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Over 50% of Americans are female—157 million people. Women are the key decision makers in 60% of client relationships, they're the main source of income in 53% of households and they're expected to hold two-thirds of wealth in America by 2030. The numbers should be compelling, but the financial industry frequently serves men first and women as an afterthought.
Women who work in the industry have to fight to be represented too. Maybe it's not surprising that advisory firms struggle to serve female clients when they don't even have women represented in their offices. Naureen Hassan, senior vice president of client experience and strategic integration at Schwab Advisor Services, said half of all advisors surveyed by Schwab say there are no female advisors working in their firm. "Across the industry, only 30% of financial advisors are women. In the RIA space, it's more dramatic. Half of all advisors we surveyed don't have any female advisors at their firm. I don't believe you need to be a woman to serve a woman—I have an advisor and he's a man—but I do think your firm needs to reflect the diversity of your client base."
Neesha Hathi, Schwab's senior vice president of advisor technology solutions, agreed. She said that a firm might send a female advisor to meet with a female prospect by default when gender is the only similarity they're aware of, but "what's much more important is finding a match with regard to chemistry." That prospect might not stay with that advisor and might not even pick a female advisor, Hathi said. "What is important is if she walks into that office and she doesn't see another female face, except for maybe the admin assistant sitting at the front of the office, she might wonder whether or not this is a firm that understands who she is."
Where are all the women? Schwab has been working hard to answer that question. The firm organized a study group late last year of the top female RIAs: women who either founded their own firms or are successful second-generation advisors in leadership positions. "They're not just providing us with advice, but participating and helping us address the issues," Hassan said. "It is really a joint partnership because they are the ones who are the role models."
And that's the crux of the problem: There aren't enough female advisors in the industry to serve as role models and bring in more female advisors to help serve the firm's female clients.
We invite you to continue to read this article, and to read all the articles and opinions in Investment Advisor's special report on Women in Wealth Management.
That's unfortunate because, as Hassan said, the RIA industry could serve female advisors very well.
"It's a hidden gem," she said. "I don't think many women know this opportunity is out there because there are thousands of small businesses as opposed to people knowing a large name and saying, 'I'll go work for Charles Schwab or JP Morgan Chase.'"
Hassan described her former classmates' relatively easy transition back into the industry after they left it to have families. "A large percentage of my female classmates off-ramped to be full-time mothers. They didn't struggle to say, 'OK, how do I get back into a career?' It's hard to come back into corporate America because of the structure of the ladder, but the RIA industry is great for women who are smart and successful but took some time off. At the end of the day this is about your competence, your knowledge, your credibility, your ability to build trust with clients and not about where are you on the corporate hierarchy."
The study group is one way Schwab is getting the word out to women who might be interested in working as advisors. "What we're trying to do is figure out how to get that message to all these women out there more broadly: to the colleges, to the universities in their local networks. We're pulling together talking points for them to use in their local communities," Hassan said. "Then what we're doing with the universities we work with, UC Irvine and Texas Tech, is getting that word out through our internship program, making sure we get that female participation."
Regardless of gender, Hathi said the best advisors are the best listeners. "The RIAs that we find are most successful in our industry—forget serving women or men for a second—they often are very good listeners. They often think about the whole picture, and they often think about the goals a client is trying to reach: what's the performance versus the goal, not performance versus some arbitrary benchmark."
Hassan agreed and recounted a story about the struggle to find an appropriate advisor for her mother. Following her parents' divorce, Hassan's mother inherited her father's Merrill Lynch advisor along with a lump sum alimony settlement. "My mother, very insecure about money, calls me in. I get on the phone with the advisor, trying to understand what she's invested in and all the associated fees, and he won't give me the loads on the mutual funds when I ask him—which I told him is ridiculous because I have Morningstar access and can just look it up—but his lack of transparency was incredible." After a round of unsuccessful interviews with other advisors, they finally found an advisor who was a good fit. "The third one was a home run," Hassan said. "They listened. They took her portfolio and statements and did a full analysis of what she was paying at Merrill and what she would then be paying fully loaded with them. They talked her through the financial planning process. Then they talked about the relationship and service model, what their ongoing role would be in helping her make decisions. We've had a successful relationship with that advisor since 2006, and I can't tell you what a relief it's been."
That emphasis on relationship building serves male and female clients well, but Hathi said it's a big part of what female investors focus on. "They want to talk to an advisor that they trust, that they feel understands them. While the language is important to ensure that there's a connection, it really has more to do with the trust in the relationship."
Hathi was hesitant to oversimplify how female clients' priorities differ from male clients'. She said, "There's a lot of generalization that women are less competitive or that women care less about whether they beat the benchmark. What they care about is whether you're going to get them to their goal. Actually, many of your male clients care about that too."
Women are more collaborative too, which makes relationship building that much more important. Hathi referred to research that shows women don't necessarily feel they need to make decisions on their own, but they want to be involved in the process. "One of the pitfalls that we see advisors fall into is that they don't necessarily involve the woman [in a client couple] as much," she said. "They make sure she's available or that they're paying attention to her, but they don't involve her in the decision making."
Hassan had her own example of being left out of an important decision—in this case, despite being the only decision maker. "I was looking to buy a house and I had brought a male friend with me for a second opinion," she said. "The real estate agent was talking the whole time to him. I'm the one buying the house! You've got to create an environment where you talk to both parts of a couple equally so you maintain the relationship with both of them and not have it be just with the man."
