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Easing on hold as outlook improves
By Chen Jia | China Daily | Updated: 2017-10-16 06:54
Forecast: GDP expected to continue rising at 6.9% in second half of year
Positive expectations for China's economic growth in the second half of the year have consolidated the central bank's determination to refrain from monetary easing, but prevention of risk will be a priority.
GDP growth, which was 6.9 percent in the first six months, is expected to continue at the same pace in the second half, as recent data show a strengthening trend, Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank governor, said over the weekend at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting in Washington, DC.
China will continue to pursue a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy, while encouraging deleveraging and preventing potential risks, according to Zhou, who warned that shadow banking and housing market bubbles could increase vulnerability.
"Growth continues to improve in terms of structure and quality, indicating that China has made strong progress in rebalancing the economy," said Zhou, who stressed that the financial regulator's battle to lower the debt burden had shown some results but was still in the "early stages".
The country's broad money supply, or M2, rose 9.2 percent in September from a year earlier, its fifth straight month with growth below 10 percent, slightly up from 8.9 percent in August, according to data released by the People's Bank of China on Saturday.
The single-digit M2 growth rate, much lower than the annually targeted 13 percent, is a result of the regulatory clampdown launched earlier this year to curb interbank lending or "shadow banking" activities, said Wen Bin, chief researcher at China Minsheng Bank.
According to the China Banking Regulatory Commission, as of the end of August interbank assets had fallen by 13.8 percent year-on-year. Interbank wealth management products, a main source of off-balance-sheet fundraising, fell by 2.2 trillion yuan ($334.4 billion) from January to August.
"Shadow banking appears likely to continue to face greater regulatory scrutiny, at lease while the authorities remain comfortable with economic growth," said Katie Chen, financial institutions director at Fitch Ratings.
As of last month, yuan-denominated new loans rose by 13.1 percent from a year earlier, down by 0.1 percentage points in August, the PBOC said. New loans have increased by 11.16 trillion yuan in the first three quarters, up by 998 billion yuan from a year earlier. Nearly half the amount was borrowed by households.
Short-term loans saw rapid expansion, accounting for 14 percent of the total number of new loans, compared with 5 percent a year earlier, but some funds may be flowing into the housing market through illegal channels, creating a risk of a price bubble, Wen said.
Markus Rodlauer, deputy director of the Asia-Pacific department of the International Monetary Fund, said at the fund's annual meeting on Saturday: "Growth in China is strong right now, so clearly there's no need for expansionary fiscal monetary stimulus in the economy."
The high level of corporate debt is a key issue for China, requiring the country to further push reform of State-owned enterprises in the next few years to ensure successful economic rebalancing, while allowing the economy to continue to grow relatively fast, Rodlauer said.
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CRST to Sponsor, Showcase and Speak at Phase I and IIa Clinical Trials Conference in London
Press Release – Clinical Research Services Turku CRST
Contact Supplier: Clinical Research Services Turku CRST
Supplier Press Release: CRST to Sponsor, Showcase and Speak at Phase I and IIa Clinical Trials Conference in London
Address: University of Turku – CRST, FI – 20014 University of Turku, Finland
Tel: +358 2333 7502, +358 2333 7635
Website: www.crst.fi
Clinical Research Services Turku CRST, specialists in the early phases of clinical drug development is delighted to announce that it is an official sponsor of the forthcoming Phase I and IIa Clinical Trials conference to be held at the Lancaster Hotel, London from 27th-28th Feb 2013.
Organised and hosted by Informa Life Sciences, the conference allows an opportunity to discuss the latest issues in early phase development and has been re-engineered specifically to address the fact that only 1 out of 19 Phase I candidates makes it to approval.
In addition to sponsoring the event, CRST will be showcasing its services at the conference and is inviting delegates to visit the team at booth 2.
CRST's Director Mika Scheinin, will also be a guest speaker at the conference. As part of the 'Exploring applications for imaging in early phase development' session, Professor Scheinin will discuss 'Proof-of-concept from PET imaging'. The areas that he will cover include:
•	Early proof of concept (in Phases I and II)
•	Efficacy, safety and PK endpoints
•	Guidance for dose selection in Phases II and III
Speaking about the conference, CRST's Business Development Manager Ville Ranta-Panula said "This event gives us the opportunity to meet face-to-face with our existing clients, we are hoping that our special conference promotion will also attract some new business to CRST." He continued "We are of course delighted to be sponsors and to have an association with an event of this calibre."
About CRST
CRST is a Clinical Research Organisation that provides a wide array of clinical, preclinical and bio-analytical research services for drug developers. CRST specialises in the early phases of clinical drug development, in particular in the facilitation of proof-of-concept by scientifically demanding studies.
CRST offers a committed team who are professionals in clinical trials. Its team comprises clinical researchers, laboratory technicians, study nurses and other research personnel who will work alongside you to achieve your goals in study planning, reporting and conduct.
The company's aptitude in technologies and expertise has been built on networking with academic and private partners in Finland. Through networking, CRST has enhanced its knowledge enabling it to provide services covering all areas of clinical drug research. This allows them to provide cutting-edge solutions established on the most up-to-date scientific information.
The work carried out at CRST is in accordance with Good Clinical Practice guidelines as well as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations in regard to clinical studies.
About Phase I and IIa Clinical Trials Conference
The Informa Life Science's, 14th annual Phase I &IIa Clinical Trials conference has been revamped for 2013 to provide two highly focused and high quality streams, providing answers to the latest questions in early phase drug development: This year, the conference will be looking at how more effective and efficient Phase I & IIa clinical trials can be designed, benchmarking against current industry models to find out what works best and how to adapt trials going forward.
The changing roles of key stakeholders will be assessed: How can pharma and biotech work together to increase productivity? Where are Venture Capital investing and why? How are CROs working to support their sponsors and share risk? What is the current EMA and FDA perspective on exploratory drug development strategy? The event also brings together an array of well-respected speakers to offer their perspectives.
For more information or to discuss the Phase I and IIa Clinical Trials conference please contact us directly.
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Bob Feller Museum in Iowa is officially closed
Andy Garman
Sports Director
Last February, KCCI told you about the struggle to keep the Bob Feller Museum in Van Meter open.Now, the museum located at 310 Mill St. has officially closed.The museum was dedicated to Iowa's greatest baseball player. It used to have nearly 400 members, but by last spring that had dropped to less than 100."After Bob's passing a few years ago, we haven't drawn quite as much business as they would have liked, so there is some financial things going on with that," Van Meter Mayor Allan Adams told KCCI in February.To cut costs, the board had shut the museum down during the winter months of 2013.The city of Van Meter is working to make some of the memorabilia available to the public.
Last February, KCCI told you about the struggle to keep the Bob Feller Museum in Van Meter open.
Now, the museum located at 310 Mill St. has officially closed.
Bob Feller Museum to Close?
Feller Museum in trouble?
The museum was dedicated to Iowa's greatest baseball player. It used to have nearly 400 members, but by last spring that had dropped to less than 100.
"After Bob's passing a few years ago, we haven't drawn quite as much business as they would have liked, so there is some financial things going on with that," Van Meter Mayor Allan Adams told KCCI in February.
To cut costs, the board had shut the museum down during the winter months of 2013.
The city of Van Meter is working to make some of the memorabilia available to the public.


