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class BrowserDesktopWindowTreeHost;
class BrowserFrame;
class BrowserView;

namespace wm {
class VisibilityController;
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// DesktopBrowserFrameAura
//
//  DesktopBrowserFrameAura is a DesktopNativeWidgetAura subclass that provides
//  the window frame for the Chrome browser window.
//
class DesktopBrowserFrameAura : public views::DesktopNativeWidgetAura,
                                public NativeBrowserFrame {
 public:
  DesktopBrowserFrameAura(BrowserFrame* browser_frame,
                          BrowserView* browser_view);

  DesktopBrowserFrameAura(const DesktopBrowserFrameAura&) = delete;
  DesktopBrowserFrameAura& operator=(const DesktopBrowserFrameAura&) = delete;

  BrowserView* browser_view() const { return browser_view_; }
  BrowserFrame* browser_frame() const { return browser_frame_; }

 protected:
  ~DesktopBrowserFrameAura() override;

  // Overridden from views::DesktopNativeWidgetAura:
  void OnHostClosed() override;
  void InitNativeWidget(views::Widget::InitParams params) override;

  // Overridden from NativeBrowserFrame:
  views::Widget::InitParams GetWidgetParams() override;
  bool UseCustomFrame() const override;
  bool UsesNativeSystemMenu() const override;
  int GetMinimizeButtonOffset() const override;
  bool ShouldSaveWindowPlacement() const override;
  void GetWindowPlacement(gfx::Rect* bounds,
                          ui::WindowShowState* show_state) const override;
  content::KeyboardEventProcessingResult PreHandleKeyboardEvent(
      const content::NativeWebKeyboardEvent& event) override;
  bool HandleKeyboardEvent(
      const content::NativeWebKeyboardEvent& event) override;
  bool ShouldRestorePreviousBrowserWidgetState() const override;
  bool ShouldUseInitialVisibleOnAllWorkspaces() const override;

 private:
  // The BrowserView is our ClientView. This is a pointer to it.
  raw_ptr<BrowserView> browser_view_;
  raw_ptr<BrowserFrame> browser_frame_;

  // Owned by the RootWindow.
  raw_ptr<BrowserDesktopWindowTreeHost, DanglingUntriaged>
      browser_desktop_window_tree_host_;

  std::unique_ptr<wm::VisibilityController> visibility_controller_;
};

#endif  // CHROME_BROWSER_UI_VIEWS_FRAME_DESKTOP_BROWSER_FRAME_AURA_H_

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Q: ¿Cómo verificar si carácter es número? No tengo idea de como validar caracteres, los pongo en contexto
asi se ve el codigo
print("ingrese numero")
texo=input()
 if texto>=0:
     print("Ingreso un numero mayor o igual a 0")
 else:
     print("ingreso una letra")

digamos quiero que si ingreso un numero me diga que ingrese un numero valga la redundancia
pero si no ingreso un numero que me diga que ingrese algo incorrecto
espero explicarlo bien
Gracias de antemano

A: Marcelo, la función esNumero, busca un caracter ".", si lo encuentra, intenta convertirlo a float, si no lo encuentra, intenta convertirlo a int, si no puede, se captura la excepción y se devuelve None.
Luego, se utiliza la función, y si es None, vuelve a pedir el ingreso de número hasta que sea ingresado (por estar dentro de un while. Cuando recibe un número, termina el ciclo (ya que no especificaste que quisieras hacer algo más).
def esNumero(valor):
    try:
        return float(valor) if "." in valor else int(valor)
    except:
        return None

while True:
    valor_ingresado = esNumero(input("Ingrese un número: "))
    if valor_ingresado is None:
        print("El valor ingresado no es un número.")
    else:
        print("Muy bien. Ha ingresado el número {}".format(valor_ingresado))
        # Aquí debería ir lo que quieras hacer con ese número.
        break

A: Para validar toda la cadena ingresada por el usuario, puedes valerte de aplicar un molde de tipo a int, algo como:
print("ingrese numero")
texo=input()
try:
   val = int(texto)
   if val>=0:
      print("Ingresó un numero mayor o igual a 0")
   else:
      print("ingresó un número negativo")
except ValueError:
   print("No ingresó un entero")

A: puedes validar de muchas formas, la clase str tiene métodos para comprobar su contenido.
https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=str#str
concretamente .isnumeric() para ver si es un número entero
run = True
while run:
    numero = input("Por favor escriba un número")
    largo = len(numero)
    # si len es 0 no han introducido nada
    if largo == 0:
        print('No ha introducido nada')
    # comprobamos si lo introducido es un número entero
    elif numero.isnumeric():
        if numero == 0:
            print('Ha ingresado 0')
        else:
            print('Ha ingresado un número mayor que 0')
    # comprobamos si ha introducido solo letras
    elif numero.isalpha():
        print('Ha ingresado %s letras' % largo)
    # recogemos cualquier otro supuesto
    else:
        print('Debe ingresar un número entero "%s" no lo es' % numero)

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text:
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking;

namespace WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.ThemeVS2012
{
    public class VS2012PaletteFactory : IPaletteFactory
    {
        private const string Env = "Environment";
        private XDocument _xml;

        public VS2012PaletteFactory(byte[] file)
        {
            _xml = XDocument.Load(new StreamReader(new MemoryStream(file)));
        }

        public void Initialize(DockPanelColorPalette palette)
        {
            palette.AutoHideStripDefault.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("AutoHideTabBackgroundBegin");
            palette.AutoHideStripDefault.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("AutoHideTabBorder");
            palette.AutoHideStripDefault.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("AutoHideTabText");

            palette.AutoHideStripHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("AutoHideTabMouseOverBackgroundBegin");
            palette.AutoHideStripHovered.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("AutoHideTabMouseOverBorder");
            palette.AutoHideStripHovered.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("AutoHideTabMouseOverText");

            palette.CommandBarMenuDefault.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandShelfHighlightGradientBegin");
            palette.CommandBarMenuDefault.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarTextActive");

            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDefault.Arrow = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMenuSubmenuGlyph");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDefault.BackgroundBottom = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMenuBackgroundGradientEnd");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDefault.BackgroundTop = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMenuBackgroundGradientBegin");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDefault.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMenuBorder");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDefault.Checkmark = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarCheckBox");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDefault.CheckmarkBackground = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarSelectedIcon");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDefault.IconBackground = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMenuIconBackground");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDefault.Separator = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMenuSeparator");

            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDisabled.Checkmark = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarCheckBoxDisabled");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDisabled.CheckmarkBackground = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarSelectedIconDisabled");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupDisabled.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarTextInactive");

            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupHovered.Arrow = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMenuMouseOverSubmenuGlyph");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupHovered.Checkmark = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarCheckBoxMouseOver");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupHovered.CheckmarkBackground = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarHoverOverSelectedIcon");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupHovered.ItemBackground = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMenuItemMouseOver");
            palette.CommandBarMenuPopupHovered.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMenuItemMouseOver", true);

            palette.CommandBarMenuTopLevelHeaderHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMouseOverBackgroundBegin");
            palette.CommandBarMenuTopLevelHeaderHovered.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarBorder");
            palette.CommandBarMenuTopLevelHeaderHovered.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarTextHover");

            palette.CommandBarToolbarDefault.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarGradientBegin");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarDefault.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarToolBarBorder");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarDefault.Grip = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarDragHandle");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarDefault.OverflowButtonBackground = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarOptionsBackground");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarDefault.OverflowButtonGlyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarOptionsGlyph");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarDefault.Separator = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarToolBarSeparator");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarDefault.SeparatorAccent = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarToolBarSeparatorHighlight");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarDefault.Tray = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandShelfBackgroundGradientBegin");

            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonChecked.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarSelected");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonChecked.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarSelectedBorder");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonChecked.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarTextSelected");

            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonCheckedHovered.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarHoverOverSelectedIconBorder");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonCheckedHovered.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarTextHoverOverSelected");

            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonDefault.Arrow = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DropDownGlyph");

            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonHovered.Arrow = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DropDownMouseOverGlyph");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonHovered.Separator = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarSplitButtonSeparator");

