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WATCH: Amanda Knox Defends Herself to Diane Sawyer

Amanda Knox is about to be re-tried for murder -- but this time, she wants her voice to be heard. Knox, 25, will give her first post-jail TV interview to Diane Sawyer on Tuesday night to promote her new memoir, Waiting to Be Heard. Though we've been seeing her picture in the news since 2007, when she was first accused of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher, it's pretty powerful to see Knox talking about the ordeal in her own words. Watch the preview below.

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Minnesota House bill has shield for high school coaches under fire (Star Tribune)

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Spurs finish 4-game sweep, routing Lakers 103-82

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Tony Parker scored 23 points, and the San Antonio Spurs completed their first-round sweep of the injury-plagued Los Angeles Lakers with a 103-82 victory in Game 4 on Sunday night.

Tim Duncan had 11 points and six rebounds for the second-seeded Spurs, who will face the winner of Denver's series with Golden State in the second round. They'll get plenty of rest after flattening the Lakers, who finished without three regular starters in their first opening-round exit since 2007.

In his final game before unrestricted free agency, Dwight Howard scored seven points before getting ejected early in the third quarter for arguing.

Pau Gasol had 16 points for the Lakers, who were swept from the postseason for the second time in three years despite a late courtside appearance by Kobe Bryant on crutches.

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Hey John Piper, Is My Femininity Showing? | Her.meneutics ...

In a recent podcast, John Piper describes acceptable ways for women to exert public influence. As he explains why men can read biblical commentaries from women, but not be taught by them in person, he reveals some profoundly troubling assumptions about women and a dated view of the female body.

Piper?a complementarian who believes in male headship and leadership?endorses women's commentaries on the Bible because they are "indirect" and "impersonal" venues of influence. He emphasizes that in reading a woman's words, he doesn't see her with his own eyes, conveying particular qualms with a woman looking at him while teaching. As blogger Rachel Held Evans asserts, Piper's reasons for preferring an indirect and impersonal encounter with a woman point to one factor: the offensive presence of her body.

According to Piper, the role of a city planner is appropriate for a woman because she exercises authority ensconced in an office at a desk, while a woman teacher stands before him, he says, making him aware of his own manhood and her womanhood. On the other hand, when a woman communicates to him indirectly and impersonally through writing, he can handle it because "she's not looking at me and confronting me and authoritatively directing me as a woman."

A book, he adds, "puts [the woman] out of my sight and in a sense takes away the dimension of her female personhood." Believing Pauline instruction prohibits women from authoritative positions in religious and secular settings, public or private, Piper uses 1 Timothy 2:12 as a foundation to argue against women influencing men in "direct" and "personal" ways.

Concern over women's bodies in public is what barred them from representing themselves in civic or political situations 200 years ago, right around when they started feeling the itch for the vote. A woman's presence on a public platform was scandalous; it was even more scandalous for her to look upon a mixed audience and speak to them.

As rhetorician Lindal Buchanan notes in her book Regendering Delivery, 19th-century women's "disembodied ? voices became acceptable long before their public bodies did." Because the presence of their bodies in public was so disgraceful, women used indirect techniques to influence the direction of the country, techniques Piper would probably support (generating and signing petitions, promoting their projects through male family members, and writing letters, tracts, and novels). These women hid or shielded their bodies from the male gaze in order for their voices to be heard.

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Legendary Country Singer George Jones Dead At 81 (VIDEO)

Legendary Country Singer George Jones Dead At 81 (VIDEO)

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Martin, Brickell team up for new songs, album

By Randee Dawn, TODAY contributor

There might not immediately seem to be a connection between comedian Steve Martin (who is also known to pick up a banjo as a musician, or write a book as an author) and former singer with New Bohemians, Edie Brickell. But the pair have known each other for decades, as Martin explained during a Tuesday TODAY visit.

"We've known each other for over 20 or more years, but we really just met ... at a party a couple of years ago and we thought maybe we could write some songs together," he explained, standing next to Brickell. "And then we did this horrible thing that you never do in Hollywood -- we followed up on it."

The result is "Love Has Come For You," an album of 13 original songs that's just been released.?

