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Yahoo mail is one of the renowned email services used by individuals all across the globe. If you are a yahoo mail user and you are looking for the ways to set up your yahoo mail using filters then here in this write up you will get complete information about how a yahoo user can set up email filter in yahoo mail in their account. These filters help you to manage your accounts in an efficient manner. What you need is to simply apply the below-mentioned steps and manage and organize your account without wasting time.
Procedure to setup and create email filter in your Yahoo email
Create Filter
- A new filter only shows the future email that you are going to receive and does not show the email that is already present in your Yahoo email account.
- Now, move the mouse over the icon image of Settings just given in the Mail setting icon. Nest, you need to click on Settings.
- Click on Filters, and then click on Add.
- Enter the name of the Filters.
- Now, enter the criteria of the Filters.
- Now, choose the folder that make the delivery of affected emails or you may also select New Folder to have the new creation of folder.
- Click on Save, and then again click on Save to return back to your emails.
Editing of Filter
- Make the modification to the settings of your existing filter.
- Move the mouse over the image of Settings Icon of your Mail Settings, and then select Settings.
- Now, go to the list and click on a filter name.
- Click on Edit.
- Make your changes, and then click on Save.
- Now, again click on Save to return towards your email
- Customer Service for Yahoo toll free number for online help and support.
How to sort filter in yahoo mail
- You can also sort mails in your yahoo account.
- Mostly filters are sorted from the top down.
- In case you want to apply two filters on the same email, then only one filter is used.
- Tap on the filter that you want to add in a particular mail choose that.
Delete filters
- For deleting or removing a filter in yahoo you can go to Settings icon and choose settings.
- Tap on a filter from your list.
- Now tap on Remove.
- Tap on Save to return to your email.
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4 Tips for Helping Kids Cope with Failure
Kids face failure on a regular basis. It might be a spelling test full of red marks; it might be a soccer game that ends in a loss; or it might be a friendship that slips away. For some kids, failure feels huge and overwhelming. For others, it's simply a bump in the road. Either way, when kids learn to turn mistakes into opportunities, they become more resilient.
Kids get frustrated when things don't go according to plan. Some cry, some yell, and some simply run off and hide.
There is a lot to be gained from failure. Sometimes, great ideas emerge from failed first attempts. But that's a difficult concept for little kids to grasp, and many children tend to be perfectionists (with low frustration tolerance).
It takes time and patience to help kids learn to cope with failure, but building resilience is crucial for little kids.
4 Tips for helping kids cope with failure:
Normalize it:
Kids get frustrated when things don't go according to plan. Some cry, some yell, and some simply run off and hide. Like it or not, mistakes and failure are part of life. Kids of all ages (and adults!) face failure and disappointment at various times.
Normalize it for your kids. Talk about the fact that people fail quite often. Discuss professional athletes, artists, everyday heroes, and other people that inspire your child. Don't forget to talk about your own mistakes and failures that you've had along the way. Your kids look up to you, and hearing that you've failed at times gives them hope. If you can overcome that kind of frustration, they can, too.
When you empathize with your children, they feel less alone. Share how it felt when you dealt with a similar situation as a child. Talk about how it felt to cope with disappointment, frustration, and sadness.
Kids sometimes feel alone in their emotions. When parents meet them where they are and empathize in the moment, they feel supported and understood.
Reframe it:
Once your child is calm, reframe the situation by looking for the silver lining. Sure, that block tower came crashing down without warning, but now you can build something even better. Maybe your child didn't score a goal in the soccer game, but he did learn the importance of teamwork.
Kids tend to get stuck in the moment, so when we take the time to help them talk through the possibilities that exist even when failure occurs, we show them the importance of focusing on the positive.
{ MORE: 4 Tips for Raising Leaders }
Make a plan:
Part of the frustration and disappointment that results from failure is that children feel like they have no control over the situation.
Sit down together and make a plan. Too often, parents expect their kids to come up with all of the solutions, but when you're overwhelmed with emotion, it can be hard to think logically. Work through it together. Talk about what did and didn't work. Brainstorm ideas for the next time. Help your child learn that working together and asking for help can lead to future success.
How does your child respond to failure? What has helped him or her to cope?


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Bonnie Raitt is more than a best-selling artist, respected guitarist, expressive singer and accomplished songwriter. Bonnie Raitt has become an institution in American Music.
While the first twenty years of her music career had its share of ups and downs, the breakthrough success of her Grammy-winning album, Nick of Time (1989) shone a light on her gifts as a songwriter, singer and musician, launching a steady stream of recognition and respect by the music industry and fans alike. She has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Blues Hall of Fame, has won nine Grammy Awards and been named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" and "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
On her latest and nineteenth studio album, Slipstream, these gifts - lyricist, composer, singer and musician - are honed to a fine edge. The result: a collection of superlative tracks garnering more respect and praise for Bonnie's work.
Slipstream marks Bonnie's return to studio recording after seven years; she has taken a well deserved break since her last acclaimed Album Souls Alike (2005). Slipstream has come out as the launch of Bonnie's own label 'Redwing Records'.
Slipstream has seen Bonnie's biggest Billboard chart debut in almost 20 years. Rolling Stone describe the Album as "…mood music with a razor edge, pain fronting as bliss, delivered by a vet who understands that blues are often about just that".
And her music has reached across the generations, inspiring some of today's hippest artists. Adele released a cover of "I Can't Make You Love Me" and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon called her 'one of our greatest artists' during his medley of "I Can't Make You Love Me" and "Nick Of Time" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Bonnie Raitt has backed up the Slipstream release with an extensive tour, selling out dates across America with demand for tickets soaring to a point that multiple additional dates had to be added across the tour. Her live shows have also earned her rave reviews:
"Rigourous, sentimental, magnanimous, resilient" New York Times
"Peerless…Surreal" Chicago Tribune
"As Strong as ever…perfect" Boston Globe
Performing on: Friday, 22 March 2013
For more information, visit http://www.bonnieraitt.com
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Digitalization, Hiring, and the 2018 Employment Boom
ABS Technology is headquartered in the Hampton Roads area and we were recently hit by the Blizzard of 2018. As the population geared up for a solid eight inches of snow and what turned out to be a pretty significant storm with power outages, road closings and business shutdowns, ABS geared up for a work from home week.
Digitalization has allowed for companies like ABS to adapt to inclement weather by providing the flexibility to stay home with our kids' due to school closings, road closures, and so on. As a technology company, we work with clients all over the country up – up and down the east coast and across the mid-west. A significant portion of our staffing clients are local to the Virginia Beach area and the interesting thing is we all rallied through the storm together.
