text:
Site indices
Previous Issue <-> Next Issue
Errors-To: firstname.lastname@example.com Reply-To: email@example.com Sender: firstname.lastname@example.com Precedence: bulk From: email@example.com To: rush_mailing_list Subject: 07/08/91 - The National Midnight Star #282 ** ____ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ** ** / /_/ /_ /\ / /__/ / / / / /\ / /__/ / ** ** / / / /__ / \/ / / / / /__/ / \/ / / /___ ** ** ** ** __ ___ ____ ** ** /\ /\ / / \ /\ / / / _ /__/ / ** ** / \/ \ / /___/ / \/ / /___/ / / / ** ** ** ** ____ ____ ___ ___ ** ** /__ / /__/ /__/ ** ** ____/ / / / / \ ** The National Midnight Star, Number 282 Monday, 8 July 1991 Today's Topics: Administrivia You know you're a Rush fan when.... Release dates ..7...8...9...10 Rush quotes in "serious" work rush cd bootleg more balls! Waaaah Waaaah Waaaah Re: 07/03/91 - The National Midnight Star #280 QR and Scott Rockenfield Returned mail album release dates Bootleg questions balls found "The Pass" SPARC audio files tidbits from the Faql PERMANENT WAVES TEST PRESSING Three Gilded Balls You know you're a RUSH fan... record label change Radio Show, Alex and Geddy nerds? and Computer Music Didacts and Narpets, and COS album U KNOW U'R A RUSH FAN.../NEW ALBUM UPDATE! Bootlegs back to school Rush quotes - fortunes with sound ---------------------------------------------------------- From: Editor, The National Midnight Star
Subject: Administrivia For those of you keeping score, there was no NMS for either Thursday (7/4) or Friday (7/5). Also, read closely this issue, especially a certain post about the new album-to-be - it seems to be pretty interesting, and jives with information I'd previously gotten from another source. Here's to a fast arrival of 9/3! rush-mgr ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 16:22:17 -0400 From: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: You know you're a Rush fan when.... You know you're a Rush fan when you go into the corporate mailroom and write "Rules" beside where it says "Rush" on every priority mailing envelope....(ahem, not that I've done this....yet...) cAm "...i'm walking around upside-down..." -- the Connells ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1991 15:31:26 CDT From: firstname.lastname@example.com (Hactar) Subject: Release dates Well.....the dates are almost correct. Actually, HYF was officially released in September '87, although the single "Force 10" was first played about the third week of August. Also, I think Signals was released in August, not September of '82, since I seem to remember buying it a few weeks before classes began that Fall (usu. class starts in August for me.) Steve Fennell - Texas A&M University ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1991 16:52:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Gregory C Best Subject: ..7...8...9...10 Ok. I see a trend towards random flaming, and I am going to try and dump some halon on it. This is nuts guys (<- not gender specific, I just can't bear "y'all"). This list was created for a certain purpose, and we are here to help fulfill it. If things go right, we all reap benefits. Each and every one us has a different viewpoint and a different style of presentation, and that is what makes such a list interesting. I'm here because I like to hear various opinions and interpretations of Rush and their work. You don't like Rush? Great! Tell me why. Just don't *itch at me (us) for subscribing to a list like this and voicing my (our) opinions. Every now and then something comes up that I really couldn't care less about. I SCROLL PAST IT. I guess what I am saying is this: *1) PLEASE don't stop doing things the way they are being done. That is why I am here. I don't want things bland. *2) Keep giving all opinions, but do it in a unobtrusive manner. You can tell when you are getting condescending or hostile. *3) If you must flame, seriously consider whether the rest of the list really needs to hear it. Just about everyone can be reached by personal e-mail and you can iron out differences that way. Don't just vent your emotion on the list- Most of us really won't feel chastised. *4) If things really get that bad, unsubscribe (send to firstname.lastname@example.com). No need to make a specticle and send a good ridence letter to the NMS- We'll just scroll past it. *5) Kudos to the rush-mgr for putting up with all of it, and not exercising his ability to censor. Finally- Too much time and space have been put into this already. If you have a disenting opinion or just feel like putting a torch to me do it at email@example.com. Sorry it took so much space to say this, it'll be the last. "Be excelent to each other" -Greg ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1991 17:09 MST From: Roo-Dog Rip Subject: Rush quotes in "serious" work I used several quotes from Rush in papers written in college. A paper I wrote examining the growth of the isolationist movement in the US and the concurrent rise of facism/nationalism in Europe(at the same time as the pacifist movement was trying to ban all wars) quoted the last verse from "Witch Hunt", while a paper on theological perspectives of nuclear weapons/war quoted from "The Weapon." I am writing a vaguely autobiographical novel based on the theme of "Circumstances" and I'm certain my Ph.D. thesis will have a Rush quote in there somewhere. Maybe I need some other sources....naaaaaaah! Roo-Dog Rip ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \Roo-Dog Rip is: <> "O! What a rogue and peasant slave am I!"/ \Derrell Durrett <> --- _Hamlet_ II. ii, 584 / \firstname.lastname@example.com <> / \email@example.com <> High Energy Physics: The New Religion! / \Voice:(303)492-8713 <> Get Some Today! / \Fax:(303)492-5119|Msg:492-1228 <> / \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ \ High Energy Physics Group | University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado, USA / vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 19:14:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Philip M. Simon" Subject: rush cd bootleg don't pay more than 20 dollars for the bootleg that h.govin is trying to sell. i bought it for that much, and it is not that rare. not to offend you, horst, but you are charging way too much, and I cannot let fellow rush fans be robbed. just my thoughts phil ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 20:39:43 EDT From: firstname.lastname@example.com (Gregg Jaeger) Subject: more balls! I wrote <This posting is in answer to Gregg Jaeger's dismissal of the correlation >between the three balls on the HYF cover and Ayn Rand's The >Fountainhead. Anyone who has both read the book listens to Rush can not >ignore the direct allusion to the three distinct spherical objects as a >metaphor for individuality, independence, and egoism. I seem to recall >it being mentioned on about page 300. Let's not be holier-than-thou about Objectivism, please. I did not _dismiss_ the hypothesis that the three balls have a connection with _TF_ I was merely arguing against it in the face of the evidence which had so far appeared in TNMS. I have read the books of Ayn Rand and appreciate her ethical philosophy. I simply did not remember any such connection. Since several people in a recent posting claimed to remember the passage about three guilded balls, it seems likely that there is a connection between the balls and _TF_ -- though I'm not quite prepared to accept that they are ``a metaphor for individuality, independence, and egoism'' -- and what I'm looking for is definitive evidence of the connection (you know, a quote and a chapter or page). Furthermore, there may be, and it seems likely that there is, _more than one_ meaning that can be attributed to the balls. Phil goes on >Gregg claims that the three balls signify the three members of Rush, and >that is an ostensibly plausible theory. However, after reading The >Fountainhead, that theory was quickly dismissed in my mind. What's so implausible about it? I think Phil is dismissing the idea that the balls represent the band members too quickly. The _HYF_-tour rear-screen video (where the three balls pass by the albums of Rush) gives some support to the balls/band connection. There is no reason why the balls can't represent _two_ things. Paul May's post was much more enlightening (thanks, Paul.) >I've lent my copy of TF to a friend, so I can't quote exactly, but >there is a section >where one of the characters states that the symbol for Mankind should be >the 3 balls of a pawnbroker - the idea being that Mankind has pawned its >integrity to the highest bidder, and is satifying its short-term, >primitive needs, rather than investing for the future & doing what is >right & proper. This reply has substance to it and accords with the themes of _HYF_, ``Red Tide,'' ``Second Nature,'' ``Mission,'' and ``Prime Mover.'' Indeed, Paul goes on >There are other quotes in the book, which refer to Mankind's spirit of >adventure and curiosity. Ayn Rand calls the force which motivates these >impulses a 'Prime Mover'. The concept of a `Prime Mover' goes back to Aristotle where it has a much different meaning than in Rand, being rather the ultimate cause of the cause-and-effect chain of the universe. For an advocate of the power of the human and individual spirit, this is a nice twist on the original concept. The following is a quote from _TF_ [Ch. XVIII] (p.710 in the Macmillan 1986 hardcover printing) -- relevant to ``Mission'' -- it is Roark speaking: ``Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision... the great creators -- the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors -- stood alone against the men of their time... His truth was his only motive. His own truth, and his own work to achieve it in his own way. A symphony, a philosophy, an airplane, or a building -- that was his goal and his life... The creation, not its users... The creation which gave form to his truth... His vision came from his own spirit... [The ego] is the whole secret of their power -- that it was self- sufficient, self-motivated, self-generated. A first cause, a fount of energy, a life force, a Prime Mover...'' ``[Man's] brain is his only weapon...'' Clearly ``Prime Mover'' and ``Mission'' have something substantial to do with Objectivism. I looked through _TF_ and wasn't able to locate the passage mentioned by Phil and Paul and others, but I found another interesting bit relevant to Rush (and the above mentioned ``weapon''?) from the opening paragraphs of chapter V: ``[Dominique] saw the faces streaming past her, the faces made alike by fear -- fear as a common denominator, fear of themselves, fear of all and of one another.'' These three forms of fear were always the way I believed the songs of the Fear Trilogy come together to form a whole: ``fear of themselves'' -- ``The Enemy Within,'' ``fear of all'' -- ``Witch Hunt,'' and ``fear of one another'' -- ``The Weapon.'' Pretty neat. Although these three parts of the trilogy contain other themes as well. So, can anybody find the location of the hiding balls? Gregg ----------------------------------- Gregg Jaeger (firstname.lastname@example.com) ``Truth is after all a moving target'' Dept(s). of Physics (and Philosophy) Boston University, Boston MA 02215 ->>READ DOS PASSOS!(his books, i.e.)<<- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------- From: Chris Schiller Subject: Waaaah Waaaah Waaaah Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 17:38:16 PDT > From: Phil Kime > Please unsubscribe me. This digest has always been a little too religeous > anyway but whoever wrote the Ferrari crap in the FAQ wants killing. I know for With acknowledgement to the genius of Dana Carvey: Waaaaaaaaaah Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah In my day......they didn't have a National Midnight Star, Rush fans just played Rush as loud as they could and spit at each other. To get to concerts, we had to walk through the Toronto snow barefoot, uphill both ways, and WE LIKED IT! > a fact that there are many readers who gag when we get all these purile and > unecessary 'lyrical interpretation' pieces and only stay because occasionally In my day.....we didn't have cute little words like purile and lyrical, we had one Rush song, Working Man, and you listened to it over and over and the only thing you discussed was why there was nothing going on here, and WE LIKED IT! > there are interesting and useful bits of information that aren't just teenage > hero worship. I really like Rush, probably more than most people who read the > digest. However, they are not gods, Neil is not the last word on the problems > of the world etc. I get the feeling that this digest is doing a great job > of trying to put artificial meat on the bones of an interesting but limited > concept. Sure, why not give out scarce info on release dates, tour dates, In my day.....we didn't have artificial meat, we didn't have meat at all, we just had bones, and we didn't roll them, we gnawed them until our teeth fell out. And if we wanted an interesting but limited concept we just puked the whole mess up and ate it again, AND WE LIKED IT! > concert tracks listings etc. but all this 'well I think The Trees means this' > rubbish is gratuitous and very often infuriating (not just to me ---I know of > a considerable number of subscribers who only stay for the useful stuff). Just In my day.....when someone used phrases like "rubbish is gratuitous and very often" we just turned Rush up louder because it sounded like a "considerable number" of our parents. We didn't have "useful stuff" like weed, we smoked orange peels and coffee grinds, and WE LIKED IT! > keep all that crap to mail. Nobody really wants to hear a neo-romantic > interpretation of 2112 etc. In my day....we only had one philosopher, Ayn Rand, and we grabbed any neo-collectivist who called objectivists neo-romantics. We opened their mouth to try to see where all the drivel came from and found out we were looking in the wrong orifice. But we listened anyway because we were sub-juvenile Rush fans, and WE LIKED IT! Chris Schiller email@example.com ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 21:06:12 EDT From: Todd Fantz Subject: Re: 07/03/91 - The National Midnight Star #280 Three gilded balls. pg 314 1stprgh The Fountainhead/Signet I do not think it has anything to do with HYF at this point. tf ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 21:39:42 EST From: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: QR and Scott Rockenfield Scott R. -is- a nice chap, confirming Phil D. Croix's impression from that interview. Ultimately, by providing backstage passes to a friend of mine during their last tour (they met at a simple record-store signing session), Scott opened MANY doors to us. There isn't a "megaforce of lasers," nor will you see bunnies dance during "Tom Sawyer" (!), but if you like expert musicianship, top- notch singing, and a truly phenomenal video/concert interplay, go see Queensryche on their current tour. I saw the show two days ago and even with high expectations, I was still QUITE impressed. The video sequencing was stunning -- flawless timing, better even than (gasp) Rush's during the PRESTO tour. There are a number of familiar firms and names among the tour crew too (See Factor, et al.) "If you only see ONE concert this year.......you need to get out more often.." --And THIS show is a good one if you don't mind some intense guitar. :-) --Paul Pres., Int'l Michael Moorcock Apprec. Society email@example.com GEnie: P.CASHMAN Better the pride that resides In a citizen of the world Than the pride that divides When a colourful rag is unfurled ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 21:18:02 -0600 From: email@example.com (erik habbinga) Subject: album release dates To the best of my knowledge, the missing album release dates are: ASOH January 1989 Presto November 1989 Chronicles September 1990 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik Habbinga firstname.lastname@example.com U-niversity of C-olorado between L-ongmont and A-rvada "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 91 13:24:36 -0400 From: email@example.com (Andy Douglass) Subject: Bootleg questions G'day and happy 4th of July fellow Rushians! I just recieved access to some Rush bootlegs for a pretty good price. Most bootlegs run for over $30, but I found a place where I can pick them up for under $20. Last month I picked up these three: 1. Rushian Roulette (Holland 1979) 2. Temple of Syrinx (digitally improved version of the GUP vidio) 3. Red Stars of the Solar Federation (an identical version of the Exit...Stage Left video, static included, on CD, with the voic of Neil on a couple tracks discussing the meanings of certain songs. Not to rain on somebody's little rip-off crusade, it's not worth anything over $30 bucks, considering I've seen it in the import sections of many record stores around Cleveland for $22. I'd say it's the most common of Rush boots. Hell, it's not even a true bootleg!) All of these are available on CD. Anyway, I was just wondering if anybody owned one of these three: 1. Fly in the Night (US tour,1980 or 77, i can't remember) 2. Currently En Vogue (US 1978 tour) 3. Live Under Pressure (Pittsburgh 1984) I'll recieve these three in about 9 weeks. I was wondering if anyone else had them, how they sounded, what material was on them, etc... Please E-mail me if you have any info on these three, or any questions on the ones I already have. "We'd like to do a song from our Farewell to Kings album..." [Alex interupts with a little mexican guitar solo] "...It's a little Spanish song... It's called Closer to the Heart." -The Gedster. -- "Let us not go gently into the endless winter night..." -Rush (RED TIDE) ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 91 18:46:11 EDT From: firstname.lastname@example.com (Gregg Jaeger) Subject: balls found Hi Everyone, Since yesterday's posting I have found the quote from _The Fountainhead_ containing the missing three balls. The following quotation is from Ch. X (p.321 in the Macmillan 1986 hardcover printing) -- it is Kent Lansing speaking: ``And what incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn. And yet, if I were asked to choose a symbol for humanity as we know it, I wouldn't choose a cross nor an eagle nor a lion and unicorn. I'd choose three gilded balls.'' So it seems Paul was closest to the mark in his recollection. In this quotation the three guilded balls aren't a metaphor for ``individuality, independence, and egoism,'' but rather a symbol of _``humanity as we know it''_, which is not Objectivist perfect but rather the contrary. In fact the following lines from ``Second Nature'' seem the album's closest connection with the three gilded balls: ``Folks are basically decent/ Conventional wisdom would say But we read about the exceptions/ In the papers every day'' Now I don't mean to suggest that Rush are holding this as an ideal for human nature. I merely offer that the allusion, if intentional, suggests that the album is delving into various aspects of human nature _as it is_ rather than being a monument to Objectivism. Gregg ----------------------------------- Gregg Jaeger (firstname.lastname@example.com) ``Truth is after all a moving target'' Dept(s). of Physics (and Philosophy) Boston University, Boston MA 02215 ->>READ DOS PASSOS!(his books, i.e.)<<- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 91 08:24:43 -0400 From: email@example.com Subject: "The Pass" just finished reading the (very nice) FAQL and the bit about "The Pass" intrigued me a little...it was the first time i had heard Neil's explanation, but i was wondering why he didn't mention the line, "Christ, what have you done?" in his explanation...(maybe he did somewhere else in the interview, i don't know)...well, i have heard (read) several interpretations of this line in the NMS and elsewhere, and some people think it has a deep historical/philosophical meaning, and others think it's just "strong language"... and then there's my opinion...i think it's both; i could see how using the example of any historical figure willingly dying as support for the song's theme, which is, if i understand Neil's explanation, choosing to die a "noble" death is far worse than choosing to live. Then again, it's easy to see how anyone close to someone who has committed suicide could cry out "Christ, what have you done?" But the line "Someone set a bad example" could directly point to Christ, since he is "named" in the song, but could very well point to anyone who has committed suicide...anyway, i think my rambling calls for some more thoughts and opinions of more insightful readers than myself...does anyone know of an interview where Neil refers to this line specifically? Please understand that I would rather not start a religous debate or anything...just another "song dissection"...(Rush fans have a religious debate? Scary...) Cam firstname.lastname@example.com (summer) email@example.com (anytime) "...you won't get by with the sleep still in your eyes, no matter what your dream might be..." ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 91 10:31:58 EDT From: email@example.com (Brian Samuel Bevins) Subject: SPARC audio files Just a quick question. Is it still possible to get those SPARC audio files that were at NIST for a while? If so, from where? [ If you do have them or can get to them, drop a line to me at the administrative address, please. :rush-mgr ] Thanks Brian firstname.lastname@example.com ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 91 13:22:46 -0400 From: "Douglas G Schwabe" Subject: tidbits from the Faql Hope everyone had a great Fourth of July, also, Happy Belated Canada Day. speaking of Canada, Just listened to Kim Mitchell's "Go for Soda" on WDVE in Pgh. I get chills listening to that song, one reason because they play it every now and then here in PGH. Of course, that's the only song of Kim they play down here. It's a crying shame. Anyway, I came here to write about the FAQL. Greg, here is Anthem's address: Anthem Records Oak Manor P.O. 1000 Oak Ridges, Ontario Canada L0G 1P0 Eric, Geddy's birthday is JULY 29, not last Saturday (We forgive you, at least I do anyway :-) ). FYI, Alex's birthday is Aug 27 and Neil's Sept 12. Rush's address is in the FAQL, so if anyone is interested in sending cards to the boyz, knock your self out. August 3 is perfect night for a Rush Party in Pittsburgh. I am think about getting a party together in Toronto for the middle of August. I would love to meet some of the Canadian Rush/Max Webster/Kim Mitchell fans as well as some of the Buffalo fans. People from outside the area are invited to come up. Will let you know as soon a details are available. Doug "Get Lucky, Boys and Girls, put your face to the world" ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 06 Jul 91 00:40 EDT From: MCS Subject: PERMANENT WAVES TEST PRESSING Hi, A friend of mine is selling off his record collection, and one of the things he's got for sale is an ORIGINAL "Permanent Waves" Test Pressing. It's in absolutely mint condition, serial number 4001 from P.R.C. Mastering Studio in Cambridge I think. At any rate, it's an unbelievably rare item that should belong in the home of a REAL rush fan and not some idiot "rare record dealer" that will mark it up to 400$. So if you would like to make an offer for it, please send email to me (email@example.com) and I'll be sure to forward your offer to him. This is once in a lifetime folks. Take advantage of it. Till later... <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> | Neil Prasad | Carleton U. | Recycle paper, | | Mass Communication | firstname.lastname@example.com | not music!! | <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ---------------------------------------------------------- From: email@example.com (Dana Borger) Subject: Three Gilded Balls Date: Sat, 6 Jul 91 12:27:40 EDT The elusive quote concerning the gilded balls occurs in Part II, Chapter 10 (pg 314 of the Signet paperback edition) of _The Fountainhead_. The "contextless" quote: ------ [Ken Lansing speaking to Howard Roark] "'...Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes an ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn. And yet, if I were asked to choose a symbol for humanity as we know it, I wouldn't choose a cross nor an eagle nor a lion and unicorn. I'd choose three gilded balls.'" ------ I say "contextless" because this quote is only a small part of a larger discussion, one worth reading (but not typing by me!) to get the full meaning. Dana "Love and Life are deep Maybe as his eyes are wide" ---------------------------------------------------------- From: firstname.lastname@example.com (dweezilbub) Subject: You know you're a RUSH fan... Date: 6 Jul 91 15:39:54 EDT (Sat) when your private shell directory has 25 files in it, and doing a rm RUSH* would erase all of them! Yabba Dabba -- \_._____._____._____. ==== ==== ===== .____._____.___.___/ \__The Enterprise BBS == == == ,===~ This space for rent!__/ __-__________-__ ==~~== == ===== ____-_____-___-__ \ \ \email@example.com/ / / / ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 91 17:41:27 EDT From: email@example.com (Jay Shriver) Subject: record label change why, after many successful years with Mercury-Polygram records did Rush change to Atlantic records? Where they dropped by Mercury-Polygram (not likely) or did Atlantic just offer them a better deal? I'm suprised that M-P would let a band that has been as successful as Rush move to another label. ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Radio Show, Alex and Geddy nerds? and Computer Music Date: Sat, 06 Jul 91 21:54:38 -0400 From: "Chris Webster" One of the local radio stations, 95X, is presently playing a holiday program called the Spirit of Rush. They've said it's a satelite show, but I doubt that it's being done nationwide as I type this. I'm just wondering if this particular show has been done before. In case it's not in the archives, I'm taping it, but I've already lost some of the announcers' parts because they cut ends of songs short. Also, it's the first time I've heard Alex and Geddys' voices. (Neil hasn't spoken yet. :[ ) When hearing their voices for the first time, did anyone else think they sounded like the classic nerd stereotype? (Boy, am I glad I witnessed them in concert before hearing this....) Also, in case anyone's into PC music, I've come across two .rol format songs by rush. One's the Spirit of Radio, and I'm not quite sure what the other is. Neither one is the band itself playing, but instead is an imitator playing a single keyboard. I have an Soundblaster card for my PC, and I've gotten the software to play this particular format on it from an ftp site. If anyone wants more info, email me. -Chris Webster Bitnet:cwebster@sunrise Internet:firstname.lastname@example.com Cit-86 net:"Chris Webster"@UCC [Utica College Citadel] Smail: 108 Trinity Pl; Syracuse, NY 13210 AT&T net: (315)-423-3565 _____________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1991 16:05 EST From: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Didacts and Narpets, and COS album Ok, just a few questions about COS an Didacts and Narpets: 1) Concerning the title, someone awhile back said that didacts were teachers and narpet is an anagram for N. Peart. Aren't didacts also addicts (another anagram). Just an observation. 2) I just picked up a copy of COS on record and it has all the lyrics on the inside cover (the album opens up). Considering that no one seems to know the correct lyrics to Didacts and Narpets and this album has them on the inside, is this album something of value? Just curious. 3) The lyrics (or lyric) to Didacts and Narpets, by the way is "Listen..." Please excuse me if this has alredy been said, but last I checked this was still up in the air. Later all. ****************************************************************************** R U S H "There is tic toc in atomic R U S H Leaders make a deal R U S H Cosmic is largly comic R U S H A con they couldn't conceal." ****************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 July 1991 23:02:48 CDT From: "RUSH HEAD " Subject: U KNOW U'R A RUSH FAN.../NEW ALBUM UPDATE! Hello to all those out in RUSHLAND. You know you're a RUSH FAN when..... You ask your parents to buy you a Hemispheres gold record award as one of your Grad. gifts. Now onto a topic you've all been waiting for.: News on ROLL THE BONES! The album is all finished. It contains 10 tracks, one of which will be an instrumental. The release date (which still has to be confirmed) is set for Sept. 3, 1991. The tour will probably start around the first week of November. They are booking dates around the Northeast U.S. Howard Ungerleighter, the production manager will be designing the light show but will not be touring with the band this tour. He is currently on the road with Queensryche and that tour will last until at least Jan. And afterwards will be touring with Tesla. The cover of the album: (drum roll please): A kid kicking a skull down the road. (this again is a rumour and still has to be confirmed). So far I have 3 song titles from the upcomming album. They are: 1. Roll The Bones (title track) 2. Dreamline (which should be the first single) 3. Where's my thing? Part IV. The gangster of boats trilogy. (this should be the new long awaited for INSTRUMENTAL). WHAT A TITLE EH? maybe another one of Alex's Dreams? thats it for now, I should have the other 7 titles by the end of the week, will definitely keep all of you informed. Have fun waiting for the new album. :) [ Yeah, but I knew this... heh heh heh :rush-mgr ] RUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSH P Internet:email@example.com P - Patster Bitnet: firstname.lastname@example.com - G Genie: P.Choy G P P - OBRQ: "Memory banks unloading, bytes break into bits - G unit one's in trouble, and its scared out of its wits" G RUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSHRUSH ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Bootlegs Date: Mon, 08 Jul 91 12:23:33 N From: Gordon MacKinney I've noticed a number of references to bootleg albums recently, as well as an occasional boot auction over the net. Everyone should make their own decision regarding the right or wrong of bootlegs, but in the interest of making informed decisions, people should be aware that bootleg recordings take money from the artists who earn it. One might argue that only the record companies suffer, but everything trickles down, either to the normal consumer who compensates for pirated material or to the artist who never sees bootleg revenue. A recent Time magazine article cited Frank Zappa's frustration at 400 different Zappa bootlegs that are on the market. It's ironic to see some contributors to TNMS promoting bootlegging while at the same time supporting the band with their postings. ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 91 09:46:52 EST From: firstname.lastname@example.com (Peter John Chestna) Subject: back to school hey, for any of you interested, I was watching Back To School w/Rodney Dangerfield and in the scene where his interogated by his teachers, the english teacher has him recite none other than "Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night". I was almost asleep at the time, but as soon as I recognized I sat up in my chair with a big F***ing smile on my face. Amazing the things that can get your attention. Pete ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 91 15:27:00 EDT From: Doug White Subject: Rush quotes - fortunes with sound Here's a nifty toy that I was diddling around with last Wed. afternoon (waiting for July 4th 4-day weekend). I forget who I got it from, but I took that Rush quote fortune script and mutated it into something that can either cat the quote (lyrics) or play the appropriate sparc sound file, or do both. I've got the text/quote/lyric part running okay, and all I need to do now is get ahold of the particular sound bites to go with the words. That's the neat part about this - you can add the audio piece by piece as you get it. (Anybody got a recording of Geddy singing "Catch the fish" ??? ;-) Anywho, if you want it, or want more info, lemme know! Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Douglas White, National Institute of Standards & Technology Bldg. 225, Rm A216, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 firstname.lastname@example.com / Voice: (301) 975-2182 / FAX: (301) 590-0932 "...Preacher on a corner, callin' it a crime - says 'The end don't jusify the means anytime.' I stood up on van, I yelled 'Excuse me, sir, there ain't nothin' wrong with this country a few plastic explosives wont cure!' " Steve Taylor, _I_Blew_Up_the_Clinic_Real_Good_ ---------------------------------------------------------- To submit material to The National Midnight Star, send mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com For administrative matters (additions, deletions, changes, and questions), send mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com There is now anonymous ftp access available on Syrinx. The network address to ftp to is: syrinx.umd.edu or 18.104.22.168 When you've connected, userid is "anonymous", password is . Once you've successfully logged on, change directory (cd) to 'rush'. There is also a mail server available (for those unable or unwilling to ftp). For more info, send email with the subject line of HELP to: firstname.lastname@example.com These requests are processed nightly. Use a subject line of MESSAGE to send a note to the server keeper or to deposit a file into the archive. The contents of The National Midnight Star are solely the opinions and comments of the individual authors, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the authors' management, or the mailing list management. Copyright The Rush Fans Mailing List, 1991. Editor, The National Midnight Star (Rush Fans Mailing List) ******************************************** End of The National Midnight Star Number 282 ********************************************
Previous Issue <-> Next Issue


