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Using light to treat COVID-19.
Where Light meets Life™.
Your body is under attack every day.
Every breath including life-giving oxygen is accompanied by a host of other microorganisms, some harmless, others potentially life threatening. The ones that threaten us are called pathogens and include:
Causing COVID-19, SARS, MERS, Flu, Measles, Whooping Cough, the Common Cold
Causing Tuberculosis, Bacterial Pneumonia, Meningitis, Diphtheria
Our light therapy shows the potential to defeat them all.
While developing light-based treatments to fight the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we made a novel discovery—the treatments were also effective in fighting other pathogenic infections, such as, bacteria, influenza viruses, cold viruses, and many more.
Universal Antiviral
This discovery puts forth the promise of an effective, non-pharmacological treatment for a wide variety of pathogens. While additional and specific clinic trials for other pathogens are needed to 100% confirm our findings, the in-vitro demonstration of efficacy against a spectrum of pathogens that promises the potential of a "universal antiviral" is in reach.
Our Mission: Change how the world treats infectious disease.
Develop advanced LED technology to produce the desired therapeutic and protective outcomes.
Deliver market-ready products for clinical and home use.
The promise of light-based antiviral therapies from EmitBio:
Uses safe, visible spectrum light, to treat respiratory illness.
A non-pharmacological treatment, no chemicals or pills with adverse side effects.
Mechanism of action not dependent on viral makeup or configuration of spike protein leading to utility as a treatment for current mutations and/or future genetic drift.
The EmitBio Leadership team
Our leadership team represents decades of research, discovery and development in both life science and light science. The therapeutic applications of this fusion of light science and life science are limitless.
Neal Hunter
Neal Hunter, Executive Chairman of EmitBio, has a 30 year track record of successfully raising capital for and building technology companies in both the public and private markets beginning as a Co-founder of Cree, Inc. Mr. Hunter served multiple roles at Cree, including as the public company CEO and Chairman from 1994 to 2001 (shareholders returned 26x during his tenure), and then Chairman until 2005. He was also instrumental in the creation and start-up of LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc. which he co-founded in 2005 to accelerate the use of LEDs in general illumination applications and sold in 2008 for over $100M. While at Cree, Mr. Hunter led the creation and market introduction of the first viable LED lightbulb, generating over $100 million in revenues in 10 months. In 2014, Mr. Hunter began working with Dr. Nathan Stasko on developing a platform for lighting technology applied to difficult to treat human conditions. This work led to his new role as Executive Chairman of EmitBio, Inc. Mr. Hunter has been involved in light science for over 30 years and in life science for over 10 years.
John C. Oakley
CFO – Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Oakley joined Vast Therapeutics in July 2017 as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Oakley also currently serves KNOW Bio, LLC, EmitBio's parent company, and all its group companies as Chief Financial Officer. Throughout his career, Mr. Oakley has served in senior financial positions and as a Director for both publicly traded and privately held companies such as Cleaver-Brooks, Inc., Flanders Corporation, and Home Meridian International. Mr. Oakley began his career in the audit division with Arthur Andersen, LLP after earning a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Nathan Stasko, Ph.D.
CSO – Chief Science Officer
Dr. Nathan Stasko is an expert in the field of nitric oxide and a key inventor of many technologies in the KNOW Bio portfolio. He is an inventor on over 100 international patent filings, 15 of which have been issued in the U.S. Dr. Stasko was part of the original entrepreneurial vision to develop and optimize a proprietary platform that enables the delivery of nitric oxide as a drug. As President & CEO, he led Novan Inc., an early embodiment of this vision, from biotechnology startup to publicly traded clinical stage leader in nitric oxide treatments. He also currently serves at the Executive Chairman of REVIAN, a medical technology company dedicated to stimulating the body's natural processes to rejuvenate skin diseases with light. Dr. Stasko holds both a Ph.D. and Master's degree in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
John McNeil, MD, MPH, Ph.D
CMO – Chief Medical Officer
Dr. John McNeil is an internationally known Biologics Product Developer and Medical Epidemiologist and a leading expert on the prevention of infectious diseases. As well as serving as Chief Medical Officer for EmitBio, Dr. McNeil currently serves on the Board of Directors for the statewide UNC Healthcare System and recently as an advisor to the President's Coronavirus Taskforce. Dr. McNeil is an accomplished product developer and clinical researcher with over 35 years' experience and a successful track record developing active immune biologics for prevention of infectious diseases ranging from Falciparum Malaria in African toddlers, to Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and HIV/AIDS. Before joining EmitBio, he was the founder and CEO of Verum Clinical Research, LLC and was a Senior Director and Clinical Franchise Leader for poverty-related diseases at Sanofi Pasteur. Previously Dr. McNeil held leadership positions at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 22 years of global service with the US Army Medical Research and Development Command. Dr. McNeil is a prolific researcher with over 150 published peer-reviewed manuscripts and abstracts. Among his honors, Dr. McNeil was awarded The Legion of Merit, the Army Medical Corp Alpha designator as an international expert in infectious diseases and public health and The US Army Medical Department Order of Military Medical Merit for Superior Achievement. Dr. McNeil holds a Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) from Wake Forest University and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research with concentrations in Internal and General Preventive Medicine & Infectious Diseases, Master of Public Health (MPH) and PhD degrees from Harvard University in Medical Epidemiology and Public Health and a Bachelor's Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Michael Knowles, M.D.
Medical Advisor
Dr. Michael Knowles is a Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine at UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Knowles specializes in Genetic Modifiers of Disease phenotype in Cystic Fibrosis lung and liver disease, and is currently heading two multicenter studies: 1) Genetic Modifiers of Disease phenotype in CF lung and liver disease, which includes an International Consortium doing a whole genome scan; and 2) a Consortium with eight sites in North America studying rare genetic disorders of mucociliary clearance. He received a BA and an MD from UNC Chapel Hill and has over 30 years of clinical trial experience in the private and academic sectors with an emphasis on the following areas of study: biology, physiology, and clinical trials design. Dr. Knowles has been peer selected for 2017-2018 "The Best Doctors in America" award


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This Custom Embracer Arm Guard features a custom dragon design and border in Tan with a black tooled background.
Easy on, with or without a sleeve, and comfortable for hours of shooting. Easily adjustable.
Outstanding tooling from the provided image. Makes my armguard a one of a kind piece of wearable (protective) art!
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Registration is only $35 ($30 if you register before April 15) for the 25, 62, or 100 mile course, and you can sign up with the form below. Registration includes custom event glass and t-shirt (if registered before May 15, and lunch (starting at noon) after the ride at The Crossing (103 E Court Street, Paragould, AR 72450 where the race begins and ends).
The 10-mile route is $15 with a t-shirt only, or the regular price with a t-shirt and event glass.
Need more information? Check out the More Info and Routes pages.
Sign up now with the form below. Questions? Contact us with any questions and we'll get back to you ASAP.
You can also register starting at 7AM on the day of the event at Peak Fitness on Pruett Street, downtown Paragould!
We will ride rain or shine, although we will have delays in 30-minute increments for thunderstorms.


I am trying to activate the Low Voltage detect on the K64 chip. I have tried several variations of the control register configurations below but with no luck. Does anybody know how to get the LVD_LVW interrupt to fire when the voltage drops below 3.1v?
I think you are missing to enable the LVD/LVW interrupt vector from the NVIC module, apart from enabling the interrupts in the PMC module. Also, as noted in the Reference Manual, the LVWF flag may be 1 after power-on reset, so you must clear it by writing 1 to LVWACK.
Then as noticed by Alice the voltage threshold with these settings is not exactly 3.1 V, but 3V for Low Voltage Warning and 2.56V for Low Voltage Detect.
What is your voltage of low voltage ? It is not only under 3.1 the low voltage can detected.
Please check the voltage of your chip .
Thanks Alice and Jorge. I will try this. Our chip runs at 3.3v.
Alice, the Datasheet 2.2.2 page looks same as what you posted.
Jorge, I will try your code sample out and let you know how it works for me.
This worked like a champ!