In an article on hiring trends for 2018 we read that slow processes are one of the biggest roadblocks getting in the way of hiring the best talent. Our team has noticed this issue and has been urging both internal and external decision makers that a sense of urgency in hiring great talent is necessary. This snow storm didn't white out our scheduled interviews but showed that digitalization and technology can be used on a whole new level for recruiting and interviewing.
We had hiring managers that weren't able to make it into the office for the day but instead of canceling their interview we were able to schedule telepresence interviews with candidates (Cisco WebEx is a glorious invention and the next best thing when you can't drive to an in-person interview.) Instead of slowing down the week of interviews for our candidates, the snow storm actually created opportunity for our candidates. One of our candidates even received an offer the following Friday which resulted from an interview conducted during the snow storm!
2018 is here; it came in with a huge bang and a huge demand for skilled individuals in the Tech industry. Unfortunately, the new year didn't bring in enough talent to fill those openings. I will continue to rally with my fellow recruiters and urge the decision makers in my world seek out the right candidate with a sense of urgency. I'm ready to match your sense of urgency while I work to find you that purple squirrel.
ABS Staffing Services Manager, Caitlin Johnson, is responsible for recruiting top talent for ABS and ABS clients. She leverages her large network to place candidates in the right roles based upon their culture requirements,and technical aptitude.


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Fantastic Tips And Advice For Burgeoning Wine Connoissuers
What do you know about wine? Perhaps you would like to know some good places to buy good wine. Maybe you would like to know what wines go with certain foods. Whatever you want to know, this article is about to provide you with more information regarding wine and its opportunities.
To choose the best wine to compliment any meal you must know what type of wine goes with the different types of meat. One of the easiest ways to remember which wine to choose is to match the color wine with the color of meat. For example, most red wines pair beautifully with red meat such as beef; while white wines work well with white meats like fish or chicken.
Try not to exclusively drink the best wine that you can find at all times. Sometimes, you will notice that some of the best tasting wines are medium grade and not the crème of the crop. Explore all types of wine and try them with different meals to determine your favorites.
You should write down a few notes after trying a new wine. Make sure you write down the name of the wine, its origin and the year as well as your impressions. It will be hard to remember what a wine tasted like, especially if you attend wine tastings and try many different wines in the same day.
Do you need a wine all your guests will enjoy? Instead of choosing a rare wine people might not appreciate, choose a Beaujolais, a Chilean, a Sauvignon or a Cava from Spain. These wines are easy to find and offer enough diversity to remain interesting for connoisseurs without making novices feel like they are sophisticated enough to enjoy the wine.
Take a blind taste test of a few wines. Judge them on flavor, scent and boldness. Ignore the most sought after qualities like price or the winery's region. Tasting blindly is a great way to get your honest opinion on the wine itself, without getting tricked by the hype that sometimes goes into certain varieties.
Look at the entire wine store. Do not just stay in one aisle. Some stores are better organized than others, and you may even find some great deals in a section that you may not normally look in. Take some time to explore it. Surveying the store can help you avoid missing anything.
When purchasing a wine for dinner tonight, make sure to ask in the store if the wine is ready to drink. Some wines need to age in order for their true flavor to come out. This might mean months or even years should go by before the bottle is enjoyed. By asking if the wine is ready to drink, you have a better chance of walking out with a bottle you will enjoy.
Anytime you purchase wine, your personal taste should be the most important factor. There are countless experts out there who state that one type of wine is better because of the area or winery it comes from, but everyone has a different palate. Don't worry about your image, buy the wines you most enjoy. The point is to do what makes you happy, not what someone else says is best.
A good tip if you're interested in learning more about wines is to simply do your homework on them. Do as much reading as you can about wines and the industry, and before you know it, you'll be the most knowledgeable person about wines among all of your friends.
A nice Pinot Noir is a wonderful wine to use when having a dinner party. This wine pairs very easily with a variety of foods and side dishes, and it is not too bold or sweet. This is also a type of wine that many people are familiar with, meaning your guests are more likely to enjoy it.
When buying wine for dinner, take into consideration the food you will be serving. As a general rule, red wines pair well with beef based dishes, while white wines work well with seafood and vegetarian dishes. If you are not sure about which wine to pair with your meal, ask at your local wine store to receive a little help.
If you have a wine cellar and you need a bottle for a party of special occasion, do not bring it upstairs until the day of the event. Wine needs to be brought up the day of the event in order to reach room temperature. But, bringing it up to soon could ruin the wine.
Now that you know a little more about how to incorporate wine into your life, it's time to get started. Perhaps you want to select the right wine on your next date, or maybe you want to start your own wine collection. Now you should have a good idea as to how to go about doing that.


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With the 2017 Major League Baseball season kicking off in just a few days, Sparta Consulting Group is ready to play some ball — and not on the baseball field! Check out these awesome maxims that will motivate you to give it your all at the office this season!
"When the pitcher throws you a curve ball, foul it off— stay in the game!"
Attitude is half of the game. One thing you can count on at work is curve balls. Out of the blue. Be prepared to meet unexpected challenges with flexibility, even enthusiasm.
"Like the best ball players, play with passion, never hold back, play to win."
Extend yourself beyond your own limitations—surprise yourself every day with a new all-time success average (ATSA).
"Every game starts fresh, every time at-bat a new start, and every pitch a batter's chance to hit a home run."
Every day is a new day at the office. It is up to you to approach opportunity ready to make the play. Your value to the team is dependent on your actions on each play [each day].
"Everyone on the team has a role."
In order for a team to win, each player must play his or her best on every play.
"In baseball, failing seven out of ten times means you're hitting .300, which is a good batting average!"
Failure is a part of business just like it is in baseball. Everyone has successes and failures. The key is learning from your mistakes. Working on whatever you can fix. And supporting your teammates during hard times.
"You can't steal second base without taking your foot off of first."
Stealing bases takes guts. Focus, stealth, and speed. Business opportunities present themselves all the time. It's all about being ready to take a risk. Keep your eyes open. Be aware of what's happening around you. Be ready to sprint in a flash. If you aren't open to taking the risk, opportunity will whiz right past.
"Heads up. Keep your eye on the ball!"
Whether on the field or in the office, your value to the team is dependent on your actions on every play. Sometimes it's not just about you and your own work, it's about how your efforts fit in with all of the efforts of your team. Keep your eye on every play!
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David Pocock, the Zimbabwe-born climate-change activist, nature lover, gay-rights supporter, and owner of chickens, may just be the biggest character of them all.
"We have a diverse range," Stephen Moore, the Australia captain who was born in Saudi Arabia to Irish parents, said on Monday. "Some guys are cutting around on segways after the game and he (Pocock) is watching David Attenborough."
