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Three years ago, while visiting friends in the wine-producing Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France, Timothy McDonald decided he wanted what they had: a chance to experience small-town life in what is sometimes described as an unspoiled and more affordable version of Provence. A year later McDonald and his wife, Kathleen Brooker, took a mortgage on their paid-up Seattle home and plunked down $200,000 in cash for a 15th-century former shop house in the remote agricultural village of Azille (pop. 1,100), 90 minutes from the Toulouse airport. The couple, both in their early 60s, plan to spend several months a year there after she retires someday from her job as executive director of Historic Seattle. (McDonald, a semiretired architectural preservationist, already spends a month at a time there.)
While some aging boomers might put a premium on convenience or a place that can accommodate future physical limitations, McDonald and Brooker bought in a town without even a train station and from a contractor whose idea of tasteful renovations included removing the handrail on the narrow staircase of the three-story stone structure. And why not? They're fit bikers, runners and history buffs who care more about the town's proximity to Cathar Romanesque sites and enjoying their French, British and Swiss neighbors. "We wanted to have a bigger life, rather than have a bigger home in the U.S., and ironically we found it in a small French town," says Brooker.
Of course, American billionaires and celebrities have always lived large in Europe. Microsoft Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen reportedly keeps a staff of 12 at his hilltop villa in St. Jean Cap-Ferrat, along the Côte d'Azur. George Clooney's 30-room palazzo on Italy's Lake Como has starred in many A-list parties.
But a weaker euro, low interest rates and crashing real estate prices in parts of the euro zone are prompting more ordinary American Europhiles to look at buying a piece of the Old World .
What they're currently finding, says Ronan McMahon, who reports on real estate trends for the International Living website, is that European prices peaked between 2006 and 2008 and are now all over the map. Stratospheric London and Paris prices never fell that much and have headed back up. But an exodus of youth from rural France and Italy has made homes like the one Brooker and McDonald bought somewhat more affordable.
Then there are Europe's real estate bust areas, which unlike, say, Nevada and Florida haven't started their comebacks. McMahon's advice for those areas: Wait until prices have fallen dramatically and be prepared to hold for a while. That makes him bullish on Spain and Ireland but bearish on Portugal's Algarve and the Greek islands of Crete, Mykonos and Santorini, where prices are down only 30% from their peak. By contrast, along the scenic Ring of Kerry, near McMahon's Adare, County Limerick, Ireland base, $100,000 can get you a country cottage, a newly built modern home or a building plot with views of the Atlantic. All would have fetched $500,000 at the peak. In Spain deal hunters have been scooping up apartments in failed developments from banks selling for one-third of the 2007?08 list price. A two-bedroom, two-bath apartment on the Costa del Sol with distant views (on a clear day) of the ocean less than a mile away can be had for $100,000.
Beyond the state of the real estate market, consider how a purchase fits into your overall finances and whether you're really game for the practical, legal and personal challenges of maintaining a home in another country and possibly retiring there. Visit the area you're considering multiple times, rent a place (rather than staying in a hotel), shop for food, do laundry and get the full residential experience, good and bad. Ask yourself what you're looking for: a base for travel or a charming destination? A primary or second home? Or maybe just a vacation place that you'll also rent out?
Two years ago Ray Stewart, a 63-year-old, Europe-based American telecom exec, bought a 3,300-square-foot apartment in central Brussels as part of his "lifestyle plan." After Stewart retires in a year or so, he and his wife, Barbara Reno, 66, a former not-for-profit executive, hope to serve on corporate and charity boards, dividing their time between a house in the U.S. and Europe, with Brussels as a base. The city of 1.1 million is 80 minutes by train from Paris, two hours from London and a lot less expensive to buy in than either. Sure, the rent a Brussels flat commands is less, too, but Stewart doesn't plan to rent it out. He acquired two units and merged them into a three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath apartment to accommodate visits from the couple's three adult sons from prior marriages.
Elizabeth McCaw, a former estate-planning lawyer, and her husband, Yahn Bernier, a software developer for Valve, both in their early 40s, had a less grand vision: vacationing in Paris with their 6-year-old daughter, Cameron, with a minimum of fuss. So they paid nearly $300,000 (about half in cash and the rest with a seller-financed mortgage) for a fractional share giving them five weeks a year in a three-bedroom apartment on the Left Bank. Annual expenses for maintenance, management and mortgage, partly offset by rental income, run around $6,700. That's about what they'd have to pay to rent the apartment in low season, and they can store Cameron's toys in the basement while visiting Bernier's relatives elsewhere in Europe. They're considering spending more time in Paris after retirement and look at the purchase as "a good trial run without having to make a huge commitment," McCaw says.
Kim Hawley, 56, and her husband, Thomas van Overbeek, 63, retired Silicon Valley CEOs, considered buying in Wengen, a sleepy village in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland, which they've visited 17 times, but concluded it didn't make financial or personal sense. Houses there are costly relative to rents. And with grandkids in the U.S., they weren't going to spend half their time in Wengen, anyway. Plus, says Hawley, owning homes in San Jose, Calif. and the Sierra Nevadas is "enough of a headache?–we're not house collectors."
What follows are some practical issues to consider. For other enticing locales, see "The Best Countries For City Living." More foreign retirement choices and advice are here.
Just because you buy a home in a foreign country doesn't mean you have the right to live in it. If you spend most of your time in the U.S., you may be able to rely on the Schengen Agreement signed by 25 EU countries–you don't need a visa or residency permit if you stay in the EU no longer than 90 consecutive days within a six-month period. But it's meant for temporary visits, not for long-term residents, and border officials might deny you entry if they see you've used it repeatedly, cautions Alan Seagrave, a lawyer with Foley & Lardner in Miami.
Some countries (e.g., Australia, Colombia, St. Kitts and Nevis) offer special retirement or investor visas allowing those who are ready to invest locally to stay, but EU countries generally don't. Still, they're friendlier to retirees who can support themselves without taking already scarce jobs. Retired U.S. schoolteachers Ron and Linda Audet got an extended-stay visa from the Italian consulate before moving to Florence two years ago. Once there they applied for a residency permit, which must be renewed every two years until they've been there for six years. To get it they had to provide financial statements showing they could support themselves without working–which they're not allowed to do.
The Audets' residency permit made them eligible to buy government-sponsored health insurance at an affordable rate–a big plus, since with very limited exceptions Medicare won't reimburse you for expenses overseas. For shorter trips retirees can buy travel gap medical insurance, with the premium based on age; a 68-year-old can buy $1 million of coverage from HTH Worldwide for $7.43 a day–for up to 70 days. But some travel policies exclude preexisting conditions or medications you take on a regular basis. International health insurance is designed for stays of longer than six months, includes preventive care and is renewable once you qualify. But there is no guarantee that you will get the initial policy. Whether you're buying it from a U.S. company or one overseas, you can be turned down for a preexisting condition. And it's not cheap. The charge for an expatriate plan for someone 65 to 69 years old with a $1,000 deductible is $819 per month.