            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonPressed.Arrow = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DropDownMouseDownGlyph");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonPressed.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarMouseDownBackgroundBegin");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarButtonPressed.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarTextMouseDown");

            palette.CommandBarToolbarOverflowHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarOptionsMouseOverBackgroundBegin");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarOverflowHovered.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarOptionsMouseOverGlyph");

            palette.CommandBarToolbarOverflowPressed.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarOptionsMouseDownBackgroundBegin");
            palette.CommandBarToolbarOverflowPressed.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("CommandBarOptionsMouseDownGlyph");

            palette.OverflowButtonDefault.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DocWellOverflowButtonGlyph");

            palette.OverflowButtonHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DocWellOverflowButtonMouseOverBackground");
            palette.OverflowButtonHovered.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DocWellOverflowButtonMouseOverBorder");
            palette.OverflowButtonHovered.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DocWellOverflowButtonMouseOverGlyph");

            palette.OverflowButtonPressed.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DocWellOverflowButtonMouseDownBackground");
            palette.OverflowButtonPressed.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DocWellOverflowButtonMouseDownBorder");
            palette.OverflowButtonPressed.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DocWellOverflowButtonMouseDownGlyph");

            palette.TabSelectedActive.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabSelectedBorder");
            palette.TabSelectedActive.Button = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonSelectedActiveGlyph");
            palette.TabSelectedActive.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabSelectedText");

            palette.TabSelectedInactive.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabInactiveBorder");
            palette.TabSelectedInactive.Button = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonSelectedInactiveGlyph");
            palette.TabSelectedInactive.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabInactiveText");

            palette.TabUnselected.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabText");
            palette.TabUnselected.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabBackground");

            palette.TabUnselectedHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabHotBorder");
            palette.TabUnselectedHovered.Button = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabHotGlyph");
            palette.TabUnselectedHovered.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabHotText");

            palette.TabButtonSelectedActiveHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonHoverSelectedActive");
            palette.TabButtonSelectedActiveHovered.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonHoverSelectedActiveBorder");
            palette.TabButtonSelectedActiveHovered.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonHoverSelectedActiveGlyph");

            palette.TabButtonSelectedActivePressed.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonDownSelectedActive");
            palette.TabButtonSelectedActivePressed.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonDownSelectedActiveBorder");
            palette.TabButtonSelectedActivePressed.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonDownSelectedActiveGlyph");

            palette.TabButtonSelectedInactiveHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonHoverSelectedInactive");
            palette.TabButtonSelectedInactiveHovered.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonHoverSelectedInactiveBorder");
            palette.TabButtonSelectedInactiveHovered.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonHoverSelectedInactiveGlyph");

            palette.TabButtonSelectedInactivePressed.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonDownSelectedInactive");
            palette.TabButtonSelectedInactivePressed.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonDownSelectedInactiveBorder");
            palette.TabButtonSelectedInactivePressed.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonDownSelectedInactiveGlyph");

            palette.TabButtonUnselectedTabHoveredButtonHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonHoverInactive");
            palette.TabButtonUnselectedTabHoveredButtonHovered.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonHoverInactiveBorder");
            palette.TabButtonUnselectedTabHoveredButtonHovered.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonHoverInactiveGlyph");

            palette.TabButtonUnselectedTabHoveredButtonPressed.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonDownInactive");
            palette.TabButtonUnselectedTabHoveredButtonPressed.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonDownInactiveBorder");
            palette.TabButtonUnselectedTabHoveredButtonPressed.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("FileTabButtonDownInactiveGlyph");

            palette.MainWindowActive.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("EnvironmentBackground");
            palette.MainWindowStatusBarDefault.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("StatusBarDefault");
            palette.MainWindowStatusBarDefault.Highlight = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("StatusBarHighlight");
            palette.MainWindowStatusBarDefault.HighlightText = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("StatusBarHighlight", true);
            palette.MainWindowStatusBarDefault.ResizeGrip = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("MainWindowResizeGripTexture1");
            palette.MainWindowStatusBarDefault.ResizeGripAccent = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("MainWindowResizeGripTexture2");
            palette.MainWindowStatusBarDefault.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("StatusBarText");

            palette.ToolWindowCaptionActive.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("TitleBarActiveBorder");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionActive.Button = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonActiveGlyph");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionActive.Grip = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("TitleBarDragHandleActive");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionActive.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("TitleBarActiveText");

            palette.ToolWindowCaptionInactive.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("TitleBarInactive");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionInactive.Button = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonInactiveGlyph");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionInactive.Grip = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("TitleBarDragHandle");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionInactive.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("TitleBarInactiveText");

            palette.ToolWindowCaptionButtonActiveHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonHoverActive");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionButtonActiveHovered.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonHoverActiveBorder");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionButtonActiveHovered.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonHoverActiveGlyph");

            palette.ToolWindowCaptionButtonPressed.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonDown");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionButtonPressed.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonDownBorder");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionButtonPressed.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonDownActiveGlyph");

            palette.ToolWindowCaptionButtonInactiveHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonHoverInactive");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionButtonInactiveHovered.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonHoverInactiveBorder");
            palette.ToolWindowCaptionButtonInactiveHovered.Glyph = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowButtonHoverInactiveGlyph");

            palette.ToolWindowTabSelectedActive.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowTabSelectedTab");
            palette.ToolWindowTabSelectedActive.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowTabSelectedActiveText");

            palette.ToolWindowTabSelectedInactive.Background = palette.ToolWindowTabSelectedActive.Background;
            palette.ToolWindowTabSelectedInactive.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowTabSelectedText");

            palette.ToolWindowTabUnselected.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowTabText");
            palette.ToolWindowTabUnselected.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowTabGradientBegin");

            palette.ToolWindowTabUnselectedHovered.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowTabMouseOverBackgroundBegin");
            palette.ToolWindowTabUnselectedHovered.Text = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowTabMouseOverText");

            palette.ToolWindowSeparator = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowTabSeparator");
            palette.ToolWindowBorder = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("ToolWindowBorder");

            palette.DockTarget.Background = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DockTargetBackground");
            palette.DockTarget.Border = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DockTargetBorder");
            palette.DockTarget.ButtonBackground = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DockTargetButtonBackgroundBegin");
            palette.DockTarget.ButtonBorder = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DockTargetButtonBorder");
            palette.DockTarget.GlyphBackground = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DockTargetGlyphBackgroundBegin");
            palette.DockTarget.GlyphArrow = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DockTargetGlyphArrow");
            palette.DockTarget.GlyphBorder = ColorTranslatorFromHtml("DockTargetGlyphBorder");
        }

        private Color ColorTranslatorFromHtml(string name, bool foreground = false)
        {
            var color = _xml.Root.Element("Theme")
                .Elements("Category").FirstOrDefault(item => item.Attribute("Name").Value == Env)?
                .Elements("Color").FirstOrDefault(item => item.Attribute("Name").Value == name)?
                .Element(foreground ? "Foreground" : "Background").Attribute("Source").Value;
            if (color == null)
            {
                return Color.Transparent;
            }

