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Coronavirus Roundup: New Response Strategy Targets ‘Microclusters,’ Not Regions

All the news and announcements from New York State, the Hudson Valley, and the Catskills for Tuesday, October 20 and Wednesday, October 21.

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This is a roundup of coronavirus news and announcements from New York State and Hudson Valley and Catskills counties for Tuesday, October 20 and Wednesday, October 21.

488,506 cases confirmed (2,026 new)
13,197,504 tests performed (124,789 new)
Positive test rate: 1.62%
25,679 deaths (7 new)
950 hospitalizations
201 ICU admissions
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New York State’s COVID-19 metrics are looking a little more ominous lately. Tuesday’s statewide positivity rate, at 1.62 percent, was higher than it’s been since June. Outbreaks are still ongoing in several hotspot areas of the state, and on Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced two new “microclusters” in Steuben and Chemung County where schools, gatherings, and businesses will face restrictions to bring numbers down. The current uptick might be the beginning of a larger second wave in New York—and as cases rise in new areas around the state, New York has a new plan for tackling outbreaks, which Cuomo discussed in a public briefing on Wednesday.

New York State’s new plan for tackling flare-ups of COVID-19 is a more surgical tool than the regional “NY On Pause” regulations that tied restrictions on work, school, worship, and social activities to case metrics across large swaths of the state in the spring. It’s also much more complicated. The guidance, released Wednesday, describes a process for identifying neighborhoods with high transmission rates, drawing borders around them based on an array of factors impacting public health, and assigning them to red, orange, or yellow zones based on a combination of case metrics and the population of the surrounding city or county. The color of the zones indicates the severity of the outbreak—orange and red zones face stricter restrictions on schools, gatherings, worship, and business than the surrounding yellow zones drawn as a buffer around them.

In place of New York’s 10 economic development regions, Cuomo’s new strategy divides counties (and a few cities) into four tiers based on population:

  • Tier 1, the most urban, includes all of New York City and Long Island, as well as Westchester County, Erie County, and the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany.
  • Tier 2 counties, with 150,000 or more residents, include the Hudson Valley counties of Orange, Rockland, Dutchess, and Ulster.
  • Tier 3 counties, with 50,000 or more residents, include Putnam, Sullivan, and Columbia counties.
  • Tier 4 counties, the most rural in the state, include Delaware, Greene, and Schoharie in the Catskills.

Why does it matter which tier an outbreak happens in? According to the new guidance, if two neighborhood outbreaks have the same metrics for new cases and positivity rates, New York will place tighter restrictions on the more urban neighborhood. A microcluster that erupts in a Tier 1 county will be assigned to a red zone if its positivity rate exceeds four percent on a seven-day rolling average for 10 days. But that same four percent positivity rate would be a yellow zone in rural Delaware or Greene County.

The targets for case numbers and positivity rates that define a “microcluster” are clear, if painstaking to calculate. What’s less clear is how the maps are drawn. From the guidance, it appears that state and local health officials have some flexibility in drawing borders around outbreaks: They can use ZIP codes, census tracts, municipality or county lines, or “contiguous neighborhood” boundaries to define outbreak zones. Health officials can consider age or “demographic information” to determine whether the outbreak is focused on certain groups. Maps in situations where most cases are traced to an institution or a single large event might look different from those where infection is more spread out in the community.

The state’s new plan also sets targets for neighborhoods to leave microcluster zones when their infections go down. Along with numerical targets for new cases and positivity rates, health officials will look at factors like enforcement and community cooperation to decide whether an area is recovered enough to leave the microcluster, or have its zone color downgraded.

Some microclusters in Brooklyn and Queens that have been the focus of targeted restrictions have improved enough for New York State to downgrade their zones, Cuomo said Wednesday. The state released new maps of the updated Brooklyn and Queens microclusters in a press release. In Orange and Rockland as well as Broome County, there have been improvements in the positivity rate, but the zones are staying in place for now. “Although we made a lot of progress, the numbers are still not acceptable. So, we have more to do,” Cuomo said.

New York State enacted microcluster regulations in two new hotspots Wednesday: an orange and yellow zone in Chemung County, and a yellow zone in neighboring Steuben

Broome County, where the state has drawn a yellow zone around a local outbreak, is still working to get transmission under control. In Wednesday’s briefing, Cuomo said the positivity rate in the Broome County microcluster had gone from 4.8 percent to 4.6 percent—“marginal progress at best.” But at nearby Binghamton University, where in-person classes have been on pause for several weeks because of a case spike, rates have fallen and students are headed back to class, the Press & Sun-Bulletin reports.

As if a complicated new strategy for fighting outbreaks wasn’t enough, New York State may soon enact new rules for out-of-state travelers. Cuomo said in Wednesday’s briefing that the state’s current policy, which requires a two-week quarantine for all travelers from heavily impacted states, might soon be replaced with a strategy based on testing. “We are working with global experts to see if there’s a difference in methodology to quarantine. How do you use technology? How do you use testing? Because our current method is, you come here and you have to stay here for 14 days before you leave. The enforcement of that is highly problematic. We’re not equipped to do that,” he said.

The looming problem with New York’s travel quarantine is that 43 US states currently meet the criteria to be on the list, and that includes our nearest neighbors. “There is no practical way to quarantine New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania,” Cuomo said Wednesday. “You would have to do some theory of border checks all across the state, and from an economic point of view there’s too many interconnections with Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and New Jersey. People live and work one place, work in the other place. It would be devastating for the economy.”

Worth noting: Even without applying it to bordering states, there is no practical way to enforce New York State’s existing travel quarantine requirement, although that hasn’t stopped Cuomo from enacting it. Also worth noting: CDC guidance clearly advises not to use testing to try to wiggle out of quarantine requirements. “It can take up to 14 days after exposure to the virus for a person to develop COVID-19 symptoms. A negative result before the end of the 14-day quarantine period does not rule out possible infection,” the agency says in a FAQ on COVID-19

Just in time to illustrate the growing problem along New York’s most frequently crossed border, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy went into quarantine at the middle of a public event on Wednesday, after a staffer tested positive.

The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has suspended visitation at the Greene and Elmira state prisons because of ongoing outbreaks, effective 3pm on Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal has more on the state’s growing prison COVID-19 problem.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is teaming up with celebrity chefs to press her fellow Congresspeople for a bill to bail out restaurants. In a truly astonishing feat of acronymese, the bill is dubbed the RESTAURANTS Act, shorthand for “Real Economic Support That Acknowledges Unique Restaurant Assistance Needed To Survive.”

Harm reductionists across New York State, who work on the front lines with drug users to try to reduce overdoses and deaths, are warning that Cuomo’s budget cuts have caused syringe shortages. Filter magazine has an in-depth story this week, featuring multiple people in the field who fear that shortages of clean needles and other supplies might lead to community HIV outbreaks down the road. (And you can still read our feature from last month on how the pandemic has changed harm reduction work in the Catskills.)

