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|Helen Sketon on her Hanebrink ice bike. Courtesy BBC.
I and other snow bike enthusiasts were critical of the media coverage of Helen's expedition, which perpetuated several unsubstantiated claims (such as the "longest bike ride on snow" and "first bike ride to the South Pole," which was not even one-fifth true given the start at an arbitrary point 500 miles from the pole.) Some snow bikers also questioned the practicality of that particular brand of bicycle, which I'll address soon. However, I was enthralled by the adventure of Helen's trip, and followed her progress with interest despite what I viewed as anemic coverage on the BBC blog. I also watched parts of a couple of episodes of her television show online, but I admit I don't have much patience for the standard filters of reality television. However, if Helen ever writes a book about her adventure, I'll be the first to buy it.
She was absolutely successful in what set out to do. But after the completion of her trip, I continued to question just how much Helen and her partner really "rode" their bikes. Their final tally was 103 miles over seven days, which is an average of 14 miles per riding day. On the anemic BBC blog, Helen dropped a few hints about the difficulties, calling the Hanebrinks "push bikes" and admitting their her partner, a champion kite skier, thought the bikes were "a little silly." On the first day of the expedition, they stopped after riding 15 miles and indicated they had put in a long day to make it that far. Most of the other bike days also were depicted as long and arduous. I understand that high winds that could slow a bike down to two miles an hour might slow a walker or skier down even more. But I think even the most avid snow bikers would question this level of progress ... if it's consistently harder and slower than walking, what's the point?
I'm among the few who have wondered how viable a bicycle might be for explorations in frozen, wild places such as Antarctica, the North Pole, Greenland and Baffin Island. Not merely out of personal interest, although I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't jump at any opportunity to travel through these endlessly intriguing corners of the world. One of my big motivators for finishing the past two Susitna 100 races on foot was to experiment with long-distance foot and snowshoe travel (For me personally, walking and running are a more enjoyable, versatile and even more efficient method of travel than skiing has proven to be, but if I ever receive a serious invitation to an Arctic ski expedition, you can bet I'm going to do everything I can to develop skiing technique.) But I digress. The big question still remains: Is it possible to ride a bicycle, entirely self-supported, from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole?
A decade ago, Dan Hanebrink developed what might be the first bicycle designed specifically for an Antarctic expedition, an "ice bike" built for Antarctic adventurer Doug Stoup. The ice bike was included among Time's "Best Inventions of 2003." Stoup supposedly rode the bicycle 200 miles of a 300-mile trip before he was shut down by high winds, and hasn't tried it again. There were reports that he had been preparing to take it to the South Pole, but little information about why Stoup hasn't yet attempted another bicycle expedition amid his continuing ski trips in Antarctica. In Internet chatter, the general assumption seems to be "because the bike didn't work the way he thought it would."
Again, I don't know many of the details, but the fact remains that no person yet has actually completed a full, self-supported ride from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole — which is the generally accepted explorer's standard to qualify as "the first bike ride to the South Pole." No one has taken a bike to the North Pole or any other major Arctic winter backcountry traverse for that matter, at least not publicly. There are some who have expressed interest and others who have publicly expressed interest and put a lot of time, effort, experience, and knowledge into such an expedition. While it goes without saying that securing funding for such a major undertaking is by far the biggest obstacle, the logistics of the bicycle itself also present an interesting puzzle.
After Fortune contacted me, he graciously answered a few questions about Helen's trip and the bike:
What feedback did you receive about the bicycles after Helen and her partner returned from Antarctica? Did they make any suggestions that you would incorporate into future designs?
Fortune: As with Doug Stoup's 2003 trip to Antarctica, the bikes were very successful on Helen's recent trip. What this teaches us about future designs is that we must continue the mission that Dan Hanebrink began in 1991 and that is to build the best bike for riding in the snow and soft terrain. We must continue to build our chassis and wheels as strong and light as possible and to build relationships with various parts suppliers for the highest quality and most durable components in all conditions. Helen's riding partner was a world champion kite boarder. You can bet that if Dan or I (champion and competitive cyclists respectively) were on the trip, we would have spent much more time in the saddle and less on the board.
Did you design the bike in order to accomodate pulling a heavy sledge?
Fortune: Designed as a backcountry snow bike, it is invariably a utility bike as much as it is a recreation bike. The Hanebrink has been pulling trailers and sleds since its inception. Before Doug's trip to Antarctica, he spent many hours pulling a tire behind his Hanebrink in the sand at Redondo Beach. Doug required Helen to do some training of her own, pulling a sled behind the bike in San Diego sand dunes.
My understanding is Stoup did not reach his goal to ride to South Pole, and has not made another attempt. Has anyone else approached you about building a bicycle for another South Pole attempt?
Fortune: Doug Stoup had a successful trip riding the Hanebrink more than 200 miles in Antarctica. His goal was a 300 mile ride of the bike (not a trip to the South Pole). Because of severe katabatic winds, Doug was forced to spend five straight days in a his tent, sleeping with his legs straight and strong to keep the tent from collapsing. Doug has since been very busy with expeditions and he would love an opportunity to ride a Hanebrink to the South Pole. In 2013, a Japanese adventure cyclist plans on riding a Hanebrink to the South Pole. We are also coordinating with a Spanish adventure cyclist about a future trip on his return from a trip crossing Greenland.
What mechanical adaptations did you make for extreme cold? Were you able to test any of the mechanics in cold temperatures?
