直到2001年末。
在中国制作广播节目是一项真正的冒险，因此我将永远感谢我那些中国以外的赞助者。但是……正是因为你们——我的听众——才使这一切有了价值。
我们只是芸芸众生。一档成功的广播节目绝没有任何高深的智力因素。反之亦然。在中国你拥有“大众”，大众就是中国。他们值得拥有一个微笑和一些温情。他们值得拥有优美的旋律和真挚友情的话语所能带来的美妙情感。是的......大众就是你们！正是因为你们才让我们的节目得以成功。
中国的普通听众给予的反响使我们的工作获得了真正的意义。我们收到了成百上千的信件。我在中国能遇到许许多多的听众，甚至在英国和美国都能遇到很多一直收听我们节目的中国听众。
我们网站上得到的反馈比我们预期得还要好，当我们坐在苏格兰阅读每个人在客人留言本上的留言，感到欢欣鼓舞。我们不是网站设计行家，这个网址主要是Brian利用他的业余时间做的。
感谢你们的支持！感谢你们的收听！
没有你们，我们什么也不是！！
现在，一切都结束了。
对某些中国人来说难以理解——这很悲哀——但我到中国不是为了淘金而来。
由于钱的原因，我没能在中国壮大我的事业。
在这个世界我们都是短暂的过客。
我们所有人都会死去。
你们也一样。
某时某刻，我们被给予某个机会，能够使这个世界变得更美好。
1989年，我曾得到过这样的机会。
对于我所做过的事，我感到很高兴，事实上，你正在阅读这些话——这就证明了我的所作所为是正确的。
千金散尽，我现在一无所有。
还有一些中国人从我和我的节目上赚了大把的钞票。
最终我为他们的贪婪和自私感到震惊和恶心。
这些人将背负着自己的良知生活。我也不可能再回到上海。
至于我嘛……在我正在写信的房间窗外，天空蔚蓝，鸟儿歌唱。
我很幸福。
BRIAN ANDERSON.
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Hello from Britain has a long history in China and people are always asking me how it all started!
So………. READ ON!
Since I was 11 years old all I have wanted to do with my life is to work for a Radio Station. When I was 14 I had wires running up and down my street connecting a small studio in my bedroom to my neighbours houses. I used to make programme for them.
For many yeas before coming to China I was the controller of a Radio Station in Scotland. My ambition had been achieved. I was working for a Radio Station and had even won top awards. And.. the Radio Station gave me free use of a car.
The "dream" of MOST Western people is to live in the countryside That seems very different to the thinking of Shanghai people but of course the countryside in China is not YET as well developed as the cities!
In MY Scottish countryside we have digital telephones, electricity and water and sewage disposal. Milk is delivered every two days, the post is delivered each day and the rubbish is taken away each week. We also have cars and my nearest town is 25 kilometres away and it takes 17 minutes to drive there.
BUT…….. I had achieved my ambitions and was BORED. I love Scotland very much but it is a big world and all I was seeing of it was what I saw on Television. I wanted to see it for myself.
NO WHERE is "Further away" than China so in 1988 I decided to take a look. Although I was controller of a Radio Station I did NOT have much money so a Radio Station in London paid for my air ticket in exchange for me making a Radio programme about China!
I was utterly fascinated by what I saw here during my first visit. The people were warm, friendly and almost unbelievably curious. I really did feel like a spaceman.
Radio is my life and during my first visit I listened to YOUR Radio. It was cold and boring. "How come the Chinese are so friendly and how come that friendliness does NOT come over the Radio" That was a question I have asked myself many times here but LESS since the changes to Radio in Shanghai in 1992.
I was offered the chance in both Beijing and in Shanghai to produce Radio programmes. They said they could not pay me because they were too poor so I would have to find advertising and pay THEM!!! That may sound FUNNY but it is not TOO unusual in the Radio business especially in America.
I could certainly SEE that the Radio workers here were poor and their working conditions at that time were not good either. BUT it was obvious that China was developing at incredibly high speed and I found it an exciting opportunity but HOW to begin?
