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  1. 4 hours ago, Ordinary Shoes said:

    I'd forgotten about him being the head of the Church of England. Yuck, that's even worse. Someone is born into being the head of a religious institution? Is Charles even a believing Christian? Does that matter at all? 

    And then the head of one religious institution is automatically the head of for an entire commonwealth that spans the world? 

    No thank you. 

    I realize that there are many problems with my country but two things we got right were dumping all of this king/queen stuff and separating the church from the state. 

     

    It's not like commonwealth countries are theocracies, though.  Canada has freedom of religion enshrined into the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

    And separation of church and state is true in the US only on paper and in theory.

    In practice, dominant religion (christianity in general) has a much larger influence in state matters and laws in the US than it does in Canada or UK, I think. IME, Canada and UK are much more secular places in daily life than the US.   Religious culture seeping into daily life for everyone seems to be much more of a thing in the States than here. Reproductive rights, trans rights, same-sex marriage laws, god references in pretty much every US presidential speech and political candidate speech, swearing on bibles in court and when taking oaths of office (not complusory, but the is the default and norm and generally expected).  

     

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  2. On 5/6/2023 at 4:54 PM, bookbard said:

    I had a mammogram 2 years ago I think, and there was no changing. You sat in the waiting room, walked into the room with the machine, she told you to take off your top, which you did in front of her until top half naked, and then it all started.

    This has been the same at the skin check place too - you walk in, the Dr is there, I think he might turn around or step out while you strip to your underwear, and then the skin check begins. 

    Only place I've been given a gown was during childbirth as I was labouring naked and was advised maybe to put on a gown to march through the corridors for a while. I hadn't been planning on wandering through the place naked, although who knows by then, I was hallucinating with pain. 

    That would be grounds for a regulatory college complaint here.  

    The regulatory college in my jurisdiction is very clear that patients must be provided with privacy in order to disrobe for sensitive exams (clinician must leave the room or behind a screen), and be provided with appropriate draping or gown.  If the paitent requires assistance that may be provided with consent, but to expect the patient to disrobe in front of the HCP - no no no no no no.

  3. On 5/6/2023 at 3:53 PM, Jean in Newcastle said:

    This is my experience. The waiting room after I have changed into a top gown (tunic length) with my clothes from the waist down still on, is a nonissue. In fact, I think it’s a huge overreaction to make it an issue. 

    Communal for mammograms here too.  The gowns are very nice cloth front cross-over style.  The waiting room is pleasant, with a fake fireplace, real art on the walls,  and, I kid you not, a chandelier.   No TV or radio.  It is a really pleasant environment.  The wait has never been longer than 10 min

    Aside: This is in the same hospital where I work in the ED - with holes in the walls, stains on the ceiling, broken and missing equipment, worn-out furniture, colourful characters and many-hours wait-times.  The gowns are thin; some are near worn-out.  The contrast could not be more stark

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  4. 2 hours ago, happi duck said:

    It seems like tennis?  I don't understand why people just don't play low key tennis 

    It's compact and easier learning curve for beginners.  Can have multiple courts going in one gym.

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  5. It's popular here.   Our city rec centres offer pickleball drop-in almost every day.

    It's easy to learn the basics, it's very inexpensive, equipment is durable, and it has a small physical footprint - you can set up pickle-ball in any inddor gym that has badminton lines on the floor, and can usually fit multiple courts per gymnasium.  It's a great social and accessible indoor sport; especially important factors in cold climates.

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  6. 12 minutes ago, Dicentra said:

    That's what DH was mostly ranting about - if one doesn't know the original starting amounts, then all the other numbers are meaningless. 🙂

    But I think the manufacturer is misunderstanding what dilution means in terms of their "Final Dilution" number if we follow with your calculations.  If I take 30mg of a substance and put it into a 300mg tablet, it's true that the 30mg substance makes up 10% by mass of the tablet but if the person takes the entire tablet, the 30mg of substance isn't being diluted again by being incorporated into the tablet - the person is still getting 30mg of the substance whether they just ingest 30mg of the substance in pure form or whether it's compounded into a larger tablet.  Know what I mean?  So the "Final Dilution" column still doesn't make mathematical/chemical sense to me.  That 30mg of the mercury product or the 75mg of the belladonna product hasn't been diluted further by compounding them into a tablet.  If you compound the 30mg into a 300mg tablet AND then crush the tablet and give the person 30mg of the crushed tablet, that would be another 10-fold dilution.  But taking the whole tablet negates any additional "dilution" factors.  Hope that makes sense!

    Yes!

    But least the numbers make some kind of sense to me now.  

    I still can't get my head around ingesting mercury intentionally as medicine.  

