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A lot of celebrities had words to say about the passing of Donna Summer, but leave it to Sir Elton John to squeeze in a dig at (presumably) Madonna in his. "I'm so sad. This woman was the queen of disco and so much more. Her records sound as good today as they ever did. That she has never been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a total disgrace, especially when I see the second-rate talent that has been inducted. She is a great friend to me and to the Elton John AIDS Foundation and I will miss her greatly."
It's common wisdom that Gene Roddenberry pushed to have actors of color like Nichelle Nichols on Star Trek to create his perfect future world, but was it actually NBC recruiting people of color like Nichols and George Takei to help launch their switch to color television?
Whoa! Joey Lawrence just inked a deal to appear with the Chippendales in Las Vegas. He'll "sing, dance … the 'whole nine yards.'" If it's actually nine yards, somebody get me tickets!
Priscilla Queen of the Desert will be closing on Broadway after just a year, failing to recoup production costs. Maybe Nick Adams should have showed more skin?
Adam Lambert gave a really complete interview with the Dallas Voice, and one question was how he felt about always being asked about being a gay artist. "It gets a bit redundant. Gets a little old. It's something I've made peace with; I'm trying to just look at it from the other point of view and realize that a lot of the questions are legitimate for someone who doesn't understand. I think the way to progress and confront ignorance is information. You start talking about things and we get past them. So yeah, it gets a bit redundant, but I feel like at this point, it just comes with the territory that I'm trespassing on."
The New York Times looks at the riddle of marriage equality polling, and why the numbers don't always match up with the ballot box. Long and the short of it is, if you ask if they favor marriage equality or nothing, they lean towards marriage. But if you give the public civil unions as an option, it's the top answer. Which explains a lot about North Carolina, where most people thought Amendment One only banned same-sex marriage, not civil unions.
Sens. Schumer and Casey are moving to see a rarely enforced law about people who renounce their citizenship to save taxes utilized for Eduardo Severin. The law can reimpose taxes on people like Severin and bar them from entering the United States.
Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters has a message for celebrities who skate around their sexuality. "If you're going to be a closet case then just lie and say you're straight. It bugs me when they say 'why are you asking me if I'm gay? It doesn't matter.' Well it matters a lot to the fifteen year-old at home who's going through it. It's a highly offensive statement and it makes me angry. I'd love to be a role model for gay men who feel they don't fit in to what it means to be gay. You don't need a perfect body and hair and love dance music and go out all night and do drugs. I'm a pretty decent guy. I'm the most level-headed in the band by default because everyone else is fu*king insane."
Do you want to know who's staying on Glee next year? You may actually scream at the answer.
Much has been said about Chicago Cubs owner Joe Ricketts name being attached to a plan to smear President Obama as a "black metrosexual Abe Lincoln." Even before Andy noticed over at Towleroad, I was stunned because Joe's daughter Laura is a lesbian, the first to be a part owner of a MLB team. Ricketts has disavowed the plan, but still opposed Obama.
Manny Pacquaio has come out and said that he doesn't hate gay people, he just opposes gay marriage. Arguably the media could have done a better job with fact checking, but I do know that David Badash tried to get a statement and was ignored, so maybe ESPN and USA Today were as well. I'm still baffled that the original reporter would insert a Leviticus quote into the story in that way. I'm not exactly a Pulitzer Prize winner, and I know better than that.
Three of the Wiggles are retiring, but that means we get new Wiggles, and this time one of them is a woman.
Sharp eyes have concluded from the trailer for Prometheus that it takes place in the same universe as Firefly.
Sadly, iCarly is coming to an end after five years of being the Nickelodeon show with the gayest sensibility. All of the cast have new projects for the network except Miranda Cosgrove, who's going to college instead.
Morgan Freeman has joined Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in Last Vegas, which to me sounds like The Hangover with senior citizens.
The Obama administration has released new rules governing federal prisons and detention facilities that include new protections and guidelines for women and GLBT persons.
