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Gene Anderson is the new dean of the University of Pittsburgh's College of Business Administration and the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. Courtesy photo
When Gene Anderson left his hometown 50 years ago, few would have bet any money on Pittsburgh. By the 1970s, the steel industry had one foot over the precipice — and the jobs, people, and economy supported by steel began to disappear.
This fall, Anderson returned to a very different Pittsburgh. It is a city ascending, in the middle of an impressive transition from a post-industrial economy to one based on knowledge and innovation. In 2018, Bloomberg's Noah Smith declared Pittsburgh as a model that other Rust Belt cities should emulate: "Pittsburgh is hot. A growing mecca for millennials, Pittsburgh regularly earns a place on the list of 'best cities to live' and 'coolest neighborhoods in America.' It's being hailed as the next tech industry hotspot, and even old-line manufacturers like Alcoa Corp. are moving back to the city."
"It's done incredibly well, and the universities are an important part of the ecosystem that made that happen," says Anderson who on August 1 took over as dean of the University of Pittsburgh's Pitt Business programs.
"For me, coming home, it's an opportunity to have an impact, to be a part of the renaissance," he tells Poets&Quants. "The University of Pittsburgh is central to what's going on in the community."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a Rust Belt city on the rise.
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Pitt Business includes its undergraduate program through the College of Business Administration. Enrolling about 350 freshmen per year, the program ranked 29th in P&Q's latest ranking for best undergraduate business schools and 34th in U.S. News' latest list. Pittsburgh's curriculum features seven different business majors, two double degree programs, and six business-focused certificates. Its first destination placement rate for graduates is 96%.
Graduate and executive programs are offered through The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. Its full-time MBA program most recently ranked 43rd by Poets&Quants and 55th by U.S. News & World Report. It also offers a part-time MBA, a series of joint MBA degrees, and a STEM-designated MBA in business analytics. It was the first business school to offer a one-year accelerated MBA in 1963. It also offers a variety of Master of Science degrees. Katz's Executive EMBA ranked No. 18 in our annual composite ranking of the best U.S. programs. It also offers an EMBA in Healthcare, an executive DBA, and a portfolio of micro-credentials and other exec ed offerings.
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Prior to the University of Pittsburgh, Anderson was dean of the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University since 2017 and dean of the University of Miami School of Business Administration from 2011 to 2016. He began his academic career at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business where he was the D. Maynard Phelps Professor of Business and held a series of leadership roles. He is a highly respected scholar whose research on customer satisfaction has received more than 5,000 Social Sciences Citation Index citations and over 43,000 Google Scholar citations.
When he started at Pitt Business on August 1, Anderson embarked on a listening tour to get to know students, faculty, alumni, and the Pittsburgh business leaders. Poets&Quants spoke with him last week to learn more about his return to his hometown and his visions for its future.
Why the move from Syracuse to Pittsburg, and why now?
Well, I'm a native of Pittsburgh, and it was kind of a combination of people, place, and potential. It's a terrific faculty, just wonderful students, loyal and successful alumni. A lot of the fundamentals in terms of people are already here.
And, the place I think is really, really interesting. If you were looking for great examples around the world for how to make it in a post industrial world, to transition from a manufacturing economy to a more knowledge and innovation based one, you'd be hard pressed to find a better place than Pittsburgh. You put those two things together, and I think there's a lot of potential to do something special here.
Were you looking for a change, or did this opportunity kind of materialize?
No, this actually was quite a surprise. There was no notion of making a change, and then I got a call in late April. By the end of May, I was looking for housing.
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Civilizational attributes change in accordance with change in mode of thinking through range of stages oriented towards March of peace and security amid welfare at its core. In fact the march of human beings is visible in golden pages of history who attained the pinnacle of ladder in being adopted to crucial phases ipso facto. But on analytical level the concept needs refurbishment for its application, as far as the track of success to adopt noble ideals for human beings is concerned.there is no doubt in the fact that we have mastered in every field we ventured but logically the result seems contrary to our aspirations for such mastery. "We are living in world of pieces rather than world of peace" said Antonio Guteres ( sec general UN). On seeing the overall conditions of world at present stage of time the statement is no more stereotypical. It seems we are in a world of chaos now. Who aspires for such a state? Nationality or Commonality,is a paradox which demands SIGMUND FREUD for explanation.
The contemporary world order emerged on dust of wwii onslaught which left us in lurch regarding the fire and fury humanity felt. It drove us towards the cremation grounds for our near and dear ones who seems unaware about nationality itself. It aroused a paradoxical situation for common masses with single hand ( Hitler) burning the fate of world by choice if not exaggerated. This lead us to noble ideal of peace and security and subsequently laid the platform for establishment of UN to taste the environment of peace and security with sovereignty for every member nation. Much aura filled atmosphere got busy day and night to spread the net of various institutions for success of such initiative. And thus dramatically transformed the very order of the functioning on international level. But to its bad luck I say it couldn't proven it's impartiality. Easier said than done , the initiative was hide and seek game of big powers so , it couldn't digested bloodshed of WWII and hence sucked the earned blood through Economic imperialism. Thus tapered tantrum such noble path with black spot and hence left the satellite countries with huge population share in lurch for their mercy. Surplus West and Deficit East was the result. Though the trend is changing now but was it the peace and security assured after decolonisation? cold war , Cuban crisis, Korean war,veitnam war in global context, with indo Chinese and indo Pakistan in regional was crystal clear manifestation.
Contemporary reality has accumulated dust in archives of peace making initiatives. West Asia Refugees, South African problems, Venezuela crisis and nearest one Myanmar state terrorism are ample manifestations. Where is UNO? What next? Is idea of peace impossible in world ? As far as all conflict or situation is concerned , the perverted form of nationality remained at its core. But who suffers, nationality or commonality? The atmosphere is filled with deep hypertension from every angle, Vertical and horizontal arms race and malicious power ambitions are the order of the day. Where lies the space for common masses who bear the brunt in the end? Here in lies the space for world renowned civil society with spreading net of NGO'S who are busy to enhance human capability and move forward the aspirations of common people in consolidated form like ICAN , whose sole hearted efforts won it this year's noble prize. These organisations are busy in evolution of Nobel ideals with Nobel vision to fulfill the conditional basis of humanity for track of livable atmosphere on length and breadth of planet. They employ nip and bottom efforts to realise the dream of peace and security but politics could not spare them,they are restricted in there sphere of influence either entangled in national politics or being trapped in international politics, thus curbing their respective functioning style.
"Peace is not absence of war rather contrary" is manifested in its true spirit through prsent period. The atmosphere is full of tension with amplified insecurity element and thus impinging on the very existence of soul.After thorough analysis the future seems bleak with sturdy ideals which could doom the fate of humanity in entirety. Seeing present pole position of world the leaders are busy in accumulating the destruction power of planet in blink of eye. North Korea and Iran are live examples of that vein of pole. China busy in its rhetoric to debt trap small countries through belt road initiative to use them as political tool for super power emergence, after all who cares for humanity at base. The peace making initiatives are bright in the books through icons of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King . With trillions of wealth in bonds and deposits on one side and billions of Hungary ones on the other is paradox of surplus and hunger. There's no path of streamlining to acquire the atmosphere of peace and security in letter and spirit amid vast organisation of programmes to discuss such policy matters spending crores of resources( Paris climate deal was signed by Barack Obama Donald trump gave it thrash and one more to go ICJ touted as police of world is being cheated by China in plain white).
" Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere" quoted icon of peace Martin Luther King in one of his speeches to blacks of US. The question of the day to resolve the crisis needs a dedicated band of leaders who could bow their head before noble ideals by keeping humanity at front on rising beyond their national frontiers. Until and unless we demolish borders in minds of people we couldn't rise beyond the stress with atmosphere full of knickers. With goal of "Humanity Ist", the goal of peace will follow the suit. Globalisation came with idea of global village but nothing worthy for humanity. The concept in its hidden policy is stricken with self interested blade for vast stretch of population. This is based on the policy of "Either compete or perish", with deep sketchy agenda to provide ample sunshine and water for inequality to sustain in its entirety. It's no strange to visualise the common masses with such shows. For its accuracy I would suggest " Global peace" in place of global village to erode the very barrier between man and man to fulfil the aspirations of teeming billions. Otherwise the tragedy awaits the world? Are you ready for that.