Fortune: As an avid cyclist living in the winter resort town of Big Bear Lake, Dan first developed the Hanebrink in 1991 to be ridden on snow (much of the bike's early attention came from clients in beach communities for its ability to ride in sand) With the San Bernardino National Forest as his backyard, Dan has been building, riding, and testing in all types of conditions for over twenty years. While his focus is now solely building Hanebrink All-Terrain bikes and Electric All-Terrain bikes, he has developed many bicycle and motorcycle products since inventing the "Ice Bike." The Ice Bike is built without plastic parts and uses a mechanical brake. When Doug made his trip, Dan Hanebrink was still making bicycle suspension forks which he retrofitted for Antarctic conditions. In building the bikes for Helen's trip, White Brothers Suspension in Colorado would keep the fork legs in meat lockers during the building process to test their performance in cold conditions (these were the only new component we had not yet tested in Antarctica).
A few of the days that Helen and her partner reported riding the bicycles, they logged less than twenty miles while reportedly cycling for eight to twelve hours. To an outsider, these bike speeds appeared to average less than two miles per hour much of the time. I wondered if you wanted to comment on this or correct any misperceptions. As someone who has done some long rides on snow trails, I know that "riding" at these speeds generally means pushing the bike — i.e. walking.
Fortune: If the misperception is that she walked and not rode: We have no reason not to believe Helen when she has told us that she rode. (Living in Los Angeles, we are cognizant of how "Hollywood" can manipulate a story) Depending on the external environment, some miles may have been ridden as slow as two miles per hour, and some much faster. Built for endurance over speed, our eight-inch-wide tires can not only traverse terrain that no other bike will can travel, it also balances comfortably when forced to pedal at idle speeds unlike any other bicycle.
Based on this last question, do you believe your bicycles or any bicycle for that matter can actually provide an advantage on the wild terrain of Antarctica over walking on snowshoes?
Fortune: There is a momentum gained when riding that is just not possible when snowshoeing; especially pulling a sled.
The snow bike industry is taking off right now, with a number of different "fat bike" offerings in North America. All of these bicycles' designs favor a style more similar to a traditional mountain bike. In lay-person's terms, could you explain a bit why you believe the features of your design are better for Antarctic riding? Also, do you think your bikes would perform well among traditional fat bikes in, say, an Iditarod Trail race across Alaska? Or are they specifically designed for the kind of conditions one might encounter in Antarctica, which from my understanding can be quite different from packed trails in North America?
Fortune: Every type of bike —road, mountain, bmx, etc. — is suited for a particular type of terrain. Hanebrink is the only bike that rides in all terrains: deep sand, snow, streets, steeps. The standard "fat bike" is a mix between a standard mountain bike and a Hanebrink All-Terrain bike. A standard "fat bike" will ride better in the snow than a standard mountain bike and a Hanebrink will ride better in softer terrains (snow and sand) than either a "fat bike" or a mountain bike. Riding successfully in soft terrain is a matter of tire floatation. The less pounds per square inch, exerted from the tires over the terrain, the more success you will have riding over the soft stuff. Our bikes at three pounds per square inch, fully loaded, have the lightest footprint of any wheeled vehicle in production. In the softest possible riding conditions, the air pressure in our tubeless tires is let out to 4 psi and when traveling on paved roads our tires are pumped to 18 psi. For any surface in between, the tire pressure can be adjusted accordingly. Fat bikes are designed for snow packed trails and have proven successful over many years in the Iditarod traveling on the frozen rivers and hard-packed snow. They are not designed for the deep backcountry snow that our bikes are designed for. There have been some years (at least one) where the bikes were walked more miles than ridden during the Iditarod because the snow was too deep. We would love to see a Hanebrink in competition during one of these years.
I appreciate Mr. Fortune taking the time to answer my questions. I realize winter backcountry expedition cycling is a highly esoteric subject, but if you have an opinion on the matter, please comment. Perhaps Mr. Fortune will check in and answer more questions as they come along.


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Last month's introduction of iOS 6 gave iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users many things, like Do Not Disturb, new call features, and increased Siri capabilities. iPhone 5 and 4S users now have a cool new Panorama mode in the Camera app, there's Facebook integration where once there was only Twitter, we can sync Reminders and Notes over iCloud, privacy controls have received a complete overhaul, and Passbook is showing some promise.
We also had some (major) things taken away from us with the release of iOS 6. The most obvious of these things is a consistent, built-in transit experience in Maps—or pretty much anything related to iOS 6 Maps at all. But Maps seems to be just about the only thing people tend to name when thinking about iOS 6's shortfalls—or is it? A number of Ars readers wrote me with their own stories about favorite features that used to be part of iOS 5 but were since removed in iOS 6. So, I reached out to the Ars staff and Twitter in order to see what other little things users were missing.
It turns out there are a number of smaller things that people really liked but can no longer access. There are also a few features that people would've liked to see Apple take just a little further. Below is a list of the most commonly mentioned items that are either no longer part of iOS 6 or should be part of iOS 6.
Bring back app gifting
iOS users used to be able to gift apps to other people right from inside the device. When you navigated to a particular app through the iOS App Store app, there was an option to "Gift This App" underneath the ratings and next to "Tell a Friend." This was particularly useful when it came to giving fun or interesting items to friends and family to check out, or for companies to gift apps to employees as a "thank you."
This is unfortunately no longer the case in iOS 6. As noted by Apple's own support document on the matter, this feature was part of iOS 5 and earlier (reverting is "usefully" listed as your only option if you want to continue to gift apps). This is undoubtedly thanks to some of the major App Store changes Apple has made since the release of iOS 6, but we can't see why this feature had to be taken away. Users can still gift apps to other iOS users, but it has to be done through iTunes on the Mac or Windows.
iTunes Match and deleting music
Users who subscribe to Apple's $25/year iTunes Match service were quite happy with the ability to delete specific songs from their iOS devices when the mood strikes. That was, of course, how things used to be with iOS 5.x, but it's apparently no longer the case with iOS 6. Who would want to delete individual tracks anyway? That's a fascist anti-album attitude there, son.
