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It's National Martini Day, in these United States.
One of the things that we, as in the environmental and activist community along Newtown Creek, have been asking officialdom about for years is about why there is zero signage advising the citizenry about not fishing or crabbing in the Newtown Creek. I know this might strike you as odd, but folks actually do fish and crab hereabouts. Observationally, these are people who were born overseas, so the signage issue becomes a bit complicated given the legendary "diversity" of Western Queens and North Brooklyn. The Albany people have always questioned as to why you'd need signage, as it's illegal to fish without a license, and every NYS licensee has been advised about the environmental conditions encountered on the inland waterways of NYC – which is one of the most "Albany people" things I've ever heard.
Luckily, the Feds at EPA realized what we've been asking for is necessary and have begun the process of creating advisory signage, and the PRP (Potentially Resonsible Parties) consortium which styles itself as the "Newtown Creek Group" volunteered to manufacture the placards, which EPA would in turn design and install. The signage is pretty close to its final design iteration, and the latest version looks like this. As to where the signs should be placed? Who has carefully documented every little pocket and corner of the streets surrounding the Creek? Who can tell you where people commonly fish? That's a Newtown Creek Alliance job, anyone can tell you that.
Let's face it, who ya gonna call?
Accordingly, one found himself in Greenpoint recently at nine in the morning as the EPA team assembled. Civilians cannot ride in Government vehicles (which is an odd rule, as we technically own them) so the third party contractor who will do the actual installation of the things did the driving. We hit every little corner of the Newtown Creek where people can find access to the water, even the hidden spots where the "utes" of Greenpernt like to experiment with cannibinoids.
It was actually quite a beautiful morning, and the light was fantastic, so while the Feds got busy with the tape measures and GPS'd the various locations we visited, I waved the camera around a bit.
We did encounter an "enforcement situation" in Brooklyn alongside the Metropolitan Avenue Bridge. There's a protocol for "who's responsible for what" along the Newtown Creek. Short version is this – EPA is in charge of Superfund, which is specifically related to the sediments under the water. New or ongoing pollution entering the water is the provence of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation.
The NYC DEP is responsible for absolutely nothing anywhere or anytime, it's not their fault at all, and they have no idea why they were named as a PRP in the first place as it's all Exxon or National Grid's fault.
The fellow from EPA I was on the bridge with confirmed my belief that "I should call this in" and the NYS DEC Spill Response hotline was called. If you spot oil slicks, plumes of floatable contaminants, or as in the case of the shot above – hundreds of gallons of milky white mystery juice exiting one of DEP's open sewers – the protocol is to first photograph it, as documentation, and then to call 1 (800) 457-7362 to let DEC know about the situation so they can investigate.
We were, as mentioned above, visiting every conceivable spot that the citizenry could find their way to the water.
That included "off limits" locations like the Montrose Avenue Rail Bridge over the English Kills tributary. As you can see from all the interesting graffiti on the bridge, which carries lead tracks of the Bushwick Branch LIRR, trespassing is pretty common back here. This is the reason that EPA asked Newtown Creek Alliance to send somebody along with them, as there's the "official story" and a "real story" found along the water.
This family of Canada Geese were encountered at the Maspeth Avenue Plank Road, and were being predated by a feral cat who was anxious for breakfast. Momma and Poppa Goose were just out of frame to the left, so the cat made a brilliant decision and continued on into the brush to look for some easier prey. We encountered a couple of broods of Geese over the course of the morning. Geese can be ornery, as a note, and will smack you up if they're annoyed.
One of these illegal alien avian bullies, at Maspeth Creek, actually hissed at us as we neared, and stuck its tongue out at me.
The reasoning behind the signage is based around science rather than good humored politics, incidentally. When you're chatting with environmental officials, they don't refer to oysters or mussels as shellfish, rather they call them "bioaccumulators." Animals that are high up in the food chain have internal organs – livers in particular – and muscular tissues which have amassed dangerous levels of whatever pollutant is found in the sediments of the waterway, which they've attained by consuming all the prey critters who are below them in the food chain hierarchy. In the case of crabs, in particular, you can encounter a fantastic amount of chemical concentrates due to their particular niche and occupations.
Newtown Creek is – of course – a Federal Superfund site. The sediment beds hereabout are a goulash of petroleum and petroleum byproducts, organocopper compounds, volatile organic compounds, PCB's, coal tar, sewage, and everything else that has ever been dumped or spilled into the water. The sediment is referred to as "black mayonnaise" and it's where the crabs live. It's also where most of the invertebrates that form the bottom of the food chain for the fish population live. Itty bitty critters eat the decaying organics of the black mayonnaise, and slightly less itty bitty critters eat handfuls of the little guys, and the larger critters eat hundreds of them – you get the idea.
You don't want to eat fish or crabs that you catch in the Newtown Creek. Really.
Upcoming Tours and events
Newtown Creek, Greenpoint to Hunters Point, walking tour with NYCH2O – June 29th, 7-9 p.m..
Experience and learn the history of the western side of Newtown Creek, as well as the East River Parks Hunters Point with NCA Historian Mitch Waxman – details here.
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It's Street Children's Day, in the Republic of Austria.
