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Morgan Stanley relieves four FX traders for hiding $140 million in losses
Morgan Stanley's forex trading department has run afoul of its forex control procedures. Although the global bank has failed to publicly acknowledge the problem, inside sources have spread the work that four FX traders have been suspended until further notice, due to their concerted effort to conceal anywhere from $100 to $140 million in forex trading and option losses. The group of four appears to have mis-marked the value of options and other forex related securities in emerging market currencies from trades emanating from both its New York and London offices.
Major global banks are heavily dependent on the profits delivered by their respective forex trading departments, but even after the great rate fixing scandal where the giants in the industry were fined enormous sums of money, somewhere north of $6 billion by several different regulatory agencies, the ability to control the actions of their traders remains suspect even to this day. The financial crisis of a decade back was another example of misconduct, but banks treat fines as a mere cost of doing business. Any corrective actions or clampdowns would necessarily impact profitability adversely.
In May of 2015, ForexFraud reported:
The Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve and other U.S. and European authorities and regulators said corporate units of Citicorp(C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), London-based Barclays (BCS) and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) acknowledged their traders rigged foreign exchange prices of U.S. dollars and euros from Dec. 2007 to Jan. 2013.
UBS was also handled separately, but the chief executives for all five banks committed to new control procedures. Morgan Stanley, however, was not one of the original five, but may have had issues, too.
The nature of the problem at Morgan Stanley had to do with "mis-marking". As reported by the Japan Times and Bloomberg:
In so-called mis-marking, the value placed on securities doesn't reflect their actual worth. The scope of the probe at Morgan Stanley includes currency options that give buyers the right to trade at a set price in the future, enabling them to both speculate and hedge against potential losses. Morgan Stanley's currency options desk has struggled this year amid a slump in the volatility that generates profits for traders, even in the more unruly emerging markets, according to a person with knowledge of the performance.
Morgan Stanley is in the midst of conducting an internal probe into the deliberate entry of incorrect data into its control software by the four traders in question, Scott Eisner and Rodrigo Jolig, both operating out of London, and two senior New York-based colleagues, Thiago Melzer and Mitchell Nadel. The London duo handled the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa currency book, while Melzer and Nadell split up the duties for emerging markets and macro trading in the Americas, respectively.
Volatility in currency markets has been on decline during 2019. Low inflation and the fact that central bank policymakers have taken a slow and easy approach to normalization have resulted in calmer forex markets. The average volatility for the major currencies over the past two decades has been roughly 9%, but the set has languished in the 5% to 6% area. The Bank for International Settlements did note a brief spike in April dealings in foreign-exchange options of 16 percent to $294 billion per day, but the ability to make profits in forex trading has been limited for months on end.
Morgan Stanley was not alone last week, as for reported trade room problems. The Bank of England fined the London-based office of Citicorp £44 million ($57 million) "for years of inaccurate reporting to regulators about the lender's capital and liquidity levels".
Angela Gallo, a finance lecturer at Cass Business School, commented to Bloomberg:
The probe shows the amount of effort still needed in these large organizations to reduce episodes of misconduct. The frequency of misconduct cases in the U.S. and Europe in recent years speaks very loudly that more fundamental changes are required.
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Almost a decade ago I was lucky enough to have a manager who was super organized. And she shared how she was: Excel.
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"The purpose of this study is to show how the efficiency in earthmoving projects can be increased by the application of engineering principles. Efficiency can be increased by choosing equipment to fit the given set of conditions; and, having chosen the equipment, operate it at its maximum efficiency. In order to choose the right equipment it is necessary to study the conditions under which the equipment must operate. It is then necessary to study the machine in order to ascertain its adaptability to the existing conditions"--Introduction, page 1.
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Latvala, Woodrow John, "Principles and practices controlling the use of earthmoving equipment" (1950). Masters Theses. 6673.


