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To: baggo who wrote (16999)	5/15/1998 2:51:00 PM
From: Kathy Riley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

My guess Brice is that institutions that did not want to pay 14 have been buying since lows. Alot of buying today. I think that the institutions that had taken positions in TAVA before may be accumulating more shares at these levels. Best regards, Kathy

To: baggo who wrote (16999)	5/15/1998 3:55:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 31646

[COWLES] The weekly Cowles column! 'May 15, 1998 Y2K and Embedded Controls in the Electric Industry - It's an Issue of Magnitude By Rick Cowles I receive a lot of correspondence asking for examples of Y2K non-compliant embedded system components that a typical electric company would have to address in the course of a Y2K program. Here's an example that's in my arsenal, and publicly available for your perusal and confirmation. Bently Nevada Corporation is a leader in the field of rotating machinery real-time vibration monitoring (pumps, turbines, compressors, motors, etc.) and eddy current testing equipment. They have a stranglehold on this market in power generation plant business; in fact, Bently Nevada is the vendor of choice for vibration monitoring in most large industrial environments that deal with large rotating equipment. A high-speed turbine has vibration monitoring installed for two reasons: 1.Performance trending over a period of time; i.e. for predictive maintenance purposes. 2.If the turbine becomes unbalanced for any reason (wipes a journal bearing or whatever) the turbine will be automatically stopped as a safety measure to keep the turbine from flying apart. Faulty turbine vibration monitors will trip a turbine and shut down a power plant (I've personally seen this happen twice at a nuclear power facility; I even wrote the event reports for both occurrences). Until the vibration monitoring equipment is fixed, the large, rotating asset (turbine, circulating water pumps, etc.) can not be returned to service. Plant insurance rules will not typically allow the large, rotating asset to be run without vibration monitoring. So, where does Bently Nevada come into the Y2K picture? I invite you to take a trip to Bently Nevada's Web site, and review the list of Y2K compliance of their products and equipment: You will find a lot of totally unsupported equipment and software, and a lot that requires upgrades for Y2K readiness. For the world class readers among you, note that I'm not picking on Bently Nevada. They've done a marvelous job coming clean with their skeletons. But Bently's list points out the level of effort that would be required at a large power facility just to assess and fix Bently's stuff. I've said it before. Fixing Y2K embedded systems in the electric industry is not a matter of complexity, it's a matter of magnitude, of commitment to fixing the problem, and of understanding all of the peripheral ramifications (such as the insurance issue noted above). y2ktimebomb.com