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CyberTran
1301 SOUTH 46TH ST.
BUILDING 112 #24
RICHMOND, CA 94804
Dexter Vizinau
Dexter Vizinau is a Bay Area native who was born and raised in San Francisco. He was the son of a gospel singer that was a single parent who was born blind.
In 1970 Dexter was employed by the IBM Corporation at the age of 19. As an employee of IBM Dexter gained many administrative, marketing and management skills during his 22 years of employment.
1992 Dexter started De Viz Enterprises consulting firm. Areas of expertise included Government Relations, Community Relations, Business Development, Marketing, Economic Development, Manufacturing and Trade.
De Viz Enterprises many clients included the County of Alameda, PeopleSoft, Accenture, Siemens, Pacific Coast Container and Logistics Company, Kenworth Trucking, National Sign and Signal, Signal Park, Oakland Maritime Support Services, Kair In-Home Social Services and many others.
In 2009 Dexter went to work for his client CyberTran Int'l and is now the President of the company. De Viz Enterprises is still and viable company.
Neil Sinclair
Title: Chairman
Neil B. Sinclair serves as CyberTran International Inc.'s Board Chairman. He also serves as CyberTran's Chief Technical Officer. Neil's background is in environmental technologies including solar power, advanced transportation, advanced electric motors, and water quality.
He has served as VP of Marketing and Engineering for solar and electric car companies, and advanced electric motor companies; served on public boards including Chairman of a Public Water District Board, and as a member of a County Art Commission; served as a Legal Intervenor at the California Public Utilities Commission, and as an Advanced Transportation Consultant for the Southern California Air Quality Management District.
Neil has held water and wastewater treatment plant Operator's licenses. He holds patents in both electric motors and Mass transit. He attended the University of California at Berkeley as a Civil Engineering student and graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara in Environmental Studies in 1980.
Nicole Guest
Nicole Guest is an energy, environmental and construction professional with over fifteen years' combined industry experience. She served as a Technical Validation Manager for Sempra Energy's Pipeline Safety Enhancement Plan (PSEP) Oversight Management Team; validating technical data, performing quality reviews and delivering compliance documents to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Her Team supported the authorization of over $250 million in funding for 2017 Q1; data reports for the submittal of over $1 billion in the 2019 General Rate Case filing; validated technical data for recovery of more than $1 billion for the 2018 Work Papers for PSEP projects completed during 2014 – 2016 and validated data for recovery of more than $1 billion for the 2022 Work Papers for PSEP projects completed during 2017 – 2018.
In addition, she acquired a dynamic and diverse background of experience as a researcher for the power plant industry's state and local regulatory compliance requirements; a manager in the luxury car production industry, focused on processes and contract compliance; and founded and operated an employment network focused on the food and beverage industry.
She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in Mass Communications. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) thru USACE and completed ISO 9000/14000 certification Training and Compliance.
Vernon Charles Goins II
Vernon Charles Goins II earned a bachelor's degree at Georgetown University, an MBA from the University of Laverne, a JD from Hastings College of Law in 1997 and an LLM in taxation from Golden Gate University. He went into private practice to develop an expertise in business, real, probate, and estate planning law. He is fluent in both Spanish and French, and taught fourth grade bilingual classes in Compton, California under the Teach for America program.
An active participant in many community organizations, Vernon has served as the President of the California Association of Black Lawyers, President of the Charles Hamilton Houston Bar Association and numerous boards including the Alameda Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers Association, the California Minority Counsel Program and the French American and International School. He is a member of 100 Black Men of the Bay Area, and serves on the advisory board for the Social Engineering Project, Inc.
On December 4, 1999, he received the Charles Houston Bar Association President's Award. On October 18, 2001, he received an award from the Minority Bar Coalition for his outstanding service to the legal community. On June 23, 2005, Congresswoman Barbara Lee awarded Vernon a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for outstanding and invaluable service to the community.
In both 2002 and 2006, he received the distinction of being honored by Hastings College of the Law as Alumnus of the Year. In 2011, he received the National Bar Association's President Award for outstanding community service. Vernon received the California Association of Black Lawyers in 2013 and President's Award. In April 2018, Vernon received the Lauren D. Miller Lawyer of the Year Award from the California Association of Black Lawyers.
Fuad Sweiss
Fuad Sweiss is a seasoned professional engineer with over 38 years of experience in the planning, design, and construction of major infrastructure and building projects for the private and public sectors. Fuad is a strategic thinker with established relationships throughout the region and internationally. He is very passionate about sustainability, climate change, innovations in the building industry, and preserving natural resources while creating opportunities for future generations.
Fuad served in leadership positions at the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and Santa Ana in California for over 32 years. As San Francisco's City Engineer he managed a staff of over 500 professional and was responsible of delivering capital improvement projects valued at $3.0 Billion. At the City of Santa Ana, Fuad led the Public Works Agency as its Executive Director managing the departments of Engineering, Construction, Traffic, Solid Waste and Recycling, Maintenance, Fleet, Facilities, and many other functions until he retired from public service in 2019.PC).
In 2020, Fuad founded Global Modular Partners, LLC and recruited a talented team of professionals to provide project management services for various infrastructure and building projects with emphasis on 3D design, volumetric construction, and modular buildings mainly to reduce project costs, accelerate delivery of projects, improve quality of work, create jobs, and more importantly preserving natural resources and make housing more affordable to millions of people all over the world.
Fuad is currently serving a third term as California State Commissioner on the Seismic Safety Commission appointed twice by Governor Jerry Brown and Governor Gavin Newsom. He travelled to other countries to inspect earthquake damage and lecture on seismic safety. Also, he presented at major conferences and universities such as Stanford, UC Berkely, and Columbia University on the profession of civil engineering, earthquake early warning systems, Sea Level Rise, leadership, and other topics. Fuad was recently appointed as a Board Member on the University of California (UCI) Customer Experience Advisory Board.
Mr. Sweiss graduated from the University of Jordan in 1981 with a B.Sc. Degree in Civil Engineering. He is licensed in the State of California as a Professional Civil Engineer, Land Surveyor, Class A General Contractor, and LEED AP. Fuad's background and experience is an integral component of the strong and diverse CYBERTRAN Advisory Board.
Robert A. Mariner
With over 20 years of transportation experience, Robert Mariner most recently served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Infrastructure Finance and Innovation in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at the US Department of Transportation. He also served as the Program Manager for what is now called the (Federal) Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grants program. This program was responsible for the implementation, administration, and delivery of more than 500 multi-modal projects totaling more than $8 billion nationwide.
Robert also served as the senior advisor to the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy and the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy on project finance policy issues to include being an active member of the Credit Council Working Group for matters dealing with Private Activity Bonds, Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Loans, Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) Loans, and the Title XI ship building grant program. He served as a Congressional liaison for USDOT and FEMA during the Superstorm Sandy response in New York. Robert also drafted and negotiated surface transportation reauthorization provisions to include in the three transportation reauthorization bills. Some of those provisions led to the formation of the TIGER discretionary grant program, the FASTLANE discretionary grant program, and the creation of the National Freight Advisory Committee.
In 2011, Robert became the USDOT Urban Transport Advisor to the Transportation Counselor at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He led an international team of land use planners and engineering professionals from several countries in the development and deployment of the $300 million Kabul City Initiative in Kabul, Afghanistan. This initiative improved the way critical transportation infrastructure and planning practices were provided within the City of Kabul.
Prior to joining USDOT, Robert spent six years as an Airport Environmental Planner and Program Manager, responsible for the delivery of environmental documents for airports across the nation, with project budgets up to $5 million. He also served as an Environmental Engineer for the delivery of multiple environmental compliance documents for the US Air Force and Navy.
Robert received a BS in Civil Engineering from Morgan State University, and an MA in Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics from the George Mason University School of Public Policy.
Reginald Reeves
Reginald Reeves, born in Greensboro, NC, is a retired Idaho Falls attorney and retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army where he served as a Judge Advocate General.
In 2014, he received the nation's highest award for volunteerism and second highest civilian honor awarded by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Outstanding Public Service Award. He is currently a Board member of CyberTran International, Inc.
Mr. Reeves is the Executive Director of the Sun Valley Charitable Foundation, an organization that distributes food, clothing and other items to those in need. A celebrated humanitarian and philanthropist, Mr. Reeves was the recipient of the JRM Foundation's 2018 Idaho Hometown Hero Award and the 2012 Idaho State Bar's Elite Service Award given to Idaho lawyers and judges for their exceptional contributions to justice and their communities.