            return ColorTranslator.FromHtml($"#{color}");
        }
    }
}


text:
No one heeded his cries for help until he had killed his own son - the tragic mistakes that sealed the fate of Zak Bennett-Eko
'Someone who has that sort of history should never have been discharged'
Helena VestyNHS, social care and patients writer
Zak Bennett-Eko had a long history with paranoid schizophrenia - in 2019, he killed his own child, but how did it get to that point? (Image: GMP)
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A father strolls along the quiet banks of a river on a brisk September day, pushing his happy baby in a pram through the streets of their hometown.
It's a peaceful image - a new dad taking out his boy for a walk in the fresh air.
The young man picks up his little one and holds him up in the air, just like any proud parent playing with their first child.
He bounces the baby in the air and stares at his young son's face - the pair look like a model father and son.
Yet, this seemingly innocent family walk is far from normal. Under the surface, a dark tension that has been simmering for weeks is about to explode.
Within a matter of seconds, bystanders - two teenagers playing in a nearby park - can only watch as unimaginable horror unfolds before their eyes.
The father casts his 11-month-old son into the rushing waters of the river.
Expressionless, he turns his back, walks away and goes to sit in a pub. The fragile, helpless baby is gone.
That was how Zakari William Bennett-Eko, at just 11-months-old, died.
This tiny baby was killed at the hands of one of the people that was supposed to love him most in this world - his father, Zak Bennett-Eko.
A week-long trial earlier this month heard how, just like the tranquil walk by the river, this 'doting dad' looked completely calm on the surface.
By many accounts, he was a 'polite' young man, someone 'keen to please', who 'had loved his son dearly', and looked after him for 11 months 'without any issue'.
But the then 22-year-old's mind was a far more nightmarish place than even those closest to him could have imagined.
The apparently touching moment he looked into his little boy's eyes? Bennett-Eko was actually seeing Zakari 'as the devil'.
Bennett-Eko's stroll along the riverbank in Radcliffe? A mission filled with confirmations that he needed to kill his son.
Telling those in the pub and police officers about what he had just done? Bennett-Eko believed it was 'the right thing to do' as his baby had taken on this new form.
Jurors found Bennett-Eko unanimously guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.
This little baby lost his life aged just 11-months, at the hands of the person who was supposed to love him most (Image: MEN Media)
The presiding judge at the Lowry Nightingale Court had one important question of his own - exactly how did it come to this?
There were some answers revealed in court, as three psychiatrists took to the witness box to try and make sense of the incomprehensible.
They told a story of a severely mentally ill man - aware of his spiralling condition - 'slipping through the net' and being 'failed by the system' at every turn, to use the judge's own words.
The memorial to Zakari William Bennett-Eko, in Kenyon Community Gardens, Radcliffe (Image: MEN)
Zak Bennett-Eko was first diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 12, jurors were told.
By the time he was 15, in 2014, his mental health concerns had become so serious he was sectioned.
The teenager would be confined to a secure adolescent psychiatry unit, the Gardener Unit, for 17 months.
When he left the unit, Bennett-Eko was prescribed with a year-long 'care in the community plan', where he would be seen by specialist mental heath care practitioners who were aware of his complicated history, and just how serious his condition was.
Footage released by the Crown Prosecution Service of Zak Bennett-Eko as he told police officers that he had thrown his baby into the River Irwell (Image: CPS)
But, once that plan was completed, he had no contact from community mental health care teams at all.
Just why there was no follow up from mental health care teams, there remains no clear answer.
Baby Zakari Bennett-Eko: The unthinkable killing that rocked a small town - and the haunting trial of a schizophrenic dad who 'slipped through the net'
Footage shows chilling moment schizophrenic dad is arrested in pub - minutes after throwing baby son into a river...he killed the child thinking he was 'the devil'
From the moment his care plan lapsed in February 2017, Bennett-Eko was discharged from community mental health care and left in the care of his GP - for no apparent reason, one psychiatrist told the court.
Though he had regular appointments with the doctor, Bennett-Eko was a young man with a learning disability without the words to articulate the nature of his illness.
He had also started using cannabis, which had 'eased some of the symptoms of his condition', but ultimately 'probably made things worse' - again, without understanding what this drug use would mean for his mind.
He would be faced with a GP, without the specific training to successfully deal with a case as bad as his, said one psychiatrist who now cares for the young man.
The discharge was slammed by both the judge and those who now treat Bennett-Eko as one of the most disturbed patients at Ashworth high security hospital for mentally ill criminals.
Bennett-Eko is likely to remain there for life.
The moment Zak Bennett-Eko was arrested (Image: CPS)
Dr John Crosby, the 23-year-old's treating clinician, told the judge as he considered Bennett-Eko's sentence: "Bennett-Eko was discharged from community mental health services.
"It is very rare someone is admitted to an adolescent secure unit - someone who has that sort of history should never have been discharged.
"Looking back at his notes, I have never really found a reason for that decision. It is a big ask for someone with such complex issues to go to a GP and explain what is going on.
"I don't think a GP would have an understanding of mental illness to manage something like that in the community."
"Dr Crosby, your treating clinician at Ashworth, describes that transfer from the community mental health team as a mistake. It clearly was," added Judge Fraser, gravely.
The judge addressed Bennett-Eko, though he was not present in court, as he sentenced him to a hospital order which would confine him to a secure prison hospital.
"The regular trips you made to A&E show that you made genuine and sustained attempts to seek professional help," said Judge Fraser.
"You were trying, as best you could in this respect, and you expressly asked to be sectioned.
"Your difficulties in communicating would have made it a lot more difficult for doctors in a busy A&E department to recognise your mental state, and sadly, on each occasion you presented at the hospital the help you needed was not available.
"You have serious medical conditions requiring urgent, intensive and long-term treatment.
"However, it is not the only failure of the system in your case. You seem to have slipped through the net in terms of care for your mental illness, which with hindsight was far more serious than was realised at the time."
Flowers and tributes for baby Zakari lined the bridge above the River Irwell where he lost his life (Image: Steve Allen)
Bennett-Eko was on a number of medications throughout his life, but in the months leading up to the psychotic episode that led to the death of his child, he had stopped picking up his prescriptions and stopped whatever drugs he had left.
For paranoid schizophrenics like Bennett-Eko, stopping taking medication can be fairly common, according to Dr Melanie Higgins, another psychiatrist now treating him.
Patients who do not have much insight into their condition can believe that they no longer need the medication - that they are cured because they stop experiencing symptoms.
Some believe that it is the medication itself that is making them mentally ill.
But although the young dad came off his medication, it was clear he had enough insight to seek help when he felt his condition relapsing in the weeks before the killing.
Altogether, Zak Bennett-Eko went to A&E six times in 2019, begging for help with his deteriorating mental health.
On one occasion, he specifically asked medics to section him, as he had been threatening to kill himself in the presence of his partner, the mother of baby Zakari.
This request was never fulfilled.
How 'two minutes of madness' and a trip to Tesco ended a promising life - and turned a new dad and his friend into killers
The desperation of this heartbroken mother, Emma Blood, was also clear.
Knowing her partner's background, she 'tried her best' to get him help as she became increasingly alarmed with the words being said by the man she thought she knew.
Bennett-Eko began claiming that 'his mother was Beyonce', that he himself 'was the devil', and that little Zakari was not their child.
Emma 'tried to get emergency medication' by calling doctors, but she never received a call back, heard the court.
Instead, Bennett-Eko came away from one of his visits, having been referred back to his GP, with the medical notes 'no emergency, no urgency'.
Three days after his final visit to North Manchester General Hospital's emergency department, when he left before medics had chance to see him, Bennett-Eko threw his baby son into the river.
Dr Higgins said 'opportunities were missed to help' Bennett-Eko because 'his calm appearance was taken at face value'.
In fact, even though he was not 'screaming and shouting', Bennett-Eko's mind was 'a scary place to be', said the psychiatrist.
His mental health crash went unrecognised.
Multiple investigations have now been launched in the wake of baby Zakari's tragic death - including by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust.
As the body marshalling mental health care across the region, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust would likely be the body to review the 'mistake' of discharging Bennett-Eko from community mental health care, as well as his appearances in A&E asking for mental health help.
However, when asked to define what moments in this timeline they had specifically investigated, the trust declined - which became a pattern in the Manchester Evening News' attempts to investigate what and how 'lessons will be learned' from the Radcliffe horror.
Trust bosses have told the Manchester Evening News that 'an action plan' has been put in place to 'prevent any similar incidents in the future'.
Gill Green, Director of Nursing and Governance at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) said: "Our deepest condolences go out to Zakari's family and all those who cared for him at this sad time.
"As an organisation, we are committed to learning from our mistakes and conducted an extensive internal review which concluded in June 2020 and led to a comprehensive action plan aimed at preventing any similar incidents in the future.
"However, we understand that this comes too late for Zakari, and our thoughts remain with everyone who was affected by this tragedy."
The death rocked the quiet, tight-knit community of Radcliffe (Image: MEN Media)
'Key areas for improvement' highlighted in the review include 'clarification around the crisis assessment policy'; 'training and education for staff' and 'more effective communication between partner agencies', added the trust.
The current crisis procedure for when a mentally ill patient arrives at A&E is as follows, according to the GMMH website:
"The client will be referred to the Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT; formerly known as RAID) who will aim to assess within 1 hour.
"Outcomes you can expect:
Referral directly into local HBTT for a period of treatment
Referral for a Mental Health Act assessment
Referral for an in-patient bed if indicated
Signposting and discharged back to primary care with an advised safety plan which is also given to the client
Referral to the relevant CMHT
A detailed discharge letter incorporating their advice and plan of care."
Zakari William Bennett-Eko and his mother Emma Blood (Image: MEN Media)
The trust says that the 'action plan' it has put in place is 'focused on reviewing, revising and disseminating the operational procedure for accepting crisis assessment referrals; training and education for staff, including a more robust induction and supervision process; and a multi-agency learning event in September 2020, led by the trust, which highlighted learning which helped to promote better communication and co-ordination between overarching services'.
A spokesperson added: "Improvements have been implemented so that such lapses in care do not happen again.
"Significant progress has now been made against all actions which remain of the highest priority for the trust and will be carefully monitored."
Again, when asked by the Manchester Evening News to clarify what 'lapses in care' were identified, what specific improvements have been made, and what progress has been made, the trust declined to comment further.
The Manchester Evening News has requested a copy of the review through the Freedom of Information Act.
Bury Council has also started its own investigation.
A spokesperson told the M.E.N.: "As is usual in tragic incidents such as this, an Independent Review Author was appointed to carry out a Serious Case Review, which looks at all aspects of the case and the role of any and all agencies who may have been involved. This has now been completed and we are examining the review and its recommendations prior to finalising publication of the report."
It is not yet known exactly when the report will arrive, though it is believed the findings will be publicly released.
The challenging fallout of one man's cataclysmic descent into the darkest depths of mental health continues - and it may have wide-reaching impacts on the way those in crisis are treated.
Looking back at those critical weeks leading up to the killing during the week-long manslaughter trial left all who attended aching with the weight of hindsight.
But recognising what could have, what should have been done differently involves a tangled web of decisions, needing to be reckoned with - if not for families in the future who might find themselves in a frighteningly similar situation to Emma Blood and her lost little boy, baby Zakari.
Crime'Horrendous' murder of 86-year-old pensioner may have been burglary, police sayFreda Walker was pronounced dead when emergency services arrived at the scene on Saturday

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Paulo Sérgio Kakinoff (Santo André, 1975) é um administrador e executivo brasileiro e ex-presidente da Gol Linhas Aéreas (GOL).

