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The Burren National Park hosts a wide range of mammals. Most of the mammal life of the Park is nocturnal in habit but Hares, Foxes and Pigmy Shrews may be encountered during daytime. In addition, Stoats may be seen weaving their way in and out of stone walls in search of prey. The elusive and rare Pine Marten has always had a stronghold in the Burren, in recent years however it has made a comeback throughout he country. They can sometimes be seen during the day but are shy creatures and extremely hard to view.
Among the seven species of bats that inhabit the Park is the Lesser Horseshoe Bat, a species that is endangered in an international context. This bat is confined in its distribution to the western counties of Mayo, Galway, Clare, Limerick, Kerry and west Cork. The small caves in the Park provide hibernation sites for this threatened species.
Although not strictly a wild animal, the Feral Goat has come to be associated with the Burren landscape. There is a herd that frequents the Park, they roam freely over the park. On sunny days, they can be seen high up on the mountain and in bad weather. they take shelter in the woodlands and hazel scrub.
Some other species that may be found in the Park are the Field Mouse, Brown Rat, Bank Vole, Rabbit, Red Squirrel, Badger, Otter and Mink. The Mink was introduced into the Irish countryside as escapees from fur farms.
The nature of the terrain and the traditional farming methods employed in the area have left the Burren relatively unspoilt and undeveloped, except on the deeper glacial till soils, there has been little disturbance and intensification of the region. This has resulted in undisturbed habitats for animal and bird life to thrive.
Below is a list of the mammals of the Burren National Park:
|Meles meles
|Bank Vole
|Vol bruaigh
|Clethrionomys glareolus
|Brown Rat
|Francach Donn
|Rattus norvegicus
|Feral Goat
|Gabhar Fia
|Capra hircus
|Erinaceus europaeus
|Irish (Mountain) Hare
|Lepus timidus hibernicus
|Irish Stoat
|Mustela erminea hibernica
|Minc Mheiriceánach
|Mustela vison
|Madra Uisce
|Lutra lutra
|Pine Marten
|Cat Crainn
|Martes martes
|Pygmy Shrew
|Dallóg Fhraoigh
|Sorex minutus
|Oryctulagus cuniculus
|Red Fox
|Sionnach/Madra Rua
|Vulpes vulpes
|Red Squirrel
|Iora Rua
|Sciurus vulgaris
|Wood Mouse
|Luch Fhéir
|Apodemus sylvaticus
|Brown Long-eared Bat
|Ialtóg Chluasach
|Plecotus auritus
|Common Pipistrelle
|Ialtóg fheaserach
|Pipistrellus pipistrellus
|Daubenton's bat
|Ialtóg Dhaubenton
|Myotis daubentoni
|Leisler's Bat
|Ialtóg Leisler
|Nyctalus leisleri
|Lesser Horseshoe Bat
|crú-ialtóg bheag
|Rhinolophus hipposideros
|Natterers Bat
|Ialtóg Natterer
|Myotis nattereri
|Soprano Pipistrelle
|Ialtóg Fheaserach Sopránach
|Pipistrellus pygmaeus
|Whiskered Bat
|Ialtóg Ghiobach
|Myotis mystacinus
Meles meles
Description: The Badger is part of the weasel family (the Mustelidae). The Badger's closest relatives are Stoats, Pine Martens, Otters and other members of the weasel family. A male Badger is called a boar, the female is called a sow and young Badgers are cubs.
Their front legs are well-developed and the paws have long strong claws adapted for digging.
Life expectancy: Up to 14 years
Behaviour: Badgers live in a sett, which can be extensive with many entrances, tunnels and chambers or simply consisting of just one or a small number of tunnels and chambers. Where food supplies are good, this species lives socially in groups which can be quite large (a dozen or more animals). Badgers are largely nocturnal, though they are occasionally active during the day in isolated areas. In winter, Badgers do not hibernate, but in cold weather they may spend several days or even longer underground, living on their fat reserves.
Reproduction: Most Badger cubs are born in and around February and the usual litter size is 2-3. A cubs first steps outside the sett are around late April or early May.
Diet: Earthworms, insects, larvae, small mammals, carrion, fruits, nuts, cereals, roots, bulbs and tubers.
Other facts: Badgers have an excellent sense of hearing and smell but don't have very good eyesight.
Conservation Status:
- Annex III of the Bern Convention
- Protected by Wildlife Acts (1976 & 2000)
Bank Vole
Clethrionomys glareolus
Vol bruaigh
Description: A rodent introduced to Ireland in the early 1960's, it is our only vole. Their head is short and round with a blunt nose and their eyes and ears are small. The fur is chestnut brown on the top and grey underneeth.
Habitat: They inhabit woodlands with a thick shrub layer and prefer areas with a thick ground cover.
Life expectancy: About 20 months.
Behaviour: They are active day and night but most active at dawn and dusk.
Reproduction: They can produce a litter every 4 weeks in the summer if conditions are good.
Diet: Largely vegetarian eating berries, bulbs, fruit, seeds, fungi, leaves of woody plants, grasses, but also invertebrates,larvae, snails and earthworms.
Other facts: Bank Voles leave a clean-edged hole in hazelnuts, while mice leave a jagged edge and squirrels split them in half.
They emit a small range of squeaks and chattering and the mother communicates with her young in ultrasound.
Feral Goat
Capra hircus
Gabhar Fia
Description: Feral goats are members of the Bovidae family which include other ruminants such as sheep and cattle. They descend from domestic populations brought to Ireland around 4,000 years ago. The feral populations were created when domestic goats escaped into the wild remote areas. Today domesticated individuals are still escaping and joining these feral herds. Male goats are called Billies, females are called Nannies and young are called Kids. The fur coat of the feral goat is thick and can come in a variety of colours white, grey, black and brown. Adult males (50 – 75kg) are bigger than adult females (35 – 60kg), both sexes have horns, male horns are larger than females, which can grow up to half a metre in length. The horns of a feral goat grow throughout their life, with growth slowing over winter. This slowdown in the growth of the horns in winter leave distinctive growth marks on the horns which can help determine the age of an individual. Goats born from parents with older lineages will typically have horns swept backwards in shape. Feral goats are agile climbers and are assisted by their specially adapted hooves which have spongy pads and a thick layer of skin on their front knees.
Life expectancy: up to 8 years.
Behaviour: Each herd is typically made up of twelve or more females led by an older dominant female. Males occur in smaller groups for most of the year, joining a female herd during the rutting season. Female herds are the only permanent social group made up of female relatives and male kids which will stay in the herd for the first year. The female herd occupy large feeding territories which often overlap with other herds allowing mixing of the population. During periods of food shortage a large temporary group of up to one hundred individual goats can occur. During adverse weather goats will take shelter in scrub, woodland and caves.
Reproduction: The goat rutting season occurs from August to December peaking in October. During the rut male goats become more aggressive and territorial. Males develop a strong musky smell at this time which they release from the scent glands on their feet, horns and tail. Males will often cover themselves in urine to enhance the musky odour. Males display their strength to other males by shaking their heads, lowering their horns and if necessary by fighting. Males will rear up onto their hind legs to deliver a stronger head blow to a competing male. Males will stay close to females who are reaching the peak in their fertility, fending off other males that encroach into their territory. Most females start to breed at a year old. Gestation lasts for about five months with most young born between February and April.
Diet: Goats are browsers feeding on a variety of vegetation depending on the time of year. They browse on grasses, sedges and rushes in the summer time switching to heathers, gorse and other shrubs in winter.
Conservation Status: None.
Feral Goats in the Burren National Park: Traditionally cattle and sheep farming made up the main animal stock in the Burren. Farms also kept small numbers of pigs, fowl and goats. The feral goats found within the Burren National Park are descended from escaped domestic goats which have been farmed in the Burren for at least 4,000 years. Feral goats which are related to these Ancient European breeds are often referred to as the Old Irish Goat. The status of the Old Irish Goat within the feral population of the Burren National Park is unknown. A small study on feral goats in the wider Burren has shown that less than ten per cent of goats surveyed were of an Old Irish Goat lineage. Hunting and the crossbreeding of improved goats (particularly the Swiss mountain goat introduced into the Burren in the last century) with the Old Irish Goat have had an impact on the genetic pool of this ancient goat species.
Erinaceus europaeus
Description: Hedgehogs are small mammals which can swim, climb walls and can run at speeds up to 7km/hr. The male is called a boar, the female a sow and the young are hoglets. Their body is covered by a coat of over 6,000 quills, which are hard and sharpon the outside and are filled with air pockets for insulation.
Life expectancy: Average of 3-4 years.
Behaviour: Hedgehogs are solitary animals which hibernate in winter. They curl into a prickly ball for defence when attacked. They are nocturnal. During the day they sleep in nests made of grass and leaves, or in small burrows under shrubs, tree logs or rocks.
