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MINOX is probably best known for its micro camerastiny devices that look like something James Bond would have stowed in his tuxedo. The German company has been around for the better part of a century manufacturing quality glass, and it has, at long last, entered the tactical riflescope realm with a complete line of scopes. The most interesting to me is the ZP8 1-8x24 mm.
Beyond its 8X magnification range, MINOX put an innovative reticle into the ZP8. Called the MR10, it combines an illuminated, mil-based reticle in the first focal plane with a red dot at the center of the crosshair in the second focal plane. Using the companys Complete Combat Reticle (CCR) technology, the red dot comes on when the magnification ring is turned slightly to roughly 1.1X and stays on until the power is increased beyond 2.5X, at which point illumination switches to the first-focal-plane reticle. This allows for easy target acquisition and engagement at close range using the red dot at low magnification, and seamless transition to more distant targets using the reticle, all by simply turning the magnification ring.
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This huge, precise optic is a wonderful example of the increasingly popular battle-scope configuration. With an impressive 8x power range, the MINOX zooms from extreme wide angle (too wide, we thought) up to useful magnifications for precision work out to 500 yards. The exposed turrets are tight, and the first-plane reticle has an innovative illumination feature that lights either the center crosshairs or the entire reticle, depending on magnification. Built on a 34mm tube, the 25-ounce ZP8 is lighter than it appears.


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GOP races could reshape state committeeWritten by Sarah Ottney | Editor in Chief | email@example.com
Eight local Republicans will vie for four spots on the party's state central committee to be decided in the May 6 primary election, the most contentious being the races for the District 11 seats held by Jon Stainbrook and Meghan Gallagher.
Stainbrook and Gallagher are both finishing their first term and seeking a second. Stainbrook is chairman of the Lucas County Republican Party and member of the Lucas County Board of Elections (BOE). Gallagher was recently ousted as director of the BOE. Running against them are Bill Delaney of Toledo, a retired bar owner who recently ran for City Council, and Diana Skaff, a financial adviser and precinct representative from Curtice.
Mark Wagoner and Dee Talmage are the current District 2 state central committee members. Running against them are Perrysburg business owner Ron LeRoux and Maureen Alexander of Ottawa Hills, both political newcomers.
The 66-member state central committee is comprised of two representatives, a male and a female, elected from each of Ohio's 33 Senate districts for two-year terms. Members represent their districts as the group formulates the statewide bylaws that direct how the party handles elections, and endorsements and assists in funding and getting candidates elected.
District 11 comprises most of Toledo while District 2 comprises western Lucas County, including Ottawa Hills, as well as Wood, Ottawa and Erie counties and most of Fulton county.
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Delaney, 73, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He came to Toledo in 1973 while working as a district food manager for Kmart. He said he is getting more involved in politics now that he no longer has a business to run.
"I'm getting more and more disgusted as I go through it," Delaney said. "I just want the truth. I want to dig into things on the bookkeeping side because that's what gets me. What does this cost? How much did we spend on it? How much are we getting back in return? I want to know where the money is going."
He said the local GOP needs a change and he is not a fan of current party leadership, particularly Stainbrook.
"I've seen this man operate. He disgusts me. I'm sorry," Delaney said. "I just want to see people being treated fairly and they have not been. I want to see a better Toledo and a better Republican Party."
He said the organization is currently "very closed."
"It's their way, their club, their people and there's a lot of people in town that know this but don't want to come out of the shadows," Delaney said. "There's a lot of fear."
He said he would like to see more communication between local conservative organizations, including Republicans, Libertarians and the tea party.
"We've got to draw all these ideologies into one big R because we're not going to get anyplace being divided," Delaney said. "There's too much division. I want to get all these people together in one group. You've got to have somewhere where you can talk about it. Right now, there's no talking going on. We have got to form a better organization."
Stainbrook, 50, of Toledo, said Delaney's claims are "not substantiated" and that he, Skaff, LeRoux and Alexander are all "protest candidates" put forth by tea party groups.
John McAvoy of the Northwest Ohio Conservative Coalition, which recruited Delaney and Skaff to run against Stainbrook and Gallagher, said his group endorses candidates from all parties. He said Republican groups outside Toledo are ignored by Stainbrook.
"If I was chairman of the party, I'd be like a business manager surrounding himself with good people," McAvoy said. "The managers are already there — out in Fallen Timbers, Maumee. You don't have to reinvent the wheel. Just bring them in, bring them together, utilize the resources that are already available."
Stainbrook said he has done just that. He said the Lucas County Republican Party has grown and diversified under his leadership as chairman since 2008.
Six years ago, the party often had difficulty even drawing a quorum of 25 members for central committee meetings, Stainbrook said. Today the meetings regularly draw 75-100 members.
"The numbers speak for themselves," he said. "We brought people in. We recruited and filled the central committee with people all over Lucas County, people who had never been involved before. There's great Republicans who just weren't being recruited so we went out and did it.
"We've rebuilt this party since 2008 and it's a force to be reckoned with, fighting the Democrats, not each other," he said.
Stainbrook questioned why Delaney wants to be involved with the party at the state level but hasn't gotten involved at the local level.
"He just wants to criticize without being a member of the team," Stainbrook said. "Talk minus action equals zero."
Delaney said he isn't running for county central committee because there's already a representative he respects in his precinct. The same question has been posed to McAvoy, who said he doesn't run for office because of his membership in the Northwest Ohio Conservative Coalition, which has a policy that its members will not run for office because of its endorsements of all political parties.
Stainbrook also questioned Delaney's choice of party affilitation.
"He ran as an independent for City Council and all of a sudden now he wants to represent the Republican Party in Columbus?" he said.
Stainbrook said he is confident in the re-election of himself and the three other District 11 incumbents, all of whom were endorsed by the Lucas County Republican Party.
