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Does anyone know what kind of headache it would be to put a 289 in a '63 straight 6 falcon?
Does anyone ever read this stuff?
I can't say that I know for sure but it really shouldn't be a problem as some of the `63s came with 260 V-8s. Sourcing original parts might be a problem but finding new replacements mounts should be simple. I'd start with one of the larger Mustang supply companies.
In order to transplant a 260/289/302/351w into a 62-65 6 cyl falcon or ranchero you need to consider the weight and torque of the replacement engine. In addition to replacing the motor mounts and mount stands, you will need to change over the suspension components to the heavier duty V-8 tie rod ends, ball joints, upper control arms, coil springs, etc. You will also need to upgrade the brakes as the stock 6 cyl drum brakes are insufficient. If you can get your hands on a copy of the Ford parts manual or know someone who can cross reference the numbers for you, you should be able to use mostly 65 Mustang parts. A large portion of early Mustang mechanical parts are Falcon and Fairlane part numbers. If you can find someone who has a V-8 Falcon, try to get accurate measurements for the location of the motor mounts. This should save you some headaches. You will need to find the rear differential including housing, axles, and brakes for a V-8 Falcon (I seem to remember it's an 8-inch) or upgrade to a 9-inch rear end complete assembly. The stock 6 cyl rear will not hold up to the horsepower and torque difference of the V-8. The V-8 cars are 5-lug as opposed to the 4-lug 6 cyl cars so if you want matching rims be sure to upgrade the front to match the 5-lug rear-end. The easiest way around all of this is to sell your 6 cyl Falcon and find one that is a stock V-8 car. You'll probably save a lot of money and time.Hope this helps,Mary Ellenwww.gt350lady.com
HAHA,that's not going to happen!!I have a v8 donor car in the works,so most of that won't be so bad.
I have a 62 Ranchero that has a 302 in it and wasinstalled 20 yrs ago with a conversion kit. It includedspecial motor supports and headers and other parts.I don't remember the manufactur. I think Hedman stillmakes the headers, they were in the Summit Catolog.I'm not sure if it is still made.
The editor of Car Craft did several articles on the conversion he did on his 63 Falcon (which I am told was stolen a few months later). His articles covers the suspension changes step by step with a parts list. The required (complete) motor mounts are found on a 63-65 Falcon/Comet and 64-66 Mustang V-8 (the 66 Mustang style is the best). Fabricated mounts/crossmembers for a C-4 trans can found at several online vendors dealing with the early Falcon/Comet.I do not have the exact month/date of the articles on hand but post your request on the Car Craft web site and someone can provide that info. Web sites such as www.ford-forums.com have covered the convestions an endless number of times.
Okay, I found the Car Craft info on Falcon V-8 conversions mentioned above:May 2000, covers Disk brakes/Granada front spindle conversion, using Mustang steering parts, installing the Maverick rear axle. p. 52-57Sept 2000 covers aligment to Shelby specs and other related info.
THANK YOU very much!!!!!!!
Would you want to part with those issues?They're not available any more.
I only kept the pages containing the articles. Maybe R & C's editor can provide a suggestion as to where some reprints of the articles can be obtained? (hint, hint)Or, contact me at one of my e-mail addresses: firstname.lastname@example.com amwilling to send a copy of the articles via surface mail.
Finding the issues on ebay will be easier than getting a reprint from Car Craft most likely. Our back issues department wont have them because they only carry about a year. Have you checked their web site? It's most likely too old to be on there though.
Yeah,they only go back to 2004
For the people who have contacted me in regards to the Car Craft article covering the conversion: Had a major upset at this end (notice of pending foreclosure) and haven't gotten a chance to make copies of the article for those who asked. I hope to make some recovery next week timewise and send out said copies.Soory for the delay, but it is in fact the economy...
63 falcons and comets could be had with v-8 engines from the factory. if you can acquire the factory v-8 car, then your basic problems are solved. it's just nuts and bolts from there on out. you might also check out 62-65 v-8 fairlanes and mercury meteors for pieces and parts that would help you in this conversion.


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"the p51 also used water injection did it not to supress detonation and increase milage?"
To supress detonation, yes..to increase range, no. The water injection system was of limited quantity, for very limited use. The Merlin engine used in the P51 (this engine was also used in the Spitfire, and an early version in the Hurricane) was rated to sustain 67 inches boost for up to 5 minutes, using water injection. At this power setting, the engine delivered about 2000 horsepower@22,000'. Of course many pilots talk of using this boost level for 10 minutes or more, but I think half of it may be just that...talk. Most pilots wouldn't deliberatly take such a chance, especially deep in enemy airspace. I'm sure it happened, just not routinely.
Anyway, to answer your question, yes, and no
By the way, the P51 had a wonderful range from the time it was built. It had a large fuel capacity to start with, and the Merlin engine, when leaned out and set for cruise flight, was very economical. Unfortunately, it wasn't in squadron strength until very late in the war. Until then, it was up to the Spitfires and P47's (both with a positively dismal range, though the Jug got much longer legs later on) to escort bombers. Until the P38 began operations in the European theatre, the escort fighters were forced to turn back shortly after landfall on the continent. When the P38 showed up, it was the only fighter in Europe (or the world, for that matter) capable of escorting bombers from where the other fighters turned back, to the target, or nearly so, giving German fighters quite a surprise initially. For a short period in Europe, before the P51B went into operations, and the P47 was equipped with drop tanks and larger internal fuel cells and got a better range (Spitfires never got legs worth mentioning), the P38 was the only saviour of many Allied bomber pilots. Before that, German fighters simply loitered just out of range of Allied escort fighters and beat the **** out of the bombers at will. Do a search for "Black Thursday" and you'll see what can happen to bombers without fighter escort.
You can probably guess I'm quite a fan of the P38, and Lockheed, the company who built her
This has been discussed before and all the info is in the Knowledge Base along with the flame throwers sites.
The concept that maximum power is obtained by zero pressure in the exhaust is only partially true. There should be absolutely no back-pressure from the collector rearward, but the diameter of the system beginning with the exhaust valve is a compromise.
The highest efficiency for the system requires a minimum speed for good exhaust gas velocity to insure that gas does not "back up" into the chamber during overlap at low engine speeds,
and that the "suction" (negative pressure pulse) effect of a resonant (tuned length) and/or collector (overlapping exhaust pulses) system is optimized.
To predict what primary size will be best for a specific motor, you must know where you want the engine to develop peak torque.
