The culmination of the 2017/2018 National Football League promises to break from 'business as usual'. The league continues to find itself at the centre of a divisive social justice movement, which threatens to negatively impact the commercial potential of the Super Bowl. This Super Bowl strategic playbook analyses past success and future potential of the event, while considering the edge of the political precipice on which the league currently stands.
Amidst a rising chorus of fans and players seeking to use the league as a platform for social justice, the NFL has faced criticism and consternation. The flip side to this coin is the many partnerships and broadcasting developments that emerged in the 2017 season that can catalyse growth if leveraged effectively.
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Q: Why single thread is faster than multithreading in Java? As of my understanding I have written the simple single and multithreading program below to check the execution speed. But my single-threaded program executing faster than multithreaded, kindly see the below program and mention if anything is wrong.
Single Thread:
import java.util.Calendar;

public class NormalJava {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Single Thread");
        int a = 1000;
        int b = 200;
        NormalJava nj = new NormalJava();
        nj.Add(a, b);
        nj.Sub(a, b);
        nj.Mul(a, b);
        nj.Div(a, b);
        Calendar lCDateTime = Calendar.getInstance();
        System.out.println("Calender - Time in milliseconds :"
                + lCDateTime.getTimeInMillis());

    }

    private void Add(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Add :::" + (a + b));
    }

    private void Sub(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Sub :::" + (a - b));
    }

    private void Mul(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Mul :::" + (a * b));
    }

    private void Div(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Mul :::" + (a / b));
    }
}

Output:
    Single Thread
    Add :::1200
    Sub :::800
    Mul :::200000
    Mul :::5
    Calender - Time in milliseconds :138 415 866 7863

Multithreaded Program:
package runnableandcallable;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

public class MainThread {

    private static ExecutorService service = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(10); // connection
                                                                               // pool
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        System.out.println("Multithreading");
        MainThread mt = new MainThread();
        mt.testThread(1000, 200);
        Calendar lCDateTime = Calendar.getInstance();
        System.out.println("Calender - Time in milliseconds :"
                + lCDateTime.getTimeInMillis());
    }

    public void testThread(final int a, final int b) {
        // create a callable for each method
        Callable<Void> callableAdd = new Callable<Void>() {
            @Override
            public Void call() throws Exception {
                Add(a, b);
                return null;
            }
        };

        Callable<Void> callableSub = new Callable<Void>() {
            @Override
            public Void call() throws Exception {
                Sub(a, b);
                return null;
            }
        };

        Callable<Void> callableMul = new Callable<Void>() {
            @Override
            public Void call() throws Exception {
                Mul(a, b);
                return null;
            }
        };

        Callable<Void> callableDiv = new Callable<Void>() {
            @Override
            public Void call() throws Exception {
                Div(a, b);
                return null;
            }
        };

        // add to a list
        List<Callable<Void>> taskList = new ArrayList<Callable<Void>>();
        taskList.add(callableAdd);
        taskList.add(callableSub);
        taskList.add(callableMul);
        taskList.add(callableDiv);

        // create a pool executor with 3 threads
        ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(3);

        try {
            // start the threads
            List<Future<Void>> futureList = executor.invokeAll(taskList);

            for (Future<Void> voidFuture : futureList) {
                try {
                    // check the status of each future. get will block until the
                    // task
                    // completes or the time expires
                    voidFuture.get(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
                } catch (ExecutionException e) {
                    System.err
                            .println("Error executing task " + e.getMessage());
                } catch (TimeoutException e) {
                    System.err.println("Timed out executing task"
                            + e.getMessage());
                }

            }

        } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
            // do something if you care about interruption;
        }

    }

    private void Add(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Add :::" + (a + b));
    }

    private void Sub(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Sub :::" + (a - b));
    }

    private void Mul(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Multiply :::" + (a * b));
    }

    private void Div(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Division :::" + (a / b));
    }

}

Mulithreading Output:
    Multithreading
    Sub :::800
    Division :::5
    Add :::1200
    Multiply :::200000
    Calender - Time in milliseconds :138 415 868 0821
Here single thread executed at 138 415 866 7863 milliseconds and multithreading executed at this 138 415 868 0821 milliseconds. Then what is the real purpose of multithreading ?

A: First:
Because the overhead of creating threads more, than the useful work performed by them.If you run more hard work in threads, it will make it faster than one thread.Trivial code must be runned in one thread.
Second:
For creation micro-benchmark you should use JMH

A: 1,384,158,667,863 milliseconds are about 44 years. So you are telling us that you waited 44 years on the result of this operation? Or could there be something wrong with the way you are measuring the speed of the execution?
To measure the difference between two times you need at least two times, while you only get the current date at the end of your program, which isn't even close to accurate.
Simple time measuring class:
public class StopWatch {
  private long startTime = -1;

  public void start() {
    this.startTime = System.nanoTime();
  }

  public long timeNanos() {
    return System.nanoTime() - this.startTime;
  }

  public double timeMillis() {
    return this.timeNanos() / 1000000.0;
  }
}

Use this Stopwatch to measure the time for execution (like you would use a stopwatch), then do it 3 times and realize that each time you get entirely different results. This is because measuring exact execution time is not trivial at all. The OS constantly interrupts the execution of your program with other tasks and seemingly easy commands can have a whole chain of background commands that need to be run.
All you can do is to approximate the time it takes by running that task like a million times and then take the average.

A: First of all, your time in miliseconds is just the timestamp. You need the difference in miliseconds between before and after the call in order to measure the elapsed time. I guess that you ran the single-threaded application first. If you try running the multi-threaded application first, you will notice that it has a lower "time in milliseconds"-value.
Second. Creating and managing threads has an overhead, which is far higher than the running time of the very simple arithmetic operations you perform.
If you try to iterate the operations a few million times, you may see a performance gain by executing the operations in parallel.

A: The processing that you are doing is trivial, so the overhead of creating threads is more expensive.
If you had expensive operations which could be done in parallel then multi threads make sense.

A: If you consider one processor machine. All the threads run on a single processor. let's suppose that your program (jvm) has 0.2 secs execution time on the processor every second.
If you execute on a single thread, the 0.2 seconds will be dedicated only to this main thread.
If you execute it on 4 threads for example the 0.2 seconds you will not have 0.05 + 0.05 + 0.05 + 0.05. You will need to add an extra time to synchronize, resume and dispose threads. If we suppose that this operation takes 0.001 seconds for every context switching. You will get 0.004 seconds of execution time lost every second provided that a thread executes once in a second.
In real life thread context switching is made many times every second and it's unpredictable.
Now things are changing as there are multicore machines and threads can execute at the same time on different cores.
Please see this link for more information: Does Java have support for multicore processors/parallel processing?