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Spotify's new Spotify For Artists toolkit is designed to be a one-stop shop for artists on the music streamer. It includes access to audience insights and song data, plus tools to manage their artist profile. Artist verification and artist playlisting are also part of the new Spotify for Artists.


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News: Brearley & Co take on town centre premises
A Rotherham accountancy firm is continuing its expansion, acquiring a local accountancy office and taking on new high profile premises in the town centre.
Brearley & Co has been established for over 30 years in Swinton, Mexborough and offers a range of added value services for businesses including payroll, taxation and corporate accounts.
The firm, which also has an office in the south of the borough, in Dinnington, has recently moved into additional new premises in Rotherham town centre at The Crofts.
With the expansion of Handelsbanken, one of Sweden's leading banks, to new offices at Templeborough, Brearley & Co moved quickly to snap up the premises behind Rotherham Town Hall - in the heart of Rotherham's financial and professional district.
Mark Smallman, managing director of Brearley & Co, explained: "We have a good relationship with Handelsbanken so when we knew they were moving out, we got in touch about taking on the town centre office.
"It is all part of our strategy for taking Brearley & Co to the next level. Our Swinton office is full and our Dinnington office is doing well. Taking on additional premises in Rotherham town centre will help us move into new markets and target firms in other areas."
The Mayor of Rotherham is set to officially open the new premises this week.
The office is inside one of the two-storey late nineteenth century houses close to the earlier listed school building, now The Bluecoats public house. Now dominated by Rotherham's Town Hall, The Crofts was previously a cattle market of regional importance, which remained a cattle market until the early 20th century.
Also part of the firm's expansion, Brearley & Co has recently purchased M P Beahan & Co Chartered Accountants (MPB). MPB were located on Laughton Road, also in Dinnington and following the conclusion of the deal, the team and clients have merged onto Brearley & Co's Dinnington office.
On the deal, Smallman added: "It creates a great opportunity for us to introduce cloud accounting to MPB clients and ensure they are making tax digital compliant. We look forward to getting to know our new clients and adding value service like management accounts and tax planning."
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Benefits of Automating Network Configuration
Over the past decade or so, the host management community has adopted automated config generation and management as a means for maximizing scalability, maintainability, and reliability. Much of the recent research in the system administration field has focused on automation. It's now commonly accepted that a well-run organization doesn't manage 10,000 servers (or even 10 servers) individually, but rather uses tools like Puppet or cfengine to manage definitions of those servers and then create and update instances of those servers as needed.
Unfortunately, most organizations are still manually configuring (and reconfiguring) each of their network devices, which is inefficient, error-prone, and difficult to scale. By applying automation principles and tools similar to those that have been developed in the system administration field, savvy organizations can make their networks more cost effective, more reliable, easier to scale, and easier to maintain.
Luke A. Kanies, the creator of Puppet, identifies the following key benefits from automated configuration generation and management:
Reducing the amount of time a given task requires.
Reducing the opportunity for error in a given task.
Reducing turnaround time for a given task.
Enhancing and perpetuating configuration consistency across multiple systems.
Providing a limited kind of process documentation.
We believe that if your goal is to offer a reliable service, these are essential requirements, not merely nice-to-have benefits.
Sample Use Case
For example, let's say you're managing a moderately complex web site which includes several real and virtual hosts, and associated networking gear. In addition to the hosts themselves, you need to manage config files for all of the following:
MRTG
Now, let's say you want to add a new virtual host to an existing load balancer pool on your network. What steps do you need to take, beyond configuring the host itself, to get it fully integrated into the network?
Add the host to the VLAN definitions on the switches
Add the host to the access control lists on the routers
Add the host to the appropriate load balancing pool on the load balancers
Add the host to the NAT definitions and access control lists on the firewalls
Add the host to the Nagios real-time monitoring system
Add the host to the MRTG trend monitoring system
If you're doing this the old-fashioned way, by hand, this takes a fair amount of your time, to figure out exactly what changes need to be made to each system, and then make those changes. Furthermore, every one of these steps is an opportunity for something to go wrong. You might make a typo. You might accidentally skip a step, perhaps because you got interrupted. You might accidentally change something else in the config file while editing it. You might get called away to some other more urgent task, and forget to complete the steps (how many times have you seen monitoring systems that are incomplete, simply because somebody never got around to updating the monitoring config as the last step in setting up some new host or service?).
Over time, these small mistakes add up, leading to inconsistent networks which are unreliable and hard to troubleshoot.
By automating the configuration of your network devices and services using tools such as Netomata Config Generator (NCG), on the other hand, you can simply add that host to the model of your network, and in seconds NCG will generate new config files for all your managed devices and services that are consistent and complete across all of the devices and services. You won't have to worry about making a typo while configuring one of the systems, or about getting interrupted and forgetting to finish configuring all of the devices and services. Thus automation will make your network more cost effective, more reliable, easier to scale, and easier to maintain.
Netomata can make your network more cost-effective, reliable, and flexible! Please contact us today to discuss how we can help:
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Q: Dialog buttons with long text not wrapping / squeezed out - material theme on android 5.0 lollipop While optimizing an app for material theme on lollipop, I'm encountering this annoying problem:
Whenever there is long text on dialog buttons, that doesn't fit the button bar width in total, the text isn't wrapped in multiple lines for those buttons as in previous themes. Instead the following buttons get squeezed out of the dialog, being unreachable (see image below).
Screenshot:

I've spent a lot of time on this problem so far and the only topic regarding it, that I could find on the internet is this:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=78302
So I'm taking the advice there and ask this question here..
What I've tried is looking into the source (buttons are defined with maxLines = 2) and changing different parameters on buttonBarStyle and buttonBarButtonStyle but with no success.
I'm looking for a simple style-solution and do not want to use third party libraries because of this.
May this only be an emulator problem? I don't think so.
Help is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Edit:
To follow up, see my own answer from Dec 3, which is not a solution.

A: To summarize this topic for anyone interested:
Android Material theme seems to have a bug with automatic button-width-span in alert dialogs.
When you have for example 3 buttons, one of which having more than one word, the positive button will likely be squeezed out of the dialog to the right, instead of the button with more than one word being wrapped in multiple lines, so that all buttons fit in the button bar like the basic theme / holo theme are doing.
There don't seem to be solutions solely by applying changes to buttonBarStyle and/or buttonBarButtonStyle, since their styles are not restricting button texts being wrapped in multiple lines by default.
Sure, Material theme dialog buttons require more space than in other themes in general, due to caps, boldness and generous padding and background, but that is not the source of the problem, it just makes it appear sooner than if the styling was less space requiring.
The only way to solve this problem seems to be giving your buttons shorter titles, if you don't want to style away from Material's look and feel (like making the button text size smaller and / or setting allCaps to false).

