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In computer programming, a function may be described as a pure function if both these statements about the function hold:
- The function always evaluates the same result value given the same argument value(s). The function result value cannot depend on any hidden information or state that may change as program execution proceeds or between different executions of the program, nor can it depend on any external input from I/O devices.
- Evaluation of the result does not cause any semantically observable side effect or output, such as mutation of mutable objects or output to I/O devices.
The result value need not depend on all (or any) of the argument values. However, it must depend on nothing other than the argument values. The function may return multiple result values and these conditions must apply to all returned values for the function to be considered pure. If an argument is call by reference, any parameter mutation will alter the value of the argument outside the function, which will render the function impure.
Pure functions[edit]
sin(x), returning the sine of a number x
length(s), returning the size of a string s
encrypt(k,d), running a deterministic encryption algorithm on a piece of data d using a key k
Impure functions[edit]
- A function that returns the current day of the week is impure because at different times it will yield different results—it refers to some global state. Similarly, any function that uses global state or a static variable is potentially impure.
random()is impure because each call potentially yields a different value. This is because pseudorandom generators use and update a global "seed" state. If we modify it to take the seed as an argument, i.e.
random(seed); then
randombecomes pure, because multiple calls with the same seed value return the same random number.
printf()is impure because it causes output to an I/O device as a side effect.
Pure expressions[edit]
Pure functions are required to construct pure expressions. Constant expressions are pure by definition. An expression consisting of a function subexpression applied to one or more argument subexpressions is pure if both these statements about the subexpressions hold:
- The function and argument subexpressions are pure expressions.
- The function subexpression yields a pure function.
Typically the function subexpression is simply a function identifier. Pure expressions are often referred to as being referentially transparent.
Evaluation of a given pure expression will yield the same result regardless of when or how many times evaluation occurs during program execution. This property is what makes it meaningful to talk about an expression's "value". It also makes it possible to replace an expression with the corresponding value (or it with an equivalent alternative expression) without changing the meaning of a program.
Impure functions in pure expressions[edit]
The definitions above still allow some laxity with regard to purity. It is possible for a pure expression to yield an impure function (or more generally a value which contains one or more impure functions).
It is also possible for an expression to be pure even if one or more of the argument subexpressions yields an impure function (or a value which contains one or more impure functions). In this case the impure function(s) in the argument must not be applied during evaluation (but may be incorporated in the result somehow). However, dealing with programs that allow impure and pure functions to be mixed like this can be quite difficult in practice, thus purely functional programming languages do not allow impure functions to be defined. Effect systems, among other things, allow one to reason precisely and formally about the purity of certain expressions even in the presence of higher-order functions etc.; they even allow to prove that a certain function does not have any side effects although it uses impure operations (for example, uses a mutable array for computation internally, but does not expose it to the outer world or maintain its state between invocations).
See also[edit]
- Compile time function execution: the evaluation of pure functions at compile time
- Purely functional
- Referential transparency (computer science)
- Lambda calculus
- Side effect (computer science)
- Idempotence


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Critics of Christianity look to evolution to show how the emergence of human life on earth demanded enormous ruin and ravage, billions of years of apparent waste and futility, species extermination and organism road kill. Not only was the massive dying off rampant, it's mandatory too.
This series, by Old Testament scholar Richard S. Hess, was first published as an appendix to Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (Downers Grove: IVP Academic; Nottingham: Apollos, 2011).
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1. You made a New Year's resolution to use your crockpot every day of 2008 and blog about it. That's just awesome, tell us how this came about.
I entered 2008 knowing that I wanted to start a blog. I had begun working from home for BlogHerads.com, and knew in order to answer the bloggers' questions properly, I'd need to maintain a blog of my own.
I had written a housekeeping journal/planner for moms, and was waiting for it to be published. (It's titled Totally Together: A Planner for the Busy Household and will be released by Running Press in March of 2009. 3/09.) I knew that it wasn't a good idea to put the ideas presented from that book for "free" on the web and I also wasn't thrilled with the idea of sharing too much personal information with the world.
On December 23, 2007 I joked with my husband that I should start a Crock-Pot blog, and post a new recipe every day.
He didn't laugh, and the blog was born a few days later.
