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Weekly News Roundup: Former Cyclones Star Monte Morris Linked to FBI Probe of College Basketball Violations
Also: Ames police responded to a report of a shooting threat at a local theater, the state Senate advanced tax cut and anti-pipeline protest bills, and Congressman Rod Blum was caught violating House ethics rules
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The Informer's weekly news roundup, presented in partnership with KHOI community radio.
Yahoo Sports reported Friday on documents and bank records it reviewed stemming from a multi-year federal investigation into what the news outlet described as "an underground recruiting operation that could create NCAA rules issues — both current and retroactive — for at least 20 Division I basketball programs and more than 25 players." Former Iowa State Cyclones point guard Monte Morris is among the players listed in the documents. On an unspecified date, Morris met for a meal with Christian Dawkins, a former associate of former NBA agent Andy Miller and his ASM Sports recruiting agency. Miller and Dawkins are central figures in the FBI's expansive probe into potential violations of NCAA rules against paying student athletes. Tonya Morris, Monte's mother, quickly defended her son, telling local sports reporters that he didn't violate any NCAA rules. (It was unclear who paid for the meal Morris had with Dawkins.)
Monte Morris is currently a rookie in the NBA on the Denver Nuggets.
Ames Police Responded to Alleged Theater Shooting Threat Last Week
Last Tuesday around 9:30 p.m., Ames police received a call about suspicious activity at the Cinemark Movies 12 theater on Buckeye Avenue. "Apparently, two younger males were involved with an altercation with two other males at the theater," Geoff Huff, the police department's current public information officer, told the Informer. "They were asked to leave for causing a scene and they did. They were heard to say something like they would 'come back to shoot the place up.'" Police arrived to secure the area, including the nearby Jethro's BBQ Steak n' Chop restaurant, but did not find the perps who "were described by witnesses as either black or Hispanic males, late teens to early 20s," according to Huff. "No one observed any weapons," Huff added, and police cleared out about half an hour after receiving the call.
State Senate Republicans Quickly Advance $1 Billion Tax Cut Bill
On Thursday, the Republican-led Ways and Means Committee of the Iowa Senate approved a bill that was introduced just the previous day and would cut annual state taxes by $1 billion. Democrats criticized the proposal, arguing that the cuts would lead to huge spending reductions to government programs such as education and healthcare that have already been hit hard by cuts to the state's $7.2 million budget. According to state Sen. Randy Feenstra, a Hull Republican who is managing the bill, the legislation won't be debated on the Senate floor until a fiscal analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency is conducted. The Iowa House is currently looking at a separate bill based on a tax plan from Gov. Kim Reynolds that would slash taxes by $1.7 billion from the 2019 to 2023 fiscal years.
Anti-Pipeline Protest Bill Passed by Iowa Senate
A bill introduced by the Iowa Departmentment of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to establish criminal penalties specifically for the sabotage of "critical infrastructure" passed the Iowa Senate last Wednesday by a 33-16 vote. The legislation was proposed as a response to the millions of dollars of damage caused to equipment used during the construction of the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline. Although Iowa law already has penalties in place for arson and property destruction, the new proposal would harshen penalties for damaging infrastructure including but not limited to pipelines by making the act a Class B felony punishable by up to 25 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
State Sen. Rob Hogg, a Cedar Rapids Democrat who tried but failed to soften the penalties, slammed the bill as having "extraordinary overbreadth" that could result in peaceful protesters being hit with the felony charge if they were in the wrong place at the wrong time (similar things have happened many times before). "We want to make sure that we are applying appropriate criminal penalties for the consequences of the conduct," Hogg said, according to the Des Moines Register. "Don't turn every protester into a Class B felon. This is an extraordinarily chilling bill to people's freedom."
Congressman Rod Blum Failed to Disclose Ownership Role in Shady "Reputation Management" Company
There's a reason why Associated Press reporter Ryan Foley has earned the nickname "Scoops": In one of two stories he broke last week, Foley revealed that Iowa Congressman Rod Blum violated House ethics rules by failing to disclose his ownership role in a murky Dubuque "reputation management" and search engine optimization company called Tin Moon in 2016. The company has advertised services including helping businesses improve internet search engine results by burying negative reports about Food and Drug Administration violations. Blum, a Republican, later claimed that the company hadn't done business in 2016, although its records suggest otherwise. (Bleeding Heartland reporter Laura Belin followed up on Foley's scoop by pointing out that Tin Moon's website copied testimonials word-for-word from another company.) The congressman dismissed his failure to disclose information about the company as a simple oversight and also as "yet another desperate, Democrat diversion originated from the career politicians in Washington DC doing everything they can to make sure Nancy Pelosi is speaker again."
