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Blanco (span. = "weiß") ist ein von einem Spitznamen abgeleiteter spanischer Familienname.

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A

 Aleoscar Blanco (* 1987), venezolanischer Volleyballspieler
 Álex Blanco (* 1998), spanischer Fußballspieler
 Alfonso Blanco (* 1986), venezolanischer Boxer
 Alfonso Blanco (Fußballspieler) (* 1987), mexikanischer Fußballspieler

B
 Beatriz Blanco (* 1987), spanische Cellistin und Hochschullehrerin
 Benny Blanco (Benjamin Levin; * 1988), US-amerikanischer Produzent und Liedschreiber
 Billy Blanco (1924–2011), brasilianischer Komponist

C

 Carmen Blanco (* 1954), galicische Schriftstellerin
 Cecilia Blanco (* 1979), spanische Judoka
 Celia Blanco (* 1977), spanische Pornodarstellerin, siehe Cecilia Gessa
 Cuauhtémoc Blanco (* 1973), mexikanischer Fußballspieler

D
 Daniel Francisco Blanco Méndez (* 1973), costa-ricanischer Geistlicher, römisch-katholischer Weihbischof in San José de Costa Rica
 Dante Córdova Blanco (* 1943), peruanischer Politiker
 David Blanco (* 1975), spanischer Radrennfahrer
 Diego Blanco (* 1994), uruguayischer Fußballspieler

E
 Elías Blanco Mamani (* 1962), bolivianischer Journalist, Literaturwissenschaftler und Biograf
 Esteban Blanco (* 1981), costa-ricanischer Schwimmer

F
 Félix del Blanco Prieto (1937–2021), vatikanischer Geistlicher, Erzbischof von Vannida

 Francisco Manuel Blanco (1778–1845), spanischer Botaniker

G
 Galo Blanco (* 1976), spanischer Tennisspieler
 Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco (* 1993), spanische Tennisspielerin, siehe Garbiñe Muguruza
 Giovanna Blanco (* 1982), venezolanische Judoka
 Griselda Blanco (1943–2012), kolumbianische Drogenhändlerin

H

I

 Ismael Blanco (* 1983), argentinischer Fußballspieler

J
 Jackie Lou Blanco (* 1964), philippinische Schauspielerin
 Jesús Blanco (* 1946), argentinischer Ringer
 Jesús Tirso Blanco (1957–2022), argentinischer Ordensgeistlicher und Missionar, Bischof von Lwena
 Joaquín Blanco (1938–2011), spanischer Schauspieler
 Joaquín Blanco (Segler) (* 1957), spanischer Segler

K
 Kathleen Blanco (1942–2019), US-amerikanische Politikerin (Louisiana)
 Kepa Blanco (* 1984), spanischer Fußballspieler

L
 Laura Blanco (* 1965), spanische Radrennfahrerin
 Leandro Blanco (* 1974), deutscher Schauspieler
 Léster Blanco (* 1989), salvadorianischer Fußballspieler
 Lorena Blanco (* 1977), peruanische Badmintonspielerin
 Lucio Blanco (1879–1922), mexikanischer Revolutionär und General

M
 Manuel Blanco Encalada (1790–1876), chilenischer Offizier und Politiker
 María Blanco (* 1987), argentinische Fußballspielerin
 María Elena Blanco (* 1947), kubanische Dichterin, Essayistin und literarische Übersetzerin
 Maribel Blanco (* 1969), spanische Triathletin
 Marina B. Blanco, argentinisch-US-amerikanische Anthropologin und Primatologin
 Mark Blanco (* 1989), salvadorianischer Fußballspieler
 Michael Blanco (* ≈1980), US-amerikanischer Jazzmusiker

O
 Oiana Blanco (* 1983), spanische Judoka
 Omar Blanco (* 1975), mexikanischer Fußballspieler
 Óscar Hernán Blanco Martínez (* 1964), chilenischer Geistlicher und Bischof von Punta Arenas

P
 Patricia Blanco (* 1971), deutsche Sängerin und Reality-TV-Darstellerin

R
 Ramón Blanco (* 1926), spanischer Skirennläufer
 Richard Blanco (* 1968), US-amerikanischer Lyriker kubanischer Abstammung
 Rita Blanco (* 1963), portugiesische Schauspielerin
 Roberto Blanco (* 1937), deutscher Schlagersänger
 Roberto Blanco (Fußballspieler) (* 1938), argentinischer Fußballspieler
 Rodolfo Blanco (* 1966), kolumbianischer Boxer
 Rolando Blanco (* 1972), guatemaltekischer Sprinter
 Roxana Blanco (* 1967), uruguayische Schauspielerin
 Rubén Blanco (* 1995), spanischer Fußballspieler
 Raúl González Blanco (* 1977), spanischer Fußballspieler, siehe Raúl (Fußballspieler)

S
 Salvador Jorge Blanco (1926–2010), dominikanischer Politiker, Präsident 1982 bis 1986
 Serge Blanco (* 1958), französischer Rugbyspieler

 Silvestre Blanco (1783–1840), uruguayischer Politiker
 Sonia Blanco (* 1973), spanische Basketballspielerin
 Suzette Blanco (* 1948), kubanische Turnerin