Previously on The Great British Bake Off: We kicked off with cake week and met our new batch of Bakewells. Marie's steady but outstanding work won her star baker, Dorret's black forest cake collapsed into a Bingate-worthy puddle, and Stu was shown the door.
Biscuit week! The Bakewells roll into the tent while Mel and Sue welcome us. Once everyone's settled, the Signature is announced: 24 biscotti. Mmm, my mum makes some really delicious polenta biscotti. Her grandmother's recipe, I think. They have two hours. Mary tells us that biscotti are unusual because they're twice baked. Paul thinks he and Mary both have similar tastes in biscotti: Cranberry, hazelnut, and chocolate.
Alvin shows off the jackfruit he's going to use in his pistachio and macadamia biscotti. The judges wish him luck. He's the only one not using a dried fruit.
Mat is doing cranberry, pistachio and white chocolate biscotti. Paul warns him not to let the cranberries turn into bullets. He says that a guy at work loved them.
Everyone's dough seems really wet.
Ian is using rosemary, along with orange and almond in his biscotti. That actually sounds really delicious. Actually, I think a more savoury biscotti could be quite intriguing.
Doughs are coming together. Sandy, making a chocolate chunk and hazelnut biscotti, says she's a tiny bit worried about having to make these all uniform, since that's not her thing.
Paul is doing fig, hazelnut and chocolate biscotti. Mmmm. He's the only one making a chocolate dough, which Paul points out is tricky, because it's hard to tell if it's finished baking or not.
Ugne's going the unusual route and making white wine biscotti with goji berries. She says she likes to experiment. Clearly.
Dorret is including amber sugar crystals, sprinkled over the top. Paul is intrigued while Mary worries they'll be really hard when you bite into them.
Biscotti go into the ovens and timers go on while the VO says that the timing is crucial, since baking them even a teensy bit too long will result in burning on the second bake.
Nadiya is doing coconut, pistachio, and fennel biscotti that's inspired by one of her mother's Bangladeshi recipes.
Biscotti start coming out of the oven. Sandy's are quite flat. Alvin's are quite wet. Others are fairly pleased.
Tamal pulls out his physalis, cinnamon, maple, and cranberry biscotti. Wow, there's a lot going on there. He's also topping them with homemade praline. Mmmm. Everyone agrees they look like lovely ciabatta.
The Bakewells start fanning their biscotti with sheet pans to cool them faster, so they can be sliced.
Marie's are really fragile and she thinks she might have put too much fruit in them. Paul (the judge) wanders past with a cup of tea and she grabs him so she can conspiratorially tell him about how she screwed up. For some reason, I find this really hilarious.
Biscotti go back into the ovens for their second bake. Some of Tamal's have toasted a bit on the edges. Biscotti come back out and are frantically cooled, arranged, and decorated. Nadiya realizes she forgot to put the fennel seed in the biscotti, so now she's mixing it with the coconut she's putting on the outside.
Time is called and the bakes are presented. They all look quite lovely.
Mat's pistachio, cranberry and white chocolate look beautifully even and have a good crunch. Paul declares them a nice biscotti.
Nadiya's look nice and even, according to Mary, and Paul likes the fennel.
Marie's biscotti Italiano aren't as uniform as they should be and the chocolate on top hasn't set because they were warm when it was added. Good crunch and flavor.
Ugne's white wine biscotti have great texture and Mary loves the flavor.
Alvin's biscotti are delicious but a tiny bit soft. They needed a little longer in the oven.
Sandy's chocolate and hazelnut are great.
Dorret's almond and apricot with the amber crystals don't have much flavor and Paul doesn't like the sugar on top.
Tamal's cinnamon, maple and chocolate are good but Paul longs for one overriding flavor.
Paul's chocolate, fig, and hazelnut have a great texture, so well done on judging the timing. Mary's not crazy about the flavor combination, though. Really, Mary? You don't think that figs, hazelnuts, and chocolate go? I sure as hell do.
Flora's wedding biscotti aren't quite uniform but she managed not to be too overpowering with the fennel.
Ian's orange, rosemary, almond biscotti have everyone excited to try. Paul declares them a really nice biscotti. They do sound delicious.
Time for our first history lesson of the season. Once upon a time, biscuits were boring, but in the 19th century a new biscuit, the Pearl biscuit, was introduced that didn't have pinpricks to allow steam to escape, so it rose and had a soft, crumbly texture the Victorians adored. Demand was huge and a massive new factory was built. Soon, the Pearl was overwhelmed by the Garibaldi biscuit, then the Bourbon biscuit.
Time for the next challenge: the technical. It's a Paul recipe and he warns the bakers not to rush things. The Bakewells have to make Arlettes, light cinnamon-flavoured biscuits. Off they go. Flora, who has over 100 cookbooks, mostly French (of course) has never heard of these.
In their little pavilion, Paul says these can be super tricky. They're almost like super thin puff pastry. They do look really yummy. He's sure they're going to get some screwed up shapes.
Nobody knows what the heck they're doing. Flora figures she should build up some gluten, and Sandy says these seem rather complicated for a biscuit. They roll out dough into a rectangle, then chill it while they whip the butter, then roll it flat. The dough is then wrapped in the butter. Well, that's unusual. Typically you wrap dough around the butter. Marie's having trouble with her stuff sticking to clingfilm. Everything's thrown back in the fridge, then pulled out after a while and rolled out again. This is how you get all those lovely layers in your puff pastry.
Cinnamon and sugar is scattered over the dough. Sandy accidentally adds it twice. Flora can't seem to figure out how to roll the dough up. Once it's rolled Swiss-roll style, it's sliced and then the slices are rolled out very thinly. The biscuits are baked. Flora obsessively watches hers, worrying about burning because of the high butter content. Halfway through baking, they're flipped over and tossed back into the oven. Something seems to be wrong with Marie's oven. She's not sure they're going to be ready. Biscuits start coming out of the ovens and are plated. Time is called.
Paul and Mary return and take in the array of Arlettes. Dorret's look decent and are crispy. Mary likes the texture. They're good. Sandy's are a little too thick, but a good colour and have a good break. Ian's are kind of dry. Marie's only managed to get four on the plate, but the ones she got there are good. Alvin's were rolled up the wrong way, so he didn't get much of a cinnamon swirl in there. Flora's are nice and thin and break well. Mat didn't roll his thinly enough. Ugne didn't get the lamination or an even cinnamon distribution. Paul's are kind of a mess. Tamal didn't do spectacularly either. Nadiya's are too thick and underbaked.
Places, last to first: Marie, Paul, Nadiya, Tamal, Ugne, Alvin, Mat, Sandy, Ian, Flora, Dorret. Well done, Dorret and Flora!
So, who's on top and who's flailing? Dorret's pulled herself out of the bottom, but Paul and Marie are struggling a bit. Mat, Ian and Alvin are up at the top. Not Flora? That surprises me.
Showstopper! This week, they have to create 36 biscuits, presented in a box made of biscuit mix that's different from the biscuits inside. Simple, right? They fly into action.
Paul wants to see some architecture and precision. Mary says the box needs to be tough, like a gingerbread. She wants delicious ambition.
Paul is making a gingerbread box with pink macaroons in honour of his pink-loving wife. Aww. The box will be decorated with personal things, such as images of himself as a Coldstream Guard.
Alvin is also making a gingerbread box but filling it with brandy snaps. Most of them are using gingerbread, actually, since it's super sturdy.
Nadiya is doing a ginger and cayenne pepper box. That sounds delicious. She's also trying to make it rounded, which will be interesting. Inside will be 36 fortune cookies with actual fortunes inside.
Tamal is making a gingerbread flavoured with star anise instead of ginger, filled with chess shortbreads. Sign me up!
Flora is making honey and lemon shortbread with Earl Grey-infused biscuits. I love Earl Grey biscuits. I actually made hundreds of them to give out as favours at our wedding. They were delicious.
Ian is doing a cylindrical shortbread case with macarons inside. Ambitious. He insists it works at home, but I can't help but wonder how he manages to get the shortbread to bake without just melting down the sides of the cylinders.
Sandy is going savoury with a sundried tomato chess biscuit box filled with cream cheese filled Parmesan rounds. Interesting.
Nadiya is shaping the base of her box around a bowl.
Mat is making a gingerbread box shaped like a fire truck (he's a fireman), filled with Earl Grey tea biscuits. He wants to put crushed candy windows in the fire engine. Good luck, Mat. Remember that didn't work out so well last week for one of the bakers.
Box bits go into the ovens and the Bakewells get started on the interior biscuits.
Marie is staying true to her Scottish roots and filling her box with cinnamon and orange shortbreads.
Ugne is doing Lithuanian cottage cheese cookies with cinnamon and sugar, housed in a jar made of Lithuanian honey cake. She just hopes nothing will fail today. Good hope to have.
Mat and Paul work on their macaroons. Both are going to be pink.
Dorret is filling a gingerbread lily pad box with shortbread frogs. Paul wonders if stamping out the frogs isn't a bit of a shortcut, which is PaulSpeak for: this is a shortcut. We will be counting it against you.
Boxes start coming out of the oven. Some have puffed too much, some have melded together, others are fine. Ian's cylinder came out ok. Nadiya's bowl collapsed, so now she has to do it again.
Halfway through, filling biscuits start going into the oven. While those bake, they start assembling the boxes and decorating them. Marie's shaking and says she's making a huge mess of this.
Mat's fire engine is looking really cute. Nadiya's box is still cooling and she's freaking out, because she's not going to have enough time to decorate it. She's sure she's going home.
Alvin is way behind. He's frantically icing away, but he's not sure he'll be able to finish the brandy snaps. He decides to abandon the box, since he doesn't have time to put it together.
Sandy's worried that she's the only one doing savoury biscuits. Well, she says she's worried. She doesn't sound it.
Flora accidentally cracks part of her box right in half, and Sue somehow destroys Nadiya's box. Oh COME ON! At least once a season one of these two destroys something one of the bakers is working on. Stop mucking about with stuff on their stations!Nadiya somehow manages to just laugh about the whole thing.
Boxes are coming together and are being filled with biscuits. Time is called, and they step away. Some of them look really great.
Ian's sandwich filled with macaroons impresses Paul with the cylinder. The macarons are great, the box is nice.
Flora's honey and earl grey box is declared ambitious by Mary, who thinks that Flora probably panicked a bit and ended up cracking the top in half. The piping is really good and the biscuits are delicious.
Alvin's just stacked his box pieces beside the brandy snaps, which naturally does not go over well with Paul and Mary. He actually bursts into tears over it. Mary says it's really sad he couldn't get it put together, but the box and the brandy snaps are fab.
Marie's Russian box looks fairly elegant but the biscuits seem plain to Paul. And the flavours are just ok to him, though Mary's fine with them. Mary thinks the box is too soft.
Sandy's sundried tomato box gets high marks from the judges for appearance, but they don't get the sundried tomato flavor. The interior biscuits are a little soft for Mary, but delicious.
Tamal's chessboard box looks really beautiful, and the chess biscuits inside look and taste quite nice. Mary notes that the star anise flavor of the box comes right through.
Mary thinks that Ugne's box looks garish, and she's not wrong. It's got all sorts of ugly frosting flowers and things, and a totally creepy pair of baby legs, in an attempt to look like a kid's sneaking into the cookie jar. Flavour's ok, though. Paul loves the cookies inside, though.
Dorret's box of frogs looks cute, and the frogs are crispy, but the flavour's not very good. The gingerbread box is good though.
Nadiya's box is sans dome because of Sue, who admits that she was the culprit here. There was no time to decorate it, but Paul loves the flavor of the biscuit. The fortune cookies are a Bake Off first, and they too are good.
Paul's box looks good, but his macarons are various sizes and there's too much filling. Nice gingerbread, though.
Mat's gingerbread fire engine is super cute. He got the windows to work and everything. Interior and exterior biscuits get high marks.
Afterwards, the judges and hosts confer. Mat and Ian are way up there, along with Sandy. Mel notes that there were some erratic performances. Dorret, for instance, did well in the technical, but stamping out a biscuit seemed rather a cheat. And Alvin being unable to make a box is a problem. Marie, too, has fumbled. Mary doesn't think Marie has managed to lift herself out of her comfort zone. Paul, too, is on the chopping block, though it doesn't seem like he deserves it as much as some of the others.
Everyone re-gathers in the tent. First, star baker: Ian! Yay! I definitely want your biscotti recipe. And they must say goodbye to…Marie. Damn, from star baker to going home in just a week, that's a hell of a leap. She puts a brave face on, though. That Scottish stoicism is a hell of a thing to see.


