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"Too Old' for Hip Surgery
Original post made by kt, Apperson Ridge, on Feb 16, 2009
'Too Old' for Hip Surgery
As we inch towards nationalized health care, important lessons from north of the border.
By NADEEM ESMAIL
President Obama and Congressional Democrats are inching the U.S. toward government-run health insurance. Last week's expansion of Schip -- the State Children's Health Insurance Program -- is a first step. Before proceeding further, here's a suggestion: Look at Canada's experience.
Health-care resources are not unlimited in any country, even rich ones like Canada and the U.S., and must be rationed either by price or time. When individuals bear no direct responsibility for paying for their care, as in Canada, that care is rationed by waiting.
Canadians often wait months or even years for necessary care. For some, the status quo has become so dire that they have turned to the courts for recourse. Several cases currently before provincial courts provide studies in what Americans could expect from government-run health insurance.
In Ontario, Lindsay McCreith was suffering from headaches and seizures yet faced a four and a half month wait for an MRI scan in January of 2006. Deciding that the wait was untenable, Mr. McCreith did what a lot of Canadians do: He went south, and paid for an MRI scan across the border in Buffalo. The MRI revealed a malignant brain tumor.
Ontario's government system still refused to provide timely treatment, offering instead a months-long wait for surgery. In the end, Mr. McCreith returned to Buffalo and paid for surgery that may have saved his life. He's challenging Ontario's government-run monopoly health-insurance system, claiming it violates the right to life and security of the person guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Shona Holmes, another Ontario court challenger, endured a similarly harrowing struggle. In March of 2005, Ms. Holmes began losing her vision and experienced headaches, anxiety attacks, extreme fatigue and weight gain. Despite an MRI scan showing a brain tumor, Ms. Holmes was told she would have to wait months to see a specialist. In June, her vision deteriorating rapidly, Ms. Holmes went to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, where she found that immediate surgery was required to prevent permanent vision loss and potentially death. Again, the government system in Ontario required more appointments and more tests along with more wait times. Ms. Holmes returned to the Mayo Clinic and paid for her surgery.
On the other side of the country in Alberta, Bill Murray waited in pain for more than a year to see a specialist for his arthritic hip. The specialist recommended a "Birmingham" hip resurfacing surgery (a state-of-the-art procedure that gives better results than basic hip replacement) as the best medical option. But government bureaucrats determined that Mr. Murray, who was 57, was "too old" to enjoy the benefits of this procedure and said no. In the end, he was also denied the opportunity to pay for the procedure himself in Alberta. He's heading to court claiming a violation of Charter rights as well.
These constitutional challenges, along with one launched in British Columbia last month, share a common goal: to win Canadians the freedom to spend their own money to protect themselves from the inadequacies of the government health-insurance system.
The cases find their footing in a landmark ruling on Quebec health insurance in 2005. The Supreme Court of Canada found that Canadians suffer physically and psychologically while waiting for treatment in the public health-care system, and that the government monopoly on essential health services imposes a risk of death and irreparable harm. The Supreme Court ruled that Quebec's prohibition on private health insurance violates citizen rights as guaranteed by that province's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.
The experiences of these Canadians -- along with the untold stories of the 750,794 citizens waiting a median of 17.3 weeks from mandatory general-practitioner referrals to treatment in 2008 -- show how miserable things can get when government is put in charge of managing health insurance.
In the wake of the 2005 ruling, Canada's federal and provincial governments have tried unsuccessfully to fix the long wait times by introducing selective benchmarks and guarantees along with large increases in funding. The benchmarks and the guarantees aren't ambitious: four to eight weeks for radiation therapy; 16 to 26 weeks for cataract surgery; 26 weeks for hip and knee replacements and lower-urgency cardiac bypass surgery.
Canada's system comes at the cost of pain and suffering for patients who find themselves stuck on waiting lists with nowhere to go. Americans can only hope that Barack Obama heeds the lessons that can be learned from Canadian hardships.
Mr. Esmail, based in Calgary, is the director of Health System Performance Studies at The Fraser Institute.
Comments (23)
a resident of Del Prado
on Feb 16, 2009 at 8:54 pm
People will learn that elections have consequences. I guess it's not what you say but how you say it.
a resident of Birdland
on Feb 16, 2009 at 10:24 pm
The damage is already done. Get over it! Make a more intelligent vote in 4 years. :)
a resident of Lydiksen Elementary School
on Feb 17, 2009 at 1:42 am
Just remember that the Presidency is a role that must make decisions for everyone in this country. Not just the elite.
a resident of Birdland
on Feb 17, 2009 at 7:09 am
Hey John,
When it comes to your health, aren't you big enough to make decisions on your own? Why do you need Obama to make decisions for you? Or are you part of the entitlement crowd. That's the problem with you dem/libs, you need big government to take care of you from cradle to grave. Grow up. Make decisions for yourself.
a resident of Del Prado
on Feb 17, 2009 at 8:16 am
Gads, I better get onto my hip surgery now. I'd planned to wait until the pain was unbearable, but I sure don't want to have that possibility taken away.
a resident of Castlewood
on Feb 17, 2009 at 8:25 am
Right On Jeff!
Hey John...do you have to wait for Obama to have a "plan" for your grocery shopping decisions?
How about buying a car, do you need "Obama" to have a "plan" for you?
And your clothes, boy you sure need "Obama" to make your decisions here as well.
How about items around your house...say lightbulbs (oh, sorry...the democrats have already made that decision for you).
Yes, you must need Obama to make the majority of decisions in your life. That is called Socialism, John. Socialism (like Hugo Chavez's Venezuela) is a stone's throw away from communism, tho your public school history books will not tell you this.
I thought we lived in a "free country" John...with limited government and rugged individualism rules. Sounds like you are not that rugged and depend upon the government to be your nanny.
Please understand...I am not an anarchist because I believe in limited government...namely for the national defense of this country above all else. But what you apparently believe is that government should take care of all your other needs from cradle to grave. Yes, you are the definition of a democrat, liberal, potential or real socialist.