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Rembarrnga bzw. Rembarnga ist eine australische Sprache. Sie wird im Northern Territory im Gebiet des Roper River gesprochen, gehört nicht zu den Pama-Nyunga-Sprachen und gilt als bedrohte Sprache. Im Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ist die Sprache als N73 verzeichnet. Um 2015 fanden sich in den abgelegenen Orten Maningrida und Ramingining und in deren näheren Umgebung Menschen, die die Sprache fließend beherrschten. Heutzutage wird Rembarrnga kaum mehr an Kinder weitergegeben. Diese erlernen stattdessen benachbarte Sprachen wie Kriol im südlichen Arnhemland oder Bininj Kunwok im nördlichen Arnhemland.

Zu den Linguisten, die in Zusammenarbeit mit Muttersprachlern Lehrmaterial über Rembarrnga veröffentlicht haben, gehören Graham McKay, Carolyn Coleman und Adam Saulwick.

Literatur
 Graham McKay: Rembarnga : a language of central Arnhem Land. Dissertation, Australian National University, Canberra 1975.
 Adam Saulwick: Aspects of the verb in Rembarrnga, a polysynthetic language of northern Australia: grammatical description, texts and dictionary. Dissertation, University of Melbourne, 2003.
 Adam Saulwick: A learner's guide to the Rembarrnga language. Maningrida Arts and Culture, Maningrida, 2003.

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It's so weird we're getting it before .
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by Charles R. SwindollScriptures: Matthew 5:10–12
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon remains one of the most colorful and gifted preachers in the history of the church. Any man who loves to preach and desires to cultivate the art and skill of communication must study Spurgeon. Before the man was 30 years old, he was the most popular preacher in England. The new Metropolitan Tabernacle was filled to overflowing every Lord's Day as people came miles by horse and buggy to hear the gifted man handle the Word of God. They were challenged, encouraged, exhorted, fed, and built up in the Christian faith. He was truly a phenomenon.
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Protesters clash with police in South Korea as Japan-funded 'comfort women' foundation opens in Seoul
Police take away a South Korean protester occupying the venue as the protesters denounce a deal between Seoul and Tokyo on resolving a long-running row over "comfort women".PHOTO: AFP
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SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean protesters clashed with the police on Thursday (July 28) as they tried to disrupt the opening in Seoul of a Tokyo-funded foundation for women forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels.
Last December, the two nations reached a "final and irreversible" agreement, under which Tokyo offered an apology and a 1 billion yen to open the foundation for the dwindling number of so-called "comfort women" who are still alive. But the deal was condemned by some of the women and South Korean activists, who took issue with Japan's refusal to accept formal legal responsibility.
"You can't silence the victims with money!" scores of protesters chanted at Thursday's opening event, which they picketed with banners reading: "This is not what the comfort women want!"
Several college students forced their way into the venue where foundation officials were due to hold a press conference, and had to be forcibly removed by police.
"Listen to the voices of the victims!" one protester shouted tearfully as police carried her and other activists out by their arms and legs.
The Reconciliation and Healing Foundation tried to play down the protests, saying opposition to the deal with Tokyo was limited to a vocal minority.
"Some victims I met expressed gratitude for reaching the deal while they are alive," the foundation's head Kim Tae Hyun told reporters.
"The deal is not completely satisfactory... but we shouldn't let these controversies put out this small light of hope that we managed to find," she added.
Ms Kim said the foundation's money would be used to fulfil the remaining comfort women's last wishes as many of them were ill and impoverished.
The plight of the so-called "comfort women" is a hugely emotional issue that has marred relations between Seoul and Japan for decades and which, for many South Koreans, symbolises the abuses of Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule over the Korean peninsula.
Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, mostly from Korea but also other parts of Asia including China, were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II.


