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Women Only Job Portal

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The IT sector is the biggest provider of white collar jobs by some distance.Riddhimajobs.com was created and founded by Riddhima, CEO of Aurora, a recruitment advertising company.Everyone is 'high-performing' if they get themself into the right job in the right company.
The prospects of finding a job across a range of the most employment-intensive sectors-like information technology (IT), financial services, telecom and hospitality-in the economy fell dramatically compared with the first three months of 2013. With recession abroad, and policy paralysis at home, the nightmare for young job seekers looks unlikely to end. The assocham survey indicates where jobs will be lost, both in industry and geographical terms.In the prevailing environment, the jobs scenario may unfold differently for different sectors. it is the one sector most dependent on how economic conditions overseas evolve.

Others such as banking and finance, telecom and retail depend more on how domestic policy unfolds. With the Government living from scam to scam, things look bleak.The economy is slowing down and that will have an impact on hiring. Companies are being extremely cautious in hiring. Most vulnerable are insurance and telecom, especially because of their regulatory issues. Sentiment on hiring is definitely poor, "Riddhima" the founder of Riddhimajobs.com.

First, many companies ramp up hiring during the holiday season to offset high traffic and large volume production. Often they also keep some of the best seasonal workers, offering them full time employment. Budgeting has a lot to do with it. If a department has money left in the budget as they near the end of the year they have to spend it, or else they won't be allotted those funds the next year.

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30 Men in 30 Days

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Patch Naperville, IL --

When: January 8, 2014
Time: 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Location: Buffalo Wild Wings (Oswego & Aurora)

Right now there are more than 30 boys on the waiting list
for a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Kane and Kendall
Counties (BBBS). Finding mentors for these boys is no easy task, so during
National Mentoring Month in January, Reported by Patch 3 days ago.

John Thompson, key figure in battle for Guadalcanal, has died at 101

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John Thompson, who led an air attack on Japanese forces at Guadalcanal's Bloody Ridge that is considered a crucial battle in the fight for the island, died in his sleep Tuesday in Aurora. Reported by Denver Post 3 days ago.

Bona® US Donates More Than $100,000 to Charity in 2013

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Bona® US Donates More Than $100,000 to Charity in 2013 AURORA, Colo., Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bona US, the world leader in hardwood floor care and maintenance since 1919, announced today that it donated thousands of dollars this year to various charitable organizations including Colorado flood relief efforts, NBA Cares, CASA (as... Reported by PR Newswire 3 days ago.

Giftmart Collects 13,700 Toys, Donates Nearly $17,000 Back to Schools

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Giftmart Collects 13,700 Toys, Donates Nearly $17,000 Back to Schools Patch Montgomery, IL --

On December 14, Giftmarts at four elementary schools in East Aurora and Joliet blessed the 3,500 people who attended with affordable toys, and a warm, festive shopping experience that included refreshments, entertainment, childcare and free gift-wrappin Reported by Patch 3 days ago.

Ensitech® Awards Fabtech Raffle Prize Winner with TIG Brush® TBE-250 Stainless Steel Weld Cleaning System at the University of Minnesota

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Following the TIG Brush’s US debut at Fabtech 2013, Ensitech® presented raffle prizes and training to Mr. Jon Kilgore and staff at the University of Minnesota CSE Machine Shop which designs, fabricates, welds, and repairs prototype and scientific research equipment.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) December 20, 2013

Ensitech is happy to announce that it recently awarded Fabtech raffle winner Mr. Jon Kilgore, Managing Research Engineer at the University of Minnesota CSE Machine Shop, with a number of prizes including the TIG Brush® TBE-250 Stainless Steel Weld Cleaning System. The prizes were presented by Ensitech’s Marketing Director, John Perrin, along with a staff training session on how to use the TIG Brush® as well as the accompanying Ensitech Surface Finishing System® fluids.