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Huawei took to the stage at IFA 2015 to show off the new Mate S. There's a lot to this new device, but the part that's likely to draw the most attention is the pressure-sensitive display.
Firstly a little clarity: the pressure-sensitive display isn't on all the Mate S models. There are two "normal" devices, called standard and premium, that don't have this new function. The "Force Touch" display is reserved for the Mate S luxury version that also has 128GB storage.
What is Force Touch?
Force Touch is the term that Apple has been using for pressure sensitivity in touch surfaces. It's on the Apple Watch and it's something that the trackpad on the MacBook offers, giving a new method of interaction. With the launch of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, Apple introduced 3D Touch the branding they'll use for pressure-related interation on the iPhone.
Huawei used the term Force Touch during its announcement at IFA 2015, but note that it's not used in the device at all: it's simply called "pressure sensing".
One of the interesting things about this move from Huawei is that it hasn't been done on a smartphone before. We say that, but it has been supported in Android since version 2.0, although we've never seen it used part of the user interface.
It's different from some existing pressure-sensitive devices - like a Wacom tablet for example - where the sensitivity comes from the pen on the surface.
Pressure-sensitive display features
The pressure sensitivity on the Mate S display gives you a new method of interaction. There are long and short presses, gestures and multi-touch options that have been on devices for some time: but pressure is entirely new.
On the Huawei Mate S, there's the option to remove the navigation controls and use pressure touching instead. This means less UI on the display and more space for your content. You don't need those touch buttons sitting in a bar, because a firm press across the bottom in those locations will have the same affect.
Then there's the option for shortcuts in the top left and right corners. These shortcuts can be attached to any app you have on the phone, meaning you don't need an icon. You could have Twitter on the left and Chrome on the right, you could have Google Maps, the camera, anything you like, as you just select it through the menu. It only works from the home screen however.
These two features directly affect the navigation experience on the device on a daily basis and as they are hardware features, it doesn't matter what launcher you use: we've used them on the stock EMUI, as well as Google Now Launcher.
The app shortcuts take a little more persuasion than the navigation controls. It's a little harder to get it to respond and launch the app you want. This might be because this is brand new on this device and the software needs refinement, or it might be bad technique on our part. However, pressure navigation has already won us over.
Pressure-sensitive display: App interaction
Aside from the device navigation options we've talked about, there are apps that offer "Force Touch" interaction too. In reality, this is something that we expect to see a lot more of in the future as on day one, it's limited to a couple of showcase examples.
The fun scales
Shown-off during Huawei's press conference, the scales might have limited application in the real world. Fire up the app and you can weigh light items between 100-400g, like an apple. We tested it alongside a set of kitchen scales and yes, it's not the most accurate, pretty consistently 20g off.
It's a bit of fun though, even if you couldn't run your fruit and veg stall from it.
Gallery zooming
The second example is zooming in photos. Yes, you can do this with a pinch gesture already and previously people have tried spiral motions and all sorts. But this is a good showcase of what you can do with different pressure.
Hold a finger against an image in the gallery and a circular zoomed area pops up. Sure, you could do that with a long press. But the clever thing here is that zoomed area will change the magnification based on how strongly you are pressing on the display. This is a really good demonstation, showing the impact of pressing with altering forces.
Huawei vs Apple: 3D Touch face-off
Much of the interest in pressure-sensitivity in the display is likely to be fuelled its inclusion in the iPhone 6S, called 3D Touch. Regardless of what Apple is doing, it's great to see a company like Huawei doing this. It might be reserved for a premium device, but it's a unique feature that can be really useful.
Like many new hardware features, how significant it will be is defined by how the software puts it to use. This is where Apple brings a lot to the table, wth 3D Touch deeply baked into it's UI. You can 3D Touch to preview links and open them with a harder touch, or launch the front camera instead of the rear through different pressure on the app icon.
One big difference between Huawei and Apple, however, is price. For Huawei this new display feature reserved for a luxury edition handset. For Apple, sitting in a higher price bracket, it's going to be a feature that's available on the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, so in the hands of a lot of people.
It's obvious that Huawei's implentation is a starting point and that Apple has found a wider range of ways to use the technology - although there's always the potential for confusion.
The Huawei Mate S offers many great elements and the pressure-sensitive display is one of them. It brings a new method of interaction with the device that's genuinely useful.
It feels like there's a lot of potential to do more in the future, but these early days of pressure-sensitive display features are encouraging. We especially like the option to remove the Android navigation controls and use pressure instead.
