For small businesses today, having a strong presence on social media is no longer a question of "should," but a question of "how." It's clear your small business should have a social media presence, but how do you do it successfully?
Small businesses traditionally have limited budgets, limited staff and limited time. How does a small business owner with numerous hats fit social media presence into their long list of priorities? The answer? First, decide that social media is an important focus for your business, then take the time to craft a plan designed for your specific business, and be open to modifications along the way.
Choose 1-2 Channels & Be Amazing!
Once you get a handle on that 1 channel for at least a few months, you can add 1 or 2 more by following the same tips below. But only add on a channel if you're able to do it well.
How do you to choose your social media channel?
Simply put, go where your audience is. If you need help identifying your ideal audience, check out this worksheet (link to Marketing Foundation Worksheet).
The top social media channels for most small businesses are: Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Sometimes Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, or Youtube are good options as well. I won't dive deep into the pros and cons of each of these platforms, but take some time to uncover where the majority of your ideal audience is consuming content online, then go there and go all in!
This should be obvious, but many businesses don't take advantage of the important real estate in their account profiles and miss out on opportunities. An optimized social media profile not only presents your business's services and basic contact info for those that view it, but it's a way to get discovered by new customers. Here's a bit more about how to optimize your social media accounts.
Each social media channel has slightly different fields and opportunities to optimize them. I'll briefly address the 2 big ones.
In Facebook, make sure you update your: full "About "section (there are several fields here), hours, contact info, location, services, and activate the contact button so people can click to call or email you (or another call to action option).
In Instagram, first make sure your account is a business account, not a person account! (Here's more on business vs personal Instagram accounts).Under this account type, you're able to link to your Facebook business page, add contact information, AND, get valuable insights about your posts and audience (more in tip #11) In addition, be sure to optimize your profile description for the top keywords in which you want to be discovered.
Take some time to define your ideal audience as best as possible. You can even take it a step further to give that avatar a name and then keep that person in mind as you craft content. You can ask yourself, will Sarah like this post about organic vegetables or will Jack find this Goonies GIF funny?
The operative word in this tip is "quality." All of your content must be quality. Social media and digital marketing trends are shifting even further into demanding quality content. It's noisy and your content MUST be high quality to stand out.
Each social media platform has features that support a more creative content experience for their users. Facebook and Instagram (owned by Facebook) have been in a feature-creation war with Snapchat for over a year now. (This Forbes article from just last week discusses this competition.) Each side keeps adding more features to their platforms related to live video, daily disappearing stories, and photos (to over-simplify it). The result is a plethora of creative options for a business to produce original content that highlights their brand, attracts their audience and builds a following.
Explore, have fun with it and use the different options associated with the channel.
Instagram: Stories, Boomerang, text overlay and videosHere are a few content ideas to get the creative juices flowing: highlight new products, film behind the scenes, offer flash sales, highlight employees, show store attractions, post coming soon teasers, events, create photo contests, offer tips related to your industry, create or find funny GIFs and memes.
This tip complements tip #5, but it deserves it's own section because images have become important on all social media channels and the standard of quality is increasing. Except for Snapchat where the user expects an ephemeral experience, many statistics show that posts with an eye-catching image perform better on social media. Facebook's algorithm gives more weight to image posts, Instagram & Pinterest are all about images, and even Twitter & LinkedIn posts perform far better with images.A quick tip for creating attractive images easily is to use Canva. With this low-cost tool (there is a free version too), you can create branded images, text overlays, and original work that are perfectly sized for each channel (among many other things).
Businesses get in trouble on social media when they just talk at people and don't listen or engage with their audience. You will create a better audience when the conversation goes both ways. Plus, many platforms, particularly Facebook and Instagram, heavily weigh towards user experience. Meaning, posts and pages with more audience engagement perform better and get a further reach on their platforms.
A good rule of thumb for consistency when you're first starting out and you want to be amazing and seen, is to post daily, at least once.
There are loads of strategies and tips on how often and what time to post on each channel and while exploring these strategies does make sense, ultimately; it all boils down to data (covered in tip 11). But you can't create good data, build traction on your channel or create trust with your audience unless you are…you guessed it, consistent.
Post on your 1 channel on a consistent basis for at least a few months before you decide to change your approach. Sometimes an audience gets alienated by too many posts or don't look at your posts until midnight or only see your posts if you post them 3 times a day. The answers to your future posting strategy are in the data and consistency is the first step to creating data AND the piece to keep with you even when you do modify the when and how often you post. As long as you're consistent about it, your audience will follow you.
Overly reviewed content gets stale fast. Be authentic, be funny, be true to the ethos & culture of your business.
If your team has fun at work by dressing up or being silly share that. If there is an important cultural topic that matters to your audience and aligns with your business, talk about it. The humor and topics that organically come up in your business with your customers or clients should show up on your social media accounts as well.
It often takes awhile to fully find your business's voice, but be mindful of this search while you post. As the adage goes, if you try to talk everyone, you talk to no one. This applies with authenticity as well. Don't try to be overly appealing to everyone, as it will often come off as stale. Sometimes it works better to be a little edgy or silly. You will find that people engage more with your "real" posts than the overly thought-out and stale posts. Post that dancing video.
