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Iconic sailor stripes in cinema, from 1934 to today
From Brigitte Bardot to John Wayne as well as Audrey Hepburn and Charlotte Gainsbourg, many big names in the film industry have worn a sailor striped Breton top in their films. Some have become cult, forever associated with the fictional characters who wore them, while others, more discreet, play their simple everyday function. This is an opportunity to look back at the best of sailor stripes seen in the movies from 1934 to the present day.
By Manon Garrigues
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On March 27, 1858, a regulation published in the Official Bulletin of the Navy introduced blue and white striped knitwear into the list of sailors' uniforms of the French Navy. A timeless classic, simple and comfortable, which ensures a chic look without overdoing it, it became over the years an icon of the female wardrobe, under the impetus of Coco Chanel who feminized it in the 1910s. It did not take much more than that for the Breton top to make its star appearance on movie sets, marrying the curves of the actors with unquestionable style. Vogue looks back at the unforgettable sailor strips seen in the cinema, from John Wayne to Brigitte Bardot and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Jean Gabin in Zouzou
Joséphine Baker and Jean Gabin in "Zouzou"
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In Marc Allégret's Zouzou, Jean Gabin stars as Jean, an orphan who grew up in the circus, alongside Zouzou (Joséphine Baker) who discovers a passion for music-hall and gradually falls in love with him. When Jean returned from his year of military service in the navy, the circus family decided to leave Toulon and move to Paris. Zouzou then sees there the potential of fulfilling her sequin-studded dreams.
John Wayne in Adventure's End
John Wayne in "Adventure's End"
In Polynesia, Duke Slade (John Wayne) is a pearl fisherman who one day finds refuge on the Mary Drew, a whaling ship. But to stay on board, he must marry the captain's daughter. He accepts but will have to face a revolt from some sailors, who want the pearls.
Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year
Katharine Hepburn in "Woman of the Year"
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It's the movie where Spencer Tracy meets Katharine Hepburn. It was love at first sight on the set, which continued as a long clandestine love affair until the actor's death in 1967. Woman of the Year recounts the tumults and contradictions of marriage, as seen through the eyes of an explosive couple formed by two reporters, Sam and Tess, played by a Katharine Hepburn at the peak of her career, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in 1943.
Kirk Douglas in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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Dressed in a red Breton top, a sailor's cap on his head and a cigar between his lips, Kirk Douglas is Ned, an outstanding harpooner, who sets out on board the famous Nautilus in search of a sea monster that would smash ships sailing the Pacific Ocean to pieces. One of the most exciting adventures of Jules Verne brilliantly adapted for the big screen by Disney in 1954.
Brigitte Bardot in La Mariée est trop belle (The Bride is Much Too Beautiful)
Brigitte Bardot in "La Mariée était trop belle"
Brigitte Bardot is Chouchou, a young country girl who has become a fashionable cover-girl in Paris who falls in love with Michel (Louis Jourdan), the lover of Judith (Micheline Presle), the editor-in-chief who discovered her. But, at first, Michel remains insensitive to the charms of the young woman who does everything to make him jealous, showing herself on the arms of models and photographers; an age-old ploy that will nevertheless prove its worth. The sex appeal of Brigitte Bardot and the charm of Louis Jourdan makes this fool's game by Pierre Gaspard-Huit still as irresistible 63 years after its release.
Jeanne Moreau in Jules & Jim
Jeanne Moreau in "Jules & Jim"
This love triangle in the Paris of the 1900s by François Truffaut takes us into a whirlwind of feelings, jealousy, life and death that leaves no one unmoved.
Brigitte Bardot in Le Mépris (Contempt)
Brigitte Bardot in "Le Mépris"
"Which do you like better, my breasts or my nipples? - I don't know. I like them the same." This scene of Le Mépris went down in film history, turning Brigitte Bardot into a sex bomb, spreading desire and scandal around the world, during the screening of this Jean-Luc Godard classic. A flagship film of the French New Wave, featuring the unforgettable Piccoli/Bardot duo, Le Mépris is a tribute to cinema, its light and its music.
Brigitte Bardot in Viva Maria!
Brigitte Bardot in "Viva Maria!"
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the Republic of San Miguel, Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau play music-hall dancers when they decide, out of love, to join the cause of the revolution. An explosive duo formed by Louis Malle who creates this sensual but gentle western, whose most memorable scene is the stripping of the leaves against a backdrop of cancan in front of an audience of jubilant Mexicans.
Audrey Hepburn in Two For The Road
Audrey Hepburn in "Two for the Road"
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A film about the wear and tear of a couple, which shows the undying elegance of Audrey Hepburn's inspiring looks, such as her shimmery metallic dress by Paco Rabanne and her fitted red sailor striped top worn on the beach.
Katharine Ross in The Graduate
Katharine Ross and Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate"
Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), freshly graduated, spends his vacation at his parents' house in Los Angeles. At a reception, he succumbs to the charms of an older woman, the now-legendary Mrs. Robinson. He becomes her lover before falling in love with a young woman, Elaine.
Elizabeth Taylor in The Only Game in Town
Liz Taylor in "The Only Game in Town"
George Stevens' last American film, The Only Game in Town, takes us to the world of gambling in Las Vegas, where Fran Walker (Elizabeth Taylor), a dancer at the end of her career, meets Joe Grady (Warren Beatty), a bar pianist and compulsive gambler. But just as she is about to agree to marry her long-time lover, finally divorced, Fran is torn between her lifelong love and her desire for the fiery Joe.
Pascal Greggory in Pauline at the Beach
Arielle Dombasle and Pascal Greggory in "Pauline at the Beach"
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It's the end of summer on a Normandy beach. Marion and her young cousin Pauline enjoy the last rays of sunshine in their villa in Granville and talk about love with Pierre, Marion's ex-boyfriend who is still in love with her, and Henri, a fickle playboy. Éric Rohmer captures emotion with vivacity and spontaneity, as always. A marivaudage full of charm that still captivates today.
Charlotte Gainsbourg in L'Effrontée (An Impudent Girl)
Charlotte Gainsbourg in "L'Effrontée"
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This is the film that brought Charlotte Gainsbourg to fame. For her accurate and sensitive interpretation of a teenage girl who was feeling ill at ease and experiencing her first disillusions, the young actress, who was only 15 years old at the time, won the César for Most Promising Actress in 1986, before the eyes of her very moved parents, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin. A sublime portrait of adolescence by Claude Miller that he dedicated to his parents.
Meg Ryan in French Kiss
Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline in "French Kiss"
ETIENNE GEORGE / Collection ChristopheL
Meg Ryan, dressed in a Breton top at one point in the film, goes to find her fiancé, whom she thinks is unfaithful in Paris, while being duped by a cheeky scammer, Luc, who has hidden a stolen necklace in her bag.
Audrey Tautou in Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel)
Audrey Hepburn in "Coco avant Chanel"
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From her childhood in boarding school to her first steps as a seamstress in Paris and the birth of her fashion house, Anne Fontaine's biopic Coco avant Chanel modestly recounts the romantic life of Gabrielle Chanel, who has given her all in both her work and her love stories. Audrey Tautou gracefully embodies this great woman who liberated women's bodies with her pure, clean-cut clothes, and in particular the sailor that she feminized and made fashionable in Deauville in the 1910s. The filmmaker takes special interest in the avant gloire, perhaps the most valuable way to understand the woman behind the fashion figure, and depicts a woman wounded, bruised by her neglected childhood and tragic love affairs. An elegant and touching film.
Translated by Freya Doggett
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Former bus depot could be transformed into student flats
Former bus depot in Magdalen Street, Colchester could be transformed into student flats
By Chad Nugent
Bus depot could be demolished to make way for student flats.
A FORMER bus depot could be demolished to make way for a 230-bed student accommodation complex.
Victoria Hall Management has applied to convert the disused site on Magdalen Street, Colchester, into five blocks of flats which would include bin stores, cycle spaces, a management office, gym and communal amenity areas.
There would also be an underground car park with space for 20 vehicles.
The blocks would be split into 16 studio bed spaces and 60 cluster flats – where a number of students would have their own bedroom space but share a communal area.
Victoria Hall Management current runs student accommodation in 28 locations across the UK including two sites in Manchester, another in London and in Birmingham. They also have sites in Ireland, Spain and Germany.
Colchester Council aims to decide on the plans by April 20.
Last month Essex University submitted plans for a 634-room student accommodation block at the Knowledge Gateway.
If the plans are approved then the university will have 4,747 student bedrooms in the town and sufficient space for all first year and overseas students to have a room on the campus.
Colchester Council has yet to decide on the plans but work is expected to begin in the spring if permission is granted.
There is currently approximately 10,000 students at the Colchester campus.
The university declined to comment on the plans for the proposed student halls in Magdalen Street because they were from an independent company.