text:
Skip to main content
Remove all filter values
Your search returned no results.
Showing results for "C."
Cabin Solutions
Cabin solution enhancements
Don't see what you're looking for? Search our database of thousands of new units, replacement parts and products available for rental or exchange. Price and availability are shown for select product lines.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Reversing Male Infertility
MIAMI, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Thousands of couples struggle with infertility. And while the causes may vary, a common condition that few men have heard of can be blocking their fertility. Now, there's a simple solution that's helping more couples conceive.
"The moment I saw him it was instant love," Kristine told Ivanhoe.
Kristine is talking about the day her son JP was born. A day she and her husband, John, thought would never happen after years of trying to conceive.
Kristine continued, "The worst part is when people tell you, 'you just need to relax, it will happen, don't worry."
But they did worry, so they both got checked out.
John explained to Ivanhoe, "They did some tests and they said, 'you know you have a problem,' and it's like what?"
Ranjith Ramasamy, MD, Director of Reproductive Urology at the University of Miami explained, "In fact, most … 50 percent of the time, it is the man's problem."
Doctor Ramasamy says the most common cause of male infertility is a condition called varicocele.
Doctor Ramasamy continued, "This is a condition where the veins around the testes are dilated, the temperature of the testes increases, and affects sperm production."
Because most men have no symptoms, it has to be diagnosed through physical examination. An injury can be the cause.
"I had a motorcycle accident at the race track back in 2005," said John.
Thanks to Dr. Ramasamy, John found out about a procedure using a microscope to reverse the varicocele and open up blood flow to the testes.
Doctor Ramasamy explained, "When the veins are tied off, the temperature in the testes cools off, and it takes up to about three months after surgery for the sperm parameters to improve."
Doctors say after the procedure, up to 65 percent of those couples can go on to conceive naturally.
"About two months later is when we found out we were pregnant," said Kristine.
John and Kristine tell other couples not to give up. If they had … Little JP might not be here today.
Kristine said, "He's the light in our lives. I mean I can't, we can't imagine life without him."
Giving hope to couples trying to conceive.
Doctor Ramasamay has performed over 200 of these procedures with a 97 percent success rate. The procedure is covered by most insurance companies. For more information about varicocele repair please visit www.ranjithramasamy.com.
Contributors to this news report include: Janna Ross, Field Producer; Judy Reich, Videographer; Cyndy McGrath, Supervising Producer; Gabriella Battistiol, Assistant Producer; Jamison Koczan, Editor.
To receive a free weekly e-mail on Medical Breakthroughs from Ivanhoe, sign up at: http://www.ivanhoe.com/ftk
Copyright 2018 by Ivanhoe Newswire - All rights reserved.