Owning a European home could subject you to extra layers of taxes. "In France we have any possible tax you can think of," sighs Paris lawyer Jean- Marc Tirard. Even if you're not working abroad, if you rent out a property you own, you're likely to have income that is taxable there and a tax filing obligation. Yes, you can get a credit on your U.S. income tax bill for foreign income taxes paid. But in France there's also an annual wealth tax on a property if its net value is more than 1.3 million euros (about $1.65 million). Warning: If you're considered a French resident, the tax applies to all your assets worldwide, although there's a five-year grace period for new arrivals. Wealth taxes may be on the horizon elsewhere in Europe, too.
In the U.S. your will or living trust can leave real estate to whomever you choose. Not so in most of Europe. Unless your property is in England, children share inheritance rights with your spouse–sometimes called "forced heirship"–and the more kids you have, the less your spouse gets. If you have three children, your spouse is entitled to one-fourth of that ch?teau in the Loire, and the kids get the rest. Holding property as joint owners ( en tontine in French) is one workaround, though not something the locals typically do. Depending on the country, there may be others. In France you can set up a corporation to buy and hold the real estate; in Italy you would use a trust for this purpose.
You may even need a separate foreign will if you hold property in a country that hasn't signed a multinational treaty. Case in point: In Italy a will must be handwritten. (You were looking for Old World charm, right?)
Your heirs may also have to contend with estate or inheritance tax on European property, even if you weren't technically a resident of the country. Both Italy and France, for example, impose an inheritance tax with rates based upon the relationship of the heir to the person who died. France only recently adopted a tax exemption for property left to a spouse. (It was introduced by Nicolas Sarkozy after he married Carla Bruni.)
Particularly if you'll be renting your property out, you may want to borrow to buy–interest expense reduces the taxes you would have to pay on rental income, both in the foreign jurisdiction and at home. By borrowing as much as you can (80% is the top end of what banks typically allow, lawyers and financial advisors say), you benefit from inflation because both the value of your property and what you can charge for rent will increase, while your debt remains the same.
But that raises the tricky question of which currency to borrow in. If you're paying interest from rent, then borrowing in the country where your property is situated minimizes currency risk. If you're paying off borrowing with U.S.-sourced income, then a U.S. loan makes servicing that debt more predictable; borrowing in Europe and paying off with U.S.-sourced income is, in effect, a bet the dollar will stay strong or strengthen against the euro.
Still, you only live once. If you want to spend part of your time in a European home, and have the resources, now might just be the time to go for it.
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text: Heath A. Dawson The Daily Jeffersonian SALEM, Va. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Those famous words echoed by Jim Neighbors in TV Land are definitely fitting for the Muskingum College Lady Muskies after the regional pairings were released on Monday. After wrapping up its seventh consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference championship last weekend, Muskingum was making plans to host the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional Tournament in New Concord. The odds of that happening appeared to be in the Lady Muskies favor, especially with Alma not winning the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association title. However, the NCAA decided to ship the Lady Muskies to Salem, Va., and awarded Alma the Great Lakes Regional, due to no team in the Chicago, Ill., area putting in a bid to host the tourney. Although Muskingum head coach Donna Newberry and her Lady Muskies would like to be hosting the regional, which begins Friday, theyll return to the James I. Moyer Sports Complex, site of the 2004 D-III College Softball World Series, one week earlier than expected. Surprise would probably be too soft of a word and any word beyond that I shouldnt use, Newberry quipped. They seldom, if ever, move a No. 1 seed out of the region. Usually, its the lower seeded teams that get moved around. It was certainly not what I was expecting. The last time the Lady Muskies played at the James I. Moyer Sports Complex was in May of 2003 when they participated in the World Series. Muskingum was nearly an even bet to win its second title in three years, but losses to Wartburg, 5-4, and Illinois Wesleyan, 9-2, ended those hopes and left the team stunned. For Newberrys troops to earn a shot at redemption, theyll have the benefit of getting used to their surroundings and the motivation factor of getting exported as a No. 1 regional seed. I like playing some different teams, Newberry noted. Roanoke and Emory are both very good teams, but I think we match up with them well. Its been a very strange configuration this year. Thats O.K. because they dont know us as well. We are familiar with Bethany and that was the last loss (Monday, March 29) on our record. We played very poorly that day. I think our kids would enjoy a chance to match up with them again. I think playing there in the regional is clearly an advantage, Newberry resumed. The next weekend, there wouldnt be any surprises and you would already be in a routine. I like the long term scenario if we can get through this weekend. I think its a good thing. We had really planned on trying to redeem ourselves in the World Series. Nobody dreamed wed be playing down there in the regionals. Were just going to get a little head start on it this year. I think the weather is going to be a positive factor. Hopefully, we can just play the way were capable of playing, Newberry concluded. Although Muskingum was surprised with the regional news, the joke may end up being on the rest of the six-team field. Joining top-seeded Muskingum (38-5) will be: No. 2 Roanoke, Va. (32-10) Lady Maroons; No. 3 Emory, Ga. (34-10) Lady Eagles, who finished fourth in the nation last year; No. 4 Bethany, W.Va. (28-13) Lady Bison, Muskingums postseason nemesis that defeated the Lady Muskies in New Concord to win the 2002 Great Lakes Regional; No. 5 Averett, Va. (20-20) Lady Cougars; and No. 6. The University of the South (Sewanee), Tenn. (19-19) Lady Tigers. Newberry said that having seniors like Erin Zupko and Jennifer Shay on the team definitely a plus. To know that you have players like Zupko and Shay...this could be their third trip to the World Series...you cant teach experience, Newberry said. I think having players like them allows us to have people who provide composure and reason when things get a little panicky. Its immeasurable how important that is. Sophomore pitcher Erica Hoyt is ready to make the trip to Salem. I like the fact that we get to go there early and possibly twice, Hoyt began. It also helps knowing that youre playing on good quality fields. Even though Roanoke is hosting, it makes it nice knowing that its kind of neutral. Other than Bethany, it will be nice to face new teams. They dont know how I pitch so that will help, especially the first time I see them. Zupko, who along with Shay, was on the 2001 National Championship team said she thinks the team is more relaxed going into the regional this year. I definitely feel more comfortable heading into the regional, especially because weve already played on that field. Its just a matter of if were mentally ready and I think we are. When I was a freshman, there was six seniors and this year there is seven. I think leadership is a big part of this team. Nobodys really nervous this year. I think everybodys just ready for it this year. This has been a major team effort and not many thought wed be this far, Zupko added. The tournament schedule is as follows: Friday Game 1, Bethany vs. Averett, 12 p.m.; Game 2, Emory vs. Sewanee, 2:30 p.m.; Game 3, Muskingum vs. Winner Game One, 5 p.m.; Game 4, Roanoke vs. Winner Game Two, 7:30 p.m. Saturday Game 5, Loser Game 2 vs. Loser of Game 3, 12 p.m.; Game 6, Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 4, 2:30 p.m.; Game 7, Winner of Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 5 p.m.; Game 8, Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6, 7:30 p.m. Sunday Game 9, Winner Game 8 vs. Loser of Game 7, 11 a.m.; Game 10, Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 9, 1 p.m. Monday Championship Game 2 (if necessary), 11. (Editors Note: All games can be heard on Muskingums website at www.muskingum.edu. Go to athletics link and click on the listen to live broadcast link.)


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The Berkeley cross country team continues to improve.