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As Ithaca College predicts a drop in its applicant pool by about 1,700 students for the 2015–16 academic year, the Office of Admission is employing new strategies for reaching out to accepted students to encourage them to enroll, while individual schools strengthen their current tactics.
Eric Maguire, vice president of enrollment and communication, said the college is expecting to receive around 16,500 applicants for Fall 2015, which is down from the record-high pool of 18,208 applicants for Fall 2014.
The decrease is coming off two years of significant gains, which Maguire said is to be expected.
The changing demographic refers to the numbers of graduating high school seniors in the Northeast decreasing since 2008. Though the college saw a record applicant pool last year, it was also the year the college under-enrolled by about 150 students, which Maguire attributed to the demographic challenges and a higher tier of more competitive students.
He also said the college has done less advertising for this round of prospective students, but he has yet to analyze whether this had a direct relationship to the drop-off in applicants.
Though the applicant pool is down, Maguire indicated the enrollment numbers may be looking up. Maguire said paid interests, meaning students who have placed down payments on tuition, are tracking ahead of past years' numbers. The number of early decision applicants is also 20 students ahead of expected, he said.
"So hopefully some of the things that we're putting in place in terms of yielding some of our admitted students is beginning to show signs or glimmers of working, and we'll hope to have continued success throughout the next several months here," he said.
In an effort to prevent another shortfall, Maguire said the college is employing a new tactic to improve yield this year: a calling campaign. Through a partnership with RuffaloCODY, a strategic fundraising and enrollment management software firm, the college will pay students to make calls to admitted applicants to their respective schools or programs and talk to them about the college and answer any questions.
Maguire said through this initiative, the college aims to reach about 7,000 more students. There will also be a control group of admitted students set aside to not receive calls so that the college has a basis for comparing the effectiveness of this campaign.
In addition, he said the admissions office has created a new position this semester specifically to handle the recruitment of international students. Whereas before these responsibilities were shared among administrators in the office, now Eric Weinhold, associate director of international admission, will be the point person.
Individual schools like the School of Health Science and Human Performance plan to work with admissions on deciding best practices for their recruitment efforts. John Sigg, acting HSHP dean, said the school will not be employing new or different strategies to recruit prospective students.
HSHP plans to continue its practices of fostering faculty and student participation in open houses; reaching out to prospective students through IC Peers, an online forum for student applicants, and e-cards; and communicating the success rates of the school's programs, Sigg said.
Diane Gayeski, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, said the Park School plans to continue its current strategies as well.
Rather than changing strategies, the School of Business is expanding a program that began last year. This is the second year of the High School Investment Competition, where the business school invites teams of students from local high schools to invest virtual stocks and compete to gain the most returns on investment, Dawn Kline, assistant dean of the business school, said. This spring, over 500 students from 115 teams in 45 high schools will be coming to the campus for an award ceremony, which is more than double the participation from last year, the pilot year for the program.
Though it attracts students, the initiative was born as a way to highlight the school's investment track, which Kline said is a part of the bigger picture.


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According to Dr. Christina Mack, the National Basketball Association (NBA) made a call in the name of public health when it suspended the 2019-2020 season in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan to restart its season — and hold playoffs in a controlled environment, or "bubble" — was ambitious. Mack notes that the NBA's history of relying on scientific expertise and data to drive decisions greatly contributed to the success of this novel approach.
Department of Energy recognizes Dubbs for contributions to clean energy
The U.S. Department of Energy honored Dr. Lindsay Dubbs with a U.S. Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Initiative (C3E) Award in the education category this week at the Ninth Annual U.S. C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium.
Recent research published in Pediatrics by a team of faculty and alumnae of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health shows that existing interventions to increase human papillomavirus vaccinations are cost-effective.
This spring, the pandemic left nearly 50 students in the Department of Health Policy and Management without internships needed to fulfill degree requirements. In response, the department coordinated with an ardent alumni community to provide new opportunities.
Britton confronts COVID-19 on the front lines of the opioid pandemic
As president and chief executive officer of the largest nonprofit addiction treatment provider in the United States, Dr. Thomas Britton was already working to confront the opioid pandemic when COVID-19 began spreading. He says his training at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Public helped him in unexpected ways when he found himself at the convergence of the two greatest public health threats the country faces.
Colville to lead North Carolina Institute of Medicine
The NCIOM recently selected Dr. Kathy Colville to serve as its next president and chief executive officer. In this role she will lead the NCIOM's work in advising state policymakers and executive agencies, developing robust partnerships, publishing state health policy research and convening diverse state stakeholders to identify actionable solutions to our state's health policy and public health challenges.
Gillings students and alumni provide community COVID-19 testing
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The pandemic is impacting continuity of care for cancer survivors — especially women
By early June 2020, 34% of cancer survivors surveyed had canceled at least one doctor's appointment due to COVID-19. These cancellations are concerning, says Dr. Jessica Islam, who points out that female cancer survivors have been impacted the most, likely due to school and daycare closures.
Valverde hunts for COVID-19 hotspots
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Class of 1970 celebrates 50 years of reproductive empowerment
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Boy Inserts 26 Magnet Balls in His Penis
Pics shows: The x-rays of the patient's urethra; Doctors have removed a string of magnetic balls from a schoolboy's bladder after he shoved them up his penis and started peeing blood. The 11-year-old boy, somewhat ironically named "Pi Pi", inserted some 26 neodymium magnet toys known as "Buckyballs" up his urethra and was taken to hospital in Wenzhou City in China's eastern Zhejiang Province after experiencing painful swelling as well as blood in his urine. Wang Yongbiao, paediatrician at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, said X-ray scans showed the magnetic spheres lighting up inside the boy's bladder and urethra. The medic said the Buckyballs caused a blockage that took up about three-fifths of the space in Pi Pi's urethra tube, which helped explain the swelling and bleeding. All 26 balls, which had become stuck to each because of the magnetism, were removed in a surgery this week. Doctor Wang said: "Around 10 of the Buckyballs were inside his bladder; the others were stuck at the front of his urethra." Pi Pi has been kept home from school and will need about half a month to recover, the medic added. Doctor Wang explained that similar cases were common amongst children who are "curious" and "still getting to know their bodies."
A boy in China underwent surgery for two hours to remove 26 tiny metal balls from his bladder.
At a young age, many children receive toys and also have very curious minds. The 11-year-old Chinese boy, who resides in Zhejiang Province in China, inserted these small, spherical magnets into his penis. After dealing with the pain and his private organ bleeding, he was rushed to the Yuying Children's Hospital in Wenzhou, where surgeons performed cystotomy.
The 26 magnetic balls were known as "neodymium magnets."
The local pediatric surgeon, Dr. Wang Yongbiao, explained the surgical procedure in the video: "The balls are now aligned into two columns and got stuck in the posterior urethra area." Because the spherical balls attached to each other, it was difficult to remove them from the penis. Dr. Wang continued, "each magnet ball has a diameter of three millimeters (0.12 inches) and when they align in two rows, its width doubles up to six millimeters (0.24 inches)."
The doctor had to push the magnets into the boy's bladder before removing them using forceps. It was difficult removing one magnet at a time because they had clustered in the bladder. To remove the magnetic balls, Dr. Wang had to create a surgical incision in the bladder.
The child is recovering and Dr. Wang warned: "Children can easily swallow or place the magnet balls into their body parts due to the small size. I had previously dealt with two similar cases in relating to the magnet balls."
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Q: Subresource Integrity when using @import What is the syntax to include subresource integrity when using @import?
@import url(//use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.3.1/css/all.css);

Besically how do I include the subresource integrity and crossorigin parameters when using @import like above?
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.3.1/css/all.css" integrity="sha384-mzrmE5qonljUremFsqc01SB46JvROS7bZs3IO2EmfFsd15uHvIt+Y8vEf7N7fWAU" crossorigin="anonymous">

A: TL;DR: SRI is a browser-thing, CSS at-rules (like @import) are a css-thing.

What is the syntax to include subresource integrity when using @import?

From what I can tell, there is nothing in the current CSS spec (CSS3 drafted as of writing this) - where usage of @import is defined - that details usage of SRI for css.

Besically how do I include the subresource integrity and crossorigin parameters when using @import like above?

Those parameters define how the browser fetches the resource and interprets its legitimacy. This happens before the resource is implemented (js, css, etc.).

