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12 November

因何问脱光,因何不柏林

被好久不问候的某弟弟一句噎住,今天你脱光了没有。。。
这话真不知从何回答,之前我只听说脱贫却不知还有脱光的另一层含义,可不就差点被他吓倒了,敢情除了问virgin以外还有这么开放的打招呼方式么?刹那间我恍如烂柯人,观棋入魔障,一语方觉迟。
他倒是已脱光族类,浑然不知引发我知觉这个节日的后果。
其实两幅筷子的日子于我倒是不会有翻江倒海哭倒长城吸干大洋的,因为一早看的都是欧罗巴那边柏林墙倒塌纪念而起的种种旧事回音。
 
很荣幸前几天有位先生引用他最喜爱的句子给我:
少年哀乐过于人,歌泣无端字字真。既壮周旋杂痴黠,童心来复梦中身
也知道定庵先生另一首在读者中被吟诵的更多,而且有些感情、感触从前总自以为一早了解,所以我真的不及回味咀嚼很多本是诗人字字写来血泪裹藏的话语。一如我看柏林那一边不知脱光不脱光的你。
Language is the house of being. G国大胡子大叔们接二连三地让我望而生畏,高深啊庄严啊藏在他们严谨下的天真执着地犀利啊,连Grimms Fairy 也可以挖地三尺刨出许多黑色哥特式的悲怆来…
 
在这个晚上忽然想锁定《窃听风云》,我不要混在人群中来显示自己不是孤身一人,找个贴近柏林的理由,共鸣这个看似拘谨肃穆的民族分隔两地的痛苦挣扎情感,这样的机会能有几次?
一如我在听人说起German pronunciation is really difficult to be accurate.时甚至有小小地暗自得意揣测:哦某人又多了一个狂的资本~只是很可笑:八年抗战鬼子都能输了太平洋输了远东退回老家了有的人却还是渐行渐远啊。
柏林墙倒下是迟早的,以这个民族坚韧的意志,我相信他们从来不缺力量不缺大师不缺战士,可指引这股力量的北斗星在哪里,你能告诉我么?
 
 
好吧我还在中国我不谈政治我远庖厨还远纸笔最终只能讲风雪花草,也许你快看到雪绒花的季节来了,我这里还扶桑红胜火,江水碧如玉,又如何、又如何?还是在被问到脱光的时侯收起笑意,你就满意吧你,这是比窃听的时侯发现对方喜好和自己相似时更意外的惺惺相惜。
 
当然,这只写给未脱光的你,一如柏林的记忆是东德的那一边更有资格在墙倒的那一刻相拥相泣。
 
07 November

军装不能承受之轻--胡德堡枪杀事件

It kills the very good, the very gentle, and the very brave impartially.
“世界杀害最善良的人、最温和的人、最勇敢的人”

如果还认为海老先生这句话是耸人听闻,那就大错特错了。
距离独立战争200多年后的今天,同样是身穿蓝色军装生活在美利坚国度的士兵们,再次血染征袍。而这次让他们倒下的,却是曾生死与共的战友。
从守护和平的卫士到冷血的杀人工具之间,真的只有一步之遥么?
老习惯,中文是自己的版本,还有,特此感谢卫报、感谢让我此时得以更新的中国网路、感谢。。。。

军装不能承受之轻

--“我们中的一位”,利达尔·马里克·哈桑在胡德堡基地大开杀戒

得克萨斯军事基地发生的命案验证了华盛顿的老兵们对士兵精神健康的担忧。
Ben Quinn and David Batty
Friday 6 November 2009

得克萨斯州胡德堡这个美国在全球最大的军事基地里,一位军人如何能在它的中心地带大开杀戒,他又怀有什么动机。美国军方昨天晚间极力要对此事件达成共识。
长期以来,许多患创伤后压力心理疾病的士兵在美国国内制造了无数行凶杀人和自杀案件,而它们从未像海外驻军的死难问题那样受到关注。

昨天发生的暴乱冲突中有12人死亡,数十人受伤。而设在奥斯汀市的退役军人组织的官员还正与参议院军事委员会成员在华盛顿召开会议,呼吁更多处理精神健康案件的律师为归国驻军部队辩护。这次事件无疑是对它的讽刺。

退伍军人寻求常识组织执行官保罗•沙利文(Paul Sullivan)说,他和其他同事长久以来都在警告有可能会出現像昨天披露的那种事件。

“我很不安,几乎失声痛哭,”他又说道,“我们警告过军方,提醒军方需要增加精神健康治疗人手。”
“对降低征兵标准、对从战场归来的士兵进行医疗检查、对精神健康治疗和脑损伤检查,我们都向军方提出了警告。
“我们一直不遗余力、竭尽全力去避免问题发生,”他说,“这太可怕了,一场悲剧。”
据沙利文透露,来自胡德堡的消息没有干扰华盛顿会议举行。直到会后走进过道时,他收到了13条手机短信,才得知这起重大凶杀事件。
国会的这次会议上,退伍军人组织称,和从前一样,2009年的美国士兵自杀率会高创记录。
“这会是退役军人们最大的精神创伤,让他们忘不了战争,”沙利文还说,“我们鼓励他们,如果难以解脱就去VA(退伍军人协会)寻求治疗。”

美国军方近来正处理不断增加的凶杀和自杀问题,它们都与精神压力相关,发生在这样一群士兵中:他们或者在伊拉克和阿富汗服役或者参与了这些地区的维和任务后回国。很多部队在执行第三次或者第四次巡战任务。一些研究表明大约15%从伊拉克回国的士兵受到精神疾病困扰。

去年自杀轻生的美国陆军士兵有128名,海军士兵有41人。这一自杀身亡人数创了1980年有记录以来的新高。今年2月公布这一数字时,还有15起士兵身亡死因正在调查。

去年的士兵自杀身亡率已确认是每10万人中有20.2人,这高于美国全国自杀死亡率每10万人中19.5人。2002年,士兵自杀身亡率只有每10万人中9.8人而已。继越南战争期间士兵自杀高峰后,士兵自杀率又一次超过了平民自杀率。
如果发动暴乱的一名军人有穆斯林背景这类报道被证明属实,那么昨天发生在胡德堡的命案也可能在美国军中产生其他影响。

