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Chevron's Richmond refinery should be back online in early 2013, firm tells analysts
SAN RAMON -- Chevron's Richmond refinery, hobbled since early August by a disastrous fire, is expected to resume full production sometime during the first three months of next year, Chevron executives said Friday, which could spell relief from high gasoline prices for California drivers.
"The crude unit remains offline. We have an expected startup during the first quarter of 2013," Mike Wirth, executive vice president for downstream and chemicals operations for Chevron, told analysts during a conference call to discuss the company's weaker-than-expected earnings for the third quarter.
An investigation continues into what caused a crucial pipe to corrode, contributing to an equipment failure that triggered the fire at the crude unit, which is central to the vast East Bay refinery's operations.
"This is the most definitive statement we've made about a startup of the unit," said Kurt Glaubitz, a Chevron spokesman.
The company has estimated that production is at 60 percent of capacity at the 245,000-barrel-a-day plant, one of the largest on the West Coast.
"Chevron wants to get that back up and running as soon as possible, not only for the company's sake, but for the sake of California motorists," said Brian Youngberg, an analyst with investment firm Edward Jones. "The fire has made gasoline supplies in California pretty tight."
Three months after the fire, gasoline prices in the Bay Area on Friday averaged $4.03 a gallon, about 4.5 percent higher than the average price of $3.86 in the hours before the blaze, according to this newspaper's analysis of a survey conducted by the GasBuddy website. Still, those prices are well below the peak levels that occurred around Oct. 6, when Bay Area gasoline prices averaged $4.25 a gallon, or about 10 percent above the pre-fire levels.
The company intends to continue operating its Richmond and Southern California refinery in El Segundo despite what is generally considered a rough regulatory environment in the Golden State, Wirth said.
"The West Coast refinery business is a core business," he said. "These refineries are big, and they are more profitable than the competition. We have weathered the cycles here. We can make a go of it in California if anybody can."
Chevron executives warned that Assembly Bill 32, officially known as The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, will cause gasoline prices to spike in California.
"It will raise costs for operating in California initially by hundreds of millions of dollars a year and then by billions of dollars a year," Wirth said. "All of those higher costs have to go through to the gasoline market. We can't absorb those higher costs. We won't absorb those higher costs."
San Ramon-based Chevron earned $5.25 billion during the third quarter that ended in September, down 32.9 percent from the year-ago July-September quarter. Per-share profits totaled $2.69 a share. Wall Street had expected a profit of $2.83 a share.
"Crude oil prices were down, and we had a heavy period of planned oil field maintenance, which temporarily reduced oil and gas production," Chevron CEO John Watson said in a prepared release.
Chevron expects production to improve in final months of this year.
"The company is getting into the final phases to get these projects online," said Robbert van Batenburg, head of equity research at Louis Capital Markets.
New oil and natural gas fields are also making considerable progress in Australia, Sierra Leone, the Gulf of Mexico and New Mexico.
"Chevron has a lot of long-term growth potential," Youngberg said. "They have a lot of projects. That growth will really kick in during 2014. Australia is the cornerstone for all that."
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Note for those porting to v3
There are a lot of changes with v3, and they are basically good. I am doing the K8 port now, and I'd like to accumulate wisdom on this page. V3 really is very different and you don't realize it until you get into it.
Compile once, link once, use everywhere.
The first thing to remember is that v2 is very much shaped by the romcc legacy. So you will see comments like this in v2 commits: "get more code compiling in both places" or some such.
What does this mean? It means, for example, that the function xyz(device_t) has to compile and work when device_t is a u32 (as in the ROM-based code that starts RAM) and as a struct device * (as in the RAM-based code). This schizophrenia pervades v2, even when it is not needed (as in v2 targets that can run with cache-as-ram). A lot of v2 code is still compiled twice.
This is especially true of the .h files with inlined functions. In v2, a lot of SMBUS functions are inlined, meaning they get compiled into the ROM and RAM code.
A dramatic change in v3 is that the ROM-based code can be called from the RAM-based code. This change in turn means that many support functions should be built into the ROM-based code, one example being the functions that support PCI config space.
Note: stage0 is very early assembly, and stage1 is ROM-based C code. For reasons of history the Makefiles call some code STAGE0, though we ought to call it STAGE1. Sorry.
What does this imply? In v3, you should plan to move code to stage1, and then mark certain functions as SHARED, so they can be called from stage2. Here's an example: there is code that calls die(). In the bad old days die was compiled in to several places. Now it just has to be callable from anywhere.
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In an interview with CNET, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime revealed that the Nintendo Wii U sold upwards of 400,000 units during its launch week and that it is pretty much entirely sold out of retail. This must be promising news for Nintendo as they have sold everything they produced for the first week, but how does this compare to the first week sales of other consoles in North America?
It sold out of stock and people are comparing it. Why compare it? If it's sold out then it shouldn't be compared to anything else since it can't exceed X amount of units sold due to, y'know selling out.
It's better to compare to wii.
@below ok dude don't be so hurt. I am sorry I said that... WiiU for give me?
Why compare it? It's sold out. If it's sold out than there is no logical way for it to match other console's sales.
People REALLY think these devices, or any major device for that matter, genuinely has no stock on release? Give me a break, they have freeking TONNES of them and say they are "sold out" or deliver in waves to keep demand high, where is the rush if Nintendo said "Chill guys! we made 10 million of them!"...
Here's the perfect video to show my point
It is sold out in some places and in stock in others. It depends on where you are. I think we can agree on that.
A comparison to other platforms, not really a viable way to gauge its success. I mean we could use another example of the ps3 vs the ps2.
Neither are correct comparatives but regardless of the comparison...the unit has sold and will continue to do so to those that are wanting one.
That statement came across as "hurt" to you?
well to be fair, every console sells out of stock on a regular basis for the first 3-6 months typically. no point in comparing until its first year on the market has finished
The problem is that it "isn't" sold out of stock.. Right now I can drive to Wal-Mart, Target, or Toys'r'us and buy one. I live downtown Indianapolis
It isn't sold out here either, and I live in outside Raleigh, NC. There's plenty of people here with money and not enough stuff to spend it on.
THAT comment was extremely uncalled for.
It never ceases to amaze me how people here resort to personal attacks when others don't share their opinions.
True...I walked into a gamestop in new jersey and got a deluxe u with no problem. Also, they have 4 other deluxe and 12 white systems.
I live in Indianapolis and i have not seen any. I went to wal mart saw 1 wii u, came back 30 mins it was gone so sir I am calling you out i live in downtown indianapolis show me the proof. All of you.
Really? I live in Indy too I know Target on W38th is sold out. JB no one lives in Downtown Indy LOL
I live up on 79th and Michigan near Pike High School. I bought mine the day it came out and I love it but that doesn't change the fact that yesterday the wal-mart on 86th had a basic, the target on Michigan had 1 basic and 1 deluxe and Toy's R Us in near castleton square mall had a couple as well. Like I said.. I love the system. No the stores are not overfilled with stock but that's on Nintendo. They are the king of artificial shortages after all. In any case I need me some ZombiU friends, especially if your from indy lol
all i know is bunch are being sold on ebay for regular price. so while it did sell out in stores like all nintendo consoles, its not as big as people who wanted to buy than make 2-3 times more
this is age on internet everything will be compared to something else deal with it. compare wii-u sales to ps3,xbox360 IMO since there is not ps4 or xbox720 yet.