Dutch Kills, a tributary of Newtown Creek which abruptly turns north off the main channel three quarters of a mile east of the East River, is entirely contained within Long Island City. It's crossed by five bridges – the LIRR bridges DB Cabin and Cabin M, the Borden Avenue Bridge, the Queens Midtown Expressway truss, and the Hunters Point Avenue Bridge. Dutch Kills, like all of Newtown Creek's tributaries and the main channel itself, is lined with a toxic sediment referred to as "Black Mayonnaise." This sediment is composed of coal tar, petroleum and refining byproducts, industrial waste of various provence and typology, as well as human excrement deposited by NYC's open sewers.
At its northern terminus, Dutch Kills is across the street from a CUNY college and several charter schools serving high school and junior high school aged kids. One of the most significant build outs in recent real estate history is happening less than a quarter mile from that spot, along LIC's Jackson Avenue in an area referred to as "Court Square."
Due to a non functioning railroad swing bridge at Dutch Kill's junction with Newtown Creek's main channel, there is absolutely zero maritime industrial activity along the tributary. The bulkheads along its reach generally date back about a century, to a massive "improvement" conducted around the time of the First World War which saw the marshes and swamps it fed drained and both the Sunnyside Yards and the Degnon Industrial Terminal constructed.
The streets surrounding Dutch Kills offer fleeting glimpses of the waterway, and many of them are not City streets at all but "railroad access roads" owned by the MTA. You can almost always smell the waterway before you can see it, and whereas I can tell you a few spots to access the water, none of these are "legal" and all involve trespass of private or government property. You can legally observe it from the Borden Avenue or Hunters Point Avenue bridges, however.
At it's terminus – or "turning basin," there are two abandoned oil barges rusting and rotting away into the water.
Illegal dumping, the native art form of the Borough of Queens, is practiced hereabouts with relish and abandon. The DSNY garbage bin in the shot above appeared on 29th street back in November, and I've been watching it steadily fill up and overflow. DSNY doesn't seem to remember where they put it, as I haven't seen it empty since the day it arrived.
Amidst the sheens of oil and grease you'll observe on Dutch Kills, which are both historic and newly spawned, there are what the NYC DEP would describe as "floatables." That's government code for garbage that's either been flushed or has been swept into the sewer grates on every street corner in NYC. In the case of Dutch Kills, the "sewer shed" that feeds these floatables into it extends all the way to East Elmhurst and Woodside to the east, Sunnyside and Astoria to the north, and the rapidly growing Long Island City which Dutch Kills is a part of.
The sewer plant that handles this burgeoning area was opened in 1931, and Fiorello LaGuardia cut the ribbon to open it.
There is going to be a meeting tomorrow, the latest of many, of the Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group (CAG) on the first of February. If the shot above looks good to you, and you'd like to see more of the same – don't come. If you care about not having a billion and a half gallons of raw sewage a year spilling onto mounds of poisonous and century old industrial waste, do come. Pipe up, we need voices and perspectives from outside the echo chamber.
Details on the meeting – time, place, etc. – can be accessed at this link. We could really use some Queensican bodies and voices in the room.
As evinced by the corpse pictured above, life has actually begun to recolonize this waterway in recent years. The presence of higher mammals hereabouts speaks to an ecosystem that is beginning to recover from centuries of industrial and municipal abuse. Of course, nothing is going to save a raccoon from getting ground into hamburger by the wheels of a semi truck.
At Newtown Creek Alliance, we've been cataloging and observing for a while now. There's more than seventy individual species of birds for instance – including Great Blue Herons and Ospreys – living along the lugubrious Newtown Creek. Their presence speaks to a growing population of prey animals (fish) present in the water column, and to a broader environmental recovery happening along this industrial waterway at the literal center of NYC.
Posted in animals, Borden Avenue Bridge, Degnon Terminal, Dutch Kills, Environmental Protection Agency, Hunters Point Avenue Bridge, Long Island City, Montauk Cutoff, New York Harbor, newtown creek, Superfund
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Hidden Harbor Tours: Newtown Creek tour with Mitch Waxman
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On Sunday -the 26th of May- the Working Harbor Committee is producing and offering a boat tour of the Newtown Creek for any interested parties to attend. A special emphasis on the waterway's storied history and maritime legacy will be made.
I'm going to be doing the history part, speaking in my capacity as the Newtown Creek Alliance Historian, and am tasked with highlighting the various points of interest encountered along the route. Anticipated to be some three hours in length, this boat tour will be delving some three miles inland, proceeding to the Metropolitan Avenue Bridge crossing English Kills in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The Maritime History of Newtown Creek is one largely forgotten in these decadent times, but even now an odd tugboat and barge might be spied making their way down the waterway on any given day. Property owners were considered to have been blessed by some of the finest industrial bulkheads in the world a mere century ago, yet many of the businesses based along the Creek today ignore this invaluable resource, allowing their waterfront property to decay and decline.
Nevertheless, a staggering amount of maritime traffic is still observed here, and towing companies such as Reinauer, K-Sea, DonJon, and Poling and Cutler are regular visitors.
Vast operations will be witnessed by those onboard, many of which are involved in the scrap metal and recyclables trade. Responsible for an enormous amount of cross harbor shipping, companies such as SimsMetal are heavily reliant on the maritime trades for their economic success.
Not all that long ago, Newtown Creek carried a greater tonnage of cargo than the entire Mississippi River.
An active and thriving industrial zone in the center of New York City, from the water one can truly grasp the sheer scale of Newtown Creek's busy waterfront. Normally hidden by high fences and obscured by street facing structures, the intensity of the Newtown Creek is laid bare before the admiring gaze of first time visitor and veteran urban explorer alike.
