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TRANSCRIPT: February 10th, 2021 Coronavirus Briefing Media
Governor Phil Murphy: Good afternoon, everybody. I am joined by the woman on the screen who needs no introduction, the Commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli. We're also honored to have the state's former epidemiologist and current COVID-19 Medical Advisor Dr. Eddy Bresnitz. Eddy, great to have you back with us as well. As you can see, we've got Chief Counsel Parimal Garg. We're expecting another guy who needs no introduction, Superintendent Colonel Pat Callahan. He's had some technical difficulties, but he'll be joining us in a minute.
Thanks, folks for the flexibility. As you noticed, we put a statement out a couple of hours ago that a member of our family tested positive for COVID-19. We are being extra, extra careful here, adhering both to the CDC guidelines but also taking no chances. I tested negative a couple of hours ago as part of my regular testing regime but again, we're not going to go near -- as they say, don't go near the foul line, stay well off of it and that's exactly what we are doing. Thank you for bearing with us and doing it in this format.
Before I knew we had a family member who tested positive, I might add, Judy and I had a really good visit this morning at the Mary McLeod Bethune Community Life Center in Jersey City with Mayor Steve Fulop. Judy, I think you join me on this, but really impressive operation, really well done. Most importantly, we were joined as well by Senator Sandra Cunningham and Assemblywoman Angela McKnight and the whole health team from Jersey City. I think most importantly, Judy and I and others did a Zoom virtual call last night on how do we get the vaccine more aggressively and responsibly into communities of color? It was quite in that spirit as well that the visit was a really good one.
Speaking of vaccines, our dashboard currently reads 1,138,757 vaccine doses administered. That breaks down, by the way, 875,424 first doses recorded, 263,196 second doses. These numbers, they're not where they need to be or will be, but their continued rise keeps pointing us in the right direction. We anticipate having some additional help coming our way as well. First of all, through the federal government, tomorrow and Friday both CVS and Rite Aid will be receiving direct shipments of vaccines that they'll be making available by appointment at New Jersey locations. Through this federal pharmacy partnership, CVS will be receiving approximately 19,900 doses and Rite Aid will be receiving about 7,500 doses. These are certainly welcome additions to the doses we're already receiving for our state efforts, and every shot moves helps move us closer to our goals. As these doses are being delivered through the federal pharmacy partnership, they will not -- and this is an important point -- they will not dip into or otherwise impact our state allocation. I would encourage you to visit both CVS and Rite Aid online for a list of locations where the vaccine will be available.
Additionally, the Biden administration announced yesterday that it'll be providing an additional vaccine supply directly to targeted community health centers or FQHCs as they're known, federally qualified health centers. While no New Jersey centers were selected for the first phase of this federal program, our community health centers are already vaccinating residents they serve. These health centers provide care for underserved communities, communities which have been hit hard by COVID. And when we are selected, which we anticipate to be soon, this direct increase to our FQHCs will be an important tool for us as we continue to work to ensure equity in the distribution and administration of our vaccine program. As Sheila Oliver reminded us last night, Judy, The other advantage of the FQHC is it's an all-encompassing health center. It's not just a one-off vaccination pod. You go there for the whole gamut of family health needs.
As we mentioned here last week and again on Monday, a couple of days ago, we're expecting increasing deliveries of vaccines from the federal government for our mega sites and other vaccination centers. As these deliveries increase, that means we'll be able to open more appointments and be in position to put our efforts into the next gear and all of these advances will provide more places for more people to get more shots. With multiple variants starting their spread, we're in a race against time, so this added help is coming not a moment too soon.
Another area where help is on the way is for our small business sector, I'm going to switch gears for a minute. Yesterday State Treasurer Liz Muoio and I were pleased to announce that all loans received as part of the federal paycheck protection program will not be subject to state taxes and that all expenses paid through these funds will be tax deductible. This mirrors new federal policy enacted by the Biden administration to make sure these loans are tax free and expenses are tax deductible at the federal level. This is another welcome bit of news for our small business owners, more than 155,000 of whom received more than $17 billion in support through the federal coronavirus relief plans. This is just another layer of protection our business owners need desperately to help them get through this pandemic so they can lead our economic recovery. And again, I want to thank the Treasurer and her team for all their work in helping us get this done.
Switching a modest gear and also for our business community, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority is reopening applications for its popular small and micro business PPE access program for businesses with up to 100 employees. That window will open effective next Tuesday, February 16th, thanks to a new infusion of $2.5 million. All participating New Jersey-based businesses and nonprofits, regardless of size, can already receive a 10% discount with participating vendors, Boxed, Office Depot and Staples for personal protective equipment for their employees and customers. However, under the extension of the program for small employers, businesses and nonprofits with 100 or fewer employees, they can receive discounts of up to 70% from Staples and Office Depot. In the initial phase of this program, just to give you a sense of how popular it is, roughly 9,000 small businesses collectively saved more than $7.6 million. Those businesses that were participants in the prior PPE discount program won't have to do a thing to rejoin. It'll be automatic. Business owners who need to apply for the first time should go to that website, covid19.nj.gov/PPEAccess. Once your business is approved, the discount will automatically apply to your online order, so there's no need to keep receipts or to submit paperwork. Again, I want to thank the EDA team, beginning with and especially Chief Executive Officer Tim Sullivan and the whole team for all the work they're doing, Kevin Quinn and the great board to help our small business community. We are not aware, by the way of any other state in the nation that is undertaking a program like this. I also want to thank our corporate partners at Boxed, Office Depot and Staples. As I said, a couple of press conferences ago, the corporate community has overwhelmingly stood up to this moment and behaved not just responsibly, but admirably, and that includes those three companies.
While we're on the topic of the EDA, let's give a shout out to another of the small businesses they've supported with essential grant funding, Verona is the home of Four Paws Stay and Play, a doggy daycare owned by that guy, Ken Brower. Four Paws is one of New Jersey's longest running pet daycare businesses with more than 16 years of helping dog owners ensure their pets are properly looked after and socialized while they're at work or school. On March 21st, when the pandemic tightened its grip, Four Paws was forced to temporarily shut its doors. But thanks to the partnership of the EDA, Ken was able to secure two emergency small business grants that allowed him to pay expenses and keep his five employees on the payroll, and as New Jersey starts getting back to work, Four Paws is welcoming back more and more of its four-legged clients. I checked in and had a great chat with Ken on Monday, and I know he shares our goal of getting our economy back as soon as responsibly possible, to where all the good dogs, once again under Ken and his staff's care, can go. Check them out, by the way. They are at 168 Pompton Avenue in Verona. Their website is not surprisingly, fourpawsstayandplay.com. Ken did caution me to remind folks, and we've got a couple of dogs, we're big dog people. Because of the size of his place, the clientele is limited to 25 pounds and under. Judy, make sure you make note of that, I noticed you're making notes there.
And one last check in before we turn to the overnight numbers, and that's one more look at the progress being made by the Department of Education to close the remaining digital divide among students in our schools. Last week, we reported that what once had been a yawning technology gap of an estimated 231,000 students needing either the hardware, internet connectivity or both had been cut to 413 students, today that gap has been winnowed even further and currently, only nine districts or charter schools are reporting a remaining need totaling 195 students. Believe me, we won't be happy until that 195 gets to zero.
Of this remaining amount, by the way, 85 are students in Sussex County who are lacking steady internet access. We're getting very close to having the digital divide 100% closed, and I know that the team at the Department of Education will continue their strong partnership with our county and local education leaders to get the job completed.
With that, let's turn our attention to the rest of the overnight numbers. Today we're reporting 3,740 newly received positive PCR tests, 885 new presumed positive rapid test results, that adds up to 4,625. The lab reporting error that we reported Monday was cleared through yesterday's report, so all outstanding tests have now been reported out.
Positivity rate, which again it's for Saturday, I think Judy and Eddy and I would all caution you to be careful of this 24,586 tests. We think you're going to get tested on a Saturday or a holiday for a reason, but that bounced up rather precipitously again to 12.16.
Statewide rate of transmission continues to go in the right direction, 0.81. We're also seeing good trends emerging from our hospitals, which we've spoken to, but that continues. Last night we had 2,605 confirmed COVID positive, 181 awaiting tests, 2,786 in total; 533 patients that are in intensive care, 341 ventilators in use. On Tuesday, 383 live patients were discharged; 307 new COVID positive patients were admitted. Sadly and again this runs the risk of comparing apples to oranges, hospitals reported 49 losses of life.
We can, however, report confirmed another 88 passings from our extraordinary New Jersey family. That raises the statewide total since the start of this pandemic to 20,004. The number of probable deaths has been revised today, by the way, to 2,246. Crossing that 20,000 mark for confirmed losses of life takes your breath away. Let's take a couple of minutes, as we always do, to remember three more of the blessed lives we have lost.
