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Volume 2: Issue 9 | Date: October 29, 2018
PRIVATE CLIENT NEWSLETTER
You are receiving this letter because you are either a high-net-worth client of Blackburne & Sons Realty Capital Corporation (since 1980) or you once applied for a commercial real estate loan of $1 million or more using C-Loans.com or CommercialMortgage.com. Blackburne & Sons and C-Loans, Inc. are sister companies.
Today we'll discuss how China is challenging the U.S. with a new economic system called, "Authoritarian Capitalism". Today we have lots of cute, clean jokes, some funny pics, and a short but hilarious video of a cat chasing a ball. Total nutcase. Removal Instructions are below.
Joke Du Jour
Two mice meet and start chatting. "Look," says one after a while, "I've got a new boyfriend!" She shows a picture on her mobile phone to her girlfriend. "OMG," cries the other mouse, "that's a bat!" "What?!" replies the first mouse. "The guy told me he was a pilot!"
You Are Now a Private Client of Blackburne & Sons
Please be sure to tell us when you call. "George asked me to mention that I am a Private Client of the firm." My loan officers are trained to snap to attention. Our commercial mortgage office number is 916-338-3232. Alternatively, you can apply for a commercial real estate loan or a non-owner-occuried home loan by clicking here.
I Said I was Sorry...
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Ten Miles Joke
When I was a kid, we walked 10 miles to school every day, sometimes in the rain or snow. Man, did we feel stupid when we found out there was a bus.
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- Today's Observation -
CHINA'S AUTHORITARIAN CAPITALISM
"China is already challenging the US for technological and geopolitical primacy and flaunting its authoritarian capitalism as an alternative to democracy. Communism couldn't pose a credible challenge to liberal democracy, but authoritarian capitalism might. In that sense, China's model represents the first major challenge to liberal democracy since the rise of Nazism." — Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate
Authoritarian capitalism is characterized by the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to the authority of the state at the expense of personal freedom, coupled with an economic system in which trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Authoritarian capitalism has been tried at least three times in the modern era, and each time it has worked pretty well, for awhile at least. Is authoritarian capitalism, in fact, better than liberal democracy?
By 1922, the Russian Civil War (1918-1922) had reduced the economy of Soviet Russia to tatters. Vladimir Lenin therefore implemented the New Economic Policy ("NEP") as a temporary expedient. Lenin characterized the NEP in 1922 as an economic system that would include "a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control", while socialized state enterprises would operate on "a profit basis".
The NEP represented a more market-oriented economic policy to foster the economy of the country, which had suffered severely since 1914. The Soviet authorities partially revoked the complete nationalization of industry (established during the period of War Communism of 1918 to 1921) and introduced a system of mixed economy which allowed private individuals to own small enterprises, while the state continued to control banks, foreign trade, and large industries. In addition, the NEP abolished forced grain-requisition and instead introduced a tax on farmers, payable in the form of raw agricultural product.
The result? The Russian economy rebounded strongly. Food production, for example, soared because Russian farmers were now allowed to sell some of their production for cash and thereby had an incentive to produce more. Unfortunately for the Russian people, Lenin died in 1924, and Joseph Stalin discontinued the program in 1928.
In 1932, in the dying days of the Weimar Republic in Germany, 5.6 million Germans were unemployed – many of whom gave their support to the Nazi Party as the only party that offered them hope. By 1934, this unemployment figure had fallen to 2.7 million – a seemingly impossible decrease. By 1936, only 1.6 million people were unemployed, and by 1938 the figure was 0.4 million. Therefore in five years, unemployment had fallen by 5.4 million – 96%. No other west European country came anywhere near this figure – hence it was labelled the "German economic miracle".
In 1990 the GDP of China was just $360 billion. By 2017, the Chinese GDP had skyrocketed to $12.24 trillion - that's trillion with a "T". A reasonable man might ask, "Is authoritarian capitalism a better economic system than social democracy?" Well, we can reasonably say that its a heck of a lot better than pure communism.
We'll never know how well Lenin's New Economic Policy would have performed in the long run because Joseph Stalin terminated the policy in 1928. The kulaks were the high-income farmers of Russia. In 1929 Stalin ordered the elimination of the kulaks as a class, and 1.3 million kulaks were deported, starved to death, and murdered. This kind of casts a pall over the term, "authoritarian".
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Monster Joke
Two monsters went to a Halloween party. Suddenly one said to the other, "A lady just rolled her eyes at me. What should I do?" The other monster replied, "Be a gentleman and roll them back to her."
If You Cannot Find a Lender on C-Loans, Then Try Our 2nd Portal
We actually own another commercial mortgage portal, CommercialMortgage.com ("CMDC"). I paid $100,000 just for that domain name. Ouch. Actually it was very worth it. Anyway, CMDC is a much easier and faster commercial mortgage portal than C-Loans. In addition, CMDC enjoys over 3,000 different commercial lenders.
So why shouldn't you just always use CommercialMortgage.com? Unlike CMDC, C-Loans.com actually allows you to submit your commercial loan to dozens and dozens of commercial lenders, six lenders at a time. But if C-Loans doesn't produce just the right lender, then you should move on to CommercialMortgage.com. And best of all, both our our commercial mortgage portals are 100% free.
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Don't Be Afraid of 7% to 12% First Trust Deeds. We Have Been Selling Them For Almost 40 Years
Blackburne & Sons Realty Capital Corporation was founded way back in 1980. George Blackburne III is an attorney, licensed in both California and Indiana. If you can net 9% interest, you can almost live off your interest (assuming you have a reasonable amount of capital). Important note: If you reside outside of California, you must be an accredited investor. Please click here to receive investment offerings.
Weather Girl Joke
The weather girl reports, "…. and because of the cold front coming in from Northeast, we can expect about three-inches of snow, or as my colleague, Bill, would say, eight-inches."
Here's Why You Want to Stay Close to Blackburne & Sons
Founded in 1980, Blackburne & Sons is an old-time syndicator. There are very few of us left. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 pretty much nuked the whole syndication industry off the face of the Earth. Because you know a syndicator, you now have access to some special money.
If you need a fix and flip loan, a buy-to-rent loan, a bridge loan, or even a permanent loan on, say, your single-wide trailer park in Georgia, we'll make you a private money loan. We've been syndicating hard money loans for 38 years.
If you have some dough set aside for your kid's college, and you want to be extra careful with it, we'll put you into a first trust deed investment (6% to 9% yields) on, say, a nice 8-unit apartment building in San Jose, California.
Let's suppose you are richer than Crassus, and you want to speculate in 11% and 12% first trust deeds. We've got them.
Do you find yields of even 11% to 12% too tame? Want a chance to earn 16% or 17%? We put together syndicates to make preferred equity investments.
Are you a wise investor? We put together syndicates to buy investment properties for all cash. (This strategy has my strongest recommendation.) Because you would own the property free and clear, you should be able to weather just about any recession. Right now we are buying industrial buildings close to downtowns in big California cities.
We have not yet raised equity capital for a developer, but if someone brought us a development deal on a small, multi-tenant industrial building located within a mile of downtown of a large California city, we would definitely take a look at it.
Do you own any first mortgage notes? Want to sell a note at a discount? Better yet, why not simply borrow against it? This is called a hypothecation, and we do 'em.
Please be very wise and play close attention to the following:
Because every loan we make is a new syndicate (as opposed to a fund investment), Blackburne & Sons is always in the market.
When the stock market has fallen by 40%, when real estate values are falling like a knife, and when your own bank is too terrified to lend you a dime, Blackburne & Sons always has a group of savvy investors willing to lend - admittedly at a price - when blood is running in the streets. We are one of a tiny handful of lenders who remained in the market, making loans, every single day of the Great Recession.
So stick close to us. Syndicators are pretty rare, and now you know one.
And Stop Pinching My Buns!
- Continued -
The German economic miracle was not quite what it seemed either. First of all, between 1933 and 1939, a series of laws were passed that effectively made it impossible for Jews to hold a job in Germany. As Jews fled Germany, they left behind jobs that were eventually filled by the unemployed.
Women were also excluded by the Nazi's from many areas of work, creating more job opportunities for men. Aryan women were expected to stay home and make babies.
While many millions of more Germans men found jobs, their average rate of pay in the middle 1930's was considerably less than before the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Staying home unemployed was not an option either. If you chose not to accept a low-paying, manual labor job on the autobahns, you risked being labeled as "work shy" and sent away to a concentration camp.
Lastly, and most importantly, Germany was rearming. In 1933, Germany spent just 3% of their GDP on defense. By 1939, 32% of Germany's GDP was spent on their military build-up, and 22% of all German workers were employed in some form of defense work or steel production.
In the past thirty years, the Chinese Communist Party has made a concerted effort to interfere as little as possible with the growth of capitalism in China. During the Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976, however, the opposite was true.
The Cultural Revolution was launched in May 1966, after Mao alleged that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government and society at large, aiming to restore capitalism. To eliminate his rivals within the Communist Party of China, Mao insisted that these "revisionists" be removed through violent class struggle.
China's youth responded to Mao's appeal by forming Red Guard groups around the country. The movement spread into the military, urban workers, and the Communist Party leadership itself. It resulted in widespread factional struggles in all walks of life. There was a mass purge of senior officials.
In the violent struggles that ensued across the country, millions of people were persecuted and suffered a wide range of abuses, including public humiliation, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, hard labor, sustained harassment, seizure of property and sometimes execution. A large segment of the population was forcibly displaced, most notably the transfer of urban youth to rural regions.
Mao officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, but its active phase lasted until the death of military leader and proposed Mao successor, Lin Biao, in 1971. After Mao's death and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976, reformers led by Deng Xiaoping gradually began to dismantle the Maoist policies associated with the Cultural Revolution. In 1981, the Party declared that the Cultural Revolution was "responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the country, and the people since the founding of the People's Republic". (Source: Wikipedia)
Bottom line: The "capitalism" part of the term, "authoritarian capitalism", seems to work very well. Its the "authoritarian" part that seems to always spoil the party - in a very bloody way.
Beer Joke
Q: What's the proper plural of beer?
A: Sixpack.
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Video - Just Four Seconds Long
Total Nutcase.
Final Funny
A four-year-old girl had to have an x-ray taken at the medical office where I worked. She had been in an accident with her bicycle and the doctor was afraid she may have broken her wrist. The girl, however, was very concerned about the procedure, and no matter how her mother tried to calm her, she kept putting up quite a fuss as we led her into the x-ray facility.
When she came out a few minutes later, however, she was calm and all smiles. "They just took a picture of my bones," she explained to her mother. "Yes, dear," her mom replied. "I told you it was easy. Did everything go well?" "Yup. It was great!" the child exclaimed. "I didn't even have to take my skin off or anything!"
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After a bustling football weekend at WSU, Pullman Police Department experienced an uptick in game-related crimes including multiple couch burnings, fireworks, noise complaints, alcohol-related infractions and reports of unconscious people.
Six fires were reported Saturday night starting around 8 p.m. in the College Hill area. Five of those reported were labeled as furniture or couch fires. Two complaints of fireworks were also reported on Michigan and Colorado streets.
Several reports were also made for alcohol-related offenses, with two people arrested Saturday for DUIs.
There were also several noise complaints made over the weekend on both Friday and Saturday.
Officers responded to four separate reports of disorderly conduct Friday, and another seven Saturday and early Sunday morning.
Police responded to over a dozen parking problems between Friday and Saturday.
Other complaints included malicious mischief, one hit-and-run and an arrest for identity theft, possession of controlled substance, making a false statement to a public servant and possession of stolen property.