A tributary of the estuarine East River, Newtown Creek extends some 3.8 miles from its junction with the more familiar waterway, and provides demarcation for the currently undefended border of much of Brooklyn and Queens. Named to the Federal Superfund list, the Creek suffers from a history of environmental degradation and municipal neglect.
An era of great change is upon the Newtown Creek, and this trip will be one of your last chances to see it in its current form.
We will see four moveable bridges, and this year will be your last chance to see the static Kosciuszko Bridge as the NYS DOT has indicated that construction on its replacement will begin as early as the Fall of 2013.
Along it's banks, great fortunes have risen.
Amongst others- Peter Cooper (BO Railroad, Canton Iron, and Cooper Union), Charles Pratt (Astral Oil, and Pratt University), and ultimately John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil)– all grew richer than the dreams of avarice in this place. Alongside them, the darkest mills of the industrial revolution- rendering plants, yeast distilleries, bone blackers, and acid factories provided tens of thousands of jobs to the immigrant populations of Brooklyn and Queens. Today- National Grid, BP, Amoco, ExxonMobil, and a host of other multinational companies still maintain an enormous investment in this valuable industrial canal.
Upcoming tour: Hidden Harbor Tours: Newtown Creek tour with Mitch Waxman.
On May 26th, Mitch shares his unique point of view and deep understanding of the past, present and future conditions of the Newtown Creek as the narrator and expedition leader for this years' Hidden Harbor Tours: Newtown Creek tour with Mitch Waxman.
Our NY Water Taxi leaves from South Street Seaport at 10 a.m. (sharp) for a three hour tour of the Newtown Creek. From the East River we'll move into the Newtown Creek where we'll explore explore vast amounts of maritime infrastructure, see many movable bridges and discover the very heart of the Hidden Harbor.
Limited seating available, get your tickets today.
Tickets $59, trip leaves Pier 17 at South Street Seaport at 10a.m. sharp.
We will be traveling in a comfortable NY Water Taxi vessel with indoor and outdoor seating. There will be refreshments and snacks available for purchase at the bar.
Other upcoming tours:
Parks and Petroleum- Sunday, May 12, 2013
Newtown Creek walking tour with Mitch Waxman and Newtown Creek Alliance, tickets now on sale.
The Insalubrious Valley– Saturday, May 25, 2013
Newtown Creek walking tour with Mitch Waxman and Atlas Obscura, tickets now on sale.
for a full listing and schedule of tours and events, click here
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growing ferocity
As your humble narrator scuttles in palsied manner across the concrete devastations of the Newtown Creek watershed, observations have revealed that a sizable number of Federal employees are now employed and extant upon the water. Early phases of the process which these EPA contractors and supervisory staff are carrying out, they seek an answer to the burning question long offered at this- your Newtown Pentacle, "Who can guess, all there is, that might be buried down there?".
Ignorant, and vulnerable to the pernicious rumormongering of area wags, your humble narrator has been attending and has in fact joined the "Newtown Creek CAG" in order to receive reports and breaking news about the progress of these Federal teams sent by the Environmental Protection Agency to examine the morass, stare into the abyss, and perform the field measurements of conditions upon and indeed within the Newtown Creek.
The CAG is intended to serve as a point of interaction between the agency and present community concerns, reactions, and requests or complaints arising from the community to the agency. Additionally, it will attempt to distribute and disseminate information which the EPA desires the public to know and or consider.
To that end, the EPA has made available these two documents:
US EPA's presentation at the May 21 CAG meeting.
US EPA technical assistance in a nutshell, with details about Technical Assistance Grants (TAG) and the Technical Assistance Services for Communities (TASC) program.
Discussion at recent meetings have discussed the concerns of area businesses who have been experiencing difficulty with bank financing, queries about the methodology of epidemiological and health studies to be conducted in surrounding stakeholder communities, and a timeline was presented for the various phases of their mission. A series of laboratory tests, performed upon samples gathered from literally thousands of individual "sites", are underway.
All summer, you will see these little workboats on the Creek, whose crews will be collecting, sampling, and recording data about the Newtown Creek.
June 16th, 2012- Newtown Creek Alliance Dutch Kills walk
The Newtown Creek Alliance has asked that, in my official capacity as group historian, a tour be conducted on the 16th of June- a Saturday. This walk will follow the Dutch Kills tributary, and will include a couple of guest speakers from the Alliance itself, which will provide welcome relief for tour goers from listening to me rattle on about Michael Degnon, Patrick "Battle Ax" Gleason, and a bunch of bridges that no one has ever heard of.
for June 16th tickets, click here for the Newtown Creek Alliance ticketing page
June 23rd, 2012- Atlas Obscura Thirteen Steps around Dutch Kills walk
Additionally- the "Obscura Day" Thirteen Steps around Dutch Kills tour proved that the efficacy and charms of the Newtown Creek's least known tributary, with its myriad points of interest, could cause a large group to overlook my various inadequacies and failings. The folks at Atlas Obscura, which is a fantastic website worthy of your attentions (btw), have asked me to repeat the tour on the 23rd of June- also a Saturday.
for June 23rd tickets, click here for the Atlas Obscura ticketing page
June 30th, 2012- Working Harbor Committee Kill Van Kull walk
My various interests out on the sixth borough, NY Harbor, have brought me into association with the Working Harbor Committee. A member of the group's Steering Committee- I also serve as the "official" group photographer, am chairman and principal narrator of their annual Newtown Creek Boat Tour, and occasionally speak on the microphone during other tours (mainly the Brooklyn one). This year, the group has branched out into terrestrial explorations to compliment the intense and extant schedule of boat tours, and I'm going to be leading a Kill Van Kull walking tour that should be a lot of fun.