We're going to start with this guy, Vincent "Vinnie" Tavormina of Monroe. Vinnie was Elizabeth born and raised and also called Linden in South Brunswick home before settling into Monroe two years ago. He was a proud Army veteran, a graduate of Seton Hall University and made his career as a consultant for Verizon Media before retiring in 2014. He was a man of great faith and Catholic devotion. Vinnie was a member of the Knights of Columbus which was a big deal in his life, rising to serve as Grand Knight of St Cecilia Council No. 7046 and receiving numerous honors through his service, including the Star Council Award, the Circle of Honor Award, and Star District Award. He also served the Knights of Columbus as an elected officer and was in the midst of serving a term as State Deputy.
Vinnie is now reunited with his late wife Elaine, who passed away in 2012. He leaves behind their children, Anthony, Matt and Christie and their families, including his four grandchildren, Marcello, Jeffrey, Dominic, and Bryn. He also leaves his companion with whom I had the great honor of speaking on Monday, Tamara Cassidy and his sister Connie, and many nieces, nephews and extended family. Vinnie was 72 years old. He was a Jersey original through and through. We thank him for his service to our nation and may God bless and watch over his memory and those who left behind.
Next up, we remember Lyndhurst's Bernard Lanham, a longtime member of the family at the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, who served as a solid waste enforcement officer for the past 16 years. Bernard is being remembered as a hard worker and a great friend. He enjoyed fishing and taking road trips with family and friends. Even though he worked for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, he remained to the end a diehard, as if I have to tell you this, Dallas Cowboys fan.
He leaves behind his daughters, Ivory, with whom I had the great honor of speaking on Monday, and Crystal and his beloved granddaughter Tessa, who was a special light in his life. He was predeceased in 2019 by a third daughter, Lisa. Bernard was 64 years old. And of course, he leaves his family at the Sports and Exposition Authority. One of his former colleagues said this about Bernard, and I quote him, "We not only just lost a colleague but a friend and a brother." To CEO Vinny Prieto, a dear friend and the whole team at the Sports and Exposition Authority, you are also in our prayers. We thank him for his years of service to our state and to his colleagues. Bernard's funeral, by the way, was at 11:00 a.m. this morning. May God bless and watch over him.
Finally today, we remember Cristina Crowell of Colonia. She was just 51 years old. Born in Newark, Cristina had a passion for helping children, a passion that led her to become a fierce advocate for our youngest residents as an elementary school educator and testing coordinator with the Plainfield Public Schools. Outside the classroom, Cristina always made room for two things: her family and Broadway shows. They were her two favorite pastimes, and the lights in both areas are a little dimmer because of her passing.
Cristina leaves behind her husband of 23 years, Jim, with whom I had the great honor of speaking on Monday, and her two beloved children, 21-year-old Jimmy and 18-year-old Emily. She's also survived by her father, Tony. Keep him in your prayers as well, by her brother and sister Anthony and Terry and their families, including her nieces Lindsey, Julia and Maddie and nephews Tommy, Anthony, and Robbie. Plainfield has lost an exemplary educator and our state has lost a tremendous advocate for our kids. I want to thank former Commissioner the Department of Education and now President of Kean University, Dr. Lamont Repollet, for raising Cristina's passing with us. I also want to thank Cristina's mayor and a fellow Colonia resident, Mayor John McCormac of Woodbridge for bringing this to our attention. We thank Cristina for a lifetime spent preparing our youngest learners for success and may God bless and watch over her.
Three more blessed members of our New Jersey family lost to this horrible pandemic. We remember them, as we remember everyone who's been lost. For them, we will fight on to defeat this virus.
Finally, for today, before I turn things over to Judy, I want to acknowledge the passing of one of our Greatest Generation, and to the best of my knowledge, not because of COVID. Ocean City's Joe Caserta earned the nickname Tanker Joe because of the years he spent as the driver and commander of a Sherman Tank named Everlasting as a member of E Company 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division. That is Joe and that is the tank Everlasting.
Tanker Joe helped blaze the path from the beaches of Normandy to Berlin. Much of the distance under harsh enemy fire, he saw action in the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of Cologne. Joe was, get this, a recipient of the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, the American Campaign Medal, the World War II Medal, the European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and the New Jersey Distinguished Service Medal. In 2013, he was appointed as Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Hollande for his contribution to France's liberation.
Back home, Tanker Joe ran an auto repair and auto body shop, but he always made time for reunions with his fellow servicemen. He was a member of VFW Post 6650 and American Legion Post 524. Joe was 98 years old. He's now back with his beloved wife Eileen. He leaves his four sons Joseph, Michael, Tom and Jess and their families, including eight grandchildren and 15 grandkids. Tanker Joe will be laid to rest a week from Saturday on February 20th fittingly, at the Veterans Cemetery in Cape May Court House. I want to thank friend and Assemblyman Antwan McClellan for bringing Joe's extraordinary life and passing to our attention. Thank you, Joe, for your service and heroism. Thank you for being an example of our great American values. Thank you for being a New Jerseyan and God bless you.
With that, please help me welcome the woman who needs no introduction, the Commissioner of the Department of Health, Judy Persichilli.
Commissioner of Health Judith Persichilli: Thank you, Governor. Good afternoon, everyone. Well, the Governor has provided an update on the federal retail pharmacy partnership with CVS and Rite Aid. They will be receiving more than 27,000 doses from the federal government to increase vaccine access in our state. Over 20 CVS sites and over 70 Rite Aid sites will begin vaccinating eligible residents over the next week.
Yesterday, as the Governor shared, we also received the good news that the federal government will also be shipping vaccine doses directly to the federally qualified health care centers around the country and in our state, so we look forward to New Jersey benefiting from this program when our time comes up. As you know, the FQHCs provide care to residents in underserved communities around the state, regardless of an individual's ability to pay. These centers are community based, all of them are accessible by public transportation, and many of these centers are trusted medical homes for the uninsured and the undocumented. Currently, more than 30 FQHC sites in New Jersey are signed up to provide COVID-19 vaccinations in New Jersey. The federal announcement of additional doses to the community health centers aligns with our continued commitment to the strategic aim of equity in vaccine distribution. Both of these programs will bring their own doses with them, so it will be on top of what our state receives every week.
As vaccine doses increase, we'll be able to open up more appointments, giving eligible residents more opportunity. The allocation of first doses this week is Pfizer 55,575, and Moderna 87,400 doses. This is an increase of more than 6,000 doses of what we expected to receive. For second doses, we will receive 55,575 Pfizer and 56,100 Moderna. As I have shared with you in the past, we have reserved all of the second doses for individuals who have received their first doses.
For the week ending February 21st, we are expecting an increase in the amount of first doses of Pfizer, an increase of about 12,000 doses, for a total of 67,860 doses. We expect the same amount of the Moderna first doses that we have received this week, and that is 87,400. For the week of February 28th, that amount will remain steady, 67,865 Pfizer first doses and 87,400 Moderna first doses.
But even with those increases, the demand for appointments is currently greater than the appointments we have available. If you are in a group that is eligible to receive a vaccine, you can preregister for the vaccine on the NJ Vaccine Scheduling System available at covid19.nj.gov/vaccine and you will be notified when an appointment is available to you. Right now, all of our available appointments are full. Or, you can make an appointment at one of the designated vaccine sites directly, and you can also find that connection on covid19.nj.gov/vaccine.
Beginning last evening, we had placed a temporary pause on the call center's ability to schedule appointments. While the agents were working to assist those who wanted appointments, we discovered we needed to streamline the system on the agent end to prevent scheduling errors, and also offer further training to the agents so that they can best meet your needs. The call center can still provide information about vaccination sites, they can still preregister individuals and answer frequently asked questions about COVID-19 vaccine. We hope to bring up their scheduling capability in the near future.
As we continue to work to vaccinate residents of our state, we continue to reinforce that residents still need to follow all of the safeguarding methods until enough individuals are vaccinated to produce community protection. The state has seen the impact of public health measures such as physical distancing and masking as it helped us flatten the curve last spring. A new CDC report demonstrates the value of masking. Their data indicates that statewide mask mandates may be associated with reduced spread of COVID-19 and contributes to declines in weekly COVID-19 associated hospitalization growth rates for adults aged 18 to 64.
During the weeks following the implementation of statewide mask mandate, hospitalization growth rates declined 2.9 percentage points among adults aged 40 to 64. After mask mandates had been in place for three weeks or more, the COVID-19 hospital growth rates declined 5.5 percentage points among adults aged 18 to 64. It is vital that we adhere to masking. Research indicates that asymptomatic spread is responsible now for nearly 60% of COVID-19 transmission. Mask wearing can reduce the risk of spread from people who don't have symptoms or haven't developed symptoms yet. Wearing a mask consistently and correctly over your nose and mouth is one of the best ways to protect yourself against getting infected with or spreading COVID-19. So masking, social distancing, staying home when you're sick, can also help with preventing all respiratory viral illnesses. As we review our weekly flu reports, we are seeing that flu activity is unusually low this year in the state. Typically, we expect to see peak flu illness by now. However, flu activity remains low across the entire state.
