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Enter to win autographed copies of Rocket-Bye and Can a Princess Be a Firefighter?, written by award-winning author Carole P. Roman and illustrated by Mateya Arkova. Plus, a bonus prize of author Eric Jay Cash's debut picture book Cave Kiddos: A Sunny Day! Giveaway begins April 21, 2016, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends May 22, 2016, at 11:59 P.M. PST.Add a Comment
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Tip off is here and we are ready to choose teams. On one side we find out which fictional character reins supreme, and on the other side great beasts go head-to-head. Prizes are on the line so choose wisely.
You guessed it, It is time for March Madness! We are mad about books at Arbordale and this year we have our own March Madness contest for you. Choose your favorites on the bracket downloaded from our website and submit your choices by March 25th. This tournament isn't winner take all; the top four scorers will win a prize.
Visit our March Madness page for all the dates, details and to download your bracket!
And don't forget, one of the newest members of the Arbordale team, Midnight Madness at the Zoo is a great March read!
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Enter to win both yoga books by Mariam Gates, GOOD MORNING YOGA and GOOD NIGHT YOGA, along with a full-color poster! Giveaway begins March 11, 2016, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends April 10, 2016, at 11:59 P.M. PST.Add a Comment
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Good art can be a little dark and disturbing. In the case of a new exhibition at the Whitney Library Gallery, it can also be classified as creepy, spooky, kooky, mysterious and more than a little fun. The show features dark drawings and haunting images, much of them from a new children's book, "The Stumps of Flattop Hill," by Las Vegas-based author Kenneth Kit Lamug.Add a Comment
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Enter to win a copy of That's (Not) Mine (Two Lions, 2015), written by Anna Kang and illustrated by Christopher Weyant; plus an adorable full-color poster. Giveaway begins September 7, 2015, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends October 6, 2015, at 11:59 P.M. PST.Add a Comment
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It's no secret; at Arbordale we are big fans of Jennifer Keats Curtis and her ability to write wonderful books about animals. This season she pairs up with John Gomes again to bring us The Lucky Litter: Wolf Pups Rescued from Wildfire. John's beautiful photographs really bring out the personality in these cute pups and paired with Jennifer's insightful words, this book is already getting praise…
"This is a charming tale full of child appeal for young readers who love true animal stories. The large font, bold type, and short but informative sentences make for easy, comfortable reading." -Kirkus Reviews
Have you ever wondered how Jennifer begins a book, She was kind enough to share her process of creating The Lucky Litter:
Last year, a huge wildfire in Alaska consumed vast amounts of wilderness, forcing people and animals to leave their homes. I learned about this devastating fire from my buddy John Gomes, the Alaskan photographer with whom I've worked on Animal Helpers: Zoos and Kali's Story: An Orphaned Polar Bear Rescue. With John's update came a tip – the Alaska Zoo was expecting five wolf pups just rescued along the Funny River Horse Trail. John was looking forward to photographing the babies. Was there a story here?
I began gathering information about the pups and the rescue, tracking down the firefighters, wildlife biologists, vet, and keepers involved in helping these animals. I also connected with Alaska residents who had been affected by the fire. As it turned out, the adult wolves caring for those pups had been driven away by the heat of that massive fire. They were unable to return for the babies. Fortunately, a firefighter found one of the pups and rushed to get help. It is clear that Gannett, X-Ray, Huslia, Hooper, and Stebbins would not have survived without human intervention. There was indeed a story here. The Lucky Litter is the true story of the little pack's survival.
This story almost wasn't written. There was a question about whether wolves are a good topic for a children's book. It turns out that people feel strongly about wolves and tend to fall into one of two camps: they love them or they hate them. Those who love wolves are awed by their power, beauty, and strength. Those who hate wolves believe these animals are frightening and view them as vicious, eating machines.
It is true that wolves are predators. But, they play a crucial role in the ecosystem. The gray wolf is a keystone species. A keystone is the big, important stone at the top of an arch that holds all of the other stones in place. The keystone anchors the structure so that it does not collapse. Keystone species are animals that help all of the other animals in an ecosystem stay in place. Gray wolves may be small in number but they play a big role from the top of the food chain all the way to the bottom. They help maintain the balance between predator and prey. When a keystone species is harmed, the entire ecosystem suffers. This important premise is beautifully shown in the video How Wolves Change Rivers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q) about the demise and reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone Park.
I am thrilled that this story has come to fruition. My goal in writing for children is to help young readers see what I've seen and learn what I've learned. For this book, I discovered a lot about wolves and wildfires. I had the opportunity to work with people who are making a difference in the lives of animals. The photos capture the personality of each of the wolves. What's not to love?
Learn more about Jennifer and John's work on the book's page, but don't forget to enter to win a copy of your own by commenting on this post!
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Terry Catasús Jennings has a talent for taking a simple concept and telling a great story. In her newest book Sounds of the Savanna, Terry takes readers to the African plains and shows them how important sound is to the animals that live in this habitat.
Get to know a little more about Terry's writing:
How did you first become interested in writing, and writing for children's picture books?
When I read Little Women by Louisa May Alcott as a very young girl, I knew I wanted to be a writer, just like Jo March. I believe though, that I would have ended up being a writer even if I hadn't read the book. Stories are always rolling around in my head. Whenever something happens I like to report on it, like writing a newspaper story, in my head. I also like to figure out why people may have acted in a particular way, so I take what happens and I figure out a plot line that may have led them to their actions. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? What I like best of all is figuring out the very best way to convey each message—the best words to use, how to form each sentence and that is especially important in a picture book. I love to use the rhythm of language when I write a picture book. It's almost like writing a poem.
Do you have any tips for aspiring writers?
Read, read, read. Write, write, write. Look at the world with curiosity and try to figure out why things happen they way they do and why people act the way they do. Listen to people talk. Pay special attention to how they move. Capture a scene as if you were a movie camera and store it in your mind. You'll use all those things that you have stored in your mind when you write your books.
You can read the full interview here!
But first here is a great roaring lion craft to go along with the book's For Creative Minds section, check it out.
- You can use felt or paper (for our mask we used paper).
- You will need light brown, dark brown or black, A shade of red/pink, and white.
- Scissors and a pencil
- A large circle and small circular container for tracing
- A stick, for ours we used a pipe cleaner
- On tan paper use the large circle and trace three circles in a heart shape pattern. Connect the two top circles to the bottom and cut out your back portion.
- On the same paper trace two circles connect them together at the top to form a straight line and cut those out. For the nose of your lion.
- On the dark brown or black paper use the smaller circle and repeat step one. This will form your open mouth.
- Again on the dark paper cut a triangle for the nose and then round the edges
- On the pink paper use the bottom of the open mouth form and trace the lower portion of the tongue. Use your small circle to overlap and form the heart shape of the top of the tongue.
