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Craft Corner: Easter Crafts to Keep the Kids Busy - Sachem, NY Patch

There are a number of crafts ideas to get you and your kids into the Easter spirit in the Sachem community. Below are five craft ideas that are simple and easy enough for kids as young as 3 to do ? with some assistance from parents.

Blown Easter Egg:

To make an Easter egg that can be saved for years to come, you will need a raw egg (a few extra for mistakes), a small nail, a hammer, bowl (for the egg yolk), egg die, markers, and left-over craft supplies, such as pom-poms and googly eyes.

Start by using the nail and hammer to poke two small holes in either end of the egg. Use extreme care as the egg can crack. Once the holes are made, choose one end to blow. Blow the inside of the egg out into a bowl and discard. Once the egg is empty, wash it and then hand it over to the kids to decorate with egg die, markers and any other craft supplies lying around the house. You will be amazed at what the kids create.

Grass Rabbit:

For this craft, you will need a styrofoam cup, paper, grass seed, dirt, pom-poms and googly eyes.

Start by letting your kids decorate the styrofoam cup as a bunny, with paper cut-out ears, pompom nose and googly eyes. Then fill the cup with dirt and plant the seeds. In a few days time, you will have a grass rabbit.

Styrofoam Egg

This is another craft that you will be able to save for years to come. You will need a styrofoam eggs, quilting pins, sequence and ribbon.

To make the styrofoam egg, use quilting pins to affix sequins to the egg. You can also use pieces of cut ribbon to run around the egg, still using the pins to affix it. The finished product can be hung anywhere in your house for a vibrant Easter decoration.

Toilet Paper Bunny

For this craft, you will need an empty toilet paper roll, googly eyes, pom-poms pink and white paper, as well as scrapbook paper, glue stick and scissors.

To make the bunny, start by cutting a piece of scrapbook paper so it can wrap around the toilet paper roll. Glue it on. Then, cut out ears for the bunny with the pink and white paper. Affix to the top of the toilet paper roll with glue. Then add googly eyes and a pompom nose.

Cotton Ball Easter Basket

For this craft you will need an empty cardboard orange juice container, tacky glue, pom-poms, Easter grass, cotton balls and scissors.

Start by laying the orange juice container on its side and cut down the edge of the seams on both the long sides of the container. Then, cut a V-shape for ears on one of the shorter sides. When you pop it up, it will resemble bunny ears. Once cut, give kids the glue to start covering the container with cotton balls. They can then clue on a pom-pom nose and googly eyes. Add easter grass on the inside for a finishing touch.

The following is a list of area stores that might stock your needs:

• Michael's, 2799 Route 112, Medford
• Kmart, 2280 North Ocean Avenue, Farmingville
• Target, 2975 Horseblock Road, Medford

Do you have an Easter craft idea? Share a photo or post instructions in the comment section below.

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Source: http://sachem.patch.com/articles/craft-corner-easter-crafts-to-keep-the-kids-busy-4ca3eedf

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Homes evacuated after Ark. oil pipeline ruptures

MAYFLOWER, Ark. (AP) ? Authorities are working to clean up an oil spill in central Arkansas after a pipeline ruptured.

Mayflower Police Chief Robert Satkowski says an ExxonMobil pipeline sprung a leak Friday afternoon in his small city about 20 miles northwest of Little Rock.

Satkowski says the pipeline has since been shut off. The spill forced authorities to evacuate dozens of homes. Oil spilled onto the road and lawns, but it's unclear exactly how much.

Arkansas Department of Emergency Management spokesman Brandon Morris initially said oil had reached nearby Lake Conway, but he later said that was incorrect.

ExxonMobil says it's investigating and working with local authorities in clean-up efforts. The company says the breach was in a pipeline that originates in Illinois and carries crude oil to the Texas Gulf Coast.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/homes-evacuated-ark-oil-pipeline-ruptures-223738724.html

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Get Ready to Rumble in This Week's Open Thread

Sometimes you just need to blow off some steam and what better way to do that than with some energetic play? Feel free to talk about anything you want (and don't forget to bob and weave) in this week's open thread.

Same drill as always, open-threaders: You can chat and ask questions with your fellow readers all week long at the #openthread hashtag page, but our weekly open thread post is your opportunity to reach the most people. Ask questions, offer advice, discuss productivity tips, or just chat about whatever's on your mind. You'll need a commenter account to participate, then you're ready to roll.

An extra reminder: If you're not quite satisfied with the interaction in the weekly open thread or in #tips, remember that you can also share your expertise every day on our Expert Pages.

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Abbyy FineReader Touch

Businesses have been making increasing use of smart phones and tablets as work tools. Thanks to Abbyy FineReader Touch, remote workers can use iPhones and iPads to snap images of documents and upload them to Abby's cloud-based FineReader Online service to save it in various searchable, editable formats. Though it's no substitute for a desktop optical character recognition (OCR) program, this iOS app does let you scan and convert documents from anywhere, which is very handy.

Abbyy is a provider of OCR, PDF, and document conversion software, including the Editors' Choice FineReader 11, as well as older versions (FineReader 6 and 9) that are frequently bundled with the scanners we test. Though those solutions are for the desktop, Abbyy also offers mobile apps, including Abbyy FineReader Touch.

The FineReader Touch Interface
The app's iPhone interface is a black screen with toolbars on the top and bottom. Once you've scanned documents, a list of them, giving the date and time of the scan, file name and type, length of time available on the server for each document, appears in the center of the screen. The button at top left gives you the status of the document you're scanning. At top right is a search button (though it searches on documents, not text).

The tab at top center shows the balance of document conversions you have available to you. (You start with 100). Touching the tab takes you to the store, where you can buy more: $2.99 for 20 pages, $4.99 for 50 pages, $6.99 for 100 pages, and $9.99 for 200 pages.

At bottom left is an information tab, which provides Help, lets you email Abby for support; lets you rate the app, and tells you about other Abbyy apps. At bottom right, the gear icon lets you change settings. At bottom center, the camera icon lets you image a document with your iPhone's camera.

From the FineReader Online site, you can also upload saved documents for conversion to Word, Excel, PDF, PDF/A, RTF, TXT, and OpenDocument Text formats. You can access the documents you've converted, open and save them, or export them to Google Docs, Evernote, or Dropbox. After 14 days, your documents will be automatically deleted from the FineReader site.

