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After a rocky year, there's more turbulence ahead for Zoe Cruz.
The former Morgan Stanley co-president, who was publicly ousted from the firm in 2007 amid the financial meltdown, is no stranger to corporate warfare.
But this time the battle is personal: Cruz is going through a divorce from her longtime partner and fellow financier, Credit Suisse honcho Ernesto Cruz, while she also tries to make her return to high finance.
The breakup of the Wall Street power couple caps a tumultuous year for Cruz, 57, who just five months ago was forced to shut down her $200 million hedge fund Voras Capital. The macro fund, which tried to profit from broad economic trends, lost 8 percent last year, according to Bloomberg News.
The personal and professional setbacks come as Cruz — the one-time heir apparent to former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack — looks for her next job, possibly in the private-equity realm.
Sources say she has reconciled with her former boss Mack, who helped fuel her rise within their firm before their falling out. He has been helping his one-time protégée in her efforts to land at a buyout firm such as KKR.
Mack also has been a shoulder for Cruz to lean on as she copes with the split, according to sources familiar with the situation.
Sources said that the couple has been married for more than three decades. They have three children, with the youngest still in high school.
Cruz, a Greek immigrant (née Papadimitriou) who arrived in America when she was a teenager and methodically climbed the Wall Street ladder, was blind-sided by the divorce, sources said.
"She never saw this coming," said one Wall Street insider.
Added another source: "Ernesto was her rock."
A spokeswoman for Zoe Cruz declined to comment.
The couple stuck together in the wake of her embarrassing ouster from Morgan Stanley in 2007, after the firm suffered a $9 billion loss that fell at her feet.
Once hailed as one of the most powerful women on Wall Street, Cruz was well on her way to succeeding Mack until a trading blow-up from soured mortgages in an area that she oversaw forced him to level the ax.
Zoe Cruz and her husband in many ways embodied the American dream. Both are from immigrant families whose talent, ambition and hard work allowed them to push into Wall Street's clubby elite circles.
A Nicaraguan immigrant, Ernesto is a 27-year veteran of Credit Suisse and the current head of the firm's global equity capital markets.
Sources say that Ernesto has moved out of their Manhattan residence.
He was once reprimanded by his superiors in the mid-2000s for frolicking in a hotel pool in Midtown after a company Christmas gala with a group of female assistants, according to sources familiar with the situation.
He couldn't be reached for comment, while his attorney didn't return calls and messages for comment.


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Welcome to Sketch's handy dandy guide for achieving awesomeness with campaign scoring. Read on to learn all about this new feature, how the best possible scores can be achieved and some devious tactics for beating your friends in those competitive 4-player matchups.** SPOILERS AHEAD!**What is Campaign Scoring?
Halo 3 introduces a new social, competitive aspect to the campaign experience with a nifty feature we call "Campaign Scoring." This creatively named option is exactly what it sounds like – a way to keep score while playing the campaign. This score is a combination of many things – every enemy you kill will give you points, finishing missions will give you points, enabling skulls will give you more points and so on… In addition to simply being a badge of honor and a platform for bragging rights versus your friends, these scores are also tied to earning achievements on each mission in the game.
There are many techniques to utilize on your quest to achieve the highest possible campaign scores - some of which we will explain throughout this guide and some of which you will have to figure out for yourself.
Starting Out
By default, Campaign Scoring is disabled when you start a game. Before you dabble in this feature, it is highly recommended that you first complete the game as it was intended – by yourself, in a dark room, on a nice TV with a nice 5.1 audio system. Campaign Scoring is a great additional way to experience Halo 3 but putting so much emphasis on arcade-like scoring inevitably detracts from the story and mood we are trying to set over the course of the game. You are of course free to do whatever you want but just know that somewhere, Marty is crying because you aren't playing it the way he wants you to.
Individual vs. Cooperative Play
Campaign Scoring can be enjoyed by one to four players. It works the same whether you're playing alone or with friends but it really gets fun when a group of players compete against one another to Finish the Fight and try for the highest score. However, there are trade-offs to be considered – the amount of enemies in the game does not automatically scale with the introduction of more players. So, four people will basically have ¼ as many kills as they would if they played the same settings by themselves. Of course you are also a lot more likely to die, which also will hurt your point total. On the other hand, being a particularly devious player might mean that you can leech a lot of free points and steal kills from your allies while they do all the work. Campaign scoring is fun in all instances but for me there's not much better than fighting side by side with three buddies and having it all come down to whoever gets the final headshot on the Chieftain to decide the victor.
Free-for-All & Team Scoring
To enable campaign scoring, the party leader simply has to press the X button from the Campaign Lobby to bring up the "Campaign Options" menu. At this screen you can choose between "Free for All Scoring", "Team Scoring" or "None."
Free-for-all scoring will keep an individual score tally for everyone in the game. You will have your own score bar displayed throughout the entire mission and then individual totals at the end of the level via the campaign carnage report. Team Scoring, on the other hand, lets players group into a team and work together for a combined score. Note that the score-based achievements are only able to be earned by individuals, based on their final individual score. To skull or not to skull?
Before you dive into the match, there is one more decision that the party leader must make. Skulls are another way to modify and tweak the Halo 3 game experience while also adding valuable point multipliers to your final score. We'll go into more detail about some of the specific skulls and the effect they have on the game down below. For now, you just need to decide if you want to activate any or not.
From the Campaign Options menu, the party leader can toggle any skulls they'd like to use for the mission ahead. The first two rows of nine skulls can all be used to increase the overall score you will earn for a mission. This usually comes at a price though – many of these skulls can dramatically change the difficulty of the game. Nobody said that getting those high scores would be easy!
One cool thing to note is that it's not necessary for the party leader to personally have all the skulls unlocked on their profile. If everyone in your group has different skulls unlocked, you can pass the party leader to each person, let them activate whatever skulls they want, and then pass it to the next person who can do the same. When you start the game, it will count all of the skulls that have been activated by everyone in the party.
Game On!
