Abandoned

Earlier today during an interview with CNN's Candy Crowley, sitting President George W. Bush admitted that he has recently "abandoned Free Market Principles to save the Free Market System".I wonder if he came to this conclusion before or after the Market crashed several times this year?Catch the segment on the clip below.Sources: CNN, Huffington Post, Think Progress, YoutubeSubscribe to my feed

Austin, TX - (ZPRYME NEWS) – 12/16/08 – Twenty-eight managers/directors/consultants were asked to respond to a question about why innovative ideas get turned down in organizations. All of their responses were tabulated and then a frequency of response was used to generate a list of the most popular reasons.  The resulting list (with frequency) is as [...]

This is a sad story. But it's simplistic to blame the abandoned children solely on poor mental health care. While the statistics are stunning about the incidence of mental illness in these children, another problem involved is the insufficient income of the parents, likely an inter-generational history of neglect and abuse, as well as the stigma of asking for help. Iowa Independent The state of

A forest with one tree.Rainbow: Red.An ocean in one dropOf water. One Belief: Peace.Beginning to feel boundless.Revealing exactly what? Onedream differentthan it was moments before.One fantasy. One soul.A Heart, balancing for one true love.We've weathered A few storms?It doesn't seem that way.Daybreaks that come and go.We ConfusedOne for another.One song, drowning in moonlight. Ahaystack, looking

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You remember Cola, the pitbull that was left in as abandoned house for about a year, then when he was rescued from that situation, neglected and emaciated, he went to a shelter where, after his owner was convicted, he faced almost certain death? Well, due to the diligence and caring of a number of people and [...]

The strange vision of an abandoned plane on top of 2 abandoned tanks at Bagram Airport.coordinates : 34°55'56.74"N 69°15'29.54"Egoogle mappictures sources : 1

Located just east of the Cape May Point Light House in what is now Cape May Point State Park, the bunker was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers during the early months of the Second World War.It contained heavy artillery and was manned by a rotating detail of naval gunnery crews, who spent hours on end scanning the horizon for enemy surface ship

Kustommghia photos of decaying cars are excellent, have a look at his flickr gallery.The best are probably the photos of trees growing through the bumpers, those cars have been untouched for decades...fascinating as an Egyptian tomb.pictures sources : 1Artificial Owl recommends:

This Beriev BE-6 sea-plane converted to a monument is located in te city of Myrnyi in Ukraine.It's unsure if this plane is actually abandoned, but it doesn't seem to be maintain anymore even as a monument. I really like its frozen ghost appearance. frozen just on the take off. At a certain point the plane fell of its base, and the look of it was even more pathetic.I found some information on this

Sometimes, there just aren't enough words. Or the right ones. I grasp for them, send feeble prayers heavenward, but my heart is too heavy to speak more...My husband is an orphan. Father Robert went to be with the Lord on Friday, October 31st, 2008. It was quick, not altogether unexpected, but a blow nonetheless. We immediately packed our van with children, including our precious one-week-old Gideo

Three-day-old Baby Bear, a chocolate Labrador puppy was surrendered Saturday to the Humane Society of Harrisburg after his mother abandoned him. Workers bottle fed the tiny puppy and kept him on a warming pad until they decided to see if one of the new shelter mothers would accept him and care for him along [...]

Promyshlennyi is a small city located in Vorkuta area. I can't find any valid information on its history. It is said that the city was abandoned more than 20 years ago, possibly before the end of USSR. Any information about the city history is welcome.coordinates : 67°36'19.54N 63°54'29.73"Egoogle mappictures sources : 1 2 3

Between 1939 and 1952 National Oil Proprietary Limited extracted oil from shale at their Glen Davis works in the Capertee Valley approximately 120 miles west of Sydney. The plant was built using much equipment salvaged from the closed Newnes shale oil works nearby.Although regarded as strategic for Australia's wartime oil supply, the venture was plagued by technical, financial and political diffic

I love this picture by photographer Andrew Moore, it looks so much like it's taken in Africa. In fact, and it's quiet surprising the location is in the far north-east of Russia on the Sakhalin Island.coordinates : 53°34'52.34N 142°55'59.93Egoogle mappictures sources : 1 2Artificial Owl recommends:

Opened in 1856, this smallpox hospital on the southern tip of Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island) was part of a multitude of public institutions to care for New York City's unfortunate and destitute.The island sits between Queens and Manhattan, and was easily accessible by ferry; it was home to a prison, insane asylum, and other similar facilities.As of 1872, an annual number of 7,000 patien

The Safeguard Program was a United States Army anti-ballistic missile system developed in the late 1960s. Safeguard was designed to protect U.S. ICBM missile sites from counterforce attack, thus preserving the option of an unimpeded retaliatory strike.Sentinel was developed but never deployed. Safeguard was planned for several sites within the United States, but only one was completed. Until the G

Sea-Arama Marineworld was an animal/entertainment park in Galveston, Texas, for 25 years. Opened in 1965 as one of the first ocean theme parks in the nation, it featured more than 25 acres, including a 4 acre ski lake, and a 50 foot long, 200,000 gallon aquarium.In 1988 it was the number one tourist attraction in Galveston, until the larger more flashy Sea World Park opened in San Antonio, and con

The lead mine of aouli is located in a remote region of the Atlas mountain in Morocco. The site is quiet impressive, located at the bottom of the deep canyon of the river Moulouya. The mine was founded by the french (Morocco was then under partial french control), the lead production would be exported to the north of France. The remote mine operated from 1936 to 1980's and closed when the price of

Air travel has become a major part of our society, with industries and individuals depending on air transport for their livelihood. But have you ever wondered what happens to the artifacts of our airborne culture when they’re no longer needed? In many cases, they’re simply abandoned and forgotten. (images via: Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields) Military [...]

The abandoned Corringie Settlement is at Wilson's Patch, 65km north of the remote mining town of Leonora. Half way between Leonora & Leinster in the Gold Fields Region of outback Western Australia, Australia.In the mid-1980s Victor and Joan Isaacs moved to Isaacs' birthplace at Wilson's Patch, a bleak and stony terrain 80km north of the remote mining town of Leonora. The couple wanted to set u

Have a seriously feeling of being abandoned..... Just what is going wrongly with me or my surrounding or whatever they might be... Better not expecting much.... Maybe I should just go back to my old-self.... Why want to hurt myself so much and create troubles for myself...

This monument has recently been everywhere on internet, but very few pictures, or info were available. Finally after some research I found it's location and sculptor. This very hypnotic giant sculpture is located in Podgaric, Croatia. Created in 1967 by sculptor Dušan Džamonja, it's dedicated to the Revolution in Moslavina.A bit more info about renown sculptor Dušan Džamonja (Macedonian: Ду

This type of story first started making headlines several weeks back and now I truly believe that the publicity surrounding the media stories has driven more desperate parents to seriously consider it. I'm left thinking....was this loophole left in Nebraskas' law intentionally or by accident ? The Safe Haven laws have been around for awhile and although a law with good intentions it appears that

Tonight I remembered my long forgotten oldest blog and visited it.Pitas, the blog provider, still keeps it online. My last post there is dated Saturday, August 23, 2003, which is almost five years and two months ago. Unfortunatelly, I can't remember my password there and I forgot which email I used for the registration.Anyway, I'm glad Pitas doesn't delete my blog because this website that I link

Tonight I remembered my long forgotten oldest blog and visited it.Pitas, the blog provider, still keeps it online. My last post there is dated Saturday, August 23, 2003, which is almost five years and two months ago. Unfortunatelly, I can't remember my password there and I forgot which email I used for the registration.Anyway, I'm glad Pitas doesn't delete my blog because this website that I link

(images via: divenorway, hyperfish, vigidal and sanjuan) Like trains, ships once played a much larger part in the worldwide economy than they do now.  Their reach has been significantly reduced with the advent of quicker and more efficient modes of transport.  As a result, there are amazing shipwrecks and abandoned ships, boats and docks and [...]