Good news for local football and sports fans last week, the game is on! It was announced that Maryland and Navy will play in 2010 at M & T Bank Stadium and possibly 2014. Schedule conflicts prevent the two teams playing in 2011,12 and 13. Congratulations to Debbie Yow (Maryland AD) and Chet Gladchuk (Navy AD) for putting aside any differences and realizing that this the right thing to do for both schools and the fans.
I sat in the cheap seats (where else would I sit) section 516 for the game in 2005, and it was one of the best athletic events I have ever attended. The game was terrific with the Terps rallying to win the game 23-20 on a strike from Sam Hollenbach to Drew Weatherly in the fourth with 1:01 left in the game. This followed a key fourth down conversion earlier in the drive that saw a great second effort from Lance Ball. Navy kept Maryland off balance all day long with their triple option game. The game was remarkabley well played and physical.
The atmosphere off the field was just as terrific with the "March on of the Midshipmen," the flyover, the rowdy Terps student body and the plebes doing push ups. Plus the bands, cheerleaders and tailgate made it a memorable day. This game gave Baltimore a big time college football feel. The game matched two excellent bench bosses in Navy's Paul Johnson (the most underrated coach in America) and Maryland's Ralph Friedgen (remember what the Terps were before him).
I will also never forget the sportsmanship both teams showed after the game, especially, Friedgen who made his players stand and observe as Navy players sang to their alma mater, a move which the Navy players had just done in respect for their opponent's victory. It was a class move by two classy coaches.
Besides my enjoyment, the game was great for the state, as it gave a boost for both high school and youth football.
While 2010 is a proper first step, this game needs to be made permanent. I think it should be an annual event played every Labor Day weekend on Saturday or Sunday night. After all the NFL is off and not everyone is at the beach.
Baltimore City and the region could really take hold of this with a parade's, pep rallies, musical acts, and Labor Day fireworks. Heck get Mike Gibbons and his crew from Sports Legends involved with a big display. Make it what the Georgia-Florida's game is in Jacksonville. It could be a nicknamed the "Crab Bowl" and serve as Maryland's Official Bowl Game. The game would also be a great boost for the hotels and downtown restaurants, who usually need a boost by this time.
Events like this game, Preakness, Army-Navy, NCAA Lacrosse Final Fours, and possible high-level international soccer matches are the types of event this city should try to secure and acquire, not some of the events that the blue-hairs have pushed on us as being world class sports. If a third-rate cities like Indianapolis or Jacksonville can do it, why not us?
Have Boomer Esiason on the Maryland sideline and Roger Staubach on the Navy side. In time, this could grow to be a great in-state rivalry like Louisville and Kentucky or Florida vs. Florida State. So Ms. Yow and Mr. Gladchuk, please let's play more than two. Play it every year and let's have some fun. I will be in the cheap seats ready to watch.
MORE IMPORTANT THAN SPORTS: My thoughts and prayers are with all those who are currently suffering from the wildfires in Southern California. Especially to all the men and women with the various firefighting crews who are risking their own lives to help fight these fires. Against severe wind, heat and twenty-hour work days, these hero's are valiantly pushing back the flames. Your determination and sacrifice deserve a standing ovation.


Prophotonut: Fujifilm X-Pro 1 ~ 8000 frame user review, by Damien Lovegrove, where he took the camera on a trip.
The X-Pro1 is a camera that I believe is best suited for street, travel and portrait photography. It's not at home in a flash lit studio and it's not fast enough for any sort of action photography. It's definitely a niche camera and one I will love using on a daily basis.
Duncan Davidson wrote Mayanmar Brief, a short about traveling to Myanmar (aka Burma).
Also check out his fantastic pictures taken during his trip. The U Bein Bridge, the Hsinbyume Pagoda, temples as far as the eye can see.


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Q: Overriding Constructors I am greatly confused with Overriding Constructors. Constructor can not be overridden is the result what i get when i searched it in google my question is
public class constructorOverridden {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        Sub sub = new Sub();
        sub.test();
    }
}

class Super {
    Super() {
        System.out.println("In Super constructor");
        test();
    }

    void test() {
        System.out.println("In Super.test()");
    }
}

class Sub extends Super {
    Sub() {
        System.out.println("In Sub constructor");
    }

    void test() { // overrides test() in Super
        System.out.println("In Sub.test()");
    }
}

when i run this  i got the result as
In Super constructor
In Sub.test()
In Sub constructor
In Sub.test()

pls note the test method in subclass is executed. Is it shows that Superclass constructor is overridden. Whether is it correct ?

A: You cannot override the constructor as the constructor is invoked by the name of the class it constructs. How can you create some different class with the same constructor? Also, a child class does not inherit constructors from its parent.
If the parent constructor does some important initialization, it can be called from the child constructor using super:
class Err extends Throwable {
   Err(String message) {
       super(message); // Call the constructor of Throwable.
        ..

The parent class constructor is also always called. If you yourself do not call any, a constructor without parameters is called automatically before entering a constructor of the derived class. If the parent has no parameterless constructor and you do not call any, a compile time error is reported.

A: The first implicit line of a constructor is a call to Super(). That's why you get those results.

A: That's correct. When instantiating a subclass, the superclass constructor is called first, and then each successive constructor in the hierarchy.
In your example above, the superclass constructor calls an overridden method (test()). This works, but is potentially dangerous since the subclass constructor has not been called, and your subclass will not have been fully initialised. For this reason calling overridden (or overriddable) methods in a constructor is not good practise.