同样引起震惊的是
该为昨天的凶杀负责的这位军人:利达尔•马里克•哈桑,他本人在军队里是一位精神健康专家,是一位曾经帮助他的战友们走出困境的人。
美联社的一篇报道认为利达尔本来在医护工作中的表现评价就不高。但是得克萨斯州参议员凯•贝利•哈钦森(Kay Bailey Hutchinson)向CNN透露,她得知这位精神病医生很快就要被派往伊拉克,对这项调任他本人还公开表示了不满。

7月,专业军士阿尔马诺•巴卡(Armano Baca)被指控杀害来自威斯康辛的战友瑞安•理查德•施拉克(Ryan Richard Schlack),凶案发生在两人从伊拉克执行任务回国后。施拉克在得克萨斯陆军中心军邮局被枪击,7月18日死于胡德堡基地医院。
三个月以前,专业军士贾里德•李•博托夫(Jared Lee Bottorff)因在陆军军邮局附近枪击被指控凶杀。
第54工程营的中士约翰•拉塞尔(John Russell)曾经在伊拉克执行三次维和任务。5月里他被指控在巴格达的诊所射杀五名战友。

拉塞尔来自得克萨斯州谢尔曼,他曾被送往自由营区内的战斗紧张症控制中心接受心理辅导,该自由营是靠近伊拉克首都郊外国际机场的一个美军基地。在射杀事件前一周,军方出于担心已经收回拉塞尔的武器。

9月底,因为受指控在巴格达南部杀害其所在分队的两名队员,来自明尼阿波利斯的39岁中士约瑟夫•博日科维奇(Joseph Bozicevich)被拘留。这起案件仍在调查中。

2008年,因2007年在伊拉克向其所在排的中士射击的过失杀人罪名成立,下士蒂姆•艾尔斯(Timothy Ayers)被判刑两年零四个月。

专业军士克里斯•罗兰,一位军队医护兵,在伊拉克因彻夜酗酒后杀害一名战友,于2007年被判入狱33年。

三年前在科威特时,因侵入伊拉克周边地区时以手榴弹杀害了同行的两名士兵,中士哈桑•阿克巴(Hasan Akbar)于2003年3月被军事陪审团全票通过判以死刑。

这起发生在科威特宾夕法尼亚营的手榴弹袭击还让其他14人受伤,该营的第一旅级战斗队、第101空降师当时正准备穿越伊拉克。

阿克巴在全旅士兵熟睡的时侯向三个帐篷投掷了手榴弹,接着向冲出
烟雾战友扫射。在审判庭上,他说觉得自己生活 “在危险中”,他有“其他方面问题”。
利达尔的父亲相信儿子在军营中受到了宗教和种族骚扰。然而公诉方坚称他是一个“充满仇恨的、受意识形态摆布的杀人犯”。

'One of our own' Nidal Malik Hasan creates carnage at Fort Hood

Killings at Texas army base happened as veterans in Washington warned of mental health fears

Ben Quinn and David Batty
Friday 6 November 2009

America's military was last night struggling to come to terms with how and why one of its own could wreak such carnage in the heart of the largest US military base in the world, Fort Hood in Texas.

It has long been the case that numerous killings and suicides at home by soldiers, many suffering from post-traumatic stress, have never received the sort of attention given to deaths by troops overseas.

However, an irony of yesterday's rampage, in which 12 people died and dozens were injured, was that it unfolded as officials from a veterans' group based in Austin were meeting in Washington with the staff of the Senate armed services committee to plead for more mental health counsellors for troops coming home from war.

Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, said that he and others had warned that an incident such as the one which unfolded yesterday had been on the cards for a long time.

"I'm very upset. I'm at the point of tears," he said. "We warned the military about this. We warned the military about the need to increase the number of mental health care providers," he added.

"We warned the military about lowering recruiting standards, about the medical exams for soldiers coming back from the war and needing mental health care and brain injury exams.

"We have been working tirelessly to try to prevent this from happening," he said. "This is so horrible. This is a tragedy."

The Washington meeting was not interrupted with the news from Fort Hood, according to Sullivan. Instead, he learned of the mass killings when he stepped into a corridor after the meeting and saw that there were 13 messages on his phone.

The meeting on Capitol Hill was told by the campaign group that the military suicide rate for 2009 as on track to set a record.

"This is going to be a major trauma for veterans, reminding them of the war," added Sullivan. "We encourage them, if they are experiencing difficulty, to seek care at the VA [veterans association]."

Currently, the US military is dealing with a rising number of stress-related homicides and suicides among soldiers either serving in Iraq and Afghanistan or who have returned from duty in those conflicts. Many troops are on their third or fourth tour of combat. Some studies suggest that about 15% of soldiers returning from Iraq suffer from emotional problems.

Last year there were 128 confirmed suicides by serving US army personnel, and 41 by serving marines – the highest number since records began in 1980. Another 15 army deaths were still under investigation when the figures were released in February.

The confirmed rate of army suicides was 20.2 per 100,000 last year– higher than the overall US suicide rate of 19.5 people per 100,000. In 2002, the army suicide rate was just 9.8 per 100,000. The last time it exceeded the civilian rate was at the height of the Vietnam war.

Yesterday's killings at Fort Hood are also likely to have other consequences for relations within the US army if reports that the rampage was carried out by a soldier from a Muslim background prove to be accurate.

There was also shock that the soldier believed to be responsible for yesterday's killings, Nidal Malik Hasan, was a mental health professional in the US army, a man used to helping his fellow soldiers through difficult times.

