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Y2K and Electric Power FAQ   By Dick Mills June 25, 1999   This is my last regular Power Prognostications column. Don't fear though, next week I'll be back with a new and exciting Westergaard Online column to be called Lessons Learned. My reasons for the change are threefold. First, I exhausted my backlog of power topics relating  to Y2K. As you saw, the issue has very many facets and it needed numerous articles to explore. It would bore you to start repeating. Second, I've been holding back a series of articles that I think you'll find interesting and ...

Jury Convicts 'Sleepwalking' Husband Friday, June 25, 1999; 1:53 p.m. EDT PHOENIX (AP) -- A man who claimed he was sleepwalking when he stabbed his wife 44 times and held her head under water was convicted Friday of first-degree murder. Scott Falater stared straight ahead and did not react as the verdict was read in a Maricopa County Superior Court. Jurors also had the option of convicting Falater of second-degree murder. Prosecutors have said they would seek the death penalty. What Falater did on the night of Jan. 16, 1997, has never been in question. He admitted to stabbing his ...

Sun storm could disrupt high-tech devices By Paul Hoversten, USA TODAY Radio communication is knocked out. Beepers and cell phones fall silent. Power blackouts shut down subways, elevators and traffic signals during rush hour. High above Earth, delicate electronics on military, scientific and commercial satellites sizzle and quit. Just in time for the year 2000, when some fear computer systems will go haywire anyway, a new worst-case scenario is coming: A raging fury on the sun, 93 million miles away, could disrupt life as we know it on Earth. No one's predicting doomsday. And nothing out of the ordinary might ...

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WASHINGTON, Jun 25, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) Russia's surprise capture of the Pristina airport was the first step ahead of airlifting at least 1,000 Russian soldiers to Kosovo, US media reported here. Western intelligence analysts disagree over whether the move was designed for Russia to carve out its own sector of Kosovo, or to reinforce the 200 troops who took the airport June 12 and strengthen their bargaining position, the Washington Post reported Friday. The plan failed when Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania -- urged by the United States -- refused to grant the Russians overflight rights to send ...

PERTH, AUSTRALIA (NB) -- By Adam Creed, Newsbytes. Uncertainty in business, government and among experts over what exactly will happen as the year 2000 arrives poses a real threat of an economic slowdown, according to research conducted by Curtin Business School's Institute for Research into International Competitiveness (IRIC). Even though the Y2K problem has been identified and critical dates when computer problems may occur are known, the results remain unpredictable because of the huge Web of inter-related partners, suppliers and unknowns in the equation, according to Professor Peter Kenyon, director of IRIC. "Estimates range wildly from almost no noticeable effect ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. It was in John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address that he let every nation know, whether it wished us well or ill, that the United States would ``pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend (and) oppose any foe'' to assure the survival and success of our liberty. This week, President Clinton proposed a pale and foolhardy imitation, what his aides have come to call ``The Clinton Doctrine.'' ``Democracy, tolerance, and human rights must prevail everywhere for no nation is safe, no prosperity is stable, if ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Power outages, faulty computers and software glitches have caused at least six serious air traffic control outages from New York to Minneapolis to Seattle since January. In some cases, passengers have been stranded overnight at airports, as happened to 100 travelers in Minneapolis earlier this week. On another occasion, in Philadelphia in May, controllers lost radio communication with six planes, leaving one to say, "Helpless is a pretty good description.'' The government says a $13 billion upgrade of the nation's air traffic control system now under way should reduce problems. The work includes replacing work stations ...

Fellow Conservatives: Unity 2000 – an organization of BAUER, BUCHANAN, KEYES, AND SMITH supporters – has been hard at work for months now, working for unification among truly conservative candidates. We each have our own preferences for the Republican nomination, but have sacrificed our preferences for the conservative cause: we desire unity! This post is meant, primarily, for the pro-Bush forces who have lately offered criticism of conservative unity. For the many who have joined the cause of conservative unification, we salute your understanding and passion. ____________________________________________________________ GIMME A BUSH! GIMME A DOLE! GIMME A BUSH! Lately we have seen ...