text:
Philadelphia, PA (March 22, 2017) – Oncoceutics, Inc. announced the publication of an original research article in the journal Clinical Cancer Research entitled "First-in-human Clinical Trial of Oral ONC201 in Patients with Refractory Solid Tumors" that describes the Phase I trial of the company's lead compound at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. The trial, led by Mark Stein, MD, a medical oncologist and member of the Phase I/Investigational Therapeutics Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute, demonstrated that the company's lead compound ONC201 is well-tolerated at plasma concentrations that meet or exceed the targeted therapeutic threshold and is biologically active in advanced cancer patients when orally administered at the recommended phase II dose (RP2D) of 625 mg every 3 weeks.
ONC201 selectively binds to and antagonizes DRD2, a member of the dopamine receptor family and of the superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that is dysregulated in many cancers. GPCRs represent therapeutic targets that have largely been untapped in oncology despite evidence showing that selective inhibition of DRD2 has the potential to be a promising novel therapeutic concept in oncology. The completion of the first-in-human clinical trial enables Phase II studies that are now underway for ONC201. Its validation as a viable clinical drug candidate also enables the development of a family of a novel class of GPCR-targeting anti-cancer agents called imipridones, derived from the founding compound ONC201.
Highlights of the first-in-human trial include the following: no adverse events > Grade 1 and possibly attributed to study drug occurred; PK exceeded target parameters, and pharmacodynamic assays demonstrated biological activity, including induction of caspase-cleaved keratin 18 and prolactin as serum biomarkers of apoptosis and DRD2 antagonism, respectively. Most importantly, radiographic regression of several individual metastatic lesions was observed along with prolonged stable disease (> 27 weeks) in prostate and endometrial cancer patients.
"I am delighted that Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey had the opportunity to introduce the first imipridone into the clinic," said Rutgers Cancer Institute's Dr. Stein, "providing patients who have exhausted their therapeutic options with a novel treatment for cancers that have no available therapies."
Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, Deputy Cancer Center Director of the Fox Chase Cancer Center, and in whose lab ONC201 was discovered added: "We are excited with the successful completion of the Phase I study, translating the potential of both ONC201 and the impridone family to clinically benefit our patients. I thank the investigators in this study and Oncoceutics for sharing our vision for this drug and for being pioneers in the clinical phase."
"This first clinical paper on ONC201 is exciting in many ways," said J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego. "Most particularly, it opens the door to targeting GPCRs in cancer, a well-established target class for modern drug development that has yet to be exploited in oncology. The field of oncology has benefitted many times from introductions of novel drug classes that involve new mechanisms to tackle difficult-to-treat cancers. I applaud the investigators for putting a stake in the ground to claim the introduction of a new class of compounds that has the potential to enrich the armamentarium of drugs and cancer targets that are available for oncologists to treat their patients."
About Oncoceutics
Oncoceutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage drug discovery and development company with a novel class of compounds that selectively target G protein-coupled receptors for oncology. The first lead compound to result from this program is ONC201, an orally active DRD2 small molecule antagonist that is well-tolerated and effective against advanced cancers. The company has completed a successful Phase I study in solid tumors and has begun additional Phase I/II and Phase II clinical programs in both solid and hematological malignancies. Oncoceutics and collaborative groups have received more than $7 million in grants over the last two years, including grants from the National Cancer Institute, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Pennsylvania Department of Health, and The Musella Foundation. In addition, outside interest in the company's portfolio has resulted in several R&D alliance agreements between Oncoceutics and leading comprehensive cancer centers, including The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Fox Chase Cancer Center. The company has established a robust intellectual property position, including several issued patents.
Contact Rohinton Tarapore for more information.