Thankfully, there have been no new reports of severe pediatric flu illnesses or deaths in New Jersey to date this season but nationally, there have been reports, so New Jersey is doing a little bit better. Children can develop more severe illness in comparison to adults. While activity is low now, we are still seeing flu circulating so we want to remind all of you, those who haven't yet, there's still time to get a flu shot. It's not too late to get vaccinated against the flu.
Moving on to my daily report, as the Governor shared, our hospitals reported 2,786 hospitalizations due to COVID-19 positive patients and PUIs. That's one of our lowest census in a while. There are no new reports, thankfully, of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. There are 88 cumulative cases in our state. Three of these children are currently hospitalized.
We are reporting two new reports of B-117 variants in patients, which emerged in the UK. The two new reports are in Essex County, so now there are 33 reports of this variant in New Jersey.
At the state veteran homes, the good news is there are no new positive cases among the residents. At the state psychiatric hospitals, there is one new positive case among patients at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital.
The positivity rate in New Jersey as of February 6th was 12.16%. The Northern part of the state reports 12.85, Central 12.72, Southern part of the state 9.62. That concludes my daily report. Please stay safe, continue to mask up, social distance, stay home when you're sick, get tested. And remember, for each other and for us all, please take the call and download the COVID Alert New Jersey App. Thank you.
Governor Phil Murphy: Judy, thank you. You know, we've had this conversation, just to underscore something in part of your comments. We've had this conversation of late. We collectively, by the millions in New Jersey, broke the back of this pandemic in the spring into the early summer by doing the basics: the face masks, the social distancing, the washing hands with soap and water, taking yourself off the field as I'm now living, and you have lived recently, without a vaccine. That was done without a vaccine. We have to remember that as the vaccine's reach slowly but very surely and very steadily gets to more people, we still have those weapons at our disposal.
I think there's the further, I guess, one piece of emerging good news and one piece of caution and the caution is the variants. As you suggest, the so-called UK variant and Eddie would attest to this, is in our midst on the negative side. Again, no evidence that it's more lethal but it looks like it's more easily transmissible. And on the positive side, you fast forward, you can imagine I'm going to go two months out to Easter or just beyond Easter, you've got potentially a J&J vaccine on the field depending on how their EUA application goes, and you certainly have whether that's more cooperative than what we're dealing with right now. Those are not insignificant. Thank you for reminding us the basics still matter, and they still make a big difference.
Speaking of weather, he couldn't get on the Zoom, I don't know if it's a personal gripe that they have with him, but he's on the telephone and I would love to welcome in Colonel Pat Callahan. In all seriousness, we've got a number of different weather patterns right before us. Pat, anything you've got on weather, either of these two developments coming upon us, or compliance or other matters? Great to have you with us.
State Police Superintendent Col. Patrick Callahan: Thanks, Governor. Good afternoon. You would have thought after almost a year of virtual meetings that I could master launching a meeting or star six, but I hope you can hear me okay.
With regards to Executive Order compliance, ABC and Division of Criminal Justice went out over the weekend in Burlington and Camden Counties, and compliance was pretty decent. They only cited three establishments. One was Bobby Ray's in Pennsauken which was cited, Kaminski Sports Bar and Restaurant in Cherry Hill, and Fat Albert's Billiards in Somerdale. All three were cited for Executive Order compliance issues.
With regard to these two storms, one is coming in tonight. They're almost very similar, one coming in tonight after the evening rush, looks like it is ending some time tomorrow midday, two to four inches; and again, a very similar storm coming in Thursday into Friday. Again, another two to four inches. We had a call this afternoon at 2:15 with DOT, they are certainly ready to go. Again, just that cycle that we are in with regards to the weather, but we're certainly ready for it, Governor. Thank you.
Governor Phil Murphy: Pat, thank you, we could hear you loud and clear so thanks for that report. And I do feel like we're in one of those -- last winter we were in a positive groove where it felt like we had near misses but we stayed pretty clean. This winter, we're seeing the other side of that reality. Thank you for that.
Before we go to Q&A, I think Michelle and Dan Bryan will coordinate that for us. My guess is, given my circumstances, we will be virtual, if I had to guess, on Friday and we'll try to do that at the regular hour at one o'clock. Today it was sort of last minute so we had to move our timing, but I would hope that would be regular time on Friday, but my guess is that we're virtual and then we'll take it from there and see where we go from there. Again, I want to thank everyone for their patience today for moving this around on very short notice. We'll probably stay until the top of the hour if that's okay with everybody and take as many questions as we can.
Daniel Munoz, NJBIZ: Hi, Governor. You had mentioned, I believe, something regarding the combination of Easter and the vaccine efforts at that point in the spring, I was hoping you could elaborate on that. What kinds of reopenings would you consider next if numbers headed in the right direction? What would you need? Also, what would you need to see to reverse the recent reopenings that you did with indoor dining? Any thoughts on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo allowing stadiums to open at reduced capacity? Is New Jersey going to try something similar? Do you think that's a bad idea?
Do you expect with the marijuana bill that you'll have to go back and clean it up? It seems like there's still a lot of unresolved issues even if it does get to your desk and pass your desk sometime in the next week or two.
The NFL Commissioner is offering their football stadiums as vaccination centers. Have you heard anything about that from MetLife Stadium or from any other stadiums like Red Bull or Prudential or any of the other big ones across the state?
Governor Phil Murphy: I think I can take most of these. Judy or Eddy or Pat, if you disagree, chime in. That's me, Phil Murphy, just saying, listen, let's go to a time that's not that far from now and think through what could be different than today, on this cold February day, with a lot of snow on the ground. And you can see, I mean, the variants are going to continue to be something we watch like a hawk, but you could see being in a dramatically different place not that long from now. Easter is the first weekend of April, so I picked that as something that's six or seven weeks away. There's no magic to that moment.
Other reopenings, Daniel, we will proceed with based on the facts as they present themselves. The facts lately have begun to trend in a good direction. Judy, made the observation that the census in our hospitals, which is one that we watch like a hawk, because we only have so much capacity, that's in better shape today than it's been in many weeks. Those numbers continue to go in the right direction. We'll be able to clearly open things up further. I can't tell you when or how much.
We would be open on the stadium front. In fact, had the Eagles played a full 60 minutes against the Cowboys in Week 17 and won, the Giants would have been in the playoffs and we had already reached out. I'm not sure whether we could have gotten there, but we had already reached out to the New York football Giants and they said, "Listen, this is something if the Eagles win, we're prepared to talk to you to see if there's something we could pull off." We've shown a willingness to do that. I don't have a specific step to be taken right now. We don't have baseball in the state so that's an obvious one in New York that they've got that we don't have. We've got minor league baseball, obviously, but we don't have the professional top major leagues.
Nothing new to say on weed, Daniel. I'm still optimistic. We've been working very well with our Legislative colleagues in the Black Caucus, with leadership. We're still working through to try to find that common ground. I've got a meeting with leadership tomorrow, which will now be virtual. But again, I continue to be cautiously optimistic that we'll figure a good solution out that adheres to the principles that we all collectively, not just me, feel very strongly about.
Roger Goodell is somebody I have spent a good amount of time with during the pandemic. We haven't spoken directly on vaccination sites but Pat, Judy, and I saw, the Meadowlands is already a site, the old racetrack, the stands that are no longer used is one of our six mega sites, and it is big. I think, Judy, they said they could do 2,400 shots a day. When we were there, they were getting 800 doses. That number is now up from there.
But I think again, I don't want to say this and look back and say, well, gosh, maybe we could have used it. But points of distribution, as a general matter, are not our gating factor. Supply is the gating factor. MetLife is literally a football throw from where we're actually already doing one of our mega sites. Thanks for the questions.
Karin Mueller, Star-Ledger: Hi, good afternoon, everybody. Thanks for taking our questions. We've been hearing from a lot of people who said that they had been getting incorrect information from the call center representatives. The Health Commissioner mentioned more training. Can you tell us more about why they're getting training, and what kind of training they're going to have?
Are all the call center employees located in New Jersey, or are they outsourced to other states, because we've been getting some interesting reports back from our readers. Some of the readers have also said that the call center representatives have told them that the system is down or had crashed, and you said that you're doing some retooling. I'm wondering if you can explain a little bit more about what changes you're making on your end, and if that's why they were referencing that.
Finally, there's just a little bit of confusion at the Gloucester County mega site in terms of when people can go back for second doses. Can you just confirm that if somebody has a date written on the back of their vaccine card, that they can go back to get their second dose on that date, rather than have to wait for an email from the location?
Governor Phil Murphy: I think the answer is yes to that last one. But Judy, I'm going to throw all of these over to you other than to say the registration appointment system, we've had real challenges with our vendor. I'm on daily with Chris Ryan, our head of technology, and that continues to be an ongoing challenge. It feels like it's two steps forward, one step back with the vendor. But beyond that, Judy, any observation you've got on what sort of training are you referring to? Are these folks in New Jersey? And the Gloucester County mega site, if a date is on the back of the card, is that the date you come back for?
