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Even Public Restaurants In Surrey Can No Longer Protect UK Girls From Immigrant Rape

Even Public Restaurants In Surrey Can No Longer Protect UK Girls From Immigrant Rape
June 19, 2016 Admin

People from abroad hear place-names like Surrey, in the United Kingdom, and picture luxuriant British countrysides, manor houses, quaint small-town pubs, and well-kept gardens. More boringly pleasant places than Surrey, England can’t exist in popular imagination actually.

Yet reality continues to rob us of these visions, and show just what the Surrey’s of the world have become.

From The Telegraph:

A man will appear in court charged with a series of offences in relation to an attack on a teenage girl who was raped and stabbed after being dragged from a Pizza Hut restaurant.

The 17-year-old was assaulted on Friday evening in Epsom, Surrey.

She was dragged from the Waterloo Road takeaway at around 10.30pm and found 20 minutes later in a nearby park by police.

The girl was taken to St George’s Hospital in Tooting where she is in a serious but not life-threatening condition, Surrey Police said.

Costica Voedes, 32, of High Street, Epsom, has been charged with two counts of wounding with intent, two counts of rape, kidnap, false imprisonment, possession of an offensive weapon, affray and common assault.

He has been remanded in custody and will appear at South East Surrey Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Not pointed out by The Telegraph, of course, is the alien nature of her attacker. Costica Voedes could be an African from Eritrea, a Roma from Hungary, or any number of things. What we know for certain however, is that he is NOT British.

If young girls are now being dragged out of Pizza Huts in Surrey, of all places in the United Kingdom, I believe it safe to say that the country is at war. Perhaps in the coming week (more) Britons will realize that, resolve to free their country from traitors and invaders, and rush headlong into the fight.

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Comments (6)

  1. Laguna Beach Fogey 11 months ago

    Time to call up the Nationalist paramilitaries.

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      Admin 11 months ago

      Heck yeah Laguna Beach. Would love to see something analogous to Golden Dawn in Britain. Golden Dawn does great with that sort of thing- community protection, helping poor Greek families, demonstrating care for the community/parallel version of government. Britain First and the EDL have both been permutations of that in Britain, but neither has seemed to catch on. Almost have the podcast ready to go and then we can start interviewing folks from these various groups, really getting everything figured out.

  2. Death to traitors and cowardz 11 months ago

    It just makes you wonder what all the people in the restaurant were doing when before their eyes a teenage girl was being dragged away in front of them.

    Presumably there were at least some “men” amongst them, in actuality none of them had the sort of courage which defines masculinity.

    If that sort of cowardice is the norm, and the advent of feminism seems to indicate this, then Britain deserves to perish.

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      Admin 11 months ago

      Lovin’ the handle! I think you make a great point- teenage girls don’t get dragged out of Pizza Hut’s to be raped and stabbed without there being something drastically wrong societally. Britain is terminally ill from a culture standpoint. I can’t imagine leaving its people (especially its young girls) to their fate though- and there are many good, tough men in Britain too. Hopefully soon we will see them rise up. Until then, we can only keep trying to educate and get the war started!

      Where are you based out of if you don’t mind sharing? Any other thoughts on what is going on? Your comment is much appreciated!

  3. Karl 6 months ago

    The victim was Romanian.

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      Admin 6 months ago

      Hey Karl-

      Thanks for the info! I had forgotten about this incident…

      How did you end up on this page, do you read the website regularly or just randomly stumbled upon?

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Intercept’s new PBC liver disease treatment yields successful clinical trials

25 August 2016  •  Author: Intercept Pharmaceuticals

Intercept Pharmaceuticals’ phase III trial of ocaliva (obeticholic acid) met its primary endpoint for the treatment of patients with primary biliary cholangitis, formerly known as primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), and improved multiple biochemical disease markers as compared to placebo with high statistical significance.

PCB liver disease

The trial evaluated the safety and efficacy of ocaliva in PBC patients with an inadequate therapeutic response to, or who are unable to tolerate, ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA).

Primary endpoint

The trial’s primary endpoint was a reduction in alkaline phosphatase (ALP) to below a threshold of 1.67 times the upper limit of the normal range, with a reduction of at least 15% from baseline, and a total bilirubin level at or below the upper limit of the normal range after 12 months of ocaliva therapy.

These liver biomarkers have been shown to be reasonably likely to predict progression to liver failure and resulting liver transplant or premature death in patients with PBC. Ocaliva 5-10 mg (46%) and ocaliva 10 mg (47%) were both statistically superior to placebo (10%) in achieving the primary endpoint (p<0.001).

Most patients had liver biochemical improvements even if they did not achieve the composite primary endpoint, with a significantly higher percent of patients achieving ≥15% ALP reduction with both groups at 77% compared to placebo (29%) (p<0.001).

The majority of patients (93%) continued receiving UDCA therapy during the trial.

Primary biliary cholangitis

PBC is a rare, autoimmune cholestatic liver disease that puts patients at risk for life-threatening complications. PBC is primarily a disease of women, afflicting approximately one in 1,000 women over the age of 40. If left untreated, survival of PBC patients is significantly worse than the general population.

“This data supports ocaliva as a treatment option for the substantial group of PBC patients who have an inadequate response to, or cannot tolerate, UDCA and therefore remain at risk of adverse outcomes,” said Frederik Nevens, MD PhD University Hospitals Leuven.

“For nearly 20 years, we only had one option to help our PBC patients. The introduction of ocaliva provides physicians and patients with an opportunity to rethink treatment goals and take action when ALP and/or bilirubin remain elevated despite UDCA therapy.”

Secondary discoveries

An exploratory secondary analysis showed that patients treated with placebo experienced total bilirubin increases over the 12-month study period, while ocaliva-treated patients experienced decreases in total bilirubin. While the changes were within the normal range, the difference between groups was statistically significant (p<0.001).

Additional exploratory secondary analyses indicated that other liver enzymes (gamma-glutamyl transferase, alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase and conjugated bilirubin) all improved from baseline in both ocaliva groups (p<0.001 for all end of study evaluations compared with placebo).

Future for PBC sufferers

Ocaliva received accelerated FDA approval earlier this year and is pending CHMP review.

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“Super Bowl” in Danish

From the homepage of DR, Denmark’s state TV and radio broadcaster (which, even in Denmark, by no means exhausts the radio or even TV choices available there through the airwaves):

Be there: Super Bowl for beginners

One of the world’s biggest sporting events goes on this evening, when the Super Bowl is played. Get answers to your most important questions here.

But there is a particular line of inquiry about which DR feels visitors might be particularly interested. We’ll soon see just what that is below, but first:

Sports economists: Super Bowl is a gigantic advertisement-show

VIDEO: Super Bowl can set a record for cold

American football is created for the Americans.

Peyton Manning picked as the NFL’s best player.

Finally, here we go:

READ ALSO: Brain injuries are a threat for American football

READ ALSO: Why concussions are dangerous

Gee – mentioned at the end not once but twice! Bunch of wimps! American football was indeed made for Americans,* and not for these cheese-eating . . . er, foreign weaklings! At least the DR writers were astute enough to put forward the topic of advertisement much nearer the top, as that truly gets much closer to the essence of what the entire phenomenon is about.

* Which is not to say that the NFL is not doing it’s very best (e.g. multiple regular-season games played at London’s Wembley Stadium) to widen the pasttime’s appeal outside of North America.

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Gavin Tomson

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is boy genius Gavin Tomson.

Destroying Pull

“Temporal horizon.”

I overheard an Australian man use that expression today at a Best Buy in Montreal - where I bought a blank CD and Mars Bar. A few nights ago, I finally finished editing my first EP, Pull, which I’d recorded while dating my – what should I call him now, my ex-boyfriend? My ex-partner? My ex-lov-ah?  And after uploading the songs to my iTunes, I transferred them to a CD and promptly threw it into my mother’s fireplace.

