PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Aug. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --Leading nutrition brand Garden of Life and Alicia Silverstone actress, New York Times best-selling author and health advocate together announce an exciting innovation to their industry-leading mykind Organics line of vitamins. New mykind Organics Gummy vitamins are the first full-line of gummy multivitamins to be Certified USDA Organic, Non-GMO Project Verified, and made from real organic fruit and whole-food vitamins offering a deliciously innovative way for the entire family to get their daily vitamins.

mykind Organics is the No. 1-selling vitamin brand in the health food industry1. These new gummies provide a fun and convenient way for the whole family to obtain essential daily nutrients in a clean and popular form. They are available in six delicious varieties, ranging from prenatal and kids to men's and women's age 40+.

"I am so proud to team up with Garden of Life to introduce our new gummy vitamins the purest, cleanest gummies out there, made from the real, organic, non-GMO whole foods my family eats. These yummy gummies provide the essential nutrients you need, without all of the 'icky stuff' you don't want in your vitamins," said Silverstone.

Whole-Food Vitamin ChewsUnlike many conventional gummy vitamins on the market, mykind Organics Gummies steer clear of typical candy ingredients. Using a base of real, organic fruit, mykind Organics Gummies do not contain processed sugars or syrups, and have no animal gelatin, artificial dyes or artificial sweeteners. Every bottle starts with nine organic whole peaches and apples, with their juices. These are concentrated and combined with mykind Organics real-food vitamins (which are certified organic food-based vitamins, not chemically isolated and synthesized vitamins). The result is an organic fruit chew gummy that is nutritious, convenient, easy to eat and great tasting. And in addition to being Certified USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified, mykind Organics Gummies are certified vegan, certified gluten-free and kosher.

The new mykind Organics gummy multivitamins are available in the following varieties:

Kids Multi Gummies Organic Fruit + VitaminsEach chew provides essential nutrients to support kids' health with 17 essential vitamins and antioxidants, including vitamin D. These gummies are available in two kid-friendly flavors: organic fruit and organic cherry.

Women's Multi Gummies Organic Fruit + Vitamins With targeted ingredients for women's special health needs, this great-tasting organic berry chew contains 17 vitamins and minerals, plus organic Pacran whole-food cranberry.

Women's 40+ Multi Gummies Organic Fruit + VitaminsThis organic berry chew provides targeted ingredients to support the needs of women over age 40, with 17 vitamins and minerals, plus organic black cohosh.

Men's Multi Gummies Organic Fruit + VitaminsA great-tasting organic berry, each chew includes targeted ingredients to support the needs of men, with 17 vitamins and minerals, including vitamin E and folate.

Men's 40+ Gummies Organic Fruit + VitaminsEach chew includes targeted ingredients to support the needs of men over age 40, with 17 vitamins and minerals, plus organic Flowens whole-food cranberry.

Prenatal Multi Gummies Organic Fruit + Vitamins A great-tasting organic berry chew, Prenatal Multi Gummies have targeted ingredients to support mom and her baby with 600 mcg of folate and B vitamins to promote energy.

mykind Organics Gummies are available now in stores across the country. To locate a store, visit gardenoflife.com. The full mykind Organics line encompasses more than 30 products.

About Garden of LifeGarden of Life, L.L.C. is the recognized leader and innovator in whole-food, science-based, USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified nutrition. Headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., the company offers more than 250 branded supplements that help people achieve extraordinary health. For more information on Garden of Life, visit gardenoflife.com.

1 Source: SPINSMarch 19, 2017. SPINS is the leading provider of retail consumer insights, analytics, and consulting for the natural, organic, and specialty products industries.

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In 2016-17 India exported Rs2,478 crore worth of organic commodities like oilseeds, cereals and millets and processed foods. Photo: Mint

New Delhi: Although India is home to the largest number of organic farmers in the world, malpractices have resulted in inorganic products being sold as organic, said a study released on Wednesday.

