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Parents with bulldozers, oh heavens. That was a wonderful post and my condolences.ReplyDelete
Sad story indeed.ReplyDelete
Now if the the barn was blue -
I know how ChesapeakeBayWoman feels. I also hate to see beauty things bite the dust.ReplyDelete
Your photo is great It has a lovely variety of beautiful reds.
Parents! this is what happens when they get older and caution becomes the watch word. I commented on CBW's post. I would need anger management counseling.ReplyDelete
OUCH... my heart goes out to the owner of that barn. LOVE THE SHOT!ReplyDelete
What a shame, it was a great old structure.ReplyDelete
I hope her mother breathes easier now at least.
*sniff* Thank you so much. I'm still walking around in shock. It's tragic.ReplyDelete
Your picture is wonderful, especially love the distressed red on the barn. WE won't discuss the silo lest I begin sobbing.
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Love your close up of the silo Daryl. At least you guys captured some pictures of it!ReplyDelete
Great photo Daryl..ReplyDelete
yes, very sad about the silo...read about it on cbw's blog yesterday...
This is a beautiful photo. I am so sorry the silo is gone. Hate to see such things disappear. What a great poem she wrote, too.ReplyDelete
I don't even know if I have a pic of it. Did you see Kate on her photo a day blog? It's also a beauty.ReplyDelete
That is a very photogenic old silo. A shame that it is too more.ReplyDelete
Well that's a heartbreaker. Glad to see you all have photos...ReplyDelete
So sad but lovely that you have a picture to remember it by.ReplyDelete
I love old silos...one by one they seem to disappear. So sad to hear this one is gone as well.ReplyDelete
Oh what a shame, what a shame, what a shame. I haven't read the original post yet, but just knowing this old girl is no longer standing is enough.ReplyDelete
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The case for HGH
Clean players and a level playing field are the ideal. But maybe the league's priorities are out of whack. It's time to make a choice: Do we want healthy players or a "pure" game.
Google Earth suggests Super Bowl XLI will be held on terra firma. From space, it shows that Dolphin Stadium sits on a patch of concrete six miles to the west of North Miami Beach and well east of the Everglades.
But just as so much of South Florida was built on swampland, the whole skull-rockin', bone-crushin', rump-shakin', cameras-clickin', fireworks-flyin', teammates-prayin', sponsors-payin' spectacle really floats on a teeming pool of man-made fluids: sweat, blood, spit, adrenaline, taurine, cortisone, tears. And if history is any guide, at least a few of the game's gladiators will repair to their homes in the ensuing days and resuscitate their smashed bodies with yet more fluid, this time human growth hormone, or maybe straight testosterone.
If Google Earth could zoom in to show the players' faces, we probably wouldn't see much shame on them. In the future there won't be much scorn on ours, either. Because it's likely that within a few years, expanded use of these drugs will become permissible, under a doctor's supervision and with checks in place to prevent abuse.
The NFL already lets some players use them (and no, we're not referring to the gaps in its testing program you could drive a stretch Hummer through). Behind closed doors, the league's drug adviser, John Lombardo, has granted waivers to players who have failed drug tests but then explained their medical need for testosterone. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello won't disclose names or reveal how many players have been allowed to pump synthetic hormones into their bodies except to say it's "a very small number."
In each case, he says, testicular disease was the medical rationale. It's a little-used exemption to the league's drug policy, but it's a precedent-setting one: Any player who can show that replacing hormones is critical to his continued health should be allowed to take them.
PLAYERS WITH testicular disease are not the only ones in need. At the base of the brain, encased in a small, bony shell, is a pea-size gland called the pituitary, which secretes hormones that help regulate everything from mood to energy level. For years, the gland had been overlooked in discussions of head trauma. But in the late 1990s, UCLA neurosurgeon Daniel Kelly noticed that many of his head-injury patients suffered from symptoms associated with pituitary failure: depression, fatigue, anxiety, poor concentration. His findings, which he published in 2000, have led to at least eight studies on three continents, which together involved more than 600 subjects. Each study confirmed the link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and a loss of hormonal function. The most common deficiencies in men were those of growth hormone, which occurred in 15% to 20% of cases, and of testosterone, in 10% to 15%.
