Sunday, March 31, 2013

Egypt issues arrest warrant for TV satirist

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's state prosecutors ordered the arrest Saturday of a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's leader, in a move that government opponents say is aimed at silencing critics of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

The arrest warrant for against Bassem Youssef, who has come to be known as Egypt's Jon Stewart, followed an order earlier this week by the country's top prosecutor to arrest five prominent pro-democracy activists in what the opposition has characterized as a widening campaign against dissent.

The acceleration in legal action targeting protesters, activists and critics comes against a backdrop of continued unrest in the country. Political compromise between the well-organized Islamists in power and their vocal liberal and largely secular critics remains elusive, while the country's economy is in near free fall, which has increasingly fueled popular frustration.

The opposition charges that Morsi, in office for nine months, and the Brotherhood have failed to tackle any of the nation's most pressing problems and are trying to monopolize power, breaking their promises of inclusiveness. Morsi blames the country's woes on nearly three decades of corruption under his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, and accuses the opposition of stoking unrest for political gain.

The warrant against Youssef is the latest in a series of legal actions against the comedian, whose widely-watched weekly show, "ElBernameg" or "The Program," has become a platform for lampooning the government, opposition, media and clerics. He has also used his program to fact-check politicians.

The fast-paced show has attracted a wide viewership, while at the same time earning itself its fair share of detractors. Youssef has been a frequent target of lawsuits, most of them brought by Islamist lawyers who have accused him of "corrupting morals" or violating "religious principles."

Prosecutor Mohammed el-Sayed Khalifa told Al-Ahram online that he has heard 28 plaintiffs accusing Youssef of insulting Islam, mocking prayers, and "belittling" Morsi in the eyes of the world and his own people.

In one episode of the show, Youssef mocks former militants who are now part of the mainstream political scene in Egypt. At a recent rally, some former radicals who were imprisoned for taking part in the assassination of late President Anwar Sadat in 1981, accused the opposition of using violence at anti-Morsi protests.

In the program, Youssef ridicules an Islamist who said the militants had repented by fasting for three months for mistakenly killing others with Sadat.

"What a message," Youssef says. "Anyone can form a group in the name of religion, assassinate in the name of religion, and then oops! Repent and fast for three months, and it will too pass in the name of religion."

The comedian has faced several court cases in the past accusing him of insulting Morsi. One of Youssef's attorneys, Gamal Eid, said however that this is the first time an arrest warrant has been issued for the comedian.

In a post on his official Twitter account, Youssef said he will hand himself in to the prosecutor's office Sunday. He then added, with his typical sarcasm: "Unless they kindly send a police van today and save me the transportation hassle."

Eid said the warrant fits into a widening campaign against government critics, media personalities, and activists, saying "the prosecution has become a tool to go after the regime's opposition and intimidate it."

A call to a top aide to the country's chief prosecutor, Hassan Yassin, for comment went unanswered.

The other recent arrest warrants for five high-profile activists were issued over allegations that they instigated violence last week near the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cairo, where nearly 200 people were injured in clashes between anti-government protesters and supporters of the Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails.

Morsi responded by harshly criticizing his opponents, calling them hired thugs out to derail Egypt's democracy. The Brotherhood also blamed privately-owned media for fanning the violence.

The criticism was followed by a two-day protest by dozens of Islamists outside the studios of TV networks critical of Morsi. The protesters pelted police and prevented some talk show hosts and guests from entering or leaving the complex.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists called the escalation of anti-press "rhetoric" by Morsi and his supporters and the sit-in outside the media city were "deeply troubling."

The series of prosecutions and arrest warrants come amid a legal challenge to the chief prosecutor, Talaat Abdullah, whose appointment by Morsi last year was declared void by a court ruling earlier this week.

On Saturday, Abdullah said he will appeal the court ruling, saying it is "in violation of the constitution and the law," Egypt's state news agency reported. The decision signals a protracted legal battle is likely to ensue, further confusing the legal scene in Egypt.

In the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, an Egyptian rights group said Saturday that police detained 13 people, including five lawyers, and accused them of assaulting police. The arrests inside the police station mark a rare instance in which lawyers face potential criminal charges.

The Haqanya Center for Rights said the 13 are accused of insulting security officials, attempting to free other detainees at the police station and illegal assembly.

The arrests prompted an angry response from lawyers at Cairo's Bar Association, who demanded an apology from the police.

Those detained include prominent lawyer and pro-democracy activist Mahienour el-Masry. Several dozen Cairo protesters held a rally outside the chief prosecutor's office, dismissing his orders as void, locking up the gates to his office with chains and demanding the release of the lawyers and activists.

Mohammed Abdel-Aziz, an attorney, said the lawyers and activists were beaten and assaulted at the station, where they had been since Friday to represent three opposition members reportedly detained and taken to the police by members of a political party affiliated with the Brotherhood.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-issues-arrest-warrant-tv-satirist-132500262.html

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Friday, March 29, 2013

Multiple moves found harmful to poor young children

Mar. 28, 2013 ? Poor children who move three or more times before they turn 5 have more behavior problems than their peers, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell University and the National Employment Law Project. The study is published in the journal Child Development.

Moving is a fairly common experience for American families; in 2002, 6.5 percent of all children had been living in their current home for less than six months. Among low-income children, that number rose to 10 percent. In addition, in 2002, 13 percent of families above poverty moved once, but 24 percent of families below poverty moved. Research has shown that frequent moves are related to a range of behavioral, emotional, and school problems for adolescents.

Using national data on 2,810 children from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal, representative study of children born in 20 large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000, researchers sought to determine how frequent moves relate to children's readiness for school. Parents were interviewed shortly after the birth of their children, then again by phone when the children were 1, 3, and 5; in-home assessments were done when the children were 3 and 5. The study also looked at the children's language and literacy outcomes, as well as behavior problems reported by mothers.

