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Nov 15, 2012 | 04:25 PM | Chris Prentice
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NEW YORK OAO Severstal expects the fourth quarter to be more challenging than the third quarter, forecasting falling global steel prices amid stable input costs. The outlook for the end of the year comes as the Moscow-based steelmaker reported net sales of $3.59 billion for the three months ended Sept. 30, down 3.4 percent from the second quarter, putting year-to-date sales at $10.99 billion, a 9.1-percent decline from the first nine months of last year.....
NEW YORK OAO Severstal expects the fourth quarter to be more challenging than the third quarter, forecasting falling global steel prices amid stable input costs.
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Before anyone gets too exited and thinks this means their new iPad will be arriving overnight or early next week, delivery dates via Fedex are for Friday, March 16, the official new iPad launch day. (Though in the past, courier slip-ups have led to a few lucky people getting iOS devices a day or so ahead of schedule).
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Mine made it from Shenzhen to Hong Kong and has now departed Hong Kong! I wonder what the next stop will be?
Via UPS, who unfortunately almost always comes after I leave for work, so I may be waiting til the 19th unless they'll do Saturday delivery. Maybe I'll call in sick with iPad fever ;-)
I ordered Wed night, and it will arrive here on Friday 3/16. No shipping notification yet (just the Thank you e-mail from Apple).
I am in NYC.
I ordered two. One Wednesday afternoon (16GB Black wifi) and one early Thursday morning (32GB Black wifi) and both say preparing for shipment with a delivery date of the 16th.
Ordered around 2pm EST on Wednesday. The order is still in 'processing' mode, no order confirmation yet, called Apple, they said they were just too slammed but that I should at least see a confirmation at some point today. It did go from 'reviewed' to 'processing' pretty quickly, but no movement since then. I can't even login and see the full order. Delivery date of the 16th still remains though.
I just got my shipping notification. Still says it will be delivered March 16, but I'm crossing my fingers for a FEDEX screw-up. The good kind, I mean. I just jinxed myself didn't I?
I managed to complete my order around 3:30PM EST - about two hours after the conclusion of the New iPad event. I ordered a Black, 64GB, WiFi only model.
As of ... just now ... my status on the Orders page in my Account on the Apple Store says "Preparing for Shipment." It's been that status since very early this morning.
Hopefully, it won't be long until it flips to "Shipped"!
Ordered 3/7, confirmed 3/8, smart cover shipped 3/9, iPad preparing to ship. Both still show dilivery on 3/16.
Im a little nervous now...mine still says processing! I ordered at around 4:30 and got confirmation at 6pm. Still no shipping info.
Mine already moved a few places. Last scan said it had left Chengdu, China I think. I'm just happy to see it making its way to Papa!
Ordered Black 64 4G (engraved) Wednesday afternoon. Took multiple tries but got through. Got email conf later that night. Got email today saucing it had shipped. Started in china and went to HK and departed there. Say I will get on 3/16. Was going to Work from home that day do I would get right away when wife freaks out. We discussed me buying a month ago around my birthday. But still. Anyway need to go to work that day so working from home 3/15. Hopefully it comes early!
Ha! The big spender just HAD to tell everyone he got the most expensive model. Bravo sir. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you probably also drive a Porsche Cayenne as well.
My 16GB WiFi new iPad shipped today from Pennsylvania via FedEx. Estimated arrival date is the 16th.
I ordered the 16gb Black around 7pm and just got my shipment notification. I, too, am hoping for an early delivery :)
I ordered my 64GB white Wi-Fi version on Wednesday around 6pm CST, and got my UPS tracking number early today (Friday morning).
The last tracking point so far is Chengdu, China, estimated "by end of day" on Friday, March 16.
Ordered about 5pm on Wednesday. Left China on the morning on the 8th (received email from Apple at 1030am on Thurs). Departure scanned from EPZ, China. 32GB Black Wifi Engraved
My shipping notification just came, but my iPad 16gb wifi black was just picked up from Pennsylvania (I'm in western new York) with a delivery on the 16th. Seems strange when that distance only takes a day or so normally. Maybe I'll try to pick it up from FedEx like I did with my Verizon iPhone.
