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A colorful mountain of milo greets travelers
Travelers along I-90, near Kennebec, the past two months have witnessed the growth of a mountain of milo as Wheat Growers Elevator at Kennebec started piling grain in October.
As of Monday, December 2nd, there is approximately 721,000 bushels of milo on the ground.
The pile, is located on land, next to I-90, leased from GMH of Kennebec. While the pile looks like a extra large quantity of grain, manager Todd Longivlle said it's about the same as last year.
"We have a couple producers still bringing in corn, but I think the milo is done," said Longville.
Dry corn is being piled east of Kennebec near the rail road tracks on property owned by Ronald Moore.
The Kennebec elevator closed Thursday for Thanksgiving day but reopened for the entire weekend to continue accepting grain.
"I hope that was our last weekend!" added Longville.
Normally, the elevator is closed the day after Thanksgiving to allow employees to spend the holiday with family, but this year's harvest has been extra long due to weather delays and a bumper crop.
Longville believes about 99 percent of the fall harvest is finished in the area.
Elevator employees will start picking up the milo and hauling it back to the elevator where it will be run through the dryer before it's stored or shipped out.
"We pretty much have all our contracts filled now," said Longville when asked it they were trucking grain out of the elevator.
Grain prices are doing a little better now than before harvest, according to Longville, but the price remains about half of what it was last year. In 2012 when corn was selling for $7.18 a bushel, Monday it was $3.54 a bushel; milo was $6.82 a bushel last year, and just $3.39 this week at Kennebec.
"Harvest may still be going for some, but it's finally wrapping up," said Longville.
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Her talk with David Letterman that aired earlier this month was one of the most remarkable interviews the reticent CBS host has ever given. Besides last year's interview with the Whitney Houston family, high-rated episodes of ''Oprah's Next Chapter'' have featured Rihanna, Usher, Pastor Joel Osteen, the Kardashians and Steven Tyler.
The Armstrong interview aired before the usual Sunday night time slot partly because it was considered newsworthy enough to rush, but also because Winfrey had scheduled and promoted a talk with Drew Barrymore for Sunday.
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African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!
The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the poverty Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of people with incomes less than one dollar a day will be achieved on time; (3) the growth spurt that began in 1995 decreased African income inequality instead of increasing it; (4) African poverty reduction is remarkably general: it cannot be explained by a large country, or even by a single set of countries possessing some beneficial geographical or historical characteristic. All classes of countries, including those with disadvantageous geography and history, experience reductions in poverty. In particular, poverty fell for both landlocked as well as coastal countries; for mineral-rich as well as mineral-poor countries; for countries with favorable or with unfavorable agriculture; for countries regardless of colonial origin; and for countries with below- or above-median slave exports per capita during the African slave trade.Download Info
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OFFICE DEPOT Business Solutions Division (BSD) Fraud Alert! Office Depot overcharging state and local agencies in all 50 States. Six State Attorney Generals now conducting fraud investigations of Depot's government contracts. Nationwide
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Office Depot has a national contract for office and classroom supplies valued at $700 million annually. Alleged annual overcharges on the contract exceed $100 million.
The contract is marketed by an organization known as U.S. Communities, based out of Walnut Creek (CA). U.S. Communiteis has recieved over $20 million in kickbacks from Office Depot over the last three years (2% of an average of $550 million or a high of $33 million to a low of just over $20 million in kickbacks).
Three former Office Depot executives (Paul Terragno, Chris Robb and Kevin Jurhing), now hold senior management positions at U.S. Communites.
The contract originates out of LA County (CA), where members of the Internal Services Department (Joe Sandoval and Gerry Plummer) have very close ties to both Office Depot and U.S. Communities executives. LA County receives kickbacks from U.S. Communities for managing the contract.
A former Office Depot senior account manager for government accounts has been given protected whistle-blower status by the State of Florida for giving testimony against Office Depot.
Currently the Attorney Generals of Florida, California, Texas, Colorado, Ohio & Missouri are investigating Office Depot for fraudulently overcharging government agencies on state and local office & classroom supply contracts.
At the Federal level the Departments of Justice, Defense, Education and the GSA are investigating Office Depot for fraudulent overcharging on federal office supply contracts.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is into its second year of a formal securities fraud investigation of Office Depot.