Ok, you have all of your campaign options configured, you and your buddies are all set and it's finally time to dive into some action! When the game starts it will be just like any other campaign play through with one major exception – in the lower right corner of your screen you will notice a scoreboard. Each player will be designated by their emblem and player color. Over the course of the mission, player scores will be reflected in real time, changing with each kill (or death). You will even earn medals, just like you do in the standard multiplayer matches like Team Slayer, some of which will also improve your overall score.
How do these scores get tallied? How do you earn maximum pointage? Let's take a closer look…
Settling the Score
Your campaign score is determined by a combination of many different factors. At the basic level, you will earn points for every enemy you kill. However, the amount of points earned will vary greatly depending on things like the type of enemy, how the enemy is killed or what difficulty setting you are playing. Most of the point multipliers are factored into the score for each enemy you kill, in real time, as you progress through a mission. The only real exception is the overall mission completion time, which provides one final multiplier to your final score once you have finished the level.
Enemy Overview
In general, the higher the rank of the enemy (the bigger/more difficult it is) the more points it's worth. Infantry and Vehicles are broken up into different categories based on their rankings. For example, a Ghost is considered a "Light Vehicle" class and is worth less points than a Wraith, which is considered a "Heavy Vehicle."
Here's a quick breakdown of the various categories along with some example units and their Normal default point values:
Base Points
Light Vehicle
50 or 100
Most light vehicles, like Ghosts and Brute Choppers, are worth 100 pts. A Shade Turret is only worth 50 pts.
Standard Vehicle
Banshee, Prowler
Heavy Vehicle
Giant Vehicle
250 / 500
A Phantom is worth 250 pts, Scarab is worth 500.
Enemy infantry units will vary from 5 points on the low end and go as high as 200 depending on the type of enemy you're fighting. Here are a few examples:
5, 10, 15, 20
Sentinel, Flood Carrier, Jackal, Brute
10, 20, 30, 50, 150
Spec Ops Grunt, Jackal Sniper, Brute Stalker, Flood Pureform Tank, Hunter
Brute Captain
Brute Chieftain
Score Multipliers
Your overall point total will be greatly increased (or decreased) depending on the following multipliers. Some, like difficulty setting, are fairly obvious. Others, like the "style" multipliers and Skulls are a little more complicated. Unfortunately we're not all blessed with super-human mathematic skills like Bungie's Roger Wolfson so we'll break it down nice and slow…
Risk vs. Reward
Playing the game on Easy will net you far less points than playing it on Legendary. As you crank up the difficulty, you will get rewarded with base multipliers that increase your score potential:
Let's look at an example - a standard Brute kill would net you 20 points on Normal difficulty. That same Brute would only be worth 5 points on Easy (20 x .25), 40 points on Heroic and a whopping 80 points on Legendary. This can also work against you though – dying on Legendary will cost you 4x as many points as dying on Normal. Scoring with Style
It's not just enough to shoot the bad guys. You have to do it with style to earn the highest possible score. All style-based multipliers will result in a 1.25x increased in the amount of points you get for a kill. Here are a few examples of different killing styles that will earn bonus points during your battle:
Skulls FTW
The most dramatic way to quickly increase your Campaign Scoring potential is to find and activate the golden skulls. As we mentioned above, these skulls are hidden throughout the campaign and once obtained, they can be toggled on and off in the Campaign Options menu.
The first two rows of nine skulls, the golden ones, can all be used to earn valuable point multipliers to further increase your overall score. These multipliers are applied immediately to everything you kill – just like the style or difficulty bonuses.
Finding these skulls is a fun adventure that we don't want to spoil for you so we're not going to get into how/where to find each of these. You're on your own in that department. What we will do for you is cover how many points you can earn with each golden skull and how it will affect your game experience. The point multiplier received for each skull will vary depending on how "hardcore" the skull is.
Point Multiplier
There's a reason this skull is worth a whopping 300% score multiplier. It's a real -blam!-. In co-op games, if one player dies, you all restart at the last checkpoint. In individual games, if you die, the entire mission restarts. Ouch.
The only way you can recharge your shields is by landing melee attacks on your opponents.
All of your enemies will dive with incredible success away from your grenades, plasma pistol bolts, needles and vehicle splatter attempts.
Enemy units will throw grenades at an alarming rate - Roger Clemens-style.
Your motion tracker is disabled.
When enemies drop their weapons, they will have considerably less ammo in them.
Each enemy receives a field promotion and is upgraded to their next available level.
Enemy resistances are greatly increased. For example, the Brute power armor is normally pretty resistant to human weapons to begin with and fairly fragile against plasma shots. With Tilt turned on, the Brute armor is practically 100% resistant to any human projectiles and can only be taken down by plasma bursts.
Every enemy on the field now has double their normal amount of health.
If you happen to die while playing (which could happen quite a lot depending on your difficulty level and skull settings) you will LOSE points.
The base penalty for dying is -25 points. This value will get multiplied based on your difficulty setting though. So, every time you die while playing Legendary will actually cost you 100 points. If you betray one of your teammates you will also incur a point penalty. The baseline value on Normal difficulty for a betrayal is -50 points.
The last major factor that will impact your final campaign score is the amount of time you take to finish the mission. At the start of each mission (from the very beginning, not an insertion point), you will notice a timer above the scoreboard along with a multiplier value. Initially, this will read as "3x." However, as time goes by, this will eventually decay to 2.5x, 2x, 1.5x and then finally 1x (which is zero bonus). Unlike the multipliers listed above, the time bonus is not added until the very end – when the mission is finished. This is huge because it can drastically alter your score and it's added on top of what you already earned through style and skulls. It will be challenging to survive, earn points with stylish kills AND complete the level fast enough to earn a 3x bonus but it can be done. As noted at the beginning of this guide, this is not the recommended way to play through the game your first time since "speed running" will certainly detract from the story we're trying to tell.
Finish the Score
As you can tell, there's a lot more that goes into your final score than just being a pretty good player. The highest possible scores will only be possible when someone beats a mission on Legendary difficulty, quickly, killing enemies with style AND having as many skulls enabled as possible. To get the true maximum score, you'd have to activate all nine golden skulls – if you can even find them all. And then actually finish a mission. Good luck with that!