The CW is creating an online component to their new shows that sounds a lot like those old choose-your-own-adventure books we read as kids. It's unclear if they mean different scenes will be filmed and recut in real time, or if plots will be put up to votes in advance, but things like whether two people kiss could be in the hands of America. It's a shame the same option doesn't exist on Glee.
America's Next Top Model has replaced Andre Leon Tulley and Jay Manuel with male supermodel Rob Evans and sexy Johnny Wujek. A little time with Google Image Search is useful for understanding their qualifications. For anything.
Taylor Swift has donated $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which will fund the Taylor Swift Education Center, where young musicians will be taught to make a surprised face about everything.
Well, the sad news is that Gloria Estefan doesn't sing in the season finale for Glee. But she is supportive of her daughter, and this isn't the first she's hearing of her dating Brittany. One thing that kind of bothers me is continuity – if Santana's father is a doctor, why do they live in the rough side of town?
Entertainment Weekly has a cover story with Joe Manganiello, Matthew McConaughey, Channing Tatum and Matt Bomer about being in Magic Mike, and it's worth a read for a lot of reasons, and you should buy it. But EW specifically asked the four guys what their "significant others" thought of them stripping down. Matt Bomer said "Simon was totally cool with it. He's totally supportive of me as an artist. He's like, "Go do your thing and let me know how it goes when you get home."
Paging Dr. Love! Paging Dr. Love!
I'm not familiar with Josh Barnett, who is evidently an MMA fighter and a professional wrestler who goes by the name of The Warmaster, but he certainly got my attention when Katee Sackhoff tweeted this photo of him.
I wouldn't mind going a few rounds with him
My future ex-husband Russell Tovey hanging with Liam Murphy at the Scissor Sisters concert
Eddie McClintock is hanging out with Pooch Hall
Joel Watson is in the process of relaunching what was one of my favorite webcomics, HijINKS Ensue. As he became a dad, he hung out less with his real friends, and those are the people the comics characters are based on, so the whole thing came from his voice for a while. Now he's making an effort to differentiate the characters again, including his gay buddy Josh, who drops some serious reality on House.
Thanks again to Joel for reprint permission
Yesterday in Briefs we showed you the video from Ben Cohen's Stand Up Foundation launch in the UK. Here's a shot of him with the adorable Prince Harry. After I posted this on Tumblr, some folks said this was significant, because it was unusual for the royals to get involved in social issues beyond their assigned charities. I have no idea if this is true, but it sounds right
Unless the uniforms mean they're on opposing sides of the issue
I know this is a lowbrow start to the videos, but I laughed my ass off at this. It's just so perfect, visually. The lyrics are NSFW, but I doubt anyone can hear them over your laughter.
Bob Marshall was the GOP delegate that stopped a qualified gay prosecutor from being appointed to the bench in Virginia. He evidently thinks we're all like the above video, because he thinks sodomy is not a civil right. Maybe not an enumerated one, but I think it's implied.
Don't lose your cool over the source of this preview from Mrs. Eastwood and Company, the new E! reality series with Clint's family as they manage a South African boy band. Because you need to watch this as the band discusses whether or not Eduardo should come out as gay. It's heartbreaking. We've got an interview with Eduardo in the works.
Why do puppies never fall from the sky and land in my lap? That would be a sign for sure. Talk about raining cats and dogs. Minus the cats, although they probably land on their feet and saunter away like nothing happened.
Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, sits down to talk with Anne Romney about the hard lean times in her life.
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I was only vaguely aware of the USA miniseries Political Animals. It has a truly astonishing cast, with Sigourney Weaver, James Wolk, Adrian Pasdar, and now I realize Sebastian Stan. And it's now on our radar here at AfterElton, because it looks like Stan is playing another gay prince, albeit this time the American kind. The show follows Weaver as the current Secretary of State, having raised her family in the White House with her philandering husband president back then, and measures the toll the experience put on their family. Sorry about the tiny embed, but the system USA uses is weird. Click the full screen button to watch.
In The Words, Bradley Cooper is a writer who gets his big break, but with stolen words, and has his entire future put in jeopardy.
