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Do people honestly trust your company's advertising? According to one infographic by Ambassador, 9 out of 10 young adults ages 18-34 say that they trust that advertising at least sometimes. But only 47% of consumers supposedly believe the advertising. And 57% of all respondents believed that ads are somewhat exaggerated.
Take a moment. Reread those and process those statistics.
Advertising keeps changing. Don Draper's forms of advertising no longer rule the ad world—interactive, digital media is moving in. And thus, it's important for brands to realize which forms of online advertising audiences are most receptive to—which ones they trust, and which ones they see right through.
So, here's a list, ranked some of the most trusted sources to the least based on the aforementioned Ambassador infographic.
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It's the oldest form of advertising and still the most effective way to get your product sold. How can your company benefit? Start collecting testimonials and put a referral program in place to collect your fans' stories so you can share with your prospects.
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It's a sad but true fact that consumers trust reviews and comments of complete strangers more than they trust your advertising. Combat bad reviews through good customer service and quality products. If you're running your business in the right way, you should be able to generate great reviews. Make sure you're monitoring social media for any words that may be said about you.
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After editorial content and branded websites, emails that your customers signed up for (not spam) are the most trusted form of advertising. Start collecting emails now and create a regular email marketing program that delivers valuable content and relevant offers to segmented and targeted lists of your customers and prospects.
The list of trusted advertising strategies continues with traditional advertising such as television, magazine, newspaper and radio ads, in that order. Less trusted advertising sources were sited as social network ads, online banner ads, display ads on mobile devices. The least trusted? Text ads on mobile devices.
It's important to note that the trust survey, conducted by Nielsen, focused on digital media and did not include direct mail advertising as an option for those polled. In a study conducted by Epsilon in late 2012, direct mail edged email in most industries for being a trusted advertising source.
So as business owners, how do we make sense of these consumer trends? It's important to understand that consumer advertising preferences are changing and that a multi-channel approach is typically best for most businesses. It may take a few trial-and-error campaigns to see what works best for you, but in today's market most companies don't have the luxury to not advertise at all.
In the end providing great products and services through amazing customer service and you'll at least fuel the sales engine with age-old word of mouth.


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The Document Foundation (TDF), which launched in 2010 to develop LibreOffice, has published statistics that illustrate the project's rapid growth. Approximately 400 total developers have contributed code to the project. The number of contributors who are active each month generally ranges from 50 to over 100.
LibreOffice is a community-driven fork of the OpenOffice.org (OOo) office suite. The project started after Oracle's acquisition of Sun with the aim of offering a better governance model and a more inclusive environment than OOo. LibreOffice quickly attracted the support of the major Linux distributors and a large number of independent developers.
The statistics released today show that the LibreOffice community is healthy and diverse. Red Hat and SUSE each account for a large chunk of development, but the volunteers collectively have a higher volume of commits than any of the corporate contributors. The total number of monthly commits tends to range from 1500-3000.
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Step 1: Find a nice digital photo of your subject with an even amount of light and shadow on the face. This can be kinda tricky. If there's too much light or shadow on the face, you won't have enough definition to make this work. So you may have to try this with several photos to see what works best. Finding the right photo is key!
Step 2: Open the photo in PicMonkey, a free online photo editor. You can use another editor if you like, but I'll explain the next steps in terms of the picmonkey editor.
Step 3: In PicMonkey, select the Effects option on the left sidebar. It's the second symbol down from the top. In Effects, select the Posterize option towards the bottom of the sidebar ( I've circled that one below also).
Step 4: In Posterize, slide the number of colors bar down to 2. It's important to have only two colors here. This project won't work with any more colors or any less. Keep the detail at 80% and the fade at 0%. Then hit apply.
Your photo should look like this now. Only one light shade and one dark shade.
Step 5: Decide on the size of painting you want to make and print out the digital photo in black and white in the size that you desire. I printed mine to fill a whole 8 1/2 x 11 piece of copy paper and it worked well to make an 8 x 10 painting.
Step 6: Once you have your printed photo, flip it over and color over the entire backside with a regular pencil.
You may be wondering why you are doing this, but trust me.... there is a reason. The pencil graphite will help you transfer your image onto the watercolor paper. So fill it in the best you can!
Step 9: Once you have the whole image traced, take the printed copy off to see the image transferred onto the watercolor paper.
Step 10: Now it's time to add some watercolor! Select a color and carefully start painting inside the lines you traced. Keep your printed copy handy to make sure you are painting in the right spots.
Step 11: Fill in the entire portrait and let the paint dry and finally... You Are Done!


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Google, which often touts the "openness" of its Android mobile operating system as one of its primary benefits, is blocking access to its new Android movie rental service to rooted Android devices. Google blames "requirements related to copyright protection" for the move, and this isn't the first time DRM has caused problems for consumers. But it serves as yet another example that Android's openness only extends as far as it benefits Google.
As many Ars readers know, users often "root" Android-based smartphones and tablets to extend their functionality. In Linux-based systems like Android, there is typically a "root" super-user account that has heightened administrative privileges and unfettered access to the operating system. By enabling the root account, users can introduce software components that have been extracted from other Android devices, modify the user interface, and more. It also allows them to install Android updates that device makers haven't gotten around to making available in a timely manner.
In most cases, rooting still allows users access to Google's services, including the Android Market. However, Google is restricting access to its YouTube-powered movie rental service to non-rooted devices. Users with rooted devices attempting to watch Android rentals will get an "Error 49" message, noting that their device was unable to "fetch license for movie."
Google's support documents state that DRM is to blame. "You'll receive this 'Error 49' message if you attempt to play a movie on a rooted device," according to Google's related support article. "Rooted devices are currently unsupported due to requirements related to copyright protection."
The restriction is seen as yet another slap in the face to users who have bought in to Google's claims that the Android platform is superior other mobile platforms because of its "openness."
"Nice move, Google," wrote AndroidCentral's Jerry Hildenbrand. "That makes me want to buy more of your products and use more of your services, so I can be treated like a criminal just because I'm smart enough to get rid of CityID, or want a safe version of Android on my phone."
It's almost certain that content providers required Google to lock down movie rentals to un-rooted devices—Apple, Netflix, Amazon, and others face similar burdens. But locking out all rooted devices seems an odd move, considering that Android was originally touted as a platform that gives users control, as opposed to platforms like iOS that allow few user modifications.
