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A Tired Argument Over Software Patents Is Holding Up Common-Sense Reforms
In December, over 3,000 of you rallied in support in support of a proposed Department of Education (ED) policy that would make ED-funded educational resources a lot more accessible to educators and students around the world.
You weren't the only ones: the Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, the Software Freedom Conservancy, and numerous other pro-user groups spoke up. Together, we all sent a loud message: Team Internet believes in freely licensed educational materials.
Browsing through all 147 comments, a pattern quickly emerges. Open web advocates, open education groups, and many education professionals all support the idea of ED-funded resources being shared widely under open licenses (though we might quibble on a few specific details). One group kept confusing us, though: universities. Why were some universities opposing a rule that would directly benefit their students and faculty?
When you dig a bit deeper, it looks like universities' opposition to open licensing has nothing to do with students' access to educational resources. What's really playing out is a longstanding fight over how universities use patents—more specifically, software patents. Open education just happens to be caught in the crossfire.
Open Licensing Mandates Make Sense
Under ED's proposed policy, those who receive grants from ED would be required to share the educational resources they create under an open license. If ED funds your work, you must share it under a license that allows anyone to use, edit, and redistribute it. The proposal doesn't name a specific license, but the wording is clearly referring to the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), which most people consider the standard for open educational resources. For software, the license would also have to let people access and modify the source code.
The proposal is a huge step in the right direction. The Executive Branch funds billions of dollars' worth of copyrighted content through various departmental grant programs. Those grants are intended to benefit the public, but most of the public rarely even sees the results, let alone uses them. We'd love to see the proposed policy become a model for similar rules at other government agencies or even an across-the-board federal mandate.
The proposed policy also doesn't disadvantage grantees as much you might think. In the notice, the Department of Education pointed out that relatively few grantees sell or license their grant-funded materials to third parties. It could even give an additional benefit to the grantees that do sell their educational materials: the rule change would provide them with a selection of openly licensed educational works to supplement their own (the majority of which aren't commercially available elsewhere).
The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public Land-grant Universities, the Association of University Technology Managers, and the Council on Governmental Relations published a statement in opposition to the rule change, and a handful of schools have recycled their talking points.
As Lindsey Tepe points out in Forbes, the comments reflect a divide within colleges. Many universities' leadership opposes the rule change, but university research libraries almost unanimously support it. It makes us wonder whether schools are getting advice from the right people on campus.
Software Patents Ruin Everything
The AAU statement questions "whether the Department has the legal authority under 35 USC 212 to issue a requirement to openly license all computer software source code developed with grant funds." This is a reference to a law enacted in 1980, commonly known as the Bayh-Dole Act. Before Bayh-Dole, universities couldn't apply for patents for inventions created using federal funding; instead, the government itself was responsible for patenting federally funded inventions [.pdf]; when it did so, it would only let others use them under nonexclusive licenses.
After Bayh-Dole, a whole industry of university tech transfer offices began to appear. Each tech transfer program has its own policies—some are more flexible and friendly to the inventors' wishes than others—but they all ostensibly exist to sell or license faculty inventions to third parties. Some of them also assert their patents directly, as the University of Wisconsin-Madison did in its recent suit against Apple.
It's important to note here that the ED proposal doesn't touch patents at all. Since the proposal covers software, it's possible that grantees might want to apply for patents for a few of the works covered under the policy. But there's nothing in the proposal to stop them from doing that: not every open source license that would comply with the policy requires that creators give up patent assertion rights.
It's not surprising—though it is disappointing—to see lobbying organizations representing tech transfer opposing open education policies. Those same organizations have been familiar names in the patent debate for a long time, working against reforms that would limit patent owners' ability to bring frivolous lawsuits against innovators.
In essence, their stance has been that any reform that makes patent litigation less lucrative for plaintiffs will also curb universities' ability to monetize their patents. They don't say this, but history would suggest that they're interested in protecting the value of software patents for whoever the highest bidder is, even if that's an unsavory entity.
Though universities tout technology transfer as a way to fund further education and research, the reality is that the majority of tech transfer offices lose money for their schools. At most universities, the tech transfer office locks up knowledge and innovation, further expands the administration (in a sector that has seen massive growth in administrative jobs while academic hiring remains flat), and then loses money.
Here's the underlying problem: again and again, university tech transfer offices want to have it both ways. They insist that their directive isn't to make money; it's to use the market to bring their inventions to the world quickly and at scale. But they—or the lobbyists representing them—oppose the very reforms that would stimulate innovation, not slow it down. These reforms are aimed squarely at patent trolls, companies that exist for no other purpose than to amass patents and use them to demand money from innovators. University opposition is particularly frustrating given that it is purportedly on behalf of offices that are a net loss for most schools.
Does Your School Speak for You?
Let's return to the Department of Education policy. We don't think that a challenge to it under Bayh-Dole would be successful. The proposed rule doesn't take away any of schools' current rights under the law.
There is a potential risk that grantees could patent an ED-funded piece of software, share it under an open license, and then assert the patent against licensees, essentially creating a trap for licensees. ED could help solve that problem by requiring that the university include a disclosure of any relevant patents alongside the license.
Realistically, though, we're talking about very rare cases here. The vast majority of works that ED funds aren't (and shouldn't be) patentable. It's frustrating that software patents are the issue that's holding up a common-sense policy change.
On the other hand, this argument will continue to come up every time we talk about open licensing mandates for publicly funded works—including, hopefully, ones in departments that fund a lot more tech than ED does. Let's get it right this time.
The public should be free to use publicly funded works without copyright, software patents, or any other entanglements getting in the way. A strong open licensing policy at ED—without any sort of carveout for software—will set the right standard for future Executive Branch licensing mandates.
When schools consistently oppose policies that stimulate open access and innovation—and when the drivers of that opposition contribute very little to those schools' academic lives or financial sustainability—students and faculty should start asking why.


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You're a developer and you want to learn Ansible. You're feeling anxious because everyone is talking about it, but you barely know how to list a directory in Linux! Don't worry, because I am here to show you how to use your developer skills to learn Ansible and create some DevOps magic with a little help from Ansible Galaxy.
