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The redress obligations of cash-poor but asset-rich institutions where children were abused will be covered in a report to be delivered next year, the chairman of the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse says.
Justice Peter McClellan told a forum organised by victims' support organisation Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) that redress was a priority and a report would be handed down by mid-2015.
Following Saturday's 30-minute keynote address, Justice McClellan was asked questions by abuse survivors, many of whom had travelled interstate for a forum marking the 14th anniversary of CLAN.
One woman asked why assets "built on the backs of children" could not be taken back.
Justice McClellan said the issue had been raised especially at a Christian Brothers hearing in Perth.
Boys who were placed in now infamous homes such the Bindoon farm had to build their own institution.
"It is one of the issues we must put into the redress envelope and look at," Justice McClellan said.
The forum in Bankstown Sports Club was attended by state and federal MPs, as well as former NSW detective Peter Fox, who blew the whistle on Catholic Church abuse cover-ups, and John Ellis - the plaintiff in the now famous case against the Archdiocese of Sydney and George Pell.
They were both presented with certificates of appreciation.
Justice McClellan said that the statute of limitations on suing for abuse was a very significant issue for the commission.
"It is on our priority list but we have to make sure that the recommendation that we might come up with is practical and has real chance of being accepted."
In his main address, Justice McClellan said some institutions had recognised the need to review past responses but they are "hesitant to move forward without understanding the recommendations which the Royal Commission may make in this area".
The commission would publish its redress conclusion is a separate report in the middle of next year, he said.
He also said, once the commission made its final recommendations, it would be up to organisations like CLAN to fight to ensure they were implemented.
Peter Fox said the commission had to get the time it needed to finish the job properly.
"In Ireland they have had five or six inquiries. Why? Because at the end of each one, the job has not been finished and has to be continued by a further inquiry."
He called on Prime Minister Tony Abbott to make a decision.
A letter of support from Mr Abbott was read at the opening of the forum, as was a letter from former prime minister Julia Gillard, who established the commission in 2012.
CLAN has been calling for a national independent redress scheme for some years.
CLAN patrons Liberal Western Australia federal MP Steve Irons and Labour MPs Jason Clare and Richard Marles were all presented awards.
Mr Irons told AAP that he had written to the PM and Attorney-General George Brandis to support the extension but that no decision had yet been made.


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form of art using sound(Redirected from Musicians)
Music is an art form that involves sounds and silence. Music may be used for artistic or aesthetic, communicative, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The definition of what constitutes music varies according to culture and social context.
- What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.
- Jacques Attali, in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music (1996), p. 122
- Despite the fact that as an art, music cannot compromise its principles, and politics, on the other hand, is the art of compromise, when politics transcends the limits of the present existence and ascents to the higher sphere of the possible, it can be joined there by music. Music is the art of the imaginary par excellence, an art free of all limits imposed by words, an art that touches the depth of human existence, and art of sounds that crosses all borders. As such, music can take the feelings and imagination of Israelis and Palestinians to new unimaginable spheres.
- Daniel Barenboim, statement at the Knesset upon receiving the Wolf Prize, May 9, 2004, transcript online (16 May 2004) at The Electronic Intifada.
- Ancient belief in a cosmos composed of spheres, producing music as angels guided them through the heavens, was still flourishing in Elizabethan times. ...There is a good deal more to Pythagorean musical theory than celestial harmony. Besides the music of the celestial spheres (musica mundana), two other varieties of music were distinguished: the sound of instruments...(musica instrumentalis), and the continuous unheard music that emanated from the human body (musica humana), which arises from a resonance between the body and the soul. ...In the medieval world, the status of music is revealed by its position within the Quadrivium—the fourfold curriculum—alongside arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. Medieval students... believed all forms of harmony to derive from a common source. Before Boethius' studies in the ninth century, the idea of musical harmony was not considered independently of wider matters of celestial or ethical harmony.
- John D. Barrow, The Artful Universe (1995)
- Our sensitivity to changes of pitch ... is underused in musical sound. Western music, in particular, is based on scales that use pitch changes that are at least twenty times bigger than the smallest changes that we could perceive. If we used our discriminatory power to full, we could generate an undulating sea of sound that displayed continuously changing frequency rather like the undersea sonic songs of dolphins and whales.
- John D. Barrow, The Artful Universe (1995)
- Someday you will be a man,
And you will be the leader of a big old band.
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun go down
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight.
- Oh, that I were
The viewless spirit of a lovely sound,
A living voice, a breathing harmony,
A bodiless enjoyment—born and dying
With the blest tone which made me!
- Lord Byron, Manfred (1817), Act I, scene ii.
- Our music has sprung from the patient, incessant, and progressive penetration into the law of resonance, that is to say, from the successive exploitation of the octave, the fifth and the fourth (ninth to twelfth century), the third (thirteenth to sixteenth century), the seventh (seventeenth and eighteenth century), the major ninth, the augmented fifth, and the perfect eleventh (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) . . . . this evolution . . . . constitutes, at the same time, the only true justification of the musical art.
- The Evolution of Music, Alfredo Casella, quoted in Miller, Horace Alden (1930). New Harmonic Devices, p. 96.
- Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart — builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody — for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.
- Robert G. Ingersoll, Orthodoxy (1884).
- We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.
- J. Reuben Clark, LDS Conference Report, Oct. 1936.
- "Music" includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.
- Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Section 63 (1)(b) (United Kingdom).
- This section attempts to define music played at raves, in order to give police power to ban them. It was widely ridiculed at the time and since (see, e.g., Marcel Berlins, "Writ Large", The Guardian, February 1, 1994).
- In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side — there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
- Gilles Deleuze, from his Essays Critical and Clinical, p. 104.
- Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. … You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.
- Enya, as quoted in "Everyone thinks I'm so shockable", an interview with Neil McCormick in The Telegraph (24 November 2005).
- It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed. … To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition... Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves—not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.
- Morton Feldman, quoted in Kostelanetz, Richard (editor) and Joseph Darby (editor). Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music. ISBN 0028645812.
- Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music *they* make.
- Dracula (1931 English-language film) written by Garrett Fort
- Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.
- The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.
- Green, Lucy (1999). "Ideology". Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. ISBN 0631212639.
- Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
- Eduard Hanslick, quoted by Wolfgang Sandberger (1996) in the liner notes to the Juilliard String Quartet's Intimate Letters. Sony Classical SK 66840.
- We must ask whether a cross-cultural musical universal is to be found in the music itself (either its structure or function) or the way in which music is made. By 'music-making,' I intend not only actual performance but also how music is heard, understood, even learned.
- Dane Harwood (1976:522). "Universals in Music: A Perspective from Cognitive Psychology", Ethnomusicology 20, no. 3:521-33.
- The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.
- A chord is by no means an agglomeration of intervals. It is a new unit which, although dependent on the formative power of the single interval, is felt as being self-existent and as giving to the constituent intervals meanings and functions which they otherwise would not have.
- Paul Hindemith (1952: 72). A Composer's World. Cambridge, Mass.
- Elected Silence, sing to me
- And beat upon my whorlèd ear,
- Pipe me to pastures still and be
- The music that I care to hear.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Habit of Perfection"
- We can no longer maintain any distinction between music and discourse about music, between the supposed object of analysis and the terms of analysis.
- Bruce Horner (1999). "Discourse". Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. ISBN 0631212639.
- Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare (1864) Part I, Book II, Chapter IV [1]
- Itaque sine Musica nulla disciplina potest esse perfecta, nihil enim sine illa. Nam et ipse mundus quadam harmonia sonorum fertur esse conpositus, et coelum ipsud sub harmoniae modulatione revolvi.
- And without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony.
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae Bk. 3, ch. 17, sect. 1; p. 137. Translations and page-numbers are taken from Ernest Brehaut An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville (New York: B. Franklin, [1912] 1964). Bk. 3, ch. 17, sect. 1; p. 137.