A report by the Associated Press suggested that he had received a poor performance evaluation for hospital work. However, a Texas senator, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, told CNN she had been told that the psychiatrist was soon to be sent to Iraq and had aired grievances about the planned deployment.

In July, Specialist Armano Baca was charged with murdering a fellow soldier, Ryan Richard Schlack from Wisconsin, after the two had returned from tours in Iraq. Schlack was shot during a party at the central Texas army post and died at a Fort Hood hospital on 18 July. Three months ago, Specialist Jared Lee Bottorff was charged with murder after a shooting at a party near the army post.

In May, Sergeant John Russell, from the 54th Engineer Battalion, who had done three tours of duty in Iraq, was charged with the fatal shooting of five colleagues at a clinic in Baghdad.

Russell, from Sherman, Texas, had been sent for counselling to the combat stress control centre at Camp Liberty, a US base near the international airport on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital. In a sign of the extent of the military's concern, he had had his weapon taken away a week earlier.

Last September, Sergeant Joseph Bozicevich, 39, of Minneapolis was detained after allegedly killing two members of his unit south of Baghdad. The case remains under investigation.

In 2008, Corporal Timothy Ayers was sentenced to two years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the fatal 2007 shooting of his platoon sergeant in Iraq.

Specialist Chris Rolan, an army medic, was sentenced to 33 years in prison in 2007 for killing a fellow soldier after a night of heavy drinking in Iraq.

Three years ago, Sergeant Hasan Akbar was sentenced to death by the unanimous vote of a military panel for a March 2003, grenade attack in Kuwait that killed two other soldiers as the invasion of Iraq neared.

The grenade attack, which also wounded 14 others, took place at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait, where the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, was preparing to cross into Iraq.

Akbar lobbed grenades into three tents while members of the brigade slept, and then fired shots at those who emerged from the smoky blasts. At his court martial, Akbar said he felt his life was "in jeopardy" and he had "other problems".

His father believes he had suffered religious and racial harassment in the military. However, the prosecution contended that he was a "hate-filled, ideologically driven murderer".

 

02 November

迟来的讣告

中央共牧,后何怒?--这种问题就好像问你爱因斯坦算不算刽子手一样恐怕没有绝对的正解。而在得知这一消息的当天我第一个想到的其实只有Oppenheim

就好像高明的投资者给我们的经验之谈竟然是buy-in要在passing negative period,是加州20年阳光好还是解放区的天是多明朗的天,其中细由不想追究。不是每个人在恶劣的环境下都可以做出一番事业的,buy-in是需要绝对胆识的。

再长的一生不过短短讣告数行,简单的一句里,你别看只比一般的scientist 多了串形容词,这一小串,足以迫到大多数他的同行、同辈人不得不仰视。 

又及:电讯的原文照例贴后面,中文部分错漏恐难免,我只表寸心了

讣告

钱学森:堪称中国航天之父的科学家

Kerry Brown

Sunday 1 November 2009 18.31 GMT

钱学森,终年98岁,当代中国最伟大的科学家之一,公认的中国导弹和航天技术之父。从清末到民国的19121949年,再到中华人民共和国成立第60个年头的今天,他的一生跨越近一个世纪。在此期间,两个他生命中最重要的国家:中国和美国纷争不断,这使他被迫最终要在其间做出选择。

钱学森籍贯杭州市,隶属沿海省份浙江,出身官宦家庭。他毕业于上海交通大学,并于1935年凭奖学金前往美国麻省理工学院(MIT)留学。一年后就读于加州理工学院,在那里他被授予博士学位,此后定居加州二十年。

在加州期间正逢第二次世界大战,钱学森当时的研究主攻喷气推进。为对抗德国V1V2火箭,他和其他地位重要的美国科学家一起研制了一系列高效导弹,在抗战的最后阶段它们起到了关键作用。钱学森还参与了曼哈顿计划,研发出第一枚原子弹。有鉴于此,他于1949年成为加州理工学院丹尼尔和佛罗伦斯·古根海姆喷气推进中心首位主任。

同年,中国共产党赢得最后胜利,成立了中华人民共和国,而美国曾鼎立支持的民族领袖蒋介石则流亡台湾岛。据称早在30年代末,钱学森的名字就出現在共产党文件中。消息一出,他很快被怀疑为同情共产主义分子,申请入美国籍的请求因此被拒绝,在提出离开美国的要求后又被扣留。当时一位美国官员称之为“这个国家做出的最愚蠢的事”。1955年,钱学森获准返回中国。

在国家发展的关键时期,美国的损失(钱学森30年代的一位同事曾说他是天才科学家)正是中国的收获。他很快得到允许在北京成立一家力学研究所,为国立的中国科学院工作。当时很多有天赋的科学家由于中国大陆发生了政治变革而拒绝回国,钱学森的技术学识在那个特殊时期无疑至关重要。作为尊重和信任的体现,1958年他被批准加入共产党,并着手后来命名为“东风”的导弹任务。

在钱学森的努力和苏联的支持下(尽管上世纪50年代末期中苏两国关系开始急剧恶化),中国得以在1963-64年间进行本国原子弹试验,在建国仅仅15年后就跻身核大国行列。这在中国发展史上举足轻重。

始于1966的文化大革命动乱中,钱学森似乎没有受到很大影响,很可能因为他的工作领域在国家战略中地位相当重要。当骚乱横扫中国时,军事和科研工作仍然未受干扰。

2009年,随着中国计划在海南岛兴建一个太空发射场,下一个十年的目标已经设为中国人登月。即便今时今日,钱学森对中国航天火箭事业的贡献仍然是不可低估的。从上世纪90年代开始,神州系列火箭的发射让中国人引以为傲。支持这些成就的许多技术都可以追溯到钱学森从事的研究,而那大多源于他在美国那20年的学习钻研。

1991年退休后,尽管众多荣誉傍身,钱学森仍然保持低调作风。他的遗孀蒋英是一位声誉很高的北京歌唱家。

钱学森,航天科学家,19111211日出生,20091031日逝世。

 

Qian Xuesen obituary

Scientist regarded as the father of China's space programme

Kerry Brown

Sunday 1 November 2009 18.31 GMT

Qian Xuesen, who has died aged 98, was one of the greatest Chinese scientists of the modern era, and a man widely regarded as the father of China's missile and space programme. His life spanned nearly a century, from the final few days of the Qing Dynasty, through the Republican period, from 1912 to 1949, and on to the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It also embodied the conflicts between the US and China, the two countries where he was to be based most of his life, and between which he was forced, finally, to choose.