Testing
I used my iPhone 5 to image text pages (printed from Word documents), tables, magazine pages, and other documents in FineReader Touch, and save them in appropriate formats (Word .docx is default). Text recognition of one-page documents scanned to Word format took an average of 44 seconds per page. That's much slower than typical desktop-based OCR speeds, but keep in mind that you're not likely to be using FineReader Touch to scan documents en masse.

OCR results were generally good. FineReader could recognize text down to 6 pt on our standard Times New Roman and Arial test pages in documents imaged in good lighting. The FineReader cloud also did a good job in converting most of the saved documents I sent to it, though occasionally a document with unusual formatting would stump it.

Abbyy FineReader Touch is optimized for the iPhone 5, but it also works with the iPhone 4 and 4S, as well as recent iPods touch, and all iPads except for the first-generation model. Though although the app is compatible with the iPad 2, I wasn't surprised that OCR performance was abysmal, given the device's primitive 0.9-megapixel camera. It undoubtedly would have done better with the 3- and 5-megapixel cameras of the most recent two iPads (and the iPad mini's 5-megapixel camera). Even with the iPhone 5, lighting and document/camera positioning had some effect on scan quality.

Abbyy FineReader Touch has its limitations. It's most accurate with recent iPhones and iPads with higher-resolution cameras, and shooting for OCR requires good lighting, and some care in positioning the documents. Many portable scanners already come with OCR software, are faster, and working through the cloud may be an extra step if you're scanning and converting a series of documents to your hard drive. As a paid service, its costs could add up if you scan a lot of documents. Documents handled through the FineReader cloud are given generic names based on the date and the number of documents uploaded to FineReader (by all users) on that date, so you'll have to go back and change them to a more usable name.

However, these quibbles shouldn't detract from its usefulness to people who may need to make quick scans of documents to readable text while in the field: scholars, researchers?secret agents, for that matter. For them, ABBYY FineReader Touch may be the best solution for their mobile scanning needs.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/w1FBd2hXDrQ/0,2817,2417192,00.asp

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Play With This Modular Furniture Set Like K'Nex

The 3+ modular furniture collection harkens back to your childhood days of tinkering with K'Nex sets. Made of white, black, or grey, powder-coated or galvanized plates of steel, you can configure pieces in any way you'd like. More »

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Lunar cycle determines hunting behavior of nocturnal gulls

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Zooplankton, small fish and squid spend hardly any time at the surface when there's a full moon. To protect themselves from their natural enemies, they hide deeper down in the water on bright nights, coming up to the surface under cover of darkness when there's a new moon instead.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell discovered that this also influences the behaviour of swallow-tailed gulls (Creagrus furcatus), a unique nocturnal species of gull from the Galapagos Islands. They fitted the birds with loggers and wet/dry sensors which enabled them to see how much time the animals spent at sea at night. Their findings show that the birds' activity was greatest at new moon, in other words the time when the most prey was gathered at the surface of the water. The cycle of the moon therefore also influences the behaviour of seabirds.

The lunar cycle controls the behaviour of various animal species: owls, swallows and bats, for example, align their activity with the phase of the moon to maximise their hunting success. However, marine life is also affected by the moon. Many species of fish hide from their enemies in the depths of the sea during the daytime and only come up to the water's surface in the dark. Known as vertical migration, this phenomenon is additionally influenced by the lunar cycle. The fish thereby avoid swimming on the water's surface at full moon where they would be easy prey. Vertical migration is thus restricted on brighter nights and the animals remain at greater depths. At new moon, on the other hand, the organisms become active and migrate to the surface.

Yet also in the dark of night hunters lie in wait for them ? for instance the swallow-tailed gull Creagrus furcatus from the Galapagos Islands. With eyes that are well adapted to the dark, the gull can see fish below the water's surface even in low light conditions and so does not need the moon as a source of light. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology therefore wanted to find out what effect the lunar cycle had on the hunting behaviour of the gulls.

To this effect, they attached loggers with sensors to 37 birds, which enabled the scientists to measure where, when and how long the animals were in the water. "The gulls fly off to hunt on the open sea and plunge down to the water's surface to snatch squid or small fish," explains Martin Wikelski from the Max Planck Institute in Radolfzell. "From the contact time of the sensors with the water, we were able to conclude in which nights of the month the gulls were particularly active." The behaviour of each bird was recorded for 120 days on average in order to take in several moon phases.

The birds followed the lunar cycles strictly: at new moon the gulls were in the water particularly often. When the nights were very bright, the birds tended to stay on dry land instead. "For the swallow-tailed gulls it makes sense to be guided by the lunar cycle in their hunting, because, with a diving depth of no more than one metre, the prey is quickly beyond their reach on nights with a full moon," says Wikelski.

To facilitate their night-time hunting, swallow-tailed gulls have evolved light-sensitive eyes that are particularly well adapted to the dark nights at sea. They have also lost their melatonin rhythm ? an important clock that regulates sleep ? enabling the swallow-tailed gulls to occupy a new and unique ecological niche.

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Sebastian M. Cruz, Mevin Hooten, Kathryn P. Huyvaert, Carolina B. Proano, David J. Anderson, Vsevolod Afanasyev, Martin Wikelski

At?Sea Behavior Varies with Lunar Phase in a Nocturnal Pelagic Seabird, the Swallow-Tailed Gull

PLoS ONE 8(2): e56889. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056889

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: http://www.mpg.de

Thanks to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for this article.

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Lauren's Latest ? Pregnancy Update {weeks 34 & 35}

So, can you believe I?m only a few weeks away from getting this alien out of me? The way he moves/pushes my organs around, you?d think he?s an alien. Forreals.

Anyways, not a whole lot to report on this bebe. He?s growing, this I know. Allegedly, he?s 5+ pounds which explains why I feel huge and have a heavy feeling ?down yonder? if you know what I mean He?s still up in my lungs, so I know he hasn?t dropped yet. When he does, that?s gonna be interesting slash painful.

My belly measurements are right on for delivering April 29th. That day is coming up QUICK! I almost can?t believe it?but I can. Time flies when you?re renovating your kitchen writing an ecookbook growing a child!