Given the recent decision to hold back the source code for Honeycomb, and the revelation that Google uses its Android licensing terms as "a club" to make device makers "do what we want," this latest move serves to illustrate that Android may not be as open as Google would like its users to believe.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- One after another, angry Democrats took to the House floor to say Republicans would increase hunger in America by stripping food stamps from the farm bill.
In reality, though, the bill passed by the House on Thursday didn't deal with food stamps at all. And the lack of congressional action on food stamps could keep the $80 billion-a-year program untouched by any cuts.
That didn't stop several Democrats from stating that the legislation "takes food nutrition from working families." House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told Republicans just before the bill passed on a narrow 216-208 vote: "You are taking food out of the mouths of your own poor constituents."
Money for food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has for decades been linked to farm programs in what is known as the farm bill. That union has brought urban Democratic support for the rural farm programs, which are renewed about every five years.
But the longtime pairing ended abruptly amid battles over cuts in the food stamp program, which derailed the farm bill last month.
Some Republicans have said there is rampant fraud in the program and benefits are going to some people who aren't eligible. In the 2012 presidential campaign, then-candidate Newt Gingrich once said that people could use food stamps for anything, including trips to Hawaii. In fact, food stamps can only be used for food purchases at retail outlets. And Agriculture Department officials have cracked down on fraud in recent years.
The program has still doubled in cost since 2008, to almost $80 billion a year. Although some benefits have gone up, the main growth comes from a big jump in the number of participants, a result of the economic recession. All told, almost 47 million people used SNAP last year, or one in seven Americans. That number has not gone down this year.
Republicans said a separate food stamp bill would come at a later date. Until that happens, food stamps will continue as they are. They are paid for by annual spending bills and the Democratic Senate and President Barack Obama have strongly objected to making major cuts.
Still, the concerns that Democrats expressed Thursday could come to fruition.
House Republicans have made many different proposals that would radically overhaul food stamps - cracking down on eligibility, increasing work requirements or adding an expiration date to the program. And after quickly moving the farm-only bill to the floor and rallying most of his caucus to vote for it, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said Republicans would "act with dispatch" to get a separate food stamp bill to the floor.
But it won't be easy. Republicans themselves are divided on the issue. There is no consensus on how much the program should be cut or changed, and more moderate Republicans would likely balk at the bigger changes sought by conservatives.
Adding to the difficulty is how those issues would be resolved in conference negotiations with the Senate, which passed its own version of a farm bill in June. That bill includes food stamps and would only cut them by a half percent. Senate Democrats have said repeatedly that they will reject major changes or higher cuts to the program.
All of that disagreement strongly strengthens the possibility that current food and farm law will simply be extended when it expires in September - keeping food stamps at the same levels they are now.
The greater concern for food stamp advocates is the long-term damage that splitting the farm bill in two, and making food stamps a partisan issue, could have. If SNAP is not protected in the farm bill, or if future farm bills don't pass, Republicans could eventually find other ways to cut SNAP - including in the annual appropriations bills that actually fund the food stamps.
"There's a long history of bipartisanship on this," Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass., said on the floor, referring to food stamps in the farm bill. "All of a sudden this has become a partisan issue, and the target, so that you can try to balance the budget, has been placed right on the programs like SNAP."
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Can you rewire your brain in two weeks? The answer appears to be — at least partially — yes.
The following is a guest post by Shane Snow, frequent contributor to Wired and Fast Company and author of the new book SMARTCUTS: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success. Last year, he wrote about his two-week Soylent experiment, which went viral and racked up 500+ comments. He knows how to stir up controversy.
In this post, Shane tests the "brain-sensing headband" called Muse.
It's received a lot of PR love, but does it stand up to the hype? Can it make you a calmer, more effective person in two weeks? This post tackles these questions and much more.
As many of your know, I'm a long-time experimenter with "smart drugs," which I think are both more valuable and more dangerous that most people realize. This includes homemade brain stim (tDCS) devices (I wouldn't recommend without supervision) and other cutting-edge tools. If you'd like to read more on these topics, please let me know in the comments.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy Shane's experimentation!…
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The electrodes needed to be adjusted to fit my sweaty head, which was apparently the largest size the product could accommodate.
I was sitting on a porch in palpable D.C. humidity, on a midsummer's morning at Bolling Air Force Base, trying to get a quartet of EEG sensors to connect my brain to my Samsung Galaxy. The purple box on my screen kept blinking in and out of sync.
Inside the house, my friend's two-year-old was jumping violently on the sofa—the same sofa that the shedding 15-pound cat named Endai and I had shared for the past week. The house was in shambles; movers were busily trucking everything away to my friend's soon-to-be new home in New Mexico. Hence the porch.
I had been sleeping on said couch due to the abrupt ending of an 8-year relationship, which had left me stunned and homeless for the preceding three weeks. As luck would have it, the anti-anxiety pills my shrink had prescribed for me to take "as needed" were back in New York in my friend Simon's living room. Crap. My calendar had just alerted me that I'd missed the Skype call start time for my company board meeting, right before the movers unplugged the Internet. Meanwhile, a platoon of military helicopters had decided to play what appeared to be a game of "who can hover the longest over the neighborhood". Chuk, chuk, chuk, chuk, chuk. CHUCK. CHUCK.
My stress levels were high.
Seemed like as good a time as any to try out my new gadget: a brainwave-sensing headband called the Muse, and its companion app, Calm.
I placed the band's centimeter-wide contact strip of electrodes against my forehead and rested the plastic against the top of my ears, fiddling with the fit until my phone finally registered a solid connection for each of the sensors, two on my temples, two behind my ears. I donned my white Audio-Technica DJ headphones and fired up the app, which in a soothing voice instructed me to sit up straight, and breeeeeeeathe.
Calm is a simple meditation exercise: Count your breaths. Don't try to force them. Your body knows how to breathe. Simply pay attention, the female voice in my headphones told me. After Muse calibrated to my brain's "active" state—by making me brainstorm items in a series of topics—I was given five minutes of nature sounds to breathe to. When calm and focused, I enjoyed the sound of lapping waves and birds tweeting; when my mind wandered, sturdy winds picked up and the birds flew away.
