We're recording at the Circular Summit, an event for women entrepreneurs. Leisa Holland-Nelson visits with Janet Gurwitch, operating partner of Castanea Partners, and Alli Webb, founder of Drybar, both members of Circular Board, a collaborative accelerator.
Leisa: Hello, I'm Leisa Holland Nelson and welcome to another edition of Women Mean Business, where we're going to bring you up close and personal with extraordinary women doing extraordinary things. I'm excited to be coming to you live today from the Circular Summit brought on by Circular Board here in Houston at Hotel Zsa Zsa with my very special guests Janet Gurwitch and Alli Webb; welcome to Women Mean Business.
Leisa: Janet is a Principal in Castanea Partners and Alli is the Founder of Drybar which if you're a woman watching, everybody knows what that is. So guys, I want you to start – Alli, tell us abour Drybar.
Alli: Well, Drybar is a place where you get just a blowout; no cuts, no color, all we do are blowouts and it's set in a bar environment. So you're sitting at a bar, watching a chic flick on the movie, you can charge your phone and you just are having this great experience while someone else is blow drying your hair and then when you're done you kind of feel like a new woman and have all this confidence and can conquer the world.
Leisa: Wow, that's a great thing. I know that Castanea is an investor in Drybar, tell us about how you came to the investment and what the investment and what the investment looks like.
Janet: I heard about Drybar one weekend in the Hamptons and I must say just as a customer it seemed to make total sense to me. They have their own app and I travel all over the country and I can make an appointment in San Francisco for next week or New York the following week and it just made so much sense. So I was eager to meet Alli, her partner Michael Landau – her brother – and her husband Cameron Webb and see what it was all about.
Leisa: So you guys connected and what was that like for you Alli?
Alli: Well at the time we were just starting to talk to different private equity companies and we were really – we hadn't found the right partners and we'd met a lot of people and they didn't have everything we were looking for. And when we met Castanea, more specifically Janet, they really got it. Janet really understood the business and had so much passion around it and I knew she would be a great partner and she also had such great experience with what she had done with Laura Mercier that I knew that she could really help me build the product line, so it was just a perfect fit with Castanea.
Leisa: I know as the founder of Laura Mercier you are the luxury product queen in my book and I know that you have product ideas right away for her, why don't you tell us about those?
Janet: Well it's interesting, Alli had her own product ideas but originally a large company had come to them and said they wanted to license the name Drybar and pay them a percentage and they were going to do the products she wanted to create and I said no, no, no. And that's where I think she fell for me and I fell for her because I knew she could do her own product line, she knew exactly what she wanted. We wanted it to be true to Drybar; to only give you products that are for your hair to be blown dry and it just made total sense and we both are for authentic branding; that's what she did. Her husband is so clever being totally true to the bar concept, if you look at all of our products they're named in the nomenclature of the bar and they're very efficacious, they're great products. We sell them in our own shops, we sell them to Nordstrom, Sephora and now Ulta.
Leisa: That's very exciting. So we were talking earlier about the different types of investment; will you explain to us, because I know a lot of our listeners and viewers probably have no idea the difference between investment banks, private equity, venture capital, is it the same or is it different?
Janet: Great question and I think most entrepreneurs have great ideas but they don't know exactly how to get funding and who to go to and it depends on your size. By the time Drybar came to us they were doing about $11 million and had shown they had a real traction; I mean it was working, all they really needed was capital and so we believed certainly it could be in the top 10 cities in the United States plus the product line. So we traditionally at Castanea like companies doing $25 million to say $60 million in revenues; not so focused on ______ yet because we think we can help you maybe get there. But in Drybar's situation we just believed in them and we thought it was a brilliant, disruptive concept and loved Alli as the spokesperson so that worked for us. Some people go to venture capital which is very early on when you can't get to private equity but people who probably take a bigger piece of your business and it's venture; they're taking a higher risk so they pay more.
And then seed money; people who just believe in Leisa Holland Nelson has an idea and we thank God she's a smart girl and put some money – and probably less money but you might have more people to get you started. So that's sort of seed money and then venture and then private equity.
Leisa: Okay ladies, I'm going to let you both answer this; what advice would you give the next generation or the next person that has the opportunity to work with someone like Janet or what are you looking for next as far as an opportunity goes to invest in someone?
Janet: Well for us at Castanea we always like consumer products that are brilliantly branded and that's a big thing to say and definitely fills a niche. So is there a reason to be, what is your point of difference and Alli had definitely done that with Drybar and brilliantly branded; I really think Cameron, her husband, could – it's a Harvard case study how he's built this.
Leisa: It is brilliantly branded.
Janet: It's so brilliant and he had done Jack In The Box before, he's done a lot of great things but anyway, so that's what we look for.
Alli: Well I think as advice to other women out there who are thinking of starting their own business I talk about this all the time that we didn't invent blowouts, we just created a much better experience for blowouts and the whole experience is what really matters. And I think there's a lot of businesses out there or things out there that we all love that they wish were a little better or a little different and I think there's so many opportunities of things that already exist that you could be doing better; that you could make better and make people really love. And I think that's what we've done really with Drybar; I think there's a lot of opportunity out there and you just kind of have go for it and speak up and try.
Leisa: Thank you, thank you both for being here today. There you have it, two extraordinary women doing extraordinary things. I'm Leisa Holland Nelson, President and Co-founder of ContentActive, Houston's leading web and mobile technology company. You can find me at ContactActive.com or follow me on Twitter @LHNelson. We'll be back again next week with another edition of Women Mean Business.


