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Timezones and political reality
Timezones are a human invention to describe the natural world, so they are changed according to human whims. That's a grand way to note this change in timezones that is global but I noted in a DragonFly commit of tzdata2014b – look at the last entry.
Various USB drivers added
I've been away because of some home construction taking up time, but this has actually been happening for a while: plenty of USB device drivers have been getting ported in to work with the new USB4BSD stack. My links for that are not comprehensive.
NSS/LDAP and DragonFly
One of the requirements to get NSS/LDAP working on (most) any unixlike system is to have dynamic binaries; meaning they are dependent on various libraries to run. Since you're talking about programs for login when you're talking about NSS/LDAP, that means if the libraries aren't available, you can't log in. DragonFly [...]
Lazy Reading for 2014/03/23
Aaaaaaaaa link overflow! The Story I'll Tell at the Web's 25th Birthday Party. When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst? The comment from Gary Helms is correct. The truth about content management systems. It's one of those basic mistakes that everyone gets to learn in some form. (via I lost track, sorry) The Facebook expe [...]
In Other BSDs for 2014/03/22
I have a list of commits I've saved between the various BSDs of licenses getting corrected to the 2-clause BSD license; that would definitely be a good cross-BSD project to sync. DiscoverBSD has a free KVM VPS for the taking – if you write about the BSD-specific thing you are doing with it. Also, DiscoverBSD's news summary [...]
BSDNow 029: P.E.F.S
BSDNow episode 029 is up containing a full slate of material. There's an interview of Gleb Kurtsou, along with a PEFS tutorial and several other items that are new to me.
GUI images for DragonFly 3.6 sort of
If you noticed the lack of a GUI DVD image for the 3.6 release of DragonFly, I posted a followup note on the users@ list that talks about the steps to get X installed. It's not much work, with pkg set up.
IPv6 test patch
Sepherosa Ziehau has an IPv6 patch for you to try. What's it do? I think it improves performance under multiple streams of traffic, but that's from looking at the code and totally guessing.
Hammer 2 work and notes
Matthew Dillon committed the start of a Hammer 2 cluster API. I noticed, while looking at the commit, that there's a design document, a freemap design document, a changes list, and – most important for anyone interested – a TODO list.
tcplay updated to 2.0
Alex Hornung has updated tcplay in DragonFly to 2.0, and cryptdisks is updated to match. If you have a short memory, tcplay(8) is the tool on DragonFly to manage TrueCrypt volumes. Is DragonFly the only BSD to have this? I think so, based on very few seconds of googling.
Lazy Reading for 2014/03/16
A lot of this was done early; last week had a lot of interesting stuff turn up. Maybe because we're coming out of a extreme winter in the northern hemisphere, and people are feeling a bit more energetic? How to Eat Your Entropy and Have it Too — Optimal Recovery Strategies for Compromised RNGs. One of the authors, Yevgeniy Dodi [...]
In Other BSDs for 2014/03/15
Another week with lots of links. DiscoverBSD's summary for 2014/03/10. PC-BSD Digest 21 – 10.0.1 release. FreeBSDNews needs a new maintainer. (am I the old man of BSD blogs? Yeesh.) FreeBSDNews also has two FreeNAS videos. OpenBSD is starting on USB 3 support. I assume this is separate from USB4BSD? OpenBSD has moved to OpenSM [...]
Some 10G results on DragonFly
In part because I asked him, Sepherosa Ziehau benchmarked 10G ix(4) with 2 ports on DragonFly. The results? Good, both for bandwidth and for CPU usage.
BSDNow 028: Ghost of Partition
Uh oh, I don't get the pun this time. Anyway, the newest BSDNow episode is an interview with Eric Turgeon of GhostBSD, and a disk concatenation tutorial for NetBSD and a tutorial that isn't uploaded yet. (Wait, now I get it.)
Connection speedup for x86_64
A recent commit from Sepherosa Ziehau has a 5% improvement in the number of network connections per second a x86_64 machine can accept. He's also reducing the number of IPIs during network activity. If this seems somewhat esoteric, it's because network speeds are getting so fast that the benefits come from reducing the accompany [...]
tzdata2014a and an odd thing
Sascha Wildner updated the time zone database on DragonFly to tzdata2014a. The odd thing isn't that update – Sascha updates like clockwork, haha! – but the release notes. Apparently Even Microsoft is starting to support time zone names, sorta, finally.
Building world for 3.7 users
If you're on DragonFly 3.7, you will need to build world before building the kernel again if you are updating to some point in the last 24 hours. Sascha Wildner points out the related commit.
Setting up Poudriere
Poudriere is the tool for building all of ports/dports, and Michael W. Lucas has written up his experience using it to build a custom ports set. He's doing on FreeBSD, but if you ignore the geom-specific parts, it should generally apply to DragonFly.
New USB on by default
DragonFly has moved from the old USB stack to USB4BSD by default. That means: If you are already using USB4BSD, you will want to remove WANT_USB4BSD from your kernel config. If you have trouble, switch back to the old USB. There's some drivers that are not yet converted; help with them would be appreciated. A full kernel/world build [...]
Lazy Reading for 2014/03/09
This week blew up with links fast. An 8-bit integer overflow turns Mahatma Gandhi into "255 points of pure nuclear rage". That's one of the more entertaining sentences I've ever typed here. "DevOps" is one of the new buzzwords lately. The most shallow approaches seem to equate it with automated deploymen [...]


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April 23, 2013
Ohio Arts Council announces statewide grants to artists and arts organizations.
Eight CIA artists were among 47 artists statewide to receive Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, the agency announced this month. The five alumni and three current faculty members will each receive $5,000 to support their "growth and development and recognize their work in Ohio and beyond," according to the announcement.
"We know that CIA graduates and faculty contribute enormously to the culture of our state and our nation," said CIA President Grafton J. Nunes. "These awards provide tangible validation of their contributions as working artists producing important art."