- Music is the Language of Love.
- Eyran Katsenelenbogen, One Time (2016)
- Improvise like a composer; compose like an improviser.
- Eyran Katsenelenbogen, One Time (2018)
- Musical virtuosity is not the ability to play something fast, but to learn it slowly.
- Eyran Katsenelenbogen, One Time (2018)
- Language addresses itself to the ear. No other medium does this. The ear is the most spiritually determined of the senses. That I believe most men will admit. Aside from language, music is the only medium that addresses itself to the ear. Herein is again an analogy and a testimony concerning the sense in which music is a language. … Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element. Music is the only other one that takes place in time. … Music exists only in the moment of its performance, for if one were ever so skillful in reading notes and had ever so lively an imagination, it cannot be denied that it is only in an unreal sense that music exists when it is read. It really exists only being performed. This might seem to be an imperfection in this art as compared with the others whose productions remain, because they have their existence in the sensuous. Yet this is not so. It is rather a proof of the fact that music is a higher, or more spiritual art.
- Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or Part I, Swenson p. 66-67.
- But music moves us, and we know not why;
We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source.
Is it the language of some other state,
Born of its memory ? For what can wake
The soul's strong instinct of another world,
Like music?
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon Erinna, The Golden Violet (1827)
- We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon Romance and Reality (1831) Vol I, Chapter 8, page 64
- Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
- Lennon–McCartney, Hey Jude (1968)
- The story of your brain on music is the story of an exquisite orchestration of brain regions, involving both the oldest and newest parts of the human brain, and regions as far apart as the cerebellum in the back of the head and the frontal lobes just behind your eyes. It involves a precision choreography... between logical prediction systems and emotional reward systems. ...it reminds us of other music we have heard, and it activates memory traces of emotional times of our lives. Your brain on music is all about... connections.
- Daniel Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
- So much of the research on musical expertise has looked for accomplishment in the wrong place, in the facility of the fingers rather than the expressiveness of emotion.
- Daniel Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
- Music, or any art form... has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity.
- Daniel Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
- We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
- Wynton Marsalis in Smithsonian Magazine, November 2005.
- Music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.
- Marshall Mathers, "Sing For the Moment", The Eminem Show (2002), Universal Music Group North America
- Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.
- Susan McClary, quoted in Sullivan, Meg (May 2002). Spotlight: Susan McClary, Musicologist.
- Of what use is musical knowledge? Here is one idea. Each child spends endless days in curious ways; we call this play. A child stacks and packs all kinds of blocks and boxes, lines them up, and knocks them down. … Clearly, the child is learning about space! ...how on earth does one learn about time? Can one time fit inside another? Can two of them go side by side? In music, we find out!
- Marvin Minsky, "Music, Mind, and Meaning" (1981).
- Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.
- Marvin Minsky, "Music, Mind, and Meaning" ibid.
- We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.
- Marvin Minsky, "Music, Mind, and Meaning" ibid.
- Music makes things in our minds, but afterward most of them fade away. What remains? ...perhaps what we learn is not the music itself but a way of hearing it.
- Marvin Minsky, "Music, Mind, and Meaning" ibid.
- All aspects of musical practice may be disengaged, and privileged, in order to give birth to new forms of variation: variations on the relationships between the composer and the performer, between the conductor and the performer, between the performers, between the performer and the listener, variations upon gestures, variations on silence that end in a mute music that is still music because it preserves still something of the musical totality of the tradition...all elements belonging to the total musical fact may be separated and taken as a strategic variable of musical production. This autonomization serves as true musical experimentation: little by little, the individual variables that make up a total musical fact are brought to light. Any particular music then appears as one that has made a choice among these variables, and that has privileged a certain number of them. Under these conditions, musical analysis would have to begin by recognizing the strategic variables characteristic of a given musical system: musical invention and musical analysis lend each other mutual aid.
- Jean Molino quoted in Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Abbate, Carolyn (translator) (1987 (original), 1990 (translation)). Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music. pp. 42–43. ISBN 0691027145.
- Being in a band is really great when you're 20. When you're 30, it's kind of 'Spinal Tap,' and when you're 40, it's just pathetic.
- Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, quoted in "Make a Myth, Whip It Good". New York Times. 2001-04-18.
- If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."
- Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Abbate, Carolyn (translator) (1987 (original), 1990 (translation)). Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music. ISBN 0691027145.
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung (Twilight of the Idols).
- The main thing is not to lose your identity and to continue working ... You have a quartet. That is such joy! You can forget everything else in the world. I'm playing a lot of chamber music these days. Tomorrow we were going to give the first performance of two trios, but because of the mourning, all concerts have been canceled.
- Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul; on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.
- Plato, The Republic, Book 3
- In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!
- Doctor: It plays music. What's the point of that? Oh, with music, you can dance to it, sing with it, fall in love to it. Unless you're a Dalek of course. Then it's all just noise.
- Doctor Who Evolution of the Daleks written by Helen Raynor
- I might as well endeavour to perswade, that the Sun is a glorious, and beneficial Planet; as take pains to Illustrate Musick with my imperfect praises; for every reasonable Mans own mind will be its Advocate. Musick, belov'd of Heaven, for it is the business of Angels; Desired on Earth as the most charming Pleasure of Men. The world contains nothing that is good, but what is full of Harmonious Concord, nor nothing that is evil, but is its opposite, as being the ill favour'd production of Discord and Disorder. I dare affirm, those that love not Musick (if there be any such) are Dissenters from Ingenuity, and Rebels to the Monarchy of Reason.
- Humphrey Salter (1683). The Genteel Companion.
- The term 'chromatic' is understood by musicians to refer to music which includes tones which are not members of the prevailing scale, and also as a word descriptive of those individually non-diatonic tones.
- J. Shir-Cliff (1965). Chromatic Harmony. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0029286301.
- As a society built upon the very ideals of ecumenicalism and catholicity, as the leading technological and industrial nation of our time, and as the principal nexus between European high art and the musics of other classes and cultures, America stands at the forefront of the music of tomorrow.
- John Rockwell (1983). All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0394511638.
- Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!
- The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (1819) Vol. I, Ch. II.
- This art is music. It stands quite apart from all the others. In it we do not recognize the copy, the repetition, of any Idea of the inner nature of the world. Yet it is such a great and exceedingly fine art, its effect on man's innermost nature is so powerful, and it is so completely and profoundly understood by him in his innermost being as an entirely universal language, whose distinctness surpasses even that of the world of perception itself, that in it we certainly have to look for more than that exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi [exercise in arithmetic in which the mind does not know it is counting] which Leibniz took it to be.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, The World As Representation: Second Aspect, Vol. I, Ch. III as translated by Eric F. J. Payne (1958).
- Orsino: If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Act I, sc. i.
- Music is the brandy of the damned.
- George Bernard Shaw, in Man and Superman (Act III) (1903).
- We give our souls to our music. We put our lives on the fucking wax and the labels treat us like shit.
- Earl Simmons, on the Backstreet Boys and label problems, as quoted in XXL Magazine.
- Sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane.
- Germaine de Staël, De l'Allemagne (1813) Information gathered from the Quote Investigator.
- [S]o far as music ever had a "meaning" beyond the immediate and exquisite value of the sound-pattern itself, its "meaning" must be simply an emotional attitude. It could never speak directly about the objective world, or "the nature of existence"; but it might create a complex emotional attitude which might be appropriate to some feature of the objective world, or to the universe as a whole.
- Olaf Stapledon, Sirius (1944).
- It was music, more than anything else, that led the Pythagoreans to believe that the universe is a harmonious place governed by numbers.
- Ian Stewart, Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into (1992) p. 236
- The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.