Commissioner of Health Judith Persichilli: Thank you, Governor. I'll start with the last one. If you have a date on the back of your card, that is your appointment date. You will get a follow up email just confirming that, so definitely go for your second dose. We have the dose and I want to assure everyone that they will get their second doses.
The call center, generally, the training will be on the use of the system to be able to not only register, a little extra training on registering, but more training on appointment scheduling. We were finding that that was not as easy as we thought it was going to be. It ended up with things like double booking, which is something we cannot have. The training will be mostly on the overall use of the system. They're doing pretty good on the FAQs. But remember, a month ago, we didn't have a call center and we brought up 250 individuals. Now that we've got a little bit more experience, we know the areas where they need a little bit more training.
Other than that, the system itself has had issues, and we are directly speaking with Microsoft, who's the vendor, almost every day to work out those bugs.
Governor Phil Murphy: Judy, the location of the people, I think the other question was, where are they? Are they in Jersey? Physically where are they? They're working remote, we know that much, right?
Commissioner of Health Judith Persichilli: The individuals in the call center are all working remotely and they all are from New Jersey.
Governor Phil Murphy: Thank you for that. Hello, Sam.
Sam Sutton, Politico: Hey, Governor, how are you? Thank you for taking a couple questions here, both for the Commissioner, actually. Just wanted to clarify when you expect FQHCs to begin receiving doses directly from the feds. Is that next week or a couple weeks from now?
Second, a few months back you used a couple of briefings to highlight how you were worried about declining mandatory childhood vaccination rates could lead to spikes of measles, mumps, that sort of thing. Did you see anything along those lines in the fall or winter? If that data is not in front of you, I can follow up.
Commissioner of Health Judith Persichilli: On the FQHCs, we do not have a date from the federal government yet. They announced the program yesterday and they announced the first seven states. We were not in the first seven states, but we certainly put out some feelers to the Biden administration to get us in the queue and get us those doses quickly. I don't have information in front of me on the declining childhood vaccination rates, but certainly we'll get that to you either after the presser or I can speak to that the next time we have a conference.
Governor Phil Murphy: I would just say on the FQHCs, we have been in the first or second wave of most things with the federal administration, and that includes, by the way, with the Trump administration. So for instance, the FEMA partnership states, we were in the first wave of that group. I don't want to over promise and under deliver, but my guess is, I use the word soon, Judy, on the FQHCs. Remember, other states right now, as bad as it's been for us, other states right now, there are a lot of places in the country that are getting clobbered in a way that we were last spring. That's not to say that we're still not getting clobbered, but some of those places are getting hit in a really meaningful way right now. Thank you for that.
Dustin Racioppi, Bergen Record: Good afternoon. Governor, why hasn't the administration selected hemodialysis centers as vaccination locations? It seems like one of the ideal locations to reach a large number of people.
For Colonel Callahan, is there any reason or theories why traffic fatalities were up last year, despite reduced traffic?
And then lastly for you, Governor, this is a bit of a wind up. But my last question, you signed a bill last week that requires the health department to collect COVID data on healthcare workers, but that was drastically altered after lobbyists, most notably from the Hospital Association, advocated for changes and restrictive requirements to post information on the health department dashboard, collect data on workers admitted for treatment, and to adopt standards and protocols for lessening exposure risks, and submitting internal exposure analyses to the health department. I'm just wondering, how does that align with your stated commitment to transparency? Doesn't the public have the right to know exactly how the virus is affecting healthcare workers? Would you restore the requirement of the original bill through an Executive Order? Thanks.
Governor Phil Murphy: Thanks. On that last one, I think I'll probably want to come back to you. Parimal, you can help me. All I can say is this. This was a bill that the healthcare unions felt very strongly about. I spoke just before I signed it with the biggest union, HPAE, and then reached out to them to make sure that they knew that I had signed it. In both cases, they were very happy. But as it relates to the specifics of it, if you could bear with me, we'll get back to you. Parimal, you can help me on that front.
Judy hemodialysis centers, a question mark, and Pat, traffic fatalities. On traffic fatalities, it's my understanding that's the case in America, not just New Jersey. It turns out the open road is not necessarily our friend. But maybe Judy, anything on dialysis centers and then Pat on traffic?
Commissioner of Health Judith Persichilli: Yeah, this is the first time I've heard that dialysis centers should be or want to be considered as points of dispensing. Everybody seems to feel that the vaccination of COVID-19 is similar to the flu, where you can put up a center very easily and that's not the case. There's vaccine stewardship, there's very high level requirements for reporting. You need to be registered with the federal government, sign an agreement with the CDC, enrol in our immunization system. We know right now that we have over 1,000 physician offices that are perfectly situated and are already enrolled to vaccinate when more doses become available. You know, we'll use any appropriate site when we have the vaccine. Right now, the sites that we have are the ones we know can increase the throughput as vaccines become available, are centrally located within a population base for access and will help us promote the equity in the distribution.
Governor Phil Murphy: Judy, you and I had, with the Lieutenant Governor last night, I mentioned earlier we had a very good virtual discussion about equity in the distribution. That was the most recent time we said this, but we've been saying this now for a number of weeks. We've got distribution points that are now bearing down on 300 locations. That number is going to go up. Last night we talked about I hope in a matter of days, and I hope to be back on the field to participate. By the way, I'm showing 295 points of distribution, 21 of which are closed pods, 274 are open. Both the places, Dustin, and the types of places, you're going to continue to see that expand. Houses of worship is the big one we want to get to next. We want to get mobile vans, mobile distribution, and certainly dialysis centers should be on the list of consideration.
Pat, traffic fatalities. Am I right that the open road is not necessarily our friend here?
State Police Superintendent Col. Patrick Callahan: Yeah, I think certainly that is the case, Governor, and I think what's also important to point out is that the total number of accidents last year were down 31%, so we were down from just over 45,000 down to 31,000 crashes in 2020, which is an indication that speed is generally the driving factor there. That lighter traffic in the most densely populated state in the union led to, you know, I think we ended up at 145 fatalities in 2020, up from 130. The open road definitely contributed to that. We also have an ask in to the National Highway Traffic Safety crew, I do believe it was a national trend but I just want to be able to go on record confirming. I should probably have that information within the next few days. Thanks, Gov.
Governor Phil Murphy: Dan Bryan, help me follow up with Karin Mueller. She posted something that said she had heard one of the call center persons was in Texas so we just want to make sure if that's the case, that we know about it, because we want them to be in Jersey, serving Jersey people.
Mike Catalini, Associated Press: I was sorry to hear about your family member who had tested positive for COVID. I'm curious if you might be able to talk about how it is that you're not considered to be in contact with a family member? I don't know if you're willing to talk about who that person is, I'm just curious about that.
I also had a question, Governor, about the number of vaccines that the state is getting. Just doing some quick math, the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines the Commissioner laid out, it's about 155,000 a week. Do those figures include the new numbers for CVS and Rite Aid that you talked about today?
Governor Phil Murphy: They do not, to the best of my knowledge. In fact, I showed 254,000 first and second doses; 143,000 first, 111,000 second. Judy, am I right in saying that CVS/Rite Aid numbers are in addition to that?
Commissioner of Health Judith Persichilli: Exactly.
Governor Phil Murphy: The CVS/Walgreens long-term care numbers are a part of that. Those are within those numbers, Mike.
I won't say who but I will say that it is not the First Lady, number one, although she's getting tested here shortly. I've said this publicly before, I won't go into the details, but we have gone out of our way since day one of taking a lot of precautions, even in our home, particularly when, for whatever reason, we're in the same room and that's invariably a meal. We've set up distances and other prophylactics that have allowed us – so the key is, are you within six feet? This is the CDC guideline. Are you within six feet for a cumulative 15 minutes in a 24-hour block? The conclusion that we have made and my wife and I thought very carefully about this, is the answer is no. But having said that, we are still living in the same house and we don't want to take any chances. That's how we get to that conclusion. As I said earlier, I tested negative this morning as part of our regular testing regime, and these days I get tested pretty regularly. I'm knocking on wood so far, they've all been negative. We'll keep it at that. Thank you, Mike. Let's try to squeeze in one or two more, if we can. Hey, Dave.
David Matthau, NJ 101.5: Thanks. By the way, Governor, I can attest to the fact that you are taking precautions in your own house. When I did an interview with Tammy about the Pandemic Relief Fund, she told me it was freezing in your house because all the windows are open.
Governor Phil Murphy: Yes, we take some unusual precautions. I am thankful at this point that we do.
David Matthau, NJ 101.5: I know you had talked to Commissioner about the call center but for you and the Governor, any plans or thoughts at all about hiring more people to get more operators? Because some people are still waiting for more than an hour or two to get through, never mind that they're getting confusing information right now. I understand that you want to train them, but can we add more operators?