Yours truly
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 17, 2009 at 9:05 am
The topic seems to be about choice in medical care. I'm honestly not understanding the points trying to be made here. What's the difference supposed to be in choice between what we have now and Canada's health system? It isn't even fair to post an anecdote about a health system in a foreign country with the implication that that same system would be implemented here. People get denied coverage a lot by their private health insurance company. I'm guessing that the above posters don't have the experience of not having a choice to get hip surgery due to not being able to afford it instead of due to socialization. But hey, that's what our socialist-based Medicare program is for because otherwise the people on Medicare would not only not be able to afford health insurance coverage by private companies, but those same companies wouldn't even touch those that truly need medical care with a 30 foot pole. Costs are lower when risk is spread out over a larger pool of insurance participants. That's the power of economy of scale. Yet private insurance companies continuously make arbitrarily small pools of insured. If you're a "high risk" participant you're put into a small pool with other "high risk" participants and you pay through the nose for coverage. It's a joke now. Seniors buy medication from Canada because the cost is lower. Others jet off to foreign countries where they can have certain medical procedures done (where the cost of flying and hotel and the procedure STILL ends up being LESS than what it would cost if they had it done here).
a resident of Bridle Creek
on Feb 17, 2009 at 9:26 am
I agree with those opposed to a nationalize health system, like the one Obama (and Hillary) will likely push thru.
First, I do not agree with the premise that there is a "crisis" . Well, let me amend that statement. The only crisis is that we allow illegals and other uninsured. Health care should be a commodity like everything else we purchase. Why is it a right?
If you believe there is a health care crisis, I can fix it in four simple words.
(In other words, get the government out of the way and let the consumer decide. This will bring down the cost of medical care substantially.)
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 17, 2009 at 9:53 am
No crisis?!
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"Richard Murakami never thought he'd have to make a $400,000 deposit for his infant daughter's liver transplant — not when his family had full insurance coverage with Regence BlueShield....
"It's amoral — it's just how the market developed," Corry said. "But when it is imposed on individuals, it is disastrous."
What if "they transplanted me before you because you were $500,000 short of cash?" Scanlon asked."
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 17, 2009 at 9:57 am
P.S. I can play the anecdote game too... There's lots of stories out there about people dying due to lack of access to health care or cases where the insured have problems. What's more emotionally effective? Someone considered too hold for hip surgery or the tragedy to children when private health insurance companies control their access to quality health care?
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 17, 2009 at 10:11 am
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"the annual cost of military healthcare has more than doubled from $19 billion to $39 billion since 2001, according to Defense Department data. That number is expected to climb to $64 billion by 2015, Pentagon officials estimate, consuming roughly 12 percent of the defense budget.
"Without relief, spending for healthcare will . . . divert critical funds needed for war fighters, their readiness, and for critical equipment," Dr. William Winkenwerder , assistant defense secretary for health affairs, recently told Congress. "Healthcare costs will continue to consume a growing slice of the department's budget."
The biggest increases are from the same basic-care expenses that have weakened General Motors and other corporations that have agreed to cover large numbers of retirees. And the Pentagon's plan is far more generous than most."
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"Employers, on average, have seen their health insurance premiums increase nearly 120 percent since 1999. ... the number of Americans without health coverage has been climbing with nearly 8 million people losing their coverage between 2000 and 2007."
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"What people may not realize is that health costs are crimping their cash flow in two ways. First, employers are trying to trim health insurance costs by raising deductibles and out-of-pocket payments. This has been going on for several years, and it will continue.
Second, rising health insurance premiums -- in spite of costs shifted to employees -- are reducing wage growth. Businesses can pay people in benefits or in cash. If benefit costs are rising rapidly, then cash wages will be squeezed."
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 17, 2009 at 10:21 am
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"the dramatic increases in health care spending and the share of GDP devoted to health care have raised concerns about the negative impact of health care cost inflation on the U.S. economy. In an era of global economic markets, these concerns are reinforced by the status of the U.S. as a spending outlier among competing nations. The major concern is that rapid increases in health care spending can affect major economic indicators such per capita GDP, employment and inflation. The effects are likely to occur across all sectors of the economy – governments, businesses and households – as all these interrelated sectors play an important role in the provision, financing and consumption of health care in the US.
Similarly, US companies faced with rapidly growing health care costs might reduce employment and investments in the US economy. Rising health care costs could also fuel inflation in the U.S. and make U.S. goods and services less competitive in international markets over time, because increasing health care costs might eventually be reflected in higher product prices. Since most other nations do not have employer-sponsored health insurance, companies in those nations may be better able to keep prices low.[2] Finally, high health care costs could reduce access to health care, bankrupt consumers and deplete retirement savings."
Regardless of what opinion one may have on possible solutions, I hope that those who agree with Peg and question if there is a health care crisis have a different outlook now.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 17, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Who will pay the bill for the octuplets born in Southern California? Who paid for the births of her other six children? Who is paying now for their care? It's certainly not the mother, father or doctor. It's the taxpayers because she's on welfare, and that's the reason she had to other kids so she could receive more money.
It's not military healthcare that's causing this problem. It's not totally greed on the part of the corporations and doctors, although that's a part of it. The welfare system is a mess, a huge hole that we keep throwing money into. And I would bet that stimulus package Obama just signed will throw more money at the problem --- not in a productive way like getting people to work (even if they don't WANT to go to work). Therein lies the problem - we're paying people to be lazy!
a resident of Birdland
on Feb 17, 2009 at 1:14 pm
"...we're paying people to be lazy!"
That is why we voted for Obama! Its about hope and change to better the lives of the average American, equal footing for those who choose to work or not. Rich folks need to open their wallets and "share the wealth". Hope is alive today!
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 17, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Linda, if you're going to make a claim that our health care costs are related to welfare, at least provide some references to back up your claim.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 17, 2009 at 2:58 pm
This is a report from June 2006, when the economy was "good."