If the existing torque peak is at bit lower RPM than you prefer (typical in under-cammed or stock motors), it can be "bumped" a bit by increasing the primary diameter. If the torque peak is too high (motor is "peaky", with no range and poor recovery from gear changes), the peak can be adjusted down by using a smaller pipe. A change of 1/8" in the primary diameter will raise or lower the peak torque RPM by 500 or so.
This factor slightly overlaps the effect of primary pipe length, but the pipe length generally will not change the peak torque or the RPM at which it occurs.
A length change has the effect of improving the torque on only 1 side of the peak by "borrowing" it from the other side. A shorter pipe improves the torque after the peak (reduces it at lower RPM), preventing the curve from flattening out so quickly as speed increases. A longer pipe extends the torque curve backwards to improve the engine's flexibility, at the expense of after-peak torque.
Another instance where a slightly larger pipe may help is where the departure angle of the pipe from the flange is very sharp (typically downward). The added cross-sectional area immediately after the flange apparently helps reduce the restrictive effect of a small radius after the port.
This partially explains why some header models or brands work better than others with similar dimensions.
If the primary pipe inside diameter is more than 1/8" larger than the actual port opening in the head, the header flange bolt pattern can be slotted slightly to raise the centerline of the primary pipe above the center of the port, until the bottom of the pipe just matches. This puts the pipe's effective center closer to the most active area of gas flow, and the mis-alignment at the roof allows the highest-pressure gas an easier path away from the port; also adds some degree of anti reversion.
If controlling reversion is more important than maximum port flow (e.g. primary diameter is very large), the mis-match should be at the bottom of the port where gas flow is slowest, and therefore most likely to reverse-flow at low engine speed.
It shouldn't matter what kind of muffler you use with flamethrowers because the whole system should take place after the mufflers anyways. You definitely dont want flames going through your mufflers lol.
Any type of muffler should do simply because it shouldn't be even near the flames.
|the p51 also used water injection did it not to supress detonation and increase milage?
If you decide to run straights, keep in kind that the bigger pipe you use, the more mellow the tone will me.
2" sounds nasty on a small block chev, a 6.2 diesel, a v-6 Explorer, or a 230 straight 6, with split manifolds.
If you are going to do flamethrowers with mufflers, I'd use glasspacks, or steelpacks. If you try it with trash cans, and make a mistake, you'll end up with mufflers that look like pregnant puppies.
I ran straights on my 49 Chev, out 4" stacks, until I couldn't stand it anymore.
I took the stacks off at the elbows, and welded in blocker plates, with glasspacks on them. Most people don't even know I have mufflers, until I tell them.
The 4" stacks above the glasspacks gives a pretty effective expasion chamber, so you get nice orange rolling fire, instead of blue jets.
FYI I am a redneck. I built my own flamethrower setup, so that it would be safe, and easy to use.
Quoted from "Trees" :"The old fighter planes had an entirely different set of problems to work with. The P 51 was liquid cooled where as most of the others were air cooled. The air cooled engines had cowl flaps to maintain cylinder heat temps in the "green" to prevent detonation (hot) or excessive fuel consumption (cold) These flaps were open for take off and landing and were mostly fully closed when at high altitude cruise. Opening the cowl vents too early or going full open at too high an altitude could cause rapid cooling and a bunch of warped heads, jugs etc. The P 51 radiator cooling air could be regulated also, but usually was not required. The unique way the aircraft was flown for the long range, high altitude bomber escort missions was developed by Charles Lindberg. Upon reaching cruise altitude and airspeed, they would lean the engine back until it quit, then slowly increased enrichment until it fired and then they set the throttle and mixture there. As fuel burned off, they would slowly climb, maintaing air speed and throttle/ mixture settings. Lindberg had to prove to all the old time aircraft engine mechanics that this procedure and super lean fuel mixtures did not damage the engines. His procedure increased the range of the aircraft by about 50% and were the only aircraft that could escort the bombers to Berlin and beyond."
You know, I knew that, someday, my being an extreme WWII fighter aircraft freak would come in useful (sort of).
Ok, some mis-information in the above...not intentionally incorrect, certainly, just not quite on-the-mark in some areas.
Most WWII fighters were liquid cooled, rather than the other way 'round. All USN fighters flown from CV's (aircraft carriers) were air cooled, of course (the Navy refused to use liquid cooled fighters aboard ship), but most Allied USAAF, RAF, etc. were water cooled, with some notable exceptions such as the Jug (P-47), and the Hawker Typhoon (RAF ship).
Secondly, Lindberg's foray into the South Pacific and his work done with a fighter group down there did, indeed, greatly benefit the US as far as fuel economy goes, but his ideas to lean out throttle mixtures (and other things) were met with resistance because of the lean mixtures themselves, which, as we all know, can cause an engine to run hotter, and allow detonation at a far lower power loading. This was the primary concern...that the lean mixtures, even at cruise settings, would be certain death to an engine (most of his testing was done on P38's, twin-Allison engined turbo-supercharged fighters) because the turbo boost would cause detonation at those leaner settings, burning holes in pistons and cooking valves. He proved this wasn't the case by flying his ship "leaned out" while others in his flight flew theirs in the conventional manner (not sure how many sorties he flew this way..I could probably look it up, but I'm too lazy...it was more than just a few, I'm certain) and afterwards, the engine was torn down and inspected, and found to be in perfect condition. This simple adjustment doubled the range of the P38, and did much toward helping us win the war in the Pacific....With so little land, and most sorties, by necessity, lasting as much as 8 hours or more, it was a miracle for those fighter pilots who fought in that theatre.
Cowling flaps on those ships that had them ( the P47, F4U Corsair) were generally opened only during METO power setting, or WEP, when the extra cooling ability was absolutely needed. A P47, for example, could increase turbo/supercharger boost enough to gain over a 33% horsepower increase, using water injection, and understandably it generated enormous amounts of heat. Also, the P51's cold air induction was often used, in the heat of combat when high power (boost) settings were used. I've never read (or been told...I've inverviewed a number of WWII fighter pilots) about jugs being cracked because of overcooling, though that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't true...
If any of you guys want to know anything about WWII fighters, just ask...I probably know the answer, whether it's concerning combat tactics and maneuvers generally used by specific aircraft pilots, powerloading differences between aircraft, or even loadouts and ordnance capabilities for specific aircraft....or historical facts about engagements, fighters, etc. Alot of this information is extremely tough to find these days, and I'd be happy to pass it on if I know it
You dont have to run straight pipes to run flamethrowers.
First off before even attempting to do flamethrowers, research research research. And then go buy yourself a fire extinguisher.
