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Prepared Remarks for Convocation 2012
Chancellor Susan J. Koch
August 23, 2012
Good afternoon!
Thank you all so much for coming to this University of Illinois Springfield Fall 2012 Convocation. It's great to see all of you here!
I want to begin today by offering a special welcome to all of our faculty and staff who are new to the UIS community. Congratulations on your appointment! I hope you feel, as I most certainly do beginning my second year as your Chancellor, that you have made a brilliant decision in becoming part of this very fine institution.
I look forward to the many contributions you will make to our university in the coming years.
I also want to welcome some special guests who have joined us for Convocation today:
- UIS Chancellor Emeritus and still wonderful advocate for our university, Naomi Lynn; and her husband, Bob;
- Representing the Office of the Mayor of Springfield: Willis Logan, Mayor Houston's Executive Assistant.
- Our newly appointed President and CEO of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, Steward Sandstrom;
- Standing in for Professor Lynn Fisher, Chair of our UIS Campus Senate is Vice Chair of the Campus Senate, Dr. Kathy Jamison;
- Chair of the UIS Academic Professional Advisory Committee, Teresa Szabo;
- President of the UIS Civil Service Advisory Council, Bobbie Fults;
And I'm pleased to welcome some special international guests from Japan who are here working with our faculty and staff on a partnership for science education:
- Mr. Hiroshi Ohkawara, Mathematics Teacher, Ashikaga Boys High School;
- Hirofumi Arai, Science Teacher, Ashikaga Boys High School;
- Hirakoba Eri, English Teacher, Ashikaga Boys High School;
- and Professor Masuda Shinji, Ashikaga Institute of Technology (I'm delighted you could join us today).
And I'd also like to welcome my "personal" special guest, my husband, Dennis Koch, who, though he has a busy career in agriculture, is himself a wonderful supporter and advocate for our university.
Please join me in welcoming all of these special guests to our convocation.
In my convocation speech a year ago, I told you that I would do a lot of listening during my first year as your Chancellor. I want to thank all of you who have been so willing to share your thoughts with me about our university and its future during these past 12 months.
I've been listening (and learning) at all levels –
- throughout the University of Illinois organization, with my fellow Chancellors, Paula Allen-Meares in Chicago and Phyllis Wise in Urbana, with President Bob Easter (who you will meet at our Welcome Picnic next week if you have not met him already), and with our Board Chair, Chris Kennedy, and members of our Board of Trustees;
- engaging with UIS faculty, staff and students with departmental and unit visits, student events and other campus activities;
- I've gotten to know Governor Quinn, many of our Illinois legislators and members of our Illinois Congressional delegation in Washington;
- and I've spent time with UIS alums, donors, friends, community leaders and others.
To say I've learned a lot would be an understatement, but of course, that listening and dialogue will continue this year and every year because your ideas, perspectives and criticisms are essential input to the process of shared governance that is fundamental to our success and to our future.
And speaking of our future, in our brief time together today, I'd like to look ahead with you at the future of the University of Illinois Springfield. In doing that, I want to first talk briefly about the UIS identity – who we are and what we aspire to be. Then, I'd like to talk about the priorities that must be our focus in the next few years in order for us to achieve our aspirations.
The UIS Identity
Since the first of July this past year, I've heard a lot of discussion about what our institution was, is, can and should be. We're a young university (founded as I reminded you a year ago on a commitment to innovation) and we've had several major transitions in our 40+ years. Questions and debates about our identity are normal and healthy and are not at all surprising given our youth and the continued evolution of our institution.
So let me clarify today, from the Chancellor's point of view, what I believe our vision and aspiration can best be, based in part on what I have heard from you, as well as on the evidence I have seen in the past year, and on what I am confident is the best possible alignment with the UI as a whole and the broader higher education landscape in our region at this particular time.
First, I am convinced that those essential elements of what this community has already declared about the UIS vision ring true even more so today and I want to enthusiastically affirm those elements:
The vision of the University of Illinois Springfield is to be a premier public university – and we are well on our way to achieving that aspiration.
Within that vision, we are focused on three areas of excellence:
- First – a high-quality liberal arts foundation that prepares all graduates to be critical thinkers, lifelong learners and engaged citizens. To quote from the AAC&U's "Statement on Liberal Learning," a document I have turned to again and again to explain the importance of liberal learning: "A liberal education embraces the diversity of ideas and experiences that characterize the social, natural and intellectual world; it prepares us to live responsible, productive and creative lives in a dramatically changing world. Liberal learning is society's best investment in our shared future."
- Our second area of excellence is exceptional public affairs opportunities that take full advantage of the UIS location in the state capital of Illinois and the home of Abraham Lincoln. Teaching, scholarship and service that connect to public affairs provide a powerful example, I am convinced, of what UIS can uniquely be "best at in the world," (to paraphrase researcher, Jim Collin's landmark book, Good to Great) and I will continue to challenge our community to create areas of excellence that build on this unique feature of our university.
- And finally our third area of excellence – outstanding professional preparation programs that prepare graduates for meaningful and successful careers (and I'll say more about that later)..
A premier public university:
- with a commitment to liberal learning,
- with exceptional public affairs opportunities,
- and will outstanding professional programs.
That, to me, describes pretty succinctly the identity and the aspirations of the Springfield campus of the University of Illinois!
Within the landscape of higher education in the United States, I am pleased to say that an important part of our UIS identity is being an active member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, COPLAC, an organization of 26 public colleges and universities from across the US that works to support and promote the value of high-quality, liberal arts education.
I am equally proud to say that UIS (like many other COPLAC institutions) is also an AASCU institution, a member of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, an association of about 420 regional public universities that serve over 4 million students each year. AASCU institutions, like the historic land-grant universities that include the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, are institutions of access and opportunity. AASCU institutions are student-centered campuses and are "stewards of place," engaging with their communities and the regions they serve.
Being active members of both COPLAC and AASCU is part of who we are – and that's a good thing.
And I want to remind you that, whatever you may think about US News and World Report rankings, it is no small achievement that we are ranked higher than any other regional public university in Illinois. At the same time, we are the only regional public university that is part of the world-class University of Illinois. It seems to me that that is not a coincidence.
It's clear to me from all I've heard and experienced in my nearly 30 years in higher education, and from learning about our own traditions and history, that holding fast to this high aspiration, to be a premier public university, is the right direction for us at this time in our history.
With that vision always ahead of us, and recognizing the challenges we face, I'm very optimistic about our future (primarily because of the collective talents of all of you) and I hope you join me in looking ahead to the coming year with a sense of optimism and confidence.
Before I drill into what I see as our three priorities, I want to tell a brief story about one of many conversations I had with students this past year.
One of my most powerful listening experiences occurred in February when I met with four students who talked to me about their dreams and aspirations and why they were in college.
One is politically active and transferred here because he thinks UIS has the best possible location, here in the capital city, to get an education and prepare for a career in public service. Another student also transferred to UIS, but she did so because she wanted a smaller school setting than the one she had in Chicago and we were more affordable for her. Another was the President of the Black Male Collegiate Society and in May, the youngest of seven children, became the first person in his family to graduate from college (and I can tell you that shaking this young man's hand on the stage at Commencement was a thrill for both of us!) The fourth student was from a local high school and her mother didn't think it would be worthwhile for her to attend a college. But she came on her own anyway, a bit scared and without knowing what to expect. She plans to be an elementary teacher.
Each was a classic UIS story, to be sure; but my bigger point is this: These four students had something important in common. None of them came from families that could afford to send their children to college. All were attending UIS with the assistance of financial aid including a state of Illinois Monetary Award Program grant, commonly called a MAP grant. Without the MAP grants and other forms of financial aid, these four young people would not have been college students anywhere and I can tell you that our society, state and nation will be worse off if young people like this cannot receive a college education.