T

V
 Vicente Blanco († 2010), spanisch-kolumbianischer Journalist

Y
 Yonni Blanco, venezolanischer Boxer

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News Super Netball
Vixens SSN 2020 Champions
The Melbourne Vixens are the 2020 Suncorp Super Netball (SSN) Champions, after defeating the West Coast Fever in a two-goal thriller at Brisbane's Nissan Arena.
The win secured the Vixens maiden SSN title, as well as broke the hoodoo of no SSN minor premier being able to go on and lift the Premiership Trophy at season's end.
Melbourne Vixens Head Coach, Simone McKinnis OAM, said she was incredibly proud of her team's performance to finish off what will arguably be the most unique season the sport will ever see.
"It was just exhilaration that moment when the game was over, and pride and relief and everything in between and around that…and now it's just satisfaction for what's been a really full-on season and a full-on year," McKinnis explained post-match. "I'm just proud of the girls [and] we can now actually breathe and enjoy what has been a well-and hard-earned Championship."
Co-Captain, Liz Watson, echoed her coach's sentiments, saying that the 2020 season would be truly remembered as one like no other.
"I think in my career so far all the seasons seem to merge into one, but this one's definitely going to stand out, not just because of this Premiership but because of the whole year…we've become super close on and off the court, and to finish it off – like Simone said – it's satisfaction, relief, you can breathe and then we can kind of just relax now…so it's been unreal."
The Vixens narrowly trailed the Fever at both quarter and half time, but McKinnis said she was proud of how her charges remained calm and composed.
"One of the things we spoke about beforehand was being composed and controlled, and there's going to be ups and downs and they're going to be coming at you, and there'll [also] be times when you are in front. But you just have to stick to what you need to do; just keeping it simple, don't get distracted by score lines or two-point shots or intercepts – just keep at it and it will come."
There was much talk about Fever's attack headed into the match – mainly around just how to stop the dominant Jhaniele Fowler – however the Vixens attack also put on a show, with Mwai (MJ) Kumwenda shooting at an impressive 92%, earning herself a Nissan Player of the Match performance.
"MJ got player of the match [and] Courtney's [Bruce] been playing really well – she's been getting a lot of ball and putting a lot of pressure on opposition, so MJ played a critical role in…keeping her busy, but also with the feeders not having any fear putting the ball over to MJ because she's going to get it, and she did…and finished it really well," McKinnis continued.
"Defensively we changed it up throughout the game," McKinnis continued, speaking of her team's tactics when it came to combatting Fowler, "but the bottom line – our fundamentals – is our ability to be able to work one-on-one, hands over pressure, little things like slowing the ball down, causing hesitation across the game, making them have to look at one option and then another option…and this is where the girls have been fantastic, the ability to be able to maintain that sort of work rate," McKinnis added.
There had been a lot of emotion surrounding the Vixens camp in the lead up to the Grand Final, led by the fact that today marked their 93rd day away from home, and that it would be the final outing for two club stalwarts; Caitlin Thwaites and Tegan Philip. However, McKinnis explained her process in keeping her team grounded and focused on the task at hand.
"There was a lot going on, particularly at the start of this week, but we had a moment yesterday where we sat together in the changeroom here and said this is about ourselves and each other and that's what we focus on because the rest will come from that."
Watson praised her coach's tactics to keep the team focused in a stressful and busy week.
"I think it was smart by Simone yesterday to have us in the changeroom," Watson explained. "We could acknowledge what was going on and really brought it back to ourselves, and then today it's all business – we got up, we did our usual pre-game routine, meeting back at the hotel and everything that we would do, and now all that emotion has probably come out post-game."
"I mean we want to obviously acknowledge what's happening in Victoria and, you know, our family and friends are living through it so we're definitely in that moment and we're there with them, but we wanted to do this job for ourselves and for them, and we had to stay fully focused within our immediate group for that to happen, so that I guess…relieved a little bit of that pressure so we could go out there and play."
Thwaites added that her ability to compartmentalise helped get her through the two-week period in the lead up to her 232nd and final national league game.
"I've always known that I've had a really good ability to compartmentalise, and that's through managing my mental health and things like that, and being able to switch off and cross the line and go, 'I've got a job to do'," Thwaites said.
"This year hasn't been any different in terms of that – there's been so much in terms of the retirement stuff and the reason why that happened early was because we wanted to draw a line in the sand and say 'great, that's one thing, but we're here to do a job, we've still got a job to do and we want to move on', and be able to execute and do the things that we needed to do for the team.
"So that's been forefront of our mind, and that ability to compartmentalise really came into play today and…[we] crossed that line, stepped out there, did what we needed to do. I think there will be moments of emotion that kind of spill over in the next little bit, but I couldn't be prouder of what this team has overcome to get here and I think unless you've been a part of it and known the ins and outs, it's a pretty incredible feat to have got this far this year."
Grand Final Statistics
Shooting:
Mwai Kumwenda: 47/50 (94%)
Caitlin Thwaites: 13/17 (76.5%)
Tegan Philip: 3/3 (100%)
Defence:
Emily Mannix: 2 gained balls, 2 deflections, 1 pickup
Jo Weston: 3 deflections, 3 pickups, 2 gained balls, 1 intercept
Kate Eddy: 3 deflections, 1 gained ball, 1 intercept, 1 pickup
The Melbourne Vixens 2020 season celebrations will culminate tomorrow night when the club hold their annual best and fairest award presentation, the Sharelle McMahon Medal. The event will be held in Brisbane, and broadcast live on the Melbourne Vixens' Facebook page and YouTube channel from 8pm AEDT.
Vixens Victory
All Stars Announced
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2021 sees new kit for Stars

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HomeTechnologyDorian becomes a Category 4 monster powering toward Florida
Dorian becomes a Category 4 monster powering toward Florida
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Hurricane Dorian powered toward Florida with increasing fury Friday, becoming an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm but leaving forecasters uncertain whether it would make a direct hit on the state's east coast or inflict a glancing blow.
The storm's winds rose to 130 mph (215 kph) and then, hours later, to a howling 140 mph (225 kph) as Dorian gained strength while crossing warm Atlantic waters. The hurricane could wallop the state with even higher winds and torrential rains late Monday or early Tuesday, with millions of people in the crosshairs, along with Walt Disney World and President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
Though Dorian is growing in intensity, some of the more reliable computer models predicted a late turn northward that would have Dorian hug the coast, the National Hurricane Center said.
"There is hope," Weather Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters said.
The faint hope came on a day in which Dorian seemed to get scarier with each forecast update, growing from a dangerous Category 3 hurricane to an even more menacing Category 4 storm. And there were fears it could prove to be the most powerful hurricane to hit Florida's east coast in nearly 30 years.
Late Friday, the National Hurricane Center's projected new track showed Dorian hitting near Fort Pierce, some 70 miles (115 kilometers) north of Mar-a-Lago, then running along the coastline as it moved north. But forecasters cautioned that the storm's track was still highly uncertain and even a small deviation could put Dorian offshore or well inland.
Trump declared a state of emergency in Florida and authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster-relief efforts. He told reporters that "Mar-a-Lago can handle itself" and is more worried about Florida.
"This is big and is growing, and it still has some time to get worse," Julio Vasquez said at a Miami fast-food joint next to a gas station that had run out of fuel. "No one knows what can really happen. This is serious."
As Dorian closed in, it upended people's Labor Day weekend plans. Major airlines began allowing travelers to change their reservations without a fee. The big cruise lines began rerouting their ships. Disney World and the other resorts in Orlando found themselves in the storm's projected path.
Jessica Armesto and her 1-year-old daughter, Mila, had planned to have breakfast with Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy at Disney World. Instead, Armesto decided to take shelter at her mother's hurricane-resistant house in Miami with its kitchen full of nonperishable foods.
"It felt like it was better to be safe than sorry, so we canceled our plans," she said.
Still, with Dorian days away and its track uncertain, Disney and other major resorts held off announcing any closings, and Florida authorities ordered no immediate mass evacuations.
"Sometimes if you evacuate too soon, you may evacuate into the path of the storm if it changes," Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
Homeowners and businesses rushed to cover their windows with plywood. Supermarkets ran out of bottled water, and long lines formed at gas stations, with fuel shortages reported in places. The governor said the Florida Highway Patrol would begin escorting fuel trucks to help them get past the lines of waiting motorists and replenish gas stations.
At a Publix supermarket in Cocoa Beach, Ed Ciecirski of the customer service department said the pharmacy was extra busy with people rushing to fill prescriptions. The grocery was rationing bottled water and had run out of dry ice.
"It's hairy," he said.
As of 11 p.m. EDT, Dorian was centered about 375 miles (605 kilometers) east of the northwestern Bahamas. That was also about 545 miles (880 kilometers) east of West Palm Beach with the storm packing sustained winds of 140 mph (225 kph). It was moving west-northwest at 10 mph (17 kph). Forecasters warned that its slow movement could subject Florida to a prolonged and destructive pummeling from wind, storm surge and heavy rain.
Coastal areas could get 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 centimeters) of rain, with 18 inches (46 centimeters) in some places, triggering life-threatening flash floods, the hurricane center said. FEMA official Jeff Byard said Dorian is likely to "create a lot of havoc" for roads, power and other infrastructure.
Also imperiled were the Bahamas , where canned food and bottled water were disappearing quickly and the sound of hammering echoed across the islands as people boarded up their homes. Dorian was expected to hit by Sunday with the potential for life-threatening storm surge that could raise water levels 15 feet above normal.
"Do not be foolish and try to brave out this hurricane," Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said. "The price you may pay for not evacuating is your life."
In Florida, the governor urged nursing homes to take precautions to prevent tragedies like the one during Hurricane Irma two years ago, when the storm knocked out the air conditioning at a facility in Hollywood and 12 patients died in the sweltering heat. Four employees of the home were charged with manslaughter earlier this week.
DeSantis said the timely message from those arrests is: "It's your responsibility to make sure you have a plan in place to protect those folks."
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, NASA moved a 380-foot-high mobile launch platform to the safety of the colossal Vehicle Assembly Building, built to withstand 125 mph (200 kph) wind. The launcher is for the mega rocket that NASA is developing to take astronauts to the moon.
The hurricane season typically peaks between mid-August and late October. One of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S. was on Labor Day 1935. The unnamed Category 5 hurricane crashed ashore along Florida's Gulf Coast on Sept. 2. It was blamed for over 400 deaths.
Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein and Michael Balsamo in Washington; Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Marcia Dunn in Cape Canaveral, Florida; Freida Frisaro and Marcus Lim in Miami; Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida; and Bobby Caina Calvan in Tallahassee, Florida, contributed to this report.
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The Path on the Water

