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We've passed half of the year of 2007. The name of Zhou Shuguang or Zuola is definitely one of the men of the year in mainland China. This "citizen reporter" has become famous for less than half year. Early this year, he covered the story of "the strongest nailhouse" in Chongqing and other eviction incidents in China. In June he went to Xiamen to study the movement against the project of PX chemical plant. In July, he came to Hongong to observe the mass rally on July 1. "Now I want to make more money. I am going to return home to work as vendor selling vegetable," he told me.
Citizen reporters=ordinary people
This surprises me. But he thinks he is consistent. "Everyone could be a citizen reporter at a particular moment. But we are still ordinary people," he said.
Zhou Shuguang, an ordinary young man, aged 26, comes from a small town, a place you and I might not know, in Hunan province. It is next to Changsha city and Shaoshan. He did not like studying in school after finishing his first year in university. He went to Shenzhen and worked as internet management staff for five years. He learnt computer skill from his work. Since May 2004, he began writing blog because he was quite free in his job.
He likes to identify himself as "blogger" but never managed to become a "citizen reporter". After some named him as "citizen reporter", he realized that what he did is citizen reporting. Like him, thousands of internet users in China have record what happened in their everyday life since long time ago. They just write anything they want. But he added that his discontent with the current situation also motivates him to write blog. "There are some news the government-controlled media do not want to cover. But they are important and interest many people. I want to satisfy people's curiosity by reporting them," he said.
Citizen reporter sponsored by citizen
What he reported is often about civil right movement. But he is also not very clear in what way his reports are helpful to movement. In his mind, he does not have a lot of long-time plans. But by intuition he believes that exposing the incidents to the public is good to civil right movement.
In March when the incident of "nailhouse" in Chongqing was still hot, the posts of his "news channel" received over thousands of visits. When he stayed in Chongqing, many people offer him sponsorship. He estimates that the total amount is about RMB 7,000! He did not have a good digital camera. An ethusiastic person sponsored him a set. He finds it incredible. But after this incident cooled down, the visit rate is no longer so high. He said humbly that about 1,000 people subscribe his website through RSS. They are the most substantial readers particularly after his website was blocked by GFW (Great Fire Wall). Most ordinary users in China could not get access to it except through RSS readers.
A thousand subscribers make a small journal rather than a mass paper. But it is already enough for an ordinary blogger. As Zhou said, he travels not only for reporting, not for becoming celebrity, but for promoting internet techniques. He wants more people could build up their blogs and media, and write up their stories online. In China, it is not so bad that no media, no matter if commercial or independent, could be totally autonomous from the party-state. But internet techniques could enable individuals to make their news channels. The government finds it difficult to suppress all.
There is a website called "interlocals.net" in Hong Kong In-media. Zhou applied for the "Citizen Reporter Fellowship" to come to Hong Kong to report news. But his style of news reporting is very personalized and like a journal. I suggest you read it. Some said that his report is not deep enough. But he has a lot of smart ideas. He uses a lot of photos and videos. On July 1, he transmitted the scenes of mass rally to Chinese internet users through computer's webcam.
Hong Kong: a city difficult to understand
Despite his smart ideas, he finds it difficult to understand Hongkong in such short period of time. I asked him some questions about Hongkong. But he did not know how to answer them and it was difficult for me to follow up. I asked him directly: What do you feel about the July 1 rally?
"Hong Kong is not harmonious!! Ha..ha.. I'm kidding! Here everyone could speak out their different feelings. A society could not be harmonious without freedom of speech... ... The official version of "harmonious society" is like it: You only have three or four pot covers for ten pots boiling water. If one keeps thinking cover all pots, one will always fail."
People in mainland China like talking about "quality" (Suchi). Zhou is no exception. He highly appreciates the quality of Hong Kong as a "harmonious society". In his eyes, the participants and police in the July 1 rally are high-quality. They did not overreact and were relaxed. On the contrary, the police in the rally of anti-PX chemical plant in Xiamen was nervous and worried too much. Some participants were so extreme that they threw garbage to police. They were stopped by others. He thinks that Hong Kong's culture of demonstration is worth to learn by mainland Chinese. Chinese people (or China government should learn more?) should learn how to fight for their rights in accordance with the rule of law.
He is very optimistic. He believes that the "quality" of official and police will improve with the quality of Chinese citizens in genearl. And the political problems could be solved gradually. To be honest, I am not that optimistic. Neither do I believe in the theory of "quality". Yet his rough and simple thinking, without complicated analysis, shows that he is only a citizen having something to say.
China and Hong Kong
If the July 1 rally is something mainland China should learn, what should we Hong Kong people learn from China? Zhou is not able to understand this question. It seems that a young man from Hunan like him thinks so different from the leaders from Beijing. He said, "I couldn't think of anything about mainland China worthy of learning by you unless you are businessmen who need to understand the style of government officials. I don't know what you should learn. We are all Chinese. We share a similiar culture!"
He does not agree with the notion of "Chinese characteristics" (Guoqing Luen). "The so-called "Chinese characteristics" is China government's strategy of flexibility. When something favors it, it would say it is Chinese characteristics. When it does not favor it, it would also use "Chinese characteristics" as an excuse... ... If I need you Hongkong businessmen to come to invest, I will say tax exemption is Chinese characteristics. When the leaders want to reject your criticism, he would use "Chinese characteristics" to defend," he said.
