Elva människor har dödats i Brasilien i skottväxlingar mellan brottsmisstänkta gängmedlemmar och poliser. Sju misstänkta bankrånare sköts ihjäl av poliser i staden Currais Novos i norr. Fyra misstänkta knarklangare dog under ett polisingripande i Rio de Janeiro.
tomhath writes with this story that make shake up the nuclear industry. "The biggest player in the beleaguered nuclear power industry wants a place alongside solar, wind and hydroelectric power collecting extra money for producing carbon-free electricity. Exelon Corp., operator of the largest fleet of U.S. nuclear plants, says it could have to close three of them if Illinois rejects the company's pitch to let it recoup more from consumers since the plants do not produce greenhouse gases. Exelon and other around-the-clock plants sometimes take losses when wind turbines produce too much electricity for the system. Under the system, electric suppliers would have to buy credits from carbon-free energy producers. Exelon says the plan would benefit nuclear plants, hydroelectric dams, and other solar and wind projects."
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Solar Impulse, the fuel-free aeroplane, heads out of Myanmar and on to China on leg five of its attempt to fly around the world.
The great new IMDB::Local!
details of the native integer data type
Thin fast full interface to the libmemcached client API
Interface to DataDog's REST API.
Code server side, use client side.
a role for plugins which Module::Metadata
Portable implementation of the "which" utility
Safely evaluate arithmetic/string expressions
Allt mer adhd-medicin skrivs ut inom Kriminalvården, samtidigt som antalet intagna minskar, skriver Svenska Dagbladet. På två år har dagsdoserna ökat från 2,5 miljoner till 3,2 och den största delen är det centralstimulerande preparatet metylfenidat, som ges till patienter med adhd.
Sverige antar en ny biståndsstrategi om 1,5 miljarder kronor för Syrien, skriver biståndsminister Isabella Lövin (MP) och utrikesminister Margot Wallström (S) i Svensk Dagbladet. Summan gäller för ”de närmaste åren”, men ministrarna specificerar inte hur många år det rör sig om.
Läkare inom Kriminalvården skriver ut allt mer adhd-medicin, som en delav en medveten behandlingsstrategi. Men kritiker pekar på bristande kontroll av den narkotikaklassade medicineringen samt sprickor i vårdkedjan när fångar slussas ut i samhället.
Mark Wilson writes Edward Snowden is heralded as both a hero and villain. A privacy vigilante and a traitor. It just depends who you ask. The revelations he made about the NSA's surveillance programs have completely changed the face of online security, and changed the way everyone looks at the internet and privacy. But just before the whistle was blown, it seems that the NSA was considering bringing its telephone data collection program to an end. Intelligence officials were, behind the scenes, questioning whether the benefits of gathering counter-terrorism information justified the colossal costs involved. Then Snowden went public and essentially forced the agency's hand.
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