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These are free on-line Cloud computing training and Webinars that will give you a good overview of Cloud Technologies.
Frist is the Microsoft Virtual Academy called MVA. This site is a collection of Microsoft training at the 100 and 200 levels, it does give you a good overview of Microsoft's offerings in the Cloud space. Note some of theses products are just being released. One thing to note you do need a Hotmail or Live mail account to access this free training.
Secondly, BrightTalk is a series of Wedinars put on by various different companies in the form of a product overview or a round-table of different industry experts with their ideas on Cloud computing.


Dr. Jessica Fuda Daddio is a professional educator with several years of experience in teaching literacy and educational leadership. She has worked in public schools K-12 as well as state and private universities. She has experience as a classroom teacher, a literacy coordinator, a consultant and a professor. She has presented at several conferences on topics such as faculty collaboration, brain-based literacy, and professionalism. She is currently working on a study focusing on reflective instructional decision-making and reading. Her education includes a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education, a Master's degree in Reading and a Reading Specialist Certificate. She also holds a Literacy Coordinator Certificate and a Doctorate in Instructional Leadership.
Fuda-Daddio, J. A. (2014). R-E-F-L-E-C-T: Looking into the mirror at the process of reflective teaching practices. . Pennsylvania Reads.
Dailey, K., uda Daddio, J., Fuda-Daddio, J. A. (2013). Looking into the mirror: Examining the process of teacher reflection.
uda Daddio, J., Booth, J., Fuda-Daddio, J. A. (2012). Here, There, and Everywhere: Building a Cohesive Online Faculty (Phase 2).
Fuda-Daddio, J. A., Dailey, K. (2014). Give me an R-E-F-L-E-C-T! The Impact of Reflection on Teachers' Literacy Practices..
Fuda-Daddio, J. A., Dailey, K. (2015). Bringing Reflection to the Forefront: Transforming Educators and Students' Lives Through Literacy. ILA.
uda Daddio, J., Booth, J., Fuda-Daddio, J. A. (2013). Can teacher professionalism be developed through technology?.


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Q: UWP: Ask for Clipboard acces from Background Task I develop an app who paste content to the clipboard from it's background task.
public sealed class ToastBackgroundTask : IBackgroundTask {
    public void Run(IBackgroundTaskInstance taskInstance) {
        //Inside here developer can retrieve and consume the pre-defined
        //arguments and user inputs;
        var toastArgs = taskInstance.TriggerDetails as ToastNotificationActionTriggerDetail;
        var argument = toastArgs.Argument;
        SetClipbordContent(toastArgs.Argument);
    }
    public static void SetClipbordContent(string text) {
        var dataPackage = new DataPackage();
        dataPackage.SetText(text);
        Clipboard.SetContent(dataPackage);
    }
}

But when I execute the line
Clipboard.SetContent(dataPackage);

raise this exeption:
The activation of a single-threaded class from MTA is not supported.
(Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000001D)

An usual workaround to handle this secario in classic .Net Framework is to use the Thread class to execute this portion of code in a STA context (C# Clipboard.GetText()) But I don't know how to do this in UWP.

A: I have used this in the past to execute on the UI thread from a background thread...
await CoreApplication.MainView.CoreWindow.Dispatcher.RunAsync(CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, async () => {
    // Do something...
}

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CBA welcomes Transport Minister's support of Cork-US flights
Posted on June 3, 2016 September 30, 2019 by cbaadmin
The Transport Minister has urged the US authorities to put consumers first and clear the first Cork to US flights for take-off.
In his first public comment on Norwegian airline's stalled licence application, Minister Shane Ross told global aviation leaders yesterday that the unprecedented delay by the US Department of Transportation (DoT) in granting the permit was not in the interests of the travelling public.
He told CEOs of some of the world's largest airlines attending the AGM of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the World Air Transport Summit in Dublin that he has always been pro-consumer and pro-competition and that the liberalisation of the aviation sector since the 1970s has allowed increased competition and several new airlines to enter the market, providing customers with new routes, new and better services and lower fares.
But he told the airline bosses, whose airlines carry 83% of passengers worldwide, that customers' needs should not get lost in the complex policy-making process at national and international level.
"From my perspective the needs of the customer should always be at the heart of aviation policy making; whether it be their safety, security, service or economic needs," he said.
But he said it is apparent that there are "interests on both sides of the Atlantic" that would like to reverse the liberalisation process.
Referring to Norwegian's Irish subsidiary, Norwegian Air International (NAI) stalled bid to secure a US DoT permit to operate its planned Cork to Boston and Cork to New York flights, he said it was unfortunate that it has fallen victim to the wider global debate.
"To my knowledge this is the first time since the EU-US Open Skies Agreement came into force in 2008, that an airline has announced new transatlantic services to the travelling public, but has been unable to operate the services due to delayed Government approval," he said.
"Clearly this is not in the interests of the many people in the Cork and Boston regions that are looking forward to using the new service.
"I look forward to the US authorities confirming its tentative decision to grant a permit to the Irish airline as soon as possible."
Cork Airport welcomed the minister's comments. A spokesperson for the US DoT said they are reviewing the entire record and giving careful consideration to the matters raised before reaching a final decision.
"There is no timeline for the department's final decision and it must first clear 'presidential' review," she said.
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**Run code in Atom!**

Run scripts based on file name, a selection of code, or by line number.

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1694055/3226201/c458acbc-f067-11e3-84a0-da27fe334f5e.gif)

Currently supported grammars are:

  * AppleScript
  * Bash
  * Behat Feature
  * C [*](#asterisk)[‡](#double-dagger)
  * C++ [*](#asterisk)[‡](#double-dagger)
  * C# Script [*](#asterisk)
  * Coffeescript
  * CoffeeScript (Literate) [^](#caret)
  * Crystal
  * Cucumber (Gherkin) [*](#asterisk)
  * D [*](#asterisk)
  * DOT (Graphviz)
  * Elixir
  * Erlang [†](#dagger)
  * F# [*](#asterisk)
  * Forth (via GForth)
  * Go [*](#asterisk)
  * Groovy
  * Haskell
  * Java
  * Javascript
  * Julia
  * Kotlin
  * LaTeX (via latexmk)
  * LilyPond
  * Lisp (via SBCL) [⍵](#omega)
  * Literate Haskell [*](#asterisk)
  * LiveScript
  * Lua
  * Makefile
  * MoonScript
  * MongoDB
  * [NCL](http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/)[#](#hash)
  * newLISP
  * NSIS
  * Objective-C [*](#asterisk)[‡](#double-dagger)
  * Objective-C++ [*](#asterisk)[‡](#double-dagger)
  * OCaml [*](#asterisk)
  * Perl
  * Perl 6
  * PHP
  * Python
  * RSpec
  * Racket
  * [RANT](https://github.com/TheBerkin/Rant)
  * Ruby
  * Ruby on Rails
  * Rust
  * Sass/SCSS [*](#asterisk)
  * Scala
  * Swift
  * TypeScript

**NOTE**: Some grammars may require you to install [a custom language package](https://atom.io/search?utf8=✓&q=language).

You only have to add a few lines in a PR to support another.

### Limitations

^ Running selections of code for CoffeeScript (Literate) only works when selecting just the code blocks

† Erlang uses `erl` for limited selection based runs (see [#70](https://github.com/rgbkrk/atom-script/pull/70))

* Cucumber (Gherkin), D, Go, F#, Literate Haskell, OCaml, PowerShell, and Swift do not support selection based runs

⍵ Lisp selection based runs are limited to single line

‡ C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ are currently only available for Mac OS X (where `process.platform is 'darwin'`). This is possible due to the commands `xcrun clang` and `xcrun clang++`. **NOTE**: Xcode and the Xcode command line tools are required to ensure `xcrun` and the correct compilers on your system.

# NCL scripts must end with `exit` command for file based runs

## Installation

`apm install script`

or

Search for `script` within package search in the Settings View.

## Atom can't find node | ruby | python | my socks

Make sure to launch Atom from the console/terminal. This gives atom all your useful environment variables.

If you *really* wish to open atom from a launcher/icon, see [this issue for a variety of workarounds that have been suggested](https://github.com/rgbkrk/atom-script/issues/61#issuecomment-37337827).

## Usage

Make sure to run `atom` from the command line to get full access to your environment variables. Running Atom from the icon will launch using launchctl's environment.