"In 2004, Medicaid spending totaled $309 billion. The program now consumes a larger share of state budgets than elementary and secondary education."
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Analysis: Medicaid's Huge Hidden Costs
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Written By: Michael F. Cannon
Published In: Budget & Tax News > June 2006
Publication date: 06/01/2006
Publisher: The Heartland Institute
In the 40 years since it was created to provide medical care to the needy, Medicaid has expanded far beyond that original mission. In 2004, Medicaid spending totaled $309 billion. The program now consumes a larger share of state budgets than elementary and secondary education.
'Crowds Out' Private Coverage
Supporters often claim Medicaid "picks up the slack" when the number of Americans with private health coverage declines. In reality, Medicaid crowds out private coverage.
As states expand their Medicaid programs to cover more benefits for more people, employers of low-income workers often drop the coverage they previously offered. In addition, many low-income workers decline coverage offered through their workplace and opt for Medicaid instead, which is virtually free to them at the point of service.
More than a dozen studies show Medicaid eligibility expansions reduce the number of low-income Americans with private coverage. In some cases, increases in Medicaid enrollment are completely offset by the reductions in private coverage.
Encourages Dependence
A corollary to the crowding out is dependence: Allowing 50 million Americans to consume health care as if it were free encourages many to avoid productive behaviors that might get them off the Medicaid rolls, like working or saving more in order to purchase private coverage.
Aaron Yelowitz of the University of Kentucky and Jonathan Gruber of MIT found non-elderly Medicaid-eligible households increased their economic consumption to stay eligible for benefits by reducing their personal wealth. In 1993, Medicaid eligibility was associated with reduced wealth accumulation equal to $1,600 to $2,000 in today's dollars.
Another study, by Jeffrey Brown of the University of Illinois and Amy Finkelstein of the National Bureau of Economic Research, found Medicaid--which finances a large proportion of long-term care for the elderly and disabled--discourages between 66 and 90 percent of seniors from purchasing insurance for long-term care needs.
Spurs Higher Spending
Furthermore, Medicaid's joint federal-state financing mechanism gives states an incentive to spend as much as they can on the program. Each dollar a state spends on Medicaid is matched by an average of $1.30 from Washington. Thus, $1 of a state's budget spent on Medicaid yields $2.30 (or more) in total benefits, which encourages states to expand their Medicaid programs beyond what is truly necessary to help the poor.
The Urban Institute found close to one-fifth of Medicaid-eligible adults and children have private coverage--strong evidence Medicaid has grown far beyond its original purpose.
Hikes Private Costs
Finally, Medicaid increases the cost of health care for those with private coverage. States set below-market reimbursement rates for providers, who then make up the difference by charging private payers more. This, in turn, leads to higher premiums for those with private coverage.
This cost-shifting affects prescription drug spending, too. Mark Duggan of the University of Maryland and Fiona Scott Morton of Yale University found Medicaid increases the price of non-Medicaid prescriptions by 13.3 percent.
As an open-ended entitlement program that is obligated to reimburse all services for which beneficiaries are eligible, Medicaid must rely on cost-shifting rather than cost-containment strategies. Most of the reform proposals being floated on the state and federal levels--reducing reimbursements, capping utilization, increasing co-payments--merely tinker around the edges of this massive program.
Real Medicaid reform would mimic 1996's successful welfare reform law. Congress should let states set their own rules for eligibility and benefits; freeze federal payments at the 2006 amount and block-grant them to the states instead of matching all state spending dollar-for-dollar; and give states the flexibility to use federal Medicaid funds for a few broad goals, such as targeting assistance to the truly needy, reducing dependency, reducing crowd-out of charitable care, and promoting competitive markets for private coverage.
a resident of Livermore
on Feb 17, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Hi Mary, why not just wait until the pain is excruciating so that everybody can post on this blog and tell you that you're in their prayers?
If you're so committed to the defense of this country, why not just move to Iraq and help out with the war effort? That way, you could get your hip fixed for free at a VA hospital if you return!
As for Chavez, the world better get ready for what's coming. My advice to the Jews is to get out now and don't waste a second. Mary, maybe you and Lindi can sound the alarm. You're about the closest thing to Henny Penny in decades!!!
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 17, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Medicaid spending has increased due to the same increases in health care costs that are whittling away at employer-based health insurance and real wage increases.
The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It
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"There's now a large body of evidence on what works and what doesn't work in health care, and it's not hard to see how to make dramatic improvements in US practice. As we'll see, the evidence clearly shows that the key problem with the US health care system is its fragmentation. A history of failed attempts to introduce universal health insurance has left us with a system in which the government pays directly or indirectly for more than half of the nation's health care, but the actual delivery both of insurance and of care is undertaken by a crazy quilt of private insurers, for-profit hospitals, and other players who add cost without adding value.
We've found new ways to help people, and are spending more to take advantage of the opportunity. Why not view rising medical spending, like rising spending on, say, home entertainment systems, simply as a rational response to expanded choice? We would suggest two answers.
The first is that the US health care system is extremely inefficient, and this inefficiency becomes more costly as the health care sector becomes a larger fraction of the economy.
What makes it literally fatal to thousands of Americans each year is that the inefficiency of our health care system exacerbates a second problem: our health care system often makes irrational choices, and rising costs exacerbate those irrationalities. Specifically, American health care tends to divide the population into insiders and outsiders. Insiders, who have good insurance, receive everything modern medicine can provide, no matter how expensive. Outsiders, who have poor insurance or none at all, receive very little. To take just one example, one study found that among Americans diagnosed with colorectal cancer, those without insurance were 70 percent more likely than those with insurance to die over the next three years.
So the only way modern medical care can be made available to anyone other than the very rich is through health insurance. Yet it's very difficult for the private sector to provide such insurance, because health insurance suffers from a particularly acute case of a well-known economic problem known as _adverse selection_.