He received the International Dental award, in part for building a free dental clinic and computer schools in Guatemala. Mr. Reeves has dedicated his life to public service and is honored to be a co-founder of the "I Have a Dream" Foundation – Idaho.
He holds a J.D. from the University of Idaho and a B.S. from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University.
Jean Banker
Jean has worked in public service and transportation policy for 30 years. At Mott MacDonald she has been instrumental in growing the planning and advisory practices for the San Francisco and Oakland offices and she has been assisting VTA with operational readiness for their new BART extension service to San Jose (Phase 1?). For ten years prior to that (?) she worked at the Port of Oakland in a variety of roles. As Principal Assistant to the Executive Director she performed Port-wide policy and program development and led and coordinated the planning and implementation of strategic plans and special projects.
At the Port she was also the Deputy Executive Director, Acting Maritime Director, and a Manager of Finance and Administration for the maritime division. Jean was the project manager for the first port-related Public-Private Partnership (P3) in the U.S. that brought the Port a $60 million upfront payment. Jean has also managed the capital budgeting and planning process for the maritime division and was successful in securing State and Federal grant funds for important projects such as a comprehensive truck program, ship electrification, rail yards, and grade separations.
Prior to working at the Port of Oakland, Jean worked for 13 years as Deputy Director of Capital Programs for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) where she managed, secured funding for, and monitored over $30 billion of capital projects. She developed and wrote the Financial Capacity Assessment which justified to the Federal Transit Administration a $10 billion cost for two major regional expansion projects: Second Avenue Subway and East Side Access. Her work resulted in over $3 billion in Federal New Start grants. She was also project manager for regular Federal audits needed to keep grantee status for the MTA and she helped managed one of the largest subway car procurements in North America.
David Rummler
David is an advisor/mentor for Clean Technology, Air, Water, Waste, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, Energy Storage and Transportation ventures. He is on multiple advisory boards of clean technology ventures including Cyber Tran International, an Ultra-Light Rail venture, Bert Thin Films, a break-through in front side metallization paste for solar modules/cells and spin-off of University of Louisville, and Edison2, a next generation autonomous vehicle and winner of the 2010 Automotive X Prize and Full Harvest, a business venture to business fresh produce that just received $2M seed funding.
David is a frequent speaker/moderator in industry and investment forums. Representative engagements include moderating Global Networks: Driving Innovation throughout the Value Chain panel at The Sustainable Corporation 2012; Entrepreneurship panel at the University of Louisville Renewable Energy 3 2017 workshop; and Clean Technology Investment Opportunities at Keiretsu Forum 2013 Pitch Me Green.
David's education experience includes advanced mathematics, global entrepreneurship, strategic management and sustainability on the faculties of San Jose State and San Francisco State and Stanford University. He has developed a new business modeling methodology being adopted by each of his advisees to disrupt incumbents in the market. The methodology includes integrated market, development, value chain, cost/resource and pricing/revenue models.
Nishant Sharma
Title: Chief Finance Officer
Nishant Sharma, CyberTran
As Chief Financial Officer at Oakland Maritime Support Services Inc (OMSS) & Oakland Port Services Corporation (OPSC), Nishant was charged with keeping the organization fiscally responsible. He has served as Controller for Blue chip Telecom, Inc., Communication Methods Inc and NAC Solutions Inc. Nishant also held strategic leadership roles at EG Technologies Inc and ACC-Nihon Castings Ltd. He has twenty two years of vast experience in Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Operations & Management, M&A in various technology and construction industries including Public accounting.
A Certified Chartered Accountant (CA), Nishant holds the Bachelors in Accounting & Finance, Certified Project Management Professional (PMI), He also holds the diploma in Information & Systems Management along with trained in Six Sigma (Black belt); He is a Certified Port Executive (CPE). He holds Real Estate License and a member of National Association of Realtors, California Association of Realtors and Bay East Association of Realtors. Nishant serves on the board of the Tri-Valley Haven a forty year old non-profit multi-social service organization in Alameda County. He is also a GC member of SRCA a non-profit sports organization in San Ramon.
Francis Lo, P.E, MICE, CEng
Title: Director of Engineering
With over 37 years of experience, Francis has been responsible for managing, design, and oversight of over $16 billion of transportation programs and projects. He has worked for transportation agencies, consultants, and a contractor. This gives him a unique understanding of planning, design, construction, alternative delivery, and public agency processes to develop strategies that deliver successes. His experience includes developing project concepts, implementation strategies, scoping, environmental approval, design, budget and schedule monitoring, managing project consultants and teams, stakeholders and community outreach, consensus building, technical reviews, programming of funds, cost estimating, value engineering, dispute resolution, developing agency processes, procedures and project management guide.
His experience covers innovative mobility solutions, high speed rail, heavy rail, bus & rail transit, new freeway construction, freeway widening and interchanges, major arterial roadways, ITS, local street improvements, environmental mitigation, bike, pedestrian, airport and marine projects. Francis has worked extensively with BART, BATA/MTC, Caltrans, Alameda County Transportation Commission, Contra Costa Transportation Authority, Port of Oakland and local transportation agencies in implementing projects and is known for his ability to deliver complex projects involving multiple stakeholders. Francis also has extensive experience in successful alternative delivery using both design-build and construction manager/general contractor methods covering maritime, aviation, highway, rail and transit projects.
Todd Jersey, AIA
Title: Director of Architecture
In 2012, Todd Jersey, Principal at Todd Jersey Architecture, Inc., joined CyberTran International Inc. as the head of planning and architecture for a new ultra-light rail transit (ULRT) system. Todd is working with CyberTran on the design of the newest generation of vehicle and station design as well as planning out system routes and Transit Oriented Developments (TOD) at the new CyberTran stations.
As a budding architect and ecological designer, Mr. Jersey began designing and building at ten years of age. He first experimented with solar hot water in 1970 at the age of twelve. At the age of 21 his architecture studies then took him to Italy and the Netherlands where he furthered his design skills. An accomplished artist, he brings his intrinsic and studied eye for beauty and form to every project. He has spent the last 30 years designing and building projects – from many residential projects to the world's first LEED Gold hotel and the nation's greenest indoor pool, the historic Richmond Plunge.
Mr. Jersey created a new commercial/residential mixed-use prototype called Collaborative Housing and honed his expertise in urban mobility and parking issues to decrease the impact of the automobile on urban infill sites. This work has been the basis of the many urban infill projects currently underway at Todd Jersey Architecture.
Hari Lamba
Title: VP Engineering Management
Dr. Hari Lamba had a forty-year career in engineering spanning many aspects of engineering. With a graduate background in both mechanical and material's engineering, he served for the good part of his career performing both functions. He did this in agricultural equipment, stamping press and railway locomotive companies, mainly in the Chicago area. For two years he also managed a mechanical test laboratory and supervised several technicians. For the last thirty years of his engineering career, he worked for a company that designed and sold railway locomotives all over the world.
While assisting his company in fatigue of materials, components and structures, he then branched out into vehicle development of railway locomotives, first specializing in bogie and suspension development and then in underframe or main chassis structural design for both domestic and export locomotives, undertaking the bogie oriented locomotive track testing of both domestic and export locomotives at the Transportation Test Center in Pueblo, Colorado.
He received a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with minors in electronics, metallurgy, flying and civil engineering structural design. He has been active on a formal and informal basis with several nonprofit organizations relating activities such as high-speed rail, climate change, renewable energy, environment and development. He enjoys hiking, yoga, poetry, dancing and piano.
Bob Redlo
Title: Vice President, Workforce Development
Bob's expertise is in Human Resources, Labor Relations and Workforce Development. For over thirty years, Bob has been active in the community both in the public and private sector. He was appointed as an Executive Member of the California Workforce Development Board by California Governor Brown and then recently reappointed by Governor Newsom. For the past two years, Bob has been the Director of Workforce in the Health Sector in the East Bay and coordinates with the regional workforce boards as part of their regional sector partnership model. Bob also directs the East Bay Health Workforce Partnership. The EBHWP consists of the major health providers and community clinics, educational leaders and leaders from community-based organizations in the East Bay. The main goal of the Partnership is to work toward increasing local diverse hiring opportunities with regional providers. Recently, the EBHWP has concentrated on addressing barriers to employment, the re-entry population as well as veterans' groups.
In addition, Bob is currently President of Redlo Health Solutions, Inc. and specializes as a consultant in health care, labor relations, human resources and workforce development.
Previously, Bob was the Vice President at Doctor's Medical Center (DMC), a 200 Bed community hospital located in San Pablo, CA. Prior to Bob's appointment at DMC, he was the Director of Workforce Planning and Development for Kaiser Permanente working directly with 160,000 employees. Bob led the development of Kaiser's comprehensive workforce development program that included labor and management.
Over the past fifteen years, Bob has worked diligently with leaders in California to develop a comprehensive model of career development and to synergize private and public funding to meet the needs of the ever-changing technologies Bob continues to be a proponent in developing strategies to increase training opportunities for our workforce that are diverse and at the same time strengthen our economy by focusing on affordable career paths that create well paid secure jobs in California.