It turns out that this omission is quite irritating to iTunes Match users, though there is an inconvenient workaround for those committed to deleting music they don't want from their devices. Users can turn off iTunes Match altogether on their iDevices and then delete the track from the Music app—but this only works if you're trying to delete a song that was actually downloaded from iTunes Match. Turning off iTunes Match removes all other music that is available to you whether you want it there or not. You also have the option of going home and deleting it from your iTunes library. But then this wouldn't be a very post-PC world, now would it?
Podcasts and music: no longer living together in harmony
Not everyone likes to mix podcasts and music into one playlist, but those who do liked to do it—a lot. I'll admit that I've done this myself, especially when planning out a long flight or road trip. But since the introduction of Apple's new Podcasts app—which has had its own challenges when it comes to usability—Apple has continued to separate podcasts from the rest of the pack.
It's no longer easy (or possible, for that matter) for users to create on-the-go playlists within the Music app that include both music and podcasts. It's not even possible to create a playlist within iTunes on the desktop that has a mixture of music and podcasts to sync—you can make the playlist alright, but once you sync, the podcast won't show up in the same playlist on the iOS device.
Don't cry for me, Google Street View
Aside from built-in transit, it turns out that a lot of iOS users made use of Google Street View as part of iOS 5 (and previous) Maps. This was by far the most commonly mentioned item when I asked about missing features on Twitter. Users apparently liked being able to see exactly what a specific address or street looks like when they're navigating around on their iPhones. And some people (such as myself) have a poor sense of direction, so actual photos of the location you're looking for can be a huge help.
Some would argue that 3D flyover mode within iOS 6 Maps is meant to replace this feature, and to some degree, it can. The 3D flyover feature does allow you to see what certain buildings look like at different angles, but it doesn't quite fill in the gaps when it comes to walking or driving down an actual street at human level. What does a specific storefront look like in 3D flyover mode? You can't get close enough to tell. Additionally, many iOS users don't own devices that support 3D flyover mode—it's only supported on the iPhone 5 and 4S—meaning that iPhone 4, 3GS, and original iPad owners have now lost useful features as part of Maps with no real gains.
Give us a YouTube app that can run in the background again
One of the benefits to Apple's default YouTube app was that it could run in the background. Why would someone want to play YouTube videos (emphasis on videos) while doing other things on an iOS device? Sometimes videos show up and—in the case of video blogs or indie bands—all you want is to listen to the audio and you don't necessarily need to see someone's cat in order to get the full experience.
Apple got rid of its own YouTube app as part of iOS 6, however, which wasn't quite seen as a huge deal by most users. This was mostly because Google was quick to release its own YouTube app to replace it, along with a few new features that Apple had been sluggish to implement. But Google's new YouTube app can't run in the background like Apple's YouTube app did, which makes YouTube aficionados sad pandas when using their iOS devices. This is on Google's shoulders, not Apple's, but it's a point that was made often enough by iOS 6 users that we thought it was worth including.
Details that should have been implemented, but weren't
There will always be wish lists a mile long for features that aren't part of iOS 6, but there are some features that are just baby steps away from being great. We don't know what Apple's reasons are for not adding some of these things, but we hope to see them in a future update. They're not "pie in the sky" type wishes either, so Apple, if you're listening, this is what we'd like:
- Allow us to add contacts to groups from iOS. You can create and manage groups from the Contacts app on the Mac, and you can use your iOS device to interact with groups when it comes to the Phone app and Do Not Disturb. iOS is clearly aware that the groups exist, but when you find yourself adding new contacts into the device itself, there's no way to add them to any particular group. If you want to group those new contacts, you have to sync the data over to your Mac and manage the groups there. Again, this is not very post-PC-friendly.
- Shared Photo Streams should actually be sharable. I spoke highly about Shared Photo Streams in my iOS 6 review, only because I felt Photo Stream by itself was largely a pointless feature. But that doesn't mean it's perfect—the main problem with Shared Photo Streams is that Apple treats them like one-way blasts from one person to others. There's no way to add other parties to a shared stream so that they, too, can contribute photos. If you have a group of friends who like to share photos, every individual with an iOS device would have to create his or her own shared stream to push to everyone else. Wouldn't it be nice if you could add your siblings and cousins to one stream, and everyone could share in the fun?
- Third-parties want hooks into Siri. Siri gained some great new features as part of iOS 6, like the ability to look up movie facts and times, and it gained a plethora of sports-related features too. You can now launch apps through Siri, and make Tweets or Facebook posts. But third-party apps still can't plug into Siri directly—apps that do plug into Siri (such as Yelp or OpenTable) are only able to do so with Apple's blessing for the time being. Some developers have been using a proxy server called SiriProxy to achieve this on their own, but it's less than ideal when compared against the potential to make direct API calls to Siri.
What would you add to the list of missing iOS 6 features? If there are enough unique suggestions in the comments, we may gather them up for a reader-based followup. So let's hear it!

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Is it really over?
Charles Carreon, the FunnyJunk lawyer who got into a spat with Oatmeal cartoonist Matt Inman and ended up suing Inman and a few charities, finally retracted his legal claims last week. But the retraction was provisional—"without prejudice" in legal parlance—and the suit can be brought again.
This weekend, it became clear that Camp Carreon isn't done with Inman yet—a new video depicts the cartoonist as a "Psycho Santa," while a new website suggests that Carreon might like to pursue litigation against those who engaged in a "Distributed Internet Reputational Attack" against him.