Pocock is usually found at the bottom of a ruck, having made pinching opposition ball an art form. He's the master of the turnover and causing chaos at the breakdown, and one of the biggest reasons why the Wallabies have made it through to play New Zealand in the trans-Tasman final at Twickenham on Saturday.
But there's so much more to this piece of Australian granite.
Maybe the non-conformist in Pocock was shaped by his upbringing on a Zimbabwe farm in the 1990's. He was there when his parents' home was seized by the administration of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, and heard about local people who had been killed. It forced his family to emigrate — and Australia was the destination.
Rugby soon entered his life, but he makes sure it doesn't define him.
Pocock is a patron of "SAVE African Rhino Foundation." He is the co-founder of Eightytwenty Vision , a non-profit organization that assists communities in Zimbabwe in becoming self-sufficient. He says that he and his partner, Emma, will not wed until there are equal marriage rights for gay people in Australia, and complained to a referee during the Super Rugby season about anti-gay abuse from an opponent.
When it comes to his off-the-field antics, Pocock is perhaps most famous for an incident last year when he was arrested after chaining himself to a super-digger machine during a protest against a coal mine being constructed in a state forest in northern New South Wales.
He had never previously participated in non-violent direct action, concerned about the impact on his rugby career, but chose to act "to further the conversation about climate change and engage more people in helping to shape what is all of our futures."
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Cheika has had barely a year in charge of the Wallabies but he has managed to get this random bunch of players working toward one common goal — success at the Rugby World Cup.
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Thank you to everybody who helped to make our 2018 Christmas Fair a huge success! We had a fantastic turnout, despite the rain, and all of the money that we made will be going back to support the school. Scroll down for details of our generous sponsors and go right to the end for photo galleries from the event, including a grotto walk-through.
The fair took place on Saturday 1st December from 10 am until 2 pm. We offered the following range of stalls and activities:
Christmas Craft Market (The Chapel): we held an atmospheric Christmas craft market in in the chapel, selling a range of beautiful gifts and handmade crafts.
Flea Market (Schuman Hall): good quality toys, books and games at bargain prices.
Food & Drink (Canteen): loads of festive food and drink, including hot chocolate and cakes, plus a wide range of delicious home cooked mains for lunch.
Santa's Grotto (Drama Studio): children were able to meet Father Christmas in his magical grotto and ride with him in his sleigh.
Magic Show (Room 5 - next to The Chapel): Magic Bob gave three fantastic 40 minute performances.
Class Stalls (outdoors): every class had the opportunity to run their own stall and make some money.
Christmas Raffle (The Chapel): we had loads of amazing prizes, including hampers donated by each class, gifts and vouchers from our professional stallholders and donations from our generous sponsors.
Thank you to all of our sponsors who donated prizes for the raffle - we greatly appreciated everything that was given! Scroll down for a full prize listing.
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As many as 45,000 students will appear the JEE Main 2017 test, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), in Odisha today.
The entrance will be held in two sittings. The paper-I starts at 9.30 am-12.30 pm and the second sitting will start at 2 pm to 5 pm for paper-II.
The exam is being conducted at 82 centres in Odisha including Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Balasore, Sambalpur, Rourkela and Berhampur amid tight security.
The students are asked not to bring papers, calculators, watches and mobile phones to the exam hall.
The candidates after qualifying the test will be eligible for admission into engineering courses at the top institutes like IIT, NIT, IIIT and government and private-run engineering colleges.
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Here in Iowa we did see a little snow this week but it did not stick. I am definitely not ready for it. I did take the opportunity to use this challenge to make my mother's Christmas card...She loves snow "people". If you want to play along please go here: http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/is-it-snowing-at-sweet-stampin.html
Even if you do not want to play, they had 207 entries last week and that is a lot of eye candy to look at if you like to check out other people's stuff. The hats, scarves, and heart are all paper pieced. The image is by Dilly Beans. My mom is going to love this!


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Energy Efficiency the Answer for the Economy and Climate Change
THE UK's CarbonTrust released a new report at the end of the UN's COP22 climate talks in Marrakech last week which shows how critical energy efficiency is to battling climate change and expand economies.
The Trust states that despite the availability of the technology and the energy cost savings possible, energy efficiency remains an area of enormous untapped potential. The report calls for an urgent need to increase investment in energy efficiency and ensure sufficient levels of funding are directed towards creating a supportive environment to mobilise this capital investment.
The report lays out the argument: "The IEA estimates that to achieve a 2°C scenario, energy efficiency must account for 38% of total cumulative emissions reductions to 2050 (compared to 32% projected for renewables) and require global spending on energy efficiency to reach $550 billion a year by the 2030s. In 2015, multi-lateral development banks (MDBs) committed just $2.9 billion to energy efficiency programmes. This investment was less than half the amount invested in renewables, at just 14% of their climate change mitigation investments."
"The most cost effective way of tackling climate change is through energy efficiency," said the Director at the Carbon Trust and report author Simon Retallack.
He added: "Yet too little is being invested in it and the programmes that are being funded are frequently not having the impact they should. Public funding from multi-lateral developments and governments has a critical role to play, but there needs to be a change in approach. To succeed with energy efficiency, more needs to be invested in getting the right policies in place to drive change and in providing the technical support companies and households need to deploy energy efficient technology at scale. Making capital available for investment is not enough. Demand for it needs to be stimulated and a pipeline of projects created."
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Considerations for the development and implementation of electronic immunization registries in Africa
Considerations for the development and implementation of electronic immunization registries in Africa
Apophia Namageyo-Funa1,&, Anita Samuel1, Peter Bloland1, Adam Macneil1
1Global Immunization Division, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Apophia Namageyo-Funa, Global Immunization Division, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
While paper-based immunization registries are the prevalent form of documenting individual-level immunization service delivery in Africa, some countries are interested in transitioning to electronic immunization registries (EIRs) which have the potential to transform immunization data into useable information for decision making to optimize the performance of immunization programs. This report discusses opportunities and challenges in the adoption of EIRs in the African continent.
