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A shortage of middle distillate products like diesel and aviation fuel in the US and Europe due to both maintenance-related and unplanned refinery outages and a lack of capacity expansion is keeping global premiums high. This tightness in the West is attracting cargoes from Asia.
By ERIC YEP
South Korean refineries will operate at almost full capacity
in October to benefit from strong refining margins that are expected
to hold up well into the fourth quarter due to tight supply of
products globally.
A shortage of middle distillate products like diesel and
aviation fuel in the US and Europe due to both maintenance-related and unplanned refinery outages and a lack of
capacity expansion is keeping global premiums
This tightness in the West is attracting cargoes from Asia
and allowing export-oriented refiners like South Korea to enjoy
good margins despite slowing fuel demand in countries like
SK Energy - South Korea's largest refiner, with a capacity
of 1.1 million bpd - earlier planned to shut crude distillation unit No. 2 at its
840,000 bpd Ulsan refinery in October for a month.
It has postponed the maintenance shutdown to 2013 to
exploit good refining margins and recover
inventory losses, said a Seoul-based trader who declined to be
South Korea's complex refining margin to benchmark Dubai
crude averaged around $8.50/bbl as of last week, down slightly
from $9.30/bbl a month earlier.
Refining margins, which act as a market indicator,
will likely continue to remain strong. This is because despite
an increase in US gasoline consumption, there is no global
refining capacity expansion whatsoever, analyst
Youngchan Baek of Hyundai Securities said in a note.
Strong refining margins in Asia are driven
by middle distillates and will be supported by winter demand
for heating oil in Europe and Asian refiners diverting
production to kerosene from jet fuel.
The South Korean government is also trying to contain high
fuel prices by encouraging imports through tax breaks for
electronically traded barrels. Due to this, a substantial
volume of diesel is being imported to South Korea, mainly from
Japan, traders said.
South Korea has traditionally been a diesel exporter, with
exports rising 9.5% to 113.1 million bbl for the January-August
period this year.
However, its diesel imports have also jumped to 1.9 million
bbl for the January-August period from 461,000 bbl during the
same period last year, preliminary data from Korea National Oil
Corp. showed.
South Korea's diesel imports rose to 826,000 bbl in August
from just 98,000 bbl in April, data showed, indicating local
arbitrage from Japan to South Korea that pushed up the premium
for ultra-low sulfur diesel ex-Japan by 30-40 cents/bbl.
South Korea's refiners - SK Energy, Hyundai Oilbank Corp.,
GS Caltex and S-Oil Corp. - processed around 2.59 million bpd
of crude oil in August, up by about 180,000 bpd from a year
earlier, according to KNOC.
Refinery runs in South Korea are
expected to be around 2.67 million bpd in October, during which
no maintenance is planned, according to
a Dow Jones Newswires survey.
Dow Jones Newswires
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The 5 Weirdest Things That Influence How Your Food Tastes
#2. Your Personality and Mood
You already know that people eat fatty and sweet food when they get stressed out -- the snack food industry pretty much depends on this for half of their yearly sales. The simple explanation is that when we're in a bad mood we want to eat something that will make us feel good; the sciencey explanation has to do with how sugar and carbs can boost the levels of Serotonin in the brain. But, strangely, stress can also change the way food tastes to you.
In a somewhat diabolical 1998 study, scientists asked a group of people to each taste a sample of artificial sweetener, and then they went about stressing those people out. They first assigned them each a task of unscrambling a series of jumbled-up words, which might not sound very stressful, but the scientists deliberately designed half of these puzzles to be unsolvable. Oh, and there was a machine which blasted a horn into their ears at completely random intervals.
After this bout of torture, the group was then asked to taste another sample of artificial sweetener and rate how bitter and sweet this sample was compared to the first sample they took. The group rated it as being more bitter, and less sweet than the exact same stuff they ate before the scientists went about pissing them off.
"It's OK, those men can't hurt you anymore."
Does that mean that, because the stressed-out brain wants you to eat something sweet, it makes you perceive foods as being less sweet so that you'll eat more of it? The scientists don't take it that far, though it is interesting to note that strenuous physical exercise does the opposite -- when physically exhausted, you're more likely to taste the sugar in whatever you eat or drink. So if after a long run you chug some Gatorade and suddenly feel like somebody has shot you in the mouth with a sugar cannon, that's why.
And on top of all of that, scientists have found different people taste foods differently based on, not just their mood, but their overall personality. Different chemicals in your food react to different chemicals in your brain, thus the foods you like aren't just personal preference, they say something about how your brain works. Depressed people can't taste sweetness as well, people with panic disorders don't taste bitterness as strongly as others.
Which means all Robert Smith can taste is corn.
So keep that in mind the next time you shove something in a friend's face and say, "OH MY GOD YOU HAVE GOT TO TRY THIS ITS SOOOOOOO GOOD" and after taking a bite they ask if you're high. It's not just personal preference, they are literally tasting it differently than you.
#1. Color
Once again, this is one that seems obvious at first. Of course it matters how food looks -- there are people who work as food stylists whose job it is to dress up food for ads and menu photos. But color can affect your taste buds in all sorts of unexpected ways.
For instance, it's been found that the color of the glass in which the drink is served has the ability to alter how the drink itself tastes. Thanks to our odd tendency to unconsciously associate fiery colors with heat, one study found that drinkers perceived drinks served in yellow and red containers as being hotter than those (same) drinks served within blue and green containers. Other studies have shown that the color of the liquid itself influencing how sweet, sour, or bitter you find it to taste, with green having the effect of making sweet drinks seem even sweeter, while yellow makes them seem less sweet. Take a sour drink and change the color to yellow or green, and it'll taste less sour to you.
"Mmmm ... what is that, goat's blood?"
It's all about expectations. Ever wonder why "hot" cinnamon candies are always red? A hot blue candy would just be... wrong. Which brings us to the weirdest experiment in this article, a famous 1970s study mentioned in the book Fast Food Nation.
The participants were placed in a room and asked to simply eat a meal consisting of steak, french fries, and peas, all of which the experimenters provided. To the untrained eye, the food was completely normal both color-wise and taste-wise, which should have aroused suspicion considering these people knew they were part of an experiment. We'd have expected the scientists to come out at the end and announce, "Congratulations, everything on your plate has touched my balls! For science!"
"And that banana has been in Tony's ass. So fuck you."
But that wasn't it. Unbeknownst to the poor men and women eating this meal, the lights in the room were equipped with filters that hid the fact that all of their food had been dyed the wrong color. When they turned on the normal lights, the test subjects saw that the steak was actually blue, the fries were green, and the peas were red. Luckily for the scientific method, the reaction from the participants was fairly hard to misinterpret: they suddenly became violently ill at the sight of what they'd just eaten.
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La vie est une fleur. L'amour en est le miel. – Victor Hugo
It's translated as "Life is a flower. Love is the honey."
But what does en mean there? Why isn't it translated?
It could be more clearly translated to
In the translation you provided, this relation could be implicitly understood
En together with y are adverbial pronouns. They both replace an antécédent, i.e. a complement previously mentioned in the context.
For instance:
Also, because French's indefinite articles for uncountables or undetermined plurals are built on a genitive / ablative, you will find:
What is more, it can be used with the undetermined article un or rather with cardinal determiners like un, deux, trois, etc. In which case you have to understand the implicit genitive il a pris une pomme (indéterminée parmis les pommes qui existent).
Be careful! en and y always come last in a series of pronouns.


