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Our club belongs to Rotary District 9650
We are a Rotary Club made up of Rotarians from all over Australia. We meet on-line to coordinate service projects and enjoy fellowship with like-minded Rotarians as well as meeting face to face.
Our meetings are held using ZOOM.
We meet on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month and face to face as required..
The next meeting will be December 12th and will be our Annual general meeting on ZOOM 7pm.
Our meeting with the District Governor was to be held in Tamworth on Wednesday 20th November 2019 but because of the fires in the region and the inability to traverse many roads in the District, the visit has been postponed until February 2020.
A reminder of our Christmas party which will be face to face at Ebor starting tomorrow on Saturday 7th December 2019 at 6.30pm for drinks and or dinner, again subject to our ability to get there because of the fires in the vicinity.
Enquiries : phone Dorothy 0417 691 562
John 0427 691 535
PRESIDENT-PDG John Barwick
SECRETARY- Tanika Douglas
TREASURER-Justin Baiocchi
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY- PDG Ken Hall
FOUNDATION- PDG Barry Hacker
MEMBERSHIP-Dorothy Barwick.
5 reasons to give to The Rotary Foundation
When you make a donation to The Rotary Foundation, you are helping Rotary members make a difference in the lives of millions of people around the world. Here are five reasons to make Rotary your charity of choice on Giving Tuesday, 3 December, or any time of the year.
- Accountability
Our accountability and transparency have earned The Rotary Foundation 12 straight years of four-star ratings — the highest possible — from independent evaluator Charity Navigator. More than 90% of Foundation funds are spent directly on programs. No high administrative costs dilute your gift.
- Impact
We partner with other organizations to increase our impact and make your donations work even harder. When you give to PolioPlus, for example, you have the satisfaction of knowing that every $1 Rotary commits to polio eradication is matched by $2 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Thanks to this partnership, all donations to end polio (up to $50 million per year) are tripled, providing critical funding toward creating a polio-free world.
- A record of success
Rotary unites leaders who have the skills and resources to tackle some of the world's most difficult problems and deliver sustainable, long-lasting results. For decades, Rotary has been a leader in the battle against polio and with the help of our partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we have reduced cases by 99.9% since 1988. The infrastructure developed to facilitate both immunizations and eradication is being used to fight and protect against other diseases as well. For example, the method known as contact tracing was critical to containing an Ebola outbreak in Nigeria in 2014.
- Global reach
Our 1.2 million members span the globe, uniting people who have a common desire to serve others. From teaching children to read in Ecuador to a microcredit program in Indonesia, Rotary members identify local problems and use Rotary's vast network and the resources of The Rotary Foundation to take action in their communities.
- Bringing about peace
Peace holds a unique status in Rotary. We approach peace not as an abstract concept, but as a living, dynamic expression of human development. As a humanitarian service organization, it is both a cornerstone of our mission, and one of our six areas of focus – one of the main ways in which our members make their mark on the world.
Each year, the Rotary Peace Centers train some of the world's most dedicated professionals to resolve conflicts and promote national and international cooperation. Rotary Peace Fellows study in a two-year master's degree program or a professional certificate program at Rotary's partner universities. Rotary members themselves also address the underlying causes of conflict, including poverty, inequality, ethnic tension, lack of access to education, and unequal distribution of resources. Our collaboration with the Institute for Economics and Peace is providing free, self-guided training to individuals who want to be peacebuilders in their communities.
How your year-end gift to the Foundation does a world of good!
There's still time to make your year-end gift to The Rotary Foundation. Here are a few ways that your support is helping to change lives all over the world:
Educating children: Rotary members in Maine, USA, and Rajasthan, India, are using a global grant to educate hundreds of children in the city of Bikaner who previously were not attending school, and to provide professional development for their teachers., which also provided desks for the students through an earlier grant.
Fighting disease: Rotary members in California, USA, and Sinkor, Monrovia, Liberia, are using Foundation grant money to train health care workers in techniques to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to improve their ability to diagnose and treat infected women. The success of the project is measured in lives saved. Read more about the vocational training team's efforts.
Growing local economies: In the Esmeraldas Province of Ecuador, Rotary members have teamed up with a microfinance organization to provide small loans to poor women, teaching them to sew and bake so they can start or expand businesses. Global grant funds provide seed money for microloans and buy sewing and baking equipment for a training centre where the women learn vocational skills and basic business management. Learn more about the project.
Ending polio: In 2015, wild poliovirus transmission declined to its lowest level ever, with fewer cases reported from fewer areas in fewer countries than ever before. As of 15 December, only 66 cases of the disease caused by the wild poliovirus had been reported in the two remaining endemic countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Gifts from Rotary members have funded the immunization activities that are helping us reach our goal of a polio-free world. And every dollar that Rotary commits to polio eradication is matched 2-to-1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, tripling your impact.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Russian was the predominant second language offered in Polish schools, leaving tens of thousands of Polish emigrants without the English skills they needed.
That has changed over the last 25 years. English proficiency drastically improved after the government reformed its education system in 1991. The country overhauled its teaching curriculum and materials and introduced English as the primary foreign language. As of 2013, Poland ranks 8th in the world in English proficiency.
However, one segment of the population isn't reaping the benefits of the improved curriculum. Thousands of students in poor rural villages attend schools that don't have the adequate resources or well trained personnel to properly teach English, putting them at a disadvantage in today's global economy and labor market, says Anna Wieczorek, a Rotary Club of Warszawa City member and author of Poland's English curriculum for grades 1-3.
"The budgets of state schools in rural areas are limited compared to those in the cities and private schools," Wieczorek says. "Teachers in these schools are often underpaid and undertrained. Consequently, the level of teaching English is far from meeting the appropriate standards."
Added to that, she says, their students face social exclusion. "They lack the self-confidence and communication skills that students in the city, who have access to modern technology, might have," she says. "The inability to learn English — let alone acquire an appropriate education — early on in their lives makes it difficult for them to evolve and develop further in life."
Many of the students come from homes where unemployment and alcoholism are common, according to a report by the CASE Foundation, prepared for the Warsaw Delegation of the European Commission. Many turn their attention to the streets and crime instead of education, the report says.