Biografia
Nascido em Santo André, o sobrenome Kakinoff vem da Bielorrússia. O avô veio para o Brasil com o pai pequeno, depois de ter ficado viúvo em um ataque dos russos à sua casa. Atravessou estados a pé e de carona, até chegar à China, de onde partiu para o porto de Santos. Em plena Guerra Fria, o avô foi descoberto pelos russos e acabou capturado para trabalhar para o partido. Até ser preso pela ditadura militar.

Aos 18 anos, foi contratado pela Volkswagen como estagiário, recém-formado no ensino médio integrado ao técnico. Sua carreira continuou meteórica ao assumir aos 23 anos seu primeiro cargo executivo na montadora, como supervisor regional de vendas de São Paulo.

Kakinoff é graduado em Administração de Empresas pela Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, e fez pós-graduação em Gestão Internacional.

Carreira

Volkswagen
Entre 1996 e 1997, Kakinoff atuou como representante da assistência técnica. Em 1998, foi promovido a coordenador administrativo. De 1999 a 2001, assumiu o posto de gerente de vendas. Em 2002, já era gerente-executivo de marketing aos 29 anos. Em 2003, assumiu o posto de diretor de Vendas e Marketing.

E seguiu assim, a cada um ano e meio com uma nova promoção. Foi então para a matriz, na Alemanha.

Grupo Volkswagen na Alemanha
Na Alemanha foi Diretor Executivo para a América do Sul na matriz do Grupo Volkswagen.

Nessa época em que esteve na Europa, Kakinoff estreitou laços com outras marcas do grupo, sobretudo a Audi, e acabou sendo convidado para administrar as operações da empresa no país, aos 34 anos.

Audi
Em março de 2009, Kakinoff assume a presidência da Audi Brasil, e após apenas sete meses, o executivo de carreira meteórica acaba se consagrando com um plano ousado de lançar um novo modelo da marca a cada 45 dias, Kakinoff atraiu a atenção da indústria. E foi eleito o "Executivo do Ano", pela tradicional premiação anual da Revista Auto Esporte.

Porém em 18 de junho de 2012, a Audi Brasil informou que Paulo Sergio Kakinoff iria deixar o comando da empresa a partir de julho. Segundo a montadora, Kakinoff "se desliga do grupo Audi para assumir um novo desafio profissional fora do setor automobilístico". Com a saída de Kakinoff, o diretor de marketing e vendas, Leandro Radomile, assumiria o comando da marca.

Gol Linhas Aéreas
No dia 2 de julho de 2012, Paulo Kakinoff assumiu a presidência da Gol Linhas Aéreas

Em janeiro de 2010, já havia sido convidado para ocupar uma cadeira como conselheiro independente no conselho de administração da Gol, Kakinoff chamou a atenção da empresa por sua experiência na área de vendas. "A Gol será muito beneficiada pelo expertise de Kakinoff no setor de consumo, principalmente com a classe média, que é o grande foco da companhia", disse Constantino de Oliveira Junior à época, em comunicado ao mercado.

Na Gol Kakinoff vem mostrando uma gestão mais aberta, pelo menos uma vez por semana, faz questão de viajar de avião para interagir com os passageiros. Vai para frente da cabine, pega o microfone e se coloca a disposição para ouvir queixas. Também gosta de conversar com pilotos e faz aulas para aprender a pilotar.

Em 1 de julho de 2022, deixou a presidência da Gol Linhas Aéreas, quem assumiu em seu lugar foi Celso Ferrer. Kakinoff agora integra o Conselho de Administração da empresa.

Administradores do estado de São Paulo
Executivos do Brasil
Naturais de Santo André (São Paulo)
Brasileiros de ascendência bielorrussa
Alunos da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Empregados da Gol Transportes Aéreos

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'Empty Hand Combat' in association with Chitah Jeet Kune Do Global Sports Federation presents "Life of a Dojo Master" by Sifu Cosmo Zimik
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Documentary "Life of a Dojo Master" Screening and Press Conference concluded in a grand manner in Mumbai
Kung Fu master Cosmo Zimik came to Mumbai from USA and organized a grand press conference with Chitah Yajnesh Shetty at 'Karamveer Sports Club, Andheri West, Mumbai' on 8th August, 2022 where the documentary film 'Life of a Dojo Master' was released on the life of Cosmo Zimik. It was presented in association with Chitah Jeet Kune Do Global Sports Federation and Empty Hand Combat. A Much-Needed Documentary for These Uncertain Times.Cosmo Zimik Sarah,Lang Zimik,Sagoon Wagh,Sridevi Shetty Wagh,Amarjit Shetty and Chitah Yajnesh Shetty graced the occasion.
"Life of a Kung Fu Master" documentary is a week in the life of Master Cosmo Zimik, a man born in remote region of Manipur, India, who settled and made his way to the USA. In the "Life of a Dojo Master" Master Cosmo has found a way to be refreshing and inspiring to this generation. The saying is true that the truth will set you free and that message is important to people today. Living without fear and on borrowed time, Master Cosmo does not hold back to spare feelings now and he reaches out to young men and women in all levels of society through his martial arts Dojo. Whether it is meeting with community leaders, a homeless person or an 'At Risk Youth', he is always encouraging and speaking the truth with positive but tough words. He has helped thousands of at-risk kids to better their situation in life.
Grandmaster Chitah Yajnesh Shetty, Founder of Chitah Jeet Kune Do Global Sports Federation, who conferred an 8th degree black belt to Master Cosmo says, "In this documentary, you will see the power of living intentionally and with purpose, no matter how small the action is. This documentary is for everyone. From those struggling to pay the bills, for those who may be homeless or even a successful businessperson.You will be inspired to take action."
Both Grandmaster Chitah and Master Cosmo use martial arts to reach out to the less fortunate Cosmo Zimik's leadership and fearless attitude have impacted many kids, youth, and young adults. Master Cosmo has students who have become good working citizens, Law Enforcement agents, Swat Team members, military personal, Instructors, personal trainers, and community leaders.
Master Cosmo says, "Talk is cheap, Let's do something to help others in this world community. This documentary will inspire and encourage you to take action, and impact lives to change the world, like Master Cosmo and Grandmaster Chitah."