A: use following code, let buttons on the right and vertical arrangement
alertDialog.setOnShowListener(new DialogInterface.OnShowListener() {
        @Override
        public void onShow(DialogInterface dialog) {
            try {
                LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout) alertDialog.getButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE).getParent();
                if (linearLayout != null) {
                    linearLayout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
                    linearLayout.setGravity(Gravity.RIGHT);
                }
            } catch (Exception ignored) {

            }
        }
    });

A: This could be fixed with using stacked buttons instead of row buttons. Here my workaround how it could be achieved with using AppCompat lib :
Code
        import android.support.v7.app.AlertDialog;
    AlertDialog.Builder builder;
    builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context, R.style.StackedAlertDialogStyle);
    builder.setTitle("Title");
    builder.setMessage("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc dignissim purus eget gravida mollis. Integer in auctor turpis. Morbi auctor, diam eget vestibulum congue, quam arcu pulvinar dui, blandit egestas erat enim non ligula." +
            " Nunc quis laoreet libero. Aliquam consectetur nibh eu arcu eleifend efficitur.");
    builder.setPositiveButton("Positive Button", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
        }
    });
    builder.setNeutralButton("Neutral Button", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
        }
    });
    builder.setNegativeButton("Cancel Button", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
        }
    });
    AlertDialog alertDialog = builder.create();
    alertDialog.show();
        try{
            final Button button = alertDialog.getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_POSITIVE);
            LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout) button.getParent();
            linearLayout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
        } catch(Exception ex){
            //ignore it
        }

Style
<style name="StackedAlertDialogStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
    <item name="buttonBarButtonStyle">@style/StackedButtonBarButtonStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="StackedButtonBarButtonStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Button.ButtonBar.AlertDialog">
    <item name="android:layout_gravity">right</item>
</style>

Result

A: A quick soln that is not dynamic is to add \n to break the long string up

A: Here is a workaround I came up with, with the help of the linked answer from Andrey T (https://stackoverflow.com/a/29662638/1317564):
First, you create an utility method which will wrap the buttons only if they need to be wrapped:
public static void applyWorkaroundForButtonWidthsTooWide(Button dialogButton) {
        if (dialogButton == null)
            return;
        if (!(dialogButton.getParent() instanceof LinearLayout))
            return;

        // Workaround for buttons too large in alternate languages.
        final LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout) dialogButton.getParent();
        linearLayout.addOnLayoutChangeListener(new View.OnLayoutChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onLayoutChange(View v, int left, int top, int right, int bottom, int oldLeft, int oldTop,
                                       int oldRight, int oldBottom) {
                if (right - left > 0) {
                    final int parentWidth = linearLayout.getWidth();
                    int childrenWidth = 0;
                    for (int i = 0; i < linearLayout.getChildCount(); ++i)
                        childrenWidth += linearLayout.getChildAt(i).getWidth();

                    if (childrenWidth > parentWidth) {
                        // Apply stacked buttons
                        linearLayout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
                        linearLayout.setPadding(linearLayout.getPaddingLeft(), 0, linearLayout.getPaddingRight(),
                                linearLayout.getPaddingBottom());
                        for (int i = 0; i < linearLayout.getChildCount(); ++i) {
                            if (linearLayout.getChildAt(i) instanceof Button) {
                                final Button child = (Button) linearLayout.getChildAt(i);
                                child.setGravity(Gravity.END | Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);
                                final LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = (LinearLayout.LayoutParams) child.getLayoutParams();
                                params.width = LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT;
                                params.gravity = Gravity.END;
                                child.setLayoutParams(params);
                            } else if (linearLayout.getChildAt(i) instanceof Space) {
                                linearLayout.removeViewAt(i--);
                            }
                        }
                    }

                    linearLayout.removeOnLayoutChangeListener(this);
                }
            }
        });
    }

You can add additional error handing (i.e. try/catches) and customize this further as appropriate.
Now, you call this utility method when the dialog is shown:
dialog.setOnShowListener(new DialogInterface.OnShowListener() {
                @Override
                public void onShow(DialogInterface dialogInterface) {
                    MaterialAlertDialogUtils.applyWorkaroundForButtonWidthsTooWide(dialog.getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_POSITIVE));
                }
            });

This does the trick and will only wrap the buttons if needed. I've been using it everywhere, as even two-button dialogs may need wrapping in German and three-button dialogs surely need it in many languages.

A: Following up -
Since I'm not able to post more than two links due to my beginners reputation, I have to post an answer to my question instead of editing it.
Below is how I tried to style the buttons using buttonBarStyle and buttonBarButtonStyle to achieve any improvement - see the results here:

unfortunately those are obviously not desirable solutions.
<resources>
    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light">
        <!-- AlertDialog Style override in order to try to fix non line breaking buttons -->
        <item name="android:alertDialogTheme">@style/CustomAlertDialogStyle</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CustomAlertDialogStyle" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light.Dialog.Alert">
        <item name="android:buttonBarButtonStyle">@style/CustomButtonBarButtonStyle</item>
        <item name="android:buttonBarStyle">@style/CustomButtonBarStyle</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CustomButtonBarStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Material.Light.ButtonBar.AlertDialog">
        <!-- Making sure, the button bar uses parent width and is not restricted in height -->
        <item name="android:layout_width">match_parent</item>
        <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
        <item name="android:height">@null</item>
        <item name="android:minHeight">@null</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CustomButtonBarButtonStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Material.Light.Button.Borderless.Colored">
        <!-- Setting the weight as follows should result in equally wide buttons filling the alert dialog width,
            but instead they span further out of the dialog, breaking in multiple lines though -->
        <item name="android:layout_width">0dp</item>
        <item name="android:layout_weight">1</item>
        <!-- setting a fixed width as follows results in narrow buttons with line breaks, but of course this is not a solution -->
        <!-- <item name="android:width">100dp</item> -->
    </style>

</resources>

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Good afternoon and a very special welcome back to Turf Moor, for the first game of the season and the first since the ground was brought back under the control of Burnley Football Club.
It seems only yesterday since our last game of the season against Ipswich Town and a solid 2-0 win which left us in 11th place, just seven points adrift of the play-offs.
Of course, we want to do better this season and really go for it and now we have some of the structure in place to support us.
Summer is usually the time for a slowdown, but these days football is a business which just keeps rolling.
While the transfer markets have been a little quieter this summer than previously due to the Financial Fair Play rules, things have been busy behind the scenes at Burnley.
The bulk of the squad has been retained and we have added new faces. And it's a pleasure to welcome into the Burnley family on behalf of the Board of Directors goalkeepers Tom Heaton, Alex Cisak, Nick Liversedge and Daniel Nizic, along with outfield trio Scott Arfield, Ryan Noble and this week's recruit, David Jones.
The other main event of the summer, as I alluded to above, was the successful conclusion of an innovative deal whereby Burnley has been able to buy back Turf Moor and the Gawthorpe training ground.
The buy-back will save us a substantial amount of rent over the next seven years and now we can really say that it's 'Our Town and Our Turf'!
On the field, the club's pre-season preparations also went very well. We added a little international flavour to the warm-up with a trip to Cork and over 200 Clarets made the journey. Thanks as always for your support.
In Ireland, the team went through a gruelling training programme at Fota Island (where West Ham and West Bromwich Albion also prepared) and we finished up with a friendly at the Turf against Sparta Rotterdam.
That game was the first time a foreign club had visited Burnley since Malaga in 2005 and I know the players and their fans enjoyed the local hospitality.
And so to the business of the day – a repeat of our first fixture last season where we enjoyed an excellent 2-0 win over Bolton Wanderers in one of our best performances.
This remains still a very tight division – just 17 points separate play-off places from relegation – but I am very confident we can do well today.
The team looks fit and sharp and are bonding brilliantly. I think we have created the ingredients for success this season.
On behalf of myself, co-Chairman Mike Garlick and the Board of Directors, I would like to wish everyone a great season.
Here's to starting our campaign with a Burnley boost!