Hello Everyone on this cloudy day today. It was actually nice and sunny this morning, but now it is just cloudy. It is 3rd of December so it is time to open door no 3 of my Joik Advent Calendar 2017. I am not sure if I said it already but I opened all my doors of my advent calendar on the day it was delivered, I dent took out all the products, smelled touched them, quickly judged them lol and tried to put them back in their original places. So far day one and two had wrong products lol but today I got what I supposed to get: Raspberry bon bon shower oil (50ml full size 200ml) and it costs £15.90 on Love Lula website.
Shower oil Raspberry Bon Bon has a nice delicate smell that does n0t linger for long. I use face cleansing oils as the first step in my evening skin care routing, but I have never tried a shower oil. I used today for the first time and it did feel very oily, it should not surprise me since it is basically an oil. It left a thin film on my skin. I am used to clay based sops so I didn't feel like it cleansed my skin very well. It didn't lather or emulsify for me, I should have probable use more of it.
Luxuriously silky shower oil transforms into a soft lather when in contact with water and cleans gently.
Apply directly on the wet skin, massage to create a lather, rinse.
The full size JOIK Cleansing and Softening Shower oil Raspberry Bon Bon 200ml is available from LoveLula for £15.00.
I wasn't keen on this either (although I loved the scent). I'm not a fan of shower oils anyway.
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1 thought on "Kevin Carter"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
Carter shot an image of what appeared to be a little girl, fallen to the ground from hunger, while a vulture lurked on the ground nearby. He told Silva he was shocked by the situation he had just photographed, and had chased the vulture away. A few minutes later, Carter and Silva boarded a small UN plane and left Ayod for Kongor.
Sold to The New York Times, the photograph first appeared on 26 March 1993, and syndicated worldwide. Hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask the fate of the girl. The paper said that according to Carter, "she recovered enough to resume her trek after the vulture was chased away" but that it was unknown whether she reached the UN food centre." In April 1994, the photograph won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
In 2011, the child's father revealed the child was actually a boy, Kong Nyong, and had been taken care of by the UN food aid station. Nyong had died four years prior, c. 2007, of "fevers", according to his family.

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Future Investment Initiative Institute launches TH!NKpod podcast series
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SMALL CAP IDEAS: Galliford Try is underappreciated as reboot shifts construction emphasis
Wall Street joins global slump for stocks; S&P 500 down 1.8%


A pair of Bulldogs is set to become Monarchs.
Travis Padgett and Jake Stranz, who graduated from Dixon High School this month, are preparing to join the football program at Methodist University, an NCAA Division III school in Fayetteville.
And while both players are excited about joining Methodist, they had different reasons why they wanted to play for the Monarchs, who open the season Sept. 7 at Southern Virginia.
Methodist went 5-5 and 4-3 in the USA South Conference last year.
Padgett picked Methodist because it offered his major.
Stranz said that he and Padgett won�t be roommates but that they will remain close friends. Padgett thinks having a Dixon teammate at Methodist will help the transition.
The 18-year-old Padgett was Dixon�s center and a first-team offensive lineman on The Daily News all-area team. He will continue playing on the offensive line at Methodist.
Stranz, 18, will be on the defensive line. Last year he had 42 tackles, nine sacks and three fumble recoveries.
Both players helped Dixon to a 7-4 mark and a 4-1 record in the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference along with earning a spot in the NCHSAA 1-AA playoffs.
Padgett said he will arrive at Methodist on July 14 to start a summer school session while Stranz said he will report to campus in early August.
Both players hope to make a contribution for the Monarchs.
Stranz, meanwhile, hopes to do what he did at Dixon: fly to the football.


