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听Rafael Puyana《The Golden Age of Harpsichord Music》
2012-04-23 | Tag:听音

介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1995-11-14
出版者: Philips
唱片数: 1
条型码: 0028943436427
对harpsichord的处理令人叹为观止,极其漂亮的音色,在阳光明媚的日子里听很舒服。
Rafael Puyana(1931-),出生于哥伦比亚波哥大,幼时学习钢琴,13岁时Puyana有机会听到了兰多芙斯卡的海顿D大调协奏曲录音,对大键琴产生了浓厚的兴趣,尔后他前往美国学习音乐理论和大键琴演奏,老师正是兰多芙斯卡.Puyana24岁时开始世界范围的巡演,用的乐器是仿制兰多芙斯卡的一架现代Pleyel大键琴(兰多芙斯卡自己就是制琴专家),60年代初定居巴黎,后来他从事教职,Hogwood即出自他的门下.Puyana演奏技术精湛,曲目广泛,被认为是最得兰多芙斯卡真传的演奏家,但他又不受其师显赫声名所缚,赢得了自己的世界声誉,Stokowski称赞他揭示了大键琴的无限可能性和潜力,许多当代作曲家更是为他题写了作品.(整理自唱片说明书)
这张专辑来自Puyana在1962和64年的部分录音,演奏曲目涵盖了从早期英国民谣旋律到J.Bull和W.Byrd,从法国的Couperin叔侄到Rameau,以至光看出生年份,J.S.Bach反而成为里面较接近现今的一位,这些曲目不仅体现了Puyana对大键琴作品的发掘和推动,更成为对巴洛克时代大键琴音乐的一卷缩写. -
观Otto Bathurst / Euros Lyn / Brian Welsh《黑镜 第一季 Black Mirror Season 1 (2011)》
2012-04-16 | Tag:学习流水账

导演: Otto Bathurst / Euros Lyn / Brian Welsh
编剧: 查理·布鲁克 / Jesse Armstrong / Kanak Huq
主演: 保罗·帕波维尔 / 鲁伯特·艾弗雷特 / 丹尼尔·卡卢亚 / 托比·凯贝尔 / 杰西卡·布朗-芬德利 / 艾伦·里奇
类型: 剧情 / 喜剧 / 科幻 / 惊悚 / 恐怖
官方网站: www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror
制片国家/地区: 英国
语言: 英语
首播日期: 2011-12-04
季数: 1
集数: 3
单集片长: 45分钟
又名: 黑镜子 第一季 / 黑镜1:国歌 / 黑镜2:一千五百万的价值 / 黑镜3:你的全部历史
IMDb链接: tt2085059很有末世气息。看得出都是在用文化批评的手法来拍电影。
片子的镜头处理挺精心的,是部精心制作的好片子。
情绪有些过于阴暗。
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读(美)曼斯菲尔德《驯化君主》
2012-04-16 | Tag:学习流水账

作者: (美)曼斯菲尔德
译者: 冯克利
出版社: 译林出版社
出版年: 2005-05
页数: 419
定价: 28.00
装帧: 平装
丛书: 人文与社会译丛
ISBN: 9787806578940翻译得一般,能原版还是原版好。
p4 virtue的重要性。
p6 共和国不一定非要疆域狭小才能保持自由。(对于共和国历史的研讨,既有趣,也值得商榷。)
p11 (对城邦善恶的评定。)p14 他的形式上的软弱,强化了他的非正式的力量。
p21 人的身体相互分离,使法律变得不准确,也向我们表明了法律的不完美。法律无法控制自然,是其不公正和不能消除恐惧的基本原因。
p31 帝王宝鉴序列。《居鲁士的教育》中的君王需要神灵一般不可接近的气派。亚里士多德的《政治学》不但是前现代政治科学的一座巍峨大厦,而且是它的基础。
p46 亚里士多德讨论了民主派用来摆脱他们认为危险的杰出人物的贝壳流放制度,以此证实这种论说。亚里士多德开始探究,是最杰出的人统治较好,还是最好的法律统治更优。(现代的解决办法是立宪民主)p60 政治是“poplites”即“重甲步兵”的政体。当这个阶层统治时,他们可能建构一种政体,也有可能愿意捍卫任何政体。同样,政制不仅可以理解为一种特定的政体,也可以理解为使所有政体能够实行统治从而能够成为政体的因素。(这个阶层很重要)p65 亚里士多德。。。每一种政体都包含着所有的政体,每一种政体都是混合政体。p78 创建的行动要比党派精神更高尚,而且对高贵的人来说,受苦的味道其实更甘甜。。。(与理想国中让优秀者不得不出来执政相呼应)p82 亚里士多德将王权视为一切政治的目的所在。p85 亚里士多德支配着政治世界。p87(如何保证一个国家具有韧性?)一种政体,它使罗马人能够抵御命运的多变,尤其是能够从刊尼惨败于汉尼拔的处境中回复过来。这种政体的原则,不是我们在亚里士多德那儿看到的各种功能之间的和谐,而是对立因素之间的冲突和畏惧。p142 马基雅维利所认为的,基督教的双重罪恶--软弱和残酷。尤其是pious cruelty。p153 十一法的威慑力。p157 定义最佳政体是古典政治科学的主题,然而马基雅维利认为不存在最佳政体。(关键在于执行者,然而,如何限制执行者必须依靠制度)p162 依靠人民而不是依靠少数人。p168马基雅维利认为阴谋是一切政治的基础,而亚里士多德认为友情决定着正义和一切政治。p171 (马基雅维利的出发点是历史,而非当下民众的福利,因此可以忍受失败和错误带来的代价。极权主义的教训已经驳斥了历史主义的虚妄)p173 霍布斯的原创性,不仅在于抽象化,还在于他为政治科学想出了抽象化这个观念。p185 宪政主义作家群体。(底层,中层,执行者)原始的权力、司法权力和执行的权力--它们分别代表平民、贵族和国王。p195 (注意此处的大多数是结果,而非出发点,出发点是所有人)它们以“大多数人的福祉”为目的,根据霍布斯对“幸福状态”的定义,它是指“所有的国民都不受苦,除非受苦是由一个人自己的过错或不可抗拒的事件造成的”。p216 前政治的自我保存的需求。p236 洛克确定了两种宪政观:一是立法机构的形式主义观点,认为建立宪政体制是为了制定人民通过它们的代表视为正义的法律;而是执政官的现实主义观点--马基雅维利式的“只看目的”的观点,认为宪政体制必须保障人民的安全。洛克的自由主义认为,在一种宪政体制中,这两种观点都是必要的,并且是相互协调的,恰恰是因为它们各自为政相互冲突,它们才一起存在于这种体制中。p238 (此处甚为精当)道德观的目的是幸福,洛克把它理解为快乐,或至少是不舒服感的消除。由于最高的快乐是最复杂和令人生疑的,所以不是它们,而是寻常的快乐,为我们提供着我们所能达到的终极享受。p246 孟德斯鸠的《论法的精神》是一部最全面的现代政治学著作,在涉及的范围和复杂性上,除了亚里士多德的《政治学》以外,超过了古往今来的所有著作。p248 (对中国政治传统尤其有修正意义“仁政”)孟德斯鸠证明了自由的政府不必恐吓自己的人民也能管理自身的事务。p255-264(核心的部分,对孟德斯鸠的研讨)p291 美国宪法是共和制的宪法,因为它依靠一般性的人类能力,而不是任何特定的阶级或种族。p311(联邦党人文集的深意)p314人性中最低级的因素,不仅包括利欲和安全的需要,也包括自由的欲望。。。以往的共和国都害怕伟人,而美国人却为他们的“伟大总统”而骄傲。p340 只有通过实际比较各种政体,才能认识到现代民主政体在多大程度上是一种打了折扣的民主,是一种混合政体。 -
读荣新江《敦煌学十八讲》
2012-03-03 | Tag:图书过眼录

作者: 荣新江
出版社: 北京大学出版社
出版年: 2007.3
页数: 332
定价: 32.00元
装帧: 简裝本
ISBN: 9787301047712p26 吐蕃对敦煌的统治使得敦煌躲过了“会昌灭法”。
