Avenomics
"It's unfortunate that there are people who tout the mostly
unfounded fears of hyperination."
–
Shinzo Abe
"Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a
live volcano."
–
Kentetsu Takamori, Unlocking Tannisho: Shinran's Words on the Pure Land Path
"Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from
that prevalent in the United States.... Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers
repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was a
pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit."
–
Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Paerns of Japanese Culture
"There are no bad ideas, Lemon, only great ideas that go horribly wrong."
–
Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
"The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope."
–
William Shakespeare, Measure For Measure
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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO
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A walk around the fringes of nance
By Grant Williams
25 November 2013
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Contents
Historic Defeat for EU As Ukraine Returns to Kremlin Control .................................21Warned on Budget, Italy Is Given Leeway by EU .................................................22Chinese Gold Demand and the World Gold Council's Estimates ................................23"Fat Cat" Backlash: Swiss Executive Pay Debate Gets Ugly .....................................25£1,430,000,000,000 (That's £1.43 Trillion): Britain's Personal Debt Timebomb ..............26The Solution That Cannot Be Named ...............................................................27
Measures ................................................................................................29No Sugarcoating It: A Hard Landing Is Likely ......................................................30Bitcoin Gaining Validity Fuels Rally in Virtual Currency .........................................32The Euro Debate Greece Is Not Having ............................................................33
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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO
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Things That Make You Go
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In 1853 the French romantic composer Charles Gounod wrote a melody that was especially designed to sit over the Prelude No. 1 in C Major written by Johann Sebastian Bach over a century earlier. He titled it (somewhat unimaginatively, perhaps) "Meditation sur le Premier Prelude de Piano de S. Bach."
Interestingly enough, Gounod's father-in-law, the magnicently named Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume
Zimmerman, transcribed the improvised melody and
arranged it for violin, piano, and harmonium; and
thus a piece that Gonoud himself never actually wrote
down went on to become one of the most-recorded and most-played pieces of music in the history of
mankind.It was the addition by Jacques Leopold Heugel in 1859 of the words from the Latin text of the prayer Ave Maria that put Gonoud's noodlings on the road to ubiquity at church ceremonies throughout the Christian world.Ave Maria is of course a traditional Christian prayer that asks for the intercession of the Virgin Mary in one's life, to deal with any number of tricky situations that may arise and leave the supplicant feeling as though divine intervention is the only solution.The Ave Maria is more commonly known to most people by its English translation: Hail Mary.As the last refuge of the hopeless, the Hail Mary has also taken its place in the sporting lexicon over the years, particularly in American football, where it was popularized through the play of
two members of the fabled Four Horsemen (Notre Dame's legendary 1924 backeld, consisting
of Don Miller, Harry Stuhldreher, Elmer Layden, and Jim Crowley) in an era when sports reporters such as Grantland Rice (who brought the Hail Mary to the gridiron) were capable of prose seldom seen on the sports pages today.Exhibit A is the lead for the piece in which Rice introduced the Hail Mary in October 1924, after Notre Dame upset a heavily favoured Army team:
Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden.
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