Even when they are treating women as decision makers, it's important for advisors to recognize that not all women are the same. Hassan referred again to her mother. "What she wants as somebody who's insecure about her ability to earn is very different from what I want as a female executive who needs complex options analysis. I'm in a different segment than she is because our needs are very different. I have more in common with my male colleague down the hall than I do with my mother."
Advisors can have successful businesses by focusing on a single segment regardless of what that segment might be, Hassan said, but it's important not to treat it as the only segment.
"We have advisors who focus on airline pilots as an example, and we have very successful advisors who focus on women," she said. "Those who do focus on women are successful because even within that, they subsegment. You can be successful focusing on a segment and women as a segment, but when [advisors] are successful, they are more nuanced around subsegmenting and tailoring and building that trusted relationship."
It's easy to write off the dearth of women in the industry as a women's issue, but Hassan and Hathi stressed that it's more than that.
Hathi referred to research from Catalyst that found Fortune 500 companies with the most female board members between 2004 and 2008 outperformed those with the fewest by 16% when looking at return on sales. When comparing return on invested capital, companies with more women on the board outperformed by 26%.
"There's a reason to do it because it feels good, because it feels right that we should have more women as advisors. Then there's just hard evidence in terms of dollars," Hathi said. "There's a segment of the population that's going to do it because they think it's the right thing to do, and then there's a segment of the population that's going to do it because they look at the stats."
"It is not a woman's problem to solve. We have to include the men in the conversation in order to change the dial," Hassan said.
So an advisor has seen the stats and wants to reap the benefits of a more diverse firm. How does he go about adding more female advisors?
"I was at a conference, and there was a group of advisors who were talking about what you need to appeal more to female clients," Hathi said. "Of the 10 people, maybe eight of them were male. One gentleman was saying, 'We've been trying to get a woman advisor in here forever, but we've had no luck.' Firms are very well-intentioned about wanting to bring women into the firm, but they really don't know how to go about doing it. They aren't necessarily thinking about it as, 'I want to bring in the most qualified women to the most appropriate position, and I'm willing to think about what the culture of my firm should be to be appealing to those individuals.' You're not going to get a high-quality candidate, regardless of if it's a man or a woman, if you're not appealing to that candidate and creating opportunity for them. As he was describing his firm, I was sitting there thinking that maybe he needs to work on that before he can really think about attracting a female advisor."
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HEADLINES: Darrell J. Irvine Named New Director of PPST • PPST Welcomes New Fall 2012 Recruits • 2012 MIT Polymer Day Symposium and Poster Contest• 2012 Poster Award Winners • 2011 MIT Polymer Poster Contest-Lobby 13
Darrell J. Irvine Named New Director of PPST
Effective September 2nd, 2012, Prof. Darrell J. Irvine (DMSE) was named by the School of Engineering as the new Director of MIT's Program in Polymer Science and Technology (PPST). The Directorship passes from PPST Founder Prof. Robert E. Cohen, (September 2009-present), who in the mid-1980′s promoted and coordinated efforts towards its creation, and then served formally as PPST Director in its inaugural year through the end of AY '87.
During Cohen's recent tenure, PPST experienced significant growth, increased corporate sponsorship and student participation, including formalization of the student-formed PGSA (PPST Graduate Student Association), and the implementation of a student organized 'MIT Polymer Day'. The third edition of this exciting event, is scheduled for March 2013. The MIT Polymer community will undoubtedly enjoy the benefits of Prof. Cohen's legacy as pioneer of the program and in his recent 3 yr. term as Director, for many years into the future.
Newly appointed PPST DIrector Darrell J. Irvine is a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Biological Engineering at MIT and an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Polymer Science from MIT in 2000. As a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Irvine moved from the physical sciences to the life sciences, studying fundamental aspects of T cell recognition in the laboratory of Mark M. Davis at Stanford University from 2000-2002. In 2002, he returned to MIT with a dual appointment in Materials Science & Engineering and Biological Engineering. Dr. Irvine is the recipient of an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER award, and was selected to the Technology Review 'TR100' in 2004. In 2008, he was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is currently a member of the Steering Committee for the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard.
We are delighted to announce Prof. Irvine's appointment as PPST Director, and know that his strengths and expertise at the interface of polymer science and biological engineering will prove to be a critical catalyst for the Program's ongoing vitality, continued growth, and future relevance.
PPST Welcomes New Fall 2012 Recruits
Fall 2012 brings to PPST an exciting team of new recruits! Please join us in welcoming the latest crop of 1st year polymer PhD students: Reginald Avery (University of Maryland), Sunandini Chopra (University of Akron), Aaron Huang (George Washington University), Byungjin Koo (Seoul National University), Alice Chi Lu (University of Illinois), Mikhil Ranka (University of Illinois), and Alina Rwei (MIT).
2012 MIT Polymer Day Symposium and Poster Contest
The PPST Graduate Student Association (PGSA) along with PPST organized the first annual Polymer Day Symposium on Wednesday March 7th, 2012, with sponsorship from Cabot Corporation and Lincoln Labs. Polymer Day was a half-day event that featured a broad array of polymer research across the MIT polymer community, with representatives from Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemistry.
The event began with a poster session featuring over 50 posters and well over 100 attendees, including students, faculty, and industry representatives. Posters were judged by external representatives Dr. Eilidh Bedford and Dr. Jon Siddall (Cabot Corp.), Dr. Al Swiston (Lincoln Labs), Dr. Stephen Spiegelberg (Cambridge Polymer Group), Dr. Anuj Bellare (Brigham and Women's Hospital), and Dr. Jeff Borenstein (Draper Labs). We are grateful to them for an extremely successful poster session!