The editor by my side cannot help asking, "For you, what is patriotism?" He said that being patriotic is to love your country and people. But it does not mean loving government! His idea is not different from Szeto Wah. But he further said that one should have the right to love or not to love one's country! The editor asks, "So do you choose to love your country?" I suggest you guess the answer.
Zhou is not interested in our questions. But he told me that if he come again next time, he will study more about Hong Kong young people's personal growth rather than political problems. There is a misunderstanding that everybody gets rich in the rapid economic development of China. Zhou said that many young people in China suffer a lot. Their families pay over one hundred thousand of dollars for their university education. But they just earn about RMB 1,000 each month after graduation. If they need to take care of parents, they will come across more difficulties. Even survival is a big problem, no mention of getting success. Hong Kong is better or worse?
Zhou felt that Hong Kong young people are luckier and happier. Why? I don't know. But the young people he met in Hong Kong are really happy. On July 1, we left the rally. Disregarding police's warning and fences, we went to the Queen's Pier for watching firework. With the firework as the backdrop, we beat drum, danced and sang together with a lot of youngsters. At the moment of celebrating the anniversary of Handover, were we disillusioned?
China-Hong Kong connection: Real or fake?
If we are serious about the mutual understanding of Hong Kong and China, we could start from young people's happiness and pain. However, all these are buried by the slogans of "China's glorious century" and "Hong Kong's big opportunity". The dialogue with Zhou leads me to realize that many terms defining the relationship between China and Hong Kong are only the private language of the Beijing government and pro-Beijing political camps. But we are forced to learn it. If you really wants to talk about it with mainland Chinese, you'd better choose another set of language. If you really want to learn about China, please read his blog. I am sure it costs you much less and gives you more.
Before we said goodbye, he mentioned about his plan to sell vegetable again. After he began his business for a few months, his plan was disturbed by his activities of citizen reporting. Now he is going to recover his business. He believes that selling vegetable in market is much better than working in the information industry (This is really a Chinese characteristics worthy of learning!). After interview, he went to the Queen's Pier and stayed there with some friends overnight. He suddenly felt excited and said that he might bring a proposal to look for investment partner next time after he turns his business bigger.
No matter whether his plan of vegetable vendor is successful, I hope he could play the role of "citizen reporter" occasionally.
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I believe this is a case of, "you will find what you seek."
People also have bird incidents without the death of a loved one. They sky is full of 'em.
DO YOU KNOW of anyone who has had an encounter with a bird "behaving strangely" after the death of a [human] loved one?
A strange encounter with a bird inexplicably desperate to get into the house following a death is not as uncommon or random as you'd think. It just happened to my brother: a bird crashed into the same window in his house-- three times!
A veterinarian thinking the bird must be crazy, my brother opened the window so the bird wouldn't kill itself. It flew in, and perched on a railing beside the kitchen-- the identical place my brother's deceased girlfriend used to sit to talk, while my brother cleaned the kitchen. (The girlfriend died lately, under very mysterious/ominous circumstances.)
Similar reports are not uncommon: Following his suicide by drowning, actor Spalding Gray's family inexplicably found a bird entering their house-- and strangely not eager to leave.
It is believed that such birds (sometimes butterflies) are not "the souls" of the departed, but merely messengers checking in. The truly odd part of the phenomenon is that these flying creatures behavior is beyond any expected behavior of fear or anxiety.
Have you or anyone you know had a similar experience?
I believe this is a case of, "you will find what you seek."
People also have bird incidents without the death of a loved one. They sky is full of 'em.
Why is strange in quotations? Why is it all caps with bird visit?! WHY ARE THINGS CAPITALIZED?!!
The music died when the plane (slang: bird) caring Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens crashed.
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It's weird to me that "Obamacare" has become a simple "for" or "against" in our culture. I especially don't understand when people put themselves in the "against" column.
So you think insurance companies should be allowed to exclude children based on pre-existing conditions? Probably no.
Ok, so you think lifetime coverage limits should be implemented, so if you end up costing the insurance company too much, you're cut off? Who cares about your long-term disease? Well, I guess probably not.
Ok, so you don't think that insurance plans should be affordable and easy to choose between because they're all available in one place? Well, yeah. Forcing companies to price and market a certain way is bad. FREE MARKET, BRO. - Well that's weird, because Utah already has an insurance Exchange, and Utah seems to be doing fine, economically.
Ok, so you probably don't like the individual mandate - the thing that makes it a law for every American to carry insurance? YEAH. THAT'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL. But, technically the Supreme Court ruled it as constitutional if the penalty for not carrying insurance is considered a tax, and I doubt you're a better constitutional lawyer than those guys.
Well all right, but remember all that stuff we talked about that are new as part of the health care reform law? Disallowing insurance companies to exclude children with pre-existing conditions, prohibiting them from imposing lifetime coverage limits, making a law for states to have to implement some kind of insurance Exchange - it wouldn't be "economically viable" for insurance companies to have such severe "restrictions" if they don't have some guarantee that their "lost revenues" will be recovered. (We can talk about how disgusting the idea of concerning ourselves with "lost revenues" in healthcare is, later.) That guarantee to the insurance companies IS the individual mandate. Without it, the law is too huge of a cost to the economy (rather than a boon).