Qian was the son of a government official, born in the city of Hangzhou in the coastal province of Zhejiang. He was educated at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and, in 1935, with the help of a scholarship, went first to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, and then, a year later, to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was to be awarded his doctorate, and be based for the next two decades.

It was while in California, during the second world war, that his research concentrated on jet propulsion. With a number of other key US scientists, responding to the German V1 and V2 rockets, he devised a range of highly effective missiles, which proved crucial in the final stages of the war effort. Qian also participated in the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb. As a result of this, he was made the first director of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Centre at Caltech in 1949.

In the same year, however, the communists won their final push to become rulers of the PRC, exiling the Nationalist leadership under Chiang Kai-shek, whom the US had largely supported, to the island of Taiwan. Qian was immediately suspected of being a communist sympathiser, with claims being made that his name had appeared on Communist party documents as early as the late 1930s. His application for US citizenship was subsequently denied, and he was detained after applying to leave America. One US official at the time called this the "stupidest thing this country ever did". In 1955, Qian was allowed to return to China.

The US's loss (one of Qian's colleagues in the 1930s had called Qian a scientist of genius) was China's gain, at a critical period in its development. Qian was immediately allowed to establish an Institute of Mechanics in Beijing, and to work within the state-established Chinese Academy of Science. His skills and knowledge were absolutely critical at a time when many of China's most talented scientists had refused to return home because of the political changes that had taken place there. A symbol of the respect and trust Qian enjoyed was his admission to the Communist party in 1958. He started work on what was to become the Dongfeng missile.

As a result both of his work, and of support from the Soviet Union (despite the fact that relations between these two countries had deteriorated badly in the late 1950s), China was able to test its own atomic bomb in 1963-64. A mere 15 years after its founding, it had joined the elite nuclear club. This was a seminal moment in the country's development.

Qian seems to have been largely unaffected by the tumult of the Cultural Revolution, from 1966, probably because he was working in such a key national strategic area. While chaos reigned in the rest of China, military and technical research continued unaffected.

In 2009, as China is preparing to build a space exploration launch pad on the island of Hainan, and has set itself the aim of getting a Chinese man on the moon in the next decade, Qian's contribution to China's space and missile programme cannot be underestimated. Much of the technology behind the Shenzhou rockets, launched into space from the 1990s onwards to much national fanfare, can be traced back to research that Qian undertook. And much of that was based on what he had studied in the US during his 20 years there.

After his retirement in 1991, he maintained a low profile, despite being garlanded with awards. He is survived by his wife, the highly acclaimed Beijing opera singer Jiang Ying.

• Qian Xuesen, rocket scientist, born 11 December 1911; died 31 October 2009

 

01 November

中西合璧的礼物--当Tennyson遇上浣溪沙

首先要致谢某位远方的朋友,如果不是您提到您喜欢的这首诗以及我们老祖宗传下来的浣溪沙调我是没这个胆量来凑这个礼物的,偷懒引用自己的原话:

The following Chinese version of The Eagle by Lord Tennyson is my coarse attempt in the form of 浣溪沙 whose level and oblique tone I managed to follow roughly.

 

The Eagle --Alfred Tennyson

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

浣溪沙·鹰

曲爪独高立仞重,

孤原伴日也从容。

茫洋四顾映青空。

 

浪涌涛生不妄动,

绝峰峭壁入眸中。

风雷电掣坠苍穹。

 

In the name of holiday, it is the only available ( quantity limited偶人懒每天只有限量发送…) present I’d like send you for this moment, for I could nearly reckon your time now. Hope the present of Halloween bring me a little sweet in time.

 

就如同Tennyson老先生的作品竟然也可以套到浣溪沙的老瓶子里去产生奇妙变化一样,人生中遇到怎样的人也会有不同的际遇吧。如果真要泛神论一回,请让awaking All  Saints尽管嗤笑我,然后treat me ,好不好?

30 October

倒就倒在赛场--借某足球新闻给某弟弟的话

凡伐国之道,攻心为上,务先服其心。

--首先把孙大师的兵法箴言供上。

历史又一次印证了他老人家的论断。让内忧外患的球队团结一致攻势如虹,克里斯·休顿这位临时教练让我们看到了绿茵场上的又一个奇迹。

原来人就是这样一种生物,不管自身力量多渺小,只要万众一心向一个方向努力,即使逼到绝境也能力挽狂澜。

 

不是英超粉,冒失把中文敲出来只为写给一个靠看韩剧打发时间的弟弟,男子汉就算无聊至极失望致死也要倒在赛场上、倒在呐喊声里,ok?