- On white paper cut two narrow triangles.
- Glue the dark mouth to the background, glue the tongue in place and then the teeth. Glue the triangle nose onto the tan nose, then glue that on top of your lion mouth.
- Tape or glue a stick to the back and you have your finished roaring lion!
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Some writers always knew that they were destined to tell stories, others came to the craft a little later. That was the case with new author Sharon Chriscoe. Her first picture book The Sparrow and the Trees is a retelling of a native folktale that explains why some trees lose their leaves in winter while others do not.
Find out why Sharon chose to retell this story:
What was your incentive to write this particular book?
I love the Native American folklore, Why The Trees Lose Their Leaves, and it was exciting to base my own story on that wonderful folklore. It was the story I was meant to write. I was thrilled when Arbordale agreed and offered publication.
What is most rewarding and/or challenging about writing children's books?
The most rewarding aspect of writing The Sparrow and The Trees for Arbordale is knowing that children all around the world are going to read and learn from my book. Arbordale is so fantastic with the amount of educational elements they include with each of their books, from online resources to worksheets to Creative Minds Information — there is something for everyone to learn. I learned a lot while researching this book!
Do you have any advice for parents of young readers and writers?
Read to your children every day. Make it a fun, memorable experience and they will become lifelong readers. One of my favorite quotes is "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." — Emilie Buchwald.
Get the full interview on the book's home page, click here!
Don't forget comment on this post to win a copy of The Sparrow and the Trees. And color to your hearts content with these fun pages.
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Robin Yardi is releasing her first picture book this week, They Just Know: Animal Instincts. The combination of the whimsical and real life come together perfectly with Laurie Allen Klein's art as readers learn how some animals don't need mom and dad to show them the way, they just know!
Before we get to the inside scoop on hidden gems in the art meet Robin and find out how this story came to be…
What was your incentive to write this particular book?
When my daughter was young we loved to talk about animals that didn't need their mothers. I remember playing mommy and baby butterfly with her (a game of her invention) and trying to explain, "Well actually, butterflies never meet their mothers." You should have seen her face! "Who teaches them to fly?" she asked. "Who makes them breakfast?" After years and years of watching butterflies in our garden this still amazes her, so I thought a book about the wonderful things animals can do all on their own would appeal to other kids too.
What animals in They Just Know have you seen before?
that winter and really don't have many left. Now when I find ladybugs I give them to my children to wish on.
I've never seen a spring peeper, or pinkletink as some people call them, but I do love and worry about the world's amphibians. I've had pet frogs and toads and once ended up with about two hundred tadpoles!
I've swum among Green Sea Turtles in the waters of Hawai'i. These turtles are protected and you cannot touch them, but you can look deep, deep into their eyes. I've rarely seen anything so beautiful, curious and gentle.
As a kid in California I caught two species of kingsnake, both strikingly and stripingly beautiful!
To read the full interview with Robin, click here, but first play find and seek throughout the book with Laurie Allen Klein's art!
Hide and Seek in They Just Know
(hint, Laurie answers these questions on Nonfiction Nook, but see if you can find them yourself)
- Find the t-shirt with all the animals from the book pictured on it.
- Which way is the current headed for the baby swimming turtles?
- What kind of "helmet" might a ladybug wear for flying?
- If a shark needed a nightlight what kind of fish serves that purpose?
- First flights are celebrated with a ritual, why is a cut t-shirt so special?
- What is the equation on the frog's blackboard showing?
- What game are the king snakes playing?
- What other Arbordale book is pictured within the pages here?
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I'm back!
Carmela here. I've been on a blogging break for much of this year, busy working on other projects, both personal and professional. (I have continued behind-the-scenes as our TeachingAuthors blog administrator, though, so I haven't been completely out of touch.) Today, I'm back to celebrate the publication of two of my articles in the just-released 2016 Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market (also known as the CWIM) edited by Chuck Sambuchino (Writer's Digest Books).
At the end of this post, you'll have the opportunity to enter for a chance to win your very own copy of the 2016 CWIM (courtesy of Writer's Digest Books)!
Inside this Book (Are Three Books), published by Abrams Appleseed. One of my articles in the 2016 CWIM is an interview with Barney, who is an amazing author, illustrator, singer, and songwriter. More about him and his new book below.
First, I'd like to talk a little about my other article in the 2016 CWIM: "Make a Living as a Writer."
[My original title was "Making a Living Writing, Even If You're Not a Bestselling Author" but I guess that was too long. :-) ]
For "Make a Living as a Writer," I invited four traditionally published trade book authors who are also successful freelancers to share their experiences and advice regarding ways to supplement book royalty income. The four authors included my fellow TeachingAuthor, JoAnn Early Macken, former TeachingAuthor, Laura Purdie Salas, author and writing coach, Lisa Bullard, and scientist-turned-children's author, Vijaya Bodach. The article includes their tips on landing work-for-hire assignments, balancing work-for-hire with other career goals, and preparing submission packages for educational publishers.
The four authors also shared specific resources for finding supplemental income, including:
- The SCBWI Blueboards, where there's a board specifically for "Work for Hire & Calls for Submissions"
- Evelyn B. Christensen's Directory of Educational Publishers
- The Writing for the Education Market website (formerly at http://educationwriting.blogspot.com )
- Laura Purdie Salas's book: Writing for the Educational Market: Informational Books for Kids.
"Inside This Book is a tribute to self-publishing in its most pure and endearing form. Three siblings create three books of their own using blank paper that they bind together (in descending sizes to match birth order). One sibling's work inspires the next, and so on, with each book's text and art mirroring the distinct interests and abilities of its creator. Upon completion of their works, the siblings put one book inside the other, creating a new book to be read and shared by all.The second sibling in the book is named Fiona. She is "an artist and a poet," so her "book" is filled with poetry. In honor of Poetry Friday, here's an excerpt from Fiona's section of Inside this Book.
from Inside this Book, Too, by Fiona
. . . Can you tell I love to rhyme?
I play with words all the time.
I write a poem every day.
My new favorite is "Who Wants to Play?" . . .
© Barney Saltzberg, used with permission, all rights reserved
I've kept this excerpt short to inspire you to get Barney's book for yourself. After you've read it, you'll understand why the School Library Journal review of Inside this Book said:
"Readers may well be empowered to write their very own stories or books."Be sure to check out today's Poetry Friday roundup over at the Poetry for Children blog AFTER you enter our giveaway drawing.
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Howdy, Campers ~ and Happy Poetry Friday! My poem's below, as is the link to today's Poetry Friday round-up.
The topic we TeachingAuthors are knocking around this time is Making a Living as a Writer.
Carmela starts us off with a TeachingAuthors' Book Giveaway of the 2016 CWIM which includes two of her articles, once of which is aptly titled, Making a Living as a Writer; Esther addresses the many ways she's made writing pay...and other pay-offs that result, and our Wednesday Writing Workout, written by former TeachingAuthor Laura Purdie Salas, is titled Is Writing on Assignment Right for You?
