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Weekend heat wave to bake western US
PHOENIX (AP) ? Tigers at the Phoenix Zoo are getting frozen fish snacks. Temporary cooling stations are popping up to welcome the homeless and elderly. And airlines are monitoring the soaring temperatures to make sure it's safe to fly as the western U.S. falls into the grips of a dangerous heat wave.
A strong high-pressure system settling over the region Friday and through the weekend will bring extreme temperatures even to the typically blazing Southwest. Notoriously hot Death Valley in California is forecast to reach 129 degrees, not far off the world-record high of 134 logged there exactly one century ago.
The National Weather Service is calling for 118 in Phoenix, and 117 in Las Vegas on Sunday ? a mark reached only twice in Sin City.
Temperatures are expected to soar even as far north as Reno, Nev., across Utah and into parts of Wyoming and Idaho, where forecasters are calling for triple-digit heat in the Boise area through the weekend.
Cities in Washington state better known for cool, rainy weather should break the 90s early next week, while northern Utah ? marketed as having "the greatest snow on Earth" ? is expected to hit triple digits. In Albuquerque, N.M., the mercury hit 105 on Thursday afternoon, the hottest it has been in the state's most populous city in 19 years.
"This is the hottest time of the year but the temperatures that we'll be looking at for Friday through Sunday, they'll be toward the top. We'll be at or above record levels in the Phoenix area and throughout a lot of the southwestern United States," said National Weather Service meteorologist Mark O'Malley. "It's going to be baking hot across much of the entire West."
Jennifer Smith, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center based in Idaho, said crews are especially worried about wildfires igniting in the Four Corners region where the borders of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona intersect.
Some of the strongest parts of the high pressure system are expected to be parked over the area through the weekend, where forecasters are calling for lightning but little to no precipitation, Smith said.
The hottest cities are taking precautions to protect vulnerable residents. Police are pleading with drivers not to leave children or pets in vehicles, and temporary cooling stations are being put up to shelter homeless people and the elderly on fixed incomes who hesitate to use air conditioning.
Officials said extra personnel have been added to the U.S. Border Patrol's Search, Trauma, and Rescue unit as people illegally crossing the border from Mexico into Arizona could succumb to exhaustion and dehydration. At least seven people have been found dead in the last week in Arizona after falling victim to the desert's brutal heat.
Even airlines are watching the mercury for any signs that temperatures could deter operations.
In June 1990, when Phoenix hit 122 degrees, several airlines, including America West, which later merged with US Airways, were forced to cease flights for several hours because the planes didn't have the data needed to know how they would fly in temperatures above 120 degrees.
US Airways spokesman Todd Lehmacher said the airline's fleet of Boeings can now fly up to 126 degrees, and up to 127 degrees for the Airbus fleet.
But the company's smaller express planes flying out of the Phoenix area may be delayed if the temperature tops 118 because as the air heats up, it becomes less dense and changes liftoff conditions.
"The hotter is it, your performance is degraded," Lehmacher said. "We're monitoring this very closely to see what the temperatures do."
Officials at Salt River Project, the Phoenix area's largest electricity provider, also are closely monitoring usage in order to redirect energy in case of a potential overload.
Company spokeswoman Scott Harelson said he doesn't expect usage to get anywhere near SRP's record 6,663 megawatts consumed in August 2011.
"While it's hot, people tend to leave town and some businesses aren't open, so that has a tendency to mitigate demand and is why we typically don't set records on weekends," Harelson said.
Meanwhile, over at the Phoenix Zoo, animals from elephants to warthogs will be doused with hoses and sprayed with sprinklers and misters throughout the weekend.
The tigers will get frozen fish snacks while the lions can lounge on concrete slabs cooled by internal water-filled pipes, said zoo spokeswoman Linda Hardwick.
"And they'll all have plenty of shade," she said. "The keepers will all just be very active looking for any behavior changes, anything that would tip them off that an animal is just getting too hot."
In Las Vegas, two Elvis impersonators and a performer costumed as the iconic "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign said they still planned to keep up their routine of working the tourist corridor in the broad daylight and turning in for the evenings, heat notwithstanding.
"We'd much rather fight with the sun than fight with the drunk people," Elvis impersonator Cristian Morales said.
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Associated Press writers Robert Jablon in Los Angeles, Julie Jacobson and Michelle Rindels in Las Vegas, Michelle Price in Salt Lake City, and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/weekend-heat-wave-bake-western-us-181304892.html
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When the atom went quantum
Bohr's revolutionary atomic theory turns 100
By Tom Siegfried
Web edition: June 28, 2013
Print edition: July 13, 2013; Vol.184 #1 (p. 20)
Credit: A.B. Lagrelius and Westphal, adapted by S. Egts
Before Niels Bohr, atoms baffled science?s brightest brains.
For millennia, atoms had been phantoms, widely suspected to exist but remaining stubbornly invisible ? though not indivisible, as their name (Greek for ?uncuttable?) originally implied. By the start of the 20th century, physicists knew that atoms had electrically charged parts; the favorite model envisioned blobs of positively charged pudding studded with negatively charged plums (actually, electrons). That image was challenged, though, when Ernest Rutherford showed in 1911 that the positive pudding was all crammed into a massive dense core, or nucleus, surrounded at a distance by the electron plums (SN: 5/7/11, p. 30).
But Rutherford?s atom baffled everyone even more, as the laws of physics prohibited the arrangement that he described. Opposite charges attract each other relentlessly; electrons should spiral into the atom?s positive nucleus in less than a millisecond. (Even if they didn?t, their mutually repulsive negative charges would blast them out of their orbits.) Yet somehow atoms housed negative and positive charges happily.
Into this paradox stepped a great Dane, a genius conditioned by his culture to embrace conflicting ideas and learn from them. A century ago, Niels Bohr married the old standard physics with the new quantum theory, giving birth to the modern model of the atom?s structure.
Bohr?s atom did more than simply reconcile theory with experiment. Bohr figured out the basics of how atoms hook up to make molecules. He explained the mysterious repetition of properties displayed by the periodic table of the chemical elements. And most consequential of all, he established the fundamental role of quantum physics in describing the underlying reality of the universe.
