Category: Brief Messages or Announcements

  • Update on Computer Crisis

    Update on Computer Crisis

    This is an update to my post yesterday about the latest computer crisis; the one about the mini-helicopter noise in the tower on my relatively new Dell XPS 8950. Incredibly, the parts have been ordered. I can’t tell if they just ordered them today or what. The technicians will arrive sometime tomorrow and they’ll bring…

  • Another Computer Crisis

    Another Computer Crisis

    Another day, another computer crisis. I’ve been hearing this mini-helicopter noise from my PC tower for a while and finally contacted the manufacturer’s computer support center on the web. I have hopped through many hoops in the past couple of days, including resetting my computer. Remember I had to do that with Sena’s computer? How…

  • Hot Weather Today

    Hot Weather Today

    Special Weather Statement for Iowa today: “Heat Index Values Between 95 and 100 this Afternoon… Unseasonably hot temperatures are expected through the afternoon today, ranging between 90 and 95 for most. These hot temperatures will combine with dew points between 65 and 70. Thus, yielding heat index values between 95 to around 100 through the…

  • HHS Campaign for Updated Covid-19 Updated Vaccine Booster

    HHS Campaign for Updated Covid-19 Updated Vaccine Booster

    See the HHS Campaign for the Covid-19 updated vaccine booster for older adults-a high risk group. We’re scheduled for both the flu shot and the updated booster.

  • University of Iowa Surpasses Harvard, Princeton as No. 2 for Writing

    University of Iowa Surpasses Harvard, Princeton as No. 2 for Writing

    The University of Iowa, according to U.S. News & World Report is No. 2 for writing in the latest rankings. It’s the only public university in the top 10, behind No. 1 Brown University. It’s out in front of Harvard, Cornell, Duke, and Princeton.

  • How to Get the Updated Covid-19 Vaccine Booster at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

    How to Get the Updated Covid-19 Vaccine Booster at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

    Here’s an updated link to how to get the updated Covid-19 vaccine booster (often called the Omicron bivalent booster). It’s sometimes faster to get this booster at local pharmacies, although there’s less urgency now.

  • Single Administration Therapeutic Interfering Particle (TIP) Reduces Covid-19 Viral Shedding & Pathogenesis in Hamsters

    Single Administration Therapeutic Interfering Particle (TIP) Reduces Covid-19 Viral Shedding & Pathogenesis in Hamsters

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) recently published a study showing: Abstract “The high transmissibility of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a primary driver of the COVID-19 pandemic. While existing interventions prevent severe disease, they exhibit mixed efficacy in preventing transmission, presumably due to their limited antiviral effects in the…

  • Big Mo Blues Show on KCCK

    Big Mo Blues Show on KCCK

    I heard Riveria Paradise by Stevie Ray Vaughn a few minutes ago on the Big Mo Blues Show on KCCK 88.3 radio. I think I may have this CD somewhere in the house. Big Mo really appreciates virtuoso guitar players like SRV. That’s because Big Mo is a guitar player himself. Another thing Big Mo…

  • September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

    September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

    September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (SPAM). This spam is good. Here’s a link to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) website on SPAM. And see the message below from University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson. We can all use this well-being toolkit as well.

  • CDC Interim Clinical Considerations for Covid-19 Vaccine Bivalent Boosters

    CDC Interim Clinical Considerations for Covid-19 Vaccine Bivalent Boosters

    Taken from the CDC ACIP meeting on 9/01/2022, here is the link to the CDC Interim Clinical Considerations for the Covid-19 Vaccines: Bivalent Boosters.