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During the summer of 2011, the facility management team at Melican Middle School in Northborough, Massachusetts, began the process of replacing the school's existing boiler system with new, higher efficiency equipment. The existing system was comprised of two 4.5 million Btu/hr boilers, which had been in place since the school was constructed in 1973. The goal was to replace this aging, inefficient equipment with a new system that would significantly reduce operating costs for the 126,000 square foot school. The on-site engineer chose to specify a commercial condensing boiler system. The installing contractor, Aalanco Service Corporation, suggested Lochinvar's CREST® Condensing Boiler, which had been introduced to the market earlier in the year.
After removing the old units, the Aalanco team, led by Mike McLaughlin, installed three 3 million Btu/hr Crest Condensing Boilers. Based on the location of the mechanical room, they chose to vent the system through the roof. Due to delay, the venting material had not yet been delivered at the time of the boiler installation. McLaughlin and the team leveraged CREST's venting options to provide a temporary solution, horizontally venting one of the boilers. This venting flexibility eliminated the need to bring in a temporary boiler trailer.
"The installation went very smoothly thanks to all of CREST's venting options and the simple setup offered by the SMART TOUCH control", said McLaughlin. "After hearing good things about CREST, we were really excited to see it in action with this initial installation and it exceeded our expectations."
In the first year following the installation, the energy savings from the CREST Condensing Boiler totaled approximately $35,000.
"Since this first experience, we've completed numerous additional CREST installations and each one has been a great success," McLaughlin said.
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Hello, I thought that I would submit this regardless of it being late ( I thought I had an extra day or two somewhere). To take the shot I used an olympus e-510. The ISO was at 400 with at shutter of 1/13 and an Fstop of 3.5. This was taken before a massive snow storm. -Curran Craig
I used a panasonic DMC-FX150 point and shoot camera. I had to shoot it in manual mode because I was shooting into the sun. This is after a rainy day in Los Angeles. The shot is looking toward Century City (The water is behind it). -Jim Hale
Photo of Dolly Sods Wilderness Area in West Virginia. Canon 40D with 17-85 lens; Exposure 1/800; f20; iso1600 -Brendan Lilly
Shot with a Casio Exilim EX -FH20 with 400 ISO, 1/20s, f/2.8 -Andrew Underwood
The Brooklyn Bridge. As my day job I shoot reality TV shows and while filming at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, I had a quick minute to take this still shot of the Bridge. Shot with just a little ole' Canon 450D Powershot (that I carry everywhere on my hip) at a mere 5 megapixel resolution. I've printed this at 20x30 with help from some of the enlargement plug-ins for Photoshop. Amazed at the prints that can be achieved with little point and shoots. Who needs to spend 5k on the big guns ;) Proof again that the best camera is the one you have with you! -John Sutherland
Saw this memorial set up by the side of the road & thought it was adequately depressing. Couldn't decide which shot to submit, so I sent 3... Shot handheld with a Canon Rebel XS with EF 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 lens in aperture priority mode. -Eric Kornblum
This is a photo of some dead, dried plants in my front yard taken at night time. Canon 500D/T1i, Canon 10-22mm @ 16mm, f4, 400 ISO, 10 sec exposure. -Henry Lee
160th of a second, F6.3, Nikon D90. It is a tree near my house, and the leaves all fell off in one day, after the first freeze. -Chad Estes
"Snowy Street" Yashica 635 TLR; 1/500 sec. @ f/5.6; Kodak Tri-X ISO 400, 120 film -Keith Derickson
Shot with a Nikon D40 with a Nikkor 18-55mm lens in B&W mode. Slight brightness/contrast adjustment in Adobe Lightroom. Focal Length:38; Aperture: F/4.8; Exposure: 1/1600; ISO:200 -Brian Dougher
D60; f/9; 1/40sec. shutter; ISO 400; 135mm Focal length. I know squirrels are not very depressing, but this was the only squirrel without a partner that i saw and upon review, i found that its ear was torn up! I'm sure this squirrel is having a very grey, depressing winter... -Matthew Staerk
Attached is an entry for Gray Winter. This photo contest was a good excuse to get outside (so cold) and do photography. It was shot with a 40D, EF-S 17-55 Lens, ISO 100, and in Canon's Monochrome mode. The location was in the hillsides of Silicon Valley, nearby Christmas tree vendors and a great stretch of mountain driving. -Rex Feng
Florida, as pretty as it can be, is just as depressing as anywhere else in black and white. Shot on a Nikon D90 in M mode, in-camera monochrome using a Nikkor 18-105mm G ED VR lens at 25mm. Manual mode allowed for use of ISO3200 for no good reason since it was a perfectly bright and sunny day around 3PM, 1/1000 exposure at f/11 letting in a little less light than desired. Aside from importing and resizing in Picasa 3.0, the picture is identical to what came out of the camera — no post processing needed. -Richard Foshee
Camera: Canon EOS 40D; Lens: EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM; ISO: 400; Exposure: 1/8000. Subject: Winter after California Wildfires -Devin Workman
I shot this photo at Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia on December 6th with a Canon Rebel XSi using a 18-55mm lens and the no flash setting. Editing was limited to cropping and a slight vignette around the edges. -Bryn Karcha
Nothing special here- just a lucky shot. Winter isn't in full swing here yet, so I went for cold empty beach instead. The settings were as follows: Nikon D5000; Prime 35mm lens; Focal length: 35 mm; Aperture: f/2.5; Shutter: 1/3200 s. This was shot at Heckscher State Park on Long Island. -Tom Pagano
This picture was taken while I was laying on the floor in the middle of the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee. The camera was just an old Nikon Coolpix S230. I just liked this pic, so I thought I'd give it a shot :) -Nick Montes
Canon 5D MarkII; Canon 17-40mm F/4 L USM Ultra Wide Angle Lens; Manfrotto 055X PROB Tripod; Manual - F/11 - ISO 400 - 30 second exposure. There was a little bit of haze in the air with the bright moon. This allowed the barren branches show up in the foreground. It was nice to see a few stars make it into the shot too. -Zac Mansfield
This was taken in the parking lot of my office one snowy morning this week. Nikon D40, 35mm @ f/1.8, 1/30s, 800 ISO, B&W mode, no post-production. -Sam Martin
Nikon D90; 50mm Nikor Lens; 1/160; f/4. From Pittsburgh, PA -Neal Rosenblat
Taken from anza borrego desert state park (as winter as it gets around here=] ). My camera is a nikon d90, and this shot was taken handheld with a tokina 28-70 f2.6 at f22, as wide as it goes (28mm) with 1/125s shutter and ISO200. i actually have no idea how to take b&w pictures on camera so i used lightroom2, also used it to change the width to 800, but no other changes. i hope that doesnt disqualify me :P -Sukhyung Shin
Florida is a place many go to spend their Winter, enjoying the warm weather and sunshine (usually on the golf course or beach). Around the corner from our place is a golf course, seen in this picture, which has been closed for several years now and has become overgrown. There's some beauty in the natural landscape which has conquered what was once a manicured garden, but today, on an unusually dreary day, it looked especially sad. Camera: Casio Exilim EX-Z750 Point & Shoot; Info: B&W in-camera with only minor contrast post-processing; Exposure: 1/200 sec at f / 2.8; Focal Length: 7.9 mm; Date: Dec 6, 2009 4:59pm EST -Miki Moro
