Reading "The Singularity is Near" – Fight Aging!
Reading "The Singularity is Near"
I have been working my way through Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" (TSiN) over the past few days, having been the fortunate recipient of a review copy. The book might alternatively be titled "The Modern Futurist Consensus: a Review" or "Damien Broderick's The Spike: the Extended Remix." Those of us who have haunted transhumanist enclaves in the past few years (or more) are unlikely find new ideas here, but the book serves a most useful purpose in bringing the best and brightest of transhumanist, futurist themes and thinking all together under one roof, in a popularist manner, with a unifying, easily-marketed theme. It's been done before - by the aforementioned Damien Broderick, amongst others - but not quite as comprehensively. This sort of book is something of a necessary precursor to wider advocacy and education in today's culture; a pleasant irony, given the subject matter, and one could debate where in the present S-curve in the evolution of futurist thought TSiN fits.
My own two cents thrown into the ring say that the class of future portrayed in TSiN is something of a foregone conclusion. It's quite likely that we'll all be wildly, humorously wrong about the details of implementation, culture and usage, but - barring existential catastrophe or disaster - the technological capabilities discussed in TSiN will come to pass. The human brain will be reverse engineered, simulated and improved upon. The same goes for the human body; radical life extension is one desirable outcome of this engineering process. We will merge with our machines as nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing become mature technologies. Recursively self-improving general artificial intelligence will develop, and then life will really get interesting very quickly. And so forth ... the question is not whether these things will happen, but rather when they will happen - and more importantly, are we going to be alive and in good health to see this wondrous future?
Progress towards general (and/or strong) artificial intelligence (AI) - a grail for many transhumanists and other futurists - has been slower than we'd like. The level of difficulty has been consistently underestimated in the past, and I see this as one part of a larger underestimation of any form of complexity management. You may recall seeing this idea put forward in a variety of 1990s writing on the topic of nanotechnology; the production of millions of nanorobots wasn't thought to be as hard as the process of controlling and managing those nanorobots in a useful fashion - strategies for information processing are as much the key to future medical technologies as nanoscale and molecular manufacturing. Complexity is hard, both to manage and estimate in advance.
Now replace "nanorobot" with "human cell" and that's where we are today with biotechnology. Biological systems - such as your body, or even just a small piece of it - are immensely complex. The reason researchers can make meaningful progress today with medical technology such as gene therapies and stem cell research is that they are, effectively, tweaking settings on existing machinery that largely handles the complexity management itself. Our grasp of how things work - based on our ability to process information and build the tools required to gather information and effect change - is now adequate for this task, just as it is almost adequate to guide existing biological machinery to build replacement tissue and organs in a useful, controlled manner. But it seems to me to be a very large leap - in terms of managing complexity - to go from where we are today to reach the point of, for example, replacing biochemically complex systems within the body with artificial substitutes. Or reverse-engineering the brain, that sort of thing.
Kurzweil's commentary on types of complexity in TSiN is a good read - and one of the better explanations for the layman I've seen - but it seems a little disconnected from the actual business of dealing with complexity in ways that matter. My take on it all is that science is largely the process of discovering keys to complexity; by this I mean finding algorithms, recipies or methodologies that enable us humans to understand and manage complexity that would otherwise be beyond us. To take an applied example, manipulating stem cells through comparatively simple procedures enables scientists to perform tasks - the regeneration of age-related tissue damage - that they cannot even monitor in detail, let alone control. A simpler and more abstract example would be the mathematics and physics of atoms, comparatively simple equations that we can use to describe very complex collections of objects and behaviors.
We humans are in the process of building tools that enable us to create or meaningfully interact with ever-greater complexity, and computers are at the heart of it, but this process is one in which our individual, unaided capacities for complexity management are not increasing. Humans are still humans as of this decade, and the keys we utilize have to be useable at our level. I view the speeding of progress as part and parcel of building a larger capacity for discovering and utilizing the keys to complexity. This, as Kurzweil makes the case in TSiN, is a process that is growing exponentially, and we are moving out of the timespan in which exponential growth appears more linear.
There is one important area of complexity management in which we seem to be making little headway, however: the organization of humans in business and research. For all that we can now accomplish with faster computers and enormous leaps in telecommunications, we don't seem to have made significant inroads in getting large numbers of humans to cooperate efficiently. As Arnold Kling points out, that the excessive use of Who Moved My Cheese? is even in the running as something to try is not a good sign. I've been involved in more technological attempts to improve efficiency in large organizations, and the state of the art is not pretty - nor especially effective in the grand scheme of things.
I'm dubious about large reductions in the length of business or research cycles through technology while humans are still in the loop. You can certainly make the process cheaper and better, meaning that more attempts at a given business or research model will operate in parallel, but there is a point past which the length of the business cycle cannot be easily compressed. That point is very much a function of the human element: meetings, fundraising, decisions, organizational friction, and so forth - all very time-consuming and proven very resistant to improvements in the time taken.
This is not to say that they cannot be made cheaper. But cheaper doesn't equate to faster business and research cycles; rather, it means that any given problem will be tackled by many more parallel attempts. The professionals are joined by skilled amateurs, the priesthood dissolves, and everyone with a will to work gets in on the action. In this sort of a market, any given problem (what business model works, how does this disease process kill people, what does this biochemical signal do) is more likely to be solved in a single cycle of innovation. Biotechnology is not too many years away from this state of affairs, a repetition of what is currently taking place in the software development industry. If matters become cheap enough, people will be willing to risk ventures and research on incomplete solutions, on untested business models, and thus shortcut the existing cycle - but all to many forms of development are not vulnerable to this sort of shortcut. The answers cannot always be guessed or jumped to on the basis of incomplete work.