In addition to Bob's experience and expertise in workforce and human resources, he has held leadership positions including Chair of the Center of Labor and Education at UC Berkeley and Director of the of the Public Service Training Program in New York. Bob also serves on numerous community boards and public organizations.
Nelsy Batista
Title: Deputy Director of PR Campaigns
Nelsy Batista is an East Bay consultant and community organizer with over 10 years' experience in project and community development and liaison. She obtained a Leo T. McCarthy Fellowship for the Common Good in the California State Capitol.
Upon completing her fellowship, she joined several organizations in the East Bay such as Sierra Club's Northern Alameda County Chapter and several local and global political, non-partisan, and non-profit organizations, focusing on grassroots efforts to restore community relations and reduce poverty from the perspective of economic and public health justice reform.
In working with CyberTran International, Inc. she will be focused on generating jobs for the most vulnerable communities while helping to implement green transportation, and respecting the community's need for transit options, especially as they pertain to the goals of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Ms. Batista graduated with a master's degree in International Studies from the University of San Francisco where she focused on policy reform from the perspective of environmental health.
Bill Stremmel
Title: Director of Finance
Riding the "El" around Chicago was a good introduction to urban transportation. It was easy to understand why so many people preferred to drive on that city's congested expressways to avoid the waiting time, intermediate stops, and hassles transferring on complex journeys. The CTA was more than an inconvenience for growing numbers of inner-city residents facing a reverse commute as industries moved out to the suburbs. Transportation as a life-or-death issue for so many became my major at the Indiana University School of Business in the 1970's. Afterwards, work in a freight traffic department and then ocean cargo carriers took me out to the West Coast where I ended up in the Bay Area in the 1990's doing accounting for those firms.
Impressed with BART, I nonetheless recognized the same drawbacks of schedule-driven transit as I had experienced with the much older system in Chicago. It was fortuitous to have a temporary job at BART in 1998 while serving on the Citizens Advisory Committee to the Alameda County Transportation Authority. Civic mindedness led me to spend a lunch break with the R&D Director to discuss the need for some fundamental changes in the mass transit paradigm which had not evolved much since trains were invented in the 19th century.
He suggested I look at CyberTran for its clever integration of off-the-shelf technology to take what remains as THE most efficient means of moving mass over land … steel-wheel-upon-steel-rail … on a quantum leap into 21st century standards for demand-responsive service. And now it is clear that Autonomous Rail Vehicles stand apart from nearly every other mode of transit and ridesharing in their ability to achieve the physical separation and disinfection required in this era of Pandemic.
Sammuel Washington
Title: Director of Security
Sammuel Washington joined the CyberTran team as the corporate security operations & cybersecurity principal. He has more than 20 years of industry success, including architecture & management of solutions for facilities, platforms, internationally distributed environments, specialized medical & classified devices engineering, prototype data transaction systems, datacenter builds, and international GRC security & risk management platforms. He has also led A.I. systems design, web platforms re-engineering, global financial transaction systems & integrated voice/data communication solutions. Sam has also managed design, implementation and services delivery teams in many countries on five continents, sometimes simultaneously.
B.A. Political Science – U.C. Davis
Program/Project Management Certification (Northrop Grumman – PM/PgM Institute)
Executive Leadership Certificate – Darden Management Institute
Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner
Coursework in Contract Law, Aerospace Engineering & Unix Systems Design
Before entering the technology profession Mr. Washington served as Mental Health program director & clinical services trainer for public and private agencies. He was also a 14-year Contra Costa County Sheriff law enforcement support volunteer.
Chanel Valentine
Title: Executive Administrative Assistant
An Executive Assistant to the President of Cybertran International, Inc. She brings over 15 years of administrative experience to the table with expertise in scheduling and correspondence. Ms. Valentine's expertise in data management systems and project coordination makes her an invaluable asset to the Executive Management.
Originally from San Francisco, California, working for her family business of 18 yrs, Boule Cafe, at the City of San Francisco City Hall and later the SF International Airport, she developed extraordinary skills in management systems.
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Surveys at speed: RILA® supporting ProRail with safer track maintenance
ProRail awarded Fugro a 4-year framework agreement to survey over 2200 km of track and surrounding infrastructure in the Netherlands to support future maintenance and management of the network. Using our train mounted RILA® survey system, we were able to double the measurement frequency of their full network, reduce CO2 emissions and improve the safety of personnel by removing the need for boots on ballast.
ProRail, the government agency that manages the Dutch railway network, was challenged with updating their absolute track geometry system traditionally captured by surveyors on or near the track. They needed a solution that not only provided accurate track centreline information but allowed more track kilometres to be surveyed in a shorter period and within a restrained budget.
Our RILA® technology is a remote, flexible, train-mounted survey system that provides engineering-accuracy Geo-data on the rail corridor, whilst minimising disruption to train services and limiting people on or near the track.
RILA® system mounted on an in-service train
The RILA® system was fitted to Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) trains running on existing train paths and used to collect data of the track and surrounding railway objects. At certain locations, where it wasn't feasible to use NS trains, the RILA® system was fitted to a locomotive. Terrestrial survey equipment was used for the fitting point measurements at the beginning and end of the sub-areas, at discrete locations in the scope and at locations where access was limited and, as a result, the RILA® system could not capture survey data sufficiently.
This data was then integrated into ProRail's reference network. The different datasets were matched in a geodetically responsible manner and integrated into ProRail's reference network to ensure the creation of one homogeneous dataset in the national coordinate system – both horizontal and vertical. This homogeneous set of data meets the quality requirements of the RLN00296, the Dutch rail standard, for track centreline and track-bound objects.
By using the above solution, Fugro was able to deliver the required Geo-data on time and with zero incidents.
Point cloud data of Rotterdam Central station
Innovative highlight
Our unique RILA® survey system uses global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and inertial measurement units (IMU) for accurate positioning. It also incorporates a 360° lidar scanner and a 360° camera system to simultaneously acquire lidar point cloud data and imagery of the track and surrounding environment. The data and imagery are captured as in-service trains run along the route at regular speeds, eliminating any impact on operating performance. Once recorded, the footage is merged, and a digital twin of the track corridor is created.
This digital twin is a dynamic 3D real-world model that highlights the position and condition of the track and any object in the railway corridor, based on absolute and relative track geometry.
The end result is an accurate, absolute XYZ model of all the objects in and around the track corridor.
Point cloud data and imagery is used to create a digital twin of the Geldermalsen station
The speed of Fugro's train-borne survey solution versus traditional terrestrial survey methods allows ProRail to survey their full network more regularly and cost-effectively. With regular updates, ProRail's database can be validated every 3 to 5 years, rather than every 10 years, supporting future maintenance and management of the network.
Moreover, the use of in-service passenger trains reduced boots-on-ballast by more than 80 % and, by negating the need for dedicated survey trains, carbon emissions were reduced by 45 000 kg.
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Lies upon Lies: How Anthony Weiner Went Down
Various: Getty, AP; Arr: Breitbart News
Note from Senior Management:
As former Rep. Anthony Weiner explores a return to politics, the mainstream media have been eager to help him rehabilitate his reputation–and to distort or ignore the role played by Andrew Breitbart in driving the story. Andrew's victory in Weinergate was as much a triumph over the mainstream media as it was against a Democrat who had falsely claimed to be the victim of a crime–and who had suggested that Andrew could be the culprit. In spinning for Weiner, the mainstream media are attempting to restore their own tarnished reputations. As blogger Ace of Spades noted yesterday: "It was absolute smoking gun proof offered by Andrew Breitbart that did Weiner in on June 6th [2011], and not "questions from reporters," that compelled Weiner to confess.
Orwell wrote in 1984: "Who controls the past controls the future." Whatever Weiner's future, we will not allow the mainstream media to re-write history to suit their agenda.
The following excerpt from the updated paperback edition of Andrew's book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World (Grand Central Publishing, 2012–available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble), tells the Weinergate story precisely as it happened–not as the mainstream media wish it to have happened.
As the sun began to set at the start of a weekend meant to delineate spring from summer, I asked my wife if she'd like me to open up a bottle of white wine. No sooner had I opened the bottle of Chardonnay and poured two glasses, standing at our kitchen island, then I began multitasking, refreshing my Twitter stream on my iPad. It was at that moment that the best-laid vacation plans of mice and men ended, and my recommitment to the story began four days ahead of schedule.
Huh, I thought, what's this?