You've learned all the basics of Ansible, but say to yourself: what are the patterns? How do I use Ansible on a regular basis? How can I handle common tasks? I'm a newbie to Linux, where do I start…?
Quoting from the official Ansible Galaxy documentation:
Ansible Galaxy is Ansible's official community hub for sharing Ansible roles. A role is the Ansible way of bundling automation content and making it reusable.Reusable. That's the word IT people always (or should) care about. Roles in Ansible are a great way to reuse tasks that you always have to do when provisioning environments. I won't go into "how to create a role" in this article, but if you're interested, please take a look at the official docs for any questions you may have.
Instead, I'd like to bring your attention to Ansible Galaxy and how you can both reuse the community's work and contribute to it, while learning something great. Think of Galaxy as the GitHub for Ansible roles. There, you'll find a wide variety of existing roles you can use to orchestrate your playbooks to do anything you need.
Ansible Galaxy can help you:
learn by example looking at the code other people have written and;
develop great playbooks by orchestrating roles that have been created by the community.
As an example, let's take a look at a project I'm working on. Here, we are provisioning an environment to set up an ALM process. For that, I need to provision three servers: Jenkins for CI/CD, SonarSource for quality analysis and Nexus as an artifact repository.
Manually provisioning all three servers would require a lot of generic work that may take a lot of time and would not be easily repeatable in the future. We don't have that time, right? Take a deep breath, grab a cup of coffee and come learn with me.
Define what you need to do
First things first, map out everything you need to provision: a CentOS machine? NodeJs? Java? PHP? What else? What are the application's requirements? Try to be as detailed as you can. Take your time to plan, you will save time in the end.
For this project, I need the aforementioned three servers: Jenkins, SonarSource and Nexus. At the same time, we need everything those services rely on: database server, JVM, web server, etc. All of these I know Ansible can provision for me.
Prepare your environment
Start by installing Ansible. After that, make sure Ansible Galaxy is on your path:
$ ansible-galaxy --version
You should see output like this:
ansible-galaxy 126.96.36.199 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = Default w/o overrides python version = 2.7.13 (default, Jun 26 2017, 10:20:05) [GCC 7.1.1 20170622 (Red Hat 7.1.1-3)]
Now configure your ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH. This path is where Ansible Galaxy will save every role you install and where Ansible will look when resolving the imports from your playbook. The default path is /etc/ansible/roles. Make sure that the user installing the roles has write permissions on the directory. If you're running on your own machine, make it yours:
$ sudo chown -R myuser:myuser /etc/ansible/roles
Then you should work on a virtual machine environment. For that, you could use Vagrant on top of libvirt.
And that's it! You should have your environment set. For more detailed information about Ansible Galaxy installation and configuration, please check the docs.
Looking for roles that you need
Now that you have a plan and Ansible Galaxy configured in your environment, let's search for the roles that we need to compose our playbook. This will allow us to provision all the three servers at once in a repeatable and reproducible way.
Remember, all you need to do is bring the required roles from the Galaxy repository and run them in an orchestrated fashion to accomplish what you need.
There are three ways to search for roles:
1 - Ansible Galaxy command line
$ ansible-galaxy search *jenkins*
You'll see a list of roles filtered on the name you provide as an argument. It's a simple and straightforward way to look for a role, but this is not my preferable method. The reason is that this list only provides the name and a short description for the role. It may be enough if what you are looking for isn't popular, but like the example above, Jenkins will return a lot of options. How do you decide which to choose?
2 - Ansible Galaxy Web UI Search.
Go to the Ansible Galaxy website and start exploring or browsing for a role. Let's use the same example as above and search for Jenkins. Click on "Browse Roles" and type "Jenkins" as the keyword (or just click here). You'll see a nice interface and a sort function drop-down next to the keyword box. By selecting "Stargazers", you can filter the most relevant and upvoted roles by the community. Most of the time it's best to take the one with most stars or the one from the official vendor. For this example, the chosen role will be the Jeff Geerling one.
3 - Google it.
The mindset here is the same as #2, but now you may hit the GitHub repository instead of the Ansible Galaxy page. Note: it's almost the same thing. Every Ansible Galaxy project is backed by a GitHub project. So, guess what? It's open and you may contribute to them.
Now that we have our role(s) we can move forward and start using them.
Read the docs, explore their code
To get started read all available documentation provided by the project and pay close attention to the available extension points. Extension points are variables you can set to get the role to do what you need. A good example of this is Jeff Geerling's Java role.
In this role, you can set the Java version you want to be installed by setting the java_packages variable.
Go ahead and install the role in your machine:
$ ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.jenkins
You have to have an internet connection so Ansible can connect to the repository and download the role plus all the dependencies it needs. After the installation process, check that the role is installed on your system:
$ ansible-galaxy list
You should see the Jenkins role, including the version, and all the other dependencies it needs. Ansible Galaxy works like many others package managers: it makes things easy by downloading all other required dependencies. Remember the Ansible Role path we set in step #2? If you list the directory and you will see all of the available roles on your system.
If you want to understand what the role really does, start by exploring $ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH/roles/geerlingguy.jenkins/tasks/main.yml.
The 'tasks/main.yml' is the typical starting point of a role and allows you to see what's going on. Try to understand their code and figure out how the steps fit together. It's a very nice exercise to learn by example and to absorb concepts which are difficult to convey in books or manuals.
Once you are comfortable with their code, explore the other dependencies so you understand how the pieces work together to make the role awesome.
Test it
It's time to enter the arena and put some bytes to work for you. First, you have to create a project, so start small. In a new directory, create a tree like this one:
├── project.yml ├── group_vars │ ├── all.yml ├── inventory.ini ├── meta │ └── main.yml ├── requirements.yml
Let's describe each file:
1 - project.yml: this will be the starting point of your project, you can rename it as you please. To start using the role we just installed, open the file and add:
- name: Deploy Jenkins CI hosts: jenkins_server remote_user: the_user become: yes roles: - geerlingguy.jenkins
Here, we are creating a task to just run the role. You give it a name, define a host and set the user which will run the process on the target machine. Please note that it is beyond the scope of this post to create a container or a virtual machine where the Ansible will run. I suggest Vagrant to do so.