"I have a great working relationship with the governor's office and with the Ohio Republican Party," Stainbrook said. "You want to make sure Senate District 11 has the proper conservative Republican core values represented at the state level and we absolutely do."
Stainbrook and Delaney both said conservatives need to work together.
"The tea party and Republican Party agree on 85 percent. Can't we just work together and work on that last 15 percent? I think we can," Stainbrook said.
However, Delaney said he doesn't believe Stainbrook is sincere.
"Absolutely not. It's a private club to him," Delaney said.
Skaff said she and others haven't been invited or welcome at meetings, even after requesting to be. Stainbrook said that's not true.
"We have to have open meetings and we've followed Ohio's sunshine laws to the T," Stainbrook said. "Everything is done by the book because I'm under the microscope with these guys. That's ludicrous they would even say that.
"I have people who support me. Let the voters decide. I've done a good job and I want to continue," he said. "It's an honor and a privilege to serve the party, to make sure Columbus knows Lucas County is up here. I've got that bridge. I've built that."
Stainbrook, who is known for being divisive and argumentative, said he gets his fighting spirit from his father.
"He would always say, 'If you know you're right, don't back down.' He's stubborn," Stainbrook said.
On May 1, the BOE voted to launch an investigation against Stainbrook over an accusation that he encouraged an employee via text to slow down elections work.
Stainbrook said his phone records will prove the accusation is untrue and that those who try to bring BOE issues into the state central committee race are trying to compare apples to oranges.
"They are always trying to make this about the Board of Elections. The state committee has nothing to do with that," Stainbrook said. "If you're going to talk, you've got to know what you're talking about."
Skaff, 59, of Curtice, is a financial adviser with her husband, Tom, at Wells Fargo Advisors. She has been her precinct representative for several years. Lucas County has 352 precincts, although not all the precinct representative seats are filled.
Skaff grew up in South Toledo and graduated from St. Ursula Academy and the University of Toledo. She has taught business classes at UT and has her pilot's license. She is also active at CedarCreek Church and with Heartbeat of Toledo.
Skaff said she started to become more politically active because of her growing concern about Obamacare. Her experience with the health care system after her 16-year-old daughter sustained a brain injury in a 1996 car accident convinced her a government-run system was not in the best interest of the people.
"I'm kind of an accidental activist," Skaff said. "I'm a self-starter. I'm pretty independent. I've worked for myself most of my life. I raised a good family.
"The bylaws and the way the Republican Party is organized is very important and who we endorse as candidates is critical," Skaff said. "I want to make a difference. I have five grandchildren and I got tired of just reading about problems and saying, 'Why isn't anyone standing up for this?' I finally looked in the mirror and said to myself, 'It's time.'"
Skaff said she would attend local Republican club meetings to listen to what people want and take that back to the statehouse.
"The clubs we visit, those people have ideas and they are not being heard," Skaff said. "No one is listening. That's something I would do differently. Not just listening, but being accountable too."
McAvoy said state central committee members need to have good networking skills.
"It helps to bring a network in with you rather than establishing a new network. So if you have some of those networks already available and you're currently utilizing them, that's a really big part of this job," McAvoy said.
Being able to work and interact with people you may dislike is also a necessity.
"That's a challenge, but if you can't do that then you're in the wrong job," McAvoy said.
Both Skaff and Delaney said they would "come to the table" and listen to the viewpoints of others. Although change has been slow, they are confident it will come.
"There's great people in government and there's a lot of them that are standing up. They just need to be supported and then what will happen is you get more people to stand up," Skaff said. "It's really lonely to be the first two or three to stand up, but as people respect that and see that, they'll follow. It doesn't take 50 percent; it takes an active 15-20 percent of people to change things.
"Being a mom and raising a family, I know how to handle children and their little temper tantrums," Skaff said. "I'd like to see a more responsive Republican Party and see the rule of law apply for everyone, the meetings being held according to the bylaws and rules being followed.
"The American people and the citizens of Toledo have a lot of wisdom. Everyone who is running their own business and raising a family, we have a lot of common sense. We could solve the problems the elites won't. We have the answers. They are not listening to our answers. That's the problem. We have common sense on our side. We know how to sit down at the kitchen table and balance a budget. We stop spending so much! But they don't want to hear our answers," Skaff said. "We have the answers. They aren't listening. We would listen, and we will take that message to Columbus."
Delaney said he and Skaff just want a chance to prove themselves.
"What I want to do and what she wants to do is we want to try to make a difference, someway, somehow," he said. "Give us just the opportunity. Let us show you what we can do."
Gallagher did not respond to a request for comment.
District 2
Wagoner, 42, of Ottawa Hills, is a lawyer at Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick in Toledo. He spent eight years in the state legislature as a senator and representative. He was appointed to the Republican state central committee to replace his father, also named Mark Wagoner, who resigned.
"I came back home to spend more time with my kids and focus on my law practice, but I still want to be engaged and help Republicans be elected at all levels," Wagoner said. "I just want to make sure our voice in Northwest Ohio is heard down in Columbus.
"I've been in politics a long time now and been able to hold leadership positions in the Senate. I have personal relationships with people throughout the district and I think I can be helpful.
"We have to continue with the success we've had in statewide elections. All five statewide officials are Republicans. I was in Columbus when four of the five were Democrats and I can tell you, who is in those offices matter. We want to continue to make sure we have a winning slate for this fall."
LeRoux, 47, of Perrysburg, is a journeyman tool and die maker who owns Odyssey Machine Company in Perrysburg with his two sons. He said he's always been "politically aware," but it wasn't until he started attending tea party events that he decided to run for office.
"The old-fashioned me thinks that's something people who like to be in the public eye get involved in, but the newborn constitutionalist in me realizes it's the duty of every citizen to get involved," LeRoux said.