Bonus Campaign Scoring Tips & Tricks
Over the course of testing the game, a few of us around the office have developed some ingenious and devious techniques to improve our own skulls and sabotage our teammates.
Got your own tips and tactics to share? Sound off in our forums!
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So, yeah, This week's Double EXP Weekend is running a little behind. I blame Ninja 0n Fire. (He tells me that some fairly large updates are being deployed and as a result, we'll likely not see the Double EXP Weekend go live until tomorrow, or, *gulp* "later").
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Looks like ubald unleashed another render over at HBO. This one's a WIP and part of a much larger collection that will ultimately serve as a webcomic. But you should check it out now.
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This week's Steve's getting all Batman on some Scarab carapace.
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Anoj didn't submit his latest entry to Comm Chatter, but they gang at HBO picked up the slack. Besides, even without Anoj's familiar wordplay, we all know what this video's about anyway. There's like ten kills. You can submit your own for next week if you're astute enough to figure out how to make it happen.
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The most important thing at a business dinner in China is to give the client "face," or respect—which includes drinking the right way. The WSJ's Wei Gu tells Jake Lee the drinking etiquette to follow when meeting VIPs for the first time.
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What kind of franchise gamer are you? How realistic do you like to be?
Obviously, the longer you play a game in a franchise mode, the less like the real NBA it's going to be. You generally have to accept that there's a certain amount of fantasy involved, and deviation from reality. However, while I have changed it up here and there by bringing certain players out of retirement and making my own trades, I like to keep things fairly realistic, albeit not exactly mimicking real life. I've found that too many wacky trades, running with a fantasy draft, or doing something else that's too out of the ordinary ends up ruining my enjoyment when the novelty wears off. I'm not saying they're not fun ideas, just that they're generally not for me. I make my own experience, but I like to ground it somewhat in reality.


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• Kevin Durant signs a five-year, $86 million extension and immediately becomes every sportswriter's new unicorn.
• The NBA's new salary cap is $58.04 million, $8 million higher than the league's (willfully?) dire forecast.
• MGoBlog's Brian Cook, Deadspin superfan and all-around sanctimonious shit, has nevertheless done us the great service of ripping off David Berri's head and displaying it on a pike. Berri, for the uninitiated, is the Wages of Wins guy who goes around waving his R-squareds and thinking terribly clever thoughts (e.g., Jerome Williams was one of the great players of his generation). He represents the dark side of the sabermetric revolution — the dilettantes correlating like mad, trying to split the difference between Michael Lewis and Freakonomics. Go read Cook's piece. It's beautifully done.
• A bunch of guys dressed like Richard Simmons are riding bikes around France.
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Formula unlocks secrets of cauliflower's geometry
The laws that govern how intricate surface patterns, such as those found in the cauliflower, develop over time have been described, for the first time, by a group of European researchers.
In a study published today, 24 October, in the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society's New Journal of Physics, researchers have provided a mathematical formula to describe the processes that dictate how cauliflower-like patterns – a type of fractal pattern – form and develop.
The term fractal defines a pattern that, when you take a small part of it, looks similar, although perhaps not identical, to its full structure. For example, the leaf of a fern tree resembles the full plant and a river's tributary resembles the shape of the river itself.
Nature is full of fractal patterns; they can be seen in clouds, lightning bolts, crystals, snowflakes, mountains, and blood vessels. The fractal pattern of the cauliflower plant is ubiquitous and can be spotted in numerous living and non-living systems.
The properties of fractals, such as their shapes, sizes and relative positions, have been studied extensively; however, little is known about the processes involved in their formation.
To identify this, the researchers, from Comillas Pontifical University, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales-CSIC, École Polytechnique and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, firstly grew thin films using a technique known as chemical vapour deposition (CVD).
CVD is a technique used to grow a solid, in which a substrate is exposed to a number of precursors that react and/or decompose on its surface to create a specific thin film. The researchers tailored the CVD process so the film would grow into shapes similar to those seen on a cauliflower, but limited to the submicron scales.
From this the researchers were able to derive the formula which described how the cauliflower-like patterns develop over time. They proved that the formula was able to successfully predict the final cauliflower-like patterns by comparing them to actual cauliflower plants and combustion fronts, both of which occur at much larger scales.
Co-author of the paper, Mario Castro, said: "In spite of the widespread success of fractal geometry to describe natural and artificial fractal shapes, purely geometrical descriptions do not provide insight into the laws that govern the emergence of the shapes in time.
"We believe that by knowing the general laws that dictate how these patterns form and grow, it will help to identify the biological and physical mechanisms that are at play."
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More pics from August.
Ice cream at Macey's is always a huge hit.
The playground by Kristen's house got flooded in all these crazy summer storms we've had. We took advantage of it and the kids had a blast!
Tyler taking Robin's dog Remi for a run. So cute!!!!
My kids and the lady they wish was their mom, our neighbor Robin.
Kallie has been sick this week. She caught the cold sore virus and has the same red, swollen gums Mckinley had two years ago when this happened to her. Kallie hasn't been as bad as Mckinley was but she is still pretty miserable and has a hard time eating a lot of things. She was laying on the floor eating french toast here. So sad but so cute.


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With influences that come from a wide array of blues and rock artists, the group's echoing intensity, howling vocals and garage rock guitar riffs are a sound truly their own.
Originally from the Jersey Shore, the all-female rock trio now lives in Williamsburg and the Lower East Side, and play their rough and tumbling rock shows throughout the boroughs for a growing cast of avid followers.
After being struck personally by Hurricane Sandy, the band released their latest EP, 1097, as a memorial to their former practice space and bandmate's home on the Jersey Shore.
Thiessen and I discussed her influences and sounds behind the band over coffee this week at the Lodge on Grand St. in Williamsburg.
How did you put together a group with a name like Sharkmuffin?
Well in college, I was a band called Slutmuffin and then I was in a band called Poolsharks. I was living with my ex-boyfriend in Bushwick, he had a couple friends come live with us, they had some drug problems and the girls, to keep their mind off of things, decided to try and start Sharkmuffin.
