Mumford & Sons cancel remaining tour dates

June 14, 2013 at 7:18 AM ET

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Ted Dwane.

British folk-rockers Mumford & Sons canceled the final three U.S. dates of their "Summer Stampede" tour on Friday and said bassist Ted Dwane was out of hospital after brain surgery.

The Grammy award-winning band said Dwane was on the road to a full recovery and that the decision to cancel all concerts until a June 30th performance at the Glastonbury Festival in Britain was based on medical advice.

"It is with great joy that we can announce that Ted has been discharged from hospital and is on the road to a full recovery," the band said in a statement on its website. "The surgery went well, and the excellent medical team helping him are very pleased with his progress."

The three latest cancellations at the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee, the Telluride festival in Colorado and the Cricket Wireless Amphitheater in Kansas follow a Tuesday announcement which canceled earlier performances in Texas and Louisiana.

Dwane -- who plays bass, drums and guitar -- was taken to hospital on Monday where scans revealed a blood clot on the surface of his brain, which required an operation.

The "I Will Wait" singers asked fans for their understanding while Dwane recovers from his operation.

"We trust that you can respect our collective desire to encourage Ted to make a full recovery, and that this is based purely on the medical advice we have received," they said.

The four-member band, which formed in 2007, also includes Marcus Mumford, Winston Marshall and Ben Lovett. They won Album of the Year for "Babel" at the Grammy Awards in February.

The band thanked fans for their support and praised Dwane for his courage in facing a medical ordeal, which began with him feeling unwell for a few days followed by emergency treatment.

"He (Dwane) has been nothing short of heroic in how he has handled the whole ordeal, and now it has been medically proved that he does indeed have a brain."

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Without warning, Greece shutters its public broadcaster

The television anchor's last words were flustered.

?The riot police are moving toward the transmitters to switch them off.... This is official information we have,? were the final words he uttered near midnight Tuesday.

Then the screen at Greek public broadcaster ERT went black.

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The scene came just five hours after the government's abrupt announcement that it was shutting down ERT immediately as part of cost-cutting measures.

The shutdown of the radio and television broadcaster is the first of a series of planned closures of Greek public institutions ? part of an agreement with international creditors to reduce the national debt. In order to secure bailout funds from the troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, Greece agreed to fire 2,000 civil servants by the end of the year and 15,000 by the end of 2014. ERT had 2,656 employees.

AXING GREECE'S BBC

ERT was founded in 1938, and is patterned along the lines of the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC). Its focus is not on profit-making, but rather it aims to inform, educate, and broadcast noncommercial programs eschewed by private television networks, according to its mission statement.

ERT is also the only channel that broadcasts in remote Greek villages, with branches throughout rural Greece covering local news. Many renowned Greek figures have worked for the company, such as composer Manos Chatzidakis ? he took over the broadcaster's Third Radio Channel in 1975, changing its format to focus on classical music and culture. ERT has informed generations of Greeks, because until 1989 there were no private TV channels in Greece.

And ERT has had an international reach as well: its Kosmos 93.6 radio station has broadcast worldwide to serve the Greek diaspora. The station was praised for its ability to bring the 2004 Athens Olympics into living rooms worldwide.

But government spokesman and former ERT news presenter Simos Kedikoglou, announcing ERT's closure yesterday, called the broadcaster "a breeding farm for scandal,? an allusion to nepotism at the institution. For many years, governments of both traditional ruling parties, the conservative New Democracy and center-left PASOK, have hired not on merit but on political connections. Neither party had previously attempted to change the practice, however.

?ERT is a characteristic case of unique opacity and unbelievable waste ? and that ends today," Mr. Kedikoglou, a member of New Democracy, said. The broadcaster "costs three to seven times as much as other TV stations and four to six times the personnel ? for a very small viewership, about half that of an average private station."

"The government has decided to close ERT and replace it with a modern television and radio broadcaster as soon as possible," he added. "The employees of ERT may apply."

UNEXPECTED REVERSAL

Kedikoglou's comments are an about-face for him and New Democracy from 19 months ago. At that time, while his party was in the opposition, they opposed a move by the then-current government to shut down one of ERT?s three TV channels.