Traditionally, immunization data at the health facility level have been collected and managed using paper-based tools, including registry books, tally sheets, and summary reports, which are not readily analyzed and accessible to provide input for program decisions. However, in recent years there has been an explosion of information and communications technology (ICT) [1] that presents new opportunities for collection, management and use of immunization data at both the individual and aggregate level. While ICT terminology may differ, depending on the user and context, for clarity we have provided a list of definitions for this report (Table 1). At the most basic level, immunization registries (IRs) are systems that collect and report individual-level vaccine administration record data and can be paper-based (PBIR) or electronic (EIRs). Limited data are available on the experiences of establishing and developing EIRs in Africa [2, 3]. The stage of development and implementation of EIRs varies by country and most activities are at early stages of implementation [2, 4]. While some countries have EIRs that are stand alone, others have IRs that are integrated as immunization modules within other parts of an electronic medical records system within a facility [5]. This comment article discusses opportunities and challenges in the adoption of EIRs in the African continent (Table 2). EIRs have the potential to facilitate the collection and analysis of individual-level vaccine administration data, which can transform this data into usable information to support programmatic decision making for improving the quality of immunization service delivery [6]. In particular, EIRs have the potential to facilitate data exchange and sharing within and across systems and stakeholders, which offers opportunities at the point of service delivery to help parents and healthcare workers track children to ensure they receive all needed vaccines and opportunities for staff managing district, regional and national immunization programs to identify populations at high risk for vaccine preventable diseases to target interventions and resources efficiently and effectively. However, there are also many challenges associated with implementing EIRs. Knowing and understanding the challenges helps inform the successful development and implementation of EIRs.
�Awareness and reaching a common understanding: to be successful, moving from a PBIR to an EIR requires knowledge acquisition and sharing to occur among stakeholders at different levels in the health system, including representatives from clinical care, public health and information technology (IT) sectors. The technical language and terminology used when discussing development and implementation of EIRs might not be understood in the same way by experts from the different sectors. For example, the way in which a term such as "interoperability" is conceptualized or understood within the public health and clinical care sectors might be quite different than the way it is conceptualized or understood within the IT sector. Clear definitions of terms to ensure a common understanding of the technical language used is critical to developing and implementing an EIR. The development team should be well acquainted with the experiences of other countries [2-4], including challenges, successes and any identified missed opportunities that might inform the development team about what does or does not work and why as they plan the design, development and implementation of an EIR.
�Considerations on timing and process: there is no "one size fits all" approach, as every country has a unique context in which its immunization information system operates. However, there are important national level questions that need to be addressed and programmatic activities that should occur prior to the adoption of an EIR. For instance: does an immunization registry already exist and is it effective? Is it the appropriate time to move to an electronic system (e.g. availability of IT infrastructure, human and financial resources to support implementation)? What are the pros and cons of a PBIR vs an EIR? What are the pros and cons of a standalone vs an integrated system? What is the process for development of the system requirements? An initial step is ensure that the overall immunization information system is well described and documented from health facility to national level, including gaps and future needs. As health workers at the health facility would be the first level users of an EIR, understanding how their workflow operates would minimize the potential for additional burden of reporting. During the initial phase of implementation, a hybrid approach to EIR adoption might be used, with EIRs adopted in settings, such as in urban health centers, while keeping continuity of the PBIR everywhere else. Ensuring the support and ownership of the development and implementation process by the Ministry of Health should be considered as well as aligning efforts with overall country health information system needs.
�Functional standards: with the technology advancements in ICT, numerous options exist for countries to develop, adopt, and implement EIRs. No global consensus exists around functional standards that define the answers to such questions as: what is the minimum set of data elements that are required for an effectively functional EIR? What is the minimum set of functional capabilities that an effective EIR needs to have? What are the required data sharing standards (e.g. information exchange, archiving information, protecting privacy)? A globally accepted set of functional standards would help guide system development, whether commercial products or "home-grown" systems, while better ensuring data quality, analysis, and ability to transmit and share information between information systems and with stakeholders. Evidence of country specific standards has been observed in the United States where the American Immunization Registry Association has worked with diverse partners to support registry development, implementation and evaluation [7].
�Information system requirements: information system requirements are a set of instructions to the developer that clearly and specifically describe what the information system needs to be able to do to perform as intended by the users and relevant stakeholders. Articulation of precise information system requirements that are agreed to and clearly understood by all relevant parties is a critical step in moving from PBIRs to EIRs. The requirements also ensure that the final product meets the needs of the national immunization program and Ministry of Health, and adheres to any globally accepted functional standards. It is important to ensure that a Service Level Agreement is created with the vendor or system developer in order to ensure that the information system requirements can be met. Information system upgrades might be necessary when a new vaccine is introduced or additional data elements are desired. However, before adding new data elements, a review of data currently collected must occur to determine if it can be used to achieve programmatic goals.
�Integration with other information systems: while an EIR predominantly contains patient-level vaccine administration data, it also serves as a source for aggregation to create synergies with other information systems. In particular, linkage of EIRs with Civil Registration and Vital Systems or other information systems focused on maternal and child health (e.g., newborn metabolic screening programs) could be used to create electronic birth registries which could improve estimates of target populations and tracking of other child health interventions [8]. Linking of EIR with other information systems could also enhance cost-effectiveness and sustainability. Immunization-related modules have been included in some patient medical record systems not focused specifically on immunizations [5]. These modules, however, were often add-ons not developed specifically to meet the needs of the immunization stakeholder users. As a result, such modules have been infrequently used by health facility staff or used in parallel to existing paper-based systems, thus increasing the burden of data collection on facility staff. Reasons for not using the electronic system or using both electronic and paper systems vary but might include lack of or unreliable electricity, lack of time, or lack of available staff. Integration of immunization modules within an existing electronic medical record system can serve to facilitate the transition from a PBIR to an EIR and the use of the data by relevant stakeholders if developed carefully. To effectively link and sustain EIRs with other information systems, protocols must be in place on how data are shared and protected. Approaches on data sharing and protection that have been widely used include data sharing agreements, security protocols and levels of user access of the system for privacy [9]. As patient-level data are inherently vulnerable, security layers will need to be added to the data that is commonly used public health aggregated data. Also the efficient use of existing hardware and infrastructure can be leveraged.
While PBIRs are the prevalent form of documenting immunization service delivery, there is an interest among countries in transitioning from PBIRs to EIRs. The availability of EIRs could offer many advantages for data use in program planning and decision making. Transitioning from PBIRs to EIRs will improve the work flow and decrease the disruptions to the delivery of immunization services. Even with this aim in mind, some countries use both paper-based and electronic systems in parallel [5]. Countries within Africa are at different stages in the development and implementation of EIRs. The applicability of the opportunities and challenges described above may vary based on the country context and stage of implementation-some countries are having initial discussions on the topic, some are piloting EIRs, while others are exploring building on existing electronic medical record systems. As more countries explore and share their experiences with developing and implementing EIRs, collection of evidence from Africa and the lessons learned will guide other countries in Africa and elsewhere on transitioning from PBIRs.
The authors declare no competing interests.
The authors have equally contributed to the content of this manuscript. All the authors have read and agreed to the final manuscript.
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Building a Healthy Mindset for Teachers
Revamping the thought process behind the milestones and roadblocks within the career of an educator can be a restorative practice.