 John Teschner June 24, 2013

My grandmother was thirty-eight when her husband Doug was killed in a car accident on a business trip to Vermont. After she returned from the hospital, gathered her three boys, and told them their father was dead, my father, age twelve, had an urgent question: "What about Maine?"

Six years earlier, after two years renting lodging near a ruined fort that had once protected British settlers on the Pemaquid Peninsula from Indians, Frenchmen, and pirates, Grammie and Doug held their breaths and bought a two-bedroom cottage for ten thousand dollars. Every summer, she and the boys said goodbye to their friends in Westborough, MA and spent the summer beside the ocean. My father spent days rowing himself all over John's Bay and the Pemaquid River. On weekends he went fishing with his father; who arrived late Friday night and left early Monday morning, driving six hours straight to work as an executive at a tap and die factory in Worcester, where he earned the family's only income.

"Don't worry David," my grandmother told my dad. "We'll always have Maine."

Grammie had been an occupational therapist for a few months before her marriage, but she had no college degree and no idea how she would support the family when the insurance money ran out. A few months after the funeral, her mother convinced her to take a trip to Hawaii and escape the stress for a few days. A snowstorm was raging when she got back to Westborough, but it didn't prevent Grammie from dancing into Minuteman Travel Agency in leis and a grass skirt to thank them for planning her trip. The owner offered her a job on the spot. A few years later she helped open an agency in Damariscotta and winterized the summer cottage. After dating a few serious boyfriends, including "Mr. Wonderful" (her un-ironic phrase) whom my Uncle Jim recalls emerging from her bedroom on Christmas morning in a silk bathrobe, cigarette in hand, and who was later discovered to have drawers full of unpaid bills, she married the local surgeon, Alan Zeller.

In 1979, a year before I was born, my grandmother became Bette Teschner Zeller, and the house on John's Bay, two miles from Pemaquid Point and the open ocean, became TZ Manor. It is the only home I've returned to all my life.

…

We drove up from Virginia every summer. The final hour and a half of the journey, beginning at the B&M Baked Bean factory on the industrial fringe of Portland, was my first lesson in the structure of music, story, sex: anticipation, climax. First came Freeport, where the L.L. Bean store was open twenty-four hours a day, 364 days a year (and served free coffee after midnight, my grandmother always reminded us). Next was Bath, home of the Iron Works: dry docks, destroyers, a forty story crane that Grammie claimed was the tallest in the world for years after that ceased to be true. Wiscasset: with twin shipwrecks in the harbor that in my lifetime lost their masts, then decomposed into wood mulch islands sprouting pine saplings, then disappeared completely. Then familiar Damariscotta where Grammie did her shopping and we could buy G.I. Joe action figures in Reny's Underground.

Here we turned onto the Bristol Road and headed south down our peninsula, a twenty-minute drive that somehow seemed longer than the trip from Richmond to Boston. After glimpsing salty water at the Damariscotta River, we were inland again, passing boring old farmhouses, empty pastures, forests and swamps. When we finally reached the recycling center where the man threw bottles over his shoulder into color-coded bins without looking (another wonder my grandmother insisted we notice), we were three minutes away. Hanna's Garage, a glimpse of the bay, the Pemaquid Trail, pine forest, the bay again this time to stay. The flagpole where my grandmother danced at the news of my birth, the sea, the sunset visible through the windows of the dining room, my grandmother: talking long before we open the doors so that we tumble out of the car into the comforting white noise of a voice that would run uninterrupted for one week, two, until we are back in the car, turning in our seats to see her standing in the middle of the street waving and calling goodbye, goodbye until we turn the corner at the forest and begin the long, numbing trip back to Virginia, the weight that had lifted the instant I saw our own rocks and the sea and my grandmother opening the screen door settling in again, heavy at first, then almost forgotten until we returned to Maine and it lifted again.

Growing up, I believed I could only be happy if I lived by the sea. Nothing else would do. The idea of living on an inland body of water wasn't exactly repugnant to me, but it was no different than the idea of living beside a field of corn, a sub-division, or a forest of new growth pines, ordinary enough to be profoundly depressing. When I tried to explain why I felt this way, I decided it was because I could look at the ocean whenever my life felt claustrophobic and know that it connected to everywhere I'd rather be.

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I spent my first full summer in Maine when I was twenty-seven and in grad school. For exercise, I started rowing a little rowboat in a loop around John's Island. The first time it felt like an adventure, but soon it became a routine, though one that never bored me. From the mooring, I rowed northwest past the sand beach toward Knowles Rock, a reef outside the harbor where eider mothers tended dozens of fuzzy black ducklings. At high tide, I could pass a few inches over the rocks, looking down on lifted seaweed and the world below the surface it revealed. Then I rowed south down the west side of John's Island, where a pair of nesting ospreys carved threatening circles above me. I rowed in the evenings when I could; the light was better and the colors brighter, and when I reached the southern end of the island and angled east, I faced the setting sun.