The Kill Van Kull, or tugboat alley as its known to we harbor rats, is a tidal strait that defines the border of Staten Island and New Jersey. A busy and highly industrialized waterfront, Working Harbor's popular "Hidden Harbor – Newark Bay" boat tours provide water access to the Kill, but what is it like on the landward side?
Starting at the St. George Staten Island Ferry terminal, join WHC Steering Committee member Mitch Waxman for a walk up the Kill Van Kull via Staten Islands Richmond Terrace. You'll encounter unrivaled views of the maritime traffic on the Kill itself, as well as the hidden past of the maritime communities which line it's shores. Surprising and historic neighborhoods, an abandoned railway, and tales of prohibition era bootleggers await.
The tour will start at 11, sharp, and you must be on (at least) the 10:30 AM Staten Island Ferry to meet the group at St. George. Again, plan for transportation changes and unexpected weirdness to be revealed to you at MTA.info.
For June 30th tickets, click here for the Working Harbor Committee ticketing page
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The Truth About the Flu Shot
Posted on October 13, 2009 by Editor | Leave a comment
By Sherri Tenpenny, DO
What's in the regular flu shot?
Egg proteins: including avian contaminant viruses
Gelatin: can cause allergic reactions and anaphylaxis are usually associated with sensitivity to egg or gelatin
Polysorbate 80 (Tween80™): can cause severe allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. Also associated with inferility in female mice.
Formaldehyde: known carcinogen
Triton X100: a strong detergent
Sucrose: table sugar
Resin: known to cause allergic reactions
Gentamycin: an antibiotic
Thimerosal: mercury is still in multidose flu shot vials
Do flu shots work?
Not in babies: In a review of more than 51 studies involving more than 294,000 children it was found there was "no evidence that injecting children 6-24 months of age with a flu shot was any more effective than placebo. In children over 2 yrs, it was only effective 33% of the time in preventing the flu.
Reference: "Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy children." The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2 (2008).
Not in children with asthma: A study 800 children with asthma, where one half were vaccinated and the other half did not receive the influenza vaccine. The two groups were compared with respect to clinic visits, emergency department (ED) visits, and hospitalizations for asthma. CONCLUSION: This study failed to provide evidence that the influenza vaccine prevents pediatric asthma exacerbations.
Reference: "Effectiveness of influenza vaccine for the prevention of asthma exacerbations." Christly, C. et al. Arch Dis Child. 2004 Aug;89(8):734-5.
Not in children with asthma (2): "The inactivated flu vaccine, Flumist, does not prevent influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially the ones with asthma…In fact, children who get the flu vaccine are more at risk for hospitalization than children who do not get the vaccine."
Reference: The American Thoracic Society's 105th International Conference, May 15-20, 2009, San Diego.
Not in adults: In a review of 48 reports including more than 66,000 adults, "Vaccination of healthy adults only reduced risk of influenza by 6% and reduced the number of missed work days by less than one day (0.16) days. It did not change the number of people needing to go to hospital or take time off work."
Reference: "Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults." The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 1 (2006).
Not in the Elderly: In a review of 64 studies in 98 flu seasons, For elderly living in nursing homes, flu shots were non-significant for preventing the flu. For elderly living in the community, vaccines were not (significantly) effective against influenza, ILI or pneumonia.
Reference: "Vaccines for preventing influenza in the elderly." The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.3 (2006).
What about the new Swine Flu shot?
Some of the new H1N1 (swine flu) vaccines are going to be made by Novartis. These shots will probably be made in PER.C6 cells (human retina cells) and contain MF59, a potentially debilitating adjuvant. MF-59 is an oil-based adjuvant primarily composed of squalene.
All rats injected with squalene (oil) adjuvants developed a disease that left them crippled, dragging their paralyzed hindquarters across their cages. Injected squalene can cause severe arthritis (3 on scale of 4) and severe immune responses, such as autoimmune arthritis and lupus.
Ref: (1): Kenney, RT. Edleman, R. "Survey of human-use adjuvants." Expert Review of Vaccines. 2 (2003) p171.
Ref: (2): Matsumoto, Gary. Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers and Why GI's Are Only the First Victims of this Vaccine. New York: Basic Books. p54.
Federal health officials are starting to recommend that most Americans get three flu shots this fall: one regular flu shot and two doses of the vaccine made against the new swine flu strain. School children who have never had a flu shot are targeted for four shots in the fall – twice for seasonal flu, twice for pandemic swine flu. (July 15, 2009 news)
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been talking to school superintendents around the country, urging them to make plans to use buildings for mass vaccinations and for vaccinating kids first. (CBS News, June 12, 2009.)
Is Mandatory Vaccination Possible?
1946: US Public Health Service was established and Executive Order (EO) 9708 was signed, listing the communicable diseases where quarantines could be used. 1946 and 2003, cholera, diphtheria, TB, typhoid, smallpox, yellow fever, & viral hemorrhagic fevers were added.
April 4, 2003: EO 13295 added SARS to the list.