对各种材料的征引,呈现了研究功力。
p97 Roderick Whitfield的《The art of Central Asia,the Stein collection in the British Museum》
p225 敦煌的滑沙习俗。
p259 道教在佛教刺激下,强化思辨能力的努力。
p285 变文的文学价值。
p348 吐蕃占领敦煌后,敦煌无法取得毛笔,只好采用木笔。
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读David Carey / John E. Morris《King of Capital》
2012-02-26 | Tag:图书过眼录

副标题: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
作者: David Carey / John E. Morris
出版社: Crown Business
出版年: 2010-10-05
页数: 400
定价: USD 27.50
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307452993Peterson在Lehman的经历。Peterson had allies within Lehman, mostly bankers, but few of the firm‘s three dozen partners were his steadfast friends.In the 1960s, conglomerates‘ stocks sometimes traded at multiples of forty times earnings—far above the historical average for public companies. They used their overvalued tock and some merger arithmetic to inflate their earnings per share, which is a key measure or investors.The brainchild of a young banker there named Michael Milken, the new financing was politely called high-yield debt but was universally known as the junk bond, or junk for short.Carl Icahn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_IcahnIcahn was raised in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, where he attended Far Rockaway High School.[2] His father was a cantor, his mother was a schoolteacher.[3] He was educated at Princeton University (A.B., philosophy, 1957) and New York University School of Medicine, but left without graduating.Icahn began his career on Wall Street in 1961. In 1968, he formed Icahn & Co., a securities firm that focused on risk arbitrage and options trading. In 1978, he began taking control of positions in individual companies.[2] He has taken substantial or controlling positions in various corporations including RJR Nabisco, TWA, Texaco, Phillips Petroleum, Western Union, Gulf & Western, Viacom, Uniroyal, Dan River, Marshall Field's, E-II (Culligan and Samsonite), American Can, USX, Marvel Comics, Revlon, Imclone, Federal-Mogul, Fairmont Hotels, Blockbuster, Kerr-McGee, Time Warner and Motorola.It was the same cautious approach to risking money that would become a hallmark of Blackstone‘s investing style—and helps explain why Blackstone avoided the kind of brazen, outsized gambles that caused some high-flying rivals to run aground.对于资本的精心运用。Schwarzman says. ―We wanted to be in businesses where we could either drive very high assets per employee or operate with very high margins.‖Schwarzman acknowledges as much. ―We are more risk-averse than other private equity firms, and part of it is visceral. I don‘t like failure, and losing money is failing. It‘s a personal thing that has turned into a strategy here.‖blackstone在87年股灾时完成募资恰逢其时。Mossman sketched an imaginary worst case. He assumed that steel volume tumbled to its lowest point in twenty years and stayed there for two years. He showed that, even then, the railroad and barge unit would be able to meet its costs and turn a profit. ―James did a perfect analysis,‖ says Schwarzman.通过模型和恶劣情形评估来发掘投资机会。Starting with essays he wrote for the New York Times and the New York Review of Books, and an article in the October 1987 Atlantic that won a National Magazine Award, Peterson took to blasting away at Washington‘s spendthrift ways and its addiction to raising money by selling treasury bonds to foreigners. He extended his crusade to speeches and books. The thrust of his argument was that the ballooning federal debt inevitably would sap America‘s competitiveness in the world economy.Peterson对于美国外债过多的猛烈抨击在今天看来是非常睿智的。