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"Elvis by the Presleys" CD
Track Listing:
DISC 1: Trying To Get To You - Heartbreak Hotel - I Want You, I Need You, I Love You - I Got A Woman - Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do - Peace In The Valley - Trouble - Hawaiian Wedding Song - Indescribably Blue - In The Ghetto - Suspicious Minds - I'll Hold You In My Heart - Bridge Over Troubled Water - You've Lost That Loving Feeling - It's Over - Separate Ways - Always On My Mind - My Way - Burning Love - Welcome To My World - Steamroller Blues - I Got A Feeling In My Body - If I Can Dream - A Little Less Conversation (Elvis Vs. JXL)
(Mar.28, 2005) (Mar.27, 2005)
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(Mar.26, 2005)
This photo provided by Harpo Productions shows Priscilla Presley, left, with her daughter Lisa Marie Presley and television personality Oprah Winfrey during a taping Thursday, March 24, 2005, of the 'Oprah Winfrey' talk show in Chicago. The Presleys appear together during an interview that airs Tuesday, March 29.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
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|(TV) Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer (ABC) (web-site)
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"All Shook Up" Premiere
Priscilla Presley, right, poses for photographers with Cheyenne Jackson before a preview performance of the new musical comedy 'All Shook Up' at Broadway's Palace Theatre Wednesday March 23, 2005. Jackson stars in the new musical comedy which is based on the songs of Presley's late husband Elvis. Presley was attending the performance.
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(Photos) Elvis Musical All Shook Up
Review: Elvis Musical Is Suprising
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
NEW YORK (AP) - There may be life in the jukebox musical after all. The much-maligned genre that produced the highs of "Mamma Mia!" and the lows of "Good Vibrations" has strengthened the case for pop-song musical theater with a surprising "All Shook Up."
This genial, thoroughly ingratiating show, which opened Thursday at Broadway's Palace Theatre, features songs made famous by that icon of rock 'n' roll, Elvis Presley. And it also celebrates Presley himself, using his persona as the model for the musical's lead character, a guitar-strumming, motorcycle-driving, hip-swiveling roustabout named Chad.
What makes "All Shook Up" work so well is the show's cheerful, tongue-in-cheek sense of self. Book writer Joe DiPietro, one of the creators of the long-running off-Broadway revue "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change," has concocted a goofy, often funny and sweet-tempered story that is an affectionate send-up not only of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," but all those cheesy movies Presley made during his mediocre film career. Remember such cinematic clinkers as "Harum Scarum," "Clambake" and "Speedway"? They make "All Shook Up" seem like "Long Day's Journey Into Night."
Well, not really. But DiPietro has had the smarts not to take things too seriously, while director Christopher Ashley has assembled a crackerjack cast headed by hunky newcomer Cheyenne Jackson to deliver the goods.
Most of Presley's big hits are here, from "Love Me Tender" to "Jailhouse Rock" to "Heartbreak Hotel" to "Can't Help Falling in Love" to bits and pieces of "Teddy Bear" and "Hound Dog," and, of course, the title song.
DiPietro has shoehorned some two dozen Presley numbers into the musical without letting the seams show in his admittedly slender, countrified fairy tale.
We're in a small town in Middle America, circa 1955, a place where all the young folks leave as soon as they get married. It's a dead-end burg until Chad arrives "with a song in his soul and a love for the ladies."
"Time to live a little," he preaches to its unhappy, uptight citizens.
That's not so easy since the town is run by a bossy female mayor (a glorious Alix Korey) who rides around in a pink Cadillac convertible enforcing something called the Mamie Eisenhower Decency Act, banning, she says, "everything I consider dirty."
That includes romance, which seems to have affected everyone, all of whom - including Chad - are suffering from bad cases of unrequited love.
Jackson is a musical-theater find, blessed with good looks and, more importantly, the ability to be funny and self-deprecating. But then, there is equally fine work done by a whole parade of performers.
They include a delightful Jenn Gambatese as Natalie, the tomboy female mechanic who falls for our hero; Leah Hocking as a blond femme fatale who runs the local art museum (OK, that's a bit of a stretch) and a hilarious Mark Price as Chad's nerdy sidekick.
DiPietro's string of mismatched lovers embraces all ages and, in a subplot similar to one in "Hairspray," cuts across racial lines, too, something that wouldn't have happened so readily 50 years ago. It concerns the military-school son (Curtis Holbrook) of the white mayor who falls for the black daughter (Nikki M. James) of the local saloonkeeper (the vocally expansive Sharon Wilkins). And the bar owner has designs on Natalie's father, played by the affably rumpled Jonathan Hadary.
"All Shook Up" even flirts with the hero thinking he might be gay after falling for "Ed," who happens to be Natalie disguised as a guy so she can get close to Chad. It's a plot line that gingerly gets resolved with a minimum of fuss.
Ashley moves the show at a rapid pace, aided by some exuberant choreography, the work of two choreographers, Ken Roberson and Sergio Trujillo. The director doesn't allow the show to fall apart even when the plot seems to disappear for yet one more big dance number.
Designer David Rockwell's rustic settings suggest Li'l Abner's Dogpatch filtered through a hip, yet nostalgic sensibility for all things rural, and he has come up with an evocative, almost arty fairground setting in Act 2 where all the lovers come together in confusion.
"All Shook Up" thrives on that confusion, a mixed-up merry-go-round of fun anchored by allthose Presley tunes. Lightweight, to be sure, but it floats very nicely indeed.
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CD, Live from Las Vegas (The Las Vegas Centennial Collection)
Release Date; May 10 (Capitol Records, 72434-77440-2)
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(left) Maxine took this picture when the Browns were
backstage with Elvis at the Louisiana Hayride in 1955.
He was just coming out of the bathroom.
(Jim Ed Brown, Maxine Brown, Elvis Presley, Bonnie Brown)
Elvis and the Browns at the Trio Club in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, December 15, 1956. The Trio Club was Elvis' favorite hangout in the early days; he loved Mamma's cooking. He came by for a visit with us on his way to the Louisiana Hayride, where he was making his final appearance.
"The Three Bells" Audio Sample by the Browns.
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Tom Perryman threw this party at the Mimosa Tea Room at City Lake in Gladewater, Texas, in honor of Brown's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in 1955.
(Clockwise from left) Floyd Brown, Birdie Brown, Norma Brown, Jim Ed Brown, Scotty Moore, Bill Black, D.J. Fontana, Floyd Cramer, Red West, Tom Tall, Jimmy Day, Elvis Presley, Billie Perryman, Tom Perryman, Perryman's children, Maxine Brown and Bonnie Brown.
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Seinfeld Is Unfunny
aka: Seinfeld Is Cliche
"I don't know what the big deal with Hamlet is, it's just one famous saying after another, strung together by a moldy old plot."There are certain shows that you can safely assume most people have seen. These shows were considered fantastic when they first aired. Now, however, these shows have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we'll cry, "That is so old" or "That is so overdone". The sad irony? It wasn't old or overdone when they did it. But the things it created were so brilliant and popular, they became woven into the fabric of that show's genre. They ended up being taken for granted, copied and endlessly repeated. Although they often began by saying something new, they in turn became the status quo. Named after the sitcom Seinfeld, which many people won't watch any more because everything about it has been copied. Most likely will result in Fan Haters and accusations of Rule Abiding Rebels. This can also occur in countries that get the shows years after they originally come out. Compare Older Than They Think, Discredited Meme, Unbuilt Trope, Hype Backlash and Rule-Abiding Rebel. Contrast Vindicated by History. This is a special case of Older Than They Think, when the Trope Codifier is still around or still highly regarded. The same principle applied to ethical or cultural issues is Fair for Its Day. The exact opposite of Values Resonance. The worst outcome is Deader Than Disco. Occasionally overlaps with Values Dissonance. Warning: reading all these examples may result in severe depression, as they might give the impression that anything old can no longer be truly enjoyed - and that anything new will be unenjoyable in the future. Proceed at your own risk.
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Branding diva (and designer) Cynthia Rowley continues to find new markets, teaming up with Avon for a line of cosmetics for nails, lips, cheeks and eyes, in living color, part of a bid to up Avon's cred with a younger, hipper set. The limited edition line will be hawked through a print ad campaign to appear any minute in Vogue.
Colors are current, heavy on the deep plums and purples that have punctuated the runways for fall. Prices? Eminently doable, ranging from a $4 pot of nail enamel to an $8 shadow quad. The big splurge? A $15 brush set, which is being marketed for its "beautiful beauty case." I'll stick with the pretty nail color, myself.
If you want to be among the first to fill your virtual shopping bag with Rowley's line, get notified when it's available by clicking here.
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The Lying Game
The Lying Game Promo for Season 2, Episode 10: A Killer Revealed?