A few companies make full flame kits while others just make a spark box that provides a "feed" to the coils you mount back there causing the sparkplugs to rapid fire. You then have to design a fuel or propane feed system. When my vehicle was carbed I ran a 3way filter to two fuel solenoids, one closer to the filter, and the other back closer to the fogger nozzle.
The fogger nozzles were a good two feet from the sparkplugs in the tail pipes.
Just remember to keep safety in mind as much as you can if doing this sort of project. The results can be very cool but also very hazardess. If an officer of the law sees you doing this . . . you'll be talking about the cool car you USED to have lol.'
Research on google and you'll find some good starting info.
So what about these "rat rods" that run a 2 foot peice of pipe of of each cylinder? If the air/fuel mixture is richened, you should be ok?
BTW, this isn't on a high preformance engine, just a stock 350.
The old fighter planes had an entirely different set of problems to work with. The P 51 was liquid cooled where as most of the others were air cooled. The air cooled engines had cowl flaps to maintain cylinder heat temps in the "green" to prevent detonation (hot) or excessive fuel consumption (cold) These flaps were open for take off and landing and were mostly fully closed when at high altitude cruise. Opening the cowl vents too early or going full open at too high an altitude could cause rapid cooling and a bunch of warped heads, jugs etc. The P 51 radiator cooling air could be regulated also, but usually was not required. The unique way the aircraft was flown for the long range, high altitude bomber escort missions was developed by Charles Lindberg. Upon reaching cruise altitude and airspeed, they would lean the engine back until it quit, then slowly increased enrichment until it fired and then they set the throttle and mixture there. As fuel burned off, they would slowly climb, maintaing air speed and throttle/ mixture settings. Lindberg had to prove to all the old time aircraft engine mechanics that this procedure and super lean fuel mixtures did not damage the engines. His procedure increased the range of the aircraft by about 50% and were the only aircraft that could escort the bombers to Berlin and beyond.
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|that warping the valves myth i think started in WWII with fighter planes, and their realy short headers. suposidly an airplane (like a P-51, spitfire...) could do a manuver that could introduce enough of a cold air blast to warp the valves... i dont know if this is true.
You will blow your motor with any kind of exhaust modification.
I had a guy tell me this one time and it's believable to an extent.
He told me that those great sounding pipes will have you revving your motor all the time to get that........great sound.
|(IMO) if i were to run an open exhaust right out the back, instead of a (2 1/4) or a (2 1/2) in. pipe, i would problebly go down to a 2'' exhaust to give some velocity to it, but i believe the straight pipe ordeal will get old quick.
So if the air fuel mixture is richened should be alright? I am thinking about doing this on my '83 Mazda B2000 becasue I want to run some flame thowers on it. I was thinking about running a straight pipe al the way out back and dumping it just behing the paasenger side tire.
How will I know when I get the right air/fuel mixture?
|There is some truth to this, and that is, a stock engine or one modified, either way, stock exhaust changed to true duals with straight pipes, no other changes, the valves get cooked, due to the mixture being too lean, any time that back pressure is reduced, the mixture must be richened to compensate, since back pressure was reduced the engine can now pull in more air/fuel and when it`s not richened more air is added but fuel is not, hence it being too lean which results in excessive cylinder heat and the exhaust valves get burned or a piston gets hollowed.
|If you have a stock cam in a all stock engine then you will probably be in trouble............i was running straight pipes on my 351C 2V motor and there was no torque at all because of the cam i was told..........if you got the cam......then you should be ok....but its noisy as heck....i wouldnt suggest it
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text: The Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Pt 2 topic aged off the front pages, so I figured I could safely start a new thread for Pottermore. I know it was discussed earlier, but it was buried by the movie's release discussions. (Rightly so!) Pottermore is supposed to be an online exploration site with challenges and puzzles that reward you with tidbits of backstory from Jo Rowling's Harry Potter preparation. Things like Mrs. Weasley's heritage and such. The rewards are all going to be reading-focused. Best of all it's supposed to be free and well-moderated, so it's safe for people of all ages to interact. To me, it sounds like a version of Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom. The previews of Pottermore that I've seen are great. Press site previews: http://www.pottermore.com/en/press A quick glimpse of the introduction to Chapter 6: 'The Journey From Platform Nine and Three-Quarters' Sneak Peek 1: http://bit.ly/kD1fEG Sneak Peek 2: http://press.pottermore.com/preview/preview2.jpg Sneak Peek 3: http://press.pottermore.com/preview/preview3.jpg The site will also offer the only authorized e-books for the Harry Potter series. I managed to find the Magic Quill and set up an ID for the beta test that starts later this summer. I fully expect to find lots of glitches and server issues since the announcements have been plagued with problems and errors. (Some are due to publishing differences among the different editions of the books around the world.) The production launch takes place in October 2011 when the doors open to anyone. Main Pottermore webpage: http://www.pottermore.com/ Twitter site: http://twitter.com/#!/pottermore Pottermore Blog site: http://insider.pottermore.com/2011/08/early-access-to-pottermore-is-now.html Just thought the Harry Potter fans here might be interested in this new venture.


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After Arsenal's 1-0 win over Queens Park Rangers on Saturday, we asked fans to share their thoughts on the game via Twitter.
Many of you got in touch and below is a selection of those comments.
If you don't already follow us on Twitter and want to have your say, you can find us here: @Arsenal
@atseo - Arteta showed great composure in midfield, Koscielny too at the back.
@JaimeSantiago88 - After Arsenal won their last match of the year it's time to celebrate on the beach with my shirt!
@AbibGOONERSayed - I'm not celebrating the New Year, I'm celebrating my Arsenal winning! Thanks Gooners.
@somteeAFC - It was a commanding performance and we got the three points. For me Koscielny was great.
@joeman4ever - Crucial we capitalised on everyone else's slip-ups. Great goal by Van Persie, who focused more on win than breaking record.
@Buttscratcher - He scores when he wants! He scores when he waaants! Robin van Persie, he scores when he wants!
@AbdulhamidM - So Arsenal end the year in fourth place. Not bad considering the way we started. Well done lads but don't rest on your laurels…
@DerSchwarzBaron - Back where we belong!
@jcbaartmans - We missed quite a few scoring opportunities but fortunately one goal was enough today.
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Britney Spears announces Las Vegas residency
NEW YORK (AP) — Britney Spears is heading to Las Vegas.
The pop star announced a residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. "Britney: Piece of Me" will debut Dec. 27. The singer announced 16 dates, but she will perform 50 shows each in 2014 and 2015.