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A review of coral reef restoration techniques
Submitted by Erik Meesters on Tue, 02/10/2015 - 11:28
In this review the following three reef restoration techniques are discussed: 1. Coral gardening, 2. Larval seeding, and 3. Reef balls. These techniques are commonly used in the Caribbean and have widely different approaches. Coral gardening utilize the natural process of asexual reproduction through fragmentation to provide new coral clones for population growth. Healthy wild colonies are once clipped/fragmented and further grown (and cloned multiple times) in an underwater nursery and ultimately transplanted to the reef.
In contrast, larval seeding is based on the sexual reproduction of corals, where large amounts of coral eggs and sperm are collected in the field with subsequent fertilization in the lab. The coral recruits are then made to settle and grown in aquaria until a certain size, after which they are transplanted to the reef. Reef balls are artificial concrete structures designed to provide shoreline protection and sometimes shelter for fish, while at the same time providing substrate for natural recruitment and attachment of benthic organisms such as corals.
A general introduction to coral reproduction is provided to show how life history characteristics are used in restoration efforts and how these can affect the genetic variation within coral populations. The three approaches are compared based on:
1. Survival of fragments and larvae before transplantation to the reef.
2. Survival of transplants at the restoration site.
3. Introduction of exogenous material.
4. Indirect effects of coral restoration on the reef.
5. Genetic diversity.
6. Feasibility and effectiveness.
The main advantages of the production of colonies from fragments are that it bypasses the early larval stages where mortality is high and that new colonies can be grown completely in the field. Generally, the asexual reproduction technique demands less advanced expertise and the public outreach of this method is high because volunteers can easily be incorporated into the program. Furthermore, results become apparent relatively soon since the used species are relatively fast growing. However, there is the risk of creating populations with little genetic variability and the method is only applicable to branching coral species. Presently the method is mainly used for one single species, namely staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis).
Larval seeding (sexual reproduction) is arguably the best method since it ensures natural genetic diversity and can be used with many species. The disadvantage with this method is that it demands a reasonably high level of expertise and takes more time than the asexual production of new colonies by fragmentation. Also a high percentage of new colonies is lost during the early stages. It is still mostly in the development phase.
Reef balls may increase fish biomass and protect shorelines, but their potential for coral reef restoration is judged to be limited due to the generally low levels of natural recruitment to these structures.
The restoration techniques suffer presently from a lack of independent scientific publications with good data to validate survival, regeneration, and growth rates of colonies in the different phases of the restoration program.
Different populations of the branching Acropora species can differ fundamentally in reproductive characteristics and may respond differently to environmental change. Their difference in strategy may also be a result of adaptation to local environmental factors. All studies and protocols thus stress the necessity to adapt methods to specific locations and environments.
Consideration of genetic factors is essential because the long-term success of restoration efforts (depending on resilience of the populations) may be influenced by genetic diversity of restored coral populations. The use of molecular tools may aid managers in the selection of appropriate propagule sources, guide spatial arrangement of transplants, and help in assessing the success of coral restoration projects by tracking the performance of transplants, thereby generating important data for future coral reef conservation and restoration projects.
It is proposed to study genetic variation in the natural populations around the islands of the Dutch Caribbean and within the various restoration projects in progress. Additionally, it is recommended to assess survival, growth and regeneration of fragments ánd mother colonies in the field. We recommend to combine characteristics of the two main coral restoration techniques (fragmentation and larval rearing) to create a new hybrid approach to increase survival of sexually derived colonies and genetic diversity. In addition, the cost-effectiveness of the larval seeding method should be ascertained and compared with the fragmentation method.
We conclude by pointing out that reef restoration can only be successful if environmental conditions are adequate for survival and growth of coral colonies. This will mean that presently the selection of restoration sites with good environmental conditions is crucial. Thus, active management of anthropogenic stressors is a prerequisite for reef restoration — if a reef is not effectively managed and chronic stressors persist or develop, restoration will ultimately fail. Reef restoration must only be considered as complementary to management tools that address the wider causes of reef degradation.
Coral restoration
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Meesters, E.H.W.G.
Leontine E. Becking
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Land cover map of Saba
Submitted by Peter Verweij on Thu, 12/11/2014 - 16:40
The land cover map of Saba gives a coarse representation of the distribution of forest, shrub, pasture and artificial surface. Invasive species (like Corallita) are included where technically possible. See this report for more information
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Mücher, C.A.
Debrot, A.O.
Roupioz, L.
Hazeu, G.W.
Davaasuren, N.
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Key Elements Towards a Joint Invasive Alien Species Strategy for the Dutch Caribbean
Submitted by Paul Westerbeek on Wed, 05/07/2014 - 18:05
Recent inventories have documented no less than 211 exotic alien species in the wild for the Dutch Caribbean. These amount to no less than 27 introduced marine species, 65 introduced terrestrial plants, 72 introduced terrestrial and freshwater animals and 47 introduced agricultural pests and diseases. A list of these species, pests and diseases are found in resp. Debrot et al. (2011), Van der Burg et al. 2012, and Van Buurt and Debrot (2012, 2011). The rate of introductions and establishment of invasive alien species (IAS) worldwide has grown rapidly as a result of increasing globalisation. Invasive species cause major ecological effects (decimating native flora or fauna populations) as well as economic losses to these islands, across sectors such as agriculture (diseases, weeds and vectors), fisheries (fish diseases and the lionfish), industry (rodents and termites), tourism (roadside weedy species) and public health (mosquitos). Recently in Curaçao the kissing bug Triatoma infestans was found; this is a vector for Chagas disease. It almost certainly came in with palm leaves imported from South America to be used as roof covering for recreational beach "palapa's".
Several countries in the Caribbean have developed a strategy to address the invasive species problem already, such as Jamaica (Townsend 2009), the Bahamas (BEST Commission 2003) and St. Lucia (Andrew and John 2010, Chase 2011). Islands are particularly at risk because of a number of factors: their small size, resulting in small vulnerable plant and animal populations, a relatively large border which is difficult to control, a small human population lacking the necessary expertise and resources to take adequate measures. For islands, the sea acts as a strong natural barrier for natural transport of terrestrial flora and fauna, however human activities helped in overcoming this barrier. The issue of feral animals, especially roaming cattle, donkeys, goats create similar problems everywhere: they have a devastating effect on tree and shrub regeneration, which greatly degrades the natural vegetation, with severe soil degradation as a result. This shifts the competitive advantage to hardy exotics and creates runoff of nutrients and silt into the sea, where algal growth and silt deposition are damaging the coral. The new nature policy plan for the Caribbean Netherlands assigns a high priority to the invasive species problem (MinEZ 2013), which worldwide is considered second only to habitat destruction as a long-term threat to biodiversity (Kaiser 1999, Mooney 2001).
While acknowledging a focus on the Caribbean Netherlands in specific (Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius) this report sets the first key steps in developing a common frame of reference for the whole of the Dutch Caribbean (i.e. including the islands of Aruba, Curacao and St. Maarten). These islands share historical and cultural ties, partly similar climates, scarce expertise, and experience most IAS as a common problem. The magnitude and severity of the problem is evident and necessitates a joint strategy into which action at insular level can be embedded for maximum efficiency and synergy: a common Invasive Alien Species Strategy (IASS).
Management Recommendations:
The main action points for implementation are:
1. Develop and adopt guiding legal lists for action: Black lists, Alert lists and Watch lists, enumerating the species for which border control is essential or for which control and management actions would be required. A special task group should be made responsible for keeping these lists up to date.
2. Install effective border controls. To prevent is better than to cure: the costs of controlling or eliminating invasives once established can be very costly. For this reason and because of the earlier indicated special vulnerability of the island ecosystems, it is strongly recommended to prevent the entrance of (more) invasives.
3. Establish Invasive Species Management Teams. For the coordination of data collection, evaluation and the initiation of actions, a special team is required. This ISMT team shall have its own facilities and budget.
4. Define responsibilities and mandates. Ultimate responsibility for IAS control lies with the island governments. This means that policies regarding IAS will be determined by the government. However, to be effective and efficient the ISMT (see 9.) needs full mandate to act within the limits of their own budget.
5. Require quarantine documents. Phytosanitary certificates and animal health certificates will be required for all imports.
6. Enforcement. Staff must be trained and instructed how to perform border controls. They must obtain sufficient mandate and means to confiscate and dispose of prohibited goods.
7. Develop action plans. A plan of action needs to be ready, describing the successive steps and decisions that have to be made for key threat species at all stages of the invasion process.
8. Arrange access to properties. When an alien species is invasive and needs to be eliminated, it is important that regulations allow the exterminators access to all properties, private and public alike.
9. Assure public support. Large scale programs for extermination and control, especially of animals, needs extensive public support. Volunteers may prove essential to assure enough 'eyes' and manpower.
10. Make rapid surveys. In order to decide whether a complete eradication is needed or that monitoring and restricting the distribution (mitigation) is the best or only option, a survey of the extent of the problem must be assessed by experts.
11. Rapid response. Usually a rapid action can localise the problem to a restricted area or eliminate the first individuals effectively so that no further costs have to be made.
12. Make risk assessments before introducing natural enemies. In case species are already present in vast numbers, biological control is often a last resort. This usually means introducing a natural enemy from the area of origin of the species. This means introducing another alien species, which may become a pest in itself. Expert consultation and small-scale experimenting is usually needed before the potential natural enemies can be safely released.
13. Create an information system. A team of experts managing a computer database is needed. This ISMT team needs to develop a system for easy reporting of new discoveries of alien species, for maintaining and updating information on key threats. The information system supports policy, action and research at all levels of the invasion process.