The poster session was followed by three excellent talks:
- Dr. Joseph Walish "Photonic Gels: Tunable Color from Colorless Materials"
- Dr. Simon Haward "Stagnation Point Extensional Flow of Polymer Solutions"
- Adam Zeiger "Excluded Volume Effects and the Extracellular Matrix"
The talks were followed by a reception, where faculty, students, and industry representatives enjoyed an informal forum to discuss polymers, collaboration, and networking.
The event was an incredible success! We thank our sponsors, Cabot Corporation and Lincoln Labs for their generous help in making this event a reality, and Greg Sands for his Herculean efforts to consider all the details that enabled the event to run smoothly.
2012 Poster Award Winners:
[As available, downloadable PDF's of winning posters have been linked to names/titles listed below]
- Grand Prize: Siddarth Srinivasan, "Non-Wetting Surfaces for Fluid Friction Reduction"
- Runners Up
Peter DeMuth, "Nano-layered Microneedle Arrays: A Materials Platform for Transcutaneous Vaccine and Therapeutics Delivery";
Rong Yang, "Ultrathin Antifouling Coatings with Stable Surface Zwitterionic Functionality by initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD)"
- Honorable Mentions
David S. Liu, "Exploring Composite LbL Coated Electrospun Mats for Fuel Cell Applications"
Jeremy Jones, "DNA in confinement and in the presence of macromolecular crowding agent"
Jose Lobez, "Efficiency Improvement of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Functionalized Polythiophene Additives"
Alpesh Patel, "Poly(glycerol Sebacate) – carbon nanotubes nanocomposites"
2011 MIT Polymer Poster Contest-Lobby 13 (3/18/2011)
On Friday March 18, 2011, PPST and the MIT polymer community filled MIT's Lobby 13 with the sounds of undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral polymer researchers–over 60 presenters in all, describing and exhibiting the essence of their work, for contest judges, faculty, and the general public.
The impressive range and depth of the topics explored by contestants, and quality of the presentations made this a memorable afternoon for those seeking to learn more about the vitality of current polymer research at MIT.
Senior Achievement Division
First Prize: Daniel K. Bonner
Second Prize: Priyadarshi Panda
Honorable Mention: Wui Siew Tan andBrett S. VanVeller
Early Achievement Division
First Prize: Matthew J. Glassman
Second Prize: Jonathan P. Singer
Honorable Mention: Matthew M. Mannarino and Christy D. Petruczok
Please join us in congratulating our
2011 MIT Polymer Poster Contest Award Winners!
PPST is deeply appreciative of the contributions made by our co-sponsors, the Xerox Foundation, and the duPont-MIT Alliance, whose support made this exciting event possible.
Our sincerest thanks to our judges: Dr. Anuj Bellare (Brigham and Womens' Hospital), Dr. Erik S. Handy (GVD Corporation), Dr. Orhun Muratoglu (Mass. General Hospital), Dr. Stephen Spiegelberg (Cambridge Polymer Group), Dr. Albert J. Swiston, Jr. (Lincoln Lab), and Prof. Joyce Y. Wong (Boston University). Their collective and individual expertise, time, energy, and teamwork were an exceptional and critical keystone to our event for which we are deeply grateful!
The energy, enthusiasm, and vision of PPST's Graduate Students' Association (PGSA) and in particular, PGSA President Charles E. Sing, officers Matthew M. Mannarino, and Jane Wang, were critical to the logistical success every phase of this event. We are grateful for their transformative contributions and boots on the ground leadership! Special thanks also to Adam S. Zeiger for help with database management, and Keith M. Forward who willingly served as both contestant and event photographer.
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Serena Williams opened defense of her Olympic singles gold medal with a patchy-at-times 6-4, 6-2 victory over Australia's Daria Gavrilova.
Sunday's match at the Rio de Janeiro games was Williams' first since she won her Open-era record-tying 22nd Grand Slam title at Wimbledon last month.
The American, seeded No. 1, was hardly at her best in the 91-minute contest, compiling 37 unforced errors to 27 winners, and she got broken at love while serving for the first set at 5-3. But Williams broke right back in the next game.
Williams is scheduled to play doubles with her older sister Venus later Sunday.
The younger Williams owns four gold medals — in singles at London four years ago, and in doubles in 2000, 2008 and 2012.
Sunday's order of play is essentially a list of the sport's biggest names. Serena Williams will be followed by the defending gold medalist in men's singles (and silver medalist in mixed doubles) Andy Murray of Great Britain.
Meanwhile, World No. 2 Angelique Kerber of Germany begins her quest for her first Olympic singles medal on court 1. She'll play Colombia's Mariana Duque-Marino tomorrow morning. After that match ends, Spain's World No. 5 Rafael Nadal of Spain will play his first round match.
The top three seeds of each singles competition will make appearances tomorrow.
Those hoping to catch Serbia's World No. 1 men's singles player – Novak Djokovic, who's looking to complete the elusive career golden Slam – will have to wait until the evening. He'll appear on Centre Court to play Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in a rematch of the London 2012 Games Bronze Medal Match – which the Argentine won.