The deck on TZ Manor faces west across John's Bay. My grandmother was enthusiastic about a lot of things in the world, nearly everything, ("All the new mammals and species they're discovering and people just want to kill each other," she remarked one morning as she read the paper), but I think she loved this sunset more than anything except maybe the moon and stars. When the sun dropped low enough to make a golden path across the bay, she would tell me: "This is when your grandfather Doug used to say, 'Whaddaya say Dave?' And your father would grab the rods and they'd go running out to the boat to go fishing for mackerel."

Rowing east, I'd zone out looking into the layered clouds and lacey contrails until I heard the noise that meant I was near the south point of John's Island, where the Atlantic Ocean rolled unimpeded from the bay mouth and whooshed and boomed on the long black rocks. I liked to cut it close as I made the turn towards home, rowing where the swells rose on my left as dark, deep water, lifted my boat, then slid away to my right, teal as a tropical sea and opaque like milk, foaming up the rock and returning to the ocean in hissing waterfalls.

I liked to fight the chop on windy days, but I also liked the uncanny calm that could settle over the water. I noticed each drop that fell from the oar blades and made interlocking ripples on the surface of the still, green water. The bronze oarlocks were dull green on the outside, but the oars had polished the insides all the way around. I could look up and see the gray sky sitting on the gray-green bay then sweep my gaze closer until I saw the darkness below the surface mingled with the clouds, then closer still, where the surface disappeared and I could see whatever was below me in that reverse world with a roof of air.

I liked being close to the ocean and the sky the way I like the darkness before sunrise and the slanted light on summer evenings and on long fall afternoons. It's always soothed me to be between things.

…

Just a few months after my summer in Maine, I came back again over winter break. This was December, 2008. My Uncle Jim was visiting from his home in France. One day he made a wreath from things growing in the yard, and the next day the four of us drove down to Westborough. We stopped outside the house on O'Neil Drive where Jim and my father grew up, then went on to the cemetery where a stone from John's Bay marked my grandfather's grave. We placed the wreath and shouted greetings down to Doug. He'd been dead for forty-four years.

"All I could think about," Jim told me later, "was that Ma's going to be down there with him before too long."

After that, I started getting ready for Grammie's death. I did it by imagining a world without her in it. At first it was a thought exercise, like trying to imagine a world without gravity, but finally it became a shadow world that ran for two years in weirdly comforting parallel to the world where she was undiminished. When my father finally called to tell me she'd been diagnosed with untreatable cancer, I was ready to switch the old world out for the new one. Change and loss were natural I told myself, there was no point in grieving the inevitable. I'd just moved to Minneapolis, and I was unemployed. I booked a ticket to come to Maine for two weeks at the end of June.

On that visit I used my camera to record grainy videos of my grandmother doing the things she'd done all my life: going around the living room at the end of the evening, turning off the lights one by one and narrating, as she did every night, why some stayed on and some went off. Or operating the animatronic toys she loved. I realized that although I'd been listening to her my whole life, I could never remember what she actually said. I was constantly interrupting a conversation to grab my journal and write something down. I knew she knew what I was doing, but I didn't want to spend the rest of my life telling those terrible stories about how great someone is without being able to offer a single concrete example that differentiates them from the trillions of other people who were loved just as much.

"Well, I don't think you should live each day because it could be your last," Grammie said on July 2. "But on the other hand, I do think you should seize the day and enjoy every moment."

…

I rowed alone that first week in Maine. I set out with my thoughts buzzing and heaving, but the rhythms of my shoulder blades turning the oars, and the steady rhythms of the sea, both large and small, worked out the knots until my thoughts ran smooth. There were summers when I never saw a harbor seal, but that summer I saw them every day. Fat, flippered dogs, they basked on Knowles Rock and slipped into the sea when I came close, surfacing a minute later behind my boat, inquisitive and impassive.

I thought of what they must see: a wavering path on the surface of the water, a double row of bubbling little vortices spaced evenly apart. Usually, all I could see was the calm, complex weaving on the metallic skin of the water. Sometimes I could see into the green and blue, a still world that started at the surface on which my small boat sat. Sometimes a seal followed me around the island.

The question that occurred to me as I rowed my teardrop loop was whether there was truly something particular to this place: the sea a vast, dead breathing thing, the salt mist of the open water mingled with the sweet, loamy smell of the pine forest, everything in motion, the sound of breaking surf and lapping waves, gull scream, the wing-whack of ducks taking flight. Can I feel this way anywhere else, was what I wondered.

I rowed over the waves at the tip of John's Island, feeling them suck me toward the rocks but never taking me with them. They were strongest, best, most frightening, when the tide was incoming. And that was when it felt like I was flying home on the last leg of the journey, across the deepest water, with nothing at my back except my grandmother's house.

I went around the island nearly every day, and every day Grammie greeted me, nearly shouting, as was her wont, "My God! You were so fast! Gramps and I were flabbergasted! We watched through the binocs until you disappeared behind John's Island and we waited and waited and then you came around the other side and we were so excited." Her wonder so great, as if I'd crossed into death and out the other side: my disappearing/ reappearing act.

Grammie and Gramps were worried about the eiders. There should have been flotillas of little black puffballs in front of the house by now, swimming tight together behind their mothers. It was never easy to be an eider duckling. Black back gulls were always grabbing stragglers. But this summer it seemed like something had gone terribly wrong. It was the Summer of Recovery, of oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. Once when I walked up behind my grandmother and put my hand on her narrow shoulder, she guided it down her back until I was touching a knobby purple melanoma the size of my hand and hard like a bone.

When Liz arrived the second week, I rowed with her. This was not as soothing or as wholesome, but good in a different way. I got to look at her, sitting in the stern. She was beautiful, and her happiness made her more beautiful, and I knew the happiness came from being with me. We went for a long row after lunch on Friday, earlier than usual because Grammie and Gramps were gone for the day. They'd gone down to the cancer clinic in Boston. It was a clear, hot afternoon. The sky was pale blue scattered with good, white cumulus clouds, and the sea was dark blue and spangled by sunlight. We planned to row all the way to the Point, but when we came around some rocks expecting to see the lighthouse and instead saw only more shore, we decided we'd gone far enough.

When Liz got queasy and lay in the bottom of the boat to doze, I was alone. It was odd to row across the open water, with only the perfect line of the horizon beyond. I saw a dolphin traveling the same direction we were, towards the Thread of Life. We came home along the west bank of John's Bay. The houses, inlets and rocks were unfamiliar to me and I was surprised to realize there could be so much here I didn't know. Things changed after we got back. The doctors in Boston told Grammie and Gramps about some experimental trials, and they were already making plans to ride the bus every other week for treatment. In hindsight, I don't think I ever really believed Grammie would get better, not for much longer anyway, but the small hope meant that for the rest of week I could stop saying goodbye to everything all the time.