First I needed to start a "Company" Now that brings us to a great difference between our two societies. In China the people think of a "Company" as being something that is BIG but OUTSIDE of China that is not at all true!!!!!! Anyone can start a Company! Its very easy! ……. It costs RMB 1000.
The next problem is what do I CALL my "Company" I wanted a name that Chinese people would find attractive. During my first visit EVERYONE was talking about "Open Door" so I thought why not a ………. WINDOW.
But I needed an ADVERTISER! It was a lucky co-incidence that DHL had just opened in Shanghai together with its partner SINOTRANS. DHL in London agreed to support me as an experiment.
We started "Hello From Britain" in August 1989. I used to record the programmes at 3 oclock in the morning in the studios of the Radio Station in Scotland and send them to Shanghai by DHL.
WHAT A RESPONSE!!!!!! It was really an exciting day when the first letters arrived from our Shanghai listeners. They were sent to me by the Radio Station in Shanghai because I did not have enough money to come back to Shanghai at that time!!
I came back to Shanghai again at the end of 1989. I took unpaid leave from my work in Scotland and came for a week to have more meetings. I then went to Hong Kong and worked for the Radio Station there for 4 weeks. In Hong Kong they pay VERY WELL!!! Four times more than my work in Scotland. That gave me enough money to pay for my air ticket! In Hong Kong I also went to see potential advertisers……..
Many of them were snobbish and rude and some of them laughed at me. "How can an ENGLISHMAN make a Radio programme in China they said!!! Anyway……. Chinese Radio is VERY BORING they said"
Then I went to see Nescafe. They were polite and quite friendly but I think they thought I was a little mad.
I went back to Scotland and spent three weeks non stop sitting in front of my computer writing them a full proposal for a programme in Shanghai. I then found a Chinese student in Scotland and recorded a sample programme and sent it to Nescafe in Hong Kong together with my proposal.
I hardly slept for two weeks waiting for their reply.
They said YES but we had to re-negotiate the price with the Radio Station and I did NOT have enough money to buy the air ticket to come back. I sold 10% of my company to a Scottish Lawyer for 10,000 RMB and flew back to re-negotiate the contract in Shanghai.
Nescafe agreed to support me for a six month experiment and I sat down and worked out how much it would cost to spent several months in Shanghai flying with the cheapest airline and staying in the Seventh Heaven Hotel. I also needed some professional machines. I worked out my sums and calculated that I could JUST cover all the costs but ONLY if I paid MYSELF two thirds of what I had been getting in Scotland.
I resigned from my work in Scotland. They thought I was mad and I went to Shanghai with two digital tape recorders, 1,000 songs and a cheap computer. My bank agreed to give me an overdraft of 5,000 Pounds.
I will never forget the experience of producing the first Nescafe programme in the studios in Shanghai and will never forget what they said to me after we had finished the first programme……
"What do you think? Are we professional like in your country?" I did not know how to answer.
We also began to record Hello From Britain in the studios in Shanghai with my translator JANE. It was great fun to be able to make HFB in a style that was MUCH more lively because of the excellent simultaneous translation from Jane!
A few days later the listener letters began to arrive. I was deeply moved by the response to Nescafe Music Time and the INCREASED response to Hello From Britain. The only way I can describe it was that it felt like a MOUNTAIN of…. LOVE. Somehow I think we seemed to have touched the hearts of the people. It was a wonderful feeling that has never left me.
The differences between us see at times to be impossible BUT through MUSIC and through the RADIO I think we have found a precious way to begin and expand our understanding of each other. Through the hard times ahead it would be and it still IS that FEELING that gives me the energy to continue.
It was a condition of my contract that I bring two people from Shanghai Radio to Britain. The trip cost 3,300 pounds and I did not have it. I begged for it from a charity in Hong Kong and got it for free because they thought I was mad but "interesting" The trip would have cost more but we saved money by staying in my house and with friends. I also borrowed a car from my ex Radio Station!
