Rhythm Of The Rain - THE CASCADES - With lyrics
https://youtu.be/pt57gA1_W7c
Oh!
Carol ( 1959 ) - NEIL SEDAKA - Lyrics
Diana
( 1957 ) - PAUL ANKA - Lyrics
This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Amaradeva singing ‘ Paalu Anduru nil ahasa mamai’
Above
is the link to Amaradeva singing ‘
Paalu Anduru nil ahasa mamai’
Lyrics
by the famous Mahagama sekera, words as clear as could be only by Amaradeva.
His voice has adapted over the years to the latest media.
Village
drum beats( raban?), flute and sittar; minimum of instruments. Even the silence
can be heard.
An
original. Enjoy.
It
is a moot point who made whom famous; Did Sekera make Amaradeva famous or vice
versa.
As
for me if not for Amaradeva, Sekera would be unknown today except to the few.
Amare
began recording when 19 years old- Asoka Maala about 1946.
Singer
of light or classical music, and music composer par excellence, violinist,
tablaist, adept with whatever is at hand, with a huge library of his
works on record, he accepts any music, western or eastern.
No parallel. Not even prodigy A R Rahman of India.
Now
88 years old, he can yet sing well, like India’s Manjreshkar sisters who are a
couple of years younger.
Jksw
8 things you (probably) didn’t know about King Arthur
1)
The once and future king Arthur, sometimes known as ‘the king that was and the
king that shall be’, is recognised all over the world as one of the most famous
characters of myth and legend. Yet, if …
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British music of the 1940s.
Some
popular songs from the good old days - Sing along.wmv
A
Popular British Community Singalong 40 Songs With Lyrics And Printable Song
Sheet
Turmeric And Honey
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Divorce and Indian law.
Man cannot divorce wife under Hindu
law if she is terminally ill, rules Indian court
India's
top court makes landmark ruling amid fears husband pressuring wife who has
breast cancer to accept settlement to pay for medical treatment Never has the
marriage vow “in sickness and in health” been applied so literally. India's
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Getting Serious About Climate Change
:
Top 5 Ways to Reduce your Carbon Footprint
In
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governments will finally get serious about cutting global carbon emissions. If
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Spiritualism Transcends All Religious Rituals
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Thursday, December 3, 2015
Greensleeves
Greensleeves
(What Child Is This) - Official Christmas Music Video - The Gothard Sisters
Greensleeves
- Celtic Ladies – With Lyrics
Three Dead Bodies
Email from JKS Weerasekera
Good old Padd
Definitely non-PC
Definitely non-PC
Three dead bodies turn up at the mortuary, all with very big smiles on their
faces.
The coroner calls the police to tell them what has happened.
First body: Pierre Dubois, Frenchman, 60, died of heart failure while making
love
to his 20-year old mistress.
Hence the enormous smile, Inspector', says the Coroner.
'Second body: Hamish Campbell, Scotsman, 25, won £50,000 on the lottery,
spent it all on whisky... Died of alcohol poisoning, hence the smile.'
The Inspector asked, 'What about the third body?'
'Ah,' says the coroner, 'this is the most unusual one. Paddy Murphy, Irish,
30, struck by lightning.'
'Why is he smiling then?' inquires the Inspector
'Thought he was having his picture taken.'
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
I'd Like to Teach The World to Sing
I'd
Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)
"I'd
Like To Teach the World To Sing/Tomorrow" by Lea Salonga & Nichole
Chien (Season 2)
Coca-Cola,
1971 - 'Hilltop' | "I'd like to buy the world a Coke"
I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" redirects here. For the Lea Salonga album, see I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (album).
| "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" | |
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| Single by The Hillside Singers | |
| from the album I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing | |
| Released | 1971 |
| Label | Metromedia |
| Writer(s) |
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| Producer(s) | Al Ham |
| "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" | ||||
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| Single by The New Seekers | ||||
| from the album We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing | ||||
| B-side | "Boom Town" | |||
| Released | 1971 | |||
| Length | 2:20 | |||
| Label | Philips | |||
| Writer(s) | Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway, Bill Backer and Billy Davis | |||
| Producer(s) | David Mackay | |||
| The New Seekers singles chronology | ||||
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"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" is a popular song that originated as the jingle "Buy the World a Coke"[1] in the groundbreaking 1971 "Hilltop" television commercial for Coca-Cola. "Buy the World a Coke" was produced by Billy Davis and portrayed a positive message of hope and love, sung by a multicultural collection of teenagers on the top of a hill. "Buy the World a Coke" repeated "It's the real thing" as Coca-Cola's marketing theme at the time.