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Global REACH features Dr. Melissa Elafros
Dr. Elafros was interviewed about her recent viewpoint in JAMA Neurology: "
The Global Burden of Polyneuropathy—In Need of an Accurate Assessment"
From the Global REACH website:
Polyneuropathy: In new paper, U-M researchers advocate for focus on an overlooked global illness
Underfunded and little-understood, the common neurological condition should be part of the influential GBD study, the research team says.
Just how common is polyneuropathy? A condition occurring when peripheral nerves in the body malfunction, polyneuropathy has many causes: diabetes, toxin exposure, autoimmune and hereditary disorders, infectious diseases, and the list goes on.
It accounts for about a tenth of neurology visits in the US each year. In other settings, and particularly under-resourced areas, little is known. That is because, despite its prevalence—and despite having many common causes—polyneuropathy is overlooked and under-studied.
But in an article published this month(link is external) in JAMA Neurology, Clinical Instructor of Neurology Melissa Elafros is trying to change that. She and collaborators are advocating that polyneuropathy be permanently included in the influential Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) study.
"Polyneuropathy has been largely overlooked as a cause of disease by the medical and public health community, and this omission is a missed opportunity to highlight a source of substantial physical debility, pain, and medical cost experienced by neurology patients worldwide," the team writes. "Including polyneuropathy in the GBD study would greatly improve all neurologists' ability to characterize current and future patients' health care needs."
Used by researchers and policymakers alike, the GBD study is a snapshot the world's major health problems and efforts to address them. The study is produced by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) with collaborators from around the world and includes country-by-country statistics on more than 200 illnesses and conditions—an A-to-Z accounting of everything from Acne to Zika virus. GBD data drives research, funding, policy, and even healthcare curricular decisions as leaders prioritize needs against limited resources.
Melissa Elafros, MD, PhD
Previously, polyneuropathy has only been included in the GBD study as sequela of diabetes. While diabetes in some settings is the number-one cause of the condition, this approach may overlook the lion's share of cases. This creates critical knowledge gaps and leaves many physicians, and in some cases entire systems, with proverbial blinders.
"We say that diabetes is the most common cause but we're lacking data for so many other causes of polyneuropathy," said Elafros, MD, PhD. "HIV infection is very likely the greatest cause in sub-Saharan Africa. Nutritional neuropathies are prevalent and will likely grow. Toxic causes – alcohol, antiretroviral medications, TB medications, etc. – are prevalent. And then there is autoimmune causes of neuropathy that have not been well tabulated particularly in resource-limited settings."
For the viewpoint article, Elafros partnered with a UMMS Neurology colleague Brian Callaghan and Michelle Kvalsund, a longtime collaborator who divides time between the University of Rochester and Zambia, where Elafros has engaged in projects exploring the etiologies of neurologic disease and bolstering access to neurologic care. More recently (and closer to home), Elafros launched the Flint Neuropathy Study examining the burden of neuropathy and barriers to related care at the region's Hurley Medical Center.
"The topic expressed in this article is really the intersection of both of my worlds. There is no doubt that my experiences in Zambia informed my work in Flint," Elafros said. "In both settings, neuropathy is underdiagnosed and undertreated, resulting in what we expect amounts to a substantial burden of unrecognized disease."
About Global REACH:
Founded at the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) in 2001, Global REACH is a key partner to our UMMS faculty members, learners, and departments working to engage with international collaborators to advance health, research, and education. By engaging partners around the globe, not only do we extend Michigan Medicine to improve health in other (often low-resource) settings, we also generate scholarship to improve healthcare delivery here at home. Our work complements the medical school's education-driven mission as well as Michigan Medicine's broader mission to "advance health to serve Michigan and the world.
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The CHS Myrtle Grove export terminal is located on the Mississippi River, about 30 miles south of New Orleans, and is the southernmost grain terminal in Louisiana. The facility receives grain by barge and rail, and loads out grain by vessel. A four-span access bridge connects the dock to the main facility, which is located behind a levee. The access bridge provides the only access to the dock and is critical to the operation of the terminal.
The 3.6m-wide bridge consists of two T-beams topped with a reinforced concrete overlay and carries light-duty construction vehicles to and from the terminals to carry out unloading operations and dock maintenance. A recent inspection and subsequent design review to strengthen the beams and cantilevered flanges was conducted to incorporate the usage of a 22-tonne hydraulic crane for maintaining dock equipment. Due to the importance of the bridge to the overall operation of the CHS terminal, all repairs had to be completed within a five day window during a planned maintenance shutdown.
Two complementary carbon fibre technologies were implemented to strengthen the bridge for the current loadings. In order to increase the flexural and shear strengths of the T-beams, the En-Force FTS carbon fibre strengthening system was externally bonded to the bottoms and sides of the beams. This system comprised thin unidirectional carbon fibre fabrics that were easily installed on site using wet lay-up techniques.
An additional concrete topping, reinforced with C-GRID C11000-AX1 carbon fibre grid, manufactured by TechFab, LLC, was used to strengthen the cantilevered flanges of the T-beams. The grid system enabled the use of a 50mm topping, about half what would have been required had traditional steel reinforcement been used. The thinner topping translated into less dead load that had to be supported by the already deficient beams making the externally bonded carbon fibre beam upgrades possible. While an externally bonded carbon fibre solution was considered for strengthening the flanges, it was quickly dismissed because vehicles travelling over the bridge could have damaged the carbon fibre sheets.
The fibre grid works like welded wire reinforcement but requires much less cover since it does not corrode like steel reinforcement. It comprises tightly spaced, high-strength carbon strands providing nominal tensile strengths of 11.7kN/m and 110kN/m in the longitudinal and transverse directions, respectively.
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Trump, Hannity often speak several times a day: report
By Avery Anapol - 05/14/18 07:16 AM EDT
President Trump Donald John TrumpTrump's newest Russia adviser, Andrew Peek, leaves post: report Hawley expects McConnell's final impeachment resolution to give White House defense ability to motion to dismiss Trump rips New York City sea wall: 'Costly, foolish' and 'environmentally unfriendly idea' MORE and Fox News host Sean Hannity often speak on the phone several times a day, according to a new report.
While it was previously known that Trump and Hannity are friendly and that Trump often watches Hannity's show due to his tweets praising the conservative host for his ratings, New York magazine shares new details that show the extent of their relationship.
Hannity is reportedly one of a few dozen people who have access to Trump's official phone line, and the two speak on the phone nearly every night after Hannity's show.
Current and former White House officials familiar with the relationship told the magazine that the conversations help Trump "decompress" at the end of the day.
One White House official told New York magazine that Hannity's influence on the president "fills the void" left by former chief strategist Stephen Bannon, and that Hannity's influence on the president is on the same level as that of other administration officials.
Another former Trump official told the magazine that Hannity's show and other Fox News shows, which often praise Trump's accomplishments and back up his view that the Russia investigation is a "witch hunt," put the president in a "weird headspace."
The official referred to it as a "f---ed-up feedback loop."
"What ends up happening is Judge Jeanine or Hannity fill him up with a bunch of crazy shit, and everyone on staff has to go and knock down all the f---ing fires they started," the official said.
Hannity also has legal connections to Trump, as it was revealed recently at a hearing that he was a client of Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Hannity has denied ever having Cohen on retainer, saying that he consulted him about questions on real estate.
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March 4th. COULD THIS BE TRUE OF ME? "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself." Acts 20:24 It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God. But if once you receive a commission from Jesus Christ, the memory of what God wants will always come like a goad; you will no longer be able to work for Him on the common-sense basis. What do I really count dear? If I have not been gripped by Jesus Christ, I will count service dear, time given to God dear, my life dear unto myself. Paul says he counted his life dear only in order that he might fulfil the ministry he had received; he refused to use his energy for any other thing. Acts 20:24 states Paul's almost sublime annoyance at being asked to consider himself; he was absolutely indifferent to any consideration other than that of fulfilling the ministry he had received. Practical work may be a competitor against abandonment to God, because practical work is based on this argument - Remember how 'useful you are here, or - Think how much value you would be in that particular type of work." That attitude does not put Jesus Christ as the Guide as to where we should go, but our judgment as to where we are of most use. Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.


