Monday, March 25, 2013

HTC drops 'Quietly Brilliant' slogan, promises more aggressive marketing

HTC drops 'Quietly Brilliant' slogan, promises more aggressive marketing

With things getting just a little bit too quiet in HTC's finance department, the marketing folks across the corridor have come up with a solution: drop the old "Quietly Brilliant" tagline in favor of something bolder. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, HTC's new chief marketing officer, Ben Ho, said the company "hasn't been loud enough" in presenting its innovations. He didn't go as far as detailing a new motto, but after his recent remarks about the Galaxy S 4 we're expecting something punchy.

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How to Install Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean on Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 P3110 with Blackbean ROM [GUIDE]

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Orthodox patriarch to Rome for pope's installation

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, left Monday for the Vatican to attend Pope Francis' installation Mass ? the first time a patriarch from the Istanbul-based church is attending a papal investiture since the two branches of Christianity split nearly 1,000 years ago.

Bartholomew said he was attending the installation Mass to underscore the importance he attaches to "friendly ties" between the churches and reflects expectations that the new pontiff will advance rapprochement efforts that began decades ago.

"It is a gesture to underline relations which have been developing over the recent years and to express my wish that our friendly ties flourish even more during this new era," Bartholomew told private NTV television in an interview in Istanbul before his departure. "I am very hopeful in this matter."

He is just one of several ecumenical and interfaith leaders who will be attending the Mass, including a sizeable Jewish contingent that reflects Francis' longstanding ties to the Jewish community in his native Argentina. Several Orthodox leaders will be there, although the Russian Orthodox Church's Patriarch Kirill is staying home in Moscow and sending his envoy instead.

In a sign of common bonds between East and West, the Vatican said the Gospel during the installation Mass would be chanted in Greek instead of Latin, the language that will be used for many of the other elements of the ceremony.

The Eastern and Western churches were united until the Great Schism of 1054, a divide precipitated largely by disagreements over the primacy of the pope.

Francis' predecessor, the now-retired Pope Benedict XVI, had made uniting all Christians and healing the split a priority of his pontificate. A joint committee has been working to mend the rift between the two churches.

Rev. Dositheos Anagnostopoulos, the spokesman for the Istanbul-based Patriarchate, said Bartholomew would become the first Orthodox spiritual leader to attend an investiture since the Schism. The decision to attend the Mass at St Peter's Square on Tuesday was "the fruit" of the growing dialogue between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, he said.

Bartholomew went further to say he would be the first Orthodox spiritual leader to attend an investiture since "at least" before the Schism.

"Even before the churches were divided in 1054, a patriarch from Istanbul did not attend the inauguration," he explained.

The Patriarch said: "From the first day, (Pope Francis) has won over hearts with his modest demeanor... I felt the wish to go and I am going willingly."

Bartholomew has made several previous visits to the Vatican, including attending the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005. Bartholomew also hosted Benedict during a 2006 visit to Istanbul, the sprawling city formerly called Constantinople and the ancient spiritual center of the Orthodox churches.

Prof. Ionnis Zizioulas, the Metropolitan of Pergamon and a co-chair of the joint commission promoting dialogue between the two churches, is accompanying Bartholomew to Rome, Anagnostopoulos said. Bartholomew's delegation will also include Tarassios, the Metropolitan of Argentina, and Gennadios, the Metropolitan of Italy.

Francis is familiar with Orthodox traditions from 14 years of heading the Argentine church's commission on Eastern Rite Christians, who are within the Catholic fold but follow Orthodox religious customs, including some married clergy in lower ranks.

The powerful Russian Orthodox Church, the largest of the more than dozen Orthodox churches,?welcomed the election of Francis.

"The new pope is known for his conservative views, and his papacy will evidently be marked by the strengthening of faith. The fact that he has taken the name of Francis ? reminiscent of St. Francis of Assisi ? confirms his understanding of evangelization primarily as assistance for the poor and the deprived, as protection of their dignity," Dimitry Sizonenko, secretary for inter-Christian relations in the Russian church, told the Interfax-Religion news service.

?? For Orthodox, the new pope's choice of Francis is also important for its reference to the Italian town of Assisi, where Pope John Paul II began conferences encouraging interfaith dialogue and closer bonds among Christians.

In an indication that the Vatican's interfaith and ecumenical partners expect great things from Francis, several Jewish representatives were attending his installation, including the chief rabbi of Rome , the general secretary of the chief Rabbinate of Israel, and representatives from the American Jewish Committee, the World Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League.

The Vatican said Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh and Jains would also attend, though on the official list released Monday, none were listed.

Several mostly Muslim countries were sending delegations, including Bahrain and Lebanon as well as Jordan. Jordanian King Abdullah II had congratulated Francis on his election and said he was committed to working with the Holy See on interfaith dialogue.

Although Catholics and Orthodox remain estranged on key issues ? including married clergy and the centralized power of the Vatican ? there have been significant moves toward closer interactions and understanding.

The first major breakthrough came in 1964 when Pope Paul VI met in Jerusalem with Patriarch Athenagoras in the first encounter between a pope and Orthodox patriarch in more than 500 years. The meeting led to the lifting of mutual excommunication edicts and the Catholic-Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965 that called for greater harmony among the churches.

An apostolic letter by John Paul II in 1995 encouraged unity between the two branches of Christianity and opened the way for a historic visit to Rome by Bartholomew I, who is considered the "first among equals" of the Orthodox patriarchs, as well as Catholic-Orthodox conferences.

During the first papal trip to Greece in 2001, John Paul II issued an apology for the ravages of the Fourth Crusade, which in the early 13th century sacked Constantinople, now Istanbul, the seat of the Eastern church.? In 2006, Benedict XVI was hosted by the ecumenical patriarchate in Istanbul in a visit that brought protests from some archconservative Orthodox but generally opened room for dialogue on even closer contacts.

Francis was expected to meet with representatives of other religious denominations, including Bartholomew, on Wednesday.

Among the delegation with Bartholomew will be Ioannis Zizioulas, co-president of the joint commission for Catholic-Orthodox dialogue, and a senior envoy from the powerful Russian Orthodox Church.