Some noteworthy things happening:

-I have had a really bad cough for the last 8 days or so. I want to slit my throat that?s how bad it is. Cough drops don?t help. Honey doesn?t help. Robitussin doesn?t help. Vicks Vapo Rub on my chest and feet doesn?t help. I really don?t have any options left. Just suck it up and deal. UGH.

-I?ve self diagnosed myself with?symphysis pubic dysfunction?basically, I get these shooting pains in my inner thighs when I switch from lying on one side to the other side at night. The worst is when I?m getting up from bed in the morning. This combined with my coughing makes me a real treat to wake up to. Right Gordon?! Haha. Apparently, this is a totally normal and common thing for ladies to have during pregnancy. It?ll go away after the baby comes out. Yippee!

-My husband is taking 2 weeks off for his Paternity leave after the baby comes. I?m so excited Some people I talk to don?t particularly care if their husbands are home or not but I am not one of those people! If my husband could get paid to stay home, we?d totally do that! We love spending time together. After I had Brooke, he was still working AND going to school, so I was pretty much left on my own. I?m so glad he?ll have this time with us!

-My Mom is coming for 2 1/2 weeks in May to cook me lots of yummy meals, clean my house, help with the new baby and play with Brooke! We are so excited. My Dad is coming for one of those weeks too I love my family!

-I?m trying my hardest to get the baby?s room finished but it?s tricky when I start involving other people?.like my husband {meaning?he needs to knock down a wall to expand the closet before it can officially be finished. I?m hoping this little dude will be right on time so we can actually have a month to finish everything we need to!

-Did I mention all my kitchen stuff gets here a week before I?m due? AND, it?s all getting installed in the last 5 days up until my due date? YEAH. Talk about serious deadlines!! LOL! At least my husband will be on paternity leave to help out as needed Either way, I?m getting a new kitchen and new baby by the end of April!

-Overall I?ve gained 25 pounds thus far. It?s all in my belly and thighs. Still much less than my first pregnancy, so I?m hoping this weight will come off easily! I fit into my pre-pregnancy jeans 3 weeks after giving birth to my daughter. Maybe I?ll get lucky and things will go just as smoothly?!

And now for some questions:

-What can I do to get rid of this cough? I cannot think of anything else!

-How many of you think I?ll go into labor before I can get my kitchen done? Watch I?m a week late! LOL! OR, maybe I?ll have this little guy right on my due date just like my first pregnancy! Time will only tell!

-What are the best nursing bras? And do you all go so far to get nursing tanks and stuff too? I didn?t have any the first time around and everything worked out just swimmingly.

-How far in advance did you pack your hospital bag? I might wait a week or two and then get one together.

Source: http://www.laurenslatest.com/pregnancy-update-weeks-34-35/

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Can Your Child Be Too Religious?

Religion can be a source of comfort that improves well-being. But some kinds of religiosity could be a sign of deeper mental health issues.

Seeing their kids more eager to pray than play video games, most parents would shout, ?Hallelujah? or whatever their expression of joy. And they should. Research shows that religion can be a positive force in the lives of children, just as can be for adults. ?Religion,? says Bill Hathaway, a clinical psychologist of religion and Dean of the School of Psychology and Counseling at Regent University, ?is related to the child having a higher sense of self esteem, better academic adjustment and lower rates of substance abuse and delinquent or criminal behavior.?

So if your child is immersed in scripture after school and prays regularly throughout the day, you may breathe a sigh of relief.? She?s such a good girl. My boy is okay.

Or maybe not. Your child?s devotion may be a great thing, but there are some kids whose religious observances require a deeper look. For these children, an overzealous practice of their family faith ? or even another faith? ? may be a sign of an underlying mental health issue or a coping mechanism for dealing with unaddressed trauma or stress.

(MORE: How Faith and Health Go Hand in Hand)

Therapists in private practice report that they are seeing children and teens across a range of faiths whose religious practice can be problematic. The amount of time they spend praying, or in other acts of spiritual practice, is not as important, they say, as the quality of this devotion, and whether it helps the children or instead isolates them and undermines their schoolwork and relationships. Children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), for example, may rigidly repeat holy verses, say Hail Mary?s or focus on other rituals less out of a deeper sense of faith but more as an expression of their disorder. ?It looks positive but could be negative,? says Stephanie Mihalas, a UCLA professor and licensed clinical psychologist.

Such ritualistic behavior, she says, may also reflect a child?s way of coping with anxiety, and in reality could be no more spiritual than fanatical hand washing or dreading to walk on cracks. ?These kids fear that if they don?t obey their religious rules perfectly,? explains Carole Lierberman, MD, a psychiatrist in Beverly Hills, ?God will punish them.?

(MORE: Religion?s Secret to Happiness: It?s Friends, Not Faith)

Some children suffer from scrupulosity, a form of OCD that involves a feeling of guilt and shame. Sufferers obsessively worry that they have committed blasphemy, been impure or otherwise sinned. They tend to focus on certain rules or rituals rather than the whole of their faith. They worry that God will never forgive them. And this can signal the onset of depression or anxiety, says John Duffy, a Chicago area clinical psychologist specializing in adolescents. ?Kids who have made ?mistakes? with sex or drug use,? he says, ?may have trouble forgiving themselves. ?

Such fastidiousness to religious practices may not seem so harmful, but extreme behavior such as delusions or hallucinations may be a sign of serious mental illness. Seeing and hearing things that are not there can be symptoms of manic-depressive, bipolar disorder, or early onset schizophrenia. But parents may be less attuned to such unhealthy behavior when it occurs under the guise of faith.

(MORE: The Biology of Belief)

It?s not unusual that children in families where marital discord, harsh discipline, abuse, or addiction are present, perform rituals for protection. If they know their parents approve of religion, says Lieberman, ?they try to be good little children and stay below the radar of the family chaos or parents? rage.? Or, as Mihalas has seen, some children push their already observant parents to be even stricter, fearing that catastrophe will strike otherwise.