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Previously, SUSE subscriptions for the Arm hardware platforms were only available to SUSE Partners due to the relative immaturity of the Arm server platform. Now that we have delivered four releases of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Arm and have customers running SUSE Linux on Arm servers as diverse as the tiny Raspberry Pi and the high performance HPE Apollo 70 servers, we are now ready to sell subscriptions directly to customers.
As you can see from the chart below, SUSE has enabled a number of different Arm System-On-a-Chip (SOC) processors. One of the major advantages of the Arm platform compared to other platforms is the huge diversity of processors and processor features.
Each Arm licensee has great freedom to create their own System-On-a-Chip (SoC) engineered with the I/O, memory bandwidth, and number of processor cores needed for a specific workload. The number of processor cores varies from 1 processor to 48 processors per core. A single Arm SoC can have multiple varieties, such as the Marvel OcteonTX that is available in with 1 to 24 cores.
The ability to create Arm SoCs with just the right I/O and number of processor cores needed for a particular workload is one of the largest advantages of the Arm platform, but it is also a pricing challenge for software vendors such as SUSE.
Both goals are essential, but sometimes difficult to achieve. For example, the value of a high availability solution that reduces system outages might be much more valuable to an airline than it would be to a small retail shop due to the difference in the number of people and revenue affected by an outage.
Software vendors have traditionally priced software based on the amount of processing capability available to the application (or Operating System). The underlying concept is that the more capacity, the higher the value, and therefore the higher the price.
For example, on a UNIX hardware platform such as IBM Power, IBM software cost is based on the number of processor cores and the relative performance of each core-something IBM calls the Processor Value Unit (PVU). Oracle has a similar approach called the Core Factor. The underlying concept is simple: the bigger the system, the greater the value to the customer and thus, the more expensive the software. Unfortunately, both of these approaches are relatively complex.
By contrast, software pricing in the commodity Linux server market has traditionally used a much simpler measure of capacity: processor sockets. The more sockets in a server, the higher the software costs. Most SUSE software subscriptions are based on increments of 1-2 sockets of processing capacity. For example, subscriptions for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on X86 servers have a U.S. list price of $799 per socket pair. If you have a four-socket server, then you would need two 1-2 socket subscriptions for a total list price of $1,598.
The traditional socket-based pricing goes back many years, when each socket might have only a single processor core. Although this pricing model is very simple, it doesn't fit well to the diversity of systems based on Arm SoCs where a single socket can hold a single, low performance Arm core or 48 (or more) high performance cores.
SUSE needed a pricing approach for SUSE Linux and other products for the Arm platform that could be used for very small systems such as the Raspberry Pi and for huge systems such as the HPE Apollo 70. The pricing approach also needed to be simple to understand. Ultimately, we decided to use a model that has core-based pricing for lower end Arm hardware and socket-based pricing for everything else.
The new pricing for SUSE Linux Enterprise for Arm is tied to the number of processor cores in a server. Servers with less than 16 cores are priced based on the number of groups of 4 processor cores. Each group of 4 cores, up to 15 cores, requires a 4-core group subscription that is stackable to a maximum 4 subscriptions. The number of cores is rounded up to the nearest group of 4 cores, therefore a server with 10 cores would require three 4-core group subscriptions.
This hybrid pricing model applies to SUSE products for Arm that have traditionally used socket-based pricing, such as the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for Arm and SUSE Manager Lifecycle. Other SUSE products such as SUSE Enterprise Storage uses server-based pricing and do not use this hybrid pricing.
The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B has 4 Broadcom processor cores. Because the total number of cores in the server is less than 16 cores, you use the 4-core group-based pricing.
Systems based on the NXP LS2085A have 8 processor cores. Because the total number of cores in the server is less than 16 cores, you use the 4-core group-based pricing.
Systems based on the Marvell Octeon TX can have from 1 to 24 processor cores. In this example, we use a 14 core Octeon TX processor. Because the total number of cores in this server is less than 16 cores, you use the 4-core group-based pricing. This example also demonstrates how the number of cores is rounded up to the nearest integer multiple of 4.
The HPE Apollo 70 is based on the Marvell ThunderX2 which can have from 16-32 processors per socket. In this example we use an HPE Apollo 70 dual socket server with 32 processor cores per socket for a total of 64 cores in this system. Because the server is greater than 15 cores, you use the 1-2 socket pricing.
The diversity of the Arm server platform requires a more sophisticated pricing model than the simplistic socket-based approach. The new hybrid pricing model strikes a balance by using a core-based approach for smaller systems while retaining the traditional socket-based approach for larger servers.
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Take the South Airport exit and turn right on Produce/Airport Blvd. make a right on Mitchell Avenue then left on Harbor Way then make a right on East Harris Avenue. 214 East Harris is the second building on the right.
Take South Airport Blvd exit and turn left on South Airport Blvd. Turn right on Mitchell Avenue and left on Harbor Way. Then turn right on East Harris Avenue. 214 East Harris is the second building on the right.


The new external 80 GB Firewire hard drive I ordered from OWC arrived today and seems to work quite well. Unfortunately, the Firewire cable they sent along with it appears to be defective (although it looks fine superficially). If I didn't happen to have a spare cable lying around I might have thought the drive itself was defective, but thankfully that isn't the case.
Now that I finally have plenty of drive space I'm planning to play around some more with iMovie and the MiniDV camera Mary and I bought last August. With basketball season winding down there should be at least a few interesting things to record.
I think I might also use some of the new drive space to rip some CDs. I've always been somewhat relunctant to do that because of my dearth of drive space (and that's only two years after upgrading my hard drive 20 GB from 4 GB), but now that excuse is out the window.


When you use Blackboard Instructor without an internet connection, the app shows a header message that indicates you're in offline mode. If you've been offline for awhile, the content you see may be out of date.
In addition to viewing course content offline, you can navigate through these portions of the app without an active network connection.
Dynamic areas of the app, like Needs Attention, show you the information available when you last viewed that area with an internet connection.


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New Zealand shares dropped on Tuesday ahead of an expected interest rate hike this week by the US Federal Reserve, which may help drive up local borrowing costs.
Precinct Properties and Tegel Group fell while Briscoe Group gained after reporting record annual earnings.
The S&P/NZX50 Index dropped 17.7 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 7,177.09. Within the index, 26 stocks dropped, 15 rose and nine were unchanged. Turnover was $148 million.
Global markets are expecting the US Federal Open Market Committee to lift the fed funds rate a quarter point to a range of 0.75 per cent to 1 per cent at their meeting, held on Thursday New Zealand time.
That would narrow the gap with the Reserve Bank's 1.75 per cent rate which the New Zealand bank has projected to remain on hold.
"We're funded predominately from offshore, our interest rate markets are really driven by what's happening in the US," said Peter McIntyre, investment adviser at Craigs Investment Partners.
Precinct Properties was the worst performer on the index, down 2.6 per cent to $1.14, while Tegel Group dropped 2.4 per cent to $1.24 and Air New Zealand declined 2.2 per cent to $2.28.
Kathmandu Holdings was the best performer, up 2.6 per cent to $1.96, while Meridian Energy rose 2.6 per cent to $2.78 and Xero gained 2 per cent to $18.98.
Outside the benchmark index, Briscoe Group rose 0.2 per cent to $4.40. The homeware and sporting goods chain lifted annual profit 26 per cent to deliver another record profit as it bolstered fatter margins with a gain on the sale of a Hastings property and dividends from Kathmandu Holdings.
Energy Mad gained 4.2 per cent to 2.5 cents. The energy efficient light bulb maker and marketer is up for sale as the company's board weighs up the future of the business.


Tenzan Ski Resort is 900 meters above and has a total length of about 1km of skiing slop, so you can enjoy both skiing and snowboarding. You can rent a pair of skis and skiwear, and we provide ski school for beginner. We have snowfall making equipment so during the skiing period you can enjoy snow sports. Also, we have night time skiing so you can ski in the illuminated scenery which is a bit different from the day time.