Insurance companies deal with these problems, to some extent, by carefully screening applicants to identify those with a high risk of needing expensive treatment, and either rejecting such applicants or charging them higher premiums. But such screening is itself expensive. Furthermore, it tends to screen out exactly those who most need insurance.
Employer-based insurance has historically offered a partial solution to the problem of _adverse selection_. Rising health costs have also ended the ability of employer-based insurance plans to avoid the problem of _adverse selection_. ... employers are starting to make hiring decisions based on likely health costs. For example, an internal Wal-Mart memo, reported by The New York Times in October, suggested adding tasks requiring physical exertion to jobs that don't really require it as a way to screen out individuals with potential health risks.
Providing health insurance looked like a good way for employers to reward their employees when it was a small part of the pay package. Today, however, the annual cost of coverage for a family of four is estimated by the Kaiser Family Foundation at more than $10,000. One way to look at it is to say that that's roughly what a worker earning minimum wage and working full time earns in a year. It's more than half the annual earnings of the average Wal-Mart employee.
Health care costs at current levels override the incentives that have historically supported employer-based health insurance. Now that health costs loom so large, companies that provide generous benefits are in effect paying some of their workers much more than the going wage—or, more to the point, more than competitors pay similar workers. Inevitably, this creates pressure to reduce or eliminate health benefits. And companies that can't cut benefits enough to stay competitive—such as GM—find their very existence at risk.
Fortunately, some of the adverse consequences of the decline in employer-based coverage have been muted by a crucial government program, Medicaid. But Medicaid is facing its own pressures.
Medicaid has grown rapidly in recent years because it has been picking up the slack from the unraveling system of employer-based insurance. Between 2000 and 2004 the number of Americans covered by Medicaid rose by a remarkable eight million. Over the same period the ranks of the uninsured rose by six million. So without the growth of Medicaid, the uninsured population would have exploded, and we'd be facing a severe crisis in medical care.
The result is that, like employer-based health insurance, Medicaid faces a possible unraveling in the face of rising health costs.
We spend far more on health care than other advanced countries—almost twice as much per capita as France, almost two and a half times as much as Britain. Yet we do considerably worse even than the British on basic measures of health performance, such as life expectancy and infant mortality.
One might argue that the US health care system actually provides better care than foreign systems, but that the effects of this superior care are more than offset by unhealthy US lifestyles.
the main source of high US costs is probably the unique degree to which the US system relies on private rather than public health insurance, reflected in the uniquely high US share of private spending in total health care expenditure.
all of that evidence indicates that public insurance of the kind available in several European countries and others such as Taiwan achieves equal or better results at much lower cost. This conclusion applies to comparisons within the United States as well as across countries. For example, a study conducted by researchers at the Urban Institute found that
per capita spending for an adult Medicaid beneficiary in poor health would rise from $9,615 to $14,785 if the person were insured privately and received services consistent with private utilization levels and private provider payment rates.[4]
The cost advantage of public health insurance appears to arise from two main sources. The first is lower administrative costs. Private insurers spend large sums fighting _adverse selection_, trying to identify and screen out high-cost customers. Systems such as Medicare, which covers every American sixty-five or older, or the Canadian single-payer system, which covers everyone, avoid these costs. In 2003 Medicare spent less than 2 percent of its resources on administration, while private insurance companies spent more than 13 percent.
The second source of savings in a system of public health insurance is the ability to bargain with suppliers, especially drug companies, for lower prices. Residents of the United States notoriously pay much higher prices for prescription drugs than residents of other advanced countries, including Canada. What is less known is that both Medicaid and, to an even greater extent, the Veterans' Administration, get discounts similar to or greater than those received by the Canadian health system.
We're talking about large cost savings. Indeed, the available evidence suggests that if the United States were to replace its current complex mix of health insurance systems with standardized, universal coverage, the savings would be so large that we could cover all those currently uninsured, yet end up spending less overall. That's what happened in Taiwan, which adopted a single-payer system in 1995: the percentage of the population with health insurance soared from 57 percent to 97 percent, yet health care costs actually grew more slowly than one would have predicted from trends before the change in system."
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Feb 18, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Stacey's extensive posts above obviously exceed the ability of many readers to respond in kind.
But I find the mention of Fox news interesting. They are an example of radical right wing republican (rrr) propagandists using publicly owned airways to channel only their ideology while censoring the access of those who oppose.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Feb 18, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Whoops! Wrong thread! Somehow my browser is retaining stuff from other thread postings.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 23, 2009 at 7:34 pm
The next time you go to the DMV or the Post Office, think about how much you would like nationalized health care :(
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 23, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Please don't confuse a single-payer system with government-run medical providers, which is not the proposal.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 23, 2009 at 10:44 pm
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"Republican politicians have claimed that the stimulus bill requires that doctors follow government orders on what medical treatments can and can't be prescribed. But the bill doesn't say that.
* Rep. Tom Price of Georgia says the measure creates "a national health care rationing board." Not true. What it creates is a council to coordinate research into which treatments work best, and are most effective for the money. And in fact, the new law states quite specifically that the council has no power to "mandate coverage" and that its recommendations are not to be construed as "clinical guidelines for ... treatment."
* Betsy McCaughey, a Republican former lieutenant governor of New York, claims that the bill creates a "new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology." Not true. The office was created in 2004 by President Bush. McCaughey also says the office "will monitor treatments" and " 'guide' your doctor's decisions." But that's nothing new. Bush's initiative called for creating a health IT system to transmit information to "guide medical decisions."
Critics of comparative effectiveness research, which the government has been funding for decades, claim that it will lead to treatment being approved or denied based on costs. Proponents say it will improve the quality of care and can, in some cases, show that more costly treatments aren't as effective as less expensive alternatives.
We can't predict what will happen in the future, but we can say that several claims being made about the impact of the bill are simply opinions being passed off as facts."
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This is a discussion on At what point would you feel justified jumping in? within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Assuming you are in a public place (store, restaurant, theater or such) and a BG walks in. . . You are armed. (concealed) At what ...
