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>Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine, a Popular Senator From a Swing State, as Running Mate

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-vice-president.html

>Hillary Clinton named Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia to be her running mate Friday, selecting a battleground state politician with working-class roots and a fluency in Spanish, traits that she believes can bolster her chances to defeat Donald J. Trump in November.

>Mrs. Clinton’s choice, which she announced via text message to supporters, came after her advisers spent months poring over potential vice-presidential candidates who could lift the Democratic ticket in an unpredictable race against Mr. Trump.

>In the end, Mrs. Clinton decided Mr. Kaine, 58, a former governor of Virginia who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and speaks fluent Spanish, had the qualifications and background and the personal chemistry with her to make the ticket a success.

>Mrs. Clinton had entertained more daring choices. She considered Thomas E. Perez, the secretary of labor, who would have been the first Hispanic on a major party ticket; Senator Cory Booker, of New Jersey, who would have been the first African-American to seek the vice presidency; and Adm. James G. Stavridis, a retired four-star Navy admiral who served as the supreme allied commander at NATO, but had never held elected office.

>In the end, Mrs. Clinton, who told PBS she is “afflicted with the responsibility gene,” avoided taking a chance with a less experienced vice-presidential candidate and felt no political need to push the historic nature of her candidacy by adding another woman or a minority to the ticket.

>Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Kaine have similar positions on the issues and they are said to share an easy rapport and a love of granular policy-making. “I do have a fondness for wonks,” Mrs. Clinton said in the PBS interview.
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You know that video where the terrorist starts shooting at the people outside Mcdonalds in Munich...

Will we get any info wether the people he was shooting at were OK? The ones who were fleeing.

Does anyone have any info?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/shooting-spree-munich-shopping-center-leaves-dead-article-1.2721737

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-dallas-sniper-20160720-story.html

>The bloodstains have been removed. So has most of the debris. But some remnants of the blast that ended Micah Johnson's deadly police ambush in Dallas remain at El Centro College: a wall and door frame blown back several feet, and wires and metal dangling from a ceiling with no tiles.

>Officials at the downtown community college on Tuesday showed reporters the damage left after Dallas police deployed a remote-controlled robot with about 1 pound of the explosive C4, set it off and killed Johnson early on July 8.
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http://archpaper.com/2016/07/mta-new-renderings-stations-subway-cars/

>On Monday Governor Cuomo unveiled designs for the renovation of 31 subway stations stations and hundreds of new subway cars. 1,025 cars will sport new features, inside and out, while 750 new cars will be “Open Car End” designs, so passengers flow will be enhanced but there will be no more fleeing the dreaded stink car.

>“The MTA is the circulatory system for the metropolitan area. If you want to grow the metropolitan area, if you want to sustain the metropolitan area, the answer cannot be that people get in their cars and commute to work. That just does not work,” Cuomo said at a press conference. “The volume just cannot be handled by the current road transportation system. The MTA is going to have to increase their capacity to manage that higher volume.”

>For those anxious that the MTA may draw on the vast reservoir of design talent in the city, worry not. The new stations and cars look sleek, but not radically so. The open-tube designs are intended to reduce crowding by more evenly distributing the number of passengers on the train while wider doors will speed up entry and exit time by one third. In addition to wi-fi and USB charging ports at stations and in cars, security is paramount: The governor highlighted the presence of surveillance cameras on platforms and inside trains.
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Firefighters didn't have to reach for an extinguisher when they were called to a cooking fire at a North Knoxville apartment this week.

They simply turned on the shower head.

In what Knoxville Fire Department Capt. D.J. Corcoran called "a first in our books," a woman attempted to cook a brisket over an open flame in her bathtub, he said.

Fire crews responded Monday evening to 4834 Scheel Road to find the middle-aged woman fanning light smoke from her apartment. Inside, they found a melting fiberglass tub in the bathroom, he said.

The resident had lit a small, wood-burning grill inside the bathtub, with the meat placed on a wire rack across the tub's rim. The heat soon melted the fiberglass underneath.

"The tub and the brisket were a total loss," Corcoran said.

The apartment below also suffered some minor water damage.

The fire captain highlighted the incident to stress that more than 50 percent of all residential fires are cooking-related.

"With that said," Corcoran noted, "most all of those documented fires are in the kitchen."

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local/kfd-woman-cooking-brisket-in-bathtub-starts-fire-378604e4-2af7-35a8-e053-0100007f31f5-386654351.html

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http://ksn.com/2016/07/21/washington-dc-blm-movement-denounces-wichita-cookout-event/

Videos of the cookout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni_nBvMDKbI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCv9ckcKexc

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>Officials in Houston released video Thursday showing police officers shooting a black man who police said had been holding a gun while standing in a street.

>The footage from the July 9 incident included the recording from a convenience store surveillance camera that shows Alva Braziel, 38, in the distance. The video is dark and it's difficult to see clearly what Braziel has in his hand and what happened in the moments before officers fired.

>The surveillance video showed Braziel falling to the ground 10 seconds after a police vehicle pulls up. The officers thought Braziel was flagging them down for assistance and only realized he was armed when they flashed a light on him, authorities said.

>That recording is followed by the body-cam videos from the two responding officers, which shows only the aftermath of the shooting: The front of Braziel's white shirt is bloodstained, and an officer removed a handgun from his right hand.


>Officers must activate the body cameras themselves. The officers followed department policy when they didn't immediately activate their cameras because they needed to first confront the danger that Braziel posed, the acting police chief, Martha Montalvo, said in a statement later Thursday.

>"The two officers viewed the threat to themselves and the public as immediate, stopped their patrol vehicle and exited the vehicle even before it was in park," Montalvo said. "Once the threat was contained, officers activated their cameras."