External Resources:

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*CSS3 Spec draft (specific to at-rule usage): https://drafts.csswg.org/css-cascade-3/#at-ruledef-import

*MDN page on @import usage: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@import

*MDN page detailing SRI: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subresource_Integrity


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Nigeria officials 'stole $15bn' from anti-Boko Haram fight
Mr Osinbajo says the culture of stealing public funds has to stop
About $15bn (£10bn) was stolen from the fight against militant Islamists in Nigeria under the previous government, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said.
The money was diverted through fraudulent arms contracts, he added.
Several allies of ex-President Goodluck have been put on trial after being accused of awarding fake arms contracts worth $2bn. They deny any wrongdoing.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to office last year, has vowed to fight corruption and recover "stolen funds".
Those facing charges included former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki, ex-military chiefs and several contractors. They have all pleaded not guilty.
Speaking at a university in the south-western city of Ibadan, Mr Osinbajo said the amount stolen was more than half of Nigeria's current foreign exchange reserves of $27bn.
"It is important to send a message that no public officer can steal the resources of this country and expect to escape," he said.
Africa's largest economy and oil exporter has been hit hard by the global slump in crude prices.
It is facing its worst economic crisis in decades, with two-thirds of the country's 36 states struggling to pay salaries to workers.
Heavily armed militants have caused widespread destruction in north-eastern Nigeria
The government says it inherited an "empty treasury" when it took office last year.
Mr Buhari's political opponents accuse him of waging a witch-hunt against the previous administration.
During Mr Jonathan's rule, soldiers complained that despite the military's huge budget, they were ill-equipped to take on militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
The insurgents have killed thousands in north-eastern Nigeria in their campaign, launched in 2009, to create an Islamic state.
Mr Jonathan ruled Nigeria from 2010 to 2015.
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Playlist: Soundtracks
Welcome to our latest M playlist. This week to mark the BBC's Sound of Cinema season we've decided to choose our favourite Hollywood soundtracks. It also coincides with a run of interviews we're featuring over the next few weeks with British film composers including Daniel Pemberton, Jon Hopkins and silent film soundtracker Neil Brand. Our selection includes choice cuts from some of the above as well classic cinematic moments from Inception, Midnight Cowboy, Twin Peaks and Paris, Texas.
M magazine online extras: autumn 2013
Find all the extras from the latest issue of M magazine here.
Interview: Don Letts
Punk rocker, DJ, musician and film-maker Don Letts give us his insight into what makes for a great film score and his role in the BBC's Sound of Cinema series.
Interview: Neil Brand
BBC Sound of Cinema presenter Neil Brand tells us what it takes to be a film composer
Score! Insider tips for writing soundtracks
Exploring the relationship between music and the moving image to unearth new opportunities for composers.
M launches Publisher Sync Review
Welcome to the first of a new series of Sync Reviews - a slot to showcase notable publisher music placements across TV, film, trailers and more.
John Parish announces UK tour
John Parish, the Bristol-based singer songwriter, film composer and PJ Harvey collaborator, has announced a new UK tour.
Game Music Connect to take place in September
Games Music Connect, a conference for video games composers and music fans, will take place at London's Southbank in September.
Micachu soundtracks Under the Skin film
Eccentric singer songwriter Micachu has provided a soundtrack for the upcoming film by Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer.
Hans Zimmer to receive Classic BRIT Award
Film composer Hans Zimmer is to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the 2013 Classic BRIT Awards.
Slowthai and The 1975 lead NME Award nominations
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One mistake that many people make is not following directions. If the directions say to apply the strips once a day, then some people assume that twice a day is going to provide whiter results. The increased use of the whitening gel can actually cause sensitivity issues in the long run. Trying to speed up the whitening process isn't going to work as you think it will, and it will only cause problems from overusing the whitening gel. If you want your teeth to feel comfortable, stick to the provided steps.
It is normal for your teeth to feel more sensitive right after you use a whitening product. Thankfully, this sensation doesn't last forever, but it will happen to most people. The sensation may only last a couple hours, but some people will feel increased sensitivity with foods that are very cold or hot. Try to avoid these foods right after using a whitening product to improve your overall comfort.
Consider switching to a toothbrush with soft bristles so that brushing is easier on your teeth. You can also avoid eating any sticky or crunchy foods while you're completing the whitening treatment. It is very likely that your teeth are going to be more sensitive at first toward anything that is abrasive.
Sensitivity can happen as a result of your tooth enamel becoming demineralized during the whitening process. This is a normal thing to happen when you're using a tooth whitening product. You can help to protect your teeth by using fluoride rinses. Your dentist may be able to recommend a dependable fluoride rinse that doesn't contain dyes in it, which will help with decreasing sensitivity.
If you're worried about performing a whitening treatment at home, speak to your dentist about what professional options they can offer you in their office in order to get long-lasting results. Contact a dental office like Cross Creek Family Dental to learn more.


I watched my first movie in Finnish the other night. It was a horror movie called Sauna. At first this title conjures up a movie that SyFy (don't even get me started about that name change) could cook up in an afternoon. However, I assure you, this film is anything but expected.
It takes place in 16th century Sweden/Russia. After the Swedes and Ruskies finished with one of their wars, they commission a group with two Finns and three Russians to map the border between the two countries. The main characters are the Finns, two brothers to be exact. The older one has been a soldier his whole life, since the war started. His eyesight is failing, and he has only tiny eyeglasses to help, which he loathes. He's violent and unpredictable, and he knows exactly how many people he's killed. The younger brother is smart and gentle, a university professor who draws maps, and hopes plotting the border will give him a chance to discover a new animal or insect to further his academic standing.
At the beginning of the movie, the brothers commit a heinous act. What they do exactly is a topic of much debate amongst people who have seen the film. The sin haunts the younger brother, even as they find a mysterious village full of exceptionally clean peasants. The population of the village happens to correspond with the number of people the older brother has killed. Even stranger is a sauna in the swamp just outside the village that the villagers claim can wash away your sins without you having to ask forgiveness.
There's a lot of disturbing imagery in this movie. It's a thriller, but it's more a character study of two very different brothers. It's very very open to interpretation, leaving some viewers frustrated and angry at the film and its director.
I, however, enjoyed the movie. It was shot and acted beautifully, and left me chilled and thrilled.
Thanks for sharing. I've heard some good buzz on this film but have yet to check it out. Your description, however, may be just what I needed to push me to seek this one out and finally watch it.
I'll let you know what I think about it once I see it.


