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The International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC) Peer Breastfeeding Counseling Program is September 2015. This training is the result of the ICTC working closely with the African American Breastfeeding Coalition of Oregon (AABCO) where we realized that there is a shortage of African American Peer Breastfeeding Counselors in Oregon. The ICTC was able to respond through funding from the Kaiser Permanente.
The training is 16 hours and the criteria is to learn the historical context of breastfeeding in America for African Americans, the benefits of breastmilk, how to promote breastfeeding and how support Black women who seek to breastfeed and those who are breastfeeding.
The Role of the ICTC Peer Breastfeeding Counselor
- Counsels pregnant and breastfeeding mothers by telephone, home visits, and/or hospital visits at scheduled intervals determined by the family.
- Counsel women in community and faith houses.
- Receives a caseload of ICTC participants and makes routine periodic contacts with all mothers assigned.
- Gives basic breastfeeding information and support to new mothers, including telling them about the benefits of breastfeeding, overcoming common barriers, and getting a good start with breastfeeding. She also helps mothers prevent and handle common breastfeeding concerns.
- Respects each participant by keeping her information strictly confidential.
- Keeps accurate records of all contacts made with ICTC participants.
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Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace has taken to Twitter to ask everyone to pray for her cat Princess who has been moved to a vet hospital with a mystery illness
Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace's pussy has been admitted to an "emergency hospital".
The 38-year-old reality star has taken to Twitter to share the devastating news that her 13-year-old pet cat called Princess is undergoing treatment after her vets' practice failed to solve the mystery illness the feline is suffering with.
Taking to the micro-blogging site on Wednesday (26.04.17), she wrote: "Transporting my darling cat Princess from one Vets to another emergency hospital for pets .... #prayForPrincess 13 years old (sic)"
The buxom blonde later shared a picture of grey-haired Princess in the 'cone of shame', which veterinarians give animals to prevent them from biting or licking wounds.
She captioned the photo with the hash tag, "#PrayforPrincess".
Meanwhile, the fashion designer is clearly out to prove she is much more than a reality star as she shared a recent interview about her now being a multi-millionaire and how she has built her fortune shortly after her posts about her cat.
Speaking about her life since appearing on 'Big Brother' in 2006, she said in the article: "The main thing to be successful, is to be a hustler. I was willing to do absolutely any job, any thing that came up.
"It was a lot, like life changing. It went straight into property. I didn't buy one pair of shoes or handbag, I didn't spoil myself.
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Mekakushi no Kuni
MEKAKUSHI NO KUNI (Land of the Blindfolded) by Sakura Tsukuba
genre: shoujo/fantasy/romance
Story: 10/10
Characters: 10/10
Art: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
– series complete (9 books)
– licensed by CMX
STORY: Kanade Otsuka has the power to sometimes see into people's futures when she touches them. Her power frightens her sometimes because she'll see things she doesn't want to see and when she forsees impending disaster, she'll want to prevent it, no matter what happens to her. Arou Naitou is the opposite of Kanade. He can see into people's pasts and is very laid back about his power as he believes that while he can't do anything to change his powers or other people's pasts, but he can do things to change the effect that the past may have caused on a person. Both, however, each feel a little left out of the world, being the only ones who can enter what they term "invisible worlds" that no one else can see – the worlds of the past and the future. One fateful day, they run into each other and discover that they aren't alone after all. Thus a strong bond is formed between the two- a bond of determination, understanding, friendship, and later, a very powerful love.
While this poignant and heartwrenching series is deeply rooted in romance, Tsukuba also delves a lot into philosophy, using a lot of metaphors, comparing Kanade and Arou to people who live in a land of blindfolded people with their blindfolds off. As Kanade struggles to deal with her desire to help those who have bad things in store for them, Arou stands by her side, faithfully keeping an eye out and providing for her a strong shoulder of support when she loses faith in herself. Their relationship is one of trust and a very deep friendship that undergoes its tests and especially temptations when concerning their powers. Both are given the option of looking into each others' pasts or futures to see what the truth really is when there are doubts instead of upholding faith in each other, which, as anyone who's ever been in a relationship knows, is one of the hardest things to do. Yet, instead of being torn by this, they are united by it. There has not been such a genuine couple in any series, be it anime or manga, in a very long time.
But Arou, Kanade, and later their friend Masahiro also have to overcome the obstacles of prejudice, the fear that people feel towards them when they realize that they have some unnatural abilites, and the capabilities of their own powers. The situations they get into are all relatable in some form or way, as supernatural as some of them are. In addition to all this, Arou and Masahiro also must come to terms with their pretty depressing pasts and with each other when it concerns Kanade. Masahiro provides the last corner of a rather one-sided love triangle, but unlike most love triangles, the boys don't let the fact that they both love the same girl get in the way of their friendship with each other or with the girl. They do get in some pretty silly and amusing situations over her. It's one of the most entertaining parts of this series. There's another girl in the series who I personally feel he makes a great pair with, but we'll see.
Another fact that sets Mekakushi no Kuni apart from other series is that when characters have magical powers, they usually keep it secret from their parents. But in this case, the three protagonists' parents are all aware of their children's abilities and how each of them handle this fact plays an important part in each of their stories and their personalities.
This manga is recommended for everyone. It's a top recommendation for those dark days when it feels like everything that could have possible gone wrong went wrong….sort of like a deeper Ah! Megamisama. It might make some people cry, but that's a given side effect of this heartwarming series.
– Kanade Otsuka: A shy and sweet hearted girl who forgets to think before she acts. Her premonitions of misfortune cause her to want to prevent this impending doom and she becomes so absorbed in this task that she often puts herself in danger. Lucky for her, she has Arou to jump in and save her all the time. She believes that the future is not set in stone and should always be helped. She's quite naive, really, but her naivety is what makes her so pure and strangely believeable.
– Arou Naitou: Arou is an almost total opposite of Kanade. He does not feel the need to deal with his power and nor does he feel the need to change anything until he meets Kanade. He's very carefree, kindhearted, a great cook, and handsome to top it all off. So it's not a surprise that people are easily drawn to him, but none are as drawn to him as he is to Kanade. He's very dedicated to saving her/protecting her and has some really impeccable timing…
– Masahiro Namiki: A person who can see futures like Kanade, he's more adapted to his power then her, making him, in a sense, stronger than her. At first he uses this to antagonize her, but Kanade doesn't let this get to her and he begins to see her and Arou in different lights, leading to a tight friendship between all of them. Due to a very sad past where his parents rejected him for his abilites, he lives alone (though he's later joined by Marota, the CUTEST puppy ever.).