Alumni winners of the Individual Excellence Award are painters Judy Takacs '86 and Susan Danko '98; glass artist Michael Mikula '87; photographer and multimedia artist Lori Kella '97; and sculptor and installation artist Scott Stibich '10.Stibich works as a technical assistant in CIA's Sculpture Department and has earned notable commissions for public art projects through Cleveland-based LAND Studio.
CIA faculty members who received the awards are Bruce Checefsky, a photographer and experimental filmmaker who is an instructor and director of CIA's Reinberger Galleries; Mary Jo Toles, professor of photography and digital imaging; and Mari Hulick, associate professor of graphic design. Toles and Hulick last year collaborated on Palimpsest, a series of photographic books exploring Cleveland history and available on blurb.com. The Arts Council grant will support this ongoing work they call the Rustbelt Legacy Project.
According to the Arts Council, "Individual Excellence Awards are peer recognition of creative artists for the exceptional merit of a body of their work that advances or exemplifies the discipline and the larger artistic community."
The Arts Council also makes grants to arts organizations. Adjunct faculty member Liz Maugans was named on two of these organizational grants: a $1,000 award in support of the Alliance for Artist Communities conference and a $25,000 grant for Zygote Press, the Cleveland-based nonprofit fine art printmaking studio that she heads.
The Ohio Arts Council is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally and economically. Grant applications were reviewed by Ohio Arts Council staff and diverse panels of arts experts. The OAC board, consisting of 15 gubernatorial appointees and four nonvoting members from the Ohio legislature, makes final decisions based on panel recommendations.
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Obama: U.S. Safer, Resilient on 9/11 Anniversary
Posted: 09/11/2012 - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are at Arlington National Cemetery visiting the graves of service members killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Posted: 09/11/2012 - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are at Arlington National Cemetery visiting the graves of service members killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Updated: 09/11/2012 - Consumer Reports just tested 19 portable electric heaters and checked to make sure they have adequate safeguards.
Updated: 09/11/2012 - Big changes could be in store for the insurer that covers 4.3 million Michiganders, as Governor Rick Snyder annouced plans Tuesday to transform Blue Cross Blue Shield into a mutual insurance company.
Posted: 09/10/2012 - Authorities said the explosion happened in the mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood of Baiyaa.
Posted: 09/10/2012 - But they're still in dispute with the U.S. over detainees.
Posted: 09/10/2012 - The region is a battleground between drug gangs including La Familia Michoacana and the breakaway Knights Templar.
Updated: 09/10/2012 - Tenants are back at home, after a sewage backup forced around 60 people out of a Lansing apartment building Sunday.
Updated: 09/10/2012 - A news organization has found wide variations in the rates of drunken driving arrests among Michigan police agencies, with the hometowns of Michigan State University and the University of Michigan showing one of the sharpest contrasts.
Updated: 09/10/2012 - A house fire in Mason broke out around 1:30 pm Monday afternoon.
Posted: 09/09/2012 - A roll over car accident in Lansing closed Interstate 96 at the Pennsylvania entrance ramp.
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Updated: 11/03/2012 - A shooting leaves one man dead and another in police custody.
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Updated: 09/07/2012 - Parents say if the flag is hoisted on Riddle Elementary School's flagpole, it will be torn because of overgrown tree branches the Lansing School District has not trimmed.
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"Covering College Football Coaching from Miami to Honolulu"
Kevin Wilson
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"Our answer is the world's hope; it is
to rely on youth. The cruelties and
the obstacles of this swiftly changing
planet will not yield to obsolete
dogmas and
outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by
those who cling to a present which is
already dying, who prefer the illusion of
to the
excitement and danger which comes with even
the most peaceful progress. This world
demands the qualities of youth: not a time
of life
but a state of
mind, a temper of the will, a quality of
imagination, a predominance of courage over
timidity, of the appetite for adventure over
the life of ease
-- a man like the Chancellor of this
University. It is a revolutionary
world that we all live in; and thus, as I
have said in Latin
America and Asia
and in Europe and in my own country, the
United States, it is the young people who
must take the lead. Thus you and your
compatriots everywhere have had thrust upon
you a greater burden of responsibility than
any generation that has ever lived.
"There is," said
an Italian philosopher, "nothing more
difficult to take in hand, more perilous to
conduct, or more uncertain in its success
than to
take the lead in the introduction of a new
order of things." Yet this is the
measure of the task of your generation and
the road is
with many dangers.
First is the
danger of futility; the belief there is
nothing one man or one woman can do against
the enormous array of the world's ills --
misery, against
ignorance, or injustice and violence.
Yet many of the world's great movements, of
thought and action, have flowed from the
work of a single
man. A young monk began the Protestant
reformation, a young general extended an
empire from Macedonia to the borders
of the earth,
and a young woman reclaimed the territory of
France. It was a young Italian
explorer who discovered the New World, and
year-old Thomas
Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are
created equal. "Give me a place to
stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move
These men moved the world, and so can we
all. Few will have the greatness to
bend history; but each of us can work to
change a small
portion of the
events, and in the total of all these acts
will be written the history of this
generation. Thousands of Peace Corps
volunteers are
making a
difference in the isolated villages and the
city slums of dozens of countries.
Thousands of unknown men and women in Europe
resisted the
occupation of the Nazis and many died, but
all added to the ultimate strength and
freedom of their countries. It is from
diverse acts of courage such as these that
the belief that human history is thus
shaped. Each time a man stands up for
an ideal, or
acts to improve
the lot of others, or strikes out against
injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of
hope, and crossing each other from a million
centers of energy and daring those ripples
build a current which can sweep down the
mightiest walls of oppression and
"If Athens shall
appear great to you," said Pericles,
"consider then that her glories were
purchased by valiant men, and by men who
their duty."
That is the source of all greatness in all
societies, and it is the key to progress in
our own time."
Robert F. Kennedy, Day
of Affirmation Speech, University of Cape
Town, South Africa, June 6, 1966
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day - Sunday, November 23, 2014 - Robert F. Kennedy
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things
that never were, and ask why not?"