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Colorado AG Investigates Office Depot Pricing
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Office Depot may have been cheating school districts out of money. The company acknowledges it is under investigation by the Colorado attorney general's office.
The probe involves a major contract between Office Depot and the purchasing agent for public agencies in Colorado. Allegations have been made about "bait and switch" tactics on the pricing of items to institutions.
The company provides supplies to school districts in Colorado and throughout the country under a national contract negotiated through an organization called U.S. Communities.
The detailed criminal complaint was filed by a former Office Depot account manager David Sherwin. It states that the company engaged in trickery and deception, resulting in fraudulent overcharges.
"The state of Colorado is one of the 10 states that has been impacted the greatest in the United States," Sherwin said.
In North Carolina an audit found a $300,000 overcharge of state agencies. In California Office Depot paid $2.3 million to settle allegations of overcharges. Georgia terminated its $40 million contract after finding problems in pricing.
The Cherry Creek School District discovered irregularities in prices charged by Office Depot about a year and a half ago and has since resolved the issue.
In a statement to CBS4 the company wrote that it is aware with the Colorado attorney general's investigation and "will cooperate fully."
There is also a federal investigation. It is reportedly focused on purchases from Office Depot by the Department of Defense and the General Services Administration.
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Attorney General Investigating Office Depot
Company accused of overcharging public agencies, including Berkeley and San Francisco
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Updated 4:23 PM PDT, Tue, Aug 4, 2009
Next time you think to complain about wasteful government spending, you might note that privateers sometimes try to profit from public contracts.
Office Depot is being investigated for widespread overbilling, and has already paid $2.5 million back to the State of California.
In Berkeley, an audit concluded that the company had overcharged the city for supplies, and has had to pay back $289,000.
A former employee is accusing the company in a civil suit of asking him to falsify records in order to coverup the excess money charged to Berkeley.
And the National Office Products Alliance, a trade association, has called on the state attorney general to investigate US Communities, a government purchasing cooperative based in Walnut Creek which does some business with Office Depot, over allegations that it has received $20 million in so-called "kickbacks." A representative of US Communities says the allegations are "baseless" and a "total misrepresentation" of the nonprofit's role in facilitating contracts.
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San Francisco is currently conducting its own audit, and is looking for a new office supply provider.
So much for assuming that big box shops like Office Depot always offer the best prices.
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I-Team Follow-Up: State AG putting Office Depot under microscope
NBC-TV-St. Louis By Leisa Zigman, I-Team Reporter
KSDK -- The I-Team has new information since its Office Depot investigation aired Monday night.
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has sent a civil investigative demand to Office Depot to determine whether the office supply giant has engaged in deception and fraud. The attorney general wants Office Depot to supply not only pricing documents, but specific details about charges to government entities and non-profits in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Six states, including Missouri, have placed Office Depot under the microscope for allegedly overcharging government entities and nonprofits.
Koster and Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee want to know if Office Depot owes a refund to Missouri schools, churches, cities, towns and state offices.
The civil investigative demand sent to Office Depot states:
"The attorney general has information that Office Depot, inc., including its affiliates and/or agents, has engaged in deception, fraud, false promise, misrepresentation, unfair practices, and/or the concealment, suppression, or omission of material facts in connection with the sale of office products to Missouri government entities and nonprofit or charitable entities."
"We are willing to step into the shoes of local agencies and bring this action forward if fraud is found," Koster said.
Office Depot e-mailed the following reaction:
"While we intend to vigorously defend any allegations of wrong doing lodged against our company, we will fully cooperate with the Missouri Attorney General's Office, as we do in all government and regulatory inquires."
At issue is whether schools and government agencies agreed to do business with Office Depot at specific prices, but were switched to higher priced items without their consent or through deceit.
"These government contracts are effective in all 50 states," said David Sherwin, a former senior executive for Office Depot who handled government accounts. "Missouri, Illinois, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, California, and across the country. It's somewhere between one billion and 1.2 billion in contracts office depot receives every years."
Sherwin pointed out the alleged deception to his superiors. Office Depot fired Sherwin last April for what the company called workplace misconduct. He is now a whistle blower aiding Florida's attorney general in that state's investigation.