2. What's been the best thing about staying true to your resolution? The hardest?
The best thing about the blog is that we are eating meals at home. In previous years, I found that hectic afternoon schedules gave an "excuse" to eat out or pick up take-out far too often. I like the way crockpot cooking can save money, and I like knowing what is going into the food that my family eats.
The hardest thing is cooking every day. I am used to making a big pot of beans or soup, and then picking at it throughout the week. I look forward to going back to cooking every 2-3 days, and having my husband barbecue or cook more of the meals.
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It was a family band back then and it still is. Things have changed though.
Kimberly and her brothers, now known as the Band Perry, don't have to worry about getting gigs these days. Sometimes they have more requests than they can fill. Another thing is that their performances aren't free anymore. They've performed in Australia, Europe and across the United States. A second tour to Europe is on their agenda.
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The Mintons had another child, a son, Paul, who lives in Boaz.
Bobby pastured churches from 1955-80 and continues to do interim preaching. Sue worked at several jobs, but said her favorite was as an artist developing educational material for teachers from K-12.
She left that job when her parents' health began to fail. She moved them to Gulfport where she cared for them until their deaths.
Arretha played classical music on the piano and instilled a love for that in her daughter. Sue took piano lessons from Willie Webb who lived on Center Avenue for many years. Ms. Webb was also an English teacher.
"I've had to develop a love for country music, because I grew up studying classical piano," said Sue.
The Perrys' daughter, Cathy Bloomfield, a registered nurse, and her family live in VanCleave, Miss., about 40 minutes from her parents. Their younger son, Dayn, lives in Chicago, where he is an online sports writer. The three children of their older son, Steve, a pediatrician, and his wife, Marie, make up the Band Perry.
As the band was evolving, Steve began to research and learned who they needed to partner with and what the best route was to get them to where they wanted to be.
Now that the Band Perry has hit international popularity, the family doesn't have many chances to all be together at the same time.
"Everybody was together and around my table this past Christmas," said Sue. "Kimberly, Reid and Neil came. They had flight reservations but had to change them, so they brought the tour bus and parked it in front of our house because they couldn't get it in the driveway. It sleeps 10 and is a big black thing. We created a lot of chaos. We had children sitting across the street with their cameras, but we did get to have them for a couple of days."
Sue and Bobby say they're amazed at their grandchildren's success.
"Of course, we're very proud of them," said Sue. "It's been a family adventure all the way through. But the whole family has worked so hard for this. Their mom, Marie, travels with them all the time. She couldn't turn her babies loose to go all over the world with no telling who. Now, Steve is beginning to have a little more time to travel with them."
It's mostly males that Kimberly and Marie are around while they're touring, so Sue was glad when another granddaughter, Ann Carter, Cathy's daughter, joined the band to help with public relations and fan parties.
"It's been a good thing for Kimberly," said Sue. "The boys had their buddies because the band members are all guys. Of course, she had her mom, but now she has also has a buddy."
Bobby said that because there's so much involved and so many different personalities who are involved, he has "learned to dodge and stay out of the way."
He quickly points out that that "If I Die Young", which was written by Kimberly, has gone quadruple platinum.
"I think it's exciting to see how hard work can pay off," said Sue. "Back when I first knew they were targeting country music, I though that it was so unreachable. Now, when I hear some of the songs Kimberly wrote that they perform, I'm amazed. It's given us our 15 minutes of fame, because we wouldn't have had it otherwise."
Sue said the band's success has changed the lives of the entire family in a good way.
Band Perry has opened for Tim McGraw, Reba McIntyre, Keith Urban, Alan Jackson and Brad Paisley, among others. Friday night, they performed in Cullman at the Rock the South concert. Also on the bill were Sara Evans and American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. Saturday night, they performed in Columbus, Ga.
Sue and Bobby were in Cullman along with 93-year old Eva Simmons of Piedmont who is the great-great-aunt of Kimberly, Reid and Neal.
The trio spent a lot of summers in Piedmont, often practicing singing and playing musical instruments while here.
"When they were still living in Mobile, Marie brought Kimberly and the boys here," said Sue. "They would practice and I remember Kimberly saying, 'I think this is far enough from the neighbors that we won't bother them.'"
All three Perrys remember Piedmont.
