The Municipal Building will close for the Christmas holiday at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24, and will be closed on Friday, Dec. 25. Our offices will reopen for normal business hours on Monday, Dec. 28.
There will be no trash, yard-waste or recycling collection on Christmas Day. Those routes will be collected instead on Saturday, Dec. 26. If you have any questions or concerns about your trash collection, please contact the Department of Public Works at (856) 424-4422, or Republic Services of NJ at (856) 234-4000.
On behalf of my administration and the members of Township Council, I want to wish all our residents who celebrate it a Merry Christmas, and continued peace and happiness throughout the holiday season.
As part of the Township's new contract for automated trash and recycling collection and disposal, the Township's participation in the Recyclebank rewards program will end on Dec. 31. The new contract will save Cherry Hill taxpayers approximately $1.3 million over the next five years. It's important to note that these changes will not affect your residential curbside recycling service; recycling will continue to be collected on your normal collection day, in the same blue cart. And although residents will no longer accrue points for their curbside recycling tonnage, your points will remain active and accessible, and you may continue to earn points through certain "green" activities on the Recyclebank website. I'm proud of our town's excellent recycling efforts, and I encourage you to continue looking for ways to reduce your household waste. Click here to read more.
Cherry Hill FOP Lodge 28 held its annual Christmas Party for children with special needs on Monday at the Crowne Plaza hotel.
Cherry Hill FOP Lodge #28 held its annual Christmas party for children with special needs on Monday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The day's festivities included a visit from the Phillie Phanatic, and our Cherry Hill Police Officers volunteered their time to help serve lunch and play with the children in attendance. The party has been a tradition for children in our area for more than 40 years, and is an opportunity for our officers to interact with the community and make the holiday season a little brighter. With the help of all involved, this year's event was an overwhelming success, and I'm proud of the work all of our our men and women in uniform do throughout the year to make Cherry Hill an even better place to live and play. Click here to see pictures of this year's event.
Registration is now open for winter programs and classes offered through the Cherry Hill Recreation Department. A full list of programs and classes can be found inside the 44-page magazine, along with important community news and photos of recent events around town. A list of spring courses is also included in the magainze; however, registration for those classes will not be available until February, as we work to implement a new, more dynamic and user-friendly registration program in the Recreation Department. I look forward to sharing details about that in the weeks and months to come! Click here to download the magazine if you have not received yours; click here for our online registration page. For questions or concerns, or if you have not received your copy of the magazine, contact the Recreation Department at (856) 488-7868, or e-mail Recreation@chtownship.com.
Cherry Hill Police are targeting impaired driving as part of a nationwide campaign, from Dec. 11 through Jan. 1.
The Cherry Hill Police Department will be cracking down on drivers impaired by alcohol or drugs as part of the annual end-of-year "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" statewide campaign. From Dec. 11, 2015, to Jan. 1, 2016, local and state law enforcement officials will conduct saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints looking for motorists who may be driving while intoxicated. The national "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" effort endeavors to raise awareness about the dangers of impaired driving through a combination of high-visibility enforcement and public education. Click here to learn more.
Congratulations to the newest members of the Cherry Hill Police Department.
I want to join Cherry Hill Police Chief Bud Monaghan in congratulating and welcoming Cherry Hill's newest Police Officers, who graduated Friday from the Camden County College Police Academy Basic Police Recruit Class #66. Officers Ahern, Downes, Lawrence, Casey, Nord and Baldino successfully completed the 20 intensive weeks of training and coursework required to graduate. Officer Lawrence earned the Physical Training Award for his exemplary performance in the physical fitness portion of the academy. Philadelphia Police Department Commissioner Charles Ramsey delivered the keynote address at the graduation. We wish them the best of luck in their new careers!
Christmas trees can be recycled curbside as part of your weekly yard-waste pickup, or taken to designated tree-drop locations that will be set up in the Public Works yard on Perina Blvd. and at the Municipal Building from Dec. 28 through the end of January. Remember: Trees with tinsel/lights, and those that are wrapped in plastic bags will not be collected curbside.
Save the Date for Earth Festival 2016: Saturday, April 30!
Be part of the largest Earth Day celebration in South Jersey -- and one of Cherry Hill's biggest and best family-friendly festivals -- at the 7th Sustainable Cherry Hill Earth Festival, set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at historic Croft Farm. Planning for this year's event is already well underway, and we're looking forward to this annual celebration of sustainability in our community. The day's festivities will kick off with the Family Fun Bike Ride at 8 a.m. Stay tuned in the coming weeks and months as we roll out more information. In the meantime, click here and be sure to bookmark this year's Earth Festival site. For more information about sponsorships, vendor or nonprofit displays, or to learn how to become involved with the 2016 festival, contact event producer Brenda Jorett.
Join Sustainable Cherry Hill for these free exciting events in early 2016.
Garden Task Force: It may be winter, but we're already thinking of spring and summer. Residents from across the South Jersey region are invited to get to know local CSA's (Community Supported Agriculture) and local food buying clubs. Let Master Gardeners give you tips about planting your own veggie garden. Sustainable Cherry Hill's Garden Task Force hosts its 3rd annual Food for Thought, from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Camden County Environmental Center. Fun for kids! This event is free. Please bring a canned food donation for the local food pantry. Register at www.sustainablecherryhill.org.
'Foodopoly' Book Discussion: Fed up with America's food crisis? Concerned about the overuse of pesticides on food? Join Sustainable Cherry Hill for a lively book discussion of "Foodopoly," an in-depth look into the corporate control of food, and the future of American food production, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, at Inkwood Books in Haddonfield. All are welcome to attend this free event hosted by the SCH Green Health Task Force. Register at www.sustainablecherryhill.org.
Customers can give the gift of reading to students in Cherry Hill during Barnes & Noble's annual Holiday Book Drive, from Nov. 1, 2015, through Jan 1, 2016 at the Cherry Hill Barnes & Noble location, 911 Haddonfield Road. The Barnes & Noble Holiday Book Drive provides customers the opportunity to purchase new books that will be donated to the Cherry Hill Education Foundation. Last year, Barnes & Noble customers and booksellers provided more than 1.5 million books to over 650 local charitable organizations that provide services to children across the country. Please consider stopping by the Cherry Hill Barnes & Noble to purchase a book to be donated to the Students of Cherry Hill Public Schools (Grades Pre-K thru 12) through the Cherry Hill Education Foundation. To learn more about the Education Foundation and its mission, visit www.CherryHillEducationFoundation.org.
The Cherry Hill Fire EMS Training Division is committed to raising the standard in Emergency Services Education with quality instruction and student-based training. The Division will offer several upcoming training classes. Click here to see the class offerings and to register.
Please join us for these and many other free special events this week at the Cherry Hill Public Library, 1100 N. Kings Hwy. Reminder: The library will close at 1 p.m. on Dec. 24 and be closed on Dec. 25. We will re-open at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 26.
Bring your lunch and enjoy a free film at the Cherry Hill Library. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. About the Film: The Make-A-Wish Foundation and the city of San Francisco join forces to grant a 5-year-old boy's wish to become Batman for a day, drawing worldwide attention. (PG, 87 minutes, 2015) Click here to watch the trailer for this movie.
Calling all Pokemon fans! Join us for some open play. Bring your deck, trade cards and battle it out with other enthusiasts just like you! This event is open to all ages. No registration.
The kids will have a blast as we count down to noon with unstructured play, group dances and New Year's merrymaking. No registration.
There's so much for seniors to do in Cherry Hill this winter!
A new year is coming soon, and so are many wonderful services, programs and events for Cherry Hill seniors. Remember, the Township's senior bus service is free and available to take you to events and activities around town. Call the Clerk's Office at (856) 661-4711 to arrange an appointment.
Our popular senior luncheons will resume on March 11 and continue monthly through July. Each event includes a movie screening and lunch for only $5/person. All the 2015 scheduled events sold out in advance. Be sure to visit the Recreation Department to reserve your tickets early so you don't miss the fun. A complete schedule is listed in the current Community Magazine along with our list of classes offerings such as beading, ceramics, mah jongg, Spanish and yoga starting Jan. 11.
The Cherry Hill Fire Department provides free smoke detector inspection and installation for seniors. Call (856) 427-7441 to make an appointment..
Camden County hosts free Senior Legal Workshops to discuss wills, living wills and powers of attorney for senior residents 60+. These workshops are held at the Voorhees Town. Contact the Surrogate Court at (856) 225-7282 to make an appointment.
AARP Tax Prep sessions return to the Township beginning Feb. 2, 2016. Help is free and available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Tuesday and Friday in Room 208 of the Municipal Building.
For more information/questions about these services, or any aspect of senior living in Cherry Hill, you may contact Gaye Pino, Senior Services Coordinator, at (856) 661-4800 or gpino@chtownship.com.