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Korean last-minute hotel booking app DailyHotel launches in 10 new countries
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DailyHotel, a Seoul-based app that lets harried travelers quickly find hotel rooms, has launched in 10 new Asian countries. The startup was founded in 2013 by brothers Ryan and Jimmy Shin after Ryan struggled to find a last-minute hotel room in Seoul. It has raised more than $10 million from Sequoia India, but declined to say exactly how much funding it has received so far.
While DailyHotel wants to increase its market share throughout Asia (the app is now available in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Macau, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, and Japan), its expansion currently focuses on Singapore and Indonesia, where DailyHotel already works with 300 and 2,000 hotels, respectively.
"In Korea, we've reached the top of the market, so we need to expand our services to other Asian countries," Ryan Shin, who is DailyHotel's chief executive officer, tells TechCrunch.
Shin says its ability to strike deals with luxury hotels, help manage their surplus inventory, and provide customers with steep savings on last-minute bookings is how it differentiates from other hotel booking platforms (in Southeast Asia, it competes with other startups that offer last-minute bookings, such as HotelQuickly and In2Nite, as well as established players like Agoda, Hotels.com, and Booking.com). DailyHotel now claims to be on of South Korea's largest hotel apps, and says that it has grown at a rate of eight times in revenue over the past two years.
DailyHotel woos luxury hotels by promising to fill surplus rooms. Its says its biggest partners in Seoul, which include Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International, and Intercontinental Seoul Coex, each get over 120 rooms booked through the app every weekend. The DailyHotel app usually has more than 3,000 rooms available at a time, many at a 70 to 80 percent discount.
In addition to launching in new markets, DailyHotel also plans to grow its platform by adding other verticals. For example, it has already started a restaurant booking service in South Korea.

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First all-new Ford F-150 Raptor SuperCrew shipped to China, bringing unmatched levels of off-road excitement and performance to the world's largest auto market
F-150 Raptor – the toughest, smartest, most capable F-150 Raptor ever – marks first-ever official export program for Ford F-Series and F-150 to China
All-new F-150 Raptor joins Ford GT, all-new Focus RS, Focus ST and Fiesta ST to expand Ford Performance portfolio in China and offer more powerful, fun-to-drive products for customers there
Dearborn, Feb. 3, 2017 - Ford has started shipping its all-new 2017 F-150 Raptor – the ultimate high-performance off-road pickup truck – to eager customers in China, marking the first time any U.S.-built F-Series truck has been officially exported to China.
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The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
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The Screwtape Letters is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below."
At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation — and triumph over it — ever written. His letters are signed, save one, "Your affectionate uncle", yet Uncle Screwtape's purposes in writing to his young nephew are hardly innocent. Penned in a brisk, businesslike style, old Screwtape offers the gullible Tempter Wormwood fiendishly clever advice on his most pressing concern: the winning of young lives to the devil.
First published in 1941, The Screwtape Letters, a perennial best seller, has earned a place in the library of classics. The truths contained in C.S. Lewis's treatise on human nature are as old as the world, but his witty observations continue to confront and challenge believers and nonbelievers alike.
The outcome of Screwtape's correspondence is not know. But judging from his final sign-off — "Your increasingly and ravenously affectionate uncle" — his appetite for evil has not lessened.
I have to admit that The Screwtape Letters is a lot. Just a lot. Despite its short length, Lewis packed in plenty of his philosophy and leaves a lot to be discovered by the reader.
Concepts of human nature and what makes a person good or bad are somehow enlivened in Screwtape's very practical, often dry, but sometimes intriguing letters. As a work of fiction, it's interesting enough but it doesn't strike me as an honest classic.
While I think it's true that "believers and nonbelievers alike" can find some interesting tidbits to chew on, the story is at times laughable to a non-Christian reader. For me, I think this comes from Lewis's one-dimensional interpretation of atheists. Some interpretations imply that atheists avoid scientific inquiry and are overtly materialistic while also being eternally unhappy. Obviously, none of these points are accurate nor should anyone make such broad assumptions about an entire group of people. Whether that's up your alley or not is for you to decide.
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Alexandre Guennadievitch Krasnov (en ) né le  à Lebiaje, dans la région de Leningrad, est un coureur cycliste soviétique, de la décennie 1980. Coureur sur piste, où il est champion olympique et champion du monde, c'est aussi un excellent coureur routier.

Biographie

Sur la piste
Alexandre Krasnov, membre du club "Lokomotiv" de Leningrad se distingue sur la piste. Junior âgé de 18 ans, il est dans cette catégorie champion du monde de poursuite en équipe (1978). Il intègre l'équipe première de l'Union soviétique pour les Jeux olympiques d'été qui se tiennent en 1980 à Moscou. Il participe à la conquête de la médaille d'or en poursuite par équipes. Il ne semble pas toutefois qu'il ait participé à la finale du tournoi. Les équipiers soviétiques sont au nombre de 5 ; Alexandre Krasnov court avec l'équipe d'URSS les séries et les quarts de finale. Au cours de ces quarts de finale, disputés le  contre l'équipe d'Australie, l'équipe soviétique composée de Viktor Manakov, Valeri Movchan, Vitali Petrakov et Alexandre Krasnov, établit un nouveau record du monde en réalisant les 4 kilomètres en 4 min 14 s 54/100. Ce record du monde n'est pas battu lors des demi-finales, ni en finale, le , où le quatuor soviétique composé de Manakov, Movchan, Petrakov et Vladimir Osokin triomphe de la RDA en 4 min 15 s 68/100.En 1982, il obtient la médaille d'or au Championnat du monde de la poursuite par équipes, avec ses coéquipiers Konstantin Khrabvzov, Valeri Movchan et Sergeï Nikitenko.
Après s'être classés  en 1983,  en 1985, et  en 1986 les Soviétiques renouent avec le titre de Champions du monde de la Poursuite par équipes, lors des championnats de 1987. L'équipe soviétique aligne deux vérérans de 27 ans, Alexandre Krasnov et Viktor Manakov. Leurs coéquipiers sont le "jeune Viatcheslav Ekimov, et Sergeï Khmelinine. Lors de la finale de ces Championnats du monde, les 4 Soviétiques couvrent les 4 kilomètres en 4 min 12 s 51/100.

