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Breakfast Tune: Sweet Sunny South – Jerry Garcia & David Grisman – Warfield Theater, SF 2-2-1991 set1-08
LoloYodel Published on Apr 28, 2012
Jerry Garcia, David Grisman
Today in History
Published on Aug 8, 2014
The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan; President Richard Nixon resigns; Charles Manson cult murders actress Sharon Tate and four others; Singer Whitney Houston born; Musician Jerry Garcia dies. (Aug. 9)
Something to Think about, Breakfast News & Blogs Below
Toxic sludge spilled from mine into Colorado river reaches New Mexico
Associated Press
A toxic and orange-brown sludge spilling from a shuttered gold mine into a south-western Colorado river has reached northern New Mexico.
San Juan County emergency management director Don Cooper said the plume arrived in the city of Aztec on Friday night and Farmington on Saturday morning. Officials in both cities shut down the river’s access to water treatment plants and said the communities had a 90-day supply of water and other water sources to draw from.
On Friday, San Juan County undersheriff Stephen Lowrance said: “It’s awful, it’s awful. It’s [a] horrible, horrible accident. Of the water, Lowrance said: “You wouldn’t want to drink it – that’s for sure.” …
Deadly typhoon Soudelor slams into Taiwan
Al Jazeera and agencies
Typhoon Soudelor has battered Taiwan with fierce winds and rain, leaving six people dead and a trail of devastation as continues its path towards mainland China.
After making landfall on the east coast in the early hours of Saturday morning, it swept across central Taiwan ripping up trees, snapping wind turbines and triggering a landslide in one remote village in the northern region of Taoyuan.
“Flash mudslides surged into the village. About 10 of the homes were half buried but people were evacuated last night and are in safe shelters,” a spokesman for Taoyuan fire agency told the AFP news agency. …
Japan remembers those killed by Nagasaki bomb
Al Jazeera And AFP
Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed tens of thousands of lives in one of the final chapters of World War II.
Memorial services were held on Sunday in the now bustling port city, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy in attendance.
Bells tolled as ageing survivors, the relatives of victims and others remembered the devastating blast at 11:02am local time (02:02 GMT) on August 9, 1945. …
Typhoon Soudelor moves to China
bbc
A powerful typhoon has brought chaos to parts of south-eastern China, with thousands evacuated and millions of homes left without power.
Typhoon Soudelor struck the south-east of the country in the Fujian province late on Saturday night, bringing rains and gale force winds. The tropical storm has already swept across island nation Taiwan, off the coast of China.
It ripped up trees and tore down billboards triggering a landslide in at least one village. About two million households were left without electricity and at least five people are thought to have died. Rail services and flights have been cancelled and all schools and offices are closed. …
FBI to investigate police shooting of black American football player Christian Taylor
Associated Press
The FBI will participate in the investigation into the death of an unarmed black Texas college football player who was fatally shot by a white officer during a burglary call at a car dealership.
During a news conference on Saturday night, Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said a special FBI agent in charge of the Dallas field office would take part in the investigation.
He stressed it “in no way diminishes my confidence” in local officers to conduct the investigation.
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac:
Bounty hunter arrested after mistaking Phoenix police chief for target
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A bounty hunter was arrested after gathering a posse and mistakenly trying to raid the home of Phoenix’s chief of police, officials said on Wednesday.
Brent Farley, 43, and 10 others surrounded Chief Joseph Yahner’s home around 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, thinking they were cornering an Oklahoma fugitive wanted on a drug charge, the department said in a statement.
Police said the bounty hunters were told they had the wrong address and were asked to leave numerous times.
The department said Farley, who confronted the chief after banging on the door and demanding he come outside, was carrying a handgun at the time, as were several others.
A video of the incident provided by police showed Chief Yahner, clad only in his underwear, stepping outside his home with a baton in his hand and approaching the bounty hunters. Phoenix police spokesman Trent Crump said there was no physical altercation.
Crump said eight of the individuals were men and the three others were women, including a relative of one of the men who was riding along and an 11-year-old girl who was wearing a toy gun belt. …
Breakfast Quote
I’m shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
Jerry Garcia
Toxic sludge spilled from mine into Colorado river reaches New Mexico
Associated Press
A toxic and orange-brown sludge spilling from a shuttered gold mine into a south-western Colorado river has reached northern New Mexico.
San Juan County emergency management director Don Cooper said the plume arrived in the city of Aztec on Friday night and Farmington on Saturday morning. Officials in both cities shut down the river’s access to water treatment plants and said the communities had a 90-day supply of water and other water sources to draw from.
On Friday, San Juan County undersheriff Stephen Lowrance said: “It’s awful, it’s awful. It’s [a] horrible, horrible accident. Of the water, Lowrance said: “You wouldn’t want to drink it – that’s for sure.” …
Deadly typhoon Soudelor slams into Taiwan
Al Jazeera and agencies
Typhoon Soudelor has battered Taiwan with fierce winds and rain, leaving six people dead and a trail of devastation as continues its path towards mainland China.
After making landfall on the east coast in the early hours of Saturday morning, it swept across central Taiwan ripping up trees, snapping wind turbines and triggering a landslide in one remote village in the northern region of Taoyuan.
“Flash mudslides surged into the village. About 10 of the homes were half buried but people were evacuated last night and are in safe shelters,” a spokesman for Taoyuan fire agency told the AFP news agency. …
Japan remembers those killed by Nagasaki bomb
Al Jazeera And AFP
Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed tens of thousands of lives in one of the final chapters of World War II.
Memorial services were held on Sunday in the now bustling port city, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy in attendance.
Bells tolled as ageing survivors, the relatives of victims and others remembered the devastating blast at 11:02am local time (02:02 GMT) on August 9, 1945. …
Typhoon Soudelor moves to China
bbc
A powerful typhoon has brought chaos to parts of south-eastern China, with thousands evacuated and millions of homes left without power.
Typhoon Soudelor struck the south-east of the country in the Fujian province late on Saturday night, bringing rains and gale force winds. The tropical storm has already swept across island nation Taiwan, off the coast of China.
It ripped up trees and tore down billboards triggering a landslide in at least one village. About two million households were left without electricity and at least five people are thought to have died. Rail services and flights have been cancelled and all schools and offices are closed. …
FBI to investigate police shooting of black American football player Christian Taylor
Associated Press
The FBI will participate in the investigation into the death of an unarmed black Texas college football player who was fatally shot by a white officer during a burglary call at a car dealership.
During a news conference on Saturday night, Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said a special FBI agent in charge of the Dallas field office would take part in the investigation.
He stressed it “in no way diminishes my confidence” in local officers to conduct the investigation.
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac:
Bounty hunter arrested after mistaking Phoenix police chief for target
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A bounty hunter was arrested after gathering a posse and mistakenly trying to raid the home of Phoenix’s chief of police, officials said on Wednesday.
Brent Farley, 43, and 10 others surrounded Chief Joseph Yahner’s home around 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, thinking they were cornering an Oklahoma fugitive wanted on a drug charge, the department said in a statement.
Police said the bounty hunters were told they had the wrong address and were asked to leave numerous times.
The department said Farley, who confronted the chief after banging on the door and demanding he come outside, was carrying a handgun at the time, as were several others.
A video of the incident provided by police showed Chief Yahner, clad only in his underwear, stepping outside his home with a baton in his hand and approaching the bounty hunters. Phoenix police spokesman Trent Crump said there was no physical altercation.
Crump said eight of the individuals were men and the three others were women, including a relative of one of the men who was riding along and an 11-year-old girl who was wearing a toy gun belt. …
Breakfast Quote
I’m shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
Jerry Garcia
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