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TAG Truck Center is moving forward with a $28 million trucking facility at the former site of the Mall of Memphis. Contractor Linkous Construction Co. recently filed two building permits for TAG's new headquarters.
The FedEx Institute of Technology will host a training course on blockchain technology, the buzzy infrastructure that comprises the backbone of bitcoin, as part of a broader push to position itself at the center of innovation in the city.
Two longtime Memphis-area companies secured tax incentives at the June meeting of the Memphis-Shelby County Economic Development Growth Engine.
The payment-in-lieu-of-taxes will support TAG Truck Enterprises LLC's plans for the former Mall of Memphis site as well as an expansion of Turner Dairy in the heart of Midtown.
The package shipment startup where Matthew Hertz works as director of operations is perfectly tailored to the digital age.
California-based Shyp was set up to capitalize on the legacy cost structures and operations of traditional logistics companies. Its users snap a photo of the item they want to ship and enter an address, at which point Shyp shows up at their door and takes care of the rest.
A Netherlands-based medical device logistics company has moved into the Lamar Avenue corridor.
Building on proximity to FedEx Corp. and Memphis' emerging biosciences hub, HealthLink Europe & International made Memphis its latest flagstaff operation.
DALLAS (AP) – United Parcel Service Inc. said Thursday that first-quarter profit rose 10 percent to $1.13 billion, helped by an increase in both ground shipments and next-day air deliveries in the United States.
Memphis-based FedEx Corp. announced Tuesday, March 22, the relaunch of its e-commerce services division FedEx CrossBorder.
FedEx Corp. founder and CEO Fred Smith never said the word "Amazon," but the e-commerce giant was clearly on his mind Wednesday.
Smith addressed speculation about "industry disruption" by Amazon from the outset of Memphis-based FedEx's quarterly earnings conference call. He also defended the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, noting that both of the frontrunners for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations are opposed to it.
Keafur Grimes has joined Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon Inc. as transportation project manager, bringing with him more than 35 years of experience. In his new role, Grimes manages transportation planning and construction projects to meet federal, state and local regulations; ensures that projects meet quality compliance and assurance standards as well as customer needs; and are delivered on time and within budget.
Dan Pallme is heavily involved in the University of Memphis' logistics industry departments. He runs the Freight Transportation Leadership Academy, a program that consists of technical tours, sessions with industry experts, and overviews of historic and current trends to encourage leadership in Memphis' primary modes: rail, river, road and runway. He is also the senior associate director and freight industry liaison for the U of M's Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute and the private-sector coordinator for the Southeast Transportation Workforce Center. He has worked with air, rail and trucking companies over the past 25 years.
Memphis is known as a center for the logistics industry, and technology advances keep things on the move.
Attention for technology trends in distribution often center on the use of drones, but there are other ways companies look for efficiencies in business. The Memphis EPIcenter created a Logistics Innovation Accelerator in 2015 to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into businesses that enhance the distribution industry.
The number of voices in the technology world convinced that Amazon has stuck a target on the back of FedEx – as well as its larger competitor, UPS – continues to grow.
The latest is Matthew Hertz, director of operations at package shipment startup Shyp. He took to social networking service LinkedIn in recent days to pen a commentary about why Amazon's emergence as a significant logistics alternative appears to be a matter of when, not if.
Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute and FedEx Institute of Technology will host biologistics "lightning talks" and the launch of the University Biologistics Research Cluster on Friday, Jan. 22, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the FedEx Institute of Technology, 365 Innovation Drive. Nine high-level innovative biologistics research topics will be explained in fun and informative five-minute presentations. Visit memphis.edu/ifti for details.
Sierra Club-Chickasaw Group will host a public input forum on Memphis-area transportation needs Thursday, Jan. 21, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar Ave. Input on topics such as better transit, bike lanes and improved sidewalks will go directly to city leaders. Visit facebook.com/chickasawgroup for details.
Two research institutes at the University of Memphis – the FedEx Institute of Technology and the Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute – have teamed up to launch a biologistics partnership.
The FedEx institute is referring to partnerships like the new one around biologistics as "clusters," research areas around which the institute wants to collect projects, research efforts and programming. It's part of a push by the institute to try and put itself at the center of innovation in the city, according to Cody Behles, the institute's manager of innovation and research support.
The FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis is closing out the year and looking ahead to 2016 with a renewed focus on putting itself at the center of technology innovation in Memphis.
Memphis-based FedEx Corp. is reporting net income growth and a slight uptick in revenues for its fiscal second quarter compared to the same period a year ago.
How was your weekend, Memphis? Here's our weekly rundown of local happenings you need to know about, from gift shopping at the Memphis Indie Holiday Market to the latest Beale Street developments ...
On Thursday, Dec. 10, Memphis' status as a logistics hub and its future in inner-city transportation will be debated.
The University of Memphis will be hosting two back-to-back free conferences at the FedEx Institute of Technology. The Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute will host its ninth annual conference, dubbed The State of Freight, from 7:30 a.m. to noon, and the newly established University of Memphis Design Collaborative will host the Workforce to Work Transportation Summit from noon to 4:30 p.m.
The busy season is underway at FedEx Corp., where a record-breaking 317 million shipments are predicted to pass through the shipping giant's claws between Black Friday and Christmas Eve.
FedEx Corp. president and CEO Fred Smith made a rare public appearance Wednesday, Oct. 7, to talk about the global trading economy and the future of the logistics industry.
Affected by higher operating costs in its ground division and weaker demand for freight services, FedEx Corp. had to lower its projected earnings for fiscal 2016.
NEW YORK (AP) – FedEx says it will raise a number of shipping rates in January, and will increase the surcharge on very large packages starting in November.
FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Home Delivery and FedEx Freight shipping rates will rise an average of 4.9 percent on Jan. 4.
Mallory Alexander International Logistics is preparing to expand and operate directly in China later this year with a highly coveted freight license from the Chinese government and the opening of the Mallory Asia Pacific division in Shanghai.
FedEx Trade Networks has appointed a new chief operating officer to help lead the freight forwarding and customs brokerage division of FedEx Corp.
A new logistics-focused business accelerator has launched in Memphis.
Five teams are participating in the 14-week 2015 EPIcenter Logistics Innovation Accelerator, which is sponsored by FedEx and got under way Monday, Aug. 17.
FedEx Express has been garnered a prestigious award.
FedEx Express was recently named Best Express Operator at the 2015 Asian Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain Awards in Hong Kong.
Held annually, the industry awards honor the organizations that demonstrate leadership and consistency in service quality, innovation, customer relationship management and reliability in their fields. FedEx had to overcome competition from two other shortlisted providers, but ultimately garnered more online votes to net the award.
FedEx Corp., hit by unfavorable currency exchange rates, lower fuel surcharges and special charges, reported lower-than-expected revenue and profits for the fiscal fourth quarter.
The Memphis-based company, which warned in March that currency and fuel issues could dampen results, reported a loss of $895 million, or $3.16 a share, for the quarter that ended May 31. That's compared to a profit of $780 million, or $2.62 a share, over the same period last year.