From what I gathered, the Australian had just been hired by an oil research organization in Norway. He’d used that expression, “Temporal horizon,” to refer to the day his contract would expire. Kneeling beside the man and feigning interest in a product outside my price range - a home cinema with “Built-In Massage Chairs” - I imagined him piercing through the sky as though through a colossal blue jellyfish and emerging in a dark abyss like the one Kierkegaard imagines in The Concept of Anxiety. Oh, Kierkegaard! I wrote my thesis on The Concept of Anxiety but I never knew until recently that a depressed mind moves too slowly to generate images of the future, that imagery of abysses and nothingness may be generated by brain-chemicals.

Anyway, I should mention that, a few days before destroying my EP, Montreal was hit by a record heat wave and my ex, a writer named Jordan Lin, left me for someone else. The Other Man is also a writer, or a grad student, or an artist. I didn’t listen to that part. I arrived home to a note on my pillow that read: “Call me. We need to talk.” Economical and to the point. I guess he knew I’d like that.

I don’t want to sound like I’m whining. The truth is that I don’t know how I should feel, so I don’t know how I sound. Although I tried to suppress the anger, I had secretly hoped for a while that Jordan and I would break up. Our relationship had reached what traffic monitors call “a standstill" - for most of our ride together, we cruised along winding, freshly paved roads like a couple in a Mazda commercial, watching the land pass by, feeling the wind in our hair, listening to the soundtrack of Drive. But the further we drove, the straighter the road became, until one day, we got so bored, we stopped. I wanted to ask Jordan, “Wait, where are we driving to?” And, “Why did we even get in this car?” But the words were too heavy. They were a medicine ball in my stomach. Jordan and I had driven so far already, these questions were too anticlimactic to ask.

But back to events. A few days before Jordan left the note on my pillow – a few days before the “Why won’t you see mess?” and the “How could you?” and  the “But you know mess!”— we made plans to see Clay People in 3D.

Also, I bought a bottle of Pernod, to sneak into the theatre. Pernod was Jordan's favorite and I was trying to like it too. From what I gathered, Clay People is coincidentally about a heat wave. All the weather experts say the heat will soon subside, so draw the shades and drink plenty of water. But the weather experts are all idiots, or liars, because the heat keeps rising, and after sweaty, grunting, prelinguistic masculine heroics, everybody, or almost everybody, dies. I say “almost everybody” because – and this is the twist of the plot – it turns out that for hundreds of years a colony of human-like creatures has been living beneath the city. They’re a bit like the Ninja Turtles, just earthier, more organic. They don’t eat pizza, for one thing, and they live in an underground civilization made of clay. “The Clay People,” they call themselves. After the heat wave subsides, The Clay People climb out of the ground to find an abandoned city, a world ready to be rebuilt and reimagined, and that’s when, well, that’s what I’d wanted to find out.

I phoned around to see if anyone else would go to the movie with me. Zoe, a friend of mine since undergrad, now a PhD student in Shakespeare Studies, happily obliged. Her boyfriend, the second guy named Dick she’d been with - a man I thus called Richard the Second - had been hanging around her too much, becoming too domestic. So it would be “a good idea” to get away from him and spend some time with popcorn, Pernod and maybe even me! But when she arrived at my apartment, she sat on the living room floor and we remained there to talk.

“So, how are you?” she asked eventually, after rambling about Solange, Cruel Optimism, and the benefits of vitamin D. I pretended not to hear. Then she asked again.

“Wow,” she said. “That must have been painful.”

“Yes,” I said. “It was.”

Then she said, “You know, I thought they were just friends, maybe from undergrad, friends who’d known each other for a while.”

 “The two of them.”

 “The writer?”

“What? No, he’s a curator, and his name’s Danny, Daniel Mayfield.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Are you angry at me?”

“Look,” I said, “I’m sorry I didn’t invite you to my last Brady Brunch.”

“I was just snooping around,” Zoe was saying, “I was curious. There’s even a picture of them on Facebook. They’re smiling, very happy, very couply.”

“Did you know that my mother’s started bird watching?”

Zoe stared at me like I’d admitted to mounting the heads of housecats. “Wait,” she said, “you mean you really didn’t know?”

“Really really.”

“Oh wow,” Zoe said. “I guess if you press your face too close to the page, you can no longer read the words.”

“Or maybe I’m just reading too much into things, like usual. I mean, maybe what I’m saying isn’t even all that true. I think it's Touchstone, the jester in As You Like It, who says, ‘We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal…”

I nodded along, but stopped listening at “mortal". Instead I introspected on the state of my inner self.
In 14th century Germany, there were a group of monks who believed they’d transformed their inner selves into passageways through which God passed continuously. “Hey Zoe,” I said, taking a sip of Pernod straight from the bottle because what the hell, I could like it if I wanted to, “maybe I should become a monk or something.”

This all took place, as I said, while editing Pull, my first EP. All I had left to do was put the tracks through a slight compressor. My intention behind the EP, if it matters, had been to capture something fundamental about Jordan. Jordan had not been perfect, obviously. But something glowed inside him. It was an inner light, fueled by anxiety, and since I myself felt something similar, this light made me trust him. It pulled me, he pulled me, towards him, and it was as though I had always been pulled towards him, even before I met him, when I felt I was pulled toward other people, it had been him, always him.

Before I met Jordan, I hadn’t even considered making an EP; music was a secret desire I pursued when drunk or overly emotional. After meeting him, though – and I know this is kind of clichéd but whatever – the songs just started coming out of me, one by one, as though I myself were an instrument, like a woodwind, like an oboe, and Jordan was playing me. I didn’t tell anyone about the EP, not even Jordan. The EP was going to surprise everyone. It was going to prove, against expectations, that I was an Artist. It was going to prove that I Felt A Lot. Sir Feelz-A-Lot.
I was opening my MacBook to compress the tracks when my mother called.  My mother, as I said, recently started bird watching, and she was often calling to say yellow bellied this, ruby-throated that and I didn't expect much.

 “Hello mother,” I said

 “Hello son,” said mother. “You’re drinking plenty of water, I hope?”

 “By the gallon.”

  “The radio man said that tomorrow it’s going to reach a record. He said we haven’t seen a day like this since August ’72.”

  “All the lights are turned off,” I lied, “and the windows are open. I’m just spread out on my bed, conserving energy, like a dehydrated starfish.”

  “Good for you. So listen, something’s come up. I need you to take care of Kernel tomorrow.”

  “You didn’t hire a sitter?”

  “Long story.”

 “Why though?”

“Something to do with the wind and the sea. I don't want to jinx it. The birds will be titillated. It's the avian equivalent of an aurealis borealis. Lenticular clouds. Snow donuts. Just  let me know if it’s all right.”

“Seems I don’t really have a choice. “

“Jordan won’t mind?”

“Jordan’s visiting his parents in Scarborough," I lied again.

“OK. Well, thank you.”

“It’s nothing.”

“All right.”

 “All right.”

My mother is so mysterious, so elusive. She dangles secrets above me, like she’s a fisherwoman, and I a curious fish, mouth agape. Actually, I think she's a mystic. Years before she picked up bird watching, when I was but a wee lad, she led me to “a special place” in the British Columbian forest, where a circle of trees surrounded an ancient stump. She lifted me onto the stump and told me to close my eyes and drop my arms and breath in deeply. Then she told me to wait until “nature’s pull” happened. She said it had happened to her, once, some time ago, and that she wanted to share it with me now.  “The trees,” she said, “will pull your arms up for you, if you let them. Just close your eyes, breathe in deeply, and wait."

The next morning, I bussed to mother’s apartment in Westmount, and took Kernel Mustard II for a W.A.L.K. When I got too sweaty for public, Kernel and I stopped at a café and sat like good boys on the patio. I ordered water for him and an Americano for me. A pleasure of mine that may appear masochistic and maybe is, I don’t know, is to drink hot black coffee under the sun on the hottest summer days. First my skin feels pinched by clothespins, and for a moment I feel nauseous, but then the sweat stars pouring and my thoughts get vague and disjointed, and I think of all sorts of strange, otherworldly-type things.