- Pete Townshend of the Who, Pop Chronicles, Show 23 - Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66. Part 2, interview recorded in London 2.5.1968 [2]
- Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
- Edgard Varese, quoted in Kostelanetz, Richard (editor) and Joseph Darby (editor). Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music. ISBN 0028645812.
- One day I said to myself that it would be better to get rid of all that—melody, rhythm, harmony, etc. This was not a negative thought and did not mean that it was necessary to avoid them, but rather that, while doing something else, they would appear spontaneously. We had to liberate ourselves from the direct and peremptory consequence of intention and effect, because the intention would always be our own and would be circumscribed, when so many other forces are evidently in action in the final effect.
- Christian Wolff, quoted in Kostelanetz, Richard (editor) and Joseph Darby (editor). Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music. ISBN 0028645812.
- And they are singing as if a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one was able to master that song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, who have been bought from the earth.
- John the Evangelist, Revelation 14:3, NWT.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical QuotationsEdit
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 535-41.
- Music religious heat inspires,
It wakes the soul, and lifts it high,
And wings it with sublime desires,
And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
- Joseph Addison, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, Stanza 4.
- Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
- John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health (1744), Book IV, line 512.
- That rich celestial music thrilled the air
From hosts on hosts of shining ones, who thronged
Eastward and westward, making bright the night.
- Edwin Arnold, Light of Asia (1879), Book IV, line 418.
- Music tells no truths.
- Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Village Feast.
- Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.
- J. C. Bampfylde, Sonnet.
- If music and sweet poetry agree.
- Richard Barnfield, Sonnet.
- Gayly the troubadour
Touched his guitar.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly, Welcome Me Home.
- I'm saddest when I sing.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly, You think I have a merry heart.
- God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us so that we could hear and understand.
- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, Music.
- The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush
When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh
That filters through the forest, or the gush
That swells and sinks amid the branches high,—
'Tis all the music of the wind, and we
Let fancy float on this æolian breath.
- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, Music.
- "Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,"
And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.
- James Bramston, Man of Taste, first line quoted from Prior.
- And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
- Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1642), Part II, Section IX. Use of the phrase "Music of the Spheres" given by Bishop Martin Fotherby, Athconastrix, p. 315. (Ed. 1622). Said by Bishop John Wilkins, Discovery of a New World, I. 42. (Ed. 1694).
- Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man.
The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain—
For the reed that grows never more again
As a reed with the reeds of the river.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Musical Instrument.
- Her voice, the music of the spheres,
So loud, it deafens mortals' ears;
As wise philosophers have thought,
And that's the cause we hear it not.
- Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto I, line 617.
- For discords make the sweetest airs.
- Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part III (1678), Canto I, line 919.
- Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto
Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
- Lord Byron, Beppo (1818), Stanza 32.
- Music arose with its voluptuous swell,
Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,
And all went merry as a marriage bell.
- Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 21.
- There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
- Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XV, Stanza 5.
- And hears thy stormy music in the drum!
- Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, Part I.
- Merrily sang the monks in Ely
When Cnut, King, rowed thereby;
Row, my knights, near the land,
And hear we these monkes' song.
- Attributed to King Canute, Song of the Monks of Ely, in Spens, History of the English People, Historia Eliensis (1066). Chambers' Encyclopedia of English Literature.
- Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
- Thomas Carlyle, Essays, The Opera.
- When music, heavenly maid, was young,
While yet in early Greece she sung,
The Passions oft, to hear her shell,
Throng'd around her magic cell.
- William Collins, The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), line 1.
- In notes by distance made more sweet.
- William Collins, The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), line 60.
- In hollow murmurs died away.
- William Collins, The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), line 68.
- Music has charms to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
I've read that things inanimate have moved,
And, as with living souls, have been inform'd,
By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
- William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act I, scene 1.
- And when the music goes te-toot,
The monkey acts so funny
That we all hurry up and scoot
To get some monkey-money.
M-double-unk for the monkey,
M-double-an for the man;
M-double unky, hunky monkey,
Hunkey monkey-man.
Ever since the world began
Children danced and children ran
When they heard the monkey-man,
The m-double-unky man.
- Edmund Vance Cooke, The Monkey-Man, I rule the House.
- Water and air He for the Tenor chose,
Earth made the Base, the Treble Flame arose,
To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave,
To Saturn's string a touch more soft and grave.
The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow,
And short and long, were mixt and woven so,
Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall,
As made this decent measur'd Dance of all.
And this is Musick.
- Abraham Cowley, Davideis (1668), Book I, p. 13.
- With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
- William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book VI. Winter Walk at Noon, line 3.
- The soft complaining flute
In dying notes discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers,
Whose dirge is whisper'd by the warbling lute.
- John Dryden, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day.
- Music sweeps by me as a messenger
Carrying a message that is not for me.
- George Eliot, Spanish Gypsy (1868), Book III.
- 'Tis God gives skill,
But not without men's hands: He could not make
Antonio Stradivari's violins
Without Antonio.
- George Eliot, Stradivarius, line 151.
- The silent organ loudest chants
The master's requiem.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dirge.
- Our 'prentice, Tom, may now refuse
To wipe his scoundrel master's shoes;
For now he's free to sing and play
Over the hills and far away.
- George Farquhar, Over the Hills and Far Away, Act II, scene 3.
- But Bellenden we needs must praise,
Who as down the stairs she jumps
Sings o'er the hill and far away,
Despising doleful dumps.
- Distracted Jockey's Lamentation, Pills to Purge Melancholy.
- Tom he was a piper's son,
He learned to play when he was young;
But all the tune that he could play
Was "Over the hills and far away."
- Distracted Jockey's Lamentation, Pills to Purge Melancholy found in The Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell Phillips.
- When I was young and had no sense
I bought a fiddle for eighteen pence,
And all the tunes that I could play
Was, "Over the Hills and Far Away."
- Old Ballad, in the Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs.
- Blasen ist nicht flöten, ihr müsst die Finger bewegen.
- To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sprüche in Prosa, III.
- Jack Whaley had a cow,
And he had nought to feed her;
He took his pipe and played a tune,
And bid the cow consider.
- Old Scotch and North of Ireland ballad. Lady Granville uses it in a letter. (1836).
- Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
- Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Church Yard, Stanza 10.
- He stood beside a cottage lone,
And listened to a lute,
One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone,
And the nightingale was mute.
- Thomas Hervey, The Devil's Progress.
- Why should the devil have all the good tunes?
- Rowland Hill, Sermons. In his biography by E. W. Broome, p. 93.
- Music was a thing of the soul—a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea—a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland, Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects, Art and Life.
- From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathéd horn.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Chambered Nautilus.
- Citharœdus
Ridetur chorda qui semper oberrat eadem.
- The musician who always makes a mistake on the same string, is laughed at.
- Horace, Ars Poetica (18 BC), 355.
- Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!
Ply all your changes, all your swells,
Play uppe "The Brides of Enderby."
- Jean Ingelow, High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire.
- When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.
- Job, XXXVIII. 7.
- Ere music's golden tongue
Flattered to tears this aged man and poor.
- John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes, Stanza 3.
- The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
- John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes, Stanza 4.
- Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.
- John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
- I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
- Charles Lamb, A Chapter on Ears.
- A velvet flute-note fell down pleasantly,
Upon the bosom of that harmony,
And sailed and sailed incessantly,
As if a petal from a wild-rose blown
Had fluttered down upon that pool of tone,
And boatwise dropped o' the convex side
And floated down the glassy tide
And clarified and glorified
The solemn spaces where the shadows bide.
From the warm concave of that fluted note
Somewhat, half song, half odour forth did float
As if a rose might somehow be a throat.
- Sidney Lanier, The Symphony.
- Music is in all growing things;
And underneath the silky wings
Of smallest insects there is stirred
A pulse of air that must be heard;
Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
- Lathrop, Music of Growth.
- Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Children of the Lord's Supper, line 262.