Equipment. Camera: Sony A200; Lens: Lensbaby 2.0; Camera Settings: Shutter: 1/640 sec; Aperture: f/2.0; ISO: 100; Foc Len: ~50mm; Focus: Manual... very manual I went out with the Lensbaby because I wanted to exaggerate the "Wintery" feel, which to me, at least for this challenge meant "soft and dreamy" and the Lensbaby does just this. Subject is some sort of evergreen outside Scott Hall on NCSU's main campus. Minimal post processing was done in Lightroom 2.0 and Photoshop CS3 which was mostly upping the contrast and such. -Shawn Richardson
Nikon D5000, Nikkor 18-55mm VR, Exposure: 1/20, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 55mm, ISO: 1600. Shot when I arrived early to a job in Bellingham, WA. The moon was still visible as the sun was rising. Getting to work in the dark and headinghome when its dark is depressing, but I least I have a camera to play with! http://www.flickr.com/photos/sethstoll/ -Seth Stoll
All 3 were shot with a Canon 7D, Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 lens. Very light exposure correction or cropping may have been applied, but they are otherwise unadulterated. Dead Potted Plants: (JonathanFranklin2.jpg): 1/1600, ISO 100, F/2.8, 39mm; The dead potted plants depress me the most. They were left at a farmer's market among other neglected flowers and trees that never sold. -Jonathan Franklin
Paris Playground; Panasonic GF1; Lumix G 20mm; f1.7; ISO 100; 0.6 seconds. This is along the Seine in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. I rested my camera on the seat of another seesaw and set the timer. Maybe not the "greyest" shot, but the end of this week saw the first blue skies in about a month here, so I settled for a night shot. -David Forsythe
Shot next to the entrance of a Helsinki night club in the wee hours this weekend. Not sure if having snow would make this less depressing. Canon EOS 7D + Sigma 30mm f1.4, 1/50 sec at f/1.4, ISO 2500. -Janne Kytömäki
My name is Wesley Duffee-Braun from Asheville, NC. These were shot with a Canon 5D, 400 ISO, picture style Monochrome. 17-40L lens. It has been a wet, windy and chilly few days here in the mountains and was perfect timing for this challenge. -Wesley Duffee-Braun
I used a Panasonic dmc-fs7 unfortunately. Of course I used the B&W setting, iso at 400 with varying exposures. I waited for the snow to fall the night before, so thank you mother nature for that extra bit of "winterness" that otherwise would have been lacking. The clear skies though I could have done without in regards to the "gray" that was the point here. Then it was merely waiting for a proper time of day, dusk, to eek that extra bit of winter out of it. -Brendan Babaian
Here's a shot taken on a typical rainy Swedish night, December 6th at about 10pm. Weather doesn't seem to get any better than this this year I'm afraid. Equipment used is a Nikon D90 with a 30mm lens, +0.3 Exposure and an ISO of 200, Shot is taken at "night time" here so a tripod was used to stabilize the camera. -Gustavo Curiche
Camera: Canon Rebel XSI; Lens: 50mm fixed USM; Tripod; Software: Touch-ups done in Lightroom v2.5. Aperture: F8, Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec, ISO: 200, hand held shot, shot while sun was going down, wanted the texture of the statues to really stand out as well give it that artsy spin, while still having that depressing background of winter, minor edits in lightroom -Stephen Eckert
This is a picture of the abandoned Penn Station light rail stop in Pittsburgh. I took this handheld. I was facing the sunset, so it took quite of bit of tinkering to get the lighting right. Equipment/Settings: Body: Sony A-100; Lens: Sony DT 3.5-5.6/18-70; Focal Length: 18mm; Aperture: F3.5; Shutter Speed: 1/80th sec. ISO 200 -Ryan Hays
Hi here is a picture I took today after our recent snow over here at West Point. The picture was taken using an Olympus E-P1 and here are the stats: Lens: Voigtlander 40mm f/1.4 Nokton Classic; Exposure: 0; Aperture: f/4.0; ISO 200; Shutter Speed 1/160 -John Bonds
I went home to my parents this weekend in celebration of St Nikolaas' birthday (the local saint). In between storms outside and unwrapping gifts inside I took these two shots, one of a bunch of ducks trying their luck crossing the pond and the other of the last leaf still attached to a tree in our garden. Pretty pretentious (the leaf at least) and hopefully depressing enough to your taste. Ducks: f/1.8, shutterspeed 1/1600, iso-100 on a canon eos 350d with 85mm f/1.8 lens; Leaf: f/2.5, shutterspeed 1/640, iso-100 on the same canon eos 350d with 85mm f/1.8 lens. -Berend-Jan de Bruin
This is one of the churches in my village of Olsbrücken, Germany, shot using my Canon Rebel T1i with the kit 55-250 lens. Trying to use the camera one handed while holding an umbrella with the other due to the rain.. Found this spot a few weeks ago when the leaves were still on the trees, so I figured I return to see what it looked like now. The rest of the perticulars are: Canon EOS Rebel T1i; EFS 55-250mm lens; ISO-800; Aperture F/4; Focal length 65mm -Bill Griggs
Santa Monica Pier. 30 second exposure using two ND filters, on a Canon 5D Mark II, using a 24-70mm F2.7L lens at 40mm focal length. Shot at ISO 200 my mistake (intended to shoot it at ISO 50). Extra long exposure was used to give the ocean a creepy surreal quality. This image not manipulated in post at all, and straight from camera (well, I exported it from the raw file as a .jpg using Canon's Digital Photo Professional). -Patrick Salter
Taken with a Canon Xsi, Canon 55-250 lens, mounted on a tripod. I had to use manual focus because the clouds were partially obscuring the moon, giving it that hazy look. Focal Length: 250mm; Aperture: 7.1; Shutter Speed: 1/20; ISO: 400 -Kristi Evans
Nikon D 5000 w/ Nikkor 55-200mm lens at 102mm; f 4.5 @ 1/1000 sec exposure bias .67; Technique: I leaned over, composed and took the picture and went into my warm house. -Bob Kleinhans
Canon Digital Rebel XT; Canon 28-105 L IS Lens; ISO 200, 67 mm, f/7.1 @ 1/500. I sat on the ground as woman gave me an unfriendly look and walked by. -Joe Russo
This is a shot of bare trees in a park against overcast sky, taken at night with only the park lamppost lighting. I knew that my camera was condemned to getting a grainy shot, so I shot at ISO 800 to increase the graininess, trying to create an artistic grainy/posterized effect like I used to get in a darkroom in years past. I'm glad to see that the grain survived being reduced to 800 pixels for the contest. Also per the contest rules, it was shot in B+W on camera, then just a little lightening up with the "exposure" slider in iPhoto, but otherwise no post processing. (The original full-size is also a nice base for crazy manipulations.) Consider it serene or scary, bleak or beautiful, I hope you like it. Canon PowerShot SD790 IS, f/2.8, 1 sec (braced against a tree and holding my breath!). -Pete Puleo
I really tried to come up with something that you would need to hide the sharp objects before you look at. there was a snow here in town so I snapped a few pictures before it all melted. canon eos t1i; f/20; 1/1250 shutter spd; 18 mm focal length; ISO 3200 -Brett Winston
A view across the Concord River in Lowell, MA in the late evening on Tuesday. The picture was taken with a Canon T1i at ISO 100 using a 28mm lens at f/8 with an exposure of 10 seconds. -Emerson Speyerer