According to the people who are hitting the agree/disagree buttons. You are wrong. lol
The system seems like it sold out because Nintendo things they are slick. Many sores only got 5-10 consoles in stock. My local best buy only got 5 systems. So yeah it seems like they sold out to make uneducated consumers want it even more.
It's not sold out, though. I was at Walmart yesterday, Sunday, two days after the biggest sales day of the year, and there were Wii Us available. Atleast one of each model.
Reggie wants people to think it's sold out and it's so difficult to get their hands on one so as soon as they see one they'll buy it. People always want something that's desirable, but him saying it's sold out is a lie.
Checking Walmart.com right now, the 32GB model is showing available in all 13 stores in a range of 50 miles from my zip code.
Nintendo did the same thing with the wii. Sending out limited amounts to stores trying to build hype. It worked for the wii will it work for the wiiu?
It's not sold out, but it is marked up online for the suckers who want one.
News flash, all consols launch with so called limited stock and sell out so whats your point exactly.
Selling out isn't a measure of anything other than how few units Nintendo shipped.
i hope PS4 will be priced like Wii U from day one because i'm not ready to pay 600€ like i did in 07.
I hear you on that, but that's also the reason why sony continues to provide support for their older consoles.
I don't want the PS4 to only be a slight upgrade from the PS3. I want something that is substantially better than the PS3, so if it has to be $600.00 so be it. The people who can't afford it will stick with their PS3/Xbox360/PSVita/Wii U until they can afford it.
Ideally this would be great, but I don't think Sony can afford to let most people stay with their old consoles for too long. And they can't really sell for a huge loss again. I'm actually not sure what they're gonna do. i don't see what's so bad about a not so big upgrade, if it can end with the type of library the PS2 had that would be a much bigger success in my eyes than the PS3.
What an inane comment. Having a 600 dollar console again would ruin Sony. It almost killed them with the PS3 and you want another one? That's crazy talk.
I bought a Ps3 day one. 600 dollars for the console was too much.
the only way for ps4 to be substantialy be better than ps3 is top the line pc components and that is not happening. people forget what console gaming is intended for, a cheap entry level into gaming for those who can't afford gaming PC's this is what consoles where invented for. if consoles cost more than 400 there's no value in them and your better of saving up a couple more hundred and getting a mid range pc and upgrade in few years. pc always out performs consoles and that is the end of it
Expect it to be $399.
$450 would be the premium model. I think XD
I doubt the PS4 will be priced anywhere under 400 especially if the hardware will be a significant improvement over the Wii U. Sony MIGHT release a higher end model with a bigger hard drive and more features for another hundred dollars. I think Sony will price their console competitively with MS more than they would Nintendo given the Wii U will no doubt be the weakest console of this new generation.
Sony will wait for hardware parts to become cheaper so that they don't have to launch at an outrageous price. Anything over $400 for gaming console these days is crazy.
I'll never understand the logic behind people who respond to news about a given console only to talk about a different one.
Unless you want the PS3 to have around the same performance as the Wii U then it is going to be a good few hundred dollars higher.
Sony could put a radeon 7770 gpu in the ps4 it cost 130 and runs bf3 @1080p to 30-40 fps on ultra and the ps4 is rumored to include an apu that probably could help the gpu.
But by the time you buy an external hard drive and wii motes pro controller etc which are essentially needed for the full expeirience it's close to €600 anyway just saying
The only thing I had to buy was pro-controller. I already had 3 Wii Remote plus controllers. And an extra hard drive. Any Hard Drive under 3 terabytes will work. You can pick up a Terabyte Hard drive for $99 on EBay and just be done with it. Instead of spending $50 on a 250MB hard drive for Xbox360.
If the PS4 is as stupidly more powerful than the Wii U as a lot of people think it will be it'll have to be at least twice as pricey.
I hope all of you realize the only reason why the PS3 was SO expensive was due to the blu-ray drive.
And btw, there was a $500 PS3 model just like there was a $300 360. And both had high-end GPUs.
I think ps4 will be $399 for one model...and $449 for another. They won't make the same mistake twice. Also, making the ps3 more efficiently will should help with ps4. (I love games..got everything from old to new)
Yeah i did not like how sony did that to their loyal fans. But the fans a lot of them want the PS4 to perform like a super computer, and if it did it would be $600 again so i think sony should just release it, and not price it too high.
We can't predict how the Wii u will be doing in the future from these numbers alone.
The gamcube in the first week sold 500000 unit in the first week but it lifetime sales were very miserable.
The ps3/Xbox 360 sold about 400000 unit in the first week and both going strong over the 70 million mark.
I agree first week sales really do not show anything unless they are selling a few thousands or managed to produce millions and they sold them all. Its the first few monthly sales there after which is really telling. Apart from than it is a nice amount sold.
The desperation of buyers of the Wii who couldn't get one is nowhere to be found for the WiiU.
That's the point. And it's not sold out. That's lies. I can go right now to my local Walmart. Their right behind the glass.
Reggie says that wii sold 300k units first week...lies.
It was 600k. So WiiU is 200k behind.
Reggie says blops2 is better looking on the WiiU.
Lies....screen tearing, 8fps is single player, color saturation (subjective), AA.....looks no better than 360; and under performs big time compared to 360.
It does look better on Wii U actually, the shading, lighting and textures are quite a bit better on it.
So we are comparing turd with another turd now?
Look at where the peanut and the piece of corn on this one , check out how it sticks out on this one. I think i see a pixel on that one, and this one is way to brown...
Well it is sold out in some places. So it could have sold more, but there are also plenty of people who can't get their hands on one still. It seems to depend on your location.
people are still bitching about graphics? Didn't people learn from the ps3 launch that it doesnt matter?
Sure, the graphic in those games were okay but holy shit they were bad!
If you want graphics get a PC...
On the Blops2 note it actually does look better on Wii U. This is coming from an avid CoD player on the 360. I own both versions is the Wii U is noticably better. And the sales thing is a gray area, he could just be talking about the US, or he could be talking about canada and mexico as well. Its easy to spin and not be wrong, its kind of a politician move
wii u will not be anywhere near as successful as wii.. It will prolly sell like N64 did
There's a pretty huge gap between the sales of the Wii and N64. The PS3 and 360 were also not anywhere as successful as the Wii, but I would still wouldn't call those failures (well at least not the 360). I expect the Wii to sell around 70-80 mil lifetime.
No it will sell a lot more then the N64 sorry just will, a lot more 3rd party support, and appeal to casual and hardcore gamers will make sure of that i mean when sony sold 150 million we all knew that those people would not dry up, so sorry the nearly 100 million people who bought a wii are not gonna go poof ok?
First console launch in years that i could care less about. I was more hyped for the Wii, and i barely get any mileage out of it.