Most of the subjects in these studies had suffered a moderate or severe TBI with some bleeding in the head during a car accident, a fall or some other nonsports-related activity. But, Kelly says, "if you look at the literature, there's a small but definite component of patients with milder head injuries who also lose hormonal function." One study, in Italy, found pituitary dysfunction in as many as 37.5% of patients with mild TBI, the same level of injury NFL players typically incur when they get dinged.
Kelly has plans to propose an evaluation of football players to the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes at the University of North Carolina, which is affiliated with the NFLPA. Another doctor who has done pioneering work in this area, Galveston neurologist Brent Masel, says of the potential study group, "I'd expect significant numbers would have decreased levels of growth hormone."
So far, nearly all of the medical focus on NFL head injuries has centered on concussions. Even players who get pulled from games rarely, if ever, get checked for pituitary damage. But researchers in Turkey, in a 2004 study, found growth hormone deficiency to be "very common" among boxers. The sample was small, just 11 top male amateurs, but the results were striking because the number of boxers who may have had deficiencies -- 45.4% -- was so much higher than that of the general population, which is usually less than 5%. More recently, those same researchers published findings from a larger sample, this time 22 kickboxers; 23% showed growth hormone deficits.
You may have noticed that football players get knocked around too. In fact, NFL research has found that collisions in its game pack more than punches delivered in a ring do. "Think of being hit by a small car that is really fast and by a large truck that is not as fast but has much more mass behind it," says David Hovda, director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center. "The damage from the truck collision is higher." Even on the college level, some collisions register at more than 120 G's, the equivalent of a severe car crash.
We begin to produce less growth hormone when we reach our 20s, and there is a slight drop-off every year until we're old and gray. Similarly, damage to the pituitary can make the victim feel like he's earned his AARP card prematurely. Markers, beyond those mentioned above, include loss of lean muscle and bone density, increase in fat mass and heightened risk of heart disease. Says retired Jacksonville Jaguars offensive lineman Jeff Novak, who stays in touch with many former teammates: "I know a lot of guys with several of those symptoms."
It's not the ideal scenario for a long, happy life, let alone for a pro trying to keep his job as he fights through injuries. "There will be a subset of people for whom hormone deficiencies do partly explain their problems," says Kelly, whose work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health. "Is that 10%, 25%, 40%? I don't know. But the issues these retired players are facing are all the more reason to look into it."
Brad Leggett isn't waiting for the final numbers: The former USC and New Orleans Saints center takes HGH prescribed by a doctor. He knows of other retired NFL players who do too. "I'm a huge believer in medically supervised use of growth hormone," says Leggett, who now co-owns a nutrition company in Atlanta. "The aches and pains I had from playing football, I don't have anymore."
AIELLO SAYS the league's medical advisers are following the research. But he also says they haven't been moved to act because they don't believe it applies to the head injuries seen in football or other sports. "We are not aware of any studies linking mild TBI and hormonal deficiency," Aiello wrote in an e-mail. So while Masel and Kelly agree that testing current players with a history of concussions for hormone deficiencies is a good idea, the NFL isn't nearly ready to institute it.
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There's another dilemma for the NFL if it finds proof that the game causes pituitary dysfunction: The courts are now taking head trauma seriously as a disability. In December, a federal appellate panel unanimously sided with the family of the late Mike Webster, awarding his estate nearly $2 million for benefits the league and union had denied him. The court agreed that the Steeler's brain was damaged during his 17-year career and that the injury continued to hobble him after his playing days ended, in 1991. He delivered a somewhat incoherent speech at his Hall of Fame induction, in 1997, and died five years later, at 50.