April 1, 2005: EO 13295 added "Influenza caused by novel or re-emergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic." EO 13295 also: The president gave the Sec. of HHS the power to quarantine, his or her discretion. Sec of HHS has the power to arrange for the "apprehension and examination of persons reasonably thought to be infected." A cough or a fever could put a person at risk for being quarantined for an extended period of time without recourse.
January 28, 2003: Project BioShield was introduced during Bush's State of the Union Address. This created permanent and indefinite funding authority to develop "medical countermeasures."
The NIH was given authority to speed approval of drugs and vaccines. Emergency approval of a "fast tracked" drug and vaccine can be given without the regular course of safety testing.
December 17, 2006: Division E: The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREPA) was added as an addendum to Defense Appropriations Bill HR 2863 at 11:20p on Saturday night, long after House Committee members had signed off on the bill and gone home for the holidays.
Section (b)(1) states: The Sec of HHS can make a determination that a "disease, health condition or threat" constitutes a public health emergency. He or she may then recommend "the manufacture, testing, development, administration, or use of one or more covered counter measures…" A covered countermeasure defined as a "pandemic product, vaccine or drug."
Division E also provides complete liability protection for all drugs, vaccines or biological products deemed a "covered countermeasure" and used for an outbreak of any kind. In July, 2009, complete liability protection was extened to drug companies that included any product used for any public health emergency declared by Sec of HHS.
Pharma is now protected from all accountability, unless "criminal intent to do harm" can be proven by the injured party. They are protected from liability even if they know the drug will be harmful.
"By 1853, Parliament began passing laws to make the untested vaccine compulsory throughout the British Empire. Other countries of Europe followed suit. Once the economic implications of compulsory vaccinations were realized, few dared to disagree. Then, as now, the media were controlled by the vaccine manufacturers and the government, who stood to make huge money from the sale of these spurious vaccines."… Tim O'Shea, D.C.
For more info, visit Dr. Tenpenny's website at www.drtenpenny.com
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Thank you for supporting us the past few days as we implemented districtwide virtual learning for all students. We know this has been difficult for many of our students and parents, but we believe this was necessary for BCSD to be true to our strategic objective Maintain a Safe Learning Environment for all students and staff in our facilities.
We have a developed a data-driven process for identifying the potential spread of COVID-19 in BCSD classrooms, grade cohorts, and schools. Using this process this school year, we have been able to determine some classrooms, parts of a grade cohort, and schools were best protected from COVID-19 spread by going virtual for a limited period of time.
Taking a broader view, our process for determining when the whole district should go virtual is not based on identifying the potential spread of COVID-19 in the district. Instead, our best method for determining when the district should go virtual remains using the community spread information provided by the North Central Health District and the Georgia Department of Public Health. We determined at the end of August the entire district should go virtual because the number of cases per 100,000 was more than 1,500 cases per 100,000 and rising.
Today, the number of cases per 100,000 remains high, but the latest data this week appears to show the community, like the state of Georgia and the nation, has plateaued and is declining. Additionally, we are implementing multiple strategies throughout our district that we believe increase the level of safety in our schools that others have not fully implemented. Examples include mandating masks, improved air quality, and almost 75% of staff vaccinated. We are close to adding an additional tool – weekly COVID-19 testing. Testing should be available and in place by mid-October.
Based on the above, as well as conversations with our healthcare advisory team, the Bibb County School District will return to in-person learning as planned on Monday, September 20, 2021.
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The Diamond Jubilee: The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth II. A guest post from Mrs. KfC.
Review copy courtesy Random House Canada
February 6th, 2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the ascension of Queen Elizabeth II to the throne of England. With the exception of her ancestor, Queen Victoria, no other monarch has served as long on the throne of the British Empire.
While Queen Victoria occupied the throne for 63 years, she really only reigned for twenty, because as soon as her consort Prince Albert died, she went to ground and spent the rest of her life, fully 40 years, as a pampered and self-indulgent recluse, neglecting her duties as Queen and flaming the always nascent republican sentiment in the land. She was a dour, joyless woman whose only contributions were the naming of an era and populating the thrones of Europe with her progeny. Not a lot of return for the vast amounts of wealth she and her large brood took from the British treasury over her lifetime.
Her great-great grand-daughter is a very different story. Queen Elizabeth was not born to succession and, had history played out differently, she would have been a mere member of the royal family, an interesting cousin to the King, perhaps, and could have chosen her own path in life. When her uncle Edward the Eighth abdicated to marry the twice-divorced American, Wallis Simpson, Elizabeth's father was thrust on to the throne with no preparation or training. He ruled for only sixteen difficult years, including all of World War II, before succumbing to cancer at just 57. His daughter has now been Queen for longer than he was alive.
The story of Queen Elizabeth II's reign is the story of modern Great Britain. A study of her reign is a study of the evolution of society as expressed through politics, morality, the class system in the UK, and an institution which has always had to adapt or die. While many of the adaptations the monarchy has had to make have been painful, this Queen has been masterful in understanding what needed to be done, and implementing change with care and sensitivity, ensuring that the institution stays relevant as the world inevitably changes.
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith is a very readable narrative description of the life of Queen Elizabeth. It details her reign from the beginning to now and is really the story of her "job" and her life as told though the events in her life between 1952 and the present day. Because Bedell Smith is an American, she spends much time discussing the Queen's interactions with various American diplomats, presidents, and luminaries. The author relies heavily on other published works as well as interviews and, while there is nothing new or startling in this book, it will be appealing to American readers who are interested in the quotidian details of the work of the monarch, and her family, and the devotion to duty which is embedded in Queen Elizabeth's DNA.