The study found that 23 percent of the children had never moved, 48 percent had moved once or twice, and 29 percent had moved three or more times. Among children who moved three or more times before age 5, nearly half (44 percent) were poor; poverty was defined based on the official federal threshold. Moving three or more times was not related to the children's language and literacy outcomes.

But children who moved three or more times had more attention problems, anxiousness or depression, and aggressiveness or hyperactivity at age 5 than those who had never moved or those who had moved once or twice. These increases in behavior problems occurred only among poor children, the study found, suggesting that frequent moves early in life are most disruptive for the most disadvantaged children.

"The United States is still recovering from the great recession, which has taken a major toll on the housing market," notes Kathleen Ziol-Guest, postdoctoral associate at Cornell University, who led the study. "As housing markets have collapsed across communities, highly mobile low-income families have moved in search of work and less expensive housing.

"The findings in this study suggest that the housing crisis and its accompanying increase in mobility likely will have negative effects on young children, especially poor children."

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Designing Big Data That Works - NYTimes.com

Whether the move is from mainframes to minicomputers, or from there to personal computers and servers, and now to mobile devices and cloud computing, we are witnessing one grand process of moving machine intelligence closer to the people on the front lines, even as the computing at the center gets more powerful.

Fortunes change with each shift, as purveyors of tech stress technical knowledge when mainframes are the big thing, or talk about their understanding of business processes in the client-server era. What matters in the cloud and mobile era may be the critical importance of design. With all the data being collected, design and the ability to present information well may be the big strategic weapon.

It certainly seems to be the way a lot of people are coming after the incumbents. Recently Infor, a collection of revamped business applications companies, unveiled a good-looking set of charts, graphics and lists that inform much of the output and future options on its mobile applications for manufacturing and sales.

On Wednesday, a start-up called Tidemark, which sells cloud-based business analytics software, introduced a series of planning features, called storylines, that are designed to speed forecasting and decision making. Areas like profitability of regions and products, or the effects on costs of changing headcount, are displayed graphically, in what feels like a consumer Web site on which you can redesign images with your browser.

?The point is to let the business customer configure the product; when you democratize information with technology, you also make it actionable,? says Christian Gheorghe, founder and chief executive of Tidemark. ?Older business analytics projects failed 80 percent of the time, because they reflected business activity that was out of date.?

Tidemark, which has some 14 large businesses as clients, each of which has about 100 people using the software, is keen to add its appeal and ease of use. It is also announcing a closer business relationship with Workday, a cloud-based provider of financial software. Tidemark?s storylines center mostly on financial information, so the Workday alliance is a natural fit for both companies.

Win or lose, Tidemark?s move underlines how important it has become for companies that use consumer devices, and working in a cloud-computing environment that gives everyone access to a lot of data and processing power.

From mainframes on, with every generation it got cheaper to own a computer, and thus easier to share work among a greater number of people and departments. For the most part, however, the efforts have been overseen by relatively few information technology professionals, who were trained in, and comfortable with, the use of command lines, columns, and spreadsheets.

The big change now is not that everyone is an I.T. manager ? there are still plenty of ways companies will control devices, access to computers, and data ? but that everyone is a consumer of a lot of data. Making that easy on them will most likely be a winning strategy.

?There has been a revolution in design theory,? says Phil Libin, chief executive of Evernote, a storage site for consumers and businesses. ?We?ve all had to learn how to have taste.? He credits the change toward a design focus, in both consumer electronics and enterprise software, to Apple. Around 2008, with the iPhone beating longtime incumbents in the phone business, he says, ?Apple taught us all that design language could win. From then on we all had to build it into the product.?

That is significantly harder than it sounds. It is tough for incumbent companies accustomed to selling products that emphasize complexity, something that until recently was a point of pride and indicated that a lot of engineers had slaved on this product. It is tough for start-ups too, however, as they try to sell to I.T. staffs that are wary of products that look like they came from the App Store.

The trick, for Mr. Gheorghe and others, will be in making something delightful that the financial and I.T. gatekeepers let into the hands of people in other departments. It may also mean a growing market in designers in all sorts of new places.

Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/designing-big-data-that-works/

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Stock futures signal flat to lower open

PARIS (Reuters) - Stock futures pointed to a flat to lower open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.22 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.01 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.03 percent at 5:00 a.m. EDT.

* European stocks were mixed on Thursday morning, with Spanish, Portuguese and Italian shares losing ground, hurt by fears of a potential run on Cyprus's banks, set to reopen on Thursday. <.eu/>

* Tight controls will be imposed on transactions by Cyprus's banks to limit cash withdrawals to no more than 300 euros ($380) per day, ban the cashing of cheques and bar businesses from transferring money abroad unless they can show it is for imports.

* On the macro front, investors awaited U.S. weekly jobless claims, due at 1230 GMT, as well as the final estimate of the U.S. fourth-quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP), at 1230 GMT. Economists forecast a 0.5 percent annualized pace of growth, compared with a 0.1 percent rate in the preliminary estimate.

* Influential proxy advisory firm ISS threw its weight behind opponents of MetroPCS Communications Inc's proposed merger with T-Mobile USA, saying the deal undervalued the company and shareholders should vote against it.

* PVH Corp forecast 2013 profit well short of Wall Street estimates as the clothing maker now expects its acquisition of Warnaco to drag on earnings this year due to the additional time needed to complete the integration. PVH shares fell 5 percent in trading after the bell.

* Clearwire Corp plans to notify Sprint Nextel Corp S.N on Thursday that it will tap another $80 million of financing in April as part of its deal with the No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier, two people close to the matter said.

* Cable firm Liberty Global said on Thursday it had bought a 12.65 percent stake in Dutch cable firm Ziggo for 632.5 million euros ($808 million) as a strategic investment in a market where it already operates.

* Chevron Corp said on Wednesday its executive pay would reflect certain incidents in 2012 as well as a financial performance that outpaced the U.S. oil company's peer group.

* Swiss Re has settled a dispute with Berkshire Hathaway over a 2010 life reinsurance deal and will receive a $610 million payment from U.S. tycoon Warren Buffett's company, the Swiss reinsurer said on Thursday.