When the controversy first began, Charles Carreon penned a little ditty about Inman that he called "Psycho Santa." It had lyrics like:
His prehistoric origin's a mystery – Did he escape from the lavatory? Was he made by the Pentagon and NSA A living drone that shoots mind rays, Makin' zombies of his followers – Internet slaves! He's a psycho-Santa with a big bag of tricks, Ringin' a bell, and beggin' for clicks, Psycho Santa got a itty bitty stick, Psycho Santa, don't fall for his schtick.
Last week, Carreon's wife Tara wrote on her website that the song was being turned into a video. "We're coming onto your playground, evil children," she wrote. "We're going to make an intelligent video. It's not like there are very many out there. Thank God for the ones that are there. It'll probably be another day or two. There is so much you can do when you make a video."
And now it's here, with the new subtitle, "The Heroic Exploits of Matt Inman / A Work of Perpendicular Fact." (Readers can judge its intelligence for themselves.)
Tara's commentary on the video is a bit... hard to parse:
Did you think I wanted to become a deity? OMG, that is SO male! Spare me the maleness of this world. I'd get rid of you ALL if I could. I wouldn't leave a one of you. I told that to Charles the other night, and he got a hurt look on his face. He said, "You wouldn't even save the best man of all?" I said, "No fucking way. You're still a man." I said it with a lot of force so that that would be the end of it. But no, he's got to shout me down. He's always got a sneaky, smart-stupid comeback. He lives on the strategists. He says, "Well, there are no girls who are any better." Fucker, he won the argument this time. But he can't even begin to compare to my win rate. I've been winning my whole life. He's been winning to, but between the two of us, I have the upper hand. He had the upper hand during the first 30 years of our marriage. But I'm going to make sure we go out with a BANG!
And the Inman people wanted us to be "humble." Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho! Take your "humble" and shove it up your ass. You see that plaque above my door? That's the first thing people see when they come into my house. DO NOT FUCK WITH ME! You think Charles is tough? He would be NOTHING without me. I made the son of a famous CIA family a laughing-stock among other CIA. What the fuck happened to [columnist] Kathleen Parker after I hit her [with a digitally altered pornographic photo]? Another laughter-fest among her friends? She runs with a cruel crowd, like the Inman gang. They wouldn't hesitate at doing a female sacrifice just for fun, because the opportunity presented itself.
I'm working on taking down Carl Jung and the rest of the Nazis right now. I've got lots of ammunition pointed in their direction. They might be getting a little nervous about having their BIG SECRET come out, which Houston Stewart Chamberlain so foolishly gave me. It's not allowed to be spoken, only read. But people can't help but crow! I heard that Gyatrul Rinpoche told all my fellow Buddhists that I was like a general, leading an army. That's pretty admiring. But I really don't think that I deserve it. Can I send it back to him?
In any event, the salient point here isn't that some Web video got made, but that it's up on a site called Rapeutation.com. The site, apparently set up just for the video, suggests that Internet users are (or have been) engaged in a coordinated assault on Carreon's reputation. It also suggests that Carreon was targeted by a "Distributed Internet Reputation Attack (DIRA)" in which "large numbers of both human and digital Internet zombies [were used] to proliferate unmanageable quantities of disparaging information in an effort to alter the conduct of the individual or entity."
The site proposes a new tort for DIRA—that is, a new sort of Internet defamation lawsuit that could be brought by aggrieved parties. (Carreon apparently feels quite aggrieved; Rapeutation's tagline is: "A Distributed Internet Reputation Attack or, What You're Left With After You've Suffered One.")
"The frequency of DIRAs makes it apparent that old laws concerning defamation need reforming to take account of the pernicious effects of allowing Internet mobs to run riot, placing meaningful limits on what is fair play in the realm of social media," says the anonymous author of this section.
Taken together, none of this sounds like Carreon and his allies are really done with Matt Inman and the "cyber-vandals" who have plagued them for the last few weeks. The real question is whether that anger takes the form of amateur videos and online ranting—or whether it leads back to court.


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Before the District 7 tournament tipped off, Four Winds-Minnewaukan head coach Rick Smith gathered his team around them and offered some simple advice. The past is in the past, and be ready to take every team's best punch from this point on.
On Friday, Four Winds-Minnewaukan found out just how true Smith's words were.
The fifth-ranked Indians survived a major upset bid by the New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets in the semifinals of the District 7 Basketball Tournament in the Devils Lake Sports Center. Only a 10-0 run late in the fourth quarter enabled Austin Longie and the FW-Minnewaukan to claim a 56-51 come-from-behind win.
The good news for the Indians is the win cinched Four Winds-Minnewaukan a berth in the upcoming Region IV tournament, and sent the team into tonight's District 7 championship game against Carrington. The game will tip off at 7 p.m.
New Rockford-Sheyenne certainly didn't back down from the state-ranked Indians. The Rockets matched the Tribe basket-for-basket for much of the second half.
After the two teams had battled to a 12-12 deadlock in the first quarter, Four Winds-Minnewaukan looked as if it would take control of the game. The Indians outscored the Rockets by an 18-12 clip in the frame and took a 30-24 cushion into the break.
New Rockford-Sheyenne didn't stay down long. The Rockets soared offensively during the first seven minutes of the third quarter. The team managed to reel off a 13-6 run early and grabbed a 37-36 lead with 1:15 left in the frame on an inside basket from Jacob Lommen.
Trayvon McKay gave the Indians the spark they needed from there. The FW-M standout buried his fifth trey of the contest with 1:01 left in the third to give the Indians a 39-37 cushion.
New Rockford-Sheyenne's Josh Edmondson pushed in a pair of baskets early in fourth that gave the Rockets a 42-40 advantage.