Le "routier"
Parallèlement à cette carrière sur piste, Alexandre Krasnov se produit efficacement sur les routes au sein de l'équipe soviétique. Il accumule un certain nombre de places d'honneur, et remporte le Tour d'Italie amateurs en 1986. Il passe dans la catégorie des "professionnels" en 1990.

Équipes
 Équipes d'URSS sur route et sur piste de 1978 à 1989.
 Équipe Lada-Ghzel en 1990, 1991.

Palmarès sur piste
 1977
   du championnats du monde de poursuite par équipes juniors (avec Vlatcheslav Soumarokov, Alexandre Moustavine et Viktor Manakov)
 1978
  Champion du monde de poursuite par équipes juniors (avec Nikolai Kuznetzov, Viktor Manakov et Ivan Mitchenko)
  Champion d'URSS de poursuite par équipes
 1980
  Champion olympique de la poursuite par équipes avec l'URSS (avec Vladimir Osokin, Viktor Manakov, Vitali Petrakov et Valeri Movchan)
 1981
  Champion d'URSS de poursuite individuelle
  Champion d'URSS de poursuite par équipes
   du championnat du monde de la poursuite par équipes amateurs (avec Viktor Manakov, Alexandre Kulikov et Nikolai Kuznetzov)
 1982
  Champion du monde de la poursuite par équipes avec l'URSS (avec Konstantin Khrabvzov, Valeri Movchan et Sergeï Nikitenko)
  du championnat d'URSS de poursuite par équipes
 1984
  de la poursuite par équipes aux Jeux de l'Amitié (avec Marat Ganeïev, Valeri Movchan et Vassili Schpundov)
 1985
  Champion d'URSS de poursuite par équipes
   du championnat du monde de la poursuite par équipes amateurs (avec Viatcheslav Ekimov, Marat Ganeïev et Vassili Schpundov)
 1986
  Champion d'URSS de poursuite par équipes
   du championnat du monde de la poursuite par équipes amateurs (avec Viatcheslav Ekimov, Viktor Manakov et Gintautas Umaras)
 1987
  Champion du monde de la poursuite par équipes (avec Viatcheslav Ekimov, Viktor Manakov et Sergeï Khmelinine)

Palmarès sur route
 1981
  étape de l'Olympia's Tour
  de l'Olympia's Tour
 1982
  de l'Olympia's Tour
 1983
  du Tour de Suède
  du Tour du Táchira
 1984
  et  étapes du Tour d'Autriche
  du Tour d'Autriche
 1986
 Tour d'Ialie amateurs
 1987
  étape du Tour de Belgique amateurs
  du Tour de Belgique amateurs
 1988
  étape du Tour du Táchira
  du Circuit des Ardennes
  du Tour de Belgique amateurs

Notes et références

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Coureur cycliste soviétique
Coureur cycliste aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1980
Champion olympique soviétique
Champion olympique en cyclisme sur piste
Champion du monde de cyclisme sur piste
Naissance en avril 1960

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A Climate Action Plan (CAP) is a framework of strategies intended to guide efforts for climate change mitigation. More specifically, a climate action plan is a detailed and strategic framework (ecosystem) for measuring, planning, and reducing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and related climatic impacts. It can be scoped and carried at any of a wide range of geographic or government levels: national, regional, cities or even neighborhoods or eco-districts. No less, such an action plan can be carried out by and at the levels of large or smaller companies, employers, cultural centers and events, schools and universities, and even families or individuals.
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The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe), one of three sites worldwide where PDB data can be deposited, recently annotated its 10,000th PDB entry (see Wellcome Trust press release). This entry (2yf6) is the structure of a chicken MHC, from the B21 haplotype, which is resistant to Marek's disease, a contagious viral disease of commercial importance. The entry is one of a series of chicken MHC structures determined in the laboratory of Professor Susan Lea (University of Oxford) with different peptides bound. These structures will assist scientists in examining the fine detail of how chicken MHCs recognise and bind to peptides and present them to the immune system. In this Quips we will describe the architecture of MHC complexes and how they display peptides to T-cells.
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To be able to bind many different peptides, many different MHC proteins are required. The MHC gene locus in mammals is large and highly polymorphic, coding for many different versions of MHC. These also vary considerably between individuals so no two people (except identical twins) will have the same set of MHC proteins. MHCs are membrane-bound molecules. The extracellular portion of MHC proteins consists of three domains, α1, α2 and α3, with α3 located closest to the membrane (red, orange and blue respectively). The protein is associated with a further protein chain, β2 microglobulin (green) as shown in view-1.
β2 microglobulin (which has the same immunoglobulin fold as the α3 domain) stabilises the MHC complex on the cell surface. Together, α3 and β2 microglobulin raise α1 and α2 above the cell membrane where they can present the bound peptide to T-cells. The latter two domains are the most variable and together they form an 8-stranded β-sheet above which lie two α-helices. The displayed peptide is bound between these two domains like a sausage in a hotdog roll (see view-2). Peptides interact with the MHC particularly at their termini, with the central region 'bulging' out of the hotdog roll to be exposed to the T-cell (see view-3).
Much is known about mammalian MHCs; indeed the first MHC structure was deposited in the PDB as early as 1987 (1hla - a human MHC). Nowadays, there are several hundred mammalian MHC structures in the archive, but comparatively little is known about non-mammalian MHCs and there are very few such molecules in the PDB.
Whereas the mammalian MHC locus is 3.6 megabases, encoding many different MHCs that bind peptides quite specifically, chickens have a much smaller region of their genome encoding MHCs and therefore express far fewer MHC molecules. To avoid falling foul of infection, chicken MHCs have evolved to be 'promiscuous'. While the chicken MHCs are highly similar in fold to their mammalian equivalents, each is capable of displaying a variety of peptides to chicken T-cells (see view-4). You can use the PDBe Pfam browser to explore all structures in the PDB of MHC class I molecules (PF00129), and of β2 microglobulin (PF07654).


