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Texas A&M will be wearing these on February 16 when we play there for Military Appreciation. We've seen this a lot on football uniforms but I don't think so in basketball. Pretty sweet I think.
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I don't know if I've seen them on basketball uniforms either, but I'm with you on they look pretty sweet!
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lol okay, straight up......What are control arms, why are there so many (front/lower/rear/upper control arms), and what are trailing arms? I see that camber kits have the same shape as lower control arms. Are they a direct replacement for LCA's to adjust the camber when you lower your car?
I tried google, but ehow doesn't explain much, and I tried searching the forum but there's no solid diagram or explanation. Excuse my newbness!
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Rear lower control arms:
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The front LCA is the same as the back but in the front.
What is a control arm? Why are there so many? Click me to find out.
Also a camber kit replaces the UPPER control arm. And yes it allows you to adjust your camber when you lower the car.
And for the record, I google imaged each thing you asked for before posting them here. Search harder next time, but I hope this helped.
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i think the part names are all you need to know to figure it out, but if not don't stop at ehow. continue reading. btw ^^^^^ is A+ all you can ever want to know. good post
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The name itself is pretty self explanatory... is am arm that control, controls what? if you just look at the design of each and every control arm, it pretty much tells you that it controls a fixed range on motion (like an arc)... it really just connects two parts together, and allows a certain range of motion and that's it.
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Okay, I'll take a stab at this...
There are four wheels on the car. In order for the car to move, each wheel needs to somehow connect to the frame of the car. We use control arms to accomplish this. There are two CA's for each wheel - an upper and a lower. All eight CA's have an attachment point to the vehicle frame.
Why do you need two CA's per wheel instead of one? It adds stability and secures the wheel as you move over uneven surfaces, or turn. This may not be the best analogy but think about pushing a wheelbarrow. Suppose it only had one handle for you to grab it, lift it, and push it forward. That might be easy if you are lifting a light load and traveling in a straight line on a perfectly flat surface.. but if you had to move a heavy load over a rough surface with lots of turns... well that would suck. Hence, you have two handles aka, "arms" to gain better, "control" of the direction of the wheel. There is also a shock/damper and spring connecting the front and rear LCAs to the frame.
The two front wheels are held to the car through a knuckle. This is basically a large piece of funky shaped metal with a big hole in the middle, and three smaller holes. In the big hole, you have a wheel bearing with a hub that has the spokes that you secure your wheel against. In the very center of the hub, you have the axle which connects to the transmission. As I said, there are also three smaller holes. Two are for the UCA and LCA, and the third is for the tie rod - which is input from the steering column.
The rear trailing arm (RTA) is basically the equivalent of the knuckle, except its' in the rear of the car, and it works a little differently. It too has three holes, as well as a large hole in the middle for the hub, which you connect your wheel against. Two of the holes are for the UCA and LCA. The third is a toe compensator for adjusting wheel toe. Since the RTA is so long, there's also a bushing in the middle. That bushing is marked inside the yellow circle in the pic above.
If you look at the first pic with the purple rear LCA's, the innermost hole has a bushing which goes into the sub frame. The outermost hole also has a bushing but goes into the RTA. The third bushing on the rear LCA's is next to this hole, and is for the rear shock.
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Thanks guys, I know how they work now. I really appreciate the pics, andrew, and thanks for the writeup masterp, that helped ALOT!
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I didn't want to start a new thread on this simple question. So far here is what I know: a Lower control arm holds alot of weight as a suspension component. Also, a LCA has bushings, which are rubber like (correct me if I'm wrong), and they wear out.
So my question is: How does one know when a lower control arm has gone out and its time for replacement?
and are there any good reliable front lower control arms that can be bought on ebay or amazon that anyone knows about?
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Passed peacefully away at the Dr. Leonard A. Miller Centre (Palliative Care Unit), age 63 years. Predeceased by his parents: Otto and Elsie Small. Leaving to mourn his beloved wife Gloria; daughter Alison and son Andrew; brothers: Graham (Linda) Small and Keith (Maxine) Small; niece Brittany; nephews: Kent, Bradley and Grant. As well as a number of family and friends. Resting at Caul's Funeral Home, LeMarchant Road, visitation on Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. and Wednesday from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass will take place on Thursday, February 7th, 2013 from Mary Queen of Peace Church, Torbay Road at 9:30 a.m. Cremation to follow. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Dr. Leonard A. Miller Centre, Palliative Care Unit.


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Jessica Chastain Joins Niki Caro's WWII Drama The Zookeeper's Wife
By Nick Venable 2013-04-30 21:50:18 comments
If anyone in the film-watching world can possibly say, Who is Jessica Chastain? at this point, then it's hard to say they're part of the film-watching world. She was last in this years mediocre creep-fest Mama and was nominated for an Oscar in last years politically-charged Zero Dark Thirty, and she was in nine other films since 2011, playing characters of all different shades. And now it seems shell be headed back to World War II for her next film...well, one of her next films.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chastain is set to star in the adaptation of The Zookeepers Wife, a 2007 novel written by Diane Ackerman. The film also found its director in Niki Caro, most famous for her 2002 family drama Whale Rider (partially due to her second film, 2009s A Perfect Vintage, not being particularly memorable). The new film is being produced and financed by Panorama and is expected to hit the market once Cannes begins on May 15th. The films screenplay was written by Angela Workman, a British writer whose drama Brontëis currently sitting unmade at Paramount.
This subject matter is pure awards bait, but hopefully interesting bait nonetheless. The Zookeepers Wife tells the true story of Polish couple Jan and Antonina Zabinski, keepers of a Warsaw zoo. Once the Nazis invaded Warsaw during WWII, the Zabinskis started housing some of the evacuee Jews, sheltering them inside the zoo. Not merely a thriller guided by the Nazis hunt, the film like the novel will focus more on the socialization of the disjointed community.