"ERT is a public asset," he said then. "Shrinking it is only beneficial to private and foreign interests and we will not allow this to happen." He expressed bewilderment over what benefits would accrue from cutbacks to the broadcaster.

Critics of ERT's closure are making similar comments today.

?The argument that ERT is insolvent doesn't hold up because until recently, it was a profitable [organization],? says Giorgos Plios, president of the Department of Communications and Media at the University of Athens.

?It does have some debts, but they?re smaller than those the private TV stations have. And let's not forget that 25 percent of its profits go to state coffers ? it is unthinkable not to have a public radio and TV station in a European country.?

Some say this particular shutdown is a diversion.

?It?s not impossible that some advisers wondered that 'if we do this, it will shift world attention to this, instead of the Russians' interest in [the] privatization [of Greece's natural gas company],? says Yannis Metaksa, professor of political science at the University of Athens and also a former ERT president.

PROTESTS FROM JOURNALISTS

Meanwhile, before the broadcast transmission went dark, ERT journalists reacted by streaming programming through the ERT website while asking their audience to join them at protests at the broadcaster's headquarters in Athens and their stations throughout Greece. From the early evening on, riot police appeared outside the Athens headquarters and blocked some employees from entering the building.

?There?s just one word to describe this and that?s fascism,? says Katerina Theodorakopoulou, sitting outside the ERT headquarters this morning for a second day with her fellow journalism students. ?Of course, we would have like to have worked for ERT ? we were [just] discussing that it has offers the best quality programming.?

Nikos Leandros, journalism professor at Panteion University in Athens, says the decision ?increases unemployment among journalists and filmmakers tremendously and it deeply affect their social security funds, as ERT was one of the few institutions that [actually] paid their pension contributions.?

Many say that this move will just benefit the private media companies by removing competition.

"By staging a coup and by ignoring the [Greek] Constitution and the parliamentary process, they?re trying to pursue the sale of public property to the benefit of the feudal lords of the [private] media,? says Dimitris Trimis, president of the Union of Print-Journalists in Athens. "The coup will not be allowed."

Greece's journalist unions are staging rolling strikes at private broadcasters to protest ERT's closure. The country's two largest labor unions have also called for a 24-hour strike Thursday.

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Video gamers really do see more: Gamers capture more information faster for visual decision-making

June 11, 2013 ? Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player's hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, according to Duke University researchers.

"Gamers see the world differently," said Greg Appelbaum, an assistant professor of psychiatry in the Duke School of Medicine. "They are able to extract more information from a visual scene."

It can be difficult to find non-gamers among college students these days, but from among a pool of subjects participating in a much larger study in Stephen Mitroff's Visual Cognition Lab at Duke, the researchers found 125 participants who were either non-gamers or very intensive gamers.

Each participant was run though a visual sensory memory task that flashed a circular arrangement of eight letters for just one-tenth of a second. After a delay ranging from 13 milliseconds to 2.5 seconds, an arrow appeared, pointing to one spot on the circle where a letter had been. Participants were asked to identify which letter had been in that spot.

At every time interval, intensive players of action video games outperformed non-gamers in recalling the letter.

Earlier research by others has found that gamers are quicker at responding to visual stimuli and can track more items than non-gamers. When playing a game, especially one of the "first-person shooters," a gamer makes "probabilistic inferences" about what he's seeing -- good guy or bad guy, moving left or moving right -- as rapidly as he can.

Appelbaum said that with time and experience, the gamer apparently gets better at doing this. "They need less information to arrive at a probabilistic conclusion, and they do it faster."

Both groups experienced a rapid decay in memory of what the letters had been, but the gamers outperformed the non-gamers at every time interval.

The visual system sifts information out from what the eyes are seeing, and data that isn't used decays quite rapidly, Appelbaum said. Gamers discard the unused stuff just about as fast as everyone else, but they appear to be starting with more information to begin with.

The researchers examined three possible reasons for the gamers' apparently superior ability to make probabilistic inferences. Either they see better, they retain visual memory longer or they've improved their decision-making.

Looking at these results, Applebaum said, it appears that prolonged memory retention isn't the reason. But the other two factors might both be in play -- it is possible that the gamers see more immediately, and they are better able make better correct decisions from the information they have available.

