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Illuminati sex coercer gets 90 days’ jail

Posted: October 31, 2013 at 3:42 pm

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ELYRIA The Elyria man who used his purported membership in a secretive organization to try to convince two teenage girls to have sexual relations with him was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in the Lorain County Jail.

County Common Pleas Judge Mark Betleski also placed Nelson Torres, 36, on probation for two years and ordered him to register as a sex offender.

The sentence followed what Betleski told Torres he would likely impose when Torres pleaded guilty in September to felony gross sexual imposition and misdemeanor sexual imposition charges.

One of the victims in the case told police that Torres propositioned her in December by telling her they could earn points from a secret group he was a member of and get money. In order to win points, Torres told the girl, they had go out of her comfort zone.

When the girl agreed, he took her to a bedroom and told her they were being watched by hidden camerasoperated by the Illuminati. After asking her some questions, he told her to remove her clothes and began to touch her.

The girl asked Torres if he planned to rape her and that she didnt want to continue before leaving. She then went to see her sister, who described a similar incident.

Jeff Brown, Torres lawyer, has previously said that the accusations against his client were blown out of proportion and that a friend of Torres came up with the Illuminati claim as a way to pick up women years ago and his client went along with it.

Torres has a previous conviction from a decade ago for attempting to seduce a woman in a similar fashion when she applied for a job at the pizzeria he ran.

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Defending Free Speech With a 'Panic Button' – Video

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Jumping Spider, Nefertiti, Onboard the International Space Station – Video

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Jumping Spider, Nefertiti, Onboard the International Space Station
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World War Minecraft – Space Station and Moon Dungeons! Ep 7 – Video

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Student Spaceflight Experiments Program — Mission 6 to the International Space Station

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The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, in partnership with NanoRacks LLC, announce an authentic science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, opportunity for school districts across the U.S. and space station partner nations. The newest flight opportunity, Mission 6 to the International Space Station, or ISS, gives students across a community the ability to design and propose real experiments to fly in low Earth orbit on the International Space Station. This opportunity is part of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, or SSEP.

Each participating community will receive a real microgravity research mini-laboratory capable of supporting a single microgravity experiment, and all launch services to fly the mini-lab to the space station in fall 2014 and return it to Earth. An experiment design competition in each community -- engaging typically 300+ students -- allows student teams to design and propose real experiments vying for their community's reserved mini-lab. Content resources for teachers and students support foundational instruction on science in microgravity and experimental design. Additional SSEP programming leverages the experiment design competition to engage the community, embracing a learning community model for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, education.

This competition is open to students in grades 5-12 and college. Informal education groups and organizations are also encouraged to participate. Interested communities must inquire about the program no later than Nov. 20, 2013. The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education is available to help interested communities in the U.S. secure the needed funding.

To learn more about this opportunity, visit the SSEP Mission 6 to International Space Station National Announcement of Opportunity at http://ssep.ncesse.org/2013/10/new-flight-opportunity-for-school-districts-announcing-student-spaceflight-experiments-program-ssep-mission-6-to-the-international-space-station-for-2014/.

SSEP is enabled through a strategic partnership with NanoRacks LLC working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a national laboratory. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (http://www.iss-casis.org/) is a national partner on SSEP. To view a list of all SSEP national partners, visit http://ssep.ncesse.org/national-partners/.

If you have any questions about this opportunity, please email SSEP National Program Director Jeff Goldstein at jeffgoldstein@ncesse.org.

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California Lightworks 800W Solarstorm – exoticgenetix (Afterlife OG) / DNA Genetics (Tangie) Day 12 – Video

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Precision BioSciences and DuPont Pioneer Announce Publication of Plant Genome Engineering Success

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. & DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Precision BioSciences, Inc., and DuPont Pioneer today announced that The Plant Journal has published an article detailing collaborative cutting-edge research to generate male-sterile corn plants. Researchers at Pioneer used Precisions advanced genome engineering technology, called DNE, to knockout or disable the function of the ms26 gene in corn. Knocking out this gene has enabled Pioneer to produce corn plants that are male-sterile, a powerful tool for hybrid seed production.

The article further details how the Precision and Pioneer research teams were able to optimize a DNE gene-editing tool to maximize its efficiency in corn. This optimization process, which involves modulating the DNA-cutting activity of a gene-editing enzyme, can only be performed with Precisions proprietary DNE technology. The optimization step was found to be critical for high-efficiency gene-editing activity in corn.

We are thrilled with the results published by The Plant Journal, said Jeff Smith, Precision BioSciences Chief Science Officer and one of the studys authors.This is a clear demonstration of why DNEs unique combination of high-targeting flexibility, site-specificity, and activity modulation is so critical for the production of high-value products.