Spears was in the Nevada desert for the announcement with more than 1,000 fans. Some dressed like the singer's signature schoolgirl look from her "... Baby One More Time" music video.
The Grammy-winning singer's confirmation about the residency comes months after rumors swirled online. She said in an interview on "GMA" that the show will feature her greatest hits as well as new material.
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"They suck," she said. "Breakups suck."
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Fox Encourages Another Disastrous March To The Brink On Debt Ceiling Increase
Fox News is encouraging Republicans to once again hold up a routine increase in the debt ceiling to exact spending cuts in deficit reduction negotiations with Democrats, though the same tactic previously cost the government billions and resulted in a credit-rating downgrade. Experts agree that another Republican refusal to raise the debt ceiling in a timely manner would be extremely costly to the economy.
Fox Pushes Republicans To Use Debt Ceiling As Leverage In Deficit Reduction Negotiations
Fox's Steve Doocy: Republicans "Obviously Have The Upper Hand" In Debt Ceiling Talks. Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy said to Republican Senator John Thune (R-SD) that Republicans would "obviously have the upper hand" on debt ceiling negotiations, granting them a chance to demand spending cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling:
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Well, the good news for the Republicans is that the looming debt -- raising the debt ceiling talks, that's just around the corner. And you guys obviously have the upper hand on that.
SEN. JOHN THUNE: Well, I think we have more. We do have some leverage with the debt ceiling increase. More than we do right now. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/7/12]
Donald Trump: Republicans Should Use The Debt Ceiling Now To Make A Deficit Reduction Deal. Frequent Fox guest Donald Trump encouraged Republicans to use the bargaining power they have on the debt ceiling to push for a more comprehensive deal to avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases set to go into effect in 2013:
DONALD TRUMP: The fact is the Republicans have plenty of negotiating strength. Maybe they even have the upper hand. I've been hearing everyone saying the President has the upper hand. I think maybe the Republicans in a certain way have the upper hand, because they have the debt ceiling coming up.
GRETCHEN CARLSON (co-host): Exactly
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): It's just around the corner.
TRUMP: And they should use that. And they should use it very strongly. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/10/12]
But The GOP Delay In Increasing The Debt Ceiling Cost The Government Billions In 2011 And Led To Downgraded Credit Rating
Government Accountability Office: "Delays In Raising The Debt Limit In 2011 Led To An Increase In Treasury's Borrowing Costs Of About $1.3 Billion." The Government Accountability Office estimated that the delay in raising the debt ceiling cost the Treasury $1.3 billion in 2011 and diverted important resources from its usual operations:
Delays in raising the debt limit can create uncertainty in the Treasury market and lead to higher Treasury borrowing costs. GAO estimated that delays in raising the debt limit in 2011 led to an increase in Treasury's borrowing costs of about $1.3 billion in fiscal year 2011. However, this does not account for the multiyear effects on increased costs for Treasury securities that will remain outstanding after fiscal year 2011. Further, according to Treasury officials, the increased focus on debt limit-related operations as such delays occurred required more time and Treasury resources and diverted Treasury's staff away from other important cash and debt management responsibilities. [Government Accountability Office, 7/23/12 [1]]
Bipartisan Policy Center: "The Ten-Year Cost To Taxpayers Caused By The Delay In Raising the Debt Limit Will Amount To $18.9 Billion." The Bipartisan Policy Center expanded on the analysis conducted by the GAO to conclude that 2011's debt ceiling fight and near default will cost taxpayers $18.9 billion over 10 years:
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently conducted a study of the increased interest costs to the federal government on bonds issued during the 2011 debt limit event. Extending this analysis, BPC estimates that the ten-year cost to taxpayers caused by the delay in raising the debt limit will amount to $18.9 billion.
GAO conducted an economic analysis of the increased interest cost to taxpayers and estimated that this amounted to $1.3 billion for Fiscal Year 2011 alone. The total cost to taxpayers from that event, however, will be much higher, because elevated interest costs will persist for as long as the bonds issued during that period remain outstanding - in some cases, for many years after 2011. [Bipartisan Policy Center, 11/27/12 [2]]
Moody's Warned During 2011 Debt Ceiling Fight That A Downgrade Was Possible Without An Increase In The Debt Ceiling. In June 2011, the credit rating agency warned that if Congress did not raise the nation's borrowing limit, a credit downgrade was possible:
Moody's Investors Service warned Thursday that it might downgrade the United States government's sterling credit rating if Congress did not increase the nation's debt limit "in coming weeks," putting a spur to the sputtering talks between party leaders and the White House on a plan to restore fiscal stability.
The warning, from one of the agencies whose assessments of creditworthiness help determine interest rates, amounted to a stern reminder from Wall Street to Washington that global financial markets are watching the budget battle closely and that a standoff or brinkmanship could have economic consequences.
Its warning was two-pronged. First, Moody's said, if Congress does not increase the Treasury's borrowing authority in coming weeks, the nation's credit rating may be lowered "due to the very small but rising risk of a short-lived default." That is likely to translate into higher interest rates at a time when the recovery shows signs of slowing again.
And second, Moody's said, with an implicit slap at both parties, that whether the United States keeps its triple-A rating "will depend on the outcome of negotiations on deficit reduction." [The New York Times, 6/2/11 [3]]
Standard & Poor's Downgraded U.S. Debt Following Debt Ceiling Fight In Part Because Of "Political Brinksmanship." In its statement on the decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating, Standard & Poor's singled out "political brinksmanship" and highlighted the use of the threat of default as "political bargaining chips":
We lowered our long-term rating on the U.S. because we believe that the prolonged controversy over raising the statutory debt ceiling and the related fiscal policy debate indicate that further near-term progress containing the growth in public spending, especially on entitlements, or on reaching an agreement on raising revenues is less likely than we previously assumed and will remain a contentious and fitful process. We also believe that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration agreed to this week falls short of the amount that we believe is necessary to stabilize the general government debt burden by the middle of the decade.