While every day as an educator may not be picture perfect, there is certainly a lot to be said for entering the profession with a glass half full mindset. Education is a career with a bevy of expectations, and the biggest takeaways from heading down this professional path are not the monetary ones. While every year, quarter, day, and class period hold their own uniqueness, there are also some milestones that every teacher will encounter on a regular basis.
With careers lasting 30+ years, there are a lot of cyclical milestones, and there are also a lot of opportunities to make mindset adjustments upon encountering them. There are also situations that may not be cyclical, but they could use a healthy dose of mindful realignment. When the replaying of the negatives is the loudest voice in an educator's head, burnout or a lackluster attitude are the likeliest results. To build a healthy mindset, practicing the application of a positive spin can do wonders for the psyche and career longevity.
Examples of Healthy Mindset Shifts
Negative Mindset — I cannot wait for Parent-Teacher Conferences to be done.
Healthy Shift — I am glad I have a set time to connect with parents and help reinforce a team effort for ensuring student success.
Negative Mindset — Twenty years closer to retirement!
Healthy Shift — Fifteen more years to make a difference in students' lives!
Negative Mindset — I can't handle another new program, curriculum, set of initiatives, etc.
Healthy Shift — I am fortunate to work in a district that recognizes the importance of forward thinking and preparing students for an ever-changing future.
Negative Mindset — Working with _____ is going to be the end of me.
Healthy Shift — While I may not agree with _____'s opinions and/or methods, I can respect our differences and be open-minded when we interact.
Negative Mindset — These large class sizes are making it impossible for me to teach.
Healthy Shift — Working with bigger groups allows for more opinions and perspectives to enlighten the learning process for all.
Negative Mindset — If I have to attend another IEP, 504, RTI meeting, I'm going to scream.
Healthy Shift — Being part of a team that has a common goal of ensuring student success is very rewarding.
Negative Mindset — I cannot be effective with these limited resources.
Healthy Shift — While it's challenging to work with limited resources, it gives me an opportunity to show students how to make the best use of what's available and think outside the box.
By trying out these healthy shifts for viewing milestones and roadblocks, a more positive mindset and a happier countenance are likely to result. There is a lot to be said for changing one's perspective to gain a fresh outlook. Education is a beyond rewarding profession, and sometimes looking at its intricacies through a new lens can be just what's needed to remind teachers of their reasons for entering it.
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Earthwise Beauty products are always a staple in my skincare routine. If you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen me sharing their products as a part of my skincare regime regularly.
Why do I like this brand so much? (If you're new to this brand, what should you know about Earthwise Beauty?)
Earthwise Beauty is a luxury organic skincare brand that formulates unique skincare products from raw, organic, unrefined botanical ingredients. I have been using Earthwise Beauty products for over a year now and most of the products that I have used from this brand have become must-haves for me. If you'll ask me what do I particularly like about this brand, I don't think I'll be able to pinpoint any one thing like just the products are outstanding; or they are made with an uncompromising approach with absolutely no fillers; or because Ava, the founder, shares almost everything about how each product was conceptualized, to the sourcing and the supplier, etc.; or what steps they ensure to make Earthwise Beauty an eco-friendly brand, etc. Ava doesn't make any tall and high claims about her products working overnight; instead she encourages to use her products consistently to experience their effects. Each product I have tried from this brand has such a meticulous and unique selection of ingredients and the anecdote behind each product and why Ava decided to create that product (mentioned on the website) is completely enthralling! Even the fragrances and the aroma – you'll not find them to be floral or feminine; in fact, they are naturally derived from the ingredients/herbs that constitute the products; so they are quite raw and herby. So even if you pick any one product from Earthwise Beauty, you can establish the authenticity, transparency, and sincerity of this brand.
I have reviewed Earthwise Beauty products in the past too (in my favorite skincare blog posts). But Ava formulated couple of new products (Yasuni Balm and Thelma Lip Treatment) lately and kindly sent them to me after they were released with their new labels. Along with the two new releases, I tried two more products from their range. The four new products I have tried from Earthwise Beauty products are Yasuni Balm, Thelma Lip Treatment, Cistus & Moonlight Face Mist, and Sungod mask.
Yasuni Balm
When Ava started talking about Yasuni face balm on social media platform, I was pretty excited because it seemed she was creating a custom made face balm for my skin. I received this emollient balm some couple of months ago, and initially I used it intermittently (because I wanted to finish some old products); but I felt drawn toward it. So for the last one month I have been using it pretty regularly and now I am literally addicted.
Yasuni Balm is made without any essential oils and is specially designed as a featherlight balm perfect for sensitive, oily, and acne-prone skin. Yasuni is based on fruit oils, like açai oil and buriti oil, that have particularly high and wide-ranging phytonutrient levels and enzymatic action; and it works similarly to a retinol on the skin, sans any redness or irritation generally caused by retinol products. Plus it's supported with hydrating marula oil and cupuaçu butter, firming tucuma butter, deeply penetrating bacuri butter, sun-damage-correcting raspberry oil, and revitalizing cranberry oil.
The balm has a very unique texture, which looks quite solid in the jar but warms up and melts miraculously in contact with the skin. It smells wonderful too and personally, it acts as a nerve-relieving and a relaxing agent for me. The ritual of applying this balm is, I guess, my favorite part because as I massage Yasuni on my face my skin feels so soft; I love touching my skin after. In terms of efficacy, I have seen lot of gradual improvement in my skin. Since my skin is oily, I'm prone to blackheads on my nose. In fact, I had quite a few blackheads before I started using Yasuni. But I have noticed the blackheads have really reduced now. The second thing I noticed is that during the day time now my skin doesn't look that shiny and oily. The number of breakouts have reduced too but I can't attribute it to just this one product because I use treatment products at night too. The effects of Yasuni balm are gradual but they are really visible if you use it consistently. Yasuni is supposed to be a little mattifying balm; however, my husband mentioned that my oily skin looks a bit shiny after some time. Considering the benefits of using Yasuni, I don't mind it but that's precisely the reason I use Yasuni as a part of my evening skincare routine and prefer Nap in the Meadow and Ambrosia Del Cerrado during the day time. But I'm pretty certain I'll enjoy it more in the approaching colder months.
Thelma Lip Treatment
Thelma is a deeply penetrating, ultra healing balm. Ava was pretty assiduous and meticulous while developing this lip balm. The mega-penetrating qualities of Thelma come from the South African mafura butter and the Brazilian bacuri butter – both ingredients used as heal-alls for wounds, eczema, and dry, cracked skin. Plus the addition of Brazil nut oil and mango kernel butter help in enhancing the smoothness and elasticity of the lip tissue. If you are used to a thick coating from a lip balm that stays on and on; it's recommended to apply the protective type of balm over Thelma.