Equipment: Olympus E-620, Sigma 18-50mm F/2.8 Macro lens, polarizing filter; Settings: 20mm (40mm "full frame" equivalent), ISO 200, f/4.5, 1/160 s; Scene: my front steps after the first real accumulating snow of the year. In keeping with the challenge, I shot using the camera's "Monochrome" mode and composed using live view, which showed the image in B&W. This was the first time I've used Monochrome mode and it definitely helped me see the scene differently. I shot RAW so I made a few tweaks in Adobe Camera Raw CS4, namely reducing the contrast, increasing the exposure, and adding a little bit of a vignette. -Peter Lee
I used a D40 with a prime 35mm. ISO200. Shot in RAW and Black & White and played very little with the contrast and brightness on the first shot. Cant wait to see what other people have come up with. -Tudor Cucu
Shot in the Glasgow Necropolis (Scotland) in a foggy day with my Canon EOS 450D, 30mm, 1/8s, f/4.5, ISO 800 using the 18-55 IS lens. And yeah, that's depressing... -Louis Hoefler
Tried focusing on capturing the snow before it hit the ground. For the first picture: Canon Rebel XTI; 18mm, F-3.5, 1/2000 Sec; For the second picture; Canon Rebel XTI; 46mm, F-5.6, 1/6000 -Javier Miranda
For this shot I used a nikon d40x with a 50mm f/1.8 lens. I used an exposure of 1/40 (.025 seconds), an aperture of f/3.2, and an ISO of 100. Hope you enjoy my photo, thanks for holding these contests! -Skyler Burkhart
shot with the my touch 3g using the FX Camera app set to toy camera, bw, medium vignette. shutter speed, aperture and exposure not recorded -Michael Borders
Date taken: 12/5/09; Foggy morning on the river in Snohomish, WA; Camera: Nikon D3000; Lens: AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm VR kit lens; f/10, 1/250s, ISO 100 -Megan Michaelis
Canon 7D with 24-70mm 2.8 lens; ISO 320, f 2.8 1/40th sec @24mm shot from car window while at stoplight; Shot in RAW and converted using Adobe Lightroom 2.5 -Stewart Smith
This shot was taken using my D200 and a 28mm 2.8D lens, at 1/90 second, ISO 400, @ f/2.8. I just framed the whole tree, did a square crop using Lightroom, and adjusted some levels to give it more pop. -Rodolfo Doleski
"The scene some know all too well. Celebrating holidays on a bar stool. A landscape of liquor bottles ready to wash away the winter blues...or at least obscure them..." Nikon D90; 18-200 Nikkor Lens; 63mm; f4.5 1/25; ISO 640; 2009 December 6: 1:18 am; Udagawachou, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan -Scout
This was from my iPhone 3GS and run through TiltShift Generator to make it black and white (saturation and contrast adjustments). Thanks. -Daniel O'Morrow
Great Subject for this weeks contest. I love to shoot with an eye towards processing in B&W. For these shots of a lonely tinman mailbox in a desolate plowed under field I used a Nikon D70 that has been modded to shoot Infrared by a company called Life Pixel. The lens used was a Tokina 12-24. I shot these at f5.6 at ISO 200. All were at 1/125th of a second and were hand held since I was standing in the middle of a county highway. I choose f5.6 to allow for a hand held shot but still allow for some depth of field. I find with the IR-modded camera, the shallower depth of field adds to the effect. If you want to see some more IR shots I did earlier (outside the contest dates) check out: http://www.greyoaksphoto.com/foggyam2/index.html -Don Jeske
I took this photo just before the submission deadline. No snow had fallen here in Edmonton all November but 30 cm fell the day I snapped this shot. This photo was taken from my balcony as the snow began to cover the Christmas lights. I used my Canon 40D, with a 28-135 IS USM lens at 35 mm, F/4.5, 1.6 sec., ISO-200. -Ryan Kane
I couldn't decide, so here are my 4 favorites. All photos were taken near my house in mid-Michigan, with an old Pentax Optio S4i. No special settings, just the "black and white" digital filter setting on the camera. I'm not even an amateur photographer :-) -Pete Tirrell
Camera- Hasselblad XPan; Lens- 45mm; Yellow filter; f8 @ 125th; Film- HP5 shot @ 320 Processed in PMK PYRO; Scanned- Epson V750Pro; Locatin- near Homan and Division. This is a project I started shooting a couple of years ago and continue to shot every fall/winter. When Chicago turns gray I still want to shoot. The traditional landscapes of Gray Chicago are too depressing for me, so I decided to focus on the textures of winter in Chicago. I tentatively called my project "the Streets of Chicago", its quit literal. -Andrew Ballantyne
Well I hope this counts... This was outside in my garage..... Winter depression at its best on my workbench...BTW I love GIZMODO! Spec. Cannon xsi. Sigma EX 30mm 1:1.4 dc hsm hoya filter -Jaron Kaczmark
Canon Rebel XTi, Canon plastic fantastic 50mm lens/Sigma 10-20mm and an umbrella to keep the snow off. ISO400. -Andrew Holmes
iPhone 3GS; Brought it into Photoshop only to drop the saturation. No other changes made. -Michael Falk
Equipment: Nikon D300 with 60mm Nikkor lens at 400ISO; Adobe Photoshop CS4 (just to convert to black and white colour profile) Other information: Some of the charred remains of what was supposed to be Thanksgiving dinner. Used fluorescent white balance with incandescent lighting to achieve a more washed-out background, in addition to the narrow field of focus. -Cedric Thiel
Virginia had a rare December snow on Saturday, so I went out and took loads of beautiful black and white nature shots with a blanket of snow. After reviewing them, however, it seemed the snowy scenes weren't in the depressing, gray spirit of the contest. So, I drove across town to the mall. Although the snow was still falling, the frosting on the trees in the parking lot had melted, and they seemed to weep as they stood amongst the SUVs. This was sufficiently depressing! I used my Nikon D40 with a Nikkor 55-200mm VR lens @ 120mm, f/4.8, 1/40 sec, ISO-200, JPG, then I picked up the contrast a bit in Picasa. -James Maxwell
canon g9 Both images shot with same settings: F 2.8 1/160 no cropping, a bit of de-noising, a bit of sharpening...that's it. shot from my apartment window at 77 and Broadway -Thomas Taddeo
A dead, frost covered flower still with yellow petals (though you can't see it here of course) growing in a crack in the asphalt near a railway crossing. Not quite as depressing as requested. The day was excruciatingly beautiful and cheerful and because of lacking time I didn't manage anything better. I had lots of fun though, having hardly shot anything in B/W before. Thanks :-) Canon 450D, Canon EF 28mm USM lens, 1/320, f/4, ISO800 -Staffan Thomén
F 2.8; 1/200; iso 100; exp bias +0,3; Canon G10 -Daniel Gall
Nikon D80 with Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm lens; f/5/6; 1/25 sec; ISO-100; No flash -Melody McClure
Nothing really special to say , All shot on a Canon A720IS, Free Hand, Full Manual Mode, ISO:80~200, Various Shutter Times 1/60 ~ 1/400. -Bazooka Joe
the picture was taken with canon 50D with a lensbaby composer, with an plastic optic and the wide angle attached to it, so at 30mm, and a 2.8 aperture, ISO was 200, and shutter speed was about 1/320. it wasnt snowing when i took this shot or anything, just cold and windy. this is my first time submitting anything to you guys even tho ive been reading gizmodo for over a couple years now, and i thank you for taking the time, umm, i guess if there is any other questions, or anything at all, please dont mind asking. -Jordan Mudrack
Canon Powershot SX20 IS; ISO 200; 1/4 Second Shutter Speed -Rod Serna
Newbie photographer and my first submission(s)! (I was unsure if 2 submissions was acceptable or not).
