The band, which won Album of the Year for "Babel" at the Grammy awards in February and the British Group award at the BRIT awards, said Dwane had felt unwell for a few days and was taken to hospital on Monday for emergency treatment.

"The scans revealed a blood clot on the surface of his brain that requires an operation," the band said in a statement on its website.

"Ted is receiving excellent care and we are being assured that he will recover quickly from surgery."

Dwane plays bass, drums, guitar, and sings with the four-member band that formed in 2007.

The band said it was cancelling concerts in Dallas on Tuesday, Woodlands on Wednesday and New Orleans on Thursday, and would reschedule these dates when possible.

The band said it had no plans to cancel or postpone any other appearances on its current "Summer Stampede" tour of North America that started in Calgary on May 21. The next performance is scheduled for the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee, on June 15.

Mumford & Sons is due to perform at the UK's biggest musical festival, Glastonbury, on June 30.

(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith)

Dozens of agencies reserve parts of the spectrum for essential services like national defense, law enforcement and weather forecasting. Obama will sign a presidential memorandum that will direct them to take steps to make their use of the spectrum more efficient.

The administration has focused on expanding broadband access, which Obama views as a critical tool for economic growth.

The new directive comes as the federal telecommunications regulator works on rules for the biggest-ever auction of privately owned airwaves, in which TV stations would give up and wireless providers would buy highly attractive spectrum.

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to hold that auction in late 2014, at the earliest.

The White House also plans to announce on Friday new federal investments of $100 million into spectrum sharing and advanced communications.

(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Peter Cooney)

The online an organization that hosts live views and webcasts of cosmic sights from a network of international telescopes has created an app that allows users to command and control their robotic network of space cameras.

Space fans that download the app can "command a mission" to any object they find on a sky chart. Slooh's professional telescopes will take a photo of the cosmic sight, providing the user with a time, date and observatory-stamped image that will be loaded into the digital skywatcher's personal app.

"Much of the fun will be in 'filling out' your own sky to build your collection, in the app," Slooh president Patrick Paolucci said in a statement. "It starts out blank until you command a Slooh Space Camera. Its truly your own image, not a photo taken months or years earlier by some unknown facility or astro geek."

Slooh'sis free to download, but commanding a mission costs $1.99 or more. The app also contains information about the various celestial objects that users can investigate on the interactive sky chart.

iPad users can also watch Slooh's live webcasts featuring live space views and expert commentary.

"It's just too inconvenient for the vast majority of individuals to use a retail telescope without some sort of hands on guidance not to mention the difficulties with weather, light pollution, poor imaging and timing," Bob Berman, an astronomer affiliated with Slooh said in a statement. The new app allows an easier, simpler way to use a telescope.

Slooh officials are planning on launching an iPhone version of the app later this year, with an Android version due for release in 2014.

Since its launch in 2003, members involved with Slooh have taken 1.8 million photos of 46,000 events and objects in the sky from 80 different countries, officials with the space camera have said.

You can download the Slooh Space Camera iPad app in the .

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June 12 (Reuters) - Australia batsman David Warner was dropped from the team's Champions Trophy match against New Zealand on Wednesday for an alleged physical altercation with an England player.

The flamboyant left-hander, who was primed to open the batting for Australia in back-to-back Ashes series against England starting in July, has been reported for breaching the code of behaviour.

"Warner...was allegedly involved in (an incident) with an England player in the early hours of Sunday morning following the ICC Champions Trophy match between the teams in Birmingham," Cricket Australia said in a statement.

"Team management have stood down Warner pending the outcome of the hearing, meaning he will miss Australia's match against New Zealand in Birmingham tonight (Wednesday)."

CA said it would make no further comment until the hearing, the time and date for which has yet to be confirmed.

After rain ruined the match against New Zealand, Australia's stand-in captain George Bailey told a news conference: "It was a very minor incident. It's been dealt with in-house."