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Many times I read that some people feel double bass is only good for metal. A comment forgets that double bass actually got it's start in jazz, then fusion, and has appeared in many pop settings as well.
So I present, the non-metal double bass thread, of assorted non-metal songs and non-metal drummers who use or toyed with double bass. No, I'm not trying to convince anyone to convert to double bass, or change anyone's minds on the subject. This is strictly just for fun.
Side note: Sorry Deathmetalconga, I know, I can hear you groaning from here.
In no particular order.
First up:
The Man credited with inventing double bass, Louie Bellson with Duke Elington on "Skin Deep"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-o4iRF49_0
And another Duke Ellington number called ""Musical Rhythm"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_p4R9dMxs
Billy Cobham, of course used double bass with Mahavishnu Orchestra, and his many solo albums, and other jazz and fusion recordings
A sample with Mahavishnu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujcYw2QTPzM
Nick Mason used a double bass kit with Pink Floyd. While he never went all out with long 16ht note double bass roles, or blast beats, or used on many of their more popular recordings, he did actually his 2nd bass drum.
On "One of These Days" he can seen with his left foot on his 2nd bass drum, hitting notes in key places
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuKVtnmNt1s
A bit more obvious are some of his fills in "Echos"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2OylafY6PY&feature=related
Jeff Beck songs would feature double bass.
Simon Phillips on the 7/4 shuffle "Space Boogie"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij7yR0LubxY
And then years later, Terry Bozzio on "Sling Shot"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0FGihcrO0E
Prince: While most people remember "Darling Niki" for his provocative lyrics, the song features double bass all over the ending, in a song that is anything but metal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XmxijQfMow
Steve Smith used a double bass kit with Journey (as did his predecessor Ansely Dunbar, and both of his replacements, Mike Baird and Deen Castranonvo). Smith generally used double bass to in fills (like the great intro on "Where Were You), or to spice up live versions (checked out the "Captured" live album).
On this track, he actually used double bass in the grooves of the chorus, all very tastefully in a pop-rock setting. The audio on this clip is poor, but the use of double bass is very clear on the CD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8pAPvAIFPE
Even Kenny Arnoff used double pedal with John Mellencamp. Per Kenny in an interview some years ago, John handed Kenny a tape of a song, and said come up with 5 different beats and get back to me. So Kenny came up with 4 standard rock beats, and a 5th beat that featured syncopation and a double pedal. To Kenny's surprise, John chose the 5th beat. And this song went on be "Love and Happiness" which still gets radio play to this day. Turn it up on a good set of speakers, and you can hear the two different tones of the right and left beater It's just so smooth and tasteful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsOlVKUau2U
I couldn't find an audio clip, but if anyone remembers when Marvin Smitty Smith became the new drummer on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" every night the theme song featured a very fast double bass parts. (The new 2010 theme song is a different song altogether).
John Bonham is best known for not using double bass, but he did try, however John Paul Jones objected. He did briefly use a double bass kit, as show in this clip, although the band is just miming to a pre-recorded track, he's not actually playing it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3WwTLYNSec
Buddy Rich rarely used double bass, but he could in fact play it.
A few audio clips can be fond here:
http://www.mikejamesjazz.com/br_clips.html#unique_index
If anyone had the "Buddy Rich Jazz Ledgend" that was on VHS, there was a brief clip of Buddy playing just two bass drums on his TV show. I am kind of surprised that clip isn't on youtube anywhere (?)
Shortly before his untimely passing, Tony Williams took delivery of a double bass kit.
I don't know if there are any actual recordings of him using it though.
Keith Moon didn't play double bass in the way most people think of as double bass, but then again, Keith didn't play drums in the way most people think of playing drums!
For many years, he gave up having a hi-hat stand, but kept playing the typical left foot patterns (1/4, 1/8tth, etc) on his 2nd bass drum, as show in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbk5xXHqShI
AggressiveC
DrumEatDrum said:
Woah... I would have loved to hear Tony play some double kick! I heard he was planning on doing a Thrash Metal record before he died. I'm not sure how true that is, but none the less, it would have been amazing seeing Tony play with two kicks!
Bootz
This is a really interesting thread!
Thanks for putting all this together.
harryconway
You may want to check out Arcana - Arc of the Testimony (Tony Williams, Bill Laswell, Pharoah Sanders, Byard Lancaster, Graham Haynes, Nicky Skopelitis, and Buckethead).
toddbishop
For a time DeJohnette used a double bass set up with different sized drums. I think he had it on Ralph Towner's album Batik, but can't recall another. Does anyone know about that?
Nice thread idea, DED. Michael Giles played double kick on the first two Crimson albums, and also later with the 21st Century Schizoid Band (wrongly labelled in this vid as KC): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqMmTdZXzuM
I'd like to hear Jack DeJohnette on double kick. I have a Keith Jarrett DVD where he's insane with just one ...
I've seen Louie Bellson use a double bass before.
Ainulindale
great thread, its interesting see how many drummers used a different size second bass, or like bozzio, several sizes... and thanks for the links, some real eyeopeners!
alparrott
LOL @ "Captain Obvious" Frost.... I *think* you meant that sardonically...
Very cool thread, DrumEatDrum!
Double kick madness!
Now to bang out some Hot for Teacher....
harryconway said:
Tony got around didn't he?! Another cat that was well known for double kicks was Ginger Baker. Ginger and Tony did the drum tracks on Public Image Limited's recording known as 'Album'. That particular record was somewhat of a supergroup that Johnny Rotten put together and they made some very interesting rock-n-roll.
Of course, who could forget Ed Shaughnessy, who sported a double bass kit for over 20 year with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show.
Ed's approach to double bass was a bit different. He often used a 24" for his main bass drum, and a 20" on his left.
http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Ed_Shaughnessy.html
AggressiveC said:
I've never heard that one. But I recall in one of his last interviews, he talked about he liked to sit down at his drums, put on some headphones, and then turn the radio to random stations and play to whatever came on, no matter what the genre or style. Pretty mind blowing that a guy who was already legend was concerned about keeping himself up to date with modern music.
Thanks! I'll check it out.
John "JR" Robinson is best known for playing on major hits with major stars.
In the 80's, he too sported a double bass kit. I once saw him in clinic, and he could do pretty amazing things with two bass drums. He also was another guy who favored two different sizes of bass drums:
Pocket-full-of-gold
Great thread....great vids.
Should be mandatory reading for anyone doubting the need for them beyond blasting. Since I first saw Louie Bellson I've never needed any convincing, but unfortunately double pedals often get immediately pigeonholed with metal.......great to see so many examples all in one place, showing how they can be used without relying on dugga dugga dugga at a million miles an hour.
Thanks for collating all this mate.
The Sling Shot vid had been removed. Here's another one with Terry B being his usual shy and retiring self: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQdS7C-kZw
alparrott said:
It was slightly tongue in cheek, yes. Bellson is one of the pioneers as you undoubtedly know, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBQWaCLlK9Y
Have we covered most of them already?
Not double bass but double pedal - Damon Che from Don Caballero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlY5_5iZjWk
In the old days the guys who knocked me out with double kicks were
Simon Phillips on 801's East of Asteroid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZF1GrcFF0
Ian Paice on Fireball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2zFlu9Uh1E
Cozy Powell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6R5xXlziJ8


