1006G[REBORN FROM THE ASHES组]备考日记 by 海王泪——要么自燃成灰，要么浴火重生

海王泪UID: 2673613

[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.26]
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1045471-1-1.html

Comment

Sorry for my absent mind of this topic.
For protecting privacy, money and authority, my passwords develop in the following three ways:
1.An easy sentence (BBS/Chatting soft)
2.An combination of meaningless number, letters and punctuation(Mail/Blog)
3.Random code record in software, Spb Wallet, of my IPod(Online Operation like Internet Bank Account)

The first two kinds of password are deeply in my mind because I frequently use them. There is nothing much to talk about them. So Let’s come to the random codes, I trust software on devices especially those easily brought. Software on computer is not convenient; I won’t carry my laptop day and night. But a small device, mobile phone or IPod, really works because I keep it everywhere. Somebody would argue that there are risks of losing portable devices. In fact, we have synchronization between devices and PC or internet. That may decrease the probability of losing our passwords.

海王泪UID: 2673613

[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.27]https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1045738-1-1.html
My Sum-Up
The taste for clutter and realism is curiously buoyant
1.By comparison to fasion paintings, a curious corner of the art market has remained steadfastly old-fashioned, cluttered and sentimental. [Example] Paintings in two auctions: Christie’s sale and Sotheby’s sale
2.Sotheby’s sale was by far more successful than Christie’s one. Prices reflect that people are discounting the soon inflation and buying articles.
3.There is a buyers’ pattern, which people tend to pay high price for those that sold expensive before.
4.John Atkinson Grimshaw’s paintings-“Prince’s Dock, Hull”- in Sotheby’s sale achieve a very high price.(Clutter?)
5.Spencelayh’s paintings, even more unfashionable-looking than Grimshaw’s, are realistic pictures of men.
6.Spencelayh’s painting-“The Old Dealer”- has long been fetching.
7.The Old Dealer in Sotheby’s sale sold an astonished price. The buyer bought it for stock but not for collection.
8.Laura Knight’s paintings-“On the Cliffs” and ”Daughter of the Sun”-was introduced.
9.“On the Cliffs” and “Wind and Sun” sold an extreme high price.
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Sentences and Phrases
WHILE the contemporary art market constantly seeks the new—new names, new imagery, new media or simply new novelty—another curious corner of the art market has remained steadfastly old-fashioned, cluttered and sentimental.
Novelty= freshness, newness, oddity, originality, strangeness, surprise
Steadfast= steady=stable

John Atkinson Grimshaw is a painter who celebrated industry, commerce and conspicuous wealth during Queen Victoria’s reign, dying in 1893.
Celebrate= eulogize= glorify = magnify= laud
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My Comment
This report is an introduction to a curious corner of the art market- paintings of clutter and realism. It mainly builds for us a scene that older ranking top-paintings have been always sold extreme high price far beyond estimate.

What catches my eye in this report is a claim from buyer David Mason: This kind of articles is for stock rather than collection in order to avoid the coming inflation. In other words, articles become an speculation. That is tragedy. However, we cannot but accept it.

Moreover, when articles become individual investment, the public lack access to those stunning works at opening place such as museum or exhibition .
I would like to borrow words from Biologist T. H. Huxley and adapt it to this mannered sentence:
"That is the great tragedy of art - the slaying of a beautiful collection by an ugly speculation."

Thomas Huxley quote: The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact (Collected Essays)

海王泪UID: 2673613

62# 海王泪

Stunning Paintings in 12.27 Back to the future of ECO

if you give a close look at these paintings,you will find they are stunning!

“On the Cliffs” by Laura Knight


PRINCE'S DOCK, HULL by John Atkinson Grimshaw


THE OLD DEALER (THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP) by CHARLES SPENCELAYH


News about "Sotheby's London Sale of Victorian & Edwardian Art Includes 100 Works by Leading Artists"

After watching these pictures, what "clutter and realism" means is very clear.

海王泪UID: 2673613

Further comment when C and I are talking about the value of art.



Why is art piece valuable?
As far as I concern, it has basic value and extra value.

First, art piece has aesthetic value as its basic value. Truly valuable art can provoke our emotion and people are willing to pay for appreciation. Art is signal, it stimulate our brain.
Reference: “How art made world.” (In this video you may learn why we need art.)
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/avTa5pTZsOM/

If you accept that people need art, what confused you must be the extra value determined by growing demand and limited supply. Maybe you doubt if the price of art is too high. But I think it is normally driven by the market force.

Supply of masterpiece is limited for the following two reasons: 1.Existent number is little; 2.Circulating number is small, when people tend to stock them rather than to frequently deal in them. In other words, a thing is valued in proportion to its rarity.

And demand is growing, because more people become richer and richer. Those richer develop greater interests in various luxuries and they certainly can afford art. There must be someone, psychologically, believes that a painting is worth a higher price, then he or she buy it. Such process keeps running. Thus "the art piece’s success in extra value lay in the high prices achieved for the last buyer".