Anyway, because I don’t believe in suspense, or at least because engaging in it feels grimey, I’ll say, right off, that while sweating spiritually with Kernel Mustard II below the table, I saw someone whom I thought was Jordan, but turned out to be an uglier doppelgänger. Uglier Jordan walked passed the café and crossed the street and Kernel and I followed. We followed Uglier Jordan (whom I still thought was Jordan) all the way to the nearest metro stop. I’d never taken the metro with a dog before. People stared at the dog instead of me, which was nice. I stared at the back of Uglier Jordan’s head. I felt flushed, possibly dehydrated. Uglier Jordan seemed far away from me, and not just physically. Also, he seemed to glow a new inner light, which I didn’t trust, and which made me feel threatened, small. I felt the little self that was me shrink into a tiny slimy nugget, like a snail who’s lost its shell. (Is the shell my ego? Probably?)

Soon enough, though, Uglier Jordan stood up to exit the train, and I saw that he was not Jordan. Uglier Jordan had a bigger nose, fatter thighs, thinner hair. I watched Uglier Jordan eclipse the actual Jordan like a freakish, imposter moon eclipsing the actual moon, or something like that, but I stayed on the metro anyway. I’m not sure why. Maybe to prove a point I wasn’t aware of. Maybe to wait until something important happened to me. I felt like something more was destined to happen, a sense of closure, maybe, maybe to see the actual Jordan, maybe for Uglier Jordan to get back on the train and apologize for not being my ex. I expected something dramatic to happen. I expected some type of proof that my breakup was not some regular occurrence, but a Major Event, a Really Big Deal.

I just kept waiting, though, on the screeching, stop-and-go metro. And all around me, underground, it was dark.

Gavin Tomson is a writer living in Toronto. His fiction has appeared in The Dalhousie Review and Joyland and his non-fiction has appeared in Maisonneuve, Full Stop, and The Awl. He's the winner of The Dalhousie Review's inaugural short story contest and a Copy Editor for The Puritan.

Nat Hero

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is funny depressed person Nat Hero.

A selection of tweets from Nat Hero's account

Nov 22
call for submissions: compliments to make me feel better

Nov 12
so anxious all day felt like my heart was jerking off

Nov 9
eye contact more like bye contact

Oct 30
just declared to a coworker 'i like myself best when i'm on lunch'

Oct 23
my heart is a dinner party guest that nobody fucking likes

Oct 19
girl at lush was literally like 'yeah, i bet your hair looks super nice when you wash it'

Oct 18
put epsom salts in your bath so that the water tastes like real tears

Oct 16
when dudes call me 'baby' it's like, yeah, i do cry all day and have trouble sleeping through the night

Oct 13
[bond villain cackle] i'm not gonna shower

Oct 8
a helpful thing is to picture 'mood swing', 'downward spiral' and 'panic attack' as cool amusement park rides

Oct 7
my own heart rolling its eyes at me on a daily basis

Oct 6
my emotions are on caps lock

Oct 5
my favorite drug is telling people i'm fine

Sep 25
sexual fantasy: i watch cartoons while u do all my dishes forever

Sep 19
do panic attacks burn calories

Sep 18
my brain is menstruating positive vibes and creative energy today, the world is my diva cup

Sep 4
i have the larry david of uteruses

Aug 23
my sadness bursting into my apartment like kramer to thunderous applause

Nat Hero lives in Montreal. She tweets at @supernasst.

Frankie Barnet

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is chill person Frankie Barnet.

Gay For Her

You meet her at a potluck, that girl from the party. Kara’s house? Yeah that girl with the nachos. Or maybe you meet her in the eighth grade. She remembers you vaguely from high school, mistaking you for someone named Bethany but no hard feelings it’s all super chill.

She isn’t as pretty as you or maybe she is much, much prettier than you and you ask your friends,do you think she’s pretty? They tell you that she looks kinda like Scarlett Johansson but that’s only from certain angles and from certain other angles she looks like Al Pacino.

It’s your 337th time drinking alcohol, it’s your fifth time smoking weed today. It’s her DJ night and maybe it’s the night you sleep with Brian, the person that of all people you sleep with in your so-far life you regret sleeping with the most. You sit across the table from her, she’s wearing velour. Never in your life have you heard anyone talk so explicitly about masturbating with the bathroom faucet, you think, I’m going to add her on Facebook. This very tall girl.

Find out she is also a vegetarian. She’ll tell you she hates vegetarians. Type back, “lol me too.” Skip the assigned readings for class, hang out just the two of you and go for Chinese. Hang out just the two of you and get totally wasted. “Borrow” a sweater. You have the same first name.

Weird she’s had sex with so many more people than you have. Weird that you’ve had sex with so many more people than she has. Weird that you’ve slept with exactly the same amount of people, what a funny coincidence. The both of you in stitches over Brian’s penis. You’ve been called a “fuck puppet,” she’s been called a “cum bucket.” Refer to her with other people and her last name is dropped, simply Lisa, simply Jess, simply Marianna.

You tell her something about your mother that applies directly to how she feels about her mother and then she tells you something about her ex boyfriend that applies directly to how you feel about your family’s late Bichon. See her cry for the first time. She sees you cry, like, every day. You have completely different names.

You write in your diary, “I love her but I am not in love with her.”

You look at her and wonder how you never noticed before that she is insanely pretty. It’s in the curve of her nose, or it’s in between her nose and her mouth and it’s her ears and toes and the way she just gets you. She’s so pretty, and she’s your best friend, of course she is, who else in the world would be your best friend? You promise always to be friends, even when you are older, you promise to always smoke weed.

There’s free cake in the Women’s Study department to celebrate Simone de Beauvoir’s birthday. You sneak in and talk about how hard you are falling in love with Brian. She tells you it’s in the stars, she says she’d kill for your stars.

You promise you are not mad she didn’t make it Friday and you promise you will make it Tuesday. You are late for her birthday dinner. You are late for her birthday party. But you’re right there at her vernissage when she spends the whole night talking to her art friends, the ones with weird hair who never talk to you, so you hang out near the back and drink the cheap wine alone.

Google Simone de Beauvoir when you get home, feeling guilty over pizza. Oh well i’m prettier than that! measuring your thighs with your hands cupped together.

You’ve been feeling uneasy lately with the way you feel in the mornings after smoking weed, so you decide to take a little break, just until you feel more balanced again. It’s the year she decides to get real about her pottery. She moves to St Henri and says she wants to be a lawyer. She moves to Calgary to learn massage. She’s always bragging about her art friends and what blogs they run. She’s always bragging about her boyfriend and the time his parents met Obama. She’s great at school and she’s great at the drums. She looks like Kim Kardashian, she looks like Sky Ferreira and she looks like Kourtney Kardashian. She’s great at dressing herself, she rules at sucking dick, and she just inherited 10 000 dollars from her grandfather. She is so much better than you at everything. It is like she is your younger brother, whom your parents have always liked better, and then she goes out to the bar and she sucks your younger brother’s dick.

You’re really so smart. You’re really so nice, so unappreciated, really. You sleep with her ex boyfriend. The night you sleep with her sociology professor. The night she doesn't even text you back. So lame. She is so lame, you can do better. You sleep with that guy who works at the Chinese place but do not tell her or anyone about it ever because you find out after he is 17.

She starts acting like she can do better than you, and you in turn become certain you can do better than her, because what kind of person would think they can do better than their best friend? Only a sad and miserable person with a sad and miserable life would ever want to implement hierarchies like that. Who does she think she is, to tell you that you have a drinking problem? Even if she was the one who introduced you to Brian.

Play out fantasies in your head where you’re finally honest about how pathetic she’s become. Fantasies where you gently let her know how hopeless her dreams are. You start to make jokes with other friends, jokes about her improv and her weird dad.

“There is a new sense of freedom in my life, I can feel it,” you write in your diary when you’re barely even thinking about her. You meet new people and talk about new things, better things. smarter things, cooler things, things that have more to do with music and Palestine. You run into her one day at a party and nod from across the room, then artfully avoid each other, like she’s just some guy you once fucked in a bathroom somewhere.