Both Ben Pimlott and Sarah Bradford published biographies of the Queen to commemorate her seventieth birthday in 1996, and unlike Bedell Smith's approach, they both wrote of the life and times of the the Queen. Pimlott's work is The Queen: A biography of Elizabeth II and Bradford's is Elizabeth. Each has provide historical and constitutional context for the events surrounding the life of the Monarch and, as both authors have intimate knowledge of the English aristocracy, they provide both insight and color (read gossip) in to the rather arcane world inhabited by the hereditary ruling class, and the implications of their dynastic worldviews. They have both chosen to locate the monarchy within the broader context of the Commonwealth and the world, which is very instructive in understanding the role of this Queen as a global leader, albeit a quiet one. As the monarchy is at the intersection of the military, the political and the aristocratic life of the country, understanding those elements is key to understanding the brilliance of the reign of this Queen.
While both these books are excellent, and highly recommended, there is little to choose between them, as each is organized chronologically, is very well researched and unfailingly interesting.
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While each of the three biographies above dwells on the important role of Prince Philip, the royal Consort, the recently published Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Years by Philip Eade helps provide insight into this complex and remarkable man who has been at the Queen's right hand for 64 years. While he started out as a dashing but impoverished Greek emigre with connection to the House of Windsor, he became one of the most influential but unsung men of the last century. His path to this pinnacle was often painful, but he is truly a man of steel, facing adversity head-on, keeping calm and carrying on, and speaking his mind as plainly as you like (much more plainly than many of the courtiers like, actually).
To fully understand and appreciate this remarkable Diamond Jubilee, it is necessary to understand the role Prince Philip has played, and Eade's book is a look into the circumstances and decisions that shaped the man.
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13 Responses to "The Diamond Jubilee: The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth II. A guest post from Mrs. KfC."
Oh dear. Can't abide it, although I must abide it as I care for an elderly couple of sisters who rose at 4am to watch the latest royal wedding in their nighties and dressing gowns and on and on that goes to my dread. I don't mind the monarchy. Just the news of it.
I will admit that I dressed in mourning for an Easter meal with a dear friend who shared my penchant for vintage black dress and stockings when the Queen mother died. But it was the outfits and the old bag's gin and vigor that appealed. Not the crown.
Must we really understand the role Prince Philip has played? Couldn't we just skip it and sing the song when they come around for a visit, allowing that the prince really isn't mentioned at all?
Forgot to mention that the most amusing queen was Quinton Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant. Wish the movie was available on DVD so people could enjoy royalty without reserve!
We can most certainly skip all the hoopla if we wish, but the gin and tonic does seem to have rather broad appeal.
Sheila, excellent review as always. I was surprised to learn that Prince Philip played such an important role in the Queen's life and will follow up with your suggestion to learn more. Apparently the Queen bucked her family when she decided to marry him and has never regretted her decision. Who knew. Thanks and Happy New Year to you and Mr KfC!
I'd like to have my KFC email subscription delivered to my Kindle instead of my usual email address, but I need to "approve" an originating email address in order for Kindle to accept delivery. The address that shows up when KFC emails arrive — donotreply@wordpress.com — doesn't seem to be acceptable.
Dr. D Says:
Ouch! Kathleen – how could you?! Following the Royals is the next best thing to watching Corrie every night. And now I want to learn a little more about sour Prince Philip. Thanks Mrs. KfC, your timely review.
Thanks for the review, Sheila! I find myself strangely fascinated by this world (mostly due to your bad influence) and I can't wait for all the 60th anniversary celebrations. Do you think Prince Philip's heart is up to all the stress?
Thank you for your comment. Given that HRH met Prince Philip when she was 13, it's a really amazing marriage — as you say, "who knew"!
Shawna:
Try and pace yourself – we have a WHOLE year of this!!
I'm glad you are with the program.
sally Feder Says:
How delightful; how delicious; how delovely!
Thanks! Getting two of the four volumes!!!!
Sally;
I'm sure you will enjoy them. Thanks for the comment!
Mrs. KFC does it again with another insightful and incisive review. I am now more "into" the monarchy than I ever dreamed…looking for another review related to the the new monarchy: Will and Kate.
JoAnne Jones Says:
Mrs. KFC: Not unexpectedly, my knowledge, curiosity and appreciation for Queen and Consort increased greatly after reading your review. I'm not sure the books you reviewed would have the same impact. I can't think of another couple who have remained committed to proscribed duty for 60 years. It is possible to admire who they are and what they've done with their lives without subscribing to their way of life. Regards to Mr. KFC.


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Harpoon and Odell Brew a Toast to Brewing Independence
The brewers at Harpoon Brewery and Odell Brewing Co. brew like they own the place – because they do own the place. The pride that employee ownership brings is something worth celebrating. So the two employee-owned, independent brewers came together to brew a declaration of brewing independence. Introducing EHOP, an Oatmeal Pale Ale and a collaboration between the employee owners of Harpoon and Odell.
"We're extremely proud to be employee-owned. Being an independent brewer is something we value deeply and believe it's at the core of what makes our industry so great for both brewers and drinkers." says Harpoon CEO and co-founder Dan Kenary. "We have always admired the beers and culture of Odell, and we were ecstatic when we heard that they were moving to employee ownership last year. There's no better way to celebrate brewing independence than to brew together."