FedEx Corporate Services Inc. is donating $3 million over three years to the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis.
FedEx Corp. delivered for investors in the third quarter, with profits jumping more than 50 percent for the Memphis-based company.
NEW YORK (AP) – FedEx Corp.'s third-quarter profit jumped more than 50 percent and beat Wall Street expectations on a mix of volume growth and lower fuel costs.
A career in the "transportation industry" equals 18 wheels, hour after hour of rolling down gray ribbons of highway and obligatory stops at weigh stations.
Or maybe not.
"There are millions of jobs in the transportation industry," said Cheryl Citrone, a partner with Vaco, director of Vaco Logistics and board chair of the Memphis-area Society of Female Transportation Professionals. "So many times young ladies think 'truck driver.'"
Wilson Air Center is spreading its wings at Memphis International Airport.
The Kemmons Wilson Cos. subsidiary signed a 10-year lease with the airport for the former Pinnacle Airlines hangar at Memphis International, expanding its jet footprint by 30,500 square feet of prime hangar space.
FedEx on Wednesday, Dec. 17, reported net income of $616 million for the September-November quarter, a 23 percent increase from $500 million in the same period last year but slightly below Wall Street estimates.
William J. Logue, the chief executive and president of FedEx Freight, will retire at the end of the year due to health concerns, the company announced Wednesday, Nov. 5.
On Jan. 1, Michael L. Ducker, a 40-year company veteran and current chief operating officer of FedEx Express, will replace Logue as the head of FedEx Freight, Memphis-based FedEx's less-than-truckload freight transportation arm.
FedEx founder, chairman and chief executive officer Frederick W. Smith penned a memo in 1987 outlining his desire for the Memphis-based shipping giant to develop ways to assist customers in shipping their packages, including making sure packages arrived undamaged.
FedEx said fiscal first-quarter profits surged to $606 million, driven by gains in its freight, ground and express operations and a share buyback program.
Memphis-based FedEx reported earnings Wednesday, Sept. 17, of $2.10 per diluted share for the first quarter ended Aug. 31, up 37 percent from last year's $1.53 per share and above Wall Street estimates. The average estimate of analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.96 per share. FedEx shares were up 4.29 percent following the earnings release and conference call with company executives.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – FedEx says it will raise U.S. rates for express, ground and home-delivery shipments by an average of 4.9 percent in January.
The company said Tuesday that rates also will change for FedEx SmartPost, which uses the U.S. Postal Service for final delivery, although it didn't say how much.
The Horizon, an uncompleted 16-story residential tower overlooking the Mississippi River on the southern end of Downtown, could change hands soon.
A yet-to-be-identified buyer is under contract to purchase the tower, according to sources familiar with the effort.
FedEx announced one of its newest – and more unusual sounding ventures – with a cheeky tweet.
"Meet the FedEx Space Solutions team," the company declared on Twitter in recent days, formally unveiling a new venture focused on the commercial space industry. Perhaps recognizing the implications, the company concluded the tweet by promising, "Yep, you read it right!"
After starting work as a butcher when he was just a teenager, Ron Manis began his career as a truck driver in 1979.
"I started when I was 16 years old, learning how to cut meat and, after being in that building 10 hours a day every day, I thought I wanted to do something outside and I've been driving a truck ever since," Manis said. "Every time I saw one going down the road I thought to myself that I'd like to do that one day to see what it was like, seeing places I've never seen before, meeting interesting people."
After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1962, Ed Gatlin started a successful automotive chemicals business.
Gatlin sold that business, Ig-lo Products Corp., to Valvoline Oil Co. in 1985 and remained as CEO for two more years. After leaving that venture, Gatlin's desire to succeed in business burned as strong as ever and he still had a few trucks and trailers.
FedEx Freight, a less-than-truckload subsidiary of FedEx Corp., will increase shipping rates by an average of 3.9 percent effective March 31, 2014.
Southeastern Freight Lines, a regional less-than-truckload transportation company, has named Austin Miller as national account manager.
Memphis-based FedEx Corp. posted net income of $500 million, or $1.57 per share, in its fiscal second quarter, which ended Nov. 30.
Calling Memphis a "battleground" for cargo may suggest conflict to some looking from the outside into the business of logistics in Memphis.
The battleground comparison that is the billing for this year's Southeast Freight Conference lends itself more to competition across the rail, river, road and air cargo sectors of our local economy.
The Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute at the University of Memphis welcomed a distinguished list of guest speakers to its seventh annual Intermodal Freight Conference at the FedEx Institute of Technology Tuesday, Sept. 24.
The Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute at the University of Memphis will host its seventh annual Intermodal Freight Conference at the FedEx Institute of Technology on the University of Memphis campus Tuesday, Sept. 24.
Memphis-based FedEx Corp. posted a quarterly profit 7 percent higher than a year ago for its fiscal first quarter, ended Aug. 31.
Don Ward hasn't been on the road in one of his trucks in about three years, but he still wouldn't be in any other business.
Memphis' geography is limited to roughly 300 square miles, but its identity stretches beyond the city limits, resonating to the far corners of the globe.
The city's brand has obvious cornerstones, such as its place in the nation's cultural topography. But setting aside those no-brainers, like the rock 'n' roll innovator whose mansion in Whitehaven still attracts gawkers from around the world, a lot of what makes Memphis' story is the story of what's made in Memphis.
DALLAS (AP) – UPS said Tuesday that second-quarter profit fell 4 percent as customers shifted from premium toward lower-priced shipped services.
The company called the results disappointing and said it was adapting to the changing market.
Wunderlich Securities Inc. has added FedEx Corp. to its stock coverage universe, initiating coverage of the package shipping giant with a "buy" rating and a $120 price target.
The International Port of Memphis played host to a handful of influential guests Friday, June 21, just as the city and its partners are seeking a large federal grant to help expand the industrial area.
FedEx Corp. on Wednesday, June 19, reported fourth-quarter profit dropped 45 percent amid tepid economic growth and customers that chose less expensive and slower international shipping services.
DALLAS (AP) — FedEx Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit fell 45 percent as international customers traded down to less-expensive delivery options.
FedEx Corp. said its freight unit will raise rates by 4.5 percent beginning July 1.
The move follows Jan. 7 rate increases in its FedEx Express air shipment business and FedEx Ground package shipping business.
MEMPHIS (AP) – FedEx Corp. said its freight unit will raise rates by 4.5 percent beginning July 1.
By some estimates, America's railroad companies are in the midst of the largest investment boom since the Gilded Age – when America's railroad track mileage tripled between 1860 and 1880.
This year, North American's freight railroads plan to invest $24.5 billion in intermodal terminals, new track, bridges and tunnels, safety equipment and rail cars, according to the Association of American Railroads.
FedEx Corp. reported third quarter earnings that missed analysts' expectations on continued weakness in international air freight markets and customers that chose less expensive and slower shipping services.
NEW YORK (AP) – FedEx Corp. wants businesses and consumers to buy more express-delivery shipping services, and the company could indicate whether that's happening yet when it reports fiscal third-quarter results before the market opens Wednesday.
