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  • Face of Defense: Soldier Creates Home Away From Home

    08/20/2009 4:30:10 PM PDT · by SandRat · 21 replies · 1,442+ views
    Face of Defence ^ | Lt. Col. Renee A. Rouse, USA
    JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq, Aug. 20, 2009 – The 304th Sustainment Brigade and Joint Base Balad have their own Martha Stewart tucked in the H-6 housing area here. Army Maj. Gina Garbedian shows off her containerized housing unit at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. Garbedian spent six months decorating the unit to make it feel like a home away from home during her deployment. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Army Maj. Gina Garbedian, a Los Angeles native, moved into her containerized housing unit in November and has made it her home away from home. "It was like...
  • In Brownstones, Taxes Suddenly Rise

    02/21/2005 9:03:47 PM PST · by TBP · 103 replies · 2,147+ views
    The New York Times ^ | February 20, 2005 | JOSH BARBANEL
    AFTER struggling to fix up a brownstone in Harlem for the last 16 months, Meyghan Hill, a model and actress, and her husband, Daniel Scarola, a ballroom dancing instructor, are thinking about giving up and moving out. But what may drive them away is not the neighborhood, which they have come to love, nor their four-family house, where they have painstakingly stripped a century of varnish and paint from doors and balusters, but the shock of a tax notice they received last month from the New York City Department of Finance. The notice indicated that the taxes on their 19-foot-wide...