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New Poll Shows Unemployed Workers Are More Hopeful About Finding Work
OKLAHOMA CITY - May 10, 2017
33% Have Given Up on Looking for Work, Down from 47% in 2014
New High: 92% Say They're "Hopeful"
In 4th Year of Polling, Fewer Blame the Economy, More Blame Themselves
A Majority Has Not Had an Interview in the Past Month; 34% Report Being Unemployed for More than Two Years
Express Employment Professionals released results from a new poll of unemployed Americans showing a greater sense of optimism about the future among the unemployed.
The national survey of 1,500 jobless Americans age 18 and older between March 14 and April 6, 2017 was conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of Express and offers a detailed, in-depth look at the background and attitudes of the unemployed.
According to the survey, 33 percent agree with the statement, "I've completely given up on looking for a job." While still a startling number, it is a notable improvement compared to previous years, with 43 percent saying they had "given up" in 2016, 40 percent in 2015 and 47 percent in 2014 reporting the same.
In addition, more of the unemployed expressed hopefulness than in years past. Ninety-two percent agree with the statement, "I'm hopeful that I will find a job I really want in the next six months," compared to 87 percent in 2016, 88 percent in 2015, and 91 percent in 2014.
Unemployment remains a chronic condition for many, though the average duration of unemployment (23.5 months) is lower than in 2016 (26.3 months) and 2015 (26.8 months) and slightly higher than in 2014 (23.2 months). Thirty percent of unemployed Americans have been out of work for three months or less, 13 percent for four to six months, 13 percent for 7-12 months, 10 percent for 13-24 months and 34 percent for more than two years.
When asked why they are unemployed , 22 percent say they quit and 22 percent say they were laid off. This is a new low of people reporting they were laid off, compared to 2016 (23 percent), 2015 (28 percent), and 2014 (36 percent)-an encouraging trend for the economy.
When asked who's "responsible" for their unemployment , 50 percent blame themselves and 26 percent blame the economy. This represents a continued decline in the number blaming the economy, compared to 2016 (34 percent), 2015 (37 percent), and 2014 (45 percent). This is also an increase in those blaming themselves; just 36 percent blamed themselves in 2014.
"It's troubling that one-third of our fellow Americans who are unemployed say they have given up finding work," said Bob Funk, CEO of Express Employment Professionals and a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. "But when you look a little closer, there are signs of a positive trend from previous years; fewer have given up, more are hopeful, fewer blame the economy and fewer are unemployed due to layoffs.
"This survey suggests that those who are jobless have a little more control over their situations or that they see an improving economy as a sign that opportunities will turn up for them."
WHO ARE THE UNEMPLOYED?
According to the survey, 55 percent of the unemployed are men; 45 percent are women.
The largest age group is the youngest age group:
35 percent are ages 18-29
12 percent are 60 or older
The majority lacks a college degree:
7 percent did not complete high school
39 percent received only a high school diploma
6 percent completed job-specific training after high school
21 percent attended college but did not receive a degree
8 percent hold an associate's degree
14 percent hold a bachelor's degree
2 percent attended graduate school but did not receive an advanced degree
4 percent have a graduate degree
Those with a college degree reported receiving their diplomas in the following areas:
24 percent in science
29 percent in liberal arts
5 percent in education
25 percent in business
5 percent in fine arts
13 percent in another area
Forty-six percent of those with at least a college degree agreed with the statement, "I wish I focused on a vocational career (e.g., automotive technology, electrician, plumber, HVAC specialist, dental assisting, medical assisting, etc.) rather than getting my college degree."
WHO'S GIVING UP, WHO'S HOPEFUL
Thirty-three percent agree with the statement, "I've completely given up on looking for a job," compared to 43 percent in 2016, 40 percent in 2015, and 47 percent in 2014.
6 percent agree completely
5 percent agree a lot
9 percent agree somewhat
12 percent agree a little
67 percent do not agree at all
Of those who have been unemployed for more than two years, 53 percent agree that they have "given up."
Still, 92 percent of all unemployed Americans agree with the statement, "I'm hopeful that I will find a job I really want in the next six months," compared to 87 percent in 2016, 88 percent in 2015, and 91 percent in 2014.
38 percent agree completely
23 percent agree a lot
21 percent agree somewhat
9 percent agree a little
8 percent do not agree at all
WHAT THE UNEMPLOYED ARE-AND ARE NOT-DOING TO FIND WORK
The unemployed reported they are putting in an average of 13.3 hours looking for work each week. That is up from 11.7 hours in 2016 and 12.9 hours in 2015 but down from 13.8 hours in 2014.
Sixty-five percent have applied for positions that are below their job level at their previous employer, but 35 percent have not.
The majority had no interviews in the previous month*:
55 percent had been on zero interviews in the previous month
13 percent had been on one
14 percent had been on two
8 percent had been on three
4 percent had been on four
2 percent had been on five
3 percent had been on six to nine
1 percent had been on 10 to 14
* At the time of interviewing
Among the job search activities unemployed Americans could choose from, the most common job search activities were online:
56 percent reported visiting and researching online job boards
46 percent entered search terms directly into an internet search engine
44 percent visited prospective companies' websites
43 percent posted resumes on major online job boards
34 percent visited or researched websites that provide resume tips
The unemployed spend most of their time filling out applications online. The unemployed were asked to report what percentage of their job search time was spent on various activities:
Average percent of job search time spent
Activity 2017 2016 2015 2014
Researching job opportunities 26.9% 25.3% 26.8% 21.1%
Filling out applications online 25.8% 23.7% 21.9% 17.5%
Sending resumes 12.0% 11.6% 12.4% 10.5%
Networking online 9.2% 10.5% 10.2% 9.4%
Filling out applications in person 6.9% 8.5% 9% 8.3%
Following up on resumes/applications 6.8% 7.2% 7.6% 6.7%
Networking on the phone 5.8% 5.6% 5.2% 4.9%
Interviewing 4.7% 4.9% 4.4% 4.2%
Attending professional networking events 2.0% 2.7% 2.7% 3.0%
This study was conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of Express Employment Professionals and included 1,500 U.S. adults aged 18 or older who are unemployed but capable of working (whether or not they receive unemployment compensation benefits). Excluded are those who are currently retired, choose to stay at home, or are unable to work due to long-term disability. The survey was conducted between March 14 and April 6, 2017.
Results were weighted as needed by gender for age, education, race/ethnicity, region and household income. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' penchant to be online. Totals may not equal the sum of their individual components due to rounding. No estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated; a full methodology is available.
