"What can possibly go wrong? [Cancers]

Proto-oncogenes - Growth factors - Signalling enzymes - Receptors - Transcription factors

Proto-oncogene errors

DNA repair gene errors

Tumour suppressor gene errors"

Dr John Bradley, for the Open University, Module S290 (2021).

A proto-oncogene is a normal gene involved in cell growth and division that can become an on-cogene (a cancer causing gene). This can occur if mutated or overexpressed.

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The above post was already in (as an edit). Matters are still progressing OK for me. I'll put an update on my 'Who's That Girl' thread, before the end of the current month. To any male out there over 50, if you've never had a PSA test, I'd (again) recommend one. You could always put off the DRE (if this was making you reluctant to request these), until, at least, you had the result of the PSA! Better to have both though. Best wishes, J.

P.S. Less than 24 hours ago, it has been announced that Bonehead from Oasis - Paul Arthurs - has had to pull out of their tour due to his recent diagnosis and only two or three weeks ago, Bjorn Borg, Wimbledon Men's Singles Champion 1976-1980 inclusive, was talking openly about his own prostate cancer operation. Empathy and All the best, to each (and to all the other 50,000 in the UK + very many more in the World that will currently be experiencing - or have recently experienced - this too).

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SECRETS AND TIGERS

Freudian secret
Foster dream self scrutiny
Reveal it
This guilt is groundless

No need to wait
Too late she's gone now
Papi gave me some space
At least to escape

Darwinian selection
Roar, Eureka! And
Now, I understand

(Jem H, 2013)


The above is a 'lyric' inspired by, my past experience, my reading and the track 'Understand', by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (1976).

The following 'lyric', first below, 'Flower of Youth', was inspired by a former work colleague and friend (2013/15), Bryan Ferry and Dave Stewart's track, 'Goddess Of Love' (2002), 'Another Time, Another Place' (Ferry, 1974), Roxy's track 'Mother of Pearl' (Ferry, 1973) and our own holiday in France in 2002. Particularly, a kind local, in the university city of Nantes, who saw us with our roadmap unfolded on the grass (ah, those days without Smart phones...) With this, I had chords, tempo, a top-line melody and a rough demo...You can tell I'm an amateur and Harley was a master (lol)!


Oh flower of youth
Not uncouth
Grown from the truth

Oh instinct want
More than a font
Warm in Nantes

Oh woman of pearl
More than a girl
Life in a whirl

When it comes to this
More than a kiss
Covered with bliss


A halcyon day
Goes your own way
Taking time to play

Oh spirit of youth
Not uncouth
Simply, the truth

(Jem H, 2013)



The final 'lyrical' entry for my triptych was inspired by my Freudian obsession, a 'terror' dream I had in April 1979 and Cockney Rebel's track, 'Sweet Dreams' (1974)


THE INDESTRUCTIBLE WISH

Recession/ depression/ what we need is/ a concession
The perception is/ it's just frozen

My motor's driving/ this state of regression
It's much more interesting/ when the dream is progression

Preconscious is unconscious/ and the dream reveals/
The indestructible wish


A crack in the ice/ is what we need/
Just one little break/ They're not playing fair

If the motor's driving/ the perception is/
A state of regression

It's much more interesting/ when the dream is progression.

(Jem H, 2013)

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28/10/25 - I've taken the link out. Even though they are not my accounts, I'm uncomfortable with leaving links in to material that use, in essence, the whole of the song that is available on record - unless the owner of the intellectual work gave express consent. In other words, I'm returning to the status quo as it was prior to 14 February 2005, when YouTube was created. All the best...

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Cockney Rebel at their finest. Steve Harley at his most brilliant (if not yet quite at his most commercial). For me, his cleverest, most vital, most relevant, song. X


Associated thread:

www.steveharley.com/forum/7-welcome-mat/...kney-rebel-1973.html

"...Come black or white
And step on it..." (Harley, 1976)


For me, the second best track on 'Timeless Flight', after 'All Men Are Hungry'. In a way, they might be about a similar thing (narrative).

I've only slept for four hours (a siesta may be on the cards for this afternoon, but in any event I'll sleep well tonight, I think) and so my neuronal action potentials and synapsing may be off course, but in any event these are some of my views about narrative.