When did you first decide to come to New York, and what was the driving force behind that decision?
I just wanted to play music and I just wanted to live in New York. I applied to all NYC schools and everywhere I applied to I got in.
What did you find most helpful about having your band in Bushwick?
There are a ton of places to play. That's the main thing. There are a lot of good venues, even in Williamsburg too. I like Death by Audio, 285 Kent Venue and Glasslands and stuff. I also liked Silent Barn in Bushwick and Market Hotel. I think they're reopening soon.
What was the reason behind starting a new band?
Well, I kind of wasn't in a band for six months while I was trying to start something. I just had all these songs I had written so it was a good basis to start a band.
Have you always been in bands?
Yeah, since high school. I'm always writing. I try to write a song every day.
Do you have notebooks and books piled somewhere?
Yeah, that and a lot of Garage Band files and stuff too.
How do you write your songs?
It's different every time. For me, I like walking around and I end up singing.
You're not worried about looking weird doing that?
Nah, everybody is weird.
Was there an idea that came to you that said you needed to start a band?
I don't know. The White Stripes just made it seem so simple and I was just such an awkward kid, and they were two awkward kids. I wanted to play guitar and do something like that.
What kind of music were you listening to at the time?
Led Zeppelin and classic rock mostly. Hole – I really liked Courtney Love – and the Pretenders. I learned how to play guitar because of Led Zeppelin and Van Halen. I learned how to play those solos and stuff. Also The Ventures. One summer, a Ventures CD got stuck in my Jeep Wrangler and it wouldn't come out, so I was listening to this top 40 Ventures album over and over again, and I was just singing all the solos in the car.
Do you remember your first guitar?
It was a Fender Stratocaster. I still have it.
What was your first band?
It was called Basic Cable. It was really bad. It was just me and my boyfriend at the time from college.
As a musician, how have you grown since then?
A lot. I was only playing lead guitar in that band and I was barely singing. It took me a long time to actually start singing.
I don't know. I was never confident enough, so I would have all these songs and have other people sing for me.
Do you get any sense of independence or freedom once you started singing your own songs?
Yeah, once I got comfortable with it. I try to connect with people but it's really hard, especially in this neighborhood.
Why is it so much more difficult to play in NYC than other places?
I think it's because you can see shows every single night of the week, get wasted with someone every single night and just sort of not be impressed. They can see it all the time, so they're just like, "whatever." They don't want to expend all that energy going crazy like some kids I know in the Midwest would.
So who is Sharkmuffin?
I play guitar, theremin, pocket piano and I sing. Natalie (Kirch) plays bass and sings, and Janet LaBelle is really new, but she plays drums.
Where did you meet everyone?
So, Natalie I met through another friend, Nate, who I met through my other friend Natalie. My middle name is Natalie so that was kind of weird. It was like a trail of Natalies to get to Natalie. She hadn't been playing at all. She was just playing for two years and she just wanted to be in a band, but she has gotten a lot better. Janet LaBelle, we just found on Craigslist. She just sounded really cool.
What was it about Janet's drumming that you liked so much?
It was just about how into it she is. Our last drummers were great drummers, they hit really hard and they were really fast. It's mainly about hitting really hard and playing fast and consistent, but she's just really into it, which is nice.
Where did you come up with the name for your new EP?
It's called 1097. So during Hurricane Sandy, Natalie had this beach house at the Jersey shore that got destroyed. It was this amazing three story beach house from the 1930s, and when she first joined the band, we went down there and that's where we jammed on a lot of the first songs we were working on and that was the number of the house. On the front cover of the album is her cat that was 17 years old and just passed away. So it's kind of a sad thing, but it's more of a memorial for those things.
Where did the songs come from?
It's "Foul Play," "Quarter Machine" and then "1010" and "Soft Landing." A lot of them were her bass lines and then I write guitar parts over them or there were guitar parts and she would give me some suggestions on lyrics and stuff.
So it's really a mutual songwriting relationship now and you're not writing all the songs?
Yeah, not anymore. This is the first time it has been like that for me.
Are you comfortable now sharing that responsibility?
Yeah. Also, it's really cool because she hasn't been playing for that long, so she has a much more pure thing about her.
Because of the higher cost, are you worried at all about putting out a vinyl EP?
Well, that was why we only made like 200 copies of it so hopefully when we go on tour it will last us a couple years.
I would imagine it's a lot more fun too?
Yeah, I also have a big vinyl collection at home.
When did you start collecting?
When I was about 17. I found my step dad's record collection in the garage. There was also this good record store in New Jersey that had a bunch of stuff for like two bucks.
What's your favorite record?
This Odetta and the Blues record. That probably influenced my singing style a lot. I just found it at some thrift store in Asbury Park. The Ventures in Space is awesome. It was really cheap but this thing on the back says, "All these noises have been made by real instruments and not any electronic gimmicks." (laughs) I thought it was kind of funny.
Do you carry that same mantra with your group?
Well we use theremin, which is like the first electronic instrument ever. I think it was originally developed to detect bombs, but its like this wooden thing, it has an antenna here and an antenna here and then you play it by not touching it. I run it through a ton of guitar pedals so it sounds like a space ship. I play it and guitar at the same time now, so it's a lot of fun.
What do you hope your audience takes away from your shows?
I just want them to move and at least just feel more energy. I just want them to feel something.
Check out Sharkmuffin at their 1097 EP release show at Live @ Shea Stadium BK, located at 20 Meadow St., on Wed., Dec. 11.


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Last week, Serene brought my attention to a demeaning advertisement aired locally that basically insulted the image of plus size women and asked if I can write a post about self-esteem in our pursuit of beauty. It's quite a thought provoking as well as challenging topic and I'm not sure if I can tackle it well. So instead of taking on the subject myself, I thought it would make a good discussion piece today as many of us would have something to say about that.
The constant pressure to look good is real
Watching the ad, you probably would have gotten a good sense of how a woman's look can adversely affect her self-esteem. Yes, the storyline was exaggerated and ludicrous, with less than subtle undertones of discrimination against plus size women but I have to concede that because of the values that the world is built upon, we all face some sort of pressure to look better than we really are and subconsciously, it affects how we view ourselves as well. But the question is, how are we dealing with it?