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About Robert A. Funk
Robert A. "Bob" Funk is chairman and chief executive officer of Express Employment Professionals. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, the international staffing company has more than 770 franchises in the U.S., Canada and South Africa. Under his leadership, Express has put more than 6 million people to work worldwide. Funk served as Chairman of the Conference of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve and was also the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
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By Jeff Salter
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Saw an old guy with a WW2 cap at the 'Y' today. His cap indicated he was Navy, at Utah Beach, on D-Day… so, naturally, I wanted to know more. I introduced myself and began asking questions. Unfortunately – as his nearby daughter and two granddaughters chimed in – he no longer remembered very much. But they remembered bits and pieces of what he USED to recall. About all I could get out of him was that he was on a ship which sent other ships to that deadly beach.
But he couldn't remember what type of vessels his ship was directing. I had assumed they were landing craft (infantry), which would be the ones we're all familiar with… the Higgins boats which brought the fighting men as near to the shore as the beach obstacles would allow. But he couldn't remember or couldn't explain. His cap also was emblazoned with PC 1176… so I looked up his ship when I got home.
He was on PC 1176 – a sub-chaser patrol craft – which was one of the first two "primary control vessels" in control of clusters of landing craft (tank), which unloaded – on choppy water – the duplex drive Sherman tanks which swam to shore. [Note: There were many variants, but a typical Sherman weighed around 38 tons!] His vessel was in control of 8 LSTs, each of which held several DD tanks.
The very first allied ship destroyed in the D-Day event was PC 1261, which was the sister ship of the 1176. This man (on this ship) saw his companion ship hit a mine and sink, killing most of those on board. Not long afterwards, one of the LCTs (holding the DD Shermans) also hit a mine and was demolished.
The skipper of the 1176 was supposed to send the LSTs to shore from a much greater distance but he realized the flaw in that plan and he took his own initiative to bring his vessel (with the 8 LSTs clustered nearby) to a distance of less than one mile from the beach. Remember, this was into the face of withering hostile fire and hazardous beach obstacles.
At that point the 1176 skipper released the LSTs and most of those 28 DD Shermans made it to shore… unlike many of the other tanks released into the water in other parts of the invasion.
This ship was in the very first wave of the dramatic, deadly action at Utah Beach and this man who was in the middle of it no longer remembers much of anything of what happened.
This guy's family remembered (to me) that two "boats" had blown up very near his ship, but they didn't understand the significance of one of them being the very first ship sunk in the D-Day invasion.
I truly wish I had gotten his name/address. My mom had been waiting for me for quite a while by then… and the old guy had gotten to a cycle of merely repeating what he had already told me several times. So I just had to thank him, shake his hand, and leave.
I felt honored to have met this gentleman, but the encounter left me quite sad.
Have you ever spoken to a combat veteran of WW2. Did he (or she) remember much of what had happened?
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15 Responses to A Hero Who Couldn't Remember
Tonette Joyce says:
My father lost the sight in one eye at a young age and had to have that eye removed before he was 20,(which would have been before 1930). He became an electrical engineer and then worked in a 'war plant' where put electronics into airplanes and was among the first to fit them with radar.
Three of his brothers went to war, one as an Army chaplain, who saw the most action as he was at Anzio and other places, mostly Italy and was decorated, as was another brother, who was a bombardier. I never heard them speak of their service, nor did any of the other WWII veterans whom I knew.(The chaplain did write about it in poems). One uncle-by-marriage wrote a novel about action in WWII and what was then unnamed, but is PTSD, after arriving home,(which I covered here a few years back). I think most of the veterans then were simply expected to take what they had to do and compartmentalize it, and get on with life. So many scars healed-over , but probably not truly healed.
The only veteran that I ever personally knew who was at D-Day was a pilot, who 30 years later complained that when he got back to base, he had to wait a very long time to get dinner. My mother seldom lost her temper with anyone who went through the war, but she hit the roof, with all those who died and were suffering on the beaches that night,( those alive not eating at all and being shot at), and he complained even then that he had to wait to eat!
But Mom never forgave herself when she lost her temper with a teacher who over-stepped his boundaries of discipline when my brother's hair was a little long, just a little, over his ears and on his collar. He picked him up with a couple of others, took them out of school and to a barber shop; my brother had never been in any kind of trouble at all in school. However, afterward my brother told her that the man had been on the 'Bataan Death March", and my mother, as I said, never forgave herself for berating him.
There are so few left at all now.
Jeff Salter says:
Those soldiers (American and Philippino) and many nurses and some civilians — who were captured in the Bataan debacle — suffered horribly under conditions that were unnecessarily brutal.
jbrayweber says:
I've mentioned my grandfather and his service in WW2 and the Korean War many times. His stories had made a huge impact on me as a child, making me fiercely patriotic. Only one of his experiences would he not talk about as it still haunted him well into his later years—the island overtaken by Japanese paratroopers. That was a deadly story of sheer survival my dad had to tell while my grandfather just listened, motionless.
It's hard to fathom the determination and fear of those fighting in a world war. The obstacles the troops overcame—at great costs—on D-Day were insurmountable. We look back now in awe.
I am thankful for every man and woman who has served this country. The sacrifices made with life and limb, as well as mentally and emotionally, should never be discounted or politicized. As the saying goes "land of the free because of the brave." Question is, do we have enough of the brave? Do we have that same spirit the "Greatest Generation" produced? Those after all the way up to just past 9/11? I worry not.
Thank God for men like your grandfather… who served sacrificially and suffered traumatic memories for decades afterward.
Without their grit and strength, we'd be speaking a foreign language today.
Th emajor difference is the clear and present danger during WWII, what and how to defend and protect against them. There seem to be no truly defined group with which to contend, new ones drop in like the next black hat coming to hit Tom Mix in the old movies.The Cold War was indeed chilling; once nuclear weapons entered the scene,outright battle between theU.S. and others with the same capabilities created a completely new situation. Eisenhower himself, a commander of the European Theater of Operations during WWII, thought that nuclear war was something to be avoided at all costs. He suffered massive heart attacks as President, yet hid how ill he was from most of the world and stayed with his job at the cost of his own health because he felt that he alone could prevent nuclear war in the 1950s.
It is simply a different world now.
John T Babb says:
I've been fortunate to speak to many WWII vets (my father and father-in-law among them). I have yet to hear one "brag" about his own actions, but most spoke about what others did with true gratitude. I never realized my father suffered from any kind of PTSD until when, in his mid-80s, I sat with him while we watched the first half of "Saving Private Ryan". The next morning he told me he couldn't watch the rest of it "because his nightmares had come back". The small town where I was raised had hundreds of quiet heroes. What an honor to have known so many of them.
wow. It's painful to realize that most of those in combat — whether Army, Navy, Air Corps, Marines, coast guard, or Merchant Marines — who SURVIVED… carry with them such traumatic memories.
