'Heart attack snow' falling on broad swath of US

The Midwest is bracing for yet another wave of snow and ice. Forecasters say this latest system could be the roughest of the winter, and the Chicago area could be one of the hardest hit. NBC News' Jay Gray reports.

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

A storm packing heavy, wet, travel-snarling snow threatened the Midwest on Tuesday with its hardest punch of the winter, and forecasters said it could curl through the major cities of the Northeast later this week.

Chicago expected up to a foot of snow, the most there since a blizzard in 2011. More than 1,100 flights were canceled into and out of O?Hare and Midway airports. Minneapolis-St. Paul reported delays up to an hour, where more than 100 flights had been canceled, according to FlightAware.com.

The city of Chicago and the Illinois Tollway, a tangle of highways around the city, deployed their full fleets of snowplows, 466 in all. Dozens of school systems closed for the day. The evening rush hour was expected to be brutal.

The heaviest snow Tuesday was expected to be in a band stretching from Minnesota and Wisconsin down through the eastern nose of Iowa and across through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the central Appalachian Mountains.

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Forecasts from The Weather Channel called for up to 5 inches of snow in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa and up to a foot around Chicago and in northern Indiana.

In Wisconsin, which was being pummeled by snow early Tuesday, teams of divers plumbed the frigid waters of the Red Cedar River , looking for the driver of a semi that plunged off Interstate 94 before dawn, NBC affiliate KARE in Minneapolis said.

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Workers remove snow from cars at an auto dealership Tuesday in Bloomington, Minn.

The storm promised heavy, wet snow, sometimes called ?heart attack snow? because it is the most work to shovel.

?It is taxing their bodies and their hearts,? Dr. David Marmor, a cardiologist at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Ill., told The Associated Press. ?People are really testing their limits, and if they?re already at high risk, they are better off paying the kid across the street to do it.?

Chicago has reported about 20 inches of snow this winter and usually gets about 30, so the storm could erase the snow deficit for the season.

Predicting the storm?s path later this week is tricky, forecasters said. Some computer models had it heading straight east, while others forecast that it would curl to the northeast and sweep through New England.

Either way, the Washington metro area was expected to be hit hard. The Weather Channel?s forecast called for 10 to 15 inches of snow there through Thursday, likely causing delays at Reagan National, Baltimore-Washington and Dulles airports.

Congress was already taking precautions. A Democratic hearing on background checks for gun purchases, scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed because of the weather. Congressional leaders also talked about rescheduling votes in the full House on Wednesday and Thursday.

Because the snow was expected to be heavy and wet, the Washington area prepared for power outages. Baltimore Gas and Electric asked for 500 utility workers from out of state to help and encouraged people to prepare emergency kits.

Rain was expected to change to snow Wednesday in Baltimore and Philadelphia and Wednesday night in New York, threatening the Thursday morning commute there. The Weather Channel said New York could get 4 to 6 inches of snow.

Meteorologists said the storm could pack fierce wind gusts as well ? up to 60 mph, tropical storm strength, along the New Jersey shore.

How much snow New England gets depends on which track the storm takes. If it tracks to the east, the region could get 1 to 6 inches of snow. If it bends to the north, the totals could be closer to a foot.

The driver of a semi was killed when his truck plunged into Wisconsin's Red Cedar River. Rescue crews are searching for the missing passenger. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

This story was originally published on Tue Mar 5, 2013 4:58 AM EST

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12 ways to engage your customers with 'real' videos ? Business ...

By Kimberly Deas

Video is becoming the preferred method of communication for many customers. Whether you use YouTube or the newest social media Tout.com, you want to keep it short. The best videos are less than three minutes. With Tout, you have only 15 seconds to deliver your message.

You don?t need a fancy production crew for these videos. Studies show ?real? videos are more effective and have a bigger impact on the audience. With Tout.com you can record your video from your computer or your smartphone and upload it directly to your Facebook Profile and Twitter accounts.

If you want your Facebook audience to ?see? a post, videos are more often viewed than other posts on Facebook. In February 2011, nearly 47 million people in the United States watched a video on Facebook.