And from Nazis to ghosts, Jessica Chastain is next set to star in Guillermo Del Toros romantic ghost story Crimson Peak, and has Liv Ullmanns Miss Julie also in the pipeline. Shell next be seen, however, in the strange double film of Ned Benson, The Disappearance of Elanor Rigby, in both his and hers editions.
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"Superboy: The Boy of Steel" - Part Three
Writer: Geoff Johns
Artist: Francis Manapul
"Long Live The Legion" - Part Three: "Running Hot and Cold"
Writer: Geoff Johns and Michael Shoemaker
Artist: Clayton Henry
Review by: Anthony-L
Conner (Superboy) continues his "What did Superman/What does Lex Luthor do?" checklist. Conner asks the quirky Simon, "You think people are born bad?" while they discuss the mysterious Lori who seems to have bad luck follow her around (holy obvious super-power, Batman!). Krypto shows up carting along several of Conner's Rogues which leads Conner to think "Maybe Krypto can track down Luthor." When that is unsuccessful, Conner decides to look up Red Robin (Tim Drake) where the two old friends reunite and have a nice heartfelt talk showing that unlike Luthor, Conner does not "Alienate Friends". The issue ends with Lex asking to be dropped off in Smallville so he can find his "property" (Conner).
To be continued...
"Long Live The Legion" - Part Three: "Running Hot and Cold"
Polar Boy and Sun Boy team up on Tharr (Polar Boy's home planet) to catch Cryo-King, a Legion of Super-Villain wannabe. Polar Boy gets no respect from his home world or from Cryo-King. Brek (Polar Boy) lashes out and together, he and Sun Boy make short work of Cryo-King. The two Legionnaires discover a map of 21st Century Earth on Cryo-King who mysteriously tells our two heroes, "You think you're the only Legion with an espionage squad in the 21st Century?"
Lead Story - 3: Yawn. If this were a stand-alone story showing Tim and Conner's reunion (and all the other interactions along the way), I might rank it a 4 as it's not a bad story. As Part Three, I rank it a 3 and that's generous. I'm really bored with Conner's checklist. Come on, Conner, you're up to nine things that you do that are like Superman and only have 2 on your Lex List and you're still conflicted? The checklist works as a sub-plot but it's been the overarching theme of each issue so far and I've lost interest. To be fair, this issue really worked for me as a character piece on Tim Drake and his relationship to Conner. I also thought that underneath it all, the story was fun but only as a standalone piece.
Lead Story Art - 5: Great art, great coloring really make up for a lot. It's great to see an action sequence in this issue and the shot of Conner changing into Superboy was great. No complaints really on the art.
Back-Up Story - 3: Finally, a story where something actually happens! I haven't been too thrilled with the characterization of Polar Boy (and how the other Legionnaires treat him) since Johns brought the team back in Action Comics but if I overlook that, I liked the story in general and I really liked the end. This story, more than any of the others so far, had the classic Legion feel to it, including both action and characterization and it only took 10 pages! Minor quibbles: Tharr was never portrayed as having a "cold interior" in the past, and Polar Boy definitely was more of a celebrity on his home planet. I'll just chalk these changes up to "New Earth continuity."
Back-Up Art - 3: I found the art an improvement over last issue. Again, it's perfectly good, decent art, just not as creative as I'd like. Henry has a chance here to make his mark on the 31st century look and he's kind of wasting it. Not sure if that's indicative of a lack of talent, lack of ambition, or just editorial not wanting to push things in order to keep the look "relatable."
Cover Art - 4: The cover is solid enough to capture a reader's attention if you're fans of the two featured characters.
Cover Art (Variant Edition) - 4: A very fun cover, showing a real sense of the fun in the issue (it was a fun issue in many ways). One big complaint (DC Editorial or production asleep at the wheel again?): the UPC blocks one of the six side images almost completely. This comes from the "second feature" tag appearing at the top of the cover instead of the bottom. Definitely a problem and it detracts from an otherwise excellent cover.
January 2009
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Western Technical College graduates 1,219 students
Published on Friday, May 05, 2006
On Friday, May 12, Western Technical College will hold a commencement ceremony at the La Crosse Center, located in downtown La Crosse, honoring 1,219 graduates from all Western District campuses. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m., and a reception for the graduates will follow in the North Hall of the La Crosse Center.
These students will be the last graduating class of Western Wisconsin Technical College. Future graduates will be under the college's new name, Western Technical College, which took effect in March, 2006.
"Since these graduating students spent most of their time at the college when it was WWTC, we thought that they should graduate with that name on their diplomas," said Lee Rasch, president of Western Technical College.
Of the 1,219 graduates, 535 will receive associate degrees and 263 will receive technical diplomas. There will be 277 graduating from the Certified Nursing Assistant program, and 127 will receive other certificates. An additional 17 will graduate from the apprenticeship program in various technical fields.
Western Technical College is part of the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS). Each year, more than 400,000 Wisconsin residents receive education and training from the state's 16 technical colleges. In the 2004-05 academic year, the WTCS had 22,857 graduates.
To learn more about Western Technical College programs and services, please call 608.785.9200 or visit the Web site at wwtc.edu. For more information on WTCS, visit witechcolleges.com.


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Burma: Checks on Rohingyas launched
|Radio Free Asia
|Publication Date
|6 November 2012
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|Radio Free Asia, Burma: Checks on Rohingyas launched, 6 November 2012, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/50b3829a23.html [accessed 28 May 2016]
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In the wake of violence in western Burma's restive Rakhine state, officials initiate citizenship checks.