ART: Tsukuba's art is simple and yet very complex. It tells evokes the strong emotions that run within the characters at exactly the right times and is expressive, even if she enforces the usual ribbons and flowers. It's also ridiculously romantic, which emphasizes the romantic aspect of this series perfectly, though the focus of the series is not on romance. The lines are simple, clean, and she doesn't overdo her spreads or embellish her drawings with more than it needs. Panels are well placed and there is never over-cluttering inside. Her boys are bishounen (Gotta love that), her landscaping sweeping and realistic, and not everyone is a gorgeous babe. While her artwork isn't as intricate as Tanemura Arina's or CLAMP's, her art still gives the reader the same feeling of loveliness.
PERSONAL THOUGHTS (SPOILERIFIC): Is it possible to love a series too much? I never believed that any series could be so perfect. Yet, after reading the first 5 volumes of Mekakushi no Kuni, I believe so. While there's a 10 out of 10 rating up there for overall, this series personally touched me a lot deeper. While people cry when people die in series, I cried (not kidding) at just about every single chapter starting in book 4, especially when it involves Namiki or Arou's pasts. That one scene when Masahiro's mom finally smiles for real at him just melted me. All the emotions that can possibly be contained in such a simple gesture are drawn out to their fullest in that single scene. Here's Masahiro, losing his tough guy image, and he's completely naked at that one moment to the whole world. How wonderful. How absolutely wonderful. And the worst part is that that's not the only scene that is so touching. There are hundreds more in the only first seven books. Sadly, the ending to the series is a bit open-ended and there's no feeling of absolute closure, which could be both bad and good.
I'm in love with all her characters, with all the silly situations that everyone gets into, with each story that each character has, and specially that Marota. The story where Masahiro take Marota out to play made me bawl. My fault for listening to really nostalgic music and reminiscing about my ex-dog at that part. Arou and Kanade make one of the sweetest couples, I think, in all recent manga. Every time Tsukaba throws at us one of those really big splashes of the two of them being sweet, I die. (I wish there were more guys like Arou around….haha.) Do I love this series too much? Yes. I do think so. But I think that given how much this series touches my heart (or lack thereof), it's justified.
CMX EDITION EDIT: With CMX being new to the "manga" publishing industry, they might've been to rushed to get their work out on the market, and that is probably the reason why it seems that they forgot to pay attention to what exactly they were doing. Of the three copies of Land of the Blindfolded that I found, all three had the same pages where the image was doubled and blurry for a good…the rest of the volume, really. It was a good way to get a headache. Not a good way to make an impression on the masses of hardcore "manga" buyers out there. Beyond that fact was the one that the image on the back of the book was not from the series at all but from the extra story at the end of the first volume. Most likely, most people would not be aware of this as the character does bear some resemblence to both Arou and Masahiro, but it's this action of leaving the readers in ignorance that outlines the very nature of bad manga licensing. So far a dialogue editing goes, most of it is kept intact, though somehow it feels very dull and as if the characters are speaking in monotones -totally emotionless.
I'm disappointed. I had hoped that CMX could pull off a better job than Tokyopop, especially now that they've licensed Tenjyou Tenge and Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, two of the top mangas out there. Here's to hoping that they improve their editing work before they hit the production process of those two, the rest of Mekakushi no Kuni, and any other series they decide to publish, in the future.
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CARROLLTON (CBSDFW.COM) – One person was killed in a plane crash near Hebron High School in Carrollton Monday morning.
According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman Tony Molinaro, the Cirrus SR 22 aircraft had just taken off from the Addison Airport when the pilot reported engine trouble.
The pilot contacted the air traffic control tower, saying he needed to return. The pilot made one unsuccessful attempt to land the plane, which crashed just after 11:30 a.m. on second approach. The flight crashed down in the 4200 block of Plano Parkway, 50 yards from the freshman wing of Hebron High School. Nobody on the ground was injured, Molinaro said.
Carrollton Fire Chief Greg Samli said three people were onboard the plane.
At noon, Chief Samli said one of the passengers died at the scene and that another was cut out of the plane and en route to a local hospital. The person transported to the hospital by ambulance was said to be conscious.
The victim who died was identified Monday night as Richard Goodrum, 47, of Flower Mound, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's website.
"According to a witness, the parachute didn't fully deploy and that could be it didn't have enough time or it was too low to the ground when it was deployed, or there was a malfunction in the system," said investigator Leah Yeager. "However we don't know that and over the next few days while we're looking at the wreckage we'll be able to determine that."
Police blocked part of Plano Parkway as a precaution.
Fire crews from Addison and Lewisville assisted the Carrollton Fire Department. Upon seeing how close the crash was to the high school, parents and teachers said they were shocked the aircraft didn't come down on the school.
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With Bing, Microsoft has achieved far more in search than many believed it was capable of. But just because Microsoft has managed to beat lowered expectations doesn't mean that Bing is doing for Microsoft what it hoped it would.
Citing a lack of the "broad adoption that we had hoped for", Microsoft announced Friday that it was shuttering Bing Cashback, which was a big part of Bing's shopping vertical search.
As the name implies, Bing users who used Cashback to make purchases through participating online retailers received cash back on those purchases from Microsoft. When Microsoft launched Bing Cashback the motivation was clear: by giving affiliate referral fees it generated back to shoppers, Microsoft might be able to lure consumers to Bing and keep them coming back for more.
Judging from the comments expressing disappointment at Microsoft's decision to terminate Bing Cashback on July 30, it appears that Bing Cashback did acquire loyal fans. But apparently not enough of them to convince Microsoft that the return was worthwhile.
Does this mean that Microsoft is giving up on shopping-related search? According to Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's SVP of the Online Audience Business Group:
Shopping remains one of the most important tasks people engage in while using search, and we remain committed to delivering great shopping experiences for you that help you make better shopping decisions, get great deals, and save time and money along the way. For merchants and advertisers, we have some ideas for making it easy to get a broader array of products and offers into Bing, and we'll share some details on this later this summer.
While it will be interesting to see what Microsoft cooks up next in this area, one has to wonder: if Microsoft couldn't obtain the type of adoption it had hoped for by enticing consumers with cash back, how will it drive adoption when it isn't paying them to use Bing?
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Sad day seeing Bing go. The model still works. All the more reason to compare the various other cash back options now. I typically check with www.cashreporter.com
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SAN JOSE --Two ceremonies in San Jose honored the memory of Bay Area native Jason Dahl, the pilot who died flying United Flight 93 on September 11th.
A rose planting ceremony took place at Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary School in San Jose, with two of Dahl's sisters along with dignitaries.Following in the Captain's footsteps, the school itself has become a high achiever. "Captain Dahl would have been very proud of the students and staff at this school because over the past two years, they have achieved something that is rarely achieved and grown over one hundred points in the state accountability test scores," said Franklin-McKinley School Supervisor John Porter. A second tribute was held later in the flight simulation lab at San Jose State University, Dahl's alma mater.