Thelma, a vegan lip treatment, is a soft and a fluffy balm targeted to radically heal the lip tissue. And it truly does heal cracked lips. I love wearing lipsticks almost every day; and usually by the end of the day, I find matte lipsticks make my lips look cracked and very dry (and sometimes start peeling too). Thelma has helped in healing my cracked lips on several occasions. It's true, it doesn't provide a thick coating like other lip balms I'm accustomed to; nonetheless, it tremendously helps in healing the lip tissues. I love its lightweight texture that glides on the lips without any effort and gives it a glossy appearance in the beginning. But in some time, Thelma absorbs into my lips leaving it very soft and smooth; and heals my cracked lips overnight. Scent and flavor wise – it's quite subtle, feels a little nutty and chocolate-y to me! The subtle scent and flavor of Thelma were achieved using plant butters with notes of caramel and cocoa.
Cistus & Moonlight Face Mist
Cistus & Moonlight is an interesting face mist. Its main ingredient, Cistus ladanifer, is considered to be the best essential oil for skin firmness and it is directly sourced from Portugal (by an artisan distiller of wild cistus). The Portuguese beauty water is then infused under the full moon overnight. The moonlight amplifies the healing properties that correspond to the yin, or feminine element. Cistus hydrosol is quite beneficial for mature skin types as it provides skin firmness and is pore minimizing, anti-bacterial and anti-acne. Ava ensured that only minimal additions were made to this hydrosol to reap the full benefits and aroma of cistus.
I find Cistus & Moonlight mist to be very interesting because it's probably the first mist/toner that actually helped with my open pores issue on my cheeks and around my nose. Frankly, I wasn't expecting it to be a visible attribute of a toner (because you would generally expect such impressive results from serums, elixirs, and such); but I was quite surprised to see the subtle pore minimizing effects after persistent use. The mist is definitely very hydrating (and soothing) but not in a sticky way. In terms of aroma, it's quite unique; something I didn't fall for quickly, but after few uses it has kind of grown on me. Now I reach out for the mist almost every morning and really enjoy its multifaceted skincare benefits.
Sungod Mask
"Quite an intriguing name" came to my mind first (just like most of the names of Earthwise Beauty products). Formulated with sun associative botanicals (that correspond to the third chakra in the body, the solar plexus); Sungod mask is a soft powder yellow-colored mask that is designed to gradually improve and heal the skin over time. It's not a flash mask. However, having said that, it includes some really extraordinary range of ingredients like, sunflowers, calendulas, wildflower pollen, turmeric root, and; hard-studied anti-cancer plants, maitake and shiitake mushrooms, flower pollen, and goldenseal. This mask helps in rebuilding skin tissue that is compromised, damaged from environmental factors, sensitized, or unhealthy.
I had received a sample jar of this mask with the package; and I have used it only few times. But I'm so impressed with its performance. The mask is in a fine, soft powder form but it's not chalky or pasty. When I mixed it with Cistus & Moonlight Face Mist, I could see the grounded herbs and not a powdery paste. Sungod mask may not offer any quick effect (as mentioned on the website) but I could feel slight tingling when I applied this mask. It's quite a potent mask and what I really loved was the instant blood circulation it gave to my skin. My skin looked slightly flushed after rinsing off the mask but it dissipated after couple of minutes. It was not irritating for my sensitive skin at all. What I also noticed was how well this mask prepped my skin for the following skincare routine. The serums that generally require a bit of massage absorbed into my skin without much effort.
Have you tried Earthwise Beauty products?


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• The Schedule
Friday-Sunday May 4-6 at 3 p.m., 2 p.m., 1 p.m.
UCSB Gauchos vs. CSUN Matadors
at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium
All-time record vs. the Matadors: 82-60-3
The last meeting: April 9, 2017 - CSUN 10, UCSB 8
• Projected Starting Pitchers
Pitcher (Record, ERA) Fast Fact
Fri. - RHP Chris Lincoln (2-2, 2.19)...Opposing hitters are batting just .164 with two outs.
Sat. - RHP Stevie Ledesma (5-2, 2.55)...Has won 4 of his 6 starts (4-1) with a 1.93 ERA over 37.1 IP.
Sun. TBD
• The Gauchos' Record
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• The Week in Review
The Gauchos claimed two out of three games from UC Riverside last weekend, winning 9-8 in 12 innings on Friday and 14-2 on Saturday, before falling 14-10 in 11 innings on Sunday. On Tuesday, UCSB won a 9-5 decision at Cal State Bakersfield.
• A Series of Fortunate Events
The Gauchos have a solid 16-8-1 record at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium this season and since opening the year with a 5-5-1 record at home they have gone 13-3. In fact, since losing back-to-back home series to Texas State and Sacramento State in March, UCSB has claimed four consecutive series by sweeping San Jose State, taking two of three from Cal State Fullerton, sweeping UTRGV and winning two out of three against UC Riverside. Earlier in the season, the Gauchos took two of three from Penn State, so overall, they have a 5-2 record in weekend series.
• Picking Up the Offense
Overall, UCSB is batting .262 and averaging 5.7 runs per game, but in the last four games the offense has started to heat up. In their last three games, the Gauchos have collected 49 hits in 157 at bats, a more-than-solid .312 batting average while averaging 10.5 runs per game. Of the 49 hits, there have been nine doubles, two triples and four home runs. Over that span, UCSB has collected 17 walks and been hit by 10 pitches and its on-base percentage is .406. Finally, in the last four games, the Gauchos have stolen 10 bases, more than a quarter of their season total.
• The Kids are OK
The 2018 Gaucho roster is one of the youngest in school history. UCSB has 15 freshmen and eight sophomores, a total of 23 underclassmen, on a roster of 32 players, 71.9%. Among field players, freshmen and sophomores have made 228 of 360 starts, 63.3%, and among pitchers, they have made 25 of the 40 starts, 62.5%, and 81 of 147 total appearances, 55.7%.
• Jew Named Player of the Week
Sophomore center fielder Tommy Jew became the first UCSB player this season to be named Big West Field Player of the Week after helping the Gauchos win two of three games from UC Riverside last weekend. In the three games against the Highlanders, Jew went 9-for-15 (.600), had a slugging percentage of 1.067, scored six runs and had seven RBI. The San Ramon, Calif., native also contributed two doubles, a triple and his third home run of the season. In Friday's 9-8 12-inning victory, Jew produced his first 4-hit performance of the series, finishing 4-for-5, and with the Gauchos trailing 8-6 in the 11th, Jew cranked an up-and-in pitch over the scoreboard in left field to knot the game at 8-8. In Saturday's 14-2 victory, he went 4-for-4 and collected a career-high five RBI.