To get at this question, the researchers will need more data from brainwaves and MRI imagery to see where the brains of gamers have been trained to perform differently on visual tasks.

This study, which appears in the June edition of the journal Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, was supported by grants from the Army Research Office (54528LS), the Department of Homeland Security (HSHQDC-08-C-00100), DARPA (D12AP00025-002) and Nike Inc.

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North, South Korea set high-level meeting in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? North and South Korea agreed Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after Pyongyang's recent threats of nuclear war and Seoul's vows of counterstrikes.

The two-day meeting starting Wednesday will focus on stalled cooperation projects, including the resumption of operations at a jointly-run factory park near the border in North Korea that was the last remaining symbol of inter-Korean rapprochement until Pyongyang pulled out its workers in April during heightened tensions that followed its February nuclear test.

The details of the upcoming talks were ironed out in a nearly 17-hour negotiating session by lower-level officials. Those discussions began Sunday in the countries' first government-level meeting on the Korean Peninsula in more than two years and took place at the village of Panmunjom on their heavily armed border, near where the armistice ending the three-year Korean War was signed 60 years ago next month. That truce has never been replaced with a peace treaty, leaving the Korean Peninsula technically at war.

The agreement to hold the talks was announced in a statement early Monday by South Korea's Unification Ministry, which is responsible for North Korea matters. North Korea's official news agency, KCNA, also reported the agreement.

It's still unclear who will represent each side in what will likely be the highest-level talks between the Koreas in years. But dialogue at any level marks an improvement in the countries' abysmal ties. The last several years have seen North Korean nuclear tests, long-range rocket launches and attacks blamed on the North that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010.

The meeting that starts Wednesday will also include discussions on resuming South Korean tours to a North Korean mountain resort, the reunion of separated families and other humanitarian issues, officials said. The issue most crucial to Washington, however ? a push to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons ? isn't on the official agenda.

While there was broad agreement, Seoul's Unification Ministry said in a statement, sticking points arose over the delegation heads and the agenda. Seoul said it will send a senior-level official responsible for North Korea-related issues while Pyongyang said it would send a senior-level government official, without elaborating.

North Korea said that in addition to the rapprochement projects, the two sides would also discuss how to jointly commemorate past inter-Korean statements, including one settled during a landmark 2000 summit between the countries' leaders, civilian exchanges and other joint collaboration matters.

South Korea's Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae proposed a minister-level meeting with the North last week. But Unification Policy Officer Chun Hae-sung, who led the South's delegation at Sunday's talks, told reporters it is not clear if Ryoo will represent South Korea. A minister-level summit between the Koreas has not happened since 2007.

Neither Korea mentioned Pyongyang's nuclear weapons. When asked Monday by reporters if South Korean delegates raised the issue during Sunday's negotiations, Chun said it wasn't appropriate do discuss issues that weren't part of the agenda.

Analysts express wariness about North Korea's intentions, with some seeing the interest in dialogue as part of a pattern where Pyongyang follows aggressive rhetoric and provocations with diplomatic efforts to trade an easing of tension for outside concessions.

Pyongyang is trying to improve ties with Seoul because it very much wants dialogue with the United States, which could give the North aid, ease international sanctions and improve its economy in return for concessions, said Kim Yong-hyun, a professor of North Korea studies at Dongguk University in Seoul.

Nuclear matters won't be on the table, Kim said, because Pyongyang wants issues related to its pursuit of atomic weapons resolved through talks with Washington or in broader, now-stalled international disarmament negotiations.

After U.N. sanctions were strengthened following North Korea's third nuclear test in February, Pyongyang threatened nuclear war and missile strikes against Seoul and Washington, pulled its workers from the jointly run factory park at the North Korean border town of Kaesong and vowed to ramp up production of nuclear bomb fuel. Seoul withdrew its last personnel from Kaesong in May.

The summit marks a political and diplomatic victory for South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who took office in February and has maintained through the heightened tensions a policy that combines vows of strong counter-action to any North Korea provocation with efforts to build trust and re-establish dialogue.