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Bits | In New Tools to Combat Epidemics, the Key Is Context
Big Data 2013
In New Tools to Combat Epidemics, the Key Is Context
By Amy O'Leary
June 19, 2013 10:00 pm June 19, 2013 10:00 pm
GATHERING Riverside prayers during a religious event in Allahabad, India.Credit Kevin Frayer/Associated Press
Not long ago, Google Flu seemed like magic — a smart, cheap way to sift digital data for the public good.
A special section on the business and culture of big data.
But Google Flu, which tries to track flu outbreaks faster than the government, has shown its limitations. Not only did it grossly overestimate the flu this year, but its methods did little to track new, deadly diseases that could emerge anywhere, in places as random as a mass religious gathering on the banks of the Ganges or a poultry market in Shanghai.
Now a new project called BioMosaic is building a more comprehensive picture of foreign-borne disease threats in the United States, by merging three separate data tools into a single app for guiding decisions at the time of an outbreak.
"The best way to get these big-picture perspectives is to look at multiple layers of data," said Dr. Marty Cetron, the director of the division of global migration and quarantine at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who had the idea for the project.
By combining airline records, disease reports and demographic data, BioMosaic lets public health officials visualize health risks through a Web site and an iPad app. They can then deploy preventive measures to individual cities, counties or even hospitals to help thwart a larger crisis.
For example, after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and subsequent cholera epidemic, BioMosaic showed where clusters of the 500,000 to 800,000 Haitian-born residents in the United States were most likely to live, along with air and sea travel routes to and from Haiti, to pinpoint where anti-cholera measures in the United States would be most useful.
"It really helps you get right to the heart of the matter: that concept that a global event in Haiti becomes a local event in five counties in Florida and five counties in New York," Dr. Cetron said. "When you see it, you get these aha! moments of appreciation."
One of the doctors in the field who can benefit from these types of insights is Dr. Kamran Khan, an infectious disease specialist and researcher at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
Dr. Khan, who said he had a "bad habit of being around emerging diseases," has worked on the front lines of the 1999 West Nile virus outbreak and the H1N1 pandemic of 2009. But the event that hit closest to home was when his own hospital was affected by a deadly outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which hit Toronto in 2003.
That spring, the city had received an infected passenger from Hong Kong who passed SARS to family members, activating quarantine measures across the city. Despite those efforts, 44 people eventually died across Canada, including two nurses and a doctor.
"No one wanted to come near you," he said. "You quickly became an outcast in society."
Once the outbreak was over, studies showed that cities like Toronto, with direct flights from Hong Kong, were 25 times as likely to record SARS cases as cities that could be reached only through a connecting flight. Cities that were two flight connections away from Hong Kong never observed a single case.
"It was this moment of recognizing the world is extremely interconnected," Dr. Khan said.
That was the impetus for him to start digging for data on human movements around the globe in his project called BioDiaspora, from international air travel to large mass gatherings like the hajj, the Olympics or the World Cup.
Dr. Khan spent years negotiating with air traffic organizations, governments and airlines to amass a database of human movement around the globe, encompassing 4,000 airports and 30 million flights a year, carrying 2.5 billion passengers.
With that information, he can better predict the likelihood of where a single case of bird flu in Asia, for instance, might eventually surface on other continents.
It is powerful data, but made even more so when placed in BioMosaic alongside a mapping tool that tracks on-the-ground disease reports. That part of the puzzle is HealthMap, which was created by a team at Boston Children's Hospital under the direction of John Brownstein, a professor at Harvard Medical School.
His staff monitors everything from Arabic news reports on cholera to a local television story about a rabid bat in Ohio. Each report is tagged and placed on a publicly available map that offers a global snapshot of infectious disease.
HealthMap employs translators who read articles and social media mentions in 15 different languages. Recently they found the medical record of a patient with the avian flu virus H7N9 on the Chinese social media site Weibo.
"It was the most striking thing," Dr. Brownstein said. "If you think about the difference between that and SARS, we're in a whole new world now."
While BioMosaic is helping public health officials see rising threats more clearly, the holy grail for this kind of technology would be the ability to actually to predict an outbreak before it begins, Dr. Brownstein said. But still there are limits.
"Information will only get us so far," said Dr. Khan, whose personal experience has made him aware that equally pernicious forces, such as politics, nationalism, strained resources and fear, can, in a crisis, override even the best data tools.
A version of this article appears in print on 06/20/2013, on page F2 of the NewYork edition with the headline: In New Tools to Combat Epidemics, the Key Is Context.
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Many high school seniors will be taking full advantage of applying early to college this fall. Some simply because they don't have the patience to wait until next May to know where they will be going, and some think they may have a better chance of acceptance if applying early. Early decision and early action allow students to make their applications by November 1st and receive an admission decision typically in by December 15th, just in time for the holidays.
It is estimated that 50% of students will apply early in the fall of 2018 and 80% of this group won't decide to make their applications until mid-September. Some high schools predict that 70% of their seniors will apply early. It is important to note that financial aid forms must be completed by November 15th, full 2-½ months earlier than the regular decision cycle.
Early decision acceptance plans are binding and students should only apply to one school via early decision (though many apply to more). If a student is accepted and the school offers an adequate financial package, the student is expected to attend. Early action acceptances are not binding; the student can apply to several schools via early action. The student can accept the offer immediately or wait until May 1 to decide. In many cases colleges accept a high percentage of students applying early, it could be as high as 40% at some elite schools, where the same schools may only accept 20% of the regular applications.
There is a new process being offered by some of the highly selective colleges. Single-choice early action is new and it is not binding. The student can only apply to one school thru this process. Students who apply single-choice early action can make applications to other colleges under regular admission and have until the regular decision deadline to decide. Yale, Harvard and Princeton have implemented the single-choice early action plan. The colleges get back to students with a "likely to admit" or a "not likely to admit" response four weeks after receiving the application.
You can't help but recognize a common theme throughout this piece—the need to speed up the process. This adversely affects the guidance counselor because they can't meet with students during this critical period since they are too busy processing the paperwork for one student who wants to apply to one school early decision as well as for early action. Parents are affected because they have to modify their summer plans to visit schools and more importantly they will need to get their financial house in order.
This generation of students needs immediate results and answers, when entering into the process of applying early to college, make certain that the student is prepared, organized and able to meet deadlines in order to be successful in their application process.
All parents need to do is be prepared to pay for it.