So--what are my 3 Tips to Make a Living as a Writer?
1) Write a Classic.
2) Find a Secondary Occupation which actually pays.
3) Define Making a Living
(Hmm...maybe Define Making a Living should come first.)
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I've sold poems to anthologies, testing services and magazines. Between 1995 and 2011 I sold 30 poems to Carus Publishing Company (publisher of Cricket Magazine and many others). I'm going to brag here because it still makes me proud: in 2003 they asked me to write a poem for a progressive story in honor of the 30th anniversary of Cricket.
At the time, they paid $3 per line.
In 1997 I asked John D. Allen, my all-time favorite editor, if I might possibly be given a raise.
John's response: "As for $4.00 per line...well, I'm afraid we can't do that. Our policy is to keep the same pay scale for all poems. Sorry. I hope that's not too much of a problem."
Okay, I wrote. Could you give me a free subscription to Cricket? My son was then eight years old.
He replied: "I wish I could offer you an author discount or a subscription credit against your sales, but I'm told I can't. We don't give out much of any discounts besides the early renewal one you checked on your form. And shifting author payments toward subscriptions would create some sort of accountant's nightmare around here. (Actually, that's all a lie. I was told I could offer you any sort of discount I wanted, as long as the difference came out of my salary. So I thought, Well, I could make April's life a little easier, and it wouldn't cost me much--probably just the price of the cinnamon Pop-Tarts I was planning to buy for an afternoon snack. But then, well, one thing led to another, and to make a long story short, the Pop-Tarts were delicious.)
I loved working with John. I loved seeing my poems in BabyBug, Ladybug, Spider and Cricket. I surrendered. Sort of.
In 1998, I responded to his suggestion that I cut a repeated stanza from a poem he'd accepted:
"I'm so glad you like the poem, "Music Critic"! I have enclosed the poem as it reads without the repetition and also another version to see if there might be some way we could keep the repetition in the poem. Do the new repeats make it any clearer for your readers? If not, I'd be glad to omit the second stanza. I do like the repetition and will probably re-insert it if it gets published again...but I also trust your judgment for your readers.
My husband Gary, who is a CPA (deep into Tax Season as I write this) asked me to ask you if you were going to pay me for the invisible stanza."
Here is the poem John critiqued--without the repetition:
so that I have a front row seat
This poem was subsequently awarded SCBWI's 1999 Magazine Merit Award for Poetry. (You're right, John! I take it all back!)
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I love writing for kids and working with them. But I have never (at least not as an adult) had any illusions that I could support myself working solely as a writer. This "Ah-Ha!" moment came during a banquet while I in library school, (as we called it back in the day.)
I was graduate assistant to the children's services specialist. (Who knows where I'd be today if I assisted the specialists in government documents or cataloging?) He had put together an all-star children's literature symposium--Ellen Raskin, Ashley Bryant, Jean Fritz--award-winning authors and illustrators all. At the banquet, I was thrilled when my boss seated me next to the brilliant Ellen Raskin. The year before, her Figgs & Phantoms had been named a Newbery Honor book. Her own Newbery for The Westing Game would be three years in the future.
I was ready to chuck my previous career role model, Mary Tyler Moore, and move into Ellen Raskin's seemingly perfect life. Then someone asked "that question" which really wasn't a question.
"So, you must be doing pretty well with your books," said a person whose name and gender is lost in time.
Ms Raskin's fork clinked against her plate."That depends on how you define 'pretty well'," she replied.
"I mean financially," the Person said blandly, with a smile that assumed Ellen would answer, "Oh yes, I am making buckets of money." Young, dumb me, assumed that would be the answer too.
Ms Raskin paused, as if calculating something in her head. "Well," she said. "I have ten books in print."
Wow! I thought. Ten books in print. She must be making a fortune. Three-story houses in Greenwich Village aren't cheap. The thought of anyone having ten books in print at the same time was simply mind-boggling.
But Ellen was still talking. "...and last year I made..." and named a four digit figure. Even in 1976, it was a ridiculously low amount of money. Ten books and this is all she made? She has a Newbery Honor book for crying out loud!
Long silence at our table. After a moment, Ellen laughed and made a comment about writers needing employed spouses. Dinner went on, but that conversation was a wake-up call for me. Now I knew what people meant went they said, "Don't quit your day job." And I didn't for a long, long time.
Quitting my day job was not my choice. My husband's company transferred him to Thailand, a country with notoriously tough labor laws. I became a full-time writer, whether I wanted to or not. I wrote ten and twelve hours a day. I wrote and sold My Best Friend and Yankee Girl in those years.
Fast forward to today. I have written and published seven books, plus contributed to two YA short story anthologies. My Best Friend won both the Ezra Jack Keats and Charlotte Zolotow Awards, and is referenced in many children's literature textbooks. Yankee Girl was nominated for a dozen State Book Awards. I am extremely fortunate that all but one of these books is still in print. One, Jimmy's Stars, is only available as an e-book. For someone who is considered a mid-list author, someone who is not J.K Rowling or Suzanne Collins or Rick Riordan, I am doing really well.
Last year, my royalties were half of what my daughter makes as a part-time waitress at Golden Corral. My very best year, royalty-wise, equalled my teaching salary when I left to get married. That was 1990, and I taught in one of the poorest school systems in my state. My very best year, in real money terms, was a lot less than my best year teaching.
Luckily, I enjoy doing school visits and teaching. However, in the last couple of years, school budgets and curriculum have rarely accommodated author visits. I pick up teaching/tutoring gigs here and there, mostly for homeschool groups. I've done freelance editing and worked as a private writing coach. My most reliable source of income is the Young Author's day camps I run each summer, with
weekend workshops during the school year.
|One of my first school visits, Davis Elementary, Jackson, Ms
In the beginning, my non-royalty "author jobs" income equalled my royalties. Now it surpasses it. I love working with these young writers. It's my dessert, after spending the rest of the year writing in solitude. I began with a single week camp. Now, ten years later, I conduct writing camps for the Parks Department and local historical societies nearly every week from Memorial Day to the start of school.
|Young authors at work! Roswell, Ga, summer 2013.
making more money. I am super lucky to be married 25 years to my best friend, who has a good job and insurance. If my income dried up to zero, we would not be out in the streets. But I have always been a working mom. I love what I do. I can't imagine ever retiring.
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When Michelle from Delicate Construction first installed these dressers in her craft room, she was more concerned about their storage capacity than they way they looked. Originally simple wood dressers from Ikea, Michelle had painted them white and called it a day.