A: Constructors aren't polymorphic - you don't override them at all. You create new constructors in the subclass, and each subclass constructor must chain (possibly indirectly) to a superclass constructor. If you don't explicitly chain to a constructor, an implicit call to the parameterless superclass constructor is inserted at the start of the subclass constructor body.
Now in terms of overriding methods - an object is of its "final type" right from the start, including when executing a superclass constructor. So if you print getClass() in the Super constructor code, you'll still see Sub in the output. The upshot of that is the overridden method (i.e. Sub.test) is called, even though the Sub constructor hasn't yet executed.
This is fundamentally a bad idea, and you should almost always avoid calling potentially-overridden methods in constructors - or document very clearly that it's going to be the case (so that the subclass code is aware that it can't rely on variables having been initialized appropriately etc).

A: it is not overriding super class constructor and constructor can not be overridden it can be overloaded.
When you create child class object super class will be instantiated first then sub class will be instantiated. Its like Child can not be existed without parent.
Compiler will automatically call super class constructor from sub class constructor .
Sub() {
    super();
    System.out.println("In Sub constructor");
}

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More than 2,200 pages of documents obtained through FOIA
Aug 9th, 2011 3
Published in: Cuban Five
In this article: Cuba, Cuban Five, United States
Government-funded propaganda operation in Miami exposed
by Gloria La Riva
Coordinator, National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
In 1998, five Cuban men were arrested by the U.S. government and tried in Miami on charges of conspiring to commit espionage on the United States.
The five men's mission was to stop terrorism, keeping watch on Miami's ultra-right extremists to prevent their violent attacks against Cuba. "The Cuban Five," as they are now known, were convicted after repeated denials by the judge to move the trial venue out of Miami. The U.S. government insisted that they be tried in Miami.
What the Cuban Five and their attorneys did not know during trial was that the U.S. government—through its official propaganda agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors—was covertly paying prominent Miami journalists who, at the same time as the government conducted its prosecution, saturated the Miami media with reports that were highly inflammatory and prejudicial to the Cuban Five.
The presence of Miami journalists on the U.S. government payroll, who purported to report as "independent" press, goes to the heart of the unjust conviction of the Five. The Five were not only victims of a politically-motivated prosecution, but a government-funded propaganda operation as well.
Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff for Colin Powell when he was Secretary State from 2001 to 2005, commented about the inability of the Cuban Five to receive a fair trial in Miami:
When the case came to trial, a change of venue was warranted and asked for because no Miami court was going to give the Cuban Five a fair trial, since the city is largely in the hands of some of the very Cuban-Americans and their supporters who've allegedly perpetrated these atrocities on the Cuban people and are prepared to invade the island. But the change of venue motion was denied. And of course the five were convicted.
Wilkerson has called for the release of the Cuban Five.
So, too, has former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who stated:
I believe that there is no reason to keep the Cuban Five imprisoned, there were doubts in the U.S. courts and also among human rights organizations in the world. Now, they have been in prison 12 years and I hope that in the near future they will be released to return home.
Digging up the truth
A multi-year effort by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, the civil rights legal organization the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and, most recently,Liberation newspaper, has uncovered thousands of pages of previously unreleased materials exposing this government operation.
More than 2,200 pages of contracts between Miami journalists and Radio and TV Martí—released thus far to Liberation newspaper through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) petition—expose the fallacy of an independent press in Miami.
This is the first in a series of articles about these new disclosures.
The BBG and its Office of Cuba Broadcasting have operated Radio Martí since 1985 and TV Martí since 1990. They broadcast into Cuba with the intent to destabilize the government. They also broadcast directly into Miami.
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 regulating U.S. "public diplomacy" abroad—Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio and TV Martí, etc.—prohibits the U.S. government from funding activities to influence and propagandize domestic public opinion, see 22 U.S.C. § 1461.
The U.S. government has funneled nearly half a billion dollars into the Office of Cuba Broadcasting in Miami. With an annual budget nearing $35 million, the OCB and BBG put on their payroll domestic journalists to broadcast the same message inside and outside the United States on Cuba-related issues, effectively violating the law against domestic dissemination of U.S. propaganda.
The earliest documents obtained thus far from the BBG go back to Nov. 1, 1999. Despite the FOIA petition request for data on the journalists going back to the date of the shoot-down in 1996—which also covers the date of the Five's 1998 arrest—the BBG has so far refused to comply, claiming that contracts and other documents have been destroyed.
These contracts evidence the U.S. government's payments to journalists in Miami whose reports constituted a sustained effort to create an atmosphere of hysteria and bias against Cuba and the Cuban Five. Three of the Cuban Five—Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero and Ramón Labañino—have filed habeas corpus appeals arguing that their constitutional rights to due process were grossly undermined by the government's media operation in Miami and payments to the Miami reporters.
The reportage of these journalists and their contracts with the government demonstrate a close partnership between Washington and right-wing Cuban exile reporters. Prominent journalists who churn out biased anti-Cuba themes in the Miami media are richly rewarded with contracts from the BBG.
Headquartered in Miami, Radio and TV Martí are the only U.S. propaganda stations that operate outside of the Washington, D.C., area. Moving to Miami in 1997, they were able to recruit a stable of virulent anti-Cuba reporters.
Those contracted by the U.S. government also served as guests, hosts, regular commentators and writers of shows such as "Actualidad Mundial" ("World Update"), "Mesa Redonda" ("Roundtable") and regular daily newscasts. In other words, they directed and shaped the message. At the same time that they are employed by the U.S. government, these journalists also hold themselves out as independent reporters covering U.S.-Cuban affairs in other media.
Such is the case with Pablo Alfonso and Ariel Remos.
Reporters condemn the Five before trial
Pablo Alfonso was a longtime reporter for El Nuevo Herald. The contracts released by the Liberation newspaper FOIA show that Alfonso received BBG payments of $58,600 during the Cuban Five's trial during the period between Nov. 1, 1999 and Dec. 31, 2001. His total payments were $252,325 through Aug. 22, 2007.
Ariel Remos is a longtime reporter and commentator for Diario Las Américas. Remos received BBG payments of $11,750 during the Five's trial from Nov. 1, 1999 to Dec. 12, 2001—roughly the same time span as Alfonso. His total pay was $24,350 through Nov. 20, 2006.
During the Cuban Five's prosecution, both Alfonso and Remos wrote incendiary articles that were placed in the Miami media accusing the Cuba government of murder.
Brothers to the Rescue had repeatedly sent planes to invade Cuban airspace in 1995 and early 1996, including buzzing Havana buildings and dropping thousands of leaflets over the city. With the Brothers to the Rescue's public announcement that they would once again fly into Cuban territory on Feb. 24, Cuba warned that it would take direct action if the planes invaded again. When the planes crossed into Cuban airspace, they were shot down.
Virtual hysteria and demand for vengeance became pervasive in the Miami media in the aftermath of the shoot-down.
Despite being in Miami, not Cuba, and playing no role whatsoever in Cuba's action to defend its territory, Hernández became a scapegoat. Seven months after the Five were arrested, Hernández was charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
Although trial judge Joan Lenard later claimed that the non-sequestered jury was sufficiently shielded from the media with her instructions that they should not follow the news during the trial, the Miami community had already been inundated with inflammatory coverage on the shoot-down for almost five years before the jury was selected.
Alfonso and Remos pounded a steady drumbeat to condemn Fidel Castro for the plane shoot-down, and interviewed others who demanded his arrest for "murder." Their articles were inflammatory and sensationalist.
In 1999, while under contract with the U.S. government, Remos interviewed Tampa attorney Ralph Fernández—the legal representative of José Basulto, the president of Brothers to the Rescue.
The article by Remos, dated Nov. 28, 1999, states:
… [I]n the case of U.S. v. Gerardo Hernández, in which Caroline Heck-Miler has been serving as the prosecutor and where the chain of command and cause for the death of the four members of Brothers to the Rescue – three of them citizens of the US and one resident – supposedly begins with Fidel Castro.
Castro, therefore, is in the referenced case accused of murder and under investigation for murder; and if he sets foot on United States territory he can be arrested and brought before the justice of this country. That is the opinion of attorney Fernández, and that is how he just told it to DIARIO LAS AMERICAS.
The harm created by the partnership between the government and its paid journalists was reinforced during the trial itself.
The trial began in November 2000 and concluded in June 2001.
Three months into the trial, an article by Ariel Remos appeared in Diario las Americas(Feb. 27, 2001) under the headline "Jeane Kirkpatrick Asks Ashcroft to Prosecute Cuban Officials for International Terrorism." The article reveals a letter to the new Bush administration attorney general, John Ashcroft, written by Kirkpatrick, the neo-conservative U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Reagan administration.
The article highlights the claim made in the letter to Ashcroft that "in the upcoming trial of five Cuban officials in Florida, evidence has come forward that the murders [of the Brothers to the Rescue pilots] were premeditated," as well as the complaint that the "highest authorities who approved this act of state terrorism, have still not been charged."
