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ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Greece's new prime minister was released from hospital Monday, two days after undergoing eye surgery that will prevent him from traveling to a European Union summit in Brussels this week.
The meeting will be critical for Greece, coming just a week after its new coalition government was formed following months of political turmoil and two inconclusive national elections.
Antonis Samaras underwent an operation to repair a detached retina on Saturday morning, and his doctors have said he will have to remain at home for several days to recover, although he can accept visits.
The country's incoming finance minister, Vassilis Rapanos, meanwhile, was still in hospital after being admitted Friday following a collapse hours before he was due to be sworn in to office. The hospital said over the weekend that his condition was improving, but it has given no details about what he is suffering from.
The ill-health that struck the top echelons of Greece's new coalition government just two days after it was formed has led to the postponement of a visit to Athens on Monday by the heads of the county's debt inspectors known as the Troika: the European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF.
"First, our concern is for the health of the prime minister and finance minister," European Commission spokesman Amadeu Altafaj Tardio said in Brussels. "They have a very long road ahead."
He said the Troika would head to Greece "as soon as possible. Both sides are interested in carrying out this assessment as soon as possible."
Samaras has appointed Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos to lead the Greek delegation at the June 28-29 summit.
Samaras' government, comprised of his New Democracy conservatives, their long-time socialist rivals PASOK and the small Democratic Left party, issued a policy statement on Saturday outlining changes it would like to make to the terms of its international bailout agreement with other EU countries and the International Monetary Fund. The changes include repealing certain tax hikes, freezing public sector layoffs and extending by two years the mid-2014 deadline for tough austerity measures.
But the government will still have to find other ways to make savings, as it tries to reform its economy and continue receiving funds from its rescue loans. And whether the government can deliver on its pledges to renegotiate some terms of the bailout will depend on how they are viewed by Greece's international creditors.
Germany, the largest single contributor, has repeatedly said Athens must stick to delivering on the spending cuts it has promised in return for billions of euros (dollars) in rescue loans. Measures taken so far include slashing public spending, cutting salaries and pensions and increasing taxes across the board.
Speaking in Luxembourg on the sidelines of a meeting of EU foreign ministers Monday, Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said the Troika must now determine how much time was lost with the Greek elections.
"But one thing is clear," he said, according to a transcript of his comments provided by the German Foreign Ministry. "We cannot allow everything to be negotiated again. We can also not allow discounts to be granted. What has been decided upon stands. That the election campaigns have cost time is obvious. That's the situation and we have to deal with it. But the fact remains that the agreements must be implemented."
Altafaj Tardio also stressed that "Greece has to face its financial obligations," adding that before any further funds can be disbursed, "there has to be a thorough analysis."
"It's no secret that there have been delays in several areas of implementation," he said. Once the Troika does arrive in Athens, its review will figure out "how we can get Greece back on track."
The latest figures released by the finance ministry Monday showed that the budget deficit for the first five months of the year was better than expected, standing at ?10.87 billion ($13.63 billion) instead of the target of ?12.89 ($16.17) on a modified cash basis.
Revenue, however, was below target with the state budget net revenue standing at ?19.666 billion, ?926 million short of the targeted ?20.592 billion, due in part to lower domestic consumer demand and lower tax revenues.
The ministry said that "this revenue shortfall was more than compensated for by the savings in State Budget expenditures for the first five months of 2012."
In preparation for the summit, Avramopoulos met on Monday with outgoing Finance Minister Giorgos Zanias ? who still holds the official title as Rapanos has not been officially sworn in ? Development Minister Costis Hatzidakis, Deputy Development Minister Notis Mitarakis and Alternative Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, as well as with the government spokesman.
Separately, Samaras' office said the prime minister would speak by phone Monday evening with US President Barack Obama.
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David Rising in Berlin and Toby Sterling in Brussels contributed.
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At the tail end of Microsoft's marathon Windows Phone Summit keynote, the company's own Kevin Gallo said the following: "Everyone in the Windows ecosystem benefits." He was waxing poetic about the myriad new features coming to the outfit's latest and greatest mobile operating system, and nothing about his quote was incorrect. Developers will adore the shared codebase. Users will adore the new additions to the software framework. Carriers probably won't shun the opportunity to push yet another platform this holiday season. But the one word in there that sticks out most to me is this: "Windows."