The thing about DIYers, though, is that their style and ideas are always evolving! In Michelle's case, she decided that these dressers needed a little dressing up. She repainted them, this time in a soft blue shade. She spray painted the knobs gold and reattached them to the drawer fronts. Michelle also used her craft cutting machine to make labels for each drawer out of white vinyl. Don't the refabbed dressers look great?
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this is getting rediculous. I am managing in the MLS and am getting fixtures 2 days apart (not just a one off occurance)!! Also, they don't sem to re-schedule MLS games due to international commitments....fair enough you can't take a break from MLS matches during the world cup but I have built up a squad of americans and now they are starting to get called up to the national squad I am left with having greyed out players to fill my matchday squad up as the matches isn't re-scheduled even though I can have up to 7 or 8 players away (24 man squad including 3 keepers = 21 outfield - 7 away on international = 14 outfield players left!!


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How to Turn More into Less: The Power of "Chunking"
A major source of stress in our lives comes from the feeling that we have an impossible number of things to do.
We'll often take an objective and pull it apart into a million pieces or tie it all together into one abstract whole. For example, if you take on a project and try to do the whole thing all at once (i.e., eat the whole whale in one bite), you're going to be overwhelmed. Similarly, if you take a task and break it into too many small steps, it's equally overwhelming, daunting and frustrating.
Most people can only focus on a limited number of things at one time. When most people are learning, they tend to remember things that are grouped into three's. In fact, how do most people count? One, two, three…many! Anything above three things becomes too much for us to remember. In other words, most people tend to get overwhelmed after three difference pieces—or chunks—of information.
The number-one skill that will allow you to succeed at anything (while minimizing stress) is the ability to take a variety of action items and group them together, orienting them toward a common intention and result. This is called "chunking." Simply put, chunking is the process of turning more into less!
Chunking: Grouping together information into ideally sized pieces, so they can be used effectively to produce the outcome you want without stress or shutdown.
For example, suppose this is your list of to-dos for your day:
- Go running
- Pick up dry cleaning
- Prep for board meeting
- Take dog to vet
- Buy running shoes
- Call my wife
- Lift weights
- Call my daughter
- Meet with marketing director
Three of these action items (go running, buy running shoes and lift weights) relate to physical health or activity. Group them together, and now you've "chunked" them into one clear result you desire: to improve your health.
When you start thinking of your to-dos as clusters of desired outcomes, you'll keep stress at bay and learn to focus on your greater goals—rather than getting overwhelmed by the minutiae. And for that huge, amorphous target, simply put the process in reverse: Write down your actionable steps, assembling them in doable chunks.
This shift in thinking will make you work smarter and more effectively, and achieve success through skyhigh productivity. You'll start to feel inspired—rather than forced—to follow through!
"No matter how successful you are, no matter how many great things are going on in your life, there's always something that you can improve upon in your life. Tony Robbins can help you do that. He gives you the tools you need."
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I have to say that since I've picked up "The Ultimate Edge" program noticeable changes have occurred in my life. The tools that are provided in "Unlimited Power," and "Awaken the Giant Within," along side the audio program I would highly recommend to the world at large! Thanks Tony!
I just had a breakthrough! … in experiencing the benefit of chunking!
I planned out something I don't usually plan out and it feels really good. It happened because of putting the things I want to do in perspective, without making the small things the most important thing.
Thank you! … this is really cool!
This is an area I continue to have difficulty with. I have good intentions in the morning and by the end of the day. I have a lot of difficulty with "shiny ball syndrome" Wow just caught myself. I have great focus and will start writing out my list in the morning and reduce stress and accomplish my goals for the day. Thanks Tony it is always a work in progress
What I find most interesting is that writing actionable steps (Chuncking) assembles them into doable chuncks. Moreover, you'll have the idea in front of you, nevertheless more chuncks create clusters. These amorphous targets so to speak will be seen visibly at all times if you hold a planner that illustrates these photo-chuncks. Additionally when you zero in on the specific chunck you'll have your actionable steps that seem so easy and you'll feel so inspired. This will eventually create the habit to focus on greater goals and keep stress at bay. The powerful tools have given me a shift in thinking to do more with less stress. I have more energy to focus on what's most important like relationships. Any habit can be unlearned (to-do lists) and any habit can be learned (Power of chuncking) if you discipline yourself enough with repitition. This one skill can give you the ability to start seeing the big picture (the rudder of the sailboat), or vis versa the details (the sails of a sailboat).
I like the idea of chunking things into more manageable parts. I also work with my clients to chunk their time based on their values. How can they do two things of value a the same time? For instance, if they value their family, and they value their health, what can they do to overlap those two values into one action.
Funny how the "to-do" list can easily be re-organized. Just because we write it down in pieces, doesn't mean it can't be reprioritized into a more productive and less stressful manner. Good thoughts!
That's a really useful method to reduce stress and do more things effectively. Also I've learned it is ok no to take care of everything and only do the ones that are urgent or very important. That's one of the lesson my incredible coach from Tony's company taught me…
Thank you Mr. Robbins. Thanks to you, I have been at the gym every day to "change my physiology" for the past two months. I will follow your guideline in regard to the chunking. I am sure it will greatly improve my life. I am an M.D. transitioning into a new career of film producing.
Another way of thinking, for a quick positive result that cannot be overlook. Thanks
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Adoption Covenant is a 501(c)(3) Charitable Organization, founded by Merinda Condra to offer a simpler, more effective alternative to typical adoption agencies. As an adoptive parent and a lawyer, Merinda has combined her care for children in need and her knowledge of the adoption process to offer the best adoption services possible. We invite you to learn about our mission, history, adoption team and some of the adoptive families we have had the privilege of serving.


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Tuesday, 6 May 2014
HuRTS 4x10 minutes
Good crowd with all the Sydney 10 runners in attendance. Had to laugh when Tom turned up in a fleecy top still trying to garner sympathy for a supposed cold despite his near PB on Saturday.
Felt surprisingly good after last nights effort and an early surf for Ali's birthday this morning.
Went out pretty fast on Mike Conway's train and held onto them until the MMC stairs where I dropped off a bit. Managed 2.53k which I was very pleased with given the undulating course. The return leg was much harder as the hills felt longer (which they were) and I only just made it back. Ran a bit easier on the third rep but built into in nicely overtaking plenty of people along the way. Fell a bit short at 2.42k but an honest effort. Chatted to Cam Malone on the final leg but made it back with a second to spare.
9.9k in 40 mins 4:02 average
12.5k all up.
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- Tom said...
"Supposed cold"?! I ought to show you the content of my tissues.
Don't read that the wrong way.
