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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Pope Francis: Argentine is Latin America's 1st pontiff

Dmitry Lovetsky / AP

Pope Francis I blesses the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

By Alastair Jamieson and Ian Johnston, NBC News

VATICAN CITY - Argentine Cardinal?Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected the first non-European pope in more than 1,000 years on Wednesday,?signaling the beginning to a new era for a church combating scandal and internal strife.

Described as a conservative with "great compassion,"?the 76-year-old will be known as His Holiness Pope Francis. He will be installed at the Vatican on Tuesday.

The first Latin American pope was introduced from the balcony of St. Peter?s Basilica.

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There was an audible gasp from the rain-soaked crowd - an indication that he had not been a widely tipped choice - followed by a roar and wild applause.

In Italian, he seemed to address his outsider status by joking: "As you know the duty of the conclave is to give Rome a bishop. It seems that my brother cardinals went almost to the end of the world."

Newly-elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio speaks to St. Peter's Square and delivers a blessing after being elected as Pope Francis I.

?Pray for me and I will see you soon," he added, asking Catholics to also pray for his predecessor Benedict XVI, who abdicated on Feb. 28. "Have a good evening and rest well.?

The new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics is also the first Jesuit pope.

About an hour before Francis emerged, white smoke rose above the Sistine Chapel and bells rang out across Rome to signal a decision had been made.

Known for his humility, Francis is the son of a railway worker and one of five siblings. He has a chemistry degree.

Francis?has only one lung, the other having been removed due to an infection when he was a teenager.

He prizes simplicity and is expected to encourage priests to do shoe-leather evangelization, according to his biographer.

The unveiling of the new pope was moment of pure joy for the tens of thousands of pilgrims, tourists and other onlookers in St Peter's Square. ?

"Who is this?" asked Deirdre Sweeney from Boston, Mass., when Francis first walked onto the balcony.

"Argentinian!" shouted a man nearby.

Americans were among the tens of thousands who gathered to witness the unveiling of Pope Francis.

??I think this is wonderful,? said Sweeney?s husband, Kevin. ?It's an incredible breakthrough - a pope from the Western hemisphere, and the southern half, too. =It's a wonderful change for the church and recognition for the area the church is growing in.?

There was also excitement in South America. "A Latino is more open to others, while a European is more closed," Ana Solis, 75, told Reuters outside Santiago's Metropolitan Cathedral in Chile. "A change like this, with a Latin American, will be very important for we Latin Americans ... (he will be) more open, more honest."

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Smoke billowed from the chimney at 7:07 p.m. (2:07 p.m. ET) on the second day of behind-closed-doors voting.

The cardinals are thought to have taken five ballots to reach the two-thirds of the vote necessary for a decision.

The new pontiff's debut was heralded by a Latin announcement beginning with the phrase "Habemus Papam!" meaning, "We have a pope!"

George Weigel, NBC News' Vatican analyst, said Francis would be "a great defender of religion around the world.?

LIVE VIDEO ? Watch live pictures from St. Peter's Square following the announcement that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected as the next pope.

?The papacy has moved to the New World. The church has a new pope with a new name,? he added. ?I think it speaks to the church?s commitment to the poor of the world and compassion in a world that often needs a lot of healing.?

Edward Egan, the Archbishop Emeritus of New York, said this was ?the moment of Latin America.?

?I can assure you he?s not feeble in any way at 76,? he told NBC's Brian Williams.

'You're going to like him a lot'
Egan said Francis was ?a man who calmly stands for what?s right and just,? and someone with ?great compassion for the poor.?

?I cannot tell you, Brian, how delighted I am,? he said. ?This is a man who I know and who was very, very good to me.?

Egan said Francis was a ?very good friend of mine,? and he had ?immense admiration for him.?

?I think you?re going to like him a lot,? he added.

NBC News Special Report: The Vatican announces that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been elected as the new head of the Catholic Church.

President Barack Obama hailed Francis as a "champion of the poor" and said the choice of the first pope from the Americas spoke "to the strength and vitality" of a region "that is increasingly shaping our world."

"Alongside millions of Hispanic Americans, those of us in the United States share the joy of this historic day," the president said in a statement.

Now known as Pope Emeritus, Francis' predecessor Benedict watched Wednesday's events from a temporary lakeside residence at Castel Gandolfo while his permanent living quarters inside Vatican City are refurbished.

