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[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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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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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.

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Frank Ocean Vocal Injury Re-Shuffles OVO Fest

Singer's torn vocal cord cancels first day of Drake's gathering, pushes James Blake to day two.
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Thousands Of Bees Attack Texas Couple, Kill Horses

PANTEGO, Texas (AP) ? A swarm of about 30,000 bees attacked a North Texas couple as they exercised their miniature horses, stinging the animals so many times they died.

Kristen Beauregard, 44, was stung about 200 times, and her boyfriend about 50 times, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Saturday (http://bit.ly/12RiVMA ).

But the horses, Chip and Trump, were so covered in bees they shimmered. Neither could be saved.

"They were chasing us down, they were following us," Beauregard said of the incident Wednesday evening. "We swept up piles and piles of them ... it was like a bad movie."

The bees are being tested to see whether they are Africanized or "killer" bees. It is unclear what prompted them to leave the hive.

Beauregard was exercising Trump, a Shetland pony, when he started to jump and kick, she said. That is when a cloud of bees started stinging them all over. Trying to escape, she jumped in the pool and the horse followed.

"It got all dark, like it was nighttime there were so many bees," she told the newspaper. "We were trying stand up in the water but every time we stuck our heads out for air, they would cover us and start stinging us. We were trying to breathe and they were stinging us in the face and in the nose."

She escaped to the house, and her boyfriend called 911. Bees chased her, crashing into the windows of the house. Trump ran through the yard, rubbing against bushes in an attempt to wipe off the bees.

Beauregard's boyfriend called 911 and firefighters arrived with special gear and a foam substance used to clear the bees. They were able to drag the horses to a pasture where police and paramedics tried to treat them.

Chip, a 6-year-old show horse, died before a veterinarian arrived. Trump was sedated and taken to equine veterinarian Patricia Tersteeg's clinic.

"He was so overwhelmed by bites that his body could not handle it," Tersteeg said. "That's way too much for any 250-pound mammal to survive."

The bees also killed five hens, and stung the couple's dog.

Information from: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, http://www.star-telegram.com

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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Odlanier Solis Could Return on October 18th in Mexico

?Last update:? 7/28/2013 ????? Read more by Per Ake Persson ?????? ? Odlanier Solis Could Return on October 18th in Mexico By Per Ake Persson Cuxhaven - As previously reported, Arena Box Promotion returned to the Kugelback Hall on the German North Sea coast. Heavyweight Odlanier Solis, now 20-1, knocked out overmatched Yakub Saglam, 28-3, at 2:30 of the seventh to retain the IBF I/C title. Saglam was beaten to the punch whenever he tried so do so something but then he discovered that if he didn't punch then Solis didn?t punch either and referee Jean Pierre van Imschoot had to remind the fighters three times to fight and threatened Saglam with disqualification if he didn?t pick it up. Solis finally opened up in the seventh for a clean finish. Next up could be a fight in Mexico on?October 18. "He?s a lazy [son of a b*tch]," said promoter Ahmet Oener. "He only fights as hard as he has to. Solis is also an exellent boxer and can still be a threat." Tags: Odlanier Solis ? ?User Comments and Feedback (must register to comment) ? comment by andrewa1, on 07-28-2013 Hopefully he fights someone half decent then. He's a lazy and frustrating sob, but he's still a top fighter and exciting to see against top 30 HW's. ? comment by CubanGuyNYC, on 07-28-2013 lol Sounds like Oner is reaching unbearable heights of frustration with Solis. Can't say I feel sorry for him. :lol1: ? comment by Drunk Punch, on 07-28-2013 I don't know how Solis finds the time to box inbetween eating cheeseburgers and doing nothing. ? comment by nycsmooth, on 07-28-2013 I had read he was fighting Oct 18 in MX in a Mexico City paper, participating in the WBC World Cup, along w/Fres Oquendo... Post A Comment/View More User Comments (4)?
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Jobs announcement on tap from Amazon

Staff Tampa Bay Business Journal

Amazon is expected to announce plans to hire 5,000 workers for 17 fulfillment centers.