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25-2059 Special Education Teachers, All Other
All special education teachers not listed separately.
Mean wage
36,800 3.8 % (4) $62,500 2.0 %
Elementary and Secondary Schools 26,350 0.31 (4) $61,770
Individual and Family Services 2,120 0.09 (4) $69,970
Educational Support Services 1,950 1.06 (4) $57,750
Federal Executive Branch (OES Designation) 880 0.04 (4) $70,250
Other Schools and Instruction 760 0.17 (4) $43,510
Other Residential Care Facilities 240 0.15 (4) $51,870
Grantmaking and Giving Services 160 0.12 (4) $43,700
Social Advocacy Organizations 60 0.03 (4) $75,370
State Government, excluding schools and hospitals (OES Designation) 400 0.02 (4) $71,950
Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals 170 0.07 (4) $67,540
Florida 7,310 0.85 3.34 (4) $51,500
California 2,950 0.17 0.68 (4) $66,640
New Jersey 2,340 0.58 2.28 (4) $65,380
Virginia 2,220 0.58 2.27 (4) $78,340
Michigan 1,880 0.44 1.71 (4) $72,670
Rhode Island 690 1.44 5.66 (4) $81,180
New Mexico 800 0.98 3.87 (4) $56,290
Oregon 1,240 0.65 2.58 (4) $81,990
Iowa 210 0.14 0.54 (4) $75,280
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 3,500 0.37 1.45 (4) $86,300
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 2,550 0.81 3.20 (4) $75,250
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL 2,460 0.95 3.74 (4) $50,100
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 1,230 0.20 0.79 (4) $75,180
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 1,080 0.86 3.37 (4) $51,680
Jacksonville, FL 800 1.16 4.58 (4) $54,680
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI 760 0.38 1.51 (4) $80,420
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 690 0.15 0.58 (4) $55,860
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA 640 1.11 4.38 (4) $78,960
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 600 0.21 0.82 (4) $67,360
Metropolitan areas with the highest concentration of jobs and location quotients in this occupation:
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL 460 2.63 10.34 (4) $47,780
Clarksville, TN-KY 210 2.41 9.49 (4) $71,270
Salem, OR 190 1.09 4.29 (4) $80,040
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC 220 0.99 3.89 (4) $73,660
Alexandria, LA 60 0.94 3.69 (4) $63,750
Monroe, MI 30 0.92 3.63 (4) $62,190
Muskegon, MI 60 0.91 3.59 (4) $62,460
Top paying metropolitan areas for this occupation:
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 510 0.43 1.69 (4) $90,200
Fresno, CA 50 0.14 0.53 (4) $83,990
Modesto, CA (8) (8) (8) (4) $77,160
Madison, WI 50 0.13 0.50 (4) $76,950
Nonmetropolitan areas with the highest employment in this occupation:
Nonmetropolitan area
Balance of Lower Peninsula of Michigan nonmetropolitan area 150 0.57 2.22 (4) $79,700
Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area 80 1.05 4.12 (4) $58,930
South Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area 70 0.38 1.50 (4) $50,770
Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area 60 0.42 1.66 (4) $50,300
West Northwestern Ohio nonmetropolitan area 50 0.20 0.78 (4) $51,150
Nonmetropolitan areas with the highest concentration of jobs and location quotients in this occupation:
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area 30 0.30 1.19 (4) $76,140
Top paying nonmetropolitan areas for this occupation:
Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area 40 0.15 0.61 (4) $77,580
Coast Oregon nonmetropolitan area (8) (8) (8) (4) $76,530
Southwest Montana nonmetropolitan area (8) (8) (8) (4) $71,030
About May 2018 National, State, Metropolitan, and Nonmetropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
These estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in all industry sectors, all metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, and all states and the District of Columbia. The top employment and wage figures are provided above. The complete list is available in the downloadable XLS files.
The percentile wage estimate is the value of a wage below which a certain percent of workers fall. The median wage is the 50th percentile wage estimate--50 percent of workers earn less than the median and 50 percent of workers earn more than the median. More about percentile wages.
(1) Estimates for detailed occupations do not sum to the totals because the totals include occupations not shown separately. Estimates do not include self-employed workers.
(2) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.
(3) The relative standard error (RSE) is a measure of the reliability of a survey statistic. The smaller the relative standard error, the more precise the estimate.
(4) Wages for some occupations that do not generally work year-round, full time, are reported either as hourly wages or annual salaries depending on how they are typically paid.
(8) Estimate not released.
(9) The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration. A location quotient greater than one indicates the occupation has a higher share of employment than average, and a location quotient less than one indicates the occupation is less prevalent in the area than average.
Other OES estimates and related information:
May 2018 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
May 2018 State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
May 2018 Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
May 2018 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
May 2018 Occupation Profiles
Last Modified Date: March 29, 2019
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | Division of Occupational Employment Statistics, PSB Suite 2135, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20212-0001
www.bls.gov/OES | Telephone: 1-202-691-6569 | Contact OES


(1) Assist the Chief Justice in exercising administrative authority and supervision under ORS 1.002 (Supreme Court).
(a) Supervise the personnel plan for officers, other than judges, and employees of the courts of this state who are state officers or employees.
(b) Prescribe the form and content and supervise the preparation of consolidated budgets, for submission to the Legislative Assembly, applicable to expenditures made and revenues received by the state in respect to the courts of this state.
(c) Supervise an accounting system for the recording, monitoring and auditing of expenditures made and revenues received by the state in respect to the courts of this state.
(d) Establish and maintain inventory records of property of the state in the custody or control of the courts of this state or any judge, other officer or employee thereof.
(3) Conduct a continuing survey of the administrative methods and activities, records, business and facilities of the courts of this state and make recommendations to the Chief Justice based on the survey.
(4) Collect and compile statistical and other data relating to the courts of this state and municipal courts, including the caseload, workload, performance, status, management, expenses and revenues of those courts, and make reports on the business and condition of those courts.
(5) Establish and supervise a statewide public information service concerning the courts of this state.
(6) Establish and supervise education programs for judges, other officers and employees of the courts of this state and municipal courts pertinent to the performance of the functions of those judges, other officers and employees.
(7) Provide to the judges, other officers and employees of the courts of this state, to attorneys and to the public appropriate assistance services relating to the administration and management of the courts of this state.
(8) Prepare and maintain a continuing long-range plan for improvement and future needs of the courts of this state.
(9) Supervise and maintain the law libraries of the judicial department of government of this state, including the State of Oregon Law Library, and excluding county law libraries except as provided in ORS 9.825 (Law library surveys).
(10) Enter into contracts on behalf of the Judicial Department, including but not limited to financing agreements entered into pursuant to ORS 283.087 (Financing agreements).
1 Legislative Counsel Committee, CHAPTER 8—Court Officers and District Attorneys, https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors008.html (2017) (last accessed Mar. 30, 2018).


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The 120 x 220mm table is milled and fitted with a fence and scale. The solid column (280 x 20mm) is made of steel. The headstock is of die-cast aluminium, offering a throat capacity of 140mm and 30mm travel. A chromed feed lever operates via drive disc and ball bearing system, offering a sensitive feed set-up. Slotted guides and fits and pinch screws allow simple height adjustment as well as the fixing of the mill/units (20mm bore fitting). A depth stop as well as drilled, tapped hole for securing the MICRO compound table KT 70 and holes to fix the drill stand itself are also provided. Please Note: Image shows power tool and drill bit which are not included, but are available to purchase separatley.


