This paper presents a critique by a ''speech technologist'' of ''The potential role of speech production models in automatic speech recognition'' by R. The dynamics of active categorical perception in an evolved model agent. Words and voices: Implicit and explicit memory for spoken words. Recent developments in facial animation: An inside view. Vocal affect expression: A review and model for future research.
Preventing reading failure in young children with phonological processing disabilities: Group and individual responses to instruction. Influences of categorization on perceptual discrimination. Long-term retention of new phonetic categories. The goal of this paper is to illustrate the point that other potential candidates for explaining these speech errors, which have gone largely unnoticed, provide a better explanatory framework for speech errors than do segments. J Exp Psychol Gen 2002, 131:477—493.
Spanish-dominant individuals, but not Catalan-dominant individuals, exhibited repetition priming for minimal pairs differing in only one feature that is nondistinctive in Spanish e. Cognitive Dynamics: Conceptual Change in Humans and Machines. Perceptual categories in vision and audition. The perceiver's ability to discriminate sounds improves as the sounds become less similar—going from discriminations of sounds that differ by one step to two steps to three steps along the horizontal continuum. Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition.
However, the quantity of training data required to improve state-of-the-art systems seems to be growing exponentially and performance appears to be asymptotic to a level that may be inadequate for many real-world applications. Training included practice at the segment and the word level. On the comparison between identification and discrimination tests in speech perception. Acquired distinctiveness of cues: I. The nature of learned categorical perception effects: a psychophysical approach. Index Terms : speech modelling, case based reasoning, exemplar-based systems. We argue that a full understanding of the process of lexical access during speech comprehension will depend on resolving several key representational issues: what is the form of the representations used for lexical access; how is phonological information coded in the mental lexicon; and how is the morphological and semantic information about each word stored? Cognitive representations of semantic categories.
Motor theory of speech perception: a critical review. Perception and production improved for each of the 7 children. Perceiving talking faces: From speech perception to a behavioral principle. In: Honavar, V, Uhr, L, eds. Journal of Phonetics, 21, 3— 28. J Acoust Soc Am 1978, 63:456—468.
Peter Wallis for his suggestion to use a clapping robot as a challenging interaction scenario, and the reviewers for their helpful and insightful comments. New York: Plenum Press; 1978, 125—169. Categorical perception of facial expression. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 1987, 13:640—645. This paper discusses these issues, and presents an argument in favor of the derivation of a 'unifying theory' that would be capable of explaining and predicting both human and machine spoken language processing behavior, and hence serve both communities as well as representing a long-term 'grand challenge' for the scientific community in the emerging field of 'cognitive informatics'. First and second language vowel perception in early bilinguals. Language development in profoundly deaf children with cochlear implants.
Seven students with hearing loss between the ages of 8 and 13 were trained for 6 hours across 21 weeks on 8 categories of segments 4 voiced vs. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 37, 687—699. New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories. This editorial provides a brief introduction and overview of the following five chapters dedicated to a subset of topics relating to the creation of real-time computational systems capable of engaging in affective interaction with humans. This paper compares the research objectives of the two fields, and attempts to draw informative lessons from one to the other. Language-particular sound patterns are in part patterns of temporal coordination among gestures.
An important goal of such systems is to be able to form a loop with the human by conducting appropriate behaviours at appropriate times, in order to establish and maintain different senses of connectedness between the human and agent. It can be claimed that spoken language is the most sophisticated behavior of the most complex organism in the known universe Gopnik et al, 2001;Dawkins, 1991 much more challenging than rocket science-and this places spoken language technology at the heart of artificial cognitive systems and therefore firmly within the newly emerging transdisciplinary field of 'Cognitive Informatics' Wang, 2003a Wang, , 2003b Moore, 2005b -see Figure 6. Categorical perception of familiar objects. The structure of the color space in naming and memory for two languages. Auditory and phonetic memory codes in the discrimination of consonants and vowels.
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Contrary to popular belief, human error and accidental loss are still the biggest contributors to data breaches in the UK – rather than attacks by cyber criminals. While it is perhaps unrealistic to expect people to change their passwords as frequently as their undergarments, good password management is incredibly important to information security. A simple 7-character password could take a hacker only 0.29 milliseconds to decipher, however, increasing this to 12 or more character will increase the potential hacking time to centuries rather than seconds.
Research conducted by the risk mitigation firm, Kroll, at the end of 2018 found that the number of data breach reports received by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has increased by 75% in the last two years. This isn't necessarily indicative of more breaches, but more likely an increase in transparency as a result of GDPR. It was not previously compulsory to report a data breach, but the new data regulation requires that all companies must report a breach to the ICO within 72 hours.
Above all else, data security should now be a COMPANYWIDE responsibility. It does not rest solely on the shoulders of IT and compliance departments, but with everyone working within a business. Every effort should be made to incorporate information security into office culture so that it becomes second nature.
Staff should receive regular training to ensure that everyone understands best practice in the workplace. Company HR policy should also be altered to reflect the fact that responsibility lies with all employees to instigate better behaviour.
Everyone in the business should be on the lookout for potential threats to information security, such as leaving computer screens unlocked and leaving confidential paperwork unattended, and should be encouraged to self-police. Implementing a clean desk policy is good practice for safeguarding confidential information.
Essentially these practices are entrenched in GDPR under Article 25 – 'Privacy by Design' and 'Privacy by Default'. These concepts are by no means new, but are instrumental in incorporating information security into business culture.
Privacy by Design means businesses need to consider privacy at the initial design stages and throughout the development process of any new products, processes or services that involve processing personal data.
Privacy by Default means that when a system or service includes choices for the individual on how much personal data he/she shares with others, the default settings should be the most privacy friendly ones.
GDPR has presented a great opportunity for UK businesses to step up their data protection strategies and better protect themselves against data breaches. The regulation stipulates that companies must be more rigorous in their approach to collecting, storing and using customer data – which should correspondingly see a vast reduction in accidental loss. This increased transparency should ultimately result in more trusting and loyal consumers.
The more businesses understand their obligations and ensure they have implemented appropriate data protection strategies, the sooner we will see a significant reduction in the number of data breaches.


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What movies came out 1899?
What was the first ever silent movie?
What was the silent film era called?
When did movies have talking?
Did they have film in the 1800s?
How did people watch movies in 1890s?
Films released in 1899
Beauty and the Beast, produced for Pathe (French)
The Biter Bit, produced by Bamforth & Co Ltd.
Cagliostro's Mirror, directed by George Melies.
Cinderella, directed by Georges Méliès.
Cleopatra, directed by George Melies, later re-released as Cleopatra's Tomb.
Produced by Thomas Edison but directed and filmed by Edison Company employee Edwin S. Porter, the 12-minute-long silent film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), was the first narrative movie—one that told a story.
Age of the Silver Screen
But the silent picture was a universal language through its messages. The silent film era is sometimes referred to as the "Age of the Silver Screen".
When did film stop being silent?