The popularity of the jingle led to it being re-recorded by The New Seekers and by The Hillside Singers as a full-length song, dropping references to Coca-Cola. The song became a hit record in the US and the UK.
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[hide]Time to ponder
email sent by Lakshman Karalliedde· By David Robson
2 December 2015
Human
life is so precious, it seems crass to put a price on it. How can a pile of
coins, paper or gold bars match a year on Earth? Life should be, quite literally,
invaluable.Yet that is the morbid question that health services, everywhere, inevitably have to ask. They have limited money to spend on sick and dying people, and whenever a new drug becomes available, they have to make a choice: will the few stolen months, or years, be worth the money it costs?
Our gut instincts may seem obvious: we should do all that we can to buy more time for the people we love. Yet Dominic Wilkinson, an intensive care doctor and ethicist at the University of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics recently wrote athought-provoking article questioning these assumptions and asks us all to consider just how much we should be willing to pay for a longer life.
Intrigued, BBC Future phoned him to explore his argument, and to better understand the ways we currently calculate the price of life.
At the moment, drugs for terminal illnesses tend to be judged on two things – by how much they extend the lifespan, and the quality of life of the patient, using a scale known as the Quality Adjusted Life Year-saved (QALY). A drug that helps you live for an extra year, at half your general quality of life, would score about 0.5 years on this scale, for instance. “Alternatively, a drug that improved your quality of life for a year from a level of half normal, to full health would also score 0.5,” explains Wilkinson.
The UK recommends paying about £20,000 to £30,000 for each additional year of good health
From these calculations, a health service can then start to set a price on whether a drug is worth the cost. The UK’s recommendations, for example, are about £20,000 to £30,000 ($30,000 to $45,000) for each additional year of good health, once it has been adjusted to take into account the quality of life. So a drug that achieved 0.5 on the QALY measure would only merit £10,000-15,000 ($15,000 to $22,500).
This inevitably means that some drugs have been rejected by the National Health Service (NHS), because they are simply too expensive: the breast cancer drug Kadycla, for instance, only extends the lifespan by about six months for a cost of £95,000. Even if the quality of life during those few months is equal to that of a healthy person, it still hugely overstretches the limit. (Other healthcare providers may have different criteria, of course – but they all have to weigh up the costs and benefits in some way, before offering to fund a treatment.)
Campaigners argue that the pharmaceutical companies should lower the costs of such treatments, and that health services should also invest more and more money in drugs that will buy terminally ill patients some more precious time. Given these strong and emotive arguments, the UK recently considered increasing the threshold for terminal illnesses – to as much as £80,000 ($120,000) for each “quality-adjusted year saved”.
As doctors looking after patients, we are ethically driven to say that ‘I know it is expensive but my first duty is to help my patient – Dominic Wilksinon
Wilkinson says this attitude is completely understandable – and it’s often the doctors, as well as the patients themselves, who argue the case. “As doctors looking after patients, we are ethically driven to advocate for patients, to say that ‘I know it is expensive but my first duty is to help my patient,’” he says.
But the inevitable sacrifice is that this money will be taken away from other areas of care, such as mental health services or help for people with disabilities – measures that may be crucial for improving the quality of life for people at the start or middle of their lives.
Is it worth forfeiting one person’s comfort to buy another a few more months at the end of their life? When making these decisions, it’s important to gauge public opinion. And although you might assume that most people would pay infinite sums to buy a few extra years, recent research suggests we do not all place such a high value on the sheer length of the lifespan.