With McCain's announcement yesterday that he was shuting down his Campaign operations in Michigan and redirect the efforts to Pennsylvania, Zeke wonders if Nevada should also be added to that list.Of course McCain canceled his appearance this week to Reno, as did President Bush, but the general lack of skill of the current political organizers in the State, makes me wonder if McCain hasn't written

Across most of the developed world, railroad was once king. The installation of train tracks across America was a momentous occasion that made wide commercial trade possible from one coast to the other. Today, railroads have fallen from their previous glory days. They’re still used, but not anywhere near as much as [...]

(Thanks in part to contributions by urban explorer and photographer Jon Dubar) Abandoned buildings, properties and places take on remarkably different aesthetic character and are treated differently from one culture to the next - particularly in Asian nations where beliefs about the cultural roll of architecture or the whims of a dictator can vary greatly. From [...]

Gamasutra has discovered that the canceled project in 2007 from Ensemble Studios was indeed a Halo MMORPG, which supposedly began development sometime in 2006. Three separate teams were setup to come up with their own prototype of the game, two of which were aborted pretty early, but the concept design of the remaining prototype has [...]

(Part One in an Eight-Part Series on Abandoned Vehicles and Buildings) Like abandoned buildings, abandoned vehicles can have a profound effect on those who see them. They represent the sadness of losing those comforts that we’ve come to rely on, and the end of someone’s dream. Every abandoned car was once a brand-new machine, [...]

Highgate tube station is a London Underground station on Archway Road, Highgate, not far from Highgate Village in north London.The present low-level station was built in the late 1930s as part of London Underground's Northern Heights plan. It is just part of the planned station but the advent of the Second World War postponed parts of the project and eventually led to its cancellation. The low-lev

I received a copy of Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas the other day, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, and then I wrote a review about it that you don't have to read if you don't want to. It's true.Schmutzie's review of Cringe.I really did like it, by the way. It is quite good.

(Check out our complete collection of 100+ Abandoned Buildings, Places and Property.) Something about the vibrant colors, stark contrasts and vivid depths of an HDR approach lends abandonments to HDR photography like few other subjects. Beautiful HDR pictures bring dead places and long disused spaces powerfully to back to life. Photographers like Julie Berlin (whose work is [...]

The building was originally the city's main post office. A tunnel between the warehouse and the Michigan Central Station across the street shuttled mail brought in from all over the country by train. After a few decades of use, the post office moved and the Detroit Public Schools purchased the warehouse for their main depository of school supplies and records. As many as 75 to 100 people worked th

This is an abandoned oil drilling rig that was operational in the late '60s and early 70's. At the centre is the main power unit, a V16 Caterpillar engine. Erected by hopeful entrepreneurs long before the National Park was actualyl proclaimed. Today, it provides a perfect nesting area for birds during the breeding season.coordinates : 20°53'24.44"S 13°26'50.10"Egoogle mappictures sources : 1 2 3

The Futuro house was a product of post-war Finland, reflecting the period's faith in technology, the conquering of space, unprecedented economic growth, and an increase in leisure time. It was designed by Suuronen as a ski cabin that would be “quick to heat and easy to construct in rough terrain.”The end result was a universally transportable home that had the ability to be mass replicated and

(Images via: wili, thejourney1972, ahmedrabea and parksy) Like buildings and property (or even entire towns and cities), vehicles go abandoned in all shapes, sizes and types. In some cases disaster strikes. In others, changing technologies render old designs obsolete, leaving majestic airplanes and giant steamers to rust and gather dust. These twenty-four abandoned land, sea and air [...]

Since the Katrina debacle, people and organizations have tried to gear up and prepare better to care for pets and animals during emergencies. I’ve read story after story of shelters and others working diligently to make sure pets are safe, giving them some place to go, giving advice to what to do. It’s [...]

George seeking out the aftermath of the housing crash.

