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Mon Sep 14 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from eleven to seven. Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Dreamt that I'd bought a little house, and Dad and Ryan (Kate's ex-husband) where helping me choose wallpaper. Twenty-minute walk in the morning. Cool and slightly hazy. Heard crickets. Saw two chipmunks, two robins, starlinks, a female cardinal, a mourning dove. Work ---------------------------------------- I really would have liked to take a PTO day today, but the Entrata schedule remains too crazy and our staffing too skeletal. - Pre-migration for Entrata phase seven Done. - 2 PM Fifth Third call Canceled. - Gina from Sherwood has car trouble and wants a configured laptop to work from home Emailed her, but haven't heard back. - Help Lori install check scanning Done. - Greg's last two properties migrate today. Disable one of his Yardi accounts? ? Close view of a blue jay right outside my window. Home ---------------------------------------- - Review K&R, do exercises Done. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/political-appointees-suspicious-of-cdc-for-accurate-reporting-on-pandemic/ > Political appointees in the Department of Health and Human services are objecting to reports on the COVID-19 pandemic from the Centers for Disease Control and are trying to exercise editorial control of future reports. > The CDC documents at issue are termed Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which provide rapid summaries of the state of our knowledge about public health issues. Typically, they're the product of a CDC-backed investigation into a known issue; in the past, they've focused on things like outbreaks of food-borne illnesses. While they don't have the weight of peer-reviewed literature, they're widely considered to be scientifically reliable, and their rapid publication makes them a valuable resource for public health officials. > Rather than recognizing that facts aren't supportive of their policies, the administration's political appointees have apparently decided that the CDC is not presenting the facts because it's trying to undercut Trump. > The political staff has attempted to block the release of some of the Morbidity and Mortality reports and demanded the ability to review and edit all future reports. (Alexander, apparently unironically, suggested he needed to ensure the reports were "fair and balanced.") While all of the planned reports were eventually published, Politico indicates that the non-scientific staff are gaining increased oversight of the reports prior to their publication. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/04/909876702/the-murderer-the-boy-king-and-the-invention-of-modern-finance > John Law was a convicted murderer on the lam when he showed up in France in the early 1700s. In the space of just a few years, he created an entire modern economy — banks, paper money, a stock boom. (Also, he became one of the richest people in the world.) > The story of John Law tells us a lot about how finance still works — and also how it can blow up the world. Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: cucumber, banana, coffee Lunch: peach, egg and avocado wrap, cookie Afternoon snack: cucumber Dinner: cheese curls

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