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The reported outburst of Sheikh Nazir on workers for having given NC a fractured mandate is as unfortunate as it is disgusting. The ruling family has none but itself to blame for its reverses in previous elections, particularly in South Kashmir where it suffered miserably. The NC leadership had never bothered the cause of its erosion of popular sport which once it had.
NC has been in power since 1975 except for a brief spell of PDP led government and governor rule. Its governance has been always poor and dismal except for a brief period of 1977 elections when it brought in progressive administrative and legal measures like agrarian reform to bolster rural economy and the single line administration to overcome corruption and red-tapism in the system. But soon after the conspiracies in the corridors of power began and focus was more on deciding the successor to Sheikh Sahab during his lifetime itself which led to ouster of the stalwart, Mirza Afzal beg from the party. This move jolted the party and created a huge vacuum particularly is South Kashmir where Mufti Muhammad Sayed's political clout was growing fast unnoticed and unchallenged under the umbrella of Indian National Congress.Those who represented NC in South Kashmir after the ouster of Mirza Afzal Beg were political light weights who could not contain Mufti Sahab. The NC leadership however didno't become conscious even when Mufti Sahab defeated NC candidate MY Teng in parliamentary elections in South Kashmir in 1995-96 with a huge margin. Mufti Sahab left the Congress and formed his own party to consolidate his new found political base.
However NC leadership watched all this with complacency only to be proved miserably wrong in the state Assembly elections of 2002 When PDP trounced the NC particularly in South Kashmir and the story was again repeated in the Assembly elections of 2009. NC perhaps has become conscious of its losing ground which explains its desperation to retain power by resorting to gimmicks. But, it is too late. Moreover NC is not in a position to fight its adversary with its broken and rusted armory particularly in South Kashmir where it has visibly withdrawn from political scene and is instead virtually represented by Congress.
(Muhammad Amin Khan is Lecturer Sociology, Islamabad (Anantnag) Kashmir)
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Work the Shell - Special Variables I: the Basics
There I was, trying to come up with a topic for this column, when I did what I usually do when stumped: I sent a question out to my Twitter followers. This time, I got a great answer, from John Minnihan: "How about how special vars inside a script, for example, #!/bin/bash script="${0##*/}" current=`dirname "$0"` cd $current; make?"
That's a good topic, so let's dig into it, starting with the basics this month, shall we?
The basic notation of variables in the shell is $varname, but I bet you've already used a few special notations without really thinking about it. For example, want to know how many positional parameters (aka starting arguments) you received when the script was invoked? Using $# gives you the value:
echo "you gave me $# parameters"
Want to get a specific positional parameter from the starting command line? That's done with other special variables: $1, $2, $3 and so on. These are rather odd cases actually, and the shift command shifts them all down one, so you easily can parse and trim command flags.
Try this snippet to see what I'm talking about:
echo "arg1 = $1" ; shift ; echo "now arg1 = $1"
The variable $0 is a special one in this sequence. It's the name of the script or program invoked. This can be quite helpful, because it means you can add multiple commands to your Linux shell with a single shared script base.
Let's say that you want to add "happy" and "sad" as two new command-line options, but you want to do it within a single script. Easy! Write the script, save as "happy", create a symbolic link that means "sad" points to "happy", and put this in the script itself:
if [ "$0" = "happy" ] ; then echo "I am so darn happy too, hurray!" else echo "Sorry you're sad. Why not take a walk?" fi
See how that works? It turns out that there's a nuance to this usage, however, because you often get the full path in the $0 variable, so most people use $(basename $0) instead of just utilizing the $0 directly.
Another special variable that you might have encountered is the status variable, $?. In a script, this contains the return value of the most recently executed (external) command.
This is where you need to read man pages so you know what to expect on success and failure, but as an example, consider the test command. According to the man page, "if [the expression] evaluates to true, it returns a zero (true) exit status; otherwise it returns 1 (false). If there is no expression, test also returns 1 (false)."
This means you could do this:
test 1 --eq 3 if $? ; then
Quick, now, would we be within this conditional statement or not? That's where it's tricky because zero = true and nonzero = false, which is somehow opposite to how we naturally think of conditional tests (well, how I think of them, at least). In fact, the above test would be testing 1, because the "test" would evaluate to false, and its return value also would be false.
Now, using test like this is a sort of daft example, but what if you wanted to create a subdirectory and then test to see if it was successful? That's a perfect use for $?, actually:
mkdir $newdir if [ $? --ne 0 ] ; then echo "We failed to make the directory $newdir"
It turns out that you also can streamline this sort of thing by having the "if" directly evaluate the return code:
if mkdir $newdir ; then
That's a better coding style, although it can be confusing if you are used to having conditional expressions be value tests, not actually commands that do something.
A special variable that I use with great frequency for helping create temporary file names is $$, which expands to the current process ID in the system. For example:
$ echo $$ 3243
If you're doing a lot with subshells or spawning subcommands, another useful variable is $!, which is the process ID of the most recently spawned background command. I've never used this in any of my shell scripts, but you might find a situation where it's helpful.
The last example I'll talk about here is most useful when you want to hand starting parameters to subshells. The two options are $* and $@, and it's so convoluted to explain the difference that it's easier just to demonstrate.
Let's start with a tiny script that simply reports how many parameters it's given:
#!/bin/sh echo "I was given $# parameters" exit 0
I'll call that subshellcount.sh and utilize it like this:
#!/bin/sh echo "you gave me $# variables and the first is $1" echo "unprotected parameters:" ./subshellcount.sh $1 $2 $3 $4 echo "or, more succinctly:" ./subshellcount.sh $* echo "but when we put \$* in quotes:" ./subshellcount.sh "$*" echo "by comparison, same thing with \$@:" ./subshellcount.sh "$@"
Watch what happens when I invoke it with three parameters, one of which has a space embedded:
$ sh test.sh I love "Linux Journal" you gave me 3 variables and the first is I unprotected parameters: I was given 4 parameters or, more succinctly: I was given 4 parameters but when we put $* in quotes: I was given 1 parameters by comparison, same thing with $@: I was given 3 parameters
Can you see the difference here? When we don't take efforts to protect the space in the third positional parameter (either by just referencing $3 or using the $@ without quotes), it splits into two parameters to the subshell, and we get a count of four.