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VLADIMÍR Jánoš of the ruling Smer party has resigned his parliamentary seat over a scandal involving transcriptions of audio recordings published on the internet March 3 in which he verbally abuses and threatens his wife.
Jánoš will be replaced by Peter Gaži of Smer in parliament, Smer spokeswoman Ľubica Končalová told TASR. Gaži has already been in parliament in this electoral term but after Peter Pellegrini returned from the cabinet to become speaker of parliament, Gaži had to vacate his MP post.
Jánoš is also resigning as Smer district chief in Prievidza. A lawyer representing his wife Iveta has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office against Jánoš for alleged blackmail, threats and coercion.
On the other hand, Jánoš has announced that he is filing a criminal complaint for slander and desecration of intimate verbal expression, claiming that "many half-truths and untrue claims" have been published in the media concerning the case.
The transcripts – the authenticity of which has not been verified – of recordings of conversations between the MP and his 48-year-old wife Iveta have been posted up on the internet since Tuesday, March 3. According to the transcripts, the Smer MP used vulgarisms and threats.
Ivan Katrinec, a lawyer representing Jánoš's wife, who is also a member of the International Committee for the Fight Against Organised Crime, Terrorism and Corruption, filed a criminal complaint against Jánoš on March 4, the SITA newswire wrote. The complaint concerns alleged mistreatment, blackmail, threats and coercion directed by the MP against his wife.


NEW DELHI: Raghvendra Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India on Thursday said that the government is likely to consider bringing mandatory standards for technical textiles items where Indian standards are available. This will not only provide fillip to Make in India in technical textiles but will also improve the quality in areas like health, environment, security and safety.
Speaking at the 4th National Conclave on Standards for Technical Textiles, organized by FICCI jointly with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and Ministry of Textiles, Singh said that India needs to develop its own industry for the growing market of technical textiles. India is going to have a very robust market for technical textiles in the years to come. He further added that the government is committed to standardisation and evaluating the items from which mandatory quality control orders could be removed. Singh also stated that currently, there are over 300 items of technical textiles where BIS standards are available, some of these could be the potential items for mandating. He further added that government is looking at inviting international companies to set up joint- venture in high value-added items where the technologies are licensed and manufactured by very few in the world. R K Bajaj, Deputy Director General (Standardisation), BIS, said that BIS's focus is on developing standards for sustainability and smart technologies in various sectors. Currently, India is least regulated in terms of Technical Barriers to trade as per WTO measures. While BIS was focusing earlier on product standards primarily, it is also focusing on standards for the services sector now.
Shishir Jaipuria, Chairman, FICCI Textiles Committee said that the notification of the HS Codes for 207 technical textiles items last month was a major step that would help in effective targeting of policy measures for the industry. He further added that the government should look at additional items of technical textiles for notification of HS Codes.