>The officers' squad car was not equipped with a dashcam recorder, according to police spokesman Kese Smith.

>Audio from the patrolmen's body cameras recorded them telling responding officers that Braziel waved the weapon before pointing it at them.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/730c956a50c54660805a162f1c219cf2/houston-mayor-release-police-shooting-video-footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mZQgdlWjwk

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1476922/wikileaks-exposes-filthy-sex-spam-sent-to-turkish-president-erdogans-ruling-akp-party/

>The whistleblowing website Wikileaks has just leaked 300,000 secret emails send by Turkey’s ruling AKP Party.

>But this cache is set to leave President Erdogan even more red-faced that anyone expected because it includes loads of VERY rude sex spam emails.

>A number of x-rated messages are included in the latest Wikileaks data dump, which was designed to embarass the Turkish government following a failed military coup.

>One email was colourfully entitled: “I still remember your magic lovestick vividly.”

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/wikileaks-dumps-erdogan-emails-turkeys-failed-coup/

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/19/turkey-coup-news-wikileaks-releases-database-of-emails-from-president-erdogans-akp-party.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/turkey-blocks-wikileaks-after-erdogans-emails_us_578faecbe4b0f180da63ff92

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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-lifestyle-is-to-blame-for-70---90-of-cancers-2015-12-17?reflink=MW_GoogleNews&google_editors_picks=true

>For the most part, ‘bad luck’ isn’t responsible for cancer

>Do most people who get cancer simply have bad luck? Or is cancer something they might be able to prevent? Two new studies suggest the latter.

>A study published in May in the Journal of the American Medical Association Oncology found that between 40 - 70% of cancer cases could be prevented if we changed our lifestyles by doing things like staying at a healthy weight, quitting smoking, reducing alcohol consumption and getting 2 ½ hours of exercise a week. “A large proportion of cancers are due to environmental factors and can be prevented by lifestyle modification,” the authors concluded.

>Another study, whose results were recently published in Nature, revealed that it is mostly environmental and external factors like smoking, drinking, diet, getting too much sun and exposure to toxic chemicals that cause cancer, rather than intrinsic factors like random cell mutations.

>Intrinsic factors accounted for just 10% to 30% of people’s lifetime risk of getting cancer, while extrinsic risks accounted for 70% to 90% for most common cancer types, the study showed. “Cancer risk is heavily influenced by extrinsic factors,” the study researchers, who work at Stony Brook University in New York, concluded.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36862714

>Roger Ailes, the long-time boss of Fox News, has resigned after a number of female employees accused him of sexual harassment.

>The network's parent company, 21st Century Fox, announced his resignation.

>The announcement does not mention the sexual harassment allegations, which have now come from multiple Fox presenters.

>Executive chairman Rupert Murdoch wrote that Mr Ailes has made a "remarkable contribution" to Fox News.

>"We continue our commitment to maintaining a work environment based on trust and respect," Fox executives Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch said in the statement. "We take seriously our responsibility to uphold these traditional, long-standing values of our company."
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related:
http://qz.com/738346/fox-newss-biggest-problem-isnt-the-ailes-ouster-its-that-its-average-viewer-is-a-dinosaur/

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-07-21/trump-chooses-war-with-cruz-at-convention-aimed-at-unification

Queue coping trumplets saying this will only make Trump stronger.

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A teenage Afghan refugee armed with an axe and knife injured four people on a train in southern Germany before being shot dead by police, officials say.

Germany axe attack: Assault on train in Wurzburg - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36827725

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http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/07/21/486889433/so-long-vcr-we-hardly-knew-you-were-still-around

>The VCR is officially going the way of the Betamax and LaserDisc: into the technology graveyard.

>Funai Electric, a Japanese electronics company that may be the last VCR maker in the world, announced that it will shut down its VCR production lines in August. It "has been producing VHS-playing VCRs for 33 years, most recently in China for Sanyo," the BBC says.

>The company at one time sold 15 million of its video cassette recorder systems a year, ArsTechnica reports, but in 2015 moved only 750,000.

>Of course, most of us probably thought the VCR was already long gone; after all, Variety magazine published an obituary for the VHS tape a decade ago:

>That postmortem ran in 2006, after film studios stopped producing movies on VHS in favor of the DVD. Actually, the death of the VCR has been a pretty common refrain over the past few years. With the ubiquity of online streaming and on demand video, however, obituaries for the DVD and Blu-ray may not be so far away.

>The VCR and VHS (video home system) tapes first premiered on the mass market in the 1970s. In the 1980s, it gave the LaserDisc and Betamax players a run for their money as a cheaper, lighter, and longer-playing alternative for home viewings. The LaserDisc — a high-quality vinyl-sized disc — stopped seeing new titles around 2000 and the last player came out in 2009. Sony finally ceased production of Betamax recorders in 2002 and the tapes this spring.
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Another new study has linked intelligence to genetics.

This one looks at the effect of 20,000 different variations in the genome, and finds them to contribute 10% to the child's overall academic success vs other children.
This is the strongest prediction from DNA of a behavioral measure to date.

>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160719091622.htm

>Professor Robert Plomin, senior author of the study, also from the MRC SGDP Centre at King's College London, added: 'We are at a tipping point for predicting individuals' educational strengths and weaknesses from their DNA.

Personally I would hate that. I would hate to be told that I have the stupid gene, as it would come to be called. I'd rather not know.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/20/the-worst-thing-that-has-come-before-this-court-ohio-mom-financed-her-addiction-by-letting-drug-dealer-rape-her-child/#comments

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