Back in the deep end, expensive projects mean conservative funding organizations, which means organizational matters proceed at a slow pace. This is a defining characteristic of our time: we have blindingly fast rates of research and technological advances once the money is on the table, but the cycles of business, fundraising and research are still chained to the old human timetable. I regard this incompressibility of the business or research cycle - the fact that a given iota of progress cannot be accomplished as fast as technology allows because of human organizational factors, and there is a certain minimum length of time taken to accomplish this iota of progress - as a form of limit on exponential growth, one we are now hitting up against.
Kurzweil's Singularity is a Vingean slow burn across a decade, driven by recursively self-improving AI, enhanced human intelligence and the merger of the two. Interestingly, Kurzweil employs much the same arguments against a hard takeoff scenario - in which these processes of self-improvement in AI occur in a matter of hours or days - as I am employing against his proposed timescale: complexity must be managed and there are limits as to how fast this can happen. But artificial intelligence, or improved human intelligence, most likely through machine enhancement, is at the heart of the process. Intelligence can be thought of as the capacity for dealing with complexity; if we improve this capacity, then all the old limits we worked within can be pushed outwards. We don't need to search for keys to complexity if we can manage the complexity directly. Once the process of intelligence enhancement begins in earnest, then we can start to talk about compressing business cycles that existed due to the limits of present day human workers, individually and collectively.
Until we start pushing these limits, we're still stuck with the slow human organizational friction, limits on complexity management, and a limit on exponential growth. Couple this with slow progress towards both organizational efficiency and the development of general artificial intelligence, and this is why I believe that Kurzweil is optimistic by at least a decade or two.
So how does this all fold into healthy life extension? Well, physical immortality is one obvious product of singularity-level nanotechnology, biotechnology and complexity management. There are no known barriers in physics to the construction of nanomedical systems capable of simultaneously managing, repairing - or replacing - every cell in our bodies. Even something as complex as the sum of all your cells can in principle be kept in the best possible shape for as long as you like - "all" it takes is knowledge, the future tools of nanoscale engineering and powerful enough computers. But when do we get there? This is the question, and it is one that shapes the actions of futurists and transhumanists. There are many who believe that the best sort of activism and advocacy for the future - even for healthy life extension - is in the area of artificial intelligence, because making self-improving intelligence arrive earlier will lead to all other currently pressing problems, such as age-related degeneration and death, being rendered trivial in the mid to long term. Obviously, I'm not in that camp: I'm sufficiently dubious about Kurzweil-like timescales - based on my views as set forth above - to think that we need to be tackling the problem of aging first.
Innovation also occurs in organizations and processes. If what you say is true about research currently being limited by these factors, there ought to be a huge opportunity, and motivation, for someone to break this bottleneck by employing a new organizational structure. Surely, this happens all the time: Google vs. Microsoft, Celera vs. Human Genome Project. I would say the innovation in these cases was driven by the organizational structure and process innovation rather than by any fundamental research breakthrough. I definitely think there is room for optimism here.
"The increase in nonfarm business output per hour over the past year will almost surely be reported as one of the largest advances, if not the largest, posted over the past thirty years. We at the Federal Reserve, along with our colleagues in government and the private sector, are struggling to account for so strong a surge."
If the law of accelerating returns applies to productivity then the assumption that bureaucracy will prevent exponential gains seems flawed. The boom in college graduates in China and India should also be taken into account.
Business Process Automation is in its infancy. When we're all using XML, real open standards like OpenDocument, etc. by default it'll become apparent what is really possible in a global free market economy.
The fact that productivity isn't even higher is probably the result of people reading reviews of interesting books at work when they used to actually get things done. After the next market downturn, when the fat is cut from the American workforce, productivity is going to go absolutely bonkers, in my humble opinion.
You do not remark upon the most obvious scenario:It has already been done: The singularity is here and gone.


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Roasting and extruding affect nutrient utilization from soybeans in 10- and 20-lb pigs
I H. Kim
Terry L. Gugle
Robert H. Hines
Joe D. Hancock
Swine day, 1994; Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station contribution; no. 95-175-S; Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service); 717; Swine; Pig; Soybean; Roast; Extrude; Metabolism; Nitrogen retention
Ninety nursery pigs were used in two metabolism experiments to determine the effects of roasting and extruding on the nutritional value of Williams 82 soybeans with (+K) and without (-K) gene expression for the Kunitz trypsin inhibitor. Treatments for both experiments were: 1) soybean meal; 2) +K roasted; 3) +K extruded; 4) -K roasted; and 5) -K extruded. The roasting and extrusion treatments were accomplished with a Roast-A-Tron8 roaster and an InstaPr0 8 extruder. Diets were the soybean preparations (96.5% of the diet) with only vitamins and minerals added as needed to meet or exceed NRC requirements. Daily feed allowance was 5% of initial body wt given as three equal meals. In Exp. I, 50 weanling pigs (10.4 Ib average body wt and 21 d average age) were used. Apparent values for N digestibility, biological value (BV), percentage N retention, gross energy (GE) digestibility, and metabolizable energy (ME) were greater for pigs fed extruded soybeans compared to pigs fed roasted soybeans. Also, N digestibility, BV, and percentage N retention were greater for pigs fed -K soybeans compared to those fed + K soybeans. In Exp. 2, 40 pigs (21.4 lb average body wt and 35 d average age) were allowed to adjust to the nursery environment before use in the experiment. In general, the pigs in Exp. 2 (Le., the older pigs) had greater utilization of nutrients from all of the soybean products than the younger pigs used in Exp. 1. Digestibilities of OM, N, and GE were greater for pigs fed -K soybeans compared to those fed + K soybeans, and extruded soybeans gave greater digestibilities of OM, N, and GE compared to roasted soybeans. Also, percentage N retention and percentage ME were greater for pigs fed extruded soybeans were greater than for pigs fed roasted soybeans. In conclusion, extruded and -K soybeans were of greater nutritional value than roasted and + K soybeans for 10- and 20-lb nursery pigs.; Swine Day, Manhattan, KS, November 17, 1994
Kim, I H.; Gugle, Terry L.; Hines, Robert H.; and Hancock, Joe D. (1994) "Roasting and extruding affect nutrient utilization from soybeans in 10- and 20-lb pigs," Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports: Vol. 0: Iss. 10. https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5977.6395
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67 thoughts we had while watching Safe Haven
December 5, 2019, 9:38 PM ET
By Courtney Enlow
Credit: Relativity Media
Nicholas Sparks is known for one thing above all else: subtlety. LOL JK, the man has never met a premise, foreshadow, or concept he couldn't slam into your face like a pie to a clown. In Safe Haven, he tackles domestic violence, a topic he handles with grace and dignity (*shakes head no*) and the paranormal (kind of) all set in the background of A Carolina of Some Kind. White people in love meets secret ghosts. Clearly, this is a job for Deja View.
