浅谈民族乐器“阮”

阮作为中国民族乐器之一,有着悠久的历史,经过劳动人民的不断的演奏、创新和改进,到今天系列阮的产生,阮的制作水平和演奏技术已经相对成熟,在乐队合奏中发挥着越来越重要的作用,但同时,阮自身也存在着一些缺点,阮专业人才也相对缺乏。因此,我们要重视加强阮专业人才的培养,继续创新和改进阮的制作技术,使其在民族音乐中具有更好的表现力。     

企业领导者的诚信

有人将领导比作乐队指挥，一个乐队指挥的作用是通过演奏家的共同努力而形成一种和谐的声调和正确的节奏。由于乐队指挥才能的不同，乐队也会做出不同的反映。企业领导作为企业的决策、管理，他们的一言一行、思想观念以及自身素质都将对他的下属和企业产生深远影响。     

盘子定律

社会生活的餐桌。与盘子有关的规律是：一是吃盘子．二是吃盘子里的东西，三是吃盘子外的东西。吃盘子是盘予大，桌上的盘子数量多，有点大吃大喝的样子。这多是团队作战的宴请，如检查团、学习团和考察团等，采的都是客，陪的人也多．于是就大盘大碟地端上来，皆大欢喜。二是吃盘子里的东西，客人不多，显赫尊贵又轻装简从。于是小包房里一请，盘子不多，只讲内容。也许只有四菜一汤。鱼翅、鲍鱼、驼掌、猴脑再加一点时鲜蔬菜而已。三是吃盘子外的东西．多是礼仪场合，在五星级设宴，吃的是气派。豪华厅堂窈窕淑女，吃的是感觉。主人致词乐队伴奏．吃的是风度。     

三根指挥棒

美国著名指挥家、作曲家沃尔特·达姆罗施二十几岁时就已经当上了乐队指挥。但他却没有忘乎所以。旁人对他的谦和、沉稳的态度，既欣赏又惊讶。还是沃尔特自己揭开了这个谜底。     

被诸天释放的归人

大忘杠，一个没有什么具体含义的有趣名字，与宋雨哲以前的著名乐队“木推瓜”一样，只是一个即兴色彩浓厚的命名。游牧民族民间音乐和诗歌，宗教，大地山河，构成大忘杠的强大磁场，然而好就好在，宋雨哲并不被任何一块磁石吸走：不是某一民族音乐的传承也不是某一宗教的传神，不是异域情调也不是乡愁味精，这也不是民谣，不是摇滚，不是fusion，不是world music，大忘杠这张《荒腔走板选段》的挑战在于：荒腔走板如何现代变奏。     

谭旭光:永不止步的扩张?

10月21日,潍柴集团成立65周年庆典,山东重工集团有限公司董事长、潍柴董事长谭旭光证明自己不但能指挥其倾心打造的动力帝国,而且在乐队指挥方面也颇有心得。管控力对谭旭光引以为豪的黄金产业链来说,至关重要。2011年,潍柴入主亚星客车,并出现了洽购意大利豪华游艇商股份的传     

物极必反

5月10日，成立30年，世界范围内售出超过万张唱片的老牌英国乐队“赶时髦”在以色列特拉维夫的演出现场，47岁的主唱Dave Gahan激情投入，现场观众也如痴如醉。但几天后，他们在雅典的演出刚结束，Dave Gahan就突患急性肠胃炎住进了医院，刚启动欧洲巡演不久的乐队不得不中断行程。     

星光闪耀 举杯同庆

庆典晚宴,星光闪耀,高潮不断:国乐大师方锦龙和女子民族乐队"芳华十八"的倾情演奏,热辣风情的肚皮舞,地产精英激情合唱的地产人之歌《广州之夜》……,峰会晚宴为所有嘉宾奉献了一场无以伦比的精彩视听盛宴。在悠扬的歌声中,在欢声笑语里,在这欢聚的时刻,朋友们,让我们     

乐队指挥

宁高宁先生和我有多年交往,算是老朋友。他以前长期工作在华润,而华润是万科的第一大股东,虽然所占比例从绝对值看并不高。2004年底他调任中粮集团董事长,中粮是世界500强企业,摊子大,他从香港到北京后,我们见面机会少了,但我依然关注着他充满激情的改革举措,中粮和万科在房地产领域也有一些合作。     