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The Calf Roping with Joe Beaver DVD explores Joe´s runs while he explains his game plan: scoring, handling the slack, approaching and blocking, flanking and tying. This calf roping DVD is very informative and instructional. Learn how to practice for your horse and for yourself, how to select equipment and how to make your ties accurate and fast. 80 min.
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Let $m$ be a secret message that needs to be sent to $n >1$ recipients. Let each recipient $r_i$ have a public key $p_i$ and private key $s_i$. Is there a scheme such that we can encrypt the message $m$ using the $n$ public keys and produce a encrypted message $E(m)$ such that only the $n$ intended recipients can decipher the message $m$?
One method could be to encrypt the message $n$ times, using each recipients public key, and append them all. That is, if $e_i$ is the encrypted message $m$ using the public key $p_i$, then the encrypted message sent to all the recipients could be $E(m) = p_1|e_1|p_2|e_2 \dots p_n|e_n$, where $|$ is the concatenation operation. But this will increase the size of the encrypted message by $O(n)$. So my question really is – can we keep the message length manageable and simultaneously allow multiple recipients to securely decrypt the message.
Is there a special name given to this kind of cryptography problem? The problem seems natural and perhaps has been investigated. I will be grateful for pointers to literature in this area.


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- There is work in progress to add Dutch support to the main pages on the Debian website. If you are interested in helping, please contact the mailing list below!
- See also the project website for more information regarding translating Debian into Dutch.
- Translation coordinators: Luk Claes and Bas Zoetekouw.
- Dutch mailing list: email@example.com. (archive and subscription page)


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If you pick up every item in every mission will you be able to reach level 5 on all weapon mods or do you need to buy some levels of weapon mod at vendor no matter what?
There are 5 levels for each of the 5 mods for each of the 5 weapon types. That's 125 upgrades. There are roughly 25 combat missions, so you would expect to see at least 5 upgrades per mission if you could get them in all in one play through.
Many of the wiki walk throughs list around 5 upgrades, but not all of them.
Not all of them can be found laying around, some need to be bought in stores. Missed mods will show up in stores as well. It is absolutely possible to have all of your mods at rank 5 by the end of the game.