According to the FedEx tracking, mine was picked up in Nashville an hour ago. Here's hoping for an accidental early delivery...
maanged to get my order in at about 12pm arizona time on the 7th, 32gb white verizon lte, no change still says processing as of 2pm az time today. Curses!
My smart cover will arrive the 12th however lol.
Sorry but judging from that tracking number Allyson provided , it looks like a fake shipment notification! :Pducks lol
Curses....placed mine as soon as I could after the store came up after the event, Ordered 64GB Black ATT Wi-Fi/4G got my order confirmation at 4:29 Eastern Time, and as of right now mine is still processing....starting to get worried :-( even though it still says delivers by March 16th
Got my shipment confirmation a couple hours ago. 16GB BLK shipped from Pennsylvania via Fed Ex @11:00 am. Delivers March 16 3:00 pm. YESSSS!!!
Shipment confirmation received and it shows that it is in Nashville, TN. with an delivery exception that says "Future delivery requested"! Bummer! :(. Oh well, I guess I will get it next Friday. I can't wait to get my hands on this thing! :)
I believe it means to hold till the 16th.
I have the picked up notice from FedEx that says it will be delivered on the 16th by 3:00.
Then at the bottom left is "Future delivery Requested" which I am told is the hold that Apple would like for release day.
Ordered and confirmed 3/7 6:36pm EST Detroit area
32GB Blk engraved 4G Verizon
UPS tracking- 3/10 Arrived Louisville, KY 12:11am via China, Hong Kong, Anchorage AK
Will it stay UPS or switch to FedEx?
Will it arrive early?
Like a boss, mine is scheduled to arrive on Monday, 3/12
Evidence: http://screencast.com/t/HKVOZENrF
I ordered mine on launch date - left china via ups on 3/9 and arrived in the us at 12:14 am today - 3/10. Says to be delivered by end of day 3/16. We are 6 hours away from where it is right now....
i ordered my iPad 4g 32gig black and pile tv around 9:30 pm on day one of pre orders and the iPad has already been shipped from middleton PA , and i am in NYC. thank u apple !
Just got my second notice from FedEx telling me that my new iPad is in Nashville and that it will be delivered by 3:00pm on Friday the 16th.
That puts it less than two days away and I am already loosing sleep! I ordered it at 4:00 in the morning on the 8th. I know it's only a week but I am about tho go nuts. This is my First iPad.
At least I am not doing the standing in line waiting game in hopes to get one. This at least gets delivered to my door.
Ordered mine on 3/9 at 5:00 CT. Just got notification that it will arrive on 3/13?!?!
I ordered mine 5pm on 3/7 and Fedex says it is in Nashville. But it also says that it is overnight delivery. But it also says "future delivery requested."
Ordered my black 16gb WiFi model on 03/09 around 12 pm EST. Says it delivers to my local Apple Store on 03/16, but it's still in processing! AGH, when will it ship...
Received notification on March 11th that my engraved iPad 3 is in Louisville (I live in Florida) and it is scheduled to arrive on March 16th.
I ordered mine about 1.5 hrs after the event and mine is still listed as "processing" but says that it will deliver by the 16th...any advise?
My iPad has been sitting in Louisville, Kentucky for a day...
I ordered mine on the evening of the 7th, and saw on the 10th it was picked up in Nashville. Hopefully now that the weekend is over, it'll start moving again. I keep checking, it's still not been moving and my husband still keeps teasing me about it. :)
I ordered mine at 11:30pm on the 7th. However I checked the box to pick it up at my local apple store. Hate having to deal with waiting around for the FedEx or UPS guy. Mine still says processing today... I just want it to say... Shipped, will be at the apple store on Friday! Is that to much to ask? It does say it will arrive on the 16th. Keeping my fingers crossed. I'm ready to upgrade from my ipad1
I ordered mine on the 7th. FedEx says mine is in Transit and will be delivered on the 16th at 3:00 pm. This will be my first ever iPad...excited!!!
I ordered mine on Event day (March 7th) it was shipped within 8 hours and it was engraved. It says it will arrive by the end of the day March 16th. Today is the 12th and it's in Louisville, KY. I'm in NH. I notice most people say its being shipped via FedEx. Mine is being shipped by UPS. Hmm?