I'm unaware of Mike Munich's work, but he gives Johnny McGovern a run for his money for hot guys shaking their bodies in this promotion for his new album and show in Las Vegas.
Jane Lynch guested on the Rachel Maddow Show, and she wants Republicans to understand that even if they won't get behind marriage equality because it's the right thing to do, they should get behind it because there's a fortune to be made from gay weddings. Her banter about the issues with Rachel after her bit is priceless. I love these ladies.
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Patton Oswalt goes in search of the elusive internet troll in his native habitat. Coming from someone other than Oswalt this could have crossed some lines, but he can make it work because he's earned it.


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Judge Alsup of the ND California clearly embraces the concept that "judges already have the authority to curtail [non-practicing entity patent litigation] practices: they can make trolls pay for abusive litigation." Randall R. Rader, Colleen V. Chien & David Hricik, Make Trolls Pay in Court, NY Times, June 5, 2013.
In his order leading up to trial later this month of the patent infringement claims brought by non-practicing entity ("NPE" or "patent troll") Network Protection Services, LLC ("NPS"), Judge Alsup suggested he'd allow the jury to hear evidence of how:
NPS manufactured venue in Texas via a sham. [NPS founders] Ramde and Lam rented a windlowless file-cabinet room with no employees in Texas and held it out as an ongoing business concern to the Texas judge. They also held out [alleged employee] Cuke as its 'director of business development' but this too was a sham, a contrivance to manufacture venue in the Eastern District of Texas.
NPS manufactured venue in Texas via a sham. [NPS founders] Ramde and Lam rented a windlowless file-cabinet room with no employees in Texas and held it out as an ongoing business concern to the Texas judge. They also held out [alleged employee] Cuke as its 'director of business development' but this too was a sham, a contrivance to manufacture venue in the Eastern District of Texas.
Order dated Aug. 20, 2013, NPS v. Fortinet [PDF].
The story of how the Judge came to threaten to admit evidence of sham offices and employees is best understood as Judge Alsup seizing an opening on an otherwise innocuous standing issue to "curtail" abusive NPE litigation. Any doubt in this regard is dispelled by Judge Alsup's lengthy citation to Make Trolls Pay in Court at the outset of his order.
Defendant moved to dismiss because assignment of the patent to NPS did not occur until after NPS filed suit, such that NPS lacked standing to bring the lawsuit. Judge Alsup denied the motion, finding that there was a disputed factual issue whether NPS's conduct in filing the lawsuit was a sufficient substitute under Texas law for the tardy signature of the assignment.
Key exercise of judicial discretion point #1 - although there is no right to jury trial on the issue of standing, Judge Alsup ruled that the underlying factual dispute whether NPS by its conduct accepted the assignment could be given to the jury for "advisory finding of fact." In practical terms, NPS, in the middle of its case in chief, will have to spend time and evidence proving up that it is the true owner of the patent. The practical significance of the NPS spending limited in-court time on an issue that is both distracting from core patent infringement issues and also reflects poorly on NPS ("You filed suit as the alleged owner of the patent but did not sign anything until later? Can you do that? And why would you do that?" - well, you get the idea).
But it gets worse for the NPE. Much worse. . .
Key exercise of judicial discretion point #2 - as part of his order, Judge Alsup also addressed defendant's motion to dismiss due to litigation misconduct, finding among other things, that there was litigation misconduct based on NPS having manufactured venue in Texas (NPS originally filed in Texas, only to have the district court in Texas transfer venue to the ND Cal). Judge Alsup was unwilling to find that this misconduct warranted terminating sanctions -- but NPS may wish that he had. Judge Alsup made it clear that the alternative of giving the jury an adverse inference instruction was, in his mind, "bound up in the extent to which the jury hears evidence concerning sham venue, sham employees, and the cover-up, as, for example, may be the case if the advisory verdict is requested on the standing issue."
In other words, in the exercise of his discretion, and in connection with asking the jury for an advisory verdict on standing, Judge Alsup is seriously considering letting the jury hear the evidence of how hard NPS tried to cover up the fact "that it was nothing more than a troll."