In Webster's day, no one thought to check the pituitary for injury. But even though the league still isn't willing to do so, there's nothing to stop a player from getting screened on his own. "Players need to pursue their rights, and one of those is to a second medical opinion," says former Bears, Dolphins and Raiders Pro Bowl defensive end Trace Armstrong, a past NFLPA president. And if a hormonal deficiency is confirmed, Armstrong is bullish on the prospects of the player's getting a waiver to replace what he has lost. "The drug policy does not preclude any treatment option," he says. In fact, rejecting such a request would only drive more drug use underground.
A Magazine analysis of the 2006 weekly injury rolls released by NFL teams found that 1,041 players suffered 1,836 injuries through the first round of the playoffs. Already that's more than a 10% increase over the totals from 2003, when the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review determined that the NFL's injury rate was nearly eight times higher than any other sports league's. And 56 players -- 11 more than last season -- logged time on the lists with head injuries, though that doesn't account for all the other head injuries that went underreported in the suck-it-up culture of football.
Already, athletes are discreetly acquiring hormones to recover from injuries. Some use them to repair tissue and cut recovery time after surgery, others to rebuild joints. Former Dolphins running back Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar, who led the league in touchdowns in 1997, has admitted to having had his knee injected with growth hormone late in his career to stimulate the creation of cartilage.
Any football player who wants to use these hormones can be pretty sure he won't get caught. To say the NFL's drug-testing system is more rigorous than those of other pro leagues doesn't say much. The four starters on the Carolina Panthers' 2003-04 Super Bowl team who reportedly received steroids and HGH from a rogue doctor were sniffed out not by the league but by the feds. And a recent New York Daily News report detailed off-season gaps in which players rarely, if ever, get tested. Underground chemists say the new generation of rub-on testosterone gels makes it just as easy to avoid getting flagged during the season. "You get busted only if you're stupid," says one chemist who has worked with NFL players. And unless the union agrees to blood testing, it doesn't look like a screen for HGH will be instituted anytime soon.
LET'S SUPPOSE for a moment that the NFL wants to adapt its drug policy to the realities of 21st-century medicine. Could it make the changes without turning the game into more of a chemical freak show than it may already be? Of course -- as long as it is willing to make the health needs of its players, as opposed to the dubious ideal of a level playing field, its No. 1 priority. Envision a transparent system in which players with confirmed, legally recognized medical conditions get advance consent to use therapeutic doses of hormones, with controls that ensure real doctors are making real diagnoses.
A good case can easily be made for HGH, which has been proved to add muscle size but, unlike testosterone, not necessarily strength. "You should be able to give growth hormone to someone who is deficient," says Joseph Maroon, the Steelers neurosurgeon since 1977. "It's the supramaximal amounts you want to avoid." Mark Gordon, a Los Angeles doctor who has prescribed hormones to retired NFL linemen, says players with waivers would have to agree to monitoring to ensure that their levels stay within the normal range. The league could help itself by ramping up its commitment to research and testing that weeds out drug abusers -- those seeking to enhance, not just enable, performance. This progressive framework has the added benefit of better preparing the NFL to negotiate other upcoming challenges, from genetic doping to the use of stem cells.
Radical as this scenario appears, much of it is already in play elsewhere. "What you're saying is exactly what we're doing," says Olivier Rabin, science director for the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Olympic testing overlord. "On the one hand is the fight against doping. But the health of the athlete comes first." International sports federations overseen by WADA have granted 15 therapeutic-use exemptions for HGH and 26 for testosterone.
The numbers ultimately could be higher in the NFL if it turns out that on-field head trauma is compromising more than a few pituitaries. It's a physical game played at high speeds, and no one -- not the players, not the league, not the fans -- wants that to change.
But that doesn't mean the way players are treated can't. If and when that does happen, we will cheer with a clear conscience the open-field hit that leaves a man as cold as our game day beer. Because we'd know there are effective -- and honest -- remedies.
Watch Outside the Lines put HGH under the microscope on ESPN, Jan. 21, at 9:30 a.m. ET.
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- Many of the price increases around the world during 2013 were the result of substantially higher trade of logs and improved lumber prices in a number a key markets, particularly in North America.