Both pics were shot with the same setting. Just change in focus. Shooting Summary: Camera: Nikon D40; Lens: 18-55mm kit lens; ISO: 1600; exposure time - 1/6 sec; fstop - f/5.3; flash: none; Technique: With a dark environment and not wanting to use the flash, I turned up the ISO, slowed down the shutter speed and just set the camera on the bar for steadiness (I don't have a tripod yet). Summary: Not "outdoors nature" but definitely "city life" nature. NYC financial district bar (Whitehorse) at 9:40 pm on Friday night. There were about 3 other patrons in the bar. Two were sitting at the bar, and ordering a glass wine and onion rings. Happy holidays. -David Weissler
Hi - here's my entry number two. Details are the same as the first - shot with a Sony alpha 100 from the Queen Anne area of Seattle, looking south towards the city, and this was taken a little while later, close to 10 AM. The sun had stopped shining through the clouds for the most part, leaving bleak, disheartening swaths of grey at the top and bottom of frame, with a more putrid yellowish grey where there was some light coming through. I didn't do anything to this but resize it, though it seems my camera tends to push colors into the warmer range in low light. Thought it might fit well in the contest, since this looks like it could be used as some anti-pollution promo image, and makes me want to slit my wrists the more I look at it. It's beautiful here in the summer, though! -Keith Huggins
Picture taken on Lido beach in NY. Using a Nikon D60 with a standard 18-55 mm lens. auto settings. -Stefan Kazmi
Shot this at a lake by my house, shot in black and white and cropped with Lightroom. Camera: Nikon D90; Lens: Tamron 17-50mm 2.8; ISO: 200; Shutter Speed: 1/80; Focal Length: 34mm.
If I had more time I was going to stage myself setting up a noose with my wife trimming the Christmas tree in the background. This one is only slightly less soul crushing, but the day I took this was BLEAK. I was walking my dog (who was fine with her full length fur coat on) and my fingers were numb. I shot it with a Panasonic Lumix FZ35 at ISO 400. The aperture was set at f/5.6 for an exposure of 1/400 of a second. -Luke Lavin
—- "Deflated Santa Pooh on a Snow Starved Lawn"—- Canon T1i; Canon 50mm f/1.8 prime; 1/1600 sec; F 1.8; ISO 200; And a quick run through Picasa to convert to B&W jpg from RAW -Eric C
All shots taken w/ my Panasonic FZ-20, originally in color and converted to B&W. no extra enhancements other than turning up the contrast. -Kevin Oppenheimer
Unfortunately I'm being forced to use the excuse of "the best camera is the one that's with you" until i pick up a 7D for myself. iPhone 3GS - All settings automatic, slight crop and gray level tweak in post. I was walking to work when the sight of the morning sun cutting through haze wrapped skyscrapers stopped me in the street. -Kyle Jones
Taken by Dean Myers in Katy, TX on Friday, December 4th. Canon PowerShot S90; f/4.9, 1/50th sec., ISO-125, 35mm focal length. My technique was I sat in my car and pointed it out the passenger side window. -Dean Myers
Herewith the characteristics of the shooting and the attached picture:- Canon 7D - Lens Canon 18-200mm EF-S - ISO 3200 -Juan Jimenez
I shot this image from the overlook at Ecola Park looking south down the Oregon coastline. Here are the stats: Nikon D300, 18-200mm VR; 1/3200 sec, f/11, 200 ISO. Desaturated in Photoshop, then dropped the shadows to achieve a nice black silhouette in the foreground. I would normally use Lightroom to make initial edits, but this one was quick and dirty since I was at work. -Troy Wilkinson
Taken from my deck on the corner of 20th and South at around 10am, there where low cloud which gave the buildings these top down shadows. I used a Nikon D60 w/ kit Nikor 18-55mm lens at f/8, 1/250, ISO 100, with a 48mm focal length. -Brad Fitzpatrick
Shot in West Sacramento CA 12/3/09; Nikon D50 set on app priority 2.8. Nikon 10.5mm 2.8 Fisheye 200 ISO. Photoshop to enhance Contrast and Bright also cloned out a power-line that bisected the tree toward the top and burnt in the corner flare a bit. -Adam Gonzalez
Photo taken with PENTAX K10D, f/22 @ 50 mm, 1/90, ISO 400, No Flash -Benjamin Rogerson
This was shot with a holga (internal frame removed) so technically this is 2 clicks of the shutter in one frame. It is my version of nature landscape, but winter none the less. -Spencer Schutz
The camera used was a Canon 450D with the 18-55 kit lens. 1/640, f3.5, ISO 100. It was a sunny winter day in Amsterdam, Holland. The place where the shot was taken is in Durgerdam, a little village just outside of Amsterdam where i used to live. The sun was all ready very low at the time the picture was taken at about 3 PM. -Jim Lemmers
Canon Rebel XSi; Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6; ISO200, 1/100, f7.1 @10mm; Red filter. B&W using Aperture 2. Slight sharpening. -Christian Bohrt
This was shot with a Nikon D200. 100 ISO, 50mm, f/1.8 @ 1/400th. Walking to the office, it was the first frost I saw this year in Seattle. It was so cold out! Colder than my ex girlfriend's soul. Happy Holidays! -Tyler MacLeod
This photo was shot Dec 3rd using a Nikon D40 with the 18-55mm kit lens at . The photo was cropped in Gimp and the LOMO effect script (available as part of the FX-Foundry: http://gimpfx-foundry.sourceforge.net/) was used to give it a bit more of a dreary look. -Heath Petty
Perfect timing on this contest! All images are shot with a Canon 1DS & the lens used was a 80-200mm with the exception of shot #2 for which I used a "Lens Baby" and shot #6 which was shot with a 17-40mm. Pretty much straight up B&W conversion. #'s 1, 2, 5, 6 & 7, I created a B&W layer and erased out some areas to let muted color through. #'s 1, 2, 3, 4 & 7 were taken halfway between Cincinnati & Columbus Ohio, on a miserably cold damp foggy day. The others (# 5 & 6) were taken in Cincinnati. Thanks! -Christian Dohn
These were taken with a Nikon D50 with an 18-55mm lens. -Katrina C.