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35% Campaign update – Elephant Park – homes dumped for offices
Elephant Park – homes dumped for offices
Southwark Council is set to roll over to Lendlease yet again in its final bid to squeeze maximum profit out of the Heygate redevelopment. The developer's latest and last Elephant Park application will increase the density of the scheme via the back door, using the sweetener of a new health facility that is was required to provide anyway.
One of the first tasks of Southwark's new planning committee will be to consider developer Lendlease's controversial planning application for a new office block on the final plot of Elephant Park, H1. Plot H1 stands on what was protected metropolitan open land, on the site of the demolished Heygate estate:
The H1 application, which includes a proposal for a health hub, is a dramatic change of direction by Lendlease. Up to now, Elephant Park has been built as a housing development, with some retail, and other uses; Lendlease's original plan was for H1 to be much the same, with three residential blocks, one of 30-storeys, two of ten-storeys, comprising about 300 homes, across 36,100sqm of floorspace:
This proposal was part of Lendlease's successful 2013 planning permission application. Now, in 2022, it turns out that Lendlease has shoehorned the housing planned for H1 into all the other plots already built or currently under construction, leaving it with a surplus plot. Instead of building additional housing on H1, which would require a fresh planning application and might open up a can of worms about affordable housing delivery, Lendlease says it wants to build an office block on the site, which would improve 'employment capacity'. A health hub, covering a tenth of the total floorspace, is also being offered, to sweeten the proposal – but only in place of providing affordable workspace.
Lendlease benefits from rule change 1
Southwark Council has reacted favourably to Lendlease's proposal to provide offices on the surplus plot, with local councillors saying that they are 'generally in support' of the application, at a pre-election hustings.
More practically Southwark Council also changed the planning rules to give the application a fair wind. We reported last September how Southwark Council has smoothed Lendlease's path by changing the local planning rules in the Southwark Plan, to allow a ten-fold increase in 'employment floorspace' on Elephant Park.
Lendlease's 2013 planning permission allowed only a maximum of 5,000sqm of business space across the whole Elephant Park site of thirteen plots. Lendlease's new application proposes ten times that amount, 49,565sqm on a single plot. This would have had no hope of being approved without a change in the planning rules. Southwark Council duly obliged and approved an 'uplifted' amount of 60,000sqm, when the new Southwark Plan was adopted in February 2022.
More homes in a smaller space….
Lendlease has also been careful to build all the homes it promised under its 2013 permission. Lendlease say it has built almost to the maximum floorspace allowed by the permission, delivering 2,689 homes including 25.7% affordable housing.
But these 2,689 homes must obviously have been shoehorned into fewer plots, at a greater density than originally proposed, if Lendlease now finds itself with a spare plot that can be used for an office development. Should this application succeed it will also be the second time that the density of the development has been increased. In 2019 Lendlease took advantage of a poorly drafted s106 legal agreement, to increase the original maximum homes from 2,469 to 2,689 homes.
There is also a discrepancy between what Southwark has been told about the number of homes built and the figures Lendlease have given in their 2022 half-yearly report to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Lendlease's hy22 Lendlease Major Urban Projects report says that 3,208 homes will be delivered on Elephant Park (including Trafalgar Place's 235 units), 284 more units than are in the planning documents and 739 more homes than originally consented:
…….fewer social rent
Lendlease remains silent on the shortfall of affordable housing, against the longstanding 35% affordable housing requirement, half of which should be social rented. Roughly calculated by unit this is a loss of about 270 affordable homes, half of which would be social rent.
The sweetener – the health hub
Lendlease appear to have won local councillors around to supporting their office block proposal by promising a health hub. Discussions about this have already taken place between Southwark Council, the NHS SE London Clinical Commissioning Group and Lendlease, and have also including GP services provider Nexus.
A health hub or facility would be very welcome and for that reason it has been a requirement for Lendlease to build it since 2013, under the current planning permission. Rather than get on and build it though, Lendlease has waited until the final plot and the final planning application to extract further gains, in the shape of an office block, several times the size of the health hub. It has had to make £1.08m health contributions along the way, but evidently considers this an acceptable cost.
Given that Lendlease were happy to build the health hub as part of a residential development before, there is no reason why it must be part of an office development now, other than it suits Lendlease. It is also not clear why councillors and Southwark think they are getting a good deal by supporting a health hub with offices, when there is already an agreement to build a health hub with homes.
A further gain for Lendlease in building a health hub is that it would relieve it of the obligation of providing around 5,000sqm of affordable workspace. This has been enabled by another favourable change to the planning rules in the new Southwark Plan, to add to the change that allowed more office space. Up to August 2020 developers could provide affordable retail and affordable cultural uses instead of affordable workspace. Lendlease submitted its application in May 2021 and by the time of the final version of the Southwark Plan in February 2022 'public health services' was added to the list of alternatives to affordable workspace.
So, with this addition, an obligation was turned into a choice between providing a health hub, at what we can assume will be a commercial rent, or affordable workspace at discounted rents.
Princess Street and Manor Place surgeries to go?
Southwark Council has joined with Lendlease and the NHS SE London Clinical Commissioning Group (SEL CCG) to sign a Memorandum of Understanding, supporting the provision of a health hub and an indicative plan of the hub has been drafted.
One point that leaps out of the Memorandum is that the hub is intended to replace the Princess St and Manor Place GP surgeries. It says that the hub would be a 'health centre for GP….services….to serve the population at Elephant & Castle and the existing people served by the Princess St and Manor Place GP Surgeries.'
New state-of-the-art GP facilities would be a boon to everyone at the Elephant and in Walworth. But if these facilities entail the closure of two longstanding GP surgeries then that is something that should be made plain in the planning application and the public consultation about that application. This has not happened; the only consultation has been around the planning aspects of the application, which the Memorandum calls a 'separate and independent process'.
A consultation is promised by the SEL CCG, but it looks as if this will not be until after the planning application is decided. This is too late; the fate of the surgeries will be effectively decided too, if the application is approved. Southwark Council and the NHS are the proper authorities to deal with our health care provision, Lendlease are not, but at the moment it is Lendlease who seem to be in the driving seat, with no reference to the people who depend on Princess St and Manor Place surgeries. This planning application should only be determined after the formal consultation promised by the SEL CCG.
What has been delivered on Elephant Park?
Southwark must also clarify and confirm just exactly what housing has been delivered on Elephant Park. The development we have now looks a lot different to that approved, back in 2013 – bigger, denser, with fewer homes for sale (many were converted to Build to Rent), and with an office block in the middle, if the H1 planning application succeeds. This is not what the 2013 planning committee agreed to.
A new Overview & Scrutiny committee has just begun drawing up its scrutiny arrangements and annual work programme; the committe should put an examination of the whole Heygate regeneration and what has been delivered on Elephant Park at the top of its agenda.
Only one in ten new homes in Southwark is social rented
Hoardings publicising the Council's delivery of 11,000 council homes are a familiar sight around Southwark. They promote the Council's creditable council house building programme, which it launched in 2013 and describes as the 'most ambitious…in the country'.
The impression Southwark wants to create is that building social housing is the Council's top priority – as it should be in a borough where only 7% of households can afford free-market housing[^1].
The reality is different. Only one in ten new homes built in Southwark since 2004 is social rented. The figure has emerged from analysis of the London Mayor's new Planning Datahub. The Datahub documents all the homes built in London since 2004, including those built in Southwark[^2]. The Datahub analysis shows that after losses are taken into account, only 2,711 out of twenty-five thousand new homes in Southwark are social rented[^3].
Eighteen years of low social rent, but high free-market numbers
The contrast between the small number of social rent and the large number of free-market homes built is stark, as our chart below shows. The Datahub figures show that nearly 70% of all new homes are free-market (nearly 18,000 in number) against just 10.7% social rent, with the rest made up of other affordable homes[^4].
Bar chart by 35% Campaign. Source: Planning London Datahub, Residential Completion Dashboard
Lost Heygate homes
The Datahub also shows that more social rented homes were lost in 2021 than were built. Only 31 were built, while 122 were demolished, with a net loss of 91 homes. Southwark claim this is a 'discrepancy' but the lost units can be identified through the Datahub as being from the demolished Heygate estate[^5].
The Datahub shows the loss clearly, in percentage terms, as minus 20.4% of the total housing delivered in 2021[^6].
Southwark misses the target
Southwark has claimed that it has more than met its target to build 2,500 council homes by 2022, a pledge it made in 2013.
But this target has in fact been missed. Only 2,208 social rented homes have been built in Southwark since 2013, and this includes any council housing built. This figure is calculated from Southwark's own Housing Facts and Figures webpage Table 8. The Mayor's Datahub shows that over the same period 1,136 social rent homes have been lost, mainly through estate demolitions, leaving a net gain of only 1,072 social rented homes[^7].