"We have so many fond memories of Piedmont," said Kimberly. "One of our earliest writing retreats was spent in the Minton House. We were inspired by the small town spirit and the history of our family from Piedmont."
Their interests went beyond singing and playing back in those days.
"Their favorite pastime would be planning a play," said Sue. "Sometimes the plays would be musicals and sometimes they were dramas. Kimberly would do the planning and assign roles. That night they would present the play for us."
Bobby admits that he's a proud grandfather.
"Anywhere we go, people know us," he said. "They'll comment on the Band Perry."
Kimberly, who is almost 30, does lead vocals and plays guitar and piano. Reid, 24, does vocals and plays bass Neil, 22, does vocals and plays mandolin, drums and accordion.
Sue enjoys the fact that they all three have individual personalities.
"As the oldest child, Kimberly is the natural leader of the group," said Sue. "Reid is a deep thinker, and Neil adds his own brand of humor to every situation. I'm just really proud of the kids because I feel that they maintain their Christian testimony through all this, and there's a lot of opportunity to do otherwise. They know where they came from and they're still the same sweet kids that we've always known, so I appreciate that about them. It hasn't changed them. They've got their heads on straight and have a good Christian background."
Sue said in many of their shows they do their variation of "Amazing Grace."
That makes for two proud grandparents from Gulfport, Miss.
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Prospects couldn't help but be impressed by Florida's 14-6 win over LSU on Saturday.
Start with wide receiver Marquez North from Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte, N.C. He made his first trip to Gainesville this past weekend and scored the official visit a "10″ on a 1-10 scale.
"They helped themselves a lot because I learned more about Florida and what it's all about," North told the Gainesville Sun. "I loved spending time with coach (Will) Muschamp and his staff. They said most of their receivers aren't as tall as they would like, so they want some more size at the position and I could see why by watching the game."
North, who named Tennessee his leader last week, said the Vols still lead for his services. North plans to visit Florida again in November along with trips to Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio State.
Defensive tackle Montravius Adams from Dooly County High School in Vienna, Ga., hasn't named a leader but called his visit to Florida the best recruiting trip he's taken.
"It made me want to be a part of Florida and I could see myself going there one day," Adams told the Gainesville Sun. "I liked everything about their defense and they did a lot better than I thought they would."
Adams' trip to Florida was an unofficial visit. He said he will "most likely" return to Gainesville on Dec. 8 for an official visit.
Florida State commitment Ira Denson was present for Florida's win over LSU and has already decided to return on Oct. 20 when Florida hosts South Carolina.
"It was great," Denson said of the Florida-LSU game. "Muschamp coached them hard. When they were down, he kept telling them to battle and that winners never quit. And they stuck with it and won. They came in the second half like a whole different team."
Did Florida help sway Denson's decision? Tough to tell. The offensive lineman from Madison (Fla.) High School is still committed to Florida State.
"They're still my favorite team," Denson said. "Nobody has really been talking to me since I committed. Florida is just coming into the picture and we've started talking again. We had a relationship back in the summer and we're just getting it back now. This is a life-time decision and I just wanna be sure I make the right one."
Florida's 2013 class is ranked No. 3 nationally by ESPN RecruitingNation. More success on the field could help the Gators land the top class in the country by the time Feb. 6 arrives.


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That looks neat. I'm a-gonna have to test it out for you guys...make sure it safe and won't combust into flames or something..wink-wink..(hogs it all to herself for the rest of the convention...which hasn't yet taken place...) ACK! Quotations and future-tense! And I left my Tardis at hooooommmmeeee.....!!! Well, anyway I'll give it a try, maybe I'll do "I'm Alive" or "Shunkan Sentimental" with my sister. THIS IS A-GONNA BE A MAY-ZAAA!
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I am sorry to announce that due to circumstances (pretty much beyond our control) we will not be able to have the Karaoke Box this year at Animazment. This event was a huge success last year that we anticipated bringing it back for your enjoyment. We appreciate those who got this up and running and the volunteers that made it happen in 2010. However, this does not look like it is going to be possible for 2011. In order to regroup and get it to the capacity of what is expected in comparison to last year's convention would take more man hours than the current staff has this close to the convention and we are not going to throw something intentionally into a room that is only half prepared. This will be at the top of the list for events to be accomplished for 2012. We apologize for the disappointment this will leave with many of you.
