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With deaths from heroin and opioid prescription pills soaring, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on Thursday is expected to announce a push to have law enforcement officers across the state carry a drug that is effectively an antidote to overdose.
The program, to be funded primarily from $5 million in criminal and civilseizures from drug dealers, would help provide a kit with the drug, naloxone, and the training to use it to every state and local officer in New York, the attorney general's office said.
The authorities have increasingly seen naloxone, also known under its brand name Narcan, as a potent weapon against a national surge in drug overdoses. Last month, the Justice Department encouraged emergency medical workers across the country to begin carrying the drug.
The move to broaden access in New York is the latest tactic employed by state officials to combat abuse of pills and the rising specter of heroin use. Last year, the state Health Department began more closely tracking prescriptions that are written for the most frequently abused drugs. Early data from the program show a decrease in so-called doctor shoppers, or those who move among many prescribers to get steady access to addictive pills.
But the prescription monitoring program does not catch heroin users, and increasingly New Yorkers are dying. In New York City, there was an 84 percent jump in heroin overdose deaths between 2010 and 2012, according to the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. "Heroin is destroying our communities," Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement ahead of Thursday's announcement. "Naloxone is stunningly effective at stopping an overdose in its tracks."
The drug, which has been available for decades in emergency rooms, works on the opiate molecules that attach to the brain and, during an overdose, will fatally slow a person's breathing. Naloxone effectively bumps them away, restoring breathing in minutes and giving medical workers time to get to a hospital.
For years, only paramedics carried the drug. In 2012, a pilot program in Suffolk County trained emergency medical technicians and half the police officers to administer the drug.
"The first week we had five saves," said Dr. Scott S. Coyne, the chief surgeon and medical director for the Suffolk County Police Department. It proved so effective at bringing back users in the throes of an overdose that the program quickly expanded to the entire department, he said. To date, police officers there have halted 184 overdoses, Dr. Coyne said.
Late last year, the New York Police Department trained some 180 officers to use the drug on Staten Island, which has seen the city's most acute problem with heroin and pill overdoses, saving three people in the first three months. The department is currently looking to expand the program across the borough and around the city.
The state's Good Samaritan law protects those who call the police during an overdose, even if they too were using illegal drugs. Those who administer naloxone are also protected from liability. The drug, which is not habit forming and gives no high to an overdosing user, is nontoxic.
Teri Kroll, an advocate for drug awareness who lost her son Timothy to heroin overdose in 2009, was an early adopter of naloxone on Long Island. She has carried it with her since she was trained to use it in 2010. (Those who are not emergency medical workers must get a doctor's prescription and training from the Health Department.)
So when Ms. Kroll came upon a young man overdosing in his car last June, she had a dose of naloxone — and a responding police officer did not.
"I put the needle together and asked, 'Do you want me to do it?' and he said, 'yes,' " she recalled. "It's absolutely amazing that when you inject somebody, within seconds it reverses it. Within seconds, he was talking to the police officer."


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Try one of these Healthful & Delicious Cake Recipes for Baby's First Birthday Cake! Even so you can make it look equivalent to cakes with butter icing and you can use an icing substitute that other adornments will stick to. Initial I should mention the three alternatives which produce the appear of butter icing are only appropriate for these who do not also require to watch their cholesterol, as they are nevertheless produced from high fat substances and typically dairy.
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Archeological remnants of Illyrians, Greeks, Romans, and Ottomans are included in the top tourist attractions in Albaniabut there are other interesting places worth exploring here. Dubbed as the "New Mediterranean Love" by Eliza Dushku, an American actress with Albanian origin, the country also boasts unspoiled beaches, stunning mountains, great food, unique practices, a wild countryside, and an interesting history.
1. National History of Museum of Tirana
Situated in Skanderberg Square, it is the largest museum in Albania and one of its top attractions. It hosts a variety of exhibits divided into the country's different historic periods. You can buy souvenirs near the exit which are cheaper than those sold in souvenir shops.
2. Llogara National Park
It covers 1,000 hectares of scenic mountains southeast of Vlora. It is a great place to admire the Llogara Pass and the Ionian Sea. Hundreds of species of animals and plants thrive in the area. The fresh mountain air will further intoxicate you with its beauty. You can enjoy picnics, go hiking, and embark on air sports in the park.
3. Lake Skadar
As the largest lake in the Balkan region, it's one of the top tourist attractions in Albania. Lake Skadar is best known for the diverse flora and fauna of its surroundings. Fishing villages and peaceful beaches also surround the lake.
4. Amphitheatre in Durres
The ancient Roman amphitheatre in Dures dates back to 2nd century BC. Capable of holding 20,000 people at one time, it's one of the biggest amphitheatres in the Balkan countries and one of the largest ancient monuments of all time. The structure was originally a theatre but was later transformed into an amphitheatre, thus becoming a venue for animal and gladiator fights.
5. Ksamil Islands
The scenic islands are remote destinations which can only be accessed by boat. There are a few nice restaurants scattered in its four islands but other than that, they have a romantic atmosphere altogether. Steep hills and a fresh breeze will greet you upon your arrival in Ksamil Islands. Surely, they are some of the top tourist attractions in Albania.


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(PLEASE NOTE* - At the end of this piece (some hours later), I was moved to add a portion. May you be blessed by it, but to God alone be all glory!)
I have seen your ways over the past; I know your life and the hardships. I have seen you cast down thoughts the enemy fired, targeting your heart. Your broken and contrite spirit has not escaped Me. I do not stand afar off, nor am I a cruel God who takes pleasure in your suffering.
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool" where is the house that you build unto Me? and where is the place of My rest?
For all those things has My hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My word. [Is 66:1-2]
Your fear and unbelief was seen by Me, yet I patiently watched and waited as you came to grips with it. I watched you exchange fear for FAITH and unbelief for TRUST in Me. Yes, I watched you lay it all down on the altar with trembling hands and bitter tears; all your promises; all your hope and all you love; your very life.
I saw you, as looking up to Me, with all your strength you said, "It is all Yours, Father...it was always all Yours." Your prayers of repentance for fear, unbelief, rebellion, resistance - all you confessed, I heard and forgave. Watch what I shall do. Patience, trust - My timing is perfect.