You mean couldn't care less about don't you?
1. I am german and even I know "I could care less" is 'wrong'. Well a native speaker should know better, shouldn't he? http://grammar.quickanddirt...
2. I am an atheist and maybe that is the reason why I have informed myself about multiple religions several years ago.
Jihaad could be his real name (I had a friend back in elementary school whose name was Jihaad).
And Jihad itself doesn't mean anything evil, so there is no reason to ban him or call him a "sonofabitch" (maybe "grammar nazi" ;))
Jihaad_cpt has only 1 bubble that's why I responded.
Less hate and more mutual understanding.
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I couldn't care less is the correct statement so next time, stop and think before you go on a silly immature rant which only serves to make you look like a complete idiot.
Seriously, grow up.
The wiiu is really a nice console with a lot of nice features. I honestly don't know why people seam to hate it with a passion. I'm happy with my purchase and currently enjoying zombiu!
what others think of the system shouldn't matter to you when you enjoy it as it is.
Of course this doesn't mean you should dismiss the highs and lows of the product you own.
I've played el Shaddai, binary domain, lollipop chainsaw....you could say I enjoy games many don't. And I understand that what I like isn't true for others. But...
WiiU is not going to survive meaningfully vs ps720.
Both those systems only need to open the CPU bottleneck wiiu suffers from and add ram that isn't 7yrs old. That's it. That'll be enough to make 3rd party games unworkable on wiiu.
I understand fanbois - it's ok to be passionate. But try to see the forest through the trees.
There's no climate that'll support $400+ for new consoles. Not in the sales qtys that console makers need to make bank. Wiiu price is too high for what it is. But is about right for ps720.
I don't expect ps720 to be huge difference from consoles today. But they will be performance issues that the wiiu architecture just can't handle.
Same here! i love those games, beat them out last month.
Btw that saying of seeing the forest through the trees doesn't make sense. No on can see a forest because it doesn't exists.
fanboy much. If the Wii U is as you say pricy for what it is the next box and ps4 will be the same. So if they saell lets say 200,000 there first week out will you come back and declare the wii u king?
You are an internet anylist in the purest of forms speaking of things you know nothing of.
the reason most fanboys are hating Nintendo is because they gotta wait over a year for a new console. I highly doubt its a weak as people say or want to believe.
main complaint 1 CPU IS RUBBISH, but every dev apart from 1 who has said this are not developing on it. devs that are developing on it, gearbox, Ubisoft, 5thcell say it is powerful, infact Brian burleson (gearbox game producer) said the Wii u is a powerful,powerful machine. why emphisise power twice if its weak. I doubt he'll do that. also michel ancel (rayman creator) said The Wii u is surprisingly powerful. so there's 2 reputable companies working on it. and I will bet money on Ubisoft having a new Xbox or ps dev kit to compare to. also the Wii u has a seprate CPU for os and sound proccessor and gpgpu with aparently loads of edram, if devs throw everything at CPU instead deciding tasks between CPU, gpgpu and sound proccessor they are going to run into trouble.
second complaint. Ram speed is only 12gb/s. ok fine show me a dev complaining about ram speed. infact I have the opposite here is a link on another dev team complimenting ram speed and how it avoids bottlenecking. I know haters are not going to read this but as they don't like being proven wrong by people working on the system.
I know I probably sound like a Nintendo fanboy but I'm not I'm a multiplatform gamer and it annoys me that people only listen to negitives and neglect everything else.
I really don't know where anybody got the 12 gb/s the only person who said that was on a forum and it blew up. Plus even if you went by what the part number said many developers have said that it's been modified to be faster and efficient.
The PS3 and Xbox 360 are neck in neck by selling 64 and 67 million consoles respectively.
Sony have already stated 70million sales of PS3.
As for WII U, 40million max.
Worldwide: 32.9 million - N64
Worldwide: 21.74 million - GAMECUBE
Worldwide 49.10 million - SNES.
Wii was a fluke, because of the control scheme and probably got some new customers for Nintendo.
SNES was to long ago for anyone to care about.
N64 + new sales from wii customers and i'm guessing 40million max for wii u.
neck and neck ? The Ps3 is down 3 million. lol. Coming in 3rd place in the console race. Also , you are calling a fluke on something that was designed and produced to sell, and it sold. So how was that a fluke? thats like saying Apple products are a fluke. Lmao Nintendo #1 Wii and #1 Ds and #1 3DS and soon #1 Wii U
That is just because Nintendo has gained a cult following, same as Apple, same as CoD and various others. They blindly buy anything with the name tag on it, assuming that just because it comes from Nintendo or other said company that it has to be the best.
As for the PS3 being in third place, that depends on your point of view.
1: 1 year later to launch (360 already had 10m sold by the time the PS3 launched)
2: $200 higher initial cost
3: Supposedly no good games for first couple years
4: over 30% fail rate for 360 first couple years, same people buying new consoles as replacement. Factors into total sales.
And yet the PS3 is still only 3m behind at a 70m total sales mark.
All factors considered, time for time the PS3 has completely destroyed the 360.
P.S. I don't dislike Nintendo nor am i a Sony fanboy, The SNES is actually still my all time favorite console and i own every video game system since the NES, including a PS3, 360, Wii, and a $2k custom PC. If anything im a PC fanboy. Just making note of the contributing factors that people seem to be forgetting.
What race? What are you comparing? Are you really saying 3 million more sales of consoles replacing broken units constitutes a win for a console when the competition clearly has more games, more exclusives, more features??
You children really need lessons in critical thinking. Get your heads out of your anus and use your brain. I bet you voted Obama.
So what do you call those who blindly bought a ps3 or xbox? I never bought an x box and sold my ps3 and wii for a wii u. I love the fact that this community only makes up .2 percent of the world because the video game hate on here is crazy.
It's like comparing Kobe to MJ yep Kobe is no MJ but he'll still be in the hall of fame at the end of his career.


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Maria-sama ga Miteru Novel Vol 19 "In Library"
The nineteenth series of the Marimite novel series.
This novel is basically a compilation of Ms. Konno's Marimite short-stories that was published this year on Cobalt Magazine, similar to "Variety Gift."
Contents include:
"Chocolate Coat" (from February 2004 issue of Cobalt Magazine)
"Sakuragumi Densetsu" (from April 2004 issue of Cobalt Magazine)
"Toshokan no Hon" (from August 2004 issue of Cobalt Magazine)
"Shizukanaru Yoru no Maboroshi" (from December 2004 issue of Cobalt Magazine)
insert stories that ties these short stories together (written for this novel)
"Joanna" short story written for this novel
In Library I
The story takes place just a few days after Lillian's Culture Festival. Yumi was handed down a tough assignment from her beloved Sachiko-sama to "go find your petite soeur." In addition to the excitement from the Culture Festival, this huge task left Yumi having a tough time getting to go to sleep every night.