We see Julianne Hough running in a very obvious wig. She is carrying a grocery bag. She is hugging a lady.
SHE IS BLONDE NOW. She is leaving. She is going places.
She is slammed into by off-brand Richard Jenkins with a ponytail. She is on a bus. There are cops. She has a hoodie.
I say this all very quickly both because this is a woman in trauma and I don't want to mock her pain, but also because THIS IS LITERALLY HOW QUICKLY THE MOVIE DOES THIS. Then it's all soft music and a Carolina of Some Kind because that's how Nicholas Sparks do.
I think a lot about how the first big-BIG Nicholas Sparks movie had Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling and how everything that followed has been decreasingly and decreasingly budget iterations of Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling.
Josh Duhamel isn't even the rich man's Josh Duhamel. He's the RC Cola Timothy Olyphant.
Julianne Hough and her flawless dye job that in no way occurred in a neighbor's sink falls immediately in love with some manner of Carolina and stays there.
This film was directed by legit outstanding director Lasse Hallström. I don't have a joke. He's been through enough.
Julianne Hough has not yet spoken this entire movie. Presumably because the filmmakers were like "oops, we hired a dancer."
There is a coffee shop/fish shop/beach diner where Julianne Hough is all "can I work here" and gets spooked by a coffeemaker because PTSD and owner lady is all "HA we have fun here." In fairness, she didn't see the beginning of the movie. In additional fairness, we barely saw the beginning of this movie.
She immediately finds a perfect adorable forest house WITH WAINSCOTTING. Who doesn't love a good WAINSCOTTING?
Julianne Hough, who is clearly traumatized, immediately falls in a hole because THE BLONDE LADY HAS NOT BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH I GUESS.
She goes to Josh Duhamel's store of groceries, coffee, paint, hardware, and Specific Julianne Hough Needs to purchase things from a very small childgirl. She is Precocious. She should not be Running a Store.
They sell basmati rice like all convenience/hardware/paint stores do. This is a normal thing in a normal place that is normal. Like, look, clearly I know there's a genre element to this movie or I wouldn't be doing this, but the magic grocery store actually isn't it.
Cobie Smulders is wandering around Julianne Hough's house like a beautiful perfect creep. She mysteriously knows Julianne Hough moved to A Carolina to get some peace and quiet and to hide from something mysterious but mostly Julianne Hough's hair looks amazing. Like that is an unreal sink cut, so much so that it's the most fantastic element of the film even after the reveal I will not yet discuss.
Scary cop man with minimal eyebrows is looking for Julianne Hough and I will tell you it's her husband. It's Julianne Hough's husband. This is not second-watch Court spoilers, this is obvious in a way that he might as well be wearing an "I AM JULIANNE HOUGH'S CREEP HUSBAND" sticker on his shirt.
Josh Duhamel is generically fixing things so that we know he is handy. This movie is Not Subtle. He keeps ordering things because his store has nothing except popcorn and wall almonds and small children selling paint swatches.
Even Other Store Guy is all "when did we start selling paint?" Which like OK GUY but why do you have the damn swatch book?
Cobie Smulders just showed up to walk with Julianne Hough and Julianne Hough is still a little nervous and weird as opposed to how I would be if Cobie Smulders wanted to walk with me which is YES COBIE BE MY BEST FRIEND THE MCU DID YOU DIRTY STUMPTOWN IS GREAT I LOVE YOU MARRY ME but then you know mileage varies.
A police officer who is clearly Julianne Hough's husband is looking for her using a photo that is only taken in grade school by Lifetouch, but sure fine.
Julianne Hough has said maybe 20 words this whole movie but Josh Duhamel is in love with her. Also, she's too weak and delicate to carry cans of paint. They are slicing through her precious baby hands made of paper and delicacy.
Josh Duhamel is also giving her things like scrapers and paintbrushes because I don't think she realized she needed those things to paint.
Now she is painting. Hotly.
She and Cobie are going on walks. Hotly.
Cobie has secrets. Hot ones. Probably.
This whole movie is just a series of montages. Abused lady montages, Some Kind of Carolina montages, falling in love with Julianne Hough montages, painting a floor montages. Legit just montages.