Two versions of the EHOP beer will be released: one brewed at Harpoon in Boston, MA and the other brewed at Odell in Fort Collins, CO. Harpoon Vermont brewer Tom Graham and Odell brewer Bill Beymer collaborated on both recipes, creating two unique takes on an Oatmeal Pale Ale.
"Living in Vermont and collaborating with a Colorado brewer, Bill and I talked about geographic and cultural commonalities for the beer style and ingredients," says Harpoon brewer Tom Graham. "We zeroed in on oats and hops. We wanted to complement the full mouthfeel of oats with a healthy dose of fruity hop flavor and aroma."
Harpoon's EHOP is light golden in color with a subtly tropical hop aroma and a slightly bitter finish. The oats for the Harpoon recipe – 7,000 pounds of them – were provided by King Arthur Flour, a renowned flour company based in Norwich, VT, and one of the nation's foremost employee owned companies. Harpoon EHOP, a hop forward Oatmeal Pale Ale, will be released as part of the brewery's limited batch 100 Barrel Series. ABV 6.6% / IBUs 32.
Harpoon along with King Arthur Flour will host an EHOP release party on Tuesday, October 18th from 6:30pm-8:30pm at the Harpoon Brewery in Windsor, VT. The Harpoon version of the EHOP will be on tap along with a selection of Harpoon beers. Tickets are $20 and include two beers, Farmstead cheese and crackers, and an EHOP-inspired buffet dinner. Tickets to the event can be purchased here: http://www.harpoonbrewery.com/events/2854/100-barrel-series-59-ehop-release-party
Harpoon EHOP will be available for purchase in Harpoon's markets in October, which coincides with National Employee Ownership Month. The Harpoon EHOP will be available in 22 oz. bottles and draft (limited availability) and the Odell EHOP will be available on draft at the Odell Tap Room.
In July 2014 it was announced to Harpoon employees that they would become employee owners through an ESOP, an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. A year later, in July 2015, Odell announced that they would move to employee ownership. This is the second consecutive year that Harpoon has collaborated on an EHOP beer for their 100 Barrel Series. Last fall Harpoon released a sage and thyme spiced ale brewed with the employee owners of Deschutes Brewery out of Bend, OR.
About the Harpoon Brewery:
The Harpoon Brewery was founded by beer lovers Dan Kenary, Rich Doyle, and George Ligeti. In 1986 Harpoon was issued Brewing Permit #001 by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, since it was the first brewery to brew commercially in Boston after a dormant period of about 25 years. Harpoon's line of craft beer features its award winning IPA and UFO beers, along with special seasonal selections. In 2000 Harpoon purchased a second brewery in Windsor, VT, making Harpoon the 19th largest craft brewer in the US. Harpoon has since introduced the limited batch 100 Barrel Series and the as well as the all-natural Harpoon Craft Cider made from freshly pressed apples. In August 2014 Harpoon became an employee-owned company. For more information about Harpoon beers and visiting the breweries, visit www.harpoonbrewery.com.
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The rocky hill rising to 520 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land. Situated on the SE side of Cugnot Ice Piedmont, 2.71 km WSW of Gornik Knoll, 5.27 km N of Church Point and 7.88 km S by W of Marten Crag. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Kribul in Southwestern Bulgaria. Approved on December 6, 2010.


I originally wrote this post way back in 2009. Lots has changed since then. So let's dust it off and do some updating.
Update: Check out this site for tons of resources on getting started and find a several lists of Twittering Administrators and other Education Professionals. Chats and hashtags can be a wealth of information as well. #cpchat is a great place to start finding twittering administrators and #edchat is great for general education discussions. Visit my post on hashtags and chats to learn more.
Update: Lots of administrators are using Google Forms for informal (or formal) teacher walkthrough observations. This post sums it up nicely how to set that up, even providing directions on how the form can automatically send email feedback to the teacher.
Tool 3-Social BookmarkingI crave resources. Its part of my job. However, the resources I collect do no good if I don't share them with anyone. Social Bookmarking services like Diigo and Delicious allow me to share websites, lessons, videos and more with anyone who wants them. Both these services allow you to tag your bookmarks making it even more easy to find the resources you need.
Update: Delicious kinda fell off the radar there for a while. And while it is making somewhat of a comeback, I believe Diigo is where it's at for educators. Check out this post to learn more about setting up Diigo and getting all the nifty educator only features.
Update- Nings are still hugely popular. But other social networks have come along too that support Administrators like the Edutopia Group for Educational Leaders or Edweb.net.
I originally did not include Evernote in this post, mostly because at that point, I had not discovered the awesomeness that is Evernote. But in over 4 years, times have changed and so have my online habits. Evernote is like my brain. I store everything in there from notes, pdfs, presentations, you name it, its in there. It's great for note-taking at conferences because I can easily organize all the session notes into notebooks and share those with colleagues.
Evernote would be great for a School Administrator. School Improvement Planning, meetings, learning times, observations, all could be done in Evernote, across a myriad of devices mind you, and shared individually or to the public web.
I've written a post on how I am using Evernote and one with a bunch of educational Evernote resources.
Five (now six) tools. That's it, just five (or six) to get started with. Of course that's not all you will need to become a Tech Savvy Administrator but its a good start.