Mine is sitting at ups world hub in Louisville, Kentucky since saturday.. Left china then hong kong, then alaska to ky.. Id love to see a picture of the stack of ipads sitting there.. Its prob a good thing they r splitting up shipments to ups and fedex to offload.
I ordered my black 16G, 4G day one of pre-orders. It way shipped from nashville via fedex over night on 3/11. I recieved a call from fedex saying i have a delivery coming on 3/13@ 10am that requires a signature. The ipad is the only package I'm expecting. Woohoo!
I didn't preorder. I ordered mines yesterday and received a confirmation that it will be shipped April 4th.
My white 32 GB 4G iPad was shipped on March 10th. got into Louisville on March 11th and is still just sitting there.
Appears apple is controlling the shipment to make sure it doesn't arrive too early!!
64 gig ordered on launch day, engraving, been sitting in Louisville since Saturday. My scheduled delivery date is Friday and had planned to work out of the house that day but I got called away - doh! I too am set for UPS delivery and went on the Apple site to pre-sign for the package.
I don't anticipate any problems but that's when they usually happen, right?
I ordered mine about 2 hours after the event and its sitting in Louisville, KY since 3/10. Tracking had it leaving China on 3/8 so yeah its definitly being held up.
I ordered mine engraved on 3/7. Showing "Delivers on March 16th". Shipped March 9th from Shenzhen China to Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong. Arrived in Anchorage AK on 3/10 at 841 PM, but no update since then. Transit says onetime with 3 business days to go. I am in SW FL. Would at least like to see it move to KY.
64 gig black envraved ordered evening of launch day. received shipping information evening of the 8th. From china, EPZ (9th), chengdu (9th), anchorage (10th), louisville (11th). Arrival in Minneapolis by end of business on 16th!
So excited! First iPad
I ordered the 16g 4g model on 3/7 at 6:00 EST. as of right now it still says preparing for shipment. Do u guys think it will still be here by 3/16??
Mine has left Hong Kong and according to UPS rep, it is on time for Friday delivery. They also posted on their website that they are not allowed to deliver before the 16th.
Yeah I pre ordered my 16gb iPad and I ordered on march 9th and so far my iPad has been in Louisville ky since March 11th and my Scheduled delivery is march 16th Friday at end of day
Mine is in Nashville. Will they wait one day to shipped to me?
What kind of cases are available on release?
I ordered my new iPad last Wednesday, the day that Apple announced its long awaited release. Mine has been sitting in Nashville, TN since March 12th. I know someone that works at FedEx, which is the company that is delivering my new iPad, and they said that in the past the FedEx trucks would leave Nashville with police escorts all they way to Memphis, TN. Then after arriving in Memphis they would disperse to all the major surrounding cities. The overnight shipping, by my best guess, means that they would be shipped from Nashville Thursday night and arrive the next day by 3:00 p.m. Sounds like to me that FedEx has a lot of work cut out for them during the next two days.
My iPad has been setting in Nashville sense the 10th. I just got notification that it is now in transit from Mount Juliet, TN.
and on its way To Des Moines!
Like many people, ordered right after the Apple presentation, and it shipped the day after from Hong Kong. Arrived in Louisville, KY on the 10th and by 12h30 EDT today (thurdsay, 15), it is still there.
I wonder how it will make it to Quebec City, Canada by tomorrow if it doesn't leave by the end of today!
I finally talked to someone at Apple customer care, and it appears my iPad will only be delivered on Monday, March 19.
It really sucks when you realize that the shipment left China and arrived in Louisville at the same time as tons of others that will be delivered today.
Why would Apple force UPS to hold on and delay a batch of iPads and not some others? Because they've been engraved??? Now that would be dumb!
I'm wondering the same thing. Ordered right after the presentation, shipped on the 9th, arrived in Louisville very early on the 13th and is still sitting there.
If it doesn't leave soon I don't see it reaching Vancouver by tomorrow.