British media reports said the England player involved in the incident with Warner was young batsman Joe Root.

"The England and Wales Cricket Board confirms that David Warner initiated an unprovoked physical attack on a member of the England team in a Birmingham bar following England's 48-run victory over Australia," the ECB said in a statement.

"Warner has admitted behaving inappropriately and has since apologised to the player involved who has accepted the apology.

Following a full investigation the England team management has concluded that the England player was in no way responsible for nor retaliated to the attack."

The 26-year-old Warner was fined A$5,750 ($5,400) last month by CA for a Twitter outburst against two journalists.

Australia, who have been without injured regular captain Michael Clarke, play Sri Lanka in their final Group A match at The Oval in London on Monday but could already be out of contention for the semi-finals if other results go against them.

They lost their opener to England.

($1 = 1.0637 Australian dollars) (Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai and Ed Osmond in London; Editing by John O'Brien and Clare Fallon)

The Patriots did not reveal the terms of the contract but it was expected Tebow would be the team's third-choice passer, behind starting quarterback Tom Brady and his back-up Ryan Mallett.

Media reports suggested Tebow had signed a two year contract with no guaranteed payments, making the move risk-free for New England.

A polarizing figure, Tebow's brief NFL career appeared to be in jeopardy after he was traded by the Denver Broncos then released by the New York Jets in April.

"Anything we do is what we feel is in the best interest of the team," said Patriots head coach Bill Belichick.

"Tim is a talented player that's smart and works hard, so we'll see how it goes," added Belichick who gave short shrift to follow up questions on the player.

By joining the Patriots, Tebow, 25, will reunite with his former coach Josh McDaniels, the offensive coordinator at New England.

McDaniels had been head coach at the Broncos when Tebow, a former College football star who won the Heisman Trophy in 2007, was drafted as a first-round pick from the University of Florida.

When he finally got his start in the NFL, Tebow took the Broncos on an improbable run to the 2011 playoffs, beating the Pittsburgh Steelers before losing to the Patriots, despite criticism and reservations about his ability as a passer.

He also quickly become a household name, with his popularity going well beyond the NFL. Deeply religious and with a clean-cut image, he became a magnet for sponsors, signing a range of massive endorsement deals which earned him an estimated $4 million a year.

Tebow's jerseys were among the biggest sellers in the NFL and his habit of going down on one knee in prayer, became known as "Tebowing."

In early 2012, the Broncos signed future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning after he had become a free agent, and traded Tebow to the Jets.

The Jets said they planned to use Tebow on their special teams and 'wildcat' plays, but the experiment was rarely tried and he spent most of each game stuck on the bench with the Jets eventually releasing him after missing the playoffs.

The Patriots and the Jets face each other twice each season in the AFC East division.

Critics of Tebow as a player have questioned whether he will ever have the passing accuracy needed to make it in the pro game but he has worked intensely on his technique during the off-season at IMG's academy in Bradenton, Florida.

Chris Weinke, who was Tebow's passing tutor during those sessions says the quarterback is a much improved player.

"I made an adjustment to his lower half and invariably that's where the quickness came from," Weinke, a former NFL quarterback, told USA Today.

"What I saw was, when his feet were in good position, he was throwing the ball with great accuracy, great velocity. And the ball was coming out much quicker.

"He's proven he can win at that position. He has had great success. He does things the right way and has a guy in Tom who is one of the elite quarterbacks to ever play the game that he'll be able to spend time with every day.

"The things we worked on down here are going to pay dividends in New England."

(Reporting By Simon Evans in Miami)

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Ronald Rudin, a professor at Montreal's Concordia University, is using a combination of traditional and new media to revisit the controversy over the creation of Kouchibouguac National Park in 1969, a story he says has been largely forgotten.

About 250 families around 1,200 people were displaced for the park because of a belief at the time that visitors wouldn't be able to appreciate nature if there were humans living in the area. Acadians, who made up the bulk of the residents, called the explusions "a second deportation."