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anyone know where I can get a 5 way manifold and a 3 way manifold? i'v been looking and there all like $50 plus http://www.kegconnection.com/air-dis...-check-valves/ and I would still need a 3 way
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I tried building one to do it on the cheap....learn from my mistake and just spend the money and get it from any of the brew shops.
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this whole time I've been trying to figure out why exactly you would need a check valve. the only reason i can come up with is, if you carbonate with a high pressure then you serve, but this should never happen. I will just do a slow force carb and I should never get beer in my gas lines even without a check valve.
Also, if your tank runs out, any kegs connected without check valves could de-gas until pressure equalizes and beer completely goes flat. At least that's what I was told.
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Officers with the Lexington County Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) on Wednesday, March 12 seized a methamphetamine laboratory that was being operated at a home on Seleta Circle near Lexington. Officers arrested five men and one woman on charges that they operated the methamphetamine laboratory that officers found at the home.
Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said NET officers arrested Joe Cecil Clark, 19, of 407 Windmill Road, Gilbert; Charles Walter Huggins, IV, 24, of 2172 Lewie Road, Leesville; Lakisha Rachelle Shealy, 18, of 319 Pipeline Road, Aiken; Carl William Smith, 45, of 275 Seleta Circle, Lexington; Terry Wayne Smith, Sr., 59, of 275 Seleta Circle, Lexington; and Terry Wayne Smith, Jr., 34, of 275 Seleta Circle, Lexington.
Officers arrested Clark and Shealy on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine, possessing methamphetamine and simple possession of marijuana, Metts said. Officers arrested Carl Smith, Terry Wayne Smith, Sr., and Terry Wayne Smith, Jr., on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and improperly disposing of waste from a methamphetamine laboratory. Officers arrested Huggins on a charge of manufacturing methamphetamine.
Clark was being held on Thursday, March 13 at the Lexington County Detention Center on bail totaling $10,620, Metts said. Shealy was being held on Thursday at the county Detention Center on bail totaling $3,620.
Huggins was being held on Thursday at the county Detention Center on a $5,000 bond, Metts said. Carl Smith, Terry Wayne Smith, Sr., and Terry Wayne Smith, Jr., each were being held on Thursday at the county Detention Center on bail totaling $10,000 for each man.
At about 4:22 p.m. on Wednesday, NET officers went to a home at 275 Seleta Circle in order to investigate a tip that methamphetamine actively was being manufactured at the residence, Metts said. Carl Smith, Terry Wayne Smith, Sr., and Terry Wayne Smith, Jr., live at the home. Officers found one reaction vessel at the residence that actively was being used to manufacture methamphetamine.
Metts asked anyone with information about illegal drug activity in Lexington County to call the Lexington County Sheriff's Department at (803) 785-8230 or CrimeStoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC. Citizens also can provide information anonymously by accessing the Crime Tip link on the Sheriff's Department web site (www.lexingtonsheriff.com).
NET is comprised of officers from the Lexington County Sheriff's Department, Batesburg-Leesville Police Department and Lexington Police Department, Metts said. The sheriff and municipal police chiefs implemented NET in 2001 in order to enhance drug enforcement in Lexington County.
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Habanero Powder?
Hi all,
Grew habaneros for the first time this year (In Connecticut) Had great luck as literally I have hundreds of habanero peppers. They were coming in so fast, that I made a bunch of hot sauce, and still have a lot of leftovers.
I decided to try to make habanero powder for chile and other foods. I took the seeds out and halved them and they are currently on my dehydrator. (I read they need 12-14 hours).
After that I just need to grind them up and store them? Does the powder ever go bad, or can I store it with other spices? Thanks!
Personally, I grind my peppers in small batches. I don't know how much it matters, but, my thought process is the more surface area you have, the more oxidation - therefore, not as fresh.
I have kept / used dried peppers for a couple years with no problem.