it should be noted that these figures are from all social rented housing in the borough. It is made up of social housing on private developments, as well as any council housing. The number of council homes built will therefore be a smaller number than the number of social rented homes.
The Council plays with the figures
Southwark is only able to claim that it has fulfilled its 2013 pledge to build 2,500 council homes by 2022, by using an elastic definition if what 'build' actually means. For Southwark, it means the homes do not have to be completed, just started, and can also include other homes brought back into use, according to this Southwark News article.
Southwark also apparently include in the definition of council housing homes gained from private developments, through planning requirements. If this is the case then there is no real gain in social rented housing numbers, because these would have been built anyway, and at private developer's cost.
We need less free-market housing, more social rent
The need for social rented housing has continued to rise since Southwark made its 2013 pledge to build 11,000 council homes over thirty years. The pledge is a good one, but it will probably only maintain the 2013 number of homes, not increase it. Southwark also does itself no favours by exaggerating the progress it is making towards the 11,000 council homes target. The amount of council and social housing being built in the borough is a fraction of the amount of free-market housing and unless this changes and we start getting more social housing from private developers as well as council homes, then Southwark's housing crisis will continue.
[^1]: 'CACI Paycheck data confirms that 93% of households in Southwark have a household income that requires social and intermediate housing' – para 2, pg 108 Southwark Plan 2022
[^2]: The Planning London Datahub is a 'collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London' including Southwark. It is part of the London Datastore and is a 'new data base that includes data fed live from the boroughs…'. The Datahub's Residential Completion Dashboard shows all housing completions for all the boroughs in London.
[^3]: 5,761 social rented homes were completed, 3,050 s/r homes were lost, leaving a 2,711 net gain for the eighteen financial years FY2004-FY2021. 25,286 homes of all tenures were completed in total, after losses are taken into account. From an analysis of the Residential Completion Dashboard, data filtered for Southwark.
[^4]: 17,651 free-market (69.81%), 2,711 social rent (10.72%), 339 affordable rent (1.34%), 3,572 intermediate (14.13%), 57 Discount Market Rent (0.23%), 956 Other (3.39%) – 25,286 units in total. Completed during the eighteen years FY2004-FY2021. Figures do not include non-conventional units and empty homes brought back into use. From an analysis of the Residential Completion Dashboard, data filtered for Southwark.
[^5]: 31 social rented homes were completed in Southwark in 2021, while 122 were demolished, all on Elephant Park Plots H2 and H3 (14/AP/3438/3439), leaving a net loss of 91 units. More social rented homes were lost than completed in FY 2004 (-140), FY2015 (-121), FY2016 (-166), FY2021 (-91). From an analysis of the Residential Completion Dashboard, data filtered for Southwark.
[^6]: The net gains/losses for FY2021 are 441 free-market units (98.7%), -91 social rent (-20.4%), 39 affordable rent (8.7%), intermediate 58 (13%). From an analysis of the Residential Completion Dashboard, data filtered for Southwark.
[^7]: Southwark's Table 8 gives 'Gross' figures; the Datahub describes the same figures as 'Gains'. The Datahub figures for FY2019 and FY2020 vary from Southwark's, giving total Gains for FY2013 to FY2020 of 2,170, against Southwark's figure of 2,208 for the same period. Datahub figures from an analysis of the Residential Completion Dashboard, data filtered for Southwark.
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35% Campaign update – Lendlease's final plot for Elephant Park – offices, not homes
Southwark to change rules to allow office block on former Heygate estate.Southwark Council is set to change its planning rules to enable developer Lendlease to build an office block on the site of the former Heygate estate. The block would be on the final development plot of Elephant Park, Plot H1, which is earmarked for housing under Lendlease's current planning consent. Lendlease has now applied to replace this consent with an entirely new one, to build an office block, not housing. Southwark is also ready to change the New Southwark Plan (NSP) to pave Lendlease's way to a successful approval of the application. The change will allow an increase in the office floorspace on Elephant Park, from the maximum of 5,000 sqm that Lendlease is presently allowed, to the 49,565 sqm it is proposing in its new planning application. Southwark has said 'an office development on this plot is broadly supported' in the 'Conclusion' of pre-application discussions with Lendlease.Late changes to the New Southwark PlanThe change to the NSP, which governs all development throughout the borough, is part of a 'main modification' to the Plan. The modification MM7 would allow 60,000 sqm of 'employment floorspace' to be built specifically on Elephant Park; at the moment the local plan envisages a maximum of 30,000 sqm of 'business floorspace' for the whole Elephant and Castle Opportunity Area.The NSP, including the main modifications, is in the final stages of approval by government inspectors. Comments on all proposed modifications can be made up to a deadline of 24 September 2021.From open space to office spaceA good part of Plot H1 sits on land that was covenanted for use as open space, in perpetuity, when ownership was devolved to Southwark in 1985, on the abolition of the Greater London Council (GLC). In 2014 Southwark transferred ownership of the Heygate land, including Plot H1, to Lendlease, removing the covenant in the process. In 2019 Lendlease took advantage of a poorly drafted s106 legal agreement with Southwark to increase the maximum number of homes allowed on Elephant Park by 220 units, to 2,689. Lendlease is using ten plots of land for these homes, instead of the eleven available, leaving itself a spare plot. This is the justification for the new planning application – Lendlease claims that they have fulfilled their housing obligations under the current planning consent, so Plot H1 can be used for an office development, which would create jobs.Lendlease does not say in their new planning application how many homes could be built on Plot H1, if it were used for housing as originally intended, but by making a rough comparison with neighbouring plot H7, a capacity for about 340 homes can be calculated.Lendlease on manoeuvresLendlease's Plot H1 planning application is the latest of a succession of self-advantageous manoeuvres. As well as increasing the number of homes on the estate and squeezing them into fewer plots, Lendlease has also announced that over 900 of the free-market homes would no longer be for sale, but kept under their ownership, and let to private renters, not sold. Before this, they marketed and sold substantial numbers of homes overseas . This all followed the notorious 2010 Heygate regeneration agreement, which reduced the affordable housing to 25%, from 35%, with a meagre 79 social rented units (later inching up to 100 units).Southwark Council is now poised to give up a prime housing site (in the middle of an opportunity area, on former council estate land) at Lendlease's behest. Southwark is doing this while embroiled in controversies across the borough about infill development on council estate sites, none of which are anywhere near the size of the plot it is about to give up. Object!Lendlease's argument that offices will good for employment is entirely self-serving. They did not make this proposal for Plot H1 in 2012, when applying for their first planning permission. Instead, they have tricked their way into a position where they have built more homes than originally consented, on a smaller space, and now want to squeeze in an extra office block for good measure.Southwark Council have aided Lendlease's application by proposing a ten-fold increase in 'employment space' on Elephant Park, in the New Southwark Plan – a huge uplift, introduced to boost the chances of an office-space application being approved.There has been much speculation about whether Southwark's recent change of leadership has resulted in a change of direction for the Council.This is the planning committee's chance to prove that the Council won't roll over to Lendlease indefinitely. 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RUTH IS STRANGER THAN RICHARD
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- Ruth (Side 1) -
1. Soup Song (5:00)
2. Sonia (4:12)
3. Team Spirit (8:26)
4. Song for Ché (3:36)
- Richard (Side 2) -
5. Muddy Mouse (a) (0:50)
6. Solar Flares (5:35)
7. Muddy Mouse (b) (0:50)
8. 5 Black Notes and 1 White Note (4:58)
9. Muddy Mouse (c) Which in Turn Leads To Muddy Mouth (6:11)
- Robert Wyatt / vocals, piano (1-4), electric piano (8), organ (6), drums (2,6)
- Brian Eno / guitar & synthesizer (8)
- Fred Frith / piano (5,7,9)
- Gary Windo / tenor (1,3,4,8) & alto (2,4,8) saxophones, bass clarinet (2,6)
- Nisar Ahmad Khan / tenor (3,4,8), baritone (1) & soprano (4) saxophones
- Mongezi Feza / trumpet (2)
- Bill MacCormick / bass
- John Greaves / bass (2)
- Laurie Allan / drums (1,3,4,8)
- Nick Mason / producer(2)
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How in the world could've Wyatt topped the fabulous Rock Bottom, the album that personify individual intimacy, complete lunacy and at the same time come out as a cure for his sanity?? Would his next album suffer from aridity, after having been drenched in tears, probably exhausting its reserve of emotions? Obviously he couldn't and probably didn't try, opting for a very different direction in the manner of a pure assemblage of individual songs, but wouldn't keep it to that: he divided the album into two halves, the first side containing different-sounding tracks not linked to each other; while the second half is a very weird chain of songs linked with his Muddy Mouse pieces. For some reason, unknown to me, the Cd reissue inverted the side sequence, which throws a bit off my theory that the Ruth side (first in the album title and on the vinyl) was indeed stranger than the Richard side, second in the album title and on the vinyl. I will review the Cd order, since I never owned the vinyl.