A meeting between a pope and the head of the Russian church remains one of the elusive goals in efforts to improve ties. The Russian church and Vatican have a host of lingering conflicts including disputes over properties following the collapse of the Soviet Union and objections by Moscow of perceived Catholic efforts to gain followers in traditional Orthodox lands.

The spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion, said last week that any possible meeting between Francis and Russian Patriarch Kirill "will depend on how quickly" the points of dispute are settled.

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Associated Press writer Brian Murphy in Rome contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/orthodox-patriarch-rome-popes-installation-111214963.html

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Jelly Bean update coming soon to a Droid 4 near you

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Update: Updated information from Verizon actually pegs the update as pushing out in phases, beginning Tuesday March 19. Even better news!

Those of you rocking a Droid 4 might want to gather round at this point. Seems Verizon has approved a pretty special software update for the QWERTY slider that will bump it up to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and all the goodness that comes with it. 

The rollout hasn't actually got underway yet, nor do we know exactly when it will. But, support documentation over on the Verizon website confirms the bump to Jelly Bean so Droid 4 owners will soon be able to experience that buttery smoothness of Project Butter and of course, Google Now. 

Aside from bumping up to Android 4.1, the update package will also include some device specific improvements. These include improved voice and data connectivity, improvements to mobile hotspot connectivity, and the removal of the pre-loaded MOG and Sling applications. 

Droid 4 owners will naturally be excited by this, so be sure to head on down to the Droid 4 forums to share it with us all. 

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Small particles with a bright future

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Novel luminescent materials: EU funds 'LUMINET' project with 3.6 million Euros

Phosphors form the basis of many applications in our daily life. Their further development is the goal of the project "LUMINET" which is funded by the EU in the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of 3.6 million Euros over four years. For this purpose, a network of twelve research institutes and companies is training talented young people to form the next generation of leading experts in this field. Prof. Dr. Anja-Verena Mudring from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry 3.0 at the Ruhr-Universitt coordinates the network.

Luminescent materials are a key technology of the next generation

The European Commission has identified luminescent materials as a key technology of the next generation. Phosphors are used, for example, in traffic lights, computer screens, smartphones and tablets, Euro banknotes, medical devices, as well as in films for X-rays and light sources. "Worldwide, lighting alone consumes a large share of electric energy - about 20 percent", says Anja-Verena Mudring. "Up to fifty nuclear power plants could be removed from the network without replacement if all the bulbs were replaced with efficient energy saving bulbs or LEDs - as already initiated in the EU, Australia and other countries." Researchers and politicians assume that the economic and social significance of luminescent materials will continue to grow. Resources management and environmental compatibility play a vital role here.

Minimising the need for rare earths

Many phosphors are based on rare earths such as europium or terbium. Since China has limited the export of rare earths, the prices of these precious commodities have risen sharply. Therefore, the search for phosphors that make do with less or even completely without rare earths is an important research topic. Prof. Mudring uses ionic liquids to produce new kinds of phosphors. Her team produces the smallest particles of luminescent materials and tests them for new properties and their application in solar cells and light sources. "Using ionic liquids, we can make targeted changes to the structure of nanoparticles and achieve a previously unattained energy efficiency", says the chemist. "There's still so much potential in the tiny particles, and we are confident that we will soon be able to present materials that are ready for application."

Cooperation partners

"LUMINET" unites the expertise of ten academic and two industrial partners from ten EU countries. The academic project partners of Prof. Mudring's RUB team include researchers from Aveiro, Bern, Orlans, Prague, Tartu, Utrecht, Verona and Wroclaw. In addition, it was possible to win over Philips Research and Osram GmbH as industrial partners.

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Contact: Anja-Verena Mudring
anja.mudring@rub.de
49-234-322-7408
Ruhr-University Bochum

Novel luminescent materials: EU funds 'LUMINET' project with 3.6 million Euros

Phosphors form the basis of many applications in our daily life. Their further development is the goal of the project "LUMINET" which is funded by the EU in the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of 3.6 million Euros over four years. For this purpose, a network of twelve research institutes and companies is training talented young people to form the next generation of leading experts in this field. Prof. Dr. Anja-Verena Mudring from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry 3.0 at the Ruhr-Universitt coordinates the network.

Luminescent materials are a key technology of the next generation

The European Commission has identified luminescent materials as a key technology of the next generation. Phosphors are used, for example, in traffic lights, computer screens, smartphones and tablets, Euro banknotes, medical devices, as well as in films for X-rays and light sources. "Worldwide, lighting alone consumes a large share of electric energy - about 20 percent", says Anja-Verena Mudring. "Up to fifty nuclear power plants could be removed from the network without replacement if all the bulbs were replaced with efficient energy saving bulbs or LEDs - as already initiated in the EU, Australia and other countries." Researchers and politicians assume that the economic and social significance of luminescent materials will continue to grow. Resources management and environmental compatibility play a vital role here.

Minimising the need for rare earths

Many phosphors are based on rare earths such as europium or terbium. Since China has limited the export of rare earths, the prices of these precious commodities have risen sharply. Therefore, the search for phosphors that make do with less or even completely without rare earths is an important research topic. Prof. Mudring uses ionic liquids to produce new kinds of phosphors. Her team produces the smallest particles of luminescent materials and tests them for new properties and their application in solar cells and light sources. "Using ionic liquids, we can make targeted changes to the structure of nanoparticles and achieve a previously unattained energy efficiency", says the chemist. "There's still so much potential in the tiny particles, and we are confident that we will soon be able to present materials that are ready for application."

Cooperation partners

"LUMINET" unites the expertise of ten academic and two industrial partners from ten EU countries. The academic project partners of Prof. Mudring's RUB team include researchers from Aveiro, Bern, Orlans, Prague, Tartu, Utrecht, Verona and Wroclaw. In addition, it was possible to win over Philips Research and Osram GmbH as industrial partners.

