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Y2k Readiness of PSC's aging power plants worries former head of compliance team By Jerd Smith Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer The former director of Y2K compliance at Public Service Company of Colorado says the state's largest utility might not have gone far enough in preparing for 2000. Will James, a member of the Governor's Task Force on Year 2000 Readiness, said he is concerned the utility's aging power plants have not been as carefully prepped for the transition to 2000 as they should have been because the utility didn't want to spend extra money to do the work ...

Page 1B PC Legend in the making U.S. companies lag as Chinese firm's market share in China soars By Julie Schmit USA TODAY HONG KONG -- Wang Hai Lin, 14, knows why he wants a personal computer made by Legend Holdings. ''It is cheaper, it is better, and it is Chinese,'' he says as he and his parents shop for PCs in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. Wang is one more reason for Beijing-based Legend to cheer -- and for U.S. PC companies to groan. Legend is racing away with what is soon to be the world's third-biggest PC ...

the eXile - The Limonov X-Files Issue #23/78, November 18 - December 2, 1999   Don't Shave It...Stripe It! Top Ten Torture Tips Sheremetyevo's Negro Tax By Edward Limonov It is an open secret that Russia's population is declining. 146 millions it is now, but it was 150 only few years ago. Reasons for depopulation of Russia are many, such as: poverty, low wages, insecurity, psychological unstability of Russian society, etc. But it seems to me that main reason for a lack of babies on Russian soil is absence of desire for babies amongst Russian girls. That absence of desire ...

Mr. Speaker, earlier this week, a very decent young man was brutally murdered by two savages. And I am particularly struck, Mr. Speaker, because given the reasons that those two deformed individuals, mentally and morally deformed, murdered that individual, it could have been me. Had I, alone and unarmed, confronted these two thugs, I could have been subjected to the same brutalization that Mr. Shepard was in Wyoming, because his crime was to be a gay man. For Barney's entire statement on this, CLICK HERE. For Barney's position on cutting defense spending, CLICK HERE. Against spending on intelligence agencies, CLICK ...

Issue #23/78, November 18 - December 2, 1999   Don't Shave It...Stripe It! Top Ten Torture Tips Sheremetyevo's Negro Tax How I Got Myself Tossed From a Bill Bradley Fundraiser By Matt Taibbi "Eggheads unite: you have nothing to lose but your yolks." - Adlai Stevenson At the first sight of him, my shoulders sagged from relief, and a broad, joyful smile came across my face. He was all the evidence I ever needed. There was a God after all! I first saw him this past Sunday, on the sixth floor of Madison Square Garden, in the building's grim concrete-walled ...

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (B.O.N.D.) will announce on The O'Reilly Factor that he is holding a "National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson", to be held January 17th, 2000, the day of celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. The place for the event has not yet been announced. "This will be an annual event until Jesse Jackson repents", said Rev. Peterson. Call (800)411-BOND for more information.

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The scene was just after the GOP debate Thursday, as all the Republican candidates, except George W. Bush, graced the press room at WMUR-TV -- where hundreds of reporters were typing out their stories -- to offer a bit of post-debate analysis. And the topics we were arguing about were the press, race and Alan Keyes. Click here for rest of article "You better think about it, my friend!" Keyes said. "You better think about what you're doing!" OK, I've thought about it. Keyes has become unhinged and unreasonable. He's an even more inconsistent and paranoid egoist than I even ...

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Chemistry's top five achievements in 1999? To get the material we need for our articles, we here at Chemical & Engineering News are highly dependent on the willingness of the members of the chemical community to interrupt their own work to help us. So we think it's only fair to be responsive when someone contacts us, looking for information. Yet I have to admit that I was put off by a call I received last month. "What were the top five stories in 1999?" the caller asked. His boss needed an answer in an hour, he said. The caller seemed ...

LINKReadiness of PSC's aging power plants worries former head of compliance team By Jerd Smith Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The former director of Y2K compliance at Public Service Company of Colorado says the state's largest utility might not have gone far enough in preparing for 2000. Will James, a member of the Governor's Task Force on Year 2000 Readiness, said he is concerned the utility's aging power plants have not been as carefully prepped for the transition to 2000 as they should have been because the utility didn't want to spend extra money to do the work ...