A Rohingya woman at a camp for displaced persons on the outskirts of Sittwe, Nov. 2, 2012. AFP
Authorities in western Burma's Rakhine state have launched operations to track down illegal Rohingyas following weeks of fresh communal violence, a state government spokesman said Tuesday as an independent probe report on the clashes is delayed by another four months.
Rakhine state spokesman Win Myaing said the investigations beginning this week in at least two townships near the state capital of Sittwe came on the orders of President Thein Sein after clashes between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslims Rohingyas forced thousands from their homes.
"The President ... had instructions to carry out ... investigations in Pha Yone Kar Kyun township where many people from Kyaukphyu, Pauktaw, and Myay Pone townships came to stay," he said.
"We are investigating those people, whether or not they have the right to be citizens," he told RFA's Burmese service.
But the investigations will be launched in Pauktaw township before moving to nearby Pha Yone Kar Kyun, officials said.
A group of officials set off from the state capital Sittwe on Tuesday to start the inspections beginning with five villages in Pauktaw township, Min Nyaing said.
They will then inspect villages in Pha Yone Kar Kyun township before moving on to the Sittwe area.
"We'll begin our work on Nov. 8 in five villages in Pa Yone Kar Kyun township. Those villages are Nghat Chaung, Sit Ke Pyin, Na Wet Chaung, Tain Ne Pyin, and Pa Yone Kar Kyun," he said.
The investigations would be conducted by ward, village, and township level officials as well as the military, the police, immigration authorities, and Muslim community leaders, and additional personnel from the Burmese capital Naypyidaw could be called in if necessary, he said.
He said immigration authorities will handle any measures taken against those who are found to be noncitizens.
"We are working based on the 1982 citizenship laws," he said.
The laws, which limit citizenship to those who can prove their ancestors lived in the country, bar citizenship rights to many Rohingya, who have long been regarded as outsiders and immigrants from Bangladesh.
International rights groups say the stateless Rohingya, whom the U.N. considers one of the world's most persecuted minorities, bore the brunt of the June and recent violence.
Investigation commission
Some 180 people have been killed and 110,000 displaced in Rakhine state since June, including 36,400 in October after a fresh round of clashes, according to official figures.
Thein Sein set up an independent commission to investigate the clashes that was expected to submit recommendations this month.
But on Monday, the commission released a statement saying its report would be postponed until March due to last month's outbreak of violence.
The international community has urged Thein Sein's government to do more to end the conflict in the region, warning that continued violence threatens to derail the rapid democratic changes his government has implemented since taking power from the former military junta in March last year.
On Tuesday, in a meeting with President Thein Sein on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe Summit in Laos, British Foreign Secretary William Hague urged "all political parties in Burma to do what they can to end the violence and address the issue of Rohingya citizenship."
The day before at the summit, Burma's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin said the government is working to resettle those displaced in the clashes.
"The priority of the government for the present moment is to resettle and rehabilitate those victims who are homeless," he told Agence France-Presse.
"The government is handling with great care so that this kind of violence cannot reoccur again," he added.
Reported by Khin Khin Ei for RFA's Burmese service. Translated by Win Naing. Written in English by Rachel Vandenbrink.
Link to original story on RFA website


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Affiliation University of California
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Wind farms and bird strike
A large number of birds are killed by wind turbines in Australia and overseas.
Robyn Williams: Birds have a hard time. Tens of thousands of them are killed by cats, as you know. Others are shot by hunters, though how anyone can blow the head off anything as cute as a duck is beyond my comprehension. Then there's roadkill and flying into glass windows, and nasty little boys throwing stones. But there's still another hazard, one that birdo Sue Taylor from Melbourne is here to talk about. And it's deadly. Sue:
Sue Taylor: Many years ago workplaces wanting to avoid arguments banned discussion of sex, politics and religion. Today, if you wanted to avoid arguments in the workplace, I think you'd be wise to add wind farms to that list. It's a subject that people feel passionately about.
There are those who support a source of fossil-free renewable energy. There are those who think the turbines are beautiful, and those who believe they're a blight on the landscape. There are those who (perhaps without scientific rigour) are concerned about birth defects in stock and chooks laying yolkless eggs. There are those who claim adverse health effects from extended exposure to the turbines. There are those who complain about the noise. And of course there are politicians who are only too pleased to jump into this controversy and milk it for whatever it's worth. And then there are birders—of which I am one. Most of us are conflicted. We desperately want to support clean, green energy sources, but we cannot accept any more man made structures that kill and injure our birdlife.
Wind turbines do kill birds. Even their most passionate advocates concede that. They argue that (a) if turbines are placed appropriately only an extremely small number of birds are killed and (b) these deaths can be compensated by saving other birds elsewhere.
It stands to reason that if you build a wind turbine in a bird's flight path, the result will be lethal. If birds maintain a predictable flight path, such as an annual migration route, then it should be possible to avoid that flight path. But what if you want to build your wind farm between a bird's breeding place and its regular hunting grounds? That is more difficult.
In Australia, I believe that the birds most affected by wind turbines are raptors—birds of prey—and these birds often require an enormous range. In some locations a pair of Wedge-tailed Eagles needs a hunting range of 100 square kilometres. That makes finding an appropriate place for a wind farm difficult, to say the least. The Tasmanian subspecies of Wedge-tailed Eagle is classified as vulnerable, and is of concern at every Tasmanian wind farm.
I have heard that in America, 90 per cent of birds killed by wind farms are song birds, and that raptors only comprise ten per cent. I don't know whether this is true or not. Raptors are visible and controversial. Wind farm proponents want to play down raptor deaths because of the experience at the Altamont Pass wind farm.