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Lord of the Screens
Date: January 29, 2018Author: Sean Tasker 2 Comments
I just rewatched the Lord of the Rings trilogy with my wife over the past two days, and it got me really excited over the upcoming Amazon tv series! While watching the films, I was thinking of where they could go with the show, and there are some really cool options for sure!
So first off, they have already announced that this show will take place before Fellowship of the Ring, so no follow up on Frodo as he crosses the western Sundering Sea into the Undying Lands, Valinor. Or on Samwise Gamgee as he becomes Mayor of Hobbiton, and then his trip to Valinor as well (true story) (canonical story).
So where can we go before Fellowship of the Ring? Before Bilbo's 111th birthday? Well I doubt that they would just recreate The Hobbit, because 1) it just came out, and 2) they already stretched the story out beyond recognition turning it into three movies. Much less three seasons.
This makes as much sense as a show about the whole Bible. Spanning Milleniums, the creation of the world, the rise and fall of empires, according to the LotR wikia, The Silmarillion is about:
The Ainulindalë – The creation of Eä (Tolkien's universe) and Ainur by Eru Ilúvatar and the start of the corruption of Melkor
The Valaquenta – A brief description of the Valar and Maiar, the supernatural beings
The Quenta Silmarillion – The history of the events before and during the First Age, which forms the bulk of the collection
The Akallabêth – The history of the Second Age
The Rings of Power and the Third Age
The only way you could really pull this off is in an American Horror Story kind of way, meaning each season has a different cast of characters telling a different story.
Something that would make a lot more sense, would be to take a single Age, and tell THAT story, such as…
The First Age
This involves much of the creation of Middle-earth, as well as Melkor, who was Saurons mentor. This would not really hit a lot of points that fans of the movies and regular TV watchers want to see. I think this is a project that someone could take on later, after we have a show about…
The Second Age
This would be the rise and fall of Sauron, and the creation of the Rings. Basically the first five minutes of Fellowship of the Ring, as well as a lot of the lore touched on during the Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War videogames. This makes the most sense to me.
If they want to hit more points that fans are familiar with, however, that only leaves stories from the Third Age, which is when the Trilogy and The Hobbit are set.
When Aragorn is still running from his destiny, he is a "Ranger of the North" with the name of Strider. This implies that there are lots of Rangers in the Northern part of Middle-earth, and we could see more of that. He is 87 years old when we meet him in the Prancing Pony, due to him being not a regular human, but Dúnadan, meaning he can live a lot longer (250 years), stronger, and taller (6'4″+). He has had many years as a Ranger, and there would be some pretty cool stories about that.
But if we are going to have a show like that, hopefully it would involve him more traveling around the rest of Arda (Earth). We only see it for a little bit during the movies, but there is more to Arda than just Middle-earth and Valinor. We see mercenaries and armies that Sauron and Saruman gather during the final battle in Return of the King, with the boats and the Oliphants. Hopefully we can see Aragorn traveling Arda and meeting all these other places. Saruman says that with the fall of Gondor and Rohan, it would be the fall of Man, so why aren't these other places taken into consideration? Are they not Men? Also, maybe not so many white people in the cast? Diversity is a good thing!
Dwarves of Middle-earth
The last story I could think of would be the fall of The Lonely Mountain to Smaug. In The Hobbit movie we see 13 dwarves, and in the Trilogy, we see four at the Council of Elrond. In neither do we see any kind of city or civilization, except for the fallen Mines of Moria, which Gimli didn't even knew was not only destroyed, but clearly destroyed for a long, long time. So much so, that both Gandalf and Saruman knew about it, and even had a book about the fall! What is going on with the Dwarves of Middle-earth??
Basically there is so much that we could see with this new Amazon show, and we have been promised at least two seasons, so hopefully they choose a route that is awesome, and not just finding justice for Tom Bombadil, because really, who cares? Hint: I do. I care.
What do you want to see in the Lord of the Rings TV show? Let us know in the comments below!
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A total of 566 people in the 15-24 age group in North Walsham were spoken to during February's survey.
They were asked about possible future places, activities and opportunities in the town.
The survey was carried out by the Phoenix Youth Initiative group of 15 volunteers, led by the North Walsham Youth Gardeners team.
And the group has now met supporters and potential funders, hosted by supporter Mal Gray, of Disc 'n' Dat shop in Market Street.
Those involved included North Norfolk district councillor (NNDC) Nigel Lloyd, Regenerate North Walsham community interest company (CIC) director Bob Wright, Community Shop trustee Paul Oakes and North Walsham Play's Matt Smith.
Mr Wright said: "Young people often attract negative headlines, so it is refreshing to see the obvious enthusiasm and ideas in this group.
Outdoor activities were requested by many in the survey. North Walsham Play will be building an outdoor gym on the Memorial Park and is planning its next project at Trackside that will include a new skate park and a graffiti wall.
Free wi-fi was a near universal request. This will be installed in the next months as part of the NNDC-funded Market Town Initiatives project. This will cover the town centre and in a second phase will be extended to Memorial Park and Trackside.
An indoor social place to meet was also important to those who responded. The group is engaging with several local venues to see what may be possible and hope to be able to set up a pilot project.
Many respondents asked about volunteering in the town, and this is being addressed by the Think Carer Group, which is compiling a list of opportunities for all age groups.