The behind-the-scenes ballot process that took place in the Sistine Chapel should still remain a secret. Both the cardinals and staff working alongside them swore an oath of secrecy as the conclave got under way, with the threat of ex-communication for anyone breaking the church's ancient code.

NBC News' Yuka Tachibana contributed to this report.

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected to lead the Catholic Church following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.?

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'He?s not feeble in any way': World reacts to a new pontiff

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This story was originally published on Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:14 AM EDT

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Young pigs prefer traditional soybean diet

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Humans aren't the only picky eaters

Des Moines, IA Pigs aren't known for being picky, but new research shows they avoid bitter tastes when they can.

In a new study of nursery pig diets, researchers from the University of Alberta offered pigs different amounts of soybean meal, napus canola meal and juncea canola meal. They found that pigs ate more soybean meal when given a choice.

Napus canola meal and juncea canola meal come from rapeseed and mustard greens, respectively. Canola meals are less expensive than soybean meal. If producers can replace soybean meal in swine diets, they could produce pork at a lower cost.

In a presentation at the 2013 ADSA Midwest Branch / ASAS Midwestern Section Meeting, Dr. Jose Luis Landero said previous studies showed that producers can replace up to 20 percent of soybean meal with napus canola meal without affecting pig performance.

Landero said the drawback to using canola meals is that the feeds naturally contain more glucosinolates. Glucosinolates are organic compounds that can cause a bitter taste. Brussels sprouts are high in glucosinolates, for example. A high level of glucosinolates in swine feed could cause swine to eat less.

In recent feeding trials, Landero and fellow researchers set up pens with two feeders. In the first trial, one feeder had a commercial soybean meal diet, and the other feeder had a percentage of napus or juncea canola meal to replace the soybean meal. In the second trial, the control feeder had neither soybean or canola meals, and the test feeder can some percentage of the three meals.

The researchers tested 360 pigs overall. They measured feed preference by dividing the feed intake of the test diet with total feed intake per pen.

According to Landero, the data showed a clear preference for soybean meal over napus or juncea canola meal. Juncea meal was the least favorite choice. Landero hypothesized that that was because juncea canola meal contains different types of bitter glucosinolates.

Landero warned scientists and producers to be careful about interpreting feed preferences. Pigs do not normally get a choice of feed, so they would probably still eat a diet with a low level of napus or juncea canola meal.

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Landero's abstract is titled "Feed preference of nursery pigs fed diets with soybean meal, napus canola meal or juncea canola meal." It was presented as part of the Nonruminant Nutrition Nursery Pig Nutrition and Management Oral Session.

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Humans aren't the only picky eaters

Des Moines, IA Pigs aren't known for being picky, but new research shows they avoid bitter tastes when they can.

The researchers tested 360 pigs overall. They measured feed preference by dividing the feed intake of the test diet with total feed intake per pen.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Cardinals draw lots to settle Vatican guest-house rooms

By Keith Weir

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Before they get down to the business of choosing a new pope this week, the 115 elector cardinals are holding another ballot - drawing lots to decide which room they get in the Vatican guest house that will be their home during the conclave.

Some will be disappointed, because the five-storey Santa Martha House inside the walls of Vatican City, has only 106 "suites". Despite the grandiose name, these rooms have just a single bed, bathroom and a small desk space.

The nine cardinals who miss out on the suites will have to settle for more spartan single rooms.

However basic the Santa Martha accommodation, it is a step up from where cardinals used to sleep before the guest house was built in 1996 on the orders of Pope John Paul II.

During earlier conclaves, they had makeshift beds in temporary quarters in the Vatican, with curtains often all that divided one space from another, like on a hospital ward.

As well as allocating the rooms fairly, drawing lots is designed to make sure factions from one country or supporting one candidate are given rooms randomly to prevent them consulting on strategy from adjoining parts of the guest house.

Standing empty for the new pope will be the larger but nevertheless simple Room 201, the sole apartment in the yellow-stone residence block.

It has carved wooden fittings and additional rooms to host meetings for the new pontiff, who could live there for a few weeks until the papal Apostolic Palace has been renovated.

Adding to Santa Martha's austere feel, television, telephone, Wi-Fi and other means of communication are blocked to maintain the secrecy of the conclave.

Santa Martha is only a few hundred yards from the Sistine Chapel where the cardinals will start the process on Tuesday of electing a successor to Pope Benedict after his decision last month to step down.

Cardinals, many of them elderly, will be able to use a shuttle bus to get to the chapel if they do not want to walk or if Rome sees one of its spectacular spring storms.