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New York's 46-Percenters: Living Near Poverty Line
[Op-Ed: NYC Mayoral Race 2013]
Mayor Bloomberg deserves credit for many of the administration's efforts to diversify the city's economy from its over-reliance on Wall Street. Especially since the financial crisis in 2008, the administration has pursued smart strategies to nurture the growth of new jobs and industries in tech, biosciences, film and television, design, advanced manufacturing and tourism.
Those efforts, coupled with expansions of our colleges and universities and the launch of the Cornell-Technion partnership, have helped New York continue to be a magnet for talent from across the country and the world.
Those efforts can and must continue in a new administration.
We also must negotiate responsible contracts with our city's hardworking public employees – including smartly addressing the rise in the cost of health care and retirement security for New York's workers. This is essential if we are to make the investments we need in early childhood education, after school programs and all of the services – from green-spaces to public libraries – that make New York a vibrant and livable city for every New Yorker.
But the Mayor has failed to acknowledge the single greatest threat to New York's economic future: deep inequality that has left 46% of New Yorkers at or near the poverty line, and too many others struggling to get by. Allowing income inequality to grow unabated is irreversibly destructive to the middle class, and our greatest threat is losing our middle class all together.
For all the progress in nurturing new industries, too many New Yorkers are still being left out and left behind. New York under Mayor Bloomberg has become a Tale of Two Cities where very few graduates of our public schools and community colleges have benefited from New York's tech boom, while the fastest growing industries creating new jobs in this city continue to pay poverty-level wages. Addressing this gaping inequality is the great challenge for our next Mayor.
We must raise the floor on low wage work through a real living wage law, expanded paid sick leave, and a bold expansion of affordable housing. We must redirect wasteful one-shot economic development subsidies into rebuilding CUNY and supporting neighborhood economic development, and make a historic investment in New York City families by making high quality early education and after school programs available to all of our kids.
Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn didn't create the Tale of Two Cities that New York has become, but their failure to take the bold steps necessary to reverse the trend threatens the very foundation of what New York City has always been and can be once again: a city of opportunity for everyone that leaves no one behind.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is a Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City.
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On Israel and Palestine, Obama Is Rick Perry
President Barack Obama's speech to the U.N. General Assembly succeeded in making clear why the Palestinians had no other choice but to take their statehood bid to the U.N. and why the United States can no longer pretend to be an "honest broker" in the conflict.
For the first time since the U.N. conferred statehood on Israel 63 years ago, the sitting U.S president told the world body that the United States will back Israel, right or wrong. The president's speech was so one-sided, in fact, that he sounded a lot like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who gave a similar speech to a group of "pro-Israel" right-wingers one day earlier. Perry is not the president, so his speech was different, except for the motivation, which was same.
Both speeches were standard "pro-Israel" bloviating, but Perry gave his on the campaign trail and not in front of the entire world. (I hesitate to call a speech opposing Palestinian statehood "pro-Israel" when the latest comprehensive poll on the subject says that 70 percent of Israelis say Israel should support the U.N.'s decision if statehood is granted.)
The very best explanation of what Obama did at the United Nations came from Daniel Levy, a Brit who moved to Israel right out of college 18 years ago. Levy's quote appeared on page one of the Washington Post.
"There is virtually no thread of reason running between the way he [Obama] related to the rest of the world and its developments, particularly in the Middle East, and the positions he espoused on Israel-Palestine — a conflict apparently occurring on another planet," said Daniel Levy, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation. "Palestinian freedoms, rights and self-determination are somehow supposed to be attained without the recourse to leverage, international law or meaningful international support, considered to be necessary and legitimate virtually everywhere else."
Of course, there is one "thread," although it is not of "reason." Every word in Obama's speech was designed not to advance a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but to keep single-issue donors and, to a lesser extent, single-issue voters in his camp for the 2012 election. Not a week goes by without the Obama team sending emails out to people it deems Israel voters to remind them of all the wonderful things this president has done for Israel. One recently was dedicated to citing quotes from Prime Minister Netanyahu praising Obama, the first time I can remember that a president sought to validate himself by citing the praise of a foreign leader.
Obama isn't lying about his "pro-Israel" record, however. This administration has been the most one-sided supporter of everything Israel asks for since 1948. There is no competition. Not even George W. Bush comes close.
When the Israelis, following Obama's election, asked Bush to give Israel permission to bomb Iran, he said no, despite his vice president and neoconservative aides pushing the Israeli position hard. Bush also did more than Obama to advance the peace process that the Israeli right hates so much, convening an international summit at Aqaba and being the first president to say, in unambiguous terms, that the United States supports "two states, living side by side in peace and security."
On Israel, Obama is to the right of Bush, to the right of Reagan, and certainly to the right of Clinton. On Israel and Palestine, Barack Obama is Rick Perry.
Of course, Obama's outrageous surrender to Netanyahu still won't impress the Israel-Firsters. They have despised him from day one, for all kinds of reasons, and predictably condemned the speech. Meanwhile, Israel's thuggish far-right foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, told reporters that "I am ready to sign on this speech with both hands."
Lieberman is telling the truth — he could have written Obama's speech — and the neocons are lying. But neocons are adherents of the Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) school: They have only one goal, which is to defeat this president. And although privately they celebrate their amazing success at intimidating Obama into submission, publicly they denounce him and send scary emails to senior citizens in Florida and New Jersey warning them that Obama wants to destroy Israel.
But these speeches and love-ins with Netanyahu accomplish nothing for Obama. The single-issue Israel voters and donors (3 percent of the Jewish community) will take their money and votes elsewhere.