I've been wrestling with the ecosystem issue for some time, but the gravity of it has never been so evident. Starting in 2008, one could argue that it stopped being purely about hardware. Purely about design. Purely about software. Purely about partnerships. Particularly when it came to smartphones. Slate-style handsets were en vogue years ago, with design changing extremely little and software becoming ever more of a factor. But it wasn't just software in the simplest sense -- it was how the software was interconnected to every other piece of the digital ecosystem. Phones were no longer standalone devices; they were simply the most convenient entry into a rabbit hole that Microsoft's going to have a tough time digging people out of. Allow me to explain.
Editorial: Windows Phone 8 looks good, but can it uproot those entrenched in other ecosystems? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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THE Sahara is hardly the land of milk and honey today, but it used to be very different.
Rock paintings showing farmers with cattle are found in the area, but putting precise dates on when they were painted is difficult. Now Julie Dunne of the University of Bristol, UK, and colleagues have discovered milk residue on pottery shards from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Libyan Sahara, in layers known to be between 7200 and 5800 years old.
"The Sahara was quite a bit greener then," Dunne says. "There were lakes, grasslands and a wide variety of animal life ranging from cattle to crocodiles and hippos."
Storing milk in pots suggests it was being cured into cream or yogurt, which the lactose-intolerant prehistoric people would have been more likely to be able to digest, says Dunne.
The findings are evidence that milk played an important role in the diet of the prehistoric inhabitants of the region and confirm that dairy farming emerged in this area long before crop farming and sedentary living (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature11186).
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ScienceDaily (June 20, 2012) ? Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated in experimental models that blocking the Sigma-1 receptor, a cellular protein, reduced binge eating and caused binge eaters to eat more slowly.
The research, which is published online in Neuropsychopharmacology, was led by Pietro Cottone, PhD, and Valentina Sabino, PhD, both assistant professors in the pharmacology and psychiatry departments at BUSM.
Binge eating disorder, which affects approximately 15 million Americans, is believed to be the eating disorder that most closely resembles substance dependence. In binge eating subjects, normal regulatory mechanisms that control hunger do not function properly. Binge eaters typically gorge on "junk" foods excessively and compulsively despite knowing the adverse consequences, which are physical, emotional and social in nature. In addition, binge eaters typically experience distress and withdrawal when they abstain from junk food.
The researchers developed an experimental model of compulsive binge eating by providing a sugary, chocolate diet only for one hour a day while the control group was given a standard laboratory diet. Within two weeks, the group exposed to the sugary diet exhibited binge eating behavior and ate four times as much as the controls. In addition, the experimental binge eaters exhibited compulsive behavior by putting themselves in a potentially risky situation in order to get to the sugary food while the control group avoided the risk.
The researchers then tested whether a drug that blocks the Sigma-1 receptor could reduce binge eating of the sugary diet. The experimental data showed the drug successfully reduced binge eating by 40 percent, caused the binge eaters to eat more slowly and blocked the risky behavior.
The abnormal, risky behavior exhibited by the binge eating experimental group suggested to the researchers that there could be something wrong with how decisions were made. Because evaluation of risks and decision making are functions executed in the prefronto-cortical regions of the brain, the researchers tested whether the abundance of Sigma-1 receptors in those regions was abnormal in the binge eaters. They found that Sigma-1 receptor expression was unusually high in those areas, which could explain why blocking its function could decrease both compulsive binge eating and risky behavior.
"These findings suggest that the Sigma-1 receptor may contribute to the neurobiological adaptations that cause compulsive-like eating, opening up a new potential therapeutic treatment target for binge eating disorder," said Cottone, who also co-directs the Laboratory of Addictive Disorders at BUSM with Sabino.
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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
By Roland Jones
With the dark cloud of Europe?s ongoing financial crisis still hanging over the world financial system, the Federal Reserve opens a two-day meeting?Tuesday?with speculation swirling that policymakers could announce more stimulus to boost the U.S. economy.
A crucial Greek election over the weekend eased fears of an imminent financial disaster in the eurozone by handing?victory to New Democracy, a center-right party that supports Greece staying in the currency union. That means, for now at least, investors can stop worrying about the market chaos that would follow a Greek decision to?leave the eurozone.
Now the focus shifts to the Fed and how it might play its next hand.
Recent reports, including two straight months of weak job growth, suggest?economic growth is slowing again after a tepid recovery. That sets the stage for?Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to ask central bankers to approve more stimulus, although the options are limited. In?testimony this month Bernanke said the Fed stands ready to act if needed.
Opinions are divided over what the Fed will do.
Some economists expect policymakers to extend ?Operation Twist,? a program launched last fall that adjusts the composition of the government bonds held by the Fed by swapping short-term assets for longer-term assets. The idea is to push down long-term interest rates, making it easier for businesses and consumers to get credit. The program is due to end?June 30, although the?Fed could opt to extend it beyond that date.