- Yea, music is the Prophet's art
Among the gifts that God hath sent,
One of the most magnificent!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, Part III. Second Interlude, Stanza 5.
- When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part I. 1.
- He is dead, the sweet musician!
* * * *
He has moved a little nearer
To the Master of all music.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part XV, line 56.
- Music is the universal language of mankind.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer. Ancient Spanish Ballads.
- Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
Of wonderful melodies.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day is Done, Stanza 8.
- Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
- John Milton, Arcades, line 68.
- Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
- John Milton, Areopagitica (1644).
- Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould
Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?
- John Milton, Comus (1637), line 244.
- Ring out ye crystal spheres!
Once bless our human ears,
If ye have power to touch our senses so;
And let your silver chime
Move in melodious time;
And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow,
And with your ninefold harmony,
Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
- John Milton, Hymn on the Nativity, Stanza 13.
- There let the pealing organ blow,
To the full voiced quire below,
In service high, and anthems clear,
As may with sweetness, through mine ear,
Dissolve me into ecstasies,
And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
- John Milton, Il Penseroso (1631), line 161.
- Untwisting all the chains that tie the hidden soul of harmony.
- John Milton, L'Allegro, line 143.
- As in an organ from one blast of wind
To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 708.
- And in their motions harmony divine
So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear
Listens delighted.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V. 620.
- Mettez, pour me jouer, vos flûtes mieux d'accord.
- If you want to play a trick on me, put your flutes more in accord.
- Molière, L'Etourdi, Act I. 4.
- La musique celeste.
- The music of the spheres.
- Montaigne, Book I, Chapter XXII.
- If the pulse of the patriot, soldier, or lover,
Have throbb'd at our lay, 'tis thy glory alone;
I was but as the wind, passing heedlessly over,
And all the wild sweetness I wak'd was thy own.
- Thomas Moore, Dear Harp of My Country, Stanza 2.
- "This must be music," said he, "of the spears,
For I am cursed if each note of it doesn't run through one!"
- Thomas Moore, Fudge Family in Paris, Letter V, line 28.
- The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls,
As if that soul were fled.
- Thomas Moore, Harp That Once.
- If thou would'st have me sing and play
As once I play'd and sung,
First take this time-worn lute away,
And bring one freshly strung.
- Thomas Moore, If Thou, Would'st Have Me Sing and Play.
- And music too—dear music! that can touch
Beyond all else the soul that loves it much—
Now heard far off, so far as but to seem
Like the faint, exquisite music of a dream.
- Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
- 'Tis believ'd that this harp which I wake now for thee
Was a siren of old who sung under the sea.
- Thomas Moore, Origin of the Harp.
- She played upon her music-box a fancy air by chance,
And straightway all her polka-dots began a lively dance.
- Peter Newell, Her Polka Dots.
- Apes and ivory, skulls and roses, in junks of old Hong-Kong,
Gliding over a sea of dreams to a haunted shore of song.
- Alfred Noyes, Apes and Ivory.
- There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street
In the city as the sun sinks low;
And the music's not immortal; but the world has made it sweet
And fulfilled it with the sunset glow.
- Alfred Noyes, Barrel Organ.
- Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Of whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Music Makers.
- One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample a kingdom down.
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Music Makers.
- How light the touches are that kiss
The music from the chords of life!
- Coventry Patmore, By the Sea.
- He touched his harp, and nations heard, entranced,
As some vast river of unfailing source,
Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his numbers flowed,
And opened new fountains in the human heart.
- Robert Pollok, The Course of Time (1827), Book IV, line 674.
- Music resembles poetry: in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach
And which a master-hand alone can reach.
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 143.
- As some to Church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 343.
- What woful stuff this madrigal would be
In some starv'd hackney sonnetteer, or me!
But let a Lord once own the happy lines,
How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 418.
- Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,
Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
- Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle IV, line 143.
- By music minds an equal temper know,
Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
* * * * *
Warriors she fires with animated sounds;
Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
- Alexander Pope, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day.
- Hark! the numbers soft and clear,
Gently steal upon the ear;
Now louder, and yet louder rise
And fill with spreading sounds the skies.
- Alexander Pope, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day.
- In a sadly pleasing strain
Let the warbling lute complain.
- Alexander Pope, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day.
- Music's force can tame the furious beast.
- Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys.
I do not know what I was playing,
Or what I was dreaming then,
But I struck one chord of music
Like the sound of a great Amen.
- Adelaide Anne Procter, Lost Chord. (As set to music, 5th line reads, "I know not what I was playing.").
- We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
- Psalms. CXXXVII. 2.
- Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.
- François Rabelais, Works, Book IV, Chapter XIX.
- Musik ist Poesie der Luft.
- Music is the poetry of the air.
- Jean Paul Richter.
- Sie zog tief in sein Herz, wie die Melodie eines Liedes, die aus der Kindheit heraufklingt.
- It sank deep into his heart, like the melody of a song sounding from out of childhood's days.
- Jean Paul Richter, Hesperus, XII.
- The soul of music slumbers in the shell,
Till waked and kindled by the Master's spell;
And feeling hearts—touch them but lightly—pour
A thousand melodies unheard before!
- Samuel Rogers, Human Life, line 363.
- Give me some music; music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act II, scene 5, line 1.
- I am advised to give her music o' mornings; they say it will penetrate.
- William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act II, scene 3, line 12.
- And it will discourse most eloquent music.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 2, line 374. ("Excellent music" in Knight's ed.).
- You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 2, line 379.
- How irksome is this music to my heart!
When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
- William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-91), scene 1, line 56.
- Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain-tops that freeze,
Bow themselves, when he did sing:
To his music, plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers,
There had made a lasting spring.
- William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene 1, line 3.
- Everything that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads, and then lay by;
In sweet music is such art:
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or, hearing, die.
- William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene 1, line 9.
- The choir,
With all the choicest music of the kingdom,
Together sung Te Deum.
- William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act IV, scene 1, line 90.
- One whom the music of his own vain tongue
Doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
- William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act I, scene 1, line 167.
- Though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
- William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act IV, scene 1, line 14.
- Let music sound while he doth make his choice;
Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end,
Fading in music.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act III, scene 2, line 43.
- How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness, and the night
Becomes the touches of sweet harmony.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 54.
- There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 57.
- Therefore the poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;
Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,
But music for the time doth change his nature.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 79.
- The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 83.
- Music do I hear?
Ha! ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
- William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act V, scene 5, line 41.
- Wilt thou have music? hark! Apollo plays
And twenty caged nightingales do sing.
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Induction, scene 2, line 37.
- Preposterous ass, that never read so far
To know the cause why music was ordain'd!
Was it not to refresh the mind of man,
After his studies or his usual pain?
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act III, scene 1, line 9.
- This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air.
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c. 1610-1612), Act I, scene 2, line 391.
- Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows!
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act I, scene 3, line 109.
- If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act I, scene 1, line 1.
- Song like a rose should be;
Each rhyme a petal sweet;
For fragrance, melody,
That when her lips repeat
The words, her heart may know
What secret makes them so.
Love, only Love.
- Frank Dempster Sherman, Song, in Lyrics for a Lute.
- Musick! soft charm of heav'n and earth,
Whence didst thou borrow thy auspicious birth?
Or art thou of eternal date,
Sire to thyself, thyself as old as Fate.
- Edmund Smith, Ode in Praise of Musick.
- See to their desks Apollo's sons repair,
Swift rides the rosin o'er the horse's hair!
In unison their various tones to tune,
Murmurs the hautboy, growls the hoarse bassoon;
In soft vibration sighs the whispering lute,
Tang goes the harpsichord, too-too the flute,
Brays the loud trumpet, squeaks the fiddle sharp,
Winds the French-horn, and twangs the tingling harp;
Till, like great Jove, the leader, figuring in,
Attunes to order the chaotic din.
- Horace and James Smith, Rejected Addresses, The Theatre, line 20.