Quoting by itself doesn't do the trick either, because of the difference between $@ and $*. With the latter, everything expands without "breaking out of" the quotes, so $* ends up being a single positional parameter to the subshell. Fortunately, $@ works exactly as we'd like, and the subshell gets three parameters, not one, not four.
It seems a bit trivial, but when you start working with filenames that have spaces in them, for example, you quickly will learn just how tricky it is to get all of this correct!
I'm going to stop here, and starting next month, we'll delve into the more obscure and complex shell variable notation. It's interesting stuff.
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Transsexualism—General outcome and prognostic factors: A five-year follow-up study of nineteen transsexuals in the process of changing sex
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Ninetten transsexuals, approved for sex reassignment, were followed-up after 5 years. Outcome was evaluated as changes in seven areas of social, psychological, and psychiatric functioning. At baseline the patients were evaluated according to axis I, II, V (DSM-III-R), SCID screen, SASB (Structural Analysis of Social Behavior), and DMT (Defense Mechanism Test). At follow-up all but 1 were treated with contrary sex hormones, 12 had completed sex reassignment surgery, and 3 females were waiting for phalloplasty. One male transsexual regretted the decision to change sex and had quit the process. Two transsexuals had still not had any surgery due to older age or ambivalence. Overall, 68% (n=13) had improved in at least two areas of functioning. In 3 cases (16%) outcome were judged as unsatisfactory and one of those regarded sex change as a failure. Another 3 patients were mainly unchanged after 5 years. Female transsexuals had a slightly better outcome, especially concerning establishing and maintaining partnerships and improvement in socioeconomic status compared to male transsexuals. Baseline factors associated with negative outcome (unchanged or worsened) were presence of a personality disorder and high number of fulfilled axis II criteria. SCID screen assessments had high prognostic power. Negative self-image, according to SASB, predicted a negative outcome, whereas DMT variables were not correlated to outcome.
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Also, Fannie's husband, Azariah H. Mathews, also has a new memorial: 134773531. You left a token on his old one, too. Up to you! Thanks.
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Hi, Shirley. You left a token on one of my ancestor's memorials earlier this year. (Thank you.) I am working with another contributor to combine memorials, and I'm going to delete mine in favour of hers.
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Only two weeks earlier, word had leaked out that a casino developer was eyeing the Liberty Tree Mall, located on one of the town's most heavily trafficked arteries, for a 24-hour slots-only gambling parlor.
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Selectmen wanted the developer to hear the concerns that residents were expressing in calls and emails to the board members. But the developer was loath to discuss its plans publicly, at least not without some advance preparation. So it requested a private meeting with the selectmen.
As one board member explained it, the developer "wanted to know the concerns of the Selectmen, and what we felt would be the concerns of the citizens," so as "to make sure they could answer all of our questions and concerns when they came before us publicly." That sounds fair enough.
There was just one problem: the state's pesky Open Meeting Law and its inconvenient mandate that "all meetings of a public body shall be open to the public." As revised in 2010, the law applies to any "deliberation by a public body with respect to any matter within the board's jurisdiction" (subject to a few listed exceptions, not applicable here).
A "deliberation" is defined to mean "an oral or written communication through any medium, … between or among a quorum of a public body on any public business within its jurisdiction" (again, subject to some exceptions — this is a Massachusetts statute, after all).
Under the amended statute, even if the quorum is not trying to reach a decision, the mere "communication … between or among" its members on a matter of public business will constitute a "deliberation" subject to the law.
Selectman Gardner S. Trask III summed up the quandary succinctly in a letter to the Salem News: If a majority of the five selectmen "were to all be in a room" with the developer, "then it could be considered 'deliberation.' Even if we exchanged questions and answers in email with three or more of us on the email, it could be considered 'deliberation.'" That would mean the selectmen would have to let the public in on the discussions.
So, instead, the selectmen resorted to a favorite refuge of public officials seeking an end run around the sunshine law: what the Appeals Court has dubbed the "rotating quorum." On Feb. 6, they invited the developer and other town officials to a room in Danvers Town Hall, firmly shut the doors to keep out the public, and then rotated selectmen in and out of the meeting room to engage in "individual planning sessions" with the developer.
As Selectman Trask explained with admirable candor, "No more than two members met with the developer at one time. … By breaking it up into (ultimately) four separate discussions, we [conform] to the law, let the developer know our individual questions and concerns, and allow them to prepare details for the public meeting." Everybody wins. Or so the story goes.
Sprit, letter of the law
Was the board's action legal? Massachusetts law on the point isn't altogether clear.
Certainly the strategy violates the spirit of the Open Meeting Law, as it has been interpreted on numerous occasions by the Supreme Judicial Court.
The statute is "designed to eliminate much of the secrecy surrounding deliberations and decisions on which public policy is based." Ghiglione v. School Comm. of Southbridge, 376 Mass. 70, 72, 378 N.E.2d 984 (1978).
That is because secrecy not only leads to poor decision-making by limiting discussion, it also breeds distrust. Open meetings, by contrast, ensure that political leaders "debate the issues and disclose their personal viewpoints" before making decisions, and "provide an opportunity for members of the public to hear the opinions of members of the governmental body." District Attorney for Northern Dist. v. School Comm. of Wayland, 455 Mass. 561, 570, 918 N.E.2d 796, 803 (2009).
Underlying the Open Meeting Law is the conviction that "[i]t is essential to a democratic form of government that the public have broad access to the decisions made by its elected officials and to the way in which the decisions are reached." Foudy v. Amherst-Pelham Regional Sch. Comm., 402 Mass. 179, 184, 521 N.E.2d 391 (1988) (emphasis added).
In other words, cumbersome as it may sometimes be, the public's business is supposed to take place in public view. The public is entitled to know not merely what our elected officials have decided to do, but also how and why the officials reached those conclusions.