以下中文是本人版本,如有雷同(不会了,除非你们谁盗版侵权5555),E文附后供参考批斗,谢谢观看,殊不具表。

赢球又赢心――克里斯·休顿的魅力攻势

能把人心涣散的球员们团结在一起――克里斯•休顿在圣詹姆斯公园(纽卡斯尔主场)做上正式主教练,这点是关键。

只要在快开球的时侯经过纽卡斯尔队更衣室,就会听到“非法执事合唱团”的《尊严》。在克里斯•休顿默默的出色指挥下,这首作为球队整个夏天出赛曲的歌很快就成为本赛季纽卡斯尔的猛进凯歌。


本周二,休顿从代理教练转为正式主教练。他带领球队登上了英冠联赛榜首,让“出售俱乐部”的牌子在圣詹姆斯公园的主场就此倒下,如今终于得其所偿。这位前托特纳姆教练在快满51岁时坐上了主教练位子,第一次提到自己这次可能性很小的升任:“这是个让人非常骄傲的时刻。 这个任命给这家伟大的俱乐部带来稳定,正逢其时。”


有人怀疑休顿能否胜任主帅,却没有人能低估他担任代理教练的四个月以来取得的成绩。俱乐部老板迈克•阿什利表明阿兰•希勒不再是主教练人选,而俱乐部出售又希望渺茫,这些都让刚降级到英冠的纽卡斯尔陷入一片混乱。休顿此时可算得上临危授命。


前热刺队员和来自爱尔兰的后卫都常常被认为“不好打交道”。但即使是彼得•曼德尔森这样擅长协调沟通的政治家也会承认,休顿在管理一支挑剔刻薄又四分五裂的队伍上的表现精彩至极。


休顿认识到自己只是代理教练,没有足够权力决定球员去留,就和那些刺头球员处好关系,那些人里有少部分在先前离开托特纳姆(热刺)的时侯就已经被希勒看好。这位代理教练愉快地将权力分给由凯文•诺兰、阿兰•史密斯、斯蒂夫•哈珀和格雷米组成的“球员委员会”,突然之间自动激发了更衣室内的民主。这也让纽卡斯尔全队上下对休顿一直格外有好感。在希勒选了不受欢迎的伊恩•道伊做助理教练的时侯,还为挑中的是他们的前一线队教练而失望。


球员权力过大是危险的,但是休顿听从了他的队员们,放弃了希勒和道伊管理时坚持的每日队员强制冰浴。这个决定并没有破坏成绩。这位主帅说:“我们正着手建立和重建队内关系,大家变得更亲密无间。当然年长的队员很有大将风范,我们有些领军人物。”和队中许多年薪3百万英镑的队员相比,他的薪水据报道只有260,000英镑,未免相形见绌。


没有人对纽卡斯尔战绩位列榜首有异议,不过一些观察人士开始好奇会不会出現疯子占领精神病院这样与虎谋皮的危险。他们注意到,在纽卡斯尔晚报给诺兰最近在斯肯索普的表现评6分(10分满分)之后,球员委员会很快决定队员对这家媒体的集体封口。


休顿的前托特纳姆同事彼得•泰勒却仍然相信,他这位老朋友表现出很高的情商:“克里斯待人和气,为人坦诚。他没有不必要的场外话题纠缠,也不会大吹大擂、空谈吹嘘,纽卡斯尔正需要这样的人。”
“克里斯让他的老队员清清楚楚地承担责任,让他们全身心地尽职尽责,大家团结一心让纽卡斯尔成绩提高。这步棋很高明。克里斯很会交际。”


这种“会交际”的技巧让阿什利对休顿很放心。休顿可以充当“同伴”,在面对媒体时要么咄咄逼人要么转移话题,与他口径一致。
第一个为爱尔兰踢球的黑人(指以前在纽卡踢球的代尔)有时看起来缺乏激情和个性,让人奇怪。但是泰勒觉得他的老朋友只是“太精明”。这种魅力,或者说是休顿很强的适应能力,泰勒相信他已经把他用来确立帅位,那是希勒还想重新得到的位子。 “克里斯很有魅力,”泰勒说,“你不能低估这种魅力的力量。”

Chris Hughton's charm offensive helped get Newcastle players onside

The ability to unite a divided dressing room was critical in securing Chris Hughton the role of permanent manager at St James' Park


Louise Taylor
Thursday 29 October 2009 18.33 GMT

Chris Hughton, second left, has been rewarded with his first managerial role for uniting the Newcastle dressing room. Photograph: Ian Horrocks/Newcastle Utd via Getty Images

Anyone strolling past Newcastle United's dressing room when kick-off approaches can expect to be greeted by the strains of Deacon Blue's Dignity. Adopted as the team's pre-match anthem during the summer, it is fast becoming the soundtrack to a season progressing surprisingly well under Chris Hughton's quietly distinguished stewardship.

Late on Tuesday Hughton finally received his reward for leading Newcastle to the Championship summit when the "club for sale" signs were hauled down at St James' Park and he was converted from caretaker to long-term manager. Now he has spoken for the first time about his unlikely promotion. "It's a very, very proud moment," said the former Tottenham coach who, at almost 51, has landed his first managerial post. "And it gives this great club the stability it needs."

While there are legitimate doubts about Hughton's long-term ability to succeed, no one should underestimate his accomplishments since becoming caretaker four months ago. Newly relegated, Newcastle were a mess when the club's owner, Mike Ashley, made it clear Alan Shearer was no longer wanted as manager and Hughton would have to hold the fort while he tried, forlornly, to sell the club.
The one-time Spurs and Ireland full-back is frequently described as "not a political animal" but even Peter Mandelson might acknowledge that Hughton has played a blinder in winning over a cynical and divided dressing room.

Recognising that, as caretaker, he lacked the clout to tell players to get lost, he forged bonds with some tricky individuals, a few of whom Shearer had earmarked for early exits from Tyneside. Suddenly locker-room democracy was actively encouraged, with the caretaker happy to devolve part of his power to a "players' committee" comprising Kevin Nolan, Alan Smith, Steve Harper and Geremi. It helped that Newcastle's squad had always rather liked Hughton and were disappointed to see their erstwhile first-team coach sidelined when Shearer opted to bring the far less popular Iain Dowie in as his assistant.

Excessive player power can be dangerous but Hughton's decision to listen to his squad and abandon the mandatory daily ice baths insisted upon by Shearer and Dowie does not appear to have damaged results. "We set about building and rebuilding relationships and got tight and close," explained Newcastle's manager, whose reported £260,000 salary is dwarfed by the £3m per annum remuneration commanded by several in his squad. "Certainly the senior players are very much to the fore. We've got a few leaders."