With only one more episode left in Season 2 of The Lying Game, there are still so many questions we want answered!
Who killed Derek? Who broke into Rebecca's (Charisma Carpenter) home be revealed? And, most importantly, what kind of mousse does Ethan (Blair Redford) use to style his luscious locks?
The answers will all come in due time, but for now we'll have to make do with what the Season 2, Episode 10 promo video tells us.
So much was revealed in the last episode: Ted (Andy Buckley) found out about Emma (Alexandra Chando), Alec was confronted about his decision to split up the twins, and Jordan offered to help put Rebecca behind bars. But most heartbreaking of all was watching Dan (Tyler Christopher) find Theresa floating face down in the clubhouse pool, bringing the investigation into her mysterious disappearance to a tragic end.
In the Season 2 finale, the police dive deeper into Theresa's case. Meanwhile, it looks as if Emma will finally make her decision between Ethan and Thayer (Christian Alexander), and Ted tries desperately to save his family while finding a way to reveal one last secret to Kristin (Helen Slater). And with the twins' identities practically out in the open, Sutton and Emma come to a crossroads in their relationship.
How will everything go down? Wath the promo for The Lying Game Season 2 finale and let us know what you think!


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Posted by Paella Lover NYC on 03/03/2014
Lobster Paella and Black Ink Paella are a MUST! gambas, Datiles, coca, jamon serrano ... everything was delicious. Our server was friendly and professional I am definitely coming back
Posted by indesign62 on 05/22/2012
Stopped in here on a Sunday afternoon for a couple of Tapas and won't be back. The croquettes were starchy and the fried calamari was tough and had no flavor. The sangria was pretty goo though.
Posted by dash on 10/27/2011
Soccarat is one of the better Spanish restaurants in the city. The tapas are uniformly good and the paella tends to be somewhere between good and great. The place has a nice atmosphere - perhaps a bit too dark? - and I can't stand communal tables but somehow the barstool-height communal table at Soccarat isn't so bad (and besides, much of the seating is at regular tables.)
Posted by steve on 07/02/2011
great place. My co-workers and I eat here alot. I want to go to spain now
Posted by anonymous on 03/22/2011
Went there on a Friday night without reservations...but the staff was great at trying to accomodate those waiting for tables or to be seated at the bar. We ate at the bar and loved it - the black paella was excellent, sangria was delish! See you soon Socorrat :)
Posted by Stefanie on 02/04/2011
After finally finding the very non-descript new offshoot of its Chelsea sister, and getting over the fact that I would have to deal with communal seating, I settled in to the Spanish cuisine solution to an otherwise icy cold night. The white sangria was a'ight...my brother thought it tasted a little like orange soda. They have an interesting wine selection, so I would opt for that over the sangria next time. We started with the patatas bravas, tortilla and pan tomaca. The tortilla and pan tomaca (a Spanish bruschetta if you will) were amazing, but the patatas bravas was nothing special. We chose the Paella De Pescado Y Mariscos for our main dish and it was more than enough for the two of us...fair amount of fresh seafood, hearty flavor...though they could have been a little less heavy-handed with the salt. The service was very good and, while when I arrived at 7pm it was empty, the place filled up to capacity within 30 mins. While I am never one to enjoy communal seating, Socarrat makes it a little less adverse by providing larger padded stools and seating people a fair amount of distance apart unlike many other joints out there that have painfully packed accomodations. Overall, it was pricey for what it was but I would probably venture back if I happened to be in the 'hood and had a hankering for tapas and paella.
Posted by dc on 02/03/2011
I'd like to like this place. But I can't. The mushroom tapas were the only redeeming food item, and the paella price is PER PERSON! what? be ware.


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Writing Jobs - 30th August 2010
Monday morning! Ready to start a new week? Let's begin with some writing jobs posts:
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Compensation: (if hired for the project): $10 for multiple-choice items; $15 for constructed response items
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Winter Fruit Salad with Lemon Poppyseed Dressi
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Winter Fruit Salad with Lemon Poppyseed Dressing - TastyPlanner.com
Chef: Paula Miranda
Wonderful salad for the holiday seasons. Great to serve for dinner at home or to take to a family gathering during the holidays.
2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons white sugar
2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons lemon juice
3/4 teaspoon diced onion
1/4 teaspoon Dijon-style prepared mustard
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons and 1-3/4 teaspoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon poppy seeds
1/3 head romaine lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces
1/2 ounces shredded Swiss cheese
1/3 cup cashews
1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon dried cranberries
1/3 apple - peeled, cored and diced
1/3 pear - peeled, cored and sliced
Instructions1. In a blender or food processor, combine sugar, lemon juice, onion, mustard, and salt. Process until well blended. With machine still running, add oil in a slow, steady stream until mixture is thick and smooth. Add poppy seeds, and process just a few seconds more to mix. 2. In a large serving bowl, toss together the romaine lettuce, shredded Swiss cheese, cashews, dried cranberries, apple, and pear. Pour dressing over salad just before serving, and toss to coat.
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Not many people realize just how easy getting daily exercise in can be. People who aren't being healthy by exercising must not want to be healthy, because daily exercise can't get much more simple than the routine displayed in this little graphic to the right.
Those are all exercises that you can perform at your home, without having to buy a gym membership; and most of those exercises require little-or-no equipment at all. Your body is the main piece of equipment that you need; and in some cases, it is the only piece of equipment needed. Obviously the workout displayed in the graphic is only an example of what effective exercises can be performed at home, and is not intended to serve as your workout routine.
Like any other workout, you should start with a warm-up and end with a cool-down. A great method of warming up would be to hop on your treadmill for a few minutes just to get the blood pumping. It's the same concept for your cool-down, just opposite; get on the treadmill for a few minutes and wait for your heart-rate to go down. However, those are not the only times you can use your treadmill. Implementing incline training into your workout is also a great idea; as it can increase the intensity of your workout. You can find reviews of some of the best incline training treadmills at Treadmill Review Guru. Now, of course you don't need a treadmill to perform these; but they are extremely convenient because you don't need to leave your home to get in the warm-up/cool-down.
Working out at home really doesn't get any more simple than that. All of the exercises listed in the graphic, if used together, are sure to give you a total body workout that is going to keep you fit and healthy. Eating the right kind of food is just as important to keep healthy, so make sure you are making the right food choices.


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Gritters out in force as Devon braces itself for heavy snow
Posted: January 17, 2013|
Gritters will be out in force this evening and overnight as Devon braces itself for heavy snow.
With the Met Office issuing an amber warning, the county is facing the prospect of up to 10cm of snow.
Although temperatures are forecast to drop only marginally below freezing, strong winds could create blizzard conditions from the early hours of tomorrow which may cause travel disruption during the morning rush hour.
Devon County Council's gritters will be treating routes on higher ground in the north and east of the county as well as Dartmoor and Exmoor. Around 1,700 miles of the County Council's precautionary salting network will then be treated at midnight and again at 4am.
The Highways Agency's fleet of gritters will be going out twice this evening treating 170 miles of the strategic road network in the county and is on standby throughout the night ready to carry out additional runs when needed. The Agency and County Council is also ready with snow ploughs to deal with any significant accumulations of snow.
Devon County Council, the Highways Agency, and Devon and Cornwall Police are working closely together and are on alert to respond. The Forward Command Point will also be established at Haldon Hill and Telegraph Hill this evening to monitor conditions.
People across the county are being advised to check weather forecasts and to allow extra time for their journey tomorrow morning.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council Cabinet Member for Highways and Transportation, said:
"We're facing the potential of a heavy band of snow across Devon overnight, so travelling conditions could become difficult, particularly on minor roads off of the main salting network. We are working closely with Police and the Highways Agency to be as prepared as we possibly can be to deal with the forecast snow. Roads will be kept as clear as possible, but I would urge caution. Everyone should be prepared for the possibility of travel disruption and plan their journey accordingly, and if it is not essential then please consider alternatives."
Devon County Council will be supported by more than 260 volunteer snow wardens who have been placed on alert to engage their self-help plans in their local communities.
Motorists are reminded of the following advice:
• Avoid overnight travel unless absolutely essential as roads will always be more hazardous at night with less traffic and colder temperatures;
• Never assume a road has been salted. Remember that showers or rain will wash salt off roads leaving them prone to ice, and in extreme cold even salting will not stop ice from forming;
• Allow additional time for your journey and reduce your speed;
• Drive with care and according to the conditions;
• If you have vulnerable or elderly neighbours, think about how they could possibly be helped through the cold spell;
• Listen to local radio for updates on current weather conditions.


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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 33.1-375.1, 56-265.15, and 56-265.15:1 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 33.1-375.1. Commissioner may enter into certain agreements; penalties.