The Altamont Pass wind farm in northern California was established in 1982 and has 5,400 wind turbines. Sadly, it was constructed in a major raptor migration corridor with the highest concentration of Golden Eagles in North America. Consequently, the turbines killed from 880 to 1,300 raptors each year, mainly Burrowing Owls and Red-tailed Hawks, but also up to 116 Golden Eagles. Some reports say that 4,700 birds were killed annually at Altamont Pass, but I have chosen to use the more conservative figures provided by the San Francisco Center for Biological Diversity. Whatever the actual figure was, in my view, the wind farm should have been closed down immediately. It was not. Instead, the operators introduced a rodent control program, presumably on the basis that without this food source the raptors would not be so prevalent. However, the rodent control program threatened endangered species of foxes, frogs and salamanders and actually increased the risk to birds of prey.
I understand that the turbines at Altamont Pass are slowly being replaced by more modern bird-friendly models. I suspect that this is because they are now over 30 years old, not because the operators want to stop their turbines killing Golden Eagles. Luckily, today's more efficient turbine design is in fact less dangerous to birds.
As the world seeks clean energy, wind farms are proliferating everywhere. And birds are being killed everywhere. No one has an answer to this problem.
In Spain to limit the number of Griffon Vultures killed by wind turbines, authorities provided food sources (dubbed 'restaurants') for the birds well away from the wind farms out of harm's way. In Norway, White-tailed Eagles are killed frequently as are Willow Ptarmigan (a kind of grouse). They seem to be regarded as unfortunate collateral.
China is now the largest wind energy provider in the world. It is hard to believe that China would care about bird mortalities. This is the country which infamously promoted the extermination of sparrows, supposed to be a pest, along with flies, rats and mosquitoes. Too late they realised that the sparrows ate insects. Without sparrows, insects proliferated, crops failed, thus bringing about the great famine when 20 million people starved. All because Mao wanted to get rid of sparrows. I don't think China would care if a few birds were killed by wind farms.
There are wind farms in India, Taiwan, South Korea and the Philippines. In Japan, wind farms threaten Hodgson's Hawk Eagles. Who knows how many species are being threatened world-wide? There is a trend overseas to build wind farms offshore. This has the advantage (from the operators' point of view) that birders cannot see the carcasses.
Proponents of wind farms say they will avoid bird migratory routes, they will increase turbine and rotor blade visibility, they will install audio scaring devices and they will compensate for the inevitable small numbers of deaths. This means they will remove other mortality sources such as power lines and sources of electrocution.
That is to say, there are positive steps that could have been taken to prevent bird mortality and no one could be bothered taking them before. And now these measures are seriously proposed as an argument in favour of allowing commercial establishments to erect structures that they know will kill more birds. I can't believe that they're serious. If they know how to reduce bird mortality, they should be doing it regardless of any wind farm proposal.
Some say that in the United States alone 440,000 birds are killed annually by wind farms. I have found no justification for this figure. The truth is no one knows how many birds are killed each year by wind farms. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service estimates the figure at 33,000 birds killed annually in the United States. That number of deaths is totally unacceptable. I happen to believe that ten per cent of that, 3,300, is quite out of the question. And I know that there are birders who believe that one bird death is one too many.
If 33,000 birds are being killed in North America, how many are killed each year world wide?
We are told that more birds are killed by other things, so we shouldn't object to a small additional number of deaths caused by wind farms. Sounds like: lots of people die of cancer, so don't worry about the road toll. Perhaps up to 976 million birds are killed each year in America flying into windows. Hundreds of millions of birds are killed annually by feral and domestic cats. Up to 174 million are killed by power lines. 72 million are killed by pesticides, and perhaps another 60 million by cars. Communication towers conservatively account for another 4–5 million; it could be as high as 50 million. Why then, the argument goes, should anyone object to a mere additional 33,000 bird fatalities each year from wind farms? What arrogance to seriously propose such reasoning!
Killing cute things is bound to raise the public ire. Think of baby seals in Canada. Killing endangered species is also politically unwise. Orange-bellied Parrots are both cute and critically endangered. Modelling shows they will be extinct in the wild by 2015. Yes, I said 2015. Just two years away. These birds breed in Tasmania in summer and spend the winter on the mainland.
The Woolnorth wind farm at Bluff Point and Studland Bay on the rugged north-west coast of Tasmania is right on the Orange-bellied Parrot's migration route. The turbine operators report that no Orange-bellied Parrot has ever collided with a Woolnorth wind turbine. I believe them. There are so few of the parrots left (about 20 or 30 birds) they'd be extraordinarily unlucky to fly into a turbine. If an Orange-bellied Parrot is sighted within 50 metres of the wind farm, all the turbines must be shut down. I'm not sure how many birders are out there in remote north-west Tasmania looking for rare parrots. It seems to me that if a parrot chose to fly near a turbine it would be most unlikely to be (a) spotted and (b) identified.
The Woolnorth wind farm conducts vegetation surveys underneath its turbines to ensure that there are none of the Orange-bellied Parrot's preferred food sources present. If you're going to build a wind farm in the flight path of a critically endangered bird, there's probably not much more you could do to ensure its safety.
While on the subject of Orange-bellied Parrots and wind farms, I must mention the Bald Hills wind farm debacle as a perfect case study of politicians' spin. Bald Hills is in Gippsland in Victoria, in a particular spot where no Orange-bellied Parrot has ever been seen. There is no suitable habitat in the immediate vicinity. Modelling showed that one Orange-bellied Parrot would be killed by this wind farm every thousand years. Nevertheless, in 2006, Senator Ian Campbell, then federal Environment Minister, refused permission for the wind farm citing danger to the Orange-bellied Parrot as his reason.