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Derek Lunsford
IFBB Professional Bodybuilder, Sponsored Athlete
Derek Lunsford, a.k.a. MrUsa2017, established a passion for fitness at an early age. Ever since he was a young boy, he thrived in a competitive environment – making a name for himself as a formidable wrestler and soccer player throughout his time in high school.
However, Derek's fitness journey took a different direction upon leaving high school. During his time at college, wrestling wasn't a sport that was on the agenda where Derek studied. Despite this, Derek was determined to continue his desire for an active lifestyle. It was at this point, he discovered weight training.
At first, Derek failed to make progress, but that all changed when he met his personal trainer James Brown, who began to guide Derek on the right path. Shortly after this, Derek came across bodybuilding icons such as Jay Cutler and Phil Heath. Inspired by their incredible physiques, Derek was determined to build one of his own – just like his idols.
Due to his strength and determination, he's earned success on the bodybuilding stage – building a phenomenal physique in the process. By 2017, he reached his peak – earning his IFBB Pro Card in the NPC USA Championships – offering him the chance to reach new heights in his bodybuilding career.
This is Derek's story.
Full Name: Derek Lunsford
205 - 215lbs (88.5 - 93.0kg) 5'6" (167.5cm) 1993 American
IFBB Professional Bodybuilder, Sponsored Athlete 2010
Profession IFBB Professional Bodybuilder, Sponsored Athlete
Career Achievements
IFBB Professional Bodybuilder
Sponsored Athlete
IFBB Mr. Olympia: 212 Class – 5th place
IFBB Tampa Pro: 212 Class – 1st place
NPC USA Championships: Men's Light Heavyweight – 1st place
NPC USA Championships: Men's Middleweight – 2nd place
NPC Junior Nationals: Men's Middleweight – 1st place
NPC Junior Nationals: Men's Welterweight – 1st place
NPC Indianapolis Championship: Men's Open Welterweight – 1st place
Derek's Sporting Beginnings
Born and raised in Petersburg, Indiana, Derek Lunsford formed the foundation for an active lifestyle throughout his youth. As a child, Derek had an athletic background, where he regularly took part in competitive sports such as wrestling and soccer during his days in high school.
However, Derek waved goodbye to his days taking part in wrestling, as the college he chose to attend didn't offer the sport. As a result of this, his journey in fitness began to take a different direction. It was at this point, Derek turned his attention to the weights room instead.
Throughout his days in college, Derek began training in the gym on a regular basis, aiming to build upon the strength and endurance he earned as a wrestler. However, he initially failed to make progress in his quest to build lean muscle. This was all down to a lack of guidance with his training, along with a poor knowledge of nutrition.
But then one day, that all began to change. This is when Derek met his personal trainer James Brown, who taught Derek everything he needed to know in order to reach his fitness goals. From then on, Derek's new found fitness knowledge saw him make progress at a fast pace.
Making Progress
Derek's hard work and consistency when training in the gym allowed him to make considerable progress in a matter of months. In the process, Derek started to build upon the athletic physique he earned by taking part in wrestling.
However, Derek's passion for bodybuilding was taken a step further when he watched a motivational YouTube video about bodybuilders. Inspired by the incredible physiques of big-name bodybuilders such as Phil Heath and Jay Cutler, Derek set out to earn a great physique – just like his bodybuilding idols.
After quickly progressing in the weights room, Derek came to the realization that he wanted to follow in the footsteps of his fitness icons. From then on, Derek set his sights on reaching the bodybuilding stage.
Competing as a Bodybuilder
Derek's first competitive appearance came in 2015. He took part in the NPC Indianapolis Championship, finishing in 1st place in the Men's Open Welterweight category.
From this moment onward, Derek's competitive bodybuilding career began to take shape. Because of his excellent performance, Derek kept pushing forward, eager to replicate his excellent performance in his next competition.
Appearing in the 2015 NPC Junior Nationals in the Men's Welterweight category, Derek stormed to 1st place – proving that he had enormous potential on the bodybuilding stage.
By 2017, Derek finished 1st in the Men's Light Heavyweight category at the NPC USA Championships – an IFBB Pro Card winning performance. Just a week later, he stormed to 1st place in the Men's 212 Class category at the IFBB Tampa Pro. This allowed Derek to qualify for the 2017 Mr. Olympia, where he finished in 5th place in the 212 category.
Derek Lunsford Nowadays
Derek was amazed by just how far his fitness journey was able to come in such a short space of time. After earning his IFBB Pro Card, Derek truly made a name for himself as a bodybuilder.
As a result of his success in his competitive bodybuilding career, fitness companies began to take notice. Soon enough, Derek became a sponsored athlete. This offered him the platform to excel further in his fitness career.
Furthermore, Derek ensures that his motivation remains high in order to build upon his excellent performances in his bodybuilding career. At the same time, he aims to positively influence others to achieve the same level of success as him, stating the following:
"My long term goal is to be at the top of the bodybuilding industry! I am striving to be the same kind of role model for other young competitors as those I had".
Derek begins all of his workouts by performing isolation movements such as bicep curls or chest flyes. He performs a high amount of repetitions using a low weight, typically 2-4 sets of at least 15 reps. This allows his muscles to warm up in preparation for heavy lifts.
Because of his approach to warming up, Derek is able to avoid injuries that happen often in the weights room due to failing to warm the muscles up properly.
Heavy Lifting
After Derek has completed his isolation sets, he performs compound lifts such as squats, deadlifts, along with the bench press. When performing these exercises, he uses a heavy weight with a low repetition range, allowing him to feel maximum muscle contraction with every repetition.
However, Derek emphasizes the importance of correct form, as opposed to lifting weights that are too heavy for him. He states the following in regard to this:
"Never sacrifice form for weight. That's the difference between the bodybuilder who keeps going for years, and the one who bounces from injury to injury".
Performing Supersets and Dropsets
Derek utilizes supersets and dropsets often during his workouts. By performing exercises close together, Derek is able to continually build lean muscle mass. In addition, performing dropsets allows Derek to perform his lifts until his muscles are completely fatigued.
Derek follows an eating plan in which he eats every 2-3 hours, aiming to get 50-60 g of protein in every meal. After switching up his diet plan numerous times, Derek found this as the method of nutrition that worked best for him as he aimed to reach all of his fitness goals.
Additionally, Derek ensures that his daily macronutrient needs are met. This allows him to recover quickly from his intense workouts, alongside aiding the muscle building process. Some of the foods that Derek eats regularly as part of his diet are listed below:
Derek Lunsford's Diet Staples
Derek's early progression in his bodybuilding career is down to the influence from his personal trainer James Brown. With James' guidance and advice, Derek began to make substantial progress in the weights room, building a great physique in the process.
In addition, Jay Cutler, Phil Heath and Jose Raymond are the bodybuilding icons that Derek admires greatly. Because of their incredible physiques and achievements on the bodybuilding stage, Derek aims to reach the same level of success in his own career.
However, Derek is also inspired by those who have achieved success in their careers outside of bodybuilding. In regard to this, Derek stated:
"I've always just looked up to successful people in general from all walks of life, not just bodybuilding. People who have worked hard to get their names in the spotlight inspire me to do the same".
What we can learn from Derek Lunsford
Derek Lunsford started off his fitness journey by taking part in wrestling and playing soccer throughout high school. However, when he started college, he came to the realization that bodybuilding was his true calling.
Ever since then, he's gone from strength to strength in his fitness journey to make a name for himself on the bodybuilding stage. In the process, he's built an incredible physique by working hard when training in the gym.
If there's one thing that Derek has taught us, it's that consistency is key when aiming to build a great physique. By following an approach to fitness similar to Derek, you too have the potential to reach all of your fitness goals – just like him.
Bruce Scottow says:
Gotta say, Derek, you epitomize size, symmetry, definition, and overall muscularity. Amazing body, with unbelievable V-shape, shoulder width, and all the good genes to make it all stand out.