The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed. The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political bargaining chips in the debate over fiscal policy. Despite this year's wide-ranging debate, in our view, the differences between political parties have proven to be extraordinarily difficult to bridge, and, as we see it, the resulting agreement fell well short of the comprehensive fiscal consolidation program that some proponents had envisaged until quite recently. [Standard & Poor's, 8/5/11 [4]]
Another Debt Ceiling Standoff Could Be Even More Costly This Time
Center On Budget And Policy Priorities: Damage From Exceeding The Debt Ceiling And Defaulting Would Be "Serious And Lasting." Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) Chief Economist Chad Stone wrote that the real threat to the economy comes not from the fiscal cliff, but from the possibility of "brinksmanship over raising the debt ceiling":
[T]he real danger to the economy would arise from another round of brinksmanship over raising the debt ceiling. Unlike the damage from going past the beginning of the year before mitigating the effects of the "fiscal cliff," the damage from the U.S. government defaulting on its obligations, even briefly, would be serious and lasting. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 12/7/12 [5]]
Ezra Klein: GOP Is Threatening A "Congressionally Induced Global Financial Crisis." In his WonkBlog, The Washington Post's Ezra Klein wrote that a possible backup plan by Republicans should the deficit negotiations fail is to create a fight over the next debt ceiling increase. He highlighted the possible costs to both the economy and the Republican Party:
Today, the New York Times adds more detail, including this quote from Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-TX): "There's always better ground, but you have to get there."
In this case, the "better ground" is exchanging the threat of a congressionally induced recession for the threat of a congressionally induced global financial crisis. That's better ground?
Not for the economy, certainly. But it's also difficult to see how it's better ground for the GOP. Hill Republicans tell me that the underlying insight is that while the president can permit the economy to fall over the fiscal cliff, he can't allow a default. That gives Republicans a stronger hand, or so they think. But run the scenario out in more detail and its political risks come clear.
Republicans will be threatening not just to take us over the fiscal cliff, which will already have happened, but to trigger a financial crisis by breaking through the debt ceiling. And they will be doing all of this after having lost an election. And for what? Because they want deeper Medicare cuts that they refuse to publicly specify?
"Remember," says NBC's First Read, "the debt ceiling standoff in July 2011 was bad [for] the president, but it was worse for the GOP's brand." A combined austerity crisis/debt ceiling standoff in 2012 is likely to be even more devastating to the Republican Party. [The Washington Post, WonkBlog, 12/5/12 [6]]
NY Times: Republicans "Learned Nothing From The Debacle Of 2011." A New York Times editorial called the Republican plan to use the debt ceiling debate to cut entitlements a "potential catastrophe":
Republicans clearly sense that they are being outmaneuvered in the fiscal talks by the Obama administration, unable to stop the inevitable rise in tax rates for the rich. But they have one last card to play and they intend to use it, knowing it will endanger economic progress: They are threatening once again to default on the credit of the United States if President Obama doesn't do their bidding.
Apparently, they learned nothing from the debacle of 2011, when they first tried this extortionate tactic. The nation lost its AAA credit rating, stock values plunged, and the approval rating of Congress sank to historically low levels. Republicans portray themselves as spending hawks, but that episode cost the Treasury $1.3 billion in higher borrowing costs in 2011, according to the Government Accountability Office. Last week, the Bipartisan Policy Center estimated that the 10-year cost of higher interest rates was $18.9 billion.
Republicans savor that potential catastrophe, caring only that the threat won them $2 trillion in spending cuts over a decade from Mr. Obama. Now they want to do it again, and this time they want something the last agreement missed: big cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other programs that primarily benefit middle- and low-income people. Grover Norquist, who leads the party's anti-tax cult, even suggested that the debt limit be raised only enough to get through a month at a time, so that Republicans can maximize their blackmail power.
This is one of the worst imaginable ways to run a government, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is desperate to prevent it from recurring. As part of the administration's initial fiscal offer last week, Mr. Geithner proposed a way to eliminate this threat, allowing the president to raise the debt ceiling unless two-thirds of Congress overruled him. This idea provoked immediate laughter in Republican offices in the Capitol. [The New York Times, 12/5/12 [7]]
Fox Also Encouraged The Previous Costly Debt Ceiling Standoff
Fox's Eric Bolling: "I Say Let Them Default." As a guest co-host on Fox & Friends, Eric Bolling told Fox Business host Stuart Varney, "I say let them default. ... What's going to happen?" Varney replied, "Armageddon is going to happen." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/13/11 [8], via Media Matters]
Fox's Neil Cavuto: U.S. Among Countries That "At Face Value Don't Deserve" AAA Rating. Fox News host and senior vice president of business news Neil Cavuto listed the United States as among several countries that "at face value don't deserve" a AAA credit rating, adding that a downgrade is "feared and sort of like the great financial Godot people have been waiting for ... but it's gonna come." Cavuto also said: "I think the better part of valor is actually go ahead and downgrade. We don't deserve a AAA rating." [Fox News, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, 4/18/11 [9], via Media Matters]
Cavuto: "I Would Welcome A Downgrade. ... I Think It Would Be The Pain From Which We Have A Gain." On Your World, Cavuto said: "I would welcome a downgrade, I really would. I think it would be the pain from which we have a gain." [Fox News, Your World, 7/27/11 [10], via Media Matters]
Fox's Sean Hannity: "I Would Not Vote To Raise The Debt Ceiling." During a panel discussion in April 2011 edition of his Fox News show, Sean Hannity said, "If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling." [Fox News, Hannity, 4/12/11 [11], accessed via Nexis]
Fox's Andrew Napolitano: "If I Were In The Congress, I Would Encourage Everybody To Vote Against Raising The Debt Ceiling." On his old Fox Business show, Andrew Napolitano interviewed Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ). During the interview, Napolitano spoke repeatedly about the debt limit and at one point said, "If I were in the Congress, I would encourage everybody to vote against raising the debt ceiling." [Fox Business, Freedom Watch, 4/11/11 [11], via Media Matters]
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So in my league, we play championship week in week 17. Stupid, but we do.
Every single one of my guys except for one was resting, or I suspected of resting: Brady, Moss, Benson, Grant, Vincent Jackson, Antonio Gates.
So I go to the waiver wire and pull this out, for my first championship:
Jay Cutler
Arian Foster
Jamaal Charles (my only true player)
Jabar Gaffney
Devin Areshevido or whatever his name is...
Brent Celek (he was a bench player behind Gates)
Not only did I kill my opponent, I had the high score for the year with a bunch of scrubs.