- 6 May 2014 at 14:52
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Salmon with Spring Vegetables
Cooking in Red Socks
Recipe type:
Fish Entrees
Prep time:
15 mins
Cook time:
20 mins
Total time:
35 mins
4, 3 oz pieces of salmon
2 tsp olive oil
1 large shallot, minced
1 large clove garlic, minced
1 lemon, zest and juice
½ cup peas, fresh or frozen and thawed
½ cup corn, fresh or frozen and thawed
2 large carrot, peeled and small dice
6 stems asparagus, medium dice
2 tbs fennel fronds, roughly chopped
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Lay the salmon pieces 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Season with salt and pepper. Use a microplane to remove the zest from the lemon, and spread evenly amongst the four pieces. Bake the salmon for 13 minutes to achieve a medium temperature.
While the salmon is cooking, heat a medium saute pan over medium heat. Add the olive oil, shallot, and garlic. Add the carrots and saute for 3-4 minutes. Add the corn, asparagus, and lemon juice; saute another 2 minutes.
Remove from the heat and stir in the fennel fronds and peas. Season with salt and pepper before serving over the salmon.
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The performance of your Macbook Pro can be significantly improved by adding more RAM. Upgrading the RAM on your laptop can be one of the most easy and cost-effective ways to speed up the machine, especially if your MacBook is pretty old. Latest programs, operating systems and games are memory hogs and can demand more RAM than your laptop holds.
Why do you need more RAM?
When you are switching between application, if you computer is sluggish, you might need a RAM upgrade. Irrespective of the version of your OS X, applications and data are swapped in and out of your memory all the time. The applications that are idle or data which are not needed at the moment from the RAM will be temporarily swapped to the swap files on your hard disk, freeing the active memory.
Let us take an example for clarity. If you are currently having iPhoto open on your Macintosh and you suddenly feel like playing a video game and launch a game. If the game requires more RAM, it will request the OS for more memory. Now that iPhoto is just sitting about in the background, the program and associated data will be "paged out" to the temporary space on the hard disk. The RAM is now free and this will be allocated to the game.
Read also : How to Speed up your MAC and avoid sluggishness on Mac
How do you decide whether you MacBook Pro needs more RAM or not?
To be more certain about whether your laptop needs more RAM or not, you can check out the memory usage in "Activity Monitor".
- First open all the applications you are bound to use on a regular basis. If you spend a lot of time on the internet you might be using iChat, Mail client, Browsers, documents and other applications you simply can live without.
- Now that all your staple applications are open, you will have to open your Activity Monitor.' You can access the Activity Monitor from this path /Applications/Utilities/
- Click on System Memory' which is located at the bottom of the window. Put your detective glasses on, it is time for some investigation.
- Take a look at the pie chart on the right-side (refer to the image below). It is just a matter figuring out if there are more yellow and red in the pie. If red and yellow are taking a good chunk of sectors on the circle, your computer is certainly gasping for more RAM. If the green and blue sectors are more, it means your computer is doing just fine.
- You should also consider 3 more factors, Page ins, Page outs, and Swap. Page outs should be very less compared to Page Ins. If the page outs are 15% or more of the Page ins, you might have to buy more ram for Macbook pro.
If the analysis indicates that your Mac needs more RAM, you might just go a head and buy a compatible ram for Macbook pro. You don't even have to pay a visit to your local Apple store to perform an upgrade. You can place an order on the internet and insert the RAM in your MAC on your own. One can save a lot of money buy doing so. It might take you some where around 15 to 30 minutes to perform the task depending on your abilities. There are a lot of tutorials on the internet along with videos to help get the job done.


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Spending on food differs by gender
March 09, 1999
Among single persons in 1992, women spent $24.93 per week on food at home, compared with $22.75 per week for men. The share of spending on different items in 1992 and the change in food expenses from 1980 to 1992 varied by gender.
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In 1992, single women's shares of expenditures on cereal and bakery products, and fruits and vegetables were higher than single men. For meat, poultry, fish, and eggs as well as dairy products, single men spent larger shares than single women. The share for other food at home was roughly the same for both genders.
Comparing changes in expenditure shares from 1980 to 1992 by gender, single women had significant changes in their share of expenditures for meat, poultry, fish, and eggs (decreased), cereal and bakery products (increased), and other food at home (increased), while single men had no significant changes in shares from 1980 to 1992 for any major food category.
These data are a product of the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey. Additional information is available from "The Changing Food-at-home Budget: 1980 and 1992 compared", Monthly Labor Review, December 1998.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Spending on food differs by gender on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/mar/wk2/art02.htm (visited June 25, 2016).
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text: Aug 5, 2014 16:36 Spanish Town men put new spin on urban sprawl with rambling landscape Spanish Town men put new spin on urban sprawl with rambling landscape Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON -- Patrick Ford, left, and Greg Myers enjoy the yard they have transformed at their Spanish Town bunaglow. Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON -- Greg Myers turned a galvanized steel funnel into a hanging planter. Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON -- Patrick Ford and Greg Myers added bling to this bowling ball and perched it on an old piece of terr-cotta pipe to add sparkler to the flower beds at their Spanish Town home. Photo provided by PATRICK FORD AND GREG MYERS -- A 'before' photo show's the home's very simple landscaping before Patrick Ford and Greg Myers began their work. Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON -- Patrick Ford and Greg Myers' landscaping includes their yard and the curb area across the street. . Garden guys BY CAROL ANNE BLITZER | Special to The Advocate July 18, 2014; 6:00 a.m. Comments When Patrick Ford and Greg Myers bought their Spanish Town bungalow in January, the yard had a few old hollies, an overgrown oleander and some scrawny grass. In less than four months, the men transformed the property into a spectrum of color that has neighbors changing their walking routes to stop by and look. "It is not planned. It's informal. It's sort of a 'do as we go,'" said Myers, 38, a funeral director and embalmer. Even though the two men are redoing the 1920s craftsman-style home themselves, they couldn't resist starting with the landscaping. "It's for my emotional health to be able to get outside," said Ford, 31, a family service counselor. They first removed the sod and pulled out most of the overgrown shrubbery. "We felt that we needed to open up the yard," Ford said. The next step was to form their beds and till the soil, adding what little fertilizer and other products they needed before they did their planting. "The soil in the Spanish Town area is incredibly rich," Ford said. The two men have different landscaping philosophies, but they have managed to come to a happy compromise. "Greg likes everything very manicured and precise," Ford said. "I like to get as many things as I can in the space, all randomly placed. The plants tell us where they need to go, and we give them a good home." The front of the home is framed with three major beds including a corner bed with a sugar kettle fountain. "We have planted a mix of perennials with room for the seasonals that we can change out," Ford said. To improve the view from their front porch, the men also planted the curb area of the property directly across the street. "We actually don't own across the street, but we heard through the grapevine that the owner said 'by all means,'" Ford said. There is very little yard on the south side of their property, but Myers found a way to use every inch by building a tiered garden box, which is tightly planted with summer vegetables and herbs. Throughout the garden are all sorts of items the men have repurposed and creatively used, like a bejeweled bowling ball placed on an old piece of terra-cotta pipe. Myers found two old windows that he hinged together, decorated with spindles and a knob and placed in a side bed. He turned two large funnels into hanging planters and filled an old sink with blooming flowers. "Greg is good at making these things," Ford said. "I can get things to grow." The lifelong gardeners spend a couple of hours each day working in their yard. "Everywhere I have lived, I have had some sort of a garden. I had to bring a little bit of country with me," said Ford, who grew up in the small town of Acme in Concordia Parish, and learned gardening from his mother. "I have always grown something — flowers or little tomato plants," said Myers, whose hometown is Jeanerette. The small lot is bursting with flowers. The goal is to plant for year-round color. They are now anticipating their fall garden. "In October, we'll wipe out the annuals and replenish for winter," Myers said. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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Some Canadian Women With Breast Cancer Unable to Pay Out-of-Pocket Costs for Treatment
by Kathy Jones on January 26, 2013 at 11:50 PM Cancer News - G J E 4
A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute revealed that while majority of the women in Canada are able to afford out-of-pocket costs of breast cancer care in the year after their diagnosis, some women may have to deal with a high financial burden caused by such costs.