Rotary gives rural communities support
The Warszawa City members the Rotary Club of Berlin-Luftbrücke, Germany, and the Rotary Club of Milano Nord, Italy, are trying to change this trend. A $45,000 Rotary global grant project is supporting English and other foreign language education for more than 1,200 underprivileged students in 10 rural communities. The clubs collaborated with Good Start, a program that provides equipment, software, and an interactive e-learning platform for afterschool education centers, as well as training for tutors.
Eleven centers are now equipped with computers, interactive white boards, projectors, multimedia, and printed learning materials. The three clubs, along with the Rotary Club of Edmonton Downtown, Alberta, Canada, have furnished 12 other afterschool centers over the last three years in conjunction with previous Rotary Foundation grants, bringing the total to 23. Each dayroom is supervised by a local Rotary member.
Before the project, the centers would generally be empty after school. They only provided desks and chairs. With the new technology, interactive classes, and motivated instructors, the students now have an "attractive way to learn," Wieczorek says.
Wieczorek, who also authors children's books, writes the e-learning software and curriculum. "We are not only teaching English, but we're improving their reading, writing, and computer skills," she says. "They have a safe place to spend their free time after school. This makes a big difference in their daily lives and will help them define their future."
According to a 2013 global language study from Education First, countries with higher levels of English proficiency also have stronger economies and their citizens have higher per capita income levels and quality of life. More and more multinational companies are mandating English as their common corporate language.
The study also suggests that because English is the predominant language in business, higher education, and politics, English proficiency is important to succeeding in a globalized society. And low proficiency in English may be connected with weak integration into the global economy.
Gerhart Ernst, a Berlin-Luftbrücke Rotary member, says since his club was chartered in 1979, members have focused their efforts on supporting young people from disadvantaged homes. Their partnership with the Polish club is something they are especially proud of.
Ernst says his club wants to mimic this project in areas in Germany with a large number of refugees from Syria and Lebanon.
In March, members of the Warszawa City club visited one of the centers while an English class was in session. "It brought tears to my eyes to see these children so happy and engaged," says Wieczorek. "These kids have dreams about getting away from the poverty and affliction. We're doing all we can to make these dreams come true."
How close are we to a polio-free world? What's needed to finish the job? Can we make history together?
Watch our third annual World Polio Day webcast for a global status update on the fight to end polio and take part in the conversation.
Time magazine Senior Editor Jeffrey Kluger is our moderator, and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake is a keynote speaker. The webcast features appearances by Emmy Award-winner Archie Panjabi, Grammy Award-winner Angelique Kidjo, actress Kristen Bell, WWE Superstar John Cena, The Doctors co-host Dr. Jennifer Berman, CDC Polio Eradication Branch Chief John Vertefeuille, and other special guests.
Help us make history today. Share your voice online, advocate with your government, or create your own World Polio Day event. Download the resources below to get started.
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No child anywhere should suffer from this completely preventable disease. As little as 60 cents worth of vaccine can protect against polio. We need your voice to end polio now. Download the resources below to join us and make an impact on World Polio Day.
Rotary and ShelterBox support Syrian refugees
In Syria, where a civil war has been raging since 2011, more than 6,000 people flee the country every day. As of September, more than 4.1 million people have become refugees, and 7.6 million more have been internally displaced.
"The plight of Syria's refugees is a litmus test for the world's compassion," says Rotary International General Secretary John Hewko. "Rotary members worldwide are profoundly disheartened by the refugee crisis now unfolding in Syria and other parts of the world," which the United Nations has described as the worst in decades.
"Rotary is following the situation closely," Hewko says. "We know our members have an inherent desire to act, to relieve the suffering and uncertainty that displaced individuals and families are facing. We call on you to respond as Rotarians have for more than 100 years: to use your professional skills and acumen, leverage your connections to other leaders, and mobilize your local communities to provide the necessary resources and funding to address the humanitarian crisis."
Rotary members can donate to the disaster relief efforts of our project partner ShelterBox. The organization has supported the Syrian relief effort for nearly four years and is working with other agencies to continue distributing relief materials. ShelterBox is also working with communities in Greece to provide aid and supplies to displaced people passing through the region.
Rachel Harvey, a member of a ShelterBox response team that recently returned from Greece, says Syrian refugees are making dangerous crossings to the shores of Greece.
As many as 2,000 people arrive daily on Lesbos' northern beaches, says Harvey, referring to a Greek island in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish coast. The trip from Turkey to Greece usually takes about an hour and a half. "The flimsy rubber dinghies are invariably overcrowded, and the majority of passengers can't swim," she says.
Harvey adds: "The experience is terrifying. Another trauma added to the layers that many of the displaced have accumulated through war in Syria or South Sudan, insecurity in Afghanistan or Pakistan. One man told me: 'It was a nightmare. I don't know how we got through that trip,' " she says.
Says Hewko: "We appreciate our clubs and members for their support, helping the millions of displaced people find shelter and rebuild their lives and communities. Every refugee is in our hearts and minds."
Nigeria declared polio-free, removed from endemic list
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on 25 September that Nigeria is now polio-free and has been officially removed from the list of countries where polio is endemic. It's been 14 months since any cases of polio caused by the wild virus have been detected there.
With Nigeria's historic achievement, polio remains endemic in only two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. That means transmission of the virus has never been stopped there.
Nigeria was the last country in Africa where polio was endemic.
The continent celebrated its own first full year without the disease on 11 August. Once three years have passed without a case in WHO's entire African region, officials will certify polio eradicated there.
"Rotary congratulates Nigeria on its tremendous accomplishment in stopping polio," says RI President K.R. Ravindran. "On behalf of the entire Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), we thank volunteers, health workers, and parents in communities across Nigeria for their tireless commitment to ensuring every last child is protected against this devastating disease. In the months ahead, their dedication will remain as important as ever, as we work to keep Nigeria polio-free and to eliminate polio from its final strongholds in Pakistan and Afghanistan."
Nigeria's success is the result of several sustained efforts, including domestic and international financing, the commitment of thousands of health workers, and new strategies that reached children who had not previously been immunized because of a lack of security in the country's northern states.
Type 2 poliovirus gone for good
In other encouraging news, an independent global health commission officially verified on 21 September that wild poliovirus type 2, one of three strains of the wild virus, has been eradicated worldwide. Although the last type 2 case was detected back in 1999, the confirmation is an important milestone, as Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative prepare to switch from a form of the vaccine that targets all polio types to one that does not protect against type 2.