Season of the Judas'
When I told you it would get harder, you had no idea of all that entailed. Trust that I AM for you and not against. I have seen those who draw out the tongue and open a wide mouth to plant a seed of falsehood. I have heard those who speak in secret and plot against you, yet with smooth words, insincere smiles and multiplied kisses, the Judas' of today seek to betray for their own gain.
There are those who pray unrighteous and unholy prayers, to satisfy their own lusts and covetousness at the cost of one they walked with. Fear not! I have heard the unholy prayers and seen that which is done in secret.
Yet, I have also heard your concern for those who call themselves by My name and turned on you, all the while kissing your cheek, embracing you, knowing they were your betrayers. Forgive...seventy times seven. [Mat 18:22]
[Ps 34:18] Repent when and where necessary. Humble yourself.
I AM He who created the heavens and the earth, and all the heavenly host...all things are created by Me. Though everything seems against you at this time, watch and see what I shall do.
As you lay everything down and come into alignment with My will for you, wait patiently. As surely as I did for Abraham, I shall move on your behalf in perfect timing. I AM the Sovereign I AM.
Mercy and Forgiveness
With repentance, I bring forgiveness, but also grace and mercy, for mercy triumphs over judgment. I shall restore; I shall heal. None can know My mind, nor stay My hand. I shall move and who shall halt Me? My hand is stretched out; who can turn it back? I have purposed, who can annul it? [Is 14:27]
I know those who have shown no mercy, but kissed you with the kiss of betrayal. Fear not. I shall recompense; I avenge. You have done right to pray. Leave all in My hands. These very ones will say, God sees the heart. Yes, I do and I also see that which is done in secret.
Trust Me wholly. Keep Me as your first love; keep the proper order of things. Though all seems against you, trust that I am omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful) and all-consuming.
Continue to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly before Me. [Micah 6:8] Continue on obediently, trusting and abiding. In My timing and in My way, I shall move on your behalf.
For we know that all things work together for good, to those who love God and are the called, according to His purpose. [Rom 8:28]
Fear not. Hold fast to our personal covenant in faith, belief and obedience. My promises are true. Wait patiently for My timing. though you do not know My thoughts or ways, seeing only in part. I have revealed to you bit by bit, for I am a good Father and Creator. Fear not. Be patient just a little longer.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak; and not lie: though it tarries, wait for it, for it shall surely come; it will not delay.
[Hab 2:3]
(Though all seems against; though it seems to delay, wait ...it shall come; in My timing.) Trust and obey. Selah
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(Note* - The subtitle "Judas' of Today" was renamed "Season of the Judas' " same day of posting, but several hours later. In prayer, the Lord made it clear that His people must be forewarned, just as Jesus forewarned the apostles at the Last Supper that one of them would betray Him.
For a season (and a season only), there will be those who will greet us warmly with (either/or) a spiritual or physical 'holy kiss' and 'embrace'), but behind our backs, they will betray us...and it will be done quickly. I understood that we are not to fear, nor are we to hate. We ourselves are being purged of the dross, which the Lord will then remove.
We must forgive, so that we may be forgiven. [Mat 6:14] Just as that which Judas did was foreknown by God, so it is today. Nothing catches our Sovereign God and Creator off-guard.
Things all seemed to get much worse when Judas betrayed Jesus. Everything seemed to go as bad as they could get against our Messiah, when Judas went behind Jesus' back and betrayed him to the very ones (Pharisees, Sadducees and high priests) who hated Jesus (having their own hidden agendas and selfish motives).
Those who supped with Jesus, walked with Him, witnessed His goodness, mercy and miracles, ran and hide when He was arrested. One denied Him three times (Peter), though later he repented and wept bitterly.
False witnesses rose up against Jesus, convincing all who heard their testimony that Jesus had done wrong, not only with the people, but against God Himself. Jesus was rejected further, mocked, ridiculed, humiliated, beaten, stripped before the people, whipped, part of His beard torn out, and nailed to the cross.
All of the dark kingdom seemed to be laughing and jubilant as Jesus hung upon His cross. They believed they had thwarted God's plan. The evil spirits must have circled that cross, laughing, whispering and tormenting Jesus (Yeshua) with their mockery and sheer delight at His suffering.
The Judas' and the false witnesses of today will bring you to your cross. Just as Jesus gasped, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do" [Lk 23:34], we too must forgive. Our prayers must be pure and sincere.
The Lord has made it abundantly clear that though all seems against us; though it seems we stand alone; though it seems as though our promises will not be fulfilled, there is victory in the end.
If we will follow through with God's personal plan for our lives (HIS plan, not ours), and obey willingly, trusting the Father, just as Jesus did, we will arise in resurrection power, healed and restored, having fulfilled God's purpose and will in all of it.
In the end, the battle is the LORD's, not ours. We too shall reap the reward of our suffering, if we faint not, keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, our face set as flint and our loins girt with strength.
Through it all, God alone will be glorified through Jesus the Christ (Yeshua Ha'Mashiach).
(morsel of bread) Satan entered into him (Judas) The said He unto him, That you do, do quickly. [Jn 13:27]
To those who do not know better (unknowingly), it will seem as though some are your friends (welcome, embrace and kiss), but the reason behind it is for selfish gain. Judas betrayed for the gain of thirty pieces of silver [Mat 26:15] (the love of money).
However, for today's Judas', the "gain" they seek may or may not be money. It will still be covetousness (foolish and hurtful lusts - 1Tim 6:9), but it will be to gain something, whether to have what you have or to take your place. The motive likely due to lust, envy, jealousy and/or idolatry.
Some want what you have and will stop at nothing. Release all into God's hands, complete surrender, humbly and willingly submitting. There are some things we can do nothing about, but God (who sees, hears and knows all things) is well able to work things out for good and for His glory. [Rom 8:28]
I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of My mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
I have even from the beginning declared it to you; before it came to pass I showed it to you: lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my graven image, a molten image, has commanded them.
You have heard, see all this; and will not you declare it? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them. They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when you heard them not; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them. [Is 48:3-7]
Go forward! For the battle is God's, not yours. Do not look back. Hallelujah! Your Father, who has called you by your nae will PERFECT ALL that concerns you.
Fear not! Rejoice, for the glory of the LORD has risen upon thee! Faith is strengthened by obedience, and obedience brings blessing. Wait upon the LORD; be patient, for in due season you shall reap, if you faint not.