Taken with a Canon G11; Used a tripod; Program Auto Exposure, ISO 80 -Thomas Hsu
Nikon D40, 720nm + pass ccd filter. (Ir modded d40); 18-200 VR w/ UV @ 18mm (27mm equiv);f/11 , ISO 400. 20 sec. Tripod mounted, 14 exposure photomerge to get the angle I wanted, B&W was specified in camera. Photoshop chose to ignore that. Included is also an example of a raw ir image, without any adjustment, just as adobe camera raw first sees it. -Glenn Philen
Took with HTC Vogue out the window at work.; No B&W setting so I had to grayscale it on the PC. Depressing because I need a new phone. The grainy texture (almost like newsprint) was contributed to by the dirt on the outside of my window and the sorry state of the lens on my crappy phone. Taken in Lexington, TN. yesterday at 4pm -Steve Holladay
Im a 16 year old tech geek and amateur photographer. Anyway, I used a old Kodak M763 point and shoot that I got for $50 using one of your dealzmodo posts awhile back. This was shot a day after thanksgiving in Indiana. -Evan Mileus
Camera: canon rebel xsi -this picture taken from east haven Connecticut beach. -shot this picture after it rained last Wednesday. -Ellie Cabie
(nikon d3000, nikkor 18-55, ISO 1600) -Everett Bouwer
Canon EOS 7D; Canon 50mm 1.4; ISO 100, f/3.2, 1/100. Had to stand in the one perfect spot to get a clean shot with no junk in it (fences, cars). It was COLD! -DanJuan
camera : sony dsc -v3 in night shot mode aka infra red. i use this camera because of its built in infra red capabilities combined with the black and white setting. this is a shot of my families old christmas tree farm. my grandfather used to grow xmas trees and sell them every year. my brother and i got roped into help customers mostly women...we would have to walk around with ladies and cut down the trees for them with bow saws. we would also have to drag these trees out and help them fasten their piece of evergreen goodness to their car. we were doing this at the ag of 11, 12. i am 35 now. we would traverse back and forth with many ladies and older people who couldnt make up their minds in hopes that we would get a good tip. though never implied or expected, it was always nice to be acknowledged for hard work at such a young age....while my grandfather was selling trees for $10 a pop....anyways.....i went back to this plot of land because the farm is no longer in the family. when my grandparents passed, the 30 acres of land which included the tree farm pictured here as well as a lake home was all given to aunt, while my father received nothing. i recently ventured back as i wanted to take a few photos and walk the paths one last time. memories come and go of all the time we planted trees and helped old ladies remember which tree they first saw while ending up walking aimlessly believing their first favorite was just over here....-M. Hepp
Shot with Nikon D5000, Exposure time 1/25 @ F22. Focal Length 18mm, ISO 400, & Manual Exposure. Shot 60 miles north of Los Angeles. -Angel Olavarria
OK, I know you said B&W but in Seattle winters are always Black and White! Shot with the RED One from a Helicopter traveling at about 70 MPH in high winds, doors off and me hanging out the side. The RED One is great for pulling stills. Helicopter: UH-1H "Huey" Camera: RED One 4k; Lens: 18mm Carl Zeiss Arriflex Prime (circa 1957) ISO: 320; Shutter speed, FPS, etc: My own special blend for heli shooting. (could tell you but I would have to kill you, slowly.) -Ivan Agerton
Chapel Hill, NC; Canon EOS 5D Mark II; EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM; ISO 250; f4; 1/800 sec -Ken Nesbit
I call this photo "Winters Lynch". Took this photo in my backyard when it rained/light snowed a little bit, then the water froze due to the cold wind. This was the last flower/fruit left on the plant. Rebel XSI. Focal Length 47. Exposure time 1/25. Lens EFS 18-55mm. -Aran Armutlu
This is a photo of someone on my street who has had this early 60's Mustang sitting on their driveway to rot since I moved in back in 1996. Camera used is a Canon PowerShot S3 IS, F-Stop was f/3.5, Exposure time was 1/400 sec. ISO speed was 200, focal length was 6mm and the aperture was 2.875. -Chris Neufeldt
This shot was actually taken with a LOMO camera with b&w film -Chris Rossi
Shot: 12/3/2009 at Croton Point Park in NY. 64 degrees (crazy weather) and high winds. Canon 40D; Canon 24-70 f2.8 L; f/16; 1/320; ISO 400; Focal Lengh 24mm. Softened with Color Efex Pro -Justin Carney
I use a Canon 5D with a Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 lens. Tripod mounted with a shutter release cable. The first shot was @ 1/13sec f/13. The second was @ 1/5sec f/8 ISO was set at 200. A little sharpening was done in Photoshop. -Joseph Baltazar
-Brandon Prince
Sony T50, Exposure 1/640 sec @ F8 ISO 125. Unexpected shot while running errands in Estes Park Colorado, did not have nicer camera with me (Canon S90 is my next purchase). Sign is in front of Lake Estes, not sure if the Elk can read it, they are usually the ones stuck in the ice. -Teryn Wilkes
-Brandon Prince
Nothing says Chicago like a cold train yard. I took the picture from above the train yard on a cold day in Chicago. I managed to lean over and snap the shot with the train coming in. All that was used was a simple point and shoot camera and a little luck with the train coming in. -Renee Lee Greco
Canon 5d, Canon 17-40 f/4L ISO 160 - Joe C
"Footsteps in the Snow" by Shaun Nelson; I used a Canon 40D with a Lensbaby Composer, 2.8 aperture, 100 ISO, then converted to BW with Nik Silver Efex Pro. -Shaun Nelson
Hi! Here is my participation from my work office. HTC G1, set in black and white ("niveau de gris" in the french menu) just handle front of the window and resized in photoshop. That's it. -Alexandre HAINAUT
I used a Canon SD1100IS point and shoot to take this photo. 1/400 shutter speed, F2.8, and ISO 80 were the settings I used. I pretty much just pulled over to the side of the road and shot a couple of these photos and then picked the one that looked the best. -Craig Lloyd
Camera: Canon EOS 33v; Lens: Canon EF 24-105 f/4 L IS USM; Film: Ilford PAN 50; ISO: 50. I took this picture (and couple of others) yesterday with tripod and very long exposure times (longer than 30 seconds). I've developed it today - it was still wet when scanned (finger prints visible). -Andrzej M. Szlaga
This is a shot I took myself at my college Campus in Goshen, Indiana. Was a very rare morning with snow on the ground, yet a tremendous amount of fog also, it almost whited out everything. This tree is in front of our cafeteria, not sure the type, but always looks very spooky at night, and this fog made it really stand out and look awesome. I shot it with a Canon 30d, Sigma 17-70 lens. No real special technique other than framing the shot and taking it. (hope this shot can be extra depressing and destroys the hope of happy holidays for everyone.) Believe me, living in Indiana in the winter, I know a thing or 2 about a gray winter.... -Andy Graber