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Exclusive: Detained Honduran Woman, Moved to Mostly Male TX Prison After Hunger Strike, Speaks Out
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At the end of October, 27 immigrant women detainees began a hunger strike, demanding an end to mistreatment and their immediate release from the T. Don Hutto detention center near Austin, Texas. Most of the women were asylum seekers from Central America, which has seen a surge in migrants fleeing violence and abuse. The hunger strike reportedly surged to as many as 125 women, even as immigration officials denied it was taking place. Then, the hunger strikers said they faced retaliation. At least two women who participated in the hunger strike were transferred from the women's detention center near Austin to an overwhelmingly male detention center run by the GEO Group, another major private prison operator, in Pearsall, Texas, nearly 200 miles away. On Thursday, one of those two women, Amalia Leal, a Honduran asylum seeker, called Democracy Now!'s Amy Littlefield from detention. She has been detained for seven months after re-entering the United States following a prior deportation. "We came to seek refuge, and instead we found punishment," Leal said.
To see our interview with Francisca Morales Macías, a Mexican domestic abuse survivor who was transferred along with Amalia Leal after taking part in the hunger strike, click here.
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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. We turn now to the latest developments in Democracy Now!'s coverage of the Obama administration's detention of asylum seekers in privately run prisons. At the end of October, 27 immigrant women detainees began a hunger strike, demanding an end to mistreatment and their immediate release from the T. Don Hutto detention center in Austin, Texas, which is run by the Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest private prison companies in this country.
Most of the women were asylum seekers from Central America, which has seen a surge in migrants fleeing violence and abuse. The detainees said they faced threats and unjustified surveillance as they languished in custody without hope of freedom. The hunger strike reportedly surged to as many as 125 women, even as immigration officials denied it was taking place.
Then, the hunger strikers said they faced retaliation. At least two women who participated in the hunger strike were transferred from the women's detention center in Austin, Texas, to an overwhelmingly male detention center run by the GEO Group, another major private prison operator, in Pearsall, Texas, nearly 200 miles away.
On Thursday, one of the imprisoned women, Amalia Leal, called Democracy Now!'s Amy Littlefield from the Pearsall detention center, where she had been moved after taking part in the hunger strike. Leal is from Honduras. She said she has been detained for about seven months after re-entering the United States following a prior deportation.
AMY LITTLEFIELD: Amalia, where are you detained?
AMALIA LEAL: [translated] I have been detained in various places. I was in the Port Isabel detention center. Then, from Port Isabel, I was brought to a detention center in Laredo, Texas. From Laredo, I was at the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas, near Austin. And from there, I was brought to a detention center called South Texas, which is about 45 minutes from San Antonio.
AMY LITTLEFIELD: And why did they transport you to the South Texas Detention Facility in Pearsall?
AMALIA LEAL: [translated] They brought us here from the T. Don Hutto detention center because there was a hunger strike there. Many people were protesting because we want our freedom. We have spent a lot of time appealing our cases, and we are not receiving answers. And when they call us, they always tell us that they are postponing us or giving us other dates. And the truth is, we've spent a lot of time in detention, and we can't tolerate this much time.
AMY LITTLEFIELD: Do you think they transported you in retaliation for your participation in the hunger strike?
AMALIA LEAL: [translated] Yes, I think so, because the hunger strike had just begun on a Wednesday, and in the Hutto detention center every Thursday, each week, they give a talk to the new people. And in that talk, they told us that all of the people participating in the strike were going to realize something, that we were going to be punished, that they were going to send us to another detention center where we were going to stay locked up 24 hours a day. I was one of the first to be moved out of Hutto, along with another woman, Francisca. And they isolated Francisca in a room, supposedly because she was one of the ones who started the hunger strike, and so they put her in a punishment room.
AMY LITTLEFIELD: What do you most want people in the United States to understand?
AMALIA LEAL: [translated] I am on my second entry, meaning it's the second time I entered the United States. And for me, I think that it's unjust that they have detained us for so much time, because I think we have the right to bond. We came to seek refuge, and instead we found punishment.
What I want people to understand is that they should support us, because it's true that we have entered the United States for a second time, but I want to apply for bond. I'm on strike because I want my freedom. I can't tolerate imprisonment anymore, because I am between four walls, and I think this has a psychological impact. We come from our own country with our own problems, and many times, we can't get out of these problems. We're trapped, imprisoned. And now, we've come to another form of imprisonment. For me, I think it's an injustice.
AMY GOODMAN: Honduran immigrant Amalia Leal, speaking to Democracy Now!'s Amy Littlefield from an overwhelmingly male detention center in Pearsall, Texas. She said she was moved there from a women's detention center in Austin after participating in a hunger strike. Both detention centers are run by for-profit prison companies. Amalia Leal has been held for more than seven months in the United States. I'm Amy Goodman. Thanks for joining us.
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Huawei enters China's electric car race in competition with Tesla
The first car with Huawei's HarmonyOS operating system will be the Aito M5, a car that runs on both electricity and fuel, Richard Yu, executive director and CEO of Huawei's consumer business group, said Thursday at the company's winter product launch event.
Deliveries are set to begin around Feb. 20 after the Lunar New Year, said Yu, who is also CEO of Huawei's intelligent automotive business solution unit.
Yu claimed in his one-hour presentation that the Aito M5 offers peak power and driving range that are better than the Model Y.
BEIJING — Less than a week after Chinese electric car start-up Nio announced its latest competitor to Tesla, Huawei released details on a vehicle with specs it claims beat the Model Y.
Chinese tech giant Huawei is best known for its telecommunications products and smartphones, and says it will not make cars on its own. But it has been working with automakers on car technology such as autonomous driving.
Post-subsidy prices for the Aito M5 start at 250,000 yuan ($39,063). That's lower than Tesla's Model Y, which starts at starts at 280,752 yuan after subsidies.
On Saturday, Nio revealed deliveries of its ET5 electric sedan would in September with a starting price of 328,000 yuan ($51,250) pre-subsidy. Nio's ET7 sedan, set for delivery in March, starts at 448,000 yuan.
Yu claimed in his one-hour presentation that the Aito M5 offers peak power and driving range that are better than the Model Y. However, unlike Tesla's cars the Aito M5 is not purely powered by electricity as it has a fuel tank for extending driving range when the battery has run out of power.
Start-up Li Auto features a similar fuel-powered range extension feature for its Li One, the latest model of which lists a price of 338,000 yuan, without subsidies.
Some of the numerous other features Yu described included double-layered sound-proof glass.
"You will know whether it is premium or not by the sound," Yu said via the company's English translation of his Mandarin-language remarks. "We are able to offer the 'library grade' quality experience."
Huawei's own operating system
The Aito M5 is the first model under the Aito brand, which stands for "adding intelligence to auto." It's part of automaker Seres, whose cars have previously incorporated Huawei components, but not design, Yu said.
Seres, also known as SF Motors, is a Silicon Valley-based subsidiary of Chongqing-based automobile manufacturer Sokon, according to the parent company's website. Seres says on its website it is "positioned to independently build and sell in two of the world's largest markets, the U.S. and China."
The HarmonyOS integration with the new Seres car in China is significant as many electric car start-ups have been trying to sell the idea that automobiles will come to resemble the role of smartphones in consumers' lives. The electric cars each come with a touchscreen for adjusting car functions and listening to music or watching movies.
One of Huawei's smart watches can also be used as a car key for the Aito M5.
Huawei launched HarmonyOS in 2019 after former President Donald Trump's administration put the company on a blacklist that restricted American companies from selling technology to the Chinese company, citing national security concerns. Huawei has denied it poses such a threat.
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But the blacklist cut off Huawei from Google's Android operating system. Huawei had begun working on HarmonyOS in 2016.
Yu opened and closed Thursday's event with the same depiction of the company as a survivor. The presentation on the car took up the last hour of a 2.5-hour event that announced a foldable smartphone, a new laptop and prescription smart glasses.
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Australia plans to strip citizenship of native-born 'terrorists'
The new proposal comes after the prime minister asked Muslim community to do more to prevent acts of violence.
Scott Morrison's proposal came after several ISIL-inspired attacks and plots in Australia [Saeed Khan/AFP]
Australia has unveiled plans to increase government powers to strip the citizenship of the people convicted of "terrorism" and to control the movements of Australian fighters who return home from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday that his government wanted powers to expel anyone convicted of a "terrorist" offence, even native-born Australians, as he singled out Muslim leaders as having a "special responsibility" to prevent acts of violence committed by members of the community.
"People who commit acts of terrorism have rejected absolutely everything that this country stands for," Morrison told a hastily organised press conference in Sydney.
"This is something that can't be tolerated, and for those who would engage in this sort of activity, and they have citizenship elsewhere, or we have reason to believe they do, they can go."
This comes a day after Muslim leaders in Australia boycotted a roundtable meeting called by the conservative leader, who has asked the Muslim community to do more to halt attacks in the country.
Community leaders, in an open letter, said they are "deeply concerned and disappointed" with statements made by the prime minister and senior officials, which "infer that the community is collectively culpable for the criminal actions of individuals and should be doing more to prevent such acts of violence".
"These statements have achieved nothing to address underlying issues, but rather, have alienated large segments of the Muslim community," they said in the letter published by Australian media.
Legislation to amend Citizenship Act
Australia's current Citizenship Act allows authorities to revoke the citizenship of people jailed for six years or more for "terrorist" activities, but only if they are already dual nationals.
Morrison called these limits "unrealistic" and said the law should be broadened to strip citizenship from convicted "terrorists" if they could "reasonably" be expected to gain citizenship in another country through their parents or grandparents.
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The conservative government will submit legislation to amend the Citizenship Act to enshrine these new powers, he said, in the final two-week parliamentary session of the year that begins on Monday.
His proposals came two days after police in the country's second largest city, Melbourne, arrested three Australian-born men of Turkish descent for allegedly plotting a mass shooting in the city.
Less than two weeks earlier, a Somalia origin man went on a stabbing spree in Melbourne, killing one man and wounding two others before being fatally shot by police.
Authorities said all four men were inspired by the propaganda of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group, even though none had any direct links to such organisations.
Experts say the proposed legislation was likely to face legal challenges.
"It is not clear that the commonwealth has the power to kick out people who have been here for many, many generations," said Sangeetha Pillai, a constitutional lawyer at the Kaldor Centre, University of New South.
"This legislation would make some people stateless at least temporary and in some cases, permanently."
Prime Minister Morrison said the law will also seek the power to impose "temporary exclusion orders" on so-called "returned foreign fighters" - Australian citizens who travel to conflict zones to fight alongside armed groups.
Modelled on a British law, the provision would allow Australia to bar the return of a citizen for up to two years and to impose strict conditions on their activities once they come home.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said there had been seven "terror-related" attacks in Australia, while authorities had thwarted 15 other plots since 2014.
Nine people convicted of "terrorism" have already had their citizenship revoked under the existing law, mainly for activities overseas, he added.
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"We assess there are around 50 Australian dual citizens who may be eligible to lose citizenship under the current provisions, and even more with the changes we are announcing today," Dutton said.
Morrison and Dutton also said they would renew a push for controversial legislation which would allow authorities to break into encrypted messaging apps that police say are widely used by "extremists" and other criminals.
The law, which would force app developers and telecom companies to provide police with the ability to decrypt messages, has drawn strong criticism from civil liberties groups.
Morrison heads a minority coalition government that must call a national election before May 2019 but is trailing far behind the main opposition Labor Party in opinion polls.
As campaigning builds towards the election, Morrison and Dutton have led a tough law-and-order push around "terrorism" and immigration.
SOURCE: News agencies


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I'm Janet McKerlie, an entrepreneur for over 25 years creating businesses offering accommodations and recreational sporting activities to the vacationing public in Port Stanley, Turkey Point, Grand Bend and Sauble Beach Ontario since 1992.
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Taking his advice has allowed me to hear and address the needs and wants of my clients and customers throughout the years. My inquisitive mind and hunger for knowledge doesn't allow me to walk away when I hear opportunity knocking without first opening the door to see the challenges offered. I know my strengths, but more important I understand my weaknesses. My proven team building abilities have been an incredible asset and instrumental as I acquire professional team players to assist in those areas.
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Europa was at Bremen, having just returned from New York, on 1 September 1939, when World War II began. During the war she served as a naval accommodation ship at Bremerhaven. In 1940, plans were developed to convert her into a transport for invading England and in 1941, she was designated for conversion into an aircraft carrier, but neither of these conversions was ever carried out. She was seized by the United States in May 1945 and used as a Navy transport until she was handed over to France in 1946.
She was turned over to Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, the French Line, and renamed Liberté. In December 1946, while laid up pending refitting, Liberté broke loose during a storm, struck the wreck of CGT's Paris, and was scuttled to avoid capsizing. She was raised in 1947 and rebuilt by Ateliers et Chantiers de St. Nazaire. In an eerie repetition of her own history, she caught fire during this rebuilding and much of the newly-installed passenger accommodations were badly damaged.
Liberté finally entered French Line service on 17 August 1950, on the Le Havre-New York route. She made her final voyage in November 1961, and was scrapped the next year.
Sources: Haws' Merchant Fleets; Kludas' Great Passenger Ships of the World; Bonsor's North Atlantic Seaway.


