California Prison Releases: High Court Refuses to Delay Releasing Nearly 10,000 Inmates

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WASHINGTON?The Supreme Court has refused to delay a court order for California to release nearly 10,000 inmates by year?s end to improve conditions in state prisons.

The court voted 6-3 Friday to reject a plea from Gov. Jerry Brown. Brown argued the early release would jeopardize public safety.

Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas said they would have granted the state?s request.

The court ruled 5-4 in 2011 that the state must cut its inmate population to deal with unconstitutional prison conditions caused by overcrowding.

State officials said conditions have improved dramatically since a lower court order in 2009.

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Source: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/226141-california-prison-releases-high-court-refuses-to-delay-releasing-nearly-10000-inmates/

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NBC to Install End Zone Bullet Time Rigs for 360? Replays this Football Season

Sunday Night Football is about to get a lot more fun to watch. Not even two months after we shared the news that the folks over at NHK had put together a robotic bullet time rig that could shoot 360? slow-motion replays, NBC has announced its plan to bring matrix-style replays to the world of pro football.

There?s no indication that the two ideas are related, but the concept is similar: give sports fans a roundabout view of the action. For NBC, this means that Sunday Night Football will now feature two 24-camera bullet time rigs ? one in each end zone.

The rig developed by NHK used only 8 cameras. NBC is planning to install 24 in each end zone.

In addition to the new perspective that NBC is hoping to offer ? not to mention the fact that referees will now have zero excuses when they botch a challenge ? installing the tech is one of several ways NBC?s Cris Collinsworth said Sunday Night Football is ?trying to be a show that really appeals to everybody.?

The tech will go into effect right from week-one at the Giants/Cowboys game in Dallas on September 8th. As television?s highest-rated and most-watched show, Sunday Night Football is under more pressure than most to stay on the cutting edge. And when the cutting edge involves installing 48 extra cameras at every Sunday night game, well, we certainly won?t complain if you don?t.

(via Gizmodo)

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Market Report, "DTE Energy Company (DTE) - Alternative Energy - Deals and Alliances Profile", published

2013-07-24 02:02:13 - New Energy research report from GlobalData is now available from Fast Market Research

DTE Energy Company (DTE Energy) is a diversified energy company that develops and manages energy-related businesses and services. DTE Energy operates through three business segments, namely, Electric Utility, Gas Utility and Non-Utility Operations. DTE Electric generates, purchases, transmits and distributes electricity in Southeastern Michigan; while DTE Gas stores, transports and distributes natural gas throughout Michigan. The company also conducts a variety of energy-related businesses, namely, natural gas pipelines, gathering and storage; power and industrial projects and coal transportation and marketing; and energy marketing and trading operations. DTE Energy is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, the US.

The company strategic intent is to be the most preferred supplier of electricity generation in the southeast Michigan. In this regard the company is working with

its customers, regulatory agencies and communities to be the reliable, low cost supplier of the electricity. The company in order to ensure generation and network reliability continues to make the capital investments in their generation plants and the distribution systems which will improve availability of the plants, operating efficiencies and the environmental compliance in the areas which have a positive impact on reliability with a goal to achieve high customer satisfaction.

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Town crier's royal birth cameo confuses US journos

FILE - In a Monday, July 22, 2013 file photo, Tony Appleton, a town crier, announces the birth of the royal baby, outside St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London. Well-wishers waiting outside St. Mary's Hospital in London might have been forgiven for thinking Appleton had the royal seal of approval. Appleton is in fact a crier, but in Romford, a commuter town just east of London, and in Bury St. Edmunds, a market town in southeastern England, not Buckingham Palace. In an interview Wednesday, July 24, he acknowledged that he had no official royal role, but simply showed up in costume after getting a tipoff that the Duchess of Cambridge had given birth. Confused American journalists identified him as a bona fide mouthpiece for Buckingham Palace.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

FILE - In a Monday, July 22, 2013 file photo, Tony Appleton, a town crier, announces the birth of the royal baby, outside St. Mary's Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London. Well-wishers waiting outside St. Mary's Hospital in London might have been forgiven for thinking Appleton had the royal seal of approval. Appleton is in fact a crier, but in Romford, a commuter town just east of London, and in Bury St. Edmunds, a market town in southeastern England, not Buckingham Palace. In an interview Wednesday, July 24, he acknowledged that he had no official royal role, but simply showed up in costume after getting a tipoff that the Duchess of Cambridge had given birth. Confused American journalists identified him as a bona fide mouthpiece for Buckingham Palace.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

LONDON (AP) ? Well-wishers waiting outside St. Mary's Hospital in London might have been forgiven for thinking a town crier announcing the birth of the Prince of Cambridge had the royal seal of approval.