In fact, as clarified by the court during oral argument, NPS not only was going to have to justify a sham employees and a sham file-cabinet office to the jury, it was going to have to bring in expert testimony that this was a legitimate business practice under Texas law! Consider the relevant excerpts from the hearing:
THE COURT: You're on the verge of losing this entire motion, and going to the Federal Circuit, with a lot of money against you. So if you want this to live to fight another day, you ought to listen to me for a moment. The best you can hope for is that the jury's going to decide this; but for the jury to decide the sham nature of this closet in Texas, they're going to have to understand why somebody would want to do this. So an expert is somebody you need to have explain it. This is going to be part of your case.
[COUNSEL]: No, Your Honor, it's not.
THE COURT: Well, then, it will be part of their case.
[COUNSEL]: Why is that relevant to the issue of patent infringement?
THE COURT: If we're going to try ownership here, and all of these issues about whether or not this guy was a sham, or not, the jury's got to understand the background of why it was or was not a sham.
[COUNSEL]: Well, Your Honor --
THE COURT: You're not going to be able to skate by, with -- beat this motion, and then get it somehow excluded at trial. For goodness' sakes.
[COUNSEL]: Well, how is it relevant to the issues that are at trial?
THE COURT: You've got to prove ownership. It's your burden.
[COUNSEL]: And you prove ownership by an assignment; not by -- not by showing --
THE COURT: It may not be valid, Counsel.
[COUNSEL]: But that will be resolved.
THE COURT: No, it's not going to be resolved. You're asking that it be resolved by the jury. I heard you say it a moment ago.
[COUNSEL]: No, Your Honor. I'm sorry.
THE COURT: Well, maybe now you're taking it back. It's on the record. I heard it. So on appeal you can make that point; but this jury is going to hear all of this stuff about the closet. And you're going to have to explain why "Mr. Sham" was signing these documents.
Invitation to use discretion over trial to curtail NPE abuse: clearly, resoundingly, accepted.
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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings
We exploit the cross-country and time variation in the demographics and education structure in 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size has a negative and statistically significant effect on the earnings of the older cohorts – aged between 35 and 54 – but no statistically significant effect on the earnings of younger cohorts – aged 20 to 34. The negative effect of cohort size on earnings is completely driven by Southern European countries, a result which we relate to institutional differences. While the share of individuals aged 20 to 34 in the population has declined in the EU11 by 10.20 percent between 1991 and 2001, the share of individuals aged 35 and 54 has increased by 9.32 percent. Our estimates suggest that, as a consequence of these significant demographic changes, the real earnings of the younger cohorts have increased on average by a tiny 0.06 percent, while the earnings of the older cohorts have declined by 0.93 percent, a modest variation.
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yep, you're right, Clinton was a moron, oh wait, wasn't he a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate?...you can't buy a Rhodes Scholar, but its a good thing we froze Reagan's head, maybe we can ask it how the US can rebuild this country that the Bush Admin. has torn down...Homer Simpson said it best, Bush shown us all that being president is easy, all you have to do is point the Army and shoot.
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THE ecclesiastical extremists of the Keep Sunday Sacred brigade spent 40 heart-warming minutes congratulating themselves on a spectacularly successful recruitment drive yesterday. Fifteen high-profile English sportsmen appeared to have taken a unilateral decision not to work on the Sabbath and, judging by the desperate shortage of atmosphere at Murrayfield, a one-time rugby cathedral criminally reduced to an all-seater morgue, something approaching 68,000 spectators had come out in sympathy.
Sadly for the church and chapel traditionalists, Lawrence Dallaglio and company got modern in the time it took them to suck an interval orange and knock back a swift gallon of isotonic energiser. When England emerged for the second period of a hitherto flat and uninspiring Calcutta Cup encounter with their oldest and most cussed rugby foe, a thoroughly businesslike air had replaced the long Sunday-lunchism of the preceding half.