This conversation was a poignant reminder for me of the data that I see almost every day that tells me that access to a college education has become a critical issue in the United States – and a compelling challenge for families. That kind of data feels a lot more powerful to me when I come face to face with the reality encountered by our own students.
Like all of you, I see such potential and big dreams in these students. They are a perfect match for UIS where they get so much personal attention from faculty who really take the time to know them.
How crushing it will be for our state and for the larger society if we don't find a way in the next decade to continue to make college affordable and accessible in Illinois, and then to educate these students with our full energy and our best efforts right here where our faculty and staff are so passionate about students and their education.
This story leads me to talk about the first of three priorities that I spoke to already at the University of Illinois Board of Trustees retreat this past month.
This is not a priority that will surprise you: Our first priority is to continue to grow our enrollment.
As you know, UIS enrollment has exceeded 5,000 students in the past two years and we'll be close to that again this year. We need to keep growing if we are to achieve our vision and serve our students effectively. The number of new first time, full time freshmen will be up this year and I am delighted that we will see increases in the numbers of Latino students, African American students and international students. But the number of returning students is down somewhat and we may also have fewer graduate students (depending on final counts). I am concerned about that.
Recruitment and retention is not only the job of our colleagues in Admissions, Financial Aid and Student Support; it is everybody's job. We need to do everything we can to insure the success of our students at the same time we insure that our students can afford to stay in school.
Enrollment – recruiting students and then retaining them – is good not only for those students; but also for our institution because it is now enrollment (given the steep decline in state support for higher education), more than any other factor, that drives our "revenue engine."
So how can we grow?
One of the first things we have to do in order to grow is increase our visibility. We employed a nationally known consulting firm this past year and their research demonstrated conclusively that one of our recruiting challenges is that we are just not as well known in the region as we need to be.
You may recall that the Stamats consultants spent two days on campus last year and talked with many of you as well as with students, and they followed up with a survey of our entire campus community and 10,000 alumni. I want to thank all of you who participated in that important research.
Stamats helped us understand that, for marketing purposes, we have four core strengths.
One, we are teaching-focused. It's our heritage. Teaching comes first at UIS. We've been proud of that for a long time and we have high expectations for faculty in that regard.
Two, we have a supportive community. That's what you might expect at a smaller campus but, as you know, creating a truly supportive community doesn't happen unless you work at it. And we have.
Three, we have an abundance of opportunities for students and faculty and staff to collaborate. We're really good at collaboration and we have an environment where innovation, inquiry, and creativity all thrive.
Four, we have a tradition of educating public servants and leaders. We have some of the best government and public service internship programs in the nation. But when I say we educate leaders, I am also referring to our strong professional programs in Business, Computer Science, Education and other areas so that we're educating leaders in many sectors in our region and far beyond.
With these four core strengths in mind, you're seeing, starting today, the launch of a new campaign that is designed to increase UIS's visibility in Springfield, in the region … and beyond.
The campaign has a new tagline for UIS: "Leadership lived" and I want to share with you a very short video that talks a little more about "Leadership lived" and our four core attributes.
Leadership lived.
I hope those two words are already growing on you – as they have on me.
This new campaign will involve external and internal messaging and strategies.
As you leave today after our program concludes, staff will provide you with this packet. It contains a summary of the information I just discussed; but more importantly, it includes a copy of the new UIS viewbook that is used in recruiting new students.
I ask that you carefully review this viewbook – it is a wonderful document that really "nails", in my view, who we are as an institution. It represents each of you and there is no better ambassador for this university than you.
I am very, very certain that the images and text in this booklet will make you proud, as I am, to be a part of the mission and vision of the Springfield campus of the University of Illinois. (And by the way, after you've read the viewbook, I hope you will pass it along to a prospective student along with some encouragement from you to make a campus visit.)
Announcing a marketing campaign is not the purpose of my remarks today; but increasing our visibility is part of our enrollment growth priority and I want you to be not only aware of what we are doing, but also knowledgeable about this effort.
I think Leadership Lived describes us very well and you'll be hearing and seeing more about all of this in the weeks ahead.
Increasing our visibility is one thing we need to do in order to grow.
Another priority for enrollment growth is for UIS to be to be more affordable and accessible. I alluded to this in my story about the four students.
Affordability and accessibility are more than buzzwords to UIS and to the University of Illinois. Just a few weeks ago all three UI Chancellors and President Easter signed on to a document titled "A Commitment to the Future" authored jointly by AASCU and the APLU – the Association of Public Land Grant Universities – that calls for an increase in educational attainment in the United States so that 60 percent of Americans have a post-secondary credential by the year 2025. That is a bold commitment, but is part of our responsibility to make higher education more accessible.
We've already made several changes in the past few months in our financial aid strategies. We're improving the awarding of all types of aid and it is helping us to be more affordable … and competitive.
The UIS Access Illinois scholarship campaign is a very high priority for me as Chancellor (and for our Office of Development) because we need to offer more and larger scholarships. You'll be pleased to know that the UIS Access Illinois campaign is going very well and we are well ahead of our campaign projections. I am absolutely confident that we will have many more scholarships to offer prospective students in the future.
I am deeply grateful to the almost 300 UIS employees, many of whom are in this audience, who contributed to our faculty/staff campaign this last year and I hope you will consider supporting our UIS scholarship campaign (if you are able) in the coming year.
The third essential element of our growth strategy is to strategically add new academic programs. One reason that prospective students don't choose UIS is that we have only 24 undergraduate programs, which is not surprising given that we are a very young university. We simply don't offer the program that some prospective students need and want and the choices of major are limited compared to options at many other campuses.
If we are going to be a premier public university, we need to be steadily assessing need and adding academic programs that fit within the framework of our three areas of excellence, starting with those in high-demand areas that will achieve robust enrollments and graduate students into professions where need exists.
I have charged our new Provost, Dr. Lynn Pardie, to work with faculty, appropriate consultants and others to identify and bring forward proposals for a small number of new academic programs that are in high demand in our part of the state and beyond; innovative programs that will be characterized by student demand and occupational viability for the foreseeable future.
Part of our enrollment growth strategy is to determine how we can help to meet important regional needs; needs in health care as well as in other areas that are of high interest to prospective students.
Another part of our growth strategy is certainly our nationally recognized expertise in online education. Online programs provide flexibility and make college more accessible and, in some cases, more affordable.
As we all know, UIS faculty have developed a high level of expertise in teaching online and we should take pride that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recognizes UIS as a leader in online education. Gates is working aggressively with a small number of universities – Harvard, MIT, Penn State, the University of Massachusetts, a few others – AND UIS! – [Can I say that one more time just for fun?]
Gates is working aggressively with a small number of universities – Harvard, MIT, Penn State, the University of Massachusetts, a few others – AND UIS! – to test new delivery methods online. We are very pleased to be in such company.
Online education is an important part of that "revenue engine" that drives us forward. It is part of our institutional identity and a point of pride for our university. I appreciate the leadership of all of you who have been innovators and contributors in that effort.
The final critical factor that I want to mention under the priority of enrollment growth is the construction of our new Student Union. Though you may not think about this often, the fact is that when prospective students visit our campus, they constantly ask us where the student union is because they know the union is the center of campus life on any campus. They are disappointed when they hear we do not have one.
Most people would take it for granted that every university campus has a student union. But we don't yet and we need one in order to provide our current and future students the student experience that they deserve and want.
A student union is like the campus living room, family room and study center all in one. It promotes a positive campus life, it creates community and it contributes to the intellectual climate of a university – all critical elements for both the recruitment and retention of students and for the achievement of our aspiration to be a premier public university. It is important not only for residential students, but also for commuting students who need a place to gather between classes and experience campus life.