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After years battling yips, Matzek tries comeback
Once a top prospect, first-round pick says 'the game was taken away'
Mark Bowman
@mlbbowman
TAMPA, Fla. -- Tyler Matzek could have walked away from baseball when his seemingly promising career was wrecked by performance anxiety. Or, more precisely, the yips. But had he run from that tough period of his career, he would have denied himself the opportunity to construct what is now a chance to achieve the realization of an improbable dream.
Five years removed from his most recent Major League experience and just six months removed from a second independent league stint with the Texas Air Hogs, Matzek is a feel-good story in Braves camp. The former first-round pick (selected by Colorado in 2009) was not even extended a non-roster invite. But while pitching in a few Grapefruit League games as a Minor League extra, the left-hander has at least created reason to question whether he could open the season in Atlanta's bullpen.
"A few years back, I just said I don't want to be out of baseball," Matzek said. "I'm going to keep going until I get back. I want to look back when I'm 70 or 80 years old and say I gave it everything I had. That's really the only thing that is pushing me. I don't want to look in the mirror and be upset with any decision that I made."
Matzek's decision to persevere has reunited him with Braves bench coach Walt Weiss, who managed the lefty with the Rockies. Weiss was there when Matzek enjoyed a celebratory Major League debut against the Braves in 2014, and he was there in '16 when the Rockies excused the pitcher from Spring Training with hopes he could overcome the mental demons that had robbed his control.
So, it's understandable why Weiss was filled with joy when he saw Matzek pitch 1 1/3 scoreless innings during his spring debut against the Blue Jays on Feb. 25. But there may have been even more reason to be excited on March 1, when the 29-year-old hurler struck out four of five batters faced over 1 2/3 scoreless innings against the Red Sox. He replaced Mike Foltynewicz in the second inning and promptly ended a threat by striking out Rafael Devers and J.D. Martinez.
Given where things stood with his control over the past few years, it's important to note Matzek has not issued a walk while totaling 3 2/3 scoreless innings in three Grapefruit League appearances.
"I'm so proud of this kid," Weiss said. "I was there during some of his darkest days and it was really tough. I was there when he debuted and there was so much promise. We were like, 'this is our guy and this guy is going to be at the top of our rotation for the next however many years.' It was heartbreaking. He's a great kid, which made it that much tougher.
"But I'll tell you what, watching him in the outings he's had for us this spring, I've been like a little kid just watching him. I feel like it's my son out there. Just watching him perform and do well, it's just unbelievable."
Taken by the Rockies with the 11th overall pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, Matzek spent a couple of years regarded as a top prospect and struggled a bit before debuting on June 11, 2014. He allowed two runs over seven innings against the Braves that day, striking out seven, and recorded a single off of Julio Teherán.
As Matzek posted a 4.05 ERA over 20 starts during his rookie season, he had an 18.1 percent strikeout rate and 8.8 percent walk rate. But his control suddenly disappeared the next season, when he either hit or walked 21.6 percent of 102 batters faced. He was optioned to Triple-A after five starts and continued to be doomed by the yips.
"When you're throwing it behind hitters and have no idea where the ball is going as a lefty, that's usually a pretty good indicator something is wrong," Matzek said. "I feel comfortable now. I feel that is over with. I'm just ready to start this next chapter of my career."
After years of meeting with various doctors, psychiatrists, and psychologists, Matzek came to the realization perseverance is the best remedy for what is clinically recognized as performance anxiety. He felt he had overcome the yips when he went to Spring Training with the D-backs last year. But he needed time to fix mechanical flaws from many years spent fighting to regain his control.
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By the time Matzek spent some time with the Air Hogs last summer and then signed with the Braves near the end of the season, he felt he was finally right both physically and mentally. He's a longshot to begin the season in Atlanta's bullpen, but his underdog story will be one to follow as the year progresses.
"The game was taken away from me for a little while," Matzek said. "I'm just happy to be back and have the chance to compete at any level."


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Weekly Message 29 – 03 May 2019
Year 7: 6.8 Year 8: 8.8 Year 9: 2.6 Year 10: 1.7 Year 11: 1.5
This week has seen a Year 7 visit to the Mary Rose Museum with the History Department and an external speaker visiting the school to give a clear message to all our pupils about keeping safe online. We also welcomed a significant number of Year 5 pupils from local Primary Schools to hear this message with the presentation tailored for each age-group. More information regarding these two events is shared below.
Mrs Harrison-Jones (Headteacher) has delivered an assembly to all year groups this week. As well as welcoming pupils back to school after the Easter break, there was also a reminder about the importance of being ready to learn with uniform and equipment, punctuality to school and to lessons and by applying effort and maintaining a positive attitude. It is the case that most of our pupils demonstrate a good commitment to their learning and to the school community as a whole – our endeavor remains the same, for all members of the community to feel respected, self-improving, proud, confident, happy and positive.
Please read on….
E-safety Visit
The school had a visit from a nationally renowned e-safety advisor on Monday 29 April. Alan MacKenzie gave talks to Yeas 7-9 on CAPTOLOGY – how advertisers use computers and apps as persuasive technology. He also discussed with Years 7-9 how this can affect wellbeing. All pupils showed interest and reflected on their online use.
The theme for Year 10 was 'Considerations for their futures' based mainly on digital footprints, what future employers and colleges look at, identity on line and keeping themselves secure online. Again, this was well received by all.
Finally, Alan delivered a talk to Year 5 about online gaming, apps, app purchases and what age restrictions mean. Year 5 were fantastic and interacted well.
The feedback from Alan was that he felt our pupils and Year 5 pupils were hugely respectful and pleasure to present to.
Fareham and Gosport Schools Football Cup Finals
The Year 8, 9 and 10 football teams had all progressed through to the cup finals which is an impressive achievement.
The Year 8 team played competitively in the first half and pushed Fareham Academy hard pressing them all over the pitch and taking an early 1-0 lead scored from outside the box. Shortly after another goal was secured making it 2-0 with a finish from the same area into the bottom left hand corner. In the second half the pendulum swung in favour of Fareham Academy who stormed back with 2 goals to quickly level the game. With tired legs on a big pitch Fareham Academy committed more players forward and managed to win the game with two more goals. A game of two halves but entertaining none the less. A great effort from all the players involved who beat Portchester, Bay House, Brookfield and Henry Cort to reach the final. Well done to all.
With swathes of pupils and parents bulking out the stands, the Year 9 team took to the turf.
After hard fought first half, the teams entered the tunnel 0-0. Cams Hill put the pressure on, whipping in a cross resulting in a penalty. With the first goal in from Cams Hill, the players and crowd went wild! Henry Cort took a corner and the ball was bundled in to the net. 1-1.
With minutes to go, the ball flowed end to end with every single player putting their heart and soul into the occasion. Keepers were tested, defenders put their bodies on the line, but one opening put Henry Cort in a position to secure their comeback. 2-1 Henry Cort.
The boys were a little disappointed, but they should hold their heads up high.
But to make it to a cup final in their first season, going 1-0 up against a team going to represent England in Ireland soon, we should come away confident that next season will be very, very competitive.
Dancing around the defenders at the goal line, our first goal home into the inside of the net was scored. Our second came from a run on the right wing, cutting inside the pitch and curling a left foot shot over the keeper just under the cross bar. Half time, Cams Hill 2-1 Fareham Academy. We conceded a second shortly after the restart. At 2-2, Fareham's keeper was tested with a spell of attacking play seeing the ball hit the crossbar, another player getting a toe on a cross to hit the post and a few others whistling past the goal. A foul on the edge of the box by three players, resulted in a free kick which put the ball over the wall with too much heat for the keeper, flying off his gloves straight into the back of the net! 3-2 Cams Hill – final score!
Year 7&8: UKMT Junior Maths Challenge 30.4.19
100 pupils from Years 7 & 8 took part in the UKMT Junior Maths Challenge on Tuesday. This may have been the first time many had sat a test in the Exams Hall and yet their conduct throughout the Challenge was superb. We now have around four weeks to wait for the results to be published. Well done to all for taking part.
Here are a couple of the questions from the Challenge:
Which of these is closest to 7?
A 7.09 B 6.918 C 7.17 D 6.7 E 7.085
What is the last digit of the smallest positive integer whose digits add to 2019?
A 1 B 4 C 6 D 8 E 9
Mary Rose Museum Visit
Year 7 pupils had the opportunity to experience their local history by visiting the Historic Dockyard at Portsmouth this week with a specific focus on the Mary Rose Museum. Whilst immersed in the historical environment, pupils participated in workshops with Historians including a History Mystery enquiry focused on why the ship sank and investigated the surgery that took place on the ship itself! Lots of fantastic knowledge was acquired by all that will soon be applied in the classroom – it was a brilliant experience.
The Headteacher's blog contains more informal reflections and is available here:
https://camsheadteacher.wordpress.com/
Monday 13 Year 11: GCSE Computer Science Paper 1: Principles of Computer Science (am 1h 40m)
Year 11: GCSE Religious Studies A Paper (pm 1h 45m)
Tuesday 14 Year 11: GCSE French Paper 1 (am 35m/45m)
Year 11: GCSE French Paper 3 (am 45m/1h)
Year 11: GCSE Biology Paper 1 (PM 1h 45m)
Year 11: GCSE Combined Science Trilogy-Biology Paper 1 (PM 1h 15m)
Wednesday 15 Year 11: GCSE Physical Education Paper 1 (AM 1h 15m)
Year 11: GCSE English Literature Paper 1 (PM 1h 45m)
Thursday 16 Year 11: GCSE Chemistry Paper 1 (AM 1h 45m)
Year 11: GCSE Combined Science Trilogy - Chemistry Paper 1 (AM 1h 15m)
Year 11: GCSE Computer Science Paper 2: Application of Computational Thinking (PM 2h)
Friday 17 Year 11: GCSE French Paper 4 (AM 1h 15m)
Year 11: GCSE Drama Performance and Response (PM 1h 30m)
Year 11: GCSE Physical Education Paper 2 (PM 1h 15m)