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Science and Design
William Dembski, PhD
When the physics of Galileo and Newton displaced the physics of Aristotle, scientists tried to explain the world by discovering its deterministic natural laws. When the quantum physics of Bohr and Heisenberg in turn displaced the physics of Galileo and Newton, scientists realized they needed to supplement their deterministic natural laws by taking into account chance processes in their explanations of our universe. Chance and necessity, to use a phrase made famous by Jacques Monod, thus set the boundaries of scientific explanation.
Today, however, chance and necessity have proven insufficient to account for all scientific phenomena. Without invoking the rightly discarded teleologies, entelechies, and vitalisms of the past, one can still see that a third mode of explanation is required, namely, intelligent design. Chance, necessity, and design — these three modes of explanation — are needed to explain the full range of scientific phenomena.
Not all scientists see that excluding intelligent design artificially restricts science, however. Richard Dawkins, an arch-Darwinist, begins his book The Blind Watchmaker by stating, "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose." Statements like this echo throughout the biological literature. In What Mad Pursuit, Francis Crick, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, writes, "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved."
The biological community thinks it has accounted for the apparent design in nature through the Darwinian mechanism of random mutation and natural selection. The point to appreciate, however, is that in accounting for the apparent design in nature, biologists regard themselves as having made a successful scientific argument against actual design. This is important, because for a claim to be scientifically falsifiable, it must have the possibility of being true. Scientific refutation is a double-edged sword. Claims that are refuted scientifically may be wrong, but they are not necessarily wrong — they cannot simply be dismissed out of hand.
To see this, consider what would happen if microscopic examination revealed that every cell was inscribed with the phrase "Made by Yahweh." Of course cells don't have "Made by Yahweh" inscribed on them, but that's not the point. The point is that we wouldn't know this unless we actually looked at cells under the microscope. And if they were so inscribed, one would have to entertain the thought, as a scientist, that they actually were made by Yahweh. So even those who do not believe in it tacitly admit that design always remains a live option in biology. A priori prohibitions against design are philosophically unsophisticated and easily countered. Nonetheless, once we admit that design cannot be excluded from science without argument, a weightier question remains: Why should we want to admit design into science?
To answer this question, let us turn it around and ask instead, Why shouldn't we want to admit design into science? What's wrong with explaining something as designed by an intelligent agent? Certainly there are many everyday occurrences that we explain by appealing to design. Moreover, in our workaday lives it is absolutely crucial to distinguish accident from design. We demand answers to such questions as, Did she fall or was she pushed? Did someone die accidentally or commit suicide? Was this song conceived independently or was it plagiarized? Did someone just get lucky on the stock market or was there insider trading?
Not only do we demand answers to such questions, but entire industries are devoted to drawing the distinction between accident and design. Here we can include forensic science, intellectual property law, insurance claims investigation, cryptography, and random number generation — to name but a few. Science itself needs to draw this distinction to keep itself honest. Just last January there was a report in Science that a Medline web search uncovered a "paper published in Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie in 1991 [containing] text that is almost identical to text from a paper published in 1979 in the Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery." Plagiarism and data falsification are far more common in science than we would like to admit. What keeps these abuses in check is our ability to detect them.
If design is so readily detectable outside science, and if its detectability is one of the key factors keeping scientists honest, why should design be barred from the content of science? Why do Dawkins and Crick feel compelled to constantly remind us that biology studies things that only appear to be designed, but that in fact are not designed? Why couldn't biology study things that are designed?
The biological community's response to these questions has been to resist design absolutely. The worry is that for natural objects (unlike human artifacts) the distinction between design and non-design cannot be reliably drawn. Consider, for instance, the following remark by Darwin in the concluding chapter of his Origin of Species: "Several eminent naturalists have of late published their belief that a multitude of reputed species in each genus are not real species; but that other species are real, that is, have been independently created. … Nevertheless they do not pretend that they can define, or even conjecture, which are the created forms of life, and which are those produced by secondary laws. They admit variation as a vera causa in one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning any distinction in the two cases." Biologists worry about attributing something to design (here identified with creation) only to have it overturned later; this widespread and legitimate concern has prevented them from using intelligent design as a valid scientific explanation.
Though perhaps justified in the past, this worry is no longer tenable. There now exists a rigorous criterion — complexity-specification—for distinguishing intelligently caused objects from unintelligently caused ones. Many special sciences already use this criterion, though in a pre-theoretic form (e.g., forensic science, artificial intelligence, cryptography, archeology, and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). The great breakthrough in philosophy of science and probability theory of recent years has been to isolate and make precise this criterion. Michael Behe's criterion of irreducible complexity for establishing the design of biochemical systems is a special case of the complexity-specification criterion for detecting design (cf. Behe's book Darwin's Black Box).
What does this criterion look like? Although a detailed explanation and justification is fairly technical (for a full account see my book The Design Inference, published by Cambridge University Press), the basic idea is straightforward and easily illustrated. Consider how the radio astronomers in the movie Contact detected an extraterrestrial intelligence. This movie, which came out last year and was based on a novel by Carl Sagan, was an enjoyable piece of propaganda for the SETI research program—the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. In the movie, the SETI researchers found extraterrestrial intelligence. (The nonfictional researchers have not been so successful.)
How, then, did the SETI researchers in Contact find an extraterrestrial intelligence? SETI researchers monitor millions of radio signals from outer space. Many natural objects in space (e.g., pulsars) produce radio waves. Looking for signs of design among all these naturally produced radio signals is like looking for a needle in a haystack. To sift through the haystack, SETI researchers run the signals they monitor through computers programmed with pattern-matchers. As long as a signal doesn't match one of the pre-set patterns, it will pass through the pattern-matching sieve (even if it has an intelligent source). If, on the other hand, it does match one of these patterns, then, depending on the pattern matched, the SETI researchers may have cause for celebration.
The SETI researchers in Contact found the following signal:
In this sequence of 1126 bits, 1's correspond to beats and 0's to pauses. This sequence represents the prime numbers from 2 to 101,where a given prime number is represented by the corresponding number of beats (i.e., 1's), and the individual prime numbers are separated by pauses (i.e., 0's).
The SETI researchers in Contact took this signal as decisive confirmation of an extraterrestrial intelligence. What is it about this signal that decisively indicates design? Whenever we infer design, we must establish two things — complexity and specification. Complexity ensures that the object in question is not so simple that it can readily be explained by chance. Specification ensures that this object exhibits the type of pattern that is the trademark of intelligence.
To see why complexity is crucial for inferring design, consider the following sequence of bits:
These are the first twelve bits in the previous sequence representing the prime numbers 2, 3, and 5 respectively. Now it is a sure bet that no SETI researcher, if confronted with this twelve-bit sequence, is going to contact the science editor at the New York Times, hold a press conference, and announce that an extraterrestrial intelligence has been discovered. No headline is going to read, "Aliens Master First Three Prime Numbers!"
The problem is that this sequence is much too short (i.e., has too little complexity) to establish that an extraterrestrial intelligence with knowledge of prime numbers produced it. A randomly beating radio source might by chance just happen to put out the sequence "110111011111." A sequence of 1126 bits representing the prime numbers from 2 to 101, however, is a different story. Here the sequence is sufficiently long (i.e., has enough complexity) to confirm that an extraterrestrial intelligence could have produced it.
Even so, complexity by itself isn't enough to eliminate chance and indicate design. If I flip a coin 1,000 times, I'll participate in a highly complex (or what amounts to the same thing, highly improbable) event. Indeed, the sequence I end up flipping will be one in a trillion trillion trillion . . . , where the ellipsis needs twenty-two more "trillions." This sequence of coin tosses won't, however, trigger a design inference. Though complex, this sequence won't exhibit a suitable pattern. Contrast this with the sequence representing the prime numbers from 2 to 101. Not only is this sequence complex, it also embodies a suitable pattern. The SETI researcher who in the movie Contact discovered this sequence put it this way: "This isn't noise, this has structure."