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10 Nov 2012 1:34 AM #1
About 3D Animation
Whenever 3D animation feature will available at Sencha Animator?
12 Nov 2012 5:17 AM #2
Hi Masum,
There is already some 3D support inside Animator. Most of the 3D CSS3 properties are already available: if you select an object you can edit the scale, position and rotation for all three axises: x, y and z. Additionally under Scene Properties -> Advanced you can find the properties for perspective and perspective origin. You will not be able to see changes on the stage when you change these properties, as 3D rendering is not supported inside Animator yet, but if you preview the project in the browser you will be able to see the transformations in 3D properly.
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GhoooOOOooost StooooOOOoories - 07-17-2012, 01:13 PM
So, I'm on a bit of a ghost story kick, and I was wondering if anyone had any good ones from their local area. Being that I live near Chicago, there are plenty I've heard about the city, such as the theater near where Al Capone was killed or Resurrection Cemetery, with the infamous ghost Resurrection Mary who wears a white dancing dress and hitchhikes back on resurrection road, often disappearing right out the passenger door as the car passes the cemetery. They even found little handprints on one of the iron bars on the gates once. Here is a wiki article all about her and the cemetery.
Another infamous one is Cuba Road, which used to be a road traversed my mobsters, and they say you can sometimes see the headlights of an old fashioned 1930s car when nothing is there. This is a quick story about the cemetery off of Cuba Road; I couldn't find a wiki article about it.
Personally, I think they are just stories, but I love reading about them and I'd love to hear what other stories you all have. Who knows, maybe we could even make a contest to doll our local ghost stories. Just a random thought.
Commence story telling in 3, 2, 1....GO!
Oh, there are loads of ghosts in London, which is near where I live. Here are a few of the most well known ones:
The Charterhouse and The Bank Of England
Jack The Ripper Ghosts
Tower of London Ghosts
London Graveyard Ghosts
I have one that I FULLY plan on telling Gracie. Hey, it kept me in line! Her name is La Llorona (it's a spanish tale, so the double L makes a YUH sound, not a LUL sound).
I was not aware it was a traditional tale until I Googled her, just now, lol. I thought it was something my family made up, lol.
So the story I was told differs slightly from the Wiki page, and it's short and to the point. There was once a young mother with several bad children. They drove her insane and they never did as they were told. So, she drowned them. Yeah, she was sad, because she loved her children, much like your mother loves you! But when children are bad, and parents just can't handle it anymore, the Llorona come for them in the night, drags them to the nearest river, and drowns them too.
My family took it a bit further. Have you seen those tall plane towers. You know, they look like red and white candy sticks with the flashing bulb on top? Well, my family told me she lived in the little huts under those poles, and she migrated to each one, to be close to bad kids, and ready to drown them. I can tell you right now, every time I saw one of those towers I was a good girl. EDIT: My husband just informed me that I was mislead, those are actually radio towers, not plane towers.
One time, on a long trip to a family farm, we passed one of the towers and my grandparents' car "died". Right in front of the tower. My cousin and I were FREAKING OUT! They told us to pray to God to help us, and to promise to be good children. So we closed our eyes, and prayed and begged and cried, and FREAKED out. When we opened our eyes were were a mile down the road and firmly believed it was the miracle of God that saved us.
Awwwww, the innocence of childhood, lol. I'm a believer of faith, but that "miracle" was a pure genius shenanigan on my grandparents part. I don't think I misbehaved for months after that! xD
Fun fact, my aunt let a community center paint a mural on her garage...of the tale of the Llorona. Such a nice reminder to behave every time we went to Auntie's house!
This is the best-known one from my area, Pittsburgh; warning, there is a photo inside that some may find disturbing as it is about a real person and why he became part of the legend.
Weird Pennsylvania
Apparently the reason his legend is so widespread is because of all the wars over the last century; his story got told and retold so often, it was like a game of Telephone.
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And behold, he is real.
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
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What's the derivative of the integral $$\int_1^x\sin(t) dt$$
Any ideas? I'm getting a little confused.
What's the derivative of the integral $$\int_1^x\sin(t) dt$$
Any ideas? I'm getting a little confused.
You can use the fundamental theorem of calculus, but if you have not yet covered that theorem, in short, you'll be taking the derivative - with respect to x - of the integral of $\sin(t)dt$ when the integral is evaluated from $1$ to $x$:
$$\frac{d}{dx}\left(\int_1^x \sin(t) \text{d}t\right) = \frac{d}{dx} [-\cos t]_1^x = \frac{d}{dx}\left(-\cos(x) - (-\cos(1))\right) = \sin(x).$$
and you'll no doubt be encountering the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus very, very soon:
For any integrable function $f$, and constant $a$: $$\frac{d}{dx} \left(\int_a^x f(t)dt \right)= f(x),$$
(provided $f$ is continuous at $x$).
Using the fundamental theorem of calculus we know that the answer is $\sin(x)$
$ \frac{d}{dt}\int_1^x\sin(t)dt = \frac{d}{dt} [-\cos t]_1^x = \frac{d}{dt}[-\cos x+\cos(1)] = \sin x $
If $f$ is any function at all that can be integrated, then the derivative of the integral of $f(t)dt$ from $1$ to $x$ is $f(x)$. This wonderful fact is the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
You can use a nice theorem called the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus . Here, we're mainly worried about FTC part 1. Below is a summary of what FTC part 1 says.
Let $f$ be a continuous, function defined on $[a,b]$ and $$F(x) := \int_a^x{f(t)} \ dt \quad \quad \forall x \in [a,b] $$
Then, $F$ is continuous on the closed interval and differentiable on the open interval $(a,b)$ and $F'(x) = f(x) \ \forall x \in (a,b)$.
So, for your problem:
$$\frac{d}{dx}\int_1^x\sin(t) \ dt = \sin(x) \cdot \frac{d}{dx} (x) = \sin(x)$$
Note that you have to replace the $t's$ in the integrand with an $x$ and multiply by the derivative of the upper bound, assuming your lower bound is constant (which it is here.)
As a demonstration of this, suppose we want to calculate
$$\frac{d}{dx}\int_1^{x^2}\sin(t) \ dt $$
This is the same as $$\sin(x) \cdot \frac{d}{dx}(x^2) = 2x \sin(x)$$


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hey all i am trying to write a facebook app using as3 and the facebook-actionscipt graph api library
i am having trouble getting a user's friends list, while i have no problem getting a user's other data (favorite movies, for example)
this is strange since getting a user's friends list is the only thing that is available to anyone on facebook: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/
this function returns an array of movies succesfully:
function loadMovies() {
Facebook.api('/' + userID + '/movies',onLoadedMovies);
function onLoadedMovies(response:Object, fail:Object):void {
(response) ? movies = response : trace(fail);
while this one returns an IOerror in the fail (response=null):
function loadFriends() {
Facebook.api('/' + userID + '/friends',onLoadedFriends);
function onLoadedFriends(response:Object, fail:Object):void {
(response) ? friends = response : trace(fail);
please note that userID is one of the app-user's friends, not the app-user himself
any ideas why this is happening?
thanx Saar
ok after doing some more searching i find that getting friends-of-friends with any api is impossible
this is very interesting - you can access friends-of-friends manually as a facebook user, but not automatically
this means it is not a privacy issue at all - it is something Facebook wants to keep for itself only - for the "People You May Know" section in the facebook page


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I'm going to be embedding Ubuntu on an embedded device. I'm using a combination of aufs and a read only root to ensure that my root fs doesn't get corrupt. However, I want to be able to store logs, so I'm making a special rw partition for
/var/log. The device is going to undergo hundreds of power failure events.
In the event that the partition gets corrupted due to power failure, I want the system to work properly anyway. I'd like the partition to automatically get reformatted in case of corruption. Is there an easy way to configure this?