Reproduction: 4-5 offspring per year and the young are born without quills.
At 4-5 weeks old they leave their mother and their nest.
Diet: Almost any invertebrate and will also eat eggs, small mammals, carrion and berries.
Other facts: While on the hunt, they rely upon their senses of hearing and smell because their eyesight is weak. They are mildly intolerant to lactose so don't feed them milk.
Irish Mountain Hare
Lepus timidus hibernicus
Description: The Mountain Hare has long slender ears and is much larger than the Rabbit. Its coat is reddish-brown in summer and grey-brown in winter and it moults twice a year. Their eyes are large and set in the sides of their head so they have nearly 360 degree vision.
Life expectancy: Mortality in hares is high, the maximum age they can reach is about 9 years.
Behaviour: They are mainly nocturnal, but can be active throughout the day especially in spring. Where food supply is ample hares can often be seen in large groups, when this occurs hierarchy is decided on body size. When not foraging hares rest in nests called forms.
Reproduction: In good conditions females produce two or three litters a year and the litter size is usually 2-3. The young are called leverets.
Diet: Herbivores feeding mainly on grasses, heathers, sedges and herbs but will also browse young shoots of trees. The hare eats its food twice in order to get all the nutrients out of it. Soft faeces produced during the day are re-eaten and excreted as hard pellets.
Other facts:
They are good at detecting moving objects but poor if the objects are stationary.
Their sense of smell is well developed and their hearing extremely good.
They are very fast and can reach speeds of up to 60km/hr and change direction suddenly to outwit their predators.
Fights in the breeding season may involve boxing with the fore-legs or kicking with the hind-legs.
Conservation Status:
- Annex V – Habitats Directive
- Annex III – Bern Convention
- Internationally Important – Red Data Book
- Protected by Wildlife Acts (1976 & 2000)
Mustela erminea
Description: Slim-bodied, with a short, black tipped tail and chestnut brown on top with a sharp division separating the cream underparts. Widespread throughout in both the uplands and lowlands of Ireland. The Stoat is sometimes mistaken for its close relative, the Weasel but there are no Weasels in the wild in Ireland.
Life expectancy: average 1-1.5 years. Can live up to 7 years
Behaviour: The Stoat is active by day or night but when it does rest, it does so in a hollow tree, a rock crevice, under a log or stone wall, or a burrow from one of its prey victims. The size of the territory depends on the type of habitat and the abundance of prey. The alert, inquisitive Stoat is a fierce predator. They can reach speeds of up to 28km/hr. They prefer areas with good cover and will keep to walls, hedges or fences where possible. A Stoat tracks down its prey by scent, being able to locate a victim from a great distance. It follows a trail relentlessly, and once in pursuit, the prey has little chance of escape. The victim is killed by pouncing on it and biting deeply into the back of the neck near the base of the skull. A stoat will often perform strange antics as part of its hunting strategy. It will approach a group of birds or rabbits and then jump around, pretending to ignore the animals who are attracted to this odd performance and edge nearer to get a better look! The stoat then suddenly pounces on the nearest member of its audience!
Reproduction: Stoats are solitary animals and only socialise with each other in the breeding season. Mating occurs in mid-August, but the fertilised eggs within the female do not begin developing until up to 10 months later, so that the female does not give birth until the following spring. This is called delayed implantation. Six or more, sometimes up to twelve, babies (kittens) are born in a hidden nest, often in an old Rabbit burrow, lined with fur. After the young have left the den, the family stays together for some time, hunting and playing together. The mother defends her family fiercely.
Diet: The Stoat is a true carnivore, and feeds mainly on rabbits and other small mammals. Also birds, eggs, earthworms, large insects and carrion.
Habitat: Woods, farmland, uplands, moorlands, marshes, sand dunes and hedgerows.
Other facts: The Stoat's eyesight has a resolution below that of humans, though its night vision is better than ours.
Mustela vison
Minc Mheiriceánach
Description: The Mink is a medium-sized mustelid (weasel family). They are usually black or dark brown, sometimes with a white patch under the chin. They are good swimmers with partially webbed feet and can submerge for up to 20 seconds.
Life expectancy: Up to 4 years.
Behaviour: Mink are solitary animals that are never far from a river or wetland. They rarely dig, prefering to use rabbit burrows, vacant dens or old buildings as shelters. They use sensitive whiskers and good eyesight underwater to detect prey. They are intollerant of other Mink in their area, and are very vocal around other Mink using a range of squeaks, squeals and chuckles.
Reproduction: The young (kits) are born in April or May; litter size is usually 3-5 kits.
Diet: Primarily aquatic carnivores, they will take slow moving fish, crayfish, perch and eels, but are opportunists and will also take water fowl, duck, rabbits, rats, mice, shrews, frogs and insects.
Habitat: Rivers, streams, lakes, canals and the coast and offshore islands.
Other facts: Mink were first introduced to Ireland in fur farms in 1951 and were living wild by 1961.
Eurasian Otter
Lutra lutra
Madra Uisce
Description: Otters are members of the weasel family (the Mustelidae) and are related to Stoats, Pine Marten, American Mink and Badgers. They are semi-aquatic fish-eating mammals with webbed feet.
Life expectancy: up to 5 years.
Behaviour: They live in a holt or couch and develop a strong social bond within the family. A male Otter is a dog, a female a bitch, and young are whelps or pups. Otters are mainly solitary and nocturnal animals, they hunt by sight and touch, their whiskers are very sensitive and pick up vibrations of nearby fish. Since an otter's vision underwater is somewhat poor their sensitive whiskers are even more important to their hunting skills. They mark their territory with droppings called spraints that have a very distinctive odour that resembles fresh mown hay.
Otters are highly intelligent and quite playful, some of their fun activities include creating slides into rivers and wrestling with each other.
Reproduction: The average litter size is 2-3.
Diet: Although fish make up the main portion of their diet, otters eat different foods during different seasons, including birds, small mammals, invertebrates and frogs.
Other facts: They are natural swimmers and have valve-like skin flaps that cover their ears and nostrils, which allow them to dive underwater for up to four minutes. Otters are the only aquatic mammals that have fur instead of blubber and they must groom their coats constantly to keep them from becoming matted.
Otters are found on every continent except Antarctica and Australia.
Conservation Status:
- Annex II & IV of Habitats Directive
- Annex II of the Bern Convention
- Protected by Wildlife Acts (1976 & 2000)
Pine Marten
Martes martes
Cat Crainn
Description: Pine Martens are the size of an ordinary domestic cat, with a long body, round ears (with pale edges), chestnut-brown fur and a bushy tail with a distinctive creamy-yellow throat. Of the mustelids, they are the only ones that have semi-retractable claws. They sleep in dens hidden in a crevice among rocks or in hollows under tree roots and sometimes in roof spaces in buildings.
Life expectancy: They may reach 10 years or more in the wild.
Behaviour: Males and females (both) have two kinds of scent glands, anal and abdominal. A Pine Marten rubs its belly over a log/vegetation via the abdominal glands to mark off an area to call its own. The Pine Marten is an excellent climber and often hunts in the tree tops. Pine Martens are active throughout the winter.
Reproduction: Breed once a year, a litter of about 3 kits is born in late March or April and the family stays together until they are six months old.
Diet: They are omnivores and their diet consists mainly of small mammals (voles, squirrels), birds, insects, frogs, and carrion, and they supplement this with eggs and berries especially ivy berries in winter.
Habitat: They live in woodlands, coniferous and broadleaf and sometimes on rocky moorland and hillsides.
Other facts: Young Pine Martens are blind for the first 36 days, deaf and toothless, and after 12 to 16 weeks they leave their den for good.
The Pine Marten is mainly nocturnal, rarely seen in daylight. They hunt through the night and especially at dusk. It usually hunts alone. A very agile predator, it can climb trees easily, it is one of the few predators agile enough to catch a squirrel. Pine Martens, however, obtain most of their food on the ground.
Pygmy Shrew
Sorex minutus
Dallóg Fhraoigh
Description: The Pygmy Shrew is tiny and is our smallest mammal (weighing no more than 6 grams) and it has the shortest lifespan. It has a pointed flexible snout, brown fur that is paler on the belly, long whiskers, small eyes and short ears. They are well equipped with scent glands used to mark their territory. They are usualy very noisy uttering continuous squeeks.
Life expectancy: Average of 13 months.
Behaviour: They are agile climbers, can swim and seem to scuttle around. They hunt night and day to survive and often eat their droppings, passing the food through the gut twice. Shrews build spherical nests of grass in dense vegetation, long grass, or under rocks or logs. They are solitary creatures and are very aggressive towards each other.
Reproduction: Litters are 4-7 in size and females will reproduce 2-3 times during the summer, then die before winter. The young leave the mother at 20–25 days of age.
Diet: Opportunistic predators eating beetles, woodlice, larvae, spiders and bugs.