The official death count of COVID-19 in the US is around 220,000, but the true cost of the pandemic in American lives is higher. According to recent data from the CDC, “excess deaths” are about 299,000 for 2020 so far, indicating that more people have died this year than would be expected in a typical year. Some of those excess deaths may have been undiagnosed COVID-19 deaths, but the pandemic has also exacerbated substance abuse and mental health problems, and made it difficult or impossible for many people to get medical care. Among the report’s more sobering findings: The group with the largest increase in excess deaths was 25- to 44-year-olds, whose excess death rate is up 26.5 percent in 2020.

The CDC expanded its definition of who counts as a “close contact” of a COVID-19-positive person on Wednesday, in updated guidance drawn from a case of transmission at a Vermont prison. A guard at the prison contracted COVID-19 despite only having fleeting interactions of less than a few minutes at a time with inmates who later tested positive; the agency now advises that anyone who was within six feet of a COVID-19-positive person for at least 15 minutes over a 24-hour period counts as a close contact.

Announced by New York State on Tuesday and Wednesday:

Below is a Flourish animation we have compiled that shows the rate of active cases per 10,000 residents for each county in our coverage region from May 12 through the present date.

County coronavirus pages: Rockland, Westchester, Putnam
University coronavirus pages: Sarah Lawrence, Iona, SUNY Purchase, Manhattanville, Westchester Community College, Rockland Community College, Dominican, Mercy

Putnam County issued two health alerts for possible exposure to the coronavirus. The first is for anyone who visited Dunkin’ Donuts at 1 Star Ridge Road in Brewster on Friday, October 16 from 6am to 12pm; Saturday, October 17 from 6am to 2pm; and Sunday, October 18 from 6am to 2pm. The second is for anyone who worked at or visited Tijuana Mexican Restaurant & Cantina at 376 Route 6, Mahopac on Saturday, October 17 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

In recent weeks, rumors have swirled of a federal probe into a fraud this spring involving Mount Vernon city employees who created fake businesses in order to get pandemic relief loans. Whether or not such an investigation exists is not publicly known, but the talk has gotten loud enough that the Mount Vernon mayor saw fit to intervene. In a memo to all employees Tuesday, Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard directed any employees who might have taken part to alert City Hall officials. has more details.

County coronavirus pages: Orange, Dutchess, Ulster, Columbia
University coronavirus page: Bard, Vassar, Marist, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Ulster, Columbia-Greene Community College, SUNY Orange

Bard College will close its Annandale campus to visitors, but the measure is precautionary, and Dutchess County Department of Health says there are no active cases of COVID-19 associated with the school, County Executive Marc Molinaro said in his weekly virtual town hall Wednesday. Molinaro also said that the cluster reported at Marist College stemming from an October 3 gathering has run its course, as has the outbreak at Hedgewood Home for Adults in Beacon.

In his latest coronavirus briefing, Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus dinged the state for not allowing the county to open up movie theaters and amusement centers located within the county but outside its hotspots. Neuhaus said Rockland County Executive Ed Day is also pressing the governor on that topic.

Columbia County reported three new cases in its Wednesday update, bringing the total number of active cases to 35, up from four at the beginning of the month.

Hudson Valley One has a look at how the Saugerties, Onteora, Kingston, and New Paltz school districts are approaching in-person instruction, as students begin to trickle back into classrooms.

Over in Middletown, district teachers say their requests to teach remotely due to their health risks have been refused. An October 15 Board of Education meeting got heated, with multiple teachers pleading with the district for a change of heart and saying their lives depended on it, the Times Herald-Record reports.

County coronavirus pages: Sullivan, Delaware, Greene, Schoharie
University coronavirus pages: SUNY Cobleskill, SUNY Delhi, SUNY Sullivan

Greene County officials called on the state to help them control the outbreak underway at the county correctional facility, which now includes at least 100 inmates and 26 employees. Greene County Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger and County Administrator Shaun Groden requested a number of immediate actions from Governor Cuomo and the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. “We’re simply asking for better communications and transparency from the state,” Linger and Groden said in a press release. “Our offers to help seem to have fallen on deaf ears.” The officials sounded a more doleful note in an interview with Columbia-Greene Media. “We’re eight months into this now. How has the state not addressed this?” Groden said. “You can’t social distance in general population. This knee-jerk reaction needs to end.” Groden went on to say that even if the state and DOCCS take action, it may be too little, too late.

New research from Moody’s Investors Services predicts that regional casinos, like Resorts World Catskills, will face pandemic-related financial challenges that exceed those following the Great Recession and 9/11. As the Times Herald-Record notes, Resorts World Catskills had problems before the pandemic: $500 million in debt at the end of last year, a remote location, and pre-pandemic earnings that were barely half of projections, with monthly losses topping $10 million.

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August 12 – This One

Each one repaired the section immediately across from his own house. (Nehemiah 3:28)

Read: Nehemiah 3:15-5:13, 1 Corinthians 7:25-40, Psalm 32:1-11, Proverbs 21:5-7

Relate: I’ve heard the story many times and with many variations and have no idea if it is true or not. That doesn’t matter, it is still a good story and its truth goes well beyond its veracity.

There was a gentleman who was walking down the beach early one morning who noticed an elderly gentleman ahead who seemed to be throwing things in the water. As he got closer he realized that it was starfish that this older man was picking up off the sand and tossing back into the water. As he approached, the gentleman asked this older man, “Excuse me, sir, what are you doing?” The old man replied, “I’m helping the starfish.” The gentleman looked ahead down the beach and saw that hundreds, thousands of starfish had been beached on the shore by the tide. He said, “Sir, you cannot possibly help all of them.” The old man just grunted as he picked up another starfish. He looked at it for a moment then looked at the gentleman and said, “No, but I can help this one.” He then tossed it into the water and continued on his way.

Roughly 300,000 minors are currently being exploited for prostitution in the US. About 800,000 slaves are trafficked across international borders each year. 1 million children each year are added to the number of slaves globally which is estimated to total about 27 million.

About 200 children in the US are born with HIV each year. In 2010, 1.8 million people died of AIDS. Each year roughly 2.5 million more people contract HIV. About 18 million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Roughly 34 million people are currently living with HIV. Of those about 9.5 million people are in critical need of AIDS drugs and only 40% will receive it.

Roughly 500,000 children in the US are homeless. About 5 million childhood deaths are related to poor nutrition. An additional 3.4 million people die each year from water-related diseases and about 780 million people do not have access to clean water. 870 million people are chronically undernourished. 2.4 billion people are desperately trying to survive on less than $2 USD a day.

There are between three hundred and five hundred thousand refugees living in my city. Most of them are from Syria and are among the 3 million plus who live here in Turkey. There are also about five million more living in other countries (mostly Lebanon and Jordan) and also about six million internally displaced refugees who have been forced to flee their homes but have not left the borders of Syria.