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As technology is ever present in today's society, Valparaiso Community Schools is working to expand technology and technology-based curriculum for all students in all grades and all schools. From mobile labs at VHS to iPads in kindergarten, VCS is striving to provide the best technologically-supported educational experience for its 6000+ students every day.
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When Mill Hill Audio's founder, Jonathan Glynn, was tasked with outfitting his family band "Radio Test" with musical equipment, each player received customized equipment to suit their style and passion. Every component was rebuilt to remove compromises and accentuate the positives of the basic design. Each player's set up will be photographed and documented soon!
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Why Don't Right Whales Respond to the Noise of an Oncoming Vessel?
Right whales seem to be able to evade slow, small vessels, but appear to be oblivious to large ships that too often strike and kill them.
AbstractPeter Tyack's lab has been studying factors affecting the ability of North Atlantic Right Whales to avoid lethal collisions with vesselsa key threat to the population's recovery. Experiments have shown that right whales can very precisely detect and locate sounds, yet the whales fail to respond to the noise of approaching vessels. In subsequent experiments, the researchers tested alarm stimuli designed to alert whales of danger and found that 5 of 6 whales responded to the alarms by surfacing quickly and swimming rapidly at the surface.
Should ships be equipped with alarms to alert right whales? The whales' strong response to the alarm raises more questions than it answers for policy makers seeking to reduce whale-vessel collisions. By swimming to the surface, right whales actually increase their risk of collision with vessels. Future research by Tyack's group aims to evaluate whether alarm stimuli--in concert with other strategies perhapscould help reduce the risk of vessel collisions.


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While the iPhone has famously captured a large chunk of the largely urban smartphone market, it is still industry giant Nokia that equips most of the rest of the world with cell phones. A product they've just announced that ought to be a big hit in your average dusty rural village is their bicycle-powered phone charger:
Power comes from a small dynamo contacting the front wheel and attached to a small circuitry box, juice flows north through a cable, and the phone is attached to the handlebars via a large rubber band. Simple, useful, and a huge boon to the millions of cell phone users worldwide without easy access to a steady supply of electricity.
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If your job requires you to do anything substantial with numbers, chances are good that you use a spreadsheet app to do it. For most of us the choice comes down to MicrosoftŌĆÖs Excel 2011, AppleŌĆÖs Numbers (version 3.2) or the browser-based Sheets portion of Google Docs.
Whichever app you use, the question is: How well do you know how to use it, really?
I came up with the following list of things that I think every savvy spreadsheet jockey ŌĆō not beginners, but people whoŌĆÖve been using one of these apps for a while┬ĀŌĆō should know. IŌĆÖm not talking about any specific task. Rather, these are the general techniques and concepts that you should know in order to graduate from casual to serious user.
(As of this writing, Google was publicly previewing a new version of Sheets, one that comes much closer to Numbers and Excel in features and performance; thatŌĆÖs the version I used for the following tips.
If youŌĆÖre a Google Docs user, you should switch to the preview version before trying these tips (you can easily switch back).
Because numbers can take many forms (decimals, integers, percentages), you need to apply formatting to clarify what they mean; for example, most people would more readily understand 25% as opposed to 0.25. So, after you enter a number and select that cell, take a few extra steps.
EXCEL. Many often used number formatting options are visible in the Home ribbon. You can also use the Format > Cells menu and then click Number in the dialogue box that appears. All number formats are listed down the left edge of the dialogue box; select one and its options appear on the right.
The Custom option (recently added┬Āto Numbers as well) is very useful, as it allows you to combine text with your formatted number. For example, a format of #,##0.00ŌĆØ widgetsŌĆØ would format your number with a comma if needed, two decimal places, and the word widgets after the number. Your cells will still be treated as numbers for use in calculations, but they will display with the defined text.
NUMBERS.Click the Format icon (the paintbrush) in the toolbar, and select the Cell entry in the resulting sidebar. Select an option (Automatic, Number and so on) from the pop-up menu. You may need to set other values. If you choose Numeral System, for example, youŌĆÖll need to set values for Base, Places and how to represent negative numbers. (Numbers also includes special number formats such as Slider, Stepper and more; these can help you create intuitive data-entry forms.)
You can use NumbersŌĆÖ formatting tools to create star ratings, checkboxes, sliders (shown here) and more.┬Ā
SHEETS. Number formats are found in the Format > Number menu, with each formatting option in its own submenu. You can create custom formats that mix text and numbers ŌĆō but the option is buried deep in the Format > Numbers > More Formats submenu.
Another useful formatting trick is to merge cells. This tactic is a great way to centre┬Āa header above a number of columns, for example.
To merge cells, you want to have a value only in the first cell you intend to merge, as values in any other cells will be wiped out by the action. To select the range of cells, click the first cell (the one with the data) and drag through the other cells you wish to merge.
EXCEL. Click the Merge entry in the Home ribbon, and then select one of the Merge options that appear in the pop-up menu ŌĆō I often use Merge and Center.
NUMBERS. Select Table > Merge Cells.
To create a header in your spreadsheet thatŌĆÖs centred over several columns of data, use the ŌĆśMerge CellsŌĆÖ command in Numbers.┬Ā
SHEETS. Select Format > Merge Cells, and then choose one of the Merge options, such as Merge Horizontally. You can also merge cells vertically, which can be useful in tables where you have a parent cell (Salesperson, for instance) that contains multiple rows of data (for example, Product Sold and Units Sold).
You probably already know how to use basic formulas to do basic arithmetic on cell contents. But functions, which let you manipulate text and numbers in many other ways, are how you really unlock the potential of spreadsheets.
All three apps share many commonly┬Āused functions. For instance, to add┬Āup numbers across a range of cells,┬Āthey all offer =SUM(RANGE) (where a reference to the range of cells to be summed is in the parentheses). To find┬Āthe average of a range of numbers, they use =AVERAGE(RANGE). To round a number to two decimal places, you can use =ROUND(CELL,2).
With 250-plus functions in each app, thereŌĆÖs no way I can describe even a reasonable portion of them. But here are some of the less-obvious ones that I use all the time; they also happen to exist in the same form in all three apps.
- =COUNT(): Counts all numeric entries in a range. Nonnumeric values will be skipped. To include nonnumeric values, use =COUNTA(RANGE) instead.
- =MAX(RANGE) and =MIN(RANGE): Return the largest and smallest values in a range. Related to these two, I also frequently use =RANK (CELL,RANGE), which returns the rank of a given cell within the specified range.
- =NOW: Inserts the current date and time, which is then updated each time the spreadsheet recalculates. (In both Excel and Sheets, you must add parentheses: =NOW().)
- =TRIM(CELL): If you work with text that you copy and paste from other sources, thereŌĆÖs a good chance youŌĆÖll find extra spaces at the beginning or the end of some lines of text. The TRIM function removes all of those leading and trailing spaces but leaves the spaces between words.