A few ways to get started with this concept is to share the inception story of your business (why you got started and how) or past challenges/failures and how you've overcome them or what you learned from them.
Be relatable. Be real. Be authentic!
As noted in the intro, time is a top barrier for most small businesses' social media success. An excellent way to combat this barrier is to get organized and use tools that save you time.
The first step I recommend to get organized is to create a simple posting calendar. This will help you map out the types of content you plan to post and an overview of when you plan to post it.
Next, use a scheduling tool to post for you. If you take the time to pre-schedule a chunk of posts for the week every Monday, for example, it will save you a ton of time the rest of the week.There are many tools out there, both paid and free that perform the basic task of posting on social media, plus a TON of other cool features that you may or may not need. But to simplify this, two tools that work well are Hootsuite or Buffer. Both are low-cost tools with free intro options that get the scheduling done for you.BUT, if you're on Facebook, use the scheduling option built into the platform instead of an outside tool. Facebook's algorithm favors native posts, but still use it to pre-schedule your posts days and weeks in advance.
After you've followed tips 1-10 and you're getting pretty damn amazing at your social media channel(s), the only way to know how you're actually doing is to measure your results.Facebook and Instagram have built in analytics that offer data about your impressions, engagement, and reach for each post. Facebook Insights will even give you data about your posting times, post types, and basic demographics about your audience.
If website traffic is a piece of your social media presence goal (as it should be for most businesses), you should also install Google Analytics to your website at the same time you start getting active on social media. This free tool offers a ton of data, but the highlights for this purpose are: traffic sources, bounce rate, session duration and number of page views. It's also beneficial to set up Goals for certain activity, such as a contact form submission, newsletter or multiple pages views.


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We must take back our lives from the permanent panics of Covid
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So we're back here. We are heading towards Christmas. Families plan to get together. The worst seems to be behind us.
Then a new Covid variant appears. The government's rhetoric is changing. The variant is "extremely worrying", say the ministers, and "we must act with caution". There is an immediate travel ban, once again disrupting the lives of thousands of families with no obvious purpose. Labor is ardently demanding the "wearing of a mask in public places". Seasoned scientists are starting to tell people to prepare to go back, far from normal.
But there is a difference this time: we are not sitting ducks. This country has just set up an unprecedented mass vaccination program. The vast majority of people have some sort of immunity, and most vulnerable people have recently received a booster.
Yet somehow we're still in "do something!" " fashion. At the first sign of trouble, calls for blockages, restrictions and vaccine passports rise to a stir. Journalists fill press conferences with endless rounds of questions about why we are not doing more. The question of when exactly we expect to return to a normal level of risk appetite has not been asked, let alone answered.
The forever confined crowd has points on its side, as it always does. We don't know much about the latest variant. He has many more mutations than the previous ones, they say, and could be even more transmissible. We don't know if it's more deadly or milder. We don't know whether it will escape our vaccines more easily or not. It could all be a disaster, the end of the world, the wave to end all the waves. Or not.
There are some things we do know, however. We know that the new variants are now a permanent reality. We know they will find their way here with or without these unnecessary "travel bans". We know that the rapidly spreading variants will soon become, like others before them, endemic. We know that we have seven vaccines and that we are counting in our arsenal.
We also have strong evidence that this country is now very resistant to Covid. More than 80% of Britons over the age of 12 have received two doses of the vaccine, 28% have received three and up to 14% are said to have contracted the virus since July.
The recent wave, which was really more of a ripple, failed to increase death or hospitalization rates to anything like the levels seen at last January's peak. Then it started to subside, even before the booster program reached all vulnerable people. Professor Lockdown himself, Neil Ferguson, thinks we could be "almost on collective immunity".
Meanwhile, we have limited evidence that measures other than vaccines actually work very well. Scotland still requires the mask to be worn widely, but its case rate has risen higher than England's this fall. October cases peaked more than a week before school semesters, suggesting school vacations were not the reason for the ebb.
Total closures, of the kind seen in March of last year, seem to be working, but they are also destroying society. And the debate over Sweden is roaring: the country that has never closed its doors and has experienced death rates far higher than its northern neighbors, but far lower than ours.
Yet even before Thursday's news on the latest variant, bureaucrats, lazy and risk-averse men were threatening everyone with their procedures and precautions. While most of life has managed to return to some semblance of normalcy, state-run institutions are struggling to break out of the Covid bubble.
Each new title is an excuse for unions to complain that work is not "safe". Thousands of public sector workers are still sitting at home, depressing productivity, absorbing buckets of fresh public spending, and stifling the economy (just think of the backlog of DVLA truck licenses). All kinds of places, like public museums, always try to require masks to be worn, even though the law does not. The administrative burden and expenses associated with flights abroad have multiplied endlessly.
Schools are among the most prolific in the security-ism Covid, when they should be the ones fighting the most against it for the sake of their students. Bans on shaking hands, masks, canceled nurseries, draconian policies against the disease: everything must still work in the shadow of the virus.