The gradual transition from silent films to talkies took place between 1926 and 1930 and included many small steps — both technological developments and adjustments to audience expectations — before it was complete.
What was the first ever non silent movie?
The first feature film originally presented as a talkie (even though it only had some sound sequences) was The Jazz Singer, which premiered on October 6, 1927. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology.
On July 6, 1928, the first all-talking feature, Lights of New York, premiered. The film cost Warner Bros. only $23,000 to produce, but grossed $1,252,000, a record rate of return surpassing 5,000%.
1888–1895: First motion pictures and early film projection On 10 January 1888, the French artist and inventor Louis Le Prince registered the first British patent for a camera that was capable of filming motion. He recorded the earliest known motion picture in extant on 14 October 1888.
Movies began in the penny arcade kinetoscopes of the 1890s. You drop a coin in the slot and peek through a viewfinder to watch grainy images of a pigeon flying, or a man running. Kinetoscopes were comprised of several images which were run at a rate of 12 images per second and were three to five seconds long.
Who started silent movies?
the Lumiere Brothers
In the 1800's, many inventors, such as Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers worked on machines that projected images. This led to the silent movie era which ranged from 1894 to 1929. During this time period, a number of moving pictures were created and shown in theaters on big screens.
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Finding Greatness
Hiring the right people can make or break your business
For reasons well known to pizzeria operators, finding great employees, particularly for entry-level positions, is often "throw-up-your-hands" frustrating. But despite the challenges it's entirely possible to staff your restaurant with people you can count on to show up, perform to (or exceed) your expectations and keep your business running smoothly and customers returning.
The first step in the hiring process begins with creating clearly defined job descriptions, as well as identifying the skills and characteristics each position requires, says Jan Ferri-Reed, president of Key Group, a Pittsburgh-based HR consulting and management training company. She suggests observing the people who are performing well in their jobs. Along with asking their input on what their position entails, determine what qualities/characteristics these employees have that make them successful. Then, write the job posting and develop the interview based on this information. As for the interview process, Ferri-Reed advises taking a deliberate approach.
"Don't just wing the interview," she says. "Follow a standardized format based on the position. This also transmits the expectation of taking the job seriously because the applicant sees that you, the operator, are approaching the hiring process in an organized way."
Avoid asking yes or no questions, Ferri-Reed cautions. Instead, ask applicants to explain and describe, using scenarios ("Tell me about a time when you…") to elicit more detailed, revealing responses, which also has the added benefit of discovering how articulate the job seeker is.
Take your time, says Michael Shepherd, owner of Michael Shepherd Consulting, LLC in Belle Center, Ohio. Shepherd, who also owns a restaurant — Six Hundred Downtown, in Bellefontaine, Ohio — says his hiring process starts when someone brings in an application and hands it to the host or manager.
"Were they polite? How were they dressed? Did they smell of smoke? Come in alone? And then we ask all the staff if they know the person, to get some detailed background on them," says Shepherd.
Other strategies include scouring the application for red flags, such as job-hopping laterally, poor grammar and spelling, school conflicts and so on, he says. Personal references are called and if the applicant survives to this point, the next step is a phone screening to determine basic skills and scheduling availability.
"Then we generally do two interviews; one with the assistant manager to get a first impression and then onto the general manager or myself," he says. "The questions are designed to get them to open up and talk a lot. We want to know if they'll be a good match for us and if the job will be a good match for them."
Some of the questions posed to his applicants include:
What is the funniest thing that has ever happened to you?
Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a coworker; how did you resolve it?
Ann Farrell, director of development for Farrelli's Wood Fired Pizza, a six-location operation headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, says their applicants always undergo at least two face-to-face interviews conducted by different people.
"Professional image is important to Farrelli's so we want to see if they're on time and show up each time looking their best," she explains. Also "develop interview questions that align with your organizational values and culture so you can make sure the personality is a good fit."
Integrity and doing the "right thing" are essential core values for them, Farrell says. Consequently, one of their initial interview questions is: "Tell me about a time in your life when doing the right thing was not necessarily the easy thing."
Growth is also important. Their question designed to uncover this core value is, "Tell me about a time in your life you were challenged to do something you weren't sure you could do. How did you rise to the occasion and what did you learn about yourself?"
"These are big questions and require thoughtfulness; a trait we desire," Farrell says. "Then, depending on the answers, we can see if the person has the character we're looking for."
Farrell says their best staff members provide one of their most effective recruitment tools — "good people know good people"— she explains. Other recruitment possibilities include colleges and high schools, culinary programs, vocational schools and veterans ("If you're close to a military base, see if they have a program to help get veterans back to work and integrated into civilian life," she says).
Look for people who respond well to stress, Shepherd says. "A restaurant is a pressure-cooker filled with stress, sweat and different personalities. Everyone must have basic people skills so they can get along well. Everyone also needs to multitask well."
Don't try to build your staff with different types of people, he cautions. Doing so could unwittingly result in different "classes" of workers that could pit, for example, servers against cooks, or servers against dishwashers, or dishwashers against cooks.
"Everyone needs to be a people person," Shepherd explains. "I can train skills like making a pizza, serving or washing dishes. What I can't do is train intrinsic abilities like multitasking, a good attitude, the ability to learn and common sense."
Making Incentives Count
Incentives can keep great employees motivated but a thoughtful approach is required. TJ Schier, president of Incentivize Solutions, a hospitality consulting and training company in Flower Mound, Texas, advises operators to:
Link incentives to business results or performance/behavior improvements. Example: reward employees with a cents-per-hour bonus for lowering food costs or for every incremental sales dollar they bring in (also encourages suggestive selling).
Regularly evaluate performance. Depending on the position or business/performance objective, this should occur daily, weekly or monthly.
Ask. Don't assume you know what employees want. Instead, discover what drives each employee (Schier does say that for most, this will be cash or gift cards).
"Incentives should never be used for paid-to-do things like showing up or coming in full uniform," says Schier. Don't think "incentives will get below-average employees to perform better. Incentives will never get the wrong people to do the right thing."
Pamela Mills-Senn is a freelancer specializing in writing on topics of interest to all manner of businesses. She is based in Long Beach, California.
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Bungie Has Big Plans For Destiny 2
The Witch Queen will bring about tons of changes in Destiny 2 next year
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Destiny 2: The Witch Queen is still six months away but it's already sounding like one of the game's most ambitious updates yet. Over the last two weeks Bungie has shed more light on the next annual expansion and the vast changes it will bring with it, from weapon crafting to overhauled subclasses. When it launches next February, players could end up encountering a very different version of the game.
While Bungie revealed quite a bit about Witch Queen in its big Destiny 2 showcase last week, it's also been spilling more details in a series of interviews and blog posts published since. Players are always hungry for more content—more story, more missions, more loot—but the studio is also promising to fundamentally change up Destiny's underlying gameplay in new ways.
Bungie has been staffing up. Previous Destiny director Luke Smith is now overseeing the continued growth of the entire franchise. Big plans are afoot and its an especially exciting time for the sprawling loot shooter. Here's a rundown of everything we already knew as well as what's been elaborated on more recently.