Competing in the Lowcountry Invitational two weeks ago at Mullet Hall, several Berkeley runners posted season best times. The fast and flat course gave runners an opportunity to open it up while also getting a good look at Region 8AAA competition.
"Every season all my returning runners look forward to the Lowcountry Invitational meet," said BHS cross country Coach Melissa Hicks. "The race is a great motivator to carry runners through the second half of the season."
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In the Lowcountry Invitational Berkeley finished behind region foes Hilton Head, James Island and Hanahan.
Austin Clewis notched a top-seven finish with a time of 17:21, almost a full minute off his previous best of 18:16. As a team the Stags finished 25th out of 36 teams competing.
"Just about everyone set a personal record today, but this will test us to see if we can keep that personal record because this was a pretty fast course," Clewis said. "I'm pretty excited I only have 20 seconds to go and I'll be at the school record."
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"Carol and Linda continue to improve their times with each meet they run," Hicks said.
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Because it is the first day of the Fiscal Year we have, as you've probably seen, a Blue Top on the new National Imagery and Mapping Agency being established today, which, if you haven't gotten, you can get.
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This follows on Dr. White's letter, last week, listing several steps he was taking to redouble our efforts to figure out what happened during the Gulf War and if we can explain some of the symptoms of what people call Gulf War Illness.
They will actually undertake two projects. The first project is to review our approach. The second is to look into the future and to advise us on a long term strategy for protecting the health of military personnel deployed in unfamiliar environments. This would involve environments including all sorts of possible toxins -- including chemical and biological weapons, but perhaps environmental or other toxins that they might encounter as well. So there are two parts of that study and, as I said, the details will be worked out as to timing, cost, scope, etc., I hope in the next couple of weeks.
I anticipate that we'll have a briefing tomorrow to go into some details about this and some other studies that are currently going on about Gulf War Illness, and I'll give you more information on that as it becomes available.
Q: Who might be the briefer?
A: Well, it will probably be a background briefing by a senior defense official.
Q: Is this the CIA model?
A: No, we don't yet have the CIA model. The briefer may be able to answer generic questions about models, but we don't yet have the latest CIA model.
Q: What's the delay?
A: I don't know what the delay is. I anticipate we'll get it relatively soon.
Q: This week?
A: I don't know whether it will be this week or not. Relatively soon. Once we get the model, then, of course, we have to run information through computers against the model, and I have no idea how long that will take.
Q: Has Dr. White asked the Academy to work its study within a certain time frame? I know you said "scope" is unanswered at the moment, but ...
A: No, that's the type of ...
Q: Would he allow them to ...
A: No, we've got to negotiate the details, and I believe this will not be something that will take several weeks or even several months. We could be talking in terms of a year or more to complete this entire study. There may be parts of it that can be done more quickly, but that's the type of detail that will have to be worked out between the Department and the Academy.
Q: Has there been a tentative agreement for them to do it?
A: They've agreed to do it. What hasn't been worked out is exactly what they'll do and when.
Q: Is this outside review an attempt to combat the Pentagon's credibility problem on this Gulf War issue?
A: It's an attempt to try to get to the bottom of questions that have been raised about the cause of Gulf War Illness and to see if we can explain these symptoms, if there are ways of doing a better job of putting together the information we have in the building. And also, to review the extensive medical studies that have been completed or commissioned on this, and to make sure that we're on point.
One of the issues here, of course, is that -- as you're very well aware -- since June 21st, when we first announced the explosion of nuclear weapons at Khamisiyah, there is now ...
Q: I'm sorry, I thought you said, "nuclear weapons."
A: Sorry, I meant chemical weapons. I don't mean to introduce another terrible variable into this already ... I don't want to make news in that way. Thank you for catching that. Chemical weapons at Khamisiyah. We now have to pay more attention to the possibility that there was exposure to chemical weapons.
No study has found -- in the Pentagon or in the CIA or any part of this government -- that Iraq employed chemical or biological weapons during the war. And we know that we exploded - - that we blew up ammunition depots containing chemical weapons that were north of Baghdad and, we believe, with no exposure to our troops. But the Khamisiyah detonation of chemical weapons does raise the possibility of low level exposure. So we have to go back and relook at work that's been done with that in mind. That's one of the things we're doing. That was, in fact, one of the points of Dr. White's letter, last week.
Q: When you said you expected the number exposed at Khamisiyah to go higher, was that based on your assumption that you would find that there were more troops within that 25 kilometer radius, or was it based on the assumption that the CIA computer model is going to show a much larger fallout cloud that covers a greater area?
A: First of all, I don't have any specific information about the CIA computer model, but my expectation is that based on the amount of chemical weapons in the pit, and what we've been told about wind patterns on that day and the disposition of forces, that there could be substantially -- there could be a very large number of troops included in a possible cloud area.
Q: When you say, "a very large number," are you talking like going from 5,000 to picking up 15,000? Or are you talking about going from 5,000 to 100,000?
A: I just don't think we know at this stage, but I think we have to think in terms of big numbers. Bigger than 15,000, certainly.
Q: So in the 100,000 range?
A: Well, I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. But I think we have to be prepared for the possibility of big numbers. Then, the question will be, What was the level of exposure, if any? But when we get the model then we'll, as I say, run the model against our geographical information data of where troops were, and that will give us a sense of ... We, one, have to get an idea of how big the cloud was or the plume; and then two, who was in that area.
I don't know whether you saw this or not, but there was a report that the CIA put out in August that actually went into a fairly detailed description of modeling that was used after Khamisiyah I to evaluate the possible dispersion of chemical agents. This is a publicly available report that you can get from the CIA. I would assume that what we're talking about is a similar methodology, but applied to a somewhat bigger area. You can go through and look at this methodology and get an idea of what we're talking about here. But, as I say, this looks at a much smaller area of two-to-four [kilometer] radius, I think, of about up to five kilometers, and we expect that the radius will be significantly larger for Khamisiyah II.
Q: Why is that? Simply because it was in an open area when it was exploded?
A: We think there was more to be exploded and that the wind patterns were different.
Q: Can you explain, "more to be exploded?" What do you mean by that?
A: There was more in the pit. More stuff. It's an estimate, and that's one of the things that will determine what the model shows.
Q: What is that estimate?
A: I don't know what the estimate is right now.
Q: Testimony up on the Hill was 550 Katyusha rockets filled with sand in the pit, but that's a half of what was in Bunker 73. McLaughlin's testimony ...
A: I don't know the figures. This is one of the things that will have to be determined. There are a number of variables.
If you read the CIA report, you'll see that the variables are very complex: they deal with the rate at which chemicals were burned off; they deal with how far rockets were thrown out of the bunker or out of the pit when they were detonated; they deal with the temperature of the air, the degree of cloud cover, etc. So there are a whole number of variables that have to ...
The only reason I raise this is that it's not an easy calculation to make, and there are a number of assumptions that have to be made, one of which is the amount of explosives or chemical warheads in the pit.
Q: But is there some reason to believe that there may be more than 550 rockets?
A: I do not have with me the figures that have been revealed on that. I can give them to you, I just don't have them with me right now.
Q: Is there reason to believe that whatever those figures that have been revealed are, are you saying there may be more in the pit? You now believe there's more?