* A judge on Wednesday approved AMR Corp's plan to merge with US Airways Group , a step toward creating the world's largest airline.

* Citigroup Inc on Wednesday won the dismissal of a lawsuit by Woori Bank over losses from mortgage-related investments, the third such defeat in a U.S. court for a South Korean bank that had been put under state control following financial crises.

* A federal judge on Wednesday said JPMorgan Chase & Co must face a lawsuit by a pension plan that accused it of mismanaging its money by investing in Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc notes before that bank filed for bankruptcy in 2008.

* Fifteen major banks sued by the Federal Housing Finance Agency over risky housing debt urged a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday to intervene, citing "gravely prejudicial" rulings by the trial judge coordinating the litigation.

* Chesapeake Energy Corp's search for a new chief executive to replace Aubrey McClendon is likely to extend beyond an April 1 deadline, according to a person familiar with the situation.

* Gold-backed exchange-traded funds are set for their biggest quarterly outflow since inception, with investors beating a hasty retreat from the market due to a brightened global economic backdrop.

* Employment improved and housing prices rose in most major U.S. metropolitan areas in the final quarter of 2012, but output sputtered, according to a report released on Thursday by the Brookings Institution.

* On the earnings front, investors awaited quarterly results from Accenture , Gamestop Corp. , and the Mosaic Company .

* U.S. stocks rebounded from early declines to close little changed on Wednesday, but investors were still worried about the chance of a run on Cypriot banks and its possible implications for other euro-zone lenders.

* The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> fell 33.49 points or 0.23 percent, to 14,526.16 at the close. The S&P 500 <.spx> lost just 0.92 of a point, or 0.06 percent, to finish at 1,562.85. The Nasdaq Composite <.ixic> added 4.04 points or 0.12 percent, to close at 3,256.52.

(Reporting by Blaise Robinson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stock-futures-signal-flat-lower-open-101636697--finance.html

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Man pleads not guilty to extorting A&M professor

HOUSTON (AP) ? James Arnt Aune was regarded as a fine scholar, mentor and friend by students and his fellow professors at Texas A&M University, where he headed the school's Department of Communication.

But Aune, who jumped to his death from the roof of a campus parking garage in January, battled depression in recent years. He struggled with the administrative duties of being a department head, and he was badly shaken by his 2007 battle with prostate cancer, which he survived but which forced him to face his own mortality, his widow said.

"He never really came all the way back," Miriam Aune said of his surviving cancer.

He began drinking heavily, and in December he started a sexually explicit online relationship with what he thought was an underage girl, according to prosecutors. He was soon contacted by a man purporting to be her outraged father, who threatened to expose Aune unless he paid him $5,000.

Aune paid the man $1,500, but he didn't know if he could come up with the rest, authorities say. He confessed to his wife, who pledged to stand by him, but about a week later, the 59-year-old Aune jumped to his death after sending a final text: "Killing myself now. And u will be prosecuted for black mail."

The man who got that text, according to prosecutors, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a Houston federal courtroom to an extortion charge. The 37-year-old Metairie, La., resident was ordered to remain in jail without bail, and his trial is scheduled for May 28. If convicted, he faces up to two years in jail. His court-appointed attorney, Marjorie Meyers, declined to comment about the case.

Authorities allege that Aune was one of many victims of a scheme in which the man used his daughter to lure men into sexually explicit online relationships and later blackmailed them. The Associated Press isn't naming the man to protect the identity of his daughter.

In the criminal complaint, prosecutors contend that the man's daughter told authorities in Louisiana in 2011 that her father took naked photos and videos of her and used them "to scam men" through MocoSpace, a social networking website mainly for mobile devices.

On the site, "she would meet men, get their phone numbers and send them pictures and videos then (her father) would call them and say how she was his daughter and how she would need counseling and they had to pay for it."

At the time of that 2011 interview, her father was facing two counts of oral sexual battery and two counts of aggravated incest. The charges were dropped in February 2012 due to a lack of corroborating evidence, said Rachael Domiano, a spokeswoman for the 21st Judicial District Attorney's Office in Louisiana.

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday declined to comment about certain details of the alleged scheme, and it wasn't clear from the criminal complaint if prosecutors believe the defendant's daughter actually interacted with Aune, or if her image was used to allegedly dupe him.

Miriam Aune, 56, told The Associated Press that investigators told her that the defendant was the person who communicated with her husband and other men, pretending to be his daughter. She said her husband told her he began the online chats sometime in December and that by the third or fourth day after the chats began, the defendant reached out to him asking for money.

According to court records, undated texts show Aune scrambling to put money on prepaid credit cards for the defendant and asking for his forgiveness, saying "I am very sorry. It was a weak moment."

A week before his suicide, James Aune confessed to his wife. Miriam Aune said her husband never told her why he did it.

She pledged her support for him, but said he became despondent after his confession.

"I was just telling him there was nothing that we couldn't get through. We have two autistic children we have raised to adulthood. We've been through rough stuff. I thought we could get through this," Miriam Aune said.

According to a criminal complaint, the defendant continued bombarding Aune with profanity laced emails, texts and voicemails, including a Jan. 7 email in which he warned Aune that he had until noon the next day to pay or else "the police, your place of employment, students, ALL OVER THE INTERNET ...ALL OF THEM will be able to see your conversations, texts, pictures you sent ...."

On Jan. 8 at 9:21 a.m., the defendant texted, "3 more hours. If i don't hear from you the calls start," according the criminal complaint by FBI agent Nikki Allen.

At 10:29 a.m., Aune replied, "Killing myself now And u will be prosecuted for black mail."

He jumped from the parking garage roof about a minute later, shocking the A&M campus, which is about 100 miles northwest of Houston.

Miriam Aune doesn't excuse her husband's actions. She said it was his decision to go online and begin the conversations.

"It just shows you anybody can slip off the path. I know a lot of people are very surprised by this. He was very human with flaws, just like all of us," she said.

