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Fibro Fog
One of the most frustrating symptoms of fibromyalgia is fibro fog – a catch-all term that describes the poor concentration and memory problems that so often accompany fibromyalgia fatigue. In this post, we'll cover how fibro fog manifests itself in detail and provide some life hacks to help you see clearly through the fog.
What is Fibro Fog?
Fibro fog is less a symptom and more a constellation of symptoms related to cognitive function – or rather, impaired cognitive function. In a very real way it's one of the worst fibro symptoms because it can directly affect your ability to work and make a living. It's not uncommon for it to manifest as difficulty finding the right words, making decisions, remembering important things, and problems multitasking. You might even suddenly forget where you are, inducing a wave of panic.
To a large extent, fibro fog is a result of the poor sleep and fatigue that are so characteristic of fibromyalgia. Even if you don't have fibro, I'm sure you've had to deal with the aftermath of a night of poor sleep and how that wreaks havoc on your ability to function, especially in a work environment. Imagine having to deal with that just about every day!
Not surprisingly, the pain itself also plays a big role. How can you pay attention to anything else if you're in pain all the time?
In studies, fibro patients often perform poorly on tests of cognitive function. In fact, these memory impairments are so bad that they mimic twenty years of aging. So a 40-year old struggling with just an average case of fibro fog would perform as if she were 60.
Like a lot of other fibro symptoms, fibro fog is inconsistent, and it can improve or worsen at times. Unfortunately, most of us find that the worse we're feeling, the worse it gets, so way to kick us when we're down!
Scientific Approaches to Combating Fibro Fog
Hopefully soon we'll have a better understanding of exactly why and how fibro fog is happening. But for now, let's take a look some scientific approaches for how we can alleviate and mitigate it.
As is true for everyone, getting more sleep helps with mental clarity. But getting deep, restorative sleep with fibromyalgia can be difficult. So doing everything you can to try to get the best sleep possible will really make a difference. Along those same lines, try to create space in your day so that you have to rest and take care of yourself if you need to.
Scientifically, these mental problems occur when there is a lack of blood flow to the brain. Anything you can do to increase blood flow to your brain, therefore, will help ease fibro fog symptoms. One of the best ways to achieve this is through therapeutic movement (exercise). Check out our post on therapeutic movement for some ideas for simple exercises to get that blood flowing to your brain. The lack of blood flow to the brain can also be worsened by low blood pressure, which is a common problem among fibro patients. You can naturally raise blood pressure by increasing the amount of salt and water in your diet.
Finally, there are some excellent nutrients you can supplement your diet with to improve brain function. These also increase energy production in your body, and typically help with both fibro fog and pain. These over-the-counter supplements are great to use as part of a holistic approach to dealing with fibro fog:
- CoQ10
- Acetyl-L-carnitine
- Alpha-lipoic acid
Life Hacks to Deal with the Fog
Fibro fog is particularly frustrating when you just need to get through the work or school day. I was in school when I was first diagnosed, and trying to get enough sleep was nearly impossible. Consequently, the fog was really bad. I had a particularly difficult time remembering, which is obviously not great when you're in school. To top it off, I would often just forget to bring things with me from one class to the next. So one little life hack I came up with was counting the number of items I had with me when I arrived in the classroom, then making sure I had the same number when I left the class. The alternative of having to walk all the way back to a classroom across the school was just so exhausting as to be unthinkable.
Something else I've found to be very helpful is having colorful little sticky notes to write reminders to myself. I stick them on things that are unavoidable, so when I go to use it I bump into the note and am reminded of what I needed to remember. For example, if you're falling asleep at night and you need to remember something in the morning, write it on the note and then just throw the note onto the floor. Since it's so out of place, when you step over it in the morning when you're getting out of bed, you'll go "Oh, yeah! I had to remember something! Good thing I had a note."
Those are a couple of my little life hacks to deal with fibro fog. What are some of your life hacks? Is there anything else that you find really helps you get through the day?
Please leave your answers in the comments section below!
- The Fibro Manual by Dr. Ginevra Liptan (2016) http://www.drliptan.com/book/
- https://www.everydayhealth.com/pain-management/fibromyalgia/6-ways-beat-fibro-fog/


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you can do everything you want, but you work. You hard work and honesty,
you know? Now I'm here, and the Filipino
people like Dollar Hits. We have 33 kinds of sticks. Every stick, it's a dollar. That's why it's called
Dollar Hits. All the way from Hawaii! Thank you, Hawaii. ♪♪ -We started this business
since 2013 with a small table only. Then every day,
it's going up, going up. -Okay, I am Elvira Chan
from Dollar Hits, Temple. It's Ms. Nelita.
-Hi. -And Joyce here. They are my siblings. They are my partner,
partner in crime. No, just kidding. -Elvira Chan is the financier, and my sister, too, is the one who's handling
the money, and I am the cook. -Dollar Hits is located
at Filipinotown in Los Angeles between Downtown
and somewhere in Koreatown. -This is, like, a staple
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and you're good, for like $3 and just rice. -The popular is a chicken
barbecue, pork barbecue, pork intestine, pork ears,
chicken feet. -The exotic food like chicken
liver, chicken heart, the balot, and the penoy. When we put in a display,
it's cooked already. We use the oyster sauce,
salt and pepper. -[ Speaking Filipino ] -Yeah.
-No secret. -Yeah. That's the one. -I grew up in
the Philippines… -In Pampanga.
-…in Pampanga. The culinary capital
of the Philippines. -My partner is only a farmers.
-Everybody Filipino, especially the Pampangeno
in the Philippines. They love to cook.