1: Nikon D200; f/22; 1.1 second shutter; ISO 100; 18-70mm lens @ 22mm; B&W mode; some contrast adjustment & resize in photoshop. The camera was on a tripod and I set it to timer, and I sat on the bench. (UK) -Máté Kiss - zensflare
I took this photo very early on Wednesday morning (around 2am) during a snow storm that rolled through the area that night. Basically, this is the lamp post outside of my house, sitting all by its lonesome as the swirling snow falls all around it. To capture the shot, I opened my aperture all the way to let in the most light and then cranked up the shutter speed to try and freeze the snowfall - no pun intended. Because of the quick shutter speed, and the fact that there are no other light sources in the vicinity of the lamp post, the rest of the scene was lost in the blackness of a cold, dark winter's night. Is that depressing enough for you? -Marc Barrios
This is my first time entering one of your contests. Fun! Equipment: Canon 7D with Canon 85mm f1.2 lens. Settings: ISO 1600 and f1.2. As for the technique I used; the lens has a 1m focusing distance, so I stood at exactly 1m and sort of swayed back and forth while shooting. The focusspot kept changing and some shots were a bit more depressing (artsy) than the others. As for the work afterwards, it was just to turn it into black and white (I shoot in RAW so doesn't matter if I shoot in black and white in the camera) and make it a bit brighter, that's it. Took all about 30 seconds. -Halat Sophie Askari
This shot was taken in Seaside Hieghts NJ around 9pm. The equipment used was a Canon Rebel XT with a 18-55mm EFS stabilized lens. ISO was set to 100 with a 4 second exposure at F/11. -Jeff Holway
The view from my officewindow in Moscow, usually it would be covered in snow at this time of year... but now it just looks like a ghosttown. -Søren Jensen
The photo was taken from my own backyard while looking up directly to the sky. The tail-end of a storm was blowing by and the clouds that silhouetted the sun made the sky look very dramatic. Fitting picture as it is ominous of what Winter has in store for us. Photo was taken with a Nikon D70.; F8; ISO200; 1/1500 -David Hadizadeh
So I was on the way out the door to work in the morning and noticed that it was really foggy. I looked to my left, caught this view (I live on a golf course) and had to capture it. I actually only took this with my iPhone and just used the Photoshop app to apply a black and white "filter". I had to frame the shot just right as to not get any buildings or sidewalks in the photo. -Paul DeLuca
I am seriously concerned that this image is not depressing enough. However, I took this just after my wife called to tell me she had backed her car into the side panel of our neighbor's Ford Explorer. So, I find this image quite gloomy. This was taken last Saturday so technically, it was not taken this week, unless you are like me and consider Saturday the first day of the week… actually, I'm retired, so I really don't have weeks. But, being retired, the incident with the car is just that much more (financially) distressing, so I think that should count. The image was taken in the upper Snoqualmie Valley, which is in central King County, Washington, about 15 miles from Redmond, and the Microsoft campus. Which reminds me that I once had a job interview with Microsoft back in the 70's, just after they had moved here from Albuquerque, but I had another interview first, and I ended up accepting that job and I never did go to the Microsoft interview and I didn't even call them to tell them that I wouldn't be showing up. And I felt really bad about that for years, to the point that I never bought Microsoft stock all that time, until about January 2001, but that turned out to be a mistake. I hope you like my picture. I think I will go lie down now. -Michael Rainwater
I went for a walk with my friend Sarah. took a few other pictures of her on the walk. all black and white.
I'm a fashion photographer and she is a model. we've known each other for a while. it'd been a long time since I've shot anything off the cuff just for the sake of doing it. I grabbed my camera. 1 roll of black and white, and decided not to return home until I had finished the whole role. after an hour of walking I saw the trees in a way that I've never seen before, even though I've lived in Studio City California for a long time. anyway thanks for throwing up a contest! ps. I understand that that gizmodo is all about digital, and you must be wondering why I submitted a 35mm image. the first 4 years of my photo career were entirely digital. hours and days of post processing. I initially hated the Idea of film. this year I made the conversion because of constantly being criticized that I am "giving away that I'm shooting digital" most of us are constantly trying to replicate the look of film in our post processing, in fashion at least. so i bought a nice modern SLR, and 7200dpi negative scanner. It was the best transition I've made. -Ryan Aylsworth
Shot on top of a parking structure at University of California, Irvine late at night. Shot at f/4, ISO 400, 20 sec shutter. Camera Body: Canon 40D tripod mounted. Lens: Canon TS-E 17mm f/4 L - 6.5 degrees of tilt -Mike Tran
I took this image outside my house with the leafless trees and the outline of this decoration my town puts up for the holidays.The equipment used to take this photograph is a Pentax MX 35mm SLR with a Vivitar Series 1, 70-210mm telephoto lens with 125 ISO Ilford black and white film. The image is a black and white 35 mm negative processed in my closet and printed in my darkroom at home on 8x10 Ilford paper. I then scanned the print using my Brother scanner onto my 24 inch iMac. No modification or enhancement was done with this photograph, its pure black and white. -David Drahos
Camera: KODAK EASYSHARE Z8612 IS Digital Camera; F-stop: f/2.8; Exposure Time: 1/320 sec. Exposure Bias: +0.3 step; Edited in: Paint.Net Hey, It's me again. I kinda had to cheat on this competition. Seeing as i live in Florida, winter doesn't affect anything. This photo was taken over the thanksgiving holiday on a hike in Tennessee. It's inspired by Ansel Adams, even though not his direct style. It was originally taken in color and converted in paint.net. My grandpa greatly appreciated this one. People said that they wanted to hear more from me in the last contest's comments and I really hope this one makes it in.