Beyond these examples, the best way┬Āto learn the functions in each app is to┬Āplay around with its function browser. In Numbers, youŌĆÖll see the browser as soon as you type an equal sign (=); it appears in the right sidebar and provides a nice description and example of each function. In Excel, select View > Formula Builder (in the Toolbox). In Sheets, select Help > Function list.
In the functions listed above, CELL and RANGE are references to an individual cell or a range of cells. For example, =ROUND(C14,2) will take the value in cell C14 and round it to two digits; =SUM(A10:A20) will sum the numbers entered in cells A10 through A20. You can enter these cell locations either by typing them or by clicking (or, for ranges, clicking and dragging).
Spreadsheets are smart; if you copy =SUM(A10:A20) and paste it into the column to the right, the formula will change to =SUM(B10:B20). This behaviour is┬Ācalled relative addressing, as the functionsŌĆÖ contents are relative to where theyŌĆÖre placed; itŌĆÖs the default for formulas in all three apps.
If you donŌĆÖt want the cell references to change when you copy or move a formula, all three apps offer absolute addressing mode. An absolute address doesnŌĆÖt change when you copy it to a new location.
All three apps use the same symbol for creating an absolute address: a dollar sign before the row and/or column symbols in a formula. So instead of typing A10:A20, for example, you type $A$10:$A$20 to create a fixed formula that always refers to those cells, regardless of where you put it.
You can also lock only one direction: $A10:$A20 will always refer to column┬ĀA, but if you copy the formula over
one column and down 50 rows, it┬Āwould change to $A60:$A70. Similarly, A$10:A$20 would lock the rows; copy this formula over one and down 50, and it would change to B$10:B$20.
If youŌĆÖre typing cell addresses directly, all three apps let you simply type the dollar sign manually. But if youŌĆÖre selecting cells with clicks and drags, Numbers has another way of switching between relative and absolute addressing.
Cell references added via clicking and dragging appear in small coloured bubbles, with a triangle to the right; you click the triangle to pop up NumbersŌĆÖ absolute/ relative cell addressing window. But although this method works, I find it more time-consuming than typing the dollar signs where I want them to be.
Referring to cells by location may be convenient, but that technique can also make it hard to figure out what a given formula is doing. It also means you need to remember the location of often-used cells, which can be tricky in a large spreadsheet. If you name cells (and ranges), however, you can make the formula easier to read, as well as make reusing those cells in other formulas easier.
Consider this formula as an example: =PMT(C5/12, C6,C7). Just by reading it, you can probably guess that the formula returns a payment of some sort, and┬Āmaybe you can tell that cell C5 contains┬Āan annual interest rate. But really, itŌĆÖs not easy to discern what this formula is doing. HereŌĆÖs the same formula using named cells: =PMT(INT_RATE/12,TERM, LOAN_AMT). Now itŌĆÖs a lot clearer whatŌĆÖs going on, and you no longer need to remember that cell C5 is the annual interest rate.
EXCEL. Select the cell or range youŌĆÖd┬Ālike to name, and select Insert > Name > Define, which will pop up a new window. Type the name youŌĆÖd like to create in the first box, and then click Add. Repeat for as many names as you want to define.
Once youŌĆÖve defined all your names, Excel even provides a way to apply them┬Āto existing functions. Select Insert > Name > Apply, and youŌĆÖll get a little window showing all your named cells and ranges. Hold down the Shift key, click the first name in the list, and then click the last name in the list to select them all. Click OK, and Excel will insert the names into any function that references a named cell or range. Once youŌĆÖve named a cell or range, the spreadsheet always uses it in formulas ŌĆō even if you click on a cell, Excel will insert its name in the formula.
NUMBERS. Sadly, this app does not support named ranges.
SHEETS. Select the cell or range youŌĆÖd like to name, and then select Data > Named Range. This command displays a sidebar where you can type the name of the range and (if necessary) change the cell reference. Click Done, and youŌĆÖve created a named range (even if itŌĆÖs just one cell). IŌĆÖm not aware of any way to apply newly created names to existing formulas. Unlike Excel, Sheets wonŌĆÖt use a name unless you type it in.
One of the most-common uses of a spreadsheet is to create tabular data┬Āand then extract values from that data. Consider, for instance, a worksheet for a company that sells shipping supplies.
Your job is to answer coworkersŌĆÖ queries, such as WhatŌĆÖs our cost on the packing peanuts? and How many rolls of tape do we have on hand? You could, of course, just look at the table every time someone asked such a question, but the real-world version of the table may have hundreds of rows.
HereŌĆÖs a better way: the VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP functions pull data out of tables, by matching a lookup value to a value in the table. (These functions are identical┬Āin all three apps, so IŌĆÖll explain how they work in Numbers.)
You use VLOOKUP when your data is arranged to list each item on its own row, with multiple columns of associated data. You use HLOOKUP when each item is in its own column, with multiple rows of associated data.
The layout of the formula is the same in each app:
VLOOKUP(LOOKUP_VALUE, COLUMN_ NUMBER (ROW_NUMBER for HLOOKUP) TO RETURN, REQUIRE EXACT MATCH).
Using VLOOKUP formulas, you can create a lookup tool to quickly return all the data about a given product. In the screenshot at the lower left, you can see a worksheet with a product-lookup table added at the top. In this sample I also included the formulas generating the results, to show how VLOOKUP works.
As one example, hereŌĆÖs the formula in the On Hand row: VLOOKUP($A$2,Table 1::$A$2:$G$8,5,0).
$A$2 is an absolute reference to the value to match in the table ŌĆō meaning the contents of the green box. Table 1::$A$2:$G$8 is the range of cells Numbers will search for a match for whatever is in $A$2. (This is why naming ranges would be handy in Numbers.)
The 5 tells Numbers to return the value stored in column five (the first column┬Āis column one), which holds the quantity on hand.
Finally, that trailing zero is very important: it tells the spreadsheet to return only exact matches. If you leave that off either lookup formula, Numbers will return fuzzy matches ŌĆō items that come close to matching the lookup value. In this case, that would be bad ŌĆō if you make a typo in your lookup cell, you donŌĆÖt want to see a closely matched product; you want to see error messages letting you know that there was something wrong with the lookup.
The other formulas are basically identical, differing only in which column numberŌĆÖs data is returned.
Often, you need to set a cellŌĆÖs value based on the results of one or more other cell values. In the worksheet for the shipping supplies company, the Order Alert column is either blank (if thereŌĆÖs plenty of stock on hand) or it contains the Order Soon! warning (when inventory is getting low).
How can one cell display two possible values? By using a logical function.┬ĀEach of these spreadsheet apps includes┬Āa number of logical functions; the three particularly useful ones below appear in all three apps.