Todays photograph is of an abandoned entrance to a building in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I tried to imitate a process I use to use years ago where I shot slide film then developed it as a negative. It was an unpredictable process. Today with Photoshop and Lightroom the same process can be imitated with complete control but still with enough of the serendipitous to keep it fun.LINK

Whiteford Lighthouse is located off the coast at Whiteford Point near Whiteford Sands, on the Gower peninsula, south Wales. It is the only remaining cast iron lighthouse surrounded by the sea in the United Kingdom. It was built in 1865. The tower is 61ft high and made up of eight courses of cast iron plates. The light was extinguished in 1921.coordinates : 51°39'09.18"N 4°15'03.90"Wgoogle mappic

I am a bit late to report this ~ it appears that at some time in late July a pride of lions took down an abandoned elephant calf in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya. The poor baby was apparently abandoned or lost by its herd and was left alone in the thick brush where it succumbed to the big cats overnight. Just goes to show that macropredation is more an act of opportunity than necessit

Michigan Central Station (also known as Michigan Central Depot or MCS), built in 1913 for the Michigan Central Railroad, was Detroit, Michigan's, passenger rail depot from its opening in 1913, when the previous Michigan Central Station burned, until the last Amtrak train pulled away from the station on January 6, 1988.The unfinished building began operating as Detroit's main passenger depot in 191

Just giving a Christian non-profit some link love Abandoned - Orphaned. Check them out! Specifically you might check out this article on Child Soldiers or Children of the Dump about the conditions for Children in the Guatemala dump.

Dadipark was opened in october 1949 in the belgium town of Dadizeele. It was until it closed in 2003 one of the oldest amusement park of belgium. Since 2003 nature is slowly invading the deserted park, closed after an accident.coordinates : 50°51'10.12"N 3°05'44.80"Egoogle mappictures sources :X-itUrbextext source :parcs disparus

Kennecott, also known as Kennecott Mines is an abandoned mining camp in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for several copper mines. The camp and mines are now a National Historic Landmark District administered by the National Park Service.In August 1900, two prospectors, Jack Smith and Clarence Warner, spotted a green patch of hillside that

The other evening there was a high-speed chase on I-205 and I needed to go to the Wilsonville Costco.  Most arterials had traffic overflow and since I know all the back roads, I decided to go a route I barely take and haven’t been on in quite a while. As I was driving through a part of [...]

The Nome-Council road heads 72 miles to the east, about half of that on the shoreline. It turns inland at the ghost town of Solomon, an old mining town with an abandoned railroad train known locally as the Last Train to Nowhere (the remains of the Council City and Solomon River Railroad).The engines were originally used on the New York City elevated lines in 1881, then were shipped to Alaska in 19

By Daniel SchweimlerBBC News, Buenos Aires An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing him safely alongside her own new puppies.The country's media are calling him "the miracle baby".He was born prematurely to a 14-year-old girl in a shanty town outside the capital, Buenos Aires.She is said to have panicked and abandoned the boy in a

The Logan Roundhouse - aka Stewart's Folly is likely the oddest structure in the small Ohio town of Logan. The design, lacking in flat surfaces or corner, has a very low wind resistance. Concrete walls further enhance the durability to withstand extreme weather such as tornadoes or hurricanes. This building was to be a prototype for others along coastlines and Tornado Alley.The shell construction

Dayton, Ohio (ThaLunatic Daily) -- Erica Bailey, a 22 year old Dayton, Ohio woman was arrested on felony kidnapping, abduction and child endangering charges after grandmother stopped by Bailey's apartment and found her 3-year-old daughter abandoned - gagged with a sock, bound and locked in her bedroom.A grandmother stopped by Bailey's apartment to bring her little granddaughter some love Thursd

The City of Cape Town is auctioning 75 abandoned vehicles on 27 August. From trailers and trucks to motorbikes and Mercs. There’s even a Jag. And a Leyland Morris. Most with registration numbers. So many questions… Why have they been abandoned? Have they been reported as stolen and nobody’s joined the [...]

I guess this is somewhat of a random post but I thought id share in the eerily 1990's-ness of Mike Tyson's (ex) mansion, complete with monologue front gates! It also looks like it is buried deep in the hills of some remote town in Russia, but it’s actually in Ohio USA.....check it out by clicking on "Read more"....You can view loads more pictures (and commentry) at Illicit Ohio: Click! Click! Cl

I guess since tattoos is a part of man’s world, the folks at the concert couldn’t accept the fact that a chic would have so many tattoos on her! The tattoos she had were ‘Thank you God’, ‘Force of Nature’, and ‘Warrior’. The guards wanted Ivy to take off all jewelry items and lower the profile to a K-Mart shirt. Amazing! The guards probably don’t know how to treat a lady in the f

I just finish reading this interesting story about Mike Tyson’s former home. I don’t want to spoil it but let me just say it’s defiantly an interesting read. *More pictures at the link*

Check out these pictures of Mike Tyson's old abandoned mansion somewhere in the Cleveland area. This is crazy to think that this place is just sitting there empty. I'm sure this place is a hobo's dream. This site also has some pictures of Cincinnati's abandoned subway system.