The announcement by the Global Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication confirms that only two strains of the wild poliovirus remain. Of those, type 3 wild poliovirus hasn't been detected in almost three years, and wild poliovirus type 1 is endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Funding increase needed to reach final goal
On 25 September, the GPEI's Polio Oversight Board met to determine the next steps needed to eradicate polio. The group concluded that $1.5 billion in new funding is needed to help Rotary and its partners end polio in the next few years. With Nigeria now polio-free, spending will focus on the most vulnerable children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, while continuing to shield millions of children already living in polio-free countries.
"With a fully funded program and global commitment to ending this disease, we have the opportunity to interrupt transmission of the wild poliovirus in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2016, opening the door for certification of a global eradication in 2019," says Michael K. McGovern, chair of Rotary's International PolioPlus Committee. "With [Rotary members'] continued support, we will soon see our dream of a polio-free world realized."
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Add a Programmable Thermostat to Your HVAC System for Optimal Temperature Control
A thermostat is an important device for home comfort. It's the brain behind your heating and cooling system, the panel through which you control the temperature in your home. Whether you're upgrading your HVAC equipment or you simply want more control over home comfort and energy savings, it's worthwhile to invest in a programmable thermostat.
How Does a Programmable Thermostat Work?
The biggest difference between a basic thermostat and a programmable model is the ability to program automatic setbacks. To save energy with a basic thermostat, you must remember to turn the temperature down when you leave for work in the morning or climb into bed at night. A downside to saving energy in this way is that you return home or wake up to an uncomfortable environment. You must manually change the temperature and wait until the air conditioner or furnace reaches the desired temperature. Plus, like a lot of people, you might just forget to adjust the thermostat.
With a programmable thermostat, you program setback and recovery periods based on your schedule. That way, you save energy while you're away or sleeping, and the program automatically resumes a comfortable temperature before you come home or wake up. It's the best of both worlds: energy savings in your absence and no sacrifice in comfort when you get home.
Also keep in mind that you always have the ability to override a setting if you are uncomfortable. This feature ensures you never feel stuck with a temperature that is too hot or too cold simply because the thermostat is programmed a certain way.
Available Models
The number of setback periods available varies based on the exact model you choose. Most programmable thermostats today let you program four temperature settings in a 24-hour period. For example, you might program a morning temperature while you're at home, a daytime temperature when the house is empty, an evening temperature when you're back at home, and a nighttime temperature while you sleep.
The major difference between available models is the number of programs you can create in a week. To help you decide which model is right for you, consider your schedule and how it varies from day to day. Work, school and other activities dictate when you're at home and when you're away.
Programmable thermostat options include:
- 5+2-day model: This is the most basic programmable thermostat available. It allows you to program a different schedule for weekdays and the weekend.
- 5-1-1 model: For a little more flexibility, you may opt for this model, which programs every weekday the same and allows for a different schedule on Saturday and Sunday.
- 7-day model: This is the most flexible option, ideal if your schedule is different every day of the week
Advanced Features to Look For
In general, every programmable thermostat boasts the ability to keep the indoor temperature within two degrees of the programmed setting. In addition to this feature, look for other advanced offerings that help you get the most out of your investment:
- Digital backlit display to make nighttime temperature overrides easier
- Touch screen to make navigation a breeze
- Vacation hold feature so you can set the thermostat to a different temperature than usual for a prolonged period of time, such as while you're out of town
- Filter change indicator to remind you that it's time to change the air filter
- Malfunction indicator so you know when to call in a professional to make a repair
- Adaptive recovery, an important control feature if you have a heat pump
- Voice programming so you can make temperature changes with the futuristic method of simply saying your desire to the thermostat
- WiFi connectivity for remote access, an advanced feature that upgrades the device to a "Smart" programmable thermostat
Tips for Getting the Most from a Programmable Thermostat
You can expect the most energy savings possible if you follow certain guidelines for using the device:
- Program setback periods for the longest time possible to see greater energy savings.
- Use the "temporary hold" setting sparingly. Every time you override a setting, you pay a little more to heat or cool your home.
- Remember to use the "vacation hold" setting when you go out of town.
- Avoid cranking the temperature way up or down when you're uncomfortable. Put on or take off a layer, then alter the thermostat by one or two degrees.
- Consider installing multiple thermostats for zoned heating and cooling.
For more information about choosing a programmable thermostat that works with your HVAC equipment, please contact us at Ray & Son Heating & Air Conditioning. We proudly serve South Georgia and North Florida residents.
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The concept of "right brain left brain" refers to the two hemispheres of your brain. Most of us seem to favor one style or another of thinking which may be an indication of the dominance of one or the other hemisphere.
By: Steve Gillman
The concept of "right brain left brain" refers to the two hemispheres of your brain. Some amazing experiments involving people who've had the corpus callosum cut taught us most of what we know about the differences between the two sides. The surgery is performed on epileptics to reduce the incidence of seizures, and it isolates most of the right hemisphere from the left hemisphere.
For a typical experiment, a divider allows a participant to see two objects – say, a cup with the right eye and a lemon with the left. When asked what they see, they'll say they see a cup, and nothing more, because most people process both language and information from the right eye with their left brain (left hemisphere). However, when they write down what they see, using their left hand, they'll write "a lemon," because both the left hand and eye are controlled by the right side of the brain.
Of course, you have only one brain, and the two hemispheres work together normally. These split-brain experiments show how distinct the two sides really are, though. When the corpus callosum is cut it's as if there really are two brains. What have we learned from these experiments then?
Left Brain
For more than 90% of right-handed people and 70% of left-handed people, the left hemisphere:
– Processes things more sequentially.
– It is more rational, logical, analytical, and objective.
– It looks at the parts.
– It handles normal speech.
If you want to stimulate and strengthen the thinking processes of your "left brain," talk about things as logically as you can. Also, picking apart an argument or something you read can exercise this part of the brain too. While there is little hard evidence as to the effects of specific exercises, talking or working on your analytical skills are safe things to do, so experiment freely.
Right Brain
Again, the following is true for most people. The right hemisphere:
– Handles thing in more random and subjective manor.
– Is responsible for "hunches" and other intuitive processes.
– Looks more at wholes, and is best at pattern-recognition.