Thanks to outstanding student leadership on this issue, our students voted overwhelmingly this past spring to impose a new fee on themselves to help build this building. At the Board of Trustees retreat in July, I showed a slide with three photographs – one of the historic Illini Union at UIUC, one of one of two student unions on the UIC campus, and the third one – well, I just had a blank square with the letters UIS underneath. Everybody got it immediately and I know I can count on the Board's support as well as President Easter's as we move forward with this important initiative.
We are working closely with central administration on this project and the Board will approve the site for the Student Union at the September Board meeting. We're still several critical steps away from making it a reality—including raising private funds to defray some of the cost .
A Student Union is a top priority because it advances the larger priority of enrollment growth. It is a facility we need and we're going to get the shovel into the ground on this project as soon as we possibly can.
All of those issues that I've just talked about are related to our enrollment and growth priorities. No priority is higher. Enrollment growth at UIS is about increasing our visibility, improving affordability, providing the right mix of academic programs, continuing to take advantage of our online expertise and completing the student union project to enhance student life as soon as possible.
But before I move on to talking about two other priorities I want to say one more thing about enrollment growth and it is something that connects to almost every person in this room. I spent about an hour with new freshmen and their parents yesterday during "Move In Day" and I heard it again and again.
Students choose the Springfield campus of the University of Illinois (and their parents encourage them to come to UIS) first and foremost because of the personalized, high-quality experience that we provide for students every day. What makes all the difference is your commitment to our students; whether that shows itself in the excellent teaching, advising and research opportunities that you provide for students every day, in the exemplary customer service you extend in various service areas, in the enthusiasm I see flowing between coaches and student-athletes, in assistance to students provided regularly by members of our police force, in the wonderfully maintained buildings and grounds or in the remarkably good and creative food service. YOU ARE UIS and the excellence of every employee is important for enrollment growth.
Our second priority has to do with hiring and retaining the talent we need to fulfill our vision to be a premier public university.
We have more than 700 full-time employees at UIS and many part-time employees as well. Like the two other campuses, we've lost a lot of talent in the past year through retirements–representing almost 5 percent of our workforce.
I recognize that one of our most compelling needs, particularly in the face of the increasing number of retirements, is to improve and streamline the hiring processes at UIS. I have asked some of our top people to look at this in collaboration with UI and UIS Human Resources and I think we'll begin to see some significant improvements in our processes this year.
Like all universities, our reputation rests on our ability to hire and retain outstanding faculty–teacher-scholars who will contribute to our students' and our university's success. I had the opportunity to host our new faculty for an event this past week and I have to say, I am impressed!
I'm so pleased that we have been able to provide a package of salary increases for faculty and staff this year despite our serious budget challenges. I want to assure you that providing competitive salaries, particularly for faculty and key staff, is a high priority for me in the coming years.
Obviously, as the university grows, our faculty and staff will also grow and we need to be competitive so that we can recruit the "best and the brightest" to become part of our academic community.
We also have challenges when it comes to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We are doing much, much better with the diversity of our student body but I will repeat what I said last year at Convocation: I am not satisfied with the diversity of our faculty and staff.
All of our students need to have more opportunities to work with and learn with a diverse faculty and staff who provide models of success that they can emulate and who provide diverse experiences and perspectives.
It is a compelling priority for us to put in place the appropriate infrastructure that will enhance understanding of and appreciation for diversity on campus and that will help us to increase the diversity of faculty and staff. We are in the process of accessing additional UI resources to assist us in those efforts.
Finally, under that priority of talent acquisition, I want to mention one more issue regarding talent—and that is leadership. Time and again in my career in higher education at three universities, I have seen Jim Collin's research on leadership (the research mentioned earlier in this presentation) prove true. That research is summarized in the axiom: "First who, then what." It means that you have to get a great leader in place first, before you can accomplish what needs to be done. "First who, then what." (We have wonderful examples of this truth right here on our campus.)
We have had opportunities already to fill some critically important positions with national searches: Kim Pate as Director of Athletics joined us almost exactly a year ago, and Dr. Lynn Pardie became our permanent Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs starting last month.
Kim is now building her team in UIS Athletics and we are creating a first-rate NCAA Division II athletics program with excellent student-athletes that will be particularly important in increasing our visibility and enhancing our relationship with the Springfield community.
I have full confidence that Dr. Pardie will lead our academic enterprise very successfully and she is already a strong voice for UIS in the larger UI organization and my full partner in campus leadership. We're already demonstrating "First who, then what" and I am very pleased with the outcomes so far.
Right now we have four more national leadership searches under way. The Vice Chancellor for Development is a critical position, the leader of our development efforts, and a position shared with the University of Illinois Foundation. I am pleased to tell you that we will soon have three finalists for the position visiting campus and I am hopeful this search will be successfully concluded very soon.
Searches are also beginning for the Dean of the College of Education and Human Services, the Dean of the College of Public Affairs and Administration and the Director of International Student Services.
"First who, then what."
All four of these leadership searches are important to our future and I greatly appreciate your participation as members of search committees and in meeting when finalists come to campus. I am reminded that being collaborative is one of our core strengths and I am confident that we'll see that demonstrated in your active participation in these important search processes.
Before I leave the topic of talent, I want to remind us that with state funding continuing to challenge us, we can grow only if we are smart about how we use our resources – especially those human resources that provide so much creativity and innovation.
We are fortunate to have a strong core of tenured and tenure-earning faculty, as well as talented and dedicated instructors, clinical faculty, visiting faculty, adjuncts, Academic Professionals and Civil Service staff. But we need to be innovative in our design and delivery of curricula, services and programming to ensure that we are making the most effective use of all faculty, staff and student time and resources.
Our online and blended courses are a wonderful reflection of faculty innovation and leadership. Leadership also needs to be lived at the faculty level, because faculty leadership is vital to insure that our curricula are cutting edge and effective and to insure that shared governance is, as Larry Faulkner, President Emeritus of University of Texas Austin, said at our July Board retreat, "an indispensable arrangement."
I've talked about the first two priorities of enrollment growth and talent acquisition; the last priority I want to mention today is facilities.
I've already mentioned the Student Union under the enrollment growth priority because it is an essential element to both recruitment and retention of students.
Another facilities priority and our top priority with state-funded facilities continues to be the renovation of Brookens Library. This project has been on the University of Illinois's capital list for several years and we are still waiting for state funding to make it happen. As we all know, the Brookens building needs extensive renovation for it to become the kind of intellectual high-tech hub that university libraries are today and will be tomorrow. The renovation is important not only for the library but also for the academic units located in Brookens. So we're working on it (and our patience is being sorely tested) and it's a priority for the University of Illinois the next time the state has a major capital program.
We're also looking down the road at other facility needs. The UIS Master Plan identifies the location for the next state-funded academic building to the south of the Health and Sciences Building on our Quad. Though funding is still some years away, we will begin planning for that building this year and we will need it as we continue to grow and expand.
I can't end this section about facilities without mentioning the renovation of our apartments that has occurred during the past several months on the east side of campus. We've been planning for this much-needed upgrade for some time and I had a chance to tour the renovated buildings a few days ago.
They are very, very nice and are sure to become the preferred choice for student residents. Our housing units, our residence halls, apartments and townhouses are a major "selling point" for 21st century students (who have much higher standards than I did in college) and now we're even better off because of the recent renovation project. I congratulate everyone who worked so hard to get this project done in time for the start of classes this Fall.