Finally, although the price would fluctuate, the general trend is upward and stable. Hardly could people refuse to believe that art piece can serve as good investment. By comparison with the depreciation in money (inflation), people treat art piece as assets maintaing value. That's why Mr. Mason said in today's Eco:"...inflation has always been the art dealer’s friend." These speculators who hold expectation of future higher price come into being and make great contribution to the current art market.

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12.28
对不起爹娘了。。。出现了这种事。。。555
晚上赶专业课作业。。。郁闷了。。。唉 不说了。。

话说，今天情绪还真是低落。。。情绪一坏，什么都坏。。。百年难得一遇的心情。

plukaUID: 2721764

情绪坏不要紧，要赶快loop回来，high起来呀~

海王泪UID: 2673613

[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.28]
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1046212-1-1.html

昨天Depressed...期末最后一份专业课的作业终于做完了。
但此COMMENT仍然遗漏。。期末时间紧迫。。不敢妄下海口立即补上。
只得优先完成29日COMMENT。。

鉴于这篇是草草推荐的五十篇精品之一，略读一次后发现众多例子隐藏其中。
Ｍua一个～企业家们～大爱。。
回头一定慢慢读、细细读、反反复复地读！
我需要一段足够长、足够完整的时间段！

海王泪UID: 2673613

[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.29]
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1046472-1-1.html

My Sum-Up
Spirit Level
An evolutionary biologist on religion
1.Nicholas first felt sanctity at Eton College chapel.
2.Nicholas says it is important to look at human beginning in order to examine the roots of religion. The customs of hunter-gatherer peoples remained give an idea of religion’s first form.
3.Charles Darwin witnessed religion at most primordial form.
4.Wade is convinced that Man’s propensity for religion has some adaptive function, while critics suggest that faith is useless(or worse) by-product of human characteristics.
5. Groups with religion were likely to prevail over those without it.
6.The evolution with religion is unclear.
7.Faith’s basic function is making people ready to sacrifice themselves and fight against outsiders. Mr Wade easily guides reader in his book about the intellectual history (though oversimplifying the link between morality and group solidarity.)
8.Ecstasy and moral norms are often in contradiction
9.(Evidence for 8) Russians like rite and mystery
but hate moral rule.
10. Mr Wade offers a brief, provocative history of monotheism about Islam.
11. Sometimes the book stumbles.
12. It is a good book for interdiscipline.
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Sentence and Phrases
【Phrases】
The “beauty of holiness” in a British private school is a far cry from the sort of religion
A far cry=quite different thing

the ecstasy of dusk-to-dawn tribal dances
dawn to dusk=day and night
dusk to dawn=during all night

Mr Wade is convinced that a Darwinian approach offers the key to understanding religion.
Be convinced that=believe that
Offer a key to=help solve=give solution (a problem)

Groups wwith religion were likely to prevail over those which lacked these advantages.
Prevail over=defeat=win

the picture is muddied by the vast changes that religion went through in the journey from tribal dancing to Anglican hymns.
[History, period, distance]Went through in the journey from…to…=during the history from…to…

The advent of settled led to a new division of labour.
The advent of=arrival=appearance>innovation

Above all, by promoting moral rules and cementing cohesion, in a way that makes people ready to sacrifice themselves for the group and to deal ruthlessly with outsiders.
Make somebody ready to do something=make somebody willing to do something=

He endorses the radical view that the story of the Jews’ flight from Egypt is myth, rather than history.
Endorse=agree with=approve of (someone’s oppinion)

He sympathises with daring ideas about Islam’s beginnings: so daring that many of its proponents work under false names.
Proponent=advocate=supporter

At times, the book stumbles.
At times=several times
Stumbles=puzzle= befog=bewilder=confound=confuse=perplex

【Functional Sentence】
『Call out opposition』
Among evolutionary biologists, this idea is contested/controversial.
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Materials
Topic: What is Religion?
1) Process Analysis (How is X made or done?)
[Defender] Man’s propensity for religion has some adaptive function. Faith would not have persisted over thousands of generations if it had not helped the human race to survive.
[Opposition] Faith is a useless (or worse) by-product of other human characteristics.

2)Classification (What are the types of X)
All religion is concerned in varying degrees with metaphysical ideas, moral norms and mystical experience.
Religion: Metaphysical ideas, moral norms and mystical experience.

3)Research Method
It lays the basis for a rich dialogue between biology, social science and religious history.
Interdiscipline for new ideas: An evolutionary biologist on religion thinks religion has some adaptive function as particular faith persisting for helping the human race to survive.

4) Process Analysis (How is X’s Function made or done?)
How do religion help human race survive?
By promoting moral rules and
cementing
cohesion, in a way that makes people ready to sacrifice themselves for the group and to deal ruthlessly with outsiders.
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Comment
This is an introduction to a book of Nicholas Wade, an evolutionary biologist on religion. His book mainly discuss that there is a natural selection of religions when they help human race better survive in spirit level.