A. The Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner may enter into agreements with the local governing body of Fairfax County authorizing local law-enforcement agencies or other local governmental entities to act as agents of the Commissioner for the purpose of (i) enforcing the provisions of § 33.1-373 and (ii) collecting the penalties and costs provided for in that section. However, no local governing body shall enter into any such agreement until it has held a public hearing thereon.
B. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 33.1-373, one-half of the penalties and costs collected under this section shall be paid to the affected locality, and the remainder shall be remitted to the Commissioner and paid into the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund.
C. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section,
the following signs and advertising shall not be subject to the agreements
provided for in subsection A
1. Signs and advertising supporting an individual's candidacy for elected public office or other ballot issues, provided this exception shall not include signs and advertising in place more than three days after the election to which they apply.
2. Signs and advertising promoting and/or providing directions to a special event to be held at a specified date stated on the sign or advertising, provided this exception shall not include special event signs in place more than three days after the conclusion of the special event.
3. Other signs and advertising erected for no more than three days.
D. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the Commissioner may enter into agreements with the local governing bodies of localities to which the foregoing provisions of this section do not apply to authorize those governing bodies to act as agents of the Commissioner and the Department in enforcing the provisions of § 33.1-373. The limitations applicable to agreements entered into under subsections A through C of this section shall not apply to agreements entered into under this subsection.
E. If a county acts as an agent of the Commissioner under this section, the county shall require each of its employees and any volunteers who are authorized to act on behalf of the county to comply with the provisions of this section and any other applicable law. If a sign is confiscated by an employee or volunteer authorized to act for the county in violation of the authority granted under this section, the sign owner shall have the right to reclaim the sign within 10 business days of the date of such confiscation.
§ 56-265.15. Definitions; calculation of time periods.
A. As used in this chapter:
"Abandoned" means no longer in service and physically disconnected from a portion of the underground utility line that is in use for storage or conveyance of service.
"Commission" means the State Corporation Commission.
"Contract locator" means any person contracted by an operator specifically to determine the approximate horizontal location of the operator's utility lines that may exist within the area specified by a notice served on a notification center.
"Damage" means any impact upon or removal of support from an underground facility as a result of excavation or demolition which according to the operating practices of the operator would necessitate the repair of such facility.
"Demolish" or "demolition" means any operation by which a structure or mass of material is wrecked, razed, rendered, moved, or removed by means of any tools, equipment, or discharge of explosives which could damage underground utility lines.
"Designer" means any licensed professional designated by the project owner who designs government projects, commercial projects, residential projects consisting of twenty-five or more units, or industrial projects, which projects require the approval of governmental or regulatory authorities having jurisdiction over the project area.
"Emergency" means a sudden or unexpected occurrence involving a clear and imminent danger, demanding immediate action to prevent or mitigate loss of, or damage to, life, health, property, or essential public services.
"Excavate" or "excavation" means any operation in which earth, rock, or other material in the ground is moved, removed, or otherwise displaced by means of any tools, equipment, or explosives and includes, without limitation, grading, trenching, digging, ditching, dredging, drilling, augering, tunneling, scraping, cable or pipe plowing and driving, wrecking, razing, rendering, moving, or removing any structure or mass of material. "Excavate" or "excavation" shall not include installation of a sign that consists of metal, plastic, or wooden poles placed in the ground by hand or by foot without the use of tools or equipment.
"Extraordinary circumstances" means floods, snow, ice storms, tornadoes, earthquakes, or other natural disasters.
"Hand digging" means any excavation involving nonmechanized tools or equipment. Hand digging includes, but is not limited to, digging with shovels, picks, and manual post hole diggers, vacuum excavation or soft digging.
"Notification center" means an organization whose membership is open to all operators of underground facilities located within the notification center's designated service area, which maintains a data base, provided by its member operators, that includes the geographic areas in which its member operators desire transmissions of notices of proposed excavation, and which has the capability to transmit, within one hour of receipt, notices of proposed excavation to member operators by teletype, telecopy, personal computer, or telephone.
"Notify," "notice" or "notification" means the completed delivery of information to the person to be notified, and the receipt of same by such person in accordance with this chapter. The delivery of information includes, but is not limited to, the use of any electronic or technological means of data transfer.
"Operator" means any person who owns, furnishes or transports materials or services by means of a utility line.
"Person" means any individual, operator, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, municipality, or other political subdivision, governmental unit, department or agency, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof.
"Soft digging" means any excavation using tools or equipment that utilize air or water pressure as the direct means to break up soil or earth for removal by vacuum excavation.
"Special project notice" means a valid notice to the notification center by an excavator covering a specific, unique or long-term project.
"Utility line" means any item of public or private property which is buried or placed below ground or submerged for use in connection with the storage or conveyance of water, sewage, telecommunications, electric energy, cable television, oil, petroleum products, gas, or other substances, and includes but is not limited to pipes, sewers, combination storm/sanitary sewer systems, conduits, cables, valves, lines, wires, manholes, attachments, and those portions of poles below ground. The term "sewage" as used herein does not include any gravity storm drainage systems. Except for any publicly owned gravity sewer system within a county which has adopted the urban county executive form of government, the term "utility line" does not include any gravity sewer system or any combination gravity storm/sanitary sewer system within any counties, cities, towns or political subdivisions constructed or replaced prior to January 1, 1995. No excavator shall be held liable for the cost to repair damage to any such systems constructed or replaced prior to January 1, 1995, unless such systems are located in accordance with § 56-265.19.
"Willful" means an act done intentionally, knowingly, and purposely, without justifiable excuse, as distinguished from an act done carelessly, thoughtlessly, heedlessly or inadvertently.
"Working day" means every day, except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal state and national holidays.
B. Unless otherwise specified, all time periods used in this chapter shall be calculated from the time of the original notification to the notification center as provided in § 56-265.17. In addition, all time periods exclude Saturdays, Sundays, and legal state and national holidays.
§ 56-265.15:1. Exemptions; routine maintenance.
Nothing in this chapter shall apply to:
1. Any hand digging performed by an owner or occupant of a property.
2. The tilling of soil for agricultural purposes.
3. Any excavation done by a railroad when the excavation is made entirely on the land which the railroad owns and on which the railroad operates, provided there is no encroachment on any operator's rights-of-way or easements.
4. An excavation or demolition during an emergency, as defined in § 56-265.15, provided all reasonable precaution has been taken to protect the underground utility lines.
In the case of the state highway systems or streets and roads maintained by political subdivisions, officials of the Department of Transportation or the political subdivision where the use of such highways, roads, streets or other public way is impaired by an unforeseen occurrence shall determine the necessity of repair beginning immediately after the occurrence.
5. Any excavation for routine pavement maintenance, including patch type paving or the milling of pavement surfaces, upon the paved portion of any street, road, or highway of the Commonwealth provided that any such excavation does not exceed a depth of twelve inches (0.3 meter).
6. Any excavation for the purpose of mining pursuant to and in accordance with the requirements of a permit issued by the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy.
7. Any hand digging performed by an operator to locate the operator's utility lines in response to a notice of excavation from the notification center, provided all reasonable precaution has been taken to protect the underground utility lines.
8. Any installation of a sign that does not involve excavation as defined in § 56-265.15.


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Today at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Pat Moore hosts.
His first guests, Mike Christenson and Eric Caldwell, will fill us in on the Poetic License event coming up tonight at the Canvas by Reach on Seward Street. Juneau's Improv Theatre Group Morally Improverished is coming together with the organizer's of Juneau's Poetry Slam events for this event. At 6 p.m., Kate Laster will instruct people in writing poetry on the spot and then, at 8, there'll be an opportunity to present poems in a friendly environment.
Elfrida North will drop in to tell us about the Sons of Norway's Scandinavian Dance starting at 6:30 Saturday night at the Yacht Club. There'll be refreshments and instruction.
Author Mary Doria Russell is in town, and she'll be doing a presentation at the Downtown Library Saturday night at 7. Russell is the author of The Sparrow and Children of God, a two-part series that achieved near-cult status in the 1990's. She's since authored three books of historical fiction. Her talk will focus on A Thread of Grace, her third novel telling the story of Jews fleeing the holocaust into Italy during WW II. Russell's other books include Dreamers of the Day and, most recently, Doc.
Vince Welch, a river guide from Portland who's written The Last Voyageur, Amos Burg and the Rivers of the West, will return to Juneau next week. He'll be at Hearthside Books from noon to 5 Sunday to sign copies of the book, and will deliver talks on Burg's river running at the State Historical Library at noon Monday, and at the Downtown Library at 7 p.m.
And, we'll hear about the 2nd Annual GeoFest from Christina Butcher. This activity for elementary-age children will be held Saturday from 1-4 at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center.That, Writers' Almanac, music and more, today at 3, on KTOO-NEWS.


