The federal district court in Washington, D.C. today gave the CFTC a partial victory in its battle to defend its Dodd-Frank Act swaps rules against a broad legal challenge led by three swaps industry trade groups on behalf of their members. The court also declined to vacate certain rules or issue other injunctive relief asked for by the trade groups. But already it seems clear that the CFTC will need to engage in more detailed cost-benefit analysis of some of the challenged rules (Securities Industry And Financial Markets Association, et al. v. CFTC, September 16, 2014, Friedman, P.).
The court granted the CFTC's request to dismiss a challenge by the Securities Industry And Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), and the Institute of International Bankers (IIB) to the agency's trade execution rule because the trade groups lacked standing to dispute the rule's extraterritorial application. The court also granted summary judgment for the CFTC regarding its cross-border action, large trader reporting, straight-through processing, and clearing determination rules.
CFTC Chairman Timothy G. Massad said he plans to continue the agency's swaps reform effort in order to focus on Congressional worries about how overseas risks can impact U.S. markets. The swaps trade groups filed their suit against the CFTC last December and Chairman Massad inherited the swaps litigation from prior CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler, who led the agency's Dodd-Frank Act rulemakings during his tenure until earlier this year.
"I am pleased the court upheld the Commission's July 2013 policy statement on the cross-border application of Title VII swaps provisions, and rejected a sweeping injunction of the rules that are at the heart of Dodd-Frank's overhaul of the swaps markets," said Massad.
As of publication, SIFMA, ISDA, and IIB had not issued any formal statements on the district court's opinion.
Associational standing. The CFTC had disputed whether any of the trade groups' members would have standing to challenge the cross border action and Title VII rules if they sued on their own. The court quickly decided that related worries did not exist about whether the trade groups' suit was aimed at interests "germane" to their purposes and whether any of their members would have to participate in the suit.
As a result, the trade groups have standing if, for each challenged rule, one of their members is regulated by or directly harmed by one of the rules. The court assumed, for purposes of its standing analysis, that the cross-border action is a binding legislative rule (as the trade groups requested), which means that standing to challenge the extraterritorial application of any Title VII rule results in standing to challenge the cross border action. The court would later find that, in another context, the cross-border action was not a legislative rule.
The trade groups claimed associational standing via two of their foreign members, the French company Société Générale (SG), and the German company Deutsche Bank AG (Deutsche Bank). Both companies are registered swap dealers and must comply with rules related to the CFTC's "U.S. persons" definition. The court said the trade groups have standing via SG and Deutsche Bank to contest the CFTC's cross-border action and certain Title VII transaction-level rules. But the court said the CFTC cannot assert lack of traceability or redressability by saying it would enforce the Title VII rules even if the cross-border action did not exist.
The trade groups also asserted standing to contest the CFTC's SEF registration rule because some foreign SEFs denied SG's and Deutsche Bank's U.S. employees access to swaps platforms due to the risk this access may trigger the CFTC's rules. Relying on D.C. Circuit law, the court said the extraterritorial application of the CFTC's rule was the "substantial factor" in SG and Deutsche Bank not gaining access to relevant platforms. This factor was sufficient to confer standing on the trade groups regarding the SEF registration rule.
But the court said the trade groups lack standing via SG and Deutsche Bank as to the CFTC's trade execution rule. The court explained that this rule states key factors for determining if a swap is "available to trade" and yet it is a statutory requirement that mandates execution of "available to trade" swaps on a SEF or DCM. According to the court, the trade groups did not allege that the trade execution rule triggers the statutory requirement to yield more "available to trade" determinations for SG or Deutsche Bank, which could be a substantial factor conferring standing if evidence of this extraterritorial application of the CFTC's rule to foreign SEFs and DCMs existed.
As for the U.S.-based members of the trade groups, the court said standing is less obvious because these companies get pulled into the CFTC's extraterritorial application of its rules only via their foreign affiliates. For example, Goldman Sachs & Co.'s foreign conduits, and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC's and JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s (collectively JPMorgan) J.P. Morgan Securities plc affiliate would be the relevant entities for purposes of standing.
The trade groups claimed the so-called shareholder standing rule (i.e., a parent corporation cannot sue on behalf of its subsidiary) was inapt regarding their formal U.S.-based members. The court said this view was wrong and, thus, rejected arguments that the trade groups' formal U.S. members shared regulatory burdens from the CFTC's entity-level Title VII rules across their corporate families, had to re-work how they do business with their affiliates, or served as "membership associations" to represent corporate family interests.
With respect to the trade groups' U.S.-based members' foreign affiliates, the court applied the "indicia of membership" test. Specifically, the court said JPMorgan's British affiliate, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, bore indicia of membership in SIFMA and ISDA because it enjoyed the benefits of membership and engaged in the decision-making activities of these groups, despite its absence from both groups' membership rolls.
Ripeness issues. The trade groups made both procedural and substantive claims about the CFTC's cross-border action. Procedurally, they said the CFTC violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by neglecting notice and comment mandates and by failing to do enough cost-benefit analyses of its rules. Substantively, the trade groups said the CFTC exceeded its authority under Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) §2(i) and gave inconsistent rationales for many of its decisions on rules for foreign entities and transactions.
As a starting point, the court found the trade groups' procedural claims were ripe for review because they involve purely legal questions without any need for more factual development of the issues. But the court initially doubted that the trade groups' substantive claims could go forward because the CFTC has not yet tried to enforce the cross-border action. Still, the court invoked an exception to prudential ripeness and opted not to decide this jurisdictional question. The court, however, said in a footnote that had the CFTC and the trade groups agreed with the court's later findings on the cross-border action's policy and interpretive aspects, the trade groups' substantive claims would be unripe.
Statement has split personality. The court next characterized the CFTC's cross-border action as mostly a policy statement, but four pages of the statement bear the features of an interpretive rule. The trade groups had argued that the cross-border action is a legislative rule, while the CFTC countered that it is a policy statement, but conceded that some of the statement could be interpretive.
The court said that despite the possibility of future enforcement based on the CFTC's cross-border action, swaps market participants can ignore it or voluntarily comply with its admonitions. The court also noted that the cross-border action is not facially binding, states the CFTC's "tentative" views, is referred by the CFTC as a policy, was classified by the CFTC (both proposed and final versions) as interpretative and policy statements, was not published in the Code of Federal Regulations, does not invoke the CFTC's general rulemaking authority, and does not effectively amend prior legislative rules.
The court also noted that the CFTC's general counsel told the Commission just before it adopted the cross-border action that the statement was not enforceable. Since it adopted the statement, the CFTC has used only its statutory authorities to enforce the extraterritorial application of its Title VII rules.
Moreover, the court rejected numerous arguments pressed by the trade groups. For one, references to the CFTC's substituted compliance regime did not amount to a safe harbor that would make the cross-border action a legislative rule. Likewise, the trade groups' effort to "cherry pick" mandatory-sounding language from the cross-border action were unavailing, as was the trade groups' claim that the CFTC's statement's was too long and intricate to be a mere policy statement. The court also rejected the trade groups' claim that the CFTC's statement was a "charade" designed to evade judicial review.
But the court said four of the nearly 80 pages of text in the cross-border action consisted of an interpretive rule. These passages, said the court, express the CFTC's "construction" of the text within CEA §2(i), which the court said is typical of an interpretation. As a result, the four-page section of the cross-border action gives it a dual nature that is simultaneously an agency policy statement and an interpretive rule.
Still, the court warned that the cross-border action may eventually become reviewable under the APA. Specifically, the court told the CFTC to be ready to defend the cross-border action if it ever uses it in an enforcement action or other law suit.