Bell in one hand, scroll in the other, Tony Appleton marked Monday's royal birth by belting out an old-timey proclamation which began "Oyez, Oyez" and announced the arrival of "the first born of their royal highness, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge."

Appleton is in fact a crier, but in Romford, a commuter town just east of London, and in Bury St. Edmunds, a market town in southeastern England ? not Buckingham Palace. In interview, he said Wednesday that he simply showed up in costume after getting a tipoff from a British journalist that the Duchess of Cambridge, better known as Prince William's wife Kate, had given birth.

"I'm a royalist. I love the royal family," he said by telephone from Romford, but he acknowledged he had no official royal role. "I came unannounced."

That didn't stop him from playing a bizarre cameo role on leading U.S. newscasts in the media frenzy surrounding the baby's birth, nor did it prevent confused American journalists from identifying him as a bona fide mouthpiece for Buckingham Palace.

"The royal crier delivering the royal news," was how CNN's Anderson Cooper described the scene. On Fox News, Stuart Varney told viewers that Appleton was "the town crier making the official announcement in a very loud voice, all in his full regalia."

Another one who misidentified Appleton's role was MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who issued a tongue-in-cheek correction on Tuesday.

"Hear Ye, Hear Ye ... Ye Old Department of Corrections shall herewith be presented," she told viewers. "We identified this man as the official town crier of London. Upon further review we now have the full story. His name is Tony Appleton. He is a town crier, but he is a town crier in ... the town of Romford and Bury St. Edmunds. But he is not the official town crier of London, which is what I said."

Buckingham Palace did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Appleton is a man of many talents. In addition to his town crier duties ? which include leading parades and appearing at openings ? he works as a toastmaster, a kind of master of ceremonies, at weddings, birthdays, and bar mitzvahs. He also owns a small nursing home in Romford.

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Pan-Kurdish congress planned to unify ranks amid regional turmoil

ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurds from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria have agreed to convene a pan-Kurdish congress to tackle historical divisions and position themselves to take full advantage of regional upheaval.

Often described as the world's largest ethnic group without a state of their own, Kurds regard the modern borders that have carved up their homeland of "Greater Kurdistan" as a historical injustice.

Geopolitics may have condemned the Kurds to live in four different countries, but their own competing ideologies and partisan rivalries have also got in the way of greater unity, and even led to armed conflict.

Representatives of 39 Kurdish parties attended a symbolic meeting in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region on Monday, though any joint initiatives, let alone the political or institutional unity that some dream of, are still a long way off.

No date for the conference has yet been set, but some participants said it could be held as early as next month.

"Our main goal in holding this congress is for all Kurdish political factions to reach a shared strategy and voice," Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said in a speech, describing the meeting in Arbil as "historic".

"I call on all participants to work together in a spirit of brotherliness and patriotism, far from any narrow political ideologies."

Successive governments in Baghdad, Damascus, Tehran and Ankara have long exploited disunity among the Kurds to thwart their aspirations for more independence or a unified homeland, and at times resorted to brute force to suppress them. Thousands were gassed to death by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Ramzy Mardini of Beirut's Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies said divisions still posed a challenge: "Competition amongst the Kurds is leading to contradictory policies, which inhibit their ability to position themselves as winners of the Arab Spring."

Nonetheless, ethnic Kurds who fought out their partisan rivalries in the 1990s now run their own quasi-state in northern Iraq, and are enjoying unprecedented prosperity while sectarian violence threatens to rip the rest of the country apart.

In Syria, civil war has provided an opening for greater autonomy for the Kurds after years of oppression under President Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, who denied thousands citizenship and confiscated their lands.

In Turkey, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is currently in talks to end a three-decade armed rebellion in return for greater rights for the Kurds, who make up around one fifth of Turkey's population.

Only in Iran have Kurds' fortunes remained little changed.

"There is no doubt that the Kurds see the historical upheavals plaguing the region through the lens of opportunism," Mardini said. "It is by way of an unraveling of the political order that national borders could eventually be redrawn. The Kurds are trying to best position themselves for that moment."

(Reporting by Isabel Coles; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pan-kurdish-congress-planned-unify-ranks-amid-regional-153400532.html

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