10 signs you don't have to worry about him cheating

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It's normal to worry that maybe, just maybe, your partner could be unfaithful. Even if it's totally unwarranted and your relationship is great, that kind of self-doubt can creep in on occasion. And people can cheat for any number of reasons. He/she could meet all these qualifications and still cheat. But overall, if they check all these boxes, it's not super likely that you have anything to worry about.
1. He's not selfish. In many situations, cheating is selfish. If he's the kind of guy that drops everything and cancels plans when you need him most, he's probably not the kind of guy that would hurt you by cheating. "Selflessness" is still different than just being "nice." He can be friendly and kind, and still be a cheater. On the flip side, he can act like a sarcastic asshole and still be totally loyal.
2. He's pretty trustworthy. If he tends not to lie or sneak off or go dark for days at a time, he's probably not the kind of guy who could handle keeping an affair a secret. Yeah, sure, he could also just be the greatest liar of all time but the likelihood of that is slim.
3. He doesn't keep secrets. If you've caught him hiding a massive secret or two (like he-lost-his-job-and-didn't-tell-you-for-months huge), it's certainly feasible that he's capable of hiding a side chick.
4. He's way too busy. Between work and and uni and the band he's in, he barely has enough time to date you, let alone juggle someone else. Plus, he spends all his remaining free time with you, anyway. Unless he never sleeps or has that time-turning necklace from Harry Potter, there's no conceivable way he could cheat.
5. You know pretty much everything going on in his life. If you're the jealous type and get worried when he mentions a coworker he got lunch with, there's likely nothing to worry about there. He wouldn't bother mentioning someone he had on the side or was thinking about pursuing. What good would that do? The more he keeps you up to date in his personal life, the better. At the same time, don't sweat it if you don't know the names of every single one of his colleagues and/or acquaintances.
6. He's never cheated before. If you know he's got a good track record, that's as good an endorsement as any. "Once a cheater, always a cheater" isn't inherently true, but like you learned in school, patterns have a way of repeating themselves.
7. You're not a cheater. If you're a partner who's been caught cheating, there's a chance that he could "retaliate" out of resentment. Everyone knows that one toxic couple that's always doing horrible things to each other and yet, despite all odds, stay together. If you're not them, you're in a pretty great spot.
8. You don't box him out. We've all seen at least one movie where someone cheats and cites "wanting to feel wanted"/"you weren't there for me"/"we've been drifting apart"/"you were in a coma" etc., etc. Justified or not, if he's feeling like his needs aren't being met, it could make him vulnerable and more likely to stray. But if you're always making each other priorities in your lives, that's not an issue.
9. You've never seen any warning signs. While it's possible to get blindsided by a cheating partner, plenty of people feel like it was so obvious in hindsight. If he's not acting sketchy and suspicious, or constantly checking but hiding his phone, there's nothing to really be suspicious of.
10. You've got a healthy sex life. There are plenty of reasons your sex life can slow down for a bit, but if you're doing it on the regular, he only has so much libido to go around. He can't have a marathon sex session with you and then run off to do it again with someone else. Can he?! I'm going to choose to believe he can't. For ... unrelated reasons.

Exclusive: Pharrell Williams and Helen Lasichanh Welcome Triplets

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When I saw music producer turned Chanel model Pharrell Williams at the French fashion house’s ritzy fashion show in Paris in December (held at the Ritz, appropriately enough), I could have sworn there was something special about the look in his eye. Now Vanity Fair can exclusively explain why: his wife, Helen Lasichanh, was pregnant with not one, not two, but three children. She gave birth to triplets earlier in January.
Williams’s rep declined to provide the babies’ names or sexes, but confirmed that mother and children are “healthy and happy.” (The triplets will join Williams and Lasichanh’s firstborn son, Rocket, who is eight years old.)
In addition to multiplying his brood by 400 percent, it’s been a busy year for Pharrell. After he walked Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel fashion show in December, it was announced that he would be the first-ever male to model in a Chanel handbag campaign. (Cara Delevingne and Kristen Stewart also appear in the ads, which were lensed by Lagerfeld himself.)
Williams has also been popping up on on the awards circuit, since he’s an Academy Award–nominated producer of Hidden Figures. The movie won best ensemble at this weekend’s SAG Awards, so we’ll have to just wait and see if in addition to the three new babies at home, he’ll bring home an Oscar this year as well.