The Yamayurikai was just going over their post-Culture Festival meeting when the discussion suddenly turned to the attention of when Yoshino and Yumi will find their petite soeur. Yoshino, of course, is quite sensitive to this subject due to a deal she made with the previous Rosa Foetida (Torii Eriko) and the deadline is looming over the horizon. Yumi, on the other hand, also became sensitive because she was recently handed down this assignment from Sachiko-sama just a few days ago.
quoting from the novel:
"Why does everyone think that Kanako-chan and Touko-chan are the obvious candidates for Yumi's soeur? Yumi has never appointed neither of them as her candidate, nor had they come up to Yumi to declare their candidacy."
Hmm...is this Ms. Konno's way of asserting to us readers with some sort of sarcasm?
Yumi begins to ponder how she should find her petite soeur.
"Maybe if I barge out from this room right now, there will be a first year student that just happened to be on the other side of the door..."
"...or maybe shall I go to the St. Mary Statue among the ginkgo trees and fix the tie of a first year student...?"
Shizukanaru Yoru no Maboroshi (The Illusion in the Quiet Night)
If you notice from the title, "Shizukanaru~" (Quiet) is also a pun on the main character of this story - Kanina Shizuka-sama. Hence, while it can be read "The Illusion in the Quiet Night," it can also be pun-read as "The Illusion in Shizuka's Night."
I'm sorry, I do not know the English title, so care to help me out. There is this fairy tale (obviously of western origin) about a little girl who sells matches in the winter. No one buys her matches, and she gets cold. In despair, she lights up those matches, and in the flame she sees visions (illusions). In the end, she sees an illusion where she is sleeping warmily on the lap of her deceased grandmother. Story ends with her dying in the freezing winter, but with a warm smile on her face.
Anyway, "Shikanaru Yoru no Maboroshi" is based (somewhat) upon that story...in which Kanina Shizuka-sama herself even mentions.
It is Christmas. Shizuka is walking in a department store with nothing to do. She is stopped by a fortune teller who reads her palm and tells her "you will have a great turn of events when in the new year."
Shizuka, left pondering, returns home. A note was left on the table from her mom which read "Going out for a few moments to get the Christmas cake I reserved."
Bored with nothing to do, Shizuka sat down on the sofa. Then, she noticed a lump inside her pocket. "Six books of matches for 100 yen..." Pondering why she bought that, she remembered it was because of the fairy tale (see above) she had recently just re-read from the recommendation of the Lillian school library. When she re-read this story, she realized that it wasn't so tragic that she had remembered it from when she was a child. While the adults see the young girl frozen to death and feel sorry for her, at least the young girl passed away happily and warm on the illusion of her deceased grandmother's lap.
Just for the heck of it, Shizuka lit up a match. Nothing happens. "Perhaps I shouldn't have eaten that Chocolate bon-bon. The young girl who saw it was hungry..."
Shizuka lits one once again. This time she sees two happy soeurs walking side-by-side and hand-in-hand. There is no conversation between them, but their bond is shown with the black ribbon that the younger soeur wears to bind her hair into two parts. (Obviously, Shizuka is seeing Sachiko-sama and Yumi).
Shizuka ponders why she just saw that. There was no jealousy there, nor was there any feeling that she wanted a soeur relation like that. Shizuka snugged it off as "I probably saw that because I though that scene was beautiful."
Shizuka lits the match once again. This time, she sees a vision of a frail-looking but strong-eyed first-year student waiting for someone in front of the St. Mary Statue. When the person arrived, the first year student suddenly said "please let me become your petite soeur [once again]." (Obivously, Shizuka is seeing Rei-sama and Yoshino)
Shizuka wasn't there when that happened. She probably read it on the Lillian School Newspaper whose editor-in-chief has an articulate sense of reporting which makes the readers believe that they actually witnessed that in a grand scale. Of course, "Yellow Rose Revolution," and its climax sent shockwaves across the Lillian campus - which of course includes Shizuka-sama.
Shizuka lits the match again. She sees the illusion of a young first year student whose features is portrayed by her melancholic beauty. (Obviously, Shizuka saw Shimako) Shizuka immediately blows out the flame.
"Why did I just see that? What do I wish to see?" Questions encircle within Shizuka.
As Shizuka falls into despair, crying out for some plea to help her, she suddenly has a relapse into the past when she was a first year student.
"Oh how I wish we had someone like Shizuka-chan in the Yamayurikai" said the previous Rosa Chinensis (Super Rosa Chinensis, Youko's grande soeur)
"Oh? You already have a nice petite soeur - Youko-chan." said the head of the chorus.
"No, what I mean was we need a first year student in our Yamayurikai who is strong-willed just like Shizuka-chan." replied [Super] Rosa Chinensis.
"Oh really? But you can't have her...you don't know when Shizuka will suddenly go off to Italy. She has been denying petite soeur request ever since she joined our chorus group." said the chorus leader.
"Are you sure? Maybe she's just making an excuse because she already has a person in mind who she wishes to be her grande soeur?" said [Super] Rosa Chinensis
"Uh...I never said that I have anyone in mind." countered Shizuka
"Oh really? Well that's not so interesting. Well, how about you take our little white one?" smiled [Super] Rosa Chinensis.
Shizuka jittered slightly.
"You mean Sei-chan? I don't think that possible." questioned the chorus leader.
"That meaning, you're talking about Shiori-san, are you not?" said the [Super] Rosa Chinensis.
Shizuka awakens to her present state
Why. Even that Shiori-san wasn't able to become that person's petite soeur. I believed that that person would never have her own soeur. But now, there is a young first year student beside her. As Shizuka began to cry, with a feeling inside her that this wasn't the way it was supposed to be - that this wasn't the reason why she postponed her sponsorship to Italy.
Shizuka lit the match once again. She clearly saw the vision of the person she had wanted to see.
"Rosa Gigantea...Satou Sei-sama"
"I....I have always loved you"
"Oh really, thank you."
match goes off
Shizuka lights the match once again
"Sei-sama, I have always adored you"
"Oh really, thank you."
match goes off
and Shizuka lights the match once again
"I really do love you!!"
"Oh really, thank you."
match goes off
Everytime Shizuka opens her heart to tell Sei's illusion, each and everytime, Sei answers "Oh really, thank you." The more and more Shizuka lights the match, the answer is always the same....
And Shizuka realized why Sei's illusion replies back with the same answer. Even though Shizuka tells what she feels deep inside her heart, she is just telling her true feelings toward an illusion - that in which is not a reality which can never go foward that "oh really, thank you."
"Wait! Sei-sama!"
match goes off, lights match
"Come on, Shizuka, follow me"
match goes off, lights match
"Please don't leave me behind! Sei-sama, save me from this spiral!"
match goes off, lights match
"You already know what to do"
match goes off, lights match
"I don't know!"
match goes off, lights match
"Shizuka, what do you desire?"
match goes off, lights match
"You already have the answer in you."
match goes off, lights match
Just then, as Shizuka's mom said "I'm home~" Shizuka awoke from her trance.
Shizuka's mom looks at the pile of burnt matches in the ash tray "What the...were you trying to enact the story of the young girl and her matches?"
Shizuka: "How did you guess?"
