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According to his LinkedIn profile, Slater has worked for JetBlue since 2008 and served as chairman of the airline’s uniform redesign committee and, ironically, in-flight values committee. Previous employers listed included Delta and TWA.
Comments left on Slater’s Facebook page included many who wish him well.
“I applaud you sir … grabbin’ a beer for the slide was a nice touch!” said one poster.
In a game of fluctuating fortunes Army SC powered their way to a well earned victory over CH and FC by 32 points (5 tries, 2 conversions, a penalty) to 22 points (4 tries, a conversion) in a Dialog Clifford Cup knock-out quarter final rugby encounter played at Race Course yesterday.
Army came up with their unpredictable power play in the second half to overcome a stubborn CH outfit with the scores often reading with CH leading most of the way.
CH took a 12 points lead in the first ten minutes of play through a try by burly prop Sathya Ranatunga in the third minute. This was followed by another try by Dilshan Chathuranga in the tenth minute through some fierce forwards play. This try was converted by Samuel Maduwantha.
Then in the 30th minute Army got their chance to score. CH were working the ball among their backs and when one player failed to collect clean Dhanushka Talawatte collected the ball and dashed nearly 50 metres to score. Isuru Medagedera made the conversion to give Army 7 points.
CH scored next when they found a breakthrough and Anuradha Herath went over near the corner flag. Maduwantha failed to add the extra points to give CH a ten point lead.
With the first half fading away, Army kicked a penalty out for a line out and in the ensuing rolling maul sent Sameera Bulathsinhala over to the line.
The easy conversion was missed by Medagedara and CH lead 17-12 at half time.
Army scored in the second minute after the turn around when CH were working the ball among their back division and Shan Bandara of Army intercepted and dashed over 75 metres to score a much wanted try. The conversion was missed and the scores were levelled at that time.
CH scored another try ten minutes later through a series of loose mauls that saw Sajith Saranga barge over for an unconverted try.
Thereafter it was all Army to dominate the game through their powerful forwards who were in the thick of every maul. Besides, CH made basic mistakes at crucial times in this half that gave Army territorial advantage.
They won a line out from the 10 metre line and winger Madura Bandara went over off a three quarter move. The conversion was missed but Army equalized 22-22.
About 12 minutes later Army worked their back division and Shane Bandara went over for a try. With their reliable place kicker back in the side Gayan Salinda converted and Army took the lead 29-22 for the first time.
In the final stages Army earned a penalty from 30 metres out and Gayan Salinda kicked right to give them a ten point lead.
CH made a valiant bid to advance to the Army territory and in their haste knocked-on while going over the line which gave Army the opportunity to kick the ball out with the end of play.
Tuesday notes: Westlake clinched at least a share of the District 25-6A title. … Del Valle stretched their District 14-6A winning streak to four games and now lead the district race by one game over Anderson.
Tuesday notes: Quinlin Daily set a school record with 10 three-pointers while scoring 32 points in Rouse’s win over Hutto. As a team, Rouse also set a new single-game school record with 20 three-pointers … Connally won its eighth consecutive District 19-5A game and trails first-place Rouse by one game.
Tuesday notes: District 19-4A endured a busy night with third-place Lampasas handing first-place Liberty Hill its first district loss and second-place Burnet beating Glenn. Liberty Hill still leads Burnet by two games, and Lampasas leads Glenn by one game for third place.
Tuesday notes: Hendrickson and Pflugerville shared the District 13-6A title, and Pflugerville will enter the playoffs as the top seed after winning a coin flip. … Both Westlake (District 25-6A) and Bowie (14-6A) won district titles without dropping a game.
Tuesday notes: Both Cedar Park (District 19-5A) and Austin High (25-6A) won district titles without dropping a game. … With a one-point win over Dripping Springs, Marble Falls shared the District 26-5A title with Kerrville Tivy. A tiebreaker will determine which team enters the playoffs as the district’s top seed.
German magazine Der Spiegel reported that US intelligence listened in to UN video conferences from mid-2012.
The United Nations will approach the US government over a report by a German magazine that US intelligence spied on video conferences by top UN officials, a spokesman said.
"We are aware of the reports, and we intend to be in touch with the relevant authorities on this," a UN spokesman, Farhan Haq, told reporters on Monday, adding that this meant the US administration.