Twitter doesn't seem to be too fond of the police. Or conservatives defending them. A former Portland mayoral candidate, Sarah Iannarone, tweeted her condemnation of the police after an incident where a man was shot and killed by the police. A former Portland mayoral candidate, Sarah Iannarone, tweeted her condemnation of the police after an incident where a man was shot and killed by the police.
On Wednesday, the White House took the historic step to involve four journalists from outside Washington D.C. in the Daily Press Briefing, but it didn't sit well with many establishment media types inside the Beltway and New York City who complained they were too soft for their liking.
No wonder this guy professes love for President Obama: neither one cares how much the government spends . . .
Ed Schultz debuted his MSNBC show this evening by calling for universal health care, saying "I don't care how much it costs." There was one area, however, in which Schultz did show more guts than his new colleague, Keith Olbermann.
On Tuesday, liberal talk radio host Stephanie Miller called Rush Limbaugh's now well-publicized statement about wanting Barack Obama to fail "treasonous," and wondered if he should be executed for saying such a thing.
Miller made this rather provocative comment on CNN's "Larry King Live," and oddly nobody batted an eye or seemed at all put off by it.
Want to know just how in the tank MSNBC's Dan Abrams is for Barack Obama?
On Thursday's "Verdict," the network's former general manager actually tried to deflect criticism from Michelle Obama by bringing up statements John McCain made concerning his experience as a Vietnam POW making him realize how much he loves America.
This is how Abrams began the program: "Tonight: We have uncovered comments from John McCain on camera that could undermine the steady right-wing attacks against Michelle Obama."
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Grading the Addition of the Mariners' Mike Morse
Posted by Jon Shepherd
Xavier Avery at Home | photo: Keith Allison
I think in order to be answer that question, we need to answer four other questions. First, are the Orioles really a playoff contender? Second, what does the team currently have that Mike Morse is replacing and does the difference impact the probability of this team being a contender? Third, how valuable is Xavier Avery, the player the Orioles gave up? Fourth, is Avery's value equal or lesser to what Morse brings to the team. Now, none of these questions can be definitively answered in a quantitative way, but we certainly can nose around in a qualitative way.
1) Are the Orioles a playoff contender?
Sure. According to Baseball Prospectus' Playoff Odds model, the team stands a one in seven shot in making the playoffs, which is far better than the Yankees' one in 25 chance. To break apart the Orioles' chances, that have roughly a one percent chance to win the division, a two percent chance to take the first wild card, and a ten percent chance for the second wild card.
Here is the relevant playoff table:
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vCent
vWest
1 TEX 78 55 .587 --- --- 76-57 2 13-17 11-15 44-16 15-5 22-8
2 BOS 79 56 .585 --- --- 81-54 -2 32-25 14-14 20-12 10-10 17-13
3 DET 78 56 .582 --- --- 83-51 -5 16-13 36-22 14-16 10-10 19-11
4 TBR 75 57 .568 --- --- 72-60 3 34-29 17-13 12-7 9-11 15-15
5 OAK 75 58 .564 --- --- 74-59 1 14-15 16-11 32-25 11-9 15-15
6 BAL 71 61 .538 3.5 3.5 70-62 1 26-27 13-13 21-12 10-10 14-16
7 CLE 71 62 .534 4.0 4.5 70-63 1 10-20 31-26 21-8 9-11 16-14
8 NYY 70 63 .526 5.0 7.5 66-67 4 30-26 19-11 14-16 13-7 16-14
9 KCR 69 64 .519 6.0 11.5 71-62 -2 18-13 34-26 8-14 9-11 17-13
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 8/30/2013.
With a month to go, 3.5 games is not a big lead. The general rule I have is weeks to go plus three games back sum. At this point, the Orioles drop dead number for me would be nine games. A week from now, eight games. A week later, seven games. So on and so forth until fall above that number. With my little rule, the Royals are gone. They simply need too many teams to play worse than they are. Anyway, point being, yes, the Orioles are a playoff contender as we near September.
2. How much does Mike Morse improve the Orioles?
On January 16th, Mike Morse was worth a fair amount. The Nationals were able to deal away an extra bat that no longer fit on the playing field and get in return a high second tier pitcher in A.J. Cole, a live arm in the pen with Ian Krol (a player the Depot has been slightly optimistic on back during his senior year where he sat a lot), and some organizational depth in Blake Treinen. For a player who has no position and was coming off a lackluster season (after only really showing much promise for a season and a half prior to that), it was somewhat surprising. Of course, no one expected him to do so poorly this season.
2005 23 SEA 258 10 3 18 50 .278 .349 .370 97
2006 24 SEA 48 5 0 3 7 .372 .396 .488 131
2008 26 SEA 11 1 0 1 4 .222 .364 .333 91
2009 27 WSN 55 3 3 3 16 .250 .291 .481 101
2010 28 WSN 293 12 15 22 64 .289 .352 .519 133
2011 29 WSN 575 36 31 36 126 .303 .360 .550 147
2013 31 SEA 307 13 13 20 80 .226 .283 .410 97
Morse has dealt with leg injuries this season and did do a tour on the disabled list with a strained quad. On May 28th, the injury has become bad enough where the team sat him for a couple weeks. He was slashing 254/321/468. He proceeded to struggle in a handful of games in June until he was placed on the DL. Upon returning, he has slashing in August to the tune of 179/225/328.
In other words, Morse has been really bad and he probably is playing injured. The hope is that there is a chance that he will be injury free enough to provide value to the team. There is some cause for hope. He did produce poorly at SafeCo, which is known to be a pitcher's park (77 wRC+ at home vs. 101 wRC+ on the road). Additionally, he performed much better against left handed pitching (110 wRC+ against southpaws and 79 wRC+ against righties). It might not be entirely unfair to think that Morse could be a 120 to 130 wRC+ component of a platooned designated hitter arrangement with the newly arrived Wilson Betemit.
Of course, this solution assumes that both Betemit and Morse are healthy-ish and productive to competently handle their parts of the platoon split, but it is a decent bet to make when you are sitting only three games out of a playoff spot. This also assumes that the team has nothing else available to fulfill this role. However, yes, they do have someone: Danny Valencia.
2010 25 MIN 322 18 7 20 46 .311 .351 .448 119
2011 26 MIN 608 28 15 40 102 .246 .294 .383 86
2012 27 TOT 161 6 3 3 38 .188 .199 .299 34
2013 28 BAL 89 9 5 5 20 .274 .315 .560 131
Yes, Valencia is not a proven veteran like Mike Morse. However, he has been on fire this year when the team lets him play against left handed pitching. He has had a 157 wRC+ against righties, hitting them whenever the team somewhat haphazardly asks him to do it. All in all, unless the team recognizes correctly that Morse is healthy and ready to turn it on, I have a hard time seeing this as an improvement on the roster. If the long term plan is to keep Valencia on the bench as another right handed hitter, then I have trouble seeing how he can fit because he is pretty atrocious in the field as well.
Morse feels like a solution the same way Jim Thome felt like a solution. A decent name of a player who has performed somewhat well in the recent past, but probably is no better than what the team currently has. My thought is that Morse has just as much chance to be healthy and breakout as Valencia does to continue his tear of left handed pitching.
3. How valuable is Xavier Avery?
His minor league statistics to date:
2008 18 Rk 192 8 1 0 13 3 10 51 .280 .333 .337
2009 19 A 509 15 8 2 30 10 27 111 .262 .306 .340
2010 20 A+-AA 618 31 6 7 38 14 49 130 .271 .337 .386
2011 21 AA 626 31 2 4 36 14 49 156 .259 .324 .343
2012 22 AAA 458 13 5 8 22 7 51 106 .236 .330 .356
2013 23 AAA-AA 519 22 4 3 29 8 54 117 .259 .340 .345
Before the 2012 season, the Depot wrote this about Avery:
Xavier Avery remains an upside prospect with promise, despite completing his third full season with strikeouts in over 20% of his plate appearances. The reason for optimism is simple -- he continues to keep his head above water while being promoted by the O's and remaining one of the youngest players in the league, year-in and year-out. He will start 2012 at age 22, and could get a bump to Norfolk following a solid AFL campaign and provided he shows well in the Spring. A speed-first talent, Avery is among the fastest prospects in the system (along with Kyle Hudson and Glynn Davis -- all "80" runners on the 20/80 scouting scale). His heavy left/right split could spell a future as part of a platoon. If he can tighten-up his routes in center field, he should have easy value as a fourth outfielder. His ability to improve against lefties and to learn to more consistently ID off-speed will determine if he can become a regular at the highest level.
Ceiling: Average starting center fielder on first division team
Floor: Four-A
Projected: 4th or 5th outfielder on first division team
I still think that is a fairly accurate portrayal of Avery. What I would change would be that I do not see him currently capable of being an average first division centerfielder. I would downgrade that to starting second division. The rest I would keep. In the nearly two years since, his batting approach has improved greatly, but it still is not on par with average AAA hitting. At age 23, he no longer is the youngest kid on the field most of the time. In AA, where he is in the mid-age for high profile prospects, he hit very well. Upon being promoted to AAA this year, he showed the same hit tool issues as he did the year prior. Add that lack of contact to a dearth of power and it is difficult to see how his bat would provide much use now and only a slight chance of it being useful in the future.
However, he is the kind of player a team would like in its system. He is a strong, athletic player. He has 80 speed. His routes are getter better. He has shown a decent eye at the plate and has improved his hitting approach. At 23, he has time and fourth outfielders that can play center field do not grow on trees. It may be in the cavernous SafeCo that Avery will find himself. A place where speed may have more value than having a decent bat. It also leaves the Orioles with a void in that they have no option eligible fourth outfielder capable of filling in centerfield in a pinch as Avery and, before him, L.J. Hoes are now gone.
Again, this is not a huge loss. It is a very minimal loss. The value Avery provides is one of a pinch fourth outfielder with a very slight chance of him being a regular bench player. We are talking about fractions of a win here. If he somehow hits his ceiling, then we are discussing a player who might be worth a win or two annually for about three or four years. These are small potatoes. That said, as we know from before Adam Jones, centerfield is a difficult position to find someone to play there.
4. Did the Orioles get in return a benefit equal to what they gave away?
Probably. They will likely get nothing and they likely traded nothing away. In other words, the value that Avery presents to the Orioles now and in the future is a value that likely is quite replaceable. It is also likely true that the value Morse offers is equivalent to what the team currently has available. Add in that his presence on the team shaves 1 MM off next year's pay roll and it seems like there are a few paper cuts here.
In all, this move seems like a more expensive move with less probability of an offensive explosion as what could have been had with signing Mark Reynolds. A few weeks back, I suggested that signing Reynolds would be an excellent cheap bet for him to explode offensively. The idea being that Reynolds is a player who seems to be a feat or famine kind of hitter and, that at league minimum, it was a pretty cheap bet. If he did nothing over the following three weeks, you could just cut him and go with what the team has.
Now, Morse has some reputation of being a streaky hitter, but not in the same class as Reynolds. Additionally, Morse is awful at every defensive position while Reynolds can play first base in a below average way, which is worth something. Morse is also more susceptible to platoon splits, meaning relief pitchers can adversely affect him more than Reynolds. Finally, there is no more time for auditioning before the September roster deadline comes into play.
I think this is a meh deal, but that it was a marginally bad deal in a greater context. Right handed hitting opportunities were available for cheaper in terms of money and prospects than what the Orioles wound up paying. They gave up on a marginal prospect (of which they have very few in their system) in exchange for a player who does not seem to be an upgrade over what they already have. I am not a fan of movement for the sake of movement. I understand that with the team's playoff chances so low that a bet was a good idea to make. I simply do not see Morse as the bet I would like to make.
Labels: Danny Valencia, Mike Morse, Shepherd, Wilson Betemit, Xavier Avery
Kevin Gausman Returns
Yesterday, the Orioles recalled Kevin Gausman from Norfolk (temporarily taking Wei-Yin Chen's roster spot), and he's likely to pitch out of the bullpen for the rest of the season. (They still view him as a starter, and it would be ridiculous if they didn't.) The O's, perhaps unfairly, were expecting big things from Gausman when he was originally promoted in late May. He made five starts, wasn't very good, and ended up pitching some in relief as well (where he performed better). Still, in 33.1 innings with the O's, Gausman has a 6.21 ERA -- he hasn't been that bad, but he hasn't been good either.
So maybe Gausman will pitch in high-leverage situations, or maybe he won't. But he'll at least be used to eat some innings when starters don't last long. There are worse ways to use 22-year-old pitchers who need more experience against major league hitters. And it's not like the O's bullpen couldn't use some help.
It's worth wondering what exactly the O's were planning to do with Gausman this season. They probably did not want to bring Gausman up so soon, but early injuries to Chen and Miguel Gonzalez were a part of the decision-making. (It's also worth wondering how the Dylan Bundy injury affected those plans.)
To recap Gausman's not-so-storybook season up to this point, he started the year in Bowie (as a starter), was promoted in May and made five mostly underwhelming starts, was sent to Norfolk (where he started one game), returned to the O's in late June (making one long relief appearance and then pitching in three games for under two innings each), and then returned to Norfolk (where he mainly pitched in the rotation). I was confused at the time why Gausman was making relatively short relief appearances in June, though maybe much of what the O's did with Gausman this year was to keep his innings down enough to allow him to pitch with the major league club in September. He's pitched 115.1 combined innings between Bowie, Norfolk, and Baltimore, and considering he threw 89.2 innings in 2011 (at LSU) and 138.2 in 2012 (123.2 at LSU and 15 combined at Delmarva and Frederick), he seems to be on track to be just fine for the rest of the year.
A couple weeks ago, Gausman missed a start because of some forearm soreness, but he appears to be healthy and admitted that the injury was "nothing." So that's positive. And he's been working to improve both his repertoire and his command of those pitches. Here's an example, from a Buster Olney blog post in July:
Before this season, Gausman had never thrown a circle changeup. Instead, he only threw a split-fingered change, with the velocity reading about 10-12 miles per hour slower than his fastball. But Gausman soon found that big-league hitters weren't fooled by that pitch. He needed a circle change that would be closer in velocity to his fastball, aiding its deceptiveness.
That tidbit was followed by an anecdote of Gausman squaring off against (and getting the best of) Miguel Cabrera in June, which, though now not timely, should leave most fans with mostly optimistic thoughts about Gausman's future chances of figuring things out.
The O's, now 4.5 games back of Oakland for the second Wild Card spot after yet another frustrating one-run loss, could use some quality innings out of Gausman (or anyone, really). But regardless, he should receive much more experience against major league hitters in these last 31 regular season games, which should benefit him next year when he'll be a favorite to grab a starting slot in the rotation.
Labels: 2013 Bowie Baysox, 2013 Norfolk Tides, kevin gausman, Kremnitzer
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Unter Butch [] (englisch 'maskulin') und Femme [] (französisch 'Frau') / Fem [] (englisch) wird ein erotisches Begehren von Differenz zwischen nicht-heterosexueller Femininität und Maskulinität in lesbischen und queeren Beziehungen verstanden.