So what is it you're "against" again?
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In response to my previous letter, I received an email from someone in my ISP's customer service department. As stated, their customer service has always been polite and helpful, and that is clearly not the problem I'm having.
Anyway, this person said something to the effect of, "I'm guessing your problems with the website may be due to your poor connection, so let's diagnose that."
This is, unfortunately untrue. While I'm not saying that my connection is in any way "good," that is certainly not my problem with the website - primarily because I was not on MY connection when dealing with the website. (I was using our connection at work.) So - because I care - here was part of my response:
Please don't disregard my comments about the website. From a UX perspective, it is supremely horribly awful, and needs dramatic improvements to be even remotely usable. For example, I later called your billing department to make sure that I wasn't getting double- or triple-billed, and they said that, in fact, my payment failed with the company that handles the online transactions.
So, let's be clear, here; my payment FAILED, and yet the site still said "Success" in big green letters. Failure and success are opposites. The website not only should have told me that there was some problem with the system (perhaps, "Sorry, your payment cannot be processed at this time, Please try again later,"), but should most certainly NOT have told me that there was any inkling of "success" in the process.
Basically all I'm saying is, "Don't try to tell me your website isn't horrible. Please just accept that it basically is worse than Hitler's website, and pass this up the chain in hopes that we might do some good and fix it."
Permit me to share with you a complaint letter I recently penned in an online email form for my internet service provider. Conveniently, this form permitted A LOT of typing, so be prepared (it's a little bit long):
"Everything about my service with *COMPANY* has been awful except for the customer service. I've been a customer for a month, and in that time, the internet connection was off during the day for about 5 days, and would suddenly, as if by magic, start working at night. Then there was an outage for about 24 hours on another time, not to mention the intermittent outages at random points. So I've actually been able to USE the service for about 80% of the time I've been signed up. Any provider of any service should know that 20% downtime during which the service is SUPPOSED to be up is absolutely unacceptable. (Does that mean the cost for my bill should be reduced by 20%? That would be acceptable.)
Secondly, the website is literally the worst online experience I can imagine. Simply signing in is a chore in which one must slog through an abundance of archaic and unnecessary practices.
I was initially sent a temporary password to use at sign in, but by the time I actually needed to sign in, the password had expired, so I had to get a new one. Simple enough, right? Just type in my email address and they'll send me a password reset link like any other normal online service. Actually, that is incorrect. You need a security code from your paper bill (?!) in order to reset your password.
Oh and also, if you signed up for e-billing, you'll need to sign in to see your bill to get the code before we can help you get your password to sign in to see your bill. Or you can contact a person at customer service, who will be helpful, but whose job is unnecessary because you never should have had to contact them in the first place.
Once you've finally been able to sign in to the website, you can, by all appearances, pay your bill. However, appearances can be deceiving. If you try to pay your bill with a checking account, you'll be taken to a page that says "SUCCESS!" (hooray!), but just kidding, you have to wait on this page until we have retrieved your information (boo!), and we'll just give you a little animated .gif that sort of makes it look like something's happening. But after you've waited for 260 seconds, you will have pretty much assumed that nothing is actually happening.
Oddly enough, you would be wrong. The website is actually communicating with somewhere (liveperson.net - seems legit), and that place is continuously sending back a JSON result that tells the website to wait ten more seconds. It will do this until you've given up, and surprise! Contrary to what the website told you, there was never any real success. Your payment is not posted, and you'll have to try again, which makes you feel really uncomfortable because it seems like you're about to double-pay on your bill, which you haven't budgeted to do, obviously.
Anyway, I still haven't been able to pay my bill online, so if you guys could help out with that, that would be great."
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This is a very classic combination; tomato, basil and Mozzarella. The addition of reduced balsamic vinegar is a great idea. Unfortunately, the basil leaves were not enough to counteract the very sweet reduction. I would suggest rubbing the side of bread with extra virgin olive oil.
Summer Tomato, Mozzarella, and Basil Panini with Balsamic Syrup
TheMomChef Posted: 08/19/11
Oliver10 Posted: 08/24/11
My husband loved it and he is a meat & potatoes guy. Said to make sure to keep the recipe.
JuliaGulia529 Posted: 09/01/11
Simple, delicious, served it with some BBQ chicken and it was a winner.
Whygal Posted: 10/21/11
I don't know what I did but my balsamic reduction hardened once I made it. I had to pry it off the spoon, pan, and spatula; therefore, there were hard globs of it on the sandwich. I have another recipe that uses pesto rather than balsamic and evoo as the "spread." I think I will stay with that sandwich rather than this one. This is one of the few recipes from CL that has been a bomb for me.
Shariren Posted: 11/16/11
My husband and I made these as a light dinner and thoroughly enjoyed. The balsamic glaze is a little smelly to cook but completely makes the recipe.