Maybe I can say something here because of my own experience.
I've had my fair share of self-esteem dented over the years. To being with, I'm petite and I've always had to deal with comments regarding my height or even assumptions that I am weak just because I am small. Next, I used to be very self-conscious about my hair, and was always worried that people who towered over me were counting the number of strands on my head. And having dealt with acne issues for a year or so, I can emphatize with women who say they can't walk with their heads lifted up.
Don't trivialize the issues
These issues may seem very petty but believe me, they can be life and death for some people so never trivialize them. I've admitted before that there was a time I had fleeting thoughts of suicide because of my sparse hair. In hindsight, it was stupidity but I was young and didn't know how to deal with the pain too well. But I know with certainty that such pain and embarrassment are intensely real.
Don't magnify the issues either
I guess I have the advantage of *ahem* age to say that I can deal with not looking my best on some days. I've also undergone various life experiences to know that even if my hair is little or if my face is spotty, I am still loved. But not everyone has this advantage. Sometimes, all it takes is one innocent comment to get you all riled up about those extra kilos you've gained, that plus size clothing you had to buy, or some pimples you're spotting on your chin.
Don't submit to the world
But know this: the world will still carry on whether or not you're wallowing in self-pity; other people will still continue to have fun even if you're filled with anguish about how you look. And let me be more blunt and put this plainly – even if someone dies over her looks, the world is not going to mourn over her death for too long. So instead of letting the world have its way, why not have it your own way?
Don't focus on your looks
So my advice to those with issues of self-esteem because of how you look is – deal with it! Accept your flaws and find ways to overcome them. If it is a dermatologist you must visit, make an appointment! If it is a diet or an exercise regime you need to take on, don't shy from them. If you believe in God, pray! Meanwhile, continue with your life AS PER NORMAL and still look as best as you can. Tell yourself it'll only get better and then focus on your strengths and stop thinking that you're lousy because of how you look. Now, the world can think you're lousy but if you do not allow yourself to think that way, then what the world thinks is no longer important. And for goodness sake, hang around with those who are for you and not against you.
You have qualities independent of how you look
A lot of times, if we are uncomfortable with ourselves, it shows. However, I've seen women who shine even when they are far from perfect looking. There's just something about them that makes you forget their imperfections. Speaking of which, have you watched Melanie Amaro on The X Factor debut show? She's big isn't she? What do you think the judges were thinking looking at her standing there? But as you were watching her, did you focus on her size or her voice? All I'll say is that she looked beautiful to me while she was singing!
Spread some love
Okay, I've rambled enough so it's now over to you. Tell us how your looks has affected your self-esteem and how did you deal with it. Or even if you haven't had this issue, give some advice to those who are insecure about themselves because of how they look. Spread some love all round people!


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Print advertisement created by Ogilvy, India for MP Jewellers, within the category: Personal Accessories.
Creative Director: Sumanto Chattopadhyay
Associate Creative Directors: Sukhendu Mukherjee, Koustuv Chatterjee
Art Directors: Altaf Hossain, Partha Chowdhury
Copywriters: Alka Adhikari, Uttaran Chaudhuri
Photographer: Sanjib Ghosh
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Purpose of an advertisement is to 'sell' (to be as clear as possible) , not to make the audience think what the hell they are tryin to say.
Ads from O&M doesn't always have to be good or thoughtful, sometimes they suck too.
I agree with everyone that thinks the copy is an utter waste for this campaign.
I really like the thought, but hate the exclamation at the end of the copy! Plus, you really don't need that scam festival for jewellery...you could just say 'light jewellery from so & so...'. Also, knock off that really weird tagline from below the logo and voila! it's much neater, crisper...
Not all who wander are lost.
we need more exclamation points in advertising.
eg. The ultimate driving machine!
by the way copywriters--- jewelery has lot more to feel without saying anything.
Something's terribly wrong about the copy.
"Nihil sub sole novum"
Yes it IS nothing.
I thought the visual says our jewellery will belong to you so close like nothing else or something like that.
Yes, It's feels like nothing in it. Disrepute to O&M, Kolkata branch.
Seems like somebody would like to get a job there by kissing asses.
Purpose of an advertisement is to 'sell' (to be as clear as possible) , not to make the audience think what the hell they are tryin to say.
Ads from O&M doesn't always have to be good or thoughtful, sometimes they suck too.
I agree with everyone that thinks the copy is an utter waste for this campaign.
if it feels like nothing then why wear it? it doesn't make any sense, just one innocent question "would you wear a cloth knowing that "it feels like nothing?", wouldn't it arouse many other questions such as what if your cloth has slipped off in public place or classy restaurant now since "it feels like nothing" you won't be able to notice it and imagine yourself when it happen, now that's exactly what i don't want. imagine my surprised after knowing it came from O&M. i agree with the former poster Dzsoi.
Don't follow the herd - be yourself!
jewelry that feels like you're wearing nothing... strange selling proposition.
Buy the new jewelery, because it feels like nothing, NOTHING! And nothing is what you get.
As gold price is shooting up everyday, if we feel like 'feels like nothing', then it's not fair.
I think the ad was for 'light jewellery' but the copy made it a mess:(
the feeling that you are wearing NOTHING when you ARE wearing jewellery is not exactly nice.
the add is totally wrong
feels like nothing ... of course "copy " feels like..(....)
Maybe a better line could save this concept? But 'Feels like nothing.' isn't going to sell jewelry.
...I wonder what the jewellery is like?
i like the copy as well as art direction atleast better than the previous one where hand has been showed...
ladies wont buy jeweleries if it Feels like nothing....bad job O&M..ur my fav so come out wit something worthy
remember reading something ditto for an ad for seamless panties. To think that someone would want to use it for jewelry is really pathetic plagiarism. And you guys actually get paid for this? I cant imagine someone with such little brains even having a job.