Comparably to his previous two solo albums, Robert doesn't write all or most of the songs, as here, there are a bunch coming from the other musicians involved, a stellar cast of Windo, Frith, Eno, Feza, Manzanera, Hopper, Sinclair, Greaves, McCormick and Nisar Ahmad Khan. Self-produced (except one song by Nick Mason), this album sports an extremely strange animal masks artwork that made its sleeve remarked on the record store walls. The opening Soup Song (Hopper/Wyatt written) is a prog blues extravaganza with Windo going nuts on the sax, but even though it's fun, it's nowhere near what we'd expect from Wyatt. The same can be said of the Feza-penned instrumental jazzy reggae Sonia, with its fun horn section, fun but missing the point. Both tracks have the usual Canterbury humour (Sonia could even compare with Caravan's Clear Blue Sky -, in 79) and the gloomy Charlie Haden cover For Che instrumental (let us not forget that Robert is a confirmed communist) is again not bad in itself, but not really what you'd expect from Wyatt. The only track offering a bit of prog interest is Team Spirit (a Manzanera/McCormick composition), a difficult to classify proggy jazz with tons of effects on the horns of Windo and Feza. With this track, we return to RB spirit and even threw a hint of TEOAE, this could've been on a Mole or Hatfield album. Team spirit is easily the opening Richard side's best track, and the only barely strange one.
The Ruth flipside is where we see how schizophrenic this album is (definitely holding a more RIO stance, probably due to Frith's presence) with the Muddy Mouse pieces, which are uneasy Frith/Wyatt composition, where Robert's voice is unsettlingly bare and IMHO, purposely badly recorded. The same remark goes for the album closer Muddy mouth, retaining the same formula than the Mouse pieces, but Wyatt's voices being tortured throughout a series of effects, filters and wah-wah pedals.
Solar Flares being an instant classic with fans, with a typical minimalist keyboard that was already present in TEOAE Carla, Marsha And Caroline and now fast becoming a Wyatt signature. The tension travelling throughout this track is pure bliss, as the bass/clarinet beat contrast so well with the organ/voice melody, leaving the piano, percussions and a crazy sax all the room to cast a hypnotic spell on us. With this track in mind, it is now easy to see just how much Picchio Dal Pozzo's third album, Abbiamo, evolved the way it did. Also clearly in the line of fire is News From Babel's Letters album, even if Frith is not there. 5 Black Notes And 1 White Note is the third (and last) highlight on the album, an Offenbach theme with some melancholic sax duo (Windo and Feza I suppose switching from his usual trumpet) over an almost-annoying Eno synth hi-freq tone. The track is slowly dying with Eno sustaining the suspense just long enough to overstay its welcome. Excellent.
RISTR is indeed a strange "thing" which probably didn't receive the same kind of welcome than its predecessor, driving Wyatt into a semi-retirement for the rest of the decade, if you'll except an invisible single in 78. His two Virgin albums are very different, but if you include his debut, you've got one of prog's most eclectic individuals, one that never fails to mix humor, politics and depressive moods in his album, no matter where they lay musically-speaking. However, this album will have the merit of having fans accepting the wider scope of pure songs, even though the majority of the ones here aren't from Wyatt himself.
Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 | Review this album | Report (Review #29842)
Review by Trotsky
For a long time, this was the only Robert Wyatt album I've ever heard, and while I now feel that the emotionally draining Rock Bottom (1974) is his best solo effort (of the ones I've heard of course), I still really enjoy this stew of jazz and blues flavoured with politics and humour.
The former leader of both Soft Machine and Matching Mole is accompanied by a stellar team with some songs co-written by the Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera, Soft Machine's Hugh Hopper and Henry Cow's Fred Frith, while Pink Floyd's Nick Mason produces one of the tracks and Brian Eno also guesting. The first two tracks are fun but not really what one expects from a prog artist. Soup Song is a nice progressive blues tune while Sonia is a jazz-inflected reggae instrumental originally written by Mongezi Feza, who plays trumpet on this album. A real highlight then follows in the brilliant Team Spirit, which is jazzy prog guaranteed to warm the cockles. It's followed by a cover of Charlie Haden' Song For Che which is a jazzy mournful march. The three segments of Muddy Mouse are a typical Soft Machine meets Henry Cow experience marrying Wyatt's high pitched vocals with Frith's complicated modern classical sensibilities. These songs frame three of the best pieces on the album. Solar Flares is a driving jazz-rock number, 5 Black Notes and 1 White Note is a melancholy, haunting affair that sees Wyatt expanding on classical composer Jacques Offenbach's Baccarole and Muddy Mouth is an intriguing piece ... although I'm not really a fan of Wyatt's attempt to give his vocals a wah-wah effect.
Having now heard Rock Bottom, I have little doubt that the "lightness" of this album (which is still far from easy listening) is a reaction to the soul-searching he did on his previous album. I repeat ... I really enjoyed it. (BTW, you'll note that "the old sides A & B" have been flipped on my version of this album, which may well have had an effect on how I view this album). ... 71% on the MPV scale
Posted Tuesday, May 3, 2005 | Review this album | Report (Review #29844)
Review by Syzygy
Robert Wyatt's follow up to the brilliant Rock Bottom is a slightly uneven affair. Never the world's most prolific songwriter, Wyatt would probably have benefited from more time between albums. Despite its flaws, the man himself actually prefers it to Rock Bottom (or so he said in an interview) and it's still a strong entry in a singularly impressive back catalogue.
Where Rock Bottom maintained its dreamlike atmosphere from start to finish, Ruth is Starnger than Richard is very much an album of two halves. Side 1 (tracks 1 -5) is a sequence that is up to the standard of his best work. The Muddy Mouse interludes recall the absurdist humour of early Soft Machine tracks like Pataphysical Introduction or A Concise British Alphabet. These interludes punctuate three of his best pieces. Solar`Flares marries the post-Third Soft Machine style of fusion with the more abstract approach of Matching Mole. Gary Windo doubles the bass line on bass clarinet and Wyatt doubles the melody line with his voice. 5 Black Notes and 1 White Note is Offenbach with a Canterbury twist and shows how classical music can be reinterpreted with style and wit rather than pomp and bombast. Finally, Muddy Mouse/Muddy Mouth ends the sequence with Wyatt's voice and a suitably avant garde piano accompinament courtesy of Henry Cow's Fred Frith. The combination of Frith's austere modernism and Wyatt's direct and emotional singing is inspired, and calls to mind parts of End of an Ear or Instant Pussy during the lengthy scat singing passage.
The second half of the album has some of the most overtly jazzy music released under Wyatt's own name. Soup Song is a pleasant bit of Canterbury nonsense that would sit well on a Hatfield and the North album but which sounds a bit thin in this context. Sonia is an off kilter instrumental written by African jazz trumpeter Mongezi Feza which features another superb contribution from Gary Windo. Team Spirirt is the best track on this second half, co-written with Bill McCormick and Phil Manzenara and operating in that unclassifiable jazz/rock/dada space explored by the likes of Quiet Sun and Matching Mole. The proceedings a brought to a close with Charlie Haden's mournful instrumental Song for Che. Good stuff, but again sounding a little out of context.
Rock Bottom was always going to be a tough act to follow, and in a sense it's unfair to compare it with Ruth is Stranger than Richard. This is a good album in its own right, uneven but never sub standard and containing some of Wyatt's best performances. Well worth adding to your collection.
3.5 stars. Wyatt assembled an all-star cast for this one including John Greaves on bass for one track. Bill MacCormick(MATCHING MOLE, QUIET SUN) would play bass on the other tracks. Drums by Laurie Allan (GONG), guitar and synths by Brian Eno, piano by Fred Frith(HENRY COW), sax and clarinet by Gary Windo (MATCHING MOLE), trumpet by Mongezi Feza(HENRY COW) and sax by Nisar Ahmad Khan round out the lineup. Wyatt would play keys, piano, drums and of course vocals. Wyatt would produce all the songs except Sonia which was produced by Nick Mason(PINK FLOYD). Ok, enough name dropping. For me this doesn't measure up to his first two solo albums, although to his credit they are all very different from one another, so it's more a matter of taste I believe than that one is better than the other.There are two songs on here I love very much "Solar Flares" and "Team Spirit". The rest is hit and miss for me.
"Muddy Mouse(a)" and "Muddy Mouse(b)" are both short piano / vocal tracks written by Wyatt and Frith. "Solar Flares" features light drums, keys, bass and clarinet. Vocal melodies join in on this catchy but restrained number. "Black Notes And 1 White Note" features dual sax melodies that are almost dissonant as other instruments play in the background including Eno on synths and guitar. Good tune. "Muddy Mouse (c)" which in turn leads to "Muddy Mouth" is another Wyatt / Frith composition. It opens with Wyatt's vocals being overlapped(different lyrics though) haha. Then his famous vocal melodies with piano arrive a minute in.
"Soup Song" is a silly song about soup.The lyrics convey the soup's thoughts. Wyatt and Hopper wrote this one. Lots of piano and sax. "Sonia" was a Feza composition, he also plays trumpet on this one. Greaves on bass. Clarinet and sax are also featured. Almost a reggae feel to it. "Team Spirit" is my favourite. A jazzy little number with great vocals from Wyatt. It does sound like a ray gun(by Eno) before and during a sax solo 3 minutes in. It(sax) then gets a little crazy 4 1/2 minutes in. "Song For Che" opens quietly but does get louder after a minute with drums and sax joining in.
Some beautiful passages on this one that i'm sure Wyatt fans are all familiar with. Sad to say that Windo and Feza are no longer with us, but they both brought a lot to the table on this recording for us to enjoy.
Posted Thursday, February 7, 2008 | Review this album | Report (Review #161129)
A disappointing release from Robert Wyatt - how was he ever going to match the glorious ROCK BOTTOM? The tunes featuring wind instruments are O.K., but the whole sorry 'Muddy Mouse / Muddy Mouth' saga, four separate pieces featuring nothing but vocals and piano (to my relief totalling no more than eight minutes), well, they're are immensely irritating. Their melodies have always got on my nerves, their lyrics are incomprehensible, they just seem a waste of natural resources!
Thank 'eaven for so-called SIDE RUTH. 'Soup Song' is delightful, in the first place because of those extraordinary lyrics: 'There's a mushroom on my eyelid, / there's a carrot down my back, / I can see in the distance a vast quantity of beans...' In fact, all pieces featuring clarinettist /saxophonist Gary Windo (i.e. the larger part of this album) are worth hearing. The jolly singalong 'Team Spirit' was written from the perspective of a football out on the pitch, and 'Song for Che' is a beautifully elegiac hymn to one of Wyatt's personal heroes.