SusanC10 Posted: 10/29/11
I have not made this reduction, but I often just use balsamic vinegar right out of the bottle on panini and it is delicious. This combination is outstanding on any bread.
ttsholland Posted: 05/10/12
excellent, just be careful the balsamic thickens quickly
ESmith6 Posted: 09/13/14
I made these for dinner tonight and took a couple of liberties with the recipe. First, I didn't want to risk ruining the balsamic so I just brushed it on the bread without reducing it. Second, I added bacon because my husband wanted some meat in the sandwich. It was delicious!!


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Neo Technology Raises Another $11mil for Neo4j Graph Database
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Graph database startup Neo Technology has raised another $11 million, providing more fuel to the fire of specialized databases. Whether they're graph databases organizing data by relationships, or geospatial databases concerned with where stuff is located, everyone is trying capitalize on myriad new data sources available.
According to my calculations this brings Neo Technology at $24.1 millions ($10.6M in Sept.2011 and $2.5 in Oct.2009).
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Four people, including one from Cedar Key, were arrested on Monday on a variety of felony charges relating to a break-in at a Williston home where about $20,000 in belongings — a safe, jewelry, prescription pills —plus a car were taken, according to a Levy County Sheriff's Department press release.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
The Levy County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force arrested five people— four of them on drug charges — when they executed a drug search warrant Jan. 19 at Northwest 30th Street, Chiefland, according to a Sheriff's Office press release.
Levy County Sheriff's Office arrested Greg Roland, 55, of Chiefland on Jan. 19 and charged him with tampering with a witness. The Drug Task Force Agents received information that Roland was threatening a confidential source utilized by the Sheriff's Office and had placed a $5,000 bounty on the person.
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Like most indie rock/post-punk boys, I was enthralled with her voice, lyrics, and melodies. It is not by accident that they named one of their collections Innocence & Experience, another allusion William Blake, I assume.
Of course, most of you have long heard of the Blakes and Juliana. Buffalo Tom went on to play a ton of local shows with them starting out, and the toured the US early on in both of our careers. Then Juliana and I traded off opening solo for different shows over the years - me opening solo for her and her band about 6 years ago or so in the midwest and out on the west coast and her opening solo for BT most recently.
It is during those most recent dates, in L.A. and in San Francisco in 2007, that Juliana joined our mutual hero, Paul Westerberg in a "Buffalo Tom gets snubbed by a guest vocalist to help with the Blondie song, 'Dreaming' during the encore" sort of infamy.
Many of you have heard me tell this chilling tale. Perhaps some of you were even present during that dark night in Toronto back in 1988. Buffalo Tom -- why, we were just young lads, peach fuzz on our chins, fresh from wearing out our Replacements and Husker Du records, when we walked into Lee's Palace. At some point, Chris Colbourn came up to me and nervously told me Paul Westerberg was up at the bar. Chris chatted with him a bit about the Replacements, told him we were fans (obviously), and asked him if he would join us for a song. I recall that he was non-committal about it. Anyway, we played our set. I was pretty excited to have Paul W. there, even if by chance he had to split early.
Well, when it came time for an encore (it did happen occasionally), I addressed a vague spot out in the center of the gathered throng, saying "I think we might have a special guest," or words to that affect. I paused, scanning the audience. Nary an ex-Replacement to be seen. But I could tell that some in the audience knew he was there (or had been there). Some of them were nodding encouragingly to me, wide-eyed. I might have invited him once more. But then, shrugging my shoulders, I said something like, "Oh well, maybe if we start the song, if he's still here he can join us." So we started the song, "Dreaming," a song I always loved, was easy to play, and I could see being in Paul's wheelhouse, having seen him sing a ton of covers over the years.
We got all the way through the song without anyone joining us. We assumed he had just taken off. But we had a good time that night. Those were the sleeping-on-floors, driving-the-big blue van, hiding-the-contraband days. Now we have gorgeous supermodel groupies chauffeur us in Rolls Royce limos (hybrids) to the local Four Seasons where we ingest same contraband directly off of the various body parts of the supermodels. But you knew that already.
Months or even a year later in London, we had our actual groupie (yes, there was one and only one and if you have seen Mel in Flight of the Conchords, you should know we have a lawsuit against the show for the lifting of that particular element from our career) approach us with something in her hand. She said, "Oh, someone wanted me to give you this note." She handed it to me and I unfolded it. It read, "Dear Buffalo Tom, Sorry about 'Dreaming.' Paul Westerberg."
It seems she was also one of his groupies and the subject of BT must have come up. He told her to give us this note. I forget the details but I believe he was still at Lee's Palace when we played the song after all, as opposed to someone just telling him about it afterward. (G -- if you're still out there and reading this, sorry I refer to you as "a groupie." If you have another suggestion for a more accurate/politically correct term, let us know. It has been many, many years.)
I know that Juliana holds Mr. Westerberg in similarly high regard. Perhaps this is the reason she reneged on her promise to come out and do "Dreaming" with us in L.A. (or San Francisco, I forget which night came first) even though we actually went over the song with her in soundcheck.; it must have been an homage to him. Or maybe she just took a look at us stumbling around the stage in various stages of lubricity and figured she best hightail it outta there before she got dragged down along with us. Either way, it does not explain the second night in a row that she decided against it. Well, one gets one's feelings hurt when such things happen. Our poor little drummer, Tommy, still has moments of sudden and unexplained tearbursts. The parental look that Chris and I give each other in such moments quickly transforms from befuddlement to one of mutual dawning, recognition that the scar has not yet fully healed. Perhaps it was a double homage to Paul, we tell him. An "homage block party weekend."
