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Robocops are here. It’s time to create rules for how police can use them.

Vox 

This summer, the fatal shootings of unarmed black men (in St. Paul, Minnesota, Baton Rouge, and elsewhere) and of police officers (in Dallas and Baton Rouge) reenergized the national debate surrounding race relations and the use of force by police in the United States. Yet amid the now all-too-familiar characters – unarmed black men, armed police officers, bystanders with cameras — emerged a new one: a robot with the power to kill.

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Rob Ninkovich set for MRI after leaving practice with triceps injury

NBCSports.com 

For the second time today, a Patriots starter has left practice with an injury. New England defensive end Rob Ninkovich left practice with a triceps injury and is scheduled to undergo an MRI to determine the severity of the injury, Mike Reiss of ESPN reports. The 32-year-old Ninkovich has been one of the most dependable…

Judge denies Blagojevich's bid to lighten 14-year sentence

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday upheld Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence on corruption counts, setting aside pleas for leniency by the former Illinois governor's wife and daughters during his resentencing hearing. Blagojevich, known as Inmate No. 40892-424 since he went to prison in 2012, appeared on a courtroom video in prison-issued clothing, his once dark hair now white. The Democrat appeared on a courtroom screen through a video from a Colorado prison, his first public appearance since entering prison. Читать дальше...



Monorail service for elderly, disabled being considered for Mt. Halla

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

By Kim Ho-chun, Woo Jae-yeon JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, Aug. 9 (Yonhap) -- At 9:33 a.m. last Thursday, two electric monorail vehicles departed from the entrance of the Eorimok Trail on Mount Halla on South Korea's largest island of Jeju to ferry a grou

PACs pushing Washoe County tax hike for schools raises $866K

«Gazette Times» (gazettetimes.com) 

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Two political action committees have raised nearly $900,000 for a campaign to persuade Washoe County voters to raise local sales taxes this fall to finance improvements in the county's overcrowded school system.

PACs pushing Washoe County tax hike for schools raises $866K

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

(AP) — Two political action committees have raised nearly $900,000 for a campaign to persuade Washoe County voters to raise local sales taxes this fall to finance improvements in the county's overcrowded school system. Only 10 states charge more in combined sales taxes, according to the nonpartisan research group Tax Foundation. There is no organized opposition to the tax hike, but over the past 12 years, Washoe County voters have rejected every school funding measure put before them. "The funding is one indicator (of support)... Читать дальше...

Poem: "Sixty" By Mark Doty

BuzzFeed 

Dangerous invitations, packed flat:

six sky lanterns, for my birthday,
rice paper sack glued at the seams,

a thin bamboo ring at bottom for a mouth,
a wire armature holding a deck-of-cards stack


of paper soaked in wax. "Frail, illegal,"
we know, but this birthday ends in zero,
a turn I'm not so inclined to celebrate,

and who could resist a lantern lifted
by its own flame, sailing out
over an August night's black bay?

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