冰封北海道

<正>对于在雪地租不租车,我和另一半经过思想上的几许挣扎。经历过魁北克一役后,我对在雪地开车的信心简直跌到谷底下,加上我们二人又那么喜欢清酒。上期提到,我真的没有资格住在北纬40度或以上的地方。可是,我又偏偏那么喜欢雪。前年我就跑去北海道,尽情地投入冰雪世界。熟悉北海道的朋友大概也知道,每年的2月份,北海道有札幌雪祭和小樽雪灯祭(小樽雪あか     

A Celebration of Hayek

For much of his career, the work of the Austrian economist F. A. Hayek was neglected by all but a small band of academics. The award of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1974 at last brought public recognition to a scholar whose seven decades of work is increasingly seen to offer seminal analysis which will guide the development of economics for at least as long again in the future. Norman Barry, Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham, examines Hayek's distinguished career.     

The Structure of the Log Odds-Ratios in Non-Independence and Symmetry Diagonal Models for Square Contingency Tables

This paper examines the structure of the interaction term when expressed as the log ofthe odds-ratios ij in the log-linear model formulation of non-independence and symmetry diagonalmodels applied to an I x I contingency table having ordinal classificatory variables. The class ofprincipal diagonal, diagonal band, full diagonal and diagonal-parameters symmetry models areexamined in the study. The general structure of Φ_ij is examined for each class of diagonal models.The 5 x 5 British Social Mobility data (Glass, 1954) will be employed as an example in this paper.The structure of the log odds-ratios are formulated in terms of the parameter estimates obtained from the application of SAS PROC GENMOD. Goodman in several of his papers on the subject has also derived some of these log odds ratios but our focus here is the structure of these odds, when viewed from the non-standard log-linear perspective (Lawal, 2001, 2002).     

The Narrow Band Option for Mr. Lamont

The dilemma facing Mr. Lamont as he prepares his first Budget is the conflict between the need to keep interest rates high to maintain the commitment to sterling's ERM band and the wish to reduce interest rates to ease the severe recession in the domestic economy. In large part, this conflict is intrinsic to the government's aim to bring down UK inflation to German levels through membership of the ERM: the process of reducing inflation is always painful and costly in terms of lost output and higher unemployment. But the dilemma is made worse by the uncertainties over future policy direction, reflected in the differential between UK and German interest rates. German monetary policy is set to remain tight to hold in check the inflationary pressures that might otherwise arise from German unification. Against this background success in reducing UK interest rates will depend on the government's success in establishing the credibility of its anti-inflation policy and of its ERM commitment. An expansionary Budget aimed at easing the recession would undermine this credibility, and remove the scope for additional interest rate reductions. An abandonment of the ERM commitment would signal the accommodation of inflation, and condemn the UK to continuing high inflation and interest rates. We argue in this Viewpoint that the best course open to the Chancellor is to adopt a broadly neutral Budget stance, and to strengthen the ERM commitment by moving to a narrow band for sterling within the ERM. This should enable the Chancellor to reduce UK interest rates again at around the time of the Budget and lay the basis for further subsequent cuts.     

Unanticipated shocks and the maintenance and replacement of durable goods

This paper investigates how a durable-goods owner responds to a once-for-all unanticipated shock in a stationary state market. This problem is examined in the context of housing. The circumstances are determined under which a landlord will respond in each of the following five ways: (i) abandon his building immediately; (ii) run down his building optimally and then abandon; (iii) operate his building forever; (iv) demolish his building immediately, and reconstruct a new building on the site; and (v) run down his building, demolish it, and reconstruct a new building on the site. The analogous cases for other durable goods should be obvious.     

LETTING THE GOOD TIMES ROLL

Kenneth Clarke must wonder what is so difficult about being Chancellor of the Exchequer. Since he took over at the Treasury in May 1993, the UK economy has grown at an annual rate of 3.5-4.0% and unemployment has continued to fall. Underlying inflation has remained around the middle of the government's 1–4% target band. And the current account deficit on the balance of payments has shrunk. True, the Chancellor had to bring in a tax-raising Budget in November, though even here much of the hard work had been done by his predecessor. The policy decisions over the next year or so will prove much more tricky, however. The Chancellor faces pressure to relax fiscal policy in the Budget. And he will almost certainly have to raise interest rates - possibly before the end of this year. In this Forecast Release we look at what the outlook for the economy now implies for the policy judgements that the Chancellor must make over the remainder of this year.     

