By Danielle Kutchel
Police were out in force over the Australia Day weekend as thousands of Victorians flocked to regional areas to soak up the summer sun.
Operation Amity ran from midnight on Friday 22 January until 11.59 on Tuesday 26 January, with a focus on impaired driving, speeding, fatigue and mobile phone use while driving.
According to Victoria Police, regional Victoria is a high risk for road trauma due to increased speeds in regional areas, longer distances travelled by drivers and the influx of other road users.
Operation Amity involved all available personnel from local road policing units to general duties and centralised support from other operational policing units.
January 26, 2021
Ian Owens, a distinguished evolutionary biologist and currently the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s deputy director, has been named the next executive director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Owens will take the helm of the 106-year-old institution on July 1. He will also hold an appointment as professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).
Ian Owens
Owens will succeed John Fitzpatrick, who has led the Cornell Lab since 1995.
Originally from Yorkshire, England, Owens has previously been director at the Natural History Museum in London and a professor at Imperial College London.
John Fitzpatrick, Manchester United stalwart of the 1960s and 1970s – obituary
Initially a squad player, he established himself at full-back but was forced by injury into retirement aged only 26
John Fitzpatrick in 1969
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John Fitzpatrick, who has died aged 74, was a versatile footballer for Manchester United; he eventually became a dependable full-back towards the end of the Matt Busby era and into the uncharted waters of life without the great manager at the helm.
He was born in Aberdeen on August 18 1946, and played for a local youth side, Thistle Lads’ Club. He was spotted by scouts from Manchester United in 1961, and signed as an apprentice the following year.
John Fitzpatrick has weathered multiple crises in his more than three-decade career in the hotel industry. He opened his first hotel in New York City during the Gulf War and owned three by the time 9/11 happened.
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John Fitzpatrick has weathered multiple crises in his more than three-decade career in the hotel industry. He opened his first hotel in New York City during the Gulf War and owned three by the time 9/11 happened.
But COVID-19âs impact on his lifeâs work has been unlike anything else.
âThe difference between 9/11 and this is that after 9/11, the rest of the world circled around New York,â he said. âBut now, no matter where you look, they re dealing with the same problem.â