True, their game-breaking had more of the bludgeon than the rapier about it - the visitors needed an elephantine effort from their tight scrummagers and a penalty try decision from Clayton Thomas to calm whatever wind was to be found in Scottish sails - but as Dallaglio pointed out afterwards, successful international sides do not pick and choose when it comes to scoring crucial points. They take whatever is available and save the theorising for later.
"If our disappointment in Paris last month taught us anything, it was that there are huge, self-defeating risks involved in taking things for granted at Test level," said the captain, who set his usual influential example by rolling up his sleeves and volunteering himself for all manner of unglamorous duties in the rough and tumble exchanges. "With all due respect to those who decry the Five Nations' Championship and claim the Triple Crown no longer means a thing, no international victory comes easily. We didn't showboat here and we won't showboat against the Irish in a fortnight. Rugby is fun, yes, but it's at its funniest when you're winning."
While the captain emphasised that English fitness levels were still short of the optimum and also bemoaned the lapses of concentration that set the final scoreline askew, he could take satisfaction in a decisive upping of the ante in the third quarter.
The great All Black teams of the past tended to save their best for the period between half-time and the hour mark and, if it was good enough for them, Dallaglio will happily subscribe to something similar. Once Mr Thomas had decided that the Scottish front row was up to no good as the Red Rose infantry's driving set-piece hit the deck with a resounding splat on 48 minutes, there was never the remotest possibility of a 1990- style upset. Dallaglio and his fellow bicep-flexers knew they were in the pound seats at last and when more scrummaging pressure put Matthew Dawson on route one to the line 14 minutes later, a heavy English victory looked assured.
And, in a sense, it was delivered, too. Austin Healey contributed a slapstick kick-and-chase try 13 minutes from the end - not for the first time, the Scottish midfield was left with a custard pie in its collective face - and, when Paul Grayson left Dave Hilton for dead, slipped inside Gregor Townsend, drifted away from Alan Tait and screamed over the line with Gary Armstrong, Doddie Weir and Cameron Murray in futile pursuit, the smart money was going on a 50-pointer. "They call Grayson ponderous, but he didn't ponder too much once he sensed the gap, did he?" beamed Dallaglio.
Yet those thoroughly deflated Scots who decided on a hasty retreat to the car park rather than watch England revel further in their superiority were guilty of a serious tactical error. As the game drifted into injury time, Townsend performed one of his three-card tricks to free Adam Roxburgh down the right and the flanker's exquisitely timed pass gave Tony Stanger a record-equalling amble to the line. What was more, Roxburgh snaffled some more possession from the restart and succeeded in performing a similar service for Shaun Longstaff on the opposite wing.
So what, you may ask. Who needs a reputation as the best injury-time side in the world when the previous 80 minutes have left them almost 30 points down the drain? Needless to say, Jim Telfer did not see it quite like that. "It showed we were still playing right at the death, despite the disappointment of seeing a decent first-half performance undermined by unforced errors after the break," said the Scottish coach. "It showed we had the heart to stick to the task and that means something to me."
A past master at constructing silk purses from the sow's ear of Scottish rugby, Telfer was well pleased with his side's harem-scarem disruption of the English machine early on. Roxburgh was quite a handful in the loose, Weir climbed tall and athletically to secure his share of line-out ball and Armstrong brought shovel-loads of grit and a splash of occasional grandeur to the proceedings. "They were hard, hard work during the first half and, although people say we should know what to expect up here, it takes a while just to sort out how the referee is reacting to things," said Dallaglio.
Grayson and Craig Chalmers swapped penalties in the opening quarter and the rival stand-offs matched each other again in the second 20 to leave it all square at the break. If anything, Scotland were the more likely to break free; had it not been for try-saving tackles by Dawson and Matt Perry on Armstrong and Derrick Lee respectively, not to mention a fingertip tap from Neil Back that brought the stampeding Damian Cronin tumbling to terra firma, the underdogs would have been up and snarling.
Cronin played a most peculiar hand - a bizarre mix of Naas Botha and Sir Georg Solti - before being substituted on 53 minutes. If the veteran Wasp cajoled the Murrayfield faithful into belated full voice by waving his arms around like a demented conductor, he also flabbergasted them by kicking away several pieces of prime possession. Telfer did not look remotely amused: while the English supporters were crowing to the tune of "Swing Low Sweet Chariot", his own second row was lost in the "Enigma Variations".