14. Create a platform for cooperation. In order to develop the system further, a national as well as an island platform is needed for participation of all relevant stakeholders. These platforms will develop recommendations for the ISMT and the island governments, and may also act as support group for the ISMT.
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Burg, W.J. van der
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Use of satellite data for the monitoring of species on Saba and St. Eustatius.
On 10 October 2010 Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius became 'special municipalities' of the Netherlands, making the Dutch government responsible for the implementation and adherence to several international conventions that apply to these islands (e.g. Convention of Biological Diversity, Ramsar convention), including the protection of nature.
Knowledge on the whereabouts of endangered and key species or habitats is essential to ensure their protection against the negative effects of activities such as uncontrolled socio-economic developments (e.g. construction works, harbour expansion, expansion of residential areas) and natural phenomena (e.g. hurricanes, Sea Level Rise). This necessitates early identification of risk locations where future expected activities may collide with species/habitat presence. To determine these whereabouts, monitoring is necessary. Monitoring in the field, however, is often costly and time-consuming. A more effective and quicker approach is desired to obtain a realistic overview of key habitat distributions and associated key species.
At the request of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs the present study examines the possibility to identify the different land cover types (natural and artificial) on Very High Resolution1 satellite images of the Caribbean islands Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius, using remote sensing1 analysis. In addition, the possibility to link key species with specific land cover types was assessed by identifying the species' habitat requirements. Linking species habitat requirements with associated land cover types allows for the identification of their potential occurrence on the islands. It was expected that with niche-modelling potential distribution maps could be developed for different species and habitats. Such maps are valuable to determine risk locations where species/habitat occurrence and planned activities may conflict in the future. This would allow for the proper and early implementation of protective measures.
Worldview-2 satellite images of Saba and St. Eustatius (acquired on 3 December 2010 and 18 February 2011, respectively) were analysed. Analysis of the satellite image of Bonaire was not possible, due to time constraints. From the results of Saba and St. Eustatius it can be concluded that identification of land cover types using satellite images is possible. At present, the results are limited due to a) heterogeneous land cover types and b) the lack of ecological knowledge (e.g. baseline studies).
The identification of artificial features1 (e.g. infrastructure) is not a problem. The challenges encountered are mainly related to the largely mixed heterogeneous vegetation found on Saba and St. Eustatius. Due to the high level of mixing, spectral overlap between different vegetation types is high. Consequently, separating the different vegetation types is difficult. Corrections can be made based on visual interpretation and expertise in the field. This requires time and expert knowledge of the different vegetation types. In addition, both Saba and St. Eustatius exhibit strong differences in altitude, resulting in numerous shadowed areas that impede the identification of the land cover types underneath. Such terrain effect can be corrected using a Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Unfortunately, a sufficiently good DEM (with a high spatial accuracy of around 1 meter) was not yet available2.
Analysis of satellite images resulted in land cover maps with good fit to the distribution of the different land cover types on Saba and St. Eustatius. The produced land cover maps (Figures 4 to 7) give a coarse representation of the distribution of Forest, Shrub, Pasture and Artificial surface on the islands. In addition, it was possible to identify the extent and location of invasive vegetation (e.g. Corallita and other species), although identification to species-level was not possible. At present, these maps provide insufficient detail for biodiversity monitoring, because of the lack of connection with species. They could, however, be used to monitor different land cover development (e.g. forestation, artificial surfaces, shrub and pastures) on the long term (e.g. in years) or to gain a quick overview on the location of invasive vegetation. A distinctive land cover classification based on the available satellite images during the present study, however, was only achieved for the coarser vegetation types.
Ecoprofiles were developed for various species and habitats, describing their habitat requirements. With sufficient detail, these requirements link the species to habitats and thereby allow for the creation of species specific maps. The level of available data on habitat requirements varies per species. Overall knowledge on habitat requirements is generally not sufficient, associating species with multiple habitat types, and making it difficult to pinpoint essential habitat types. The amount of knowledge on habitat requirements has direct influence on the success of niche modelling. This illustrates the necessity of detailed knowledge on species biology, ecology and life history characteristics even when using advanced techniques such as remote sensing.
The production of maps through niche-modelling meant to show the expected geographical distribution of species was not possible due to the limited level of detail within the identified land cover types, and the restricted data on the habitat requirements of the species occurring on Saba and St. Eustatius, in combination with time constraints. Before such maps can be developed several issues need to be solved first. These include specific knowledge on species biology, ecology and life history characteristics of the target species (baseline studies); the collection of more training samples (ground truthing data) in the field; a high quality DEM of Saba and St. Eustatius (and Bonaire as well). This will lead to further adaptation of the chosen classification scheme and aid in separating spectral overlap between the different vegetation types.
This research is part of the Wageningen University BO research program (BO-11-011.05-019) and was financed by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (EZ) under project number 4308701012.
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Water quality monitoring Bonaire. Identification of indicators, methods and locations
Submitted by Anneke Paijmans on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 16:00
On the island Bonaire, eutrophication is a point of serious concern, affecting the coral reefs in the marine park. Eutrophication can cause altered balance of the reef ecosystem because algae shall outcompete corals, eventually leading to a disturbed composition of the reef.
The reef of Bonaire faces nutrient input by various sources, of which enriched groundwater outflow from land to the reef is considered to be a substantial source. Groundwater is enriched with nutrients due to the e.g. leaking septic tanks.
In order to reduce the input of nutrients on the reef via sewage water, a water treatment plant is being built on Bonaire. The treatment of sewage water will be extended in 2012 with a sewage system covering the so called sensitive zone, the urbanised area from Hato to Punt Vierkant. Based on the dimensions of the treatment plant and estimated connections to the plant, it can be assumed that a total of 17520- 35040 kg of Nitrogen a year will be removed from the sensitive zone, and will not leach out to the sea at the western coast of Bonaire.
At the moment limited information is available about the total amount of nutrients in the marine environment. Therefore, Rijkswaterstaat Waterdienst asked IMARES to conduct a monitoring study.The goal of this coastal monitoring study was to collect baseline water quality data to be able to study the effectiveness of the water treatment facility in coming years. No estimates are known of the contribution of other sources to the total nitrogen load.
The study consisted of two phases and resulted in two reports:
recommendations for baseline monitoring in 2011,
monitoring, data evaluation, and recommendations
The aim of this first report was to define recommendations for the baseline monitoring the, expected positive, impact of the new sewage treatment system on the marine environment of Bonaire, with special emphasis on baseline monitoring. For this an evaluation was made of:
Parameters/indicators to analyse, including argumentation, critical conditions
Methods for sampling and critical conditions, including costs
Potential sampling locations
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Slijkerman, D.M.E.
Koelemij, E.
Rippen, A.
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Preliminary inventory of key terrestrial nature values of Bonaire
A preliminary inventory is given of key terrestrial nature values of Bonaire in order to determine their occurrence in relation to areas designated as "nature" and "open landscape", according to the Spatial development plan of Bonaire. This was based on a literature study and supplemented by expert advice.
In 2010 a spatial development plan was written in order to determine the spatial policy and regulation for the future development of Bonaire. The island was partitioned into areas for different uses such as agriculture and recreation. Two specific designations are "nature" and "open landscape". The occurrence of nature values within these areas remained unclear. This makes implementation of protective measures based on international treaties and island legislation problematic. An inventory of the occurrence of these values should help facilitate more effective implementation of these protective measures. In the present study key nature values are determined, both in terms of protected species and essential habitat (e.g. caves).
From the literature study it became apparent that data on the occurrence of most of the priority species of flora and fauna, is limited and scattered, especially with respect to "open landscape" and "nature" outside parks. Therefore, only a preliminary inventory is provided showing the general distribution of nature values across the entire island, as linked to various habitat types. An exact distribution of the different nature values was not possible at this time, but extrapolation from areas of known occurrence into other areas of similar habitat type was used to show the occurrence of overlapping distributions of nature values within the designated areas of "nature" and "open landscape". The number of overlapping distributions of nature values may contribute to setting conservation priorities.
From the results it can be concluded that the areas of "open landscape" and "nature" (outside the national parks) seem to harbour unique and critical nature values. These areas are not actively managed or protected as national parks. The "open landscape" of Bolivia possibly harbours a few rare plant species (unique), an important population of critical key columnar cacti and at least two columnar cactus-pollinating bat species. The "open landscape" of Washikemba/Bakuna harbours key mangrove species that only have another main location at Lac Bay (national park). The "nature" area of Terrace Landscape Middle Bonaire seems to harbour a concentration of unique (e.g. Tillandsia balbisiana) and rare plant species (e.g. Krugiodendron ferreum etc.) and four bat species. The same is the case for Lima (e.g. Sabal palm, Maytenus versluysii and three bat species) while in Southern Bonaire key mangrove species also still occur. Table 1 shows which nature values are found or expected to occur within each "open landscape" and "nature" (outside national parks) area.
It can be concluded that outside the current parks, the main regions that harbour a concentration of key nature values are Terrace Landscape Middle Bonaire/Sta. Barbara, Bolivia, Washikemba/Bakuna and Lima. Terrace Landscape Middle Bonaire is designated as "nature" area, while Washikemba/Bakuna and Bolivia are in part designated as "open landscape". Lima has both "nature" and "open landscape" designations. Sta. Barbara is designated for other uses, but the present review shows that the occurrence of several significant nature values is likely within this area.