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A photo related to this press release can be downloaded from: http://aktuell.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pm2013/pm00076.html.en

Further information

Prof. Dr. Anja-Verena Mudring, Chair of Inorganic Chemistry 3.0, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Ruhr-Universitt, 44780 Bochum, Germany, Tel. +49/234/32-27408, E-mail: anja.mudring@rub.de

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Pa. college awaits answers as it mourns coach

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Members of the Seton Hill University's women's lacrosse team attend a memorial mass in St. Joseph Chapel on the school's Greensburg, Pa., campus Sunday, March 17, 2013. Women's lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley and the tour bus driver were killed when their tour bus carrying three coaches and members of the lacrosse team when the bus crashed at about 9 a.m., turnpike spokeswoman Renee Colborn said. It's not clear what caused the crash, but state police were investigating, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Members of the Seton Hill University's women's lacrosse team attend a memorial mass in St. Joseph Chapel on the school's Greensburg, Pa., campus Sunday, March 17, 2013. Women's lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley and the tour bus driver were killed when their tour bus carrying three coaches and members of the lacrosse team when the bus crashed at about 9 a.m., turnpike spokeswoman Renee Colborn said. It's not clear what caused the crash, but state police were investigating, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Members of the Seton Hill University's women's Lacrosse team leave a memorial mass in St. Joseph Chapel on the school's Greensburg, Pa. campus Sunday, March 17, 2013. Women's lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley and the tour bus driver were killed when their tour bus carrying three coaches and members of the women's Lacrosse team ran off the Pennsylvania turnpike and hit a tree Saturday morning, March 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

A lacrosse goal serves as a memorial for Seton Hill University's women's lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley on the school's Greensburg, Pa. campus, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Coach Quigley and the tour bus driver were killed when a tour bus carrying three coaches and members of the Seton Hill women's lacrosse team crashed at about 9 a.m., Saturday morning on the Pennsylvania turnpike, spokeswoman Renee Colborn said. It's not clear what caused the crash, but state police were investigating, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

This undated photo provided by Seton Hill University shows women's college lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley. A tour bus carrying the Seton Hill women's lacrosse team to a game went off the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013, and crashed into a tree. Authorities said the accident killed the driver and Kristina Quigley, who was about six months pregnant, and sent others to the hospital. (AP Photo/Courtesy Seton Hill University)

A lacrosse goal serves as a memorial for Seton Hill University's women's lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley on the school's Greensburg, Pa. campus, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Coach Quigley and the tour bus driver were killed when a tour bus carrying three coaches and members of the Seton Hill women's lacrosse team crashed at about 9 a.m., Saturday morning on the Pennsylvania turnpike, spokeswoman Renee Colborn said. It's not clear what caused the crash, but state police were investigating, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

(AP) ? At least one player from a Pennsylvania women's college lacrosse team remains hospitalized as police search for answers to why the team bus veered off the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

The Saturday morning crash killed 30-year-old Seton Hill University coach Kristina Quigley, her unborn child and the bus driver.

Seton Hill player Amanda Michalski remained hospitalized Monday. A Penn State-Hershey Medical Center spokeswoman says Michalski is in fair condition.

Twenty-three players and coaches were aboard the bus when it crashed on the way to a game at Millersville University.

Quigley was about six-months pregnant. She died of her injuries at a hospital. The bus driver, 61-year-old Anthony Guaetta of Johnstown, died at the scene.

Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Rob Hicks says it will be weeks before police determine why the bus crashed.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Financial info on celebs, officials leaked online

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Authorities and celebrities were grappling Monday with how to respond to a website that posted what appears to be private financial information about top government officials and stars such as Jay-Z and Mel Gibson.

Los Angeles police said they were investigating how the Social Security number, address and a credit report of the police chief ended up on the site. The site also posted the same information about FBI Director Robert Mueller; the bureau said it was aware of the site but declined to say whether it was investigating.

The site also targeted stars such as Beyonce, Ashton Kutcher, Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton. Info posted about Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not include credit reports but included addresses and other sensitive information.

Social Security numbers posted on Gibson, Jay-Z and others matched records in public databases.

The site, which bears an Internet suffix originally assigned to the Soviet Union, expanded throughout the day Monday to add entries on Britney Spears, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and others.

It did not state how the information was obtained or why the 11 people targeted on the site were selected, describing the records only as "secret files." A Twitter profile linked to the site and created after its existence was first reported by celebrity website TMZ included an anti-police message in Russian.

Several of the purported credit reports appear to have been generated last week.

Representatives for each person targeted either declined to comment on the accuracy of the information that was posted, or they did not return messages seeking comment.

Los Angeles police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said the LAPD was investigating the posting of Police Chief Charlie Beck's information and would also investigate the posting of info on any celebrities who live in the city and request an inquiry.

He said confidential information on top police officials has been posted online at least twice before.

"People get mad at us, go on the Internet and try to find information about us, and post it all on one site," Smith said.

"The best word I can use to describe it is creepy," he said about the practice known as doxxing. "It's a creepy thing to do."

Frank Preciado, assistant officer in charge at the LAPD online section, said the postings are also illegal. He said the information was likely taken from what is supposed to be a secure database of city employees.

Several of the pages featured unflattering pictures of the celebrities or government officials whose information was posted.

The site's page on Beck includes a taunting reference to former officer Christopher Dorner, who apparently committed suicide after he killed four people during a multi-day rampage. Beck's page included the message "(hash)YouCantCornerTheDorner" and an image of a woman protesting police corruption.

While government officials often have to disclose details on their finances ? and celebrity divorces sometimes feature public financial data ? the information posted online exceeds those disclosures.

Social Security numbers are rarely included in public records anymore because they can be used for identity theft.

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Anthony McCartney can be reached at http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP . Tami Abdollah can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/latams .

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/financial-celebs-officials-leaked-online-222719836.html

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Protein abundant in cancerous cells causes DNA 'supercoiling'

Mar. 11, 2013 ? A team of USC scientists has identified a protein that can change DNA topology, making DNA twist up into a so-called "supercoil."

The finding provides new insight about the role of the protein -- known as mini-chromosome maintenance (MCM) -- in cancer cells, which have high levels of MCM.

Think about twisting one end of a rubber band while holding the other end still. After a few turns, it forms a neatly twisted rope. But if you keep on turning, the twisted band will twist back upon itself into an increasingly coiled-up knot. Similarly, a DNA molecule can be twisted and coiled to varying extents to form different "supercoiled" structures.