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, Dicentra said:

     

    As a chem teacher, I was ready to do the dilution calculations for you but - the info given makes no sense. 🙂  I googled the amounts and got a pamphlet for a homeopathic(?) remedy for pain relief that comes in tablet, ointment, and injectable form.  I think the amounts you gave are for a 300mg tablet.  This is the chart the pamphlet provided:

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    If I total the mg amounts listed in the middle column, I get just over 300mg so a whole tablet.  I can't tell if the middle column means that there is actually 75mg of Belladonna per 300mg tablet (which doesn't make any sense if it's homeopathic) or if the 75mg of Belladonna was put into solution and diluted 1 in 10 by four times and 75 mg of the resultant solution was added to the tablet or...?  Pharmacist DH looked at it and says it makes no sense from either a Western medicine viewpoint or a homeopathic veiwpoint - classical homeopathy never deals with mg of anything in the final product and Western medicine doesn't deal with "potencies".  It's like the company has tried to weirdly mix Western and homeopathic ideas and come up with... I don't know what.  He says the fact that the chart references both mg and "potencies" is just weird and wrong.  There is no way of knowing what these tablets actually contain.  The oral LD50 of atropine is 75 mg/kg in mice but, like you said, belladonna isn't pure atropine.  I would think that, at best, it's probably not enough of any of the ingredients to harm a person (but you would be more knowledgeable than I would about that part :))

     

    It's called the molar limit. 🙂 It's based on a chemical principle where you consider the number of particles (molecules) in a mole of a substance in 1 liter of solution vs the amount the solution has been diluted.  A mole in chemistry is 6.023 x 10^23 particles.  A 1 M (pronounced one molar) solution is a solution where 1 L of the solution contains 1 mole of particles (1M = 1mol/L).  That would mean that 1L of solution contains 6.023x10^23 particles (so 6.023x10^23 molecules/1 L of solution).  If you dilute that liter of solution by a factor of 1:10 24 times (so 24X or 12C), statistically there would be less than 1 molecule of the original substance in the final liter of solution:

    6.023x10^23 molecules/1x10^24 L of solution = 0.6023 molecules per L

    Since you can't have part of a molecule (and still have it be the same substance as the original substance), this dilution is the limit at which you would still have any chemically "intact" molecules left per liter of solution.  You would either have no molecules left in the liter of solution or, randomly, you might have one or two molecules per liter (balanced out by no molecules in other 1 liter samples).  If you drank a liter of the solution, there would be slightly over a 50/50 chance there would be 1 molecule of the original substance in that liter of solution.  Most homeopathic remedies aim for a much higher dilution rate - statistically, there would be no molecules of the original substance left in the end dilution at dilution rates higher than 24X.  From what I understand, though, the "healing power" comes from the water "remembering" its contact with the original substance and not the presence of the original substance itself.  Because of that, proponents of homeopathy don't seem bothered by the fact that most homeopathic dilutions exceed the molar limit.

    That table is actually helpfu, thank you.  I think I can see the  logic:  30mg of an 8x mercury product, compounded into a 300mg tablet, makes 9x (bc the 8x mercury product makes up 10% of the final tablet by weight, so the tablet represents a further 10-fold dilution).   75 mg of a 4x belladonna product, compounded into a 300tablet, makes 4.6x (belladonna product comprises 25% of the final tablet by weight).  What you don't get to know is how much mercury is in the original 8x product and how much belladonna is int the 4x product in the first place.  Probably not very much.  I hope.     

    Knowing the dilution is only useful if you know what you are starting with!  If starting with pure mercury, the tablet should have 30*10^-9 mg of mercury  per tablet?  30 parts per billion? Maybe?  Not very much, anyway.

     

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  8. Does anyone know if the notation means sequential dilution?  

    You all are close with your guesses re circumstances.  @Spy CarI am not considering this for myself!  

    I often run  into alt-med substances on med-lists at work that I'm not familiar with.  My jaw just about hit the floor when I read the ingredient list this particular one and saw that it contained mercury and atropine, and wondered just how dilute is dilute (and just how poisonous is this stuff).  I'm not sure if the notation means sequential dilution or something else.

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  9. If a product contains: Atropa Belladonna 4X 75 mg 4.6X, and Mercurius solubilis 8X 30 mg 9X per dose, how much atropine and mercury is actually in each dose?

    I know very little about homeopathy, other than that dilutions often result in super-tiny-so-tiny-as-to-be-meaningless amounts of the listed substance actually in the product.   I also know that X means ten-fold dilution

    So 75mg*10^-8.6=2.5*10^-9mg of atropine (or of a plant extract that contains atropine, so even less atropine than that)?

    And 30*10^-17mg of mercury?

    Meaning almost none?  I hope?  

  10. 10 minutes ago, Calizzy said:

    I use the library a lot, but this book is for a book club I am in and we are going to take 4 months to go through this book so I will need it for a long time. 

    I am surprised so many use ereaders. I never even thought of that! I have to say, I just can't do it. I have an aversion to screens and I am terrible at charging things.

    Have you tried an e-reader with e-ink?

    I am also a screen hater, but e-readers feel different.  The screen isn't back-lit (unless you want it to be to read in the dark) and it feels more like real ink to the eyes than most screens do.

    My e-reader also holds it's charge for about 2 weeks, so charging is infrequent.

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  11. I also like a kneeling pad.  Any square of foam that you already may have will work.  Pads meant for gardening are great.  I've also been known to use my crocs as knee pads: kneel on the toes of my crocs (after taking them off my feet first!)