It takes me quite a while to use up my powder. I put it in small(used)spice shakers and add a few popcorn kernels to the containers to break up any caking before I use it. Just give it a good shake(with the lid on...don't ask me how I know that)before sprinkling on your dish. I do the same thing with (bulk)sea salt that doesn't have anti-caking agents.
This response is probably a little late since you posted a few days ago but I'll throw in my two cents anyway.
I concur with fiedlermeister regarding the powder loosing pungency over time although vic01's freezer suggestion would extend the life of your powder. Although I've never tried it noinwi's popcorn kernel suggestion makes sense... I'll try it myself.
OK, I'll add the following observations based on my experience.
- peppers are dry enough to grind when they snap when bent (usually 18-24 hours in dehydrator for habs)
- small coffee or spice grinders work best for a powder consistency
- fill spice jars with ground pepper and place in a cool dark spot upside down for a few days.
- if no condensation forms after 2 or 3 days the powder is dry it's OK to store in a spice cupboard. If not, bag and freeze.
I run my pods through a food processor to get it chunky so my spice grinder has an easier time making the fine powder.
I usually freeze the chunked pods and grind small amounts at a time when I make a rub or whatever.


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And I'm off again, this time to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Blog posts later (including finishing the ones about the United Arab Emirates). See you in a few.
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The day was here. It was only less than 2 months before that I'd purchased the tickets…
Xmas Day 2014, the middle of the night. It was 04:00 and I wasn't sleeping well for some reason. I decided to get on social media and I saw what I thought was a joke – glitch fares for different flights going to select cities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. I hesitantly checked. Lo & behold, the prices were real. I nervously clicked the "submit" button. I was so excited that I sent a text to my close friend saying (something to the effect of)
"Listen, I just bought a ticket to the Middle East for (insert low dollar amount here) round-trip. When you get up, text or call me and let me know if you want in. It'll be my treat."
I dozed off, then the phone rang a little after 08:00 or so. My friend called to say
"Are you kidding me? HELL YEAH I wanna go!"
I laughed, got back on the internet and to my surprise, the glitch fare was still there. I bought her ticket while we were on the phone, then said
"Merry Xmas, Happy New Year, happy birthday, Happy 4th of July, don't ask me for shit for at least a year." :-|
I then tried buying a ticket for my oldest nephew, who'd told me that he has wanted to visit the Middle East (Dubai specifically) for a long time, but the website said he was too young (15 at time of purchase) to have his own ticket. So in other words, I should've bought his ticket with mine. (He came over later that day for Xmas lunch/dinner and told me that he'd have missed a lot of school if he went. I'll plan around his school vacations next time.) So I said to my friend
"Since I can't bring (oldest nephew), I'm thinking about who else I can treat…"
I knew my uncle couldn't go, and my aunt is too fickle & fidgety to sit on an hours-long flight. So even though I wanted to take them, I knew it'd be a no-go. The first person that came to my mind after them – my ex-stepfather. Although he and my bio mother divorced ages ago, he has been a good presence in my life. (I still call him my stepfather.) So I called him and he was on the road with his wife, driving down South for Xmas vacation. I told him what was up, he immediately said "Okay", and I bought the ticket.
"Merry Xmas, Happy New Year, happy birthday, Happy Father's Day, Happy every holiday." :-|
I was so excited, I didn't sleep for about 24 hours after that. :-|
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This is a New York Times opinion piece making the case for more Black Americans to consider expatriation. As someone who has been there and done that, this wasn't a surprising read to me and is mostly relatable.
No country is a utopia, let's get that straight. But it's easy for me, a former expatriate, to understand the reasoning behind this opinion piece. America is in a tie, in my opinion, with Australia for being the most racist/prejudiced country on the planet. Any deeper-thinking and feeling person (who happens to be Black American) would want to leave a country in which we were enslaved in the past and still fighting for equality in the present.
Enough of my jet-lagged rambling. Take a look at this, and feel free to comment.