A: Let me get the exact figures. The analysts I've talked to have told me that they believe the dispersion is probably going to be greater from the pit than it was from the bunker.
Q: Since the Khamisiyah briefing, when you had Bunker No. 73 with chemical munitions in it, as well as the open pit, has any new information come to light that other bunkers may have also contained chemical weapons?
A: Not that I'm aware of.
Q: Can we just clarify, so I understand what you were intending to say in answer to David's question -- and I understand you don't know the specific number that the CIA is going to project, but you think whatever that number is will be significantly larger for the number of American troops that may have been exposed.
David posited the theory, are you talking 100,000? You seemed to be saying it could be that high. Is that the impression you intend to leave?
A: The impression I intended to leave was that I don't know how large it is and I won't know until after the model is run. I think, from everything I've been told, it is likely to be considerably more than 5,000. That's the number of people who could have been exposed to this. How much larger, I don't know. It would be speculation. I've seen figures reported in the press. I have no idea whether they're accurate. I don't think anybody will know what an accurate figure is until after the model is run. And even then, it will be a technological estimate. It will be a computer estimate based on a reconstruction of weather patterns and other assumptions about a day in 1991.
Q: Has anybody told you that it could be as many as seven divisions -- 130,000?
A: No one has told me that. It will not be ... Once we have an idea of the size of the cloud, if we have accurate information on the number of people who were there, and one of the problems is that the mere fact that a unit is listed in being in one place doesn't mean that everybody in that unit was in one place. Sometimes these units are quite spread out. It's not as easy to pinpoint where people were as it might seem.
Q: All during the Gulf War we were being told of the marvels of GPS and how companies and individual tanks could locate their position within tens of yards, and now all of a sudden ...
A: But that's different, isn't it, from telling how many people are in one place. For an individual or a tank to be able to say where it is, is an entirely different proposition from being able to tell, five or six years later, how many people were in a certain area at one time.
Q: Well, if you can find a company commander ...
A: That's true, and we will do our best. We're not trying to low ball the numbers here, we just don't know what the numbers are. I can't give you a number.
Q: Aside from this incident, chemical weapons have been around in the inventory for decades and decades. Is there any evidence that you're aware of that, throughout their existence, anybody who has been exposed to low levels of chemical weapons, has had long term effects? People that have handled them in the warehouses or anything like that?
A: Can you ask that question again, please?
Q: Is there any evidence that, aside from this incident, throughout this century or the history this building is aware of with chemical weapons, that anybody has been exposed to low level and has ...
A: I have no idea. We'll try to find the answer. You're asking me a question about a whole century. I can't ...
Q: Was there ever a study done or anything like that?
A: I'm sure there have been studies done. I just don't know. We'll try to find out.
Q: Is the Pentagon currently seeking a waiver from the FDA for the use of investigational drugs on U.S. troops in the future, and if that's the case, will this independent review take a look at that policy -- the wisdom of using those kinds of drugs on troops as was done in the Gulf War?
A: I'm not aware that we're seeking a waiver, but I will find out if we are -- and yes, one of the things we will look at is not only how to protect soldiers, but also how to inform them of the type of treatments or protection they're getting.
Q: A Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War illnesses has a membership, a very distinguished medical membership, including, I think, two members of the National Academy. Did White check with them before asking the National Academy to get involved in it? Isn't this sort of duplicating what they're doing, the Presidential Advisory Committee?
A: I think we have a lot of people looking at the same information for answers, and it's not surprising that there will be duplication. This is a complex problem. Usually complex problems require more than one group of investigators, so it wouldn't surprise me at all.
I think that the drift of your question is that, perhaps, we shouldn't be doing this. I think it's a very legitimate step to take, to try to review what we've done so far and determine if we can do a better job in the future.
Q: The one thing, it's not that you shouldn't be doing it. Of course you should be doing the right thing. My question is whether we're going to delay this past November 5th.
A: I think that is a shockingly cynical question and the answer is "No." And the reason the answer is "No," is that we're continuing to go ahead with studies; we're continuing to go ahead with providing care; we're continuing to go ahead with releasing information as soon as we get information. We will, I believe, release information about the model. If we can run it before November 5th, I would expect that we'll release it as soon as we have good information on that. So I don't see any reason to hold this up. I don't see any desire to hold this up. In fact, everything that's happened here since June has shown that we're interested in trying to get information out. We're trying to find out what happened and we're looking at new approaches.
Q: Go back to the issue of what personnel were where and when they were when this release took place. Does not the U.S. Government have satellite photo records in that particular zone, on an almost hour-to-hour basis? Are these not in the archives? Are they being studied in the archives? Are there other types of reconnaissance photos that you could draw from?
A: There's a lot of information we're drawing from, but the first thing we have to do is get a good estimate of the dispersion of chemical agents from the pit. Once we get that, we can lay that over what we think -- the picture we think we have of where people were.
Q: You have a picture of where ...
A: We're assembling that picture. I haven't seen it myself, but I think that this first step will be to get the size of the cloud, and then we'll figure out who was underneath it.
Q: But you can't tell us about the source of that picture, of where people were?
A: No.
Q: Can you say why Dr. White looked to the Academy as a body? And if there is an individual there that has been chosen to head it up yet, or who it was that gave the approval? Why not the NIH? Why that group?
A: He has been talking with the President of the Academy, who is Bruce Alberts; and with the Institute of Medicine, who is Kenneth Shine. They were the ones who said that the Academy and the Institute would be ready to help in this effort. He went to them because they're thought to be objective and skillful and able to conduct studies like this. The Institute of Medicine conducts a whole range of studies on everything from contraception to smoking, and it puts out big books of studies every year so it has quite a lot of experience in doing things like this.
I was looking here in my notes to see if I have anything on a comparison between the amount of ordnance -- chemical ordnance in Bunker 73 and the pit, and I don't, but perhaps somebody could get that by the end of the briefing and we can answer that question for you.
Q: I wanted to just ask about this report in Canada about a U.S. Army Special Forces captain who has apparently been quoted as saying that he wore Canadian uniforms, and said it was routine for American troops to wear Canadian uniforms in Somalia to assist in gathering intelligence. Can you tell us anything about this particular soldier and whether or not U.S. troops were wearing Canadian uniforms while they were serving in Somalia?
A: On the face of it, it seems a very bizarre report. We're checking into it. That's all I can tell you.
Q: Do you know anything about this particular soldier, about whether he received an honorable discharge from the Army or whether he was ... I understand he's no longer serving in the U.S. Army.
A: I can't comment on the circumstances under which he left the Army right now, but he did leave the Army in September of 1995.
Q: Is the Secretary going to meet with Netanyahu or King Hussein or possibly even Arafat while they're here?
A: I'm not aware of what's been scheduled on that. This is a presidentially called summit, and the President will, is heavily involved in the negotiations. The Secretary is ready to do whatever he's asked to do, whatever will be helpful in trying to restore momentum to the peace process in the Middle East.
Q: Evidently the Secretary was asked to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee this week, and he said he was unable to do so. Is there any specific reason why? Evidently there's some heartburn on the Hill over this?
A: I could never comment about heartburn on the Hill, but they wanted the Secretary to testify tomorrow. Tomorrow is a day when his schedule didn't allow that to happen. Beyond that, for precisely the reason Charlie brought up, he wants to be available if necessary to be involved in the summit.