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Q: Nesting functions in PHP Simple PHP question:
Why does this work,
$exclude_exts = array('js', 'css',);
$filename = "test.css";
$ext = explode('.',$filename);
$is_excluded = in_array(strtolower(array_pop($ext)), $exclude_exts);

but this doesn't.
$exclude_exts = array('js', 'css',);
$filename = "test.css";
$is_excluded = in_array(strtolower(array_pop(explode('.',$filename))), $exclude_exts);

Edit: Both used to work in a previous version of PHP (I forgot which version).

A: Because array_pop requires a reference, since it alters the array in place.
When you pass the return value of explode there is no variable there to reference.

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Ugandan schools to reopen after two years
7 January 2022, 1:57 pm ·1-min read
After one of the world's longest pandemic school closures, the education system in Uganda is set to restart, though the process looks set to be fraught with difficulties.
"We expect a low turn up because the children say they are not coming back," secondary school teacher Bosco Wantate told dpa, adding "they are tired of studying. They are doing other things."
Parents have also been complaining that they have no money because they have been unable to work during the lockdown, Wantate said.
"The situation is dramatic: most students have been out of school for a total of two years; especially children under the age of eight and students in remote areas have had little access to education," explained Lilian Ssengooba, programme development officer for the aid organization SOS Children's Villages.
Ssengooba said that she also feared that many students nationwide will simply never resume their education. "Many young girls have now been married off by their families or are pregnant, while other students have been forced to go to work to support their families," she said.
According to SOS Children's Villages, schools in Uganda were partially or fully closed for 83 weeks during the coronavirus pandemic.
Uganda has recorded nearly 150,000 cases since the pandemic began, of which over 3,300 proved fatal. However, as in many African countries, it's likely that the number of cases in Uganda has been highly under reported.
China's Xi rejects 'Cold War mentality'
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for greater world cooperation against COVID-19 and pledged to send an additional 1 billion doses of vaccine to other countries.He's also urged other powers to discard a "Cold-War mentality" at a time of rising geopolitical tensions -- a not-so-veiled swipe at the United States.


The B1 visa is specifically issued for travelers coming to the United States for the purpose of conducting business of a specific kind. There are specific things one can do of a legitimate nature while others are prohibited and fall beyond the scope of permissible activities under this visa. Beyond the obviously wrongful activities that is illegal anyway, there are other general activities one may think of partaking in which may not be permissible under the visa.
The following provides a general guideline as to what can and cannot be done under the purview of this visa. This only acts as a guideline and is not an all-encompassing list.
Can volunteer for a religious or non-profit as long as the intent and scope of work is determined before applying for the visa and nothing more is performed beyond the scope of volunteering.
Anything that is considered illegal in the general course of affairs.
Obtain funds for your trip from illegitimate means. Funds to cover the trip have to be established before applying for the visa, either through the employer or self.
Apply for the B1 visa when you are otherwise prohibited from entering the United States.
Cannot apply for an alternate employment/profession for remuneration.
Get involved in a study or apply to go to a local school/university. The applicant has to get a F1 visa approved for that.
You have a residence outside the United States in which you have no intention of abandoning, as well as other binding ties which will ensure your return abroad at the end of the visit.
Conduct personal business for profit or assist family in business activities.
Participate in entertainment or sporting events.
Accept and perform professional activities under the garb of being temporary.


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Q: Finding words in multiple text files Okay, so my homework problem needs me to create two separate scripts. I wrote out the first script, which will randomly assign one file with the text of "Found it!" while the others will have "Not here!". I successfully created the first script, however, I'm beyond stuck on my second script. What I need to write is a program that will find the random "Found it!" file between the multiple txt files. It needs to be run in a loop until it finds the one file. The catch is, I can not use "grep" or other utility..... Please help!
Below is the first successful script.
Any idea what to do for the second script?
!/bin/bash

random_num=$((RANDOM % 10))
egg_num=10

echo "$random_num"

while [ $egg_num -gt -1 ]

do
    if [ $egg_num == $random_num ]

    then

        echo "Found it!" > egg$egg_num.txt

        egg_num=$(($egg_num-1))

    else

        echo "Not here!" > egg$egg_num.txt

        egg_num=$(($egg_num-1))

fi
done

A: Try
for file in egg*
do
  if [ -f "$file" ]; then
    line=$(cat $file)
    if [ "$line" = "Found it!" ]; then
       echo $file
       break
    fi
  fi
done