They love food. -When you're in
the Philippines, we cook in the street, and then there are famous one
and the cheapest one, I think. -Some people,
they like the well-done. They go outside.
We have a two-griller outside. They do it by themselves
to grill. That's why we call it "The
Original Filipino Street Food." -This is actually one of
the only places you can get authentic Filipino street food. -The main reason
that brought us here is the memory of what we had
in the Philippines over there. Like, there will be, like,
literally a whole street probably as wide as me
with stalls side by side. This is actually a lot cleaner.
It's a lot more interactive. -When I came to the States,
I was really looking for, like, stuff that would
remind me of my home, because I was really homesick
when I was studying, and then I found out
Dollar Hits existed, and all of these street food
that I used to love eating, it's, like, fulfilling. ♪♪ -Our customer, they love us
because we are very entertain, and they're our heartbeat.
-And we dance. -And sometimes, we are dancing.
-They are telling us, "Oh, it's our first time.
What will we do?" "Well, you start there.
Then you go to the cashier." Then we ask them,
where are they came from? Then they will tell,
"Okay, welcome." All the way from Alhambra! Koreatown, thank you
for coming! All the way from Anaheim! Thank you for coming. All the way from — -I love, like, Nelita
is always happy and always entertaining us, singing and everything
like that. Like, they're really nice, like,
motherly, too, stores like this
that remind you of home. -When the charcoal is also
a bit pink, something like that, it's cool. There we go. This is my kuya,
my older brother. See? He help me always. This one is good. Oh, this one is pork intestine. Mmm. -This is probably the pork one.
-I didn't get — -Pork, a lot thicker,
looks pretty juicy. [ Indistinct conversations ] Oh, man. Usually, in the
Philippines they prefer, like, a sweet and vinegar style. That's why they have a lot
of dipping sauces, but this probably
fits the more American taste because a lot of people
like salty and savory. This is juicy as hell because,
like, in the Philippines, they'll cut it nice and thin,
like, kind of like bacon strips. This one, you know it's meat. -How many balot?
-Three. -Three?
-Yes. -Three, three balot. -It's duck egg
with the embryo in it, but it's, like,
not fully mature. It tastes, like, such a sweet
kind of savory inside, like chicken but duck. -They called it [Speaks
Filipino] in the Philippines. If you will get this,
you will get a straw. -So you crack the egg
like this. So it has, like, liquid, and then you just, like,
you drink it like a shot. And you see, like,
the yolk and the embryo. This is the embryo right here,
and that's what you eat. -What's the scale, 1 to 10? 10! I move in America May 18, 1998, because my dad is here. I take care of my dad. Plus, I am businessperson
in the Philippines, so I thinking that I going
to buy the market. When my sister came,
she helped me a lot. In the first place,
I take care of my dad, and then me, I'm thinking, "I got to go to the hospital
to sell food, the Filipino food, like pancit, egg rolls,
adobo with rice." I need a little bit money
to sell food to ride the bus. That is hard work, you know? But now, I am now —
We have a business. We have this place here, so I'm
a little bit blessed and lucky. The Dollar Hits started
only in the street, and then he told me,
"Why don't you get food truck?" At that time, I get food truck, but the food truck,
it's too expensive. It's $4,000 a month. Luckily, he sell this one to me. ♪♪ -Starting 2:00,
we have a line here to get only the chicken feet,
the pork ears, and then when you're waiting
for that, you know, what can you say? I am very popular
on the Facebook. The Facebook, the social media
is the one who raise me up. When I'm in Europe,
I think one month ago, they see me, some people there. "Oh, is that the one,
the owner the Dollar Hits?" and then I'm — "What? Up to here you see me?
You know me?" -Yeah. Because I —
-You know? Everywhere! -I don't know why, because
they knows me. -That's why.
-Or they seen the Facebook, my face. I am famous. Thank you to all our medias. -Every time where we go —
-We three. -"Ooh, the owner
of the Dollar Hits. Ooh, the owner of
the Dollar Hits." -But I'm not rich!
I am proud of that. Even though
you don't have money — I don't have money.
-We don't have money. -You know the money —
-We work hard. -We work hard, but —
-But we enjoy it. -You don't bring money in your
6 feet under the ground. We don't have money.
-But we enjoy. -I'm proud of being the owner
of Dollar Hits, and then, you know, I'm happy. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪


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Will Trump pardon Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich?
The conservative National Review rated Bruce Rauner the worst Republican Governor in America. In the latest poll, billionaire JB Pritzker has a 16-point lead over the Republican incumbent. In April, Rauner was polling at 26% approval and 60% disapproval. While still claiming fiscal conservative credentials, he recently signed the Democrat's $38.5 billion spending plan, a plan that requires last year's 32% tax increase (the one he bitched about) to balance.
How can Rauner possibly still win?
Rod Blagojevich.
Rauner's losing battle could be lost
Last September, Rauner began airing ads featuring phone calls between Blagojevich and JB Pritzker secretly caught on FBI wiretap. Rauner has been running portions of the phone calls with multi-million dollar ad buys since.
One of the calls involves Barack Obama's seat in the U.S. Senate. In 2008, a month before his arrest, Blagojevich spoke to Pritzker and other politicians about the open Obama senate seat. Pritzker was not interested in the senate opening but mentioned he might be interested in becoming state treasurer. After that phone call, Pritzker was interviewed by the FBI but was never accused of any wrongdoing.
Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years on public corruption charges for attempting to sell Obama's Senate seat. He's been in federal prison since March 15, 2012.
Rauner is/was banking on this strategy to win re-election and tying Pritzker to this evil, imprisoned, disgraced former Illinois Governor.