Shizuka's mom: "Well you wouldn't ruin your own throat, would you?" (I don't suspect that you were smoking because you are the lead in the chorus)
Shizuka: "That's true"
Shizuka's mom: "So did you see any illusions?"
Shizuka: "I might've, I might not have..."
Shizuka mom: "Hey, cut that smirk off your face....what are you deviously planning this time?"
Shizuka: "What are you talking about?"
Shizuka mom: "I know you. You always get that smirk when you are wily. You've been always the type who gets back at something that has been done to you."
Shizuka: "Sheesh mom, I'm not that big of a troublemaker..."
But, what Shizuka had realized and started planning to do is of such a scale. It will probably cause some turmoil. Perhaps the fortune teller was right...something big will happen when the new year comes along.
"Perhaps, I should start by cutting off my hair."
(Obviously, this story is a precursor to Shizuka's sudden candidacy to run for the Yamayurikai)
[end "Shikanaru Yoru no Maboroshi"]
More chapter summaries to follow when I have the time.
Last edited by kj1980; 2004-12-26 at 00:31.
|2004-12-24, 20:54
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The match girl story is "The Little Match Girl" - a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale.
|2004-12-27, 05:10
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Thanks a lot kj1980 !
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While waiting for more announcements for the 4th season, I think I'll try and generate some activity on the novels.
As kj1980 mentioned, "In Library" is a collection of short novels. It is also the latest book I have in Korean ("Seour Audition" came out just a few days ago). I don't have the book at the moment, so what I'm writing here is from memory.
Spoiler for Chocolate Coat:
Spoiler for Sakuragumi Densetsu:
Spoiler for Toshokan no Hon:
"Shizukanaru Yoru no Maboroshi": See kj1980's post.
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Ralph A. Gates Elementary School
|Lake Forest, Calif.
|Year First Chartered and Authorizer
Local district
|English Learners
|Subsidized Meals
|Special Needs
|Per Pupil Spending
The most distinctive feature of Ralph A. Gates Elementary School is its two-way language immersion (Spanish/English) program. In 1998, a group of concerned parents spearheaded the conversion of Gates from a regular California elementary school to a charter school, in large part to protect this program. The recent passage of Proposition 227 had all but eliminated bilingual programs in the state, but parents, teachers, the community, and the school board in Saddleback Valley Unified School District were all committed to maintaining the program that had been developed over the years at Gates. A Gates parent, who later became school board president, took the lead along with a resource teacher in writing the charter application. They applied to become a district-dependent charter, a type of charter under California law that preserves the school district as the management organization to deal with contracts, personnel policies, and so forth, but allows the school site council control over instruction, staffing configurations, and budgeting.
The multicultural, multilingual mission at Gates goes beyond a particular program. The school's goal is to educate each student as fully as possible, advancing the life prospects of students who often come from families in which the parents did not complete high school. A few years ago the principal and staff reviewed and revised the school mission statement, taking a careful look at their student population, which had an increasing number of English language learners and low-income students. They established a set of seven key "tenets" that guide how they interact as a staff and school community. A sense of purpose and high expectations pervades the school culture. The principal holds teachers to these standards, and she is currently counseling out one of the staff. Teachers agree with this approach. As one explains, "Either you are part of our staff or you need to find another staff that meets your vision and your mission."
The celebration of multicultural community is at the heart of the school. The principal describes how the large number of students from bi- and tri-racial families bolsters an attitude of acceptance for all students. Kermes, an annual multicultural fair hosted by the parents and community with assistance from the staff, is attended by 3,000 to 5,000 people-families from across the Orange County area-in a literal celebration of the multicultural community that Gates represents. Of the school's 850 students, 44 percent are English language learners and 63 percent qualify for subsidized meals. The students enrolled in the two-way immersion program represent 43 percent of the school population, while 57 percent of the students are in the regular program. In the school as a whole, providing the best possible education to these students and enhancing their lives and those of their families is the purpose that drives a caring and committed staff.
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Gates is a welcoming home for bilingual language development for both children and adults. Students are enrolled in either the two-way language immersion program or the regular program, which includes English language development strategies. After school, students-both English and Spanish speakers-can extend their fluency through programs funded by a Title III grant. This after-school foreign language program includes Spanish as a second language classes for the native English speakers and a Spanish literacy program for Spanish speakers who are in the regular program but want to extend their academic literacy in their first language. French classes will be added to the after-school foreign language program as it expands.
Gates School Tenets
We strive for high academic standards and expectations for all students in an environment that stimulates learning.
We promote students' self-esteem with positive reinforcement and build good character so each student can be successful.
We believe in programs that allow students to progress academically through appropriately leveled instruction.
We believe our parents should be equipped with information and resources in order to support their child's learning.
We respect diversity and individual differences in our students and staff.
We believe students should be provided with opportunities to learn a second language.
We use available technology to help our students, parents, and staff prepare for the future.
Parents can build their language skills, too. When a survey revealed that almost half the parents had not completed high school and that they wanted to learn English and computer literacy skills, the school responded. Working with the district's adult education department, they combined Title I, Title III, and adult education funding to set up a parent education program. Now parents go to school with their children, heading for one of the school's two computer labs, where they take ESL classes that also build computer literacy. After school there are classes for English-speaking parents who want to learn Spanish and for Spanish-speaking parents who want to become literate in their native language.
This array of programs has attracted highly qualified staff members-all have specialized certification-who are excited about teaching English learners and committed to helping their students succeed. Gates enrolls more language learners and low-performing students than any other school in the district, and support for these students is high. Parents who share the staff's enthusiasm for language development have formed the Advocates for Language Learning group. Members of this group have become knowledgeable about the international track record of two-way immersion programs, attend conferences, and actively contribute to school planning.
While the carefully designed language programs at Gates provide a solid base, the staff attribute their students' recent large increases in test scores to an additional factor-the dynamic model of flexibly regrouping students homogeneously for directed reading, writing, and math instruction, which the school began four years ago. Suspending the assumption of "one teacher-one classroom," they instituted a Joplin-plan grouping arrangement in which students are regrouped every four to five weeks into homogeneous skill groups. Students in grades 4-6 are grouped across grades; students in grades 2 and 3 are grouped within their grade. The regrouping has created an opportunity for teachers in grades 2-6 to work together and collaborate, sharing their knowledge of the children whose education they share. For the children, the regrouping is a way to break down stereotypes, meet individual needs, and give everyone access to the same standards-based curriculum. Every group works on the same standards, but assignments vary in depth, and group sizes are smaller for students who need more help. Special education students are included in these groups, for example, and the resource special education teacher is part of the teaching team.
If a student needs extra assistance, the Gator Assistance Team steps in. This team of eight staff members is trained in the Masonic model to assess the student's social, emotional, and economic needs. Teachers make the referrals; the team sifts through them and makes recommendations that are implemented. The student is then monitored, and, if needed, the team can move the child to special education testing. The school's community liaison can also get involved as needed to facilitate access to community counseling or health resources.