When does religiosity raise these red flags? The crucial test focuses on how the kids are functioning in the rest of their lives. Are they doing well at school, playing sports or music, socializing with friends? If so, then their faith is probably a source of strength and resilience. ?If, however, the religious practices and rituals seem to be overtaking their daily lives, and displacing their normal activities, experts suggest taking steps to understand what?s triggering the focus on faith. To guide the discussion, here?s what they recommend:

Model a healthy balance between religion and life

Show them in your own behavior, suggests Mihalas, how religion can co-exist with enjoying life.

If your child switches to a different style of religion, be tolerant

If your children are doing well in other areas of their life, don?t panic, says Hathaway. Unless you feel strongly that they are morally wrong, take this shift in stride.

?Be alert to a sudden and pervasive shift in religious practice

Talk to your child about it. Ask her what her religion means to her. Ask him what he is getting out of it, how it makes him feel.

If you feel your child needs help, find a therapist comfortable with religion

Before engaging a therapist, ask about his or her comfort level with devout religious practice.

Religious families need not worry that therapy will draw their child away from their faith, Hathaway says. He recalls one girl struggling with anorexia who felt that she could never be ?good enough? to satisfy the harsh, judgmental God of her imagination. After psychological treatment that included a spiritual element, she not only recovered from her anorexia, she developed a more positive view of God, of other people and herself. Instead of being weighed down by guilt and anxiety, her spiritual life became a comfort and joy. And that?s the role that religion should have for people of faith.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/child-too-religious-094552602.html

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Flipboard (for iPad)

Flipboard just keeps getting better. A continued presence in our 100 Best iPad Apps, Flipboard makes use of the slate's Web-connectivity and large 9.7-inch display (or 7.9-inch display if you're using an iPad mini) to transform blog posts, social networking feeds, images, video, and articles into an impressive layout that replicates the print reading experience?and essentially puts traditional RSS readers to shame (R.I.P.,Google Reader). The latest update, version 2.0, brings a new feature that may change the way you use Flipboard: magazine creation.

The Basics and Content
Flipboard's main page features boxes where you add content. You do this by tapping a blank, square pane, which opens the new Content Guide that lists Flipboard categories such as Art & Design, Business, Food & Design, and Tech. By default, the Featured category is highlighted, which showcases several popular brands such as Fast Company, Make, and Popular Science (as well as Flipboard-curated top stories, Flipboard tips, and Flipboard-related news). Bringing a finger to Sports revealed a Bill Simmons sub-category (one of my favorite writers), which I tapped to see a list of his stories, tweets, and stories he's shared. After deeming the Bill Simmons category worthy, I tapped the "Add" icon, which placed it in the blank square. Pressing and holding a square gives you the option to delete it.

There's an Audio category that features the likes of CMJ Network, Slate Internet Radio, and TWiT; a Video category lets you add Allrecipes.com, CollegeHumor, ESPN and others Both categories also have themed genre collections such as News FM and Gamer TV. Tapping the "+" icon adds that feed to your Flipboard library. Flipboard makes it incredible easy to discover new content. Once a feed is added, you simply launch the pane, and tap the play icon inside. Music and video streamed without a hitch, which made me supremely happy as the lack of audio support was Flipboard's one glaring omission in early versions of the app.

The panes are continually updated as the sources feed fresh content into their streams, so you'll see different images in each one when you launch the app and new stories are available. The first screen has enough real estate to house nine squares, as does the second page. You're limited to just two pane pages; the other saved article streams are seen when you tap the red "More..." icon. That's a definite improvement, but I'd still like more pane pages.

Magazine Creation
Magazine creation is the highlight of Flipboard 2.0. This is how it works: When you find an article you fancy, tap the "+" icon to open a window. Doing so lets you create a magazine name, add an optional description, and assign a category (you can also choose to make the magazine public or private). Flipboard automatically pulls an image from one of the stories to use as its cover, but if you don't like it, tap the "edit" icon and reset the image. You can't manually select a cover image, but Flipboard will choose another for you. Once the magazine's set up, it behaves in the familiar, intuitive Flipboard manner.

Readers can share magazines to Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Sina Weibo, and Renren. Flipboard also offers an email option, but it doesn't actually email the magazine to others. Instead, it emails a link to the Apple and Android marketplaces, so that the recipient can download the appropriate app. Disappointing. Flipboard users, however, can subscribe to public magazines.

Social Networking
Tapping a content box opens articles in a print-style page, with a top story and two to three more along the bottom. You can read an article by tapping on it; otherwise, flip the page over and you'll see more stories. Depending on the story and source in question, a particular article could show up as an entire page of photos, one third of a page, or a small box. You can share stories by e-mail, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter.

In fact, you can almost use the app as a substitute for visiting those social networking sites. Its presentation of your friends' status updates and new photos is much more attractive than on those sites' own home pages. Naturally, you can use Flipboard to update our status and share content. Since everything is integrated in a magazine-style layout, the app also improves on Facebook's ungainly method of displaying the latest news from "liked" sources in a single column. You can also mute authors who bombard your feed.

Flipboard displays content in several ways. If the viewed content comes from one of Flipboard's partners (ABC News, All Things Digital, Bon Appetit, Lonely Planet, SB Nation, SF Chronicle/Gate, Uncrate or The Washington Post Magazine) the new HTML 5-powered Flipboard Pages versions of their websites are displayed. Non-content partners have stories pulled from RSS feeds, and if that isn't available, the webpage itself is shown. Flipboard also has Instagram support, so you can view snapshots uploaded to the social photo network. A new social search features lets you search for content or hashtags across your various networks, and save it as its own dedicated content box?very cool. Pages are extremely clean with excellent use of photos and whitespace, but The Daily, another iPad news reading app, has a layout that truly adopts the magazine aesthetic with its color pages, excellent photography, and full page ads. Flipboard pulls links from numerous social networking sources that you use including Flickr, Google+, and Instagram.

Flipboard now integrates with Apple's iBookstore in its "Bestsellers" section. There you'll find fiction (World War Z) and non-fiction (The Joy of Hate) summaries, cover art, and an icon?that when tapped?opens Apple's iBookstore. Frankly, it feels like an odd inclusion; Flipboard has always been about content, but this is, essentially, a dedicated ad section. The entries could have at least featured a few excerpted pages!