Cost-benefit analysis on remand. But the trade groups won their challenge to many the CFTC's other swaps rules, which the court remanded to the agency for new cost-benefit analysis. Specifically, the court said the CFTC's rules were arbitrary and capricious due to the agency's failure to do enough cost-benefit analysis. Judge Friedman, though, rejected the trade groups' arguments that the CFTC failed to define the scope of these rules' extraterritorial application, or that the agency failed to mull the "problem" to be "regulated" or did not review public comments.
The court rejected the trade groups' argument that the CFTC had to define the reach of CEA §2(i) by rule. The court said this statutory provision clearly shows Congressional intent that it apply extraterritorially, if the required jurisdictional nexus exists. The court also said a federal agency is free to opt for a general rule or an ad hoc approach, especially if the agency must deal with new subject matter that may counsel against a "rigidif[ied]" approach. The Dodd-Frank Act's language regarding the addition of CEA §2(i) does not require the CFTC to adopt an implementing regulation, which means the CFTC can take a case-by-case view instead of conducting a rulemaking.
Moreover, the court said the CFTC did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in opting not to deal with the extraterritorial application of its Title VII rules, in that rulemaking. The court said the CFTC need not deal with the scope of each rule within Title VII, nor must the agency give up its freedom to address some, but not all, possible issues in a rulemaking. Nor did the CFTC have to reply to public comments that were beyond the scope of its Title VII rulemaking.
But the court said many of the CFTC's Title VII rules flunked the "not particularly demanding" cost-benefit analysis required by CEA §15(a) because the agency failed to "consider" and "evaluate" the costs and benefits of these rules' extraterritorial application. The court rejected the CFTC's claim that no cost-benefit analysis of the extraterritorial application of the rules was needed because Congress made the relevant law applicable beyond domestic U.S. markets. The court said this is a key reason for mandating cost-benefit analysis, while distinguishing the D.C. Circuit's opinion in the suit over the SEC's conflict minerals rule, in which the appeals court there said the SEC could rely on Congress's judgment that the costs of that agency's rule were necessary and appropriate.
The court, however, agreed with the CFTC on one point about cost-benefit analysis of the Title VII rules. The CFTC had argued that it could not account for the costs of potentially duplicative swaps rules around the world because the CFTC was far ahead of other countries in developing its swaps regime. The court said the possibly duplicative costs at that time were "hypothetical" and the CFTC properly did not consider them.
CFTC swaps rules affected by the court's remand include the transaction-level real-time reporting, daily trading records, and portfolio reconciliation and documentation rules and the entity-level entity definition, swap entity registration, risk management, chief compliance officer, SDR reporting, historical SDR reporting rules, and the SEF registration rules.
The case is No. 13-1916.
Attorneys: Eugene Scalia (Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP) for Securities Industry And Financial Markets Association, International Swaps And Derivatives Association, and Institute Of International Bankers. Robert A. Schwartz for the CFTC.


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Photos: Fashion Flashback With Bethenny Frankel
by Reality Tea on July 10th, 2013
Bethenny Frankel is arguably one of the most successful housewives in the franchise and – love her or hate her- she's also one of the best dressed.
Her style started out a little questionable in her early Real Housewives of New York days, but she is rarely seen anything less than NY chic nowadays.
We've rounded up the best and worst of Bethenny's fashion photos (the ones we haven't seen a million times already) from her time as a RHONY cast member through her spinoff shows, Bethenny Getting Married and Bethenny Ever After. I guess you could say it's also a bit of a farewell as Bethenny leaves reality TV behind and steps into her new role as talk show host in just two months!
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Bravo Reveals Upcoming Shows, Real Housewives of OC Returning March 6!
by Reality Tea on January 14th, 2011
During the TCA 2011 Winter Press Tour going on this week, Bravo announced several premiere dates and series renewals on Thursday.
The biggest announcement however came in the form of the widely talked about 6th season of the Real Housewives of Orange County. Bravo confirmed yesterday that it will be returning on Sunday, March 6 at 10pm.
Other big announcements included the return date of Bethenny Frankel's show Bethenny Ever After (season 2), and the renewals of popular shows The Rachel Zoe Project (season 4), Millionaire Matchmaker (season 5) and Flipping Out (season 5). The recent season finale of Millionaire Matchmaker averaged 2.2 million viewers, the highest ratings ever in the show's history, so the return is not a surprise.
Additionally, Bravo announced that casting is set to begin on the ninth season of Top Chef and that Top Chef Masters will return later this year for a third season with host Curtis Stone. Other shows renewed include Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. New shows coming this year include Platinum Hit with Kara DioGuardi which will debut this Summer and Rocco's Dinner Party will air later this year. New series Million Dollar Decorators and Pregnant in Heels are both set to premiere in April.
A list of the shows announced with return dates below –
Million Dollar Listing – February 3 at 9 p.m
The Real Housewives of New York – February 15 at 10 p.m
Real Housewives of Orange County – March 6 at 10pm
Bethenny Ever After – February 28 at 10 p.m
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen will also be moving to new nights, Tuesdays and Sundays, though no official date was announced for the move.
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PHOTOS – Bethenny Frankel Rocks A Bikini, Plus See Phaedra Parks' Home!
by Reality Tea on December 31st, 2010
Bethenny Frankel is once again showing off her post baby bikini body!
The Bethenny Getting Married star was photographed in Los Angeles as she did a poolside photo shoot for a Canadian magazine. "You shouldn't dread working out," Bethenny, 40, told Redbook in a recent interview.
'Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it," she added. More bikini photos of Bethenny below.
Moving right along to Phaedra Parks. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star recently showed off her home to Wetpaint in a new photo shoot. Phaedra reveals she has owned the five bedroom and five bathroom Atlanta estate for nine years. "My interior design is transitional," she says. "My [home's] interior blends traditional and contemporary characteristics that are unified by color and design choices."
Phaedra reveals she spends most of her time in her kitchen and master suite. "I am definitely a self-proclaimed Southern belle, as you can tell from my home," says Phaedra, adding that she did not use a designer though she did consult with one. Phaedra also reveals her love for wallpaper, which is rather obvious from looking at her home photos.
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Bethenny Frankel: I "Used To Get Drunk and Binge," Plus Mom Slams Her
by Reality Tea on December 9th, 2010
Another milestone for Bravo's biggest Housewives' success story as Bethenny Frankel graces the January cover of Redbook magazine. Who shot the cover you asked? None other than Gilles Bensimon, ex-husband of Bethenny's former costar Kelly Bensimon.
UsWeekly published excerpts from Bethenny's interview with the mag, in which she admits her past bad habits. "I used to get drunk and binge on everything in the deli, and then do a juice fast or starve, then do it all over again," the 40-year-old Bethenny Getting Married star shares.
And when it comes to staying in shape during and after her pregnancy with 6-month old daughter Bryn Hoppy, Bethenny reveals she was determined to not overeat "out of emotion." She explains, "Most people treat pregnancy like the big binge, and then they can't take the excess weight off so they go on a crash diet."
So is baby #2 in the works for Bethenny? "I would love to have a second child, and it's not something I have time to wait for," she says. "You really experience your biological clock if you're my age."
With the second season of her Bravo spin-off show (now titled Bethenny Ever After) in the works, Bethenny is glad her Real Housewives of NYC days are long behind her.
"I'm completely done with women being rewarded for bad behavior," she says of her former castmates. "I don't bite the hand that feeds me, and I'm very grateful to Bravo, but thank God I got out of that alive. It was fun the first season. Then it got not fun, and then it got scary and unhealthy and disgusting."