Even though the technical details of Bohr?s model turned out to be wrong, he had grasped the essential idea for understanding atoms: abandoning common sense in favor of the crazy rules of quantum theory. Bohr saw more deeply than others of his time that embracing quantum physics was the key to unlocking nature?s hidden truths. While quantum confusions drove other physicists to despair, Bohr pursued the path into the yellow quantum wood. When two roads diverged, he traveled both but remained one traveler, insisting that knowing reality meant accepting the truth of mutually incompatible viewpoints.
In the decades following his description of the atom, Bohr served as guide and interpreter for the world?s physicists as they explored the strange new quantum world. As the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer observed, in the development of modern quantum physics, ?the deeply creative and subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened, and finally transmuted the enterprise.?
Father of the atom
Bohr?s role in that enterprise began in 1913 with a series of three papers that became the foundation for the future of atomic science.
Bohr ?gave the first firm and lasting direction toward an understanding of atomic structure and atomic dynamics,? physicist Abraham Pais wrote in his biography of Bohr, Niels Bohr?s Times (1991). ?In that sense he may be considered the father of the atom.?
Like most fathers, Bohr was proud of his offspring. But he was not blind to its faults. He knew from the beginning that his atom model was too simple to capture all of reality?s complexities. He was certain, though, that explaining the atom required quantum physics. ?That, of course, was the key to Bohr?s great invention,? says science historian John Heilbron, of the University of California, Berkeley.
Bohr had foreseen the need for quantum theory when investigating the electron theory of metals for his 1911 doctoral dissertation. He found that electrons carrying current and those bound to atoms behaved in different ways, at odds with the ordinary mechanical laws of classical physics.
?He reached the conclusion that there was no possible way classical physics could explain what happened in the behavior of electrons in metals,? says physicist Alfred Goldhaber of Stony Brook University in New York.
Various clues hinted that solving the electron quandary would require Max Planck?s quantum idea, introduced in 1900. From experiments on heat radiation, Planck had deduced that energy could be emitted from a hot object only in indivisible packets called quanta, sort of the way sand consists of individual grains. A few years later Einstein argued that all radiation, including light, was not only emitted but transmitted in such packets (later called photons) even though light was known to travel as a wave.
During the first decade of the 20th century only a few scientists took Planck seriously, and even fewer believed Einstein. But Bohr did. While others deplored the quantum?s contradictions, he exploited them. He had been prepared for the challenge by the circumstances of his upbringing.
Born into an academic family in Copenhagen in 1885, Bohr benefited from a rich intellectual home life. He listened in when the university?s physicist, philosopher or philologist visited his physiologist father for evening discussions. He also absorbed the multiple cultural influences inherent in Denmark?s history and geography, at the crossroads between Germany and England. As children, Niels and his brother Harald listened as their father read aloud from Goethe and from Shakespeare and Dickens. Niels also consumed Danish authors such as Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen and read an unfinished novel by Poul Martin M?ller (a mentor to Kierkegaard) called Adventures of a Danish Student. Its discussion of coping with dilemmas and contradictions deeply affected Bohr, impressing him with lessons about language and logic that he referred to throughout his life.
Through his early years of schooling and on to his undergraduate years at the University of Copenhagen, Bohr?s brilliance captivated his professors and classmates. ?His family, friends and teachers recognized him as a rare spirit, a thinker at once deep and broad, and helped him in every way to develop his abilities,? says Heilbron.
As he pursued his scientific education, Bohr also learned to appreciate both the German emphasis on theory and math and the British preference for experiment. Destined to be a theorist, Bohr nevertheless chose England for postdoctoral work. He decided to study under J.J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, the mecca of British experimental physics.
Atomic history
View larger image | The idea of an essential building block of matter is ancient. Greeks came up with the word for atom, but most insights into its true structure and behavior have been recent.Credit: S. Egts
Bohr was eager to absorb the Cambridge magic, both in the lab and in the town. He joined a soccer team and worked on his English by reading The Pickwick Papers, having bought a red dictionary to look up the words he didn?t know.
He was most eager, of course, to talk with Thomson ? the electron?s discoverer ? about flaws in Thomson?s ideas about electrons in metals. Thomson turned out to be not so interested in hearing Bohr?s criticisms. In late 1911, Bohr met Rutherford, who told him of quantum developments discussed at a recent conference in Brussels. Soon Bohr transferred to the University of Manchester to work with Rutherford?s team, the decisive step toward the quantum atom.
At first, Bohr?s interest at Manchester was still electrons, including the beta particles identified by Rutherford as one form of radioactivity. But Bohr soon realized that radioactivity?s secrets emanated from inside the nucleus. So his search for truth turned to the atom itself.
?Bohr was already on the hunt,? says Goldhaber. ?He was looking at every aspect of the atom. And he was going to find out everything that could be possibly found out.?
In the first months of 1912, Bohr worked on the atom problem furiously and fruitfully. In June he wrote to his brother about his progress: ?Perhaps I have found out a little about the structure of atoms.? That turned out to be an understatement. In fact, he had determined that quantum physics could make the atom stable.
Bohr wasn?t the first to try to apply quantum physics to atoms. But he showed how to make it work. He pointed out that a proper theory of a stable atom would determine a number with the dimension of length, corresponding to the atom?s size, like the way the length of a spoke determines the size of a bicycle wheel. Producing a number with a plausible length for the atomic spoke was possible only by combining the key quantity in quantum theory, Planck?s constant, with the electric charges and masses of the electron and nucleus.
But explaining how quantum physics governed atomic behavior was not straightforward. In the end, Bohr used classical math for part of his atom model and then mixed quantum physics into it in four specific ways. Two were directly related to Planck?s radiation theory, involving technical aspects of the electrons? energies. The other two were inspired by processes hidden within the mysterious machinations of Bohr?s enigmatic mind.