Others are hoping for something stronger, such as another massive bond-buying program known as ?quantitative easing,? or QE, in which the Fed essentially?prints?money to buy long-term mortgage or Treasury bonds.
That would be?controversial?because past efforts have had a?questionable success rate, and it brings with it the risk of inflation down the road because it increases the money supply. Also, economists say the Fed is likely to want to keep something in its arsenal in case the?economic outlook worsens further?over the summer.
An extension of ?Operation Twist? is?the most likely first step, according to Former Richmond Fed President Al Broaddus.
?I think if there?s a significant risk, and action is needed, they may need to do something this week,? Broaddus told CNBC. ?My guess is it will be some kind of modification of Operation Twist.?
He said the?focus of the meeting would be?domestic U.S. conditions with some discussion of the eurozone crisis.
Barclays Capital strategists Alan James and Edmund Shing are also expecting an extension to the Fed?s Operation Twist, pointing to weakness in manufacturing output and in consumer sentiment.
?The soft patch in U.S. economic data keeps getting larger,? they wrote in a research note Monday.
One of the only other options open to the Fed is to adjust interest rates, which are already at record-low levels near zero. In January the Fed said it plans to hold down rates until late 2014 to sustain the economic recovery. The Fed would now have to signal to the market that it plans to hold rates down even further into the future.
The worsening debt crisis in Europe and fears over whether?Congress will hold off on tax increases and government spending cuts that are supposed to start in 2013 -- also known as the ?fiscal cliff? -- are weighing on consumer and business confidence.
Signs that Europe?s woes, which investors fear will have negative repercussions on the U.S. economy, are far from over were seen Monday when Spanish borrowing costs soared, with 10-year bond yields hitting 7.30 percent -- the highest in the eurozone?s history and above the rate that has forced other struggling euro-area nations to seek an international bailout.
Still, the troubles in Europe shouldn?t factor too heavily in the Fed?s plans this week, said Dino Kos, a former New York Fed executive vice president. Weakness in Europe should already be factored into the Fed?s forecast, he told CNBC.
?It shouldn?t really affect their thinking, although the situation has obviously gotten worse,? he said. ?The way it should impact their thinking is does the European slowdown affect U.S. growth, and does the growth then come down to such a degree that they need to counter it??
Kos said the best position for the Fed this week would be to hold fire, given the potential negative consequences of the fiscal cliff.
?Do you want the Federal Reserve to have something in reserve?? he said, noting that there are many uncertainties surrounding the fiscal cliff, given its timing, and the uncertainties about what the political situation will be at the end of the year.
?I would say they should wait,? he said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Dino Kos, former NY Federal Reserve Bank executive vice president and Alfred Broaddus, former Richmond Federal Reserve president, discuss the outcome of Sunday's election in Greece; the impact on U.S. markets and the economy; and whether the Fed will i...
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In honor of Father's Day, we name our favorite 'worst' dads in film, from Mrs. Doubtfire to Darth Vader.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Robin Williams in "Mrs. Doubtfire"
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The movies have given us some of the best and worst fathers in the history of pop culture. A deadbeat dad can spark the action for an entire film, and a good one can inspire the lesson you're supposed to take home from a movie.
But some dads are just so wonderfully misguided, so hilariously unfit for their role that we can't help but love them. So in honor of Father's Day, here is our rundown of some of our favorite best worst dads in film history.
Odin - "Thor"
Sure, he's the All Father, dad to Thor, and pretty terrible stepfather to Loki, but when he's really needed, what does he do? He goes into his "Odinsleep." Earth was on the brink of destruction thanks to Loki's treacherous ways, and Odin's solution is to take a nap? Granted he wakes up just in time to save Thor from falling off of the destroyed Bifröst, but we could have avoided a lot of this if he had just stayed awake a little longer.
Mrs. Doubtfire - "Mrs. Doubtfire"
There are few things that prove a man's dedication to his children like disguising himself as an elderly English woman and posing as their nanny. Also, there are fewer things that are as creepy. Robin Williams helped sell the whole notion as something that is sweet and endearing rather than a serious case of child endangerment, but the second you take a step back to think about it, the scenario seems less cutesy.
Darth Vader - "Star Wars"
Anakin Skywalker is ultimately a victim of the dark side, but you still kind of have to blame him for how long it took him to realize that he was the bad guy. The Emperor literally had to electrocute Vader's own son in front of him to get him to snap out of it. He does get some bonus points for tossing the dude down the bottomless pit.