But would a court hold that Danvers selectmen violated the letter of the law? The selectmen's argument appears to be that they did not engage in "deliberation" — "an oral or written communication through any medium, … between or among a quorum of a public body on any public business within its jurisdiction" — both because there was no quorum in the room at any one time, and because the selectmen, at least according to their own published accounts, did not communicate about the slots parlor with each other.
The first question is whether a court would agree with the selectmen that because there was no quorum in the room at any one time, there was no "deliberation." There's good reason to believe a Massachusetts judge would reject that argument, in part because of the well-established tenet that the law's provisions "are to be broadly and liberally construed in order to effectuate the legislative purpose of openness." General Elec. Co. v. Department of Env'tal Protection, 429 Mass. 798, 806 n.9, 711 N.E.2d 589 (1999). The SJC has also stated that "a construction that would defeat legislative purpose will not be adopted 'if the statutory language "is fairly susceptible to a construction that would lead to a logical and sensible result."'" McCrea v. Flaherty, 71 Mass. App. Ct. 637, 649, 885 N.E.2d 836, 846 (2008).
Relying on that principle, the Appeals Court found in 2008 that the Boston City Council had violated the Open Meeting Law by engaging in the same "rotating quorum" scheme: meeting privately in small groups, with a guard outside the closed meeting room to cycle council members in and out while ensuring that there was never a majority of the council inside the room.
The Appeals Court rejected Boston's "strained" and overly literal argument that because there was never a quorum, there had not been any deliberation, then defined as a "verbal exchange between a quorum of members." McCrea, 71 Mass. App. Ct. at 649, 885 N.E.2d at 846.
But the Danvers selectmen have an argument up their sleeve that the Boston City Council did not have. Selectman Trask, at least, took pains to tell the Salem News that he had not discussed with other selectmen "what they asked, heard, or felt" during their meetings with the developer.
Assuming the other selectmen would assert that they, too, never communicated with their colleagues on this subject, was there ever the "communication between or among a quorum" necessary for a "deliberation" to take place under the law? While the conclusion is hardly free from doubt, I think the answer is "yes."
The SJC addressed a similar question 24 years ago, in a case involving a search committee tasked with interviewing candidates for school superintendent in the town of Weston. The committee argued, among other things, that its "interviews" consisted simply of a standard and unvarying list of questions put to applicants, followed by the applicants' answers, apparently with no further discussion. Thus, it said, there was no "verbal exchange" among the committee members, as was required to constitute a "deliberation" under the law then in force.
The SJC pronounced itself unpersuaded, declaring that because the questions and answers "conveyed information about the candidates to the committee members present," "[t]hat was enough to constitute a 'verbal exchange' between the committee members within the meaning of the statute." Gerstein v. Superintendent Search Screening Comm., 405 Mass. 465, 469-70, 541 N.E.2d 984 (1989).
In other words, if a quorum was present, it was not critical that the committee members were not talking to each other. The same conclusion obtains even more readily under the amended law, which refers to a "communication" instead of a "verbal exchange." "Communication between or among a quorum" occurs, for statutory purposes, even when a (rotating) quorum of members is receiving information from a third party.
The selectmen had an alternative, lawful solution readily at hand. Had one or two selectmen, alone, met with the developer, and had they then reported on the meeting to their colleagues at a public selectmen's meeting, there would have been no violation of the Open Meeting Law. But when a quorum of the board gets into the act, they can't exclude the public.
Bad policy
Trask insisted to the Salem News that the Danvers selectmen believe the approach they took was legal under the Open Meeting Law, and that they had no "nefarious intent" when they devised a way to get out from under the law's requirements. One may take him at his word.
Another selectman, Keith Lucy, defended the board's approach as an example of "board members doing the job that they were elected to do": "echoing the voices of many, and relaying what we see as the major concerns." Better to do so early in the process, when the developer is still shaping its proposal and can respond.
Still, "good intentions" are not a defense under the Open Meeting Law. The selectmen are correct that by putting a premium on transparent communications, the statute exacts a cost in efficiency. Providing advance notice of meetings and the topics to be discussed, keeping and disseminating minutes, and banning backroom discussions among a quorum of the board — all of those requirements make the process of governance less convenient and more cumbersome.
That is one reason why the law contains exceptions permitting emergency meetings and secret sessions when necessary to serve certain purposes expressly defined in the law, such as to discuss private personnel issues, or to conduct candid discussions of how the board will negotiate with a party seeking to purchase town land.
There is no exception, however, that allows a publicly elected board to meet, essentially collectively, with a private party in order to convey constituents' views outside of the constituents' earshot. Nor should there be. The Open Meeting Law is designed to ensure that the public's business take place in public, a consideration of particular importance when debating the merits of a development that has aroused public passions.
Regardless of how a court might rule on legality, the selectmen's approach was bad policy, not because the selectmen should not be conveying the public's views, but because when a majority of them do so as a group, behind closed doors, they risk shutting the public out of this stage of the decision-making process. The closed-door sessions had the effect of putting the selectmen in the position of being intermediaries, filtering to the public only such information as they deemed fit for the public to hear. That's simply not the way a democracy should work.
After their private meetings with the developer's representative, the selectmen — aware of the widespread public interest in the proposed slots parlor — found themselves in the position of recounting to the media discrete snippets of what they had learned.
One told the Salem News only that it was "a good meeting," "really an exploratory discussion." Trask said the developer "offered a high-level preview of the proposal, which included some corporate financial details, out-of-town alternatives, and details that could affect their business negotiations with other third parties," some of it information "they wanted to keep confidential until the public meeting."
Board members divulged selected details: that the proposed parlor would employ as many as 700 people, would accommodate up to 2,500 customers and up to 1,250 slots, and would not require any expansion of the mall. The developer, they said, seemed sympathetic to the residents' traffic concerns.
As for those Danvers citizens with questions of their own, selectmen urged them to be patient and to await their turn. After all, as Selectman Lucy pointed out, if the developer goes forward with its proposal, by law Danvers voters would have to give their approval in a special election, which would be preceded by at least 60 days "for a complete dissection and discussion on the agreement before votes are cast."