One day remember that time when you went with your friend to the Women’s Studies department and ate that free cake. You sat on the couch and she explained to you who Simone De Beauvoir was. You think, she really was very smart.

That night or a week later get black out drunk and think about how unhappy with your life you are. How tired you are of so many of the things you’ve chosen to define yourself by. Why on earth did you cut your bangs like that? Girls like you are becoming lawyers, girls like you have at least been to Europe. All you have is your stupid fucking haircut. If you only could just lose 1 million pounds or maybe you should have never broken up with Brian.

Sit at your computer or in front of a piece of paper, maybe even the back side of a list you wrote of ways to get in shape. Remember that time you got drunk in the park with your friend and made fun of all the dogs. When she peed the bed in New York City. She removed your plantar warts on the day after halloween while watching Maid in Manhattan. Will you ever have a friend like that again? And you do not fully understand what happened between the two of you. Maybe you can see how the way you acted towards her could have been misconstrued to make her think you didn't really care about or love her, but you only meant it that way because you were angry, or jealous, or insecure, or actually a muddled confusion of all of these things and more, which you never expected to get so out of hand. “Why were you so hard on me?” You ask her. “I don’t know why I was so hard on you,” you tell her. You tell her, “I miss you.” You tell her about how lonely you feel, now that she is not your friend anymore.

Wake up in the morning, already late for work. Wake up in the afternoon and puke for the rest of the day. Remember vaguely drawing a picture? Remember typing something up but when you check your computer there isn't anything there because half way through you realize how uncool it all sounded, like you’re gay for her or something and plus she’s the one who should be doing the apologizing. Wake up in the morning and don’t remember it at all. There you are in the bathroom, over the toilet, struggling to believe something as neon as bile could come from inside of your body.

You do not remember anything, you do not say anything, until the next time you get black out drunk, tomorrow or a week later, when you write, do not send and then delete another email about your feelings towards her, but you don’t remember that either so it is like you do not feel anything.

Frankie Barnet is a writer currently living in Montreal, Quebec. Her work has appeared in publications like The Void MagazineSoliloquies Anthology and Dragnet Magazine.

Blare Coughlin

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is writer, artist and renewable source of energy Blare Coughlin.

Two poems and a drawing by Blare Coughlin

do people still write about sex
am i writing about sex

sure i guess i am

one time i had sex with a guy who said he was extremely good at tetris and later showed me

one time i had sex with a girl who had cat decals on her walls and was an anthropology student

one time i had sex with two guys who owned two cats that looked like twins

one time i had sex with a dude i know and then in the morning bled on his bed and puked on his tshirt

one time i had sex with a person while i was tied to a swing and a few other people watched

shared experiences shape communities

there is no common thread

twenty five people have seen me naked in an intimate setting and twenty five people have let me see them in a vulnerable state

twenty five people are sitting at a dinner table eating duck confit on a saturday night in an expensive french restaurant

self aware/carried through ohio

ur dnd alignment is either neutral good or chaotic good
u are a big peach in the world
i will bring you quiche in bed and then i will bring you cherry tomatoes and we will eat them together
the pulp of the cherry tomatoes will ooze out inside our mouths

u are a stone that is skipping over the ocean and has been skipping for many years
u are twelve small pastries
u are the seagull that steals my french fries when i am at sylvan lake and i am 5 or 6 years old

when i think of you i want to cook huge banquets of vegetarian food
and i want to learn how to rollerblade
when i think of you i feel like im being pulled in by a tractor beam into a planet of pavement covers you are singing to me over the internet
when i think of you i want to high five everybody

this is a love poem made of abstract concepts but you are not abstract at all
and some days i lie in bed and think about holding your hand
in your car
listening to some songs i like but have never heard before
and the dead grey trees of ohio pass outside
and the dead grey clouds of ohio pass outside
but inside your car holding your hand i feel like i am radiating light like the sun

blare coughlin is a writer and artist living in montreal. they do posters for music shows and custom drawings for cheap. blare's art can be seen on tumblr here.

Sophia Katz

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is Toronto-based cool person Sophia Katz.

A selection of tweets from Sophia Katz's account

Nov 17
don't ever read my poetry

Nov 12
hallucinated a toy poodle acting as a teller at my bank

Nov 5
art students love to interrupt each other

Oct 31
i would get my period on halloween

Oct 29
the bottom half of me is caffeinated and the top half is sedated

Oct 24
only male fireflies can cry

Oct 21
we all just need to accept that lana del rey knows something we don't

Oct 14
iphone literally heating up while sexting

Oct 13
is changing brain chemistry for the better still considered brain damage?

Sep 29
winning is for losers

Sep 27
our love is strong like ciara's jawline

Sep 26
can't wait to be elderly on the internet

Sep 22
i genuinely thought everyone in pink floyd was named floyd

Sep 17
this gas station bathroom is the nicest bathroom i've ever seen

Sep 13
a lot of dudes with insane head shapes on tinder

Sep 12
once time i did lsd with a guy who spent the whole day talking to foucault

Sep 10
siri just told me i have arrived but i'm not so sure

Sep 5
chakras are too open, better close those up

Sep 1
maybe i won't always be sure but right now i think i am sure

Aug 30
steadily 'whatever'ing my way through life

Aug 26
at peace with the internet

Aug 17
this thunderstorm is churning out some sick beats

Aug 16
commenting on my instagram posts with a heart emoji means nothing to me in here bb

Sophia Katz is a writer and musician who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Her first book, The Title Of This Book Is An Inside Joke, will be published in 2015. She tweets at @sophia_katz.

Jasper Baydala

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is the surreal Jasper Baydala.

Limes (an excerpt)

poverty creeps in with every bud before them, suspicion flashes at the margins of all we do, heft of mountains leer, fear like belief, a house or an acorn mashed into the ground as silent descends the snow, sky grieves as our fancies take shape and hearts confess, despair revealed, I sift snow and pines groan, my pillow as I sleep in the blast, needle green snakes, thorn surrounding this briar, vines I grasp to taste some sour sharp, havoc where I dig, brailed, I grasp to suck where they breath, let the bale loose, have your meal, your winding road, mist lifts, how hard the road rises, how distant, on I go to the shore where new stars show a temple pillared with flame, city gleaming like a jewel in a country a curtain enshrouds, highlands melting, water hems a beach with bridges and belfries, light- houses lit by stars, floating gardens and pavilions in avenues of woof, a flame on a peak among the trees, a house with sunfire windows, clothes on hangers and dishes in the sink, day bright and songless, forest watchful, clouds like bread, swirls in oilcloth and flawed glass, flares where sun hits a bridge waggling across the torrent, swallows swoop under, sweet sweet, meet me in space, wings like vapors, talons loosing, upward again, the news, spring and fall, foot passengers, lotus pools with petals in the water, silk as I take my ease, pine as river slips under, joy after pain, love like the river, love goes by and the past remains, I step in and

Jasper Baydala was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and currently lives in London, England. He has published music as Kool Music and has made record sleeves for artists like Mac DeMarco and Grimes. Limes (Metatron, 2014) was composed in Bogota, Ecuador and Peru.

Olivia Wood

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is honorary Canadian (and Portland, Maine's finest) Olivia Wood.

We enter the city from the body.
Does it map so easily onto sex?
We over-perform if we need to.

City sprinting on alone in Jarry—
The beam opens and I lose you.
She shifts. I lose you. There is

a splitting and I lose you.
Black currant, hot ash in the brown river.
Slip against the firmament and cut out on this

entirely. There is an ambulance that
will not wait for me, there are strangers touching
our lover and we want to kill them, we want

to lay down with their families.
I wanted to say this happened
without my consent, but the throat of this is impossible.

Blessing that in death her cock is burned along with the rest of it.