And khaki shorts. It's also khaki shorts.
"I don't know this guy. He gave me a bike. He can f**k himself. I hope he dies in a fire screaming." - Julianne Hough in this movie
"Clearly abused person GET OVER IT, the area below the Mason Dixon line is known for kindness." - Cobie Smulders in this movie
*silence* - nonwhite people in this movie because no nonwhite people are in this movie.
Josh Duhamel has a son who throws himself into the ocean, it's a whole thing but not really.
Josh Duhamel thanks Julianne Hough who did literally nothing but sure.
Cobie Smulders is all "yas queen, ride that bike" and then disappears into the woods IN A WAY THAT IS PROBABLY FINE AND IN NO WAY A THING THAT COMES BACK LATER.
Daughter is like JULIANNE HOUGH MUST GO TO THE BEACH WITH US and drowny son is like HEY F**K JULIANNE HOUGH. Josh Duhamel remains Duhamelly.
They have a wonderful family beach day like a family and by that I mean Josh Duhamel keeps taking pictures and his son is all "SEE US WITHOUT THE LENS OF THE CAMERA, FATHER" like a John Mayer song and it's just a lot.
Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough are HORNY AF. The movie shows this through sand-hands and sand-talks but the message here is THESE TWO ARE DOWN TO CLOWN AND READY TO MAKE NETHER SANDCASTLES.
"Sandcastles in the Sand," Robin Sparkles' best song, but Cobie Smulders is MERELY A MEANINGLESS SIDE CHARACTER SO WHY LISTEN? (Because it's a legit perfect song, that's why.)
Josh Duhamel fell into the floor hole just like Julianne Hough did because this floor is a death trap. Angsty son hopes they both die in the floor hole.
As does angsty OBVIOUS HUSBAND COP back home who is stalking neighbor lady who helped Julianne Hough escape/gave her the sink for her perfect hair.
Julianne Hough killed a fish real good so Josh Duhamel brings it inside for family fish murder and it's adorable.
They ride on The Notebook canoe LIKE WE WON'T NOTICE.
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Then it just BECOMES THE NOTEBOOK.
Then they go to a diner that is empty which seems creepy but they seem cool with it, anyway, THESE TWO WANT TO BANG.
He literally picks her up and pushes her against a tree while making out while his friend is watching. LIKE. BRO. HOT. BUT. NO.
I feel like movies have never found a way to depict child grief. Like in movies, grieving children are impediments. They are annoying. They are hurdles. They are villains. But… they're not? They're tiny kids who lost their moms? ALWAYS MOMS? Oh, movies. You suck.
OK, we are now seeing the VERY GOOD haircut in the hair sink and like GOD DANG she did a good job. Trauma and terror can't stop Jules Hough from giving good good hair.
Except it makes her bad at escapes because she just left a voicemail with her neighbor ensuring neighbor's caller ID knows where she is. ANYWAY, I AM SURE THIS WILL NOT IMPACT THE REST OF THE FILM.
Cobie Smulders never goes into places AND I AM SURE THAT IS NOT A THING WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO.
Josh and Julianne are now having that specific kind of movie sex where they just hug each other a bunch but don't move anything but arms. THEY ARE IN LOVE NOW. THAT IS LOVE. GENITALS ARE UNINVOLVED IN LOVE.
Obvious Abusive Cop Ex-Husband has no eyebrows and that's how you know someone is bad news.
OK SO. Josh Duhamel found Julianne Hough's picture on the wanted wall in the police station because she murdered her husband except she didn't because he's alive and he put out the APB to find her because he's an abusive piece of shit and that's why she ran away and got the good haircut.
Cop ex-husband's boss is like DUDE WTF? YOU ARE DECIDEDLY NOT DEAD and cop ex-husband gets fired and then we finally get the flashback of the night shit went down and the flashback hits so hard present-day Julianne Hough falls off her bike. This movie is not handling domestic violence… well? At all? As a fun reveal? This movie is not very good. And neither is Julianne Hough's wig.
But her wig is not reason enough for Josh Duhamel to be like HEY YOU LYING MURDER B*TCH rather than like "hey clearly abused woman what's up?" But please remember A MAN WROTE THIS and men should not write stories like this because they make them FUN PLOT TWISTS. Anyway men are bad and should be put on pause until we figure out what's going on.
Julianne Hough is way better than this movie lets her be. ALSO, KILL HIM AGAIN.
Josh Duhamel remains useless. His dead wife WHO WE HAVE NOT YET MET CERTAINLY IN ANY WAY deserves better.
Cobie Smulders is all "whoa whoa hey let's calm down about this murder husband" because this movie doesn't know how to write women. Also, Cobie Smulders is stuck here AND CANNOT LEAVE AND THERE IS NO REASON FOR THIS, CERTAINLY NOT ONE THAT WILL APPEAR IN THE END OF THE FILM.
Also, Julianne Hough's house is a literal lol. I grew up going to New Salem, a preserved state park of Abraham Lincoln's village and her house looks exactly like that only without volunteers in bonnets playing the autoharp.
So there was some cute kissing and love but BACK TO NIGHTMARE HUSBAND. He looks like an off-brand Tony Goldwyn from Ghost. But he's not. He's The Cape from The Cape. I did not watch The Cape but Abed on Community did, so I almost care.
ANYWAY AS FORETOLD, Garbage Abusive Husband found Julianne Hough via her voicemail to nice neighbor and now he's on his way, bottle of vodka in hand. THINGS ARE GOING WELL.