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Its latest finding is that being on the point of instability balances straight-line and turning performance in multi-legged robots.
The questions the researchers set themselves was: with all the friction created by multiple legs in contact with the ground, how can a centipede be so agile? And what control strategy is required to get that agility.
A 12 legged robot – a dodecapede – with six two-legged body segments was used (and modelled) for the experiment.
There were no motors between the segments for steering, instead its segments were passively linked by joints and springs.
Its legs were controlled to move so that their tips went straight backwards when in contact with the ground.
As would be expected with this straight contact-point movement, all the segments remained in-line and stay straight and level when the machine walked in a straight line.
Or, at least they did when the inter-segment springs were stiff enough.
But when softer springs were fitted, wiggling oscillations (see photo) spontaneously arose – just like the motion of a real centipede.
Even softer springs meant greater the oscillation and, at a point mathematically described by the researchers as a 'Hopf bifurcation', there was a critical spring value which would have the robot on the verge of oscillating motion.
In new work, described in the paper 'Advantage of straight walk instability in turning maneuver of multilegged locomotion: a robotics approach' in Scientific Reports, the team discovered that the robot steers most effectively when it is fitted with springs that keep it close to the point of Hopf bifurcation.
To test steering ability, the front pair of legs were controlled to make an 80° turn to the right, while all the rest were set to walk dumbly forwards – much like a powered trailer.
Fitted with critical springs, the robot reached its new heading in the least time, and fully aligning itself on the new heading most quickly. Stiffer springs meant sluggish turns, and softer springs meant faster turns followed by overshooting the new trajectory and then wobbling around it.
"This study provides clues to unresolved issues of intelligent motor functions of animals, and meaningful insight for biological sciences," said lead scientist Shinya Aoi.
The Kyoto team also previously showed that the amount of oscillation beyond the bifurcation increases with speed.
This means, the researchers point out, that controlling one factor – inter-segment stiffness – can improve dynamic robot performance without resorting to a precise real-time physics model of all leg motions. At any particular speed there will be a stiffness that will give the most precise steering, and another stiffness that will give the easiest straight line travel.
Combining this with the strategy of only steering with the first pair of legs and letting the rest follow, results in a low computational load within the robot.
Kyoto points out that one of the big threats to robots is falling over, and that more legs reduce the chances of falling. Robots with lots of legs hardly have to think about remaining upright.
In the paper, delightfully, the team also answers the question 'how many legs does a centipede have? – In real life, from 15 to 191 pairs, or so they have discovered so far.
Source: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/research-news/discovery-means-robot-centipedes-can-move-fast-as-well-as-turn-quickly-2016-07/


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Campbell's Stock Rises
Campbell Soup Company (CPB) released its latest quarterly earnings on Wednesday, December 4. The company posted decreased earnings and sales, yet its stock prices rose.
Net sales came in at $2.18 billion for the quarter. This was down 1% from net sales of $2.20 billion during the same time last year.
"Our performance to start the new fiscal year was largely in-line with our expectations and builds upon the solid foundation we set in fiscal 2019," said Campbell's President and CEO Mark Clouse. "I was especially pleased that our in-market consumption grew more than 1% in measured channels. Additionally, we grew soup share for the first time in 10 quarters, one of the early signs of progress in our three-year journey to revitalize this business."
The company posted net earnings of $166 million, or $0.55 per share. This was down from $194 million in net earnings, or $0.64 per share at this time last year.
In addition to its namesake Campbell's soup brands, the Camden, New Jersey-based company is the owner of Pepperidge Farm, Pace, Prego, V8, Swanson and Cape Cod brands. The company's current CEO, Mark Clouse, took the reins in January 2019 following a stint as CEO of Pinnacle Foods. Clouse was tasked with turning around the fortunes of the struggling soup maker. Even though the company's earnings have not yet rebounded from the prior year, investors appear to be satisfied with the company's direction, as stock prices rose 1.3% following the company's earnings release.
Campbell Soup Company (CPB) shares ended the week at $47.76, up 2.8% for the week.
Salesforce Continues to Grow
Salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM) posted its quarterly earnings report for the third quarter on Tuesday, December 3. The customer relationship management software company's revenue and profits beat analysts' expectations.
The company reported revenue of $4.51 billion, up from $3.39 billion in revenue at this time last year. This beat analysts' expected revenue of $4.45 billion for the quarter.
"We had strong growth across our clouds and regions in the quarter as more companies turn to Salesforce as a trusted advisor in their digital transformations," said Keith Block, Salesforce's Co-CEO. "With these trusted customer relationships, continuous innovation and our phenomenal Trailblazer ecosystem, we have never been better positioned for the future."
Salesforce posted a net loss of $109 million, or $0.12 per share. This was down from net income of $105 million, or $0.14 per share, during the same quarter last year.
The company has increased its value in recent years through a number of mergers and acquisitions. This year, Salesforce has acquired Tableau for $15.7 billion and ClickSoftware for $1.35 billion. Salesforce projects full-year revenue between $16.99 billion and $17.0 billion for fiscal year 2020. For fiscal year 2021, Salesforce expects revenue between $20.80 billion and $20.90 billion.
Salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM) shares ended the week at $157.94, down 3.3% for the week.
Lands' End Reports Earnings
Lands' End, Inc. (LE) reported its most recent quarterly earnings on Tuesday, December 3. The retailer posted decreased sales and earnings, but increased comparable sales for the quarter.
The company posted net revenue of $340.02 million for the quarter. This was down from $341.57 million at the same time last year.
"We were pleased to have delivered strong financial results for the third quarter as gross margin expansion and expense management enabled us to achieve Adjusted EBITDA growth of approximately 20%," said Lands' End CEO Jerome Griffith. "While sales were burdened by unseasonably warm temperatures, our transitional product resonated with customers and sales trends improved as the colder weather arrived."
Lands' End reported net income of $3.61 million. This was down from $3.29 million in net income during the same quarter last year.
Known primarily for its catalog and online clothing sales, Lands' End also maintains a physical retail presence in various locations. The company, which was formerly owned by Sears, is winding down its presence in Sears stores by the end of 2019 and is steadily increasing the number of standalone Lands' End locations. For the third quarter, Lands' End posted an 8.3% increase in same store sales.
Lands' End, Inc. (LE) shares ended the week at $15.05, up 28.9% for the week.