"I'm a problem-solver. That's what I do in my business," he said. "I'm a good organizer and I'm a very good structural thinker. I think I'll bring back something to the party that will pay back the citizens of the party, not just the special interests."
LeRoux said he sees a divide between the beliefs of his conservative friends and neighbors and the state Republican Party.
"The results that are coming out of the Republican Party do not resemble the things we believe in. I don't consider myself a lawmaker, but to get involved at the party level makes sense to me. I can help build a party platform that makes sense to my neighbors and friends," LeRoux said.
"Individually, I couldn't point a finger at any member of the state central committee and say they are doing a bad job. All I can do is look at the whole and the result is not what I would expect. … Career politicians don't belong on committees; people do."
Talmage, 73, of Ottawa Hills, has been a state central committee member since 2002. The former chairwoman of the Lucas County Republican Party is a retired teacher and former Ottawa Hills Board of Education member. She is also a member of many local boards and is active in numerous local Republican clubs. She was Wagoner's campaign manager during several of his state races.
"I love working with people and with the political process," Talmage said. "I do a lot of networking with the boards I'm on. I really know the area and am passionate about the community and having people work together.
"Our job is to recruit and get Republican leaders elected. That's our main job. I really know a lot of people and I try to get people involved that way. It's a lot about networking. It's not really about taking a stand on any issue."
Alexander, of Ottawa Hills, is a sales representative for Maxima Supply based near Lansing, Michigan. After years away, she returned to her native Northwest Ohio to raise her two children, now both in college.
Alexander said many of her views lean Libertarian, but she believes in a two-party system.
"A lot of what I'm driven by is fiscal policy," Alexander said. "I really have dire concerns about this country from a financial standpoint. I don't know how we can continue on this path. Socially I'm more of a moderate, but as far as the fiscal part I'm definitely conservative."
Frustration with the state legislative panel that voted in 2013 to allow the expansion of Medicaid sparked Alexander's entry into politics.
"I'm very frustrated that our party basically went along with this, even though the voters in Ohio didn't agree," Alexander said. "I just feel we have to have some change. If I keep sitting and accepting the way things are, it's going to be the status quo."
Alexander said she admires her opponent Talmage, but wants to offer voters a choice.
"She has a phenomenal record, she's a huge volunteer. She's done an amazing job. Most people can't believe I'm running against her, but I don't see any changes to the policies and platforms of the Republican Party. I see the same people running again and again," Alexander said.
"I realize I'm an underdog. I don't have any campaign signs. That's not really in a single mom's budget. It's a real grassroots, word-of-mouth campaign. I'm just hoping for the opportunity.
My cousin told me, 'Maureen, you sit there and talk about this stuff, but you don't do anything about it.' I'd like to at least offer up a different option and let the voters decide."
The candidates for Lucas County's four Democratic state central committee seats — Mike Friedman and Alexandra Huguelet in District 11 and Thomas Galloway and Margaret Mary Murray in District 2 — are running unopposed.
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'Big Bugs' infest Levis Commons during OctoberWritten by Matt Liasse | | email@example.com
"I scared Miss Muffet and went up the waterspout, get stuck in my web and you won't get out. Find me hanging out near Second Sole."
This clue, given out as part of a scavenger hunt in Levis Commons every Saturday in October from noon to 5 p.m., takes guests to a giant spider. A 12-foot-by-12-foot web hangs from trees in front of the shoe store, displaying a 60-pound spider made of red cedar and black walnut.
Giant bugs like this one can be found in six displays across three blocks in Levis Commons, 3201 Levis Commons Blvd. in Perrysburg. They are part of the David Rogers' Big Bugs Exhibit, a traveling exhibit of larger-than-life bug sculptures. Other sculptures include a damsel fly in the water fountain in front of Yankee Candle and a 1,200-pound praying mantis in front of Tea Tree Asian Bistro.
The sculptures by the Long Island artist will be on display Oct. 1-31 in an event sponsored by ProMedica.
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The exhibit debuted at the Dallas Arboretum in 1994 and has traveled the United States since. The effect of the exhibit is a role reversal of dimension and perception, according to a news release.
"This ant that we usually shoo away or step on is now bigger than us. Just the magnitude of nature and insects … it just kind of brings all that to a head," Pogan said. "When you walk up to them you realize the amount of time he spent hand-carving [and] polishing. They're really pieces of art."
A kickoff event for the exhibit is planned for Oct. 5 from 2-5 p.m. featuring inflatables, a children's John Deere gator racetrack and arts and crafts. Live music from Kelly Broadway and horse-drawn hayride tours of the bugs will be from 5-8 p.m.
Other events are planned for the entire month of October, including: every Tuesday is Kids Eat Free Day at Blue Pacific Grill; every Friday from 5-8 p.m. kids can decorate a bug-themed yogurt cup at Yogurt Vi; every Saturday at 11 a.m. Books-A-Million will host bug-themed storytime and "make and take" crafts; musicians perform live every Saturday from 5-8 p.m.; and horse-drawn hayrides are available Saturdays from 5-8 p.m. for $1 per person.
Pogan also encourages visitors to snap a photo of themselves next to their favorite sculpture and share them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #LevisBigBugs.
She said photos will be automatically entered for a chance to win a prize package courtesy of Levis Commons.
Pogan said the exhibit is intended for all ages.
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This year is the ninth year for the outdoor mall.
"October is our anniversary month that we typically put a little more effort into what we have in our event calendar," Pogan said. "So this plays into our ninth anniversary. Next year we're not sure how we're going to top it."
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Goal surpassed!
The final Holiday Stars Project event for 2008 was held December 4 in the Public Affairs Center. We loaded up all donations onto the Central Illinois Foodbank truck and celebrated the holiday spirit of giving! You can watch a video on the first ever project here.