But she said it saddens her to know that some people will only remember her husband for what happened at the end of his life.

"To him, being a professor, it was a sacred duty to him. And he cared so much about his students," she said as she cried. "The people who know him, who loved him, they are not going to feel any differently about him."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/man-pleads-not-guilty-extorting-m-professor-004902354.html

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Karl Rove Suggests Stephen Colbert May Need 'Anger Management'

Karl Rove, Fox News contributor and former deputy chief of staff for President George W. Bush, says of comedian-satirist Stephen Colbert's interactions with Rove's bespectacled canned-ham likeness, "Ham Rove," "He's an entertainer so he gets to be funny and exaggerate things and so forth. Though I have to admit, when he took out the knife and started stabbing it, I think he might need a little bit of professional counseling on his anger management issues."

Rove joked "I don't know whether that was working out his inner feelings, or encouraging maybe someone to maybe mimic him or just sort of being funny. But there was a little bit of anxiety in his stabs there."

Before joining the "This Week" roundtable, Rove sat down with ABC News' Benjamin Bell, answering a variety of viewer questions from Facebook, including the lighthearted about "Ham Rove" and George W. Bush's paintings, his career and his thoughts on the Iraq War 10 years later.

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Q: What do you think of President Bush's paintings?

A: "I have one. I have one of the original, first forty-threes. He painted my wife and our dogs. And he's pretty good. Particularly, I called him when Barney died. And he'd painted a picture of Barney, which I thought was really, you know, clearly from the heart."

Q: In your opinion, what was the greatest accomplishment of the Bush administration?

A: "Well, if you had to pick one, it would obviously be in the aftermath of 9/11, keeping America safe and foiling efforts to follow on the attack of 9/11 with others."

Q: When you think about the Iraq War, 10 years after the invasion, do you have any regrets?

A: "Sure, of course. Looking at the end of any conflict, I bet people look back and clearly have regret about the loss of life. And clearly, everything in hindsight, you know, becomes clear as to what you should have done or shouldn't have done. Every conflict is like that.

"But the world is a safer place with Saddam Hussein gone. If he were not removed from power, can you imagine what the Middle East would look like today with Saddam Hussein, who was successfully undermining the United Nations by ignoring the agreements he made in the aftermath of the first Gulf War, undermining the oil for sanctions regime, had every confidence that he could ultimately be free of them, and he would be emboldened with, you know, a fifth of the world's oil supplies and the capacity to reinstitute his dangerous weapons programs. And if he were not alive, the country would be run by one of his sadistic sons, Uday or Qusay. And can you imagine how difficult that would make that part of the world? In retrospect, sure, lots of regrets. Lots of things you would like to have done differently. But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone."

Q: Do you consider Chief Justice Roberts to be a disappointment?

A: "Well, in one sense, yeah, you wish he had gone on the other side and been 5-4 declaring [President Obama's health care law] unconstitutional. On the other hand, when you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.

"You appoint them for their leadership and their legal acumen. And you have to look at the long. .. narrative of his record on the court, which is only now beginning. Had I wish he had acted differently in it? Yes, but on the other hand, he's been a strong leader who has restored public confidence in the court and has led the court to make some important decisions."

Lightning Round:

Q: iPhone or Blackberry?

A: "iPhone, of course."

Q: Favorite movie of the year?

A: "It's a tie, 'Skyfall' and 'Lincoln.' I enjoyed both of them immensely. Best Bond movie ever. And a really fine movie on 'Lincoln.'"

Q: Comfort food?

A: "Fried chicken."

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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Cyprus locked in tough talks as deadline looms

People walk at the old city of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

People walk at the old city of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

People buy goods from a vegetable market, in central Nicosia, on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for and international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A man plays with his guitar as a woman passes at Ledras street in Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

A elderly woman buys goods from a vegetable market, in central Nicosia, on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Politicians in Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for and international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A woman drinks a coffee and smokes in the old city of the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Politicians on Cyprus were racing Saturday to complete an alternative plan raising funds necessary for the country to qualify for an international bailout, with a potential bankruptcy just three days away. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

(AP) ? Cyprus officials and international representatives were caught up in tortuous negotiations late into the night Saturday as they sought to forge a plan to raise the money the island nation needs to qualify for a bailout package. Failure would mean Cyprus could declare bankruptcy in just three days and possibly have to exit the eurozone.

It was not clear how far the two sides were getting: the information seeping out was conflicting.

Late in the evening, a finance ministry official said an accord was "very close," and would likely include a hefty tax of a fifth to a quarter of deposits over 100,000 euros at the country's troubled largest lender, Bank of Cyprus. But a banking official with knowledge of the talks said no deal was in the offing and wouldn't likely arrive before Sunday.

Both spoke on condition of anonymity because negotiations were ongoing and they were not authorized to release details.

Meanwhile, the state-run Cyprus News Agency quoted an anonymous top official as saying an agreement was not within sight because of the "rigid stance" by the representative of the International Monetary Fund.

Cyprus has been told it must raise 5.8 billion euros ($7.5 billion) in order to secure 10 billion euros in rescue loans from other European countries that use the single currency, as well as from the IMF.

The IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission ? known as the troika ? will determine whether the plan that the Cypriots devise will meet the requirements for any international bailout package. Then, the plan is to be presented to the eurozone finance ministers for final approval.

The country's lawmakers soundly rejected an unpopular initial plan that would have seized up to 10 percent of people's bank accounts, and Cyprus is now seeking another way to raise the desperately needed money. But the idea of some sort of deposit grab returned to the fore after Cyprus' attempt to gain Russian financial aid failed.

According to a second finance ministry official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to speak about the negotiations, new laws may not be needed if negotiators opt for a "voluntary contribution" from Bank of Cyprus savings accounts above 100,000 euros, which is the insurance limit.

Another option being considered is smaller tax on all bank deposits above 100,000 euros.