A uniform standard which clearly lays out labelling requirements, punishment for fraudulent practices and a single nodal agency for regulating organic farming will help the organic sector grow at 20% annually, said the study Organic Farming in India: Status, Issues and Way Forward by the Delhi-based Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

Currently multiple agencies set standards for organic food. A nodal agency will help India establish itself as part of the global supply chain, said Arpita Mukherjee, an author of the report.

According to the report, India ranks 11th among 170 exporters of organic produce and ninth in terms of area under organic cultivation. While India follows regulatory standards set by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), when it comes to export of organic products, there is currently no regulation governing its domestic market and imports, the study said.

73% of 73 companies surveyed entered organic food business since 2006 and close to 95% of them work directly with farmers, a survey in the study showed.

Ninetyfive percent of 418 farmers surveyed in the research said they were satisfied with organic farming, while 77% said organic certification should be mandatory as it helps them earn a premium for their produce.

Integrating small and marginal growers to the market for organic produce and following global standards will open up opportunities for agri-businesses, said Amitabh Kant, CEO of the government think-tank NITI Aayog following the launch of the report.

India has a rich heritage in organic farming and rain-fed tracts in parts of the country are organic by default, Kant said, adding, Organic kiwis (fruits) from Arunachal Pradesh are even better than what is grown in New Zealand. The challenge is how to take the produce directly to consumers as organic and inorganic products gets mixed up in the wholesale markets.

Data from the report shows that about 1.5 million hectares of land in India were certified organic, excluding wild and forest areas. In 2016-17 India exported Rs2,478 crore worth of organic commodities like oilseeds, cereals and millets and processed foods.

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Written by Jeffrey L Moore

A fews weeks ago, I was able to spend some time interviewing Edwin Britt, the President of Sales for Zig Ziglar International. Edwin has an endless knowledge base about sales, closing deals and building rapport. Hes made sales presentations to some of the biggest brands in the world, like; Coca Cola, Miller Brewing, The Walt Disney Company, Tommy Hilfiger and NAPA Auto Parts. Hes also represented product lines for Michael Jordan, NASCAR and the National Football League.

In this interview Edwin makes clear that were all in the business of selling. Whether youre selling products or points of view; getting people to see that their is a different way to do things is what selling is all about!

How to build trust and sell more in 2017

Jeff: In 2017, in a world where everyones attention is in such high demand, how can we sell our products and ideas better?

Edwin: Well Jeff, in my 30+ years of selling Ive learned that it takes a high level of preparation and planning. We often get in trouble when we try to push too fast to the end result. There is no substitute for slowing down and investing, not taking. Invest the time to plan and prepare.

Jeff: Walk us through what you mean by planning.

Edwin: Planing has many different parts. It can be reading and research. Its also physical and even spiritual preparation in advance of the activity. If you want to sell more in 2017, develop a process where you are creating the discipline needed, so you are prepared to meet the needs of your potential client.

Zig Ziglar, who Ive been a student of for 30 years, and had the pleasure of knowing him personally taught me these keys:

For me, the daily window from 5:30am to 7am is a combination of physical and mental preparation. Not only for my workday but also for my overall physical being and personal life.

Specific preparation applies to your day-to-day selling practices. Those who accomplish the most in this world are avid readers of information. He or she who has the most information has the most influence. So equipping your mind with information is going to make you an innovative, cutting edge, stand-out. Differentiating yourself from the competition is extremely important.

Next is deciding:

Jeff: What does it mean to sell?

Selling is what you do with someone, not to someone. Selling is an ongoing process, and you keep the process going by gathering information from the people you are speaking and meeting with.

Jeff: Edwin, the power of information keeps coming up. What role does being a student play?

Edwin: That is absolutely correct. For me it has been a thirty-year journey of learning.

Again Ill reference Mr. Zig Ziglar. When he was at a convention, he would be sitting in the front row taking notes. And were talking about a person who influenced a quarter of a billion people around the world. He never stopped learning. So yes, you have to commit yourself to be an ongoing student. Being a student helps us grow and their are four stages of growth. You want to continue evolving and never be content or think that youve arrived. Its absolutely a process and its absolutely ongoing. Its a proactive approach.