**Script: Run** will perform a "File Based" run when no text is selected (default).

**Script: Run** while text is selected will perform a "Selection Based" run executing just the highlighted code.

**Script: Run by Line Number** to run using the specified line number. **Note** that if you select an entire line this number could be off by one due to the way Atom detects numbers while text is selected.

**Script: Run Options** should be used to configure command options, program arguments, and environment variables overrides. Environment variables may be input into the options view in the form `VARIABLE_NAME_ONE=value;VARIABLE_NAME_TWO="other value";VARIABLE_NAME_3='test'`

**Script: Kill Process** will kill the process but leaves the pane open.

**Script: Close View** closes the pane and kills the process.

To kill everything, click the close icon in the upper right and just go back to
coding.

**Script: Copy Run Results** copies everything written to the output pane to the
clipboard, allowing you to paste it into the editor.

### Command and shortcut reference

| Command                    | Mac OS X                            | Linux/Windows               | Notes                                                                         |
|----------------------------|-------------------------------------|-----------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Script: Run                | cmd-i                    | shift-ctrl-b     | If text is selected a "Selection Based" is used instead of a "File Based" run |
| Script: Run by Line Number | shift-cmd-j              | shift-ctrl-j     | If text is selected the line number will be the last                          |
| Script: Run Options        | shift-cmd-i              | shift-ctrl-alt-o | Runs the selection or whole file with the given options                       |
| Script: Close View         | esc or ctrl-w | esc              | Closes the script view window                                                 |
| Script: Kill Process       | ctrl-c                   | ctrl-q           | Kills the current script process                                              |

## Development

Use the atom [contributing guidelines](https://atom.io/docs/latest/contributing).
They're pretty sane.

#### Quick and dirty setup

`apm develop script`

This will clone the `script` repository to `~/github` unless you set the
`ATOM_REPOS_HOME` environment variable.

#### I already cloned it!

If you cloned it somewhere else, you'll want to use `apm link --dev` within the
package directory, followed by `apm install` to get dependencies.

### Workflow

After pulling upstream changes, make sure to run `apm update`.

To start hacking, make sure to run `atom --dev` from the package directory.
Cut a branch while you're working then either submit a Pull Request when done
or when you want some feedback!

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Travel Wise
Is winter coming early? North Cascades Highway closes for season
Originally published November 10, 2017 at 2:52 pm Updated November 10, 2017 at 4:37 pm
A state highway worker plows near Milepost 157 along the North Cascades Highway last year. The highway was set to close again for winter on Wednesday due to avalanche hazards. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times, file)
Scenic mountain route closes about a week earlier than usual because of avalanche hazard and forecast of more snow.
Brian J. Cantwell
Seattle Times travel & outdoors editor
Along with fuzzy caterpillars with heavy coats, another harbinger of winter is the annual closure of the North Cascades Highway — which shut down on Friday afternoon because of heavy snow.
The Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) announced Thursday that the scenic mountain route, also known as Highway 20, would close for the season because of continued avalanche danger. The highway typically closes for the winter from about Thanksgiving to about March.
State crews have plowed the highway between the gates at mileposts 134, near Diablo, and 171, west of Mazama, since snow began falling in early October. But new snow has continued to fill avalanche chutes, officials said in a statement on the department's website. They said the forecast for more snow this weekend makes it too dangerous for crews to work or for the public to drive below full-avalanche zones.
"We know this route is popular for access to businesses, relatives and outdoor adventures," said WSDOT Twisp Maintenance Supervisor Don Becker. "Our crews work hard to keep it open through the Thanksgiving weekend, but this year it isn't possible due to the amount of snow in the forecast."
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The highway temporarily closed twice in the last three weeks due to snow accumulation in avalanche chutes.
This year's closure is a week or so earlier than typical. Last year, the North Cascades Highway closed Nov. 18. The only time the highway remained open through the winter was in 1976, when a drought produced record-low snowfall.
Snowmobilers, hikers, skiers and other winter adventurers are free to use the roadway behind the gates, at their own risk. When conditions permit, crews will reopen the highway in spring. Clearing the 37-milelong, mountain-pass highway requires crews working from both sides for roughly four to six weeks.
Like train-spotters, there are snowplow watchers; if you're one, you can watch how the highway was cleared by signing up for North Cascades Highway emails and following WSDOT East and WSDOT North Twitter accounts. The North Cascades Highway also has its own web page.
Brian J. Cantwell Brian J. Cantwell, a recently retired Seattle Times travel-and-outdoors editor, lives in the San Juan Islands. Follow his blog at brianjcantwell.com.


Exhibition, Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin, Germany, until 08 September.
Vasily Kandinsky was one of the most important teachers at the Bauhaus, but the courses he gave have so far only been documented in part. On the basis of a research project carried out by the Société Kandknsky, the exhibition presents documents and materials from international archives and collections that provide a comprehensive view of Kandinsky's teaching work at the Bauhaus. The materials mainly consist of notes he made when preparing the classes, as well as illustrations from the fields of nature, technology, architecture, and painting that he selected from newspapers and books. In addition to lecture notes and exercises done by his students, his own drawings and watercolours are also shown.
Exhibition, Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Germany.
Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, France.


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T-28 Home T-28 Projects Table
Convective Turbulence Data Collection Program (TCAD 1999)
The armored T-28 deployed to Ft. Collins-Loveland Airport (FNL), for 4 weeks in June, 1999, to join two other aircraft and the two S-band radars operated by the CSU-CHILL Radar Facility for coordinated thunderstorm penetrations. The other two aircraft, a Convair 580 operated by Allied Signal/Honeywell, and a Rockwell Sabreliner operated by Rockwell-Collins, carried prototype Doppler airborne weather avoidance radars. In a typical mission, the T-28 would lead a flight of 3, with the other two aircraft in-trail, on penetrations of convective clouds. The radars from the trailing aircraft scanned the region in which the T-28 was flying. Accelerometer and other performance data from the T-28 is used to estimate the severity of turbulence, and forms the basis for improving the algorithms for estimation of turbulence intensity from the returns received by the airborne radars.
In addition, these data will be used for comparison with turbulence diagnosed from model simulation of these convective clouds, in order to improve the capabilities of these models to give reliable indications of location and intensity of turbulence associated with convective storms.
The project was very successful, with operations by one or more aircraft on 16 of 24 possible days, including multiple operations involving all 3 aircraft on one day. The CSU-CHILL and Pawnee S-band Doppler radars, both operated by the CSU-CHILL radar facility, were used to provide guidance for the aircraft missions, as well as to record dual-Doppler and multiparameter radar data for later use in guiding the model simulations. The Research Applications Program of the National Center for Atmospheric Research provided forecasting and nowcasting, a daily radiosonde profile, and subsequently will carry out analysis of the T-28 data and will perform the model simulations.
Research Flights
Flight Track
724 6/02/99 (not included in archive; not a research flight)
725 6/05/99 19:56-21:27 X X
Environmental News Network Daily News, 1999: Scientists seek ways to avoid turbulence. 3pp.
Kessinger, Cathy, R. Sharman, L. Cornman, C. Wade, I. Clark, W. Bresley, R. Robertson, A. and Detwiler, P. Kennedy, 1999: Experimental Objectives for the Characterization and Detection of Convective Turbulence. 12 pp.
Participation by the SDSM&T Armored T-28 Storm-Penetrating Aircraft in the Turbulence Characterization and Detection Program(IAS Report R-99-04)
Sharman, R., L. Cornman, J. Williams, S. Koch, and W. Moninger, 2006: The FAA AWRP Turbulence PDT. 22 pp.
TCAD 1999 Data Access
Other Project Web Pages
NCAR/RAP
Operations Summary
CHILL Radar


METHUEN — Mayor James P. Jajuga and Chief Joseph Solomon are pleased to announce that two officers have earned the Methuen Exchange Club Police Officer of the Year Award.
Officers Matthew St. Jean and Michael Robidoux were presented with the award at a ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 13, which they earned as a result of their lifesaving actions responding to a call last spring.
On June 5, both officers were dispatched to a home on Linton Avenue, where a resident's family reported that a man was choking. Upon arrival, officers found the man unresponsive in a chair in the kitchen, and Officer St. Jean immediately began administering the Heimlich maneuver while Officer Robidoux prepared a breathing assistance device.
The officers' efforts proved successful, as the food stuck in the man's throat became dislodged and he began to breathe on his own. He was subsequently transported to a nearby hospital and recovered fully from the incident.
Officer St. Jean grew up in Lowell and subsequently attended UMass Lowell, where he met his wife, Erin. The two now live in Methuen with their two daughters. He began his law enforcement career in 2013 with the Massachusetts Department of Correction before graduating from the first class at the Methuen Police Academy. He serves the Methuen Police Department as a patrol officer and field training officer.
Officer Robidoux grew up in Methuen and attended Methuen High School before earning an associate's degree from Northern Essex Community College. He has been a reserve officer with the Methuen Police Department since 2015, and graduated from the Methuen Police Academy in February.