Mike Tyson Mansion: Big mansion, which may now still be owned by a business man named Paul Monea.So with that said, what are you seeing here. What you are seeing is the former home of Boxer Mike Tyson. Tyson has not owned the home since the late 1990s. The home is actually owned by a business man name Paul Monea... actually, its owned by the Monea Family Trust, and currently, it may or may not be

I was called into an apartment building lobby last Thursday by a lady at the main desk, who urgently wanted me to look at a wounded bird that one of the housekeeping ladies had found near an exterior door.  Since I have a reputation for knowing what to do with, or who to call over [...]

Technorati Tags: free kibble,abandoned pets,dogs,cats,animal rescue,donate,Mimi Ausland              Check out this story of Mimi Ausland, a 12 year old girl from Bend, Oregon who smartly leveraged the cool idea behind www.freerice.com (answer a fun trivia question to trigger a food donation) and came up with a fun and easy way to help feed dogs and cats abandoned as a result of the

Technorati Tags: parody,humor,news,malaysia,politics,malaysiakini I just received a very peculiar news clip from the future, apparently sent by somebody living in the 30th century! Here is the peculiar news clip: Monday July 14th 3008-The Stuck Online Malaysian archaeologists yesterday discovered remains of an ancient fortified make-shift fortress under the ruins of the fallen Parliament.

A guest post by Paul Canning. The UK Prime Minister is currently in Japan lecturing people about doing more to oust Robert Mugabe. At the same time his government is doing everything it can to oust the opposition to Mugabe from the UK. This week 11,000 Zimbabwean refugees received letters asking them to return to a country described by the same government as undergoing a campaign of terror orche

One image from the terror campaign: MoreCross-posted from LGBT asylum news also on Wardman WireThe UK Prime Minister is currently in Japan lecturing people about doing more to oust Robert Mugabe.At the same time his government is doing everything it can to oust the opposition to Mugabe from the UK.This week 11,000 Zimbabwean refugees received letters asking them to return to a country described b

There are many reasons why cities are abandoned; some, like the ghost towns of the American West, have become tourist destinations while others have been condemned or simply forgotten. These abandoned cities of the world share an eerie, haunted quality that is part of what makes them so fascinating.The Kowloon Walled City was located just outside Hong Kong, China during British rule. A former watc

There were several topics in my mind which I was considering blogging about, but have abandoned them later due to various reasons. This post is a quick intro to few such topics which would have appeared as a post in this blog but unfortunately didn’t/couldn’t.  1 Blogging vs Movie making                 I thought of comparing blogging and movie making, and highlight the simil

This photograph of an abandoned, stuck-in-a-time-warp  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory was taken near Bishop, California. Visit this link to see more cool photographs of the laboratory and some of its internal machinery. Related Posts:Bottlecaps Photo Set on FlickrCrimes of Carelessness - Funny Retro PSAMaster The Internet - Funny Retro Video Abandoned UFO Houses in SanjhihBeautiful Busines

In the riceboy renaissance days in the nineties, rice boys and gurls used to rule! The weapons of choice were the much revered EK9 and DC2 type-Rs, Evos, STIs and the sick-ass R34 GT-Rs. The legendary B16A/B16B engines with close to 160 stampeding horses and the torque of 2 fit turtles were the toast of most ricers. Legends and myths abounded, on how a Civic SiR with a B16 thrashed a 5 litre Camar

Chicago resident Sean Parnell is a kind of local celebrity–He is well known for his Chicago Bar Project, a website that reviews practically every notable bar in Chicago. Perhaps less well known is Parnell’s work to combat urban blight. While taking the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership class, Parnell decided to take on the problem of abandoned buildings and [...]