Additionally, based on the preliminary inventory, the combination of apparent concentrations of rare plants, occurrence of critical bat species and the high probability of corridor values show that the areas of Terrace Landscape Middle Bonaire/Sta. Barbara and Lima are important areas concerning conservation and further research. The areas of Bolivia and Washikemba/Bakuna follow closely.
To be able to implement the necessary protective measures within these areas, it is recommended that more extensive research through fieldwork is done, in order to obtain a complete inventory of the different nature values found on Bonaire, not only in the areas of "nature" and "open landscape" but also in areas with other designations. Additionally, it is recommended to assess the list of vulnerable and endangered species ('Informatieblad beschermde dier- en plantensoorten Bonaire') as certain species that may be of importance to Bonaire are not included.
When executing a complete and extensive inventory of Bonaire it would be of value to also determine the ecological conditions needed for the different species to survive. Based on the ecological conditions necessary for their life functions, it may be possible to pinpoint those areas of main ecological importance per species. A complete inventory of the nature values on the island can contribute to better management of nature values (e.g. determining the distribution of caves and the distribution, health status and diversity of keystone cacti species for better management of bat populations). It is also recommended to determine areas with high potential for the occurrence of rare or relict species and which areas harbour high corridor values.
For future research it is recommended to execute a complete and extensive inventory of Bonaire, through fieldwork, in order to implement the necessary protective measures to ensure the conservation of these nature values. The present study shows that the areas of WNSP/Brasil, Terrace Landscape Middle Bonaire, Lima and Bolivia may be of priority as these areas seem to harbour a concentration of unique and critical plants.
Present studies shows that key nature values may occur in areas with a different designation than "nature" or "open landscape". For future research it is recommended not to limit inventory research to the areas of "nature" and "open landscape", but to include other areas with different designations.
In the present study the nature values chosen were based on the list of vulnerable and endangered species (Informatieblad beschermde dier- en plantensoorten Bonaire). During the study several species were added based on expert knowledge. The list used therefore seems to be limited. For future research it is recommended to assess if there are other nature values that are important to Bonaire that should be included on the list (e.g. Clusia sp, Ammodramus savannarum).
A complete inventory of the nature values on the island can contribute to the better management of nature values. A good example is the management of Bonaire's bat population. In order to define the priority areas to maintain for the management of the different bats on Bonaire it is essential to obtain a detailed inventory of the different caves that these species use as habitat.
Additionally for the nectar-feeding bats it is crucial to map the occurrence of the different candle cacti on which they feed. The nectar-feeding bats are the critical pollinators of the three candle cacti (Petit, 2001). As already mentioned these cacti are key species on the island as they provide food for several species of animals during the dry season, when many other plant species are non-productive (Petit, 2001). Research on the distribution, health status and diversity of candle cacti on Bonaire is recommended in order to pinpoint priority areas for nectar- feeding bats. The cactus populations are threatened severely by feral livestock (goats, donkeys) which remove the bark of the mature trees, thereby threatening the food supply for frugivores and nectarivores. From our analysis open land areas of Bolivia would seem to possess large cactus populations of vital interest to conservation of endangered bird species on an island-wide scale.
When executing a complete and extensive inventory of Bonaire it would be of value to determine the ecological conditions and various habitats needed for the different species to survive. Based on the ecological conditions necessary for their life functions it may be possible to pinpoint those areas of principal ecological importance per species.
It is necessary to identify those areas with a high potential for the concentration of nature values rare species or relict vegetation species in order to secure the survival of these species and to be able to implement the necessary protective measurements. Such areas for instance are the open land and nature sections of Lima, Terrace Landscape Middle Bonaire (nature) and Bolivia (open). For future research it is recommended to determine those areas with high corridor values for the implementation of ecological corridors and buffer zones on Bonaire.
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"I want my child with me, she's just three years old. She hasn't done anything wrong to anyone," Adva Biton, 32, said Friday while her daughter, Adele, was still hospitalized in critical condition at the Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva.
Biton and her three daughters were travelling on Route 5 in Samaria on Thursday evening when their car collided with a truck forced to divert from its lane due to stones hurled by Palestinians.
Little Adele was critically injured in the accident. Her mother and two sisters sustained moderate wounds.
"I remember everything," Adva Biton recalled Friday. "We were at my mother's house for an hour and a half. After we left, about 100-200 meters from Ariel, I saw a truck in front of me. Within one second I heard a boom. Everything turned dark, I couldn't see a thing.
"The truck was hit by the first barrage of stones and was forced to brake. I found myself under it. When I was below the vehicle I couldn't move any part of my body except the hand. I used it to hold my daughter's head up, hoping that by keeping an open airway I'll be able to save her."
Adele underwent surgery in her head on Thursday night, followed by another operation. She is still fighting for her life. Her mother asked people to pray for her.
"I'm asking everyone, no matter if you're an observant person or not, to try to do something small for her. She is just a little baby. I would take her place now if I could. It's very difficult for me to see my little girl like this, naked, injured, bandaged, without being able to hug her.
"I thank God for leaving me and my precious daughters, Avigail and Naama, alive with superficial injuries. That's the bright side. I'll thank him for every decision he makes in regards to my Adele, and I believe he'll give us the option to have her back."
She turned to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and asked that he help her and other citizens stay safe. "I believe in that and I hope no other family has to suffer like me. It's unthinkable that at 6 pm, on a main and illuminated road, people shamelessly try to murder small children."
Four-year-old Avigail Biton was transferred overnight from the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer to the Schneider Children's Medical Center in order to be close to the rest of her family.
Dr. Efrat Baron-Harlev, deputy director of the Schneider Children's Medical Center and a senior physician at the hospital's Intensive Care Unit, said: "We have three girls hospitalized here. The smallest one is in intensive care with a serious head injury. We hope she will recover, but we can't tell. The other two are in the surgical ward and are doing okay."
Addressing the family's situation, she said: "It's a very difficult thing to deal with. The father is the only one who is safe and sound. The mother was hospitalized at the Beilinson hospital but is at Schneider most of the time."
Minutes before the attack, a driver documented an incident involving stones thrown at his car. Knesset Member Orit Struk (Habayit Hayehudi) said in response that the security forces must address the documented incident as a terror attack as well despite the fact that there were no injuries and "make every effort" to locate the terrorists and put them on trial.
"We must not wait for additional victims in order to eradicate nationalistically-motivated crimes on the roads of Judea and Samaria," she said.
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By Katherine Stephens
In the summer of 1946, the modern artist Donald Judd (1928-1994), then eighteen years old, took a bus from Fort McLellan in Alabama to Los Angeles, California. He had completed basic training for the United States Army and was on his way to Korea where he would serve in the Army Corp of Engineers until November of the following year. The bus passed through the town of Van Horn, Texas, 70 miles west of Marfa on US-90. This was Judd's first encounter with the American Southwest, and he sent a telegram to his mother commenting on the beautiful mountains and landscape. Twenty-five years later, in 1971, the same expansive landscape and open space drew Judd back to the Trans-Pecos region.
The artist had lived in New York City since 1954. It was there that he transitioned from painting to three dimensional objects, and was included in his first group exhibitions, and given his first retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1968. He also purchased a five-story cast iron building in SoHo where he began to permanently install his own work and works he had collected.
Stifled by the art scene and lack of space for larger permanent installations, Judd began to look at land elsewhere, eventually settling on Marfa. In 1973 and 1974, he bought his first properties in town - an entire city block that included two former WWI artillery hangers, and an old army quarter master's house. He soon began to install his work, create living and working spaces, and establish his 13,000-book library.
Judd continued to purchase buildings in the center of town in the late 1980s, preferring to restore preexisting structures rather than demolish them. He converted the former Marfa National Bank into his architecture studio, an old Safeway Grocery Store into an art studio, and a former Rancher's home into a painting gallery.
As early as 1977, Judd established his ideas for the Judd Foundation: "The purpose of the foundation is to preserve my work and that of others and to preserve this work in spaces I consider appropriate for it…I have to defend what I've done; it is urgent and necessary to make my work last in the first condition."
Today, the Judd Foundation preserves sixteen properties in both Texas and New York. They include the artist's homes and studios in Marfa, a historic cast-iron building at 101 Spring Street in New York, which is open to the public for guided visits and special exhibitions, and Judd's three ranches in the Chinati Mountains south of Marfa. There are over 126,000 square feet of permanently installed spaces with artwork by Judd and from his personal collection, including works by his contemporaries Dan Flavin and Frank Stella. There is also furniture displayed by both Judd and the early modernist furniture designers Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto. The Judd Foundation offers public access to these living and working spaces through guided visits.
In October 2018, the Judd Foundation announced a long-term restoration plan for its buildings in Marfa. The goal, according to the Foundation, is "protection and restoration of spaces; completion of Judd's buildings and architecture; expansion of conservation and research facilities; and public access to permanently installed spaces."
Aside from his personal living and working spaces, which are part of the Judd Foundation, the artist created an additional foundation called The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati in 1986. Founded as a public institution of permanently installed works, including Judd's own sculptures and works by artists he admired, The Chinati Foundation functions as a separate legal entity from the Judd Foundation. This was Judd's wish, and today the two foundations operate independently yet often collaborate on certain events and projects.
Donald Judd, "Marfa, Texas" (1985), Donald Judd Writings,
Donald Judd, "Judd Foundation" (1977), Donald Judd Writings, Published: New York: Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books, 2016, 2018. www.juddfoundation.org