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Pictures: Christmas recipes from around the world
For many of us in America, Christmas food means candy canes, cookies, a Christmas ham or turkey, and maybe a green bean casserole; but what about the rest of the world? Add an international flair to Christmas dinner this year with traditions and recipes from cultures around the globe.
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I've collected a list of placenames and would like to see them all on a map.
I know I can do a Google Maps search for them one by one.
But I'm wondering if there is a web app out that that can do either of these:
- Find every place mentioned in a document or web page and show a map with all of those places marked.
- Prompt the user for a list of places for which it will then show a map with all of those places marked.
Ideally the map will be zoomed to cover just the region of the world where places are marked.


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Quick Winter Dinner Recipes (Slide 3)
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Sicilian Olive Chicken
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Broccoli, Cannellini Bean &…
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Skillet Chicken with Cranbe…
Celebrate the flavors of fall with chicken cooked in a fast apple-cranberry sauce. If you prefer a l…View slide
Cod with Tomato Cream Sauce
This silky tomato sauce with a touch of cream makes mild-flavored cod sing. Serve with: Farro or ric…View slide
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Thyme adds bright, woodsy flavor to pork and pineapple in this simple one-skillet supper. Serve with…View slide
Sweet Potato-Peanut Bisque
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We like the firmer texture of French green lentils in this hearty dinner salad featuring sausage and…View slide
Inside-Out Lasagna
Here we take basic lasagna ingredients—ricotta cheese, pasta and tomatoes—and skip the layering …View slide
Orecchiette with Broccoli R…
The assertive flavors of broccoli rabe and rosemary are paired with sturdy chickpeas in this satisfy…View slide
Braised Chicken Gumbo
Leftovers make this chicken gumbo an absolute breeze. The only prep you'll need to do is to dice a…View slide
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Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta
This zesty Cajun-style pasta is full of lean chicken, peppers and onions. Serve with sautéed green …View slide
Sweet & Sour Beef-Cabbage Soup
This wholesome sweet-and-sour soup combines beef, caraway seeds, sweet paprika and cabbage—ingredi…View slide
Quick Pastrami Hash & Eggs
When we're in a hurry, we love to have breakfast for dinner. Precooked diced potatoes—available …View slide
Gnocchi with Tomatoes, Panc…
We use just a touch of pancetta—cured Italian-style bacon—to balance the sweet tomatoes and pepp…View slide
Ravioli & Vegetable Soup
Fresh or frozen ravioli cook in minutes and turn this light vegetable soup into a main course. Look …View slide
Scallop Scampi with Peppers
Use a mixture of bell peppers for a colorful (and vitamin C-packed) scallop stir-fry. Pat the scallo…View slide
Pork Chop Suey
Chop suey is often made with bamboo shoots and water chestnuts—add them to this recipe if you wish…View slide
Chicken Sausage with Potato…
Here's our weeknight version of choucroute garni, "dressed sauerkraut," made with chicken saus…View slide
Lamb & Chickpea Chili
This spicy chili has a North African spin with lamb, cinnamon and harissa. If you can't find haris…View slide
Cube Steak with Mushroom-Sh…
Cube steak is a tougher cut of meat pounded to make it tender. We like it because it cooks quickly a…View slide
Beef & Bean Chile Verde
Chile Verde, usually a slow-cooked stew of pork, jalapeños and tomatillos, becomes an easy weeknigh…View slide
Orzo with Lamb, Olives & Feta
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Chicken & Spinach Soup with…
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Saag Tofu
Also known as palak paneer, saag paneer is an Indian classic composed mostly of spinach and paneer�…View slide
Quick French Onion Soup
Bring the allium family—onions, leeks, garlic—together in this simpler and heartier version of F…View slide
Oven-Barbecued Pork Chops
Need a little summertime flavor? Try this swift recipe and enjoy a "barbecue" indoors. Make it a…View slide
Green Pizza
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First Trimester To-Do List
Welcome to pregnancy! You may feel overwhelmed with all you have to do and think about, but pace yourself — nine months is a long time! In this first stage, all you really need to do is learn how to take good care of yourself using these simple steps.
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Call Your Doctor
Call an obstetrician/gynecologist to schedule your first prenatal visit. Selecting a doctor involves deciding where you want to give birth, so consider the options in your area that feel right for you. Even if you're planning on having a home birth, you will need regular medical care and screenings throughout your pregnancy. Referrals from friends and relatives, and information from your health insurance plan, might inform your decision on a hospital/birthing facility and a physician. Your first prenatal appointment is a lot like a regular physical, plus a few additional routine blood tests and urine tests. Most women don't have their first ultrasound scan until around 12 weeks. Talk with your doctor about any vaccines you may need, including a flu shot.


