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Ever since Starbucks launched its paid WiFi several years ago, plenty of people have questioned the business model for cafes and restaurants charging for internet access. Plenty of other places, both independent retailers and chains, have found free WiFi to be a boon to their businesses, drawing in more customers and getting them to stay longer and buy more stuff. Supposedly some Starbucks managers have even begged the company to let them offer WiFi for free, because they think they're losing customers to other outlets, while an examination of the financial details of the program a couple of years ago didn't make it look like much of a money-spinner for the company or its WiFi provider, T-Mobile. With that in mind, the NYT had an interesting story over the weekend comparing Starbucks to the movie theaters of yesteryear, which saw air-conditioning not as something to drive up prices, but an amenity to offer as a competitive advantage. The story quotes the president of Panera, a chain of sandwich shops and bakeries, who says that the company isn't concerned with making WiFi a profit center, and that it helps fill its locations up during off-peak hours -- a claim it has been making for a while. He then points out, though, that Starbucks are generally pretty busy, so he wonders why they'd make their WiFi free (though perhaps he's using a little bit of the Jedi Mind Trick to ward off competition). Free WiFi would seem to fit with Starbucks' "third space" concept, which is supposed to make its stores a comfortable place between work and home, where people can (and want to) hang out for a while. Free WiFi certainly seems to be helping out plenty of other businesses, but it's hard to argue with Starbucks' success over the years. Still, you'd think that offering free WiFi would help fill the company's stores with more people, particularly during off-peak hours.
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Dave, 6 Mar 2007 @ 4:48pm
AgreedAgreed. I like Starbucks coffee, however I used to make it over to Panera and sip their coffee and maybe have a cookie so that I can surf the net for free. I have definitely made the conscious decision to go for free WiFi over Frappuccinos.
George, 6 Mar 2007 @ 4:48pm
YUP!Starbucks is just that, in for the "Bucks!" Charging for WI FI is like charging to use the library! Doesn't Starbucks realize how irritating it is. Trying to squeeze every penny out of their customers is going to be their demise!
Tony, 6 Mar 2007 @ 4:48pm
Couldn't have said it any betterFree Wi-Fi service and coffee has always been a dream for me, too bad Starbucks can't learn from its' competitors that free Wi-Fi service is the way to go. Bandwidth Buyers Guide
Kevin, 6 Mar 2007 @ 4:48pm
Free wi-fi = bad ideaIf Starbucks offered free wi-fi then nobody would ever be able to sit down in any Starbucks ever again. T-mobile is definitely faster than the panera that I go to in Santa Monica. t-mobile does not turn off their wi-fi at random times either (rarely adhere to the 1-3 and 6-8 blackout hours). Starbucks is an incredible company and knows how to run a great business, take care of its employees, and come out black quarter after quarter. They will be making some very significant changes in the near future if Howard Schultzs' recent memo means anything. BTW I have been t-mobile wifi subscriber for 5 years now and its been great. tried verzion wireless broadband and its sooo slow.
Michael Long, 6 Mar 2007 @ 5:12pm
TrafficI've talked to many restaraunt owners about putting in WiFi and their concerns seem to fall into two major categories.
The first is that they're afraid people are going to be surfing for porn and that there could be an issue with offending other customers. While that could be a problem, you never see people going in, sitting down, and spreading Playboy's out on the table either.
The second is related to traffic. While WiFi can be be used to draw people in, many owners are concerned that it's going to be the wrong type, and that they'll "camp out", taking up space for little to no return.
As your article states, Starbucks is already pretty busy, and offering free WiFi could simply attract more people who'd nurse a single cup of coffee at a table while surfing the web all day, leaving no room at all for other paying customers.
Anonymous Coward, 8 Mar 2007 @ 7:20pm
Re: TrafficThis is exactly right. There's a fine line between being comfortable and harboring loiterers.
Susanna, 6 Mar 2007 @ 5:37pm
Starbucks - Don't Give It AwayI hope Starbucks doesn't go to the free WI-FI. I pay good money for my T-Mobile wireless account, and I don't think wi-fi access should be given away for free.
Joe Block, 6 Mar 2007 @ 6:05pm
Re: Starbucks - Don't Give It AwayWouldn't you rather not have to pay T-Mobile?
smith, 6 Mar 2007 @ 8:02pm
Re: Starbucks - Don't Give It AwayI hope our country never moves to universal health care. I pay tons of money for health insurance for my family and I don't think access to doctors' care should be given to children for free.
The Citizen, 8 Apr 2007 @ 2:26pm
Re: Re: Starbucks - Don't Give It AwayDear Smith,
You point please? And I hope your aren't being serious here. In the case you are serious, i have nothing to say. In the case you are kidding, I have nothing to say.
The Citizen
hate to admit...Ive always wished theyd have it free so I could use it (no way id pay that much for something Id barely use), but i hate to admit I think theyve done the right thing... by charging they keep the "riff-raff" out who might wind up camping for extended hours just to get the net.. and if theyre so cheap that theyre camping somewhere for net access, its not as likely theyll be spending $ on coffee either.
I like the "off peak hours" argument but wouldnt these guys wind up hanging out during peak just as samel? thus making peak overly crowded, a worse situation that having slow off-peaks.
but the main reason i think they have it right - the dang places are always full anyway. I see small coffe shops open and close (despite my frequenting them) all the time, but SB's just keep adding new ones.. ive never seen one close. Read it here first - the next "big tobacco" will be SB- theres no normal explanation for that many people spending that much for that mid-range coffee, that frequently AND for that long (both up and down economies)... there MUST be some nicotine or some other addictive substance in those drinks! ;) ;)
Jeremy, 6 Mar 2007 @ 6:01pm
Re: hate to admit...How many people that would be considered "riff-raff" can afford the wireless devices that are needed to access the web? Most people that own laptops and PDA's would not fall into this category. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Boost, 6 Mar 2007 @ 6:58pm
Re: Re: hate to admit...Ever been to college, Jeremy? College students have laptops and love a free meal all the same.
Jeremy, 6 Mar 2007 @ 5:57pm
Re: Free = BetterMy PDA has wireless access and I love being able to check my e-mail and blog posts from almost anywhere. I avoid eateries that do not have free Wi-Fi. I would sacrifice food quality if I needed to check my mail in a hurry and they offered free Wi-Fi.
If I get lost while driving, most anyplace with free Wi-Fi is likely to get my business while I access Google Maps.
When I travel, I will not stay in a hotel that doesn't have complimentary Wi-Fi. I am a sucker for free Internet.
Rich, 6 Mar 2007 @ 5:58pm
Precisely right...Free wi-fi is why I am much more likely to go to Panera than Starbucks, even though I only use the wi-fi on rare occasions.
Iron Chef, 6 Mar 2007 @ 6:33pm
I can pay a little for a consistent experienceStarbucks is going after a different demographic by charging for wifi. The eateries with the free wifi are generally more catering to a sub-prime customerbase.
Have you ever tried these free wifi services? Sometimes they work, but sometimes they don't. There was one place I was trying to logon, and get to my email, and was failing miserably. I called the (non-1-800 helpline) on the table and the support guys said that I had to download a new driver from Dell's website. Only one problem though- I couldn't get to my email to get the URL for the WiFi driver I had to download.
