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CDC Advisory Committee Makes New Recommendations for RSV Vaccine
I looked at one slide set for the Respiratory Syncitial Virus (RSV) vaccine. I didn’t watch the meeting. The ACIP Adult RSV Work Group Clinical Considerations powerpoint presentation recommend transitioning away from the shared clinical decision-making (SCDM) component for getting the RSV vaccine. Slide 4 seems clear: “All adults aged 75 years and older should…
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Go Fly a Kite Right Now!
We got a couple of those ready-made kites the other day, took them out to Terry Trueblood Park and man did they fly! We used to fly kites you had to spend a little time and effort putting together back in the day. It was close to 90 degrees but we barely noticed. I remember…
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Reminder: CDC ACIP Meeting June 26-28 on Vaccines Including Covid-19 and RSV
Just a reminder about the upcoming CDC ACIP meeting on vaccines, including RSV and Covid-19.
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Learning to Use ClipChamp While Recording Cribbage Game on Cribbage Pro
I’m learning how to use the video editor ClipChamp, the free version on the new laptop. So, I muddled through a screen recording of playing what’s called the Daily Cribbage Scrimmage on Cribbage Pro, a feature-rich computer Cribbage game on which you can different skill levels of computer players from easy to impossible as well…
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Donating Furniture to ReStore and the Five Minute Rule
Recently, we donated some furniture to Habitats for Humanity ReStore in Iowa City. We got the idea from seeing our neighbors doing the same thing a few years ago. ReStore requires you to put the items in your garage or driveway. The request for pickup is an easy on-line form. You have to upload photos…
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Great Cribbage Tutorial for Beginners!
I’ve seen a couple of Cribbage videos on Huddle Around Games, which is a YouTube site dedicated to Cribbage as well as other games. This one is a tutorial on how to play Cribbage for beginners. He calls himself Zulwarn, which is his name when he plays the online form of a computer Cribbage game…
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I Think the United States Postal Service Owes Me $1.10
The other day I tried to process an online request for a USPS Change of Address (COA), but it didn’t work. It hung up at the “Loading” stage for a half hour and then kicked back to the start of the form without ever giving me a confirmation. Yet, it charged my credit card for…
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Taming the Corrugated Corners
At some time in your life, you may have to protect your artwork from harm. And some experts think that has to involve corrugated carboard corners. If you ever have to deal with corrugated cardboard, be careful. It can cut you up. That’s how my arms got scratched and bruised, which you can see my…
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Big Mo Blues Show Podcast: “Chromatic Rock”
I caught the Big Mo Blues Show June 14th last Friday night. And I also caught the Big Mo Pod Show as well. Produce Noah got the month wrong for some odd reason. He said it was May 14th. Let it go. Anybody can be temporally impaired from time to time, including me. Anyway, the…
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Great Rounding@Iowa Podcast on Preventing & Managing Heat-Related Illness
The Rounding@Iowa podcast has many fascinating and helpful episodes, not the least of which is this one on heat-related illness. The days are getting hotter and we need to pay close attention to what happens in our bodies when exposed to excessive heat.
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