I posted a report earlier about a box of kittens abandoned in a store parking lot. After rescuing them, they were not doing that well eating solid food. We had taken in a pregnant mother cat a few weeks before and she had delivered. She (Tao as we fondly called her) adopted the babies right away. She makes no difference in the adopted little ones and her own litter. We can learn a lot from Mother

Vietnamese authorities say they are mystified as to who owns a Boeing 727 which has been abandoned at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport. A set of "L" Plates and Fluffy Dice are also still waiting to be claimed by the pilot as well as the bemused 200 passengers on the flight.

A Royal Khmer Airlines plane has been parked on the tarmac at Noi Bai international airport since early May 2007, said Vo Huy Cuong, head of the Viet Nam Civil Aviation Administration’s Air Transportation Department. The Boeing 727 - 200 has been sitting at airport for more than a year after being grounded for a technical problem and abandoned. The plane was abandoned only a month after Royal

Las Vegas, Nevada (ThaLunatic Daily) -- Jason Rimer may just prove that it's possible for a parent to abandon a mentally disabled 4 year old in a scorching hot vehicle for 17 hours - and still avoid child neglect charges.The body of little Jason Rimer was found by his 14 year old brother on Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. after the 4 year old was abandoned inside the family SUV for 17 hours, follow

By JIM FITZGERALD Associated Press Writer WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) _ A car abandoned on a bridge with the phrase ”Suicide is Painless” scrawled in the dust on its hood is registered to a hedge-fund swindler who was supposed to report to federal prison, state police said Tuesday. Investigator Bruce Cuccia said suicide has not been established, [...]

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In a January interview with Newsweek, Ross Perot ripped John McCain on several issues, including covering up evidence there were still live POW's in Vietnam. "There's evidence, evidence, evidence," Perot claims. "McCain was adamant about shutting down anything to do with recovering POWs." read more | digg story

This weekend I will describe one of my most unusual walks yet - beginning at the subway stop at 86th and Lexington, then east on 86th to Carl Schurz Park and Gracie Mansion, then down to the Queensborough Bridge along the East River, followed by a tram ride to Roosevelt Island and soon after, a visit to the Smallpox Hospital at the south end. Finally, I end up at Bloomingdale's.

"HARRY Potter is being blamed for a rise in the number of owls being abandoned at an animal rescue centre. Staff at Flintshire Wildlife and Pet Rescue Centre say fans of the J K Rowling's boy wizard have bought owls as pets, only to find they can't cope with them. Co-owner of the rescue centre, Joy Pierce Jones, said: "Harry Potter was definitely one of our biggest downfalls. "Peo

Bokor Palace Hotel and Casino,Cambodia: There is a small French town in Cambodia that was lively throughout much of the 20th Century but is now completely abandoned. Built in the 1920's, it became a partying hot spot for backpacking travellers during the 1960's. The centerpiece of these parties was the Bokor Hill Station, a hotel which now stands abandoned. Tourists interested in taking a major tr

やっと消えたFinally...it's gone. This Monday a car abandoned across the small stream from my house has at last been taken away. Loaded on to a truck by crane and driven away fully five months after it was abandoned and ticketed on November 19th, 2007.The stream, by the way, marks the boundary between Nagoya city and Nisshin and it seems Nagoya city authorities move a little quicker on dumped

Cool pics of an abandoned futuristic looking housing development found within the forests of Taiwan. The locals claim it's haunted.

Afternoon light shines through this abandoned hallway giving it some life. Such a shame that everything is so trashed argh but being where this building is you kind of expected the locals to trash it at first chance. I wish to do more urban exploring but Hobart doesn’t have much.

