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>> it was a small airport in the 20s in the military can establish trade days during the second world war. originally the army air corp. became the u.s. air force and it was a very act of days at quite an attribute yuma until after the second world war admitted that close and everybody laughed. they were not at war anymore and it was that they didn't eat it anymore. same thing with the proving ground. the little tab about 9000 population that was dwindling because there is no construction going. tourism had not been established yet it's an interesting page for yuma. the town has not a very bright future. so the population that doesn't dwindling, junior chamber of commerce said something had to be done to try to get dear priests reactivated.

there were some men go into a chamber of commerce can mention in parker, arizona, 80 miles to hear, the members of chamber of commerce. one of them with local radio stations is always trying to think of things to do. two of the nano of an enduring fight in southern california. two men tried to stay aloft to break a world record. a couple of things that i know that. we could do that. ray smucker said we could show the whole world unite has good flying weather every day. the return of the flight dementia, they would get to military interesting repack to you the air force. that's had the idea was born. one of the men in the car was an ex-navy pilot said that's a good

idea. you find an airplane and we will fire. or a script the owner of the agency here and he didn't feel he could take the time away from the business. they were trying to think of another pilot and i thought of bob would pass any new would be very well that was my brother. so for that reason he became one of the two pilots. it was fun to them -- as long to them by partners of the tripoli company. this new, took out the back seats in the right-hand seat and put a and for the off-duty pilot. they took four hours each of the off-duty pilot could then sleep or exercise or do some of the chores involved with gasoline and oil.

so they practiced and figured out how to handle refueling and stay aloft for weeks and weeks, which they did. they first took off in may of 49 and has had trouble after two or three days. then in august, they tried again and stayed several days and had another major problem. people said you're not going to try to -- yes, will worth school. so it took parts and repairs done for the airplane, but then they took off on the 24th of august and they never touched the ground at the 10th of october. they went to phoenix a couple times on an errand. they went over to san diego and checked out the beach is a couple times, but they locally most of the time, except one night when my brother was taking

a nap and he kind of does have it went down at new mexico before realized what was going on. our bosses have are required. you're the pilot. the revealing was pretty interesting. a friend of our family name toward murdoch who may later married on a buick convertible, have bought it for $2000 its impact is so that the car and airplane to see how the refueling might work and it turned out, they took some cream cans from a dairy and wired a handle on to appear the off-duty pilot on the rate could reach down and hear things went down the runway in the abandoned air

base, whatever direction they wanted to go. the crew at hand at the gasoline and off-duty with pilot would reach it up and maybe for cans during the run would do more and more run until they had enough to last about 12 hours later. later in the end of the flight the wee hours of the morning because the engine was getting tired and they didn't want too much weight in the airplane and a change that. as they made a second front, the off-duty pilot for the gasoline from the two in-house talent can to a research can install it and take up food and equipment and

clothing and kicked or whatever direction they wanted to because i think of a status 500 acres of asphalt abandoned. the crew is all volunteer. meals were prepared by a local restaurant and delivered to the airport by the police. there was into paid our involved in the whole project. the spirit of yuma was involved. in the pettis blink their lights at night, converse via morse code with their friends ground, every little lady in town but they were thinking that her inner porch light. they were the heroes of the day. they started getting national attention as they neared breaking the record there is a program called news of the world radio and he got involved at the time they broke the record. arizona radio carried it all the

time i got involved in the slave. they had a new service they received clippings from 32 different countries. so they literally cut worldwide attention. when they broke the record, the lights when out. everything turned off. i missed all of that because i was away at school. in the actual record was broken, every siren in train was going, churchwell and car horn and taxis, everything made noise. it was pretty exciting. the parade and celebration in the city. they didn't complain about anything. people asked if they reported they said no, there is enough to do. they somehow didn't complain about anything and evicted the

wives complain. they both have jobs and yet they were out there for all the refueling. they took a really well. they had a pretty good diet plan, but they lost a few pounds and they were thin, not overweight. so that was not serious, but it did happen. >> what ended up happening to the base? >> it reopened and became so active and not beefier marine pilot trained right here and commanding officers gave great deal of credit to the publicity the flights brought to bring the airbase back of a prudent rounds reopened. the city went from 9000 to 110, probably more than that. >> would have been to point? >> unfortunately, it was sold.