At night the backyard swells.
And I call you from New Castle.
From Ellsworth, MDI, Arlington, Mobile

And I eject the complete pain of movement.
And I am driving through Oklahoma City at night
Flanked by dead and gone, dead and not gone, gone but not dead, gone not,

dead and
if I were a better researcher—
Can we locate the pain of separation? I am tethered to this stupor.

There are women straining to listen.
To the mysterious knot of muscle sunk.
Behind the heart, plucked and stuffed full of itself.

Swelling dangerously with rot.
The absence of sensation
in the arms at panic.

Olivia Wood lives in Montreal and is the poetry editor of The Void Magazine. A Work No One Told You About (Metatron, 2014) is her first collection of poems.

Marie Darsigny

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is bilingual writer and feelings expert Marie Darsigny.

Interlude (Mia)

It happened to me, I dated Mia and I wrote about it
on the internet. She was not happy, but Jane Pratt was.
It happened to me, I dated Mia and she always wore
the same black pants and the same white blouse
that never got stained despite the fact that she
had no washing machine, because she didn’t live anywhere.
It happened to me, I dated Mia who knew every line of
every French movie and it made me want to eat her brain
in the hopes of absorbing her knowledge. It happened to me,
I dated Mia and strangers would come see me at parties saying,
“Hey I love your bathroom, the pink toilet is so lovely”
and I would think, “When the fuck were these people at my house?”
It happened to me, I dated Mia and she invited her friends
over at my house while I was working. I kept crying
and thinking, “Holy shit I think I'm dating an escort.”
It happened to me I dated Mia and I found weird chat logs
on my computer. She used Firefox while I used Safari.
I sent my friends messages that said, “I'll see you next weekend, xo”
while she send her friends messages that said, “I miss your hands, xo.”
It happened to me, I dated Mia and it ended at Saphir,
with my friends throwing vodka-sodas at her over their shoulders.
It happened to me, I dated Mia and she disappeared only to reappear
much later and tell me, “I'm sorry I was such an asshole,”
to which I replied, “Yep you were.” It happened to me,
I dated Mia and when I talk about it to people, it turns out that
half of Montreal has dated Mia. It happened to me,
I dated Mia and five years later I still don't understand
what the fuck exactly happened to me.

Marie Darsigny is a bilingual writer who lives in Montreal, Quebec. Her work has appeared in both English and French in xoJane, xoVain, Urbania, Nightlife Magazine, Ton Petit Look, Girls Get Busy and The Void. A Little Death Around The Heart (Metatron, 2014) is her first collection of poems.

Julian Flavin

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is the playful Julian Flavin.

You, You Are A Mango

I'm tired, I wish this chair had armrests. My mouth tastes like I was just sucking on a cereal box ..... but you,,,,,, you are a mango, suspended in the air, 10 meters above the corner store where I first learned that Doritos were no longer "my thing". And I see you up there and I start to break down a bit, and its night time obviously and I really feel at that moment that I know time is really passing, that I'm flickering like the lights that take a second to turn on fully. And I hope all sorts of things but I'm afraid of letting go of myself, I'm not scared of heights I'm scared of depths. And you are high up, way up there, and that's OK with me. So I glide, wipe the extra-runny snot from my nose with my sweater's sleeve, and smile at you. It's a quick smile but I know you see it and I know I've done it and I know I have to enter the corner store and I know once I do, that's it. And when I smile, my teeth glow with your light. And I open the door, put my head down, lilt my shoulders and, dissolve. I become the beer in their cases, and the 5 cent candies and the Doritos, and my heart aches, but its ok. You are up there, and I am also sour candy, and I think about how similar
we are,

my love,

how different,
how endless,,,,,

Julian Flavin is a young artist who lives in Montreal Canada, and going through life like everyone else, realizing many of the same things, whether ecstatic or disheartening. Something Happened To Me (Metatron, 2014) is his first collection of poems.

Jason Harvey

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is sensual young man Jason Harvey.

i feel like it is crazy that the people i know and see everyday
have lives when I am not around
or can’t see them
what are you guys doing? are you thinking about me
how can i be sure anything exists if i cannot look at it

Jason Harvey is an alternative artist and video director working in new media. Human Toilet (Metatron, 2014) is his first collection of poems. He is based in Berlin and Montreal.

Jess Taylor

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is award-winning Toronto-based writer Jess Taylor.

Never Stop (excerpt)
I had a nightmare and it was dark and moved
thousands of split atoms
on tricolour maps

I was outside my body and looked
different, nothing belonged to me
I swallowed my privilege
white Russians though milk is disgusting

I had a nightmare so I signed
a petition, didn’t even need to be
handwritten, was asked to sign thousands
more but deleted the emails from my inbox

I knelt beside my bed and prayed:

“Tactile tactile tactile let me be
reveal life through touch
my hands don’t work
and someone’s caught my words”

I imagined that everyone I ever knew
was incredibly tall and had roots
that penetrated the earth’s core
and the roots were constantly on fire

          Don’t you think we’re all on fire too?

It was Mat that taught me about gaps
                                                              and I was learning
how to create white noise with sound
and he said, “poetry too”

           Caught in a nightmare loop, I couldn’t break
through to lucid dreaming
                                               sometimes I get sick
of being attacked and then still living

Is this the worst part?

                                   and it was Kenny
who rescued me from that apartment at the top of a staircase

             I imagined everyone I ever knew –
part of an immaculate robotic sculpture
and we weren’t allowed to move

This is like that part of the Kanye song
where he yells then pants with fear

Learn how to breathe because friends will teach you
by touching

Does it get easier with practice?

I imagined that
                                   when I closed my eyes

there was a room
                   and in that room
was another room
             and in that room
                       was another room
and in that room
           was another room
Jess Taylor's work has appeared in Little Brother Magazine, Little Fiction, Great Lakes Review and many more. She is the founder of the Emerging Writers Reading Series and was awarded the Gold National Magazine Award in Fiction in 2013. Her chapbook Never Stop was just published by Anstruther Press and her debut short story collection, Pauls, will be released by BookThug next year. She lives in Toronto.

David McGimpsey

Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is one of our favourite poets, David McGimpsey.

A selection of tweets from David McGimpsey's account

Nov 8
According to a Google analysis of titles, the best name for a poetry book would be "A Paucity of Soul-Perching Butterflies".

Nov 4
"The scientists stood up, held hands and started singing 'God Bless America'" is how I imagine the invention of Count Chocula cereal.

Nov 2
6 hours now. This is the longest I have gone without listening to Taylor Swift's 1989 since it was released.

Nov 2
In Canada, because of the metric system, instead of saying "a ton of fun" we say "kilos of unsolicited advice."

Nov 2
No doubt that life today is better than it was before but it's almost entirely because of Taylor Swift and Beyonce. Otherwise, garbage time.

Oct 30
The important lesson in poetry is that when rich people look at things they get sad in a special way.

Oct 22
One day, we'll all look back on the time Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" spent at #1 as the days when life seemed most worth living.

Oct 21
No two skills compliment each other better than the ability to read an artist's statement and the ability to wish you were dead.

Oct 19
Just watched a bunch of "Canadian accent" tutorials and laughed at how practically each one started with "You have to speak really slow".

Oct 20
“Built with honor. Forged with pride. Guts. Glory. A Gathering of Sparrows.”  - If poetry books were marketed like Dodge trucks.

Oct 16
Unless I hear "Imagine a potato who's put a lot of money on a pair of 6's in a poker tournament" I know you're not talking about me.

Oct 12
The best way to tell the difference between me and a state fair potato is you won't see any ribbons on me.

Oct 8
If emotional eating works, I should be set for the next decade or so.

Oct 8
When you gain the wisdom that comes with perspective, you accept nobody will know you as well as you know ankle pain.

Oct 6
A poet complaining about "the one percent" is like a koala complaining about the taste of eucalyptus.

Oct 6
Why do you have to "copsplain" how I'm not supposed to sleep in a pile of sweaters at Sears?

Oct 4
If a job interviewer asks "If this company was TLC, who do you see yourself as?" the right answer is Kelly Rowland. #jobsearch

Oct 4
I'm looking at pictures of me at the reading last night and marvelling at how much I look like an old horse.