Governor, for you, the Commissioner as well as Dr. Bresnitz, we, I believe now have 33 UK variants confirmed in New Jersey. But since the state lab is not doing any testing yet, I do not believe and these are just sample tests, should we not really assume that there may be thousands of the variant cases not only from the UK, but South Africa and Brazil and at least be looking at it from that point of view in terms of dealing with potential problems? Or, getting ready to deal with potential problems? Because the 33, it sounds like it's really a lowball and unrealistic figure. Thank you.
Governor Phil Murphy: Thank you, Dave. I think it's fair to say, Judy, we are absolutely actively considering bulking up the amount of operators at the call center, there's no question about that. We talked about the call center like it's been up and running since the dawn of Major League Baseball. The thing has been up for three or four weeks, and it went from zero to 250 overnight. Not a lot of other states have been able to do that. I'm not patting ourselves on the back and I hate the fact that people are waiting but please bear with us as we find a happy medium here. But absolutely under active consideration.
I think we've been clear, at least about the UK. Eddy, we've got to get your money's worth for joining us this Wednesday here. You're in the on-deck circle. I think we've been pretty clear that we have been operating, even before we knew there was one case of the UK strain, that it was in the state, never mind now that we may have 33. We're assuming it's all over the place. Correct me if I'm wrong about that, but any comments you've got on either Brazil or South African strain, which was also part of Dave's question? Eddy, great to have you with us.
Dr. Eddy Bresnitz: Thank you, Governor. Right now, they are actually less than 1,000 of this B-117 or UK strain that are in the US. That's in 34 states, including New Jersey. There are literally less than a handful of either one of the other two strains that have been reported in the country, and none in New Jersey. We have not a lot of cases considering the population and the incidence of the strain that we're used to reporting. I think we can assume that the number of reported cases are probably less than what already exists in the country, because not every case is sequenced. We don't know what the magnitude of that is. It's been reported previously, by modelling, that we can expect the UK strain to become the predominant strain sometime in March. We'll see.
But at the same time, and our data shows this, every time we have one of these press conferences, that the number of cases and the number of hospitalizations and the number of ICU admissions are all declining, not just in New Jersey, but around the country. So even though that UK strain may become predominant, it's going to be on a platform of expecting a lot less cases.
After that, every day we're vaccinating thousands of new people both for first and second doses. We're continuing to encourage all these other non-pharmaceutical interventions such as masking and social distancing. And as you mentioned, Governor, the spring is coming when people are going to be flocking outdoors.
I do want to add one other thing. In today's CDC morbidity/mortality weekly report, they had a prerelease, looking at masking and how to better improve the fitting of these masks, and showing that if you fit better, like for example, knotting those masks that go behind the ear or maybe wearing a cloth mask over the surgical mask, you're going to get better protection. I haven't had a chance to read the article in great detail. I skimmed it just before this meeting. So there are lots of things that we are doing and we could be doing and we will be doing to basically reduce the likelihood that we're going to have a lot of those variant cases in New Jersey. We'll have to see, but it depends on everybody doing the right thing.
Governor Phil Murphy: The basic stuff still matters and still works. And then you add to that the weapon of two safe vaccines that work and maybe a third sooner than later and as you say, it doesn't feel like it today but you go out six to eight weeks, you get better weather. I mean, there's a lot of things that we can be optimistic about. Thank you, Eddy. Elise.
Elise Young, Bloomberg: The family member who tested positive, can you tell me when and how the exposure came about? Have any family members other than that individual tested positive? Also, this is at least the second time, I believe, that you've been in quarantine. So are you now considering having your own vaccination sooner rather than later, so you can continue your day-to-day appearances. Thank you.
Governor Phil Murphy: Thanks, Elise. I just got a note that the First Lady has tested negative definitively, so that's good news. The family member's test took place, literally -- which is why some of you were on route to the War Memorial, including my colleagues -- took place late this morning. That was the test. Not clear on the exposure but there has been no, I will just say this. The person who tested positive has not been in any big room settings with lots of people on top of each other. This came from a smaller gathering of some sort, and I'm not sure that we know why or where, Elise. I can't remember the last negative test of the family member but it wouldn't have been that long ago. This is something that's relatively recent, I would say within the past week.
It's a good question in terms of -- and by the way, we went to Judy directly for the advice, and her colleagues here. We didn't practice our own medicine in terms of what we should do in terms of taking myself off the field. But we are in the better to be safe than sorry mode, particularly given that I had a little bit of a health scare a year ago. I want to emphasize that.
We are almost a year into this thing and it's probably a sad observation, but it's a true one. We're able to conduct business like this, including conduct the business of government. The good news is as I look over the next number of days, we're able to do this. It's not just that we have to do it, but that we're able to do it.
I haven't changed my opinion yet, Elise. I'm confident that at some point sooner than later, people in my category will be up to bat for the vaccine, but I continue to want to make sure that we're prioritizing right now two types of people, the folks who we need to help us defeat the virus and the folks that we know are most vulnerable; either 65 and up or under 65 who have chronic conditions. We also know that educators and essential workers are the next wave. Remember, if you're an educator, a retail worker, a transit worker, whatever you are, and you're under 65 and you've got a chronic condition, you are up to bat right now. You are eligible as we speak. I think that's the next wave we need to get to and I'm comfortable waiting my turn in line.
Thank you, everybody, and thanks for your flexibility. On behalf of Judy and Eddy, thank you both on the screen; we had Parimal Garg with us. Parimal, we didn't need to pull you in from the bullpen but thank you for being here, Dan Bryan for coordinating with Michelle, Pat Callahan on the phone. Again, I'm virtual for the next, I would think, number of days which tells me that it is highly likely that our Friday press conference will be usual time but it will be in this format would be my strong expectation. If it's different than that, we'll let you know. I promise we'll give you more advanced notice than we gave you today.
Otherwise, folks, keep being safe, doing the right things. Even though I'm sitting in this little corner by myself, use your masks, socially distance, take yourself off the field even if it's close; even if it's close, take yourself off the field. Thank you for your patience as the vaccine, without question is now well into a significant roll out but we have a long way to go and we completely understand supply is not remotely where demand is at the moment, but it is getting better. It's getting better by the day and week, and we will get there together. Thank you all. Take care, everybody.


When the Special Education Advisory Committee met prior to March of this year, they were always joined at the table by a school administrator. But since 24 parents filed a complaint with the state Department of Education, administrators have been increasingly absent from sitting at the table with the committee.
This issue has been raised at past committee meetings, as members continue to call for a collaborative relationship with the administration and Board of Education, who in turn have said the meetings belong to the committee, and that the district and school board are merely there in an advisory capacity.
Courtney Darby, co-chairman of the committee, noted how they were not informed of this new structure ahead of the committee's Aug. 28 meeting.
"Historically, we've always sat at the table with administrators from the district," Darby said at the meeting. "And we even met this week [with Board of Ed Chairman Betsy Hagerty-Ross], and we were not informed that there was going to be change in the way we were structuring the meeting, so I think you have us all feeling a little off balance.
"We recognize it's our meeting, but our mission is to work collaboratively with you guys," Darby continued.
"We actually did do that already, last week," Darby said.
"Send them to me," Hagerty-Ross replied.
"We actually sat there with you, in your office," said Katrina O'Connor, co-chairman of the committee.
Hagerty-Ross also expressed her preference to have the committee run like the Council of Darien School Parents, or CDSP. Jane Pelletier, advisory committee member, said that while she appreciated the work of the CDSP, structuring the special ed committee's meetings similarly doesn't take into account the "crisis mode" the district is in.
Darby asked if changes to the structure of future meetings would be made, she would appreciate having that information before the meeting. Pelletier had compiled a list of questions about the search for the interim special education director. While appearing confused, as many members also appeared, about the nature of this new meeting structure, Pelletier asked how she should pose her questions.
No one from the school board or administration answered. O'Connor chimed in.
The committee continued to urge Falcone to join them, however he remained in the audience, and would stand up and walk toward the table for each of the many questions posed.
She then read a list of numerous questions regarding the search and selection of the interim special education director. Falcone clarified that the search process has nothing to do with the administration.
"It's a Board of Education process, which is unique," he said.
In years past, Judith Pandolfo, assistant superintendent for elementary education, has presided over these meetings, and the special ed administration also attended and joined the board at the table. Now, however, the staff, school board and administration remain in the crowd.
Pandolfo is no longer attending the meetings, and her absence has coincided with the announcement by Falcone that he was the person to whom the special education director reported. The director, Deirdre Osypuk, remains on paid administrative leave, after signing a new contract and getting a 1.7% raise. Her leave came after more than 100 parents showed up to a meeting with state investigators, where "gut-wrenching" stories were shared by parents about how services were denied or taken away from their children, sometimes as young as 3 years old.
Falcone's claim that Osypuk reported to him has baffled many, especially when former Director Robin Pavia told The Darien Times that she reported to Pandolfo. Pavia left in 2012, and Falcone said he's been the direct supervisor for the special education director since 2010 — a statement that directly contradicts Pavia.