In other Bethenny news, her mom Bernadette Birk is once again slamming her in the press. In a new interview with the HollywoodLife, Bernadette accuses Bethenny of purposely doing badly on Skating With The Stars. "Bethenny has always had an agenda," Bernadette says adding that Bethenny has been skating almost all of her life. "She couldn't be that clumsy if she tried! And this is a person that lived on skates as a child."
Bethenny is one of the three reality stars gracing January's cover of Redbook ((on newsstands December 21). The other two reality stars are Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi and Biggest Loser's Alison Sweeney. More photos of Bethenny in the mag below, including a photo with baby Bryn.
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Kim Kardashian, Bethenny Frankel Top Reality TV Stars Earning List!
The DailyBeast has released the 2010 earnings list of reality TV stars and E! star Kim Kardashian is sitting pretty on top of the list.
According to the site's calculations, the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star pulled in estimated $6 million this year alone! And how did Kimmy earn her money? Well from doing a countless number of endorsements (clothing lines, watch line, swimsuit line, fragrances, and diet-products), writing a book, doing a spin-off, and paid appearances. Kim reported commands up to $75,000 per paid appearance.
Coming in second place on the list is MTV's Lauren Conrad at $5 million. In a close third is Bravo reality star Bethenny Frankel at $4 million. Kate Gosselin is also number 5 on the list pulling in $3.5 million. In fact out of the top 10 reality earners, 8 are female.
The full list is below –
Kim Kardashian: $6m
Lauren Conrad: $5m
Bethenny Frankel: $4m
Audrina Patridge: $3.5m
Kate Gosselin: $3.5m
Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino: $3m
Khloe Kardashian: $2.5m
Kourtney Kardashian: $2.5m
DJ Pauly D: $2m
Kendra Wilkinson: $2m
According to the Daily Beast, Jersey Shore star Snooki failed to make the list because she only earned $750,000 this year. And while this list looks impressive, we do have some major doubts about a number of those estimated earnings.
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Bethenny Frankel: Having A Baby Has Helped My Brands Plus Bethenny Ever After Coming In February!
by Reality Tea on November 24th, 2010
In a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, Bravo reality star Bethenny Frankel openly admits that having a baby and getting married to Jason Hoppy has been good for her brands, which now includes two Bravo reality shows, a Skinnygirl Margarita mix, endorsement deals with Bluefly and British Airways, and several best-selling books.
"I'm not stupid," Bethenny says. "This is about the husband and the baby." According to the WSJ article, Bethenny can also add an endorsement for Pampers to her long list of endorsements as Procter & Gamble came calling following the birth of now 6-month old baby Bryn Hoppy.
Bethenny is even gearing up to add more to her brands as she is also working on some skin care products and a shapewear line. "It's about allowing people into my fishbowl in order to be successful," says Bethenny of her success on and off the TV screen.
"Our clients are very taken with her right now. Bethenny has entered into the mommy world and she hasn't posed for Playboy," says Amia French, a talent coordinator for Platinum Rye Entertainment, which helps corporations pair with celebrities. "Motherhood has only increased her value with us," adds Geri Allen, a spokeswoman for Campbell Soup Co.'s Pepperidge Farm unit, which also has a promotional agreement with Bethenny.
Bethenny has without a doubt come a long way since her days on Martha Stewart's The Apprentice back in 2005. She finished runner-up by the way. Since then, she has appeared on 3 seasons of Bravo's the Real Housewives of New York City before ultimately getting her own spin-off show Bethenny Getting Married following the announcement of her engagement and pregnancy.
The WSJ article also mentions that season 2 of BGM will be returning in February. The new title? "Bethenny Ever After."
Despite her success and growing number of business endeavors, Bethenny makes it clear there's still something she would like to have. Her own talk show that is. "I want to have a dialogue with my fans, and right now the only dialogue I can have is in 140-characters," she says, referring to her Twitter feed.
While everything Bethenny touches seems to turn to gold, her decision to appear on ABC's Skating With The Stars might turn out to be her biggest failure yet. The ratings for the show came out yesterday and it can only be described as disastrous. Despite having a lead-in from the most popular show on TV at the moment, Skating With The Stars only managed 11.3 million viewers. A drastic drop from the 23.3 million viewers that tuned in for Dancing With The Stars just moments before.
It gets even worse as only 6.91 million viewers tuned in for the last hour of the show's premiere. There are now rumblings that ABC is currently in panic mode.
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Bethenny Frankel Talks NYC Housewives & Jill, Ramona Singer To Launch Pinot Grigio Line
by Reality Tea on October 15th, 2010
The HollywoodLife blog is reporting that Bethenny Frankel, former star of Bravo's the Real Housewives of New York City, has completely discarded the show that made her a star.
Why? Well for one, Bethenny told the blog she no longer wants anything to do with the show. "I do not want to do any housewife episodes [this season]. Let's just leave it at that," said the star of Bethenny's Getting Married.
And when it comes to former BFF Jill Zarin, Bethenny makes it clear she has moved on from the friendship. "I'm not friends with Jill and we don't speak to each other," she said. "I'm so happy right now in my life that I could never ever wish anyone any ill will anyway. That is so 2009 — the show and the argument!"
Several media outlets have reported that Bethenny will make some guest appearances on the NYC Housewives next season due to her contract obligations.
In other NYC news, the Luxist blog is reporting that Ramona Singer, who's blood type might or might not be Pinot Grigio, is planning to launch her own Pinot Grigio wine!
According to the blog, Ramona has teamed up with Opici Wines for the new business venture. The Ramona Singer Pinot Grigio will hit the shelves next January and will reportedly retail for $14.99.
A photo of Ramona's wine label is below.
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Ramona Singer Reveals Which NYC Housewives Are Returning! Bethenny Begins Filming Season 2
by Reality Tea on September 17th, 2010
Following the report weeks ago that Bravo had invited back all of the Real Housewives of New York City from season 3, Ramona Singer is now revealing which of her co-stars have accepted Bravo's offer to return to the show!
Despite Kelly Bensimon and Jill Zarin's proclamations on several occasions that they received unfair editing by Bravo, and that they were contemplating not coming back, Ramona tells PEOPLE magazine that both famewhores ladies will indeed be returning for season 4.
In fact, Ramona, 53, (Ramona's 53? She looks great for her age) reveals all the ladies including Bethenny Frankel, Sonja Morgan, Alex McCord, Countess LuAnn, will be coming back. However, as we have previously reported, Bethenny will only make guest appearances on the season. "Bethenny will come on a little bit. We need a Bethenny moment," said Ramona.
Also joining all the ladies pictured above will be a new housewife. Ramona confirms the news to UsWeekly that a new NYC housewife will be joining the cast when filming begins next week. "We have this new girl coming on. She is very happy with herself," Ramona tells Usmagazine. "Not to say I'm not going to get pissed at her or have a fight with her about something — that's just who I am sometimes! I can't help it. But it's better I tell it to your face then behind your back, right?"
Ramona also discusses Bethenny's return to the show in her UsWeekly interview telling the site Bethenny will make "cameo appearances, just like I did on her show." In true Ramona fashion, she seems to take a shot, perhaps an unintentional shot at Teresa Giudice when she adds, "We are intertwined in a sense. She proved to Bravo you don't have to have table-flipping to get ratings."
In other NYC news, The HollywoodReporter is reporting that Bethenny has began filming the second season of her hit spin-off show, Bethenny Getting Married, this week. This comes as no surprise as the show was a hit for Bravo, giving the network it's highest rated series debut in its history. A source tells the site Bravo will likely change the name of the show.

