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During a two-month trial, Sefton and Lloyd claimed K. was hurting himself while arguing that the accounts he and Lloyd's daughter offered couldn't be trusted. Sefton tried to portray himself as a "proactive" and "engaged" parent, while Lloyd's attorney said she was doing her best.

Refuting those assertions were the photos taken at Seattle Children's hospital after K.'s rescue by Auburn police separated.

Tall for 6 but weighing little more than 50 pounds, the boy appeared to be wasting away. His joints and stomach appeared swollen as his body, deprived of nutrition, began to shut down.

At closing arguments, Gregson said Sefton started to lose control around October 2013.

In the five months that followed, K. lost pound after pound as school workers became increasingly concerned about his treatment at home. Gregson said dozens of calls to child protective services failed to get the boy the help he needed.

"People ask, 'How can someone abuse a child?'" Gregson told the jury in March. "I ask, 'How could all these good people sit by and do nothing?'"

The boy arrived at school with a bloody lip, a bruised ear, scratches. He pulled food out of school trash cans to feed himself, choking once on a discarded muffin. His teachers created a "share basket" so the boy could be fed at school.

School nurses began weighing him. Sefton objected and claimed he was being discriminated against because he was a man raising his child.

Lloyd recorded K.'s injuries on video. She and Sefton exchanged smug text messages about their treatment of the boy, which were later seized by the police. The malnourished child was required to do push-ups while wearing a backpack filled with canned food.

Sefton described his son as a "demon" when confronted by school workers. The boy's nurses and teachers knew a different child - they said he was gentle, kind and in desperate need of affection.

Sefton and Lloyd told school staff not to feed the boy because of imagined "dietary restrictions," and Sefton threatened to sue the school district if workers didn't stop feeding his son.

The day help finally arrived, K.'s face was bruised from a beating Sefton delivered because the boy wasn't tying his shoes properly, Gregson said. The boy was shaking uncontrollably.

K. was taken to the emergency room at Seattle Children's. His stomach was distended from malnutrition - he was starving to death.

The boy told investigators he was only allowed to eat blended shakes comprised of bread, carrots, water, hot dogs and oil. He was offered the disgusting concoctions twice a day.

"They were using food to torture him," Gregson said. "It has the added benefit of trying to kill him, but it was a very effective form of torture."

The jury, having been empaneled Jan. 17, returned its verdict March 15. Jurors convicted Lloyd and Sefton of first-degree assault of a child, second-degree assault of a child and first-degree criminal mistreatment.

Both defendants remain jailed. They are expected to be transferred to state prison in coming days.

Fuck 20 years. Shoot them both and push them in to a hole an be done with these wastes of life.

>>44168
>Donald Trump will make Indians and Asians WHITE with his powers
>Donald Trump will make Asia Great Again.

>Vishnu Gupta
He belongs to bania / marwari caste. Some of the nastiest and ugliest indians are the low caste bania or trader class. They are dark, ugly usually very short and fat. They originate from australian aboriginal types of niggers. They are the biggest crooks and thiefs and will try to rip off foriegn tourists. They are truly the niggers of india coz once they acquire some wealth (usually through corrupt means) they will try and buy white wives from russia or some other euro trash country.

Doesn't sound like he mocked the Indian accent at all lmao did those people even watch the video

>>43825
Shiiite

>>43825
I always said that the apocalypse is going to come out of China or India.

That population density combined with poor hygiene standards and proximity to all manner of animals, is going to cause the next plague that will make the Black Death seem like a cold.

>>43839
The black plague actually came out of that region.

POO

Thread theme

http://youtu.be/uyOA7F9fTx8

What do you expect from animals?

During her speech, Borja called out her “closest friend,” Logan, who was in the audience and allegedly guilty of perpetrating the latest microaggression against her, recalling that before she went to an interview with a Latino law firm employee, Logan told her to “remember to use your best Spanish and don’t speak with an accent.” When Borja said “I can’t help my accent,” Logan responded “you know what I meant; don’t eat your ‘r’s or your ‘s’es.”

Speaking to the event’s attendees, Borja said “I do know what he meant…don’t talk like Puerto Rican, don’t be the stereotypical, Puerto Rican girl who has no business being in the professional world. Don’t be you, go home.”