"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
"All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity."
"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."
"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."
"A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability."
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
"Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited."
Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that "perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering."
"I am glad to come to the University of Alabama. I'm delighted to see the inside of this building. I didn't think it meant anything that they snuck me around the back way. They said someone was waiting out in front there." March 21, 1968.
"Aeschylus wrote: In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black. Let us
dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world. Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world." Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Indianapolis, Indiana, April 4, 1968. Additional detail .
"What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet.
"No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason.
"Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily – whether it
is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence – whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded." On the Mindless Menace of Violence, Cleveland, Ohio, April 5, 1968.
"I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that what has been going on with the United States over the period of that last three years, the divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society, the divisions- whether it's between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or in the war in Vietnam – that we can work together. We are a great country, and unselfish country and a compassionate country. And I intend to make that my basis for running." California Victory Speech, Los Angeles, California, June 4, 1968.
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Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - John F. Kennedy
"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed."
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it."
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final
moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
"The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy."
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair."
"Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came."
"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."
"I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to
the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world."
"The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free."
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day - Friday, November 21, 2014 - Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh's Five Don'ts
"1. Don't ask, "Why me?"
2. Don't expect sympathy.
3. Don't bellyache.
4. Don't keep accepting condolences.
5. Don't blame others."
"If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job."
"The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice."
"A resolute and resourceful leader understands that there are a multitude of means to increase the probability of success. And that's what it all comes down to, namely, intelligently and relentlessly seeking solutions that will increase your chance of prevailing in a competitive environment. When you do that, the score will take care of itself."
"I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it."
"The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value most—teacher."
"Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back."
"When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win."
"Great players and great companies don't suddenly start hunching up, grimacing, and trying to "hit the ball harder" at a critical point. Rather, they're in a mode, a zone in which they're performing and depending on their "game," which they've mastered over many months and years of intelligently directed hard work. There's only so much thinking you can isolate and focus on during that kind of extreme competitive pressure. It has to be tactical more than a conscious effort to really "try harder." You just want to function very well, up to your potential, effortlessly—do what you already know how to do at the level of excellence you've acquired—whether in making a presentation or coaching a game or anything else."
"Everybody's got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader."
"We all have in our mind inspiring examples of individuals who persevered beyond the point of reason and common sense and prevailed. We tend to ignore the more numerous examples of individuals who persisted and persisted and finally failed and took everybody down with them because they would not change course or quit. We ignore them because we never heard about them."
"You must be the best version of yourself that you can be; stay within the framework of your own personality and be authentic. If you're faking it, you'll be found out."
"The trademark of a well-led organization in sports or business is that it's virtually self-sustaining and self-directed—almost autonomous. To put it in a more personal way, if your staff doesn't seem fully mobilized and energized until you enter the room, if they require your presence to carry on at the level of effort and excellence you have tried to install, your leadership has not percolated down."
"Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform."
"Make each person in your employ very aware that his or her well-being has a high priority with the organization and that the well-being of the organization must be his or her highest professional priority."
"The highest-paid, most talented people that you can go out and hire will not perform to their potential unless they feel as if they are part of something special—a family that treats them right."
"It was always my goal to create and maintain a working environment both on and off the field that had a sense of urgency and intensity but did not feel like we were in constant crisis mode."
"In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare."
"Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead."
"By instinct we—leaders—want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge."
"Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize."
"Clear thinking and overly charged emotions are usually antithetical."
"People matter most—more than equipment, investors, inventions, momentum, or X's and O's. People are at the heart of achieving organizational greatness."
"Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd—that's the critical factor."
"If you care about how you're perceived by others, including the public, it's good to remember the following: Criticism—both deserved and undeserved—is part of the territory when you're the one calling the shots. Ignore the undeserved; learn from the deserved; lick your wounds and move on."
"Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy."
"One of the common traits of outstanding performers—coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system—is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent."
"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
"If you are worthy of emulation, you have left an unbelievable legacy. He was a great coach, a great friend, and I'm going to miss him terribly." Former coach Dick Vermeil at Coach Bill Walsh Memorial Service
"I came to the San Francisco 49ers with a specific goal – to implement what I call the Standard of Performance. It was a way of doing things, a leadership philosophy, that has as much to do with core values, principles, and ideals as with blocking, tackling, and passing; more to do with the mental than with the physical."
"The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners."
"For me, the road had been rocky at times, triumphant too, but along the way I had never wavered in my dedication to installing – teaching – those actions and attitudes I believed would create a great team, a superior organization. I knew that if I achieved that, the score would take care of itself."
"For me the starting point for everything – before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience – is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude you're dead in the water, finished. I knew the example I set as head coach would be what others in the organization would recognize as the standard they needed to match (at least, most of them would recognize it). If there is such a thing as a trickle-down effect, that's it. Your staff sees your devotion to work, their people see them, and on through the organization."
"In building and maintaining your organization, place a premium on those who exhibit great desire to keep pushing themselves to higher and higher performance and production levels, who seek to go beyond the highest standards that you, the leader, set. The employee who gets to work early, stays late, fights through illness and personal problems is the one to keep your eye on for greater responsibilities."
"All successful leaders know where we want to go, figure out a way we believe will get the organization there, and then move forward with absolute determination. We may falter from time to time, but ultimately we are unswerving in moving toward our goal; we will not quit. There is an inner compulsion – obsession – to get it done the way you want it done."
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day - Thursday, November 20, 2014 - Ted Turner
"All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it."
"I didn't get here for my acting… but I love show business."
"I see what keeps people young: work!"
"I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't
have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out."
"My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job."
"There's nothing wrong with being fired."
"You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win."
"You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for."
"Sports is like a war without the killing."
"I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top."
"I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on."
"I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'."
"Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to
see it again."
"The mind is just another muscle."
"I'm a human being, just like everybody else. I'm up some days and down others. Some days, I just refuse comment. If I'm feeling a little down, I won't say anything. But if I'm really up, I'll let it all hang out. I do have a slight propensity to put my foot in my
"I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president."