Someone, using the Twitter handle PatriotUSA76, had re-tweeted an alleged tweet of sitting congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY). The message included a link to an image, which I immediately clicked. While sipping wine, I looked at the image at first with mild confusion. What am I looking at? I wondered. I picked up the iPad and turned it in different directions to try to make out what the image was. It took about ten seconds for me to get it, at which point I had a mild "Eureka" moment: Aha! I know exactly what that is!
Being the gentleman that I am, I turned to my wife and said:
"Oh my God, you have to see this–you won't believe this, if it is what it purports to be."
After giving Susie the short backstory and showing her the Twitter message, she distinctly asked, "How do you know that it's his?"
I responded, "I don't. But if it is his, this is a big deal."
Being–once again–the gentleman that I am, I called Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch (who was set to travel to Puerto Rico on vacation the next day with her family). "Check this out," I told her.
Her reaction was not unlike mine and my wife's.
I said that we needed to convene an editorial conference call. Tuesday was indeed coming early. And immediately available, on the shortest of notice, were Nolte, Solov, and O'Connor. (Pollak, our resident Orthodox Jew, was to miss the first rollicking twenty-four hours of Weinergate due to religious observances. We would make that up in spades, as you will see later in this chapter.)
The conference call was the first of many dramatic and emotionally excruciating moments that would occur over the next three to four weeks. The first order of business was to determine whether or not the tweet emanated from Congressman Weiner's verified Twitter account. The Twitter feed seemed to be genuine–and it contained another clue: a shout-out to Seattle earlier that evening, where the apparent intended recipient of his photograph lived. Our second concern was whether or not the image, which was connected to a yfrog account (a photo hosting service), belonged to Weiner. But while the confirmation process was taking place, at about 8 p.m. Pacific time, we watched, in real time and in great awe, as the yfrog account's photos–mostly innocuous snapshots of the congressman–were taken down. Simultaneously, the intended Twitter recipient of the image–the bulging member of Congress in grey boxer briefs–deleted not just her Twitter account but also her Facebook account.
"We're watching the cover-up!" I exclaimed to the crew.
My father-in-law, Orson Bean, now a committed Christian, likes to reinforce his belief system with a smile on his face, stating, "There are no coincidences." In the Friday night flurry to find out as much as we could about Weiner, the recipient of the tweet, archives of images, and records of other online communications, I had forgotten a most blatant missing puzzle piece. Nine days beforehand, we had received an e-mail tip from a gentleman in Texas who claimed to have compromising photographs and communications between a single mother in Texas and Congressman Weiner. We had followed up via Pollak, who was skeptical but did not dismiss the tip entirely. We were not particularly interested in Weiner's private life, nor did we have any reason to believe the pictures would be real. In any event, the source spoke to Pollak once but never followed up with him. In truth, we probably would have forgotten about it had PatriotUSA76 not re-tweeted Weiner's original tweet that Friday night.
In fact, it was Larry Solov–a central part of Breitbart and the Bigs, but not usually an editorial force–who remembered and forwarded the tip in the midst of our conference call. I knew then that the key to the story was getting to the bottom of that tip. So I got off the conference call while it was in progress, and left a message for the person in Texas at the phone number he had provided. I knew that I had to keep trying to get hold of him. I also knew I was calling him at an inappropriate hour–sometime between 11:00 and midnight, Texas time–but I didn't care. This was that important. In the end, I didn't reach him until Saturday morning–whereupon he told me he was going to be out of communication until Tuesday. So whatever evidence he had would have to wait. The woman in Texas was the key to blowing the story wide open, and the fact that she existed would remain in the back of my mind for days. But we had to press on without her.
Back on the conference call, we had confirmed, through a congressional Twitter archive service (TweetCongress), that the tweet had, in fact, come from Weiner's official account. Coupled with what we already knew and had witnessed–the online cleansing by Weiner and the intended recipient–we felt strongly that in a fair and just media, we had enough to report our story. But given the "it's just about the sex" narrative that the Democrat-Media Complex used to extricate Clinton from his extracurricular legal peril, we knew that we would be wrongly accused of obsessing over a congressman's private life. We had to fret no more over that tired and hypocritical tactic when Congressman Weiner tweeted during our conference call: "TiVo shot. FB hacked. Is my blender gonna attack me next? #TheToasterIsVeryLoyal."
Hours after what we perceived to be a private, direct message tweet turned accidental public tweet, Weiner had returned to the scene of the "crime" to attempt to clean up his mess further. But by alleging that a federal crime had been committed against a powerful member of the House of Representatives, the congressman had inadvertently trapped himself. We now knew we could run the story and that there was nothing the Huffington Post, the Daily Kos, and Media Matters could do about it.
Our conference call had been going on for hours now. Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch, who was packing her bags, started typing out the story. I offered the title, "Weinergate: Congressman Claims 'Facebook Hacked' As Lewd Photo Hits Twitter," and the first sentence: "Hacked–or Hung?" The congressman had put himself in quite a pickle.
The next twenty-four hours–even though it was Saturday of a Memorial Day weekend–were going to be critical. We knew that the organized left was going to wage war, and by the time I woke up the next day, after launching the story, I realized that the Democrat-Media Complex was playing for keeps. For starters, the Daily Kos, the proto-Huffington Post whose founder, Markos Moulitsas, is still granted Meet the Press airtime, published a post immediately declaring war on me. Without bothering to investigate the veracity of our allegations, the Kos post simply declared: "Breitbart to use SEX SMEAR on Rep. Anthony Weiner." The post was later updated to accuse me of faking the photograph. (Kos, months earlier, led the charge on another Saturday morning when he tried to blame me for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by the insane Jared Loughner. Within these battles against prominent Internet lefties, there are no repercussions when their side lies, cheats, and attacks. How could Kos get away with publishing a declaration of war, without having the facts, even after having been proven so egregiously wrong in trying to connect a political enemy to the despicable behavior of a lone, crazed gunman? As Dennis Prager often says, being a liberal means never having to say you're sorry.)
So Saturday was spent at war on Twitter with hundreds of prominent left-wing activists desperately trying to turn the narrative away from Rep. Weiner and against me. Dana Loesch was on her flight already, and the rest of my staff was monitoring the situation, looking for new evidence that might emerge and fending off the Kos-fueled attack. By the end of Saturday, whether I liked it or not, the narrative became Breitbart vs. Weiner.
In my own home, I was trying to tell my wife why I was singularly focused, and why this was not going to be an ordinary Memorial Day weekend. Susie asked if we could still travel to Palm Springs. Not wanting to disappoint everyone, I made hopeful assurances that the story would not interfere with family fun.
The two-and-a-half-hour drive on Sunday foretold the essence of the vacation: that's your daddy's body, but he is not here with us. While driving, I tried to honor a "no business phone calls" policy, but when Mediaite, a major media analysis website, took the Kos bait and delivered a scathing article making the Weiner story an attack on my credibility, I was forced to defend myself. Even though I was 100 percent convinced that our story was correct and that we had the potential to bury Weiner with a second possible "dick pic" recipient, I knew that the collective media attacks could draw attention away from Weiner's culpability and make the story DOA the morning after Memorial Day. Not only had Mediaite attacked me, but Salon.com entered the fray–its editor, Joan Walsh, falsely accused me of "savaging" the young coed in Seattle who was the intended recipient of Congressman Weiner's errant tweet. In fact, we had made the decision in that painstaking and elongated conference call the night before to leave the girl's identity out of the story. Our prediction–that the media would try to make it appear that we were attacking an innocent woman–came true. But we never could have imagined that the left's desperation would become so great that someone as high up in the left media food chain as Walsh would brazenly lie about something so provably false. (To this day, she has not yet apologized or retracted that statement, though she remains a permanent critic, ironically challenging my journalistic integrity.)
There were two low points in Palm Springs that spoke to how much pressure was building up. One was when someone on Twitter–a Hollywood producer, I would later find out–apparently saw me walking through the resort, talking frantically on the phone. He tweeted something to the effect of "Hey Breitbart, listen to your kids and get off the phone!" I reflexively re-tweeted that "attack"–my way of dismissing its effectiveness–but he hit me dead-on. The second moment of antibliss came as I was walking with our neighbors and my wife up a scenic desert mountain trail. The understood value of the moment was the serenity and the beauty for the other five–yet I had to take an emergency phone call from an editor who declared that he was going to "skullfuck" and "ruin" me.
On day two of the Weiner scandal, conspiracy theories were building steam suggesting that there had in fact been a hacker, or hackers. One such theory was that PatriotUSA76–the still-unnamed person who drew my attention to Weiner's errant re-tweeter–was the alleged hacker. The second one, which was started by the Daily Kos and took on a life of its own, became the narrative Congressman Weiner was hoping would stick–namely, that I was the alleged hacker. While I was screaming back into the phone, amid picturesque cacti and red, rocky terrain, I put the phone on mute and looked at my wife and friends and emphatically told them: "I have no choice. I apologize profusely. I'm fighting for my media life." At one point, I tried to explain to the other two husbands what was going on. "Have you ever heard of Congressman Anthony Weiner?" I asked. Both had a passing knowledge of his existence. "Well, I'm in the middle of breaking a story that will be huge, if I can just get past Memorial Day and into the real news cycle."