It was fun showing my country to two people from Shanghai and interesting for the FIRST time for me to see MY country from a foreign perspective. BUT the recession was beginning to hit my country hard and the DOLLARS I was receiving from Nescafe became worth less POUNDS each day. I was running out of money fast. I even had to borrow some money to pay for the food we ate in London.
When I returned to Shanghai towards the end of 1990 I had almost nothing.
Then I received a fax from Hong Kong. My work in Shanghai had won an award from a Charity for "Best Media Project 1990". Normally when you win an award for "Artistic" work you get NO money. This time I got HK$ 100,000 and was able to pay my bills.
I was the Chairman, Managing Director, Producer, Engineer, Presenter, Sales Representative and Secretary and ONLY employee of a company that was 2 years old. In the first year before coming to Shanghai I made US$ 100 profit but paid myself NOTHING at all. In the second year even after the award money I LOST US$ 2,500 and was earning MUCH less that I had been getting from my work in Scotland. In those first two years I had given the Radio Station in Shanghai more money than the value of my house and its contents in Scotland.
Then we really started to grow! Nescafe and DHL expanded their programmes in China with fourteen cities for Nescafe and six for DHL. Sony also supported the "Sony Double Countdown" in Shanghai. I built a REAL studio in Scotland and employed more people. Up until the end of 1998 we were employing 5 people and occupying 65 hours per week of airtime in 14 cities throughout China!
We were making a profit. It was not large but averaged around US$30,000 per year. This money was used for equipment and people.
Since it all began we have given Chinese Radio Stations more money than FIVE Western People would earn in their whole lives and we have paid more than US$100,000 to Chinese Hotels.
Now….. I can hear you saying "He is rich now" When my COMPANY makes a profit does it mean that I can go and spend it? That is nonsense and is the thinking of a child. It would also be illegal.
I have NEVER worked for money alone and never wish to be the type of person who does. I am happy to give the money that I do to Chinese Radio Stations because It is the market price and because it is used for their development and modernisation. A businessman who does not SPEND money is either a criminal or the luckiest person in the world!!
What OUR business makes does not need a factory or lots of workers. In a Western country it needs just ONE person to make a programme.
AND….. we now just have ONE person again!
Towards the end of 1998 we were hit by the "Asian Economic Crisis" We lost our contracts with Nescafe and Sony. DHL also reduced their support for programmes in all cities except Shanghai.
So……. From 1999 we are back to where we started!
The year 2000 was OK although we have now lost ALL the profits from previous years and had little money.
Hello From Britain was taken OFF air in Shanghai at the beginning of 2001. We were given no warning of any kind. We were told that this was because of some sort of directive from the Shanghai Municipal Governments Broadcasting Bureau forbidding non Chinese nationals from speaking into a microphone.
The programme continued in Hangzhou until early 2002 when DHL SINOTRANS in Beijing refused to continue support.
The programme was funded by DHL in the UK and Hong Kong from 1989 until the end of 2001.
Producing Radio Programmes in China was a true adventure and I will be forever grateful to our sponsors ALL of which were NON Chinese. But….. it is YOU the LISTENER who made it all worthwhile.
We are ALL "ordinary" people. There is nothing "Intellectual" about a successful Radio Programme. Exactly the opposite! In China you have "The Masses" The Masses ARE China. They deserve a smile and some warmth. They deserve the nice feelings that a good tune and some true words of genuine friendship can bring. But……. the masses are YOU and it is YOU who made our programmes a success.
The response we had from our ORDINARY listeners in China truly made it all worthwhile. We received many HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of letters. When I was in China I also meet may listeners and have even met some Chinese People in Britain and in America who used to listen to the programmes.
The response to our Web site has been MUCH better than we expected and its very encouraging to sit here in Scotland and read what everyone is saying in the guestbook. We are NOT web design experts and the site is maintained by Brian in his spare time.
THANK YOU for your support and THANK YOU for listening!
Without YOU we were NOTHING!!