Using videos opens many new and creative ways to deepen the relationship with customers, increase communication and drive new business.

12 creative ways to use video:

1. Announcements
2. Corporate updates
3. Products tours
4. Behind the scenes (people love to see what ?really? happens)
5. Case studies
6. Tips or tricks for using a product
7. Answer FAQs
8. In your emails
9. On Facebook / Twitter posts
10. Interviews with staff, customers (testimonials) and executives
11. Mini-documentary of an event (conference, etc.)
12. Customer thank-yous

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Kimberly Deas combines her 10+ years? experience in telecommunications with a background in personal coaching and results-oriented training.

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Genetic tricks put a date on Homer's 'Iliad'

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This codex of Homer's "Iliad" was produced in the late fifth century or early sixth century.

By Joel N. Shurkin
Inside Science News Service

Scientists who decode the genetic history of humans by tracking how genes mutate have applied the same technique to one of the Western world's most ancient and celebrated texts to uncover the date it was first written.

The text is Homer's "Iliad," and Homer ? if there was such a person ? probably wrote it in 762 B.C., give or take 50 years, the researchers found. The "Iliad" tells the story of the Trojan War ? if there was such a war ? with Greeks battling Trojans.

The researchers accept the received orthodoxy that a war happened and someone named Homer wrote about it, said Mark Pagel, an evolutionary theorist at the University of Reading in England. His collaborators include Eric Altschuler, a geneticist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, in Newark, and Andreea S. Calude, a linguist also at Reading and the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. They worked from the standard text of the epic poem.

The date they came up with fits the time most scholars think the "Iliad" was compiled, so the paper,?published in the journal Bioessays,?won't have classicists in a snit. The study mostly affirms what they have been saying, that it was written around the eighth century B.C.

That geneticists got into such a project should be no surprise, Pagel said.

"Languages behave just extraordinarily like genes," Pagel said. "It is directly analogous. We tried to document the regularities in linguistic evolution and study Homer's vocabulary as a way of seeing if language evolves the way we think it does. If so, then we should be able to find a date for Homer."

Who was Homer?
It is unlikely there ever was one individual man named Homer who wrote the "Iliad." Brian Rose, professor of classical studies and curator of the Mediterranean section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, said it is clear the "Iliad" is a compilation of oral tradition going back to the 13th century B.C.

"It's an amalgam of lots of stories that seemed focused on conflicts in one particular area of northwestern Turkey," Rose said.

The story of the "Iliad" is well-known, full of characters such as Helen of Troy, Achilles, Paris, Agamemnon and a slew of gods and goddesses behaving badly. It recounts how a gigantic fleet of Greek ships sailed across the "wine dark sea" to besiege Troy and regain a stolen wife. Its sequel is Homer's "Odyssey."

Classicists and archaeologists are fairly certain Troy existed and generally know where it is. In the 19th century, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann and the Englishman Frank Calvert excavated what is known as the Citadel of Troy and found evidence of a military conflict in the 12th century B.C., including arrows and a thick layer of burned debris around a buried fortress. Rose said it's not known whether the conflict was a civil war or a struggle between Troy and a foreign foe.

The compilation we know as the "Iliad" was written centuries later, around the date Pagel is proposing.

Decoding the words
The scientists tracked the words in the "Iliad" the way they would track genes in a genome.

The researchers employed a linguistic tool called the Swadesh word list, put together in the 1940s and 1950s by American linguist Morris Swadesh. The list contains approximately 200 concepts that have words apparently in every language and every culture, Pagel said. These are usually words for body parts, colors, necessary relationships like "father" and "mother."

They looked for Swadesh words in the "Iliad" and found 173 of them. Then they measured how they changed.

They took the language of the Hittites, a people that existed during the time the war may have been fought, and modern Greek, and traced the changes in the words from Hittite to Homeric to modern. It is precisely how they measure the genetic history of humans, by going back and seeing how and when genes alter over time.