Representatives of the rival Koreas met on the peninsula in February 2011 and their nuclear envoys met in Beijing later that year, but government officials from both sides have not met since.

Sunday's meeting follows a summit by U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping in California in which the White House said "quite a bit of alignment" was found on North Korea, including an agreement that Pyongyang has to abandon its nuclear weapons aspirations.

China provides a lifeline for a North Korea struggling with energy and other economic needs, and views stability in Pyongyang as crucial for its own economy and border security. But after Pyongyang's nuclear test in February, China tightened its cross-border trade inspections and banned its state banks from dealing with North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un late last month sent to China his special envoy, who reportedly told Xi that Pyongyang was willing to return to dialogue. President Park will travel to Beijing to meet Xi later this month.

North Korea was probably motivated to hold talks with Seoul because it wants to ease a sense of crisis over its deepening isolation from the rest of the world, including ally China, said Chang Yong-seok, a senior researcher at Seoul National University's Institute for Peace and Unification Studies.

"Normally, China has been on North Korea's side, but now the United States and China have joined hands to urge North Korea to denuclearize, which is a very tough situation for North Korea," Chang said.

Pyongyang, which is estimated to have a handful of crude nuclear devices, has committed a drumbeat of acts that Washington, Seoul and others deem provocative since Kim Jong Un took over in December 2011 after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il.

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PSA: Acer Iconia W3 up for pre-order at Office Depot, Staples starting at $350

It's always refreshing when a product catches us by surprise, but thanks to several leaks, the Acer Iconia W3 definitely didn't fall into that category. So, when it was unveiled at Computex 2013, we were ready for it in all its 8.1-inch 1,280 x 800, dual-core Intel Atom, Windows Pro 8 glory. The wee slate also ushered in Microsoft's temporary offer of Office for free on 10-inch or smaller Windows Pro tablets, and you can now pre-order the 32GB version at Staples for $380 or $350 from Office Depot, while a 64GB version from Amazon will run you $430. An optional keyboard should arrive soon for $90, so if you've been coveting a small form-factor Windows tab -- RT-free -- hit the source.

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Korea talks raise hopes; history may scuttle them

A visitor walks by a sign showing the distance to North Korea's Kaesong city and South Korea's capital Seoul at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Monday, June 10, 2013. North and South Korea agreed Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after Pyongyang's recent threats of nuclear war and Seoul's vows of counterstrikes. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

A visitor walks by a sign showing the distance to North Korea's Kaesong city and South Korea's capital Seoul at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Monday, June 10, 2013. North and South Korea agreed Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after Pyongyang's recent threats of nuclear war and Seoul's vows of counterstrikes. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Reunification flags hang on the wire fence as a visitor reads messages wishing for reunification of the two Koreas at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Monday, June 10, 2013. North and South Korea agreed Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after Pyongyang's recent threats of nuclear war and Seoul's vows of counterstrikes. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korean foods and wine are displayed at the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Monday, June 10, 2013. North and South Korea agreed Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after Pyongyang's recent threats of nuclear war and Seoul's vows of counterstrikes. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, center, arrives to preside over a security meeting to discuss the upcoming South and North Korea talks at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 10, 2013. The two Koreas will hold their highest-level talks in years Wednesday in an effort to restore scrapped joint economic projects and ease animosity marked by recent threats of nuclear war. That is in itself progress, though there are already hints that disputes in their bloody history could thwart efforts to better ties. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Do Kwang-hwan) KOREA OUT

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, second from left, presides over a security meeting to discuss the upcoming South and North Korea talks at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 10, 2013. The two Koreas will hold their highest-level talks in years Wednesday in an effort to restore scrapped joint economic projects and ease animosity marked by recent threats of nuclear war. That is in itself progress, though there are already hints that disputes in their bloody history could thwart efforts to better ties. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Do Kwang-hwan) KOREA OUT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? The two Koreas will hold their highest-level talks in years Wednesday in an effort to restore scrapped joint economic projects and ease animosity marked by recent threats of nuclear war. That in itself is progress, though there are already hints that disputes in their bloody history could thwart efforts to better ties.