text:
Recently, my wife and I were discussing where to send our son to school, closer to where we live or closer to where he goes to pre-school now at my wife's church. At some point the conversation shifted to a discussion of our son's personality and social skills. When he's in his comfort zone, he's gregarious, outgoing, and sociable. At his Summer camp, though, out of his element, he's more of a loner.
My wife reflected on her own experience in school. She remembered the in-crowd seemed to have some kind of bond or a secret language and it was hard to break in. Then it hit her, their parents all knew each other. These kids knew each other outside of school. The solution? I would have to step up and initiate social contacts to help smooth the path for our son when he started school. Not the most attractive of tasks. As a general rule, if I can avoid small talk, I will.
Since then, I reflected on a passage by Anthony De Mello in The Way To Love: "every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation." What liberation? The insight that approval, acceptance, and acquiring the things we're after will never ever bring ultimate happiness, only temporary thrills, a short-term ego boost.
Instead, pain is always a clue as to what illusion we're clinging to, what we think we need, always a story in the mind that ultimately doesn't exist. The experiences that move us closer to shattering these illusions are the greatest gifts.
As a counter-intuitive practice, De Mello suggests thinking of the people and events who have hurt us – by letting us down, rejecting us, betraying us (intentional malice and abuse are of course other matters, though even here, compassion can grow). We call them to mind, one by one. The appropriate response, seen from a certain angle, is gratitude. These are our teachers, offering a way of understanding and self-discovery we can't get any other way. We drop false beliefs, illusions, our programming about where happiness can be found. This is the way of growth and life and freedom. This is the burning away of the ego.
He even goes a step further and asks us to think of those we've hurt through our own unconscious behavior. Unwittingly, we've offered them a gift, to see where their illusory sources of happiness were.
There is a joy available, a delight in the most readily available things, if only we drop the things we think will make us happy. Note that this is not withdrawal and resignation; it is not despair. People in these states often haven't been able to shift their focus. They still feel the primary purpose of life is to have their needs met; they've just determined that won't happen for them. They've become trapped in what Thomas Keating calls programs for human misery.
Instead, a deep attention to the pain and its source can bring about an incredible lightness and freedom. We practice accepting what is, right now in this moment. Even if we feel we've done this work to a degree, many of us displace our ego pursuits onto our community, kids, team, country, whatever. It's just one degree removed but still there. We want vicarious achievement, glory, victory, acceptance, and so on. If it's "for the kids" we can even wrap ourselves in a false selflessness.
We are to find the spark of discontent. To fan that flame. And let it burn away all the mind-created forgeries of reality. We need no one's approval. There's nothing to achieve. The divine is always available right now, in this moment. In fact that's the only place it's ever available. This isn't an invitation to arrogance and laziness, but to the deepest level of acceptance, to the joy of kingdom, to the delight of pure being. Fixating on a future state when all will be made right, or a golden age in the past when the collective morality quotient was higher – all that keeps us distracted. It keeps us in a perpetual elsewhere. Getting to this place of acceptance usually takes what Richard Rohr calls necessary suffering. Our pain is a key to our freedom. The lantern floats that makes space for the flame.
As parents, the truth that pain leads to wisdom is a scary prospect, because we also know that pain can lead to self-destruction. But I can't predict where my son's sources of pain will be, or the degree of their intensity. The best I can do is model and offer the invitation to learn from them when they do come. It's likely he'll ultimately learn more from seasons of outsider status than from status and approval from the in-crowd. I don't know what he'll do with the gifts he receives. That's a story that has yet to be written.