If you are tired of trying to look at every website your employees visit while they are at work, it is time to ask somebody else for help. As a boss, you have many other things to do than to monitor your employees. Allow programs such as this Computer monitoring software to catch your employees red-handed. When your employees come to work, they are expected to work. While in the office, they are not supposed to browse websites or chat with friends. Unfortunately, this is what happens in many offices around the world. Instead of concentrating on their work, employees spend countless hours visiting websites that are not related to their job at all.
Internet monitoring gains on popularity these days. This is the only solution that allows bosses to catch the worst offenders in the act. Software such as the one that I mentioned above does an excellent job by allowing you to check what your employees do while at work. If they visit website with adult content, you are going to know about it. If they use their instant messengers to chat with their friends, you are going to know about it as well. Nothing can hide from you, not even the smallest detail. Even if your employees do not suspect that you use software that monitors their online activity, you have the right to know what they do at work. After all, you are their boss and you pay them for their work. If they fail to perform according to what they are paid for, you have the right to know about it. The right internet monitoring program will record every email your employees send, it will keep track of every website they visit, and it will inform you about any instant message they receive. Nothing can hide from you if you use software like this one.


Here's the share code for Gretchen's formative (HYVAMH), which you can enter in our new version to get a copy of it! If you don't have access to our new version, simply message us over the site! Also, she wants to start using Formative for annotations so if you've got advice, you can share it here!


I still working on the "Backofenturm" or "Schalenturm", but now he is nearly finished.
Une merveille, bravo !!! - A wonder, bravo !
thanks for the nice feedback, I think on monday the tower is complete finished, my wife paint in the moment the tower.