Jeff: What are the the four stages of growth?

Edwin: You know, weve all been in a point where we are unconsciously incompetent. In beginning almost any endeavor, we can become overwhelmed and lost. That can be sort of a slippery slope where people tend give up too quickly.

But what also happens is that people start recognizing that with success and with accomplishment, comes some pain and some frustration along the way. They will have to fight through that, and at some point you become consciously incompetent. In that particular stage, you are not very good at something and you know it. You might be prospecting and you might face rejections. You might quickly go to the price before you establish value. People often stop doing things that they are not good at. When we do that, what we need to do piles up.

Now, rather than solving problems you are putting pressure on yourself.

The third area is being consciously competent. Thats where a lot of people who have been selling a good number of years are. Theyre pretty good at what they do and they know it. In fact, a lot of the best leaders and sales managers are consciously competent.

Theyre very relatable; they can feel people move from one state to another. The ultimate example is ten thousand hours of practice and years and years of little failures and successes. Youll hear a lot of people say wow, they makes it look easy, but the reality is, its not easy. And, what that individual has done is a lot of preparation, trial and error, and stayed committed. They make it appear easy. This is when youre unconsciously competent.

Jeff: Edwin, youve spoken to some of the biggest organizations and brands in the world. For example, Coca-Cola, Miller Brewery, Walt Disney, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Jordan, NASCAR, and the NFL. As youre talking to these Fortune 500 firms and these C-Suite Executives, people who are already incredibly successful, what are a few things you tell them that help them take their selling and their overall success to the next level?

Edwin: Jeff, I appreciate your level of research. Thank you for those kind words and I always want to make sure that theyre always asking meaningful, specific questions. In other words, theyre not a wondering generality. They have a process that creates alignment between themselves and those that theyre talking to. They understand their key fundamentals.

Michael Jordan was a phenomenal basketball player as we all know, yet he was a master of the fundamentals of basketball, in addition to having unbelievable natural ability and talent.

I want to make sure that I can bring some very standard fundamentals.

So often, peoples process is personality-driven. In reality, they need to have a process that is client-centered. A means of uncovering need by meaningful, specific dialogue. A process that creates trust.

Jeff: What are few things people can do so that they gain trust?

Edwin: First of all, we recognize that we solves problems, and not just sell products. We are problem-solvers and need to speak in terms of solving problems. Solutions.

Second, recognizing that people dont make decisions based on your reasons; they make decisions based on their reasons. And, their reasons are driven by their feelings, their motives and their beliefs. Find out what their reasons are.

When you have a process that brings the need for a specific dialogue, it allows people to ultimately share with you what their motives, their feelings and what their beliefs are.

I always ask, What would you like to accomplish and then Im quiet.

People will begin sharing, and at that point I know a little bit more about the person and/or organization. As they begin sharing more, you will see a natural sequence. Its a very organic conversation that appears to be almost off the cuff, but its very structured in my mind. Next, I ask:

Jeff: Edwin, how would you define Everyday Power?

Edwin: I think Everyday Power is when we stop listening to the negativity of the world and we start talking the truth to ourselves. It comes with a positive and healthy self-esteem. You got to put the good in and you will get good out. There is so much negativity in the world and the world tries to tell us the things we cant do and why we cant do them.

For me, I tell myself I, was born to win. Today, Im going to do my best with an attitude of gratitude.

Stop listening to the negativity and start talking to yourself in a meaningful, specific, truthful way because you are born to win. You are designed for accomplishment, you are engineered for success and you are endowed with the seeds of greatness.

For more more on Edwin Britt, check him out at Zig Ziglar International and on LinkedIN.

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You start to go numb.Everything goes silent. And yet, you know there should be sound. Because you see the anguish on your mom's face as she tried to push all the new flurry of confetti into a pile. You see how she's hit by the clock as to remind her about time and going over his curfew. Your brothers and sisters are bumping into each other trying to get to their rooms.Tue Tue,I remember you being filled with adrenaline; it was about survival mode. Fight or flight? I remember your whole body feeling swollen, like the blood was pushing through your palms and your ears felt erect. You felt like you couldn't move, but you find peace staring at the blank screen of the floor model TV set. I remember Mario (5 years old at the time) sliding next to you and joining your stare at the TV.