Worse yet, as The Telegraph reported this week, some schools have even taken it upon themselves to impose "blackouts" – week-long "e-learning" rehearsal parties in which teachers sit at home while their students fall further and further behind. Such closures should be illegal.
Instead, with the news of this variant, these kinds of measures will spread. Just when it seemed like the government was right to give us back our freedoms and resist Europe's new lockdown fever, supporters of Covid's endless panic took the initiative again. They want to show that freedom can still be suspended at any time and society can still be put in the freezer.
It is already clear that some aspects of life will never return to normal. We will keep crumpled masks in our pockets for years to come. Travelers will forever be forced to fill out unnecessary paperwork briefs to travel anywhere and in many countries they will need to show proof of vaccination. Sticking a cotton swab in your nose every now and then will just be a part of life from now on. These things are dismal, but inevitable.
What we cannot accept, however, is that our fundamental freedoms are nothing more than loans that can be called up at any time. Free societies do not require their citizens to receive new vaccines every year to lead normal lives. They do not allow teachers to close schools with a simple gesture. They don't put Christmas on hold, close offices, and ban drinking every time something unusual pops up in a lab somewhere.
Last year, as the country entered its third and most depressing Christmas lockdown, politicians backing the restrictions promised us release was imminent. "Let's not fall at the last hurdle," they said. "The vaccine is here! they said. "Just wait for deployment, then enjoy your freedoms. "
Well, the deployment has taken place. The virus is still here, evolving, and it will continue to evolve forever. It's as good as it gets. We therefore need to know when and how we will go from "Covid mode" to "normal life". With so many panic-mongers resisting change, it won't happen without a fight. We need to know that the government really wants to win.
Villainous international organizations help China crush freedom
Have we lost the plot? Interpol, the international police agency, has just elected a new Chinese official to its executive committee after the last man, an official named Meng Hongwei, was literally disappeared by the Chinese state. There is no symbol that better represents the state of governance organizations in the world.
Interpol helps its 195 member countries share police information and issues cross-border arrest warrants for people they wish to arrest. One of its four founding principles is "respect for human rights". But authoritarian regimes have found it to be an excellent vehicle for tracking down the targets of dissidents and ethnic minorities that have eluded them.
In recent years, China has stepped up its use of Interpol to prosecute democracy activists, government critics and prominent members of groups it wants to exterminate. Xi Jinping has launched two campaigns, called "Fox Hunt" and "Sky Net", the objectives of which are to sweep and extradite critics of his regime abroad. Research by human rights group Safeguard Defenders shows that Chinese state media have bragged about the use of Interpol's tools in nearly 3,000 cases as part of these campaigns.
The ridiculous affair of Meng and his replacement shows how much easier we are in Beijing. In 2018, Meng, the head of Interpol, returned to China – and never returned. Yet here we are three years later and Beijing has a new head on Interpol's executive committee. Have you disappeared your own official? No matter! Send another one!
Democratic countries provide over 60% of Interpol's funding, but as usual we have rendered ourselves procedurally powerless, having diffused voting power among the organization's many member states.
Yet there are levers we could pull. Dozens of parliamentarians from the International Parliamentary Alliance on China have written a letter to oppose China's plans to include its leader on the Interpol committee. Where was the campaign at the government level? And what are Interpol's main funders doing to ensure that its practices respect its legal commitment to political neutrality and human rights? Interpol recently introduced a code of conduct and initiated reforms which it says "will ensure greater transparency". Its detractors are skeptical.
Recently, Meng's wife Grace, who lives in France with their children, publicly expressed her fear of Beijing's long arm for the first time. This power is amplified by organizations like Interpol. And through them, democracies, rather than hampering this activity, help and encourage it.
The world recently got a taste of how China's "disappearance" system works. Peng Shuai is not your typical government critic. She is a tennis player with a network and fan base across the world. Yet when she spoke about being sexually abused by a senior retired Communist Party official called Zhang Gaoli, she was quickly and effectively silenced.
First, the regime deleted its blog post. Then she disappeared from sight for days. Then she reappeared smiling, attending official events, going to dinner with "friends" (including several unsmiling and official-looking men) and even had a half-hour phone call with Olympic bureaucrats, who then said she was "fine".
If Peng had known the hell raised abroad by her friends and foreign governments, she might have concluded that her best chance of escaping China and the life of surveillance, gagging and control that now waiting would be to stick to his guns. But she was presumably kept in the dark. Pressure had to be exerted to obtain his cooperation. The usual method would be to take family members hostage. So, with the help of the Olympic apparatus, Beijing neutralized a public relations nightmare.