React: No matter what the cause, no matter how I look at it, the need is staggering. There is a wall that needs to go up against the ever-rising flood of injustice, disease, and extreme poverty. There is a task that needs to be accomplished but even if I were to invest every minute and every dollar that I have from now until the day I die it will not be enough. The task is too large. The need is too great. I cannot help everybody. But I can help the girls in the picture. They are some of the ones God has placed in my section of the wall. Who are yours?

Dear God,
There is so much I wish to do. There are so many needs that are so great. There is a task that is so huge that absolutely must be met. Without You it is impossible. I know that. Help me to realize that without me it is impossible as well. You have called each of us to take care of our part. I cannot build the wall, but I can build the portion near my house. As You raise
 up others who will do what they can, help me to do what I can. Help me to help this one… and then this one… and then this one…

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  1. Amen! We all have lives assigned to us. Specific people God will use us to minister to. I can help this one! I love it. Your blog is wonderful–keep glorifying our great God through this blog. Thanks for your support. God bless!

  2. Romans 15:1-2 “We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.”

    Thank you BJ — for your presence, your purpose and your pure potential shining every so brightly in the kingdom that we all share.

  3. Bj: I love the story of the starfish and the older gentleman’s wisdom. I read in Nehemiah 10:39 this verse…”We will not neglect the house of our God.” I join in your prayer, may we reach out to those within our scope…one at a time…

  4. Making a difference in the trafficking of children requires an overall change in attitudes toward children. We have to start recognizing them as having value equal to adults. We also, need to establish healthy boundaries around sex. Our culture is in a state of sexual insanity right now and I’m using the term insanity in the legal sense of not being able to tell right from wrong. some laws need to be changed and others better enforced but more than that our thinking must change and we can make a difference by being mindful to maintain healthy standards for ourselves and treat children with the respect they deserve.

  5. We live in a veritable sea of need. You are right it is too great for us to solve but we are not called to solve it we are called to witness about the One who is the Only Solution. What men do with the Solution is up to them but our message is true no matter what they do with it. “Jesus can change your life if you just let Him in.”

  6. I’ve talked about the overwhelming needs in the world often on my blog, and it always comes to the same conclusion you share – we might not be able to save them all (not alone), but we can make a difference one at a time. If we all gathered together and took that attitude – one at a time – think how that could really change things.

  7. You hit the nail on the head. We each have a sphere of influence, our little world around us. It’s up to us to make a difference in that sphere. We must fill our world with smiles, as I like to say. It’s so much more than a smile on a face – it’s being obedient to the task God places before you, being His hands and feet.

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Let This Cup Pass (Feeling Crappy Is Not a Crime)

Have you ever watched a documentary or life story about some awesome person who did some thing that you know in your heart was the right thing to do, only to walk away feeling kind of like you suck?  Here is this person with all of this adversity that they go through to get to where they are in life and you can’t even commit to a diet.  You watch the movie and your eyes fill with water, you get chills, you start remembering when you gave a damn about something besides yourself.  You remember being a child and loving and laughing and having dreams.  What happened?  How did you get so far off course?  Was it high school when you started caring about fitting in?  Was it college when you realized how long it was going to take to pay off your student loans?  Was it after you got your first paycheck and went shopping and became an official “consumer”? Does it even matter?  All you know is that when you hear about someone living the kind of life worth writing about, you know that there is something you should be doing that you aren’t.

I know that I have felt those feelings from time to time.  I start feeling like life really is meaningless.  I really get bored with the normal stuff of life like eating, sleeping, paying bills, going to the bathroom, politics, and buying stuff.  I even get bored with the “exciting stuff” like going on vacations and trying to stay entertained in between eating and eliminating and the next election.  Most of it doesn’t mean anything to me.  Sure I will enjoy a movie or something and I like a good bacon cheeseburger, but ultimately I know that eventually I will forget whether I ever saw the movie, someone else will get elected, and you know what happens to everything we eat, so I am not going to get too excited.  And you know what, I have this feeling that most people feel the same way.  We get tired and bored of always trying to feel good because we know it is BS and actually causes us more problems than feeling miserable and then getting over it. The thing is we go off course because we don’t know how to admit our true feelings.  We are too busy trying to be polite and look like we have it all figured out.

I wonder how many people who know me are thinking, that this doesn’t sound like me.  Some people are probably thinking that I don’t sound much like a minister with this opposite of uplifting message.  Well, you might be right according to the made up idea that everyone is supposed to be happy all of the time and that feeling crappy is a crime.  But you are dead wrong when it comes to participating in the human life. There is some crazy idea out there that “spiritual people” are supposed to never feel anything but joy and that they are supposed to always be “on” ready to drop words of wisdom and risk their lives for flaky people who always seem to know what a “spiritual person” would do, but somehow give themselves a pass when it comes to doing those “spiritual” things.  That’s why we have people who take on too much while wearing lying T-shirts that say “too blessed to be stressed”  and other people waiting in line to dump more on them.

Even Jesus could admit to needing help.

Are you one of those people that thinks that crazy stuff is true?  In my life I’ve met so many soft talking spiritual people who on the inside are screaming and yelling and bashing people’s heads in.  They are stressed the h*** out, but won’t admit it because they don’t want to look un-spiritual (whatever that means). Then there are some real sages out there cussing people out one minute and laughing the other who wish they were “more spiritual” not realizing they are angels.  Lordy, you don’t think Jesus had a bad day?  I could think of one in particular.  And if you ever read the Bible or watched one of those Jesus movies, you know one of the last things he did was complain.  Does, “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” sound all cheery and happy?  You think he whispered it so he could sound spiritual or was he yelling out because he was having the worst day of his life?  At least with Christians, we should know better than perpetuating this false belief that people on a spiritual path are supposed to be grinning all the time being impervious to humanity.  Jesus was called the “Man of Sorrows” for a reason.  But if most of us ask a person how they’re doing and they reply back, “Um, I’m feeling pretty forsaken by God.  How about you?” we’d be judging that person and telling them to get on drugs so they don’t feel those feelings.

Here’s a prescription for the day.  If you are feeling crappy, it is ok.  Feeling crappy is as much a gift from God as anything else.  Now does that mean I’m saying you shouldn’t want the crap to end.  Of course not.  Jesus asked three times to get out of going to the cross.  He obviously wasn’t happy about the situation.  But ultimately he saw that the greater thing for his situation was to stick it out.    He wasn’t judging himself for crying and praying so hard that he sweat blood.  He felt it because it is a part of being here and he was wholly present with everything about being human.  He felt the pain but he stayed because he knew that pain helps us gauge where we are and where we are going and he had somewhere very important to be.  How well do you think a GPS would work if it only told you right turns?  You’d just be going in circles. Feeling junky is not the time to numb out.  It’s time to pay attention, because life is trying to tell you something.  There are some things in life that are supposed to make you feel crappy.  The key is to be present with it and move through it.  But never deny it.  It’s just not healthy.   That’s what I get out of Jesus’ example.

