June 1, 2020 Night

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Good evening! First day of June 1st done. Partly cloudy and 57 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃.

Starting to get a bit chilly out back but I watched some YouTube videos I downloaded today at the library on the laptop 💻 out back under the very starry skies and moon light. Kind of a nice evening but getting chilly. Saw one or two fireflies earlier but there time now. Also heard an owl. Been out back for almost three hours now.

Busy day at work so I didn’t get much time to work on the blog. 📝 Just a lot of emails and projects to do through the day. I did go for both a morning and a evening walk around the super block today. 🚶 Didn’t make it out to Five Rivers today, too busy and it got cloudy out by afternoon.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 48 degrees at 5am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 20th. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 49 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1971.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 83% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the south (185°) at an altitude of 43° from the horizon, some 226,421 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by November 20th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Strawberry 🍓 Moon is on Friday, June 5. The darkest hour is at 12:54 am, followed by dawn at 4:47 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:21 am in the east-northeast (59°) and last for 3 minutes and 24 seconds. Sunrise is 28 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:03 am with sun in the east-northeast (65°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 52 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 12 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 71 degrees at 2pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 22nd. Maximum dew point of 50 at 6pm. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 76 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1895.

Tomorrow I need to decide on my weekend plans – if I decide to go north ⛺ I have to pack Wednesday and leave by 6:15 am to be ready to go and clock in at Spectulator by nine and get down to work. I’ll probably work at the library Wi-Fi and my phone an set up camp after work at Five. I’ll bring extra clothes and food this time in case I move to another campsite Sunday night and stay up north even longer than planned.

In four weeks on June 29 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (303°) at 8:37 pm,🌄 which is 10 minutes and 24 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 87 and 70 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 81 and 60 degrees. The record high of 96 degrees was set back in 1944.

Looking ahead, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 3 weeks.

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Taken on Thursday June 16, 2016

‘I am your president of law and order’ – POLITICO

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‘I am your president of law and order’ – POLITICO

it was powerful, and it was necessary.” — Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), to Fox News, when asked for his thoughts on Trump’s remarks

PROTESTS AND THE PANDEMIC

MANY CRISES, OR JUST ONE? — In just a few short months, the pandemic has killed more than 100,000 Americans and thrown more than 40 million Americans out of a job. It’s not a step too far to say that it’s also driving the massive civil unrest across the country. Are we looking at multiple crises, or just one — the pandemic — with many faces?

The videotaped killing of George Floyd set off the waves of protest that have continued into this week. This is not the first time that protests have erupted over police brutality. But Covid-19 created the environment that made these protests widespread and powerful. People are out of work, frustrated with stay-at-home restrictions, juggling child care with their jobs, getting sick or fearful of getting sick, experiencing the death of loved ones without being able to mourn. Floyd’s death came when people were suffering from a social disruption unlike any in memory.

Minorities have been harder hit by that disruption. Before the virus, they were already more likely to be incarcerated or homeless; less likely to have health insurance, job security and paid sick leave. Now they are more likely to get sick and die from Covid, more likely to lose their job and more likely to be arrested for violating virus-related restrictions. Black Americans have suffered a quarter of deaths but account for 13 percent of the population in the 40 states releasing data on race, according to APM Research Lab.

Protestors are upset about more than George Floyd. When the pandemic hit, people were told to go home and stay home. But low-income Americans, who are disproportionately racial minorities, didn’t have savings to buy $400 worth of diapers and toilet paper and hand sanitizer to keep them stocked up for weeks, said Natalia Linos, a social epidemiologist and director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. Many low-income workers still had to go to their jobs in grocery stores or meat-packing plants or in nursing homes — and use public transit to get there. In some instances, Linos said, the police forcibly pulled people off of buses for not wearing a mask, rather than handing out masks.

“They are protesting George Floyd’s death primarily,” said Douglas Flowe, an assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York. “His death is representative of all these other issues. They are also protesting the momentary exacerbation of age-old problems.”

De-escalation Keeps Protesters And Police Safer. Departments Respond With Force Anyway. | FiveThirtyEight

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De-escalation Keeps Protesters And Police Safer. Departments Respond With Force Anyway. | FiveThirtyEight

Instead, it’s become normal in the U.S. for police departments to revert to tactics that amplify tensions and provoke protesters, Maguire said, including wearing intimidating tactical gear before its use would be warranted. Maguire does training for police officers and has tried, for years, to get buy-in on the idea that there could be a different way. “I have good relationships with police and I’ve been working with them for 25 years, and I’ve never experienced pushback like I do on this,” Maguire said.