Jason Bare released his album Beautiful Design earlier this year, with the successful #1 Christmas single "For The First Time." Now, Jason releases his first Christmas project titled Have You Heard? With five Christmas songs and carols, Have You Heard is a fantastic Christmas album, a must-have for the Christmas season.
A children's choir opens up the album on a heavenly note, as piano and Jason's magnificent vocals make up "Have You Heard?" imagining the glory of that first Christmas. This wonderful track then builds up a key, and Jason's vocals are held out, making for a simply spectacular opening track. And with much description, "Night When Christ Was Born" speaks of the hope that was born on that night, and how it changed the world in one second – another heavenly Christmas song.
Jason Bare's cover of "What Child is This?" is one of the best I have heard yet. The haunting piano and faint techno drums combine perfectly with Jason's very flexible vocals. He changes the melody of the chorus and revamps it slightly, but the core remains the same. Strings also come in later, setting one in the Christmas mood like no other carol quite can. "A Way In A Manger," with a powerful duet and choral effects, speaks of the mystery that God would send His Son in the form of a baby, who would make a way for us to have peace with God. And lastly, "For the First Time," a very timeless reminder of what God's love did for us on that first night, closes the album perfectly.
I have no hesitation in saying that Jason Bare's Have You Heard Christmas EP is one of the best Christmas albums you could add to your collection! It's a glorious and heavenly collection of Christmas songs that contemplate the gift of Jesus and what His love has done for us.
Good review of this Christmas EP from Jason Bare. I will have to check it out as soon as I can.