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Sovetskoye Shampanskoye (Совk7;тское Шампанское, 'Soviet Champagne') is a generic brand of sparkling wine produced in the Soviet Union and successor states. It was produced for many years as a state-run initiative. Typically the wine is made from a blend of Aligoté and Chardonnay grapes. After the Soviet Union dissolved, private corporations in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine purchased the rights to use "Soviet Champagne" as a brand name and began manufacturing once again. "Soviet Champagne" is still being produced today by those private companies, using the original generic title as a brand name.
White sparkling wine produced and bottled in the traditional champagne method. The finest grapes are used in the process to ensure flavorful taste - fruity, velvety and crisp for a fully satisfying drink experience.


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Mr. Bacon: Good afternoon.
I want to bring you up to date on two elements of our continuing operations. The first is on the humanitarian side, and the second is on the operational side.
As you know, the White House announced earlier today that the Defense Department will provide $25 million to support humanitarian relief. This will be in the form of supplies, and of course we'll be providing services as well. This is on top of $25 million that had already been earmarked for this back in January. That money is being spent out.
The European Command has an assessment team in Albania now. That team is looking at infrastructure -- airports, roads, ports, other facilities that would need to be understood for the movement of humanitarian aid.
In addition, the State Department is sending a Disaster Assistance Relief Team to Albania. I think the first person in that team may already be there. There will be a total of seven on site by the weekend, and they will work with the U.N. and other non-government organizations to assess what the humanitarian needs are and then try to get the U.S. linked up with other countries and other organizations to meet those needs.
The European Command has been instructed by the Secretary of Defense to be prepared to provide the following types of services or assistance. First, airlift with both helicopters or fixed wing aircraft. Second, air traffic control elements for the operations that we assume will be underway in Albania. There's something called a TALCE, which is Tanker Airlift Control Element, an Air Force unit that's deployed to remote locations. We've deployed them to Africa; we've deployed them to other places in the world where there have been earthquakes or natural disasters to help organize the aircraft and take care of the air traffic control.
Various goods and services that might be necessary. We have already pinpointed 250,000 humanitarian daily rations, which is a packet of food designed to provide a refugee the equivalent of three meals a day. We've also identified 140 tents in the European Command, several hundred tents in the United States that we can send over quickly. And we just learned today that the Air Force is in the process of taking down all its tents at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, because the airmen are moving into dormitories, and, therefore, these tents could possibly be available for use in Albania or Macedonia. We're investigating the shape, condition, and whereabouts of those tents now.
Obviously we will also identify all the ways we can to get food, shelter, medical supplies to the refugees in both Albania and in Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
The Defense Department stands ready to provide whatever assistance we can. The degree of that assistance, the demand for help, will become clearer as a result of these assessment teams.
Many of you may have read the transcript of Julia Taft's briefing today at the Foreign Press Center. She's the Assistant Secretary of State for Refugees. She laid out again the fact that we had already prepositioned enough food to feed 400,000 people for six months in the Balkans area. That food is in a number of locations, some of which are in Kosovo, some in Montenegro, some actually in Belgrade. The UNHCR and other organizations will be working on ways to get that food to the proper people.
Right now there is enough food in Albania to feed approximately 100,000 people for several weeks. That is food that was prepositioned there before this crisis began with the expectation that it might be needed sometime soon.
On the operational side, operations are underway over Kosovo today. Last night NATO forces struck the headquarters of the Special Unit Corps in Belgrade. The Special Unit Corps is a--it's the Yugoslav equivalent to our Special Forces. It's an elite group that is now working in Kosovo and provides reconnaissance and other special forces support to the Yugoslav army, or the VJ.
We also have preliminary reports, but no overhead reconnaissance yet, suggesting that we have struck several tanks. NATO forces have been striking tanks successfully, we believe, in Kosovo and other heavy armored and military vehicles. As I say, we have preliminary reports on that, but we do not yet have imagery to confirm that because the weather continues to be quite bad with very low ceilings and heavy clouds.
With that, I'll take your questions.
Q: What did you strike them with? The tanks?
A: I do not know the precise weapons that they were struck with.
Q: Not A-10s?
A: No, they were not A-10s. Nor do I know whether they were American planes that struck them. This is an allied effort, and there are allied strike packages flying every day.
Q: I was checking the forecast a couple of hours ago, and the latest observation over Belgrade. I was given visibility of seven miles, a ceiling of 10,000 feet, broken clouds. Are we going to operate below 10,000 feet? The Joint Chiefs said everything was above 15,000 basically yesterday.
And any idea when you plan to use the A-10s against the armor?
A: Ivan, I've tried to make it very clear that we are not going to announce from this podium, certainly I'm not going to announce, the ways in which we will deploy our forces, the altitudes at which we'll be flying, or the types of aircraft that we'll be flying at particular altitudes. I just don't think it makes sense to do that. You may think that, but I'm not going to make such an announcement. So those types of operational details are "verboten" from this podium as far as I'm concerned.
Q: Are you expanding the target sets as NATO indicated this morning? And what is the purpose, if you are?
A: We are expanding the target set. We are moving I'd say almost daily to a broader set of targets which will be struck, weather permitting -- weather and other conditions permitting. And the purpose of the target set, frankly, is to help us move closer to achieving our military goal, which is to further degrade and diminish the opportunity of the Yugoslav forces to operate. We will do this by attacking command and control, and we'll attack all the facilities needed to support, fuel, and feed the forces. We will, as rapidly as we can, choke them off.
Q: Will that include hitting railroads, since that would be a military target, and hitting bridges?
A: Thelma, I think you'll appreciate that it doesn't make sense for me to announce any targets prospectively, and to speculate about what might be happening in the future.
Q: Because civilians in Yugoslavia are worrying about that. You can't rule it out as a civilian target as opposed to a military target?
A: If civilians are worried about military action in Yugoslavia they should tell their President that he can stop this by withdrawing his troops from Kosovo, by stopping the killing, and by agreeing to the conditions and the agreement that would bring peace and autonomy to Kosovo.
Q: You talked about a huge amount of food that had been prepositioned in I think you said Belgrade, Montenegro and Kosovo. There's no access to any of that, I would think, right?
A: I said that enough food to feed 400,000 people for approximately six months had been prepositioned in the area. Some of that food happens to be in Kosovo, Montenegro and Belgrade.
I will remind you that all during the Bosnia crisis there was a lot of food funneled through Belgrade that was delivered by NGOs, by the World Food Program, by the UNHCR, to people in Bosnia. So our hope is that there will be ways for the UNHCR and other international relief organizations to gain access to some or all of this food and to deliver it.
Should that not be the case, there is in addition, quite a lot of food already in Albania, and there is some in Macedonia as well. And as I indicated, we will be working with other countries and with the international organizations to bring more food there as quickly as possible.
We have food; we know how to get it to people. But beyond that, the international relief organizations are highly skilled at this. This is what they do on a day-to-day basis, in Africa, all over the world, wherever there's a disaster. There's a highly developed private and international network to get food to people in need, and we will work with them to make sure the needs are met.
Q: Was the special forces headquarters actually in Belgrade proper? If so, would that be the first time a target's been struck in the city?
A: It was not in downtown Belgrade. I believe it was the closest to downtown Belgrade that has been struck to date.
Q: Does the military strategy that you enunciated include the goal of stopping the killing in Kosovo, or does it stop short of that?
A: Jamie, the strategy from the very beginning, the military strategy that we can accomplish through military means has been to degrade, diminish, chip away at the forces, to make the price very high. Eventually that will lead to an end to the murderous ways in Kosovo. And we think it will eventually convince Slobodan Milosevic that the price he is paying in terms of losing his military will be high enough to force him to accept a peace, an end to this, which he's refused to do so far. That has always been the military goal.
The military goal is part of achieving a larger political and diplomatic goal. It is a means to achieving a larger goal.
Q: But by the time that happens, will there be anyone left in Kosovo to protect?
A: I think that the history of the ebb and flow of violence in Kosovo and this area generally is that people move out as they did last fall in the face of Milosevic's military machine, when houses were being burned and people were being massacred. They moved out first into the hills in Kosovo, then out of Kosovo all together into FYROM and into Albania and Montenegro.
When the conditions settled down after the diplomatic breakthrough with Ambassador Holbrooke, they came back. They basically think of themselves as Kosovars, and they want to live in Kosovo.
I have every reason to believe that once we stabilize the situation and provide a safe environment for these people, they will return home and the international community will help them rebuild their houses and their lives.
I wish that they had never been moved out. Everybody wishes that. Everybody wishes that we could have solved this with no violence. But this was a choice that Milosevic made; this is a choice that Milosevic is sticking with, and this is the violence and brutality that Milosevic seems determined to continue.
Our goal, our military goal is to choke off his ability to continue this brutality. We will do that. We will grind away at it, as Admiral Fry said yesterday, until the job is done.