No one can quibble while Newcastle top the table but when the players' committee briefly decided to bar squad members from speaking to the Newcastle Evening Chronicle after its reporter merely awarded Nolan six out of 10 for his recent performance at Scunthorpe, some observers wondered if there seemed a danger of the lunatics taking charge of the asylum.

Not so, maintains Hughton's former Tottenham team-mate Peter Taylor, who believes his old friend has demonstrated considerable emotional intelligence. "Chrissy is cool, very calm and very honest. There are no unnecessary dramas with him, he's not a ranter or a raver and that is what Newcastle needs," he explained.

"Chrissy's clearly given his senior men responsibility, got them fully onside and everyone is working together to get Newcastle promoted. It's been a clever move. Chrissy's very diplomatic."

Such "diplomatic" skills have seen Hughton reassure Ashley by serving as a "company man" complete with uniformly straight-batting, controversy-dodging, media appearances.

At times the first black man to play for Ireland appears strangely devoid of passion and personality but Taylor feels his old friend is merely being "very shrewd." Charm is, however, Hughton's strong suit and Taylor believes he has used it to secure the job Shearer still covets. "Chrissy's very charming," he said. "You shouldn't underestimate the power of that charm."

 


 

26 October

只得一朵扶桑花

给某朋友提醒:心情不好,写什么都不指望你能一口气读顺溜,不是要显摆我肺活量,据数据显示女士的平均语速本来就快过男士,先天你就吃亏,何况很多地方我尽量隐讳艰涩不往明处说。关心真的心领这厢有礼了。标题说“花”,这花的图等拍了满意的片来再补吧。

 

别因为今天是节日就要我登高北望敬长江于千里外怀荆楚于不言中揩袖涕零,一早把签名撂上来挡箭了:一不偷菜二不过节,这年头more mundane, more moron,低俗和低能几乎要呼之欲出地成正比,也难怪,有芙蓉姐姐珠玉在前又有某天王扭捏躲婚在后还有谁不相信昨天还斜睨的今天就会注目明天更要追捧?别的不说,忽如一夜偷风来,如今盛行网路的偷菜游戏就是继麻将之后又一个体现国民性的touchstone(上纲上线地cynicism发作),自己耕耘不足矣,去别人田里动手脚才是王道,这与麻将中看着上家防着下家盯着对家不择手段只为自己和牌有什么两样呢?

 

送走寒露霜降,南国的天气忽而阴雨忽而放晴让人不得要领,没痊愈也不好放肆出街暴走,前段听Echo说起京城8级大风快把她吹走,略有夸大却让人不由担心她工作是不是又加重吃紧憔悴愈深了,这季节除了红叶,北方还有没有绮丽盛放的花朵呢?我不知道。我只知道老杜先生愁肠百转梗在喉头要问的“凉风起天末”的那个君子、辛先生笔下“休说鲈鱼堪脍,尽西风记取的归未的某人、易安先生“帘卷西风”让她瘦比黄花的人都已几近绝迹了,却还想对某些人说:

 

不管一路走来多隐忍多疲惫多春风得意多左右逢源,对你的牵挂祝福不会因时因地而变,好比我还是会跟你吹故国的桑是陌上桑、茶是禅意深、水是眼波横、酒是杜康醇。而花呢,这个季节里我不知你那里是满目衰草还是落叶遍地,而我这里的花,为着联盟国家计议短长供奉出来的团团簇簇无需细表,最让我蓦然惊觉渺小讷言的、最让我想回到小时候大刺刺拽着你的衣角央你哄你跟你斗气不睬你只为想你亲眼见到的那朵花,到头来我能给你看的只这一朵扶桑。

 

背景里这首歌有歌词片段如下:

世间什么爱叫纯洁

你甘愿化振翅红蝴蝶

饱经挫折 伤口淌血都不至会磨灭

世间什么爱叫纯洁

处在绝望仍力竭

留守最尾一起哪怕历劫

 

没歌艺没口碑的男声唱来全不计较,是枭雄是狗熊胜负未决。不想你知道我过不过节,不要你感染颓唐忧郁灰心肠断。沈先生说“也许明天就回来”, 其实谁能预料有没有这个“明天”,我只在挂着节日虚名的深夜轻轻说给一些人:

既然落到尘世里,总要拼命活下去,孤单的时侯别怕,哪怕只得这一朵扶桑花。

20 October

再回首依稀秋意生――二回过穗杂记之二

先还是说抱歉吧,拖了这么久国庆前的东东才补上,因为身体状况因为心里状况一直不能从容更新。人最要过的,是自己这关,不是么

 

过穗时起初还旭日当空挥汗如雨不想肆虐宝岛的凯萨娜也大驾光临,转眼间晴转多云多云转大风大风夹带阴雨劈头就来,猝不及防随身带的还是把阳伞,不忍心牵连它一起在凄凄风雨中抖抖悚悚索性就雨中行吧,你本不该这样的命运何必跟我受苦,又不是领导人巡游还要封街戒严鸟雀都不敢噤声开鸣,偏偏你又落在现代中国,如今此地非但没有断桥雨中的白娘子苦心孤诣设计与许仙相会更不会有Singing in the Rain里翩翩起舞的洒脱自如。

我不同情你不怜惜你谁来呢?来自B612小行星的小王子都知道one loves sunset, when one is sad,看到这里时当时竟然有点曹老先生笔下的小宝同学的分身感觉(这穿越的还不是一般二般

玫瑰花对小王子说Don’t linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go! 这样赶他走其实不过不想让他见到自己哭,这种骄傲真是公主的专属。like father, like son听过吧,姑且这么套下, like owner, like belonging,虽然我的小伞还没有那样的修为,但仍然固执地被我折叠着躺在手提袋里“养腰子”(这话本来是从前老妈训斥寒假回家睡懒觉的偶的,翻出来可不是想算旧账的说)当我为你日后的小王子激发你公主的潜质好么?