text:
V Rentals
Frucor's V Energy Drink has launched V Rentals, a 'company' set up by V Energy drink offering consumers an array of experiences that will make the everyday more awesome for them and their friends. By drinking cans of V, people can collect barcodes to trial unique experiences with their mates such as a monkey butler to serve you chips and V; a mini-you; a unicorn chauffeur; a fixie farthing; a pimped-out jacuzzi truck to hold the ultimate party; and bodybuilder removalists to help with the heavy lifting. New experiences will be rolled out as they become available, including a personal heralder who announces your arrival (at anything) and a cute puppy wingman to make you more attractive to the ladies.
The V Rentals campaign is fronted by charismatic entrepreneur Glen Gibbons, who has handpicked the 'money can't buy' experiences to share with loyal V customers. The 60-second commercial launched nationally on June 24 on free-to-air TV and will be followed by four 15-second TVCs, including a Glen Gibbons Dance Off with the 'Monkey Butler' named Bubbles.
Click on the image below to play the V Rentals The Future of Renting Things commercial in YouTube
Click on the image below to play the Monkey Butler video.
Click on the image below to play the Body Builder video
Click on the image below to play the Jacuzzi Truck video
Click on the image below to play the Ice Artists video
Click on the image below to play the What is V Rental? video
A series of documentary style webisodes have been created, with new episodes to be released online over for the next six months. These follow Glen's experiences running V Rentals, along with those of his casting directors, Dave Collins from The Umbilical Brothers and stand-up comedian, Paul Ayre.
Click on the image below to play the Journey to Awesome video
The digital V Rentals campaign, online at v-rentals.com, begins with a competition where people compete for a chance to trial one of the rentals. Contestants enter the barcode from their V, and in 57-words or less explain why one of V's rentals will make their everyday more awesome.
The V Rentals campaign includes point-of-sale, Facebook activity, and online display ads.
V Rentals Credits
The V Rentals campaign was developed at Clemenger BBDO, Sydney, by executive creative director Paul Nagy, creative director Matt Follows, creatives Patrick Chambers and Brendan Willenberg, head of art Michael Dole, strategic planner Simon Gibson, agency producer (TV) Lisa Brown, traffic manager Tana Athas, group account director Jess Burvill, account director Cate Stuart-Robertson, senior account manager Will Woods, account coordinator Olivia Kelly, working with Frucor Beverages marketing director Cameron Davidson and senior brand manager Craig Harkness.
The print and digital campaign was produced by head of multimedia studio and print production Chris Bear, senior producer Steve Tindall, senior retoucher Ben Greenfield, senior finished artists Steve Leupen, Barb Jacobson, finished artists Seb Perez, Tom Roder, photographers Gerard O'Connor and Jez Smith, stylist Marc Wasiak, head of craft Tim McPherson, retoucher Giles Davies, designer Paul Fitzgerald, and digital producer Dave Flanagan.
Filming was shot by director Jim Hosking via Prodigy Films with executive producer Jonathan Samway, producer Marge McInnes, editor Richard Learoyd, and colourist Christine Trodd at Heckler. Visual effects were produced at Fin Design.
Filed under: Commercials, Frucor, Interactive, Print, V Energy Drink
Tagged: Brendan WIllenberg, Christine Trodd, Clemenger BBDO, Fin Design, Gerard O'Connor, Heckler, Jez Smith, Jim Hosking, Matt Follows, Michael Dole, Patrick Chambers, Paul Nagy, Prodigy Films, Simon Gibson
Location: Australia


text:
The recently remodeled (2007) Bungalow sleeps 2-4, and has a loft with a large bedroom (queen size bed), bathroom, and an eat-in kitchen. The loft also includes a sitting/reading area, and a separate TV with cable in the sleeping area. The living room has a full-size futon and has a TV with digital cable and VCR player. A spiral staircase leads from the living room to the loft bedroom. There is also a large private deck with picnic table off the kitchen.
Lakecrest Manor
Phone: 585-336-9657
Designed & Maintained by ScenicView Web Company ©2012


text:
Ray Burton
Gold Coast
Plays Today:108
Total Plays:146,973
Profile Views:179,764
Music Promotion · FAQ · Forgot password · Report Abuse Report Abuse ·
NumberOneMusic © 2003—2020
About Ray Burton
Ray Burton
The Man who wrote "I AM WOMAN"
Lifetime Honorary Member of the International Songwriters Association
Artist / Representative @ Steinberg / Yamaha Australia
link ... read more
Posted at 2018-05-23
Posted at 2018-05-23
Hi, I hope life is treating you well,
I have been in and out of recording studio/s lately performing delicate "Song Surgeries". If all goes to plan, I might just emerge from the operating theater toting a nice "post-op" sonic surprise you if you care to listen. It's a long arduous process, so I need to remain motivated to remind myself "and many others" working on their own projects, to HANG IN THERE because that bright light at the end of your seemingly endless tunnel of toil, really DOES exist.
Hey, always remember that great projects always take a long time to put together and complete.
Regards to all and have an amazing day wherever you are in whatever you are doing!
Love 'n Luck to all :-)
Posted at 2018-05-15
Posted at 2018-05-15
Hi Everybody, I hope life is treating you well,
I'm in and out of the studio/s lately performing delicate "Song Surgeries". If all goes well, I might just have a nice "post-op" sonic surprise for some of you in a couple of weeks or so. It's a long arduous process, so I need to remain motivated to remind myself "and many others" working on their various projects, to HANG IN THERE because that bright light at the end of your seemingly endless tunnel, really DOES exist.
Hey, just remember that great projects always take a long time to put together and complete.
Regards to all and have an amazing day!
Posted at 2015-12-19
Posted at 2015-12-19
I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season filled with family fun and laughter.
I especially want to thank you for your ongoing support for my music. You Rock :-)
Love 'n' Luck to all;
Ray Burton
The Man who wrote "I AM WOMAN"
Lifetime Honorary Member of the International Songwriters Association
Artist / Representative @ Steinberg / Yamaha Australia
Posted at 2015-11-13
Posted at 2015-11-13
More information on me for those who are maybe not aware.
RE: AYERS ROCK: For the Australian music historians.
Back in the 70's I had just arrived back in Australia after many years touring and recording in the USA; and after having written I Am Woman for Helen Reddy, I would have to say that America was a great grounding and experience.
After picking myself up and dusting myself off, one of the first things I did on arrival back on Australian soil, was to put another band together. This band included myself of course {song writing, guitar & lead vocals}, my long time friend Duncan Maguire {songwriting & awesome bass} and one of the best drummers I had worked with, including in the USA, was the master time keeper Mark Kennedy. The three of us were the foundation members of the new band and for a while we worked as "Burton, Maguire & Kennedy" a Rock-Soul-R&B trio. After a while, we decided to add Col Loughnan a brilliant musician. Col played soprano saxophone, wrote arrangements and more; then we also added Jimmy Doyle with his amazing collection of guitar sounds. This five-piece band evolved into what we would eventually call Ayers Rock. We all based ourselves in Melbourne; and were signed to a young burgeoning record/publishing company named "Mushroom Records", but unfortunately, we only ever got around to recording two songs as that first "Ayers Rock" lineup. Dam, We needed more studio time! I had dozens of songs ready to be recorded.
The two songs that we did record were two that I had written. One song titled "Rock 'n' Roll" Fight; and the other was "Sorrowful Eyes" on the "B" side. I was a bit shell shocked from my song writing experiences in America, so I announced to the guys that I would soon be leaving Ayers Rock for a well earned vacation; and also to spend more time song writing, while having a good think about my next musical move. That "next musical move" turned out to be my "Dreamers & Nightflyers" album that I recorded for Warner Brothers Australia. "Too Hard To Handle" and "Paddington Green" came off this album and both charted well on radio, but that's another chapter again in the rather long Ray Burton story! . . . to be continued. . . . someday! In the meantime, I would be most grateful if you would go to iTunes iTunes and purchase a song or two from my Blu-Azz album. Hey, maybe you could buy the entire album . . . lol :-) Seriously though, if you like a song or two from my Blu-Azz album, please inform as many people as you can to raise their awareness of me. I would really appreciate that :-) I value your support and You Guys Rock !
Ray Burton
Ray Burton
The Man who wrote "I AM WOMAN"
Lifetime Honorary Member of the International Songwriters Association
Artist / Representative @ Steinberg / Yamaha Australia
All Shook Up Boogie - Ray Burton
If I Were A Carpenter - Ray Burton
Midnight at the Oasis - Ray Burton
Posted at 2015-10-23
Posted at 2015-10-23
Wow. I'm blown away by your responses to my music guys!
Thank you so much for your kind reassuring words; and your vote of confidence.
RB Confessional: Here we go ☺ . . . . .
All ego aside, I have become somewhat of a socio-musical recluse {a self inflicted condition of course}. I love my music; and I enjoy the art of creative song-writing, plus arranging, singing and recording them, but I can't stand the fakes, the sharks, the barracuda's and the low life "Song Thief" desperado's that come as par for the course in the music industry. These "Song Thieves" in particular astound me! Seriously, by comparison, if you had a painting by a famous painter such as Renoir, Picasso or Van Gogh etc., would you stoop so low as to claim that you painted it yourself? Would you even have the hide to do that?
Well, songs are no different! The song remains the property of the Song-Writer who created it, unless he or she decides to sell it. . . . end of story, there is no argument here!
You know, if I may say so myself, for some time now, I've flown high above all of the show biz BS. Soaring up above it all; and many times on lonesome wings. Yes I have feeling; deep feelings; and it lifts me up to a higher plane where silence, calm and observation reign. . . . Don't get me wrong, I get those "soaking wet" weighted down, "wet-wings" days too, where all I want to do is hang around feeling sorry for myself and mope.
Don't we all have those days? These "wet-wings" days don't last very long though before I'm up and flying above the crowds 'n' clouds again!
When I'm up, flying high enough to be looking down at the chaos below, I see a society of fools squabbling over money and supremacy. It's called greed; and there's lots of it to see down there!
I liken their squabbling behaviour to a flock of seagulls fighting each other over a few lousy chips on the boardwalk down by your local beach.
You see, I'm over all of the show biz fakery in it's many dark characters and disguises; and I really don't want to gamble on long-time/term touring anymore, unless of course the tour was with straight shooting honest players {are there any left? Were there ever any . . . lol ☺} with some decency; and a whole lot of heart 'n' soul 'n' talent. In other words, I probably "would" consider touring again with all the "right" people, under all the right circumstances; and at all of the right venues with one helluva hot band. Ha Ha, I don't want much do I? lol ☺
I simply don't want to do "the hard yards" anymore, I'm too old for that now; and I've done enough "Hard Yards" to circumnavigate this planet several times over . . . ha ha lol . . . . . . These days, I just want to have fun playing music with great friends and other creative writers. What's life all about anyway? Oh, before I go, I still have one more verbal parting shot left in this word loaded-shotgun of mine. . . . . . BOOM!
I'm an Australian original; and I dislike tribute shows. If I see one more "tribute" show advertised, I'm swear, I'm gonna scream !!! ☺
Hey, I'm the real deal, so thanks again to all who support me. Love 'n' Luck to y'all, all ways. . .
Ray Burton
Music Promotion · FAQ · Forgot password · Report Abuse Report Abuse ·
NumberOneMusic © 2003—2020
Ray Burton - 1970's with Warner Brothers
Blu-Azz 300 x 300 dpi
Blu-Azz InsideSpread 800x600 pxl
Blu-Azz InsideSpread 800x600small crop
Currumbin Looking North
Sunset 6
Blu-Azz InsideSpread 800x600small crop
Blu-Azz 300 x 300 dpi
Blu-Azz InsideSpread 800x600small crop
Blu-Azz InsideSpread 800x600small crop
Ray at the Q1 2011 tight crop
Bourbon Street Bar
Ray at the Q1 2011 tight crop