'I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit."
What Was That Question Asked To Will Muschamp At The Firing Press Conference on Monday? – Ron Zook and Will Muschamp Were Paid For FAILING Miserably at Their Jobs At Florida Somewhere in The Neighborhood Of = $20 Million Dollars – You Cannot Make This Stuff Up! – Who Will Florida AD Jeremy Foley Hire As the Next Head Football Coach At Florida? – We Think We Know And Here's A Clue….
If any American was wondering why the American public is so ill-served by the US media they could have tuned into the….
"Will Muschamp Firing Press Conference"
….at Florida on Monday and would have no doubt been wondering when the media covering the Florida football program had the time to travel to Russia and learn how to…
Kiss People in Power's Asses in a Royal Way!
What about this insane question…actually a statement…that was asked to Will Muschamp on Monday:
"You seem to be taking this whole thing (your firing) pretty well."
What the Freaking Hell?
Memo to the Florida Media that don't seem to know how to read a Win/Loss Record:
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - Henry Ford
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."
"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security
that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though
sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."
"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them."
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
"I don't know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don't care. I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today."
"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one — and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."
"The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it."
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."
Author Michael Lewis on the Dangers of Extreme Wealth Have Lessons for Modern Day College Football and Intercollegiate Athletics – Post Week 12 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – 11 – 20 Hot Seat Coaches – Give These Overpaid and Crying Like Babies Hot Seat Coaches Hell Mr. Johnny Cash!
Famous author Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, Flash Boys, among some other great books) wrote a fascinating piece in The New Republic recently which goes a long way in explaining why rich people tend to get more greedy as they gather more money and resources and in our opinion confirms our suspicions that the now….
Massive Salaries in Intercollegiate Athletics
….leads to coaches, administrators, media people, and all kinds of various hangers-on that have done virtually NOTHING in their lives to justify making untold…
Millions and Millions of Dollars
….end up being worthless Bastards that sometimes end up taking down entire football programs and/or athletic programs with their arrogance and hubris.
That Michael Lewis piece in The New Republic is titled….
Extreme Wealth Is Bad For Everyone – Especially the Wealthy, Michael Lewis, The New Republic
….and it opens in a way that many people in sports today will recognize instantly as a TRUTH of life while at the same time those same people will also quickly grasp it is a TRUTH of life that their own selfish and greedy selves have Completely Freaking Forgotten!
"When I was fourteen I met a man with a talent for restoring a sense of fairness to a society with vast and growing inequalities in wealth. His name was Jack Kenney and he'd created a tennis camp, called Tamarack, in the mountains of northern New Hampshire. The kids who went to the Tamarack Tennis Camp mostly came from well-to-do East Coast families, but....
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - Andrew Carnegie
"Aim for the highest."
"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."
"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best
for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."
"Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration."
"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."
"Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself."
"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."
"I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle."
"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."
"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."
"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."
"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."
"There is little success where there is little laughter."
"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."
"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"
"You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb."
"You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best."
The Will Muschamp Firing at Florida – The Coaches Hot Seat View of the Will Muschamp Hiring in December 2010 – Post Week 12 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – 1 – 10 Hot Seat Coaches – That's Right! It's Burning Ring of Fire Time for These Hot Seat Coaches! Give It To Them Straight Mr. Johnny Cash!
Before we get to the Post Week 12 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings Analysis a few words on Will Muschamp and Florida are in order….
The Will Muschamp Firing at Florida
In the month of August in 1990 a couple of future members of Coaches Hot Seat were in an incredibly hot Gainesville, Florida with our then landlord in Jacksonville, Florida who was more than happy to have a couple of US Navy guys renting his house since he knew Damn well we would get paid and thus the rent would be on time each month and as the three of us sat in a downtown Gainesville restaurant after seeing the new Head Football Coach at Florida….
Steve Spurrier
…putting his team through a practice one Coaches Hot Seat member said the obvious:
"Hell, with the talent on that field the Gators should start winning right away under Spurrier."
Our then landlord who was a student at Florida in the 1960s when Steve Spurrier was the quarterback and on the way to winning the Heisman Trophy then also said what would become the obvious very shortly...
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day - Monday, November 17, 2014 - Andrew Grove
"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster."
"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."
"So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent
"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start
to decline."
"It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work."
"A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done."
"A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation."
"You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure."
"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
"Our biggest competition in achieving our ambitions, … is a television set."
"Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?"
"Your career is your business, and you are its CEO."
"The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change"
"Strategic changes doesn't just start at the top. It starts with your calender"
"The person who is the star of previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than
"Selectivity – the determination to choose what we will attempt to get done and what we won't – is the only way out of the panic that excessive demands on our time can create."
"Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more Successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then
another until there is nothing"
"People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending changes early"
"It's harder to be the best of class in several fields than in just one"
"How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?"
"A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end"
"As we throw ourselves into raw actions, our senses and instincts will rapidly be honed again"
"Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment
worth $2,000, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers."
"Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them."
"You need to try to do the impossible, to anticipate the unexpected. And when the unexpected happens, you should double the efforts to make order from the disorder it creates in your life. The motto I'm advocating is — Let chaos reign, then rein chaos. Does that mean that you shouldn't plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate fires, so it has to shape a flexible organization that is capable of responding to unpredictable events."
"You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die."
"I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly"
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day - Sunday, November 16, 2014 - Jack Kemp
We miss you Jack!
"Democracy without morality is impossible."
"Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down."
"Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way."
"There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people."
"There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble."
"When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities."
"Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace
of history."
"Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy."
"We have a chance to bring freedom to all of Asia, including China, and we should pursue it with a very positive engagement proposal of trade and strict adherence to human rights,"
"When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities."
"In 1984, Mario Cuomo of New York electrified the Democratic Convention with his tale
of America as two cities, one rich and one poor, permanently divided into two classes. He talked about the rich growing richer and the poor becoming poorer, with the conclusion that class conflict, if not warfare, was the only result, and redistribution of wealth the solution.