The elector cardinals used Santa Martha for the first time in 2005 when Benedict was chosen to lead the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics after the death of John Paul.

The building stands on the site of a hospice built in 1891 for cholera victims.

Two doctors will be on hand in case any of the cardinals fall ill, while priests will hear confessions in a variety of languages. Like the cardinals, they will be sworn to secrecy.

As with any guest house or hotel, cooks and cleaners will also be there to attend to the needs of the cardinals. All the staff will have been vetted to help ensure that no secrets leak out before white smoke emerges to show a pope has been picked.

(Editing by Louise Ireland and Barry Moody)

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Monday, March 11, 2013

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Russia says Assad 'not bluffing' about staying put

A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sits on a table before a press conference by Buthaina Shaaban, special envoy of the President, in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 8, 2013. Shaaban Friday criticized Britain's decision to provide non-lethal military equipment to Syrian rebels, saying it will hinder efforts for peace in the strife-torn country. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian President Bashar Assad "is not bluffing" about his determination to stay in power, Russia's foreign minister said in comments broadcast Friday, as negotiations to free 21 U.N. peacekeepers held by Syrian rebels dragged into a third day.

Also, the World Food Program said it aims to feed 2.5 million Syrians by next month, up from 1.7 million now. Need has risen sharply as growing numbers of Syrians are displaced by the civil war and as the country's economy disintegrates in the face of the chaos.

The uprising against Assad began two years ago with largely peaceful protests, but shifted into a brutal civil war after a harsh government crackdown on dissent. More than 70,000 people have been killed, according to U.N. estimates.

The conflict has been deadlocked for months, with neither side able to gain the upper hand, although the rebels have scored a series of strategic victories in recent weeks, seizing a provincial capital in the northeast, capturing the country's largest dam and overrunning a number of smaller military bases.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the BBC in an interview broadcast Friday that the Syrian leader is digging in and "is not going to leave."

"We know this for sure, and all those who get in touch with him know that he is not bluffing," Lavrov said.

He added that Russia, a close Syria ally, will not pressure Assad to leave.

"It's not for me to decide, it's not for anybody else to decide, except the Syrian people," Lavrov said.

Syria's opposition has criticized the West for not helping arm rebel fighters even as Russia and Iran support the regime with weapons.

Earlier this week, Britain announced it would provide armored vehicles and other equipment to the rebels, while stopping short of arming them. The West has balked at sending weapons, fearing they could fall into the hands of Islamic extremists fighting in the rebel ranks.

In India, Assad adviser Buthaina Shaaban said Britain's decision will only prolong the fighting. She alleged that most of the rebels are linked to the al-Qaida terror network and conservative Islamic groups.

"Britain should not think that terror activities by such groups in Syria, will not one day go back to haunt Europe or Britain," said Shaaban who is in India for talks with Indian leaders to rally support for Assad.

Meanwhile, the Philippine government is trying to win the release of 21 U.N. peacekeepers, all Filipinos, who were seized by Syrian rebels on Wednesday.

Government officials initially said they expected the U.N. troops to be freed Friday, but it was unclear what the rebel demands were for their release.

The rebels previously demanded that regime forces withdraw from the area where there hostages are being held.

However, an activist who said he is the media coordinator for the rebel group holding the peacekeepers said Friday via Skype that they were being held because it is too dangerous in the area to release them.

The activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said the rebels felt the peacekeepers were not doing their job in the area since government forces were still shelling and carrying out airstrikes.

He said the ongoing violence could endanger them if the rebels let them leave, so they were waiting for an official U.N. delegation to retrieve them.

"They are guests under the protection of the free army even though their presence in the area was negative and they didn't accomplish what they were here to do, but as soon as someone from the U.N. comes to get them officially, this will be over," he said.

The peacekeepers were taken near the Syrian village of Jamlah, a kilometer (less than a mile) from the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, where a U.N. force has patrolled a cease-fire line between Israel and Syria for nearly four decades.

Last week, rebels from the Martyrs of Yarmouk Brigades, the group holding the peacekeepers, overran several Syrian army checkpoints in the area, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

On Friday, rebels attacked regime forces in the village of Abdeen south of Jamlah, setting off heavy clashes, the Observatory said. Regime helicopters bombed the area, the group said.

Rebels apparently fear that the regime will retake the area if the peacekeepers are released, raising the possibility of a prolonged standoff.

Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said President Benigno Aquino III has ordered a review of the country's peacekeeping missions.