An examination of emails by The Darien Times showed there was more interaction between Pandolfo and Osypuk than Falcone and Osypuk, which appears to discredit Falcone's assertion.
Hagerty-Ross began by clarifying the job title of the interim director.
She then repeated the title. In a press release sent on Aug. 3, Hagerty-Ross refers to this person as an interim director.
The school board chairman then noted there will be 11 members on the committee, including the parents. She did not clarify her previous statement, however, and did not say these parents would assist in establishing the criteria.
Hagerty-Ross also did not explain what the criteria would be used for choosing these parents, and only said the Board of Education would make that decision. Some have expressed concern that Hagerty-Ross would simply pick people who have not appeared confrontational to the district, and would instead pick parents who are more in-line with the school board's vision.
This has many concerned about the integrity of the entire process.
Savage disagreed, and noted the importance of transparency, especially in light of the numerous allegations of cover-ups, open information violations and ongoing defensiveness from the school board and the administration toward parents and their concerns — concerns that appear to have been vindicated when the state found the district broke federal special education law at least 10 times with its training materials.
Several current and former town officials said the school board's request for confidentiality is "unprecedented." While a candidate for the "independent person" position has a right to privacy, those picking the person have a right to reveal their identities if they like, they said.
Parents of children with disabilities have a right to waive their child's right to privacy, so any parent who was on the committee could ostensibly go public with their identities. The request by Hagerty-Ross to have these parents keep their names private, and sign a confidentiality agreement, goes too far, some have said. She also did not inform parents that they have a right to waive their child's right to privacy.
Darien now finds itself with a full-time special education director who is on paid leave, making nearly $150,000 a year; a consultant — Defrancis — who is to be paid $140 per hour plus $70 per hour of travel time; an investigator, Gamm, who is to be paid $225 per hour, plus expenses; and the soon-to-be hired "independent person," who would be paid an amount that has yet to be disclosed or determined.
The schools have spent more than $60,000 for complaint-related legal work, as of July 1, as well as more than $5,000 in public relations help. Since The Times reported the public relations expenses, itemized billings for Duby McDowell, the PR firm used by school attorneys, Shipman & Goodwin, have not appeared on the bills from the law firm to the schools.
Some have expressed the need for more to be understood about the financial problems that led to the cuts — cuts that now appear to be leading to even more spending.
While much has also been said of the cost of Freedom of Information requests made by media and parents — and its potential effect on the schools' ability to pay its bills — the district eliminated its legal affairs assistant position last year in an effort to save money. This person likely would have handled records requests.
The Board of Ed also dissolved its public information committee last year.
Originally published in The Darien Times.
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After granting the user "Users (MY_COMPUTER_NAME\Users)" full control rights to this folder (virtual under IIS), the website started running again. But this time my PDF creator DLLs have are still not working (just keep returning null) and it seems to still be this security issue.
Am I missing any other security settings? I have given the folder full control to the following users:

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After our night's rest at the Phantom Ranch, our agenda item today is the climb up to the South Rim.
Our group poses as we leave Phantom Ranch.
Colorado River on the pedestrian bridge.
to get this photo of Dad chowing down.
"strings out" a bit as we hike up the trail.
not far from the Bright Angel Lodge.
We were up around 4 a.m. to be on time for our 5 a.m. breakfast. Well, Garrett and Matt were actually up during the night, too, since Garrett was not feeling well. Most likely he was worn out from yesterday's hike since he did not take a nap like the rest of us did.
Breakfast was good with pancakes and scrambled eggs and plenty to drink. At 5:33 a.m. we were ready to go. We walked to the edge of the campground for a group photo, just in time to see a mule train arriving from the South Rim with the day's supplies for Phantom Ranch. I don't know what their travel time was – maybe two hours or so, so they left pretty early in the morning. After leaving the campground we had about a quarter mile to walk before we reached the Colorado River and pedestrian bridge across the river. There is another older bridge about a half mile upstream that is part of the South Kaibab trail. We took the Bright Angel trail since it has 3 water stops, and the Kaibab trail has none. After crossing the bridge, we walked our first 30 minutes parallel to the river before we cut back into the trail away from the river. The first couple of hours were pleasant, the temperature was still relatively cool and the switchbacks made the climb easy. We were quite surprised when we reached Indian Garden, which is the half-way point from Phantom Ranch to the South Rim.
At Indian Garden we took a 30 minute break and had some food, some of which was out of the sack lunch that we had gotten back at Phantom Ranch. A pesky squirrel got into Lynette's backpack and ran off with her bag of peanuts. We told her she was not allowed to feed the animals and we were going to report her if she didn't get her peanuts back. She was able to recover them. About that time a park ranger arrived – he was hiking to the nearby Ranger Station. He said that the squirrels around the rest stops are pretty bold because they know that people have food with them.
After our break we headed out for the last half of the climb. Fortunately we were heading up, so the temperature was not rising as much as it did yesterday. But by about noon it was 90 F (32 C). The next two water stops were nicely spaced, and we had several shorter breaks in-between. We weren't drinking just water, either – we had energy supplements in powder form to add to the water. About 3 miles from the top Ted gave Garrett a mint that helped calm his stomach and he felt better. His quote of the day to his mom was "Why didn't you force me to eat that earlier?" after the mint seemed to work.
In contrast to yesterday, there was plenty of "traffic" on the trail today. Most people who hike down to Phantom Ranch do so from the South Rim, and a number of people take day hikes part of the way down and then back up. So we leapfrogged some of the same people more than once on the way up as they took their breaks and then we took ours.
The last mile or so was not a particularly difficult climb, but being the last mile of 24 it seemed so. We seem to increase our drink breaks as we approached the top, and finally we had made it to the South Rim. We had hiked another 9.6 miles (14.6 km) today, climbing some 4460 feet (1359 m) from Phantom Ranch up to the South Rim. Ted's comment was appropriate: "It was the hardest thing I did so far, but also the neatest." For me this was a close second to the Bonn marathon, which was harder. A big thanks to everyone in the group for participating, and a special thank you to Lisa for making all the arrangements including spending a couple of hours on the phone when she called to make our reservations at Phantom Ranch.
Glad to see that you guys got to experience hiking the Grand Canyon. I've always been in awe of the canyon since my first experience there (to the North Rim) in 1954, during a break from my summer job in Springdale, Utah. My last hiking trip there, (with Meghan, Dave & Beth), was in January, 2004. We had snow the last couple of miles up Bright Angel trail.


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Since the late-1980s I have been collecting texts and images that represent the history of the Internet, and in particular what used to be called "'Net culture" or "cyberculture." Here are a bunch of those texts; many can also be found at hacker\culture. I didn't write any of these files, and I don't claim ownership of them.
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Part of the tranquileye family of Web sites.
Film critic Roget Ebert asks: "Time for a Net obituary or a celebration?"
"The Internet Bubble has been compared to the Tulip Craze, when 17th-century investors bid the price of Dutch bulbs to insane heights. Both bubbles burst. The collapse of the Internet economy was inevitable, and clears the way for sane and reasonable rebuilding. Good news: There are more tulips in the world than ever before."
Pyra launches Blogger, a simple Web content management tool for creating weblogs.
A screenshot of the Yahoo! home page, 1997. The most popular Web destination of the 1990s, Yahoo! defined an entire genre of Internet resource: the portal.
Peter Schwartz and Peter Leyden of Wired Magazine predict "The Long Boom"
"We are watching the beginnings of a global economic boom on a scale never experienced before. We have entered a period of sustained growth that could eventually double the world's economy every dozen years and bring increasing prosperity for - quite literally - billions of people on the planet. We are riding the early waves of a 25-year run of a greatly expanding economy that will do much to solve seemingly intractable problems like poverty and to ease tensions throughout the world. And we'll do it without blowing the lid off the environment."
One of the reasons for the growth in interest in the Internet in the early and mid-1990s was community networks, or FreeNets. In his prophetic "How to wreck a community network", Seattle Community Network founder Doug Schuler explains some of the ways that community networking projects can come unraveled.
Amazon.com, the first big online retail project, and its first interface.
Hotwired, the first high profile Web magazine.
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NCSA What's New page for Mosaic was the first weblog of sorts, presenting news on new Web servers and Internet services.
Overhearing the Internet
By Robert Wright of the Voice of America. "Surely you've heard of the Internet. Almost surely you hadn't heard of it a
year ago."
The Project Gutenberg E-Text of Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown
In 1993, Science Fiction author Bruce Sterling aimed his considerable writing talents to dissecting and understanding all the forces at work between Hackers, police, and the people they've had an effect on. He does a very admirable job. While no book (so far) has captured the 1980's computer hacker experience perfectly, this book makes you come away with a feeling that the major issues were touched on and that no-one (on either side) got the short shaft. (This is a major accomplishment in itself.) Sterling is an excellent writer, and while compared to other works in this directory this textfile is a bit on the mammoth side, it's worth it. This file also highlights the work of the great Project Gutenberg, which for 20 years has endeavored to transcribe as many classic works to electronic texts as their staff of volunteers will let them.