Im Englischen wird "butch" auch als Adjektiv verwendet. Es wird in schwulen US-Kontexten als Markierung von schwuler (Hyper-)Maskulinität angewandt.

Frauen, Lesben, queere Identitäten
Die Bezeichnungen Butch und Femme werden vor allem zur Selbstdefinition und als erotisches Selbstverständnis und Begehren verwendet, um eine erotische und sexuelle Dynamik und Anziehung zwischen queerem/lesbischem Genderausdruck von Femininität und Maskulinität zu kennzeichnen. Außenstehende sehen in diesem Begehren von Gender- und erotischer Differenz häufig vermeintliche Klischees von traditioneller und nicht hinterfragter Weiblichkeit und Männlichkeit erfüllt, da bei Homosexualität in der Regel ein sexuelles und erotisches Begehren von Gleichheit impliziert ist, sie bei Butch/Femme jedoch auf Unterschiedlichkeit der Partner gerichtet ist. Die große Vielfalt nicht-heterosexueller Begehrensformen ist bislang im medialen und sozialen Alltag unterrepräsentiert und bleibt unbeachtet, siehe hierzu Heteronormativität.

Die sich feminin inszenierende lesbische oder queere Femme wird vielfach, im Alltag und auch innerhalb lesbischer, queerer Szenen, als heterosexuell verkannt und damit unsichtbar in ihrem Genderausdruck und ihrem sexuellen Begehren, was wiederum auf einen tiefsitzenden Heterosexismus verweist. Ihr kann das weibliche Geburtsgeschlecht zugewiesen worden sein oder auch das männliche, das heißt, sich als Trans*Femme definieren. Eine maskulin auftretende, nicht-heterosexuelle weibliche Person erfährt ebenfalls sexistisch-stereotypisierende Abwertungen, indem ihr beispielsweise abgesprochen wird, sich im Spektrum von Weiblichkeit zu erleben (sofern sie sich nicht als trans* identifiziert) und ihr andererseits unterstellt wird, "männliche Privilegien" zu haben oder erlangen zu wollen. Butch/Femme als erotische Bezogenheit ist nicht die einzige oder exklusive Konstellation: So gibt es nicht selten Beziehungen wie Butch/Butch oder Femme/Femme.

Als Butch wird ursprünglich im US-/englischsprachigen Kontext eine in Körpersprache und Kleidungsstil maskulin wirkende weibliche, nicht-heterosexuelle Person bezeichnet, die nicht den heterosexuell tradierten Weiblichkeitsidealen im angloeuropäischen Kontext entspricht. Veraltete deutschsprachige Entsprechungen sind Kesser Vater bzw. KV (deutschsprachige Selbstbezeichnungen des 20. Jahrhunderts, insbesondere in der homosexuellen Barkultur der 1920er Jahre in Berlin) oder auch viril (vorwiegend Fremdbezeichnung in Sexualmedizin des 19. Jahrhunderts, siehe Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Magnus Hirschfeld). Diese Person kann sich als weiblich und/oder als trans* wahrnehmen, ebenso ihr Begehren als lesbisch oder als queer. Es kann ein weiblicher Artikel (die Butch) oder ein männlicher Artikel (der Butch) bevorzugt werden. Der historische Typus des Kessen Vaters zeigte sich bereits in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren, etwa in Fotografien von Man Ray. Dyke ist eine seit den 1970er Jahren im US-Kontext verwendete positive Selbstbezeichnung, auch bei Femmes und Butches. In der englischsprachigen Gayszene wird butch auch als beschreibendes Adjektiv verwendet.