The ECB has said it will stop providing emergency funding to Cyprus' banks after Monday if no new plan is in place. Without the ECB's support, Cypriot banks would collapse on Tuesday, pushing the country toward bankruptcy and a potential exit from the 17-nation bloc that uses the euro currency.

"We recognize the progress now being made by the Cypriot government toward a solution which can pave the way for an agreement on a financial assistance program for Cyprus," European monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels. "Intensive work and contacts will continue in the coming hours."

President Nicos Anastasiades was among those locked in the late-night talks at his presidential palace with the troika and others. A eurozone finance ministers meeting is due to be held in Brussels on Sunday evening. Anastasiades was also expected to fly there.

Cypriot banks have been shut this past week while the plan was being worked out, and are not due to reopen until Tuesday. Cash has been available through ATMs, but many run out quickly, and those machines for the troubled Laiki Bank are only dispensing 260 euros a day.

Cyprus took significant steps toward cementing a new plan Friday night, when its lawmakers approved nine bills, including three crucial ones that will restructure ailing banks, restrict financial transactions in emergencies and set up a "solidarity fund" that will act as the vehicle for raising funds from investments and contributions.

The bank restructuring will include the country's troubled second largest lender, Laiki, which suffered heavy losses after being exposed to toxic Greek debt.

Thousands of angry bank employees afraid of losing their jobs marched through the center of Nicosia to the Finance Ministry and Parliament, some with placards around their necks reading: "No to the bankruptcy of Cyprus."

"We are protesting for our jobs, and jobs of all in Cyprus," bank employee Zoei Koiachi said.

Worried about her job after 36 years at Laiki, Eleni Koutsourdou said lawmakers should have approved the initial plan for the 10 percent deposit grab for the sake of protecting the financial sector. "It's unfair. They pocketed everything and we end up paying for it," she said.

The restructuring of Laiki and the sale of the toxic-asset laden Greek branches of Cypriot banks is expected to cut the amount the country needs to raise to about 3 billion euros instead of 5.8 billion euros, officials have said. Bank of Cyprus, which was also exposed to Greek debt, might also be involved in the restructuring.

"We have to be clear to protect the financial system and for banks to open Tuesday with a clear picture," Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said.

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Elena Becatoros in Nicosia contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Britain to offer childcare tax break to parents

By Peter Griffiths

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron will unveil a new tax break on Tuesday to help working parents with their childcare costs from 2015, the government said, seeking to placate families squeezed by austerity, a stagnant economy and weak wage growth.

The announcement comes a day before Chancellor George Osborne is due to reject calls to abandon the coalition government's deficit reduction programme when he delivers his budget statement to parliament.

Trailing in the polls before an election due in 2015, Cameron and Osborne's Conservatives are accused by the Labour opposition of choking the economic recovery with a focus on austerity rather than growth.

Under pressure to do more to revive the economy and help hard-pressed households, Cameron will visit a nursery school in London on Tuesday to set out details of the tax break. It will be open to 2.5 million families and will be worth up to 1,200 pounds ($1,800) a year per child.

Britain's childcare costs are among the highest in the world, hitting parents already struggling with years of rising household bills and economic uncertainty.

"This is a boost direct to the pockets of hard-working families in what will be one of the biggest measures ever introduced to help parents with childcare costs," Cameron said in a statement.

A finance ministry spokeswoman said around 1 billion pounds had been set aside for the scheme, doubling the existing budget and taking in five times as many parents. The annual breakdown of public funding for the system will be announced later.

The Labour Party, which urged Osborne on Saturday to cut payroll taxes to boost growth, said many families had already lost money in government cuts.

"This announcement will not make up for the up to 1,500 pounds that families on middle and low incomes have lost in cuts to childcare support," Labour education spokesman Stephen Twigg said.

(Editing by Alison Williams)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/britain-offer-childcare-tax-break-parents-001527700--business.html

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Volunteer Firefighter Reportedly Shoots Juvenile Home Intruder: &#39;It&#39;s ...

Police: Virginia Homeowner Shoots Juvenile Home Intruder From Local High School

(Photo: NBC4 Washington)

Details are scarce in the case of a Virginia homeowner who shot a suspected home intruder who police say was a teenager from the local high school.

No names have been released at this point, but local and national news outlets are beginning to piece together the story.

ABC7 summarized what?s known at this point:

Loudoun County Sheriff?s officials will only say that between 2:30 and 3 a.m. Sunday, a homeowner in the 4500 block of Pullman Court shot and killed a juvenile intruder. But they won?t say why the intruder was in the house.

Neighbors say the homeowner is a volunteer firefighter. When ABC7 called the closest fire house, the person who answered said no one was permitted to say anything. Neighbors also say the young man who was shot and killed lived nearby.

[...]

?I know it?s an intruder but I don?t see why your first instinct is to shoot somebody,? said Parkview High School graduate Tyler Henderson.

Henderson says he played basketball with the victim only a few days ago. He and Parkview student Caroline Zomparelli say they heard that the young man accidentally went into the house after coming home from a party.

?It?s so shocking?it can happen so quickly,? Zomparelli said.

Sterling resident Jeremy Early said the entire scenario sounds tragic, but he stresses that if the homeowner was caught off guard in the middle of the night by an intruder, the homeowner had the right to defend himself.? [Emphasis added]

Apparently condolences and expressions of remorse have flooded local social media networks, and grief counselors will be at the school on Monday.

?It?s a horrible situation,? Early added, saying he doesn?t want to ?lay blame? on anybody.? ?It?s sad that it was a neighborhood boy?and your family.?

Here?s more on the story from NBC4 Washington:

?This post may be updated.

Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/18/volunteer-firefighter-reportedly-shoots-juvenile-home-intruder-its-a-horrible-situation/

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Monday, March 18, 2013

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

New China premier pledges strong ties with US

Chinese soldiers march outside the Great Hall of the People before the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Chinese soldiers march outside the Great Hall of the People before the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

(AP) ? China's new premier says his government is committed to strong relations with the U.S. and sees a strong outlook for trade and investment between the sides.

