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Wed Jul 1 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from eleven to seven. Woke briefly around five. Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph. Work ---------------------------------------- - Order Tel-Twelve printer Done. - Finish RV rent, amenities in Entrata Done. - Switch Becky's Yardi group back to acctr50 Done. - Set up laptops with Fairlane Some. > Due to the extreme uncertainty and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has made the difficult decision to delay merit increases at this time. The company will continue to monitor the effect of the virus and reevaluate merit increases later in 2020, including the potential for retroactive payment. > The company is not taking this decision lightly, and we understand the impact this might have on you and your family. We truly appreciate all of your hard work, and we hope to have your continued support as we strive to emerge from these difficult times secure in our future and well positioned to meet the demands of the market. Well, that's unusually shitty, even for Hartman & Tyner. Scott says he probably won't come back after his vacation in September. Fifteen-minute walk at lunch. Partly cloudy and hot. Home ---------------------------------------- - Order Instacart? Done. - Take out trash No. - Laundry? No. - pixel art A bit. Drew a dungeon tile. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/mercury-and-algal-blooms-poisoned-maya-reservoirs-at-tikal/ > For centuries, Tikal was a bustling Maya city in what is now northern Guatemala. But by the late 800s CE, its plazas and temples stood silent, surrounded by mostly abandoned farms. A recent study suggests a possible explanation for its decline: mercury and toxic algal blooms poisoned the water sources that should have carried the city through dry seasons. > Tikal’s Maya rulers built the city’s reservoirs to store water from rain and runoff during the winter months. The pavement of the large plazas in the heart of the city tilted slightly, helping funnel rainwater into the reservoirs. Over the centuries, dust and litter settled into the bottom of the reservoirs, too, providing a record of what the environment around Tikal was like—and what was washing into the city’s water supply. University of Cincinnati biologist David Lentz and his colleagues sampled layers of sediment dating back to the mid-800s, and they found that two of Tikal’s central reservoirs would have been too polluted to drink from. > The loss of these reservoirs came at the worst possible time for Tikal. In the mid- and late 800s, most of the great cities of the Maya world were already faltering under the weight of growing populations, degrading farmland, and decades of drought. Tikal simply couldn’t survive the collapse of even part of its infrastructure. US tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 20 17 18 18 19 17 16 13 15 14 14 14 15 15 12 (today) 3-day avg: 18 18 15 14 14 US new deaths: 782 → 695 → 650 → 630 → 297 → 285 → 775 → 722 → 2500 → 619 → 506 → 273 → 332 → 565 → 527 (today) 3-day avg: 709 404 1332 466 475 MI tests / positive results (higher is better, ideally dozens): 62 63 1 99 33 77 43 44 45 42 55 55 59 46 31 47 (today) 3-day avg: 42 70 44 51 45 47 MI new deaths: 2 → 25 → 6 → 20 → 3 → 7 → 12 → 5 → 19 → 1 → 19 → 5 → 3 → 32 → 5 (today) 3-day avg: 11 10 12 8 13 Oakland county new deaths: 1 → 3 → 3 → 1 → 0 → 0 → 1 → 0 → 0 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 (today) 3-day avg: 2 0 0 1 1 Beaumont 5/28: COVID-19 patients: 227; COVID-19 ICU patients: 70; all patients bed occupancy: 68% Beaumont 6/01: COVID-19 patients: 178; COVID-19 ICU patients: 70; all patients bed occupancy: 61% Beaumont 6/04: COVID-19 patients: 163; COVID-19 ICU patients: 67; all patients bed occupancy: 65% Beaumont 6/08: COVID-19 patients: 130; COVID-19 ICU patients: 54; all patients bed occupancy: 55% Beaumont 6/11: COVID-19 patients: 132; COVID-19 ICU patients: 64; all patients bed occupancy: 70% Beaumont 6/15: COVID-19 patients: 114; COVID-19 ICU patients: 59; all patients bed occupancy: 63% Beaumont 6/18: COVID-19 patients: 117; COVID-19 ICU patients: 57; all patients bed occupancy: 72% Beaumont 6/22: COVID-19 patients: 122; COVID-19 ICU patients: 56; all patients bed occupancy: 64% Beaumont 6/25: COVID-19 patients: 123; COVID-19 ICU patients: 51; all patients bed occupancy: 71% Beaumont 6/29: COVID-19 patients: 121; COVID-19 ICU patients: 49; all patients bed occupancy: 66% HCC Region 2 North 6/17: in critical 55, on ventilators 30, inpatients 91 HCC Region 2 North 6/18: in critical 44, on ventilators 23, inpatients 89 HCC Region 2 North 6/19: in critical 34, on ventilators 25, inpatients 89 HCC Region 2 North 6/22: in critical 41, on ventilators 37, inpatients 84 HCC Region 2 North 6/23: in critical 46, on ventilators 40, inpatients 95 HCC Region 2 North 6/24: in critical 52, on ventilators 38, inpatients 92 HCC Region 2 North 6/26: in critical 55, on ventilators 39, inpatients 84 HCC Region 2 North 6/29: in critical 44, on ventilators 32, inpatients 78 Servings: grains 1/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 1/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: coffee Lunch: egg and avocado wrap, banana Dinner: -33

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