Das Thema Butch und female masculinity wurde vor allem im poststrukturalistischen Kontext theoretisch rezipiert, so etwa bei Judith Butler, Jack Halberstam oder Paul B. Preciado.

Der schwule Macho
Besonders in der englischsprachigen Schwulenszene hat Butch verschiedene Bedeutungen. Das Adjektiv butch beschreibt männliche Erscheinung und männliches Auftreten. Das Substantiv Butch bezeichnet einen Mann, der die männliche Rolle spielt, sei es sozial oder sexuell. (Sexuell wird heute sowohl in der englischen als auch in der deutschen Szene vermehrt die Bezeichnung Top verwendet.) Ein "butcher" Homosexueller sieht somit maskulin aus und agiert maskulin – betont maskulin. Er ist das totale Gegenstück zu effeminiertem Verhalten und Aussehen, zur Tunte.

In den USA war das stärkste Auftreten Ende der 1970er Jahre. Nachdem in den 1950ern effeminierte Männer das Bild der Homosexuellenbars geprägt hatten und selbst unauffällige Homosexuelle ein Repertoire hatten, welches sie untereinander ironisch akzentuiert einsetzten, man häufig zwischen "aktiver" und "passiver" Rolle unterschied, sich damit den vorgegebenen Skripten der Mehrheitsgesellschaft anpasste und die Homophilenbewegung Unauffälligkeit und totale Anpassung für die Öffentlichkeit propagierte, hatte man durch die Ereignisse um Stonewall 1969 und den sich verbreitenden Gay Pride, das homosexuelle Selbstbewusstsein, mehr Freiheiten. Man konnte es in der Öffentlichkeit zeigen, aber auch ablegen, und "alle machten alles". (Ähnliches passierte in Amsterdam schon nach 1953/1955.) Das Pendel schlug sogar in die Gegenrichtung aus, und es wurde ein aus historischer Sicht gesehen notwendiges Gegenklischee entlang der traditionellen Vorgaben über Maskulinität aufgebaut, welches sowohl die alten Vorurteile der Gesellschaft als auch jene in den eigenen Köpfen zerstören sollte. Es entwickelte sich eine Hypermaskulinität gegenüber dem damaligen durchschnittlichen Männlichkeitsideal, und dabei handelte es sich oft um dieselben Menschen wie früher. Namentlich benannt ist der Castro-Clone und aus der Szene heraus in den Mainstream gelangten als sichtbarstes Zeichen die Village People, auch wenn der Mainstream um den Hintergrund meist nicht wusste. In den 1980ern normalisierte sich die Lage wieder. Im deutschsprachigen Raum setzte dies später ein und entwickelte sich auch anders.

Literatur
 Elizabeth L. Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis: Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold – The History of a Lesbian Community, 1993 (als ebook erhältlich seit 2014). Von den 1930er bis zu den 1960er Jahren; Interviews mit fünfundvierzig Femmes und Butches aus Buffalo/NY, der Stadt, in der Leslie Feinbergs Roman angesiedelt ist.
 Leslie Feinberg: Träume in den erwachenden Morgen. Krug & Schadenberg, Berlin 1996.
 Stephanie Kuhnen (Hrsg.): Butch Femme. Eine erotische Kultur. Querverlag, Berlin 1997.
 Sabine Fuchs (Hrsg.): Femme! radikal – queer – feminin. Querverlag, Berlin 2009.

Weblinks

 Das neue deutschsprachige Butch-Femme-Forum seit 2016 Seite für Femmes und Butches
 Das älteste deutschsprachige Butch-Femme-Forum seit 2002 Seite für Femmes und Butches (derzeit offline)
  The Village Voice declares butch is back – with a twist (englisch)

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Le nom du navire est un hommage au commandant du torpilleur S 35, le capitaine lieutenant Friedrich Ihn, mort le  au cours de la bataille du Jutland.

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En , le Z 14 pose des mines le long des côtes britanniques et est endommagé durant l'opération. Il est réparé jusqu'en juin au Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft à Kiel et ne participe donc pas au débarquement en Norvège en . Il vient le  et à Trondheim le . Il escorte à partir d'ici le Gneisenau, endommagé, jusqu'à Kiel. Après une visite au chantier naval de Hambourg, le Z 14 va en France en  et participe aussi à une incursion dans le canal de Bristol.

Le destroyer revient à Hambourg en septembre et reste au chantier jusqu'en . Après être allé à Szczecin au mois de juillet, il part ensuite à La Rochelle, Brest et Bordeaux, dans le golfe de Gascogne.

En , le Z 14 est dans la Manche pour l'opération Cerberus puis participe à l'opération Sportpalast. En mars, il accompagne le cuirassé Tirpitz avec les destroyers Paul Jacobi, Hermann Schoemann et Z 25 dans une mission en mer du Nord. Les navires ratent les convois de l'Arctique PQ 12 et QP 8. Seul le cargo soviétique Isora est touché par le Friedrich Ihn et coule. Le destroyer est affecté ensuite à l'opération Rösselsprung contre le convoi PQ 17.

En 1943 et 1944, le Friedrich Ihn fait principalement des missions de surveillance et de poses de mines dans les eaux norvégiennes. En raison de problèmes techniques, il fait fréquemment des séjours dans des chantiers navals. L'équipage sert sur d'autres destroyers.

Début 1945, le Z 14 accompagne des convois dans le Skagerrak et l'Oslofjord. Le , le destroyer quitte la péninsule de Hel avec des réfugiés à son bord. Il arrive à Kiel le 10 et est mis hors service.

Le navire est à l'URSS comme tribut de guerre. En , il est affecté à Liepāja et sert dans la flotte de la Baltique sous le nom de Zorkyj. Le destroyer est abandonné en 1961.

Commandement
 Du  au  : Korvettenkapitän Claus Trampedach
 Du  au  : Fregattenkapitän Erich Bey
 Du  au  : Korvettenkapitän Rudolf von Pufendorf
 Du  au  : Korvettenkapitän Günther Wachsmuth
 Du  au  : Korvettenkapitän Gerhard Fromme
 Du  au  : Korvettenkapitän Carl-August Richter-Oldekop

Voir aussi
 Liste des navires de la Kriegsmarine

Notes et références

Bateau lancé en 1936
Destroyer de la Kriegsmarine
Bateau de guerre allemand de la Seconde Guerre mondiale


Visiting Santa at Fair Oaks Mall + A Giveaway!
Hello! Hope everyone had a great Halloween! Mine was spent trick-or-treating in perfect, cool, crisp fall weather with Minnie Mouse, a train conductor, and a bumble bee, followed by giggles and laughs as neighbors dropped by our house and other trick-or-treaters came for their loot.


This one owner welded aluminum boat has been maintained by a fastidious owner. Her power has been upgraded to a pair of 200 HP Yamaha 4 cylinder outboard engines with less than 150 hours.
36' Boat House in North Saanich Marina available for purchase upon the sale of the vessel.