I should mention, too, that planning is well under way for the new Public Safety Building for which $4 million has already been appropriated. It will replace our police station in the old farmhouse and it is important because it will allow our Public Safety operations to meet higher standards and serve our students more effectively. We will likely break ground on that building in the fall of 2013. It will be located across the street from the TRAC parking lot at the corner of University Drive and Eliza Farnham Drive.
So to summarize our three priorities:
- We're going to focus on growing our enrollment and we'll do that by increasing visibility, improving affordability, studying and moving forward with the expansion of academic opportunities and building the student union to enhance student life. And we'll continue to provide and improve the personalized, high-quality education experience so much a part of who we are.
- We must recruit and retain a highly qualified, talented and diverse faculty, staff and leadership team.
- We must provide the facilities that will insure that our students have the best university experience possible.
If we can do these things, we will be a premier public university. I want to close today with something that our new President, Bob Easter, said when he made his first public comments on July 2 of this year, his first day on the job as President of the University of Illinois.
He said that, in the face of the many challenges in public university education today, we could allow ourselves to drift to mediocrity, blaming our decline on a host of outside forces.
Or, he said, "… we can define a future that is consistent with our history and our core values".
My challenge to you today, as we begin the 2012 academic year, is to do the latter!
Let's define a future that is consistent with our history; that builds on the innovation mandate that drove the founders and the first faculty of our university.
Let's define a future that is consistent with our university's core values, which will most certainly contribute to our becoming a premier public university.
Thank you for the leadership that you live every day, whatever your role may be here at the University of Illinois Springfield. I want you to know that I appreciate your contributions and I value your input.
I look forward to working with all of you this year in implementing our priorities. Best wishes for a wonderfully successful and satisfying year.
Thank you.


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17:54Signals Forex pair EUR / USD on 24/11/2014
Signals Forex pair EUR / USD on 24/11/2014
The euro / dollar is trading on the hourly chart in a downtrend. It shows that the EUR / USD is trading below the moving average with period 55 on the hourly chart (level 1.2465), which has reduced prices in the short term.
The signal for the opening of the long position will sample up to an hour of resistance at 1.2425 in order to increase the resistance level at 1.2445 and in case of breakdown up to an hour to 1.2465. Stoploss for this strategy can be placed at 1.2390.
The signal for the opening short position will sample up to an hour of support at 1.2398 to reduce the level of support at 1.2373-69 and in case of breakdown up to an hour 1.2343. Stoploss for this strategy can be placed at 1.2430.
Given that the moving average and the location of boundaries of technical figures over time, moves to the hourly chart to adjust their status. I also recommend the open position up to an hour to avoid false breakouts.
In the case of heavy traffic at the break of technical figures, I recommend to wait for correction. The level, which was the resistance should be strongly supported and it was near this level should open position in the direction of the breakdown.
Intraday trading is very lucrative, if competently to build a trading strategy. Very important is the entrance to the market, it affects almost 70% of success in Forex trading. I draw your attention to the fact that most signals (strategies) begins to work almost immediately (sometimes I just point out in what direction to open the position).
Then, if the signal goes up, then I open a long position, and vice versa. I recommend that you use a Forex trading multiple currency pairs, it will help minimize the risks and form a "short" currency portfolio.
Open positions must be specified after the break me support or resistance levels up to an hour, that is, if the new hour started in the past and the price closed at least at one point above the specified level of me, you can open a position in the direction of the breakdown.
In this case, if the rate up to an hour grew by more than 15 points, I recommend to put a pending order at the level of, for example, if you load a buy signal and a course struck resistance and increased up to an hour more than 15 points, it is necessary to set the pending to buy just above the support level at 5-15 points.
The advantage of these intraday strategy is also the use of moving averages (with period 55). If the price breaks the level of the moving average up to an hour, it is a strong signal to the opening position, good location stops minimize possible loss.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In its return to action following the holiday break, the MIT women's basketball team defeated Gordon College, 54-35, on Saturday afternoon. Freshman Maya Ramachandran (Fremont, Calif.) paced the Engineers' (5-4) balanced attack with her third double-double of the season on 10 points and 11 rebounds to go along with three steals. Sophomore Brooke Kratche (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) led the Fighting Scots (2-7) with a game-high 13 points while adding 10 rebounds, five steals, and two assists.
Sophomore Alexxis Isaac (San Antonio, Texas) tallied 10 points, five rebounds, and two assists for MIT while classmate Mari Kordell (Ijamsville, Md.) compiled nine points, seven boards, three assists, and three steals. Sophomore Michelle Battipaglia (Katonah, N.Y.) contributed eight points coming off the bench as junior Rachel Hunt (Arlington Heights, Ill.) registered six rebounds, three assists, and three blocks. Senior Lauren Sascha Burton (Seattle, Wash.) bolstered the defense with six boards and two steals to go along with three assists.
Junior Lauren Kranyak (Locust Grove, Va.) totaled 13 points and two assists for Gordon as fellow classmate Skylar Bareford (Stonington, Conn.) chipped in five points and three rebounds.
After trading baskets to start the game, Kordell drained a three-pointer to give the Engineers a 5-2 edge following a minute of play. The Fighting Scots responded with eight straight points, including five from Kranyak, to go up 10-5 at the 16:02 mark. MIT slowly chipped away at the deficit as a layup from Hunt evened the score at 16 with 7:35 to go. Freshman Sabrina Drammis (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) then put the hosts ahead for good as she stole the ensuing in-bounds pass and converted the easy layup which sparked a 14-3 run to close the half. Burton buried a jumper right before the buzzer sounded to give the Engineers a 32-19 lead at the intermission.
A Kordell basket quickly increased MIT's margin; however, Kranyak hit a free throw and a layup later on to narrow the gap to 12 (34-22) with 17:02 on the clock. This was as close as it would get as the Cardinal and Gray outscored Gordon, 16-7, during the next 10:35 to put the game out of reach and establish its largest margin of the day at 50-29.
Both squads continue non-conference play on the road on Wednesday, January 2. MIT will visit Johnson & Wales University while Gordon travels to Drew University.


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Code Clusters is a fond look back at some of the most interesting and outlandish Code violations published in the pages of EC&M magazine over the past 15 years — the item below is the first in a series of 10. Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear your feedback! Post your thoughts in the box below.
A Nearly Wired Student on Newbury Street
All references are based on the 1996 edition of the NEC.
About a mile of sidewalk restaurants and storefronts grace this prestigious street in Boston. I found these exposed live wires on a typical weekend photo shoot. This broken box and duplex receptacle sat at the base of a live tree.
This Newbury Street receptacle supplied the decorative lighting string that was run up into the tree. There are many of these light strings supplied in the same manner that are used on the trees along this street, but this was the worst one of all. Many of the others were broken, taped up as a temporary measure, or covered up with a makeshift shield by someone probably hoping they would remain safe. This problem is evident around the country in most major cities.
This college student was sitting with his back touching this box, with his dog at his feet. This is an electrical accident waiting to happen.
Sec. 410-15(h) of the 1999 NEC allows outdoor lighting fixtures and associated equipment to be supported by trees, and Sec. 370-23 covers the proper box support.


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AZ held by Groningen in race for Europe
Eredivisie sides AZ and Groningen battled out a goalless first-leg draw in their UEFA Europa League play-off on Thursday.
Groningen will have home advantage in Sunday's return leg as both sides were left to rue missed chances at the AFAS Stadion.
AZ controlled the early exchanges but that momentum slowly began to wane and Groningen were unlucky not to take a lead into the break.
Johann Gudmundsson wasted the hosts' best chance when he blasted over the bar from the edge of the penalty area, and Tjaronn Chery nearly punished him with a well-taken free-kick that went just wide.
Chery again went close at the start of the second half but Esteban Alvarado was equal to it in the AZ goal, and with time running out substitute Aron Johannsson wasted an effort to give Dick Advocaat's men an advantage.