He whispers to you,"Tue Tue, whatever you do . . . please, break that record."

You say, "OK."

You sit there until it's time to run your 1:46.45.

Even today, I am a fan of your bravery. You ignore his efforts to communicate on the way and during the meet. To your surprise, your standoff doesn't lead to more chaos. He leaves you be. I remember during the warmup you stay quiet and distant. As the final call for your semi-final is announced, he now needs to say something to you.

You were expecting an apology for HIM being the distraction, or even something like, 'I love you no matter what the outcome.' But he says, "The wind is not blowing, this is the day to do it!" And Tue Tue, you don't break your silent protest. You only nod in agreement. By then, you had your mind made up already. You were strong enough to figure it out: sprint the third two hundred meters to exhaustion. I know you would always run the first 200, jog the middle 400, then sprint the last 200. But here on this day, you decide to run the third 200 so hard that you would fatigue out at the 600 meter mark.

That didn't happen.

Tue, I remember the splits. The first lap felt like a 100 meter wind sprint. The clock clicks 49 ... 50. The bell lap rings at 51. It's hilarious to me now, and I know you feel it still. You making a pow noise in your head to signify the start of the real race, the third 200m. You hit the third 200 in 26 seconds! You get to the 600 and don't feel tired, but you can start hearing your breathe and the feeling of your feet hitting ground as you come around the last turn.

Da dum, da dum, da dum, da dum!

With 100 meters to go, you hear your dad at the 700 meter mark shouting, 1:27, 1:28, 29, 30 ... You do the math and believe you can do 14 or 15 seconds for the last 100! At this moment you feel alive! The crowd noise starts to filter in, you see the clock, 1:38, 39 ... Your legs suddenly become tree trunks that feel planted to the ground with every step, but you push past the finish line with the biggest smile on you face. 1:46.45!

You see two of your best friends from Bell Gardens High School, Juan and Bern Dawg, at the finish line. You run to give them some respect for the support. Twenty years from today, you will make a 100 t-shirts commemorating 20 years of setting the national record using the accutrak print out given to you by the officials. You are smiling with your right index finger pointing to the heavens (and, the wind reading says 0, lol!).

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Bernard Tucker is the owner of Brand Visions, a branding company that serves to encourage individuals to be confident in branding their businesses, talents and lifestyles. Here, the entrepreneur shares his vision and why its about more than branding.

Tell us about Brand Visions LLC.Brand Visions provides custom branding on apparel and sublimated items to help market and promote your business ideas to the public. Small ideas become big not only at the right time but also with the right method. The first brand that we began branding was our own clothing line Urban Intellect, which bridges the gap between street smarts and book sense, natural ability and the trained eye. In many ways, Urban Intellect serves as a physical and tangible mission statement for everything that Brand Visions stands for and hopes to accomplish.

Why did you become an entrepreneur?Ive been an entrepreneur most of my adult life to one degree or another, with most of it due to having a creative mind that keeps on ticking. Growing up in Hammond, Indiana, I was surrounded by people who owned things in the neighborhood and circulated those dollars amongst each other daily. That served as early fuel for using my creative abilities to become an owner, a driver, and a creator of my own career path. Even on the several occasions where jobs felt good enough to put my dreams on the back burner, that would downsize or lay people off, pushing me right back on that path. In the 90s, I started an independent record label to produce, record and distribute my own hip-hop/rap music. Those years of experience paved the way for Brand Visions LLC.

How has your music career influenced your company?My music is an identical reflection of the company that Ive formed through Brand Visions LLC. Throughout my 20 plus years of writing hip-hop/rap lyrics, my aim was to encourage and empower people to not only see the greatness within, but to really live it. Its also given me that creative space in which I operate to create my branding ideas. The key difference to me between branding ideas and creating the type of music that I dois that the message through my branding speaks directly to the audience that my music was meant to reach. In some ways, I think the music was before its time, whereas Brand Visions is right on time. Either way, one gives life to the other and that will always make them both relevant.