PASADENA, Calif. – Early this morning the Cassini spacecraft relayed information that it had successfully swapped to a backup set of propulsion thrusters late Wednesday.
The swap was performed because of degradation in the performance of the primary thrusters, which had been in use since Cassini's launch in 1997. This is only the second time in Cassini's 11 years of flight that the engineering teams have gone to a backup system.
The thrusters are used for making small corrections to the spacecraft's course, for some attitude control functions, and for making angular momentum adjustments in the reaction wheels, which also are used for attitude control. The redundant set is an identical set of eight thrusters. Almost all Cassini engineering subsystems have redundant backup capability.
Cassini has successfully completed its original four-year planned tour of Saturn and is now in extended mission operations.
More information on the mission is available at: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini . The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL.


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Home News and Events News Happy 100th Birthday, Dr. Maurice McGregor!
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Happy 100th Birthday, Dr. Maurice McGregor!
Published on: June 8, 2020
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On March 24, Dr. Maurice McGregor turned 100.
Dr. McGregor is affectionately known as the "grandfather of health technology assessment" in Canada. In 2014 CADTH acknowledged his enduring legacy and his immeasurable contributions to Canadian health care by establishing an award in his name. This award is presented annually to "rising stars" in the field of health technology assessment (HTA).
As the founding president of Quebec's HTA Agency, the Conseil d'évaluation des technologies de la santé du Québec, and a founding board member of the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (now known as CADTH), Dr. McGregor was instrumental in building the initial framework for the production and use of HTA in Canada.
In his role as the chair of the HTA unit at the McGill University Health Centre, Dr. McGregor helped extend the use of HTA to hospitals and regional health authorities. He is the author of more than 180 scientific articles and is the former Chair and Editor of Canada's Guidelines for the Management of Breast Cancer (1994-1998). He has pioneered and championed the use of evidence in clinical practice and has served as an inspirational mentor to new generations of HTA producers and users.
Best wishes and happy birthday, Dr. McGregor!
To read more about his remarkable legacy, please visit the McGill University Faculty of Medicine website