Habitat: Throughout the country, with population densities in Ireland ranging from 2-40/hectare.
Other facts: They loose weight during the winter, their skeleton shrinks and they also become shorter.
They must eat at least their body weight in food every day, their metabolic rate is such that they will die if they are deprived of food for about 3 hours.
Red Fox
Vulpes vulpes
Sionnach/Madra Rua
Description: Red Foxes live in an earth or den, the male is called a dog and the female is a vixen.
Life expectancy: Foxes live 2 to 4 years in the wild.
Behaviour: They are solitary hunters and are largely nocturnal but can be seen during the day. They stalk their prey with stealth and patience.
Reproduction: 2-3 cubs once a year in spring.
Diet: Rodents, insects, worms, fruit, birds', eggs and all other kinds of small animals.
Other facts: They can reach a speed of 48 km/h . Foxes have erect ears provding very good hearing and their large bushy tail is used for balance when hunting.
Red Squirrel
Sciurus vulgaris
Iora Rua
Description: Rodents, with a chestnut-red upper body and buff to cream underside, noticeable ear tufts and long bushy tail.
Life expectancy: Can live for up to 6 years.
Behaviour: Red Squirrels do not hibernate, they build nests called dreys high in the branches from sticks and moss. They are mainly active during the day and spend the warmer months preparing for winter by finding and hiding food. They are solitary animals and will scold intruders in their territory. They growl, screech, chirp, rattle, and buzz.
Reproduction: They produce two litters of 3-4 kittens a year, usually in March and July.
Diet: They are omnivores and will eat fruit, nuts, seeds, buds, fungi, bark, pine cones, insects, eggs, young birds, mice, other small animals and sometimes shed Deer antlers.
Habitat: Coniferous and broadleaved woodland, but they prefer conifers.
Other facts: Using their keen sense of smell, Red Squirrels can easily locate stored food even under a metre of snow. Without food the squirrels can only survive for a few days.
The evidence of Red Squirrels in a woodland is chewed pine cone 'cores' and split hazel nut shells.
The decline in numbers is due to fragmentation of habitat, disease and competition from the introduced american Grey Squirrel. The two species can coexist and there is no evidence of aggressive behaviour by Greys, but competition for limited food resources tends to favour the introduced animal.
Wood Mouse
Apodemus sylvaticus
Luch Fhéir
Description: Sandy-brown above, white below. Large eyes and ears, long tail.
Habitat: Woodlands, fields, hedgerows, moorlands, mountain-sides, sand-dunes, scrub land, gardens
Life expectancy: Up to a year; rarely more than two years.
Behaviour: Wood Mice are nocturnal and they are very active, running and leaping kangaroo-like on their large hind feet. They climb well too and often use places such as an old bird's nest high on a tree branch to feed on berries they have collected. A mouse digs its own system of burrows where it makes an area for storing food and a nesting chamber for the young. Several adults may live together in the same network of tunnels which have two open entrances.
Reproduction: Littersize 4 – 7 young. May produce 4 litters a year, normally 2-3. After 3 weeks, the mother forces her youngsters out of the nest and they are then on their own.
Diet: They are mainly vegetarian, eating seeds, seedlings, fruits, nuts, buds and other vegetation, but will also eat invertebrates, snails and earthworms. It is a great hoarder of seeds and nuts and packs full its underground chambers with a supply to help it survive the winter. A male mouse usually forages nightly over an area about half the size of a football pitch.
Other facts: In very cold weather wood mice sometimes go into a torpid state – almost like hibernation – and in this way they use less energy than usual, enabling them to survive food shortages.
If a Wood Mouse is caught by its tail, it can quickly shed the end of it, which may never regrow.
While foraging, the Wood Mice pick up and distribute visually conspicuous objects, such as leaves and twigs, which they then use as landmarks during exploration.
Irish Bats belong to the microchiroptera, which means 'micro hand wing'. A wing membrane is stretched over an elongated hand with a wrist and fingers to provide the strength.
All bats in Ireland are insectivores, and each can feed on up to 3000 midges and other insects in one night.
Bats are mammals and suckle their young, and are the only mammals that fly. At birth young bats are only one third the weight of adults. The mother recognises her young by smell and sound.
In late spring female bats congregate together in a maternity roost, where they give birth and rear their young. Different species favour different roost sites, from old buildings to roof spaces or holes in bridges, buildings or trees.
In late autumn when the temperature drops and insects become scarce, bats seek out a hibernation site for the winter. This can be a cave, cellar, gap in a stone wall, bridge or tree. Bats go into a state called torpidity, where their metabolism and breathing slow down and it is not real hibernation. The temperature needs to be constant and cool so the bats don't wake up and waste energy.
Bats are nocturnal, leaving their roost at dusk and returning at dawn. They hunt and navigate using echo-location. Bats emit a high pitched sound which bounces off their surroundings back to the bat, enabling it to map its environment and catch food.
They will not do any damage to roost sites, they don't chew wires or make nests or leave their food around to smell.
Irish Bats are not blind, will not get stuck in your hair and do not suck blood.
All bats in Ireland are protected under the 1976 Wildlife Act and the European Habitats Directive.
We have 10 species of bats in Ireland. The Nathusius's Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nathusii) is the only one not found in Clare.
Lesser Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus hipposideros
The rarest of our bats is the Lesser Horseshoe Bat. This bat is only found in west Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Galway, Mayo and Clare. This is the only Irish bat that hangs in the traditional way with wings wrapped around it. It hangs upside down in open spaces. It hibernates in caves, and needs an open entrance to fly into its roost. They warm up inside the roost in the dark before leaving and going hunting. These are predominantly a woodland species.
Whiskered Bat
Myotis mystacinus
These roost mainly in houses and trees and feeds along hedgerows and woodland edges. They have shaggy fur with a pale belly.
Common Pipistrelle
Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Pipistrelles are the commonest of Irish bats. Until recently, they were considered one species. They commonly roost in houses in the attic or under the fascia boards. They feed in almost any habitat, even in urban gardens.
Soprano Pipistrelle
Pipistrellus pygmaeus
This new Pipistrelle species was discovered in the 1990's. They roost in attics and under the fascia boards. They feed mainly around water.
Leisler's Bat
Nyctalus leisleri
The Leisler's is our largest bat, it is approximately 5-6cm in length. It feeds around street lights, in open woodland, gardens and parklands. It roosts in tree holes, bat boxes and buildings.
Brown Long-eared Bat
Plecotus auritus
Long-eared have the largest ears and quietest echo-location sounds and often catch prey by the noise the prey make themselves. They feed in woodland and roost in buildings and trees.
Daubenton's bat
Myotis daubentoni
Daubenton's feed over water and often take prey off the surface of the water using their feet or tail. They roost in trees, bridges and old buildings.
Natterer's Bat
Myotis nattereri
Natterer's are predominantly a woodland species. They roost in tree holes, old disused building or stonework, they feed on small insects caught in flight or taken off foliage. They are very similar to the Whiskered Bat.


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With work on many local development sites at a standstill, East and West Sussex local authorities and Brighton & Hove City Council have written to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government asking for urgent steps to curb 'speculative and unplanned development' as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.
The letter to Robert Jenrick MP was signed by the leaders of East and West Sussex Districts and Boroughs , East and West Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council and points out that with so much development on hold it is probable that Local Plans will be considered 'out-of-date'.
Councillor Emily O'Brien, Cabinet Member for Planning at Lewes District Council, said:
"It is inevitable that housing supply will be significantly lower than expected, meaning we are likely to fail the Housing Delivery Test and not be able to demonstrate a five-year supply of land for housing.
"If as a consequence our Local Plan is deemed out-of-date, it will harder to resist speculative and unplanned development and turn East Sussex and Brighton & Hove into a patchwork of poorly located building sites.
"We are calling on the Secretary of State to take a number of steps that will avoid these unwanted consequences and allow local authorities to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis with the integrity of local planning policies intact."
The council leaders have endorsed a list of measures to the Secretary of State;
• A suspension and/or roll forward of five-year land supply arrangements, to acknowledge the lost supply during lockdown and to avoid a surge of speculative applications
• Consequent changes to the Housing Delivery Test
• Powers to extend the life of existing planning consents by the period of the lockdown
• Tying extension to the life of existing consents to firm timescales for (re)commencement of sites
• Proactive work and widespread intervention by Homes England with planning authorities and developers to support the resumption of development on allocated sites as quickly as possible
• Incentives to social registered landlords to resume work on their sites
• Consideration of using schemes such as the old 'Homebuy Direct' to enable any supply hangovers to be absorbed quickly as affordable housing
• Extending Local Plan review timescales.
Councillor Zoe Nicholson, Leader of Lewes District Council, said:
"The effective functioning of the planning system is likely to be a key component of the economic recovery within East Sussex, with the right homes at the right time in the right places and we can all achieve that with the support of the government at this extraordinary time."