A source who had told me on Friday night that Weiner's staffers were called to Capitol Hill for an emergency meeting informed me in the middle of this kinetic weekend that Weiner's strategy would be to "turn on you, and make it so that the story is neutered by Tuesday." His friends in the Netroots left–from Kos up the food chain through ThinkProgress, Media Matters, Salon.com, and the Huffington Post–fought valiantly throughout the weekend, but I believe we beat them on Saturday on Twitter, where we pounded Weiner over the fact that he had claimed he had been hacked, yet he showed zero desire to open an official investigation into that extremely serious allegation. The left could attack me all they wanted, but Weiner wanted it both ways: he wanted to pin the blame on a nefarious partisan trying to take him down, but he also wanted the whole story to go away without a serious investigation into who that villain was.
While I was positive that we had reported the story 100 percent accurately, I knew that the press would be unforgiving toward me if Weiner had, in fact, been hacked. Come day three of Weinergate, I traveled home from Palm Springs and stopped at a Ruby's Grill. There, I found out that Weiner stepped back from his dangling hacking accusation when he downplayed the emerging scandal as a prank. The acute fear that had tormented my time in Palm Springs was 90 percent alleviated at that moment. At the same moment, I had learned that a friend from Tulane had died over the weekend. He was a vibrant, adventurous guy who had been skin-diving, and drowned after he was caught in kelp. It was the second time in my life that I heard bad news about a friend at a critical moment; before my first book, Hollywood, Interrupted, was released, I had learned that another friend had died in a construction accident. It was a reminder that these battles at the highest levels of the media, however invigorating and frustrating they may be, are punctured by the cold, hard reality of life and death.
Nevertheless, after implying the need for a formal investigation throughout the weekend, Rep. Weiner had answered our mystery. He did not want his lies to face the scrutiny of formal testimony. Not only did I sense that we were moving out of harm's way, but I could also immediately sense that the Netroots and other traditional allies to politicians like Weiner didn't want to continue treading water for a man running out of alibis.
My basic attitude toward the press is that it is a toxic mix of deeply ideological and partisan leftists who are skeptical of my very existence. But I treat every individual reporter as innocent until proven guilty. It appeared early on that CNN's Dana Bash–of whom I had no opinion, positive or negative–was ahead of the mainstream media curve in a serious way. If the mainstream media were to consider this story as being as serious as I thought it was, Tuesday would be a critical day to push the narrative away from me and back onto a congressman who was now only digging his hole deeper. I spoke to Bash and clued her in to everything we knew.
So as the weekend ended, I felt we had some wind in our sails. I had two questions on my mind: first, would the media come back from vacation and give this emerging megascandal the airtime it was due; and second, how soon could I find the woman in Texas to whom Weiner had apparently sent more photographs? On Capitol Hill that afternoon, Weiner address an impromptu press conference where he had intended to pivot to talking about a vote in the House of Representatives to raise the debt ceiling. It was his attempt to get beyond the story by once again donning the mantle of partisan warrior, in which he was often very effective. But one thing that was missed by most, and which foretold that Weiner's days in Congress were numbered, was that aside from scandal-plagued congressman Charles Rangel, no prominent Democrats, aside from his mentor, Sen. Charles Schumer, were coming to his defense. This was not going to be Clinton redux. When he faced the gaggle of reporters, Weiner, whose value to the Democratic Party was that he was a media attack dog who used his Brooklyn base to wage partisan warfare from the set of MSNBC, seemed to believe that media bias would be his Kevlar vest and that he could say whatever he wanted, no matter how absurd or offensive. Weiner's reality check came in a volley with CNN's Bash, who clearly was not having any of the congressman's obfuscations and misdirections.
If I felt that the storm had cleared when Weiner downgraded from "hack" to "prank," I sensed my first feelings of elation when Weiner called Bash's producer, Ted Barrett, a jackass for asking the most basic of follow-up questions. While Rep. Weiner made many incredibly stupid rookie mistakes, none sealed his fate more firmly than his decision to attack a journalist for doing his job. Now the rest of the media was starting to experience Weiner's blame-the-messenger strategy. It was a tactical error Weiner probably regrets as much as his decision to tweet a bulging gray underwear pic to a girl in Seattle.
By Wednesday, the story had become a full-scale media circus. Weinergate was now seemingly out of my hands. Realizing that the press was now turning on him for his attack on CNN, Rep. Weiner was forced to expose himself to full media scrutiny. He appeared twice on MSNBC and sat down for an interviews with Bret Baier of Fox News and Wolf Blitzer of CNN. From one hour to the next, Weiner seemed to be backing away from his initial claim that the gray underwear picture was not of him, even though he still insisted he had not sent the original offending tweet. He continued to insist that a private investigation by a law firm he had hired would get to the bottom of the apparent mystery and satisfy the public's desire to know what happened. (Even Jon Stewart, an old friend of Weiner's, would mock him later that evening for his newfound uncertainty.) Blitzer was typically sympathetic to the liberal stalwart as he pleaded his case, and he allowed Weiner to continue to support the left's theory that someone–namely, me–had committed a crime. He told Baier: "I know for a fact that my account was hacked."
But by now, Weiner was in full meltdown. From his "jackass" debacle in the Capitol, right through Wednesday's dissembling appearances, Weiner thought he could appeal to his natural allies using his glib, fast-talking, made-for-television persona. He even seemed to think he could tell them what questions to ask, and when to stop asking. On Thursday, Weiner announced that he was done talking about the scandal. But he didn't realize, as I had, that the media was turning on him. When Marcia Kramer of CBS's New York affiliate turned up at Weiner's office to ask for an interview–after he had shunned local news for the national networks–Weiner's office called the Capitol Police to escort her out. (It was a mistake that would come back to haunt him a few days later.) And fellow Democrats, many of whom had long resented his camera hogging, were furious that he had let Weinergate swallow a week in which they had hoped to demagogue Republicans on Medicare and other talking points. Without his pals the Clintons and the Democratic leadership standing by him, it was becoming clear Weiner was a political dead man walking. Even Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wasn't taking his calls.
When people compliment me for perfectly strategizing l'affaire Weiner, they fail to take into account that most of Weiner's wounds were self-inflicted. Had he owned up to his transgression on Memorial Day weekend, when the press was asleep, we would have had a minor story with, at worst, a congressman taking a few weeks off for "sex rehab."
But Weiner very nearly got away with it. Without further evidence except his own self-destructive interviews, the story could not move forward. For the next few days, the media began asking about PatriotUSA76 and the sources of the original story. Even though Weiner was clearly in implosion mode, the mystery of what really happened on Friday night, May 27, was still a hot topic in the blogosphere, and even in my own camp. While Lee Stranahan, Patterico (Patrick Frey), and LibertyChick (Mandy Nagy) tried to figure out who PatriotUSA76 was, I was more focused on a much bigger fish: Megan Broussard, the woman in Texas whose friend tipped us eight days before the congressman's now-infamous tweet.
When I first spoke with Megan Broussard's friend on Saturday, May 28, I thought that we'd have a 50 percent shot–at best–at getting her to come forward if she was, in fact, a recipient of Congressman Weiner's lewd online offerings. When I next spoke to him, on Tuesday, May 31, we were talking for the first time against the backdrop of a full-blown media scandal. Broussard would have to make a very difficult choice about coming forward in the face of major media scrutiny. I made my pitch that I could devise a strategy that would limit her exposure. I left it to him to convince a young lady with whom I had never spoken to put her life in my hands. I was hoping he would get back to me the next day. Instead, I left multiple messages on his voice mail and sent him several e-mails. By Thursday evening, I was dejected, believing that I had lost my potential big catch.
On the one-week anniversary of Weinergate, late Friday afternoon in Los Angeles, I received a text from a Texas number. It was Megan Broussard. And in very few keystrokes, she conveyed that she was ready to come forward. Within moments, I was on the phone with her, and before I knew it, she e-mailed me a series of photographs that I knew was going to take the story to the next level.
Pause: because I was so desirous to convince Megan to come forward with the story and the photos, I wanted to make sure that the transaction happened as quickly as possible when she matter-of-factly sent off five images, one of which was beyond damning, far beyond the one he had tweeted to the girl in Seattle. After getting off the call with her, I raced upstairs from the sidewalk in front of my office so that I could share the bounty with Joel Pollak (who is now the editor-in-chief of Breitbart.com). I brought up the most offending shot into my iPad e-mail reader and placed it against the glass pane of Joel's office door. (Did I mention he's a beanie-wearing Orthodox Jew? There's nothing I like more than shock value.) When he noticed that I was standing there, and he focused on the photo, we simultaneously (don't get the wrong idea…) had a once-in-a-lifetime laugh that also lightened the pressure of the past week. We weren't just having a laugh at Weiner's expense. We just knew, implicitly, that we had our man–and that we had beaten the media again.
One week before, this unexpected journey had begun, had consumed a holiday weekend, and had built up into the biggest media frenzy of my professional career. This next weekend was setting up to be a strategic opportunity to end the story once and for all. While the drip-drip strategy worked well with ACORN, not every story is best served by delivering the story one excruciating bit of information at a time. In fact, the tactic can get old if overused. But these photos were destined to be released one at a time–not over a series of days, but over a series of hours, starting Monday morning. We'd start with the shock announcement that a second woman had come forth who had a series of online communications, including intimate and graphic photographs. After whetting the media's appetite, I strategized publishing the least offensive shot through the second-most offensive shot throughout Monday morning. The second part of the strategy was to reach out to ABC News. Yes–that ABC News, which had acquiesced to radical left-wing pressure to get me kicked off of Election Night coverage in November 2010. Why them? To send a message–not just to ColorofChange.com, but to ABC News as a whole–that they hadn't defeated me.