The Lebanese government has been forced to grant considerable concessions to Hezbollah in order to secure an end to nineteen months of conflict that recently escalated, threatening the country with another civil war:The Doha accord calls for the immediate election as president of General Michel Suleiman, the commander of the Lebanese Army. General Suleiman has been the favoured consensus candidate

DOWNLOAD MOVIE Actors: Hille Anastasia Marie Jones Roden Karel Nicolai Ganev Valentin Andrei Misharin/Kolya Kaidavosky Djukelova Paraskeva Marie’s Mother Reig-Plaza Carlos Anatoliy Arsov Kalin Bearded Russian Patriarch Man ‘1966′ Smoleva Svetlana Bearded Patriarch’s wife ‘1966′ Panayotova Anna Bearded Patriarch’s daughter ‘1

Mosquito fish (Gambusia sp.) are small live bearing freshwater fish that are native to Southern and Eastern parts of the United States in addition to the Gulf of Mexico. Since the little fish is hardy it has become established in many parts of the world via biological pest control programs. Mosquito fish as their name suggests feed on aquatic mosquito larvae. Mosquitoes (family Culicidae) can b

Huge barns along the road waiting for that perfect day.

I was out in the country on Saturday, down around Leiper's Fork, at a friend's farm. After walking around with eight dogs through dozens of cows, we drove around looking at properties. For the rest of the week, I'll post photos of abandoned buildings and such we came across.This shack sits just beyond the fence line of her property.

Do you have an abandoned pool nearby? Is there a foreclosure down the street that has a pool and no one will take care of it? Do you have an old pond nearby that is a great place for mosquitos to breed?  Try the Mosquitofish!   The Mosquitofish feed on mosquito larvae. They are not the prettiest fish you’ve [...]

Microsoft has abandoned its blockbuster bid to acquire the internet giant Yahoo! after a fresh takeover offer of almost $US50 billion ($53.4 billion) was subsequently rejected by its target as still too low. The about-face followed a meeting in Seattle on Saturday morning between Microsoft’’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, and the chief and co-founder of Yahoo!, [...]

Exploring around a old abandoned building awaiting to be demolished. A little scary but fortunately we were able to lock ourselves in so once in there wasn’t going to be anyone else bothering us until we left which settled the nerves slightly. For this shot I would only turn my torch on once I was in [...]

Terrific post over at ProTraveller… Also see Geoff Manaugh’s Hotels in the Afterlife © Justin for materialicious, 2008. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us digg Who's linking ? Technorati BlogPulse Google Want more on these topics ? Browse the archive of posts filed under All, Architecture and Interiors, Art and Photography.

Every day, three million people use the 268 stations and the 253 miles of track. But what about those stations that have long since gone, which history has neglected? Which stations got left behind?read more | digg story

This picture of a futuristic-looking ‘UFO’ house was taken at an abandoned resort in Sanjhih, Taiwan. The photo is part of an wonderful, must-see gallery on Flickr. Link (Thanks, Emma) © 2008 JazJaz.net. This RSS Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Related Posts:Beautiful Business Cards Gallery on FlickrBeautiful Underwater Picture of a Nembrotha Kubaryana Beautiful Sunset and Sunrise Scenes - Flickr GalleryX-Ray Art Gallery Of Albert KoetsierGreat Art Photography Gallery - Floating PeopleHigh Speed Photography Gallery - When Milk met Coffee

Hiking the Road to Ruins: Day Trips and Camping Adventures to Iron Mines, Old Military Sites, and Things Abandoned in the New York City Area…and Beyond (Paperback)By David A. Steinberg Buy new: $18.95$12.8933 used and new from $11.79 Customer Rating: [...]

Look at this tiny little money. It was rejected by its mother. Why would a mother reject that little cutie?Unless its mother isn't a monkey. If she's a teenager from Slough, then fair enough. And what must the father look like!It's a Diana monkey and it's a member of the endangered West African guenon species.And do you know why's it's endangered? That Prince Phillip and his plot to have it killed.That's the last time I buy my zoology books at Harrods.

The current law in Russia that deals with children who are abandoned allows foster parents who accept a child to literally, become part of the staff of the orphanage. This means the foster parent can draw upon medical and psychological services of the orphange while taking care of a child. The orphanage staff becomes a [...]

For whatever reasons, some bloggers like myself stops blogging and maintaining their blog while many may never return to their blogging interests, I’m here to share what major impacts I faced - with my own hosted Wordpress Blog after 10 months away from blogging. Here are the highlights ranked based on their impact in my [...]