Or maybe the damned song is just cursed for us. But those that were in El Rey that night in L.A. did get to see the magnanimous Kay Hanley join us for the song without having any idea she was coming up to sing. What a sport! And she saved the show, as far as it was able to be salvaged.
A handful of you have requested it. You know the request rule. So here it is, along with a little medley into a Stones song. All things seem to end up there in the Stones cul-de-sac for me. Somehow I have managed to pay respect to Paul W. twice in the 2 or 3 weeks of these covers. Sit back, it is epic.
And, as a wise man once said, "sorry about 'Dreaming.'"
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Janovitz, Bill -- Guitar, piano, vocals. I didn't want you to think it was someone that knows how to play piano for real mangling the part.
My allmusic.com review of Till The Next Goodbye (from way back).
Here is me if had been in the early Stones. Clearly, I'm running out of Photo Booth ideas.
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,ok, so, maybe it's the cocktails, but i don't have many comments on the entire post, which was interesting to read, no doubt, but well, not relevant to me. however, the blondie cover certainly is. i nearly worshipped debbie harry when i was about 15 and listened to parallel lines until it was burned into my memory. 11:59 is still one of my favorite songs EVA. i saw blondie at the wollman skating rink in central park before it was turned was into an actual skating rink (or returned to, I don't know). tickets were $5 a seat and you had to wait on line all day long on memorial day weekend to get tickets for the show you wanted, but it was SO worth it. great cover, i love it, bill, and thanks for the memory!
- December 10, 2008 at 12:03 AM
- Dougie said...
Thanks for these wonderful little shared moments, Bill! Haven't posted before, but have been listening. I thought my luck had changed when BT did another record, but this is wonderful! :P
- December 10, 2008 at 12:23 AM
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AWESOME! I loved reading this post. What a walk down memory lane. Loved the Blake Babies, as well as all of the various projects John, Freda and Juliana.
I remember seeing Buffalo Tom with Juliana opening is late 2000 at Slim's in San Francisco. I remember watching you guys play "Late at Night" and remembering hearing the song/seeing the band for the first time on "My So-Called Life." Apologize in advance if that brings up a crunchy sort of memory, but I actually really liked the show at the time. So when I saw the show advertised at Slim's with both BT and Juliana Hatfield, I immediately ran out and bought my ticket...for $14 (I'll post a photo of my ticket on Facebook)! Good memories of that show.
Saw the Blakes on their reunion tour years ago at the Great American Music Hall, which is the same place I saw BT last year. Love that venue, hope to see BT there again sometime in the future.
All of the covers have been outstanding...but this one's now my favorite! Thanks Bill!
- December 10, 2008 at 12:47 AM
Not really sure how I haven't ever heard the Blondie song before. Beautiful rendition, plus the story makes it that much better. Til The Next Time... is one of those great songs that just doesn't get enough love kinda "I don't know why" by Stevie.
- December 10, 2008 at 1:14 AM
As always, the prose is excellent and the song is quite good; This one has a nice production value to it, perhaps the nice piano nestled in the background- lending to the ethereal "dreamlike" quality, or perhaps the background vocals- seamless switches between unison and harmony parts. You have a nice little collection of songs building, and I hope these posts and covers continue for quite a while...
- December 10, 2008 at 9:13 AM
- Kevin said...
Bill-can these be downloaded for the Mac platform? Keep up the good work! Kevin
- December 10, 2008 at 10:53 AM
- Rich said...
Thanks for this and all the covers, Bill. I'm late to the party; never saw y'all live but stumbled across BT somewhere and became a late "groupie". Nice to see BT, Blake Babies, Replacements, Westerberg and a hint of Mysteries of Life (Frieda referehce) show up all in one post!
- December 10, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Kevin -
I've been downloading them on my Mac, but it was tricky to figure out.
In the player window, click on "DivShare" and it will take you to a separate page that has the player and links to other songs. On the right side of that page, there's a link that says "Download Original."
Click that, skip the ad, and that will start the download.
- December 11, 2008 at 11:36 AM
- Bill Janovitz said...
Sorry, not sure how the platform makes a difference. I only use Mac and have no problems. But the downloads have a quota on them from Divshare. I may have to upgrade or move them to another server. Someone made an offer to host them in one of these comment sections. I think Kevin G. also has a server. We'll cross that bridge later.
Thanks, everyone, for the comments.
- December 11, 2008 at 3:05 PM
- Randy Reichardt said...
Bill, thanks again for this latest CotW. I'm struck by the superb quality of the sound; you must have a great studio in your home. I love the mix with the piano, which adds depth and foundation to the song. How many tracks did you use? I count at least four - guitar, two voices, piano.
I saw Juliana Hatfield when she came through Edmonton on a cold winter's night many years ago. It was a really good show. And I am always embarrassed admit that I discovered my two favorite 80s bands, the 'Mats and Hüsker Dü, in the early 1990s. I finally saw Bob Mould for the first time this year, in San Fran in March, with full band. Incredible.