I guess when you go with Starbucks/Hotspot/T-Mobile/Kinkos, or whatever the devil they are calling it these days, it's more of a standards-based approach, and I know it will work with my gear. And for me, who travels extensively, I'm willing to pay a little money for consistency.
I guess if I wasn't travelling so much, I may be willing to be teathered to one or two places.. But thats not the case for me.
GoblinJuice, 6 Mar 2007 @ 6:38pm
GOD I HATE POOR PEOPLE!@Susanna - Yeah! Let the people who can't pay go without! Damn the poor bastards! GOD I HATE POOR PEOPLE!
Sarcasm, folks, sarcasm.
Chris, 6 Mar 2007 @ 6:55pm
experiance says make it freeHaving worked for ISP's for the last couple years, I haven't seen any managers or businesses really complain about providing free WiFi. Quite generaly the simple nature of human comercialism says that if a lot people are in one location, you should be there as well. So even if you do attract the freeloaders people will think that your business is a happening place, and just might stop in to see why. As far as the porn surfing goes, it should be the least of their concerns, but setting up a simple proxy server (which should be done regardless, can redircet everyone to your companies homepage first, etc...) is an easy way to help avoid such circumstances. Besides if you see people hanging out in front of your shop doing nothing but leeching your WiFi, slap them with a loitering ticket, as you're legaly allowed to do so.
Joe, 6 Mar 2007 @ 7:52pmI think it should be free. Admittedly there will always be the slugs that just surf all day. I always patronize the place that give the wifi for free and don't overstay my welcome. I like the "God I hate poor people", nice atitude babe!
Jess, 6 Mar 2007 @ 8:14pmFirst of all, Starbucks is always filled with loiters(sp?) anyways. I am from Portland and now the city is putting up free wifi for the city. Maybe corporations should not be so greedy. There are a lot of ways to provide free wifi and still make a profit on the wifi (i.e. homepage ads). 20 bucks a month for internet that I have to drive to and spend about 5 bucks for a coffee while I use it too... no thanks!
Dosquatch, 6 Mar 2007 @ 8:16pm
Plenty of places have free wifiWho cares? Let Starbucks do whatever it wants.
Bill, 6 Mar 2007 @ 8:42pm
Free coffeeIf Starbucks gave free coffee and charged for wi-fi I would go there a lot more often. If they gave free coffee and free wi-fi I don't think I'd get a table there.
JT, 6 Mar 2007 @ 9:32pm
although at many Starbucks....... there are other businesses nearby with an unsecured network allowing free wifi access. rather ironic and funny, but still very useful. :)
Amy Alkon, 6 Mar 2007 @ 10:02pmI've been to Panera once. It was loud and unwelcoming, and when I tried to go onto my own website, their host company had blocked it as porn. Now, I'm a syndicated columnist in over 100 newspapers, including daily newspapers. I don't have a problem with porn, but I'm not running a porn site. I do have a problem with censorship.
Furthermore, in my eyes, the riffraff are the loud asshats on cell phones. A homeless artist guy I'm friends with does his work out of a Starbucks in Santa Monica. The staff love him and treat him very well, and understand that he just needs a little help to start earning a living from his work. When, one week, he made $500 on his art from a guy in France, one of the baristas let him use his PayPal account to get the cash, which he gave him immediately. A girl barista there let him store his birth certificate and driver's license in the trunk of her VW Bug for safekeeping. I find that Starbucks employees tend to be a cut above, like that. Or maybe I should say three cuts above, in the case of these people. Free Wifi at Panera? Yeah, whatever.
Iron Chef, 7 Mar 2007 @ 12:23am
Re: I can pay a little for a consistent experienceI guess you get what you pay for. The HotSpots at StarBucks and Kinkos work well for my needs.
It is a free market society, and in the spirit of what Dosquatch said, the independents are going after a different customer than Starbucks. My needs are different than those who lounge around and are just looking to kill time. WiFi is a productivity tool for me, and consistency is key.
As a business professional, I am willing to pay $5 to get a powerpoint on-the-go which may save my company 10k. That's why I have an expense report.
Don't surf for porn and to everyone else, Man.. I wouldn't consider doing that anyway using any WiFi connection...
The Citizen, 8 Apr 2007 @ 2:33pm
Re: Re: I can pay a little for a consistent experiI think people are missing the point. And I don't think starbucks is promoting the idea about coming there to coduct business.
Can Starbucks afford to be selective ?
One is not going to find THUGS at the coffee shop for the free wifi.
If you don't want College Kids.. then don't put one in a college town.
Paying for wifi .. is bad business .. period.
Starbucks will come around.
You "prefer to pay" people.. well I'm sure there will always be the option to pay. Call Verizon ... LOL
|333173|3|_||3, 7 Mar 2007 @ 2:30amI doubt anyone would surf porn publicly, but downloading movies in the background might be more likely, especially in a free place with no registration.
THe solution to leaches would be to gradually throttle the connection, so if you stay for only 30 mins the connection is perfect, then speed decays at an increasing rate until you are cut off.
I agree about people on 'phones. Seriously, if someone came up to your table, took you outside and talked to you for however long, you would consider it rude, yet answering a 'phone is not. The other thing I hate is when people don't set thier 'phones up properly and shout into them. I think they should come by default set to thier loudest speech volume and quietest ringer volume.
Shohat, 7 Mar 2007 @ 3:21am
dont make it freeFree WiFi hurts business. The key of having a good food/coffee place is to have people spend the absolute minimum of time in it, and leave happy with what they got.
Free WiFi in an allready successful place would just increase the number of people that are driving away potential clients due to the lack of free space .
Ian Douglas, 7 Mar 2007 @ 4:01am
FonIf you're unfortunate enough to live above or next to a starbucks you can get free wifi at loads of them by getting Fon to send you a free router through their fonbucks promotion, sharing your broadband with the coffee drinkers, then using the service offered by other foneros for nothing.
MikeT, 7 Mar 2007 @ 7:06am
I'd rather payThe one time I used Panera's wifi, it was terrible compared to the wifi at the B&N with Starbucks next door. I mean, like night and day terrible. I'd much rather pay a few dollars for good access, especially since the places that I have seen where it is free and people actually want to go, have a problem with camping mooches.
Andrew D. Todd, 7 Mar 2007 @ 7:13am
Upstairs/DownstairsIn my experience, astute small shopkeepers commonly expand into the basement or the attic. The high-value goods are on the main floor, of course, at street level, but the low-value goods are either upstairs or downstairs. Used bookstores often used this system, back in the days before the internet. The main floor might have been selling new college textbooks, under a de-facto concession from the course instructor. This was back before Amazon, when essentially no one gave discounts over "publisher's list price." However, the attic, generally reached by a fairly narrow staircase, would have used books, at about a tenth of the price. The alternative use of the upstairs was either cheap apartments, or cheap office space for the self-employed, so the rents were much lower than for the main floor. The way the system worked, the idea was to get the instructor, or someone who might be an instructor in two or three years, coming in regularly to buy used books; to make friends with him; and in due course, the instructor would place a textbook order, giving the bookstore a practical monopoly on sales to students. Of course conditions have changed somewhat, but the system can be adapted to other businesses.