Even as they met with the developer behind closed doors, the selectmen had already scheduled a first public hearing to take place a month later, on March 5, and one selectman promised to set up a series of open forums to permit residents to share their views in due course. In other words, there would be time enough to bring the public fully up to speed. It sounded a bit like the public-information version of "Let them eat cake."
Then there was the statement made by the board's chair, William Clark Jr., to The Boston Globe. Clark said that he had heard enough in the private meeting and that his mind was made up: "I don't think it's a good use for the property, it's not good for the neighbors, and it would be a major problem for Routes 114, 128 and 1."
When our public officials are making decisions about public policy issues based on information that is not shared with the public, the credibility of the government suffers. The public should not be excluded from the debate.
They may have acted out of good motives and beneficent intentions, but by yielding to the temptation of a closed-door meeting, the Danvers selectmen did their constituents, and themselves, a disservice.
Robert A. Bertsche, a media lawyer at the Boston law firm of Prince, Lobel, Tye, serves as outside general counsel to the New England Newspaper and Press Association.
Bill Would Criminalize Reporting About Minor Witnesses
By Jeffrey J. Pyle ~ Prince Lobel Tye LLP
A bill filed Jan. 21 in the Massachusetts Senate would impose up to one year's imprisonment on any member of the press who discloses the identity of a witness in a criminal proceeding who is under the age of 18, even where the witness's testimony was given in open court. The Joint Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on the bill for February 7 at 1:00 p.m. NENPA members should attend and testify against this unconstitutional assault on the right to cover criminal trials.
Introduced by Assistant Majority Leader John Hart, Jr. (D-Boston), Senate Bill 785 would prohibit "attendees" of a criminal trial, including "members of the media," from disclosing the name of any minor witness to a crime, and from disclosing "any other information" about such a witness. The bill would also prohibit publication of any picture of such a witness, whether taken in court or not. Additionally, the bill would require any information about such a minor witness to be filed under seal, without the necessity of a court order.
The bill, in short, would criminalize the reporting of the news. In doing so, it would violate the longstanding First Amendment-based rule against "prior restraints" on speech. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the government may not prohibit or punish speech by the press, except in exceptionally grave cases, such as those involving serious threats to national security. Nor can a "prior restraint" be imposed as a general rule. In the extremely rare circumstances where such a prohibition is appropriate, it must be made through a judicial determination supported by evidence and findings, as well as narrow tailoring of the order to fit the circumstances.
In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts statute that required the closure of the courtroom during the testimony of minor victims of sexual offenses. The court held that the press and the public have a constitutional right to attend criminal trials, and although protecting the psychological well-being of victims can be a compelling interest, it cannot not justify a mandatory closure rule in every case.
Senate Bill 785 goes much farther than merely closing the courtroom – it would result in the imprisonment of journalists who report information they have lawfully obtained through attending a public trial. Indeed, in prohibiting the disclosure of "any other information" about the witness, the bill would criminalize reporting the substance of a minor witness's testimony, even where his or her identity is shielded.
Please attend the hearing on February 7, and contact your state senators to urge them to vote against this misguided bill.
Court to Media: Don't Take Off That Photo Credit
By Robert A. Bertsche ~ June 21, 2011
Two New Jersey radio disc jockeys stripped down for a magazine photo. Their radio station posted the photo, shown here, on its website. And now they could all lose their shirts – in court.
By narrowly reading the words of a federal statute, the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit last week created a new kind of legal claim that can be brought against online and print publications. The ruling will affect publishers, editors, art directors, and bloggers whenever they republish a photograph that originally appeared elsewhere.
As everyone should know by now, before online and print media – or anyone, for that matter – can publish a photo taken by someone else, they normally need to get permission from the copyright holder. Permission is not required only if the photo is in the public domain, or if the republication of the photo is deemed a "fair use" under copyright law. Whether a particular use is considered a "fair use" requires a multi-factor analysis, probably best done with the assistance of a lawyer. That much of the law has been settled for quite some time now.
Last week's federal appeals court ruling adds an additional, independent issue to be considered under those circumstances: Even if a republisher's use of the photo is deemed to be a "fair use," the republisher will still be liable if it fails to also republish the photo credit information that appeared in the earlier publication.
Since the ruling came from the 3rd Circuit, it is binding law only in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Virgin Islands. Still, the ruling is likely to be followed by other federal courts - meaning that, to avoid liability, anyone who publishes photos obtained from others ought to take heed.
The Legal Basis
The liability arises under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a federal statute that has received attention primarily for its provisions that bar circumvention of computer encryption software. Online media and bloggers also know the statute as a limited protection against the risk that a website visitor were to upload to their site a story or photo that infringed copyright. In such an event, the DMCA provides for a takedown procedure which, under certain circumstances and if followed rigorously, would leave the website free from liability for the user's infringing post.
Last week's case involves a different provision of the DMCA, one which prohibits intentionally removing or altering "any copyright management information" or publishing or disseminating a work despite knowledge, or reasonable grounds to believe, that the copyright management information has been removed. "Copyright management information" is defined as "information conveyed in connection with copies ... of a work ..., including in digital form, … [t]he name of, and other identifying information about, the author of a work." Clearly, a photo credit would qualify.
The Facts
The case underlying the ruling arose out of a photograph published in New Jersey Monthly's "Best of New Jersey" issue. The magazine had hired photographer Peter Murphy to photograph Craig Carton and Ray Rossi, who at the time were co-hosts of a show on WKXW Radio. NJM called them the "best shock jocks" in the state. Murphy, and not the magazine, retained copyright in the image.
Somebody at the radio station (without Murphy's knowledge or permission) scanned the image from the magazine and posted it to the WKXW website. As scanned and posted, the photo of the two barely clad shock jocks did not include the magazine's caption referring to the "Best of New Jersey" award, nor did it include the gutter credit identifying Murphy as the photographer. The station then invited visitors to the site to digitally edit the image, and 26 Photoshopped* renditions of Murphy's photo were ultimately submitted and posted.
