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I am keeping my wooden c-rods, wooden 3-d shapes, and pattern blocks, because I personally love them. And they also have play value beyond math lessons. I'm also keeping a regular analog clock in the house, just to be a clock. The rest is gone.
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5 hours ago, Sneezyone said:
DD (5'5") has a manual transmission 2008 Honda Fit Sport. It's zippy and fun to drive. DS is getting a 2007/8? Honda CRV (automatic). We'd prefer him to drive a manual first b/c we feel like it makes better drivers over the long-term but it's what was available (read FREE + maintenance) from a family member (single owner) so we'll take it! Plus, DS (5'9") is going to be much taller and the CRV is a better fit.
I drive a manual transmission 2008 Honda Fit. Love it. I think it would be great for new driver
And, OP, it's fine in winter with snow tires. It drives very nicely on ploughed roads. Handles ice and slush and snow just fine.
It has antilock brakes and all the airbags. The only safety feature that it doesn't have that newer models do is anti-roll-back when starting up a hill. A new driver might appreciate that feature.
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3 hours ago, marbel said:
Blood type: I've had more than one medical professional say they always determine, through their own testing, people's blood type before proceeding with anything, even if the person tells them what it is. I wonder if that is generally true.
I cannot imagine even contemplating transfusing type-specific blood based on a patient's verbal declaration of their blood type. That would be beyond reckless --- patients make mistakes/misremember their own medical history all.the.time.
Emergent, unmatched transfusions are O neg for females of reproductive age or younger, o neg or pos for everyone else.
Urgent and elective transfusions are typed and crossed in the lab before transfusing, every time. Even for recurrent transfusions. Type and cross, every single time.
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4 hours ago, Kidlit said:
This is an interesting conversation, and I have a very sincere question. I have tried to research it a little, and my very minimal research tells me one thing, but I want to put it to the Hive. One of my book clubs is for the BFG, and I am looking at a related craft. Would it be inappropriate cultural appropriation if we make a dreamcatcher and talk about how the Lakota (?) have this belief and practice, using the BFG as a jumping off point? (Kind of as a crafty-aside--not the point of the club at all.).
My research tells me it's okay as long as you don't profit from it or do it disrespectfully.
I am here to learn.
I would tread carefully with this. Literary discussion comparing/contrasting BFG dream catching to a group's cultural/spiritual practice feels fine to me. But turning a spiritual practice into kid's craft/crafty aside does not.
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Infection-induced seroprevalence in Canada was 78% for the general population as of April 2023. The higher the age group, the higher the seroprevalence: 88% for 17-24yo, 68-72% for 60+yo. I expect that USA seroprevelence would be somewhat higher than Canadian
The only seroprevalence tool that I could find for the US shows data only up to Sept 2022. The data tool is harder to read and not as nicely laid out.
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I don't have one, and can't relate any experience with wearing one.
But I can tell you that they are very waterproof!
True Story: A friend lost her applewatch at the bottom of a lake 2 years ago. We went back to the same lake last year (a full year later) with DS's magnet-fishing set and he fished up the watch. It charged up, and still works like nothing ever happened. This is a Canadian lake that freezes over. The watch was on the bottom at least 20 feet deep.
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If you are doubting whether the procedure was done at all: Filshie clips will show up on a simple xray
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The operative report should be in you hospital record. Health records dept should be able to pull it for you.
The standard here for saving medical records for adults is 10 years. It's likely similar where you are. Records from 2015 should still be accessible.
ETA: Never mind. I see that in New York it's only 6 years. Records from 2015 might already have been purged. (Though my hospital keeps electronic records indefinitely, and in 2015 an operative report was likely a dictated note that was stored in an EMR. So it's quite possible the record is still in the hospital system and available for you to request)
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Canada has issued apologies and payouts for several groups that have been historically wronged: Chinese headtax, Japanese internment, Indigenous residential school survivors.
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17 hours ago, SHP said:
There are groups that exist to make fun of this trend. I may or may not be in one.