But we're more interested in how this could be put to use in the future, how app developers could use it, and that's going to need a lot more support than just this one device.
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Warwickshire's Varun Chopra in India with the England Performance Programme squad
VARUN Chopra's hectic year enters its next phase today when he lands in India with the England Performance Programme squad.
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Chopra will spend the next month in India with an EPP group, including his Warwickshire team-mate Chris Wright, seeking to impress the coaches and further embed themselves in the national set-up.
For the Bears opening batsman, the trip is the latest twist to a successful and very busy year.
After starting 2012 in Sri Lanka with the EPP he stayed out there, on his own volition, to play some domestic first-class cricket.
Then came the Bears' pre-season trip to Barbados and the county season, since the end of which Chopra has been hard at work at Edgbaston with fitness and conditioning coach Chris Armstrong.
Now he is in India. Then, probably, it will be Australia with England Lions from January to March, then back to Barbados with the Bears, on to Abu Dhabi for the MCC v County champions showpiece – and into the new season. "It has been a busy year but I'm certainly not complaining," Chopra said.
"It has been a pretty good year for me. I have not had much of a break since the season ended because I had a bit of a hamstring problem so have been working on that. I am really looking forward to this time in India,
"I want to play for England, of course, it is my dream, but I will just concentrate on the day-job and see where it takes me."
Chopra's impressive form for Warwickshire over the last two seasons has lifted him into the queue of candidates behind Nick Compton to open England's batting with Alastair Cook.
But the former Essex player is a level-headed character who is just happy, for now, to be within the England set-up.
"These days there is very much a structure in place with the Performance Programme and the Lions squad," said the 25-year-old.
"You very rarely get the sort of left-field selections that you used to get. Most of the players come through the system so it is good to get some recognition."
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Kenneth Starr's report on the Foster death (with appendix) is available online, courtesy of John Clarke, Hugh Turley and Patrick Knowlton at: http://fbicover-up.com/starr/starrreport.htm
Starr's report (with appendix) can be obtained from the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Dr. Brian Blackbourne's Report to Kenneth Starr on Foster's death (551 KB).
The Vince Foster section of Mike Rivero's Web Site
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"America's Dreyfus Affair: The Case of the Death of Vince Foster," by Dave Martin, an article condemning the dominant media's coverage of the Foser case.
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In the early 1800s, a blind child hadn't much of a chance in Philadelphia - or anywhere else in the expanding nation.
Social stigmas and stereotypes abounded, touching the lives of every one of the roughly 8,000 blind people living in the United States in 1830.
Blind children were said to be ineducable. Their parents were thought to be sinful. Best to keep the sightless out of sight.
But in Europe, particularly in France, schools for the blind were forging ahead with great success - so much so that a group of progressive Philadelphians took particular notice.
Led by J. Francis Fisher and Roberts Vaux, the group lured a young German educator, Julius Friedlander, to the New World, and in 1832 Friedlander opened the doors of the city's first - and the nation's third - school for the blind.
Now, 175 years later, the Overbrook School for the Blind is celebrating its roots and longevity with a new museum devoted to its own history and the history of educating the blind in the United States.
It's a story of small steps taken with great determination and diligence.
The modest museum, located in a suite of rooms in the school's main building at 63d Street and Malvern Avenue, features documents from Overbrook's founding (as the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind), artifacts from its past, and photographs of its daily life.
It is scheduled to open to the public today.
"I think that it shows a group of Philadelphians who . . . were very committed to children who were blind and visually impaired and making sure that they had access to education," said Bernadette M. Kappen, Overbrook's director for the last 15 years.
"At the time that we came about, there was no right to education for those children," she continued. ". . . [B]lind children most likely stayed at home and weren't given an opportunity to go to school. So the school was founded basically to give the children the right to education, that they would be able to have the materials that were accessible for them to be able to read.
"The goal was to teach people to be able to take their place in society through training and vocational opportunities, and I would say that throughout the years, when you read back through board minutes and other materials, the same philosophy has been in place since 1832."
Overbrook archivist Edith Willoughby, assisted by Kappen and others at the school, drew materials for the exhibits from Overbrook's records, archives, storerooms, library and file cabinets. All have Braille labels, some have explanatory audio recordings, and many of the items may be picked up and handled.
Not surprisingly, perhaps, a large number of artifacts relate to communication. There are several Braille writers (similar to typewriters) dating back to the mid-19th century on display, and various versions of writing for the blind are also in evidence, including several examples of Braille, plus the rarely used Moon and New York Point script systems.
The nation's first embossed book, a Gospel of Mark, printed by the school in 1833, is on display, its pale cream pages filled with large raised letters.