One ? often celebrated as the crucial ingredient in the Bohr atom model ? declared that electrons could occupy only certain specific orbits around the nucleus. In each such allowed orbit the electron possessed an angular momentum equal to a multiple of Planck?s constant divided by 2 pi. With that constraint, Bohr could explain why light was emitted from hydrogen atoms only in certain very specific colors (or frequencies). An emitted color corresponded to an electron jumping from one allowed orbit to another.
Of the many novel aspects of Bohr?s atom, that was the most baffling. Standard physics insisted that the frequency of light should depend on how long it took the electron to orbit the nucleus ? its orbital frequency. But if electrons emitted light as they orbited, Bohr pointed out, atoms would radiate light all the time, and they don?t. Hence Bohr demanded that electrons occupy non-radiating orbits while in an atom?s ?stationary? state, divorcing the frequency of the light from the frequency of the orbit.
?That cut the ground from under the majority of physicists, who supposed that observable phenomena arising from atomic processes could be linked directly with motion in the microworld,? Heilbron said in April at a meeting of the American Physical Society.
Bohr?s other clever notion offered a way to bridge the gulf between quantum and classical physics. For an electron very far from its nucleus, Bohr said, the frequency of emitted light would be close to the classical prediction. Because distant orbits are very close together, orbital frequencies are nearly equal. So a jump from one to another emits a frequency nearly equal to the orbital frequency. It was another way of saying that for large objects of ordinary experience, quantum effects would be too minute to notice ? a key part of the eventual modern understanding of quantum reality.
The atomic constitution
Bohr?s mashup of classical physics with quantum theory offered more insights than would fit in one paper. So he published a series of three, all titled ?On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules,? in the Philosophical Magazine. Part I, appearing in July 1913, described the quantum rules for electron orbits and quantum jumps in the hydrogen atom, explaining the spectrum of colors it emitted. In Part II, Bohr described the arrangement of electrons in rings around the nuclei of more complicated atoms, the first steps toward explaining the periodic table of the elements. Part III described how molecules formed by atoms sharing electrons.
Reaction to Bohr?s theory was mixed. Some experts found it ingenious; others couldn?t understand it. Einstein was intrigued if not convinced at first. But when an experiment confirmed Bohr?s prediction that some colors of light supposedly from hydrogen actually came from helium, Einstein came around. When told of that experiment, Einstein replied, ?This is an enormous achievement. The theory of Bohr must be then right.?
But Bohr knew that his theory, while glimpsing a piece of reality, had its deficiencies. Its success, he believed, was largely due to hydrogen?s simplicity. Over the next decade, efforts to apply it to more complicated atoms failed. Finally in 1925 Werner Heisenberg, a young German physicist who had studied at Bohr?s institute for theoretical physics in Copenhagen, constructed a novel mathematical approach that got the right answers. Heisenberg?s paper marked the birth of modern quantum mechanics.
At about the same time, experiments began to show that particles sometimes had wave properties (and vice versa). Erwin Schr?dinger constructed a wave version of quantum theory, soon shown to be equivalent to Heisenberg?s particle version. Heisenberg?s work then led in 1927 to his famous uncertainty principle: It was not possible to precisely measure certain pairs of properties, such as a particle?s position and momentum, at the same time.
Once again Bohr stepped in to address the paradoxes. In a 1927 lecture, he proposed a new principle, called complementarity. Light could be particle or wave depending on what experiment you chose to do, Bohr declared. You could measure the position of an electron, or its momentum, depending on how you designed the experiment. You couldn?t do both experiments at once.
Bohr?s complementarity served as the foundation of what came to be called the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. In popular discussions, the Copenhagen view emphasizes the role of the observer in creating reality, a point of contention for many physicists today. But Bohr didn?t speak of it in that way, says philosopher of science Don Howard of the University of Notre Dame. It was Heisenberg who focused on the role of observers.
Bohr?s view was much more subtle. He insisted that the properties of a quantum system had no precise meaning before being measured. But measurement required the measuring instrument to interact with the quantum system. Once such an interaction took place, the measuring device and quantum system shared a history ? becoming ?entangled,? in modern terminology. So how was it then possible to speak of a quantum system?s properties at all?
?Here?s where the really crucial idea entered Bohr?s thinking,? Howard said at the physics meeting. If you specify the experiment you want to perform, you can then use the result to describe a property of a quantum system as if it had a precise value, even if it had no precise value without the measurement. Of course, you couldn?t talk about all the properties of a system at once ? you had to choose what to measure.
?For Bohr, two properties like position and momentum are necessary for a complete account of the system and its behavior,? said Howard. ?But we could speak of them only one at a time, not simultaneously, because we?re entitled to speak of them as well-defined properties of the system only in a context in which such a property could be measured.? And the measurement contexts for position and momentum are physically incompatible. ?That was the deep reason why we couldn?t speak simultaneously of well-defined values of position and well-defined values of momentum,? Howard said.
Multiple truths
Bohr?s embrace of such incongruity reflected views about truth he had developed in his youth. In fact, his investigations of quantum science fed a much broader world view.
?The primary payoff of his engagement with quantum physics for his wider philosophy was the discovery that multiple truths come ? in complementary pairs,? Heilbron said.
Bohr?s thoughts on truth have recently been illuminated by newly available correspondence with his fianc?e, Margrethe N?rlund, during his work on the atom model. Heilbron cited one letter in which Bohr discusses the different sorts of truths expressed in sermons, great works of literature, and science. The truths of one?s personal sympathies, the universal human truths of literature and scientific truths all differ in kind, but are all important, Bohr wrote. ?It?s something I feel very strongly about, I can almost call it my religion, that I think that everything that is of value is true.?
Heilbron sees parallels in these writings to Bohr?s four methods of introducing the quantum into the atom ? multiple truths, not all consistent.
?Although they differ in physical content, and sometimes conflict mathematically, Bohr believed that he needed them all,? said Heilbron. ?In giving these four formulations, Bohr was not just hedging his bets. He believed that each contained an element of truth and that therefore ? he was obliged to use them all even if they conflicted. This principle of inclusion was almost a religious precept to him.?