Q: Can I a couple of follow-ups...
A: Just let me get somebody in the second row. Tony?
Q: Is the ability to grind away at the Yugoslav army diminished somewhat because there is a perceived shortage of air-launched cruise missiles?
A: No.
Q: Can you talk a little bit about how you can get quicker stocks over there to England for the B-52s?
A: I think it should be obvious to everybody that we're using a very wide range of munitions. We have, first of all, three very reliable ways of striking in all weather conditions, and they involve sea-launched cruise missiles, they involve air-launched cruise missiles, and they involve the JDAM or the Joint Direct Attack Munition which is being dropped now by the B-2 bombers.
We have ample supplies of all three of them right now. The most limited supplies are of the conventional air-launched cruise missiles, but we do have enough to continue striking high value targets and we will continue to do that.
Q: How long will it take to take a nuclear cruise missile and translate it into a conventional one? Are we talking months or a matter of days if you needed them?
A: It takes a fair amount of time. The production line for these has been shut down. The Air Force has a proposal to start it up again. I assume that that will begin relatively soon. But we are not talking about an instant solution. It will take a number of months before we can start producing new ones.
Q: Reporters in Yugoslavia have been taken to a so-called appliance factory that allegedly makes vacuums and stoves called the Sloboda Factory and it's in a place called Cacak.
Do you have any knowledge of whether this--it was apparently damaged in a strike. Do you have any knowledge of this particular target and whether there may have been a mistake on the part of NATO as to whether this was a military target?
A: With all due respect to the free press of Yugoslavia, I don't know with what degree of accuracy to take their report. We have struck a major ammunition manufacturing plant in that town, and I believe we struck it successfully. I'm not aware that there was a lot of collateral damage, but I don't have a complete picture on that.
I do not know whether they were allowed to see all of the plant or whether they were just taken to the laundromat in the front of the plant.
Q: The picture in Kosovo, can you tell yet whether it appears that the Serbian forces are sweeping broadly through the province or whether they are just sort of clearing out various pockets that they may think were KLA strongholds, and there may be parts that are populated with Albanians that are being sort of left untouched?
A: First of all, Albanians used to comprise 90 percent of the population of Kosovo, so they're pretty much everywhere. My impression is that they're doing both of what you mentioned. They are attacking KLA strongholds, and they are sweeping rather broadly through the province.
Q: Admirals Wilson and Fry yesterday said there were more than 300 tanks in and around Kosovo, and if I heard correctly, that up until yesterday NATO was not attacking the tanks close to the villages doing the most damage to the villages. You said now that you hit "several tanks," I believe you said. That's a far cry from 300. Are we going to go after the tanks more in earnest?
A: It would be hard to hit--there are actually 400 tanks in and round Kosovo. I don't think that anybody would expect to hit them all at once. But we are, as we have said many times, systematically attacking these forces and we will continue to do that.
Q: Are the UAVs flying? Are they up? If so, how are we using them?
A: Weather permitting, I believe the Predator is ready to go. I don't think the Hunter is on-line yet.
Q: The humanitarian relief that you described is for people who have obviously left Kosovo. What about the condition of the people who are still in, refugees from their own homes who are still in Kosovo. Is there anything the U.S. Defense Department is planning to do to help them?
A: They are the responsibility of the Yugoslav government. You can see every day how the Yugoslav government is exercising that responsibility for the welfare of its citizens.
It is difficult for us right now to help those refugees. It may become possible to find ways to do that in the future. Right now it is, I think it would be--the only way to do it would be through air drops, and I think that it's not a very hospitable area through which to fly air drops at this time. In addition, given the fact that the Yugoslav forces largely control the ground, we would have absolutely no assurance that the food or medical supplies would get into the hands of the people who need it most desperately.
Q: The NAC has rejected a number of the targets that General Clark put forward for a so-called phase three. Do you know why they were rejected, and is the Pentagon concerned about that?
A: I'm not sure that your statement is accurate.
Q: Ken, what's the makeup of the ships the Russian Navy is sending to the Mediterranean? What could their mission possibly be, and how does that complicate things?
A: First of all, we don't know exactly where these ships are going. I don't have a list of the ships they're sending. I understand there are seven ships and it includes an intelligence-gathering ship.
Let me just make a couple of comments about this. First of all, we of course have decades of history in dealing with Russian intelligence-gathering ships. They used to have one behind every aircraft carrier deployed on the seven seas, so we know what their capabilities are, and we know how to deal with them.
Second, President Yeltsin has said that the Russians do not plan to get involved in this conflict. Since that is a very reasonable tack for the Russians to take, we take him at his work on that.
Beyond that, I think it's probably not worth speculating until we see where the ships go and what they do.
Q: Is it potentially possible that this intelligence-gathering ship could pass information to Yugoslav forces that would be beneficial to them about NATO operations?
A: It's my understanding--the Yugoslav forces have a very well developed information gathering system as it is. It begins with watching televised reports of planes flying from airports around Europe; it probably includes some observers they have near the airports; it certainly includes Soviet-designed equipment that they have for collecting various types of information within Yugoslavia. My guess is that there wouldn't be a huge amount of value added.
We don't know what the purpose of this deployment is; we don't know where it's going. There are--one possible reason for the deployment is for the Russians to upgrade their own information about our operations. They haven't been as active on the seas recently as they used to be, and they may want to create their own databases.
But I have talked to people in the Navy about this and people in our intelligence community, and everybody is quite confident that we can deal with whatever the ship may be doing.
Q: Do you have any more information on where the KLA is, the shape their forces are in, and if they are in any way--there have been some reports of fighting in the streets of Pristina.
A: I do not have very precise information, but I can give you a couple of general comments.
One, there is some resistance, despite the heavy assault they're under.
Two, clearly the assault has been damaging to the KLA.
Three, despite that, the KLA continues to recruit people, and it continues to maintain operations. But, of course, it is not an easy environment for them to operate within today.
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A: There have been conflicting reports in the press about executions. The latest reports I've seen tend to say that some of the leaders reported earlier to have been executed are in fact alive. I don't know the veracity of these reports, but I say there have been conflicting reports.
Q: Ken, are you in the posture now of actually encouraging Kosovar Albanians to leave Kosovo because the alternative is to stay and be under the thumb of Yugoslav forces? Is it actually not preferable for the United States if these people leave?
A: We're not in the posture of encouraging them. They're leaving because the alternative is to be murdered or starved by Milosevic. I think this is a rational human choice they're making. I'm not sure the question of the U.S. encouraging them is the right approach.
They are fleeing a murder machine. That's why we see this incredible flood of refugees, over 100,000 in the last six or seven days, coming out of Kosovo.
Q: A follow-up on John's question. Given all of that, does the Alliance think it can ever realistically achieve its military goal as long as Milosevic remains in power?
A: Yes.
Q: Can you address the perception that the NATO mission is failing in its primary objective, which is to make life better for the Kosovar Albanians? Perhaps offer an explanation about...
A: The NATO mission is a military mission. It has a military goal which we have stated from this podium many times, on which Admiral Fry briefed yesterday.
The military goal is a means to reaching larger diplomatic or political goals. We had hoped never to have to invoke force in and around Kosovo, but it was Slobodan Milosevic who chose force as the answer to the problems there. He refused peace, and he chose force. So we will prosecute the use of force as effectively and as long as possible to achieve our military goal.
Q: Could you elaborate a bit on the buildup of food supplies for refugees, which you talked about earlier, particularly in Albania, where you said there was food for several hundred thousand refugees for several weeks.
Could you talk a bit about where that food came from and its buildup, and does that mean that the U.S. had anticipated that there would be massive refugee flows coming out of Kosovo, which is the logical entry point for Albania.
A: We certainly realized that there was the possibility for massive refugee flows, and we realized that because it's happened in the past. This cycle of violence and repression is not new. This is not the first chapter. We hope it will be the last chapter. That's the reason for this military action; [it] is to make sure this is the last chapter, that there won't be more after this.
As I said, there have been times in the past, most recently last fall, when Kosovars were killed and repressed and forced out of their homes. They had to watch their homes be burned. They had to watch family members be killed, and they left Kosovo. They came back. I should say some left Kosovo; some, of course, moved to the hills, but they tried to come back to their homes when the conditions became more peaceful.
So the NGOs, the members of NATO, and the United States certainly knew that this cycle of violence, of repression and expulsion, this exodus of refugees, was a possibility and could happen again, and that's one of the reasons why large amounts of food were repositioned in the area.
Q: The Russian Chief of Staff General Kvshnin said today that the Yugoslav army (inaudible) shot down at least eight NATO planes. NATO says that only one plane was shot down. How can you explain the significant difference.
A: Serb propaganda. (Laughter)
Q: Has General Clark received authority yet to strike targets in downtown Belgrade?