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Why Humane Meat is an Oxymoron - The Lyman v. Niman Debate
Michele Simon, JD, MPH, Eat Drink Politics (reprinted with permission)
May 20, 2010, I attended an entertaining debate between ex-cattle rancher turned vegan Howard Lyman, author of Mad Cowboy, and Nicolette Hahn Niman, author of Righteous Porkshop and wife of Niman Ranch founder Bill Niman. The event was co-sponsored by VegNews Magazine and Earth Island Institute and held in the impressive David Brower Center in Berkeley. (I know, where else?)
The subtitle of the event asked the question, Can you be a "good environmentalist" and still eat meat?
Full disclosure: this is not an objective review of what transpired. Having spent many years as a vegetarian and now mostly-vegan, I've thought long and hard about these issues and I've concluded there is no moral justification for eating meat. I decided to write this post because much of what I heard last night was not adequately addressed by the speakers and I want to add my own thoughts.
The two authors began by agreeing that factory-farmed meat is a disaster and has no place on our planet. The debate boiled down to whether or not humanely and sustainably-raised animals were a viable alternative to the current system, from both an ecological and ethical perspective.
Ms. Niman certainly held her own when it came to the scientific and environmental arguments for sustainable meat, disputing Lyman's claims that any type of animal farming harms the planet.
But when Niman tried to argue that animals were essential to sustainable farming, she never did explain why they have to be killed in order to be part of the closed loop system she espouses.
Once the discussion turned directly to the ethics of killing animals for food, Lyman easily had the moral high ground. And Niman herself seemed uncomfortable making several tired and twisted arguments.
First, she said that humans have been eating meat for hundreds of thousands of years, so it's a natural part of our diet. But humans have not been slaughtering cows and chickens for all that time. It's certainly true that humans have eaten meat throughout our evolution and Niman was right to correct Lyman when he claimed that we are natural herbivores. Humans are omnivores, which simply means that we can eat both meat and plants, not that we have to. The dispute is really whether we should.
The anthropological evidence is clear that early humans either ate the leftover meat that was killed by carnivores (when was the last time you chased down an animal and bit into it?) or killed small animals like rabbits, all for the purpose of survival when little else was available. Since modern agriculture kicked in (along with modern marketing), humans have been brainwashed to eat a diet mainly comprised of animals, but that was not the diet of our ancestors. Rather, they subsisted largely on nuts, seeds, and fruit, and it is such a plant-based diet, according to decades of established science (not to mention Michael Pollan) that humans thrive on.
Next, Lyman and Niman disagreed on just how much destruction is caused by our conventional food system in general. Niman tried to argue that all food production causes harm to animals, presumably from various disruptive farming techniques. Lyman dismissed this argument by saying there's a difference between nematodes and cows, to which Niman responded that she also meant wild animals.
I am willing to accept the argument that conventional farming methods causes harm to animals, and that vegans cannot claim that their eating habits cause no harm. But because wild animals are harmed as a by-product of plant production is not a reason to deliberately raise and slaughter more animals who would never exist in the first place. Why not try to minimize all animal suffering?
Niman then proceeded to bury herself even deeper in the ethical morass by making the astonishing claim that animals suffer a lot in the wild, since it's such a dangerous world out there, and aren't they better off under the care of humane, kind ranchers like her husband? This sounded chillingly like the arguments for slavery. You know, blacks were really much better off getting free room and board and they weren't treated all that badly were they?
This argument once again fails to acknowledge that there is a vast world of difference between animals in the wild (who yes, have to navigate all sorts of dangers, that is nature and cannot be helped) and the breeding of countless animals who would otherwise never be brought into this world.
Next, Niman had to explain the disconnect between how she herself is a vegetarian and her defense of humane meat. She said in many different ways that being vegetarian is a personal choice and that she does not try to persuade others to make the same decision. But isn't factory farming also an ethical issue and isn't she trying to persuade those to perpetuate those immoral business practices to stop doing so? Why do her ethics of caring about how animals are treated stop at the point of slaughter?
Moreover, it's an ethical cop-out to claim that being vegetarian is a personal choice. Of course it is, but that doesn't mean we cannot as a society recognize moral standards we expect others to follow. We do it all the time in many contexts. For example, when we say murder is wrong, rape is wrong, driving too fast is wrong, etc. You name your law, I will give you a moral argument that backs it up.
I am not saying we should out-law meat eating, but claiming a decision is "personal" does not take it off the table for discussion. Again, slavery is a helpful analogy. At one time, slavery was acceptable, thought to be a personal choice (but of course, only for the owners, not for the slaves; similarly, the animals do not get a choice). In time we recognized as a society that slavery was immoral and then we outlawed it. That is the natural course of the evolution of human values. Our treatment of animals has also evolved over time and it can and should continue to do so.
When asked if she ever bonded with an animal, she talked about a cow she and her husband loved so much because she was "special" and so they decided to give her a "pass" from slaughter. How lucky for that animal, and how unlucky for all the others on the ranch who apparently were not special enough.
During the Q&A session, I tried to ask Niman how exactly sustainable meat could ever work on a mass scale considering that her husband's own company failed to live up to difficult economic challenges. (See this article for how Niman Ranch was forced to merge last year with its largest investor due to economic hardship; Bill Niman himself left the business back in 2007 over ethical standards disputes.)
She bypassed the heart of the question, instead explaining how an academic report showed that it's theoretically possible for humanely-raised, sustainable meat to feed the world, but only if people cut down on their meat consumption, a concept which she supports (on this point we agree).
But she failed to acknowledge that in our current profit-driven, capitalistic society, it's extremely difficult for anyone who wants to run a business "ethically" to compete, again, as her own husband learned the hard way. Lyman tried to make this point by saying the system is rigged in favor of the large, unethical producers. This is exactly right, as the recent oil disaster also proves.
Moreover, I don't hear any "eat less meat" messages coming out of the American Grassfed Association. Rather, you can learn at an upcoming meeting, about "growing your grassfed business." And herein lies the rub. In order for any large business to succeed in our economy, it must grow or die. Growth and sustainability simply do not fit in the same sentence.
At the end, Lyman got to the heart of the ethical question when he asked, would the Holocaust have been OK if the Jews had stayed in 5-star hotels and been fed lavish meals before they were escorted to their deaths? This to me sums up the moral conundrum that people such as the Nimans must face.
Last night, I became more convinced than ever that humane meat is an oxymoron.
Michele Simon is a public health lawyer whose first book, Appetite for Profit, exposed food industry lobbying and deceptive marketing.


I was talking with Basically Amazing Ashley the other day about Magic Under Glass (after I was talking with Jaclyn Dolamore, but that's another story, and I am a tease, so I'm not going to tell you about that yet...). Anywhoodle, it made me want to reread Magic Under Glass. And, um, relate a silly little story with you.
In June, when I was at ALA, my friend Evie and I were weaving our way through the crowds of ravenous readers, and I just happened to glimpse a familiar face. Jaclyn Dolamore*. So I abruptly left Evie (sorry, Evie!), turned around, completely interrupted the conversation Jacklyn was in, tapped her on the shoulder and said "Magic Under Glass." Not a question, just a Capt. Obvious statement to the author of said book. She just looked at me for a second and nodded. I said "High five!" and proceeded to do said thing. I think all of the people that were around her (including Maggie Stiefvater, who gave me a look and laughed) thought I was crazy, but I just felt the need to share a high-five with her. Her book made me happy, ya know?
And that was it. I came, I high-fived, I went back to the abandoned Evie and went on with ALAing.
Thinking about that little scenario was part of what made me want to reread the book; just being back in that mindframe, just shortly after I'd read it, and feeling the need to high-five the author. Like a total dork.