New York Times opinion piece – The Next Great Migration http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/opinion/sunday/the-next-great-migration.html?smid=pl-share&_r=1
I'm back stateside since Thursday morning 02.26.2015. I'm dealing with severe jet-lag (happens anytime I go overseas), so it'll take me a few more days to return to normal and type a proper blog post (or two) about this trip. But in the meantime, here's a taste of what it's like out there. I'll be back soon.
United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi part 1
Good day, readers. By the time you see this blog post, I'll be in the air on my way to Chicago, Illinois… en route to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates for a week. I've held this in for 2 months, and I was about to burst. :-| I'm so grateful to finally get back to traveling, and I'm so excited about this trip. I'm going with 2 other people, and they're probably even more excited than me (LMAO).
Expect a few posts about this trip sooner than later. Until then, see you later. :-)
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How was your 2014 (travel- or otherwise)? What's your 2015 looking like (travel- or otherwise)? Do you have a word for 2015? Feel free to comment here and/or check out the original blog post from D'NALI.
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I don't have to go over in detail what 2014 was for me; if you've read this blog, even occasionally, you'll know that 2014 kicked my "youknowwhat". Although I'm coming to terms with the facts that — even in difficult moments, God is present and that every experience is an opportunity for growth, I'm not going to lie — I'm glad to see 2014 gone! That said, for the last couple of weeks in that year, the word that's been laid on my heart for 2015 is: investment. At first, I wasn't sure what it would mean for me, but as I thought about it more, some things became clearer.
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Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. –The Talmud
(NOTE: this is a long one, with a bit of cursing, disclosure, no punches pulled, and vulnerability. Don't like any of that? Don't bother reading any further.)
Picture it: October 2013.
Aside from a few pieces of luggage filled to the brim with whatever I could carry, I returned home with almost nothing. The life I was trying to build in the United Kingdom was snatched from me.
I'd been placed on unpaid leave on August 9, 2013 – in contemplation of dismissal – by a shady employer that misinformed me about my work visa, among other things. Because of the employer, I accidentally overstayed my work visa by about 2 months by the time I received notification from the Home Office on August 8, 2013. I then had to report to the local immigration office like a criminal – once per week initially, then once every 2 weeks. I was evicted from my beautiful apartment in October by what turned out to be a shady landlord (I'll never forget, Gary Sheppard of southeast London). I'd been his tenant for over 3 years and even offered him my security deposit, but money over everything, right? For 3 weeks before leaving the United Kingdom, I stayed with someone who insisted that I stay with her after my eviction. (I won't mention her name here, but can't thank her enough.)
I asked the male DNA contributor to please help me get a ticket home; there was no real response. Things were so bad that an American colleague took the male DNA contributor's number from my phone to call and explain how bad things were. (Even though I knew it was a waste of time, she insisted.) Male DNA contributor begrudgingly bought a ticket, didn't accept my thank yous, and treated me like shit. After almost 3 months of no contact (didn't even check to make sure of my safe arrival to the U.S.), the male DNA contributor e-mailed me – not to say "hello" or "how are you?", but to tell me that "you owe me (insert U.S. dollar amount here)". No exaggeration – that's what the e-mail said. When I responded that I was living from couch to couch, the male DNA contributor stated that I was exaggerating and need to look for work to pay back the money, along with some other really fucked up things that I can't remember off the top of my head. Male DNA contributor would've known that I was looking all day every day, including weekends, at employment opportunities, had there been any effort to check on me. Don't worry… I washed my hands for good.
The female DNA contributor isn't much better. (Boy… if there's a higher power, he or she sure knows how to pick the people whom they want to create new human beings. :-| ) Complete narcissistic waste of time & energy. Don't worry… I washed my hands for good a while ago. At least I don't discriminate, right?
Another person from England, whom I'd known for 10 years, insisted that I pay her back $50.00 I owed her in spite of full knowledge of my situation. Yes… $50.00. I was so stunned that she had the nerve to ask me for money she knew I didn't have, that I just responded with "not a problem". I gave her the bit of money (and boy, was it just a bit) I got from the former employer about 5 weeks later and after that… *crickets* - no "hello" or "how are you?" or even "f*** you" after that. I waited 1 year for her to say something to me on any form of social media or technology… still *crickets*. I was there for her during some really difficult times (including an abusive relationship), before and after my move to England, and she threw everything away for 50 U.S. dollars. Don't worry… I washed my hands for good.