What is a suitable pattern for inferring design? Not just any pattern will do. Some patterns can legitimately be employed to infer design whereas others cannot. It is easy to see the basic intuition here. Suppose an archer stands fifty meters from a large wall with bow and arrow in hand. The wall, let's say, is sufficiently large that the archer can't help but hit it. Now suppose each time the archer shoots an arrow at the wall, the archer paints a target around the arrow so that the arrow sits squarely in the bull's-eye. What can be concluded from this scenario? Absolutely nothing about the archer's ability as an archer. Yes, a pattern is being matched; but it is a pattern fixed only after the arrow has been shot. The pattern is thus purely ad hoc.
But suppose instead the archer paints a fixed target on the wall and then shoots at it. Suppose the archer shoots a hundred arrows, and each time hits a perfect bull's-eye. What can be concluded from this second scenario? Confronted with this second scenario we are obligated to infer that here is a world-class archer, one whose shots cannot legitimately be explained by luck, but rather must be explained by the archer's skill and mastery. Skill and mastery are of course instances of design.
Like the archer who fixes the target first and then shoots at it, statisticians set what is known as a rejection region prior to an experiment. If the outcome of an experiment falls within a rejection region, the statistician rejects the hypothesis that the outcome is due to chance. The pattern doesn't need to be given prior to an event to imply design. Consider the following cipher text:
nfuijolt ju jt mjlf b xfbtfm
Initially this looks like a random sequence of letters and spaces — initially you lack any pattern for rejecting chance and inferring design.
But suppose next that someone comes along and tells you to treat this sequence as a Caesar cipher, moving each letter one notch down the alphabet. Behold, the sequence now reads,
methinks it is like a weasel
Even though the pattern is now given after the fact, it still is the right sort of pattern for eliminating chance and inferring design. In contrast to statistics, which always tries to identify its patterns before an experiment is performed, cryptanalysis must discover its patterns after the fact. In both instances, however, the patterns are suitable for inferring design.
Patterns divide into two types, those that in the presence of complexity warrant a design inference and those that despite the presence of complexity do not warrant a design inference. The first type of pattern is called a specification, the second a fabrication. Specifications are the non-ad hoc patterns that can legitimately be used to eliminate chance and warrant a design inference. In contrast, fabrications are the ad hoc patterns that cannot legitimately be used to warrant a design inference. This distinction between specifications and fabrications can be made with full statistical rigor (cf. The Design Inference).
Why does the complexity-specification criterion reliably detect design? To answer this, we need to understand what it is about intelligent agents that makes them detectable in the first place. The principal characteristic of intelligent agency is choice. Whenever an intelligent agent acts, it chooses from a range of competing possibilities.
This is true not just of humans and extraterrestrial intelligences, but of animals as well. A rat navigating a maze must choose whether to go right or left at various points in the maze. When SETI researchers attempt to discover intelligence in the radio transmissions they are monitoring, they assume an extraterrestrial intelligence could have chosen to transmit any number of possible patterns, and then attempt to match the transmissions they observe with the patterns they seek. Whenever a human being utters meaningful speech, he chooses from a range of utterable sound-combinations. Intelligent agency always entails discrimination—choosing certain things, ruling out others.
Given this characterization of intelligent agency, how do we recognize that an intelligent agent has made a choice? A bottle of ink spills accidentally onto a sheet of paper; someone takes a fountain pen and writes a message on a sheet of paper. In both instances ink is applied to paper. In both instances one among an almost infinite set of possibilities is realized. In both instances one contingency is actualized and others are ruled out. Yet in one instance we ascribe agency, in the other chance.
What is the relevant difference? Not only do we need to observe that a contingency was actualized, but we ourselves need also to be able to specify that contingency. The contingency must conform to an independently given pattern, and we must be able independently to formulate that pattern. A random ink blot is unspecifiable; a message written with ink on paper is specifiable. Wittgenstein in Culture and Value made the same point: "We tend to take the speech of a Chinese for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in what he hears."
In hearing a Chinese utterance, someone who understands Chinese not only recognizes that one from a range of all possible utterances was actualized, but he is also able to identify the utterance as coherent Chinese speech. Contrast this with someone who does not understand Chinese. He will also recognize that one from a range of possible utterances was actualized, but this time, because he lacks the ability to understand Chinese, he is unable to tell whether the utterance was coherent speech.
To someone who does not understand Chinese, the utterance will appear gibberish. Gibberish—the utterance of nonsense syllables uninterpretable within any natural language—always actualizes one utterance from the range of possible utterances. Nevertheless, gibberish, by corresponding to nothing we can understand in any language, also cannot be specified. As a result, gibberish is never taken for intelligent communication, but always for what Wittgenstein calls "inarticulate gurgling."
Experimental psychologists who study animal learning and behavior employ a similar method. To learn a task an animal must acquire the ability to actualize behaviors suitable for the task as well as the ability to rule out behaviors unsuitable for the task. Moreover, for a psychologist to recognize that an animal has learned a task, it is necessary not only to observe the animal making the appropriate discrimination, but also to specify this discrimination.
Thus to recognize whether a rat has successfully learned how to traverse a maze, a psychologist must first specify which sequence of right and left turns conducts the rat out of the maze. No doubt, a rat randomly wandering a maze also discriminates a sequence of right and left turns. But by randomly wandering the maze, the rat gives no indication that it can discriminate the appropriate sequence of right and left turns for exiting the maze. Consequently, the psychologist studying the rat will have no reason to think the rat has learned how to traverse the maze. Only if the rat executes the sequence of right and left turns specified by the psychologist will the psychologist recognize that the rat has learned how to traverse the maze.
Note that complexity is implicit here as well. To see this, consider again a rat traversing a maze, but now take a very simple maze in which two right turns conduct the rat out of the maze. How will a psychologist studying the rat determine whether it has learned to exit the maze? Just putting the rat in the maze will not be enough. Because the maze is so simple, the rat could by chance just happen to take two right turns, and thereby exit the maze. The psychologist will therefore be uncertain whether the rat actually learned to exit this maze, or whether the rat just got lucky.
But contrast this now with a complicated maze in which a rat must take just the right sequence of left and right turns to exit the maze. Suppose the rat must take one hundred appropriate right and left turns, and that any mistake will prevent the rat from exiting the maze. A psychologist who sees the rat take no erroneous turns and in short order exit the maze will be convinced that the rat has indeed learned how to exit the maze, and that this was not dumb luck.
This general scheme for recognizing intelligent agency is but a thinly disguised form of the complexity-specification criterion. In general, to recognize intelligent agency we must observe a choice among competing possibilities, note which possibilities were not chosen, and then be able to specify the possibility that was chosen. What's more, the competing possibilities that were ruled out must be live possibilities, and sufficiently numerous (hence complex) so that specifying the possibility that was chosen cannot be attributed to chance.
All the elements in this general scheme for recognizing intelligent agency (i.e., choosing, ruling out, and specifying) find their counterpart in the complexity-specification criterion. It follows that this criterion formalizes what we have been doing right along when we recognize intelligent agency. The complexity-specification criterion pinpoints what we need to be looking for when we detect design.
Perhaps the most compelling evidence for design in biology comes from biochemistry. In a recent issue of Cell (February 8, 1998),Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences, remarked, "The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of large protein machines. . . . Why do we call the large protein assemblies that underlie cell function machines? Precisely because, like the machines invented by humans to deal efficiently with the macroscopic world, these protein assemblies contain highly coordinated moving parts."
Even so, Alberts sides with the majority of biologists in regarding the cell's marvelous complexity as only apparently designed. The Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe disagrees. In Darwin's Black Box (1996), Behe presents a powerful argument for actual design in the cell. Central to his argument is his notion of irreducible complexity. A system is irreducibly complex if it consists of several interrelated parts so that removing even one part completely destroys the system's function. As an example of irreducible complexity Behe offers the standard mousetrap. A mousetrap consists of a platform, a hammer, a spring, a catch, and a holding bar. Remove any one of these five components, and it is impossible to construct a functional mousetrap.
Irreducible complexity needs to be contrasted with cumulative complexity. A system is cumulatively complex if the components of the system can be arranged sequentially so that the successive removal of components never leads to the complete loss of function. An example of a cumulatively complex system is a city. It is possible successively to remove people and services from a city until one is down to a tiny village—all without losing the sense of community, the city's "function."