Chromosomal DNA forms different supercoiled structures to enable a number of important processes. It turns on or off some genes, while tuning up or down other genes. The study suggests that an overabundance of MCM in a cell may allow certain genes to be overexpressed, and tune down or turn off other important genes, causing the cell to grow out of control and become cancerous.

Chromosomal DNA structure is very important for regulating gene expression of a cell, and thus the physiological status of the cell. Changing DNA topology is one effective way of controlling chromosomal DNA structure. The discovery of MCM's ability to change DNA topology offers a totally new perspective to MCM's role in gene regulation and cancer," said Xiaojiang Chen, professor of molecular biology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of the study.

Chen worked with fellow USC professor Susan Forsburg and USC graduate students Ian M. Slaymaker, Yang Fu and Nimna Ranatunga; as well as Daniel B. Toso and Z. Hong Zhou of UCLA and Aaron Brewster of UC Berkeley. Their study was published online by Nucleic Acids Research on Jan. 29.

Chen and his team found that MCM proteins form a filament that looks much like a wide tube, through which the DNA strand spirals its way along the inner tube wall. Inside of the tube is a wide spiral path that has a strong positive electrical charge.

"Such a striking feature is unusual," said Chen. Who is also a member of the USC Norris Cancer Center. "When you see that, you know it must have a special function." Indeed, it turns out that the positively charged spiral path attracts and binds to the DNA strand, which has a negatively charged phosphate backbone.

Holding the DNA tightly to the spiral path inside the helical filament tube causes the DNA double-helix to change structure, creating supercoils. Future research by the team will explore how the DNA topology changes caused by MCM impacts cancer cell formation as well as its utility in cancer therapy.

This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, grant numbers GM080338, AI055926, GM071940 and GM059321.

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Monday, March 11, 2013

Egyptian Soccer fans rampage over court verdicts

The sun sets during clashes between Egyptian protesters and riot police in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013. Security officials say a protester has died during clashes between police and hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in central Cairo. The officials say the protester died Saturday on a Nile-side road where clashes have been taking place daily between anti-government protesters and police near two luxury hotels and the U.S. and British embassies. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

The sun sets during clashes between Egyptian protesters and riot police in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013. Security officials say a protester has died during clashes between police and hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in central Cairo. The officials say the protester died Saturday on a Nile-side road where clashes have been taking place daily between anti-government protesters and police near two luxury hotels and the U.S. and British embassies. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

An Egyptian protester runs with a teargas canister during clashes with riot police in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013. Security officials say a protester has died during clashes between police and hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in central Cairo. The officials say the protester died Saturday on a Nile-side road where clashes have been taking place daily between anti-government protesters and police near two luxury hotels and the U.S. and British embassies. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

An injured security official is carried from a police officers club in the upscale neighborhood of Zamalek, after protesters set fires following a court verdict in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013. Fans of Cairo?s Al-Ahly club have stormed Egypt?s soccer federation headquarters and a nearby police club, and set them ablaze after a court acquitted seven of nine police official on trial for their alleged part in deadly stadium melee. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad )

Egyptian soccer fans of the Al-Ahly club celebrate in front of their club in Cairo, Egypt, after an Egyptian court confirmed death sentences against 21 people for their role in a deadly 2012 soccer riot that killed more than 70 people in the city of Port Said, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

An Egyptian man walks on the grounds of a police officer's club as a fire set by protesters burns in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013. An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed the death sentences against 21 people for taking part in a deadly soccer riot but acquitted seven police officials for their alleged role in the violence, touching off furious protests in Cairo that torched the soccer federation headquarters and a nearby police club.(AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

(AP) ? Egyptian soccer fans rampaged through the heart of Cairo on Saturday, furious about the acquittal of seven police officers while death sentences against 21 alleged rioters were confirmed in a trial over a stadium melee that left 74 people dead.

The case of the Feb. 1, 2012 stadium riot in the city of Port Said at the northern tip of the Suez Canal has taken on political undertones not just because police faced allegations of negligence in the tragedy but also because the verdicts were announced at a time when Egypt is in the grip of the latest and most serious bout of political turmoil in the two years since Hosni Mubarak's ouster.

Saturday's verdicts also were handed down against the backdrop of an unprecedented wave of strikes by the nation's police force over demands for better working conditions and anger over what many believe are attempts by President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood to take control of the police force.

Tensions over the riot ? which began when supporters of Port Said's Al-Masry club set upon fans of Cairo's Al-Ahly club after the final whistle of a league game that the home team won ? have fueled some of the deadliest street violence in months. Police guarding the stadium, meanwhile, faced allegations ranging from not searching people entering the stadium to failing to intervene to stop the bloodshed.

Shortly after the verdict was announced Saturday, angry fans of Cairo's Al-Ahly club who had gathered in the thousands outside the team's headquarters in central Cairo went on a rampage, torching a police club nearby and storming Egypt's soccer federation headquarters before setting it ablaze.

The twin fires sent plumes of thick black smoke billowing out over the Cairo skyline, prompting Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to dispatch two army helicopters to extinguish the fires.

At least five people were injured in the protests over the verdict, a Health Ministry official told the MENA state news agency.

Some demonstrators in Port Said also burnt tires on the city's dock to prevent vessels from coming in and released speedboats into traffic lanes of the Suez Canal in attempts, foiled by the navy, to disrupt shipping in the vital waterway linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.

A spokesman for the Suez Canal Authority said shipping was not affected and 41 vessels transited the waterway on Saturday.

General unrest also continued elsewhere in the Egyptian capital, which has seen unrelenting demonstrations and clashes between security forces and an opposition that accuses Morsi of trying to monopolize power in the hands of his Islamist allies.

Two protesters also were killed and 19 injured in clashes elsewhere in the capital that appeared unrelated to the soccer violence, national ambulance service chief Mohammed Sultan said. The fighting occurred near two luxury hotels and the U.S. and British embassies.

The court's decision upheld the death sentences issued in late January against 21 people, most of them Port Said fans. The original verdict touched off violent riots in Port Said that left some 40 people dead, most shot by police.

On Saturday, the court announced its verdict for the other 52 defendants in the case, sentencing 45 of them to prison, including two senior police officers who got 15 years terms each. The two were charged with gross negligence and failure to stop the killings.