For example, they looked at cognates, words derived from ancestral words. There is "water" in English, "wasser" in German, "vatten" in Swedish, all cognates emanating from "wator" in proto-German. There are occasionally different types of linguistic mutations: For example, the Old English "hund" later became "hound," but eventually was replaced by "dog," which is not a cognate.

"I'm an evolutionary theorist," Pagel said. "I study language because it's such a remarkable culturally transmitted replicator. It replicates with a fidelity that's just astonishing."

By documenting the regularity of the linguistic mutations, Pagel and the others have given a timeline to the story of Helen and the men who died for her ? genetics meets the classics.

More Homeric history:

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Joel Shurkin is a freelance writer based in Baltimore. He is the author of nine books on science and the history of science, and has taught science journalism at Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

This report was published by Inside Science News Service as "Geneticists Estimate Publication Date of the 'Iliad' on Feb. 26. Copyright 2013 American Institute of Physics. Reprinted with permission.

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Dell B3465dnf Multifunction Laser Printer

You don't have to look much further than it's price to know that the Dell B3465dnf Multifunction Laser Printer is meant for a small to medium-size office or workgroup. That said, if you have any doubts about its suitability for heavy-duty use, the rated maximum monthly duty cycle for printing, at 150,000 pages with a recommended maximum of up to 15,000 pages, should tell you everything you need to know. Add in the fast speed on our tests, the reasonably high quality output, the 7-inch color touch-screen control panel, and the low cost per page, and it's a compelling pick for Editors' Choice.

The B3465dnf isn't the first small office mono laser MFP we've seen with a color touch screen. The much less expensive Dell 2355dn Multifunction Mono Laser Printer has one, for example. However the B3465dnf's touch screen stands out as being big enough so it would be at home on a floor standing departmental MFP or copier. A full 7 inches diagonally, it's bright and highly readable. It also offers a well designed, easy to use set of menus for faxing, scanning, direct email, and more. And it offers audible feedback in response to a touch, so you know when it accepts a command.

MFP Features
In addition to the touch screen, the B3465dnf's front panel adds several physical buttons, including a numeric keypad, Cancel and Start keys, and a Home key for returning the menus to the main screen. All are duplicates for options that show on the touch screen, but it's sometimes more convenient to have a physical button that you know where to find quickly. The keypad also gives tactile feedback, which can be helpful for entering a fax number or the like.

One of the advantages of a large touch screen control panel is that there's room for lots of information. If you enable all of the options, the home screen will show choices to Change Language, Copy, Fax, E-Mail, send to an FTP site, and more, including an option that will let you print frequently used forms or other documents stored on your network, FTP site, or website. Plug in a USB memory key, and you'll see additional choices that let you scan to or print from the USB key.

As you would expect, along with all of these features available from the front panel, you can also print and fax from, as well as scan to, a PC over a network. And if you add the Wi-Fi option ($99.99 direct) you can also print by Wi-Fi from your smartphone or tablet.

Paper Handling
Paper handling is another strong point, with both a 550-sheet paper drawer and 100-sheet multipurpose tray standard, along with an automatic duplexer. For most small to medium-size offices, the 650-sheet capacity will be ample, but you can also add up three 550-sheet drawers (at $239.99 direct each, or $284.99 direct for lockable drawers) for a total 2,300 sheet capacity. You can also add a stapler finisher ($249.99 direct).

As you would expect for an office MFP, the B3465dnf supplements the scanner's flatbed with an automatic document feeder (ADF) that can handle legal-size pages. In this case, however, the flatbed is also legal size. And because the 50-page ADF can duplex, by turning the page over to scan the second side, it will work with the duplexer in the printer to let you copy from single or double-sided originals to either single or double sided copies.

Setup and Speed
The B3465dnf is far too large to share a desk with comfortably, at 22.1 by 19.3 by 18.9 inches (HWD), but once you find a spot for it, setup is typical. For my tests I connected it to a wired network and ran my tests from a system running Windows Vista.

Print speed is another strong point. Dell rates the engine at 50 pages per minute (ppm), which should be close to what you'll get when printing a text file with no graphics or photos. On our business applications suite, I timed it (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing) at an effective 15.0 ppm, making it one of the fastest mono laser MFPs we've tested. The 2355dn, for example, came in at only 9.1 ppm, and the much more expensive HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 MFP M525f managed only 12.2 ppm.