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121026 Hurricane Sandy Slogs Toward U.S., 41 killed in Caribbean
Posted on October 26, 2012 by chaelwest
Hurricane Sandy Slogs toward U.S., 41 Killed in Caribbean
By Tom Brown
MIAMI | Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:54pm EDT
MIAMI (Reuters) – Hurricane Sandy, a late-season Atlantic cyclone that threatens to be one of the worst storms to hit the Northeast in decades, slogged slowly northward on Friday after killing at least 41 people in the Caribbean.
Forecasters said wind damage, widespread and extended power outages and coastal and inland flooding were anticipated across a broad swath of the densely populated U.S. East Coast when Sandy comes ashore early next week.
"We're expecting a large, large storm. The circulation of this storm as it approaches the coast could cover about the eastern third of the United States," said Louis Uccellini, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Centers for Environmental Prediction.
He stopped short of calling Sandy possibly the worst storm to hit the U.S. Northeast in 100 years, as some weather watchers were doing, but said Sandy was shaping up to go down as a storm of "historic" proportions.
The late-season hybrid storm has been dubbed "Frankenstorm" by some weather watchers because it will combine elements of a tropical cyclone and a winter storm. Forecast models show it will have all of the ingredients to morph into a massive and potentially catastrophic "super storm."
On its current projected track, government forecasters said, Sandy could make landfall on Monday night or Tuesday in Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York or southern New England.
In New York City, the global financial hub, officials were considering closing down mass transit before the storm hits.
ROMNEY, BIDEN CANCEL TRIPS
Coming in the final weeks before the U.S. presidential election on November 6, the storm could throw last-minute campaign travel plans into chaos.
An aide to Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney said he had canceled a campaign event scheduled for Sunday night in Virginia Beach, Virginia. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign announced that Vice President Joe Biden had also canceled a trip to Virginia Beach scheduled for Saturday.
The Democratic incumbent was traveling to New Hampshire on Saturday, and on Monday was due to visit Youngstown, Ohio, and Orlando, Florida.
Craig Fugate, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said he and the head of the U.S. National Hurricane Center had briefed the president on preparations for the storm on Friday morning.
"His direction to us again, as always, is to make sure we are prepared to support the states and the governors dependent upon the impacts of the storm," Fugate told reporters.
Much of Florida's northeast coast was under a tropical storm warning on Friday, and storm watches extended up the coast through North Carolina. Winds and rains generated by Sandy were being felt across much of Florida, with schools closed and air travel snarled in many areas.
Sandy weakened to a Category 1 storm as it tore though sparsely populated low-lying southeastern islands in the Bahamas late Thursday, knocking out power and blowing rooftops off some homes.
Some further weakening was forecast over the next two days, but the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said hurricane- or tropical-force winds were still likely by the time Sandy hits the U.S. coast.
Sandy's driving rains and heavy winds were blamed for 41 deaths in the Caribbean, where landslides and flash floods were triggered by the cyclone.
The Cuban government said Sandy killed 11 people when it tore across the island on Thursday. The storm took at least 26 other lives in deeply impoverished Haiti and four people were killed in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and the Bahamas.
The Haitian dead included a family of five in Grand-Goave, west of the capital Port-au-Prince, killed in a landslide that destroyed their home, authorities said.
The Cuban fatalities were unusual for the communist-ruled country that has long prided itself on protecting its people from storms by ordering mass evacuations.
The National Hurricane Center said Sandy was about 420 miles south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, late on Friday afternoon, packing top sustained winds of 75 miles per hour (120 km per hour).
LUNAR TIDE
Sandy was forecast to remain a Category 1 hurricane as it completed it passage over the Bahamas late on Friday, sending swirling rains and winds across areas including Florida.
It was moving slowly, however, making its final trek across the central and northwest corner of the Bahamas islands at 7 mph.
Many forecasters are warning that Sandy could be more destructive than last year's Hurricane Irene, which caused billions of dollars in damage as it battered the U.S. Northeast.
Uccellini said he was reluctant to make comparisons with other storms. But he warned that a full moon on Sunday added to Sandy's potential for destruction when it comes ashore in the United States.
"The lunar tide peaks two days after the full moon, and that's Monday-Tuesday, which is exactly when the storm will be impacting the coastal areas," he said. "We'll have heavy rains and inland river flooding is a real potential here."
Todd Kimberlain said Sandy was somewhat unique because of its integration with the polar trough over the United States.
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1 of 9. Heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy causes the Croix de Mission river to swell to levels that threaten to flood the homes along its bank in Port-au-Prince October 25, 2012.
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UC Berkeley Expands Green Programs at Dining Halls
Thursday, August 19, 2004 - 5:00pm
Crossroads, the largest of four student dining commons at the University of California, Berkeley, recently became the first campus facility certified as a Bay Area Green Business by Alameda County officials.
The honor means that Crossroads, which opened in January 2003, meets specific criteria aimed at conserving energy and water, reducing waste and preventing pollution. And it demonstrates the campus's continuing efforts to make its dining halls, which serve 8,000 meals a day, more environmentally friendly and dedicated to sustainable practices.
"Crossroads has become a model for other units at UC Berkeley by incorporating sustainable practices into its operations," said Mark Freiberg, director of UC Berkeley's Office of Environment, Health & Safety. "Its efforts demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement and an awareness of environmental sensitivities that moves beyond regulatory compliance."
"The goal is to have all four dining halls certified by fall 2006," said Kim LaPean, UC Berkeley's marketing coordinator for residential and student service programs.
Crossroads has window space to let in natural light, energy-efficient lighting, low-flow water faucets, and tables cleaned with cloth instead of paper. Its water conservation efforts alone have resulted in saving 180,000 gallons a month - enough to supply 30 homes for a month.
Crossroads also donates excess food to a local homeless shelter and gives food scraps to an on-campus worm collective, "Berkeley Worms," that sells the worm castings to local gardeners and others.
A UC Berkeley student in nutritional sciences, Esther Situ, was hired to help Crossroads meet the green business requirements, speeding the process by coordinating efforts between the dining hall and outside agencies such as PG&E and East Bay MUD, LaPean said.
Freiberg also noted Situ's work, crediting the certification to "a cross-disciplinary team approach, which included a very hard-working and resourceful student."
In another new "green" initiative this fall, the four dining halls will offer "to-go" packaging made from sugar cane, which biodegrades quickly. LaPean said the facilities will likely go through 2,500 to-go containers a day.
And the homeless shelter donations will be expanded later this month to include all four dining halls, she said.
Crossroads began donating food to Harrison House, a Berkeley shelter, in May. Again, a student was pivotal: Nutritional sciences student Lisa Nelson got the program past logistical hurdles such as arranging for regular pickups.
There's likely to be so much more food once all four dining halls are participating that it will have to be distributed to additional shelters or charitable organizations, LaPean said.
Crossroads' program with Berkeley Worms will also be expanded. Currently, the dining hall gives pre-consumer food waste such as egg shells and coffee grounds to the worm collective. But this fall it will start donating post-consumer food - that half-eaten hamburger or the crusts off a sandwich - to the program.
Berkeley Worms, founded over a decade ago, composts about 200 tons of food waste every year, including about 70 tons from the campus dining halls.
This will mean changing the way the dining halls are set up and educating student customers to scrape off extra food into a special bin instead of just tossing it into the garbage, LaPean said.
The Alameda County Green Business Program is a government-business partnership that includes the East Bay Small Business Development Center, Alameda County Waste Management Authority, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the city of Fremont, Alameda County Water District and PG&E.
By Losing the Cafeteria Tray, Schools Cut Waste -- and More
ByMatthew Wheeland
How mini-farms can yield food security
ByBob Cooper
New S.F. Food Policy Boosts Local Farms
ByTilde Herrera
Clif Bar Wins Kudos for Green Power, Waste Management Initiatives
3 ways college students are revolutionizing sustainability
BySamantha Young
Assessing the Critical Impact: Water Versus Climate Change
Essential Guide to Lighting Retrofits & Upgrades


but he didn't give me the chance to fumble for wrong words.
"When I go back to heaven, I'm going to build a house.
My friend Katie is going to help.
and come at last to rest in Matthew's little Heaven House.
His eyes shining with the plan.
I sat speechless in his love.