The Dow started the week at 28,110 and closed at 28,015 on 12/6. The S&P 500 started the week at 3,144 and closed at 3,146. The NASDAQ started the week at 8,673 and closed at 8,657.
Strong Jobs Report Boosts Treasury Yields
U.S. Treasury yields jumped on Friday following the release of the November jobs report. An unexpectedly optimistic report boosted investor confidence.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor released the Employment Situation Summary for November 2019. The report indicated 266,000 jobs added for the month, beating analysts' expectation of 187,000 new jobs for November. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, its lowest mark since 1969.
"This is a blowout number and the U.S. economy continues to be all about the jobs," said Citizen's Bank's Tony Bedikian. "The unemployment rate is at a 50-year low and wages are increasing. Business owners may be getting more cautious due to trade and political uncertainty and growth may be slow, but consumers keep spending and the punch bowl still seems full."
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield was at 1.838% during early trading on Friday after opening the week at 1.782%. The 30-year Treasury bond yield opened the week at 2.202% and rose to 2.280% on Friday.
The sunny jobs report comes as the U.S. and China approach their December 15 negotiation deadline. If a deal is not reached by mid-month, the U.S. is scheduled to increase its tariffs on Chinese goods. On Friday, China announced that it intends to waive tariffs on imports of U.S. soybeans and pork.
"The deal is close," said National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow. "It's probably even closer than in mid-November. The reality is constructive talks, almost daily talks. We are in fact close."
The 10-year Treasury note yield closed at 1.84% on 12/6, while the 30-year Treasury bond yield was 2.28%.
Mortgage Rates Stay Put
Freddie Mac released its latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey on Thursday, December 5. Mortgage rates remained relatively unchanged for the week.
The 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 3.68%, unchanged from last week. Last year at this time, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 4.75%.
The 15-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 3.14% this week, down from last week's average of 3.15%. During the same time last year, the 15-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 4.21%.
"This week the economy sent mixed signals, leaving mortgage rates unchanged," said Freddie Mac's Chief Economist Sam Khater. "Survey data for manufacturing and service industries varied while construction spending fell modestly. However, homebuyer demand continued to improve, rising eight percent. Clearly homebuyers remain bullish on the real estate market."
Based on published national averages, the savings rate was 0.09% for the week of December 2. The one-year CD finished at 0.49%.
Published December 6, 2019
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06/02/2017 edit: The pattern is a bit unclear on how you pick up the yarn to make the alternating colour rows after one and two! The gloves are worked flat but once you work the first row, you tie on the second colour at the start of the previous row rather than the end. So, I started off with grey and finished on the right side of my work, then I tied on pink at the left side and worked over to the right side. Then I picked up the grey again and worked back over to the left, then picked up the pink on the right and worked that over to the left side as well. If you consider the lines in pairs, once you finish a pair, the working yarns should be on the same side of the flat project ^___^
Ooops! There's a mistake in this pattern! After crocheting three single stitches into one stitch (3 into 1), there should be three single stitches into the next three stitches instead of two! >____< Sorry folks!
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The competition is followed by 158 villages from any Indonesian islands. The Pasekbali is one of three Balinese Tourism Village that goes to the next round to compete for the Top 10 rank.
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EPISODE 264: Meditating with the Taliban
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Politically, the world is more polarized and terrorized than ever before. Even the wealthiest countries in the world are experiencing record levels of terror and violent attacks—so what do we do? Can yoga and meditation create a grassroots movement for change? Why must we focus inside before can change our communities? On this week's, Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet, Amandine Roche, an international peacekeeper using yoga a key part of her mission.
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Amandine Roche is a Human Rights lawyer, yoga and meditation teacher who has worked throughout the world including in Asia, S. America, many African countries, and in war-torn Afghanistan. She teaches yoga and meditation in Afghanistan, including to members of the Taliban on her mission for world peace.
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Setting Up Your First Angular 2 Project
Setting Up Your First Angular 2 Project
In this post, we cover the basics of setting up a project in Angular, from installing the CLI to running the ng serve command.
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Prerequisites for an Angular 2 Project
1. Node 4.x.x or higher
2. Npm 3.x.x or higher
If you have already installed the above, verify that you are running at least node 4.x.x and npm 3.x.x or higher by running node -v and npm -v (check the version you are running) in a terminal/console window.
Setting Up a New Angular 2 Project
Step 1. Set Up the Development Environment
For building an Angular 2 project, you need to have the Angular CLI (command line interface).
The Angular 2 CLI makes it easy to create an application via the terminal.
Without the Angular CLI, you cannot create any component or service via the terminal.
Install the Angular-CLI globally.
npm install -g angular-cli
Step 2. Create a New Project
Open a terminal window.
Generate a new project and skeleton application by running the following commands:
ng new my_first_angular_app
This will create a skeleton Angular 2 application. You can check the default folder structure.
By default, it will have a styles.css file in which you can write your styles.
But if you want to create an Angular project using SASS, you need to run the following command:
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Go to the project directory and install node modules in your project directory. Then launch the server using the ng serve command.
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Once you are inside your project app folder, run the following code:
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The ng serve command launches the server, watches our files, and rebuilds the app as you make changes to the files.
Open a browser on http://localhost:4200/; the app greets us with a message:
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We sure do! So today, I'm sharing a fun and easy way to bake potatoes to accompany a meal, or as a snack.
Start with a fairly large potato, and slice it across the top from side side to side, without cutting all the way through. Make the cuts as close or as far apart as you like, depending on how thick you want the potato slices.
Drizzle the top with melted butter, a little olive oil, some sea salt, and pepper. We have also topped it with things like bacon bits and cheese.
Bake the potatoes for about 40 minutes at 425 degrees.
Sometimes, I bake the potato with just the butter, oil, and salt. Then, when it's done, I top it with ketchup and goat cheese. This may sound a little strange, but it tastes fantastic!
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If you thought the financial hardships of raising a child were complete after college graduation, you're wrong.
According to a recent survey by Upromise, the savings division of Sallie Mae, more than two-thirds of students (68 percent) expect mom and dad to financially support them after college graduation.
The interesting thing is that many parents are seemingly OK with it. In fact, 65 percent of those surveyed said they plan to keep their pocketbooks open to their kids for up to five years after graduation.