Output Quality
As I've already suggested, the B3465dnf scores reasonably well on output quality too. Text is at the high end of the range that includes the overwhelming majority of mono laser MFPs. Small fonts tend to be a little grayish instead of a solid black, but still easily readable. The text isn't quite good enough for desktop publishing applications, but most people should find it suitable for anything short of that.

Graphics quality is just short of the top tier for mono laser MFPs, which makes it easily good enough for PowerPoint handouts and the like. Depending on how much of a perfectionist you are, you may consider it good enough for output going to important clients or customers when you need to convey a sense of professionalism. Photo quality is at the low end of par for a mono laser MFP, but easily good enough to print recognizable photos from Web pages. Depending on your level of perfectionism, once again, you may or may not consider it good enough for, say, photos in a company or client newsletter.

Based just on its output quality, print speed, and standard paper capacity, the Dell B3465dnf Multifunction Laser Printer offers more than enough to make it a good fit for a small to mid-size office. The ability to copy, fax, email, scan to FTP sites, print from and scan to USB keys, and more, plus the large touch screen with its well designed menu system, makes it even more attractive. For offices with heavy-duty needs, it's an easy pick for Editors' Choice.

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Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson Are Still a Thing

It's been a pretty long time since we got a status update about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's relationship. After presenting a unified front on the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2 red carpet, the royal couple of supernatural romance has barely been seen in public. While our inner skeptics took this as proof that Summit Entertainment had contractually told them to act as if they were hopelessly in love with each other for the last leg of The Twilight Saga's promotional run, a new report claims that the couple has actually used this private time to get their relationship back on track.

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AOL COO Artie Minson May Step Down - Business Insider

AOL COO Artie Minson may resign.

Meanwhile, AOL is poised to hire Susan Lyne to run all of its brands ?other than Huffington Post.

Lyne is the former CEO of Gilt Group and Martha Stewart. Before that, she was an executive at ABC.

There are two reports on the news,?one from Bloomberg and one from AllThingsD.

If Minson goes, that's a huge surprise for AOL.

Minson?is currently responsible for AOL's revenues, traffic, product creation, finances, brand, and relationship with major shareholders.

Minson rose to his current role after astounding Armstrong, AOL shareholders, and the AOL board through a series of brilliant maneuvers executed in the past couple years.

He joined AOL in 2009 as CFO.

One of his first big jobs was selling the wreckage of Bebo, the acquisition of which was the biggest mistake of AOL's prior regime. He managed to do so in a clean, tax-friendly way.

Not long after that, Minson took over the company's access business. Squeezing the last bit of juice out of AOL's biggest cash cow was a perfect job for Minson, who cut his teeth as a world-class "optimizer" at?Time Warner?Cable.

In a few quarters, Minson showed he could slow, if not eliminate, the bleeding in the AOL access business.?

This was a huge development for AOL because if it is going to succeed, it will be because it is able to invest the cash thrown off the access business into new products that will carry the company as subscription revenues continue to shrink.

Next, Minson took over products at AOL and became COO. He was still acting CFO, so this surprised people like former AOL product boss?Brad Garlinghouse, who didn't want to report to a bean counter. Garlinghouse soon found himself no longer working for AOL. People still with AOL say Garlinghouse's departure signaled a new era of accountability, brought on by Minson.

Then, late last year, AOL's management suddenly had to deal with a battle that, if they lost, would cost them all their jobs:?Activist investor Starboard Value brought a proxy fight against the company.

Again, it was Minson?this time along with AOL general counsel Julie Jacobs?who saved the day, facilitating the sale of a billion dollars worth of patents to?Microsoft, and then turning around and using the money to buy back shares, triggering a remarkable move in AOL's stock price. AOL won the proxy fight in a landslide.

Since then, Armstrong has pushed more and more onto Minson's plate, having gone through the company's most difficult times with him, and learning to trust him completely.

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Video: Cramer's Mad Dash: Bullish Call on Darden

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