Trick or Treat for Canned Goods
The 10 teams that took part in the university's first "Trick-or-Treat for Canned Goods" competition on Halloween collected 2,049 pounds of food, surpassing the original Holiday Stars Project goal of 2,008 pounds on the very first night of the project!
Kelly Thompson, director of the Volunteer and Civic Engagement Center, challenged the campus community to repond in kind.
"Given the students' enthusiasm and energy for this project," she said. "The Project Committee urges the rest of the university to double our first goal and donate 4,016 pounds of food by December 4."
The second year of the program (renamed "Trick or Eat") was even more successful then the first. You can see highlights of the 2009 competition here.


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Carrboro is returning to the state 2-A dual-team tennis championship today and the Jaguars hope to come away with a title — something that eluded them the last two seasons.
The Jags traveled to the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics "home" court — Jordan High School — on Friday and came away with a 5-0 win, eliminating NCSSM before the championship round for only the second time in the last five years. The Unicorns lost in last year's 1-A title match to Elkin.
Carrboro is the only area boys' tennis team that will play for a championship. Carrboro will meets unbeaten Brevard at 9:30 a.m. at the Burlington Tennis Center in Burlington Saturday, May 17.
Voyager Academy was eliminated in the 1-A semifinals by Raleigh Charter 5-2 at William Peace University in Raleigh Friday and Chapel Hill was eliminated in the 3-A semifinals on Thursday.
In N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association semifinals Friday, Durham Academy was eliminated 6-3 by Cary Academy on the CA courts and the Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill was eliminated in one 2-A semifinal by top-seed Cape Fear Academy 5-1 and Carolina Friends School lost its 2-A semifinal to Southern Pines' The O'Neal School 5-3. Both NCISAA 2-A matches were played at Barton College in Wilson.
The previously unbeaten Unicorns (16-1) were reclassified from the 1-A ranks to 2-A this season and simply didn't have an answer for Carrboro (15-2). "They were too strong," NCSSM coach Richard McClenny said.
The Unis also had a roster issue, the sort of issue it often seems only the state's top academic public school runs into. For the second straight match, NCSSM was without No. 3 singles player Justin Yang.
"He's at a science competition," McClenny said. Asked if Yang's absence and consequent move by the Nos. 4-7 players up the ladder to meet Nos. 3-6 stars was a problem, McClenny admitted that the matchups didn't work out for the Unis, but felt Carrboro was the better team anyway.
"Everyone was hanging in there for us," Carrboro coach Jon Noyes said. "We're looking better and better each time out."
Carrboro picked up wins by No. 1 Max Fritsch, No. 3 Jake Zinn, No. 4 Aaron Hiller and No. 5 Jason Wycoff to take a 4-0 lead and was trailing on courts two and six. NCSSM had to get wins from Guy Blanc at No. 2 and Russell Aryeetey at No. 6 to force the match to the doubles round, but Blanc double-faulted to to allow Brian Freiburghouse to tie the match and force a tiebreaker.
Freiburghouse dominated the extra frame 10-4 — the set point coming on another double fault by Blanc — which ended the match.
Aryeetey, whose wins at No. 6 singles and No. 3 doubles were key to NCSSM eliminating Greene Central 5-4 in the quarterfinals after his move up from No. 7, led Carrboro's Tarek Zikry 6-3, 5-4 when their match was suspended.
Noyes said Brevard (18-0) offers the Jags a major challenge today. "They're very, very good," Noyes said. "We saw a much of them at states (individual tournament). Their No. 1 and No. 2 guys are dynamite."
NOTES — Carrboro returns almost its entire lineup from last season with the exception being the freshman Wycoff, who replaces the graduated Tanner Roach.
Carrboro 5, N.C. Science & Math 0
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SINGLES — Max Fritsch (C) d. Danny Oh 6-0, 6-1; Brian Freiburghouse (C) d. Guy Blanc 0-6, 6-4 7-6 (10-4); Jake Zinn (C) d. Kevin Chen 6-0, 6-0; Aaron Hiller (C) d. Michael Kearney 6-3, 6-0; Jason Wycoff (C) d. Neeraj Suresh 6-0, 6-1; Russell Aryeetey (NCSSM) led Tarek Zikry (C) 6-3, 5-4 match suspended.
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SINGLES — Abichiran Baskeran (RC) d. Harrison Stone 6-4, 6-4; Christian Quick (VA) d. Revant Birla 0-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10-4); Wesley Hickerson (VA) d. Cole Esleeck 6-0, 4-6 (11-9); Jake Satisky (RC) d. Luke Bennett 6-4, 6-4 (10-6); Jimmy Sims (RC) d. Charlie Stone 6-3, 6-4; Austin Glass (RC) d. Tyler Herring 6-1, 6-2.
DOUBLES — No. 2 Birla/Esleeck (RC) d. Hickerson/Bennett 10-6.
NOTE — No. 1 and No. 3 doubles matches suspended when match was decided by No. 2 doubles win by Raleigh Charter.
Cary Academy 6, Durham Academy 3
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SINGLES — Justin Warren (DA) d. Alex Yang 1-6, 6-4 (10-8); Calvin Ma (CA) d. Jason Lapidus 6-3, 6-2; Jake Tillman (DA) d. Kevin Wu 6-3, 3-2, ret.; Grant Goettel (CA) d. Davis Cromer 6-2, 6-4; Patrick Mulqueen (CA) d. Kiran Nagar 6-0, 6-0; Zack Saklad (CA) d. Kenan Ulku-Steiner 6-3, 6-3.