From this characterization of cumulative complexity, it is clear that the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random mutation can readily account for cumulative complexity. Darwin's account of how organisms gradually become more complex as favorable adaptations accumulate is the flip side of the city in our example from which people and services are removed. In both cases, the simpler and more complex versions both work, only less or more effectively.
But can the Darwinian mechanism account for irreducible complexity? Certainly, if selection acts with reference to a goal, it can produce irreducible complexity. Take Behe's mousetrap. Given the goal of constructing a mousetrap, one can specify a goal-directed selection process that in turn selects a platform, a hammer, a spring, a catch, and a holding bar, and at the end puts all these components together to form a functional mousetrap. Given a pre-specified goal, selection has no difficulty producing irreducibly complex systems.
But the selection operating in biology is Darwinian natural selection. And by definition this form of selection operates without goals, has neither plan nor purpose, and is wholly undirected. The great appeal of Darwin's selection mechanism was, after all, that it would eliminate teleology from biology. Yet by making selection an undirected process, Darwin drastically reduced the type of complexity biological systems could manifest. Henceforth biological systems could manifest only cumulative complexity, not irreducible complexity.
As Behe explains in Darwin's Black Box: "An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced . . . by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition nonfunctional. . .. Since natural selection can only choose systems that are already working, then if a biological system cannot be produced gradually it would have to arise as an integrated unit, in one fell swoop, for natural selection to have anything to act on."
For an irreducibly complex system, function is attained only when all components of the system are in place simultaneously. It follows that natural selection, if it is going to produce an irreducibly complex system, has to produce it all at once or not at all. This would not be a problem if the systems in question were simple. But they're not. The irreducibly complex biochemical systems Behe considers are protein machines consisting of numerous distinct proteins, each indispensable for function; together they are beyond what natural selection can muster in a single generation.
One such irreducibly complex biochemical system that Behe considers is the bacterial flagellum. The flagellum is a whip-like rotary motor that enables a bacterium to navigate through its environment. The flagellum includes an acid-powered rotary engine, a stator, O-rings, bushings, and a drive shaft. The intricate machinery of this molecular motor requires approximately fifty proteins. Yet the absence of any one of these proteins results in the complete loss of motor function.
The irreducible complexity of such biochemical systems cannot be explained by the Darwinian mechanism, nor indeed by any naturalistic evolutionary mechanism proposed to date. Moreover, because irreducible complexity occurs at the biochemical level, there is no more fundamental level of biological analysis to which the irreducible complexity of biochemical systems can be referred, and at which a Darwinian analysis in terms of selection and mutation can still hope for success. Undergirding biochemistry is ordinary chemistry and physics, neither of which can account for biological information. Also, whether a biochemical system is irreducibly complex is a fully empirical question: Individually knock out each protein constituting a biochemical system to determine whether function is lost. If so, we are dealing with an irreducibly complex system. Experiments of this sort are routine in biology.
The connection between Behe's notion of irreducible complexity and my complexity-specification criterion is now straightforward. The irreducibly complex systems Behe considers require numerous components specifically adapted to each other and each necessary for function. That means they are complex in the sense required by the complexity-specification criterion.
Specification in biology always makes reference in some way to an organism's function. An organism is a functional system comprising many functional subsystems. The functionality of organisms can be specified in any number of ways. Arno Wouters does so in terms of the viability of whole organisms, Michael Behe in terms of the minimal function of biochemical systems. Even Richard Dawkins will admit that life is specified functionally, for him in terms of the reproduction of genes. Thus in The Blind Watchmaker Dawkins writes, "Complicated things have some quality, specifiable in advance, that is highly unlikely to have been acquired by random chance alone. In the case of living things, the quality that is specified in advance is . . . the ability to propagate genes in reproduction."
So there exists a reliable criterion for detecting design strictly from observational features of the world. This criterion belongs to probability and complexity theory, not to metaphysics and theology. And although it cannot achieve logical demonstration, it does achieve a statistical justification so compelling as to demand assent. This criterion is relevant to biology. When applied to the complex, information-rich structures of biology, it detects design. In particular, we can say with the weight of science behind us that the complexity-specification criterion shows Michael Behe's irreducibly complex biochemical systems to be designed.
What are we to make of these developments? Many scientists remain unconvinced. Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that biological systems are designed, it seems that determining a biological system to be designed is akin to shrugging our shoulders and saying God did it. The fear is that admitting design as an explanation will stifle scientific inquiry, that scientists will stop investigating difficult problems because they have a sufficient explanation already.
But design is not a science stopper. Indeed, design can foster inquiry where traditional evolutionary approaches obstruct it. Consider the term "junk DNA." Implicit in this term is the view that because the genome of an organism has been cobbled together through a long, undirected evolutionary process, the genome is a patchwork of which only limited portions are essential to the organism. Thus on an evolutionary view we expect a lot of useless DNA. If, on the other hand, organisms are designed, we expect DNA, as much as possible, to exhibit function. And indeed, the most recent findings suggest that designating DNA as "junk" merely cloaks our current lack of knowledge about function. For instance, in a recent issue of the Journal of Theoretical Biology, John Bodnar describes how "non-coding DNA in eukaryotic genomes encodes a language which programs organismal growth and development." Design encourages scientists to look for function where evolution discourages it.
Or consider vestigial organs that later are found to have a function after all. Evolutionary biology texts often cite the human coccyx as a "vestigial structure" that hearkens back to vertebrate ancestors with tails. Yet if one looks at a recent edition of Gray's Anatomy, one finds that the coccyx is a crucial point of contact with muscles that attach to the pelvic floor. The phrase "vestigial structure" often merely cloaks our current lack of knowledge about function. The human appendix, formerly thought to be vestigial, is now known to be a functioning component of the immune system.
Admitting design into science can only enrich the scientific enterprise. All the tried and true tools of science will remain intact. But design adds a new tool to the scientist's explanatory tool chest. Moreover, design raises a whole new set of research questions. Once we know that something is designed, we will want to know how it was produced, to what extent the design is optimal, and what is its purpose. Note that we can detect design without knowing what something was designed for. There is a room at the Smithsonian filled with objects that are obviously designed but whose specific purpose anthropologists do not understand.
Design also implies constraints. An object that is designed functions within certain constraints. Transgress those constraints and the object functions poorly or breaks. Moreover, we can discover those constraints empirically by seeing what does and doesn't work. This simple insight has tremendous implications not just for science but also for ethics. If humans are in fact designed, then we can expect psychosocial constraints to be hardwired into us. Transgress those constraints, and we as well as our society will suffer. There is plenty of empirical evidence to suggest that many of the attitudes and behaviors our society promotes undermine human flourishing. Design promises to reinvigorate that ethical stream running from Aristotle through Aquinas known as natural law.
By admitting design into science, we do much more than simply critique scientific reductionism. Scientific reductionism holds that everything is reducible to scientific categories. Scientific reductionism is self-refuting and easily seen to be self-refuting. The existence of the world, the laws by which the world operates, the intelligibility of the world, and the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics for comprehending the world are just a few of the questions that science raises, but that science is incapable of answering.
Simply critiquing scientific reductionism, however, is not enough. Critiquing reductionism does nothing to change science. And it is science that must change. By eschewing design, science has for too long operated with an inadequate set of conceptual categories. This has led to a constricted vision of reality, skewing how science understands not just the world, but also human beings.
Martin Heidegger remarked in Being and Time that "a science's level of development is determined by the extent to which it is capable of a crisis in its basic concepts." The basic concepts with which science has operated these last several hundred years are no longer adequate, certainly not in an information age, certainly not in an age where design is empirically detectable. Science faces a crisis of basic concepts. The way out of this crisis is to expand science to include design. To admit design into science is to liberate science, freeing it from restrictions that can no longer be justified.
Not By Chance
The modern theory of intelligent design was not developed in response to a legal setback for creationists in 1987. Instead, it was first formulated in the late 1970s and early 1980s by a group of scientists-Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, Roger Olson, and Dean Kenyon-who were trying to account for an enduring mystery of modern biology
Unmasking DNA's Coder
Is the software that runs life the result of accumulated copying errors? Or does it require a programmer?