Enter President Donald J. Trump, who has said he is considering giving Blagojevich a pardon. His sentence was too harsh, Trump says. Many politicians have said and done far worse.
If Blagojevich gives a commutation of his sentence, he will be released from prison and ready, willing and able to wreak havoc on the Illinois Governor's race. How will this play with Trump supporters in Illinois? Will they view Blagojevich with sympathy? How will Rauner's anti-Blagojevich ads play downstate, where Trump won almost every southern Illinois county?
Feeble election strategy
A Trump pardon of Blagojevich puts Rauner's (feeble) re-election strategy in a tailspin and that's a problem for Rauner, a vocal opponent of President Trump. He snubbed Trump when he visited Chicago in 2016. He didn't endorse Trump for President. Rauner also skipped the President's inauguration and boycotted Trump's dinner with 46 U.S. governors at the White House in 2017.
Even if Rauner pleaded his case to President Trump directly, would it fall on deaf ears? If Donald Trump is known for one thing it's this: his memory. He remembers the slights. He knows his friends and punishes his enemies.
This week, seven Republican congressmen, surely acting as Rauner surrogates, sent a letter to Trump urging him not to commute Blagojevich's sentence. Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Dunlap), another Trump critic, was among them.
Trump could stick it to Rauner with a Blagojevich pardon. The Illinois political establishment was never a fan of Rod Blagojevich. A pardon would be a "fu" to them too.


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Reports confirmed that the deceased was an Agric Extension student and was alone in his room at Achalla, when the incident happened.
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Campaign finance records show that developers seeking MHDC funding and tax credits from the MHDC have donated more than $200,000 to Koster's campaign in the past two years. Koster's behavior goes directly against the warning from State Auditor Susan Montee, a fellow-Democrat, who criticized commissioners in a 2009 audit for accepting campaign cash from those with business before the MHDC.
At the MHDC December 4, 2015 meeting, Koster's vote approved the FY2016 funding plan. Seven of the developers that Koster voted to award FY2016 MHDC funding and tax credits to had contributed a total of $99,250 to Koster's campaign in 2015. And so far this year, Koster has accepted $105,363.63 in contributions from developers with MHDC funding requests for FY2017. (MEC Donor Database, Accessed October 6, 2016).
This is just the latest in a series of serious campaign finance scandals that have rocked Koster's run for Governor. Most famously, the firm representing 5-Hour Energy, Dickstein Shapiro, has donated thousands to Koster in campaign cash. When one of their lobbyists asked Chris Koster to pull his "deceptive advertising" investigation of 5-Hour Energy in the Missouri Attorney General's office, Koster obliged within days. These allegations of bribery came by way of a front-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the New York Times.
Additionally, Koster has accepted nearly $25,000 in contributions liked to Backpage.com, a known facilitator of child sex slavery and prostitution. In fact, the Backpage CEO was arrested last week and faces related charges. A letter from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children read: "More than 71% (seventy-one percent) of all child sex trafficking reports submitted by members of the public to NCMEC relate to Backpage ads."
"Chris Koster's campaign has been marred by scandal after scandal. He's been caught stopping investigations at the requests of lobbyists, doing the bidding of campaign donors, he's taken campaign contributions from an abhorrent website that facilitates child sex slavery and now we learn he has continued to take money from developers with business in front of the MHDC," said Kristen Blanchard Ansley, Director of Statewide Communications for the Missouri Republican Party. "Now Missourians can visit www.ChrisKoster.org to learn who Chris Koster really is: a corrupt career politician who will do anything or say anything to further his political career."


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Here is the today's birthday girl in self-assembled piggy tails! Today added another full year to Ayvarie's age. She is now 6! With Ayla turning 2 yesterday and Ayvarie's birthday today, we had to have some sort of celebration, so the grandparents and Ayvarie's "Rossie" came over.
I've never claimed to be Betty Crocker or the like, so Papa Murphy's supplied supper for us. I intended on making a wonderful chocolate castle cake. However, I either didn't let it sit long enough to cool or it was simply too moist. It crumbled out of the cake pan into a heap on the plate. We improvised and had crumbled cake with melted fudge frosting topped with a dollop of ice cream for dessert. I gave up on the candles, but did sing a crazy rendition of "Happy Birthday" to Ayv. We'll have a more elaborate celebration this weekend with hopefully a few friends and family. Nothing like planning at the last minute!
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FAQs about carbon pricing
The federal carbon tax and rebate program puts a price on carbon emissions in 4 provinces where there is no current carbon pricing – Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick. The tax starts at $20/tonne in 2019, rising $10 per year, until it reaches $50/tonne in 2022.
The tax applies to fossil fuels including gasoline and natural gas. In 2019, the tax will increase the cost of gasoline by 4.4 cents and the average home heating bill, for those using natural gas, by about $8 per month. The money is then returned to households in the form of a rebate, leaving the average family better off. The costs and rebates will rise each year through 2022 as cost of the tax rises from $20/tonne of carbon to $50/tonne.
The federal government takes all the money from the carbon tax and returns it evenly to all households in the province where the tax was collected. So, for example, all the money collected from Ontario is returned to Ontario businesses and families. Ninety percent of that money goes to households, with the remaining 10% sent to businesses and nonprofits. The average family of 4 in Ontario receives a rebate of $307 in 2019. The funds will be provided in April 2019 as part of each household's tax return.
Because you'll still have an incentive to reduce your carbon footprint (to save money). That's because you get the rebate first, regardless of how much you emit. So now you have more money in your pocket but you choose how to spend it. Since the cost of gas and home heating will be more expensive, you'll have a reason to try to avoid using it (and if you can't avoid it, you can use the rebate to ensure you're no worse off).