Items donated by Ensitech® as part of the Fabtech raffle prize include:·     TIG Brush TBE-250
· Glove, Goggles and Micro-Fiber Cloths
· 1 Quart TB-25 Weld Cleaning Fluid for Stainless Steel
· 1 Gallon B-25
· 1 Sample Pack of Ensitech Surface Finishing System Fluids
· 1 Quart TB-50 Finishing Fluid for Stainless Steel
· 1 Dual Brush Adaptor
· 2 Brush Tip Packs (10 brush tips per pack)

In addition to Mr. Kilgore, the entire staff at The University of Minnesota CSE Machine Shop were eager to learn more about the capabilities of the Ensitech Surface Finishing System. Following the training demonstration, the staff was very enthusiastic about the TIG Brush’s weld cleaning & passivation capabilities to the extent that it sparked a discussion about new ways in which they would like to use it for future high-quality fabrication, welding and repair work.

Essential to these capabilities are the system’s proprietary electro-chemical process, combining low-toxicity fluids with a patented power supply and unique brush design which veritably serves to protect the weld against corrosion to the extent that the corrosion rate is reduced to below that of unwelded stainless steel*. Furthermore, the Ensitech Surface Finishing System® provides welders a choice of four innovative cleaning fluids, plus dedicated fluids ranging from pre-weld preparation to finishing and marking, leaving fabricators covered at every step of the welding process.

Utilized by several industry-leading companies including Nestle, Bechtel, Boeing and Shell, the TIG Brush® has been rapidly adopted as the preferred weld-cleaning technology of quality and safety-conscious companies in the Food & Beverage, Oil & Gas, Defense, Chemical & Mining, Water Treatment, Energy and Construction industries across the globe.

*The Welding Institute - TWI Report 23027/1/13-2

About Ensitech
Ensitech is an Australian-owned manufacturing company based in Western Sydney. It is the award-winning developer of the TIG Brush® Stainless Steel Weld Cleaning System and the Ensitech Surface Finishing System.

Ensitech produces high-quality products which change the way users do business by providing a safe, efficient alternative to dangerous and contaminating industrial practices. It does this by combining technical analysis and innovation with marketing and financial expertise to bring leading-edge products and concepts to the marketplace in a commercially viable system.

Ensitech’s TIG Brush®, uses the company’s patented power management technology, together with a conductive brush and chemical solutions of proprietary design, to clean and passivate stainless steel welds without the need for dangerous chemicals such as pickling paste.

The Ensitech Surface Finishing System is a comprehensive range of products for the pre-weld preparation, post-weld cleaning and surface finishing of fabricated products.

Ensitech, Inc.
1005 N. Commons Drive Aurora, IL 60504
http://www.TIGBrushEffect.com
Phone: (630) 851-2126
Fax: (630) 851-7744

### Reported by PRWeb 2 days ago.

North Aurora Man Pleads Guilty to Stabbing His Father to Death

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North Aurora Man Pleads Guilty to Stabbing His Father to Death Patch Geneva, IL --

Martrell Harris pleads guilty to second-degree murder and agrees to an 11-year prison sentence. Reported by Patch 2 days ago.

The Great American Gun Violence Lottery

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Remember, back in junior high school, when you read that classic of American literature, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson? In the story, a small town ritualistically draws straws each summer to see who among them will be stoned to death, to ensure a good harvest later that fall. (Goes the local proverb, "lottery in June, corn be heavy soon!") As the lottery begins, the townspeople gather in the public square and begin to collect rocks. The head of each family draws a slip of paper from the box, hoping not to see an inky black dot. The family that draws the black dot advances to the next round, in which one member is selected for sacrifice the same way. Tessie Hutchinson, a wife and mother of young children, draws the condemning dot, and the story ends as the terrified woman is stoned by her neighbors while she frantically protests.

Now, looking around your own world, does this dystopian game of chance seem at all familiar? Thankfully not, you are probably thinking--but if we're really being honest, it should. On the anniversary of the soul-wrenching Newtown shootings, it's time to concede that we, too, are participants in a lottery of our own making--one so horrifying that we mostly choose not to see it. But let's face the grim reality. We are all living in that same nightmare town, where innocents are mindlessly sacrificed in service to ideals that don't require this kind of sacrifice. When it comes to gun violence in America, we play the nightmare lottery every time we send our children off to school, each time we visit a public place, walk the streets, and in some cases, live in our homes.