On its face, the "arrangement" between the government and the journalists covering Cuba and the Cuban Five prosecution clearly impacts—or rather negates—the possibility of a fair trial in Miami. But the government, in its April 25, 2011, "Response in Opposition" to a motion filed by Gerardo Hernández that appeals his double life sentence, puts forth a simple "you can't ever catch me" defense.
The government's recent response, filed by the Obama administration's Justice Department attorneys, argues that the articles written by the government's paid journalists could have no possible impact either because A) they were published before the trial started; or B) they were published after the trial started and the jury was empanelled and admonished by the judge not to be influenced by the media.
Thus, hostile and inflammatory media coverage could never be harmful to the defendants. According to the government, its pumping millions of dollars into the so-called "independent" media in Miami is of no significance or impropriety.
However, the U.S. prosecutors knew that the judge's instructions were insufficient to protect the trial process from undue media influence, as demonstrated by the government's motion filed by prosecutor Caroline Heck-Miller in December 2000 seeking a gag order to prohibit the press from quoting potential witnesses – out of concern that those witnesses would help the defense.
The motion was filed after one potential witness, Richard Nuccio, had expressed disgust at learning that the FBI was aware that the shoot-down might occur before it had taken place.
The government's motion stated: "…the jury in this trial has been strictly instructed not to read press accounts of the case, and there is no reason to believe that they have disregarded their instruction. Nonetheless, unbridled comment by persons who are designated witnesses in this matter, contrary to the Court's clear directives, poses risks to the process that none of the parties should have to endure." (emphasis added)
The government knew and admitted the media could influence the jury. And it continued to pay reporters who were doing just that. It continued to simultaneously prosecute the Cuban Five in Miami in the midst of press-generated anti-Cuba hysteria that it generously funded.
Creating a climate of hysteria
Some of the journalists on the government payroll as of the date of the earliest 1999 documents released by the FOIA request were writing prejudicial articles about the Five immediately after their arrest.
The coverage went far beyond regular news reporting on a breaking story of the arrests to create the specter of a supposed threat that the just-arrested defendants and Cuba held for the United States.
On Sept. 16, 1998, four days after the arrest of the Five, Pablo Alfonso published a highly-inflammatory and unsubstantiated charge of a link of Cuba and its agents with terrorism. It appeared in El Nuevo Herald, titled "Possible Alliance with Terrorism."
As evidenced by documents released to the National Committee, Alfonso received over $250,000 in BBG contracts between 1999 and 2007.
Alfonso writes:
The surprising offensive against an alleged network of Cuban spies in Miami, may be an action aimed at preventing a possible collaboration between the Cuban government and countries involved in terrorist actions against the United States, according to military and intelligence experts who expressed this to El Nuevo Herald.
In his article, Alfonso quotes Orestes Lorenzo, an ex-major of the Cuban Air Force who deserted to the United States in 1991:
"It's ridiculous to assume that the Cuban army can do something serious to the powerful US military", Lorenzo indicated. "However, if we think in terms of services provided to terrorist groups or nations like Libya, Iran or the like, things change."
Lorenzo said that he isn't surprised Fidel Castro's regime is "lending or selling its intelligence services" to Islamic terrorist groups or powerful nations that are interested in carrying out terrorist acts on U.S. territory.
Alfonso's unsubstantiated story ends by turning the speculation of Cuba's link to "Islamic" terrorists into a fact.
This type of reporting contributed the political context and climate facing the Cuban Five following their arrest and all the way through their trial, jury deliberations and ultimate conviction. Cuba was painted as a terrorist entity by the Miami media, including by the inflammatory reports of anti-Castro journalists who wrote during the same period that the U.S. government was prosecuting the Cuban Five in Miami and who have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government.
Wilfredo Cancio Isla, according to contracts published by Liberation newspaper, received $4,725 from Sept. 30, 2000, to Dec. 3, 2001—dates within the period of the Five's prosecution. His contract P109-1036 with Radio Martí committed him to weekly "debate" participation on the station through Sept. 30, 2001. His total pay was $21,800 through Nov. 20, 2006.
During this same period, Cancio published the unsubstantiated U.S. government accusations in El Nuevo Herald that the jury was not permitted to hear in the courtroom. Yet those charges would appear in the press for all to read, including the unsequestered jury.
On June 4, 2001, the day the jury was to begin deliberations, a Cancio article appeared inEl Nuevo Herald with the headline "Cuba Used Hallucinogens to Train its Spies."
This inflammatory article—supposedly based on information from an anonymous "Cuban spy defector"—claimed that Cuba gave LSD and other hallucinogens for "behavior modification" for the purposes of "intelligence and counter-intelligence."
The supposed "anonymous" ex-spy defector given two pseudonyms—Alex and José—conveniently links the drug accusation with the Cuban Five. Cancio writes:
Cuba experimented with hypnosis techniques and hallucinogens to "modify the behavior" of numerous agents who were sent abroad … "Among these hallucinogens were psilocybin and LSD. …" [as described by his source, Alex]
"I can assure you that the Wasp Network (broken up in September 1998) is just a part of the espionage work that was conceived to infiltrate the United States on a long-term basis," said Alex, who now lives in southern Florida. [The Wasp Network is a reference to the Cuban Five.]
It is clear that the Cuban Five political prisoners were victims of vicious anti-Cuba propaganda by reporters on the payroll of their very accusers, the U.S. government.
The Reporters for Hire website will soon be publishing other articles and releasing additional documents obtained from the BBG exposing this illegal government propaganda operation and manipulation of the justice system.
Contributing to this article was Ben Becker, editor of Liberation newspaper.
More than 2,000 pages of contracts obtained by Liberation newspaper — between U.S. propaganda stations Radio and TV Martí and Miami journalists posing as independent press — reveal a close partnership between the U.S. government and extreme rightwing Cuban-exile reporters in Miami.
The Cuban Five are Cuban nationals who were on a mission in Miami to stop U.S.-based terrorism aimed at Cuba. They were arrested by the FBI in 1998 and imprisoned for trying to expose a new wave of violent acts against Cuba emanating from Miami. In seeking a trial outside that city, the Five cited the pervasive anti-Cuba prejudice in Miami. But the judge refused their numerous requests.
With the discovery — after the trial — of the U.S.-paid Miami journalists, the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Liberation newspaper, and the legal civil-rights organization Partnership for Civil Justice Fund began an investigation into how the anti-Cuba climate in Miami is financed and fostered by the U.S. government, even though it is barred by law from engaging in domestic propaganda.
The organizations have documented extensive media coverage by the government-paid reporters.
MIAMI JOURNALISTS WITH A TERRORIST RECORD
Some of the Miami journalists on the government payroll have a history of supporting armed attacks against Cuba. Others gave highly favorable coverage to Miami terrorist organizations that advocate violent overthrow of the Cuban government.
Miami has the unique distinction within the United States of harboring terrorist organizations and individuals with the full knowledge, and often support, of Washington. These groups have carried out numerous violent attacks against the Cuban people with complete impunity. More than 3,400 Cubans have been murdered by terrorist attacks.
Washington, through several government agencies, has a long history of arming and training anti-Cuba terrorists in Miami. It also, as it turns out, has a developed pattern of putting on the payroll of Radio and TV Martí individuals who have advocated and supported violent actions against Cuba.. The stations' headquarters are in Miami, under the influence and direction of the Cuban extreme right living in Miami.
Enrique Encinosa, who advocates the bombing of Cuban hotels, was employed by the U.S. government while he was working as an "independent" news director on the powerful right-wing Spanish-language radio station in Miami.
During the Cuban Five prosecution, Encinosa broadcast news regularly on Miami's 50,000-watt WAQI Radio ("Radio Mambí"), and was a frequent commentator on their arrest and prosecution. He received $5,200 to host a weekly Radio Martí show from Oct.1, 2000, to Sept. 30, 2001, for a total of $10,400. The Cuban Five's trial was within that time span, running from Nov. 27, 2000, to June 8, 2001.
Encinosa boasted in an Internet radio interview: "I arrived in the United States in 1961. I became involved in the anti-Castro paramilitary organizations when I was 16. I participated in a number of military and covert operations into Cuba as a very young man. I worked cloak and dagger in covert operations …" The interview was in 2010.
Earlier, in 2005, in an interview for the documentary, "638 Ways to Kill Castro," Encinosa openly supported the bombings that shook Havana hotels in 1997, one of which killed Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo. In the film, Encinosa says: "I personally think it's an acceptable method. It's a way of damaging the tourist economy. The message that you, one, tries to get across is that Cuba is not a healthy place for tourists. So, if Cuba is not a healthy place for tourists because there's a few windows being blown out of hotels, that's fine."
While the Five were monitoring the Miami terrorists' plots in the late 1990s, Encinosa was co-hosting a clandestine shortwave radio station in Miami called "La Voz de la Resistencia." It was beamed into Cuba on a weekly basis, and Encinosa would call for listeners to wage violent attacks on economic targets, as well as advocating assassinations of Cuban individuals.
The Five were engaged in an anti-terrorist mission and never possessed a weapon in Miami. But they were often falsely portrayed as supporting terrorism by the Miami journalists.
In an interview several days after the Cuban Five's arrest, published Sept. 21, 1998, in El Nuevo Herald, Encinosa, who was cited as an intelligence expert, stated that the arrests occurred because U.S. intelligence "has detected or has indications that the information [supposedly gathered by the Five] is passing through terrorist organizations outside the United States."