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Q: What will be a better option: parse XML directly or convert XML to JSON and then do the parsing? I have XML as a string and I need to parse it and then store the values in database. I have two ways:

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*Parse XML using simple xml

*Convert the XML string to JSON (I will use IBM's x-xml2jsonphp)

What will better approach in terms of efficiency and maintainability and why?

A: Converting XML to JSON and then processing the JSON is almost bound to be slower, because you are parsing, serializing, and then re-parsing, which is bound to take longer than just parsing.
Whether it's simpler and more maintainable depends entirely on the XML. If it's using features like namespaces and mixed content then conversion to JSON will usually either (a) give you very complicated JSON to deal with, or (b) lose information that your application might need. (But I don't know the particular library you are proposing to use). On the other hand, if it's very simple XML, then you might need to write less code this way, and that equates to better maintainability.

A: Converting XML to JSON requires you to either discard some of the structure of the XML, or have a very deeply nested set of JSON objects and arrays. In the first case, you're throwing away information which you might want later; in the second, you're creating something harder to work with than the XML was in the first place.
Either way, once you've converted to JSON, you'll then have to parse that JSON in order to actually use it, just as you'd have to parse the XML each time, so there's no real difference there that I can think of.
If you're using PHP, SimpleXML is (in my opinion) a pretty neat tool. It's important to remember that it's not just a big nested array containing the XML, it's an API for accessing data. So for instance, you don't have to worry about whether there is a single <foo> child or several, foreach ( $node->foo as $foo ) will always work, and echo $node->foo will always be equivalent to echo $node->foo[0].
Or, as mentioned in comments, there are other XML APIs out there, which might better fit your needs. With JSON, though, you're pretty much stuck with json_decode, and then dealing with a massive array of data (once you've parsed it, it's not JSON any mor); although you might be able to find helper functions for going deep into PHP arrays somewhere.

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You really need to be using two-factor authentication, particularly for key services such as email and file storage and key companies such as Microsoft, Google and Apple.
In addition to your password, two-factor authentication adds a second piece of information to be required for logging into a service (hence two factors). What this looks like is that for a given service I will enter my username, my password and then be prompted for a one-time code. This code may be sent by SMS or retrieved from an app or other device.
This one-time code is set up on a second device, usually your phone, and is algorithmically generated and will expire after short duration, typically a minute. Banks use this type of system when they send out those 'token generators'.
Therefore, while an attacker may have stolen your password to a service and possibly decrypted it, they cannot also generate the one-time key for that service and so cannot log in.
Before you turn it on, you will need an app for your phone to 'capture' and then generate the one-time codes. Google offers its Authenticator, but then do you trust them with all of your codes? Authy is another well regarded app, but some of its features make it less secure2. The more secure solution would be one that you can check the source code for and so that is why some recommend the open-source freeOTP.
An even better solution, as recommended in the Reddit thread above, is to use freeOTP and also capture the codes onto a second phone for backup purposes, hence removing the need to rely on Authy's syncing.
As a general approach to set it up, you will need to log into the service, locate the settings (often under security) and turn on two-factor authentication. When you turn this on a unique code will be generated and this is usually presented as a QR code that you can simply scan in your app and all of the relevant details will be picked up and configured.
See the links above for examples of setting up those services.


Singapore Cardiac Intervention Congress 2016 has concluded successfully. Organising Chairman, Dr Lim Ing Haan, brought the participating Cardiac Interventionalists through a series of case demonstrations, lectures and debates, and share their knowledge and expertise in the use of OCT imaging in decision making in complex PCI scenarios.
We'll like to thank all delegates, speakers and sponsors who had made SGCIC 2016 possible.
It was an exciting 2 days of learning and exchange and for some, opportunities to meet new colleagues and connect with well-known friends. We hoped that you had ended the congress experience on a positive note and that all of you returned home with pleasant memories of congress and your stay here in Singapore. The Congress was very well attended by 79 participants & faculty members from 7 different countries.
We look forward to your continued support for our future Congresses and once again, many thanks for making this event possible!
On behalf of the organising committee of the Singapore Cardiac Intervention Congress, I would like to invite you to join us in the Mount Elizabeth Intracoronary Imaging Course 2016.
Cardiac Interventionalists will be engaged in a series of case demonstrations, lectures and debates to share their knowledge and expertise in the use of OCT imaging in decision making in complex PCI scenarios.
The course includes a dinner symposium on 30 Sept followed by a breakout session of live cases in Mount Elizabeth Hospital and hands on demo sessions on 1 Oct 2016.
We look forward to welcoming you at the course.
For more information, click here to visit SGCIC website.