It’s not exciting, but it’s honest.

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Angel Number 1124 Meaning

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Are you interested in Angel Number 1124 Meaning? Then this guide is for you!

Angel number 1124 asks you to get in touch with your strengths and weaknesses. This is the only way you’ll understand how best to deal with the challenges in your life.

When you know your strengths and shortcomings, you will easily discover your passion.

Your angels are giving you a good chance to pursue the things that make you happy. To achieve this, you need to deal decisively with the obstacles in your path.

Take advantage of your strengths to fight for your dreams. At the same time, keep working on your shortcomings.

It’s easy to convert your shortcomings to strengths if you are positively motivated.

Additionally, this sign assures you that your future is bright. Although it may not seem like it right now, you are on the right path to fulfilling your destiny.

Every experience you have to go through happens for good reasons. The challenges you encounter in life are meant to make you stronger.

This is the more reason you should maintain a positive mindset.

Reveal which numbers show up in YOUR Numerology Chart »

What’s the Meaning of Angel Number 1124?

What makes your heart sing? You angels are encouraging you to pursue it, for it will bring peace and joy into your life.

Angel number 1124 inspires you to live your life to the fullest. Your divine guides are asking you to make good use of your skills and talents.

The divine realm is closely monitoring your progress. Your angels want you to know that you’ll never walk alone.

Universal Energies will inspire you to find the right direction in life. They will steer you on the path of growth and progress.

When you see this sign, know that you have direct access to the divine realm. Cleanse your heart and mind of all forms of negative energy.

You need clarity of thought to establish a strong relationship with your divine minders.

Your divine guides know about the situations and circumstances you are dealing with. They want you to know that divine intervention is just a prayer away.

Don’t hesitate to contact your angels when you need their help.

This angelic sign asks you to prepare for the difficulties ahead. The road to success is not an easy one.

Listen attentively to the guidance your angels are sending you. They are giving you a way out of the difficulties in your life.

What it Means When I keep Seeing 11:24 on My Watch

The recurrence of the hour 11:24 indicates good luck, peace, and happiness.

Your angels and the Ascended Masters are working behind the scenes so that you can have a good life.

When you keep encountering this hour in your life, know that something good is in the offing.

The energies of good luck will follow you. Your efforts will bear fruit.

This is your cue to keep working hard. Be patient as you wait for your rewards to manifest.

Pray to your angels for calmness and tranquility. Your angels will give you the serenity to deal with the baffling issues in your life.

Additionally, the hour 11:24 asks you to be cautious in dealing with arrogant and deceptive people.

Not everyone in your life wants your success. Your angels are warning you against trusting just about everyone you come across.

Be perceptive enough to understand the kind of people you keep around you. When it comes to your life, it’s better to play safe than sorry.

What’s the Significance of Angel Number 1124?

Have you been seeing angel number 1124 a lot these last days? Your angels and the Ascended Masters are asking you to stay humble.

There’s much power in being humble.

Take care that success does not go to your head. Your angels are asking you to plant your feet firmly on the ground.

Check yourself critically to see how approachable you are.

Just look how far you have come to see whether your attitude towards your family and friends has changed.

This is the best time to re-establish the bonds you share with your loved ones.

Angel number 1124 asks you to have an attitude of gratitude. Don’t take the blessings in your life for granted.

Remember; your angels and the Ascended Masters have stood with you from the very beginning.

They have sent you helpers, teachers, and mentors when you needed them. Don’t take this for granted.

Accept these blessings with a gracious heart.

What’s the Symbolism of Angel Number 1124?

Angel number 1124 bears the strength and vibrations of Root Number 8. This sign symbolizes completion.

Your angels want you to know that success is just around the corner. You are on the verge of a major breakthrough.

The divine realm is asking you to tread carefully. In particular, watch your thoughts, intentions, words, and actions.

You wouldn’t want to stumble and fall when you are this close to your goals.

This is the time to radiate positive energy and optimism.

Your divine guides are encouraging you to lean on positive affirmations and visualizations. You can achieve your goals and dreams if you remain on top of your fears.

Through this sign, your divine guides are encouraging you to stay true to your values. This will put you on the right track with your divine life purpose.

In this, your angels will offer you their unending support and guidance. They want you to unleash your full potential.

Angel number 1124 asks you to take good care of your health.

Keep an eye on what you eat. Exercise regularly and take the occasional breaks from your busy schedule.

What’s the Importance of Angel Number 1124 in My Life?

Your angels and the Ascended Masters are keenly watching over you. They want you to have peace of mind as you go about your daily endeavors.

Keep working hard to achieve your goals. With the support you are receiving from the heavens your efforts will bear positive rewards.

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Soon and very soon, the rewards of your hard work will locate you.

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The Nagelsmann era begins, but what will it hold for RB Leipzig?

The Nagelsmann era begins, but what will it hold for RB Leipzig?

“A new era awaits us,” announces RB Leipzig chief executive Oliver Mintzlaff, gazing over to the two men with him at the club’s first press conference of the 2019/20 season. The first man needs no introduction to those who follow German football, such is his reputation: 31-year-old wunderkind Julian Nagelsmann, the new coach of the team.

Nagelsmann comes from what is considered the second most-hated team currently playing in the top tier of German football – Hoffenheim – joining a club that has endured a vitriolic reception ever since its inception in RB Leipzig, described by many as the most-hated team in Germany, seen as a vehicle for commercialisation and wealth, public enemy number one for any supposed “true” fan of the beautiful game.

Alongside Nagelsmann sits a man who has enjoyed meteoric success in a short period of time, but whose name is lesser-known: new sporting director Markus Krösche. “Markus embodies everything that RB Leipzig stands for,” explains Mintzlaff – and it is clear to see why. In the two full seasons he has overseen as sporting director at minnows Paderborn, Krösche has celebrated back-to-back promotions, a radical U-turn to a vicissitudinous two years beforehand that had seen the club suffer back-to-back relegations and almost fall into the fourth tier of German football.

He is a man who has experienced great success in an extremely short period of time, similar to the sudden ascendancy of RB Leipzig, who in a decade have risen from the fifth tier all the way to playing in the Champions League, counting themselves as one of Germany’s top teams. “We’re hungry for more,” adds Mintzlaff, repeating the strapline that RBL have coined to announce their new kits for the upcoming season; an extremely apropos one, because right now the sky is the limit for RB Leipzig.

Backed by the financial firepower of one of the world’s biggest drinks companies, they have hired their two ideal candidates in Nagelsmann and Krösche, and find themselves at the dawn of a new era now that Ralf Rangnick has left after seven thriving years as sporting director and coach.

Nevertheless, the 60-year-old’s influence lives on. Since the start of July, the German has taken up a new role as Head of Sport and Development Soccer at Red Bull, a move which raised plenty of eyebrows upon its dissemination. Rangnick helped build RB Leipzig into the club it is today, both on and off the pitch. Indeed, his DNA is RBL’s DNA.