Wind farms are usually controversial locally and the Bald Hills proposal was no exception. It was in the federal electorate of McMillan, then held by the Labor Party. Senator Campbell was keen to see the former member, Russell Broadbent, re-elected for the Liberals. Russell Broadbent had been campaigning vigorously against wind farms and Senator Campbell had visited McMillan to assist Broadbent's campaign. He assured the locals that he would do what he could to scupper the Bald Hills proposal. And, honest politician that he is, he did. I can report that the project has since been approved, construction has commenced and the farm is expected to be fully operational by 2015. Ironically, the very year when the Orange-bellied Parrot will be extinct.
Not all wind farm proposals should be approved, but certainly, none should be rejected for the wrong reason. Australian wind farms are required to report bird strikes at their turbines—either carcasses or evidence (such as a pile of feathers) that a bird has been hit but not killed immediately. The problem is that birders do not believe the wind farm's published statistics. They say that management does not inspect for carcasses frequently enough or thoroughly enough. It has been alleged that as soon as they've found the number of dead birds predicted by their modelling, they stop looking. They are not expected to inspect every turbine every day. They select which turbines to inspect and how often. Little wonder birders are sceptical.
It is a dreadful shame that wind farms have become so controversial. Environment effects statements should be able to select appropriate sites, where bird strike is most unlikely. Turbines should be designed to be bird-friendly. Sadly, it will take a long time before birders trust bird strike statistics provided by wind farm operators. And we will probably never trust promises made by politicians, which may seem perverse, as, whatever you might think of his tactics, Ian Campbell undoubtedly did what he said he'd do.
Robyn Williams: He did, but then resigned from Federal Parliament in 2007. And I see there's a row going on right now about a proposed wind farm on King Island, to be set up by Hydro Tasmania, worth $2 billion, according to ABC News—extraordinary. Let's hope the Orange-bellied Parrot lives on beyond 2015.
Sue Taylor's new book is called John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Birds of Australia.
Next week Professor John Bradshaw returns with news of his wife who suffered a stroke two years ago. Both of them are experts on damage to the brain.
- Sue Taylor
- Title
- John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Birds of Australia
- Author
- Sue Taylor
- Publisher
- National Library of Australia
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George Papadopoulos :
05 May 2013 12:41:37pm
The wind industry is clearly just another industry. Investors are trying to make money out of the RET scheme and nothing more.
No thought has been put into the other costs associated with wind energy: noise pollution, landscape degradation, wildlife impacts etc.
Wind turbines are meant to replace polluting coal plants, instead they require even more polluting, inefficient and controversial CSG powered open-cycle gas plants and internationally no coal plants have been closed down yet as a direct consequence of wind energy.
In contrast to this one example is solar thermal which can be retrofitted onto existing coal plants. No one shall argue that they don't close down polluting coal plants...
Industry and the RET have failed to provide Australia with a meaningful efficient and ecological solution to CO2 emissions. It is time the government took direct initiative in this matter by assessing all the costs related to renewable technologies such as bird kill!
And many thanks to Sue Taylor for the very objective analysis.
David Clarke :
05 May 2013 3:37:25pm
Sue Taylor should have said, right at the beginning, that building wind turbines reduces bird deaths by slowing climate change. The world's major bird protection organizations recognize that wind turbines are a net positive for birds. Every wind turbine built means less bird deaths. (http://Ramblingsdc.net/Australia/WindProblems.html#Bird_deaths_from_wind_turbines)
Sue discussed wedge-tailed eagles and Tasmanian wind farms. She could have mentioned that no WTE have been killed at Tasmanian wind farms for several years (so far as I know).
Sue seems to be blaming wind farmers for not fixing things like power lines that kill far more birds than do wind turbines? "If they know how to reduce bird mortality, they should be doing it regardless of any wind farm proposal." Who are 'they'?
George Papadopoulos :
05 May 2013 8:25:40pm
I think there is plenty of reason to believe that wind turbines cause at the very least microclimate disruption as discussed here: http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/admissions-and-study/research-degrees/icas/rossbrooks/
The Horns Rev photograph puts wind turbines into perspective: they are air blenders.
Theoretically you need 6000 wind turbines or so to close down one coal plant. Should wind turbines be rolled out at such a scale I see microclimatic change turning into disastrous effects on weather patterns.
John :
06 May 2013 8:22:56am
What utter rubbish you write.
Read something factual. Like these:
Kelly Fuller, with the American Bird Conservancy, said, "In 2009, an expert at the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated 440,000 birds were being killed by [USA located] wind turbines a year. That was before we had more growth of the industry. As the industry has plans to triple the number of turbines installed, we can expect to see a bird kill exceeding a million a year."
A July 2008 study by The Alameda County Community Development Agency identifies up to 10,000 annual bird deaths from Altamont Pass wind turbine farm. Audubon describes Altamont as possibly the worst site in the world for a wind energy project.
Judy Rodd is director of Friends of Blackwater Cave, a West Virginia conservation group. She says this cave, close to a wind farm, houses thousands of hibernating bats during the winter. "The first year, they found 430 dead bats and 50 dead birds at the base of one tower in a very preliminary sketchy study. The expert that analyzed those numbers, Dr. Tom Kunz from Boston University, estimated that finding 430 dead bats meant that actually 10,000 bats had been killed in one year by one turbine," she said. "That's because the carcasses are scavenged by foxes, crows and other predators".
No birds are being saved by the AGW loonies. Every wind tower kills more birds.
Blair Donaldson :
05 May 2013 4:38:12pm
It's a pity Sue didn't acknowledge that wind turbines can be stopped during peak migration periods and that the loss of wetland habitat, destruction of feeding grounds along coastlines due to industry, housing and pollution – along with the ever present and increasing danger of climate change is a far greater threat than any windfarm will ever be.