Last week, I said that China and other authoritarian regimes continue to make mistakes. This week, cowardly international organizations established and backed by the West pulled China out of its own mess. With "friends" like that …
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Clean Hands Congress
It had been a year since his last Congress, and in that time something new, something truly groundbreaking had occurred. Because when Mr. Hubbard announced, "You have a new horizon, a new future," he was in fact referring to the development of modern auditing leading to the Grade Chart itself. For just as he'd revolutionized auditor training with Training Drills (TRs), he'd now developed a brand-new meter and codified its use in auditing. And even all of that was only a part of something far greater he'd begun: The Saint Hill Special Briefing Course! Then again, he left no doubt this would be a new type of Congress as well: "I'm not going to pull any punches for you at all." And he didn't. For here is where he announced his discovery of the Goals Problem Mass (GPM), "Masses of mental energy, you might say, burned down to the last notch, and nobody can get rid of the cinders." And that's just the beginning of what he reveals regarding the GPM—extending back 200 trillion years—in these, the only public lectures ever given on the subject outside the Briefing Course. Moreover, there's what that discovery revealed in terms of case progress at every level. In fact, as L. Ron Hubbard also reveals, it had everything to do with the development of the E-Meter. In a single word—the subject is Withholds. And when you find out what they do to your bank, how they affect your reach, indeed, your very beingness—you'll think twice before ever sitting on one. You will also understand why this is the Clean Hands Congress and the route upwards and onwards to freedom.
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The road to Hell—Man's very good at painting ugly signs that point its course and way.
The road to Heaven—Man's often sent but never yet arrived—more like he found the 'other place.'
But now a road that's wide has opened up—in Scientology.
The meter and the Process Check, when done by auditors with skill, can open up transgression's rush and loose a cascade out until Hell's spent.
And day will once more have a drop of dew upon the morning rose. —L. Ron Hubbard
"Clean Hands Make a Happy Life," wrote Mr. Hubbard in the autumn of 1961. And, as attendees would soon learn, what made those hands clean was the E‑Meter.
Then again, while he always announced milestone developments at Scientology Congresses, the one he scheduled this time generated an unprecedented level of anticipation. Organization announcements didn't just promote it, they insisted on attendance: "We want every Scientologist in the country to attend this Congress—it's that important!"
Held at Washington DC's Mayflower Hotel, from 30 December 1961 to 1 January 1962, it was a Congress that signified far more than a new year—it was an entirely new horizon, a new future for Scientology:
"I probably have the best news for you that I have ever given at a Congress."
Yet with those initial words of introduction, it was soon clear this was a new type of Congress as well:
"Because at this Congress I'm not going to pull any punches for you at all."
The story had actually begun seven months earlier—the 7th of May, 1961, to be precise. It was a day that would forever change the face of Scientology, from the very manner in which auditors were trained, to the conduct of an auditing session and the structure of the Bridge itself. For it was the day the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (SHSBC) commenced.
If technology had steadily advanced, year by year, it was nothing compared to the precision it would now become. The first revolution in auditor training was necessitated by a new type of processing requiring a higher level of skill. So came the development of training drills (TRs). But no matter how advanced those earlier processes were in reaching any case, they were not even comparable to what Mr. Hubbard was now addressing with Goals Processing—encompassing the Be, Do and Have of a thetan. And what that auditing required was something else, as he explained in that first Briefing Course lecture:
"Now, the whole fact of clearing today depends on this meter. If you can read this meter well, you can clear people and if you can't read this meter well, you certainly can't. That's just the long and the short of it."
That's also why, as a first step, he developed an entirely new meter—built to his exact specifications and under his direct supervision. After various prototypes (Mark I, II, III) he had the first truly workable and precision E-Meter, the Hubbard Mark IV. Next, taking all he had learned in the past ten years, he wrote the first book on the meter's operation and explanation of its various reactions, E-Meter Essentials. But no matter the watershed advance of that meter, the even bigger story concerned what L. Ron Hubbard had now discovered through its use:
"A very exhaustive study of this thing has turned up some of the most remarkable data that has ever been turned up in Scientology and that is the existence of and the exploration of the Goals Problem Mass. They are masses of mental energy, you might say, burned down to the last notch, and nobody can get rid of the cinders."
As for what else that discovery encompassed, the definition, anatomy and construction of the Goals Problem Mass (GPM) is contained here, in the only public lecture on the subject ever given outside the SHSBC.
And therein lay the substance of this Congress. For while the discovery of the GPM would occupy continuing years of research—leading to the development of the Clearing Course—what it, in turn, revealed was something that impacted every level of processing and training of auditors: Withholds.
And therein lay the answer to Clean Hands and why this Congress ultimately meant eternity itself:
"It has nothing to do with morals.
"It has everything to do with upward and onward and freedom.
"If you can just be brave enough to be good enough to get the job done, you will be free."
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Personally, my own favorite duo out there in America is the same duo that brought about a 'Tallent & Lowery' in the first place. Patience and Fortitude, the majestic lions that sit in front of the NYPL, not only greet millions every day, but they also protect the home, so to speak, of Leah Tallent.
Sherlock and Watson are probably the most famous detective pair out there in the literary world; when it comes to other media venues, you have everything from Crockett and Tubbs to Scooby-Doo and Shaggy to Batman and Robin. Various daring duo's have always graced the screens - big and small - and have always served up the perfect banter and wit in books we've come to love.
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When the partners happen to be male and female (Nick and Nora Charles, for example), they can also bring a true bond to the book, which adds to the power of the story. Leah Tallent has certainly gotten into some dire situations in books 13, The Sapphire Storm and The Hero's Companion. Yet, it's not her intelligence or her way of reasoning things out that saves her - it is her partner, Gareth Lowery, who makes sure that Leah always has someone worth fighting for.