I was standing in the woods looking up and spinning as fast as I could. Shot with Sony Cybershot DSC-S85. ISO - 100. Focal Length - 7mm. Exposure time - 1/50. F-stop - f/2.8. -Justin Hawk
Nikon D90 w/Nikkor 18-200mm VR with tripod. Shot in Aperture Priority at ISO 100, f/4.2 @ 38mm w/5 second exposure. I just saw the (almost) full moon poking out behind some branches, and decided it might fit the shooting contest theme. No real prep work apart from fetching my tripod and removing the lens' UV filter (learnt my lesson there). RAW image was cropped a little before saving (should probably crop it more). -Jonathan Wight
This was taken hiking above Multnomah Falls in Oregon. I took this using my Nikon D90 with no special features except a blk/white filter. The settings were at f/4.0 and used a 1" speed. -Kevin Dykes
Taken in Florida with a cheap Holga camera using B&W Kodak T-Max 400-120 film. Developed and scanned. -Juan Rodriguez
"Road To Nowhere" Canon S90 Point & Shoot, Auto ISO; Edited in Photoshop (B&W conversion, blur) -Li Fan
I attached a shot I took outside my house in Hermosa Beach, CA. It's super foggy today so the beach has been completely washed out, pretty fun to shoot. I shot it with a D40x with the standard 18-55mm lens at about 35mm, ISO 200 f/5 at 1/60. Thanks for the fun contest! -Derek Mead
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, 18.0-55.0mm Lens, Shutter Speed 1/160, ISO 400, Aperture f/9 -Samuel Zoll
Canon 1D MKII, Canon 50mm f1.4, ISO 100, f4, 1/400; Post processed in Photoshop to B&W; Cathedral Rock - Sedona, AZ. -Chris Dodkin
Shot with my iPhone 3GSas I was currently in my car and my D90 was in the trunk.- Kevin Keegan
A snapshot of winter at the ocean. Cold and damp. I took this picture a couple of days ago while visiting Lysekil, a small town in Sweden. Canon EOS 350D; ISO 200; Sigma DC 18-50mm 1:2.8 EX; Unsharp mask in Photoshop -Robin Govik
This was taken in a mountain in Macau (A little place near Hong Kong), by a film camera Canon QL17 -Z Shining
35mm Canon; 18-55mm zoom; ISO 800 -Luke Cahill
Winter in Los Angeles - I used my Canon Rebel XTi, nothing too technical, just a really cool shot that shows how un-winter-like Los Angeles can be. -Jordanisnifty
For this picture I used a Casio Exilim EX-S880 and I used the 'Best Shot' feature which I set to 'monochrome'. -Curtis Ricks
Shot with a Canon EOS 1v HS, Canon EF 50mm 1.8 on Ilford Delta 100, exposure time 1/125th, developed in Rodinal 1:100 for 60 minutes at 20C with no agitation. Scanned on Epson V700 with Silverfast Archival Suit Ai, 2 passes, edited in Photoshop (brightness / contrast adjustment). -Michael Kalus
Camera = 5d; Lens = 50mm f1.8; Details = f1.8@1/20th. Didn't shoot it B+W in camera but only usually carry my 5d -Kevin Smith
I used my very old Canon A530, thats all I had with me when I took it. No flash, I believe ISO 400. -Adam Van Kampen
took that picture last Week in Sonntagberg, Austria! Canon EOS 450D + EF 28-135 3.5-5.6 IS USM on a tripod. 1/50 f/10.0 ISO200 44mm. AV f/10 - ISO AUTO. postproduction: Fade Color (9) in iPhoto + resized in Photoshop -Mik
Presents of Fall photograph by Aaron Nickels mamiya 645 tl pro aperture 22 1/500 used a seker mamiya lens. i used ektar 100 iso medium format film seen this groove on the side of the road the time was perfect when travling to new mexico used aperture and photoshop scanned in at 2400 dpi -Aaron Nickels
Canon 30D with EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM set at 112mm. Exposure, 1/13 sec at f/10 at 100 ISO.
Under exposed a full stop. Cropped, framed and vignette added in Adobe Photoshop CS4. I live in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, we have 6 months of winter and the other three months are jammed in the other six months. I shoot a lot of monochrome winter scenes, it helps you from loosing your mind in the great white north. -Dale McConnery
Camera Model: Canon EOS 40D; Exposure Time: 1/125 sec.; Aperture Value: 5.62 EV (f/7.0); ISO Speed; Rating: 400; Metering Mode: Pattern; Exposure Programme: Aperture priority; Focal Length: 85.0 mm. The lens is just the kit lens for the 40d 17-85mm and I used a manfrotto monopod to keep it all steady. There was no real special technique involved, just saw the shot and composed it as I wanted it. -Joe Cook
Toyo 45C; Polaroid 100 film; Toyo Polaroid adapter; 150mm lens; city park lake, heavy overcast, dreary day -William Garrett
Canon EOS 7D (BOOYAA); Shutter Speed: 1/30s; ISO Speed: 800; Aperture: f/10 Taken from my porch looking down at the street as some tasty snow fell from the heavens. I guess you can't eat it all...

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Across Canada, local chapters of MADD Canada are launching the Project Red Ribbon campaign. From November 1st to the first Monday after New Year's Day, local Chapters together with area businesses are asking residents of their communities to tie a MADD Canada red ribbon to their antenna, side mirror or other visible location on the vehicle and/or on their key chain, purse, backpack or briefcase.
The red ribbon is a small but powerful symbol. It signifies a person's commitment to drive safe and sober during the holiday season and throughout the year. It also serves as a tribute to all victims who have been killed or injured in impaired driving crashes.
Project Red Ribbon targets the Christmas and New Year holiday season because it is the busiest time of year on most social calendars; with so many social gatherings and holiday toasts, there is a high risk for impaired driving.
And this year is especially uberlicious because it marks the 25th anniversary of Project Red Ribbon and a 25-year-long partnership with Allstate Insurance Company. Can you imagine? How often do you hear about a 25-year-long corporate partnership? Love it!
In that time, Allstate Canada has been a supporter of many of MADD Canada's programs, including Project Red Ribbon, Campaign 911 and the School Assembly Program, as well as numerous statistical and research publications, resources for victims and other resource, education and awareness materials. Not to mention, Allstate Canada is the Title Sponsor of the 2012 Project Red Ribbon campaign.
In honour of the 25th annual Project Red Ribbon campaign, a special statement is being released by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Member Statements are being read in the House of Commons and the Senate. Across the country, provincial/territorial proclamations, statements or other observances to mark Project Red Ribbon are happening in: Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon and Nunavut.
It breaks my heart and is so unfortunate that we continue to need campaigns such as this. Sad that impaired driving isn't a thing of the past. Despite federal and provincial/territorial laws and penalties, police enforcement and awareness efforts, and despite the obvious risk of crash, death and injury, people are still getting behind the wheel impaired. On average, every single day, 4 Canadians die and 174 are injured in impairment-related crashes. That's almost 1,500 deaths and over 63,000 injured every year. Impaired driving is the leading criminal cause of death in Canada.
It's unacceptable that this year tens of thousands additional family members and friends will have to cope with the loss of a loved one or with a serious injury, all because someone chose to drive impaired. Impaired driving is not an 'accident' – someone makes a decision to get behind the wheel impaired. It's 100% preventable.
So….this holiday season:
- Plan ahead for your holiday events, and encourage your families and friends to do the same.
- Take a cab, take public transit, arrange a designated driver or plan to stay the night.
- And remember, if you see an impaired driver, call 911 and report that driver. The call may just save a life.
You can get your red ribbon by donating online at MADD Canada's web site, visiting one of MADD Canada's many sponsors' outlets, or contacting your nearest MADD Canada Chapter or Community Leader.
Everyone in Canada (and around the world) has the power to stop this senseless and needless crime.
Did you know about the Project Red Ribbon campaign? Will you wear your red ribbons with pride? How else do you publically display your commitment to drive sober? I'd love to hear your thoughts…
On August 1, 2009, my beautiful mother-in-law's life was cut tragically short by an impaired driver and my stepson's life changed forever. In honor of Donna and Jordan Kennie, please don't drink and drive. Impaired driving is 100% preventable. Think about it.
Support MADD Canada and follow them on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and on the Web.
Text MADD to 45678 to donate $5 today. Report impaired drivers – CALL 911.
More blog deliciousness here:
- LOVED Janice Hardy's post on raising the tension and conflict in a scene.
- Coleen Patrick's post in honor of her brother and the inspiration she draws from him brought tears to my eyes. Beautiful!
- I am breathing a little easier after reading Nathan Bransford's confession that he doesn't write every single day.
- Jody Hedlund's post on 5 marketing techniques writers should avoid (to be frank, anyone who actually wants to sell something should avoid) was fab.


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Etihad Airways supports surgical relief for leprosy victims in Nepal
Etihad Airways is once again supporting UK-based charity Working Hands by flying out a team of surgeons to help leprosy patients in Nepal.