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text: Kindred the Family Soul, also referred to as Kindred, is an American R&B, soul, and neo soul duo consisting of the married couple of Fatin Dantzler and Aja Graydon. Kindred emerged from the Philadelphia neo soul movement and signed to the Hidden Beach label that also included Jill Scott, who discovered them while the couple was performing at the Black Lily Film & Music Festival. After two years of work on the CD, Hidden Beach issued their debut album Surrender to Love in February 2003, which included the songs "Stars" and "Far Away". Their follow-up album was 2005's In This Life Together – its title being a reference to Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee's 1998 book With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together and spawning the single "Where Would I Be (The Question)." The duo was nominated for a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album, Group Band or Duo for Surrender to Love in 2004 and a BET Award for the BET "Cool Like That Award" in 2006. The group's third LP, The Arrival, was released on October 21, 2008. In alignment with their 15th Anniversary celebrating Great Artists and Great Music, Hidden Beach, now Hidden Beach Experiences, will be releasing a compilation of the greatest hits while at Hidden Beach on the album "Family Treasures" available for digital download on November 13, 2013


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Thursday 3rd November 2011
Although I left the ground feeling slightly disappointed that we didn't win on Tuesday night, my overriding thought was how much the game had emphasised what a fine and incredibly important win it was out in France a couple of weeks earlier.
As is the way with many, the immediate response to that view is that Marseilles didn't play very well in the first game. It might just have been that we got our tactics spot-on and were the better team on the night!
Marseille definitely impressed more this time round but two teams make up an overall match and maybe we didn't play quite as well on Tuesday night.
Taking the positives, we kept a clean sheet meaning we have taken four points out of our two games against them, definitely a haul I would have taken before a ball was kicked.
In a game of few chances we created the better ones, Rambo (twice) and Gerv both going close in the first half and RVP not taking his opportunity in the second.
Overall however, we probably didn't do enough on the night to deserve the three points, meaning that although it's very much still in our own hands, qualification to the knockout stages remains in the balance.
Not a game that will live long in the memory, emphasising just how much football changes from game to game, with our previous outing being up there among the greatest.
Before we go into the next international break we entertain West Brom in a game we must win to end a quite excellent period in three different competitions.
The Baggies not only came and won last year but deserved to on the day. If that doesn't serve as a warning that this is yet another big game where we will have to be at our best, then nothing will.
Come on you mighty reds!
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posted at 12:55 pm on January 31, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
Normally when a newspaper gets a friendly cite during a public event, they're pretty happy about it. When the Washington Post gets praise from a conservative like Senator Jim Inhofe, they should be delighted about it. Rosie Gray reports at Buzzfeed that instead of popping the bubbly, the Post is breaking out into open civil war:
Senator Jim Inhofe cited a blog post by conservative Washington PostbloggerJennifer Rubin during the confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel on Thursday, setting in motion a public argument on Twitter.
Inhofe, who called Rubin a reporter, cited a blog post of her's about Hagel. Shortly thereafter, Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran took issue with Rubin's work on Twitter, saying that Rubin "is NOT a WaPo reporter."
His words brought into sharp relief something that has divided the Post newsroom for several years: Late to the internet and struggling to maintain its status as a top-tier news outlet, the Post turned to high-profile, often partisan bloggers, led by the liberal policy wonk Ezra Klein, to generate traffic and buzz. But the outlet's unfamiliarity with the online news environment quickly showed: Their first conservative blogger was fired in a plagiarism flap, and the second, Dave Weigel, was let go after Post management learned — apparently to their surprise, if not to his actual readers' — that he wasn't a movement conservative.
Here are the tweets cited by Gray:
I hate it when senators refer to WP opinion blogger posts as articles. @jrubinblogger is NOT a WaPo reporter
— Rajiv Chandrasekaran (@rajivwashpost) January 31, 2013
Greg Sargent comes to Jen's defense:
One can be a blogger and a reporter, even in traditional media outlets. Jen manages to do both, as does Greg, as Gray points out later with links to some of their work. It sounds like Rajiv might have a case of sour grapes. If so, then so does the paper itself:
"Jennifer Rubin is an opinion writer on the editorial page. She is not a reporter in the newsroom," said Kristine Coratti, a spokesperson for the Washington Post.
Way to stand up for your writers, WaPo!
Recently in the Green Room:
A reporter finds a source who is willing to express the reporter's opinion.
And if a source is not available, selectively splices some video to create one!
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - After being an All-Horizon League First Team selection as a sophomore, Alec Brown's (Winona, Minn.) junior season did not start as planned or expected. The 7-foot-1 junior scored just two points in the opener as part of, by his standards, a rough start to the year.
There has been nothing rough about Brown's finish. In Horizon League play, Brown has been dominant from inside and out, ranking fifth in the conference in scoring at 15.7 points per game. In 15 league games, he has scored 15 or more points nine times and posted four 20-point games while also swatting 2.8 shots in 32.9 minutes per game.
The most recent outburst from Brown was in Tuesday's 78-61 win over Milwaukee, when the big man showed off his entire arsenal in a 28-point outing. His career-high scoring total included four three-pointers, a dunk, a running hook, a step back 18-foot jump shot, two putbacks and a driving layup. Brown went 10-of-12 from the field, including 4-of-5 from long range, and added eight rebounds and three blocks.
For the season, Brown ranks in the top-10 in the Horizon League in points, rebounds, blocks, offensive rebounds and defensive rebounds. After making just four shots from long range as a sophomore, Brown is shooting 42 percent from beyond the arc this season, sinking 21-of-50 threes.
So despite a slow start and some ups and downs, Alec Brown has been what Alec Brown has always been - productive.
Through 91 career games, Brown has racked up 1130 points, 599 rebounds and 211 blocked shots. Only two other players in Horizon League history can boast totals of at least 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 200 blocks.
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First of all, I had built a paper costume for a starwars party not to long ago. Pic here http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ro...rtwork/066.jpg The other 4 people are 501st members! Blacked out the ones face cause she wasent wearing a mask. I won the costume contest.
I have pretty much finished the wookie scalps here http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ro...rtwork/038.jpg
And I sewed myself a belt pouch (thanks for the tutorial Batninja.)
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I bought a Hasbro boba fett helmet and have started to weather it. (ill get the visor tommorow.) http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ro...weathi/008.jpg
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We extracted 16 litres of honey from my hive here last week. That is more than I've seen in 4 years. This early rain has brightened the place up. It has been just the right amount, too. There's been flowers on trees the cockies haven't seen out for years, like the beefwood and now the prickly pine. I saw sandalwood out and some kind of gum tree. The broadleaf ironbark has finally earnt its place by the hayshed, and the black ti tree flowered for weeks. The hive numbers picked up too, and I've seen drones this year for the first time. So I got to clean the extraction shed at last!
Now if that wasn't exciting enough, the poor struggling hive at the Bee Hospital in town finally superceded and the sides were bursting on it. There were 7 or 8 full frames of brood. That hive had survived with minimal numbers the last couple of years after I requeened it. I reckon I won't buy another queen unless I am physically forced to, because all the queens I've bought have resulted in weak struggling hives. I put a honey super on a couple of weeks ago and went to check it today to see if it was ready for extraction yet, and by crikey it was queenless. The good old bee doctor gave me a frame of brood to try and save its life. I have been through this sort of caper so many times now I'm wondering if I should try a hobby in inanimate objects.