DOUBLES — Warren/Lapidus (DA) d. Yang/Ma 8-3; Wu/Mulqueen (CA) d. Tillman/Ulku-Steiner 8-6; Goettel/Hodgdon (CA) d. Nagar/Cromer 8-4.
Records — Cary Academy 18-1, Durham Academy 14-7.\
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SINGLES — Tristen Smith (CFA) d. Sami Habib 6-1, 6-0; Carr Bonner (TSDCH) d. Jack Gallop 6-4, 6-3; Mike Mills (CFA) d. Mark Hove 6-4, 6-4; Tyler Smith (CFA) d. Connor Grigg (TSDCH) 6-0, 3-2 suspended; Robert Shuet (CFA) vs. Forrest Shivers (TSDCH) 6-1, 2-1 suspended; Jason Atwood (CFA) vs. Luke Garges (TSDCH) 5-0, suspended.
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US wants Bank of America to pay $864M over loansThe Associated Press | November 10,2013NEW YORK Federal prosecutors want Bank of America Corp. to pay about $864 million for losses incurred by the government after it bought thousands of home loans made by Countrywide Financial during the housing boom.
New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara made the request in documents filed late Friday with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
A jury last month found Bank of America, which acquired Countrywide in 2008, liable for knowingly selling thousands of bad home loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac between August 2007 and May 2008.
The panel also returned the verdict against Countrywide and a former executive, Rebecca Mairone.
The trial related to mortgages the government said were sold at break-neck speed without regard to quality as the economy headed into a tailspin.
The government had accused the financial institutions of urging workers to churn out loans, accept fudged applications and hide ballooning defaults through a loan program called the Hustle, shorthand for high-speed swim lane, which operated under the motto, Loans Move Forward, Never Backward.
Bank of America, based in Charlotte, N.C., denied there was fraud.
Thousands of loans made through the Hustle program were sold to Fannie and Freddie, which packaged loans into securities and sold them to investors. The companies were effectively nationalized in 2008 when they nearly collapsed from mortgage losses.
In the filing Friday, Bharara asked the court to make the penalty on Bank of America equal to the maximum losses racked up from the Hustle program by the government-run mortgage buyers.
Bank of America spokesman Lawrence Grayson said Saturday that the lender plans to respond to the governments penalty filing before a Nov. 20 deadline.
We believe the filing overstates the volume of loans and the appropriate measure of damages arising from one narrow Countrywide program that lasted several months and ended before Bank of America acquired the company, he said.
Bharara also wants the court to impose a penalty on Mairone who prosecutors say was the driving force behind the Hustle program that is in line with her ability to pay.
Mairones lawyer, Marc Mukasey in New York, said Saturday that he intends to file papers with the court arguing there should be no penalties imposed on his client.
Countrywide, once the countrys largest mortgage lender, played a major role in the collapse of the housing market because of its heavy reliance on subprime mortgages. Facing serious financial challenges, it was acquired by Bank of America in 2008 in an all-stock deal valued at about $4 billion.
In 2010, Bank of America agreed to pay $600 million to settle class-action lawsuits claiming that Countrywide officials concealed mounting financial risks as they loosened lending standards during the housing boom.
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"McGraw-Hill, the second-largest educational publisher in the world, has removed key passages from a proposed Texas textbook that cast doubt on climate science," reports the National Journal (November 17, 2014).
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"Climate scientists can breathe a bit easier," the National Journal (November 13, 2014) reports. "Pearson Education — the largest educational publisher in the world — has cut material from a proposed Texas social-studies textbook that cast doubt on the human causes of global warming."
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One thing my son has enjoyed since he was very young is doing "Calendar and Weather Time" every morning with me. A great way to discuss the date and weather for the day is with the Funky Monkey Forecast™ Magnetic Daily Weather Set from Learning Resources.It is easy to set up and is different than most calendars because the children get to really get involved because they get to dress the monkey for the weather! However, the downfall is that you must have a magnetic surface for this set to stick.Overall, this Funky Monkey Forecast Magnetic Daily Weather Set is great for the home or classroom and it really gets the children involved and interested in the weather and calendar year!
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Educational games are a great tool for building foundation math and language skills that today's elementary school curriculum requires. These online learning games at Learning Resources and songs for kids are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids. Want educational games that help build skills in math, language, science, social studies, and more then get the Funky Monkey Forecast Magnetic Daily Weather SetMonkey with the calendar and the weather on your whiteboard! Boost vocabulary and get young students actively involved by having them dress the monkey for today's weather!Set of 60 magnetic pieces includes jumbo monkey,28 accessories, 6 weather icons, 3 weather words, 7 days of the week, 12 months, and 2 blanksActivity Guide includedMonkey measures 12″HGrades PreK+My Students are big fans of this set. It's colorful, fun, and completely hands-on. This helps with many of my early learners. They love knowing that our circle time at school start with our white board to talk about the date and the weather of the day. If it's a snowy day, the kids clearly point out the monkey needs boots and a coat .This also allows each of my children in class to have hands on time at the white board during the week. I love that they children can use each part of the set throughout the year.
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This is a great hands-on calendar that allows children to not only choose the month and days of the week each day, but also lets them choose from weather icons, apparel and accessories to dress the funky monkey. Heavy duty magnets are easy to move and change. Great for everyday!
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Each day for homeschool preschool we like to begin with a Bible story, prayer, a movement song, the pledge of allegiance and then calendar activities. We go over the day (today, yesterday, tomorrow), the month, and also the weather. The Funky Monkey Forecast™ Magnetic Daily Weather Set is such a big help with these calendar activities – especially when you are homeschooler.This daily weather set from Learning Resources® is the magnets only. You need to use your own white board to write the date. We punched out the magnets which was sometimes difficult for my daughter to help with. But these are heavy duty magnets so I am thankful. My daughter has fun deciding which magnets to use for the day. Depending on the weather you can dress the Funky Monkey in clothing and accessories – and for a girl like mine, that is heaven. Bright colored, durable magnets make calendar activity time quite fun. Getting her to move on to her lessons is my only hurdle.We highly recommend the Funky Monkey Forecast™ Magnetic Daily Weather Set.