 

临近中秋,手机里开始累积朋友们的祝福短信,一个个号码背后那些曾经在面前的面孔或者从未蒙面的声音,不管是短短几个字的还是转发那些口气郑重的、诙谐的,每一条收到都会响起设置好的铃声,不管万里风雨阴霾不管千里冰霜肃杀不问有没有还蓄着一头长发不问嗔骄的声音有没有嘶哑,一遍遍提醒我又一个给家人报平安给朋友送祝福的日子的临近。人说四季都是夏,一雨便成秋,料不到今年佳节到来前给我温暖不失约的南国却变调以瑟瑟风凄凄雨施以脸色。

 

抬头想望望穗城的天空有没有将满的月亮,还是迎上了扑面而来随风乱飘的雨滴,这样的夜,即使深了也不会迷乱很多都市人风风火火的脚步,从珠江边一路望过去路灯看不到尽头,就像很多的你根本无暇去体察我是不是在节日到来的时侯和周围一样开心得忘乎所以或者连孤寂带来的失落都已经无法打压。

不妨事,我不介意再扮一次准时送祝愿的圣诞老人,虽然也有P姐姐那样“夜里雨中行很浪漫”的洒盐说法(哪敢让你知道被这话击中我倒下去不知何时爬得起来),不过我知道做得到“你爱的人不在身边,爱你身边的人”这样潇洒无心肝活法的多是男士(别瞪眼,某人,觉得我捏造事实出言不逊的尽管可以揪我辫子,只是,还回得来揪得到么……),山长水远再怎样艰难我都希望每个你都过得好,尽管有时都不得不强颜欢笑独自承受。

凭什么,在我的天地乱石崩云山崩地裂,还希翼你可以面不改色平心静气笑对世界,去尽意挥霍我好容易拼凑起来的堂皇祝福?

In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;

莎老真吊诡,总写这样的句子让我逼视内心的矛盾无助进而绝望于无可救药的深渊。

如果当真觉来知是梦,我情愿还是如当日编的短信那样问候所有朋友,毕竟那是我挣扎在阴沉心境中对你能做的最后一份祝福,它苍白却还未失去真挚。

菊花台,夜光杯,羁旅马上催;

芋艿粉,桂子香,拜月分饼尝;

灞桥柳,阳关酒,盈缺谁解愁;

借你手,抚你额,倾心自郑重

 

如同吃西瓜洒盐反而更能吊出甜味来,体味秋意不在北方寻雁阵看红叶反而更有冲击,大意之下我这次也真的失陷了。当世界不成其为世界,罗马不成其为罗马的时侯,珠江,你这滚滚东去铁石心肠的,就能赐我以半分眷恋么?

 

绰绰灯影路.JPG 绰绰影映灯.JPG 那江是短的,那路是长的.JPG

 

13 October

再回首何处不情色――二回过穗杂记之一

有言在先:观看了盛世庆典后还沉浸在国运昌隆日出东方唯我不败的美好illusion中的您可要稍安勿躁了,今次某些地方会丢开淑女恭谦讲点损讽白话的,要上纲上线到是非观世界观的还请免开尊口。从来良药皆苦口,可惜我未修医学开不出好方子,连中性调和的甘草这次也不想加。
 

二度返粤时已入秋,秋分倏忽过,日夜角力中夜渐占上风,对夜生活丰富的珠三角人士们来说只当塞翁失马可喜可贺,去他的“一日之计在于晨”,农耕社会遗风淡薄得比这里空气中的负离子数更甚。君不见六十国诞将至,八天黄金周掘金前最后的表面工夫报章电波里都隐隐着一腔抑制不住的冲动,恶俗地用下修辞手法:老年斑满手的唐明皇极目远望终于看见华清池中人影憧憧贵妃已然出浴,哇噻,什么公公儿媳礼义廉耻,估计也就这百爪挠心可比了。

 

很好笑每次过穗都会自然地在跟朋友们提及时用“回”这个动词,这要搁在某些喜欢抬杠的家伙嘴里,一定落了口实:是回娘家的“回”,不是来去自如的“去”呢~呵,在人看是红杏枝头春意闹,在你看是良辰美景奈何天,在人看是一蓑烟雨任平生,在你看是山雨欲来风满楼,中国话当然也有暧昧的YY在,只看你挖掘与否,何况抬杠这样轻车熟路的本就是女士专利,如果有心抬,你们能轻易抬过本姑娘?可是,你知不知道,哪怕是诡辩哪怕是强词夺理,能有个人可以无所顾忌全无礼节地debate,而不用自编自导自说自话,那未尝不是种久违的幸福啊。

 

夜宿窝点有心插柳订在珠江边,与码头和酒吧为邻。是谁说,感受一个城市一定要看它的夜晚(对手指,呃,可不可以算某离说的),好似《绿茶》里的女博士,白天素面朝天潜心做居里夫人,晚上出入酒吧风情万种。其实男士们都不必乍舌,记得碧螺春那“吓煞人香”的诨名么,你一定要相信再躬身卑屈的形象一旦投入适宜的环境中都可以释放出蕴藏已久的足以吓倒熏倒人的奇异芬芳,何况是这条包容汇集三面支流哺育两岸沿江两广百姓的江(多么冠冕堂皇的帽子啊,这么大只的apple怎能不重重polish下呢)?又其实,哪怕是佳人出场,也要临水照花秀一下唇色是否樱红、腰身是否扶柳、是否臻首一点皓腕轻扬便可以眉目传情颠倒众生吧?所以又所以,下面发来的图片就当美女三顾,顾盼时观众们可要小心魂飞当场的说(吹得这么牛偷懒打字是真)…..