Office Depot calls Sherwin a "disgruntled employee whose negative campaign includes numerous false, misleading, and baseless allegations."
"If in fact the definition of disgruntled is an employee who refuses to take part in what he considers criminal activity, refuses to continue to take part in deceptive pricing practices resulting in over charging millions of dollars to government entities, then you betcha, I was disgruntled," Sherwin said.
The I-Team has confirmed that all investigations involving Office Depot are civil, not criminal.
NOPA Reports California & Ohio Join Other States in Opening Investigations of Office Depot
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Office Depot has disclosed on its investor website : that the Attorneys General of California and Ohio have launched civil fraud investigations into its $700 million dollar U.S.
Communities national contract that thousands of local governments, school districts and public institutions draw upon to purchase office and school supplies. California and Ohio join Colorado, Florida, Missouri and Texas in opening such investigations
Former account manager in Office Depot's Business Solutions Division, David Sherwin, a protected whistle-blower in Florida where the company is headquartered, has been credited with the launching of the investigations.
Today, the National Office Products Alliance (NOPA) called upon the Office of the Attorney General of California to include in its investigation of Office Depot a thorough examination of the role played by the Walnut Creek, CA-based U.S. Communities organization which has allegedly received as much as $20 million in kickback payments from Office Depot for sponsoring the national contract now under investigation in six states.
California's Department of General Services recently ended its state-wide contract with Office Depot and negotiated a settlement agreement with the company for alleged overcharging. Other states, including Georgia, also have negotiated settlement agreements with the company within the past two years.
Additionally, the U.S. Departments of Defense and Education and the General Service Administration, with coordination from the U.S.
Department of Justice, are conducting their own investigations into Office Depot's handling of federal government office supplies contracts.
According to NOPA, these two new investigations again highlight the inherent problems associated with reliance on a single office supplies contracts by government agencies at all levels. Strategic sole-source contracting has damaged competitive independent small businesses around the country, reducing vendor choice and raising prices for government customers, said Chris Bates, President of NOPA. The idea that sole-source contracting offers a best value' proposition should be questioned by every federal, state and local government and institutional entity in light of the results from so many audits and investigations.
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[[caption-width:190: [- Pictured: the [[ChestMonster Trap Door]], [[OhCrap the only enemy in the game that is...]] well, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a simple door]]''[[note]] artwork by Creator/YoshitakaAmano, [[UncannyValley hence the (added) scariness.]][[/note]]]] -]
The main article for the NightmareFuel [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasy found in the]] FinalFantasy series states that somewhere in the franchise's history, all of the [[BringMyBrownPants pants-crappingly]] scary stuff, started as something occasional, became the norm.
Given this is the first game in the series to get its own NF page, we think it's safe to say this is exactly where shit hit the fan. VideoGame/FinalFantasyV is a LighterAndSofter sequel, but it has its own [[NightmareFuel/FinalFantasyV fair share of frights.]]
* Trap Doors. There's a whole dungeon with doors that cause difficult monster battles, although some will open without resistance. Still, a giant door with teeth whose only moves are to target a party member and [[OneHitKill kill them]] is kind of disturbing. At least in some types of the game (including After Years) they're vulnerable to Stop.
** From the DS version, after the first Trap Door dies, if you read Kain's thoughts:
-->'''Kain:''' ''Please'' tell me not all of the doors are like that!
* [[CreepyDoll Calcabrina]]. From the mere knowledge of the fact that you're fighting possessed dolls, to them cheerily telling your heroes that they are out for their blood (paraphrased oh so slightly), to their general appearance and movement, to the incredibly apt sound of their theme music. The DS version just takes it up one more notch.
* Zeromus is pretty scary. It's basically a dark elf with so much hatred that it can continue to live on as a grotesque monster after it dies. In fact, that was its backup plan. Its main plan was to hypnotize [[spoiler:Cecil & Golbez]] into being its puppets. In the PSX version, his response to Fusoya and [[spoiler:Golbez]] fighting him is a simple "Die trying."
-->'''Zeromus:''' My name is Zeromus, and I am the hatred.
* The Evil Masks you encounter during the final stretch of the final dungeon before fighting Zeromus were only made more horrifying in the DS version.