Cockney Rebel had already performed the three album deal, prior to this album. After the most commercially successful album, 'The Best Years Of Our Lives", the pressure may have come from the record company, or indeed Steve himself!

The concept that followed was about (maybe) lack of time. In a career on the ascendency?


Look at Steve's garb. 18th or 19th Century Poet? Look at his smile in the opening vocal. Is he rebelling against the pressure? Is he telling himself that a) he is a serious writer and/or b) that despite everything - he's managed it again (the album did pretty well commercially)!?

Is he (also) thinking back to (inspiration from) his former career as an accountant journalist (similar pressures)?



In the public domain since 2013:

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28/10/25 - I've taken the link out. Even though it is not my account, I'm uncomfortable with leaving links in to material that use, in essence, the whole of the song that is available on record - unless the owner of the intellectual work gave express consent. In other words, I'm returning to the status quo as it was prior to 14 February 2005, when YouTube was created. All the best...

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For me (it all started in the 1950's), I've realised reminiscing, that, predominantly, my most exciting, vital, enjoyable, pleasurable, libidinal, life events and experiences (shared and sole), have tended to occur in the middle of the decade(s), ...4, ...5,...6. I don't understand why, unless some underlying rhythm goes on?

This has been the case in the 1960's, the 1970's, the 1980's, the 1990's, the 2000's, the 2010's and indeed, the 2020's - vital, at least!!! Strange...

The following, I believe (having searched/due diligence) does not appear on vinyl, CD or video - other than this one below (plus a few other individual fan takes, from the same gig) - unlike 2012, Birmingham - though I stand to be corrected by anyone that knows better...

What a gem - I can't believe less than 1.5K souls to date have viewed and listened...since 2017. The date of this performance was 28 June 2014... at, The Royal Albert Hall (I've only been to a single gig there).

As I've said over the last few days, this is a permanent snapshot of history, Harley and Cockney Rebel plus orchestra - the way the first album turned out...for those key tracks, Sebastian and Death Trip.

Because of my 28/10/25 sensibility (as referred to on a number of threads), I would hasten to disassociate myself from listening and watching other tracks, immediately 'on the back' of this one. That applies to any and all of my chosen video links, already out there on the World Wide Web - created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (b. 1955), initially to help scientists easily share data across the internet.

Death Trip. It closed Cockney Rebel's most innovative album (my view) and the concept of Cockney Rebel was from that point realised. Steve found what he was looking for and he also shared it with the world.

Stay your way,

All the best,

Jem

X

"The fact that light travels at a finite, but very high speed, was first discovered in 1676 by the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer...his value for the speed of light was 140,000 miles per second, compared to the modern value of 186,000 miles per second...


Einstein made the revolutionary suggestion that gravity is not a force like other forces, but is a consequence of the fact that space-time is not flat, as had previously been assumed: it is curved, or 'warped', by the distribution of mass and energy in it. Bodies like the Earth are.not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points...


Up to the beginning of this [20th] century people believed in an absolute time...However, the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer, no matter how he was moving, led to the theory of relativity - and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time...Thus time became a more personal concept, relative to the observer that measured it..."


Einstein's revolutionary suggestion (second para above refers), in my understanding, extends Newton's law(s) of gravity. It's just that Einstein's general theory of relativity, predicted a slightly different motion, from Newton's theory.

Hawking points out that, the general theory of relativity, is only one of two basic partial theories explaining the universe, however. The other, quantum mechanics, is not entirely consistent with relativity (at least that was the case in 1999)..

Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking demonstrated that Einsteins's general theory of relativity implied, that, the universe must have a beginning (from a point of singularity) and perhaps, an end.


Reference: 'A Brief History Of Time' by Professor Stephen Hawking, Bantam Books, (1999, original 1988).

I have a later paperback edition and the quotes are from pages, 21, 33-34 and 159.

Issac Newton (1643-1727)
Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, author, inventor - English polymath

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Theoretical physicist - German born

Roger Penrose (born 1931) English/British
Mathematician, Nobel Laureate in Physics

Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) English/British
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist

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When Steve Harley (1951-2024) wrote some of his lyrics, he could touch upon some deep ideas and questions, in my view. Music and science make appropriate bedfellows, I may have referred to this before. All the best. X

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