Continuous Learning
Distinctive about the school culture is the "can-do" attitude. Teachers and staff will try whatever, provided it has worked for someone else or has evidence to show that it is a valid, promising program or approach. After trying and evaluating something new, staff decide whether to continue it or not. For example, when regrouping was instituted, in 2000-01, the whole first half of the year was dedicated just to getting the planning down pat. Teachers finally got started, halfway through the year, regrouping students for language arts. Initially, there were a lot of naysayers and doubters, people who were hesitant or even a little scared. What the principal suggested to them is indicative of the spirit that has served the school well: "We're all jumping off the fence and if we fall, I'll fall first and I will be your pillow." The principal, who had been at the school only a year, felt honored that the staff were willing to trust her, and after only two weeks, teachers realized that their experiment with regrouping was working. Even the loudest naysayer was pleased to have been wrong. At the end of the school year, teachers were eager to know whether regrouping would continue the following year. The principal left it up to them, and that's when regrouping was instituted for math as well as language arts.
|Gates is a welcoming home for bilingual language development for both children and adults.
The teachers have developed rubrics for developmental progress that are used for student assessment, by the students themselves to reflect on their progress, for instructional planning, and in the regular reporting to parents. Teachers also refer to monthly printouts from standardized assessments to help them link their instruction to identified student needs.
Parents and Partners
Parents are active contributors to the school, volunteering in classrooms and running supplementary activities. The annual Kermes multicultural celebration is a highlight of the year, and draws participation from businesses and families in the surrounding community as well as from the school's own population. The parent-run Multicultural Club, the Computer Club, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, and Homework Club supplement the after-school programs.
Parents and teachers work together to bring in new opportunities. In 2002, for example, the staff saw a need to help students increase in resiliency, respect for themselves and others, and responsibility for their work. A team of parents and staff attended a regional "Asset Building" workshop. They returned with training for the rest of the staff and began the integration of a character education program, focusing on teaching students how to build and practice the traits of positive character. This year, resiliency training is being extended to the assets classes the school provides for parents.
The staff reciprocate parents' involvement by going out of their way to be accessible to those who want to talk about their children's progress. As the principal reports, "We are here whenever they can make it. Before school, our teachers will come in at 8:00 in the morning, 7:00 in the morning. They will stay until 6:00, 7:00 at night to meet with the parents whom they feel they need to meet with."
|They instituted a Joplin-plan grouping arrangement in which students are regrouped every four to five weeks into homogeneous skill groups.
In addition, the school provides regular and frequent communication to parents in both Spanish and English. Specific information about student progress is provided to parents monthly.
Governance and Accountability
The school site council, made up of six parents and six staff members, sets and oversees the school program. While taking advantage of district management services and staff development offerings, Gates has autonomy to allocate the school's budget and determine staffing as well as instructional programs. They can combine funding from different sources and use these funds flexibly as they determine what best meets the school's needs. For example, while the district's normal staffing pattern would not include an assistant principal for a school of this size, the council felt that additional oversight was needed and allocated a position for a teacher on special assignment. They also hired a number of part-time teachers who reduce group sizes during the regrouping for core academic subjects. While their annual plans and budgets are submitted to Saddleback Valley Unified School District as the authorizing agency, the district board is highly supportive of Gates and routinely accepts their proposals. The charter came up for renewal in 2003 and was quickly and unanimously approved.
Student scores provide positive evidence of the school's effectiveness. The 2000 Academic Performance Index (API) was 689 and was targeted to be raised 6 points for 2001. The reading regrouping empowered student subgroups to make significant gains above the target set by the state, raising the API by 32 points to 731. In 2002-03, Gates staff restructured the mathematics programs based on test data from 2001. This regrouping allowed them to create smaller classes for struggling students (as well as high achievers) so that they could provide the mathematics curriculum at each group's instructional level. Additionally, the program has increased the redesignation rate for students to be classified "fluent English," in both the two-way immersion and regular programs. In recognition of the school's continued student achievement, Gates received the California Distinguished Schools Award in 2002 and the California Title I Achieving Schools Award in 2003.


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Immigrants who seek a better life in Western countries may not be able to escape the influence of their home country when it comes to their children's academic performance, according to findings from the October issue of the American Sociological Review.
Sociologists Mark Levels, Jaap Dronkers and Gerbert Kraaykamp find that large-scale influences such as country of origin, destination country and immigrant community play a role in educational outcomes for immigrant children in their host country.
The research, which looked at the mathematical literacy scores of thousands of 15-year-old immigrants to 13 Western nations from 35 different native countries, indicates that economic development and political conditions in an immigrant's home country impact the child's academic success in his or her destination country. Counter-intuitively, immigrant children from countries with lower levels of economic development have better scholastic performance than comparable children who emigrate from countries with higher levels of economic development.
Children of immigrants from politically unstable countries have poorer scholastic performance compared to other immigrant children. "Adult political immigrants are known to face serious negative consequences that can be related to the political situations in their origin countries," said sociologist Mark Levels, junior researcher in the Department of Sociology at Radboud University, Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. "We found that these consequences carry across generations to affect their children's educational chances as well. Our findings therefore have urgent implications in countries that receive a large number of these immigrants."
"Specific educational programs designed to counter the negative effects of political migration may be essential to ensure that the children of politically motivated immigrants achieve their full potential," Levels said.
The study authors also analyzed the impact of policies and political conditions in destination countries. In traditional immigrant-receiving countries such as Australia and New Zealand, they found that immigrant children academically outperformed their counterparts in other Western nations. The authors theorize that this finding is likely the result of restrictive immigration policies that ensure that better qualified adults emigrate (e.g., those with employment and high levels of education), rather than a receptive climate toward immigrants or education policies designed to meet their needs.
The size and socioeconomic characteristics of immigrant communities also played a role in the academic performance of their children. Children from immigrant communities with higher socioeconomic status relative to the native population had higher scholastic performance than those from other immigrant communities. Likewise, children from large immigrant communities were more likely to perform better academically than children from smaller immigrant communities.
Data for this study came from the 2003 wave of the Project for International Student Assessment (PISA) from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the first large cross-national OECD dataset to contain information on the origin of first- and second-generation migrants. The sample was comprised of 7,403 15-year-old immigrant children from 35 different native countries living in 13 destination/host countries. Scholastic performance was based on PISA measurement of mathematical literacy scores.
Jaap Dronkers, professor of social inequality and stratification at the European University Institute in San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy, and Gerbert Kraaykamp, professor of empirical sociology at Radboud University, Nijmegen, co-authored the report with Mark Levels.
Source: American Sociological Association
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – With a 5-3 win over Coker College on Sunday afternoon the Barton Bulldogs completed the three game sweep of the Cobras in Conference Carolinas baseball. Barton got their third solid pitching performance of the weekend, with starter James Holmes going eight strong innings to secure the win for Barton. Coker drops below .500 for the first time this season with the loss, they are now 17-18 overall and 8-13 in conference play, while Barton is 18-17 overall and 9-9 in the conference.
It was pitcher's duel for most of the game with both starters giving their teams more than a fair chance to win. Barton got on the board first with a run in the second inning, but Coker answered with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning to make it 1-1. Coker's Jonathan Gainey (Hartsville, S.C.) and Holmes then put up goose eggs for two innings to keep things even at one apiece.