A year ago this week, twenty-six first graders and their teachers were gunned down at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT. Only days earlier, two people were killed and ten thousand terrorized by a gunman at a mall in Clackamas, OR, where I live. A few months before that, a man walked into an Aurora, CO movie theater and opened fire on hundreds of people, shooting eighty-two and killing twelve. Just last week, hundreds of terrified teens were led out of a suburban Denver high school with hands on their heads after a fellow student shot two classmates and then killed himself while seeking revenge on a teacher. The mass shootings are particularly wrenching, but nearly 100 children under ten years old were killed by deliberate gunfire in 2012 alone, often by adults they knew.

Yet in the year since Newtown stunned the world, most states have responded by weakening laws designed to protect against gun violence. Out of 109 new gun laws enacted since the shootings, those weakening restrictions trump those tightening them by a factor of almost 2-1. Remarkably, our collective response to the tragedy was to make it easier for more people with more checkered backgrounds to access more guns with less red tape--and then to be able to take them, concealed, into a wider array of public places. The gun violence lottery itself, however, is politically agnostic. Whether you think the right response to Newtown was more or less guns, the fact of the matter is that gun violence has reached such epidemic proportions that all Americans are now effectively just drawing straws and hoping for the best.

And while Tessie's town endured its lottery only once a year, Americans play the lottery every single day. We try not to think about it, but we all know the truth, that--given our unique matrix of permissive gun access, hobbled law enforcement, and the glorification of mass violence in cultural media from videogames to primetime television--innocents will needlessly and regularly die. Every morning when we wake up, we know that someone will be killed by preventable gun violence that day, and we tacitly pray that it won't be a loved one. And then, every night, we thank heaven for having won the lottery that day. (That is, until the day comes when we tragically and irretrievably lose.)

Since publication in 1948, "The Lottery" has been taught nationwide as a parable of the insanity that can brew from even a well-intended crockpot of group-think, tradition, and unquestioned conformity. After all, Tessie's sacrifice is for the good of the community--to ensure honest work at harvest time and food on the family table. The lottery reflects long and respected cultural practices. "There's always been a lottery," Old Man Warner reminds the anxious townsfolk. When one observes that "some places have already quit lotteries," he retorts: "Nothing but trouble in that." As the horror of Tessie's fate crystalizes, her neighbors admonish her to stop fussing, to "be a good sport... all of us took the same chance." When the town leader methodically explains the fairness of the selection process, even Tessie's husband reluctantly disciplines her to cooperate with her own inexorable execution.

In the cultural grip of the ritual, nobody seems to understand that the town could just opt out, ending the lottery forever. But neither, it would seem, do we! Today in this country which I so love, we have succumbed to the same toxic stew of group-think, tradition, and heartlessness about the inevitability of gun violence--seemingly accepting the gun lottery as our fate, rather than a set of concrete choices that we have made and can unmake.

Tessie's community tolerates their sacrifice to ensure the harvest, though we somehow suspect the corn would grow absent slaughter. Our own communities tolerate the slaughter in the name of other ideals: personal freedom, cultural identity, and market supply and demand. Personal freedoms are worth some sacrifices, to be sure, but--the lives of innocent children attending public school? In any moral universe, that can't be right. On balance, wouldn't the more appropriate personal sacrifice for this particular freedom be the minor inconvenience of waiting for a background check that screens for mental illness or criminal history? And for that matter, do we really need to be able to carry a concealed assault weapon, purchased (sans background check) at a gun show, to feel free?

Whatever the Second Amendment stands for, surely it doesn't stand for this. There is a middle ground between the post-apocalyptic vision of gun-less civilians enslaved by evil tyrants and the post-apocalyptic gun violence free-for-all where we seem to be headed. We have moderated plenty of other constitutionally protected freedoms in the name of security from harm (just ask the NSA). Why has finding that sweet spot been so much harder when balancing personal gun rights with everyone else's right not to be the next mass shooting victim?

This can be tricky to talk about, but at bottom--it's a cultural thing. For gun lovers, their weapons represent the classic American ideals of rugged individualism and independence. You can hunt your own food with a gun. You can defend yourself and your family without asking others for help. Plus, they can be fun to shoot--and for some, the bigger the merrier. Culture matters, so gun control advocates must careful about caricaturing gun country. And as President Obama learned the hard way during his re-election campaign, it's hard to start a meaningful conversation with someone who feels disrespected on the topic.