nobody knows when the world the city of yuma let the airplane getaway, but it did. my dear friend, jim glaspie who was the co-author of the book with me decided to trace down to the faa and went to the records of 19 different honors. about 50 years. they're in advance of the 50th anniversary. they found the airplane in minnesota by a farmer. he floats to the non-lakes. the chamber of commerce got involved and purchased it from the man. he was willing to sell it because he realized it is important by that time. so they went there in a u-haul truck, brought it back and had two years restoring to its original condition. it's been in the storage room for years without a home. before he was select good is that i'm going to find a home and eventually it was arranged

to be put here in city hall. my husband and i decided to let the city used the car. we found that carly refueling car. it's about 1500 quick starts and stops was totally worn out. eventually my husband and i found another part of the same model and restart it back to the same color and have owned it indefinitely to the city. >> what do you think would've happened to the city of yuma if the pilot had gotten in that plan? >> it probably would've struggled along. eventually, to refund what has become a matter of entries. certainly nothing like happened with the military. the pilots were like our astronauts. it was a big deal it made a huge difference in the future of yuma.

>> took a tour of the corner bookshop. we took a tour with the owner, jean chism. she talks about keeping it to store opened and the struggling economy. you know has the highest unemployment rate at about 26%. >> my name is jean chism. and the owner of the corner bookshop in yuma, arizona. i've always like to read ever since i was a child and i like to talk to people about it and they'll ask my opinion. not all of them, but a lot of things that needed new out there. so i read a lot so i can say tony hellerman is like james dallas. so i have to read a lot so i can say who wants them? and i know. >> what are the challenges to owning a bookstore?

>> try to keep the stock moving. it's trying to keep everything easy to find and keep up with what's nailed and rated right now. mostly trying to get my story to the public so they know i'm here. you know, i've been open 18 years. ip public comment and say i didn't know you were there. this year has been our first year. we don't probably half what we did last year in sales. so it's really a struggle. i know one of the other used book stores in town is closing because they couldn't make it. one downtown closed because they couldn't make it. and i'm really not making that,

but i might move to a smaller place, but i won't close. but that's a struggle right now. >> you have a plan in place? >> no, not really. i have lots of loyal customers, so i don't want to just close and lay them out there. but if i move into a smaller place, i might be able to maintain it. i've had a lot of wonder visitors coming in a local farm where we are from, local bookshop had to close. i've had to retreat to live in san diego when they come out the way here because they don't have anything in san diego anymore. am sure they are, but they don't know where they're at. the e.u. readers are so new. new gadgets are always popular, but i've had a couple of people say, you know, i can come and

get them cheaper than online on the e.u. reader. they can always find the series they are reading. hopefully some of the readers will become disenchanted and come back. >> coming up next, they look at "one book yuma," sponsored by the yuma sun and yuma public library created to engage the community and dialogue about issues important to the region of the world carried booktv learned about in our recent book contributed to yuma, california. >> as you may know, nancy pearl who was the library and in the late 90s and early 2000 started a program hit the state

library started when the arizona, so we piggyback on that idea. we started in 2003 and that was an initiative of the yuma sun. the next year we were just sort of talking about, what is that we really want to do with this program and with community partners can we bring in and really make this successful? the yuma sun newspaper and county library partnered productively brought on board the arizona western college library, northern arizona university library and the arizona western office of diversity. we had a lot of input from the community college with the high schools to ask what kinds of programs they were looking for what they thought their teachers and students would a lucky man. he took another gear to bring that together. which formally 2004 with the devil's highway.

very understanding that was our first year doing it the program up and authoring was wonderful to work with. >> i've been with the yuma sun for five years and every year we get a positive response. the main point of contact for people here for the program. i never get complaints. so is binary to a nice, how are you doing this? this is a great book. i appreciate you doing that. a lot comes to the people who read the book because you get a chance to meet the authors. when you read a book you like come you never get the chance. the program brings that to people and they're very excited about it. >> is gone for filling the room to have enough room. and not since last two years. the >> he came for two days in three events people at the college, main library and kind of a

special event friday morning. the first since the book was narrated by a dog, we wanted to bring in an animal aspect and we had the humane society and everyone was out on the lawn. they sign their book and got to learn a little bit about the resources. the norwalk community q&a find the boat and i think people really enjoyed it. >> we try to choose books classical to her community, either hot political topics or something on our community to relate to. immigration, economy, illegal immigration and right down to our last spoke regarding the facility. we usually have a lot of response that way. >> we set up a website here and every year when we have a book

selected, we update the book, title, link. this is overdoing the planing on doing. as we said at the time, our ads are small, but they have the website. we put the website on our page. >> just to get as many people as possible to read the same book and come together and discuss it. one of the things we've talked about is how often have you read a great book or article and you don't have anything to talk to you about it and knew it to bounce ideas off each other or find out other people thought about it and not part of the event is interesting when people asked her questions and inevitably someone says he so my question. i was going to have that, too. it's great to see people talk about what the interpreter from a book in here with the author -- what their intentions actually were. >> because she was in your book

for next year? >> is still open. if you have any suggestions you can send them to transcend them. >> we continue with an interview in the process of government procurement and effects on taxpayers. tv sat down with worried rain, author of "puchasing wars." >> government procurement is the broadening way gives you everything purchased with public funds. public funds are essentially taxpayer money. as soon as taxpayer money becomes involved with any purchase, then entire entity becomes subject to a series of rules and regulations, which assert they won't go deeply into, but enough to make life difficult for many people participating in that.