BG claims he has a gun, but gun is not visible - Demands money
BG claims he has a gun, but gun is not visible BUT BG is acting wild/irrational - Demands money
BG displays a gun - Demands money
BG displays gun and is acting wild/irrational - Demands money
BG is herding people to a back room or lining up everyone on their knees
BG pointing gun at individual(s) and threating imminent death
BG discharges firearm, but not at a person
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Assuming you are in a public place (store, restaurant, theater or such) and a BG walks in. . .
You are armed. (concealed)
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Not saying that I would jump in at this point personally. However if I was on the jury of a person who did I would have to say that they were justified.BG claims he has a gun, but gun is not visible - Demands money
BG displays gun AT ME, and I shoot him.
IF BG displays to others, I watch and wait, if BG herds people then I shoot.
English is my second language, I have been told my use of it is harsh, apologies if this is the matter.
You know what stops a bad guy with a gun? A good guy with a gun
Not sure when I would act without being there and seeing what my feel for the situation was. However, I can say that I would NEVER turn my back on the guy, and I would NEVER, EVER get down on my knees with my back to the guy - whether I was armed, or not.
I voted before I fully read the question
In the event that it was in a public place and the BGs attention was not on ME, I'd say somewheres around #4. If it were a dark parking lot situation and it were just me and him, I'd take his word for it at #1 and he'd meet the LCP right then and there.
The moment I feel my life is in imminent danger. There are so many variables we could identify and second guess... behavior, tone of voice, reaction/action. Based on the survey I would fall somewhere between 1 and 8.
Welcome to my home, that door you just kicked in, was locked for your protection, not mine.
I voted #5 but my "real" answer is always "it depends". The way the question and options are worded, it sounds as if there are lots of people around.
If I'm trapped (e.g., BG is between me and the only exit) - it depends. If he's not looking in my direction, and his behavior shows he just wants money and really isn't eager to use the gun except to instill fear (1,2,3,4,6,7)... I'll probably slowly get my gun, but hope he leaves with no violence.
If BG starts staging people for execution (5), or actually shoots someone (8), it's game on. I'm moving to exit WHILE shooting at BG, if I have a clear shot (if not, I'm just dodging and running as fast as I can, in hopes that his luck and skill in hitting a moving target with a handgun isn't any better than mine).
This is a very personal question; we all have our own threshold and IMO there is no 'right' or 'wrong' answer. Just a question of what you can live with - if you live.
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I would say that at #3 and up I would feel justified in using lethal force. All of these things depend on the situation and my read on things in the moment. There is no real answer that can be absolute when you are in front of a keyboard.
#3 without issue.
Fact is, if they pull it out, they can point and shoot at any moment, and you'll have NO chance to react at that point, especially if they shoot you. It's as close to pre-emptive self-defense as you can get.
#4 BG starts acting like he is going to go off, 8'm getting involved.
BG says "I've got a gun" I'm going to reply "I've got one too"
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The NAACP sees the alleged assault as a possible racial incident. The man named as the victim, Renardo Williams, 35, serving 15 years for drug trafficking, is African American.
The case highlights "the perceived patterns and practices of institutionalized racism at the Maine State Prison," Rachel Talbot Ross, president of the Portland branch of the national civil-rights organization, emailed the Phoenix. "The NAACP and Maine Department of Corrections have agreed to work collaboratively to address this and other related issues in a timely manner."
She added that incidents of racism "are definitely real and known," but have not yet been proven. The Corrections department said it had "no comment" on the Cutler case except to say it had agreed "to work collaboratively with the NAACP on issues."
On February 20, Geoffrey Rushlau, Knox County's district attorney, charged Cutler with knocking the legs out from under an unthreatening Williams on Christmas Eve while he was handcuffed — because Williams disobeyed his order to sit down. Out on bail and his employment "ended," in the department's phrasing, Cutler has an appearance scheduled for April 8 in Rockland's district court.
The 2005 assault case was dismissed, and, according to Rushlau, it's the only other assault charge brought against a Warren prison correctional officer he can recall in the 20 years he has served as DA. The prison lies within his jurisdiction.
When prisoners are charged with assaulting a guard — not a rare occurrence — the law requires a felony charge, potentially bringing a prison sentence of up to five years, but Cutler was charged only with misdemeanor assault, punishable by up to a year in jail.
The affidavit supporting Cutler's arrest, made out by Corrections Department investigator Joseph Fagone, supports Williams's description of the incident, first made public by the Phoenix (see "Why the Prison Warden Got Fired," by Lance Tapley, January 25). The affidavit depicts Cutler's action as arbitrary and unnecessary.
Cutler's arrest took place in an atmosphere of great change at the prison, as Commissioner Joseph Ponte continues his two-year-old reform program. In January he fired Warden Patricia Barnhart and appointed reform-minded Rodney Bouffard, head of the Long Creek juvenile detention center, in South Portland, as acting warden.
The Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition and other prisoner advocates see some guards at the prison as trying to sabotage Ponte's reforms. Cutler had long been criticized by MPAC for his allegedly callous ways with inmates. "He's not alone," MPAC's Judy Garvey told the Phoenix.
Ponte has admitted that change has been difficult for prison staff. The principal union representing guards, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, has criticized him for firing Barnhart and for reducing overtime available to guards.
All over the country, AFSCME has resisted prison reforms if they appeared to jeopardize guard jobs or the ability of guards to treat inmates as they wish. As a national movement to reduce solitary confinement gathers force — with Ponte and Maine in the lead — unions have opposed it.
For more on union opposition to humanitarian reform, see "Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash with Prison Reform," by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, February 21, at solitarywatch.com.
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Dawn breaks over the broad blue expanse of Talbot Bay on the north west Kimberley coast as our aluminium dingy makes an exhilarating, white-knuckle, full-power run at a narrow gap in the cliffs.