That is hilarious! I've been wanting to read this one for awhile now. My library doesn't carry it and I'm too cheap to buy it...but I may have to now with this reminder of how awesome it is!
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This Week in Texas Methodist History August 26
Rev. John W. Goodwin Leads Air Dome Meeting in Caldwell August 26, 1911
Methodist meetings were held in a variety of locations. There were brush arbors, temporary structures of poles and branches cut from nearby trees. Some campgrounds had permanent tabernacles which were basically barns without sides. The tabernacle at Lakeview in the Texas Conference is a good example. Many protracted meetings and revivals were held in the church building. Travelling evangelists often used tents. They were so common that the word "tent meeting" has become part of our vocabulary.
From the 1890's to about World War I there was another type of structure that hosted revivals in Texas towns. That was the Air Dome, sometimes called a Sky Dome. It was more permanent that a tent but less substantial than a church.
Many Texas towns had air domes. An investor would rent a vacant lot near down town; build a wooden stage covered by a roof. The audience would be seated on benches or folding chairs in the open air in front of the stage. The whole lot was often surrounded by a board fence. The audience thus sat under a dome of air.
Air domes were built mainly for touring theatrical troupes and motion picture viewing. They also hosted travelling Chautauqua speakers and prohibition rallies. They enabled those activities to continue their seasons into the summer. Motion picture theaters were necessarily windowless to provide darkness and became unbearable in the summer. Air domes required little investment and soon many towns and cities from El Paso to Orange had them. (I have found evidence of their existence in Dallas, Alto, Palestine, Bastrop, Chillicothe, Breckenridge, Greenville, etc.)
In August 1911 the preacher at Caldwell, the Rev. John W. Goodwin (b. 1873), held the summer revival meeting in the air dome located in that city. He was assisted by Dr. W. D. White of Navasota. The starting date was announced, but the ending date was left open. Methodists of the era often extended their revival meetings as long as the Holy Spirit continued to bring sinners to salvation. The 1911 Caldwell meeting lasted two weeks.
Many readers of this column have attended tent meetings. Some have worshipped in a tabernacle, but air domes have passed from the scene. As the number of automobiles increased, traffic noise increased and created distractions for air dome meetings. Motion picture theater owners were among the first adopters of air conditioning. The air dome era passed quickly.
Rev. John W. Goodwin, the revival leader, and Mrs. Goodwin were both blessed with long lives and provided decades of faithful service to the Texas Annual Conference. The writer was a frequent visitor in their retirement residence in Atlanta during the 1950s. Rev. Goodwin died Sept 9, 1968 and Mrs. Goodwin the following February. They thus lived long enough to see their grandson, John Goodwin Tower, elected and re-elected to the U. S. Senate.
"Superstar" Evangelists Hold Tent Meeting at Taylor. August 19, 1895
Taylor, located in eastern Williamson County, was treated to two "superstar" evangelists in the summer of 1895. Promoters erected a platform and tent on the town square in anticipation of the arrival of the Rev. John B. Culpepper.
John B. Culpepper was born in 1849 in Georgia. He as converted at an early age and received his Methodist credentials in 1870. He served pastorates in Georgia, and in 1886 his life was changed when he was appointed agent for the Orphan's Home in Macon.
The freedom from a local church appointment meant that Culpepper spent his time travelling, preaching, and raising money for the orphanage. He had found his true calling! He attracted the attention of Sam Jones who offered him a spot in his evangelistic enterprises, but Culpepper preferred to work a solo act. As his reputation grew, so did attendance at his meetings.
As part of the arrangements for the meeting in Taylor, he wired ahead that he had suffered a street car accident and would need to preach from a swivel chair. A local furniture merchant honored that request.
The chair was actually a prop in the act Culpepper used to boost attendance at his meetings. Toward the end of the first night's meeting, he would feign a seizure and fall out of the chair. His two sons who travelled as assistants would rush to carry him away. Such a performance almost guaranteed a full tent on the second night. Attendees wanted to see if Culpepper had died.
The extreme theatrics proved successful. Bishop Ainsworth praised him. "He has held more meetings, preached more sermons and lead more men to Christ than any other man now in the church." He authored about a dozen books (his sermon notes)in the first decade of the 20th century. Culpepper died in 1937 in Monroe, Louisiana.
The song leader for the Taylor meeting achieved even greater fame than did the preacher. Charles Tillman (1861-1943) was one of the seminal figures in adapting African American gospel music for use in white churches. The process began in 1889 when he heard an African American musical group singing "Old Time Religion." He copied as much of the hymn as he could, reworked it, and published it in a 1891 song book.
Tillman "borrowed" from many sources. His "Life's Railway to Heaven" (sometimes known by its first line,"Life is like a mountain railroad" came from a Mormon poet. It continues to a be a staple of southern gospel music, having been recorded by various artists including Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, the Carter Family, Tennessee Ernie Ford, etc.
His publishing ventures prospered. He diversified into recording and radio. Tillman was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1993.
As for the fainting act—It didn't happen in Taylor. A vandal sliced up the borrowed swivel chair with a pocketknife making it unusable.
Houston Daily Post Reveals Source of Fowler Image, August 12, 1900
In 1900 as today newspaper editors filled Sunday editions with feature stories. On Sunday, August 12, 1900, the Houston Daily Post did just that with a story based on the new church building at McMahan's Chapel that was dedicated two weeks earlier. The Post printed images of Littleton Fowler, Littleton M. Fowler, and Ellis Smith (father, son, and grandson). The image of Littleton Fowler is familiar to Texas Methodists since it is the only image any of us has ever seen of the pioneer Texas Methodist preacher. The caption for the picture reveals its source.
The image credit in the Post says that after Littleton Fowler's death, someone in Tennessee sent L. M. Fowler an image that had appeared in a magazine. The image is a side view, but thankfully contains much more detail than a silhouette. The story gets more interesting---the caption reveals that the artist did not include Fowler's ears in the original. A photographer was called in to superimpose L. M. Fowler's ears upon his father's image!.
The picture caption reveals another detail this writer has not seen in other sources. It says, "The old gentleman was also hairless and the wig he has on in the picture is now in Nacogdoches." Is the "old gentleman" Littleton Fowler or L. M. Fowler?" Littleton Morris Fowler was born Oct. 15, 1844. Littleton Fowler died in January 1846 when he was 43 years old. Although 43 is not old by today's standards, the "old gentleman" must be referring to Littleton Fowler. L. M. Fowler was still alive when the article was written, and would have no reason to leave his wig in Nacogdoches.
The Sunday feature in the Post thus reveals that the one image we have of Littleton Fowler has been altered from the original.
The feature article also tells the exciting story of one of the McMahan Chapel members , William Scurlock, (misspelled in the article)and his escape from the Fannin Massacre during the Texas Revolution. See the images and read the exciting escape story at
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth83319/m1/18/zoom/?q=fowler%20date:1900-1900
This Week in Texas Methodist History August 5
Epworth-by-the Sea Meeting Begins, August 6, 1908
Although a Methodist encampment near Corpus Christi called Epworth-by-the-Sea lasted only a few years, it was one of the most important expressions of cooperation between the annual conferences in Texas Methodist history. Each summer a tent city was created with thousands of young people. A hospital, restaurant, barbershop, post office, regular rail service and other amenities were created to serve the population.
The 1908 encampment represents the Epworth movement at full tide. Two bishops (Key and Hendrix) provided inspirational sermons. Three future bishops (Hay, Ainsworth and DuBose) were also on the program. A. J. Weeks and George Rankin, both of whom were to occupy the editorship of the Texas Christian Advocate and Frank Onderdonk were among the MECS luminaries who also took the pulpit.