And Netanyahu will, working from Jerusalem, do everything he can to help the Republicans win the next election. It's almost funny how these people would exchange the person who is the most "pro-Israel" president ever (looking at it from their "maintain-the-occupation-at-all-costs" vantage point) for an unknown quantity like Perry or Romney. After all, a Republican whose main constituency is Wall Street would likely turn out to approach Israel with more skepticism than Obama does.
But it's a game. Netanyahu and the lobby want to defeat Obama to demonstrate, yet again, who calls the shots on U.S. Middle East policy.
But forget the campaign for a moment — which is what Obama should have done when addressing the U.N. The president's speech was an embarrassing disaster. Since 2009, 1,600 Palestinians (overwhelmingly civilians and over 400 children) have been killed by the Israeli army. Thirteen Israelis have been killed over the same period. Despite that, Obama devoted 120 words of his speech to Israeli suffering (even going so far as to cite the Holocaust) and not one word to Palestinian suffering.
Example: An Australian newspaper reports on a new film about the tragedy of Palestinian women in Gaza (under full Israeli blockade) who are suffering with breast cancer but are not permitted by Israel to leave Gaza for treatment. (They used to go to Israeli hospitals or hospitals in the Arab states and Europe.) Nor does Israel permit the import of the radioactive isotopes used to treat breast cancers. So they die.
One could go on and on about the horrors of the occupation but it won't matter to the politicians who determine U.S. foreign policy. They know which side their bread is buttered on, as Obama demonstrated at the U.N. this week.
But, I'm surprised to say, Obama did Palestinians and the 70 percent of Israelis who support statehood a big favor. By demonstrating that the United States refuses to play the role of "honest broker" and by telling the U.N. that we are Israel and Israel is us, the United States is yielding the role of Middle East peacemaker to others. The French, Turks, Indians, Brazilians, Chinese, South Africans, and Russians don't agree on much. But they do agree on the urgency of the creation of a Palestinian state in the areas occupied in 1967. And they agree that the United States, no longer the superpower it once was, should move over and let countries not fully invested in one side play a more constructive role.
Those who wonder how these "other countries" could exert the leadership the U.S. has abdicated might consider the issue of economics, trade, etc. Israel does not live on an island with the United States. It is part of the world and not even the United States and the $3.5 billion it hands over to Israel each year (no strings attached) can save Israel if the rest of the world says "enough."
Obama has chosen to abdicate. The rest of the world is eager to step up.
And that is why I have no doubt that the state of Palestine was created this week at the United Nations. By opting out, Obama did a tremendous favor to Palestinians and Israelis both. Palestinians will have their fully sovereign, contiguous state. And the Jewish state of Israel will finally be secure. As Israelis like to say, "yhiyeh tov." Or as Arabs say, "insha'Allah khair." Everything will be fine.


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With summer here, the clamour for water is growing louder and MLAs want the government to start drilling borewells quickly. Environmentalists, however, say that's not the best solution to the city's water problem.
N L Narendra Babu, MLA from Mahalakshmi Layout, blames the government for the crisis. "I have been getting complaints since January. But instead of providing facilities for the existing city, the government is busy creating more and more layouts."
B N Vijaykumar, MLA from Jayanagar constituency, said, "Within core Bangalore, there is no need for borewells as we meet the demand through tap and pipeline connections. However, borewells are inevitable on the outskirts."
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Borewells, however, are only a quick-fix solution, says environmentalist Sheshadri Ramaswamy of Hasiru Usiru. "Already, the underground level is receding beyond imagination. The injudicious use of underground water all these days has brought us to this situation. We need to wake up at least now and understand the reality. If you go on extracting underground water by digging more borewells, it will lead to a worse scenario," he said.
That is what's happening. The more borewells the government plans, the deeper it needs to dig. Already, the water table in Basavanagudi and Jayanagar areas has the least depth — between 400 ft and 600 ft. The depth in most other areas is not encouraging either.
"Out of every 10 borewells dug, two or three will be duds," says C V Raman Nagar MLA S Raghu. "With time, the remaining also turn dry," he said.
Muniraju, MLA from Dasarahalli constituency, agrees. "We have more than 300 borewells but of them, around 110-120 measuring 800-900 ft are running dry already".
Every time a borewell dries up, nearly Rs 2.5 lakh goes down the drain. "The complete cost of a borewell is close to Rs 2.5 lakh. A total of Rs 60,000 to Rs 75,000 is spent on just drilling and Rs 30,000 to Rs 50,000 is spent on casing pipes and the motor and the rest is spent on getting power connection or to lay an extra power cable and pipeline work," explains Muniraju.
As a result, most MLAs are cautious about the drilling and use of borewells. "I'd rather initiate a survey and then submit a proposal on the requirement of borewells," says B N Vijaykumar in whose constituency (Jayanagar) the underground water level has gone below 600 feet.
There are other ways to ensure that borewells are used judiciously. "We entrust prominent people in the locality with the responsibility of monitoring the borewells and their use," says Basavanagudi MLA L A Ravisubramanya while Raghu says the only option is to recharge the borewells when it rains.
Apart from rainwater harvesting,desilting reservoirs and tanks to increase storage capacity could be a smarter alternative to borewells. But this is a long-term measure and will not be of much use this summer.
"Had Hesarghatta Lake been rejuvenated, it would have solved our problems. But now, there is no other alternative but to go for borewells," says S Muniraju, MLA from Dasarahalli constituency where a part of the Arkavathi river basin falls.