Now it is all over.
It – sadly – seems hard for some people in China to understand but I did NOT go to China in search of money.
I did NOT expand my work in China because of money.
We are all in this world for a short time.
We are ALL going to die.
YOU are going to die.
Sometimes we are presented with an opportunity to help to make the world a better place.
I was given this opportunity in 1989.
I am happy with what I did, and the fact that YOU are reading these words proves that I was right to do what I did.
All of the money has now gone and now I have nothing.
There are SOME Chinese people who made a LOT of money from me and my programmes.
Towards the end I was astounded and disgusted with their greed and selfishness.
It is THEY who will have to live with their conscience and it is unlikely that I will ever return to Shanghai.
As for me……. outside of my window as I write, the sky is blue and the birds are singing.
I am happy.
BRIAN ANDERSON.
Window Communications Hall of fame…..
This is a list of people who have worked with us to make it all possible.
Our Sponsors…… David Allen, Chairman of DHL. Lim Khing Fong, Cindy Lau, Lam Yim, Cassian Cheung, Bernard Kam, Steve Watson and Cheah Yoke Fong from Nestle. Henry Lee from Sony. Peter Crowhurst from the Gloria Plaza Hotel in Beijing. Bert Pinoli from Northwest Airlines. Carole Culioli from Newcastle Brown Ale.
And our Staff…….Katherine MacFarlane – JANE – Monique Sykens – Shirley – Neil Shaw – Norman MacLeod – Xiao Dong – Paula Whitelock – Yeen Yao – Frank Hossack – James Lyon – Norman Barrington – Fang Zhou – Ar Yen – Zen Yong – Christina Gibb and Maggie.
Some of our Ex staff have moved on to other things in broadcasting…….
Katherine MacFarlane is now a TV producer. Paula Whitelock is a successful DJ on Radio Forth in Edinburgh. Norman MacLeod is studying economics at university in London. Jane is now living in Chicago. Neil Shaw is an ACCOUNTANT and still involved with Window Communications. James Lyon is Commercials producer with Northsound Radio in Aberdeen. Frank is running his own company in Shanghai.
Brian has worked in KOSOVO helping to produce information programmes for people affected by the war.
Recently Brian also worked in Cape Town South Africa working to produce information programming aimed at workers throughout South Africa.