Randy Marsh - "South Park"
There aren't many redeeming qualities to Stan's dad, Randy. He drinks, frequently ends up in his underwear and is terrible at playing "Wheel of Fortune." But there is no other fictional father that has worked his way into our hearts by being so thoroughly terrible. If you think that Randy has no right to be as bad of a dad as he is, we have this to say to you: "I thought this was America."
Engineers - "Prometheus"
(Spoilers Ahead ...)
The ripped pale guys from "Prometheus" may have created all of us by drinking the black goo and falling into a waterfall, but then what? They tried to destroy us, and they didn't even have the decency to explain why. We'll hold out more definitive judgments for a second viewing or maybe a sequel, but for now, they're kind of deadbeats.
Who's your favorite "worst" dad? Tell us in the comments! For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.
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What were the Top 10 best selling games in May 2012 in the United States?
The newest NPD numbers are in, and so are the top lists of the highest selling game systems and games for May in America.
Here is the full Top 10:
1. Diablo III (PC/Mac)** Activision Blizzard ? 1 million sales
2. Max Payne 3 (360, PS3, PC)** Take-Two Interactive ? 440,000 sales
3. Tom Clancy?s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (360, PS3) Ubisoft ? 400,000 sales
4. Prototype 2 (360, PS3)** Activision Blizzard
5. NBA 2K12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2, PC) Take-Two Interactive
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, Wii, PC)** Activision Blizzard
7. Sniper Elite V2 (360, PS3) 505 Games
8. Battlefield 3 (360, PS3, PC)** Electronic Arts
9. Dragon?s Dogma (360, PS3) Capcom ? 92,000 sales
10. Just Dance 3 (Wii, 360, PS3) Ubisoft
** Includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware. Physical retail copies only.
Diablo III?s 1 million sales was retail in the U.S. only, after adding in digital and global sales it ended up selling 6.3 million copies in its first week alone? all aboard the Hype Train!
System Sales in May 2012:
Xbox 360: 160K (-40.7%)
Nintendo 3DS: 113.5K (+17%) [Comes from Anita Fraizer statement below and last year's result.]
Nintendo Consoles & Portables Combined (3DS + DS + Wii + anything else): 285K
1. Xbox 360 ? Sold 160,000 Units.
2. PlayStation 3 ? Sold over 114,000 Units.
3. 3DS ? Sold 113,500 Units.
4 & 5. Wii & DS ? Sold 171,500 Units.
More and more gamers are getting connected through Xbox Live.
NPD?s Overall Analysis:
NPD industry analyst Anita Frazier had the following to say:
?These sales figures represent new physical retail sales of hardware, software and accessories which account for roughly 50-60% of the total consumer spend on games. When you consider our preliminary estimate for other physical format sales such as used and rentals at $155MM, and our estimate for digital format sales including full game and add-on content downloads including microtransactions, subscriptions, mobile apps and the consumer spend on social network games at $420MM, we would estimate the total consumer spend in May to be $1.17B. Our final assessment of the consumer spend on these areas outside of new physical retail sales will be reported in September in our Q2 Games Market Dynamics: U.S. report.?
On Software
?PC Games sales realized a year over year increase of 230% realizing $80MM in sales, which softened the decline in software sales overall.?
?Diablo III is the top selling title for May, the first time since July 2010 that a PC-only game accomplished this feat. Since the game launched day and date through digital distribution as well, full sales of the title are some multiple of what is reflected in the retail sales. Starcraft II was the title that topped the best-seller list in July 2010, a testament to the power of the Blizzard brand in PC gaming.?
?To dig deeper into the new physical retail software performance this month, new launches generated 31% more dollars this May than they did last May, largely due to the success of Diablo III. This May, new SKU launches across console, portable and pc game software generated 188% more unit sales per SKU than they did last May. So while there were fewer new item introductions this May, they collectively generated more unit and dollar sales.?
?YTD 2012, there have been 27% fewer new software title introductions into retail which we believe is a big part of the softness we?re seeing in May sales. A title obviously continues to see sales beyond its launch month, so there is a longer term impact from a narrower array of available new content. That said, we saw some exciting content at E3 that will come to market in the latter part of the year, and when great content comes to market, gamers are still showing up at the stores to buy it.?
On Hardware
PR shared some interesting statistics as well:
?All hardware platforms, save the 3DS, saw a decline in unit sales versus last year. The Nintendo DS, however, did realize a 35% lift over April 2012, catalyzed by the May 20th price reduction on the DSi and DSi XL. Even with the price drop on the DS platform, 3DS sales realized an increase of 17% over last May.?
Thanks to NeoGaf & cosplay photo credit Inven.
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