2 - inventory.ini is the file to list the machines Ansible will provision. Read more about it here. Remember, the host property described in #1 should match the host created on this file:
[jenkins_server] 192.168.0.32
3 - group_vars/all.yml. Remember the "role's extension points" I mentioned earlier? This file contains all the variables we need to configure the role to do what we want. Let's define the java package you wish to install for Jenkins:
java_packages: - java-1.8.0-openjdk
For reference, this variable is mentioned in the geerlingguy.java role that is a dependency for geerlingguy.jenkins. Isn't it cool how roles can stick together to do great things?
4 - meta/main.yml. In this file, we are going to list all the dependencies we need from the roles:
dependencies: - geerlingguy.jenkins
That way we can tell Ansible we need this role to perform our tasks.
5 - requirements.yml. Despite the name, this isn't a required file for your project, but it's very handy because we can list all the Ansible Galaxy roles that we need and download them with just one command line:
$ ansible-galaxy -r requirements.xml
Go ahead and start to provision. Your Jenkins server should be provisioned in your environment and you can start making CI/CD jobs.
The Bottom Line
Now it's time to shine. Gather every role you are going to use on your project and start chaining them together for awesomeness. In a short time you'll be creating your own roles, contributing to existing ones and creating your own reusable playbooks. Just to help you out, take a look at this project I created to provision all three servers for an ALM process. There, I orchestrated a simple playbook to create all three machines using three simple tasks: provision Jenkins, SonarSource and Nexus.
See you next time.
A Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM) is a specialized product expert who works collaboratively with IT organizations to strategically plan for successful deployments and help realize optimal performance and growth. The TAM is part of Red Hat's world-class Customer Experience and Engagement organization and provides proactive advice and guidance to help you identify and address potential problems before they occur. Should a problem arise, your TAM will own the issue and engage the best resources to resolve it as quickly as possible with minimal disruption to your business.
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À propos de l'auteur
Ricardo Zanini is a TAM in the Latin America region. He has expertise in integration, middleware and software engineering. Ricardo has been studying software quality since his first professional years and today helps strategic customers achieve success with Red Hat Middleware products and quality processes.
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While bike sharing has great potential, the credit-card requirement and other factors have been obstacles to attracting a diverse membership in other cities. In Denver, where roughly fifty percent of residents are people of color, almost ninety percent of bike-share users are non-Hispanic whites, according to a member survey. "Our demographic profile is nothing to be proud of, and we know that," acknowledged Parry Burnap, head of Denver's program, at a recent urban planning conference. "We are mostly male, mostly white, mostly wealthy, mostly well educated."
CDOT deputy commissioner Scott Kubly helped launch Capital Bikeshare in Washington, D.C., and he's managing Chicago's new system. When I called to ask how he'll ensure bike-share membership here mirrors our city's ethnic and economic mix, he acknowledged this was also an issue in D.C. "Growing bike share will be easy in some parts of Chicago," he says. "So I'm really focused on building membership in parts of town where it will be hardest."
"The big challenge is how do we handle liability for folks who are unbanked," Kubly adds. In D.C. this issue was addressed via the Bank on D.C. initiative, in which low-income residents received a free Capital Bikeshare membership after completing a financial literacy course. Liability for the membership was shared by the individual, the city, a bank and Alta Bicycle Share, the Portland, Oregon-based company that runs the D.C. system and will be operating Chicago's as well. He's currently looking into partnering with community organizations and churches here to provide bike share access for people who don't have credit cards.
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Far above the Earth's surface, two doughnuts of radiation surround the planet, charged particles zipping around in stable belts - that's the shape of them - and they were discovered in 1958 by James Van Allen and now bear his name. They are the Van Allen Belts.
But when researchers launched a satellite in 2012 to study them, just a few days after the satellite was brought online, scientists were treated to surprise: a third belt, which then joined the other two known belts but joined them only for about a month before that third belt was blown away, a puff - by a strong puff of solar wind, strange stuff, and showing just how little we know about our space environment.
It was really interesting research, and joining me now is Daniel Baker. He is director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder and one of the authors of a paper in Science describing the phenomena. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.
DANIEL BAKER: Thank you very much for having me.
FLATOW: Surprising, was it?
BAKER: Very much, yes. As you noted, since their discovery over five decades ago, the textbooks told us there were two distinct Van Allen radiation belts. We always believed there was a stable inner zone and a highly dynamic outer zone separated by each other.
FLATOW: I remember learning - I remember one of my projects in seventh grade was studying an article, when I guess it was either Sputnik was up there, or Explorer, and they discovered the Van Allen Belts, and it was cutting a piece of - an article out of the New York Times and put it in a scrap book, but it was - that dates all the way back to that.
BAKER: That's right, yeah. The discovery was really made by Van Allen and co-workers with the Explorer 1 and then the Explorer 3, 4 and Pioneer missions in that time period of 1958 or so.
FLATOW: And how do you discover a belt with a satellite?
BAKER: Well, you really use very highly sensitive particle detection devices. You put them onto satellites. You fly the satellites through there. You make in situ observations, and you try to sort it all out. And that's what we did with the - you mentioned one satellite. It was actually two satellites, the dual satellite mission called the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, and they've now been renamed the Van Allen Probes Mission.
FLATOW: And so what do you actually see?
BAKER: What we saw was that when we first turned on our experiment about two days after launch, we saw the expected two-belt structure. We saw high intensity near the Earth, then a gap region, and then an outer belt. But just a short while after that, part of that outer dynamic belt was ripped away, and it left what we've called the Storage Ring for about four weeks, I think as you noted in your introductory remarks.
And we were so surprised by this. We thought our instruments must be wrong. But then we realized we build such good instruments that couldn't possibly be true. And we saw the same thing on both satellites. So we really thought this must be for real.
And then as you noted, about four weeks after that, a powerful solar storm came by and wiped out the entire outer Van Allen Belt for a while. So this is really quite exciting stuff. The sun really cooperated very actively for about a month and a half or two months.