JULIO ESTORINO
Julio Estorino's history includes membership in Junta Patriótica Cubana, which was formed in the early 1980s. It advocated the violent overthrow of the Cuban government.
Estorino's resumé — from the BBG documents obtained by Liberation newspaper — shows his U.S. government employment by the BBG goes back to at least March 1998, several months before the Cuban Five's arrest.
His resumé states clearly: "Employer: U.S. Government, Office of Cuba Broadcasting … Miami Florida." It is not possible yet to know the total amount that Estorino received from the BBG because the agency has not yet produced documents from before November 1999. But the material obtained by Liberation newspaper shows he was paid $14,950 from Oct. 16, 2002 to Jan. 31, 2004.
During the same period that Estorino was employed by the U.S. government he was also 1) Executive director of the morning news show of a right-wing Miami radio station WACC; 2) Host of that station's daily evening drive-time interview show, "El Portal," and 3) Co-host of "Al Día," a daily news and opinion show.
Since 1997, he has been a regular columnist for the Miami newspaper Diario las Américas. Within days of the Cuban Five's arrest, Estorino wrote several articles for Diario las Américas on their case.
In an article on Sept. 18, 1998, headlined, "The spies of Havana and Washington's intentions," Estorino writes:
Throughout [Fidel Castro's] lengthy reign of terror, many have known and almost all have assumed that certainly in this country and in Miami, amongst us, there are Castro agents moving about and performing different missions, none of which we can say are any good."
When the Cuban Five were arrested on Sept. 12, 1998, a clamor began immediately by several of the most prominent U.S.-paid journalists for the Five to be indicted for the deaths of four pilots of Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR), who were shot down by Cuba when they invaded Cuban airspace. Cuba had warned the Clinton administration that further BTTR invasions into Cuban territory would no longer be tolerated.
From the time of the Feb. 24, 1996, shoot-down until the indictment of one of the Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernández, on May 8, 1999, on false charges of "conspiracy to commit murder," the Miami coverage was virulent, beyond any semblance of objective reporting.
Some of the reporting also cast a guilty net over all the Cuban Five.
Estorino wrote in an article published in the Diario Las Américas on May 14, 1999, titled "With Malice Aforethought":
The United States government has formally indicted a number of agents from Castro's dictatorship who were operating in South Florida, with conspiracy to commit murder, in relation to the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue airplanes and their tragic toll of four deaths on February 24, 1996.
All this should be proven and it shouldn't be very hard to do it. …
The Cuban exiles have waited forty years for the beginning of a recognition, even an implicit one, that their denunciations about the vile and wicked nature of Fidel Castro and the system of government he has imposed on our people, have not been exaggerations, mistakes, or lies. This vileness and wickedness has already reached U.S. territory and its citizens and it's time for the consequent actions to be taken: that Fidel Castro be indicted as well, along with everyone who participated in this infamous crime.
It's time for justice to be done.
ALBERTO MÜLLER
Alberto Müller left Cuba for the United States in 1960 and formed a group called Revolutionary Students Directorate (DRE), which carried out terrorist attacks inside Cuba, including bombings in Havana. With training by the CIA, he infiltrated Cuba in 1961 to try to organize paramilitary actions in the Escambray mountains, just before the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Müller was caught and convicted of terrorist attacks. After serving 20 years in prison and being exiled to the United States, Müller became a Miami reporter.
The BBG contracts obtained by Liberation newspaper show government payments to Müller of $38,571 from Oct. 1, 2004, to March 31, 2010. Earlier, during the Five's trial, he wrote incendiary articles about the Cuban Five and the BTTR plane shoot-down.
The BBG has so far failed to release information relating to its employment of Miami reporters before Nov. 1999.
On Feb. 20, 2001, Müller wrote a particularly venomous article titled "Assassins" in Diario Las Américas:
The last minutes in the life of four pilots downed in international waters by Castro's MiG planes were filmed and recorded for posterity.
What we needed to hear … live … shamelessly uninhibited, accented with bloody premeditated calculation … the subordinates asking the commander in chief for the go-ahead to pulverize the defenseless airplanes of Brothers to the Rescue with a Soviet missile … Five years have passed since the horrendous crime committed over international waters. That's why the matter should be put to the legal and humanitarian powers of every organization of human justice, from the International Criminal Court at the Hague to the Human Rights Commission at the United Nations.
The Criminal Confession … in the very voice of the underling executioner … we have finally heard it with absolute clarity … during the trial of Castro's spies who infiltrated Miami. What more is needed now to make the decision to try Fidel Castro? What more is needed now to make the decision to seat Fidel Castro in the dock at an international legal trial? Well, nothing. All the elements of the inquiry are at hand.
No crime should remain unpunished … but one that is executed in the open skies … against defenseless human beings who were flying over international waters in search of Cuban rafters on the high seas deserves the strictest and unmistakable repudiation by all of humanity … due to its filthy genocidal character. [Editor's note: Ellipses included in the original]
The act is so despicable by its nature as a crime against humanity that it suggests the accused should be in the dock, whether they are subordinate executioners or executioners among the maximum leadership.
NEWLY DISCLOSED DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW
The ReportersForHire.org website is making the newly disclosed FOIA documents available to the public.
Because of the strong interest in the thousands of pages of contract material for the Miami media that Liberation Newspaper obtained and is the basis for this analysis and series of reports, we are making the underlying documents available for public review and comment at www.ReportersforHire.org. We have scanned the materials and made them text searchable with optical character recognition.
These materials contain information on the BBG's contracts with the Miami media, including, for example, the revelation that Enrique Patterson, a prominent Miami journalist, received $135,350 from the U.S. government between November 2002 and June 2007.
We are inviting you to comment on sections or facts that you find noteworthy and we may use what you observe or uncover in the documents as part of these reports, or as an annotation to the documents. Please include page numbers of the documents and direct excerpts in your comments.
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State Regent Collins: Suspensions of black students a critical area of concern
By Eileen Buckley • Dec 12, 2018
New York State Regent Catherine Collins, who represents the Western New York region, is calling for more intervention to help districts better handle suspensions of black students. A statewide report on student suspensions was issued earlier this week. WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says Collins is calling it a "critical area" of concern.
WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says Regent Collins is calling it a "critical area" of concern.
"What is so disheartening is the fact that we have the highest rate in the state of New York," said Collins.
Collins pointing to the high suspension rates for black students in New York Equity Coalition report. The findings are from 2016-2017 school year. Nineteen percent of black students in Buffalo Public schools were suspended and 28 percent in the Niagara Falls City School District.
Collins called for action at this week's Board of Regents sessions.
"I think our communities and our parents out there need to know about the suspensions and what it means for kids not to be in school because if you're not in school. You can't learn. How are you going to graduate?," asked Collins.
The Every Student Succeeds Acts (ESSA) allows closer monitoring of suspensions. The state Board of Regents is considering new state-wide regulations to hold districts more accountable for the number of 'out-of-school' suspensions.
Inside a classroom at West Hertel in Buffalo.
Credit WBFO News file photo
"We just put together our budget request that we will be sending over to the legislature and hoping that they fund the things that we need," Collins said. "I was able to bring up the fact that we need more intervention, not less. We need more of the money coming in and we also need to monitor these schools, not just in Buffalo, but across the state, who have high suspension rates."
Collins said the Board also accepted a grant from the Bill Gates Foundation. The funding will allow the mointoring of suspension rates and able to look at how it is communicated communities.
The Buffalo School District says this has been a "long-standing issue" but this year suspensions are "trending downward." It is using a number of programs district-wide to prevent suspensions such as Responsive Teaching, Trauma-informed Care and Restorative Practices.
In the Niagara Falls City School District, schools Superintendent Mark Laurrie says his district has a Restorative Justice counselor that works with students and implements other methods.
"One would be the Saturday youth court where a student, who commits an infraction to the 'code of conduct' goes before a jury of his or her peers and they dictate what the punishment should be, what the consequences should be and those consequences can range from anything to an apology letter, a community services period of time," Laurrie explained.
Regent Collins tells WBFO she plans to meet in a few weeks with the Buffalo Schools superintend and school board president to plan even more strategies.
"We're going sit down and plan some additional strategies in terms of how some of My Brothers Keeper monies can be used to put in place some really good programs, programs that if we start them and see success that we give them sustainability, as well."
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What's causing suspensions for black city students in Buffalo & Niagara Falls?
WBFO News photo by Eileen Buckley
Black students at Buffalo Public Schools are twice as likely to be suspended as white students. That is according to results of a new report issued Monday by The New York Equity Coalition. Niagara Falls City School rates also have high rates. WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley has reaction from both districts.
WBFO's Eileen Buckley asks what is causing suspensions for black city students in Buffalo & Niagara Falls?