Presumably, as applied to a coffee shop, you would have the main floor selling food, and an upstairs for those who want to camp out. If necessary, you could put down a layer of wire screen under the carpet of the upstairs, making a partial Faraday Cage. That way, the upstairs could have its own WiFi access, under different rules than the main floor.
a, 7 Mar 2007 @ 7:21amFirst off, I have never been inside a Starbucks, I don't drink coffee, so I don't really care.
One thing they could do is offer free WiFi during off peak times when they are usually empty (if there is such a time). That way, they don't have people parking out during their busy times yet will draw in some when they are not busy. Seems pretty simple to me. Why do something to draw in even more people when they are full?
Jon, 7 Mar 2007 @ 7:32am
Maybe not free...I would tend to agree with Starbucks' business model of not offering WiFi for free - they generally need to keep traffic moving, especially during peak hours. There have been times when I would have paid $3-$5 for WiFi access for a short period of time too - I don't have a problem paying for a valuable service, but I do have my limits. I'm not going to spend $10 for a day of internet access, when I'll only use it for 15 minutes, or $20 for a month when I'll use it twice a month at most. What I'd like to see is a discount for current T-mobile customers OR a more reasonable pricing scheme. I don't need a day of access, I need an hour.
I honestly prefer Panera anyway - the internet isn't always great (sometimes a little slow), but it's never been a hindrance; pages do load, I can get my email, even connect remotely to my computers. Plus, I can actually sit down and have a sandwich or a bowl of soup instead of just a coffee and a danish.
Ed, 7 Mar 2007 @ 8:54am
What is the problem about??C'mon,
It's absolutely about money. Starbucks. do not want to give nothing free to no one, thats it.
You can seat at cafe at Paris, drink one coffe and stay there for all day long, reading your newspaper and nobody will ask for you leave the place. C'mon, who do it? A very very small number of people. And, most of the places give you the newspaper, for free, to be read in cafe.
Internet acess must to be free also. As napkins, strollers, sugar, etc. One or two customers will camping on... What's the problem? They will became niot profitable ones?? That is the matter???
This kind of approach where all is profit related shames.
BTW, I do preffer Panera all way instead Starbucks.
Vive la Liberte
Lyle, 9 Mar 2007 @ 4:55am
Gone WifingI used to be a big Starbucks customer. I live in Seattle. My company (Directors, Ltd.) paid for the wifi ($35 per month) and my Starbucks card ($125 per month). I felt like we were getting screwed on the wifi, so I canceled the account even though I was a regular user -- daily. Now I almost never go to a Starbucks and I haven't refilled my SB card in nine months. When they drop the wifi price to something competitive -- say $10 per month, I'll consider it. Plenty of places offer it for free. The chuckleheads at SB replaced the square tables with smaller round ones at the store near me. I get the message -- I took my business elsewhere. "Bottomline management" often comes with unintended consequences.
Don Henson, 8 Apr 2007 @ 12:44pm
pay for wi-fi is B.S.hanging out at the starbucks? I've seen hundreds, and people are hanging out there. not for long.
john, 19 Oct 2007 @ 4:25pmWhy cant Starbucks have free WiFi? I mean they already make a lot of money as it is. If they offered it for free than they would make even more money. http://bandwidthdomain.com
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DeathsDid you know people are DEAD due to wifi? People died in europe in september/october 2007 if you need internet - get it hardwired into your darn stores and hotels, otherwise forget it and expect lawsuits against you http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/24/uk-schools-pull-the-plug-on-wifi-for-alleged-health-reason s/ http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/946193/health_scare_sparks_rush_to_dump_wifi/index.htm l?source=r_technology
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Another Korean gem:
Yuuki: I'm the one who can make Koizumi happy.
Haruki: "Yeah right! Since I brought her, she's MINE!"
Kyon-chan: "What kind of logic is that? If we go by those lines of thoughts, then you were brought into the world by you mother! Go marry her!"
Haruki: "Hey Kyon, why are you here? You're a girl!"
Kyon-chan: "So what? You guys forgot something important: Koizumi's thoughts! Koizumi, you're choosing me, right?"
Koizumi: "Eh? Well....."
Haruki: "Also, my XXX in the biggest here, right Yuuki?"
Yuuki: "................"
Kyon-chan: "Hey, why does that come into this talk? Anyway, I'm not handing Koizumi to you!"
Haruki: "Kyon, are you bigger than mine?"
Kyon-chan: "Of course I don't have it! I'll sue you for harassment!"
Asahina: "Excuse me, I'm also here....."
Kyon-chan: "Huu... whatver. Let's just ask Koizumi; that's the fastest way."
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Koizumi: ".............."
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I actually like that idea, if only because it means we'd get a blushing Kyon-ko, which is the most awesome thing ever
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Anyway. We're derailing the topic too much unless we discuss the application of how aggressive Koizumi's advances on Kyon-chan will be.
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Goodness, this thread is so fast. I went to sleep for what, five hours...? And find that I've missed quite a few entire debates
Oh well. I still have time.
How that would happen, I don't know. It'd just feel more natural to me (I hope I'm not the only one...).
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I've gotten drunk before (several times; try to find ways to occupy your evenings with something else if one of your friends is a heavy drinker, people), and seen other people drunk before, but I've never experienced a hangover before. Possibly this is because I'm an extreme lightweight.
Generally when you're drunk, thinking becomes harder, and everything starts becoming a good idea, since you can't quite think of any reasons why not. I once found myself going through the multiples of seven in my head just to prove that I was not drunk, when the fact that I was doing this in the first place proved I was. (For what it's worth, I got it correct until and including seven times twelve, then I drew a blank.)
Sense of balance goes long before that. Everything seems a bit blurry and unstable, and your limbs don't seem to be able to go where you want them to, and there's a sort of feeling of seasickness. You just want to lie down until it all goes away.
Anyway, this manifests in different ways. Some people get louder, some people start shouting, some people dance on tables, some people start crying into their alcohol and lament their life stories. Me, I get quieter and quieter, since about all that goes on in my brain is "durrr... I don't have anything to say, so I don't say anything". Anecdote: since I'm usually not very talkative (in Real Life) anyway, the only way my friends knew I was drunk during ACen 2006 was when I started lagging behind, and then keeled over very neatly from vertical to horizontal. According to one of my friends, I made "a very impressive thump". (Speaking of which, when he gets drunk, he starts giggling at random things. Like that thump.)
Now, applied to Haruki and co., it depends on what sort of drunks they are. According to the novel, Haruhi is a louder version of her usual self, while we don't know what Kyon and Mikuru's reactions are like, except that Kyon doesn't remember a lot, and that Mikuru can't hold her drink and has a "dreamy expression" when drunk. Yuki is unaffected. No mention of Koizumi imbibing is made.
According to the referenced doujin, Haruhi is louder (and more violent), Mikuru is near-comatose, and Koizumi is, um, gayer. Yuki is as expressionless as ever, but she goes into a sort of shutdown/standby mode while trying to recover.