With all due respect to Gov. Cuomo, he got it wrong. America is not divided immutably into two static classes. But it is separated or divided into two economies. One economy — our mainstream economy — is democratic and capitalist, market-oriented and entrepreneurial. It offers incentives for working families in labor and management. This mainstream economy rewards work, investment, saving and productivity. Incentives abound for productive economic and social behavior.
It was this economy, triggered by President Reagan's supply-side revolution of tax cuts in 1981 that generated 21.5 million new jobs, more than four million new businesses, relatively low inflation and higher standards of living for most people. This economy has created more jobs in the past decade than all of Europe, Canada and Japan combined. And according to the U.S. Treasury, federal income taxes paid by the top 1% of taxpayers has surged by more than 80% to $92 billion in 1987 from $51 billion in 1981.
There is another economy — a second economy that is similar in respects to the East European or Third World socialist economies. It functions in a fashion opposite to the mainstream capitalist economy. It predominates in the pockets of poverty throughout urban and rural America. This economy has barriers to productive human and social activity and a virtual absence of economic incentives and rewards. It denies black, Hispanic and other minority men and women entry into the mainstream. This economy works almost as effectively as did hiring notices 50 years ago that read "No Blacks — or Hispanics or Irish or whatever — Need Apply."
The irony is that the second economy was born of desire to help the poor, alleviate suffering, and provide a basic social safety net. The results were a counterproductive economy. Instead of independence, the second economy led to dependence. In an effort to minimize economic pain, it maximized welfare bureaucracy and social costs." Wall Street Journal, June 12, 1990 – Jack Kemp in His Own Words, Wall Street Journal
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day - Saturday, November 15, 2014 - George S. Patton
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
"Always do everything you ask of those you command."
"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle."
"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war."
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
"If a man has done his best, what else is there?"
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
"If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened."
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!"
"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals."
Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day - Friday, November 14, 2014 - Paul "Bear" Bryant
"I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at."
"There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to."
"I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work."
"Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them."
"Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners.
Never forget – people win."
"If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price."
"You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think
they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns."
"If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it."
"I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games."
"If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home."
"My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in
the fourth quarter."
"Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things."
"Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you."
"The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it."
"But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against – they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around."
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success."
"People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat."
"I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal."
"We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't."
"I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for
team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones."
"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit – you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards."
"Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it."
"A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time."
"I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in
their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back."
"If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them."
"I have tried to teach them to show class, to have pride, and to display character. I think football, winning games, takes care of itself if you do that."
"I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle."
"I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it."


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A Tram Called Alan
Yesterday we launched Nottingham's attempt to become accredited as a Unesco City of Literature. I chair the board of the company set up to do this, which is a great honour, and a pretty daunting job. It was an even bigger honour to be asked to speak at the launch of Nottingham's newest tram, named after the great Alan Sillitoe. Many of the guests at the launch were able to attend the naming ceremony at the Forest tram stop, chosen for the spot's significance in Alan's work. When we were done, we took the tram into the market square for the launch event at the Council House. 5.30 was too early for some, but there will be video of the whole event on the Nottingham City of Literature website. Sue took some photos, above. And here's the speech I gave, after a fine introduction by the Sheriff, Councillor Jackie Morris and a lovely speech by Cllr Dave Trimble.
We've chosen to name the tram in this spot because here is almost exactly the site of a long, pivotal sequence in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – the film and the book. In both, there's a great Goose Fair scene set on the Ghost Train. It should be pointed out that, while Alan wrote the screenplay, he simplified events for it. In the film, Arthur Seaton is only seeing one married woman, and gets beaten up for his trouble. In the novel, it's a pair of sisters, Winnie and Brenda, who he's carrying on with. Both their husbands are right here, at Goose Fair, when they spot Arthur with the pair of them, one on each arm. He's pursued but narrowly gets away – for a while.
I bought my copy of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning at a second hand emporium on the boulevard down there, thirty odd years ago, after finishing at the University of Nottingham. It was set in the Radford streets I'd come to live in, still very recognizable in the early 80's. A lot of them, but by no means all, long gone now. In my first job, at a Nottingham school, I used to teach Alan's short stories to fifteen year olds. Tough kids, quite often, who weren't that keen on reading, so I'd read The Ragman's Daughter out loud to them. It's a long story, takes at least 50 minutes to read aloud, but they were always engrossed by it, by the power of Alan's words, his storytelling skills and his brilliant depiction of the city we all knew so well. I'm sure loads of other teachers were doing the same thing, and not just in Nottingham, because we had a special schools edition of Alan's early stories.
These days, I teach at Nottingham Trent, our other great university. The final lecture for all of our first year English literature and creative writing students is one I give on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. At the end of it, I ask them to do some writing about Nottingham and the Market Square, where we'll soon be heading on the tram. Then they go off to a seminar where they investigate the artistry, intelligence and complexity that went into Alan's portrayal of Arthur Seaton and his world. Those students come away knowing that they're living in a real city of literature, one that Alan Sillitoe will always be an integral part of. And, from tomorrow, the can travel to their lectures on a tram bearing his name.
Over the years, I was lucky enough to spend some time with Alan. He was always keen to support Nottingham writers, both me and my students (here I adlibbed a mention of Nicola Monaghan, who was standing nearby and whose The Killing Jar Alan was keen on). One of the first things he said to me was 'this city will take care of you', and he was right. This city does take care of its writers. It honours them, as we are honouring Alan today, and it supports them, in all sorts of ways. Many of us want to give something back, and that's why we're here this evening. To celebrate Alan and to celebrate Nottingham. We know that we're a truly international city of literature and we're going to prove that in our bid to become a Unesco Creative City of Culture.
It's a great honour to stand here with Alan's family. His wife, the great poet Ruth Fainlight, will be unveiling the name plate in a few moments, but first I'd like to introduce Alan's son, David Sillitoe. David, so glad you could make it.