The first one lets you sum numbers based on whether they satisfy a condition you define: =SUMIF(TEST_ RANGE, CONDITION, OPTIONAL_SUM_RANGE).
(If you leave out the OPTIONAL_SUM_ RANGE part, then TEST_RANGE is also used as the range of values to sum.)
In the worksheet for the shipping supplies company, =SUMIF(D2:D8,ŌĆØ>2.25ŌĆØ, E2:E8) will total the Qty On Hand column, adding only those items for which the Profit is more than $2.25.
In this particular formula, the Profit column (D2:D8) is compared to the test (is the value greater than 2.25?); if itŌĆÖs greater, then the amount in column E (E2:E8) is added to the sum.
The second function, SUMIFS, is related to SUMIF but can take┬Āmany optional pairs of test ranges┬Āand conditions: =SUMIFS(SUM_ RANGE,TEST_RANGE, CONDITION[,TEST_ RANGE2,CONDITION2, etc.]).
If you wanted, say, the total quantity on hand for items with profit over $2.25 and build cost under $3.00, it would look like this: =SUMIFS(E2:E8,D2:D8,">2.25 ",B2:B8,"<3″). The formula will sum the Qty On Hand column (E2:E8), but only if both the profit (D2:D8) is more than $2.25 (">2.25ŌĆØ) and if the Build Cost (B2:B8) is less than $3.00 ("<3″).
The third (and, for me, the most frequently used) logical function you should know how to use is the simple IF function. Using IF is a great way to vary cell results based on conditions being met or not being met. The syntax is pretty simple: =IF(CONDITION,RESULT_IF_ TRUE,RESULT_IF_FALSE).
As one example, consider the worksheet of the shipping supplies company; the Order Alert column consists of nothing┬Ābut IF statements that all look like this one from cell G2: =IF(E2/F2<1.25, "Order Soon!","").
The condition being tested is whether the ratio of the number of items on hand to the reorder point is less than 1.25 (125 percent). If it is, itŌĆÖs time to order, and┬Āthe Order Soon! warning appears. If itŌĆÖs not, then all is fine, and we leave the cell empty by specifying an empty string as the False result.
IF statements can get very complicated, as they can be nested and can include not just static text but also references to other cells, or even to ranges of cells.
In the section on number formatting, I explained how to add text to a custom number format (in Excel and Sheets). While that works, you have other ways of mixing text and numeric results, thanks to string-based formulas.
Consider our shipping supplies company again. Say you want to prepare a report showing the total investment (Build Cost X Quantity On Hand) for a given product. You could quickly do the maths and then type out an email with the details. But instead of doing that yourself, you could have your spreadsheet app build the sentence for you: ŌĆ£The total investment in Tape is $262.50 (we have 150 in stock at $1.75 each).ŌĆØ
To do this, you need a special character: the ampersand (&). The ampersand can serve to join one formula value, including text strings, to another. For example, to construct the sentence above (in any of the three programs), the formula would look like this: = ŌĆ£The total investment in ŌĆ£&A8&" is ŌĆ£&DOLLAR(B8*E8)&" (we have ŌĆ£FIXED(E8,0)&" in stock at ŌĆ£&DOLLAR(B8,2)&" each)."
The trick here is to use the DOLLAR and FIXED functions. These convert numbers to text that looks like numbers; the DOLLAR function automatically formats in currency, complete with the dollar sign.
As I covered earlier, you can format numbers, text and cells in the three spreadsheet apps. But they all share┬Āa limitation when using traditional formatting. Once something is formatted, it retains that format regardless of what might happen to the data in the cell. This effect is fine if youŌĆÖre creating line dividers in your table of data. But if youŌĆÖre attempting to highlight a specific type of number (when you reach the inventory-order point, say), fixed formatting doesnŌĆÖt help.
ThatŌĆÖs when conditional formatting┬Āis really handy. ItŌĆÖs just what it sounds like: formatting that changes based on conditions you specify. Numbers refers to this feature as Conditional Highlighting, and youŌĆÖll find it in the Cell tab of the Format sidebar. Both Excel and Sheets refer to it as Conditional Formatting, and youŌĆÖll find it with that name in the Format menu of both apps.
Conditional formatting is a complex topic; to fully explore it requires many more words than we have here. But as one example of what it can do for you, consider the IF┬Āfunction, which we used earlier to fill in the Order Alert column. Instead of having the formula display an alert only when supplies are low, we can modify it to display a message, when appropriate, stating that thereŌĆÖs plenty of inventory. That change is simple: =IF(E2/ F2<1.25,"Order Soon!","Stock OK").
Ideally, the Order Soon! alert should┬Ābe bold and red, but that doesnŌĆÖt make sense for Stock OK; that might be better rendered as light green and not boldfaced. By creating a conditional highlighting/ formatting rule, you can change the cellŌĆÖs format based on the value.
EXCEL. Select the range from G2 to G8 (in this example), and then select Format > Conditional Formatting. In the window that appears, click the plus sign (to add a new rule). When the New Formatting Rule window appears, set the Style pop-up to Classic, which will open another window.
Conditional formatting in Excel.
In this newest window, leave the Style pop-up set to Classic, and set the second pop-up to Format Only Cells That Contain. Set the next two pop-ups to Specific Text and Containing, and then type Order┬ĀSoon! in the text box. Set the Format With pop-up to Custom Format, which will open a fourth window.
Click the Font tab, set the Color pop-up to red, and click the Bold entry in the Font Style box. Make sure that nothing is filled in on the Border and Fill tabs, and then click OK to close the fourth window. Click OK again to close the third.
Now do the same thing again, starting with clicking the plus sign. But this time, type Stock OK in the textbox entry, set the font colour to green, and make sure the font style is normal, not bold. When you get back to the Manage Rules window, you should see both rules listed; click OK to apply the rules.
NUMBERS. Select the range of cells (G2:G8), and then click the Conditional Highlighting button on the Cell tab of the Format sidebar. This action will change the sidebar; click the Add a Rule button to display a pop-up list of rules, and click the Text tab. Click the Is entry, set the first pop-up to text is, and type Order Soon!┬Āin the box. Click the triangle in the menu below the text entry box, and select the final item, Custom Style. This action will add yet another panel to the sidebar; select a red tone in the colour wheel, and click the B button for bold text. Finally, click the Done button.
That formats the Order Soon! cells. But what about the Stock OK messages, which are presently just black text? With the G2:G8 range still selected, click Show Highlighting Rules in the sidebar, and then click Add a Rule again. Repeat the steps┬Āas above, except change the text box to read Stock OK and set the custom style to nonbolded green text. Click Done; youŌĆÖll see both bold red and normal green text in the cell.