Four Winds-Minnewaukan found their offense from there. Longie ignited a 10-0 run by pushing home a running layup with just over seven minutes left in the final frame.
Seconds later, McKay buried the front end of a one-and-one situation to give Four Winds-Minnewaukan a lead they would never relinquish. Hadley Smith rebounded McKay's second free throw and put it back to push in a 45-52 lead with 5:02 remaining.
Longie and McKay both recorded baskets from there to cap the FW-M run and built the Indians' lead to 50-42
New Rockford-Sheyenne pulled to within two late in the fourth on back-to-back baskets from Chance LaBrie and Lommen.
McKay finished the game as Four Winds-Minnewaukan's top scorer with 21 points. Longie added 17 more while Collin Delorme added nine.
The Indians also picked up two points each from Oliver Gourd III, Steven Redfox, Smith and Darion ThreeIrons.
NR-S, which collected double-digit efforts from Lommen, LaBrie, Ethan Haley and Edmonson, fell into a loser-out game against Warwick this afternoon starting at 4 p.m. The winner of the NR-S-Warwick game will advance to the Region IV tournament.
Carrington earned its way into the district title game by downing Harvey-Wells County, 34-24, in the second semifinal matchup.
Carrington, the tournament's No. 2 seed, was led by Austin Johnson's 10 points, outscored Harvey-Wells County by a 13-5 clip in the first quarter and never looked back.
Despite the loss, Harvey-Wells County can still earn a berth in the regional tournament by claiming a win over Lakota/Adams-Edmore. The two teams will face off starting at 5:30 p.m.
NOTE: Due to current blizzard conditions in the region the tournament championships have been rescheduled to Tuesday, Feb. 19.


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THEBES, Ill. - The Army Corps of Engineers is delaying the use of explosives to blast away treacherous rock pinnacles on the Mississippi River in southern Illinois because crews are having so much success removing the rocks with excavating machinery, officials said Tuesday.
The corps has hired contractors to use explosives to remove the pinnacles that stretch over about six miles near Thebes, Ill. The river's water level is so low in the area between St. Louis and Cairo, Ill., that barge traffic is threatened.
Blasting was scheduled to begin Tuesday but corps spokesman Mike Petersen said excavation barges were removing so much rock that the explosions are on hold for now.
"It's like a backhoe on steroids," Petersen said as he watched the excavation from the shore. "It reaches down and basically scoops rock out of the river. It's just spooning it out right now."
The middle Mississippi River is approaching historic lows due to months of drought, a fact worsened last month when the corps cut the outflow from an upper Missouri River reservoir, further reducing the amount of water flowing into the Mississippi.
Dozens of lawmakers from affected states have urged the corps to restore the flow. They were unsuccessful in that effort but did convince the corps to expedite the rock removal, which was previously scheduled to start in February.
Two excavation barges positioned on each side of a railroad bridge worked constantly Tuesday, backhoe arms digging deep into the river bottom, pummeling rock and pulling up the remains.
"It's a lot safer, a lot cleaner and a lot faster" than using explosives, Petersen said.
The rock removal work is expected to take 30 to 45 days and explosives will likely be needed at some point - officials just don't know when, Petersen said.
When explosions happen, sightseers expecting to view plumes of river water spraying into the air will be disappointed.
"It'll make tiny bubbles," Petersen said. "It's not going to be very exciting to see."
During the excavation work, a constant line of small boats from observing agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Missouri Department of Conservation launched at Thebes Landing, an RV and campground at a scenic crook of the river.
One small boat made a loud crunching sound just after entering the water, evidence of the rock endangering river traffic.
"We've seen a lot of boat propellers getting ruined there lately," Thebes Landing owner Neal Day said.
The area where the work is being done is closed to barge traffic except for a few overnight hours. Ryan Tippets of the U.S. Coast Guard said shippers are aware of it so they're mostly avoiding the area.
By Tuesday, nine southbound tows were stacked up near Cape Girardeau, Mo., and a couple of northbound tows were also waiting their turn south of Thebes.
Petersen said the one benefit of the extraordinarily low river level is the ability to clean out the bottom of the river. Work being done now will prove beneficial if the drought persists, and Petersen said a multi-year drought is a real possibility.
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"Sherlock" starring Benedict Cumberbatch will return to public TV in January, keeping company on Sunday nights with the "Downton Abbey" crowd.
Season three of the modern Sherlock Holmes mystery series will began Jan. 19, PBS said Wednesday. It was previously announced that the fourth season of "Downton" will begin Jan 5.
The scheduling reflects PBS' new strategy of pairing dramas on Sunday, part of a broader effort to build "flow within a given night in our schedule," said Beth Hoppe, PBS' chief programming executive.
Prime-time viewership on Sunday, home to primarily British dramas, grew 26 percent last season with the new approach, Hoppe said, and "Sherlock" and "Downton Abbey" were seen as good partners.
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"Downton Abbey," the hit drama about the lives and loves of landed gentry and their servants, will be preceded by a Dec. 1 special, "Return to Downton Abbey." Hosted by Susan Sarandon, it will offer a look at past seasons and a peek at the one ahead.
As in the past, the drama's new season already is in progress on Britain's ITV. PBS has resisted timing the U.S. to the U.K. airings, saying the January debut works better for its schedule — a move that's allowed spoilers to cross the Atlantic.
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Other returning U.K. dramas include "Call the Midwife" and "Mr. Selfridge" starring Jeremy Piven, both debuting Sunday, March 30, and "The Bletchley Circle" on April 13.