In the battle to earn a place in the top flight next season the only Eredivisie side left suffered a surprise shock.
RKC Waalwijk were behind early on against Excelsior as Khalid Karami gave the second division side the lead in the second minute, and when Lars Veldwijk doubled their advantage from the penalty spot just before half-time things looked bleak.
Try as they might Waalwijk were unable to get back into the game and will need a heroic performance in the second leg to preserve their top-flight status.
Meanwhile, Dordrecht will be happier with their 2-2 draw against Sparta Rotterdam thanks to their two away goals, even though Sparta twice came from behind to restore parity.


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A women-only snowboarding competition is guaranteed to help make the end of the ski and ride season even better this year – for spectators, hangers on and the women competing.
The first-ever-televised, women-only Supergirl Snow Pro slopestyle competition will take place at Breckenridge Ski Resort on Saturday beginning at 10 a.m., in conjunction with Breck's Spring Fever Fest.
The free event actually represents several firsts: It's the only televised World Snowboard Tour sanctioned event in the U.S., and it's the first time the course is completely designed by the female riders, with 25 of the top female boarders in the world competing. The World Snowboard Tour is part of Switzerland's TTR Pro Snowboarding nonprofit, widely recognized as the major worldwide snowboarding competition accreditation group.
"This is kind of a big deal because this is the first event like it that's by women, for women," said Celia Miller, of Breckenridge, who's been a professional rider in Summit County for about 6 1/2 years.
She said the park builders at each resort typically design slopestyle courses, and men and women compete on the same course.
"They hit the 70 foot jumps, and so do we," she said. "But the guys are doing different tricks than us. We have our own style and our own way of doing things."
And that's why this course – to be constructed on Park Lane under Chair 5, viewer's left of the Peak 8 base area and stage – is different.
"We've all been going back and forth via email, and we decided on the features we wanted. We can all hit the big jumps, but we wanted to make sure this was a fun and progressive event so that we can all showcase our talents," Miller said. "And we're all friends; we travel throughout the year together. We're competitive with the guys and among ourselves, but for this, we just want to have a fun event where we're all enjoying it."
"This was a big push for me," said Chanelle Sladics, another pro rider. "I've worked closely with the TTR the past few years, and they make themselves very available to the riders. I really feel they have the best intentions for the riders and growth of the sport, so I wanted to support them back as much as possible. Fabia Gruebler works really hard to get the women's side of the sport support, so she has been a great asset for us this event."
Sladics also is the founder of the Community Cup, a platform for environmental awareness and sustainability. The Community Cup will be held in conjunction with the Supergirl Snow Pro, and organizers hope to make the event zero-waste. They are also sponsoring on-site yoga and green workshops, along with "meet the pros" autograph sessions in the event's Eco Village. Organizations such as the Non-Toxic Revolution, Keep-A-Breast, Protect Our Winters, Plastic Pollution Coalition, 5Gyres and One Life will be represented.
The Snow Pro is actually the first event of the 2013 Supergirl Jam Series: a large-scale all-female competition and lifestyle series developed as a celebration of girl power, featuring more than 150 top female pros competing in snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing at events throughout the year.
This is the seventh-annual Supergirl Jam Series women's snowboarding comp. Last year's event was actually held on Venice Beach, Calif., where organizers trucked in snow and created park features for beach-going spectators. But this year, the girls wanted to move the event back to its obvious home in the mountains.
"I ride for Breckenridge, and I think they make the best park in the world," Sladics said. "Also, since ecology is a big part of the Community Cup's initiatives, Vail Resorts sets a good example composting leftover food, serving food on plates using real utensils and great recycling initiatives, amongst many other items. Community Cup's concept has been in development for the past two years, and it was always designed to be hosted here. We are so stoked to be colliding with the Breck Spring Fever concert series, as that adds such a great element to the event."
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The United States and Guatemala dominate in NORCECA Men's Pool O
An experienced United States squad used a 10-0 block advantage en route to defeating St. Lucia 3-0 (25-13, 25-9, 25-9), while Guatemala overpowered Haiti 3-0 (25-17, 25-20, 25-8) at the US Olympic Training Centre in Colorado Springs.
Carson Clark produced a match-high 12 points for the US and Reid Priddy totalled 11. St. Lucia's Joseph Clercent and Julian Bissette notched six points each in the loss.
In addition to their blocking dominance, the US held a 7-1 margin in aces and limited their errors to 13 for the match.
In the second game, Moises Reyes led Guatemala with 16 points, while Andy Leonardo tacked on 14 points. Jeyson Nery also collected 13 points in the victory. Roudolphe Wilems Gaethan paced Haiti with nine points.
Guatemala out-blocked Haiti 9-3 in the victory and held a 4-0 margin in aces.
"It's obviously a good start for us to get a win," US captain Sean Rooney said. "In my opinion, St. Lucia are a better team than we saw in September, the last time we played them, and it's possible we might see them again in this tournament."
"In the first set we were a little nervous, but by the third set we were totally confident and ended up playing really well," Guatemalan setter Gerardo Gonzalez said. "We are excited to play the United States tomorrow and we'll give all we have got."


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Late move on drugs by Bush FDA could be dangerous
CORNELIUS, N.C. — In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Food and Drug Administration finalized new guidelines to make it easier for drug manufacturers to promote "off-label" prescription drug uses, which can be deadly for patients.
The move came despite criticism from Bush's own Department of Veterans Affairs, which said the change "favors business interests over public safety" and could lead to a "decline in drug safety." It also was crafted despite efforts by state and federal law-enforcement experts to clamp down on off-label drug marketing.
The new guidelines were issued four years after Robin Briggs of Cornelius, N.C., buried her husband, Doug, who committed suicide on a chilly Christmas Day after taking a drug off-label.
Doug Briggs, himself a physician, had taken a drug that the FDA had approved to treat epilepsy to ease his persistent back pain. It didn't do much for his back, but Robin Briggs said the drug's risk of producing suicidal behavior led to his death.
As the Obama administration reviews all the midnight rules that the departing Bush administration issued, it will have to decide whether to try to modify or reverse this last-minute change in the FDA's oversight of off-label drug marketing.
Congressional leaders from both parties criticized the guideline when it was proposed last year. Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican who's repeatedly investigated the FDA, said he had serious concerns about the proposal, which he said would deem appropriate something that "the FDA once considered evidence of unlawful marketing."
"A legislative fix may be in order," Grassley said Thursday.
In the House of Representatives, Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, called the guideline a "long-coveted parting gift" for the pharmaceutical industry that "fundamentally undermines" the FDA's authority.
The use of drugs "off-label" — for reasons the FDA hasn't approved — has long been tolerated, and sometimes encouraged. For certain ailments, it can be helpful.
The practice also can be dangerous, however. Nearly every drug has side effects, some of them serious. Those risks can be worth the potential benefit that comes with an FDA-approved, on-label use. With an off-label use, however, the risks remain but the benefits are far less certain.
While it's legal for physicians to prescribe drugs off-label — often based on their reading of the latest medical research — it's illegal for drug makers to push such uses.
Over the past five years, federal prosecutors and state attorneys general have brought more than a dozen cases against drug makers for off-label marketing and won more than $6 billion in criminal and civil settlements, according to the Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Department of Justice.
In January alone, two of the nation's largest drug makers — Pfizer Inc. and Eli Lilly and Co. — said they'd agreed to two of the biggest off-label settlements ever.
"The FDA has been abysmal policing this area," said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who helped engineer a major off-label case against drug maker Cephalon Inc. "One reason the states have been more and more active is that the federal government has been asleep at the switch."
