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Why are some Bay Area counties opening faster than others? Anew Stanford study is shedding light on how health officials make thosedecisions and when.

Theres a lot to consider when balancing public health andeconomic recovery.

After six months of COVID-19 restrictions people in the BayArea are out and about.

Researchers at Stanford University are using cell phonedata, medical records and labor information to re-create cities and putCOVID-19 to the test.

The key finding is that the different lockdown policies performed very differently in different locations, said Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford graduate school of business professor.

Density is a key factor. In a city with a lot of people,stricter rules save lives.

In Chicago, people meet a lot of people, so you have to do more to bring reproduction down, said Akbarpour. In Sacramento you dont have to do as much.

Researchers say that limiting interactions stops the spreadof COVID-19.

In their models, working from home and staggered returns towork make a difference.

Cut down the number of people who use public transit who commute to work on a given day by, say, limiting half the group to go in on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays," said Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford graduate school of business professor. "Have the other half of the group go in on Tuesdays, Thursdays and maybe Saturdays or Sundays or something like that. It has a similar impact as working from home.

While every city is different, experts do say that they haveone thing in common: masks make a difference.

The more caution you take, the more people wear masks, the less closure you need to have, said Vasserman.

The Stanford team is hoping health officers will use theirmodels to do custom analysis and zero in on the most effective policies.

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Sometimes it seems the official landmarks of New York City should not only include the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, but also the infamous sidewalk shed.

Mistakenly called scaffolding from time to time, the city boasts more than 10,000 of the temporary structures, designed to protect pedestrians from being hit by anything from above. While most common at construction sites, more and more often, they are popping up around buildings in need of renovations.

Overall, sheds cover more than 2 million linear feet of sidewalks in the city or enough to stretch from New York City to West Virginia.

One of those sheds in particular has been a thorn in the side of some Waldo Avenue residents for years, covering just over 2,000 feet on the West 238th Street step street between Waldo and Irwin Avenue.

Its permit was granted to the managers of 3660 Waldo Ave., an apartment building just south of Gaelic Park and the entrance to Manhattan College, some five years ago, the same time the citys building department issues warnings about loose faade that could fall and hurt people below.

While the shed might help 3660 Waldo buy time to get necessary renovations done, for Joan Kaufman who lives nearby at 3800 Waldo Ave. its been a nightmare. Shes lodged complaint after complaint about the building, and especially about the long-standing sidewalk shed, for years.

This is ridiculous, she said. Theres vermin. Theres rats running all over the place. I can see them, (and) we cant live like this. Its filthy, theyre not cleaning it, they should take that down.

One of her in-building neighbors, Annette Douglas, had even gone so far as to post flyers around the neighborhood, she said. They warned of the rats that had shacked up under and around the step streets, encouraging neighbors to instead call Councilman Andrew Cohen and Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz in the hopes of cleaning it up.

Complaints filed with the DOB date back at least five years. One, from September 2015, says the shed was constructed earlier that summer, but that construction didnt appear to be occurring above or around it. Other complaints say the shed blocks access to handrails, and that the lights under the shed were out.

Our neighbor has an issue, a DOB issue, with Local Law 11, said Steven Berisha, an agent and property manager for 3800 Waldo. Basically what happens is the city requires you to file your buildings as unsafe, or safe with repairs.

Local Law 11 is a successor to Local Law 10, enacted by Mayor Ed Koch in 1980 after a college student was killed by a piece of terra cotta that fell from a building. Now buildings of six stories or more which describe 12,000 such structures in New York City must be inspected every five years by a licensed architect or engineer. If the faade is found to be unsafe, building owners must put up scaffolding or sidewalk sheds to protect pedestrians from any potential falling masonry while construction or repairs are carried out.

Three inspection reports from 3600 Waldo found unsafe conditions including one from this past July, according to documents filed with the city. That report noted that while some previously discovered issues had been fixed, there were new unsafe conditions in need of repair.

Those included damaged and fractured stone and brick at the top of the building, which already had been repaired to some degree, but needed further repairs.