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Modern English Usage
Alternative Readings
Names of God
The Terminology of Slave
Units of Measurement and Currency
Hebrew Text
Hebrew Tenses, Aspect, and Stem
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Greek, Tenses, Moods, and Syntax
Hebrew Acrostics
Gender Language
The Commitments of the Legacy Standard Bible
In the history of English Bible translations, the King James Version is the most well-known. The time-honored version of 1611, itself a revision of the Bishops' Bible of 1568, became the basis for the English Revised Version, which appeared in 1881 (New Testament) and 1885 (Old Testament). Its American counterpart, a product of both British and American scholarship, was published in 1901. Recognizing the values of the American Standard Version, The Lockman Foundation felt an urgency to preserve the ASV while incorporating recent discoveries of Hebrew and Greek textual sources and rendering it into more current English. This resulted in the New American Standard Bible, a translation based upon the time-honored principles of translation of the ASV and KJV, along with other linguistic tools and biblical scholarship.
The Legacy Standard Bible reflects another iteration of such preservation and refinement. Worked on by a core translation team in conjunction with pastors and educators from different countries, it is designed to honor, maintain, and advance the tradition represented by the NASB.
Principles of Translation
Key Principles: The Legacy Standard Bible has worked to uphold the style and translational choices of the NASB as much as possible. Even more, it has endeavored to follow through on the NASB's stated intent to be true to the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. While the interpreter, teacher, and pastor have the goal of understanding what the text means, the translator is to provide them with what the text says. Consistently, the goal of this translation is to be a window into the original text. Within that goal, this revision has focused upon accuracy and consistency. It has checked that words and grammar have been carried over properly. It also established rules for the consistent translation of terms within their various nuances. This allows the reader to more easily reconstruct what the original texts said. It also helps the reader more easily trace the flow of argument within a text, identify when the same word is used in another passage, and make connections between texts.
There are limits to the application of this philosophy. In this edition,
a word might not be translated consistently in order to maintain a highly familiar rendering of a text or to preserve a word play in the text that advances the inspired author's message. Moreover, because Scripture is a literary masterpiece, some linguistic features could not be transferred to this translation, not even by a note. Nevertheless, ensuring that the original languages are precisely rendered paves the way for careful readers to discover these insights for themselves.
In this way, the LSB upholds the philosophy that a translation does not replace pastors or teachers but rather depends upon faithful believers and the church to study and live out what has been written (Acts 8:30-31). Translation is a tool for the church and must be done in that context so that each word of Scripture may be taught and lived.
Modern English Usage: The attempt has been made to render the grammar and terminology in contemporary English. When word-for-word literalness was determined unacceptable to the modern reader, a change was made in the direction of a more current English idiom. In the instances where this has been done, the more literal rendering has been indicated in the notes. There are a few exceptions to this procedure. Of note, while an effort has been made to incorporate conjunctions as much as possible, the conjunction "and" is occasionally not translated at the beginning of sentences because of differences in style between ancient and modern writing. Punctuation is a relatively modern invention, and ancient writers often linked most of their sentences with "and" or other connectives.
Alternative Readings: In addition to the more literal renderings, notations have been made to include readings of variant manuscripts, explanatory equivalents of the text, and alternate translations that may bring out a play on words difficult to maintain in the text. These notations have been used specifically to assist the reader in comprehending the terms used by the original author.
Names of God: In the Scriptures, the name of God is significant and understandably so. Traditionally, the translation "God" renders the Hebrew word Elohim. Likewise, the word "Lord" is a translation of Adonai. In the LSB, God's covenant name is rendered as Yahweh. The meaning and implication of this name is God's self-deriving, ongoing, and never-ending existence. Exodus 3:14–15 shows that God Himself considered it important for His people to know His name. The effect of revealing God's name is His distinction from other gods and His expression of intimacy with the nation of Israel. Such a dynamic is a prevalent characteristic of the Scriptures as Yahweh appears in the OT over 6,800 times.
In addition to Yahweh, the full name of God, the OT also includes references to God by a shorter version of His name, Yah. By itself, God's name "Yah" may not be as familiar, but the appearance of it is recognizable in Hebrew names and words (e.g. Zechar-iah, meaning Yah remembers, and Hallelu-jah, meaning praise Yah!). God's shortened name "Yah" is predominantly found in poetry and praise.
The translation "Yahweh" is substantiated by scholarly reconstruction as well as by historical discussions in Theodoret, Epiphanius, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Aquila. Consequently, those latter individuals affirm the usage of God's covenant name in the period of the early church. Preserving this in translation foundationally records what is present in the OT text. It also allows proper distinction between God's personal name and the title "Lord" (Adonai), which emphasizes God's authority. Even more, it helps the reader to engage God with the name which He gifted to His people. Thus, the reintroduction of God's personal name into the translation of the OT is a feature that enhances the precision, intensity, and clarity of the biblical text in English.
The NT uses the term "Lord" (Kurios) to translate Yahweh. The LSB maintains the translation "Lord" and does not change those instances to Yahweh. In cases when "Lord" explicitly translates Yahweh in a quotation of the OT, a footnote is provided stating such. Nevertheless, the LSB maintains the translation of "Lord" in the NT for the same reason it upholds Yahweh in the OT: because that is what is written in the original text. Just as translations preserve the distinct wording between an OT passage and its quotation in the NT, so this distinction is preserved.
While there may be several factors behind this shift from Yahweh to Lord, for the apostles, one purpose centers on the declaration that Jesus Christ is Lord. Because the NT writers rendered Yahweh as Lord, they showed that Jesus is both Lord over all (even over Caesar, Acts 25:26) and none other than Yahweh Himself (Acts 2:25, 34, 36). Hence, the term "Lord" is a profound title showing Christ's supremacy in heaven and earth. That being said, the significance of this title presumes that one understands the movement from Yahweh to Lord. By rendering what is written in both OT and NT, one can observe this shift and the fullness of its theological import.
The Terminology of Slave: The NASB has already translated the Greek term doulos frequently as "slave" in the NT. The LSB made this consistent across the NT. This upholds the lexical definition of the term, its consistent translation, and its distinction from other terms that do denote a "servant." Such consistency also highlights a biblical theological reality that Christians were slaves of sin but now are slaves of Christ (Rom 6:16–22). Biblical writers did not shy from this term because it condemned a wicked form of slavery (i.e., to sin, Satan, and death), highlighted the power of redemption, and affirmed one's total submission to the lordship of Christ.
In the OT, the Hebrew term ebed has more flexibility than doulos in the NT. For the word ebed, the notion of servant and slave can be present in describing one's relationship with God and man. The Messiah is the suffering Servant (Isa 52:13; cf. Acts 3:26) even as Israel was a slave of Egypt (Deut 5:15) but now a slave of God (Lev 25:55). Likewise, Joseph's brothers call themselves Joseph's servants (Gen 44:9; ebed) but later in the same verse they say they are willing to become Joseph's slaves (Gen 44:9; again ebed). All of this demonstrates that ebed can have both the notion of servant and slave. For this reason, the NT translates ebed not merely with doulos but other words (e.g., pais). The apostles recognized that ebed can have different nuances that go beyond "slave." Accordingly, in human relationships, the term "servant" is used for ebed when talking about one's general submission to another as opposed to economic ownership (slave). In relationships between man and God, slave is used unless ebed occurs with a personal name (e.g., My servant David). This formulation conforms to the nuances of the word and also connects well with NT usage of slave. This translation principle also often brings out that God's people emphasize their total subjection to their loving God (by calling themselves His slaves) even as He uses them uniquely as His servants in His plan.
Units of Measurement and Currency: Because this translation is designed to bring the reader to what was originally written, the LSB maintains the unit of measurement and currency used in the original writing. For clarity, conversions into both American and metric units are provided in the notes for measurements. This allows for the LSB to serve the entire English-speaking world by not choosing one country's unit of measurement or currency over another.
Hebrew Text: The Legacy Standard Bible utilizes the latest edition of Rudolf Kittel's Biblia Hebraica together with the most recent light from lexicography, cognate languages, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Hebrew Tenses, Aspect, and Stem: While recognizing the challenges of the Hebrew verbal system, the approach of the LSB has been guided by the Hebrew verb's form in light of its immediate and broad contexts. Thus, fundamentally, the LSB works to express distinctively the various verb forms. When appropriate, the translators have brought out various emphases of the verbal stem such as simple active, simple middle-passive, factitive, causative, and iterative. The translation has also attempted to capture the complete, ongoing, habitual, inceptive, and resultative aspect of the verb. Finally, the translators took into account temporal adverbials and the syntactic constructions surrounding the verb to identify its tense.
Greek Text: The Legacy Standard Bible has the benefit of a number of critical Greek texts in determining the best variant reading to translate. The 27th edition of Eberhard Nestle's Novum Testamentum Graece, supplemented by the 28th edition in the General Epistles, serve as the base text. On every variant reading the Society of Biblical Literature GNT as well as the Tyndale House GNT were also consulted. In the end, each decision was based upon the current available manuscript evidence.
Greek Tenses, Moods, and Syntax: A distinction was observed in the treatment of the Greek aorist tense and the Greek imperfect tense. Aorists are usually simple past tense in the indicative (e.g., "He did."). Imperfects are usually rendered as English past progressive (e.g., "He was doing") or inceptive (e.g., "He began to do"). "Began" is italicized if it renders an imperfect tense, in order to distinguish it from the Greek verb for "begin." In some contexts the Greek imperfect is conveyed better as a simple past tense (e.g., "had an illness for many years" would be preferable to "was having an illness for many years" and would be understood in the same way).
On the other hand, not all aorists have been rendered as English pasts ("He did"). Judging from the context in which they occur, some needed to be rendered as English perfects ("He has done"), or even as past perfects ("He had done") to make proper sense.
In addition to aorists and imperfects, the translators have been sensitive to bring out in English the perfect tense indicative and participle as conveying a current state initiated in the past ("one who has been born of God," cf. 1 John 5:1).
Imperatives: As for the distinction between aorist and present imperatives, the translators have usually rendered these imperatives as simple commands, rather than attempting a fine distinction as "Begin to do!" (for the aorist imperative), or, "Continually do!" (for the present imperative).
Participles: The LSB has also tried to convey the presence and function of each Greek participle. They often are translated temporally ("After Jesus entered Capernaum, he entered the synagogue"). This limits a translation reflecting what grammarians call the "attendant circumstance" function of the participle. While the translators do not question that function, the desire is to show the reader when there is a dependent participle which usually leads to a temporal or causal idea as conveyed in context.
Questions: In the rendering of negative questions introduced by the particle me-(which always expects the answer "No"), the LSB maintains the wording of the Greek text as opposed to adding a phrase at the end of the question (e.g., "He will not do this, will he?"). This allows for questions that truly have such phrasing to stand out (John 18:25). Readers are trusted to determine, given the context and the wording of the question, that a negative response is intended.
Hebrew Acrostics: At times, the biblical authors structured their writings where each section of poetry begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Psalm 119 is a well- known example of this, but far from the only one (see Pss 9-10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119, 145; Prov 31:10-31; Lam 1, 2, 3, and 4; and Nah 1:2-8). Because the Legacy Standard Bible endeavors to be a window into the original text, all known acrostics are labeled with each section having its respective Hebrew letter and English transliteration. While some acrostics correspond with the complete alphabet (e.g., Ps 34; 119; Lam 3), others reflect a part of the Hebrew alphabet (Nah 1:2-8) or extend over chapter divisions (Pss 9-10). Nevertheless, acrostics bring out the artistic beauty of God's Word, reflect the completeness of thought and theology in the passage, and provide ease of memory for the original hearers. It is a feature intended by the inspired writer and so deserves the attention of the modern reader.
Gender Language: The Legacy Standard Bible is committed to precisely representing what was written in the original languages. Accordingly, while the translation recognizes that the Hebrew and Greek terms for "man" can legitimately mean "mankind" or "humanity" and renders such when appropriate, it does not add in phrases like "and sister" because they are not in the original text (cf. Jas 2:15 where the Greek word for "sister" is actually used). This abides with the LSB's commitment to being a word-for-word translation and honoring what was originally written in its exact formulation. Since there are highly interpretative matters involved in "gender-neutral" language, the Legacy Standard Bible allows the pastor and teacher to explain the text. Overall, the Legacy Standard Bible's commitment to focus upon authorial intent directs the translation concerning this issue. Doing so aligns the translation with its predecessors, an important goal as a legacy translation.
The Legacy Standard Bible aspires to be a legacy preserved—to uphold the work and tradition that is found in translations from the KJV, ASV, to NASB.
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Last month Tom Holland surprised fans by shaving his head for an upcoming role and today the Spider-Man actor revealed a new image of himself from Cherry, the upcoming film from Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame directors the Russo Brothers. Based on Nico Walker's novel of the same name, Cherry follows an Army medic named Nico Walker who has recently returned from Iraq and is suffering from his opioid addiction and posttraumatic stress disorder, causing him to begin robbing banks. The upcoming film, which is scheduled to release sometime in 2020, also stars Ciara Bravo, Bill Skarsgård, Michael Gandolfini, and Jack Reynor.
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Q: Calculate cutoff frequency of a digital IIR filter I have an ADC with 1 kS/s and would like to append a digital anti-aliasing filter to it as I have to downsample the data to 10 Hz.
As it's on an FPGA and I don't have any multipliers, I thought the easiest way would be a recursive averaging IIR filter:
$$ y = \alpha x[n] + (1-\alpha)y[n-1]$$
But how can I calculate the cutoff frequency of such a filter depending on \$\alpha\$ and \$f_s\$?