so in many cases your private agencies, for example. agencies that assist the homeless or maybe making senior centers and so on and so forth that may apply for grants. as soon as public funds are granted to that agency, everything changes and everything they purchase becomes governmental public chairman. and then there's regular ones that are 100% financed with taxpayer money, like cities and counties and police departments and services for the homeless and the aging and every kind of public service you can think of that are also entirely public funds and because of that, subject to obvious governmental procurement regulations.

invariably, they stem from one of two sources. the federal government, which has a number of very stringent rules, depending which department you are dealing with and state governments. almost all state governments have very specific statutes dedicated to the definitions of what you may do and may not be permitted to do when you're buying stock from public funds. >> the ni gps put out numerous papers on why it is improper and poor government policy to have what is called preferences. preferences are essentially the process of awarding a contract to a proposer were bitter who is

not the top scorer for the top price you're looking for. many states do that. many cities do that. the europe has done it, saying you must award a contract to a resident or your company and certain areas. the entire state of kentucky says if you award a contract for the purchase of coal, you must award it to a kentucky come to me. that's really, really bad business. but if it's a very short version on why. if everybody did that, we would stop all commerce in america. it would be as if we had 10,000 little fight terms, each arguing his home in a position and excluding everybody else.

furthermore, you don't get good competition. your prices go down the toilet as soon as you start having preferences. nevertheless, citizens will preferences in some places have receded to those demands. others haven't. the state of oregon gives a 5% preference to companies that recycle a certain amount of things. so if you're purchasing office supplies are specifically paper, paper is a biggie. agencies use five, $10 million worth of paper every year. a local company with 85% preference. that means that a state within a

state. what that means if a company in california bid, let's say $10 million research paper project and an oregon bid $10 million per event $10.1 million, the company would still win because you had 5% to the california bid or subtract 5% in the oregon bid me come up with a lower number. there is considerable consternation in the city of yuma over preferences for local bidders. not just one type of commodity, which is far more common. new york want papa to be bought and oregon actually has another preference for government

printing. all government printing has to be done by an oregon based company. so yuma had no preferences. as far as i know, there are no preference is in the arizona statutes. until last year, when there was almost a year's worth of argument in the city council about having preferences. i was sorely tempted to stand up in front of them and tell them what a bunch of idiots they really are. but i was actually afraid to do that because i was afraid i might lose my tongue for and say something really. and besides nih, it's easier for me to let things go where they come out. after considerable argument for providing what are called local

preferences, that is a preference of some kind for all commodities, whatever is being purchased for people within a certain boundary. they decided to award a preference aside% for all bidders for commodities only. for example, not construction and not services. within the city of yuma. finally, that settled down and i think it's very came to rest. even that is a big problem. 60 miles on the other side of the california border would have another large city called oliphant show them they compete regularly and her purchases.

south down to the border, five miles away, we have a town called st. louis. fairly big town. they have people there and they weren't too happy either. on and on. but even here in this area, when you start giving preferences to somebody, you open a can of worms, which once it's up and you can never get it closed again. >> now for my recent visit with time warner cable, we hear from step two, whose book "post-revolutionary chicana literature" talks about women and literature in the unique role they play. >> and leave writers historically are invested in the day to day lives of real people

in real places. for example, anna garcia with texas governor many, many texas women writers are embracing the sense of place that is part of identity. i think of other administrators i work with, vicky ferdinand or anybody like that, some time a criticism that could be made if there's an immediate sense of wanting to be a global sisterhood against the man, but then they get away from the day-to-day life. writers in particular are about addressing the day to day life as a place of strength to do with the larger picture. one of the most important is the sense of empowerment that what has to be said is significant, whether it's watching your

grandmother made tamales, which is typical, two stories about guadalupe. it's empowerment, but also a connection with both the sense of self creating an identity that is yours, but also familiarity in connection with the family and many to many to come to us all the way to the distant past 19th century. oddly enough i think instead of looking inside ourselves as a philosophical and, frequently in america we are simply selfish. it's not really learning about ourselves to become a better part of humanity's former connected without which raised us. it is i, i need. so those voices that intersection for the purpose of looking outward in annotating something young ourselves, two