Pictured above is Councillor Emily O' Brien of Lewes Council

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As quickly as you pay your device, it will routinely connect together with your automotive for real-time streaming. However, the audio high quality is not so good as when you use an auxiliary cable. Are you on the lookout for the way to play music from cellphone to a automotive that has hands-free Bluetooth name functionality with out an option to play music via Bluetooth? A lot of old-modeled automobiles include a hands-free calling characteristic.
How to play music from cellphone to automobile with this technique is to to start with hyperlink up the adapter to your phone using Bluetooth. You don't want to attach a wire to the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack in your cellphone. If you are looking for a extra dependable means to play music from phone to automobile it is a nice option. This is nice for vehicles which have an auxiliary port and lacks Bluetooth capacity. Some vehicles will permit you to control the music and watch the display of the music you are taking part in.
- People may discover the arts and music to be a substitute for mainstream entertainment.
- The extra options we have for individuals to counterpoint the lives and minds, the higher it's for any society.
- Students be taught many essential and necessary values for all times as music enhances their mind, their expressive ability, and a complete host of other qualities.
- It is hoped that this development will result in a time when classical and concert music find its place in mainstream society, providing all it does to extra folks.
However, it solely works with telephones that have a 3.5-millimeter jack. However, in case your telephone and car come with a stereo jack, it's a straightforward way to play music from cellphone to automotive.
We all have the guilty pleasure that we don't want the world figuring out about. If you have linked Spotify to your Facebook account, for example, then family and friends will have the ability to see what you're listening to and you'll share your favorite songs with them. Like Discover Weekly, Daily Mix playlists are a good way to discover new music that you'll love. The more you hear, the more intelligent it becomes.
Some interfaces join with the cable of 30 pin adapter and assist you to to link your iPad and iPhone through Bluetooth. The iPod adapter produces a greater audio quality than an FM transmitter. Auxiliary audio produces a greater sound quality compared to the cassette and FM transmitters.
This is nice as a result of it means you'll be able to hearken to your music in more places and with extra gadgets. It additionally provides you a choice in the way you control the music taking part in on your Spotify account. For example, should you're streaming to speakers in your lounge using your telephone then you need to use it as a remote control to adjust the amount, change tracks or create a party playlist while listening.
If multiple people in your own home use Spotify, you would possibly consider Premium for Family which provides up to six people access to their own distinctive Spotify account beneath one bill. All customers should reside on the similar handle so it isn't a package to incorporate your mates on, but it's a good way to split the price. Stations is intended to provide listeners easy access to curated playlists and a extra radio-like expertise. It also is designed to create a listening expertise that makes stations based in your listening habits too.
Spotify has apparently carried out some analysis and located that a big percentage of pet homeowners particularly play tunes for their pets. If you have a number of units you can even reap the benefits of multi-room audio performance to broadcast Spotify tunes all through your own home. Connecting and creating teams for these devices, then broadcasting music or a playlist to those groups together with your voice is a straight-forward affair and one of the highlights of owning an AI-powered smart speaker.
This music streaming service is brilliant for this sort of intelligence. Automatic playlists are then created primarily based on your preferences. Premium customers can even skip any monitor, hear offline, hear high-quality music and use the Spotify app on their cell gadget as a pc remote management. With the Spotify free plan, you can access all playlists, discover new music and share tunes with associates. You can even play any playlist, album, or artist but solely while in Shuffle Play mode.


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This big-budget blockbuster lives up to all the hype and sets the bar high for all future sci-fi fantasy action adventures. Much of the credit for the "Superhero Team-Up of a Lifetime" goes to director and co-writer Joss Whedon. Whedon, a comic book fan, adds energy, enthusiasm and style to a familiar blueprint dating back to the classic screen Westerns. The enlisted All-Star heroic champions are the costumed good guys sans the customary white hats. The boo-hiss villain clothed in black garments poses the threat to peace and tranquility.
The main storyline continues the Cain and Abel struggle from last summer's "Thor."
Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor's younger adopted brother, craves power and vengeance. His grand scheme to subjugate humanity and rule the world begins with the theft of a magical cube known as the Tesseract. This mysterious power source was used by Red Skull in "Captain America." Loki plans to harness the energy to open a portal in space from which an invading alien army can descend upon our planet.
To diffuse the threat to global safety and security, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), espionage ace and director of the international peacekeeping agency S.H.I. E. L.D., recruits a group of superheroes dubbed the Avengers-comprised of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), the Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson)-to retrieve the Tesseract. Their ultimate mission is to battle Loki and a mysterious extraterrestrial force.
The movie is divided into three acts. The first part is devoted to the recruitment process with lots of exposition. Each superhero gets their moment in the spotlight with separate vignettes that enhance their already enormous popularity. The middle portion involves the petty bickering among this assembled group of remarkable individuals. It is all part of Loki's plan to divide and conquer. Fury is ready to accept defeat because it appears the Avengers are unable to get along and work together toward a common goal. The final act begins with death of a famous character at the hands of Loki. This makes things personal and unites the mighty Avengers into a serious fighting unit. The climactic battle featuring bombastic non-stop action takes place in midtown Manhattan.
Top acting laurels go to Ruffalo for his portrayal of brilliant scientist Dr. Bruce Banner, the alter ego of the big, green, mad-as-hell Hulk. A close second is Downey Jr. who adds comedic relief with all the best lines of dialogue. The supporting cast includes Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, Stellan Skarsgard as Professor Erik Selvig and, Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts.
This highly entertaining sci-fi fantasy has cool special effects, decibel-level sound effects, thrilling action set pieces and an awesome soundtrack from composer Alan Silvestri. The outstanding dialogue has lots of humor and clever references to old and modern pop culture.
It shattered the domestic weekend opening record previously held by "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" with $207.4 million. It is already a monster worldwide hit earning $441.5 million overseas. The film's production budget was estimated at $220 million.
The movie engages the viewer from a very strong opening sequence through the two bonus scenes included in the closing credits. The nearly two and a half hour running time passes by swiftly and leaves you eagerly awaiting a follow-up sequel.
The movie earned a rare "A+" Cinemascore in an exit poll of ticket buyers split evenly between those above and below 25 years-of-age with 60 percent male.
This exciting action adventure is suitable viewing for children ages 8 and up. It is available in various formats including standard 2D, Digital 3D and RealD. If you want the ultimate moviegoing experience, I highly recommend the unsurpassed cinematic quality of the IMAX 3D version available exclusively at select AMC Theatres.
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BPMN – just DO it!
Anyway, what I don't like is the feeling that a lot of people criticize BPMN who never used it in practice. Writing books and giving lessons about BPMN is one thing (we do both), but using it in real-world projects is a completely different story. We do this a lot for 2-3 years now, and because of our experiences I cannot agree with the following statements about BPMN:
– BPMN is too complicated for "the business"
– BPMN (2.0) is only for process engine – based projects (i.e. process execution)
– Only programmers understand the concepts of different pools, message flows, event-based gateways etc.
I just came home from a client, a German manufacturer in the metal industry. Our client uses SAP, mostly still R/3. They have acquired a US-company a couple of years ago, and that was the main reason why they decided to introduce BPMN for process documentation and as a communication medium for their IT projects: It is the global standard for process modeling. They downloaded BizAgi, the free modeler, and played around with it a bit. They soon realized that BPMN is quite powerful, but also complicated and hard to learn without external help. I won't deny this, it's a fact. So they asked us for a coaching. This is important: Coaching does not just mean training session, but is a combination of an initial training, then let them working with BPMN in practice, with a couple of review workshops in between where we looked over their diagrams. We also helped them to realize their own guidelines for BPMN, which are mostly about "patterns and styles", as we call it (which is a bit different to Bruce Silver's "method and style". though it is an excellent book). Those guidelines were documented in a mediawiki at first, later in Atlassian confluence.We coached about 30 employees, mostly project managers who work as translators between business departments and the developers. As you can see in the video, they have produced quite a lot of diagrams during our coaching. Of course there have been misunderstandings of BPMN in the first place. But especially the project managers soon realized that they could actually draw quite simple BPMN diagrams for business people and then draw precise diagrams for developers, while using the same notation and often without building up a new process model (model, not view 😉 ). After a while they got used to work with different pools, connecting them with message flows, events etc., not only for modeling different companies, but also for different departments and even for specifiying the interaction of end users with SAP. This was the point when they realized how powerful BPMN actually is. When I asked one of them why he decided do draw a diagram with 5 pools, representing the interaction between different Software-Systems and some end users in a wonderful clear and semantically correct way, he just shrugged and said: "Well, I didn't really think about that. It's just what's actually happening there". Then I knew our job was done.