Every 2 years we venture up to Cambridge to visit family and listen to local music at Beyond The Ice House on my Aunt and Uncles land. We meet up with cousins from Cambridge and Portsmouth plus Grandparents, several aunts and uncles and a lot of friends of the family including a real friendly bunch from Mount Dora, America, who were camped out in the meadow we were in.
As usual we had ourselves a little caravan, it was difficult to be here given this was our first holiday as a single parent family. The kids took a day to adjust too. By Saturday we were all much happier. We had bacon in the field in the morning, then went in to Cambridge (that was a near disaster, thankfully my friend rescued me!) we managed to catch up a bit whilst the children played but didn't spend nearly enough time together so have decided to do a girls day out somewhere in the near future!
Midge: "My very favourite part of the holiday was having loads of fun in the swimming pool, especially when I swam on my own! I loved seeing all my cousins so much"
Little A: " I liked the swimming pool and eating 'macon' (bacon) in the morning."
A successful event and a successful first solo parenting holiday for me!


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A Night at the Ballet with Giselle: Treat Mom to a PERFECT Mother's Day
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She brings you homemade chicken noodle soup when you're sick and sneaks twenties into your wallet even though you're a twenty-something with a job and stable income. Sound familiar?
Moms are the best, aren't they? And that's why, whenever the third week of April rolls around, we get STRESSED! That is, until now, because our friends at The National Ballet of Canada have extended the most generous Mother's Day offer to Shedoesthecity readers!
Artists of the Ballet in Giselle. Photo by Aleksandar Antonijevic, courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada.
Using the promo code SHEDOESTHECITY, our readers can score $99 Grand Ring & Premium Orchestra Seats (that's a savings of up to 50% off regular price!!!). Offer is valid for June 15-18 performances of Giselle, and expires on May 8th.
After all, what could be more special than treating Mom to one of the most beautiful and critically acclaimed ballets with you by her side? NOTHING! Nailed it.
Jillian Vanstone and Naoya Ebe in Giselle. Photo by Bruce Zinger, courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada.
We'll even help you with the talking points, so you can impress Mom with your vast knowledge of Giselle! Here are 9 fun facts about the ballet:
Like Romeo and Juliet, Giselle is a tragic tale of two lovers separated by societal pressures and expectations.
Giselle premiered in France, at the Paris Opera in 1841 (OMG!) and was one of the FIRST ballets to introduce the female dancer in pointe shoes!!!
Giselle's death is, to this day, shrouded in mystery. Does she die of madness? A broken heart? Or suicide when she thrusts Albrecht's sword into her heart? We'll never know for sure as there is no conclusive documentation on the subject.
Giselle, the flower, got its name from the ballet, not the other way around.
The role of Giselle is considered to be one of the most difficult to perform because of the contrast between the sweet and carefree movements of the first act and the dramatic climax of the second act, which signifies Giselle's spiral into madness.
The National Ballet of Canada has been staging versions of Giselle since the founding of the company in 1951. (Bonus points if you can figure out how many years it's been without your phone or calculator.)
There are 60 costumes used for every performance of Giselle! Try to count them all, we dare you!
It was Giselle that inspired Artistic Director Karen Kain to become a ballerina after she saw a performance of the ballet for her 8th birthday.
Composer Adolphe Adam completed the sketches for Giselle in 8 days and the FULL SCORE in 3 weeks.
Artists of the Ballet in Giselle. Photo by Bruce Zinger, courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada.
Have we enticed you? You can learn more about Giselle and/or purchase tickets HERE!
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Q: Quadratic loss function implying conditional expectation I am reading Bishop's pattern recognition book. In the decision theory part he first derives that using a quadratic loss function implies that our estimate $y(x)$ should be the conditional expectation $\mathbb{E}[t|x]$. Then, armed with this knowledge he wants to show a simpler proof:
\begin{align*}L(t, y(x)) &= (y(x) - t)^2 \\&= (y(x) - \mathbb{E}[t|x] + \mathbb{E}[t|x] - t)^2 \\&= (y - \mathbb{E}[t|x])^2 + 2(y(x) - \mathbb{E}[t|x])(\mathbb{E}[t|x] - t) + (\mathbb{E}[t|x] - t)^2\end{align*}
So far so good but now he says "performing the integral over t, we see that the cross-term vanishes and we obtain an expression for the loss function in the form"
$$\mathbb{E}[L] = \int (y - \mathbb{E}[t|x])^2 p(x) dx + \int  (\mathbb{E}[t|x] - t)^2 p(x) dx$$
Now, how does the cross-term vanish exactly? Also how can the above expression still contain $t$ (he just integrated over it, so he probably means $(\mathbb{E}[t|x] - \mathbb{E}[t])^2$ ?).
This is on page 47 of Bishop: Pattern Recognition And Machine Learning

A: First, taking the expectation in both $t$ and $x$ leads to
\begin{align*}\overbrace{\mathbb{E}[L(t, y(x))]}^\text{both $t$ and $x$ are rvs} &= \mathbb{E}[(y(x) - t)^2] \\&= \mathbb{E}[(y(x) - \mathbb{E}[t|x] + \mathbb{E}[t|x] - t)^2] \\&= \mathbb{E}[(y - \mathbb{E}[t|x])^2] + \mathbb{E}[2(y(x) - \mathbb{E}[t|x])(\mathbb{E}[t|x] - t)] + \mathbb{E}[(\mathbb{E}[t|x] - t)^2]\\
&= \mathbb{E}[(y - \mathbb{E}[t|x])^2] + 2\overbrace{\mathbb{E}[\underbrace{(y(x) - \mathbb{E}[t|x])}_\text{function of $x$}\underbrace{\mathbb{E}[(\mathbb{E}[t|x] - t)|x]}_\text{expectation over $t$ given $x$}]}^\text{expectation over $x$} + \mathbb{E}[(\mathbb{E}[t|x] - t)^2]\\&= \mathbb{E}[(y - \mathbb{E}[t|x])^2] + 2\mathbb{E}[(y(x) - \mathbb{E}[t|x])\underbrace{(\mathbb{E}[t|x]- \mathbb{E}[t|x])}_{\mathbb{E}[\mathbb{E}[t|x]|x]= \mathbb{E}[t|x]}] + \underbrace{\mathbb{E}[\mathbb{E}[(\mathbb{E}[t|x] - t)^2|x]]}_\text{double expectation}\\&= \mathbb{E}[(y - \mathbb{E}[t|x])^2] + 2\mathbb{E}[(y(x) - \mathbb{E}[t|x])\times 0] + \mathbb{E}[\mathrm{var}[t|x]]\\&= \underbrace{\mathbb{E}[(y - \mathbb{E}[t|x])^2]}_\text{squared bias} + \underbrace{\mathbb{E}[\mathrm{var}[t|x]]}_\text{independent of $y$}\end{align*}
[where the double expectation on line 4 means first integrating according to $p(t|x)$ and then according to $p(x)$]. Hence, taking $y=\mathbb{E}[t|x]$ minimises the above.