SHEETS. Select the G2:G8 range and then select the Format > Conditional Formatting menu item. In the dialogue box that appears, set the first pop-up to Text contains, and then type Order Soon! in the textbox. Check the Text box to format the text, and click the next seemingly empty box on the right to display the colour picker; choose red.
You might also want to check the Background box and choose an eye- catching background colour, such as bright yellow, because Sheets doesnŌĆÖt let you alter the fontŌĆÖs appearance with conditional formatting.
Google Sheets' conditional formatting tool.
Click the Add another rule link and repeat the steps, but type Stock OK in the textbox, and use green for the text colour. After youŌĆÖve set up the second rule, click Save rules to see the results of your work.


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Hampton, GA (SportsNetwork.com) - Kasey Kahne clinched a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship by winning Sunday night's Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, while Tony Stewart wrecked at the halfway point and finished 41st in his return to racing.
In a long race that featured two green-white-checkered finish attempts, Kahne passed Matt Kenseth for the lead just before they crossed the line to complete the penultimate lap. He held off Kenseth at the finish by 0.6 seconds for his first win of the 2014 Sprint Cup Series season.
Kahne first took the lead on lap 303 when he moved ahead of Denny Hamlin after a restart. Kahne had built a sizeable lead and appeared to be on his way to an easy victory, but Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. collided between turns 1 and 2 in the closing laps, with Truex hitting the wall. It forced the ninth caution and set up the first two-lap overtime finish attempt.
During that caution, Kenseth and Paul Menard came out of the pits 1-2 after both drivers changed only two tires. Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Kahne exited 3-5, respectively, following their four-tire changes.
After the restart, Harvick got sandwiched between Menard and Joey Logano, which caused Harvick to hit the wall and forced the final caution. Harvick, the pole sitter, had dominated most of this race by leading 195 of 335 laps.
Kenseth led the way for the final restart with two laps to go, but as Kahne was passing him for the position while coming out of turn 4, Kenseth wiggled a bit.
Kahne scored his 17th career victory in NASCAR's premier series but his first since August 2013 at Pocono (39 races ago). It was also Kahne's third Cup win at Atlanta. His other victories here occurred in 2006 and '09.
"We were all over the place during the race, but the guys [No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team] stayed with me and worked hard," Kahne said. "On that last restart, I didn't know what would happen because I had great restarts all night and I've struggle with restarts a lot. That's big because that is one of the things you have to be good at, and it worked really well tonight."
All four drivers from Hendrick Motorsports are now in the 10-race championship Chase, which begins in two weeks at Chicagoland. Kahne's teammates -- Jeff Gordon, the current points leader, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jimmie Johnson -- have three wins each this season.
The series will conclude its regular season next Saturday night at Richmond.
"We are locked in [the Chase], but I hate that it comes down to this - Atlanta or Richmond - just about every year for me," Kahne said. "Sometimes we are in, and sometimes we are out. I'm thankful that I have been in the Chase all three years now with HMS."
Kenseth has yet to win a race this season, but his second-place run at Atlanta did secure him a spot in the Chase due to his third-place ranking in points. He led the series with seven victories in 2013, his first season driving the No. 20 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing.
"I'd like to consistently have wins. That's what I'd like to have," Kenseth said. "The team has really been performing at a high level all year. I know when you look at the record books we have some crashes and some bad finishes and we don't have a win yet, but I feel like our pit stops have been more consistent and faster than they were last year."
Hamlin, who is Kenseth's teammate at JGR, finished third, followed by Johnson and Carl Edwards.
Danica Patrick's sixth-place run marked her career-best finish in Sprint Cup. Patrick started 27th. She had finished seventh at Kansas in May and then eighth at Daytona in July.
"It was a long night," Patrick said. "That race felt like it was 700 miles long. Sometimes when you are running well they feel like that because you are hoping it stays there, keeps going well, and you keep improving and don't lose it. There were definitely a couple of times late in the race when we fell back. In the middle of the race, the car was very good. We took a little step back, and then it came back in the end."
Stewart, who is Harvick and Patrick's teammate as well as their team co-owner, made his first start since his involvement in a fatal accident during an Aug. 9 sprint car race at a dirt track in Upstate New York. Stewart struck and killed driver Kevin Ward Jr.
Stewart started 12th and quickly made his way into the top-six, but after a restart on lap 122, he made contact with the wall while battling Kyle Busch for position. He managed to continue in the race.
However, Stewart's night at this fast 1.54-mile track came to a premature end on lap 172 when he blew his right-front tire and crashed into the wall. He was running outside the top-20 at the time.
"Sorry guys, you deserve better than this," Stewart said over his team radio while driving his damaged No. 14 Chevrolet to the garage area.
Stewart declined to comment on his incident.
"We got off to a good start, and the car had speed all weekend long," Stewart's crew chief, Chad Johnston, said. "We went into today with some pretty good hopes of finishing well and possibly coming out of here with a win. But it just didn't work out in our favor.
"We got into a little bit of trouble with the 18 [Busch] and hit the outside wall. It knocked the tow out of [the car]. There was a lot of heavy right-side damage. And we were trying to fix that and then salvage what we could out of the day. Then we blew a right-front [tire] there. It's really good to have Tony back."
Regan Smith (Watkins Glen) and Jeff Burton (Michigan and Bristol) substituted for Stewart in the No. 14 Chevrolet while Stewart had been in seclusion for the previous three weeks.
Harvick ended up finishing 19th one day after he won the Nationwide Series race at Atlanta. He led 159 of 195 laps in that event.
"We all probably could have given each other more room," Harvick said of his accident with Menard and Logano. "I knew the No. 27 [Menard] was going to get a bad restart, and I tried to time it to where I could get on the outside of him. I got on the outside of him, and he just kept coming up, and I wasn't going to let off the gas. I knew the No. 22 [Logano] was up there. The No. 27 kept coming up and just came up until we all wrecked."
Ryan Newman placed seventh, followed by rookie Kyle Larson, Aric Almirola and Greg Biffle, who maintained the 16th and final spot on the provisional NASCAR Chase grid.
Clint Bowyer entered this 500-mile race 15th on the Chase grid, but Bowyer suffered a broken shifter early in the event and had to spend 20 laps in the garage for repairs before he returned. He finished 38th and fell 23 points behind Biffle for the last spot in the playoff field. Larson is only one point in back of Bowyer.
Logano, who claimed his third win of the season last weekend at Bristol, finished 14th, while his Team Penske teammate, Brad Keselowski, placed 39th after he wrecked on lap 297. Keselowski hit Josh Wise from behind and then made contact with the wall.
Ty Dillon, the 22-year-old grandson of NASCAR multi-team owner Richard Childress, finished 25th in his first career Sprint Cup start. Dillon's elder brother, Austin, a rookie in the series this season, placed one spot ahead in 24th.