If you want to exercise your "right brain," sing. Stutterers find that they don't stutter when they sing, because it is handled differently than regular speech. Writing or reciting free-form poetry and studying maps may help as well. Again, these are not proven by scientific studies yet, but there is no danger in experimenting in these areas.
Right Brain Left Brain Dominance
Most of us seem to favor one style or another of thinking, and this may be an indication of the dominance of one or the other hemisphere. For example, it seems likely that the choice between joining the debating team or the art class in school has something to do with which side is dominant. You have probably noticed that left-handed people, who presumably have a more developed right hemisphere, are more often artists.
If you want to be more "whole brained" in your approach to things, you can start by working on your weakest areas, using some of the tips above. Also, you can bring both sides into whatever you do. For example, metaphors, a right-hemisphere process, can be used in logical (left hemisphere) debate. Artistic work can include more analysis. Can this really help balance your thinking? Probably. Time and more research will tell. In the meantime, it can't hurt to more fully use your right brain and left brain.
About The Author:
Steve Gillman has been studying brainpower and related topics for years. For more on How To Increase Brain Power, and to get the Brain Power Newsletter and other free gifts, visit: http://www.IncreaseBrainPower.com.
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By concentrating, you can extend the area affected by your aura of courage.
Prerequisite(s): Aura of courage ability
Benefit: As a standard action, you may make a concentration check. The DC for this check is equal to the desired size of your aura of courage – for example, an aura twenty feet in radius would be DC 20. If the check succeeds, you may maintain this expanded aura as long as you concentrate.
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Today the Cato Institute released an update to itsWork Vs. Welfare study, originally conducted in 1995. The study evaluated welfare benefits from available programs at the federal and state level, and determined the equivalent hourly wage that a welfare recipient would have to earn in order to maintain the same lifestyle. Some of the findings were shocking:
- In 33 states, welfare pays more than a minimum-wage job
- In 13 states, welfare pays more than $15 an hour
- In 11 states, welfare pays more than the average pre-tax first year wage for a teacher
- In 39 states, welfare pays more than the starting wage for a secretary
- In 42 states, welfare actually exceeds the poverty level
- In the District of Columbia, Hawaii, and Massachusetts, welfare pays more than twice the poverty level
Zero Hedge produced the chart above last year entitled "The Welfare Cliff" which shows how welfare is completely broken.
It's enough to make taxpayers scream in frustration. But are welfare recipients really to blame for the situation?
As Michael Tanner, one of the authors of the study, states: "Most decisions in life are the result of a cost-benefit analysis." People on the low end of the income scale are increasingly weighing the options of collecting benefits (which put them significantly over the poverty line) against working for pay (which could temporarily place them in much more dire conditions). Is it all that irrational for welfare recipients to opt to remain on government assistance? Conservatives and libertarians might not like the cost to taxpayers, or the cost to the welfare recipients' dignity, but the fact remains that the decision is completely logical.
The federal and state governments have put these programs in place; surely they are aware of the way they pervert the incentives for people to look for work and attempt to leave the welfare system. So why, then, do the programs remain? Because government has no incentive to solve problems. Government programs are not created to work until they are no longer needed; government programs are created to perpetuate government bureaucracies. They create the need, and thus create the jobs in government to service that need.
So why does welfare, specifically, go wrong? Having been in the welfare system myself, I can speak to that.
When my oldest child was born, I lived with my parents. I was unable to work for a while, and my family's income was in a pretty severe slump. I applied for assistance to make sure my daughter had formula and diapers, and could continue to see the doctor who was monitoring her after some post-delivery difficulties. About four months in, my old employer was asking for me to return to work, and my family arranged to help by watching The Bigun while I worked in retail.
I hated working retail, but I was very good at it. So much so that I received a nice commission check after a couple of months back on the job. When I say "nice" I mean a couple hundred bucks extra at most. But it was enough to trigger the cutoff of all of my benefits. Here I was with the opportunity to make a little headway, and the entire system closed me out. We appealed the decision, which extended the benefits long enough to get The Bigun through a needed surgery we had been worried about (a surgery paid for by a charity, not taxpayer dollars, I might add) but after that, we gave up on the system and struggled through. We went without a lot, and were always in peril of having the power shut off or losing the telephone, but eventually things got better.
I imagine what the system would have done had I still been in it while going back to college. At that point I was receiving between $1-2k in financial aid (grants and loans) each semester. By engaging in the very activity that would have enabled me both to leave the system and begin contributing to it, I would have ensured that the system would no longer backstop me.
So ask yourself, where are the perverted incentives? Not on the part of the welfare recipients. The system that we claim is meant to be "a hand up" is no such thing. It's much more attractive than working, and so people don't even try to work, because contrary to the message of conservatives, THEY WOULD BE WORSE OFF IF THEY WORKED. The system puts the lie to conservative tenets; they sound like empty platitudes in the face of these perverse incentives.
The better option would be a system that supports people while they train for work, attend school, or take initial low-paying jobs; then phases that support out gradually as they attain certain goals or milestones. In that system, the incentive to join the work force would be far greater, leading welfare recipients to rely on the system in the way it was intended: as TEMPORARY assistance.
Conservatives DO need to care about these programs and how they work. Merely complaining about the programs and the people who take advantage of them doesn't accomplish much. Instead, lobbying our representatives to overhaul the system so that it stops penalizing responsible behavior will pay far more benefits in the long run, and cost much less.
Read over the study from Cato, and attend your Representative's town hall meetings armed with the facts. Talk about welfare reform to people in your circle; not with disdain, but with compassion for people the system is screwing over – the taxpayers AND the recipients – both of whom have lost control over their lives in different ways. Framing the debate a little differently from usual can win the kind of broad support for welfare reform that we saw in the '90s; it can also help real people with real struggles to climb out of the pit of dependency once and for all.


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Obama Commutes Drug Offender's Sentence That Was Extended By Typo
President Obama commuted a convicted drug trafficker's prison sentence on Tuesday after it was discovered that the prisoner had been sentenced to three and a half extra years in prison due to a typo.
Ceasar Huerta Cantu, of Katy, Texas, pleaded guilty to marijuana trafficking and money laundering in 2006 as part of a plea bargain. Though Cantu should have only received 11 1/2 years, the judge sentenced him to 15 years as the result of a typo describing his crime as more severe than it actually was. The Associated Press reports that prosecutors accidentally entered Cantu's "offense level" as 36 when it should have read 34.