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Budapest conquers, fascinates and charms.
Budapest catches all the senses.
A must if you intend to visit Hungary, the capital Budapest is born in 1873 from the melting of two cities, Buda and Pest.
Buda is the heart of the city and the area of the Royal Palace represents the apple of its eyes. Like twins, nearby rises Pest, less quiet and more crowded, modern and bounded of hotels, shops and restaurants.
Between Buda and Pest flows the noiseless Danube where stand the Margaret Island for sport or long walks lovers, and Óbuda, incontestably the destination for gourmet lovers.
In Budapest everything is clean and ordered; even streets are beautiful and big palaces will attract your attention. During night time, it is transformed and shows another face. The lights go on and turn Budapest into magic. The banks of the Danube and its wonderful bridges come to life and enthral.
One of the reasons why Romans colonize Budapest is the exploitation of the thermal sources.
Only in 1920, Budapest won the title of the "city of thermal baths" therefore enjoyed the economic gain which is granted by its sources.
Another reason for visiting Budapest, the Pearl of the Danube?
From March to April, each year, its hosts the Spring Festival; it's a cultural manifestation extremely prestigious in Hungary.
It's all about a unique occasion to appreciate famous artists coming from everywhere! Two hundreds manifestations are planned in different places of Budapest; let me mention the State Opera House, the Museum of Fine Arts, Academy of Music… but also churches, museum, theatres, streets and squares of the Capital.
Finally we can start our trip in Hungary.
We have a week-end to admire Budapest and fall in love with it.
We start from Buda, in the west of the Danube, and let's climb the Géllert Hill which offers a splendid panorama on the capital from its 249 meters high.
The tour goes on and we can reach the Castel area with a fascinating Middle Ages appearance; here time seems to be stopped so the city shows off wealth of wonders and magic.
Known also as Royal Castle or Castle of Budapest, it has a huge historical importance. For good 700 years, it has been a residence of Hungarian sovereigns.
Proudly Unesco World Heritage since 1987, this stately building is the headquarters of the Hungarian National Gallery, the Budapest History Museum, the National Széchenyi Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Ludwig Museum.
Majestic and luxurious, this sacred construction survived to more than 700 years of history and watched several crowning and two huge weddings!
The bastion takes its name from the fisherman's corporation which goal was to defend this piece of the city wall during the Middle Ages.
A mixture of styles gives to the structure a perfect look; indeed, it is characterized by seven tours wonderfully coloured which represent the seven Magyar tribes who conquered, long time ago, the actual Hungary.
Danube waters shine bright in front of the famous bridges which keep the city united.
The Chain Bridge is the older of the city.
Main Artery of Budapest, in Andrassy Avenue we can find the Hungarian State Opera House, the Heroes' Square, the Academy of Music and the University of Fine arts.
Facing the Danube, it's one of the main touristic destinations of the entire Hungary.
Built between 1885 and 1904 to celebrate the freedom from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today it's the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, also for the head of the government and the President of the Republic.
It's possible to visit the inside which has nothing to envy to the awesome external look.
It's rich of paintings, tapestries and sculptures of the most famous Hungarian artists; the 40 kilograms of gold will leave you speechless with a royal atmosphere and also justify the time spent to build the structure, we talk about 17 long years.
Biggest and more important church of the city (can host until 8000 people), its dome is 90 metres high and from there you can enjoy a breathtaking panorama.
The Basilica is dedicated to St. Stephen who was the first Hungarian King to bring up Christian faith in the country.
Seen as the more fabulous, this bridge has a magnificent structure made of green iron in an Art Nouveau style and it possess four main columns at the top of which rules the Turul, the Hungarian national and traditional bird.
It's the biggest European synagogue and the second one of the world after New York.
It's an amazing place, rich of story! I strongly suggest you to visit it.
It's a must. This bar gave birth to the Romkocsma, the famous "Ruin bar".
The Szimpla Kert is the precursor and one of the best in the world!
With fineness and creativity, old factories and building reborn and originate locals, wisely furnished while keeping charm and wrapping halo of mystery.
It's a jewel, a peaceful oasis.
Its beauty is enhanced by the marvellous Castle of Vajdahunyad Vara and the lake which allows wonderful moments on the skating ring during winter while offers a fun boat trip during summer time.
I couldn't wait to praise this city for its several thermal sources, it has thousands! Mostly having Turkish origins, the most famous are the Thermal Baths of Széchenyi which are counted between the biggest thermal centres of Europe.
Outside, there are three reservoirs opened all the year (even during winter) meanwhile inside, others twelve swimming pools allow you to enjoy incredible wellness treatments.
It's opened every day from 6 am to 11 pm.
And for the nightlife lovers, the most attended places are the Magic Bath and the Cinetrip, true waters night clubs.
Of this city which has a lot to offer.
And if I convinced you, it's up to you to pack your things and fly!
Do you need more advices? Write me!
I will enjoy sharing with you my experiences !


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A Touching Tribute to Star Trek Actor Anton Yelchin
Home > Internet > A Touching Tribute to Star Trek Actor Anton Yelchin
byJarrod Saunders
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As the world mourns the loss of Anton Yelchin, a brilliant young actor with a vast array of films, JoBlo put together this cool video as a heart-warming tribute.
Actor Anton Yelchin (best known as Chekov in the recent Star Trek reboot) was killed in a freak accident; crushed by his own car. He has a number of projects still to be released, including this summer's Star Trek Beyond and sci-fi mystery Rememory with Peter Dinklage.
JJ Abrams, who directed Yelchin in the first two Star Trek films, paid tribute on Twitter saying he was "brilliant". "You were kind. You were funny as hell, and supremely talented. And you weren't here nearly long enough. Missing you," he wrote.
On Twitter, stars from Elijah Wood to William Shatner also shared their condolences.
Man of Steel 2: Henry Cavill's Superman Needs To Return
Absolutely shocked and deeply saddened to hear of Anton Yelchin's passing.
— Elijah Wood (@elijahwood) June 20, 2016
Anton Yelchin was a bright, brilliant talent, and a truly kind person. I was so taken by him, and won't ever forget his sweet smile. RIP
— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) June 19, 2016
Sad news for such a talented young man. Condolences to the family of Anton Yelchin.
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) June 20, 2016
So very sad to hear the awful news about Anton Yelchin. Such a fine actor with his whole career ahead of him. He will be remembered always.
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) June 19, 2016
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Unveiling our poster for PechaKucha Night Vientiane Vol. 2! Designed by the ever-so-talented Vilakone Phanchanthavong who just so happens to have spoken at our Vol. 1 event! Kop chai lai lai, Kone!
We love that this poster captures a few particularly iconic snippets of Vientiane: the crazy mess of electrical wires winding their way across the city, chirpy birds, and the wobbly blow-up man so often seen waving at passing cars on roadsides!


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Laotian Australians, also known as Lao Australians, refers to Australians who have either migrated from Laos and/or have Lao ancestry. The first Lao people that came to live in Australia arrived through the Colombo Plan in the 1960s, which gave a number of Laotians the opportunity to live and study in Australia. The migration of the Lao commenced with the Indochinese refugee crisis in 1975 following communist regime takeovers. According to the 2016 Census, there are 10,402 Laos-born Australians with the majority residing in New South Wales.

Demographic
The Laos-born community in Australia comprises several ethnic groups including the native Lao, Chinese, Hmong and Vietnamese groups. According to the 2016 Australian Census, most Laotian-Australians are ethnically Lao (64.3%), followed by Chinese (15.1%), Hmong (7.6%), Vietnamese (5.4%) and 7.5% identified as Other Ancestry. Most Lao stated they spoke Lao at home, followed by English, Hmong and Mandarin. The history of Lao people in Australia is more recent compared to other migrant populations, with over 80 percent of Laos-born people arriving in Australia pre-2007 compared to 60 percent for the overall overseas-born population.

Geographically, most Laotian-Australians are concentrated in New South Wales (50.2%) and Victoria (21.4%), which can be attributed to historical establishment of migrant hostels in these areas that housed recently arrived migrants.

Historical Population Statistics

History in Australia

Pre-migration and White Australia policy
Following the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901, one of the first pieces of legislation passed was the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, infamously known as the 'White Australia policy'. The law placed restrictions on non-European immigration and made it difficult for Asians in particular to migrate to Australia. The act required that all migrants pass a European language dictation test in order to stay in the country. Subsequently, most Asian migrants were unable to pass the test, as it was administered at the discretion of immigration officials. The intention of keeping Australia white was bolstered by Edmund Barton, the nation's first prime minister, who said of the 'Chinaman':"I do not think either that the doctrine of the equality of man was really ever intended to include racial equality. There is no racial equality. There is basic inequality. These races are, in comparison with white races—I think no one wants convincing of this fact—unequal and inferior."             At the time, the overwhelming majority (98%) of Australians were white. In 1958, the requirement to pass the dictation test was removed and in 1975, the Whitlam government effectively ended the White Australia policy by passing the Racial Discrimination act, thus creating a path for Asian migration to commence in the years following.

The Colombo Plan
The first instance of Lao people staying in Australia consisted primarily of students who arrived through the Colombo Plan. Approximately 150 people of Laos-descent resided in Australia pre-1975, and by the beginning of 1975 there were over 600 Indochinese students in the nation in total.