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NEW HAVEN – — Testimony will begin Monday at Superior Court in the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky, one of two men charged in the July 2007 killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Hayley and Michaela, during a home invasion in Cheshire.
Komisarjevsky, 31, of Cheshire, faces death by lethal injection if convicted of the killings. He faces 17 counts, including murder, capital felony, kidnapping, sexual assault, arson, assault and larceny.


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People love dinobiscuits, fact. Here's a selection of people and dinosaur biscuits.
|Nizar in the Natural History Museum London looking rather pleased with his sauropod biscuit.
|Dave shows off some of the goods in the Museum Shop in London - Diplodocus, it seems, also enjoyed Donuts, as depicted on this tea towel.
|Susie enjoying a dinosaur biscuit in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.


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I like to work on the borders between representation and indecipherability. Sense and non-sense, meaning and non-meaning, finding order in chaos and chaos in order; crossing geographical and emotional borders.
Qualifications and training 1986 - MA Fine Art, Goldsmith's College, New Cross, London Solo exhibitions 2012 - Skating on Mars, Colne Gallery, Colchester General Hospital, Colchester 2011 - Cats and Flowers, Level Best Art Cafe, Colchester 2011 - Cats and Flowers, Level Best Art Cafe, D'Arcy House, Culver Street East, Colchester, CO1 1LD 2009 - 23 PACES, The Colne Gallery, Colchester General Hospital, Colchester, Essex 2007 - Paintings, Naze Tower, Old Hall Lane, Walton-on Naze, Essex, CO14 8HH Group exhibitions 2010 - Local Scenes - Views of Essex and Suffolk, Slack Space, Colchester 2008 - Love Scenes - Floating Blue, 491 Gallery, Leytonstone 2007 - Corsham Revisited, Fairfield House, 44 High Street, Corsham, Wiltshire, UK Curated projects 2013 - Memories, Slack Space, Colchester Artist talks 2007 - Painting in and out of the Comfort Zone, The Community Centre, Tollesbury, Essex Workshops 2007 - Artist in a School, Art and Maths: Finding patterns in Chaos, Frinton on Sea Primary School, Frinton on Sea, Essex Residencies 2003 - Artist in Residence for National Aids Day, Colchester Borough Council, Stanway School Projects 2007 - Arts Development Officer/Artist in Residence at the Dacon Trust, ArtCo Art Cafe , D'Arcy House, 3-5 Culver Street East, Colchester, Essex Educational experience - primary 2007 - Finding Order in Chaos, Frinton on Sea Primary School, Frinton on Sea, Essex Educational experience - tertiary 2007 - Spheres of Influence, Colchester School of Art, Colchester Institute, Sheepen Road, Colchester, Essex


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Last month, I was invited to Syracuse University by the local affiliate of the Secular Student Alliance, where I spoke on the topic of atheism and morality. I'm happy to announce that video of that talk is now available, in three parts, which I've embedded below. The talk is about 25 minutes long, with Q&A following.
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Syracuse Speech: Atheism and Morality (2/3) from Adam Lee on Vimeo.
Syracuse Speech: Atheism and Morality (3/3) from Adam Lee on Vimeo.
I realize the video is from an odd angle - my apologies for that. It was being recorded by two cameras, and one of them didn't function as expected, so it was fortunate we had a backup. But even if you don't have a clear view of my devastatingly handsome features, I think the audio is clear enough.
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The Trumpet Judgments, as mentioned in Revelation chapters 8 and 9, took place in the 21 months following the Seal Judgments in the Left Behind books.
- The first Trumpet Judgment was fire and hail mixed with blood that fell from the sky, causing a third of all trees and all forms of vegetation to be burned up. How this affected food production with the use of the synthetic fertilizer formula is not known. This took place in "Soul Harvest".
- The second Trumpet Judgment was a burning mountain that fell from space into the ocean, causing a third of the seas to turn to blood and destroying a third of all ships in the sea. This took place in "Soul Harvest".
- The third Trumpet Judgment was a "star" that looked like rotten wood (called Wormwood) that also fell from space, but vaporized as it entered the Earth's atmosphere, causing a third of all fresh water springs to be bitter and deadly to drink. This took place in "Soul Harvest"
- The fourth Trumpet Judgment was the sun being struck so that it could only generate a third of its heat and light toward the earth; it also affected the moon and the stars. This took place in "Apollyon".
- "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!" (Rev 9:13)
- The fifth Trumpet Judgment, called the first woe, was the unleashing of locust creatures upon those that didn't have the seal of God on their foreheads (i.e., nonbelievers), to torture them for five months with painful stings that would cause their victims to desire death but not be able to kill themselves. This effect lasted five months for the victims. This took place in "Apollyon".
- The sixth Trumpet Judgment, called the second woe, was the unleashing of 200 million horsemen upon the nonbelievers to kill one-third of the remaining world's population. Those who had the seal of God on their foreheads were able to see the horsemen, but those who didn't have the seal couldn't. This took place in "Assassins".
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The process to configure Intel® vPro™ firmware (specifically Intel® AMT), network infrastructure, and third- party system management software to work together in order to allow the management software to fully utilize Intel vPro technology's system management capabilities.
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Inventory of all software installed on a client with Intel vPro technology.
Serial Over LAN
Setup and Configuration
Installing and/or configuring the requisite firmware, software, and authentication components on a managed client to make it ready to be managed. This term replaces provisioning in documentation related to Intel vPro technology.
Transport Layer Security. An encryption and authentication scheme in which the server presents a server-side certificate for authentication by the client.
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USB Based One Touch Setup and Configuration
A setup and configuration process in which the administrator only needs to perform actions on each client system one time (i.e., "touch" each client system only once) using a USB flash drive.
See also: Setup and Configuration
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A setup and configuration process in which the administrator does not need to perform any installation or configuration actions directly at the client system (i.e., all setup and configuration actions are performed remotely from the management console).
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By Mark Beresford, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian exports to the US fell by 42 percent in 2009, to US$15.7 billion, with China replacing the US as Brazil's top export market, with US$19.9 billion of exports, or more than 13 percent of all Brazil's exports, according to figures released by the Ministry of Trade last week.
The development is largely a result of the strong economic growth in China in 2009, based on a massive central government stimulus, which has seen a surge in demand for Brazilian commodities such as iron ore and metals. Brazilian exports to China rose by 23.1 percent in 2009, to US$19.9 billion from US$16.4 billion.
In turn, Chinese exports to the US have also led to a decline in Brazilian market share in the US. Brazil's total trade surplus in 2009 was US$25.3 billion, slightly higher than the US$24.9 billion recorded in 2008, reflecting a 22.2 percent drop in exports to US$153 billion and a 25.3 percent fall in imports to US$128 billion. Total Brazilian exports shrank under the combined effects of the rise of the Real, which rose by nearly 35 percent against the US Dollar in 2009, and the effect of the global economic crisis, which had a particular impact on the prices of the commodities that make up the bulk of Brazil's exports.