A 2019 analysis by the New York Post found that some buildings throughout the city were covered in scaffolding more than a decade old, as putting up scaffolding or sidewalk sheds after an inspection and just leaving them up is easier and cheaper than putting up the sheds, taking them down after repairs, and reconstructing them after another inspection.

The citys buildings department said permits for the shed were issued in 2015, and that the shed is required to stay up by law until repairs on the faade are completed. A spokesperson said they have issued multiple violations to the owner of the building for failing to maintain the faade and the shed.

The owner has hired a contractor and there are active permits for the repairs.

Kaufman and her neighbors have tried to make contact with the buildings managers, but getting through to the people in charge on the phone is a Sisyphean task.

Only assistant managers would speak to her or Berisha, Kaufman said, and hadnt been helpful when they called about issues with the shed.

We dont have the support, Kaufman said. We got the people fighting. We have a terrific building, we have a terrific agent, we have a terrific board, we have a terrific agent. Our shareholders, theyre supportive, but we cant get the support outside.

She has been in contact with Cohens office, but has been frustrated with a lack of concrete, tangible changes. Even representatives from Cohens office were struggling to get a concrete response on when construction would be over.

This was before the pandemic, Berisha said. When we started complaining, it was January, February, March. We hadnt really gotten into the pandemic just yet. The conversations that Pat and I had were prior to everything being locked down.

When reached by phone, a representative at the number listed online for 3660 Waldo told The Riverdale Press it was the wrong number that she was not the apartments on Waldo Avenue.

Kaufman and her neighbors want an effort to take the shed down and revamp the step-street, which was in rough shape even prior to the construction of the shed. A similar effort was carried out on a step street just blocks away, on West 232nd Street, she said, resulting in clean, new concrete steps connecting Irwin and Riverdale avenues. Such an effort, they said, would make walking through the neighborhood much safer and easier.

We want everybody in the building to be safe, Berisha said. Our safety for our building also reflects in the neighborhood. We want everyone in the neighborhood to be equally safe.

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The Gulf of Mexico receives many nutrients from the rivers that empty into it, especially the Mississippi River, causing the Gulfs northern shelf waters to become overly enriched and more susceptible to algae growth.

However, it remains largely obscure whether a significant portion of those nutrients ever leaves the Gulf to impact the chemistry of the North Atlantic Ocean potentially.

It is essential to track the nutrient input from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya River System to the Gulf as those nutrients contribute to harmful algal blooms on the Northern Gulf Shelf.

In a new study, scientists from Florida State University are shedding light on nutrient levels in the Gulf of Mexico. To conduct the study, the team collected and analyzed water samples taken during four different research cruises to the Gulf and the Florida Straits from 2011 to 2018.

This finding is valuable to know, as these ecosystems must harbor the nutrient burden.

Scientists did not found any evidence that nitrate from the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River System is mixing across the Northern Gulf shelf into the Gulf of Mexicos open waters. The findings are consistent with recent modeling work by fellow scientists indicating that 90 percent of Mississippi River nutrients are retained in the near-shore ecosystem, which implies that nutrients from the Mississippi River do not leave the Gulf.

This is the first study that offers isotopic composition measurements of nitrate in the Gulf of Mexico and a new isotopic profile from the Florida Straits.

Scientists then compared water column profiles with prior measurements from the North and South Atlantic and with the magnitude of nitrogen inputs to the Gulf.

Associate Professor of Oceanography Angela Knapp said,The study looked for distinct geochemical signatures of nitrate from the Mississippi River and whether this nitrate made it off the Northern Gulf of Mexico shelf into the deep waters of the Gulf that mix with the Loop Current and left via the Florida Straits to enter the North Atlantic.

This work has important implications for understanding the fate of nutrients from the Mississippi Atchafalaya River System and how to manage human inputs to coastal ecosystems.

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What if all of the sudden, the right side of peoples faces on your TV appeared to be melting? What if the right side of your own face seemed like it was melting in the mirror? That is the surprising case of a 59-year-old Portuguese man. A study about him was recently published in the scientific journal Current Biology.