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This guide1 will help you assess and improve the power of your experiments. We focus on the big ideas and provide examples and tools that you can use in R and Google Spreadsheets.
Power is the ability to distinguish signal from noise.
The signal that we are interested in is the impact of a treatment on some outcome. Does education increase incomes? Do public health campaigns decrease the incidence of disease? Can international monitoring decrease government corruption?
The noise that we are concerned about comes from the complexity of the world. Outcomes vary across people and places for myriad reasons. In statistical terms, you can think of this variation as the standard deviation of the outcome variable. For example, suppose an experiment uses rates of a rare disease as an outcome. The total number of affected people isn't likely to fluctuate wildly day to day, meaning that the background noise in this environment will be low. When noise is low, experiments can detect even small changes in average outcomes. A treatment that decreased the incidence of the disease by 1% percentage points would be easily detected, because the baseline rates are so constant.
Now suppose an experiment instead used subjects' income as an outcome variable. Incomes can vary pretty widely – in some places, it is not uncommon for people to have neighbors that earn two, ten, or one hundred times their daily wages. When noise is high, experiments have more trouble. A treatment that increased workers' incomes by 1% would be difficult to detect, because incomes differ by so much in the first place.
A major concern before embarking on an experiment is the danger of a false negative. Suppose the treatment really does have a causal impact on outcomes. It would be a shame to go to all the trouble and expense of randomizing the treatment, collecting data on both treatment and control groups, and analyzing the results, just to have the effect be overwhelmed by background noise.
If our experiments are highly-powered, we can be confident that if there truly is a treatment effect, we'll be able to see it.
Experimenters often guard against false positives with statistical significance tests. After an experiment has been run, we are concerned about falsely concluding that there is an effect when there really isn't.
Power analysis asks the opposite question: supposing there truly is a treatment effect and you were to run your experiment a huge number of times, how often will you get a statistically significant result?
Answering this question requires informed guesswork. You'll have to supply guesses as to how big your treatment effect can reasonably be, how many subjects will answer your survey, how many subjects your organization can realistically afford to treat.
Where do these guesses come from? Before an experiment is run, there is often a wealth of baseline data that are available. How old/rich/educated are subjects like yours going to be? How big was the biggest treatment effect ever established for your dependent variable? With power analysis, you can see how sensitive the probability of getting significant results is to changes in your assumptions.
Many disciplines have settled on a target power value of 0.80. Researchers will tweak their designs and assumptions until they can be confident that their experiments will return statistically significant results 80% of the time. While this convention is a useful benchmark, be sure that you are comfortable with the risks associated with an 80% expected success rate.
A note of caution: power matters a lot. Negative results from underpowered studies can be hard to interpret: Is there really no effect? Or is the study just not able to figure it out? Positive results from an underpowered study can also be misleading: conditional upon being statistically significant, an estimate from an underpowered study probably overestimates treatment effects. Under powered studies are sometimes based on overly optimistic assumptions; a convincing power analysis makes these assumptions explicit and should protect you from implementing designs that realistically have no chance of answering the questions you want to answer.
There are three big categories of things that determine how highly powered your experiment will be. The first two (the strength of the treatment and background noise) are things that you can't really control – these are the realities of your experimental environment. The last, the experimental design, is the only thing that you have power over – use it!
Strength of the treatment. As the strength of your treatment increases, the power of your experiment increases. This makes sense: if your treatment were giving every subject $1,000,000, there is little doubt that we could discern differences in behavior between the treatment and control groups. Many times, however, we are not in control of the strength of our treatments. For example, researchers involved in program evaluation don't get to decide what the treatment should be, they are supposed to evaluate the program as it is.
Background noise. As the background noise of your outcome variables increases, the power of your experiment decreases. To the extent that it is possible, try to select outcome variables that have low variability. In practical terms, this means comparing the standard deviation of the outcome variable to the expected treatment effect size — there is no magic ratio that you should be shooting for, but the closer the two are, the better off your experiment will be. By and large, researchers are not in control of background noise, and picking lower-noise outcome variables is easier said than done. Furthermore, many outcomes we would like to study are inherently quite variable. From this perspective, background noise is something you just have to deal with as best you can.
Experimental Design. Traditional power analysis focuses on one (albeit very important) element of experimental design: the number of subjects in each experimental group. Put simply, a larger number of subjects increases power. However, there are other elements of the experimental design that can increase power: how is the randomization conducted? Will other factors be statistically controlled for? How many treatment groups will there be, and can they be combined in some analyses?
Statisticians have derived formulas for calculating the power of many experimental designs. They can be useful as a back of the envelope calculation of how large a sample you'll need. Be careful, though, because the assumptions behind the formulas can sometimes be obscure, and worse, they can be wrong.
\(\beta\) is our measure of power. Because it's the probability of getting a statistically significant result, β will be a number between 0 and 1.
\(\mu_t\) is the average outcome in the treatment group. Suppose it's 65.
\(\mu_c\) is the average outcome in the control group. Suppose it's 60.
Together, assumptions about μt and μc define our assumption about the size of the treatment effect: 65-60= 5.
\(\alpha\) is our significance level – the convention in many disciplines is that α should be equal to 0.05. \(N\) is the total number of subjects. This is the only variable that is under the direct control of the researcher. This formula assumes that every subject had a 50/50 chance of being in control. Suppose that \(N=500\).
Working through the formula, we find that under this set of assumptions, \(β = 0.80\), meaning that we have an 80% chance of recovering a statistically significant result with this design. Click here for a google spreadsheet that includes this formula. You can copy these formulas directly into Excel. If you're comfortable in R, here is code that will accomplish the same calculation.
From some perspectives the whole idea of power analysis makes no sense. You want to figure out the size of some treatment effect but first you need to do a power analysis which requires that you already know your treatment effect and a lot more besides.
So in most power analyses you are in fact seeing what happens with numbers that are to some extent made up. The good news is that it is easy to find out how much your conclusions depend on your assumptions: simply vary your assumptions and see how the conclusions on power vary.
This is most easily seen by thinking about how power varies with the number of subjects. A power analysis that looks at power for different study sizes simply plugs in a range of values in for N and seeing how β changes.
Power is a measure of how often, given assumptions, we would obtain statistically significant results, if we were to conduct our experiment thousands of times. The power calculation formula takes assumptions and return an analytic solution. However, due to advances in modern computing, we don't have to rely on analytic solutions for power analysis. We can tell our computers to literally run the experiment thousands of times and simply count how frequently our experiment comes up significant.
The code block below shows how to conduct this simulation in R.
The code for this simulation and others is available here. Simulation is a far more flexible, and far more intuitive way to think about power analysis. Even the smallest tweaks to an experimental design are difficult to capture in a formula (adding a second treatment group, for example), but are relatively straightforward to include in a simulation.
In addition to counting up how often your experiments come up statistically significant, you can directly observe the distribution of p-values you're likely to get. The graph below shows that under these assumptions, you can get expect to get quite a few p-values in the 0.01 range, but that 80% will be below 0.05.
When it comes to statistical power, the only thing that that's under your control is the design of the experiment. As we've seen above, an obvious design choice is the number of subjects to include in the experiment. The more subjects, the higher the power.
However, the number of subjects is not the only design choice that has consequences for power. There are two broad classes of design choices that are especially important in this regard.
Choice of estimator. Are you using difference-in-means? Will you be doing some transformation, such as a logit or a probit? Will you be controlling for covariates? Will you be using some kind of robust standard error estimator? All of these choices will make a difference for the statistical significance of your results, and therefore for the power of your experiment. One easy way to think about this is to imagine what command you'll be running in R or Stata after the experiment has come back; that's your estimator!
Randomization Protocol. What kind of randomization will you be employing? Simple randomization gives all subjects an equal probability of being in the treatment group, and then performs a (possibly weighted) coin flip for each. Complete randomization is similar, but it ensures that exactly a certain number will be assigned to treatment. Block randomization is even more powerful — it ensures that a certain number within a subgroup will be assigned to treatment. A restricted random assignment rejects some random assignments based on some set of criteria — lack of balance perhaps. These various types of random assignment can dramatically increase the power of an experiment at no extra cost. Read up on randomization protocols here.
There are too many choices to cover in this short article, but check out the Simulation for Power Analysis code page for some ways to get started. But to give a flavor of the simulation approach, consider how you would conduct a power analysis if you wanted to include covariates in your analysis.
If the covariates you include as control variables are strongly related to the outcome, then you've dramatically increased the power of your experiment.Unfortunately, the extra power that comes with including control variables is very hard to capture in a compact formula. Almost none of the power formulas found in textbooks or floating around on the internet can provide guidance on what the inclusion of covariates will do for your power.
Suppose we have good data on the relationship between two covariates and income: age and gender. In this economy, men earn more than women, and older people earn more than younger people.
Run a regression of income on age and gender and record the coefficients, using pre-existing survey data (better yet: use baseline data from future participants in your experiment!) *Generate fake covariate data — N total subjects, but broken up by age and gender in a way that reflects your experimental subject pool.
Run the experiment 10,000 times, and record how often, using a regression with controls, your experiment turns up significant.
Here's a graph that compares the power of an experiment that does control for background attributes to one that does. The R-square of the regression relating income to age and gender is pretty high — around .66 — meaning that the covariates that we have gathered (generated) are highly predictive. For a rough comparison, sigma, the level of background noise that the unadjusted model is dealing with, is around 33. This graph shows that at any N, the covariate-adjusted model has more power — so much so that the unadjusted model would need 1500 subjects to achieve what the covariate-adjusted model can do with 500.