What do you think about racism today?Theres this phrase that has stuck around with me for years: make it plain, which to me sums up racism in the world today. Racism, along with many other forms of social control, has been made plain today, that theyre here and are here to stay. Urban Intellect represents that space of thinking that allows one to navigate around such barriers as racism and classism by using the minds natural ability to not be denied. So to answer the question of what do I think about racism today, I believe its in fear of the intellectual mindset of what I consider to be sleeping giants awaiting a conscious evolution of thinking.

What type of feedback have you received from your positive messaging?The feedback has been very positive. Whats real is that urban Intellect is nothing more than just your real conversations that are talked about daily in barbershops, universities, and places of worship. Im getting to the point where Im taking the word positive and calling it what it is, the truth. Honestly, it reminds me of how my music was often stuck with the label of just being a positive message, even though lyrically it was very well respected against the best. My vision for this company is to erase those labels that allow people to judge ones movement before their movement ever gets off the ground.

In the next five years, where would you like to see your business?In the next five years, I see us being more than just a branding company but also an entrepreneurial school for training individuals to believe in their ideas and to persistently pursue them until they become reality: Dont just make it a brand, make it a movement.

Where can people follow you to continue experiencing the positive messaging and purchase your clothing?By visiting our website atwww.thebrandvision.com

Follow us on FaceBook at /brandvisionsllcor /Urban-Intellect

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I think The Herald-Whig's online newspaper archive at the Quincy Public Library is fantastic. It's very easy to search, but it only goes up to a certain date. When will the next portion of the newspaper be scanned and put online?

The Quincy Public Library digital newspaper archive contains newspapers from 1835 through May 1926. The library and newspaper continue to work with the state of Illinois, federal agencies and other sources to secure additional grant funding to expand the digital archive, and will do so once that funding becomes available.

"It's a very expensive process, so we look for grants and accept donations to support it," said Nancy Dolan, library executive director.

The digital archives was introduced in 2003 with the first phase covering 1835 through 1890. It was funded by a $150,000 Library Services and Technology Act grant. In 2005, the library received $200,000 in federal funding to expand the archive for newspapers from 1890 to 1919.

The library was able to digitize newspapers through May 1926 in 2015 for about $100,000 through a special project budget.

Newspaper editions up to the present day are available on microfilm in the library's Illinois Room. There are two digital microfilm scanners that allow patrons to make digital copies of pages and articles.

How can my question be answered? Just ask. We'll quiz community leaders, business officials, historians, educators -- whoever can tell us what you want to know. Submit questions to answers@whig.com or mail them to Answers, The Herald-Whig, P.O. Box 909, Quincy, IL 62306. Provide a name and phone number so we can respond or clarify information. Questions dealing with personal or legal disputes will not be accepted.

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Brownsville Free Public Library, 100 Seneca St., will celebrate its 90-year history of continuous operation with an Anniversary Gala Sept. 1, featuring a daytime birthday party for young patrons and a wine and spirits tasting in the evening for the 21-and-older crowd.

The birthday party will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be games, crafts and a birthday cake. The childrens party is free.

The adults-only gala will be held from 6 to 10 p.m., with Seneca Street being closed to vehicular traffic and decked out for the affair. The gala will include hors doeuvres, a silent auction and tastings from Red Pump Distilleries and Winslow Winery.

Advance tickets for the 90th Anniversary Gala are $20 per person. Admission at the door will be $25. Ticket price includes hors doeuvres and tastings. Call the library at 724-785-7272 for tickets and additional information.

Brownsville Free Public Library was built in 1927 by prominent businessman Charles L. Snowdon, a banker by profession, community leader and benefactor. Three chapters, including details about its ornate facade, are dedicated to the library in Volume Two of the Looking Back: The Best of Glenn Tunney series.

Snowdon picked up the tab to build the library and subsequently leased it to Brownsville Borough for $1 per year. It was his way of thanking the citizenry for its many years of supporting his businesses, Tunney wrote.