Mass migration of Indochinese refugees, 1970–80s
In 1975, the abolition of the Kingdom of Laos and subsequent establishment of a communist state led to a tenth of the Lao population fleeing the country. The Australian Government established the Humanitarian Program in 1977, as a response to the influx of Indochinese migrants seeking asylum in the country which allowed Lao refugees to settle in Australia

In mid-1976, there were over 400 Laos-born people in Australia, and by 1986 this figure expanded to over 7000. The Lao constituted a small portion of Indochinese refugees, compared to over 80,000 Vietnamese and 13,000 Cambodians who resettled in 1986. During this migration period, Lao people crossed the Lao-Thai border by boat or by swimming and settled in Thai refugee camps. Most Lao people who migrated by boat were accompanied by their spouses, relatives and/or friends, in contrast to the experiences of other Indochinese refugees who were often separated from their family and friends during their journey to the Thai refugee camps.

Experience in migrant centers, 1970–80s
Following mass migration in the mid-to-late 1970s, Lao people amongst other Indochinese refugees were initially housed in migrant hostels. Commonwealth Hostels Limited, a government-sponsored organisation, operated 25 hostels which, in addition to accommodation, provided English-language courses, healthcare, catering and welfare services to new migrants. Several hostels in New South Wales were located in Cabramatta, Westbridge and East Hills, which has influenced the establishment of Indochinese enclaves near these areas and the broader Fairfield Local Government Area (LGA) in the present 2010s. In Victoria, there were migrant centers in Broadmeadows, Nunawading and Preston, and in South Australia, there was a hostel in Glenelg and Smithfield.

Initial stays in these migrant centers were short-lived with many Lao people leaving due to dissatisfaction with the food (22.6%) and a desire to move in with relatives and close friends in the community (54.8%). A quarter of Lao migrants left the centers in less than a month, and a further 39 percent left within 1-3 months. However, Lao people still perceived some benefits from their stay in the centers, including the ability to have paperwork processed which would allow them to integrate into Australian society (33.9%) and access to English-language classes (9.7%).

Lao people and other Indochinese ethnic groups chose to form enclaves in the Fairfield LGA nearby the migrant centers to be close to their relatives and friends. This allowed Lao people with low English proficiency levels to comfortably go about daily life without the obstacle of a language barrier impeding them. Other factors influencing the Lao people's decisions to settle in Fairfield LGA included the affordability of housing and proximity to their children's schools. For Lao people who chose to live in the Western suburbs outside of the Fairfeld Municipality, the dominant factor influencing this decision was a desire to be closer to their job.

Settlement of Lao people in Australia, 1990s
In the 1990s, the process of becoming an Australian citizen was less stringent compared to other countries which motivated Lao people to take up citizenship. In the US, the naturalization process required at least five years of permanent residence in the country, whereas the Citizenship Act in Australia allowed immigrants to become citizens with only two years of residence in the country provided they had basic English proficiency skills. In 1984, the act was amended to provide exemption to individuals over 50 applying for citizenship, recognizing the difficulty for older individuals in learning English. The majority of Lao people who settled in Australia attained citizenship within their first three years in the country. More than three quarters of Lao refugees became Australian citizens from 1975 to the 1990s, compared to 65 percent of Cambodians and 63 percent of Vietnamese refugees.

Impact of settlement on Lao family structure
Relations between Lao women and their spouses were markedly impacted upon migration to Australia, with 95 percent of Lao refugees stating their relationship with their husband or wife had changed since coming to Australia. Many women who were designated housewives in Laos had to join the Australian workforce as relying on a single source of income from the husband was insufficient for the cost of living in Australia. Gender dynamics shifted to more evenly distribute household labour amongst men and women - Lao women stated that their husbands had taken up more household duties in comparison to back home in Lao where typically the patriarch of the household would finish work and spend the rest of their leisurely time drinking with friends. However, a challenge faced by some Lao women was the threat of domestic violence, which made recently arrived migrants particularly vulnerable due to their lack of support system. Back in Lao, violence in the home was typically prevented or minimised through intervention by family and friends, however in Australia, this was not an option for some Lao women. Factors contributing to the propensity for Lao men to become violent upon migration to Australia included stress and trauma from the migration experience and financial-related pressures.

Employment in Australia
In the 1970s, a third of Lao people secured employment through connections with friends and relatives, with many jobs concentrating in the manufacturing industry. A smaller proportion (28.2%) of Lao-Australians stated they utilized resources provided by migrant centers to secure jobs including the assistance of Employment Officers. For unemployed Lao people looking for work, low levels of English proficiency (85.7%) were the dominant obstacle that preventing them from finding employment followed by a lack of job vacancies (42.9%). During the 1990s, Lao women typically worked in factories along with Lao men, although some men worked as janitors, gardeners or in construction.

Educational experiences
Many Lao children faced language barriers in educational settings and reportedly took twice as long to complete homework compared to Australian children. Despite these challenges, Lao children rapidly integrated into Australian society and began to adopt Western values over Lao traditions. Lao children became less likely to wholly obey their parent's wishes as was tradition in Laos. The assimilation of Lao youth into Australian culture was named a source of conflict with their parents, who expressed concern with their children dating and attending school functions and parties as was commonplace in Australia.

Cultural differences
In Australia, birthdays are often celebrated by Lao people as is commonplace in Western tradition, however this practice is less frequent in Lao. Traditionally, Lao culture is not as patriarchal as other Asian cultures, although women are still expected to be subservient and docile.  Many Lao women are afforded some independence and even more so for Lao-Australian women. For example, most women in Lao would take on their spouse's last name however in Australia many women do not follow this tradition and instead choose to keep their own family name. Another tradition followed by women in Lao that is seldom practiced in Australia includes going to sleep after her spouse. However, other practices indicating the subservience of Lao women to men include washing her husband's laundry separately to her own, which was still followed by some women in a 1990 study.

In Lao culture, respect for one's elders is a dominant value as influenced by Confucianism, and deems that younger people or individuals deemed of lower status, show deference to their elder/superior. Lao men and women use formal speech to address their elders in a manner which if translated to English would come off artificial. Conversely, Lao people in Australia may not be used to including polite phrases like 'Please' and 'Thank you' when speaking English as such terms are not commonly used in the Lao language.

Organisations
Organisations established by Laotians in Australia include the Lao Studies Society, the Council of Overseas Lao, the Lao Patthin Association, LaoAus Care Inc. and the Lao Women's Association. The leadership of these organisations is largely drawn from among the civil servants of the pre-communist government of Laos, as well as the international students who were sponsored to come to Australia under the Colombo Plan during that government.

Other organisations include the Lao-Australian Welfare Association based in Forest Hill, VIC and the Lao Australian Society which advocates for the development of Lao culture in the country. Additionally, the Laotian Language Program operated by SBS Radio caters to the Lao community and is run on Mondays from 4-5pm and Saturdays at 9-10pm.

Religion

Most Laotians (over 70%) in Australia are Theravada Buddhists, with a minority of Catholics. There are several main temples frequented by the Lao in Australia, including Wat Phrayortkeo Dhammayanaram located in Edensor Park, NSW and Wat Buddhalavarn in Wedderburn, NSW. In Victoria, major Lao temples include the Lao Buddhist Temple of Victoria, also known as Wat Dhammanivesaya.

Buddhist temples serve not only as a religious structure but also a community meeting place for Lao-Australians. Major festivals in Lao culture are held at major Buddhist temples including the Lao New Year (also known as Pi Mai or  Songkran) celebrations which takes place in mid-April. Water-throwing is a dominant activity during the festivities and is a means of wishing good fortune on others.

See also

 Asian Australians
Lao people

Notes

References

Further reading

External links
  [CC-By-SA] (Lao in Sydney)

Laotian diaspora
Asian Australian


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The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present "Mythologies Louisianaises", a group show featuring Louisiana artists connected to Franco- and Créolophone cultures in Louisiana curated by Baton Rouge-based artist Jonathan "feral opossum" Mayers. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur [email protected], located at 434 Julia Street, from August 4–September 22, 2018. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artists in attendance, Saturday, August 4 from 6 to 9 pm in conjunction with the Hancock Whitney White Linen Night.
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