A: With you needing an anti-alias filter for 1/100 of the bandwidth, I'd say that both your single-pole IIR (exponentially weighted moving average) and actual moving averages are out of the question; you'd need suppression in 99% of your band sufficiently high enough to mitigate aliases.
Simultaneously, you need a filter with a steep transition between pass- and stopband, relative to the original Nyquist rate.
Neither filter approaches will achieve such a steepness.
Higher-order CICs can achieve sufficient suppression through offering a very steep (potentiated sinc) impulse response, and their use in decimators (like your 100-fold decimation) is very popular due to the elegant nature of the math: you can drag the decimation stage between the integrators and the differentiators, like
-1 kHz-->(+)------·--->[↓100]---·------(+)---10 Hz->
          ^       |             |       ^
          --[z⁻¹]--             --[z⁻ⁿ]--

As you can see: extremely low component effort!
In all honesty, though: You're building a massively decimating filter, at a sample rate that is ridiculously low for FPGAs, aiming for a sampling rate that's even lower.
Do yourself a favor. Calculate a proper 1/100-band FIR filter. At these rates, you really need but a single multiplier that you use for all coefficients. And even then it doesn't need to be a fast one. That way, you gain significantly more freedom in designing your filter response.
Found it: You should really read this article of Richard Lyons, whom you can also work with over on our Signal Processing StackExchange sister site.