But here's the thing about culture: it changes. American culture has always been a work in progress: remember those separate drinking fountains? When married women couldn't own property? When nobody ever recycled and everyone smoked unfiltered cigarettes? Gun culture has been changing too, embracing an extreme that departs from tradition. The family shotgun of yesteryore was no AK-47, and certainly not a private munitions armory. American political and popular culture has come to tolerate and even celebrate gun violence in ways that go beyond any sensible definition of heritage, personal liberty, public safety, or recreation.

Yet just as our gun culture has changed for the worse, it can also change for the better. If the common-sense majority can just shake off this paralyzing mantle of powerlessness, we can start making the changes we want in our world. Even if we can't all agree on every proposal, we can move forward on matters of consensus. Polls show that most Americans want legal access to handguns, but we mostly agree that background checks are helpful. Assault rifles aren't necessary for suburban self-defense. Mental illness and guns shouldn't mix. Nor should guns and substance abuse or other criminal history. The encroachment of videogame violence into all other cultural media has consequences. The entertainment industry should be accountable for cross-promoting with the violence industry, and consumers should vote with their feet.

The middle ground we are looking for already exists within many American families. My husband grew up in Alaska, where his family reasonably kept guns to protect the children from grizzly bears and eat moose through the winter. I grew up in New York, where there were no bears or moose, but still plenty of guns--often resulting in the accidental deaths of children. Our red-state/blue-state, rural vs. urban upbringings reflect some of the cultural divides across our nation, and he and I don't always agree on every gun-related issue. But even from these diverging vantage points, there is rich common ground to be found. Subjecting our children to the gun violence lottery doesn't make sense, no matter where or how you grew up.

So let's get it together and start making changes from the bottom up as well as the top down. Monitor your media consumption, and vote your gun policy preferences. Believe that you can make a difference on election day, and all the days in between. We don't have to keep living in Shirley Jackson's dystopian nightmare. As one nation, indivisible in spite of our differences, let's decide to move forward. Listening carefully and working together, let's start making the common-sense changes that can end the madness, once and for all.--Erin Ryan, a professor at the Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College, is the author of Federalism and the Tug of War Within. This essay first appeared on the American Constitution Society Blog. Reported by Huffington Post 2 days ago.

Two Colorado Teens Arrested In School Shooting Plot

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Two Colorado Teens Arrested In School Shooting Plot Two Colorado Teens Arrested In School Shooting Plot
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Police in Trinidad, Colo., arrested two teens on Friday for plotting to shoot up their school, just one week after a Denver student attacked his own high school.

Trinidad Police Chief Charles Glorioso said the school’s resource officer received a tip on Thursday that two boys, ages 15 and 16, planned to attack Trinidad High School after the winter break.

For most of the day Thursday Trinidad High School, Trinidad Middle School and Fisher's Peak School in Trinidad were on lock down, keeping students and staff inside, while authorities made sure that the boys weren’t already in the school.

The boys, who were not identified, face felony charges for inciting destruction of life or property and of making a credible threat to a school, police said Friday.

While the 15-year-old denied having threatened the school, teachers and other students say they heard the boy’s threats. Police said he had been bullied and talked about how he idolized the 1999 Columbine school shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and the Aurora movie theater shooter James Eagan Holmes.

Glorioso said the details of the attack will not be released. The students may have been plotted the attack for up to six weeks.

It is unclear how deeply the two students were involved.

Sources: NBC News, Los Angeles Times

1 Reported by Opposing Views 2 days ago.

Aurora Theatre Seeks Spanish Speaking Actors for Teatro del Sol

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Aurora Theatre Seeks Spanish Speaking Actors for Teatro del Sol Patch Peachtree Corners, GA --

Aurora Theatre’s Teatro del Sol is holding auditions for its upcoming production of Mariela in the Desert by Karen Zacarías. The beautifully lyrical play is set in the desert of Northern Mexico in 1950. Artists Mariela and José are Reported by Patch 21 hours ago.