of the texts i read about republished an innate demand is in their full form. chicana writers have been looking back at those in recognizing a pattern in the onward they cannot see, how do people make everything is so against some in the right to vote and they see their grandmothers, grandfathers, great grandmothers how would need a possible for the writers to exist. factor up in san antonio, a very different place for your average mexican american female in this country cannot be frank. to tell a mutagenic studies, san antonio is very much a mexican-american stronghold. i thought of myself is mexican. my spanglish was what was

spoken. when i moved up there, was going to work on shakespeare, french poets and the culture shock was so great they really retreated into my cell phone introduced to the borderlands. i recognized in myself, trying to negotiate two lives. it is very articulate, good english, good enough to go to iowa, but there is also strange books. we did not book single-handedly led me onto this pad and trying to spend through that book is enlightening and thankfully for me i got over that phrase. it became something empowering. i think it's easy to say she,, chicano movement so it's all about the 60s.

as a nation we're pouring our history, so i want people to realize when they explore in any depth of things they are passionate about, they find connections they may not expect and i want them to be open to the joy of finding and also the knowledge and introspection that should bring. you really need to think about where we came from and why we are here. >> here's a look at fairs and festivals happening around the country.

>> mr. maas, what happened in minneapolis in 1999? >> i start to poke at that

meeting because it's so an army needs of the industry's attitude and strategies. 1999, the obesity epidemic is beginning to emerge and raise concerns among this and people inside the processed food industry. they gathered together for a very rare meeting. some of the top manufacturers in north america who got together at the minneapolis headquarters to talk about none other then this emerging crisis for the industry. up in front, none other than that of their own. michael mudd was the vice president of craft. he was armed with 114 slides and laid out the seat of the ceos and presidents of artistry companies responsibility for not

only the obesity crisis, but the rising cases of diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease. he even blinked their foods with several cancers. he pleaded with them to collect really start doing something on behalf of consumers. the competition inside the food industry. iraq to the grocery store and so tranquil, soft music buying, but behind the scenes is intensely competitive. the only way to move the industry towards a healthier profile would be to get them collect me to do something. >> from his vantage point it was an utter failure. this cd has reacted defensively. they said we are already offering people choices. if they really want that, they

can buy those alternative products. we are beholden both consumers and our own shareholders. they left the meeting going back to what they are doing and had deep reliance on salt, sugar and fat. >> and most of at what people call ultra processed foods. even a baby carrot can be defined as a processed food because it doesn't grow that way in the ground. typically for my sense, processed foods are those that take ingredients and highly refined them, highly processed them. before it was irate write about are incredibly dependent on salt, sugar and fat. it's not a mystery. you can pick up the legal and

see things to some government regulation we have, you can see the amounts of salt, sugar fat in these items and a fixture at mary. just how reliant on these ingredients. for convenience because they can act as preservatives and also low cost because they can hope the industry avoid using more costly ingredients like fresh herbs and spices.

>> patricia aufderheide is the author of said 676 -- "reclaiming fair use." what is fair use? >> various estimates use other materials without permission or payment center circumstances. >> where that term come from click >> it's been part of common law since 1841 and part of the copyright act 1976. >> what is an example of fair use today? >> fair use is done students everywhere when they quote a

scholar or encyclopedia wikipedia a ready source of the paper. they get this as a result of fair use. journalists do it every day when they see the report at this. variable to use material copyrighted. >> because they source their? >> now, the first thing that's not to do is fair use although it's always a polite to do to give credit to people. as many examples where you would never need to give credit to be within the copyright law. so you would make people upset if he didn't frequently. any kind of collage that an artist makes uses materials from lots of different places and doesn't necessarily friday. documentarians use copyrighted material inevitably all the way through their work because the world we live in is largely

copyrighted at this point, due to the fact since 1976 copyright is default. did she make any notes for this interview? >> sure. >> air copyrighted 70 years after your death. >> wide click >> copyright default. terms of the next senator manically. fair use is so important these days precisely because our little world is actually copyrighted. there are very few exceptions. something has to be produced before 1923 or it has to be produced by an employee of the federal government exclusively without any additions from other people, which often have been. only the federal government, not the state or local government, and many states and localities copyright their own documents.

so understanding the needs people material that's copyrighted to quote from it, to refer to it, to produce them a new to access it for a different purpose, that would all be suddenly more important to this generation than ever before. not only because of her wonderful digital tools, but because all that stuff belongs to somebody else now. >> how has youtube effect sales? >> there uses exactly the same as it has been. in terms of people's practice, what you see with youtube, photoshop, and it's a digital tools we now have to set it easier technically than ever before to copy.