The new hires are part of the company?s strategy to build out its system of distribution centers more quickly and cheaply deliver orders to consumers, The Washington Post reported.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is expected to make the announcement Monday, the Post reported. The jobs include tasks such as picking items from warehouse shelves, packing them for delivery and operating technology to streamline operations.

The report did not discuss the locations of the jobs. Amazon reportedly has been considering sites in the Tampa Bay area for a 1 million-square-foot distribution center, and both Hillsborough and Polk counties have approved financial incentives to lure the online retailer.

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Seahawks | Coach says Percy Harvin may have several options

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said WR Percy Harvin (hip) could have several options to consider regarding his hip injury depending on what the second opinion reveals. "We are just going to have to wait and see and it's everything that he might be to come back and be ready to go," Carroll said. "There may be some procedures that are needed to take place. There are a number of different ways that that could happen in the lengths of the recovery and what has to take place. So it's uncertain right now." Carroll said Harvin will not necessarily miss the entire season if he does need surgery.

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Boy finds, returns woman's lost wedding ring

A Genesee County woman is counting her blessings after she lost her wedding ring in a waterfall ? only to have it returned by an upstanding citizen.

"And I go, ?you're kidding me, oh my God no, you're kidding me'," said LeLonnie Alexander on the moment she was reunited with her wedding ring.

She lost it during a vacation in northern Michigan while at a waterfall, and figured it was gone for good. "I slipped and fell down into the water and I'm waving my hands back and forth ? and all of a sudden the ring flies off and I said, ?I lost my ring.'"

After a long search in the water, Alexander lost all hope of finding it. She?notified the campground area police department and posted about her lost ring on social media. Several days later, she received a phone call.

"I got a call and they asked me to describe my ring because they thought somebody had found it," said Alexander.

A boy all the way from Nashville, TN, heard about what had happened. When his family visited the waterfall while on vacation, he decided to search for the ring himself.

"He heard about the story and went into the water with his little snorkel and his mask," explained Alexander.

And he found the $4,000 ring.

This week his family returned it to Alexander. She says she can't thank the boy enough for his honesty. "I get goose bumps because that little boy deserves every bit of praise that he can get," gushed Alexander.

Now the ring holder says she's doing whatever she can to make sure she doesn't lose her ring ever again. "This baby's getting insured and resized," said Alexander.

Alexander?did give?the boy a $200 reward for returning her ring.

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Uncovering the Mystery of J.K. Rowling's Latest Novel

One of the biggest mysteries of the new detective novel The Cuckoo's Calling was the identity of the author. It was written by Robert Galbraith, which was revealed to be the pseudonym of Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. Patrick Juola, professor of computer science at Duquesne University, discusses how he used computerized text analysis to uncover the mystery.

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A $30 million retail complex with 200 jobs for Pittsfield?

Thursday July 25, 2013

PITTSFIELD -- A Needham-based developer has made a second pitch to put a retail center in the William Stanley Business Park, a $30 million complex that would be slightly bigger than what had been proposed originally.

Waterstone Retail Development has proposed the construction of a 200,000-square-foot building occupied by a single tenant that it says would bring 200 mostly full-time jobs to Pittsfield, create 350 construction positions over a two-year period, and bring $300,000 in tax revenue to the city.

The complex would be located on the same area that Waterstone proposed the first time: A 16-acre parcel commonly referred to as "the teens." The parcel borders Woodlawn Avenue and Tyler Street. Waterstone has developed 37 shopping centers across the country.

It would cost $10 million -- a third of the project's total price tag -- just to prepare the area for a retail complex, said Doug Richardson, Waterstone's vice president of development. Numerous concrete foundations and slabs, remnants of General Electric Co.'s factories, would have to be removed. The land would be capped to prevent remaining underground contaminants from interfering with the above ground construction.

Waterstone's first proposal, announced in December 2011, called for the creation of a 170,000-square-foot multi-tenant shopping center at the Stanley Business Park that could bring 150 jobs to the city.

At the time the first proposal was announced, Waterstone had already signed a letter of intent with the city and was negotiating a lease with the Pittsfield Economic Development Authority, the quasi-public agency charged with the 52-acre business park's development. The business park is on land once occupied by GE factories.

On Thursday, Waterstone Principal Neal Shalom said that the original letter of intent expired "quite a while ago." He said Waterstone has been working with local people since that agreement ended, but that the company currently has no plans filed with the city.