“Compassionate Conservatism” Will Undermine the Future of Republicans and of Capitalism       George W. Bush is viewed widely by Republicans as the person who will save their party and lead it back to the White House. But will he? Or will Bush and his supporters actually undermine the future of the Republican Party — and of economic freedom?      Bush advocates an ideology he calls “compassionate conservatism.” This appeasing term was coined by Bush as a feeble attempt to deflect criticism of the GOP for favoring less government. It is a reprise of the theme of his father, whose notion of ...

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>Not for reproduction< Republicans actually helped their image with voters -- and boosted their election prospects in the 2000 election -- by impeaching President Clinton, a leading Democratic pollster said Thursday. At the same time, Democrats are suffering from a delayed voter disgust with Mr. Clinton's scandals that has improved GOP chances for the presidency and Congress in next year's elections, according to Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. As a result of the "time-release" change in attitude among voters, moral values have become the dominant issue for voters and could spell defeat for Vice President Al Gore and his fellow ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_377000/377714.stm As darkness fell in Pristina, the sound of shattering plate glass could be heard on the town's main street. Kosovo Albanians, recently returned to the province, were breaking into a Serb-owned shoe shop. The owner has now fled to Serbia proper. People stepped through the remains of the window to carry away boxes of shoes; some hid their faces, as other Kosovo Albanians nearby shook their heads in disapproval. A distressed Serbian woman watched it all and asked, "Where is K-For"? A K-For patrol arrived minutes later, but too late to stop the emptying of the shop. Over ...

Married couples, the self-employed, estates and investors would all see tax breaks under a 10-year, $778 billion plan proposed Thursday by conservative Republicans in the House. "It is time to stop taxing families, taxing saving and taxing our future," said Rep. David M. McIntosh, Indiana Republican. More important, said Mr. McIntosh, who chairs the House's Conservative Action Team (CAT), "if we do not get this money out of Washington, Congress will find a way to spend it." Bill Archer, Texas Republican and Ways and Means Committee chairman, is working on his version of a tax bill that his committee will ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. LOS ANGELES, June 25 (UPI) - Movie and television production companies are cutting costs by making their programs outside the United States, but a new report shows the trend is costing the U.S. economy billions of dollars a year. The study, conducted for the Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild of America, found that so-called "runaway production" cost the U.S. economy $10.3 billion last year in lost wages, taxes and consumer spending. That's five times as much as the economy lost in 1990 due to runaway production. The report shows ...

Dallas Web images upset JFK kin By Charles Richards, Associated Press, 06/25/99 DALLAS - The view from the sixth-floor warehouse window where Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy was transmitted live yesterday on the Internet to the chagrin of Kennedy's survivors. The camera panned and zoomed in all directions, capturing images for viewing at www.jfk.org. The camera is mounted in the window of the old Texas Schoolbook Depository Building, where Oswald fired his fatal shots on Nov. 22, 1963. The sixth-floor has been a Kennedy museum for years. Oswald's perch is preserved, complete with stacked wooden crates near the window, ...

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2000 WORRIES: More than 10% of mutual-fund investors say they plan to cash out of their funds by year end because of year-2000 computer-glitch concerns, according to a study released Wednesday. In the survey of 1,000 mutual-fund shareholders, two marketing companies found that 39% of investors were highly concerned about the impact of Y2K computer issues, while 14% said they will sell shares by December because of their concerns. Most people are keeping their concerns about year-2000 problems under control, though. Sixty percent of survey participants said they were only "slightly" concerned or "not concerned" about the Y2K issue, though ...

* On the morning of September 3, 1998, Joseph Montgomery watched as two men entered his store. The 56-year-old owner of the store 500 Guns, located near the Indianapolis 500 Speedway, remembered them as having come in earlier. The men walked to a glass case that held three shelves filled with handguns. &quot;I want that one: said the taller of the two and pointed to a Smith &amp; Wesson .38 revolver, which Montgomery reached down to remove from the display case. Montgomery later recalled that after his head came back up, one of them grabbed him by the neck ...