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Unlocking this thread so that we can let everyone know that the Karaoke Box will be returning to the convention this year. We had some folks come forward to pull enough material together to make this a reality and then some. So make sure to get your voices in tune and stop by for some musical goodness throughout the weekend.
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YESSS. <3 Thank you, o saviors of the karaoke.
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That's sooo awesome. Thank you whoever you guy's are, now all that time singing to the steering wheel will finally pay off .
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Do we still post here for songs on the 2012 karaoke list or am I thinking way to far ahead of time and just wait for a new thread to come up?
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Let's wait for a new thread as this one will most likely go bye-bye.
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So ah... since this thread's still here (and to my knowledge no other thread has been made...) is the karaoke box still happening this year? And is it too late to make song requests?
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There really needs to be a new thread and an update to that list.
How nice it is to keep on forgetting your log-in info and having to create new accounts.
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Because of the fact that the songs are having to be reworked and reconfigured I do not foresee the list expanding. It's a lot of material for our folks to work with and we are keeping our fingers crossed that it will all be done by con time. We hope you will be satisfied with the existing list and hopefully we will then be able to expand on it for 2013.
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"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
—George Carlin
The "rags to riches" mythology of Horatio Alger was always better suited for fiction than reality, but such "rugged individualism" of lore has now become increasingly dubious and seemingly preposterous in the face of a fading American Dream.
For the past few decades, the policies coming from Washington, combined with the high stakes gambling of Wall Street, have contributed largely to a country that has become beholden to the interests of the mega-rich and megalithic corporations at the expense of the American community at large.
Those familiar with the Occupy Wall Street movement have probably heard the protesters refer to themselves as the "99 percent." The "99 percent" refers to the top 1 percent of the super-rich elite in this country as opposed to everyone else.
It also refers to the huge, widening gulf of disparity growing between the rich and poor in this country while the middle class shrinks.
This is the fourth and penultimate installment of my series on the Occupy Wall Street movement. In the previous installments I have explored the shady criminal practices of Wall Street and how Washington enables such behavior through deregulation.
In this installment, I would like explore where these policies have left the average American.
Income inequality
The top 1 percent owns 42 percent of the nation's overall wealth (when counting income as well as assets) according to a study done for New York University by economist Edward N. Wolff.
And according to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, when it comes to pure income, the top 1 percent owns about 17 percent the nation's income, the highest level since 1979, "while the share going to the middle one-fifth of Americans shrank to its lowest level during this period (14.1 percent)."
Forbes magazine reported that the net worth of the top 400 richest families in America alone is $1.37 trillion, which is more than the bottom 60 percent in this country combined.
Income inequality is at all-time high in the United States, as a study by Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez found income inequality to be at its highest rate since 1913 (when the income tax was instituted).
Furthermore, Saez states in his study, "The top 1 percent incomes captured half of the overall economic growth over the period 1993-2007."
A report released last week by the Congressional Budget Office found that, since 1979, the top 1 percent saw income grow by 275 percent, whereas the average middle class income grew by less than 40 percent, and the bottom 20 percent of the population's income grew by only 18 percent.
The report concluded: "As a result of that uneven income growth, the distribution of after-tax household income in the United States was substantially more unequal in 2007 than in 1979."
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that the United States has the fourth overall worst income inequality of developed countries in the world. Only Turkey, Mexico and Chile have worse income inequality.
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But as the rich keep getting richer, the middle class is shrinking and the poor are getting poorer.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, in 1965, the average CEO earned 24 times what the average worker made, and by 2006, the average CEO earned 262 times the pay of the average worker.
Also, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that union membership has fallen to just 12 percent of workers, which is one of the lowest rates of all developed countries according to the World Economic Forum. In 1983, union membership in America was 20 percent. In 1954 it was almost 30 percent.
By studying data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Les Leopold, the author of the book "The Looting of America," found that wages for the average worker in the United States have stagnated and, at times, even fallen over the past several decades while, at the same time, productivity has risen.