Murphy sued the station for copyright infringement and violation of the DMCA. The federal district court in New Jersey dismissed his claims on summary judgment, saying that the use of the photo was a fair use, and that the DMCA only applied to "automated copyright protection or management systems." But the Third Circuit reversed that ruling on both grounds.
The Third Circuit's Ruling
The Court of Appeals said, first, that by its plain terms the DMCA provision bars removal of "copyright management information," period, and does not require that the information be part of an automated system. The decision makes clear that the radio station would be liable on that grounds whether or not the posting and alterations of the photo were a fair use. To translate that to a newspaper or magazine setting: Even if the publication's use of a photo falls under fair use, the publication will still be liable (under the DMCA) if it does not include the photo credit that accompanied the photo in its original setting.
As if that weren't enough bad news for WKXW, the Court of Appeals also revisited the district court's fair use finding. Applying the four-factor test for fair use, the Court of Appeals held that the postings of the photo, both as shot and as Photoshopped by users, were not a fair use. So it sent the case back to district court for further proceedings, and ultimately trial, on both the DMCA and copyright claims.
The Kicker
But wait, there's more! There is also a defamation claim that survives, because the two DJs had (allegedly) responded to the photographer's objections with the level of prudence and discretion one might expect of two "shock jocks": by implying that the photographer was gay and so litigious he would sue his own business partners. The photographer apparently took umbrage, and the court said not enough discovery had occurred to merit dismissal of that claim.
One can imagine that the radio station will seek further review of the case before the Court of Appeals before the case returns to the federal district court. And even then there may be more motion practice before the case goes to trial.
Impact and Ramifications
Some final thoughts from Rob Bertsche, the author of this alert, about the decision and its impact:
- If the violation of the DMCA is intentional and made for commercial gain, criminal charges can result (in addition to a civil suit). There are legal and practical reasons why it is extremely difficult to imagine this kind of case putting a publisher in jail – but I raise the possibility just in case you weren't already paying attention.
- Editors, beware: I'm wondering whether this case sets a precedent for a writer or magazine to be sued for "plagiarism." As you know, plagiarism – using someone else's work without attribution – may be a journalistic sin, but there's currently no law against it. Could the reasoning of this case also be applied to impose liability for a magazine article that contains plagiarism, on the grounds that the omission of the original author's byline constitutes removal of "copyright management information"?
- My colleague, Peter J. Caruso II (an intellectual property maven), wonders whether the Third Circuit's decision might leave the door open to a claim that excluding photo credit information is also actionable under the federal Lanham Act as "reverse passing off" – misrepresenting a third party's goods or services as one's own. Conversely, it could strike the death knell to such claims, because courts will find that copyright law alone provides sufficient relief. (These are the kinds of things that lawyers like to debate.)
- Oh, and one more thing: The photo above is © Peter Murphy, as it appeared on the cover of New Jersey Monthly, which is © New Jersey Monthly Magazine. As for this article, we're going the Creative Commons route (see below).
Click here for a copy of the decision, Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group LLC, Craig Carton, and Ray Rossi, No. 10-2163 (3d Cir. June 14, 2011).


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Thanks to a provision in this year's state budget, Ohio's homeschooled and private-school students can now participate in sports and extracurricular activities at public schools in their local districts without restriction. Before this year, most, if not all districts required students to be enrolled in classes at the school. As StateImpact Ohio's Amy Hansen reports, the change hasn't been entirely seamless.
Seventeen-year-old Sophia Dean's first season on the Fairbanks High School soccer team ended last month.
Now she has to settle for getting her daily soccer fix by practicing her footwork around her front yard and finds herself thinking of the electric atmosphere of her first playoff game.
"There was a lot of cheering," Sophia Dean said, giggling. "There was cowbells, and a lot of 'We Will Rock You' theme going on."
Playing on a varsity team used to be just a dream for Dean.
Being home-schooled, she had to be enrolled in five classes to join the team, a requirement Sophia's mom, Julie Dean, found absurd.
"Five out of seven, you're not homeschooling anymore," Julie Dean said. "You're a full time student."
The district later dropped its guideline down to two classes - each could set its own under the old rule. But the family didn't change their minds.
Then, last summer, the state legislature swept away those requirements as part of the state budget.
Now, Ohio's more than 23-thousand homeschooled students can participate in any activity that's offered at their home school district without being enrolled in any classes.
Roxanne Price, Assistant Commissioner for the Ohio High School Athletic Association, thinks this change has been a long time coming.
"We believe that the arm of the homeschooled individuals that are supporting homeschooling have just been very, very, very, very vocal, and have been pushing and pushing," Price explained. "This has probably been a push for more than a decade, and finally it's come to fruition."
But with the change comes some apprehension. Price said she frequently gets emails from school administrators with questions about how to navigate this new chapter of school athletics.
"How does your students' code of conduct apply, how does your insurance apply to these students," Price said of the questions she has received.
"And people just philosophically saying 'sports is an extracurricular activity that engages students in the curriculum and now you have students who have the opportunity to participate who aren't engaged in the curriculum, who don't walk our halls, who don't have that same sense of community or engagement," she added.
Bob Humble, superintendent of Fairbanks High School, understands that last point.
He estimated about 10 percent of the more than 1,000 students in his rural district are homeschooled, and Dean is the only one on a high school team this season.
He hasn't heard of Dean having a difficult time, but he does think it's a pretty big issue that homeschooled kids aren't in classes every day with their new teammates.
"I just know it's hard to develop relationships with kids that you only see at practices or games," Humble said. "When you don't see them in the hallways, you didn't grow up with them, you haven't built any relationship with them. The kids have a tendency to hang with the kids that they know."
Sophia Dean said that a handful of her teammates did give her the cold shoulder at the beginning of the year.
"Some of the girls were just like 'well, I don't know you very well, so I'm not going to talk to you,'" she said.
But, she said, in time the team became more accepting.
Fairbanks' season ended last month after they lost that playoff game, and soccer is still on her mind.