As for standard religion, though, Bohr was unsympathetic. His mother was a nonpracticing Jew, his father an atheist Lutheran. As a youth, Niels tried to assimilate religious teachings but soon concluded that religion as taught could not withstand scrutiny in the context of logic and science. When he confessed this to his father, the elder Bohr?s response was a simple supportive smile. Niels wrote of that episode to Margrethe: ?My courage roared so wildly, wildly, for I knew then that I too could think.?
Heilbron sees in that text a glimpse into the origin of Bohr?s exceptional intellectual journey.
?The approving smile of the man he most admired in the world taught him that he belonged among the few who could reason their way free from standard beliefs of their class and culture, of their time and place,? Heilbron remarked.
And not only could Bohr think, he thought in ways that others could not. He could see that the classical physics enshrined in textbooks ?represented the truths of the microworld no better than conventional religious beliefs accorded with the meaning of life,? Heilbron said.
Bohr viewed the aberrations of the quantum world not as heresies to avoid but as clues to deeper truths about reality. His comfort with contradictions enabled him to formulate explanations for quantum paradoxes that have survived the tests of modern experiments, although most of those came after he died, in 1962.
At the time of his death, Bohr was acclaimed as the greatest atomic physicist in the world; he is still widely regarded as the second-greatest physicist of his century, behind only Einstein. Bohr?s legend had developed during the 1920s and 1930s, as beginners from many nations came to Copenhagen to study at his institute. It was there in the mid-1930s that he devised the first clear picture of the internal physics of the atomic nucleus. Soon thereafter, collaborating with the American physicist John Archibald Wheeler, Bohr produced the theoretical explanation for the process of nuclear fission. Bohr?s atom model was then finally fully constructed.
Wheeler once said he wanted to study in Copenhagen because Bohr saw further into the future than other men. How Bohr did that baffled others in much the way that atoms baffled physicists before Bohr. He comprehended nature?s secrets in ways that remain as mysterious as how his weird mixture of quantum and classical physics explained hydrogen?s spectrum.
Perhaps, says Heilbron, the newly released correspondence will offer fodder for new speculations on Bohr?s genius, or even about intellectual creativity in general.
?However these speculations may pan out, they will no doubt bring to light further information linking Bohr?s extraordinary way of thinking, his confident cultivation of ambiguity, his notions of truth and his high culture, to the Danish society that nurtured him,? Heilbron said.
?His like might not be seen again. For as Einstein once said, it?s very remarkable that such a mind as Bohr?s could have existed at all.?
Bohr?s atomic orbits
S. Egts
In Bohr?s model of the hydrogen atom, one electron, carrying a negative electrical charge, circles a nucleus consisting of a single proton, which has a positive charge. Unlike a planet around a star, which could orbit at any distance, an electron can orbit the proton only in certain ?allowed? orbits. The size of each allowed orbit is determined by the key numerical quantity of quantum physics, Planck?s constant. An electron jumping from an outer to an inner orbit emits radiation (examples shown) with an energy equal to the difference in the energy levels of the two orbits. When an electron absorbs a certain amount of energy, say from light hitting it, the electron jumps to a higher allowed orbit. Bohr calculated the energy differences between various orbits and found that they corresponded to the observed colors of light known to be emitted by hydrogen.
Follow Tom Siegfried on Twitter at @tom_siegfried.
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/351277/title/When_the_atom_went_quantum
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Drug Enforcement Agency Seizes First Bitcoins From Silk Road Dealer
The Drug Enforcement Agency has seized 11.02 Bitcoins?about $800?from a drug dealer in South Carolina who had been using Silk Road. It's the first (known) time the government has taken control of the virtual currency like it were property or real-world cash.
Discovered in a government press release spotted by Bitcoin bloggers, the news relates to the arrest of Eric Daniel Hughes. One Bitcoin user tied the arrest of Hughes to a usernames "Casey Jones" and "Truckin" on Silk Road?where it appears he was an active buyer and seller.
Silk Road has so far offered drug dealers relative anonymity, allowing them to use Bitcoin and Tor to avoid having their identities revealed. Hughes' posts on the site referred to drugs such as Adderall, Dexedrine, Vyvanse, Klonopin, Clonazepam, and suboxone, and one user, DealerOfDrugs, described his interactions with Hughes on Silk Road:
The crazy thing is, he messaged me from his vendor account, and willingly gave me his entire personal address, not a drop address. I myself warned Casey at the time to be careful because anyone at anytime could blackmail him, and he pretty much dismissed the idea and said "no problem, I might start a alternate buyer account to start buying. I'm not worried about it." It's unclear whether the agency seized the Bitcoins in a sting operation or through some other means. It's possible that the DEA set up a seller account and got Hughes's address under the pretense of sending him a purchase. However, it's also possible that the DEA seized a computer with the file containing the Bitcoins or got Hughes to hand them over.
Clearly, the DEA is aware of the problems posed by Silk Road?and the seizure of Bitcoins suggests that it may not be the safe haven people have gotten used to for much longer. [Let's Talk Bitcoin via Verge]
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/drug-enforcement-agency-seizes-first-bitcoins-from-silk-595189571
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Gandolfini funeral draws family, fans, stars in NY
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The final funeral service for actor James Gandolfini drew thousands of mourners in New York Thursday. Celebrities and fans arrived at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for what was expected to be a 90-minute memorial service.
Gandolfini, the 51-year-old star known by many as the mob boss at the head of the HBO series "The Sopranos," died of a heart attack in Rome on June 19.
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The casket of actor James Gandolfini is escorted into the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine for funeral services in New York on Thursday.
The Very Reverend Dr. James A Kowalski, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John Divine, led Thursday's service. Remembrances were provided by Gandolfini?s wife, Deborah Lin Gandolfini, as well as family friends Thomas Richardson and Susan Aston. David Chase, creator and executive producer of ?The Sopranos? also spoke.