Drunk trash monster husband arrives in town and throws his Dasani full of vodka into a parade like a normal person. No one reacts. This is a whole town of "this is fine" dogs.
Toddler baby child is running the store again. YOU KNOW. LIKE A FELONY. Tiny Lexi Child is so small and should not be dealing with drunk cop monster AND YET HERE WE ARE BECAUSE MEN WROTE THIS MOVIE.
Cobie is watching Monster Husband stalk Jules and Josh and SHE WOULD HELP IF SHE COULD BUT SHE CANNOT FOR REASONS I AM SURE WILL PRESENT LATER.
Cobie appears in Julianne's dream to tell her Monster Husband is here BECAUSE SHE IS A BLESSED SAVIOR but also TOO LATE because by "here" she means "LIKE FOUR FEET AWAY."
Julianne and her khaki shorts are trying to save the day but NO ONE WILL LET HER because Monster Trash Garbage F**kface Husband A**hole just poured lighter fluid all over everything LIKE A REAL BUTTHOLE.
This movie has taught me that if you are in a fire, and your dad is not a very hot parkourer, you're effed. Sorry 'bout it.
Hi, it's me, your girl, Courtney, and this is the part where I cry a bunch so I'm gonna step away for a bit and do that, brb, NBD, don't worry about it, it's fine.
Hi, I'm back and I just sobbed hysterically a bunch. ANYWAY. COBIE SMULDERS IS A SECRET GHOST. She's Josh Duhamel's dead wife who wants to make sure her family is OK and the next woman in their lives is OK and you know what I'm not? OK. THIS MOVIE IS BAD AND ITS DEPICTION OF THIS WOMAN'S AFTERLIFE IS LITERAL TORTURE, BUT COBIE SMULDERS IS WONDERFUL. WHERE IS THE KLEENEX.
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Kenya announces death penalty for animal poachers.
On 27th Feb 2019 3rd Mar 2019 By Faye bowers
Are life sentences or large fines sufficient deterrents?
Najib Balala tourism and wildlife minister annouced on the 26th February 2019 the proposal of implementing the death penalty in Kenya.
Currently the Wildlife Conservation Act 2013 provides for protection, conservation and management of wildlife in Kenya, It was finally passed with WWF having coordinated the input of environmental civil society organizations views and a culmination of efforts spanning over 15 years' to get a comprehensive and all-inclusive legislation in place and that came into force on January 10th 2014. This prohibits poaching and anyone found poaching will land a possible life sentence or a whopping $200,000 fine but this doesn't seem to be an effective deterrent, Najib Balala wants to completely eradicate poaching, which of course is understandable.
Poaching is actually on the decrease with the ministry claiming that poaching has been on a downward trend largely thanks to enhanced wildlife law-enforcement efforts and investment in conservation leading to an 85% reduction in Rhino poaching and a 78% reduction in elephant poaching in 2017 compared to when poaching was at its peak in 2012-13.
Has poaching actually decreased?
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The two African rhino species – black rhino and white rhino – have both increased in number in recent years thanks to successful conservation efforts, especially in South Africa. Indeed, the white rhino has been brought back from the brink of extinction.
However, both species are again at risk due to a huge surge in poaching to meet demand for illegal rhino horn, primarily in Asia. Countries and conservationists are stepping up their efforts but record numbers of rhinos are currently being killed.
Save the Rhino website (savetherhino.org):
In February 2019 the South African Department of Environmental Affairs, released the 2018 poaching numbers. Thankfully, the numbers show a decrease of 259 (1,028 rhino were poached in 2017).
But this positive sign does not mean rhinos are now thriving. It shows at least two rhinos were killed each day in 2018.
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WWF:
African elephants are split into two distinct species: the African Bush elephant, the most prevalent species, and the smaller African forest elephant.
From 2003-2014, with the exception of 2005, CITES reports have shown that estimated levels of illegal elephant killings in Central Africa have been occurring at unsustainable levels relative to natural population growth which means that elephants in this region are dying faster than they are able to reproduce. Studies suggest that elephant poaching is slightly higher than Rhino poaching which may be due to both males and females having tusks that can grow to weigh dozens of kilograms rather than Rhinos only having one horn and only present on males.
So it seems that poaching is decreasing but this does not mean that the endangered species are safe, in it only in relation to their abundance that poaching is decreasing; just recently in the media on the 19th February the so called 'Chinese Ivory Queen' a was jailed in Tanzania and given a mere 15 years in jail for operating one of Africa's biggest ivory-smuggling rings, responsible for smuggling $2.5m (£1.9m) worth of tusks from some 400 elephants.
This exemplifies how much an issue poaching still is and why perhaps the Wildlife Minister Najib Balala thinks the death penalty may be the only way forward however, this move could put Kenya in conflict with the UN, which opposes the death penalty for all crimes worldwide and the UN General Assembly resolutions have called for a phasing-out of capital punishment, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights advocates its universal abolition.
What are my thoughts on this?