A female Muslim student in a hijab later claimed she had been told “no one’s going to be physically attracted to you; isn’t that the point of the headscarf?” and “how do we know you’re a girl? You’re probably bald under there.”

She also complained about two competing stereotypes of Muslims who wear the hijab, one in which they are “asexual, unfeminine, and prudish…the sexually uninterested veiled woman” and another “orientalist one” that has led to “privileged white men [who] think it’s okay to drunkenly grab me as I walk down the Corner and ask me what I’m hiding.”

Another speaker, Francesca Callicotte, said that if people don’t call out microaggressions, “the unintentional will become intentional and impulsive ignorance will become premeditated aggression.”

Some students had complaints that arguably went beyond “microaggressions.” A black woman described a relationship she had with a white man in which “the barrage of microaggressions began” when he called her “brown sugar” and referred to her as a “shiny token.” The relationship culminated in the man sometimes saying the n-word, “the white race is just superior, but you’re the exception,” and telling her he wanted an all-white America.

During the dialogue period, students were instructed to introduce themselves and their pronouns, “use ‘I’ statements,” and “follow proper turn-taking procedure (wait for 2 people to talk in between the times you speak and speak again).”

At Campus Reform’s table, one student noted that “a lot of older white men” speak to her in ways she deems “disrespectful.” Another said “I’m not gonna lie; when I see somebody who looks like a stereotypical frat brother, I get scared to share certain things.” A student also mentioned that she “loved” when the speakers talked about “correcting people” while still maintaining friendships.

When one student expressed discomfort with “the r-word,” or “retarded,” Campus Reform asked if she would be fine with it being used scientifically to refer to a slower growth process, to which the student said context mattered.

Another student almost referred to her older brother as “severely autistic” instead of “autistic,” but quickly corrected herself, saying “I’m still unlearning some things, too.” Regarding the r-word, she said “I just hate that word in general” and alluded to the US government’s replacement of the term “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability.”

Campus Reform also asked students how they felt about racist and sexist jokes and games like Cards Against Humanity. Some students thought jokes were alright if they “punched up” vs. “punched down.”

When Campus Reform brought up the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the question of what is and is not acceptable as satire, some students agreed with the magazine’s right to freedom of expression, but one said “if people are being degraded by these stereotypes and they’re uncomfortable with it, I think that’s enough reason to not use it and I’m just very uncomfortable with the tendency to immediately just start picking apart Islam.”

None of the students, however, could answer precisely who should be allowed to determine which jokes are off limits.

Reflecting on the growing hostility to PC culture, one student said “the person who’s usually calling people crybabies is usually coming from a place of privilege where they’ve never been attacked on anything and then as soon as they are, it’s ‘oh God, everyone’s being so horrible.’”

>>42623
>>42623
Hey guess what? Indians murder each other in ridiculous ways all the time. Hell some girls lit another girl on fire in a car and drank beers while she burned alive not too long ago around my parts. It's just no one gives a shit cuz, you know, indians.

>>42631
So those red skins are just as bad as the films show? A shame.

>>42635
Did you honestly believe otherwise? That's more of a shame.

>>39668
It isn't even Anti-LGBT it just isn't pro-LGBT. It's simply there to protect business owners from frivolous lawsuits.

>>39668
Here's a response to that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUJgbWrM64

>>39699
this.

In their eyes, unless you literally have a dick up your ass and are waving the rainbow banner (simultaneously), you are an evil fascist homophobe.

I don't really know why is posted this it's just telling trump to tone done shit just like every other article out there but alright.

>>42606
Trump should button his lips is indeed a universal message!

>>42628
That's not a nice way to talk about the President elect.

>>44344
I'm sure it's super responsible to have a kid when you'll be dead before they're 18.

>>44346
I'm sure it's super responsible to have a kid.*

>>44373
Le stupid breeders meme

How do I negotiate my way into getting a tenner for weed?

>>43931
Answer me.

>>43931
>>43932
very carefully

>>43570
>huffingtonpost

Why

Did you know Hillary plans to let the entire country of Syria into the US?
I know because Breitbart told me so.

>>43576
What are /news/ worthy sights then?

>>43576
Bring 'em on!

>>44521
>Dr. Endy, though invited, said he deliberately did not attend the meeting at Harvard because it was not being opened to enough people and was not giving enough thought to the ethical implications of the work.