David then made a great, short speech before handing over to Ruth for the unveiling. I hope it'll be online soon.
The Specials & Sleaford Mods: Rock City debut 31/10/14
Last week, The Pop Group, this week, The Specials. Sleaford Mods might be the hottest band in Britain (too cool to even enter the Mercury Music Prize), but it doesn't stop them playing support to their heroes.
This is their first time on the main stage at Rock City and they fit. Jason Williamson's, nonchalant 'up yours' attitude is a direct descendent of Terry Hall's sour persona. Andrew Fearn's bearded, beatific presence lightens the mood. The Specials' Too Much, Too Young could be a template for the Mods' aggressive descriptions of modern life's scummier side. Jason's intense performance in which, for once, he actually introduces the songs, wins over the early crowd with numbers liked Tied Up In Nottz, Tiswas (as played on 6Music at breakfast) and closer The Wage Don't Fit.
Two and a bit years ago, the emerging Mods supported another great post-punk band, Scritti Politti, at the Rescue Rooms. In January, they headline there. On this evidence, they could soon headline Rock City, too.
Tonight is the second night of The Specials' tour and their Rock City debut. Is it really six years since they announced their reunion? Joyous delirium greeted their 2009 reunion show in Sheffield. They played the main stage at Glastonbury two months later. Since then, Nottingham has had an arena show and Neville Staple has left due to ill health. That aside, this line-up has been together longer than the original band's four year run. No new album has appeared. Hardly surprising, since songwriter Jerry Dammers wanted nothing to do with the reunion. Sometimes, tonight, Terry Hall looks like he wishes he wasn't here either.
It has to be said that the first half of this show is a little off. Tunes like Double Barrel and the Clash's Janey Jones get us in the mood, but dubby opener Ghost Town (too early!) never takes off, its 'people getting angry' lost in mike problems. After Friday Night and Saturday Morning, Hall lets rip at someone in the crowd because, it seems, he hates halloween. Pearl's Cafe, with its 'all a load of bollocks' refrain, seems to sum up the mood. (It later transpires that there were, indeed, sound problems, as explained in Horace Panter's facebook blog, which is also interesting on what it's like to play Rock City.)
Rat Race begins and quickly goes wrong. Funnily enough, when the song restarts, the night turns into a great Specials gig ('I think we got away with it', Horace wrote). Terry leaves the stage for Lynval Golding to give us Why? When Hall returns, he makes a crack about Halloween Club before Nite Klub. At one point, as he turns his back on us, I even spot a smile on his face.
Dawning of a New Era, Do The Dog, Monkey Man, Concrete Jungle, they're all there. Gangsters is the show's highlight and Too Much Too Young the classic closer. Guns of Navarone leads into Enjoy Yourself for the encore. Terry makes a crack about the 10pm curfew, tell us what's on the telly, then finishes the 90 minute set with the inevitable You're Wondering Now ('what to do now you know it's the end'). By the end, it was a bit special.
The Specials return for a second Rock City show (without Sleaford Mods this time) later this month, but it's long since sold out.
The Pop Group, Nottingham Bodega Social 21/10/14
A slightly extended version of my review from the Nottingham Post, with a snippet of Martyn Boston's photo.
When The Pop Group split up 33 years ago, they had unfinished business. The band were at the avant-garde end of post-punk, performing a chunky, visceral sound which displays elements of free jazz. In 2014, they've said in interviews, their articulate howl of protest is needed more than ever. Tonight's gig is in association with Campaign Against Arms Trade.
It's a brave band that follows Sleaford Mods, the UK's coolest band, who are as intense and entertaining as ever. They do an eight song, 'best of' set including TISWAS, Tied Up In Nottz and, of course, Jolly Fucker.
The Pop Group's Nottingham debut brings out an impressive array of well dressed men of a certain age (45-60) who make up for lack of hair with expensive spectacles (yes, I'm one of them). The five piece are greeted as returning heroes by a crowd that includes several who have travelled from their home town, Bristol, for this short tour's second night.
The set is based around recent rarities set 'Cabinet of Curiosities' and the recently remastered 'We Are Time', whose opening three numbers begins the show. The original four members are joined by a younger, unintroduced rhythm guitarist. The sound is full and fresh. Mark Stewart cuts a genial figure on stage, not much given to introductions. Once he gets going, however, he becomes a man possessed. There are hints of Arthur (Fire) Brown's satanic demeanour, especially when he screams, as he frequently does. There's also a disgust in these songs that complements the Mods, but it's laced with a celebration of old school, anarchistic values. This band sound like they're casting out demons.
'Western values mean nothing to me,' Mark sings in She Is Beyond Good and Evil, whose angular funk takes things to another level. A mesmeric hour concludes in a flash, with We Are Time. The encore, inevitably, is their keynote classic, We Are All Prostitutes (as referenced in one of my Nottingham-set short stories, Paying For It, by the way). Immense.
Holiday Reading
As ever at this time of year, a bit of a reading blog. Quiz for you: look at the pile above and guess which one I didn't finish and which one I dumped in Croatia, or, to be more precise, left in the small select library in our apartment on the island of Hvar. I left the first book I read, a chunky ex-library copy of Sue Grafton's last but one novel, at our hotel in Split (fantastic city, visit highly recommended). Having enjoyed its predecessor so much, earlier this year, I was really looking forward to this one so – you guessed it – I was a bit disappointed. It was up to her usual standard and thoroughly readable, but not as intricately plotted or interesting as U is for Undertow. W is just out. You'd think it would be called W is for Wanted, wouldn't you. But it isn't. Think I'll hold off on that one for a while.