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How Many did Stalin Really Murder?
[First published April 26, 2005] May Day is coming up, which used to be a day of celebration in the Soviet Union with an impressive show of weapons and infinitely long parade of soldiers. Perhaps, then, it would be appropriate to pay special attention on this day to the human cost of communism in this symbolic home of Marxism, and worldwide. This blog is on Stalin and the Soviet Union. I will post one on the overall cost of communism next week.
By far, the consensus figure for those that Joseph Stalin murdered when he ruled the Soviet Union is 20,000,000. You probably have come across this many times. Just to see how numerous this total is, look up "Stalin" and "20 million" in Google, and you will get 38,800 links. Not all settle just on the 20,000,000. Some links will make this the upper and some the lower limit in a range. Yet, virtually no one who uses this estimate has gone to the source, for if they did and knew something about Soviet history, they would realize that the 20,000,000 is a gross under estimate of what is likely the true human toll.
The figure comes from the book by Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties (Macmillan 1968). In his appendix on casualty figures, he reviews a number of estimates of those that were killed under Stalin, and calculates that the number of executions 1936 to 1938 was probably about 1,000,000; that from 1936 to 1950 about 12,000,000 died in the camps; and 3,500,000 died in the 1930-1936 collectivization. Overall, he concludes:
Thus we get a figure of 20 million dead, which is almost certainly too low and might require an increase of 50 percent or so, as the debit balance of the Stalin regime for twenty-three years.
In all the times I've seen Conquest's 20,000,000 reported, not once do I recall seeing his qualification attached to it.
Considering that Stalin died in 1953, note what Conquest did not include — camp deaths after 1950, and before 1936; executions 1939-53; the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps, and their deaths 1939-1953; the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941-1944; and their deaths; and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944-1945 is omitted. Moreover, omitted is the deadly Ukrainian famine Stalin purposely imposed on the region and that killed 5 million in 1932-1934. So, Conquest's estimates are spotty and incomplete.
I did a comprehensive overview of available estimates, including those by Conquest, and wrote a book, Lethal Politics, on Soviet democide to provide understanding and context for my figures. I calculate that the Communist regime, 1917-1987, murdered about 62,000,000 people, around 55,000,000 of them citizens (see Table 1.1 for a periodization of the deaths).
As for Stalin, when the holes in Conquest's estimates are filled in, I calculate that Stalin murdered about 43,000,000 citizens and foreigners, over twice Conquest's total. Therefore, the usual estimate of 20 million killed in Soviet democide is far off for the Soviet Union per se, and even less than half of the total Stalin alone murdered.
But, these are all statistics and hard to grasp. Compare my total of 62,000,000 for the Soviet Union and 43,000,000 for Stalin to the death from slavery of 37,000,000 during the 16th to the 19th century; or to the death of from 25,000,000 to 75,000,000 in the Black Death (bubonic plague), 1347-1351, that depopulated Europe.
Another way of looking at this is that the annual risk of a person under Soviet control being murdered by the regime was 1 out of 222. But, compare — the annual risk of anyone in the world dying from war was 1 out of 5,556, from smoking a pack of cigarettes a day was 1 out of 278, from any cancer was 1 out of 357, or for an American to die in an auto accident was 1 out of 4,167.
Now, I must ask, with perhaps an unconscious touch of outrage in my voice, why is this death by Marxism, so incredible and significant in its magnitude, unknown or unappreciated compared to the importance given slavery, cancer deaths, auto accident deaths, and so on. Especially, especially I must add again, when unlike cancer, auto accidents, and smoking, those deaths under Marxism in the Soviet Union were intentionally caused? They were murdered.
Anyway, when you see again the figure of 20,000,000 deaths for Stalin or the Soviet Union, double or triple them in your mind.
"How Russia went from a workers' state to state capitalism–Why did Stalin rise to power?" (9/1/2003)
By Alan MaassSo, how do communists – Marxists — now view Stalin's mortacracy? By redefinition, a standard communist trick (e.g., "democratic people's republic"). I quote from the article:
So-called "socialism" in Stalin's Russia–and other countries, like China and Cuba, that modeled their systems on the USSR–is diametrically opposed to the basic principles we stand for. The rulers of the former USSR under Stalin used the rhetoric of socialism and Marxism to justify a different reality–an exploitative system, run by a minority, using forms of authority not that very different to capitalism in the West.
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Democide Galore
[First published May 8, 2005 Note for regular visitors: The {right} sidebar now provides a link to an archive in which I have organized together and by topic all my posts on different blogs, and website commentaries]
A few indigestible tidbits before the main course.
The democide deaths in Darfur, Sudan, have now probably exceeded 400,000, and perhaps twice the deaths from the Great Tsunami that was such oh-my-God!-news months ago. Meanwhile, with killing slowness, an underarmed, undermanned African Union force has been sent there to prevent the killing and assure peace, and now will be increased to about 12,000 troops by next year. This is not even the minimum required to stop the killing.
Dictatorial Ethiopia is suffering from another famine. The UN says that without food aid as many as 300,000 children will die. The UN has called for international help, again, as it has to help those starving under other thug regimes. Shouldn't we also apply the "Never Again" to famine, and call also for the end to these killing. Criminal regimes? As I've commented before, democracies never have had a famine.
In Northern Uganda, the Lord's Resistance Army has been slaughtering peasants and caused about 2,000,000 people to flee their villages. Worst of all, it "has reportedly abducted more than 20,000 children. Some are forced to fight, some to carry bags, others to have sex with the fighters. By way of initiation, many are obliged to club, stamp or bite to death their friends and relatives, and then to lick their brains, drink their blood and even eat their boiled flesh." (link here) The International Court of Justice is about to issue an arrest warrant for the head of this rebel army, but local leaders oppose this as prolonging the conflict. Instead, they say, "if the rebels confess their guilt and undergo cleansing rituals, they will be accepted back into their communities."
And then in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, over 31,000 a month die from civil war, democide, and associated disease and famine, which means that by now the toll has arisen to about 3,900,000 in six years. It is ruled by another thug regime
Then there is VJ day, and the end of World War II, which has occasioned both platitudes for the fighting spirit of Russian troops and the head shaking over their losses in the war. I did a lot of research on Soviet losses during the war. From a variety of official and unofficial sources, I estimated that the Soviets lost 7,000,000 men and women in battle, and 19,625,000 in total when I add the 3,000,000 Soviet POWs murdered, and those killed during the Nazi occupation.
But, which is seldom recognized in the outpouring of comments on the war, Stalin is responsible for the deaths by deportation, in camps, by summary execution, and through such extraordinary wartime measures as forcing prisoners to clear minefields with their feet, of around 10,000,000 citizens. Dead by Stalin and not Hitler! Then their were the mass murders carried out through Eastern Europe and occupied Germany by the Red Army and KGB, foreign deportation dead, and the mass of foreign POWs dying in Soviet camps. These dead would add another 3,000,000 to the total.
So, the Soviet's (the use of "Russian" for Soviets is not correct, since a large number of different national groups had been forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union, such as Latvians, Estonians, Ukrainians, Armenian, etc.) lost about 13,000,000 to Hitler's democide. And Stalin's democide amounted to about 13,000,000 citizens and foreigners.
Overall, Hitler murdered about 21,000,000 people, and Stalin about 43,000,000. No one in recorded history, as far as I could determine, has murdered more during his rule. And yet, . . . try to relax and take two deep breaths to get ready for this . . . in Volgograd, once named Stalingrad, authorities will unveil a statue of . . . Stalin!
But wait, got more. The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center took a poll, in answer to which half the respondants were positive toward Stalin's "role in the life of the country" — 20% very positive, 30% some what positive, and ONLY 12% very negative. If anything displays the kind of education and information Russians are getting, this is it.
All this reflects the gradual takeover of Russia by present and former military and security chiefs, the refusal to publicize the tyranny and mass murders of Stalin, the turning a blind eye to the complicity of present and past officials in Stalin's murders, and the public regret about the fall of the Soviet Union (I think President Putin called it "catastrophic"). As now is well known, Russia is has become an authoritarian state with a democratic veneer. Elections, yes, but the Putin regime now controls the major media and hassles and hamstrings opposition parties.
Oh yes, one more thing. When the Allies set aside May 8, 1945, to celebrate their victory over Germany, Algeria was then a French colony. Understandably, with all the celebration about victory and freedom, the Algerians tried, with the permission of the sous-prefet, to demonstrate for independence. Although a peaceful demonstration, they were fired on by troops and legionnaires, after which the military carried out a street-by-street, house-by-house massacre of any Algerians they could lay hands on and if they could not they would, for example, drop grenades down chimneys. About 45,000 Algerians were massacred (link here), of which are shown two heads below. Thanks to Gary Busch for the email tip and photo below.
"Outside View: Dictators must go" (4/19/05) By Herbutus Hoffman
Hoffman is president and founder of the World Security Network. While recognizing President Bush's Forward Strategy of Freedom, he says,
Western foreign policy is for the most part reactionary, rather than proactive in "shaping a better world." Foreign policy is for the most part a mix of lifeless bureaucracy and fear, almost always reactive and never preventative. Foreign policy too often contains a shot of cynicism as its actors secretly flirt with the 43 global dictators regardless of their character, only because they happen to be in power or because they bring the promise of new business.
Democratically legitimized politicians continue to hesitate when they ought to take action against them on behalf of oppressed people in other countries. . . .
It is perfectly clear for all to see: today's Europe is secure only because there is now more freedom and democracy than there was 20 years ago. . . .
The United States is rich and powerful because it gave its citizens freedom more than 200 years ago. West Germany was rich, East Germany poor. North Korea is extremely poor, South Korea rich. Vietnam is poor, Thailand rich. . . .
Let's start a new approach with fresh, new thought, combined with optimism for a new progressive foreign policy — with imagination a la Einstein — to promote democratic development and to get rid of the last 43 dictators in the word by 2025, now!
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"No, God, I Can't Believe It"–A Ducudrama Of The Forced Ukrainian Famine
[First published in May 18, 2005] In 1932, Stalin went to war against Ukrainian nationalism and resistance to collectivization. His weapon of choice was enforced famine. Stalin won. The "war dead?" About 5,000,000 Ukrainians who starved to death or died of associated diseases. Want to know what it was like for a Ukrainian villager then? Here is one possible story.
"We were starving to death," Viktor suddenly blurted as I placed another beer before him. "My father, Petro Pynzenyk, was powerless to do anything about it, which made him very angry. I remember him shaking his feeble fist in the air and yelling to my mother Olena, 'How could he do this to us? How could he starve us to death? God, why? What have we done to him?'
"My mother wouldn't answer. Skeletal and weak with hunger, she could no longer leave their bed."
Ignoring his beer, his eyes turned inward, Viktor finally let it all out.
Drought had brought famine to the Ukraine. But this famine was nothing compared to what Stalin, the absolute dictator of the communist Soviet Union, or USSR, was doing. He had launched a total blockade that prevented any food from getting into that Soviet republic. The communist cadre even searched travelers to the Ukraine to make sure they carried no food with them.
According to Stalin's fanatical communist reasoning, Ukrainian peasant nationalism was a danger to his power that had to be subdued. The peasants also had strongly resisted giving up their homes, farms, and livestock to be collectivized into factory farms. Stalin's weapon against such stubbornness and nationalism was starvation. He sent the communist cadre, activists, and security forces into the region to enforce his own man-made famine.
Petro Pynzenyk's anguished outbursts against Stalin would almost exhaust him. He had been a handsome man in his youth, taller than most other peasants, with a round, open face and a strong brow. Even when age had grayed his hair, he had been well muscled, as heavy farm workers usually were. Now his ribs showed and his stomach was caved in; his arms and legs had grown bony, their muscles raped by his body for sustenance.
Viktor remembered watching him pry the soles off his shoes and then drop them into a pot of boiling water hanging in the fireplace. "Maybe they'll add some flavor to the tree bark," he rasped. It seemed that he could no longer say anything normally.
He was nonpolitical, tried to stay out of trouble, and did what the local communist functionaries asked. Except that, with all his being, he dreaded the demand he knew would soon come from Kiev—that he give up his one-acre farm and small home to collectivization. His father had worked all his life to develop and build this small farm. Petro did not want to give it up, but if he resisted, the communists would shoot him and his family.
Viktor was fourteen at the time. He spent the days hunting alone, because Petro, much to his shame, had grown too weak to join him. With a long-handled net, Viktor tried to catch any animals he saw around the village or in the unplowed fields, even former pets that the communists had missed when they came through, shooting them and stuffing the dead ones in sacks to be carried or trucked away. They'd also taken all the livestock, and had gone house to house looking for food, even seizing warm bread off the tables. When they learned that the villagers had started catching birds to eat, the communists again came through, shooting the birds out of the trees and bagging their little bodies.
When they came to the Pynzenyk home, they poked around the grounds outside the house with long rods, searching for buried food. They thus found the seeds Viktor's mother had hidden by the pump, which they'd planned to use for planting if they survived.
Finally, as much as he didn't want to believe it, Viktor realized they would not survive much longer.
One late afternoon when Viktor returned empty-handed to their house, he was just pulling the door shut behind him when he heard a distant scream. Alarmed but too weak to move himself, Petro waved Viktor outside to find out what was happening. Petro and Olena waited in tense silence as Viktor left the house. Viktor could tell they were scared. He followed the sound of the screams, which were soon punctuated by loud moans and gasps for breath.
When Viktor discovered what had caused the screams, he vomited up what liquid lay in his empty stomach. Sickened, revolted, he ran home and lay by his house and wept until too exhausted to cry anymore. Finally, he staggered inside.
He pushed the door shut behind him and stood there, swaying as if cornered. He could only gape at his parents, his mouth working. He started crying again, fighting to gulp air into his lungs, but dreading the news he had to tell his parents.
"What is it?" Petro demanded weakly.
Viktor ran over to his mother's bed and threw himself down beside her, his whole body shaking. Olena put her bony arm around him, murmured some soothing words, and waited.
Finally, still trembling, Viktor blurted, "They ate her."
"Ate who?" asked his father.
"Yana."
"Yana? What are you talking about?" His mother looked from Viktor to Petro in confusion.
Viktor calmed down enough to explain, although tears still flowed. "Little Yana down the road. She went missing, and her father searched the woods and finally checked that crazy man Taran's house on the other side of the stream. She was . . . "
"What, Viktor?"
"She was . . . cut up in his . . . in his food pot. Her father grabbed a shovel and killed Taran and his mother with it." Viktor's stomach heaved at the memory, but nothing would come up. He whimpered, "She was such a fun little girl. She was always laughing and trying to trip me. She would make believe I was a horse."
"My Holy God in Heaven," Petro groaned. "I had heard this was going on, but in our village? No, God, I can't believe it."
Olena could only close her eyes and let the tears flow.
The days went slowly by, each a torment of hunger. Petro also grew too weak to leave his bed. Viktor continued to hunt, and captured some rats in the field. With the head of one he saved from the pot, he actually caught a starving dog whose own hunger had overcome its natural fear. His parents always gave him the largest part of any catch. They wanted Viktor to live to remember them, and what had happened.
Olena died two weeks later, and Petro the following week. With the death of his father, Viktor gave up all hope. He was lying on their bed, just waiting for the end, when Stalin ordered the release of grain from the military warehouses.
Local officials soon started going from village to village, looking for survivors. When they came to Viktor's house, they knocked on the door. Receiving no response, they entered and, one told him later, were nearly overcome by the smell of urine, feces, and death. They found Viktor almost dead, lying next to the rotting corpses of his mother and father on a pile of filthy blankets. Viktor was not the first one they'd seen in this condition; they knew what to do. He was carried outside and propped on the ground to be spoon-fed thin soup.
Unlike all but a few in his village, Viktor survived. Five million Ukrainians did not.
Even this did not satisfy Stalin. He decided that the core Ukrainian culture had to be destroyed. And who was at the heart of this culture? The blind traveling musicians, who played and sang the classical Ukrainian music and folk tunes, and recounted tales of Ukrainian heroes. So, Stalin had communist officials call all the folk musicians together for a festival, and then had them all shot to death.
How can we prevent this from ever happening again? Through the democratic peace.
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Стандарт исключений для роботов — стандарт ограничения доступа роботам к содержимому на http-сервере при помощи текстового файла robots.txt, находящегося в корне сайта (то есть имеющего путь относительно имени сайта /robots.txt). Действие файла не распространяется на сайты, расположенные на поддоменах.