As far as I concern, religion reassure people and thus make available regular production work. People have long been living with dread. At ancient time, horror such as lightning, flood, particular animals always scare human race. Only through two ways, inquiring or superstition, can people overcome their fears. Inquiring to horror, in other words, science, doesn’t always work in short time for the limitation of human capability. Thus we need superstition as transitional reassurance for uncontrolled phenomenon which may psychologically depress us.

With the development of religion, it not only reassure people but also effectively improve morale and fighting capacity of human. Human helds war for resources. Consequently, as what the Mr. Wade says, religion helps particular groups prevail over other groups in our nature. And the religion version of natural selection proceeds.

海王泪UID: 2673613

https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1046472&page=2#pid1773474253

11# qisaiman

I have saw several comments delivered by you ,and it is helpful, thx.
first , i thought the author is a man,thus "Her book " is not accurate .
second, I wonder how religion help a group to survive while others without
suffer, dose this mean that
in a war ,the religion-armed one take an overwhelming advantage over the latter?

Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I have adapted it from "her" to "his".  ^_^

About the religion and war, I think the ECO today has explained it clearly:

Above all, by promoting moral rules and cementing cohesion, in a way that makes people ready to sacrifice themselves for the group and to deal ruthlessly with outsiders.

I do not mean ownership of religion represents overwhelming advantage. In fact, in my comment I mean religion can "effectively" improve morale and fighting capability. We can take Muslim as one of the best examples.

It is clear that military forces (weapon, tech, financial support) also pose great effect on winning wars. The counterpart of military forces is belief. Since neither objective strength nor spirit power unilaterally serves as the overwhelming advantage, hardly can religion--only one form of belief--entirely determine which group should be the winner.

海王泪UID: 2673613

12.31
白天全天上课，晚上复习专业课，等ECO
结果GTER一直上不来。。。后来能上了，图书馆闭馆了。。
10点回来后就开始“生活”，跑步，洗衣服（一个星期）全扔洗衣机，收拾书桌柜子 就这样两个小时过去了

今天没写COMMENT，犯了大忌。。。明早写，中午发！

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.30]
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1046796-1-1.html

Sentences and phrases
Unfamiliar Words
the thwarted bombing, Preliminary report, elaborate, outflanked, pieced

Functional Sentence
【Argument-Point out a serious failure or important assumption or ignored condition】
A systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable.
An indispensable condition has been ignored, and I consider that totally unacceptable because ….
An important assumption has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable.

Materials
Democrats returned fire by accusing the opposition of standing in the way of needed personnel and money while exploiting public fears.
Government‘s policy/strategy/plan needs personnel and money.

Useful expressions
It now appears clear that had it all been examined together it would have pointed to the pending attack.
Pending=forthcoming=imminent=about to happen
Pending=Pendent=undecided=undetermined=unsettled=in suspense=up in the air

Although he did not elaborate.
Elaborate=explain in details=amplify: develop

Mr. Obama alluded to the intelligence in his statement.
Allude to=suggest=hint=imply=intimate

The debate has escalated.
Escalate= intensify become worse
Escalate=increase rapidly (Price)

But he spared little in his sharp judgment about….
Spare little in sharp judgment=heavily criticize

But it’s becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up to date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have.
Up to date=the latest=modern
Take full advantage=make use of=utilize
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My Comment
Counterterrorism, though never cool, is particularly hot at the moment since Obama’s inauguration. The thwarted bombing recently escalate the debate about American security system. Ironically, when American fear after the event for about hundreds of lives on plane, millions of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and some other Islam nations are still suffered from the war waged by United States.

Allah or Uncle Sam? Who is the true terrorism? I do not know. People always attack under name of “judge”. But in my words, judge is interest. Whatever about terrorism are conflicts among different interest groups.

Maybe I am too naive to know what exactly politics is. But Game Theory has long told me that if these nations come into agreement, personnel and money spent in war for both weapons and security system would create value for human race rather than consume resources for meaningless conflicts.

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12.31-1.1
新年新气象！！
剪了个帅帅的头，剪去一年的烦恼丝！来年等着出人头地！！！

今天早上上课，下午补上昨天的ECO,复习了一点FDI，晚上整理Finance的复习资料。

呵呵！！！新年到了！！！Happy New Year!!!

海王泪UID: 2673613

555~~睡觉咯··1点咯··
第一页童鞋们的日记都给我兜了一转，顺带捎上新年的祝福～

大家加油啊～尤其是期末考试的同学～
今天Emotional了一点～呵呵～不过，不情绪化就没有动力撑下去了啊！
Passion keep us alive!!! 拒绝过行尸走肉的生活～就算是Boring的Major也要学得有激情点！

P.S.床上打字的唯一好处，打完后直接倒下睡觉～～:lol 晚安～

qxn_1987UID: 2610437

快乐哈！！嘻。。
加油！！

plukaUID: 2721764

嚯嚯，新头像也很有型嘛~新年快乐！