―Steve asked me how it went with Pete. I told him I don‘t think Pete had heard a word I said. So Steve called up Pete at home and asked him what I‘d said. Pete was able to repeat all of it, virtually verbatim.‖Schwarzman在DLJ的日子相当失意。Schwarzman ―always has a few off-the-cuff zingers that leave heads shaking,‖ says a limited partner who was there.Schwarzman ―always has a few off-the-cuff zingers that leave heads shaking,‖ says a limited partner who was there.In July, KKR did the only thing it could do to stave off bankruptcy: It doubled down, investing another $1.7 billion of equity to bail out RJR as part of a debt refinancing.The profit split was not what pushed the men apart, says an investment banker who is a friend of Peterson‘s, but rather values and style. ―With Pete, it wasn‘t the money. Money didn‘t matter to Pete the way it did to Steve,‖ says the banker, who describes Peterson‘s material cravings as modest, certainly by Schwarzman‘s standards. ―What eventually got to Pete was Steve‘s lifestyle, his flashing his wealth, his drawing attention to himself. That‘s not what Pete is about.‖―Pete doesn‘t believe the point of making money is to let everyone know you made it,‖ says a second person, who knows them both well. ―Steve doesn‘t have a problem with that.‖Though to this day both tout their relationship as ―the longest-lasting partnership on Wall Street,‖ by the 2000s their relations were frayed and they carped about each other to friends. Schwarzman would grumble about Peterson still collecting millions but contributing little, while Peterson would snipe about Schwarzman‘s crass displays of wealth.―James saw the world in black and white,‖ says Kenneth Whitney, a longtime Blackstone partner. Mossman‘s personality was similarly split, Whitney says. ―He had a great sense of humor, but as soon as he focused on something, he turned very serious. It was like Jekyll and Hyde.‖ He had an obsessive-compulsive side, sometimes going two or three days without sleepwhen immersed in a deal. Says Whitney: ―He had the kind of personality that only had one speed, full speed ahead.‖James Mossman是个高手Callahan was only the biggest failure. Two-thirds of the investments Blackstone made in 2000, at the height of the market, were wipeouts. The write-offs were an object lesson in the dangers of wagering on companies in a frothy market—a lesson that would echo again when the credit markets crashed in 2007 and the economy began spiraling downward.Lee, who had spent his career in far larger, more mature institutions, felt he could contribute immediately. ―Most private equity firms had grown up like little, boutiquey law firms,‖ Lee says. ―The partners sat around and said, ‗Let‘s do that deal, let‘s do this deal.‘ There was no structure, no infrastructure, no HR, no risk management. But by the year 2000 they‘d been at it for fifteen years and they knew they were ratcheting up their activity level. They were going global. A lot was going on。