Cephalon's case is illustrative.
At the start of the decade, Cephalon was a relatively small drug maker, and its three main drugs had limited audiences: for epilepsy, for the sleep disorder narcolepsy and for cancer pain.
So the company launched a "highly organized" and "concerted plan to maximize revenue by the off-label marketing" of the drugs, Gabitril, Provigil and Actiq, according to the government's trial memorandum. The off-label marketing "was no accident . . . . The very top levels of the company knew and approved of these efforts," the memorandum says.
Cephalon sales representatives were trained to encourage off-label marketing, sweet-talking doctors at lavish resort gatherings and rewarding them with consulting contracts, prosecutors said. Their income was dependent on high off-label sales.
Actiq, for example, was designed for cancer patients with extreme pain. Cephalon told its sales staff to pitch the powerful drug to general practitioners, not just to cancer specialists.
"Any patients suffering from moderate to severe episodic pain due to migraine headaches, sickle-cell pain crises, etc., are potential candidates for Actiq," a 2002 sales strategy said.
It paid off. "The sales of Actiq doubled, tripled, quadrupled. As much as 80 percent of the sales of Actiq were off label," said Laurie Magid, the acting U.S. attorney in Philadelphia.
The epilepsy drug Gabitril was pitched to psychiatrists, who usually wouldn't prescribe an epilepsy drug; Cephalon management told sales reps that it was "VITAL to develop MORE psychiatry writers, MORE psychiatry adopters."
Each of the drugs had side effects, some of them strong. Actiq, for example, could depress breathing, causing death.
Cephalon was featured in a 2003 series of stories by Knight Ridder Newspapers — which McClatchy since has acquired — about the dangers of off-label drug use. A Knight Ridder analysis found that 21 percent of all prescriptions nationwide were for off-label uses, a figure that other researchers since have replicated. For some drugs — including those Cephalon sold — off-label use was far higher.
Magid's office went after Cephalon for violating drug-marketing laws and prompting fraudulent claims to government health programs such as Medicaid. Last September, her office announced that Cephalon would plead guilty to violating drug-marketing laws and pay $425 million in fines and other penalties.
While Magid and other prosecutors cracked down, however, the FDA relaxed its stance.
In its final week, the Bush administration opened the door to some off-label marketing. In what's called a "guidance" document, the FDA specified how drug companies could hand out medical journal articles that highlight potential off-label drug uses.
The guidance was complicated, and the main players in the issue still disagree about what it means for FDA oversight of off-label marketing. The drug industry generally endorsed the guidance as helpful to doctors and patients. The Washington Legal Foundation, which has accused the FDA of overstepping its authority, said that any FDA involvement in the issue was an unfair restriction on free speech and that drug makers should be free to share off-label information with doctors.
Health advocacy groups, insurers and state prosecutors, however, said the change would do more harm than good.
To be sure, doctors can find good information on new drug uses by reading medical journals. The screening process for medical journals, however, is rarely as rigorous as the FDA's drug approval process is. Without proper oversight, drug makers can pay for flimsy research on off-label uses and then use the results to promote their drugs.
The Bush FDA issued the new guidance over the objections of Bush's Department of Veterans Affairs, which pays for drugs taken by its health-system patients.
"We urge the FDA to withdraw" the proposal, the VA wrote the FDA last year. "It will not improve drug safety and could very well result in a decline in drug safety." Among other things, the VA said, "second-rate 'studies' published in journals with questionable peer-review processes will be used to convince physicians to use drugs for an ever-increasing number of unapproved uses."
Two researchers writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association echoed those comments, saying that medical literature is often the victim of manipulation.
Beyond that, the attorneys general of Illinois and Oregon complained of a "disturbing pattern" of drug companies "aggressively building market share based largely on off-label marketing campaigns that rely on widespread distribution of selected articles." The FDA, they argued, should boost oversight, not lessen it.
The FDA's Jarilyn Dupont said the agency tried to strike a balance between patients' interests and the medical community's free-speech rights.
"Doctors have the ability to read these articles on their own," she said. "So the question is, does it change the article if they are given it by a drug representative or they read it in a medical journal? The article is still the same."
Doug Briggs, the North Carolina doctor who committed suicide on Christmas Day 2004, sought out those kinds of articles himself; his evening routine, his wife said, was to retreat to the den after dinner to read the latest medical journals.
Even so, he still managed to get caught up in one of the most notorious off-label scandals in recent years.
He took a drug called Neurontin, which was developed and marketed by a company eventually bought by Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker. In 2004, the Pfizer division agreed to pay $430 million to settle criminal and civil cases about off-label marketing of Neurontin.
At times, 90 percent of Neurontin's sales were off-label, and much of that was for patients such as Doug Briggs, who'd been prescribed the drug by an orthopedic specialist.
"We were firm believers in pharmaceuticals," said Robin Briggs, who's a nurse. "We were a medical family."
The drug didn't help the pain, his family said, but it did change his demeanor. He became moody and easily agitated. On Christmas Day, he urged his wife and two adult sons to go out for a movie. When they came back, the house was dark.
Briggs had hanged himself, leaving only a cursory note. His younger son was the first to find him.
Federal officials have since told Pfizer and other makers of anti-epilepsy drugs to add suicide risk warnings to their drugs' packaging labels. Robin Briggs has sued Pfizer and the maker of a generic version of the drug; that case is pending.
Pfizer, in a statement, said the "allegations in this case are simply not supported by the very considerable scientific evidence and clinical data related to Neurontin."
Prescribing drugs 'off-label' is routine, but can injure, kill patients
FDA oversight of 'off-label' drug use wanes as prescriptions rise
Drug-makers' promotions boost off-label use by doctors


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Glenn Beck distorted a Congressional Budget Office cost estimate to claim that food-safety legislation would mean "higher taxes for you," baselessly claimed the bill would drive up food costs, and underplayed concerns about food safety. Beck demonized the legislation as a George Soros-backed effort to "control you."
Beck distorts CBO report to claim legislation means "higher taxes for you"
Beck: Food Safety Modernization Act "will mean higher taxes for you." During the November 29 edition of his Fox News show, Glenn Beck claimed that the Food Safety Modernization Act is "going to mean higher taxes for you as well. Congressional Budget Office estimates between $1.4 billion and up, between 2011 and 2015." Beck said the bill represented a George Soros-backed effort to "control your food" and "control you." [Glenn Beck, 11/29/10]
FACT: CBO said the bill would "increase spending subject to appropriation" -- not taxes. In its cost estimate of the Food Safety Modernization Act, the CBO wrote, "CBO estimates that implementing the bill with the manager's amendment would increase spending subject to appropriation, on net, by about $1.4 billion over the 2011-2015 period, assuming annual appropriation action consistent with the bill." [Congressional Budget Office, 8/12/10]
FACT: CBO said the bill would authorize collection of fees from food manufacturers -- not "higher taxes for you." In its cost estimate, CBO reported:
S. 510 would amend and modify the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the FDA to collect fees to help defray some of the FDA's costs of performing food safety activities. The bill would create new fee programs including: a facility reinspection and recall fee program for mandatory recalls, an importer fee program for voluntary qualified entities, and a fee program to support accreditation of third-party auditors.
The legislation also would authorize the FDA to collect fees for food (including animal feed) export certificates under the current export certification program. Fees are currently collected for drugs and devices that are issued export certifications.