Следование стандарту добровольно. Стандарт был принят консорциумом W3C 30 января 1994 года в списке рассылки robots-request@nexor.co.uk и с тех пор используется большинством известных поисковых машин.

Файл robots.txt используется для частичного управления обходом сайта поисковыми роботами. Этот файл состоит из набора инструкций для поисковых машин, при помощи которых можно задать файлы, страницы или каталоги сайта, которые не должны запрашиваться.

Описание структуры
Файл состоит из записей. Записи разделяются одной или более пустых строк (признак конца строки: символы CR, CR+LF, LF). Каждая запись содержит непустые строки следующего вида:
 <поле>:<необязательный пробел><значение><необязательный пробел>
где поле — это либо User-agent, либо Disallow.

В директиве User-agent указываются роботы, которые должны следовать указанным инструкциям (например, User-agent: Yandex, User-agent: YandexBot, User-agent: *).

Сравнение производится методом простого поиска подстроки. Например, запись
 Disallow: /about</tt>
запретит доступ как к разделу http://example.com/about/, так и к файлу http://example.com/about.php, а запись
 Disallow: /about/
— только к разделу http://example.com/about/.

Файл может содержать комментарии — часть строки, начинающаяся с символа #.

Проверка синтаксиса
Неправильно составленный robots.txt может привести к отрицательным последствиям. Например, весь сайт может «выпасть» из поискового индекса.
Для проверки синтаксиса и структуры файла robots.txt существует ряд специализированных онлайн-служб:
 Яндекс.Вебмастер — Анализ robots.txt (выполняет проверку синтаксиса и разрешения для каждой отдельной страницы)
 Google Search Console – Инструмент проверки файла robots.txt (позволяет проверить разрешения для каждой отдельной страницы)

Примеры

Запрет доступа всех роботов ко всему сайту:

 User-agent: *
 Disallow: /

Запрет доступа определённого робота к каталогу /private/:

 User-agent: googlebot
 Disallow: /private/

Нестандартные директивы

Allow: имеет действие, обратное директиве Disallow — разрешает доступ к определенной части ресурса. Поддерживается всеми основными поисковиками. В следующем примере разрешается доступ к файлу photo.html, а доступ поисковиков ко всей остальной информации в каталоге /album1/ запрещается.
 Allow: /album1/photo.html
 Disallow: /album1/

Crawl-delay: устанавливает время, которое робот должен выдерживать между загрузкой страниц. Если робот будет загружать страницы слишком часто, это может создать излишнюю нагрузку на сервер. Впрочем, современные поисковые машины по умолчанию задают достаточную задержку в 1-2 секунды. На данный момент эта директива не учитывается Googlebot и YandexBot.
 User-agent: *
 Crawl-delay: 10

Sitemap: расположение файлов Sitemaps, которые могут показать, что именно нужно проиндексировать поисковому роботу.
 Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml

Расширенный стандарт

В 1996 году был предложен расширенный стандарт robots.txt, включающий такие директивы как Request-rate и Visit-time. Например:

 User-agent: *
 Disallow: /downloads/
 Request-rate: 1/5         # загружать не более одной страницы за пять секунд
 Visit-time: 0600-0845     # загружать страницы только в промежуток с 6 утра до 8:45 по Гринвичу.

См. также
 Noindex
 Favicon.ico
 Sitemaps

Примечания

Ссылки
 A Standard for Robot Exclusion
 robotstxt.org.ru — о файле robots.txt и роботах в Рунете по-русски
 О файлах robots.txt — справка Google
 Использование robots.txt — помощь Яндекса
 Использование robots.txt — помощь Mail.Ru