Brian has also recently worked in Botswana helping to set up an educational radio drama series to help combat the aids epidemic.
Brian has also worked in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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“来自英国的问候”（ "Hello From Britain"）在中国已经有很长一段历史了，人们时常问我这一切是怎样开始的！
那么……请看！
自打我11岁开始，我的人生理想就是能在广播电台工作。当我14岁时，我已经拉着电线在我住的那条街跑上跑下，把我卧室中的一个小电台和我邻居的房子连接起来，开始为他们制作节目了。
在来中国之前很多年，我是苏格兰一个广播电台的管理人员。当年的雄心壮志已经得到实现，我为一个电台工作，甚至得到了最高的奖励。并且..这个电台让我免费使用一辆汽车。
大部分西方人的“梦想”是能住到乡村去。这似乎与上海人的想法大相径庭，当然中国的乡村还远远没有城市那么发达。
我所在的苏格兰乡村，我们已经拥有了数字电话，还有供电、供水和污水处理系统。牛奶每两天送一次，信件每天送一次，垃圾每星期清理一次。我们还有汽车，最近的镇距离我们只有25公里，驾车只要17分钟就能到那儿。
然而……我已经实现了当年的雄心壮志，进而感到有些厌倦了。我非常爱苏格兰，但这是一个广大的世界，而我却只能通过电视机来观察它。我想亲身去见识这个世界。
在1988年，对我来说，没有一个地方能比中国更加“遥远”了，因此我决定去那儿看看。虽然我已经是一个电台的管理人员，但是经济上我并不宽裕。于是，伦敦的一个广播电台为我支付了机票费用，作为交换，我将为他们在中国制作一个广播节目。
第一次中国之行，我被所见到的一切彻底迷倒了。这儿的人们温和、友好，有着不可思议的好奇心。我着实觉得自己好象是一个太空人。
广播是我的生命，在我第一次访问中国时，我收听了“YOUR Radio”，节目冷淡而乏味。“中国人何以会如此友好，同时这种友好又何以没能渗入到广播节目中去。”我曾多次地问我自己这个问题，但是1992年在上海的节目改观之后就很少问了。
我在北京和上海同时获得了制作广播节目的机会。但是那些人说他们不能付钱给我，因为他们实在是很穷。因此我不得不去寻求广告赞助，再付钱给他们！！！这听上去很可笑，但是在商业广播这一行，这种情况并不是很少见，尤其是在美国。
的确，我看到这儿的电台工作人员很穷，而且在那时，他们的工作条件也不好。但是显而易见，中国正在以难以置信的速度高速发展，我发现了一个令人振奋的机遇。但是，怎样开始呢？
首先，我需要设立一个“公司”。在不同制度的两个社会之间，这给我们带来了很大的差异。在中国，人们认为“公司”是一个庞然大物，但是在中国以外情况绝非如此！！！！！任谁都能搞一个公司，非常便宜！.…..只需花1000元人民币。
接下来的问题是该怎样命名我的“公司”，我想给它起一个对中国人来说都很有吸引力的名字。在我第一次访问中国过程中，每一个人都在谈论“打开国门”，因此我想：不如把它称之为一个……窗口。
但我还需要一个广告赞助商！幸运而又凑巧的是，DHL（敦豪）刚好与其合作者SINOTRANS在上海开设了一个分公司。伦敦DHL同意支持我，权当是试验。
我们于1989年8月开始制作“来自英国的问候”（"Hello From Britain"）。我常常在凌晨3点，在苏格兰的电台工作室录制节目，再通过DHL把节目送到上海。
那是怎样轰动的一个反响啊！！！！！那是一个振奋人心的日子，当我收到第一封来自上海听众的信件那天。他们通过上海的广播电台把信寄给我，因为在那时我还没有足够的钱回上海。
我在1989年底再次回到上海。我是无薪离岗，离开了苏格兰的工作。在上海呆了一星期，多开了几个会。接下来我到了香港，在那儿为一个广播电台工作了4周。香港人付给我的薪酬十分优厚！！！相当于我在苏格兰工作的4倍多。我因此有了足够的钱买飞机票！在香港，我还会见了一些潜在的广告赞助商……
他们中很多人势利而又粗鲁，一些人还嘲笑我。“一个英国佬怎么能够在中国制作广播节目！”他们说。“不管怎么说，中国的广播节目乏味极了！”
于是，我会见了雀巢公司（Nescafe）。他们很有礼貌，文静而又友好，但是我想，他们会不会觉得我有那么一点疯狂。
我回到了苏格兰，花了整整三个星期，片刻不离坐在我的电脑前，给他们写了一份在上海制作节目的可行性报告。接下来我又找来一个在苏格兰的中国留学生，录制了一个简单的节目。我把这个节目连同我的可行性报告一起寄给了香港雀巢公司。
在接下来等待他们回应的两周我几乎没有睡过。
他们说：“行。”不过我们得和电台就价格问题重新谈判。然而我还是没有钱买机票回去。我把公司10%的股份转让给了一个苏格兰律师，换得了10，000元人民币，坐飞机回去重新谈上海那个合同。
雀巢公司答应先试着资助我六个月。我于是坐下来计算究竟需要多少费用，供我几个月内在上海坐最便宜的航班，并且可以住在“七重天”宾馆。我还需要添置一些专业设备。我算了一个总数，计算在我付给自己只相当于我在苏格兰工资三分之二的情况下，还需要多少钱才能够支付所有的成本。
我辞去了苏格兰的工作。他们都认为我疯了，我只提着两台数码带录音机、1000首歌还有一台廉价电脑去了上海。银行答应给我5，000英镑的透支额度。
我永远不会忘记在上海的工作室录制首期雀巢咖啡音乐节目的经历。也永远不会忘记第一期节目结束之后他们对我所说的话……