"Steve's tunes have inspired me to write in a way I never have before," laughed Brickell.

One more bit of trivia worth knowing: Brickell, who hit the Top 10 in 1988 with "What I Am," is married to singer/songwriter Paul Simon, who she met while filming "Saturday Night Live." Martin and Simon have been frequent guests on the long-running NBC comedy sketch series.

Check out Steve and Edie performing the album's title track, "Love Has Come For You" on TODAY!

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Slow is scary if France quits nuclear : state institute

By Marion Douet

TOURNEMIRE, France (Reuters) - A long slow retreat from nuclear power in France or indecision over policy could be very risky as skilled staff retire and young people reject careers with an uncertain future, the state-funded atomic safety research institute said.

If France does decide to pull out of atomic energy it should follow Germany's example and do it quickly, or face operating with inadequate personnel, said Jacques Repussard, who heads the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN).

"You can't spread the exit of nuclear over half a century. It's very dangerous," he said, adding that this consideration partly explained Germany's decision to opt for a fast exit to avoid a loss of skills.

France's state-owned utility EDF, which operates its 58 nuclear reactors, faces a wave of retirements and will have to replace half its nuclear staff by 2017-18.

While Socialist President Francois Hollande has undertaken to cut the country's reliance on atomic energy to 50 percent of electricity consumption by 2025, from 75 percent now, he has not made clear what would happen after that date.

"If, in the next 10 years, there is no clarity on what the future of nuclear energy will be, we will inevitably see a trend in our universities of young people saying: 'I don't want to do that line of work'," Repussard told Reuters in an interview at one of its research centers in the south of France.

As part of the reduction drive in France, the world's most nuclear-reliant country, the government has announced that Fessenheim in the east, its oldest nuclear plant, will shut by the end of 2016.

While the government has allowed EDF to pursue building its first next-generation nuclear reactor in Flamanville in northwestern France, it abandoned the previous government's project to build another reactor at Penly in Normandy.

Germany decided to shut all its nuclear reactors by 2022, in a policy reversal drafted in a rush after Japan's Fukushima disaster in March 2011.

CONSIDERABLE RISKS

"It was criticized and we asked ourselves how they would do it... But it's wise because doing it slowly means taking considerable risks with the last operating reactors, as finding skilled subcontractors and companies manufacturing certain parts (could become problematic)," Repussard said.

But he admitted that France, where nuclear reactors are on average 26 years old, would never consider a fast exit even though this would be the safest approach if it decided to stop building new reactors or conducting research.

Another issue for the government to consider, he said, was that generic defects would probably appear in several reactors at around the same time, leading them to stop working abruptly.

This echoed comments earlier this month by Pierre-Franck Chevet, the head of France's nuclear safety agency, who said the country needed to ensure there was enough available electricity generation capacity to cope with the sudden outage of 5 to 10 nuclear reactors.

"One day we will see wear and tear appear in the steel of core tanks... and when we see it in one, we will probably see it in all the reactors of the same generation in a short space of time," Repussard said.

Electrabel, the Belgian subsidiary of GDF Suez, has had to close two reactors in Belgium after finding possible cracks in the core tanks that house them.

"To be 80 percent reliant on nuclear energy exposes us to that kind of situation," he added.

(Writing by Muriel Boselli; Editing by Anthony Barker)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/slow-scary-france-quits-nuclear-state-institute-154437859--finance.html

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CBS News says some of its Twitter accounts were hacked

(Reuters) - Social media accounts maintained by CBS News programs, "60 Minutes" and "48 Hours," were compromised on Saturday, the two programs' official Twitter accounts said.

A post on the "60 Minutes" Twitter microblog account, @60Minutes, said, "PLEASE NOTE: Our Twitter account was compromised earlier today. We are working with Twitter to resolve." Another post read, "A message that was posted earlier to this account was not written or sent by @60Minutes or its staff."

The Twitter account for @48Hours showed a similar message, and several blogs said a third account, @CBSDenver, also had been hacked.

Tech bloggers posted screenshots of fake posts that appeared under the CBS accounts, including one from @48Hours that read, "General Dempsey calls for #Obama's arrest under new anti-terror laws #48hours."