I can't make up my mind if the relative pleasures of SIDE RUTH (as well as the pleasantly floating 'Solar Flares' and the Offenbach-inspired 'Five Black Notes and One White Note') really make up for the album's irritations. If you're a Wyatt nut, you've got to own this. If not, start somewhere else.
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 | Review this album | Report (Review #171963)
Review by UMUR
"Ruth is Stranger Than Richard" is the 3rd full-length studio album by UK experimental rock artist Robert Wyatt. The album was released through Virgin Records in May 1975. Having been paralyzed from the waist down due to a fall from a 3rd floor window Robert Wyatt partially wrote and arranged (he had written a great portion of the album before the accident) his deeply emotional and beautifully dark 2nd full-length studio album "Rock Bottom (1974)" during his recovery from the accident.
"Ruth is Stranger Than Richard" is divided in two parts. Side one of the original LP is titled side "Richard" and side two of the original LP is titled side "Ruth". The atmosphere is generally darker and more serious on the material featured on side "Richard" than the more jolly and at times a bit silly material featured on side "Ruth". The overall music style is not easy to describe though, but experimental rock with jazzy elements (lots of brass) might give you a clue. Robert Wyatt´s distinct sounding voice and very personal vocal style is probably an aquired taste, but he is greatly skilled.
The musicianship is excellent. In addition to Robert Wyatt´s considerable vocal talents he has guests like Brian Eno, Fred Frith, and John Greaves performing on the album. With personel like that on board you are sure to be treated to high quality performances.
The album features a well sounding production which suits the music perfectly. It´s detailed and organic. So "Ruth is Stranger Than Richard" is upon conclusion a quality release by Robert Wyatt. The inconsistency of the material makes it a slightly fragmented album, and taking into consideration the brilliant nature of it´s predecessor, it is slightly disappointing that "Ruth is Stranger Than Richard" doesn´t feature a better flow. Especially side "Ruth" features some material that doesn´t sound like it fits. On the other hand more adventurous listeners will probably appreciate the diversity of the material. So a a 3.5 star (70%) rating is still deserved.
Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | Review this album | Report (Review #221552)
After really enjoying the previous album I just couldn't believe that Robert Wyatt wouldn't be able to release a few more performances like the one on Rock Bottom. I began my journey by exploring the follow-up album Ruth is Stranger Than Richard that was released only a year later.
Even though this album features the same Robert Wyatt vocals and keyboard arrangements Ruth is Stranger Than Richard is far from the continuation of Rock Bottom-style that I expected it to be. It's not so much the compositions but instead the overall tone that has shifted from the moody and atmospheric to cheerful and relaxed. Simply put, the album lacks the intensity of his previous effort and with it the compositions fall like a house of cards.
It doesn't really help that most of the material consists of adaptations and arrangements of other people's music with Wyatt concentrating mainly on the lyrics, just like he did on Matching Mole's Little Red Record. This definitely makes it hard to label this release as a proper Robert Wyatt solo album especially when the second part of the record loses any sense of direction with the very dull and traditionally sounding Soup Song. On top of that we also get an unnecessarily cheerful track called Sonia that falls completely out of context with the rest of the material.
If I had to highlight a better performance then it would be the Muddy Mouse trilogy which, once again, doesn't reach the intensity of Rock Bottom but instead keeps thing afloat in comparison to the rest of the material.
**** star songs: Muddy Mouse I (0:51) Solar Flares (5:38) Muddy Mouse II (0:52) 5 Black Notes And 1 White Note (5:02) Muddy Mouse III (6:17) Team Spirit (8:35) Song For Ché (3:42)
*** star songs: Soup Song (5:05) Sonia (4:20)
Posted Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | Review this album | Report (Review #283614)
Review by snobb
Third Wyatt's solo album was released next year after his excellent intimate "Rock Bottom". Not strange, it wasn't easy to follow such release by something of the same level. And "Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard" didn't.
This album in some sense is a compilation of different previously unreleased songs and ideas (some comes from Wyatt's before Soft Machine period,others are reworked songs of other authors,as Phil Manzanera,etc).Original vinyl album had Side Ruth (instead of A) and Side Richard (side B),what is missed on CD re-releases. Sound of all album is very relaxed, melancholic and in fact even this release is not on the level of previous one,it cemented Wyatt's reputation as unique song and atmosphere singer. Some well-known musicians participated on recording (Fred Frith and Brian Eno between others).
Comparing with Rock Bottom, this album is obviously more jazz and jazz-vocals oriented.Gary Windo's sax soloing in few places is really great, it's pity all music is a bit too minimalistic. "Side Richard" is more serious and contains some moments of free-jazz and Eno-added avant sounds.Full of intelligent nuances and fragile atmosphere, this work lacks only some brighter compositions and whole better structure to become another masterpiece. "Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard" is last Wyatt's solo studio album in ten years to come. For some upcoming time he will spent more time on his political interests, will become British Communist Party member and will release some radical leftist singles.
My rating is 3,5.
Posted Friday, March 4, 2011 | Review this album | Report (Review #411034)
I must admit that sometimes I just don't "get" Robert Wyatt. At those times I find his falsetto vocals irritating, and his songs far too simplistic for my tastes. And sometimes his dry British humor (or is that "humour"?) doesn't strike me as very clever. But then again, if I'm in the right mood, those same songs can sound brilliant. This is one of those albums that has that affect on me.
Even at the best of times, Soup Song, a silly piece about food, doesn't grab me. But the simple songs, like Sonja can keep my interest if I'm feeling mellow enough. Where this album does keep my attention is in the jazzier songs. Team Spirit is one of those, with a fine Canterbury jazz rock style. 5 Black Notes and 1 White Note is also different enough to keep my attention.
It's a nice albun, but not great.
Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011 | Review this album | Report (Review #593907)
Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard feels like a summation of Wyatt's career to this point - the free jazz of The End of An Ear and the sonic experiments of Rock Bottom are both present, though often they are simply lurking at the back of more conventional songs. Side Ruth consists of more song-oriented material whilst Side Richard consists of the bizarre Muddy Mouth suite, which feels a bit like a rejected (but still good) number from Rock Bottom. It doesn't stand up to its predecessor, but Rock Bottom is an incredibly difficult act to follow, and Soup Song is so silly it can't help but raise a smile. (Indeed, I'd say in Soup Song we see a first draft of the sort of sound which would come to characterise Shleep).
Posted Thursday, September 19, 2013 | Review this album | Report (Review #1039722)
Jazzier, and always innovative. Wyatt's follow-up to 'Rock Bottom' mixes up the styles, and once again sees Wyatt innovating and taking his music closer to jazz. Of course, 'Rock Bottom' is amazingly innovative and musical, too, and to be honest I am not sure it would be possible to top that. So, ... (read more)
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Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard is the third solo album by Robert Wyatt. The follow-up to Rock Bottom, recorded either during or shortly after the sessions for that album, Ruth... is actually a collection of material Wyatt had written earlier in his career. Like its predecessor, the album was p ... (read more)
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After first listening, this album was somewhat of a disappointment from the marvelous Rock Bottom. Several spins later, this album has really grown on me, but not quite to the level of the previous album. Once again, we have an all-star lineup (but I do prefer the lineup of RB), with many super ... (read more)
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As part of its ongoing efforts to help businesses ensure they are taking reasonable steps to protect and secure consumer data, the Federal Trade Commission is publishing a series of blog posts using hypothetical examples based on lessons from closed investigations, FTC law enforcement actions, and questions from businesses. These new posts will build on the FTC's Start with Security guide for businesses.
FTC Acting Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen pledged earlier this year to be more transparent about the lessons learned from the FTC's closed data security investigations and to provide additional information for businesses about practices that contribute to reasonable data security, culminating in this "Stick with Security" Initiative.
In the first blog post published today, the FTC highlights some of the themes that have emerged from an examination of closed FTC data security investigations. For example, while news reports might call attention to a data breach, they might not focus on the fact that the company that suffered the breach had encrypted the data, which substantially reduces the risk of consumer injury. Another lesson gleaned is that security researchers' valuable work can alert us to new vulnerabilities, but sometimes the risk of a vulnerability being exploited to cause consumer injury is more theoretical than likely. Another key lesson is that in almost every closed case, the entities involved used the same common-sense security fundamentals outlined in the FTC's Start with Security guide for businesses.
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The 2014 League of Ireland Cup Final was the final match of the 2014 League of Ireland Cup, called the EA Sports Cup for sponsorship purposes, a knock-out association football competition contested annually by clubs affiliated with the League of Ireland. It took place on 20 September 2014 at Oriel Park in Dundalk, and was contested by Dundalk and Shamrock Rovers. Dundalk won the match 3–2 to win the competition for the fifth time.