You cannot both be passionate about the conservation and learn about it via further education without covering the ongoing crisis in Africa via poaching. African conservation was covered in one of my modules in university but I am still learning about the complexities of this issue day by day. I have always felt strongly about animal welfare and I do think that animals are more important than humans as we are over populating the planet and destroying everything in its path. I hate how people are killing these wonderful animals for such stupid reasons, no one needs ivory except the animal it belongs to, there is no evidence that ivory can help with any medical condition and there is no need to use ivory as ornaments anymore when there are plenty of man made materials to use instead and when the material isn't as widely available as it was, like fur in this country it shouldn't be used. Agreeing to the death penalty could be perceived as agreeing that an animals life is more valuable than a humans life, and to this I agree. These animals are more valuable than us and are a significant part of this wondrous landscape. To the death penalty however, I can fully understand the reasoning but I do not agree, I think perhaps the time and effort should be spent on added security via ports and exit routes where the ivory is exported, more security and staff hired to protect the national parks and species within it, harsher sentences for those caught poaching (like the ivory queen), investment in education and investment in local communities so they do not participate in poaching activities or allow others to do so and a significant investment in valuable habitats rather than agricultural practices and deforestation caused by supplying palm oil. I think the death penalty should only be used if all other factors haven't worked.
http://www.nov.com/2019/02/kenya-announced-death-penalty-for.html?m=1
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?216350/Kenya-finally-gets-a-new-w
https://sherloc.unodc.org/cld/document/tza/2013/wildlife_conservation_act_2013.html
http://www.kenyalaw.org/lex/actview.xql?actid=No.%2047%20of%202013
http://www.poachingfacts.com/poaching-statistics/elephant-poaching-statistics/
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/11/30/elephant-poaching-declines-in-kenya-focus-turns-to-world-markets_c1677846
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/kenya-hosts-summit-elephant-poaching-crisis-africa-160429081036895.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/poachers-kenya-wildlife-death-penalty-capital-punishment-najib-balala-a8349966.html
https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2018/01/wildlife-watch-rhino-poaching-crisis-continues-south-africa
https://campaign.awf.org/poaching-infographic/
#africa #africanwildlife #poaching #illegalhunting #wwf #savetherhino #rhinos #elephants #kenya #wildlifeconservation #conservation #newsfeb2019 #deathpenaltykenya #dealthpenalty
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2 thoughts on "Kenya announces death penalty for animal poachers."
ashleyleia
It's so sad what's happening to these amazing creatures. I think efforts are needed worldwide to address the demand, because as long as that exists someone is going to find a way to ensure a supply.
28th Feb 2019 at 10:27 am	 Reply
Faye bowers
Exactly, the country has a lot of underlying issues which opens it up to foreign people coming in and taking whatever they like and dictating to the local people what they want as money talks and locals receive more money from foreign investment than their own government.


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Genuine Links Beyond State and Market Control: The Sale of Citizenship by Investment in International and Supranational Legal Perspective
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GLUEHOUSE: Towards an Open, Integrated Design-To-Fabrication Workflow for Realizing Variable-Geometry Stress-Skin Plywood Cassette Panels
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Governance of heritage buildings: Australian regulatory barriers to adaptive reuse
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Graduate employability and higher education: Past, present and future
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Greer is right to say rape law has failings, but wrong to suggest its decriminalisation
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Growth in Public Interest and Scientific Research on Kinesiology Taping
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Guide for Institutional Assessment of Cognitive Skills
Simper, N., Fostaty Young, S., Frank, B. & Scott, J., 2018, Kingston, ON: Queen's University Kingston. 59 p.
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Guidelines for the treatment of PTSD using clinical EFT (emotional freedom techniques)
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Guiding e-professionalism: developing social media workshops for health students
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Ham for the holidays: The challenge of choosing wisely
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Harnessing CCTV as a data source in social science: A case study of violence on buses
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Hedge Funds Clustered by Risk, Return and Correlation
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Heliox for croup in children
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Heuristics and biases in cardiovascular disease prevention: How can we improve communication about risk, benefits and harms?
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High perinatal mortality rates persist in Kirakira: The sustainable development goals for health remain out of reach in the provinces of Solomon Islands
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High-Sensitivity Troponin Highlights the Need for New Methods to Evaluate Diagnostic Tests
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Holding Out and Protected Titles – Issues for Non-registrant Complementary and Alternative Health Practitioners
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Homeopathic medicinal products for preventing and treating acute respiratory tract infections in children
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Host market government corruption and the equity-based foreign entry strategies of multinational enterprises
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How Change Happens: The Benefit Corporation in the United States and Considerations for Australia
Baumfield, V. S., May 2018, Creating corporate sustainability: Gender as an agent for change. Sjafjell, B. & Lynch-Fannon, I. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 188-212 25 p.
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How do you like your regulation - hard or soft? The Antarctic Treaty and the Outer Space Treaty compared
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Q: Remove measured distribution from another distribution Take a particle beam as an ensemble of many particles. Assume two independent random variables $X_\beta$ and $\delta$ that add up to the horizontal position $X$ of a particle:
$$
X = X_\beta + D_x \delta
$$
($D_x$ is a simple number, the "dispersion" function in beam dynamics.)
I have a horizontal measurement of the beam profile, $f_X$, and another measurement of the longitudinal momentum profile, $f_\delta$. I have normalised both to unity area and take them to be measurements of the probability density functions of $X$ and $\delta$:

Now, I would like to determine the distribution / profile of $X_\beta$.
How do I have to proceed?
A first thought was to deconvolve $f_X$ with $f_{D_x\delta}$, after I interpolated both data sets to the same set of positions. Unfortunately, I failed with scipy.signal.deconvolve... I end up with an error quantity equal to the spectrum, i.e. I get nowhere.
If I convolve the two, I get an extension of $f_X$ by $f_{D_x\delta}$, as I'd expect:

(via numpy.convolve(f_x, f_Dxdelta, 'same') where both arrays have the same length and are w.r.t. the same positions)
I'd like to do the opposite now and 'remove' instead of 'add' the dispersive part. Or am I gone in the completely wrong direction?