The First Web Cam
In 1991, a group of thirsty researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory pointed a camera at a coffee pot and wrote custom software to allow the image to be displayed on all their screens. In 1993, Dan Gordon modified the original system to allow it to respond to web requests. With Maryyn Johnson, he connected it to the web, and XCoffee is transformed into the first webcam.
Slides from a Cern presentation on the World-Wide Web, 1992 or 1993.
World-Wide Web: The Information Universe, Berners-Lee, Cailliau, Groff, and Pollermann of CERN.
Preprint of an article that appeared in Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy, Vol 1 No 2, Meckler, Westport CT, Spring 1992.
"The World-Wide Web (W3) initiative is a practical project to bring a global information universe into existence using available technology. This article describes the aims, data model, and protocols needed to implement the ªwebº, and compares them with various contemporary systems."
Getting Started: When this page was first written (1992?) people had only occasionally heard of the Web. Many more people had access to FTP and Telnet than a good web browser. The W3C has stopped providing some of the "bootstrap" services which were necessary initially to spread the word.
W3 Software: This is a list of products related to the WWW project with a link to a status summary of each one. For list of previous milestones, releases, etc, see the "Features" list for each product, linked to the wish lists.
W3 vs WAIS and Gopher: What's the difference betwen W3 and WAIS? What's the difference between W3 and Gopher? Why invent yet another system? Which one should I use?
How it really happened... by Richard Bartle
Bartle writes about early multi-user dungeons, or MUDs.
The first web browser - or browser-editor rather - was created by Tim Berners-Lee and called "WorldWideWeb" as in 1990 it was the only way to see the web. Much later it was renamed Nexus in order to save confusion between the program and the abstract information space (which is now spelled with spaces). The differences between this screenshot of WWW and the 1990 version:
The whole thing would have been grey scale as NeXTs were at the time just grey scale;
The inline images such as the world/book icon and the CERN icon, would have been displayed in separate windows, as it didn't at first do inline images.
Information Management: A Proposal
Tim Berners-Lee, at CERN proposes the creation of what would become the World Wide Web, March 1989.
"This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system."
The Robert Morris Internet Worm
On November 2, 1988, Robert Morris, Jr., a graduate student in Computer Science at Cornell, wrote an experimental, self-replicating, self-propagating program called a worm and injected it into the Internet.
The Internet Worm Program: An Analysis,
by Eugene H. Spafford 1988
The Internet Worm changed a lot of minds about how interconnected and insecure the Internet was at that time. Using a combination of weaknesses and back doors in common programs, the Worm wended its way throughout the then-small Net and succeeded in crippling it. This document, written during the aftermath, presents a well-thought-out analysis of all the methodology used by the worm, as well as a general oversight of the state of the Internet of the time. Long, but worth it.
Due to geographic location and vocation, my online experience didn't start until the mid-1980s. Halifax, Nova Scotia, had a small but thriving BBS scene, and one of the most interesting boards was the Digitalis Graphic Omniscient Device, or G.O.D. The board ran a massive multiplayer space exploration and trade game. And, oddly enough, after 14 years the server seems to still be up.
The Conscience of a Hacker, by The Mentor (January 8, 1986)
The Mentor's angry scream against the authorities he saw as trying to crush his spark and the spark of people like him. For some reason, this file became the flashpoint that a number of books (including Bruce Sterling's) used as an example of the oppression of the intelligent and the motivations behind the fine art of hacking. Whether it stands up to this sort of light or not, it's a clear statement from someone who feels a lot of pain; and that's what communication is all about.
Phrack Magazine Volume One, Issue One, edited by Taran King (November 17, 1985)
The Phreaking/Hacking magazine that changed everything. While other electronic magazines existed before Phrack, none took the voice of the underground and presented itself as such a dominating, matter-of-fact entity as the Phracks have. Through the years, Phrack has always been dependable as a solidly-written, interest-gathering, packed-with-talent compilation of hot topics going throughout the Hacker Underground as most people have come to understand it. Electronic zines as a general force were usually created so that individual writers' work wouldn't get lost in the wash of sites; by hooking up with a dozen other articles, relatively monstrous 50k-100k files could stand out from the endless grouping of 2k and 15k files that others were putting out. It worked.. very few people don't remember Phrack in some fashion if they were involved in BBSes in the late 80's.
An Apple for the Captain, by Steven Wozniak (October 1, 1984)
BIOC Agent 003 transcribes an Infoworld article that mentions a funny story about Captain Crunch (John Draper), an employee of Apple, reprogramming an Apple II so that it would dial up PBX lines to get free phone codes. In a few short paragraphs, Steven Wozniak describes Phone Phreaking with an innocent sense of fun and exploration, using common technology.
Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution published. The book details the creation of the personal computer industry from its hobbiest roots. (Doubleday/Anchor, 1984)
Whatever Happened to REAL Bulletin-Board Systems?
What strikes me about this file was that it was written around 1982 and decries how out-of-touch, vicious, and impersonal the BBS world has grown for the writer. Note the interesting reasons he gives for the downturn of BBS's.
Tracy Kidder publishes The Soul of a New Machine. The book tracks a team of engineers at Data General Corporation working on an innovative new computer. It follows the life of the project and those involved in it for over a year, from the background of the undertaking until its completion. During this time, the social and professional situations undergo different phases, some quite dramatic. Kidder does a superb work of capturing their essence, and combining them into a coherent account. The result is a gripping tale of of hope and anxiety, of will power and despair, and of immense dedication.
ARPANET Map, March 1977
These maps are from Heart, F., McKenzie, A., McQuillian, J., and Walden, D., ARPANET Completion Report, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Burlington, MA, January 4, 1978.
Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists
1976 request from Bill Gates that users of the Altair personal computer stop pirating Altair BASIC.
Ted Nelson's computer classic Computer Lib/Dream Machines is self published. Theodor Nelson is an academic and computer visionary who is generally credited with creating the term "hypertext" in 1965. While hypertext had been conceived of as early as the 1940s, Nelson was the first to construct it within the context of the emerging computer technologies of the 1960s and 70s as a new mode of publication.
The word "visionary" gets thrown around quite a bit when one talks about computers and the Internet: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos ... all visionaries. And then you read this book, which originally appeared in the 1970s, based on ideas Nelson developed in the 1960s, and you discover what visionary really means.
Dream Machines is a bona fide computer culture classic; it is shocking that such an influential and important book is out of print.
ARPANET Map, December 1969
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush, 1945.
In 1945 Vannevar Bush (1894-1974) published 'As We May Think' in The Atlantic Monthly. A condensed, illustrated version was published in Life later the same year. In these articles Bush reflected on how technology could help solve the problems of post-war society. He was particularly concerned about the explosion of scientific information and describes, among other thing, a device, or rather system of devices, that could be used to help researchers search, record, analyze, and communicate information. These descriptions, and Bush's accompanying account of how new tools could radically change the nature of intellectual work, were rich and compelling. Today almost every litany of the pioneers of hypertext, computer-supported-cooperative work, or interface theory begins with Bush and his extraordinarily influential 'As We May Think'.
The Atlantic cable of 1858 was established to carry instantaneous communications across the ocean for the first time.
Although the laying of this first cable was seen as a landmark event in society, it was a technical failure. It only remained in service a few days.
Subsequent cables laid in 1866 were completely successful and compare to events like the moon landing of a century later. The cable remained in use for almost 100 years.


Gilles Massen joined the RESTENA Foundation in 1999 and was involved in many projects since that time.
Uwe Zeidler joined Broadcasting Center Europe as Network Supervisor in 2005. Since 2010 he is responsible for Telecom and Network Development inside BCE.
Yves joined the Government IT Centre, called "Centre des technologies et de l'information de l'État" (CTIE), in 2014 where his activities are focused on network management and operations.


Sony have launched not one but two impressive flagship smartphones this year. First up was their Xperia Z2 handset which was released in April followed by its successor the Sony Xperia Z3 smartphone which made its debut in September. We stock both handsets here at Direct Mobiles so we thought we'd write a quick guide to help you choose between the 2.
At first glance you may not notice much of a difference between the Z2 and the Z3. Both are beautifully designed and high quality handsets which are befitting of their premium status. Sony have however upgraded the design of the Z3 which is slimmer, lighter and a shade smaller than the Z2. The Z3 just under a millimetre thinner than its older sibling and 11 grams lighter in weight. The Z3 and Z2 smartphones come with a similar screen which measures 5.2-inches with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. The Z3 display slightly pips the Z2 as it's easier to see in bright sunlight as it has 600 nits compared to 460 nits in the Z2. Both handsets are water and dust resistant with the Z3 to IP68 standard and the Z2 to IP58.
Sony have used the same camera on the Xperia Z3 as they did with the Z2. After all the 20.7-megapixel rear camera is one of the best smartphone cameras around and it comes complete with autofocus, an LED flash and HDR. The front facing 2.2-megapixel camera is also the same.