At the end of five minutes, the app confirmed: I am not very calm.
Thus began my two week experiment in brain therapy. I'd been planning on acquiring a Muse after having caught wind of its development nearly two years before, but who knew it would finally be released during the most anxious time of my adult life? Two weeks was plenty of time, Muse inventor Ariel Garten told me, for the Muse focus training exercises "to reduce perception of pain, improve memory, improve affect, reduce anxiety, and also improve emotional intelligence."
Seemed a little good to be true, but I was willing to test it.
Electroencephalography (EEG—the recording of electrical activity emitted from the brain) has come a long way in the last 100 years, since doctors drilled holes in monkeys heads to attach sensors, and eventually glued contacts with cathode ray tubes to intact human skulls to map brain activity. They discovered that the brain emits oscillating signals of variable frequency, and the frequency of the oscillations indicates what's happening—at a high level—in one's mind. These "waves" are generally delineated into categories based on frequency ranges:
- Delta waves: indicate deep sleep. (1-3 Hz)
- Theta waves: indicate deep relaxation or meditation. (4-8 Hz)
- Alpha waves: indicate a relaxed brain state, what Garten calls "an open state of mind." (9-13 Hz)
- Beta waves: indicate alert consciousness and fire up when you're actively thinking. (14-30 Hz)
- Gamma waves: indicate high alertness and are often associated with learning. (30-100 Hz)
The original purpose of EEG was the study of epilepsy. Over the decades, however, as computers improved, neuroscientists' increasing capability to process the enormous amount of data the brain throws off allowed them to experiment with EEG for other uses, such as attention therapy.
In his 2007 book, The Brain That Changes Itself, neuroscientist Norman Doidge made mainstream the then recent (and surprising) finding that "the brain can change its own structure and function through thought and activity." Our intelligence and tendencies are not locked in once we're no longer children, as popular belief once held. Once our brain was wired, it could still be rewired. Doidge called it, "the most important alteration in our view of the brain since we first sketched out its basic anatomy and the workings of its basic component, the neuron."
This adaptability factor of the brain is called "neuroplasticity." You may have seen dubious advertisements for "brain-enhancing games" and other gimmicks that drop the term neuroplasticity in impressive-sounding (but often meaningless) marketing speak. Despite this misuse, the plasticity of our neurons is, in fact, fact. Our brains use it to wire themselves naturally, but in the past several years scientists have developed a simple procedure to "hack" them.
Neurofeedback training, or NFT as the scientists call it, is a conditioning method wherein a patient is hooked up to an EEG and shown how active her brain is, thus allowing her to concentrate on exercises that exploit neuroplasticity to build mental muscles that allow her to consciously affect her resting brain activity. Clinical studies have shown that NFT helps the majority of patients to improve their cognitive control and have also helped ADHD sufferers significantly improve their ability to focus. NFT has even been shown to have a positive effect on depression.
The two prerequisites to being able to pull off NFT are EEG sensors and a computer processor that can turn an EEG scan into real-time feedback. The electricity coming off the brain is orders of magnitude weaker than a standard AA battery, which means sensors must be powerful, delicate, and well-attached to pick anything up. Doctors have found that the skull reduces the signal significantly and thus would prefer if we didn't have skulls (for examination purposes, that is), but have mostly settled on using wet sensors—electrodes affixed to the scalp or forehead using conductive gel.
The breakthrough that enabled a more practical, portable EEG device like the Muse claims to be, was the advent of dry sensors, or metal contacts that can use the skin's own moisture or sweat to attain the necessary conductivity.
"Brain waves are very, very, very quiet. They've had to make their way all the way through your thick, thick skull," Garten says. But sensor technology is improving at a rate that indicates we're two to three years away from non-contact sensors, she predicts.
And in 2014, processing power is no longer a problem. "Ten years ago we were using fiber optic cable to make sure that you got this extraordinary data into what was like an egg carton and an ancient Commodore computer so that they could do all the processing," Garten says. "Now, we can just use a phone and Bluetooth."
When I'd first laid hands on the Muse a year and a half before, it was a chunky slab of plastic and metal. Garten and I met up at a design gallery in Manhattan for a demo of the prototype headband she'd been working on for the better part of the last decade. A Canadian fashion designer turned neuroscientist, she spoke earnestly about the potential applications for measuring one's brainstate to ameliorate stress and perhaps one day cure ADHD and anxiety.
Garten's prototype Muse measured the activity of these waves and output them to an iPad like a seismograph. After I donned the plastic headband, I watched in real time as slowing my breathing or concentrating on something or simply talking affected the different wave forms.
"The long term vision is this tool is going to be a regular part of our daily lives," Garten told me. "You know, like pedometers that help people manage and understand their physical exercise. Brain health is going to be something that is on everybody's mind. Up until now, there has been no way to, basically, like put a stethoscope up to your brain and say, 'How is it doing?'"
Ten years ago, a NFT system with Muse-like capabilities (often found in a chiropractor's office) would cost 5 figures and a closet-worth of space. Now the processing power lives on a standard smartphone, and Muse sensors cost $299.
Eventually, Garten predicted, doctors would actively use it to treat the mentally ill. Programmers would build brainwave-control apps for gaming and smart homes and surfing the Internet on top of Muse's technology.
But for now it just gives you tweety birds.
My porch session resulted in precisely zero of them:
This session, for which I got a score of "31% calm," would be the first of many mental workouts in my DYI NFT experiment. Would regular usage of the Muse headband actually change my brain and help fix my anxious life? Or would it turn out to be another wearable that's more hype than help?
The hypothesis (aka sales pitch) was that by using Muse, I'd improve my ability to focus and maintain my cool during my stressful day-to-day.
So for fifteen days, I performed a five-minute Muse Calm session each morning within an hour of waking up and shaking off sleep. I'd sit in a similar setting (straight-back chair in a room alone), in similar clothing (comfortable, shorts and t-shirt, no shoes), with no distractions (accomplished via Bose noise-canceling earbuds) every time.
Additionally, I performed a series of sessions in various random non-comfortable settings, to test whether different mental exercises produced different results, or whether I could remain calm while being assaulted by various outside forces—which is the real goal of NFT, rather than simply getting better at a "game" in quiet isolation.