ONE BAD AD like this is enough to Nullify all ur goodwill


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Mystery Set™ refers to the unique technique associated with Van Cleef & Arpels ever since the Maison patented this dazzling invention in 1933. It consists of setting stones in such a way that no prongs are visible. The level of expertise required makes Mystery Set the exclusive realm of a very small number of master jewelers.
The technique is so intricate that producing a single clip takes no less than 300 hours work. Each faceted stone is delicately inserted onto thin gold rails less than two-tenths of a millimeter thick. Once complete, the gems appear to be entirely free-standing. Because of the complexity of the process, Mystery Set pieces are extremely rare: the Maison produces no more than a few of them each year.
Pivoine clip, 1937, Van Cleef & Arpels' Collection
Trèfles Mystérieux necklace, Palais de la chance collection, 2012
Montgolfière Mystérieuse ring, Les Voyages Extraordinaires collection, 2010
Perroquet Mystérieux clip, Les Voyages Extraordinaires collection, 2010
Coquillage Mystérieux ring, Seven Seas collection, 2015
Ailes Mystérieuses fairy clip, Feminine figures collection, 2015
Patented by Van Cleef & Arpels in 1933, the Mystery Set technique remains an emblematic example of the Maison's savoir-faire, allowing gems to be displayed with no visible mounting. Its secret lies in gold rails, onto which specially-cut precious stones - generally rubies, but also emeralds and sapphires - are positioned one by one. After many hours of recutting, they perfectly cover the jeweled surface, endowing it with a sumptuous velvety luster. Because of the level of expertise required, the Maison only produces a few pieces each year.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Maison has introduced innovations that include the Navette Mystery Set - in which marquise-cut stones create a three-dimensional effect - and the Vitrail Mystery Set, which plays on the stones' transparency. With gems slotting perfectly into a golden setting that remains invisible on either side, jewelry-making expertise takes on a subtle air of mystery.


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by Josh Wilcox, KF10 Ecuador
Please join me in welcoming the latest Field Partner to the Kiva platform and third in Ecuador, Cooperativa San José! They are headquartered in the small village of San José de Chimbo and have 5 other branch offices within the Bolivar and Los Ríos provinces. Located in the heart of the country up in the Andes Mountains, Cooperativa San José offers various types of savings and credit products to its members.
Cooperativa San José will be working with Kiva to administer loans to their ventanillas rurales (group loans in the countryside). The majority of these borrowers works in agriculture and predominately grows corn, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, among other crops. Many also raise small animals or have a small store within their home to augment their income, since their harvests often do not provide them with adequate income to support their families. These farmers will also travel weekly to the fairs in the village to sell their grains, fruits, and vegetables.
Each ventanilla rural consists of 12-30 people within the same community who all take out a loan of the same amount. Upon forming the groups, the borrowers have the opportunity to choose the terms of the loan depending on the needs of their businesses. During the harvest season, for example, loans are often paid back in one lump sum after 10 months once their crops have been harvested.
Cooperativa San Jose also offers informal education to all members of the groups during their monthly meetings with a loan officer and is instilling the importance of saving within its borrowers by requiring each member of the group to save $10 each month over the course of the loan term. These funds are put into a group savings account and can be used as the group sees fit once the loans have been successful repaid in full.
Josh Wilcox is serving his second and final placement with Cooperativa San José in Chimbo, Ecuador. Help out the Ecuadorian farmers with Kiva's newest Field Partner here. If there are no currently fundraising loans, feel free to support other South American entrepreneurs here.


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Memphis: Huey's Serves Up Juicy Bar Burgers All Over Town
4872 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38117 (map); 901-682-7729; six more locations listed at hueyburger.com
Cooking Method: Flat griddle fried
Short Order: These plump, juicy burgers are deservedly famous in Memphis
Want Fries with That? Comes with big, flat, lightly salted planks that are on the soft side but tasty and great for soaking up ketchup
Price: World Famous Huey Burger w/fries, $5.50
You can't throw a french fry without hitting a Huey's in the city best known for being the birthplace of Rock & Roll. The little bar first famous for blues and burgers is now a seven-location local chain better known now for what you do with your toothpicks after you eat your burger.
That burger? It comes in nine varieties, like the Bluff City Burger with barbecue sauce, onion straws, cheddar, and bacon, and the Madison Avenue Burger served on sourdough with grilled mushrooms, tomato, bacon, and mayo. Other toppings include blue cheese, fried eggs, and jalapeños.
But if you want something simple, go for the World Famous Huey Burger. The 1/3-pound patty comes on a lightly buttered and toasted sesame seed bun with mayo on the top bun, iceberg lettuce chunks and tomato slices above the patty, cheddar or Swiss melted onto the patty, then pickle and onion on a mustard-smeared bottom bun. The bottom bun tends to get mushy from all the moisture; this is a burger best held upside down on consumption.
My burger was medium rare as requested. It was juicy enough to squirt when bitten into and had a nicely caramelized crust. These burgers are plump—Huey's makes a big deal out of the fact that they never smash their burgers with a spatula.
Huey's lightly seasons their burgers with proprietary blend of black pepper, garlic, and other spices the restaurants have been using since 1970 when Alan "Huey" Gary went down to John Gray's Big Star (a local grocery store) and came up with the blend of meat and spices. Aside from the seasoning, the meat is plenty flavorful on its own. The restaurant won't reveal the burger's components, but I'd say it tastes like chuck with a little sirloin mixed in and a little extra fat to boot.
The burgers tend to outshine the fries. The fat, long plank fries come out soft, great for soaking up ketchup, but they lack that crispness burger lovers tend to want.
The burger is held together with a toothpick—one that you'll want to launch into the black ceiling tile overhead ose with your straw. Owner Thomas Boggs does a contest every once in a while at each restaurant where customers are invited to guess how many toothpicks are in the ceiling at that time for a dollar a shot. The toothpicks are knocked down and counted, and the money raised goes to the Memphis Zoo. Huey's has raised more than $45,000 with the toothpicks.
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VANCOUVER - Public school students in British Columbia will find themselves at the centre of the dispute between teachers and the province next week as the union launches rotating strikes.
Nearly 559,000 students will each lose a day of classes as the teachers' union escalates job action in its offensive bid to get a new contract, its president announced Tuesday.