To illustrate, imagine you went to the grocery store and received $5 at the entrance. You then discover potatoes have gone up in price by $4. You could still buy potatoes and come out $1 ahead. But you could also buy rice, which is $2 cheaper, and thus keep $2 more. Some people will still buy potatoes, but others will buy rice. Overall, the number of potatoes sold will go down. Same for carbon pollution!
The carbon tax does not apply to fuel (gas and dyed diesel) used as part of farm operations. Many farmers sell their goods in international markets so they cannot increase their prices to accommodate for the new costs, and thus the policy exemption is intended to ensure they can maintain competitiveness.
Large emitters (those emitting more than 50MT per year) are handled through a separate system called the Output Based Pricing System, explained below.
Large emitters (those emitting more than 50MT per year) have a separate carbon tax and rebate program called the Output Based Pricing System (OBPS). The OBPS is meant to address the fact that many large businesses export products and the carbon tax could disadvantage them. If these companies move production outside of Canada to avoid the carbon tax, emissions would not go down and Canada's economy would suffer. Hence the OBPS.
OBPS has the same carbon tax as the rest of the economy, but the rebate system works differently. Each facility receives a rebate based on the average carbon intensity of its industry. For example, steel producers receive a rebate equal to 80% of the industry's average carbon tonnes per tonne of steel produced. This system incentivizes producers to reduce their carbon intensity without discouraging them from producing more steel. To learn more, see the explainer here.
Large emitters are still subject to a carbon tax and rebate program but they're managed in a separate system because they export products and the government is trying not to put them at a disadvantage in international markets. If the carbon tax results in companies moving jobs to other markets that don't have carbon pricing, this would hurt Canada without reducing emissions.
Small businesses will be receiving support through a dedicated fund – with details expected to be announced in the spring. Many of these businesses will likely pass on extra costs to their customers, though it's true that some businesses will be adversely affected and may need further support to adjust.
The federal government asked each province to come up with their own system for pricing carbon pollution, either via cap and trade or a carbon tax. Some provinces (e.g. BC and Quebec) already had carbon pricing while other provinces created their own system or voluntarily adopted the federal government's approach. There were 4 provinces who chose not to price carbon sufficiently, and those provinces have come under the federal "backstop" system – Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick. Of note, Saskatchewan has adopted the federal government's industrial system, OBPS.
The federal Liberal Party supports carbon pricing. They passed legislation to mandate carbon pricing of at least $20/tonne applied nationwide by 2019, with the price rising by $10/tonne until it reaches $50/tonne in 2022. The legislation gives the provinces a choice to create their own pricing system or to have the federal "backstop" apply. This backstop is going into effect on April 1st in Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan. The law also stipulates that 90% of the revenue levied by the price on carbon be returned to households in that province.
The Conservative Party opposes the carbon tax and has pledged to make the carbon tax and rebate program a key issue in October's election. Leader Andrew Scheer has vowed to repeal the tax if he becomes Prime Minister.
The NDP has not officially released it's platform, so their view on the issue remains to be seen, however they have vocalized support for carbon pricing in the past.
The Green party has traditionally been in favour of a carbon tax as well though, like the NDP, they have not released their platform.
The costs in 2019 are 4.4 cents on gas and about 3.9 cents per cubic meter of natural gas (which results in about $8/month of cost for the average home).
But you'll also get a rebate that, for most families, will give you back more than you pay. For example, the average family of 4 in Ontario will get $307 in rebates but pay $244 in costs.
To see an estimate of your costs and rebates, check out our rebate calculator.
If there's nothing you can do, the program is designed to ensure that you will be no worse off – you will receive a rebate on your taxes in April that will offset your added costs. That said, there's typically at least small changes that most people can make. For example, you can set your thermostat slightly lower while you're out of the house or add weather-stripping to your doors or windows. And when you do make new purchases in the future such as when you buy your next car, you'll have an incentive to buy items that emit less. Maybe that's a fuel efficient car or an electric vehicle, or a more efficient furnace. The hope is that everyone will find ways to reduce their emissions over the long-term!
Yes, 76% of Canadians say they either support or can accept the federal carbon pricing plan, given that it provides citizens with rebates.
We can but it will be much more expensive. All alternatives to carbon pricing – such as regulations – will cost us more. Carbon pricing is the most flexible and sensible way to address climate – it gives individuals and businesses choices for how to respond, and harnesses the creativity and innovation of the private sector. Experts agree that an effective response to climate change requires carbon pricing. See this editorial from the Globe & Mail, or this statement by many of the world's leading economists, both conservative and liberal.
Countries like Canada are a critical part of the solution. True, Canada represents only 1.6% of global emissions. But countries with a similar or smaller share of GHG emissions contribute 35% of global emissions. Canada needs to be part of the solution!
Plus, if Canada creates a cleaner energy sector at home, we will be in a position to export our technology to the rest of the world. 98.4% of emissions are happening outside our borders, so imagine the business opportunities that exist for Canadian innovators. The World Bank estimates that the clean economy is a $23 Trillion opportunity globally over the next decade.
Just as importantly, Canadians have always done their fair to solve critical global challenges. We know Canadians want to address climate change, and this is how we can do our part.
Every bit of emissions matters – the less we pollute, the cleaner our air and healthier our planet. Plus, other countries, including China, are taking action. China now has carbon pricing across much of its economy, and it is the world's leader in renewable energy installations. China has more electric vehicles, solar energy and wind energy than the rest of the world combined. The United States also has carbon pricing in ⅓ of its economy. To be sure, these countries, and the whole world, need to do much more. But they have started, and Canada should not fall behind as the world transitions to cleaner energy.