Because Cantu's legal team didn't notice the error before sentencing, they were unable to change the amount of time Cantu would serve. The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that Obama had signed an order to commute Cantu's sentence down to its original length because of the typo.
"A judge ruled that Mr. Cantu did not discover this error in time to correct it through any judicial means; as a result, it can now only be rectified through clemency," a White House spokesperson told the Hill.
Cantu is incarcerated in a federal corrections institute in Oakdale, La. He's now set to be released in 2018.
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Dr. Edward Charles Arthur, successfully engaged in the practice of
medicine in Nelson and also identified with mining interests of the northwest,
was born in Prince Edward county, Ontario, November 29, 1856. His
parents, Matthew and Margaret (Dougherty) Arthur, were early residents
of Brighton, Northumberland county, Ontario. The father was a farmer
and still lives upon his farm in that district, although he has practically re-
tired from active business life.
Dr. Edward Charles Arthur at the usual age began his education, en-
tering the public school No. 12 in the township of Hallowell in Prince Ed-
ward county. He afterward spent four months as a student in public school
No. 6 and eventually entered the high school at Brighton. Later he matricu-
lated in Victoria University, entering that institution in September, 1876,
and completing a full classical course there by graduation in May, 1880.
Devoting his attention tO' educational work he spent several years in teaching
in high schools and collegiate institutes, when having determined to enter
upon the practice of medicine he began preparation for that work in Trinity
Medical College of Toronto, in which he was graduated in May, 1888.
Entering upon practice at Lloydtown in county York, he remained there
for fifteen months, after which he came to British Columbia to accept the
position of physician for the Canadian Pacific Railway on the Columbia and
Kootenay road. He landed at Revelstoke on the 30th of April, 1890, and
arrived in Nelson on the 12th of August, of the same year. Locating for
practice here in January, 1891, he was licensed in May following and has since
continued an active representative of the medical fraternity, discharging his
professional duties in a most conscientious, earnest and capable manner. He
has gained comprehensive knowledge of the principles of the medical science,
is rarely at error in his diagnosis of a case or in determining the outcome of
disease and ever maintains a high standard of professional ethics. He is
likewise largely interested in mining in addition to his professional duties,
having made judicious investments in some valuable mineral properties.
On the 31st of July, 1889, Dr. Arthur was united in marriage to Miss
Isabel Delmage, a native of St. Marys, Ontario, and they have one child,
Margaret Isabel Lennox, while two of their children have passed away. Dr.
Arthur is quite prominent in fraternal circles. He is a charter member of
Nelson lodge, No. 23, A. F. & A. M., and of Kootenay lodge, No. 16, I. O. O.
F. He is serving as past grand master of the latter, is a member of the
Independent Order of Foresters, and takes an active and commendable in-
terest in every movement or measure that tends to promote the social, in-
tllecutal or moral development of his city. His devotion to the general good
has been recognized by his fellow citizens, who have called him to public of-
fice. He has been coroner of the district since 1892, was alderman for one
year and has been a member of the school board since its organization. In
thought and feeling he is a fellow citizen of the province and his career is
now closely identified with the history of the Kootenay district, where he.
has acquired a competency and where he is an honored and respected citizen.
Richard Hall is a native of the Golden state, his birth occurring in San
Francisco April 30, 1855, his parents being Richard and Sarah (Dunderdale)
Hall, both natives of Lancashire, England. He received his educational
training in Victoria, where he attended the Catholic College, and was also
a student in the collegiate school of the Church of England. At an early
age he was connected with the dry goods trade, was also in the wholesale
commission business, and for a number of years was a steamboat purser.
In 1882 Mr. Hall embarked in the wholesale coal trade, in which he has ever
since continued, being exclusive agent for the Dunsmere coal, and in addition
is also a well known insurance man, representing as general agent the Liver-
pool, London and Globe, the Travelers' Life for the past twenty years,
and also does a marine insurance business. It will thus be seen that he is a
man of resourceful ability, and besides the many interests already mentioned
it should be noted that the sealing business has also claimed a share of his
attention, having been a member of the Victoria Sealing Company since
1888, in which he is connected with Captains Cox and Grant, and is now
serving as president of the company. In his political affiliations Mr. Hall
was a Conservati\'e until 1896, but in that year joined the Liberals, and in
1898 was elected a member of the provincial parliament, to which position
he was re-elected in 1900 and again in 1903, administering the affairs of
the office with ability and power.
The marriage of Mr. Hall was celebrated in 1887, when Miss Louisa
Kinsman became his wife. She is a native daughter of Victoria, in which
city her father, Aldermjin John Kinsman, has long made his home. The
children born to this union are Rupert C, Norman B., and Claudia L. The
family are Methodists in their religious faith, and fraternally Mr. Hall af-
filiates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the
World, and is a member of the Sons of England.
Dr. David LaBau, the pioneer physician of Nelson, whose practice largely
extends over the eastern section of British Columbia, was born in Stoutsburg,
New Jersey, on the 4th of March, 1858, his parents being David and Eliza-
beth (Wert) LaBau. The mother has passed away, but the father is still
living, being a resident of New Jersey.
In the public schools David LaBau acquired his early education and
afterward entered Columbia University in New York city, pursuing a course
in medicine. He was graduated from that institution with the class of 1880
and thinking that he might have a better field for professional labor in the
west he made his way to Colville, Washington, where he spent a short time.
He was afterward located in Idaho for a brief period and thence came to
British Columbia in March, 1888, his destination being Nelson. He made
his way to this district in order to engage in mining, for gold had been dis-
covered in the Kootenay country and he hoped that he might more rapidly
realize wealth than through the avenue of medical practice. There was no
physician in the district, however, and he was constantly called upon to re-
lieve the sick and suffering, in fact, the professional demands upon his time
were so great that he was not able to attend to his mining interests, and de-
termined to devote his energies exclusively to the practice of medicine and
surgery. He was the first physician in the district and he has always main-
tained a foremost place among the representatives of the medical fraternity
here. He now has a large and lucrative practice, covering nearly all of the
eastern portion of British Columbia. He has made a close and earnest study
of surgery and his marked capability in that direction has gained him an
enviable reputation throughout the province. He is also a registered
physician of the United States. Constant study, reading and investigation
have continually broadened his knowledge and promoted his efficiency and
his skill in the alleviation of human suft'ering has brought him a desirable
financial success.