Unfortunately every technology has some negative side effects. But renewable energy is going to be part of the future, we need to make it as benign as possible – and it's certainly better than electricity produced from coal or CSG and the damage it does to, air, water and soil.
Yes, a lot of mistakes were made at Altamont Pass but those older technology turbines are being replaced by fewer, larger turbines that produce more electricity than those they replaced.
Of course it's very easy for Sue Taylor to criticise wind turbines but she offers no alternative. While she has every right to voice concerns, she cannot complain about a new, clean technology while she ignores the existing dangers from fossil fuel technologies and our existing wasteful lifestyle.
George Papadopoulos :
06 May 2013 11:06:42am
Some very simple alternative, ie technologies that actually exist: Solar thermal, and solar PV.
Australia has no shortage of arid, unproductive land that is sunbaked like no almost no other place in the world
Gordon :
07 May 2013 12:59:59am
George: "arid unproductive land" is still something's habitat, and (probably) someone's home or traditional lands. The fact is as soon as anyone builds anything, out of the woodwork comes someone who doesn't like it and will suborn various "good causes" to their argument. What you are saying of the windfarms, someone else will say of your solar farms. We need many solutions in many places, but mainly we need people to accept that nothing is perfect.
George Papadopoulos :
07 May 2013 3:27:13pm
Gordon, certainly no form of energy production is perfect. Land is "consumed" by any such project
However, one renders fertile and beautiful rural lands undesirable for habitation due to noise nuisance with wind turbines.
I don't see the same problem with solar technologies.
Native title is an issue everywhere and particularly in the region around the ACT, there has been one case of native title brought against wind farms by Shane Mortimer.
Jerry Amos :
06 May 2013 8:00:32am
Birds killed by cars and trucks are way way more than by windmills.
I've stood under the huge modern windmill on the shore at Hull, Massachusetts, all sorts of sea birds flying around, not one bird hit, none laying on the ground. For that matter, the loudest sound was cars going by on the road.
The biggest polluter in New Hampshire is a coal fired electric power plant. We're not to eat the fish. The fish get poisoned by mercury, and sulphur makes for acid rain on the plants.
I had no trouble breathing the air around the windmill.
Yes, a wind farm was installed in California in a known bird migration route. They moved the wind farm.
George Papadopoulos :
06 May 2013 9:50:35pm
Jeremy, have you ever seen a cat eat a raptor?
Shirley Birney :
06 May 2013 11:01:30am
Annually, in the US, thermal electric power plants take in billions of gallons of water for cooling and, in the process, impinge and entrain (suck in) enormous numbers of fish and aquatic organisms.
In California alone, it is estimated that coastal and estuarine power plants impinge 9 million and entrain 79 billion fish and other organisms on an annual basis.
California has only two nuclear power plants which suck up an estimated 7,504,574,882 marine specimens annually.
The annual maiming and killing of marine life worldwide, by these once-through cooling (OTC)monsters, over the last 50 years or so is just too gruesome to contemplate.
Gr8Ape :
06 May 2013 12:21:57pm
It has been estimated that in the US, between 100 million and a billion birds die each year after striking windows and that another 1.4 to 3.7 billion are killed by cats.
How many birds are killed by windows- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22395664
and then there's cars, poisons etc.
06 May 2013 1:10:14pm
U see lots of estimates and few facts.
Ockham's razor states that the simplest answer is usually right.
George Papadopoulos :
06 May 2013 9:49:44pm
And are wind turbines the greatest killer of bats?
See this website: http://electrical-engineering-portal.com/why-bats-are-insanely-attracted-to-wind-turbines
are we there yet :
06 May 2013 12:52:41pm
Tell the bats to switch on their radar systems and give the birds glasses.
Brinn :
08 May 2013 12:55:26am
It has concerned me for some time that when considering wind turbines, no one knows or bothers to study the migratory routes of the local birds and bats. Late at night, during certain months I hear the black swans call each other as they move to another lake zone. Its night, they fly fairly low and it would be unforgivable if some money-made fools placed turbines in their paths.
If this is the way people want to go we need complete independant studies on all migrating birds crossing those areas BEFORE building the bloody things!
Bob Holderness-Roddam :
30 May 2013 5:59:36pm
Yes, this is a major issue. However, Sue mentioned several other reasons for birds' deaths, including cats. There's another one she's overlooked - dogs! Particularly on beaches during the breeding season, but also in our suburban bush-land reserves. And it doesn't stop with killing - dogs disrupt breeding and feeding of birds and other wildlife. Far too many irresponsible dog owners allow their dogs off leash in 'on-leash' and 'no dog' zones.
Allan Anderson :
29 Jul 2013 6:29:37am
If the world has not changed its policy on climate change there will be no birds alive to fly into the blades of wind turbines, wind turbine blades turn very slowly and are controlled to turn slowly, high speed blades do not occur otherwise the centrifical force would destroy the turbine. This is just a scare campaign by the coal mining companies and and power stations that use massive amounts of coal.
Murray Scott :
01 Nov 2013 11:16:47am
As a supporter of wind power I feel that Allen Anderson may be a bit hopeful in caliming that"high speed blades do not occur". It is true that their rotation rate of less than 20 RPM is pretty slow but the tip speeds of modern turbines are around 6 to 7 x the wind speed which, for a 50km/hr wind would be 350km/hr. Not slow. In daylight we see the movement of the slow inner blade and the blur of the tip arc. It would be important to know whether birdstrikes occur in daylight to understand whether birds can also perceive the whole rotor disk in this way.
If night birdstrikes are significant it would perhaps help to illuminate the rotor with a strobe light that would show apparently more blades moving slower.