Haq told reporters the 1961 Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations has become "well established international law, therefore member states are expected to act accordingly to protect the inviolability of diplomatic missions."
A report by Der Spiegel magazine said the US National Security Agency (NSA) had broken the encryption code to allow US agents to listen in to UN video conferences.
The measure also involved the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, the report said quoting NSA documents. The IAEA has played a key role monitoring Iran's suspect nuclear program.
It was the latest in a series of revelations about US spying on embassies and UN agencies made since former NSA analyst Edward Snowden started revealing details of US intelligence tactics.
"Whenever we have received this information in the past we have taken it up with the relevant authorities," Haq said.
Asked about the issue, the US State Department said "the US government will respond through diplomatic channels to our partners and allies around the world when they raise concerns".
Spokeswoman Marie Harf insisted the US values and cooperates with the UN, often to "share information, including intelligence".
Der Spiegel said the NSA broke the encryption in mid-2012 and within weeks, had dramatically increased its surveillance of UN communications.
The NSA once allegedly caught the Chinese secret services eavesdropping on the UN in 2011, it added, quoting an internal report.
(CBS) - At least 16 bicyclists in a Critical Mass ride event in Porto Alegre, Brazil, were injured after a driver in a VW Golf car drove into the group at high-speed. According to Sky News, the driver of the car, 47-year-old Richard Neis, has been apprehended by police and is claiming self-defense after being threatene...
Critical Mass, a world-wide bike protest that typically occurs on the last Friday of each month, has had similar incidents of aggression occur in the past to some of its bikers. One of the most famous incidents occurred in 2008 when an officer with the NYPD, Patrick Pogan, was caught-on-camera shoving a protester from ...
Pogan resigned from the NYPD in the aftermath, and was later acquitted of a reckless assault charge, but found guilty of filing a criminal complaint containing false statements about the incident.
For more stories that you just need to see go to CBSNews.com's video blog "The Feed."
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital will break ground on its third research facility in early 2010. The new research building is pictured to the left, with the new main hospital (currently under construction) pictured immediately to the right of the new research facility.
Newswise — Nationwide Children’s Hospital will break ground on property west of Parsons Avenue and north of Livingston Avenue in early 2010 for its third research facility as the last piece of its $840 million strategic facilities expansion plan, first announced in 2005. Nationwide Children’s Board approval of the fina...
The entire hospital campus master plan is expected to create 2,000 additional jobs and a positive economic impact of $1.3 billion. When completed, Nationwide Children’s Hospital is expected to be the second largest pediatric hospital in the U.S.
External funding to The Research Institute more than doubled from $20 million in 2000 to $49.4 million in 2007 and is expected to attract $268.6 million in external support over the next five years, making it one of the fastest growing pediatric research institutes in the U.S. The Research Institute faculty and staff c...
Nationwide Children’s broke ground in September 2008 for a new 12-floor main hospital building, slated to open in 2012 encompassing 750,000 square feet. The campus master plan and new main hospital will add more than one million square feet of clinical and research space to the existing two million square-foot downtown...
Significant developments have provided the opportunity to expand the hospital’s original research facilities plan since it was first announced four years ago. First, the successful recruitment of world class research faculty has increased the projected size of the facility. Second, acquisition of property by Nationwide...
Nationwide Children’s Hospital representatives have been soliciting input throughout the planning process from the surrounding community concerning the hospital’s growth and enhancement opportunities for Southeast Columbus related to the I70/I71 ODOT reconfiguration, the redesign of Parsons Avenue, local road improveme...
Through expansion of programs, research and facilities, Nationwide Children’s has become one of the country’s largest children’s hospitals treating patients from every U.S. state and nine foreign countries with more than 820,000 patient visits last year. Nationwide Children’s is also home to The Ohio State University C...
How the $840 million investment breaks down:-$480 million: 12-story, fully equipped hospital tower, to open 2012, plus 6 acres of green space-$93 million: Third research facility to open 2012-$75 million: Replacement green energy plant to heat and cool new hospital and provide emergency power-$45 million: Clinical and ...
Jeff Bezos said last week that the "golden age" of artificial intelligence and machine learning had enabled new products like Amazon's Alexa and sharpened the company's core businesses by improving search results, product recommendations, and inventory management.