text:
Keeping in the Mary Tyler Moore show theme of the week, I'm currently about 1/4 the way through Valerie Harper's memoir entitled I, Rhoda and am simply loving it! I had no real knowledge about the iconic tv actress besides the fact that she was Mary Richards fabulous best friend on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, which then resulted in her own spin off show based on her character, Rhoda Morgenstern. Turns out Val and I have more in common than I ever would have suspected!
Valerie Harper began her career as a dancer, with high falutin' dreams of becoming a prima ballerina (just like me) though her body type was not ideal (again, just like me.) She ended up being a chorus dancer for legendary choreographer Michael Kidd, another person who had enormous influence on me growing up!
But before I give too much away of what I've already read, let me encourage you to go pick up a copy for yourself, as I, Rhoda is the first film in my monthly classic film book club! Read along with me and at the end of the month we'll have a fun recap!
Happy Reading!


text:
You are the leader of a small group of survivors clinging on as zombies take over the world. Last night, your compound was over-run and in the scramble to escape, most of your group got separated from each others. Luckily, being a sensible leader, you'd had a plan in place in case of such an eventuality, and you'd previously told everyone that if this ever happened, they should aim to meet up at a crossroads five miles east of your base. You also told them that they would need to be there by sunset of the following day at the latest as being over-run would mean the local area was no longer safe and you would need to move on in search of somewhere safer as quickly as possible.
The sun is now going down all but two of your group have made it to the rendezvous point. The two missing people are your teenage daughter and your second in command. The best thing for the group as a whole is to get going as quickly as possible because the local area is now crawling with zombies, and there's a good chance that if they haven't made it by now, they're dead – or worse. Yet, there's a slim chance they're still alive and that, for some reason, it's just taking them longer than expected to get to the meeting place. In fact, they could arrive at the any moment, and you know your daughter would be devastated if she got there and found you'd left her behind. You could send the rest on ahead while you waited, but without your second in command, there's be no one to take charge, so either you all go or you all stay, and that includes you wife and your other children. The longer you stay, the greater the chances that the zombies which over-ran your compound will catch up with you. What do you do?
As always, this dilemma is just here to make you think, so there's no right or wrong answer. Vote in the poll to let others know what you do if you were in this situation, and if you want to give a more detailed answer, leave a comment on this posting.
If you want to read more about the importance of having rendezvous points in a zombie apocalypse, you can read the article posted here.
From the author of For Those In Peril On The Sea, a tale of post-apocalyptic survival in a world where zombie-like infected rule the land and all the last few human survivors can do is stay on their boats and try to survive. Now available in print and as a Kindle ebook. Click here or visit www.forthoseinperil.net to find out more. To download a preview of the first three chapters, click here.
To read the Foreword Clarion Review of For Those In Peril On The Sea (where it scored five stars out of five) click here.


text:
2013 Castleisland Co-op Mart Intermediate Football Championship – Quarter FinalListowel Emmets 1-12 Castlegregory 2-06
Castlegregory a Division 4 side went into this as the outsiders. Listowel Emmets a Division 2 side had home advantage but were well aware of the threat posed by the visitors. The pitch in Frank Sheehy Park was in perfect condition. There was a slight breeze that favoured Listowel in the 1st half.
Listowel started much the better. Eddie Joe Walsh who was playing at wing forward won a free in the 3rd minute which Noel Kennelly converted to give the home team an early lead. A minute later Listowel's corner forward Bryan Murphy won a free and it was Kennelly again who slotted it over to give Listowel a 2-point lead. Listowel were looking very sharp and they were moving the ball very well. In the 6th minute Listowel pulled 3 points clear. David Sheehy won possession and gave the ball off to Cormac Mulvihill who in turn passed it off to Billy Doyle who was in full flight. Billy could have gone for a goal but he blasted it over the bar. Castlegregory were struggling to get into the game and they were to fall further behind when Conor Cox drove over a brilliant point in the 9th minute to put Listowel 4 points in front (0-04 – 0-00). Castlegregory needed a score badly and they got one in the 11th minute. Colm O'Mahony was fouled and Alan Fitzgerald popped over the close range free. Castlegregory came more into the game as the 1st half progressed. Listowel won another free in the 15th minute when the Castlegregory goalkeeper Adam O'Donnell was adjudged to have picked the ball up off the ground. Conor Cox tapped over from close range to restore Listowel's 4-point lead.
The game was held up for over 5 minutes between the 17th and 23rd minute when Listowel's centre back Denis Walsh suffered a serious knee injury when he collided with his team mate Brendan Guiney. Denis who had been having a very good game had to be replaced by John Heaphy. This break in play seemed to halt Listowel's momentum. In the 26th minute Conor Cox put over another wonderful point to stretch Listowel's lead to 5 points (0-06 – 0-01). Listowel were looking like they were going to pull right away. Castlegregory attacked in the 27th minute. Liam Maunsell took a shot at goal. Shane Quinn the Listowel goalkeeper had no chance of getting to it. The ball slammed off the bottom of the upright and back out into goalmouth where Colm O'Mahony was waiting to drive the ball into net. Castlegregory were back in the game and they narrowed the gap to a solitary point when J.B. Spillane won a free a minute later, which Alan Fitzgerald converted. Listowel had completely dominated the 1st half and were now just a point in front after 29 minutes. They looked rattled but they finished off the 1st half with 2 late points from frees. Noel Kennelly put over his 3rd free in the 1st minute of 1st half injury time. In the 4th minute of injury time Conor Cox won a free, which Kennelly took to give the home side a 3-point lead at the break.
Half Time: Listowel Emmets 0-08 Castlegregory 1-02
Listowel began the 2nd half with an early point. Conor Cox won possession and was fouled. Noel Kennelly stepped up and put over his 5th pointed free of the afternoon. Castlegregory needed to respond and they did a minute later. Alan Fitzgerald who is a very stylish and accurate free taker put over his 3rd pointed free. Castlegregory had settled into the game and were playing with more belief. Listowel seemed to lose their way and it's fair to say that both defences were playing a lot tighter in the 2nd half. J.B. Spillane won a free in the 36th minute. Once again Alan Fitzgerald drove over a mighty free from over 45 metres out. Castlegregory were now just 2 points behind (0-09 – 1-04). The game then saw a both sides attacking but neither defence could be breached. The football was free flowing but scores were very hard to come by.
Listowel had gone into the game as favourites but they just couldn't seem to get on top of Castlegregory. Listowel's centre forward Cormac Mulvihill won possession and went scything through the Castlegregory defence. Cormac then steadied himself and drove over a stunning point. This was the 1st score from either side in 11 minutes. A minute later Castlegregory attacked and won yet another free that Alan Fitzgerald had no trouble in converting. Listowel were just 2 points up with 10 minutes remaining. Listowel wing forward David Sheehy went off on a defence splitting run. He bore down on goal and released an unstoppable shot low in the bottom corner of the Castlegregory net much to the delight of the Listowel supporters. Listowel now had breathing space and were looking set for victory as they now had a 5-point lead (1-10 – 1-05). Cormac Mulvihill then made another great run and drove Listowel into a 6-point lead in the 55th minute. The game appeared to be over as a contest but there was late drama in store when Castlegregory corner forward Liam Maunsell was fouled in the large parallelogram. Castlegregory had a penalty. Alan Fitzgerald made no mistake as he despatched the penalty to the roof of the net. There was just a goal between the sides once again. Listowel centre forward Cornac Mulvihill went on yet another solo run. He kicked the ball into Ger McCarthy. The ball broke lose but Ger drew on it and kicked over an opportunist point in the 1st minute of injury time. Listowel were now 4 points clear. Alan Fitzgerald kicked over his 6th pointed free in the 2nd minute of injury time to cut the gap to just 3 points deep in injury time. Castlegregory then won the kick out and attacked. They won a free, which was lobbed into the Listowel goalmouth, but home side won possession. The referee Denis Sayers then blew for full time.
Listowel were the better team on the day and fully deserve their place in the Semi Final. Castlegregory deserve great praise for getting themselves back into a game that at one stage looked to be drifting away from them. A telling statistic from the game was that Castlegregory scored no point from play.
Listowel Emmets 1. Shane Quinn 2. Bryan Greaney 3. Brendan Guiney 4. Jack McGuire 5. Ger McCarthy (0-01) 6. Denis Walsh (Captain) (John Heaphy 23rd minute) 7. Brian McGuire 8. Brendan Flavin 9. Noel Kennelly (0-05) (0-05 from frees) 10. David Sheehy (1-00) 11. Cormac Mulvihill (0-02) 12. Billy Doyle (0-01) 13. Bryan Murphy 14. Conor Cox (0-03) (0-01 from a free) 15. Eddie Joe Walsh
Castlegregory 1. Adam O'Donnell 2. Padraig Rohan 3. Joe O'Connor (Captain) 4. Joe Scully 5. Gearoid Fitzgerald 6. Killlian Burns 7. Colm Sills 8. Michéal O'Shea 9. Shane Hennessy 10. Colm O'Connor (Anton Kelliher 58th minute) 11. J.B. Spillane 12. Keelin Dowling 13. Colm O'Mahony (1-00) 14. Alan Fitzgerald (1-06) (1-00 from a penalty & 0-06 from frees) 15. Liam Maunsell
Referee: Denis Sayers - Austin Stacks
2013 Keanes SuperValu County Minor Football League – Division 3A Semi – Final
Listowel Emmets 2-15 Rathmore 3-12
2013 Credit Union County Senior Football League Division 2 – Round 4
Tarbert V Listowel Emmets
Date: Saturday 11th May
Venue: Shannon Park - Tarbert
Time: 7.00 P.M.
2013 Credit Union County Junior Football League Division 3 – Round 1
Listowel Emmets V Castleisland Desmonds
Date: Friday 10th May
Venue: Castleisland
Time: 7.00 P.M.
Emmets Club News
2013 Club Membership
Club Membership for this season is now due. Membership can be paid to John James Buckley or Tom Walsh.
The rates are as follows:
Adult Playing: €70
Adult - Non Playing: €50
Minor: €40
Club Membership Special Offer Coiste na nÓg - Adult - Ladies
Join Listowel Emmets GAA and avail of our 2012 Family Membership Rates!
Enjoy 20% off your annual membership of Emmets G.A.A. when registering the whole family!
When renewing or joining Emmets G.A.A this season avail of 20% discount when registering Juvenile and Adult members.
One adult membership (€50) & One juvenile membership required when availing of this offer.
Contact John James Buckley (087 2406824) or Tom Walsh (087 7989030) to join.
Emmets Progressive 41 Card Drive continues every Wednesday night at 9.00 P.M. in the Emmets Clubhouse, come along and enjoy the craic and don't forget to bring a friend.
Listowel Emmets Ladies
Listowel Emmets senior ladies progressed to the County League division 1 shield final after a comprehensive victory over Austin Stacks in Frank Sheehy park on Sunday.
Playing with the wind in the first half Listowel got two goals from Laura Lavery and Caoimhe O'Sullivan. A knee injury to Laura Lavery after 20 mins was a huge blow to Emmets but the introduction of Rebecca Garvey for her first senior game yielded two points for the debutant. Although Emmets were leading at half time, Listowel were going to have to work hard against the wind in the second half. However from the off they took control in midfield and 2 goals from Miriam O'Keeffe put the game beyond the visitors. This was a great performance by the girls who appear to be improving with every game despite the challenge of varied team selections each week due to availability of players. Aoife Shine, Miriam O'Keeffe and Aoife Kennelly were excellent on Sunday and Rebecca Garvey is a welcome addition to the panel for the coming weeks.
Panel: Katie Wall, Kate Sayers, Heather O' Rourke, Ciara Gallagher, Rachel Stapleton, Aoife Shine (0-3), Aoife Kennelly, Rebecca Stapleton (0-1), Caoimhe O' Sullivan (1-0), Mary Beades, Sarah O' Brien, Laura Lavery (1-0), Miriam O' Keeffe (2-4), Rebecca Garvey (0-2).
Gaelic4Mothers+Others has now moved to the slightly later start of 8.00pm Thursdays in St Michael's College. This is a fitness program using the skills of ladies football and no prior experience is necessary to take part. Our newest member is on a 6 month visit from Argentina so we would encourage anyone to join the girls and get out of the house. Bring a friend and set your own pace. If you have any questions give Ann (087 969 1324) or Deborah (086 128 0944) a call.
Well done to our under 16's who travelled all the way to Lispole for their game with Corca Duibne. The match was played under a heavy downpour of rain and everyone was soaked through. Despite the atrocious weather it was an absolute blinder of a game. With the score board being tied through out for the majority of the game Listowel were caught by two late goals.
Next up is their away match to Na Gael on Wednesday. Meanwhile the under 14's had an comprehensive win on Saturday when they played Ballymac/ Na Gael. Well done to all the girls and coaches.
Good luck to all those doing exams in college and school in the coming weeks.
Club News >