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NLA embarks on strategy for growth
in Business March 23, 2015
The Management of the National Lottery Authority (NLA) has embarked on a three-year innovative strategy for growth aimed at making its activities more dynamic and appealing to the public.
The move amongst others is to exponentially increase NLA's revenue generation base by 230 per cent by 2017 as well as ensure an entrenched customer-centric culture amongst its staff to contribute to the success of the Organization.
Brigadier General Martin Ahiaglo (Retired), acting Director General of NLA, announced this at a meeting with journalists and Northern Regional Executives of the Ghana Journalists' Association (GJA) in Tamale at the weekend.
The meeting was to enable Management of NLA and journalists and the GJA in the Region to fraternise as well as deepen their partnership for the development of the country.
Brigadier General Ahiaglo said Management of NLA was working to ensure that it rolled out at least a product each year as part of efforts to realize its strategy, adding, two products including "Soccer Cash" had been rolled out this year.
He said Management of NLA was also carrying out a shake up within the organization, which would lead to the creation of a marketing department and corporate communications unit to better market its products and tell the stories of NLA respectively.
He said a proper training of all staff of NLA had begun to ensure the achievement of the goals.
He commended the media in the Region for its strong partnership with NLA for the common good of the country and assured of being a dependable partner to the media.
Mr Caesar Abagali, Northern Regional Chairman of GJA emphasized that the GJA was ready to work with development and results oriented organizations such as the NLA for the development of the country.
Mr Abagali commended Management of NLA for its support to the GJA to undertake the recent national sanitation exercise in Tamale, which attracted President Mahama. GNA


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Apple is one of the latest critics of Britain's Investigatory Powers Bill, stating it weakens online security for law-abiding customers.
It wasn't so long ago that we feared private technology companies weren't doing enough to keep private data secure. But lately, more and more tech companies are actually criticizing world governments for the exact same thing. The latest example is none other than iPhone and iPad manufacturer Apple, who openly criticized a bill expanding online surveillance options for British intelligence agencies.
The proposed law is the Investigatory Powers Bill, which has been a topic of some debate since it was released last month. This bill gives intelligence agencies the ability to view browsing histories, intercept communications, and take remote control of computers and smartphones to access data. While intended to track criminal activity, critics believe the bill grants spies far more authority to collect private data than any other Western nation. Yes, including the United States.
So where does Apple fit in here? In a response to a British parliamentary committee, Apple claims the bill would weaken its encryption, encourage interference with Apple products, and force non-UK tech companies to break their home laws. It's also concerned this bill will spark similar legislation in other Western countries. Most importantly, Apple fears any system used to access private data could be accessed by criminals as well.
"We believe it is wrong to weaken security for hundreds of millions of law-abiding customers so that it will also be weaker for the very few who pose a threat," Apple said in a statement. "A key left under the doormat would not just be there for the good guys. The bad guys would find it too."
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Japan's Abe calls for enforcement of sanctions against North Korea: NYT
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to media after North Korea's missile launch, at his official residence in Tokyo, Japan, September 15, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
TOKYO (Reuters) - The international community must remain united and enforce sanctions against North Korea after its repeated launch of ballistic missiles, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an editorial published in the New York Times on Sunday.
Abe's editorial was published before world leaders gather in New York for a United Nations General Assembly meeting this week, where North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes are expected to loom large over proceedings.
North Korea launched a missile over Japan on Friday, its second in the past three weeks, and conducted its sixth and by far most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, in defiance of international pressure.
Such tests are in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and show that North Korea can now target the United States or Europe, Abe said.
Diplomacy and dialogue will not work with North Korea and concerted pressure by the entire international community is essential to tackle the threats posed by North Korea, Abe wrote.
A week ago, the 15-member U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted its ninth sanctions resolution since 2006 over North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.
Reporting by Stanley White; Editing by Paul Tait


The final moment is now nearing as the Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai has been admitted to the Seven Hills Hospital in Mumbai. The actress checked in, in the wee hours of 14th November.
However, till now nothing has been officially confirmed by the Bachchan family. Meanwhile, the to-be grand father Amitabh Bachchan Tweeted that they are eagerly waiting for the day, when the new family member would be welcomed.
On Saturday, the 'Dhoom 2' actress was seen visiting the hospital for a regular check up. Aishwarya was accompanied by her family members, husband Abhishek Bachchan and sister-in-law Shweta Nanda.
Preparations for the much awaited baby of the Bachchan family are in full swing. Amitabh seems to be more excited in the current situation which was obvious from his recent tweets which mentioned that the whole family has got together for the arrival and that it is the greatest joy for him. Amidst all the preparations, Amitabh did not forget to catch the recently released movie 'Rockstar' starring Ranbir Kapoor and debutant Nargis Fakhri. On Friday, Bachchan's Twitter account was flooded with congratulatory messages that a boy was born to Aishwarya, to which the actor had immediately responded and clarified that the reports are false and incorrect.