Many parents will keep more than their wallets open; they'll also open their home to their college grads, Upromise said. About half of students said they'd be willing to pay rent to their parents for a roof over their head, though just 24 percent of parents said they'd charge their adult college grads rent to live with them. Just 5 percent of parents said they're not open to having their children move back into their home after graduation.
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With his newer work failing to make the same connection with audiences that his masterpieces of the twentieth century did, there is an entire generation of horror fans who may not be as intimately familiar with Dario Argento as previous generations. To remedy that, we've compiled a guide to five Argento films every horror fan should see. This isn't solely a list of the mastermind's best work. In fact, this guide contains one of the director's most maligned pieces. But to get a good understanding of Argento's aesthetic, one must take the bad with the good.
These career spanning selections will give any viewer unfamiliar with the works of Dario Argento a crash course in the work of the prolific filmmaker. Italian horror is noticeably different than typical American made horror films but it's the forward thinking nature of older Italian horror films and gialli that helped inspire the American slasher films of the early eighties. Argento was and still is a big inspiration for writers and directors working in the horror genre, today.
The following selections span Dario Argento's lengthy and primarily successful career and give viewers not familiar with his work a good jumping off point to explore more of the famed director's work.
Suspiria is the first entry in Argento's unofficial 'Three Mothers' trilogy. It is Argento at his best. Suspiria is not a particularly cohesive film. But, most of Argento's greatest work isn't known for cohesion. His films are celebrated for being visually striking, over the top, and slightly bizarre; Suspiria is all of those things. It employs the use of bright, intoxicating color to tell a story. The film's score is amazing. Rock band Goblin brought their musical talent to the film; the combination of rock music and violent imagery work together as a perfect pairing. Suspiria is a great place to start for anyone not familiar with Argento's work. It was the first Argento film I saw and it piqued my curiosity and left me anxious to seek out more of the master director's work. Each time I watch Suspiria, I discover a nuance I may have previously missed or subtleties that I hadn't picked up on beforehand. I enjoy Suspiria more each time I watch it. It has aged well. While there are certain aspects of the film that are dated, the set pieces and wardrobe don't immediately betray the film's exact age or make the viewer feel as though they are looking in to a time capsule.
This is the next entry in the 'Three Mothers' trilogy, so it is the logical next step after Suspiria. Like its predecessor, Inferno relies heavily on the use of color to tell its story. Inferno is even less cohesive than Suspiria and even more surreal. It has a very psychedelic quality to it. Inferno's strengths lie within its cinematography and set design. Inferno features some of the most bizarre, amazing; over the top imagery I've seen. The building and its secrets and maze-like passageways provide a much unexpected first time viewing experience. I was bowled over when I first saw Inferno. The underwater scene is breathtaking. Argento names this as one of his most sincere and purest films. He says that it was a hard film for him to make and that it took a lot out of him, creatively. It's not hard to see what he means after watching Inferno.
Mother of Tears
After taking in Suspiria and Inferno it's time to give Mother of Tears a look. It's one of the biggest letdowns of Argento's career, but it offers closure on the trilogy and it will give you an idea as to what contemporary Argento looks like. Mother of Tears lacks the punch of the previous entries in the trilogy. The bright intoxicating color scheme of Suspiria and Inferno was abandoned in favor of gratuitous nudity (featuring none other than Argento's own daughter) and the kind of excessive ultra violent imagery that came to prominence with the introduction of films like Saw. We see strangulation by intestinal tract and a lot of other gimmicks that the previous two films didn't employ. Decisions such as these served to the film's detriment. In an apparent attempt to evolve, Argento moved away from what had worked best for him in the past. The result is disappointing and led to legions of outraged fans. However, to see how the director's career has progressed, get a taste for modern Argento, and bring closure to the trilogy, the film must be viewed – at least once. Much time passed between the release of Inferno and the release of Mother of Tears. There was huge fan demand for the release of the final film in the trilogy, which may explain why Mother of Tears felt rushed and as if attention to detail was not a concern.
Deep Red
Deep Red is one of Argento's most celebrated films. It's a masterfully crafted giallo. Argento gives his audience a major clue at the beginning of the film. However, it's done with such subtlety that if you blink, you'll miss it. Deep Red is a great choice for your first Dario Argento giallo. It's more reserved than many other Argento titles. Deep Red, as the title implies, plays with color beautifully. The score, which is composed by rock musicians Goblin, is amazing. Deep Red is considered by many to be Argento's masterpiece. It's an excellent introduction to the director's collection of giallo films and to the giallo, in general. Deep Red was the first Argento film that I saw, after Suspiria. It's less over the top than films like Argento's Opera, and a perfect choice for a first time viewer of Argento's rather large body of gialli.
Tenebre marked Argento's return to the giallo, after veering in to supernatural territory with Suspiria and Inferno. Tenebre is among the director's best gialli. It features a great cast, including Daria Nicolodi, (Argento's long time collaborator and one time wife) and the legendary John Saxon (Black Christmas) prior to his turn in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Tenebre is an excellent film. It's got some truly bizarre moments, but if you've seen the previous films mentioned, you should have an understanding and appreciation for the way Argento tells a story. Tenebre differs from Argento's other gialli because it hits the viewer over the head with a double twist ending. It certainly surprised me the first time I saw it.


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I'm a smart person. I've been using the Internet since the early 1990s. I know how to program. I only feel the need to point this out, because I'm about to share with you a story in which I come across as a complete, blithering idiot, and I'm feeling a little defensive about it.
I got an email from an event that I won't name, but I'm guessing a few of you are getting emails of your own. If you didn't make the same mistake, then bask in the glory of being better at computers than I am. If you did make the same mistake, welcome to the club. You're not alone.
The email I received was several paragraphs long and told me all the places and times where I could pick up my badge for the event. It also said that they were introducing something new this year called a QuickCode. The email instructed me to bring my photo id and my QuickCode to pick up my badge.
Then it had the following line:
Laura Klein's QuickCode:
That's it. After that, it went on to give me more badge-related information. "Aha, I thought. The automated system has failed to print my QuickCode."
I immediately wrote back and said that I didn't get my QuickCode. To the credit of the organization, I was immediately written back to by a very polite person who explained that the QuickCode was an image and even gave me instructions on how to turn on images in my email, in case I didn't know how.