FLATOW: So does that mean this is an area or a belt that comes and goes all the time?
BAKER: Well, we don't really know that. I would be very surprised in the last four and a half billion years if this hasn't happened before. But we've never really had the eyes in space to see this. We have better energy range, better time resolution, better spatial resolution, better energy resolution, than we've ever had before.
And as I say, to have two satellites that allow us to separate space and time is also very advantageous. So we're keeping our eyes open. We certainly haven't seen this in the five months since the launch except for this period of time that I report in the paper.
FLATOW: Yeah, so you're convinced, though, that it's not some artifact?
BAKER: Oh yes, we're very much convinced. In fact separate instruments - with 20/20 hindsight we've been able to go back and look at this in other instruments on the same spacecraft that we're on sort of sporadically. And we've seen hints from other satellites. But it was never seen as clearly as this, as we can see now, flying through the throat of the Van Allen Accelerator.
FLATOW: 1-800-989-8255 is our number, we're talking with Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado in Boulder. You can also tweet us, @scifri. So you have no idea why, then, this happened?
BAKER: Well, we sort of think that - we're getting ideas, and theoreticians, of course, are very excited by these kinds of results and are now coming out with many ideas. But it seems like it was, sort of, a Goldilocks scenario, in a way. There was a strong acceleration event. Part of the outer belt got ripped away by a solar disturbance that was just strong enough to tear away part of the outer belt, but not strong enough to completely annihilate the outer belt.
And then it was book-ended about the 30th of September, a much more powerful solar disturbance came by and really annihilated the entire outer belt. So it seems like it has to be a sequence, a special sequence of events in order for this to really occur and to be detectable for such a long period of time.
FLATOW: Was this - was there any bit of serendipity on this, that you were able to detect it?
BAKER: There absolutely was. That's a fascinating part of the story. We learned early in the summer of 2012 that a longstanding monitoring satellite called SAMPEX, the Solar Anomalous Magneto Particle Explorer, that had been sort of remotely sensing the radiation belt. So it was going to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere some time in the fall of 2012. So we went on a campaign to try to get our instruments commissioned much earlier. If we had followed the normal pattern of commissioning our relativistic electron proton telescope would have not been turned on until about 34 days after launch.
We pushed to turn on two days after launch, and it was precisely because of that that we were able to detect these things, see them and watch them in their full kind of glory for this entire period of time. If we hadn't had SAMPEX forcing our hand, we would have not turned on until after this was all over and we would have missed the very interesting story, to say the least.
FLATOW: That is - it seems that you got really lucky...
FLATOW: ...what other way to describe it.
BAKER: That's right.
FLATOW: How could the early explorers have detected the belt if you're using sophisticated satellites 50 years later? What were they doing that they could detect it?
BAKER: Well, they...
FLATOW: What did Van Allen do?
BAKER: Well, he was using pretty simple instrumentation, what are called Geiger tubes. You probably heard of Geiger counters that make very sort of broad-brush, fairly crude kind of measurements of radiation. They don't distinguish very clearly between different energies or different particles even. And today, we have much, much improved technology, very sophisticated instruments that can see with better spatial resolution, better temporal resolution and especially better energy resolution extending up to the very highest energies.
And so modern technology combined with flying spacecraft sort of in the right place and, of course, at the right time really helps us to do a far superior job to anything that's been done before.
FLATOW: Are you going to name this belt something?
BAKER: Well, as they say, we called it the storage ring. I was sort of motivated by looking at what's going on in ground-based laboratories, you know, ground accelerators and things like that. I don't know that we will do anything but maybe call it a third or a transient belt, but we'll have to see. We might have a naming contest or something.
FLATOW: Oh, we have one that came in already.
BAKER: Oh, what's that?
FLATOW: A tweet came in to us saying, you know, you made your discovery in the same week that Van Cliburn died, you know, the great pianist, maybe the Van Cliburn belt, since you have the Van Allen belt.
BAKER: Well, we'll take that under advisement, OK?
FLATOW: All right. 1-800-989-8255. Let's talk about why it's so important. Why do you spend the time, money and effort to send up these satellites to study the belts? Why is that so important?
BAKER: Well, the radiation in space is very important. All the satellites that we use in our sort of everyday life or that society uses for communication, for surveillance, for weather satellites, all the things that we take for granted today involving the space segment really involves satellites that fly through these regions. And so the more we understand about the space environment and especially understanding when the space environment is particularly hostile is very important.
We know many, many cases where satellites have suffered severe anomalies or even failures due to these Van Allen radiation belt particles. And so we're trying to understand this. And so we're very fortunate to be part of a discipline that has both fundamental astrophysical kind of benefits, you know, basic research benefit to understand this cosmic accelerator operating just a few thousand miles above our head, but we also have the duality there of studying things that have real societal relevance. And that's why it's kind of a fun discipline to be part of.
FLATOW: This is Ira Flatow on SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR, talking with Dan Baker, University of Colorado in Boulder. Do these belts protect us from that radiation that's coming from the sun?
BAKER: Well, the magnetic field around the Earth very much protects us. We're under two very important umbrellas. One is the magnetic field of the Earth that sort of stands off the direct impact of solar energetic particles and the flow of the solar wind, and then the atmosphere also shields us. So when we're out in space, whether it's robotic spacecraft or humans flying out there that they can be pretty directly impacted by these high-energy charged particles. But we here on Earth are relatively protected, and we live in a very protective cocoon in a way.
FLATOW: Let's go to Dan in Fort Lauderdale. Hi, Dan. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.
DAN: Hi. How are you doing?
FLATOW: Hey there.
DAN: Thanks for taking my call. I just have a real quick question. I want to understand the shape of these, because when I think of the word belt, I think of like an asteroid belt, like, you know, the solar system-type track, you know? And so I was wondering if it's around the Earth and if it's like a sphere shape, like completely closed.
FLATOW: Good question.
BAKER: Yeah. It is a very good question. Actually, these are more like sort of doughnuts. I think Ira used that term before, or they're sort of like Tauruses around the Earth. And so belts suggest something quite thin and narrow, and these are really quite broad. They're like the Earth is enveloped in a couple of interlaced kind of inner tubes or something like that. It's much more Taurus-like rather than belt-like. It's just that name belt is a holdover from the earliest discoveries.