“你在想些什么？在你的国家我们的职业是一样的吗？”我不知道怎么回答。
在接下来等待他们回应的两周我几乎没有睡过。
他们说：“行。”不过我们得和电台就价格问题重新谈判。然而我还是没有钱买机票回去。我把公司10%的股份转让给了一个苏格兰律师，换得了10，000元人民币，坐飞机回去重新谈上海那个合同。
雀巢公司答应先试着资助我六个月。我于是坐下来计算究竟需要多少费用，供我几个月内在上海坐最便宜的航班，并且可以住在“七重天”宾馆。我还需要添置一些专业设备。我算了一个总数，计算在我付给自己只相当于我在苏格兰工资三分之二的情况下，还需要多少钱才能够支付所有的成本。
我辞去了苏格兰的工作。他们都认为我疯了，我只提着两台数码带录音机、1000首歌还有一台廉价电脑去了上海。银行答应给我5，000英镑的透支额度。
我永远不会忘记在上海的工作室录制首期雀巢咖啡音乐节目的经历。也永远不会忘记第一期节目结束之后他们对我所说的话……
“你在想些什么？在你的国家我们的职业是一样的吗？”我不知道怎么回答。
两个从上海来的家伙出现在我的国家面前，这是一件很有意思的事情。而且这也是我第一次从国外的角度来打量我的国家，颇有趣味。但是经济衰退沉重地打击了我的国家，我在雀巢公司获得的美圆能兑换到的英镑每天都在减少。我的钱很快花光了。我甚至不得不借钱支付我们在伦敦的伙食费。
当1990年末将至，我回到上海时，我几乎是一无所有了。
接下来我收到了香港来的一份传真。我在上海的工作获得了某慈善组织的“1990年最佳传媒方案奖”。通常你获得“艺术”类的奖是没钱拿的，不过这回我却得到了100，000港币，可以支付我的帐单了。
我是一个已成立两年的公司的董事长、经理、制作人、工程师、代理人、销售代表、秘书以及唯一的雇员。在我来上海前的第一年，我挣了100美圆利润，不过没有一分钱作为工资付给自己。第二年，即便是获了奖之后我还是失去了2，500美圆，而且挣得比我在苏格兰工作时还少。而最初两年，我付给上海那家电台的钱却超过了我在苏格兰的房子连同里面所有财产的价值。
接下来我们真正开始成长了！雀巢和DHL开始扩大节目在中国的播出范围，雀巢达到14个城市，DHL也有6个。索尼（Sony）也在上海搞了“索尼双十佳”。我在苏格兰建立了一个真正的工作室，雇了更多的人，直到1998年底我们的雇员已有5个人，我们的节目在14个城市每周播放总时间达到65小时。
我们赚钱了。虽然不多，大概每年30，000美圆。这笔钱用于设备和工酬。
自打工作开始以来，我们付给中国的广播电台的钱超过了五个西方人终其一生所能赚到的总和，而且我们付给中国宾馆的钱也超过了100，000美圆。
现在……我听到你说：“他发财了。”当我的公司赚钱了，是不是意味着我就能花钱走人。这是胡说八道，小孩才这么想。而且这么做也是犯法的。
我从未仅仅只为钱工作，我也从来没想成为这样的人。能够付钱给中国的广播电台我觉得很高兴，因为首先价格公道，其次是因为这笔钱他们能用于发展并紧跟潮流。一个不需要花钱的商人是个罪犯，同时也是世界上最幸运的人。
我们的生意不需要工厂和大量的工人。在西方，只要一个人，一个节目。
而且……我们现在又只有一个人了！
到1998年末，我们受到了亚洲金融危机的冲击。我们失去了与雀巢和索尼的合同。DHL也减少了除上海以外其他所有城市的节目投入。
于是……从1999年开始，我们退回到了起点。
2000年还算不赖，虽然我们损失了前些年赚到的所有利润，而且几乎囊空如洗。
“来自英国的问候”在2001年初在上海被停播了。我们事先也没有接到任何通知。我们被告知，是由于上海市政府广电局下达有关指令，禁止外国人做广播播音主持人。
这档节目在杭州一直播出到2002年初，直到北京DHL中外运拒绝继续提供支持。
英国和香港DHL资助这档节目从1989年一直到2001年末。
在中国制作广播节目是一项真正的冒险，因此我将永远感谢我那些中国以外的赞助者。但是……正是因为你们——我的听众——才使这一切有了价值。
我们只是芸芸众生。一档成功的广播节目绝没有任何高深的智力因素。反之亦然。在中国你拥有“大众”，大众就是中国。他们值得拥有一个微笑和一些温情。他们值得拥有优美的旋律和真挚友情的话语所能带来的美妙情感。是的......大众就是你们！正是因为你们才让我们的节目得以成功。
中国的普通听众给予的反响使我们的工作获得了真正的意义。我们收到了成百上千的信件。我在中国能遇到许许多多的听众，甚至在英国和美国都能遇到很多一直收听我们节目的中国听众。
我们网站上得到的反馈比我们预期得还要好，当我们坐在苏格兰阅读每个人在客人留言本上的留言，感到欢欣鼓舞。我们不是网站设计行家，这个网址主要是Brian利用他的业余时间做的。
感谢你们的支持！感谢你们的收听！
没有你们，我们什么也不是！！
现在，一切都结束了。
对某些中国人来说难以理解——这很悲哀——但我到中国不是为了淘金而来。
由于钱的原因，我没能在中国壮大我的事业。
在这个世界我们都是短暂的过客。
我们所有人都会死去。
你们也一样。
某时某刻，我们被给予某个机会，能够使这个世界变得更美好。
1989年，我曾得到过这样的机会。
对于我所做过的事，我感到很高兴，事实上，你正在阅读这些话——这就证明了我的所作所为是正确的。
千金散尽，我现在一无所有。
还有一些中国人从我和我的节目上赚了大把的钞票。
最终我为他们的贪婪和自私感到震惊和恶心。
这些人将背负着自己的良知生活。我也不可能再回到上海。
至于我嘛……在我正在写信的房间窗外，天空蔚蓝，鸟儿歌唱。
我很幸福。