Elaine Cantrell says:
My father-in-law, my father, and my uncle were all in World War II. Some things they would talk about, and some they wouldn't.
My father and my uncles all served in uniform, but none of them were involved in WW2 combat… fortunately. But they all lost friends and they all saw horrors of one type or another.
Patricia Kiyono says:
What a touching story. My uncle fought in WWII, but my dad graduated from high school in June of 1945, so he was too young. Uncle Jim became a career officer, retiring as a Major, but we weren't able to hear him talk much about his time in combat, because he was stationed in Okinawa, and then in Hawaii. But I know dad emulated his big brother, because he enlisted as soon as the Korean Conflict began.
American citizens with Japanese heritage faced a lot of extra stress and hostility… it must have been hard on them.
Angela Schroeder says:
Both of my grandfather's were in WWII but neither of them ever spoke about their experiences. The one Grandpa lied about his age to join the Navy. I don't ever remember him speaking about what he saw or where he was. The other was in the Army. The one in the Army only ever told us that he was a cook. We found out after he died that he was not a cook but that was his way of getting out of talking about it. "All I ever did was peal potatoes."
The Army veteran's way of dealing with questions about his war-time experiences is both touchingly funny… and agonizingly painful.
It would be impossible to guess whether he experienced the type of horrors that he literally had to shut out of his conscious mind… or if those memories were simply too painful to discuss with anyone. Such a sad situation.
Dianne says:
Yes, my father was in the Army and mostly talked about the Battle of the Bulge. He and another soldier were cut off from their troops and took cover and got stuck (alone) under a bombed German tank (complete with the bodies of the troops that were in it) while the German troops marched by. He referred to his mate as 'a good hand with a knife'.
Wow… that battle was so horrific in so many ways. I can only imagine how / why your dad was able to assess his buddy's skill with a blade. [shudder]
In addition to everything else he faced, the weather was horrific and supplies (like food & medicine) were incredibly scarce. Thank God he survived that experience.


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Severe AKI in COVID-19 Cases Predicts High Mortality Risk
A new meta-analysis suggests that severe acute kidney injury that develops in hospitalized COVID-19 patients is significantly associated with a 4-fold increased risk of death.
Severe acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is associated with a high risk for death, according to a new meta-analysis.
The meta-analysis, which examined pooled data from 955 COVID-19 patients in 3 studies, found that found that COVID-19 patients who had severe AKI, compared with those who did not, had a significant 4-fold increased risk of death, Hatem Ali, MD, of University Hospitals of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, Sohail Abdul Salim, MD, of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, and colleagues reported in the Renal Failure.
"Based on the available limited published data, severe AKI in patients with COVID-19 is an ominous clinical predictor and is associated with high mortality," the investigators concluded.
They considered patients to have severe AKI if they required acute renal replacement therapy (RRT) or met the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcome definition of AKI stage 3.
"The high mortality in COVID-19 patients and severe AKI, even with RRT, could be due to the kidney-lung crosstalk during COVID-19 infection and amplification of inflammation during AKI in a cohort with high incidence of acute respiratory distress syndrome," the investigators concluded.
Dr Salim told Renal & Urology News that patients who survived most commonly ended up needing long-term dialysis.
COVID-19 and Acute Kidney Injury: Challenges and Management
The meta-analysis included a study by Yichun Cheng, MD, and colleagues at Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. The study, published in Kidney International, included 701 patients with confirmed COVID-19, AKI stage 3 developed in 14 of them (2%), and this was significantly associated with a nearly 10-fold increased risk in-hospital death. Another study included in the meta-analysis was by Xiaobo Yang, MD, of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and colleagues, and it included 52 patients with confirmed COVID-19. The study, published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine, found that 8 of 9 patients who required renal replacement therapy (RRT) died. The third study, by Fei Zhou, MD, and colleagues, included 191 patients with COVID-19. All 10 patients who required RRT died. Of the 33 COVID-19 patients who developed AKI, 32 died, according to a report in The Lancet.
Ali H, Daoud A, Mohamed MM, et al. Survival rate in acute kidney injury superimposed COVID-19 patients: A systemic review and meta-analysis [published online April 27, 2020]. Ren Fail. doi: 10.1080/0886022X.2020
Cheng Y, Luo R, Wang K, et al. Kidney disease is associated with in-hospital death of patients with COVID-19. Kidney Int. 2020;97:829-838. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2020.03.005
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What makes someone a great leader?
How do some people make a lasting difference in the world while most just struggle to get by?
Leaders like Nelson Mandela and Bill Gates had the same twenty-four hours in a day as everyone else, yet they accomplished more than most would dream possible. We can learn a lot from them.
One of the greatest honors of my life has been interviewing many of the great leaders of the 20th and 21st centuries. It's been fascinating to know them and learn from them. There are a few leaders, though, who came a before my time, who I'd have loved to meet with. One is Franklin Delano Roosevelt—arguably the greatest leader of the twentieth century.
That's the mark of a great leader. Their followers feel known and understood.
Reason #1: FDR had empathy. For someone who grew up in the same neighborhood as the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts (which, today, would be like growing up next to Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg), FDR had a remarkable ability to connect with the plight of everyday Americans. Some historians think his battle with polio made him empathetic. The disease left him paralyzed from the waist down, and in constant discomfort. But he didn't complain or try to make others feel sorry. Instead, polio caused him to turn outward to those struggling even more.
The major focus of FDR's presidency was to help average people find economic security. His presidency began during an unprecedented economic downturn. Some communities had unemployment rates that reached 80-90%. People lost hope. A less empathetic president might've stuck to fiscal tradition—thinking the economy would eventually correct itself. Not Roosevelt. He put himself in the shoes of the people and commissioned America's "New Deal," which was a set of several government programs designed to revitalize the economy.
Whatever your opinion about these programs (experts still debate their long-term impact), the fact that Roosevelt was willing to lead such massive change is evidence of commitment to help people in need. That commitment—born of empathy for those he served—is a major reason why he was so loved by the people.
Reason #2: FDR was accessible. During the Great Depression, and later, during World War II, Roosevelt utilized the power of radio to connect with Americans. In regular visits that would eventually be referred to as "fireside chats," Roosevelt laid out his plans for economic reform andreassured the American people that their leader was on their side.