The busy Benedict Cumberbatch, whose current movies include "The Fifth Estate" and "12 Years a Slave," is part of another PBS program, "Hawking," a Jan. 29 documentary about British physicist Stephen Hawking as told by him. Cumberbatch, who played Hawking in a 2004 TV movie, is a friend of the scientist and appears in the film, Hoppe said.
A lineup of science and nature programming for April includes a three-part special with the working title "Inside Animal Minds," debuting April 9 on "Nova."
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— "Barrymore" (Jan. 31), a "Great Performances" presentation of Christopher Plummer's stage performance as John Barrymore.
— "The Amish: Shunned" (Feb. 4), an "American Experience" documentary that follows seven former members of the Amish community as they adjust to a new life.
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Alpena MI Police Jail Visitation
Updated on June 22, 2021
Before visiting your inmate check all the rules you need to follow. You can find an inmate at Alpena MI Police Jail , using the Pigeonly Inmate Search if you need help before visitng. After the visitor has been approved by the correctional facility they need to check with their inmate on what days they are allowed to visit.
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Pigeonly understand how difficult it is for families to stay away from their inmate and it is important to familiarize yourself with the basic of inmate visitation before planning a visit as each facility has specific rules that you must follow. All visitors must be pre-approved; your inmate must put you on the pre-approved visitation list in order for you to visit them which is later reviewed by the correctional facility. When considering approval, correctional facilities look at many factors as all the formalities need to be done. Many facilities limit the number of visitors therefore inmate have to narrow down the list of potential visitors. All correctional facilities have their own set of rules which you need to follow. You will be expected to follow the prison rules, no matter how arbitrary they may seem, when you visit.
The inmate you plan on visiting should be able to advise you the visiting time schedule for that prison, however it is always a good idea to call the prison before to ensure visitation is permitted and whether potential visitors are approved or not. All the prisoners are searched before and after any visits due to the security reasons. The families visiting their inmates need to respect the dress code of the particular prison otherwise they may be refused visitation. All visitors are expected to present a valid, government issued photo ID. Pigeonly have also introduced video visitation to connect families and inmate when it becomes difficult for them to visit, you need to first schedule a visit and have it approved by your inmate's facility, by signing up with Pigeonly video visitation your inmate will be just a click away.
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Each facility requires that their rules be followed according to local ordinances. Typically, for any given institution you want to make sure to wear appropriate attire. Make sure your outfits are not too tight. Different states may have different rules on attire. For information on what to wear inMichigan, be sure to check out their appropriate state laws for Michigan's Department of Corrections at your State's official website.


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Praveen Halappanavar believes notes are missing from his wife's medical records
She died of blood poisoning after being denied an abortion while miscarrying, he says
Ireland, a majority Catholic country, has strict laws on abortion
Health authorities are reviewing the circumstances of Savita Halappanavar's death
One fateful day in October, life changed forever for Praveen Halappanavar.
The engineer from India, who had settled in Ireland four years earlier with his wife, Savita, found himself suddenly a widower.
Savita, a 31-year-old dentist, had died of blood poisoning after being denied an abortion for a miscarrying fetus under Ireland's strict laws, her husband says.
Read more: Protesters in Ireland rally for abortion rights
A month later, Halappanavar is without his beloved partner and the child they both longed for – and now fears the truth behind her tragic death may be lost, too.
"We've seen some tampering (with) the medical records – basically some key information in the medical reports is missing," he told CNN.
The missing notes concern the couple's requests to hospital staff for a termination, Halappanavar said.
The Galway/Roscommon University Hospitals Group has declined to comment on his claim.
Meanwhile, heath authorities have already launched one inquiry into Savita's death, and a second into the care of critically ill patients was announced by the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority on Friday.
Read more: Woman's death prompts abortion debate in Ireland
But whatever conclusions are reached, they won't diminish her husband's grief.
Prospects for the couple, who married after meeting in India, had looked so bright. Together they had dreams of a beautiful future in Galway – of children, forming a family.
"She was looking forward … in a way she found she was in the right place," said her husband. "She was well-organized too. She knew what she wanted in life. That's why she had decided to settle here in the long term."
When Savita, an attractive woman who loved to dance, became pregnant they were overjoyed. But then their ordeal began.
Seventeen weeks into her pregnancy Savita began suffering severe back pain, and sought medical help.
Read more: Who calls the shots on abortion laws?
Doctors at the Galway University Hospital told her she was miscarrying and that her baby would likely die.
Savita's husband says his wife, who was in extreme pain, asked for a termination, but was told that Ireland is a Catholic country and that the procedure could not be carried out while the fetus was alive.
"We requested a termination," he said. "We wanted to go back, to go home and think about the next pregnancy because it was a planned pregnancy. We were so happy, we wanted to have babies."
Three days after the request for a termination was made, the fetus died and was removed.
Four days later, Savita was dead from a blood infection.
Read more: Pregnant teen dies after abortion ban delays her chemo treatment for leukemia
The circumstances of her death have prompted outrage in Ireland. Protests in support of Savita, held not just in Ireland but across the world, have urged the country's politicians to update its abortion laws and prevent similar tragedies.
In Ireland, abortion is legal if the mother's life is at risk, which differs from her health being at risk, said Kitty Holland, a reporter with the Irish Times.
With abortion a hot-button issue in Ireland, there has been political fallout from the controversy, too.
Prime Minister Enda Kenny is under pressure to get Halappanavar to assist with a Health Service Executive inquiry into his wife's death, which was the first investigation set up.
But Halappanavar says government steps so far have done little to inspire confidence, not just because officials took weeks to announce the inquiry, but also because when they did, three of the seven medical professionals on the investigation team were from the same hospital where his wife died.
Although they have now been replaced on the team, other issues remain, Halappanavar said.