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If you have any tips on things to do in Jacksonville and surrounding areas, feel free to send them to me to be included in future posts.
Memorial day weekend and the unofficial start to summer! Be sure to check the library hours, as we will be closed on Monday!
All weekend –
- Jazz Festival is happening downtown Friday through Sunday for free! Friday night features Sonny Rollins, see the full schedule for the other artists.
- Up for a drive? Palatka is hosting the Blue Crab Festival this weekend! Looks like fun.
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As far as I can see, a card counter is still subject to the same mechanic as any other players, but they are able to perform better then most people within these confines. So why is card counting a justification for casinos to kick people out? Obviously, a card counter will cost them money, but if that is the only justification, then it's like the casino is cheating- they only allow sucky players to play. If you are too good you get thrown out. Is that all there is to it, or is there a valid gameplay justification for this?
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Just a little addition to the previous answer: Imagine you have the opportunity to play blackjack against a thousand people. You have a few advantages, but also have to play by strict and predictable conventions, but the thousand can play in any manner they choose.
You also know that one of those thousand is capable of card-counting. You wouldn't risk your money betting against someone with such an advantage would you? You'd stick with the odds, and play only the other 999. A perfectly sensible and logical position, which is, in essence, the same position the casino takes.
Card counting isn't considered illegal. Casinos have the right to deny service to anyone, and of makes sense to deny players from playing a game in which they have an advantage versus the house. This isn't cheating in any sense of the word. 994 P.2d 1151 (2000) CHEN v. NEVADA STATE GAMING CONTROL BOARD and Monte Carlo Resort & Casino:
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Card counting ISN'T illegal. (Unless you use a "device" such as a computer to do so in Nevada, which is a felony under Nevada law.)
Card counting is frowned upon because it violates the UNWRITTEN "law" (that the casino is supposed to have the edge). From the CASINO's point of view, it is a case of "if this isn't illegal, it ought to be." Hence they take measures such as barring, or harassing card counters, which go to the border (and sometimes beyond) the law. But Nevada courts do tend to side with the casinos for economic reasons.
If a player played "Basic" (optimal) strategy, and "flat bet," (bet the same on every hand), the casino would have an edge of about 1%. What card counters do is to watch for a handful of situations that come up occasionally, where the player is favored. Then they "jump" their bets by five or ten times to take advantage of these situations, and bet a "basic" unit at other times, shifting the odds in their favor.
A variation of this is "team" play, whereby a team of counters will "spread" among the tables, watching for favorable situations, and making a minimum bet of say, $10 a hand. This is a form of "trolling." When the cards get "good," they will signal a well dressed team mate called a "big player" to come to "their" table, and make "outsized" bets of $50 or $100, or even $500-$1000 (these situations are rare enough that you will seldom have two "good" tables at a time). This strategy calls for the big player to "table hop" in a seemingly random fashion (but actually based on signals from his teammates).
Needless to say, "trolling" and "table hopping," whether or not for the purpose of making money, while not illegal, are socially gauche. So casinos will eject players for that kind of behavior alone, whether or not connected with card counting. (And the assumption is that most people would not engage in that kind of behavior unless they are card counting.)
Card counter Kenny Uston won a court case in New Jersey that prohibits Atlantic City casinos from barring or harassing card counters. They are allowed to take "defensive" measures such as shuffling up after every deal.
Card counters exploit a flaw in the game implementation which is not actually part of the rules of the game. The rules of blackjack say nothing about dealing multiple hands from the same pre-shuffled stack - but that's exactly what makes card counting possible.
This flaw (and thus card counting) can actually be neutralized in two ways:
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The rotoscoping filter lets you create masks using cubic Bézier curves and keyframes.
The initial mask can be finished (after creating some points by clicking on the (edit) monitor) with a right mouse button click, or by clicking on the point that was created first.
To fine tune you can move the individual points and their handles. Multiple points can be selected by holding down shift while dragging the mouse to create a rectangular shape. You can remove points from that selection by clicking on them with ctrl pressed. The opposite (adding points to the selection with ctrl + mouse click) is not yet possible.
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All keyframes should have the same number of points (unless you really know what you are doing)! In the future (post 0.8) some controls might be added to make life with this limitation a bit easier.
A smooth transition at the edge of the mask can be created by setting the feather width (no keyframes). Feathering is just a simple average/box blur applied to the mask, so it might not look terribly good. Therefore you have the possibility to do multiple blur/feathering passes (3 passes will give a good approximation of a Gaussian blur).
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we're planning to start a new dnd campaign with my friends and we're a little worried about what class to choose. The group will include three players so we cannot fill all roles. What combination of classes would you suggest in order to make a group capable to survive in a campaign?
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I'm going to take a strangely contrary position here.
Don't worry about it. Imposing or even suggesting classes without concomitant system mastery will not produce a good result.
I have found that, in starting a new campaign, peoples abilities to predict what they will and will not like to play are extremely poor. Instead of trying to make decisions for the whole campaign right now, instead, engage in a Level 0 adventure for your first game. Once you've gotten a feel for what classes the players want to play, engage in group character creation to have everyone produce a coherent party. The other benefit of group character creation is that when players inevitably make the wrong choices for their characters (mental-model mismatch is really painful, as I can attest from personal experience), it is very easy to bring in new characters without stretching suspension of disbelief.
Furthermore, any party combination should work, though some will require the party and/or the DM to increase their mental flexibility.
You may also want to read this, and this.
From a jurist's point of view, however, there are a number of exceptional combinations, depending on party preferences.
In no particular order:
My most critical advice: Give players 2 cookies: a minor and a major respec. A minor respec is "redo your current build, but keep your class the same." or "Now that you've played the first session, fix the obvious mistakes." A major respec is "no, this person was this other person all along. Don't think too hard about it." This (peanut butter) cookie should be saved when players realize that they don't like what their current role does and would much rather play a new one. Don't forget to refluff so that the players' desires for mechanics match their desires for flavour. Especially when coming from earlier systems, the affordances provided by each class can change significantly. Few things are as un-fun as watching a bard turn suicidal because the player doesn't want to play a leader.
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Include a leader, a striker and a defender and have everyone think about control at least a little bit. Here is an example of what you can do:
This is some solid party synergy and gives a solid basics kind of feel. If you want to go for more interesting stuff you could skip the rogue and go wizard. I'd say the fighter and the cleric are essential. Then depending on what your DM plans to throw at you should determine your choice between a rogue and a wizard (smaller tougher mobs -> rogue, larger weaker (minion) mobs -> wizzy). If you go wizard you may want to consider a hybrid melee/ranged cleric rather than a true ranged cleric. Or you may want to consider a Warlord rather than a cleric.