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Apps-related jobs tallied at 466K in U.S.
Smartphones, tablets and their app stores are behind the 'App Economy,' study says
By Matt Hamblen
Senior Editor, Computerworld |
Nearly half a million jobs in the U.S. have been created because of the 1 million-plus applications designed for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, according to a new study.
Called the "App Economy," there are an estimated 466,000 U.S. jobs filled by app developers and those in related jobs in application infrastructure, according to a study ( pdf format ) released Tuesday by TechNet and written by economist Michael Mandel of SouthMountain Economics.
The App Economy generated almost $20 billion in revenue in 2011, the study states, based on app downloads, in-app revenues, sales of virtual and physical goods and services.
All the apps jobs have been created since 2007 after the introduction of the iPhone and the launch of the iPhone App Store shortly after. The Android Market and other app stores have since blossomed.
Mandel's study also found app jobs dispersed around the nation, with New York City, San Francisco and San Jose as the top locations. California is at the top of the list for App Economy states, but more than two-thirds of these jobs are outside of California and New York, the study says.
While the App Economy is growing "at a rapid clip," Mandel also notes it is "only four years old and extremely fluid." Both the number and location of the jobs are likely to shift in coming years, he says.
Mandel calls his numbers "estimates," using techniques he developed that were based on the Conference Board Help-Wanted Online database, a compilation of employment ads. He also said the 466,000 app jobs as of December 2011 may not be net jobs gained, but could be termed "jobs not lost."
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Mandel's sponsor, TechNet, is a nonpartisan political network of technology executives from companies including Cisco , Dell and Google , that was founded in 1997. It is also involved in advocacy, having raised $3 million for political candidates in the 2008 election cycle. One goal of TechNet is to support efforts that make the U.S. a world leader in innovation.
Mandel cites mobile operating systems, such as Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, in helping create App Economy jobs, but he also mentions social networks, such as Facebook, for helping proliferate the use of apps. A University of Maryland study that Mandel cites attributes more than 53,000 jobs to employees of third-party developers of Facebook apps. Also, the 529,000 active apps in the Apple App Store as of December were uploaded by 124,000 active app publishers, who had staffs of varying sizes.
Because consumer-focused companies will often build an app to reach customers, Mandel said the App Economy is the "construction sector of the 21st century."
Mandel's estimates are sure to come under some scrutiny, but he thoroughly reveals his approach. In his study, he notes that want ads for app economy jobs for the last three months of 2011 totaled 44,400, which he multiplied by 3.5 because of the historical ratio of want ads to employment for computer and math occupations. He also doubled the resulting 155,400 estimated computer and math jobs in the App Economy to account for non-tech jobs in the App Economy, making a total of 310,800 jobs. He then multiplied that number by 1.5 to account for the jobs created outside of the app companies themselves, resulting in the approximately 466,000 total.
The App Economy is second in size to the custom computer programming sector, and just ahead of software publishers, Mandel said.
In terms of geographies, the New York area has 9.2% of the jobs, while the San Francisco area has 8.5%, and the San Jose area, 6.4%. The others in the top 10 were: Seattle area, 5.7%; Los Angeles area, 5.1%; Washington area, 4.8%; Chicago area, 3.5%; Boston area, 3.5%; Atlanta area, 3.3% and Dallas area, 2.6%.
As a state, California has 23.8% of the App Economy jobs, followed by New York with 6.9%.
Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. Follow Matt on Twitter at @matthamblen or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed . His e-mail address is mhamblen@computerworld.com .
Read more about mobile apps and services in Computerworld's Mobile Apps and Services Topic Center.
This story, "Apps-related jobs tallied at 466K in U.S." was originally published by Computerworld.
Matt Hamblen is a multi-media journalist covering mobile, networking and smart city tech. He previously was a senior editor at Computerworld.
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CESAFI PARTNER'S CUP PHOTO GALLERY: UV vs. USJ-R (juniors)
Cebu City, Philippines–The University of Visayas (UV) Baby Lancers finished the elimination round on a high note, winning over the University of San Jose-Recoletos Baby Jaguars, 72 -70, on Thursday, July 11, 2019. Read more: Sacayan sinks game-winning three as UV Baby Lancers sweep elimination round Here are some photos during the intense high school […] The post CESAFI PARTNER'S CUP PHOTO GALLERY: UV vs. USJ-R (juniors) appeared first on Cebu Daily News......»»
What to buy during Lazada's mid-year festival
[Editor's note: This article features XChange Picks – deals and products we think you might like. These features may contain affiliate links from our partners.] MANILA, Philippines – This is the moment you've all been waiting for – Lazada's midyear sale. Here, you can witness slashed ........»»
Hunk aktor, paikot-ikot sa mall habang kalandian ang tatlong lalaki
NAWINDANG ang ilang mallers nang ma-sight nila ang isang hunk actor kasama ang kanyang tropa. Take note, puro boylet ang mga 'yon gayong inaasahan pa naman daw ng mga utaw doon na ka-join ng macho actor ang kanyang girlfriend. "Na-disappoint kami kasi noong nagkakandahaba na ang mga leeg namin para makita siya nang malapitan, eh, puro boylet ang ........»»
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Hiwalayang Kim Domingo, Mike Acuña gimik lang
Bokya ang naging ending ng relasyon ni Kim Domingo sa boyfriend niyang si Mike Acuña. Take note, nag-live in na ang dalawa noon, pero hindi pa rin na-ging matatag ang ka-nilang pagsasama. Iwas nga lang ang Kapuso actress na sabihin ang detalye ng hiwalayan nila ng boyfriend nang tanungin siya ng press sa mediacon ng kinabibila-ngang Kapuso series na "Hanggang Sa Dulo ng […]The post Hiwalayang Kim Domingo, Mike Acuña gimik lang appeared first on Abante News Online......»»
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Pirates outgun Knights in NCAA opener
The Lyceum Pirates started their NCAA Season 95 campaign on a high note after thwarting the Letran Knights, 84-80, in their season opener......»»
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2019 FIBA U19 World Cup Preview: Philippines vs New Zealand
The Philippines finally had a breakthrough in the 2019 FIBA U19 World Cup in Heraklion Greece, beating Asian rivals China, 86-72, to be assured of at least 14th place in the biennial competition. Their final game today will be against another team from the FIBA Asia zone -- New Zealand, which placed 2nd place overall in last year's 2018 FIBA U18 Asia Cup in Thailand and defeated Senegal last night, 87-71. It will be a tough final assignment for coach Sandy Arespcochaga's wards, who are coming in riding high with confidence after their convincing triumph over the Chinese. The Filipinos bucked the limited minutes of Kai Sotto in that encounter as the 7'2" prized center was saddled with foul trouble and could only register 5 points, 2 rebounds, a 1 block in 13 minutes of play. Answering the call were Dave Ildefonso, Carl Tamayo, James Spencer, and Rhayyan Amsali, all of whom scored in double-digits for the Philippines. Needless to say, it'll take another supreme team effort today if the Filipinos are to stave off what should be a very strong challenge from the Kiwis, who likewise put up a convincing win yesterday against the Senegalese. In that match, versatile guard Flynn Cameron stood out. The DePaul University Blue Demon has been inconsistent in Heraklion, but he had his best game yet against Senegal, scoring 19 points on top of 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 7 steals, and 2 blocks. Another Junior Tall Black to worry about is Euro-based Max Darling, who plies his trade for Croatia's KK Vrijednosnice Osijek. The 6'6" inside operator is one of the most athletic players in the entire field, and he has been on a tear in New Zealand's last two games, averaging 19.0 points, 11.0 rebounds, and 2.0 blocks per outing. Don't be surprised if he tries his hand at slowing Kai down in the paint. Speaking of Kai, he has stumbled out of the top 10 most efficient players in the tournament after last night's below par showing, and it would be great to see him bounce back in a big way here. The former Ateneo Blue Eaglet is among the youngest studs in Heraklion and will still be eligible for the next U19 World Cup should the Philippines qualify anew. He is currently averaging 12.3 points, 7.8 rebounds, and 3.3 blocks per game, but he will likely need even better numbers against New Zealand if Gilas Youth is to end its campaign on a bright note. He'll expect much help from the aforementioned Ildefonso and Tamayo, who really played with aplomb against China. Ildefonso was nearly unstoppable, shooting 7 out of 12 from the floor, including 4 triples en route to an impressive 21-point, 7-assist, 6-rebound stat-line. Tamayo, for his part, was splendid with 20 points and 6 rebounds while hitting 3 triples. If those two guys can puncture the hoops again and complement Kai's inside game, the Philippines has a fair chance of finishing 13th place overall......»»
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Kawhi Leonard: 10 things to know
NBA.com staff report Kawhi Leonard has quickly risen from unheralded prospect to global superstar during his eight-year NBA career. With his highly anticipated free agent decision made, here are 10 things to know about the two-time Finals MVP. * * * Raised In California: Kawhi Anthony Leonard was born on June 29, 1991, in Los Angeles, California. He was the youngest of five children with four older sisters. During his freshman year of high school, his mother was out of town for work during his team's basketball tryouts so he missed the session. He played football instead that season and didn't start playing basketball at Canyon Springs High School until his sophomore year. Mr. Basketball: He played his next two seasons at Riverside King, where he went on to win California's Mr. Basketball during his senior year. After the tragic death of his father in 2008, he scored 17 points the next night and broke down in his mother's arms after the game. "Basketball is my life, and I wanted to go out there and take my mind off it," he said postgame. Aztec Legend: Kawhi took his talents to nearby San Diego State University for his collegiate career. He was dominant in college, especially on defense, as he led the Aztecs to back-to-back Mountain West Conference tournament championships. His team reached the Sweet 16 before being eliminated by eventual NCAA Tournament champion UConn during his sophomore season. After the tournament, Kawhi declared his intention to enter the 2011 NBA Draft. Draft Night Deal: Spurs coach Gregg Popovich called the decision to trade for Kawhi on Draft night the "toughest" decision he had to make during his 20-plus seasons in San Antonio. The decision was difficult because the Spurs had to part ways with valued young guard George Hill in the deal with the Indiana Pacers. But the move paid off for San Antonio as Kawhi quickly adjusted to the NBA game and showed flashes of star potential. He finished fourth in Rookie of the Year voting and earned a spot on the 2012 All-Rookie First Team. Mr. Economical: Despite his early success, Kawhi didn't let his first NBA paychecks steer him away from his frugal ways. During his first few seasons in the NBA, he continued to drive the same Chevy Malibu he drove in college. "It's paid off," he said in 2004. "I don't have a car note on it. It's good on gas. It's a good commuter car if you don't want to drive your luxury car." His friends and family eventually convinced him to buy a Porsche, which he would only drive on gamedays. Daily Grind: Kawhi quickly earned a reputation in San Antonio for his work ethic as he trained alongside legendary Spurs players Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker. Longtime Spurs assistant coach Chip Engelland helped Kawhi perfect his shooting form by having him study the forms of Kobe Bryant and Richard Jefferson. Breakthrough Moment: The hard work paid off for Kawhi as he continued to blossom on the title-contending Spurs. After losing to the Miami Heat in seven games during the 2013 Finals, the Spurs returned to The Finals in 2014 and avenged their defeat with a 4-1 series win over Miami. Kawhi was key for San Antonio with averages of 17.8 points on 61.2 percent shooting, 6.4 rebounds, 1.6 steals and 1.2 blocks. At age 22, Kawhi became the third youngest player in NBA history to win Finals MVP and the youngest since Magic Johnson in 1980. Out Of The Spotlight: His rise to fame during the 2014 Finals didn't change his day-to-day mindset. According to Engelland in 2017, "He hasn't been tricked by any of the NBA glamour or bright lights, big city. A lot of smart, great players have been. You get lost and forget the process, forget why you began to play. With him, it's like, 'What'd you do last night?' 'Watched a little TV. I was with friends. My mom cooked dinner.' Those are very common nights for him." Derailed By Injury: The two-time Defensive Player of the Year enjoyed a relatively injury-free start to his career with the Spurs. But everything changed when he re-aggravated an ankle injury during Game 1 of the 2017 West finals. The injury, and subsequent recovery, forced Kawhi to miss the remainder of the series and all but 9 games during 2017-18. After the season, Kawhi expressed his desire to be traded by the Spurs. He was dealt to the Toronto Raptors on July 18, 2018. Legendary Company: It was a storybook season for Kawhi and the Raptors as he led Toronto to their first NBA championship in franchise history. Kawhi was unstoppable throughout the playoffs with clutch play after play, including an instantly iconic series-winner in the East semifinals. He joined LeBron James and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the only players in NBA history to win Finals MVP with two different teams......»»
Cebu Daily News makes 2-peat, bags three PPI awards
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu's only independent newspaper, Cebu Daily News (CDN), ended its run in the newspaper print industry or its last year of printing, on a high note with three awards from the Philippine Press Institute (PPI) Civic Journalism Community Press Awards at Hotel Jen, Roxas Boulevard, in Manila on Friday night, July […] The post Cebu Daily News makes 2-peat, bags three PPI awards appeared first on Cebu Daily News......»»
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The dissemination and discussion of interesting new ideas will only be discouraged if members of an audience are allowed to pre-publish participants' ideas, since everyone will be inhibited from trying out ideas in public. The free exchange of ideas in our discipline depends on mutual trust. Speakers assume that they are speaking to the present audience in their own voice -- not to the entire world through a reporter. If that assumption no longer holds, all of us will say only what are willing to have permanently recorded for the whole world to read. That's not an environment for the discussion of interesting new ideas.--David Velleman at Leiterreports.
Our profession faces a number of really grave ethical challenges, from the treatment of women, to the treatment of adjuncts and per-course faculty, to the concentration of wealth, power, and access, in a handful of institutions. That someone reported on Martha Nussbaum's speech doesn't strike me as one of them.--Daniel A Kaufman at Leiterreports.
In his initial contribution, which was the occasion of Leiter's original post, Velleman, who is one of our most interesting moral psychologists and who has been of great service to the profession in developing Philosopher's Imprint, suggests that "The live-blogging of Martha Nussbaum's Locke lectures would be a good occasion for a discussion of the professional ethics of this practice." From Velleman's original and subsequent remarks (see this one, especially), it's clear that Velleman believes such live-blogging is unethical. The only ethical argument I encountered in Velleman's subsequent comments on the thread is this one: "what you're not entitled to do with author's ideas is to publish them before the author has a chance to." Now, that's not quite right; what you are not allowed to do is publish another's ideas and pass them off as your own or publish another's ideas without proper attribution or publish another's ideas without making clear in what context they are uttered, etc. If an author has expressly requested that one does not circulate or quote a text or lecture, then we ought to respect the wishes of the author all other things being equal.* But I don't see what's wrong with reporting on another's ideas is, if done generously (and with skill). After all, what's horrifying about most student notes on one's courses is not that they circulate, but that they so often misrepresent (see also Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa).
Velleman's principled concerns apply in the case that occassioned them; at Oxford's official John Locke lectures webpage we learn that: "The manuscript supporting these lectures is available to people both in and outside Oxford. Anyone may access and read the manuscript, but must not forward it, publish it, or otherwise reproduce or distribute it. Citation from the manuscript is forbidden, unless you have express permission from Professor Nussbaum." [HT Dhananjay Jagannathan] So, Velleman is right to raise the issue. Reporting or blogging on another (without citation, but with attribution) goes against the spirit of Nussbaum's request.
But as Dan Kaufman points out, Martha Nussbaum+ has actively courted celebrity (and from my vantage-point justly achieved); she is a public figure (not just in philosophy) and so it is a bit silly to treat her public lectures as private conversations. This is especially so because she has no right to hold the rest of scholarship hostage until she decides to publish her lectures. For, as Bill Wringe (with an apt nod to Kripke) notes "any work in the same area will almost certainly now be deemed unpublishable if it does not reference them." Given that she is famous and her lectures will circulate, Wringe's concern is a real one. So, in this instance, I am inclined to agree with Kaufman, Wringe, and others. Either way, the ethical question has become moot because "Professor Nussbaum has kindly given her blessing" to the blogger (and Velleman agrees).
Velleman also raises prudential considerations. He worries that people will be inhibited from trying out ideas on each other if these are prematurely reported. Unfortunately, Velleman does not explain what the root of his concern is. He might be concerned that pre-publication by others denies authors the possibility of receiving credit for their ideas. But it seems that's not what he has in mind. Rather, he seems to think that most professional philosophers prefer to have a period in which they can try out ideas in front and with the aid of their peers (lectures, drafts) without there being a permanent record of these trials. Unfortunately, Velleman does not explain why one would wish for such record-free experimenting.
I suspect, however, that the reason for Velleman's stance is that in such experiments, we sometimes make mistakes or blunders--even Homer nods, after all. Few of us like to look like a fool in front of people whose respect and admiration we desire and whose good favor we require for professional advancement. Of course, in a safe environment one would feel secure to make mistakes in one's experiments; if one's thoughts are likely to be ridiculed or used against you to undermine your reputation, one better be very cautious about what one puts forward as an experiment or in print. (This can hit home, say, when I see my PhD students struggling with their confidence; I then wonder how I failed at making them feel secure.) This is what Velleman probably has in mind with his claim that, "The free exchange of ideas in our discipline depends on mutual trust." So Velleman's comment reveals, in fact, a deep mistrust about what happens to people's reputations in the profession if we are shown to make mistakes or are thought confused, sloppy, etc.
"The free exchange of ideas in our discipline depends on mutual trust."
Of course, it does not follow from my impressions that everything needs to be transparent; perhaps, we ought to be allowed -- like the alchemists -- to assay our ideas and concepts with a few like-minded before we let them sail. In an age where the NSA monitors all, this might be too much to wish for.
+Disclosure: she was once my teacher.
*Such moral requests may well be trumped by aesthetic/literary/political judgments. Brod was wrong to publish Kafka, unless he understood that Kafka really intended the opposite of his request; while I wouldn't want Brod as my friend, I am still grateful to him as a reader.
**One bit of evidence for this is that professional disagreement often is turned into moralized, personal conflict.
***While lots of decision-theorists assume following Aumann that if there is a relatively free market in ideas there won't be any reason to disagree, Merel Lefevere and I argue that the composition of ideas within a community also matters to our evaluation of the ideas produced by it.
++The economist-philosopher, MA Khan, has written very perceptively on these themes here.
My sense is that much of the controversy associated with the question of live-tweeting and live-blogging in Philosophy is rooted in a deep discomfort among professional philosophers with being public. By "being public" I mean not simply appearing in public - an instance of which I consider giving a public lecture to be, but more importantly engaging in substantive philosophical dialogue with publics of various shapes and sizes. We are all learning the habits of public communication in a digital age, and with that learning comes, of course, opportunities to fail.
If philosophers are uncomfortable with being public, we are even more uncomfortable with the public display of our own human fallibility. You have identified the stakes of that fallibility for our more junior colleagues well in your post. Relinquishing a "gotcha" approach to argumentation and scholarship would go some distance in mitigating the cost of PDF (Public Display of Fallibility).
I am struck, however, that the whole controversy seems to be blind to a live-tweeting or -blogging culture that embraces the provisional nature of the ideas shared through social media. Those of us who use Twitter and other social media for academic engagement don't regularly mistake the live-tweeted or -blogged content of a conference participant for the fully worked out published idea of a speaker. Rather, when live-tweeting and -blogging is done well, it amplifies ideas, establishes connections, and enriches the ongoing work of those engaged with the online community.
One of the reasons we are working on the Public Philosophy Journal (http://publicphilosophyjournal.org/ ) is to help cultivate the habits of online public scholarship in philosophy by looking to the open web for conversations where issues of philosophical concern intersect with those of public concern. The project is made much more daunting, but also, I hope, more relevant and valuable by the fact that we professional philosophers are often uncomfortable sharing our work-in-progress in and with the public.
I appreciate your post as an example of how that can be done well.
Thank you for your kind words, Christopher.
I like your focus on the ways that digital media can enrich philosophy. (Obviously, I am not an impartial bystander when I say that.) I have been following the Public Philosophy Journal with interest; it's good that folk like you are experimenting with formats, perhaps, even experimenting as a way of doing philosophy (with many kinds of publics and publicity).