People felt like Roosevelt was their friend. He spoke conversationally, in a regular tone with ordinary words. Seventy-percent of words used in fireside chats were among the five hundred most commonly-occurring terms in the English language. And he spoke slower than most radio announcers of the time—using an average of sixty-five fewer words per minute. If you have the chance, you may want to listen to one of these chats. They are exemplary lessons in diction, tone and inflection. And, more importantly, they are wonderful examples of what it sounds like to talk with another person human to human.
The public response from these chats was tremendous. The White House received ten times more mail per week during Roosevelt's tenure than it did during the previous administration. FDR's ability to intelligently lay out his goals and plans in a way that everyone could understand is something we can all learn from. There was no pretense. He was just himself. The nation recognized that, and rallied behind him.
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
The message of hope and optimism was a common theme throughout FDR's presidency. A half century later, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania looked at the effects of an optimistic political style. They found that 80% of elected US presidents since 1900 were more optimistic than their political opponents. The researchers believed that the reason America tends to elect optimistic leaders is because it makes them feel more in control of their future. Certainly, during the depression and second world war, America needed a leader who could provide a feeling of control and a hope for a brighter future. FDR did that in spades.
These three traits—empathy, accessibility, and optimism—helped FDR become one of the greatest presidents in US history and arguably the greatest communicator we've ever had as a president. Who among us couldn't learn something from his example? Each of us can be a little more empathic. Each of us can communicate a little more clearly. Each of us can be a little more upbeat. Obviously, we won't all be leaders on the world stage, but we can be better leaders and make a positive difference in our own way. Hopefully this blog gave you a few ideas about how to do that.
Every week I share what's on my mind – from world events, to communication tips, to my recent interviews, and sometimes personal musings. You'll love it.


M100 PVC - ISS Ltd.
The M100 PVC (or PVC100) is a shaft speed switch, with a corrosion-resistant Polyvinyl chloride enclosure and a relay setpoint range of between 10 and 100 rpm. The relay can be set to trip within this range, and in the event of rotational failure, such as broken drives, belt slippage, product overloads, clogs or jams, the SPDT 5-Amp control relay can be used to shut down equipment or alarm.


Any rational number ab∈ℚ between 0 and 1 can be represented as a sum of different unit fractions . This result was known to the Egyptians, whose way for representing rational numbers was as a sum of different unit fractions.
be the smallest natural number for which 1n≤ab. If a=0, terminate.
Output 1n as the next term of the sum.
The algorithm can never output the same unit fraction twice. Indeed, any n selected in step 1 is at least 2, so 1n-1<2n – so the same n cannot be selected twice by the algorithm, as then n-1 could have been selected instead of n.
It remains to prove that the algorithm terminates. We do this by induction on a.
and 0≤an-b<a – by the induction hypothesis, the algorithm terminates for ab-1n.
So given any one representation of ab as a sum of different unit fractions we can take the largest denominator appearing n and replace it with two (larger) denominators. Continuing the process indefinitely, we see infinitely many such representations, always.


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Coachella's 20th anniversary documentary to be released next month
Coachella's 20th anniversary documentary is set to be aired next month.
'Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert', which features performances from Radiohead, Björk, Daft Punk, Kanye West, Rage Against The Machine and LCD Soundsystem, will premiere via YouTube Originals on April 10th.
The film, which has been produced and directed by Chris Perkel, also features exclusive interviews, and follows the news that the 2020 festival, which was scheduled to take place in April, has been postponed until October 2020.
Watch the trailer for 'Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert' below.
Listen back to Four Tet's 2019 Coachella set here.


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Costa del Sol Tourism Hub
The Costa del Sol Tourism Hub business acceleration program is designed and run by Costa del Sol Tourism and Planning for the creation of businesses and consolidation of the tourism business fabric, through a mentoring process and strategic consultancy.
Throughout the four months of the program's acceleration period, in addition to the experience and contacts of mentors and consultants specialized in different areas of business management, the projects will have a work space in the program's own facilities, as well as support in the search for funding, for which the program also has the collaboration of investors from the Málaga Business Angels Network.
The projects that successfully complete the acceleration phase will have the opportunity to participate in the call for the Costa del Sol Awards for Entrepreneurial Tourism Initiative, supported by the Unicaja Banking Foundation, which will reward talent, innovation and the development of the three best projects with an economic award of €5,000, €3,000 and €2,000, respectively.
In addition to a process of selection and matching of mentors and ad-hoc consultants for each project, the program has, among its greatest exponents, an advisory board made up of different businessmen and professionals from the sector who are part of the Tourism Forum of the Costa del Sol, which are joined by the professionals from the area of business development and the business areas of Tourism and Planning Costa del Sol.
Projects as interesting as MYSTREETBOOK, a recommender of routes adapted to the user's preferences, which was selected by the World Tourism Organization as a technological solution to be presented at the II World Congress on Intelligent Tourist Destinations held in 2018; or the company I+DB ACOUSTIC, whose project of sound-absorbent awnings has been recognized in different specialized forums as the only solution aimed at guaranteeing rest in spaces considered as Acoustically Saturated Zones, have passed through the Costa del Sol Tourism Hub accelerator.
It is also worth mentioning the participation in this program by the company RENTHAS, positioned as "the first 4.0 manager of tourist accommodation" and with which important international investment funds of the sector are already collaborating for its expansion in Spain; or the project DREAMED RESTAURANTS, aimed at offering technological solutions for communication channels and marketing in catering services, through mobile applications that allow an integral management of the service, and which was the winner of the first edition of the Costa del Sol Tourism Awards to the Tourism Entrepreneurship Initiative.
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10 business projects compete for the second edition of the Costa del Sol Tourism Awards
The ten projects that have successfully completed the acceleration phase of the third edition of the Costa del Sol Tourism Hub program will have the opportunity, on October 16, to access one of the three categories covered by the Costa del Sol Award for Entrepreneurial Tourism Initiatives, promoted by Tourism and Planning Costa del Sol and sponsored by the Unicaja Banking Foundation.
El Referente launches its fourth Investment Guide for Startups
PERSEO launches the Startup Challenge: Photovoltaic cleaning
Acceleration calls focused on startups and entrepreneurs during the month of October 2019
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Director of Economic Development of Tourism Costa del Sol
Type: Accelerator
Category: Tourism
Location: Málaga
Sector: Tourism
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FIRE > Newsdesk > FIRE Congratulates James Madison University for Abolishing Speech Codes
FIRE Congratulates James Madison University for Abolishing Speech Codes
by Robert Shibley
FIRE is proud to announce that James Madison University (JMU) has eliminated the last of its speech codes, earning our highest, "green light" rating for free speech. While two-thirds of the nation's colleges maintain policies that clearly and substantially restrict freedom of speech, JMU is now a proud exception, having fully reformed four speech codes. JMU is the 15th school nationwide to earn a "green light," the fourth to do so in the last two years, and the third in Virginia. In each case, students took up the cause of speech-code reform with FIRE's help.