However, the US remains the leading importer into Brazil, and Brazil's number one trade partner, with imports and exports of US$35.9 billion, down from US$53.4 billion in 2008, but only a whisker ahead of China, which had total trade with Brazil of US$35.8 billion in 2009. US exports to Brazil were US$20.2 billion, ahead of Chinese exports of US$15.9 billion. In 2009, Brazil posted a US$4.5 billion trade deficit with the US, its first deficit since 1999.
"We have to strengthen our actions to retake the US market," Trade Secretary Welber Barral said, "we export a lot of manufactured products to the US, and we are only going to manage to increase our industrial exports if we are able to win back our sales in such major markets as the US and Latin America."
Total exports of manufactured products, which are of higher value and which are responsible for more job creation in Brazil, fell by 27.3 percent in 2009. According to the AEB, the Brazilian trade association, only 28 percent of Brazilian exports are now of manufactured products, compared to 72 percent for commodities, largely because of the appreciation of the Real.
Barral criticized the level of export taxes in Brazil, and said that in 2010 the Brazilian government will intensify its efforts to strengthen trade ties with these countries. After seven years of being in office, the Lula government has still not been on a single trade mission to the US.
Other important export markets for Brazil in 2009 included Argentina (US$12 billion), the Netherlands (US$8.2 billion), and Germany (US$6.2 billion). In addition to the US and China, Argentina (US$11.3 billion), Germany (US$9.9 billion) and Japan (US$5.4 billion), are major suppliers to Brazil.
The trade surplus is expected to narrow in 2010, reflecting strong domestic demand in Brazil and the continued weakness of the global economy. The central bank expects a trade surplus of just US$15 billion this year, as imports continue to rise faster than exports. For its part, the AEB expects a surplus of just US$12.2 billion in 2010, the result of a 12 percent rise in exports and a 28.7 percent surge in imports.


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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Maureen and Paul Pranghofer joke that they have just enough working body parts for one person. It's a line that captures their sense of humor, but you really need to meet them to see how much they've overcome over the years, and why their special spirit inspires so many.
Spend some time with them, and you're likely to laugh. They sure do.
WCCO met Maureen and Paul a few months ago, for a story on their dog Ally. But as we quickly realized, this was much more than a story about a family and their dog, even a specially trained service dog, with a book about her.
Maureen wrote Ally's Busy Day to teach kids about service dogs, and explain how Ally helped her recovery from a spinal cord injury.
"I credit Ally with my healing," she said, "because my mental outlook, how I thought about myself, totally changed."
But this is Ally's last day at their house. She's gotten older, tires easily and is ready to retire.
It's an emotional day for Maureen, but "there probably won't be tears because both of my eyes are artificial, and I find that I rarely cry because of that," she said.
You see, Maureen has been legally blind since birth. She had limited vision earlier in life, but after she was injured in a traffic accident, even that disappeared. And that's why her next service dog is so special.
"The trainer has never trained a dog to guide before," Paul said, "so she's really excited about the results."
Maureen and Bentley, the new dog, spent weeks working with a trainer from Can Do Canines. But the hard work paid off.
"He's like a regular guide dog," Maureen said. "You would never know that these guys don't normally train guide dogs."
The other part of Maureen's support system is Paul, a special guy with special needs of his own. Born with one normal length leg, one shorter and no arms, he drives the family van.
It has a system that lets his foot control the steering wheel, giving them the freedom to go anywhere. And with Maureen as a different kind of backseat driver, they make quite a pair.
"He always says you don't know how to wave correctly," says Maureen, with a laugh.
Out of the car, Paul can also be a backseat driver, for a reason. He directs Maureen, a little to the right, a little to the left, when they wheel around without Bentley.
"He's my eyes, and I'm his hands. Between the two of us, there's enough working parts to make one person," said Maureen, as Paul laughed.
They have the power to inspire by doing the simplest of things, but draw their own inspiration from their church, where they are popular regulars. Paul goes on church missions to Haiti, and Maureen writes inspirational music.
She has a couple of successful CDs, with songs recorded by famous local singers like Robert Robinson, and one song, "I Choose You," was one of the five finalists at a national contest in Charlotte.
While Maureen writes, Paul refs. He's a fixture at adapted soccer matches — part official, part role model.
Their true love, though, is the Minnesota State Fair, because the Great Minnesota Get Together actually helped bring them together.
"The State Fair was our first date," said Paul, "and I have to say 35 years later, we have not missed a Fair."
They actually met many years before that, though. They were both 10, both at Camp Courage, and Paul made a lasting impression.
"It was a contest to see which table in the dining hall ate the most and our table won because he ate 12 boxes of Frosted Flakes," Maureen said.
They kept running into each other, but dated different people until they were 23. But after that first date at the fair, two years later, they got married.
Maureen survived a freak elevator accident in 1993, and they were both badly injured in a car accident in '96. In fact, they were worried that they'd have to move to find a handicapped accessible house, until their neighbors stepped in.
"One of the guys looked at me and said you guys are too important to this neighborhood," Paul said. "We don't want to lose you."
After a thousand hours of volunteer work, the house was ready, and its very special residents could stay, never worrying about the past or the future, but always enjoying every minute of the present.
"I try very hard to live that way," Maureen said, "because we can't do anything about the future, we don't know what the future is. And I think worrying about the future keeps people from enjoying what they have now."
Maureen actually wrote a book about the first dog, Ally, to show kids how service dogs help people who need it. And she and Bentley just graduated with their service dog badges this weekend.
If you'd like to buy the book, or Maureen's music, check out her website. And for more on service dogs, check out Can Do Canines.
What a wonderful family – all 3 of them!! Amazing story!!
What a beautiful story for Thanksgiving Day! What an inspiration this couple and their dogs are to the rest of our society!!! We can all take a look at their attitudes and achiements and change our own lives!! Thank you for this beautiful story about beautiful people!!!
I am absolutely humbled by these remarkable people. I'm also reminded what faith, love and a positive energy can do. Thank you for a wonderful story.
Paul and Maureen were our next door neighbors in Minneapolis when my kids were small, and we went to their wedding. What a spirited, FUN, couple. Humor always carried them through. I'll never forget Paul saying to my son, when asking him to do something like turn a light on, "Give me a hand, Ted! Ha ha ha. " Their families were wonderful too, always supportive, always fostering the can-do attitude that these two have.
Maureen & Paul are two of the sweetest people I know. Their grace and spirit are infectious. They both assist me with our Hearts In Action service ministry. It's a special experience and privilege to work with them!
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