Li Keqiang told reporters at a Sunday news conference that despite their differences, conflict between the world's first and second largest economies is not inevitable. China's new leaders "attach great importance" to relations with the U.S. and will work with Barack Obama's administration to move ties into a new stage, Li said.

Two-way trade hit almost $500 billion last, although disputes linger over Chinese trade practices, opposition to Chinese investment in the U.S. and complaints over alleged Chinese computer hacking.

Li was speaking in his first news conference since being appointed premier last week with primary responsibility for running the Chinese economy.

Associated Press

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Transplanted brain cells in monkeys light up personalized therapy

Friday, March 15, 2013

For the first time, scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from a monkey's skin into its brain and watched the cells develop into several types of mature brain cells, according to the authors of a new study in Cell Reports. After six months, the cells looked entirely normal, and were only detectable because they initially were tagged with a fluorescent protein.

Because the cells were derived from adult cells in each monkey's skin, the experiment is a proof-of-principle for the concept of personalized medicine, where treatments are designed for each individual.

And since the skin cells were not "foreign" tissue, there were no signs of immune rejection ? potentially a major problem with cell transplants. "When you look at the brain, you cannot tell that it is a graft," says senior author Su-Chun Zhang, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Structurally the host brain looks like a normal brain; the graft can only be seen under the fluorescent microscope."

Marina Emborg, an associate professor of medical physics at UW-Madison and the lead co-author of the study, says, "This is the first time I saw, in a nonhuman primate, that the transplanted cells were so well integrated, with such a minimal reaction. And after six months, to see no scar, that was the best part."

The cells were implanted in the monkeys "using a state-of-the-art surgical procedure" guided by an MRI image, says Emborg. The three rhesus monkeys used in the study at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center had a lesion in a brain region that causes the movement disorder Parkinson's disease, which afflicts up to 1 million Americans. Parkinson's is caused by the death of a small number of neurons that make dopamine, a signaling chemical used in the brain.

The transplanted cells came from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), which can, like embryonic stem cells, develop into virtually any cell in the body. iPS cells, however, derive from adult cells rather than embryos.

In the lab, the iPS cells were converted into neural progenitor cells. These intermediate-stage cells can further specialize into the neurons that carry nerve signals, and the glial cells that perform many support and nutritional functions. This final stage of maturation occurred inside the monkey.

Zhang, who was the first in the world to derive neural cells from embryonic stem cells and then iPS cells, says one key to success was precise control over the development process. "We differentiate the stem cells only into neural cells. It would not work to transplant a cell population contaminated by non-neural cells."

Another positive sign was the absence of any signs of cancer, says Zhang ? a worrisome potential outcome of stem cell transplants. "Their appearance is normal, and we also used antibodies that mark cells that are dividing rapidly, as cancer cells are, and we do not see that. And when you look at what the cells have become, they become neurons with long axons [conducting fibers], as we'd expect. They also produce oligodendrocytes that are helping build insulating myelin sheaths for neurons, as they should. That means they have matured correctly, and are not cancerous."

The experiment was designed as a proof of principle, says Zhang, who leads a group pioneering the use of iPS cells at the Waisman Center on the UW-Madison campus. The researchers did not transplant enough neurons to replace the dopamine-making cells in the brain, and the animal's behavior did not improve.

Although promising, the transplant technique is a long way from the clinic, Zhang adds. "Unfortunately, this technique cannot be used to help patients until a number of questions are answered: Can this transplant improve the symptoms? Is it safe? Six months is not long enough? And what are the side effects? You may improve some symptoms, but if that leads to something else, then you have not solved the problem."

Nonetheless, the new study represents a real step forward that may benefit human patients suffering from several diseases, says Emborg. "By taking cells from the animal and returning them in a new form to the same animal, this is a first step toward personalized medicine."

The need for treatment is incessant, says Emborg, noting that each year, Parkinson's is diagnosed in 60,000 patients. "I'm gratified that the Parkinson's Disease Foundation took a risk as the primary funder for this small study. Now we want to move ahead and see if this leads to a real treatment for this awful disease."

"It's really the first-ever transplant of iPS cells from a non-human primate back into the same animal, not just in the brain," says Zhang. "I have not seen anybody transplanting reprogrammed iPS cells into the blood, the pancreas or anywhere else, into the same primate. This proof-of-principle study in primates presents hopes for personalized regenerative medicine."

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Friday, March 15, 2013

Larry Page continues to shake up Google, splits up mapping and commerce unit

DEAR ABBY: I have been married 30 years and have raised four children to adulthood. I recently found out my husband has been having an affair with a prostitute from a strip club. He paid all her living expenses and promised to marry her. She was 26 when it started; he is 56. He told her his wife had run away with another man and that he was divorced. When I confronted him, he lied, lied, lied.He wants to continue living together and pretend nothing happened. He went to counseling and quit. Then he went to a psychiatrist, who diagnosed him with a "mixed personality disorder. ...

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Dreaming big despite adversity: Oscar Niemeyer ? Business ...

Oscar Niemeyer, one of the world?s most prominent modern architects, is re??nowned for his light, airy and fanciful structures. Famous for designing the capital city of Bras?lia, and for collaborating with Le Corbusier on the United Nations headquarters in New York, Niemeyer was a pioneer in curving concrete and giant, graceful arches. The Brazilian architect died last year in Rio de Janeiro at age 104.

EL: You?re the first leader in the creative arts we?ve interviewed, and the first who is not from North America.

Niemeyer: I am honored.

EL: You found beauty in reinforced concrete. How?

Niemeyer: Strength and beauty may coexist. I believe not that ?form follows function,? but that ?form follows beauty.? My work follows the liberated, sensual curves of the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman. Surprise and enchantment are my goals.

EL: There?s a story from when you were a young assistant in 1936, helping prepare drawings for a ministry in Rio. Didn?t Le Corbusier come to visit and ?