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"It Won't Last": MAFS' Tam Slams Jess And Dan's Relationship
Last night, Australia collectively grimaced watching Dan and Jessika's secret love affair on 'Married At First Sight'.
But, it appears we're not the only ones shocked by the cheating scandal.
Dan's 'wife' Tamara has expressed her disdain at the couple, admitting to already having doubts about their future as a couple.
"It won't last, mark my words," Tamara told TV WEEK.
Much like the rest of Australia, the 29-year-old admitted to feeling "sick to the stomach" watching their relationship unfold, and that the couple's behaviour was "disgusting" and "disrespectful".
"It's been really hard to watch it all unfold," Tamara told the publication. "Their behaviour speaks for itself and they should be embarrassed."
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"I'm a strong enough person to know my worth and it's not something I want to be a part of."
However, Tam revealed that she did have a gut feeling that something bizarre was going on between Dan and Jess but didn't want to give up on their 'marriage' just yet.
"I didn't know it was happening so early on," she admitted to the magazine.
"Dan would tell me how beautiful I was, but behind my back he said he wasn't able to talk to me. It was all a complete and utter lie."
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She also reveals that Jess' unacceptable behaviour resembles that of Ines' who pursued a relationship with Sam while still married to Bronson.
"Both have gone behind people's backs to get what they want," she explained. "It just goes to show Jess' character and what type of person she is. She's not somebody I'd associate with in the outside world."
We're on your side, Tam!
Married At First Sight continues tonight at 7:30PM on Channel Nine.
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Samsung Confirms Entry Into the Smart Speaker Market This year
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Samsung Electronics will introduce an artificial intelligence (AI), Bixby-powered speaker in the second half of this year.
The company will introduce the speaker at an upcoming event to showcase its latest high-end Galaxy Note 9 smartphone in New York, Aug. 9.
According to the Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS), Samsung applied for trademark rights to the name "Magbee" (speaker name) with the Korean Intellectual Property Office, July 13. Samsung also filed for the trademark rights in Europe and the U.S.
A Samsung spokeswoman confirmed the company's plans to launch an AI speaker in the latter half of this year.
According to Canalys, the number of AI speakers across the world is expected to reach 100 million by the end of the year. This is 2.5 times higher than a year earlier and the figure will grow to 225 million by 2020.
Sixty four percent of the AI speakers have been installed in the U.S., followed by China with 10 percent, the U.K. with 8 percent and Germany with 6 percent. Korea is fifth with about 3 million.
It remains to be seen whether Samsung's new AI speaker can compete with its competitors. The global AI speaker market has been led by U.S. tech giants Amazon and Google. Amazon's Echo AI speakers account for 43.6 percent of the market, according to data from Strategy Analytics. Google is next with 26.5 percent, followed by China's Alibaba with 7.6 percent, Apple with 6 percent and Xiaomi with 2.4 percent.
Locally, South Korean tech firms are also competing in the domestic AI speaker market. Ever since SK Telecom, the country's No. 1 mobile carrier, introduced its AI speaker NUGU, No. 2 mobile carrier KT, Samsung's home appliance rival LG and other big name companies have rolled out speakers.
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Allen v. American Fidelity Casualty Co.
December 15, 1931. Rehearing Denied January 9, 1932.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas; William H. Atwell, Judge.
Suit by Clarence D. Allen against the American Fidelity Casualty Company. Judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appeals in forma pauperis.
George C. Cochran, of Dallas, Tex., for appellant.
Will R. Harris, of Dallas, Tex., for appellee.
This is a suit on a public liability policy issued by appellee to Wells Transfer Company as a Class B motor carrier under an act of the Legislature of the State of Texas regulating the operation of motor carriers for hire. This act (Laws Tex. 1929, c. 314) declares the term "motor carrier" denotes any person, firm, etc., operating or causing to be operated over or along the highways or streets of this state any motor-propelled vehicle for the purpose of carrying or transporting property for compensation or hire between two or more incorporated cities, towns, or villages. The act classifies motor carriers as follows: Class A, operating between two or more incorporated cities, towns, or villages over fixed routes under regular schedules, having fixed termini and receiving hire in accordance with published rates; Class B, transporting or carrying property for hire between two or more incorporated cities, etc., but without fixed routes, regular schedules, fixed termini, or published rates. Both classes of carriers are declared to be common carriers, both placed under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission, and both prohibited from operating between cities and towns except in accordance with the provisions of the act. Among these provisions as to Class B operators are that before operating they must apply for and receive a permit from the commission; that the permits shall not be issued until the applicant shall have in all things complied with the requirements of this act, nor shall such permit be issued unless the character of business being done or to be done by the applicant strictly conforms to the definition of a Class B motor carrier. That no application for a permit shall be considered unless, among other things, it sets forth the nature of the transportation in which the applicant wishes to engage, the territory to be covered by the operation, and shall give a description of each vehicle which the applicant intends to use. That before any permit is granted, the nature and character of the equipment to be used and the amount and character of the tonnage which may be hauled thereon shall first be fixed and approved by the commission.
Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. Tex., art. 911b, and Vernon's Ann. P.C. Tex., art. 1690b.
The application on which the permit was issued to W.N. Wells who applied for it in the name of Wells Transfer Company described only one truck, a Graham Dodge, and it was for this one truck that the license fee was paid and the identification plate issued. It was this same truck and no other which was described in Specification 6 of the policy.
Appellee's suit was to recover to the extent of the policy upon a judgment which he had obtained against W.N. Wells on account of injuries sustained by him as the result of a collision with a Chevrolet truck driven by Wells. Plaintiff proved that this judgment, though taken against "L.M. Wells, operating and trading as Wells Transfer Storage Company" and rendered upon a petition and citation so describing him, was in fact based upon service actually made upon W.N. Wells at his place of business; that nothing has been paid on it; and that an execution issued on it has been returned nulla bona. In addition to offering the judgment, the application for a Class B permit, and the insurance policy, the proof that Wells had actually been served with citation in the cause, and that plaintiff had received his injuries as the result of being run over by a Chevrolet truck driven by Wells, plaintiff proved that this truck, though owned by a son of Wells, was actually being operated in the city of Dallas in the business of Wells Transfer Storage Company under the direction of W.N. Wells. Plaintiff made no proof that at the time of the injury the Chevrolet truck was under a commission license, or that Wells had applied for a permit to obtain one, or had paid a fee on account of it, or had attached to or obtained for it the requisite identification plate. Defendant proved by Wells, and it was not disputed, that the Chevrolet truck was not at the time of the accident being, and it had not been, used in the Class B motor business of Wells Transfer Company. It was in proof that Wells and his sons, constituting the Wells Transfer Company, had, at the time plaintiff's injuries were received, four motor vehicles in service, two, the Graham-Dodge described in the application for permit and in the policy, and a Garford truck, both licensed for and used in their business of Class B motor carriers, and two, the Chevrolet truck in question and another, licensed for and used in hauling in and around the city of Dallas, and that not for many months after the accident was this Chevrolet placed under license and its operations insured.
The policy sued on provided, in its body, that it insured against loss only the vehicles described in Statement 6, the Dodge truck, while operated for the purpose, and subject to the limitations of Statement 8, "The above described automobiles and motor vehicles are and will be used only for compensation, for transfer of merchandise purposes, and will be operated as follows: Within the State of Texas, under Permit `B' and this insurance covers no other use or operation." By indorsement, however, its coverage was extended to "all motor vehicles belonging to or under the direction of assured, whether particularly identified in the policy or not, while same are being used in the business of carrying property for hire or compensation, and come within the terms of the statute above referred to," and it was provided, "this policy covers legal liability to the named assured from such operation of such vehicles, even though such vehicles may not be specifically identified herein." Condition N of the policy provides, "This policy is issued in consideration of the premium charged therefor, and of the statements set forth herein in the Schedule of Statements * * * the said premium is based upon the number and character of the automobiles and the uses to which the same are to be put as described in the schedule."
Planting himself upon the proposition that notwithstanding the limitation of the coverage in Statement 6 to the Graham Dodge therein described, the policy sued on was extended by the indorsement referred to to cover all motor vehicles operating under permit and license in accordance with the Motor Carrier Act, though not described in the policy, plaintiff asserted that the proof above set out established, or at least made an issue for the jury, that the truck which caused his injuries was then being operated under the direction of the assured as a Class B motortruck within the meaning and under the protection of the act and the coverage clause of the policy. The trial court viewed the matter differently, and agreeing with defendant that plaintiff had made no case, upon motion instructed a verdict for defendant. We think the court was right in doing so.
Appellee is as full of reasons here why the judgment should be affirmed as an egg is of meat, and as though equally convinced of the merits of them all, it urges each of them impartially. Appellant is equally confident that not one of them is good, and anticipating each he undertakes in counter propositions to demonstrate their fallacy.
We reserve our opinion as to all of them except that proposition which concludes the case against appellant, that appellant was bound as a predicate to having his judgment enforced against appellee, to show that the Chevrolet in question was, when it caused the injury, licensed for and being operated in the motor carrier service under a Class B permit, and that he has failed to do so.
Liberal as is the construction which public liability policies of this kind should receive in favor of the public, their beneficiaries, Curtis v. Michaelson, 206 Iowa 111, 219 N.W. 49; United States F. G. Co. v. Allen, 158 Tenn. 504, 14 S.W.2d 724; Zelber v. Commonwealth, 106 N.J. Law, 611, 150 A. 243; Bess v. Commonwealth, 101 N.J. Law, 380, 128 A. 250; O'Donnell v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co., 50 R.I. 269, 146 A. 410; Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co. v. Wells, 100 Fla. 1027, 130 So. 587, it is fundamental to such liability that the claim be within the coverage provisions of the policy. Where, as here, the vehicle is not described in the policy, and the reliance for coverage is upon its general provisions that it covers all vehicles operated in accordance with the law as a Class B motor carrier, the law becomes the test of coverage. Here there is not only the positive testimony of the operator that he had no license and was not operating the truck under a permit, but his testimony is confirmed by the controlling facts that the application made under the statute did not describe the Chevrolet truck, that no license fee was paid for it, no identification plate paid for or issued to it, no amount of insurance prescribed by the commission upon it, no premium paid on account of it. Such facts not only do not establish, they defeat, plaintiff's suit to have his judgment declared a policy claim.
The judgment is without error. It is affirmed.