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I recently had been looking for a fun hand's way to teach my two children age 2 1/2 and soon to be five years old about the calendar as well as our weather. I wanted something to display in our school area that could easily be changed up daily. I found a few calendars here and there but they weren't cutting it as I wanted the weather listed too! I needed an all in one and something that would be exciting and boldly catching the eye and interest of children. This is when I discovered a fantastic educational set from Learning Resources that could do all I wanted and more super easily!Funky Monkey Forecast™ Magnetic Daily Weather Set has 60 pieces which includes one funky monkey, twenty-eight accessories for any and every season, six weather icons, three weather words, seven days of the week, 12 months, and two blank pieces. The Monkey is 12 inches in size and fits nicely in a corner side of my large white board. The magnets I found to be very durable and quite strong yet still easy enough for little ones to move and manage on the magnetic surface of choice. There's a helpful activity guide in this set as well as exclusive down-loadable content to be found on the Learning Resources website.My children are big fans of this set. Need I say more? It's super colorful, fun, and completely hands-on. They get really excited knowing that each of our school days start with a trip to our white board to talk about the date and the weather we are having. If it's a rainy day, the kids clearly point out the monkey needs his rain coat, I then let the kids take turns putting the correct attire on the monkey. They have a blast and never forget to make sure that we also add the correct weather icons on the board too.Activities suggested with the guide that comes with the set include all sorts of fun ways to use the set whether as an extension or just to calender each school day. You can really use this set in all sorts of way from teaching a younger child about colors pointing out the monkey's clothes to teaching an older child the days of the week. The set overall promotes awareness of surroundings, observation, vocabulary, and problem solving skills. It's a great set not just for learning about weather but about the months of the year and days of the week, all are very important skills for children to master.I was so impressed with this magnetic set from Learning Resources that I'm already looking into picking up a few more for my white board! I highly recommend Funky Monkey Forecast™ Magnetic Daily Weather Set for home or school use for children ages 3 and up!
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6 weeks after the Google+ launch, the project received a major upgrade and added social games. "Games in Google+ are there when you want them and gone when you don't. When you're ready to play, the Games page is waiting — click the games button at the top of your stream. You can see the latest game updates from your circles, browse the invites you've received and check out games that people you know have played recently. The Games page is also where your game accomplishments will appear."
The nice thing is that game updates don't clutter your main stream, but this also means that the stream will no longer be comprehensive and it will be difficult for a game to become popular in a short amount of time.
For now, there's a small number of games from companies like Zynga, Rovio (Angry Birds), PopCap Games and it's interesting to see that the games APIs aren't publicly available. "We chose to start with a small number of partners so that we could experiment, get the kinks out of our APIs, and get real end-user feedback before opening up to the world. (...) Because we want to provide both a great user experience and a great developer experience, we're focusing on quality before quantity. We will continue to add new partners and new features in small steps, starting with today's release of the games APIs to a small number of developers," explains Google.
Games aren't available to all Google+ users because the feature is slowly rolled out. When you see a new tab at the top of the page, next to the search box, you should be able to play games.
Google+ games are social. When you play a game, you can share updates with your circles, buy virtual goods, send gifts, invite your friends. "Additionally, a game may involve multiple players in a single match (such as a poker table). In these situations, the other players in the room can see and interact with each other during gameplay. Some games allow you to partner up with (or work against) another player, such as a neighbor, ally, or an enemy/rival. These games use your circles to suggest people to interact with. You could show up as a suggestion to another player to become an ally or to challenge," mentions Google.
Forbes reports that Google charges a 5% fee to developers for virtual goods transactions. "With this much lower fee to attract developers, Google is going after Facebook, which takes a 30% cut from developers for using its required Facebook Credits virtual currency system."
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SAN DIEGO (December 25, 2012) -- It took just a couple of hours for the Baylor football team to fly from Texas to San Diego for Thursday's Holiday Bowl against UCLA.
But what does it take to move all of the Bears' equipment halfway across the country and how much stuff does the team need to take?
Baylor director of equipment services Jeff Barlow said his staff packs nearly twice as much for the Holiday Bowl as they would for a normal road game. That's because the team practices in San Diego all week, on top of playing the game.
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My other hobby is boardgaming, and especially Kickstarter is now widely used by boardgame publishers, even the larger, more established ones. Most projects seem to turn out alright, though I know of a number (from friends) that still have to deliver their product, 6 - 12 months after funding. I myself have not participated in any, because I still think the whole prospect is tenuous. Of course it could mean waiting longer (and without some additional benefits like better components) for a game to be available, but at least I know what I'm buying and I know that I will actually get it. Pricing so far hasn't made the proposition any more attractive: once out at large, the Kickstarted board games are almost never more expensive then when backed.
With MMOs, another aspect comes into play: the product could be years away from appearing, if it does at all. Talk about tenuous. Of course, proponents will argue that without backing the product wouldn't be made at all. Well, personally I feel there is enough to choose from already, whether it be boardgames or MMOs. And the incentives to back an MMO are all virtual (early access, in-game gear)... They can't (I imagine) promise things like life-time memberships and such, when the payment model isn't known yet.
To me, with regards to MMOs especially, putting money into a project that is years away from appearing (if at all), is being unrealistic. So much can happen in the meantime, and besides the project failing, there is no guarantee whatsoever that the MMO backed is the MMO produced.