While extensive information about the level of out-of-pocket costs after early breast cancer diagnosis has been unavailable until now, the costs resulting from the disease and the effects the costs have on family financial situations may highlight a negative consequence of the disease further down the road. Despite the publically provided health care provided in Canada, patients still incur costs from transportation to treatments, follow-up visits, consultations, and domestic help, particularly during the first year following diagnosis.
AdvertisementIn order to determine the extent of out-of-pocket costs and the effects they have on women and families in the first year after breast cancer diagnosis, Sophie Lauzier, Ph.D., Unité de recherche en santé des populations (URESP), Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, together with colleagues in the team led by Elizabeth Maunsell, Ph.D., estimated the costs incurred using information obtained from telephone interviews with patients and families. Generalized linear models identified women at risk for having higher costs and the effects that those costs may have on the financial situation of their families.
The researchers found that the overall, women's median out-of-pocket costs during the year following diagnosis were $1,002 (in 2003 Canadian dollars), once any insurance or financial assistance had been taken into account. The percentages of women with higher out-of-pocket costs were significantly greater among the more highly educated, those working at the time of diagnosis and those living at least 50 km from the hospital where the surgery occurred. The proportion of family income represented by out-of-pocket costs was higher for women with lower incomes. However, in terms of the impact of these costs on changes for the worse in the family's financial situation during the year after diagnosis "we found that women's out-of-pocket costs played a secondary role to wage losses; it is wage losses that appeared to drive changes for the worse," the authors write.
In an accompanying editorial, Matthew P. Banegas, Ph.D., and K. Robin Yabroff, Ph.D., M.B.A., both of the Health Services and Economics Branch Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute write that the study adds to the important information to understanding the financial burden of cancer. "Overall, such evidence on the scope of financial consequences of cancer care for patients and their families, in addition to the clinical benefits and risks, will enhance discussions of the "value" of cancer treatment, which is something oncologists in both the United States and Canada acknowledge as a fundamental component of high-quality care."
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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Manny Pacquaio previously denied Krista Ranillo and Ara Mina affair allegations. Now Manny Pacquaio is denying a Jinkee Pacquiao divorce report. In recent years, Manny Pacquaio battled what he called were false reports claiming that he was having separate affairs with Krista Ranillo and Ara Mina. This week, however, Manny Pacquaio is battling what he claims is an erroneous report that his wife Jinkee Pacquiao sought to divorce him last year. The details come just days after the boxer's "Pacquaio on Obama" comments about marriage.
On May 12, ABC-CBNews reported that the relationship between Manny Pacquaio and his wife Jinkee Pacquiao was alleged strained. The report claimed that the relationship was strained as early as the boxer's fight against Marquez on November 12, 2011.
Freddie Roach told Steve Angeles of ABS-CBN News North America this week that the couple were not getting along in November 2011. "I said I knew him (Manny) and his wife weren't getting along before the fight, but I never said that." But Roach told ABS-CBN that Manny was served with divorce papers by his wife in November. "I never said that in my life, but someone wrote it, and someone lied." The boxer also told the publication that he was never served divorce papers by his wife.
On May 10, Roach told the LA Times that the couple are back together. "Now, he's back with his wife, reading the Bible every day, and he's given up basketball."
In 2009, Pacman battled Krista Ranillo affair allegations. At the same time, Pacman's wife was show crying during a Thanksgiving Mass. The matter got more coverage when Gina Alajar wrote on Facebook at the time "If I were Jinkee Pacquiao, I would not give up Manny. Krista Ranillo is not at all worth it!"
Pacman has previously denied the allegations about Krista Ranillo and the claims concerning Ara Mina. For more, click HERE, HERE, and HERE.
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I have a problem with series. Consider a series $$\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_k.$$ Can I rewrite it as $$\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_k=\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_{2k-1}+\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_{2k}\ ?$$ Or more generally, can I rewrite it as $$\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_k=\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_{\sigma_k}+\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_{\delta_k},$$ where $\sigma,\delta$ is the selection of $k$? I'm considering the proof $$S_{2n}=\sum_{k=1}^n a_{2k-1}+\sum_{k=1}^n a_{2k},$$ then get the limit when $n\to \infty$, but I don't think it is right.
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In general: If you have two convergent series: $$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} b_k \quad\text{and}\quad \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} c_k. $$ Then the series $$ \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}(b_k + c_k) $$ is also convergent. So for example if $b_k$ and $c_k$ are given by $b_k = a_{2k-1}$ and $c_k = a{2k}$, then indeed you get a convergent series $$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} a_{2k-1} + \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} a_{2k} = \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} a_{2k-1} + a_{2k} = \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} a_k. $$ Note that for this to be true, you do not need anything to be absolutely convergent.
Now if you rearrange the natural numbers $\mathbb{N}$ so that as $k$ varies in $\mathbb{N}$ then $\delta_k$ also varies through $\mathbb{N}$ (i.e. $\delta : k \mapsto \delta_k$ is a bijection, then in general it is not true that $$\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_k = \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} a_{\delta_k} $$ even if the series is convergent. But if the series is absolutely convergent, then this is true.
As you've already noticed, the series must be absolutely convergent for this to be true. To see even better that all hell breaks loose when the series is only conditionally convergent, consider Riemann series theorem: if $\sum a_n$ is a conditionally convergent series, then for every real number $x$, (or even $x=\pm\infty$) there is a permutation $\sigma \in \mathfrak{S}(\mathbb{N})$ such that $\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_{\sigma(n)} = x$.