SCOTLAND: D Lee (London Scottish); A Stanger (Hawick), G Townsend (Northampton), A Tait (Newcastle), S Longstaff (Dundee HSFP); C Chalmers (Melrose), G Armstrong (Newcastle, capt); D Hilton (Bath), G Bulloch (West of Scotland), P Burnell (London Scottish), D Cronin (Wasps), G Weir (Newcastle), R Wainwright (Dundee HSFP), E Peters (Bath), A Roxburgh (Kelso). Replacements: S Grimes (Watsonians) for Cronin, 53; C Murray (Heriot's FP) for Chalmers, 72.
ENGLAND: M Perry (Bath); A Healey (Leicester), J Guscott (Bath), W Greenwood (Leicester), A Adebayo (Bath); P Grayson (Northampton), M Dawson (Northampton); J Leonard (Harlequins), R Cockerill (Leicester), D Garforth (Leicester), M Johnson (Leicester), G Archer (Newcastle), L Dallaglio (Wasps, capt), D Ryan (Newcastle), N Back (Leicester). Replacements: A Diprose (Saracens) for Ryan, 69; P de Glanville (Bath) for Healey, 72; D Grewcock (Saracens) for Johnson, 74; D West (Leicester) for Cockerill, 84.
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Our website and API are built using Rails. Our iPhone and Android apps are native and written in Java and Objective-C. We love the full stack, and hope you do too.
We're on Rails 3.2. We speed development with Coffeescript, Underscore, Haml, and Sass. We test drive our development with RSpec specs, and we cover user scenarios with Capybara and Selenium. If you listen to Ruby Rogues or Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots, and find the inherent conflicts between SRP and Tell Don't Ask intriguing, then you'll fit right in.
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Jazz brunch to benefit Ephrata music programs
An Ephrata landmark rarely visited or enjoyed by locals is opening its doors for a special charity event April 21. The Historic Smithton Inn has chosen to celebrate its milestone 250th Anniversary by hosting a community event benefiting music programs in the Ephrata Area School District.
The Jazz Brunch will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Inn, and visitors may park at the Ephrata Recreation Center.
"Music is such an essential element to a community," said Rebecca Gallagher, owner of the Smithton Inn. "It can bring people together like nothing else can. This was especially true in the colonial days of 1763 when Ephrata was young and the Historic Smithton Inn was built. It seems fitting that hosting a Jazz Brunch Benefit be one of the ways we celebrate our anniversary while giving back to the Ephrata community."
In addition, every guest who attends the event is asked to bring gently used books to be donated to the Ephrata Public Library. Each donation will be exchanged for a chance to win a free night's stay at the Historic Smithton Inn.
Tickets for the Jazz Brunch are limited. Attendance is $10 for adults, $5 for children under 10 years old and free for children under 3 years old. Tickets may be purchased online at historicsmithtonjazz.eventbrite.com, over the phone at 733-6094 or in person at the Historic Smithton Inn.
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Photo gallery: President and First Family enjoy Martha's Vineyard
President Barack Obama and his family began their 10-day Martha's Vineyard holiday on August 17.
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Looking out over our woods, I see already a tinge of orange-red in the shrubbery.
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Weren't we lucky this past week with beautiful weather, which made for great attendance at the four-day fair, Illumination night, and according to all reports, "the best fireworks display ever.
The pigs, cows, goats, horses, ducks, chickens, geese, and rabbits have all returned to their respective pens, coops, fields, and cages.
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Contact Mike to schedule a strategic planning meeting that will deliver results and engaged staff that are part of the plan.
NOISE Analysis
Working with companies developing strategic plans most feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, I've never been a fan and wondered if there was an alternative.
In the 'High-Performance Team Building' class a smart friend Brian Pagkos shared an idea 'SNOT Analysis' strengths, needs, opportunities, threats.