a couple consequences of that. number one, is an anxiety producing for copyright holders of people who copy their work than ever before. it's a fundamental difference between somebody copying your work so they don't have to pay you and they can just use it for free. that would be stealing. uncommon understanding and under the law. somebody accessing your work survey can make something new or repurpose it for a completely different purpose in your market purposes. i want to hear the latest beyoncé song and i don't want to pay for it, so i'll just download it. that is illegal. but i want to explore the latest video, a french choreographer

said you used my choreography moving your video and you didn't credit. the choreographer was making a copyright charge. she was like many people more concerned about the credit. the choreographer said he used my move and didn't credit them. is that true? do you believe that? him at once take a section the video that demonstrates a move and compare that to record a choreography of the french choreographer and family website and examining this you know both of these examples. you don't have to pay beyoncé. you are repurpose in a section of her work, using the appropriate amount and doing something different with it than just playing her music because you want everybody to hear her music and you really love it.

>> interview, is that french correct in calling up beyoncé? >> from a legal give, she may not have had the grounds. i'm proud to have written this book with my colleague who teaches at our school and is a legal scholar and between the two of us, the person who can speak authoritatively on the law. what i think about his custom impact is and with the low commonly permit in the application of fair use as communities of practice have defined fair use. so was the french choreographer right? it probably doesn't matter for my example because my example is you have the right to use beyoncé's work. the french choreographer might be making french saws.

the fact that she raised this point creates a moment when i want to say something about beyoncé and i don't want us to figure out who are each in his to do this, but i have the right to make that comment. the law is designed to encourage me anyway can to make new culture. the lost its empire poker perpetually perky fiji make new culture, you can have monopoly rights over for a while. then as he made an interview, you can have them for a while. you can have them for as long while. you can have them for 70 years after you are dead. but if business were available to me elsewhere and i wanted to say, look at the questions i've been asked by television interviewer, first as a kind of questions i would ask in an e-mail by a print reporter.

i want to compare the two. i would have the right to take your copyrighted work in order to make that comparison because that be making a comment that had nothing to do with the purpose of the original work. >> for him did you write this book? >> i wrote that book for you and other people who just want in their ordinary day to make new culture and whatever they are doing. you might be an amateur musician. he might be wanting to upload a video where children might want to say there are people if i'm going to make this. if accurate the school and chabot as well as scholars, teachers, librarians.

the work we've done with 10 communities of this, including journalists can't, documentarians, filmmakers come to k-12 teachers mostly middle-school teachers, college professors and people who make open courseware for higher education. we worked with them in other groups to help them clarified how they can use their use to get their work done. and as they say, it's a relatively new problem in the world since before 1976 it was like a no-brainer to access other people's culture. >> would have been in 1976? >> the law was changed and as a result of the great enthusiasm the large corporate coffee holders to extend the government

and extended the length of the copyright term and by making copyright default. in other words copyright in our world. >> if in this book you had written about mickey mouse and how he's drawn and put an image in here. but that it can? >> what i would've asked myself these two questions. this is what we discussed in the book. i would have to say, why am i referring to mickey mouse? i can say anything without advocating fair use. but we want to quote some thing cited lots of movies. he talks like this. when he was -- three years later he sounded like that. i might not only want to put a picture of him in. i might want to actually put video clips into the e-book version of this book. then i would have to say, what

do i want to do that's different than enjoyed the movie that he send? that's right, making a comment about his historical significance, the treatment of nice or whatever i'm going to say about that. for the walt disney has played in copyright as a stakeholder for the rebate disney as a company has historically taken work in the public domain such as folklore and turned it into a corporate product. cordoning specific work of disney. i might want to show a picture of snow white along with the grimm brothers. then i would have the right to make all of those references in so far as i'm doing something different and just enjoying the folktale and the movie.

i am not taking any ways enjoyment of the movie. nobody's going to read my book and say i'll never need to watch snow white in the same and worse because i got it because i making a reference appropriate to the needs i have and i've included that much. is it transforming a quick stats of magic where the lawyer has used. transformative means for some other purpose than the market purpose on the market for. the second question is then used in enough within a day. their questions to ask and they shouldn't be had started. they can be something that kindergarten teachers can do. kindergarten teachers are in a situation every day, where their children when they scribble on pieces of papers are copyrighted work. they sometimes want to put the work. do they have to ask these

children's parents for copyright permission? no, they don't because they have -- if they put that work on the website for the school, they have an argument here recontextualizing these children's work in contrast with each other and duties in order to demonstrate something about the capacity of five euros. >> is fair use stealing intellectual property?