In testing, Flipboard performed admirably. Page layouts always looked great, and I rarely waited more than a second or two for a story or Contents page to load. Overall, Flipboard came the closest to feeling like a "live" magazine than anything I've tested on the iPad; even The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's iPad magazine, updates only a few times per day (unless breaking news occurs). Flipboard now highlights popular stories with a red "Popular" icon, and you'll occasionally find an ad placed between content pages. By default you can't read articles without an internet connection, but you can save individual pages for offline reading if you have an Instapaper, Pocket, or Readability account. Google Currents?lets you save articles without third-party apps.

You'll Flip For Flipboard
Flipboard was plenty of fun to use in its first iteration, and has gotten better over time. Flipboard is a superb alternative to standalone RSS feed readers, browsing individual sites, and following Facebook and Twitter feeds, making it a near-perfect Editors' Choice award-winning app.

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Showpad Raises $2M Series A From Hummingbird Ventures To Hawk Its Sales Software For iPads To More Enterprises

Riding the consumerisation of IT trend that's blowing the cobwebs off enterprise software, Belgian startup Showpad -- which makes iPad software for sales teams -- has raised a $2 million Series A funding round from early stage European VC firm, Hummingbird Ventures. Showpad said it plans to use the funding to grow its own sales and marketing team, and to "invest heavily" in platform development.

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James Cameron donates deep sea sub to science

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Filmmaker and National Geographic explorer-in-residence James Cameron emerges from the Deepsea Challenger submersible after his successful solo dive to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean.

By Douglas Main
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One year after James Cameron made a solo dive to the deepest spot in the world's oceans, he is donating his submersible, the Deepsea Challenger, to science. Cameron is giving the sub to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to help improve future submersibles and facilitate the exploration of the deep ocean, according to a release from the institution.

"The seven years we spent designing and building the Deepsea Challenger were dedicated to expanding the options available to deep-ocean researchers," Cameron said in the statement. "Our sub is a scientific proof-of-concept, and our partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a way to provide the technology we developed to the oceanographic community."

The Deepsea Challenger contains several unique features that allowed it to withstand the crushing pressures at the Challenger Deep ? the deepest spot in the world's oceans?at about 36,000 feet (11 kilometers) beneath the surface of the Pacific. Among those special features are unique approaches to flotation, battery design and energy storage, as well as innovative ways to gather imagery and samples from the seafloor, according to the WHOI statement.

Examination of samples and video collected by the Deepsea Challenger one year ago has revealed several likely new species, such as a sea cucumber seen at the Challenger Deep. Analysis by Natalya Gallo, a doctoral researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, also turned up a second previously unknown species of squid worm, she told OurAmazingPlanet in February. These wormy animals are several inches long and live in the midwater, above the seafloor, Gallo said.

Cameron's dive also turned up microbial mats ? strange-looking, filamentlike clumps of microorganisms ? on the seafloor. Researchers have speculated that a similar setup could have sparked the chemical steps that led to the development of life on Earth. The dive also revealed the presence of giant single-celled amoebas called xenophyophores ? bizarre creatures that are among the biggest cells known to humans ? near the Challenger Deep. ?

WHOI said it envisions a whole range of uses for the Deepsea Challenger's innovations. For example, its lighting and camera systems will be used on one of WHOI's existing vehicles to explore trenches in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the next two years, according to the release.

"The technological solutions (Cameron's team) developed for the Deepsea Challenger system can be incorporated into other human-occupied and robotic vehicles, especially those used for deep-sea research," said Susan Avery, WHOI president, in the statement. "We plan to make that happen."

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"Jim's record-breaking dive was inspirational and helped shine a spotlight on the importance of the deep ocean," Avery said. "We face many challenges in our relationship with the ocean, so there is heightened urgency to implement innovative approaches. Partnerships such as this one represent a new paradigm and will accelerate the progress of ocean science and technology development."

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Botonists find novel way plants pass traits to next generation: Inheritance behavior in corn breaks accepted rules of genetics

Mar. 26, 2013 ? New research explains how certain traits can pass down from one generation to the next -- at least in plants -- without following the accepted rules of genetics.

Scientists have shown that an enzyme in corn responsible for reading information from DNA can prompt unexpected changes in gene activity -- an example of epigenetics.

Epigenetics refers to modifications in the genome that don't directly affect DNA sequences. Though some evidence has suggested that epigenetic changes can bypass DNA's influence to carry on from one generation to the next, this is the first study to show that this epigenetic heritability can be subject to selective breeding.

Researchers bred 10 generations of corn and found that one particular gene's activity persisted from one generation to the next whether the enzyme was functioning or not -- meaning typical genetic behavior was not required for the gene's trait to come through.

And that, the scientists determined, was because the enzyme targets a tiny piece of DNA -- previously thought of as "junk DNA" -- that had jumped from one area of the genome to another, giving that little fragment power to unexpectedly turn on the gene.

The gene in question affects pigmentation in the corn plant. As a result of these experiments, the researchers were able to change yellow kernel corn to a blue kernel variety by compromising the activity of the enzyme in each male parent.

"This is the first example where somebody has been able to take an epigenetic source of variation and, through selective breeding, move it from an inactive state to an active state," said Jay Hollick, associate professor of molecular genetics at The Ohio State University and lead author of the study. "The gene changes its expression in an epigenetic fashion and it doesn't follow standard inheritance behaviors. Those two factors alone have pretty profound implications not only for breeding but also for evolution."

The study appears online in the journal The Plant Cell.

Plant breeders tend to expect to generate desired traits according to what is known as Mendelian principles of inheritance: Offspring receive one copy of genes from each parental plant, and the characteristics of the alleles, or alternative forms of genes, help predict which traits will show up in the next plant generation.

However, epigenetic variations that change the predictability of gene behavior have complicated those expectations.

"The breeding community searches for novel traits that will have commercial interest and they really don't care what the basis is as long as they can capture it and breed it. Epigenetic heritability throws a kink in the expectations, but our findings also provide an opportunity -- if they recognize the variation they're looking for is the result of epigenetics, they could use that to their advantage," said Hollick, also an investigator in Ohio State's centers for RNA Biology and Applied Plant Sciences.

"Just by knowing that this allele behaves in this epigenetic fashion, I can breed plants that either have full coloration or no coloration or anything in between, because I am manipulating epigenetic variation and not genetic variation. And color, of course, is only one trait that could be affected."