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My environment is using Python 3.6.
gunicorn \
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 --workers 1 \
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 --timeout 1000 \
 --log-level debug \
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The error log file looks like this:
[2021-10-11 08:46:34 +0000] [9] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 20.1.0
[2021-10-11 08:46:34 +0000] [9] [DEBUG] Arbiter booted
[2021-10-11 08:46:34 +0000] [9] [INFO] Listening at: http://0.0.0.0:5000 (9)
[2021-10-11 08:46:34 +0000] [9] [INFO] Using worker: gevent
[2021-10-11 08:46:34 +0000] [10] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 10
[2021-10-11 08:46:34 +0000] [9] [DEBUG] 1 workers
[2021-10-11 08:46:35 +0000] [9] [WARNING] Worker with pid 10 was terminated due to signal 11
[2021-10-11 08:46:35 +0000] [11] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 11
[2021-10-11 08:46:35 +0000] [9] [WARNING] Worker with pid 11 was terminated due to signal 11
[2021-10-11 08:46:35 +0000] [12] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 12
[2021-10-11 08:46:35 +0000] [9] [WARNING] Worker with pid 12 was terminated due to signal 11
[2021-10-11 08:46:35 +0000] [13] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 13
[2021-10-11 08:46:35 +0000] [9] [WARNING] Worker with pid 13 was terminated due to signal 11
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Scott's practice is devoted to the representation of clients in business disputes, often in the employment context, as well as providing advice to employers and senior executives regarding employment matters. His clients are local and nationally known companies in the real estate, marketing, financial services, executive recruiting, professional services, transportation, retail and manufacturing industries, as well as owners of closely-held companies and individuals with the need for sophisticated representation.
Scott represents clients in commercial disputes involving breach of contract, fraud and fraudulent inducement, fiduciary duty obligations, commercial real estate, and asset recovery.
Select Matters of Note
Defense of a real estate development group of companies and their principals in over 50 separate lawsuits, including 2 class actions, involving claims of breach of contract and fraud.
Prosecution of a claim by a closely-held fragrance supplier to an international retailer against a competitor and its affiliates for breach of a non-disclosure and non-solicitation agreement following unsuccessful merger negotiations.
Dismissal of a consumer deceptive and unfair trade practices lawsuit brought by the Florida Attorney General, following a three-year investigation and two years of litigation, which concluded with the Attorney General dismissing all claims and agreeing to a settlement with the defendant companies for a sum of less than one percent (1%) of the amount originally sought.
On behalf of a real estate developer, hotel operator and its beneficial owner, successfully won dismissal of a qui tam action, filed ostensibly on behalf of the State of New York, which involved the alleged failure to pay transfer taxes, plus fees and penalties, as part of our clients' ownership interest in the development of a New York City hotel. The Supreme Court, NY County dismissed the Complaint and ruled that our clients did not own more than 50% ownership interest, which was the threshold for transfer tax applicability.
Recovery of 100% of principal and interest of a multi-million dollar loan despite the filing of an involuntary bankruptcy action designed to avoid a UCC auction of secured collateral through the sale of a premium Internet domain name that generated the then-highest recorded sale price in history.
Trial victory in New Jersey Superior Court for our medical technology client successfully asserting a breach of contract claim against its former marketing "partner".
Multiple dismissals of claims alleging fraud and fraudulent transfer seeking damages and a constructive trust over more than $200 million in monies.
Following successful preliminary motion practice, resolution of a class action on behalf of a public corporation against which plaintiffs alleged fraud and breach of contract for .001% of the amount initially sought.
Representation of a financial institution in the foreclosure of a multi-million dollar portfolio of loans secured by commercial real estate that involved litigating contested claims and third-party actions and culminated in the sale of the distressed debt, while managing governmental, political and public relations issues.
Scott's employment and executive compensation practice involves transactional advice and formal dispute resolution. He routinely works with organizational clients to guide them through the myriad of federal, state, and local laws and regulations that govern their businesses.
He regularly counsels publicly-traded and privately-owned companies and senior executives in the negotiation and drafting of employment and separation agreements, particularly with regard to the role of restrictive covenants and protection of trade secrets. He litigates and arbitrates all aspects of employment relationships, including claims of sexual harassment, discrimination, theft of trade secrets, breach of restrictive covenants, compliance with wage and hour laws, worker classification, and retaliation. Scott has authored numerous articles and chapters in trade publications concerning these matters, as well as lectured on these topics at trade conferences in New York and Chicago, before professional associations, and at New York University, Stern School of Business.
Negotiation of numerous employment and separation agreements for C-Suite executives valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Representation of businesses and executives in restrictive covenant and trade secret litigation.
Dismissal of all claims against the CEO of a publicly-traded company alleged to be responsible for purported fraudulent acts of company.
Successfully avoided personal liability for a hedge fund manager embroiled in a partnership dispute in complex proceedings before the Appellate Division and Court of Appeals of New York.
Defense of numerous individual and class action wage and hour misclassification cases.
Routinely prepares employee handbooks to develop and refine policies compliant with federal, state, and local law.
"Ask the Expert: How FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine is changing employers' minds on mandatory jabs," Crain's NY Business (September 13, 2021)
"Beware Worker Harassment Claims For Nonemployee Conduct" - Law360 (March 5, 2019)
"Changes to New York Law Regarding Sexual Harassment" - Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (April 2018)
"Sexual Harassment Guidance for All Employers: Protect Your Employees and Your Company" - Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (November 2017)
"Increased Salary Threshold for Exempt Status Pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act Placed on Hold by Federal Court" - Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (November 2016)
"NYC Human Rights Law Expanded to Cover Caregivers" - Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (June 2016)
"Fair Labor Standards Act Update Increase in the Annual Salary Threshold" - Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (June 2016)
"Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016" - Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (June 2016)
"U.S. Department of Labor States Its Interpretation of Employee vs. Independent Contractor - Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (July 2015)
"Six Employment Law Issues to Watch in 2015" - Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (February 2015)
"Focus on Joint Employer Liability: National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Determines that McDonald's is a "Joint Employer" with its Franchisees"- Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (July 2014)
"New York City Overrides Mayor's Veto To Pass Paid Sick Leave Law" - Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (August 2013)
"U.S. Supreme Court Narrowly Defines "Supervisor" As It Applies To Employer Liability For Unlawful Acts Committed By Employees Against Other Employees" - Employment & Employee Benefits Legal Update, Windels Marx (July 2013)
"What the Significant Developments of 2012 Will Mean for Employment Lawyers in 2013" - Employment Law 2013, "Inside the Minds" series (February 2013)
"Constructing Solid Employment Agreements" - Negotiating and Drafting Employment Agreements, "Inside the Minds" series (August 2012)
"Proper Planning and Considerations When RIFs are Unavoidable" - Employment & Employee Benefits Regulatory Update, Windels Marx (March 2012)
"New York State Wage Theft Prevention Act: Compliance With The Annual Notice Requirement" - Employment & Employee Benefits Regulatory Update, Windels Marx (December 2011)
Panelist - Employee and Employer Issues in the Wake of COVID-19, a webinar hosted by Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan (April 6, 2020)
Panel Moderator – "Protecting Proprietary Information in the Age of Employee Mobility" – ALM Media General Counsel Conference (September 2019)
Panel Moderator - "Tackling Employment Issues and Ensuring Reasonable Accommodation" - 30th Annual ALM Media General Counsel Conference (September 2018).
Professional Affiliations, Accolades & Academia
Mr. Matthews is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, Commercial Litigation Committee and the Employment Law Committee.
Mr. Matthews was recognized in the 2019 New York's Top Rated Lawyers, published by the New York Law Journal. Since 2018, Mr. Matthews has been recognized by Super Lawyers New York Metro edition for his work in Business Litigation. From 2012 to 2014, the same publication recognized Mr. Matthews as a "Rising Star" for his work in Business Litigation and Employment & Labor.