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Want to stop being gay? These loons will show you how.
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2006/06/02/ungay_2/
This recent segment on "Paula Zahn Now" explores the strange world of reparative therapists who try and "cure" gays. It's a breezier version of Mark Benjamin's thorough and thorougly fascinating series for Salon last year. But it's worth watching for one Richard Cohen, president of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, who demonstrates his novel strategies for straightening out his clients. I'd say more, but you really should just watch, at least until Cohen gets out the tennis racket. . . .
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Q: Javascript to prepend something to href value of anchor tags only Requirement
We have a textarea in our UI where user can enter values like this -
<link attr="foo" attr2="bar" href='http://blah.com/style.css' rel='stylesheet' />

We would like to prepend {clickurl} to the href attribute of anchor tags only*, using javascript logic.
Currently we have the following regex -
return bannerHtml.replace(/(href\s*=\s*[\"'])\s*/ig,"$1{clickurl}");

This does the required change, but it does so to any tag containing the href attribute, i.e. not only to anchor tags but also to other tags like link tags. So, the sample input shown above becomes -
<link attr="foo" attr2="bar" href='{clickurl}http://blah.com/style.css' rel='stylesheet' />

Observed that the change happens to the link tag too.
So, How do I modify the logic such that -

*

*The change happens to anchor tags only.

*it takes into account, the possibility of any number of attributes before the href attribute. (In the sample input, there are many attributes like attr="foo" etc. before the href attribute.)

Is regex advisable here?
I checked some questions like Javascript Regex to replace URLs with links, but not in embed (or img) tags

A: why dont you use something like this :
(<a.*?href\s*=\s*[\"'])\s*

this will only replace the a tag href.
return bannerHtml.replace(/(<a.*?href\s*=\s*[\"'])\s*/ig,"$1{clickurl}");

demo here : http://regex101.com/r/eM7zU9
IMHO it will be better off to just use getElementsByTagNames('a') and replace the attr href (Since you want to do it for all the anchors)

A: To replace urls only in a <a tag while also making sure we are just after the <link tag, I would suggest this simple replacement:
return bannerHtml.replace(/(<link attr[^>]+>[^<]+]+?href=")/img, "$1{clickurl}");