OK, this sounds like a fairy tale, and maybe I am exaggerating a bit. But it's basically true, especially the statement I just cited. And they are not even using a process engine, though they do evaluate Netwaver 7.2 these days. You don't imagine how happy they were when they figured out that you can draw different pools in the process composer as well, repesenting both organizational flows and technical flows in one diagram…As you may guess, we have certain ideas about how to get the best out of BPMN. I don't want to claim them the one-and-only-truth, but so far they have proven quite useful. Most of them are described in our book, that is unfortunately only in German. But we are about to put them in software as well! The new Open Source BPM platform Activiti will contain the features we consider helpful for an agile collaboration between business and IT, based on BPMN. And this is not about zero-coding, it is about communication! Here you can find an incident management – process that I have modeled in Signavio Process Editor, of which you can find an open source edition in the Activiti stack. You can even leave your comments by clicking on the elements in the diagram, though this cool feature is unfortunately not part of the oss edition.
So why do I tell you all this, apart from soliciting our stuff ;-). It's just that I have recently read some blog posts, articles etc. about BPMN, following discussions or even (wannabe) "flame wars", that deny BPMN's capabilities to serve as an improvement for business-it-communication. But most of those authors do not seem to have any real project experience with BPMN. Well, maybe I am wrong. I just thought I should tell the world that there are enough people out there who do not have any programming skills at all, but use BPMN the way it is meant to be used, and it works.
So BPMN is no silver bullet, and must be improved, I totally agree with that. But it is a step in the right direction that we should benefit from instead of asking for the business-it-silver-bullet that cannot become reality anyway. Sometimes I think we ask for magic solutions and then moan about getting fooled by vendors…
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There's no shortage of chitchat among a few neighbors [that I happen to know] of the former Zips Deli on Avenue B at Fifth Street. Rumors abound that this space will become an upscale diner-type place, though I never report on unconfirmed facts, unsubstantiated rumors or other un-words. Oh, oops. Anyway! Something is happening here...
Yesterday, a worker was removing the graffiti from the front doors.
And there has been plenty of hammering and nailing kind of thing happening behind the brown-papered doors. An EV Grieve tipster who caught a look inside said the interior is shaping up to look like an upscale diner-type place, though you likely already knew that by now.
The EV Grieve tipster frets that what goes in this spot could have a negative impact on the neighborhood...if it's something obnoxious that attracts the let's-be-loud-and-pee/barf-in-the-streets-real-late-and-yell-for-a-cab crowd from outside the neighborhood. The people who are already going to a few places just south of here on Avenue B.
Check out this shot of Zips on Flickr...
Friday, March 20, 2009
Unzipping the mystery at Zips (trying to, anyway)
Posted by Grieve at 7:11 AM
Labels: Avenue B, East Fifth Street, East Village, Zips
3 comments:
- Jeremiah Moss said...
zips! it's been shuttered forever. thanks for the update. that block went straight downhill after giuliani tore down the squat. practically the following week, robert deniro was having dinner there.
- March 20, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Yeah, I was trying to remember exactly when Zips did close...Three years? Four years?
- March 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM
- Tiny Banquet Committee said...
Those guys in Zips gave me a free lotto ticket once, even though I never went in there all that often. I think it has been closed at least 3 years but 4 is a possibility.
- March 20, 2009 at 8:35 PM
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Myth 1. Rattan shield is bulletproof.
|A Chinese rattan shield, late Qing (Boxer rebellion) period. (Source: Zemanek-Münster)
Ming period military writers such as Qi Ji Guang (戚繼光) explicitly stated that rattan shield won't protect its user against arquebus rounds. There were, however, attempts to make rattan shield bulletproof by reinforcing the shield with cotton blanket, even though these attempts most likely resulted in failure (see my second point).
Myth 2. Cotton armour is bulletproof.
|Late Joseon Dynasty cotton armour known as Myeonje Baegap (면제배갑 or 綿製背甲), designed to withstand not just arquebuses and muskets, but modern rifles such as Remington Rolling Block rifle. (Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Nevertheless, actual effectiveness of cotton armour was disputed even during Ming period. Song Ying Chang (宋應昌) once experimented with the effectiveness of soaked cotton blanket against Japanese matchlock gun, and concluded that a Japanese arquebus could pierce two soaked cotton blankets from eighty paces (i.e. about 420 feet or 128 metre) away, and three to four layers from fifty paces (i.e. about 262.5 feet or 80 metre) away.
Qi Ji Guang also designed a composite shield known as Gang Rou Pai (剛柔牌), which was said to be superior to normal cotton blanket. Yet even his superior design could only stop an arquebus round from about forty paces (i.e. about 210 feet or 64 metre) away at the closest. Nevertheless, Qi Ji Guang considered this safe distance good enough for his troops.
Myth 3. Koxinga's Tie Ren (鐵人) wore bulletproof iron armours.
|A Chinese warrior, most probably a Tie Ren, in a full suit of metal armour. He is wielding what appears to be a Zhan Ma Dao (斬馬刀). From 'Georg Franz Müller von Ruffach Reise nach Batavia', 1681.
— Dutch Formosa governor Frederick Coyett, in his book titled Neglected Formosa ('t Verwaerloosde Formosa).
(Special thanks to Peter Dekker of Mandarin Mansion for the corrected translation.)
|An ornate, silver inlaid Han Dynasty-style crossbow mechanism, from 'San Cai Tu Hui (《三才圖會》)'. San Cai Tu Hui was published in 1609, twelve years before Chen Zong You (程宗猷) published his crossbowman's manual.


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Jump Diffusion Equations
This tutorial assumes you have read the Ordinary Differential Equations tutorial.
Jump Diffusion equations are stochastic differential equations with discontinuous jumps. These can be written as:
\[du = f(u,p,t)dt + \sum_{j}g_j(u,p,t)dW_j(t) + \sum_{i}h_i(u,p,t)dN_i(t)\]
where $N_i$ is a Poisson-counter which denotes jumps of size $h_i$. In this tutorial we will show how to solve problems with even more general jumps.
Defining a ConstantRateJump Problem
To start, let's solve an ODE with constant rate jumps. A jump is defined as being "constant rate" if the rate is only dependent on values from other constant rate jumps, meaning that its rate must not be coupled with time or the solution to the differential equation. However, these types of jumps are cheaper to compute.
(Note: if your rate is only "slightly" dependent on the solution of the differential equation, then it may be okay to use a
ConstantRateJump. Accuracy loss will be related to the percentage that the rate changes over the jump intervals.)
Let's solve the following problem. We will have a linear ODE with a Poisson counter of rate 2 (which is the mean and variance), where at each jump the current solution will be halved. To solve this problem, we first define the
function f(du,u,p,t)
du[1] = u[1]
prob = ODEProblem(f,[0.2],(0.0,10.0))
Notice that, even though our equation is on 1 number, we define it using the in-place array form. Variable rate jump equations will require this form. Note that for this tutorial we solve a one-dimensional problem, but the same syntax applies for solving a system of differential equations with multiple jumps.
Now we define our
rate equation for our jump. Since it's just the constant value 2, we do:
rate(u,p,t) = 2
Now we define the
affect! of the jump. This is the same as an
affect! from a
DiscreteCallback, and thus acts directly on the integrator. Therefore, to make it halve the current value of
u, we do:
affect!(integrator) = (integrator.u[1] = integrator.u[1]/2)
Then we build our jump:
jump = ConstantRateJump(rate,affect!)
Next, we extend our
ODEProblem to a
JumpProblem by attaching the jump:
jump_prob = JumpProblem(prob,Direct(),jump)
We can now solve this extended problem using any ODE solver:
sol = solve(jump_prob,Tsit5())
Variable Rate Jumps
Now let's define a jump which is coupled to the differential equation. Let's let the rate be the current value of the solution, that is:
rate(u,p,t) = u[1]
Using the same
affect!(integrator) = (integrator.u[1] = integrator.u[1]/2)
we build a
jump = VariableRateJump(rate,affect!)
To make things interesting, let's copy this jump:
jump2 = deepcopy(jump)
so that way we have two independent jump processes. We now couple these jumps to the
jump_prob = JumpProblem(prob,Direct(),jump,jump2)
which we once again solve using an ODE solver:
sol = solve(jump_prob,Tsit5())
Jump Diffusion
Now we will finally solve the jump diffusion problem. The steps are the same as before, except we now start with a
SDEProblem instead of an
ODEProblem. Using the same drift function
f as before, we add multiplicative noise via:
function g(du,u,p,t)
du[1] = u[1]
prob = SDEProblem(f,g,[0.2],(0.0,10.0))
and couple it to the jumps:
jump_prob = JumpProblem(prob,Direct(),jump,jump2)
We then solve it using an SDE algorithm:
sol = solve(jump_prob,SRIW1())
Coupling Jump Problems
In many applications one is interested in coupling two stochastic processes. This has applications in Monte Carlo simulations and sensitivity analysis, for example. Currently, the coupling that is implemented for jump processes is known as the split coupling. The split coupling couples two jump processes by coupling the underlying Poisson processes driving the jump components.
prob and
prob_control are two problems we wish to couple. Then the coupled problem is obtained by
prob_coupled = SplitCoupledJumpProblem(jump_prob,jump_prob_control,Direct(),coupling_map)
coupling_map specifies which jumps to couple. If
(j,i) is in
coupling_map, then the
ith jump in
prob will be coupled to the
jth jump in
prob_control. Note that currently
SplitCoupledJumpProblem is only implemented for constant rate jump problems.