Q: Senator Thurmond said that they'd attempted numerous times to schedule Secretary Perry, and they still wanted to schedule a time for him to testify. Will Secretary Perry in fact appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee?
A: Last week when the Secretary was out of town, Deputy Secretary White was scheduled to go up before the Armed Services Committee and testify on Bosnia, and they canceled the hearing. They tried to reschedule the hearing for a day when it was not possible for the Secretary to go. The Secretary has talked with the committee about the possibility of coming up and briefing members of the committee. He also has been talking to members on the phone about last week's NATO Ministerial meeting at which the question of Bosnia arose and, as you know, at which they discussed ways of looking at the options, at looking at a possible post-IFOR force.
Q: In the letter that Thurmond sent to Perry he said he thought it was really important that this be a public, not behind closed doors session, so that they could ask very important questions about the options for U.S. troops in Bosnia next year. Just to take a shockingly cynical approach, is it possible that Perry just doesn't want to talk about those plans at this point?
A: As I said, the schedule didn't allow testifying yesterday. You know as well as I do that there's been no decision made by this government about participation in a post- IFOR force. That's what NATO is looking into right now ... is looking at four options, and once they draft those options and flush them out; write mission statements; figure out how many soldiers might be required to carry out these missions; then NATO will decide which of these options makes the most sense, and at that point, the individual countries in NATO will have to decide whether they want to participate in whatever the North Atlantic Council decides to do. At that time, we'll have to review what recommendations are made by the North Atlantic Council, and we and other NATO members will then decide whether to participate in the mission. I would guess that that wouldn't happen until the end of October, sometime between the end of October and the middle of November, I would guess.
Q: The Secretary said he was going to fully consult with Congress. Will this consultation come after these recommendations are made by the Military Committee and presented to the NAC?
A: They'll come at the appropriate time. Right now there's -- as I say, the action is really in NATO trying to flush out the options, but we will definitely consult with Congress at the appropriate time.
Q: Is it conceivable that the United States would not go along with the NATO recommendation?
A: I think we have to wait and see what the recommendation is, and what our response to it is. We've made no commitment. All we've said is that we will consider.
Q: I understand. On a very much related subject, it's been in the wires that the U.S. was making an announcement about the withdrawal force, the covering force of the troops in Germany, to bring out the U.S. troops that are already in Bosnia. Is there any validity to that? Will that decision be made soon?
A: I don't know whether you were here when General Joulwan spoke about the covering force several weeks ago, but I anticipate that before the end of the week we'll make an announcement about the covering force. But basically, we'll be sending about 5,000 troops into Bosnia to help the current people in IFOR come out. That whole process is scheduled to be completed early next year. The IFOR people will be out and the covering force is scheduled to depart some time in March.
Q: That would be a force that might remain behind if a decision ...
A: As I said, it is scheduled to depart in March.
Q: There was a story in the Wall Street Journal today in which a reporter is talking to U.S. Army officials in Europe. He made it sound like the first mission of that covering force will not have anything to do with withdrawal, but will have to do with beefing up the present forces to oversee the municipal elections, which may or may not occur, in late November. Is that going to be part of their mission, to help maintain order and get access to polling places for the November municipal elections?
A: Yes, but basically what's going to happen is that the covering force will slide in over IFOR. There are about 15,800 Americans now in IFOR, and that number will rise to about 18,000 for a brief period of time as the covering force flow in before more IFOR units start flowing out. I think actually the peak will come some time before the elections. But when the deployment order is signed, we'll have a briefing that will lay all this out. But basically, they will take over some of the security and IFOR functions as IFOR is beginning to turn its attention to withdrawing. That's the whole point of a covering force.
Q: There was a suggestion in the story .... This is a beefing up, not just a sliding in, but a beefing up because perhaps the 15,000 is not sufficient to maintain order during the municipal elections.
A: We don't see it that way. In fact, I believe there will not be significantly more American soldiers in our sector at the time of the elections than there are now. It's just a function of one force flowing in before the other force starts flowing out that you'll have a temporary blip, but that blip will occur before the elections and I think will be back down to about the current levels by the time the elections occur. This whole plan is based on the assumption that the municipal elections occur in late November.
Q: When do you expect the 5,000 will start going in?
A: I would expect the next couple of days. The deployment order has to be signed first, and after that's signed, they'll start going in.
Q: Do you know anything about radar, American radar in Colombia being pulled out under extremis -- plans to do so, partly pulled out because of threats to American troops that are running that radar?
A: I do not. We'll check on that.
Q: Back to Bosnia. You said the covering force you expect to be there through March. Does that mean the last of IFOR won't be leaving until March?
A: No, the last of IFOR will leave before that. You've had a number of briefings on IFOR, and if you go back over the last year, initially we had hoped to start drawing down IFOR some time in the summer. We didn't do that. We decided to keep a heavier force there through the elections. When the elections were bifurcated and the national elections were divided from the municipal elections, General Joulwan and also the NATO Defense Ministers decided that it was appropriate to keep a large force there until the municipal elections occur -- now scheduled for the end of November. So there won't be very much of a drawdown until after those elections. Then the IFOR mission ends on December 20th. There will be a fairly rapid drawdown between the end of November and December 20th, but not rapid enough to get all of IFOR out. So there will be some IFOR soldiers there into January and possibly into early February.
The covering force will remain after IFOR goes. The rule we're working on right now is that no individual soldier will spend more than a year in Bosnia. So some, as you know, some tank units from the 1st Armored Division left about a month or six weeks ago and they were replaced by MPs. In addition, we estimate that about a third of the soldiers in the 1st Armored Division deploy out because they're reassigned or they get out of the Army or whatever. Of course, in a year or so, naturally a third of the soldiers would leave in the course of a year. The other two-thirds we're approaching on sort of a first in/first out basis and trying to get those who came in around December and January out first, so we make sure no one spends more than a year in Bosnia.
The covering force is what will allow that to happen -- will help that happen. It will go in and perform certain security functions while the IFOR is packing up and getting out.
In connection with that, we're opening a second bridge in the next couple of days over the Sava River -- a pontoon bridge. It's really a redundant bridge, but it will probably be the bridge over which the tanks go as they leave.
Q: The same location as the other one?
A: Yeah. The same location as the other one, I believe.
Q: In other words, you're replacing 1st AD soldiers with 1st ID soldiers -- infantry soldiers?
A: Right, but smaller numbers. There are now, as I said, about 15,800 soldiers in IFOR, and the force going in will be about 5,000. But, until the very end when IFOR closes down, there will be some IFOR people there.
Q: So it will be 1st Infantry Division soldiers replacing 1st Armored Division.
A: Right.
Q: The covering force is not a part of IFOR? It's a separate force? You're making a distinction between the two?
A: Well, the covering force will not be part of IFOR because the IFOR mission is ending December 20th. The IFOR mission as described in the Dayton Peace Accords is ending on December 20th. There is, right now, no plan for us to be involved in another force after December 20th except the force ... It will take us a while to get out. In other words, not everybody is going to be poised at the border ready to leave on December 20th. So the covering force will help the IFOR people get out.