While preparing for a focus group meeting it came to me NOISE
- Needs
- Opportunities
- Improvements
- Strengths
- Exceptions
A method that uses solution-focused language and can build upon the team's knowledge and goals.
- When planning, determining what we want to have happen and understanding the roadblocks are necessary. Developing knowledge plus skills to navigate the plan allows us to choose focus points plus what to eliminate. The NOISE analysis is a planning technique of looking at what is working and determining areas to improve. It gives us a format to explore opportunities that we may know about or be missing. When we understand the NOISE conditions, we can create a path towards the future that allows the company or team or project to flourish.
- Flip Chart Paper
- Markers
- Lots of Post-its
Group Size
- 5 to 20
- I've led this with larger groups you can break the group into teams of 6 or less. Each team of 6 works independently then get together to share (or the facilitator finds commonalities and categorizes them) OR lead a series of focus groups with smaller teams separately.
Time Frame
- At least 3 hours, I have led this over multiple days.
1. Before the meeting, it may prove helpful to decide on a goal (what-by-when) to be achieved or to send some pre-work to the participants. Examples of pre-work:
- Share these 8 Planning Questions and ask them to come prepared to share some responses.
- Have them work through the question of 'What is your department accountable for? How can others help you in accomplishing your accountability?' and come prepared for each department to share their responses.
2. On a piece of flip chart paper draw a circle in the middle. Create four quadrants radiating from the center circle. See below.
While drawing the NOISE analysis chart explain what would be useful information in each area. Feel free to change the bullets to match your needs better.
In the center, circle write "Exceptions."
- Exceptions = Of the N, O and I Listed what is already happening, even just a little bit?
In the upper left quadrant write "Strengths."
- Strengths = What is working well? How do you know? What is your team good at? Examples?
In the upper right quadrant write "Needs."
- Needs = When we have ________ this is a better place to work, or we are more useful in completing our plan or make it fit what you need.
- Organizational needs
- Individual needs
In the lower left quadrant write "Opportunities"
- Opportunities = Other departments / locations / companies / teams / etc are doing ____________
- An area of untapped talent OR under-utilized resources ____________
- What do we currently have that could be used differently?
In the lower right quadrant write "Improvements."
- Improvements: Miracle Question: You leave here today and go to sleep. While you are sleeping a miracle happens and what you need to be more effective with your work happens, but you don't know because you were asleep. You arrive tomorrow the 1st thing you would notice that makes you realize this has happened is? How would you know?
- Scaling Question: On a scale of 0 -10 with 10 optimal and 0 being the opposition; Currently the department, organization, team (choose appropriately) operates at X, what does X + 2 look like?
NOISE Analysis Chart
3. After illustrating plus sharing the format with the group ask them to grab some flipchart papers, markers, and post-it notes. Take about 45 minutes to 1 hour as a team to complete as many responses to the NOISE analysis as possible. PLEASE ask people just to share, this is a brainstorming-planning time we will evaluate the ideas later; for right now we are looking for quantity.
3a. If you feel people will be too judgmental.
- Ask them to work individually filling out post-it notes by themselves on each of the areas. Start with Strengths then progress to Needs, Opportunities, Improvements, and end with Exceptions.
- After people have had a chance to think and work by themselves, ask them to share their responses (post-it notes) on the NOISE areas.
4. With the team go through the NOISE areas. Starting with Strengths sort the ideas in common affinity groups, finding clusters of ideas that may fit together. Take the ideas that may be outliers and also recognize those ideas they may be breakthrough ideas.
At this stage, the smaller teams of 6 or less are necessary this way any confusion over the ideas can be explained by the person that had the idea. Plus the team is small enough to discuss what belongs together and what may be outliers.
Repeat the process in each of the other NOISE areas in this order: Needs, Opportunities, Improvements, and end with Exceptions.
5. Once you are done sorting and clustering into common groups, the team will look for broad categories for each small cluster. For example 'Communication between sales and production' or 'More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system'. As the group reaches agreement on the broad categories re-write these in the proper NOISE areas.
6. Now that everyone feels comfortable with the general categories re-write them in each NOISE area and ask the team to dot vote on which they believe are most relevant based upon the purposes of our planning time.