One more possibly important information: I expect $X_\beta$ to have a normal distribution as opposed to $\delta$. I would like to extract the corresponding standard deviation of $X_\beta$ from $f_X$.
Thanks for your help,
Adrian
PS: I have asked the same question in the physics stack exchange forum and I've been suggested to ask your community :-)
( https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/224671/remove-measured-distribution-from-another-distribution )

A: Instead of going down a rocky road with the deconvolution, a possible approach is to plug the assumed Gaussian distribution for $X_\beta$ into a convolution with the PDF of $D_x\delta$, the above $f_{D_x\delta}$. The resulting curve can then be made to fit the measured profile with an iterative algorithm varying $\sigma_{x_\beta}$, the sought standard deviation of the assumed Gaussian distribution.
I got reasonable results with this method. Nonetheless, I'm open for your suggestions and other, possibly better approaches... :-) Thank you.

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Home » Should I Take The Case? » Hey United, there are two Charlestons — learn to tell 'em apart
Hey United, there are two Charlestons — learn to tell 'em apart
By Christopher Elliott | June 25, 2013 June 25, 2013
Don't get your Charlestons confused. United Airlines did, and look at where it got Mo Shah and his family.
I'm not sure if his problem, which involves a series of unfortunate events at the airport leading to an abbreviated anniversary celebration, is fixable. But there's plenty to learn for those of us watching from the sidelines. (And who knows, maybe the airline will do the right thing?)
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If nothing else, Shah's case shows the need to be very specific when you're dealing with air travel arrangements. Otherwise you could end up missing your plane. Or flying to the wrong continent.
The "little" thing that stole valuable hours from Shah's vacation? A seemingly small qualifier — W.Va versus S.C.
Shah, his wife, and two kids were flying from Washington to Charleston, S.C., for the special weekend. They'd secured reservations at an exclusive restaurant that evening.
"We were through security and heading toward the gate well before the scheduled boarding time of 11:50 a.m.," he says. "The gate in question is at United's 'A' gates, which serve commuter lines. Each gate actually serves up to six flights, so you can imagine the activity at the gate."
So there they were on a Friday morning at Dulles, ready to go, when …
We noticed on the airport's board that the flight was delayed to 12:45 p.m.
In addition, at the gate there is a United monitor (not the airport one) that shows the flight (with destination) and also who is on the standby list and the status of boarding. There is one monitor dedicated to each flight (so there were six monitors at the gate).
This monitor said 12:45 p.m. as well, in parentheses also saying that the aircraft was being serviced. In addition to that, both my wife and I got automated calls from United saying that the flight was delayed.
At about 12:20 p.m., United made an announcement that the Charleston flight was about to board. But when the family tried check in at the gate, the scanner shrieked — they were on the wrong flight. This was the Charleston, West Virginia flight.
"We pointed to the board that showed that Charleston South Carolina was delayed. I swear, as we were pointing this out to the gate agent, the monitor changed and our flight dropped off. The gate agent shrugged," remembers Shah.
Turns out the other Charleston flight had already left. Shah asked United for help at the "customer service" counter.
"The customer service agents started the usual spiel of how you have to be in the gate area anyway, when other passengers started getting in line after us, also agitated that the flight had left," he says. "The tone shifted from blame — 'You must have missed the announcements' — to one of slight contrition."
Eventually, United agreed to put the Shahs on the next flight to Charleston. But that didn't quite fix the problem. He explains:
I ended up spending the bulk of our anniversary in the gate area, balancing a laptop on my knee and trying to watch a DVD with my wife.
We missed the dinner reservations that we were so looking forward to and didn't get into Charleston until a good six hours after we were supposed to. Not the end of the world, but certainly a really poor way to spend a nice chunk of our much anticipated getaway.
After they returned, United offered both Shah and his wife 2,500 frequent flier miles for their inconvenience. It was the best the airline could do, they told him, because of something called a "compensation matrix."
Shah thinks United can do better. I think so, too. Clearly, United offered these travelers vague, if not erroneous, information which cost them valuable time. Instead of explaining the compensation matrix to these customers, they should take the time to tell them what went wrong, how they intend to fix it, and offering a mutually acceptable solution.
But strictly speaking, there's nothing in United's contract of carriage, its legal agreement with Shah, that obligates it to give this tale of two Charlestons the happy ending he wants. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't try.
"At this point, better compensation would be nice," he told me. "But I'm not holding my breath."
Should I mediate Mo Shah's case?
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'Messi Deserves Everything Beautiful In This World' – Eto'o Reveals His Ballon d'Or Verdict
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The PSG superstar claimed his seventh Ballon d'Or crown on Monday, a few weeks after he clinched the GOAL50 prize.
African legend Samuel Eto'o has defended Lionel Messi's emergence as the winner of the 2021 Ballon d'Or - a record seventh win.
The 34-year-old forward pipped Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski to the crown while Chelsea's Jorginho and Real Madrid's Karim Benzema finished in the third and fourth spots respectively.
In the year under review, he led Argentina to Copa America glory and he also won the Copa del Rey with Barcelona before he clinched La Liga's top scorer award for the eighth time after scoring 30 goals in 35 games last season.
Messi's triumph has generated mixed reactions but Eto'o – who is one of the most decorated footballers in Africa – believes the crown rightly fits his former teammate.
"Soccer is opinions. I remember in 2010, many thought that others had to win it," Eto'o told AS.
"For us, it is fair that Leo wins because he is the best player in the world and when you are the best you have to win every day. I have the privilege of being one of your friends.