A: What you propose is often called an "exponentially weighted moving average", and armed with that term, you can probably find a formula (wikipedia discusses this in some way).
Generally, what you propose doesn't even work without a multiplier (how do you multiply with \$\alpha\$ and \$1-\alpha\$ without a multiplier– they can't both be a power of two at the same time?), so I doubt it's actually a solution to your problem.
(An actual moving average would work – just add up a window of \$N\$ input items, tada, convolution with a rectangle corresponds to a sinc in spectrum of \$\frac1N\$ width. But that's not a great filter, honestly, because of the sidelobes.)
What you will be interested in is Cascaded Integrator-Comb filters (CICs), which

*

*do actually not require any multipliers, because all the coefficients are 1 or 0,

*are actually FIR although having feedback structure, and

*have an easy to calculate frequency response that's probably closer to what you had in mind when you said "low-pass filter".

A:
I thought the easiest way would be a recursive averaging IIR filter

Your equation represents a simple low-pass, first-order filter hence, \$\alpha\$ equals: -
$$\dfrac{t_{SAMPLE}}{CR}$$
Where CR is the equivalent CR time for a resistor-capacitor low-pass filter. So, with 1 kHz sampling and a required frequency cut-off (\$F_C\$) of (say) 10 Hz you'd calculate CR as follows: -
$$F_C = \dfrac{1}{2\pi RC}$$
For 10 Hz, CR therefore equals 0.015915 and T/CR = 0.06283.

Linear Simulation with VIN at 1 volt peak and 10 Hz

Discretely sampled at 1 kHz (prior to feeding into 1st summing block):

10th order, 10 Hz low pass filter (fairly Butterworthesque):

AC response: -

Response with 10 Hz input (down 3 dB): -

Response with 13 Hz input (down 22 dB): -

Response with 16 Hz input (down 39.5 dB): -

Response with 20 Hz input (down 58.7 dB): -

A: Besides what the others have said, your difference equation leads to this transfer function:
$$H(z)=\frac{\alpha}{1-(1-\alpha)z^{-1}}$$
and evaluating it is done by substituting \$z^{-1}=e^{-j\Omega_p}\$:
$$H(\Omega_p)=\frac{\alpha}{1-(1-\alpha)e^{-j\Omega_p}}$$
If you consider the corner frequency to be the -3dB point, then this results back in this difference equation, followed by solving for the exact (sampled) frequency, \$\Omega_p=\pi\frac{f_p}{f_0}\$:
$$\begin{align}
\left|H(\Omega_{-3\mathrm{dB}})\right|^2=\frac12&=\left|\frac{\alpha}{1-(1-\alpha)(\cos\Omega_p-j\sin\Omega_p)}\right|^2 \\
\Rightarrow 2\alpha^2&=\left[1-(1-\alpha)\cos\Omega_p\right]^2+\left[(1-\alpha)\sin\Omega_p\right]^2 \\
&=(\alpha^2-2\alpha+1)(\cos^2\Omega_p+\sin^2\Omega_p)+2(\alpha-1)\cos\Omega_p+1 \\
&=2(\alpha-1)\cos\Omega_p+\alpha^2-2\alpha+2 \\
\Rightarrow \Omega_p&
=\arccos{\frac{\alpha^2+2\alpha-2}{2(\alpha-1)}}
\end{align}$$
To verify, let's say \$\alpha=0.45\$, then
$$\Omega_p=0.6165 \\
|H(0.6165)|=\left|\frac{0.45}{1-0.55e^{-j0.6165}}\right|=0.7071$$
A picture might be worth a thousand words, so here's a quick check with LTspice, two versions of it:

A: Here's a 1st order IIR Lowpass (also known as an exponential average) in C, using only shifts and no multiply:
//1st-order IIR lowpass
//2^(-SHIFT) = 1 - e^(-2*pi * Fc/Fs)
//Fc = Fs * (-ln(1 - 2^(-SHIFT)) / (2*pi))
//Fs = sample rate, Fc = -3dB cutoff frequency

void IIR_lowpass_1(int in, *out, SHIFT)
{
    *out -= (*out >> SHIFT);
    *out += (  in >> SHIFT);
}

It's become a standard block of code that I've used in a bunch of different projects now.  You can do the math to see that this sequential operation has the exact same effect as the canonical version.
It must be atomic though - no task switching in the middle of it!
I'll leave it to the reader, both to optimize it as needed, and to translate it from a microcontroller to an FPGA.  My point is simply that it can be done without a multiply.

For higher orders, you can cascade a bunch of 1st orders:
void IIR_lowpass_2(int in, *mid, *out, SHIFT)
{
    IIR_lowpass_1(  in, *mid, SHIFT);
    IIR_lowpass_1(*mid, *out, SHIFT);
}

void IIR_lowpass_3(int in, *mid1, *mid2, *out, SHIFT)
{
    IIR_lowpass_1(   in, *mid1, SHIFT);
    IIR_lowpass_1(*mid1, *mid2, SHIFT);
    IIR_lowpass_1(*mid2,  *out, SHIFT);
}

Etc.
out and mid_ must each have their own dedicated storage.

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