Does it Take a Village to Create True Queer & Lesbian Love?
When Michelle and I first started thinking about offering relationship tools to lesbians & queer women, we did a search to see who else was doing that kind of thing.
And we found absolutely nothing.
Well, that's not completely true. Let's say, almost nothing.
We also know there are many hard-working lesbian therapists out there, and relationship coaches (at least we hope there are!) who just don't have much of an online presence.
But really, we were shocked. I mean, even if adult lesbians and queer women were only ONE PERCENT of the U.S. population, there'd be 3.17 million of us!
There are hundreds of books, websites and workshops for straight couples who want happier, healthier relationships. But there is close to nada, zilch, zippo for us women-loving-women.
Now, why is that? Is it because, as some straight people fantasize, women just "naturally know how to please each other" (!) and automatically have wonderful relationships?
Ah, if only it were so!
– The challenge of being in a couple where one or both partners has been rejected by her family or religious community, or is afraid to come out of the closet.
– The challenge of one or both partners having a gender identity or expression that is "outside the norm" and may provoke fear, discrimination or even violence.
Now, don't get me wrong. I love being a queer woman!
Um, can you say… unclear on the concept?!
But the truth is, as a community, we DO need relationship help, resources and tools… from people who understand us. From people who are us.
So that's why Michelle and I launched Conscious Girlfriend. We think it does take a (queer/lesbian) village.
We offer live events in the Bay Area, retreats, online classes, and coaching to help build that village.