Witch Queen's campaign adds a whole new universe
The witch queen Savathûn is a Hive god, and Hive gods have Throne Worlds, pocket universes they create to hide their power in. Next year's expansion will take place in Savathûn's True Detective-inspired Throne World, complete with creepy forests, eerie swamps, gothic cathedrals, and one of those giant mysterious black pyramid aliens. A new legendary campaign mode will let players explore this location on a harder difficulty that scales to the size of their Fireteam and grants better rewards.
The enemies in Savathûn's Throne World? Hive Guardians, a new enemy type that can wield light subclass abilities that mirror those of players' Guardians. These Hive Guardians will toss familiar tracking grenades and even be able to cast supers. They'll also have Ghosts that revive them after a short time if not destroyed quickly.
"We want it to feel like you're fighting you," game director Joe Blackburn told Polygon. "We want it to feel like you're fighting something that you understand. The playing field has been leveled in a bunch of interesting ways."
Destiny 2 hasn't had a new alien race since 2018's Forsaken expansion introduced the Scorch. There have been new enemy types and variations on existing ones since, but nothing that has drastically altered combat encounters as much as Hive Guardians seem like they will.
Bungie is also aiming to make the campaign feel more substantial, on par with things like the Halo, Titanfall, and modern Doom games. "In our last couple of releases, the campaign had some great moments, but it often felt like right when it got started, it was over. So that's one of the things that, pacing wise, we knew we wanted to fix," Blackburn told PC Gamer. While it's unclear if that means Witch Queen's campaign will be longer than those of past expansions, it sounds like the missions will have more gameplay wrinkles and exploration, not unlike recent Expunge and Shattered Realm ones.
How weapon crafting will work
Bungie has slowly been pushing Destiny 2 toward more customizability over the years. Season of Opulence's Menagerie let players grind for specific loot drops. Season of the Hunt gave players more control over what perks their loot would drop with. Witch Queen will take things even further with actual weapon crafting.
We still don't have many specifics, but in Witch Queen's original reveal Bungie said it would be "combat-based," and Blackburn told Polygon it would be a "new system, from the ground up."
He elaborated a little in an interview with PC Gamer, likening weapon crafting to looking at a recipe of possible perks before you start baking. "And we want you to feel like you went on a journey to get there," Blackburn said. "Because by the time you're able to make the exact god roll, you will have the ability to make all the versions of that gun that you want. So it's really about a long pursuit with a weapon."
It sounds like this new system will also cut down on the clutter in players' vaults by not forcing them to manage suboptimal duplicates of gear until they finally get the RNG-based perk god roll they were hunting for.
The Glaive, a new secondary weapon type that will be introduced at the same time, will be exclusive to the new crafting system, and also sounds like it will complement the ways Hive Guardians change combat. The way Blackburn described it to Polygon, a player might pop the Glaive's shield power to get in close and kill a Ghost, while still being able to stab enemies even when it's out of ammo. The Destiny game director also implied players would be able to customize the Glaive by choosing specific perks like Swashbuckler for it during the crafting process.
Destiny 2 light subclasses are getting a makeover
Since Destiny 2 launched, players have largely been playing with the same toolbox when it comes to their light subclass abilities. New supers expanded their arsenal in Forsaken. Beyond Light added a new "Dark" subclass called Stasis, which was an instant favorite in part because it was so overpowered.
In Witch Queen, the existing Solar, Arc, and Void subclasses will also be getting the Stasis treatment. Namely, the existing trees will be transformed into a Fragment/Aspect system that offers players more freedom to mix and match abilities and augment them to create more unique loadouts. For example, Void Warlocks will get a Pocket Singularity melee projectile that will push enemies out of cover, and a Child of the Old Gods Aspect they can equip to summon a sentient black hole that consumes targets and gives their health to you. It all sounds amazing.
While some abilities, like supers, will carry over to this new system, others won't, or will be reworked beyond recognition. "Some of our melees in some of these [existing] trees, and some of our passives were not as exciting," Blackburn told Polygon. "Some of those it's like 'yeah, that's OK [to lose],' we knew that was a weak point in the tree anyway."
The good news is that unlike when Stasis was added to Beyond Light, there won't be an arduous, grindy questline to earn the new Fragment/Aspect versions of old abilities. Light subclasses will also be reworked throughout the year, beginning with Void, followed by Arc and Solar in subsequent seasons.
And while a new darkness subclass sadly isn't in the cards for Witch Queen, Bungie has confirmed it is working on the next one. Maybe it will be ready in time for Light Fall, the expansion currently planned for 2023.
A ton of big and small raids are on the way
Raids and dungeons (shorter, three-person versions of raids) are the crown jewels of any new update. The Prophecy Dungeon was added over a year ago in Season of Arrivals and remains one of the most fun and rewarding things in the game. As Polygon's Ryan Gilliam pointed out last week, perhaps the biggest news to recently come out of Bungie is that Destiny 2 is now set to get a new raid or dungeon every three months or so.
This begins with a new dungeon coming in December as part of the Bungie 30th Anniversary pack. Two more are on the way during Year 5 which officially starts when Witch Queen goes live, along with a new raid based around the conflict with Savathûn. Bungie is also reworking an older raid that will come back during that period, similar to how Vault of Glass, the series' very first raid, returned earlier this year with some new twists.
This new cadence will arrive alongside a more streamlined end-game activity rotation, Polygon recently reported. The goal will be to have the latest dungeon and raid, alongside one older version of those activities, reward the highest-power gear. It's unclear if that means older raids and their gear will be officially rotated out of the game, as happened last year with Beyond Light, or simply relegated to the background but still available for diehards to continue running. One of the things currently keeping the Prophecy dungeon feel so fresh is the return of old Trials of the Nine gear which can only be farmed there.
What old Destiny raid will return during Witch Queen is also still under wraps, though Blackburn told PC Gamer it would be "a banger," leading to speculation that it will either be King's Fall or Wrath of the Machine. Polygon also hinted that special versions of raid gear including glowy armor could also potentially return from the first Destiny.
Witch Queen is only the halfway point
When it was originally revealed last summer, Bungie pitched The Witch Queen as the second act in a Destiny trilogy about the light and darkness kicking off with Beyond Light. Last week it announced it would be extending that saga with a fourth and final installment aiming for 2024 called The Final Shape. Why the change? Long story short: Bungie realized it couldn't squeeze the story it wanted to tell into just one more expansion.
"It's super important for us that this saga doesn't feel like it just concluded in a single expansion," Blackburn told PC Gamer. "You know, nice quick quick campaign and then on to the next thing. And so we've done a lot more work narratively than I think we ever have in plotting the roadmap and making sure we know how many things we need to get in place."
The Final Shape will officially conclude the 10-year plan for Destiny from back when it launched, but of course the game will continue after that. Whether it will continue as part of Destiny 2 or in a sequel remains to be seen.


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Ilana Halperin: the Library
This article is from 2013.