United Warehouse Transportation, along with parent company United Warehouse & Transit Logistics, is riding an impressive wave of success over the past 18 months.
Near the end of 2011, UWT acquired a small local transportation company and formed United Warehouse Transportation, with projected annual revenues of $895,000. By the end of 2012, that number had grown to $6 million, and company CEO Chris Williams expects it to top $10 million by the summer.
The Traffic Club of Memphis is kick-starting its 100-year celebration with the introduction of its 2013 officers, led for the second straight year by president Mason Wilson.
The club's activities this year will feature a series of local events, including the Traffic Club International annual conference in September.
The Traffic Club of Memphis kicked off the new year by welcoming Marshall Witt, senior vice president of finance for FedEx Freight, as the guest speaker at its monthly luncheon, held earlier this week at The Racquet Club of Memphis.
It's that time of year again. It's that time when journalists across the fruited plain collectively try and make God laugh – with our prognostications, of course, about the year ahead and of what might be.
Positive momentum far outweighed the negative in the local logistics and distribution industry during 2012, as city officials and business leaders continued elevating Memphis's status as world logistics hub.
Memphis-based FedEx Corp. on Wednesday, Dec. 19, reported second quarter net income of $438 million, down 12 percent from last year's $497 million. The company attributed the income drop to several factors, including weakness in global markets, higher fuel costs and disruptions resulting from Superstorm Sandy.
FedEx Corp. this morning reported revenue rose 5 percent to $11.1 billion for its fiscal second quarter, compared to $10.6 billion during the same period in 2011. Operating income dropped $718 million, 8 percent from $780 million last year.
On Dec. 10 FedEx Corp. is expected to have its busiest day in the 40-year history of the global shipping company.
Each year, the corporation plots out the day when shipments across its portfolio of services are expected to reach their peak for the year, which always occurs during the holiday shopping season.
The string may have run out in the air cargo market, Citibank said Monday, which cut its FedEx Corp. earnings estimates for this year and next.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - FedEx Corp. says that it is raising its shipping rates for ground and home delivery services in January by an average of 4.9 percent.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The government should require fire suppression systems in all cargo containers or compartments of planes to prevent the kind of ferocious in-flight blazes that have killed four cargo pilots over the past six years, federal accident investigators said Wednesday.
FedEx Freight said Monday it has expanded its 10:30 a.m. delivery option to include Canada.
This service is now available for FedEx FreightPriority and FedEx FreightEconomy shipments to and from the U.S. and Canada, and for intra-Canada destinations, the company said.
Dr. Mike Golias, an assistant professor at the University of Memphis, has been studying GPS data from trucks in the Memphis and Nashville areas to learn more about routes and the other critical issue the trucking industry faces – how long it takes to get from one place to another.
It's been called Frankenstorm, and from an economic standpoint it's a perfect fit. Because by the time it's all said and done, Hurricane Sandy likely will have taken a monster-sized bite out of the U.S. economy.
FedEx Corp. founder and CEO Fred Smith ended 10 hours of immersion for analysts and investors in changes at the Memphis-based corporation Wednesday, Oct. 10, by telling the group of 200, "I think maybe we arrived at a better strategy through the wrong process."
FedEx Corp. executives detailing the terms of the company's goal of a $1.7 billion improvement in annual profitability over the next three-and-a-half years Wednesday, Oct. 10, put much of the emphasis on how FedEx is changing the way it does business.
The annual FedEx Corp. meeting with investors next month will be watched closely for what happens to FedEx Express, the oldest division of the Memphis-based company.
Memphis-based FedEx Corp. is preparing for a voluntary employee buyout that will likely target workers in the company's Express and Service units.
NEW YORK (AP) – UPS expects the global economy to get worse before it gets better. Again.
The world's largest package delivery company is more pessimistic about U.S. growth than many economists. It predicts global trade will grow even slower than the world's economies — a trend not seen since the recession. It's making cuts in its business and reducing its earnings projections.
In the past month, a pair of out-of-town firms have scooped up local distribution warehouses, growing its Memphis industrial real estate portfolio and planning for more.
Montreal-based Olymbec USA LLC recently closed on its $1.5 million purchase of 3615 Lamar Ave. from an entity affiliated with Miami-based loan servicer LNR Partners LLC.
A few minutes into this week's earnings conference call with analysts, FedEx Corp. founder and CEO Fred Smith used three words that came to define much of the rest of the nearly hour-long conversation – "cost reduction program."
FedEx Freight is raising its rates for shipments in the U.S. and between the U.S. and Canada by 6.9 percent effective July 9.
The rate hike also applies to the U.S. end of FedEx Freight shipments between the U.S. and Mexico.
FedEx Freight customers will pay a higher rate starting July 9 for most shipments in North America.
The less-than-truckload carrier said Friday it is raising shipping rates 6.9 percent for shipments within the United States and between the U.S. and Canada and within Canada.
Memphis-based FedEx Corp. is buying its authorized FedEx representative in Brazil to become part of FedEx Express.
The agreement to buy Rapidao Cometa Logistica e Transportes SA is the fifth by the Express division since February 2011 as FedEx acquires networks of existing domestic routes and services already in place in Europe and Latin America, linking them to its international transportation and logistics network.
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ATLANTA (AP) – UPS said Thursday that its first-quarter profit rose 6 percent, but the result came in below Wall Street's expectations as Asian exports and other international shipments slowed.
A year ago this month, Memphis hosted the annual World Airport Cities Conference and Exhibition.
But Tuesday, April 10, on the University of Memphis campus, airport, economic development and logistics leaders from the area will meet to talk about the same concept that has dominated the recent World Airport Cities Conferences that were held in Beijing in 2010 and will be held this year in Denver.
A fully leased Downtown office building has traded hands for more than twice its assessed value.
309 Monroe Property LLC purchased the 22,792-square-foot property at 309 Monroe Ave. for $3.3 million. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2011 appraisal was $1.5 million.
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Comments of Harrison Schmitt, Ph.D. on Proposed Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act
Climate change assumptions rather than facts, and computer modeling rather than real-world observations, underpin the subject Proposed Funding. The science behind this massive intrusion into American life requires more than a "consensus" of like-minded climate analysts. It needs to be right.
Critical differences exist between scientists who observe weather and climate and those who attempt to model nature's complexities. Those who observe the natural, economic, and sociological aspects of climate change are "realists," not "skeptics." The modelers, on the other hand, believe complex mathematics and broad assumptions can forecast the future of climate, Earth's most complex system.
Observational facts should force realism and civility into the political and media hysteria about alleged human-caused global warming. For example, careful analysis by geophysicist Syun Akasofu of the International Arctic Research Center shows a natural warming of the lower atmosphere by half a degree Celsius per 100 years since about 1660, that is, the coldest time of the Little Ice Age. Warming and cooling intervals during this general warming trend have occurred as they have for thousands of years, and warming has not accelerated during industrialization. Further, the recent 50-year increase in carbon dioxide of one molecule of per 10,000 molecules of air every five years has had no detectable effect on climate.