Barton was able to finally get a couple of runs across in the fifth, thanks to a Cobra error and an RBI single from Sam Pepper. The Bulldogs then used two wind aided hits to score two more runs in the sixth to take the 5-1 lead.
The Cobras made things interesting in the bottom of the ninth, when Nick Fuoco (Palm Bay, Fla.) sent a towering two-run homer over the left field fence to make it 5-3 with just one out. That was when Barton called on Pepper to come in a close the game out. A ground out and a strikeout later, the Bulldogs took home the win and the series sweep.
Holmes (3-1) went eight and third innings, allowing three runs on eight hits with a pair of strikeouts, while Pepper (1) earned his first save of the season in just two-thirds of an innings of work with a strikeout.
Gainey (1-2) was the barer of loss, going eight innings allowing five runs, while scattering 11 hits and striking out two.
Fuoco finished the day 2-for-4 with a home run, a triple, two RBIs and two runs scored for the Cobras, while Brinley Griffin (Port St. John, Fla.) was 2-for-4 with a double and Matt Ammons (Chester, S.C.) drove in a run.
For Barton, Kevin Carty had a pair of hits with two RBIs and a run scored, while Wesley Francis and Chris Rawlings each had three hits with a run scored, with Francis also picking up an RBI.
Coker returns to the diamond on Tuesday, when they travel to Orangeburg, S.C. to take on Claflin University in a non-conference game starting at 6:00 p.m.


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The extensive and ongoing regulatory changes in accountancy are at the root of Larry Parker's research. He seeks to answer questions about how these sometimes difficult changes impact a variety of stakeholders and how those professionals adapt to the new environment. His work explores the organizational structure of accounting firms, as well as decision-making processes of accounting firms, corporations, and individual CPA practitioners.
- PhD, University of Houston, 1981
- MS, University of Southern California, 1975
- BA, Rice University, 1970
- Initially Appointed: 1985
Selected Publications
- Fogarty, T. J., Jonas, G., Parker, L. M.
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The Medium is the Message: comparing paper-based and web-based course evaluation modalities (vol. 31, issue 2, pp. 177-193). Youngstown, Ohio: Journal of Accounting Education.
- Parker, L. M., Fogarty, T. J., Sellers, R. D.
Unleashing the Technical Core: Institutional Theory and the Aftermath of Arthur Andersen (vol. 24, issue 1, ). Behavioral Research in Accounting.
- Grant, J. E., Parker, L. M.
EBITDA (vol. 15, ). Research in Accounting Regulation.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Labour Party has often been criticised for trying to manipulate and control the daily news agenda.
But on Monday they took their eye off the ball as hackers attacked the party's official website, putting up a picture of U.S. President George W. Bush carrying his dog, with Prime Minister Tony Blair's head superimposed on it.
Blair was heavily criticised during the recent Iraq conflict for supporting Bush in his bid to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and was regularly depicted as Bush's poodle by the tabloids.
A Labour Party spokesman said the image was removed quickly and that they would be looking into improving security.
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Most industry experts advocate permanently installed power quality monitoring because it can continuously track the power quality characterizations of a facility and access pertinent information when problems arise. However, it may also be necessary to check voltage and current on individual circuits and at individual loads to determine the cause and effect of power quality variations. This is where handheld meters come into play.
Let's take a look at the different types of handheld meters and their role in power quality investigations. We'll start with the simplest models and work our way up to the more sophisticated offerings.
You can use a multimeter to check voltages and currents and uncover problems with voltage regulation, circuit loading, neutral conductor overloading, or ground loops.
Be sure to use a multimeter that provides a true rms reading for the measured voltage or current. Some multimeters calculate the rms value based on other methods, such as the peak or rectified average of the measured signal. These methods assume the measured signal is sinusoidal and will give inaccurate readings for most facilities because a high percentage of loads have current waveforms that include significant harmonic components. Most digital models on the market today provide true rms readings.
Multimeters can also help you find ground loop problems. Ground loops occur when a system has more than one neutral-to-ground connection, which allows current to flow within the ground system. Normally, current shouldn't flow in the ground system, and the return load current should flow only in the neutral conductor. Ground-system currents can find many paths for returning to the source, including building steel, communications wiring, and computer networks. All of these have the potential to cause interference and misoperation of equipment.
Using the multimeter, start at the service entrance and check for currents in the ground circuits. If you find load current flowing in these circuits, work your way to the appropriate sub-panels and/or individual loads until you find the neutral-to-ground connection causing the problem.
Harmonics meters.
To obtain detailed harmonic information about measured waveforms, you'll need a portable harmonics meter. You can use the meter to check waveform characteristics for different types of loads in the facility and surrounding voltage distortion levels.
There's more to harmonics meters than just harmonics, though. For example, harmonic distortion concerns are often related to the application of capacitor banks. You can use these meters to check the effect of capacitors or harmonic filters on distortion levels and the harmonic duty for capacitors or filters.
In facilities where the load current through the transformer includes significant harmonics levels, de-rating the transformers may be necessary. With a harmonics meter, you can check the loading and calculate the transformer de-rating requirements based on the harmonic content.
Many commercial facilities that have 3-phase circuits with single-phase electronic loads experience significant problems with the overloading of neutral conductors. These loads have waveforms that include high levels of third harmonic, which can lead to higher neutral currents than phase currents. You can employ handheld harmonics meters to identify this problem and evaluate the effectiveness of possible solutions like zigzag transformers.
In the past, oscilloscopes were large laboratory instruments. Today, thanks to advances in microelectronics, the handheld designs have more capability than many bench-top oscilloscopes. Oscilloscopes record waveforms with high-frequency transients, identify their characteristics, and help you locate their source and evaluate possible solutions. You can then view the waveforms on the oscilloscope's display window or download them to a PC for analysis.
Handheld oscilloscopes are also well-suited to investigating high-frequency disturbances caused by the normal operation of equipment. For example, electronic equipment sometimes causes notching of the voltage waveform. These notches include high-frequency components that can lead to communications interference or other problems.
The output waveform from modern, adjustable-speed motor drives that use pulse-width modulation is another concern. This output waveform has pulses with high rates of rise, which may produce insulation degradation in motors that aren't designed to handle voltage stress. Even the switching power supplies for PCs and other small electronic equipment can sometimes cause transients that interfere with sensitive loads. An oscilloscope records measurements directly at the equipment or device causing the disturbance.
Full-range meters.
Some handheld meters perform the full range of power quality monitoring functions. They can serve as a simple multimeter, or can be programmed to record voltage variations, distortion levels, and transients. Some even allow you to add function and capabilities, such as inrush or flicker, by simply changing a PC card.
This type of meter is probably more than you need to track down wiring and grounding problems, but it can come in handy when you need to leave the meter in place over an extended period of time to characterize power quality variations. It's also essential for diagnosing intermittent power quality problems that can affect or even be caused by equipment like adjustable speed drives, microprocessor-based production equipment, or today's advanced computer systems.