Wilkinson points to a detailed UK study of 4,000 people that clearly explained the different ways the health service’s limited resources could be spent, and asked the participants for their preferences. “They clearly indicated that they weren’t comfortable with giving more money to people who were terminally ill, compared with people who might benefit at other stages of their lives.”
Perhaps most surprising were the results from a study in Singapore, which questioned elderly, but otherwise healthy, citizens as well as those suffering from terminal cancer. “The striking thing from that is that they were prepared to pay an awful lot more money for palliative care so they could be treated in their own home, than drugs that would extend life,” says Wilkinson.
Many participants would pay just £5,000 to extend life by a year
On average, the participants would pay £5,000 ($7,500) for a treatment to extend life by a year. But they were willing to pay about twice that amount – £10,000 ($15,000) – on better palliative care, such as better nursing that would allow them to die in the relative comfort of their homes, rather than a hospital. “It seemed to provide a fresh way of thinking about difficult decisions.”
Clearly, these studies are not the final answer; it is hard to know if these opinions are shared among different people in different cultures and facing different illnesses; there are also questions about just how effectively a calculation like the QALY scale can really, objectively assess a treatment’s potential. But Wilkinson thinks that we should at least consider these different opinions before devoting more and more money to extending lifespans.
“Although it’s very understandable to want to buy more expensive drugs for the terminally ill, I don’t think it reflects the view of the general public or those of the patients,” he says. “Nor is it clearly the right ethical approach.”
As the population ages, and healthcare grows ever more advanced, and expensive, these issues will only become more pressing. The eminent American surgeon Atul Guwande has long questioned whether it is better to stretch out the lifespan, instead of increasing the comfort of our available years. Ezekiel Emanuel, the former director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the US National Institutes of Health, has even claimed that he would refuse all life-extending healthcare at the age of 75, rather than entering a cycle of ever more intense treatments to draw out his last few years.
Few of us may decide to take such a drastic decision, but anyone, at any age, may do well to consider the value of their time on Earth and what we are doing to make the most of it.
ISIS, Turkey and oil trade.
Russia says it has proof Turkey involved in Islamic State oil trade
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The richest 10% of people generate half the world’s carbon emissions.
Central
to the global climate talks currently underway in Paris is the concept of
fairness. Most world leaders agree on the goal to limit future global warming
to below 2ºC, but there are serious disagreements about who should bear the
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
The Holy City
Charlotte
Church - Jerusalem (Live)
The
Holy City Charlotte Church
https://youtu.be/R5WckLOb3BA
The
Holy City - Piano and Voice
Holy
City, Jerusalem sung by Ben & Vera Karlsson (with lyrics)
CHARLOTTE
CHURCH LYRICS
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"The Holy City"
Last night I lay asleeping
There came a dream so fair,
I stood in old Jerusalem
Beside the temple there
I heard the children singing
And ever as they sang,
Methought the voice of Angels
From Heaven in answer rang
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
Lift up you gates and sing,
Hosanna in the highest.
Hosanna to your King!"
And then methought my dream was chang'd
The streets no longer rang
Hush'd were the glad Hosannas
The little children sang
The sun grew dark with mystery,
The morn was cold and chill
As the shadow of a cross arose
Upon a lonely hill
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
Hark! How the Angels sing,
Hosanna in the highest,
Hosanna to your King!"
And once again the scene was chang'd
New earth there seem'd to be,
I saw the Holy City
Beside the tideless sea
The light of god was on its streets
The gates were open wide,
And all who would might enter
And no one was denied.
No need of moon or stars by night,
Or sun to shine by day,
It was the new Jerusalem
That would not pass away
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem
Sing for the night is o'er
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna for evermore!"
There came a dream so fair,
I stood in old Jerusalem
Beside the temple there
I heard the children singing
And ever as they sang,
Methought the voice of Angels
From Heaven in answer rang
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
Lift up you gates and sing,
Hosanna in the highest.
Hosanna to your King!"
And then methought my dream was chang'd
The streets no longer rang
Hush'd were the glad Hosannas
The little children sang
The sun grew dark with mystery,
The morn was cold and chill
As the shadow of a cross arose
Upon a lonely hill
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
Hark! How the Angels sing,
Hosanna in the highest,
Hosanna to your King!"