The Kingdom thought it was unfair that Cody and The Young Bucks — who don't normally team together in six-man tag matches — were granted a shot at their ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Titles recently in Atlanta. They viewed it as ROH management showing preferential treatment to Bullet Club, which is a frequent accusation made by The Kingdom.
The Kingdom ended up losing the titles when Vinny Marseglia was pinned after falling victim to Cody's Cross Rhodes. In actuality, Matt Taven was the legal man, so the referee should not have counted the pin.
Anti-conspiracy theorists contend that the match was so chaotic that it was understandable for the referee to have lost track of who the legal men were.
During the four-way match for the ROH World Title between champion Dalton Castle, Jay Lethal, Cody and Matt Taven on June 30, Taven delivered a knee strike to Lethal's head and then rolled up Castle. Taven had the champion down for well over a three count, but the referee was checking on the dazed Lethal rather than counting the pin. When the referee finally turned around to make the count, Castle kicked out just in time.
Anti-conspiracy theorists contend that the referee did the right thing by checking on Lethal. They also say it was a case of poetic justice since Taven had a handful of Castle's tights while pinning him.
The Kingdom won a tournament in December 2016 to become the inaugural ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions, and they successfully defended the titles for more than three months. However, at the 15th Anniversary show in March 2017, TK O'Ryan suffered a broken leg during The Kingdom's successful title defense against Dalton Castle and The Boys.
At a television taping the next night, ROH officials made The Kingdom defend the titles against Bully Ray and The Briscoes, with Silas Young replacing O'Ryan. The team of Matt Taven, Vinny Marseglia and Young lost the titles. O'Ryan returned to action that August, but The Kingdom did not receive a rematch for the titles they never technically were defeated for until May 2018.
Anti-conspiracy theorists contend that The Kingdom did indeed receive their title rematch in October 2017 against then-champions Bullet Club, but Taven rejects that argument because it was not announced as a title match until right before the start of the match.
Plus, it was The Young Bucks and "Hangman" Adam Page who were the champions, but ROH ruled that any three members of Bullet Club could defend the titles, and on that night it was The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega. In the minds of The Kingdom members, it was just another example of ROH management bending over backwards for Bullet Club.