In addition to the superstars of MECS pulpits, there were numerous workshops and much recreational time devoted to bathing in the surf and fishing. The event began on Thursday, August 6 and continued until Sunday, August 16.
I invite you to read how the Corpus Christi Caller covered the event. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168724/m1/1/zoom/?q=methodist%20date:1902-1910
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Brazil set the ball past master of what is his name?
06080701162010-04-14 21:10:21 +0000 #1
Brazil dribbling master's name?
Inter Milan captain future2010-04-14 21:27:57 +0000 #3
Ronnie take Jinxue2010-04-14 21:48:21 +0000 #4
Denilson - de - Oliveira (Denilson De Oliveira)
Place of Birth: Brazil
Field Previous Position: Forward
birth: August 24, 1977
Number: 99
caps: 61
team goals: 10 to effect the club are: Greece, Kavala Team
played for the club: Atletico Madrid Real Betis Bordeaux Flamengo Sao Paulo FC Dallas MLS team Palmeiras 伊图比亚拉 Vietnam Haiphong
Honours: World Cup runner-up to 1998
America's Cup winner Sao Paulo state championship in 1998
1997 CONMEBOL Cup Americas Cup 2002 World Cup
Denilson was the world's most expensive footballer. Denilson is a talented left foot will be in Brazil World Cup coach Zagallo has praised Brazil's football history, he is the best Zuobian Feng, and Na Baxi football legend Garrincha the functional and the right wing of the the comparison, it is undoubtedly very high marks from Denilson.
Denilson is also the same as the number of Brazilian football legend was born poor, was brought to play in the streets do rag ball. He was 13 years old Sao Paulo, Brazil soccer team phase, and the age of 17 had the honor to accept the Brazilian marshal Santana's instructions, and greatly enhanced skills to participate in Qatar under the age of 20, held the World Youth Championships, in the race burst on the scene edge. November 1996 Denilson in the 2-0 victory over Brazil in the match against Cameroon, the first appearance, from the Brazilian national team is a frequent visitor to reserve status at the 1998 World Cup in France, though infrequent appearances, but with excellent physical, life-like dummy, especially signs extraordinary action, "riding a bicycle", attracted the eyes of many European clubs.
World Cup, the Spanish team Real Betis amazing record 34.6 million U.S. dollars in the astronomical sign Denilson, but in Spain, Denilson was mediocre, the fans and the media blamed frequent. Denilson has never been a football savior, but only a great football player. He faced criticism that can be treated calmly, gradually recover the state, on the soccer field to show a good player should do. In the Sydney Olympic Games, Denilson has enough chance to prove itself. 2005 local time on August 23 in France, French Bordeaux club's official website announced that they reached agreement with Real Betis, Denilson Bordeaux officially signed a one-year short-term contract
in the football world, this person is an absolute alternative. His maverick, the kind of football he stubbornly anachronistic understanding of the unique, and his career ups and downs, lift ups and downs, people have to think deeply. He is Brazilian star Denilson, the Brazilian national team has been wearing jersey No. 10, had more than 30 million U.S. dollars to create sky-high price of a genius move! Once, he was so a spark endless charm. However, just two or three years during which he was already fading out of the focus of the world outside of football is no longer the most popular top line star. This man, if only one is the night-blooming cereus, was already going slowly forgotten by people! Those who saw him play in person will deny that Denilson is indeed a genius, unparalleled genius. Between him and the football has a kind of innate understanding though. Harmonization of his ball technology is extremely skilled. He was on the pitch the ball like a dance, a wonderful gesture, dummy ghost unpredictable, changeable. Is coincident with the sounds of nature even if there is in the long mystery of a strange unknown music beat, making a kind of shock the world of dance. Denilson's sad but precisely because he is only a weak dancer, not a blood and iron men. He came to pitch the only purpose is to demonstrate through their own dance to the world football art - to be exact is dribbling art, he is an absolute aestheticism, he is only pursuing the realm of beauty, He is only loyal to the United States, this is his only criteria. In his mind, only the United States is the supreme art of football, but on the side of everything, including the outcome, he thought that all that is not important, not worth the care. So he dancing in a dream of the green, dancing, waving his long, slim legs of elastic dancing until the final and complete loneliness. Transfer from the high price the Spanish Real Betis, then was banished to Turkey's newly promoted, Denilson's failure represents a failure of good football, Denilson samba style of art too fragile, lack of vitality, not doomed In the harsh reality of football in the world to survive.
June 2, 2009, the Brazilian star Denilson Haiphong in Vietnam show the ball. Was worth the world's first Brazilian player Denilson will join the league in Vietnam, Haiphong Vietnam, team effectiveness. Denilson is the 2002 World Cup winning Brazilian team members played for Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Spain's Real Betis, as well as France, Saudi Arabia and the United States club.
1995 St. Paul League season 41 games / 3 goals
1996 Sao Paulo league season 18 games / 3 goals to 1997, Sao Paulo league season 14 games / 0 goals
1998-1999 season, a Royal Tony Pettis Grade League 35 games / 2 goals
1999-2000 Royal Tony Pettis League season 32 games / 3 goals
2000 season, 11 games 3 Flamengo League Ball
2000-2001 season, Tony Pettis Royal League 21 games / 2 goals
2003-2004 season Class Royal Tony Pettis League 29 games / 2 goals
2005-2006 season, 31 league games of Bordeaux / 3 of the ball
the 2006-2007 season 阿尔纳萨尔 League 15 games / 3 goals
wangyu02062010-04-14 22:27:56 +0000 #5
Denilson has left the League of the United States. Brazilian genius of that year after being bought Betis, hit, unfortunately not always able to give full play to their potential Spanish. 1999/2000 season, Betis brutally demoted, Denilson on loan to Flamengo in Brazil. In 2005, Betis will be sold to the French Denilson Porto, only one-year contract. Because the salary could not agree on a free transfer after the end of the season in Saudi Arabia Al-Nasr. Played only 15 games after Denilson to the United States Major League Soccer team FC Dallas. February 2008, Denilson of Brazil Palmeiras 1 year contract, coach Luxemburgo hopes to inspire his team can help win. He wore jersey No. 19. Now she unemployment
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By BetWithUsTeam December 6, 2021 College Basketball Picks
BANKER (Columbia vs. Colgate)
A little surprised that Colgate is this heavily favored after their recent play. Colgate has really been struggling on the defensive side of the ball lately as they've given up 74 to northeastern, 70 to Niagara, and 89 to Harvard. They lost all 3 of these games and were favorites in each one of them. Colgate has a lot of talent as they are 67th in the nation in adjusted offensive efficiency 73rd in the nation in 3P percentage.
I like Columbia in this spot simply because I don't think Colgate is playing well enough defensively to string together stops which would lead to a blowout. In 9 games so far this season, Columbia has scored over 60 points in all but one. They've also only allowed more than 80 points twice in 9 games as well. Columbia is led by freshman Geronimo Rubio De La Rosa who is averaging 14/3/3 on 41% shooting and big man Liam Murphy averaging 13/5/1 on 41% shooting and 37% from deep.
Columbia is also coming off probably their most solid game of the season in a double-digit win over Maine where they really defended at a high level holding them to 40% shooting. Columbia also played Boston college, Fordham, and Lehigh very well on the road as they only lost these games by 13, 10 and 7 points. Bottom line here is that I think this line is way too steep considering the state of both teams coming into this one.