Leopold concluded: "By 2007, real wages (in today's dollars) had slid from their peak of $746 per week in 1973 to $612 per week — an 18 percent drop. Had wages increased along with productivity, the current average real wage for nonsupervisory workers would be $1,171 per week-$60,892 per year instead of today's average of $31,824."
So, for the past several decades, the lower and middle class have been getting paid about the same, and at time even less, for more work, while the upper-management's compensation has skyrocketed.
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the median household income in America is $50,221.
But almost half of the members in Congress count themselves as among the rich in this country. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the median income for a member of Congress is $911,510, and 261 members are millionaires. Is it any wonder why many of the the policies coming from Washington the past few decades have favored the rich?
Poverty and homelessness
Meanwhile, more Americans are now on food stamps than any other time in our nation's history, some 43 million people or more than 14 percent of the population.
And according to the Census Bureau, a record number of Americans are now living in poverty: 46.2 million people, over 15 percent of the population, which is the highest number the bureau has found since it began studying poverty rates 52 years ago.
A new study conducted by the Foundation for Child Development also found that child poverty has reached its highest level in 20 years, with nearly 22 percent of children now living in poverty in the United States.
The report found that 15.6 million children are estimated to be living in poverty, and that as many as 500,000 children are homeless.
The most recent Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress found that, across the country, approximately 650,000 people are homeless, and approximately 1 million people live in homeless shelters.
Tax aversion
Well, the rich may be getting richer, but at least they pay their fair share in taxes, right? Not hardly.
The top tax bracket in this country (those making over $379,150) is supposed to be 35 percent. Even though this tax rate is one of the lowest in the history of our country, the super-rich don't actually pay anywhere near that.
Billionaire Warren Buffett wrote a now-famous piece for the New York Times this summer showing that he actually only paid 17.4 percent in taxes in 2010, far below the 36 percent his far less wealthy employees paid.
And Buffett's experience is about average. According to the IRS, the top 1 percent now has an average tax rate of about 17 percent. In 1995, the average tax rate for the mega-rich was about 30 percent.
Why do the rich pay so little? That's because most of their income (over 80 percent according to the IRS) comes from long-term capital gains, dividends and carried interest, all of which are taxed at a maximum rate of 15 percent.
So, while the rich may pay the majority of the taxes in this country, they are not paying their fair share. Much of the same can be said for corporations.
The corporate tax rate for the largest corporations in the United States is 35 percent. It's one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world — or it would be, if American corporations actually paid their taxes.
With the clever use of subsidies, tax benefits, foreign subsidiaries and overseas tax havens the effective corporate tax rate in 2008 was just 5.3 percent according to a report by Forbes Magazine.
In 2009, General Electric raked in over $10 billion in profits but paid exactly zero in taxes. Bank of America not only paid zero in taxes but actually received a tax benefit of $1 billion.
And these corporations are not alone. Boeing, Citigroup, Exxon-Mobil, and Wells Fargo also paid no federal income taxes, to name just a few companies.
A study by the Government Accountability Office found that two out of every three American corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 to 2005.
So, not only are corporations not paying their fair share, but some are simply paying no share at all.
Something is seriously wrong here, folks. Every statistic shows that over the past several decades, the gap between the rich and poor is widening, the middle class is shrinking and the American Dream is fading.
The great Hunter S. Thompson often used to write about what he referred to as "The Grim Slide" — the concept that the American ideals we once held so high were slipping away, becoming awash in a country bought and sold to the highest bidder. But what Thompson feared so many years ago has only exacerbated.
However, I still think there's light at the end of the tunnel, and next week, in my final installment of this series, I will explore what, if anything, can be done to reverse the slide.
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Industry Minister James Moore drew ire this weekend after comments to the effect that it's not his problem how other Canadians manage their lives.
Apropos of news that British Columbia maintains the highest levels of child poverty in the country, a reporter for Vancouver's News 1130 asked Moore whether Ottawa has any responsibility for this epidemic.
"Obviously, nobody wants kids to go to school hungry, but yeah, certainly we want to make sure that kids go to school with a full belly, but is that always the government's job, to be there to serve people their breakfast?" Moore responded. "Is it my job to feed my neighbour's child? I don't think so."
Outrage ensued. The Twittersphere called him the Grinch, among other things. Child poverty watch groups want him to apologize.