With a longtime specialization in the molecular basis for unexpected gene activity in plants, Hollick had zeroed in on an enzyme called RNA polymerase IV (Pol IV). Multiple types of RNA polymerases are responsible for setting gene expression in motion in all cells, and Pol IV is an enigmatic RNA polymerase that is known in plants to produce small RNA molecules.

Pol IV has puzzled scientists because despite its strong conservation in all plants, it appears to have no discernible impact on the development of Arabidopsis, a common model organism in plant biology. For example, when it is deleted from these plants, they show no signs of distress.

In corn, however, Hollick's lab had discovered previously that the absence of Pol IV creates clear problems in the plants, such as growing seeds in the tassel.

Hollick and colleagues observed that plants deficient in Pol IV also showed pigmentation in kernels of ears expected not to make any color at all -- meaning they were expected to be yellow.

"Since we knew the misplaced tassel-seed trait was due to misexpression of a gene, we hypothesized that this pigment trait might be due to a pigment regulator being expressed in a tissue where it normally is never expressed. Molecular analysis showed that that was in fact the case," Hollick said.

The researchers selected dark kernels and light kernels from multiple generations of plants and crossed the plants derived form these different kernel classes to create additional new generations of corn.

"We found that the ears developed from those plants had even more darkly colored kernels and fewer lightly colored kernels. We could segregate the extreme types and cross them together and get this continued intensification of the pigmentation over many generations," he said. "We generated more progeny that had increasing amounts of pigment. This is taking a gene that is genetically null, that doesn't have any function in this part of the plant, and turning it from a complete null to a completely dominant form that produces full coloration.

"Essentially we were breeding a novel trait, but not by selecting for any particular gene. We were just continually altering the epigenetic status of one of the two parental genomes every time."

This led the scientists to question why the affected alleles of the pigmentation gene would behave in this way. An investigation of the affected alleles revealed the nearby presence of a transposon, or transposable element: a tiny piece of DNA that has leapt from one area of the genome to another.

Because the sequence of some small RNA fragments that come from Pol IV's activity are identical to the sequence of these transposons, the finding made sense to the scientists.

"Now that we know that Pol IV is involved in regulating transposons, it's not surprising that genes that are near transposons are now regulated by Pol IV," Hollick said.

This work was supported by the National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and the National Science Foundation.

Hollick conducted this work at the University of California, Berkeley, before he joined Ohio State's faculty. Co-authors are former Berkeley colleagues Karl Erhard Jr., Susan Parkinson, Stephen Gross, Joy-El Barbour and Jana Lim.

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Gunman fires on homes in Tacoma, Wash.; police surround residence

By M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News

Police surrounded a home Tuesday in Tacoma, Wash., where a man with at least four high-powered weapons was holed up after reportedly walking through the neighborhood spraying gunfire, a sheriff's official told NBC News.

No injuries were immediately reported, but Pierce County sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said several homes were hit by bullets in the neighborhood in Tacoma, about 30 miles of Seattle.

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It wasn't known whether anybody else was in the home with the gunman, who Troyer said was known to have "mental health issues" and was believed to have been drinking.

Police began firing tear gas into the house early Tuesday evening, NBC station KING of Seattle reported.

KING reported that numerous residents of the neighborhood had been evacuated and that those who remained were asked to stay inside.

Troyer told KING that the man, who he said was 67 years old and also had substance abuse issues, crashed his car last week in a DUI accident.

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Recyclable organic solar cells: a clean fuel future made possible by trees

You don't have to know Shel Silverstein to know that trees are exceptionally giving. They're responsible for our homes, paper, air, furniture and, now, energy -- the "clean" kind, that is. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have jointly devised a patent-pending method to build organic solar cells using plant-derived substrates. Known as cellulose nanocrystal substrates (or CNC), these solar cells benefit from being truly disposable, eliminating the waste that results from the use of alternative materials like petroleum or glass. The CNC-made cells are not only transparent enough to allow light to pass into an embedded semiconductor, but they also dissolve when submerged into water, thus earning the esteemed recyclable distinction.

Although this is undoubtedly a breakthrough for clean energy tech, it's by no means a near-future reality. Apparently, current cells can only yield a 2.7-percent conversion efficiency rate, which falls far below the 10-percent threshold met by rival fabrication methods (i.e., petroleum and glass). So, there's still significant work to be done before the team can improve production and achieve parity with those less "recyclable" options. Until that time, consider this a comforting reassurance that a clean fuel era is well within reach.

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5.8-magnitude earthquake rattles Mexico City

By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Oaxaca, Mexico, on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway as far away as Mexico City, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Oaxaca is about 300 miles from Mexico City, where the tremors set off earthquake alarms, The Associated Press reported.

Staff at the Hotel Palacio Borghese in Oaxaca told NBC News that the quake set off the alarms, but that they did not feel it.

There were minor aftershocks in the city of Pinotepa Nacional on the Pacific Coast, but no reported injuries, Oaxaca Governor Gabino Cue tweeted on Tuesday.

The quake?s epicenter was about 20.5 miles deep, according to the USGS.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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DICE+ launches $99 developer kit, pre-orders for $40 consumer model start this summer

Game Technologies, the Poland-based company behind the little electronic die that is DICE+, has just announced a $99 developer edition that bundles a transparent-cased model along with its software development kit. As a reminder, the DICE+ is an inch-sized rubberized cube packed with Bluetooth, an accelerometer and a rechargeable battery, with the aim of bringing human interaction to electronic board games and beyond.

We had a look at a demo DICE+ here at the 2013 Game Developers Conference and it looks relatively unchanged from the one we saw at E3 last year. However, the microUSB port is now revealed via a sliding mechanism instead of a pull-out flap, which should result in a more balanced roll. Marketing director David Gatti also told us that the cube's internals have been revamped and simplified for more cost-effective production.

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PFT: Tebow makes speech to Wichita State hoops

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The NFL wisely dumped the bad news on the first Friday of the NCAA basketball tournament:? The Ravens won?t host the midweek regular-season opener at home.

It?ll be the first time the Super Bowl champion hasn?t opened the season on a Thursday (or Wednesday) at home since 2004, when the Patriots welcomed the Colts following New England?s second NFL title.