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At the end of the second week Liz left for the airport on an early bus. I had six hours before Grammie drove me to Portland so I went for one last row after lunch. Alone again, I had the teeming, monkey-chatter thoughts I always had when I set out. But this time they were worse than normal, mean-spirited, calculating, and speculative. They were about what would happen to Grammie's estate. It was something I'd told my brother it was foolish to worry about. But now I could not clear my head, not as I passed Knowles Rock looking for eider ducklings, not as I whistled at the curious seals, not as I passed the north point of John's Island.

The world seemed a seething, bitter, unjust place, and I seemed naïve not to have recognized this sooner. I wondered why my row was exacerbating these thoughts, rather than dissolving them as it always had before. I decided it was the time of day: mid-day. The sunlight fell clear and dull, flattening colors. It was a time in the center, a non-time, neither coming nor going. It was a bad time to be alone, to be traveling in a circle. It was the time of day when so often in the last two years, I'd finish writing and become aware of the emptiness of my house.

As I made the turn around the island, I thought of how my father used to row around the bay when he was a boy. Rowing made me feel right, and I realized I'd inherited that the way he'd inherited his love of fishing. As I fought the waves at the tip of the island, my thoughts turned to high school wrestling, the singular experience of facing down another man in the ring, of trying to physically dominate or be dominated. My great fear was of being seen, of others knowing more about me than I knew of myself. As I rowed home with my back to Grammie's house, over the deepest water, I thought of how I'd seen her that morning. We'd walked to a neighbor's to deliver some cookies and found a little girl alone on the porch. The girl stood there frozen, looking mildly terrified, as my grinning, incoherently exclaiming grandmother bore down on her in the patriotically sequined stovepipe hat she'd been wearing all summer.

I realized Grammie was like one of those enormous ships I'd seen under construction in the Bath boatyards, loaded with goodwill and moving at full steam. I'd been sailing aboard the SS Bette for so long, I'd long ago stopped to consider just how great she was, how much dark water she displaced.

Six months later, she was dead.

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A few weeks ago, Liz and I went up to Maine for our third summer without Grammie. Gramps is still "hanging in there" to use his phrase. He's grown a handsome beard and keeps well through hot tub skinny dips, afternoon rides on his exercise bikes, and rum cocktails. He's stopped building his famous makeshift docks across the rocks, so it's hard to get the rowboat into the water. Last year my brother helped me haul it over the seaweed once or twice. This year, it stayed on the lawn. I still love chilling with Gramps, still love TZ Manor, but when we pull into the driveway, I can feel the weight not lifting the way it used to, and for the rest of the week it feels all the heavier for that. There are always moments, conversations on the rocks at sunset, a perfect cocktail hour on the deck, but TZ Manor has become more and more like the rest of the world.

The strange thing is that I've started to notice the places I used to overlook: the in-between places on the car trips, the old farmhouses with their fields ending in forests and no view of the water, the places that look like a lot like Northern Minnesota. It started on our last night in Maine on that summer of lasts, when Grammie and Gramps went to a birthday party and Liz and I borrowed the car to drive to Damariscotta for dinner.

It was dusk, and the Bristol Road was as idyllic as anything I'd ever seen: cozy houses with fruit trees and green lawns. Liz and I were talking about change. I was arguing that loss and pain are inevitable: to depend on anything is foolish and to grieve is unnecessary. We passed an old farmhouse with rows of gnarled grape vines growing in the yard, and a sentence came into my head unbidden: "This is the kind of place you want to hold on to forever." Suddenly I felt overwhelmingly sad. Time was passing, this perfect place and perfect moment, perfect evening, perfect life, was ending as we lived it.

The sadness was sweet. It was a feeling that couldn't be called pleasure or pain, like the unbearable anticipation I'd felt on my way to Maine as a boy. But unlike that feeling, this sadness released tension instead of cranking it up. It was the feeling I'd had two weeks before at the beginning of my visit, after Grammie, and Gramps, and I had cocktails on the porch, then drove to Round Pond for lobsters and oysters and clams on the wharf. Grammie had drunk more than we realized and the car was swerving on the narrow road as she tried to figure out her high beams while singing along to the CD of big band music that had come as a gift from the Paralyzed Veterans of America. Just as we pulled safely into the driveway, the first notes of "By the Light of the Silvery Moon," Grammie's favorite song, began to play. Gramps and I hopped out, but she stayed in the car with the engine running, listening. As a joke, Gramps raised his arms to pull down the garage door and leave her in there for the night. But he stopped with both hands raised above his head.

It was past nine o'clock. The sun was down; the water shimmered pink and silver and black. The moon was up, and the evening star. The sunsets were everyone's, but the bay at night, the moon and the Milky Way, were something Grammie and I had shared since I was little boy. The night before she'd called me out see the unbelievable silver brightness of the moonlight on the water. We'd stood in the dark together, listening to the invisible waves. Now I was alone on the lawn in the dusk. Gramps was in the driveway, illuminated by the taillights, his arms still raised above his head until he finally let them drop and we both just stood there, listening, as the minutes passed and the stars came out and the shimmer bled from the sea, as one song ended and a new one began, as Grammie sat in the dark garage, not yet ready to turn the ignition and end the music. It was June 21, the summer solstice, the shortest night of the year.

John Teschner's stories and essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Florida Review and other journals. He is completing a collection of linked stories and beginning his first novel. He lives in Minneapolis.