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Being able to take the detective aspects and combine them with the romantic aspects of literary partners (insert pretty much all of Jane Austen's partners here), has allowed 'Tallent & Lowery' to become far more than just banter and wit. And…with the next four novels to come, readers will be more than surprised when they find out that this pair may just have to live with the fact that their adventures and puzzle-solving could lead to a break-up that neither saw coming.
In 1902, thirteen people came together to continue a tradition that'd been set in stone thousands of years before.
In 2012, Leah Tallent, Head of Research at the New York Public Library, is about to unearth the secrets left behind by this crew by joining a crazy man on a fanatical quest. Gareth Lowery has spent his life searching for the ultimate artifact; twelve keys hidden by men whose job it was to protect the single biggest secret ever kept.
The fantastic duo is soon immersed in a whirlwind treasure hunt with historical and passionate repercussions. From the eerie Winchester House to the darkness of Loch Ness, they quickly learn that the theory of duality is correct: For every bad there is a good and, for Heaven, there most assuredly exists...Hell.
Source: Info in the About 13 was from the press kit from the publicity team.
When Leah arrives home her sarcasm burns even brighter, but a frightening call from Gareth's sister changes the course of their holiday event. A new puzzle from the past has come to life, and involves a world of liars, killers and greed.
The heart-stopping suspense takes them from Coptic Cairo to the magical world of Petra in search of a cave that once housed a true 'Illuminator'. They must find the answers to one of the biggest mysteries while staying one step ahead of villains who are determined to make sure that, this time, Tallent & Lowery do not survive.
Source: Info in the About The Sapphire Storm was from the press kit from the publicity team.
Leah Tallent and Gareth Lowery have seen it all, utilizing everything they have to survive. But now, Leah's father has gone missing and they have only seven days before he'll be killed. The only clue to follow is a picture of one of the most famous icons of all time, and a strange map hidden in her father's desk. This new mystery will take them from the pinnacle of the Acropolis to the depths of Cleopatra's caves in order to unmask the man who has a score to settle.
In a location that's been buried under rock for centuries the battle will begin, and the team will have to face the one foe that will expose secrets and unleash unheard of power in order to get what he wants. 'The Hero's Companion'—the one woman who will do anything to make sure the right side wins, will fight the good fight; but without Gareth, her time may just run out.
Source: Info in the About The Hero's Companion was from the press kit from the publicity team.
From defeating the worst of mankind to solving puzzles that have eluded others for centuries, Leah Tallent and Gareth Lowery must now follow a new trail to stop a madman from resurrecting a mighty Reich.
Although dead men supposedly tell no tales, the duo continue to follow clues left behind by true powerbrokers from Hell, and now they stand on the precipice of an infamous castle used by those who thrived on hate and terror.
Fighting for their lives from deep inside a labyrinth, they'll stand atop a stage where an angel of death spoke to the masses, and climb to an 'Eagle's Nest' to come face-to-face with a new enigma; a master puppeteer who's pulling the strings on a monumental scheme they never saw coming.
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"Roselle is located at 41°58′50″N 88°5′8″W (41.980569, -88.085438).
According to the 2010 census, the village has a total area of 5.48 square miles (14.2 km2), of which 5.41 square miles (14.0 km2) (or 98.72%) is land and 0.07 square miles (0.18 km2) (or 1.28%) is water. Two notable hydrological features are Goose Lake and Spring Creek, a tributary to the East Branch of the DuPage River. Turner Pond is a man-made pond located just north of the town center."
Roselle Demographics
"As of the census of 2000, there were 23,115 people, 8,443 households, and 6,239 families residing in the village. The population density was 4,301.1 people per square mile (1,662.0/km2). There were 8,552 housing units at an average density of 1,591.3 per square mile (614.9/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 87.89% White, 1.66% Black, 0.21% Native American, 7.29% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.44% from other races, and 1.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.18% of the population.
There were 8,443 households, out of which 37.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.2% were married couples living together, 9.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.1% were non-families. 21.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.73 and the average family size was 3.22.
In the village, the age distribution of the population shows 25.9% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 33.5% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.0 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $65,254, and the median income for a family was $73,444 (these figures had risen to $76,544 and $85,604 respectively as of a 2007 estimate). Males had a median income of $51,879 versus $33,564 for females. The per capita income for the village was $28,501. About 1.3% of families and 2.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.6% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over."
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That night, we stayed at a hotel (read about what took place there), and woke up at 4 am the following morning (monday) to catch the train to head home. I was standing in the hotel room with the window open, and looking out over the countryside surrounding Turnu Măgurele, I could hear the most fascinting sound: a cacophonous din created by thousands of stray dogs yelping and howling and roosters crowing, greeting the encroaching dawn.
