Chanel, UCSB's corpse flower, blooms and causes a big stink

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Chanel, UC Santa Barbara's corpse flower, has finally spread her odiferous wings, broadcasting a stench that smells like a cross between rotting flesh and Limburger cheese. "It's disgusting," said UCSB junior Connor Way, who visited Wednesday morning. "It's pretty nasty."

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Eagles' Riley Cooper apologizes for racial slur

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Saying he was "ashamed and disgusted" with himself, Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper apologized repeatedly for making a racial slur at a Kenny Chesney concert that was caught on video and led to him getting fined.

The video of Cooper using the N-word surfaced Wednesday on the Internet. Cooper issued a statement of apology then met with reporters outside the team's practice facility.

"This is the lowest of lows," Cooper said. "This is not the type of person I want to be portrayed as. This isn't the type of person I am. I'm extremely sorry."

Cooper said he was drinking when he directed the slur at an African-American security guard at the concert in June.

"That's no excuse for what I said. I don't use that term," he said. "I was raised better than that. I have a great mom and dad and they're disgusted with my actions."

Cooper said he was fined a significant amount of money by the Eagles.

"We are shocked and appalled by Riley Cooper's words," Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie said. "This sort of behavior or attitude from anyone has no role in a civil society. He has accepted responsibility for his words and his actions. He has been fined for this incident."

The league released the following statement: "The NFL stands for diversity and inclusion. Comments like this are wrong, offensive, and unacceptable."

A fifth-round pick out of Florida, Cooper is entering his fourth season in the NFL. He has 46 catches and five touchdowns in three years with the Eagles.

Cooper had tentatively moved into a starting role after Jeremy Maclin tore his right ACL in practice last Saturday. Still, he's not guaranteed a roster spot in Chip Kelly's new offense.

"I'm willing to accept all consequences," Cooper said. "I know no one in Philadelphia is happy with me right now. I accept that. I hope they see the true me and accept my apology. I know it will take a while."

Cooper planned to speak to teammates after talking to the media.

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Teaching nanowires self-control from the outset enabled scientists to produce complex electronic nanocomponents.

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USCIS union president cautions lawmakers on House-fashioned DREAM Act

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The president of the union representing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers and staff voiced concerns to Republican House members about proposals to grant legal status for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

In a letter?sent Tuesday night to Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Immigration and Border Security subcommittee Chairman Trey Gowdy, National USCIS Council president Kenneth Palinkas questioned the wisdom of adopting legislation under the Obama administration to legalize undocumented immigrants brought to the country illegally.

The letter is also copied to the GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee.

?As you know the Obama Administration has already bypassed Congress to implement a version of the proposal you are now considering. Of course, to do so, the Administration had to simultaneously suspend laws previously passed by Congress? What is to stop the Administration from simply issuing another round of non-enforcement orders (written or oral) that would eviscerate any attempted limitations in your bill?? Palinkas wrote.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte have reportedly been working on legislation aimed at granting a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

Last week the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security held a hearing on the matter. While Democrats on the panel said that legalization for just the children was not enough, most of the Republicans on the panel signaled they would be open to such a proposal.

Palinkas? letter was full of questions about the likelihood that such legislation could be extended or circumvented by the Obama administration and how members would prevent that from happening.

?If these solutions are not provided, a DREAM Act-style bill could quickly turn into a permanent feature of U.S. immigration policy with huge unintended consequences. In practice, it could establish a precedent that would expand birthright citizenship in the future to apply to any new arrivals (and, by extension, their relatives) who claim they came here at a certain age,? Palinkas wrote. ?Clearly, this would be an extraordinary magnet for unlawful entry and overstays, and create a massive hole in future enforcement.?

Palinkas, whose union was vocally opposed to the Senate immigration bill, added that the needs of USCIS have been overlooked as, he noted, the agency lacks the resources it needs to ?ensure that the millions we admit into the country properly qualify for the immigration benefits they seek.?

?Until our inadequate resources as USCIS employees are upgraded and the culture of the current Administration changes, U.S. citizens will continue to be put at needless risk,? he wrote calling for more full-time permanent staff.