Niemeyer: I decided to make some sketches based on his. Corbu had de??signed glass to the ground and concrete shades. I devised a passageway and generally streamlined the shapes. They came and asked to see my drawings, and not wanting to interfere, I threw them out the window. They sent someone to fetch them, and liked what I did.

EL: Your work is described as jaunty and uplifting, aware of light and moun??tains, sea and sky.

Niemeyer: Corbu once said that I had Rio?s mountains in my eyes. I laughed.

EL: A fascist regime ruled Brazil for 21 years, most of which you spent in Europe. Until your exit, you had been very practical about working with the government. What made you go?

Niemeyer:? I was in Lisbon in 1964 when I heard that the Brazilian military, backed by the United States, had overthrown the government. They ransacked my studio. When I got home, they interrogated me. But I stayed for a few years. Little by little, I felt the pressure against me growing. They rejected my airport design and tore down a school I built. When an army officer told me I would be arrested the next day, I left for Paris.

EL: You stayed away until 1985. During that time, you produced some of your best work, including a headquarters for the Mondadori publishing house in Italy and two major buildings in France. You also visited the Soviet Union. Didn?t the public architecture there make you grind your teeth?

Niemeyer: Yes. I told them, ?On the politics, I?m with you. But your architecture is awful. Look, I didn?t come here to criticize, but you asked. It?s terrible.?

EL: After you came back to Rio, you picked right up, designing stadiums and an art museum that looks like a flying saucer.

Niemeyer: We absolutely need to look at the sky and feel how insignificant we are?the offspring of nature.

EL: People still marvel at your ability to complete public works under adverse conditions.

Niemeyer: I have said it before and I will tell you: The ultimate task of a leader is to dream. Otherwise, things don?t happen.

Sources: The New York Times Magazine; The Economist, Museu Oscar Niemeyer.

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Businesses Say Median Strip Hurting Sales | 5NEWSOnline.com

The Highway 412 lane expansion project from Washington Avenue to State Line Road in Siloam Springs expanded the road from four to six lanes. But now there is a median that some say is preventing drivers from turning left directly into businesses.

City officials and business owners say the median prevents drivers from having direct access to businesses on the opposite side so, drivers have to make a U-turn to get where they need to go.

?There are approximately 117 businesses in that area that are affected immediately by this median,? said Holland Hayden, City of Siloam Springs Director of Communications.

Some businesses say they?re seeing fewer customers because getting there isn?t convenient for drivers.

?Usually people can turn in this way but they can`t turn in that way because they have to go all the way to the stoplight and turn around so it`s hard for business,? said A.J Yoeum, Shipley Donuts.

Several businesses are affected.

?Kind of slow down a lot because people have to turn around and they don?t like it,? added Dong Tran at Lee?s Nails.

The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department expanded the section of Highway 412 from four to six lanes because of increased traffic.

The state reported a traffic increase from 14,000 vehicles in 1986 to 28,000 in 2005 when the study was conducted.

The median is there for several safety reasons and previously that section of Highway 412 was not access controlled.

Officials said there are many driveways to businesses from the highway along that stretch which results in a high number of left turns.

With the increasing volume of traffic and the recent expansion left turns need to be controlled for safety and efficient moving traffic, which is the purpose of the median, according to officials.

Hayden said during the planning phases there were several public meetings where residents and business owners were able to express concerns.

?Because we knew that it was going to really affect the town and businesses in Siloam Springs we tried to offer a lot of different solutions.? However at the end of the day we didn?t have much say to it.?

State officials say 34 percent of those who attended the meetings supported the improvements which included the median.

And some say it`s just going to take time for people to get used to making a U-turns.

?It took them awhile to realize hey it is legal to make a U-turn, they would say ?we can`t get there anymore,? and I would say ?no it?s legal, just go to the stoplight turn around and come back,?? said Sylvia Burnett, head waitress at Callahan?s Steak House.

The state is currently in the design phases on continuing the expansion project east of Washington Avenue.

The project was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Source: http://5newsonline.com/2013/03/12/businesses-say-median-strip-hurting-sales/

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Bruno Latour wins the 2013 Holberg Prize and Ingvild Alm&#229;s wins the 2013 Nils Klim Prize

Bruno Latour wins the 2013 Holberg Prize and Ingvild Alm?s wins the 2013 Nils Klim Prize [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 13-Mar-2013
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sigmund.gronmo@rektor.uib.no
47-555-82002
The University of Bergen

Chairman of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund, Sigmund Gronmo, announced the winners in Norway today, Mar. 13.

The Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund has decided to award the 2013 Holberg International Memorial Prize to anthropologist and sociologist Bruno Latour. The Prize amount is NOK 4.5 million (EUR 610,000/USD 790,000). The 2013 Nils Klim Prize is awarded to Norwegian economist Ingvild Alms. The Prize amount is NOK 250,000 (EUR 34,000/USD 43,000).

Chairman of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund, Sigmund Grnmo, announced the winners in Bergen, Norway, today, 13 March. The Prize winners will receive the prizes at an award ceremony in Hkonshallen in Bergen, Norway on 5 June 2013.

Questions the natural sciences' production of knowledge

French anthropologist and sociologist Bruno Latour has been described by the Holberg Prize Academic Committee as a creative, humorous and unpredictable researcher. The Academic Committee justifies the award for this year's Holberg Prize by stating that "Bruno Latour has undertaken an ambitious analysis and reinterpretation of modernity, and has challenged fundamental concepts such as the distinction between modern and pre-modern, nature and society, human and non-human. ()The impact of Latour's work is evident internationally and far beyond studies of the history of science, art history, history, philosophy, anthropology, geography, theology, literature and law." Latour is currently Professor at Sciences Po in Paris.

Laboratory life (1979), authored with Steven Woolgar, was the first of a number of pioneering publications that have set the standard for ethnographic analyses of the making of scientific facts. In We have never been modern (1991) Latour questions the absolute division between nature and society, a division that several phenomena in our age, such as e.g. biotechnology, climate change and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, make it difficult to maintain. He claims that this is a division that has never existed in an absolute form and proposes radical new ways of facing this reality.