147.66 Sumpwams Water Works Company, town of Babylon.
(a) Application. The rules and regulations hereinafter given, duly made and enacted in accordance with the provisions of sections 70, 71 and 73 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as amended by chapter 395 of the Laws of 1928, shall apply to the well, located on land owned by the Sumpwams Water Works Company and situated on a plot of ground in the town of Babylon near the point where the central branch of the Long Island Railroad crosses Albins Avenue, and which forms the source of the public water supply of the incorporated villages of Babylon and Lindenhurst and to that part of the town of Babylon known as West Babylon, Suffolk County, N. Y.
(c) Privies adjacent to the well. (1) No privy, privy vault, pit or other receptacle of any kind placed or used for either the temporary storage of the permanent deposit of human excreta shall be constructed, located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain within 100 feet of the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company.
(2) No privy, privy vault, pit, cesspool or other receptacle, which is not watertight, placed or used for the permanent deposit of human excreta, shall be constructed, located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain within 200 feet of the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company.
(5) Unless otherwise specifically ordered or permitted by the State Commissioner of Health, the excreta collected in the aforesaid watertight receptacles or removable containers permitted under paragraph (3) of this subdivision shall, when removed, be disposed of by burying in trenches or pits and covered with not less than 12 inches of soil in such a manner as effectually to prevent their being washed over the surface of the ground by rain or melting snow and at a distance of not less than 500 feet from the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company.
(d) Sewage, sink wastes, garbage, etc. (1) No bath water, laundry wastes, sewage or other excremental matter from any water closet, privy, cesspool or other source shall be thrown, placed, led, conducted, discharged or allowed to escape or flow in any manner upon the surface of the ground or into the ground beneath the surface (except into watertight receptacles, the contents of which are to be removed as provided by paragraphs (4), and (5) of subdivision (c)) within 200 feet of the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company. (2) No garbage, putrescible matter, kitchen or sink wastes, refuse or waste matter from any garage, dairy or cheese factory nor water in which milk cans, utensils, clothing, bedding, carpets or harness have been washed or rinsed nor any polluted water or liquid of any kind shall be thrown or discharged upon the surface of the ground or into the ground beneath the surface (except into watertight containers, the contents of which are to be removed as provided by paragraphs (4) and (5) of subdivision (c)) within 200 feet of the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company.
(e) Animals, manure, compost, etc. (1) No stable for cattle or horses, no barnyard, hogyard, pigpen, poultry house or yard, no hitching place or standing place for horses or other animals and no manure pile or compost heap shall be constructed, located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain within 200 feet of the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company, and none of the above-named objects or sources of pollution shall be constructed, located, placed, maintained or allowed to remain where or in such a manner that the drainings, leachings or washings from the same may enter the well without first having passed over or through such an extent of soil as to have been properly purified, and in no case shall it be deemed that proper purification has been secured unless the aforesaid drainings, leachings or washings shall have percolated over or through the soil in a scattered, dissipated form and not concentrated in perceptible lines of drainage for a distance of not less than 200 feet from the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company.
(2) No human excreta and no compost or other matter containing human excreta shall be thrown, placed, piled or spread upon the surface of the ground, nor shall such human excreta, compost or other matter containing human excreta be buried in the soil unless covered with not less than 12 inches of soil nor within a distance of 500 feet of the well; and no manure or compost of any kind shall be placed, piled or spread upon the ground within a distance of 200 feet of the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company.
(f) Dead animals, offal, manufacturing wastes, etc. No dead animal, bird, fish or any part thereof nor any offal or waste matter of any kind shall be thrown, placed, discharged, maintained or allowed to remain upon the surface of the ground or buried beneath the surface within 300 feet of the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company.
(g) Trespassing. No trespassing shall be allowed upon the property of the Sumpwams Water Works Company upon which the wells of the public water supply of the incorporated Villages of Babylon and Lindenhurst and that part of the Town of Babylon known as West Babylon are located, and no person or persons shall enter in or upon such property except the duly authorized representatives of said company in the official performance of their duties of supervision or maintenance of this public water supply or except such other persons as may be authorized to enter said property by the Sumpwams Water Works Company.
(h) Camps. No temporary camp, tent, building or other structure for housing laborers engaged on construction work or for other purposes shall be located, placed or maintained within a distance of 500 feet of the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company.
(i) Cemeteries. No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of 500 feet of the well of the public water supply of the Sumpwams Water Works Company.
(j) Inspections. The duly authorized officials of the Sumpwams Water Works Company or such other person or persons who may be charged with the maintenance or supervision of the public water supply of said company or their duly authorized representative shall make regular and thorough inspections of the area surrounding the well for the purpose of ascertaining whether the above rules and regulations are being complied with, and it shall be the duty of said Sumpwams Water Works Company to cause copies of any rules and regulations violated to be served upon the persons violating the same with notices of such violations; and if such persons served do not immediately comply with the rules and regulations, it shall be the further duty of the Sumpwams Water Works Company to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The Sumpwams Water Works Company shall report to the State Commissioner of Health in writing annually, on the first of January, the results of the regular inspections made during the preceding year, stating the number of inspections which have been made, the number of violations found, the number of notices served and the general surroundings of the well at the time of the last inspection. (k) Penalty. In accordance with section 70 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as amended by chapter 395 of the Laws of 1928, the penalty for each and every violation of or noncompliance with any of these rules and regulations which relate to a permanent source or act of contamination is hereby fixed at $100.


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