• Top of the Order Gets it Done
Tommy Jew was a big part of UCSB's big offensive weekend against UC Riverside, but he had company. The Gauchos had the same top four in the batting order for each of the games. Andrew Martinez batted first, Clay Fisher second, Jew third and Thomas Rowan clean-up. Combined, the foursome collected 26 hits in 60 at bats, .433, with 21 runs scored, 14 RBI, four walks, six doubles, a triple and a home run. Individually, Jew was 9-for-15 (.600), Fisher was 9-of-16 (.562), Martinez was 4-13 (.308) and Rowan was 4-for-16 (.250). Rowan currently has the longest hitting streak of any Gaucho at seven consecutive games, while Fisher has the second longest at five in a row.


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Elli is one of Vodafone's latest intakes to its two year Commercial Graduate Scheme. Graduates can choose from one of the business' six core areas – digital, business, technology, commercial, finance and HR. During the programme you will rotate through the different departments within your chosen area of specialism.
After studying Geography at the University of Glasgow Elli soon realised she didn't want to pursue a career directly related to her degree.
She said, "I decided to look for a graduate scheme that allowed me to rotate in different business areas and gain some commercial experience – Vodafone fitting that bill perfectly."
With the scheme being in such high demand, Vodafone has to make sure they take on the right graduates for the business.
Elli commented: "You can expect an initial application form, followed by online tests, a video interview and if successful after those rounds, you are invited to an assessment centre that lasts half a day. I had a morning assessment centre and it consisted of a group exercise, a presentation to an assessor and finally a one to one interview."
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Our lives are filled with trivial distractions masquerading as urgent necessities.
Did you really need to check Facebook this morning when you woke up? Or text a friend while driving to work? What is it that makes you compulsively check your phone in the midst of a conversation?
When was the last time you spent an hour entirely focused on one thought, one task, one book, one person?
Because of the obvious and immense benefits the internet brings us, it has quickly become the context of our lives – not always to our advantage.
Addiction is the relentless pull to a substance or an activity that becomes so compulsive it ultimately interferes with everyday life. By that definition, nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet. It has arguably replaced work itself as our most socially sanctioned addiction.
And it is is the motherlode of all distraction:
"The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention," Nicholas Carr explains in his book "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains." "We willingly accept the loss of concentration and focus, the division of our attention and the fragmentation of our thoughts, in return for the wealth of compelling or at least diverting information we receive."
What is it that ought to be our focus? What is it that actually deserves our undivided attention?
For when we lose touch with that for which we were created, we'll find ourselves spiraling into a frantic confusion, distracting ourselves with one stimulus after another from the disturbing hollowness of life.
If you've ever found yourself in such a place, Lent comes as an unexpected gift.
These seven weeks leading up to Good Friday and Easter – when we remember and focus on the Cross and the Resurrection, when we are together reflecting on what Jesus has done for us – these seven weeks are an invitation to slow down, to stop, to be attentive to what is actually essential.
Lent invites us to be attentive to reality.
There is a great and marvelous story going on right now, around us, in which we are full and necessary participants.
The story begins in the love of God overflowing into beauty and creativity a long, long time ago, and it continues right here and now in us, around us.
It's your story, it's my story.
It's our story.
But most of all, it's the story of our good Creator God who is Three-in-One, whose astonishing love overflowed into speaking us into existence. He created us to be in community with himself – Father, Son & Holy Spirit, and with each other. And then he made his home with us in an amazing world filled with wonder.
It's the story of how goodness and beauty and truth collapsed into unfathomably dark evil when we chose to trust ourselves instead of our Creator.
And then it is the story of what our gracious Redeemer chose to do about the deep darkness into which we fell.
And finally it is the story of our glorious King rescuing us – his rebellious, distrustful, sinful, arrogant and corrupt creation – from evil, and making all things unimaginably new and marvelous and good.
Perhaps the most astonishing aspect of this great story is that our King – having redeemed us – then turns around and trusts us with the mission-critical task of reconciliation, of restoration, of making all things new.
We are loved by him, redeemed by him, filled by him, trusted by him.
We are commanded by him to set aside the infinitely seductive distractions of the present age that entice us into forgetting our true story.
And we are invited by him to focus all of who we are toward following him into his mission of reconciling the world to himself in Jesus.
We begin by loving each other as he loves us. And as we do, we find astonishing power in that love to bring the glorious gospel of the Redeemer King to all creation.
It's a wonderful story!
It's the one true epic from which every great myth and legend and fairy-tale and film draws its themes.
But we have forgotten it.
We have directed our attention instead to ten thousand trivial fantasies that distract us with the seductive promise of selfish pleasure, idolatrous fame and private profit.
It's time to remember.
During this season of Lent, we will immerse ourselves in select passages from God's own Word that guide us into his story. We're going to read large parts of the Bible together, and remember again who our God is, who we are, and what we are to be about.
We're entering into the attentive life.
We're seeking to be attentive to God, in his story.
We're seeking to be attentive to each other, discovering who we truly are, learning to love one another as God loves us.
We're seeking to be attentive to the world around us as we engage with the mission God has called us into.
Let the words that have shaped the people of God for millennia enter into you, and form you.
May the Creator, Redeemer and King, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit grace you.
May he open the eyes of your heart to see his love for you and for the world around you.
May he strengthen you to follow him faithfully into his redeeming mission with heart and mind and soul and strength.


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Last week I wrote about the volunteering portion of our recent trip to Cuba, and today it's more about the fun things we did on our free time. Mike and I, along with another couple arrived two days earlier than the group, and we stayed on four days longer after everyone else had returned home. My husband plans out these trips, and he really can't relax while the group is all there. So, we have learned to go early and stay late in order for him to have some actual vacation.
We took two separate day trips to Havana, which is about a two-hour drive from where we were staying in Varadero. Havana is a beautiful old city, and it has a lot of energy.
We spent time in the old section, and I am thrilled that they have placed so much emphasis in restoring the buildings. A couple in our group had been there five years ago, and they saw major improvements this time. That makes me so happy. I am all for restoring the old.
We stopped by some of Ernest Hemingway's famous hangouts. They were packed, but it was still really cool to be someplace that he felt was special. His home, which is located outside of Havana, is open for tours, but we just didn't have time to go there. Maybe on our next visit……..
We stopped by the famous National Hotel, and toured the bunker that is located on their property. We also had afternoon tea there, but it ended up being afternoon coffee because they were out of tea.
When we took outings, we ate our meals in privately owned restaurants as instead of those owned by the government. We literally walked through a little garden door like this one, and ended up in a big restaurant in someone's back yard that was packed with happy people, happy music, and great food.