Though the app would tell me if my brain was getting better at calming itself during the exercise, the less easy-to-quantify result would be to see whether my level of general anxiety would decrease as I got better at the Calm app. (I.e. am I forming these alleged neural pathways?) Garten and Calm each told me that once I completed enough sessions (5,000 points' worth), the app would unlock insights about how my brain was doing, which could shed some light on my meta-state. But I also tracked my overall emotional and mental state by keeping regular journal entries throughout the two weeks.
For a control—and as a basic BS test—I performed a session while reading a book instead of doing the breathing exercise. I read three pages of Murakami's new one, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, and my brain was all sorts of active. Mr. Murakami, your work is stimulating. Science hath proven it:
Most of my morning sessions took place between 8 and 11 a.m. I keep a somewhat irregular sleep schedule (a source of anxiety, or symptom?), but aim for 7 hours a night. The important part for this experiment was to make sure that I did my Muse session within an hour of waking, but after I had stopped being groggy. In other words: before my morning exercise, after my morning pee.
I kept the morning schedule up with a few exceptions: on August 18, the Muse Calm app caused the headband to think my brainwaves had completely flatlined. I contacted the Muse team, and they confirmed that this was indeed a bug that they were working on fixing that day. On August 20, 22, 24, and 26 I skipped my morning session due to extenuating circumstances. (The 24th, for example, was my birthday, and I stayed out until 8 a.m.. My first session that day was at 4 p.m. and resulted in a hangover-level 31%.) But throughout my 15-day experiment, I never went a day without doing one or more sessions, and I never went two days without doing a standardized morning session.
In all, I completed 24 sessions. Here's how my morning sessions went over the course of the two weeks:
You'll notice that I did pretty poorly for the first several sessions, then experienced a jump in improvement on August 17. What this chart doesn't show is that though it was that August 17 was actually the seventh session I'd done in total. So I was getting better, but I'm not entirely sure why such a dramatic jump. You'll also notice a slight dip on the 25th and 27th. On these days, I was having a couple of particularly anxious mornings (due to personal issues); however, on these days I still maintained double the calm as my first few sessions—which were less emotionally fraught than these days.
My final morning session of the experiment, on August 28, was a serene 89%—my best yet, and just one spike of brain activity away from monk-like zen:
More importantly, I attracted a fucking flock of tweety birds:
Here's how I performed on my random sessions in less-controlled environments:
Clearly, it was harder for me to focus and remain calm when I was tired or emotionally compromised.
Trains made it easier to focus (likely due to the lack of noise and abundance of leg room). Airplanes tend to give me claustrophobia, but it's also likely that the vibrations of the plane itself caused my muscles to move (generating louder electrical signals than your brain emits) and made my results so poor during the flight. There certainly was a lot of shaking going on during my flight.
Interestingly, listening to calming music (I tend to put Blackmill's "Miracle" album on repeat when I want to relax or single-task) outperformed no sound (simply trying to calm myself without an aid). On August 27, my regular session with the app's wind and waves, resulted in 12% less calm than my music experiment immediately after.
As far as the meta, "how am I doing" portion of the experiment went, I eagerly awaited when I could unlock the "Insights About You" page of the app, after racking up enough "calm points". Disappointingly, though Garten and Muse Calm both promised me these "additional features and special insights into my brain", once I unlocked the screen, I got simply a blank, broken page:
When asked, the Muse publicist confirmed that the feature "actually hasn't been developed yet" and relayed the (in my opinion) unlikely explanation that "there was a miscommunication between the product and dev teams."
My journal entries indicated a general decrease in agitation and worry by the end of the experiment. My ability to focus on tasks (primarily writing) seemed to improve. I have a tendency to get distracted when I'm writing, and in the same way that the waves-and-wind exercise in the app teaches you to power through distractions and focus on your breath, I felt that I already was improving my ability to notice a distraction but keep it in the background instead of indulging it.
Furthermore, as I walked down busy streets or lay in bed—times when I normally would ruminate—I found myself subconsciously slowing breaths and counting them as a means of shoving out bad thoughts and calming down.
"Many smart people who use their brains a lot are 'high beta,'" explained my therapist (whose name I'll omit to maintain a shred of personal privacy) when I asked her about this. An award-winning Manhattan psychologist and author, she has used NFT herself. A few years ago, she used a professional-grade version of Muse to teach her own active brain to be silent. "I couldn't go to sleep without the TV on," she said. "The minute it was quiet, my brain would explode with activity."
With measurement and some mental situps, she calmed her own rumination—as apparently thousands of people have done at clinics that use EEG therapy. That "neuroplasticity" thing that people throw around, it turns out, is real. And it works as fast as one can form a bad habit.
"The brain can be retrained," she said. "People think it can't, but it can."
One of the main limitations of the Muse Calm app—or at least questions that I had from the beginning—was the validity of the wind-and-waves feedback sound system itself, as well as the "count your breaths" mediation exercise. My assistant, Erin, who's a yoga instructor and meditation expert by night, was skeptical that the Muse Calm exercise was the most effective method the app could have chosen. Why would you have the distracting sounds get worse when you were most compromised? she said. Doesn't that create a self-defeating cycle?
Garten responded: "We did a bunch of experimentation on positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement and we ultimately built an application with a mix of both. The negative reinforcements of the wind can definitely be distracting, but what you learn over time is also this lesson in not being judgmental when things don't work."
A 2010 study by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown found positive links between "mindfulness training"—the popular meditation practice of calmly noticing, but not changing what's happening to you—has a positive effect on working memory. The Muse Calm's "notice and count your breaths" exercise is a form of mindfulness training, and appears to hold up under scientific scrutiny, but the wind-and-waves feedback loop (NFT) throws a bit of a wrench into true "mindfulness", since the act of being mindful ends up affecting your environment, whereas the point of mindfulness meditation is to notice but not affect.
Could a "pure" mindfulness exercise without the instant and self-reinforcing feedback outperform Calm's NFT/mindfulness hybrid? Beats me, but it's a question I'd want to test in future experiments.