So, do we want to keep these characterizations, or tweak them to something else? Maybe Haruki goes in vino veritas and starts confessing his true feelings, or simply weeps into his wine. Haruhi may be a violent drunk, but translate it to Haruki and he has the potential to do a lot of unintentional physical damage, so it probably shouldn't be exaggerated too much.
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Of course, we do have the question of what kind of girl Koizumi would be. Would she be like a nymphet or a woman? (Below are some pics drawn by a friend)
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Okay, I've endured and been delighted through all sixty-plus pages of this thread/quasi-movement and I simply had to register to commend you all. Great work, all involved in bringing this concept to being!
As another of those fans eagerly (read: "impatiently") anticipating the next season of the anime, I've found Haruki, Kyonko et al, and the very idea of such a similiar yet different world impossible not to become enamoured with.
I'll try to contribute some (less than stellar) fan-art sooner rather than later to the existing mountains of quality fan-produced work for this idea, but for the meantime, all I can do is to reiterate my praise. Well done!
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I stopped at the Pennysaver Market in Fairview yesterday on my way home from the dentist. I had a yen for some of their hickory smoked cheddar cheese.
I was the only customer at the time. The proprietor, a Mennonite lady about my age, cut the cheese for me, and then waited at the cash register as I gathered a few more items from the bulk goods section -- a bag of milled flax seed, a bag of oatmeal, a little tub of cinnamon.
At the register as I prepared to write a check for my purchases, I discovered I had left my wallet in the car. "Do you know me?" I asked. "Should I go get my ID?"
"Let me see your check," she said. I showed it to her, and told her where I live and whom my nearest Mennonite neighbors are. "Oh, it's OK," she declared. "I remember who you are now."
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Winter-growing weeds such as burr clover, malva and sowthistle are known to rob pepper plants of moisture and nutrients. They are also hosts for viruses that attack the crop, so winter weed control to break the viruses' life-cycles might be worth considering.
Monterey County farm advisor Richard Smith says it's not a documented fact, but he suspects the weeds supply much of the fresh tissue viruses need to survive until they are transmitted to a new pepper crop.
Other crop and ornamentals are also hosts of tomato spotted wilt and other viruses, he told a recent gathering of pepper growers and PCAs at Gilroy.
He said if he were a grower, he would give attention to controlling winter weed hosts of viruses, even without proof it works, to do everything possible to manage virus problems.
"Last year was so devastating with viruses, we have to do as much as we can to reduce the amount of inoculum out there."
The problem may be bigger than anyone knows, he added, and perhaps even fava bean cover crops are symptomless carriers of viruses.
General weed control is essential in peppers, since they are poor competitors and must face multiple waves of weed emergence during their long growing season.
Growers should remember, Smith said, that common names of viruses — for example, tomato spotted wilt or cucumber mosaic — give a false impression that they occur only on those crops, when actually they go to long lists of host plants.
"During a devastating outbreak of cucumber mosaic in crops during the 1980s it was also observed that another virus host, periwinkle, was abundant in riparian areas, so there may be a connection," he said.
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While several non-chemical weed controls may be employed, peppers fortunately have a number of herbicides registered for use preplant through postemergence. One recent addition was a 24(c) registration for Syngenta's Dual Magnum, which Smith said gives good control of black nightshade, a host of tomato spotted wilt virus.
In his 2004 trials on weed control for peppers, Smith evaluated Dow AgroScience's new formulation of the pre-emergence Goal 4F, or Goal Tender, and Goal 2XL and also experimented with application of Dual Magnum after transplanting. He said the results of the trials were very encouraging for a new system of longer weed control.
The label for Goal 2XL pre-emergence on peppers calls for use 30 days before transplanting but requires working of the beds before transplanting to avoid crop-damaging lift-off of the material.
"The problem with this," Smith explained, "is that when the beds are worked the layer of protection is destroyed. We wanted to see if we could apply Goal Tender, the new formulation potentially having less lift-off, and transplant into the layer without working the bed, to get 30 days of weed protection after transplanting."
Then Smith applied Dual Magnum at layby with the hope of another 30 days of protection. "The idea was to develop a system so we could get deeper into the season with weed control."
The results showed either Goal Tender or Goal 2XL at the 0.5 pound active ingredient per acre rate applied 15 days prior to transplanting gave excellent weed control for the first 30 days following transplanting.
"Goal Tender," Smith reported, "appeared to be safer to peppers, but there was no difference in the yield of peppers treated with Goal 2XL or Goal Tender."
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The Goal and Dual Magnum combination, he said, "looked promising as an extended season weed control treatment for more than 30 days following pepper transplanting.
"This is a really interesting idea and now we have to work with the manufacturers to make some label changes, although these could take a number of years."
Smith also investigated the new Valent USA flumioxazin materials, Chateau and BroadStar, in the trials. The liquid Chateau at all rates, he said, gave excellent weed control but was too toxic on peppers as a preplant application.
However, the granular BroadStar gave excellent weed control and acceptable safety when applied over-the-top, post transplant.
A recent additional tool to combat malva and other weeds is the use of Goal 2XL under plastic tarps to protect the crop from lift-off damage. Escapes of some weeds, particularly malva, may occur with typical metam-sodium fumigation.
Tarped Goal applications have been used in southeastern U.S. on transplanted peppers, strawberries and tomatoes, and the method was only recently approved for use in California, Smith said.
Green peach aphid
Trials in California in strawberries last year revealed that both Goal 2XL and Goal Tender, when tarped, caused significantly less damage to plants than when they were not tarped.
In a talk on insect management on the Central Coast peppers, Bill Chaney, Monterey County farm advisor, said green peach aphid is an economic pest of peppers along the Central Coast because it vectors several viruses.
"This aphid hadn't been a very big problem for us for several years, but last year was the 'year of the green peach aphid.' Growers in Santa Maria still don't believe it was the aphid on their cole crops, but it was," he said.
Like "a dirty needle" among drug addicts, the aphid inserts its stylet into an infected plant, picks up virus particles, and spreads them to a clean plant. If it doesn't like the taste of a plant, it moves on and on, distributing the virus, as it probes.
Moreover, the green peach species has a wide host range and operates more widely than, say, a lettuce aphid that is confined to a group of plants.
Beyond vectoring viruses, the aphid mars produce with honeydew excretions that bring on sooty molds.
Although numerous insecticides are available for aphid control, they are not successful in managing virus transmission, Chaney pointed out.
"An aphid has to be on a treated plant for a few minutes to pick up enough insecticide to kill it, but during that time it transmits the virus."
However, controlling aphid populations in a field may be helpful in slowing the spread of viruses in that field, even you can't keep them from coming in, he added.
Thrips, primarily western flower, vector tomato spotted wilt virus to peppers, and management alternatives are insecticides and control of weed hosts.
"The problem with trying to manage thrips with insecticides is the infected adults that migrate into a field, providing a constant re-infection, even when you control them in a single field," Chaney said.


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Family History Expos brought its Midwest conference to Kearney, Nebraska for the first time this weekend. Did you know that Kearney is smack dab in the middle of the United States? It's half way between the East and West coasts of our country. Perhaps that's why I find it amusing when people refer to Ohio as being in the Midwest!