As an example, consider a doubly stochastic Poisson process, that is, a Poisson process whose rate is itself a stochastic process. In particular, we will take the rate to randomly switch between zero and
10 at unit rates:
rate(u,p,t) = u[2]*10
affect!(integrator) = integrator.u[1] += 1.
jump1 = ConstantRateJump(rate,affect!)
rate(u,p,t) = u[2]
affect!(integrator) = (integrator.u[2] -= 1.;integrator.u[3] += 1.)
jump2 = ConstantRateJump(rate,affect!)
rate(u,p,t) = u[3]
affect!(integrator) = (integrator.u[2] += 1.;integrator.u[3] -= 1.)
jump3 = ConstantRateJump(rate,affect!)
prob = DiscreteProblem(u0,tspan)
jump_prob = JumpProblem(prob,Direct(),jump1,jump2,jump3)
The doubly stochastic poisson process has two sources of randomness: one due to the Poisson process, and another due to random evolution of the rate. This is typical of many multiscale stochastic processes appearing in applications, and it is often useful to compare such a process to one obtained by removing one source of randomness. In present context, this means looking at an ODE with constant jump rates, where the deterministic evolution between jumps is given by the expected value of the Poisson process:
function f(du,u,p,t)
du[1] = u[2]*10
du[2] = 0.
du[3] = 0.
prob_control = ODEProblem(f,u0,tspan)
jump_prob_control = JumpProblem(prob_control,Direct(),jump2,jump3)
Let's couple the two problems by coupling the jumps corresponding the switching of the rate:
coupling_map = [(2,1),(3,2)]
prob_coupled = SplitCoupledJumpProblem(jump_prob,jump_prob_control,Direct(),coupling_map)
prob_coupled will be dealt with like any other
sol = solve(prob_coupled,Tsit5())


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NAIROBI, Kenya, February 28, 2018/ -- Three points separate sixth placed Strathmore Leos (25 points) from seventh placed Top Fry Nakuru (22 points) as the quest for the last Kenya Cup playoff slot goes down to the wire with the last round of action in the competition's league phase on Saturday 3 March 2018.
In the event that they do lose to semifinal chasing Homeboyz, they would need to accumulate two bonus points by scoring four tries and losing by seven or less points. This would give them 27 points, a tally that can be equalled by Nakuru in the event that they do register a bonus point win away to their hosts Stanbic Mwamba at the Nairobi Railway Club. This would call for the calculators to be brought out.
A win of any kind for Nakuru and no points whatsoever for Strathmore will see Nakuru accumulate 26 points, one more than the Leos and in the process securing a return to the playoffs after missing out last season. A win for Mwamba against Nakuru hands Strathmore playoff qualification.
Leaders and defending champions KCB host third place Resolution Impala Saracens at the KCB Sports Club. The bankers' last Kenya Cup win over the Sarries came on Friday 12 December 2014 when they won 22-3 at the RFUEA Ground and they will be out to finally get one over their visitors as they seek to close out the regular season on a perfect note and mount a platform for the playoffs with a successful league title defense in mind. The Sarries are also through to the playoffs and will definitely be out to take their A game to Ruaraka.
Nondescripts' playoff ambitions evaporated last weekend after the 24-11 loss away to Top Fry Nakuru and their clash at home to the already qualified SportPesa Quins at the Jamhuri Park is just but a formality as is the dead rubber encounter pitting the already relegated duo of Resolution Kisii and Regional Logistics Mombasa at the Gusii Stadium in Kisii.
Kenyatta University's Blak Blad play at home to Kabras Sugar looking to sign off their season on a high while Kabras, vanquished 41-12 last weekend at KCB will certainly be out to use Saturday's fixture as a platform to breathe life and confidence into their campaign as we head towards the most important part of the Kenya Cup season, the playoffs.
Match Day 11
Saturday 3 March 2018
Resolution Kisii v Regional Logistics Mombasa – Gusii Stadium
KCB v Resolution Impala Saracens – KCB Sports Club
Stanbic Mwamba v Top Fry Nakuru – Railway Club
Nondescripts v SportPesa Quins – Jamhuri Park
Strathmore Leos v Menengai Cream Homeboyz – Madaraka
Blak Blad v Kabras Sugar – Kenyatta University
View the Kenya Cup standings HERE: www.KenyaCup.co.ke/standings/201718-2


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Triathlete Paula Findlay coping with iron deficiency anemia
The image of a sobbing Paula Findlay crossing the finish line in last place will be one of the most enduring of the London Olympics.
The distraught 23-year-old triathlete from Edmonton said she just "had nothing in my legs," which she now believes was largely the result of iron deficiency anemia.
Canadian sports medicine and nutrition experts say Findlay's health diagnosis isn't particularly surprising.
"Probably our highest risk group is the female elite endurance athlete," said Dr. Julia Alleyne, who's worked with Canadian athletes at five Olympic Games and is the medical director for Sport Care —the sports medicine clinic at Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
Findlay announced earlier this week she was cutting her season short due to iron deficiency anemia. She had hoped to make up for her heartbreak in London with a strong showing at next month's world championships in New Zealand before recent blood work showed low levels of iron.
"Unfortunately the numbers came back with some of the lowest iron levels that the doctors had ever seen," Findlay wrote in a blog entry earlier this week. "It is a simple but quite serious problem that likely had a huge impact on my race in London, and got overlooked because of the focus on healing my injury."
Anemia occurs when a person's blood contains insufficient red blood cells, which carry oxygen to tissues. Symptoms include fatigue, weakness, lightheadedness and mood changes.
"If you're iron deficient, it's more difficult to recover between hard intense effort, it's harder to clear lactic acid, there's not as much oxygen in the blood, which would affect endurance," said Kelly Anne Erdman, a dietician and former Olympic cyclist.
Women are more susceptible to iron deficiency anemia because of menstruation and because of their diet — they eat less red meat than men.
Athletes are even more susceptible because iron is lost through both sweating and through the digestive system during exercise.
Iron is also lost through "heel-strike hemolysis," a process that sees red blood cells destroyed with each running step.
Mild iron deficiency can be difficult to detect, said Alleyne, and many athletes don't show symptoms until the condition is moderate to severe.
"Signs in athletes would be differences in training. . . times dropping, recovery time lengthened. That's what should trigger that maybe we should do your (blood) testing more frequently," Alleyne said.
Findlay's diagnosis was more bad news for the former world No. 1 triathlete. A hip injury that had plagued her for a year limited her to just six weeks of quality training before the Games. She had hoped to build on those few weeks and salvage 2012.
Now Alan Trivett, director of Triathlon Canada, is investigating how Findlay's condition wasn't discovered by doctors ahead of the London Games.
Wynn Gmitroski, who has coached some of Canada's top middle-distance and distance runners, said stress can play a key role in an athlete's iron levels and overall health.
"It comes down to number one, nutrition, and number two, trying to moderate levels of stress," said Gmitroski, the lead coach for the National Athletics Centre in Victoria and a registered physiotherapist. "If a person's stressed out, they're training too hard, and not recoveirng, digestion shuts down. You have to be in a relaxed state to be able to digest food properly and absorb it."
Gmistroski doesn't feel fingers should be pointed in Findlay's case.
"It would obviously come down to pathways of communication and a lot of it comes down to the athlete's responsibility, stepping forward and saying there's something going on and seeking help," Gmistroski said. "Really it's not something that comes down to blame overall. The reality is when the wheels come off and people get stressed out they start forgetting about the little things and stuff like this can be missed."
Findlay had been considered a favourite for a medal in London after winning five International Triathlon Union events including one on the London Olympic course. But she injured her hip just before a World Cup in Edmonton in July of 2011, the beginning of her downward spiral.
She spent months trying to determine the nature of her injury and attempts to train through it led to more setbacks. She split with her coach Patrick Kelly in June and joined forces with Olympic champion Simon Whitfield and his coach Jon Brown two months prior to the Games.
The day after the women's triathlon, an emotional Whitfield criticized Findlay's team, saying her situation was "completely mismanaged."
Triathlon Canada hired Libby Burrell as its new high performance director earlier this month, a move Whitfield tweeted was "Great news" for Triathlon Canada.
Erdman said iron levels are constantly fluctuating, and that endurance athletes should have blood work done at least three times a year. She said endurance athletes with chronic iron problems should be tested as often as every six weeks.