There are two different methods of pricing carbon: cap and trade and carbon taxes. Cap and trade puts a hard cap on emissions, and allows companies to enter a carbon market where they can purchase credits to emit more carbon once they've hit their cap. If a company emits less carbon, they are able to sell those remaining credits in this marketplace.
Carbon taxes put a fixed price on carbon and require that companies pay that price per unit of carbon emitted. As a general rule, businesses and economists prefer carbon taxes to cap and trade as they are more predictable and transparent then cap and trade, and allow businesses to adjust to the price over time.
No. BC has had a carbon tax for over a decade and has been the fastest growing economy in Canada. Ireland introduced a carbon price during a financial crisis, and doing so helped the economy get back on its feet (and continues to strengthen the Irish economy today).
A federal government analysis estimated that carbon pricing would have a negligible impact on the economy – 0.1% of GDP at most. This estimate also did not include investments made in efficiency and alternative technologies which would boost GDP.
In Canada, renewable energy provides nearly double as many jobs as the oilsands. By boosting clean energy, a price on carbon supports even more jobs and more new business opportunities. Putting a price on carbon encourages emissions reductions at the lowest cost, by giving those affected by the price the flexibility to choose how and when to cut pollution based on their own needs.
There are a small number of sectors that are trade exposed that will experience competitiveness concerns under carbon pricing – but they can be protected through policies like the industrial system called Output-Based Pricing, as explained above.
The policy is supposed to have minimal to no impact on the economy, as explained above, and thus should not have an impact on jobs. It is possible that some businesses will be affected but it's important to note that other businesses will be helped by this policy, especially companies working on clean energy solutions. The clean energy sector is a quickly growing part of our economy. Already, the "cleantech" sector provides more than double as many jobs in Canada as the oilsands.
Note too that the policy compensates businesses. Large industrial emitters are part of the OBPS system described elsewhere on this page. Small and medium sized businesses are eligible for compensation from a fund dedicated to supporting them.
Many companies in the oil & gas sector support carbon pricing, including executives like Steve Williams, the CEO until recently of Suncor. Carbon pricing will cost these companies money but it will also help them transition to cleaner technologies and make Canadian oil more competitive and attractive in the global market. The world is changing and it's important Canada's energy sector evolve with it.
Yes, when we put a price on pollution, people pollute less. Carbon pricing in Canada will reduce our carbon emissions by about 8% relative to 2018 emission levels (removing 50-60MT from the atmosphere). That's equivalent to shutting down 30+ coal fired power plants!
This policy is also being complemented by other initiatives such as regulating methane emissions and increasing the number of zero emission vehicles sold in Canada.
No. As described above, carbon pricing in Canada will reduce emissions by 50-60 MT by 2022. For a carbon price to work, it should start at a manageable level and steadily rise, as this policy is designed to do. The government has also committed to review the program before 2022 to determine if additional increases should be pursued.
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There are some of you out there who want to start a business. So you research your market, write a business plan and then get stalled. You want everything to be perfect so you obsess over the details.
The difference between "good enough" and perfect may cost you weeks or months of actually selling your product or service, time in which you could have been making money. Getting each detail to be perfect may stop you from ever starting your new business. If your product or service is not perfect, you still have the ability to make changes while you are actually in business. After all, think of all the products in the stores that are "new and improved." These companies knew that selling something that was "good enough" would satisfy most of their consumers. Your product or service will likewise be good enough to get your business going even if it still has a few glitches.
To get yourself out of the "I'm waiting until it's perfect" phase, try to think of what your perfect outcome would look like as opposed to what you have now. Can you live with fewer sales, fewer customers, a slightly different service or product? Probably yes. If you can't, maybe being an entrepreneur won't work for you. You don't have the luxury of having everything run perfectly at the beginning of your start-up, no one does. You need to be the type of person who can solve business problems on the fly, because no matter how perfectly you plan things, something will go wrong or something that you never planned on will happen. So, let go of the notion that once you have launched the perfect product or service, that everything will go perfectly.
Decide at what point you can live with less than perfect and start taking steps to open your business. Create your corporation or limited liability company, consult with your team of professionals (an accountant, a lawyer, an insurance agent, and a banker). Learn what you will need to know to at least start your new business and take your experts' advice to heart. Realize that you can and will make mistakes. Learn from your mistakes. If you can't figure out on your own how to fix the mistake, go back to your team of professionals and ask for their analysis of what the problem is and how to fix it. Most new business owners try to do everything on their own (mostly because they don't have the money to pay for advice). Asking advice from other business owners can be a cheap way of getting help. Why would they answer your questions and help you? If they are in a non-competing business, they know that you may be an expert in an area in which they are less knowledgeable and you can trade advice. You can also find help from owners of the same type of business if they are outside your area (either geographically or the type of market to whom you are selling). If you would prefer to pay for advice and you are short on cash, raise more capital so you can consult with experts for whom you must pay.
On the other hand, it is not smart to start your business when you are half-way through the planning stage. If you don't have a working product or haven't thought through who your target market is, your business may never get off the ground. There is a certain amount of planning that must be completed before you should start your business. But don't postpone actually getting started until everything is "perfect." You may never see that day. So, once you get to "good enough," start your business.


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Relationship of movement to learning – 3 recent research studies
The connection between the student's ability to learn and their physical activity has been known for decades. But the implementation of the practice of physical activity during learning has not been consistently practised. The use of games in your team building program can add the physical activity that according to these reports will improve the learning that will occur.