FLATOW: Yeah. Let's go to Mickey(ph) in Tampa. Hi, Mickey. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.
MICKEY: Hi, Ira.
FLATOW: Hi there.
MICKEY: My question is it's regarding the two inner belts. What are their characteristics? What - why is it that they were less affected by the solar wind kind of puffing away this third belt?
FLATOW: Yeah. Good question.
BAKER: Yeah. That's a very good question too. And the outermost part of the system is really buffeted very strongly by the solar wind. As you get closer to the Earth, the magnetic field becomes much stronger. It's much more immune there to the external perturbations from the sun. And so the inner belt is very stable, very tightly held by the strong magnetic field, whereas the outermost fringes of the system can be buffeted very strongly by the solar wind flow.
FLATOW: Would you be more surprised now if you don't see another belt develop or if you do?
BAKER: I would be surprised. Now, that we have the clear eyes, the clear windows on this phenomenon, I'd be amazed if we don't see it, you know, again under the right circumstances. But what we don't know is how frequently these circumstances occur. And it probably takes the sun to cooperate, and we haven't been too fortunate lately to get the sun to do just what we want it to do.
FLATOW: Well, now that we're talking about it, of course, it will never happen again.
BAKER: Well, we hope we won't have the kiss of death for that.
FLATOW: All right. Dr. Baker, thank you very much for...
BAKER: Thank you.
FLATOW: ...taking time to be with us.
BAKER: Nice talking. Thanks. Bye.
FLATOW: You're welcome. Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. When we come back, something completely different. When nerds become rappers, what does it sound like? The music of Nerdcore. Yeah, nerds can become rappers too. And we'll be right back and let you listen in. We have a special guest. So stay with us. We'll be right back after this break.
FLATOW: I'm Ira Flatow. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY, from NPR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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• Confiscate customer records.
• Confiscate all banking and financial records.
• Drag the church or business into court for refusing to comply.
Organizations that refuse to meet the FTC's demands are threatened with the following:
• Arrest and imprisonment.
• Complete confiscation of their inventory.
• Being charged with crimes by the FTC. Such crimes are heard in the FTC's own kangaroo court, which is subject to no law.
On that last point, it's important to note that the FTC is now functioning as both Judge and Jury, as it has set up its own "private" FTC court in Washington D.C., where the right to a trial by jury does not exist, and the FTC's own appointed judges render decisions against the accused (the dietary supplement companies) without using any commonly-accepted legal standards whatsoever. It is essentially a military court where you are considered guilty until proven innocent.
In its threatening letters sent to dietary supplement companies, the FTC demands that the principals of such companies appear in their own private FTC court to face charges. Failure to appear is considered an admission of guilt, causing your company to be shut down by the FDA while you're arrested and brought up on yet more federal charges.
Out of approximately 130 companies that have been targeted and threatened by the FTC, only 10 have so far refused to sign the so-called "consent decree" documents put forth by the FTC, which require company principals to admit to committing crimes they did not commit (crimes such as "selling unapproved drugs" which are really just fruit extracts or herbal supplements, for example).
This is a very similar situation to what the FDA is doing in its own campaign of tyranny against natural health companies. NaturalNews has previously documented the FDA's operation of a criminal extortion racket that's very similar to the FTC's actions.
Too terrorized by the FTC to speak out
This fact alone should cause serious concern for anyone reading this. Since when was America a country of secret regulatory police who terrorized the business community into a state of silent fear? The FTC is clearly using tactics of terror and tyranny to silence the very companies and individuals it is targeting for termination. (And by "termination," I mean the termination of their freedoms and their businesses, not assassination. Not yet, anyway.)
Only three companies have agreed to go on the record with NaturalNews and voice their opposition to the FTC's campaign of tyranny. Daniel Chapter One is one of them. They are devoutly refusing to abide by the FTC's demands, and they're challenging the very premise of the FTC's authority.
With the help of health freedom attorney Jim Turner, the principals of Daniel Chapter One are claiming the FTC has no authority over churches and non-profit organizations. Furthermore, they are claiming the FTC has no authority to restrict truthful free speech about dietary supplements.
It is this second point that is relevant to ALL health supplement companies, for if Daniel Chapter One is successful in this challenge, it could help spell an end to the regulatory carpet bombing of the dietary supplement industry that's now being masterminded by the FTC.
Is the FTC engaged in regulatory terrorism?
In doing so, the FTC is attempting to destroy a body of knowledge about anti-cancer remedies, thrusting the American people into an era of nutritional illiteracy that would put them at the sole mercy of the conventional cancer treatment industry (which promotes poison, surgery and radiation as its primary modalities, all of which earn considerable profits for powerful corporations).
The FTC, you see, is not merely demanding that companies remove all text from their websites that might imply an herb could be useful for preventing cancer; they are also demanding that the websites of these companies may not link OUT to other websites that contain such information (such as NaturalNews.com, for example). Thus, the FTC is creating a system of regulatory-enforced illiteracy that's destroying the availability of truthful information on the internet, even while our nation remains in a state of health care collapse that desperately needs a natural health solution.
It is in this way that the FTC is driving America towards a total collapse of both health care and its finances. A sick, nutritionally illiterate population denied the right to even learn about nutritional approaches to preventing cancer is doomed to suffer unprecedented increases in degenerative disease. This is the curse the FTC has placed upon the American people in its question for total domination of the dietary supplements industry.
Will Bibles be banned next?
This well-known fact is documented at great length by famed ethnobotany researcher Dr. James Duke, author of several books on Biblical herbs. Dr. Duke is a former researcher for the U.S. Agricultural Research Services (ARS). He is the creator of the ARS database of phytochemicals that remains the single most authoritative source on plant-based medicines that has ever been created.
But under FTC regulations that are in place right now, anyone selling Bibles in the same store as the herbal supplements mentioned in the Bible could be arrested, imprisoned and permanently put out of business. Their Bibles could be confiscated, their herbs destroyed and their lives ruined because they dared to sell the herbs mentioned in the Bible.