As Greg said in yesterday's announcement, "FIRE commends the students and administrators who have been working hard over the past two years to ensure the First Amendment rights of JMU students. We hope that more universities will follow JMU's lead and take the steps necessary to protect their students' rights."
FIRE began working on speech-code reform in October 2009 with JMU students Kelly Jemison, John Scott, and Luke Wachob, who are members of FIRE's Campus Freedom Network. We began working together shortly after The College of William & Mary earned national acclaim for eliminating its speech codes and earning a "green light."
Among the policies reformed by JMU was a policy prohibiting any speech that might "provoke" a violent reaction, language which had given an impermissible "heckler's veto" to any angry protester who could shut down others' speech simply by threatening violence. JMU rewrote the policy to clarify that only speech intended to incite violence by its supporters was prohibited.
JMU also eliminated a requirement that peaceful assemblies be registered 48 hours ahead of time which, if enforced, would have prevented impromptu vigils like those that took place on many campuses in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
FIRE learned last week that JMU had revised its final speech code, a policy that made postings subject to administrators' interpretation of "good taste" and prohibited any "mention or representation of drugs or alcoholic beverages" in postings on campus. Under this policy, a flyer advertising a debate on the drinking age or marijuana legalization, or even one advocating an anti-drug message, would have been against the rules.
JMU joins its fellow Virginia public institutions The College of William & Mary and the University of Virginia in an elite group of 15 "green light" schools. FIRE is now turning its attention to Virginia's other public universities, including George Mason University (GMU), which has a "red light" rating, and Virginia Tech, which has a "yellow light" rating. GMU and Virginia Tech students are losing out to their fellow Virginia counterparts when it comes to enjoying First Amendment rights on campus.
Nevertheless, Virginia now leads the country in "green light" public universities. That's a distinction to be proud of. Here's hoping that other states will soon start competing for it!
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How to Invest with Confidence
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Hurdle Rate
Reviewed by Will Kenton
What Is a Hurdle Rate?
A hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return on a project or investment required by a manager or investor. Hurdle rates allow companies to make important decisions on whether to pursue a specific project.
The hurdle rate describes the appropriate compensation for the level of risk present—riskier projects generally have higher hurdle rates than those with less risk.
In order to determine the rate, the following must be taken into consideration: risks, cost of capital, returns for similar investments, and anything else that may affect the investment.
In hedge funds, the hurdle rate refers to the rate of return the fund manager must beat before collecting incentive fees.
Understanding Hurdle Rates
Hurdle rates are very important in the business world, especially when it comes to future endeavors and projects. Companies determine whether they will take on capital projects based on the level of risk associated with it. If an expected rate of return is above the hurdle rate, the investment is considered sound. If the rate of return falls below the hurdle rate, the investor may choose not to move forward. A hurdle rate is also referred to as a break-even yield.
There are two ways the viability of a project can be evaluated. In the first, a company decides based on the net present value (NPV) approach. Cash flows are discounted by a set rate. The value of the discounted rate depends on the rate used in discounting future cash flows. That rate is the hurdle rate. The overall cost of the project is then subtracted from that rate to get the net present value of the project. If the NPV is positive, the company will approve the project.
In the second method, the internal rate of return (IRR) on the project is calculated and compared to the hurdle rate. If the IRR exceeds the hurdle rate, the project would most likely proceed.
How to Use a Hurdle Rate
A risk premium is assigned to a potential investment to denote the anticipated amount of risk involved. Risk premiums may be either positive or negative—negative rates help offset other factors that lessen the appeal of an investment if the risk is not so low.
Using a hurdle rate to determine an investment's potential helps eliminate any bias created by preference toward a project. By assigning an appropriate risk factor, an investor can use the hurdle rate to demonstrate whether the project has financial merit regardless of any assigned intrinsic value.
For example, a company with a hurdle rate of 10% for acceptable projects would most likely accept a project if it has an IRR of 14% and no significant risk. Alternatively, discounting the future cash flows of this project by the hurdle rate of 10% would lead to a large and positive net present value, which would also lead to the project's acceptance.
In situations where a legal requirement exists regarding the completion of the project, the hurdle rate is a non-factor. Regardless of the risks or anticipated returns, mandated projects move forward to assure compliance with any applicable laws or regulations.
A hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return required on a project or investment
Hurdle rates give companies insight into whether it should pursue a specific project.
Riskier projects generally have a higher hurdle rate, while those with lower rates come with lower risk.
What the Internal Rate of Return – IRR Measures
The internal rate of return (IRR) is a metric used in capital budgeting to estimate the profitability of potential investments.
Cost of Capital: What You Need to Know
Cost of capital is the required return a company needs in order to make a capital budgeting project, such as building a new factory, worthwhile.
How to Calculate the Weighted Average Cost of Capital – WACC
The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is a calculation of a firm's cost of capital in which each category of capital is proportionately weighted. All sources of capital, including common stock, preferred stock, bonds, and any other long-term debt, are included in a WACC calculation.
Profitability Index Rule
The profitability index rule is a regulation for evaluating whether to proceed with a project or investment.
Net Present Value (NPV)
Net Present Value (NPV) is the difference between the present value of cash inflows and the present value of cash outflows over a period of time.
Modified Internal Rate of Return – MIRR Definition
While the internal rate of return (IRR) assumes that the cash flows from a project are reinvested at the IRR, the modified internal rate of return (MIRR) assumes that positive cash flows are reinvested at the firm's cost of capital, and the initial outlays are financed at the firm's financing cost.
How do you use discounted cash flow to calculate a capital budget?
Present Value vs Internal Rate of Return
An Introduction to Capital Budgeting
Return on Investment (ROI) Versus Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Capital Budgeting: IRR or NPV?
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Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year, so Gary and I celebrated early by making the only "Chinese" dish we know: an Americanized stir-fry. In China, the New Year is celebrated by big dinners. Additionally, houses are cleaned to remove ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck. So although this dish is by no means traditional Chinese cuisine, I'm doing my best to channel their New Year's themes of happiness and good fortune.
I've never been to China, but Gary has been twice this year for work, and came back raving about the multitude of delicious dishes. So many different vegetables and flavors and spices; he loved it all. My version would probably make a Chinese cook cry, but it's the best I've got. My goal is to get more traditional Asian dishes under my belt instead of this fake Chinese recipe that I'm sharing here. Someday.