For his part, Moore claims to have been quoted out of context. Whatever the context his comments were intended to be taken in would be met with great interest, though none of us are holding our breath.
However lacking in compassion Moore's comments may have come across, they should be of surprise to absolutely no one.
How could anyone with a remotely working knowledge of political ideologies in Canada be shocked to hear a Conservative express what is an entirely predictable Conservative view?
It is no secret that Conservatives tend to see charity as an act up to the individual, not something over which they see the government as having any responsibility.
By definition, Conservatives believe the role of government should be kept to a bare minimum. Anyone having a hard time is on their own, likely victim only of their own poor choices.
The undoing of the social safety net is a point of pride for these Tories. Whether it's Employment Insurance, CPP or any other program designed with the idea that by helping each other, we help ourselves, Tories see these initiatives as things that develop dependencies among Canadians. Not things that help.
If Moore's comments are a departure at all, they are only inasmuch as they were perhaps more blunt than the doublespeak Canadians usually hear from this government.
No, Moore's belief that neither he nor his government have any responsibility in alleviating child poverty is not especially compassionate. But it shouldn't come as a surprise either.
UPDATE: Moore apologized just before 1pm Monday on Twitter, saying: "An apology. The cause of fighting poverty is not helped by comments like those I made last week. I am sorry."


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Italy commemorates the 150th anniversary of its unification in 2011. To celebrate and mark its significance, President Giorgio Napolitano launched celebrations with raising the Italian flag in Reggio Emilia, Italy where the flag was first selected more than 200 years ago on January 7, 1797. During the event, Napolitano honored Turin, Florence and Rome, the three cities that have served as Italian state capitals, with reproductions of the original flag and handed out copies of the Italian constitution to students from local schools.
Napolitano stated during his address that "…we cannot, as a nation, think of the future without memory and consciousness of the past. It serves us, it helps us to retrace the contradictions and harshness of the path that brought us in 1860 to become a united nation…"
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GEOSC-100, Earth and Space Science, is a one-term course designed for the non-science major and is especially well-suited for students intending to teach at the elementary and middle school level. In addition to concepts of science in general, this course will cover the major concepts of earth science and astronomy, such as the theories of continental drift/plate tectonics and the origin of the solar system. Other topics include a comparison of features of the earth (lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere) to those of other planets. Content is based on topics recommended by the National Science Education Content Standards and those of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. Prerequisite: exemption/completion of READ-099 and MAT-097 with C grades or better. Three hours lecture, two hours laboratory each week. Four credits. Four billable hours. GENERAL EDUCATION
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COURSE OBJECTIVES Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Distinguish among facts, observations, hypotheses, theories, and laws in scientific studies and paradigms; (GE2, PG1, PG4)
2. Explain how plate tectonics, unique to Earth in the solar system, serves as an example of a paradigm in geosciences; (GE1, GE2, GE6, PG1, PG4)
3. Distinguish between rocks and minerals and identify specific examples of the three types of rocks; (GE2, PG1, PG4)
4. Relate oceanic and continental landforms to tectonic and gradational processes on a local and global scale; (GE2, GE6, PG1, PG4)
5. Compare and contrast features of the Earth with those of other planets and satellites in the solar system, utilizing ideas of influential scientists such as Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler; (GE2, GE3, GE4, PG1, PG4)
6. Analyze weather variables (temperature, moisture content, pressure, and wind) from reliable data sources on the web as well as weather maps to interpret current and future weather conditions; (GE2, GE3, GE4, GE6, PG1, PG3, PG4)
7. Collect and interpret data, such as tidal variations, sunrise and set, moonrise and set, and earthquakes to graph results and make valid conclusions; (GE2, GE3, GE4, GE6, PG1, PG3, PG4)
8. Demonstrate effective communication skills through written and /or oral assignments, such as summarizing scientific articles, presentations, and essay questions. (GE1, GE2, GE4, GE5, GE7 PG2, PG4)
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and a TV in everyroom, making your stay feel more like home. Also, is the only home in complex that has an adjacent waterfront lot for your exclusive use!
Ammenities include private sandy beach, heated pool and hot tub.
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The top three winners for the best hostels overall in North America were M Montreal, Hostelling International Boston, and Planet Traveler in Toronto.