Geologically-themed show repurposing museum exhibits as art
Location is everything for this new exhibition by Glasgow-based, New York-raised artist Ilana Halperin, the first recipient of an artist's fellowship at National Museums Scotland. Flying in the face of even the richest modern art's essential ephemerality, Halperin's muse is the Earth itself: geology and erosion and the history of the planet, and how we relate it to our own flicker of awareness within that. For The Library, she's created museum exhibit as art, a collection of rock samples chosen for their story or geological interventions she's staged herself.
She places marble and coral alongside one another, both tactile and beautiful, and muses upon their origins as the remains of Earth's first bacterial life. She shows a wooden stencil covered with a sparkling white mineral deposit formed when it was placed in the waters of Iceland's Blue Lagoon. A crystal shard from the same country's Eldfell volcano (a recurring subject of Halperin's, given that she and the volcano were 'born' on the same day in 1973) is shown, and there are fast-formed limestone sculptures created in unique cave conditions amidst the mountains of the Auvergne. Each re-introduces us to these specimens not as dug-up relics, but as evidence of the life our planet has lived and will continue to live.
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, until Sun 29 Sep
New work by New York-born artist Halperin, who is interested in the relationship between geological time and human experience. She's the first contemporary artist to receive an Artist's Fellowship at the NMS, and this exhibition features found objects, minerals, artworks created by natural processes and a 1.3-ton…
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Travelling Gallery, various locations around Scotland, Aug-Dec 2012
John Chamberlain: Sculptures (31 Jul 2015)
Vibrantly coloured, dynamic metal sculptures transform Inverleith House and its surrounding gardens
Hayashi Takeshi: Haku-u (White Rain) (3 Aug 2011)
Impressive hand-carved sculptures
Tony Cragg (3 Aug 2011)
Stunning showcase of sculptor's poetic, monolithic output
Milestone (6 Aug 2009)
Provocative exhibition accompanying a live stone-carving project
Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland (9 Jul 2019)
Ambitious and important show tells the story of how the brand of Scotland came to be
Cindy Sherman: Early Works, 1975-80 (2 Jul 2019)
Well-curated selection of early works by one of the most influential artists of the last 40 years
Bridget Riley (2 Jul 2019)
Major retrospective exhibition of iconic British painter
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This weekend Helotes will host two events—the HFA Bull Blowout and Children's Lighthouse fall festival. The Barn Buddies stock show has been rescheduled to Saturday, October 27 because of weather.
The Helotes Festival Association opens the gates to 80 four legged guests this weekend as 80 cowboys try to remain onboard for 8 seconds. The bulls are being provided by JD Nix who has provided bulls for the PBR (Professional Bull Riding) finals and has partnered with other stock contractors to supply rank stock to keep the cowboys focused.
At the end of the bull riding on Friday and Saturday night everyone can move down to the covered pavilion for a concert. Cody Wayne plays Friday night and Felix Truvere on Saturday.
Tickets are still available. $10 general admission at the gate. Individual box seats can be purchased for $25 and a group of 6 for $250.
Children's Lighthouse of Helotes is hosting its ninth annual Fall Festival on Saturday October 20, 2018 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The family focused event, which is free and open to the public, will feature kid-friendly games, face painting, a DJ, food and drinks, raffles and a moon bounce. Fall Festival will take place at the center, located at 9706 Business Parkway, Helotes, Texas, 78023.
All members of the community and local media are invited to join the festivities.
For more information, please email helotes@childrenslighthouse.com or call (210) 695-4988.
The Helotes 4H rescheduled the Barn Buddies special show originally scheduled for Saturday October, 20 until Saturday October, 27. The show allows students and parents who may not be familiar with livestock and the animal projects of 4H to have a hands-on practice session. Each show entrant is paired with a four legged and two-legged buddy who will then provide practice and instruction on the finer points of exhibiting a livestock project.
After the buddies have become accustomed to each other, the animals are then escorted to the show ring by the 4H member and their buddy for the day. Each entry is judged and after the show is completed lunch will be served.
The Barn Buddy event will take place at the Helotes 4H Center located on Leslie Road across from Sandra Day O'Connor High Schoo.
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The 2012 Chicago Slaughter season was the team's sixth season as a professional indoor football franchise and third in the Indoor Football League (IFL). One of sixteen teams competing in the IFL for the 2012 season, the Hoffman Estates, Illinois-based Chicago Slaughter were members of the United Conference.

Under the leadership of owner Jim McMahon, and head coach Steve McMichael, the team played their home games at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

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"Imagine an alfresco Sunday supper atop a historic bridge at sunset with the fall foliage gleaming. Music and laughter surround you. Glasses are filled with great wine and craft beer. You're seated with a thousand of your newest friends and the very best the fall season has to offer," writes Andrea Mensink from Midlands Authority for Conventions, Sports & Tourism in Southern Living magazine's blog, 'The Daily South.' "This is the Gervais Street Bridge Dinner above the Congaree River between Columbia, West Columbia and Cayce, SC."
Our very own Head Barman Joshua Streetman of Motor Supply Co. Bistro will provide the cocktail program for the much-anticipated Gervais Street Bridge Dinner – hosted by the team at Soda City Market, Columbia's all-weather Saturday farmers market – this Sunday, October 23, 4-8 p.m.


There has been a major debate between modern and traditional medicine.
Chicken or egg…which one produces the other? Mind or behavior…does the mind determine behavior, or is it a consequence of behavior?
Epigenetics or Genetics…which one determines genetic expression? The original program of the DNA or the environment in which the genes exists?
As most people know, Angelina Jolie had both of her breasts surgically removed even though there was absolutely no sign of breast cancer in either breast at that time. She already planned to have both of her healthy ovaries removed, as soon as she has recovered sufficiently from the first surgery.
Clearly, those promoting the genetic side of the argument have been more convincing than those promoting the epigenetic perspective.
I wrote an article that has been published on Natural Health News website and it goes in depth on this topic.


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Autopsy sheds no light on WA deputy's death
An initial autopsy has failed to show a cause of death for a 29-year-old Pierce County sheriff's deputy who died a day after surgery to repair a job-related injury.
TACOMA, Wash. – An initial autopsy has failed to show a cause of death for a 29-year-old Pierce County sheriff's deputy who died a day after surgery to repair a job-related injury.
The Pierce County medical examiner's office said Friday that microscopic and toxicology tests could take as long as six weeks.
Deputy Shandon Wright had surgery Wednesday to repair a dislocated shoulder stemming from an August arrest. Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says the arrested man yanked on Wright's arm.
Wright developed breathing problems Thursday evening and died at his home.
County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said Friday he expects to be asked to review Wright's death to see whether criminal charges should be filed against the man who caused the injury.
Suspect in 4 Boston slayings pleads not guilty
Storms cause widespread damage across Alabama
NYPD Commissioner Says Facebook Rant on West Indian Day Parade 'Unacceptable'
Park rangers: No search for bear that mauled hiker
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Michel Atangana (left) was imprisoned in Cameroon for 17 years until his release in 2014. Smith's letter to the Cameroonian government is credited with helping secure Atangana's release.