Q: Does that mean that the covering force has an entirely different set of dates for withdrawing?
A: Yes. That's what I've tried to say.
Q: So it could be beyond March?
A: No. It will have ... Its mission will be a defined period of time which will get it out some time in March.
Q: Could the covering force form the U.S. representation in a second Bosnian force? Could this conceivably be it?
A: That's not what it's being sent there to do. It's being sent there to help IFOR get out, and it itself is supposed to leave in March.
Q: Then I don't understand why it's going to take three months to get the force out. It didn't take them that long to get in under the most difficult situations. Normally, a covering force, like coming out of Somalia, the Marine covering force went out 15 minutes after the last force they were covering.
A: This is what will be explained when we bring somebody down to brief you on the covering force after the deployment order is signed.
Q: To clarify what you said earlier, do I take it from what you said, that Secretary Perry has no plans to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee any time soon?
A: Secretary Perry, as I said, was not able to appear tomorrow, and he has offered to go by and brief them. I don't know what their response to that has been.
Q: But not to testify in public?
A: As I said, the Secretary will testify at the appropriate time. He wasn't able to fit it into his schedule tomorrow.
Q: Not to beat a dead horse, but the committee has expressed interest in having him testify in a public session some time soon. I'm just trying to get a "Yes or No" question about whether Secretary Perry is considering doing that.
A: I'm dealing with what you asked me about, which is the invitation he got to testify tomorrow and was unable to accept. I can't project what will happen in the future, but at the appropriate time he will testify. I suppose that will be decided by the committee and by Secretary Perry getting their schedules to match.
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A: There's nothing to say about that. No decisions have been made on the VINSON. We're watching the situation in the Gulf very carefully. I don't have anything to say about the B- 52s now.
Q: How come when they go we get it right away. When they come back ...
A: That is puzzling. I've often asked that myself. You guys always seem more interested when they go than when they come back.
Q: Here's official expression of interest when they come back.
A: When we can make announcements about deployments from the -- redeployments from the Gulf we'll do it, but now isn't the time.
Q: Can you describe in a general way what type of mission profiles the F-117s are flying in Kuwait?
A: I cannot.
Q: Is it apparent Saddam is standing down and behaving himself?
A: We're continuing to watch what Saddam Hussein is doing, and that's --when we, as I say, when it's appropriate to talk about our forces there we'll talk about them. Now is not the appropriate time. We're watching him, and our forces are there.
Q: Why is this not the appropriate time?
A: Because we're continuing to watch what he's doing.
Q: So you're not at ease enough yet to pull the forces out, is that what you're saying?
A: I'm saying that we are continuing to watch what Saddam Hussein is doing. We're continuing to monitor his activities. And while we do that, our forces will stay there.
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Monday, April 3
Fade Away
Flash Fiction
by Anne Frasier
My world is tiny.
They took my car away, promising to come and get me whenever I need a ride. I wait, but they don't come. I sit in this place surrounded by idiot old farts who stare blankly at the birds behind the glass. Stop staring at the fucking birds! I want to scream. But we don't talk. We don't look at one another, such is the depth of our shame. Because, let's face it, pissin' your pants ain't cool.
They roll in a new guy. Some decrepit mess who will only add to the aroma. He looks scared, arthritic fingers nervously tapping the plastic arm of his wheelchair.
I don't like old people. I fucking hate old people.
"Ian?" The guy leans forward. "I thought you died."
Who is that ugly pile of sagging skin? Somebody I know?
"It's me. Martin."
Martin. My old band mate. The bass player and kid of the group. Now I notice that his arms are solid tattoos. This is such a trip. This is so freaky.
"Remember that time at First Avenue?" he asks. "When you dove off the stage and broke two ribs?" He starts to laugh, but after a couple of gasps seems to think better of it.
How can the memory of youth hurt so much? It's more pain than I can stand. I don't answer him. I look away. I stare at the yellow bird.
13 reactions:
- Kelly Parra said...
Very trippy, Anne! It's so crazy how you can get into someone's head. Awesome piece, thanks for sharing this one with FM!!
- 4/03/2006
- anne frasier said...
thanks, kelly!!
- 4/03/2006
- jason evans said...
Whoa. That's the coolest flash fiction I've seen from you yet. Damn, that was STRONG! Awesome job, Anne!!
(Hey, apparently you're not listening to Nancy Reagan. See you in flash fiction rehab....)
- 4/03/2006
- anne frasier said...
jason, that's it. last one. swear to god.
- 4/03/2006
- vampran said...
Wow!Great flash Anne. I liked the dejected feel of the story and how it keeps pulling the reader in.
- 4/04/2006
- bornfool said...
Great flash, Anne. It evoked a lot of feelings I have when i visit my grandmother at the nursing home.
- 4/04/2006
- Mark Pettus said...
What an odd stirring of emotions. First I'm offended by your narrator, then I'm touched by my own fear of getting old, then I get the chuckles...
Nice work, Anne.
- 4/04/2006
- anne frasier said...
vampran: thanks! i looked at your profile and love your music list. :)
bornfool: thanks! wouldn't it be great if we had scratch and sniff computers? ;)
mark: thank you so much! your comment made me smile and laugh.
- 4/04/2006
- emeraldcite said...
very nice. great range of emotions.
i like it.
addicting, eh?
- 4/04/2006
- Jeff said...
This story is flash fiction at it's FINEST! Loved it.
"Fade Away" accurately depicts the boredom, denial, anger, fear, and sense of hopelessness that many elderly people feel.
Great job, Anne! :)
- 4/05/2006
- anne frasier said...
emeraldcite and jeff: thanks!
it's interesting to see that people have responded pretty strongly to this story. maybe because we all have that fear of getting old -- and have probably all had someone in a nursing home. i actually wrote this 2 or 3 weeks ago and put it away because i thought it lacked punch. i dug it back out and polished it a little, but it could still use another edit. this was more straight-forward and less abstract than the other pieces i've written.
- 4/05/2006
- Meleta McHarlin said...
Loved it! That will be me. Cussing out the old fogies just for being old while denying I'm one of them. Yes!
Excellent flash.
- 4/05/2006
- anne frasier said...
thanks, meleta!
- 4/07/2006


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Bad Parent: Booze Clues. Why I let my kids drink. By Gretchen Roberts for Babble.com.
We sit down to dinner with friends. I've tossed a spinach salad with dried cherries, blue cheese and balsamic vinegar, and baked homemade rolls to go with the grilled New York strips and bittersweet chocolate mousse. We've already passed around champagne glasses brimming with a sparkling California ros' while snacking on artichoke appetizers, but I smell trouble when Amy declines hers as if she's been offered a rotting carcass by the dog instead of a 91-point bubbly brimming with strawberries and sunshine.
At the table, my husband opens a Zinfandel I brought back from a trip to Lodi, California. The wine's deep fruitiness will, I'm sure, please even the apparently unrefined palates of our friends.
"No, thank you." Amy turns her head again as if my husband were passing her a Playboy opened to the centerfold. He hesitates, then sets the glass down in the middle of the table, thinking she might change her mind. "I just don't like alcohol," she says, wrinkling her nose. "It's just a personal preference."
"Mom, can I try it?" One of her middle school-age boys looks hopefully at the wine.