It is his high-pressing, aggressive style that has been imprinted onto the team from two stints as head coach, and it is his nous that has provided the vital stability the Leipzig boat needed, one that was rocking hard back in 2012 due to a period of numerous changes and overarching influence from Red Bull managing director Dietrich Mateschitz.

Rangnick’s sudden announcement of his departure surprised many, especially off the back of showing his unwavering commitment to the club by coaching the side for an interim season, just so the team could have Nagelsmann for the next campaign.

Read  |  The money before the fame: RB Leipzig’s troubled journey to the top

The 60-year-old’s departure brought its fair share of concomitant shock. Although Rangnick is no longer sporting director at RBL, he will now wield greater influence than ever before over the Red Bull project, overseeing the franchises in New York and Brazil, too. Nagelsmann is indeed head coach, but Rangnick’s presence will still be felt.

Nagelsmann’s track record in trusting and developing young players is well-known. It could perhaps be seen as repaying the faith that Hoffenheim once put in him, back when they appointed the then 28-year-old as head coach in 2015. The players who have improved and progressed to major clubs during Nagelsmann’s tenure at Hoffenheim are impressive, with prodigies like Niklas Süle moving to Bayern Munich, while other highly-rated youngsters like Joelinton have continued to develop and flourish.

With Hoffenheim achieving European qualification multiple times since the 31-year-old took over – last season notwithstanding – it may seem odd that Nagelsmann would choose to join a rival with a similar profile, a club that has also recently played in Europe and has a strong track record of working with highly-rated young talents.

What differentiates RB Leipzig from Hoffenheim, and indeed most clubs around the world, is its network of Red Bull-affiliated clubs. It is no secret that Leipzig has strong ties with its sister teams, and Red Bull do not shy away from explaining the nexus they have created. “A lot of what has happened in Leipzig in previous years is related to the structure we have built,” said Rangnick upon the announcement of his new role at Red Bull. “We want to create a synergy effect between these clubs, from which RB Leipzig, in particular, can profit and develop even further.”

This “synergy effect”, as Rangnick explains, seeks to primarily benefit Leipzig, the club that Red Bull has identified as its main vehicle after the mistakes it made with the taking over of SV Austria Salzburg in 2006. “In New York and Brazil, we want to build a scouting network and new youth academies should arise to develop top players, who then move on to Europe and in the best case go to RB Leipzig,” he added.

What Julian Nagelsmann is inheriting is not one youth academy but three, with Rangnick and his experience overseeing all of them so that the manager can focus on coaching his team. Combine this with Red Bull’s projects in Austria and the scouting network grows to five different locations.

Nagelsmann now has a global network of players at his fingertips, who can transfer to Leipzig for minuscule amounts of money in comparison to what other clubs would pay for them, as seen from the fees paid when Naby Keïta joined from Salzburg back in 2015, or more recently when Tyler Adams arrived from the New York Red Bulls. Indeed, 16 players have moved from Red Bull Salzburg to RB Leipzig in recent years, a conveyor belt of talent that will only keep on rolling.

Read  |  Why Red Bull’s football empire is doing more good than bad in the game

And as if having a man of Rangnick’s experience wasn’t enough, Leipzig’s head of recruitment and development is Paul Mitchell, a man with a clear eye for talent, responsible for bringing Sadio Mané to Southampton, unearthing Dele Alli, and signing Son Heung-min and Toby Alderweireld for Spurs.

The 37-year-old hasn’t yet been in the job long enough to have made a serious impact, but RB Leipzig are a club with an eye on the future. “They convinced me to try to look at the bigger picture, trying not to get too induced by the short-term,” said Mitchell after his appointment. “The driving force is to do it our way, the Red Bull way. Keeping to our beliefs and not trying to be the same as Dortmund or Bayern buying older and more ready-made players, [rather] grow and develop your own talent, have a longer-term plan and strategy.”

The so-called ‘Red Bull Way’ also means acquiring players aged 24 or under – a club policy – in a bid to focus on seeking out and developing young talent. RBL want players they can keep in the long-run, rather than being forced into selling, like they had to after Liverpool turned Keïta’s head. This faith in youth is extremely Nagelsmann-esque, so it came as no surprise when the young coach said, “The team is very young – that suits me well,” at his first press conference. It is this underlying structure that gives Nagelsmann all the tools he needs to achieve success.

“I want to maintain this DNA that RB have so successfully created and add my ideas on top. If that works, then we can be very successful,” avows Nagelsmann, youthful in comparison to the man who once occupied the coach’s chair in the press conference room at the RB Leipzig training facility.

The style of football played by his predecessor will be voraciously emulated by the young German, as Nagelsmann admits that he is a fan of Leipzig’s high pressing, one that bears similarities to his own: “The club has a clear footballing philosophy, aimed at winning possession and quick build-up play. I love this style of play.”

Rangnick has also laid the foundations for Nagelsmann to employ his favoured flexible 3-5-2 formation, should he choose to. At the start of last season, Rangnick admitted he was a fan of his successor’s preferred formation, in particular its flexibility: “We know that he’s been playing it more and more and changed [formation] during games. It’s something that we also intend to use.”

An example of this flexibility came during Leipzig’s game against Bayer Leverkusen on 6 April. Deploying his standard four at the back, fluid six up-front formation, Rangnick saw his side overrun in midfield by a dominant Leverkusen, going 2-1 down into the break. At half-time he changed to a 3-5-2, moving midfielder Konrad Laimer to right full-back and bringing on Nordi Mukiele to accompany regular starters Willi Orban and Ibrahima Konaté at centre-back.

Read  |  How Jürgen Klopp built an empire out of ruin at Borussia Dortmund

The change paid off, with Leipzig committing the right amount of men in the centre to stop Leverkusen marching straight through the middle, while opening up the outer channels of the pitch. Leipzig ran out 4-2 winners after an impressive comeback, with Rangnick accentuating how important the formation change was after the match: “We didn’t have a grip on the game. We then changed to a 3-5-2 and we showed what we’re really made of.”

Despite this 3-5-2 being an anomaly to Leipzig’s normal set-up throughout the course of last season, Nagelsmann inherits a squad that will be accustomed to playing a system which is essentially his bread and butter. He has the necessary steel in central defence with Konaté and Dayot Upamecano, who have over four seasons’ worth of playing experience between them despite both being only 20, while Lukas Klostermann and Marcel Halstenberg’s recent call-ups to the national team are a testament to the full-back talent Nagelsmann has at his disposal. When it comes to tactical transition, Nagelsmann should have little problem in bringing his attractive style of football to the Red Bull Arena.

Something that Nagelsmann will change at RB Leipzig, however, is the role of the academy. The club has won a myriad of titles in a relatively short time period at youth level, with three under-17 regional Bundesliga title wins in the last six years. Yet, no single youth team player has gone on to secure a regular starting place in the first-team, with the current system favouring imports from other Red Bull-affiliated teams or buying highly-rated talents from elsewhere.