Podcast: Meet Jeffrey Smith. Meet Jeffrey Smith: A thorn in the side of Africa's dinosaur presidents
By: Mark Leon Goldberg on June 26, 2017
My guest today Jeffrey Smith helps bring down Africa's "presidents for life." His organization, Vanguard Africa, is very new but they already have one success under their belt– assisting the peaceful transition of power from The Gambia's longtime ruler. He now has his sites set on Africa's second longest ruling leader, Paul Biya of Cameroon.
We kick off with a discussion of the situation in Cameroon and have great digressions about the Zimbabwe, some deficiencies of the NGO community in D.C. and, of course, the Gambia.
Jeff discusses how and why he came to focus on issues of democracy and human rights in Africa and how he found inspiration from the hero of an anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. If you want to learn how foreign NGOs can help local democracy activists topple longstanding "presidents for life" then have a listen to this Global Dispatches podcast episode.
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The Crisis in Cameroon is Getting Worse
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Why Are Protesters Being Shot Dead in Cameroon?
This Government Used "Fake News" as a Pretext to Shut Off The Internet to Half the Country
Why a Political Crisis in this small African Country May Have Big Global Implications
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Gambia Plans Huge Hospital For Herbal AIDS "Cure"
A Global Surge In Death Penalty Executions?
Fewer Newborns are Dying Worldwide than Ever Before, But USA Ranks Appalingly Low on Global Infant Survival Study
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One of the on-going projects of the Lakin Holocaust Resource Center at Albright is to collect personal testimonies from Holocaust survivors and liberators. Currently, we have over 3 dozen videotaped interviews available for circulation. Many of these feature the stories of local Berks County residents.
Charles & Esther Kuperstock
Here are the words of the testimony of Charles and Esther Kuperstock; they were married a few years before they were sent to the camp, then separated during a selection. Incredibly, each survived several camps and many selections, and they eventually moved to Reading, PA.
"We are grateful to the Federation of the Jewish Community Center in Reading, Pennsylvania for giving us the opportunity to tell our story. Our task and our obligation are to remind the world, and especially young people, to study the history of the Holocaust and the atrocity of the horrors the Nazis inflicted on us. Six million men, women, and children were wiped out and the only known reason was because they were Jews. We must prevent this from happening again." -Esther Kuperstock
Ricahard J Yashek
Here are the words of Richard J. Yashek. He was taken to the Jungfernhof camp when he was 12. He eventually came to Pennsylvania and became an executive of J.C. Ehrlich Company. Read more about him in his book, The Story of My Life.
"For a better understanding and to respect all people, it is now up to all of us who have experienced intolerance and hate, to do what needs to be done in our communities. We can do this by talking to our children, and their children, to foster good will and understanding among all people." -Richard Yashek in a letter to Pastorin Anne Rahe
Sid & Esther Bratt
Here are the words of Sid and Esther Bratt. Sid was born in East Prussia, which was then a German province. He saw his synagogue burned down by Germans in Kristallnacht when he was just 9 years old. He was sent by his mother on the Kindtransport when he was about 10. She could only send one child; Sid never saw his mother, two brothers, or sister again. He was reunited with his father at age 13. Esther Bratt and her parents were sent to the Vilna Ghetto and later to a labor camp called Hakapeh. They escaped death on many occassions and escaped from the camp when a guard was drunk. They hid in a Polish man's tiny cellar for two weeks until they were liberated. Sid and Esther met in New York, where they had both immigrated, and eventually married. In 2011, they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
"…When we came to the States, and got our citizenship, we had that feeling of belonging again… we were back with humanity. That's why we have never missed voting – whether it be a primary or a general election –it is that precious to us because we never had it. It means an awful lot… it was not so much the celebration, though that took place too, but it was the feeling of security that you had. You belonged somewhere now, after all those years.
If it wouldn't be for immigrants who come here, and who can appreciate the freedoms that we have here, everybody else takes it for granted. If it wouldn't be for us immigrants, to just say "Hey, don't knock America unless you can tell me where there is a better place… and I can tell you, there is no better place!" …Here in the United States, if you want to, and are [genuine] about it, it is unlimited what you can do for yourself. The opportunities are here, and I think it takes people from other countries, whether it be from Vietnam, from China, from Europe, any of the countries in Europe, or South America or South Africa, to wake us up and say "you are very lucky people here! Appreciate it." –Sid Bratt on BCTV Coming to Reading
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The Pony Club Championships took place, August 13th-16th at Draycott House, Derbyshire across the five disciplines of Show Jumping, Dressage, Eventing, Mounted Games and Polocrosse.
The Pony Club Regional and International Tetrathlon Competition took place from 5th - 7th of August at Grange Farm Equestrian Centre, Peterborough and was kindly organised by The Pony Club *East of England Tetrathlon Committee.
Meet the Carr & Day & Martin Ambassadors!
The Carr & Day & Martin Ambassadors have been selected!
Pony Club Members Enjoy Clinic from Team GBR Dressage STAR!
Tens of thousands of youngsters across the UK will be able to learn more about agriculture and the environment after the NFU teamed up with The Pony Club for its achievement badge scheme.
Pony Club Polo swung into action on July 10th for the forthcoming season – thanks to the generosity of Audi.
The Pony Club Manual of Horsemanship seeks a new image!
Have you got an eye for a great image? Love capturing the moment at Pony Club activities? Then you could help find the new cover image for the 14th Edition of The Pony Club's Manual of Horsemanship!
The Pony Club's website, www.pcuk.org, has re-launched with a fun facelift!


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Divested Definition
Simple past tense and past participle of divest.
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Civil rights are not divested by pardon.
On the 1st of May 305, the day of Diocletian's abdication, he also, but without his colleague's sincerity, divested himself of the imperial dignity at Mediolanum (Milan), which had been his capital, and retired to a villa in Lucania; in the following year, however, he was induced by his son Maxentius to reassume the purple.
The Fehrbellin affair was a mere skirmish, the actual casualties amounting to less than 600 men, but it rudely divested Sweden of her nimbus of invincibility and was the signal for a general attack upon her, known as the Scanian War.
It is described as one of the finest trees in Japan, reaching a height of ioo or more feet, usually divested of branches along the lower part of the trunk and crowned with a conical head.
From the theology of John Murray, who like Ballou has been called "the father of American Universalism," he differed in that he divested Universalism of every trace of Calvinism and opposed legalism and trinitarian views.
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Thorncombe Beacon is a hill between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England. It lies about  west of Eype Mouth and  east of Seatown. It is in the south-west part of Symondsbury parish close to the parish of Chideock. It is  high, compared to  for Golden Cap which lies about  to the west. It forms part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site and the South West Coast Path and the Monarch's Way skirt the hilltop.

The hill is owned by the National Trust. Three bowl barrows to the north-east of the summit constitute a scheduled monument.