The collaboration to develop DNE technology for agricultural applications began in 2008 and has already delivered actionable results. The work described in this publication enables the creation of genetic male sterile plants similar to those used in the Pioneer proprietary Seed Production Technology (SPT) process. This work paves the way to extend SPT process to additional crops and genes. The SPT process is an innovative technology developed to increase the quality, productivity and efficiency of hybrid seed production. Pioneer has implemented the process in its hybrid seed corn production fields, and is working toward its deployment in other crops, such as rice.

Our collaboration with Precision Biosciences is a great example of two leading technology experts coming together to deliver new value to the agricultural industry, said Michael Lassner, DuPont Pioneer Vice President of Trait Discovery and Technology. This is the first of many applications we are exploring for the optimized DNE technology.

About Precision BioSciences

Precision BioSciences mission is to continually provide, improve, and enable the worlds most powerful genome engineering technology. Precisions proprietary Directed Nuclease EditorTM (DNE) technology enables the production of genome editing enzymes that can insert, remove, modify, and regulate essentially any gene in mammalian or plant cells.

Precision BioSciences vision is to be the conduit through which the worlds greatest genome engineering challenges are solved. Precision has successfully utilized its DNE technology to create innovative products in partnerships with many of the worlds largest biopharmaceutical and agbiotech firms. Internally, Precision is developing DNE-based products for biologics manufacturing and human therapeutics. For additional information, please visit http://www.precisionbiosciences.com.

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Staph Infections & Eczema: What's the Connection?

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Newswise ANN ARBOR, Mich. For the millions of people suffering from the intensely red, horribly itchy skin condition known as eczema, the only thing more maddening than their disease is the lack of understanding of what causes it, or makes it flare up from time to time.

Now, a new finding made by University of Michigan Medical School researchers and their colleagues may bring that understanding closer and could help lead to better treatments.

In a paper in Nature, the team reports that a toxin produced by the common bacteria Staphylococcus aureus popularly known as staph causes immune-system cells in the skin to react in a way that produces eczema-like rashes.

The release of the molecule, called delta toxin, by staph bacteria caused immune-related mast cells in the skin to release tiny granules that cause inflammation. But this didnt occur when skin was exposed to staph strains that lacked the gene for delta toxin.

This link between a specific S. aureus toxin and mast cell degranulation suggests a very specific mechanism, though its not enough to suggest delta toxin from staph bacteria by itself causes eczema, says senior author and U-M professor Gabriel Nunez, M.D. Genetic vulnerability likely also plays a role, he says.

The finding was made in mice, so its too soon to say that the same effect occurs in humans who suffer from eczema, also called atopic dermatitis. But the researchers did find significant levels of staph delta toxin in skin samples taken from patients with eczema.

Nunez, lead author Yuumi Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D., co-author Naohiro Inohara, Ph.D., and their colleagues hope their finding provides a new avenue for developing treatments to help the 15 to 30 percent of children, and 5 percent of adults who have eczema.

Some including patients have previously noted that eczema patients who take antibiotics for other conditions experience a lessening of eczema symptoms. But antibiotics have many drawbacks as long-term therapies for a chronic condition such as eczema most of all, the threat of contributing to the already serious issue of multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.

The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and involved NIH researchers who study S. aureus. Nunez notes that the initial hint of a link came totally by chance, as an incidental finding in an unrelated mast cell study they were conducting. They zeroed in on the little-understood delta toxin and began exploring its power to provoke mast cells to cause inflammation.

We know that 90 percent of patients with atopic dermatitis, also called eczema, have staph bacteria detectable on their skin, says Nunez, who is the Paul de Kruif Professor of Academic Pathology. But until now, it has not been suspected that the contribution was primary, because there was not a clear mechanistic link. Now we have evidence that there may indeed be a direct link.

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How to Treat and Control Psoriasis Treatment – Video

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Worth effort getting good care for psoriasis

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A survey of nearly 500 New Zealanders living with psoriasis reveals more pain is associated with the chronic skin condition than just that from the scaly red skin lesions caused by the condition.

Psoriasis Association Southland (PAS) - the only support group for people living with psoriasis in New Zealand - and drug company AbbVie, in conjunction with dermatologists, recently surveyed 492 New Zealanders living with psoriasis.

Association president Patricia Officer Young, of Gore, said the survey revealed that people with psoriasis often had other associated conditions, such as psoriatic arthritis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, colitis and Crohn's disease.

''So psoriasis should be treated and there's plenty of great medication and treatments out there for people to try, until they get one that suits them.''

The survey revealed that 98% of the respondents experienced flaking skin, 70% experienced bleeding and 61% experienced pain associated with lesions, also called plaques.

Half of the respondents who reported living with moderate psoriasis said they had never received care from a dermatologist for management of their condition.

Of those with severe psoriasis, 21% had never seen a dermatologist for their condition.

Between 40% and 50% of respondents used only creams and lotions to treat their psoriasis.

Mrs Officer Young said anyone with psoriasis should see a dermatologist.

''They are specialists in skin conditions.''

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