Other limitations or potential variables that could affect the science behind my two-week experiment include the following:
- Factors such as the exact time I awoke and what kind of bed I slept in changed slightly from day to day, as I was traveling and couch-hopping. While the course of my experiment showed an upward trend in calm, I wasn't able to duplicate the time and setting of each of my morning sessions precisely, which could affect the results to some degree.
- Since I was dealing with the fresh personal trauma, perhaps I was naturally recovering psychologically during the two weeks of my experiment (i.e. regression to the mean). My therapist insists that the relationship wound was too fresh and two weeks is not enough time to work through anything, but it still could be a factor.
- This experiment was only two weeks, which I was told would be a sufficient minimum for results. More time could certainly help verify the trends I observed in my short experiment. (And I plan to keep using Muse over the next few months to track just that.)
- And of course, my observations about how I was feeling were, by nature, subjective. (However, if my psychological improvement is all in my head, that's okay by me—it was in my head to begin with! And actually, I've interviewed one scientist who's studying how placebos actually form neural pathways that can physically cure psychological issues. Very interesting stuff happening in this field.)
The electrodes had no problem beaming the signal from my sweaty head to my Android this time.
I was sitting on a set of red bleachers in disgusting New York humidity in the middle of Times Square, Manhattan. The familiar female voice in my headphones instructed me to close my eyes, as she had two dozen times before.
Around me, a trillion stressed-out tourists were busily taking selfies and worrying about pick pockets. A troupe of Chinese activists had just accosted me with pamphlets and signs concerning some "Jesuit Father discrimination" something-or-other, meanwhile a quartet of feather-headressed ladies performed a synchronized dance on the steps below me. A bumblefoot pigeon had taken up residence on my step and didn't seem to want to leave me alone. My entire body was sweating.
I'd just walked through my old neighborhood, a surprisingly painful reminiscence. Unexpectedly, one of my ex's favorite songs had begun playing on shuffle as I made my way through the crowd, further dampening my mood. In the back of my head were the several overdue stories for editors of various publications in line with my book launch, and the approximately 200 priority emails stacked up in my inbox. I was lugging my entire life in an overstuffed backpack and had just spilled protein drink all over my shorts—which I just now realized were my only available leggings, because I'd left the remaining two pairs of jeans I owned back in my friend Simon's freezer (here's why). I was pensive and hot and frustrated and dripping.
Once again, I donned my brainwave headband, which once again told me to breeaaathe.
About halfway through my five-minute session—the twenty-fifth I'd undertaken since meeting Muse—some nearby tourists began singing "Happy Birthday" so loudly that I could hear them through my noise-canceling headphones. A fire engine blared its siren in place for a full minute, stuck one block away in Times Square traffic. My butt burned on the red steps, in the August heat. My posture was killing me.
At the end of five minutes, Muse confirmed: I was pretty damn calm.
The two spikes in active brain activity in this chart were the fire truck and the birthday party, each of which I recovered from almost instantly. Aside from that, my brain state was either neutral or calm the entire time:
Plus I attracted 15 tweety birds:
Despite the chaos in my life, there was no doubt that this little device had made me a calmer person in just two weeks. I could play through the mental and physical pain with twice the composure as just fifteen days before.
Muse has a way to go before the guy with the electric headband on in Times Square doesn't just look like an idiot. And the Calm app could definitely use work. (Different meditation exercises, please?) However, the science behind what the Muse team is doing is real, the technology promising, and a bevy of independent programmers are already building fascinating applications on top of Muse.
With the development of cheap and portable EEG monitors like Muse, are we a few lines of code away from controlling light switches and video games with our brains? It'll take a while.
But I, at least, am a step closer to mind over matter.
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How to Live on a Student Budget
Many people will give you advice on budget living and how to scrimp a few pennies, but few people cannot appreciate the cost of living until they try it for the first time. How you treat your money now will be an indicator of your future monetary success. You will have to decide if your future will be filled with riches or debt. Here is your guide for how to live on a student budget.
The 99¢ store is not your best option
People really think that the 99c store is the bee's knees for being on a budget, but $20 will go much further in Wal-Mart than it ever will in the 99c. The items in the 99c store are not worth the money. If you really have to shop there for anything then you should buy non-food. Plastic tubs, mops and household items may be cheap Chinese goods, but they are still cheaper than supermarkets who will often inflate the prices to make up for the fact that the items take up so much floor space. Otherwise, there is no point in buying six tins of off-brand beans from the 99c store when you can get eight tins for $1 at Wal-Mart.
Wear the same trousers three days running
This may sound disgusting but your legs are one of the biggest areas of your body that are good at keeping themselves clean. Your feet sweat nearly two pints of sweat per day, your armpits and upper back produce a high number of excretions, but your lower half is fairly excretion free except for the parts that are covered by underwear. So wearing your trousers for an extended period will not cause a pollution hazard.
Force yourself to live on a certain amount
Put your money into a different bank account and leave the bankcard at your parent's house. Budget yourself a certain amount per week and put the rest of your money in an account that is difficult and inconvenient to access. Visit your parents each week to remove the money you need (and no more).
Eat a packed lunch every day
This will not only act as a meal, but allow you to snack on it too. You can make a very handsome sized packed lunch and enjoy it whenever hunger strikes. Aggregate the cost over the week and you will see that you save a lot of money.
Make sure you eat breakfast every morning
It stops you snacking and promotes a healthy routine that will stop you becoming extremely hungry during the day. Extreme hunger pangs are the things that make you buy takeaway food or over-priced convenience food and snacks.
Leave the dorm with as much money as you need
Do not take your bankcard; just take as much money as you need so that you will not be tempted to purchase anything extra. Even if you really want something, you will be forced to leave it (and not waste the money).
Budget the amount of ready meals you eat
Ready meals are fun and convenient, but are an expense that you could do without. Even the frozen 99c ready meals are so small and lacking in nutrients that you are hungry again within 2.5 hours. It is better to budget them and eat them as a treat (i.e. the treat of not having to cook).
Learn the art of cooking leftovers
You will find a few button mushrooms left over, and a few slithers of bacon and a tomato, etc. These are all parts of the meals you made in the week, but why not try mixing them up so that you can eat them. Boil a packet of the dried noodles you bought for 12c and stir-fry the mushrooms, bacon and tomatoes. Throw in some soy sauce, Worchester sauce or Hoi Sin sauce, and sprinkle with salt. Keep the juices to pour over your noodles and you have a quick Chinese meal from your leftovers.