The international study was carried out by researchers from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra, in collaboration with the Hospital of the University Center of Coimbra, Dartmouth College, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The man, referred to by the fictitious name Augusto in the published study, has an extremely rare neuropsychological condition called hemi-prosopometamorphopsia only 25 cases are known worldwide. Augusto is unable to visualize faces in a normal way, something that causes him unimaginable suffering.

This condition is usually characterized by the perception of a distortion in the eyes, nose and/or mouth only on one side of the face. These features seem to be falling off, almost as if they were melting. Nothing more than images of faces causes these distortions, says Jorge Almeida, the studys principal investigator and director of the Proaction Lab.

A series of studies with this patient showed for the first time the existence of a step in the processing of faces in which these are rotated and resized to match a pattern. In the process of recognizing a face we are seeing, we compare that face with those we have in our memory. Thus, whenever we see a face, our brain creates a representation of it and aligns it with a model we have in memory, adds the researcher. This is, in fact, the way digital face recognition used by Facebook and Google platforms works.

In addition, with this study it was possible to demonstrate that these representations of faces are present in the two hemispheres of the brain and that the representations of the right and left halves of the faces are dissociable. Thus, this study not only increased knowledge about the functioning of the brain, but also supported with scientific evidence one of the most widely used facial recognition methodologies today.

Like many other patients with hemi-prosopometamorphopsia, distortions experienced by Augusto were caused by a lesion in white matter beams that connect the neuronal areas dedicated to faces present in the left and right cerebral hemispheres, preventing the flow of information between them.

One of the experiments carried out with Augusto was the presentation of images from different perspectives (left profile, front and right profile). Augusto indicated that the eyes, mouth and/or nose of the presented faces appeared to be drooping red areas in the image below. No other deformations were reported when any other non-face images were presented (cars, houses, etc.)

In a second experiment, the researchers presented images of faces in very different forms: the left and right halves of the faces separately, on both sides of the visual field (right and left) and rotated at 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

Regardless of how the faces were presented, Augusto continued to report that the distortions affected the same parts of the face. Even when the face was inverted (mouth upand eyes down), the patient saw the distortions on the left side. It was still the right eye that seemed to be melting, even though in the inverted face it is located on the left side.

When presenting faces at various angles of rotation, we found that only the right characteristics of the face were distorted, even when the face was presented inverted 180 degrees and those parts of the face were on the left side. The only way to explain this result is that when we process faces, we rotate them and create a model centered on the face and not the observer. In this way, the right eye in this face-centered model is always represented as the right eye, even if it is in our left visual field as when we see an inverted face. This model centered on the face is then compared with an existing model, concludes Almeida.

The study, Face-Specific Perceptual Distortions Reveal A View- and Orientation-Independent Face Template, was authored by Jorge Almeida, Andreia Freixo, Miguel Tbuas-Pereira, Sarah B. Herald, Daniela Valrio, Guilherme Schu, Diana Duro, Gil Cunha, Qasim Bukhari, Brad Duchaine, and Isabel Santana.

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The Shed pits teenagers against a vampire who has taken up residence in a shedStan and Roxy fight the sinister threat, but do they make it out alive?

Director Frank Sabatella's 2019 horror movie,The Shed, adapts a simple premise with an open ending that left audiences questioning the safety of the heroes: what happened to Stan and Roxy?

The Shedtakes standard-issue vampire movie tropes and tucks them behind a smart, character-driven feature film. Stan (Jay Jay Warren) is an orphan who thinks he's dealing with the normal high school woesbullies, unrequited crushes, and an overbearing grandfatheruntil he realizes that a vampire has taken up residence in the shed on his property. From there,The Shed descendsinto a nightmarish bloodbath when more and more people fall victim to the trapped creature and Stan's best friend, Dommer (Cody Kostro) starts to see Stan's problem as a solution to theirs.