In her family's kitchen, she eyes the team photo. All of the other players have theirs on their school lockers, she said, so she put hers on the refrigerator at home.
It shows about twenty girls, smiling in their red-and-white soccer uniforms, arms slung happily over each other's shoulders.
She thinks she'll be back next season, even though all of the buzz around homeschoolers playing sports leaves her shaking her head.
"Just let me play the sport," Dean said. "I'm not hurting anything."
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Longtime Goffstown selectman won't seek re-election
"I remember when the covered bridge was in town. You had the town hall with the nice clock tower and the covered bridge across the street. It's the missing link between the river and the rail trail," he said.
"The town was facing the closure of the landfill along with pressure from the state for a solid waste plan. I was concerned that the low commercial and industrial tax base in Goffstown would attract any type of industry for its potential tax revenue, such as the large regional mass-burn incinerator that was proposed to the Planning Board by Wheelabrator," he said.
"We have not had a management letter from our auditors for three years. We have a top bond rating with a very low debt load," he said.
His goal of helping to maintain Goffstown's unique character as a safe place to live, work and raise a family has attracted many people and businesses to town. He said during his term the board has accomplished many of the things it set out to do, including building the transfer station in 1992, the relocation of Henry Bridge Road, establishing the Goffstown TV cable access channel, seeing the Board of Selectmen members increase from three to five members in 1994, fulfilling the adoption of ballot voting through SB2, bringing automated solid waste collection to town, rehabilitating the upper elementary school building into elderly housing, seeing the closure of the landfill and reusing the land for ball fields, and re-establishing a certified K-9 team.
"The town has an active solid waste/recycling committee and an active Economic Development Council that work with the selectmen to find solutions as issues come up in the future," he said.
"The town employees make the town work to serve the community. They are an asset to the town as they will go above and beyond when needed," he said.
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Doctors urge Congress to overhaul Medicare payment formula
Matt Paul and Radio Pennsylvania | 10.29.13
(Hershey) -- Doctors are urging Congress to overhaul the formula for calculating Medicare payments. Without action, a 25 percent cut to Medicare reimbursements is looming on January first.
Congress has enacted 15 patches over recent years to avoid similar cuts to Medicare payments. Now the American Medical Association says it's time to repeal and replace what it calls a broken formula.
AMA President Ardis Hoven, who was in Hershey last week to address the Pennsylvania Medical Society, says Medicare's sustainable growth rate is neither sustainable, nor allows for growth.
"It is a formula that the federal government uses to calculate physician payment in providing care to Medicare patients," she says. "This formula is based on the [gross domestic product] it is not based on the cost of providing care to these patients."
Dr. Hoven says the current formula is holding the medical profession back from implementing new patient care models that can lead to better prevention and maintenance of chronic conditions.
About 12 thousand people are added to the Medicare rolls every day.
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One of the most common rumors about One Direction's Harry Styles (or any male pop star, really) is that he's secretly gay. His friendship with Nick Grimshaw, who happens to be a homosexual, has added fuel to the fire recently with reports of the two having sleepovers.
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"Harry has not stayed at Nick's house once during Fashion Week," the blunt insider explained.
Meanwhile, Styles recently denied the rumors about model Cara Delevingne being his new girlfriend.
In a brief interview with MTV News UK, correspondent Becca Dudley asked Harry: "Are you looking forward to seeing your girl Cara walking down the runway?"
But Harry was not about to fall into that trap.
He responded: "She's not my girl! I know what you're doing..."
So the two are apparently just close friends. When asked why he thinks people are drawn to Cara, the 19-year-old singer said, "It's probably them eyebrows, yeah, probably them."
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In a recent interview, the 21-year-old model expressed her feelings on dating and how she has had just about enough of men!
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The Obama administration's decision to delay an Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate that large employers provide coverage for workers is a "wise move," said a top official with the National Retail Federation (NRF).
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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's decision to delay an Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate that large employers provide coverage for workers is a "wise move," said a top official with the National Retail Federation (NRF).
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Matt MitchellApril 1997 |
Yeah, I'm still gay. Were you expecting me to suddenly discover my heterosexuality like you think I suddenly discovered my homosexuality? Sorry. About the only thing you should expect from me is a serious beat-down, because I've been who I am for a lot longer than a few months.
I think I have now finally discovered a counter to every anti-homosexuality argument. Of course, my level of insanity might have an effect on the apparent lucidity of these thoughts. But after all, we all must have something wrong in the head to be here reading this anyway, right? (Apologies to Jerry Falwell for the plagiarization.)
I've had plenty of time to think of all of these things because I've been trying to insulate myself from the reality I now face --- namely, that everything other people think about me has been based on either a conscious omission or an outright lie on my part. No matter what encouraging words I may hear from others who have been in the same situation, I know and they know that this is not an enviable position.
Why would anyone choose to put themselves in this place? I ask that question of the people who say that homosexuality is a conscious choice. For what reason would anyone offer their entire social universe up for destruction at the hands of an intolerant world? Homosexuality may be a sure road to damnation, but I know that I'm already damned. I'm damned by an unconscious "choice" and by a conscious one. The conscious one is to cover it up.
At first, I felt like I could live forever beating off to gay porn in the relative privacy of my own room. This was four or five years ago. After reading Oasis, though, I was astounded by the reactions of people who proclaimed that they just couldn't go on "living a lie." At the time, the "lie" bothered me less than the "truth." My problem is, now that I've accepted the truth, the lie weighs on me and cuts me like a tool belt made of barbed wire. The only problem is, I need help to take it off. I've had it on for so long that I'm afraid of life without the pain. I would like to thank all of those who have emailed me for pushing me closer to the abyss. My only worry is that there won't be anyone there to catch me when I jump, if you get my meaning. I just don't know whose arms to jump into.