Where is all the carbon dioxide from fossil fuels? Geoscientists have long known that atmospheric carbon dioxide cycles through the oceans every 5-10 years, not every 200 years as claimed by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Further, for every fossil-fuel carbon dioxide molecule added to the atmosphere, the ocean soaks up about 50 such molecules within a decade. These observational facts mean that humans cannot cause the doomsday assumption of a "doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide". Engineer and climate expert Fred Goldberg of Sweden's Royal School of Technology points out the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide decreases rapidly with increasing concentration. About 95% of that effect already has been used up at today's level of 385 parts per million.
Unfortunately for the computer modelers, their models do not work. The models' unanimous prediction that the troposphere (lower 0-15 km) should have warmed significantly in response to current levels of carbon dioxide does not match actual measurements. A team led by physicist David Douglass of the University of Rochester has shown that the troposphere has remained unchanged or cooled slightly since 1979 when satellite and balloon-borne measurements of atmospheric temperature began. Models cannot truly deal with the realities of weather, that is, evaporation, convection, clouds, rain, and all the other pathways in which nature inexorably moves heat from where it is warm to where it is cold.
And then there are the sun and the oceans. Observational and geological records, changing of the seasons, and correlation of historical variations with solar activity cycles, all confirm that radiation and magnetic fields emanating from the sun drive changes in weather and climate. As Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has documented, the position and orientation of the Earth in its orbit around the sun and the sun's variable activity determine weather and climate. As part of this process, oceans store enormous amounts of solar energy. They create climate variations over vast regions by transferring that energy around the globe over decades and centuries through a system of interconnected currents and current oscillations.
Given what we actually know about climate, as well as the remaining uncertainties, Americans should think long and hard before giving up liberties and incomes to politicians who just want to "do something" to satisfy a particular special interest. Prudent protection of local environments is one thing—a long-term political agenda to gather power at the expense of liberty is quite another. A very high probability exists that "doing something" will not work against natural climate forces we only incompletely understand. When we realize what liberties have been lost, the probability also is very great that we will deeply regret not just preparing for climate change rather than trying to stop it. Instead, our focus should be on producing more energy to raise worldwide living standards and not on how to limit energy use and improvements in the human condition.
What May Be the Primary Natural Driver?
Observations of natural variations in atmospheric and oceanic temperatures, gas concentrations, and currents provide clear indications of how, but not when, climate will change. Historical and geological records also illustrate the levels of uncertainty existing forecasts of either the direction or the timing of changes.
Forecasts based on computer models have proved to be unsuccessful due to the great number and great complexity of critical climate variables, some of which, like water vapor and clouds, so far defy mathematical definition. In combination, water vapor and clouds have about 20 times the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide (CO2). Little wonder that climate models fail, repeatedly, in both replication of current conditions and in forecasting the future.
Observations provide two important facts about atmospheric CO2. First, a general but irregular trend of global warming, by half a degree Centigrade per 100 years, has existed since about 1660, the coldest part of the Little Ice Age. Obviously, this slow warming persisted for hundreds of years before industrialization began to add CO2 to natural emissions from the biosphere and the oceans. Second, detailed studies of ice cores show that increases in CO2 follow global temperature increases by many centuries rather than leading, much less causing any warming. Further, actual observations show no measurable, long-term alteration of climate patterns during the last century's slow increase in atmospheric CO2.
The obvious explanation for the absence of any CO2 effect on modern climate lies in the physical fact that the greenhouse warming potential of CO2 decreases with increasing concentration. Most of any CO2-induced warming has already taken place at concentrations well below the present level of about 0.0385 percent. In fact, for the foreseeable future on Earth, CO2 is finished as a greenhouse gas!
If not CO2, what causes the historically and geologically observed changes in climate? Hundreds of years of recorded observation show that the position and orientation of the Earth in its orbit around the sun along with variations in solar activity determine changes in climate. For example, as Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovic in 1941 and others since have pointed out, the major ice ages on Earth correlate with 41,000 and 100,000-year cycles in the position of the Earth in its solar orbit. Further, the Medieval Warm Period (800-1300) and the Little Ice Age (1400-1900) correlate, respectively, with very active and very passive periods of solar flare and magnetic activity. Widely published analyses exist of tree rings, layering in cave stalagmites and cores of lake and ocean bottom sediments, and high altitude wind variations. These all document broadly accepted correlations of climate variations with many systematic repetitions in solar activity, ranging from the 11-year sun spot cycle up to the long-term repetitions mentioned above.
As to the explanation of this apparent solar influence on climate, research by Henrik Svensmark of Denmark's Center for Sun-Climate Research indicates that the strength of solar magnetic fields influence the flux of cosmic rays that enter the Earth's atmosphere. Cosmic rays consist of largely of extremely high-energy, electrically charged hydrogen and helium nuclei. Cosmic ray collisions with gases in the atmosphere produce rare isotopes that provide a measurable history of variations in cosmic ray intensity when taken up in tree rings and other annually layered materials. These particles also ionize gases in the lower atmosphere, providing points for water vapor condensation.
Periods of weak solar magnetic fields allow cosmic rays penetrate more readily into the lower atmosphere where they ionize more gas molecules than average. The reverse occurs with periods of strong solar magnetic fields. Satellite observations of cloud cover, isotopic analysis of tree rings, ice cores and stalagmites, and historical analyses of solar activity by Svensmark and many others support this hypothesis.
As cloud cover expands, more solar radiation reflects back into space, resulting in a net cooling of the atmosphere and increased snow accumulation, particularly in temperate and arctic regions. A current illustration of the cooling effect of decreased solar activity appears to be the currently very quiet sun and the recent reversal of the slightly elevated warming trend of the 1970s through 1990s. How long this cooling trend will persist remains to be seen; however, Greenland glaciers have been advancing since 2006, Arctic sea ice has returned to 1989 levels of coverage, and snowy, cold winters have dominated northern North America and Europe.
Actual observations show that climate varies in response to natural forces and that human burning of fossil fuels has had negligible if any effect over the last 100 years. Lets us hope that policy makers will understand these facts about climate change before liberty and incomes suffer further erosion in their search for political power.
Harrison H. Schmitt, Ph.D. (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a field geologist with both terrestrial and lunar experience (Apollo 17 astronaut) and holds the position of Adjunct Professor of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as NASA's Assistant Administrator for Energy Programs and in the United States Senate (1977-1983). He currently consults on matters related to aerospace, planetary exploration, and climate. Schmitt is a director of several entrepreneurial companies.


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France, Iran Join UN Talks Rebuked by Climate Groups
French President Francois Hollande and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran will join envoys from 190 countries today at United Nations talks on sustainability that environmental groups have denounced for producing a toothless accord.
Diplomats in Rio de Janeiro agreed to back a 49-page plan yesterday for harmonizing economic development with efforts to protect the environment. World leaders are expected to endorse on June 22 the agreement, the broadest to date, which lacks specific goals sought by environmentalists and the European Union.
The agreement is expected to set the agenda for policy makers to follow in the coming decades, and officials are already criticizing it.