A: I'm not going to get into what General Clark has received, what he's likely to do in the future and what he's not. It should be clear to everybody that NATO has cleared a broader set of targets, and it has done this progressively in order to tighten NATO's noose on Milosevic. We will continue to pursue that policy.
Q: Is there anywhere in Yugoslavia that's off-limits to NATO airstrikes?
A: General Clark has said there is no sanctuary.
Q:...it looks like will be going on for a few more days. Is there any reconsideration of bringing in the carrier battle group when it passes? Actually using it?
A: The carrier battle group will arrive early in the Mediterranean. Its assignment to this theater remains a possibility, but no decision has been made.
Q: Do you know if it's going to restock cruise missiles? Is that planned? Is that part of their mission?
A: Of course, it arrives with--in fact the members of the battle group left before the carrier did, because not all can go as fast as the carrier, so they should all arrive at the same time. Members of this battle group, of course, do have cruise missiles. I think there are two cruisers and a destroyer and other assets as well.
Q: A follow-up on that. General Clark has put in a formal request for the ROOSEVELT. Is that true?
A: General Clark certainly has raised the possibility that the ROOSEVELT could be used in his operation.
Q: Back to the KLA. Are you aware of any request from KLA leadership for air drops? And if not, if you would receive such a request, what's the likelihood that the U.S. or NATO would respond favorably?
A: I'm not aware of requests from the KLA for air drops. I can certainly appreciate the fact that they might want support, but I'm not aware of specific requests, and I don't think I'll answer a hypothetical question.
I will point out what I said earlier, that a problem with air drops of food or anything else is making sure it gets into the right hands in an area that's largely controlled by the Yugoslav army and Yugoslav special police.
Q: One of the Kosovar Albanian leaders said on German television in the last day or two that the Serbs have created three concentration camps including one in the Pristina stadium that he said was holding 100,000 people. Through aerial photography or any other means, has the United States found any evidence to confirm anything like that?
A: One, that would not surprise me. Certainly it would repeat the pattern of behavior in Bosnia. But having said that, I'm not aware of any evidence that that has happened. It doesn't mean it hasn't happened. The cloud cover has been very unhelpful to our intelligence gathering in the area, and we have not been able to track some things as well as we would like.
Q: There have been reports that the Yugoslav military leadership, and perhaps the political leadership, has retreated to bunkers that were constructed for the possibility of nuclear war.
Are there any targets in Yugoslavia that are beyond the capabilities of NATO or American conventional weapons?
A: I don't know the answer to that question. We do have a whole class of weapons that has been designed to attack very hardened or underground bunkers, a class of conventional weapons that have penetrating devices on the front and have significant explosive power. So we certainly do have the capability to attack certain types of bunkers.
Q: Is it fair to say that in the first five days of the operation that the most plentiful sort of weapon, the laser-guided bomb dropped from an F-15, say, has been largely negated because of the weather, and that as the weather clears up there will be greater reliance on those types of weapons?
A: There have been openings in the bad weather most nights, and every night we have been able to launch some laser-guided weapons. So I don't believe there's any night that we've been completely blanked out. A number of laser-guided weapons have been dropped. I can't give you an accounting at this stage. But they are being dropped, and they're being dropped successfully.
In addition, we, as I said earlier, do have an all-weather capability, and we are using that as well.
Q: Are any of the 5,000 pound so-called bunker-busting bombs in the theater? GBU-28, I think.
A: Yeah, the GBU-28 and the -37. I don't have an answer to that question.
Q: Ken, the attacks on the tanks you mentioned, which I believe were the first you talked about, can you tell us, night or day? Can you tell us whether they were targets of opportunity or planned things? Can you tell us what the tanks were doing when they were struck.
A: I don't have the answer to those questions.
In general, our goal is to, as we've said many times, is to shift our ability toward attacking armor and troops on the ground, and we have begun to attack staging areas and other places where we find these tanks. The targeting has been complicated by the fact that they are putting some of their equipment near schools and mosques and other places.
Q: A related question. The NATO briefing this morning talked about a valley, the Pagarusa Valley, or something, that had three designated military units along it shelling civilian populations into it. When you have a case like that where you have the friendlies separated from the unfriendlies, was any action taken against the people doing the shelling?
A: I don't think the weather allowed it, but that's exactly the type of target we will attempt to go after when we have a better correlation between what we can see and the types of weapons we can use.
Q: Any decision on the Apaches?
A: No, there's no decision on that yet.
Q: With the expansion of the targets, are you considering deploying other equipment in addition to the Apaches?
A: Not at this time, no.
Q: Are we able to get a rundown of exactly what the U.S. contribution to the NATO forces are over there?
A: We've given pretty much of a rundown. We've got approximately 210 airplanes. I think you know the major elements: B-52, B-2s, F-117s. There are also A-10s, F-15s, F-16s, a wide range of--obviously a large number of tankers.
Q: Aside from the aircraft, in addition to the aircraft in terms of...
A: Ships. We've listed the ships in the past, but there are six ships -- five ships and a submarine [sic, four ships and two submarines] that are supporting the mission.
Q: Do you have any assessment just on the sort of related point, why with all this going on Saddam Hussein is so quiet? (Laughter) Why have we not seen any...
A: That's a very interesting question. I suppose the most charitable answer is, perhaps his forces are exhausted and taking a break. But there has not been a no-fly zone violation since March 19th.
Q: Are we actually flying Northern Watch right now?
A: We did not fly today, but we will be flying, I assume, tomorrow and the next day.
Q: Have you flown Northern Watch recently?
A: We have not been flying for the last week or so. But we still know whether there are no-fly zone violations, and there have been none in the south either.
Q: On that subject, there are reports in Iraq that Russia is actually helping Iraq to upgrade its air defense systems, particularly its SA-6s. They've even gone so far in Iraqi newspapers to name the guy that's in charge of that. And in the weeks leading up to that, there are reports inside of Russia that they were getting ready to send over and help out Iraq.
Are there any indications that that's going on? Do you guys know anything about that?
A: Certainly something like that would be a threat. Iraq, as you know, is subject to the United Nations embargo that prevents shipping military equipment to Iraq. Russia is a member of the Security Council, a permanent member of the Security Council of the U.N. I think it would be a grave error for Russia to, as a member of the Security Council, to be violating that arms embargo.
Q: Are they?
A: I'm not aware that they are, no.
Q: Can you tell us, have U.S. forces been carrying out any psychological operations such as leafletting, broadcasting messages in the media in the area where we're bombing, either prior to the start or at the present time?
A: No. We did drop leaflets in Iraq, and it's something that we certainly would be prepared to do in Yugoslavia as well. I'm not aware that we have at this stage.
Q: To get back to the humanitarian operation, you said the Defense Department stands ready to supply what's necessary. Would that also include sending military personnel, troops, to Albania or Macedonia if it's needed to help setting up camps and providing order?
A: First of all, no such request has been made. And I guess I'd rather not comment on it until or unless such a request is made.
I will point out that there are international relief organizations that are extremely good at this. They know how to operate, and they know how to operate in all sorts of conditions. What they need is support. They need the goods, the shelter, the medical supplies to hand out and to administer. If they have those supplies, they are usually perfectly capable of working in situations like this. They have been in FYROM; they have been in Albania for some time, so they know the territory, and they know the problem.
Having said that, if there is something we can do, some special value added we can bring that would assist the operation, I'm sure that we would look favorably on that request, but we've received no such request.
Q: On the air operations. It's clear the targets are being very carefully controlled by (inaudible). But can you tell us whether there are any categories of munitions that have been ruled out? Conventional munitions that have been ruled out by political leadership? I think (inaudible) that would work just fine against (inaudible) for instance shelling Albanian refugees. What constraints have been put on the use of those kinds of ammunitions by the political leadership?
A: I'm not aware that there are any political restraints on munitions. There may be that I don't know about, but I'm not aware of any.
Q: Could you take it and get an answer to it?
A: We'll take the question, sure.
Q: Is there any consideration to whether or not there ought to be set up safe areas in Kosovo or whether there ought to be a NATO protectorate, or was there any rethinking of the status, the ultimate status of Kosovo, whether it should in fact be autonomous or independent, rather than just autonomous?
A: Ultimately, the international community will have to decide the appropriate status of Kosovo. The Rambouillet accord, agreement, which we supported, calls for it as an autonomous province of Yugoslavia for three years. The Yugoslavs have never accepted that, and that, of course, is one of the issues. It calls for many other things, a cease-fire, withdrawal of forces, disarmament.
Q: Since President Milosevic has clearly at this point rejected that peace agreement, does that put the status of Kosovo back on the table and raise the possibility that it could in fact end up being an independent region or some sort of NATO protectorate?