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|The Blazar Times
|A Research Newsletter Dedicated to the BL Lac and Blazar Phenomena
|No. 52 - March 2003
|Editor: Travis A. Rector (email@example.com)
Employment Opportunities 1
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NRC Postdoctoral Research Award at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dayton L. Jones1
1 Mail Code 238-332,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4800 Oak Grove Drive,
Pasadena, CA 91109
The Astronomical Measurements Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, is inviting applicants to apply for a National Research Council (NRC) Research Associate position at JPL. The Research Associate will participate in basic astronomical research, either observational or theoretical. Our group has ongoing programs in observational radio astronomy, numerical general relativity, end-to-end astrophysical mission simulation, and numerical studies of accretion disks and jet formation in galactic microquasars and in active galactic nuclei. We are also involved in the design of large arrays of radio antennas for the future Deep Space Network. We seek candidates who are interested in contributing to one or more of these areas. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in astronomy by the starting date and strong written and verbal communications skills. The successful applicant will have access to good research facilities and support at JPL including considerable computing resources and access (through competitive proposals) to antennas of the Deep Space Network and the Palomar 5-m Hale Telescope. The appointment is for one year, renewable for an additional year. Annual starting salary for a recent Ph.D. is approximately $45,000 and can vary somewhat depending on the applicant's qualifications. Separate funds for travel are also available.
To apply, refer to the NRC web page at http://www.national-academies.org/rap for instructions, forms, and deadlines. Note that the next deadline for applications is 1 May 2003. Before applying, please contact Dr. Dayton Jones at 818-354-7774, email@example.com or at the address listed above to discuss your research interests.
The HRX-BL Lac sample - evolution of BL Lac objects
V. Beckmann1,2,3, D. Engels2, N. Bade2 and Olaf Wucknitz4
1 INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, Chemin d' Écogia 16, CH-1290
Versoix, Switzerland
2 Hamburger Sternwarte, Gojenbergsweg 112, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany
3 Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen, Sand 1, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
4 Universität Potsdam, Institut für Physik, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany
The unification of X-ray and radio selected BL Lacs has been an outstanding problem in the blazar research in the past years. Recent investigations have shown that the gap between the two classes can be filled with intermediate objects and that apparently all differences can be explained by mutual shifts of the peak frequencies of the synchrotron and inverse Compton component of the emission. We study the consequences of this scheme using a new sample of X-ray selected BL Lac objects comprising 104 objects with z < 0.9 and a mean redshift [`z] = 0.34. 77 BL Lacs, of which the redshift could be determined for 64 (83%) objects, form a complete sample. The new data could not confirm our earlier result, drawn from a subsample, that the negative evolution vanishes below a synchrotron peak frequency lognpeak = 16.5. The complete sample shows negative evolution at the 2s level (áVe/Va ń = 0.42 ±0.04). We conclude that the observed properties of the HRX BL Lac sample show typical behaviour for X-ray selected BL Lacs. They support an evolutionary model, in which flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) with high energetic jets evolve towards low frequency peaked (mostly radio-selected) BL Lac objects and later on to high frequency peaked (mostly X-ray selected) BL Lacs.
Accepted by A&A
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VLBI Polarimetry of 177 Sources from the Caltech-Jodrell Bank Flat-spectrum Survey
L. K. Pollack1,2 G. B. Taylor,1 R. T. Zavala1
1 National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box O, Socorro, NM 87801
2 Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94704 USA
We present VLBA observations and a statistical analysis of 5 GHz VLBI polarimetry data from 177 sources in the Caltech-Jodrell Bank flat-spectrum (CJF) survey. The CJF survey, a complete, flux-density-limited sample of 293 extragalactic radio sources, gives us the unique opportunity to compare a broad range of source properties for quasars, galaxies and BL Lacertae objects. We focus primarily on jet properties, specifically the correlation between the jet axis angle and the polarization angle in the core and jet. A strong correlation is found for the electric vector polarization angle in the cores of quasars to be perpendicular to the jet axis. Contrary to previous claims, no correlation is found between the jet polarization angle and the jet axis in either quasars or BL Lac objects. With this large, homogeneous sample we are also able to investigate cosmological issues and AGN evolution.
Accepted by ApJ, astro-ph/0302211
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Temporal Variability of Mrk 421 from XMM-Newton Observations
W. Brinkmann1, I. E. Papadakis3,4, J.W.A den Herder5, F. Haberl2
1 Centre for Interdisciplinary Plasma Science,
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik,
Postfach 1312, D-85741 Garching, FRG
2 Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1312, D-85741 Garching, FRG
3 IESL, FORTH, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
4 Physics Department, University of Crete, 710 03 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
5 SRON Laboratory for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands
We present the results of a detailed spectral and temporal analysis of the currently available XMM-Newton observations of the bright BL Lac object Mrk 421 using mainly the EPIC-PN data. The source was found in various intensity states differing by up to a factor of five in count rates. In general, the source is more variable and shows a harder spectrum during higher intensities than when it is in lower states. The spectrum is very complex and cannot be fitted adequately by a broken power law or a continuously curved model. We find that the flux variations on time scales of ~ few thousand seconds are associated with significant and sometimes very complex spectral changes. The spectral variability rate is not the same in all cases and is correlated with the source flux state: the spectral variations per unit time increase with the source flux. The Cross-Correlation analysis shows that the soft and hard band light curves are often well correlated near zero lag, in other cases the hard band variations lead the soft band variations by typically ~ 5 min, in two cases we find the soft band leading the hard band variations. The delays appear to be correlated to the flares' duration: the shorter the flare, the smaller the delay.