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Living Intentionally & Nurturing Community: A Conversation with Dan Hines
How can we build a more compassionate world? In our fast-paced society, how can we live intentionally with one another and nurture community? How can we channel our longing for societal change into the active pursuit of it? These are just a few questions that lead the life and work of Dan Hines, an Anglican priest, leadership consultant, and facilitator of personal and professional development programs for the Center of Courage & Renewal.
Dan's mission is to "create a more just, compassionate and healthy world by nurturing personal and professional integrity and the courage to act on it." His dedication to living with meaning not only informs his work as a facilitator, but also guided him to co-found the intentional living community, RareBirds Housing Co-operative, a group and cooperative home dedicated to reducing their environmental footprint, sharing resources and living costs, and providing social enrichment and community support for one another.
Dan kindly took the time to chat with me about his passion for nurturing relationships, living sustainably, and his work at the Center of Courage & Renewal.
A Small Good Thing: Your work is focused on living together in community and striving towards a more connective, compassionate world. How did you begin living in this way?
Dan Hines: My first awakening to community was probably through Church, seminary and ministry where I was seeing the potential of the faith community as a resource for transformation. As I grew up, I was quickly learning about consumerism, which I now see as a narrative that is doing us little good. Church told an alternative story and awakened me to community.
ASGT: How did that translate into your wanting to build a lifestyle around community?
DH: One of my mentors is Jean Vanier who is a humanitarian, communitarian, and social thinker. Jean says we go through a series of conversions throughout our lives. I look back and I think one of my conversions has been falling in love with the world. One of my other teachers calls it horizontal transcendence or deeper materialism. It's a spirituality of not trying to fly above the nest, but to go deeper into it with others.
ASGT: I think your intentional community, the RareBirds Housing Co-Operative, sounds like a powerful project. Can you tell me a little more about it? How did it start?
DH: We've been at this together for 5 years. It's interesting, because it comes back to the power of film. A couple of our members had seen an eco-comedy about sustainable living called "How to Boil a Frog" and decided to get serious about living a more sustainable lifestyle with others in an intentional community. For three years we worked on developing our group -- communication, consensus decision making, conflict resolution, and how to hold safe space -- so that the project would be sustainable on human emotional and spiritual levels. Then we bought property. Then we built a house. We've been in the house now for 2 years. It's solar driven, we generate a fair amount of our own power, and we have solar hot water. We're also an owner-equity cooperative: we have equal shares in the house and we self-financed the project.
ASGT: How has it evolved and what effects have you seen in your community?
DH: It's become a bit of a focal point for the community around what's possible. We've had great conversations with people who say, "I have been talking with my friends about this for a long time and it's nice to see someone doing it because this is a daydream of ours." It will be a growing edge of the housing movement. Co-housing already is a big part of the movement, but I think we'll see these are a lot less expensive and more efficient than co-housing units. This is the monastic lifestyle. You come together and you support one another.
ASGT: You are also a facilitator for the Center for Courage & Renewal. What drew you to the Center for Courage & Renewal?
DH: The Center for Courage & Renewal is the product of the work of Parker Palmer, who is a community organizer, activist and Quaker reflector and writer. Parker and others received support to develop programs that would address the sustainability of teachers, and Parker brought Quaker small group practices, deep listening, and attentive awareness. It evolved from teachers to other professional groups and in 2003 it became the Center for Courage & Renewal.
The work is focused around a movement model of social change, which is the idea that the transformation of individuals triggers social change as those people begin to find their integrity and authentic voice. They can no longer be silent in the face of injustice. It starts with a handful of individuals who choose to live divided no more and not to tolerate disconnect.
I had read Parker as part of my work as an Anglican priest – I was traveling a lot, helping congregations in conflict and in change. Parker addresses the way people talk to one another in a small circle, breaking patterns of insular relationships, and introducing truth-telling. From there, I got invitations to retreats and workshops and a couple of years ago I decided to freelance. I'm working on a yoga retreat in Panama with Courage & Renewal practices. I like those on top of the community-activist work. It's intensively soulful and bodied and physical.
ASGT: What are your primary resources for your work?
DH: All of Parker's works have been very influential for me. Probably the most helpful has been A Hidden Wholeness, which is his book about Quaker practice, how it has been operationalized over centuries, and how we borrow and learn from it and other spiritual communities.
The writing of Jean Vanier has also been very powerful, particularly a book called, Community and Growth. We use that as a reflective tool for our intentional community. Since the 1960s, Jean has been writing and thinking about the nature of community itself.
Peter Block's writings have been growing in me, particularly a book called Community: The Structure of Belonging. He has been opening my eyes to the fact that I've been doing a lot of work on individual transformation, but his challenge is around community transformation. That's taken me into political activism.
ASGT: What inspires you when you are putting together these programs?
DH: I was sailing with friends a couple of years ago. My buddy noticed that I had been looking down at the navigation screen too much and he said, "You need to look up and around." It triggered a memory of a talk I had heard on Pacific Islanders and the art of wayfinding, the ancient practice of navigation that relies on wind and wave to provide direction. They go on 30 day voyages and keep track of space and time by a deep awareness of what they're taking in. That whole metaphor jumped out to me. I went to the Hawaiian islands and spent time in the voyaging community, learning. Just a taster was all I got, but it was enough to remind me of what we're capable of and how what they're doing on the ocean, we're all doing in life: trying to navigate with limited information and trying to orient ourselves in difficult situations. It's a lot of storm activity, we're in a huge societal transformation, so how do we know where we are? How do we know where we're going? How do we sustain a vision for the island and conjure it up out of the ocean? It's not about moving somewhere, it's about realizing what's coming and embracing it and being true to it so that you can manifest it. That's become a powerful teaching story. I find that if I can stay true to story, metaphor, and imagery, that's powerful.
ASGT: Your upcoming forum is called "The Activist as Mystic." What does it mean to be an activist in a world where we're searching for connection?
DH: Anything that's going to be sustainable in activism or in mysticism has to be done with others. We're all in this together, so I think the first movement for anyone who is serious about active living and spiritual growth is to find a community. Find like-minded folks to share that vision, to sustain you and also to hold you accountable.
I think "activist" and "mystic" are terms that shut people down because they seem daunting. The reason I love A Small Good Thing is the idea of small acts of kindness -- small initiatives that are not small at all, they're significant, but we say they're small because they're not getting media coverage. That kind of storytelling allows people to see themselves as activists and as mystics.
Dan will be screening "A Small Good Thing" on April 23, 2016 as part of his forum "The Activist as Mystic," a two-day event on Gabriola Island in British Columbia.


Grief is such a lonely planet. When my father died eight years ago, I turned -- as usual -- to movies for comfort. I was desperate to find a movie that could become a friend to me during that time, that would understand me. I was looking for a film that would portray grief truthfully, a film that would be as close as possible to the experience of losing someone you terribly loved. The sobering truth was that there are so few movies out there that capture mourning the way it really is, and I don't think that's anybody's fault but is largely to blame on the matter itself -- movies are short and mourning doesn't care about time. The first three months or so I did barely anything but cry, then I cried every day for a year, and the following two years I still cried frequently, but irregularly. Then it stopped. Now what kind of a movie would that be? Certainly boring, but even if it were three hours long it still wouldn't be realistic enough. It's near impossible to translate the incredible stillness of mourning into any other language. Grief is only at home in grief, but Metalhead comes very close to that reality, it does it with few words, and I wish it would have existed back then so that we could have become friends earlier.
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