The Bible, you see, could be considered an "illegal marketing document" if sold beside the very herbs it recommends.
This brings me to the Daniel Chapter One church, where Jim and Trish Feijo have been traveling the world, engaged in their ministry of human compassion, helping to uplift the peoples of various nations (across multiple continents). As part of their sharing of God's gifts to the world, their church sells dietary supplements, many of which contain powerful anti-cancer phytochemicals. They also have a radio show where they empower listeners with relevant information about spiritual and nutritional enlightenment.
They have never had a single health complaint filed against them by customers of their anti-cancer products, nor has the FTC produced any evidence whatsoever showing that Daniel Chapter One has made any false statements about their products. Every single description and statement about dietary supplements on the DanielChapterOne.com website is factually true.
The FTC isn't challenging the facts of the statements. It is not the FTC's position that Daniel Chapter One is making false statements at all. Rather, the FTC's claim is that Daniel Chapter One is making true but illegal statements about dietary supplements.
Got that? Telling the truth in America is illegal if you happen to be selling products that threaten the profits of the drug companies (which the FTC routinely protects in waging its campaign against the dietary supplement industry).
Notably, if you are a drug company selling toxic, patented chemicals, you can lie all you want! The FTC outright ignores the monopolistic practices of the pharmaceutical industry. Breaking up monopolies, of course, is supposed to be one of the primary functions of the FTC! But when it comes to Big Pharma, a national monopoly on pharmaceutical distribution and pricing is not merely tolerated, it is in fact enforced by this rogue federal agency that now works as the regulatory hit men of the drug trade.
That's an honest description. These assaults on dietary supplement companies (and churches) closely resemble the work of hit men. But instead of working for an illegal drug cartel selling banned chemicals, these FTC thugs work for a legal drug cartel selling FDA-protected chemicals!
What happens if the FTC continues its campaign of regulatory terrorism against the dietary supplements industry?
Imagine a nation where government-paid secret police spy on ordinary Americans to see who might be talking about herbs, vitamins or dietary supplements. Those who dare to utter the wrong words find their names and social security numbers entered onto a Watch List of "pharmaceutical resisters." The Watch List grows, and before long, the government regulatory goons begin calling it a list of "homegrown terrorists."
Those who deal in banned medicines (like herbal teas, vitamin C or cherry fruit concentrates) are arrested on site and imprisoned. Health food stores are shut down at gunpoint. All functional foods are banned, and Whole Foods has its shelves stripped of everything but fresh produce (all the produce must be irradiated to destroy the natural medicine they contain, too).
The Internet becomes a wasteland of nutritional illiteracy where only "approved" websites are routed through key ISPs. Any website discussing nutrition or herbs is considered to be in violation of FTC regulations. Its owners are arrested and considered "prisoners of war" due to the fact that their names are already on the Watch List of "homegrown terrorists." They're shipped off to secret military prisons in Cuba and tortured until they either repent their beliefs or are killed by the torture.
The FTC boosts its firearms budget and begins staging armed raids on vitamin shops, shooting up the inventory and "accidentally" catching vitamin shop owners in the line of fire. Herbs being shipped into the United States are seized at the border like illegal drugs, and a booming black market economy sees the widespread smuggling of medicinal herbs into the United States by Mexicans, South Americans and even Canadians!
Rates of degenerative disease accelerate; the nation becomes a cesspool of disease and chemical contamination. A new set of laws, written wholly by the drug companies themselves, is passed that prohibits any speech about dietary supplements (including advertising) and criminalizes the possession of medicinal herbs, homeopathic remedies, plant extracts and vitamins of any kind. Meanwhile, all prescription drugs are approved for OTC (over-the-counter) purchase, followed by new pharmaceutical vending machines that pop out pills in exchange for your cash or credit card.
All herbal books are pulled out of public libraries and burned in the streets. The possession of such a book becomes a felony crime. A new age of nutritional McCarthyism is unleashed upon America, and health book authors who dare to write about the benefits of nutrition are hunted down and arrested (or just killed).
Another new law demands that all Bibles be revised to remove any references to the "illegal" herbs it recommends. Churches that cite references to the herbs in the Bible are assaulted and shut down, their pastors arrested and imprisoned for committing crimes against the State.
The teaching of herbal remedies is banned in all public schools with the help of influential western scientists who claim "God does not belong in the classroom" and that since the Bible teaches herbs, any teaching of herbs in the classroom is, in effect, the teaching of religion.
This is the future the FTC is pushing us towards.
It's not even very difficult to image. Just extrapolate the FTC's current campaigns of oppression and tyranny against the industry, and you easily imagine much of this coming true.
Unless, of course, the FTC is stopped.
Apartheid. Hitler. Stalin. Mao. Pol Pot. The FTC and FDA.
These are the memorable mass criminals of the 20th and 21st centuries. They all have one thing in common: The insatiable quest for power at the expense of the lives of fellow human beings.
I believe that if the FTC were given unlimited power, there is absolutely no doubt it would become a Nazi-like regime of uncompromising intolerance, outlawing all speech that opposed its own views and terminating the lives of its enemies.
But the FTC's days are numbered, I believe. Its tyrannical actions against the natural health industry are an extension of the Bush Administration's Big Pharma push, and with the Bush criminals on their way out of the White House, all that's about to change. Or at least, we hope. (If Obama brings a new set of criminals into the White House, we probably won't see much change, and the seeming appointment of Dr. Sanjay Gupta to U.S. Surgeon General certainly doesn't hint at good things for the natural health industry under an Obama administration…)
What you can do right now to put a stop to this
In waging this war, the FTC is destroying family businesses, destroying the dietary supplements industry and destroying the natural health options of health-conscious consumers.
The FTC must be stopped if we hope to protect our families and children from this growing regulatory threat in Washington. In essence, we must save our nation from the FTC (and the FDA, for that matter).
What can you do to stop the FTC? Here's a short list of things you can do right now:
• Support Daniel Chapter One by purchasing their anti-cancer products. Their 7 Herb Formula is a powerful medicinal recipe that kills cancer cells and can help your body prevent and even reverse cancer
• Support Citizens for Health). They are one of the health freedom organizations that's actually engaged in good work.