AI program beats humans in poker game

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Libratus, an artificial intelligence program developed at Carnegie Mellon University, was trained to play a variant of the game known as no-limit heads-up Texas hold 'em.
In a similar tournament in 2015, the humans won.
The victory has been hailed as a significant milestone for AI, by the team responsible for building it.
The AI won more than $1.5m (£1.2m) worth of chips from the humans.
The matches - held at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh - were live-streamed over gaming site Twitch.
Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, said the event was "historic".
"Heads-up no limit Texas hold 'em is in a way the last frontier of all the games," he said.
"Othello, Chess, Go, Jeopardy have all been conquered, but this remained elusive: this is a landmark in AI game-play."
Prof Sandholm said that the algorithm could be transferred to a range of other uses.
"This is not just about poker," he said.
"The algorithms can take information and output a strategy in a range of scenarios, including negotiations, finance, medical treatment and cybersecurity."
"Now we have proven the ability of AI to do strategy and reasoning, there are many potential applications in future."

Demoralising

One of the professional poker players, Jimmy Chou, admitted at the halfway point that the AI was proving a tough opponent.
"The bot gets better and better every day. It's like a tougher version of us," he said.
"The first couple of days, we had high hopes," Mr Chou said.
"But every time we find a weakness, it learns from us and the weakness disappears the next day."
He added that the professionals had been sharing notes and tips in an effort to find weaknesses in the AI's game-play.
But they were not the only ones doing homework.
Each night after the play ended, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Centre added computations to sharpen the AI's strategy.
All four human players shared the $200,000 (£159,000) prize fund, ranked in order of how well they played against the AI.
Jason Les, who came fourth, summed up the feelings of all four players when he said the match had been "incredibly challenging".
"I was impressed with the quality of poker Libratus played," he said.
"We tried everything we could, but it was just too strong. It became very demoralising."

For Rhode Island, Interstate Health Insurance Sales Didn't Pan Out

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Meg Ivatti (right), a manager at HealthSource RI, the state's insurance exchange, works with Dianiri Paulino to help a caller sign up for coverage in 2014.
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Tuesday is the last day of open enrollment for health coverage for 2017 under the Affordable Care Act. And while Republicans in Congress are working to repeal the law, it's not at all clear what might replace it.
During the campaign, President Trump suggested a nationwide insurance market that would allow insurance plans to be sold across state lines.
The idea has been kicking around for years, and some states have tried it, including Rhode Island, where it didn't work too well.
All Things Considered's Audie Cornish talked to Christopher Koller who was the Rhode Island's insurance commissioner when this option was offered.

On the roadblocks of allowing out-of-state health insurance options
It's very hard to have interstate insurance. It means that a state has to accept the rules of another regulator. That means if a Rhode Island insurer was licensed in Massachusetts, we have to say that whatever they do in Massachusetts is good for us here in Rhode Island. It also requires significant work to coordinate rules and regulations. Insurance regulators are reluctant to take on this task.






Let's say Rhode Island didn't allow limited benefit health plans. ... If we were to allow insurance to come in from a state that allowed those plans, and they sold them in Rhode Island, you'd have insurers offering policies that were against the laws and policies set forth by Rhode Island legislature. ... And if insurers are going to sell across state lines, you'll see more variation among states which makes it harder to coordinate and for insurers to operate across state lines.
On how health insurance compares to other lines of insurance
It's not [comparable]. There's a big difference between a hospital and an auto body guy repairing your car. We have a lot more auto body guys than we have hospitals. We don't compel auto body makers to take care of our car if we can't pay for it, but we compel hospitals to treat people if they can't afford to pay for it. We look at health care very differently from auto insurance.
On why out-of-state health insurance can't compete with local
In Rhode Island we have one hospital system that has 80 percent of births in the state. [Insurers] need that in [their] network to be competitive. And I can tell you that if a national insurer walked into that hospital, and said, 'Will you contract with us?' the hospital would have no reason to give the insurer any discount compared to local established health plans have already. That national insurer can't offer a competitive product.