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***NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEING RIGHT
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MOST LIKELY, your first reaction to hearing this lie is, "Boy, do I know someone who believes that!" If we are being honest with ourselves, though, we all have a knee-jerk reaction to find the jerk "out there" who's responsible for any given problem before a finger can possibly be pointed at ourselves. We automatically look outward for the source of the problem when it comes to assigning blame.
This is because we unknowingly suffer from the worldwide epidemic of "directionality confusion." In other words, we all have to learn that nothing is coming at us, mandating our immediate judgment and response. In fact, it's all coming from us — although we would certainly rather not accept this as the way things are.
What appears to be happening is that there are thousands upon thousands (a reliable, endless supply) of faulty, wrong-thinking human beings around us — from willful, mind-blowing idiots all the way down to those hapless, good-natured people who just don't know any better. All these people are regularly saying or doing things that we can easily judge as clearly wrong. Thus we all join the endless crusade of the ego: to elevate each of us personally as the gold standard of all that's right and sensible.
Of course, that requires constant vigilance in order to keep seeing who is in the wrong, and point them out for everyone's benefit.
But what if everything is actually happening in the other direction? We can't entirely suppress the ego's hidden anxiety, which is that — for each of us — I'm the one who is wrong about everything. Specifically, I was profoundly wrong that separating from my Source would be an improvement on perfection. Since I unconsciously fear being punished for this mindless choice, I must invent an "other" who is wrong, so I can pretend I am right. To make it more convincing, I'll make up countless millions of others who are wrong about this or that, and I'll make up just a few choice others who mostly agree with me. Thus the battle lines are drawn. It's guaranteed that I'll always be outnumbered, so I can feel persecuted, perhaps even leading to my eventual martyrdom. To make all this even more convincing, I'll choose to forget I made up the whole mess.
Let's analyze (lying on a couch is optional)
Classical psychology can shed some light on this budding awareness. Anna Freud was Sigmund's youngest child of six. Her father was the first to articulate that whatever we suppress in ourselves we project onto others. Anna took it a step further with the idea of reaction formation, that is, when a person avoids one position (being wrong) by insisting the opposite is true (being right).
We can use this concept to measure our resistance to change and growth. The greater the certainty we feel that we're right about anything in particular, the greater our unwillingness to acknowledge that we are actually wrong about everything. In her book The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, Anna explained that "indications of obsessional exaggeration suggest that it is of the nature of a reaction (formation) and that it conceals a long-standing conflict." Additionally, that it acts as a form of "permanent protection." This means that we cover our tracks well, or at least, we think we have. However, both the Course and the Freuds are happy to point out that what we deny inside is clearly visible outside. We only need look upon the world to have a perfect view of our hidden conflict in action.
But denial has its perks: we get to be God, or sort of. That is, we choose to live in a massive illusion that we're projecting at every moment, and calling it Reality.
The (Blame) Game of Life
The Course asks us, "Do you prefer that you be right or happy?" The answer depends on who you want to hang out with. If the ego is your constant companion, being right makes you happy, but that kind of happiness depends on identifying who is wrong. The ego can show you just how effortless that task is, how big the reward: never having to look at your own part in your troubles.
If Spirit is your guide, though, admitting the wrongness of everything the ego has been telling you is the path to lasting happiness. Spirit will gently correct your error in thinking and, once corrected, your natural flow of happiness emerges. Happiness can even become your new normal, for it's something you actually already possess in abundance.
A required first step is to look deeply at our unconscious need to assign blame. Frankly, I've noticed that it feels good to make at least ten people wrong before my morning tea! Watching the news as soon as I wake up speeds up this process considerably, so turning on the box full of idiots is so helpful when I'm in a hurry. Otherwise, the cast of characters in my own house will do fine for starters. Assigning blame is like the gravitational pull holding us securely in this made-up world. But when we stop, we can literally float above it like an astronaut in training.
Take the challenge, be the change
The Course encourages us to start on the path of change with "a little willingness" to see things differently. Let's start here with our first 24-hour challenge:
For today and today only, I'm willing to believe I might be wrong about absolutely everything.
You may be shocked at just how error-prone you can be!
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SPRINGFIELD — BusinessWest is looking for nominees for its fourth Continued Excellence Award, and will accept nominations through Monday, May 14. The winner of the award will be unveiled at the magazine's 40 Under Forty gala on Thursday, June 21.
Three years ago, BusinessWest inaugurated the award to recognize past 40 Under Forty honorees who had significantly built on their achievements since they were honored. The first two winners were Delcie Bean, president of Paragus Strategic IT, and Dr. Jonathan Bayuk, president of Allergy and Immunology Associates of Western Mass. and chief of Allergy and Immunology at Baystate Medical Center. Both were originally named to the 40 Under Forty class of 2008. Last year, the judges chose two winners: Scott Foster, an attorney with Bulkley, Richardson and Gelinas (40 Under Forty class of 2011); and Nicole Griffin, owner of Griffin Staffing Network (class of 2014).
"So many 40 Under Forty honorees have refused to rest on their laurels," said Kate Campiti, associate publisher of BusinessWest. "Once again, we want to honor those who continue to build upon their strong records of service in business, within the community, and as regional leaders."
Candidates must hail from 40 Under Forty classes prior to the year of the award — in this case, classes 2007-17 — and will be judged on qualities including outstanding leadership, dedicated community involvement, professional achievement, and ability to inspire. The award's presenting sponsor is Northwestern Mutual.
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With their starting rotation crumbling, the Astros need a sharp José Urquidy more than ever
It's been more than two weeks since Urquidy's last start and his arm strength may not be at 100 percent. Naturally, the Astros have no choice but to lean on him.
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José Urquidy is no stranger to big games. In 2019, the then-rookie starter was called upon to start Game 4 of the World Series. Despite accruing just a handful of starts in the regular season that year, the Astros righty responded by tossing five scoreless innings on the road in Washington, spearheading a decisive 8-1 victory. After losing the first two games of the 2020 American League Championship Series, Urquidy was tabbed to be the stopper in Game 3. Though the Astros would lose the contest, their young hurler pitched admirably, soaking up five innings while allowing one earned run.
For the second consecutive year, Urquidy is to be the Game 3 starter in the ALCS. Based on the circumstances, it could prove to be the most consequential start of his career. Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander are no longer members of the starting rotation as they were two years ago, when Urquidy impressed in his first October, and with Lance McCullers Jr. now injured, Urquidy must assume the mantle.
McCullers was meant to be the starter the Astros could rely on in crucial games, but an arm injury has him on the sidelines. Framber Valdez, who pitched brilliantly in last year's postseason, has so far failed to step up in McCullers' place. The 27-year-old southpaw allowed four runs in 4 1⁄3 innings of work in his lone start against the White Sox in the Astros' prior playoff series, and then did not get out of the third inning in Game 1 of the ALCS against the Red Sox, walking more batters than he struck out in the process.
As solid as Valdez had been in the regular season, he was able to pitch effectively while struggling with his control in seemingly every other outing. Now in the playoffs, it's unlikely he'll be able to get away with issuing an abundance of free passes as he had during the summer. Not against a terrific Boston lineup.
To put more pressure on Urquidy, rookie Luis García, who was instrumental in the starting staff's overall success this year, exited Game 2 with a knee injury after recording just three outs. Dusty Baker said he will remain on the roster, indicating he will pitch again in some capacity, but it's impractical to believe he will do so at 100 percent.
This leaves Urquidy as perhaps the lone dependable starting pitcher on the Astros roster, which is a rather scary notion since a shoulder issue forced him to miss July and August entirely. But when he was on the mound this year, the Mexican native fared quite well in his 107 innings, as evidenced by a 3.62 ERA and a 3.89 Expected ERA (xERA).
Urquidy's last start was on October 3 against the A's, when he pitched six innings of three-run ball while displaying velocity that was on-par with his season average. With that said, he threw 84 pitches, and might still be regaining his arm strength.
With the Astros bullpen forced to carry a heavy load in both games over the weekend, it's paramount that Urquidy give the club much-needed length as the series shifts to Fenway Park. He is exactly what the team needs in terms of throwing strikes and eating innings.
The Astros are already facing an uphill climb with their starting pitching in flux. Should Urquidy not be able to provide five-plus serviceable innings in Game 3, an already-taxed bullpen, which will be without Jake Odorizzi for multiple days after his extensive Saturday outing, could be pushed to their limit, as there are no off-days separating any of the next three games.
As mighty as the Astros offense is, it seems Urquidy's performance alone may significantly factor into whether or not the organization makes a return trip to the Fall Classic.
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While driving remains the most popular mode of travel for the year-end holidays, air travel is expected to increase by 0.7 percent with 5.8 million Americans flying to their holiday destinations. Travel by other modes of transportation - including cruises, trains and buses - is also expected to increase by 2.4 percent to 3.4 million travelers.
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