• Complain to the FTC! What's hilarious about the FTC's website is that it provides a way for you to complain about everybody EXCEPT the FTC! What we really need in this country is a new office run by the People that has oversight power over the FTC and FDA, and we would complain to them. (What happened to America, anyway? When did the people just surrender all their power to Big Government tyranny?)
If you want to complain directly to the FTC, the best option is probably to just send them a physical letter (in the mail). They can be reached at:
Federal Trade Commission
Consumer Response Center
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20580
Be sure to include a copy of this article, just to remind 'em that you're informed. They'll attack this article, of course, claiming it's "anti-FTC propaganda." That's exactly what Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot said, too. The rebels that fought tyranny in those historical scenarios were quickly labeled terrorists and imprisoned or just outright shot. In fact, you can expect the FTC to attempt to find a way to silence NaturalNews. This is one of the reasons we have never sold nutritional products, by the way. Doing so would put us in a position of extreme regulatory vulnerability with the FTC criminals.
• More importantly, complain to your lawmakers in Washington. Call, fax, email or write your elected representatives in Washington. Let 'em know what you think about the FTC's attacks on churches and its campaign of tyranny against the dietary supplements industry.
• Support Ron Paul's Health Freedom Protection Act, which will be reintroduced in the House this Spring. If passed, it would finally legalize factually true speech about dietary supplements, allowing health supplement companies to accurately describe the health benefits of the products they offer to the public.
• Listen to the exclusive interview I conducted with health freedom attorney Jim Turner.
• Sign the NaturalNews Health Revolution Petition that's scheduled to be announced later this month.
• Forward this article to someone you know, and link to this article from your blog or website. Digg it, too, and help spread the word about how the FTC is destroying America's freedom of speech, freedom of religion and dietary supplements industry.
Where is the mainstream media on this story?
It should be one of the biggest stories in America today. The FTC is waging a war of attrition against the dietary supplements industry? The FDA is engaged in an extortion racket that targets supplement companies? Yes, these events are happening right now. And, mysteriously, the mainstream media hasn't covered this story in the least.
You can decide for yourself why that might be the case. I already happen to know the REAL reason, but I'm not going there in this story. Perhaps we'll cover that later.
Someone conducting an all-out investigative report on this FTC story deserves a Pulitzer Prize, no doubt. But this story cannot possibly run in any mainstream newspaper or magazine, because it would be canned before it ever saw the light of day. NaturalNews remains one of the very few places where you can still get honest news reported by intelligent people who don't have a corporate-sponsored agenda driving their editorial decisions.
I earn no money from this article, and I remain a volunteer writer for NaturalNews. There is nothing for sale in these words. This is in no way commercial speech. It is FREE Speech. That is precisely what puts this article out of the jurisdiction of the FTC and FDA. It is the only reason why this website has survived the campaigns of tyranny and illiteracy waged by these two organizations.
And I can guarantee you this: NaturalNews will out-live both the FTC and the FDA. Their days are numbered, and the People will yet be victorious in their quest to take back the power that has been stolen from them by Washington tyrants and bureaucrats.
We are on the verge of a popular revolution in America today. The People are fed up with Washington at every turn, and they ready for real change. Remember this: Both the FTC and FDA are but one paycheck away from total collapse. When the U.S. government goes belly up and can no longer pay its soldiers, bureaucrats and tyrants to keep up the appearance of authority, the entire system will dissolve within days, leaving a landscape of disillusioned patriots, hungry for freedom and ready to embrace new ideas on how to structure a sustainable society.
Mark my words: the USA experiment is drawing to a close. It had a great start (the Constitution and Bill of Rights are both sacred documents, in my opinion), but after enough time, the tyrants managed to grab power anyway. Today, the USA is a failed experiment of runaway power, runaway debt, consumerism and greed. When this experiment comes to an end, the FTC and FDA will go with it, and the people of this great land will finally be set free to control their own destiny, to create a new USA (or whatever it might called) where liberty reigns supreme over tyranny and the sovereign citizen is one again recognized as the source of all political power.


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For you skeptics out there, last night's loss is proof that this is not a magical year, that this Yankee team will get bounced from the playoffs in early October. We're always looking for signs and the Yanks have not played well over the past month. This morning, the papers took notice.
In the Post, George King begins his recap:
Joe Girardi and CC Sabathia better be correct. Because if they are wrong, the Yankees' October experience is going to be a short one.
The manager and ace both said the max-effort pitching duel between David Price and Sabathia less than two weeks ago in St. Petersburg, Fla., didn't bankrupt the Yankees ace's tank.
In the News, Mark Feinsand writes, "The standings still show the Yankees in sole possession of first place in the American League East, so why does it feel like they lost the division Thursday night?"
Nobody was happy in the comments section here at Banter last night, either. So? What does it all mean? Can this team turn it on and go back to the Whirled Serious? Or is this 2006 and a first round bump?
I don't think the Yanks will repeat but also would be surprised if they don't at least make it to the ALCS.


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When Mary Ann Beauchamp ran a little restaurant called Wild Rose Café and Deli in the early 1990s, customers would often give their meal a one-word review. That word eventually worked its way into the name of the concept created by Mary Ann and her husband Mark: Café Yumm!
"She always had rice cooking, so for her own lunch, she'd scoop up some rice and add lentils or beans, and then she always put this sauce on it that she made at home," Mark Beauchamp says of Mary Ann. "She thought the sauce was too unusual to serve in the cafe, but people would ask, 'What is the cook eating? Would you make me one of those?' And then they would take a bite and say, 'Yum, what is that sauce?'"
The Beauchamps opened the first Café Yumm!, focused on the humble rice and bean bowl, in 1999. By 2002, there were three locations in the Eugene, Oregon, area. Mark gave up his job in real estate to devote himself to Café Yumm! full time.
"After a year in our third location, the problem was that the lines were too long," he says. "We started looking at how to open new locations, and we grew to six in the Eugene area."
