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Y2K CONFERENCE SERIES AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIV. LIVE on C-SPAN at 7:30pm ET "Still Needed: Additional National and Global Initiatives Aimed at Minimizing Anticipated Impacts of Y2K"

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This panel focuses on alternative national and global initiatives to minimizing the anticipated impacts of Y2K. The conference series has been emphasizing the need for a wide range of additional initiatives that still need to be taken in order to minimize the anticipated impacts of Y2K. These initiatives include minimizing the possibility of problems occurring as a result of technological disasters involving everything from nuclear power plants, chemical plants, oil and gas pipelines, refineries, hazardous materials sites and facilities to water supplies and sewage treatment plants. The panel is comprised of individuals who have played leadership roles in bringing to the attention of government and the public the seriousness of the threats and challenges posed by Y2K and embedded systems.

No pre-registration is required for this free program. All interested are welcome to attend.

WHEN: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

WHERE: The George Washington University Funger Hall, Room 108, 2201 G Street, NW (22nd & G Streets NW) Washington, D.C. (Foggy Bottom/GWU Metro, blue and orange lines)

PROGRAM AGENDA:

7:30 p.m. to Funger Hall, Room 108 10:00 p.m. "Still Needed: Additional National and Global Initiatives Aimed at Minimizing Anticipated Impacts of Y2K" Moderator: Paula Gordon, Director of Special Projects, Research Program for Social and Organizational Learning (RPSOL), GWU

Panelists: Dr. Lawrence de Bivort, Director, Global Y2K Consortium

Norman Dean, Director, Center for Y2K and Society

Stuart Umpleby, Professor of Management Science and Director, RPSOL, GWU

Dr. Robert Alloway, Director, National Leadership Task Force on Y2K (Invited)

Margaret Anderson, Director for Policy, Center for Y2K and Society (Invited)

The Honorable James Moody, CEO and President, InterAction (formerly a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin)

This panel program is scheduled to be live broadcast by C-SPAN.

During approximately the same time period, another panel will be held on the subject of Family and Community Y2K Preparedness. Details concerning this panel are as follows:

7:10 to Funger Hall, Room 103 10:00 p.m. "Family and Community Preparedness"

Moderator: Philip Bogdonoff, Center for Y2K and Society

Panelists: Jay Golter, Acting President, Northern Virginia Year 2000 Community Action Group (NOVA Y2K)

Peter G. LaPorte, Director, District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency

Sally Strackbein, Y2K Kitchen (http://www.y2kkitchen.com) and Vice President, The Northern Virginia Year 2000 Community Action Group (NOVA Y2K)

Ray Strackbein, Information Systems Consultant, Reston, VA and The Northern Virginia Year 2000 Community Action Group (NOVA Y2K)

The Reverend A. Guy Fouts, Wheaton Maryland

This panel focuses on Y2K-related family and community preparations. The Director of The District of Columbia's Emergency Management Agency will be one of the panelists. That Agency is now recommending that the public have a supply of water and non-perishable food on hand that will last from 7 to 10 days. Representatives of one of the most progressive community preparedness groups in the region, the NOVA Y2K Group, will also be taking part.

This panel is not scheduled to be broadcast on C-SPAN. Only the panel on National and Global Initiatives is scheduled to be broadcast.

Please feel free to forward the announcement concerning these two panels to others.

-- Paula Gordon (pgordon@erols.com), November 22, 1999

Answers

Way to go Paula. This is as close to a national town hall on y2k as they will allow. Thanks Paula for trying. May God bless your efforts Richly. God bless you for caring about our country. Y2k aware mike. You are a very quality individual

-- y2k aware mike (y2k aware mike @ coservation . com), November 22, 1999.

I'll be sure to watch - I also found the following on for early morning: 11-23-99 1:24 AM 34 min...

Congressional News Conference Year 2000 Computer Problem U.S. Capitol, House Radio TV Gallery Washington, District of Columbia (United States) ID: 153816 - 11/22/1999 - 0:34 - $29.95

Morella, Constance A., U.S. Representative, R-MD Horn, Stephen, U.S. Representative, R-CA

-- mmmm (mmmm@mmmm.com), November 22, 1999.

Writing this in the calendar.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), November 22, 1999.

Paula,

It figures. No politicians in sight to address the biggest management problem in history. Who says so.. Koskinen. Thanks again for fighting the good fight against all odds.

-- PJC (paulchri@msn.com), November 22, 1999.

Awesome Paula, will definitely tune in.

;-)

-- karla (karlacalif@aol.com), November 22, 1999.

I very much appreciate your efforts to keep us all informed, Gordon. This is good work. Please keep your site posted up to date as you find things of import.

WatcherDrinkingRye

-- WTL (Watcher@tv.land), November 22, 1999.

It's 2:05 AM EST and I just finished watching the press conference. This was the most powerful Y2K pessimistic news I have ever seen! There is a huge difference in reading a press release and seeing it live. A transcript of the statements and questions MUST be published here...anyone?

From my notes: Rep. Horn stated that the Department of Defense, Health and Human Services, the Treasury (Yes, the IRS is still inventoring systems), the Air Traffic Controller System and the Department of Justice are still not ready.