"Rio is just the beginning and a range of activities have to be followed through," Janez Potocnik, EU Environment Commissioner, said in a statement.
EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard expressed frustration in a posting on Twitter saying, "nobody in that room adopting the text was happy. That's how weak it is."
The document entitled "The Future We Want," marks the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Summit and addresses ways to restrain for fossil-fuel subsidies, while supporting renewable energy and protecting oceans.
Environmental groups from WWF to Greenpeace International said diplomats caved in to pressure from business lobbyists to water down the agreement.
"We will now only be presented with a polluter's charter that will cook the planet, empty the oceans and wreck the rain forests," said Daniel Mittler, political director for Greenpeace International.
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"It isn't everything to everybody," Todd Stern, a State Department official leading negotiations for the U.S., said at a briefing. "It was a good strong step forward."
He praised the Brazilians for finding a compromise before world leaders arrive, saying "It's really difficult to manage such an unruly group of players."
The discussions cap more than a year of negotiations on how to advance the work begun in Rio two decades ago, when the UN started talks to halt global warming and safeguard the diversity of plants and animals. This year's meeting dubbed Rio+20 involves 50,000 government officials, company executives and research analysts.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will formally open the final portion of the discussions today at 10 a.m. Brazil, which organized the talks, defended the text and said every country had to compromise. It has no plan to reopen the document for debate by leaders, some of whom spent the first part of the week in Mexico at the Group of 20 summit.
"Now is the time to stress the victory of the positive parts of the text," Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said at a briefing in Rio yesterday. "It was accepted because there was a balance. We did achieve a lot."
Participants are spread across Rio in hotels and at an airport-sized convention center in the west of the city, discussing subjects from corporate sustainability reporting to ensuring arsenic from mines doesn't contaminate drinking water.
'Universal Sewer'
Celebrity executives, including Richard Branson of Virgin Group Ltd., joined government officials, scientists and activists in expressing concern about the health of the planet at the talks this week.
"We're using the ocean as a universal sewer, and that's true wherever you live," Jean-Michel Cousteau, 74, the eldest son of the French ocean explorer Jacques, said on a panel discussion at the conference. "We are putting a lot of pressure on the planet. It's not getting any better."
The text pledges negotiations toward a new set of "sustainable development" goals, though it will be left to future meetings to define those targets.
"This is a first step, not a long step," said Quamrul Chowdhury, an envoy from Bangladesh who negotiates on finance for the G77 group of developing countries. "The whole document emphasizes business commitments. It opens up a window for cooperation between the public sector and the private. It's not the classic notion the public sector can do it all alone."
The accord represents an effort to chart the middle ground between countries such as the European Union's 27 members, which want to push a "green economy" that includes renewable power and energy-efficiency measures, and poorer nations whose priority is lifting people out of poverty rather than pursuing expensive clean technologies.
'Hijacked' Positions
Friends of the Earth International, another environmental group, said the UN process has been taken over by big business, which has diverted the traditional priorities of standing up for the poor and protecting the Earth.
"Governmental positions have been increasingly hijacked by narrow corporate interests linked to polluting industries," said Nnimmo Bassey, chairman of Friends of the Earth. "The UN is increasingly catering to the demands of corporate interests."
Delegates inserted "toothless language" into their agreement that will do little to roll back carbon dioxide emissions or protect the oceans from toxic waste, said Jim Leape, director general of the WWF environmental group.
"The text has lots of words that 'commit' parties to nothing -- such as 'commit to promote' and 'commit to systematically consider,'" Leape said. "Diplomats in Rio are letting the world down."


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Sierra Club Activists Holding Day of Service Events Nationwide
Community Service Projects Honor Dr. King and Obama's Vision
Washington, D.C. In response to President-Elect Barack Obama's call for a national day of service on January 19, 2009—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the day before his Inauguration, Sierra Club has been mobilizing its members and supporters to organize service events around the country. Sierra Club activists are using the opportunity to promote not only community service, but projects that also illustrate how clean energy and efficiency can lead to economic recovery--another important aspect of Obama's vision.
Events range from weatherization installation and training to trail maintenance, park cleanups and light bulb giveaways.
"As we prepare to celebrate the life of Dr. King and the Inauguration of Barack Obama, we are reminded that America is a nation built on community and service to everyone," said Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director. "Right now our nation is facing an almost unprecedented set of challenges. This chance to serve is a reminder that President Obama will need all our help to make real change happen."
Through the Sierra Club website , activists have been getting tips and guides on how to hold a service event and then are directed to the USA Service site to register their plan so the general public and find the event and participate.
The effort has generated dozens of events across the country. A small sampling of events include.
- In Washington, DC, the Pope Branch Park Restoration Alliance in conjunction with Groundwork Anacostia River, the Earth Conservation Corps and the Environmental Justice Program of the Sierra Club will hold their 3rd Annual MLK Day of National Service Clean-Up of Pope Branch Park and Creek, a tributary of the Anacostia River.
"We are tremendously proud to answer President Elect Obama's call to honor Dr. Martin Luther King by renewing America and providing care for our communities in the best ways we know how." said Pope.
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We would like to acknowledge that the 5' cis-regulatory element referred to in our paper as 7-mer had been previously named TAGteam (John R. ten Bosch, Joseph A. Benavides, Thomas W. Cline, [see reference number 22 in our paper]). The authors provide functional evidence that this element functions as an enhancer during the maternal-to-zygotic transition, a conclusion that is supported by our results but that we did not discuss in the text. We also apologize to the Cline lab for not having cited the 2003 Genetics paper where the authors first demonstrated functional activity of this cis-element for the transcriptional activation of scute/sisB.
Wrischnik LA, Timmer JR, Megna LA, Cline TW (2003) Recruitment of the proneural gene scute to the Drosophila sex-determination pathway. Genetics 165: 2007–2027.
Citation: De Renzis S, Elemento O, Tavazoie S, Wieschaus E (2007) Correction: Unmasking Activation of the Zygotic Genome Using Chromosomal Deletions in the Drosophila Embryo. PLoS Biol 5(7): e195. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050195
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All the teams that were salivating over free agent Wes Welker and Patriot fans that were worried we could lose a valuable piece of this prolific offense, hold your horses; a deal with the Patriots and Welker could be in the works. NFL.com's Ian Rapoport and Albert Breer have been hearing rumblings that a long-term deal between the Patriots and Welker is still a distinct possibility. The deal could potentially reach 5-years and a reported 8 million dollars per year. This deal could all happen before the start of free agency in two weeks and before franchise tags are due in one week. For all of us that like Welker, this is a promising report coming from very reputable sources. In earlier articles, I placed less importance on Welker because I believe you can get that production elsewhere, but if I can get Welker at 8 million a year as opposed to 11 then I am all for it; I by no means am a Welker hater. Welker is a proven commodity that year after year turns in MVP type numbers and...