I had a revelation the other day. I was talking to a good friend of mine (and a real horny bastard) about something or other and of course the topic (sex) came up. (Pardon the pun.) He likes to share his sexual thoughts with other people, and (it seems) with me in particular. Several times daily I get asked questions about this slut or that slut, about breast size versus ass size, about the "paper bag" treatment (after all, you don't fuck the face), et cetera. So it occurs to me: what if he was in my position? That is to say, what if he had to keep every single sexual thought he had every day to himself, certainly unable to act on them but also unable to share them with friends/sympathizers? Shit, the average male has a sexual thought every hour or something like that, right? (Whose number is that and where the shit did they get it, anyway?) So the conclusion I came to is this: my best friend has no idea of what it's really like to be me, what I'm really like, or what I'm thinking 24 times a day (approximately). No wonder I feel so isolated.
All quiet on the guy front. And I'd like to add that I'm getting really tired of hearing people use the word "gay" as a substitute for "stupid" or "retarded" or whatever fucking term of derision they are not intelligent or creative enough to pronounce at the time. Come on. Are your vocabularies really that pitifully limited? And after all, you don't hear people calling things "black" or "woman" or "lower-middle class"...not even at the high school I attend, which was named the second-snobbiest school in the United States by MTV. (I don't doubt it.) Ask anyone who goes there. Their silent glare is proof.
Unrelated news and story: My English teacher called my house the other night at something like 11:00. I was asleep in bed (or maybe jerking off with the door closed and locked and the light off...but it matters not) at the time. She called to tell me that she loved my writing and that she was reading something I wrote and that she put down her work just to call in the middle of the night and so on. My mother told her to never call again and so I had to ask her to get the story. But she wants me to take up writing full time. Apparently I have some sort of incredible talent...and I don't know it. And I'm bitter about that, just like everything else. (I just _have_ to put in a ;) for that one!) If she wasn't always having these LSD flashbacks I might take her more seriously. Seriously; one time in class we were discussing something or other and she starts banging together these cymbals, each of which have the word "phallic" painted on them (I know, har har). The sound of these cymbals sent her into some form of shock -- she just sat there and shivered for fifteen seconds or so. Consider also that the masterwork of mine that she was reading was an AP sample that I wrote in 20 minutes when I had a 102 degree fever. All together now: CRACK WHORE!
So that's about it for this month. Let me take care of some business and then I promise I'll wrap this up.
The song-lyrics contest was a bit of a flop. I suppose my obscure tastes either baffled or frightened enough people that only one person sent in a response (thanks Danny for your valiant attempt). The correct answers are/were:
#1 "Circling Overland" by Front 242 (from the album "Front By Front")
#2 "Through the Eyes of Ruby" by the Smashing Pumpkins (from the album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness")
#3 "Big Bottom" by Spinal Tap (from the album "Smell the Glove")
There is a very big grin attached to number three above.
My CD recommendation for this month is Orbital's "In Sides". Just get it.
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Squash: which ones are bushes, vines, climb trellises?
My (very amateur) understanding is that some types of squash grow in a bush-like fashion, some spread out as vines, and some of the ones that spread out as vines will climb a trellis or other structure. (I heard that some vine-type squash aren't climbers.)
How do I tell which ones are bush-type, which are vine-type, and which vine-type squash are climbers?
Right now I'm planning my garden for this year and it would be a huge help to get this figured out.
I do know that squash fall into different types such as C. pepo, C. maxima and C. moschata. Does this have anything to do with it?
Are there any rules of thumb I can use? (For example, assuming that the squash are bush-type and not vines unless a description of them notes otherwise.)
Finally, a couple of different but related questions: Do the different types of squash vary a lot in terms of how much space the plant requires? (Assuming an apples-to-apples comparison such as two different bush types, not a bush type and a vine type.) Are there rules of thumb as to how to figure out how much space a particular type of squash requires? (Note that I plan to use raised beds rather than row cropping.)
Thanks for any info / guidance you can give!
Well, squash as a group is not really an homogenous gardening grouping despite their genetic similarities. To start to answer your question, I would point out that pumpkins are vastly different from zucchini. So, are you talking about summer squash (zucchinis, crookneck, button, etc.) or are you looking to grow winter squash (butternut, pumpkins, acorn, etc.)?
As far as allotted space goes, opinions will vary, but in terms of greatest square footage required to least, I would say the following is a rough guide to the most popular:
Personally, I give my pumpkins about 36 square feet of growing space (6 feet between hills) and even that gets pretty crowded. Butternut 25 square feet, or 5 feet between hills. Zucchini and other summers are a "meagre" 16 square feet, or 4 feet between hills. That's a little more space than usual for summers, but I like to be able to keep some space free in between for the frequent harvesting and pest control.
It is hard to describe any squash as a bush growth unless you have a specific dwarf variety. Summer squashes have a more bush-like growth to them, but given the space and favourable conditions, they will usuall fill up to 25 square feet. You would really have to specifically search out a specific variety bred for bush growth rather than trying to force a standard variety into a bush space.
As far as climbing goes, you can train any vine to climb a trellis, from tomatoes, to cucumbers, to squashes. All squash vines will try to send out roots as the grow horizontally, but these tend to serve more as an anchor rather than a feeder system. The chief problem you are going to encounter with vertical growing squash is the sheer size, volume and weight of the plant and the fruit.
Most of the successful squash and melon trellises I have seen are climbing up a south facing wall equipped with a very sturdy, anchored grid trellis. It would have to be a very well engineered free-standing trellis to support a full grown squash vine, plus mature fruit, in a moderate to heavy wind.
Hope this helps.
I do not know what kinds of squash do grow up a trellis, but I know what does NOT ... yellow straightneck squash and zucchini do not grow up a trellis. I found out the hard way last year thinking they would vine, so I planted them on my trellis and used up valuable trellis space.
This year I will try staking my squash ala snibb style. I bought steel utility fence u-posts that will be pounded into the ground next to the squash when it is planted. As the squash grows, I will tie it off to the post with pieces of pantyhose or soft rope (not string). As it grows, it will try to lay down, unless you tie it up.