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Rain and cold here today in Shelton. I've said it many, many times. You can grow plants wet and you can grow plants cold BUT you cannot grow them wet and cold at the same time. Many plants do not like wet and cold and for this reason we will not roll covers and open today until later. We will see what the weather is doing at 1:00 pm and make a new post on this blog to decide if we will open this afternoon.
Mama robin has refused to leave her nest for most of the day -- meaning one thing, it's damn cold out here. We have closed for the day and will open at 11:00 am on Thursday the 27th. Check here for updates in the morning and make sure we are open. Very cold night tonight.
We are Open Air, wide open, cold when it's cold, wet when it's wet, but usually not windy when windy. We do have good wind protection.
We encourage all shoppers that will be driving a distance to our nursery to always check this weather blog before you come. There will be chilly, sub-freezing mornings that we may not open at 9:00 am due to the cold. If we deem it too risky to uncover the plants we will not.


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ICYMI anything this week, catch up on the latest.
Let's take a lil' bit of inventory for a sec: You rocked your week—and now it's Saturday (finallyyyyyy), but every day has been insane. And you don't exactly have your Saturday or Sunday scheduled, not to mention cool things to talk about at that dinner party tonight. Catch up on anything you missed, plus check out our ideas on how to enjoy the weekend ahead. Live a little, girl.
Real talk: Do you wanna take a better pic? (Wait. Who doesn't?) Somehow, we bet after last night's Halloween debauchery you're looking less than camera-ready. (No worries, us too.) First, take off all the spooky makeup, then check out these essential tips stun in every pic you take this weekend.
Once you're sick of all the Halloween fun-sized candy (and you should be, check out this crazy infographic), try your hand and making these cheesy, oven-baked green beans—the crispy snack you didn't know you needed in your life. Seriously, these bad boys are better than french fries. Get the recipe here.
Speaking of snacks, you're going to want to grab a fork for this one. Not only is this scrumptious pumpkin cheesecake recipe made for fall, it's also nearly half the cals of a normal slice. Diet delight, much? Get the chilly-weather recipe here.
But now that it's officially fall, colder temps having us dreaming of vacation. The easiest way to land yourself on an island in the sun? Winning our #SELFMade contest! Enter to win a trip to Hawaii here.
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Another big lesson? Think like a creative entrepreneur. Instead of just selling one title, these filmmakers, Jeremy Beasley and Chris Kamen, are prime examples of what it's like to work on building a business. We're so excited to give them the tools to do that.
Go read the whole thing (and check out the doc) over at Small is Beautiful.


Recently we've partnered with self-storage superstars Inner Space Stations (read about their York self-storage right here). Why? Because over our decade+ in business we've regularly been asked whether we have a self-storage company that we recommended. Over our time in this industry, we've also heard of horror story after horror story about lacklustre self-storage, damaged possessions and hidden fees. So, now that you know how to choose a storage company with care, it's time to take a look at the giveaway signs of cowboy self-storage facilities that should be avoided at all costs.
Here's the first step to checking out the legitimacy of any company – Google them. Are they nowhere to be found? Perhaps they have a website, but there's no reviews, anywhere. If they seem not to exist or have a pretty poor reputation with past customers, look for another company.
That lack of reputation? It's down to being new in town. That missing website? It's just in the process of being set up. The pretty poor security? Yeah, that's being worked on as we speak.
Self-storage companies come and go ALL the time, and while a new company may not be terrible at what they do, it's always better to choose a name that's been around for a good number of years.
Customer service – it should be on-point from your first phone call to the time you sign on the dotted line and beyond. If you find that the person or persons you speak to are less than knowledgeable when it comes to simple queries, it could be time to take a hike over to their nearest competitor.
It's the oldest trick in the book – tying you into a super long contract so that you're bound to pay, month after month, no matter how bad the service. Any reputable, high-quality self-storage provider will always allow you to leave when you wish, within a reasonable period. Our storage partners, Inner Space Stations, require a straightforward 14 days' notice.
24/7 access, available on request – it's not only what you should expect for your convenience, it also means that there's someone on site day and night (pretty important when it comes to the security of your possessions).
Five pointers, five giveaway signs to look out for when choosing your self-storage. Of course, you could always cut out the tick list and simply go by our recommendation instead. Ready to find out more about Inner Space Stations storage, in York? Talk to our team.


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Trust You is the thirteenth Japanese-language single by American pop singer Yuna Ito. The title song, "Trust You" is the theme to Japanese anime Mobile Suit Gundam 00 season 2, while "Brand New World" was used as a tie-up song for the Commercial of Hawkins Sport.

In its first week, the single sold 27,254 copies, making it the third highest selling first week single sales by Ito as of March 2009, behind Endless Story and Precious. "Trust You" is Ito's first Top 5 single since the release of her previous single Mahaloha in June 2007. "Trust You" also gave Ito her highest first-week sales since 2006's Precious.

Track list

TV Promotional Performances
 04/25 - Hong Kong Best Advertisement Award 2009 (with Endless Story)

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Oricon

Billboard

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2009 singles
2009 songs
Yuna Ito songs

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