And once again the scene was chang'd
New earth there seem'd to be,
I saw the Holy City
Beside the tideless sea
The light of god was on its streets
The gates were open wide,
And all who would might enter
And no one was denied.
No need of moon or stars by night,
Or sun to shine by day,
It was the new Jerusalem
That would not pass away
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem
Sing for the night is o'er
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna for evermore!"
The Holy City (song)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Holy City is a religious Victorian ballad dating
from 1892, with music by Michael Maybrick writing
under the alias Stephen Adams, with lyrics by Frederic Weatherly.
The song is recorded
in the African
Methodist Episcopal Church Review in 1911 as having been sung by an
opera singer awaiting trial for fraud in his cell while a group of men arrested
for drunk and disorderly conduct were before the judge. The men
were said to have dropped to the knees as the song began 'Last night I lay
a-sleeping, There came a dream so fair.', the lyrics contrasting with their
previous night's drunkenness. The song's conclusion resulted in the judge
dismissing the men without punishment, each having learned a lesson from the
song.[1]
The song is mentioned
in James Joyce's Ulysses, published 1918-1920.[2] It gained
renewed popularity when it was sung by Jeanette MacDonald in the 1936 hit filmSan Francisco.[3][4] The melody
formed the basis of a Spiritual titled Hosanna, which in turn was the
basis for the opening of Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy".[5]
Funny commercial on TV
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This is really the best fun commercial I have
seen in years
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The quest for the Holy Grail
In
the most popular version of the story, the Holy Grail is a chalice used by
Jesus during the Last Supper, which was later employed as a vial for his blood.
It was seemingly smuggled across the Holy …
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Monday, November 30, 2015
Loch Lomond
Loch
Lomond Lyrics - Runrig Ft. The Tartan Army
The
Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond
https://youtu.be/feLT7Btuqpc
Loch
Lomond- Scottish bagpipes
Jennifer
White Vocal and Celtic Harp performing Loch Lomond with 1890s photos_0001.
wmv
Interpretation from Wikipedia
There are many theories about the meaning of the song, most of which are connected to the Jacobite Uprising of 1745. One interpretation based on the lyrics is that the song is sung by the lover of a captured Jacobite rebel set to be executed in London following a show trial. The heads of the executed rebels were then set upon pikes and exhibited in all of the towns between London and Edinburgh in a procession along the "high road" (the most important road), while the relatives of the rebels walked back along the "low road" (the ordinary road travelled by peasants and commoners).[3]......
The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond", or simply "Loch Lomond" for short, is a well-known traditional Scottish song (Roud No. 9598) first published in 1841 in Vocal Melodies of Scotland.[1][2] (Loch Lomond is the largest Scottish loch, located between the counties of Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire.) In Scotland, the song is often the final piece of music played during an evening of revelry (a dance party or dinner, etc.).
The song has been recorded by many performers over the years, including the rock band AC/DC, jazz singer Maxine Sullivan (for whom it was a career-defining hit), the Mudmen, and Scottish-Canadian punk band The Real McKenzies.[citation needed] Both Runrig and Quadriga Consort used to perform Loch Lomond as their concert's final song.[citation needed]
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[hide]Lyrics[edit]
By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes,
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond,
Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae,
In the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond,
Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae,
In the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
Chorus:
O ye'll take the high road, and I'll take the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye,
Where me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
O ye'll take the high road, and I'll take the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye,
Where me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
'Twas there that we parted, in by yon shady glen,
On the steep, steep side of Ben Lomond,
Where, deep in purple hue, the highland hills we view,
And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
On the steep, steep side of Ben Lomond,
Where, deep in purple hue, the highland hills we view,
And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
Chorus
The wee birdies sing and the wild flowers spring,
And in sunshine waters lie sleeping.
But the broken heart it kens, nae second spring again,
Though the waeful may cease frae their greeting.
And in sunshine waters lie sleeping.
But the broken heart it kens, nae second spring again,
Though the waeful may cease frae their greeting.
Chorus
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