Yes ,it can write as that,because $\sum_{k=1}^{2n}a_k=\sum_{k=1}^n a_{2k-1}+\sum_{k=1}^n a_{2k}$, when $n \to \infty$,
then we have
$\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_k=\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_{2k-1}+\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_{2k}$, if when $n \to \infty$, $\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_{2k-1}$ and $\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_{2k}$ exist.
note: If $\lim_{n \to \infty}\sum_{k=1}^n a_k$ converges, then $\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_k=\lim_{n \to \infty}\sum_{k=1}^n a_k$,this is definition of series. But if when $n \to \infty$, $\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_{2k-1}$ and $\sum_{k=1}^\infty a_{2k}$ are not all exist. You can not write as that.


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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — In the muted celebration, Cierre Wood stood defiant, convinced that the statistical carnage wreaked on the nation's third-ranked rushing defense wasn't an anomaly, but the start of something.
"There's not anybody on our schedule or in the country who we don't think we can run the ball against," the Notre Dame senior running back said after the fifth-ranked Irish cobbled together a 17-14 comeback victory over BYU Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium. "I don't care if they were first (in rushing defense), we're going to run the ball. That's exactly what we did."
Actually, the Irish gouged the BYU defense for 270 rushing yards after it had never given up more than 110 in a game this season, frittered all but 20 seconds of the final 6:10 following an Irish defensive stand, averaged 6.3 yards a carry against a unit whose average yield was 2.2 and did it without even the hint of the element of surprise.
Wood had 114 of those yards on 18 carries. Fellow senior Theo Riddick rushed for a career-high 143 on 15 carries, including a 55-yarder in which he kept his balance when it looked like he would be stopped at the line of scrimmage.
This Irish attempted just three passes in the second half (and 17 for the game) as they moved to 7-0 for the 25th time in school history but the first since the offensively challenged 2002 Tyrone Willingham-coached squad ran off eight wins to start the season.
All this from a rushing offense that stood 80th nationally out of 120 FBS teams entering the month of October, struggled early in the season to knit a new zone-blocking scheme into an offense that featured rotating quarterbacks and green receivers.
For the record, junior Tommy Rees made his 18th career start, with minimal relief from third-stringer Andrew Hendrix, after Kelly decided to err on the side of caution with No. 1 quarterback Everett Golson. Golson suffered a concussion late in the fourth quarter of last Saturday's 20-13 overtime win over Stanford, and Kelly decided Friday after a team walk-through to sit him out.
"He wanted to play," Kelly said of the sophomore, first-year starter. "He made his case. I just felt like this was the best thing to do.
"He was supportive. He was great on the sideline. But he clearly — he wanted to get in there as well. We feel like we've got a kid now that's 100 percent ready to go for Oklahoma."
The Sooners (5-1) have been surging back into the national title discussion after a 24-19 loss at home to Kansas State four weeks ago. They brushed aside former ND head coach Charlie Weis and his Kansas Jayhawks Saturday night in Norman, Okla.
Even with Golson having to shake the cobwebs next Saturday for the biggest road start of his fledgling career, Kelly feels at least another missing piece in an offense with still plenty of room to grow fell into place against the Cougars (4-4) on Saturday.
The running game.
"We are becoming that kind of football team on offense," Kelly said. "You talk about finding an identity. Even when we were down, we kept running the football."
And ND did get down early, falling behind 14-7 midway through the first half on a pair of touchdown passes from rugged BYU senior quarterback Riley Nelson, who was a freshman at Utah State in 2006, the last time Notre Dame was on a BCS trajectory this late in the season.
The first came with 8:25 left in the second quarter, when BYU leading receiver Cody Hoffman got loose in the back of the end zone for a six-yard strike on third down. That broke a string of 17 consecutive quarters by the Irish defense without allowing a touchdown.
The second Cougars score followed a Rees interception that glanced off Irish sophomore DaVaris Daniels' hands and into the arms of BYU linebacker Kyle Van Noy.
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High School and Personal: Born July 18, 1982 in Kirkland ... parents are Lois and Robert ... swept state titles his senior season in the 800m, 1600m, 3200m and cross country ... was runner up in the 3200m at state in 1998 and 1999... voted Academic All-State in cross country and track all four years ... a nine-time state meet medalist in cross country and track ... finished 35th in the 8000m at the 1999 USATF Jr. National Cross Country meet ... set school records from 800m to 3200m ... a nine-time district champ ... voted into the Ocosta High School Athletic Hall of Fame ... was named valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA.
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Office of the Chief Whip
15 February 2012
Honourable Speaker,
President of the Republic of South Africa, the Honourable Jacob Zuma,
Deputy President of the Republic, the Honourable Kgalema Motlanthe
Honourable Members,
Honourable Speaker
It has been said widely, in this august House and elsewhere, that the State of the Nation address this year provided a clear focus on the tasks that lie ahead of us as we seek to build the developmental state that the ANC-led government is so stoically committed to.
We, honourable members, are grateful to the President for having given us our marching orders to grapple with the question of how best do we use our bountiful mineral resources to build a society that brings benefits to all its peoples. The times are most challenging, recession is biting in different parts of the world, and we are determined, in the face of these challenges, to rise to the occasion and work hard within the parameters announced by the President last week..
It is encouraging that most of the honourable members who spoke in this house since the President's speech have, in the main, been positive about our country. A far cry from what usually happens on occasions such as these – where there is a lot of grandstanding and political point scoring. Or, to borrow the phrase about political debate, more heat than light. We need to work together, across different political parties, to build a South Africa that truly belongs to all those who live in it and where there are no two South Africas. In this regard it is unfortunatre that the leader of the opposition, Honourable Lindiwe Masebuko, made a point about what she called "alternative vision for South Africa".
We should not repeat the mistakes of the past by striving for a partisan "alternative vision for South Africa". Instead, we require a vision for SA Incorporated founded on the urgent need to address the triple evils of poverty, inequality and unemployment. We must create a South Africa for all the people. That is not alternative. It is mainstream, and essential. In this spirit, I should like to outline some of the priorities that my Department has set itself. I speak from the vantage of that most significant sector, mining and mineral resources, which has underpinned our economy for well over a century.
As the President reminded us in his State of the Nation Address, democratic South Africa inherited a problem of structural unemployment going back decades. The New Growth Path introduced in 2010 identified the mining value chain as one of the key drivers of jobs. 2010 also marked the first year since the recession started that the mining industry was able to pass the half million mark in employment. Preliminary figures for 2011 indicate that the sector has continued growing its employment, with 15 000 net new jobs created between September 2010 and September 2011.
Honourable Speaker,
South Africa is developing a rich history of social dialogue. It was part of this proud tradition that led to the establishment of the tripartite Mining Industry Growth and Development Task Team, or MIGDETT, that looked into the issues of arresting job losses, and the future growth and labour absorption of the sector.
Working through this structure, we developed a growth and competitiveness strategy for the mining sector. In terms of this, the sector committed itself to job creation. Job creation figures released recently are encouraging and indicate that we are on course, slowly but surely, to meet our goal.