In 1896 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. LaBau and Miss . Maude
Scott, a native of Portland, Oregon, and a cousin of Harvey Scott, editor
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and proprietor of the Portland Orcgonian. They now have one child, Donna.
Dr. LaBau is a prominent Mason, having taken the Knight Templar degrees
as a member of Rossland Commandery, while he is also identified with the
Mystic Shrine. He is likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias frater-
nity. His entire freedom from ostentation or self laudation combined with
liis genuine personal worth has made him one of the most popular citizens
of Nelson and the Kootenay country, with whose history he has now been
long and prominently identified.
Dr. William Frederick Drysdale, a popular and successful physician and
surgeon at Nanaimo, where he has been building up and caring for a rep-
resentative practice during the past ten years, is generally recognized as a
man of broad ability and high attainments in his profession, and has added
to these qualifications a large degree of native talent and a large sympathy
with mankind, so that he has succeeded as a matter of course and as the re-
sult of his persevering and conscientious endeavor to realize high and worthy
Born in Packenham, Ontario, October 24, 1867, both of his parents,
Alexander and Martha (O'Neill) Drysdale, being deceased, the son, being
the youngest in a family of eight children, w^as educated in the public schools
and in the Collegiate Institute at Perth. That well known seat of medical
learning, McGill University, was the source from which he acquired his
professional preparation, and he was graduated from that institution with the
class of 1894. This period of theoretical study w^as corrolx^rated with six
months of practical experience in the general hospital. In September, 1894,
he came to Nanaimo and established himself in practice asi a partner w'ith
Dr. McKenzie, and this- firm has since been one of the most reliable in the
city. Dr. Drysdale's practice is mainly of a general nature, but he has also
made a specialty' of skin diseases, and has become reputed as an authority in
this line. He has several professional connections, being a member of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, a member of the British
Columbia Medical Association, and is city. health officer of Nanaimo.
Dr. Drv'sdale married, in April, 1900, Miss Katherine Allen, a daughter
of Captain Allen of the ship Cuba.. They have one child, Jean Allen. The
Presbyterian church represents the family's religious adherence. In politics
Dr. Drysdale is a Liberal, and has ifraternal affiliations wnth Doric Lodge,
A. F. &' A. M., of which he is past master, and with Vancouver Commandery
of the Knights Templar.
William T. Slavin, postmaster of Kamloops, has been a popular and
highly esteemed citizen of this city for the past fifteen years. He has arrived
at his present position as a result of energetic and persistent effort, and he
has made for himself since beginning in the time of youth a real career, char-
acterized by efficiency in the performance of duties and by invincible integrity
in all the relations of life.
The present postmaster of Kamloops was born in Kingston, Ontario, in
October, i860, being a son of P. and Rosanna (Keenan) Slavin, who are
both deceased. Kingston remained only his brief childhood home, and it was
at Montreal where he gained most of his school education and was reared.
He also attended Masson College at Terre Bonne. He began learning tel-
egraphy while a boy, and he practiced that art almost continuously up to the
time of accepting his present office. In 1882 he moved to Winnipeg and be-
came telegraph operator for the Canadian Pacific, and as that road was con-
structed westward he followed along in its course until it was completed.
He then worked for the Dominion Telegraph Company at Cariboo for four
years, from 1886 to 1890, and in the latter year came to Kamloops, where for
eight years he was stationed as commercial operator for the Canadian Pacific,
with a book and stationery store in connection therewith. He was appointed
postmaster of Kamloops in 1898, and has since filled that office to the eminent
satisfaction of all concerned, and it can be said to his credit that numerous
improvements effected during his administration have added to the efficiency
of the service and his own popularity as a government official.
Mr. Slavin was married in August, 1891, to Miss Margaret R. Dallas,
a daughter of Donald Dallas, of Wick, Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Slavin have
three children, Dallas, Zellah and Patuce. Mr. Slavin is a member of the
International Order of Railway Telegraphers, and is a past grand chancellor
of Primrose Lodge No. 20, Knights of Pythias, at Kamloops.
Belville Tbmkins, proprietor of the Strathcona Hotel at Nelson, one ot
the best hostelries in the province of British Columbia, was born in New York
city, January i, 1852, and is a son of Charles M. T. and Jane (Hudson)
Tomkins, both of whom have departed this life. At the usual age Belville
Tomkins entered the public schools of New York and therein mastered the
common branches of English learning, after which he entered upon his busi-
ness career in a printing establishment. Later he was engaged in seafaring
life for a time and in 1891 he came to British Columbia. He then located
at Nelson and was identified with the steamship interests until he turned his
attention to the hotel business. He is now proprietor of the Strathcona
Hotel at the corner of Stanley and Victoria streets, one of the finest hostelries
in British Columbia. It was erected in 1889 by employes of the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company, and was opened as a hotel by E. E. Fair, who con-
ducted it until January i, 1903, when he was succeeded by A. Padmore, who
remained proprietor until March, 1903, when Mr. Tomkins took charge. He
has since conducted the hotel and is one of the most popular landlords ot
the province, owing to his earnest efforts to please his patrons and the many
comforts and conveniences which the hotel affords. It contains sixty rooms
and is heated by steam and hot air. It is a four story building, erected at a
cost of twenty-four thousand dollars. The lots have a frontage of four
hundred feet and a depth of one hundred feet. The hotel occupies a very
favorable situation commanding a beautiful view of the mountain and the
In 1893 Mr. Tomkins was married to Miss Margaret Hutchinson, a
native of California, and thus the year is a notable one in his history, for 11
was also in that year that he entered the hotel business here. He is dis-
tinctively American in spirit and actions, possessing the marked enterprise
and foresight which have been the dominant factors in the rapid settlement,
improvement and development of this great western hemisphere. He pos-
sesses marked individuality, strong resolution and reliability, and he is en-
rolled among the best citizens of the Kootenay district.
Dr. Arthur Percival Proctor, a physician and surgeon with extensive
practice of an official and private nature, has been located in Kamloops since
1898. Dr. Proctor is from first to last a man of evident ability and high
purpose, and during the period of his active practice he has gained a reputa-
tion for skill and adroitness which fits well with his place among the leaders
of his profession in this province. He is prominently connected with the
life and active affairs of the community, and is influential and highly esteemed
wherever known.