Still on my list of top favorite and important artists I've yet to see perform: Buffalo Tom/Crown Vic/Show People. Someday, someday...
I noticed the Mark Sandman Music Project today on FB and was thinking of making a donation there. Would that be an acceptable charity to support as part of the CotW effort? It sounds like such a great idea.
- December 12, 2008 at 6:30 PM
- William said...
I love the combination of the piano, guitar, and harmonies. I have always loved BT. Keep up the good work. Been listening to the Crown Vic disc alot lately. Thanks for the gift of your music and sharing it with the folks who love to hear you sing just about anything.
- December 12, 2008 at 11:56 PM
- Paul Janovitz said...
Didn't Juliana play bass in the Babies?? I remember seeing her do so at least once.
- December 13, 2008 at 3:54 PM
What a great cover! thanks. I'll be checking here regularly. Patrick (a Belgian BT-fan)
- December 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM
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Thanks for the tunes Bill. Keep 'em coming. Bracing for another storm up here.
- December 20, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Groupie? How very unsavoury. Think I was more like some freakish band mascot, only w/ the pep factor dialled down really, really low. Woo... But shucks, you guys always made me feel like bona fide bovine family.... I mean, heck yeah, like a maladjusted foster sibling, dangling outta the Buffy T family tree, all sullen + fractious. Fun times...
Another wise man said that God is in the details. It's yr anecdotage, so sing it how ya likes, buddy, but my version has a deal less dazed Westerberg groupiedom + a little more civillized post-gig chitchat as he enquires in a gentlemanly manner as to my social engagements for the next evening. Replacements in Leeds? Alas, I am duty bound, as official #1 Tom-botherer, to go plague you lucky people instead, w/ my signature naive burblings + random yelps for attention, at the Borderline. Solo acoustic set from yr goodly self, 'cause the big show clashed w/ the 'Mats' I'm at.
So then Mr Westerberg tells all about the Palace gig - how tore up he felt, after, for the letdown, but he couldn't make it to the stage before you set to playing. And right then, watching you crazy kids do such a goshdarn, kickass job of Dreaming, all on yr pretty little ownsomes, he didn't have the heart to get up there + try to steal yr thunder. Wanted to listen to the song. No snub, just a gesture of respect, + no time left to explain.
Now maybe that was true, or maybe a way for him to soothe the pain of yr disappointment, but whichever - his huge apology was absolutely heartfelt. Made me promise + swear a whole heap that the next night, I'd make you play the Blondie song, gave me the note + said, "Tell them it's from a friend."
So I did. I said "This is from a friend", with hushed tone + enigmatic smile. (Okay, that lastest tiny part's possibly fiction, but jeez, did ya have to make me sound quite so vacant?)
The note said (trust me on this) : Forgive me for "Dreaming".
Made a four word apology sound like a whole damn Irving Berlin musical.
And that's why he's Paul Westerberg.
Playing at the Borderline, you introduced it as a request from a friend, through a friend. So if it's okay w/ you, I'll take 'friend' over 'groupie'. Just 'til the song ends.
Happy trails. x
P.S. Feel free to trash this once you read it, 'cause I'm pretty sure no one will miss it. xx
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That was one of the best stories I've ever read...I can't put my finger on why, but it is.
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Did you keep the note?
- January 23, 2009 at 12:44 PM
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Ah ha! One Longlost groupie, Gabrielle (forgive ME for dreaming -- that we had a groupie). I have not been monitoring comments past a day or three after the post. I will need to go back and check through them. G, write me and let me know where you been! And thanks for the clarification. My mind has not completely gone in my old age!.
- February 3, 2009 at 1:52 PM
This is my second favorite track so far......
I was also a HUGE Blondie fan at 15...that band just captured my idea of what Rock was in NYC, late night and raw and spoke of the daytime in dreams....mixing it with the Stones I thought was kind of muddying it UNTIL you kicked in the "dreaming" refrain at the end and tied it all together....very nice.....and I liked how you made it ROCK but be quiet and introspective and life as seen from the otherside of 30.....
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But with insurance costs skyrocketing and the dream of universal health care becoming more elusive, how can Americans afford the medical care they need? Town Hall Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Chu, President, Kaiser Family Foundation, Southern California Town Hall Vault Speakers: Dr. Nancy Dickey, President, American Medical Association (1998) Dr. William Weil, Chairman, Los Angeles County Medical Association (1986) Add your comments "Bipartisan Budget: Impossible Dream?" December 12th, 2010, 12:00am | Town Hall Journal Feel like you're drowning in debt? We all are - the U.S. deficit totaled about $1.3 trillion when the last fiscal year ended on September 30th, and debt held by the public now totals more than $9 trillion. Douglas Elmendorf, head of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, says there are ways to climb out of the depths – but they will take time, and they come at a cost. 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The Chris Davis Project: Week 10
This week Chris helps out with the Spartan Death Race.
If you are new to the story, Chris Davis started out at almost 700lbs. He's lost over 300lbs so far. Follow his Spartan journey as he attempts to get below 200lbs and complete the Spartan Ultra Beast in September.