Full-range meters also handle all 3-phase voltages and currents for simultaneous measurements, which isn't possible with most handheld oscilloscopes or harmonics meters. Software is available to help you process the measurement results and present them in a report.
Keeping tabs on your system is a full-time job, and if you want the most accurate and up-to-date information, you need a permanently installed monitoring system. But such a tool isn't always the optimal choice for getting the job done. When it comes to getting to those hard-to-reach places, your best bet is choosing from the range of handheld testers now available.
McGranaghan is vice president of Electrotek Concepts, Knoxville, Tenn.


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Nielsen: Consumer confidence at a new low
Study finds that job loss is the No. 1 concernGlobal consumer confidence has reached an all-time low, according to the Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence Index released today. Thrifty habits being formed during the downturn will carry over into the recovery.
In the past six months, the index has plummeted to a record low 77 points from 84 points. The catalyst: Latin America, Russia and other emerging nations are now feeling the full effects of a recession that began in the United States, officially, in December.
The index, compiled twice a year, tracks spending habits and concerns among 25,420 Internet users across 50 countries. Respondents were surveyed between March 19 and April 2.
Though consumer anxieties about the economy take many forms, the most widespread fear centers on job loss. For the first time in the Nielsen survey, it was global consumers' top concern, ranking No. 1 in 31 out of 50 countries surveyed.
Six months ago, only 9% of respondents cited job security as their primary worry. Now, nearly a quarter (22%) indicated they were more worried about going without a paycheck than over issues like work/life balance and the economy overall.
"With global redundancies affecting every industry, the economy and job security have eclipsed all other concerns in life today," James Russo, vp global consumer insights at the Nielsen Co., said in a statement.
Declining confidence has changed spending habits, with 70% saying they have taken steps to save on household expenses. Purchases of new clothes and out-of-home entertainment are the biggest casualties, with 56% and 53% of respondents cutting spending in those areas respectively. Forty-five percent have cut down on takeout meals, and 41% have switched to less expensive groceries.
Even when the economy improves, 40% will continue to try to save on gas and electricity, down from 45% economizing in that area now. And more than 20% will continue to look for less expensive groceries, cut down on takeout meals and buy fewer new clothes.
In contrast to global worries, the confidence of U.S. consumers dropped only slightly, to a score of 80 from 82 and 83 for the second and first halves of 2008, respectively. (For the sake of reference, overall U.S. consumer confidence indexed at 100 during the second half of 2007.)
The modest U.S. decline may be a harbinger of better times. "We may be at, or at least very near, a bottom in this economic cycle," Russo said. "Specifically in the U.S., while (consumers are) clearly adjusting their spending and savings, with 40% stating they are paying off debts and putting into savings. Americans are increasingly optimistic."
Indeed, nearly 20% of Americans polled predicted an economic recovery within the next 12 months. Internationally, nearly one in five (23%) said their countries will emerge from the recession within a year. The Vietnamese and Indians made this prediction most frequently, with response rates of 60% and 56%, respectively.
Despite consumer confidence falling overall, the survey revealed interesting disparities among respondent nations. Consumers in Indonesia, Denmark and India seemed to be the most optimistic, with confidence ratings of 104, 102 and 99, respectively. Still, 77% of those polled across the globe indicated their homelands were in recession, up from 63% who said the same thing six months ago. Surprisingly, 65% of Chinese respondents denied there was any recession in progress at all.
"While China's economy has undoubtedly slowed, February retail sales are still 15% up on last year and many Chinese consumers now believe the next 12 months could be a good time to go back to investing in stocks and property," said Chris Morley, managing director, The Nielsen Company China.
Nonetheless, the weight of currency devaluations, weak export markets and falling commodity prices caused emerging markets like Russia (down 29 points to 74), UAE (down 21 points to 89) and Brazil's (down 15 points to 82) to turn in consumer-confidence figures that had plummeted significantly. Consumers were the most pessimistic in South Korea, with consumer confidence score of 31, Japan (42) and Latvia (48).
Perhaps the survey's most telling finding was that Latin America has seen its confidence shaken. "Six months ago as developed markets hurtled towards the epicenter of a global recession, Latin America was the world's most optimistic region," Russo said. "However, it hasn't taken long for the tentacles of the global recession to reach them."


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The government is denying due process and fairness in our communities by detaining immigrants who pose no danger and are not a flight risk to the community in inhumane and unregulated detention centers. In the last two years, we have seen more people detained by the ever-expanding, profit-making detention system that ever before, followed by the deportation of a record 1 million people. Moreover, the stories of people who suffer physical and sexual assault, medical negligence, and even death in detention continue to abound.
Tonight, mainstream television will showcase two different investigative exposés of the flagrant violation of human rights that is taking place through the criminalization of immigrant communities, the prison industry and mass immigration detention and deportation system in the U.S.
- Lost in Detention, will air on PBS's 'Frontline' at 9pm EST tonight (check local listings).
In partnership with American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop, Frontline correspondent Maria Hinojosa takes a penetrating look at Obama's vastly expanded immigration net, explores the controversial Secure Communities enforcement program and goes inside the hidden world of immigration detention. This feature length documentary uncovers some of the most controversial aspects of the detention system under the Obama administration, looking at police involvement in deportations, as well as abuses and deaths in detention centers. Speaking to Colorlines about the documentary, Maria Hinojosa said- "I would just hope that maybe this documentary helps people engage with their neighbors and their friends. Maybe we can just have this conversation." Speaking about the abuses in detention she said-
As a journalist, I'm concerned about this. As an American, I'm concerned about this. Because we believe that there's some kind of legal recourse that we all have, because we have basic rights in our country. Now all of a sudden, you're encountering a population that's being told, "Actually you don't have any legal recourse." If abuses happen, well, if the abused is an immigrant then they just deport that person and the abuse case goes away.
Join NDLON and the Detention Watch Network for an twitter chat during documentary with the hashtag #altopolimigra. Watch the trailer and tune in for the entire film tonight-
Watch Lost in Detention Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
- Billions Behind Bars: Inside America's Prison Industry, which is a CNBC original documentary series about the profits and inner workings of the multi-billion dollar corrections industry , will air on CNBC starting tonight, for a week.
With more than 2.3 million people locked up, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. One out of 100 American adults is behind bars – while a stunning one out of 32 is on probation, parole or in prison. This reliance on mass incarceration has created a thriving prison economy. The states and the federal government together spend roughly $74 billion a year on corrections, and nearly 800,000 people work in the industry.
Also today, the Detention Watch Network launched a national campaign, 'Dignity not Detention,' calling for an end to mandatory detention laws, which are significantly responsible for the explosion of the detention system. A wide range of faith, immigrant rights, and community-based organizations joined Detention Watch Network to call on Congress and the Obama Administration to:
- Repeal all laws mandating the detention of non-citizens.
- Put an end to all policies and programs that use the criminal justice system to target people for detention and deportation.
- Bring the U.S. into compliance with its obligations under international human rights law, which prohibits arbitrary detention.


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