Chase?s remembrance began with ?Dear Jimmy,? and took the form of a letter to Gandolfini. He went on to talk about working with the actor on ?The Sopranos? and referred to a scene where Gandolfini slammed a refrigerator door so hard he broke it. "Sometimes you tried too hard. The refrigerator is one example."
Chase also recalled a time that Gandolfini told him, "I just want to be a man."
"The paradox with you I always felt was I was seeing a young boy, because you are boyish. ... That is why you were an amazing actor, that child inside,? Chase said. He ended his ?letter? by relating a scene they never did but one he had mapped out: Tony Soprano is stranded in the Meadowlands with nothing in his pockets and had to board a bus to get home like everyone else. They would end the episode with a shot on his face as Joan Osborne?s ?What if God was one of us,? playing. Chase then ended his speech with the same letter format: ?Love, David.?
Among others who attended the service were Gandolfini's ?Sopranos? co-stars Edie Falco, Dominic Chianese, Joe Pantoliono, Aida Turturro and Juliana Margulies. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was also spotted entering St. John the Divine.
Gandolfini was also remembered Wednesday at a private, invitation-only wake held in Park Ridge. N.J. Gandolfini?s wife and his 9-month-old daughter, Liliana, were among the first to arrive, according to the New York Daily News.
"It's a nightmare for the whole family," Bob Price, whose wife is a Gandolfini cousin, told the paper. "It's a horrible, horrible thing, everybody is just devastated.
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Actress Edie Falco, right, best known as Carmela Soprano in "The Sopranos," arrives at the church.
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Actor Dominic Chianese, left, who played Uncle Junior in "The Sopranos."
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Actor Joe Pantoliano, who starred as Ralph Cifaretto on "The Sopranos."
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Actor Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby Baccalieri on "The Sopranos."
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Actress Jamie Lynn Sigler, who starred as Tony Soprano's daughter, Meadow.
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Actor Steve Buscemi, star of the the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire."
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Michael Gandolfini, left, the 13-year-old son of James Gandolfini, who was vacationing with his father when he died.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Early brain stimulation may help stroke survivors recover language function
June 27, 2013 ? Non-invasive brain stimulation may help stroke survivors recover speech and language function, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.
Between 20 percent to 30 percent of stroke survivors have aphasia, a disorder that affects the ability to grasp language, read, write or speak. It's most often caused by strokes that occur in areas of the brain that control speech and language.
"For decades, skilled speech and language therapy has been the only therapeutic option for stroke survivors with aphasia," said Alexander Thiel, M.D., study lead author and associate professor of neurology and neurosurgery at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. "We are entering exciting times where we might be able in the near future to combine speech and language therapy with non-invasive brain stimulation earlier in the recovery. This could result in earlier and more efficient aphasia recovery and also have an economic impact."
In the small study, researchers treated 24 stroke survivors with several types of aphasia at the rehabilitation hospital Rehanova and the Max-Planck-Institute for neurological research in Cologne, Germany. Thirteen received transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and 11 got sham stimulation.
The TMS device is a handheld magnetic coil that delivers low intensity stimulation and elicits muscle contractions when applied over the motor cortex.
During sham stimulation the coil is placed over the top of the head in the midline where there is a large venous blood vessel and not a language-related brain region. The intensity for stimulation was lower intensity so that participants still had the same sensation on the skin but no effective electrical currents were induced in the brain tissue.
Patients received 20 minutes of TMS or sham stimulation followed by 45 minutes of speech and language therapy for 10 days.
The TMS groups' improvements were on average three times greater than the non-TMS group, researchers said. They used German language aphasia tests, which are similar to those in the United States, to measure language performance of the patients.
"TMS had the biggest impact on improvement in anomia, the inability to name objects, which is one of the most debilitating aphasia symptoms," Thiel said.
Researchers, in essence, shut down the working part of the brain so that the stroke-affected side could relearn language. "This is similar to physical rehabilitation where the unaffected limb is immobilized with a splint so that the patients must use the affected limb during the therapy session," Thiel said.
"We believe brain stimulation should be most effective early, within about five weeks after stroke, because genes controlling the recovery process are active during this time window," he said.
Thiel said the result of this study opens the door to larger, multi-center trials. The NORTHSTAR study has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and will be launched at four Canadian sites and one German site later in 2013.
The Walter and Marga Boll and Wolf-Dieter-Heiss Foundations funded the current study.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Hyrel 3D Printer Can Squirt Out Self-Setting Sugru And Even Play-Doh
The Hyrel 3D printer looks like any other single-extruder additive printer. But thanks to a fairly unique nozzle called the HYREL Emulsifiable Extruder (EMO-25) you can use it to squirt out usual materials like Play-Doh, air-drying clay, and even Sugru, a self-setting rubber that dries into a solid, usable object.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/IShnkOgqo1o/
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Realistic robot carp created: First robot fish with autonomous 3-D movement in Asia
June 26, 2013 ? A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering has developed a robot fish that mimics the movements of a carp. This robot which is essentially an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is ready for applications, as it can be programmed to perform specific functions, for example, for underwater archaeology such as exploring nooks and corners of wreckage -- or sunken city which are difficult for divers or traditional AUVs to access. Other applications include military activities, pipeline leakage detection, and the laying of communication cable.
The team comprises Professor Xu Jianxin, Mr Fan Lupeng, graduating Electrical Engineering student and Research Fellow, Dr Ren Qinyuan. Mr Fan worked on the project for his final year which won the High Achievement Award at the Faculty's 27th Innovation and Research Award. It will also be featured at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, a top international conference on intelligent robots, in Tokyo on 3-7 November 2013.
Said Prof Xu, "Currently, robot fish capable of 2-D movements are common, meaning that these models are not able to dive into the water. Our model is capable of 3-D movements as it can dive and float, using its fins like a real fish. Compared to traditional AUVs, they are certainly more mobile, with greater manoeuvrability. If used for military purpose, fish robots would definitely be more difficult to detect by the enemy."