A: It certainly leaves open the question of the status of Kosovo, but I want to be very clear. The U.S. position is that Milosevic should embrace the terms or the conditions of Rambouillet, and one of those is an independent, [sic, autonomous] Kosovo.
Q: What do you say to critics who raise this idea that if U.S. military experts knew that a humanitarian disaster of this dimension was going to occur, why wasn't more planning done ahead of time to have prevented it, other than just the prepositioning of food?
A: I would say to people who say that that they haven't studied Milosevic. Milosevic is responsible for what's going on in Kosovo today. The international community clearly was aware of the potential for a humanitarian crisis, and that's one of the reasons a lot of food is prepositioned and had been prepositioned in the area.
I think everybody is appalled by what's going on. And even knowing rationally that a man has a record of ethnic cleansing, of supporting concentration camps, of supporting massacres, of supporting killing, you're shocked every time you see it again. But you can't--I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Milosevic is an old dog up to his old tricks, which is plain old ethnic cleansing.
Q: Ken, with all of the rhetoric that's been heaped on Milosevic from this podium and others, is there not a fundamental flaw in a strategy that is essentially putting everything on Milosevic to end the crisis?
A: Milosevic is the man who controls Yugoslavia. He's the man who rejected peace. He's the man who has chosen ethnic cleansing and violence instead of peace.
Dick points out that I may have misspoken, and I want to be clear. I think I said it both ways. But our policy is an autonomous Kosovo, not an independent Kosovo. So I want to clear the record on that.
I don't see you scratching this out of your... (Laughter) Maybe I didn't say it.
Q: Do you have any information about any of our cruise missiles being successfully shot down by Serbian jets? Has it happened at all during the operation? We have a report that possibly it happened today over Kosovo.
A: I do not have any evidence that that's happened, but that's one thing we're constantly looking at. But I don't have any evidence that it's happened.
Q: Does this Operation ALLIED FORCE demonstrate the limits of air power? That is to say, if ground troops had also been committed, couldn't this military goal have been achieved much sooner?
A: I don't think it would have been achieved any sooner. I think the results would have been exactly the same. It would have taken us a long while to send, to pull together the troops, to marshal the forces, to get them into the area. Kosovo is not an easy place to enter. There are only 14 roads going into the entire province -- two from Macedonia. It's largely saturated and controlled now by enemy forces. It would not be easy to go into Kosovo. And while we were preparing to do that, you can be absolutely sure that Milosevic would be doing exactly what he's doing now, because the last thing he would want would be a rear guard guerrilla force attacking his forces as they were trying to repel an incoming NATO force.
He made it very clear from the beginning that he would repel any effort of foreign forces to go into Kosovo. So I think the results would have been exactly the same, and I think if we had decided to deploy ground troops, you'd have been sitting here asking exactly the same questions that you're asking today.
Q: The Administration has been saying over and over again that it has no intention of sending ground troops to Kosovo. But no intention is not the same thing as we'll absolutely never send ground troops, under any circumstances.
Is it fair to say that the ground troop option has not been ruled out?
A: It's fair to say that we have no intention of sending in ground troops in a non-permissive environment. The President has said that time after time.
Q: Does NATO or the United States have any plan to arm the Kosovo Liberation Army?
A: Not that I'm aware of. Our effort is to try to stop the fighting in Kosovo, not to fuel more fighting in Kosovo. That's why we tried to settle this peacefully.
Q: Humanitarian aid--when will it be available to the NGOs? The $25 million worth of...
A: Well, as soon as they need it. Right now they do...
Q: Has it been formally request...
A: It has not been formally requested. We stand ready to provide aid when and if requested.
I will say that the UNHCR has said that its primary needs right now are shelter, logistics support and medical supplies. Because there is a lot of food in Kosovo, in Albania already, these three -- shelter, logistics support and medical supplies -- are their primary needs.
Q: How long will it take to pack up the tents that you know you do have already and send them...
A: I think we can do this very quickly.
Q: In a matter of days or hours or...
A: I would say between hours and a day.
Q: Have you been able yet to confirm whether or not a surface-to-air missile was responsible for the downing of the F-117?
A: That report has not been completed yet.
Q: The first two days of the campaign the B-2 bomber was used, and we heard nothing more after that. Has it been used throughout, or were those just the first two times...
A: No, it is not used every day, but it is used on a regular basis.
Q: Was it used yesterday?
A: I don't know for a fact, but it's used very regularly. Not every day, but probably two out of three days.
Q: Can you clarify something you said about Apaches yesterday, that you basically said the political authorities would have to decide whether Apaches could be moved there, and there's a related report that General Clark has asked for them, and he's been turned down by those political authorities. Why...
A: I don't think that report's correct. He has asked for them. I don't believe he's been turned down. But this is a NATO force. It would be a NATO decision.
Q: Can you explain why do you need NATO authority to move around your military assets...
A: We don't need the authority to move them around. Operation ALLIED FORCE is a NATO operation. Therefore, we are acting as part of NATO. This is being run by General Wes Clark in his capacity as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, as the leader of NATO's forces. He also happens to be the Commander in Chief of U.S. Forces in Europe. That's his American hat. But this is being run by Wes Clark in his international NATO hat, which has 19 flags on it.
Q: Is the issue that they would have to be based somewhere close to the action, or that just by their introduction that changes this from strictly an air operation to something closer to something else.
A: Well, there are a number of issues. One is basing. One is the kind and tempo of fighting that we'd be taking on. Another is the risk. There are a number of issues that have to be sorted out. But all these are currently under consideration.
Q: Have you replenished the F-117, so to speak?
A: It hasn't been replaced yet, but one will go over to replace it, yes. And I don't know when that will happen, but it could happen sometime soon.
Q: Has that pilot resumed combat operations?
A: We have the right to increase the number, any number of aircraft that we want to, that we need to to enhance the force. If we want to augment the force, we can do that, but no decision has been made to have more than 12 F-117s. Should such a decision be made, we can send over more.
Q: Has the pilot returned to combat operations?
A: I don't know for a fact that he has. I know he certainly wanted to, and he was very lightly injured. So whether he's done it or not, I don't know.
Q: Following up on the Apache thing. If the U.S. were just conducting...
A: Let me be clear on the Apaches. A request for the Apaches has been made, but it has not been approved yet. That's all you need to know.
Q: A question about the process. If the U.S. were just running a war on its own, does the Secretary of Defense approve every single piece of equipment that's going to get used? Or is this a very different kind of operation? It seems like it's getting micromanaged by non-military folks.
A: In general, the Secretary of Defense approves all deployments that are not intra-theater. An intra-theater deployment can be made by the CINC, the commander in chief for that theater.
Q: That's allowed in this operation, too?
A: Yes, but in any major intra-theater deployment it would certainly be reviewed by the Joint Staff and potentially by the Secretary of Defense. In this case, let me stress again, it's an allied operation, and therefore certain aspects of the allied operation are considered by the allies.
Q: But Ken, again, to follow up, my understanding is the primary (inaudible) consideration for it is not NAC; it's this building. People in NATO simply say it is not the NAC that's holding up the Apaches. It is this building.
A: It is fair to say that the final decision has not been made, and it's still under review.
Q: On the special unit headquarters, you used the word "struck." Can you be any more specific as far as, like, the damage or if there were any troops in there at the time?
A: We don't have a full assessment right now, but we do believe that it was damaged, and that's about all I can say at this stage.
Q: If every major -- or even relatively minor, in the case of a battalion here or there -- movement of forces has to go through, has to be approved by the NAC, and if every phase of the operation, every change of a phase of the operation has to be approved by the NAC, are you essentially giving up the chance of achieving any form of strategic, or even in some cases, tactical surprise in this war?
A: I think there's very little that's been surprising about this. NATO assembled its force in October. The size and composition of the force was well advertised. Everybody knows where the force is stationed. Planes are pictured taking off on television all the time.
This is an unusual type of warfare. We announced what we were going to do, and now we're doing it. We announced the circumstances that would lead us to do this, and that is the refusal to get a peace agreement, and now we're doing what we said we would do.
In terms of the NAC, I think there are two points to make. The first is that NATO is united in this venture. It has been from before it began. It has been since it began.
Second, the military campaign, Operation ALLIED FORCE, has grown systematically larger. Just as we predicted it would if it didn't complete, if Milosevic continued to carry out his repression and killing of the Kosovar people, we said we would apply more force, and we've done that. NATO has not backed away. There have been no pauses. There has been no hesitation. There has been a consistent increase of pressure from the beginning.
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DENVER, Co. — A Colorado art student is using his artwork to make a statement about a story that continues to interest people across the country. Now, an art gallery has the picture on display and it's causing quite a stir.
The picture is of George Zimmerman the man accused of killing Florida teen Trayvon Martin. The picture is made entirely of Skittles, the candy Martin was carrying the night he was killed in Sanford.