About 300 people are attending the Expo. They came not only from Nebraska, but Kansas, Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah and many other states. Now that I've attended several local, state and regional conferences, it's fun to recognize people and meet up with my genealogy friends.
Nebraska's own Ruby Coleman kicked off the event with a heartwarming keynote. If you didn't know Ruby before, you got to know her well during her talk. I can now say I know someone who has waded through a pig sty and an old outhouse in search of family history. Ruby admitted she's willing to get down and dirty in search of her ancestors!
On Friday, I attended a session on Irish research. I realized I had attended this session in Kansas City two years ago. Clearly, I needed the refresher course as there were many web sites presented that I need to revisit.
Ruby gave a wonderful talk on death records with a lot of tips I hadn't considered. Have you ever thought about tracking down pallbearers to interview them about your ancestor?
I knew that I wanted to get to at least a couple of James Tanner's sessions. He is the author of the Genealogy's Star blog. The blog is aptly named as James is truly a genealogy star! His talk on archives and repositories was very helpful as he shared web sites and demonstrated how to find the buried treasures that won't come up in a Google search.
It was great fun to meet up with my genealogy friends from Lincoln and Omaha, and get to meet several new people who I hope to get to know better. We sat there with our smartphones friending one another on Facebook!
I also had fun tweeting highlights of the sessions I attended and following the speaker notes in the syllabus I had previously downloaded to my Kindle Fire. That made it easy to view and bookmark the web sites the speakers were talking about.
I saw a lot more laptops and computers in the audience being used for note taking than I had seen in the past. It's clear that technology plays a vital role in today's genealogy conferences.
This is the first time I've used my iPhone to compose a blog post, so once I'm back on a computer, I'll add some hyperlinks to this content. For now, I'm getting ready for another full day of learning.
The link to this post is http://longlostrelatives-smp.blogspot.com/2012/09/midwest-family-history-expo-day-1.html
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Midwest Family History Expo - Day 1
Posted by Susan Petersen at 6:43 AM
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Having been born and raised in Kansas, I also thought I was from the "Midwest". I'm happy to see that I was right! Your article was a delight to read....I only wonder how in the world you wrote all that on your iphone!!! Thanks for the great Expo coverage, Susan!ReplyDeleteReplies
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MEDFORD, Mass. - The Tufts men's lacrosse team tied its school record for goals in a game with a 26-4 victory over Norwich University in the first round of the NCAA Div. III Championship on Wednesday afternoon at Bello Field.
Twelve different players scored goals for Tufts (15-4), led by six from junior Beau Wood. The 26 goals are tied for the second-most ever in an NCAA Championship first-round game.
The Jumbos advance to the NCAA second round on Saturday, when they will host the winner of tonight's Montclair State at Stevens first-round game. Saturday's game time has not yet been announced.
Norwich, which was making its first-ever NCAA Championship appearance, ends its season at 12-5. They were led by two goals from sophomore Seth Fuller.
Wood scored four times in the first period as Tufts took an 8-1 lead. They scored the game's first six goals before Ryan McCarthy put the Cadets on the scoreboard at the 7:06 mark. The Jumbos had a 26-7 advantage in shots for the first quarter. Cadet junior goalie Mark Paradiso made seven saves in the stanza.
Norwich scored seven seconds into the second quarter after a face-off win and goal by Nate Fortezzo. The Jumbos netted the next five, two by sophomore Chris Schoenhut to lead 13-2. The teams traded the next four goals, with two by Fuller and Wood's sixth of the game making it a 15-4 Tufts lead at halftime.
The Jumbos would not allow a goal in the second half while scoring 11. Freshman Garrett Clarke had three second-half goals, while sophomore Charlie Rubin scored his first two collegiate goals in the half, one on a man-up situation.
Junior goalie Patton Watkins started and earned the win with five saves in 26:05 of playing time. Sophomore Brian Droesch played the remaining 33:55, allowing just one goal while making eight saves. He stopped all eight shots he saw in the second half.
Tufts forced Norwich into less than a 50-percent success rate on clears (17 for 35). The Cadets finished with 35 turnovers. Sophomore Jeff Chang caused three for Tufts, while sophomore Garrett Read was one of four Jumbos to cause two. Junior Kane Delaney collected five groundballs. Tufts was 20-for-33 on face-offs, with four players handling the role. Nine wins by sophomore Ryan Le was the most.
Paradiso, who finished with 13 stops, and sophomore Peter Troiano both caused a pair of turnovers for Norwich. Junior Ian Thomas collected three groundballs. Fortezzo won 10 face-offs.
The Jumbos out-shot Norwich 65-25 and won groundballs 55-30.


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Kershaw County officially has its new probate judge with the swearing in Tuesday of Debbie Branham, who won the position in the November 2014 general election. Kershaw County Magistrate Roderick "Rick" Todd administered the oath of office at the Kershaw County Courthouse as Branham's husband, Donald, held the Bible and her son, daughter and son-in-law stood nearby.
Silas Silvers is running for mayor of Elgin in February's election.
Precinct-by-precinct election results provided to and published by the Chronicle-Independent on Nov. 7 included "0" votes from the Hobkirk's Hill precinct. Below, are the correct votes for each office published in our Nov. 7 edition, as provided by the Kershaw County Voter Registration Office.
Jeffrey Graham, the former mayor of Camden who lost a reelection bid two years ago, will rejoin Camden City Council in December, this time as a councilman. Deborah Davis, currently chair of the Camden Parks and Trees Commission, will take a seat on council for the first time.
To the dismay of some Kershaw County residents and the pleasure of others, voters rejected the Kershaw County School District (KCSD) referenda that would have launched $130 million in facilities projects and levied a 1-cent sales tax to pay back bonds that would have been issued to fund those projects.
Kershaw County will see two new county council members, a current councilman and a new probate judge take office in January following Tuesday's election.
State Sen. Vincent Sheheen indicated he might not seek another run for governor four years from now during a concession speech congratulating Gov. Nikki Haley on her reelection Tuesday night.
Kershaw County Voter Registration Director John Caughman reported moderate voter turnout for Tuesday's general election, as of early afternoon. Caughman said 2,983 absentee ballots had been cast by 5 p.m. Monday, but a few more were expected to arrive by mail or hand delivered Tuesday.
(Due to the Chronicle-Independent's error, the party affiliations for Kershaw County Probate Judge candidates Debbie Branham and David Reuwer were reversed in the print and original online versions of this story. The online story has been edited to correctly show that Branham is a Republican and Reuwer a Democrat. Furthermore, this story has been updated with new information noting that Reuwer has previously run for office in Sumter County. The C-I apologizes for and regrets the error.)
A former mayor and two political newcomers are vying for two seats on Camden City Council during Tuesday's general election. Deborah Davis, Jeffrey Graham and Bob Davis are the three names city of Camden voters will see on the ballot. They seek to fill seats being vacated by councilmen Walter Long and Willard Polk, who announced earlier this year that they are not seeking reelection.