Fish robots are also quieter and consume less energy, compared to traditional AUVs. Said Mr Fan who studied the movements of real life carps for three months, in order to develop their robot, "We chose to study carps because most fish swim like them. There is no literature at all on designing a mathematical model on the locomotion of fish and so we had to start from scratch. We used a camera to capture all the possible movements of a carp and then converted the data mathematically so that we could transfer the locomotion of real carp to our robot using different actuators."
This has been most challenging as fish use a lot of different muscles to move, and many actuators are required to enable the robot to move in the same manner.
Added Dr Ren, "Some fish can achieve almost 180 degree turning in a small turning radius through bending their body while traditional underwater vehicles have a much larger turning radius. Hence it is quite a feat for us to achieve this movement in our robot fish."
Other challenges included waterproofing the fish body, the motor and the control box. The fins and tails also need to be flexible and the team decided to use very fine (1mm) acrylic board for these. Buoyancy and balance for the robot is maintained by using plastic foams attached to both sides. For the diving mechanism, their robot fish is equipped with an internal ballast system to change density. The system is sophisticated enough to enable the fish to dive suddenly, as well as to the precise depth intended.
The team has constructed two fish robots. The larger prototype is about one and half metres in length, weighing about 10kg and it can dive to a depth of 1.8 metres. The smaller robot is about 60 centimetres long and weighs a mere 1.5kg. It is developed for investigation on 2D motion control and motion planning in a small place, and it can only swim at water surface.
"To my knowledge, the world's smallest fish robot is one about 12.7 centimetres (5 inches) in length. It was designed by MIT for specific military purpose and could go to a depth of 1.5 metres," said Dr Ren.
Moving forward
Underwater vehicles have long gone past the days of the submarines, said Mr Fan. Fish robots, besides being a micro submarine, can also be fully autonomous and can be programmed to perform many difficult and dangerous tasks.
The team hopes to make their robot fish even smaller and more realistic. Said Mr Fan, "We intend to equip it with more sensors like GPS and video camera to improve autonomous 3-D movement. We also intend to test out our fish with more challenging tasks such as object detection."
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Spatial training boosts math skills
June 25, 2013 ? Training young children in spatial reasoning can improve their math performance, according to a groundbreaking study from Michigan State University education scholars.
The researchers trained 6- to 8-year-olds in mental rotation, a spatial ability, and found their scores on addition and subtraction problems improved significantly. The mental rotation training involved imagining how two halves of an object would come together to make a whole, when the halves have been turned at an angle.
Past research has found a link between spatial reasoning and math, but the MSU study is the first to provide direct evidence of a causal connection -- that when children are trained in one ability, improvement is seen in the other. The findings will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Cognition and Development.
Kelly Mix, professor of educational psychology, said the findings suggest spatial training "primes" the brain to better tackle calculation problems. Mix authored the study with Yi-Ling Cheng, a doctoral student in MSU's College of Education.
"What's shocking is that we saw these improvements in math performance after giving the students just one 20-minute training session in spatial ability," Mix said. "Imagine if the training had been six weeks."
Understanding the connection between spatial ability and math, she said, is especially important in the early elementary grades because many studies indicate early intervention is critical for closing achievement gaps in math.
Spatial ability is important for success in many fields, from architecture to engineering to meteorology, according to a Johns Hopkins University paper. An astronomer must visualize the structure of the solar system and the motions of the objects in it, for example, while a radiologist must be able to interpret the image on an X-ray.
Some education experts have called for including spatial reasoning in the elementary math curriculum. But there are many forms of spatial ability and Mix said it's important to first figure out how each of them may or may not relate to the various math disciplines.
To that end, Mix is leading a larger study that tests elementary students on different forms of spatial ability and math performance.
Mix's research into spatial ability and math is funded by two grants totaling $2.8 million from the Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.
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Fans feared reality tv show killed players
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Sheri was the first (fake) victim on the "Whodunnit?" premiere.
As the premiere episode of ABC's reality TV murder mystery "Whodunnit?" opened Sunday night, a voiceover explained that the contestants knew they were there to play a game, but "what they don't know is: The game is murder."
As it turned out, the contestants weren't the only ones who didn't quite know all the details. For instance, viewers knew the show was a murder mystery, but it's now clear what many of them didn't know was that the murders weren't real.
That's right, despite the fact that killing off contestants would be illegal (and, of course, just plain wrong), some believed that two players might have actually been killed as part of the show.
Concerned viewers even took to Twitter after the first person, Sheri, met her (not really) final fate.
Even after contestant Melina said, "In my heart, I know it's not a dead body, but it feels too real," some viewers remained suspicious.
When Dontae fled the "Whodunnit?" mansion in flames at the end of the show, even more shocked viewers tweeted their fears.
Of course, there was no need to worry about anyone. The mystery -- not the murder -- is the reality in this competition.
Check out the next faux fatalities when "Whodunnit?" airs Sunday night at 9 p.m. on ABC.
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NSA leaker Snowden expected to fly to Cuba
A TV screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong Sunday, June 23, 2013. The former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the United States for revealing two highly classified surveillance programs has been allowed to leave for a "third country" because a U.S. extradition request did not fully comply with Hong Kong law, the territory's government said Sunday. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
A TV screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong Sunday, June 23, 2013. The former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the United States for revealing two highly classified surveillance programs has been allowed to leave for a "third country" because a U.S. extradition request did not fully comply with Hong Kong law, the territory's government said Sunday. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Journalists show passengers arriving from Hong Kong a tablet with a photo of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at Sheremetyevo airport, just outside Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 23, 2013. The former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the United States for revealing two highly classified surveillance programs has been allowed to leave for a "third country" because a U.S. extradition request did not fully comply with Hong Kong law, the territory's government said Sunday. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
FILE - In this June 21, 2013 file photo, a banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, is displayed at Central, Hong Kong's business district. The Hong Kong government says Snowden wanted by the U.S. for revealing two highly classified surveillance programs has left for a "third country." The South China Morning Post reported Sunday, June 23, 2013 that Snowden was on a plane for Moscow, but that Russia was not his final destination. Snowden has talked of seeking asylum in Iceland. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Ecuador's Foreign Mister Ricardo Patino speaks to reporters at a hotel during his visit to Vietnam Monday, June 24, 2013. Patino said that his government is analyzing an asylum request from Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor wanted for revealing classified secrets. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The bizarre journey of Edward Snowden is far from over. After spending a night in Moscow's airport, the former National Security Agency contractor ? and admitted leaker of state secrets ? was expected to fly to Cuba and Venezuela en route to possible asylum in Ecuador.