HotelPlanner.com Earns Remarkable Ratings on Popular Consumer Website

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ConsumerAffairs.com rates HotelPlanner.com a 4.8 out of 5 stars.

West Palm Beach, FL (PRWEB) December 23, 2013

HotelPlanner.com, the world's largest provider of online group hotel bookings and event management services, announced today that it has achieved an incredible 4.8 star rating out of a possible 5 stars on ConsumerAffairs.com, a popular consumer news and resource website. Since May 2013, HotelPlanner.com has actively participated in customer feedback through the ConsumerAffairs for Brands application on the site.

“We understand group traveling – at any time and especially during the holidays – can be time consuming and overwhelming. HotelPlanner.com ensures the lowest group rates by allowing customers to receive quotes online directly from hotel sales managers,” said Tim Hentschel, CEO, HotelPlanner.com. “We always strive to provide the best service in all facets of our business, and we’re glad to hear our efforts are being noticed.”

Reviewers on ConsumerAffairs.com credit high ratings to HotelPlanner.com’s competitive pricing and impeccable customer service. HotelPlanner.com offers deals in group, individual and corporate travel. The company has partnerships with some of the most renowned franchises in sports including the Los Angeles Clippers, San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Rams, and the Washington Redskins. HotelPlanner.com receives over 5 million unique visitors each month, is listed among the top 50 travel sites in the world, and ranks number one in group travel.

“I made my reservations in February 2013 for a month stay at the Holiday Inn Express in Littleton, Colorado for August of this year. Because of unexpected health problems, we were unable to make our trip as planned. We had to push back our trip four times,” said one reviewer, Linda, of Aurora, IL. “I can't tell [you] how wonderful and accommodating both HotelPlanner.com and the Holiday Inn Express were. I will always use HotelPlanner.com. Thank you for making our vacation not only possible and affordable, but also enjoyable.”

Planning and organizing holiday hotel reservations and events for large groups can take hours or days, often leaving consumers with unanswered questions and less-than-impressive rates. HotelPlanner.com makes it easy for consumers to find the perfect hotel for rooms, meeting space and for food and beverage. Group clients save time and money when working with HotelPlanner.com’s professional staff of Planners.

“We are thoroughly impressed to read what consumers are saying about HotelPlanner.com,” said Zac Carman, CEO, ConsumerAffairs. “It is refreshing to see reviewers share their feedback about excellent customer service in the travel industry. To hear people say they would recommend HotelPlanner.com to friends and family, especially amidst this busy holiday season, says great things about their company.”

“Our relationship with ConsumerAffairs has allowed us to enhance our customer service efforts and improve our site’s features and products,” Hentschel said. “The ConsumerAffairs for Brands application has been a great tool for us, and we are thrilled with the support we have received from the ConsumerAffairs team.”

ConsumerAffairs.com is a consumer news and advocacy organization founded in 1998 by veteran D.C. journalist James R. Hood. The website features thousands of pages of consumer reviews, complaints, and compliments. Readers can find HotelPlanner.com reviews on the ConsumerAffairs.com website at http://www.consumeraffairs.com/travel/hotel_planner.html.

HotelPlanner.com provides online services to the global group hotel sales market. Its service ensures the lowest rates by allowing customers to receive quotes online directly from hotel group sales managers. The company also provides mobile applications for booking group hotel reservations and owns and operates Meetings.com, a site that provides information on meeting and banquet venues around the world for corporate and association meeting planners. Its services allow customers to book hotels for business meetings, conferences, conventions, family reunions, weddings, extended stays, tours, military reunions, church events, and group travels. HotelPlanner.com was founded in 2002 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida. The company also opened its European headquarters in London, United Kingdom in 2012. Reported by PRWeb 4 hours ago.

Fund Of Funds Implosion Forces Conversion Of Ever More Hedge Funds Into "Long-Onlies"

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Fund Of Funds Implosion Forces Conversion Of Ever More Hedge Funds Into Long-Onlies In a world in which the Chief Risk Officer of the formerly free capital markets, Ben Bernanke, has made any downside hedges obsolete (and as a result hedge funds have posted 5 years of returns without outperforming the S&P500), the first casualty has emerged: fund of funds. These parasitic, fee-soaking institutions, which merely collect a fee on top of the fees already charged by hedge funds, are rapidly on their way to extinction as the following charts from Eurekahedge prove conclusively.