A good example of this is 19-year-old academy product Erik Majetschak, who left the club in June to join second-tier side Erzgebirge Aue. Despite coming through the RBL youth set-up and making a couple of first-team appearances – notably against Celtic in the Europa League – Majetschak, aged just 19, decided to drop down a division instead of staying and fighting for a regular starting berth.

Promotion to the first team will be something that Nagelsmann will surely look to accomplish given his faith in youth. Leipzig themselves have even expressed their desire to have a homegrown player featuring regularly in the senior team, with Florian Scholz, the director of communication, marketing and sporting relations, saying in a recent interview: “Our aim is see at least one youth team player in the first-team squad in the long-term. That will certainly be further accelerated under Julian Nagelsmann.”

It is clear from Scholz’s namedrop that the 31-year-old’s arrival will bring about some change. Nagelsmann certainly has a wealth of young talent at his disposal. Free-scoring 18-year-old striker Fabrice Hartmann has just been handed his first professional contract, while Danish midfielder Mads Bidstrup, whom Rangnick previously described as “a player who we’re confident will make the jump to the first team”, is ready to break through. As the Nagelsmann era begins, Leipzig will become more enticing to talented young players looking to play regular football and reach their full potential.

More eyes than ever across the footballing world will turn towards Leipzig this season as Julian Nagelsmann takes the reigns of a club looking to challenge the very best in the future. During his presentation in front of the assembled press, he produced plenty of noteworthy soundbites, ready-made for the back pages of the German tabloids. One in particular stands out: “The move is a healthy and logical next step for me.” And it’s clear why. Red Bull are building a talent empire, with RB Leipzig the jewel in their crown. And Nagelsmann has just inherited the throne.

By James Caple @CapesJE

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This photo has absolutely nothing to do with anything, really, I just like looking at the Senator behind that desk.  It looks so official. Except for that smirk on his face which indicates he is about to say something mischievous. And if he isn’t going to say it out loud, then he was just thinking it…keeping those thoughts to himself.  Smart…VERY smart.

So, recently the Senator and I were at a lovely dinner hosted in a beautiful home of one of my favorite lobbyists down at the marble palace. I am really picky these days about what I attend, in terms of political functions.  I just am.  When the Senator was first elected I think I went to everything.  It was all so new and interesting and there were lots of people to meet.  And, now I don’t….go to everything.  I just pick and choose, probably because I don’t have a lot of free time, the kids have a lot of activities and I have sort of been there and done that?  Or, maybe I am just in denial.

Anyway, during the course of conversation that night, our lovely hostess asked what it was really like being married to a Senator….
Do I have to answer that?  I am sure there is a politically correct response to that question, but I didn’t feel like making something up.  Am I a bad person?  Really, honesty is the best policy, but I wasn’t going to go there either so I kept my thoughts to myself.  Which, in this case was a VERY smart thing to do.
Can you tell there are only five days left in the Legislative session?  Well, assuming their budget agreement holds….

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Malaga is the sixth-largest city in Spain. Considered to be the most cosmopolitan city in southern Spain, this city is the home to over 571,000 citizens and it’s also one of the most chosen tourist attractions in the entire country. The city of Malaga is very rich in history and in fact, it’s one of […]

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Experience volcanic majesty, imported beaches, and stunning scenery on Spain’s largest Canary Island, Tenerife. Dotted with resorts and off-the-beaten-path attractions, this island in the Spanish archipelago offers culture, beauty, and coastlines aplenty. Here are the top five attractions you don’t want to miss on your visit to Tenerife. 1. Teide National Park and the Teide […]

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your favorite color is red.

close, we become even closer.
i swear i can smell you.
i swear i can hear your voice speak to me at night.
i swear i feel your gentle, strong hands upon my frail form as i walk this earth.
no other relationship has given me such intimacy.
no other friendship has given me such joy.
joy inexpressible bubbles up within me, threatening to destroy all the walls i have built.
i ask you questions and you answer.
i talk to you and you listen.
you tell me your favorite color and i tell you mine.
we walk, hand in hand.
you sing me a song and i sing you one.
we talk, hours on end.
you dance for me and i dance for you.
the world turns a shade brighter, and colors i did not know existed come out in full display as we become closer.
close, we become even closer.

then, suddenly, darkness.

i can see, but i have chosen blindness.
i am healed, but i have chosen pain.
i am saved, but i have chosen to be lost.

i call your name, and you come running, but i cannot feel you.
i cannot see you.
i cannot hear you.
the voices are loud, my eyes strain, and my hands reach forward desperately trying to find you beautiful form.
and i barely touch your cloak when tears come rushing out like rampant waterfalls, and i cling to the hem of your garment crying out for forgiveness.
i have been unfaithful!

forgive me, friend, for i have forgotten your voice.
forgive me, lover, for i have loved another.
forgive me, LORD, for i have lost sight of your throne.
forgive me, tender God, for i have worshiped another.

and in my dirt, in my mess you lift me up and clutch me close to your heart.
i can hear it beating.
such mercy destroys my logic, such love ruins my understanding.
i do not understand it, nor will i ever.
give me the strength to be faithful, for i cannot do it without you.
give me the courage to love you, for i cannot do it without you.
give me the fortitude to follow you, for i cannot do it without you.

i cannot.
but you can.

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PM Modi Becoming Netanyahu of India

PM Modi Becoming Netanyahu of India

 The Indian government’s move to pass a controversial citizenship law that discriminates against religious minorities has been driven by an inspiration from the Zionist regime in Israel, a London-based journalist says.

Shahid Qureshi, a writer and political analyst with The London Post, made the remark during a Friday edition of Press TV’s The Debate program while commenting on the violent protests that have erupted since the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) law was passed by the Indian parliament earlier this week.

The new citizenship law lays out a path of Indian citizenship for six minority religious groups from neighboring Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, but it does not extend the same rights to Muslim migrants.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said the bill was meant to protect minorities from those countries.

“The Indian government has taken its inspiration from the Zionist regime in Israel,” Qureshi told Press TV on Friday. “The bill says exactly the same thing that the Israelis are doing in Palestine. The Palestinians who are living there have no right to stay, no right to return as a refugee.”

The political commentator said, “Modi was becoming the [Benjamin] Netanyahu of India,” since the law approved by the ruling BJP would break India into pieces.

After the bill was passed by the upper house of the Indian parliament on Wednesday, violent protests broke out in northeast India, where people feel they could be overrun by immigrants from across the border, therefore posing a danger to their identity.

The new law creates a path to citizenship for Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis, Christians, Jains and Buddhist migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh but specifically excludes Muslims who now are on the verge of being stateless.

Rights groups have denounced the legislation, with Human Rights Watch criticizing the bill as discriminatory and saying it supports some refugees on the surface but discriminates against some others based on their religion.