Dr. Proctor was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, July 28, 1867,
his father, Charles Edward Proctor, being an English barrister, now deceased,
as is his mother, Ellen (Livesey) Proctor. Educated in the schools of the
old country, in 1886, l^eing then an ambitious youth of nineteen, he came
out to Canada and located at Alberni on Vancouver Island. Some time
later he made definite plans for a medical career, and his professional studies,
begun in the famous McGill University, were finished in Manitoba Uni-
versity, where he was graduated with the class of 1896. He then became
professionally connected with the Canadian Pacific Railway, and in the em-
ploy of the company was located at Donald, British Columbia, for sixteen
months. In the spring of 1898 he came to Kamloops, where he has cen-
tered his private and official practice ever since. He carries on a large gen-
eral practice, and is also local physician for the Canadian Pacific. Dr. Proctor
is a progressive member of his profession, and by several prominent official
connections keeps in touch with the science and wields his own influence for
the progress of the medical fraternity. He is a member and during 1904
was president of the medical council of the province; is medical superintend-
ent of the Royal Inland Hospital, is physician to the provincial jail and also
to the provincial home, is provincial health officer for the district and is city
health officer. He keeps up active membership in the British Medical Asso-
ciation, the Canadian Medical Association, and the British Columbia Medical
In politics Dr. Proctor is a Liberal, and he and his family are Presby-
terians. He is a prominent Mason, being affiliated with Kamloops lodge,
A. F. & A. M., and with the Scottish Rite Lodge of Perfection at Winnipeg;
is also an Odd Fellow, with Tatnai lodge. No. 9.
In 1900 Dr. Proctor niarried Miss Christine Mitchell, a daughter of
Walter Mitchell, of Inverness, Scotland. They are the parents of two
■children, Dorothy and Arthur P., Jr.
Lieutenant Colonel John Connal Whyte, of New Westminster, officer
commanding Sixth Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles, is the warden of the
British Columbia Penitentiary. He came to the province in 1887, and is a
native of Stirling. Scotland, born on the 2nd of August, 1861. His parents
were Robert and Jean (Connal) Whyte, the former a native of Breco, Scot-
land, and the latter of Stirling. The father was a contractor and builder,
and both he and his wife were Presbyterians in religious faith. He attained
the advanced age of eighty-two years, and his widow now survives him in
the sixty-eighth year of her age.
Lieutenant Colonel Whyte accompanied his parents to Canada when
but two years of age, and was reared in Ottawa, supplementing his early
educational privileges by study in the Ottawa Collegiate Institute. He began
his business career in a wholesale dry goods establishment, and continued in
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that until 1887, when he came to Victoria. There he remained for a short
time, after which he removed to New Westminster. He was here superin-
tendent of construction of the water works for the city, was superintendent
of construction for the Revelstoke & Arrow Lake, and the Nakusp & Slocan
Railways, and was thus closely associated with industries having direct benefit
upon the material resources and improvement of the city and province. In
1896 he was appointed warden of the British Columbia penitentiary, and
since that time has had charge of the institution. In the intervening years
many improvements have been made, and a large addition doubling the size
of the institution is now being completed. There are in 1905 one hundred
and thirty-seven convicts in the penitentiary, and these are employed in making
boots and shoes, clothing, farming, blacksmithing, carpentering, baking; also
in the manufacture of brick and artificial stone, the latter being made by an
absorption process, and is moulded into any shape desired. It is stronger
than sand stone and is a most valuable building material, and the British
Columbia penitentiary has the honor of inaugurating this manufacture in the
province. The convicts are also doing all the building under competent in-
struction. Lieutenant Colonel Whyte has taken a deep interest in Penology,
and has been honored with the appointment of Honorable Vice President of
the National American Prison Congress. He has for many years been very
active in field sports, and to him is due the honor of lueing one of the founders
of the New Westminster Lacrosse Club. He has been a very successful and
skillful player at all branches of amateur sport, and has twice represented
the province of Ontario in the international football competition while resid-
ing in Ottaw-a.
Lieutenant Colonel Whyte has also had military interests and connec-
tions. He w'as a member of the Forty-third Duke of Cornwall's Own Rifles,
Ottawa, before coming to British Columbia, and in 1897 he was given a
command in the Second Battalion, Fifth Regiment of Artillery in New West-
minster. In 1899 this regiment became the Sixth Regiment Duke of Con-
naught's Own Rifles, with headquarters in Vancouver. In 1902 Lieutenant
Colonel Whyte was appointed to command of the Duke of Connaught's Own-
Rifles. This regiment has acquired wide celebrity, and is second to none in
efficiency in the rifle range. To this regiment belongs Private Perry, S. M.,
who at Bisley, England, in 1904 won the King's medal, the Victoria Cross
of Riflemen, in competition against all the best shots in the empire. When
Lord Dundonald was leaving Canada he sent a despatch to the Toronto World
" That the Sixth was a very smart corps, and that their ofificers took a deep
interest in rifle shooting." Lieutenant Colonel Whyte has for the past four
years been president of the British Columbia Rifle Association, and they
now have the best record of any provincial association, having won last year
at Ottawa six places out of twenty on the Bisley team, of which four are out
of his own regiment; he is also vice president of the Dominion of Canada
Rifle Association and vice president of the Canadian Militia League.
In 1889 Lieutenant Colonel Whyte returned to Ottawa and was mar-
ried to Miss Margaret Blythe, a native of Ottawa and a daughter of George
R. Blythe, Esquire. Their union has been blessed with six children : George,
Isabella, Stewart, Blythe, Margaret and Jean. The parents belong to St.
Andrew's Presbyterian church, and Lieutenant Colonel Whyte belongs to
Union Lodge No. 10, A. F. & A. M., of New Westminster. He is also an
eighteenth degree Scottish Rite Mason; also is a member of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen and the Sons of Scotland. He has a wide and
favorable acquaintance in military and fraternal circles, and enjoys that warm
personal regard which arises from geniality, a kindly spirit and deference for
the opinions of others.