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Home Out and About in Dumfries & Galloway Dumfries Gears Up for Nithraid 2019
Dumfries Gears Up for Nithraid 2019
The Stove Network pave the way for their seventh annual Nithraid River Festival at the end of this month with a series of events and activities for the Dumfries and Galloway community to get involved with in the lead up to a day of free, family activities and fun down by the river on Saturday 31st August.
Project Manager, Sal Cuddihy, commented: 'It's really exciting to see the event continue to grow and change with each passing year, and we're looking forward to our biggest and best Nithraid ever at the end of this month. We've been overwhelmed by the support of local businesses and community groups this year – Dumfries is definitely pulling together for the Nithraid!'
This year, the Salty Coo procession is being led by Blueprint100, an open and inviting group who provide creative experiences and opportunities for young people under the age of 30. Over the last two months, the Blueprint100 team have been hosting workshops with various local community organisations to create banners and flags which represent themselves or their community to carry in this year's procession.
Jordan Chisholm, lead artist for the procession, commented: 'Our theme for this year's procession is 'powerful communities' and we have been working on making this the biggest and best one yet by getting as many Doonhamers involved as possible and inviting them to walk side by side with us on the day of Nithraid.'
On Friday 16th at 7pm, the Stove's monthly pop-up cinema, Reel to Real, will be screening 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou', from renowned director Wes Anderson, featuring an all-star cast which includes Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett and Anjelica Houston. The Stove Cafe will be open from 6pm serving pre-film supper for £5 per person and there will be an opportunity for discussion after the film over a complimentary drink.
On Friday 30th August, the River Festival celebrations begin with the Stove's monthly open mic night, Brave New Words, moving to the Mill Green for one night only. The evening invites the public to sign up to perform spoken word poetry, play music, screen a film or just enjoy the spectacle. Sign up on the night! The evening will also feature a special performance from contemporary folk-fusion band, Reidhle and a bar serving locally produced ales
Saturday 31st August sees the seventh staging of the Stove Network's annual Nithraid River Festival on the Mill Green. The community-led event starts with a sailing race, leaving Carsethorn at 11.30am, with boats expected to arrive in town from 12.45pm onwards. The Procession of the Salty Coo leaves the Stove at 11.30am and arrives at the Nithraid Village on the Mill Green, where there will be a jam-packed day of family fun, including live music, food and activities.
Nithraid Nighttime begins at 7pm and features a specially commissioned light installation called 'Nithlight', which can be enjoyed on the Mill Green or from across the River. This year, several pubs around the town are also celebrating Nithraid 2019 and are hosting a range of musical acts, including Tam's Twin Sister at the recently re-opened Douglas Arms on the Vennel, Daz McCormick at the Stag and the Mindsweepers at the Queen of the South Bar.
For more information and to view a full schedule of events, please visit the Nithraid website: www.thestove.org/nithraid
Nithraid 2019 is funded and sponsored by: The Holywood Trust, Creative Scotland, The National Lottery, Dumfries & Galloway Council Growth Fund, The Robertson Trust, The Barfil Trust and SP Energy.
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Gloria Chu works as a staff/assistant auditor at EY (formerly Ernst & Young). She graduated from Mihaylo College in spring 2017 with a concentration in accounting.
Anyone will tell you that when it comes to landing a full-time job after graduation, it is important to stand out. During her time at Mihaylo College, Gloria Chu '17 (accounting) did just that.
She was certainly busy. Between keeping up with classes, taking on leadership roles in student clubs and being an on-campus tutor, Chu juggled a lot of responsibilities (and puppies, apparently). Throughout all of that, she was working toward her goal of joining one of the top accounting firms in the world.
After graduating, Chu saw her dream become a reality. But the journey wasn't easy: It took dedication to her classes and grades, commitment to networking and connecting with professionals, and resilience during the recruitment process. Chu's hard work and dedication paid off as she successfully navigated the process of recruiting for a Big Four accounting firm.
Tell us a little bit about your job and the journey you took to get to where you are now.
As of September 2017, I work as a staff/assistant auditor at EY. In its simplest form, I basically assist and help teams complete audits – making sure a company's financial statements are accurate and fair, their internal controls are operating properly, and assessing their financial operations. There's a lot more that goes into it, and I wish I could fully explain it, but I'm still learning the whole process of what goes into an audit myself.
My journey began in my sophomore year when I first started looking into accounting and all of its opportunities. I successfully recruited in fall 2015, when I received my internship offer, and it's all been a whirlwind since it happened!
Gloria Chu at the Mihaylo College Meet the Firms accounting recruiting event.
What's the typical recruiting process for a Big Four accounting firm?
Regardless of whether it's a Big Four, mid-tier, regional, or local firm, the recruiting process is generally the same for all public accounting firms.
Most companies will have internship offers for those who have one summer left until their graduation and full-time offers for those graduating in the upcoming spring semester. Summer leadership programs, or SLPs, are less common among regional and local firms, although many are starting to implement them. These are geared toward sophomores or those who have two summers left until graduation.
You can potentially receive an internship offer when you finish attending a firm's SLP, and you can potentially receive a full-time offer once you finish a company's internship.
Some companies are now also hosting freshman programs for first-years, giving students an additional opportunity to get some insight into the public accounting field. I would say to apply to their programs as soon as you can, because the more exposure you get to a firm and the more networking you do, the better off you are in the recruitment process.
Among the options (tax, audit, advisory, etc.), what specialty within accounting did you choose and why?
I chose to pursue audit for many reasons, but mainly because I like the aspect of learning how a company operates and how its respective industry works. The amount of face time I get with clients is also a bonus – almost every day, I get to talk to clients and learn how to adapt to each client's communication style and do something different. I also love the aspect of travelling for work as well – to be able to work in different environments makes the job a lot more exciting. Just recently, I was in Seattle working for a client.
How did you decide between public and private accounting?
During my recruiting process, I had the chance to talk to many professionals and campus ambassadors, and from their perspective and their experiences I realized I'd be much happier in public accounting. You learn so much about a business and its industry so quickly, all in such a relatively short amount of time. It's very fast-paced, but I really enjoy challenging myself and learning as much as I can. I already feel like I have grown so much professionally and personally just within the past few months since starting this job.
What were your extracurricular activities at Mihaylo?
Starting in my sophomore year and all the way up until graduation, I was heavily involved with Accounting Society and took on multiple leadership positions within that organization. In Accounting Society and Beta Alpha Psi, I participated in the mentoring programs and career development workshops every semester. Through these organizations, I was also able to help students who are or will be going through the recruitment process. Being in Accounting Society was pivotal to my career goals, because in my opinion, it was the best way to get exposure and to learn about the field in general.
One of my fondest memories at CSUF was when I had just been elected executive vice president of Accounting Society. I worked with another student leader from Beta Alpha Psi to host our semi-annual joint board meeting between our two organizations, and it was one of the most gratifying moments in my college career. Just knowing we could lead the organization and give others the same experience as I had a few semesters back is really heartwarming.
Besides being involved in student organizations, I also started working as a tutor at the Mihaylo College Tutoring Center in my junior year. Being able to work there was an incredible experience, and not just because I've made some of my closest friends there. It was also because I was able to meet so many other students and learn how to communicate, adapt and teach others. I feel like I've developed more empathy and patience during my time here too – a necessary skill for the professional world.
Which faculty members helped you reach your career goals?
Professors Glen Hatton and Randy Hoffman, who taught financial and managerial accounting, were instrumental in helping me realize that I really wanted to go into accounting. Their experiences and insights helped me gain an understanding of what becoming an auditor (or even a public accountant in general) entails. My cost accounting professor, Elisa Lee, is amazing in that she's given me a lot of great advice about working in this field as well.
Do you have any tips for a successful job interview?
Definitely come into the room prepared and well-researched; you don't want to give your interviewer the impression that you don't care about the interview or don't care enough about the company to look into the basics of the firm. I think the most important aspect of the interview, however, is to be yourself and be confident. It's crucial to remember that an interview is a two-way street in that you're also deciding if this company fits your needs and supports your goals. I remember talking to a professional and asking if she had any tips for a successful interview, and she said, "If I'm talking to them (the interviewee) and they're nervous, how will I feel comfortable putting them in front of a client?" That piece of advice really changed the way I approached my interviews.
Students in accounting at Mihaylo College have a wealth of resources to help them achieve their career goals. Between student clubs, like Accounting Society and Beta Alpha Psi as well as job fairs hosted by the Mihaylo Career Center, there is no shortage of resources for students looking to further their knowledge of the accounting field.
For more information on the Mihaylo College accounting program, visit the Department of Accounting in SGMH 4313. Want to hear more from successful Mihaylo alumni on their "Careers in Accounting"? Check out our article to read about Lia Larasati '17 and her journey to Pricewaterhouse Coopers.