Premier Christy Clark, who has her own contentious history with the province's teachers, expressed strong disapproval of the union's negotiation tactic by saying children are now caught in the middle.
"That is not the right way to do this," she said after the union went public with its strike decision. "It really all comes at the expense of kids and I think we all owe them a duty to do better than that."
The BC Teachers' Federation said it's members will hold walkouts in every school district across the province, with each district affected for one day between next Monday and Thursday. The job action also means extra curricular activities, such as field trips, will be cancelled.
"We did not come to this decision to implement rotating strikes very lightly," federation president Jim Iker said at a Vancouver news conference.
The strikes will commence in Vancouver and 15 other school districts on May 26, he said.
"We will close down a large group of school districts in each one of our days of action," he said. "The impact will be significant."
Schools will all be open again on Friday, but if the government doesn't budge more strike action is a possibility the following week, Iker said.
Education Minister Peter Fassbender said he was "disappointed" by the heightened action, especially in light of concessionary moves last week that he said were aimed at bringing the sides closer together. The government and BC Public School Employers' Association backed off its initial proposal for a 10-year contract, replacing it with a six-year agreement, and also offered a new $1,200 signing bonus.
"(It's) critical for the people of British Columbia to understand is that we are looking to continue to negotiate, to find a negotiated settlement," Fassbender said, "but this, I think, makes that job that much more difficult."
Phase 2 of job action was prompted by the provincial government's unfair wage demands and unwillingness to offer any contract improvements to class size, class composition or specialist teachers, Iker said.
Fassbender rejected the notion that classroom experience was not on the bargaining table.
"Totally incorrect," he said, noting the province hired 500 additional teachers and 400 learning assistants last year. "It's always been there, it's still there."
The government's chief negotiator said last week that it would chop teachers pay by five per cent if a deal wasn't reached by the end of the school year.
But Fassbender disagreed with the way that wage cut has been characterized by the union.
"There was no threats to teachers in this province ... exactly the opposite," he said.
He said the salary clawback fairly amounts to deducting pay based on teachers' reduction of work, which has occurred during the first stage of job action that began late April.
Iker called the government's decision disrespectful and said the union would take the issue to the B.C. Labour Relations Board. He said the BCTF will still meet the employer for scheduled negotiations on Thursday and Friday.
Larissa Predy, a school psychologist in Maple Ridge, B.C., says she hopes the job action will compel movement at the bargaining table.
"People are worried, they don't want to go on strike, they wish that the decision was for the government to come around and to understand the benefit of education," Predy said.
Union members voted 89 per cent in favour of striking in March. Teachers stopped supervising students outside the classroom or communicating in writing to administrators in their first stage of job action.
(The Canadian Press, CHNL)
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The Boston Globe's editorial board this morning said President Obama deserves a second term, opting not to back the Republican nominee and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
Since its first presidential endorsement – for Hubert Humphrey in 1968 – the Globe's editorial page has always supported the Democrat running for president. But it has also never denied its endorsement to a home-state candidate, supporting Michael Dukakis in 1988 and John Kerry in 2004.
"Obama is both the key to a brighter future and the bulwark against a return to the chaos of the Bush years," the Globe's editorial board wrote. "He stands between the divides in American society, so some say he must therefore be the source of division. But as president, Obama has reached out repeatedly to Republicans and shied away from the I'm-the-decider pronouncements of his predecessor."
Democrats have touted this morning that the largest newspapers in the states that Romney has called home – the Salt Lake Tribune, Detroit Free Press, and the Globe -- have backed Obama. In an editorial last week, the Boston Herald endorsed Romney.
The Globe's editorial page, which makes its decision independent from the news department, has never backed Romney. It supported Senator Edward M. Kennedy when Romney challenged him for US Senate in 1994, and it backed Shannon O'Brien in the 2002 governor's race, which Romney won.
Even when Romney was facing fellow Republicans, the Globe's editorial board opted against Romney. It backed John McCain in the 2008 Republican presidential primary, and Jon Huntsman during the 2012 Republican presidential primary.
"Somewhere in the Republican presidential nominee is the sensible, data-driven moderate that the Bay State knew as governor," the Globe's editorial board wrote today. "But it may also be that Massachusetts didn't know Mitt Romney very well, after all. Stuck in a party far to his right, Romney made a fateful bargain to adopt sharply conservative positions, and then start clawing back. Now, voters have no way of knowing what kind of president he'd be."
"Identifying the real Romney on any major issue — social, economic, or foreign — is impossible," the editorial added.
The Globe typically backs Democrats, although it has been willing to support Republicans. It backed Richard Tisei, for example, in his contest against incumbent Representative John Tierney, a Salem Democrat.
But for president, it has always supported the Democrat. In 1980s, however, it took the rare step of endorsing both Jimmy Carter and John Anderson, a Republican congressman who was running as an independent.
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Gadgets: 3-Tier Oven Companion by Nifty
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Considering that big families require big turkeys, and big turkeys require lots of oven time, baking space really comes at a premium at my house. Jewish as we are, Christmas day has become synonymous with Thanksgiving 2.0, and similarly, things get made days in advance so that the bird can roast on its own, unadulterated by the pies and potatoes that would otherwise try to nestle alongside it. Despite our planning, it's sometimes impossible to sidestep the inner-oven traffic jam, which is why I was excited to find this 3-Tier Oven Companion by Nifty ($19.99 at Bed Bath and Beyond).
Given that you have a standard-sized oven, the 3-Tier rack allows you to make better use of your space by adding more vertical space without compromising the bird's. This way, you can stack up the various potatoes and greens that'll be served alongside your clucker (or ham, or whatever festive protein takes up the bulk of your oven space). Since good airflow is necessary for even cooking, it's more useful towards the end of your cooking time, when things just need to be kept warm.
I do have one warning: Resist the temptation to put pies on the racks while your turkey is cooking. Nothing will ruin them faster than the infiltrating poultry aromas.