* [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Cagnazzo]], particularly in the DS version, where he is disturbingly jittery, and...legs just [[UncannyValley should not bend that way.]]
* Demon Wall. You get the last Dark Crystal, start to walk away, and all of the sudden, a freakin' WALL attacks!!!! It doesn't help that it is a timed boss and once it reaches a certain point, it starts to kill off your party one by one.
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Slowing the pace of bond-buying wouldn't mean tightening monetary policy and would help wean financial markets off their dependence on ultraeasy money from the central bank, one of its senior officials said.
Kansas City Fed President Esther George, who said she supports slowing the pace of purchases as an "appropriate next step for monetary policy," has been a steady critic of the program and has voted against it at every Fed meeting so far this year.
"History suggests that waiting too long to acknowledge the economy's progress and prepare markets for more normal policy settings carries no less risk than tightening too soon," she said in remarks that she had been scheduled to deliver at a luncheon but could not attend because she was ill.
"A slowing in the pace of purchases could be viewed as applying less pressure to the gas pedal, rather than stepping on the brake," George said. "Adjustments today can take a measured pace as the economy's progress unfolds."


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- 1A particular right of possession or privilege a person has from birth, especially as an eldest son.More example sentences
- Being the good brother he is, Jacob offers Esau some lentil soup - on one condition: Esau has to forgo his birthright and inheritance as eldest son.
- The birthright is the prerogative of the eldest son.
- For the one got possession of the birthright, and the other transferred the wealth of the Egyptians to the host of the Israelites.
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- It is by now, they feel, a simple birthright, as natural as the air they breathe.
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Start-up costs slow spread of de-duplication
IT is leery even though the technology promises to cut costs and storage needs.
Computerworld - While data de-duplication is a relatively easy way for companies to consolidate storage systems, the technology has yet to attract the widespread attention of IT managers. According to Gartner Inc., only about 30% of corporations have deployed any form of de-duplication technology.
Gartner says the technology can cut storage needs by a ratio of 20:1 to 30:1 on average -- far less than vendor claims of 200:1 to 300:1, but still enough to greatly reduce network bandwidth requirements and stave off storage hardware purchases by making better use of existing equipment. The technology could also eliminate the need for costly tape backup systems.
Gartner analyst Valdis Filks suggested that despite the potential benefits, IT managers remain reluctant buyers of the technology because of high start-up costs.
"De-duplication is becoming very fashionable and lays claim to large cost savings, but quite a few companies I speak to get turned off by the purchase price," Filks said.
Simply put, data de-duplication, or single-instance storage, involves the elimination of redundant data. Hash algorithms mark data blocks with unique numbers, and those numbers are compared so that duplicate pieces of data can be left out of the storage process.
To date, the primary corporate use of the technology has been for e-mail archiving. The benefits of that application are obvious when you realize that a single e-mail can represent thousands of copies of one attachment.
Today's de-duplication tools are mostly point products, such as prepackaged appliances that sit between a primary disk storage system and the backup process, software that runs on commercially available host systems, or virtual tape library (VTL) disk subsystems. The market is starting to expand because companies like Sun Microsystems Inc. and NetApp Inc. have begun shipping tools that provide de-duplication on primary storage systems.
Analysts say that as IT managers consider deploying de-duplication technology, they should keep in mind that it will continue to expand beyond point solutions to primary storage systems. "You should definitely roll it out today but implement something that can adapt and change when de-duplication becomes ubiquitous in other areas of the [data center]," Filks said.
The top makers of de-duplication point products include Data Domain, Sepaton, EMC's Avamar unit, Diligent Technologies, FalconStor Software (whose technology is resold by vendors like IBM, Sun and EMC) and Quantum.
Some users have found that de-duplication can deliver significant benefits in certain specific environments, such as at companies running older tape library systems.
Boston Medical Center was able to reduce 400TB of data stored on its tape libraries and secondary disk storage system to 3.5TB while also eliminating the need for tape backup by using Data Domain Corp.'s DD690 virtual tape library de-duplication system, said Brad Blake, director of IT.
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The grisly murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh in 1981 was a wake-up call for America. Not only did it bring national attention to the growing problem of missing and abducted children, it also fostered an overhaul in the system.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Federal grants totaling more than $300,000 are expected to help reduce a backlog in cases at central New York crime lab that was the focus of a dispute between local police and prosecutors.