Sep 24
Rich or poor, poetry gives everybody a chance to celebrate the timeless beauty of elitism.

Sep 24
Don't despair, just remember all the beautiful names poets give their horses.

David McGimpsey was born and raised in Montreal. He is the author of several volumes of poetry, including the collection of sonnets Li'l Bastard (Coach House Books, 2011), which was a finalist for Canada's Governor General's Award. He teaches creative writing at Concordia University and tweets at @DaveMcgimpsey.


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"I'm a small business. No one is going to bother trying to hack my network."

In fact, 56 percent of small businesses surveyed by the Small Business Technology Institute had at least one security incident in the previous 12 months. More and more, instead of going after the big boys, cyber-criminals are attacking small businesses that have systems that are often more vulnerable than those of larger enterprises and that often do not have the time and money to invest in a comprehensive security solution.

Additionally, hackers continue to change their techniques and adapt to recent improvements in network security, so small businesses face an ever-evolving set of external threats: spam, pharming, phishing, viruses, adware, key loggers, root kits ... the list goes on and on. But companies also face unintentional threats from the inside, as employees often engage in high risk network security behavior without even knowing it.

Here are the top five ways that employees unknowingly add fuel to the (in)security fire:

Responding to phishing and spam e-mails

Phishing scams and e-mail fraud can be more sophisticated than they seem and are ubiquitous security issues that at best annoy and at worst present a real threat to secure data. Phishers and spammers use tricky URLs (for example,, where two v's make the w, or, where the "L" is represented by the number one) that appear at first blush to be legitimate but actually direct users to malicious sights designed to steal personal information or install malicious code.

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Checking personal Web mail at work

If a company has its own e-mail server, it will usually be set up with some form of anti-virus protection that scans all inbound e-mails to the server for viruses. Often, this only checks SMTP traffic, which is used by the mail server, leaving other protocols, such as HTTP, wide open.

Thus, when employees check their personal e-mail account via a Web browser using HTTP, this network traffic will bypass the virus-scanning setup for the company's e-mail server. A similar situation can occur for an FTP download. You must consider and scan all inbound traffic on your network for malware regardless of protocol.


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The following items were taken from April 19 through 25, 1964, Examiner.

• Once again the former commander-in-chief is at the helm of the wartime U.S. battleship Missouri. By remote control, former President Truman operates a scale model of the vessel which he previewed at the library. The miniature battleship is to be unveiled at the museum on April 21.

• The Gray-Y program, a YMCA community program for boys, now includes clubs at Carlisle and Sugar Creek schools, directed by Larry Cornine, and at Mount Washington and Bristol schools, directed by J.C. Waters, Cornine and Waters are students at CMS Residence Center.

• The subject of daylight saving time here has been revived by consideration by the Kansas City City Council of an ordinance that would place the city on daylight saving time from June 1 to the last Sunday in September. Howard Risinger, of Risinger’s Gardens, said he believe most commercial gardeners would not favor the change.

• Four William Chrisman High School seniors and ROTC cadets, M. Sgt. Robert Goza, 1st Lt. Wayne LaMere, 1st Lt. Gary Parsons and Capt. Alan Meinershagen, have won 57 ribbons, five trophies and three plaques in competition with more than 60 other area schools. The crack rifle team members have been together for three years of competitive firing.

The following items were taken from the April 19 through 25, 1914, Examiner.

• It is a happy group of children that Miss Hilda Hutchins teaches at Sunny Vale, southeast of Independence. The pupils are Carey Ford, Lloyd King, Fisher and Helen Cook, Fields Fisher, Jewell and Ruth Stayton, Ernest, Theodore and Harold Frerking, Flora Westmoreland, Bessie Ford, Ella Walden, Andrew Collins, Henry Walden, Ruth Collins, Erato, Maurine, Paul and Guy Boman, Parker and Robert Porter, Sea Lowe, and Henry and Deward Pressly.

• An impromptu wolf hunt took place April 19 on the farm of J.G. White, two miles south of Raytown. A mother wolf and seven puppies were killed after a chase that drew into its exciting folds a large lot men and boys in the neighborhood. G.I. Duncan brought the scalps of the mother wolf and her cubs to the county clerk’s office and received $3 for the adult and $1.50 for each of the baby scalps.

• The Board of Trustees of the Independence Sanitarium met for reorganization. The new board includes Bishop Edwin N. Blakeslee, chairman, to succeed Bishop Richard Bullard; Charles Fry, secretary, succeeding George E. Harrington; Bishop Bullard, treasurer, succeeding Bishop Ellis Short. Dr. Harrington took charge of the Sanitarium April 21. He succeeds Dr. W.F. Messenger, who has been in charge for several years.

• There was a wordy controversy in front of Clinton’s Drug Store between Thomas W. Gentry, city marshal, and Roy Dalton, a patrolman. “You talk too much,” the marshal said, “you have been knocking on me.” “And your friends,” the patrolman responded, “have been jeering at and insulting me because they think I will soon lose my job.” Ray Woody, who is the son-in-law of Gentry, came up and Dalton turned his attention to Woods. There was some very plain talking, though no blows were struck. Mayor Ott had a private talk with the men and said “I think it’s straightened out now, there were some misunderstandings.

– Jillayne Ritchie


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The importance of making your business model explicit, in strategy map design

Strategy maps need a clear and explicit Business Model

Working with a client last year I placed a draft strategy map on the wall. Actually I placed their business model so that they could start to develop their strategy over the top of their business model, once we had the business model correct.  The reaction from the Managing Director was “Ah ah, that is really useful – I can use this to explain what we do to clients and partners”.  He spent the next 10 minutes running through it in his mind, thinking about how he would explain it, in his words.

Just bear in mind, that this was not even their strategy map yet: it was only their business model, an interim step I use in the development of a client’s strategy map.

When working with an NHS client I had a similar reaction from the Chief Executive. She decided to keep the strategy map with the business model on her office wall so she could explain to her visitors how her organisation contributed to the wider context of the NHS.  As she put it, “I used to think what we did, who we served and how we added value, was complex.  Our strategy map is really valuable because allows me to explain it in a few minutes.”

These are just two examples from many clients I have worked with.  I have seen clients use the business model and strategy map to explain the organisation to their Boards, and to their front line staff.

In my experience you have to get the business model correct before you start developing strategies, otherwise you are developing on sand; quick-sand at that.  In my clients’ experience, the stage is part of a really useful communication tool.

The secret of a good strategy map – develop the business model first.

The secret to a good strategy map is actually in the under pinning, the foundations.  Yes you need a good clear cause and effect model.  However you also have to capture the business model of the organisation before you start laying strategic themes and objectives over the top.  Miss out that step and you will have a quite generic strategy but one that is hard for people to relate to.

In today’s environment especially, new business models are being introduced and existing models are changing so fast  that it is vital that you explicitly identify the business model and any changes. Handing the variety of new and different business models in strategy maps is an explicit part of the Fourth Generation Strategic Balanced Scorecard approach.

Beware generic strategy maps

I see a lot of variations on strategy maps:  I often see some very generic strategy maps, or ones that simply got copied from a book (or a previous client).  They don’t work.  They don’t work for three main reasons:

  1. They are copying, stealing someone else’s strategy and trying to apply that to the current organisation.  Being a copy cat is not a strategy. Your situation and performance gaps are likely to be different.
  2. There is no ownership and no sense of ownership.  Ticking a box labeled “Strategy Map: That will do” is not ownership and usefulness.  The process of a management team creating their strategy map with their nuances in it is part of what makes it useful (and therefore owned).
  3. The organisation they are copying it from has a different business model.  (Or they have ignored the business model completely)

In any of these cases the strategy map is irrelevant to that current organisation client and will not stick.  It does not represent their thinking and mental models of how the organisation should work now or in the future.  The role of the business model in a strategy map is one that is frequently overlooked.