There are many articles in this area but I am confining my references to three of the latest reports. They are all from the U.S.A. and have been published in the last three years. The most recent report was published in May of this year by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Children who are more active show greater attention, have faster cognitive processing speed, and perform better on standardized academic tests than children who are less active… [They went on to add] In addition, students should engage in vigorous or moderate-intensity physical activity throughout the school day, such as through recess and classroom time dedicated to physical activity.
Institute of Medicine (2013), Educating the Student Body – taking physical activity and physical education to school, National Academy of Science, Washington D.C., U.S.A. http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/2013/Educating-the-Student-Body/EducatingTheStudentBody_rb.pdf [accessed 15/10/13]
When learners are asked to stay sedentary for long periods of time they lose focus and and find it hard to concentrate. They may even become bored. But with a short break for some physical activity, they become energised and more attentive.
The next report is from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and was published in 2010. The authors studied 43 research articles and reports and made summaries of the findings. The most relevant quote in the Executive Summary for us with respect to movement and learning is:
Nine studies (reported in nine articles) explored physical activity that occurred in classrooms apart from physical education classes and recess. In general, these studies explored short physical activity breaks (5–20 minutes) or ways to introduce physical activity into learning activities that were either designed to promote learning through physical activity or provide students with a pure physical activity break. These studies examined how the introduction of brief physical activities in a classroom setting affected cognitive skills (aptitude, attention, memory) and attitudes (mood); academic behaviors (on-task behavior, concentration); and academic achievement (standardized test scores, reading literacy scores, or math fluency scores). Eight of the nine studies found positive associations between classroom-based physical activity and indicators of cognitive skills and attitudes, academic behavior, and academic achievement; none of the studies found negative associations.
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) 2010, The Association Between School-Based Physical Activity, including Physical Education, and Academic Performance, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Executive Summary, page 2. http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/health_and_academics/pdf/pa-pe_paper.pdf
When using games in team building programs, they are generally 5-20 minutes in length. Thus, they should have a similar impact with corresponding learning improvements.
In a 2010 study in the USA involving 2000 principals, they found:
Key findings from the survey include:
• Four out of five principals report that recess has a positive impact on academic achievement.
• Two-thirds of principals report that students listen better after recess and are more focused in class.
• Virtually all believe that recess has a positive impact on children's social development (96 percent) and general well-being (97 percent).
Gallup Poll (2010), Principals say recess has a positive impact on learning; students are more focused, listen better after recess, Robert Wood Johnson Institute, http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/newsroom-content/2010/02/first-of-its-kind-gallup-poll-links-recess-to-academic-achieveme.html [accessed 15/10/2013]
Recess is slightly longer than games that you might use in a team building program but the concept bears comparison.
Based on the results quotes from these reports, inclusion of movement in your training programs will improve the participants' ability to learn your program.
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- Article: How Physical Fitness May Promote School Success (seanplinhart.wordpress.com)
Are you ready to start building your team? 8 questions to consider
Preparation for any job can be the most important part of the job. Are you ready? Here are 8 questions for you to consider as part of your preparation.
What do you want this team to accomplish?
You need to be clear about what you want the new team to accomplish before you start the process. You don't need to know the specifics but you need to know the general objectives. For example if this is to be a SRC team then you need to know if there are specific tasks that the school executive and/or student body want them to achieve this year over and above the general goal of student governance and all that entails in your context.
Along the way the team will also achieve other goals. These will be determined during the life of the team and can not be foreseen at the beginning. You can only prepare for the known not the unknown.
What skills will they need to accomplish this?
Once you know the general goals to be achieved then you need to consider the skills that the team will need to be able to accomplish these goals. Some of these will be the skills that any team will need. Others will be skills specific to the jobs this team is expected to accomplish. Some of these skills may not be needed in the initial team training. They may suit an on the job training model or point of need training.
It would be helpful if you could divide the skills into those needed now and those needed later. This will make your planning for the initial training easier to organise.
What roles will team members play?
The answer to this question is directly related to the type of team you are developing. Different teams will require different roles. Once determined, you will need a set of role descriptions that are easy to understand. These should include the potential extra skills required to effectively function in these roles.
In addition, some teams have a hierarchical structure but many have a horizontal structure. If the team is hierarchical, then everyone has a base set of skills but each level of the hierarchy will require extra skills. Even in horizontally structured teams there may be specialised roles – for example the communication sub group may need further skills in using the specific websites for the team.
What cultural factors will impact on the team?
You cannot completely prepare for which cultural factors will impact on the team life. You should have an understanding of the main cultural impacts in your community. You will also know the composition of the body from which your potential team will be selected. The first factors you should consider will be the possible cultural factors that may impinge on the team training. One example would be: girls from traditional Eastern European families will not be allowed to stay late after school or go on overnight excursions.
Another example may be language. If the population from which the team members will be selected contains a high percentage of new migrants from non English speaking backgrounds then the possibility will be high that the depth of understanding written and spoken language will be a consideration.
What barriers may exist to full participation by disabled members?
Most venues for community meeting are now being made more accessible for all. You cannot be fully prepared for bars to participation until you know the nature of any disability that a team member has. Even then, you will have no way of knowing about any injuries that may occur that result in temporary disability. Once the team members are selected then you will be able to determine what barriers exist for the long term participation of each member in the team activities. You can then work towards minimising them. You will also be able to plan activities that are inclusive for all.
What information needs to be available to potential team members?