Spooky. It's that time of year again and Halloween is fast approaching. Canary is handling media relations for several Halloween-themed events happening in Philadelphia this year. If you are looking for a fun activity to celebrate Halloween this week and next, the Rosenbach Museum & Library's annual Dracula Festival rages on with a full line-up of programs from Dracula DIY, a free Dracula-inspired crafting workshop for adults where you can things like this chic Vampire Bite Necklace, to the kid approved Halloween Party for Families.
Looking for humor? Sean from Geekadelphia.com went to see BRAT Productions' Carrie last week and nearly suffered a laughing-related injury. The campy black comedy adaption of Stephen King's twisted 1974 novel, made famous by Brian De Palma's movie of the same name, evokes a 70s theme, features quirky design elements, Carrie White in drag (yes, it's true!) and a laugh-out-loud script by playwright Erik Jackson.
Saturday, October 23, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Meet us at Fitler Square for an afternoon of Halloween fun for the whole family. Hunt for pumpkins, get your face painted, make a Halloween craft with the help of staff from the Fairmount Art Center, and listen to spooky music by the famous family group The Cat's Pajamas in one of Philadelphia's most charming settings. This free event is co-hosted by the Fitler Square Improvement Association. No RSVP required, Free Event.
Saturday, October 23, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Local crafters and Rosenbach staff will guide you step-by-step through Dracula-inspired crafts that will be sure to mesmerize your friends. Authors Margaret McGuire and Alicia Kachmar of Witch Craft, will help visitors craft their own spooky cupcake toppers (cupcakes provided by Whipped Bakeshop) and Vampire bite necklaces. Silkscreen a Dracula t-shirt with Candy Depew, owner of the StudioSchool for Decorative Art, or assist in a Dracula publication with the guys from Hive76.No RSVP or crafting experience required, Free Event.
There's more at the Rosenbach! View Bram Stoker's hand-written notes for Dracula or take a Dracula Hands-On Tour. For complete Festival details, view the full Dracula Festival press release. For more about the museum, call the Rosenbach at (215) 732-1600 or visit www.rosenbach.org.
Looking for a fun event to go to with a group of friends? BRAT Productions' Carrie will have you clutching your sides from laughing. Go with a big group and enjoy the show.
View the Carrie press release for more production details.
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Youth Olympic ambassador Chad le Clos reflects on beating Michael Phelps (video)
By Nick ZaccardiAug 25, 2014, 4:45 PM EDT
A total of 23 athletes at the first Youth Olympics in Singapore in 2010 went on win Olympic medals in 2012. Perhaps the most memorable was South African swimmer Chad le Clos, who beat Michael Phelps in the 200m butterfly.
Le Clos, now 22, was far more successful at the Youth Olympics, where he won five medals, including silver in the 200m fly.
"It taught me a lot of lessons that I wouldn't have learned," le Clos said. "A lot of people told me when I was younger that I wasn't going to be a great butterfly swimmer. I shouldn't even try to compete. Look at me a couple years later."
Le Clos is in Nanjing, China, as an athlete ambassador this time around.
"To think that I'm an inspiration to young kids out there is a blessing," he said. "I know what it feels like. I was one of those kids who looked up to many people."
Le Clos relives his victory over Phelps in the above clip, but he did not go up against Phelps at the Pan Pacific Championships last week. South Africa did not send its best swimmers to the event after they took part in the Commonwealth Games. Le Clos won seven medals at Commonwealths.
"I needed some time out from competing after the Commonwealths, not have the stress of competing all the time," Le Clos said, according to SwimSwam.
Youth Olympians reunited for first time in 12 years
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