Bezos now wants to bring techniques enabled by AI to businesses large and small, as well as nonprofit and government institutions. "Right now, deploying these techniques . . . is difficult," he said. "It takes a lot of expertise, and so you have to go compete for the very best PhDs in machine learning and it's difficul...
Why it matters: AI is the latest front in the "cloud wars," with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM competing for market share in the rapidly growing market for leased computing infrastructure and services that enable businesses to manipulate and leverage data stored there. The first-mover advantage in this space is mi...
Although the Titleist Vokey Design K-grind has been part of the palette of wedge guru Bob Vokey’s options for more than the last five years, including a key part of Adam Scott’s Masters victory in 2013, the latest expansion to the K-grind offerings is reaching beyond the higher lofts.
Available this week, the new SM7 K-grind will be part of the Vokey WedgeWorks program as a limited offering in both 54- and 56-degree models. This combines with previous K-grind lofts at 58 and 60 degrees. Like with the original K-grind, these new lofts grew from specific interactions on tour. According to both Vokey a...
"The K Grind is one of my favorites, and it has been a great lob wedge,” Vokey said. “But now we're seeing a trend on tour of players using more 54-degree and 56-degree wedges greenside, where versatility is key. Wedges at this loft have to work incredibly well for full swing shots, particularly controlling trajectory,...
“But I'm particularly excited about the enhanced camber of this wedge. The camber allows the high measured bounce to be much more versatile from tight lies and greenside shots. We tightened the radius from the leading edge to the trailing edge, so what a golfer will see and feel is the club gliding through the turf and...
The K-grind grew originally from Vokey’s work with Scott and Jason Dufner, who saw the benefit of the wider sole in the bunker but also could take advantage of the narrow heel for shots around the green, especially open faced shots off tighter lies. The increased camber on the K grind makes it a particularly forgiving ...
Said Dill, "On Tour, we see more and more players discovering how well the sand wedge performs, leading to consistency of spin, trajectory, and better misses."
Like all the Vokey Design SM7 models, the new K-grind lofts feature center of gravity locations optimized for each loft (on the 54- and 56-degre it’s located vertically in the middle between the lowest lofts and highest lofts). The new K grind lofts also will feature loft-specific milled grooves, with the 54-degree mod...
The new Vokey WedgeWorks K Grind will be available on Wednesday on Vokey.com starting at $195, which includes up to 10 character stamping, custom shaft band and BV Wing grip. They are available in either a Brushed Chrome or Oil Can finish.
Air pollution caused by diesel vehicles in London is bad — so bad that it is blamed for 9,500 premature deaths a year and has prompted Britain’s Supreme Court to order the government to make a plan for cleaning up the skies.
Now what is commonly seen as another scourge of the city, the pigeon, is helping in the fight against smog. On Monday, 10 birds outfitted in miniature backpacks carrying pollution sensors and GPS trackers took to the air, and they started tweeting — via beak, perhaps, but definitely via Twitter — their devices’ reading...
The patrol is, by the admission of the technology and marketing companies that created it, a publicity stunt meant to raise awareness about the city’s harmful air. Birds, it should be noted, are also subject to all sorts of nefarious ailments caused by air pollution, including lung damage and low body weight.
“There’s something about taking what is seen as a flying rat and reversing that into something quite positive,” Pierre Duquesnoy, creative director at marketing agency DigitasLBI and the brains behind the pigeon pollution monitors, told the Guardian.
Plume Labs, the tech firm, assured that a veterinarian was involved in the project to ensure the safety of the pigeons, whose names include Coco, Julius and Norbert.
The London pigeons are not the first birds to don backpacks for an environmental cause. Vultures in Lima, Peru, have been adorned with GPS trackers and GoPro cameras to hunt down illegal garbage dumping sites.
This world map shows where pollution is getting worse. There’s good news for the U.S.
Stuart Blumberg's Real-Life Donations Leads To a Great Creation In "Kids"
The "Kids Are All Right" had another prosperous weekend, nearing $5 million in box office as it continues to roll out across the country.
We can thank a chance meeting at a Los Angeles coffee-shop between writer/director Lisa Cholodenko and writer Stuart Blumberg for this wonderful creation -- it was a meeting in which Cholodenko talked about a project she had in mind about a sperm-donor created family.