I suspect, where Kickstarter has been and is a great success for board games, it will have trouble finding the funding needed for MMOs. If not, I will be happy to wait for a few years to try your game once it is actually produced and published. In the meantime I will be playing a handful of the many excellent MMOs available today.
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I have never pledged on a Kickstarter so far nor am I actually planning on doing so. I find it a bit too risky to put my money into an mmo, seeing it in beta state and then shutting down because it was too buggy and too much work was needed to fix it. I prefer waiting for the final product before I decide to invest my money in it.
Crowd funding is prob the best thing to happen to PC game since steam..
Yes you will not 100% fund an MMO on there if your planning on spending millions in development, but you will make enough cash to start development and then maybe run another kickstarter campaign to get more cash.
They have a choice of either getting some real investors to back them or gain more cash from crowd funding.. either way the devs will still have a shit ton more control over the game than if they went to AAA publisher.
I am already playing a fews games that got funded on kickstarter and they are some of the better games I have played in recent years.
Also thinking about it of all the upcoming MMORPGs the only ones I am really looking forward to other than EQN are all crowd funded.
So for me I think Crowd funding is the best thing to happen to PC gaming for a long time and I am happy to support games that I want to play. Dont get me wrong I dont go crazy.. i usually stick to the average price of a game so say around £30, thats not somthing i will miss realyl and at the end of it i could get to play somthing that I actually want to play and not another wow clone.
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...who marches directly into the nearest Ferrari dealship and drives away in a brand new sports car, laughing.
Damn skeptics, stop that!
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Pretty good way to scam people too, if you are just making up a project. Better have an idea who the people are behind the funding before you invest any money in it, just a matter of time before someone does a big scam.
I have not seen anything yet worth funding yet except perhaps Star Citizen. Most of the other kickstarters are just throwing money away, you won't see a decent product come out of them.
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Crowdfunding seems to be a way to push the risk of loss off of the developer and onto the funders.
Imagine if Curt Schilling's company had used crowdfunding instead. Curt would still have his fortune and the crowd would be shit out of luck.
I have participated on ONE Kickstarter, Star Citizen, but I will not participate in any others. I am not a venture capitalist, a bank to give interest free loans, or a philanthropist.
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Kickstarter goes through good effort to ensure that the products and companies are actually trying to deliver on their products. It looks bad for KS to have high-visibility products vanish off the face of the Earth once funding is secured.
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It can't fund an MMO so I'm skeptical about trying to use it for that purpose. I'll gladly fund a music album or book if I like what it is going to be. But I only support up to the point where I'll get a physical copy of what I'm funding.
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Gotta love articles that present information half arsed. The first PFO KS was solely for the tech demo so that GW could secure some other investors. None of that money was used toward the making the game. If you kept up with the blogs, seeing as the most recent one talks about where the money went, you'd know that and wouldn't misrepresent.
The second KS was for funds to make the game and anything over the goal would be toward adding more features and getting the game done faster.
I agree that people need to learn to read and to read the fine print. KS is indeed pre-ordering if you pay attention to what project you are backing and at what level you back. The only issue is that the number of folks out there you just come running to the sound of a cattle call and who plug in their card information before reading anything way outnumbers the rest of us with common sense. Thus they they have a louder voice when in their perception they have been "screwed", "ripped off" or "scammed".
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For an mmo I feel its terrible. Using it as nothing but a marketing tool is terrible. Its a great service that is being continually misused.
Originally posted by Livnthedream
How is it being mis-used?
The games I ahve backed on there are all games that I want to see get made, without funding they would not get made.
They dont have the option to go to AAA publishers as all they want to make is the next WOW clone and we all know how good that has been for the MMORPG industry over the years since wow released.
Kickstarter is not only the best thing to happen to PC gamnig for a long time but also the best thing to ever happen to the MMORPG industry. Hell its even kicked SOE into looking at making EQN a sandbox game..
Because of Kickstarter I am now interested in the future of MMORPGs again..
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Originally posted by Caldrin
Because many of the highest grossing titles had no need to go to Kickstarter. Do you honestly believe that Torment, or Project Eternity or Shroud of the Avatar actually needed crowdfunding? Do you honestly believe that they just could not get enough outside support? Seriously?
False, because there has been no "wowclones". You can make an argument for cookie cutter mmo, but a clone is nowhere close to the same thing. Even then, the games that are coming out of Kickstarter are nowhere close to AAA quality. They cannot come up with enough money to do it. These games cost WAY more than you can reasonably secure from Kickstarter.
I would love to see your source that Kickstarter is what made SOE change what EqN is going to be. Even without that I do not deny that Kickstarter is the only way for certain games to be funded. I even support Kickstarter being an avenue for such games. Its the other companies using kickstarter for what amounts to free money and marketing that bothers me. Garriot has no place on there, neither do fully fledged studios. Even Jacobs is an iffy case. Considering just how close he came to failing his Kickstarter its no surprise he had to go there for his funding. While I am looking forward to see what he can do with the game, I am going to be very surprised if it enjoyes any type of actual success.
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Originally posted by Caldrin
Singleplayer games? Sure.
MMOs? What success stories (successfully releasing, not just successfully getting your money) do we have in MMOs from KS? I'm interested in what you are basing that statement on.
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I personally think crowdfunding could be an interesting tool for MMO developers. Expecting a AAA game to be fully funded this way is unrealistic, of course. However, to generate some data points showing investors that there is interest in whatever design concept is being put forward it is nearly invaluable, IMO. Also, "boutique" games and experimental designs conceivably could be able to gain some footholds in this way, an outcome nearly impossible to see happening via more traditional funding routes.