Prepandemic HGTV was always on in waiting rooms and whenever my husband and I ended up in a waiting room watching it we tended to give commentary that wasn't favorable towards the hosts.
Hospitals love HGTV for waiting rooms! Bland content that's always appropriate for all audiences. Other channels tend to have spicier content, at least occasionally, especially late at night. HGTV is famous for being safe for all audiences 24/7.
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My experience with e-bikes* and e-scooters is not so much that they are inherently dangerous, but rather that they attract disproportionate number of users who can't get a driver's license (often for good reasons, related to past dangerous driving behaviours or other incapacity). At least they don't usually go on highways -- unlike motorcycles, which are also very high on my dangerous things that make my skin crawl list. Right up there with fireworks, and well above backyard trampolines. Motorcycle trauma cases are horrific.
ETA: should have said my experience with e-bike/e-scooter injury cases. I've never personally used either.
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In Ontario they stay. They are designated "ALC" (alternate level of care) and are charged a co-pay - equivalent to the cost of basic LTC (long term care) accommodation fees. Co-pay may be reduced based on financial circumstances.
These patients really aren't dischargeable. We have oodles workers whose only job is facilitating discharge - all alternative options are explored. Patients don't stay a moment longer than necessary. Keeping them in an acute care hospital when there is nowhere else to go really is the only humane and ethical choice, but also has serious consequences, especially for the ED: Hospital overcrowding is a main (IME the main) contributor to ED overcrowding. It is a serious issue.
More than 1/3 of beds at my acute care hospital are occupied by ALC patients. This is similar to other hospitals across the province (and definitely there are GTA hospitals that are even worse off). Which means that admissions from the ED have nowhere to go, and pile up in the ED. Which means new ED patients have nowhere to be assessed and pile up in the hallways and waiting room. It's not unusual to have 100+ patients registered in a 40-something bed ED. We have patients in chairs in every hallway, and stretchers in every conceivable nook and cranny, as well as lining the halls. Admitted patients can be in ED hallway stretchers for days, ie frail pt with dementia with hallway noise, traffic, no privacy, and lights that never go off. Storage closets and waiting rooms and offices and anterooms have been "converted" to patient-care space. The stuff that used to go in the storage spaces now clutters up the halls. Stuff and patient chairs/stretchers line every inch of hallway wall. --- every inch). We have improvised workstations (some of them in hallways, of course!) for nurses to look after the hallway and chair patients. It makes provision of excellent care impossible. It makes work conditions for staff terrible. I'm also convinced that it increases ED violence: Everyone on top of each other, and staff having to pick their way past frustrated/angry patients in the halls in order to do their work, all shift long. Definitely a top cause of burnout.
We really, really, really need more nursing home beds!
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To be fair, there is an evidence base to support the CDC 24h recommendation. It's not just a made-up thing:
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2 hours ago, regentrude said:
There are no brown bears in CA.
Except on the state flag, of course!
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People I know with math bachelor's degrees: actuaries, accountants, IT/computer network, high school teacher, graphic design, university professor. There is lots of overlap with electrical engineering degree friends in terms of IT/computer network type of careers.
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42 minutes ago, KSera said:
Are you able to access the study itself? I was interested to see what data actually exists on crimes that occur in bathrooms or locker rooms, but I can't see where they got it. From the references, I only see tables of general categories of crime by area (murder, rape, robbery, etc). It looks like the purpose of the study was to see if enacting bathroom gender laws changed crime rates, and it didn't, but that still doesn't answer the question we have been discussing of what the risk in those spaces actually is. The abstract suggests they looked at that, but I can't find the reference to see what it was based on.