"We made a request for termination and there is no note of the request at all, and of the medical notes. The response from the doctor is not in the medical records either."
Asked what he thinks has happened to the information, Halappanavar has no answer.
"We don't know what has happened to it," Halappanavar said. "It is strange that all other information is in there – when we requested things like tea and toast, and when things like we requested an extra blanket, all that is in the medical notes."
Halappanavar says he will settle for nothing less than a full public inquiry – one in which the wider health service, not just his wife's death, is investigated by independent experts.
"Every single person in the family asked me how could this happen in a place like Ireland in the 21st century, because it was just so simple," he said.
"When they knew the baby was not going to survive, why not think about the bigger life which was the mother, my wife Savita? And they didn't."
All he wants, he said, is the truth.


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3 Alternatives for People Sick of Banks
) -- More than one in four households -- 28.3% -- are either unbanked or underbanked, according to a September 2012
of 45,000 U.S. households by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
The FDIC reports that 8.2% of U.S. households are completely without a bank account, while 20.1% are underbanked, up from 19% in 2011, and 29.3% of Americans don't have a savings account.
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That means 10 million U.S adults don't have a bank account and are, for lack of a better term, experimenting with new ways to manage their money, such as alternative ways to pay bills, lending websites and relying more on mobile phones to manage their finances.
For those Americans, it's a "whatever it takes" mindset -- as long as they don't have to deal with banks and their charges, fees,
penalties and lousy rates of return on savings vehicles.
"Americans are fed up with banks for a lot of reasons,"
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Associate Editor Lisa Gerstner says. "Bad behavior that has come to light over the past few years -- fees for services that used to be free, poor customer service and a perception that banks are looking out only for themselves. Though alternatives such as prepaid debit cards and peer-to-peer lending are garnering interest, few people are ditching the bank system altogether. They can still find appealing options at credit unions, community banks and online banks."
If you're fed up with banks, you're far from alone, Kiplingers says. Yet despite "rampant disillusionment," most Americans do hang on to their accounts. They're just not using them.
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Instead, the magazine says, they're turning to alternative ways to manage their money:
- Prepaid cards. Americans are using more prepaid debit cards, using them to replace the venerable checking account. Kiplinger's recommends the Bluebird card from American Express (AXP) and Wal-Mart (WMT) .
- Going mobile. Mobile banking technology such as Simple from Bancorp Bank (TBBK) provides a twist on the traditional checking account that includes basic services without monthly management and overdraft fees. Find it here.
- Alternative lending websites. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, banks tightened consumer lending practices. Kiplinger's recommends looking at lending websites such as Lending Club and Prosper.com, which allow consumers to borrow money at cheaper rates than with banks -- although you do have to pay an origination fee and late payment fee if you don't keep up with payments.


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Pretty quiet so far (#reds rumors)
Here is what I have found so far on trade talks involving the Cincinnati Reds. (#reds rumors)
Phillies trying to move Victorino for bullpen help, realize they will have to pay some of his contract…Dodgers/Reds continue talks w/Phils
— JIM BOWDEN (@JimBowdenESPNxm) July 25, 2012
Phillies interested in Victorino-Ondrusek deal with Reds or Victornio-Lindblom deal with Dodgers
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Jocketty says aren't close on anything. But priorities have changed a bit. cin.ci/SUqtdX #reds
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Here is another one I just found:
The #Reds like the #Twins' Span, but at what price? Story here: mlbbuzz.yardbarker.com/blog/mlbbuzz/a…
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 26, 2012
And I thought I would add this one so everyone can join in the fun.
The #Reds are on a mission to take the NL Central & we're encouraging you to tag your tweets w/ #TakeTheCentral to show your support!
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Inside The Album Of The Year: The Black Keys' 'El Camino'
Although it was released in 2011, The Black Keys' El Camino was one of the biggest albums of 2012; it catapulted the group to arena-headlining status and earned them five GRAMMY nominations, including Album Of The Year. By year's end, they joined The Rolling Stones on stage at a big pay-per-view concert, collaborated with Wu-Tang Clan mastermind The RZA, and sold out two concerts at Madison Square Garden. So, how did the blues-rock duo from Ohio become one of the biggest bands in the world? Check out our Inside Album Of The Year video below:
We spoke with experts, including Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly, Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone, author Alan Light (The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah", read about his book here), Jillian Mapes of Radio.com, Booker and McCabe from AMP Radio and Stryker from KROQ weigh in on the garage band's road to the GRAMMYS.
In the coming weeks, you can look forward to Inside Album Of The Year installments for other nominees fun., Frank Ocean, Mumford & Sons and Jack White. The Black Keys have just been announced as one of the performers at The GRAMMYS, which air live on CBS, Sunday, February 10 at 8 pm ET.
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Late last year, Samsung was the number one handset manufacturer on the Android side. Samsung and Apple accounted for 50 percent of the world's handset market share. BlackBerry, once the go-to business phone for just about every major company in the world, seemed to be tottering around on its last leg. As the company lost most of the world's smartphone market share, many looked BlackBerry's way and wondered what the Canada-based corporation was going to do to save itself.
After a year of speculation, leaks, and promises, BlackBerry provided its answer. The company unwrapped and released BlackBerry 10, the smartphone operating system on which it's betting the farm. While we were fortunate enough to have a first look at the gesture-based operating system during CES 2013, we walked away with a bit of trepidation. Those fancy gestures weren't working too great for us when we poked around during our half hour with developer-assigned handsets. It wasn't because of the prerelease hardware either—we were mostly perplexed at the idea that "gestures" and "a unified inbox" were the two game-changing features on which BlackBerry was wagering the company's future. Can BlackBerry 10 actually win users back to its platform with these particular elements, or will consumers just see them as gimmicks?