Accepted by A&A
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The Radio Structure of High-Energy Peaked BL Lacertae Objects
Travis A. Rector1, Denise C. Gabuzda2 and John T. Stocke3
1 National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box O, Socorro, NM 87801
2 Department of Physics, National University of Ireland, University College, Cork Ireland
3 Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0389
We present VLA and first-epoch VLBA observations that are part of a program to study the parsec-scale radio structure of a sample of fifteen high-energy-peaked BL Lacs (HBLs). The sample was chosen to span the range of logarithmic X-ray to radio flux ratios observed in HBLs. As this is only the first epoch of observations, proper motions of jet components are not yet available; thus we consider only the structure and alignment of the parsec- and kiloparsec-scale jets. Like most low-energy-peaked BL Lacs (LBLs), our HBL sample shows parsec-scale, core-jet morphologies and compact, complex kiloparsec-scale morphologies. Some objects also show evidence for bending of the jet 10-20pc from the core, suggesting interaction of the jet with the surrounding medium. Whereas LBLs show a wide distribution of parsec- to kpc-scale jet misalignment angles, there is weak evidence that the jets in HBLs are more well-aligned, suggesting that HBL jets are either intrinsically straighter or are seen further off-axis than LBL jets.
Accepted by AJ
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High-Resolution Radio Imaging of Gravitational Lensing Candidates in the 1 Jansky BL Lac Sample
Travis A. Rector1 and John T. Stocke2
1 National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box O, Socorro, NM 87801
2 Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0389
While BL Lacertae objects are widely believed to be highly beamed, low-luminosity radio galaxies, many radio-selected BL Lacs have extended radio power levels and optical emission lines that are too luminous to be low-luminosity radio galaxies. Also, Stocke & Rector discovered an excess of MgII absorption systems along BL Lac sightlines compared to quasars, suggesting that gravitational lensing may be another means of creating the BL Lac phenomenon in some cases. We present a search for gravitationally-lensed BL Lacs with deep, high-resolution, two-frequency VLA radio maps of seven lensing candidates from the 1 Jansky BL Lac sample. We find that none of these objects are resolved into an Einstein ring like B 0218+357, nor do any show multiple images of the core. All of the lensing candidates that were resolved show a flat-spectrum core and very unusual, steep-spectrum extended morphology that is incompatible with a multiply lensed system. Thus, while these observations do not rule out microlensing, no macrolensing is observed.
Accepted by AJ
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Optical and Radio Behaviour of the BL Lacertae Object 0716+714
C. M. Raiteri1, M. Villata1, G. Tosti2, R. Nesci3, E. Massaro3, M. F. Aller4, H. D. Aller4, H. Teräsranta5, O. M. Kurtanidze6,7,8, M. G. Nikolashvili6, M. A. Ibrahimov9,10, I. E. Papadakis11,12, T. P. Krichbaum13, A. Kraus13, A. Witzel13, H. Ungerechts14, U. Lisenfeld14, U. Bach13, G. Cimò13, S. Ciprini2, L. Fuhrmann13, G. N. Kimeridze6, L. Lanteri1, M. Maesano15, F. Montagni15, G. Nucciarelli2, and L. Ostorero16
1 INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Via Osservatorio 20,
10025 Pino Torinese (TO), Italy
2 Osservatorio Astronomico, Università di Perugia, Via B. Bonfigli, 06126 Perugia, Italy
3 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
4 Dept. of Astronomy, Dennison Bldg., U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
5 Metsähovi Radio Observatory, 02540 Kylmälä, Finland
6 Abastumani Observatory, 383762 Abastumani, Georgia
7 Astrophysikalisches Institute Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
8 Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Königstuhl 12, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
9 Ulugh Beg Astron. Inst., Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, 33 Astronomical Str., Tashkent 700052, Uzbekistan
10 Isaac Newton Institute of Chile, Uzbekistan Branch
11 Physics Department, University of Crete, 710 03 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
12 IESL, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
13 Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
14 IRAM, Avd. Div. Pastora 7NC, 18012 Granada, Spain
15 Vallinfreda Astronomical Station, Vallinfreda (RM), Italy
16 Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Università di Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy
Eight optical and four radio observatories have been intensively monitoring the BL Lac object 0716+714 in the last years: 4854 data points have been collected in the UBVRI bands since 1994, while radio light curves extend back to 1978. Many of these data, which all together constitute the widest optical and radio database available on this object, are presented here for the first time. Four major optical outbursts were observed at the beginning of 1995, in late 1997, at the end of 2000, and in fall 2001. In particular, an exceptional brightening of 2.3 mag in 9 days was detected in the R band just before the BeppoSAX pointing of October 30, 2000. A big radio outburst lasted from early 1998 to the end of 1999. The long-term trend shown by the optical light curves seems to vary with a characteristic time scale of about 3.3 years, while a longer period of 5.5-6 years seems to characterize the radio long-term variations. In general, optical colour indices are only weakly correlated with brightness; a clear spectral steepening trend was observed during at least one long-lasting dimming phase. Moreover, the optical spectrum became steeper after JD ~ 2451000, the change occurring in the decaying phase of the late-1997 outburst. The radio flux behaviour at different frequencies is similar, but the flux variation amplitude decreases with increasing wavelength. The radio spectral index varies with brightness (harder when brighter), but the radio fluxes seem to be the sum of two different-spectrum contributions: a steady base level and a harder-spectrum variable component. Once the base level is removed, the radio variations appear as essentially achromatic, similarly to the optical behaviour. Flux variations at the higher radio frequencies lead the lower-frequency ones with week-month time scales. The behaviour of the optical and radio light curves is quite different, the broad radio outbursts not corresponding in time to the faster optical ones and the cross-correlation analysis indicating only weak correlation with long time lags. However, minor radio flux enhancements simultaneous with the major optical flares can be recognized, which may imply that the mechanism producing the strong flux increases in the optical band also marginally affects the radio one. On the contrary, the process responsible for the big radio outbursts does not seem to affect the optical emission.
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