Our garden has broccoli, carrots, and green onions right now, so of course that was what went in our stir-fry. But nearly any vegetable or meat can be used. Our stir-fries vary with whatever is growing in our garden at the time. Broccoli, any kinds of peppers, mushrooms, eggplant, beans, you name it; throw it in.
First, start your rice. I add twice the amount of water for the amount of rice, so in this case, 3 cups of water for my 1 1/2 cups of rice. Once it's to a boil, turn it down to a simmer. Next, chop all of your vegetables. Set aside. Chop your meat. Set aside. In a separate bowl, mix your sauce ingredients. Add all the sauces except the corn starch–add that in last, and mix it in well. Set aside.
Next, get a skillet, preferably a wok, with a lid hot. Turn it on high. Add your oil. Wait a minute or so, and let it get hot. Put in your meat, being careful not to splatter the hot oil. Cook until done. Chicken, which was what we used, takes about 5-7 minutes. If there is any liquid that cooks out of the meat, in a wok you can push the meat up along the sides of the pot while the liquid cooks off. Remove the meat.
Next comes the vegetables. Have your cooking wine ready, and first dump in your vegetables into the hot wok, then throw in the cooking wine, and then cover. Let the veggies steam for about 2-3 minutes or so. Once they look done, throw back in the cooked meat, and then put the sauce over them. Toss until the cornstarch gets activated with the heat and starts to thicken. Serve over rice, and eat with chopsticks.
May we all have good health and fortune in this new Chinese year.
Gary and I attempted our first growing and making our first batch of horseradish. Why go to the trouble of growing and making a condiment that you can buy for $2 at the grocery store, you ask? Good question, actually. But, as the food writers such as Barbara Kingsolver and Michael Pollan, whom I so deeply adore claim, there is goodness to knowing where your food comes from. And this horseradish that I'll show you here was made with lots of love.
Last Christmas, while we were in Southern Illinois with Gary's parents, we were given horseradish roots from Gary's relative who grows and makes his own. Plant them in the spring, they told us, and when the first frost hits, it's time to harvest. Here in Florida, we had to wait until just recently to get our first true frost. Until then, as the picture above shows, the plant grew healthy and strong.
The roots are strange in that they grow horizontally instead of creating a large taproot. I think the roots are suppose to be larger than ours, but nevertheless, our three plants had quite the mess of roots. Gary dug them up, and was careful not to damage the roots.
Next, we chopped off all the green leaves, and power-washed the roots with the garden hose to try to get off as much of the dirt as possible.
We then peeled all the roots that were larger than the diameter of a pencil, and chopped them into 1″ thick chunks. A vegetable peeler works just great for this task. However, once peeled, be careful: whatever the chemical that makes the horseradish "hot" is activated when the skin hits the air. So, from the moment the root is peeled until it is mixed with vinegar, it will increase in intensity.
We put them in small mason jars. Horseradish pairs wonderful with beef. We ate it with grilled beef, caramelized onions, and sharp cheddar cheese on crusty French bread. Deeeelish!
One of Gary's favorite comfort foods is this beans and rice dish. When our cilantro is thick, this becomes our go-to one-dish meal.
Start the rice; add 4 c water to your 2 c of rice. (Brown rice takes longer. You can use white rice, but brown is better for you.) Slice the sausage into 1/2 inch thick disks. Heat a big stock pot to medium high heat. Add a little bit of olive oil, and add the sausage and brown it for about 5-7 minutes. Once browned, remove from pot. Leave the browning from the sausage in the pot. Depending on how much oil is left in the pot, you may need to add more olive oil to brown the onion and pepper. If there looks to be about a tablespoon of oil, no need to add any more. Sauté the onion first, and stir for 3-5 minutes. Next add the minced garlic and chopped pepper to the onion, and sauté for 3-4 minutes more. Add the chicken stock, vinegar, hot sauce, and cracked pepper to the skillet. Mix until the browning comes up off the bottom of the skillet. Add the drained beans and stir until heated. Remove from heat. Add the sausage and cooked rice and stir. Add the minced cilantro right before it's served. Garnish with additional hot sauce if you're still wanting some heat. Enjoy!
When life gives you lemons, make limoncello. Limoncello is a lemon liqueur that I was first introduced to while studying in Italy in collage. On a weekend trip to Cinqueterre, five tiny fishing villages that are placed on cliffs right on the Mediterranean, my sister and I stayed at a woman's house who rented out a room for tourists. She spoke no English, but greeted us warmly with a tiny glass of limoncello to welcome us into her home. I'm sure it had to do more with the intoxication of the beautiful Italian everything than the tiny sip of sweet lemon liqueur that stands out in my memory; nevertheless, the smell of it can bring me right back to the Riviera. So, ever since I've had a yard full of citrus, limoncello has been made.
As I've posted about before, our fairly tiny urban yard has a Meyer lemon tree, a Mandrian orange tree, a limequat tree, and my favorite: a cocktail tree! What is a cocktail tree, you ask? It's a tree which has five different kinds of citrus grafted to the stem. So, our one cocktail tree produces Navel oranges, Honeybell oranges, Meyer lemons, Ruby Red grapefruits, and Persian limes. Truthfully, not all of them do wonderfully–our Persian lime branch is pathetic, and the grapefruits taste terrible–but three out of the five are awesome.
Most limoncello recipes I've found are really liquor-y, which makes me not really a big fan. But this recipe cuts the liquor with whole milk, making it like a spiked lemony ice-cream.
To make this recipe, you have to start well in advance. I've experimented with all kinds of lengths of time to soak the zest. You need AT LEAST a week, but preferably a month.
That said, here's the rest of the instructions. Zest the lemons and oranges with a vegetable peeler. Try not to get the white pith. Put the citrus peels in a glass bowl with the alcohol. I used a large cylindrical glass container with a lid. You want to make sure that it's covered tightly, or it will evaporate. Also, make sure you use organic citrus; the alcohol will leach out all the oils from the citrus, but it will also leach out any of the residual pesticides.
After either a week or a month, enough time for the alcohol to take on the flavor of the citrus, then you're ready to make your limoncello. Strain the liquid and discard the peels. Pour into a very large, heavy-bottomed saucepan. I use my 15-quart one. The larger the better. I will get to the reason why you need something large in a second.