Henry George, Sun Yat-sen and China: More Than Land Policy Was Involved

A bstract . Sun Yat-sen repeatedly acknowledged the influence of Henry George , and this influence went beyond details of land policy. Significant parts of George's work involved his extensive references to China his diagnoses of China's ills, his vision of a possible better economic order , and his strong attack on the Malthusian theory. These too influenced Sun.     

Henry George and George Bernard Shaw: Comparison and Contrast

A bstract . Henry George , the American economist and social philosopher , and George Bernard Shaw , the British playwright and social reformer , were two famous personalities of the last quarter of the 19th century, each a prophet in his own way. The two men probably never met, though Shaw credited George's oratory as well as his classic. Progress and Poverty , with awakening his interest in economic issues, and to his last days acknowledged his debt to George. Both were deeply committed to ending poverty. But there the similarity ended—George was devoted to ethical democracy, Shaw to socialist dictatorship. George saw cooperative individualism as the goal of social reconstruction; Shaw dreamed of a Superman, and fancied himself a supporter of the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, and of Soviet Russian'communism.'Shaw saw the purpose of life as "being used for a (mighty) purpose;" George saw it as blazing a trail for'progressive humanity,'cooperating with the Creator in creating a moral world.     

Searle, Rationality, and Social Reality

A BSTRACT . This paper makes a critical assessment of some contributions of John Searle of direct relevance to social science—his theory of rationality and his theory of institutions. The former is criticized for being able to account for how people can act for "external reasons," as opposed to their desires, only in cases where an obligation derives from a promise; a rival account is much more general. The latter is criticized on three grounds: (1) his theory of institutions can only account for a narrow range of social reality, that deriving from some kind of "enactment"; (2) his notion of "collective intentionality" is unnecessary to explain institutions and is introduced only so that Searle can stay within an individualistic, Cartesian theory of the mind, something of no interest to social scientists; (3) his account implies that if an institution exists, "we collectively accept it," whereas it may in fact not be accepted, but merely tolerated or submitted to.     

Economics, Sociology, and the "Professional Complex"

A bstract .   This article discusses the relationship between economics and sociology in the context of Parsons's analytical theory of action and systems and his criticisms of orthodox and institutional economics. The article also addresses his view of the importance of the professions to an understanding of the nature of advanced capitalism. The professions are discussed as both an illustration of his theoretical argument and a substantive problem that stimulated the development of his theory. The "professional complex" is an emergent phenomenon in capitalism that modifies its operation and points to the complexity of systems of social action that require to be analyzed without being reduced to one of their elements. This reductionism is evident in orthodox economic theory and also in the more sociologically-oriented approach of institutional economics. Parsons argues that each is a form of what, following Whitehead, he calls the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness." Although Parsons offers a significant critique of dominant approaches in economics, major flaws within his own theory create the appearance that he has simply carried over the deficiencies of orthodox theory into his own general statement of theory. These flaws contribute to major misunderstandings of Parsons's project and, therefore, indicate continuing problems in the relation between economics and sociology.     

On Granger’s predictability of financial markets in theory and practice

I was kindly invited by the organizers to discuss the presentation by Professor Clive Granger at the 5th International Institute of Forecasters Workshop in Lisbon, which was, perhaps, the last one that he ever delivered in a regular meeting. The task would have not been easy in any case, given his deep knowledge of the field and his many contributions. My discussion, however, turned out to be more difficult than I anticipated, given that there was no formal paper to discuss, just some sparse notes that he had written at various different dates, but certainly before the spectacular gyrations that hit the speculative markets in mid to late October 2008 and early December 2008. During our brief encounters at the workshop, he mentioned the thought of expanding his notes and writing a full-length paper on the issue. However, his unexpected demise left this thought unrealized. The editors of this special issue thought that it would remain incomplete without his outstanding contribution, and invited me to write my reflections on his notes and his verbal presentation. If discussing the paper (in an informal setting) was already daring, writing a paper on such a wide and complicated topic was a daunting task. I had many reasons for refusing the assignment; however, in the end, I felt that I should take it, if only as a personal homage to a giant in our discipline.