Twenty-eight people were acquitted, including seven police officials.

Defense lawyers claimed the case has been flawed from the start with prosecutors collecting evidence in an "unorthodox" fashion and overlooking key aspects of the tragedy such as the fact the floodlights were turned off during the attack on the Al-Ahly fans and the nearest exit gate was locked.

Many of the 74 victims died of suffocation or blows to the head.

Morsi's aides denounced Saturday's violence and sought to dismiss the notion of a country in chaos.

Ayman Ali, a senior presidential aide, called on the media not to provide a "political cover" to the violence sweeping the country and dismissed as exaggerated claims that the country's police force was in disarray.

Another presidential aide, Bakinam el-Sharqawy, lamented that the focus on protests and violence created an image of instability in Egypt that kept foreign investors away.

In anticipation of more violence, authorities beefed up security near the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the police force, with riot police deploying in the streets around the complex in central Cairo.

The president of the international soccer governing body FIFA appealed for calm.

"I call on football fans in Egypt to remain peaceful. Violence is never a solution and is contrary to the spirit of sport," Sepp Blatter tweeted.

Earlier at the courthouse across town, Judge Sobhi Abdel-Maguid read out the verdict live on TV, sentencing five defendants to life in prison and nine others to 15 years in jail. Six defendants received 10-year jail terms, two more got five years and a single defendant received a 12-month sentence.

The court's decision on the nine Port Said security officers on trial was among the most highly anticipated ? and potentially explosive ? verdicts. In the end, the judges sentenced the city's former security chief, Maj. Gen. Essam Samak, and a colonel both to 15 years in prison, while the others were acquitted.

Al-Ahly's fans accuse the police of collusion in the killing of their fellow supporters, arguing that they had advance knowledge of plans by supporters of Port Said's Al-Masry to attack them. They also accuse them of standing by as the Al-Masry fans attacked the visiting Al-Ahly supporters.

The court rulings can be appealed before a higher court.

Many residents of Port Said say the trial is unjust and politicized, and soccer fans in the city have felt that authorities were biased in favor of Al-Ahly, Egypt's most powerful club.

In Port Said, a city that for weeks has been in open rebellion against Morsi, the Islamist leader, several hundred people, many of them relatives of the defendants, gathered outside the local security headquarters to vent their anger. They chanted slogans against Morsi's government and the verdicts. Police pulled out of the city on Friday after days of battling protesters in deadly clashes. The army has taken over security in the city, a move that was warmly welcomed by residents.

Some people in a cafe watching the verdict live on TV hit their heads in frustration, while others broke down and wept. Some said they can live with the verdict because an appeal leaves room for hope.

"There's still an appeal process. God willing, our rights will be restored," said Islam Ezzeddin, a local soccer fan. "We are not thugs. I hope to God when there's an appeal, that we feel we live in a country of law and justice."

However, the national railways chief, Hussein Zakaria, ordered trains headed to Port Said to terminate their services at Ismailiya, another Suez Canal city south of Port Said. He said the measure was taken out of fear for the safety of passengers.

Late on Saturday, activists in the city declared the start of a new general strike, with bands of protesters moving around the city pleading with business owners to shutter down.

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Batrawy reported from Port Said.

Associated Press

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Grand Valley State University Settles Guinea Pig Lawsuit For $40,000

Grand Valley State University won't admit to violating a federal housing policy by initially denying a student's request to live with a guinea pig, but the Michigan school is handing over $40,000 anyway.

Kendra Velzen, a 28-year-old GVSU student, sued the institution last year because it would not let her keep Blanca, her "emotional support animal," in her residence hall and take the guinea pig with her to common areas. Velzen has chronic depression and uses a pacemaker, according to CBS Detroit.

University policy allows students to keep only service dogs and nonpredatory fish on campus. But under the Fair Housing Act, the school should have made an exception for Velzen, her attorney, Stephen Dane, argued.

GVSU has now reached a settlement with Velzen for $40,000, the Grand Rapids Press reports. The university stated that it does not believe it "acted wrongly," but noted the settlement will save the cost of further litigation.

"Should Kendra Velzen ever reapply for on-campus housing and make an accommodation request to live with a guinea pig or animal of similar size and nature, Grand Valley will grant said request," the school said.

GVSU will also work with the Fair Housing Center of West Michigan, which had joined Velzen in her lawsuit, to develop a policy for its on-campus residences that accommodates support animals, CBS Detroit reports.

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Can North Korea threaten U.S.? Not really

Despite North Korea's threats, its missiles can't reach American soil yet. But South Korea and Japan are in range, experts caution.

By Jack Kim,?Reuters / March 9, 2013

The guided missile destroyers USS Lassen and USS Fitzgerald are seen at a South Korean naval port in Donghae, about 120 miles east of Seoul, March 9. The destroyers arrived in South Korea on Saturday to take part in a naval drill, perhaps prompted by North Korea's recent threats against the United States.

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North Korea's threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the United States is a hollow one, but it has plenty of military firepower, experts warn. South Korea is most at risk from the isolated regime's artillery and rockets.

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Japan, separated by less than 1,000 km (625 miles) of water and a frequent target of North Korea's ire, is also in easy range of Pyongyang's short- and mid-range missiles.

In pure numbers, North Korea's military looks formidable, much larger than the more affluent South in both personnel and equipment. The North's 1.2 million soldiers face off against 640,000 South Korean troops who are backed up by 26,000 U.S. personnel stationed in the country. However, Pyongyang's capabilities are not what the figures would suggest. Impoverished North Korea has all but abandoned running a conventional military that can engage in sustained battle because of scarce resources and has instead focused on nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology, experts said.

"A conventional military is very costly, and overwhelmingly so for North Korea. It quickly becomes a money fight and North Korea cannot win that," said Shin In-kyun, head of the Korea Defence Network, an alliance of defence experts based in Seoul.

Nevertheless, a defence policy statement from South Korea in December noted that North Korea's frontline artillery pieces could launch a "sudden and massive" barrage on the capital Seoul, a mere 50 km (31 miles) from the Demilitarised Zone border that separates the two Koreas.