"People say that I am not objective, but Leo deserves everything that is beautiful in this world, so I am happy for him, for what he has contributed, what he contributes and what he is going to contribute. Now that he has the seventh I hope the eighth comes.
"Benzema and Lewandowski obviously deserved it. Mbappe deserved it, Kante deserved it, Jorginho deserved it ... But football is like that. Many of us think that we could be considered for the Ballon d'Or, but then there are people who are there to choose and we have to respect it. They have thought, like me, that Leo is the best and that he has to win."
Messi is the only player who has won the Ballon d'Or seven times while Cristiano Ronaldo follows in second-place with five titles.
With both players in their 30s, Eto'o has picked Messi's Paris Saint-Germain teammate as the heir to the crown.
"It is there and it has arrived at a good moment, in which Messi and Cristiano, the gods of football, are in the night of their careers due to age and Mbappe is arriving," he said.
"I hope it will be the biggest for the next 10 or 15 years. He has everything to be this unique player that soccer needs after these two monsters."
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Breast cancer >
Mammograms do save lives, study shows
Research involving more than 50 000 breast cancer patients has shown that those patients who took part in a breast cancer screening program had a 60% lower risk of dying from the disease in the 10 years after diagnosis.
Women confused by the conflicting advice surrounding the benefits and timing of mammograms will be interested in a new study out of Sweden.
The research, involving more than 50 000 breast cancer patients, found that those who took part in a breast cancer screening program had a 60% lower risk of dying from the disease in the 10 years after diagnosis, and a 47% lower risk 20 years after diagnosis.
"This is really what we've been waiting for because there has been so much hoopla about mammography not reducing the death rate from breast cancer," said Dr Lauren Cassell, chief of breast surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She was not involved with the study.
Many people have said it's better treatment, and not screening, that has improved survival, Cassell explained.
"But when you do pick up cancers earlier, patients do better," she said. "We've had a gut feeling that early detection makes a difference, and now we can prove it."
Study co-author Robert Smith, vice president for cancer screening at the American Cancer Society, said, "The advantage of screening is that it offers a woman, if she develops breast cancer, the opportunity to treat that cancer early when the treatment can be less aggressive and when she has more treatment choices."
Finding cancer in an early stage may also avoid aggressive treatments that can diminish quality of life, he added.
"Mammography today, in the setting of modern therapy, confers a substantial benefit to women who attend regular screening," Smith said.
"The mortality reductions we observe are principally due to mammography detecting the most aggressive cancers early."
While the findings may seem obvious, the effect of mammograms on survival is something that's been debated in recent years.
The American Cancer Society recommends annual breast cancer screening for women aged 45 to 54, while the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends mammograms every other year for women aged 50 to 74.
The task force says the evidence for earlier screening isn't convincing, but women should make that decision on an individual basis.
Part of the discrepancy is caused by how the evidence is gathered, Smith explained.
Much of the data that has gone into making recommendations came from older studies that weren't able to clearly break out the benefit of early screening on survival, he said.
Early screening finds cancers that wouldn't show symptoms for years, Smith said. Also, survival from breast cancer can get confused with improvements in treatment, making it hard to tease out the benefit of screening, he added.
For the new study, researchers were able to take advantage of highly detailed Swedish data that spanned 52 years. This enabled the researchers to look at data from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, when widespread screening didn't exist, and 39 years later, when widespread screening was available.
What's more, the data for the new study were "individualised"- so researchers could look at the outcome of every woman in the registry who had breast cancer and whether she was screened or not. This enabled Smith's team to pinpoint the effect of screening on survival.
The researchers also were able to quantify the benefit of screening by looking at deaths after diagnosis.
"The latest study adds to the large body of literature that demonstrates early detection of breast cancer through screening programs saves the most lives," said Dr Nicole Saphier, director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Monmouth Regional, in Middletown, New Jersey.
Early detection essential
Breast cancers in women aged 40 to 49 tend to grow faster than breast cancers in older women, she said. "This means mammography and early detection are essential in these women, when the chances of survival are highest," she added.
For the study, Smith and his colleagues collected data on more than 52 400 women aged 40 to 69 in Dalarna, Sweden. All were diagnosed with breast cancer between 1977 and 2015. All the patients received the latest treatment for their stage of cancer, regardless of how it was found.
Dr Jay Baker is president of the Society of Breast Imaging. In a society news release, he said that, "The conclusion of this study could not be more clear - modern treatments are important but not solely sufficient. Women who get regular screening mammograms cut their risk of dying of breast cancer by about half."
The findings were published online November 8 in the journal Cancer.
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In an interview prior to the announcement of the Brent Christensen leaving the Mississippi Development Authority, the new head of the Greensboro (N.C.) Partnership sat down with the Triad Business Journal.
Brent Christensen, current executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, has been named the new CEO and president for the Greensboro Partnership.
The nationwide search for an economic development guru to lead the Greensboro Partnership has been the subject of much discussion since the retirements of Pat Danahy and Dan Lynch.
The partnership this week announced it has selected Brent Christensen as its CEO. The 45-year-old Indianapolis native grew up in Tampa, Fla., and spent some time in North Carolina while studying economics and public policy studies at Duke University. He obtained his MBA at the University of South Florida and served for 10 years as president and CEO of the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce. He currently is the executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, a role in which he entered by gubernatorial appointment in 2012.


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Yay for Hobi bias and meeting a fellow BTS fan!
Hope you get well soon, your story with the nurse are so cute..
Happy upcoming birthday to you dear???
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Youre 23 and im now 14. Im proud of you and i love you. Youre gonna start your tour soon. Be safe and have fun on your special day.
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