As Hedge Fund Insight says, the divergence of the paths since the Credit Crunch of the single manager and multi-manager hedge fund businesses is well known, and is reflected in the time series of aggregate AUMs for the two sectors, shown below.

*Comparative growth in funds of hedge funds & hedge fund assets under management since Jan 2008*

The beginning of the end for the FOF industry started in 2008: before the watershed of 2008 each year there were more launches of funds of hedge funds than closures. Since 2008 there have been more closures of funds of funds than launches of funds of funds. So the number of funds of funds continues to shrink, though at a slightly slower rate in 2013 than 2012. The current AUM of the industry is 38.6% below its 2008 peak and stands at US$507.6 billion managed by a total of 3,214 funds.

*Launches and closures of fund of hedge funds pre and post Credit Crunch*

 

Furthermore, recent trends confirm that it is only a matter of time before Fund of Funds go the way of the dodo: the table of monthly flow data shows some changes in the last three years in seasonality, consistency of flows and total flows to funds of hedge funds. In 2011 and 2012 there were two months of net subscriptions in the Winter. In 2013 there were no inflows in February and March. Taking a diffusion index approach:  in 2011 there were five months with inflows, in 2012 there were three months of net subscriptions*, and in 2013 there has been one month out of nine in which investors added to the capital managed by funds of funds*. Net subscriptions have become much less frequent.

* Monthly flows in fund of hedge funds industry in last three years ($bn)*

Naturally, the FOF industry which generates massive fees for its "value adding" managers, will not go down without a fight. And as Pensions and Investment reports, the FOFs have found a way to strike back: *convert hedge funds into long only, idiot money, *and we do enjoy the irony that in this centrally-planned market the idiot money is outperforming the smart, nimble asset managers by orders of magnitude.

From P&I:



Among the industry's best-kept secrets is that hedge funds-of-funds heavyweight managers Black-stone Alternative Asset Management and The Rock Creek Group LP between them run nearly $7 billion in long-only strategies using hedge fund portfolio managers in manager-of-managers structures.

 

Industry sources contacted for this story were slightly aware of Blackstone's migration into long-only approaches, but none had heard of Rock Creek's endeavor.

 

By contrast, a number of respected hedge fund managers have been fairly open about the launch of long-only versions of their strategies just this year.

 

These firms include CQS (U.K.) LLP, Lansdowne Partners LP, Lone Pine Capital LLC, Maverick Capital Ltd., Tiger Global Management LLC, Viking Global Investors LP and Winton Capital Management Ltd.

 

Institutional investors, dissatisfied with the returns they are getting from their traditional active equity and fixed-income managers, have been the primary drivers behind the launch of long-only strategies by hedge fund and funds-of-funds firms, sources said.

 

*A surprisingly high percentage — 44% — of institutional investors invest in long-only strategies run by hedge fund managers, according to data from Deutsche Bank Markets Global Prime Finance, the finance unit of the investment bank. *

 

A majority of hedge fund companies — 67% — said demand from all client types was among the top three reasons for offering long-only strategies.



Hedge funds... only in name:



A very tough environment for shorting stocks and fixed-income instruments over the past few years led to hedge fund managers deciding to separate their skill on the long side of their investment approach into stand-alone strategies.

 

“It's a function of low alpha production on the short side since 2008 until about September this year. Short-selling as a stand-alone strategy or as part of a long/short equity portfolio was basically written off,” said Scott C. Schweighauser, partner and president, Aurora Investment Management LLC, Chicago.



There is still hope that shorting may come back:



Over the past two to three months, “shorts have come back” and “2014 is setting up to be very good for absolute positive returns and alpha generation,” said Mr. Schweighauser, but he said it's doubtful that institutional investors will abandon their hedge fund managers' long-only portfolios.

 

“Hedge fund managers, even if they are managing a long strategy, are oriented toward absolute returns. They are not guided by having to hew to an index benchmark as a traditional active manager and that tends to produce less correlated and idiosyncratic returns,” Mr. Schweighauser said.