Observers say there are concerns now that a country which was founded on a secular basis is being converted into a Hindu state.

Since the emergence of the BJP Hindu nationalist government in 2014 Muslims, as the country’s largest minority, have been subjected to frequent hate crimes while being targeted by anti-Muslim policies and decisions.

Many Muslims in India say they have been made to feel like second-class citizens since Modi took office. Several cities perceived to have Islamic-sounding names have been renamed, while some school textbooks have been altered to downplay Muslims’ contributions to India.

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Together, we can unlock potential in a developing community by providing clean, safe water.

Tayler was eating breakfast one Saturday morning and asked his parents to save the watermelon seeds from his breakfast so he can grow them in his garden. His mom explained that he needs to live somewhere hot to grow watermelons. He then decided that it would be a great idea to send all his and his brother's seeds from the watermelon to Africa so they can grow watermelons. His mom had to explain that Africa does not have a lot of clean water to feed the gardens. Tayler's eyes lit up as he responded, "Then I will help the people get clean water!"

This is what sparked this big hearted 5 year old to begin his initiative towards raising money for The Water Project.

Tayler hopes that you are as inspired as he is and will donate to help bring clean fresh water to little boys and girls and their families.

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Hardware and Doors

One thing I told Doug was that I wish this old farmhouse still had its original doors somewhere in the home!  Doug said he remembers his grandmother telling him about two French doors his grandfather removed and burned in a brush pile out back.  She was sad to see them destroyed, and now my heart aches with her.  When we moved in all that was here were old hollow core doors throughout.  Not a thing true to the original era as this house actually dates back to 1863.

I chose these doors as I chose everything in this house. On a whim and with Doug anxious to get back home and get back to work.  We stood in the door aisle for a while as I told Doug I liked none of these choices.  I even asked some older gentlemen working “where can I get a door like this?” as I held out my hand showing him an image on my phone from some old farmhouse I had admired. He looked at me and laughed as I was soon to find out I was comparing apples to oranges and that this “dream door” didn’t exist on the shelves of Menards.  I next tried to convince Doug to use old wood doors I had hoped to gather from Craigslist, garage sale, etc., but Doug wasn’t having that idea in the least.

As this all happened in a matter of minutes standing in those aisles, I settled.  As I usually did because I learned quickly budget, reality, and dreams are all on different playing fields.

I ended up choosing solid pine doors in the colonial style from those lonely aisles.  They were not my first choice, nor my second, but somehow I feel we pulled it off and everyday I find myself loving them more and more.

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How we did it- I lined all the new unfinished doors out on our patio on saw horses and got to work.  I stained them with Old Masters Wiping stain color provincial and finished them with an oil based polyurethane.  I love the richness a wiping stain can bring to the grains without making them seem “too rustic” if you ask me!

Hind site is always 20/20 and I surely do wish I could have located old doors at a similar historic time period as our home, but that is beside the fact.

This leads me to the next best thing- adding quality hardware. I never knew hardware could make such a difference. From the charm it adds, to the feeling of quality at your grasp, to finding that touch of character and history back to an old home!  Nostalgic Warehouse has been a love of mine for a long time.  I realized I can still find quality hardware I’ve always loved.  I fell in love with this egg and dart style plate with a porcelain knob in oil rubbed bronze to really tie in our home and bring out the details I was looking for!

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The detailing in the plate and the feel of the solid brass truly takes these doors up a notch, or two! The little knob tucked just left of the porcelain door knob is the locking mechanism! I chose passage for our closet and basement door, but went with privacy for all bedrooms and bathrooms. Also, I am so happy to finally have a little privacy in this home with two little boys.

Thank you for stopping by and feel free to ask me any questions in the comments!  I will be looking out for those and getting back to you all!

Thank you all again and I hope this post is encouraging and helpful in making your house your home!

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  1. Oh my goodness, I love your doors! What’s so funny is that we have the original wooden doors and trim from 1900-era in our home and I have to tell you, they aren’t all they’re cracked up to be! They need a ton of work (which we have no idea how to do) because the wood is dry, they all hang a bit crooked at this point, and NONE of the hardware works. It’s all original, but all the catches have worn out, so none of our doors latch. Zero privacy in our house with 5 kids. Do I like the look of them from far away, or in theory? Yes. But would I replace them with something new that just looked more historic if I had the money, probably. I can only love so much imperfection.

  2. Though you couldn’t have/get originals, you made the new purchases look beautiful! Good for you! Hope you’re fine with them and enjoying. Really appreciate you sharing your private home. SO love following and looking at what you do. I came back on your blog just now after seeing your slipcover chairs post, and wanting to look at your kitchen appliances (that I have also) again. Catching up on posts of yours that I’ve missed, inc. this doors one. Beautiful!

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The latest news from The Woman’s Board

10.01 Uncharted Waters: Navigating the New Virtual Gala

Megan Weisberg of Barrington’s Country Magazine writes about Wendy Herb’s (2020 Fall Benefit Co-Chair) road to Rush.

09.24 Rush and Select Medical Announce Joint Venture for Hospitals and Rehab Centers

Rush University System for Health announced entering into a joint venture with Select Medical, a nationwide post-acute care provider. Beginning Dec. 1, the outpatient rehabilitation location on the Rush University…

09.23 2021 Principal Project

We are pleased to announce that The Woman’s Board 2021 Principal Project will be The Woman’s Board Fund for Precision Oncology Research. Dr. Mia Levy will present more detailed information…

09.17 Better Magazine Calendar Listing

Better Magazine included Destination Excellence in their online event calendar.

09.13 Rush Woman’s Board: Toasting Excellence

Judy Bross of Classic Chicago Magazine covers The Woman’s Board’s virtual 2020 Fall Benefit, Destination Excellence.

09.08 Barrington, Northfield residents to Co-chair Rush Woman’s Board’s First Virtual Fundraiser on October 2nd

The Daily Herald covers The Woman’s Board’s first virtual fundraiser, Destination Excellence.

07.06 Rush COVID-19 Response Fund

Since the beginning of April, members and friends of The Woman’s Board have been raising money for the Rush COVID-19 Response Fund…

07.01 Website

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve launched our new Woman’s Board website! It combines a fresher, more contemporary design with greater functionality and ease of use. We’ve designed it to…

07.01 Winnetka Talk

The Rush Junior Board raised funds for the Rush Education and Career Hub; RU Caring Back to School Health Fair: Reach Out and Read, and other community programs that benefit children and adults.