From the Methods section of the study:
". Localities with GIPANDOs and matched localities received two sets of public records requests from the investigators. In July 2015, a first set of requests under the Massachusetts Public Records Law (M.G.L.A. c. 66, §10, 2016) was sent to target localities. These letters requested, BAll records documenting complaints made to [the local police] agency and records of crimes al- leged or committed or incidents ... that took place in a public bathroom, public restroom, public locker room, or public changing room.^ The request covered a one- to two-year timespan before and after the gender identity inclusive public accommodations nondiscrimination law had gone into effect in the localities that had such an ordinance and the same time period for the localities that were matched localities. In some cases, the local ordinance had been passed less than one or two years prior to the public records request. In those in- stances, records were requested Bthrough the present.^ If matched localities were matched to more than one GIPANDO locality, the matched locality records request would cover the matching timespan for both of the GIPANDO localities to which they were matched. The total timespan covered (either two or four years) was selected based on the size and crime rate of the locality; smaller localities or those likely to have fewer incidents were given longer timespans to search, and larger localities or those in which more incidents were likely to occur were given shorter timespans. The investigators requested information on the type of crime/incident alleged, the gender of the victim(s) and the perpetrator(s) (as applicable), the date of the incident, and the address of the public bathroom, restroom, locker room, or changing room in which the alleged incident took place.
After mailing public records requests, follow-up emails and phone calls were placed with all of the records custodians to facilitate the process of data collection. Some larger localities were able to comply with the requests relatively quickly and easily, while others did not have the tools necessary to perform a key word search that would make such a request possible or feasible. Several record clerks noted that the cost to pay for staff time to complete a search by hand would be prohibitively expensive. After assessing the initial completed responses, the investigators noted that the majority of incidents occurring in restrooms were not related to the types of crimes that are the subject of concern related to public accommodations nondis- crimination ordinances. In other words, the fears projected as potential problems related to such ordinances are related to violations of safety and privacy, but most incidents were re- lated to vandalism and drug use in public restrooms and theft in locker rooms.
Given the mismatching scope between the search and the crimes of concern and the challenges for smaller localities to respond to the public records requests, the researchers complet- ed a second round of public records requests with a narrower scope in February 2016. In the second round of requests, the investigators requested, BAll records documenting complaints made to [the local police] agency and records of crimes alleged or committed or incidents ... involving conduct that took place in a public bathroom, public restroom, public locker room, or public changing room^ regarding criminal codes related to: murder, manslaughter and attempts; assault or assault and bat- tery and attempts; theft involving assault or battery and kidnap- ping; rape, stalking, harassment, indecent exposure, public sex and voyeurism; and solicitation. The individual Massachusetts General Law sections were cited in the request. The fullupdated request was sent to all police departments that had not fully responded to the first round of public records requests. For those who had responded, but for whom the timespan was still continuing until Bthe present,^ a modified request was sent for any new records that may have arisen since the first round of requests.
Follow-up phone calls and emails were again used to assist in the facilitation of data collection until all of the localities had either responded with the results of their search or made it clear that they were unable to complete the search. By the end of the second round of data collection, two localities were unable to complete the search at all, and one locality provided an incomplete response. Records were then organized and reviewed to ensure only inclusion of incidents under the narrower scope related to assault, sexual assault, rape, voyeur- ism, public sex (including sex work), lewd behavior, and in- decent exposure."
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2 hours ago, I talk to the trees said:
Agree! And this is why we stopped playing it. It was pretty obvious from the first couple of turns who would win. That person rolled and played gleefully while the others sulked and just went through the motions of playing. (Yeah, we have competitiveness issues in this family.)
We found Wingspan and Everdell to be far more to our liking.
The snake draft mechanic for choosing original settlement spots evens out the disadvatange though. So long as every player understands the probabilities and makes well-informed choices. Also, the social/trading element helps too; players with poorer initial settlements can make trading alliances, or "organized crime" alliances that involve constantly robbing and resource-blocking the "richest" player. Family games of Catan at my house can get intense 🙂
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1 hour ago, TCB said:
Thanks! It’s good to know that it tracks so closely to the Aranet. Also good to see that the alarm can be turned off. I think I have seen this one before but wasn’t sure if turning it off was an option, and difficult to take readings discreetly if not lol. I was also not sure what the calibration entailed but that sounds pretty straightforward.
How long does it take to get a reading in different areas? Is it pretty quick or does it take a longish time?
A couple of minutes.
