Today Rick Cowles will be on Y2K News Radio:

"Fingers crossed, cheeks tight, toes curled, we look forward to that "E ticket" ride into the new millennium." - - John Anderson - Y2K News Radio http://www.y2knews.org/

Listen live from 12 - 1pm CST or listen anytime afterwards to the taped version. (via RealAudio)

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), July 16, 1999

Answers

I hope someone calls in and asks Cowles to explain

*once and for all* [no hemming or hawing, no double talk, no vague statements]

what qualifies him to comment on the power industry. His *actual* backround and experience ["I worked at power plant XYZ" means he could have been a janitor]

-- Somebody (call@the.rightime), July 16, 1999.

Somebody, this don't sound like no janitor's qualifications to me.

Mr. Cowles began his career in the commercial electric utility industry with Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation in 1980, after serving six years on nuclear submarines in the U.S. Navy. In 1983, he joined the Operations Staff at Public Service Electric and Gas Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station. Over the next 15 years, he worked in the power generation, regulatory and business ends of the electric industry. Hes spent time on the shop floor, in the board room, and control room. His information systems and instrumentation / controls experience (ISA certifications, 1983) span that entire timeframe, from System 38 and Tandem NonStop II system operations to an SAP enterprise resource planning implementation.

-- Glober (globe-ular@bigfoot.com), July 17, 1999.