Be prepared to try cheaper foodstuffs
Don't go buying cheap caged chicken that has no nutrients, but do consider things such as tinned potatoes, tinned beans, dried noodles and packets of rice. Consider eating spaghetti hoops on toast for dinner, and save a decent meal for teatime.


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In addition to eating a high-quality diet, physical activity is a key part of the equation to staying healthy.
- Getting regular physical activity is one of the best things you can do for your health. It lowers the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and certain cancers, and it can also help control stress, improve sleep, boost mood, keep weight in check, and reduce the risk of falling and improve cognitive function in older adults.
- It doesn't take marathon training to see real health gains. A 30-minute brisk walk on five days of the week is all most people need. Getting any amount of exercise is better than none.
- Being a "couch potato" may be harmful even for people who get regular exercise. [1-3]
Regular physical activity helps the body function better – it keeps heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other diseases at bay, and is a key component for weight control.
- The precise amount of exercise needed to achieve or maintain a healthy weight varies based on a person's diet and genes. The American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association support the idea that "more activity increases the probability of success." [4]
- How much exercise do you need? Physical activity guidelines–including strength training and flexibility training–explain how much you should be moving. Keep exercise safety in mind, too.
Summary: Physical Activity Guidelines 2018
Physical activity can also help people maintain weight loss. [5]
- Among the nearly 3,700 men and women who are part of the National Weight Control Registry, a group that includes only people who lost more than 30 pounds and kept them off for at least a year, the average participant burns an average of about 400 calories per day in physical activity. That's the equivalent of about 60 to 75 minutes of brisk walking each day, or 35 to 40 minutes of daily jogging. [6] But there's quite a bit of variation from participant to participant—some require more physical activity to keep the weight off, some require less.
The Cost of Inactivity
Exercise and physical activity benefit the body, while a sedentary lifestyle does the opposite – increasing the chances of becoming overweight and developing a number of chronic diseases.
- Only about 30 percent of adult Americans report they get regular physical activity during their leisure time—and about 40 percent of Americans say they get no leisure-time physical activity at all. [7]
- The Nurses' Health Study found a strong link between television watching and obesity. [2] Researchers followed more than 50,000 middle-aged women for six years, surveying their diet and activity habits. Findings showed that for every two hours the women spent watching television each day, they had a 23 percent higher risk of becoming obese and 14 percent higher risk of developing diabetes. It didn't matter if the women were avid exercisers: The more television they watched, the more likely they were to gain weight or develop diabetes, regardless of how much leisure-time activity and walking they did. Long hours of sitting at work also increased the risk of obesity and diabetes.
- Researchers at Tokyo Medical University found an association between spending less time watching television and a lower risk of overweight and obesity in older adults, regardless of whether participants met physical activity guidelines. The study followed 1,806 participants between the ages of 65 and 74. Participants were put into one of four categories based on television viewing time. The less time spent watching television, the lower the participants' risk of becoming overweight or obese. [8]
- Another study analyzed the global effect of inactivity on the increase of diseases. The researchers estimated that physical inactivity accounts for 6% of the burden of heart disease, 7% of type 2 diabetes, 10% of breast cancer, and 10% of colon cancer. Inactivity also causes 9% of premature mortality. These staggering statistics put the true dangers associated with inactivity into a global perspective. [3]
Sit Time
More recently, studies have found that people who spend more time each day watching television, sitting, or riding in cars have a greater chance of dying early than people who are more active. [3, 9, 10] Researchers speculate that sitting for many hours may change peoples' metabolism in ways that promote obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. [1-3, 9, 11, 12] It is also possible that sitting is a marker for a broader sedentary lifestyle. Furthermore, staying active does not mitigate the harmful effects of sit time. As you plan your daily activity routine, remember that cutting down on "sit time" may be just as important as increasing "fit time."
- Owen, N., et al., Too much sitting: the population health science of sedentary behavior. Exerc Sport Sci Rev, 2010. 38(3): p. 105-13.
- Hu, F.B., et al., Television watching and other sedentary behaviors in relation to risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in women. JAMA, 2003. 289(14): p. 1785-91.
- Dunstan, D.W., et al., Television viewing time and mortality: the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab). Circulation, 2010. 121(3): p. 384-91.
- Haskell, W.L., et al., Physical activity and public health: updated recommendation for adults from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association. Med Sci Sports Exerc, 2007. 39(8): p. 1423-34.
- Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, U.S.D.o.H.a.H. Services, Editor. 2008
- Catenacci, V.A., et al., Physical activity patterns in the National Weight Control Registry. Obesity (Silver Spring), 2008. 16(1): p. 153-61.
- Statistics, N.C.f.H., Health, United States, 2009: With Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans. 2009: Hyattsville, MD.
- Inoue, S., et al., Television viewing time is associated with overweight/obesity among older adults, independent of meeting physical activity and health guidelines. J Epidemiol, 2012. 22(1): p. 50-6.
- Patel, A.V., et al., Leisure time spent sitting in relation to total mortality in a prospective cohort of US adults. Am J Epidemiol, 2010. 172(4): p. 419-29.
- van der Ploeg, H.P., Chey, T., Ding, D., Chau, J.Y., Stamatakis, E., Bauman, A.E. Standing time and all-cause mortality in a large cohort of Australian adults. Prev Med, 2014. 69C:187-191. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.10.004.
- Schmid, D., Leitzmann, M.F. Television viewing and time spent sedentary in relation to cancer risk: a meta-analysis. J Natl Cancer Inst, 2014. 106(7). pii: dju098. doi: 10.1093/jnci/dju098.
- Chomistek, A.K., Manson, J.E., Stefanick, M.L., Lu, B., Sands-Lincoln, M., Going, S.B., Garcia, L., Allison, M.A., Sims, S.T., LaMonte, M.J., Johnson, K.C., Eaton, C.B. Relationship of sedentary behavior and physical activity to incident cardiovascular disease: results from the Women's Health Initiative. Am Coll Cardiol, 2013. 61(23):2346-54. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.03.031
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Some drought-stricken rivers and streams in Northern California's coastal forests are being polluted and sucked dry by water-guzzling medical marijuana farms, wildlife officials say -- an issue that has spurred at least one county to try to outlaw personal grows.