This is one of the most important steps in your preparation. The membership of the team will determine the possible effectiveness and/or success of the team. You need potential team members to have as much information as possible about both the goals of the team and their possible role. When equipped with this information, each potential team member will be able to make as informed a decision as is possible for their maturity about whether they want to be part of the team.
Another consideration is how to present the information. You want potential team members to know what they are becoming involved in but you don't want to scare away potential effective team members. You may need to provide some personal counselling with candidates you feel would make excellent team members.
What method will be used to select team members?
There is a tendency when team members are younger for the adults to select them. This is the process used in many businesses also where managers select teams. This could be an effective procedure for some teams. But there are other methods that can be used. In some cases such as peer support, the selection process may be volunteers from a particular pool of students. Another example for teams such as the SRC there would need to be some form of representative selection.
Whatever selection process is used in your situation it is important to ensure that it works. You may find recommendations for change in last year's evaluation. This is the time when you can examine the procedures currently in use and determine if changes would improve it.
What games would be most in tune with your goals?
Once you know the answers to all of the above questions, then you can work through the selection of games and choose ones that meet your unique needs. Each game should come with a set of aims or objectives. You can select those games that best suit your aims for skills development. You can also examine the procedures for the games and determine full participation of all is possible based on your cultural and potential physical impairments. This is when you can make variations to steps to provide total inclusion. You don't want any team member sitting on the sidelines.
Related articles
- 5 Steps to an Effective Team (focusadventure.in)
- Meredith Belbin's Team Roles Model (managementpocketbooks.wordpress.com)
The lost art of gaming without a computer
In this age of constant digital inputs if you ask a young person what the term games means, their answer will most likely be about computer games. The fact that people can play fun and exciting games without a digital device is often quite surprising to them. The additional fact that they can play games with a group of people all in the same room may also be a foreign concept. They will know about team sports. But possibly not about team games.
So adding games to a team building program can not only be helpful in building the team, non computer games can add:
- an element of novelty to the program
- movement
- face-to-face communication
- freedom.
The novelty of adding non digital games to your team building program can add interest and anticipation into the sessions. Participants will look forward to the next game – e.g. what will it be, how might I achieve, what new way to have fun will I discover. This will help to motivate them to pay attention to the sessions so that they can complete their work and then move onto another game. The down side of being novel is that there will be a certain amount of inertia to overcome to get started in the first game. But once the inertia of trying something new has been overcome, the excitement of playing the game with their team mates will take over.
Movement in our lives is very important. Most involvement in digital activities is very sedentary. We are developing a generation where many mus
cles are not being used enough. Low tech games at least require getting out of the chair and generally require a lot of movement. Since researchers have linked movement with learning in so many ways, low tech games will be helping the participants to learn, have fun plus focus their attention on the rest of the program.
Face-to-face communication seems to be a dying art form. The closest digital equivalent is Skype, FaceTime and other forms of video conferencing. All non-digital games require some form of face-to-face communication. It may be verbal or non-verbal or a combination of both. It may even require some writing or sharing of symbols. The more your participants communicate with each other the greater their skills will become in the various forms of communication.
Freedom from digital games allows freedom in so many ways. Some of these include freedom:
- from the constraints placed on participants by the digital medium – for example:
- Internet access
- number of digital inputs available for a game
- the size of the screen to enable everyone to see
- the battery power or requirements for electrical outlets and cables
- being able to hear from the device speakers or the requirements of amplification
- limits imposed by the gaming programmers on the participants
- to play games anywhere, in various locations at once, including outside
- to have any size of team or large group participating at once with the fluidity of instantly changing the numbers playing during the game
- to move around with total flexibility without worrying about damage occurring to electrical devices including inputs
- to make your own noise
- to let the creativity of the group modify the game or the leader to add variations on the spot.
Playing games without computers may be a dying art but it is one worth preserving. Why not add some non digital games to your team building program and see the difference they can make.
What makes a good team building game
Before starting this discussion, lets agree that games are beneficial to your team building program. Then how do you find appropriate games to use. There are lots of games available on the Internet, in books and passed on through oral traditions. But not all these games are going to be beneficial to your team building program.
Lets face it. You don't have unlimited time to build your team. In fact you probably don't have any time to waste. So each activity and game the team members participate in must help to achieve your goals. So what criteria should you use when selecting games? (There are extra criteria for trust games.)
If you keep these seven criteria in mind it will help. The games should involve:
social interactions – To increase the opportunities for the team members to build relationships the games should involve communication. It is fairly hard to play any game without some form of communication. So there must be more than just that. You want the game to get them talking to each other or discovering more about each other's skills, personality, values and reliability. How the members should be involved the game depends on the teams working arrangement. It may be that these interactions should be as a whole team, in sub groups, triads or pairs.
thinking – Games should involve a range of thinking skills. The main ones used in team building games are analytical, creative, lateral, logical and systemic thinking skills. An improvement in the use of these skills will lead to enhanced problem solving skills and innovation. These are two highly valued skills of team members.
fun – This is a given. Games should be fun. If they are not fun then why would the team members want to participate. Just remember that fun comes in various levels from hilarious fun to deep satisfaction.
movement – To take a break from formal learning a success, you need to get the body moving and doing something different. The amount of movement in games will differ by the type of game you want to use. Energisers should stress movement. Whereas, team bonding and closure games may limit the amount of physical movement but expand the amount of movement within the mind with social interactions and different thinking skills.
engagement – There are two levels of engagement – captivate their interest in achieving the goal; inclusion of all team members irrespective of physical or mental impairment, gender, cultural beliefs or language fluency. All members of the team need to be engaged in each of the games. If someone is excluded they can feel less important and loss confidence in their role in the team.
risk taking – Any games that are designed to achieve the above goals will require some risk taking behaviour on the part of the participants. It may be talking to someone you don't know (ice breakers) or doing something silly in front of others or invasion of personal space. Your task in selecting games for your team is to determine what level of risk the team is prepared to undertake at the time that are going to use the game.
speed – The game should quick: preferably completed in 10 – 15 minutes. The team members need to have a break and refocus but you don't want to use too much time for this. The games should have goals that are accomplished quickly so there is a feeling of achievement or success at the end of this short time.