CSFB had greatly overpaid for DLJ at the top of the market, and many of DLJ‘s biggest rainmakers, who had pocketed millions from the sale of their DLJ shares, had left soon after the merger. Some at CSFB blamed James for inducing CSFB to pay so much and then letting the talent slip away.While Schwarzman vacationed at his homes in the traditional playgrounds of the super rich—the Hamptons on Long Island, Palm Beach in Florida, and St. Tropez in France, or on his yacht in the Caribbean—James was a die-hard fly fisherman who tied his own flies and ventured up the Amazon and to Mongolia on fishing trips with his friend David Bonderman, the iconoclastic founder of TPG.They shared a conviction that they were looking at the opportunity of a decade to buy assets cheaply.一定要把资金保留在有便宜资产的时候。―You‘ve got to have a lot of respect for the cycles,‖ Chu says, looking back. ―No matter how smart an investor you are and no matter how great the company and its management team are, if you invested in U.S. or European chemicals in 2007 and exited in 2010, you‘d take a loss.‖By the 2000s, lending syndicates and bond financing were merging through a process known as securitization. Banks still made loans up front, but rather than divvying them up with other banks, they bundled them with scores of loans to other companies and sold slices of those bundles to investors. The process was known as securitization because it repackaged loans as widely sold securities similar to bonds or stocks.Schwarzman wasn‘t sure at first if the offer was worth the potential complication and delay of negotiating a side deal, but the Chinese offered to invest $3 billion and their terms turned out to be simple. All they wanted was the chance to buy in without paying the investment banks‘ fees and commissions. They didn‘t seek any special access to information beforehand or a seat on Blackstone‘s board, and they agreed to keep the stake under 10 percent so that the investment didn‘t have to go through a national security review in the United States. In addition, their shares would be nonvoting.On May 20, barely three weeks after Leung first spoke to CIC‘s head, Lou Jiwei, on April 30, a deal was signed for CIC to invest through a subsidiary optimistically named Beijing Wonderful Investments, Ltd. One person familiar with CIC calculated that in those three weeks of talks China accumulated $15 billion in new reserves and so he figured that its managers were just too busy putting out their money to haggle.中投的急于接盘让黑石占了大便宜。―I said I wanted to be able to look my partners in the eye,‖ Peterson says. ―What I get in liquidity they don‘t get.‖ After he unloaded shares in the IPO, Peterson‘s stake in the firm would drop to 4.2 percent, and he confirmed that he would formally retire from Blackstone at the end of 2008. Schwarzman would be left with 23.3 percent, James with 4.9 percent.As it happened, June 11 was the day that Blackstone finally revealed Schwarzman‘s pay: $398.3 million in 2006 alone. The figure was mind-boggling. It was nine times what Lloyd Blankfein, Schwarzman‘s counterpart at Goldman Sachs, made that year in cash and stock, though Goldman had thirty times as many employees and was universally acknowledged to be the most successful firm on Wall Street. Schwarzman‘s pay was twice what the top five executives at Goldman together took home. It attested to the profits private equity was churning out and revealed how rich Schwarzman had become owing to his nearly 30 percent stake in Blackstone.―If we don‘t reinvent ourselves continually, we‘re dead,‖ Schwarzman likes to tell his troops. At the end of the day, there are thousands of sources of pure capital. The trick is to supply something extra.