I rip off my floppy sunhat and place it on the seat before the surge of air can carry it away. Foaming sea water pours through the 20m-wide opening ahead from a huge basin beyond. Russet-toned outcrops of weathered sandstone bathed in first light soar 250m above the boat as we nose into the current.
Gripping the handrail, I bounce on the seat several times, take a deep breath and, suddenly, we're through.
Wallowing in the calm of the basin, we high five and holler a "yee-ha" or two. We have conquered the famous Horizontal Waterfall of the Kimberley's Buccaneer Archipelago. When I reach for my hat I find it has disappeared. It's my offering to the tidal flows and rapids of Talbot Bay.
During spring high tides a million litres a second flows through the outer gap. The tidal variation can reach 11m here, the second largest in the world after Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy. The big tides are matched by formidable landscapes - spectacular red-rock gorges and amphitheatres cradle emerald freshwater pools and gushing waterfalls.
I'm cruising aboard a 26m-long catamaran called the MV Great Escape. The vessel is custom-made for coastal cruising with a maximum of 14 guests. This means the air-conditioned en suite cabins, lounge, formal dining room, alfresco dining area, spa and rooftop helicopter offer five-star luxury afloat.
My four-day cruise is known as the Quintessential Kimberley Coast Escape, involving a flight from Broome to the remote Buccaneer Archipelago, exploring Doubtful and Talbot Bays on the vessel and its three tenders and helicopter and a flight back to Broome.
Captain Chris "Trippy" Tucker is a 26-year-veteran of cruising in these waters. He has the happy knack of choosing a competent crew and trusting them to carry out their delegated duties. Outdoor activities and liquid refreshments, snacks and gourmet meals, seem to materialise at timely intervals as if the whole Great Escape itinerary is being choreographed by some unseen hand. I suspect that the hand belongs to the capable Trippy.
Trippy grew up in Africa on tea plantations and moved to Geraldton in Western Australia with his family as a teenager. Training as a shipwright, he went on to dabble in crayfishing, barramundi fishing, pearl diving and crocodile farming. He then secured a captain's post on a Kimberley charter boat.
In 2001 he felt the time was right to launch his own operation and it has thrived. He loves the Kimberley coast. "The place is becoming more accessible but still remains raw and rugged - last frontier territory," he says. "The landscape sells itself and people often come back, bringing their friends."
Over countless millennia nature has created many wondrous landscapes in the Kimberley region but one stands out - Australia's largest and least-known inshore reef system, Montgomery Reef. When I first sight this phenomenon, I can't believe what is happening as the tide recedes and exposes the reef.
I watch a black monolith rising from the depths, spilling millions of litres of water from its flanks. The flat-topped reef measures 60km by 50km and reduces to one tenth of this area at high tide as a cluster of tiny islands, so woe betide any boatie that lingers on the ebb tide.
As the tide races off the reef water races around the perimeter creating rivers of foaming sea, carrying nutrients that attract hawksbill turtles, who feed on the sea grass. Deckhand Brent is challenged to dive off the tender and grab a turtle for us to admire. This is achieved with grace and dexterity while fully clothed. Brent is a Kiwi with an adventurous spirit so he was unfazed by this act of daring.
Crewman Callum, who's working on his master's ticket, becomes noticeably animated when a fishing excursion is planned. He guides us to "spot X" in a tender and we troll for fish beside mangrove-fringed islets. We hook up on black bream, snapper, queen fish and trevally, but soon learn there are very determined predators lurking beneath us that feel they have proprietary rights over the water and its denizens.
As we haul in a silver giant trevally, it flashes in the bright sunlight, which is all the inducement a tiger shark needs to follow it and cleanly snap off its tail section.
Later, a 3m saltwater crocodile approaches the boat, regarding us with a malevolent yellow eye. We frantically reel in a good-sized trevally as the croc is menacing it. You would think a hefty whack on the head with a paddle would deter any right-thinking saurian with 200 million years of evolution. Not this fellow. He quickly chomps the fish in half and then slides silently beneath the waves with a contented grin on his face.
Spring is in the air and we see the emergence of new life all around us. An osprey is nurturing its chick, humpback whales and their calves breach and blow on the horizon. Baby turtles and clusters of fish are drawn to the channels around Montgomery Reef. The coral polyps exposed to sunlight on the draining reef plateau suffer no adverse effects. The clever little mites secrete a mucous that acts as a sunblock rated at SPF45 by scientists.
Our cruise is at once absorbing, inspiring and often challenging. I met my personal Waterloo at Ruby Falls on Crocodile Creek. Trippy named this gentle cascade back in 1985. Our group climbed the jagged face of the falls and frolicked in the upper pool.
When it was time to descend, a few diehards couldn't resist the adrenalin rush of a 7m plunge off the cliff into the lower pool. The psychology of group dynamics is not too subtle in these situations, so I steeled myself to make the leap of faith. I have done a skydive and two bungy jumps but have the habit of closing my eyes when falling through space. True to form, I leap with arms outstretched and eyes shut, so don't realise I'm in a seated position, hitting the water solidly on my bottom.
Evenings on the Great Escape are delightful. The boat rests as steady as a rock on her mooring. The air is still and warm, the sun paints the rugged Kimberley escarpments a deep red and slides quickly beneath the western horizon, laying out a golden pathway across the Indian Ocean. The landscape conveys the feeling of absolute isolation, as if we're the first people to venture here.
The relaxed atmosphere and camaraderie we enjoy in the outside dining area is an outstanding feature of the cruise. Nothing is too much trouble for the crew. Chef Mitch, aka "Fridge", assisted by stewardess Emma, surprises us with a variety of meals, from smoked salmon to honey chicken and eye fillet steak with saffron mash.
The ultimate escape on our cruise is a birthday celebration on the last night. Two couples ask Jimmy, the helicopter pilot, to fly them to a promontory high up on the vivid red escarpment to mark the occasion with a bottle of champagne while watching the sunset.
The name The Great Escape says it all - the sublime grandeur of the red rock escarpments, the onboard comfort, exciting activities, great weather, laughter and friendship.