Now, wait till you hear about my excitement with chooks....
Lone (I won't say "why me?", I'll just say..."why not me??!")
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December 10, 2010, 08:40:16 AM »
OK Phil, I knew you would ask. If you don't mind me sticking in a chook aside. I lost all my poultry to ILT about 3 years ago. The DPI came and got sick ones and flew them to Brisbane to get tested 2 days before Christmas. I followed all the recommendations for ILT..kill all the few survivng chooks and spell the yard for over 80 days, spray with lysol, don't introduce new poultry. We concreted all the coops and I've hardly taken any to a show since in case they pick up ILT there. I started again and had about 35 chooks. A little over a week ago, after a rainy period of a few days, they got a disease that is just as devastating and has killed nearly all in one yard and has now spread to the other yard. The DPI are coming on Sunday to pick some sick ones up for testing. The symptoms are different to ILT but similar in that they are not sick for long before they die and it spreads just as rapidly.
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December 10, 2010, 08:35:26 PM »
Hi Lone, well done with the honey. I have had the same problem with disappearing queens. I did an inspection the other day on two of my hives as I noticed they seemed to be a little quiet. Guess what no queens, these hives were strong and thriving.
I have had basically two weeks of solid rain....maybe this has caused some problems.
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December 11, 2010, 11:19:44 PM »
Thanks, Steve.
I suppose at least I can now say "It's not just me!" There has been rain around but only short sharp storms and plenty of time for foraging in between. It's a mystery how the queen could have vanished in that period of time.
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December 12, 2010, 06:28:13 AM »
Today, I checked my just re queened hives, after 5 days. Yes it was a bit soon. I found one beautiful queen busy on the comb. Great!
No2. hive well I found her alright still in her cage with heaps of fans looking at her but no one helping her break out of gaol. They were enjoying the show I think. So I undid the escape hatch for her. Oh well, lets see what happens.
I also caught a stray swarm from the bush yesterday, what a great experience. (My First)
Cheers Steve
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December 12, 2010, 07:45:47 AM »
Sounds like things are happening down under. I am glad that you have enough moisture for a honeyflow this year. I hope your queenless problems are righting themselves.
Sorry to hear about your chooks. In the doldrums of winter here it is refreshing to see people dealing with swarms and such.
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December 12, 2010, 09:30:41 AM »
Dry as it is over here in the west my bees are having a fine time at the moment as well. My place (urban) is surrounded by properties that have many varieties eastern states eucalypts on them and some of these have all just started flowering, the local marri is about to open and the river red gum and paperbarks just have. From standing at my hives I can see mature eucalypts in flower in every direction and fully laden bees zig zagging there way between them and the hive. You can hear and see the workers in the trees in front of my deck when you are sitting there. Funny watching them in the sun when a gust of wind comes through and sends them all into the air before they head back to the flowers again. Probem is there is so much variety at the moment my vegie garden is being neglected by them :(
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December 12, 2010, 07:30:38 PM »
Thanks for the replies.
It sounds like that swarm was some bee excitement for sure. I think that catching bees is about the most fun you can have. Can you tell us the story, Steve?
I've lost more hives than had success here, so I'm reluctant to do a couple of tree cutouts I know about. There is such a difference between my beekeeping and that of my aussie 'cousins', with too many swarm call outs to know what to do with, and booming hives with so much liquid gold they can't sell it all. In July I had reached the bottom of my honey tub when there were 4 minimally full frames to extract. So I've always had just enough honey and I've never lost all my hives at once.
Most of the year I think the bees live off dirt and rocks here. The bloodwood generally comes out in January, the most common tree here. Other years there have only been the odd blossom erupt, so it will be interesting to see if the rain has helped. We've planted a lot to help them out, but it's going to take the gum trees a long time to flower. I'll check for a new queen after a month, about the 10th of January.
It rained nearly all year, Ken, and the wet season started about 4 months earlier than other years I've been here. The DPI took a couple of sick chooks to test, so I'll let you know the results when I hear them. Commercial chicken farmers do not like the idea of chicken hobbyists, and it is nearly impossible here to vaccinate poultry. Most of mine have died or show symptoms, so I might be left with just a pair.
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December 12, 2010, 10:50:16 PM »
OK Lone, I will tell you and all the story, so grab a XXXX or what ever your poison is even tea I don't mind.
After two miserable weeks of beautiful rain approximately 9 inch's in all, which resulted in a fair amount of flooding in Central Western New South Wales.
We finally had a fine day, the temp got to about 29 degrees and humid as you could imagine after all the rain felt like 80%.
But after so many wet days the kids and I all had smiles on our dials and we all got to play outside.
I played in the yard trying to get it in order and desperately trying to earn a beer.
At about 2pm, Harris my number 2 son (10 old and my apprentice Beek) decided to walk up the back of my block to check the Hives.
All was going well and it was great to see the girls flying in and out and we were having a great time watching all the pollen laden Bee,s coming into land.
We moved from hive to hive talking to each other and generally just having a great time.
As we were moving to the next hive I heard the Buzz of many bee's and it was getting louder. I then looked skyward and the sky was full of bees. I cautioned Harris to get behind the trees and we both made a tactical withdrawal. Then it struck me its a swarm and I got both excited and scared all in one. We then watched as the swarm settled on a Pine tree about five foot off the ground on a branch about 10 cm thick.
Right , we got our gear together including a spare hive and of course the camera. I gave the swarm about 20 minutes to just settle for no reason other than I thought it was a good idea.
I also got a large pair of pruning shears and off we went with all our gear in a wheelbarrow. I slowly trimmed away any small branch's that might get in the way of the main branch basically I gave the tree a hair cut. At this stage we had a nice branch isolated from the rest covered in what I would say as a medium swarm. I then showed Harris were to cut the branch with the shears and I took hold of the branch and he snapped it off with ease. I slowly and very nervously carried the liquid like swarm over to the prepared hive and with one large shake they were in the hive and Harris placed the lid on and we danced and cheered.
End of Part One............No beer yet
Cheers Steve
Last Edit: December 13, 2010, 04:57:41 AM by Richmond
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December 12, 2010, 11:55:24 PM »
Pretty cool collecting swarms isn't it. My very first bee experience (excepting watching my grandfather when I was three) was collecting a swarm. All I owned bee wise was a half suit, so with that and a box I went for it. My topbar hive was not even completed and ready for it so I had to rush home and make a quick few finalising to it before pouring them in. I can't wait to find some more, a swarm hanging within easy reach is better than a free lunch :lol:.