While attending Fordham University School of Law, he received the Philip R. Fusco Memorial Award and served as the Business Editor of the Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal. He was also Symposium Editor of the Fordham Sports Law Society.
Mr. Matthews currently serves as pro bono counsel to Woodbury Jewish Center on Long Island.
For 2022, Super Lawyers Recognizes 12 Lawyers in New York Metro Edition and 2 Rising Stars - Oct 11, 2022
Scott Matthews and Ben Kusmin Score a Significant Win for BC International Group - Jun 27, 2022
For 2021, Super Lawyers Recognizes 18 Lawyers in New York Metro and Rising Stars Editions - Sep 30, 2021
Scott Matthews, John Keneally Win Dismissal of $1 Million Transfer Tax Challenge - Apr 22, 2021
For 2020, Super Lawyers Recognizes 17 Lawyers in New York Metro and Rising Stars Editions - Oct 28, 2020
NYLJ Publishes 2019 Top Rated Lawyers, 6 Partners Recognized - Dec 9, 2019
Super Lawyers Recognizes 15 Windels Marx Lawyers on New York Metro, Rising Stars Lists - Sep 12, 2019
New York Metro Edition of Super Lawyers Recognizes 14 Lawyers - Sep 13, 2018
Law 360 Reports News of Schwartz, Krauss, Matthews Acquisition Deal - Jun 19, 2017
Charles Hamilton Represents Boyce Technologies, Inc. on $20M Acquisition - Apr 15, 2016
New York Metro SuperLawyers Names 20 Windels Marx Lawyers to 2014 Edition - Sep 23, 2014
Windels Marx Represented on Super Lawyers' List of Top Attorneys - Mar 25, 2014
Windels Marx Secures Dismissal of Consumer Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Lawsuit Brought by the Attorney General of the State of Florida - Jun 28, 2012
John Driscoll and Scott Matthews Counsel Turkish Wireless Phone Company in Patent Infringement Case - Dec 9, 2011
Windels Marx Promotes Three to Partner: Tony Casas, Wayne Cook, Jr., and Scott Matthews - May 10, 2011
General Counsel Conference 2019 - A Corporate Counsel Event - Dec 15, 2020
COVID-19 - Scott Matthews Joins Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan on April 6th - Apr 6, 2020
COVID-19 - Transportation Industry Risk Mitigation and Resiliency - Mar 20, 2020
30th Annual General Counsel Conference 2018 - A Corporate Counsel Event - Sep 26, 2018
Employment and Litigation Partner, Scott Matthews, Talks to Crain's NY Business About Vaccine Mandates - Sep 13, 2021
Significant Changes in Federal Definition of Employee vs. Independent Contractor Status - Oct 1, 2020
New York Extends Guaranteed Paid Sick Leave - Sep 15, 2020
COVID-19 - Safety Plans and Other NY State Requirements as Businesses Prepare to Return to Work - May 27, 2020
COVID-19 - The Do's And Don'ts Of Using Your PPP Loan In Order To Ensure That It Is Forgiven - May 8, 2020
COVID-19 - Understanding The Business Risks Associated With Remote Work Arrangements - May 1, 2020
COVID-19 - Excusable Non-Performance Due to COVID-19 - Apr 9, 2020
Rod Honecker, Scott Matthews Dissect New Workplace Risks for Law360 - Mar 5, 2019
Changes to New York Law Regarding Sexual Harassment - Apr 20, 2018
Sexual Harassment Guidance for All Employers: Protect Your Employees and Your Company - Nov 30, 2017
Fair Labor Standards Act Update Increase in the Annual Salary Threshold by Scott Matthews - Jun 20, 2016
NYC Human Rights Law Expanded to Cover Caregivers by Scott Matthews - Jun 20, 2016
Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 by Scott Matthews - Jun 15, 2016
U.S. Department of Labor States Its Interpretation of "Employee" vs. "Independent Contractor" - Jul 16, 2015
Six Employment Issues to Watch in 2015 - Mar 11, 2015
Scott Matthews, Sharon Klein Provide Legal Update "New York City Overrides Mayor's Veto To Pass Paid Sick Leave Law" - Aug 16, 2013
Scott Matthews, Sharon Klein Provide Legal Update "U.S. Supreme Court Narrowly Defines "Supervisor" As It Applies To Employer Liability For Unlawful Acts Committed By Employees Against Other Employees" - Jul 10, 2013
Scott Matthews Authors Chapter on Employment Law in 2013 for "Inside the Minds" Series - Feb 21, 2013
Scott Matthews Authors "Constructing Solid Employment Agreements" for "Inside the Minds" Publication - Aug 9, 2012
Proper Planning & Considerations When RIFs are Unavoidable - Mar 8, 2012
New York State Wage Theft Prevention Act: Compliance With The Annual Notice Requirement - Dec 1, 2011
Employment & Employee Benefits
Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations
Public Finance & Not-for-Profit
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1999
B.A., University of Florida, 1996
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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NIE leadership stresses outreach to industry
By Claire Schwerin, U.S. ArmyFebruary 27, 2012
A Soldier demonstrates Nett Warrior, a Soldier-worn mission command system that is under evaluation at the Network Integration Evaluations. Brig. Gen. Randal Dragon, commander of the Brigade Modernization Command, described recent changes to Nett War... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Feb. 24, 2012) -- The Army is removing barriers to small business participation and speeding up the feedback cycle in order to better facilitate industry participation in the Network Integration Evaluations, senior leaders said Feb. 23 during the Association of the United States Army Winter Symposium and Exhibition.
Leaders of the triad of organizations running the Network Integration Evaluations, known as NIEs, spoke at the Association of the United States Army Winter Symposium and Exhibition during a panel titled "The Agile Capabilities Lifecycle Process."
Leaders of the NIE Triad -- the Brigade Modernization Command, Army Test and Evaluation Command and System of Systems Integration Directorate under the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology -- stressed the critical role of industry partners in the Army's new approach to delivering integrated tactical communications technologies.
Summarized as "buy less, more often," the new strategy requires the Army to partner with industry to quickly develop, test and purchase capabilities that will incrementally modernize the network.
In response to industry feedback following the first two NIEs, the Army is now taking several steps to ensure participating companies see a tangible return on investment, the Triad leaders said. These efforts may include new dedicated funding to purchase and evaluate prototype systems developed by small businesses that cannot afford to produce large quantities on their own, as well as more quickly providing companies with assessment reports and Soldier feedback on their systems' performance.
The Army is also starting to buy technologies under the NIEs and Agile Process, the Army's new quick-reaction acquisition methodology to address defined capability gaps and insert new technologies into the overall network at a lower cost. In its first procurement action resulting from the NIEs and Agile Process, the Army issued a "sources sought" notice Feb. 17 for a single-channel, vehicle-mounted radio. Recently conducted NIEs confirmed an operational need for these radios.
"We're buying equipment at the end of this NIE process to make our network better incrementally," said Col. Dan Hughes, director of the System of Systems Integration Directorate. "The NIEs will continue to give industry the opportunity to inform the Army's requirements and Requests for Proposals, and gain valuable Soldier feedback for their systems in an operational context."
One example of the Army taking action to restructure requirements based on Soldier feedback and industry advancement occurred with the Nett Warrior program, said Brig. Gen. Randal Dragon, commander of the Brigade Modernization Command.
Nett Warrior is a Soldier-worn mission command system that users deemed valuable but too bulky during the first NIE event in June 2011. Army leadership quickly restructured the Nett Warrior program to take advantage of the latest commercial technology, and a slimmed-down version of Nett Warrior received positive reviews at NIE 12.1 in November.
These changes yielded more than $800 million in cost avoidance and resulted in a more usable end product for the dismounted Soldier, to be delivered to more units on a faster timeline.
"That's a clear example of where we can bring in commercial solutions to meet requirements that we have, and do it cheaper and quicker," Dragon said.
Systems selected to participate in the semi-annual NIEs are evaluated by the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division during realistic operational scenarios at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., and Fort Bliss, Texas. Following the exercises, the Triad combines user feedback and test data to assess capabilities and determine their implications across doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel and facilities, known as DOTMLPF.
This information is reported to participating companies so they can gauge their technologies' performance and make any necessary adjustments. Following the next NIE 12.2 in May, those reports will be delivered within a matter of weeks, much sooner than for previous NIEs, the leaders said.
"We are making that feedback loop as fast as we can," Hughes said. "If you invest to come into the NIE, we should be able to get you that report fast enough so it's relevant for you."
The reports will still provide the thorough test details industry requires, said Maj. Gen. Genaro Dellarocco, commanding general of the Army Test and Evaluation Command.
"There is a huge concentration on doing quality products quickly to meet the timelines," he said.
The Army also provides information to industry at an earlier stage in the Agile Process. Prior to receiving a field tryout with Soldiers, network capabilities must pass through the laboratories at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., for technology evaluation, assessment and integration.
The lab assessments inform the Army's choices on what systems will participate in the NIE and provide detailed "score cards" to industry on how their technologies performed and what could be improved in the future.
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