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Eddie Redmayne Gossip
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Eddie Redmayne, the human equivalent of the puppy who most wants to be adopted, also turned up at the MTV Movie Awards, to debut the first trailer from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Holy sh*t, you guys. Full Story
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David Oyelowo's suit was the one I saw first. It's three pieces and it's got a purple-on-purple dot thing going on. I ask you, why wouldn't you? If you're not nominated for a career-defining award (or really, the predecessor to one and you're going to be mostly remembered for smirking in a GIF to begin with. Full Story
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Eddie Redmayne and Hannah Bagshawe left LA yesterday to return to London, just in time for Christmas and a break from the campaign. That's why he was in Hollywood. To support The Danish Girl, of course, but also, at the same, to secure his second nomination in a row for Best Actor. Click here Full Story
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It was announced today that Alicia Vikander will receive the Rising Star Award at the Palm Springs Film Festival in January. As you know, Alicia's being positioned for an Oscar nomination for her work in The Danish Girl and she's shown up on several critics' lists as one of the best of the year though it remains to be seen how her chances will be affected by the category controversy between supporting and lead. Full Story
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Alicia Vikander will be considered among the best actresses for contention at the Golden Globes even though the studio has been campaigning for her to be in the supporting actress category. While it's still not known whether or not the Academy will just go with whatever the studios submit or correct the category fraud. Full Story
Eddie's quiet campaign
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Eddie Redmayne is back on the Oscar circuit this year for playing transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. His performance - which is really a textured portrayal of two different characters (Einar and Lili) who share the same internal pain - is a professional gamechanger for him. Yes, this part, which at one point during the film's 15-year gestation belonged to Nicole Kidman, could catapult Eddie to the Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks movie star tier of back-to-back Oscar winners. Full Story
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TIFF Review: The Danish Girl
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Josh Brolin snuck into the premiere of The Danish Girl on Saturday night. This is unusual for a star at a film festival to do, to make time in their busy interview and party schedule to check out another movie. But when asked about it the next day by etalk host Ben Mulroney, Josh said, "I'm a fan, man!" and explained that he had a "chemical need" to see the movie as soon as possible. Full Story
Eddie on repeat?
The Danish Girl premiered in Venice this weekend. Eddie Redmayne was there with co-star Alicia Vikander and his wife, Hannah Bagshawe. As expected, Eddie's performance is generating Oscar buzz. Experts are predicting he'll get another nomination. Some are speculating as to whether he might go 2 for 2 and actually win back-to-back Best Actor trophies. Full Story
Eddie Redmayne looks PHENOMENAL in The Danish Girl
The Theory of Everything was so calculated and mercenary in its intentions it might as well have been titled GIVE US OSCARS NOW PLEASE. It was unsubtle, and while yes, Eddie Redmayne was physically convincing as Stephen Hawking as ALS wrecked his body, there was no nuance anywhere in that movie, not even in Redmayne's performance. Full Story