Add the milk, sugar, whiskey, and vanilla. Bring all of this to a boil. BUT NEVER TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THE POT, EVER! I have to stress this because one time I almost burned down the house making limoncello (this drink would NOT have been the fabulous memory-maker that it is if that happened.) I'm not quite sure why the combination of these ingredients tends to foam up when it starts to boil, but it does as soon as it reaches 212 degrees. And, because this is half alcohol, it's mega-flammable. Even though I used my biggest pot, and was definitely trying to keep my eye on it before it boiled, it foamed up when it reached the boiling point, boiled over the edge, and I had a giant fire-ball on my stove top. NOT COOL. Fortunately I had the lid nearby (which I recommend you do) and I shut off the gas to my stove and covered the pot and the flame extinguished. Please do not make this mistake. Use your biggest pot, keep the lid nearby, and never take your eye off of it when you're bringing it to a boil.
Okay, that said, once it does get to a boil, immediately reduce the heat and just let it bubble for five minutes. Stir continuously. Remove from heat and let it cool completely. A thin film will form on the top, but that's normal. Skim it off and discard. Pour into bottles and freeze.
I keep this in mason jars in the freezer (it will make 4 quarts), and it will last for a long time. I use it as a digestive for after dinner when we have guests over. It just might make you be hungry for Italy.
Every New Year's at Gary's parents, the neighboring farmers get together to make sausage out of their butchered hogs. They all pitch in throughout the year on feed, and when the pigs are fat around Christmas, it's time to butcher.
The skinned hog minus its entrails hangs for a couple of days in the cold barn.
The farmers grab the hog, and bring it to the chopping table.
With their sharp knives, the farmers cut out all of the bones and connective tissue. The fat is left to mix with the meat.
The meat is then put into a meat grinder with spices.
The ground meat is then put into a cast iron sausage stuffer. They use natural casings for the sausage. It's a two person job; one person cranks, the other person stuffs.
The individual links are made by twisting the stuffed casing.
The end product is vats of sausage links that are then divided up between all who helped. We were lucky enough to come home with a few links of our own as well.
Gary and I spent Christmas in the Midwest with our wonderful family. We did all the fun wintery things: cross-country skied, built snowmen, and went sledding. (We left just in time to escape the sub-zero temperatures!) And of course, many delicious meals were had.
Special occasions at my family call for Lake Michigan salmon. My grandpa goes fishing there every year and always comes home with these beautiful Midwestern fish.
My grandma found a crabmeat dressing recipe that was wonderful with the salmon. It's easy to make, and adds extra deliciousness to the fish.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Drain the can of crab and flake the meat. Add two slightly beaten eggs, and set aside. Melt the butter in a skillet, and saute the onion, celery, bacon, and breadcrumbs. Combine these ingredients with the crab mixture. Add the salt and pepper and Worcestershire.
Line a baking pan with foil. Grease the foil. Wash the salmon fillet and dry it. Put the fillet on the foil skin side down. Spread the dressing on the top of the salmon. Wrap the salmon and dressing with foil so it cooks in the foil pouch. Cook for 45-60 minutes, or until the dressing and salmon is firm.
We served it with Brussels sprouts, spinach salad, and wild rice. It was a feast fit for a king!


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Late Rally Cut Short in 3-1 Series Finale Loss
Fireflies leave the tying run on base in seventh, then fall flat
By John Kocsis Jr.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The Columbia Fireflies put together a rally in the seventh for a second consecutive night, but this one fell short as the Fireflies left the tying run on the base paths in a 3-1 loss to Augusta Sunday evening at SRP Park. Augusta (24-29) grabbed the lead
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The Columbia Fireflies put together a rally in the seventh for a second consecutive night, but this one fell short as the Fireflies left the tying run on the base paths in a 3-1 loss to Augusta Sunday evening at SRP Park.
Augusta (24-29) grabbed the lead early, scratching a pair of runs in the second off Adrian Alcantara (L, 2-4). Ricardo Rodriguez singled to plate Stephen Paolini and then a Tyler Tolbert error allowed Rodriguez to come around and score later in the inning.
The GreenJackets added a run in the third off Landon Stephens fifth homer of the season.
Columbia (27-23) got a strong outing from Luis De Avila in the pen. The lefty spun four innings and fanned half a dozen batters while allowing just a single walk and one hit to keep Augusta at bay.
The Fireflies offense didn't start until late in the game though. In the seventh, Tolbert and Burle Dixon led-off with back-to-back singles and then a double steal, which resulted in Tolbert's 27th stolen bag of the yaer to get into scoring position. Maikel Garcia popped an RBI single to left to cut into Augusta's lead, but then Alec Barger recorded back-to-back outs to end the scoring threat. Barger followed Jake McSteen (W, 4-0) who offered six scoreless innings out of the chute for Augusta.
The Fireflies will return home Tuesday to start a six-game set with the division-leading Charleston RiverDogs. Both teams have yet to name their starters. Tuesday's game will mark another Miller Lite $2 Tuesday where all hot dogs, popcorn, fountain sodas and 12 oz cans of Miller Lite will be just $2.
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Maikel Garcia
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From John Burnham Schwartz, one of the our most compelling and compassionate writers, comes a riveting novel about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the face of life's most difficult and unexpected challenges. Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, at fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn't revealed the truth about his past. Then Sam, Dwight's estranged college-age son, shows up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures and their half-buried hopes for connection, they must also search for redemption in their attempts to rewrite, outrun, or eradicate the past.


In June of 2006, Paul Newman and Michel Nischan planted a seed and we opened our doors in the parking lot of the Westport Country Playhouse. We were so proud of our 14 vendors, and so grateful for the 500 shoppers who showed up to support us.
In 2009, we moved to our current home at 50 Imperial Avenue, a stone's throw from the Saugatuck River. With a little more space and a little more air, we began to put down roots. We started expanding our programming, and our role within the community.
By 2010, we welcomed winter by expanding our market to cover the colder months, too. Gilbertie's Herb Garden embraced us with open arms, and before we knew it, the vendors and shoppers had doubled.
Today, boasting the accolade of the strictest guidelines in the state, the market is blooming with 45 vendors! Food trucks, GMO free vendors, organic farmers, pizza, yoga, chef demos, tamales, and an eager, hungry lunch crowd. We now welcome thousands of eager shoppers every week.
From the first seeds that were planted in 2006, we have grown, and blossomed. We remain committed to our initial goals -- to provide fresh, local, healthy and seasonal food to our community. And we continue to aspire to create a fun, safe and healthy community environment that promotes education about local food, local farms, and sustainable, healthy growing practices.


Mayberry Days is an annual event held in Andy Griffith's home town of Mt. Airy, NC that began back in 1990. This wonderful event is held the last full weekend in September each year so be sure to make plans to be there because if you love Mayberry you'll LOVE Mayberry Days. Below you'll find reports about past Mayberry Days that will give you a good feel for what you can expect when you attend.