We boarded our train at 5 am, arrived in Bucharest at 8 am. Our connecting train was at 12:30 pm, so we decided to check out Bucharest on foot. We hopped the subway and walked around a bit, which got tiring because we were lugging around our bags. Nevertheless, it was interesting. One of the things that this visit has done is it's made me re-evaluate my opinion of Romanian Communism. It's evident that the system is fatally flawed, and you can see it in some of the buildings that Nicolae Ceausescu built during his dictatorship. He built a huge, magnificent complex, and let his people go wanting. It seems there is greed and corruption everywhere one goes. But the Romanians are a resilient and resourceful people – they are immensely creative and ingenious – out of necessity. Now, the country is caught in the flux between modernity and the traditonal, the agricultural and the industrial. It's a trip, because you can see it before your eyes in public – the old grandparents, wearing their sarves and their lambwool hats, and the youngsters, with their skin tight jeans (ay mamita!), Italian shoes, and cell phones. In spite of appearances, the majority of buildings here are huge concrete apartment blocks that date back to Communist times. They are ugly as hell. I did see a most fascinating building (more: 1|2|3) in Bucharest, downtown. It was a juxtaposition of the old-style architecture (pillars, arches, etc), with a modern, glass faced building. The glass was simply perched on top of this old relic. It totally took me by surprise, and I really liked the way it looked. I regret I couldn't take a pic as the camera was dead.
Back to the trip. We caught the 12:30 train to Oradea, and at 1 am Monday morning were at Constantin's house. And that's it.
Response to my dreads has been full and varied. The best response by far was this 5 or 6 year old kid on the streets of Bucharest, who looked at me and smiled and said, "How nice you look!" Most people kind of look, and then look away when they see I've noticed them, and then look again when I'm not looking. Everywhere I go. It's a good thing I brought the hats, I think. I've never gone into the companies without a hat, and I've had no problems. People are pretty nice to me. When I arrived at the airport in Budapest, Hungary, the customs officer saw my dreads and instantly pulled me aside to search my bag for pot. I told him afterwards that I haven't smoked pot in 10 years, and he said "no marijuana, no problem". On my return trip I think I will wear a hat.


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Will the LNP ban the export of live cattle?
by Traeger electorate · June 1, 2018
KAP State leader and member for Traeger Robbie Katter is questioning the state LNP's commitment to Queensland's sheep and cattle industry after Warren Entsch declared his support for a ban on the export of live sheep.
"The LNP's Warren Entsch is saying he supports the ban on exporting live sheep,'' Mr Katter said.
"Is the Queensland LNP now philosophically opposed to all live animal exports?
"If that is the case, the next step for the Queensland LNP would be to support a ban on the export of live cattle. What's the difference between the live export of sheep and cattle?''
Mr Katter said it was unlikely the people of Leichardt would be happy if their elected member supported a ban on live cattle.
Mr Entsch has said he will be supporting the private member's Bill introduced by Liberal MP Sussan Ley which calls for the end of live sheep exporting within five years.
"Queensland is the largest exporter of beef in Australia and Australia is the third largest exporter of beef in the world,'' Mr Katter said.
"This industry is worth billions to our economy. If the LNP wish to ban the export of live cattle they are going to destroy the industry in Northern Australia.
"I think people are entitled to ask 'what is going on here?'
"Perhaps this is another example of the LNP trying to play both sides of the fence. We saw the same thing when they voted with the ALP to block KAP's disallowance motion on changes to the National Firearms Agreement. By doing this they supported the ALP in tightening restrictions on law-abiding firearm owners, including primary producers.
"I think we are seeing a further disconnect between the Queensland LNP and regional Queenslanders. The state LNP was only able to win a couple seats in North Queensland because they've been insincere about their support for regional Queensland. Warren Entsch's position is a good example of this.
"They appear to treat their regional members with contempt. When two of their own members highlight the poor political decisions being made by their party the LNP's response is to suspend both members rather than address the issues.''
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Contact email: Matt.browning@creativeengland.co.uk
About Creative England
Creative England uncovers, invests and grows the best creative talent across the country.
Our vision is for England's creative businesses and talent to be the most successful and innovative in the world; building economic growth that benefits our nation and creating opportunities for new voices, products and services. If the UK is to take advantage of its capacity to be a leader in creating new IP across Games, film, TV, and digital platforms it needs to ensure it can attract and grow the best talent and scale its businesses and creative capacities. Through our investment and wrap around support we attract and support this talent. We connect these businesses to investment, provide them the routes to existing and new markets and showcase their potential to the world through our advocacy and networks. Our activities are particularly focused on supporting businesses in the English regions with investment and support who may not have the same opportunities and access to finance as those in London.
Creative England's focus is on spotting and supporting talent and investing in creative individuals and ideas, particularly those who face difficulties realising their project, growing their business or accessing commercial finance. We provide strategic advice and guidance to local, regional and national stakeholders and partners looking to grow their creative sector. Through our talent and content programmes we provide a platform for new voices and initiatives that create new IP. Our investment activity helps to fill the recognised "access to finance gap" and we work with a range of commercial finance providers to demystify and increase investment in creative enterprises. We are a flexible funder able to provide loans, equity and revenue-share finance and pride ourselves on being client-led rather than product-led, tailoring our finance to meet the needs of the businesses who need our help.
Our investment offer includes loans, mezzanine finance, equity and revenue/profit stage arrangements.
Our equity and revenue share investments are for early stage creative businesses and we generally invest up to £250,000 per round of investment. We are open to pre-seed, seed and series A investment rounds. We usually co-invest with other equity investors but are happy to lead a round if appropriate.