- So dischord ofte in musick makes the sweeter lay.
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book III, Canto II, Stanza 15.
- Music revives the recollections it would appease.
- Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Corinne (1807), Book IX, Chapter II.
- The gauger walked with willing foot,
And aye the gauger played the flute;
And what should Master Gauger play
But Over the Hills and Far Away.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods, A Song of the Road.
- How her fingers went when they moved by note
Through measures fine, as she marched them o'er
The yielding plank of the ivory floor.
- Benjamin F. Taylor, Songs of Yesterday, How the Brook Went to Mill, Stanza 3.
- It is the little rift within the lute
That by and by will make the music mute,
And ever widening slowly silence all.
- Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King (published 1859-1885), Merlin and Vivien, line 393.
- Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
- Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos Eaters, Choric Song, Stanza 1.
- Music that gentlier on the spirit lies
Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes.
- Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos Eaters, Choric Song, Stanza 1.
- I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.
- Artemus Ward, Lecture.
- Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.
- Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II. 19.
- And with a secret pain,
And smiles that seem akin to tears,
We hear the wild refrain.
- John Greenleaf Whittier, At Port Royal.
- I'm the sweetest sound in orchestra heard
Yet in orchestra never have been.
- William Wilberforce, Riddle, first lines.
- Her ivory hands on the ivory keys
Strayed in a fitful fantasy,
Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees
Rustle their pale leaves listlessly
Or the drifting foam of a restless sea
When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze.
- Oscar Wilde, In the Gold Room, A Harmony.
- What fairy-like music steals over the sea,
Entrancing our senses with charmed melody?
- Mrs. M. C. Wilson, What Fairy-like Music.
- Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand!
- Stevie Wonder, "Sir Duke"
- Where music dwells
Lingering, and wandering on as loth to die:
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof
That they were born for immortality.
- William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part III. 63. Inside of King's Chapel, Cambridge.
- Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.
- William Wordsworth, A Morning Exercise.
- Soft is the music that would charm forever:
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
- William Wordsworth, Not Love, Not War.
- Sweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
- William Wordsworth, Personal Talk, Stanza 2.
- The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
- William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper.
- Thank you. If you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you'll enjoy the playing more.
- Ravi Shankar tuning up before his performance on Sitar, Soundbite of "The Concert For Bangladesh"


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Thursday, 5 July 2007
Welfare Concerns
24 comments:
Its always a nice surprise to see 'someone' there sometimes when I look in. She looked huge today though! Glad all is well and she isn't hurt in anyway.
- 5 July 2007 at 12:41
You already have said, but when do the youngsters get their adult plumage. It's quite obvious now the difference between her and her Mum.
Anna, Ripley
- 5 July 2007 at 12:42
12.51 I see dinner has arrived. Everything comes to those who wait!
Anna, Ripley
- 5 July 2007 at 12:51
12:50pm BST and one of the birds is having lunch on the ledge - can't quite see the plumage but is it one of the girls?
Liz, Derby
- 5 July 2007 at 12:53
Juvenile feeding on prey item on the gravel nest site at 15.38 BST.
- 5 July 2007 at 15:40
can anyone make out what bird is she having for tea ? clive , matlock
- 5 July 2007 at 16:37
It could be a House Martin by the shape of the wings and tail. I always have a tinge of sadness when I can identify the prey - then you're faced with the reality that they are killing other beautiful birds.
Anna, Ripley
- 5 July 2007 at 17:01
to anna, ripley
i agree it is sad to think of a beautiful bird such as the house martin being killed, but this is not a malice killing from a brat with an air rifle, bored and bunking off school, this is merely survival and inkeeping with the food chain, in the same way we eat larger birds like chicken, goose, even pheasant, which is one of the most beautiful birds in this country.
the peregrines are lucky to have such feasts available to them and live with such carefree lives. especially considering the politics us humans have to adhere to!
- 5 July 2007 at 17:16
That's food for thought! I understand what you are saying, and I am only too aware of the 'cruelty' of nature. In fact at least the Peregrines prey are killed instantly, so hopefully totally unaware they are being hunted ........ unlike the fox, I better not go on.
Thanks for your response.
Anna, Ripley
- 5 July 2007 at 17:27
Hello from Dayton -
I know it's sometimes very sad to see the falcons have taken a songbird. Last year one of our falcons lunched on a beautiful bluebird, and they are rare to see in my area. Still, there is some cold comfort to realize that peregrines have a high mortality rate as youngsters, so there can never be too many of them eating our songbird friends. Also, they eat almost all of the birds they take, leaving (usually) only the head and feet. Sadly, the Canadian Peregrine Foundation has a new concern that the USA will be allowed to "harvest" peregrines that venture south thru the USA. Yet another unspeakable idea put forth by the politicians and their minions in this country! I can't even speak about politics in a coherent way any longer, but the irrationality of wantonly destroying wildlife and habitat is beyond sad and shameful.
It's at least very sweet seeing your little girl enjoying her rest on the nest ledge, then having a nice snack even tho it's fairly nasty to actually watch. Escapism is wonderful!
- 5 July 2007 at 17:47
i'm not too sure that it is a house martin it seems too big, perhaps it's a young pigeon,
did anyone see it before it was carnaged???
- 5 July 2007 at 17:53
Thanks to everyone for all the work that has been done for 'our' falcons!
I was wondering, do you know where last year's chicks are now?
- 5 July 2007 at 17:55
Hi, Dayton,
Do you have more info about the apparent "harvesting" of peregrines in the U.S.? It is news to me, and there is such interest in the peregrines here that it seems very unlikely. Of course, with the Bush administration minions, anything is possible, but I would assume Congress would do something to prevent it.
- 5 July 2007 at 18:49
19.24 Mum's at the box, looking somewhat bedraggled.
Anna, Ripley
- 5 July 2007 at 19:25
Oh yes, so she is. She's not half as bedraggled as me though - it's absolutely sheeting down in not so sunny Bucks! I'm off to the Hampton Court Flower Show tomorrow - oh joy. It simply couldn't be more different to this time last year when we were having freak heat waves. I think the birds look as if they're coping with it all a lot better than us humans.
Sue H
(PS I've been sooooooooo busy at Wycombe Magistrates, there's been no web-camming for me there!!! I'm just so jealous of "lazy" peregrines, wish I could lounge about a nestbox all day)
- 5 July 2007 at 19:32
Karen Anne-
I found this info. from the Canadian Peregrine Foundation, www.peregrine-foundation.ca/
There is a bolded "Attention!" block which leads you to a pdf file. At this time it is proposed legislation and will most likely effect migratory falcons from Canada. It appears hunters in the states bordering the great lakes would be allowed to take them, contrary to laws in both countries. All peregrines who are not paired off migrate freely from Canada all the way to South America, it is believed. They're called "wandering falcon" for good reason!
Hope this information is helpful to you, I'm certainly writing yet another letter of concern to my elected representatives.
So sorry to hijack the Derby blog, hope we can be forgiven.
- 5 July 2007 at 19:40
- Project Member (Derby Museum) said...
The bird on the platform is definitely not a house martin. It's far too big, and I'm sure it's one of our local pigeons. It took all afternoon for the juvenile to deal with it.
Regarding peregrines taking other species, this is, after all, a natural process, and we all accept it as such. I've been involved in setting up Derby's first bird reserve a couple of miles away. When last year we saw it flying overhead and stooping vertically down at great speed to take our sand martins from an artificial nest bank we'd built, we were deligthed to see it hunting there. We wanted the sand martins, but we also wanted the peregrines, and it was good they were going to help feed such a beautiful bird and its family.
- 5 July 2007 at 20:05
- helenhoward said...
seems I have missed all the excitement over what was thought to be an injured member of the family. Thank heavens she is well now!!
I was quite shocked to see the large carcass on the web cam, it is almost stripped of all its meat!! It almost looks like the left overs from xmas dinner!!