"We're working in good faith with PEDA and the city," said Waterstone Principal Anton Melchionda.

If the proposal does go forward, the next step would be for Waterstone to file plans with the Community Development Board, said PEDA's Executive Director Cory Thurston.

Mayor Daniel L. Bianchi, who is also a PEDA Board member, has said he would prefer the development of the Stanley Business Park to be limited to industrial concerns. He invited Waterstone to discuss its revamped proposal with PEDA because only one of the current's board 11 members was also on the board in December 2011.

"I am still committed personally to a manufacturing operation over there," Bianchi said following Waterstone's presentation. "But I had heard some numbers about what it might take to get the land to be developed.

"That's what I wanted the board to hear as well," Bianchi said, referring to the $10 million figure. "I was kind of interested in what they had to say in regards to that."

Shalom said Waterstone's first proposal, which was announced to great fanfare, fell through when the proposed anchor tenant halted its national expansion plans due to the economy. After conducting extensive research on the amount of available industrial land in certain areas of the Berkshires this time around, Shalom said Waterstone has concluded that the teens parcel is best suited for retail.

"We'd be happy to do manufacturing or warehousing, we actually do more of that than we do retail," said Shalom. "But we've determined the highest and best use, in our opinion, is a retail development on the site.

"People are interested in seeing manufacturing and that would be great here," he continued. "But there's not a lot of manufacturing companies locating in this part of the country, and there's a lot of competing empty buildings available that have a low cost of entry."

Richardson said there are 10 sites in Pittsfield alone that would be "quicker and cheaper" for industrial firms to develop than the teens parcel.

The project would also include the construction of a new parking area, new signal and turn lights at the intersection of Dalton Avenue and Tyler Street, new sidewalks and walkways on both sides of the roadways, two new public transit stops, and the possibility of extensive landscaping improvements.

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Crime falling in London and across country, according to Statistics Canada

The last time our crime rate was this low, we were fighting the Soviets in hockey?s Summit Series and Justin Trudeau?s dad was prime minister.

Police-reported crime is down again across Canada, falling another 3% in 2012, figures from Statistics Canada show.

That?s the lowest level of crime since 1972.

And an index that tracks more violent crimes, such as murder, also fell by 3% last year.

One way of looking at it?

The per-capita ratio of homicides now is little more than half its level a generation ago, with 1.56 murders per 100,000 people in 2012 compared to 2.72 in 1985.

Statistics Canada says the decline in the 2012 crime rate is because of a drop in crimes such as mischief and break and enter.

But that rate has been dropping overall for some time, says one observer, and it?s hard to explain exactly why.

?This is a long-term trend. We don?t understand why it is, I don?t think anyone does,? said Anthony Doob, a criminologist at the University of Toronto.

?Sometimes things go up a little bit, sometimes things go down . . . but the reality on this one is that in general the trend seems to be in a downward direction, for whatever reason.?

The drop in crime isn?t exclusive to Canada. Other Western nations, including in Europe, have seen their crime rates fall as well, Doob added.

While most crime was on the decline, among the violent crimes that rose in 2012 were extortion, firearms offences and sexual violations against children.

There was also an unusually high number of terrorism-related offences in 2012, up to 114 from 55, largely because of terrorism hoaxes during student demonstrations in Quebec, police reported,

Canada?s largest crime drop was in Saskatchewan, but the prairie province still had the highest crime rate and highest crime severity index.

Of Canadian cities, Kelowna, B.C., overtook Regina with the highest crime rate after a 6% hike and Toronto, the nation?s largest city, had the lowest rate after a 7% decrease in overall reported crime.

In London, the drop in the crime rate mirrored national numbers, down 3%, while more serious crimes were down 5%. Those numbers cover the wider London metro area, which includes St. Thomas.

Windsor bucked the big-city Southwestern Ontario trend, with both its crime rate and severe crimes jumping ? by 4% and 7%, respectively.

Overall crimes committed by youth also fell in 2012. Statistics Canada says 11,000 fewer youths were charged, which is a drop of 7% and violent crime for youth fell by 6%.

? With files from QMI Agency

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