Fees authorized by the bill would be collected and made available for obligation only to the extent and in the amounts provided in advance in appropriation acts. As a result, those collections would be credited as an offset to discretionary spending.[Congressional Budget Office, 8/12/10]
Beck baselessly claims bill will result in higher grocery prices
Beck: The cost to "you at the grocery story" is "expected to be hundreds of millions of dollars every year." From the November 29 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: Cost to the private sector -- you know, you at the grocery store? Now, they haven't calculated that yet, but it is expected to be hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
FACT: Michigan State University professor says bill "isn't likely to make a huge dent" in food prices. As Media Matters documented, Craig Harris of the Food Safety Policy Center at Michigan State University reportedly said that the bill is unlikely to raise consumers' food costs:
Although costs of food production may rise as a result of the bill, the amount isn't likely to make a huge dent in most large food companies' profits, Harris said, so the added costs shouldn't trickle down to the consumers. For small companies and local farmers, the bill includes exemptions and special accommodations, recognizing that some companies may not be able to keep up with the costs of adopting new safety practices.
Beck underplays food-safety problem
Beck: "Is there a big problem" with food safety "that I don't know of?" From the November 29 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: Congress is working hard to make sure that the food that you eat is completely safe. Now, you might be thinking to yourself, "Glenn, I think my food is already safe." But that's just how stupid you are. They know better in Washington.
Apparently, our food is very unsafe. That's why tonight, the Senate is scheduled to start voting on S510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. It is fanta-- it's gonna be so modern, what they're doing. May I ask you, who on the planet has a safer food supply than we do while feeding 300 million people? Is it China? Is it India? Is it -- oh, is it Great Britain? Ooh, Sweden? Oh, no.
Is there a big problem that I don't know of? I mean, I know that, you know, we could always make things better here. There was a problem with spinach a couple of years ago, and then guacamole or avocados, or something. I think that was quickly resolved -- minimal to no interruption of our normal food supply.
BECK: We could always improve, but there will be never be a perfect system with zero problems, will there?
FACT: GAO declared federal oversight of food safety a "high-risk" problem. From a 2007 Government Accountability Office report that was part of its series on "high-risk problems":
Each year, about 76 million people contract a food-borne illness in the United States; about 325,000 require hospitalization; and about 5,000 die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, agriculture, as the largest industry and employer in the United States, generates more than $1 trillion in economic activity annually, or about 13 percent of the gross domestic product. The value of U.S. agricultural exports exceeded $68 billion in fiscal year 2006. An introduction of a highly infectious foreign animal disease, such as avian influenza or foot-and-mouth disease, would cause severe economic disruption, including substantial losses from halted exports. Similarly, food contamination, such as the recent E. coli outbreaks, can have a detrimental impact on local economies. For example, industry representatives estimate losses from the recent California spinach E. coli outbreak to range from $37 million to $74 million.
A challenge for the 21st century is how several federal agencies can integrate the myriad food safety programs and strategically manage their portfolios to promote the safety and integrity of the nation's food supply. In numerous previous reports, we have described the fragmented federal food safety system in which 15 agencies collectively administer at least 30 laws related to food safety. The two primary agencies are the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which is responsible for the safety of meat, poultry, and processed egg products and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is responsible for virtually all other foods. Among other agencies with responsibilities related to food safety, the National Marine Fisheries Service in the Department of Commerce conducts voluntary, fee-for-service inspections of seafood safety and quality; the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates the use of pesticides and maximum allowable residue levels on food commodities and animal feed; and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for coordinating agencies' food security activities.
The food safety system is further complicated by the subtle differences in food products that dictate which agency regulates a product as well as the frequency with which inspections occur. For example, how a packaged ham-and-cheese sandwich is regulated depends on how the sandwich is presented. USDA inspects manufacturers of packaged open-face meat or poultry sandwiches (e.g., those with one slice of bread), but FDA inspects manufacturers of packaged closed-face meat or poultry sandwiches (e.g., those with two slices of bread). Although there are no differences in the risks posed by these products, USDA inspects wholesale manufacturers of open-face sandwiches sold in interstate commerce daily, while FDA inspects closed-face sandwiches an average of once every 5 years.
This federal regulatory system for food safety evolved piecemeal, typically in response to particular health threats or economic crises. During the past 30 years, we have detailed problems with the fragmented federal food safety system and reported that the system has caused inconsistent oversight, ineffective coordination, and inefficient use of resources. [Government Accountability Office, January 2007]


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Python docs - Turtle Graphics
- Optional Arguments (for Functions)
- If Statement
- Equilateral Triangle
- Rectangle
- Modulo Operator
- Circles
- Regular Polygons (Circumscribed)
- Regular Polygons
- Repeating Shapes
- Stars
Optional Arguments (for Functions)
At the end of the first part we had a function which accepted a turtle and side as arguments in order to create a square:
def square(aturtle, side):
I want to extend this so that we can also supply a colour to fill in the square:
def square(aturtle, side, colour):
I'm using the UK spelling of colour as it will never conflict with any existing color property (that I have encountered).
This is fine, but I won't always want to fill the square. Let's make it an optional argument:
def square(aturtle, side, colour = None):
The equals-sign makes it optional and None is the value it will assume if the colour isn't supplied when the function is called. We could have used colour='red' so that it will default to a fillcolor of 'red', but if I omit the colour I want the square not to be filled with any colour.
If Statement
In the function itself (the function-body) we need to use an if statement to check whether a value for the colour was supplied:
if colour is not None: # do something
This says 'if the colour is anything other than None'. The colon : at the end of this statement is required.
The if-statement is a statement-block, so the code that should apply if the condition is true (that is, if a colour was given) needs to be indented. As mentioned in part one, you can use tabs or spaces to create the indent, as long as the same indent-level is maintained. DO NOT switch between tabs and spaces: choose one and stick to it.
There are two if-statements. One to decide if we need to use begin_fill(), and the other to decide if end_fill() is needed. Notice that it is the same test condition for both statements. (Note that this is not the only way to write this code - there rarely is just one way!)
Equilateral Triangle
As drawing an equilateral triangle (with equal sides) is very similar to drawing a square, here is a simple function to do this:
However, see the sections on Regular Polygons which provides other ways to draw these shapes.
We should be able to create a version of our 'square' function that would create a rectangle. Mathematically, a rectangle is distinguished by having opposite sides of the same length. What does this mean to our turtle?
- He draws one line and turns left 90 degrees.
- He draws a second line (of a different length) and turns left 90 degrees.
- He draws a third line, but it is the same length as the first, and turns again.
- He draws a fourth line, but it is the same length as the second.
In our current function, x assumes the values 0, 1, 2, 3 each time through the loop (during each iteration). We need to distinguish, and handle differently, the values 0, 2 and 1, 3.
Modulo Operator
the docs said:
The % (modulo) operator yields the remainder from the division of the first argument by the second.
The Docs - Expressions
This link is broken: use the following, removing the spaces:
http:/ /docs.python.org/3.3/reference/ expr essions.html
Andy said:
0 % 2 gives us 0 (the remainder after division)
1 % 2 gives us 1
2 % 2 gives us 0
3 % 2 gives us 1
(4 % 2 would give 0, etc.)
1 % 2 gives us 1
2 % 2 gives us 0
3 % 2 gives us 1
(4 % 2 would give 0, etc.)
You might also want to investigate Modular arithmetic. For example, if we count modulo 6 we would obtain 0,1,2,3,4,5,0,1,2,3.. The number 6 never appears in the output and the values "wrap around".
Notice that == is used to test for equality, != would test for inequality. See the Comparisons section in the linked Expressions page above.
We could easily draw a circle using turtle.circle(radius) but that is not very challenging, or educational.
Imagine the turtle has moved along a horizontal radial line, and then turns left 90 degrees. We want to draw a short line that follows the path of the circle. The turtle only draws lines, not curves, so it won't follow the exact path of the circle, but if the drawn-lines are short enough then we will, eventually, obtain our circle.