Colgate lacks an identity on defense as they have given up a ton of points lately to below average offensive teams and Columbia is a team who can put points in a hurry if they get hot from the outside. I think this line should be closer to 15/16 so I see a lot of value here getting Columbia at over 20 points. Score Prediction: Colgate 84-69
BANKER: Columbia +21 at -110 (1.91) at BetUS
New Mexico State is a team that I have written about before and I'm now jumping on their train. They have been very impressive to start the year, both with winning/covering by larger margins and by winning/covering in closer matchups where production in clutch situations was needed and they delivered. New Mexico State won their last game on a buzzer beater 3 from talented guard Jabari Rice who is averaging 14/4/4 on 45% shooting and 37% from deep.
This is an interesting matchup as NMSU already played and lost to New Mexico last week 101-94 in a game where they were 10.5-point favorites. I think the revenge factor is real here as I anticipate New Mexico State making the necessary adjustments on the defensive end to hold down New Mexico. New Mexico won their first true road game against UTEP, and I think the revenge factor outweighs the home court advantage for New Mexico here.
Both teams have somewhat struggled defensively to this point, but I believe New Mexico State has played the tougher schedule as they have solid wins over UC Irvine, Davidson, and Utep x2 and I believe this tougher schedule has them more prepared for this game. Score prediction: NMSU 81-74
Mercer is a team who I have bet on and against quite frequently over the past few years. They are a team who usually plays very well in specific situations and narratives. One situation that they typically play well in is in the underdog role. Mercer is 3-1 ATS as an underdog this season with one being an impressive cover on the road at Arkansas. They are facing a team in Coastal Carolina who has been playing well lately but against a lesser schedule.
Coastal has wins over D2 Ferrum, Valpo, a weak South Carolina team, and Winthrop who has gone through a coach and roster overhaul. Bottom line here is that I think the wrong team is favored but I think Mercer will play up to their tendencies and give a great effort here as an underdog and come away with the win. Score prediction: 72-65 Mercer.
Parlay: New Mexico St ML/Mercer ML at +274 (3.74) at BetUS
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A giant gassy planet – the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely – has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, including researchers from Queen's.
Dr Christopher Watson led the group from the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's which teamed up with researchers across the globe including the Universities of Warwick, Cambridge, and Leicester, along with the Geneva Observatory, the German Aerospace Centre and the Universidad de Chile.
This led to the discovery of the unusual planet NGTS-1b – the largest planet compared to the size of its companion star ever discovered in the universe. NGTS-1b is a gas giant six hundred light years away, the size of Jupiter, and orbits a small star with a radius and mass half that of our sun.
NGTS-1b's existence challenges the theories that a planet of this size could not be formed by such a small star. According to these theories, small stars can readily form rocky planets but do not gather enough material together to form Jupiter-sized planets.
With a temperature of approximately 530°C, or 800 Kelvin NGTS-1b is a hot Jupiter and at least as large but with around 20% less mass. It is very close to its star – just 3% of the distance between Earth and the Sun – and orbits the star every 2.6 days, meaning a year on NGTS-1b lasts just two and a half days.
Dr Christopher Watson from the Astrophysics Research Centre explained: "Queen's has played a pivotal role in the development of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) – the instrument that found the planet and after which it is named.
Dr Daniel Bayliss from the University of Warwick, lead author of the research, commented: "The discovery of NGTS-1b was a complete surprise to us – such massive planets were not thought to exist around such small stars. This is the first exoplanet we have found with our new NGTS facility and we are already challenging the received wisdom of how planets form.
The researchers spotted the planet using the state-of-the-art Next-Generation Transit Survey,a wide-field observing facility made of a compact ensemble of telescopes, designed to search for transiting planets on bright stars.
Dr Katja Poppenhaeger, a lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's who also worked on the project, said: "M-dwarfs are the most numerous stars in the universe, so we really need to understand what the planets around them look like. NGTS-1b is an important piece of the puzzle."


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I am invariably saddened when I come across Facebook profiles of people who have not uploaded a cover picture into their Timelines. It is possible that some of these people have not bothered to learn how to; and in that case, this tutorial should be very useful. Those who simply leave their Timelines without covers pass up an opportunity to make a statement about themselves or something that they like or believe in.
First of all, the term Timeline 'Cover' may be something of a misnomer. From a print publishing point of view, the 'Cover' approximates more the 'masthead' that one finds at the top of the front page of every newspaper.
At any rate, the Cover is an 850 x 315 pixel slot at the top of the Timeline into which a picture can be fitted. The picture may either be uploaded straight from the hard drive or chosen from among pictures previously uploaded into Facebook.
Clicking 'Ok' will bring down a menu that offers you two choices.
Choose Photos will enable you to select a Timeline Cover from the pictures previously uploaded into Facebook. A pop-up window as shown in the graphic below will appear. Choose one from among the pictures then click ok. If you wish to look at other albums, click the View Albums link at the upper right hand corner of the window.
Upload Photo will ask you to find a photo in your hard drive to use as Cover picture. Simply navigate to the directory in your hard drive where the picture is located, click on the picture and Facebook will do the rest.
This is the part where some Timeline Covers fail. Unless your picture is exactly 850 x 315 pixels, chances are that it will fit badly into the slot. Most badly fitting Timeline Covers are because users who are testing the feature are uploading for the first time fail to notice that Facebook has thoughtfully included a function for positioning the picture. This instruction appears at the center of the uploaded picture.
I hope you have noticed that the mouse pointer has changed into a hand icon. Click anywhere on the picture and drag up, down or to the left or right until you are satisfied. Click Save Changes to finalise your Timeline Cover or Cancel to choose another picture.
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In Focus – Six players to watch out for in the ICC WCL Division Four
Posted on Apr 28, 2018 Apr 28, 2018 by Rustom Deboo
The 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Four is set to commence in Malaysia tomorrow. The week-long 50-over tournament will feature six Associate nations, with the top two teams earning promotion to the Division Three tournament scheduled later this year, and getting a step closer towards a shot at qualification for the 2023 World Cup.
The tournament will feature a round-robin stage, followed by playoffs. The teams in action are Uganda (fifth in 2017 Division Three), Malaysia (sixth in 2017 Division Three), Denmark (third in 2016 Division Four), Bermuda (fourth in 2016 Division Four), Jersey (first in 2017 Division Five) and Vanuatu (second in 2017 Division Five).
Eighteen matches will be played across three venues in Malaysia. With a few hours to go for what promises to be a keenly-fought and unpredictable week of highly contextual one-day cricket, here is a look at six players – one from each of the participating nations – who will be worth keeping an eye on in the tournament.
Henry Ssenyondo (Uganda)
A lot is expected from the Cricket Cranes, who slipped out of Division Three in 2017 after an ordinary show at home. Left-arm spinner Henry Ssenyondo will be one of the pivots for Uganda, as they aim for redemption. Ssenyondo was in good form in the recent home series against Saudi Arabia, and had scalped a vital 3/30 against Malaysia, Uganda's first opponents, at the WCL Division Three.
Ahmed Faiz (Malaysia)
Ahmed Faiz may no longer be skipper, but he remains one of the most dependable batsmen for Malaysia. He led the team that finished last at the 2017 WCL Division Three, and also endured a poor run with the bat – a rarity, as he usually tends to score big in the World Cricket League. With Malaysia, as hosts, having a great chance for promotion, Faiz will be raring to make amends by piling on the runs.
Vanuatu's Patrick Matautaava looks to hit one en route to his sensational 139* against Germany at the 2017 ICC WCL Division Five (source – ICC / vanuatuindependent.com)
Bashir Shah (Denmark)
Left-arm spinner Bashir Shah was the second highest wicket-taker at the 2016 WCL Division Four in the USA, with 13 wickets at 12.61. Though his performance could not spur the Danes to Division Three, Bashir's wiles proved to be a handful for many a batsman. Denmark will hope for an encore from the experienced 35-year-old, who can be banked upon to take the game away from the opposition.