He attended a franchising trade show in January 2005, which changed the future of the company. "It really opened my eyes to what franchising is—the support structure and the systems," Beauchamp says. "So when I came back, Mary Ann and I had a meeting and decided franchising was the way we had to go."
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Year Started: 1999
Annual Sales: $12 million
Total Units: 11
Franchise units: 9
He began redeveloping the Café Yumm! brand, creating a franchising agreement and training documentation. "Then the Great Recession hit," he says. "And that was not in my business plan. So franchising was slow, but we still opened five locations."
Café Yumm! is registered to franchise in Oregon, Washington, and California. Stores are planned for Seattle and Portland, and Beauchamp says he wants to expand into Tacoma and Olympia, Washington. He's also looking for a multiunit developer to bring the brand to California.
"In the next five years, we want to get to a total of 50 [restaurants]," Beauchamp says.
The menu at Café Yumm! offers eight formatted combination bowls in three sizes, including the Original, which consists of organic brown rice and organic black beans layered with Original Yumm! Sauce and topped with organic salsa.
The Jazzy and Hot 'n' Jazzy rice bowls are similar but made with jasmine rice, with the hot option being topped with Jalapeño-Sesame salsa. The Chilean Zucchini bowl is a zucchini-corn-tomato stew layered with organic brown rice and Original Yumm! Sauce, topped with organic salsa. Soups, salads, wraps, and skewers round out the menu. Beauchamp says the medium Original Yumm! Bowl is the most popular order, but most guests customize their order by adding or taking off a vegetable or topping.
Base pricing for the three bowl sizes is $4.95, $5.95, and $6.95, but franchisees can choose to adjust the prices as they see fit. An average ticket at Café Yumm! is $10 per person. While most offerings at Café Yumm! are meat-free, the Beauchamps don't use the word vegetarian to describe the concept.
"We just make Yumm! Bowls that happen to not have any meat in them," Beauchamp says. "Mary Ann wanted to be able to make something anyone could eat, whether they are vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, or lactose free, but you can add chicken or salmon to your bowl if you would like. We just want to serve great-tasting, nourishing, whole, organic, natural food."
For people who want to try to make Café Yumm! Bowls at home, the brand sells its proprietary sauce by the jar. It is also available in 110 grocery stores in the Pacific Northwest, and by mail order throughout the U.S. Yumm! Sauce is available in original, roasted garlic, and chipotle flavors.
Beauchamp says Café Yumm! handles its own distribution and owns warehouses, trucks, and vans. "That started with our second location," he says. "Because of the eclectic nature of Mary Ann's cooking, we were buying from 15–20 different vendors to get the Asian ingredients, the African spices, you name it. We couldn't use a mainline food distributor."
The Café Yumm! system also incorporates sustainable applications throughout the business. One Portland store, for example, was the first LEED Gold–certified restaurant in Oregon. The chain also built the country's first solar-powered electric-vehicle charging station at a restaurant.
"If we looked at some of the initiatives we embrace from a bottom-line profitability angle, the answer would be no," Beauchamp says of whether the sustainability makes financial sense. "But we have to do this because it's what we do. Our core market wants to support this."
He says it's the same reason Café Yumm! uses organic produce as much as possible. "It's a different way to think about what we do and how we eat," Beauchamp says. "And we want to show people that this way can work, too. Somebody has to step up and say, 'Hey, we support these things.' We want to raise the bar on our industry."


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Wakefern respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask visitors to our Website to do the same. If you believe your work has been used in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, the following information in the form of a written notification (pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)) must be provided to the designated Copyright Agent of Wakefern:
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Address: Designated Agent for Intellectual Property
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And now, it's time for sports. Today, we're starting not at Mile High Stadium, not at center ice, but at the Hyatt Regency in Chennai, India, where the world chess championships are underway. That's right, chess. Tom Goldman joins us now, to bring us up to speed on all the action. Tom, welcome.
TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: Hi, Don. And can I just say, the uninitiated may scoff at your use of the word "action" for a chess match, but I have initiated myself. I have watched this championship match online, as millions around the world are doing, and there is plenty of action. The tension's palpable. And it's created, Don, by - as one reporter put it - the competitors; intellectual precision, or the rare and dreaded mistake. Good stuff.
GONYEA: Right. All right. So set us up for this. How far into the tournament are we, and who are the players to watch?
GOLDMAN: The championship is between 43-year-old Viswanathan Anand - the commentators call him Vish. He's held the title of world champ since 2007. He's nicknamed the Tiger of Madras; a hero in his native India. And he's squaring off against 22-year-old challenger Magnus Carlsen, of Norway. He looks like Matt Damon. He's been called a sex symbol by chess standards, mind you. And "Sports Illustrated" has a picture of him playing volleyball with his shirt off, sporting some pretty well-developed abs.
But to the games. They play 12 games. You win a game, you get a point. If it's a draw, each player gets a half-point. The first to get six and a half points wins and today, Carlsen has won Game 6. So he has what's considered a pretty commanding lead, 4-2, but the match could last until the 28th of this month.
GONYEA: OK. We will watch it. We will watch it closely. Tom, I know this is a sports segment, right? And we've started with chess but since I usually cover politics, I cannot resist playing this clip from President Obama, from earlier this week. He is talking about the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
GONYEA: Sports metaphors in politics, or is this - common as kissing babies on the campaign trail. But what if professional athletes start using political metaphors to talk about the big game?
GOLDMAN: Yeah, exactly. Or sports reporters - two can play this game, President Obama. So how about this one: We've got a big NFL game coming up tomorrow night in Denver - the Broncos versus the Chiefs. Don, it's incumbent upon the Chiefs to filibuster with the ball in order to keep Denver's red-hot quarterback, Peyton Manning, off the field. How about you?
GONYEA: OK. You know, Tom, Tigers manager Jim Leland didn't like that call. If I can read his lips, he's explaining to the umpire that his strike zone looks a little like a gerrymandered congressional district.
GOLDMAN: Oh, well done, well done.
GONYEA: All right. Thanks, Tom.
GOLDMAN: You're welcome.
GONYEA: This is NPR News.
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