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In 2152 Archer was given information by Daniels which enabled him to penetrate the cloaking devices of the time using a pair of quantum beacons. Archer used the beacons to locate a Suliban stealth cruiser and obtain evidence that his ship had not in fact been responsible for the destruction of a Paraagan mining colony shortly before.5 The quantum beacon technology made the cloaking devices of the time largely obsolete, and the technology fell into such disuse that by the mid 23rd century a practical cloaking device was considered a virtual impossibility as light would have to be bent around a cloaked object, something which was theoretically possible but would require an enormous amount of power.6
Nevertheless, the Romulan Empire was able to develop such a device and employ it on one of their warships 2266. The vessel crossed the Neutral Zone and attacked several Federation outposts with a high power plasma torpedo weapon, destroying them completely. Although the ship was able to cloak itself from sight at will, the Enterprise found that it was still visible to motion sensors - though these were not accurate enough to give more than a very general location, insufficient for a firing solution. Although the cloak was quite effective, it did have other drawbacks. The power drain was so great that the Romulan vessel was unable to use its own scanners effectively and could not fire any weapons whilst cloaked. The vessel also had relatively limited range due to the high fuel consumption.6
The Romulans apparently traded cloaking technology to the Klingons in exchange for warships. Certainly the Romulans began operating Klingon-designed vessels by 22687, while the Klingons were known to employ cloaking technology at least as early as 2285.8 The Klingons made at least one major innovation in cloaking technology in 2293, when they produced a Bird of Prey capable of firing torpedoes whilst cloaked. The prototype vessel battled the USS Enterprise and USS Excelsior in orbit of Khittomer; despite emitting large amounts of neutron radiation the ship was highly effective, but the Enterprise crew realized that the Bird of Prey could be tracked by following the plasma exhaust emitted by its engines and modified a photon torpedo to follow this trail.9 The development was so effective that the Klingon development was rendered next to useless, and was never again an effective combatant.
In 2311 the Federation signed the Treaty of Algeron, which reaffirmed the Romulan Neutral Zone and forbade the Federation from developing or deploying any cloaking technology.10
Perhaps the most impressive example of cloaking technology was observed in 2364, when the supposedly mythical planet of Aldea was discovered by the Enterprise-D. The planet had been hidden for centuries behind a complicated light refracting mechanism which bent light around it in a similar manner to the Romulan cloaking device.11
The Minosians were also known to employ cloaking technology as part of their Echo Papa 607 weapons system. The Enterprise-D was forced to battle a cloaked drone weapon in orbit of the planet; it overcame the cloaking device by luring the drone into the atmosphere where the turbulence made it visible.12
Later in the same year the Romulan D'Deridex class Warbird was encountered for the first time when the Enterprise-D met one at the Neutral Zone. It was initially believed that the Enterprise sensor systems could detect the Warbird through its cloak, but it quickly became apparent that the Romulans had in fact deliberately allowed themselves to be detected in order to determine the Federation's intentions towards them.13
Subsequent encounters revealed that the improved cloaking device still suffered from limitations. The Romulan vessels remain unable to fire whilst cloaked, whilst advances in Federation sensor technology have made the invisibility of a Romulan Warbird less than assured.14 Perhaps the most effective development was the Tachyon detection grid; created by Enterprise-D personnel in 2368, the system involves a network of vessels which send tachyon beams towards one another across a large area of space. Even a cloaked vessel will disturb one of these beams when crossing it, hence rendering it detectable.15 Subspace listening posts and gravitic sensors are both a worry for Romulan commanders, and the Federation has deployed large numbers of these along its borders.14
In 2369 the Federation gained significant intelligence on the Warbird when a Starfleet officer masqueraded as a Romulan for a short time. She confirmed that the ship must keep a careful watch over its own electromagnetic missions whilst cloaked, and that the radiative emissions of the warp engines must be precisely balanced by means of nullifier cores. Even a small misalignment in one of these cores creates a polarized magnetic disturbance whenever the ship is in motion, something which can be detected by a Federation vessel.14
By the mid to late 24th century cloaking technology was widespread enough that even private citizens could obtain it on occasion, though usually such devices were inferior to the military models. In 2367 a confidence trickster masquerading as Ardra, a figure from Ventaxian mythology, used an inferior copy of a Romulan cloaking device to hide her ship from the Enterprise-D. The ship was eventually detected by a wavelength stretchout.16 In 2370 Quark was able to obtain a handheld cloaking device suitable for a small transport ship, something which is highly illegal in Bajoran space. Although the device was in less than perfect condition, Natima Lang was able to use it to escape DS9 whilst evading Cardassian observation. 17
Ironically, perhaps the greatest single advance in cloaking technology was made by the Federation. In 2358 the Starship Pegasus was believed destroyed after a mutiny by the crew. However, in 2370 Starfleet discovered that the Pegasus was still largely intact. Admiral Pressman, Captain of the ship at the time of its loss, attempted to recover some technology from the vessel using the Enterprise-D. It transpired that certain Federation officers had been illegally developing a Phase Cloak, a device which could change the structure of matter in order render it both invisible and able to pass through normal matter. A vessel equipped with such a device could hide within a planet or a star, completely immune from conventional attack. The crew had been so fearful of what they considered to be a dangerous device that they had mutinied rather than continue to operate it.10
In 2368 the Enterprise assisted a Romulan vessel in distress, and discovered that this vessel had also been attempting to test a phase cloak. The results had been disastrous, causing an accident that would have completely destroyed the ship if not for the assistance of the Starfleet vessel.18 There has since been little sign of progress with this technology.