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I grew up in a Christian home and went to church all my life. I had always heard of the word "grace", but being the Elementary Club Director I have had lots of opportunities to practice it. I believe that even as adults we can learn something new every day. And I am so thankful for all the lessons that my kids are teaching me each week.
One night at club I had my 3rd-5th grade boys and girls together and the lesson was on community and how we can be a community through the body of Christ. I had a game for them that allowed them to work as a team and each person had a role. It could not be done by just a few of them. I tied 6 pieces of string to a rubber band and each child would hold one string. To win the game the team had to stack cups into a pyramid, but they could only use their rubber band tied to strings to accomplish this task.
I split them up into two teams and made it a fun friendly competition. The one team was doing a great job with staying patient and not getting frustrated. They worked well as a team. While the other team was rushing and not working together. If you would knock a cup over you had to pick it up with the rubber band (which is challenging). So the team that was struggling repeatedly knocked over their cups so I told them that they can pick a cup up with their hands. I then said I was showing them grace.
Well a few minutes later this same team knocked another cup down and they looked at me and said, "can we pick it back up?" My answer was no, and one boy said "please can you give us more grace?". Well of course hearing him say that I laughed and had to say yes.
That may be a funny story to you, but to me it was a huge life lesson. Being with these kids daily and being a part of their lives is something I am thankful for every day. We can all use a little more grace in our lives!


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Nadia Buari has ended her relationship with Jim Iyke, citing his bad temper as the main reason. According to our sources close to Nadia Buari, even though the actress tried to cope and handle Jim Iyke's temper,she felt like she cannot change Jim and there was no point in hanging in there. In fact, our sources mentioned that, Nadia Buari had more arguments and fights with Jim Iyke than any sort of decent conversation.
"The relationship has ended and if you see them together again, then they are trying hard to play the media. She just can't take his temper anymore so she has ended it. It is not worth it for her and all that she thought Jim could do for her career did not also materialize," one of our sources said.


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Privately Speaking: Tim Sims of Pacific Equity Partners
Pacific Equity Partners introduced the buyout in Australia over a decade ago and has consistently raised the country's largest funds. As it prepares to raise Fund V in a difficult climate, co-founder and managing director Tim Sims tells Drew Wilson that PEP still has an edge over its local and international rivals
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Tim Sims is softly-spoken, answers questions with relevant (but sometimes boring) data and doesn't like having his photograph taken. A former consultant at Bain & Co, this low-key personal manner is reflected in an almost scientific approach to private equity – which emphasises research, detail and the practical implementation of strategy.
Nonetheless, as co-founder and managing director of Sydney-based buyout firm Pacific Equity Partners, he has done some big and dramatic things.
That includes raising the largest ever Australian buyout fund, an A$4 billion (€3.2 billion; $4.2 billion) vehicle that closed in early 2008. Even though the fundraising climate was buoyant back then, some sources have questioned whether it was simply too much money for a country with a population of 22 million.
Was Fund IV too big, in hindsight? "Categorically not," he insists. "The majority of deals in Fund IV have been in the same size range as Fund III. There is a commonly held view that smaller deals make more money or have higher proportional returns than bigger deals. There's nothing intrinsic about a smaller business that makes it easier to get it to perform at higher levels than a bigger business. According to data from our own investments, large deals have delivered 2.5x the money, middle-tier deals 2.3x and smaller deals 2.4x. There is no clear correlation in our experience between [deal size and performance]."
In 2013, PEP hopes to raise another A$3 billion of capital: an A$2 billion core fund with an additional A$1 billion co-investment vehicle that is structured on a discretionary basis.
Sims says that the core fund, which will be a traditional 2-and-20 structure, will not go far beyond this target number. "This is not targeting $2 billion and ending up much larger."
The co-investment facility will be aimed at certain large LPs who "demonstrate co-investor capacity", according to Sims. For every dollar an LP invests over a certain (as yet undetermined) amount in the core fund, they get a 50 cent co-investment opportunity. "We see a large number of institutional investors interested in actively making direct discretional co-investments," he says.
Some LP sources told Private Equity International that the co-investment sidecar will likely appeal to large investors such as US or Canadian pension funds or sovereign wealth funds. Indeed, PEP held a meeting for investors in December, which had "a big turnout with a lot of large LPs", according to a source who attended.
Appealing to these investors makes sense for PEP, which historically has only had a small percentage of Australian LPs. Sims says Fund I was 10 percent local, 90 percent foreign, and the proportions haven't shifted much in the 15 years since. Foreign LPs to back PEP have included Harvard Management Company, Stanford Management Company and Yale University, according to PEI's data division.
Before Fund IV, the record for Australia's largest fund was held by PEP's Fund III, which closed on A$1.25 billion in 2006.
That doesn't seem particularly big today; in fact, country manager Archer Capital closed an A$1.25 billion fund in December 2011, just four months after launch.
But Australian private equity has come a long way in the last decade – and PEP has been instrumental in driving this evolution.
Sims recalls that in 1998, when PEP was founded by former Bain & Company management consultants (Sims is the former chairman and managing director of Bain's Australasian and African operations), the institutional wisdom was that private equity funds would not exceed $100 million in size and that no management fees would be above 1 percent.
But PEP, which soon became the country's largest private equity player, brought a grander vision to the domestic private equity market, one domestic source suggests. "They pioneered a range of innovative transactions, particularly in larger size buyout transactions in Australia. PEP has enabled investors to participate in a range of industries and a set of transactions [that] just were unavailable to them before."
Investors strongly supported PEP: since 1998, each of its new funds has been roughly three times larger than its predecessor.
But it's a different world today – and although PEP is trying to raise a smaller fund this time around, some industry sources are questioning whether the target is still too big, given the changing competitive dynamics in Australia.
The region's fundraising climate has certainly cooled. Fundraising totals for Asia were down 30 percent in 2012 to $31 billion, according to PEI's data division – while Australia fundraising was down almost by half, with only $1.1 billion raised for the country.
Deal value has also dropped. Although Australia is one of the region's key buyout markets, the country's total private equity deal value fell about 20 percent to $7.2 billion in 2012, down from $9.1 billion in 2011, according to Mergermarket data.
At the same time, global giants with deep pockets are zeroing in on Australian opportunities.
In December, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts closed a $6 billion Asia fund – the largest ever raised for the region. TPG is also raising a $4 billion vehicle for Asia, while Bain Capital closed a $2.5 billion Asia fund in 2012. Likewise, pan-regional firm Affinity Equity Partners, whose previous Australian deals include the A$900 million buyout of Primo Smallgoods in 2011, is raising a $3.5 billion pan-Asia fund. All of these firms will presumably hope to deploy some of this fresh capital in Australia.
It all means more competition for PEP – against a background of apparently diminishing dealflow.
IN THE SWEET SPOT
But Sims remains undaunted. In fact, as one might expect from a former consultant, he has numbers at his fingertips to counter most of these arguments.
The new fund and co-investment sidecar will target PEP's traditional investments – businesses with enterprise value in the $250 million to $1 billion range, he says – ideally putting PEP in the sweet spot between local players such as Archer Capital and CHAMP Private Equity, and the global buyout firms.