Поисковые системы

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Discover the Andes
by Selina Toplitsch
Salars (salt flats) are characteristic features of the Atacama Desert as well as of the Altiplano which is rather arid as well. The Salar de Atacama, with its area of approx. 3000 square kilometres, fills an endorheic basin west of the Altiplano. No continuous lake can form in this place due to the extreme aridity. Surface and subsurface inflow from the surrounding mountains allow some irrigated agriculture and the existence of settlements such as San Pedro de Atacama or Toconao near the margins of the salar. In total, the catchment area of the Salar de Atacama includes an area of approx. 15,000 square kilometres, where various types of salt are dissolved in flowing water, which are then transported into the salar and precipitate as the water evaporates. It is mainly the volcanic activity in the main range of the Andes which leads to the high diversity in minerals. The solids transported into the salar are deposited as well: the coarse and medium-grained material settles near the edge of the salar, whereas the fine material is transported all the way to the centre. This transition can be nicely seen when approaching one of the lagoons in the salar (such as Laguna Chaxa or Laguna Tebinquinche).
The Salar de Atacama: an endorheic basin
This 3D views allows you to observe the Salar the Atacama from different perspectives. Use the left mouse button for rotating the view, the mouse wheel for zooming, and the right mouse button for panning.
The Salar de Atacama fills a tectonic basin between the more than 4000 m high Cordillera Domeyko in the west and the main range of the Andes with its almost 6000 m high stratovolcanoes - such as the Licancabur - in the east. This landscape forms part of a large-scale system of tectonic horsts and grabens, oriented in north-south direction. It has developed through the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate, and the related compressive processes. The Salar de Atacama is located at 2300 m asl. and has a maximum depth of 1700 m. The Cordillera de la Sal, up to approx. 200 m high, runs through the western portion of the Salar de Atacama.
Visit the contribution on the Cordillera de la Sal and learn more about the evolution of the entire salar!
This scene was generated with the QGIS plugin Qgis2threejs and uses the following libraries: three.js http://threejs.org/ (LICENSE) and Proj4js http://trac.osgeo.org/proj4js/ (LICENSE). Background: Stamen Terrain.
The Salar de Atacama in numbers
First, try to estimate the components of water input to the salar. Write your estimates in millions of cubic metres into the corresponding text boxes in the graphics and note that the order of magnitude of the average annual precipitation in the area of the salar is approx. 10 mm.
Show solution
mill. m3/a
mm/a
And here is the next question: how many millimetres of the water column evaporate each year, if the entire amount of water remains constant, but 27 million cubic metres of the inflow are removed for the irrigation of crops? Round your result to the next 10 mm and write it into the corresponding field in the graphics.
Each year, the salar receives 30+52+90-27 = 145 million cubic metres of water. Related to the area of 3000 square kilometres, these are 0.05 cubic metres or 50 litres of water per square metre of the salar, corresponding to a water column of 50 mm. The interesting thing is, that - in case of sufficient availability - more than 2000 millimetres of water could evaporate each year. However, since there are only some small, isolated water surfaces, and the evaporation from the rest of the salar is limited, the real value is much lower.
Where does all the salt go to?
Each year, it is mainly the surface and subsurface inflows which bring approx. 300,000 tons of dissolved salt into the Salar de Atacama. The core of the salar consists of 90 per cent sodium chloride (NaCl). It precipitates through evaporation of the water.
Assume a density of 2 tons per cubic metre of salt and calculate:
By how many millimetres does the surface of the salar rise each year?
How old is the salar, if a constant salt input and an average depth of one kilometre is assumed?
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300.000 tons of salt with a density of 2 tons per cubic metre correspond to a volume of 150,000 cubic metres. Distributing this volume over the entire surface of 3000 square kilometres, this results in a growth rate of 0.05 millimetres each year.
In order to reach a depth of 1 km, the salar needs a time span of 20 million years with an annual growth rate of 0.05 millimetres. Even though this rough calculation is very much simplified, it enables us - similarly to the other calculations and estimates in this contribution - to imagine the orders of magnitude at which some of the key processes occur. In terms of the order of magnitude, the calculated age of the salar corresponds to the numbers obtained through geological archives.
What the surface can tell us
Click on the arrows or into the image to switch between views of the Salar de Atacama and the Salinas Grandes.
The Salinas Grandes del Noroeste are located in the border area between the provinces of Salta und Jujuy in Argentina - east of the main range of the Andes - in an endorheic basin of the Altiplano at approx. 3400 m asl. As it can be seen on the photographs, the surface structure of the Salinas Grandes differs quite much from the Salar de Atacama.
What could be the reason for this difference?
Depending on the amount of precipitation and the material, the surface of a salt flat may consist of broken salt or gypsum crusts, or show a smooth surface with polygon-shaped pattern of fissures. At these latitude, the eastern side of the Andes receives much more precipitation than the western side. The main reasons for this phenomenon are the missing influence of the cold Humboldt Current and the increased influence of humid air masses brought by the tradewinds. Therefore, the Salinas Grandes are frequently inundated and therefore levelled out, resulting in a relatively smooth surface.
Changes in the Salar de Atacama
Click on the arrows or into the figure to travel in time and to see the changes that have occurred since 1990.
What could happen here, in the southern part of the Salar de Atacama? What could be the reason for the observed changes?
The Salar de Atacama, the Salinas Grandes in Argentina, and the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia together form the so-called lithium triangle. According to estimates, approx. 70 per cent of the World's lithium can be found in these salt flats. Lithium is the lightest metal on Earth. Its importance has drastically increased with the invention of lithium batteries, which are both lighter and more durable than conventional nickel batteries.
Data base: Landsat | Band combinations 4-3-2 of Landsat 5 (1990, 2000, and 2010) and Landsat 8 (2018)
Investigate for which purposes lithium batteries can be used.
Which problems could the mining of lithium bear?
Lithium batteries are used for electric cars, cameras, laptops, mobile phones, and other types of devices.
Lithium mining in the Salar de Atacama has a direct impact on the water resources. The extraction of brine from the groundwater results in the lowering of the groundwater level and the salt fields. The reason for that is the deliberate steaming of the water in order to increase the lithium concentration in the basins, without measures to regain the water and to lead it back into the groundwater. Consequently, meadows and wetlands are susceptible to desiccation, posing a direct threat to these fragile habitats, the bird species there, and the pastures. Also the appearance of the lagoons may change drastically.
A further aspect are dust clouds, which are a result of the lithium mining, too. The dust includes high amounts of minerals, such as lithium carbonate, reaching some of the villages such as Socaire and Peine, pastures, and protected areas. This dust may result in health problems and pollutes soils and water.
Such as all types of mining, also lithium mining has some social consequences. On the one hand it generates labour, but on the other hand most of it consists of low-income jobs. Highly qualified jobs are often occupied by people from the capital city or from abroad.
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Jeane and John MacDonald, Jr.
Celebrating the lives of Jeane Macdonald (1931-2020) and John Macdonald Jr. (1929-2021) whose lives have been intertwined since shortly before their marriage in August of 1950.
Jean was born in Helena, Montana and received her education at Frazer Public Schools in Frazer, Montana. John was born in Poplar, Montana and received his education from Nashua Public Schools, in Nashua, Montana. John was enlisted in the Army Reserves in 1948 and was eventually called into active duty in Korea in 1950.
The couple married while John was serving in Korea, Jeane lived in Frazer with family while John was away. Upon returning from Korea they made their home in Frazer they were blessed with two daughters during this time. In 1955, the family moved to the area around Brigham City, Utah where they owned a fruit orchard. They raised cherries, peaches and apricots, and a few animals. While living in Utah they completed their family with the birth of their third daughter.
In the mid 1960's John and Jeane decided to move back to Poplar, Montana, where both were employed by the BIA. Eventually Jeane would go to work for Head Start. While living in Poplar the family would travel to the family farm in Wiota on the weekends to work the land and their cattle. In October of 1974, John and Jeane retired and went to work full-time on their farm and ranch, where they raised their beloved cattle, some sheep, a few pigs, a couple of chickens and a horse here and there. They worked side-by-side in their large garden and in their wheat fields. Jeane was an avid seamstress, making beautiful star quilts. She also sold eggs and chickens. John loved to be out in the field baling hay or alfalfa, he enjoyed reading and doing crossword puzzles in his down time.
John and Jean were most proud of their family and their accomplishments. They spent time following their children and grandchildren's sporting and musical events. They loved when family would visit and you could always find the cookie jar candy and the cupboard was always full for sweet treats.
John and Jean are preceded in death by their parents; siblings, and daughter Debra.
They are survived by their daughters: Roberta Derby Shire of Glasgow, Montana and Val (Doug) Grimes of Nashua, Montana; grandchildren and their families: Chuck (Steph) and their children Charlie, Hope, Alex and Anthony, Tennille (Jay) and their children Jessica, Jai Marie, Jordan, and great-great-granddaughter Karsyn, Kristie (Seth) and their children Kaleigh, Kaden, Camdyn, Jaycee and great-great-granddaughter Josie, John (Esther) and their children John Jr., Maria and Liam; special cousin, Julia; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Graveside service will be held Friday, January 28, 2022, 1:00 p.m. at Highland Cemetery.
Condolences can be left at bellmortuarymontana.com.
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COVID-19 Policing in Australia
Covid Policing Bi-weekly round up #10
As you may know, the COVIDpolicing website is a collaborative project but it's updates are largely posted by volunteers. As restrictions tightened in Victoria and concerns mounted for a 'second wave', like everyone we, too, have been overwhelmed with managing life in the pandemic. However, the need has not gone unnoticed—especially in a second wave and in the waves yet to come—for holding the use of power to account.
This site remains the only dedicated and independent opportunity for Australians to report specifically on COVIDpolicing.
This roundup seeks to address the gap since our last post and set up our return to regular fortnightly updates. Special thanks goes out to Ed, Dylan, the Grata Fund and Melbourne Activist Legal Support for pulling this roundup together.
You may notice that our incoming reports and summaries of media reports are heavily skewed on Victoria. This is because Victoria has the strictest COVID-19 restrictions in place – meaning that we are not receiving many, if any, reports from the public outside of Victoria and there is comparatively less media reporting on police powers and enforcement in other states.
Think we have missed something or want to let us know what's happening in your area? Wherever you live, you can bring something to our attention through our online reporting tool.
Summary of COVIDpolicing reports
All reports received have been from people in Victoria.
A person was stopped by police while driving 5km outside of their home to a place to exercise. They were accompanied by their housemate, and someone from another household. One of the police officers stated that he was not going to fine them. However, the other police officer came back and issued each of the individuals with a fine of $1,650.00, saying that there was no leniency despite what the other police officer had stated.
A young person wrote in after they and their partner both received fines after leaving the house to get takeaway food then going for a walk along the beach near their house. The writer reported feeling intimidated, wrong-done by and targeted by the officers.
Two parents with small children wrote in after they were out for walking in their regional Victorian town. They were approached by police who asked for their IDs. Knowing that there is no law in Victoria that requires people to carry IDs with them, the writer questioned the police on this. They were told by different officers that she should be carrying ID while walking and that they could have been fined as it was a 'grey area'. The writer reported the police response to who queries as seeming annoyed, rude and dismissive.
Another person was stopped by PSOs for not wearing their face mask properly. Their details were taken down and they were advised that they might receive a fine in the mail.
A healthcare worker and their partner went for a night-time bike ride to get some air and clear their head after returning from a late shift. A police car drove up and along side them until their bike riders' passage was blocked. The police officer remained in the car and did not turn the engine off – making it difficult for the writer who is partially deaf to hear what the officer was saying. The officer asked for their name and the write questioned why they wanted it. The writer reports that the officer said "you're out at 3 in the morning – anyone gets stopped if they are out at this hour." After providing their names and addresses the bike riders were allowed to continue on their way, however the police car drove past them two more times and they reported feeling frightened and upset.
One report was from a person who is a carer for their friend being treated for cancer. The friend had asked the reportee to go for a walk with her. The reportee was fined while on this walk for being too far from her home.
We received a report of a young person going for a run and bumping into a friend outside a service station on their way home. They stopped briefly for a chat, maintain social distancing, and both we fined by a passing officer.
One report was from a person who had left their house after having an argument with their partner and both people needed some space. On their return home they were stopped by police and later received a fine in the mail. Another report was also received from someone who has left home to escape violence and was fined for COVID related breaches.
One person was fined for driving to a park to go for a walk with their intimate partner although it was within 5km of their home and that the person has a disability which means they cannot walk to the park.
Another was fined for travelling outside the 5km radius to see their intimate partner despite this being allowed.
One person was fined for having two people in their home when they were not aware that the rules had changed and this was not allowed.
Parents were issued fines for breaching gathering restrictions after they allowed their childrens' friends inside to get dry and wait for their parents to pick them up after getting wet in the rain.
A person was walking home from work without a mask and was approached by two police officers, who asked them where they were going and why they were not wearing a mask. They told the police officers that they were on their way home from work and forgot to put a mask on. One of the officers offered them a mask, which they put on. The person was also asked where their work was and how it was going, and whether they were coping with the pandemic situation. The person also received a spare mask from the officers.