This thread has an extensive discussion and pictures on it ... http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/sqfoot/msg0310241914233.html
I bought 4 foot posts from Lowe's for $1.87 each. Although, now that I am looking at their website, I may have bought 3 foot posts. I am not sure that will be tall enough for the plant and also to have room to push the post into the ground as a yellow squash or zucchini plant can grow up to about 36-40" tall. I might be making a trip back there for an exchange. Looks like the 4 foot posts are $2.80 and the 5 foot are $3.28. Snibb talks about using an 8 foot post, but I cannot imagine that length would ever be necessary.
Here was my sqaush last year on the trellis. As the trellis was not working, I used a piece of white curtain rod last year to tie the squash to. You can see part of it in this picture where it goes up behind the flower next to the ruler.
I forgot ... I asked a similar question last July as to what vines and got the following in response ...
"Posted by susancol 7 Atlanta (My Page) on Tue, Jul 28, 09 at 13:23
Zucchetta rampicante 'Tromboncino'
This is the vining zuccini. As far as I know there are no vining yellow squash or pattypan squash. They are all Bush.
There are also the cucuzzi (rareseeds.com), which are an edible gourd. They are light green, elongated and are eaten like zuchini.
Also the tatume (victoryseeds.com) are round light green summer squash, that grow on a vine.
I've listed one source only, but I'm sure other seed sources probably carry these varieties.
Hope this is helpful,
Territorial seeds has a vining zuke called Black Hawk. I havent tried it because it is expensive and the shipping is 7.95 for shipping 1 packet or 100. I would like to try it. Thompson and Morgan has another one, particularly for containers and trellises called Black Forest - quite a bit cheaper.
I posted the list that Angela reposted, and just to be clear those were examples of vining Summer Squash which are exceptions to the rule as most Summer Squash are Bush varieties.
With Winter Squash, vining is more the rule. Some Winter Squash Bush exceptions are Acorn Squash and Bush Delicata.
Another rule of thumb, I think is that the C.pepo (if it's not a pumpkin which vines) will tend to be bush.
C.maxima (mostly hubbard, buttercup like types) and
C. moschata (mostly butternut like types) are more typically vining.
You can trellis any vining squash that you can also support the fruit for. Obviously a giant pumpkin on a trellis will fall off due to gravity. But if the fruit is small enough to hang on it's own or be supported by a small sling, then you can trellis it. Likely you will have to weave the vines in the trellis to help it along, and maybe even tie in some places. They don't have tendrils like peas or cucumbers to grab the trellis on their own.
Best of all, the vining squash tend to have harder stems and therefore are more resistent to the dreaded SVB (Squash Vine Borer).
Does that help?
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I do like the idea of SVB resistance ! I will have to try one of those vining summer squash at some point. It was too late for me last year. The funny thing is, when people say squash, in this area, one automatically assumes yellow squash. Zucchini are zucchini. And if you mean winter squash, you must specify 'winter squash', otherwise if you just say squash you will be getting yellow crookneck or straightneck.
Yes, it was my first quoting here at GardenWeb! I've finally been around long enough that when other people post, I can jump up and down and say ooh ooh, I know, I know! Of course, usually by then one of the big experts like DigDirt or FarmerDilla have offered their wonderful sage advice, and no need for me to jump in. So it's exciting when I can help and doubly exciting when someone not only reads my post, but quotes it to someone else. It's a steller day in the neighborhood for me. :)
Thank you everyone for your input. It's much appreciated!
Two remaining questions:
m_lorne, when you say (for example) 36 square feet per hill, you're assuming one plant per hill (meaning 36 sf per plant), right?
Second - and this is a matter of curiosity than an urgent need to know - some squash are referred to summer squash and some as winter squash. I would think that this would be because winter squash prefer cooler temperatures than summer squash but I read something that suggested this isn't the case. Any insight into this?
Summer squash and winter squash need the same growing conditions. Usuage is the major determinate. Summer squash are eaten in the immature stage. Most of them do not form edible flesh when ripe but dry like a gourd. All winter squash have edible flesh when ripe, but many like the Trombocino can be used either way. In fact most butternuts can and frequently are as summer squash. Acorns are also frequently used as summer squash. Winter squash are called that because they can stored for winter use. It was a great advantage before modern preserving and storage technologies.
I plant initially three or four seeds per hill, then thin to the healthiest one plant when they are about 5-8 inches tall. Each hill is given three feet on all sides of the hill, meaning 6 feet between hills. This is usually enough space, but sometimes they get tangled up into a giant mess.
The terminology between summer and winter squash comes from the typical time of consumption. Summer squash are eaten right off the vine during the growing season (which is considerably shorter than winter squash). Winter squash on the other hand are generally harvested in the fall, cured, then stored. They are generally consumed during the winter months.
Hope that helps!
Hope people don't mind me digging up threads...
I had the same question and this thread was first on Google. I think I'll stick around too, this forum looks very interesting.
So far looking up what squash will grow on a trellis, it seems any squash will. I intend to have some on the ground while others climb, so I'd rather the climbers do so on their own. I know Cucumber and Watermelon plants have tendrils from growing them on a trellis, but I don't know about others. If anyone grows squash this year, could you post which ones have tendrils?
Funny space was mentioned. I don't have much space (4x8 cinder block raised bed) so I grew 5 plants in a 4x4 area of different types with 3 seeds per mound w/o thinning them as a test because I use to do it a little more spread out in Nevada. The watermelon grew up the trellis and grew a green golf ball, the cucumber also grew up a trellis but produced a lot of fruit, the straight-neck & zucchini turned into bushes turning out a lot of zucchini and a few straight-neck, and the pumpkin produced no fruit. Learned that watermelon and pumpkin need their space, but cucumbers need very little space with a trellis. Zucchini have a tendency to outgrow the competition and leaving multiple plants per hill let me leave one to grow a big zucchini while the other 2 grew small ones ( I shred big zucchini for bread and cake ). I had corn in among the squash and on the other side and in the cinder blocks I had sunflowers, peas, tons of lettuce & spinach & carrots, a huge tomato plant and a new artichoke. All except the corn grew well. It's amazing what can grow in such a little area. BTW sunflowers have huge roots and will take all the dirt out of a cinder block, but they make a great trellis for peas.


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