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USA Hostels Hollywood, located in the Hollywood city centre and just steps from the Walk of Fame, is surrounded by some of Los Angeles's hottest bars and clubs. USA Hostels Hollywood offers fun, clean, value-driven accommodation for travellers who want the most for their money.
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Managing, Monitoring Sales For Success
Originally published: 10.01.07 by Jackie Rainwater
Properly training retail sales personnel and making sure they are performing to expected levels is essential.
A sales lead is a terrible thing to waste. I am sure you will agree with that statement. However, it has been my experience that only a very small percentage of retail contractors effectively manage sales leads and sales personnel. (I call them comfort consultants).
By properly managing the sales force, you can be certain that all sales leads are carefully tracked, and promptly pursued— thus bringing more money to the bottom line.
At Peachtree Heating and Air Conditioning, the Atlanta-based retail hvac and IAQ company I operated from 1990 until 2002, we had a residential retail sales team comprised of eight professional comfort consultants. Expressed in 2006 dollars, our consultants averaged $1,232,305 each in annual residential retail sales from 1995 to 2001. Their average sales "ticket" during that same period was $5,047. Complete hvac system replacement sales averaged $6,200 each. I would estimate, given today's increased hvac equipment efficiencies (and higher costs), combined with heightened consumer awareness of residential IAQ problems, the average complete hvac system replacement sales in 2007 would be greater than $7,500 each for that same group of comfort consultants.
In order for your company to achieve the same or greater success, here are the key components necessary to develop a stellar retail sales organization:
Put In Processes: In order to attract, hire, and retain a top quality salesperson you must establish an ongoing, year-round sales-lead-generation and sales-lead-tracking process that includes company generated sales leads as well as leads generated by comfort consultants. (To research this in detail, refer to my April and September 2007 HVACR Business columns).
Motivate: Create a sales compensation program with clearly established monthly and annual sales and profit margin goals. A key component to any good sales compensation plan must include stimulating incentives for exceeding sales and profit margin goals. (Refer to my July 2007 HVACR Business column for more on this).
Track: Establish a sales lead tracking and reporting system. (See Exhibit A, in the Download Center for the form Peachtree Heating and Air Conditioning used to register and track each sales lead.)
For Peachtree, each pre-numbered sales lead was entered into a computerized lead-tracking program after it was assigned to a comfort consultant. A sales lead status report was generated each week to enable me (acting as sales manager) to review the status of all sales leads by individual consultant.
Train: To ensure newly hired comfort consultants have all the necessary tools to succeed, offer extensive training.
At Peachtree, our consultants were trained for 15 to 20 days before they were allowed to run sales leads on their own.
The training involved five days inside training on company culture, policies, processes, and procedures, which included spending time with each department to become familiar with their operations. This was followed by three days in the field with service and installation personnel. The last seven to 12 days of training involved product and sales training, which included "role playing" and accompanying experienced comfort consultants on sales calls. The last two days of training also involved running sales leads while being observed by an experienced comfort consultant. After a successful review of their performance during the orientation and training period, they were then entered into the "sales lead rotation."
Monitor: The only way to properly coach is to review actual results. To do so, have consultants submit a Weekly Sales Activity report. (See Exhibit B in the Download Center.)
During my tenure, I would carefully review the reported activities and results and would act quickly when I saw areas that required my attention.
For example, if I spotted activities such as sales closure rates, percentage of sales leads ran versus the number of sales leads assigned, or average sales dollars per sale that fell under our norms, I would take immediate corrective action. A copy of this report also was submitted to the person responsible for the computerized lead tracking program and the lead status report was updated each week.
Report: Understanding where your company currently is and where it needs to be is key to continuously improving sales.
At the end of each month I would prepare a Residential Comfort Consultant Performance Comparison. (See Exhibit C in the Download Center.)
As an integral part of our monthly sales meeting, I would distribute this report to each of the comfort consultants and I would lead a discussion of our monthly and year-to-date sales performance versus our sales goals. Following the team sales meeting, I would meet individually with any consultants whose monthly or year-to-date sales were under budget or whose performance "norms" were unsatisfactory and we would come to an agreement on a positive solution for any problem areas.