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Home News & BlogsApply for part of £150,000 of National Lottery funding awarded to Angling Trust towards tackling of inequalities in sport and physical activity
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Apply for part of £150,000 of National Lottery funding awarded to Angling Trust towards tackling of inequalities in sport and physical activity
From: Angling Trust
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The Angling Trust has been awarded £150,000 of National Lottery funding from Sport England's Tackling Inequalities Fund which aims to tackle inequalities in activity levels through working with its partners to reach those most in need as a result of the impact of COVID-19.
The funding award will allow the Angling Trust to directly support community angling projects to remain operating. This will ensure that the priority groups who use their services can remain active and have access to the many health and wellbeing benefits that angling provides for them.
The community angling projects will be wide-ranging and help a broad spectrum of people in various communities across the country. Typically they include inner city angling venues in low social economic communities, people suffering from mental health issues including PTSD, those disadvantaged by disability, special needs, or illness as well as low-cost fishing opportunities and alternative education through angling-based activity.
Sport England's work and contribution to Tackling Inequalities focuses on reducing the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on activity levels in under-represented groups, thereby ensuring that during this period, gaps do not widen between those who are active and those who are not.
With a strong understanding of the needs and issues in their areas, Sport England has initially channeled £3.3m through the 43 Active Partnerships across England to support community groups in their areas as a result of the impacts of COVID-19. They are also investing further funding through National Partner organisations that have specific expertise and reach to our target audiences.
This funding and support will enable community groups working with target audiences – Lower Socio-Economic Groups, Black, Asian Minority Ethnic Communities, Disabled People and People with Long-Term Health Conditions – to continue to exist and engage with their communities with a view to keeping them active during both the lockdown and early recovery stages.
Clive Copeland, Head of Participation at the Angling Trust said: "The £150,000 of Sport England funding is fantastic news. It means that hundreds of people will be able to remain connected with the exceptional work these projects provide in four significantly underrepresented groups. Absolutely anyone can go fishing, and our sport should be accessible regardless of ability, gender, income, race, demographic or place but insight suggests that COVID-19 is preventing that. This award will mean that their work can continue to allow 'angling for all'. We are extremely pleased that our bid to Sport England was successful at the maximum amount available. This, we feel, reflects the ability for angling to enable those sometimes less able to be physically active to take part in a sport that overcomes the especially divisive impact this virus can have on health and wellbeing."
Tim Hollingsworth, Sport England's Chief Executive, said: "We are proud to be able to provide funding and support to angling in this difficult period. This funding will help support our valuable community infrastructure that is so important in keeping the nation active and will also provide important connections and re-connections for people whose lives have been affected by COVID-19 and for whom remaining active is so important for their physical, mental and social wellbeing. We know from our research and data that there are existing inequalities between groups when it comes to activity levels and COVID-19 has re-enforced these. Thanks to the support of the National Lottery and its players, the Tackling Inequalities Fund will be both crucial and central to ensuring no-one is left behind when it comes to having the opportunity to be active during this period. This builds off the back of our £35m Community Emergency Fund that has already reached and supported over 7,500 community clubs and groups across England."
For more information on the Sport England Tackling Inequalities Fund please contact Clive Copeland, Head of Participation, Angling Trust. [email protected]
The Angling Trust are a representative body for all anglers in England and Wales. Our members support the campaigns we carry out to protect fish and fishing and our programmes to increase participation. We are recognised by Sport England as the national governing body in England and promote active lifestyles and maintaining a regular angling habit. We are united in a collaborative relationship with Fish Legal, a separate membership association that uses the law to protect fish stocks and the rights of its members throughout the UK. www.anglingtrust.net
About the Sport England Tackling Inequalities Fund
Part of Sport England's overall £210m support package to help the sport and physical activity sector through COVID-19, Sport England is working with Active Partnerships and National Partners who have specific expertise engaging with our priority audiences. Further information on this fund can be found at www.sportengland.org/tackling-inequalities-fund.
About National Lottery
National Lottery players raise £30m every week for good causes, funding arts, heritage, sports, voluntary and charity projects around the UK. For more information on good causes in your area go to www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk
About Sport England
Sport England is a public body and invests up to £300 million National Lottery and government money each year in projects and programmes that help people get active and play sport. It wants everyone in England, regardless of age, background, or level of ability, to feel able to engage in sport and physical activity. That's why a lot of its work is specifically focused on helping people who do no, or very little, physical activity and groups who are typically less active – like women, disabled people and people on lower incomes. www.sportengland.org
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Shaw Floors debuts Facebook page
Shaw Floors has launched its official Facebook page, enabling the company to communicate directly with homeowners in a more personal way. The page, which is found at www.facebook.com/ShawFloors or by typing "Shaw Floors" in the Facebook search window, is intended to inspire visitors with relevant product information, design tips and company news updates, along with photos and videos from various Shaw events and links to media coverage featuring Shaw products.
As a style leader in the flooring industry, it is natural for Shaw to feature a significant amount of decorating-related content in its Facebook posts; however, the company will also use its new social media platform to educate consumers about its sustainability story and performance benefits, which are two other areas where Shaw stands out from the competition, the company said.
"Shaw's Facebook page is designed to be an ongoing resource for consumers who are interested in learning more about Shaw as well as home décor in general," said Shaw's Director of Marketing Technology, Steve Abernathy. "While our social media communications will center around flooring's impact on the overall décor of a home, we realize a floor must work with the other elements of a room to create a cohesive look. Consequently, our Facebook posts will discuss everything from paint and cabinetry to furniture and home accessories. We'd like consumers to view Shaw as a Facebook friend they can turn to for product recommendations and design advice."
In addition to offering useful information for decorating enthusiasts, Shaw plans for its Facebook page to serve as an interactive community where consumers can share their own design tips and renovation successes with Shaw and with each other. To facilitate the creation of this community, Shaw will invite consumers to respond to specific questions and to post photos of Shaw Floors products in their homes.
"The best part about Shaw having a Facebook page is that we get to converse directly with consumers," continued Abernathy. "People are very opinionated, and we can't wait to find out what looks and projects most appeal to our Facebook fans. When designing new products, we scour the world for the latest trends, but you never know…we may find out about a hot new look from a consumer's Facebook post now. It's amazing what technology allows us to do today."
While Shaw's Facebook page is primarily geared toward a consumer audience, the company is encouraging retailers to check out the site as well. Shaw asks that all retailers who post on the Shaw Floors Facebook page identify themselves as a flooring retailer, so consumers will clearly understand who is providing them with information.
To become a fan of Shaw on Facebook, visit www.facebook.com/ShawFloors and click the "Like" button. To learn more about Shaw, visit www.shawfloors.com .
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2008 Mercedes-Benz Bluetec SUV Test Drives: Diesel Engine Offers Hope for Big Vehicles
MANCHESTER, Vermont— Maybe it's misplaced emotion, but at times, one finds it hard not to feel a little sympathy for the car companies these days. After all, skyrocketing fuel prices have taken a big bite out of the historically profitable truck and SUV segments. Sure, small-car sales are up, but the consumer demand for more fuel-efficient cars has caught a number of automakers off-guard.
So launching a premium SUV—even one powered by diesel—takes something of a leap of faith. And the company ready to leap right now is Mercedes-Benz. Their SUVs and crossovers, the five-seater ML-Class, the seven-passenger GL-Class and the six-seater (with an option for seven) R-Class, now get the option of a 50-state-legal diesel engine: the 320 CDI Bluetec. Benz officials have faith that the high current costs of diesel is an anomaly that will right itself in good time. As diesel fans, we certainly hope so.
Across winding two-laners here, we recently put the pedal down on the full range of V6 diesel Mercedes-Benz SUVs—ML, GL and R—to find out which ones make the most compelling case for hauling capability, without instilling the fear of a lease for yet another rig with a gas-guzzling V8. —Colin Ryan
Some of us have seen this engine before—in a version of the E-Class mid-sized sedan offered for lease in California. Yes, despite the Golden State's otherwise laid-back attitude, it's notoriously picky when it comes to emissions. So Bluetec's claim to be the world's cleanest production diesel engine is pretty much on the money. How so? It starts off with clean fuel (low-sulfur diesel in this case) pumped into a common rail setup, then injected into an all-aluminum, turbocharged and intercooled 3.2-liter V6 engine. Technology has come far enough to enable a high degree of efficiency at every stage of compression and combustion. But it's when those spent gases leave the chamber that Bluetec really comes into its own.
The catalytic converter does what it usually does, dealing with carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbons. Then a particulate filter captures microscopic, barely measurable pieces of soot. The final step is the AdBlue system. AdBlue is a euphemism for urea, which is more or less what it sounds like. Ammonia is the key ingredient, sprayed into the exhaust gases as they pass though an SCR (selective catalytic reduction) unit. This arrangement tackles nitrogen oxides, the one exhaust component that's higher for diesels than for gasoline-powered engines. Eighty percent is converted into harmless nitrogen and water. Emissions are low enough for Bluetec-equipped cars to qualify for the same federal income tax credits as hybrids (these expire at the end of 2010, but, with another possible leap of faith, Mercedes hopes they'll be extended). Anyone thinking long-term right now can rest assured: The urea tank needs replenishing every 10,000 miles or so and can be done during a routine service. The cost of the liquid is fairly cheap, but Mercedes has no exact figures at the moment.
In the ML-Class, updated for the 2009 model year, the diesel responds well, and there's hardly a hint of traditional diesel rattle. Only when cold or when revved harder than usual does the driver become aware that this isn't a gasoline V6. It's all torque with diesels, so the less-than-scintillating 210 hp at 3400 rpm is more than made up for with a hefty 398 lb.-ft. of twist from the basement-low 1600 rpm.
The ML is the fastest of the three in the sprint to 60 mph, clocking in at 8.5 seconds. And it certainly feels sprightly. It's the most enjoyable to drive, and at 4,974 pounds, it's the lightest of the trio. Over a test run of 188 miles, through light traffic and a mix of small towns and rolling hills, we hit at an average speed of 44 mph and the ML returned 27.5 mpg.
The GL is, in essence, a bit of a "yank tank." It's a big SUV, best enjoyed with the cruise control activated and eating up the miles on a family road trip. Over 101 miles, averaging 38 mph, the GL achieved 25.8 mpg. But in this application, the V6 starts to feel a touch overwhelmed by the GL's extra mass.
It's a similar story with the R-Class, although consumption doesn't seem to suffer by much. Covering 58 miles at an average of 39 mph resulted in 27.4 mpg. This vehicle falls somewhere between the categories of minivan and SUV—it's really a long, tall wagon, smooth and sedate. But if we're honest, the interior seems a little too nice to let a young family loose on it.
A Bluetec engine can be 25 to 33 percent more frugal than a similar-displacement gasoline engine. The ML and the R 320 CDI should start around $45,000 and $43,000, respectively, when these models arrive in October. That's $1,000 more than the 3,5-liter gasoline V6 counterparts. Coupled with high fuel prices, these machines make the most sense if someone is doing higher-than-average mileage on mainly freeway routes. Since there isn't a comparable V6-powered gas equivalent in the GL, then this Bluetec version will be about $3,000 less than the smallest V8 model (the GL450, currently starting at $55,900). Any family whose environmental conscience and checking account are conspiring to turn them away from SUVs may soon start seeing these Blutecs as a viable option.
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Students and staff at Rawlins High School are mourning the death of a classmate who was fatally injured in a rollover crash late Saturday night.
"Cody [Scott] will be remembered as a bright young man with a contagious smile on his face and personality to match," Principal Darren Heslep said in an email Monday.
Scott was driving a Kia on Ferris Crossing Road in Carbon County at roughly 11:40 p.m. Saturday when, as he crested a hill, he lost control of the vehicle.
The Kia rolled multiple times, ejecting Scott and one of his four passengers. Scott was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbon County, where he died of his injuries.
"He was excited and enthusiastic about almost everything he was involved with," Heslep added. "Cody was well liked and respected by our staff and students throughout the district."
Scott and his passengers were not wearing their seat belts on Saturday night, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol. While Scott perished following the crash, his four passengers were injured and had to be hospitalized.
Heslep said Scott had been set to graduate this spring and had been accepted to Casper College, where he intended to pursue a degree in physical/health education.
"Whether at work, at school, or out in the community, Cody was the kind of young man who would make time to stop and say 'hi' and ask you are doing," Heslep continued.
Scott's death was not the only tragedy that occurred in Wyoming over Mother's Day weekend. Early Saturday morning, 16-year-old Triston Addison and her passenger were both thrown from a pickup truck on U.S. 26.
Neither Addison nor her passenger was properly restrained, and Addison later died at a hospital in Riverton.
As of Sunday evening, 62 people had died on Wyoming highways since Jan. 1.
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The police vs. social media
Why the logic of policing and the logic of social media are in conflict
by Brian Bethune
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Policing and social media
By Christopher J. Schneider
In a very real sense, this a story of two hockey riots. The Vancouver Canucks went to the final game of the Stanley Cup finals in 1994 and 2011. They lost each time, and each time their fans rioted. There was considerable variation in scale between the eruptions, but the main distinction was that 1994 was an essentially familiar episode in Canada's rich history of off-ice hockey violence, while 2011, a Vancouver Police Department report noted, was "North America's first social media sports riot."
Written for fellow scholars and dense with academic terminology, this evaluation by a Brandon University sociologist of how the social media revolution has affected policing in Canada is surprisingly populist in its framing. In 1994, it notes, the VPD used court orders to acquire TV footage of rioters, video that police used to control the narrative of the event (after, that is, police discarded the parts that showed police violence). In 2011, the nascent VPD social media department was paralyzed—Const. Anne Longley, virtually the whole of that department, recalled "watching cars being torched and people destroying the buildings and streets downtown, [wondering], 'What do I say on social media now? Do I use a hashtag? Which one? Should I use the word riot?' "
Meanwhile, the user-controlled site "Vancouver Riot Pics: Post Your Photos" was online within 10 minutes of the riot's start. Many observers worried that the rioters were organizing themselves by social media, but the opposite response troubled authorities. Online vigilantism—naming and shaming, even of individuals too young to be lawfully named—was on the march. An alarmed VPD found itself not only with an out-of-control riot, but a public response equally outside its grasp. Large police forces across Canada took notice and began to scale up their immersion in the new media; the next month, Toronto Police Services launched its "social media strategy."
Not that the strategy did the TPS any good two years later, when Const. James Forcillo shot and killed Sammy Yatim on a streetcar. Bystander video of the shooting went up on YouTube shortly after; three days later, the TPS posted its own YouTube video, an anodyne plea to wait for the results of the investigation. Pro-police response was drowned out by hostile reaction. Social media, argues Schneider, "provided the dominant frame of how [Yatim's] death was interpreted in the absence of police accounts." The logic of policing (hierarchical and tight-lipped) and the logic of social media (democratic and wide-open) are in conflict in fundamental ways, Schneider points out, and there is little doubt that police acceptance of body cameras—their own video supply—would be far less were it not for social media.