Because the life span of a red blood cell is about three months, there's no quick fix for iron deficiency anemia.
Through iron supplements and a diet of iron-fortified foods such as red meat and green leafy vegetables, Alleyne said it might take up to two to three months for Findlay's condition to turn around.
The world triathlon championships are Oct. 18-22 in Auckland, New Zealand.


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This post describes a particular technique that is useful for optimizing functional programs, which I call explicit laziness. This example came about because I needed a purely functional implementation of an infinite list of primes, to demonstrate the capabilities of exporting OpenTheory logic packages to Haskell. The Sieve of Eratosthenes is a classic algorithm to compute this, and in an imperative language can be implemented with an array where it is cheap to update elements. In translating the algorithm to a purely functional language the array data structure naturally becomes a list, where it is much cheaper to update leading elements than trailing elements. This led to the idea of using explicit laziness to minimize the number of updates to trailing elements, and the result is an improved algorithm that could be backported to speed up an imperative implementation. The price of the improvement is greater complexity, but this can be hidden inside an abstract type, and the increased verification challenge can be met by the HOL Light theorem prover which is used to generate the source logic package.
Example Sieve Program
To illustrate the explicit laziness technique, we'll use it to optimize an Haskell program for computing prime numbers based on a sieve method. This is the central
Sieve data structure:
newtype Sieve =
Sieve { unSieve :: (Natural,[(Natural,Natural)]) }
Values of type
Natural are non-negative integers of unbounded size. Every value
Sieve (n,ps) of type
Sieve must satisfy the invariant that
map fst ps is the list of all prime numbers up to the perimeter
n in ascending order, and the counter
k in every element
(p,k) of the list
ps satisfies
k == n `mod` p. The following examples are valid values of type
Sieve (9,[(2,1),(3,0),(5,4),(7,2)])
Sieve (10,[(2,0),(3,1),(5,0),(7,3)])
Sieve (11,[(2,1),(3,2),(5,1),(7,4),(11,0)])
Sieve API supports two operations for creating new values of type Sieve:
initial :: Sieve
increment :: Sieve -> (Bool,Sieve)
initial value of a
Sieve is simply:
initial :: Sieve
initial = Sieve (1,[])
increment operation takes a value
Sieve (n,_) and returns a new value
Sieve (n + 1, _), together with a boolean indicating whether the new perimeter
n + 1 is a prime number:
increment :: Sieve -> (Bool,Sieve)
increment =
\s ->
let (n,ps) = unSieve s in
let n' = n + 1 in
let ps' = inc ps in
let b = check ps' in
let ps'' = if b then ps' ++ [(n',0)] else ps' in
(b, Sieve (n', ps''))
inc = map (\(p,k) -> (p, (k + 1) `mod` p))
check = all (\(_,k) -> k /= 0)
increment operation works by adding 1 to the perimeter
n <- n + 1 and every counter
k <- (k + 1) `mod` p. It then checks whether any counter is zero, which happens when the perimeter is divisible by a known prime. If no counter is zero then the perimeter is a new prime, and so
(n,0) is added to the end of the list.
Motivating Explicit Laziness
How can we optimize this program? Well, there are certainly many ways that we can help the compiler produce efficient target code, but before we get into that we should consider algorithmic improvements. For example, are we performing any unnecessary computation? It seems that we are, because we increment every counter even though the boolean result only needs to know whether any counter is zero. We could stop at the first zero counter and just make a note (called a closure) that the other counters need to be incremented later. This is an instance of lazy evaluation, and since Haskell is a lazy language this optimization will be performed automatically.
Unfortunately, there is still a performance problem here. Consider a time in the future when we are incrementing counters and we come to a counter with an increment closure. At this point Haskell's lazy evaluation will execute the closure to increment the counter, and then increment it for a second time to see whether it is zero. This is functionally correct, but it would be much more efficient to add 2 to the counter rather than add 1 and then add 1 again. Even worse, it turns out that the increment closures stack up on counters during evaluation, to the point that each time we discover a new prime
p we have to increment the counter
k in the final list element
(q,k) a total of
p - q times before we can check that it is non-zero and record the new prime.
How can we avoid this inefficient behavior of adding
m to a counter by adding 1 to it
m times? This is a case where Haskell's automatic laziness is not flexible enough, because whenever evaluation encounters a value with a closure, the only possible course of action is to execute the closure and then continue evaluation. There is no way to examine the closure to find out what computation it will perform. However, we can manually simulate lazy evaluation by storing data structures together with explicit notes saying what computation needs to be done before they can be used.
Demonstrating Explicit Laziness
Here is how explicit laziness works in our example. First, we extend the Sieve data structure as follows:
newtype Sieve =
Sieve { unSieve :: (Natural,[(Natural,(Natural,Natural))]) }
This is exactly the same as before, except that each list element
(p,(k,j)) has an extra natural number component
j, which is a note that
j must be added to every counter following this one in the list.
The definition of the
initial value remains the same:
initial :: Sieve
initial = Sieve (1,[])
However, the
increment operation now takes into account the explicit
j notes:
increment :: Sieve -> (Bool,Sieve)
increment =
\s ->
let (n,ps) = unSieve s in
let n' = n + 1 in
let (b,ps') = inc n' 1 ps in
(b, Sieve (n',ps'))
inc n _ [] = (True, (n,(0,0)) : [])
inc n i ((p,(k,j)) : ps) =
let k' = (k + i) `mod` p in
let j' = j + i in
if k' == 0 then (False, (p,(0,j')) : ps)
else let (b,ps') = inc n j' ps in (b, (p,(k',0)) : ps')
inc and
check functions in the previous implementation have been combined into one
inc function which takes a parameter
i recording how much to increment counters. Initially
i is set to 1, but it absorbs the
j values for the counters it visits. As soon a zero counter is discovered, the i parameter is added to the current j value and the rest of the list is untouched. This last point is crucial: explicit laziness eliminates the overhead of closures that are normally generated to update data structures not directly required for the result. For comparison with the version of the program without explicit laziness, here are the
Sieve values with perimeters 9, 10 and 11:
Sieve (9,[(2,(1,0)),(3,(0,2)),(5,(2,0)),(7,(0,0))])
Sieve (10,[(2,(0,1)),(3,(0,2)),(5,(2,0)),(7,(0,0))])
Sieve (11,[(2,(1,0)),(3,(2,0)),(5,(1,0)),(7,(4,0)),(11,(0,0))])
Values of the new version of the
Sieve type are much harder to read than values of the original version, because the
j values have to be added to every counter following it in the list. This complicates the invariant for
Sieve values, but is actually a measure of the efficiency gained. For example, the
j value of 2 in the
Sieve value with perimeter 9 line replaces 4 counter increments in the original program: 2 for the 5 counter and another 2 for the 7 counter.
Performance Comparison
Even though explicit laziness is an algorithmic optimization, and there remain many optimizations that can be applied to both versions of the example sieve program, it is nevertheless interesting to gauge the performance effects of explicit laziness using a standard compiler. The following table presents the time taken to compute the Nth prime using both versions of the example sieve program, for various values of N:
|Nth prime
|Without explicit laziness
|With explicit laziness
It is gratifying to see that the version of the example sieve program with explicit laziness is about 3x faster on this small experiment.
In this post we have described explicit laziness, a useful technique for optimizing functional programs. Like all optimization techniques its effectiveness depends on the context: automatic laziness is more flexible and guarantees that closures will be evaluated at most once, so should be the default. However, the judicious introduction of explicit laziness can eliminate closures and allow future computations to be combined into more efficient variants before executing them (a limited form of computation on computations).
The code for the optimized version of the example sieve program is available at Hackage: this verified Haskell package is automatically generated from an OpenTheory package. The performance results were gathered using the GHC 7.4.1 compiler on a MacBook Air with a 1.8GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 4Gb of RAM, running OS X 10.7.5.


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Kansas farmer invents robots to behead weeds, reduce the use of pesticides on crops
Central Kansas farmer invents a robot that kills weeds
CHENEY — For years, Kansas farmer Clint Brauer has struggled with keeping weeds out of his row crops. Along with keeping living roots in the ground, organic practices and no-till methods, he tried crimping — but the pigweeds just grew taller.
Three years ago, Brauer, an ex-California-based executive who farms in Haven and Cheney, decided to implement a wild plan, using robots to behead weeds.
"I realized there was no great way to get the weeds out at scale without chemicals," Brauer said. "I needed to invent one."
He started Greenfield Robotics.
Before chemicals replaced them, workers pulled weeds from the farm. Greenfield Robotics puts the "workers" back in the field with a new kind of worker — a mechanized one.
"We want to control weeds with labor and make it robot labor," Brauer said. "Robotics is our way of putting (mechanized) labor back into the farm."
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The challenge for Brauer was he felt regenerative farming did not work for large fields without the heavy use of agrichemicals.