Snowden, also a former CIA technician, fled Hong Kong on Sunday to dodge U.S. efforts to extradite him on espionage charges. Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said his government had received an asylum request, adding Monday that the decision "has to do with freedom of expression and with the security of citizens around the world." The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks also said it would help Snowden.
Ecuador has rejected the United States' previous efforts at cooperation, and has been helping WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, avoid prosecution by allowing him to stay at its embassy in London.
Snowden gave documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers disclosing U.S. surveillance programs that collect vast amounts of phone records and online data in the name of foreign intelligence, often sweeping up information on American citizens. Officials have the ability to collect phone and Internet information broadly but need a warrant to examine specific cases where they believe terrorism is involved.
Snowden had been in hiding for several weeks in Hong Kong, a former British colony with a high degree of autonomy from mainland China. The United States formally sought Snowden's extradition from Hong Kong to face espionage charges but was rebuffed; Hong Kong officials said the U.S. request did not fully comply with their laws.
The Justice Department rejected that claim, saying its request met all of the requirements of the extradition treaty between the U.S. and Hong Kong. During conversations last week, including a phone call Wednesday between Attorney General Eric Holder and Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen, Hong Kong officials never raised any issues regarding sufficiency of the U.S. request, a Justice representative said.
The United States was in touch through diplomatic and law enforcement channels with countries that Snowden could travel through or to, reminding them that Snowden is wanted on criminal charges and reiterating Washington's position that Snowden should only be permitted to travel back to the U.S., a State Department official said. Snowden's U.S. passport has been revoked.
U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case.
An unidentified Aeroflot airline official was cited by Russia's state ITAR-Tass news agency and Interfax as saying Snowden was on the plane that landed Sunday afternoon in Moscow. The Russian report said Snowden intended to fly to Cuba on Monday and then on to Caracas, Venezuela.
The White House was hoping to stop Snowden before he left Moscow.
Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said, "Given our intensified cooperation after the Boston marathon bombings and our history of working with Russia on law enforcement matters ? including returning numerous high-level criminals back to Russia at the request of the Russian government ? we expect the Russian government to look at all options available to expel Mr. Snowden back to the U.S. to face justice for the crimes with which he is charged."
Still, the United States is likely to have problems interrupting Snowden's passage. The United States does not have an extradition treaty with Russia, but does with Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador. Even with an extradition agreement though, any country could give Snowden a political exemption.
The likelihood that any of these countries would stop Snowden from traveling on to Ecuador seemed remote. While diplomatic tensions have thawed in recent years, Cuba and the United States are hardly allies after a half-century of distrust. Another country that could see Snowden pass through, Venezuela, could prove difficult, as well. Former President Hugo Chavez was a sworn enemy of the United States and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, earlier this year called President Barack Obama "grand chief of devils." The two countries do not exchange ambassadors.
Snowden's options aren't numerous, said Assange's lawyer, Michael Ratner.
"You have to have a country that's going to stand up to the United States," Ratner said. "You're not talking about a huge range of countries here."
It also wasn't clear Snowden was finished disclosing highly classified information.
Snowden has perhaps more than 200 sensitive documents, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
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Associated Press White House Correspondent Julie Pace and Associated Press writers Matthew Lee and Frederic J. Frommer in Washington, Lynn Berry in Moscow, Kevin Chan in Hong Kong and Sylvia Hui in London contributed to this report.
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Vertu's Perry Oosting steps down as CEO, replaced by CMO Max Pogliani
According to a statement we received earlier, Vertu's Perry Oosting (pictured left) has stepped down after his successful four year stint as President and CEO, though he'll continue to invest in the company. Despite the relatively short run, the Dutch exec oversaw Vertu's departure from Nokia and subsequently launched the company's first-ever Android device, the TI. Little is known about the reasons behind this change, but judging by Oosting's considerable knowledge of the luxury goods market, he'll have plenty of options for his next move.
The luxury phone maker will now be led by CMO Massimiliano "Max" Pogliani (pictured right), who's probably best known for building up Nespresso, Nestlé's premium coffee brand, prior to joining Vertu last November. Pogliani will be assisted by ex-Jimmy Choo COO Jonathan Sinclair, who joined Vertu this month under the same title. Press release after the break.
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Officials mum over probe linked to Pats' Hernandez
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) ? Authorities continue to investigate, but not talk about, the killing of a semi-pro football player whose body was found a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez.
A spokeswoman for the Bristol County district attorney's office said Sunday that officials are not releasing details. Spokeswoman Yasmina Serdarevic said officials also are not talking about the cause of death of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, whose body was found on Monday. His death was ruled a homicide.
Hernandez was questioned and his home searched as part of the police investigation into the Dorchester man's death.
State police officers and dogs searched Hernandez's North Attleboro home for more than three hours on Saturday.
An attorney for Hernandez has said he would not comment on the searches.
New England Patriots spokesman Stacey James has said the team does not expect to comment during the police investigation. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was waiting for the legal process to take its course.
The Patriots drafted Hernandez out of Florida in 2010. He has since combined with Rob Gronkowski to form one of the top tight end duos in the NFL. He missed 10 games last season with an ankle injury and had shoulder surgery in April but is expected to be ready for training camp. Last summer, the Patriots gave him a five-year contract worth $40 million.
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Biofuel project in Kenya ignites land, environmental disputes
DIDA ADE, Kenya ? With its leaf-thatched mud huts, bad roads, chronic unemployment, crushing poverty and vast tracts of "underutilized" land, the Tana River Delta in eastern Kenya seemed the perfect place for a foreign businessman looking to grow crops that could be turned into biofuel.