They won't give up on their NWO pro-WTO rhetoric: "We created jobs, we made America richer yadi yada." Seattle was a complete fiasco, they try to turn it around as a success. Good bye American manufacture, good bye national security and self sufficiency. We'll have to depend on the good will of foreign tyrants who have no qualms about using slave labor, who have no qualms about stabing the US in the back when the US uses their labor, at least from now on since every one likes it that way. Expect more wars like in Serbia in the future ...

C o n c e r n e d   W o m e n   f o r   A m e r i c a the nation's largest public policy women's organization Friday, December 3, 1999 Dear Friends, Last week the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.  The proposed guidelines would allow use of federal funds for research on human fetal tissue, which is against current federal law. Scientists claim that these special cells may be used to grow new organs or to replace failing organs.  Seventy members of Congress and concerned groups ...

Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #5 – The Arizona Primary Debate 12/6/99 - Official Discussion Thread This is your official commentary page on this fifth Republican debate/forum. The one hour (or longer) session will be broadcast nationally by CNN (a.k.a., the Clinton News Network) at 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST. Repeat at 12 midnight EST/9 p.m. PST Watch it live on CNN or on your computer in live streaming video from AllPolitics. Note: C-SPAN has a rerun scheduled for 05:45 am EST (much of C-SPAN's schedule in TBA so there may be other rebroadcasts) WHERE: Orpheum Theatre, 203 W. Adams St., ...

College student jailed for pro-life stand It wasn't for grand larceny, possession of cocaine, or assault and battery. In August a Christian college student began serving a six month jail sentence for simply sharing the gospel and speaking the truth about abortion on a high school campus in Lynchburg, Virginia, before school started. Liberty University student John Reyes, who is represented by the AFA Center for Law & Policy (CLP), went with 150 other college students to the E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg on November 10, 1997. In front of the school, the group prayed, sang, handed out ...

As the first daily newspaper in the United States and the inventor of journalism, The Buffalo News would like to congratulate Vice President Gore for his many contributions to American life. Never mind that he didn't invent the Internet, serve as the model for "Love Story" or blow the whistle on Love Canal. We're sure that he uses the Internet, saw the movie and hates dioxin. In Washington, that's close enough to the truth. Such achievements also put Gore well within the ranks of millions of Americans, proving that he is indeed a man of the people. Of course, some ...

WASHINGTON - Anarchy is a nasty word, nastier still when you see it played out in the streets of Soft City by the Sea, complete with robocops, tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets fired at will. No one can condone violence, or the willful destruction of another's property. At the same time there are constitutional issues in play here, freedom of assembly, of association, of speech and from unwarranted seizure, to name a few. Can a mayor license police to shut off a 40-block section of a city, and - more to the point - permit them to swing ...

Alan Keyes on Trade: A Great "Economic Nationalist" Over the past few months, I've noticed ignorance on the part of some Freepers concerning the views of Alan Keyes. Just in the past few days, even some passionate supporters of Keyes have misrepresented his views. In this thread you can see why the great Alan Keyes is what we might call an "economic nationalist." Keyes rejects today's silly notion of "free trade" and demands a system of tariffs and sales tax as the proper way to fund the federal government. (This information was originally posted on 10/19/99) ALAN KEYES ON TRADE ...

Yahoo - Hyperchip cashes in on warp speed data technologyHome - Yahoo! - Help[ Business | US Market | By Industry | IPO | AP | S&P | International | PRNews | BizWire | CCN ]Related QuotesCSCOIBMJNPRLUMTIb.TONT.TO98 1/4116288 1/480 35/25640.55123.80+2 11/16+4 1/8-14 9/16-1 157/256-4.45+5.15delayed 20 mins - disclaimerMonday December 6, 8:53 am Eastern TimeHyperchip cashes in on warp speed data technology By Susan TaylorOTTAWA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Montreal-based Hyperchip Inc. on Monday got C$20 million from investors backed by some of the world's leading telephone companies to help launch technology that helps send data traffic into warp speed.The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government corporation that was supposed to help farmers and rural communities by financing new industrial uses for crops lost most of its money through bad investments, an inspector general's report says. The Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Corp. is already shutting down next month, as Congress cut off its funding in the 2000 budget year, partly out of concern about the agency's practices. Now a report by the Agriculture Department's inspector general estimates that three-fourths of the $43 million in investments the corporation has made since its creation seven years ago will probably not be recovered. ...