I had promised Broussard that I would devise a strategy to interject her into the story and pull her out before the media jackals could pick her apart. The way to get her story out there with as much credibility as possible was to have ABC News reporter Chris Cuomo interview her and scrutinize her story and her photos. In turn, ABC News would be granting its imprimatur to our story. We'd drop the story of the existence of Megan Broussard and her photos (all except for one) on Monday, and ABC News would have an exclusive interview on Tuesday with the attractive single mom who would be sealing Congressman Weiner's political fate.
On Sunday night, from Ashville, North Carolina, where I was preparing for a Monday morning speech, I contacted Fox News's Sean Hannity to offer him a cable news exclusive. Broussard would do two television interviews and then return to Texas to live her life.
And it worked. Knowing what so many women accusers went through when they came forward to corroborate Paula Jones's woeful story with Bill Clinton, I promised Ms. Broussard that she would be protected from a similar fate. On Monday morning, I woke up in North Carolina and gave a speech at a breakfast meeting, then returned to my iPad to confirm that we had already posted two of the offending shots. One featured the congressman in his office holding a sign that read "Me," in which he was trying to convey to Ms. Broussard that she was, in fact, in communication with the real Anthony Weiner.
The second photo, entitled "Pussies.jpg," featured Weiner sitting next to two longhaired cats and looking at the camera with a "come hither" look.
As I headed to the airport to board a flight to New York, where I had planned to appear on Hannity, I gave the directive to put up the second-to-last photo. We would state that we did not intend to make the last photograph public because of its raw, prurient nature. We felt that the next-to-last photo was more than enough to put the congressman, his staff, and his Democratic compatriots in a state of frenzy. The photo showed Weiner from the eyes down to his waist, shirtless and in full muscle-man pose, sitting at his home desk, staring creepily into the camera. Behind him, over his right shoulder, was a photo of him embracing his wife; over the other shoulder was a picture of Weiner with former president Clinton. The photo reminded me, quite obviously, of the scene in Animal House in which a tiny devil perched on Pinto's shoulder tempted him to molest a passed-out and drunk teenager, while an angel on his other shoulder tried to convince him otherwise. For the duration of the one-hour-plus trip, I was writhing over the fact that I couldn't hyper-reload the comments section from the Big Government post featuring this explosive new photo. I knew that I was performing Chinese water torture on Congressman Weiner and his allies, but I also knew that for one brief moment in my controversial media life, I was hand-feeding the media beast special cheese, fudge, and the richest delicacy they could possibly consume.
Before I landed, my phone was ringing with media requests (yes, flight attendants, I stealthily refused to turn it off in flight). Upon landing, my voice mail was full. The walk from the commuter plane through the airport into a cab and onward into midtown Manhattan was a rush of communication with the top producers of every major network and cable news program. Being perversely curious, I asked every single one of them, "So, what do you think?" None could contain their glee. They may all be partisan hacks, but the story had become a once-in-a-lifetime perfect storm where the subject, the topic, the circumstances, and all the peripherals added up to pure media ecstasy. Now everyone was riveted and consumed.
I spoke to WCBS's Marcia Kramer–the reporter who only four days before had been forced by police to leave Weiner's office–and made a commitment to meet her. For a brief moment in time, I felt a sense of comradeship with herand with CNN's Bash and Barrett. We were the ones who dared challenge the arrogant and lying congressman. Now we were set for some serious vindication. Kramer and I had arranged to meet at my hotel, the Crowne Plaza, at Forty-Ninth and Broadway. But when I arrived, she was nowhere to be found. I checked my e-mail and discovered that she had told me she had to head to the Sheraton at Fifty-Third Street and Seventh Avenue, where Congressman Weiner had announced an emergency press conference. I had stayed at that hotel just a few short months before, and knew it was less than five blocks away. I didn't have to think about it. I just started walking there.
On the way, I started to think, Do I want to confront him on his lies, and the fact that he made it about me? About midway through the brief walk, I called my office and reached Larry Solov, my Dr. Gonzo, but instead of getting a pep talk, my naturally careful partner-in-crime was looking for assurances that I had nothing up my sleeve. He asked me to keep a low profile. I told him, "I swear to God I'm not planning on doing anything. Do we know what he's going to say?" Larry had heard rumblings that Weiner was going to admit partial culpability but try to hold on to his seat in Congress. I figured that as long as he finally came clean, my place in the press gaggle as he spoke at the podium was only going to be as an observer. If he planned to continue his obfuscation–then, I mused, I'd throw him a question or two.
Upon entering the ballroom where the press conference was being held, I had one existential goal: find an electrical outlet for my BlackBerry. It had been working overtime and had dipped into the deepest red zone. Without it, I was screwed. So I slinked into the room, as much as someone with my personality and body type can slink. I walked underneath a row of cameras on tripods in the back of the room and aimed at the podium. There were hundreds of reporters there. It was media pandemonium, as I had imagined it. In the back corner, I found what I was looking for and plugged the BlackBerry in.
When I turned around, quite miraculously, I was surrounded by at least a dozen reporters, who started to pepper me with questions. Ever since Memorial Day weekend, I had been fighting a vicious throat cough. My voice was shot, and I had trouble projecting it. The rest of the press, which had staked out the best seating and placement, were now begging me to go onstage to answer their questions, utilizing the microphone and the podium. I awkwardly began to approach the stage while simultaneously asking the reporters, "Is it okay if I go up on the stage? I'm not paying for this thing. Would it be rude?" I got the sense that everybody wanted me to get up there, and that I was playing it too coy.
One demonstrative voice was that of Marcia Kramer. In the movie, she will be the one standing there, directing me: "Get. Up. On. That. Stage."
The thirteen-plus minutes that I spent answering questions–many of which were hostile toward me–were, as a matter of fact, unintimidating. I had been hoping that if I got lucky, the gathered press would include my quotes in the Weiner press conference footnotes. Maybe a cable network would pick up a line or two. I expected my team to post the entire video and assumed we would have to chide the media for not covering my remarks. So when I left the stage, I made a beeline for my phone, hoping that it would now be in multiple-bar, charged territory. The ringer was silenced, but I could see that ABC News producer Chris Vlasto was calling. He was producing the Broussard segment with Cuomo. Vlasto was beside himself. "Why did you do that? Why did you do that? Now Weiner's not going to do his press conference," he bellowed.
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"There's no way he's going to go on the stage now."
"You just hijacked his press conference," Vlasto said.
"What do you mean? I just answered a few questions. They asked me to go up there and answer some questions."
"Andrew–they cut to you. That went out live on TV," he told me.
Call-waiting: the Sean Hannity show. "Hello?"
"Sean wants you on the air. Now."
The room was so loud that I had to go out through the hallway and onto the roof, which was accessible only to hotel staff. As I began to speak to Sean on the air, my phone was being bombarded with call-waitings from every media outlet known to humankind. The ABC News producer could not have been more wrong. This was the best thing that ever happened in my life. Period. It was the serendipitous elevation of my righteous indignation and my mirth, wrapped into a surreal and extravagant media moment that was redemptive on every conceivable level, after a year of my integrity and veracity being challenged by the media and the political class.
After getting off Hannity's radio show, I did a brief on-air interview by phone with Fox News's Eric Sean, and then caught word that Weiner had finally taken the stage–fifteen minutes late. (I believe I set a precedent: no major figure will be late to an announced live press conference ever again.)
I slinked back into the room to hear Weiner's statements. If he was standing at home plate, I was the third baseman. I was, at most, forty feet away from him. And it was clear that he was taking responsibility for his actions for the first time. He had been lying through his teeth for well over a week, and through our truthful reporting, diligence, and well-executed strategy, we put him in this position. Yet when I saw him welling up, I was strangely and completely sympathetic to the man, at least for a few minutes. Even though he and his allies had one escape strategy–to destroy me with lies in a relentless propaganda war–I still couldn't help but cringe for his burden. But he kept talking, and talking, and talking, as if he either had the worst media strategist in the world or he was not unlike me: he likes to hear himself speak. Perhaps that was why I sympathized with him.
And then, while standing there, Irish filmmaker, former Financial Times reporter, and friend Phelin McAleer walked up and asked me what he should ask Weiner. I replied: "Does he apologize to me for his strategy to destroy me to save himself?"
No sooner did I suggest that than McAleer boldly asked Weiner: "Will you apologize to Andrew Breitbart?"
While Weiner eventually singled me out, he included me in a wide apology net that involved even Sri Lankan street merchants. But McAleer persevered and got him to focus on me. At the moment, I didn't take it as particularly sincere, but rather as a forced recognition that he had wronged me. But the media, which I challenged in my thirteen-minute Q&A over its relentless, baseless character assassination of me, seemed to take note of the apology and its significance. For a very brief moment, perhaps days, walking around midtown Manhattan, going from studio to studio and through the heart of media row, I felt vindicated.
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require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe Peoplefinder::Concerns::WorkDays do