It would fit nicely in a scrub pocket 🙂
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15 hours ago, TCB said:
I would really like to get a CO2 monitor but the Aranet 4 is just a bit pricey for me. Has anyone found a cheaper one that is fairly accurate?
I keep reading the studies about longer term complications from Covid and I just feel I need to take care for longer until more is understood. I really think being able to monitor CO2 levels wherever I go will help me with decision making.
Grateful for any monitor recommendations!
I have both the Aranet and the Vitalight.
I bought the Vitalight to send with my kid to school --- cheap enough that I won't cry if it gets lost or broken. My husband quite likes it also, and takes it places, like restaurants on the very rare occasion that he eats out with a friend. ( ETA: My dad also has one and likes it. )
The Vitalight is accurate as long as you keep it calibrated. It needs to be outdoor air for at least a few minutes every week in order to maintain its calibration. This is easy: in summer, put it on the porch for a while; in winter, take it for a walk in your pocket (to keep it from freezing). We check the Vitalight against the Aranet periodically. It's usually within +/- 50pm pf the Aranet, so long as it's kept calibrated.
Battery life advertised at 12h, but mine lasts at least 36h.
It's nice and small and unobtrusive. It has a carabiner style clip. DH clips to his man-purse.
The annoying alarm at 1000ppm can be turned off, but you have to remember to do this every time you turn the unit on.
It does not record data, so you have to physically check it in the moment to know what the
PPM CO2 is at any given time (unlike the Aranet, which stores up to 2 weeks of data and graphs it for you on the phone app, and can download into and Excel spreadsheet etc. I love my Aranet). The display is easy to read.I take my Aranet to work periodically. The ventilation in our ED is excellent. PPM never exceeds 600. Even when we are severely overcrowded.
It is useful for making decisons, especially decisions about where to eat or whether to eat at all when one is stuck indoors (like at work, airports, sports tournaments etc). I also use it to calibrate the ventilation in the car when carpooling.
Vitalight review that I found useful when deciding on whether or not to purchase.
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The base game (orange box) is plenty to start with.
Seafarers is a nice expansion that increases the map area without changing the rules too much.
The most important thing: Choose your starting settlements very carefully. Poor starting settlement placement means certain doom!
I usually choose the settlements that will give the most resources. Don't care what they are because I can trade them. So, always adjacent to 3 tiles, never on the edges (to start), and pick the ones with the best dice roll probabilities. The small red dots under the number tiles represent the probability of that number being rolled and getting you resources. So, 6's and 8's are the best, 5's and 9's the next best. Avoid 2, 3, 11 and 12's like the plague. Then opportunistic depending what I get to either expand and build new settlements rapidly or build cities - both create more resources per roll on average.
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Black bean dip, I think. A dip for torilla chips. I remember it was a thing when I was at university in Waterloo the early 90's. Actually bean dip, that is. I learned the expression here years later.
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Thirding (or fourthing?) a Corsi-Rosenthal box. Easy, effective and cheap:
20" box fan. We used an inexpensive Lasko
4 of the highest MERV furnace filters you can find. We used these 16x25" ones from Costco, just have to make a second cardboard shroud to fill the gap between the fan and the box. 20x20" filters fit more neatly, but here they are harder to find and more expensive than the 16x25" size. Filtration surface area is the same.
The cardboard the fan came in, and tape. Total cost $70USD
It's super effective.
(LED party lights optional 🙂 )
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Agree with previous posters: Codenames, Werewolf (or pretty much any social deduction game), 7 Wonders. Loveletter, Poetry for Neadethals, Sushi-go.
Adding: Concept, and Dixit.
Most of these games either played in teams, or rounds where everyone is busy doing something. One-player-at-a-time turn-taking games don't work as well for 6 people, i don't think -- too much time waiting between turns.
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6 minutes ago, Katy said:
I don’t get it.
It's not a happy short story. You don't want that yellow wallpaper.
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Would you eat this frozen turkey dinner?
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I would depend how hungry I was!
I wouldn't be worried about food safety. But I also wouldn't serve it for company, because textures and tastes might be off.