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By the film's climax, Stan and his crush Roxy (Sophia Happonen) are fighting to defend his home come nightfall, when the vampireand the new ones he's turnedare on the prowl. While most of the movie takes place during daytime hours, when the vampires are less of a threat, there's still a high body count, action, gore, and shocking moments that lead up to the movie's final shot, where Stan and Roxy's fate is essentially unknown. Here's what happened inThe Shed's ambiguous ending.

Vampire movies and television were a staple of the early and mid-2000s, and while there are many different approaches in dealing with these creatures,The Shed manages to bring something new to the table. The fact that the vampire is trapped in Stan's shed might seem like a no-brainer, but Sabatella's movie explores the very human conflicts that coincide with this unlikely scenario. Stan is unsure of what to do with the creature at first, and his fear keeps him from acting immediately and doing something logical, like burning the shed down. His dog and his grandfather are the vampire's earliest victims, but after he tries to ask his friend Dommer for helpespecially since there's a body on his propertyhe's surprised with Dommer's answer. In Dommer's mind, this terrifying situation is really to their benefit: they can sacrifice their high school bullies to the monster, or use it to threaten them.

This, of course, ends poorly. Dommer's lust for power and revenge gets him turned into a vampire, and the bullies come sniffing around Stan's property right at dusk, looking for their leader Marble (Chris Petrovski), who ended up summarily meeting his end in the shed. Ultimately, Stan and Roxy are the last two standing, and nurse their injuries in a car before Roxy mentions that it's soon to be nightfall again; they think they've seen the last of the vampires, but as the final shot pans out on the trunk of the car, it's apparent that they're not alone. They missed one. It's an unfortunate oversight, but a realistic one insomuch that a movie about a vampire trapped in a shed can be realistic.

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Earlier this week, Texas A&M cornerback Elijah Blades announced that he was opting out of the 2020 college football season. It was a bit of a curious move as the NCAA has ruled that this season does not count toward eligibility.

Blades was set to be a senior this coming season but, with the NCAA rule, he still could have returned for a fifth year in 2021 due to this year not costing anybody elibility. Because of that, there did not seem to be a clear reason that the 6-foot-2, 180-pound defender was opting out. In making the announcement on social media, Blades said that he planned to return for the 2021 campaign in Aggieland, so the opt-out did not seem to be in preparation for a transfer, either.

On Thursday afternoon, Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher held his weekly press conference via Zoom. He was asked about Blades' decision and cleared things up a bit.

"I wouldn't say I was surprised (by the decision)," Fisher said. "You wish they were there but you understand the things that are going on and that's between us...Elijah was just coming off a shoulder surgery. He had practiced most of the practices, almost the whole time. We'd give him a little break. He was coming back. He would have been full-speed here shortly. But, there's other issues and things going on."

Texas A&M is entering the season with a battle for the starting job at both cornerback spots. Four players were in the mix in Blades, senior Myles Jones, junior college transfer Brian George and true freshman Jaylon Jones. Blades and the elder Jones are the lone players with experience and both started a year ago. That number is now down to pretty much the three players competing for the two spots.

"It doesn't help depth but, at the same time, some of our younger guys are really playing good and we feel comfortable with what we have," Fisher said.

"There's open competition," he added. "We're getting ready for the first scrimmage this weekend and those guys have all done well and continue to do well."

Blades played in seven games a year ago before missing the remainder of the season with a shoulder injury. He finished his shortened season with 19 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks and three pass breakups.

In the class of 2019, Blades was a four-star prospect when he signed with Texas A&M as a junior college transfer. Originally from Pasadena, Calif., he played his junior college ball at Arizona Western C.C. Blades was actually a longtime Oregon commit before switching to the Aggies right before the Early Signing Period.

Texas A&M had another member of the secondary opt out this week as well, though he was not expected to be as big a part of the depth chart as Blades. Fourth-year junior safety Derrick Tucker announced on Tuesday evening that he would be foregoing the season.

"I know Tuck's said he's going to step back and do a lot of things for Black Lives Matter, which is tremendous," Fisher said. "Because, like I say, there's things out in the world right now that he thinks are very important and we think are very important and giving him the opportunities to do that."