Living in this entirely new world of sights and experiences is very seductive.
Paul Rush travelled to the Kimberley courtesy of Tourism Western Australia, Air New Zealand, Sky West and The Great Escape.


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The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance is looking for the new face of farming and ranching. Two dairy producers are amongst the finalists.
by Lucas Sjostrom, Hoard's Dairyman Associate Editor
Deciding who agriculture's spokespersons should be is not a debate. Now, it's a vote.
The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) is now holding an election to determine who should be the future faces of farming and ranching. Nine finalists are vying for your vote, to be one of the final three or four "Faces of Farming and Ranching." The voting will only contribute to the final score, but the real positive here is that consumers get to meet nine outstanding farmers and ranchers through the voting process.
USFRA is a coalition of numerous commodity groups (including the National Milk Producers Federation) to provide a unified public image to the consumer public. The Faces of Farming and Ranching campaign is just one of their many projects (look for an editorial featuring USFRA research in our December issue).
Two dairy producers make the cut
Amongst the nine finalists are two dairy producers. I've talked to both of them at their farms in the last year. Without knowing much about the other entrants, I know these two are worthy of your vote.
Daphne Holterman farms just north of our Hoard's Dairyman offices outside nearby Watertown, Wis. Daphne and her husband, Lloyd, raise 800 cows and all the crops that go with it. Daphne is active in local groups and often invites groups to their farm for tours.
Will Gilmer is the other dairy producer finalist. He farms with his father at Sulligent, Ala., on 600 acres milking 200 cows. Will's also very active in his community, but is well-known for his online promotion through Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a blog. You can read all about Will in our October 10, 2012, issue, on page 642.
Vote today at www.fooddialogues.com. You can also learn more about the Food Dialogues event in New York City last week, the partnership they have with Anderson Cooper's show and join their Farmer and Rancher Mobilization Team (F.A.R.M. Team).
USFRA is doing a great job putting our best face forward. Have you joined the conversation? You can (at www.fooddialogues.com).
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text: I'm new to beekeeping (hence my name ) and have a question: There's a beekeeper in a neighboring county who has probably 25 - 30 Langstroth hives and has swarms every Spring. He has offered to sell a complete hive, bees and all, but I'm thinking more along the lines of wanting TBHs and I can probably just buy a swarm from him. He usually collects his swarms by just shaking them into a five gallon bucket. Can I just get the bucket (of course with holes in the lid for them to breathe) and move them into MY TBH? Would I just remove the bars and shake all of them into the hive? Would i need to start a line of purchased beeswax on the top bar strips to get them on their way? Will they just take up house in that hive or is there a chance that all of them will just leave? If I do get them in their hive this year, will I collect any honey this year, or will it be next year before I harvest any honey? Please help! I feel like I may be in over my head LOL!!


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GPU Texture Snapshot
Peer Reviewed by Servant of the Lord, Hodgman, Dave Hunt
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I have always found the task of viewing GPU generated textures to be complicated and unnecessary. What if I could just display the texture on the screen? Just like printf does with text!
Any programming language has the equivalent of C/C++ printf. For instance, every "Hello World!" program uses a print function to output text to a console, file or web page… I thought about what it would take to have a similar API that works for images, the same way printf works for text. The API would have to be:
- Easy to use like printf.
- Immediate. You should see your images (somewhere) as soon as the print function is called.
- Unobtrusive. It should not alter a program's flow or dramatically affect its performance.
- It should rely on technology that is native to any system.
Designing Printf For Images
What if you could tell a program to export raw image data at a moment of your choosing? This would be an improvement over the way C/C++ printf works. An image would be exported out of a program when the developer chooses to while the rest of the time the program would simply run unaffected.
The solution I designed, has three parts.
- Just like C/C++ printf has a command line terminal as default output, I needed an outlet for images and I think Pico Pixel desktop application would be perfect for it. Pico Pixel is an image viewer we created. It is fast, simple, supports many pixel formats (DXT, BCn, ETC2…) and file formats such as OpenEXR, HDR, KTX and more.
- A C/C++ API. Developers call functions of the API to export images out of programs. The API is written in simple C/C++ that any compiler can handle.
- A communication system between a program and Pico Pixel. Network sockets are good for the job. Sockets libraries are everywhere. They work across hardware platforms and OSes. They are very well documented.
SDK Integration
As I said before, calling printf in C/C++ always outputs text in the console and this is not desirable for images. To prevent images from being sent everytime code execution goes over a call to PixelPrintf, we need something called a marker.
Markers are objects used by PixelPrintf to decide whether to send image data to Pico Pixel or not. Every marker has an associated counter of integer values. While a marker's counter value is greater than 0, any call to PixelPrintf with the marker will be carried through. Each time a marker is used, its counter value is decremented by one.
When a marker's counter value reaches zero, the marker can no longer be used to send image data to Pico Pixel. Its counter value has to be reloaded before it can be used again. Pico Pixel provides a user interface to reload counters. As a result, Pico Pixel acts as the trigger for image snapshot in a program.
Here is what the code looks like.
PicoPixelClient pico_pixel_client("GlxGears"); pico_pixel_client.StartConnection(); // the last parameter '0' means the marker use_count is 0. int marker = pico_pixel_client.CreateMarker(std::string("Color Buffer"), 0); int marker = pico_pixel_client.CreateMarker(std::string("Depth Buffer"), 0); // Send the defined markers to PicoPixel desktop application pico_pixel_client.SendMarkersToPicoPixel(); // Image data is sent if and only if the marker's use_count is greated than 0. // A marker's use_count is decremented each time the marker is used. pico_pixel_client.PixelPrintf( marker, // data marker "color-framebuffer", // image name to appear in Pico Pixel desktop application PicoPixelClient::PIXEL_FORMAT_BGR8, // image pixel data format 400, // image width 300, // image height 1200, // image row pitch in bytes FALSE, // set to TRUE if the data is in srgb FALSE, // set to TRUE to rotate the image horizontally when displayed raw_data // char* pointer to the image raw data );
By instrumenting a program with the code above, Pico Pixel interface mirrors the markers that have been defined.