Solutions might involve additional inside training, accompanying a top performing comfort consultant on sales calls, or another top performer accompanying the consultant on some sales calls. I would meet individually with each "underperforming" consultant on a weekly basis until the problem was resolved.
Remember, a sales lead is a terrible thing to waste.
Articles by Jackie Rainwater
Managing, Monitoring Sales For Success
By properly managing the sales force, you can be certain that all sales leads are carefully tracked, and promptly pursued— thus bringing more money to the bottom line.
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The Importance Of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Using key performance indicators and financial information is vitally important in operating a successful hvac business. Never overlook the extreme importance of also maintaining the right company culture.
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Great Companies Are Built With Great Internal Communications
Failure to properly communicate with employees (co-workers) on a consistent and timely basis is one of the biggest causes of the inability to achieve growth, profitability, and stability.
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Planning for Growth and Improved Profitability
In order to grow, you must take the steps necessary to properly analyze your current business mix, establish realistic future business mix, growth, and profit goals, and then develop and implement a realistic business plan to help you achieve your goals.
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Proven Ways To Generate Sales Leads
Weather-driven sales certainly are a nice windfall when they happen. However, depending on temperature extremes to grow a viable hvac retail business simply doesn't work for the long haul. In order to grow and prosper, the business must generate sufficient valid sales leads on a year-round basis.
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Go to a Swap Meet! In short, a swap meet is where a group of weeaboos such as ourselves meet up and trade our unwanted anime merchandise for the anime merchandise that other people don't want. Simple, really. Think back to the good old days of Neopets with the Trading Post. You give to get, no givesies backsies, no takesies backsies unless both parties agree to do so. You're gonna be responsible for your own stuff and decisions here. We don't want staff to have to break up catfights over nekomimi, as amusing as that would be.
You folks think we can be mature and hold this as a side event? Cause I got a few nice things lying around that I don't use anymore, and I'm sure you all do, too. My only concern is that impulsive traders will end up regretful and butthurt, and those with a lower charisma score might get talked out of a few things they don't want to give up. I think this can work, but only if we keep our impulses, greed, and possible penchant for bullying behaviors in check. Seriously, those are the reasons Pokemon was banned in school. Let's not relive that. So, what say ye? Sound like a jolly good time?
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Fruits and vegetables are a bargain for consumers when measured by serving size, according to a new research report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service.
"Healthy foods are not necessarily more expensive than less healthy foods," said Andrea Carlson, economist and co-author of the report, "Are Healthy Foods More Expensive? It Depends On How You Measure the Price."
Carlson said in a May 16 teleconference the excuse that healthy food is too expensive doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
While the price-per-calorie for fruits and vegetables is typically more expensive than fat-laden or high-sugar foods, Carlson said consumers can't use that measure to build their diet.
For example, a typical consumer could eat two or three 240-calorie doughnuts and not feel stuffed but one 105-calorie banana satisfies hunger more and provides better nutrition.
Carlson said the study examined the price of more than 4,000 foods based on three methods: price per calorie, price per edible pound and price for average amount eaten.
The foods were divided into fruits, vegetables, dairy, grains, proteins and a "less healthy" food category.
Fruits and vegetables are more expensive when measured by price per calorie, but they are not as pricey as less-healthy foods using price-per-edible pound and price-per-average amount eaten.
The study also examined costs to consumers to meet the suggested 2010 dietary guidelines. Measured that way, vegetables are the most expensive one to meet, followed by protein, Carlson said. Meeting the recommendations for grains, dairy and fruit were less expensive.
"There is a lot of (food) in that vegetable recommendation; that's what drives that cost," she said.
In general, consumers can find a range of prices for both healthy and less healthy foods, and they need to be aware how prices are measured.
"We conclude that healthy foods are not necessarily more expensive than less healthy foods," Carlson said during the teleconference.
Produce leaders said that message needs to be heard by consumers.
Kathy Means, vice president of government relations and public affairs for Newark, Del.-based Produce Marketing Association, said PMA research shows consumers can eat recommended servings of fruits and vegetables for not much more than $2 per day.
"Every new research piece that comes out and says that healthful eating is not expensive is important, and it is important that the word gets out to people," Means said. "It is important we keep talking about it because we are still hearing (that fruits and vegetables are too expensive) in the media."