I was, as you might imagine, embarrassed. I mean, of course I know how to show images in an email. I just want to make that clear, because I'm coming off as enough of an idiot without you thinking I can't use Gmail.
What I didn't know was that the QuickCode was an image. Because I've never seen a QuickCode. Because a QuickCode wasn't a thing to me until an hour ago. Because a QuickCode is just a name that somebody made up for a bar code that they're using to help with their badging system.
Obviously the people writing the email knew what a QuickCode was, so it wasn't at all surprising to them that you'd have to turn on images to see one. For those of us (ok, me) who had never heard of a QuickCode, this wasn't immediately obvious. A QuickCode could just as easily have been a string of numbers and letters that could have been printed in the email. Of course, when I went back and re-read the email, the first paragraph did mention "scanning" the quick code, so I might have figured out what it was, but there were a lot of paragraphs in the email that I quickly skimmed. This is not unusual user behavior.
The interesting thing is that they could have avoided my acting like an idiot and subsequently having to deal with my support email by just including the phrase, "If you don't see your QuickCode, try turning on images in your email." They could have made that the alt text for the image so only people who didn't have images turned on would see it.
Why am I telling you all this? I'm telling you this because we make assumptions of this sort in our interfaces every day. We assume people know that a QuickCode is an image, even though they've never heard of a QuickCode. We assume people know what our products do, even though they've never heard of our product. We assume people know where to go within our products to find the things they're looking for, even though they weren't in the meeting where we determined our product structure.
We are almost always wrong.
The moral of this story is not (just) that your users are going to do stupid things sometimes. It's not even that they're probably only going to skim our very long emails. The moral is that we constantly need to be asking ourselves what we really expect a user to understand about our product, and we need to have ways to preemptively help them in places where we're presenting new concepts or unfamiliar terminology.
Users don't know our slang. They don't know our jargon. They don't know our product. If we want them to use our products successfully, we need to teach them what they need to know without making them feel like idiots.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Don't Make Your Users Feel Like Idiots
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Combining Qualitative & Quantitative Research
Designers are infallible. At least, that's the only conclusion that I can draw, considering how many of them flat out refuse to do any sort of qualitative or quantitative testing on their product. I have spoken with designers, founders, and product owners at companies of all sizes, and it always amazes me how many of them are so convinced that their product vision is perfect that they will come up with the most inventive excuses for not doing any sort of customer research or testing.
Before I share some of these excuses with you, let's take a look at the types of research I would expect these folks to be doing on their products and ideas.
Quantitative ReserachWhen I say quantitative research in this context, I'm talking about a/b testing, product analytics, and metrics - things that tell you what is happening when users interact with your product. These are methods of finding out, after you've shipped a new product, feature, or change, exactly what your users are doing with it.
Are people using the new feature once and then abandoning it? Are they not finding the new feature at all? Are they spending more money than users who don't see the change? Are they more likely to sign up for a subscription or buy a premium offering? These are the types of questions that quantitative research can answer.
For a simple example, if you were to design a new version of a landing page, you might run an a/b test of the new design against the old design. Half of your users would see each version, and you'd measure to see which design got you more registered users or qualified leads or sales or any other metric you cared about.
Qualitative ResearchBy qualitative testing, I mean the act of watching people use your product and talking to them about it. I don't mean asking users what you should build. I just mean observing and listening to your users in order to better understand their behavior.
You might do qualitative testing before building a new feature or product so that you can learn more about your potential users' behaviors. What is their current workflow? What is their level of technical expertise? What products are they already using? You might also do it once your product is in the hands of users in order to understand why they're behaving the way they are. Do they find something confusing? Are they getting lost or stuck at a particular point? Does the product not solve a critical problem for them?
For example, you might find a few of your regular users and watch them with your product in order to understand why they're spending less money since you shipped a new feature. You might give them a task in order to see if they could complete it or if they got stuck. You might interview them about their usage of the new feature in order to understand how they feel about it.
Excuses, ExcusesWhile it may seem perfectly reasonable to want to know what your users are really doing and why they are doing it, a huge number of designers seem really resistant to performing these simple types of research or even listening to the results. I don't know why they refuse to pay any attention to their users, but I can share some of the terrible excuses they've given me.
A/B Testing is Only Good for Small ChangesI hear this one a lot. There seems to be a misconception that a/b testing is only useful for things like button color and that by doing a/b testing you're only ever going to get small changes. The argument goes something like, "Well, we can only test very small things and so we will test our way to a local maximum without ever being able to really make an important change to our user experience."
This is simply untrue.
You can a/b test anything. You can show two groups of users entirely different experiences and measure how each group behaves. You can hide whole features from users. You can change the entire checkout flow for half the people buying things from you. You can test a brand new registration or onboarding system. And, of course, you can test different button colors, if that is something that you are inclined to do.
The important thing to remember here is that a/b testing is a tool. It's agnostic about what you're testing. If you're just testing small changes, you'll only get small changes in your product. If, on the other hand, you test big things - major navigation changes, new features, new purchasing flows, completely different products - then you'll get big changes. And, more importantly, you'll know how they affected your users.
Quantitative Testing Leads to a Confused Mess of an InterfaceThis is one of those arguments that has a grain of truth in it. It goes something like, "If we always just take the thing that converts best, we will end up with a confusing mess of an interface."
Anybody who has looked at Amazon's product pages knows the sort of thing that a/b testing can lead to. They have a huge amount of information on each screen, and none of it seems particularly attractive. On the other hand, they rake in money.
It's true that when you're doing lots of a/b testing on various features, you can wind up with a weird mishmash of things in your product that don't necessarily create a harmonious overall design. You can even wind up with features that, while they improve conversion on their own, end up hurting conversion when they're combined.
As an example, let's say you're testing a product detail page. You decide to run several a/b tests simultaneously for the following new features:
- customer photos
- comments
- ratings
- extended product details
- shipping information
- sale price
- return info
Again, this is not the fault of a/b testing – or in this case, a/b/c/d/e testing. This is the fault of a bad test. You see, it's not enough that you run an a/b test. You have to run a good a/b test. In this case, just because the addition of a particular feature to your product page improved conversions doesn't mean that adding a dozen new features to your product page will increase your conversion.
In this instance, you might be better off running several a/b tests serially. In other words, add a feature, test it, and then add another and test. This way you'll be sure that every additional feature is actually improving your conversion. Alternatively, you could test a few different versions of the page with different combinations of features to see which converts best.