North Korea has around 12,000 artillery guns, many arrayed near the border. It also has an arsenal of intermediate range missiles in operational deployment, some of which can travel more than 3,000 km (1,875 miles). That puts South Korea and Japan in range as well as the U.S. territory of Guam.

"They have the capability to strike anywhere in the South and Japan," said Shin.

North Korea has also shown it has submarine capabilities.

In 2010, a North Korean submarine was widely believed to have sunk a South Korean naval vessel, killing 46 sailors. Pyongyang has denied it was behind the attack. In the same year, North Korea shelled a South Korean island in a disputed area, killing civilians.

One military expert said the North might be careful before launching another blatant attack, given Seoul has vowed to respond vigorously next time.

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FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, TV personality Kelly Osbourne arrives at the 85th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Osbourne has been hospitalized after fainting on the set of E!?s ?Fashion Police.? A spokeswoman for Osbourne told the cable network Thursday, March 7, 2013, that the 28-year-old TV personality is awake, alert and in stable condition, and she will be staying overnight for observation as a precautionary measure. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, TV personality Kelly Osbourne arrives at the 85th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Osbourne has been hospitalized after fainting on the set of E!?s ?Fashion Police.? A spokeswoman for Osbourne told the cable network Thursday, March 7, 2013, that the 28-year-old TV personality is awake, alert and in stable condition, and she will be staying overnight for observation as a precautionary measure. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, TV personality Kelly Osbourne arrives at the 85th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Osbourne has been hospitalized after fainting on the set of E!?s ?Fashion Police.? A spokeswoman for Osbourne told the cable network Thursday, March 7, 2013, that the 28-year-old TV personality is awake, alert and in stable condition, and she will be staying overnight for observation as a precautionary measure. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)

(AP) ? Kelly Osbourne says she had a seizure and doctors are trying to figure out why.

The 28-year-old TV personality posted a photo on Twitter late Thursday of an IV in her tattooed left arm. She thanked her fans for their "beautiful well wishes."

Osbourne was hospitalized Thursday after collapsing on the set of E! network's "Fashion Police," where she serves as a panelist alongside Joan Rivers, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsiopoulos.

Osbourne is the daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and "The Talk" co-host Sharon Osbourne. She was profiled with her family on the MTV reality series "The Osbournes" and has appeared as a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars."

Representatives for E! and Kelly Osbourne didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

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M@h*(pOet)?ica ? Mathematics and Love

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format ? fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it.

I know, I shouldda had math and love as my subject last month.? But I?ve been reading essays lately against having Valentine?s Day in the cold, cold month of February.? I don?t like it there, either?because I don?t like it competing with the only important holiday in that month (or the year, for that matter!), Groundhog Day, the day I was born.? In any case, this entry will feature poems from Strange Attractors, an anthology edited by Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney, containing 151 poems (by my count) that are mathematical or about mathematics, and concerned with love.? Not necessarily romantic love and courtship, although many are.? ?Among the funniest ones of these (and included are more than a few very funny ones about those topics) is a limerick by Bob Kurosaka concerning a young maiden named ?Lizt? who ?turned both her lips/ Into Mobius strips . . .?? His poem ends with ?kissed,? happily exemplifying the anthology?s principal theme.? (With the important bonus of two ?ips?-rhymes sharing a 5-rhyme poem with 3 ?ist?-rhymes!)

Two other poems about kissing in the anthology with an equally entertaining silliness are otherwise notable for having been written not by poets but by those who did consequential work in mathematics.? One was Frederick Soddy (1877?1956), a radiochemist who won a Nobel Prize (the first Nobelist, I believe, to have also achieved a place in this blog!)? He, with Ernest Rutherford, Wikipedia informs us, explained that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements.? The other, an English lawyer, Thorold Gosset (1869?1962), was noted for discovering and classifying the semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher. (Sorry, I don?t know what polytopes are, either.? I?m tempted to say it?s a four-side, 6-dimensional hectosphlidge to spur some expert or other to correct me in a comment; this blog is not getting comments, the only thing about it that bothers me.? Well, except its tendency to go off on tangents like this.? But ?tangent? is an irreproachably mathematical word, so I shouldn?t be bothered.

Dang, I can?t think of a transition to get us back to where we were. . . .? How about, ?meanwhile, back at the ranch??*? Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the note provided by the editors of Strange Attractors about the two poems tells you pretty much all you need to know about them.? Soddy?s poem, ?The Kiss Precise,? ?is about his rediscovery, of ?the Descartes Circle Theorem, which involves the radii of four mutually tangent circles? (shown below) and ends announcing his extension of it to cover spheres.? Gosset wrote his poem, ?The Kiss Precise (Generalized) after reading Soddy?s to describe ?the more general case for tangency, or ?kissing,? of n + 2 hyperspheres in n dimensions.?

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A rather more serious take on love is Kaz Maslanka?s

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John Vieira?s, ?The Lake Swan, the Tom,? comes nowhere near the mathematical part of the brain ?Sacrifice and Bliss? puts us in, but does graze what might be called the ?visio-conceptual? part of the brain (if it exists) due to the poet?s use of geometry to paint his picture.

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The visioconceptual part of the brain, I postulate, is where one deals with the abstract basic visual attributes of reality, such as circles, rectangles, straight lines, the curve and vector in John?s poem?and visual symmetry? which I believe we see as certainly as we see colors.

John?s poem, I might add, also puts a reader in what I call the ?socioceptual? part of his brain.? It is in this zone, which has to do with one?s awareness of, and interaction with, others (as Howard Gardner hypothesizes although he may have a slightly different name for it), that the reader (it is to be hoped) will identify with the swans.? Meanwhile, the poem should involve most readers with and the purely sensual part of their brains?where he sees and feels the scene depicted.?? I mention all this simply to remind everyone that a central function of poetry is to put us in more parts of our brains than prose does.