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Sleep disturbance is a very common problem for cancer patients that has largely not been addressed in the clinical intervention literature. Mindfulness meditation has demonstrated clinical benefits for a variety of patient populations in other areas of functioning. This study examined the effects of an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program on the sleep quality of a heterogeneous sample of 63 cancer patients. Overall sleep disturbance was significantly reduced (p < .001) and participants reported that their sleep quality had improved (p < .001). There was also a significant reduction in stress (p < .001), mood disturbance (p = .001), and fatigue (p < .001). The associations among these changes and implications for improving quality of life of cancer patients are discussed.
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FLAT ROCK -- Charles Holland has been chosen as the administrator of the new Robin R. Farquhar YouTheatre Education Center at Flat Rock Playhouse.
Holland, no stranger to the playhouse, has been a long-time member of the orchestra, playing bass and trombone. His 20 year background in sales and management combined with church staff and education experience make him a great choice for the position.
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Graduate degrees offered
A specialization is a well-defined area of study that will appear on your transcript with your degree and major. Specializations are optional in most UNL programs.Specializations (optional)
- Environmental Studies
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- Water Resources Planning and Management
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Required by the Office of Graduate Studies
- Application for Graduate Admission
- $50 non-refundable application processing fee
- One set of transcripts, uploaded to MyRED (see transcript upload requirements)
- If your native language is not English: verification of English proficiency
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Required by Community and Regional Planning in GAMES
After you apply, allow one business day for us to establish your access to GAMES, where you'll complete these departmental requirements:
- Entrance exam(s): GRE (recommended)
- Minimum English proficiency: Paper TOEFL 550, Internet TOEFL 79, IELTS 6.5
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The Master of Community and Regional Planning (M.C.R.P.) program is designed to provide students with an understanding of the economic, social, political, and physical characteristics of communities and regions, and to assist students in developing skills for application in the planning profession.
The master's program requires completion of 48 graduate credit hours, 24 of which are for required core courses and 18 to 24 (depending on completion track chosen by the student) are for open electives. Each student consults with a faculty advisor to select elective courses within and outside the program that will help the student achieve his or her academic and professional goals. Students with diverse educational and professional backgrounds are encouraged to apply for admission to the M.C.R.P. program, which is accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board. No prior course work in planning is required.
A varying number of research assistantships and off-campus internships are available for M.C.R.P. students.
Students may choose to complete requirements in three interdepartmental areas of specialization: environmental studies, Great Plains studies, and water resources planning and management. The elective credit hours also may fulfill an individualized area of specialization, but pursuit of a designated specialization within the M.C.R.P. program is not required. The following dual degree programs are available: M.C.R.P./J.D.; M.C.R.P./M.Arch.; and M.C.R.P./M.S. in civil engineering with a specialization in transportation engineering.
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The increasing complexity of issues relating to physical, economic, and social well-being in the world today is requiring broader knowledge and greater depth of understanding by decision makers who are attempting to resolve those issues and thereby improve the quality of life. Professionals in the fields of civil engineering and planning are commonly called upon to assist in the definition and resolution of these complex issues.
Persons who are educated both in civil engineering and in planning are uniquely equipped to understand many of these difficult problems. They are better prepared than many other professionals to identify the most appropriate technical, institutional, and policy alternatives that address such problems. Historically, there has been a strong tradition of interdisciplinary cross-over in the types of problems addressed by civil engineers and planners. In fact,many practitioners provide individually, or as members of interdisciplinary teams and firms, professional services in both fields.
Based upon the reality of continually expanding interdisciplinary professional challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities, this dual degree program offers a means by which students may concurrently complete requirements for both the Master of Science in Civil Engineering (M.S.C.E.) and the Master of Community and Regional Planning(M.C.R.P.) degrees in an estimated two-and-one-half years of full-time study.
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I'd go with the .40 Glock 23. It isn't very big, doesn't have much kick - but it has more stopping power than the 9mm or the .380.
You could go with the sub-compact model, depends on the size of your hands and how it fits.
This is a discussion on 9mm, pps, xdm, xd9, g19, 26, or 27???? within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Since this is *the* day, innauguration day so we decided celebrate and to get a couple more today. I've searched and read what you all ...
Since this is *the* day, innauguration day so we decided celebrate and to get a couple more today. I've searched and read what you all said but I am a little confused. Definitely want 9mm. Got rid of a .357 so looking to replace it plus add another. The new Taurus Slim that comes out in March sounds like it might be nice, but who knows, with Obama, Emanuelle AND Holder, 3 grabbers, March might be too late.
I think it's fair to say the Springfield Armory XP is well liked but which one? The XDM or the XD9? What is the difference? Also some XP9's say subcomact, others don't. Are there 2 and which is preferred. Which do you all like the best?
Walther PPS. I read that some of you like this and it has less recoil than the others which is always a plus but it looks a little small, hard to tell from the pics.
Glock, I know these are work horses but so many sizes. 19, 26, 27??? It seems that most prefer the 19 but some of you love the 26 and 27. We just sold the .357 Glock, nobody liked it .
Which ones have less recoil, ease of racking the slide. Size doesn't matter that much, although one smaller than the other would be nice. Also, safety, do any of these have any special safety features?
Slide isn't an issue for you guys but some are hard. The PPK forget it. No problem with the Sig .380, Bursa .380 or any .22's. The .357 glock was fairly easy too. My friend's .45 forget it. Fired it once, never again.
I'd go with the .40 Glock 23. It isn't very big, doesn't have much kick - but it has more stopping power than the 9mm or the .380.
You could go with the sub-compact model, depends on the size of your hands and how it fits.
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if you want a 9mm then i would go with the glock. now for size, the g19 will hide about as easy as the g26. but both will do the job. yes the glock is a work horse.
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Just like taking a test drive on a car, it would be great if you could actually fire some of your choices to help you make a decision.
Regarding "special safety features"on handguns.....put into practice the 4 gun safety rules, be DILIGENT about them and you'll be fine. Be sure and use a holster, it covers the trigger and gives you an added level of safety.
I have 3 of the guns you mentioned, and some quick thoughts from me about each. BTW I'm not pushing a particular gun to you, I'm only making comments based on my personal experience in owning these three.
Walther PPS, comes in 9 mm or .40, it's thin, the trigger pull seems shorter than a Glock to me, and the recoil does seem mild. It comes with a single stack extended mag that lengthens the grip. To me it is a bit ugly, though that shouldn't be an issue. The mag release is built into the trigger guard....ugh.
Glock 27, fairly thick and blocky; IMHO the short grip needs a mag extension or extended mag floor plate, for a good grip. Double stack mags; .40 has a little snappy recoil, though not an issue with me, but possibly with others. The G 26 is pretty much the same gun, though it's 9mm.
Glock 19 is a classic of classics. 9mm, with double stack mags, it is somewhat small but still what I'd call a full sized gun. Many carry it concealed, however it is the largest of these three.
I hopes this helps, you'll get plenty of advice here, just remember you have to be happy with your choice too.
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I will double the Smith and Wesson M&P comment. Go and handle all of the weapons you can and see which ones fit you best. Rack them, hold them, push all the buttons...