He stressed that USCIS is ?ill-equipped? to process ?the sort of far-reaching plans before Congress right now? and requested that lawmakers work with USCIS adjudicators as they move forward with their immigration proposals.

?The sponsors of the Senate legislation pushed aside the opportunity to work with ICE and USCIS professionals and therefore produced a 1,200-page bill that greatly weakens our national security and produces more illegal immigration. I would therefore urge all House lawmakers not to conference with the dangerous Senate bill that will produce a totally deficient comprehensive proposal,? he wrote.

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Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/31/uscis-union-president-cautions-lawmakers-on-house-fashioned-dream-act/

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Train of Thought Derailed: How an Accident Can Affect Your Brain

A survivor of last week's deadly train derailment in Spain illustrates how disaster can alter your mind

By Lucas Laursen

Image: Flickr/elentir (Contando Estrelas)

My cousin Guillermo Cassinello Toscano was on the train that derailed in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, last week when it went around a bend at twice the speed limit. Cassinello heard a loud vibration and then a powerful bump and then found himself surrounded by bloody bodies in wagon number nine. Shaking, he escaped the wreckage through either a door or a hole in the train?he cannot recall?then sat amid the smoke and debris next to the track and began to cry. Seventy-nine passengers died.

Cassinello doesn?t remember everything that happened to him. The same mechanisms that kept his brain sharp enough to escape immediate danger may also make it harder for him both to recall the accident, and to put the trauma behind him. "The normal thing is that the person doesn't remember the moment of the accident or right after," says clinical psychologist Javier Rodriguez Escobar of trauma therapy team Grupo Isis in Seville, who helped treat and study victims of the 2004 Madrid train bombings. That's because the mind and the body enter a more alert but also more stressed state, with trade-offs that can save your life, but harm your mind?s memory-making abilities.

As the train fell over, several changes would have swept through Cassinello?s body. His adrenal glands, near his kidneys, would have released adrenaline (also known as epinephrine) into his bloodstream. The adrenaline would have directed blood to the powerful muscles of his arms and legs, where it would help him escape the wreckage faster. The hormone would have raised his heart and breathing rates. It also would have stimulated his vagus nerve, which runs from his spine to his brain. Although adrenaline cannot cross the blood?brain barrier, the vagus can promote noradrenaline production in the brain. That hormone activates the amygdala, which helps form memories.

Just the right amount of noradrenaline, researchers have found, can boost memory storage; too much can destroy it. Figuring out the balance could allow researchers to harness the hormone. Neuroscientist Christa McIntyre at the University of Texas at Dallas and colleagues have been studying how the chemical shapes memory-making in rats (her team is planning a human trial). When the team stimulated rats? vagus nerves the animals? memories improved. McIntyre has to keep the dose low, however, because other experiments have shown that too much noradrenaline appears to impede memory-making[OR, TO VARY: formation]. Researchers are still trying to determine whether the excess noradrenaline directly causes the memory lapses or if the hormone is associated with high stress levels that cause some other chemical system to interfere. "That's the part we don't really understand: if there's too much [noradrenaline] or if there's another system that kicks in and puts a brake on it," McIntyre says.

Cassinello's memory lapses may be due to a noradrenaline overflow. But there may be other explanations for the gaps in his memory. His brain may have narrowed his attention at the time of the crash to only those things that matter for survival, such as escaping the train, leading him to ignore things that do not, such as whether the path out of the train passed through a door or a hole. Researchers have shown that humans report selective hearing during stressful events and that stressed people pay attention to different things than do unstressed people (pdf).

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Amazon Now Offering Sprint's Galaxy S4 for $100 On Contract

For folks looking to switch to Sprint soon, Amazon has a great deal on the 16GB Samsung Galaxy S4 that you will want to consider. They have dropped their price on the flagship device down to $99.99 on a new contract. This deal is for either the white or the black version. In comparison, the off contract price is still $649.99.

This offer is only for new contracts. If you are renewing your contract with Sprint the phone is still at the $199.99 price point.

Here are some links below to check out their offer.

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