Tuesday, voters will go to the polls to vote for their choice of candidates for a variety of offices ranging from governor to Camden City Council seats. Voters are also being given a chance to determine whether or not the Kershaw County School District (KCSD) should move ahead with a series of $130 million 20-year bond-funded facility projects and levy a 1-cent sales tax for 15 years to repay those bonds. In addition, voters will decide whether or not to lift a county-wide ban on Sunday alcohol sales.
The Republican and Democratic candidates for Kershaw County Council chairman and Kershaw County probate judge appeared at the third and final "Educated Voter Forum" on Thursday evening at Lugoff-Elgin High School. The event, sponsored by the Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce and Kershaw County Teacher Forum, saw the candidates answer both prepared questions and ones submitted by the audience.
Bill Haynes is not eligible to be a write-in candidate for the Kershaw County Council District 5 seat currently held by Councilman Jimmy Jones. Jones was unopposed until Haynes started asking for write-in votes.
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Robert Pattinson Won't Be at Rome Film Festival
Robert Pattinson hits the pavement in New York City on Monday morning (October 8).
The 26-year-old actor bundled up for the cool weather while making his way to some meetings.
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This big orchestral piece has a soothing relaxed feel to it, with nice big dramatic hollywood string lines. But there is an ambient electronic pulse going on and it subtly works on your stomach, giving you the feeling that something is not exactly allright. Thus the song creates tension and will make the footage more intense. It ends with a little bit more volume and tension with an underlying string spiccato theme.
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Quote:... I was however told tonight, by a staff member at the game, that Barton had stalled and that we remainded at EP for another year ...
You remembered right Ibozz, he def. said in an answer to my question about the timetable, that it all had to be agreed with Premiership Rugby by end march and for the audit to take place on the ground, the decision to move had to be made in the next 3 days i.e. by yesterday ! I thought it may have been announced last nt. but perhaps not in the eventual circumstances !!
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I also heard (but don't know if true) that the SSSC Committee have been shown around - but surely they would have reported back if they had...or perhaps they did and I missed it (apologies if so).
Rumour ... I feel I'm in good company just chucking something out there without really being bothered how true it is.
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I have been told today ,by someone who works at E P, that Sharks are going to Barton for next season. The only problem is how, we ,the supporters are to be told. With me it will be simple, all they have to do is say "we are going, goodbye".That will be 2 extra season tickets they will have to sell.I think I will use the savings to buy a subscription to ESPN so that I can watch Friday night rugby in the comfort of my own home!
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Marvellous. Looks more and more likely that the last game of the season will be my last game of supporting Sale Sharks live. Oh dear.
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I should have clarified above. While I don't know exactly what I want to do yet after graduation, I doubt I want something like BigLaw. I'd much rather do government, civil rights, or public interest work in D.C., so I think a no-debt option out of a D.C. school is probably the best.I wish I could find stats anywhere on the numbers of people who get GW ED.
I talked to GW's rep at the LSAC forum about it. I'm going to send you a PM just because my memory is fuzzy and I don't want to be posting inaccurate stuff here.


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Orlando Ballet has hired Mark Hough as the organization's new executive director. Hough, 54, replaces Juan Escalante, who resigned from the position in April 2011.
"We are very excited to have Mark join our family at the Orlando Ballet," said Robert Hill, Orlando Ballet's artistic director. "Mark has an amazing 20 year history of working with the greatest arts organizations in our country and helping bring them even greater success."


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Originally posted by timothyja View PostWhy are there still two projects surely the devs from these projects should get together and work on merging them into one project. Seems like a huge waste of effort to me.
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Hardware-accelerated Video Decoding
Video. Decode. Acceleration.
-This is the one issue that's enough to put me off from installing Ubuntu (or any Linux distro for that matter) on my family/friends/colleagues' computer as their main OS (sometimes I put Ubuntu as a second OS, though).
-And this is especially true for netbook/low-performance system (I myself currently have a 14" laptop with a 1.3GHz AMD E-300); it'll use a lot CPU power when playing Flash videos on YouTube, and will stutter badly with HD videos - putting multi-tasking out of question.
-Remember, video on the Web isn't just for entertainment purposes only - nowadays it's an essential medium to propagate information more effectively.
-Or, is there any way I can get hardware/GPU-accelerated decoding for H.264 videos on YouTube (and everywhere else)?
Thanks & regards,
P/S: This is my first post here after being just a 'lurker' for years.
Personally i find the pepper flash to be much more usable and stable. Playing the same flash game using firefox and the older flash version and google chrome and the pepper flash on older hardware with crappy integrated graphics i get a much smoother faster frame rate from pepper. You can also get pepper flash working without issue on chromium browser.
Originally posted by Musafir_86 View PostOr, is there any way I can get hardware/GPU-accelerated decoding for H.264 videos on YouTube (and everywhere else)?
Gnash uses ffmpeg and ffmpeg supports VDPAU and VA-API, so you can go with nvidia or intel.
For lightspark I have no idea.
//EDIT: Also AFAIK every video API can use another as its backend, so you should be able to go with nvidia, amd and intel (if you set it up correctly).Last edited by V10lator; 10-28-2012, 11:21 PM.
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I just installed the Gnash web plugin again, and the nice thing is that it will play the Flash only YouTube videos for me while leaving the rest to WebM. Ideal!
Originally posted by BO$$ View PostIt's a fucking insult. That's what it is. I have Ubuntu 12.10 with firefox 16.0.2 and the youtube player cannot create a large player. I only can use the small one or the fullscreen. Can't like open source take over and continue flash development? I don't understand why only google has the custom player in chrome? Why don't other browsers use it? I can't stand that chrome shit and like firefox, but the flash support is shit.
Google: The old NPAPI plugin architecture sucks. We want to replace it with a fancy new one we created, called Pepper.
Firefox: That's stupid. Browser plugins are dying out, we're trying to move everything into HTML5, and you want us to create a whole new architecture for plugins? Then we'd have to keep maintaining the old one for backwards compatibility as well. It'd be a mess, and take us backwards, not forwards. We're not going to do it. Good luck getting others to buy in to this idea.
Google: We're still doing it. Pepper is awesome.
Adobe: Thanks for that investment google. Oh, ah, yes - we're going to stop supporting NPAPI plugins in linux. We'll still do it in Windows and Mac, just not linux. But we're letting Google access our code so they can put out a Pepper version if they want.
Firefox: F***ing Adobe and Google. We're still not doing it. Nothing else but Flash on linux uses it.
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Hef's dad has been on a business trip for the past two and a half weeks, so to keep myself entertained I bought the complete set of Dr, Quinn, Medicine Woman. Man, it's a great show! Let me tell you I am one for a theme, which led to a big pot of hearty chicken and dumplings!
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So we're kind of starting to wind down this contest a little bit. We say "kind of" because we're actually a week or so behind, and we're going to make up for that before the end of the year.
Anyway, here we are again, with another $10 Google Play Gift Card to give away. It's one of 31 that we're awarding, and remember that all 31 winners -- one for each day in December -- will be entered to win a new Nexus 4, which is sitting here on our desk, unopened, waiting for a good home.
What hoop shall we have you jump through today? Hows about this: Name, in reverse chronological order, the last three smartphones you owned. If you've owned less than that, it's cool. Hell, we envy you a little bit. Just tell us what you've had. We'll pick a winner at random and bestow upon you $10 worth of free apps, music, movies, magazines or TV shows.