Complex and diverse business models

Making sure you have the right business model is vital with organisations who work through others, perhaps partners and channels.   We have applied this in all sorts of situations:

  • In a European Bank, being clear how and where they play in their clients minds, and exploring how Fin-techs were seeking to disrupt the bank’s business model, together with possible business model responses to that disruption.
  • In a water companies, being clear that their delivery was actually the quality of the water infrastructure, the effectiveness of which in turn provided the services to their end customers.  This also included the wider environment implications of their business model, recycling waste and protecting the environment.
  • Networked organisations and membership organisations often have complex relationships supporting a variety of types of members and partners, with conflicting needs and demands.
  • In a hospice, that used three different fund-raising models, work with NHS as a channel to people they could help, and also offered widely different core hospice services to children and adults.

In these three contrasting examples, a failure to develop the business model and value chain, would have led to simplistic strategies and therefore scorecards.

In some cases organisations have quite different customer groups:  Banks have retail and business customers, who might both borrow and simply use the bank for their core banking.  Charities and NFP organisations often have donors, and separately funders, immediate beneficiaries, partner organisations, and those who get secondary benefits such as the families of their immediate beneficiaries.   Many organisations have regulators to satisfy (The 4th Generation Strategic Balanced Scorecard includes a regulator’s perspective).

Being clear of the business model, before the strategy is over-laid, meant that a more meaningful and useful strategy map, and performance management system could be developed.

The business model includes the customers’ value chain

One piece of this process is vital: being clear of the customer’s value chain and processes, before you start to closely link it to the business model of the organisation.

Many balanced scorecard consultants or practitioners develop a customer perspective that is merely a reflection of what the organisations says they customers want.  This is the organisation’s proposition, NOT the customer perspective.  To genuinely get the customer’s perspective you must speak in their language, stating their objectives, from their perspective.  Saying, “They want operational effectiveness” is not the approach”.  A customer is more likely to say, “For goodness sake, answer that darn phone when I ring, know who I am, give me someone who knows what they are talking about and answer my questions, first time!”  That is the customer’s perspective of the balanced scorecard, done properly.

That perspective is just a part of their, the customer’s, value chain.  Understand their value chain, before you think about your own, and you can better understand where you, or competitors, add their value.  Then, and only then, you can start to think through your own business model and what might need to change.

When the strategy involves a change of business model

Often when working with a client and discussing their strategy it becomes apparent that their strategy actually involves a change in their business model.  This is often a fundamental part of their strategy.  It needs to be made explicit.  Sometimes this is a subtle change to the business model: sometimes it is more radical change to their business model.

Examples might include changing or opening up new distribution channels, bringing customers inside the organisation or fundamentally changing the customer set and value proposition.   The intervention of internet competitors often challenges a business model, as do changes to channels and partnerships.   Nowadays, we find that the changes to business models are often more radical that in the past simply because of the intervention of technology and internet companies, and small start-ups disrupting an industry.

The value of making the business model changes explicit is that you are making clear how the business model is different.  You are making it clear how the strategy is shifting and why the strategy is shifting – because our business model needs to change and our strategy has to change with it.

When you are communicating the change of strategy, making the business model change explicit, really helps people understand how their roles and contribution also changes.  Miss this and the new strategy can look as if you are painting over the old strategy.  And you don’t want that do you.

 A confession

If, in your reading about strategy maps, you missed the importance of the business model stage, don’t be surprised.

I will admit I only realised that I was creating a business model before the strategy as my book, “Strategy Mapping for Learning Organisations” was nearing completion.  It was an intuitive stage I was going through to get the business model correct and then to start working with the client on the strategic themes and objectives.  It was a necessary piece to get their agreement that we were basing the strategy on the right pieces.

It was not that I did not build in their business model.  Nor was it that I did not realise the importance of the business model in describing their strategy.  It was simply that the stage was so natural and intuitive to me that I did not realise I was explicitly doing it.  Fortunately, I realised in the latter stages of the book and was able to include a the business model stage in the process.

Nowadays, I make a point of explaining to clients that the first draft version is only a business model and not yet their strategy map.  Yet, as the Managing Directors at the top of this story testify, even that simple stage adds a lot of value.

In summary:

  1. The business model is vital to the client’s ownership of their strategy map and their ability to tell the story of their strategy.
  2. Understanding the customer business model, or value chain is a vital part of the development of your business model.
  3. The cause and effect model is vital to a cohesive strategy that can be described and delivered without hope and magic.
  4. The strategic themes and strategic objectives capture the strategy, within the business model.

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On Saturday Belgium's Inter-ministerial Influenza Commissariat made it clear it was still to be informed of Belgium's first case of Mexican or swine flu.

Two Belgian women are among some 300 guests that have been quarantined by the Chinese authorities in a hotel in Hong Kong.

One of the Mexican guests staying at the hotel has come down with the flu.

The Belgian women had been travelling across China together with a group, but they stayed in a different hotel to most of the other group members.

The women have been given Tamiflu, a medicine that should lower their chances of coming down with the disease.

Delphine Collard of the Foreign Ministry told VRT that the women are in rude heath and taking matters in their stride.

This version of events conflicts with an account one of the women gave to VRT Radio.

Véronique De Smet, who is on a business trip to Hong Kong, says the atmosphere in the hotel is like “hell on earth”.

She also noted that there were problems with food supplies.

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The student exchange programme AFS is pulling all its students out of Mexico.

AFS is an international organisation that allows eighteen year olds to study abroad for a year.

Six Flemings are among their number.

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Turkey and Armenia will sign a landmark deal on 10 October in Switzerland to establish diplomatic ties.

Ankara -- Turkey and Armenia will sign a landmark deal to establish diplomatic ties in Switzerland in an effort to end decades of hostility over World War I massacres, Turkish officials said Sunday.

"The foreign ministers will come together on 10 October and sign the drafted document," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters, without giving details.

The signing is to take place in Zurich, a government official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Foreign ministers Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey and Eduard Nalbandian of Armenia will sign two agreements, the texts of which were agreed earlier and internationally praised as a major breakthrough, he said.

Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, whose country acted as a mediator in reconciliation talks between the two neighbours, is also likely to attend the ceremony, he said.

Long divided by a violent history, Turkey and Armenia announced in August the talks resulted in two agreements calling for the establishment of diplomatic ties and re-opening their border.

They also set a timetable for a series of steps to improve ties.

Turkey's Prime Minister and the AKP leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R), flanked by his wife Emine Erdogan (L), greets his supporters as they arrive to attend the third congress of AKP in Ankara on 3 October 2009

A Swiss foreign ministry official said the signing ceremony "will probably take place in Switzerland," while Armenian officials were not available for comment.

The agreements, however, will not take effect immediately.

Both governments will submit the documents to their respective parliaments for approval, a process expected to take considerable time.

The United States and the European Union, which Turkey is seeking to join, have both repeatedly urged Ankara to end the conflict with Yerevan.

The deal, however, was criticised by opposition groups in both countries, which accuse their governments of giving up control.

Turkey refused to establish diplomatic ties with Armenia over Yerevan's international campaign to recognise the World War I massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their people were killed in a genocide. A number of other countries support Armenia, angering Ankara.

Turkey rejects the genocide label and argues that 300,000-500,000 Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil conflict when Armenians fought against their Ottoman rulers and sided with invading Russian troops.

In 1993, Turkey also closed its border with Armenia in a show of solidarity with close ally Azerbaijan.

The move came over Yerevan's support of ethnic Armenian separatists in Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region. It hurt Armenia’s already-impoverished economy.

The Ankara government is being criticised for reconciling with Yerevan without progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, facing accusations of surrendering Azerbaijan, which has close ethnic and political bonds with Turkey.

French anti-riot policemen clash with Armenians demonstrating on 2 October 2009 in Paris to protest against Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian's will to establish ties with Turkey, before Sarkisian put flowers at the Memorial to Komitas and victims of Armenian Genocide

Analysts say the government is unlikely to seek a parliamentary vote to approve the agreements before progress is made in relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

In Armenia, the deal is being criticised for including plans to create a commission to examine historical complaints -- a point that critics say questions Yerevan's genocide claims.