7. We have broad categories and a bunch of ideas on how to focus and improve them…Next steps would be to take the general categories and ask the team to develop some short term measurement/ milestones to show progress and achievement in the categories.
8. Management (or the team leader) gathers all the broad categories and short term measurements/ milestones for achievement and types them up in a 'Plan Document' shares them with the team, ensures that they are all in agreement.
9. Any feedback is taken into consideration and changes are made as needed. This Plan Document along with all the great ideas is now your improvement or strategic plan.
10. Routinely return to the Plan Document and check for relevancy and success, intend to deal with plus correct setbacks.
What do you think?
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The FTSE 100 fell by 28.93 points, or 0.49 per cent, to end the day at 5,925.37 points, ensuring that it remained below the psychologically important 6,000 mark which technical traders regard as key to propelling further moves higher.
Investors have been focused this month on talks in the US to avoid a "fiscal cliff" – a combination of government spending cuts and tax rises due to take effect early next year which would hit the US economy hard and hurt business worldwide.
President Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders to an emergency meeting last night, three days before a year-end deadline to avoid $600bn (£370bn) in spending cuts and tax increases, with the jury very much still out on whether a deal can be agreed.
Elsewhere, Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times, announced that it had invested $89.5m for a 5 per cent stake in Nook Media, a new company consisting of the digital business of Barnes & Noble, the US bookstore chain. News of the investment in Nook, whose business includes the Nook e-reader and tablets, failed to lift Pearson on a lacklustre day in the markets: the publisher ended the day 3p lower at 1,193p.
Pearson has also been given warrants to buy an additional 5 per cent of Nook at a pre-investment valuation of $1.79bn (£1.12bn).
Shareholders in ENRC voted through a $550m deal in which the miner will sever its ties with the controversial Israeli diamond billionaire Dan Gertler. The deal will see ENRC buying Mr Gertler's 49.5 per cent stake in their copper and cobalt joint venture in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Shares in ENRC none the less dipped by 3.3p to 286.1p, amid more general concerns about the outlook for the company, which has a poor reputation for corporate governance – a point underlined yesterday by the pattern of voting on the deal. Some 99.24 per cent of the votes cast backed the deal, helped by the combined 35 per cent stake of its three Central Asian founders – Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, as well as fellow Kazakh miner Kazakhmys, with 26 per cent, and the Kazakh state's 12 per cent holding. However, when "votes withheld" are included, just under a third of shareholders failed to back the deal.
Weir Group, the oil and gas services company, struck a positive note yesterday, saying that the UK's recent decision to approve the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, could turn the country into a European hub.
A surge in fracking, a technique which releases gas from shale by blasting a mixture of sand, chemicals and water into the rock at high speed, would, in turn, benefit Weir, the 141-year-old oilfield pump supplier which has become one of the chief beneficiaries of the shale gas revolution in the US. The chief executive, Keith Cochrane, said: "The UK is in a fantastic position to take advantage of the changes, given the infrastructure that already exists off the back of our North Sea, to take a leading role in the development of this industry across Europe."
None the less, the shares still dipped by 16p to 1,876p as investors concluded that plenty of obstacles need to be cleared before a shale gas revolution can happen in the UK, such as establishing the volume of hydrocarbons that can be commercially extracted.
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A fire at Randgold's Tongon gold mine in Ivory Coast has damaged the infrastructure of the processing plant, meaning production is likely to be halted for up to 10 days. Although analysts at Liberum Capital have downgraded its production estimate for 2012 from 819,000 ounces to 790,000 ounces as a result, they have retained their "hold" recommendation because they "continue to envisage a more attractive entry point to Randgold Resources during 2013".
Circle Oil
Although Circle Oil's Bou Argoub exploration well in Tunisia encountered non-commercial amounts of oil and gas, analysts at Liberum Capital believe the presence of hydrocarbons is encouraging for future exploration. Their target price of 50p is about three times its current level, because the company's "track record in Egypt and Morocco demonstrates management creates value".
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