My philosophy as a D-line coach is to be aggressive and stop the run. As a defensive lineman, your main job is to stop the run. By stopping the run, you are dictating the tempo of how the game is going to be played. Almost every team wants to establish a run game so that they can complement that with their passing game. Stopping a team's running game puts them in a situation where they have to throw the ball. This makes play calling easier for a defensive coordinator by taking the guessing game out of it.
Every defensive lineman wants to get as many sacks as possible. You can do this by putting the offense in more passing situations. That is done by playing good defense on first and second downs by stopping the run. This will force the offense to pass in order to keep the drives alive, allowing D-linemen more chances at rushing the QB for sacks.
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Etracker sets a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and into which an Etracker component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to transmit data for marketing and optimisation purposes to Etracker through the Etracker component. During the course of this technical procedure Etracker receives data that is used to create pseudonymous user profiles. The user profiles created in such a way are used for the analysis of the behaviour of the data subject, which has accessed Internet page of the controller and are evaluated with the aim of improving and optimizing the website. The data collected through the Etracker component is not used without first obtaining of a separate and explicit consent of the data subject to identify the data subject. This data is not merged with personal data or other data which contain the same pseudonym.
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In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data relating to a use of this Internet site that are generated by the Etracker cookie as well as the processing of these data by Etracker and the chance to preclude such. For this purpose, the data subject must press the 'cookie-set' button under the link http://www.etracker.de/privacy?sid=58e31c864e66848984dfc79b8f6b51a9&id=privacy&et=V23Jbb&languageId=2, which sets an opt-out cookie. The opt-out cookie used for this purpose is placed on the information technology system used by the data subject. If the cookies are deleted from the system of the data subject, then the data subject must call up the link again and set a new opt-out cookie.
With the setting of the opt-out cookie, however, the possibility exists that the websites of the controller are not fully usable anymore by the data subject.
The applicable data protection provisions of Etracker may be accessed under https://www.etracker.com/de/datenschutz.html.
10. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Facebook
On this website, the controller has integrated components of the enterprise Facebook. Facebook is a social network.
A social network is a place for social meetings on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Facebook allows social network users to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos, and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States. If a person lives outside of the United States or Canada, the controller is the Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet website, which is operated by the controller and into which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-ins) was integrated, the web browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download display of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook through the Facebook component. An overview of all the Facebook Plug-ins may be accessed under https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. During the course of this technical procedure, Facebook is made aware of what specific sub-site of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook, Facebook detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-site of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Facebook component and associated with the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Facebook buttons integrated into our website, e.g. the "Like" button, or if the data subject submits a comment, then Facebook matches this information with the personal Facebook user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Facebook always receives, through the Facebook component, information about a visit to our website by the data subject, whenever the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook during the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If such a transmission of information to Facebook is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Facebook account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection guideline published by Facebook, which is available at https://facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. In addition, it is explained there what setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, different configuration options are made available to allow the elimination of data transmission to Facebook. These applications may be used by the data subject to eliminate a data transmission to Facebook.
11. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)
On this website, the controller has integrated the component of Google Analytics (with the anonymizer function). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics is the collection, gathering, and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. A web analysis service collects, inter alia, data about the website from which a person has come (the so-called referrer), which sub-pages were visited, or how often and for what duration a sub-page was viewed. Web analytics are mainly used for the optimization of a website and in order to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.
For the web analytics through Google Analytics the controller uses the application "_gat. _anonymizeIp". By means of this application the IP address of the Internet connection of the data subject is abridged by Google and anonymised when accessing our websites from a Member State of the European Union or another Contracting State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyze the traffic on our website. Google uses the collected data and information, inter alia, to evaluate the use of our website and to provide online reports, which show the activities on our websites, and to provide other services concerning the use of our Internet site for us.
Google Analytics places a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and into which a Google Analytics component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data through the Google Analytics component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Google. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Google gains knowledge of personal information, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Google, inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks, and subsequently create commission settlements.
The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the access time, the location from which the access was made, and the frequency of visits of our website by the data subject. With each visit to our Internet site, such personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, will be transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google Analytics from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data that are generated by Google Analytics, which is related to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must download a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and information about the visits of Internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-ons is considered an objection by Google. If the information technology system of the data subject is later deleted, formatted, or newly installed, then the data subject must reinstall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on was uninstalled by the data subject or any other person who is attributable to their sphere of competence, or is disabled, it is possible to execute the reinstallation or reactivation of the browser add-ons.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained under the following Link https://www.google.com/analytics/.
12. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google-AdWords
On this website, the controller has integrated Google AdWords. Google AdWords is a service for Internet advertising that allows the advertiser to place ads in Google search engine results and the Google advertising network. Google AdWords allows an advertiser to pre-define specific keywords with the help of which an ad on Google's search results only then displayed, when the user utilizes the search engine to retrieve a keyword-relevant search result. In the Google Advertising Network, the ads are distributed on relevant web pages using an automatic algorithm, taking into account the previously defined keywords.
The operating company of Google AdWords is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
The purpose of Google AdWords is the promotion of our website by the inclusion of relevant advertising on the websites of third parties and in the search engine results of the search engine Google and an insertion of third-party advertising on our website.
If a data subject reaches our website via a Google ad, a conversion cookie is filed on the information technology system of the data subject through Google. The definition of cookies is explained above. A conversion cookie loses its validity after 30 days and is not used to identify the data subject. If the cookie has not expired, the conversion cookie is used to check whether certain sub-pages, e.g, the shopping cart from an online shop system, were called up on our website. Through the conversion cookie, both Google and the controller can understand whether a person who reached an AdWords ad on our website generated sales, that is, executed or canceled a sale of goods.
The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie is used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are used in order to determine the total number of users who have been served through AdWords ads to ascertain the success or failure of each AdWords ad and to optimize our AdWords ads in the future. Neither our company nor other Google AdWords advertisers receive information from Google that could identify the data subject.
The conversion cookie stores personal information, e.g. the Internet pages visited by the data subject. Each time we visit our Internet pages, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.
The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by our website, as stated above, by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from placing a conversion cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, a cookie set by Google AdWords may be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.
The data subject has a possibility of objecting to the interest based advertisement of Google. Therefore, the data subject must access from each of the browsers in use the link www.google.de/settings/ads and set the desired settings.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
13. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Instagram
On this website, the controller has integrated components of the service Instagram. Instagram is a service that may be qualified as an audiovisual platform, which allows users to share photos and videos, as well as disseminate such data in other social networks.
The operating company of the services offered by Instagram is Instagram LLC, 1 Hacker Way, Building 14 First Floor, Menlo Park, CA, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which an Instagram component (Insta button) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding Instagram component of Instagram. During the course of this technical procedure, Instagram becomes aware of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Instagram, Instagram detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Instagram component and is associated with the respective Instagram account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Instagram buttons integrated on our website, then Instagram matches this information with the personal Instagram user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Instagram receives information via the Instagram component that the data subject has visited our website provided that the data subject is logged in at Instagram at the time of the call to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Instagram button or not. If such a transmission of information to Instagram is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she can prevent this by logging off from their Instagram account before a call-up to our website is made.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Instagram may be retrieved under https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
14. Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube
On this website, the controller has integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also provides free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.
The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, UNITED STATES. The YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.
YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that the data subject has visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call to our website is logged in on YouTube; this occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable for the data subject, the delivery may be prevented if the data subject logs off from their own YouTube account before a call-up to our website is made.
YouTube's data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.
15. Legal basis for the processing
16. The legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party
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Just a short time before Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developers Conference, the company has taken its online Apple Store down. The software that runs the store typically needs to be taken offline to update it to include new products, suggesting something new will be launched this morning.
While we know the keynote at WWDC will cover Snow Leopard, iPhone OS 3.0, and a likely iPhone hardware update, the fact that the store is down suggests that Apple will be announcing some new hardware or software that will be available to order shortly after the keynote is finished. It could be the new iPhones, Snow Leopard, rumored tweaks to MacBooks, or some other "one more thing" entirely. MacRumors also noted that the icon for iCal in several WWDC banners has been changed to show June 19—it has shown July 17 as the default date on icon since iCal was first launched in 2002—a possible clue that something might be available on that date.
Apple will kick off WWDC in well under an hour with a keynote headed by Phil Schiller. Our intrepid editor Jacqui Cheng will be covering all the announcements live, while Clint Ecker will be manning a DSLR to capture the keynote in glorious 24-bit color. Head over to our WWDC Keynote Liveblog already in progress.