It's also key to note that city-dwellers with narrower than normal ovens won't get much use out of this. My Manhattan oven, for instance, is too narrow and short to benefit from the system, though the dimensions work well anywhere else. Storage, however, is kind to smaller kitchens—the racks dissemble and fold up quite easily, and Velcro rings keep everything together and in place.
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A 24-year-old man set his grandmother's house on fire after an argument Wednesday, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department.
The blaze, at a Rancho Cordova home in the 4000 block of Birchgrove Way, was called in by the grandmother at 3:10 p.m., deputies said.
The 69-year-old woman told officials she had gone to a neighbor's home after she was assaulted by her grandson -- later identified as Donald Eugene Evans, according to Sac Metro Fire.
The fire was then started inside the house minutes later, officials said.
The home was fully engulfed when fire crews arrived.
Flames also had spread to a second residence inside the duplex.
Deputies said Evans, who lives with his grandmother, tried to run from authorities when they arrived, but he was arrested.
Evans faces four felony counts, including charges of arson, terroristic threats, elder abuse and a violation of probation.
The woman was taken to a hospital as a precaution.
Evans was detained after fighting with officers, according to deputies.
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Mario Batali Wants You to Eat Like a Sicilian This Summer
Chef Mario Batali's demo at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen focused on the enlightened way of cooking and eating like a Sicilian during the summertime. In true Italian fashion, chef Batali had the crowd roaring with laughter as he spewed parsley, salt, and cheese every which way. Despite his messy and haphazard preparation, he plated gorgeous and perfectly cooked Italian food, not before taking a bite, sighing longingly, and stating the obvious: "Damn, I'm a good cook!"
Keep reading for his advice on cooking like a Sicilian this Summer.
- Amp up the veggies: Push proteins to the side and eat more grains and vegetables.
- Season and oil liberally: Mario's recipes may call for a scant teaspoon of salt and a tablespoon of oil, but during his cooking demonstration, the chef rolled his eyes and threw in an "aggressive pinch of salt" and splashed a heavy pour of oil into his pan.
- Explore measurements in recipes: That being said, chef Batali added, "Recipes are a road map, not a set document." He encouraged the crowd to salt, season, and adjust recipes until the dish tastes right.
- Cook once a day: The weather is hot in Sicily, so many cook once during the day and store the food in the fridge, the wine cellar, or at room temperature. This method frees you up to hang out with company in the evening rather than being stuck in the kitchen . . . "unless you don't like the company," he joked. Then you should cook something elaborate that evening.
- Drink then cook with the same wine: That's right; open the bottle you'd like to drink while cooking and use it as the cooking wine too. Mario recommends Sicilian Planeta wines.


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Advisors looking for exotic alternative asset classes to diversify their portfolios have an option right under their noses that may be more accessible and profitable than lumber or vintage wine: small-caps.
Yes, you read that right. While advisors immediately grasp the ease involved in small-cap investing, Eric Nelson of Servo Wealth Management makes the underappreciated case that small-caps function as a separate and countercyclical asset class.
In his latest blog post, the analytically inclined advisor seeks to demonstrate just how different small-cap stocks are from their large-cap brethren.
Investors, he says, tend to view small-caps as mere extensions of the large-cap market — "a riskier subset of a total stock index that will do relatively worse when stocks are declining and relatively better when stocks are appreciating."
Nelson calls this notion "completely wrong," a point he emphasizes through a comparison of large-cap and small-cap returns during four market cycles over the past three decades.
From 1982 to 1990, large-caps generated 16.3% annualized returns compared with 8.9% for small-caps — and this wide variance occurred despite the fact that the beta (a measure of sensitivity to market movements) for the Dimensional Fund Advisors US Micro Cap fund (DFSCX) was nearly perfectly correlated with the S&P 500.
Again we see a huge performance gap—this time in the opposite direction—from 1991 to 1994, where DFSCX earned 22.1% compared with just 11.9% per year for the S&P 500. This despite the fact that their betas were nearly the same (and indeed micro-caps' beta was less than that of large-caps).
In the next period, from 1995 to 1999, small-caps generated annualized returns of 18.5%, but large-cap returns were in another league at 28.6% per year.
"A more volatile subset of the market would have been expected to earn 5% to 10% more than the market, but instead did -10% less," writes Nelson, whose broader point is that the two market segments simply do not move in lockstep.
That is seen again in the fourth time period, from 2000 to 2013, when U.S. stocks returned a paltry 3.6% per year compared with 10.4% for DFSCX.
(While Nelson uses a microcap index as his benchmark, he tells ThinkAdvisor that "what I say about microcaps holds equally true for small-cap stocks," noting the performance of DFA's small-cap and micro-cap funds were just 0.6% apart from 2000 through 2013. Microcaps represent the smallest 5% and small-caps the smallest 10% of the market.) So not only do small and large stocks zig and zag quite differently, but their expected returns vary markedly as well.
Over the entire 1982 through 2013 period, the small stocks returned 12.6% per year—a result identical, Nelson writes, to the segment's returns between 1926 and 1981. The S&P 500 came close to that over the past three decades (11.5%), but Nelson says that's an anomaly, since large-caps returned just 9.1% between 1982 and 2013, fully 3.5% less than the long-term results that small stocks generated.
From 1926 to the present, small-caps trump large-caps by about 2% a year (and by 3% to 4% for small-value, Nelson tells ThinkAdvisor).
But advisors looking to capture of some this excess return need not consider either active funds or index funds, the DFA enthusiast says:
"While small cap stocks — and small value in particular — are very beneficial portfolio additions, you have to be careful how you invest: diversification, costs, and careful implementation are paramount. First, there is no evidence that active managers add any value, so you could wind up taking 'small-cap' risk with an active manager…but only getting large-cap returns due to poor selections or unnecessarily high fees — this despite the belief that small caps are a less-efficient asset class," Nelson says.
"But plain vanilla index funds are no panacea, either," he continues. "Since 1982, the Russell 2000 Index — the only 'retail index' with a track record that old — with no fees deducted…trailed the DFA US Micro Cap fund by 1.8% per year! And despite the fact that small stocks did beat large ones over this period …the Russell 2000 actually underperformed the S&P 500!"
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