Disney (DIS) is reportedly carrying out a cost-cutting review that could include reducing staff at its studio and other operations. Disney is particularly looking at jobs that aren't needed anymore because of technological improvements, and at redundant operations. At Disney's studio, the strategy has changed to focus on fewer films and use outside production companies more.
started an internal cost cutting review several weeks ago that may include layoffs at its studio and other units, three people with knowledge of the effort told Reuters.
Disney, whose empire spans TV, film, merchandise and theme parks, is exploring cutbacks in jobs no longer needed because of improvements in technology, one of the people said.
It is also looking at redundant operations that could be eliminated after a string of major acquisitions over the past few years, said the person, who did not want to be identified because Disney has not disclosed the internal review.
Executives warned in November that the rising cost of sports rights and moribund home video sales will dampen growth.
"We are constantly looking at eliminating redundancies and creating greater efficiencies, especially with the rapid rise in new technology," said Disney spokeswoman Zenia Mucha.
In terms of profit margin, Disney's studio is the least profitable of the entertainment conglomerate's four major product divisions.
Its fifth division, the interactive unit that creates online games, lost $758 million over the last three years, according to the company's financial filings.
Disney could trim jobs at both the studio and interactive divisions as well as its music arm, said Tony Wible, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott, who has a neutral rating on the company's stock.
The media company is in what CEO Bob Iger calls a "transition year" after spending on projects such as the "Cars Land" expansion at the Disneyland Resort in California and a new cruise ship that launched last year.
"We invested a lot of money in our theme parks and resorts business," Disney chief financial officer Jay Rasulo told a media conference in December. "We want to execute against delivering the returns that we've been promising all of you for the years that we've been making those investments. We really want to hunker down on it."
Staff cuts are not a certainty at this point, the person added, although the company has a history of streamlining operations through layoffs.
"This is not necessarily a negative thing," said Michael Morris, an analyst with Davenport and Company who has a buy recommendation on the stock but was not aware of the review.
"It speaks to a fiscally responsible management."
Walt Disney increased its earnings by 18 percent to $5.7 billion in its 2012 fiscal year that ended September 29, on $42.3 billion in revenues.
The present review, headed by CFO Rasulo, has already identified areas to change in the company's travel policy, said one of the people. It is also looking at a hiring freeze rather than layoffs, said a second source.
Cuts are most likely at the studio, said two of the three people, where the strategy has changed to focus on fewer films and rely more on outside producers such as Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks studio, which finances its own films and pays Disney a fee to market and distribute them.
The film strategy shift began when Iger took over as CEO in late 2005. Under Iger, the company purchased "Toy Story" creator Pixar Animation and Marvel, which brought it characters such as "Thor" and "Iron Man" that featured in this summer's blockbuster hit "The Avengers."
The studio's 12.3 percent profit margin in 2012 was the lowest of Disney's four major operating units. The interactive unit lost $216 million last year.
Shares in the company gained 1.9 percent to close Friday at $52.19.


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Pakistani students develop mini car that runs 180 km in 1 litre
admin February 21, 2017 Pakistani students develop mini car that runs 180 km in 1 litre2017-02-21T22:57:14+00:00 BreakingNews, Technology No Comment
PESHAWAR – A group of students of Sarhad University in Peshawar have developed a special tiny car, aimed to deal with fuel shortages and rising motor costs in the country.
The car, which covers 180 kilometre in 1 litre fuel will be showcased at an auto exhibition scheduled in Singapore.
The car is highly efficient as it runs on cutting-edge electronic fuel injection system used in cars and motorcycles.
Fuel injection is the introduction of fuel (diesel, petrol, gas etc) in internal combustion engine by the means of an injector.
Electronic Fuel Injection (EFI), controlled by a microprocessor control unit, is more reliable, efficient and cost-effective as compared to the mechanical system.
The car is small in size because the students have designed it by modifying a motorcycle engine.
The project is the first one to be selected in ten years for Shell Eco-marathon Asia that will happen in Singapore from February 16-19, 2017. About 100 teams from different countries in Asia will demonstrate their energy-efficient vehicles.
Pakistani students have proved their engineering prowess and creativity by participating in many international automotive contests and exhibitions.
In 2015, students of Pakistan Navy Engineering College (PNEC), NUST manufactured a 3-wheel Prototype and 4-wheel UrbanConcept fuel-efficient eco-friendly car which was capable of covering 150km/1 liter fuel.
Last year, Pakistan's first formula racing car – developed by students of NUST – had been selected as the only team from Asia to participate in the Formula SAE Lincoln 2016 Competition, NE, USA.
Moreover, a group of students from NED presented their formula car at Formula SAE Competition held in Italy the same year.
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Can Souls in Hell be Forgiven and Saved and Go to Heaven?
A poem death where is your sting?
Can dogs go to heaven?
How to comfort my sister about passing away?
Would an omniscient god reward my atheism?
Is a hell a good or bad place?
On William Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell"