Meanwhile, the clamour for borewells grows louder.
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The acute shortage of potable water across the state paved way for a heated debate in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. SeveralMLAs, irrespective of the region, demanded speedy action from the government in solving the problem.
Responding to the demands, Rural Developmental and Panchayat Raj Minister Jagadish Shettar said, "The problem has come to the notice of the government and steps will be taken soon to drill enough borewells and supply drinking water.
Within a week, funds will be released to the task force on potable water for taking adequate steps to mitigate the problem."


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I want to take screenshots in Ubuntu. This is normally no big problem with the standard gnome-screenshot program is working good.
But just now I ran into trouble because I need to take a screenshot of some window which appears only for about 0.5 seconds. The Problem is that the gnome-screenshot is using a (from me at least disappreciated animation when used... this fancy thing kind of delays all and I really cannot manage to take the picture..)
So what I need is a "no frills" "down to the ground" alternative to the gnome-screenshot. I really disklike the animation - now because it makes me so much trouble. I also hate it that there appears to be no way to disable it after all. Everybody is forced to accept this animation that looks like "a flash light is going on". I am not against being fancy... but this animation in gnome-screenshot is impacting/reducing its functionality. Indeed in my case the shortly appearing window hides when loosing focus. The animaiton -as I assume- triggers the "loosing of focus". So because of the animation I cannot take the screenshot.
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Edward Norton was appointed the UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity yesterday in New York. Norton has been "green" for a while now, and I am resisting the urge to make a Hulk reference here but I guess I've failed.
Remember when Edward Norton dated Salma Hayek? I want you to picture the snake drama video. When she attacked Maya Rudolph with her stilettos and had to be carried away. THAT and Edward Norton in a relationship. What was it like? I wish they made movies about celebrity relationships. I would watch the Edward Salma movie. And the Brad Pitt Gwyneth Paltrow movie. And the Ben Affleck Jennifer Lopez movie. And especially the Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman movie. F-ck, I'd even watch the Tom Cruise Mimi Rogers movie. Actually, DEFINITELY that movie.
Anyway, Edward's next film Stone is supposedly due out in October with Robert DeNiro. I feel like he's in a cop rut. Every other movie he's a cop. Will Rounders 2 ever get made?
And totally unrelated but I liked the way their names sounded together – Anton Yelchin was spotted in Brooklyn yesterday shooting The Beaver. Candids of Anton are rare. So you take what you can. And he's SO cute. Can't figure out if that's a wig or a haircut.
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At last night's session of Town Meeting (Night 2), I attempted unsuccessfully (some might say naively) to consolidate the school department's capital budget requests into one motion, to try to infuse some organization into what seemed like a disorganized mess of a warrant article. There were 31 capital requests under Article 6, with five separate motions, and debate endured for well over 4 hours and two nights, pinballing from one line item to another without any rhyme or reason. In the meantime, parents at town meeting with babysitters on the clock at home are anxiously waiting to vote on the school capital budget items. A vote on Article 6 finally happened after 10PM last night, closing out the 6th of 38 articles.
Someone approached me after I made my motion, lamenting that if we move all the school budget votes up front, all the parents will then head home and not participate in the rest of town meeting's business. I agree that this would be unfortunate. But if we continue to have 5 or 6-night town meetings, can we really expect working parents to attend every single session, incurring babysitting expenses each night? The obvious answer is reforming the format of town meeting itself. Shouldn't we be accommodating the few hardy souls (3-5% of the electorate) that actually come out to town meeting by providing incentives for them to continue to participate, rather than discouraging them from ever coming back?


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Parametric Equations
Parametric equations are used to break equations down into their components based on a parameter. Time is a very common example of a parameter. Another name for a set of parametric equations is a vector.
Some common ways of representing parametric equations include:
x = 3t y = 6t^2 //Or a(t) = <x(t), y(t)>
So how is a vector or set of parametric equations differentiated? Quite easily- simply differentiate the component equations with respect to the parameter.
da/dt = <dx/dt, dy/dt>
When dealing with cartesian functions, derivatives provide the rate of change for a function at a point. While differentiated parametric equations provide information on the rates of change for the various components, it does not provide the total rate of change at a point. When dealing with cartesian functions, the notation is dy/dx. Since the derivative of the vector form provides dy/dt and dx/dt, dy/dx can be obtained simply by manipulating notation. In other words, treat dy/dt and dx/dt as fractions, letting the dt terms cancel:
dy/dx = (dy/dt)/(dx/dt)
Given the differentiated parametric equations, it is possible to find the speed instead of the velocity by finding the magnitude of the differentiated vector. Simply apply the parametric equation:
speed = sqrt[(dx/dt)^2 + (dy/dt)^2]
Then by integrating the speed based on the parameter, the arc length of the curve can be determined:
length = Integral(a, b, speed dt)
This is equivalent to the cartesian form for arc length:
length = Integral(a, b, sqrt[1 + (dy/dx)^2] dx)
Polar Coordinates
Polar coordinates are used to represent functions in terms of distances with respect to angles rather. Think of it as an expanded unit circle. Remember that the distance is a vector magnitude, equivalent to sqrt(x^2 + y^2). Since the unit circle can be found in the polar coordinate system at r = 1, x and y can be described as x = r cos(theta) and y = r sin(theta). As shown, polar equations are quite easy to parameterize. Given these parametric equations, the arc length of a polar function is found the same way as shown in the last section.
