GRAND RAPIDS -- Bennie Rochelle has been convicted in the murder of Jose Estrada, who was beaten to death because Rochelle believed the 46-year-old fellow Kent County Jail inmate stole his Honey Bun snack cake. Mmmmmmmm...Honey Bun snack cake. Worth killing for. Bennie could do commercials.
The jury spent less than five hours deliberating before returning the verdict late this morning that the 19-year-old is guilty of second-degree murder. It would've been first degree, your honor, but...damn, Honey Bun snack cakes are really good.
Witnesses testified over the last two weeks that Rochelle -- in a fit of anger over his missing snack -- pulled the slight Mexico native from a top bunk bed sending him crashing head-first to the concrete floor. Testimony also states that Rochelle then beat the man with his fists, slammed his head against a metal door and threw a plastic cot on him. It appears Bennie has anger "issues'...
The assault occurred Oct. 29, 2006. After Estrada was released on bond, he died at Saint Mary's Health Care on Nov. 12, 2006 from a massive subdural hematoma that caused fatal brain damage.Rochelle's attorney, Timothy Idsinga, argued it was negligence on the part of the jail medical system that resulted in Estrada's death. Your honor, if not for incompetent medical treatment, the victim should have easily survived the brutal beating administered by my client...
Rochelle is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 22, where he faces up to life in prison. Should've used that Twinkie defense, except change it to Honey Bun snack cake. Some lawyer...
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Should've used the defense that *if* Estrada was not here legally to start with *then* Bennie should not be guilty because Jose would've never been able to cop his honey bun if the feds had been doing their damn job on the border in the first place. Blame it on the man yo.
A television news anchor from Philadelphia was arrested in Manhattan on Sunday after she punched a police officer in the face, the police said. The anchor, Lois Alycia Lane, hit the officer at West 17th Street and Ninth Avenue about 2 a.m., said the police, who provided no information about what led to the encounter. The officer was treated at a hospital for a cut and she was then released.
Ms. Lane, 35, was arraigned on a felony charge of assaulting a police officer and pleaded not guilty, her lawyer, David Smith, said. She was released. Ms. Lane denies striking anyone, Mr. Smith said. Were confident that after a full investigation of the facts shell be cleared, he said.
Ms. Lane, a Long Island native, is a co-anchor of evening newscasts at KYW-TV, the CBS-owned station in Philadelphia. We are still trying to sort out exactly what happened, a spokeswoman for the station said.
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Talk about coincidence, TOPIX > FORMER GUAM TV ANCHORWOMAN/BROADCASTER EMBROILED IN FEDERAL PROBE [Iraq].
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A television news anchor who got in trouble for sending photos of herself in a bikini to a married man at the NFL Network was arrested Sunday after allegedly she punched a police officer in the face, authorities said.
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Yeesh. Once again the MSM has things all PC-upped. This sounds more like it. Of course, the target of the link includes some non-PC language, but it does have a few pics of Ms. Lane, who may need some sympathy right now . . . . <:-(
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Oh, she won't get in media trouble for popping a cop. But for calling a female cop "a fuckin dyke"? Oh-oh...
Funny, I don't see that mentioned in the Times story.
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As another famous newscaster got into trouble for saying,
'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:
"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
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It is entirely different matter to modify existing cell by insertion of codon or codons to make it do some things... but creation of a fully artificial cell and expectation that it will bootstrap itself into life is a pipe dream.
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Cytochrome 16S RNA and all possible options have been already assigned. Or taken, depending on what paradigm you subscribe to.
Well, it is not something that in itself would be sufficient, it is like a code that has dependencies, pointing to oher segments that have further dependencies. Many layers of such dependencies... you think one may be dealing with straightforward chain, but that is not the case. It is something that if plotted would remind a multi-dimensional tesseract. Wheels within wheels.
Nanotech critters that would emulate life forms and reproduce, that is, in my humble opinon, possible.
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Many scientists say the threat has been overblown. Venter notes that his synthetic genomes are spiked with special genes that make the microbes dependent on a rare nutrient not available in nature. And Pierce, of DuPont, says the company's bugs are too spoiled to survive outdoors.
"They are designed to grow in a cosseted environment with very high food levels," Pierce said. "You throw this guy out on the ground, he just can't compete. He's toast."
