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Daily News… GOLF AND BBQ LOBBYISTS BEHIND US HOUR CHANGE Europeans will lose an hour of sleep this Sunday, something most Americans did three weeks ago. And in the fall they’ll get it back a week before their US counterparts. So why this transAtlantic divide? Look no further than the US golf and barbecue industries. For years, the United States changed its clocks in late April and late October, but that changed in 1986 when lawmakers heard from lobbyists that more daylight means more money, explained writer Michael Downing. According to Downing -- author of «Spring Forward, The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time» -- the industry claimed «one more month of daylight savings meant $200 million more in selling of barbecues and charcoal.» «For the golf industry, one more month of daylight savings meant $400 million more in green fees and equipment sales,» he said, adding «and that was the industry estimate 25 years ago.» The spring change was moved to early April, which, for many years, put the US in line with its European counterparts. But in 2005, the time change was bumped up a second time: springing forward to the second Sunday in March and falling back the first Sunday in November. This added three weeks of daylight savings in the spring, and an extra week in the fall. Chambers of commerce and big supermarket chains helped pressure Congress into making the change, hoping an additional hour of light at the end of the day would encourage Americans to stop by stores on the way home after work. The confectionery industry meanwhile can take credit for that additional week in the autumn, explained Downing, who teaches creative writing at Tufts University in Boston. «The candy-makers have long wanted to have Halloween’s trick-or-treat covered by daylight savings, for the children to be able to collect more candy,» he said.
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International News… SEA LION INTO CALIFORNIA HOTEL A sea lion pup startled guests after waddling from a California beach into a nearby luxury hotel, where it pitched up at the patio bar. Shane Pappas, manager of the Pantai Inn in La Jolla, said he was alerted when staff found the malnourished animal. «I got an email saying that we had a sea lion pup lounging on our patio,» he said. He checked surveillance cameras, «and sure enough she waddled her way up to the patio,» Pappas said, speaking after experts from San Diego’s nearby SeaWorld park came to rescue the 27.5-pound female creature.
RUMOURS French actress Julie Gayet has launched legal action over Internet rumours that she is the mistress of President Francois Hollande, her lawyer told AFP on Thursday. Judicial sources said Gayet, a blonde 40-year-old who appeared in one of Hollande’s 2012 election commercials, had filed a complaint relating to an alleged breach of her right to a private life with Paris prosecutors on March 18. The move came after she was reported or implied by various bloggers and websites to have become close to the Socialist president.