Andrew Cunningham has already written his review of the touchscreen-only BlackBerry Z10 handset, but that review focused on just the hardware. We wanted to spend some additional time using the BlackBerry 10 operating system, so that we could dive in deeply and give this new operating environment the review it deserves. Fortunately, there's more to BlackBerry 10 than a few gestures and a new inbox view. There have been plenty of questions asked, so we'll try to get through all of them. Really, we think you'll like what you see.
Gestures: A new way of life
Gestures are ingrained in everything the user does in BlackBerry 10 because the flagship hardware, the Z10, has no hardware navigation buttons. At first, moving around is confusing—the tutorial is frustrating, and the BlackBerry "flow" is very different from what we've grown accustomed to in other mobile operating systems. We've been so used to using buttons to go back a page or jump to the home screen that we went into this experience with hesitation.
BlackBerry 10 features four main gestures for navigation. The first and most important gesture is the quick swipe up from the bottom edge of the bezel, which brings users back to the home screen (a longer, steadier finger swipe from the middle of the screen will scroll the view). Swiping down from the top of the bezel will summon the Quick Settings pull-down shade from the home screen, or an options shade in other applications which support the gesture. Within any application, the upside-down J-hook—beginning from the bottom of the bezel and gesturing upward to the right—allows you to peek at the notifications and messages awaiting you in the BlackBerry Hub. (Left-handed people will have to hook the J the same way as right-handed people do, as there is no option for reversing the gestures.) Lastly, swiping from left to right scrolls through each screen, much like how the mechanism works on iOS and Android devices. With these four gestures mastered, the BlackBerry 10 experience becomes much more user friendly.
After about an hour of setting up accounts and then swiping to and fro, the gestures begin to feel second-nature. If you get lost in the beginning, there is always a cheat sheet (pictured above) neatly tucked away within the Setup app to replay the tutorials. New users and returning BlackBerry faithful can take comfort in the fact that they won't simply be tossed into the new gesture soup. While the full-on embrace of gestures may seem like a big shift from the traditional keyboard and touchscreen setup, BlackBerry has successfully figured out a way to take the gestures introduced in the PlayBook tablet and bring them to its next generation of handsets. (As an aside, only the swipe up from the bottom of the bezel has been lifted directly from the PlayBook.)
Of course, we can't push aside one fact: it really does take some time to acclimate your thumb to the general flow of the interface. At our first look at the operating system, PlayBook Product Manager Michael Clewley mentioned the philosophy of BlackBerry 10 was to "[flow] without having to think about it." After more than half an hour with it, this philosophy made more sense. The only notable issue we could foresee with gestures is what might happen when the phone is handed off to a non-BlackBerry user. We passed the phone around to a few good friends, most of them iOS users and one a Windows Phone evangelist. No surprise, they were confused about how to get around the screens. If you really need a friend or spouse to help you multitask from time to time, consider giving them some prep time with the tutorial beforehand.
Swiping up from the bottom of the bezel brings you to BlackBerry 10's running apps screen. This area serves as a multi-functional screen for the operating system: it acts as BlackBerry 10's application switcher and task killer, which requires a quick tap on the "X" at the lower right of a given app. Some apps offer widget-like functionality. For example, the Pictures app cycles through the photo album like a miniature slideshow, while the Calendar app shows upcoming meetings and events. You can have up to eight actively running applications, arranged in a pair of 4x4 grids that you can swipe between. Tapping an app's tile then brings it to the foreground. There is also no way to permanently "pin" applications to the running apps screen, as they are cycled out with each newly launched application. However, the most-accessed ones will remain on the running apps screen.
What's nice about this method is its ease of use. Unlike Android or iOS, it doesn't require pressing a button to bring up all of the open applications or double tapping a home button—all it takes is a simple gesture. You can also quickly kill any application that's not in use, and you can get a quick glance at what is going on in the background.
The Hub: It's everywhere you want to be
The Hub is more than just a notifications center; it lets users check on all of their social and e-mail accounts in one place without having to launch a whole mess of applications. E-mail, Twitter, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), Facebook, LinkedIn, voicemails, missed calls, and system updates are all lumped on this one page. All it takes to access it is a swipe to the right from the home screen or a J-hook from the lock screen or any other application. Any time you receive a notification for any service, the corresponding icon will shine a bright red asterisk.
Having one unified inbox can feel overwhelming at first, especially if you're trying to manage a bunch of accounts at once—but it's actually quite handy. It's easier to do an at-a-glance check of all of your accounts without having to sift through icon badges, and it's instantly accessible with that J-hook gesture. If it all becomes a bit of a mess, users can simply swipe to the right to sort through messages and notifications by service. Of course, this does mean you have to leave whatever application you're currently in to check what a friend has written on your wall.
For the business-centric user—the one that BlackBerry has always held as its core audience—the unified inbox makes sense. Those who use Facebook for marketing and social correspondence, Twitter and LinkedIn for networking, and several e-mail accounts for communicating need to have everything one place. Frankly, even the trigger-happy teenager might find this suits his or her social-centric lifestyle.
All services are properly integrated into the Hub, too—it's not just for marking things as read. Direct messages and Twitter replies can be easily sent from within, and LinkedIn networking requests can be accepted or declined with one touch. You can accept Facebook event invitations or navigate to individual profiles of newly accepted friend requests, send e-mails, or compose BBMs and text messages. Furthermore, you can also start a video chat with another BBM user and enable screen sharing once the connection is made.
As an added bonus, BlackBerry allows developers to decide whether or not they want to integrate notifications within BlackBerry Hub.


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