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Given our increasingly frequent discussions of the concept of "FAIR USE" in the art world, we at Supertouch thought now was a good time to reprint (using the article's creative commons license) "Fair Use it or Lose it…" one of our favorite pieces of writing on the subject. Written by MARJORIE HEINS and published on the website of nonprofit action agency FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting), the piece is an erudite discussion of the copyright and trademark issues crucial to the increasingly central "remix" culture that is a driving force in modern art and creative endeavors. HAVE A READ:
Copyright owners' threats erode free expression
By Marjorie Heins, Extra! May/June 2006
Tom Forsythe is an artist with a mission. In 1997, he created "Food Chain Barbie," photographs depicting the iconic doll interacting with various kitchen appliances. The results—"Malted Barbie" and "Barbie Enchiladas," among others—were intended, Forsythe said, "to critique the objectification of women associated with Barbie."
Barbie's manufacturer, Mattel, sued Forsythe for copyright and trademark infringement. Eventually, a federal court ruled for the artist, finding that "Food Chain Barbie" was protected as a "fair use" under both copyright and trademark law. The court explained that there are great public benefits to allowing critique of cultural icons. Letting Forsythe use Barbie's image encourages "the very creativity" that is at the heart of copyright law.
This was a success story for free expression, but it cost four years of bruising litigation. Most people threatened with suit cannot afford the risk, the cost and the stress. (Forsythe was helped by pro bono counsel recruited by the ACLU.) Often, they cave in to "cease-and-desist" letters or legal threats, even though they might have a legitimate fair use defense.
Fair use is an essential part of intellectual property (IP) law, which includes the law of copyright and trademark. It allows anyone to copy part—sometimes all—of a work without permission, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting and education. The copyright law lists four factors to be considered in evaluating a fair use claim: the purpose and character of the use; the nature of the copyrighted work; the amount and importance of what was copied; and the effect on the market for the copyrighted work. There are also fair use and First Amendment defenses in trademark law.
Collage, appropriation art, musical mash-ups and Web-based morphing—all integral to creativity today—depend on the fair use and free expression safeguards in IP law. Without them, owners could exercise absolute control over even a short quotation from a work they own—or a parody like "Food Chain Barbie." They could use this power to silence discourse, frustrate artistic creation, and censor commentary they didn't like, by refusing to grant permission for quotes or reproductions.
How much of this is actually happening? What do artists, bloggers and other contributors to culture know about fair use? How do they respond to threats from IP owners? These are some of the questions the Free Expression Policy Project, based at NYU Law School's Brennan Center, sought to answer in 2004 when we began research for Will Fair Use Survive?, a report published late last year. The report summarized phone interviews, focus group discussions, a survey that drew almost 300 responses and an analysis of 320 letters from IP owners that can be found on the website ChillingEffects.org.
At the start of our research, we identified several factors that seemed to threaten fair use. The first is the practice of sending cease-and-desist letters, alleging copyright and trademark infringement and threatening dire punishments, to everyone from artists and social critics to commercial competitors. The practice isn't new, but the volume of cease-and-desist letters has increased with the coming of the Internet, where copying is more visible and reaches larger audiences than ever before. The letters, needless to say, don't mention the possibility of fair use or other free expression defenses.
Even more troublesome are "take-down" notices sent by copyright owners to Internet service providers, which pressure them to censor their own subscribers. Under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), ISPs have a "safe harbor" from copyright liability if they "expeditiously" remove any material that a copyright owner tells them is infringing. No legal judgment of infringement is necessary.
Although the DMCA allows a subscriber to send a counter-notice contesting the accusation, the requirements of the counter-notice are technical, and not every Web speaker is a "subscriber" who can make use of the procedure. Those contributing to newsgroups, for example, may not even know their material has been removed in response to a take-down letter.
Another impediment to fair use is the "clearance culture." Many publishers expect their authors to get permission for all quotes and illustrations. Music companies, after the early days of hip-hop, established a practice of requiring permission for even the smallest sample. The free borrowing that was critical to rap music, just as it was to blues and jazz, was seen as a threat to the clearance culture.
Another aspect of the clearance culture are "errors and omissions" insurance policies that filmmakers need for commercial distribution. The policies require applicants to report whether they've received permission for every snippet of film, music or text that they've used, in addition to shots of products or even distinctive buildings. The application form makes no mention of fair use. Because independent filmmakers generally can't afford the permission fees, lots of great footage ends up on the cutting-room floor.
Our phone interviews, survey answers and focus groups yielded scores of stories reflecting confusion about fair use, pressures from industry gatekeepers not even to assert it, and chilling effects from cease-and-desist and take-down letters. Not everybody was intimidated, of course, and the stories of resistance are at least as instructive as those of acquiescence.
Among the people we interviewed, for example, were the creator of a parody New York Times corrections page, an editor at the Cape Cod Voice and a small entrepreneur using the term "Pet Friendly Travel" for her company. They received cease-and-desist letters from (respectively) the New York Times itself, the Village Voice and a company selling "pet friendly" chew toys. None of them acquiesced.
The people who answered our online survey ranged from an artist who made "Homeland Security" blankets to a fan fiction website owner who posted a story called "Gaelic Dreams" and received a cease-and-desist letter from the "Gaelic Dreams" import company. Dozens of historians expressed frustration with a clearance culture that allows the heirs of now-deceased artists and writers to control scholarly critique by denying permission to reprint artworks or text unless they vet the content beforehand.
Appropriation art is an obviously critical area for fair use. One participant in a focus group held at the College Art Association, painter Joy Garnett, draws inspiration from documentary photos. Unbeknownst to Garnett, one of the images she used, for a painting titled Molotov included in a 2004 show, was from a book published 30 years earlier by the photographer Susan Meiselas. Meiselas' attorney wrote a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Garnett sign over all rights to the painting.
Garnett's reaction was: "How could I ask her permission? Implicit in that would be that for every moment of my creative process, I would have to be concerned with finding the authors of these photographs, contacting them for permission and dealing with their attitudes about permission."
Concerned about a possible DMCA take-down letter, Garnett did remove the image from her website. But by the time she did, her online discussion group took her image and transformed it, much as she had transformed Meiselas' photograph. "Everyone started making digital collage based on the Molotov image. For the next five months, this image went global."
Many other stories emerged from our research. For example:
• Chick Publications sent a take-down notice asserting that a parody of its fundamentalist religious cartoons, "Cthulhu Chick Track," infringed its copyright. After notification from the ISP, the proprietor of the parody site deleted the artwork. A reader responded with surprise: "I thought that 'fair use' laws allowed the modification of copyrighted material for parody purposes."
• Bank of America sent a cease-and-desist letter to a small entrepreneur who makes ceramic piggy banks under the domain name www.piggybankofamerica.com. The piggy bank maker at first "panicked and felt helpless," but eventually found her way to Stanford's Cyberlaw Clinic. A law student wrote a well-researched reply, and Bank of America backed off.