text:
Yesterday I wrote a post about centreon widget. Indeed the previous post was about customization to add service latency and execution time. Today we'll speak about notification in centreon widget.
In my opnion it's very interesting to have the number of notification for a service in its current state.
I've made a patch to add this feature in service monitoring widget. This patch work only with Centreon Broker, feel free to patch it for NDO or IDO.
I like this patch because, you could see your services order by number of notification.
You will find below a screenshot of the patched widget:
You could take this patch on Centreon's forge:
Feel free to give me your feedback. ;–)
See you soon for a new article.


text:
Kampf, who won last weekend's Ryan Shay Mile in Charlevoix, Michigan, on July 22, is the women's defending champion of the Liberty Mile. As the event record holder with a time of 4:32, she will be going for her fifth win at the event in downtown Pittsburgh. The professional women's wave starts at 7:50 p.m. The Liberty Mile is a stop on the 2017 Bring Back the Mile Grand Prix Tour.
The Liberty Mile is part of P3R's American Development Program, which is designed to increase exposure and racing opportunities for emerging American professional runners. P3R also sponsors the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Marathon and Half Marathon in May, and the Pittsburgh 10 Mile race in November. In addition, the Pittsburgh Half Marathon will be the site of the USATF Half Marathon Championships in May 2018 and 2019.
USATF 7 Mile Championships – July 29
Kevin Lewis and Danny Docherty will be among the American competitors at the USATF 7 Mile National Championships that will be part of the Quad-City Times Bix 7 Mile race on July 29. The Bix, which was first held in 1975, starts at 8 a.m. in Davenport.
Lewis, who grew up in nearby Ottumwa, Iowa, and was a standout runner at the University of Iowa graduating in 2015, has run the Bix 7 Mile race seven times. His best time at the event has been 34:54. Docherty, who recently joined Team USA Minnesota, will be making his first appearance at the Bix.
About Team USA Minnesota
Team USA Minnesota is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Founded in 2001, the purpose of the training group is to improve the competitiveness of post-collegiate American distance running and to develop Olympians. The athletes are coached by Chris Lundstrom. Team USA Minnesota's gold sponsor is Twin Cities In Motion. Its silver sponsors are the Houston Marathon Foundation, the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Marathon, and Twin Cities Orthopedics. For more information, visit the team's web site at www.teamusaminnesota.org.


text:
Egg Meets Sperm Podcast Launch
hey there, after a high demand on creating a podcast, I have launched Egg Meets Sperm. Season 1 is all about The Body Talks. Our bodies are constantly talking to us… the body is trying to tell us when things are out of balance, and often if we can tune in, we can gain insights…Read More
The pros and cons of egg freezing
Egg freezing. It's all the rage. It's all the buzz. But, we ought to stop and think, is it worth it? The main benefit of freezing our eggs is that if in 10 years, when we're ready to start a family, we have eggs in the "bank." And… in my world, that's awesome! But, in…Read More


text:
around the world
It is free to register. After that you will be able to accept our Terms and Conditions and provide your bank account details to receive payments from your clients. Read our Payments and bookings policy.
It will take just a few minutes. Make sure you have plenty of quality photos of your services.
Brides‑to‑be will contact you via iBride and ask questions about your services and check your availability for their dates. Packages with quality photos and detailed description receive more requests from prospective clients.