In 2371 the Romulans agreed to allow Starfleet the use of a single cloaking device on board the USS Defiant in order to facilitate that ship's missions against the Dominion, in return for all of Starfleet's information about the organization.19 Although the original agreement was to only use the cloak in the Gamma Quadrant, Captain Sisko subsequently violated this rule on many occasions.20
In 2379 the Romulans fielded a new vessel, the Scimitar. An exceptionally powerful warship, the Scimitar was equipped with a new generation cloaking technology which rendered it completely invisible to the sensors of the Enterprise-E. The Scimitar was able to both use shields and fire whilst cloaked. The cloak also remained effective even through multiple weapon hits from phasers, photon and quantum torpedo hits and disrupters. This indicates that the balance of technology has again shifted in favour of the cloaking device, at least for the present.21 There can be little doubt that this will inspire the Federation to begin working on a new generation of even more sophisticated sensor systems.
In the Mirror universe cloaking technology was also developed by the Suliban, and a Suliban cloaking device was also captured by the NX-01. Lieutenant Tucker was able to hook the cloaking device into the ship's power grid, allowing the ISS Enterprise to cloak itself and infiltrate Tholian space in 2155.22
Yellow text = Canon source | Green text = Backstage source | Cyan text = Novel | White text = DITL speculation |
Series: | ENT Season 1 (Disc 1) |
Source: | Broken Bow |
Series: | ENT Season 1 (Disc 2) |
Source: | Unexpected |
Series: | ENT Season 2 (Disc 1) |
Source: | Minefield |
Series: | ENT Season 2 (Disc 2) |
Source: | The Communicator |
Series: | ENT Season 1 (Disc 6) |
Source: | Shockwave, Part 1 |
Series: | TOS Season 1 (Disc 4) |
Source: | Balance of Terror |
Series: | TOS Season 3 (Disc 1) |
Source: | The Enterprise Incident |
Source: | Star Trek III : The Search for Spock |
Source: | Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country |
Series: | TNG Season 7 (Disc 3) |
Source: | The Pegasus |
Series: | TNG Season 1 (Disc 4) |
Source: | When the Bough Breaks |
Series: | TNG Season 1 (Disc 5) |
Source: | The Arsenal of Freedom |
Series: | TNG Season 1 (Disc 6) |
Source: | The Neutral Zone |
Series: | TNG Season 6 (Disc 4) |
Source: | Face of the Enemy |
Series: | TNG Season 5 (Disc 1) |
Source: | Redemption, Part 2 |
Series: | TNG Season 4 (Disc 3) |
Source: | Devil's Due |
Series: | DS9 Season 2 (Disc 5) |
Source: | Profit and Loss |
Series: | TNG Season 5 (Disc 5) |
Source: | The Next Phase |
Series: | DS9 Season 3 (Disc 1) |
Source: | The Search, Part 1 |
Series: | DS9 Season (Disc ) |
Source: | Various Deep Space Nine episodes |
Source: | Star Trek : Nemesis |
Series: | ENT Season 4 (Disc 5) |
Source: | In A Mirror, Darkly |
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