>George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an organizer of the proposed project, said there had been a misunderstanding. The project was not aimed at creating people, just cells, and would not be restricted to human genomes, he said. Rather it would aim to improve the ability to synthesize DNA in general, which could be applied to various animals, plants and microbes.

>“They’re painting a picture which I don’t think represents the project,” Dr. Church said in an interview.

>He said the meeting was closed to the news media, and people were asked not to tweet because the project organizers, in an attempt to be transparent, had submitted a paper to a scientific journal. They were therefore not supposed to discuss the idea publicly before publication. He and other organizers said ethical aspects have been amply discussed since the beginning.

>The project was initially called HGP2: The Human Genome Synthesis Project, with HGP referring to the Human Genome Project. An invitation to the meeting at Harvard said that the primary goal “would be to synthesize a complete human genome in a cell line within a period of 10 years.”
...

>But by the time the meeting was held, the name had been changed to “HGP-Write: Testing Large Synthetic Genomes in Cells.”

>The project does not yet have funding, Dr. Church said, though various companies and foundations would be invited to contribute, and some have indicated interest. The federal government will also be asked. A spokeswoman for the National Institutes of Health declined to comment, saying the project was in too early a stage.

>Besides Dr. Church, the organizers include Jef Boeke, director of the institute for systems genetics at NYU Langone Medical Center, and Andrew Hessel, a self-described futurist who works at the Bay Area software company Autodesk and who first proposed such a project in 2012.

>Scientists and companies can now change the DNA in cells, for example, by adding foreign genes or changing the letters in the existing genes. This technique is routinely used to make drugs, such as insulin for diabetes, inside genetically modified cells, as well as to make genetically modified crops. And scientists are now debating the ethics of new technology that might allow genetic changes to be made in embryos.

>But synthesizing a gene, or an entire genome, would provide the opportunity to make even more extensive changes in DNA.

>For instance, companies are now using organisms like yeast to make complex chemicals, like flavorings and fragrances. That requires adding not just one gene to the yeast, like to make insulin, but numerous genes in order to create an entire chemical production process within the cell. With that much tinkering needed, it can be easier to synthesize the DNA from scratch.
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>Right now, synthesizing DNA is difficult and error-prone. Existing techniques can reliably make strands that are only about 200 base pairs long, with the base pairs being the chemical units in DNA. A single gene can be hundreds or thousands of base pairs long. To synthesize one of those, multiple 200-unit segments have to be spliced together.

>But the cost and capabilities are rapidly improving. Dr. Endy of Stanford, who is a co-founder of a DNA synthesis company called Gen9, said the cost of synthesizing genes has plummeted from $4 per base pair in 2003 to 3 cents now. But even at that rate, the cost for three billion letters would be $90 million. He said if costs continued to decline at the same pace, that figure could reach $100,000 in 20 years.

>J. Craig Venter, the genetic scientist, synthesized a bacterial genome consisting of about a million base pairs. The synthetic genome was inserted into a cell and took control of that cell. While his first synthetic genome was mainly a copy of an existing genome, Dr. Venter and colleagues this year synthesized a more original bacterial genome, about 500,000 base pairs long.

>Dr. Boeke is leading an international consortium that is synthesizing the genome of yeast, which consists of about 12 million base pairs. The scientists are making changes, such as deleting stretches of DNA that do not have any function, in an attempt to make a more streamlined and stable genome.

>But the human genome is more than 200 times as large as that of yeast and it is not clear if such a synthesis would be feasible.
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>>42134
America is a cancer upon the Earth.

>>42154
If only King George III could have kept his shit together 240 years ago then none of this would be happening.

>>42154
>>42157

Seems like EU regulations on research are retarded. No wonder your companies suck ass

Seems like a good idea to me

Huh. Bush signed that. Interesting.

I think in the Netherlands or Germany you get to leave behind info as the parent which is given to the child at a later age

>>42944
I like the lady and the sentiment behind the idea, but why boxes? Why can't this be handled in delivery rooms or through midwifes?

I don't think the boxes are child abuse, but I doubt the process is actually anonymous, and I'm sure the person checking the boxes would also be better employed picking up the children from hospitals, homes, and public places.

Fuck off with your outrage bait, Piers

>slag
Sounds like they're assimilating.

>>44161
"news"