To catch up on the story, read last week's blog: http://blog.spartanrace.com/the-chris-davis-project-week-9/
The 2012 Summer Death Race was an incredible experience for me for several reasons. First, it let me see Joe and Andy do what they do best, manage chaos on a grand scale. Second, it gave me a chance to interact with some of the world's best athletes. The last and most important thing, it taught me to realize that only you know when you need to stop.
For me the race really got real on Thursday when I saw the list of people that had signed up, and I got my list of responsibilities. I knew that if I was going to survive the race, I was going to have to push myself both mentally and physically – but looking back I had totally underestimated just how far I was going to push myself. I was scheduled to work about 10 hours a day for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I was relieved to see that they were planning on rotating people out to get some sleep throughout the race. So I got home early and tried to get some extra sleep, which I found hard because I was so excited about what was to come.
My first task for the race was to report to registration and help get everyone checked in. I was so happy to see that Margaret Schlachter from Dirt in your Skirt was one of the first people to get to the pool house and wait for the registration to start. I have the privilege to know her since arriving here, and I consider her one of my close friends. I could tell that she was ready for the race, but there was something not quite right. She told me that she was not going to finish the race, and I knew that her heart was not in it today. In a race like this you do not have a chance in hell of completing it if your heart is not 100% in it.
As registration opened, I took my position in the pool house, and I had a chance to talk with every racer that went through the registration process. It was funny to see the different reactions you would get when you would ask people do you want to quit. It was also great when I would switch it up to 'do you want to race' and some people would just say no, because they had already stopped listening to the questions we were asking, because the 5 people before me had asked in they wanted to quit. It would take about 5 seconds, then it would hit them to what I had asked. It was great, we had already started to get into some of their heads.
Once things calmed down, I headed to Amee Farm to see the official start of the race. But it looked like Joe had other plans for me. Once I arrived he had me front and center walking up and down the farm telling people that the race was starting and they had 60 seconds to get checked in. The next thing I knew I was walking along with everyone over to the Amee Farm Lodge, where everyone had to get into the pond. Now to honest with you, I would not want to get into this pond if I had a space suit because of the duck droppings and the run-off from the farm fields above the lodge. But that did not stop most of the Death Racers. There were a few that tried to sit on the shore and tried to talk them into getting in but they refused, and it was at that point I knew that they were not going to last long. After Joe split them up into teams, I headed off to get a head start on their hike up the national forest because I knew that I would not be able to keep up with the pace Joe was going to have them moving. I met up with the groups a few miles away from the national forest entrance. A couple of the racers peeled off from their groups to help me keep up, but I knew I was slowing them down so I let them go after a few minutes so they could get back with their group. Things were going great until I came down one of the hills to find one of the racers having problems. There were already two volunteers helping him, but I stopped to help as well. We helped him to sit down and relax. We got him some water and food, but it keep getting worse, so we had to call in support. We were able to get him back to the farm but his condition got worse and he ended up heading to the hospital. After we cleaned up a little we continued down the road until we meet up with everyone.
The racers were doing burpees at the entrance of the national forest. Joe told them as I arrived that I was the reason they were doing burpees and I just shook my head. Once I got there Joe made me do at least one burpee with every group. Some groups talked me into doing 5 or 10 with them. As I was getting ready to head back I bumped back into Margret and she told me that she was going to finish the race – I was shocked by the change. I know that she is an experienced racer and that something had convinced her that she was good to go. So I headed back to my house to try and get some sleep because I knew I had a big day ahead of me tomorrow. I had not realized how far down the road I had walked because it took hours for me to get back to town and then to my house. I finally made it home around 11:30pm and I had to be up by 5am because I had to be on the top of Joe's mountain by 7am.
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There is almost nothing worse than hearing your alarm go off after only a few hours of sleep. I got up and stumbled out the door. I made it up to the first cabin by 6 am and then headed up to the top cabin. I made it there by 6:50 am and I called to home-base to let them know that I had arrived. Only I found out that the racers were over 12 hours behind schedule. The only thing going though my mind at that point was why did I not check in before I got to the top cabin. So after a few hours they had me head back down the mountain to the lower cabin and wait for a ride back to Amee Farm. While waiting for my ride I started talking to Nick (he was there as Elisa Thrasher support crew). He had spend the night in a tent at the lower cabin. After hearing their story I knew that she was going to be one of people that would find a way to make it to the end.
When I arrived back at Amee Farm, I was told that Margaret had quit. The first thing that I asked is she hurt? No one had an answer, so the worst started to go through my mind. But then I realized that if she had been hurt severely they would know. So like everyone else I waited for the shuttle to arrive with the people that had quit. When I heard that the shuttle had arrived I started heading towards it when I saw her, she was having some problems walking so I gave her a hand and we got her sitting down. She took off her shoes and her feet were destroyed. One of the medics from another team stopped by and checked her out. We talked for a while, and she did not quit because of her feet, she quit because she realized she was racing for the wrong reason. She had been racing because everyone else wanted her to, and not because she wanted to. I cannot tell you how much I respect her for making that decision. I do not know if I have the inner strength to make that decision if I had been in her place.
Later in the day I was sent back up the mountain to the lower cabin, where we set up for the pebble challenge. This was also the first time that the racers were going to be able to get support from their support crews. So when I saw Nick still here I continued to talk to him while we waited for the racers to show up. When Elisa showed up I got a chance to talk to her for a bit, and I knew my early assumption was right, she would make it as long as she did not get hurt.