4 Cs of effective team building programs
When it comes to designing a team building program you need to include skills development in the specific area in which the team is working as well as skills in being an effective team member. Often the former skill set is the one that is stressed with little attention paid to the latter. It is the level of the team building skills that can often make all the difference to the outcome of the team's endeavours.
So what skills do team members need? When exploring which components should be in the team skills program there are four Cs to consider:
- communication
- creativity
- collaboration
- credibility.
These four characteristics are required for a balanced program that will build an effective team. Each of these four Cs have particular skills that need developing before team members will be competent in those areas. Not all teams need all of these skills. Informal teams will not require training in many of these skills. But members of high functioning teams will need competency in all these skills.
The four Cs
Communication: Proficiency in these skills is the basis of interpersonal relationships both within the team and with everyone with whom the team interacts. There are many forms of communication so highly effective teams diversify their communication skills.
Collaboration: Without the sharing of ideas there is no team just a group of individuals. The level of collaboration sets both the mood of the working environment and the synergy of the ideas.
Creativity: Skills in this area will differentiate an ordinary team achievement from an amazing accomplishment. Creativity does not necessarily mean talent in a particular artistic endeavour although it may. It encompasses creative thinking which can lead to innovation.
Credibility: It is accomplishment in these skills that will increase the speed of the team's accomplishments and make the journey they follow more enjoyable. It also aids in the acceptance of the team's ideas and performance by others.
Once you know which skills you need to develop in your team, then you can select games that also are developing these skills. These games will add value to your formal learning.
Related articles
- 10 qualities of a truly great team (vorkspace.wordpress.com)
- 5 Steps to an Effective Team (focusadventure.in)
Facilitating team development – 10 characteristics
The facilitator of the team can be deemed to be the most important person in the team. They may not be known by the title of facilitator. They may be called a mentor, a leader, a teacher or a coach. Whatever their title, their role is critical to the successful creation of an effective team. In some team situations they may not be visible. But they are vital.
If you are a team leader (facilitator) rethinking your role, investigating if you should become team facilitator or trying to determine who should become a team facilitator (leader), then the following list could benefit you. There are some skills and qualities that are common to all highly successful team facilitators regardless of the type of team they are facilitating (leading). This list is not exclusive but gives a summary of the main attributes.
The ten most visible characteristics of successful facilitators building teams include:
- prior experience in being a team member (generally in the same type of team) with an understanding of the roles of team members and the skills they require
- enthusiasm for the role of facilitator encompassing an eagerness to develop the team members into a team combined with a willingness to continue learning
- having a relaxed and cheerful personality that may also be called optimistic
- objectivity when dealing with all of the team members and the ability to judge behaviours not people
- excellent verbal and non verbal communication skills plus in some situations this may extend to good digital skills
- being a first-class role model combined with a willingness to demonstrate and join in when required
- holding a set of values that are in alignment with the corporate and/or community structures of the team
- having a critical eye to see both potential talent and realise where new skills development is required
- flexibility when faced with unforeseen obstacles barring immediate progress towards an agreed goal
- inclusivity of all team members' rights including disabled, indigenous and migrant members.


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The rumour mill surrounding Aaron Ramsey continues to plague the Welshman, with the latest report from England suggesting that German champions Bayern Munich could be in line to try and buy the midfielder. Ramsey's future has been up in the air for almost a year now, with the list of potential destinations getting longer and longer.
The 27 year old's contract with Arsenal is set to expire at the end of the season and he's made no secret of the fact that he'll go elsewhere if absolutely necessary, and with the likes of Bayern and Juventus being tipped to put in sizeable bids, it seems as if there's a good chance that he could be departing the Emirates next summer.
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10 Photographic Assignments to Hone Your Skills. A few months ago I wrote about how setting myself photographic assignments was one of the things that had helped me to improve my photography the most.
The idea was that it is often when you put yourself into a situation specifically for photography that you are forced to practice the theory that you know and you see your photography improve. The assignments I mentioned were all different types of photography or places to take photos – weddings, road trips, sporting events, festivals, portrait sessions, concerts, trips to the zoo etc. What I didn't mention in the post was another set of 'assignments' or challenges that I've set myself over the years which have also led to a lot of photographic growth. In these challenges I tend to set myself the challenge to only shoot in one particular way for a period of time (for me it is usually a weekend challenge as that is when i take most of my images).
A Concise Guide to Lightroom Develop Presets. The Presets panel (found in the left-hand panels in the Develop module) is one of the most useful in Lightroom.
The most obvious benefit of Develop Presets is that they can save you time, which is always a good thing. But they do more than that, including help you maintain a consistent approach to post-processing and using creative effects. Develop Presets tend to fall into one of two categories. The first are what you might call one-shot presets, which seem to work well on one or two images but not many others. A good example is Develop Presets intended to create a vintage or cross-processed look.
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Soldier's letter, 4 pages, 8vo., Baltimore, Maryland, July 12, 1864. Loren H. Wilson (Co. C, 106th New York Infantry) writes to his parents pertaining to the Battle of Monocacy.
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