There are also several versions of embossing, enhancing and Thermoform molding - different ways of giving a third dimension to a two-dimensional page - on view.
"Probably the two things that are the biggest stumbling blocks for people who are blind are access to information in a timely manner, and travel and mobility," said Kappen. "Most other things you can manage pretty well. But you need really skilled training for travel, as well as the information gathering, to be a competent person."
While the needs of blind children have remained relatively constant over time, the nature of blindness and visual impairment has evolved, Kappen said.
When the school was founded, for instance, there probably was a much larger proportion of children who were simply blind. Now, however, because of medical and nutritional advances, a far higher percentage of children with multiple disabilities, including blindness, survive past infancy.
What this means in practical terms for a place like Overbrook - which currently serves more than 300 children through high school - can often be seen in small things that loom large.
Overbrook, for instance, no longer has a marching band. An old red band uniform and a lonely clarinet are on display, testimony to an era now past.
That said, music is extremely important here.
"I think from the beginnings of the school to today it's been a big deal," said Kappen. "We have the choir. We have a mixed ensemble of different-age group children. Piano.
"We actually have something called the Soundbeam," she said. "It's like a beam that shoots out and you can set up the computer to have it play whatever you want it to play when you walk through the beam.
"The kids really do love it. Music is a big part of their lives."


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Not Enough Energy For New Aluminium Smelter — The Reykjavik Grapevine
Not Enough Energy For New Aluminium Smelter
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An Icelandic geologist claims it's "irresponsible and a huge mistake" to build an aluminium smelter in Helguvík on Reykjanes peninsula, and that plans thereof do not add up.
Geologist Sigmundur Einarsson has followed the energy developments in Iceland and blogged about them for years. He says there isn't sufficient energy to be harnessed for a new aluminium smelter in Helguvík, dv.is reports.
A 2009 report from the National Energy Authority claims that energy from high temperature areas in the Southwest could increase by 8-900MW over the next 50 years. But that entails that energy would be harnessed from Reykjanes, Svartsengi, Krýsuvík, Brennisteinsfjöll and Hengill geothermal areas.
Sigmundur says that would be pure exploitation and the energy would run out within 100 years, but according to NEA standards, high temperature geothermal harnessing is not considered sustainable unless the energy production lasts between 100-300 years.
New Minister of Industry and Commerce Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir urges that the aluminium smelter in Helguvík should rise as soon as possible.
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Why is it advisable to choose concrete contractors in Westerly?
With their reputable background in Westerly concrete services, Westerly concrete will ensure that only quality labor using the best concrete will be provided to their valued customers. Many people do not realize the importance of concrete and may hesitate to seek the services of professional Westerly concrete contractors, but their level of expertise will surely turn your doubt into pure happiness when you see the output.
How long will the concrete used by Westerly concrete contractors last?
Rest assured that Westerly concrete contractors only use the best quality concrete for their projects. Their Westerly concrete services are unparalleled and the finished project will last for years, despite possible extreme weather conditions. Customers do not have to worry because they will be briefed by a professional from the Westerly concrete services about the best concrete to be used on their type of homes or construction project. Durability and sturdiness are the best features of concrete, and if applied to homes, the result will be very astounding.
Hong long does it normally take for Westerly concrete contractors to finish their work?
There are several types of Westerly concrete applications and procedures that can be applied to a construction project. It varies from driveway projects, restoration of floors and house interiors, down to decorative concrete projects. You are guaranteed that Westerly concrete contractors only provide the best Westerly concrete services. Their professional staff is experienced on different types of projects and will waste no time to complete each project at the fastest time possible. More or less, the length of the construction completion will depend on the customer's demands and requirements.
I have a portable AC unit in the garage that I want removed. AC unit goes completely through the wall of the garage. Block and stucco will need to be repaired. There are also small repairs needed to the stucco at the back of the house. I have photos if you need them.


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Easily you can add waypoints, can add public or private notes. If you set your Map to public, everyone can see your Map and can comment waypoints and so on. If you set it to "friends" you can sent a link to your friends, this way they can see it and can too discuss about your route.
As you can view, you now can plan your route and all the places your want to see, any Links and informations in one place. This can safe you hours of working in Excel or Word while you try to write down all things.
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Novalee Nation is the main character in the book, "Where the Heart Is" by, Billie Letts.
This is really popular in Sweden.
It can also be spelled Novalea. This spelling is often pronounced Nova Leah though.
The rare "Invented, smoosh, youneek" name that I actually really like. I like Nova but this dresses it up a bit into something I love. Although I don't like the "lie" spelling: I prefer Novalee.