04.05 Our Charities: Postpone, Go Virtual, Survive

Judy Bross of Classic Chicago Magazine shares how The Woman’s Board is adapting its plans for future fundraisers, and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hot News: December 8, 2016 - The Years Project

Hot News: December 8, 2016

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Pruitt, Who Hates EPA, Will Lead It: A transition official confirmed Wednesday that Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt will head Trump’s EPA. Pruitt, whose LinkedIn bio declares him “a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda,” is a climate change denier and one of the key figures in the 24-state suit against the Clean Power Plan. An extensive 2014 New York Times investigation revealed Pruitt’s deep financial connections with the oil and gas lobby, which stealthily used Pruitt as an industry mouthpiece to push back on Obama administration regulations. For more on Pruitt’s wheelings and dealings, scroll down for today’s Denier Roundup. (Washington Post $, New York Times $, The New YorkerWSJ $, CBSCNNNBCCNBCBBCNPRABCFoxAPReutersBloombergNewsweekTimeThe HillNew York MagazinePoliticoUSATodayHuffington PostLA Times $, FT $, Bloomberg TVThe GuardianMarketWatchMashableGizmodoChristian Science MonitorThe VergeEcoWatchClimate Central. Commentary: New York Times editorial $, New York Times, Gail Collins analysis $, WSJ editorial $, Vox, Brad Plumer analysisThe Atlantic, Robinson Meyer analysisForbes, Eric Mack columnLA Times, Scott Martelle column $, ThinkProgress, Samantha Page analysis)

Greenland Ice May Melt Quicker Than We Thought: Two studies published in Nature Wednesday show seemingly contradictory visions for Greenland’s past and the future of its ice sheet, but actually describe different aspects of the ice. One study finds that Greenland’s ice sheet may have melted almost completely and repeatedly during the last 1.4 million years, suggesting the ice is more sensitive to warming than currently thought. The second concluded that the ice on the very easternmost coast has been stable over a 7.5 million year period. Scientists working on both studies say that their results could be compatible: both demonstrate the volatility of the ice sheet, both show that more research is needed, and that while the majority of the island’s ice has melted multiple times, the high altitude east coast has remained icy. Determining the ice sheet’s response to warming is crucial, because its melting could raise global sea levels by up to 24 feet. (TimeGizmodoAFPChristian Science MonitorUS News & World ReportScientific AmericanInsideClimate

Kasich Cold on Renewables Freeze? The Ohio House passed a bill Tuesday that would extend the state’s freeze on renewable energy standards until 2020, sending the bill to the Senate for a possible vote today. Along with over 60 Ohio businesses, Governor Kasich, who signed the original freeze in 2014, has pushed back on the current bill, worrying that the legislature would create “a headline that Ohio went backward on the environment.” In September, Kasich said he would veto legislation that did away with renewables standards, and some speculate he may veto an extension of this freeze as well. (APE&E $, Midwest Energy NewsCincinnati InquirerToledo Blade)

US News
  • How Trump can influence climate change (New York Times $)
  • Red states in the hot seat (The Atlantic)
  • Speaker’s office: No energy bill this year (The HillPolitico Pro $)
  • Trump transition: Rex Tillerson (Vice News Tonight)
  • DiCaprio meets with Trump on green jobs to boost economy (APThe Guardian)
  • Dakota Access backers await Trump (Politico Pro $)
  • Potential Export-Import Bank deals pose grave environmental threat, experts say (The Guardian)
  • Dems, greens gear up for fight against Trump EPA pick (The HillPolitico Pro $, BloombergE&E $)
  • GOP, coal praise Pruitt as EPA pick (Politico Pro $)
  • Ebell offers energy and environment agenda to next Congress (E&E $)
  • When climate change meets sprawl: why Houston’s ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ floods keep happening (Texas Tribune & ProPublica)
  • Koch brothers announce layoffs (Politico)
  • State ‘decoupling’ trend debunks Trump narrative — report (E&E $)
  • Will Donald Trump blow Warren Buffett’s clean-energy bet off course? (Fortune)
  • Don’t worry, Trump supporters love renewable energy (Fast Company)
  • Commerce nominee could have energy conflicts (ClimateWire $)
  • SunPower CEO expects solar panel prices decline to stop next year (Reuters)
  • Coal comeback? This mining company already pivoted to gas (WSJ $)
  • How Google became the world’s largest corporate buyer of renewable energy (Fast Company)
  • South Fla. congressman featured in National Geographic TV show on climate change (Politico FL)
  • Rauner signs Future Energy Jobs bill (Quad City TimesChicago Sun TimesHerald & Review)
  • Illinois energy bill: After race to the finish, what does it all mean? (Midwest Energy News)
  • SunPower shuts plant, cuts jobs 25% to survive solar slump (BloombergLA Times$)
  • Arctic soils are set to release a lot of carbon – probably more than plants can absorb (Alaska Dispatch News)
  • Illinois Gov. Rauner signs bill sparing 2 nuclear plants (AP)
  • Portland’s answer to climate denial? Local action (CityLab)
  • Environmentalists back BLM natural gas rules (Casper Star TribuneGilette News Record)
  • Whitman to Trump: Listen to Ivanka on climate change (Asbury Park Press)
  • Climate change expected to hit Arizona at higher intensity (KJZZ)
  • Northeast Christmas tree farmers get drought in their stockings (Christian Science Monitor)
  • Trump seeks more oil drilling; in Calif., that’s not so easy (Energywire $)
  • State grant helps farmers fund renewable energy sources (Valley Breeze)
  • Santa Barbara explores renewable energy options for desalination plant (Noozhawk)
  • Harris county flood control doesn’t think climate change, growth causes flooding (Houston Press)

World News

  • Canada set to agree carbon price, marking climate split with Trump (Reuters)
  • Climate change could render Sudan ‘uninhabitable’ (CNN)
  • Science just gave us more proof that destroying the environment can spread diseases to humans (Washington Post $)
  • As solar power expands the work day, incomes rise in eastern Kenya (Reuters)
  • Tiny snail defeats Donald Trump in battle over Irish sea wall (New York Times $)
  • Why electric cars are only as clean as their power supply (The Guardian)
  • Giraffes, rarer than elephants, put on extinction watch list (APReuters)
  • UK slashes number of Foreign Office climate change staff (The Guardian)
  • Paris global warming effects: winter air pollution is highest in 10 years (IBT)
  • China has climate change deniers, too. But they’re mostly shunned (GlobalPost)
  • Ecolab’s CEO isn’t worried about Trump’s stance on climate change (Fortune)
  • India turns on world’s largest solar plant (Mashable)
  • Kenya, world bank consider $150 million off-grid power project (Bloomberg)
  • Solar Impulse founder sees electric passenger plane in 10 years (Reuters)
  • Report helps scientists communicate how global warming is worsening natural disasters (The Guardian)
  • India to tender 1 gigawatt of solar rooftop capacity in December (Bloomberg)
  • The easiest way to fight climate change? Fewer babies (Vocativ)
  • Finkel review criticises climate policy chaos and points to need for emissions trading (The Guardian)
  • Emissions trading backflip a recipe for price rises, say business groups (The Guardian)
  • Polar bear numbers set to fall by a third, says study (Wired UKIBT)
  • How to reduce your kitchen’s impact on global warming (Perth Now)
  • Cattle ranchers warn Alberta’s carbon tax will make it tougher to compete (CBC)

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