State fish and wildlife officials say much of the marijuana being grown in northern counties under the state's medical pot law is not being used for legal, personal use, but for sale both in California and states where pot is still illegal.
This demand is fueling backyard and larger-scale pot farming, especially in remote Lake, Humboldt and Mendocino counties on the densely forested North Coast, officials said.
"People are coming in, denuding the hillsides, damming the creeks and mixing in fertilizers that are not allowed in the U.S. into our watersheds," said Denise Rushing, a Lake County supervisor who supports an ordinance essentially banning outdoor grows in populated areas.
"When rains come, it flows downstream into the lake and our water supply," she said.
Many affected waterways also contain endangered salmon, steelhead and other creatures protected by state and federal law.
Wildlife biologists noticed streams running dry more often over the 18 years since the state passed Proposition 215, but weren't sure why.
"We knew people were diverting water for marijuana operations, but we wanted to know exactly how much," said Scott Bauer, the department biologist who studied the pot farms' effects on four watersheds. "We didn't know they could consume all the water in a stream."
So Bauer turned to Google mapping technology and satellite data to find out where the many gardens are, and how many plants each contained.
His study estimates that about 30,000 pot plants were being grown in each river system -- and he estimates that each plant uses about six gallons per day over marijuana's 150-day growing season. Some growers and others argue the six-gallon estimate is high, and that pot plants can use far less water, depending on size.
He compared that information with government data on stream flows, and visited 32 sites with other biologists to verify the mapping data. He said most grow sites had posted notices identifying them as medical pot farms.
Pot farm pollution has become such a problem in Lake County, south of Bauer's study area, that officials voted unanimously last year to ban outdoor grows.
"Counties are the ultimate arbiter of land use conflict, so while you have a right to grow marijuana for medicinal use, you don't have a right to impinge on someone else's happiness and wellbeing," Rushing said.
Saying they were being demonized, pot users challenged the law, and gathered enough signatures to place a referendum on the June 3 ballot. They argue that grow restrictions like the ones being voted on in Lake County lump the responsible users in with criminals.
"We definitely feel environmental issues are a concern. But more restrictive ... ordinances will force people to start growing in unregulated and illegal places on public land," said Daniel McClean, a registered nurse and medical marijuana user who opposes the outdoor-grow ban.
While some counties are trying to help regulate the environmental effects of pot farms, Bauer hopes his study will lead to better collaboration with growers to help police illegal use of water and pesticides.
Previous collaborative attempts between government and growers have not ended well, said Anthony Silvaggio, a Humboldt State University sociology professor who studies the pot economy.
"The county or state gets in there and starts doing code enforcement on other things," Silvaggio said. "They've done this in the past"
He said pot farmers believe they are being unfairly blamed for killing endangered salmon while decades of timber cutting and overfishing are the real culprits.
However, the environmental damage has led to a split in the marijuana growing community.
One business, the Tea House Collective in Humboldt County, offers medicinal pot to people with prescriptions that it says is farmed by "small scale, environmentally conscious producers."
"Patients who cannot grow their own medicine can rely on our farmers to provide them with the best holistic medicine that is naturally grown, sustainable and forever Humboldt," the group's website advertises.
Despite efforts of some pot farmers to clean things up, the increased water use by farms is a "full-scale environmental disaster," said Fish and Wildlife Lt. John Nores, who leads the agency's Marijuana Enforcement Team.
"Whether it's grown quasi legally under the state's medical marijuana laws, or it's a complete cartel outdoor drug trafficking grow site, there is extreme environmental damage being done at all levels," Nores said.
Officials say until the federal government recognizes California's medical marijuana laws, growers will continue to operate clandestinely to meet market demand for their product due to fear of prosecution. Meantime, enforcing federal and state environmental regulations will be harder.
"If cherry tomatoes were worth $3,000 a pound, and consumption was prohibited in most states, people would be doing the same thing," Nores said.
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Seattle issues 364 gay marriage licenses by 10 am on first day of legality
Because the state has a three-day waiting period, the earliest that weddings can take place is Sunday.
Two by two, dozens of same-sex couples obtained their marriage licenses in Washington state early Thursday, just hours after Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a voter-approved law legalizinggay marriage.
King County, the state's biggest county, opened the doors to its auditor's office in Seattle just after midnight PST to start distributing marriage licenses. But hundreds of people had lined up hours earlier, snaking around the downtown Seattle building on a chilly December night. By 10 a.m., 364 licenses had been issued and the line was gone.
"We knew it was going to happen, but it's still surreal," said Amanda Dollente, who along with her partner, Kelly Middleton, began standing in line at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Washington state now joins several other states that allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. Gregoire and Secretary of State Sam Reed certified the election on Wednesday afternoon, as they were joined by couples who plan to wed and community activists who worked on the campaign supporting gay marriage.
Because the state has a three-day waiting period, the earliest that weddings can take place is Sunday. Same-sex couples who previously were married in another state that allows gay marriage, like Massachusetts, will not have to get remarried in Washington state. Their marriages will be valid here as soon as the law takes effect.
"This is a very important and historic day in the great state of Washington," Gregoire said before signing the measure that officially certified the election results. "For many years now we've said one more step, one more step. And this is our last step for marriage equality in the state of Washington."
Last month, Washington, Maine and Maryland became the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. They joined six other states — New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont — and the District of Columbia that had already enacted laws or issued court rulings permitting same-sexmarriage.
Referendum 74 in Washington state had asked voters to either approve or reject the state law legalizing same-sex marriage that legislators passed earlier this year. That law was signed by Gregoire in February but was put on hold pending the outcome of the election. Nearly 54 percent of voters approved the measure.
The law doesn't require religious organizations or churches to perform marriages, and it doesn't subject churches to penalties if they don't marry gay or lesbian couples.
King County, the state's largest and home to Seattle, and Thurston County, home to the state capital of Olympia, opened at 12:01 a.m. Thursday to start issuing marriage licenses. While King County stayed open all night, Thurston opened briefly to issue licenses to 15 couples who had entered a lottery, then closed and reopened at 7 a.m.