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I've got the XDM in .40, and it is the best gun I have ever shot. I've shot Glocks, Berettas (mainly the M9 and PX4) and Bersas, Walthers, and three different types of 1911. I can't think of a more comfortable gun to own. It's not small, so it doesn't conceal easily, but where I work and live, it's not an issue. Yay for TN.
Both my wife and I each have a Walther PPS (9mm) for CC. It's thin profile and small size make it a good fit for convenient concealed carry. It's lightweight as well .. which like. Both of us are fairly thin, and I've always worn shirts tucked in as I'm just more comfortable that way and the PPS typically allows me to remain this way w/o printing (~5:30 carry).
I have fairly small hands, and feel that the double stack mag of the Glock 26/27 is a bit awkward. That having been said the 6 + 1 carry of the PPS is the nicest for convenience, but the 7 or 8 round mags fit the hand better and I expect this would be the case for most people. It's mostly a matter of getting used to it I think.
For some comparison (even though I realize it's not exactly apples to apples). I have a Sig p229 (9mm) as well that I really like, but I find it slightly more difficult to readily conceal (have to go untucked) and I really notice the weight difference. I find that if I'm on my feet all day, I really do notice the weight (especially if carrying while wearing dress clothing for work etc ... where I can't pass of the heavier belt).
I have a Springfield XD subcompact 40 cal and I love it. It tucks away very easy and is very accurate, recoil is low as well. I bought it on a whim and now I am an XD junkie.
In answer to your questions about the XD pistols, there are indeed a LOT of variations. However, it might help to think about them as two main versions, the original XD series has been around for some time in various calibers and sizes. The new XDM is only currently available in full-sized guns. The XDM has a better trigger, a more accurate barrell, and swappable grip panels to fit various sized hands, as well a a few other improvements. There are more options in caliber and size in the original XD, although I expect the new XDM will soon catch up. If you are looking for a compact or sub-compact, then the original XD series is your only option with now.
I have the Walther PPS in 9MM- ben carrying it since summer. It's is small and thin. As others have said, easy to conceal and easy on the recoil as well, I do find the slide a little tight (mine has had about 1000 rounds through it now). I am a petite female, and have trouble finding weapons that comfortably fit my hands- the Walter is a good fit. The S&W M&P was a good fit as well- I almost bought one recently, and handled it quite a bit. I find both the Glock and the Springfield XD to be a bit "chubby" in the grip for me. I just can't get my hand wrapped comfortably around it and feel secure shooting single handed, especially on the off-hand. Also, with the XD's, the size of the grip causes me to have to rotate my hand a bit to get good trigger control, and I can't say that I would reliably engage the safety on the grip because of that- I have very small hands and short fingers, though.
I also would recommend the Sig P250. I bought one just before Christmas with the medium grip. It fits me well in the medium, and I just put a small grip on order which should be even better.
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One thing to consider, unless you have unlimited funds or don't intend to practice often (not a good idea obviously), is the price difference between 9mm and .40 ammunition. Cheaper ammo can mean more practice, making you a better shot.
I've had a PPS for a short time. It fits my absurdly small hands perfectly and shoots smoothly. The slide is pretty tight though.
The real answer to which gun is to shoot as many of them as you can and see which one fits you best.
Of the ones you mentioned, I have two PPS pistols (one 9mm, one 40 S&W), a SA XDM (in 40 S&W) and I had a XD SC (in 40 S&W) that my daughter stole.
Walther PPS -- I like this pistol. My wife stole my 9mm as she found it was one of the few semi-autos that she was able to rack the slide on. Both of ours are accurate, have been absolutely reliable with a variety of ammunition and are an ideal size for conceal carry. With the 3 available sizes of magazines (6,7,& 8 for the 9mm, 5,6, & 7 for the 40) and combined with two sizes of backstraps, they offer the ability to tailor the grip length and circumference to your preference. I do find two things about this gun that require a fair amount of practice to get used to. The misplaced (in my opinion) magazine release. I find it uncomfortable and awkward to use. My wife like it. It has also been my experience with both of my guns that it has a very short reset on the trigger and unless you practice to get used to it, it is relatively easy to let a second shot get away from you. I like the trigger a lot, but it is something that takes a bit of training.
SA XD & XDM -- I gave my daughter the choice of several of my handguns for her CC gun and she picked the XD SC 40. I wouldn't let my daughter's life depend on it if I wasn't completely comfortable with the reliability of the gun. Excellent accuracy for a short barrel gun and has never failed even though my daughter has a sometimes habit of limp-wristing. The XDM is a larger gun which I purchased primarily as a home defense handgun and a range gun. I haven't put a bunch of ammo out of this one yet, but so far it has been completely reliable, accuracy is more than acceptable and I really like the trigger for a long-pull trigger. Both the XD and the XDM are actually single action guns. That means that when you pull the trigger, all you are doing is releasing the sear. When you rack the slide, the gun is at full cock and pulling the trigger plays no part in the cocking process. The advantage is that it gives a crisper trigger pull. The dis-advantage is that if you have a bad primer in a round or get a lite strike, there is no second strike capability.
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Also have the Bursa Thunder Plus .380, it's a little hard to rack, but not bad, but I like the Sig better. I want a 9mm because I have lots of 9mm that we got for the Colt AR 15 9mm. Also I think it's a good carry gun if they ever get my permit processed. Isn't the S & W similar to the Sig? It looked like it to me.
5 of my friends applied the same time I did, mid November and the checks haven't cleared YET which means they are sitting on someone's desk.
I guess the state employees are O signs an executive order and they won't have to bother with the mounds of paper work.


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French Island (Victoria)
|French Island
Looking west over Western Port to Mornington Peninsula from the coast road
|38°21′00″S 145°22′12″E / 38.35000°S 145.37000°ECoordinates: 38°21′00″S 145°22′12″E / 38.35000°S 145.37000°E
|116 (2011 census)[1]
|• Density
|0.682/km2 (1.77/sq mi)
|170 km2 (65.6 sq mi)
|Unincorporated area
|State electorate(s)
|Federal Division(s)
French Island is the largest coastal island of Victoria, Australia, located in Western Port, 61 km (38 mi) southeast of Melbourne. In 1997 about 70 per cent of the island was declared the French Island National Park, and is listed in the register of the National Estate. The island is an unincorporated area and declared locality of Victoria. The population of the island in 2011 was around 116 people,[1] of which about 60 are permanent residents.
French Island is relatively isolated and undeveloped. There are no mains water, mains electricity, or medical services on the island. There is one small general store and post office located on Tankerton Road about 3 km (1.9 mi) from Tankerton Jetty. Many of the locals actively promote environmental tourism. Visitor accommodation includes camping, bed and breakfast, guesthouse and farmstay.
According to Aboriginal tribal songs, the Bunarong Tribe lived and hunted on French Island, until they were massacred by a warring Gippsland tribe.[citation needed]
In April 1802, a French expedition ship Naturaliste under Jacques Hamelin explored the area, as part of the Baudin expedition to Australia. He named the island Ile des Français, since Anglicised as French Island.[citation needed]
The first European settlers on the island were William and John Gardiner in 1847. They had the first pastoral lease and grazed 8,000 sheep. The first land subdivision was in 1867 when 4733 acres were divided into 14 allotments. The first land sales took place in 1873 with the minimum price £1 per acre.