text:
Of human-made landscapes few can compare with the beauties of Italy, from the dramatic lakes and mountains of Piedmont and Lombardy to the rich farmlands and cities of Emilia Romagna, the Marche, Tuscany, Lazio and Compagna. In these places a mere 50 kilometers separates small cities of extravagant aesthetic qualities – Venezia, Bergamo, Firenze, Lucca, Sienna, Bologna, Ravenna, Pisa to mention but a few – and then the myriad smaller towns perched on mountain tops, their cubist clusters descending briefly down the slopes to be stopped at a once-defensive wall. Farms flow neatly in an organic patchwork – olives trees, alfalfa, sunflowers, tomatoes, melons and squash, wheat and barley and corn – tumbling down the hillsides and filling the rich valleys. In the north and central regions despite the dense pressures of the populations crowding it, there is a sense of civility in the architecture and the socially constructed infrastructure which seems to reflect the sublime orderliness of the cloisters which flank most churches, places of meditative quietude.
Accompanying this feast of deeply humanist urban design is a sumptuous cuisine, a true cornucopia of wine, meat and grains and greens the equal of anything on this earth, all extracted from the alluvial soils of these valleys and the slopes of the Appenine mountains.
Simple, rich, varied, and healthy, Italian food is one of the world's wonders (if only one gets the real thing – the pastiche offered up in most non-Italian places is a pale echo of Italian cooking as found in Italy).
And once upon a time Italy was a volcano of creative energy of all sorts – from Galileo to Michelangelo to Uccello to Veronese to Fibonacci to Caravaggio to Dante to Bramante, Bernini, Brunelleschi, Rossini, Donezetti, Verdi, and…. the list seems endless. But that time is not now. Somewhere in the 20th century or before, the energies (with some exceptions, of course) burned out, the broad flame of creativity fluttered and for the most part ceased. Since World War II, after an initial surge in the late 1940's and into the 1960's, Italian culture seemed to collapse with La Dolce Vita.
La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, L'Eclisse, Teorema, 8 1/2
A rushed modernity – as in many other places – did not mix well with the deep cultural origins of Italy, and these films seemed to hint of a premonition that the sureties of other times would not withstand the sudden shift from a dominantly tribal and agrarian life to the sudden mechanization of the industrial world. A fashionable, and prescient, alienation marks these works. In the confusion came severe reactions, though ones steeped in tradition:
Boccioni's figure moves swiftly forward, though aesthetically it is essentially baroque and rococo, the flourish of form all too clearly expressive of a time several hundred years earlier but in 1913 advancing under the name of Futurism.
As did Il Duce, who sizing up his time, shifted from radical leftist to Fascist in the post World War I turmoil when all of Europe convulsed under the rapid transformations of industrialization, a process which uprooted not only the mechanical organization of society, but also its social order. The beliefs of the past crumbled in the face of this assault, and in its stead, fertilized by the uncertainty of the time, arose the authoritarian regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Stalin, Salazar, each utilizing the same appeal to historical verities while overturning the social organization of the past. Italians love a hero, a strong man, a Caesar, and the spectacle which is the natural partner of the dictator.
In the wake of the convulsion of World War 2, Italy, economically prostrate, as with all of Europe, simply struggled to survive. The late forties and early 50's saw the neo-realism of Visconti, Di Sica, early Antonioni. The fifties saw a big shift from bicycles to motorini, the Vespa becoming a symbol of success. The 60's saw the motorbike supplanted as status symbol by, of course, the car. And with it came La Dolce Vita and the celebration of the good life, though in Antonioni's hands, as Fellini's, they came with a hang-over. Something seemed amiss, something spiritual – all the nice things somehow didn't add up to happiness.
…must confront her social environment. It's too simplistic to say – as many people have done – that I am condemning the inhuman industrial world which oppresses the individuals and leads them to neurosis. My intention… was to translate the poetry of the world, in which even factories can be beautiful. The line and curves of factories and their chimneys can be more beautiful than the outline of trees, which we are already too accustomed to seeing. It is a rich world, alive and serviceable… The neurosis I sought to describe in Red Desert is above all a matter of adjusting. There are people who do adapt, and others who can't manage, perhaps because they are too tied to ways of life that are by now out-of-date.[2] Antonioni
So said the master, who himself got lost in the labyrinth of his new-found element of color, letting his film meander in a fog of ennui. It was his last film with Monica Vitti as "a number." Breaking up is hard to do, as this maker of stripped down soaps knew well. Lurking in the lush palette which he used were the signals of a nostalgia for an Italy for which he sensed a clear loss. And despite the logic articulated above, Antonioni in his films demonstrated his own incapacity to adapt. So much so that riding his fame he went abroad, to England for Blow Up, and America for Zabriskie Point – both misfired aesthetically, the latter terribly so. His disorientation in the face of the new world reflected closely that of an Italy which could not face its future or its present. Following the upheavals of the 60's, Italy fell into the Anni di Piombo (The Years of Lead).
Bologna train station, Aug. 1980
Bombarded from left and right, Italy passed through the 70's and 80's in a kind of tormented state, a time riddled with mysterious deaths, oscillating politics and an economy, like much of the rest of the world, in an upward rush of frantic consumerism. Its premiers – Andreotti, 7 times premier from the 1970's to 90's and well-known for Mafia connections, Fanfani, Craxi – were all indicted, tried, and most eluded conviction through technicalities – in the ever-glacial and often corrupted judicial system of Italy the usual exemption would be that the statute of limitations had expired, and hence, whatever the mountains of evidence and proof, one was absolved. The current head of state, Silvio Berlusconi follows in this tradition, a multiple indictee, now wallowing in sex scandals wherein his second younger wife left him, accusing him of having a taste for even younger morsels, one of whom is all of 17. Silvio owns all the broadcast systems, and as head of state, controls (or tries to) the 3 major state-run channels. He also owns a soccer team, newspapers, publishing houses, and in effect has a strangle-hold on the media in Italy. He is Italy's richest man as well. According to the polls, and to friends of mine who live here, Silvio is popular despite (or perhaps because of) his vulgarity, his authoritarian inclinations, his evidently hot sex life, and his chronic evident illegality – whether screwing underage girls or screwing the justice system. Of course he does run the media, so the country is told what he'd like it to hear, and little more. I suspect the truth is less that Silvio is popular than that the broad populace long ago surrendered to pure cynicism when it comes to politics Italian style. I know not a few people who are planning or hoping to leave bella Italia as soon as they can, along with quite a few who left some time ago.
Italy has had a long history of criminality-as-government, back to the Caesars, Caligula, and to the warring city-states, the history of which is written in the grisly terms outlined by Macchiavelli. Recently someone told us of a visit to a museum of torture in San Gimignano, where one of the choice items was a barrel in which the punished party sat in shit, head held high, to rot slowly in excrement. Nearby in Siena, what appear to be basketball hoops adorning the corners of many buildings not so long ago sported human heads. While such is no longer the fashion, the hanging torso of Mussolini makes clear the tendency is not so old nor really worn out. It takes only the proper occasion to bring out this taste. A glance at the Italian equivalent of tabloids shows that on lower levels, violence is a standard recourse.
Gomorrah, film by Matteo Garrone, from book by Roberto Saviano
While we marvel at the extraordinary beauties of the accumulated history of Italy: the massive structures of the Roman empire, the intricate twists and turns of medieval hills towns, the splendid piazzas, architecture and urban planning of the Renaissance, and all the arts which accompanied this long trajectory, we tend to dismiss the underlying flip-side of a history of astounding violence. Tourists mill around the statue which marks the place where Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy, thinking little of this event while sipping their wine.
We drive easily up to some hill-top town, its flanks graced with walls, a tall observation tower rising up from its center, and we think little of the logic which placed this town in such a difficult site. The logic being fear and the need to find a defensible refuge from the marauding warfare below, not to mention the disembowelings, hangings, burnings, and exotic tortures in town, or on the outskirts, little civic lessons in how you (better) behave and whose ass you'd best kiss. So much for romantic Tuscan hill towns.
In Pasolini's Teorema the father, played by Massimo Girotti, is seen at the film's conclusion running crazed through a lunar landscape (shot at the top of the volcano Mt. Aetna in Sicily), seemingly having lost his mind.
Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. PP Pasolini
In his writings and films, Pasolini pointed to where Italy was going. He was murdered on Nov 2, 1975, on a patch of sand on the beach near Ostia. Originally it was said to be a killing from rough trade, the handiwork of Giuseppe Pelosi, a Roman low-class rentboy. Subsequently, a recantation by Pelosi renewed suspicions that other elements had been in play. Political ones. Or perhaps an extortion plot. Or some thought Pasolini himself orchestrated his own death.
In Ostia there is a new little monument, not quite so awful as the earlier one in front of which I filmed a scene for Uno a te back in 1994. That one was a squalid piece of would-be "sculpture" falling apart in the salted acridness of the seaside, ostensibly to honor Italy's lost poet. It's been replaced by this
"Pasolini was what can be termed a citizen-poet. He was concerned with his homeland and expressed his feelings in his work. Patriotic poetry usually comes out of a right-wing tradition and is nationalistic, but Pasolini's great originality was to be a citizen-poet of the left… He wept over the ruins of Italy but without a hint of rhetoric. He was a modern who used the classical tradition. Rimbaud, the poet of the Paris Commune, the most revolutionary of poets, remained his greatest influence. In the years after the Mussolini dictatorship, he adhered, like many of his compatriots, to an unorthodox brand of communism, that was both Christian and utopian, and these feelings for the poor and underprivileged motivated his own poetry and films."–Alberto Moravia


text:
One way to approach the concept of Conflicting Perspectives for Module C is through imagery and extended metaphor. Conflicting Perspectives are about how people standing in differently places, see things (events, personalities, situations) in different ways. You know what else people see differently depending on their perspective? Art.
This is "Ascending and Descending" by MC Escher. Depending on how you look at it, the figures are either climbing or walking down stairs. The staircase is also endlessly rising or falling; again, depending on your perspective. From this image we can draw two ideas (thesis statements):
- Conflicting perspectives are an inevitable part of the human experience (the figures are trapped within the staircase, heading in opposite directions).
- Conflicting perspectives are shaped by differing contexts (how you look at the image directs whether you see the figures as "ascending" or "descending").
This is Salvador Dali's portrait of his wife, entitled "My Wife Nude". This image shows a classic nude portrait of Gala, Dali's wife, echoed by a Gala-shaped building in the background. This image also inspires two ideas about Conflicting Perspectives:
- Conflicting Perspectives are shaped by both intimacy and distance (when viewed up close, Gala is Dali's beloved wife; from a distance, she becomes a construct).
- Conflicting Perspectives can exist within an individual (it is Dali, the artist, who sees his wife in these two ways).
These images could be used as related material by students who are confident in visual analysis; or they could be used as extended metaphors to shape the ideas in an essay.


text:
Complete text in print version available at fine newsstands and through subscription.
Please visit our Membership page for more information.
On the Cover
On the Cover: Folkert de Jong, The Tower "Violin Player," 2007. Styrofoam, polyurethane foam, and pigment, 150 x 150 x 500 cm.
Photograph: © Folkert de Jong, courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York.
From the Chairman
It is with great thanks that the ISC says goodbye to two long-serving board memebers--Helen Escobedo and Barrie Mowatt.
(Complete letter...)
Confronting the Grotesque: A Conversation with Folkert de Jong
by Michaël Amy
Thomas Schütte: Model Figures
by Ina Cole
Contemporary Still Life: A Conversation with Ricky Swallow
by Hilary Stunda
The Machines Have Not Taken Over: A Conversation with Richard Dupont
by Christopher Hart Chambers
Julia Venske & Gregor Spänle: The Antithesis of Marble
by Cathy Byrd
Balancing Families in Stone: A Conversation with Boaz Vaadia
by Jan Garden Castro
Oliver Jackson: The Order of Making
by Bruce Nixon
New York: Public Art in New York City Parks: Celebrating 40 Years by Harriet F. Senie
ISC News
Pittsburgh: "India: New Installations"
Los Angeles: Liliana Moro
Ridgefield, Connecticut: Norm Magnusson
Chicago: Amanda Browder and Stuart Keeler
St. Louis: Maya Lin
Ithaca, New York: Wenda Gu
Lake Placid, New York: John Van Alstine and Caroline Ramersdorfer
New York: Anthony Caro
New York: Mike Nelson
New York: Charles Searles
Edinburgh: Richard Long
New York: Asian Contemporary Art Fair
Sculpture Magazine Archives
To advertise in Sculpture magazine, call 718.812.8826 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
To contact the editor please email email@example.com
Website Design & Development by Cybermill Interactive