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President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner signaled Friday a willingness to compromise on tax positions that have led to a budget stalemate, in a bid to defuse partisan tensions before talks next week to avert a year-end fiscal crisis.
Mr. Obama invited Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to the White House next Friday to discuss how to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of big tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to begin Jan. 1.
Mr. Obama, in his first statement on the fiscal cliff since winning re-election Tuesday, said any deal must include tax increases on "the wealthy." He also called on the House to immediately pass a Senate bill that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts on household income under $200,000 a year for individuals and below $250,000 for couples.
Despite his urging for a bipartisan deal, Mr. Obama intends to force Republicans to defend their opposition to Democrats' bill in the Senate that extends those cuts. He will continue to press his case in coming weeks, administration officials said.
The Bush tax cuts are set to expire Jan. 1. At the same time, $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts over 10 years will begin if Congress and the White House don't act.
"If we're serious about reducing the deficit, we have to combine spending cuts with revenue, and that means asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes," Mr. Obama said in the East Room of the White House.
"I'm not wedded to every detail of my plan. I'm open to compromise," he added. "But I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced.…And on Tuesday night, we found out that the majority of Americans agree with my approach."
Mr. Obama also signaled that a deal would include changes to entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, but he didn't mention Social Security
The president didn't specifically mention raising tax rates on households earning more than $250,000 a year, as he did throughout his re-election campaign. Mr. Obama's remarks came after Mr. Boehner said Friday he is open to a deal that raises tax revenue but not rates, leaving open the possibility for a compromise that includes limiting or eliminating tax deductions or other tax breaks for those families.
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White House press secretary Jay Carney, responding to questions after the president spoke, said Mr. Obama would veto any legislation that extends the Bush-era tax cuts for the top 2% of American income earners. At the same time, he didn't rule out extending the rates if they were linked to raising revenue from wealthy people by eliminating deductions.
Mr. Boehner responded to the president's statement by accepting the invitation to the White House meeting.
He reiterated his opposition to the Senate bill that would extend middle-income rates while allowing top rates to rise. He said he maintained a measure of hope that a wide-ranging deal was possible.
"The year 2013 should be the year we begin to solve our country's debt problem through entitlement reform and a new tax code with fewer loopholes and lower rates,'' Mr. Boehner said.
That echoed statements the Speaker made at a news conference before Mr. Obama spoke, when Mr. Boehner signaled he was open to more revenue by eliminating tax breaks as a part of broad based tax reform.
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The statements from Messrs. Obama and Boehner Friday leave room for compromise. Elements could include new limits on tax deductions for businesses and wealthy individuals. Each year, Americans claim more than $1 trillion in tax deductions and bipartisan panels have called for curbs on these breaks.
Mr. Obama has several proposals in his 2013 budget that could become elements of a deal. They include reducing the value of all itemized tax deductions for households earning more than $250,000 to 28% from the current 35% limit; lifting tax rates on investment income for those households; and reinstating old limits on some tax breaks for the wealthy that were suspended by the Bush-era tax cuts. And he wants to impose a special minimum tax on the very high-income—those making more than $1 million a year. The White House also has focused on curbing other tax exemptions, such as those on interest from bonds issued by state and local governments and contributions to retirement plans. The White House has estimated the total package would raise about $584 billion over 10 years.
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Yesterday my first work in mathematics was sent to a publisher, and of course I'm interested in its usefulness. But I know, that sometimes it is hard to get a paper, it is not available for free. I hope my paper will not be of that kind. I hope it will be simple to find it and to read it, I hope a few hundred people will read it. Therefore I have this question. When do mathematicians usually lose their right to share their papers on the internet, why some of them doesn't like to do this and which ways are there to overcome these "sharing difficulties"?
Read any contract you sign carefully, otherwise you may lose rights you wanted to keep. In 2000, CRC Press sued Eric Weisstein because he posted free updates to the web of a mathematics book he had written and published with them.
Usually non-commercial publishers like the AMS allow you to keep any rights you want, while commercial publishers often try to get the rights for themselves (but will usually allow you to keep them if you make a fuss).
After your paper is accepted, you should politely ask the publisher for a version of the copyright form that either a) places the paper in the public domain or b) allows you to retain copyright. In my experience, a) sometimes works and b) always works.
Some journals are public access. Some journals make articles publicly available after some time period, for example a year. Others are complete paywalls.
There is a distinction between the document you submit and the edited document which is published; your freedom to distribute the edited document may be more limited, although you will typically be able to share on an individual basis with colleagues.
Also there is arxiv. I would bet that you would be allowed to keep your preprint on arxiv as long as it is untouched by an editor of a journal, but I'm not positive about this and I would like to know more myself.


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A satellite town is a town that is located in the outskirts of a major city. What is the origin of this name, satellite town? What does "satellite" exactly mean here?
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At OED.com* the 6th noun definition of satellite is firstly of a state (country, principality, etc.,) that is politically or economically dependant on and subservient to another. Their earliest quote:
As you can see, satellite is being used in a metaphorical sense, so the origin is the astronomical definition of satellite. The meaning of satellite with regards to towns being:
Which you can see is parallel to the definition for states.
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In space, a satellite is something that orbits (or goes around) something else. Usually the smaller object orbits the bigger one.
Geographically, then, a satellite town is a community located near a big city. Typically, there is some "attachment" between the satellite town and the nearby city (for example, a large percentage of the workers in the satellite town are employed in the city).
'Satellite' simply means a 'follower' -- a smaller object or person following a bigger one.
1540s, "follower or attendant of a superior person," from M.Fr.satellite (14c), from L. satellitem (nom. satelles) "attendant" ...
The term was used in the astronomical sense by Kepler in the 1610s.
By extension, a thing dependent, and typically found around, a larger one of its like is a satellite.
Well, a "satellite" of a planet is an object in its orbit. As far as I'm aware, it's simply an analogy on that. Doing a quick unscientific Google Books search and looking at how "satellite" appears to be predominantly used in the 19th and early 20th century ("satellite town" appears to have been coined in the 1910s/1920s), this would seem to be how speakers have always conceived of the term.
It is true that "satellite" is occasionally used in other contexts to mean "adjoining"/"accompanying", e.g. the term "satellite vein", which apparently predates "satellite town" by some decades, but this usage appears to have been marginal compared to the use of "satellite" in the planetary context.
It is taken from the Sanskrit word Sathiya, which means follower. The French spelled it their way from Sanskrit/Hindi.