Canadian David McClure believed the project, which involved leasing more than 600 square miles at a minuscule cost, would be both profitable and humanitarian.
But McClure underestimated local resistance and deep sensitivity about land in a region where ethnic violence linked to land use has flared repeatedly. Four years after launching the project, his company pulled out, leaving McClure bitter and defeated, accusing the Kenyan government of betraying Kenyans by frustrating his plans.
He was not alone in seeing Africa as an exciting new frontier for biofuel production, with cheap land that, to an outside eye, looks wasted.
Millions of acres have been snapped up across the continent by foreigners for farming biofuel plants, such as the oil-producing jatropha, which McClure wanted to grow. These projects are usually pitched by companies as being good for the environment and good for poor Africans.
But biofuel crop projects have been attacked by environmental and humanitarian activists as doing more harm than good, often replacing food crops that are badly needed in poor countries or destroying natural habitat like forests.
Demand for biofuel is driven by European Union regulations requiring that 10% of energy consumption in member states come from renewable sources by 2020. A British humanitarian organization, Action Aid, reported last year that more than 193,000 square miles had been planted with biofuel plants globally, much of it in Africa.
Foreign biofuel companies promise benefits such as jobs, but their projects have driven rural communities in some of the world's poorest countries off their land, offering only modest benefits in return, critics say.
Jatropha is a shrubby flowering plant whose seeds can be processed to make diesel. Such biofuel crops need vast tracts of cheap land to be viable, hence Africa's attraction for foreign investors. A 2011 report by the International Monetary Fund and United Nations agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization, linked sharp rises in food prices in poor countries to the demand for land to plant biofuel crops.
McClure, chief executive of Bedford Biofuels, a Canadian company, thought the Tana River Delta project would be popular with residents and win government support as it converted a vast swath of semiarid land to corporate farmland.
"Four years of our blood, sweat and tears to feed babies went into that project. It was a beautiful humanitarian project. We were going to reforest semiarid land with a crop. We had interest from major investors," McClure said in a phone interview from Canada.
The Tana River flows like a lazy, mud-colored python through a region of dry, forlorn-looking bush. About 250,000 people live in its delta, farming, herding cattle and fishing. To McClure, the land was unused and ripe for development. To locals, it was at the heart of years of conflict over grazing rights and subsistence farming.
Dahir Bile, 42, a tall thin man wearing small white skullcap and a colorful wrap around his waist, has lived in the remote sandy village of Dida Ade all his life, in a circular mud hut thatched with leaves and fenced with forbidding spiky plants. The smell of wood smoke drifts through Dida Ade as evening falls, and herdsmen bring their long-horned gray zebu cattle home. He was shocked when two local politicians from a rival tribe arrived, telling him the biofuel project was coming and his village would have to be relocated.
It's unclear how many people would have been displaced. The company said that people would be moved voluntarily and that efforts would be made to work around settlements where possible. It had no estimate of how many people would have been affected.
Bedford Biofuels leased more than 600 square miles of land that was supposed to be held in trust for the community, but is actually controlled by a few powerful people, according to activists from a nongovernmental environmental protection group, Nature Kenya.
The company agreed to pay the equivalent of about $1.25 per acre per year, planted a pilot crop, but withdrew in recent months, citing last year's ethnic violence between the Orma tribe (herders) and the Pokomo (farmers) over grazing rights. More than 200 people died in the clashes.
The project, says Bile (who is of another tribe, the Wardei, which is close to the Orma), was presented as a fait accompli by the two politicians, both of the Pokomo tribe.
"We were just told the project was going ahead and we were going to be moved and no one told us where we would be taken," he said. "It's like I was being told to climb into the heavens without a ladder."
Bile said Bedford Biofuel promised jobs and a better life. But he feared that if he and his people were moved, they would lose their traditional grazing rights.
"I couldn't accept," he said. "It was like do or die. Even if they killed me, I just decided I'd never move."
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Jon Stewart appears on Egypt's 'Daily Show'
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CAIRO - Jon Stewart took his politically engaged American satire to Cairo on Friday, appearing on a show hosted by the man known as "Egypt's Jon Stewart," who has faced investigation for insulting the president and Islam.
Among barbs aimed at Egypt's ruling Islamists and others, Stewart praised host Bassem Youssef for taking risks to poke fun. "If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke," he said, "then you don't have a regime."
Youssef is a cardiologist whose online comedy clips inspired by Stewart's "Daily Show" won him wild popularity and a prime-time TV show after the 2011 revolution that ended military rule. He paid tribute to his guest as a personal inspiration as the pair traded gags over Stewart's impressions of a visit to Cairo.
Stewart in turn played down any difficulties his wit created for him in the United States, telling Youssef: "I tell you this, it doesn't get me into the kind of trouble it gets you into. I get in trouble, but nowhere near what happens to you."
With Egypt still in ferment and elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi facing off against liberals who fear he plans to smother personal freedoms, Youssef was released on bail after being questioned in March over alleged insults to Mursi and the channel he appears on was threatened with losing its licence.
Criticising such moves, which have also drawn reproaches for Egypt from the U.S. government, Stewart said: "A joke has never shot tear gas at a group of people in a park. It's just talk.
"What Bassem is doing ... is showing that satire can still be relevant, that it can carve out space in a country for people to express themselves. Because that's all democracy is."
He took aim at Mursi's controversial decision this week to name a member of a hardline Islamist movement blamed for a massacre of tourists at Luxor in the 1990s as governor of that city. Having been brought into the studio hooded and presented as a "spy," he spoke a few words in Arabic before saying Egypt's president had honoured him: "I am now the mayor of Luxor."
Stewart also appeared to take a gentle dig at the opposition, who hope demonstrations planned for June 30 can force Mursi from power after just a year in office. It took Americans 100 years before a president was impeached for the first time, Stewart said: "For you guys to do it in one year, it's very impressive."
Perhaps the biggest laugh in the studio, though, was for a simple crack at Egypt's perennial traffic chaos: "I know this is an ancient civilisation," he said. "Have you thought about traffic lights?"
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
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