Unfortunately, since the only signal for "alpha" generation is the consolidated balance sheet of the world's central banks, any hope that a sustained market correction and/or return to normalcy, can take place will have to wait for the post-CB era, which may or may not come now that the world is completely habituated to operating under the umbrella of central banks. And until that time comes, if ever, fees for hedge funds, the highest in the industry, are about to tumble and become comparable to those charged by their "idiot money" peers.



The 20% performance fee charged by many hedge fund managers is dependent on generating a positive absolute return above the fund's high-water mark. In bad years, hedge fund firms don't get paid, which means they can't pay bonuses and start getting nervous about losing staff, he said.



Yes, but dumb money funds also don't charge a performance fee, which as the move toward global equivalency accelerates, will mean that only the most stellar hedge fund performers will be able to collect the kinds of returns that allowed the Teppers and Paulsons of the world to generate billions in bottom line profits for themselves every year. Everyone else will be washed under the great mediocrity of being a long-only stock picker, until such time as shorting is not only required but becomes the only strategy again. By then it will be, as always, too late. Reported by Zero Hedge 1 day ago.

Justin Anderson Joins Aurora Theatre Staff as Associate Artistic Director

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Justin Anderson Joins Aurora Theatre Staff as Associate Artistic Director Patch Lawrenceville, GA --

Lawrenceville, Ga. (December 23, 2013) – Aurora Theatre proudly announces Justin Anderson has been appointed the new Associate Artistic Director.  One of Atlanta’s busiest and most successful freelance stage directors Reported by Patch 21 hours ago.

InventHelp Inventor Designs Refuge for Extreme-Emergency Situations (DVR-621)

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InventHelp, based in Pittsburgh and founded in 1984, is working to submit the Extreme Emergency Shelter to applicable companies in the hopes of a good faith review.

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) December 24, 2013

Sometimes natural disasters strike without warning or when there's no time to get to a safe place, so an inventor from Aurora, Colo., has developed a way to give trapped people a chance of survival. "Due to the fatalities in wildfires in our region, I decided that there needed to be a way to ensure safety in extreme-emergency situations," he said. "When there’s no time or possibility of escape, people can find safety in the temporary refuge I designed."

The patent-pending Extreme Emergency Shelter allows for temporary refuge when evacuation from an extreme-emergency situation (such as a wildfire). This helps to avoid fatalities and promotes safety, peace of mind and successful rescue. Producible in design variations, it's ideal for residents in fire-/tornado-/thunderstorm-prone areas. The inventor has created a prototype of his idea.

The original design was submitted to the Denver office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 12-DVR-621, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.

# # # Reported by PRWeb 6 hours ago.

Aurora library gets $3 million donation

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A new library branch in downtown Aurora will bear the name of a late philanthropist and his wife after the couple's foundation donated $3 million. Reported by Miami Herald 4 hours ago.

Bloomberg, Moms Demand Action: Background Checks Don't Work, Pass More Background Checks

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On December 23, Michael Bloomberg and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense America's (MDA) Shannon Watts co-authored an op-ed claiming criminals circumvent our current background check system; ergo, the United States needs more background checks. 

Throughout the op-ed, Bloomberg and Watts malign private gun sales as the means criminals use to get their guns. In order to make private gun sales seem illicit, they intimate they are a new practice that came about as a way to dodge background checks. 

According to Politico Magazine, they do this by citing the success of  background checks passed in 1993 before describing private gun sales as something criminals have turned to in order to beat the system. 

The authors never mention one important fact--private gun sales have existed in this country since 1787. They are not a recent criminal-sponsored invention but an American way of life. They are part of the exercise of the 2nd Amendment. 

Another thing Bloomberg and Watts don't mention is that some of the most high-profile criminals in recent memory got their guns legally through the background check system. This includes Tuscon shooter Jarod Loughner, the Aurora theater shooter, the D.C. Navy Yard shooter, the LAX shooter, and the Arapahoe High School shooter. Together, these and many others all stand as a testament to the fact that more government involvement in firearms sales does not stop criminals from acting on their wicked intentions. 