Alongside our investment, Creative England provides bespoke, industry- led business support and training to the business owners and teams we invest in. This is delivered in several ways, including one to one advice sessions with mentors and specialists; masterclasses;, networking events and practical hands on courses and workshops. Through our national and international reach, we also connect these businesses to the networks and markets they need to grow and export. Creative England has a number of partnerships with major purchasers of creative and digital services and applications including Microsoft, Sony, BBC, Sky & Disney among others, helping businesses to access routes to market. Our aim is to connect SMEs in the English regions with global brands; opening up new markets and investing in new supply chains and giving larger companies' access to a pool of fresh talented SMEs.
Our interest in immersive technologies
Creative content is driving the creation of new platforms and has helped to establish new consumer markets whilst transforming the consumer experience through newer and more innovative business models demonstrating a dynamic and entrepreneurial opportunity for the economy to grow. Immersive technologies and the application of immersive is becoming ever more prevalent with PWC forecasting that VR in the UK entertainment and media industry alone will reach a value of £801m by 2021, making it the fastest growing and largest VR industry in EMEA. However, here remains a gap in the funding required to seed some of these ideas and to create viable deal flow for the private sector to take notice of the investment opportunities of these technologies. Creative England has a track record of working with companies from this sub sector and other related sub-sectors of the creative industries, including gaming; narrative film-making and companies developing content and applications using VR/AR .
We have a rolling investment pot and invest between £3 mil and £4 mil a year into c.25-30 companies. Approximately 75% of our investments are into new companies and rest as follow on investment into our existing companies
We are interested in a wide range of immersive propositions including content, experiences, products, platforms, services and software. We do not invest in the development of hardware/devises associated with immersive.
Recent examples of relevant investee companies with immersive technologies at the heart of their offering, include Hammerhead VR, Coast link, Totem Learning, Evidential among others
The value we can add to your company beyond capital
Alongside investment, Creative England provides, bespoke, industry led business support and learning to the business owners and teams we invest in. This is delivered by both in-house experts and an extensive network of specialist adviosrs through one to one advice sessions with mentors and specialist professionals, masterclasses, networking events and practical hands on workshops. Following a far-reaching diagnostic exercise, our support is designed to be a bespoke approach to each company's needs including investor readiness, leadership, growth planning, finance, HR, exports, sales & marketing, IP, legal and product/market fit. Through our national and international reach, we also connect these businesses to the networks and markets they need to grow and export.
Creative England has delivered several programmes of investment and support specifically focused on gaming and immersive companies such as GamesLab and Greenshoots. Our team comes from within the industry and has expertise in the gaming and immersive space. Our wider team is expert in identifying and investing in creative and digital technology businesses and has a real understanding of challenges and opportunities these businesses face.
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A panel session about the experiences of North Korean defectors in New Malden is at first sight a strange event to promote as part of an arts festival. But the 7th New Malden Arts Festival overlaps with Malden Fortnight, a celebration of New Malden's varied community, of which Koreans are of course a significant part. Shin Bona, director of broad-based community arts organisation Theatre4all and promoter of the festival, is known among other things for her work with North Korean refugees. And several years ago, the first North Korean she ever came across, working in a local video rental shop, was Kim Joo-il.
Kim Joo-il is the most prominent North Korean in the UK. He is a former captain in the DPRK military. He defected because of the failures of a system which meant that soldiers and people in the countryside were starving to death. The story of Kim's defection, following the horrific death of his two-year-old niece, is told in The Independent and Vice.
Kim escaped to China, and made his way via Vietnam to Cambodia. From there, he had to decide his ultimate destination. He could have chosen the US, South Korea, or Japan, but all those countries are considered North Korea's enemies. By choosing a less hostile country such as the UK his defection was less culpable.
Some statistics. There are estimated to be 100,000 North Korean refugees in China, at risk of being sent back to the DPRK (where they are likely join the 200,000 or so in the prison camps). Around 32,000 refugees have made it to relative safety. Of these, as is to be expected, the vast majority (30,000) are in South Korea. And, somewhat surprisingly, 600 are in New Malden.
Wherever a defector ends up, whether in the UK, South Korea or elsewhere, he or she is unlikely to feel at home. And even in the UK a North Korean refugee does not feel safe. Kim is the only refugee who openly campaigns against the regime: others are afraid to put their head above the parapet, fearing for their own lives or for the safety of their extended families back in North Korea. As Kim Joo-il said in response to a question from the floor: in dealing with North Korea it is important to remember that there are two North Koreas — the establishment and those that benefit from it (mainly in Pyongyang); and the people outside of the establishment (mainly in the countryside). And in London, the refugees are of necessity extremely wary of the North Korean embassy, which represents the establishment.
Where there is no place for freedom.
It is a shame that despite all the reports and coverage of the atrocious human rights situation in North Korea we still need to be told about it. The presentation from Benedict Rogers of Christian Solidarity Worldwide provided context and new information to many in the audience, but somewhat overran its time allocation, turning the focus away from New Malden and rather eating into the time allotted to the question and answer session.