Bill Gertz is an internationally recognized national security journalist, currently Senior Editor of The Washington Free Beacon, (freebeacon.com) and National Security Columnist for The Washington Times (www.washingtontimes.com).
He is the author of seven books, four of which were national bestsellers. His most recent book is "iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age" that highlights 21st Century threats posed by information warfare and cyber attacks.	His 1999 book, "Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security," (Regnery, May 1999) was on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks. His second book, "The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America," (Regnery) was released in November 2000. His book, "Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11," was published in August 2002 and was a national bestseller.
"The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats; Liberal Democrats and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War," was published in September 2008. It is a critical look at the problem of an out-of-control government bureaucracy.
Bill writes a weekly column called Inside the Ring, a chronicle about the ups and downs of the U.S. national security bureaucracy. He also writes a column for Asia Times.
He also has written articles for Commentary magazine, National Review, The Weekly Standard and Air Force Magazine. Bill also has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, California.
Bill has an international reputation. Vyachaslav Trubnikov, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, once called him a "tool of the CIA" after he wrote an article exposing Russian intelligence operations in the Balkans. In the United States, a senior CIA official once threatened to have a cruise missile fired at his desk at The Washington Times after he wrote a column critical of the CIA's analysis of China. China's communist government also has criticized him for his news reports exposing China's weapons and missile sales to rogues states, accusing him of "spreading lies about China." The state-run Xinhua news agency in 2006 identified Bill as the No. 1 "anti-China expert" in the world. Bill insists he is very much pro-China -- pro-Chinese people and opposed to the communist system. During the 1990s, U.S. State Department official Nicholas Burns, frustrated by Bill's prolific news reporting on internal information about U.S. national security and foreign affairs, only half-joking once compared him to Moamar Gadafi and Saddam Hussein.
Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey said of Gertz: "When I was DCI [Director of Central Intelligence] Bill used to drive me crazy because I couldn't figure out where the leaks were coming from. Now that I've been outside for two years, I read him religiously to find out what's going on." Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson told the author: "We talk about your stories at Cabinet meetings." Defense Secretary William S. Cohen once remarked to a Chinese general in charge of military intelligence that Bill "has access to more intelligence information than anyone I know." Senior CIA officials, too, have criticized him during closed hearings before Congress regarding his news reporting based on extraordinary access to classified information.
Among his major newspaper exclusives are reports revealing how China conducted the first flight test of a revolutionary hypersonic strike vehicle that is now close to deployment; frequent confrontations between U.S. warships and a Chinese naval vessels in the South China Sea; and a U.S. intelligence report warning that malicious software developed in Balarus had compromised Obamacare computer networks.
Other exclusives have included reports on China's deployment of a new long-range missile, the DF-41; how the Obama administration ignored a major Russian treaty violation by developing intermediate-range missiles banned under the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty and how secrets related to the U.S. F-35 jet fighter were stolen through Chinese cyber espionage and incorporated into China's new J-20 stealth fighters.
Bill also was the first to report on Russia's secret development of a new high-speed, long-range nuclear-armed drone submarine.
Bill has been a guest lecturer at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va.; the Central Intelligence Agency; the National Defense University at Fort McNair, Washington, DC; the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC and Hillsdale College. He has participated in the National Security Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
He studied English literature at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., and journalism at George Washington University, Washington, DC. In March 2014, Bill was awarded the Reed Irvine Award for Investigative Journalism by Accuracy in Media. In September 1999, Bill was awarded the Western Journalism Center award for investigative journalism. The United States Business and Industrial Council awarded him the "Defender of the National Interest Award" in June 1998, and in 1997 he was recognized by The Washington Times for excellence in achievement.


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Register of beneficial owners of overseas companies – what's the latest?
When will the legislation come into force?
At the moment, the new legislation to increase the transparency of overseas investment in the UK is intended to kick in in 2021, although the exact date for implementation has not been confirmed. Once the law has come into force, overseas entities owning UK property will be required to disclose their beneficial ownership structures on a publicly accessible register.
Entities who do not comply with the new rules will not be able to deal with UK property.
Following an initial consultation in 2017, the Government published a draft bill in July last year, with an invitation to the Joint Committee (a group of MPs and Lords appointed to review the proposed legislation) to provide a report on the draft bill. The Government's response to the Committee's report has just been published. In this briefing we look at both the Joint Committee's comments and the Government's response.
The principal points are:
What information will need to be disclosed?
Overseas entities that come within the remit of the register will be required to provide information on their registrable beneficial owners similar to that required under the People with Significant Control ("PSC") Regime under the Companies Act 2006 (for example, the beneficial owner's name, nationality, address and nature of control over the company).
Schedule 2 to the draft bill sets out various conditions for determining who is a beneficial owner. These are based on the conditions for determining whether an individual is a person with "significant control" of a company for the purposes of the PSC Regime.
One of the conditions is that the relevant individual, legal entity or public authority will be a beneficial owner if they hold, directly or indirectly, more than 25% of the shares or voting rights in the overseas entity. The Committee urged the Government to consider lowering this threshold but the Government intends to keep it at 25% - the sensible rationale being that it mirrors the level of control a person needs (under English company law) to block a special resolution of the shareholders of a company. This also reflects the level of control required for disclosure on the PSC register at Companies House.
It is worth noting that it is possible for an individual to hold less than 25% of the shares or voting rights in an overseas entity and still be registrable as a beneficial owner where they have "significant influence or control" over the entity. It has been recognised by the Committee and the Government that it will be essential to provide clear guidance on what this means in practice, and that because the same test applies in the PSC Regime, the guidance should take account of the guidance which already exists for the PSC Regime.
The draft bill also grants the Secretary of State the power to modify the registration requirements where information is available elsewhere on an "equivalent register". This will mean that the overseas entity still has to register in the UK but that their disclosure requirements may be reduced. The Government is still considering what best constitutes an equivalent register but has confirmed that it must, at a minimum, be publicly accessible.
How will it be policed?
Overseas entities will be prevented from carrying out typical dealings with UK property such as buying/selling, granting leases of over 7 years and granting security, unless they have provided sufficient information about their registrable beneficial owners to Companies House. HM Land Registry will not register any of these dealings unless the applicant has provided a registration ID number, which Companies House will issue once satisfactory beneficial ownership information has been received.
Distressed disposals
Having been involved in the consultation process we are delighted to see that the bill addresses some of the concerns that we raised concerning distressed disposals of property owned by a non-complying overseas entity.
The draft bill now provides exceptions for certain dispositions of property where the overseas entity which owns the relevant property has not complied with its statutory obligations. For example, on an enforcement sale (i.e. the exercise of a power of sale by a security holder or a receiver appointed by it).
There are no equivalent carve outs for the sale of the property by insolvency officeholders. This may be because an administrator (for example, where the overseas entity is capable of being put into an English administration process) would have control of the company itself rather than just the specific asset. We would therefore anticipate that, prior to a disposal of property, administrators should be in a position to update the register themselves or require the directors to do so (as is the case with updates to the PSC register for UK companies that are in administration). We will look out for Government guidance to clarify this point.
When must the register be updated?
Under the draft bill, a registered overseas entity will be required to update its beneficial ownership confirmations each year, and it is a criminal offence to fail to do so. However, the Committee noted that the register should be as accurate as possible at the point at which dispositions take place – i.e. in addition to the annual update. The Committee's concern is that it is on the disposition of the property that any potential money laundering is likely to occur. The Government is considering how this may be achieved practically, and so this is likely to be one of the few areas where the draft bill is significantly amended. We will keep an eye on developments in this regard.
Impact for Lenders
Given the importance of ensuring that an overseas entity complies with its registration requirements (in order to ensure the disposition and registration of security at HM Land Registry are not prevented due to non-compliance by the overseas entity) lenders are likely to want to stipulate additional CPs on affected transactions.
The draft bill requires the registrar to provide every registered overseas entity with a notice confirming registration, which will include the entity's registration ID number. So, for example, where an overseas entity is borrowing to finance the purchase of a property, a lender is likely to require a borrower to provide a certified copy of this notice.
Notwithstanding the exceptions which could benefit a lender needing to enforce its security (described above), a lender may also want the overseas entity to provide undertakings to comply with its ongoing obligations under the regime.
We will continue to keep a close eye on this topic. We will provide further updates as the draft legislation progresses and make sure that you're fully briefed well before the expected 2021 implementation date.
If you have any questions as to how the legislation might affect you or your clients we would be delighted to help. Please contact Archie Campbell or your usual contact at Stephenson Harwood.
Archie Campbell
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Recently, Google introduced a new update for Hangouts on Android, introducing some new features such as the ability to set custom notifications on the app.
Now, the search engine giant is rolling out an update for the web version of Google Hangouts. The latest updates give users the ability to sketch the messages, rather than typing it.
Reports suggest that Hangouts now offer users to draw their messages in Hangouts, using various brushes and sizes. To sketch a message, all a user has to do is hover their mouse in the message field near the camera icon until the pencil button pops up. Once it does, simply click on it and start sketching the message you want to sketch.
The update is rolling out as we speak, and if you can't see the feature, panic not as the roll out process is gradual, and it may take some time for the update to roll out. The update is currently available for the web version, but we're hoping it will make its way to the Android counterparts as well. If you can't see it, try reinstalling the Chrome extension, and let us know if you can spot the new feature.