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December 13, 2010, 02:14:51 AM »
Great to hear you still about Lone and that the year has been good for your bees. Thought you may have taken off with the queens to the southern states.
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December 13, 2010, 04:54:00 AM »
Part two..........
Well after 10 minutes the swarm left the hive and settled in the next pine tree along.
So, after a little thought I went to the shed and came back with a queen excluder and place this on the risers of course.
Harris and I were determined to secure our new family of bee's.
Well we repeated the same trim and cut process to the now matching pine trees and shook the the swarm as before and in they went and the lid was secured.
Stuff me, the bee's then flew straight out. I explained to Harris about the queen excluder and he wasn't sure it would work. After about ten minutes sure enough his faith was restored in me as the bee's went back to their trapped queen.
Well, we were both hot and I was especially dry so we went to the house and I blew the froth off a coldie and Harris had a soothing bottle of squash.
One swarm to us!
Cheers Steve/Harris
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January 04, 2011, 12:37:48 AM »
My computer had a virus since I was here last.
Thanks for the story, Steve!
The DPI report came back ILT again. So the remaining ones are locked up and that's it for me and chooks, at least till I can get easy access to vaccines.
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January 04, 2011, 01:12:34 AM »
you guys keep us going over the winter! ;) love the swarm story. good outcome and the fact that your son was involved was great!
lone, i was wondering where you'd got to. i don't buy queens anymore except in moments of extreme weakness. i find the ones that i get from my own hives are far better. just depends on the local resources. fortunately, my virgins have many local choices.
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January 04, 2011, 03:28:09 AM »
Good to see you too, Kathy.
How about if I tell you it's been about 40 C the last couple of days, will that warm you up? :)
Sure, Kathy, I don't think I'll be buying queens unless I'm forced to. If the bees chase me round the shed again I guess we'll just need a bigger shed. The longtime beek who was here today said he used to requeen regularly, but reckons they've been no good since they've all been using AI. The other beek I know only requeened half the hives this year due to excessive queen failures. If my queenless hive in town isn't able to produce another I'll add it to my long list of failures!
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January 04, 2011, 08:22:10 AM »
I like doing the splits when I have a nice queen. The chances increase dramatically of another generation of nice queen. I look for temper, egg laying, quietness and the general mood of the hive prior to organising the split. Love the feeling that comes with seeing another hive establish itself over some months.
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January 15, 2011, 11:58:58 PM »
On to the continuing saga...
It has been over a month since I left the bees to produce a queen, and I eagerly approached the hive yesterday. There are good numbers of bees, and ones with a bit of personality too (i.e attack your hive tool, and bare skin...). I thought I had seen every disaster you can can with a hive, and lo and behold, there was brood above the queen excluder, as well as older brood beneath it. As I was told, "There are many more problems you can pull out of your sleeves", and "This will be character-building"...
This is starting to sound like The Neverending Story..
P.S. Mardak, I've never had enough surviving hives to risk splitting the only decent one that finally produced good honey this year. But it originally came from a split, and it's a good little hive.
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January 16, 2011, 03:15:38 AM »
had a couple of hives a few years ago that had two queens, one below and one above. Just added a couple of supers to both brood boxes and let them go at it. Didn't seem much of an issue for the honey flows.
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March 31, 2011, 08:46:47 PM »
It looks like I have not provided an update for a while. The beek where the hive is shook the bees from the top super to the bottom one to reinstate the queen to her proper place. When next I checked there were no eggs or brood. So again I added a frame of eggs. But after a couple of months I found brood above the excluder again. It looks like she got sulky for a couple of months at being on the bottom, and finally found her way back up. So I decided to give her both supers to lay in, put the excluder above this and a honey super on top. Last week I checked and there is very little activity in the top super. But both brood supers are full of capped brood. In fact, there was only a handful of larvae on one frame and no eggs anywhere. It is only the wall frames are empty. I am wondering if this means it is honey bound, because there are a few cells and patches between the brood which are filled with honey. Or will she just wait till the capped brood hatches to lay again? Should I take any action or leave this strange hive alone?
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"You're probably going to see number of carriers bumping wages two, four, six cents a mile just to protect their driver base," said Richard Mikes, managing partner with Transport Carriers Association (TCP) in a recent interview with Today's Trucking for a story about driver wages.
It was interesting timing as the day before Maverick Transportation announced a wage increase for all current and new hirers.
And yesterday, Baylor Trucking, a 300-truck dry van fleet located in Milan, Indiana, announced a pay increase, bumping their drivers up to $.44 per mile, effective February 1, 2012.
The cherry on top for Baylor drivers, however, is the minimum weekly pay of $1,000 so that their over-the-road drivers have financial assurance.
During my conversation with Mikes on driver wages, he related a discussion he had had with a carrier. She sat back and looked at her drivers, Mikes said, at how many runs they made in a week and what they were getting paid. She asked herself, "Would I do that job for $50,000?
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"Sixty-thousand is not an unreasonable rate to expect to be paying these drivers," she continued. "But will I go out and raise my wages tomorrow? Of course not. But the whole industry is going to have to gravitate towards that in the next few years," she said, "or we're really going to be in a mess."
The conversation stemmed from TCP's 2011 fourth quarter Business Expectations Survey that found that sixty-five percent of carriers believe that wages must be more than $60,000 — up from 49 percent in May 2011. During the same time period, the American Trucking Association's (ATA) data in driver turnover rates jumped from a range of 40 to 50 percent up to nearly 90 percent.
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But, Mikes explains, recent reports have shown a big pop in freight rates increasing — well before the spring shipping season. "It's happening now, so we've got a lot of pressure to just retain drivers, not only increase the pool of drivers."
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It's time to paint a more attractive picture, and increasing wages is just the start.
So, a weekend challenge: tell us why young men and women, and those looking for work, should consider being a professional driver.


text: I am new to Montana and was hoping to learn about duck and goose hunitng opportunities. I'm a freshman at Carroll College in Helena. Oringinally I am from Oregon and have grown up hunting ducks and geese in the Northwest. Any feedback, advice, or information would be greatly appreciated. I have decent calling skills and a pretty good understanding of how to hunt birds effectively. Last fall I hunted at least twice a week from Thanksgiving through January. I'm begining to feel cooped up here at school and would love to get out and chase some birds. Hope to hear back from you guys. Thanks!