A contingent of more than 300 Filipino peacekeepers is part of the U.N. force, known as UNDOF. Filipino peacekeepers also serve in Haiti and Liberia.

The kidnapping has underlined potential complications from the Syria conflict. Israel is concerned about the Syria fighting spilling across the frontier.

Since the conflict began, nearly 4 million of Syria's 22 million people have been driven from their homes by the fighting, according to U.N. estimates. This includes refugees in neighboring countries and some 2 million who have sought shelter inside Syria.

In one recent wave, more than 20,000 families fled fighting in the northeastern Raqqa province, seeking refuge in the neighboring district of Deir el-Zour, according to the World Food Program.

The U.N. agency said that in recent days it distributed food to some 20,000 people in public shelters in Deir el-Zour. More food trucks are to deliver food there Friday.

Earlier this week, Syrian rebels completed their capture of the provincial capital of Raqqa after several days of fighting. The takeover marked the first time rebels seized a major Syrian city. Raqqa has a population of about 500,000.

In addition to the internally displaced, Syrians who remain in their homes are also in increasing need of food aid, the agency said. The Syrian economy has been hit hard by the 2-year-old conflict, and basics such as food and fuel are becoming scarce in many areas.

"The needs are huge and are growing," said Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the WFP. "It's kind of a vicious cycle, the collapse of the economy, and more and more people are displaced."

She said the U.N. agency distributed food to 1.7 million Syrians in February, with the help of local partners. The agency plans to reach 2 million in March and 2.5 million in April, she said.

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Associated Press writers Ben Hubbard in Beirut and Oliver Teves in Manila contributed reporting.

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Heating with powder and plastic wastes

Mar. 7, 2013 ? Disposing of waste -- whether it is coating powder or swarf -- is expensive. In the future, a combustor for powdery residues will enable companies to cut disposal costs and heating costs at the same time.

A great deal of powder is needed to coat auto parts and other objects -- and a great deal of waste is left over afterward: After all, only a fraction of the coating ends up on an autobody; the rest misses the target and is suctioned away. Recycling of residual powder has limits: If coaters mix in too much "recycled" powder, the quality of a coating suffers. Companies therefore dispose of most of the coating powder -- an expensive undertaking. Grinding processes are similar: They also produce many residues and companies have to dig deep in their pockets to dispose of them.

In the future, industrial plants will be able to cut such disposal costs as well as heating costs for facilities, kilns and many other high-temperature processes. This is being made possible by a plant, which researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF in Magdeburg developed in cooperation with an industry partner. "The plant we developed enables us to recover heat from any combustible, powdery industry waste, whether it is coating powders, polymer powders or even wood constituents," says Marcus K?gler, in charge of the project at the Fraunhofer IFF. "The potential savings are large: 25 percent of the natural gas usually used for heating and, additionally, 100 percent of the disposal costs are being saved at a reference facility. A plant with a larger capacity can even produce electricity that can be supplied to the electrical grid.

An Ideal Burner for Small Quantities of Waste

The plant consists of three basic units: a pulverized fuel burner, a boiler and a filter system. Powdery waste is conveyed into the burner pneumatically, i.e. with compressed air, where it is agitated systematically, brought into contact with air and burned. Water stores the heat produced and thus heats facilities or kilns. The flue gases produced during combustion are suctioned off and purified in the filter system. The pulverized fuel burner is approximately 50 times smaller than conventional models and thus has only approximately two percent of their capacity. The advantage: This also makes the burner worthwhile for smaller quantities of waste, like those produced in small and medium-sized enterprises. "In order to be able to compute the temperature distributions and flow paths in this small burner, we first ran CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations," says K?gler. These simulations answered numerous questions for the researchers, thus helping them develop the burner: How do the powder particles flow in the burner? How can they be agitated optimally? How can the lowest emission levels be achieved? In another step, the researchers further optimized the burner's settings and parameters in experiments.

A pilot plant is already operating at MBG Metallbeschichtung Gerstungen GmbH. It cuts the natural gas used by one quarter. The company holds a patent on the process for the recovery of heat from powder residues from coating plants, which was granted in conjunction with this project. The researchers from the Fraunhofer IFF customized the pilot plant specifically for the company's requirements. The researchers have to modify each new plant for the requirements, depending on what powder is produced in a plant. In other words, they have to engineer the pulverized fuel burner's combustion system for the size of the particular particles and design the filter system so that it optimally filters each of the flue gases produced out of the air. Learn more about the recovery of heat from residues, entrained flow combustion and the pilot plant from the Fraunhofer IFF's experts at the Hannover Messe.