"I came up with the idea for it (a robot) and tested it manually," Brauer said. "No one knew if it would work. It has to fit between rows."
Brauer started up his company, Greenfield Robotics, on one of his family farms in Cheney in 2018. He currently uses the weeding bots running on other farmers' soybean crops in Harper, Reno, Rice and Sedgwick counties in central Kansas.
Along with soybean crops, Brauer hopes to work with sorghum, cotton and possibly canola farmers.
There is slightly under 90 million acres of soybeans planted across the U.S. this year, according to the USDA. During 2020, Kansas ranked seventh in soybeans planted, with more than 5 million acres. The Sunflower State follows Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, Indiana and Missouri in soybean acreage.
"Our mission was always to get the chemicals out of farming," Brauer said. "There is no resistance to the spinning blade."
The robots, which travel from 1 to 3 mph, are water-resistant and weigh about 200 pounds. As they move between the crop rows, they cut down the weeds with their blades, leaving the chopped-up debris in their wake.
Although they are programed to stay in their lane, someone is monitoring them on a computer screen at all times.
More:Climate change means Kansas farmers are dealing with hotter nights and change in rainfall and freezing patterns
Greenfield Robotics' leaders are going back to their roots
Both Brauer and Jerry Poole, the company's pr COO, grew up in Kansas. Brauer helped his father tend to their crops and cattle in Haven. Poole, who grew up in southeastern Kansas, spent time on his grandfather's hog and cattle ranch in Oklahoma.
Brauer, who had a successful career in start-ups and technical businesses in California, got together a top software engineer and several other key players to mount his company.
After a career in engineering and a brief health issue, Poole wanted to put his efforts into helping farmers, so he joined Brauer's team.
Food is medicine if it is grown without too many chemicals, Poole said. "Big agriculture are creating virtual poisons," he said.
More:General Mills teaching farmers decades-old agricultural techniques to cultivate healthy soil
Robots work better on farms using regenerative principles
Although the robots can be used on any type of farm, conventional or regenerative, it works better on a farm that is using regenerative principles — always having a living root in the ground, using cover crops, not tilling the field and having animals graze on the land. On his farm in Cheney, Brauer practices organic and regenerative principles and has a flock of sheep that he moves around the land.
Regenerative practices leave carbon in the soil. Because these practices hold more moisture in the soil, the robots have an easier time manipulating on the ground.
A recent study performed by the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München) in Germany found plant residues, or roots left in the ground, are important for carbon storage.
According to Carsten Müller, Ph.D., at TUM, these roots can help ensure carbon is stored in the soil for longer.
"We plan to realign the interests of farmers and consumers with a food system that is economical and sustainable," Brauer said.
The company charges per acre at the same rate the farmer would pay for chemicals. It usually takes about three run-throughs per season for each crop, but that might change by climate. Brauer hopes to expand to other states.
"We work until they (the plant) canopy," Poole said. "We start post-emergence (of the crop)."
More:Tracey Mann tells Hutch farmers the Big First is one of the highest producing agricultural districts in the U.S.
U.S. is one of the largest users of pesticides in the world
The U.S. is the world's largest producer and exporter of agricultural pesticides and one of the largest users — utilizing 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides in 2016, according to Nathan Donley, Ph.D., a researcher at the Center for Biological Diversity.
"We (the robots) are as effective as herbicides," Poole said. Unlike herbicides, robots do not need specific weather conditions, like rain, to work.
After starting his business, Brauer learned of Naio Technologies, a French startup, that uses robots to weed near garden vegetables. In 2011, the company introduced robots that work with mound-grown vegetables, especially lettuce. Recently, they introduced a robot that could work in vineyards.
"I really appreciated them," Brauer said. "They gave me good advice."
Brauer believes there is a lot of talent in the Sunflower State.
"I have a great team," he said. "Next year, we hope to grow by about ten times."


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ECf seek planning For Canning Town's Rathbone Market Phase 2
English Cities Fund - a joint venture between Muse Developments, Legal & General Property and the Homes and Communities Agency, and developer of Canning Town's Rathbone Market scheme - is seeking planning permission to take the development into its second phase.
The reserved matters planning application was submitted last week and comes after a public consultation meeting at The Place in Canning Town on 13 March. Following detailed consultation before 2009, Rathbone Market's redevelopment already has outline planning consent which fixed the masterplanning parameters.
Phase two will comprise an attractive new open market square which will form the centrepiece of the finished Rathbone Market scheme and will also feature purpose built facilities for the market traders. This phase will also see the delivery of 165 new homes, a brand new public library and a community hub.
The proposed works for phase two will mean the market will be temporarily relocated along Barking Road and will also see the demolition of Thomas North Terrace, residents of which have been offered new homes within phase one of the development.
Duncan Cumberland, project director for ECf said: "Phase two is the part of this development programme which will have the most direct effect on the community of Canning Town. It is significant because the new market square, focal point of the whole development, will get under way, and many other community benefits such as the library and community hub will be created."
Adam West, partner from CZWG Architects which also designed Phase 1 of Rathbone Market, said: "It is particularly exciting to be able to complete the proposed new market square. In combination with the rest of the public realm coming forward with this phase, and a new library, it will make a real difference to the enjoyment of the local environment."
Newham Council's Cllr Conor McAuley, executive member for regeneration and strategic planning said: "The Rathbone Market development is at the heart of the regeneration in Canning Town and Custom House. Anyone visiting Canning Town cannot fail to notice the changes being made with the towering Vermilion building already making an impact on the skyline. We will continue to engage residents as we start looking at phase 2 and ensure they continue to have a say in how the area is shaped. This is an exciting time for E16, for both new and existing residents, and I'm looking forward to seeing the development progress."
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'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Releases Making-Of Video at Apollo Theater
Amazon Prime Video has released a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's third season finale, taking place at the actual Apollo Theater in Harlem, Manhattan.
The episode featured recreations of a Moms Mabley set (played by Wanda Sykes) and a Hines brother tap dance routine, choreographed by Marguerite Derricks and performed by the Foreman brothers — as well as a stand-up set from protagonist Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) and a musical performance from the character Shy Baldwin (played by LeRoy McClain and vocals by Darius de Haas).
In the 36-minute film, the cast and crew from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel partner with the Apollo Theater to break down the three main components of the episode: comedy, music and dance. Directed by Leigh Silverman, the featurette includes interviews with Brosnahan, Sykes, McClain, Haas, Derricks, Jaden and Ellis Forman, actor Sterling K. Brown, dancer Savion Glover, showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino and writer-director Daniel Palladino.
The piece also features conversations with the Apollo's executive producer Kamilah Forbes, discussing the theater's current performance lineup and its future, along with Apollo ambassador Billy "Mr. Apollo" Mitchell dissecting the theater's storied history.
The third season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel concluded in December 2019, when the show was renewed for a fourth season.


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EXO's Manager Just Called Baekhyun Out In A Major Way And Fans Can't Stop Laughing
Every year, SM Entertainment holds their famous Halloween party and the K-Pop community gets to marvel at all the fabulous costumes that their favorite artists wore to the event.
SM Entertainment Just Held Their Annual Halloween Party, Here Are 30+ Of Their Costumes
This year was no different with idols wearing everything from creepy classics…
To something a little more lighthearted.
While each of the outfits was unique and incredibly fun, EXO Baekhyun's mummy costume caught the attention of one of EXO's managers.
The idol posted a picture of his costumed self to Instagram…
Only to receive a surprising message in return!
"No wonder there was no toilet paper in the dorm's bathroom. Put it back!"
— Jinwook Bang, Manager
Since discovering the message, EXO-Ls just can't stop laughing over it!
— #dmumt💥 (@ninieyre) October 31, 2018
I didn't do it! Look at me, I'm innocent.😃😂 pic.twitter.com/kXVlqf1OJ8
— soraya (@MuteBrinkmann) October 31, 2018
Omf the manager is savage 😂😂
— Upasana (@upasana_s_) October 31, 2018
Some fans have even started joking that this was the real reason Baekhyun left the party early!
That's why he left earlier😂😂😂
— Shilpa | D.M.U.M.T 🏍🏁 (@chogilovewaffle) October 31, 2018
that's why he left immediately
— kyungsuwu (@gianuwu) October 31, 2018
Of course, everyone knows that Baekhyun's wrappings were actually cloth and not toilet paper but fans are still getting a kick out the hilarious message and think it proves once again how close the boys are to their managers.
EXO's D.O. Shows His Love For Chen And Sehun In Completely Different Ways
EXO's Lay Gets Real About Debuting In A Group Before Becoming A Solo Artist—And Whether Or Not He Regrets It
EXO's Lay Spills The Secret On What He Did Consistently Since He Was A Trainee To Become The All-Rounder He Is Today
EXO's Sehun Stuns Fans At The Recent "Dior Men's Fall 2023" Event


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