  describe '.works_weekends?' do
    let(:weekday_person) { create(:person) }
    let(:weekend_person) { create(:person,  works_saturday: true) }

    it 'returns true for a person who works only one day in the weekend' do
      expect(weekend_person.works_saturday).to eql(true)
      expect(weekend_person.works_sunday).to_not eql(true)
      expect(weekend_person.works_weekends?).to eql(true)
    end

    it 'returns true for a person who works on both a Saturday and Sunday' do
      weekend_person.update_attributes(works_sunday: true)
      expect(weekend_person.works_sunday).to eql(true)
      expect(weekend_person.works_saturday).to eql(true)
      expect(weekend_person.works_weekends?).to eql(true)
    end

    it 'returns false if neither Saturday or Sunday is worked' do
      expect(weekday_person.works_weekends?).to eql(false)
    end

  end

end

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<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Exception;

use Doctrine\ORM\Exception\ORMException;
use LogicException;
use function sprintf;
use function var_export;

final class InvalidCustomGenerator extends LogicException implements ORMException
{
    public static function onClassNotConfigured() : self
    {
        return new self('Cannot instantiate custom generator, no class has been defined');
    }

    /**
     * @param mixed[] $definition
     */
    public static function onMissingClass(array $definition) : self
    {
        return new self(sprintf(
            'Cannot instantiate custom generator : %s',
            var_export($definition, true)
        ));
    }
}


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Q: Borel hierarchy within Wadge hierarchy I'm studying Wadge reducibility and the associated hierarchy (restricted to Borel sets) both from Kechris and more extensive papers. Now, in an exercise Kechris says:

$[\emptyset]_W = \{\emptyset\}$, $[\mathcal{\omega^\omega}]_W = \{\mathcal{\omega^\omega}\}$ are at the bottom of the Wadge hierarchy. [...] It can be shown that level $\omega_1$ is occupied by sets that are $F_\sigma$ but not $G_\delta$.

I'm intereseted in the last statement. Why is it so? Where can I find the proof? The way it is put by Kechris makes me think that it is not an easy result.
More in general, given an ordinal $\alpha<\omega_1$, do we know at which level $\beta$ in the Wadge hierarchy (restricted to Borel sets) the sets in $\Sigma_\alpha^0(\mathcal{\omega^\omega})\setminus\Pi_\alpha^0(\omega^\omega)$ first appear? If not, can we at least pick a level $\beta$ which contains such sets?
The restriction of the Wadge hierarchy to Borel sets is not crucial to me, in case we can say something in the wider Wadge hierarchy (assuming AD for example).
Thanks!

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Let a family member or friend know about the date: Another safety measure that you should take is to take a family member or friend into confidence and let them know when and where you are going for the first date. Keep your phone in reach so that they can contact you anytime.
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Use your own transportation: It is always advisable to use your own transportation on the first meeting for safety reasons as well as sending a signal that you are neither needy not dependent on the potential partner.
Split the bill: Another must do of online dating is to split the bill on your first meeting so that you appear as a self-respecting person. And this does not matter for women too as men like independent women who can take care of themselves.
Don't be too hasty to meet: Don't be too hasty to arrange your first meeting with your potential partner. Know them better by chatting with them for a few weeks. Dating sites like Special Bridge make an ideal place to chat with people who are interested in finding partners online.
Don't be late: Being late on the first date gives a wrong impression to the would-be partner and presents you like an irresponsible individual. So don't ever be late for your first meeting.
Don't overdress (or underdress): Being overdressed with heavy makeup and jewelry is an absolute no-no. At the same time, you should not wear anything that is too revealing or vulgar.
Don't go to their place right on the first date: Another don't of online dating relates to going to their place right at the first date. Meet at a public place that gives you enough privacy without causing safety concerns.
Don't bombard messages after the meeting: You may well be excited after your first meeting with the special someone but give them some time to consider you as a potential partner. Never bombard them with messages right after the meeting.
Following these handy online dating tips can help you find a suitable partner without much effort and time. Just remember them as you step out in a whole new world!
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Paul Pierce Signs Contract With The Boston Celtics
"I'm a Celtic for life."
Paul Pierce has just signed with the Boston Celtics, which will allow him to officially retire as a member of the team that he spent his first 15 NBA seasons with.
In announcing Pierce's signing today, Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck also reiterated the organization's plan to retire the #34.
Per ESPN,
"We're honored that Paul has chosen to retire as a Celtic. He is among the very best Celtics -- a champion on and off the court," Grousbeck said in a release. "We congratulate Paul on a Hall of Fame career, and look forward to seeing his number raised to the rafters of TD Garden."
Pierce added,
"It's an honor to have this opportunity to once again call myself a Boston Celtic," Pierce said in the release. "The organization and city took me in and made me one of their own, and I couldn't imagine ending my career any other way. I'm a Celtic for life."
Pierce, who was named to 10 All-Star teams and won a championship with Boston in 2008, ranks second all-time in the Celtics organization in points scored (24,021) trailing only John Havlicek.
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What Makes SQL Server 2016 a Game-Changer
Polybase, Query Store, dynamic data masking, row-level security, and temporal data JSON support -- just some of the new features that veteran SQL Server Live! presenter Leonard Lobel covers in this exclusive Q&A with Lafe Low.
By Lafe Low
There's a lot going on in the SQL Server world. The list of new features in the recent SQL Server 2016 release includes game changers like Polybase, Query Store, dynamic data masking, row-level security, and temporal data JSON support. It opens up a range of new possibilities for developers.
We caught up with veteran SQL Server Live! presenter Leonard Lobel to get some of his thoughts on the new SQL Server 2016 and what he plans to cover at the upcoming SQL Server Live! conference as part of Live! 360 in Orlando, FL from December 5-9, 2016.
Q: SQL Server 2016 has a lot to offer, but if you had to pick one thing, what do you think is the number one most important new feature?
A:That is a really tough question, because SQL Server 2016 has so many great new features and they're all important. If I had to pick one though, it would have to be temporal. I mean, who wouldn't like to be a time traveler?
And temporal data lets you do just that. When you designate a table as a temporal table (technically referred to as a "system-versioned" table), SQL Server automatically tracks updates and deletes made to that table and records those changes to a history table. Then the query engine integrates with the history table and gives you this almost magical experience of time travel. You can run a query against the table as it appeared at any past point in time. So data you overwrite or blow away with an UPDATE or DELETE statement is never really lost. It's always available simply by telling your otherwise ordinary query to travel back in time when looking at the table.
Think of all the great uses for this feature. Being able to query data as it changes over time yields tremendous business value, where temporal makes it easy to run all sorts of trend analysis. Temporal tables also give you an inherent auditing solution, when you need to track what has changed and when it changed (although it won't record who made the change).
What about that heart-dropping moment after an UPDATE or DELETE that you didn't really mean? Instead of a panic and scramble to find that backup and restore it, you can much more easily recover from your accident by accessing the "lost" data from the temporal history table.
What do you think is the top new security related feature?
There are three major new security features in SQL 2016: Dynamic Data Masking (DDM), Row-Level Security (RLS), and Always Encrypted (AE). Of these, AE is probably the most compelling because it eliminates a major block for people who have been reluctant to move their encrypted data (and virtual networks) to the cloud. While previous versions of SQL Server do support encryption, the older techniques only encrypt data at rest, not in flight. Furthermore, the very keys and certificates used to decrypt encrypted data are themselves contained in the database. As a result, there's no separation between those who own the data (the customer) and those who host it (the cloud provider, Azure in the case of Microsoft).
AE changes all that. AE means data is always encrypted. It is never decrypted in flight, nor is it ever decrypted in any location other than the client. AE provides client-side encryption and decryption based on client-side keys, so that data is always encrypted even as it traverses the network. The database itself is incapable of decrypting the data it stores because it has been encrypted on the client. Thus, customers can now enjoy the security of encrypted data in flight that uses client-side keys, and finally move their database to the cloud with unprecedented confidence.
What is Polybase and why should we care?
We're living in a world of big data. Massive amounts of information are being stored in these so-called No-SQL stores, such as Hadoop and Azure Blob Storage.
In SQL Server 2016, Polybase lets you integrate with several flavors of Hadoop, including Hortonworks HDP on Windows or Linux, Cloudera CDH on Linux, and HDInsight on Azure. Hadoop stores its data on HDFS, the Hadoop Distributed File System. Polybase lets you define external tables in SQL Server that map to flat files stored on HDFS. You can then write T-SQL queries that seamlessly retrieve data from Hadoop, and automatically transform the non-relational data stored on HDFS into the relational schema defined by your external tables.
If you're an experienced SQL Server developer with little to no experience with Hadoop, Polybase dramatically lowers the bar to entry, because you can quickly and easily query (and even join on) non-relational data stored in Hadoop using familiar T-SQL, without having to learn a multitude of other big data technologies.
What is your personal favorite feature in SQL Server 2016?
Again given the multitude of awesome new features in the 2016 release, a personal favorite is a tough call, but this would have to be the new built-in JSON support. Like many folks, I work with a lot of unstructured data. I frequently need a hybrid solution to efficiently integrate unstructured data with structured relational data in SQL Server. In the past, much of this unstructured data has been XML, and the rich XML support available in SQL Server for the past decade goes a long way in marrying the world of unstructured XML with structured relational data.
JSON is the new XML, and SQL Server 2016 provides JSON support very similar to what's possible with XML. You can shred, store, query, generate, and manipulate JSON documents in just about any way that you need to in SQL Server 2016.
For more on Live!360, go here.
Lafe Low has been a technology editor and writer for more than 25 years. Most recently, he was the editor in chief of TechNet magazine. He has also held various editorial positions with Redmond magazine, CIO magazine and InfoWorld. He also launched his own magazine entitled Explore New England, and has published four editions of his guidebook The Best in Tent Camping: New England.