"And then (Stuart) opened up about how he had been a sperm donor in college," Cholodenko recalled.
The most unlikely of beginnings, but for this unusual project it was just perfect. The ensuing project has become the indie-darling of the summer -- a small miracle during the inception of the idea. Even with the great idea and partnership, funding the film was pretty difficult, Blumberg admits.
"There are so many people dying to make a movie with 50-year-old lesbians," says Blumberg wryly. "We just had to keep fending them off."
"And it gets harder and harder to make movies about people where things don't blow up."
While the movie centers around Mark Ruffalo's willingness to take part in his creations' lives, this was not autobiographical. Blumberg admits he is "terrified" about the prospect of finding out what became of his paid deposits.
He can call the fertility clinic that he used in college and say that he is amenable to having any created children contact him. But he's held back.
In fact, during the writing process, Cholodenko even egged him on, encouraging to take such a step. But he froze every time.
"I'd be terrified that I would have -- not zero kids but eight kids," he said.
UMass Dr. Pierre Rouzier, co-author of "Henry Gets Moving," is riding x-country to promote childhood health.
AMHERST -- Dr. Pierre Rouzier, team physician at the University of Massachusetts, has wanted to bike cross-country since he was in his 20s.
It just took him a few years. Now 59, Rouzier and his friend Roger Grette began their 4,128-mile bicycle trip in Newport, Oregon.
He's riding to fulfill his dream, but also to raise awareness about childhood health.
Rouzier, along with UMass graduate Chaz Nielsen, four years ago published "Henry Gets Moving," about a hamster that learns the hard way that living a healthy lifestyle is the way to go. He will be reading at libraries and bookshops along the way and giving away books to the libraries where he reads. People can donate t...
Rouzier got a taste of distance riding by participating three times in the (Des Moines) Register's Annual Great Bicycle Race Across Iowa from Sioux Falls to Davenport. That is a 400-plus mile ride over three days.
He and his wife also started hosting riders through a program called Warm Showers, where hosts provide a hot meal, shower or a place to stay.
"We just met some really nice people," he said. Last year, he said, a 55-year-old science teacher who was traveling cross-country by herself stayed with them for a night.
"That was really motivating for me. I could not let go the idea of doing it," he said of the cross-country mission.
He wanted to more than ride though and thought this ride would be an opportunity to promote childhood health.
The plan is to ride 50 to 60 miles a day. Some days they'll ride 100. He said he's taken 40- to 50-mile rides before, but expects to be ready for the 100-mile distances by the time they're doing them.
The goal is to finish Aug. 21 in Boston.
His wife, Arlene Rouzier, is with them for the initial part of the trip with a car, and they'll be accompanied by others off and on throughout it. Their itinerary includes riding in the Great Bicycle Race again next month.
Rouzier said the plan is for "tail winds and blue skies" the whole way.
Oil prices headed for a seventh straight weekly loss on Friday, slipping back towards $50 a barrel on Friday as key producers show no sign of cutting output in the face of a supply glut.
Global oil benchmarks hit their lowest since 2009 this week and are less than half their June levels, with Brent crude futures dropping 67 cents a barrel to $50.29 by 1410 GMT. The contract lost almost 11 percent this week.
U.S. crude futures for February delivery were down 31 cents at $48.48 a barrel despite robust U.S. economic data that brightened the outlook for demand.
Brent's premium to U.S. crude <CL-LCO1=R> fell near $1.80 a barrel, the narrowest since October, as international seaborne oil markets appear to be under even more pressure than the U.S. domestic market.
"It is another negative week and a reflection of the focus on negative arguments," said Hans Van Cleef, senior energy economist at Dutch bank ABN Amro.
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf OPEC allies show no sign of cutting output to boost oil prices even as demand slows in the face of anemic economic growth.
Annual consumer inflation in China remained near the lowest in five years, signaling persistent weakness in the world's largest energy consumer.
Signs of further slowdown in Europe's largest economy Germany fueled concerns.
If recent market history is any guide, Brent prices could mark time around $50 a barrel for another few days before resuming their decline.
BNP Paribas has cut 2015 price forecasts for Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude by more than $10 per barrel to $60 a barrel and $55 a barrel respectively.

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