"No." She is adamant and horrified.
Is she worried we might think she is a bad mother if she says yes? Or is she against allowing her kids to sample alcohol?
"He's welcome to have a sip as far as we're concerned," I say, playing the good hostess.
The boy brightens. "Please, mom?"
"No." She saws at her steak with a vengeance.
I'm embarrassed, because I gave my five-year-old, Kate, a taste of my bubbly in the kitchen as Amy and I stood chatting. I wonder if Amy is thinking of going straight home and calling Social Services. We do live in the Bible Belt, after all, where the joke is that Jews don't recognize the Messiah, Protestants don't recognize the Pope, and Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.


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Jen, you got an excellent portrait going here. I think it looks like the photo. The eyes look really good and I like the glasses. The nose should be a little broader around the nostrils. You did a good job with his hair. I think the light areas where his jaw seems to sag on the left (our left) could be darkened so that the viewer's eye isn't drawn there. The background works well. He does have the expression of a rascal.
Sam/Sammy C & C Welcome
Jen C & C's always welcome
JEN: WOW!!! what a great start on your rascally Howard. I see something as well. watch the right side of his mouth... that is the other part of the twinkle in his eye... that sort of smile look... as sam said, look at the left jaw first on the photo then on the painting photo, go back and forth with your eyes, you can see around the collar and the jaw what Sam is talking about. Can't wait to see it finished...
It would be nice if we messed up we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over
C & C Always Welcome
Catherine - The orchid is coming along great. The comments made are spot on. I don't have anything to add, other than looking forward to seeing more.
Jen - Howard is excellent. Very nice portrait. I would definitely keep the glasses. I would revisit his ear - looks it could be softened a bit - not draw the attention away from the eyes. Which, by the way you have done very well. A lot of character in the whole piece.
Thanks everyone for the comments on The Guardian Angel. I don't have to go to school today and sub, so will have time to see what comes out of this piece. Will probably start crying at one time or another while working on it - part of that emotional connection I guess. (And, Kim, sadly to say Sky Watcher was not selected for the Norman, Oklahoma weather show. Oh well - we'll see what comes about for the next one.)
Thank you Sheila. I finished it this morning and will post it here a little later on today. It's ok but not quite like I had wanted it to look like. I will point out what I think is wrong with it when I post the actual painting. It was a learning experience and one more step towards a better next painting. I wish I could win the lottery so I can do nothing but paint whenever I want as trying to work full time and take care of a house leaves only so much time for art. It can be frustrating.
Catherine Brown
C&C's are welcome.
(No digital alterations please)
Jen You managed to capture his expression well it only needs a little tweek I don't think there is much if any distortion
Orchids and others
Jim C&C welcomed
Jim this is great! The cat's color perfect and I love the movement of the cat looking over to the fairy.
Wow Jim nice cat. Looks pretty real. I hope He doesn't have his eye on that fairy for lunch. You might add a little more shadow to the little tea pot to give it a more round look it is a little flat. Your orchid is looking good keep it bud your getting better.
C and C always welcomed
Here is what I like about this watercolor: The color of the leaves and their shading, pot color and suggestiveness, unopened bloom/pods, stems, bloom in the background. I don't like the orchid all that much as the color of the red/purple is off and I still don't like the angle of it. I don't like any of the background shadows at all and next time will set the light at different direction. I think the size of the objects are too big for area I put them in 9x12. inches. I wasn't going to finish it because I was so unhappy with it but this morning at 4:30 I decided I was going to get some sort of learning experinece out of it and went ahead and dug in and did as much as I could. The photo here is a little light but the second photo is too dark so I went with the lighter one. I have two orchids, one pink and this one. I've done watercolors of them both after they have bloomed. The top appears to be cut off but it was a scan error as the top of the painting is within it's boundries.
Jen - Your Howard looks like he's off to a super start. Am sure you'll finish this off just right. Love the style and colors used.
Jim - Fairy, flowers, and cat are excellent! Nice comp. too. The ball is flat - could use a bit of shading despite being a 2 color item. Watch curve on bott. of pot, but as was mentioned, if the pot was shaded more, this would help. Great job in this complicated scenario. Oh, I love the background too.
Catherine - Though your seamed corner draws my eye to the flowers, it didn't need this. A bold loose and darker background (like the dk. in orchid, with variety in tone at least), would make a more interesting BG for this beauty, as well as needed contrast. You could play with darks in Photoshop 1st to get a rough idea. I realize the photo doesn't do it justice, as you mentioned, so you may not feel like it needs it - your call, but if you're unhappy with it now, you could consider it. Flowers turned out great - no one will be comparing actual color to your ptg. and it looks very believable. The angle is fine - really.
Kim T (Kim513)
C&C welcome!
Kim.. I entertained the idea of just going crazy and painting a bold background as I agree totally with you that it would have highlighted the orchid more. I may go home and just do that as it is a learning painting now. I don't have a Photoshop so I'm going to just go for it and live with the results. Both of my orchids are blooming now and this morning I thought it would be pretty to do a watercolor of both of them together.
Catherine the WC is great the only thing and it isn't important I don't like the box as a BG a table top and wall? the orchids are gorgious
I redid the bottom of the pot I had it to round first flattened it and posted and saw after Geri and Kim commented and redid the ball actually is partially flattened it's Francis's yarn tree ornament she plays with constantly
I agree Jim. Using the still life box without anything draped over the back or under the pot left a sort of sterile looking background. I think your teapot looks good now. I have trouble with round objects too. You're orchid is also beautiful.
Jim - The new bottom of the pot is MUCH better! Good one.
Catherine - I'm eager to see your re-done BG! I could photoshop a dk. in the back to give you a rough idea, but I believe it's best for the artist to have that in his/her own imagination to play out. You'll do fine.
FYI - A webpg. that I think is very helpful when it comes to elipses at/above/below eye level is: wetcanvas.com/ArtSchool/Drawing/BasicDrawing.old/Lesson4/index.html (add www. at beginning) Near the beginning (left and bit above of heading: "Rendering Cylindrical Objects"), is a sketch which shows what I call smiles or frowns - the further away from flat eye level, the bigger the smile or frown.
Thanks Marsha , yes going to fix his mouth and Sheila thanks too will look at his ear. they are my worst things!
Jim Thanks too. I really like this fairy painting. the orchid turned out nicely and the pot is much improved. Have to wonder at the cat's intentions as the fairy seems to be hiding from him!
Catherine I think you are too hard on yourself as the orchid looks great! Maybe a more colourful bg but that is up to you. WC in my opinion is very unforgiving and like a foriegn language to me!
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By BERT WILKINSON
(AP) GEORGETOWN, Guyana - A gold miner fatally shot four people, including two police officers, before apparently killing himself after a shooting rampage Tuesday in Guyana's coastal capital.
Deryck Kanhai, 51, barricaded himself in his second-story apartment above a taxi company in the afternoon and began randomly firing bullets into two streets in Georgetown, police said.
The shots killed a woman and a man before police officers arrived, authorities said. Kanhai then fatally shot two officers during a more than two-hour standoff.