The Orioles, who face the White Sox in Baltimore on the same night the Ravens would have christened the 2013 season, opted not to bend.? The NFL opted not to play on Wednesday night, in deference to Rosh Hashanah.? (Here?s hoping the NFL makes that same decision the next time Christmas Eve or Christmas Day fall on a weekend.)? And, as Peter King of SI.com points out in his Monday Morning Quarterback column, an Orioles conflict would have arisen if the Ravens had opened on Sunday night or Monday night of Week One.

So the Ravens will open on the road ? guaranteeing low attendance and even lower TV viewership of the Orioles game that night.? (That?s OK; they?re used to it.)? The Ravens, we?re told, are bracing for a Thursday night opener at Denver, Pittsburgh, or Chicago.

While the Ravens will have to play at each of those places eventually during the coming football campaign, the NFL is about tradition and one of the newest traditions has given the Super Bowl champs a chance to play the first game of the season at home, where all of them (except the 2012 Giants) started 1-0.

But part of the benefit, as King explains it, comes from the mini-bye that follows starting the season on a Thursday, roughly two weeks removed from the preseason dress rehearsal.? The Ravens coaches, per King, ?clearly wanted? a Thursday road game instead of a home game on Sunday or Monday.

King suggests another possibility:? Put the Ravens on the road for the first Thursday of the season, and then give them a Thursday night opener in Week Two.

The only problem with that potential approach is that the NFL wisely adopted in 2012 a scheduling formula that requires every team to play one ? and only one ? short-week game during the season.? Having the Ravens play on the first Thursday night and then on the first short-week Thursday of the season would throw that system out of whack.

Regardless, the ultimate reality show has now given us something else to discuss, debate, and anticipate.? When the 2013 schedule is released, we?ll find out where the Ravens will open the season.

Baltimore at Denver would be the most intriguing.? Unless, of course, the NFL plans the latest installment of the Manning Bowl for the first Sunday night of the season.

And while sending the Ravens to Pittsburgh for the first week of the season seems particularly unfair to the defending champs, we?re told that the Ravens are expecting to play at Heinz Field in prime time at some point this year.? Why not get it out of the way early?

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No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast beats SDSU 81-71

Florida Gulf Coast's Dajuan Graf, from left, Eddie Murray and Brett Comer celebrate after winning a third-round game against San Diego State in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Philadelphia. Florida Gulf Coast won 81-71. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)

Florida Gulf Coast's Dajuan Graf, from left, Eddie Murray and Brett Comer celebrate after winning a third-round game against San Diego State in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Philadelphia. Florida Gulf Coast won 81-71. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)

Florida Gulf Coast's Sherwood Brown, left, and Chase Fieler celebrate after winning a third-round game against San Diego State in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Philadelphia. Florida Gulf Coast became the first No. 15 seed in NCAA history to reach the regional semifinals with their 81-71 victory over San Diego State. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)

Florida Gulf Coast players celebrate after winning a third-round game against San Diego State in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Philadelphia. Florida Gulf Coast won 81-71. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

San Diego State's Skylar Spencer, left, and Florida Gulf Coast's Brett Comer chase a rebound during the first half of a third-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

San Diego State's Jamaal Franklin (21) dribbles Florida Gulf Coast's Christophe Varidel (5) during the first half of a third-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament on Sunday, March 24, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Florida Gulf Coast became the first 15 to reach the Sweet 16, and the Eagles not only made it look easy, they made it look fun.

Little-known FGCU beat San Diego State 81-71 on Sunday night, its second NCAA tournament upset of the weekend. Just like in their opening win over second-seeded Georgetown ? the Eagles' calling card to the nation ? there were plenty of laughs, dunks and dances.

"We don't take ourselves too seriously," said Florida Gulf Coast coach Andy Enfield, whose players tossed him in the air and doused him with water in a raucous celebration before his postgame interviews. "We try to have fun, get serious when we have to.

"Our goal was to make history and we did it."

With its campus in Fort Myers, Florida Gulf Coast opened its doors to students in 1997. The university only became eligible for postseason play last year. Now the next opponent for the upstart state school will be the system's flagship university, third-seeded Florida, on Friday night in the South Regional semifinal in Dallas.

"We tried to scrimmage them early in the season in the preseason," Enfield said. "Now we get our shot."

Bernard Thompson had 23 points and Sherwood Brown added 17 for FGCU, the Atlantic Sun champion.

In their first-ever NCAA tournament game on Friday, the 15th-seeded Eagles busted brackets everywhere with a win over Georgetown, a game in which they took control with a 21-2 run in the second half.

It went much the same way against seventh-seeded San Diego State.

This time the run was 17-0 and Brown, who was saddled early in the second half with foul trouble, had eight of the first 10 points of it. When it was over the Eagles led 71-52 with 4:19 to play and the only decisions left were how the players and fans were going to celebrate.

Brown stuck out his tongue after every big basket, often in the direction of the hundreds of Eagles fans jammed into one section.

Even when the game was tight, he and his teammates looked they were glad to be on the court. The Eagles waved their arms and played along with a lively crowd that came to see an upset. There were big smiles and high-fives.

In short, they showed a kind of joy that's often missing from high stakes, high drama games in March.

"We're all about having fun and also playing really hard and that's something we like to do, we like to get the crowd involved," said Brown, the A-Sun's player of the year. "The whole crowd got behind us even if they are not from Fort Myers, or as I like to say, 'Dunk City.'"

It turns out a rap video called "Dunk City" sprang up overnight in praise of the Eagles.

The notoriously tough Philly fans jumped on the bandwagon, too. One seated behind the FGCU bench held a sign ? "Fly, Eagles, Fly!" ? the motto of the NFL team that plays across the street from the Wells Fargo Center.

And after it was all over, the whole team joined in a bird dance that the players on the bench had been doing during the game.

"I know I can say for all the players, this was the biggest game for us. None of us have played on this stage," point guard Brett Comer said. "We are blessed to be here."

FGCU played like it had nothing to lose. And really, the Eagles didn't. Given their school's short history, nobody expected them to win a game at the NCAA tournament, let alone two.