A/B Testing Takes Away the Need For DesignFor some reason, people think that a/b testing means that you just randomly test whatever crazy shit pops into your head. They envision a world where engineers algorithmically generate feature ideas, build them all, and then just measure which one does best.
This is just absolute nonsense.
A/B testing only specifies that you need to test new designs against each other or against some sort of a control. It says absolutely zero about how you come up with those design ideas.
The best way to come up with great products is to go out and observe users and find problems that you can solve and then use good design processes to solve them. When you start doing testing, you're not changing anything at all about that process. You're just making sure that you get metrics on how those changes affect real user behavior.
Let's imagine that you're building an online site to buy pet food. You come up with a fabulous landing page idea that involves some sort of talking sock puppet. You decide to create this puppet character based on your intimate knowledge of your user base and your sincere belief that what they are missing in their lives is a talking sock puppet. It's a reasonable assumption.
Instead of just launching your wholly re-imagined landing page, complete with talking sock puppet video, you create your landing page and show it to only half of your users, while the rest of your users are stuck with their sad, sock puppet-less version of the site. Then you look to see which group of users bought more pet food. At no point did the testing process have anything to do with the design process.
It's really that simple. Nothing about a/b testing determines what you're going to test. A/B testing has literally nothing to do with the initial design and research process.
Whatever you're testing, you still need somebody who is good at creating the experiences you're planning on testing against one another. A/B testing two crappy experiences does, in fact, lead to a final crappy experience. After all, if you're looking at two options that both suck, a/b testing is only going to determine which one sucks less.
Design is still incredibly important. It just becomes possible to measure design's impact with a/b testing.
There's No Time to Usability TestWhen I ask people whether they've done usability testing on prototypes of major changes to their products, I frequently get told that there simply wasn't time. It often sounds something like, "Oh, we had this really tight deadline, and we couldn't fit in a round of usability testing on a prototype because that would have added at least a week, and then we wouldn't have been able to ship on time."
The fact is you don't have time NOT to usability test. As your development cycle gets farther along, major changes get more and more expensive to implement. If you're in an agile development environment, you can make updates based on user feedback quickly after a release, but in a more traditional environment, it can be a long time before you can correct a big mistake, and that spells slippage, higher costs, and angry development teams. Even in agile environments, it's still faster to fix things before you write a lot of code than after you have pissed off customers who are wondering why you ruined an important feature that they were using.
I know you have a deadline. I know it's probably slipped already. It's still a bad excuse for not getting customer feedback during the development process. You're just costing yourself time later. I've never known good usability testing to do anything other than save time in the long run on big projects.
Qualitative Research Doesn't Work Because Users Don't Know What They WantThis is possibly the most common argument against qualitative research, and it's particularly frustrating, because part of the statement is quite true. Users aren't particularly good at coming up with brilliant new ideas for what to build next. Fortunately, that doesn't matter.
Let's make this perfectly clear. Qualitative research is NOT about asking people what they want. At no point do we say, "What should we build next?" and then relinquish control over our interfaces to our users. People who do this are NOT doing qualitative research.
Qualitative research isn't about asking people what they want and giving it to them. Qualitative research is about understanding the needs and behaviors of your users. It's about really knowing what problem you're solving and for whom.
Once you understand what your users are like and what they want to do with your product, it's your job to come up with ways to make that happen. That's the design part. That's the part that's your job.
It's My Vision - Users Will Screw it UpThis can also be called the "But Steve Jobs doesn't listen to users..." excuse.
The fact is, understanding what your users like and don't like about your product doesn't mean giving up on your vision. You don't need to make every single change suggested by your users. You don't need to sacrifice a coherent design to the whims of a user test. You don't even need to keep a design just because it converts better in an a/b test.
What you do need to do is understand exactly what is happening with your product and why. And you can only do that by gathering data. The data can help you make better decisions, but they don't force you to do anything at all.
Design Isn't About MetricsThis is the argument that infuriates me the most. I have literally heard people say things like, "Design can't be measured, because design isn't about the bottom line. It's all about the customer experience."
Wouldn't it be a better experience if everything on Amazon were free? Be honest! It totally would.
Unfortunately, it would be a somewhat traumatic experience for the Amazon stockholders. You see, we don't always optimize for the absolute best user experience. We make tradeoffs. We aim for a fabulous user experience that also delivers fabulous profits.
While it's true that we don't want to just turn our user experience design over to short term revenue metrics, we can vastly improve user experience by seeing which improvements and features are most beneficial for both users and the company.
Design is not art. If you think that there's some ideal design that is completely divorced from the effect it's having on your company's bottom line, then you're an artist, not a designer. Design has a purpose and a goal, and those things can be measured.
So, What's the Right Answer?If you're all out of excuses, there is something that you can do to vastly improve your product. You can use quantitative and qualitative data together.
Use quantitative metrics to understand exactly what your users are doing. What features do they use? How much do they spend? Does changing something big have a big impact on real user behavior?
Use qualitative research to understand why your users do what they do. What problems are they trying to solve? Why are they dropping out of a particular task flow when they do? Why do they leave and never come back.
Let's look at an example of how you might do this effectively. First, imagine that you have a payment flow in your product. Now, imagine that 80% of your users are not getting through that payment flow once they've started. Of course, you wouldn't know that at all if you weren't looking at your metrics. You also wouldn't know that the majority of people are dropping out in one particular place in the flow.
Next, imagine that you want to know why so many people are getting stuck at that one place. You could do a very simple observational test where you watch four or five real users going through the payment flow in order to see if they get stuck in the same place. When they do, you could discuss with them what stopped them there. Did they need more information? Was there a bug? Did they get confused?
Once you have a hypothesis about what's not working for people, you can make a change to your payment flow that you think will fix the problem. Neither qualitative nor quantitative research tells you what this change is. They just alert you that there's a problem and give you some ideas about why that problem is happening.
After you've made your change, you can run an a/b test of the old version against the new version. This will let you know whether your change was effective or if the problem still exists. This creates a fantastic feedback loop of information so that you can confirm whether your design instincts are functioning correctly and you're actually solving user problems.
As you can hopefully see from the example, nobody is saying that you have to be a slave to your data. Nobody is saying that you have to turn your product vision or development process over to an algorithm or a focus group. Nobody is saying that you can only make small changes. All I'm saying is that using quantitative and qualitative research correctly gives you insight into what your users are doing and why they are doing it. And that will be good for your designs, your product, and your business.