On its own official account, @CBSNews, the news organization said it had "experienced problems" on the other two accounts, and added, "Twitter is resolving issues."

The rogue posts appeared to have been removed from Twitter.com later on Saturday.

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50th anniversary of Martin Luther King writing 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'

Martin Luther King?s faith in the power of exalted language to awaken the nation would seem obvious. On August 28, 1963, citing the ?architects of our republic? in his ?I Have a Dream? speech at the March on Washington, King invoked the ?magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.? Presumably, the act of illuminating the gap between the inalienable rights pledged by those hallowed documents and the shameful alienation suffered by blacks would arouse the conscience of America.

Gospel of FreedomYet the Constitution and Declaration make only cameo appearances in King?s most sustained treatment of race, the ?Letter from Birmingham Jail.? As we observe the 50th anniversary of that treasure of American letters (dated April 16, 1963), it is instructive to reflect on that strange omission.

The ?Letter? was King?s answer from his jail cell to eight white clergymen, among the most prestigious clergy in the state of Alabama, all racial moderates, who had condemned the protests roiling that city of fierce racism and branded King an extremist. The ?Letter? was his relentless rebuttal.

Defending the protests and arguing for the fierce urgency of now, he parsed and parried in the most varied ways. Taking his white readers on a tour of the inner recesses of black hurt, he appealed to pathos black hurt (?when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of ?nobodiness??).? He seized on the axiom of Paul Tillich (?sin is separation?) and drew out its subversive implication: ?Is not segregation an existential expression of man?s tragic separation??

To prove the movement wasn?t reckless, he called on the most reassuring precedents: the Tea Party (the original one), the Hungarian freedom fighters who rose up against Communism, and the Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace. King did everything but summon the values of the Constitution and the Declaration.

At the midpoint of the ?Letter,? King largely stopped trying to justify the movement to whites and began to chastise them. There?s really no mystery about his shift from diplomat to prophet.

In truth, he did not think very many whites had the capacity to empathize with black suffering: ?Few members of the oppressor race can understand the deep groans and passionate yearnings of the oppressed race.? Nor was he in sway to the illusion that moral exhortation could bring the fullness of democracy in the absence of protest and pressure: ?We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.?

Just days after he got out of the Birmingham jail, King spoke to a black audience at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Right before he heard the chimes of freedom ringing from every mountain top, he anticipated the day when blacks would be able to sing ?My country, ?tis of thee, sweet land of liberty.? The corollary was clear: That land did not yet exist. The civil rights movement first had to create it.

Jonathan Rieder, professor of sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University, is the author of the recently published Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.?s Letter From Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation; The Word of the Lord is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism.

His latest book, Gospel of Freedom, is available from Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Watch apple board member Bill Campbell discuss the future of intimate technology

Longtime Apple board member Bill Campbell gave a talk at Intuit, where he once served as CEO and currently serves as chairman of the board, about the future of technology and how it will likely become more intimate with everything from Google Glass to Apple initiatives he wasn't at liberty to discuss (but fill in your own iWatch, at least short term). According to Ashlee Vance of Businessweek:

The conversation started with a look ahead toward future products. Noting that he was not at liberty to give away specific details on future Apple gizmos, Campbell did tell the audience to expect to see ?a lot of things going on with the application of technology to really intimate things.? He pointed to Google Glass as one such intimate object. ?It?s a phenomenal breakthrough,? he said. ?When you start to think about glasses or watches, they become as intimate as the cell phone was.?

Technology is absolutely becoming more personal and more intimate. (No, not that kind of intimate, though that kind of intimate will no doubt be a subsection of the greater movement.) Huge room-filling mainframes became large, desk-filling personal computers are becoming small lap or hand filling tablets and phones will one day become tiny wrist or collar filling watches or broaches will one day become nearly invisible parts of us. It's terrifyingly exciting, as only the future can be.

The entire talk is fascinating, and also touches on Campbell's thoughts about former Apple executives Tony Fadell and Ron Johnson. Check out the entire video above, read more about it via the link below, and then let me know what you think -- how personal can technology get, and does the idea of increasingly intimate devices concern you at all?

Source: Businessweek via 9to5Mac

    


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