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I have a question regarding enumeration of perfect lattices/quadratic forms. In the thesis of Achill Schürmann http://fma2.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~achill/public/habil.pdf there is an algorithm called "Voronoi's algorithm" in chapter 3, used to enumerate arithmetically inequivalent perfect quadratic forms (meaning the forms cannot be obtained one from another by scaling with a constant or applying a unimodular transformation, where the latter corresponds to a change in the basis of the lattice associated to a certain quadratic form). It is denoted as Algorithm 1 in the thesis, and is on page 49. I wonder how this algorithm can stop? I suspect that the bound on a quadratic form developed at the end of the proof of Theorem 184.108.40.206 on page 48 is used to have a stopping condition. That bound basically says that all inequivalent quadratic forms have a bounded trace depending only on the dimension and the minimum distance. I wonder whether anyone knows how this algorithm can stop? Also, in a lattice problem that I have, the upper bound I have developed is much lower than the one presented in the end of the proof of Theorem 126.96.36.199 for high dimensions, so then I'm wondering whether Voronoi's algorithm can be efficient for enumerating all perfect forms for my problem? Is it so that the bottleneck of that enumeration algorithm is that it is hard to find extreme rays of polytopes in high dimensions? In that case, it might not be efficient for my problem too. Is there a faster algorithm than Voronoi's? Grateful for any comments.
The algorithm stops when you don't get any more perfect forms. Specifically, at each step you determine all the contiguous forms $Q_i$ and test whether they are equivalent to forms you already knew. For all the ones that aren't, you add them to the list and iterate to determine all the forms contiguous to them, etc., so your list keeps getting longer and longer. At some point all of the contiguous forms will already be on the list, and then you are done.
Theorem 220.127.116.11 shows that there are only finitely many perfect forms, so the algorithm must eventually terminate, but the specific bound is not used in the algorithm.
You are right that finding extreme rays of polytopes in high dimensions is the bottleneck. To deal with the 8-dimensional case, you need to take advantage of all available symmetries (see Appendix A), and 9 dimensions has not been completed.
You seem to need lots of background. See the site of MARTINET and his page of perfect lattices PERFECT. Then there is his BOOK
A colleague of Martinet not using MO is NEBE, who has published extensively on your topic. She also maintains CATALOGUE with Sloane.
Voronoi Algorithm is about optimal if you are interested in enumerating all perfect form. The problem is that usually one is interested in enumerating the ones with some specific property (high packing density, etc.) but there is no way that I know to restrict the enumeration.
The algorithm works by finding an initial perfect form, finding the adjacent perfect form, testing for isomorphism and finishing when all perfect forms have been enumerated. There are three key algorithm in the computation: testing for isomorphism, flipping the form to the adjacent one and computing facets of the perfect cone. Of those the first two are usually ok and the last one is the one that causes problems.
The best is probably to use an empirical approach of running the enumeration and seeing how much form it finds. Using this in dimension 9, 500000 perfect forms were found and it is likely that the number is much higher hence uncomputable. If the number is not too large, then it may be possible to prove that the list is complete by solving those hard dual description problems.


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I have geometry data in SQL Server 2008 R2. How do I load that spatial data using the ArcGIS Javascript API?
Write a WCF service that returns a JSONP response. WCF service should return a data in following format:
you cannot access any kind of data with any web API if that data isn't published in an ArcGIS Server map service (or WMS, or KML, etc.). Nor a sql server spatial data, neither any "classic" ArcGIS data (shapefile, featureclass inside a geodatabase, etc). you have to setup an mxd project with that data loaded (you can load spatial data from sql server) and then publish it as map service on ArcGIS server. all the web API (Flex, Silverlight, Javascript) work only over web available map services (in particular http REST with ArcGIS server). hope this helps
I don't have time to try out the specifics, but it might not be too difficult to add data retrieved from SQL Server to an graphics layer on your map. Here's a somewhat related example
Looks like the architecture is pretty sound, even though the final product may not be exactly what you're looking for.
Also, as robmyes mentioned, a more straightforward approach may be to format your data in ArcMap and publish a map service that directly references your data in SQL Server. I've played around with Query Layers (new in ArcGIS 10) and was pretty impressed. No SDE requirement!


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I understand what prototypal inheritance is all about, but I must be confused as to the implementation. I thought that modifying a function constructor's prototype would affect all instances of that constructor, but this isn't the case. How does JS do the method lookup from an object to its prototype?
Here's an example
function A(name){
this.name = name;
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talk: function(){
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Last summer, a massive storm with sustained 70 mph winds left thousands of West Virginia residents without power for varied lengths of time. Some Wetzel County customers of Mon Power, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy, were stuck in the dark for roughly two weeks because of the catastrophic damage.
To prevent similar problems in West Virginia's future, the commission ruled Wednesday that electric companies must develop plans for "comprehensive vegetation trimming" that should be followed on a regular cycle. The exact time tables for trimming are yet to be determined, but state officials want to see specific proposals from the electric companies by July.
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LINE DOWN — Proctor, W.Va., residents Ady and Edwin Wright waited almost two weeks for their electricity to be restored last summer as a result of this large tree collapsing. A Wednesday order of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia requires electric companies to trim large trees to help prevent future widespread outages. - Sarah Harmon
In the Northern Panhandle, residents of Ohio and Marshall counties receive electricity from AEP. Those in Hancock, Brooke, Wetzel and Tyler counties get service from FirstEnergy's Mon Power. Todd Meyers, spokesman for Mon Power, said his company already spends about $30 million per year to trim trees in West Virginia.
"The No. 1 culprit for outages is trees," he said. "We view this decision by the commission as a positive, which will give us a chance to improve upon what we already do."
Meyers said FirstEnergy officials try to trim trees in more heavily populated areas every three years, while trimming those in more rural areas every six years. He said a new plan for more trimming could cost more money, which FirstEnergy may try to recover in the form of a rate increase for customers.
"We are too early in this to know how much the increase - if there is an increase - would be," Meyers emphasized.
According to the commission's order, electric companies must submit proposals for how they plan to recover the costs of the new tree trimming plans, while the commission reserves the right to approve or deny such proposals.
"This was a very severe event. Sustained winds like that are very unusual," Meyers added of the June and July storms.
AEP spokeswoman Jeri Matheny said her company views the ruling as a "positive step to help improve reliability for our customers."
"We believe in cycle-based trimming," she said, though noting she was not sure Wednesday of the company's proposed time frame for cutting. "If there is an increase in cost, it is far too early to say how much we would ask for," she added when asked about a possible rate increase for customers.