At one point, I don't think that even my aunt & uncle – who are like real parents to me – realized the gravity of my situation. And I'll admit, I was angry at & frustrated with them for a bit before my return home. But once they realized how bad things were, that was it. I began staying with them before Xmas 2013.
I forgot to mention that since I accidentally overstayed my visa because of the former employer, along with reporting to the local immigration office, I was banned from returning to the United Kingdom for 1 year. Once I gave up all chances of returning after being shafted by recruitment agencies, I gave up trying to get back to the country and sat out my 1 year ban.
And so many other painful stories of betrayal and outright dismissal, from so-called colleagues, friends & relatives, that I could recount since I hit my rock bottom. (I'm not sure if those people deserve my energy, though.)
But then there are people such as:
I know I've forgotten some names, but I hope those people know my heart.
I think things are beginning to look up.
I sit here, typing this with tears in my eyes. (A few of 'em even fell.) Some feel like sad tears, but more feel like grateful tears. For those who left me when I needed it most, farewell. For the rest of you, I'm eternally grateful. I thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart.
Little by little, step by step, day by day.
I don't blog about stuff like this (except when I did it for myself). But this is a friend of mine, and when I was going through my personal hell in the United Kingdom and back here in the United States, he and his wife went above & beyond to help me. (They even still have my barrel of stuff.) I wouldn't post this if I thought it was bullshit; I only post with honesty & integrity, and people who know me in real life can vouch for me.
Please, if you can, find it in your heart to help him (and his family). And feel free to pass this link along; they'll appreciate any help they can get. Thank you.
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Taken on: Dec 20, 2008
Location: White Sands National Monument, Alamagordo, New Mexico, USA
Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi F stop: F/7.1 Exposure: 1/160 sec. Focal length: 41.0 mm Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16) Metering mode: pattern (5) Dimensions: 2400×1600 Shutter speed (Tv): 7.3
103 views as of 1/20/10
in New Mexico
in The Great Outdoors
and in in Photography Challenge Group
Top 10 in Sand, sand and sand challenge in Photography Challenge Group
Amazing white sand!! Great capture!!!
Thank you, Blair. This was my first visit to White Sands National Monument. It won't be my last!
– Terence Russell
This is beautiful Terence. I love the limited DOF with focus on the Yucca and the brilliant white sand dunes in the background. The sand is so beautiful.
Thanks, Sharon. I had passed near White Sands National Monument many many times on the belief that there would be too little contrast among bare white dunes to be photographically interesting. I was unaware it was vegetated and found out differently. I have already returned to shoot yuccas and white sands at sunset.
– Terence Russell
Thank you.
– Terence Russell
Wow! Sharon! I am so proud and flabbergasted that one of my images is being featured in this fine and wonderful group!
– Terence Russell
I use to live in Las Cruces and went to White Sands all the time. I sure do miss it. Thanks for sharing this photograph.
Thanks for the kind comment! I am pleased I was able to bring you some joy and memories of your own visits to this wonderful place!
– Terence Russell
Great image, well done and congratulations on being featured.
Thanks, David. I was pleased it is being featured!
– Terence Russell
wow, beautiful! one of my most favorite places, excellent work!
Thank you, Cyn. It is a magical place!
– Terence Russell
Nov 13,2009 wonderful capture
Wow, thanks! It is always such an honor!!!!!
– Terence Russell
Fantastic capture Terence, very well done, not so easy to find the right exposure with this mostly white background! Many congratulations on your well deserved features!
Thanks, Detlef, my friend. I took many a picture there and some did not turn out too well. Of course, you'll never see one of those! ;)
– Terence Russell
Excellent work, beautiful presentation!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!
Thank you, Vicki. After several years of practice, I seem to know exactly what I want in my viewfinder!
– Terence Russell