Reports from media articles
A Parliamentary Inquiry has found that the three most disadvantaged local government areas received disproportionately more COVID-19 related fines. According to the Inquiry: 'Residents in the Central Goldfields Shire and the cities of Greater Dandenong and Brimbank were handed a combined 529 fines by police over the first two months of restrictions, according to an interim report assessing the state government's response to the pandemic.'
On 10 August 2020, a woman was choked by a Victoria Police officer for allegedly not wearing a mask. The video depicts a male officer holding the woman by the throat and then maneuvering her the ground and sitting on her torso. The woman was arrested for not wearing a mask and for failing to provide identification.
On 3 September 2020, an indigenous man was racially abused, assaulted and tackled whilst riding his bike to work at 5.30am. Police say the man failed to stop when asked for a permit check.
Additionally, other reports of harsh police enforcement include a heavily pregnant woman being told she was not allowed to rest during her hour of exercise.
A person with cerebral palsy was ordered by Victoria Police to 'move on' after seeking to rest at a park bench. Unfortunately reports of people with illnesses or physical disabilities being fined or ordered to move on for taking a rest while walking is not new to our site or our project partners.
Early in September 2020, Police CCTV mobile surveillance units have been spotted in locations across Melbourne. One mobile surveillance unit was spotted in Prahan. For further discussion about mobile surveillance see link.
On 13 September 2020, a man experiencing a mental health episode was arrested and significantly injured by police. Videos posted on social media show police knocking him down with their vehicle and stomping on the man's head. The man was hospitalised and was in a coma for approximately 19 hours. It is unclear whether COVID-19 breaches were a reason for being approached by police in the first instance.
Also on 13 September 2020, a video shows a Wallan woman being dragged from her car after allegedly refusing to provide her details to the Police. She was charged amongst other things for assaulting the police and resisting arrest. For more details about the incident see link.
In Victoria
Change in Restrictions
From 19 July 2020, the Victorian Government extended the State of Emergency until 2 September 2020, and on 20 July 2020, re-introduced Stage 3 Stay at Home Directions for Metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire – due to growing numbers of COVID-19 cases.
On 23 July 2020, face coverings were made mandatory for all persons living in Metro Melbourne and Mitchell Shire. On 30 July 2020, the requirement to wear a face covering was made mandatory for all of Victoria.
From August 2020, Metropolitan Melbourne has been in a tough Stage 4 lockdown. These Stage 4 restrictions began on Sunday the 2 August 2020 with a 'State of Disaster' being declared and a mandatory 8pm-5am curfew with only 4 exemptions to leave your residence. Residents had to remain within 5km of their homes for exercising and shopping, with public outings with a maximum of 2 and only one person per household shopping per day. Partners in relationship were able to visit each other at their homes however residents were exempted from this leaving many singles feeling alone and isolated due to lack of social contact. Exercise was capped at 1 hour per day and within 5km of residence. Victoria Police were given more powers to enforce public health directions, especially for those who were not self-isolating.
A 'State of Disaster' was declared under the Emergency Management Act 1986 (Vic). This is only the second time the emergency powers under this Act have been invoked, following their use during the January 2020 bushfires. The declaration gives the Minister for Police responsibility for directing and coordinating the activities of all government agencies. The Minister's directions prevail over anything contrary to state laws. This includes the power to suspend the operation of part or the whole of any Victorian Act or legislative instrument.
Along with these restrictions, Stage 4 came with changes to previously 'essential' work places. Certain industries that were previously deemed essential now forced to shut or scale back to 60% production. Retail stores such as Kmart and Officeworks were forced to shut and made to move to click and collect or delivery only whilst Industries such as meat production were to operate at 80% capacity, however this varied from industry to industry. Restaurants and cafés were still subject to take away restrictions whilst the whole beauty industry remained closed with hairdressers and dog groomers forced to shut.
On 6 September, Andrews announced an extension of the Stage 4 lock down and on 13 of September the curfew to changed to 9pm-5am.
On 12 September 2020, Daniel Andrews announced a 'Road Map' for Melbourne and Regional Victoria's transition out of Stage 3 and Stage 4 Restrictions.
On 26 September 2020, Jenny Mikakos, Health Minister, resigned after being singled out by Daniel Andrews during Victorian COVID-19 inquiry as responsible for private security firm decision.
On 27 September 2020, Daniel Andrews announces slight easing of restrictions. The changes that took place from 11:59pm on 27 September notably included:
The lifting of the curfew from 5am on Monday 28 September
The introduction of a fine amounting to $5,000 for unlawful indoor or outdoor gatherings.
People will now be required to wear a fitted facemask, which covers both the mouth and nose. Bandannas and scarves will no longer be allowed – nor will face shields by themselves.
All primary school, VCE/VCAL and specialist school students returning to face-to-face learning from 12 October;
elective surgery to return to 75 per cent of its pre-pandemic level
This announcement also a promised another review of restrictions on the 19/10 instead of 28/10 as previously outlined by the roadmap. More information on the road map is here.
However, people are still only permitted to exercise and remain within 5km of their home for a 2-hour period. This exercise rule has somewhat extended to now include exercising within 5km of an individual's place of work. People wishing to do this however must carry their workers permit with them.
Policing of Protest
For COVIDpolicing partner Melbourne Activist Legal's statement on the compatibility of public health and protest see here. For further discussion of COVID-safe protest see here.
On 2 September 2020, a pregnant woman was arrested in her home in Ballarat. The Police charged the woman with incitement for organising an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook. This resulted in widespread condemnation of Victoria Police as the woman was arrested in front of her children.
On 5 September 2020, anti-lockdown protesters held a 'Freedom Day' protest in Melbourne and across Australia. Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne and walked to Albert Park Lake. According to the ABC, a Police Statement said that Victoria Police officers arrested 17 people, including one person who was arrested for assaulting a police officer, and 160 fines were issued for breach of directions.
On 12 and 13 September 2020, anti-lockdown protesters held further 'Freedom Marches' on Saturday and Sunday at Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne. On Sunday, the protesters were met with a heavy police presence, including riot police and mounted police. According to the ABC, scuffles broke out as arrests were made and a police officer was filmed placing their knee near the neck of one demonstrator as other officers handcuffed him. On Saturday, Victoria Police arrested 14 people and issued 50 fines and on Sunday, 74 people were arrested and 176 fined. Videos and images show Victoria Police surrounding/encircling protesters near Queen Victoria Market and chasing protesters.
On 19 September 2020, approximately 100 anti-lockdown protesters held a protest at the State Library in Melbourne and then later moved to a park in Elwood. The protesters marched along the road and were dispersed by mounted police. According to the ABC, 16 protesters were arrested for breaching directions.
Concern over policing
Following the introduction of Stage 4 Restrictions in Melbourne, data revealed on 3 September 2020, shows that from 4 August 2020, Victoria police have issued 1,762 fines for people being outside their homes between the hours of 8:00pm and 5:00am.
An article from the Guardian on 28 September found that Aboriginal and Sudanese people were overrepresented in the fines received in Victoria during its first lockdown period from March to June.
Currently, the Victorian Upper House of Parliament is debating a proposed new bill (the Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill 2020) to increase police powers, which provides more government employees with the power to enforce public health directions and to arrest people for breaching restrictions. According to the Guardian, this includes broader powers to detain people who refuse to self-isolate.
The proposed law also originally contained provisions that authorise preemptive detention for people who are 'likely to refuse or fail to comply with the direction'. On 24 September, Human Rights Watch condemned the measures taken by the Victorian Police Force during the lockdown and stated that the proposed COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2020 to further increase police powers should be rejected. An amended omnibus bill will be introduced to the upper house next week. Importantly, the preemptive detention provision was removed which would have allowed for authorised officers to detain people on the basis of suspicion.For more information, see here.
Recently, a group of retired judges, barristers and the Victorian Bar wrote two letters to the Andrews government about their concern about the proposed laws curtailment of human rights, specifically in relation to the extension of arbitrary detention powers.
Concerningly, some prisoners have been forced to be in their cell for 24 hours a day prompting grants of 'emergency management days' allowing eligible prisoners to have days taken off their prison sentence: for each day a prisoner is under harsh lock-down restrictions, one day will come off their sentence, creating a combined total of 487 years taken off due to the harsh prison lock down restrictions.
In New South Wales
On 25 August 2020, NSW Parliament updated the Public Health (COVID-19 Restrictions on Gathering and Movement) Order (No 4) 2020. This Restriction contains a direction that people cannot gather outdoors in groups exceeding 20 people.
On 24 September, the easing of a number of restrictions was announced. These included changes relating to schools, sport and recreation, and weddings. Most notably, more than one parent may attend a community sporting activity if physical distancing can be maintained between people that are not from the same household. Outlines of additional changes can be found here.
Concern overpolicing
It was reported on 27 September by the Sydney Morning Herald that, '(y)oung men from poor suburbs and towns with high Aboriginal or immigrant populations were more likely to be fined for breaking the lockdown rules designed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic'. This was found in light of the details obtained by the Sun-Herald of the 1427 fines and charges that were issued for breaking the public health order from 17 March to 28 June in NSW.
Policing Protest
On 28 July 2020, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters held a march at Sydney's Domain. NSW Police told the protesters to disperse and six protesters were arrested, including an organiser. The rally was ruled as unlawful and upheld on appeal by the Supreme Court for breaching public health directions.
On 5 September 2020, anti-lockdown protesters held solidarity actions for Melbourne's Freedom Day march. Protesters gathered at Olympic, Cathy Freeman Park and Hyde Park, and were met by mounted police. According to the ABC, approximately 5 people were arrested and 76 people were issued with fines (in total).
On 16 September 2020, students at University of Sydney staged a protest in response to job and funding cuts, and course increases. The students were physically distanced. The protest was found to be unlawful for exceeding the maximum number of 20 in a group – on the basis that that the protesters had a 'common purpose'. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, student observers estimated that 10 to 15 students were each fined $1000 for public order offences and one was arrested.
On 23 September 2020, approximately 200 students and staff at the University of Sydney protested over cuts to funding and course hikes. The protest involved 'teach-in', sit-ins and a march across Sydney's CBD. Again, this was deemed an unlawful gathering as the numbers exceeded 20 people. Despite being socially distanced, the protesters were chased by riot and mounted police. According to the SMH, Police issued 21 penalty infringement notices following the protest, fining the students $1000 each.
In Queensland
On September 11, one person was denied permission from hotel quarantine to go to her father's funeral in Queensland. They had come from Canberra where there had been no new cases of Coronavirus for 61 days. After repeated appeals, they were allowed to see their father's body. They were to be dressed head to toe in full PPE and was to be isolated from others who attended the funeral. The morning of the funereal, Prime minister Scott Morrison called Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk pleading with her to grant an exemption and to discuss Queensland's tough boarder restrictions. However, Palaszczuk responded to the Prime minister that she would not tolerate this bullying from him.
On 25 September 2020, the ACT was no longer considered a COVID-19 hotspot, which means that travelers arriving from the ACT are no longer required to quarantine when arriving. From 1 October, a number of changes to restrictions in Queensland took place. Notably, one person per two square meters is allowed in an outdoor public space. In addition, the Queensland-NSW border bubble was extended to include Byron Bay, Lismore, Richmond Valley, Glen Innes and Ballina local government areas.
On 28 September, three women faced court having been accused of fraud and providing a false or misleading border document in July. Three men from Logan also faced court accused of falsifying border documents around the same time. The charge for fraud carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment, and the provision of false or misleading documents has a maximum fine of $13,345. The matters are due to return to the courts mid-to-late October.
In South Australia
From 24 September, residents travelling from New South Wales were allowed to enter the state without having to undergo quarantine – provided they have not visited Victoria within the 14 days prior to their arrival. On 7 October, the buffer zone with Victoria was extended from 40 kilometers to 70 kilometers.
In the Northern Territory
From 9 October, travelers from Greater Sydney will no longer need to undertake a 14-day supervised quarantine, provided case numbers in Sydney remain low.
In Tasmania
The Tasmania Government has stated that it will consider easing border restrictions by the end of October.
In Western Australia
Strict border restrictions remain in place. A man from South Australia received a $7,500 fine and was fitted with an electronic monitoring device on 26 September after entering the state without having received an exemption. When security powers were first expanded in Western Australia, civil liberties groups expressed concern that such powers would remain in place once the emergency was over.
In the Australian Capital Territory
Restrictions are continuing to ease in the ACT. From October 9 the Act moves to Stage 3 (step 3.2) allowing:
Up to 200 people gatherings;
Hospitality venues with 100-200 sqm can have up to 50 customers;
Cinemas open to 50% capacity; and
Large venues with permanent seating can open to a 50% capacity (not exceeding 1,000 people).
Have you been stopped by police or had any interaction with police regarding COVID?
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This collaborative project aims to document incidents, reports, and examples from members of the public concerning COVID-19 policing, for use in monitoring and reporting, as well as legal advocacy and accountability. It is run by a group of legal and human rights advocacy organisations, backed up by a network of policing academics with a coordinator in each state.


