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To: limtex who wrote (90995)	12/31/2000 12:34:21 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Off topic - AP News story on big snowstorm in the Northeast. December 31, 2000 Snow Cleanup Begins in Northeast By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:30 a.m. ET Cities and towns across the Northeast on Sunday began shrugging off the crippling effects of the first major blizzard in five years to sweep through the region. In Philadelphia, Mayor John Street lifted an order that had allowed only emergency vehicles into the downtown area. By mid-morning, all the major airports in the New York City area had one runway open, although there were still a significant number of canceled flights, said Allen Morrison, spokesman for the Port Authority for New York and New Jersey. ``It will probably take another day to get back to normal,'' said Bob McHugh, a spokesman for Continental Airlines, which has a hub at the Newark Airport. About 700 people stayed overnight at the Continental terminal, McHugh said. New York TV stations showed rows upon rows of travelers sleeping overnight on cots in LaGuardia airport. Airport workers, meanwhile, kept up their snow removal marathon. Clearing snow from the tarmac is a tedious, multistep process, says Lanny Rider, the manager of airport operations at LaGuardia airport. ``We're moving mountains of snow around,'' Rider said. ``And as soon as we build a big pile, we have to do something with that pile.'' By Sunday morning, bus service in and out of Manhattan's Port Authority had resumed and NJ Transit trains to Manhattan were running again. Buses were back on their routes throughout the state by 5 a.m., said NJ Transit spokeswoman Penny Bassett Hackett. ``It was kind of scary looking out the windows,'' said Kara Grossman, who took a train Saturday from Watertown, Mass., to Newark. ``You couldn't see anything. It was all white. We thought we were in a cloud.'' The storm dumped as much as 25 inches of snow in Randolph in central New Jersey, and 12 inches fell in New York City's Central Park -- a record for the date -- before the snowfall eased and turned into slush late in the afternoon. North of the city, suburban White Plains reported 14 inches. More than a half-foot accumulated in parts of eastern Pennsylvania, and parts western Connecticut had 15 inches. Newark, N.J., also collected a record with 13.7 inches and Bridgeport, Conn., had a record 9 inches. State police in western Massachusetts reported near whiteout conditions there by Saturday afternoon. Fleets of snowplows were sent out to battle the white, wet deluge, and New York called out some National Guard troops to help.There were 123 guard personnel deployed around the state Sunday morning, said state spokesman Tom Rinaldi. The region's last big storm was on Jan. 7, 1996, when 19 inches of snow fell on New York City. Last winter, the city got a mere 13 inches for the whole season. While New York City tourists reveled in the bonanza of snow Saturday night, determined city officials were literally bulldozing it out of Times Square. Sidestreets were closed so plows could create snowdrifts 12 feet high in the middle of the street. Massive front-loaders then piled the snow onto specialized snow-melting trucks, which poured the resulting water into city sewers. The storm was a boon for ski area operators in Maine, who had endured several successive years of below-average snowfall. ``It's really nice to have winter back -- the way it's supposed to be in New England,'' said Skip King of Sunday River in Newry. Copyright 2000 The Associated Press

To: limtex who wrote (90995)	1/2/2001 3:37:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Limtex, There are maybe a couple of thousand Globalstar phones in Europe, but with extorquerationate GSM roaming charges, the point is how far can Globalstar afford to lower prices to scoop the pool. The answer is a long way. And the GSM roaming people would have no answer because they wouldn't want to cut their roaming charges to 100s of millions of customer in a futile attempt to stop a few millions using Globalstar. That's the advantage of being the small, niche player. It's not how many subscribers Globalstar has now, so much as how many they will have if they stop charging $3 a minute in Europe [with minutes rounded up, monthly fees, add-ons and nonsense]. Mqurice