There was no time, for example, to ask Glenna De Bosco, the Korean Engagement Officer from the Metropolitan Police Service, whether she experienced particular difficulties in engaging with North Koreans as opposed to their more numerous compatriots south of the DMZ. She was nodding in agreement, though, as Kim Joo-il was speaking about the severe language problems of the defectors – particularly the older ones – which get in the way of their taking advantage of some of the benefits of living in the UK such as the National Health Service. But one interesting thing she said during her brief presentation was that the number of crimes reported by the Korean community in the Kingston borough was surprisingly low. There was no time to discuss the possible reasons for this. Maybe it is the language barrier again; or maybe it's because, in North Korea at any rate, the police service is not seen as a "service": a police officer is something to be feared rather than approached willingly. This was something that was emphasised in Ewan Thompson's heartfelt presentation.
There was appetite in the audience for more discussion, but we had overrun our time allocation. Shin Bona is to be thanked for her initiative in getting this interesting panel together. And let's hope that this is the first in a series of initiatives in reaching out to understand the experience of the North Koreans in our midst that little bit better.
The panel session on The life of North Koreans in New Malden was held on 26 July 2014 at the Malden Centre as part of the 7th New Malden Arts Festival.
Sinae Hong Youngeun Koo I would say definitely there is a language barrier issue… I know a few NK who would like to learn/improve English. However, living in New Malden where you can live without saying a word of English, it is harder to learn. Also it is quite hard to find a group that offers English lessons appropriate to their English level….And Thank you for a very informative review as usual, Philip Gowman.
Sinae Hong Youngeun Koo Heard there are some run by local chuches.. But most of N Koreans in their forties/fifties are busy working as well…. (possibly on the weekends too…) It would be great to see such support services get initiated in New Malden!
Sinae Hong Mike Glendinning I'm sure that's not all N Koreans… I've met many who wanted classes….! But I do agree putting food on the table comes before learning English….
Mike Glendinning Possibly, but there are a few (free) English programmes online specifically for defectors. Where there is a will…..
Sinae Hong Mike Glendinning might be an idea to let them know – are they aware of such programmes??
Mike Glendinning No idea. For what it's worth, we looked in to running such programmes. It's pretty much a no go for equality reasons.
Youngeun Koo I guess it depends on how they see English – some might think that it's something that will just make their life a bit more convenient and others might more focus on and value its possibility to increase their employability. Again, for me it shows the lack of a targeted support system that understands individuals' specific circumstances and needs.


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SEC coaches discuss early NBA entries
Discussion about underclassmen and high school players skipping college to try to make it in the NBA dominated the sporting circles in the middle of June as the NBA Draft approached.
The Southeastern Conference's summer teleconference on Monday proved it hasn't subsided. Reporters asked every coach what they thought about the slew of players leaving school early and how that affects their recruiting and college basketball as a whole.
&uot;You've got kids who are juniors and sophomores (in high school) they aren't worried about whether they go to Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama, LSU or Kentucky,&uot; said Ole Miss coach Rod Barnes, whose Rebels went to the Sweet 16 last season. &uot;They're coming there one year to show they can play college basketball.&uot;
Barnes noted that the early entries don't really affect his recruiting because his program doesn't go after the top players in the country.
He focuses on getting the top 50-100 players. He said he likes to develop players and watch them grow.
Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury said the situation has forced him to reevaluate the way he recruits.
&uot;With changes taking place and more high schoolers more than ever getting drafted, some kids you might say 'This kid isn't going to college or 'He'll only be here one or two years.'&uot;
Meanwhile, Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson takes a different look at the situation. Getting his players into the pros is his goal.
&uot;My job is to do that,&uot; said Richardson.
SEC Outlook
The other topic that coaches dwelled on was how strong the SEC is from top to bottom.
Alabama coach Mark Gottfried said every team is a potential NCAA Tournament participant. &uot;There's nobody in there that you can say, 'They can't make it,'&uot; said Gottfried.
Richardson said, &uot;From top to bottom, I don't see any conference that can compare to ours. Much more this year than the past two years. There are no gimmes.&uot;
Most coaches agreed that Kentucky and Florida will be at the top of the league. The Wildacts return Tayshaun Prince and Keith Bogans, who decided to return to school instead of opting for the NBA.
&uot; Kentucky is a preseason top 5, top 10 team at least,&uot; said Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings. &uot;With experience and key guys coming back, they really have a shot to be outstanding.&uot;
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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Threading;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Net;

namespace NetTalk.Web.Codes.ThreadTools
{
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    {
        public static Thread WorkingThread;
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        private static Socket Listener;
        private static bool ContinueListening = false;
        private static string _LastErrorMessage;

        public static bool ThreadIsRun
        {
            get
            {
                return ContinueListening;
            }
            private set
            {
                ContinueListening = value;
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        public static string LastErrorMessage
        {
            get
            {
                return _LastErrorMessage;
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            set
            {
                _LastErrorMessage = value;
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        public static void Start()
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                ThreadIsRun = true;
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                        {
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        }

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        {
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            {
                if (WorkingThread != null)
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            try
            {
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                ThreadIsRun = true;
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