In the following cartoon by Randall Munroe?which I do consider a poem, as well?romantic love is again dominant, but the focus is on its difficulty?at least for someone mathematically inclined, and the poem puts us much more into the mathematical part of the brain than anywhere else:

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Love is actually far from prominent in this one, the social part of the brain being involved only as an excuse to put readers into the mathematical and visio-conceptual parts of their brains?mainly the latter, I would say, where you have to play around with geometry to figure it out. ?I have to boast that I solved it.? I also have to confess that it clobbered me at first.? I worked a good two hours on it after first reading it, then gave up!? I rarely do that.? Anyway, the interesting thing is that I was tired enough that day to go early to bed.? I went quickly to sleep but awoke a couple of hours (not unusual for old me)?and I awoke thinking about the problem, the solution I quickly sketched.? Hint: it involves triangles, and the trick is to get a few trees each into a line of five.? Big hint: 3, 5, 3, 5, 3.

At this point I want to present a poem about another kind of love, the love that friendship is, most especially to showcase perhaps the only bona fide mathematician who became a world-class poet, Lewis Carroll:

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Sigh . . .? But enough of the tenderest kinds of affection for now to turn from the love and friendship of people to the love of other things, like mathematics itself, as expressed in Rita Dove?s, ?Geometry,? which wonderfully describes the poet?s elation at having proven a theorem: at once, her ?house expands,? becoming transparent until she?s outside it where ?the windows have hinged into butterflies . . . going to some point true and unproven.?? Putting her in the almost entirely asensual beauty of the visioconceptual part of her brain where Euclid doth reign supreme.

JoAnne Growney?s**** ?San Antonio, January, 1993,? expresses a love of mathematics, too?not by using a house as a metaphor, though, but hot peppers (which I guess she likes more than I do):

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With somewhat more than a trace less decorum than ?San Antonio, January, 1993,? in their expression of?well, not quite love of mathematics, but a deep admiration, however rude, of what Mandelbrot did mathematically?are Jonathan Coulton?s song lyrics, ?Mandelbrot Set?:

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Then there?s my own contribution to the anthology, ?Mathemaku 10?:

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It expresses what the multiplication of poetry by love (and everything else the heart-symbol represents) can do.*****? This poem is here, incidentally, not only because it?s by ME, and I?m notorious for self-aggrandizement, but because of what does to the anthology?s index:

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While gabbing about my poem, I have to tell you that it is my sole poem to have appeared in a college textbook, so you mustn?t think such poems have been ignored by the academy?100% ignored, at any rate.? The textbook was the sixth edition of reading reacting writing, edited by Kirsner & Mandell (Thomson, Boston 2007), a book I understand sells in the hundreds of thousands.? I was promised a copy of it in payment for my poem, but never got it?in spite of twice requesting it from the publishers.? Yes, the lot of the poet is a difficult one.

Sarah Glaz?s contribution, ?Calculus,? expresses a love not of mathematics so much as the history of the discipline:

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Not in the Glaz/Growney anthology nor even a poem but expressing a different kind of love for mathematic is the following painting of Sue Simon?s, ?More Math?:

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?The painting was done for a math show in Boston, but it was actually shown at the California Women?s Museum this winter,? she went on to say.? ?I thought the equation was beautiful looking (ask a painter about math!) and I set it in a sort of unsettled field of floating shapes and color because it has some relation to Heisenberg?s uncertainty principle.?

Ergo: an expression of love for the visual appearance of mathematical equations!

The equation in Sue?s painting expresses the Cauchy?Schwarz inequality.? ?When I went to the Wikipedia to find out about it, I learned ?that for all vectors x and y of an inner product space it is true that

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This sent me to the Wikipedia entry on ?inner product?:

Geometric interpretation of the angle between two vectors defined using an inner product

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?In linear algebra, an inner product space is a vector space with an additional structure called an inner product. This additional structure associates each pair of vectors in the space with a scalar quantity known as the inner product of the vectors. Inner products allow the rigorous introduction of intuitive geometrical notions such as the length of a vector or the angle between two vectors. They also provide the means of defining orthogonality between vectors (zero inner product). Inner product spaces generalize Euclidean spaces (in which the inner product is the dot product, also known as the scalar product) to vector spaces of any (possibly infinite) dimension, and are studied in functional analysis.

?An inner product naturally induces an associated norm, thus an inner product space is also a normed vector space. A complete space with an inner product is called a Hilbert space. An incomplete space with an inner product is called a pre-Hilbert space, since its completion with respect to the norm, induced by the inner product, becomes a Hilbert space. Inner product spaces over the field of complex numbers are sometimes referred to as unitary spaces.?

Needless to say, I ended my attempt at self-education as out of it as my poems leave some people.? And, with that I fold my tent once more.? Have a good spring, everyone!

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Note: the poems quoted in full here are all from Strange Attractors, edited by Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney and published by A.K.Peters, Ltd., Wellesley, Massachusetts (2008). Permission to reproduce the poems in this entry was obtained from? their authors, all of whom hold full rights to their use.

* The goofiest thing about this goofiness is that I?m not being paid by the word?I don?t have to do it!

** No criticism, this?the two poems call for horrideous doggerel.

*** This and the other parts of the brain have been fairly firmly established by neurophysiologists, it seems to me, although they have different names for them; but it would probably be wise to consider them as metaphors for the brain as a collection of sundry different departments?according to my cracker barrel philosophy, which is nonetheless the result of a good deal of RESPONSIBLE REFLECTION!

**** JoAnne, I must note, has a highly informative and entertaining blog about the intersection of mathematics and poetry at http://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com.? While I?m at it, I should point you to Kaz Maslanka?s blog about the same intersection at http://mathematicalpoetry.blogspot.com.

***** Capture all that italicizes existence: in other words, existence ain?t nuttin? without poetry multiplied by love (of another, or others, or poetry, ad infinitum), cardiovascular health, courage, etc.

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Previously in this series:

M@h*(pOet)?ica
M@h*(pOet)?ica: Summerthings
M@h*(pOet)?ica?Louis Zukofsky?s Integral
M@h*(pOet)?ica?Scott Helmes
M@h*(pOet)?ica?of Pi and the Circle, Part 1
M@h*(pOet)?ica ? Happy Holidays!
M@h*(pOet)?ica?Circles, Part 3
M@h*(pOet)?ica-?Karl Kempton

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Mourning Venezuelans parade Chavez's coffin, prepare for vote

CARACAS (Reuters) - Sobbing and shouting, a sea of Hugo Chavez's supporters paraded his coffin through the streets of Caracas on Wednesday in an emotional outpouring that could help his deputy win an election to keep his socialist revolution alive.