Tucker played in four games a year ago before asking to be redshirted. The NCAA allows players to see action in up to four games now and still preserve their redshirts and, with Tucker not seeing a ton of playing time, he wanted to save his. While others that made the same request transferred in the offseason, the 6-foot-1, 200-pounder returned to Aggieland this fall.

Tucker actually made seven starts as a true freshman in 2017 after coming in as a four-star recruit out of Manvel, Texas. He was named the SEC Defensive Player of the Week that year after his performance against Ole Miss when he had 14 tackles, a tackle for loss, a forced fumble and an interception. He also had double-digit tackles against LSU. However, Tucker took a step back as a sophomore in 2018. He saw action in 10 games but did not start. He finished the season with 27 tackles and a pass breakup, a year after recording 55 and 5 of those, respectively.

As for both defenders, Fisher says both should be back on next year's roster.

"We expect both those guys back," he said. "There hasn't been anything to the contrary to say they wouldn't be back....We love those guys and we'd love to have them back."

The lone other Aggie to opt out of the season is third-year sophomore quarterback James Foster. The former four-star prospect from Alabama was third on the depth chart a year ago. He is currently in the NCAA Transfer Portal but chose to stay in Aggieland this fall.

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With its Wagnerian orchestral soundtrack, exceptionally low camera angles, and sweeping shots of white marble columns reaching up toward the heavens, last weeks Republican National Convention served as an answer to the question, What would happen if the producers of The Apprentice did a remake of Leni Riefenstahls Triumph of the Will?

Which makes sense, given that two of Trumps former reality show producers were brought onboard to help direct the event. The resulting spectacle could not have been more different from the previous weeks Democratic National Convention, which, by contrast, had all the production values of a local cable access show from the late 1970s.

What was more surprising was the music itself. Gone were MAGA rally favorites like the Rolling Stones You Cant Always Get What You Want and Neil Youngs Rockin in the Free World. Was it possible that, for the first time in four years, Trump was finally yielding to the demands of the numerous artists whove railed against his use of their music without their consent?

That question would be answered during the conventions fourth and final day. But first, to put all of this in perspective, its worth taking a brief detour to consider the history of Trumps battles with these musicians and the legal issues surrounding them.

The best-known case is Trumps use of the Stones You Cant Always Get What You Want at the close of rallies in which hes just assured his overwhelmingly white audiences that he will, in fact, get them everything they want and more.

Trump has been doing this for four years now, during which time a sizable portion of his audience must have picked up on the contradiction. So why keep doing it?

One likely reason is that Trump and his followers enjoy nothing more than trolling their perceived enemies. Another is the fact that Trump is as tone-deaf when it comes to music as he is with everything else. This is, after all, the president who taunted Black Americans by asking What have you got to lose?... a question he subsequently directed toward coronavirus victims in an effort to sell them on hydroxychloroquine.

Meanwhile, back in the realm of music, there was the Midwest rally that Trump held just hours after a white racist walked into a synagogue and opened fire on the congregation. While the rest of the nation grieved, Trump got his followers to get up and dance to Pharrell Williams Happy.

Williams lawyer responded with a cease-and-desist order that conveyed his clients outrage:

On the day of the mass murder of 11 human beings at the hands of a deranged nationalist, you played his song Happy to a crowd at a political event, Williams lawyer wrote. There was nothing happy about the tragedy inflicted upon our country on Saturday, and no permission was granted for your use of this song for this purpose.

But Trump, as hes proven time and again, has a fondness for insulting dead people, and that routinely bleeds over into his campaign music. Tom Pettys family decried the use of I Wont Back Down at Trumps June 20 Tulsa rally. George Harrisons estate sent their own cease-and-desist letter after Trump appropriated Here Comes the Sun. The surviving members of Queen, dismayed by his use of We Will Rock You, did the same on behalf of themselves and their late singer Freddie Mercury.

Trump, as hes proven time and again, has a fondness for insulting dead people.