    I wouldn't underestimate the potential difficulty of a 10-mile trip for a novice canoeist, especially in spring conditions.  10 miles down river on a gentle current with the wind at your back is a piece of cake.  10 miles up-river, or up-wind, or both, or on big water with wind and waves, or on a brisk river with lots of portages is a different beast altogether.  And 10 miles by map =/= 10 miles as paddled.

    I don't know where OP is and how cold the water will be.  Here, some of the lakes still have some ice in them, or are at least still ice-cold.  Spring canoeing entails real risk.  A full change of dry clothes is essential for safety.

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  12. Quick-dry clothing in layers

    A complete change of clothes in WATERPROOF/immersion-proof container (dry-bag, barrel,  plastic food jar like a Costco-sized peanut butter or mayo jar, or ziplocks).  Soaking wet at 57F, miles from anywhere, can quickly become a medical emergency.

    Shoes that can get wet and are sufficiently flexible to permit kneeling.  Some people like to pack a second pair of lightweight  shoes so they can have dry feet for portages and breaks.   Consider extra wool socks and a plastic bags (to wear over socks) so you can have dry feet in soaking wet shoes - we use this trick with our scouts when they get inevitable soakers in cold weather.

    Hat and sunscreen.  Canoeing is a full-sun activity!

    Well-fitting PFD that you wear at all times while in the boat.  Even if you are an excellent swimmer.

     

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  13. 4 minutes ago, Spy Car said:

    Are those better than tweezers? Just as good. Almost are good?

    The huge upside is that he'd be less likely to lose them on his keyring.

    Bill

    Depends on where the tick is embedded.

    Keys are good for ticks on flat parts of the body.  Useless in crevices.  Also useless for very small ticks.  But are handy because you can always have it with you on your key ring.  ETA - very small ticks don't stay very small for long, they swell impressively as they feed!

    I like very fine tipped tweezers better, but I do carry a tick key, because the best tool is the one you actually have with you.....

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  14. UCCMS is a Canadian national universal code of conduct that most Canadian amateur sports orgs are bound to.   It's a very good example of what behaviours are not acceptable (and would definitely apply to the situation you describe).  USA or your state may have something similar?  It might be helpful to use a source of language/themes/concepts to guide in dealing with your situation.

    OP, I think that your situation merits a response at the team/org level, not just you talking to individual parents.  It sounds as though multiple team members are involved - your DD, the boy, and the few other team members who were laughing along.  At the very least expectations regarding behaviour need to be reviewed with the whole team, at a team level (in addition to individually dealing with all team-mates involved with this incident, including the laugh-alongers))

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  15. Not funny and not OK.  And almost certainly breaks the organization's code of conduct.  

    Find you org's code of conduct and review it.  There are likely lines like "Respect the rights, dignity, and worth of all Individuals" and "Maintain and enhance the dignity and self-esteem of members" and "Treating persons fairly, reasonably, and respectfully" and "a respectful sport culture that delivers quality, inclusive, accessible, welcoming, and safe, sport experiences", etc (pulled from my kid's sport's code of conduct).

    This is, at the very least, harrassment.  And if there is a social power imbalance and pattern of this particular kid being singled out, then also bullying.  It is also gendered harrassment.  I would be all over this, and take it to the board if I didn't get anywhere with the team's coach and parents.

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  16. 9 hours ago, Quill said:

    Yes, but SKL is still right. Ultimately, one still decides for themselves whether they will capitulate to those expectations or not. 
     

     

     

    2 hours ago, SKL said:

    Maybe.  I'm not sure.  As mentioned earlier, I'm an attorney/CPA who has worked in the fancy professional environments.  I wore a suit, but I did not wear make-up or color my hair.  I ended up the highest ranked female in the tax department in that office ever.

    I think make-up can make us look nicer, sure, but not wearing it might make us look more confident, tbh.  Especially if we are unapologetic about it.

    It really does depend on the industry, I think. 

    Your case, my case, and Quill's case it matters less (though the grooming gap remains real collectively, if not necessarily for each individual).  But in hospitality, sales, certain corporate roles (anything that involves significant networking/schmoozing) it is a big issue that has clear documentation and academic literature to support it.

    In my world - for MD's and front line workers, it doesn't matter, but in the hospital corporate comms/ public relations and funding streagetists/stakeholder relations roles, the women are made-up and I don't really think it would be possible for them not to be and also be successful in the role - for women, it's part of the job.   Female drug reps in my experience are  always made-up, and borderline flirting with the male MD's at events; it would seem that it's part of the gig.  I don't think that I have ever met a female pharma rep who wasn't made-up.

     

    Edited for precsion

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  17. 4 hours ago, SKL said:

    You never had to do this.  It was always your choice and always will be.

    I think it depends on the industry, actually.  In hospitality and certain business roles, makeup is an expectation.   There is also the "grooming gap"  - women who are made-up make more money and are more likely to be promoted than women who don't.  There is quite a lot of literature on the topic.

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