• MasterCard sent a cease and desist letter to Attrition.org, which was spoofing its "Priceless" advertising campaign. Attrition replied that its parodies were fair use, then added a new one to the site: "Thumbing our nose at your pompous bullshit: PRICELESS. There are some things only hubris can buy. For everything else, there's Attrition."
Artists, scholars and others who contribute to culture are often confused about fair use. There is a serious need for community support and pro bono legal help. A substantial number (more than 20 percent) of cease-and-desist and take-down letters on the Chilling Effects site stated weak IP claims or involved speech with a strong free expression or fair use defense. The disconnect between the law and the claims made in many cease-and-desist or take-down letters is striking.
In part because fair use is risky, unpredictable and under pressure from the clearance culture, "copyleft" activists have looked for other ways of countering overzealous copyright control. One innovative alternative is Creative Commons, which provides sample licenses that copyright owners can use to allow copying of their works. Millions of Creative Commons licenses have been adopted, but they depend, of course, on the willingness of the owner. Fair use works on the opposite principle—that it should not cost money or require permission to make reasonable use of words and images that are part of our culture. Fair use is irreplaceable precisely because it doesn't depend on payment, procedures or permission. It needs to be defended, promoted and, most of all, used.
*This article is published under a Creative Commons license that allows anyone to republish it in its entirety, with attribution, for noncommercial purposes. For excerpts or commercial uses that are not covered by fair use, please contact the Free Expression Policy Project at www.fepproject.org.
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I read a few pieces of plotting advice in the last few weeks I wish I'd written. They're nothing new, nothing ground-breaking, and things countless writers have said before (including me), but the way they're said is sheer genius. They're probably the most applicable and easiest plotting tips I've ever heard.
Of course, me being me instantly thought about ways to apply them to my work and how to break them down into neat little examples. I've found no matter how awesome this advice is, it's also kinda easy to be led astray by it if you don't quite get it (like show, don't tell).
The first is a link from editor Cheryl Kline, who linked a video from a NY writing class where South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were talking about stories. The advice basically came down to this:
Every scene in your story is connected, and how you connect them will determine whether or not they're moving the story or just showing stuff happening. If you can say "and then" between the scenes, they're not advancing the story. If you can say "but" or "therefore" then something happens that forces a conflict or a decision and the story advances.
While the advice refers to full scenes, I think this can also be used on an action-by-action basis. It certainly allows you to see exactly how every action your character takes affects the narrative drive.
Let's look at that in practice, shall we?
The first scene of The Shifter has the protagonist, Nya, stealing eggs for breakfast. Using this model, I'd write it like:
Nya is stealing eggs for breakfast.Now, the next thing that happens is she gets caught.
Nya is stealing eggs for breakfast, but she gets caught.Notice the but there? She has a goal, but that goal is thwarted by someone else taking action against her. If this conflict hadn't occurred, it might look like this:
Nya is stealing eggs for breakfast. And then she leaves the chicken ranch and goes to eat her eggs.Two scenes, both with goals (which we all know a scene needs), but there's no conflict. That but is what signals and pinpoints the conflict. Without that, the plot isn't moving in a way that will hold a reader's interest.
The therefore is the choice the character makes that sets up the next goal and scene. X happens, but Y happens and now they have to do Z.
Let's see this play out a little longer:
Nya is stealing eggs for breakfast, but she gets caught. Therefore, she..Wait, what? See that and then in there. This is a moment where the plot can start to unravel, so we want to get a but and therefore in there fast.
Throws a chicken and runs, but the guard chases her. Therefore, she...
Tries to evade the guard, and then he trips and breaks his ankle.
Tries to evade the guard, and then he trips and breaks his ankle.See how the events feed off each other and Nya has to make choices and deal with unexpected things happening?
He tells her to run, but she stays behind to heal him. Therefore...
The rancher catches up to them and threatens them with a weapon, but...
Nya shifts pain into the rancher and escapes. But...
She's seen by two boys who will report her to the Healers' League and get her into trouble.
One thing that struck me as I was playing around with this, is that you really have to think about the goals and conflicts to make this work. Look how easy it would have been to say:
Nya tries to evade the guard, but he trips and breaks his ankle.Nya tries to act one way, but something else happens. On first glance it works because you have that but in there. Yet the guard tripping in no way impedes Nya's goal of evading him. It actually helps her, so it's not a conflict to her goal. It's not a but. It's her decision to stay and help him that keeps her from evading. It's the therefore that moves the story along after this occurs.
Some Key Things to Remember With This Technique:
- When you're identifying your but, make sure what happens is in conflict with the character's goal or action.
- When you're identifying your therefore, make sure it's a choice made in response to what has just happened.
- If the therefore doesn't work for you, try so. I found this clicked better for me and made it easier to see the "he does this so she does that" connections.
This slides nicely into the second post I read: Jami Gold's thoughts on if every scene needed a goal. It's a great breakdown of the scene and structure format, and she says something near the end that really clicked with me:He tells her to run, but she stays behind to heal him, so...
The rancher catches up to them and threatens them with a weapon
"When you're writing, don't worry about if a section is a scene or sequel. Think cause and effect, sentence-by-sentence, action to reaction, scene to scene, and you'll never go wrong."Cause and effect. This is but, therefore in another form. Every action has a cause and an effect, and as long as things are building off each other, you keep the story moving.
I think this is why that and then in the middle of my chicken scene works. The guard tripping doesn't impede Nya's goal, but it causes her to stop and his act of letting her goal affects her. She feels compassion for him, so she helps him, which causes conflict for her goal and ultimately gets her in more trouble. His action causes an effect on her and she acts because of it.
What These Tips Can Do For You
Your plot events will dictate how good your plot is, and even if you follow all the "rules" perfectly, it can still stink. Someone else can break all the rules yet their plot is gripping. This is why giving plotting advice is hard because it's so subjective--and why these tips strip away so much of the guesswork.
Because it comes down to cause and effect, but and therefore.
Something happens and the character has to react to how that something affects them. If it doesn't affect them it's pointless to the plot. If it doesn't force a decision, it's probably not moving the story or making the reader care what happens next.
Look at your plot and outline a scene using these techniques. Focus on what your protagonist actually does, not how they feel. Those feelings might be the motivators for the therefore or so connections, but they won't do much for the plot, because plot is what the character does, not how they feel.
List what they do, what happens, and what they do in response to that. If you find yourself writing a lot of and then, you know you don't have enough conflict and your character's goals aren't being thwarted. You don't actually have a plot, just a series of scenes.
But if you find a lot of but, therefore or so, then you can rest easy that you have a plot and it's driving the story.
How do your scenes hold up against this? Is there cause and effect in your scenes or are you missing goals or conflicts?
Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure, a series of self-guided workshops that help you turn your idea into a novel. It's also a great guide for revisions!
Janice Hardy is the founder of Fiction University, and the author of the teen fantasy trilogy The Healing Wars, where she tapped into her own dark side to create a world where healing was dangerous, and those with the best intentions often made the worst choices. Her novels include The Shifter, (Picked as one of the 10 Books All Young Georgians Should Read, 2014) Blue Fire, and Darkfall from Balzer+Bray/Harper Collins. The first book in her Foundations of Fiction series, Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure is out now.
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