Rather like Ted Kennedy
"We've heard that before," said Jim Thomas, ETC Group's program manager, noting that genes engineered into crops have often found their way into other plants despite assurances to the contrary. "The fact is, you can build viruses, and soon bacteria, from downloaded instructions on the Internet," Thomas said. "Where's the governance and oversight?"
In fact, government controls on trade in dangerous microbes do not apply to the bits of DNA that can be used to create them. And while some industry groups have talked about policing the field themselves, the technology is quickly becoming so simple, experts say, that it will not be long before "bio hackers" working in garages will be downloading genetic programs and making them into novel life forms.
"The cat is out of the bag," said Jay Keasling, chief of synthetic biology at the University of California at Berkeley.
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In 2000, the cost of assembling sequences to order as roughly $10 to $12 per base pair Some scientists foresee DNA synthesis dropping to 1 cent per base pair within a couple of years. Thats a gene for 10 bucks, a bacterial genome for the price of a car. Oliver Morton, Life Reinvented,--Wired
At a May 2006 synthetic biology conference gene synthesis companies were confidently predicting that the price would drop to $.50 per base pair by the end of 2007. Gene synthesis for oligos (shorter, single strands) is already at $.10 per base and a new method pioneered by geneticist George Church of Harvard University may reduce the cost ten-fold, to $.01 per base.
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When asked by interviewers if they are playing God, Venters colleague Hamilton Smith gives a characteristically hubristic response: We dont play.
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Eckard Wimmer is even more blunt about the potentially deadly combination of accessible genomic data and DNA-synthesizing capabilities: If some jerk then takes the sequence of [a dangerous pathogen] and synthesizes it, we could be in deep, deep trouble.
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In June 2006, The Guardian (UK) announced that one of its journalists ordered a fragment of synthetic DNA of Variola major (the virus that causes smallpox) from a commercial gene synthesis company and had it delivered to his residential address...With approximately 186,000 base pairs, a commercial outfit could theoretically crank out the entire DNA for a synthetic version of Variola major in less than two weeks, for about the price of a high-end sports car.
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DNA databases like GenBank could become as user-friendly as Google. In fact, the titanic search engine has signaled interest in storing all of the worlds genomic data in their google-farms...
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An archaic human species, the Neanderthal has been extinct for some 30,000 years, but researchers estimate they will have a complete genome, 3.2 billion base pairs in length, in about two years.
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It all depends where they want to go. Mammoths are a holy grail of geneticists, and they have figured out how eventually they are going to recreate them. They even have a reservation in Siberia waiting for them.
However, after that, there will be efforts to make canine-human and feline-human intelligent crossbreeds. I say that is where the efforts are going to be, because that is where much of the fantasy lies, and research is often fantasy driven.
By far, the greatest majority of engineers alive today were originally inspired by Star Trek. Even before the series ended, there were jumps in several futuristic technologies that the series used. Oddly enough, it resulted in a huge jump in automatic door technology. People were willing to pay big money for automatic doors that opened like that.
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"Oddly enough, it resulted in a huge jump in automatic door technology. People were willing to pay big money for automatic doors that opened like that." (paging Douglas Adams)
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FARK.com Poster > Think BLADERUNNER and DARYL HANNAH'S? sexy synthetic character, SEX AND MARRIAGE TO SAME??? Ditto for realistic-looking, realistic-moving/sounding Japanese robots/
droids, ala STEPFORD WIVES.
CARTOON CHANNEL > FUTURAMA > SAVE EARTH FROM ALIEN DESTRUCTION - DON'T DATE ROBOTS!
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She's smart, beautiful, and speaks several Euro languages including those prevalent in Belgium - her only drawback is that one of the latter she can't speak is Dutch.
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She's smart, beautiful, and speaks several Euro languages including those prevalent in Belgium - her only drawback is that one of the latter she can't speak is Dutch.
I understood every word of that--what's wrong with Joseph Mendiola today?
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She's cute. If the Flemings don't want her, I think we should offer her political asylum on the front page of the Rantburg Defender-Scimitar & Times-Picayune.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A television news anchor from Philadelphia was arrested in Manhattan on Sunday after she punched a police officer in the face, the police said. The anchor, 
Many scientists say the threat has been overblown. Venter notes that his synthetic genomes are spiked with special genes that make the microbes dependent on a rare nutrient not available in nature. And Pierce, of DuPont, says the company's bugs are too spoiled to survive outdoors.