Sales Of Short-Term Insurance Plans Could Surge If Health Law Is Relaxed

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As Republicans look for ways to loosen the Affordable Care Act's coverage requirements, sales of short-term health insurance policies could take off.
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Short-term health plans have been around for decades, bridging coverage gaps for people who are between jobs or have recently graduated from school, among other things.
After the Affordable Care Act was enacted, some people gravitated toward the short-term plans because they were willing to trade comprehensive coverage for a cheaper sticker price — even if it meant paying a tax penalty for not having the comprehensive coverage required in the law. Sales increased sharply.
Now, as Republicans look for ways to loosen the health law's coverage requirements and explore the possibility of not enforcing the requirement that people have health insurance, sales of short-term plans may be poised to grow even more. If that happens, consumer advocates say it could be bad for consumers.
As the policies' name suggests, short-term plans provide coverage for a limited period, often six months or less. They generally don't cover such things as pre-existing conditions, maternity services or prescription drugs. The policies typically have maximum coverage limits of about $1 million. Insurers can turn people down if they're sick and may decide not to renew someone's policy. All of these practices are prohibited in plans that qualify as individual insurance under the Affordable Care Act.




Precisely because of these limitations, however, the premiums are typically a lot cheaper than those for ACA-compliant coverage. In the fourth quarter of 2016, the average monthly premium a shopper would pay for a short-term plan sold through eHealth.com was $124, compared with $393 for someone who bought a regular Obamacare plan and didn't qualify for premium subsidies.
When the health law passed, insurers increasingly began offering short-term plans that stretched the definition of "short," sometimes providing coverage for as long as 364 days.
"Carriers were exploiting a loophole in the law that defined a health insurance plan as one that was 365 days," said Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms. "If they were shorter they didn't have to comply with ACA protections."

Short-term plans serve a tiny but growing proportion of the roughly 22 million people who have coverage on the individual market. At the end of 2013, before the health law's major reforms took effect, there were approximately 108,800 people covered by these policies, which earned premiums of $97.5 million, according to figures from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Two years later, roughly 148,100 people had short-term plans and premium earnings had grown to $160.5 million.
Some insurers have taken notice. Online health insurance vendor Health Insurance Innovations launched Agile Health Insurance in the spring of 2015 to focus on sales of short-term plans. In the third quarter 2016, Agile sold 21,000 short-term policies.
"These short-term plans are not regulated like Obamacare plans, so carriers have a lot of flexibility in benefits and pricing," said Sam Gibbs, Agile's executive director. "It's almost like the old individual market before the ACA."
Not all insurers embrace widespread sale of short-term plans. "The big health insurance companies are really mixed on this," said Timothy Jost, professor emeritus at Washington and Lee University School of Law and a close watcher of the health law. "They see this as a seriously destabilizing force in the market, this crap coverage."
Last October, the Obama administration issued a final rule that would make it more difficult for consumers to buy short-term plans to substitute for regular Obamacare plans. The regulation, which takes effect April 1, said short-term plans must be less than three months in duration. People can request a renewal of the policies, but insurers can turn them down. The policies and related materials also have to prominently display a warning that they don't satisfy the law's requirement that people have health insurance.
Some hope that the rule may be changed or rescinded by the Trump administration or overturned by the new Congress under the little-used Congressional Review Act. Neither option can happen at the stroke of a pen, however.
Health insurance brokers and agents would like to continue to sell longer-term short-term plans.
"Our folks do a lot of business with short-term plans," said Marcy Buckner, vice president of government affairs at the National Association of Health Underwriters, an industry group. The regulation is one that the group will request that the Trump administration rescind.
"In most areas [a short-term plan] is cheaper, and it's some consumers' way of saying, 'I don't need all of those things,' " said Buckner.
Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Follow Michelle Andrews on Twitter: @mandrews110

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