Almost two years after the Grenfell fire took the lives of 72 people, three community leaders who have been helping to unite and heal the local community since the tragedy discussed the lessons they had learnt from their experiences at the NLGN's annual conference yesterday.
The panel discussion brought Barry Quirk, chief executive of Kensington & Chelsea RBC, together with Abdurahman Sayed, the head of the Muslim cultural heritage centre Al-Manaar in the borough, and Reverend Dr Michael Long, the minister of Notting Hill Methodist Church.
Apart from the extent of the horror that unfolded, what made the Grenfell tower incident unparalleled was the lack of legitimacy the local authority had at the time to deal with the emergency, said Mr Quirk.
"These were very difficult circumstances – around 200 families made homeless and many hundreds of people bereaved, and there was no legitimacy for us to lead because we failed to keep people safe in their beds at night," he explained.
"An organisation builds legitimacy not by talking, which we are very good at in the public sector, but by doing. You have to be as honest as the day is long, because if you mislead people, you are done for.
"Good intentions are not enough without legitimacy.
Mr Sayed was the first to pioneer a community/faith based professional therapeutic counselling service as part of the response to the fire tragedy, and is one of the leading coordinators of inter-faith and inter-community relations in Kensington & Chelsea.
He says that while the government's initiative for tackling radicalisation, Prevent, has been controversial in other parts of the country, in the aftermath of Grenfell, it has had a positive impact in Kensington & Chelsea.
"The community has shown how united it can be. It crossed all boundaries," he said.
But Mr Sayed criticises the local authority for what he describes as "an absence of leadership and coordination", and feels his centre was fortunate that nothing more drastic went wrong.
"There were four to five of us in our centre doing what we could but there was a lack of coordination of volunteers, which could have been done from day one. We tried to make sure we had volunteers with the right intentions and background but I feel looking back that things could have gone drastically wrong if people had had bad feelings towards any of the vulnerable people, because we had no way to check their backgrounds. We even had volunteers driving down the M40 to help.
"We were never trained or prepared for this.
Mr Quirk joined Kensington & Chelsea as interim chief executive in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, agreeing to take on the role permanently in September 2017.
He says that working in a disaster situation requires emotional leadership, which is why the faith community were very active and present after Grenfell.
"Lots of new organisations emerged so it wasn't just established organisations we were dealing with. It was about grasping that very complex reality.
His thoughts were echoed by those of Revd Long, who says that for the local authority, having "the opposite of a defensive posture" when dealing with the public in such a situation was important. "I remember a public meeting in our church where there was a humility, if not apology, from the local authority representatives there, which really broke new ground," he said.
Although Kensington & Chelsea faced criticism for how it dealt with the fire and its consequences, Mr Quirk says he has "great admiration" for those who worked through the crisis.
"We were doing things that had never done before," he explained. "Normally in the public sector, you have the support of rules and procedures and are mindful of the consequences of not following them. But none of the guidelines were of any use to people making decisions at that time.
"The critical thing was the quality of the judgements made.
Mr Quirk claims that there has been a dramatic policy shift at his council since Grenfell, to putting the community first in all that they do.
He cites as an example the council's dedicated service for the bereaved and survivors.
"I am absolutely proud of the work that has been done," he said. "But this is early days. We are not even two years since the fire, but the vast majority of people [178 households] are now housed in permanent accommodation, which is very good.
But not everybody was welcomed to volunteer through his church, he recalls. "When people looked creepy – there is no other way to say it – I threw them out. A BBC journalist found cocaine in the toilets in the first few days after the fire.
Revd Long added that it was a shame there was no visible coordination by the local authority at the time.
"There were conversations with local councillors, but we needed much more.
But a saving grace was a meeting that was held in those first few weeks to get the community leaders in one room – new and old. This gave them the means to communicate with each other from then on. "It made a huge difference to have some coordination," he said.