To take a snapshop of a texture buffer, set a value greater than 0 in the marker used to export the surface. When markers in Pico Pixel are synchronized with markers in the program, images are sent whenever code execution goes over the PixelPrintf call that use markers with positive counter's values.
The best feature of Pico Pixel SDK is that you have a lot of control over images and the moment they are exported. When images are not exported, your program is unaffected by the presence of the SDK.
I am very excited about this feature. It makes Pico Pixel useful in a graphics developer's toolset. The idea of sharing images over the network between applications is not a new one. However, for us graphics developers, it opens a lot of possibilities if we take advantage of it easily during development. I believe this is a good feature to have and I hope it will save you time in efforts.


text: ...coming out like the explosive lava from the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii......RIKI-TIKI-RATI :!: :!: :!: Driftwood surfboard rack Son: ...hey dad, what will happen if you put your finger in the chainwheel? RR Dad:...silly boy, they become valve covers...uhhh...pull my finger Son: Eeeewwww thats gross!!! (true story while building) ...and now some random stuff caught by the mystical grip of R-T-R ...yep the other day, a car was magically pulled towards me and almost side swiped me on its maiden voyage . Thanks everybody and goodluck.


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Conservatively Speaking
State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth. Her Senate District 28 includes New Berlin, Franklin, Greendale, Hales Corners, Muskego, Waterford, Big Bend, the town of Vernon and parts of Greenfield, East Troy, and Mukwonago. Senator Lazich has been in the Legislature for more than a decade. She considers herself a tireless crusader for lower taxes, reduced spending and smaller government.
Joint Finance Committee Meet
The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) met Tuesday May 6, 2014, for a quarterly 13.10 meeting. The meeting was about requests from state agencies.
JFC approved a plan to address accumulation of tuition and other funds at the UW system. A year ago, approximately $650 million in tuition and other fees were discovered within the University of Wisconsin. The 2013-2015 state budget required the board of regents to develop a tuition transparency and accountability plan. The plan, as approved by JFC, requires UW institutions to provide an explanation of funds in excess of 12% of annual expenditures.
JFC also approved $27.4 million in transportation funds for maintenance due to harsh winter conditions, funds for regional opiate treatment centers, and funds for comprehensive community services for early mental health treatment statewide implementation.
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A new National Research Council report calls for the development of an early warning system that could help society better anticipate sudden changes resulting from climate change and their impacts on society, says a University of Colorado Boulder faculty member who chaired the committee that produced the report.
Climate change has increased concern over possible large and rapid changes in the physical climate system, including Earth's atmosphere, land surfaces and oceans, said Professor James White of CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and the chair of the National Research Council committee. Some abrupt changes and impacts already underway – including the loss of Arctic sea ice and increases in the extinction rates of marine and terrestrial species – and others could occur within a few decades or even years, said the committee.
"Research has helped us begin to distinguish more imminent threats from those that are less likely to happen this century," said White, also a CU-Boulder professor in geological sciences. "Evaluating climate changes and impacts in terms of their potential magnitude and the likelihood they will occur will help policymakers and communities make informed decisions about how to prepare for or adapt to them."
Other scenarios, such as the destabilization of the west Antarctic ice sheet, have potentially major consequences, but the probability of these changes occurring within the next century is not well understood, highlighting the need for more research, according to the committee.
In some cases, scientific understanding has progressed enough to determine whether certain high-impact climate changes are likely to happen within the next century. The report notes that a shutdown in the Atlantic Ocean circulation patterns or a rapid release of methane from high-latitude permafrost or undersea ice are now known to be unlikely this century, although these potential abrupt changes are still worrisome over longer time horizons.
But even changes in the physical climate system that happen gradually over many decades or centuries can cause abrupt ecological or socio-economic change once a "tipping point" is reached, the report adds. Relatively slow global sea-level rise could directly affect local infrastructure such as roads, airports, pipelines or subway systems if a sea wall or levee is breached. And slight increases in ocean acidity or surface temperatures could cross thresholds beyond which many species cannot survive, leading to rapid and irreversible changes in ecosystems that contribute to extinction events.
Further scientific research and enhanced monitoring of the climate, ecosystems and social systems may be able to provide information that a tipping point is imminent, allowing time for adaptation or possibly mitigation, or that a tipping point has recently occurred, the report says.
"Right now we don't know what many of these thresholds are," White said. "But with better information, we will be able to anticipate some major changes before they occur and help reduce the potential consequences." The report identifies several research needs, such as identifying keystone species whose population decline due to an abrupt change would have cascading effects on ecosystems and ultimately on human provisions such as food supply.
If society hopes to anticipate tipping points in natural and human systems, an early warning system for abrupt changes needs to be developed, the report says. An effective system would need to include careful and vigilant monitoring, taking advantage of existing land and satellite systems and modifying them if necessary, or designing and implementing new systems when feasible. It would also need to be flexible and adaptive, regularly conducting and alternating between data collection, model testing and model predictions that suggest future data needs.
The study was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, U.S. intelligence community, and the National Academies. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies. They are private, independent nonprofit institutions that provide science, technology, and health policy advice under a congressional charter granted to NAS in 1863. The National Research Council is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
For more information and a copy of the report visit http://national-academies.org. For more information on INSTAAR visit http://instaar.colorado.edu.
Jim White, 303-492-7909
Lauren Rugani, National Academy of Sciences media relations, 202-334-2138
Jim Scott, CU-Boulder media relations, 303-492-3114


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What would be the bare basics a guy would need for a 10 hive honey house? I have the building already that would mmet the food grade concern. Now I just need a list of the bare basic equipment, and any suggestions on type.
I know I will need and extractor, a knife, and a bucket with a gate. What else??