It is 2029 and there is a bird on the edge of the box again.
I also think it is sad that the birds have to kill but as I tell my son when we are watching the tiger attack the zebra etc they cant just pop to mc donalds when ever they are peckish!!At least they dont kill for the sake of it like the human race!!
- 5 July 2007 at 20:29
- helenhoward said...
with our seeing niave or oversentimental i was really sh0cked to read from the derby project member that they would do very little should any of the birds get injured or become ill. Surely they would try and rescue it and get it to a bird sanctuary etc!!
2100 and the nest is empty so hopefully all "our family" are ok!!
- 5 July 2007 at 21:04
Thanks Dayton, unbelievable.
I also feel sad about the prey birds. I wish all creatures, including humans, were vegetarians.
- 5 July 2007 at 21:25
sorry karen i love all birds but to see a falcon hunting in the wild is stunning .its nature at its best.a bit sad yes but i would not miss the hunt for all the world. only my opinion clive, matlock
- 5 July 2007 at 21:58
- Project Member (Derby Museum) said...
Hi Helen and everyone
Whilst standing by my remark that "we would not wish to intervene" if something happened to the young peregrines, this isn't quite the same thing as saying that we would do nothing at all, under any circumstances.
I think I can speak for all the partners when I say that we would always wish to take a non-interventionist approach. They are not our birds and we are simply watching a natural process here, not managing a species as in a zoo. That said, of course we wouldn't stand idly by if one of our birds fell to the ground and couldn't fly, or have some other problem we could deal with. It was for that reason that we were on standby with gauntlets, boxes and mobile phones during fledging week, ready to drop everything at a moment's notice to rescue a downed bird. But to abseil down to a nest ledge to take a bird to a sanctuary when, chances are, it would recover in its own good time, would be unwise, possibly illegal, and certainly not in the bird's best interests. I believe there is a huge mortality amongst young peregrines, and losses are inevitable. Were we able to do something to help a bird, we clearly would. But balances have to be struck between welfare and interference. I apologise if this sounds patronising - it's not meant to be - I just thought I should explain how I view it.
May I give a story to illustrate the dangers of interfering to quickly?
There was a recent instance of a young fledgling bird of prey being found on the ground in a UK town by a member of the public, who rang the RSPCA. An officer from an adjacent town came out, "rescued" it, and took it many miles away to his own home in yet another town. He then rang a wildlife sanctuary on the other side of Britain to arrange its delivery the following day. Luckily, that sanctuary got alarmed, and made contact with who it thought were the people overseeing that nest site. It turned out not to be from that nest, nor indeed that town, and a huge effort then ensued to find out where on earth it had come from. The bird had to be returned to the original town and released, over a day after it
fledged. Had it simply been watched over and left in peace, or moved out of danger and taken back to its nest site, the problem would have been a minor one. I have no idea of the outcome in this story - and that's the worry. One can mean well, but so easily do the wrong thing. So I hope you would support our wish to be non-interventionist but, having given up six months of our lives to watch these birds, I hope you are assured that we have their best interests at heart, and not be at all shocked by our approach.
- 5 July 2007 at 23:41
- helenhoward said...
thanks for that reassurance I guess spelled out like that it does make sense. I mean the public is always told by the RSPCA should we find a chick or indeed any wild life supposingly abondoned we are suppose to leave it and watch from a distance in case parents come back etc and yes I guess i agree that mortality through injury or illness is just part of the natural process and it is natures way of keeping the numbers balanced.
AS i said at the time I was being over sensitive!!
Once again many thanks for all what you and indeed the other team members under tske. If we could swap jobs for the day I would be right st the front of the queue
- 6 July 2007 at 06:34
As someone who has stood on the green holding my breath both this year and last when they fledged. ready to get someone to pick up a bird (I've seen the beak and claws!!)I have to agree that I would be concerned at removing a sick bird mainly because any recovery would be at risk in a different environment. Imagine how people who are kidnapped feel. She would not understand we were trying to help.
- 6 July 2007 at 08:50


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About Jari Winberg
Writing screenplays.
A gun can look like a pen, so I guess US schools don't have any pens.
Peter Vesterbacka is the Chief Marketing Officer of Rovio.
Every time I read comments like this from "professionals" like her, I lose interest in everything they do. Does that happen to anyone else?
Even when easy software solutions for cracking are created, they don't go mainstream.
Playing DVDs on Linux might not be considered mainstream but VLC is definitely mainstream.
It's antagonistic, rather than inclusive. It's not designed to convince people at all.
I think it's quite the opposite. Lot of people are sick 'n' tired of current state of politics. The Pirate Party is not conventional party and the name has to tell that.
In Finland the Pirate Party is not the first attempt to change these issues on political level. There was an attempt to form a party with similar agenda as the Pirate Party has but that didn't go anywhere. The main difference was the "politically correct" name.
Dan, you said in your article:
While it's true that the cost of distributing video over the web is getting cheaper by the day, it will never be free. I'm now hearing some people in the industry saying that one day soon, delivering video will be so cheap that content owners won't even think about the costs.
The distribution can already be so cheap that content owners don't need to think about it. One example would be Mininova.
Nina Paley: It falls on us artists to simply refuse to grant these monopolies in the first place.
The Anti-Mike: You foolishly did something, and then except the world to change for you.
So artists = world? And her own actions would have solved the issue for her and you go saying she expects the world to change? You need to try harder to find something negative from the article. That one won't convince anybody.
So she likes to play with the devil by using its custom search on her web site.
Anyhow, no need for me to read her books.
Piracy and pirate are positive words, well, when talking about file-sharing kind of piracy. Piracy shows how to use new and innovative technologies and pushes the world forward.
Finnish Pirate Party has T-shirts which say things like "pirate, defender of freedom of speech, protector of privacy, demanding transparency". Pirates are defending the values that the anti-pirates are trying to take away from us.
By starting to use terms like piracy and pirate, the media industry has provided an identity for pirates and united them. The table has turned, pirates are the good guys now.
How would you think a parent would react when they get a notice of a "first strike", and it turns out to be on of their kids downloading stuff?
He would start using a darknet to make sure his own downloading wouldn't be affected.
Finland — Population: 5,244,749
End discussion. sort of like saying broadband is a right in a small neighborhood in Tokyo.
It's not that simple. You have to consider population density as well. On average there are 17 people per square kilometer in Finland. In Lapland, northern part of Finland, population density is 2 people per square kilometer. And in some areas it's only 0.2.
Cable is not going to be the solution for many places. Mobile broadband is a big part of the broadband strategy.
Metallica is doing great. They sell out stadiums and Death Magnetic got to #1 in 27 charts. Some of the older fans might not have forgiven them about Napster but there are so many new kids around who probably haven't even heard about Napster.
I would say If you operate a commercial service and know it is being used to break the law, taking steps to ensure it is used legally is a cost of doing business. != BT broke the law in not stopping file sharing. But the If you operate a commercial service and know it is being used to break the law, taking steps to ensure it is used legally is a cost of doing business doesn't make any sense. The Internet service BT offers is mainly used legally. And there are lot of goods and services that can be used illegally but know one goes after the manufacturers or service providers. Things like guns, cars and phones to name a few. Intellectual property industry must think that they are so special.
The more the IP industry tries to explain their position, the more I dislike them. All they do is alienate people. Do they believe that they are on the right track with their actions? Can they really be so stupid or is it just a desperate fight for existence in a world where technology has made them obsolete? Probably both.
TV and cable are so outdated when it comes to broadcasting. I don't want to schedule my life based on TV schedules. I watch "TV" when it suits me.
There's no Netflix in our neck of the woods. Hulu doesn't work here either, at least not easily. So guess what is the best way to get "TV" content.