The novel I was most looking forward to, The Land Agent, is the final novel in J. David Simon's Glasgow To Galilee series, and did not disappoint. The cover compares Simon to Sebastian Faulks, but he's much better than that. Think Bernard Malamud meets Hilary Mantel. You can read these novels in any order, though it might be an idea to read the wonderful The Liberation of Celia Kahn before this one if you're going to. Otherwise, you may find Celia's letters the one weak spot of the novel. Not that it matters much. This is succinct, thoroughly absorbing, satisfying storytelling, which casts a far stronger light on the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than the much acclaimed TV series The Honourable Woman, which was enjoyable tosh. A timely, terrific novel by a writer at the very top of his game. It's published next month, and if it isn't shortlisted for next year's Booker Prize then it will be a gross injustice.
Next was David Almond's The Tightrope Walkers, a somewhat autobiographical novel that fits into the new adult category (i.e. it follows the narrator from childhood to twenty or so) but has been published as an adult paperback original, and this may prevent it from reaching some readers, which would be a shame. It's full of powerful, bold, at times almost overwhelming writing. This coming of age novel that features many themes that readers will recognise from David's YA work, like Clay and the recent The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean. Terrific stuff. David has a new YA novel, A Song For Ella Grey out next month, this time with Hachette, who I'm pleased to see are publishing it in hardback first.
Nicholson Baker's Travelling Sprinkler, which I read on my Kindle, was a disappointing follow up to The Anthologist. Less stuff about poetry in this one, more about writing songs (seriously, 55 year old guy tries writing a few songs – who cares?). The narrator is pretty much like the guy who appears in Baker's essays, and those early sort-of novels. It was sort of OK. The other book I read electronically was Michael Faber's Under The Skin. I thought it was a short novel but it turned out to be full length (eBooks can confuse you that way) and not to have very much to do with the film of the same name, apart from the main premise. Plus – put it this way – the central character could not have been more miscast than by using Scarlet Johanssen. This is a chilling read that just about sustains itself, with a feel closer to allegory than sci-fi. By half way through, you might want to think about becoming a vegetarian. 7/10
The book I left behind was a prize winning biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, which left me cold. Fermor was obviously a charmer to know and there's a breathless boy's own adventure quality to his life, but I quit after 40 pages, a quick skip further forward convincing me that matters wouldn't improve. Perhaps one of the apartment's future guests will appreciate it.
The book I didn't read was Loren D. Estleman's Little Black Dress, even though it's handily pocket sized, so will doubtless accompany me on another holiday. My last couple of days were occupied by Roth's I Married A Communist, the only major novel by one of my favourite writers that I hadn't read. At least, hadn't read most of. The New Yorker, as it is prone to do, published a lengthy extract just before the novel came out 18 years ago and I read it as a complete short story. I wasn't too impressed, then, and needed to forget it, so didn't get the novel, even though it's narrated by Nathan Zuckerman and comes between two of Roth's best novels, American Pastoral and The Human Stain. Recently, though, a couple of people have recommended it to me and I figured the whole novel had to be worth a try. Plus by now I'd forgotten nearly everything about it.
There's some terrific writing in the novel, and I don't regret reading it, but most of the story is told at third hand and, structurally, it's a bit of a mess. The novel deals with an important period in the USA's social history, the McCarthy era, and holds lots of interest. However, a writer less brilliant than Roth might have been told to go back and do another draft. There's a particularly annoying revelation towards the end. The central character, Ira, never really comes to life. It's as though Roth knows he's unconvincing and tells his story at a distance so that we don't notice. But we do.
And that, apart from a bunch of short stories, and several lovely issues of the New Yorker, is that. I got back on Sunday. Yesterday, I'd planned to ring my colleague Graham Joyce to discuss the Fiction class I'd just agreed to take over from him until he was able to recover from a recent operation. I also wanted to congratulate him on his brilliant Radio Four programme Talking About Cancer, which discussed the language people use around cancer. In it, he explains why the disease should never be described as a battle or a struggle (it's still available as a podcast here). I'd rung him just after it was on, but he'd just gone into hospital for a serious operation. Graham had been diagnosed with lymphoma 18 months ago but been able to return to teaching briefly this summer and was optimistic about a new treatment he could begin, just as soon as he got his white blood cell count up. But before I could call, I saw – on Twitter, news always breaks on Twitter these days – that he had died. Yesterday afternoon. It's very hard to take in. He was such an irrepressible presence, even while facing death. Just read his final blog posts. Or his beautiful, mesmerising recent novel, The Silent Land, which is also about death. As Stephen King wrote yesterday: 'he was a truly great writer. Too soon. Far too soon.'
The university asked me to write something about him for press enquiries. Here it is:
Graham taught at NTU for 18 years. He was a much loved, inspirational teacher, several of whose students went on to publish novels. NTU staff and students felt lucky to work with such a world-class, original writer. While with us, in addition to his many fantasy writing awards, Graham gained a PhD by publication and was appointed a Reader in Creative Writing. He loved his university teaching, even returning to give his fortnightly class to the Fiction group on the Creative Writing MA during a brief period of remission this last summer term. Social network sites have been flooded with messages from former students saying what a great deal they learned from him and how much they were inspired by him. We will not see his like again.
My condolences to his wife, Sue, and their two children, for this terrible loss.
Green Man 2014
The line-up convinced me. My younger siblings have been going to Green Man for years, not doing Glastonbury since I last went, in 2009 (full diary here), but I'd never investigated going. Then I saw that the two current bands I most want to see were playing (War On Drugs and their former member, Kurt Vile), not to mention Bill Callahan, Beirut and Sharon Von Etten, none of whom I've managed to see, and Mercury Rev, who I haven't seen for years. I was in. Now I'm back and I can see why, if the above is your kind of music, you'd never bother with Glasto again either.
For a start, it's smaller and nearer, set in the one of the most beautiful parts of Wales. We booked late, so got the further out car park and had a long walk to the campsite. But then it was only six minutes walk to the main stage, and you could get anywhere on the festival site in five to ten minutes. I spent a surprising amount of time chilling out in the book tent, Talking Shop, which ran brilliantly, if rather late, meaning that I missed some acts I wanted to see (Michael Chapman, Neko Case, William Tyler) but did see a fascinating interview with long missing folk giant Shirley Collins (above), most of a very good pop quiz (kudos to Pete Paphides for both), a shortened Bob Stanley, the more than interesting Green of Scritti Politti and the frankly, irritating Viv Albertine of The Slits. Oh and Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, but he started so haltingly that I soon nodded off and only woke for the last few minutes.