The librarys open house was Sept. 1, 1927. The first librarian, Anna Shutterly, served from Oct. 1, 1927, until Feb. 11, 1943, when she died at age 79. Within the first year, she had stocked the shelves with 4,800 books, and 50,450 books were circulated among 2,550 cardholders.

Shutterly, who spent 40 years building and overseeing the California State Normal School library, was known for her resourcefulness and determination in keeping Brownsvilles library going strong even during the Great Depression.

Although many small towns are facing the loss of their local libraries, Brownsvilles continues to flourish. Library cards remain free to the public, and the collection now tops 17,000 items, including more than 600 DVDs, free computer time for cardholders and access to a vast online library network, classes and research materials.

In addition to the borough, the library services residents of Newell Borough and Brownsville, Franklin, Jefferson and Luzerne townships.

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Magazines may not be as popular as they once were since the heyday of Time, Newsweek, Life and Look, but they are still an attraction to many library users. The library subscribes to around 100 magazines, as well as 100 online on our Zinio platform.

Although, readers can find the expected magazines, such as People, Time, and Sports Illustrated in the librarys physical collection, you can also browse through some more specialized titles, such as West Virginia Game & Fish as well as JazzTimes and Discover.

If you are interested in crafts and hobbies, there is Popular Photography, Threads, American Patchwork & Quilting, Family Handyman, Organic Life, Popular Mechanics, and This Old House. If you are an amateur cook or an expert, try Everyday with Rachel Ray, Taste of Home, Fine Cooking and Food Magazine.

History buffs can sample American History, Appalachian Heritage, Archaeology, Goldenseal, and Smithsonian. For those keeping up with the national scene, try Time, New York, the Nation, National Review, Atlantic, and Rolling Stone, The entertainment crowd can vicariously enjoy the celebrity world with People, Billboard, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, and Town and Country.

Weightwatchers, Dogster, Catster, Health, Runner, Utne, Pittsburgh, Astronomy, Southern Living, Vogue, Prevention, Country Living, Popular Science and Wonderful West Virginia are just a few more of the titles.

The library does not circulate the current issues of magazines; you need to read them in the library, but older issues can be checked out just like books.

The online collection is very similar. You can access it through the City of Bridgeports website, click on digital services and then on rbdigital. You need to sign in once with your library card, and then you can download magazines to your PC or personal devices. Instructions on how to do it are available on the site.

The online collection duplicates some of the in-house magazines, but there are quite a few of exclusive titles, such as The Economist, Us Weekly, The Week Magazine, In Touch Weekly, Newsweek, Cooking with Paula Deen, PC Magazine, OK, Womans World, Empire, Apple magazine, Backpacker, Diabetic Living, Eating Well, FamilyFun, Knits, Motor Trend, Oxygen and Star Magazine.

One of the advantages of the online collection is that you dont accumulate stacks of old magazines, but once you download these issues they are yours until you delete them.

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Before Google, if you wanted to find out about a person, you had to go to a library to pore through newspaper archives and public records. Now a newly-proposed U.K. law may force researchers back to the bookshelves - or at least to the British Library's website. New plans from the British government will make it easier for people to delete embarrassing or erroneous information about themselves online. U.K. Digital Minister Matt Hancock said in early August the government would introduce new privacy legislation that would expand "the right to be forgotten," beyond just search engine results to any personal data held by a third party - from social media sites such as Facebook Inc. to forums run by video game companies, like Germany's Bigpoint GmbH, which produces massively multiplayer online game Battlestar Galactica.

The law will bring the U.K. in line with the European Union's existing General Data Protection Regulation, which takes effect in May 2018. But the new privacy rules contain exceptions for some official information, including medical records collected by the National Health Service. Also exempt are the internet archives maintained by the British Library, which by law is required to collect a copy of all published material in the U.K. Since 2013, the Library has also been required to archive the entire U.K. web domain once per year.