Anyway, even if Netflix and Hulu would be available here torrents would still be the best solution. I just got into Friday Night Lights which started 2006. There's no way that would be available on Hulu. And Netflix doesn't seem to have the recent releases. So torrents seems to be the only "service" that provides all that is needed.
Maybe someday there will be a service that beats piracy. I hope I'm still alive when that happens. I'm not holding my breath, though.
If her fans actually believed in what she was saying and supported her you would expect to have seen a rise in anti-techdirt posts here .... dont-cha think.... I mean anyone can post here without logging in.
Her fans supported her on Twitter. But I bet they know nothing about copyright, haven't even read the comments on her blog, and probably have never hear anything about Techdirt. They just took her words as truth.


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The Lafourche Beachfront Development Commission hasn't yet moved to seize a portion of Fourchon Beach from its private owners.
The Lafourche Beachfront Development Commission hasn't yet moved to seize a portion of Fourchon Beach from its private owners.
In November, the parish allocated $275,000 to the commission to begin the process of taking the land. Officials want the land through expropriation — a process by which the government can seize a private landowner's property in return for paying fair-market value and demonstrating public need.
The commission wants to allow driving on the beach and to build public facilities, such as a pavilion, RV park and pier.
The beach is owned by the Caillouet Land Co. and the Wisner Donation, a private land trust. It has long been off-limits to vehicles and has been closed to pedestrians since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The commission's pursuit of the land has been a drawn-out fight with the land's owners.
Late last year, Jay Caillouet, administrator for the land company, called the $275,000 offer ridiculously low and promised a legal battle over what is "just compensation." The court fight could expose the parish to legal fees and whatever the a judge deems to be "just compensation" for the property.
Commission Chairman Ricky Cheramie said the board has yet to move on expropriation because it has been giving the Caillouet's sufficient time to respond to their offers.
The commission offered the $275,000 for the 44-acre track but received no reply, Cheramie said. He noted the property was appraised at the value offered.
Cheramie said he intended ask the commission to initiate the expropriation process at its previous meeting last month. But members decided to delay legal action because they heard a new person will be handling negotiations for the land owners, he said.
"I wanted to try negotiating again to see if we could get anything out of them," Cheramie said.
He said the expropriation process will begin after the commission's next meeting in June if the land owners do not respond to another offer he plans to propose soon.
"We have delayed it several times because of a lack of a response, and we are ready to move forward with it," Cheramie said.
There are legal questions over if the commission, a government entity, has the right to seize the land. Representatives from Wisner have long argued that driving on the beach would do irreparable damage to it and its wildlife.
The land owners also dispute the valuation and there is the question of legal fees if and when the legal fight to expropriate takes place.


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You'd never put oil on your face or body before hitting the beach (well you might, but we wouldn't recommend it), so why would you put it on your hair? Elizabeth Phillips, a trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Trichological Clinic, says, "Castor oil, olive oil, and elastin hydrate the hair, creating a protective barrier." Why do you need a protective barrier? Because while your hair might not react as immediately as your skin--you won't come home with red, itching, sunburnt locks--cumulative exposure to the sun (not to mention salt water and chlorine), will cause long-term damage, drying, breaking, and fading the hair. And don't forget about your scalp! "Saturate a Q-tip with the sunscreen used for your face and apply it to your part line," reminds Philips before signing off: "consider wearing a hat!"
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Philip Kingsley Swimcap ($32)
The US Olympic Synchronized Swimming team asked trichologist Philip Kingsley to develop a product that would protect their hair from consistent exposure to chlorine and the sun. He whipped up Swimcap, a deep-conditioning cream that also defends against salt water and discoloration.
Rene Furterer Protective Summer Fluid KPF 90 ($23)
Sesame oil, a natural UV filter, is at the core of this leave-in formula that blocks 90% of UV rays. KPF stands for Keratin Protection Factor, so if your hair is chemically treated, grab this one.
L'Occitane Aromachologie Radiance and Color Care Mask ($32)
Though it's made to rejuvenate color-treated hair--and the grapeseed extract and essential oils will do that--this mask also coats your hair in UV filters to protect against sun exposure.
Bumble and bumble UV Protective Styling Balm ($28)
If you want to style your hair before heading out in the sun, try Bumble's Protective Polish.
Davines Sun Protective Moisturizing Cream ($28)
Wheat protein creates a protective film on top of the hair while vitamin E prevents aging due to UV rays. It also has UVA and UVB filters for added protection.
Leonor Greyl Huile de Palme ($52)
We've waxed poetic over this oil's restorative powers before, but it's also a strong defender against the sun, saltwater, and chlorine. Comb in through your mid-lengths and ends before heading out into the sun.


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Newly Leaked NSA Slides On PRISM Add To Confusion, Rather Than Clear It Up
from the hmmm dept
First up, here are the slides (sorry visitors from the Defense Department):
Another thing that's not entirely clear: the Washington Post annotations claim that the "FBI DITU," the "Data Intercept Technology Unit" (DITU), is on the premises of the companies listed as a part of PRISM -- but all of the companies have pretty strenuously denied this. And, honestly, from the slides, it's not at all clear that the DITU really is on-premises. Google has said in the past that when it receives a valid FISA court order under the associated program, it uses secure FTP to ship the info to the government. From that, it seems like the "DITU" could just be a government computer somewhere, not on the premises of these companies, and info is uploaded to those servers following valid FISC orders.
Others have focused in on the claims of "real-time surveillance," implying the ability to watch actual key strokes, but the slide in question (the third one above) suggests something slightly different: which is real time notifications for certain trigger events, such as logging into email or sending a message. Now, it does note that other forms of communication are available through the program, but it's not at all clear that's "real time." It's also not at all clear if the "real time" notifications apply to all companies in the program. It's entirely possible that a FISC order might require these companies to let the FBI/NSA know whenever a certain target logged into their email or chat. There are certainly some questions raised there about the appropriateness of that type of program, but it's not clear how much "real time" info is actually being sent.
It's entirely possible that the Washington Post's interpretation of these slides is accurate. It's also entirely possible that the other slides, or additional reporting from WaPo reporters allows them to have more knowledge on these things, and it could be true that the companies in questions are not being fully truthful. However, especially given how it appears that the WaPo's original reporting on PRISM was fairly sloppy, it seems worth reserving judgment until more information comes out.
Of course, if (as the NSA insists) this program is nothing more than these companies responding to valid FISC orders, I don't see why the NSA itself can't be a hell of a lot more transparent about these programs. If there's real oversight over these programs and they're really only used against actual threats (stop laughing...), then nothing revealed so far seems like it should be secret. It just shows how the system works for delivering the information that is legally required. The fact that there's so much secrecy over the program suggests either a stupid overclassification insistence by the NSA, or that there's a hell of a lot beyond this that they don't want to talk about (such as revealing that the program isn't what they claim). That seems like the most likely situation given what's been revealed so far.


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|987: St Paul's, Covent Garden, London, England
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|Mystery Worshipper: Purple Sparkler.
The church: St Paul's, Covent Garden ("The Actors' Church"), London, England.
Denomination: Church of England.
The building: St Paul's was designed by Inigo Jones, the master Renaissance architect who also designed stage settings, costumes and decorations for court masques at the court of James I. The church sits on what I thought was the west side (but their website says it's the north side) of what is rather pretentiously known as Covent Garden Piazza. One accesses the church's very peaceful grounds via entrances on either Henrietta Street or King Street. Inside, the church was warm both physically and visually lots of gold paint and brass chandeliers, along with gold fabric. A large number of plaques commemorate famous names from the world of the theatre, dance and music (about which more later).
The church: The congregation was mostly elderly and distinguished looking not surprising for Covent Garden but what did surprise me was that there were also a goodly number of young people in their twenties. As an Anglican, you get used to there not being many young people in any church outside a university town.
