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The bay windows are beautiful. Great details in the brickwork. Money (or lack of it) drives these decisions of demolition. The cost of refurbishing these grand old buildings up to code would be mind boggling. Pluming, electrical, asbestos removal, new windows, insulation, the list goes on and on.
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This would scare the s**t out of me. The thought of dropping through a rotten floor into the abyss is my worse nightmare. I salute your bravery Mr Motts.
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Cold, stark, and lifeless. Think of all the patients & staff who looked out those windows over the years.
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Ooo, this room looks like it's not long for this world. The floor & ceiling are pretty unstable. This state of advanced decay has been beautifully captured by Motts.
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i have actually worked in a room like this. it was in a jail, and i was there to repair some broken lights. the officer told me this is where they would put their violent drunk offenders until they either passed out or sobered up. not a very big room and not very soft either.
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the pattern of the floor tile makes i appear as if the squirrel died while laying atop a piece of chicken wire laid on a flat white surface.
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This is beautiful. Love the bay windows. Perfect wallpaper candidate.
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Creepy lock.
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Love the colors. Beautiful.
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Awsome Pics, Love The Tombs.
Ephemera: Cemetery Safari: Baltimore's Sinking Stones
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Yes these are pictures of a sleep study.

Your interpretations of it are comical. I do think the photos have a cool factor, even for a seasoned sleep tech.

The top portions are obviously photographs of the patient every 4 minutes or so throughout the night.

the bottom portion includes some EMG, EEG and possibly EOG. (muscle activity, brain activity, and eye activity)

You see the #s 48, 49, 50...these are what we call "epochs" or 30 second pages of sleep. The smaller vertical lines are each 1 second.

It would appear the patient is actually awake and there is no sleep present. The ink splatter is suggestive of a fairly older "sleep machine" Its reflecting a gross body movement that has occluded, at least partially so the rest of the channels

What I find interesting is that there are no wires attached to this person. Makes me think this photo was simply some kind of marketing tool. Sleep Studies are notorious for having many wires and if this is showing any kind of EEG/EOG we should be seeing at least 5 "leads" coming from this patients head/face.

After blowing up the "distrub" photo, the first one appears to reveal the common "squares" used to paste electrodes on. It does appear there is some kind of machine on the upper right of the photo. Perhaps my marketing tool impressions are wrong.

Seems to me the guy is awake and just moving around.

As far as patient rights go.....Is the guy identifiable? can you make out his face? could he prove its him? Do we know for sure its a guy and not a girl? Sure its arguable this persons rights have been violated, but might be a tough one to prove

thank you Bill Clinton for the security machine known as HIPPA. Help this guy he needs you now! hahah.
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Excuse the spelling, I am exhausted.
Ephemera: Cemetery Safari: Baltimore's Sinking Stones
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The graves and head stones sinking are coming from lack of vaults/and or/ grave robbing with refilling of dirt, we own a cemetery, a large one we require vaults, you will get some settling after a few months , up to a year depending on weather and the condition of the grave when the body is buried, we have had to pump water out of the grave after the family has gone up to an hour, then the casket is placed in the vault, the vault is sealed then lowered into the grave, which is then filled with dirt. There is no such thing as air tight or water proof in the ground, grave robing in my state carries a sentence of ten years, we have perppetual care, which means we take care of the graves along with making sure they remain safe from grave robers who still exsist.
Ephemera: Cemetery Safari: Baltimore's Sinking Stones
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Beautiful woodwork around the doors & arch.
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It's been said that when a building, any building, becomes devoid of people, it dies. No mater how much money you throw at it in the attempt to preserve it, they simply die & decay. This is a particularly sad case because of the beauty and workmanship seen here.