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Interesting, but given it's Atlanta, how long before a "youth" in a hoodie, mask and baseball-bat makes this a new knock-out sport? APD will have a low-pri on dispatch calls for "assault on a robot".
[NYP] A homeless ex-con rescued a lost child he spotted wandering through the streets of Miami late Wednesday night — earning him high praise from officers, who warned there was no telling "what would have happened" to the boy if he hadn’t stepped up.
Arnett Johnson has slept on the same bench in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood since he was released from prison six months ago.
On Wednesday, Johnson was stunned to see a young boy walking around on his own just before midnight, according to Local10.
Johnson, having witnessed just about every brand of bizarre while living on the streets, was grateful to be in the right place at the right time, chalking it up to divine intervention.
"God sent me there. I had to do what God say to do," he told the local outlet.
[NYPost] Los Angeles County health officials have issued a blanket “Ocean Water Quality Rain Advisory” for every single beach in the county, warning residents and tourists alike that the water is currently a bacterial breeding ground.
The Department of Public Health dropped the hammer on Sunday, cautioning the recent rainfall has turned the coastline into a drainage basin for the city’s grime.
According to officials, the runoff from streets and mountains carries everything from trash and fertilizers to animal waste and human pathogens directly into the surf.
“Bacteria levels may remain elevated up to 3 days depending upon the intensity of the rain and the volume of runoff,” the department said in a statement. “Elevated bacteria levels in ocean water may cause illness, especially in children and the elderly.”
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The biggest problem being, when you get out of the water, you're in California.
Don't expect it to improve from there.
Snark O'The Day
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Los Angeles County health officials have issued a blanket “Ocean Water Quality Rain Advisory” for every single beach in the county, warning residents and tourists alike that the water is currently a bacterial breeding ground.
So what they're saying is that bacterial breeding ground has moved from LA County to the ocean.
[Reuters] Australia on Monday said a woman would lead its army for the first time in history, as part of a reshuffle of the country's defence force leadership.
Lieutenant General Susan Coyle, the current chief of joint capabilities, will become chief of army in July, the government said in a statement. She will replace Lieutenant General Simon Stuart.
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Coyle's appointment comes as Australia's military seeks to boost the number of female officers in its ranks. It faces a wave of allegations of systematic sexual harassment and discrimination.
"From July, we will have the first ever female chief of army in the Australian Army's 125-year history," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement.
Defence Minister Richard Marles called Coyle's appointment a "deeply historic moment."
"As Susan said to me, you cannot be what you cannot see," he said.
"Susan's achievement will be deeply significant to women who are serving in the Australian Defence Force today and women who are thinking about serving in the Australian Defence Force in the future."
Coyle, 55, enlisted in the military in 1987 and has held a number of senior command roles. She will be the first woman to lead any service branch of the military, Marles said.
Women currently make up around 21% of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and 18.5% of senior leadership roles. The ADF has set a target of 25% of overall participation for women by 2030.
Last October, a class action lawsuit was filed against the ADF alleging it failed to protect thousands of female officers from systematic sexual assault, harassment and discrimination.
The government on Monday also appointed Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, the current chief of the navy, as the head of the ADF, succeeding Admiral David Johnston.
The current deputy chief of navy, Rear Admiral Matthew Buckley, will replace Hammond as head of the branch.
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Give me the cleverest and fiercest, regardless of personal equipment or any other superficial characteristic. Promoting on the basis of it instead — that’s suicidally stupid. That’s how Rome fell and Britain lost America… and then the rest of the empire.
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#1 - Mercutio - I think that was the Kiwi NZ Navy Fem Captain
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Who was an English LCard holder, sent straight to the big swivel chair on the bridge. “ no way there’s an uncharted coral reef off this coral atoll” …CRUNCH!!!!”
[BBC] A simple row of spruce trees marked the finish line for Canadian army reservists and combat members after a marathon two months pushing through one of the harshest environments on Earth: Canada's vast Arctic.
The patrol, which ended on Friday in Churchill, Manitoba, was the largest northern mission in the history of the Canadian Rangers - a branch of the Canadian Armed Forces responsible for monitoring the country's remote regions. For 5,200km (3,200 miles), they moved across the Arctic, following a route that had not been attempted in 80 years.
They drove snowmobiles across ice-covered terrain, navigating blizzards and high winds as they travelled for hours between remote northern communities. Some nights, they camped on the ice in tents as temperatures plunged to -60C (-76F).
On the final night, on the frozen shores of the Hudson Bay, they set up camp next to an abandoned trading post as the ice crackled beneath them while the northern lights danced above.
There were constant hazards to be wary of, from polar bears to frostbite and cold-weather dehydration.
The patrol is part of an annual Canadian Armed Forces operation to showcase Canada's military presence in the north.
A total of 1,300 military personnel took part this year, with a mission to survey the land, learn more about climate change, unlock new travel passageways and test Arctic survival and warfare capabilities in a region that accounts for 40% of Canada's landmass and 70% of its coastline.
The mission has taken on increased relevance amid the geopolitical scramble for the Arctic's resources as the climate changes. And it comes after US President Donald Trump threatened in January to annex Greenland, a Danish Arctic territory neighbouring Canada, ramping up tensions between Nato allies.
These statements were met with alarm by politicians from across Europe and Canada, and led to a scramble by Nato members to show that they are still focused on defending the Arctic.
It did? Good.
Mark Carney, who was born in the Northwest Territories and is the first Canadian prime minister from the north, has unveiled a multi-billion dollar defence plan that includes upgrades to existing northern military sites.
Can Canada afford such things, with all the nonsense already in the budget?
But despite recent tensions, Trump's remarks have had "zero effect" on how Canadian forces and their allies work together, said Brig Gen Daniel Rivière, commander of the army task force responsible for Operation Nanook-Nunalivut.
[IsraelTimes] Over a quarter are older than 90, two-thirds are women; world Jewish population has still not recovered to numbers it had in 1933, according to Central Bureau of Statistics.
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Living in Israel since shortly after Independence Day 1948, Besoeker, when the gates of the European DP camps — the same camps that the Nazis had built to be concentration camps, mostly, just with better food, fewer lice, and no work gangs — finally opened to let them out. Before that they could leave, of course, except that nowhere in the world was willing to accept them.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