A strong, public voice

In the 1980s Latour, together with colleagues Michel Callon and John Law, developed the "Actor Network Theory" (ANT) as a method. The basic premise is that society consists of a network of actors, where all actors influence and are influenced by the network and each other. His involvement in museum science, aesthetics and the use of digital techniques in the humanities led to spectacular museum exhibitions Iconoclash (2002) and Making Things Public (2005) which sparked debate and involvement around subjects related to knowledge and freedom of information.

Since the late 1990s Latour has been involved in the discourse on environmental challenges and climate change, which led to the book Politics of Nature (1999). Here he argues that when modernization has progressed so far that nature rebels, it is time to "ecologize" rather than "modernize". In his latest book Inquiry into Modes of Existence An Anthropology of the Modern (2012) he pursues this debate further and also launches a digital online counterpart, http://www.modesofexistence.org, where others may contribute to research.

Ingvild Alms - new methods for measuring inequality

Ingvild Alms is a Norwegian economist who in just a few years has become established as a leading international researcher. She is currently employed as associate professor at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, where she researches the measuring of inequalities in income and what is perceived as justifiable differences in terms of inequalities in income. In addition to covering a wide field of research and publishing articles in leading scientific journals, she actively participates in social debate.

Alms' doctoral thesis "Essays in Economic Inequality" (2008) aroused much attention both in Norway and internationally. One of the essays was published in world-leading journal American Economics Review, which made her the first Nordic woman to publish a single-authored paper in that journal. The article demonstrated a new method for measuring international inequalities and criticised existing methods for major weaknesses that have led income levels in certain countries, for example China, to being overrated.

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Our website presents the academic committee's statement, interviews, texts, pictures, etc., on the prize winners: http://www.holbergprisen.no/en

Press contacts:

Information about the prizes and the announcement:

Professor Sigmund Grnmo
Chair of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund

Press contact in US:

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Cornell University
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Bruno Latour wins the 2013 Holberg Prize and Ingvild Alm?s wins the 2013 Nils Klim Prize [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 13-Mar-2013
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Contact: Sigmund Gr?nmo
sigmund.gronmo@rektor.uib.no
47-555-82002
The University of Bergen

Chairman of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund, Sigmund Gronmo, announced the winners in Norway today, Mar. 13.

The Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund has decided to award the 2013 Holberg International Memorial Prize to anthropologist and sociologist Bruno Latour. The Prize amount is NOK 4.5 million (EUR 610,000/USD 790,000). The 2013 Nils Klim Prize is awarded to Norwegian economist Ingvild Alms. The Prize amount is NOK 250,000 (EUR 34,000/USD 43,000).

Chairman of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund, Sigmund Grnmo, announced the winners in Bergen, Norway, today, 13 March. The Prize winners will receive the prizes at an award ceremony in Hkonshallen in Bergen, Norway on 5 June 2013.

Questions the natural sciences' production of knowledge

French anthropologist and sociologist Bruno Latour has been described by the Holberg Prize Academic Committee as a creative, humorous and unpredictable researcher. The Academic Committee justifies the award for this year's Holberg Prize by stating that "Bruno Latour has undertaken an ambitious analysis and reinterpretation of modernity, and has challenged fundamental concepts such as the distinction between modern and pre-modern, nature and society, human and non-human. ()The impact of Latour's work is evident internationally and far beyond studies of the history of science, art history, history, philosophy, anthropology, geography, theology, literature and law." Latour is currently Professor at Sciences Po in Paris.

Laboratory life (1979), authored with Steven Woolgar, was the first of a number of pioneering publications that have set the standard for ethnographic analyses of the making of scientific facts. In We have never been modern (1991) Latour questions the absolute division between nature and society, a division that several phenomena in our age, such as e.g. biotechnology, climate change and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, make it difficult to maintain. He claims that this is a division that has never existed in an absolute form and proposes radical new ways of facing this reality.

A strong, public voice

In the 1980s Latour, together with colleagues Michel Callon and John Law, developed the "Actor Network Theory" (ANT) as a method. The basic premise is that society consists of a network of actors, where all actors influence and are influenced by the network and each other. His involvement in museum science, aesthetics and the use of digital techniques in the humanities led to spectacular museum exhibitions Iconoclash (2002) and Making Things Public (2005) which sparked debate and involvement around subjects related to knowledge and freedom of information.

Since the late 1990s Latour has been involved in the discourse on environmental challenges and climate change, which led to the book Politics of Nature (1999). Here he argues that when modernization has progressed so far that nature rebels, it is time to "ecologize" rather than "modernize". In his latest book Inquiry into Modes of Existence An Anthropology of the Modern (2012) he pursues this debate further and also launches a digital online counterpart, http://www.modesofexistence.org, where others may contribute to research.

Ingvild Alms - new methods for measuring inequality

Ingvild Alms is a Norwegian economist who in just a few years has become established as a leading international researcher. She is currently employed as associate professor at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, where she researches the measuring of inequalities in income and what is perceived as justifiable differences in terms of inequalities in income. In addition to covering a wide field of research and publishing articles in leading scientific journals, she actively participates in social debate.

Alms' doctoral thesis "Essays in Economic Inequality" (2008) aroused much attention both in Norway and internationally. One of the essays was published in world-leading journal American Economics Review, which made her the first Nordic woman to publish a single-authored paper in that journal. The article demonstrated a new method for measuring international inequalities and criticised existing methods for major weaknesses that have led income levels in certain countries, for example China, to being overrated.

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Our website presents the academic committee's statement, interviews, texts, pictures, etc., on the prize winners: http://www.holbergprisen.no/en

Press contacts:

Information about the prizes and the announcement:

Professor Sigmund Grnmo
Chair of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund

Press contact in US:

Professor Michael Lynch
Cornell University
M: 1-607-266-7063
mel27@cornell.edu


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