The reason Trump has continued to get away with all this involves the blanket licensing agreements that music licensing organizations like BMI and ASCAP make with political campaigns and the venues in which they hold their rallies.

Both organizations let artists fight their own battles until this past June, when the two organizations unexpectedly warned Trump to stop using You Cant Always Get What You Want, as well as any other Rolling Stones songs, during his rallies. According to BMI, once an artist issues a cease-and-desist letter, any future use constitutes a breach of contract.

And so it was that, on the last night of the Republican National Convention, the gathering of unmasked supporters on the White House lawn were deprived of the upbeat anthems theyd come to know and love.

Still, Trump could not resist showing one last sign of disrespect, which he directed at a deceased artist whose estate and publisher had both turned down the RNCs request to play one of his best-known songs at the convention. During the closing ceremony, the singer Christopher Macchio came out on the White House balcony to serenade the president and his entourage with a semi-operatic set that featured Leonard Cohens Hallelujah, a recorded version of which had also been played moments earlier as fireworks exploded over the Washington Monument.

Apart from its title, Cohens borderline vicious ode to God-knows-what was an inexplicably bizarre addition to a medley that included classical-crossover fare like Ave Maria and Nessun Dorma. This is, after all, a song with lyrics like Ive seen your flag on the marble arch / Love is not a victory march / Its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah.

According to the White House, Trump makes all of the final decisions when it comes to which songs are played at his events. But that doesnt mean he actually listens to all of them.

So what happens next?

For now, at least, Trump has managed to keep from using the Rolling Stones as his walk-off music. Instead, hes replacing it with his fans second favorite rally song, which is, wait for it, the Village Peoples Y.M.C.A. Theres something almost endearing, given the racist and homophobic underpinnings of Trumps campaign, to see MAGA supporters joyfully getting down to the racially integrated and flamboyantly dressed groups ode to intimate male bonding.

But Village People leader Victor Willis is not amused, as he conveyed in a recent Facebook post directed toward Trump:

I ask that you no longer use any of my music at your rallies, especially Y.M.C.A. and Macho Man, following the George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter marches, he wrote. Sorry, but I can no longer look the other way.

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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) As scientists at Colorado State University lead the state in monitoring COVID-19 outbreaks through raw sewage testing, the university confirmed they have seen a spike in coronavirus in their testing of on-campus dormitory wastewater.

Last month experts at the university told CBS4s Dillon Thomas the virus is traceable through raw sewage days before the carriers show symptoms, if they show any symptoms at all.

The university is currently partnering with multiple municipalities from around the state, from Pueblo to northern Colorado, to monitor levels of COVID-19 in raw sewage. By doing so municipalities can better forecast outbreaks of the virus. The same mentality was applied to the Fort Collins campus, where the university is now testing individual dormitories.

A spokesperson for CSU confirmed they have increased testing at three dormitories on the campus after noticing a spike in COVID-19 being shed through waste. They also increased testing among employees who work in the northeast corner of the campus due to a spike in levels in wastewater.

The staff has focused their dormitory testing on three dorms, specifically looking in to one wing of one of the dorms, and two other hallways. The university did not provide information on which dormitory, or building which faculty were in, were the focus of their further testing.

The university has already administered more than 9,700 COVID-19 tests since students returned to campus weeks ago. Most of those, around 7,400, were completed upon move-in by freshmen.

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The first College GameDay of the year came on Saturday. The crew had a lot to address; Lee Corso expressed his belief that college football shouldn't be played until Spring 2021, quite a declaration to come on a college football pregame show.

They then addressed the issues of social injustice and racism in the country that have demanded America's attention in the months since we last saw college football on TV. In a very emotional segment, Kirk Herbstreit started to cry when he talked about the injustice the Black community faces in this country and how frustrating it was that there are still people out there who refuse to acknowledge the problems that are deeply embedded in every part of our lives.

This is really something to see. Herbstreit's pain is evident, and the importance of addressing this issue on every national stage is impossible to overstate.

Watch. Listen. Work for change. That's what we have to do, and we cannot relent. Herbstreit reminded us all of that.

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