Kanhai, a licensed gun holder, might have finally ended the standoff by fatally shooting himself, but the cause of his death was still under investigatioin, authorities said. A shotgun and two pistols were recovered by police
Terrified people hid inside businesses and homes as dozens of shots were exchanged between the shooter and police on Middle Street, one of Georgetown's main commercial centers. Tear gas canisters were also used by police.
The motive for the shooting rampage was unclear. Police said only that Kanhai had "apparently gone berserk."
The Guyana Police Force offered condolences to the relatives of the two slain officers and the two dead civilians.
Guyana, a country of nearly 800,000 inhabitants, is on South America's northern shoulder and roughly 90 percent of its people lives along the coast. Gold mined in the remote interior is the leading export.
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Scoreboard: No. 10 New Hampshire 5, Holy Cross 0, Durham, N.H., 9/16
Schedule: Friday, Sept. 23 vs. Fairfield, Worcester, Mass., 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 25 at Dartmouth, Hanover, N.H., 3:00 p.m.
- The Holy Cross field hockey team plays a home and away set this upcoming week. The Crusaders will first host Fairfield on Friday, Sept. 23 and then travel to play Dartmouth on Sunday, Sept. 25. Friday's contest begins at 4:00 p.m. on the Hart Turf Field while Sunday's contest starts at 3:00 p.m. on the Chase Astro Turf.
- The series between the Crusaders and Stags began in 1982 as Holy Cross has won 17 of the 30 total meetings. Holy Cross is also 3-2 in the last five meetings, including a 1-0 win against the Stags in the last match-up held in Worcester. Fairfield is currently 5-2 on the season and will play at common opponent Sacred Heart on Wednesday before competing on Friday. The squad has won three-straight games, including a 2-0 win over Patriot League foe Lehigh.
- The Crusaders are 8-10-0 in the all-time series against the Dartmouth Big Green, dating back to 1985. The Big Green have won by identical 5-0 scores over the last two seasons as Holy Cross last won in 2006, beating Dartmouth in overtime 2-1. Currently, the Big Green are 4-2 on the season and will play against Ivy League foe Brown the Saturday prior to hosting Holy Cross. Dartmouth is also 1-0 in league play.
- Junior goalkeeper Kelly Sotsky (Wayne, N.J.) returned to the cage for the first time this season against New Hampshire last Friday. She played the entire second half and collected three saves. With the three saves, Sotsky now has 110 saves in her career.
- With this being the final full week of non-conference action, Holy Cross sits well with the other teams in the Patriot League according to the overall season standings. Through Sunday's games, Holy Cross ranks fourth in scoring average (1.92), goals scored (1.29) and saves (44).


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Dear Margo: When It's One Thing After Another
When It's One Thing After Another
Dear Margo: I'm in my late 20s and have been living with a man roughly the same age for the past year and a half. The relationship has been wonderful. Until a few months ago, I had no reason to distrust him, but I started to suspect something when he didn't want to answer when I asked about his dinner with a male friend. I looked at his cellphone a few days later and saw he had met with a female friend I did not know. When I confronted him, he said it was a woman he met at the gym, but he didn't want to tell me because in his culture women frown on their significant others having female friends (he is from a different country).
He swears she is just a friend and says she is religious and has invited him to church, etc., which I know is something he wants to get back to. Aside from that, nothing else seems odd, and he continues to share everything that goes on.
At about the time of the "secret meeting," he announced he'd like to spend time away with the guys maybe once or twice a month. I was fine with that. Then, the time away increased to four days staying with me and three days living with his sibling. Now, he has announced that he wants to step away and think about the relationship to make sure he wants to be with me for the rest of his life, decide whether he wants children, etc. He stresses that he does not want to make the same mistake twice. (He has been married before. It ended badly).
He says we will continue to talk and go out, but there will be nothing physical. I have had a string of bad relationships, so I know what terrible is, but as he's being a gentleman about it all, I just don't know what to think. — RAL
Dear R.: There are gentleman bank robbers, too, my dear. To this neutral observer, it sounds as though your live-in love is moving out of the relationship in incremental steps. His idea of continuing to talk and go out while he re-virginizes himself is highly suggestive of his planning to make a break for it. I would make it easy on him — and yourself — by telling him you've decided, in one fell swoop, to call it a day. Why stick around for his dismissal notice? — Margo, efficiently
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Dear Margo: I had a fender-bender in the parking lot at work. At first, I didn't notice, but the person whose car I hit did and was understandably steamed. I did something really stupid because I was scared. First, I said I didn't notice, and that didn't go over well. Then, I actually said someone else was driving! It was ridiculous and pathetic, but I was really nervous, and this came out before I knew what I was saying. Anyway, I gave the other person my insurance information and hope that will be the end of it. We're in different departments, so I don't think there will be any repercussions as far as my job goes, but I feel like a jerk. Should I try to make some sort of amends or just keep a low profile and hope it blows over? — Feeling Guilty
Dear Feel: Because your insurance company will right the wrong, no harm, no foul. I'm sure the other person knows exactly what was going on, and for him or her, it's a settled issue. If, however, this is eating at you, by all means write a note saying you are feeling foolish, the whole thing came from fear, and you wish you had behaved with more integrity. Over and out. — Margo, correctively
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Posted by Anon on 10/30/2006
My favorite pizza since i was a kid, but you have to eat it there - it's not as good when you order it. eggplant parm is good too and the waiters have always been nice.
Posted by westsider on 09/21/2006
This is one of my favorite italian restaurants in the city (Arthur Ave. doesn't count!) My boyfriend and I have been to many restaurants and absolutely love V & T. They have some unique dishes that you can't get at other italian restaurants, but they have the typical things too. It is not a romantic restaurant, so I wouldn't recommend it for a first date, but it is very comfortable.
Posted by Luigi - nyc on 09/13/2006
I've been going to this Italian/Mornigside Hghts institution for 3 years now and can never find fault with either food or service. I always seem to focus on three items on their menu: Fried Calamari, Eggplant Parm Hero, and, my favorite, the Artichoke-topped pizza! I find the service very relaxed but always attentive to my needs and have even been given 2nd glasses of Chianti on the house!!! So there !, to the negative reviews! Maybe it's the way some customers act that brings out the worst in a place ;-) V&T-TOPS BY ME!
Posted by El Rifon on 04/06/2006
I went there to have a personal pizza and it was good. the pizza was really NY thin style. The waiters were a bit slow and not very attentive, but OK overall. The atmosphere was an interesting mix of parents with their kids, older folks, students, younger couples, and a few people that ate by themselves. It's not a very romantic place, but it's OK for a date.
Posted by Pizza Girl on 02/01/2006
The food is great, try the white Pizza, and while it's drowned in dressing, I'm addicted to their Caesar salad - yum! Delivery is always great, and they will usually tell you if it's going to be awhile.
Posted by Jefferstone on 12/09/2005
And there is a reason why it has been where it is forever. I used to go there in the early 80's. I go there again now. It's exactly the same. Even the same waiters. Nothing fancy, no frills, a little run down. Just good old style southern Italian food. Pizza can be excellent if the chef is having a good day. Chicken parm is a sure bet. And cheap!
Posted by piccola on 11/22/2005
I live right next door and it took over half an hour to get my pizza - but man, was it good! The vegetarian pizza is some of the best I've ever had. Make sure you get some eggplant on there.


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