Rudin says he didn't know much about the controversy until he was on a tour of Acadian historical sites in 2005 and some people raised it with him over lunch.

"Kouchibouguac is the story of people being treated badly and if you're going to create a park to encourage tourism, that's not exactly the best way to market something that's supposed to be fun for a family," Rudin said.

He dug into the subject for four years, talking to former residents of Kouchibouguac on New Brunswick's east coast.

The result of his efforts is a recently launched website returningthevoices.ca which uses video, maps and illustrations to tell their story. A book that will complement it with a bigger-picture approach is also in the works.

"The website is designed to, in a way, let the residents speak for themselves but there's a larger story about the thinking behind the park, the background for the resistance to the park and the way the story has been remembered," he explained.

Rudin said in an interview that the resistance to the 238-square-kilometre park showed the government that the practice of moving communities to make way for such sites wasn't in anyone's interest. The park was shut down several times because of protests.

"There are stories of people who are still angry, there are stories of people who don't think the process was fair but appreciate the fact that they got jobs," Rudin said, referring to some people who ended up working at the park.

Others, like Norma Doucet, recalled in a video interview on the website how her father felt betrayed after having served in the Second World War.

"He's gone to war to save his country," she said. "When he came back, he wanted to raise his family and he says he was pushed out to go and live somewhere else."

Figures provided by Parks Canada say a large number of the people expropriated initially got between $5,000 and $7,000 for their properties. An additional grant program provided up to $2,300 and a subsequent relocation program offered resident owners the difference between the original compensation and $15,000 to $18,000, depending on family size.

Rudin said the fairness of the compensation is a matter of perspective.

"Many families ended up with newer homes but almost all were removed from the resources that have been at the centre of their lives and were separated from their neighbours," he said.

"I didn't meet anyone who was happy how things turned out, even if some appreciated the fact that they received employment in the park."

Rudin, who has written on Acadian history, was astonished to find that the episode had been largely undocumented.

"I figured surely somebody had written something about the story and the fact is there's almost nothing," he said in a telephone interview.

Works of fiction such as poetry, songs and novels do exist. There are also two documentaries and news accounts from the day but Rudin said that's about it.

Even when he looked at files on the expropriation in the New Brunswick archives in Fredericton, he says he was told "nobody's ever looked at this stuff."

"The funny thing about this project is although it seemed like the kind of project somebody should have done, I kept going to different archives and often would find that I was the first person that had ever looked at material that had been sitting there for 40 years, which isn't something that happens very often."

While expropriations for parks in the past had seldom sparked opposition, that wasn't the case in Kouchibouguac.

Acadian residents there were well aware of the searing chapter of their history when the British deported their ancestors in the 18th century.

Rudin said opponents to the park's creation became symbols of a greater assertiveness that was growing among Acadians at the time.

One resident in particular, Jackie Vautour, became a symbol of the resistance with his stubborn refusal to leave his property and court challenges which Rudin said got residents better compensation.

Rudin said Vautour still squats in a cabin with no electricity or running water.

The professor said that while Vautour's story is compelling, it's not the only one and Rudin wants to help some of those other voices be heard.

"The media was all over the Jackie Vautour story but, most people, they left quietly," Rudin said. "They weren't happy but they left quietly and went on to build their lives again. Those who supported my project appreciated that other stories would get told as well."

The professor said that at the time the prevailing view was the residents were so poor that moving them from their community and making them start over fresh somewhere else would improve their lives.

"It was a whole kind of creepy social engineering project that they had in mind," Rudin said, although he acknowledged there were likely good intentions at the root.

"The irony is that almost all of them moved as close to the border of the park as possible. They're kind of cuddled up next to each other so the communities were recreated, in a sense."

Rudin said it's vital to document stories such as that of the Kouchibouguac residents because the original participants are getting older.

"Once they're gone, the story is, at least in terms of oral testimony, kind of lost."

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