When asked by a reporter which systems in DOD weren't ready, he said, Some in the pentagon, Abrams Tanks, the Army National Guard, some in Korea, the Defense Attache, the southern Command and some Intelligence Systems.

In response to a question, Rep Tom Davis said that he expected the Congressional Offices to be barraged with people who weren't getting their checks.

Rep Horn, said that "We may be some of those people."

Horn, when asked about the ATC, said that he hoped that their work would be done and that he was holding a ticket for a flight on Dec. 31 unless Jane Garvey cancels the flight. He said that they should have started working on the ATC in 1989 like Social Security, which he added is ready.

One of the problems he had seen was procrastination. He added that we can count on nothing flying that is not totally safe.

He also mentioned that the FBI has reported that hackers will be trying to crash systems too.

Horn also said that we simply don't know what is going to happen and the real emphasis should be on testing. There is a lot of interaction in federalism. It is a very complicated thing and there are interactions with other governments, individual states and the private sector. One Senator wrote to the President about it and never heard a word in reply.

Rep Connie Morella(sp) repeated many times that people shouldn't panic and later said "people must not panic." Do not take money out of the bank and DO prepare with food and rations.

When asked about public housing and if the problem was just a paperwork thing, Horn said that heat and elevators were the biggest problem especially in the Northeast, North Central and Northwest regions. Also, the Fuel Assistance program was not ready.

And on top of all of this, he admitted that some agencies were lying about their compliancy readiness and that in one case they had sent in the GAO and confirmed this.

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To me, these announcements (and there were many more) are the smoking gun of Y2K.

If just these programs are not ready, I can see rioting, Martial Law and Depression.

I just went from a 6 to an 8.

Someone please, post a transcript!

-- Cant Say (Chicken@NoWay.com), November 23, 1999.

Has anyone been able to come up with a transcript, or link to same? Thanks.

-- Lilly (homesteader145@yahoo.com), November 23, 1999.

What's your opinion of the people on the panel(s)?

Qualified? Concerned? Pushing an agenda or politics? I saw almost no purely "technical" or "engineering" types? Who are they relying on for their information?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), November 23, 1999.

Cant Say, thanks for a sobering report.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), November 23, 1999.

Is it going to be repeated?

-- More Dinty Moore (dac@ccrtc.com), November 23, 1999.

To More Dinty Moore:

You can see a first replay of tonight's panel program at GW University on C-SPAN 2 at 3:30 AM Wednesday morning, 11/24/99. You can also order a copy from C-SPAN by calling 1-800-277-2698.

I suspect that it will be played several more times during the next week.

Regards,

Paula Gordon

To Robert A. Cook:

Here are some websites that will give you an idea my sources of information.

For Parts 1 - 6 of a White Paper on Y2K by Paula Gordon, see http://www.gwu.edu/~y2k/keypeople/gordon

For a list of references and resources on Y2K, see the same website.

Also see "Comments, Essays, and Op-Ed Pieces" at the same website. For a Y2K Audio/Video webpage of Y2K related programs, see http://www.y2kapproaches.com/real/pgordon.htm

The videotaped proceedings of the July 1999 GW Y2K Conference will soon be posted there.

For comments on the conference and copies of prepared statements and related material, see http://www.gwu.edu/~y2k/keypeople/gordon/1999conference

-- Paula Gordon (pgordon@erols.com), November 23, 1999.

The following is a duplicate of a message that I have posted on other threads about the GW University program on Y2K broadcast over C-SPAN Tuesday night:

You can see a first replay of the panel program on C-SPAN 2 at 3:30 AM Wednesday morning, 11/24/99. You can also order a copy from C-SPAN by calling 1-800-277-2698.

I suspect that it will be played several more times during the next week.

My guess is that they will play it many more times if you call C-SPAN viewer services and request it.

Thanks for all the interest in the program.

By the way, here is the full website that I referred to:

http://www.gwu.edu/~y2k/keypeople/gordon

-- Paula Gordon (pgordon@erols.com), November 24, 1999.

The following is a duplicate of a message that I have posted on other threads about the GW University program on Y2K broadcast over C-SPAN Tuesday night:

You can see a first replay of the panel program on C-SPAN 2 at 3:30 AM Wednesday morning, 11/24/99. You can also order a copy from C-SPAN by calling 1-800-277-2698.

I suspect that it will be played several more times during the next week.

My guess is that they will play it many more times if you call C-SPAN viewer services and request it.

Thanks for all the interest in the program.

By the way, here is the full website that I referred to:

The following is a duplicate of a message that I have posted on other threads about the GW University program on Y2K broadcast over C-SPAN tonight:

You can see a first replay of tonight's panel program at GW University on C-SPAN 2 at 3:30 AM Wednesday morning, 11/24/99. You can also order a copy from C-SPAN by calling 1-800-277-2698.

I suspect that it will be played several more times during the next week.

My guess is that they will play it many more times if you call C-SPAN viewer services and request it.

Thanks for all the interest in the program.

By the way, here is the full website that I referred to:

http://www.gwu.edu/~y2k/keypeople/gordon

-- Paula Gordon (pgordon@erols.com), November 24, 1999.

See links on this thread. Email C-span for possible rebroadcast today, Wednesday 11/24.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), November 24, 1999.