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夜幕下,沿江一边是夜游轮渡、喧闹酒吧,转进小街就满是烧烤大排档、煲仔饭、砂锅粥,不需要踩着几寸高跟鞋拎着裙角扮文明淑女恃宠而骄,只管趿着人字拖热裤大方进出小店为块把零钱讨价还价。和自来熟的阿May一起发现新大陆一样在住地附近压马路,深夜钻到街上甜品店,占他家店面外的露天位子坐下,却一种相思,两处表白:她从一而终每次例牌点原味双皮奶,我却是上次姜撞奶、这次牛奶杏仁汤丸、下次凤凰奶糊,把餐牌上那些名字和联想到的画面不变成实物不罢休。烈日烘烤过的座椅上偏不恋冰砂冻饮,要么一勺一勺抿化水牛奶和姜汁电光火石邂逅而诞生的那个滑嫩的结晶,微微辛辣在层层爽滑中沦陷投诚,从舌尖到喉底都熨贴服气,真庆幸自己还没有忘记“冬吃萝卜夏吃姜”的老话也就没有错过这样的美味;要么皱眉糖分太多插足夺了杏仁的苦,好像青春逼人的少女用了Chanel No.5扮熟女、登上城楼观礼的领导人青丝如墨印堂油光可鉴;要么撇开勺学老北京喝豆汁顺碗沿吸溜的喝法来轻薄热喷喷的奶糊,连其中窝藏的溏心荷包蛋都看成惊喜:原来这就是凤凰奶糊啊(汗,无知小白才晓得呢)~

甜品虽然收买了口没有驱动了懒人的手,以上提及东东真图均欠奉,呃,私以为吃老广的糖水店一定要市井气不必像进星巴克(为省事后文均简称SB,鄙视我吧)点杯Latte要在奶泡上挤出几朵花来勾得伪小资PS个黄色滤镜效果玩格调,当然人家SB的店开到故宫也不是人家的错,在长城都可以走秀为咩喝个苦水在故宫就心痛起我们的民族产业自有品牌没出息了呢?

 

还以老旧的美人比喻来说,灯火阑珊时分就比作徐妃的半面妆吧,经济学有lipstick effect一说,可见即便仍然笼罩在经济危机阴影下,大多数人还是不会做清教徒的。这一点在自告奋勇给阿May导游叹茶时充分体现。轻车熟路带她径直奔老城那个老字号去,虽然非节日非周末,还是不出所料要拼桌。可惜拼到一起的没有公公婆婆,不然就不用我来跟她解说为何叫“一盅两件”咯,考虑到俩人份量和北方人的口味,拉肠、蛋挞、粉果、马蹄糕、萝卜糕、奶黄包、叉烧包、糯米鸡、云吞面统统枪毙,只点了传统的那几样入门,榴莲酥这等尤物就留下次染指吧(晕啊,给阿May也太留一手了,随便一列都是当天没上桌的)。

咽口水的筒子们尽可以相信Emily小姐在她那篇很哥特风的小说里挑明的真理:the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering,好歹偶这个mild and generous人类还是会以早茶片片来显示justly selfish的。不过为省事起见已经把名字起好了,恕不具表:

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03 October

寄语名月托鹧鸪

下面这个系列的东东是写给千百年来众口一词追捧的它,每一句都可以让你联想到它,每一位先生都字字吟来皆催泪的故事,晏叔原、朱淑真、姜白石本是痴情种子,苏二先生、太白仙人、老杜先生也来插一杠子小露峥嵘,又有小杜先生、乐天先生欲拒还迎,柳三变的风月逍遥、辛大先生的别恨离愁是拿手好戏~


不着一字仍然你可以读到它,它在当年每个让先生们沉醉慨叹的夜晚煽起怎样的悱恻怅惘,卷起怎样的悸动痛楚,不能自已却又让它沉入心底年年打捞出来晒个把次让我们传染上这样的情绪感染上这样的唏嘘,其心不纯也多~


那些我无从告慰总在心里留位子的你啊,我只想在这提与不提它之间,你也如流离南国的我一样,一步步走进了朦胧的它,又暧昧地作别它。这次,很少用感叹号的我,曾经放言“从此无心看明月”的我,就贴面故去先生们曾经的眷眷深情深深感叹三次,不算食言吧,你看,我再懒、再累、再多的话说不出口也凑了句子来唤醒也许不知、不管、不顾节日的你呢~

 

鹧鸪天·寄语名月

之一

平湖秋色彩云追,杨柳楼心舞是谁?曾共谪仙花间醉,也为良人梢头窥。

未盈满,磨愈缺,竞称知己短岗松。二十四桥玉箫弄,只恐相逢在梦中!


之二

关山云海戍客望,白露秋雁胞亲伤。问天斯人酌天上,折桂才子寻桂香。

立桥头,风盈袖,问情幽幽柳堤岸。当时淮南冷千仞,归去冥冥忍不管!


之三

晓风残影转玉轮,今宵酒醒犹举樽。啼鸟不啼泪如血,醉客未醉别恨深。

海上生,天涯共,相思何人怨何人。若比佳期长向望,盈缺末计卿来早!

 


后记:

睡不着了索性爬起来敲字,这次一趟辗转身心俱疲,赶着回来难道真的只为它么?又不是once in a blue moon……是以如有类似以上之一并非巧合......

In the autumn,

Whom the colorful cloud chases after on the calm lake?

In the center of tower,

Who accompanied with the dancer willows around?

With whom our fairy poet once got drunk amid the flowers

and who peeked at the lover fairly well atop the tree?

Wane to wax

Chop to chips

Witnessed by pines on the tombs,

Who is the real soul mate of our widowed poet?

On playing the flute on the bridge of the south,

Whom you are afraid to meet only in dream?



10 September

谁说只有这样的日子才会想起你

偷懒照例只立存短信为凭:
 
虽然语文老师没让我成为李清照,物理老师没让我成为居里夫人,体育老师没让我成为郭晶晶,政治老师没让我成为希拉里克林顿,但是同样祝福老师们身体健康幸福美满,你们当然有不成器的学生,但没有你们就没有我这样被铺天盖地祝福中最不成器的祝福
 
 
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