Sony are always striving to include the latest mobile technology in their smartphones so it's no surprise that they've used the very latest 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor in the Xperia Z3. As well as being faster than the 2.3GHz chip in the Z2 it's also significantly more efficient and helps to prolong battery life. A whopping 3GB of RAM is present in both the Z2 and Z3 and although the 3100mAh battery in the Z3 may seem less powerful than the one found in the Z2, it's improved efficiency means that the Z3 zips along. The built-in memory on the Z2 and Z3 is a generous 16GB and both smartphones have the option to expand this up to 128GB with a microSD card.
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Now this is more like it! If you've been a little dismayed by the lack of industrial noisy crunch dripping out from the cracks at Planet Mu HQ recently then look no further, Dr. Kohei (aka Guilty Connector) is ready to assault your eardrums and place dirty fish-hooks into your brain bits. I don't know about you but I have a real soft spot for extreme Japanese horror films - you know the kind, we've had a few break out into the mainstream - Audition being the most obvious. These are usually twisted, sadistic and Godless pieces of 'to-the-limits' body horror - eye gouging, torture and pain being focal points. However there's always something amiss with these films, they tend to be accompanied by the most mundane and least horrific music you could ever come up with - I mean, what are they thinking? Now this is where Guilty Connector comes in... his defined brand of frightening noise sounds exactly like a Japanese exploitation horror flick - metallic clunks rattle, screeches echo out around metallic boxes and electronic drones burble and scratch like mutated animals trapped in the bowels of hell. I mean, you could almost forget the visuals altogether, 'Beats, Noise and Life' certainly has enough grit to make even the most liberal censor think twice about making tasteful edits. Crushing, sickening and probably very bad for your hearing - a guilty pleasure!


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'D' ready to shut down Chappell
November 12, 2010 Jordan Schelling
MADISON – It's been four weeks since Wisconsin knocked off top-ranked Ohio State in front of a raucous crowd of Badger fans at Camp Randall Stadium.
Finally, after a pair of road wins sandwiched around a bye week, the Badgers return home Saturday to host the Indiana Hoosiers and the Big Ten's top passing attack.
"It feels like it's been a month since Lerner's helmet got taken and we were running around the field," said safety Jay Valai, referring to the postgame celebration and backup kicker Alec Lerner. "It's exciting to go back out there, it's going to be a good atmosphere and I can't wait."
One of the highlights of Wisconsin's last home game was the opening kickoff, which David Gilreath took 96 yards for a touchdown, setting the tone for what was to come. Thanks to the evening start, the stadium was already packed, compared with the thousands of empty seats typically associated with the first quarter at Camp Randall.
With Ben Chappell and Indiana's vaunted passing attack coming to town, head coach Bret Bielema – who sent a special message out Thursday to student season ticket holders – and the Badgers hope to see fans arrive on time once again.
"If you're not in the seats before the first couple minutes against Ohio State, you never would have saw David Gilreath's kickoff return," Bielema said. "If we could get the student section going [from the start], I think it would be a very, very special thing to close out the rest of the year."
Following the team's practice Wednesday, defensive end J.J. Watt echoed his coach's sentiments.
"We can't wait to get in front of the home fans, hopefully they're as rowdy and they were against Ohio State," Watt said. "It would nice if they could show up on time this week, and it would be much appreciated."
Aside from asking students to arrive more promptly for the final two home games, the focus this week for Wisconsin, at least on the defensive end, is shutting down the pass.
In the Badgers' 55-20 victory at Indiana in 2008, Chappell tossed for 126 yards and a touchdown, completing 11-of-20 passes in the first half before missing the remainder of the game due to injury. Following a Chappell touchdown run that put Indiana within one point at 21-20, Wisconsin scored 34 unanswered points over the game's final 34 minutes.
Last year, playing at Memorial Stadium once again, Chappell connected on 25-of-35 attempts, passing for 323 yards and three touchdowns.
Wisconsin's defense came up with two interceptions and a sack, all three of which played a major role in the Badgers' 31-28 victory. This season, interceptions have been easier for opposing defense to come by than sacks against Indiana.
Chappell, who has attempted 378 passes, has been intercepted eight times, which equals the number of sacks allowed by the IU offensive line through nine games.
"They're an extremely efficient passing offense," Watt said. "Their quarterback gets the ball out very quickly, so it's going to be tough to get a lot of sacks on him. I believe they have 380 passing attempts on the year and he's only given up eight or nine sacks. So he gets the ball out quick and he knows how to avoid the rush.
"We need to get after him. We definitely need to get after their quarterback and try to rattle him."
If Watt and his fellow defensive linemen are unable to get much pressure on Chappell, the pressure to stop the Hoosiers offense, which averages 27.6 points per game, will fall primarily on the secondary.
Indiana averages nearly 44 passes per game, as opposed to 29 rushes per game. Comparatively, the Wisconsin offense rushes 42 times with 22 passes per game.
Facing an increased workload this week, the secondary looks forward to the challenge.
"Schematically it changes our approach, but defensively it really doesn't," safety Aaron Henry said. "We've got to go out there and do what we've been doing the whole season. This is just another challenge for our secondary to go out their and showcase our abilities. They are the No. 1 passing attack in the Big Ten, but it's an opportunity for us, so that's how we're approaching it."
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Aaron Henry, Alec Lerner, Ben Chappell, Big Ten, Football, Indiana Hoosiers, J.J. Watt, Jay Valai, Wisconsin Badgers
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The University of York has appointed Professor Charlie Jeffery CBE as its next Vice-Chancellor and President. Professor Jeffery will take up his new role on 1 September 2019. Perrett Laver was delighted to support the University in this appointment.
Professor Jeffery is currently Senior Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh, prior to that, he was Vice-Principal (Public Policy) at the University of Edinburgh, and he has been Professor of Politics at Edinburgh since 2004.
Professor Jeffery's portfolio at Edinburgh spans the development of strategy and policy, including roles in strategic and financial planning, student experience, and internal engagement and communications. He has also had overarching responsibility in external relations, including economic development, widening participation, public affairs and international strategy.
Denise Jagger, University of York's Chair of Council said, "We are delighted to welcome Professor Jeffery as our next Vice-Chancellor. Charlie brings with him a wealth of strategic experience, evidence of strong vision and leadership, and a clear commitment to York's founding principles of excellence, equality and opportunity for all, anchored by the highest academic and professional standards.
"There are many challenges - and opportunities - that lie ahead for the higher education sector in the UK. The Council, and the Joint Committee of Council and Senate, felt unanimously that, in appointing Charlie, we are appointing an inspirational leader who can build on the work of our previous Vice-Chancellor, and ensure that York can respond to the challenges ahead with creativity, innovation and determination.
"I am very grateful to Professor Saul Tendler for his leadership in the intervening period since the departure of Professor Koen Lamberts. Saul will continue as Acting Vice-Chancellor and President until Charlie's arrival in September."
Professor Jeffery said, "I am delighted to be joining the University of York as its seventh Vice-Chancellor and President.
"York is a University that stands out for its uncompromising commitment to excellence in both teaching and research, its heritage and record as a University founded to widen participation in higher education, and for the strength of community that links students and staff of all backgrounds in discovering and applying knowledge for public good.
"I am delighted to be joining that community at an exciting time as the University shapes its long-term strategy. It has great strengths across its three Faculties. I am looking forward to working with students, staff and alumni to build on those strengths through the creative collaboration across disciplines for which York is renowned, in partnership with like-minded institutions nationally and internationally, and with the support of alumni and friends around an ambitious Campaign for York.
"My family and I are also looking forward to our move to York and to Yorkshire, a part of the country we don't yet know well and are keen to discover more about."
Professor Saul Tendler, Acting Vice-Chancellor said: "I'm delighted that Professor Charlie Jeffery is coming to York as our next Vice-Chancellor and President. I've known Charlie for a number of years and know he will bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the role. I'm sure you will all join me in welcoming Charlie to York, and I look forward to working with him on the next stages of our University's development."


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We will do a quick WOD to rack up some reps for a Charity Challenge, then ruck approx 20 miles to the statehouse. Carry 20 lbs or 20 kgs, your choice. Make sure you have a reflective belt on your ruck, and a headlamp or flashlight. We will move as a group, at a 16-18min per mile pace, and take breaks as necessary. There will be a seven hour time cap. Upon reaching the capitol, we will hear a brief presentation highlighting the life of a virtuous American whose work impacted the State. You'll get a cool patch for completing the event. Merchandise from the Tour sponsors will be on hand, and of course T-shirts. Expect to have a good time, and see some great organizations representing such as F3, Team RWB, and FiA. Some Tour stops will have representatives from Operation enduring Warrior present to share their story.
Rx Ruck = Complete 20 mile ruck in the allotted 7 hr time with Danny.
Scaled Ruck = Meet Danny at the 15 mile point at 2230 (10:30pm) and finish the last 5 miles with the team. Details on the 15 mile rally point will be distributed when the route is published.