The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports (http://bit.ly/16N8EBF ) that the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday awarded the Onondaga County crime lab $314,000 to help clear up cases awaiting forensic analysis. The county's forensic sciences center in Syracuse handles cases for city and county law enforcement agencies.
Last fall, Syracuse police officials said the lab often ignored police requests to examine evidence. District Attorney William Fitzpatrick denied the claims.
The spat prompted an investigation by the state inspector general. A report released in April said investigators found no evidence to support police complaints that the lab didn't adequately communicate with law enforcement.
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In an effort to penalize evil webspammers and reward those who utilize their SEO powers for good, Google announced that it will be adding new anti-webspam measures to its search algorithm. The changes are expected to roll out over the next few days.
During testing, the company says, about 12 percent of all queries were affected to a significant degree. Google claims that only about 3 percent of search queries actually change in a way users would notice though.
Specifically under fire are websites who use a tactic known as keyword stuffing. This practice involves the overuse of a word and (or) related words and phrases on a single page. Sometimes, stuffed words are even hidden by HTML, CSS and JavaScript tricks but webmasters already know to be careful here as Google does punish some types of this behavior already. While the specifics of what Google's Panda algorithm looks for are kept top-secret, keyword stuffing can lead to readability issues (repetitive writing with poor flow) and even take the form of incomprehensible globs of keyword text thrown onto a page.
In addition to keyword stuffing, Google is also focusing on link schemes. For many years, link farms and other strategies have existed to game Google's PageRank system. Link farming has famously fueled a good number of googlebombs, a phenomenon that has reared its ugly head time and time again. More recently, there has been a shift from link farming to "like farming", a practice that leverages social media in the same way link farms leverage links.
Although Google has taken many steps to fight link farms and related link schemes in the past, unscrupulous website operators have continued cleverly working around the problem. For example, when Google began putting more weight on the relevancy of sites that are linked to and linked by third-party websites, link farms began breaking up their content into categories so they would appear to have a narrower focus to Google.
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- Don't link to untrustworthy websites (eg. link farms)
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"Don't let untrustworthy websites link to you (eg. don't utilize link farm services)"
I don't see how you can have too much control over this.. so if someone has a competitive website then it can add links to your website in those farm services.
Now can they fix youtube searches? And regular google ones while they're at it? Srs, the biggest search engine around doesn't even leverage everything to provide accurate results. No Google, if I put a phrase in quotation marks, it means I want that exact phrase in the results or no results at all. I don't want the search to completely ignore my quotations (youtube) or find out that there probably aren't any results and then ignore my quotations (google).
Seriously, it pisses me off that it's harder to find a video on google if you know exactly what you're looking for than it does to find one through clicking sidebars.
Link farms - I know how those work. But "like farms"? I don't really even see how that could be done, at least not in a way that would seriously bend a Facebook search. Every site with a desire to build a solid user base has "like" buttons scattered around, after all. What can a like farm do to make its services worth shelling out money for?
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By Stewart Weir Saturday It was England against Wales in the Six Nations championship, while in Serie A it was first against second when Juventus met AC Milan. Two sporting occasions, in distance hundreds
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From the Wikimedia Technical Blog (blockquotes omitted):
If you'd like to read Wikipedia in an airplane (of the offline variety) or in an area with no or limited connectivity, or install it in a university, or just to have it handy in case of a zombie apocalypse, you can now download a full text copy of the English Wikipedia (from January 2012) in the convenient OpenZIM format, which was specifically developed for sharing wiki content.
OpenZIM files can be read in multiple reader applications, the most popular of which is Kiwix, available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Sugar.
Start your BitTorrent client and grab a copy of the 9.7GB file (.torrent link, other download options). You can also download content packages directly from within Kiwix using its library feature, including content from sister projects like Wiktionary and Wikisource, as well as non-Wikimedia content.
While the ZIM file doesn't include images (that would blow it up to ~100GB for thumbnail-sized images), it does come with all the lists, tables, citations, and even mathematical formulas included in the online version.
Wikimedia content has always been made available under free and open licensing terms in raw copies, but ZIM content packages offer a higher level of convenience for the end user.
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