"Hit One for the Ol' Goober"


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Q: Building a Generic Parser for Converting a Text File to a Data Structure in C# I have a definition for a SPAN file (http://www.cme-ch.com/span/spanl300.htm) that i'd like to use in constructing a parser to parse the string data into an in memory collection class (or even using lazy evalution with the yield keyword.)
All parsing techniques and libraries i've seen apply to constructing parse trees for implementing languages; i'd simply like to know of any good techniques to parse into a data structure, similar to how XML is parsed into an XMLDocument in the .net framework, but using the rules defined by SPAN.

A: SPAN appears to be a bunch of record types, each record with a lot of detail.
It should be straightforward to define a classic grammar that covers all of the records (as nonterminals),
in terms of any subrecords (as nonterminals) and terminal data types representing the various datatypes
defined by SPAN.  There might be a lot of nonterminals, but that just makes for a big grammar, but not
a complicated one.
Most programming languages have a small set of terminal tokens that can generally appear anywhere.  The truth is that grammars define expectations of what can appear next (called "first" and "follow" sets in the LR parser literature), including a very limited set of terminals.  A SPAN grammar would not be different; each "parse state" of a parser implies a limited set of terminals that come next, and one organize a parser to take advantage of this.  (I've built L(AL)R parsers, and one could easily use the "current" state to determine the subset of terminals that could happen next).   So, a SPAN parser could determine just the small set of tokens that might occur next in each state, and use that to pick of the characaters comprising those next tokens (they must form disjoint sets!).
An easy way to implement this is with a recursive descent parser.
So I claim that all that parsing machinery would be just fine for parsing SPAN, with some bit of custom work possibly to pick up the tokens.
Parsing actions for conventional parsers build trees, but its just as easy to populate fields of a data structure.

A: Recursive decent is a pretty simple approach for things like this.
You start off with a wrapper to the underlying stream that lets you read one character (or possibly card/record in your case).
You then write a series of functions that do things like 'read a number, parse it' and 'read a character, and check that it is X'.
These functions either succeed and advance the stream or fail with a parse exception.
Finally, it is handy to make a set of combinators that take the above functions and combine them, for example 'read A, then read B' or 'read A, and if that fails try B instead'.

A: Investigate the Gardens Point Parser Generator, an app that generates a C# parser for any language given a YACC-like language definition.

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Magnolia College of Cosmetology offers 12-degree programs. Student-to-faculty ratio is 18:1. 1 high safety campus. 5.1% are women, and 94.9% are men. The average annual total cost of attendance at Magnolia College of Cosmetology is 13221$, that is at the level of national average. 51% of full-time Magnolia College of Cosmetology students completed their education in 150 percent of time: graduation rate is at the level of national average. Average salary after attending is $18,000, so if you studied 2 years, you'll get your funds back in less than 2 years.
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The Magnolia College of Cosmetology is a private and academic-year institution, so it's net price represents an average of all programs and includes only undergraduates who first enrolled in the fall term and receive Title IV aid. The total cost of attendance depends on whether undergraduates live on campus, off campus (not with family), or off campus (with family).
Depending on the federal state, or institutional grant and available, Magnolia College of Cosmetology students in your income bracket may pay more of less than the overall average costs.
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Magnolia College of Cosmetology offers 12 programs in total: 9 are for less than 1-year certificate programs and 3 are 1-year, but less than-2-year certificate programs.
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Coming into the door I was greeted by the a sweet young lady who asked me to sign in. I did. Well first off it's way too many white people there. I feel they do not know how to maintain and do black hair. I just wanted a simple haircut. The young lady that was asked to do cut my hair she didn't know how to cut hair. Like how in the hell do you not know how to cut hair and your in hair school? However you own clippers. The other chick who cut my hair didn't talk to me but engaged in a conversation with everyone else around her. Weird. They were ghetto and unprofessional. It made me very uncomfortable. I paid and left. I do not plan on going back there.
They are not prepared to maintain an afro. There wasn't an afro pick in the whole school. I just don't think they are being taught how to maintain an afro. Go somewhere else.


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Red Moon Road and Nick Faye & The Deputies
blendersmusic.ca/concert/red-moon-road/
Red Moon Road
March 24, 2018 - Doors at: 7:30pm / Showtime: 8:30pm
227 Central Avenue North, Swift Current, SK, CA
Advance Cost: $35.00
Door Cost: $35.00
The Blenders Music Series is pleased to host the Red Moon Road on Saturday, March 24 at the Lyric Theatre in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Live, Red Moon Road has a bigger presence than one would expect from a trio and incorporates impeccable three-part harmonies and subtle technological wizardry. Red Moon Road masterfully creates a tapestry of song, storytelling, and spontaneous repartee.
These three collaborative and distinct writers frame immaculate songs with original and innovative instrumental work. The music becomes just as compelling as the lyrics.
The Winnipeg based, folk trio Red Moon Road was formed in 2012 by Daniel Jordan, Sheena Rattai, and Daniel Peloquin-Hopfner. They released their third album "Sorrows and Glories" in the fall of 2015. These three collaborative and distinct writers frame immaculate songs with original and innovative instrumental work. The music becomes just as compelling as the lyrics.
Nick Faye and The Deputies have that good ol' Canadian sound down – think Ryan Adams fronting a prairie-based Arcade Fire." – NXNE (Toronto, ON)
Nick Faye & The Deputies are a band from the deepest depths of the Canadian Prairies (Regina, SK). They make music that sticks to your ribs, like a big plate of perogies and sour cream. In Summer 2017, Faye completed his first European tour and the band has finished recording a new album with Juno and Polaris winning producer Michael Wojewoda (Barenaked Ladies, Buffy Saint Marie, Amelia Curran). The new album will be released in Spring 2018.
The band has shared the stage with a mix of notable artists such as Arkells, July Talk, Andy Shauf, Shad, Rah Rah, Elliot Brood, Library Voices, Northcote, Colter Wall, and Close Talker. They have performed at high profile festivals in the USA, the U.K, and Canada including Regina Folk Festival, BreakOut West, Folk Alliance International, FOCUS Wales, CMW, NXNE, and JunoFest.
Tickets for the Saturday, March 24 show are $35 and are available at Pharmasave (Swift Current). Doors at the Lyric Theatre will open at 7:30pm and the music will begin at 8:30pm. For more information about the show or the Blenders Music Series contact Shann Gowan at 306-778-2686, or shanngowan@gmail.com.