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Electricity means the flowing motion of electric charge. Just as the flow of water in a river constitutes a current of water, flow of charge, i.e. charges in motion constitute an electric current. The term electricity includes many easily recognizable phenomena such as lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic field, and electromagnetic induction.
Electricity is a consumable product. Electricity whether made by artificial means, or electric current, is a property. In the U.S., water power rests within the exclusive control of the federal government. Therefore, the water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the U.S. Authority to dispose of property constitutionally acquired by the U.S. is expressly granted to Congress by § 3 of Article IV of the U.S. Constitution. In United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co., 229 U.S. 53, 72 (U.S. 1913), the court stated that "Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State".
The industrial and residential use of electricity occurred in the late nineteenth century. Modern industrial society remains much reliant on the use of electrical power. Electricity's extraordinary adaptability as a source of energy means it can be put to an almost limitless set of applications which include transport, heating, lighting, communications, and computation.
An electric cooperative is governed largely by its bylaws, which details membership rights, and provide for a system of election and removal of officers or directors.
When the U.S. has constitutionally acquired property suitable for the production of electricity, it is entitled to generate and sell power without encroaching on the rights reserved to the states or to the people by the Tenth Amendment.
Three major segments of electric utility industry are production, transmission and distribution. Larger generating plants that were cheaper to build and operate were located farther from population centers. Individual central-station entrepreneurs gave way to corporate systems, and corporate systems formed holding companies. In the electric utility industry, holding companies developed certain characteristics that later led to congressional action in 1935 to constrain this form of ownership. The federal legislative programs aim to restructure dramatically the privately owned utility holding companies, impose more effective regulation, and to move boldly into federal development of hydroelectric power and electrification in rural areas. Legislation such as the Public Utility Act of 1935, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, and the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 were enacted with an intention to strengthen governmental control of electric utilities. In 1992, Congress enacted the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT) to promote greater competition in bulk power markets.
The second major segment of the electric utility industry is transmission. Generally, high-voltage lines move the electric energy from the point of generation to local distribution systems, where the voltage is reduced through transformers and the energy distributed to customers. In the early days of the industry electric generation plants tended to be located close to the customers they served. In more recent years, generating plants have tended to be placed in relatively remote locations for environmental, operational, and economic reasons. With the growth of the industry and improvements in technology, the U.S. is covered by a transmission grid, in which many lines are interconnected and operated in synchronization.
The transportation or transmission of electric current from state to state through appropriate instrumentalities constitutes commerce between the states. A corporation that conducts those activities through the instrumentality of holding companies is subject to federal regulation. The transmission of electric current directly from the seller in one state to the consumer in another for immediate or practical immediate use, subject only to a temporary transition for the purpose of reducing the current to a commercial voltage, remains interstate commerce. A state may not prohibit the exportation of hydroelectric energy produced within its borders by a federally licensed facility[i].
The third basic segment of the electric utility industry is distribution. It involves activities such as receiving electric energy from the transmission system, reducing it by transformation to distribution voltages, and delivering it to the ultimate consumers. The distribution function is generally carried out by an entity having a franchise, territorial assignment, or other right to serve all of the customers in a particular geographical area.
It is an accepted proposition that electric current is a commodity; and that the owner of an apartment house becomes the owner of electric current.[ii] A private individual, without special legislative authority, has a legal right to generate and sell electricity for public and private purposes. S/he has the right to light the streets of a town, provided s/he has a legal permit from the municipal officers of the town to erect and maintain the system of poles and wires along the public highways. The right to furnish electric light and power, aside from the right of eminent domain, is not strictly speaking a franchise, but a privilege or power which is granted to a corporation by the legislature. However, this right is open to any individual without such grant. There is nothing pertaining solely to sovereignty in the selling of electricity for lighting purposes[iii].
A municipality's power to establish or buy and maintain an electric plant is conferred by constitution or statute. The corporate power of a city to own and operate a municipal electric plant and supply its inhabitants at prescribed rates light, heat, and power is conferred by statute and the Constitution. "The municipal corporations shall have power, when properly exercised by its council by ordinance, to establish and maintain municipal lighting, power and heating plants"[iv].
The police power of the state includes the power to issue regulations by which electric companies construct their systems and conduct their business within the state[v].
The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) is a federal law created to reduce the country's dependence on imported fuels by encouraging the addition of cogeneration and small power production facilities to the nation's electrical generating system. A part of the Act establishes federal standards for electric utility ratemaking in the interest of energy conservation, as well as standards to promote the optimal use and efficiency of electric power and provide equitable rates to consumers[vi].
Additionally, state regulatory powers over electric companies extend to the provision of reasonably adequate service, the installation and repair of electrical wires and equipment, and insulation of wires[vii].
[i] Pipe Line Cases, 234 U.S. 548, 560 (U.S. 1914).
[ii] Sixty-Seventh South Munn, Inc. v. Board of Public Utility Comm'rs, 106 N.J.L. 45, 47 (Sup. Ct. 1929).
[iii] State ex rel. Martin v. Ohio Electric Power Co., 35 Ohio App. 481, 489 (Ohio Ct. App., Huron County 1928).
[iv] Lakewood v. Cleveland Elec. Illuminating Co., 29 Ohio Dec. 355, 360 (Ohio C.P. 1918).
[v] State ex rel. Martin v. Ohio Electric Power Co., 35 Ohio App. 481, 483 (Ohio Ct. App., Huron County 1928).
[vi] 16 USCS § 2621.
[vii] Lakewood v. Cleveland Elec. Illuminating Co., 29 Ohio Dec. 355, 360 (Ohio C.P. 1918).
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