The neighbourhood: Covent Garden is one of the most popular of London's tourist attractions. The Garden got its start when land formerly belonging to Westminster Abbey, the "convent garden," was redeveloped by the fourth Earl of Bedford. The area was used for agricultural purposes until the 17th century, when it became the scene of the first experiment in London of town planning with the creation of the first public square in the country. But the distinguished people who occupied the houses around the square soon began to tire of their lack of privacy. Once the private Bloomsbury Square and others were built, with bars across them to keep out undesirables, the rich removed their premises and left Covent Garden to a different kind of tenancy, much of it artistic. The oldest theatre in the area is the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Covent Garden theatre opened in Bow Street in 1732. There are also other theatres in the area, notably the Aldwych. Eventually a large market came to dominate Covent Garden. The main building we see today in the Piazza was erected in 1830, and over time other market buildings were added. The markets were relocated in 1973 and Covent Garden was slated for demolition, but a vigorous campaign by local residents and the general public prevented this vandalistic plan from going through. Instead, the market was renovated to become the popular shopping centre it is today.
The cast: The Rev. Mark Oakley, rector, was the celebrant, assisted by the Rev. Mark Kenny, curate, and an all male cast of servers. The preacher was the Rev. Martin Wroe, another of the curates.
|What was the name of the service?
Eucharist celebrating the patronal festival.
How full was the building?
About two-thirds full after everyone had arrived, I would think. But people sat very spread-out in the grand tradition of lots of personal space unless you're with friends or family, so it was quite hard to tell.
Did anyone welcome you personally?
Yes, a brief hello and handing out of the service leaflet. I think that was the only time someone actually spoke to me whilst I was there.
Was your pew comfortable?
As comfortable as any ordinary C of E pew designed so that you can feel your bones rubbing, and just when you've finally found a comfortable position it's time to leave.
How would you describe the pre-service atmosphere?
Peaceful, but mainly because people weren't talking to each other. The ladies "of a certain age" were chatting quietly, but that was about it for talking.
What were the exact opening words of the service?
"Good morning and welcome to St Paul's on our patronal festival." This was said from the back of the church but everyone was facing the front, meaning we had to crane round in our pews to see what was going on.
What books did the congregation use during the service?
No books. We were given a service booklet at the start (colour printed fancy!).
What musical instruments were played?
Organ and piano.
Did anything distract you?
St Paul's being "the Actors' Church," there are many interesting plaques on the walls commemorating famous personalities from the theatre. I found it very distracting in an "Our Father, who art in oooh! Terence Rattigan!" sort of way. Owing to a great interest in theatre, I recognised far more names than perhaps other people would (Flora Robson and Robert Helpman, for example), and even when I didn't I was still curious. I can't begin to imagine how distracting it would be for a blue plaque fanatic (blue plaques, fastened to many buildings in London, commemorate the fact that a famous person lived or worked there). Furthermore, I was distracted by the fact that there were no women amongst the clergy or supporting cast. And when the rector, flanked by his curates, performed a synchronised bowing display during the eucharistic prayer, I felt an urge to start singing that children's nursery jingle Stand up, sit down, keep moving.
Was the worship stiff-upper-lip, happy clappy, or what?
Stiff-upper-lip. This is Anglican at the level that falls just short of what clergy friends affectionately refer to as "bells and smells."
Exactly how long was the sermon?
10 minutes.
On a scale of 1-10, how good was the preacher?
9 I admired how relaxed and confident the preacher was.
In a nutshell, what was the sermon about?
Paul's conversion in Acts leads us to think that if our experience of God isn't like Paul's on the road to Damascus (hearing the voice of God, struck blind for three days), then it's not authentic or valid. Paul's conversion actually occurred over his whole lifetime, and he experienced God in the everyday just as we do. Our conversion is lifelong too, and we shouldn't worry if we don't have a road to Damascus, because we all struggle toward God and faith slowly, over a lifetime, with times of moving away from God as well as moving toward him.
Which part of the service was like being in heaven?
The sermon was excellent and the piano music during communion was gorgeous, but the real stand-out bit of the service for me was the reading. The reader (a late-middle-aged gentleman who seemed very distinguished) was absolutely fantastic, reading with feeling and excitement. I've only ever heard one other reader do that, years ago.
And which part was like being in... er... the other place?
In contrast to the reading and the sermon, some of the other parts of the service seemed a little flat. And I could have done with a bit more joy in the singing, too.
What happened when you hung around after the service looking lost?
Nothing. I smiled hopefully at this or that person, but I think perhaps St Paul's falls prey to the great problem of many central London churches they get a lot of visitors and possibly don't think they can welcome them all. A welcoming committee would help.
How would you describe the after-service coffee?
Very swish. We're talking filter coffee in French cafetieres, no less, poured out into proper cups. Also available were big ceramic pots of tea, and posh foil-wrapped chocolate biscuits, plus an assortment of other biccies. I wondered, though, if the biccies weren't special in honor of the patronal festival.
How would you feel about making this church your regular (where 10 = ecstatic, 0 = terminal)?
7 I'd go again if all the readers would promise to be as good as the gentleman who was doing it that day. I'm afraid, though, that I'd end up sitting at the back and making myself invisible. When I join a new church I often find I have to make a concerted effort to talk to people, as I'm rather shy. I would prefer that someone take the initiative to talk to me.
Did the service make you feel glad to be a Christian?
Yes. Having even one passage from the Bible brought so vividly to life in the reading, and discussed so well in the sermon, was great. I mentioned this to the preacher on my way out, and he seemed more than a little surprised and bewildered.
What one thing will you remember about all this in seven days' time?
Well, it's been over seven days, and I have to say the reading is what I remember most.


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But it is his well-informed advocacy of Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of his native India, that has made him an internationally known figure. In his book Freedom From Disease -- How to Control Free Radicals, and Major Cause of Aging and Disease, Dr. Sharma describes the beginnings of his research on Ayurveda. He was present at an international meeting of physicians, convened in India in 1987 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for the purpose of initiating research on the ancient herbal formula Amrit Kalash. The formula, provided by one of the top Ayurvedic physicians in India (where Ayurveda has governmental recognition), was a combination of dozens of herbs, prepared in a specific manner involving hundreds of distinct steps.
As Dr. Sharma listened to what he considered to be a series of amateurish research ideas, he grew steadily more impatient. Finally unable to contain himself, he let everyone know exactly what was wrong with their proposals, and laid out a proposal consistent with the university-based research protocols he was familiar with from his work at Ohio State. At that point the Maharishi said, "Good. Now you should do it."
To his credit, Sharma followed through, creating one of the more impressive bodies of natural medicine research in existence. The initial findings demonstrated that Amrit Kalash possessed antioxidant power up to 1000 times greater than vitamins C and E. Later animal studies showed that it protected against malignancy, and current human studies are demonstrating its ability to lower high levels of blood fats, a key factor in the development of heart disease.
Dr. Sharma is a frequent lecturer at conferences worldwide, and has presented his research findings to the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization.
For further information: Hari Sharma, M.D.
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Hari Sharma Interview
Daniel Redwood: What principles form the foundation of Ayurveda?
Hari Sharma: Nature runs in cycles. Once there was a time of suffering and illness, and all the rishis [sages] got together. They wanted to find out how to eliminate the suffering, so they meditated together. When you meditate together you create a coherence, a transcendental coherent consciousness, and at that level of consciousness there is relationship between name and form. What it means is that if you ask a question, you have the answer. One of the rishis was named Bharadwaj, and he kept this question in his mind, about how to end suffering. And in this field of transcendental awareness, the whole thing was cognized.
DR: The entire body of Ayurveda emerged all at once?
HS: Yes. This knowledge of Ayurveda does not come through experimentation -- it is cognized knowledge that was revealed in totality. It is not incomplete, where you then do some experiment here and there and change it. Itâs eternal knowledge.