The big application with polar coordinates and calculus is finding the area under the curve. Because the polar coordinate system deals with circles, the formula for area is pi * r^2. Since the angles go from 0 to 2pi, the integral comes out to 1/2 * Integral(0, 2pi, r(theta)^2 dtheta). The 1/2 and 2pi simplifies to pi.
Different polar equations may have different limits of integration based on their periods. Once the period is determined, the limits of integration are usually from 0 to the angle for the period. A good strategy for determining the period is to set up a table, finding the r values for various angles along the unit circle. When values begin to repeat, then you have found the period. Familiarity with the trig functions and identities is also helpful in determining the period, as shown below.
As an example, let's find the area for sin(3theta). Simply by being familiar with sinusoidal functions, it is possible to quickly determine the period as 2pi/3. Therefore, the area for sin(3theta) is 1/2 Integral(0, 2pi/3, sin(3theta) dtheta), which comes out to: -1/6 cos(3theta) evaluated from 0 to 2pi/3, which comes out to 1/2 - 1/6 = 1/3.


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The editor-in-chief of The Harvard Voice has apologized to "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson after a controversial incident at last weekend's Harvard-Brown football game.
In a note posted on the Voice's Web site on Thursday, editor Alicia Ramos denied allegations from the New York Post's Page Six that the paper had encouraged what Page Six described as a "stalking mission" on Thursday.
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The Post had reported Tuesday that the star was left "quite shaken" from fans' attention and needed the assistance of security guards for her safety at the weekend game.
In her letter on Thursday, Ramos explained that Watson, a Brown student, had been expected on the Harvard campus for the event, which reporters for the student magazine live-Tweeted and blogged over the weekend.
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"The presence of a luminary on campus inevitably creates much speculation and excitement, certainly without the help of an intentionally facetious liveblog," she wrote. "The Voice denies any efforts to 'orchestrate' a mass mob of gawkers. In fact, the bloggers were never certain whether or not Watson was actually present and never once caught a glimpse of her… The blog was meant as an intentionally sensationalist parody for which no real action was taken.
"The Voice apologizes for any misunderstanding that the live blog may have caused and for any discomfort Miss Watson may have felt due to the post," she concluded.
Further, in a statement to Access Hollywood on Thursday, Ramos called the Post's story "outrageously overblown."
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However, last Friday, the Voice's Twitter page devoted numerous posts to what Ramos termed the "intentionally facetious" search for the star.
"Let's go Hermione! Lolz," a reporter Tweeted at the time, referring to Watson's on-screen character. "In enemy territory. Lookin for a certain witch."
Though Ramos denied that the star was spotted by its reporters, the Twitter page seemed to indicate otherwise later that evening.
"WATSON FOUND. i repeat WATSON FOUND," a Tweet read.
A photo apparently of Watson taken by a photographer for the mag was posted on its blog after the game.
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Andrew W.K. Gets Party Started as Pitchman for 'Fresh + Sexy Wipes,' Plans SXSW Party
Rocker Andrew W.K. knows a thing or two about partying hard, and now he knows how to stay clean before and after doing it. The musician has signed on as the new pitchman for Playtex's 'Fresh + Sexy Wipes,' helping pre- and post-coital couples everywhere feel a little fresher.
W.K. states, "Whether you just finished rocking a packed club or have an intimate encounter after a busy day, this product will make couples feel brand new. 'Fresh + Sexy Wipes' were specially designed to help couples feel confidently clean, before and after they engage in sexual activity!"
For their part, Playtex added, "This exciting new product required the help of someone who could embody the brand's playful yet bold campaign; someone who could party hard, but still be clean when it counted. Andrew W.K. is that someone and we are thrilled to have him on board with us for 'Fresh + Sexy Wipes.'"
In addition, W.K. has lent his backing to the special 'Andrew W.K. Sensory Kit,' which will be sent to 100 handpicked recipients in the media, the rocker's own followers and additional friends of the brand. The kit offers a sensual experience, dramatically hitting all five of the recipients' senses from the packaging to the content inside.
The partnership will carry over to South by Southwest this weekend, as W.K. and Playtex reps will appear at the official 'Fresh + Sexy' Party at SXSW Interactive. The event, taking place tomorrow (March 9) at Austin's Viceland (401 E. Cesar Chavez Street), will find W.K. playing host to partygoers, performing for the audience and offering free product (while supplies last) and drinks. In addition, there will be a one-of-a-kind confession booth on hand, where partygoers are encouraged to share their stories where they could have used 'Fresh + Sexy Wipes.'


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So far with my forrays in to netfilter I have produced two things related to network intrusion detection.
PROMISC Chain. netfilter and iptables patches that add a new chain to the filter table called PROMISC. Packets that get picked up in promiscuous mode and arent destined for our host traverse this chain. This is useful so we can monitor all taffic on our LAN segment. You can use the REJECT target to send out RSTs to stop TCP streams between other machines.
NETLINK target. A patch that adds a NETLINK target to netfilter/iptables. This sends packets to userspace via a netlink socket so tyhat you can use my FWMON tool to monitor the data. Althugh you can do anythjing with this data, for example send the encrypted data out over the network push style.