"They play with a swagger, and they have a right to do that," said San Diego State coach Steve Fisher, who knows about players with attitude, having led the Fab Five to consecutive national championship games at Michigan. "You can have that look and feel, but you have to compete and play to earn your spurs, and they've done that."

Comer, who didn't have as many lob passes for dunks as he did against the Hoyas, finished with 10 points and 14 assists, some of which resulted in dunks that had the crowd cheering and wanting more.

"We want to get out and run," Comer said. "We're just having so much fun."

FGCU even unleashed another offensive weapon. Christophe Varidel, a native of Switzerland, hit two big 3s early for the Eagles and finished with 11 points after going scoreless against Georgetown.

"If we can get him open shots, he's as good a shooter as I've seen," Enfield said. "He stepped up tonight and helped us and we needed that because Sherwood Brown was in early foul trouble."

Jamal Franklin had 20 points and 11 rebounds for the seventh-seeded Aztecs (23-11), who were trying to reach the regional semifinals for the second time in three years.

Franklin spoke with Brown after the game.

"I just told him just keep being the leader that he is, make sure the ball is in his hands, make sure he does what he has to do to keep his team rolling," Franklin said.

Xavier Thames' layup brought the Aztecs within 54-52 with 11:33 to play but the Eagles were off on their spurt about 90 seconds later. FGCU held San Diego State without a field goal for more than 7 minutes as it again pulled away again from a team with much bigger national profile.

"We just tried to keep a steady pace and tried to wear them down. We think we can play with anybody in the country," center Chase Fieler said. "When we got the running game going it felt like a home game."

The Eagles shot 55.9 percent for the game (33 of 59), including going 7 of 18 from 3-point range.

The Aztecs finished at 44.3 percent (27 of 61) and were 8 of 23 from beyond the arc.

"They ran. They ran hard, they ran consistent, and they ran effectively," Fisher said. "They're playing with a kind of momentum that they have earned."

FGCU had one of its highlight plays in the first half when Comer flipped the ball up toward the rim and a flying Eric McKnight grabbed it for a one-hand jam with 8:50 to play that woke up the crowd.

Suddenly it sounded a lot like Friday night, when the Eagles had several jams on lob passes that were a big part of the Georgetown upset.

McKnight was asked if that was his best dunk.

"I don't rate them," he said, "but it was one of my best ones."

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Snowstorm takes aim at Plains, Midwest

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? An early spring snowstorm forced the cancellation of more than 100 flights at Denver International Airport and closed several roads Saturday as it moved eastward, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places.

The snow started falling around midnight in northeast Colorado and then moved into northwest Kansas and southwest Nebraska.

Ten to 15 inches of snow had fallen by Saturday afternoon north of Interstate 70 in northwest Kansas and northeast Colorado, with another 1 to 2 inches expected in the area, said Ryan Husted, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Goodland, Kan., where 15 inches of snow had fallen.

The storm also dropped up to 7 inches of snow in southwestern Nebraska before tapering off Saturday afternoon, said David Pearson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service near Omaha, Neb.

"But the wind is really blowing, so visibility in those areas is still going to be pretty low," Pearson said.

Husted said winds gusting at speeds of up to 45 mph were creating snow drifts of 2 to 3 feet in parts of Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska.

I-70 had been shut down Saturday from Denver to Colby, Kan., because of poor visibility. The northbound lanes of Interstate 25 also were closed south of Fort Collins, Colo., because of multiple accidents.

"It's a mess here," said Jerry Killingsworth, a National Weather Service meteorologist also based in Goodland, Kan. "Heavy, wet snow, tree limbs down."

At the Goodland 24/7 truck stop, truckers milled around. With roads in the area closed, they are "just waiting," said Samantha Lamb, the truck stop's assistant manager.

"Our hotel across the street from us is pretty full," Lamb said. "Our parking lot has a good 35, 40 trucks in it."

As the system moved eastward, it threatened to inconvenience fans attending the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Kansas City.

Scott Blair, a meteorologist in Pleasant Hill, Mo., said light showers and drizzle began switching over to snow Saturday afternoon in Kansas City and western Missouri. The heaviest snowfall was expected overnight, with up to 6 inches forecast for the Kansas City metropolitan area.

"If people don't need to be out driving tomorrow that would certainly be recommended," he said.

Dan Gavitt, vice president of the NCAA men's basketball championships, said teams and officials already are onsite and that no game delays are anticipated.

"This region routinely has winter snow and has the appropriate equipment and procedures to manage these winter conditions," Gavitt said in a written statement. "We encourage fans planning to attend games to pay attention to the weather, use good judgment and follow any directions from local authorities regarding travel and weather."

North Carolina coach Roy Williams was nonplussed.

"It's no distraction, unless the roof goes off, we'll still be able to play and the whole bit like that," Williams said.

Elsewhere, some churches and other organizations were calling off events. Among them, the final game of the Emporia State baseball series with Southwest Baptist was canceled.

Denver International Airport spokesman Heath Montgomery said about 106 flights have been canceled, many of which involved commuter jets headed to nearby destinations or to mountain towns.

The Colorado Avalanche Information Center said up to a foot of new snow in the mountains could create dangerous avalanche conditions.

Colorado State Patrol troopers also spent part of Saturday working a crash near Johnstown involving a tractor-trailer that burst into flames. An estimated 20 to 50 vehicles, including four tractor-trailers, crashed or slid off the roadway in the area. The patrol said several people were hospitalized, but no fatalities have been reported.

The system will move into Illinois and Indiana overnight and into Sunday.

Meteorologist Dan Smith with the National Weather Service in Lincoln, Ill., said snowstorms aren't uncommon in early spring. The latest the area has seen snow, he said, was April 23, in 1910.

"One good thing about (the snowstorms) is it doesn't matter how much you get, it usually doesn't stick around too long because temperatures start to warm up pretty good," he said.

Farther south, tornadoes were possible in Louisiana and Mississippi, while strong winds and low humidity could lead to forest fires and wildfires in parts of New Mexico and West Texas.

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Associated Press writers Jason Keyser in Chicago, Thomas Peipert in Denver, David Skretta in Kansas City, Mo., and Margery A. Beck in Omaha, Neb., contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/snowstorm-takes-aim-plains-midwest-171700123.html

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