Background
The League Cup was the first trophy of the 2014 League of Ireland season. The two sides were meeting for the seventh time that season. Dundalk had beaten Rovers in both legs of the 2014 Setanta Sports Cup semi-final, and had won one and drawn one of the two league matches already played between the sides. In the FAI Cup semi-final Rovers had won the replay 2–1 in Oriel Park after a 0–0 draw in the first game. Rovers were the League Cup holders and were chasing only their third win in the competition's history. To reach the final they had defeated Drogheda United (2–1), Cork City (2–0), and Bohemians (2–0).

Dundalk had last won the cup in 1989 – their fourth win – and hadn't reached the final since 1995. They had overcome Bray Wanderers (3–0), Derry City (2–1), and Wexford (5–0) to reach the 2014 final.

The match was broadcast live on Setanta Sports.

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The match was the third time the two sides had met in eight days, and the opening minutes saw a number of strong challenges. One such challenge resulted in a foul on David McMillan, and Dane Massey put Dundalk ahead from the subsequent free kick. They then sat back somewhat, and, with Rovers taking control and creating a number of chances, Jason McGuinness equalised from a corner. But Rovers failed to capitalise again before half-time, and, within minutes of the second half starting, Dundalk had established a two goal lead, with headers from Massey and Patrick Hoban. Late on Ciarán Kilduff headed home to give Rovers a chance. But Dundalk saw the match out to win their first trophy of Stephen Kenny's reign, which was also the first half of the club's first League and League Cup Double.

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