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White River Clinic Celebrate "Baby Star of The Year"
Tuesday, 25 September 2007 15:41 PM
The White River Clinic celebrated their "Baby Star of the Year" early this morning at the premises.
Head of Nurse, Mrs. Emily Biliki, said the idea of having such celebration was thought of as a way of encouraging mothers to take their babies for routine check-ups at the clinic.
"The idea of having this type of celebration has been in mind since July 18th 2006, and we've created a children's corner for such occasion," she told Solomon Times.
In a speech during the celebration, a Community Health worker from the Health Division, Ms. Sirine Aonima, said that the Solomon Islands National Policy on Disability was launched in 2005 by the Solomon Islands Government, and support has been given to the "Baby Star of the Year" event.
She said that the purpose of the policy is to break down barriers associated with disabilities, and encourage people with disabilities to be fully, and actively, involved in community life.
Ms. Aonima acknowledged White River for leading the way to a successful program, giving credit to the staff for enthusiastically taking responsibility in encouraging regular attendance at the Children Welfare Clinic (CWC).
She said that the Health Division was delighted to be able to support and assist with the program and celebrations.
A White River resident, present to witness the event, Mrs. Faye Ramosaea said that the Baby Star of the Year celebration that took place today was the first of its kind in the Solomon Islands.
Mrs. Ramosaea said that support from the national government and provincial government would be helpful to build such an activity "because our children's health is a number one priority and very important."
She thanked the nurses and stuff of the clinic for making the celebration a success.


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Wednesday : The Little one was a pest going to bed this evening. So we had a quick/light/late dinner of steak wraps and salad.
Thursday : Working on my projectlife album from last week.
Friday : A few errands to run today - including getting finished touches for a fancy dress outfits for tomorrow, buying birthday presents. Also had lunch with these two lovely ladies and in the evening went out for a birthday meal for a curry with some friends.
Saturday : We had a 2nd birthday party during the day at a jungle gym, then in the evening me and the hubby went to a surprise 30th birthday for a close friend. It was superhero fancy dress theme. K went as Blade and I opted for the cheerleader from heroes. It was a good night.


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