New Jersey homeowners facing foreclosure deserve a "forbearance period" to attempt to straighten out their finances and seek mortgage modifications, according to state Sen. Ron Rice (D-Essex).
The Newark city councilman has introduced legislation that would require creditors to extend a six-month reprieve before foreclosing on people whose mortgages are "underwater," with property values that have dropped below the amounts of their loans.
With a foreclosure crisis looming in the state, the approach could help lenders ultimately retain much of the value on loans rather than take large losses, while preserving communities and neighborhoods by keeping people in their homes, Rice said.
The measure follows the announcement of an estimated $26 billion national settlement between most states and five major lenders: Ally Financial (formerly GMAC), Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo. Under the deal, which has not yet been filed, New Jersey and its residents would get about $837 million for housing and mortgage relief.
"I'm try to supplement the national settlement, because first of all, we don't know how that's going to work out," so the state should be prepared with its efforts, Rice said. He pointed to legislation introduced earlier this month by state Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) to buy up foreclosed properties but make them available again as affordable housing.
Senate Democrats highlighted Rice's legislation in a press release, and Jason Butkowski, their assistant communications director, said it stands a good chance of passage because it dovetails with the other measures.
"There are a lot of ideas right now about how to deal with foreclosures, and [Rice's bill] could fit in with the others," he said.
Rice was cautious, pointing out that Gov. Chris Christie has not weighed in on the legislation, but said he believes politicians across the spectrum in New Jersey want to keep people in their homes where possible. In cases where housing values have plummeted since the bursting of the housing bubble, borrowers should not be victimized by factors beyond their control, he said.
"Many, through no fault of their own, can't keep up," Rice said, pointing out the measure is designed to be a temporary fix to "extreme circumstances."
Borrowers would be eligible if they had been in the home for two years prior to a foreclosure notice, if it were their primary residence, and if the principle amount on their mortgage were more than 110 percent of the property's fair market value. Under the proposal, creditors would be required to give them a six-month period to work out loan modification's through the Foreclosure Mediation Program.
Creditors would be exempt if they offered what Democrats describe as "a sustainable" loan modification, which the bill defines as a principal write-down or a reduction in the borrower's monthly mortgage payment up to 30 percent or less of the borrower's gross monthly income and approved by a court.
The program would sunset in three years, ending at the same time as the anticipated close of the bank payouts under the national settlement, Rice said. But if an individual forbearance period had not been completed by that date, it would be allowed to run its full course, he said.
The program is not anticipated to require state funds, "but since the Obama [settlement] money is going to be coming in, the question is if there's anything the state could do" to assist homeowners without affecting its own budget, Rice said.
Rice noted that banks have been taking a beating on foreclosures, with the properties standing vacant or reselling for far less than the previous mortgage. In January, RealtyTrac reported that homes in the Trenton-Ewing Township area have the largest price gap in the nation between those that come on the market by normal means and those in foreclosure or already bank-owned.
With an estimated backlog of 50,000 to 100,000 foreclosures in the state, banks' returns are likely to go down if they all come on the market quickly, Rice said.
"I'm doing this to help homeowners and communities, but also to help the financial institutions so they don't take losses of the amounts they're facing," he said.
The foreclosure backlog built up during a moratorium initiated by New Jersey Chief Justice Stuart Rabner in December 2010, following a report from Legal Services of New Jersey highlighting abuses in foreclosure cases here and elsewhere in the nation.
Foreclosures dropped to a trickle in the first half of last year, as court-appointed masters looked at the internal document-handling procedures of the six largest lenders, and another group of two-dozen large banks that are active but not dominant in the New Jersey market.
As banks were approved to resume, foreclosures began to pick up but were still held down by two legal clouds. One apparently has been cleared up by the national settlement. In return for the money, the participating states would be barred from pursuing claims over the most commonly cited abuse, the use of falsely sworn affidavits to support foreclosures, often called "robo-signing."
The state Supreme Court blew away the other on Monday, resolving conflicting appellate rulings in a decision that technically favored borrowers but at the same time dropped hurdles to foreclosure. The justices ruled that the name and location of the actual holder of a mortgage note must be properly listed on a notice of foreclosure.
But the High Court found that judges can allow errors to be rectified through a corrected notice -- instead of throwing out the case and starting again. They also ruled that a $120 overcharge for a title fee is not sufficient grounds to rescind a creditor's title claim.
Those issues had shrouded the status of many already filed foreclosure actions. They did not prevent lenders from filing new foreclosure notices that properly listed current lenders' names and address. But some banks cited uncertainty over the outcome as a voluntary reason to delay.
Rice's bill likely will be referred to the Senate commerce committee.


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Flashback: Paul McCartney Plays a Beatles Medley in 1989
Paul McCartney was extremely busy in the 1980s creating solo records, film soundtracks, music videos, his own movie and even a couple of duets with Michael Jackson. The one thing he didn't really do was tour. Wings did quite a few shows in the 1970s, but the band ended in 1980 when McCartney was busted for weed in Tokyo and thrown in jail before they could do a single gig that year. It was an experience that made him a little skittish about getting back on the road, but in 1989 he had a great new record with Flowers in the Dirt and he decided to promote it with a stadium tour, playing for the first time under his own name as opposed to Wings.
He couldn't have attempted a comeback during a summer where there was more competition for the classic-rock dollar. The Rolling Stones and the Who were also out playing stadiums after staying off the road for most of the decade. If that wasn't enough, Pink Floyd were hitting stadiums all across Europe, the Grateful Dead were still selling insane amounts of tickets post-"Touch of Grey" and even Ringo Starr was out hitting the sheds on his first All Starr Band tour.
But even with all that competition, Paul McCartney sold out most everywhere he went. No member of the Beatles had toured in the 1980s up until that point. Further sweetening the deal was his decision to pack the show with Beatles classics, many of which he hadn't sang since the group split. Wings played a handful of Beatles songs on their 1975-76 and 1979 tours, but it was nothing like this. Check out video of McCartney tearing into "The Long and Winding Road," "Fool on the Hill" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" on that tour. As you can see, he paired the songs with video from the time period, making for a full-on nostalgia fest.
McCartney toured again in 1993, but wouldn't go back out again after that until 2002. The only member from the 1989 touring band that remained for that run was keyboardist Paul "Wix" Wickens. The 2002 band, amazingly, remains completely unchanged to this day. They've toured most every year and will be back out again in 2019 to promote McCartney's new album Egypt Station. If their set at Grand Central Station is any indication, it's going to be an amazing show.
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Black Hole: New tier of gear in 1.2, has three tiers: MK-1, MK-2, and MK-3. MK-1 is available for purchase via Black Hole Commendations while MK-2 and MK-3 are drops from Storymode EC last boss and Hardmode EC. Has set bonus.
Campaign gear: New tier of gear in 1.2. Obtained from Hardmode EC. Has identical set bonus to Rakata.
Pattern for EV/KP: 5 bosses per operation instance, each operation boss drops loot of two tier grades (Columi/Tionese for normal, Rakata/Columi for hardmode/nightmare). The two operations have loots that are complement of each other, meaning that each boss in the two operations will drop the same pieces, with the grades switched around (i.e. Boss 1 of EV and KP both drops gloves and headpieces. in EV HM, you have Rakata gloves and Exotech headpiece. In KP-HM, you have Exotech gloves, and Rakata headpiece).
Info for Hardmode EC came from various posters on swtor.com, commenters on dulfy.net and also guild <Rutilus Nex> on The Twin Spears Server. Thank you for the info!
Another excellent resource! Thanks much!
Energized/Xenotech appears togheter I think, I dropped Energized's Gloves from Bonethrasher in normal mode, anyway great guide!
People keep saying only Black Hole pants drop from the end of Story Mode EC. We didn't have any pants, but a chest dropped.
Hm kephess a mainland not offhand?
Explosive Conflict Story Mode: Kephess drops Black Hole MK1 gloves and chest confirmed. Not sure what else he may drop as those are the only two Black Hole items we saw.
the crystal is not specific to any boss, we had it drop off the bonus chests lying around the instance as well.
Yep, snagged my purple/black in the chest just after Tanks.
where do campaign boots drop??
Dulfy since you are the king/queen of making awesome guides for FPs and Loot I was wondering if you had an Explosive Conflict guide in the works anytime soon???
http://mmo-mechanics.com/swtor/forums/Forum-Tier-2-Operations although the info there is kinda scattered and some stuff are not really accurate. You sort of have to read multiple posts from different people etc to get the big picture.
http://troopercommando.com/ also have some strats etc but the thing is they don't go into detail into the stuff that will likely wipe you raid – i.e. stuff like how to counter gift of the masters on hardmode Kephess etc.
Alright thats what Im talking about…Much appreciated Dulfy!!!
dulfy do lvl 61 mods drop in hm ec like the 58 mods drop in hm kp and ev?
Are you going to add the TFB drops list in the table?
I pull a trooper main hand rakata weapon out of EV on hard.


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