In the 1880s, koalas were introduced to the island.
During the depression of the 1890s the government of the day encouraged settlement of the area and established 7 village settlements on French Island under the Village Settlement Scheme. These were called Energy, Star of Hope, Callanan's, Perseverance, Industrial, Kiernan's and Grant Homestead Association. Altogether about 200 people made up these settlements. Tankerton Post Office opened on 3 September 1890 and remained open until 1994. It reopened in 2001 under the name French Island. A Fairhaven post office was also open from 1911 until 1957.[2] Four schools were built of which the Perseverance Primary School, established in 1896, is the only one remaining and now caters for only a small number of primary school children.
The Phillip Island chicory industry started in 1878 and John Ratford spent a season there in 1895 to learn about it. He then introduced it to French Island where it became the main source of income for over 70 years. The Bayview chicory kiln was built in 1896-97 and was the second kiln built on the Island. In the 1890s, there was chicory planting and some 30 chicory kilns were established. The Bayview chicory kiln is now the oldest one remaining.
The McLeod prison farm opened on 17 July 1916 as a tent village. Timber cabins housed the prisoners until 1946 when concrete cells were built. It operated as a self-sustaining farm. The prison closed in 1975 and was used as a holiday camp facility until 1995, and now is privately owned.
In 1967, the State Electricity Commission of Victoria proposed the island as the site of the first nuclear power plant in Australia, but the plans were abandoned.
In July 1997, 11,050 hectares (27,300 acres) (about 70%) of the island was declared French Island National Park, and in May 2002 the waters directly north of French Island were declared the French Island Marine National Park.
Access and transport[edit]
Access to the island is via Inter Island Ferries passenger ferry running daily from Stony Point pier to Tankerton Jetty. Metro trains run a service to Frankston with an additional diesel service to Stony Point railway station for the cost of a standard metro ticket. Some trains arriving at Stony Point connect with the ferry service to both French Island and Phillip Island throughout the day. The ferry does not carry vehicles; however ample parking is provided at the Stony Point Foreshore. The crossing takes about 15 minutes. The French Island Barge Company operates a vehicular ferry from Corinella on the eastern side of Western Port to the barge landing on French Island. It accommodates two standard size cars or a larger truck and is made available to French Island land holders and contractors only.[3] Inter Island Ferries also provide a passenger ferry service to French Island from Cowes on Phillip Island.
There is no airport on the island, although a few properties have private landing strips.
There are more than 40 km of gravel roads and tracks on the island, which are quiet and ideal for cycling. They are affected by rain and can become dangerous for the inexperienced. The island is generally flat or mildly undulating with the highest point being Mount Wellington (96m). Bicycles can be hired from the general store. There is an abundance of walking tracks. Active pursuits include bushwalking, bird watching, horse riding, cycling. Everything that needs to be on the island comes via the French Island Barge. This service runs every day of the year, depending on tide and appointments. There is one tour operator on the island, French Island Tours.
There are a few notable landforms which include:
- Mount Wellington - highest point on the island at about 96 m
- The Pinnacles - 66 m
- Harrop Hill
- Tortoise Head
Watercourses on the island include:
- Tankerton Creek
- Redbill Creek
- Mosquito Creek
- Brella Creek
Major towns are:
- Tankerton
- Fairhaven
At the 2011 census, French Island had a population of 116.[1]
In 2003 ten students were enrolled at the Perseverance Primary School. In 2009 five students were enrolled at the primary school.[4] According to ACARA, in 2011 there were nine enrollments[5]
Natural environment[edit]
Habitats range from coastal mangroves, swamps, heath, grasslands and blue gum[disambiguation needed] forests. Most koala populations on the mainland of Australia are affected by the chlamydia disease; however French Island provides the world's densest and most disease-free population of koalas, with regular transfer of excess koalas to repopulate diseased areas on the mainland. Shelter is provided for more than 100 species of bush orchids, and 260 species of birds. Significant species on the island include: king quail, the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot, fairy tern, white-bellied sea eagle, swamp skink, long-nosed potoroo.
The island is one of only two places in Victoria where the invasive red fox is not present, which has enabled the island to maintain a variety of indigenous species which have been devastated by the predator elsewhere including Phillip Island. However rabbits, feral cats, feral goats, feral pigs, Indian mynahs and starlings pose a threat to the island's biodiversity.
There is one free camping site in the National Park at Fairhaven, 4 km up the coast road from Tankerton Jetty, where the ferry arrives from Stony Point. The camp site is set among trees near the beach, with one public toilet and a water tank. Other camping is available at "private sites" at French Island Eco Inn and through the local French Island tour operator.
Proposed nuclear power plant site[edit]
In mid 1967, the State Electricity Commission of Victoria applied to the Lands Department for the reservation of 400 acres (1.6 km2) of French Island for future construction of a nuclear power plant. The plant was speculated to have 350-500MW generator capacity and would likely have been built during the 1970s. Other plants around Australia were also envisioned after the construction of a successful, fully operational plant in Victoria. If the SEC did decide to construct a nuclear power station, it would have continued to construct brown coal power stations as well for some considerable time.[6]
Due to the low cost of brown coal in Victoria and mounting pressure from the anti-nuclear movement, the SEC subsequently decided against commissioning a nuclear plant and instead continued the commissioning of brown coal plants. These included the Hazelwood Power Station, which was completed in 1971. Nuclear plants were not constructed in NSW as access to black coal allowed for bigger generators. The declaration of various areas of many Australian states as nuclear free zones was a key factor in the selection of coal plants over nuclear plants.
The land acquired by the State Electrical Commission in the 1960s was subsequently subdivided and sold off in the 1990s during a time when ferry services to the island had become unreliable, with the two small vessels (King Fisher and Port Hunter) breaking down regularly.[citation needed] This drove the government to sell the land for significantly less than they had purchased it for in the '60s, with land being sold in 60 and 90 acre allotments for just $1,000 per acre.[citation needed]
- ^ a b c Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "French Island (Statistical Local Area)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2012-10-17.
- ^ Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Retrieved 2008-04-11.
- ^ "Transport - Off Island". French Island Community Association. Retrieved 2014-03-21.
- ^ "Primary School Class Sizes". The Age. 28 April 2003. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
- ^ "School Profile". myschool.edu.au. Retrieved 2012-10-17.
- ^ Our N-Power, Stephen Hall, The Age, 4 October 1967


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LONDON -- The Fed Cup matches between Japan and Argentina will be played in Kobe instead of Tokyo.
The International Tennis Federation says the World Group II playoff, which was postponed from April until July 16-17 because of the earthquake in Japan, will be played on an indoor hard court at Bourbon Beans Dome.
That's a week after a Davis Cup match between Japan and Uzbekistan at the same venue.
The ITF also says that Sweden will host defending Davis Cup champion Serbia in Halmstad on an indoor hard court July 8-10.
Venues are subject to approval following an ITF inspection.


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