In this particular segment, he believes the domestic deal market is very healthy indeed. In 2012, PEP reviewed almost 100 deals, bid on 25 and went all the way on five, Sims says. Two of these businesses ended up not being sold; the other three were acquired by PEP for a total equity outlay of more than A$1 billion.
One of those was a A$720 million take-private of cleaning services giant Spotless Group, which PEP sealed in August. Spotless had rejected PEP's previous offers, as well as past offers from the Blackstone Group and CVC Asia Pacific. So PEP lobbied the major shareholders, who eventually accepted a cash-out at a modest premium, Sims says.
There are various types of deals available in Australia, Sims suggests. One comprises entrepreneurs who had hoped public markets would rebound and give them attractive IPO opportunities. "They haven't seen that and are older and wiser, often with succession challenges. Quite a few of those have come to market [in 2012]. "
Corporate carve-outs represent another possible opportunity – both divisions that have been written down and are available at a discount, or subsidiaries that are performing strongly in local currency because of the strength of the Australian dollar, which might prompt their owners to sell. "The future remains uncertain and they have cash needs at home." And then of course there are take-privates.
Foreign competition is another topic he is happy to talk about. Although some global firms have done successful transactions in Australia, the country has not been the easiest market for non-local firms. This was highlighted last year when CVC suffered one of the largest losses in private equity history, writing off an A$1.9 billion investment in struggling Australian media company Nine Entertainment.
According to Sims, A$8 billion has been invested in Australia by overseas players since 2006. His data suggests that A$5 billion of this is now gone or carried at less than 1x valuation; A$1.5 billion is carried at 1x valuation; and A$1.5 billion is valued above 1x.
"Perhaps half of the $1.5 billion above valuation has been realised. The economic record of firms from outside coming into Australia is disappointing in terms of returns."
These results are not necessarily a reflection of the firms themselves, Sims says, but of other constraints unique to Australia.
For example, some foreign groups simply do not have the local presence, opting instead to do large deals from a distance (CVC is an exception, as it has had a local office for more than a decade). Many have been reluctant to open an office with permanent staff in Australia because they would then be subject to a more stringent tax regime – which is why some choose to invest from Hong Kong. "With such large funds, there is a practical limit to the scale of deals that can be served from a remote location," Sims suggests.
A MIXED STORY
Aside from the size of the new fund or the potential competition, the main deciding factor for most potential investors in PEP's new fund will be performance. In Australia, as in other markets in Asia, brand is no longer enough to raise capital.
"LPs want to know the most recent track record and [whether], through tough economic times, the GP has been able to deliver for investors," Jeremy Samuel, managing director of Anacacia Capital, told PEI recently.
In this regard, PEP has certainly got a mixed story to tell. In 2011, the firm released A$3 billion in enterprise value across five exits (although these deals were from Funds II and III). Among them, Tegel Foods returned nearly 4x (see box, below) – but Independent Liquor made just 1.1x and vacuum cleaner retailer Godfrey's was sold for less than 1x.
Fund IV is about two-thirds invested, across eight portfolio companies. Five of the eight investments were made in 2010 or later – and as of January 2013, there have been no realisations.
The destiny of the fund has been shaped by the global financial crisis. Indeed, Sims splits investments in the vehicle into two categories: pre and post GFC.
Most of the post-crisis deals (2010 or later) are too immature to be realised. But four positions are coming to the point of exit consideration, Sims says. He expects PEP to realise nearly A$2 billion in the next 18 months and has high hopes for strong returns from cinema exhibition and advertising firm Hoyts Group, share registry Link Market Services, snack food maker Griffin's Foods and smoke detection and video security firm Extralis.
"These businesses are both growing and generating cash with the result that continuing to hold them yields attractive investment returns at low risk."
EBITDA in Fund IV grew 25 percent in its first year (2008), he says. But in the next two years, profits went sideways and down, driven by the investments that went sour. One was PEP's investment in REDGroup Retail, owner of Australian bookstores including Borders Australia, which was acquired in August 2008.
Borders went into bankruptcy in 2011. Sims cites factors related to the financial crisis such as a pull-back in consumer spending and the introduction of Australian industry regulations that created a cost disadvantage (bookstores were prohibited from sourcing books offshore, where they are 37 percent cheaper than in Australia). In addition, e-books were a fast-growing and profitable part of the business – until the exchange rate shifted and e-books in US dollars became radically cheaper for Aussie customers, who started buying them in overseas markets.
"The business went from best of breed in performance to zero cash and profits in four months," Sims explains.
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company (AST), a share registry firm that was acquired for A$450 million in May 2008 to complement the existing PEP portfolio company Link Market Service, also provided a major challenge after the financial crisis. It was massively impacted by the sustained low interest rates in the US – again, something PEP did not anticipate – and also had to be written down on PEP's books because of a lower US dollar exchange rate.
Sims describes AST as a solid business hurt by record low interest rates in the US for an unprecedented period and "a new exchange rate norm".
But it is now on the mend, Sims says. "PEP is on plan to recover value [in AST] within the next couple of years even without an economic recovery in the US. A US recovery would make the business return multiple very attractive very quickly."
He concludes that REDgroup and AST's failure to meet expectations was due to significant external factors, i.e. "changes in the environment so dramatic that they overwhelmed the potential of the business … Each of our challenged investments have that common aspect. Our loss ratio has been 7 percent, mostly in retail, through the crisis. Outside the crisis adjustment, the norm for our loss ratio in 15 years has been closer to 1 percent."
Nonetheless, he admits that PEP has learned a few things from the deals that fizzled. "We probably won't make major cross-exchange rate plays and [we] probably won't do traditional retail in future funds. We are also more sensitive to radical external changes. We have made some adjustments to process, to speed up our reactions in those environments."
The firm's risk appetite remains unchanged, he insists. "The conclusion is not to change our investment model radically to deal with events that are so extreme. We shouldn't pull back from positions that fall more than two standard deviations from the norm. We should be taking those risks."
CULTURALLY CONFIDENT
Sims' sureness and the confidence of the PEP team has been noted by several LP sources. Some see it as a plus; others see it as believing too much in their own story.
"Investors have been impressed by PEP and in the early funds were well-rewarded by PEP. But there has been, for some time, an emerging concern about the question of overconfidence," says Les Fallick, chairman of Principle Advisory Services in Sydney.
Sims dismisses this suggestion. The biggest player in a market often has to contend with that perception, he says, particularly if it has broken new ground in private equity – as PEP did in 1998 by introducing the leveraged buyout.
"Some elements of the Australian institutional funding market were unhappy with our business model when we arrived. It was unfortunate, but inevitably that left a sense among some that PEP was a little arrogant and dismissive of the existing framework. In reality, our culture is deeply ingrained with a service-oriented approach, based on 20 years of experience working intimately with clients where there is little room for anything other than attention to service and sensitive engagement."