I have pledged to a handful of efforts related to MMOs so far on Kickstarter, some of which funded, some of which missed their goal. As for what rewards I find enticing, the probability of eventual success is just too low, IMO, for any promised rewards to be all that interesting... I'm just looking to encourage some experimentation. Anything that looks like it might not have me feeling like I've already played it a thousand times within 5 minutes of first logging in, for example. (It helps being fortunate enough in my situation that throwing a hundred bucks or so at something interesting every couple months isn't a major imposition.)
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I consider it no better than a bum standing out in front of the liqure store asking for change. It is the new way of "Internet bumming" in my opinion.
Originally posted by Loktofeit
Of course we have none yet.. Kickstarter is still pretty new and only recently have MMOS been funded on there... it takes years to make an MMO its not instant.
Also at the end of the day no one is forcing people to fund games, its a choice people can make for themselves.
Myself I am happy to throw £30 towards a game that I like the sound of and would really want to play.
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I had a rant about this the other day. It is getting misused. There are people posting and asking folk to pay for their vacations and all sorts of luxiaries under the guys of being ap ublisher or writer.
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Great article Matt.
"A few MMOs have been funded on Kickstarter, but even a record setting Kickstarter campaign won't be enough to fully fund an MMO."
Thanks for stating that. I keep getting shot down when I bring this up. A recent successful mmo KS campaign didn't explain how they actually planned on fully funding the project.
I have supported on KS project for a game (Planet Explorers) because I'm willing to take a risk. It is moving along pretty well and I think it will see the light of day. One thing that was key for me to even consider funding was that they had a working alpha build of the game. While not a guarantee it at least assured me they had already put some serious effort into the project.
I've also early funded an indie MMO (City of Steam), not through KS, but through their own site. I won't do that again and I am less likely to ever fund an indie MMO again. Late in the project, after the funding drive was over, the developer changed the direction of the game dramatically towards a much more conventional and rote design. I wouldn't have funded the game as it stands now.
The lesson learned here, is that even if your game does see the light of day, it may not be anything like what you "bought into". Even though that wasn't a KS campaign the premise holds true for KS games too.
Another thing I found out about KS is that the Paypal campaign, if they offer it, opens up reward tiers that were previously unavailable and exclusive. For the Planet Explorers KS I would have waited and paid through PayPal to get a reward tier I really wanted compared to what I ended up with.
Just like traditional payment models are evolving, I also think crowdfunding will change as it matures.


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I once watched a movie called, I think, Supermasochist, and that's pretty much how I feel after video taping myself for a half hour and then watching it. I'm not a fan of my nose, or my hair, and I'm getting this turkey neck thing with my old age, and I have some annoying tics, too. But at some point you've gotta give yourself a fucking break, right?
I warn you: I use the word "fantastic" like 30 times in this half hour video. I had no idea while I was filming it. I assure you, I'm not one of those people who thinks everything is awesome, and I hope I don't use that word that often in real life. Sorry.
As I hint at in the video, this video had both a preamble and a, uh, postamble. I got rid of them both, for reasons of insecurity and poor lighting leading to insecurity. There was a long saw I was gonna go into in reference to Ulysses, and people who think that claiming to love reading is an affectation or "signaling" or whatever. But rather than going into an argument that will be wearying for you and for me, I'll just say this: this is what I am into. Some people are really into cars; some people are really into model airplanes; some people are really into smoking weed; some people are really into gadgets. This is my thing. I love it, and while I don't expect everyone else to love it (I am quite used to it being an uncommon devotion), I do expect everyone to let me love it without questioning my motives. And what I'd like to do here in this space is to just share why I love it, and maybe write something a little entertaining or moving to boot.
I intend to keep vlogging to a minimum, as I find it rather self-indulgent; but then again, this is a blog. Self-indulgence comes with the territory.
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- william randolph brafford said...
I'd be up for a group read of The Name of the Rose. I've never read that one. And I'll be taking some recommendations from this video.
- January 24, 2010 at 3:28 PM
Nice video Freddie, you have an impressive collection. I'm going to have to check out the the Tin Drum. I've wanted to read it for awhile, but I'm not sure how well the magical elements will go down with me.
And, I second brafford's post, if there is a reading group for Name of the Rose I would be down for that.
- January 24, 2010 at 11:14 PM
- paul said...
lol, 'Latin via Ovid' is how I learned Latin, we used that at my college. And even Zadie Smith thought that 'White Teeth' was crap, come on; she wrote it when she was 21-22, it's a bit too juvenile, despite the flashes of brilliance.
Anyway, yeah, possibly a little too self-indulgent ... everyone who is into books / reading / academia / "being an intellectual" thinks that they have extremely interesting and important views on everything, since of course they've read so much, and are so special! But then, if you have the sort of personality that creates a blog, obviously this goes with the territory.
- January 25, 2010 at 10:44 AM
- Freddie said...
But I've never said that; I've never cared much for traffic and I've never felt particularly interested in other people finding what I have to say true or important. Solipsism is the truth of man and always has been; people who decry it are doing so to buttress their own self-obsession.
- January 25, 2010 at 10:50 AM
That was really enjoyable, some grand books.
I keep thinking that someday I'll organize the chaos of my bookshelves, but I sort of like their groupings in the era they were read, too. It would be a shame to split them up. Genet belongs with Burroughs in that cluster of my college-boy interest in decadance, ha. Like your comment on Whitman, one's interests grow and change.
I think I spotted Will Self's "Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys"; I like your mix of classic and modern on your shelves.
- January 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM
- paul said...
But you asked if it was self-indulgent! I was just trying to honestly answer the question. Let me put it this way; it COULD have been way MORE self-indulgent. I would rather that you do vlogs than not do vlogs.
- January 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM
- Freddie said...
I wasn't scolding. Just saying.
- January 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM
I really enjoyed this Freddie, especially the young readers tips. I'm forever searching for the next great book to share with the kids. Thanks.
- January 26, 2010 at 7:19 PM


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