If the lines were infinitely short, and we drew infinitely many of them, then it would eventually draw a perfect circle. (This is actually one way of defining a circle.) But we don't have the time, or the pixel-fractions, to achieve this!
The circumference of the circle = 2 * pi * radius. This is the total distance we need to cover. A circle completes 360 degrees, so the total of all the left() values we use must add up to this figure. If we want to use 100 small lines to outline our circle then we can just divide both the circumference and 360 (degrees) by 100, and use these values as the forward() and left() values for our turtle.
Our circle won't be very accurate unless we use a large number of divisions (small lines), but if we use too many lines then the drawing will be slow.
Regular Polygons (Circumscribed)
In fact, all regular polygons (equilateral triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon) can be drawn in this way. That is, by drawing lines (of the same length) within a circle: the shape's circumscribed circle.
In order to retrieve the first colour ('red') from our colours List we need to use colours[0]. Because the shape variable starts at the number 3 we need to use colours[shape - 3].
Regular Polygons
The previous section drew regular polygons using their circumscribed circle. We divided both the circumference, and 360 (degrees) by the number of sides of the shape. We are making this more difficult than it needs to be!
Basically, it doesn't matter what the length of the sides are. As long as they are the same and we use left() to complete a 360 degree turn, we will have drawn a regular polygon. Consequently we don't need to divide, or even work out, what the circumference is. (I'll leave you to research the geometry!)
Also, by taking this simpler approach, we can supply the length of the side for our shape, rather than the radius that will contain it. The length of the side is a much more useful, and meaningful, value to us than the radius.
We can easily modify this to add stamps half-way along each line. Instead of moving forward(length) we can move forward half the length, stamp, then complete the second half of the line.
Repeating Shapes
Turtle graphics get really interesting when we can repeat creating shapes in a loop. We could create a circle, move the turtle, create another circle, etc.. Very intricate patterns can be created with a little bit of effort and planning!
We can use most of the functions that we have so far to achieve this. We just create a loop (a for or while loop) and call one of the functions within the loop. Within the loop we might move the turtle each time, or call the function with different arguments, or both.
Can you work out why timmy is moved forward 5 each time?
What happens if you reverse the loop using range(4, 10)?
Admission: Another way to draw regular polygons is:
timmy.circle(100, None, 4)
where 4 is a number of steps. (There are other ways.) However, we would not have learnt as much!
I'll admit that I modified the following example from something I found on the internet. I encourage you to investigate the geometry of a five-pointed star or pentagram.
The following may, or may not, help you with the geometry: I've never used Microsoft Visio before!
the code
We have already seen most of the code that is used in this example but there are a few new features for you to investigate:
- It uses the random module to generate random numbers.
- Three of the functions return a value, which is stored in a variable by the calling code.
- One of these functions returns a tuple - a grouping of values (2 values in this example).
- numinput() prompts for a number from the user. There is also textinput() that you can use. These were added in Python 3.0. If you are using an earlier version then use input() (or raw_input()) instead to obtain a value from the console.
- The function int() is used to convert a number (which might contain decimals) to an integer.
Are the three functions random_color() length() and coords() really necessary? They don't do very much, particularly length().
length() and coords() might be more useful if you could supply the range of values as arguments to these functions. Explore, and enjoy!
In Concluding
I haven't covered every feature, or method, of turtle graphics, so I'll repeat the link to the docs:
Python docs - Turtle Graphics
python turtle demos
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NORTH RIVERSIDE – Representatives of the West Suburban Chiefs of Police Association expressed their condolences Tuesday after learning of the death of Tony Garvey, former police chief in North Riverside, of an apparent suicide.
"It is with profound sadness that we report the passing of Anthony (Tony) Garvey, president-elect of the West Suburban Chiefs of Police Association," the group said in a statement. "We have lost a dear friend and valued colleague. Tony took his own life this morning, and our grief and confusion at this time are little compared to what his family must be feeling. Our hearts and prayers go out to them."
Brookfield Police Chief Steven Stelter, president of the WSCPA, echoed the group's sentiments about Garvey's death. He said it was a tragedy for Garvey's family as well as all those who knew and worked with him.
"This is a tragic event. ... We are saddened at this loss," Stelter said. "He was a friend and a colleague. He was a hard worker. He worked very hard every day for the village of North Riverside. ... They were very fortunate to have him."
Garvey, a Brookfield resident, was replaced as police chief in North Riverside following the April 9 consolidated election. He was succeeded by Lane Niemann, who served as Garvey's deputy chief since 2009. Garvey was named a commander for the Police Department after Niemann took over as chief.
"It is with the deepest sadness and heartfelt sorrow that we mourn the loss of Anthony (Tony) Garvey of the North Riverside Police Department today. Tony was an employee of the village of North Riverside for 24 yaers who served in many capacities within our Police Department," according to statement issued by North Riverside Mayor Hubert Hermanek Jr. "Tony will be sincerely missed by not only the employees of this village but the residents of North Riverside as well. Not only is North Riverside losing a vauable member of the community but I am personally mourning the loss of a longtime friend of over 30 years. My deepest sympathy and prayers are extended to his family at this difficult time."
Riverside Police Chief Tom said that he and Garvey worked for the Brookfield Zoo Police Department in the early 1980s. They served together on the WSCPA's executive committee, and Garvey was very active with the association, Weitzel said.
"Tony was a wonderful law enforcement professional and a wonderful husband and father," said Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel, who previously served as president of the WSCPA. "I was very saddened to hear of the news this morning. Tony was an individual who cared deeply about the village of North Riverside."


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Hi all,
My setup:
SGS I9000 running Froyo
CL 4.0 build 4044 (latest)
DJO 1.11.7 (latest)
Outllok 2007
After struggling for hours, including losing data and sorting out duplicated entried I now have the Calendar sync working properly.
However, it seems that DJO on my SGS does not read the contacts from the built in SGS app.
I changed the sync settings in CL to every possible settings: sync one way, sync both ways, Android primary, Conflict resolution, etc.
I went through the DJO setup wizard 10's of times, selecting and deselecting contact sync.
I changed DJO contacts sync settings to every possibility.
I uninstalled and reinstalled DJO, reconfigured, etc.
I checked that there is only one CLUSB on the SD card.
None of the above worked.
I forced "Read Android Data" many many times, each time the status message showed it reads the calendar but not the contacts.
During the testing my built in contacts were wiped out a number of times and I had to import them from backup.
I then created and deleted test contacts in Outook and DJO. All changes replicated OK between the two but none replicated to the built in contacts app.
New entries in the contacts app did not appear in DJO nor Outlook. Of course I forced "Read Android Data", which did not help.
I now have all my contacts on the SGS, 0 in DJO and 0 in Outlook.
Based on my testing (many hours now) I concluded that DJO does not read from the built in contacts app.
Any suggestions?


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Maurice Jones-Drew might be the Jacksonville Jaguars' biggest star, but he knows he won't be the most popular man in town come Sunday, when his Jags host the Broncos in the regular season opener.
That title will be belong to Tim Tebow, the Broncos' rookie quarterback, who grew up in Jacksonville and starred at the University of Florida.
"It's his town, man," Jones-Drew said Wednesday morning on a conference call with Denver reporters. "It's going to be exciting for him."
Jones-Drew said die-hard Tebow fans will be clamoring to see their favorite player, and Jones-Drew offered Tebow — and Broncos' security — some advice: Hide.
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The Florida Times-Union reported Wednesday that tickets for Sunday's game are nearly sold out, with only club tickets and a limited number of bowl seats remaining and the game will not be blacked out on local television. The Jags consistently have trouble filling their stadium.
"It's helping us out a bunch because it is selling out our stadium because he's coming, and it's going to be a fun game," Jones-Drew said.