We saw this guy in one of the restaurants where we ate. I thought he looked just like Jesus, and I asked if we could take our photo with him. He laughed when I told him why. The lady with my is my son's mother-in-law Janet.
The whole country is just loaded with colorful vintage cars. The men really loved them.
One night we rented convertibles and took a moonlight tour of the peninsula where Varadero is located, and then they took us to a delicious private restaurant for dinner.
We also rented a horse and buggy one day for a ride back to the hotel after shopping at the market. The horses were everywhere. People who have figured out how to work hard to make a better living have an easier life in Havana.
We went to Al Capone's Cuban house. He (alledgedly) ran rum to the USA during the prohibition days. His house was right on the water.
This was Al's neighbor.
We also went to the Cuban home of Irenee Dupont de Nemours who founded the Dupont company. It is now a hotel/golf resort/restaurant, but back in the day, it was their vacation retreat. We took a day visit there and then went back for dinner one night.
Its bar was in one of the most beautiful settings I have ever been to. I always try to imagine what these places were like in their hay day when they were used for their intended purpose. I had my best pina colada there.
We did a very touristy thing and visited a crocodile farm, and this man worked there. I loved his weathered look. He kept that baby in his pocket.
These guys were very ugly and probably very hungry.
We also went to the Bay of Pigs, and this is it. It was such a dark time in our history, but it looked very benign in person.
One of the reasons we wanted to get to Cuba now was to get there before it becomes "Americanized." The Russians, Canadians, and Europeans have been going to Cuba on holiday for years, but we fear that American tourists will be more demanding, and with that some of the charm and purity will be lost. This sanitized pristine resort that we saw is a perfect example of what I am talking about. I like to stay where the real travelers stay rather than the tourists. There's a difference.
Mr. Right and I are planning to do a bicycle trip in Cuba, probably next year. Our travel plans and bicycling trips are all planned for this year. It will be a great way to see Cuba from a whole other perspective. I want to write one more post about our trip to Cuba to offer up some travel tips for those of you who plan on going there soon. Meanwhile, you might enjoy this book about it.
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Kauaʻi County Mayor Derek Kawakami delivered his first State of the County address today in Lihuʻe, pointing to aging infrastructure repairs and investments in modernizing county operations as his two policy priorities.
Kawakami also committed to balancing the county's fiscal 2020 budget without new property tax rate or user fee increases.
"We will not raise tax rates on your homes. We will not raise user fees and we will not borrow more money for capital improvement projects," the mayor said.
His budget plan, subject to County Council review, calls for $242 million in operating expenses and $36 million in capital spending. This yearʻs operating budget, he said, includes $25 million in anticipated general excise tax revenues previously approved by the council.
"We will utilize those funds to expand our bus service, repair potholes and fix our roads," he said.
In addition to addressing infrastructure maintenance, Kawakami also plans to invest in modernizing the county's computer and information systems. Other priorities he identified include affordable housing and park improvements.
The mayor also reiterated the county's commitment to maintaining a "rainy day" fund that can be used in the event of an emergency, such as last year's severe flooding in Hanalei.
The full speech can be heard on the Hoʻike Kauai Community Television YouTube channel.


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"Merry Christmas one and all"
Echoed the television down the hall.
All the children were filled with cheer
Yet I just wished to have you here.
I just wanted to hold your hand,
Give you the flower that I'd planned
As your gift for this Christmas Day.
But now it begins to wither away.
The once vibrant petals begin to wilt,
And in my heart I feel the guilt
Of a kind man who had been too quiet.
To afraid to cause a riot.
Because to you I am just a friend,
Just another reliable bookend.
And it makes me bite my tongue
Out of fear that we will be undone;
That our friendship will be submerged
If I tell you those little words.
So please, Saint Nick, grant me this:
The courage to ask her for a kiss.
The courage to be something new.
And the courage to tell her "I love you."
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by Nancy Lindgren
This coming Thursday, on May 4, we celebrate the National Day of Prayer. I love that we can have a day set aside to not only focus on prayer but to actually PRAY.
Prayer is the foundation of MORE Mentoring. It makes all the difference in a mentoring relationship when two people can agree and believe together in prayer. Encouragement flows out of praying together because God is included and He is the best Encourager there is. He brings Hope, Joy and Peace.
Throughout the Bible, there are 4 principles of prayer that seem to stand out above the rest: Praise, Confession, Thanksgiving and Asking. Through prayer, we can have a relationship with God. If we want to grow in our relationship with God, we need to grow in these four areas of prayer. Does your prayer time mainly consist of asking God? Then maybe you could look a little more closely at praising Him, confessing to Him and thanking Him.
There is not a right or wrong way to pray. God looks at your heart. Saying the right words is not so important.
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you. . . Ephesians 1:17-18a
In prayer, we use our eyes to . . .
1. Look up – Look at God. Praise Him for who He is. Look at His attributes and His character. When we start with a focus on God, He becomes greater and our circumstances become much smaller. Praise defeats the enemy.
As they began to sing and praise . . . the enemy was defeated. 2 Chronicles 20:22 (adapted)
2. Look within – Look at my sin and confess it. The only way to be filled with the Spirit is to empty myself of me. There is something powerful about confessing your sins out loud. As we see in James 5:16, it brings healing.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. James 5:16
3. Look around – Look at all the things around you to be thankful for (past, present, future). We can't physically be anxious and thankful at the same time. Look back at the specific things you prayed for and thank God for answering in His perfect way.
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18
4. Look out – Look at Jesus standing before you saying, "What do you want me to do for you?" He wants us to ask Him. Use Scripture. Put a name right into the verse. Be specific. Believe Him. Your faith is what pleases God and moves Him to action.
When he came near, Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord, I want to see," he replied. Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed you." Luke 18:40b-42
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.Hebrews 11:1,6
Conversational prayer is when the two of you go back and forth, keeping your prayers short and simple and in agreement. In a great conversation, one person doesn't go on and on. Both people join in. Listening is a very important part of prayer. God is right there with you in your prayer time. Make sure you take time to listen to Him. Ask Him to show you how to pray. Ask Him what He wants you to know or do.
Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. Matthew 18:19-20
In your mentoring relationship, be sensitive to your mentee. She may not be at a place where she is comfortable praying out loud. That's OK. You can start by praying for her. I encourage you to not just tell her you will pray for her but to actually do it out loud in front of her. It will bring great encouragement to her heart!
(Excerpt from MORE Mentoring: A 12-Session Mentoring Guide for Mentors and Mentees)
I challenge you to find someone to pray with on Thursday and use this wonderful gift – the ministry of prayer – to bring great encouragement to someone's life. It just might be yours!
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