The growth and development of the mining industry cannot be delinked from addressing historical inequalities and imbalances in our society. In the mining industry, we have come a long way on issues of transformation. This year we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the promulgation of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA). The MPRminerals in the State. The Mining Charter, on the other hand, introduced targets for transformation of the sector. Since the implementation of the Act and the Mining Charter, progress made in de-racialising the sector is noticeable but not yet satisfactory. Examples of areas of concern include:
In his State of the Nation Address the President announced the amendment of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act. My Department stands ready to ensure that the Mining Charter and the industry at large remain responsive to such amendment. My Department will also be dealing in a decisive manner with the incidence of non-compliance with the Charter and the prevalent cases of fronting in the industry.
As a sector we are greatly encouraged by the plans unveiled by the President in his State of the Nation address on infrastructure development. This intervention responds to one of the binding constraints to growth and development of the mining industry.
My Department remains committed to collaborating with other stakeholders in the intergovernmental structures to ensure that the critical infrastructure blockages delaying investment in the mining sector are addressed. Many of these were highlighted in the President's speech and include investment in rail, road and bulk water infrastructure to unlock the mineral potential of the Waterberg and Steelpoort regions.
Unlocking this potential will also be critical in addressing another long-standing infrastructure bottleneck, that of energy security. As the soon-to-be-released Coal Resources and Reserves Study led by the Council for Geoscience reveals, these regions host a great share of South Africa's remaining coal endowment.
The increased infrastructure will have the potential to increase our mineral export receipts and also serve the cause of local beneficiation.
Honourable members,
The State of the Nation address reminded us again of the importance of the beneficiation strategy approved by government to address the important issue of adding value to South Africa's minerals. This is an obvious way of furthering the interests of our own economy, the views of sceptics notwithstanding.
There have been numerous studies of our mineral endowment, some of which I have shared with you in the past; and these show the estimated value of our non-energy minerals to be in excess of US$2.4 trillion. This makes us the wealthiest mining jurisdiction. But we are still not fully reaping the benefits of that endowment. Too much of this mineral wealth is still exported as raw ore, while we import manufactured products from those same export destinations. This is essentially an exportation of jobs and economic value.
Our New Growth Path and the associated Industrial Policy Action Plan are, contrary to the views of some members of this House, a call for a paradigmatic shift in our mineral exploitation so as to maximise the long term returns from our endowment.
We need, as the President emphasized, to increase the level of the beneficiation of strategic minerals in a way that will expand downstream opportunities, and align those efforts with our industrial development imperatives. This means a value chain focus on enhancing the value of exports, stimulating investment in manufacturing, and creating opportunities for sustainable employment creation.
The beneficiation strategy will also contribute to the development of another key jobs driver in the New Growth Path, the knowledge economy. This will be through increased Research and Development and innovation and the development of competitive advantages, as linked to the priority value chains.
These priority value:
We have completed implementation plans for the first two and will this year focus on the finalisation of the remaining three. We will implement them hand-in-hand with the relevant government departments and industry stakeholders.
As we reflect on the historic outcome of COP17/CMP7 held in December 2011 in South Africa, and look forward to the Rio plus 20 Summit to be held in Brazil later this year, government will engage the mining industry to do more to support our commitment to sound environmental management and to explore programmes that will reduce the carbon footprint. We will be embarking on a review of Environmental Management Programmes of holders of old order mining rights to bring them into line with the MPRDA as well as addressing inadequacy of financial provisions. This will ensure that we do not bequeath liabilities to the next generation -for it deserves nothing but the best.
We will work hard to ensure that the mining industry "moves beyond the words", as Ben Okri would say; for words sometimes mean absolutely nothing. We will ensure that we continue to apply without fear or favour provisions of section 54 to ensure that we reduce the carnage in our mines. We will do so as we attend to legitimate cases of concern that may arise in the application of the law. We will also work though the MIGDETT Task Team to deal with the concerns of the industry.
In this regard, I condemn in the strongest terms the violent assault and death of Ms Binky Moseane at Khomanani Mine in Rustenburg. She was robbed of her right to life in a senseless and brutal act. This incident is not only shocking but must not be allowed to take root in the mining industry.
Women have fought long and hard to earn their right meaningfully to contribute to this industry. I therefore wish to call on all businesses to take stringent measures to ensure that mines are made a safe working place for women where the principles of gender equality are wilfully implemented.
Women need to be protected and an enabling environment created for them to function without fear, harassment and discrimination. Management must take responsibility by putting systems in place to ensure that the incident that led to Ms Moseane`s death is never repeated. It is our expectation as government that we will never have to witness such an incident ever again as it does not have a place in this industry and in South Africa.
As one of the key constraints to the growth and development of the mining sector, skills development will be a priority in 2012. The DMR is collaborating with the DHET through the MQA to improve on skills development with the following programmes:
In all, we are determined to play our role in making South Africa a stronger and more successful place for all its people, in line with the charge delivered by our President in this House.


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Douglas Promenades' regeneration scheme is progressing well with its £1.5m phase 1 on schedule, expected to be completed by TT week.
From Monday (February 3), there will be changes to the one-way system in place the Sea Terminal end with the junction between Walpole Avenue and Loch Promenade closed to through traffic for five weeks.
Traffic will be able to enter and leave Walpole Avenue using the Bath Place junction. At the same time the Sea Terminal side of Peveril Square will also be closed off to traffic.
A full road closure was considered but highway chiefs have decided to try to keep traffic flowing wherever possible.
Motorists wishing to travel from the South Quay and Parade Street direction will be diverted left at Parade Street (cannon) roundabout. They will travel along Lord Street, right onto Ridgeway Street and right again onto Victoria Street. At the end of Victoria Street they can turn left onto Douglas Promenades or right to the Bottleneck car park and the north side car park at the Sea Terminal.
Drives heading from Peel Road and the west will be diverted left on to Ridgeway Street then right on to Victoria Street.
Motorists wishing to access Walpole Avenue can use the junction at the Bath Street end from both directions. Motorists exiting Walpole Avenue must turn right towards the Parade Street roundabout then continue along Lord Street when heading to the west, and the Douglas Promenade diversion route. Motorists heading south can turn left at Parade Street roundabout.
Those wishing to travel to the ferry terminal are not affected. However, access to the Sea Terminal (front car park entrance) will be limited to just a single entrance/exit nearest to the Circus Beach ferry terminal yard.
Motorists travelling south along Loch Promenade will enter a short section of one-way at Peveril Square on the westerly carriageway (Peveril Buildings side) then back onto two-way traffic at Bath Place.
A planning application has been submitted for phase 2 of the scheme, costing around £1.5m. The overall scheme is estimated to cost £17.5m and began in August. Infrastructure Minister David Cretney said: 'Phase 1 is on programme and expected to be complete just before TT.'