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Venezuela's Chavez dies, officials call for unity

Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez react as they learn that Chavez has died through an announcement by the vice president in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced that Chavez died on Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. During more than 14 years in office, Chavez routinely challenged the status quo at home and internationally. He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into Venezuelan nationalism to win broad support, particularly among the poor. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A supporter of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez cries as she learns that Chavez has died through an announcement by the vice president in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced that Chavez died on Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. During more than 14 years in office, Chavez routinely challenged the status quo at home and internationally. He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into Venezuelan nationalism to win broad support, particularly among the poor. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez react after the vice president announced Chavez's death in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced that Chavez died on Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. During more than 14 years in office, Chavez routinely challenged the status quo at home and internationally. He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into Venezuelan nationalism to win broad support, particularly among the poor. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

In this photo released by Miraflores Presidential Press Office, a priest prays next to Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro, left, and military officers after Maduro addressed the nation to announce the death of President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Maduro announced that Chavez has died on Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. (AP Photo/Miraflores Presidential Press Office)

Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez react to the news that that Chavez has died, as they gather outside the military hospital where Chavez was being treated in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced that Chavez died on Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. During more than 14 years in office, Chavez routinely challenged the status quo at home and internationally. He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into Venezuelan nationalism to win broad support, particularly among the poor. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? Some in anguish, some in fear, Venezuelans raced for home on Tuesday after the government announced the death of President Hugo Chavez, the firebrand socialist who led the nation for 14 years.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro's voice broke and tears ran down his face as he appeared on national television to announce that Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. local time (3:55 p.m EST; 1755 GMT) "after battling hard against an illness over nearly two years."

He did not say what exactly killed Chavez, although the government had announced the previous night that a severe new respiratory infection had severely weakened him.

Just a few hours earlier, Maduro made a virulent speech against enemies he claimed were trying to undermine Venezuelan democracy.

But as he announced the death, Maduro called on Venezuelans to be "dignified inheritors of the giant man" Chavez was.

"Let there be no weakness, no violence. Let there be no hate. In our hearts there should only be one sentiment: Love. Love, peace and discipline."

All across downtown Caracas, shops and restaurants begin closing and Venezuelans hustled for home, some even breaking into a run.

Many had looks of anguish and incredulity on their faces.

"I feel a sorrow so big I can't speak," said Yamilina Barrios, a 39-year-old clerk who works in the Industry Ministry, her face covered in tears.

"He was the best this country had," she said, disconsolately weeping. "I adore him.

"I hope the country calms down and continues the work that he left us, continues in unity and the progress continues," Barrios said.

Among the nervous was Maria Elena Lovera, a 45-year-old housewife.

"I want to go home. People are crazy and are way too upset."

In the only immediately known incident of political violence, a group of masked, helmeted men on motorcycles, some brandishing revolvers, attacked about 40 students who had been protesting for more than a week near the Supreme Court building to demand the government give more information about Chavez's health.

The attackers, who wore no clothing identifying any political allegiance, burned the students' tents and scattered their food just minutes after the death was announced.

"They burned everything we had," said student leader Gaby Arellano. She said none of the attackers fired a shot but that she saw four with pistols.

Maduro called on Venezuelans to convene in the capital's Bolivar Square, named for the 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar, who Chavez claimed as his chief inspiration.

The vice president also called on the opposition to respect "the people's pain."

"Those who never supported the comandante Hugo Chavez, respect the pain of the people. This is the moment to think of our families, of our country."

Chavez leaves behind a socialist political movement firmly in control of the nation, but with some doubt about how a new leadership will be formed.

Chavez's illness prevented him from taking the oath of office after he was re-elected to a new term on Oct. 7 and under the constitution, National Assembly chief Diosdado Cabello apparently would take over as interim president.

But there was no sign of Cabello on the podium as Maduro announced Chavez's death.

The constitution also says that elections should be called in 30 days. Chavez had specified that his supporters should support Maduro as his successor.

The man Chavez defeated in October, the youthful Miranda state Gov. Henrique Capriles, would be expected to represent the opposition.

Venezuela's defense minister also appeared on television to announce that the military will remain loyal to the constitution in the wake of Chavez's death.

Admiral Diego Molero appealed for "unity, tranquility and understanding" among Venezuelans.

The announcement stunned Venezuelans, if it did not surprise them.