Kamau Leverock (Bermuda)
Bermuda have been on the decline in the past decade, but in left-handed opener Kamau Leverock, they have one of the more exciting talents on the Associate circuit. His barnstorming 137 against Jersey was one of the highlights of the 2016 WCL Division Four, and showed that he is capable of dominating bowling attacks from the word go. If he gets going in Malaysia, Bermuda could be in with a chance.
Ben Stevens (Jersey)
Jersey's triumph at the 2017 WCL Division Five in South Africa owed a lot to Ben Stevens, who was the joint highest wicket-taker with 14 wickets at 10.50 through his left-arm spin, and his team's second highest run-getter with a tally of 204 at 40.80. Jersey have twice been relegated from Division Four (2014 and 2016), and a strong display from the southpaw can go a long way in bucking the trend.
Patrick Matautaava (Vanuatu)
Vanuatu's maiden entry into Division Four was driven by 26-year-old Patrick Matautaava, whose 139* in 76 balls against Germany in a must-win group game of the 2017 WCL Division Five sealed a chase of 228 in just 28.2 overs. Also, his 60-ball 83 helped Vanuatu beat Italy in the semifinal. Matautaava's hitting prowess, coupled with his medium pace, makes him Vanuatu's biggest game-changer.
Tags: Ahmed Faiz, Associate Cricket, Bashir Shah, Ben Stevens, Henry Ssenyondo, Kamau Leverock, Malaysia, Patrick Matuataava, World Cricket LeagueCategories: In Focus
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After Scouts lift gay youth ban, Baptist group calls for firings
Wednesday Jun 12, 2013 5:16 PM
Jim Urquhart / Reuters file
Members of the Boys Scouts of America march in a gay pride parade in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2, 2013.
By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News
HOUSTON — The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday called for the removal of some of the Boy Scouts' leadership after the organization voted to allow gay youth to join, but did not ask its affiliated churches to pull their sponsorship of Scouting.
The convention approved the call in a resolution crafted by a committee at the group's annual meeting in Houston. It comes three weeks after the Boy Scouts of America voted in an historic ballot to allow gay youth to join after the issue of LGBT membership had roiled the youth organization for years.
"Bapists didn't put this on the agenda. The Boy Scouts of America put this on the agenda. This was something to which we had to respond," said Russell Moore, president of the convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee.
"The purpose of this resolution is not to call down fire from heaven on the leadership of the Boy Scouts of America," he added. "It's to seek to persuade, to seek to engage in a conversation."
The resolution doesn't name specific Boy Scouts leaders, but noted it believed some in executive and board positions had tried to enact the membership change earlier this year without first getting input from "the full range of the Scouting family" and asked for the BSA to "remove" them.
Deron Smith, a spokesman for the BSA, responded by email, saying that the organization "has some of the finest volunteer leaders in the world. We are thankful for their tireless commitment to serving the youth of this nation and investing in its future."
Allowing openly gay youth in Scouting, according to the Baptists resolution, "has the potential to complicate basic understandings of male friendships, needlessly politicize human sexuality, and heighten sexual tensions within the Boy Scouts."
Though gay adults are still banned, the Southern Baptists feel their inclusion is just a matter of time – a worry expressed by other conservative religious sponsors of the Boy Scouts.
"We express our well-founded concern that the current executive leadership of the BSA, along with certain board members, may utilize this membership policy change as merely the first step toward future approval of homosexual leaders in the Scouts," the resolution said.
The resolution, however, did not go as far as recommending that Southern Baptist-affiliated churches leave the Boy Scouts.
But it asked those churches and families that planned to stay to "work toward the reversal of this new membership policy and to advocate against any future change in leadership and membership policy that normalizes sexual conduct opposed to the biblical standard."
For those that leave, as some have done, the convention asked them to explore a faith-based alternative, the Royal Ambassadors.
The impact of the vote is not clear. Though Baptist churches sponsor nearly 4,000 units consisting of more than 108,000 youth, the number of SBC-affiliated churches is unknown, according to the BSA, the SBC and the Association of Baptists for Scouting.
The SBC-affiliated churches are autonomous and can handle the SBC resolutions however they choose, according to Steve Lemke, chairman of the resolutions committee that drafted the resolution.
"At most, we could have expressed a stronger statement that we urged Southern Baptist congregations to withdraw from Scouts ... we stopped short of that," said Lemke.
"I think we've maybe given some ammunition to both sides for the local churches to prayerfully make a decision. But our main concern is that they not abandon the ministry of boys," he added.
The Boy Scouts have reached out to the religious institutions, which make up more than 70 percent of the organization's charter partners and play a key role in the viability of Scouting units, to encourage them to stick with one of the nation's most popular youth programs.
The BSA has maintained that the change, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2014, is consistent with Scouting's values.
"Scouting's youth member policy is not about the BSA endorsing homosexuality, or forcing its chartered organizations to do the same. This change allows Scouting to be more compassionate in its response to a young person who expresses a same sex attraction, but is not engaging in sexual activity, by no longer calling for their automatic removal from the program," BSA spokesman, Deron Smith, said in an email.
"We believe the BSA policy is fully consistent with how Southern Baptist Churches respond to young people in their congregations and allows them to maintain their beliefs about homosexuality and minister to children who are still learning and developing," he added. Since the membership change by the BSA's National Council in late May, religious institutions have formulated their responses to the decision, issuing them over the last few weeks.
Some of the biggest BSA partners, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the United Methodist Men and Catholics (the National Catholic Committee on Scouting), have encouraged their members to stay with the Boy Scouts in statements of support. A statement from the Mormon church was read at religious services last week.
Still, some Baptist families have contacted NBC News, telling them that their church Scouting sponsor would be walking away, such as that for Pack 215 in Harrison, Ark. Other Christian conservative families have sought out faith-based alternatives, which another Boy Scouts charter partner – the Assemblies of God -- has urged them to consider.
But some in the Baptist family have encouraged churches to continue to offer the program, too.
A.J. Smith, president of the Baptist Scouting association, said he had received assurances from the Boy Scouts that charter partners could craft their own codes of conduct on the boys, which he believed would be sufficient to keep sexuality – a key issue for a number of Scouting families – out of the program.
"…I believe that it is possible, even desirable, for Baptist churches to continue to utilize Scouting as an outreach ministry of the church. How it is done, however, must change," he wrote in a statement dated June 7. "No longer can a church simply give meeting space to the Scouts. Churches must take a proactive approach to Scouting and involve members of the local congregation alongside Scout parents as leaders, set expectations for leaders consistent with the values of the church.
"In this way churches can turn what looks like a negative into a positive, having an influence in shaping the values of another generation, and even reach youth that might not otherwise be reached with the gospel," he added.
Carol Gilley, a member of an SBC-affiliated church whose pastor has said will drop its charter of her Pack 215, said she and her family would find a way to keep the program going locally. She has two sons in the Boy Scouts, too, and believes homosexuality is wrong.
"I'm not changing. I mean, my kids love what they do. We love what we do and we're just going to stick with it," she said of Scouting.
"Are they going to be harmed? Or are they going to be bad because they decided to stick with it? Heck no. No, they're not. ... It's almost like I'm defending homosexuality, and I'm not. It's just, it's there, it's there, and we have to deal with it."
If you are a current or former member of the Boy Scouts and would like to share your thoughts on how your troop, pack or council is handling the change in the membership policy, you can email the reporter at miranda.leitsinger@msnbc.com. We may use some comments for a follow-up story, so please specify if your remarks can be used and provide your name, hometown, age, Boy Scout affiliation and a phone number.
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