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Lindbergh field hockey team off and running
Lindbergh Schools NewsSports
By Robert Chalupny
For the Call
The Lindbergh High School varsity field hockey team's inaugural season is underway and despite an 0-4 start, plenty of reasons abound to be excited about the Flyers' prospects.
In 2015, the Lindbergh Board of Education agreed to a two-year trial run of the emerging sport, kicking off with a freshman and junior varsity team in 2015 and 2016.
Last year's junior varsity squad had a handful of matchups against varsity teams, and this season the Flyers officially field both a varsity team and a junior varsity team.
Andrew Schipp heads the varsity program. He told the Call that he is very excited to be a part of it and proud of his players who made history happen.
"They've really been the group that has brought this team together. They are the ones that started it," he said. "They've persevered over the last two years of being a club. They've worked extremely hard the last couple years to get it to become a varsity sport, and right now we are just happy to be able to play under the Lindbergh banner officially."
The Flyers are competing against clubs that have been around much longer, so Schipp said he is taking a gradual approach.
"We are going to take it one day at a time and see what we can do now that we've actually stepped up into an actual varsity schedule," he said. "We've got 13 seniors and five juniors and it's going to be an interesting adventure as we figure out how to take on that next level of competition.
"Each game, they seem to be getting a little bit better and figuring out how to play together as a group."
The Flyers have three captains to help lead the way — Sami Teuscher, Sarah Pickel and Morgan Parmeley.
Of Teuscher, Schipp said, "She has done a great job developing her skills and becoming that go-to player for us. Sarah Pickel, she is our goalie. She's done great the last two years.
"We expect great things out of her. She's learning to come out of her goal a little bit and be more aggressive and help take away scoring opportunities for the other team."
Of Parmeley, the coach said, "She is a versatile player. We can put her anywhere on the field — always upbeat, always positive, that person who can rally her teammates and get them to go and take that next step, try a little bit harder every game."
A key strategy for the Flyers this season will be learning to capitalize on their home-field advantage, according to Schipp.
"The key is going to be figuring out how to play on a grass surface that isn't very short. We have a distinct home-field advantage that our grass is longer than most places," he said. "So just being able to place that advantage for us, knowing it's not going to move as well. Our girls do really well with turf games, so we need to be able to translate that into protecting our field and being able to play well on longer grass."
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