Earlier in the day, Maduro used a more belligerent tone as he announced the government had expelled two U.S. diplomats from the country and said "we have no doubt" that Chavez's cancer, which was first diagnosed in June 2011, was induced by "the historical enemies of our homeland."

He compared the situation to the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, claiming Arafat was "inoculated with an illness."

Chavez's inner circle has long claimed the United States was behind a failed 2002 attempt to overthrow him, and he has frequently played the anti-American card to stir up support. Venezuela has been without a U.S. ambassador since July 2010.

Maduro has been taking on a larger role since Chavez urged Venezuelans to choose him as president before disappearing in early December to undergo a fourth round of cancer surgery in Cuba.

He accused U.S. Embassy's Air Force attache Col. David Delmonaco of spying on Venezuela's military and seeking to involve officers in "destabilizing projects." Maduro gave Delmonaco 24 hours to leave, and U.S. officials said he had already departed the country.

Maduro said Tuesday that the government was "on the trail of other elements that figure in this entire venomous scenario and are seeking to stir up trouble."

Later Tuesday, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said a second U.S. Air Force attache was being expelled, also for alleged espionage.

"Let's remember that active participation of the United States in the fascist coup of 2002," Jaua said.

Chavez has run Venezuela for more than 14 years as a virtual one-man show, gradually placing all state institutions under his personal control. But the former army paratroop commander, who rose to fame by launching a failed 1992 coup, never groomed a successor with his same kind of force of personality.

The campaign for the upcoming election to replace him, though undeclared, has nevertheless already begun.

Maduro has frequently commandeered all broadcast channels, Chavez-style, to tout the "revolution" and vilify the opposition.

Maduro on Tuesday repeated government claims that Capriles met in the United States over the weekend with right-wing U.S. conspirators and was planning to meet over the weekend with Roberta Jacobsen, assistant U.S. secretary of state for the hemisphere.

One personality on state TV also accused the Capriles family of buying a New York City apartment with stolen funds.

Capriles responded via Twitter Tuesday by calling Maduro a liar.

"Lie after lie in every speech," he said.

Chavez, long famed for his marathon appearances at televised events, had neither been seen nor heard from, except for photos released in mid-February, since submitting to a fourth round of surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11 for an unspecified cancer in the pelvic area. It was first diagnosed in June 2011.

The government said Chavez returned home on Feb. 18 and has been confined to Caracas' military hospital ever since.

Maduro said last week that the president had begun receiving chemotherapy around the end of January.

Among those stunned by the announcement was 38-year-old soft drink seller Nelson Ramirez, who sympathized with the fallen president.

"This is the worst thing that could have happened to our country," he said. "Without Chavez, I don't know what will happen here. We poor people could be forgotten again."

On the other side of Venezuela's political divide was Carlos Quijada, a 38-year-old economist who said he was sad that death rather than an election defeat had written Chavez's political obituary.

"Now there is a lot of uncertainty about what is going to happen," he said.

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Associated Press writers Christopher Toothaker in Caracas, Vivian Sequera in Bogota, Colombia, and Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this report.

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Graphene antenna could increase wireless speed 100 times

Devin Coldewey , NBC News ? ? ? 10 hrs.

Frustrated by slow Wi-Fi speeds? Researchers at Georgia Tech are working on antennas that could transfer your files so fast that you might miss it if you blink. Their solution uses graphene, a miracle material that is starting to affect many industries.

Graphene is a material made up of just a single-atom layer of carbon, giving it many interesting properties. One such property is that it conducts electricity extremely well, meaning it can replace silicon or metals in electronics, conferring huge improvements to speed and efficiency.

In this case, the team at Georgia Tech, led by Ian Akyildiz, is proposing an antenna made of the stuff. A graphene antenna could work at terahertz frequencies, far beyond the megahertz and gigahertz rates found in even the most advanced wireless devices today.

The end result could, under the right circumstances, provide data rates of up to 100 terabits per second, Akyildiz told MIT's Tech Review. That's enough to transfer the contents of any ordinary hard drive in just a fraction of a second ? the blink of an eye.

More conservative estimates, which take into account greater distances between the antennas and other factors, still suggest terabit speeds would be achieved, requiring just a few seconds to transfer the contents of a 1 TB hard drive.

It's still very much just a theory, though; No one has built such an antenna and there are serious obstacles yet to tackle. Graphene is difficult to make in the first place, and many systems will have to be completely redesigned around it. But so many interesting applications for the material have been lofted that scientific minds all over the world are racing to find solutions.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/graphene-antenna-could-increase-wireless-speed-100-times-1C8709122

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