"Certainly, we have a confident culture, a clear sense of how we go about doing business. So you get that sense of a confident team on the move; perhaps like a sports team, going out to play."
As the firm begins to raise Fund V, the industry will be watching how this game plays out with interest.
PEP BY NUMBERS
A$4bn
Capital raised since 2007
Rank on the PEI 300
A$2bn/A$1bn
New fund/co-investment sidecar targets
Fund IV investments
Fund IV exits
Box: Chicken pickings
PEP's Tegel deal is a good example of how the firm uses both consultants and its own resources to drive operational change
Pacific Equity Partners emerged from a consulting foundation – three of the four founders are former Bain & Co executives – and it places a strong emphasis on transforming portfolio companies. "We have people in the company oriented toward practical outcomes and they tend to be on the entrepreneurial side of the spectrum," says Tim Sims, managing director.
Oddly, however, it has no in-house operational unit – because according to Sims, that might "obfuscate hard decisions around the quality of CEOs".
"We experimented with that model early on, but given the accountability model we want to run, it wasn't helpful. If the operations people working for the CEO are also members of the organisation who own the company, then that creates a strange environment for the CEO to live in."
Instead, PEP brings in specialists working in particular areas of business change, including consultants from Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Co and others.
An example is the firm's 2006 buyout of poultry processor Tegel Foods.
At the time of acquisition, the business was faltering, with profits down almost two-thirds in the previous two years. A business transformation plan was developed, which included refocusing the business strategy, re-building and investing in Tegel's product line and operations, developing platforms for further growth, and improving relationships with key customers.
The firm hired a new CEO and recruited a new management team capable of executing on the plan for a management buy-in, then worked closely with management to support the business transformation. Five PEP executives worked closely with the business during the holding period for a combined average of 20 days per month.
It clearly worked: when the business was sold to Affinity Equity Partners in 2011, the exit yielded an internal rate of return of 100 percent or 3.9x its original investment, according to the firm.


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Lionfish culler bitten by nurse shark
Paul Egleston
(CNS Local Life): A diver taking part in the Cayman United Lionfish League (CULL) tournament today (Saturday, 31 August) was bitten by a nurse shark, suffering a serious injury to the back of his knee. Paul Egleston (70), who is a CULL board member and experienced diver, was hunting lionfish when the shark began aggressively going after the fish in his container but ended up taking a chunk out of his leg. Egleston was taken to Cayman Islands Hospital, where he will be receiving a skin graft over the wound, and is expected to make a full recovery.
Mark Orr, chief conservation officer at the Department of Environment (DoE) and one of the founders of CULL, was at the event today and explained that this was not typical behaviour for a nurse shark, but that when divers feed them lionfish off their spears they learn to expect food that way. He stressed that it is illegal to feed marine life except in Wildlife Interaction Zones, adding that the DoE has had reports of both licensed and unlicensed cullers feeding the sharks this way.
He explained that the nurse shark had been around Egleston trying to get a "handout" and when that didn't happen, it went after the lionfish he had collected but wound up knocking the container away and biting the diver instead. He stressed that shark attacks are very rare in Cayman, and noted the issue is when people feed predators of any kind, pointing out that a similar incident has occurred with an eel going after a culler, biting his hand, again because they had been previously fed lionfish.
"The only way to stop this from happening is to stop the illegal feeding of marine life in our waters," Orr said. "The nurse shark is not seen as an aggressive shark. It's curious but that's about it. They eat mostly shells and molluscs; it's not even natural for them to eat lionfish. They just get used to it."
Katie O'Neill, vice chair and co-founder of CULL, said she had spoken to Egleston and he was in "very good spirits". Describing him as a very dedicated culler, she added, "He told me his biggest regret was that he wasn't able to be at today's weigh-in and won't be able to take part in the cull tomorrow."
O'Neill also warned that when the sharks "don't get fed and encounter other people who are culling, this is the kind of thing that can happen and it's really tragic. But it will not happen again if we can just convince people to stop doing things that compromise the safety of the people who are following DoE rules and using containment devices."
This weekend marks the 30th lionfish cull organised to help curb the population of this invasive species. The tournament wraps up tomorrow.
Correction: The original article incorrectly stated that Paul Egleston had already received a skin graft, when the procedure hasn't yet been performed.
The lionfish hired a bodyguard.
Well done CNS. You've managed to accurately cover a story about a shark bite without the need for a gory photo or sensationalist nonsense. Nice bit of actual journalism unlike CMR and their rush to get out the photo of the wound.
Speedy recovery to the diver.
Stop picking on CMR.
Many times CMR publishes the truth covered up by other public media.
CMR is run by a gossip….A Gossip defined as "…..2. A person who habitually spreads intimate or private rumors or facts. 3. Trivial, chatty talk or writing."
Unfortunately it also publishes whatever it's told as long as its sensationalist and chimes with its owners personal peeves but without any regard for whether it's true. At which point you struggle to discriminate between the true stories covered up, and the ones made up or embellished, and end up believing none of them.
Ugh. Wishing you a speedy recovery Paul. Unfortunately, I have seen and heard of too many divers intentionally feeding lionfish to marine life in the mistaken belief that they are 'training' the creatures to hunt lionfish themselves. Instead, all they are doing is training lionfish to associate humans with handouts, and bites such as Paul's are the inevitable result. Worse, it is never the idiots feeding these creatures who get bitten, but rather the innocent diver who comes along next, as in this case. Thanks DoE and CNS for the reminder in this article – feeding marine life outside the wildlife interaction zones is illegal. Legal culling is the only effective way to reduce lionfish numbers on our reefs.
Gray Matter says:
Lionfish / Shark.. Turf; Interfering human snack get in the way
Animals of any sort are unpredictable and these things will happen occasionally, we just never know who or what type of animal, I wish the lad a speedy recovery
He should have just fed the fish. It's a crazy ocean out there .
Feeding the sharks/barracuda/Eel's is why we get these incidents in the first place. His accident comes as a reminder that feeding wildlife needs to stop for the sake of the animals and people.
It's not Disneyland…
Nurse shark was just protecting it's little fish friends. A reminder that the ocean is not our element.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A adjudicator disqualified Wednesday that two women who were accurately affiliated in Iowa can't annulment in Alabama, which doesn't admit same- marriages.
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After all the comments and blog posts about secure book, rob best added real steganography to Securebook.
I paid the money for the full version and will be posting some secret messages to my flickr and twitter friends in the near future.
Its clearly amazing how this project has progressed and I'm really happy to have had a tiny helping hand in making this what it has become. Now I need to run this pass some to the guys at work to see what they think. But in the mean time Rob really needs to get this in front of Schneier and Steve Gibson on the security end and Danah Boyd and Stowe Boyd on the social tip.
I'm wondering if there is a interesting tie up with Google plus's automatic uploading of photos and securebook's social steganography? On #Techgrumps it was already mentioned that this would be great for those taking and sharing sensitive photos if there camera was later seized. Not only would your photos be online straight away, but they would also include hidden and secret information which you could only see if your a friend.
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