The new legislation will make it far easier for people to expunge unwanted information, meaning archives such as the British Library - home to over 150 million books, manuscripts, and maps - may have a more accurate record of online activity than Google, and will be of increasing importance for those looking to trace employment histories or undertake corporate due diligence.

U.K. law already recognizes a "right to be forgotten" but it has applied primarily to search engine results, such as those generated by Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Microsoft Corp.'s Bing, and people have generally had to prove that the information they wish to remove has caused damage or distress.

Instead of individuals having to prove damage or distress, material will now be removed on request unless private companies can prove a compelling public interest in keeping it up, said Max Campbell, a privacy lawyer at Brett Wilson Solicitors in London.

In cases where the content was originally generated by the person requesting its removal - such as an old blog entry or a post on someone's social media page that the person now finds embarrassing or misleading - "it will be much more cut and dry for you to withdraw your consent for data processing and have that data be deleted," Campbell said. "You don't have to show that it is causing you substantial distress or damage, or indeed, even any. It is your data and you have the right to say you don't want it there."

The British Library said in a statement that it was "pleased" the government intends to exempt archiving that is done in the public interest and for scientific, historical research or statistical purposes. "This would apply to all of the British Library's archiving activity, including the UK Web Archive," the statement said.The Library noted, however, that the government has not provided details of exactly how the exemption will be applied in practice. "We are in ongoing dialogue with the Data Protection Bill team to ensure that possible risks to the activities of the British Library and similar institutions can be appropriately managed," it said.

The Library previously made it clear that it would not follow European regulations to allow people to remove traces of past events of their life from its records.

The most common reasons people want something removed from the internet is because it is erroneous, said Yair Cohen, a lawyer at London's Cohen Davis Solicitors, who specialize in media and privacy cases. But he also said people with old criminal convictions or who simply find some material about their younger selves embarrassing or misleading may wish to have that material removed.Campbell said the U.K. data regulator is broadly sympathetic to removals from search engines, but that in cases of criminal convictions, especially for serious offenses, they will usually conclude there is an overriding public interest in keeping the material up. This is particularly true, he said, in cases involving misconduct or fraud in regulated professions, such as medicine, law, or accounting.

The exemption of these archives probably wouldn't cause any concern for those wishing to expunge unwanted data, who tend to care most about search engine results, Campbell said. "In an ideal world, people would want to delete every trace of their past," he said. "But practically speaking, having something still available on a newspaper website or library archive won't cause that much concern. What people generally are worried about is going for a job interview or a first date with someone and someone puts their name into Google via their phone and the first thing that pops up is something negative."In 2014, when Google first announced it would comply with the European Court of Justice ruling that established "the right to be forgotten," privacy advocates worried the company would try to get around the rules by inserting a note into search results highlighting the fact that it had removed the link and possibly even directing searchers to archives like the Wayback Machine. In the end, the company decided not to include such notations.

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The Cooke County Library is joining with the American Library Association and libraries nationwide for Library Card Sign-up Month in September.

Library Card Sign-up Month is an initiative to make sure that every student has a free library card.

As of 2010, childrens programs accounted for nearly two-thirds of library programming in the United States, with more than 2.3 million childrens programs nationwide. Older students also access high-speed Internet and digital tools, as well as working with trained professionals on how best to use these resources.

Close to 90 percent of libraries offer digital literacy training to help students of all ages navigate.

Resources at the Cooke County Library are available to anyone with a library card. Students can turn to the library for materials, programs and knowledgeable library staff that support academic achievement.

Throughout the school year, the library staff will assist parents and caregivers with saving on educational resources and services for students. From free access to STEAM programs and activities, educational apps, virtual homework help, a library card is one of the most cost effective back to school supplies available.

Our library provides access and programs for students of all ages, said library director Jennifer Johnson-Spence. For preschool-age children, we offer early literacy resources and classes to encourage school readiness; for older children and teens, we supplement education with multidisciplinary programs; and for nontraditional students, we have GED resources. Theres really something for everyone, and its all free with a library card.

For more information on how to sign up for a library card, visit the Cooke County Library in person or visit the library online at http://www.cookecountylibrary.org.

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