John Clancy Gore, who is serving as superintendent for the Canadian
Pacific Railroad steamers at Nelson, was born in Gibraltar, Michigan, in
1853 and after attending the public schools there he began learning the ship-
builder's trade, which he followed, however, for only a few months. He
afterward secured a position on steamers on the lakes, running on a mail
boat on Lake Superior between Marquette, Houghton and Hancock. He
was at that time but fifteen years of age. For four seasons he remained in
that employ and then worked on ship construction. Up to the time he was
eighteen years of age he had risen from the humble position of a deck hand
to master of a tug, and he continued to serve in the latter capacity for two
years. In 1872 he came west, locating in Portland, Oregon, his father hav-
ing purchased land near that city. Mr. Gore then turned his attention to
ranching, but the venture proved unsuccessful and he accepted a position as
deck hand on the Willamette and Columbia river boats. His capability,
however, won him promotion to the position of mate, which he occupied
until 1884, when in a similar capacity he went up the Stickeen river. The
boat on which he sailed, however, was sunk on the trip, and returning to
Portland, Mr. Gore accepted a position on the government snag boat. He
was next employed on the O. R. N. for one season as captain, following
which he returned to the employ of the government on a snag boat. Later
he resigned, however, on being offered a captaincy on the O. R. N. boat, and
he was in the employ of that company until September i, 1890, when he went
to Revel stoke in the employ of the Kootenay Steam Navigation Company.
It was owing to Captain Gore's long experience and practicability in navi-
gating swift waters and treacherous currents that it was made possible to
reach the inland Kootenays by navigation from outside points, thereby con-
necting with S. F. & N. on the south and the C. P. R. at Revelstoke. Prior
to this navigation was closed six months during the year. In 1897 he located
at Nelson and is now superintendent for the Canadian Pacific Railway Com-
pany's lake and river service.
In 1886 Mr. Gore wedded Miss Ida B. Ditmars, a resident of Oregon,
and they have two children : Hazel and George. Fraternally Mr. Gore is
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Loneliness and anxiety in one adolescent girl.
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OSHKOSH, Wisconsin – The Boomerang, designed by aviation legend Burt Rutan, is one of those creations that draws a crowd due to its innovation, unmatched performance and unusual appearance. When word got out earlier this summer that a crew was working on the asymmetric airplane and would have it here at Airventure, it generated tremendous excitement.
Never mind that the design is more than 15 years old and has been here several times.
But the fact it is old news doesn't matter. The unusual airplane still turns heads and, perhaps more often, leaves people scratching their heads. Rutan calls it his greatest accomplishment in general aviation.
The airplane was developed to create a safe and efficient twin-engine aircraft. Yes, traditional twin engine aircraft are considered safe because the second engine offers redundancy. But if an engine were to fail at a critical time, such as take off, there is added danger because of the resulting asymmetric power. If the pilot is not skilled, and well practiced in emergency maneuvers, there is a high risk of a crash because the airplane suddenly has tremendous drag on the side with the dead engine and thrust on the side with the working engine.
Rutan started with the basic design of a Beechcraft Baron, a popular twin engine airplane, and developed the Boomerang through a series of incremental changes. All of the asymmetry is there to eliminate the asymmetry experienced during an engine failure. If an engine were to fail in the Boomerang, the pilot doesn't need to do much to maintain control. The airplane continues flying straight.
The pilot workload reduction can be felt during normal flight, says Tres Clements, the Scaled Composites engineer responsible for returning the airplane to flight-worthy status after years spent in storage. Clements says the rudder pedals are rarely touched during flight, something unheard of for most pilots, especially those who fly small twin engine airplanes.
"During takeoff, just put your feet on the floor," Clements says. "You're just going to screw something up. Best thing is to take your feet off the pedals and let it fly."
Clements and a team of volunteers - including the airplane's original test pilot and private astronaut Mike Melvill - put in more than 1,500 hours during the past several months getting the Boomerang ready to fly again. The airplane was pulled from a hangar in February after sitting for nine years. It flew by the end of March just before Rutan retired from Scaled Composites.
For the first few flights, the Boomerang flew with the original 1990s-era Apple 5300C PowerBook used for the engines and systems monitor.
"We pulled this thing out and blew the dust off," Clements says of the PowerBook. "We plugged it in and it made the old PowerBook chime when it loaded up."
Clements says Rutan was excited that his old computer still worked, but obviously there's been a lot of technological progress since then. Donations from a handful of companies provided new instrumentation for the cockpit, but Apple gets a nod with the addition of an iPad dock.
Clements says it's been a lot of fun showing the airplane at Oshkosh, where you'll find a crowd around the Boomerang all day long. People are amazed by the unusual craft because nothing is symmetrical. The right fuselage has the cockpit and passenger seats with a 210-horsepower engine. The left one is shorter and includes the baggage compartment and a 200-horsepower engine mounted five feet behind the right engine.
The right wing is 57 inches shorter than the left, the wings are attached at different angles (sweep). Even the tail is different on each side.
The pilot flies from the right seat. There is a control stick on the left, but no rudder pedals. And the performance is impressive. The Boomerang can cruise faster than a similar-sized twin while using about half the fuel. Max speed is just over 300 mph. Normal cruise speeds are around 250 mph, and if the airplane is slowed to its most efficient speed, it can fly more than 2,300 miles on a full fuel load of 168 gallons.
Clements plans to continue flying the Boomerang. The airplane will return to Mojave after Airventure, and there are still some modifications Clements is looking forward to.
Like many of Rutan's creative designs, the Boomerang never saw production. It is literally one of a kind. But with the attention the airplane received at the world's biggest airshow this week, many in the aviation community are hoping the unusual airplane might attract the attention of a potential customer who might take the Boomerang to the next phase of development.
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Every Harley Davidson building features a unique design. Throughout the design-build process, Clifton Construction worked closely with the Harley Davidson corporate design department to make sure that each aspect of the building aligned with their brand.
The project was intended to look like an old industrial building, challenging Clifton Construction to design this new construction to look old and established.
The first floor features a retail space and service department. The 2nd floor has offices and large conference room overlooking the sales floor with architectural handrails made from aircraft cabling.
The site required a tremendous amount of fill in order to get the building pad ready for construction. This PEMB features a combination of split face block and horizontal metal siding. The roof is a standing seam metal roof. It also features a large canopy that resembles a cantilever structure and an acid stain concrete floor.