Still, just setting up the two-day meeting in Seoul, through a 17-hour negotiating session that ended early Monday, required the kind of diplomatic resolve that has long been absent in inter-Korean relations, and analysts say it could be a tentative new start. It's also a political and diplomatic victory for new South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who expressed her country's interest in talks and rebuilding trust even as she batted back North Korean war rhetoric with vows to hit back strongly if attacked.

"It's very significant that they're sitting down and talking at all ... after all the heated rhetoric this spring," said John Delury, an analyst at Seoul's Yonsei University. "It shows political will. Both sides could have called it off."

The main topics will be stalled rapprochement projects left over from friendlier days, including the resumption of operations at a jointly run factory park just north of the border. It was the last remaining symbol of inter-Korean cooperation until Pyongyang pulled out its workers in April during heightened tensions that followed its February nuclear test.

North Korea, however, is also pushing for something Seoul hasn't agreed to: A discussion Wednesday of how to jointly commemorate past inter-Korean statements, including the anniversary Saturday of a statement settled during a landmark 2000 summit between liberal President Kim Dae-jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the current ruler's late father.

This matters to North Korea because the June 15 statement from the 2000 summit, along with another 2007 leaders' summit, include both important symbolic nods to future reconciliation and also economic cooperation agreements that would benefit the North financially.

Those commitments faded after Park's conservative predecessor, Lee Myung-bak, took office in 2008. His insistence that large-scale government aid be linked to North Korea making progress on past commitments to abandon its nuclear ambitions drew a furious reaction from Pyongyang. Relations deteriorated further in 2010 after a North Korean bombardment of a South Korean island killed four people, and the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan killed 46 sailors.

A Seoul-led international investigation blamed a North Korean torpedo for the Cheonan attack, and South Korea has demanded an apology from the North before it will allow any exchanges. Pyongyang denies any role in the sinking, and the two sides will presumably bring those irreconcilable positions with them Wednesday.

Since her presidential campaign, Park has mixed a tough line with policies of engagement, aid and reconciliation with the North ? a recognition of the frustration many South Koreans felt about Lee's hard-line policies.

Analyst Park Hyeong-jung said North Korea wants the past statements on the agenda to forge a "relationship that is to their advantage. They want to hold the present South Korean administration accountable for the declarations of past administrations."

"This is the first time in a long time both sides are meeting," said Park, a senior research fellow at the government-affiliated Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul. "Rather than a breakthrough, this week's talks are only the beginning."

Both Koreas have also agreed to discuss resuming South Korean tours to a North Korean mountain resort and the reunion of separated families, officials said.

There's little chance that the narrowly defined talks will tackle the crucial question of pushing Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear bombs. North Korea has said it will never give them up, though the U.S. and other countries say it must if it is to rebuild its relationship with the rest of the world.

It's still unclear who will represent each side Wednesday. Seoul said it will send a senior-level official responsible for North Korea-related issues while Pyongyang said it would send a senior-level government official, without elaborating. A minister-level summit between the Koreas has not happened since 2007.

Dialogue at any level marks a positive sign in the countries' recent history, which has seen North Korean nuclear tests and long-range rocket launches. The armistice ending the three-year Korean War that was signed 60 years ago next month hasn't been replaced with a peace treaty, leaving the Korean Peninsula technically at war.

Analysts express wariness about North Korea's intentions, with some seeing the interest in dialogue as part of a pattern where Pyongyang follows aggressive rhetoric and provocations with diplomatic efforts to trade an easing of tension for outside concessions.

After U.N. sanctions were strengthened following North Korea's third nuclear test in February, Pyongyang, which is estimated to have a handful of crude nuclear devices, threatened nuclear war and missile strikes against Seoul and Washington, pulled its workers from the jointly run factory park at the North Korean border town of Kaesong and vowed to ramp up production of nuclear bomb fuel. Seoul withdrew its last personnel from Kaesong in May.

Chang Yong-seok, a senior researcher at Seoul National University's Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, said he is optimistic that the Koreas can resume work at Kaesong and reunions for separated families. But he said a quick breakthrough is unlikely because North Korea's gesture for closer ties runs counter to South Korea's demand for apologies.

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AP writer Elizabeth Shim contributed to this report from Seoul.

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