The Babbling Tongues and Walled Garden area, with several bookshops (one had a full row of RS Thomas first editions!) and many of the best places to eat, was excellent (the loos were very good, too, regularly cleaned with plenty of paper and liquid soap, surprisingly unsmelly). The Goan Fish Curry and The Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company's splendid crab wraps are particularly worthy of your custom. Even the welsh bacon (with, if you can risk the yolk, a fried egg) breakfast baps were of particularly high quality.
The first music I watched was Jonathan Wilson, whose last two albums I've enjoyed in a retro way. The sound was great and his songs sound splendid but nearly every one involves a steal from something closely related to Crosby, Nash, Stills and Young, so it was more like listening to a top drawer covers band. Sun Kil Moon didn't do it for me, so I went to eat, then caught some of Toy (OK) in the crowded Far Out tent, and nearly all of Polica, who were good (think 80's Natalie Merchant 10,000 Maniacs vocals on top of a more electronic, beatier Goldfrapp).
I saw Daughter soundcheck on the Mountain Stage at eleven in the morning, and was impressed enough to return in the evening, when they were good and went down very well. But Beirut were the surprise for me. I enjoy their albums, but live they were a perfect festival band: joyous, varied, with a full rich sound involving fantastic brass, Zach Condon a charismatic presence. Great way to end the evening.
Before the book stuff on Saturday I ran into friend Jon whd got a ticket at the last minute and, impressively, cycled from Abergavenny railway station, so caught up with him then watched the first half of Angel Olson together before he moved to the front. She was pretty good (my brother and sister said she got steadily better and was their favourite act of the day) but I left to watch Scritti Politti's Green in the Talking Shop. He turned out to be on half an hour late so I could have seen the whole of Angel. Oh well. Green had lots of interesting stuff to say about the music business. The first act I saw all of was Sharon Von Etten (above), whose last two albums I like and who was enjoyable if not thoroughly absorbing until she finished with the glorious 'Every Time The Sun Comes Up' from the new album. Fran, Rich and the young girls then went off to see Jeffrey Lewis and the Jrams in the Walled Garden, which they raved about, while I made my way to the front for The War On Drugs.
Here's the thing I particularly loved about this festival. First, it was entirely possible to get to the front, especially if you got there a little early (twenty minutes in my case, of watching the band soundcheck). Plus, when you were there, there was considerably more room than further back in the middle. Not only that, but the atmosphere was fantastic. WOD began with 'Under The Pressure', the best song on their new album and followed it with 'Baby Rockets', the catchiest song on their previous one. It was ecstatic, arms in the air, throw yourself around stuff. I suspected that WOD were the best rock band in the world at the moment. Now I'm sure they are. Talking to strangers (20's t0 50's) between numbers, we were all saying the same thing: 'I thought they'd be great, but I didn't know they'd be this great'. Adam Granduciel is a warm, modest and hugely likeable frontman, too. 'Lost In The Dream' (MP3 below if you want to soundtrack your reading) was epic. Guitar rock can still be fantastic. This was my best hour of the festival. It was probably my best hour of the year.
I've seen Mercury Rev several times, including the original Deserters Songs tour, and am a little ambivalent about shows where bands play their whole, historic album, but they were great. The songs all hold up fine and, after the main set, Jonathan made a cool speech about what kind of festival this was and why it was so important to bands like his, then talked briefly about depression being in the news and played a Sparklehorse song before finishing with a song each from their other two classic albums, concluding with the unfollowable epic 'The Dark Is Rising', which would have sent me back to the tent happy, but there was still time to catch twenty minutes of Slint, so I did. They were good.
My brother Rich and I went to see Joanna Gruesome on Sunday afternoon, but they'd cancelled due to illness, so we went to the front to see Anna Calvi (you can tell how close we were from the photo above), who I've seen twice before, once in Nottingham's tiny Bodega Social, once in the Arctic Monkey's Sheffield tent. She's come on enormously as a performer and was thoroughly enjoyable. An hour later, I got to see Bill Callahan from the same spot, alongside my friends Rory and Libby, who are huge fans. 'This has all the makings of a classic set', he said, a cool dude in a sharp suit who never goes near the front of the stage and whose recent music is equally laid back, which hardly lends itself to the live experience. He was good, but not, it has to be said, great. Maybe I wasn't in quite the right mood to be mesmerised. The closing 'Drover' was the highlight.
I've played The First Aid Kit album a bit and found it pretty but bland. Young Swedish sisters who play refined country pop, they were the perfect band for Sunday early evening. The young girls with us liked them and so did everyone else. We were at the back where we had lots of space, but it never got chatty. Nice cover of 'America'. One for all the family.
The other band who I most wanted to see this weekend were Kurt Vile and the Violators. Another guitar band, a bit less mainstream than WOD, with great guitar and a bit more of a Jesus and Mary Chain meets Dinosaur Junior thing going on. Up front in the Far Out stage, they did not disappoint. Kurt yelps gutturally between songs, throwing in a surprising number of sweet acoustic songs. An absorbing, at times electrifying set and the perfect way to close the festival. Afterwards, we all met up and went to watch the Green Man (photo at top) set alight and a firework display.
In the morning, I took the above photo as a memento after buying milk and hired a trolley to make our return to the car easier. It took an hour to get out of the field we were parked in (but that was four hours less than Glasto 2000 (diary link), the one where I researched Festival, accompanied, incidentally, by three of the ten people with me this time). We were directed out a different, slightly longer way, which took us through a ravishingly beautiful section of the Brecon Beacons. Result. Thanks to Fran for driving and hello again to everyone I saw there. We'll be back.


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Some favourite films at the LFF
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