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Monday, February 4, 2013
Make Meetings Less Awful
Meetings are the worst. I mean, my God, they suck. The vast majority of meetings are simply awful.
But they don't have to be!
If you've ever been in a meeting where you felt like your soul was being sucked out of your body through your eyes, I have a few tips that will make future meetings more tolerable. If you implement them correctly, they might even make some of your meetings useful! Imagine that.
Write It Down Ahead of Time
Agendas. You should have one. Well, this seems painfully obvious, doesn't it? But seriously. How many meetings do you attend where there isn't a single person who knows exactly what you'll be talking about in the meeting beforehand?
Here's a simple solution for making meetings wildly more productive. The person who is in charge of the meeting needs to make an agenda and send it out to all the attendees before the meeting. A full day is great, especially if there are things that people might want to research in preparation for the meeting. Even a few hours is helpful. It's best if the person in charge reaches out to attendees early to see if they have anything they'd like to see on the agenda.
The corollary to this is that the meeting attendees must actually read the agenda, understand what will be discussed, and come to the meeting prepared to discuss and make a decision on any of the agenda items they care about.
And, of course, if they don't care about any of the agenda items, they probably shouldn't attend the meeting.
Another, slightly more spontaneous, method is the box on the whiteboard. We used to do this in engineering meetings at IMVU. Before the weekly eng meeting started, people could add topics they wanted to discuss to a list on the whiteboard. Once the meeting started, someone drew a box around the list. Nothing could be added to the list once we started, and nothing was discussed that wasn't in the box. As a bonus, it encouraged people to get to the meeting early if they had a topic to discuss.
Everything Has a Next Step
Meetings are not open ended discussion forums. They're not group therapy sessions. Meetings are for making decisions. Every single thing you discuss in a meeting should have an decision and a deliverable.
Here's an example. Once, I was in a meeting to talk about a change somebody wanted to make to a product's design. We sat together for half an hour discussing the types of research she could do to figure out whether the design would work or whether it was small enough just to ship. At the end of about 30 minutes, she announced, "Well, I don't think we're going to decide this now." To which I responded, "Why the hell not?"
Stop having discussions just to have discussions. Refusing to make a decision in this meeting just ensures that you need to have another meeting later, and nobody wants that. Make sure that all agenda items at meetings have outcomes. Sometimes the outcome will be, "Susan is going to go off and investigate these three questions and report back so that we can make a more informed decision." Sometimes the outcome will be, "Laura is in charge of building a prototype and will pull in whomever she needs to help." Sometimes the outcome will be, "We're shipping this damned thing as soon as we leave the room." I kind of wish that were always the outcome.
The outcome will never be, "Well, we need to think more about this." The problem with this statement is that it's too vague. There is nothing actionable about this. Nobody is assigned to do anything, so nothing will really get done, and the next time the point comes up, you'll have to have the whole conversation over again. Everything from a meeting needs a specific next step and somebody who is assigned to take it.
Fewer Attendees
Meetings become far less productive after about four people, so whenever possible, keep meetings as small as you can. Obviously you sometimes need to have more folks, but really ask yourself whether everybody needs to be in the meeting, or if somebody would do just as well with a quick report after the fact.
If there are people who routinely aren't contributing to the meeting in any way - no agenda items, no adding to the discussion, no making decisions, no deliverables after the fact - then they are great candidates for not getting an invitation next time. Presumably you're paying these people, and I have to imagine there is something more productive they could be doing than sitting in a meeting checking their email.
Every Meeting Has a Leader
Someone has to be in charge of the meeting. Always.
The person in charge of the meeting has a lot of responsibilities. The leader must make the agenda, keep everybody on track, mediate disputes, ensure that everybody who has a contribution gets to make that contribution, make sure that all the deliverables and next steps are being captured, and follow up on the things that come out of the meetings.
I was in a meeting once that was led by a particularly ineffective PM. We were discussing what the priorities would be for her product (don't even get me started on why engineers and designers were discussing this when it was so clearly her job). We were each giving our opinions about what should be done first, and the discussion began to get heated.
Instead of stepping in and guiding the discussion or just deciding what order we'd build things in, the PM sat back and let everybody scream at each other. The meeting ended with someone in tears (unsurprisingly, this person wasn't me) and no decision made about prioritization.
Unless somebody is in charge, meetings just meander and go on for three times as long as they need to with nobody who is willing or able to say, "Right. We're done here. Let's go do something productive." Having someone whose job it is to end discussion and assign tasks makes things go much more smoothly and quickly.
Besides, if we actually expected some work from the people who call all those meetings, maybe they'd call fewer damned meetings.
No Broadcast Meetings
I'm going to assume that everybody working for your company is literate. If this is true, please stop having meetings where you read things to them. You're not in kindergarten. This is not story time.
I have been to too many meetings where a PM or CEO or somebody else who should know better shows a slide deck and then proceeds to read all the slides to the audience for an hour.
Here's an idea: send the deck out the day before. Tell people to read it for themselves and come up with questions. At the meeting, spend no more than five minutes summarizing the most important things about the slide deck ("We made more money this month than last month! Yay!"), then take questions from the audience about the rest of the deck.
If you are concerned that people will miss critical information because they are failing to read important emails, that's really something that you need to address separately. I've found that reducing meeting times by a few hours a week gives people far more time to read their email or to do something actually productive.
More Discussions, More Working Sessions, Fewer Meetings
You know what I like more than meetings (besides everything)? I like discussions. Discussions are things that happen between two or three people who are all interested in and informed about a particular topic. They tend to happen in hallways and they often help disseminate important information to the people who need it.
I also like working sessions, in which a few people all work together on something like a design or code. Working sessions generally involve a lot of writing on whiteboards or pair programming or gathering around somebody's screen to try different variations of a particular wireframe. Working sessions are better than even good meetings because by the end of the working session, you're often done with whatever it was you were going to just talk about in the meeting.
And maybe that's the most important point here. Meetings are not conducive to DOING. They are conducive to TALKING. Talking is the enemy of doing. By making a few small changes in the way you conduct your meetings, you can turn them into places where things get done rather than just talked about. And that will make meetings suck a whole lot less. I promise.
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