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Q: Limit sine problem: $\lim_{x\to\infty} \frac{x^2}{2x+1}\sin\frac{\pi}{x}$ I have this limit problem:
$$\lim_{x\to\infty} \frac{x^2}{2x+1}\sin\frac{\pi}{x}$$
I had tried to solve it but I think I am using the wrong approach. Can anyone help me? My steps:

A: Hint: Our expression is equal to
$$\frac{\pi x}{2x+1}\cdot\frac{\sin(\pi/x)}{(\pi/x)}.$$

A: Recall that the sine function satisfies the inequalities for $\pi\ge z \ge 0$
$$z\cos z\le \sin z\le z$$
Then, letting $z=\pi/x$ reveals
$$\frac{\pi \cos (\pi/x)}{x}\le \sin (\pi/x)\le \pi/x$$
Then, we have
$$\frac{\pi x \cos (\pi/x)}{2x+1} \le \frac{x^2}{2x+1}\sin(\pi/x)\le \frac{\pi x}{2x+1}$$
By the squeeze theorem, we obtain
$$\lim_{x\to \infty}\frac{x^2}{2x+1}\sin(\pi/x)=\pi/2$$


Jamaica's tourism sector continues to record impressive growth with visitor arrivals for the three-month period from July to September increasing more than 7 percent when compared with the same period for the previous year.
A very satisfied Minister of Tourism, the Hon. Edmund Bartlett says the growth for the period under review is an indication of the collective hard work of tourism stakeholders to build a world class tourism product, and the sustained marketing efforts of the Jamaica Tourist Board in the international markets.
For the months of July, August and September figures from the Jamaica Tourist Board show that 642,182 visitors (both stop over and cruise arrivals) came to Jamaica, compared with 596,438 for the same three-month period in 2009. This represents an increase of 7.7 percent, the largest growth in visitor arrivals for any one period since the start of the year. The country earned US$1.418 billion from stop over and cruise arrivals from January to August, a 2.2 percent increase over the same period last year.
To build on the positive growth trend Minister Bartlett says more effort will be placed on growing arrivals out of Argentina, Brazil and Columbia as part of a broader emphasis on targeting emerging markets to further grow tourist arrivals. As a result, he says the JTB will be rolling out a marketing and promotion blitz for the South American region. The overall projection for tourist arrivals for the year is 4-5 percent.
In the meantime the Tourism Minister highlighted that Jamaica's airlift capacity for the upcoming Winter Tourist Season remains at adequate levels with some 671,002 seats available for the United States and 227, 479 seats for Canada – Jamaica's main markets.
Dominica indeed has a lot to offer, but we are not thinking long term…or strategically to that matter!
Y didn't we use the land that was paid for by the UWP administration and build a good international airport? Y did we spend so much money to fix an airport that has its strip in d wrong direction?
Why a coffee plant? Who r we gona compete with the Jamaican Blue mountains? Or at least, why not select farmers to grow coffee, and then build and develop a plant or factory?
What can we do to make us unique? To make us sustainable?
DNO never posts my comments i believe is because i sometimes criticize their writing styles, anyway, it is now much better.
way to go jamaica,i'll be vsiting next year such a beautiful island.dominicans please help develop the tourist industry.
Most of the non caribbean people I know that visit Jamaica dont really know Jamaica. All they rave about is the great time that they had in their 5 star hotel complex. They rarely go on tours. The adventorous ones if they meet someone working in the hotel and feel that they can trust them, will venture beyond the hotel grounds. Most have never even visited Kingston.
I've never heard of a part of Dominica that is a no go area, where you need a trusted person to follow you around. Dominica has so much more to offer. OK we don't have shopping malls, but who needs them when you are on holiday.
Lets not take Jamaica's glory away from them, but lets big up Dominica were you are free to wonder around safely.
Not for long!! Lots of young people -and old are now becoming more involved in criminal/antisocial/delinquent bahaviours we need to put a curb on that!
Very simple. Marketing and Access.
This is interesting but the question I have to ask is what percentage of every dollar that comes in goes towards servicing external debt?
Well obviously, its a known fact that the authorities turn a blind eye to tourists smoking ganja. In these tough times many are seeking a "vacation" from their daily persona's and enjoying what life really has to offer.


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# of Pages: 1000
The Sixties in America
Editor: Carl Singleton; Fort Hayes State University
Tags: 554 Articles300 Photographs40 Graphs Charts and SidebarsSignificant BooksFilms and Song ListingsCross-ReferencesSupreme Court DecisionsPersonages IndexGlossaryWebsite ListSubject List
This set provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of the major events of the 1960s that give the decade its distinctive character. It features long overviews and short entries discussing people, books, films, plays and other important topics representative of that era. Every entry focuses on the topic or person during the 1960s in order to explore what made the decade unique.
Salem Press's three-volume set, The Sixties in America, surveys the events and people of the 1960's, a turbulent decade that had a profound and lasting effect on the life and culture of the United States. The set not only provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of the three major events of the 1960's that give the decade its distinctive character — the Civil Rights movement, the social revolution, and the Vietnam War — but also surveys important developments in the arts, science and technology, business and the economy, government and politics, and gender issues.
In addition, to impart a sense of what people were doing and thinking during the decade, the set looks at the most important people and events in the arts, media, music, and sports and covers the headline-grabbing news items of the period.
The encyclopedia's 554 articles range from 250 to 3,000 words. Articles range on topics, including:
Crimes & Scandals
Written with the needs of students and general readers in mind, the articles present clear discussions of the topics, explaining any terms and references that may be unfamiliar. The articles in the encyclopedia are arranged in alphabetical order, with clear, concise titles followed by brief descriptions or definitions of the topic.
The essays are divided into six easy-to-use formats:
biographical pieces
Important dates and selected facts are highlighted in ready-reference top matter at the beginning of the biographical pieces, events, and artistic works. Boldfaced subheads such as "Impact" or "Subsequent Events" make finding information within each article quick and easy. The cross-references at the end of each article will guide readers to additional entries on the topic or related subjects, and the "Additional Information" section will direct them to other publications on the subject. This set contains nearly 300 photographs of the decade's events and more than 40 graphs, charts, and sidebars highlighting interesting facts and trends.
The encyclopedia contains a number of useful tools to help readers find the entries of interest. An alphabetical list of all entries appears at the beginning of each volume and a list of entries by thirty-one subject categories appears at the end of each volume, as well as numerous appendices:
Comprehensive Index
Personages Index
Major Broadway Plays
Theatrical Awards
Most-Watched Television
Top-Selling Recordings
Popular Musicians & Hits
Winners of Major Sport Events
U.S. Supreme Court Cases
Congressional Decisions
Major Demographics
Major Developments in Science & Technology
Major Events in Civil Rights, Vietnam, and Other Events
Mediagraphy
View a Full List of Titles from The Decades Series
" "Students researching this tumultuous period will find clearly presented entries that sketch the events, people, organizations, scientific advances, and popular culture of the sixties. " -School Library Journal
The Sixties in America Review
Defining Documents in American History: The 1960s (1960-1969)
This important resource provides students and researchers new insights into the 1960s in the U.S., through an in-depth analysis of forty-nine important primary source documents and their lasting effect on American history.
Defining Documents in American History: The Vietnam War (1956-1975)
Provides readers with a new, interesting way to study the impact of the Vietnam War on American history. Through in-depth analysis of important primary documents from 1956-1975, readers will gain new insight into the causes, issues and lasting effects of this pivotal time in American history.
Great Events from History: The 20th Century, 1941-1970
Unique resource—nothing comparable with this much depth or numbers that covers so many 20th century events.


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