It is also worth noting that Bloomberg and Watts cited a poll showing strong support for more gun control. But the poll they cited was from July 2012. 

A more recent poll from December 2013 not only shows that opposition to more gun control is growing but that a majority of Americans no longer support gun control, period. 

Follow AWR Hawkins on Twitter @AWRHawkins.

 
 
 
  Reported by Breitbart 36 minutes ago.

The Empty Seats at the Newtown Holiday Tables

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It has been just over a year since Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 first graders and six staff members before turning the weapon on himself. The horror was over in minutes. I think of these young victims, their teachers, and administrators this holiday season. I cannot bear to think of what it must be like for these families to spend their second holiday with an empty seat around the table.

In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik created a day of terror in Norway after he blew up a car bomb in Oslo and then killed 69 teenagers on a nearby island who were at a political summer camp. In all, 77 were killed and more than 200 were injured. It horrified a nation and galvanized it to take action. Laws were passed and action was taken.

However, in the year after Newtown, nothing has changed on the federal level. While there has been some movement on the local level, the basic notion of registering all firearms, whether they are purchased at a gun shop or a gun show has wide national support but fell short in the US Senate. Worse, the American hunger for the semi-automatic and illegal fully automatic weaponry continues to be our national cancer.

I remain disturbed by our lack of action. It reminds me of the battles surrounding Civil Rights back in the 1950s and 1960s when a small number of legislators hijacked both houses of Congress and denied full citizenship with the excuse of "tradition" or worse, "state's rights."

Since Newtown, we have had 25 gun attacks at schools (from elementary to college), with the most recent taking place in Colorado, the home state of the Columbine massacre as well as last year's shooting in an Aurora theater. Basic math tells us that there is a school shooting every two weeks yet this elicits only a yawn. Every two weeks. Instead we have heated national debates about Duck Dynasty, where the only victims quack before they are brought down from the skies.

We owe these families who have lost so much a debt we cannot repay. We owe it to the administrators and teachers who selflessly gave their lives on that terrible day. In that sense, we have failed.

Just this week, a 14-year-old girl was killed by her stepfather when she entered the house through a window. Her stepfather thought it was a burglar. Now she is dead, yet another empty seat around the holiday table.

One would think that the slaughter of innocents, especially on the cusp of the holidays, would offer Americans the courage to move forward. However, we ended up with cowardice from a select set of Democratic senators.

The worst among them were Mark Begich of Alaska and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, with an honorable mention going to retiring Senator Max Baucus of Montana. Senator Begich recoiled in cowardice. Senator Heitkamp felt that her state could not support it even though 94 percent of North Dakotans supported it. Senator Baucus made the vote prior to the announcement of his retirement and he could have voted his conscience. Lyndon Johnson used to tell legislators that he did not need them for the easy votes; he needed them for the tough ones. All, along with Senator Pryor of Arkansas, failed their country.

In all actuality, it all boils down to fear, the worst kind of elective emotions. Conservative Democrats in rural congressional districts do not want to give Republicans an extra 5 to 7 percent bump in the next election over a gun issue. Moderate Republicans fear a conservative primary challenge that focuses on the gun issue. Everybody fears that gun owner money will go to their opponents. Even the NRA is running a little scared. For the first time, there are well funded gun rights groups, like Gun Owners of America that are further to the right than Wayne La Pierre and his group. If the NRA moves to work with the White House, they fear losing members and controlling the conversation.

Another type of fear is found within the "Stand Your Ground" or "Make My Day" laws where people now can use their weaponry without facing any legal ramifications if they feel that they feel placed in danger. We saw this when George Zimmerman gunned down Trayvon Martin in Florida and there are countless cases that are mounting as people act out their fears. We now live in a nation where there are more guns than there are people. Battlefield weapons are proliferating our neighborhoods at a frightening pace and the unintended consequences bring only heartbreak.

However, whatever fear these people fear is nothing compared to the fear that those students and administrators at Sandy Hook experienced in their last moments as first graders, as sons and daughters of those who for this Christmas and many others to follow, mourn that empty seat around the table.

We need to honor their courage. Reported by Huffington Post 22 hours ago.

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