The signing of the agreements will precede an eagerly anticipated football game between the two countries.

The reform process progressed in September 2008 when Turkish President Abdullah Gul paid a historic visit to Yerevan to watch a World Cup qualification match between Turkey and Armenia.

It is unclear whether his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian will return the gesture when the second leg is played in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa on 14 October.

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Prince William and his wife Catherine left Britain on Thursday for a nine-day tour of Canada, kicking off their first official foreign trip as husband and wife, a royal official said.

The 29-year-old newlyweds flew out of London's Heathrow airport and will arrive in Ottawa later in the day, a royal spokeswoman told AFP.

"They have departed. It was earlier this morning," said the spokeswoman, who declined to give an exact departure time.

The visit will be both casual and action-packed, taking in military ceremonies, a cooking class, aboriginal sports and a rodeo.

The wedding of William, second in line to the British throne, and Catherine at London's Westminster Abbey on April 29 was watched on television by two billion people around the world.

Their every move in Canada will be followed by 1,300 journalists and throngs of fans.

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The value of a tree can only be determined if we agree. Any value given, whether by a layperson or a professional, is real when another person involved in the process agrees to that value. The value used in the final decision can also be a different value from the one determined by the experts who worked on it (especially when the experts worked on different sides of a valuation case). I am directed most by the jurisdiction involved; more than other influences in an appraisal or valuation project.

The jurisdiction is what regulates or controls the parameters of a project. In some situations there is a governing body (sometimes Agencies with Interest1) that regulates what can happen and what is involved. One example is a Tree Preservation Code in Broward County Florida. The code defines a Specimen Tree as "A tree that is 18 inches in diameter or larger with specimen quality...". There is mitigation required when removing a specimen tree in Broward County. This mitigation is required to be "... the appraised value of the tree determined by an ISA Certified Arborist". When a tree is not a Specimen Tree, the mitigation required is to match the canopy area removed with new canopy area (i.e. 1,200 square feet of canopy removed requires 1,200 square feet of new tree canopy to be installed).

To illustrate the affect of jurisdiction in this matter, here are two examples. A tree that is 17 inches in diameter is worth the installed price of four 12 feet tall new trees; approximately $800. A tree that is 18 inches in diameter is worth the trunk formula appraised value; approximately $4,200.

Broward County Florida greatly affects the value of a tree, and the method for valuation, by their Tree Preservation Code. Without this jurisdiction, there would not be such a change in one inch of tree diameter for value. Without researching the jurisdiction involved, an Arborist's appraisal for tree mitigation in this county can be far from the real value.

A second situation for jurisdiction is an insurance claim for landscape damage caused by fire. The insurance policy language requires use of replacement cost for the valuation. The insurance company has jurisdiction for this situation. I did an appraisal by the replacement cost method for the insurer. There were 5 pine trees, 3 Oak trees, 28 ficus shrubs, 4 ornamental hibiscus, and 1,400 square feet of turf destroyed by fire. The replacement cost was $24,250 for all the landscape destroyed. Another Arborist, hired by the property owner, did an appraisal by the cost to cure method. This would be acceptable by the appraisal guide, and is a good valuation method. It did not meet the jurisdiction or policy language, but provided a higher damage value.

What happened next? At the first settlement meeting, the insurance adjuster presented the policy language, specifically what cost basis to use for determining the claim value. The opposing expert presented his cost, $52,000, and the reasons that replacing the destroyed landscape with new plants, and having 15 years of maintenance for them to grow to nearly the same size as what was lost, is the best estimate of value. It is a good argument, and could be a basis for a claim value. Yes, the opposing expert's report and defense was requested to be dismissed by the insurance adjuster. The property owner agreed, and the claim was settled by the replacement cost method for the exact cost reported. Knowing the jurisdiction sometimes helps you be the only expert standing at the end of the day.

Doing a project or assignment well, includes knowing what will regulate, or control, how you determine value. You need to know the jurisdiction and the applicable language or section, before you do the assignment. Better yet, include this limitation in your assignment section of your report.

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Expert Textperts writer Allan Davis is on the latest Mormon Matters "Matters of the Heart" podcast to discuss ideas introduced in his recent post "On Masturbatory Rage." The podcast is an excellent reading of an equally interesting essay. Our blog name is a just a catchy-sounding throwaway reference to an obscure Beatles lyric, but if any contributor deserves the title of Expert Textpert, it is Allan, who is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and spiritual individuals I know. Whether you're in the midst of a faith transition or satisfied with your current place in the church -- or any other group you identify with -- the ideas in the podcast can provide greater perspective and understanding in how you interact with others. It has inspired me to try and think more carefully about what I write and say, and hopefully it does the same for you. Any comments about the podcast or your take on its ideas are welcome.

  1. I like to think Allan brings the class to this blog. Also, the insight, the soul, and the respectability, not to mention the readership and the outside acclaim. Congratulations, Allan! Celebrate accordingly.

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Warning: Obama Might Have Just Figured Out How To Take Your Guns Away

President Obama announced that his Administration would do all in its power to stop gun violence. By that, he seems to have meant reducing private ownership of firearms. Now, it turns out that he is not just doing things within his presidential power to achieve that objective – he is usurping legislative power to amend statutes unilaterally.

On January 7, 2014, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) issued Proposed Rules designed to vastly increase the number of Americans prohibited from owning firearms, including many U.S. Veterans, by changing the meaning of words contained in laws passed by Congress.

On behalf of Gun Owners of America, Inc. and Gun Owners Foundation, our firm filed comments opposing those proposed ATF rule changes.

Federal law prohibits persons who have been “adjudicated as a mental defective” from owning firearms. ATF claims that the terminology Congress used in the statute is “outdated”; purporting to “clarify” the term, ATF instead wants to rewrite the statute, greatly expanding its scope.

ATF alleges that Congress intended the law to apply “broadly” to “unstable” and “irresponsible” people, and has defined the term as including people who suffer from a “mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease.” But that is not what the statute says. A “mental defective” is a person of “marked subnormal intelligence” or “gross ignorance or imbecility.” Congress never intended the law to apply to combat veterans suffering from PTSD, but that is one of the groups that have been targeted for disarmament.

Federal law also prohibits persons who have been “committed to a mental institution” from owning firearms. The ATF wants to change the meaning of that phrase to apply to “both inpatient and outpatient commitments.” Those are, of course, very different matters. Inpatient commitment is generally used when a person is unable to function in society and needs to be forcibly confined for treatment in order to protect him and/or the public. Outpatient treatment, however, is for less significant problems, and may require a person only to take medication or follow some other course of prescribed treatment.

Finally, our comments noted that the ATF never considered the Second Amendment when proposing its new definitions. After Heller, though, the government can no longer assume it may deprive people of their firearms rights at will. Instead of requiring a formal adjudication by a court before a person’s rights are taken from him, ATF has permitted unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, such as those at the Veterans Administration, to decide willy-nilly who may and may not own guns.

This sort of lawless activity may be what Americans are accustomed to from this rogue agency, but it is not what they deserve. Government officials are the servants of the people, not their overlords.

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    and yet how useful was ATF when Kalifornia’s Lee was caught dealing with the mafia in the weapons trade?


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This is a departure from the “Color-Coding” theme, but a good tip. I set all of my garbage cans/recycling bins on top of chairs. As we’ve all noticed many high school kids are apparently just a little too tall to be able to successfully navigate trash INSIDE the trash can. They are also so tall that they can’t see their garbage all the way down there on the floor. Raising the trash receptacles to hand level eliminates 99% of that nonsense.

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Farifield Subaru: Local Subaru Dealer and Certified Pre-Owned, and used car dealer serving Sacramento, CA, Napa, CA, Walnut Creek, CA, Vacaville, CA, Davis, CA and the Norther Bay Area of California.
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2525 Martin Rd, Fairfield, California 94534
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