BRIAN ANDERSON.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
My opening speech in 2015 MCCPTA GT Parent Information Night (11/04/2015)
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Good evening and Welcome. My
name is Lang Lin. I am the vice chair of the gifted child committee in
MCCPTA. Nonetheless, I am a father of two MCPS students.
On Memorial Day 2015, I took my 6
year old to the Arlington Cemetery to pay our tribute to many including one
extraordinary elementary school teacher buried there. Her name is Imogene
Teddy Hill. Not many people know this name. She is a teacher of
Steve Jobs. Steve called Imogene “my Saint”. Why?
Steve Jobs used to be a goofball
playing pranks in his school such as setting off explosives in the teacher’s
desk. According to Steve, Imogene changed his life by challenging him
into finishing an advanced workbook for 5 bucks, that is 50 dollars today, from
Imogene’s own pocket.
The story of Steve Jobs and Imogene
Hill is a vivid example of how important teachers and schools are to GT
students. In addition, Steve Jobs is an iconic
figure showing how important GT students are to our society and to our future.
Tonight, this is a great opportunity
for you to listen to our own “Imogene Hill”s in MCPS for your young “Steve Jobs”s.
Thank you.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
How to tell that you have good music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZDSrLLGPNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Y_8JJ4aEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2uPwEAW1dE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTAFIwhmDN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAEXH9DAH98
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh42tub_s-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlG2xN4ef3Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3AqnMsB_n0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Y_8JJ4aEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2uPwEAW1dE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTAFIwhmDN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAEXH9DAH98
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh42tub_s-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlG2xN4ef3Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3AqnMsB_n0
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