Now this is the thing I wonder about. Is it best to send the data to userspace, then back to the kernel (through the TCP/IP stack) then on to the network. Or should the kernel send the data out directly? I mean, the data should be sent at regular intervals (eg: every 30 seconds), whether there actually is data or not, or attackers could find out what triggers an intrusion by monitoring when it sends data. Is the userspace overhead acceptable, or would it be too easy to snowblind the system, by flooding it, to the point where the data doesnt get sent to userspace? I will have to code both approaches and test them, maybe I am being too paranoid, if such a thing exists.
Kernel Space vs User space, kernel is:
- More secure, we can make sure the system can NEVER be snowblinded.
- Less flexible
- Bulks the kernel out
- Low latency


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"The Game" � Bree informs the housewives of what she overheard in the Mayfair house, Stella makes some special brownies to help Lynette through chemotherapy, and Susan throws a charades party for the whole neighborhood, on "Desperate Housewives," SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Desperate Housewives" stars Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Hodge, Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis, Nicollette Sheridan as Edie Britt, Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young, James Denton as Mike Delfino, Doug Savant as Tom Scavo, Ricardo Antonio Chavira as Carlos Solis, Andrea Bowen as Julie Mayer, Shawn Pyfrom as Andrew Van De Kamp, Joy Lauren as Danielle Van De Kamp, Rachel Fox as Kayla Huntington, Kyle MacLachlan as Orson Hodge, Dana Delany as Katherine Mayfair, Lyndsy Fonseca as Dylan Mayfair, Zane Huett as Parker Scavo and Brent and Shane Kinsman as Porter and Preston Scavo.
Guest starring Nathan Fillion as Adam Mayfair, John Slattery as Victor Lang, Polly Bergen as Stella Wingfield, Rachel Bailit as skanky woman, Kristi Clainos as young woman and James Luca McBride as Al Kaminsky.
"The Game" was directed by Bethany Rooney and written by Joey Murphy and John Pardee.
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I have been waiting forever for my Suqqu's to arrive – a friend of mine, great friend but terribly unreliable was supposed to hand them over…about 7 months ago. Instead she got on a plane to China to teach English.
Anyway her bro kindly dropped of a lovely bag full of goodies for me yesterday and inside were the long awaited Suqqu's!
My first impressions were – how sturdy it is, how heavy. I've been round the block with curlers and these are the heaviest ones I have ever felt. They aren't like bricks, just noticably heavier than other makes. It feels a bit stiffer and a really sturdy make.
Suqqus are silver and come with 2 spare pads. They aren't springy at all, they fit quite well around the eye, and they don't catch the skin. They seem thick at the clamp – maybe this gives a softer curl and is less damaging to the lashes. They did work well no complaints there at all.
Its my first day using them and overall, I'd say the quality with the Suqqu's is clear. They feel like an amazing pair and they are – they curl well and don't hurt. The only thing is, I do like curlers with a tiny bit of spring. Also they don't fit my eye perfectly so I have to doubly clamp, for the outside and for the inside.
Price is around £13 which is cheap for Suqqu – or in my case free. Yes, bribe someone else to buy them then they are the best free curlers, ever!
Overall = 8/10.
While I'm here I might as well rate my other regular curlers (I also own some Jemma Kidd ones but they are rubbish – not worth mentioning even) –
You know I love Nars but when it comes to hardware, I was dedicated to my 24K Shu's.
This curler comes in black and is light. It feels a bit rough in the hands – there's nothing impressive about its apperance.
But you know what? they fit the eye like a dream. No more double curling, just the one clamp will do it.
They work very well too as curlers, no pinching the skin. They still arent particuraly springy but they are nice to use nevertheless.
This comes with one replacement pad (oh, where did I put it. Mental note – look after replacement pads or cats WILL eat it).
It was £15 once again, not that much considering its nars.
Rating: 9/10. Yup, we're in the lead.
Jill Stuart Curlers
Jill Stuart makes EVERYTHING pretty. These curlers come with a jewel, for gods sake. However…I did not like:
They are a pink/rose metal. They pinched the skin around my eye, a lot – real ouchy pinch too, not happy. And when it came to the curling I had to press hard to get it to hold the curl.
I don't know why but these curlers did nothing for me – nada. They are beautiful though. But tis pointless having pretty curlers that don't curl. Like having a pretty hairbrush with no teeth.
Cost around £12.
Rating: 3/10.
SANA Curlers
Sana is a funny one. Because it is springy, (hence the way it looks in the photo) it takes getting used to. It did work well and felt very comfy to use but this one too started to feel a bit out of sorts after 4 months of daily use.
It is around £6 so not expensive and comes with one sponge. There are some special edition colours for this, where the handle comes in pink but that doesn't really mean much performance wise!
It does work well, but its not one I would grab in a rush. It pulls the lashes a bit as it is almost a bit too springy.
Rating: 7/10
I have already talked about Shu's and Shiseidos before on this blog. Both make very good curlers that will last you for a while altho Shu's need replacing twice or three times a year. Shiseido's can be as cheap as £5, Shu's cos £20. Shu make special edition ones in gold, black etc. I slightly prefer Shu of Shiseido but I noticed the Shu getting weak after 6 months which is not good – its prety hard to expect someone to throw £20 curlers away so soon after buying them.
So the winner is:
Runner up:
Suqqu (I'd say better than Shu marginally)
Jill Stuart!
Guess what else arrived? My new flip mino!:
Its probably not very exciting if you are in the US but its not due out in the UK for about a million years so its pretty cool. Videos of make up and kittens to follow!
And for no reason, kitty cuteness –
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