Asked whether the middle-of-the-night marriage license roll-out was necessary, King County Executive Dow Constantine said, "People who have been waiting all these years to have their rights recognized should not have to wait one minute longer."
In Seattle, the mood was festive. Volunteers distributed roses, coffee and fruit. Couples canoodled to keep warm. Champagne was poured. Different groups of men and women serenaded the waiting line, one to the tune of "Going to the Chapel."
"We waited a long time. We've been together 35 years, never thinking we'd get a legal marriage. Now I feel so joyous I can't hardly stand it," said 85-year-old Pete-e Petersen, who with her partner, 77-year-old Jane Abbott Lighty, were the first to get a license.
After meeting 35 years ago on a blind date in Sacramento, Lighty and Petersen will get married on Sunday. The couple has been out buying shoes and clothes for their wedding.
At the Thurston County courthouse on Thursday morning, Deb Dulaney, 54, and Diane McGee, 64, both of Olympia, arrived just before 9 a.m. The couple has been together for 16 years, and they moved to Washington state in 2005 from California, where they were registered as domestic partners.
McGee said they wanted to get married there but were unable to before voters passed 2008's Proposition 8, the amendment that outlawed gay marriage after it had been approved by court ruling. A federal court has since struck down Prop. 8, but an appeal on that case is still pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dulaney and McGee registered as domestic partners in Seattle in 2005, and then through the state when the state's domestic partnership law passed in 2007. Now they wanted to take that final step of marriage, even though they plan on moving back to California in the coming months to be closer to family. They haven't set a wedding date but said a simple service is planned within the 60 days that their license is valid.
"I feel much more moved by it than I thought I would," Dulaney said. "I thought we were just going to come here, get the paperwork and go home. But now, it's like, 'whoa.'"
"It's for real now," McGee told her.
Maryland's law officially takes effect Jan. 1, however couples can start picking up marriage licenses on Thursday, as long as the license has an effective date of Jan. 1. Whether clerks of court issue a postdated license is up to them, however. They are not required to do so. Maine's law takes effect on Dec. 29. There's no waiting period in Maine, and people can start marrying just after midnight.
In addition to private ceremonies that will start taking place across Washington state this weekend, Seattle City Hall will open for several hours on Sunday, and several local judges are donating their time to marry couples. Aaron Pickus, a spokesman for Mayor Mike McGinn, said that more than 140 couples have registered to get married at City Hall, and weddings will begin at 10 a.m.
Washington state has had a domestic partnership law in place since 2007. The initial law granted couples about two dozen rights, including hospital visitation and inheritance rights when there is no will. It was expanded a year later, and then again in 2009, when lawmakers completed the package with the so-called "everything butmarriage" law that was ultimately upheld by voters later that year.
This year, lawmakers passed the law allowing gay marriage, and Gregoire signed it in February. Opponents gathered enough signatures for a referendum, putting the law on hold before it could take effect.
There are nearly 10,000 domestic partnership registrations with the secretary of state's office. Most same-sex domestic partnerships that aren't ended prior to June 30, 2014, automatically become marriages, unless one of the partners is 62 or older.
That provision was included in the state's first domestic partnership law of 2007 to help heterosexual seniors who don't remarry out of fear they could lose certain pension or Social Security benefits.
Among those getting marriage licenses Thursday was gay rights activist Dan Savage, who will marry his partner on Sunday with other couples at Seattle City Hall.
"It's been a long fight but it ain't over," he said. "We still have to fight (the Defense of Marriage Act) and there's 41 other states where same-sex couples aren't allowed to marry."


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TD Bank Answers Customer Needs Through Data And Analytics
Matt Chevalier has served in a number of positions in his 25-year career at TD Bank (headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J., and Portland, Maine; $228 billion in assets), working as a teller, a technology systems analyst and a product manager. The common thread that runs through his many roles at TD, including his current job as senior VP of retail strategy and marketing, is a continual focus on improving the customer experience.
"For me, I always look for a challenge, and do I have the opportunity to impact the customer experience better in any kind of role?" Chevalier says.
Chevalier has brought that focus on customer experience to his role in the retail strategy and marketing group. In the past year, he has led a new effort by TD Bank to better align its sales goals for each branch with customer demand. While many banks are closing branches, TD plans to continue to open new ones, Chevalier says, and is balancing investments in its various retail delivery channels.
"You want to make sure that you have as much information as you can to make sure that you are really addressing those customer needs … to be able to align that with our activities and how we goal our employees. It puts customer experience in concert with how we measure employees and track goals," Chevalier explains.
To improve TD Bank's model for measuring sales performance, Chevalier started by gathering the necessary data to give the bank a better picture of its customers' needs. Chevalier and his team examined historical data on branch performance, then brought in a number of other data points, such as customers' commuting patterns, neighborhood demographics and competition in the area. TD also partnered with Novantas, a management consulting firm, to support the project's data needs, he says.
"We looked at the opportunity that each store location has by product to have a very prescribed goal that is aligned with the customers' needs," Chevalier says. "If I find out that I have a store where customers really need small-business accounts, then I'm going to ensure that I have the personnel there to serve that need, and we will adjust the goals for that branch accordingly."
Chevalier and his team built a new model for determining sales performance targets specifically for the branch channel based on their data inputs and analysis, and took the model to pilot last May. They selected a number of branches from a cross-section of markets across the country for the pilot, and then created a control group of branches with similar characteristics. The pilot lasted one quarter, and Chevalier says the results were promising.
"Employees were telling us, 'Wow, the goals just feel right.' And when the goals feel right, the employees who had goals that were too high feel like they have a fighting chance. Those that had goals that were too low have to push a little harder to ensure they respond to customer needs," Chevalier notes.
All of TD Bank's more than 1,300 U.S. branches adopted the new model at the beginning of August. "Although it's still early [since the project launch], we're seeing a pretty consistent lift [in sales] across the board," Chevalier shares. TD Canada Trust is already reviewing the new sales targets model for TD's Canadian branches, he adds.
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Cabbagetown is located on the east side of Yonge Street, and has been described as "the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in all of North America". Cabbagetown is bounded by The Don Valley, Parliament Street, Wellesley Street and Dundas Street. The name Cabbagetown derives from Immigrants who moved into the neighbourhood in the late 1840s and were so poor that they grew cabbage in their front yards.
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