The challenge was basic in design, but almost impossible to complete. As the racers came to the challenge they were split up into teams of 2 to 5 people and were given a number. Somewhere on the trails there was a stake and flag with their number on it. Once they found their stake they needed to fill a pot hole in the trail with buckets of pebble from in front of the cabin. Simple right? We expected each team to take 4 to 5 hours to find their stake, but teams were coming back in less than 30 minutes. So we knew something was up, but things were happening so fast we had no idea on what to do. So we sent them to the next challenge.
While they were at the next challenge people started to confess that they had cheated. And as they did they were send back to Amee Farm to receive their punishment. A little while later Elisa walked up to me and told me that she had found out that her team had cheated, but she did not know about it until she arrived at the next challenge. She was very upset that she had not questioned her teammates and accepted it without questioning it. I told her to go back to Amee Farm and explain to Joe and Andy what had happened. She was the only one to come to me and tell me what had happened. Looking back on this I screwed up, what I should have done was take one of the remain flags and sent her out to look for it. By the time it was all over all but one or two teams had cheated. Because of this fact, I was asked to stay at the cabin overnight and assist in their community service for their crime. After that was complete I stayed there till after 6 AM manning the checkpoint to make sure we did not lose anyone over night.
I was so cold when I got home, I didn't shower or anything – I just hit my bed and passed out. But the crazy thing is I was only able to sleep for a couple of hours before I woke up to my legs on fire, itching and bloody. When I looked at them they were covered in bug bites. Overnight I had only been wearing shorts, and I did not have any bug spray with me so the only protection I had was the fire and smoke from the fire. I started to count them and gave up when I reached 300. Since I could not fall back to sleep I headed back to Amee Farm. I was half out of it and I really don't remember the next few hours.
The next thing I really remember is helping with the last of the cement distribution. We were giving each racer a 60 lbs of cement to take to the top of the mountain, So think about this, each racer is wearing a 30 lbs to 70 lbs backpack, and now we just added an additional 60 lbs to their load. Oh yeah, and don't forget they have been up for over 48 hours. Then out of the corner of my eye, I see Elisa hopping on one leg as Nick is helping her walk. I stopped everything I and ran over to find out what had happened. I found out that she had sprained her ankle and she was out. I was crushed, I was so sure that she was going to make it, but it was not to be. I helped her get into her car, and talked to her for a few minutes. I went back to helping with the cement, and after the last bag was gone I was asked to help move the registration computers from Amee Farm back to the pool house.
After getting things set up I got to relax and talk to Margaret, Forest, and Tara for a while while the race started to wind down. Around 11pm Joe told us to get ready because the race was over and they would be sending people to us. It was so cool being there as the race came to an end and the remaining racers started to file in.
Around 2 am they need some help running the last obstacle "The Death Roll" . You literally roll on your side for 0.2 miles then have to answer a question if you get it wrong, the loop doesn't count. After 6 loops you are done. When I got to there I noticed that number 486 was on the obstacle and I thought to myself I miss my old 486 computer… Yes I am really that big of a computer nerd.
As the morning went on I kept waiting for racer 486 to check in but he never did. A little while later his teammate started to ask when was the last time he had checked in. All we could tell him was that he started the obstacle, but he had not made it back. A little while later I called over to the pool house to see if he had quit and they replied back saying he is still in the race. So we figured he was just taking his time on his first loop. When his team asked again if he had check in yet, and we had not seen him, we sent several people to walk the course to see if we could find him, but since it was still dark we did not have any luck. It was at this point we started to get more people involved. His name was Marc DiBo. We started to call out for him as we walked up and down the course. When the sun started to rise we went into full search and rescue mode. We started calling in any staff member we could wake up and even reached out to the State Police. After a few more hours we found him. He had walked off the course and went into one of the barns on the site. Marc had found a shirt, and fell asleep on the stairs that lead to the attic.
After checking him out, he asked to complete his remaining loops so he could complete the race. So I walked by his side until he finished all six of his loops. After he was down we walked back to the pool house together as he was the last one on the course. As
we were walking out of the pool house, I was surprised to see Joei Harrison show up. She had been asked to stop because of medical concerns a few hours ago. But she did not want to quit, so we headed back out the obstacle and she did her last remaining loop. By the time she was done it was sometime near 11am. I had been up for over 24 strait and I had only had about 10 or 12 hours of sleep since Friday.
So to say I was exhausted is an understatement. I was so happy to have survived my first death race.
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Wednesday, JCPenney announced it's closing all of its outlet stores, which will put a lot of people out of work, including a number here in the commonwealth.
The announcement means 1,400 employees across the country will soon be looking for new jobs, including 31 workers at the JC 5 Star Outlet in Martinsville.
JC Penney leaders said in a released statement that employees will get severance packages based on the length of their employment.
In a statement, the former head of JC's 5 Star Outlet says the closing was a painful decision. But he says it was necessity after a steep decline in sales.
According to Virginia Employment Commission's WARN website, the store will close on Nov. 30.
However, the Liberty Fair Mall won't be down a store for long: Marshalls is expected to move in at the end of the month.
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