The founder of the Redline Art Center says this is the first time they've had artwork get this type of reaction from the public.
"It's been like fire," said Laura Merage, Redline founder.
The portrait is titled Fear Itself. Andy Bell showed a picture of his creation to an employee at Redline while on a class visit to the gallery.
"We saw the strength and we have the space," Merage said.
The picture is made up of over 12,000 Skittles. Bell says it took several hours for him to glue the candy in place.
"It's fantastically creative!" said art student Davis Brown.
Redline says the picture has sparked a lot of interest in less than 48 hours. That's the point of the artwork is to get people to think.


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The basic plot-
A black garden ant named Acatho and a Female Pray Mantis named June are a team of guardians who fight other bugs like themselves such as wasp and spiders who are being ridden by other bugs. The two defend insect colonies from those forces that would case harm.
Now what is going to make this fun and what i hope is a fresh take on the Monster Genre is the setting. which I will go into little detail. The Story world takes place in a Arizona during the early 2000s before the housing crash, in Litchfield Park. However on the insect level the world is changing.
The New Age-
The days of independent colonies and wild and dangerous yards are coming to a close. The Rise of Insect and Animal Confederacies and Nations are spreading in great numbers. The Mission of those groups is to form a peaceful society were one dose not fear raids, and consent war from warring neighbors. The rise of those groups has been near universal in the yards and lawns; however with the rise of massive civilizations as lead them into conflict with other growing societies. With borders being drawn, a new age of has dawn, along with a whole new wave of issues.
The Rise of Technology-
The Dawn of weapons has forever changed the landscape of warfare. The introduction of guns and artillery on to the battlefield, were now a single insect can now hold off a wave of larger and more powerful insects. However this technology is still relatively new and untested in large-scale warfare, the old method's of warfare is still struggling to catch up with the new. Insect riders and defenders who used to defend the lands and colonies has been the first to adapt those new technologies and used them to their full extent. These small and elite groups now work in cooperation with the rising national armies for support, the roles has shifted were as now the riders work as special task groups rather than direct assault, which is now left up to the massive armies of united animals and insects to fight.
Orange Sun Horizon-
A threat is brewing across Black Valley, a growing number of attacks by a massive Confederacy of Animals calling them selves "Orange Sun Horizon" this group is made up of Spiders/ Snakes/ Cockroaches, including an untold number of ant city states. Orange Sun Horizon has been expanding and conquering all the colonies and small nation states with little resistance. For the last few months the entire Block has fallen into the hands of this great new society. Now this massive group has set its sights for conquest across Black Valley. Orange Sun Horizon is Lead by the Queen Marith and her colony of Carpenter Ants. She has convinced a number of species to join her cause for a safe society free of the worldly dangers. This massive confederacy of Animals has been expanding it reach, destroying all who resist or refuse to join their cause. Now this massive group has arrived at the "Three lands". Now Acatho and June must set out to defend their new home from this invasion from across Black Valley.
So in toll I was trying to think of a look and setting that would be interesting, while still trying to be a Monster fighting genre style story with a little campy in it's tone. As of right now I was thinking the look and setting should be the end of an era. Like the Wild West is ending and the dawn of Civilization is here, The look could be early 1900s, Pre World War 1 and the end of colonialism is nearing. The days of colonies and adventurous lands are coming to an end with the rise of Insect and animal type states. And the once legendary Insect riders and Defenders have played a new of defending the new states and growing cities in this new age, which has become extremely dangerous.


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East Tennessee State softball coach Brad Irwin had hoped to be focused on winning conference championships by now.
Instead, he's still trying to figure out a way to get his team into the tournament.
The Bucs will miss out on the Atlantic Sun Conference playoffs for the fifth straight year. The last four have come under Irwin, who hasn't been able to put all the pieces together since coming to ETSU after serving as the top assistant at Chattanooga.
"We're definitely not where we expected to be; there's no denying that," Irwin said Wednesday. "It's a lot slower process than I would have hoped for. This year it seems like we take a step forward one weekend and a step back the next one."
It all adds up to a 20-29 overall record, and 7-15 in the conference. That's good for ninth place, ahead of only Northern Kentucky, as the Bucs prepare to finish the regular season at home this weekend against USC Upstate.
The Spartans are 19-2 in the league and ranked 23rd nationally.
Irwin says he's seen enough glimpses of promise this season to stay encouraged about the future. It's just been another rocky road in conference.
The Bucs have won only one A-Sun series – a sweep of Northern Kentucky – and will lose at least 30 games overall for the 11th time in the program's 14-year history. They have posted just one winning season, 28-26 in 2003.
"This year there have been a lot of games where we started four or five freshmen," said Irwin. "They've shown some positives at times, and had that deer-in-the-headlights look at other times. We've gotten a lot of production from two seniors that we've got to replace (Jackie Baird and Katie Wolff), but I like the incoming class we'll have next year.
"We're going to keep working at it."
Baird, a catcher and third baseman from Ooltewah, has set school records for home runs in a season (20) and career (33). Wolfe, a pitcher and first baseman from LaGrange, Texas, leads the team with a .388 batting average.
Maybe the fourth time will be the charm for the women's golf team.
The Lady Bucs will try to earn their first NCAA tournament berth when they play in the East Regional next weekend in Tallahassee, Fla. Only the top eight in the 24-team field advance.
"In the past when we've made regionals, we looked at the list of schools and it was overwhelming," coach Stefanie Shelton said Wednesday. "It's not that way this time. We've seen a bunch of these teams, and we're aware that a lot of them can be very streaky. There's a familiarity that should help us."
The Lady Bucs are ranked 44th out of 265 programs, their highest ever. They are seeded 15th in the regional, which runs May 8-10 at Southwood Golf Club.
"I'm just starting to do some research on the golf course," said Shelton. "We played a lot of tournaments on Bermuda grass this spring, which I assume is what we'll see down there. The girls are comfortable in those conditions.
"Of course, our sophomore who won the conference tournament, Vivienne Chin, is our shortest player. There were par-4s that were unreachable for her at conference. She'd hit a driver and a 3-wood and still have to wedge it up there. It was interesting to watch."
Shelton said one of the keys to the team's success has been Linda Dobele. The freshman from Latvia didn't join the team until spring semester and came on to finish seventh at the A-Sun tournament.
"We've been working with her constantly," said Shelton. "She's a very young player, but she has stepped up tremendously."
There have been some outstanding performers in track and field this spring, none more so than Brett Squibbs.
The redshirt freshman from Rock Hill, S.C., has raised the pole vault record at ETSU to an outdoor level of 17-06. Continuing a trend that began indoors, it seems like Squibbs gets better with each meet.
"First of all, he's just a student of the event. He lives for it," said coach George Watts. "Brett picks things up so quickly, and obviously being in a college setting has helped him improve quite a bit. He has good facilities and gets a chance to vault every week against good competition."
Watts said Squibbs' father is a pole vault coach, which has laid the groundwork for his rise in a very technical event. ETSU jumps coach DJ Johnston has also been a major influence in refining technique. The results have been telling.
"Almost every week he's been tying or breaking his own record," said Watts. "When he cleared 17 feet for the first time, that was a big barrier, and I think he has a couple more bars left in him."
Squibbs has already qualified for the first round of NCAA competition, which will include 48 pole vaulters. The top 12 move on to the national championships in Eugene, Ore.
The Bucs finish out the regular season this weekend at the Tennessee Challenge in Knoxville. The conference championships are May 17-18 in Jacksonville, and NCAA first-round competition will also be held there from May 29-31.
Sarah Zadrazil continues to get a good feel for international soccer at its highest level.
The sophomore from Austria returned home earlier this month to play for her national team in a couple of World Cup qualifiers. She started both matches – a 6-1 victory over Bulgaria and 3-1 loss to France, the world's fourth-ranked women's team – but didn't score.
Zadrazil, the reigning Atlantic Sun Conference player of the year, previously played four matches in the Algarve Cup in Portugal in March.
"She's literally playing at the top end of international football," said ETSU coach Adam Sayers. "She's playing with and against the best players in the world, and with and against the best teams in the world. It's invaluable experience that very few players will ever get to do.
"We're really proud of Sarah, not only for performing that well on the field but doing a great job overall in the classroom. That allows her to do the amount of traveling that it takes for these international competitions."
Zadrazil has collected 21 assists and 12 goals in her two seasons at ETSU. That ranks second and ninth, respectively, on the school's all-time list.
Kevin Tiggs, the former ETSU star, was recently named Sixth Man of the Year in Australia's National Basketball League.
Tiggs plays for the Woolongong Hawks and was their second-leading scorer behind Rotnei Clarke, who was named league MVP. Clarke starred at Arkansas — and lost to Tiggs and the Bucs in Fayetteville in 2009.
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