Hundreds of thousands of "Chavistas" marched behind a hearse carrying the body of the flamboyant and outspoken president, draped in Venezuela's blue, red and yellow national flag.

Avenues resounded with chants honoring the former paratrooper as supporters showered flowers onto his coffin and jostled to touch it. Loudspeakers played recordings of the charismatic socialist giving speeches and singing.

Some supporters held heart-shaped placards that read: "I love Chavez!" Others cheered from rooftops, waving T-shirts.

Ending one of Latin America's most remarkable populist rules, Chavez died on Tuesday at age 58 after a two-year battle with cancer that was first detected in his pelvis.

His body was taken to a military academy to lie in state at the tip of a grand esplanade until his state funeral on Friday.

The future of Chavez's socialist policies, which won him the adoration of poor Venezuelans but infuriated opponents who denounced him as a dictator, now rests on the shoulders of acting President Nicolas Maduro, the man he tapped to succeed him.

"We ask our people to channel this pain into peace," Maduro said.

Maduro, a 50-year-old former bus driver and union leader, will face Henrique Capriles, the centrist governor of Miranda state, in an election now due within weeks in the OPEC nation with the world's largest oil reserves.

Opposition parties and Capriles have agreed he will make another bid for the presidency, sources said on Wednesday.

He lost to Chavez in last year's election but had a respectable 44 percent of the vote, the best performance by any candidate against Chavez in a presidential vote.

One recent opinion poll gave Maduro a strong lead over the 40-year-old Capriles. Maduro is likely to benefit from the surge of emotion following the president's death.

Authorities said the vote would be called within 30 days, as stipulated by the constitution, but did not specify when.

The tall, mustachioed Maduro has long been a close ally of Chavez. He pledges to continue his legacy and it is unlikely he would make major policy changes.

He will now focus on rallying support from Chavez's diverse coalition, which includes leftist ideologues, business leaders who have contracts with the state, and radical armed groups called "colectivos."

Some have suggested Maduro might try to ease tensions with foreign companies and the U.S. government. Yet hours before Chavez's death, Maduro alleged that "imperialist" enemies had infected the president with cancer and he expelled two U.S. diplomats accused of conspiring with domestic opponents.

Venezuela's military commanders pledged loyalty to Maduro, who will be caretaker leader until the election, and soldiers fired 21-gun salutes to Chavez in barracks across the nation.

A victory by Capriles, a centrist politician who says Venezuela should follow Brazil's softer center-left model, would be welcome by investors and bring big changes - though he has urged calm.

"Don't be scared. Don't be anxious. Between us all, we're going to guarantee the peace this beloved country deserves," Capriles said in a condolence message.

Venezuelan debt prices fell on Wednesday as investors opted to lock in gains chalked up in anticipation of Chavez's death, citing short-term political uncertainty.

ALLIES

The stakes are also huge for leftist Latin American allies like Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia that for years have relied on Chavez for economic aid.

But past and present leaders of other countries in the region - mainly free-traders like Peru, Chile, Colombia, Panama and Mexico - periodically rejected his overtures, criticized his statist policies and, for Washington, served as a buffer against him.

It was not immediately clear where Chavez would be buried.

He had ordered a striking new mausoleum built in downtown Caracas for the remains of 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar, his inspiration, and it is due to be finished soon. Some allies are already saying he should be buried there.

Despite the tumult around the coffin procession, much of Caracas was quiet, with streets deserted, especially in wealthier districts. Many shops locked their doors out of fear of looting. There were long lines outside gasoline stations.

A stony-faced Bolivian President Evo Morales joined Maduro at the front of the procession. The presidents of Argentina and Uruguay joined them for a vigil by the coffin. Other regional leaders were slated to attend his funeral on Friday.

"This has hit me very hard, I'm still in shock," said Leny Bolivar, a 39-year-old education ministry worker, her eyes red from tears. "We must keep fighting; he set out the way."

Condolences flooded in from around the world - ranging from the Vatican and the United Nations to allies like Iran and Cuba.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad mourned Chavez's death as a great loss, extolling his opposition to the "war on Syria."

OBAMA REACHES OUT

U.S. President Barack Obama was less effusive about a man who put his country at loggerheads with Washington, saying his administration was interested in "developing a constructive relationship with the Venezuelan government."

In a potentially conciliatory gesture, the United States, a major oil client of Venezuela, is expected to send a delegation to the funeral.

Opponents at home hoped for a fresh start.

"Chavez was very dominant and used the powers of state in a very discretional way, as though this was his own estate," Juan Vendrell, a 58-year-old engineer, said in a wealthy neighborhood of Caracas. "I would like a change and for institutions and democracy to be restored."

Chavez led Venezuela for 14 years and had won a new six-year term in an election in October, defeating Capriles.

His folksy charisma, anti-U.S. diatribes and oil-financed projects to improve life for residents of long-neglected slums created an unusually powerful bond with many poor Venezuelans.

That intense emotional connection underpinned his rule, but critics saw his autocratic style, gleeful nationalizations and often harsh treatment of rivals as hallmarks of a dictator whose policies squandered a historic bonanza of oil revenues.

The nationalizations and strict currency controls under Chavez frightened off investors. Even some of his followers complained that he focused too much on ideological issues at the expense of day-to-day problems such as power cuts, high inflation, food shortages and violent crime.

Chavez's health declined sharply just after his re-election on October 7, possibly due to his decision to campaign for a third term instead of stepping aside to focus on his recovery.

The government declared seven days of mourning.

"His legacy will be the transformation of Venezuelan political culture, putting social inequality and poverty alleviation at the top of the political agenda," said Diego Moya-Ocampos, a Venezuela analyst.

"However, that came at the cost of greater authoritarianism in government and challenges to democracy as he sought to consolidate his leadership."

(With reporting by Enrique Andres Pretel, Deisy Buitrago, Marianna Parraga, Ana Isabel Martinez and Daniel Wallis; Editing by Terry Wade, Kieran Murray and Xavier Briand)

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