Also supported by Nepalese domestic carrier Yeti Airlines, the surgeons are carrying out their charitable work at the Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital, situated in the south east agricultural flatlands of the country.
The hospital treats daily up to 400 leprosy patients who have symptoms ranging from dermatological conditions to severe paralysis. As the leprosy sufferers are primarily farmers and labourers, having the use of their hands restored is essential to their ability to work and the very reason that Dr. Donald Sammut, who leads the team, has focused on this particular group.
"Our primary aim is to see and treat patients whose hands have been paralysed by leprosy, allowing healthy muscles to provide the function of grip and dexterity which is essential to these populations," he said.
The programme comprises both direct surgeries on approximately 60 patients and also in the teaching of local doctors. The team this year consists of three surgeons, including Dr. Sammut, an anaesthetist and two hand therapists.
Accompanying them this year is Linden Coppell, Etihad Airways Head of Sustainability, who said: "We are proud to support such a dedicated team of doctors who give up their free time to travel to Nepal, not only to change the lives of those they operate on, but leave a lasting legacy through their dedicated mentoring of the local surgeons."
The surgeons took with them essential operating equipment and also items such as sterilisers, diagnostic kits and other operating equipment, which is largely donated to Working Hands.
For the last five years, Etihad Airways has provided flights to the surgeons and their team travelling from the UK to Nepal, and also excess baggage required for the large amount of equipment, much of which remains at the hospital.
This year, Yeti Airlines has also offered its support by providing complimentary excess baggage for the internal flight from Kathmandu to Janakpur, close to Lalgadh, significantly reducing the charity's administrative costs.
Ang Tshering, Managing Director of Yeti Airlines, said: "We are pleased to support Working Hands, which is providing remarkable assistance to leprosy sufferers in the region. And we are delighted to have helped Etihad Airways in their ongoing efforts to support a very worthy cause in our country."
Photo caption: Surgeon Dr Donald Sammut and his team assessing a Nepalese leprosy patient.


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copyright, Heimo Schmidt.
Heimo's Myths reinterpret the Norse mythology of Icelandic culture and give it a modern sensibility. This meticulously art-directed image was created with 1 light.
Camera: Toyo 45Aii with 150mm lens and Fuji Pro 160s film, set on a tripod 8 feet back. Shot at 1/60, f32, ISO 100 (pulled 1/2 stop).
Lighting: the key light is a white umbrella at f32 set 8 feet to camera right and 10 feet high. A white bounce card provides the fill (f16) to camera left. The sun is high and behind the barn, providing the subtle hair light on her braid and added definition to the grass.
Comments: To this day, Heimo firmly believes he didn't upset or offend any of the Norse Gods with this photo project. And that nothing supernatural or otherworldly happened while shooting. But when, immediately after breaking down this shot, a lighting bolt split the barn in two, the sky turned a brownish red and the model's hair morphed into a pack of spit-spewing, miniature hyenas, some on set felt otherwise.


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Liberty University has named Ron Kennedy as its vice president of Marketing. Kennedy has worked at Liberty for the past 10 years, previously serving as director of Resident Enrollment, executive director for the school's online and Graduate Studies division and most recently the executive director for Human Resources.
In his role with Liberty University Online, Kennedy was responsible for the administration and overall operation of the division in meeting aggressive enrollment and retention goals. In the two and a half years in this position, Liberty University Online more than doubled its enrollment from 11,000 students to more than 27,000 students.
He has also served as a Liberty University Online professor since 2006, teaching several business courses, including Marketing, Advertising and Promotion, Personal Finance and Strategic Management Decisions.
As vice president of Marketing, Kennedy will oversee the university's Office of Promotional Publications, which produces brochures, emails, post cards, promotional items and more for the university. This department also oversees the university's branding initiative.
"I am very grateful for this opportunity as God continues to pour out His blessings on the university," Kennedy said. "I am happy to be a small part of what is going on here as Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. continues to set the vision for the future."
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Many components in a vehicle can become so hot that they can potentially fail, or degrade other nearby components leading to serious safety, durability, and warranty issues. Plastic components are used increasingly to save on cost and weight, but are more sensitive to temperature. Globalization is leading to vehicles or vehicle platforms that must operate in extremely wide operational temperature ranges. Careful and detailed analysis of component placement and thermal shielding is required to avoid costly late-stage design fixes or, worse, failures when in production. One of the most extreme thermal stress scenarios is "key-off" or "soak", where a vehicle with a hot engine rapidly comes to a halt and the underhood temperature increases because there is no cooling airflow.
Vehicle thermal design traditionally depends heavily on prototype testing in thermal wind tunnels. The testing process is very expensive, time-consuming, and inflexible. Testing involves thermocouple instrumentation that requires test engineers to estimate a-priori where thermal problems might occur — but the highly turbulent nature of convective underhood flows makes this very difficult or impossible to predict. Relying on redesign and retesting is an expensive hit-or-miss process that often ultimately fails to identify the highest temperature locations.
Heat soak is an inherently transient problem where the temperature quickly rises then gradually falls through convective cooling. This is almost impossible to visualize in a wind tunnel, yet these complex structures must be understood in order to optimally locate and protect components. In addition, temperature is a function of the complex interaction between conduction, radiation, and convection in the surrounding fluid, especially for very hot components. Accurately predicting this is extremely challenging.
Given that there is increasing pressure from the marketplace to speed up and improve the vehicle development process, it is clear that a more effective method is required to address soak early in the vehicle design process. A high-fidelity simulation is necessary to capture the relevant physics. However, simulation of a transient problem like soak is challenging and time-consuming with traditional Navier-Stokes-based fluid simulation codes because they are not inherently transient.
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MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — Thomas Alexander McLees has always learned best by taking things apart, from a toaster – his mom was not happy, he says – to computers. So in ninth grade it was easy for him to decide what career academy to enroll in the following year at Mountain Home High School Career Academies.
Students are sorted by learning style first, career aspirations second at Mountain Home, a charter high school for grades 10-12. Ninth-grade students go through a battery of personality surveys, discussions and visits from high school representatives and ultimately enroll in Health and Human Services (HHS), Communications, Arts and Business (CAB), or Architecture, Construction, Manufacturing and Engineering (ACME).
The 900-student school, nestled in Arkansas's Ozark Mountains, is based on two commonly accepted educational tenets: every student learns differently and students learn best when the material is relevant to them. Mountain Home's philosophy boils down to the belief that students will be engaged when they are taught in a way that fits their learning style and when they have a chance to apply classroom lessons to real-world problems — and potential careers. Engagement, the school believes, breeds success.Read more education analysis at The Hechinger Report
"We don't have kids that hide in the bathroom," CAB Academy Leader Kathy Wham said. "Our kids all belong to one of three families … We draw them out."
Those in HHS are a bit more reserved, preferring quiet note-taking to absorb information. CAB students are often visual learners with a flair for the dramatic and turn frequently to presentations. Those in ACME — where McLees ended up — are more likely to appreciate hands-on learning.
Students take core classes — English, math, science and history — in the academy they've enrolled in but can take electives, which are often more career-oriented, in any other. That way, students can get the basics down in their individual learning style while exploring career options. They can also switch academies at the end of each school year. About 10 of the 600 or so students in 10th and 11th grades do so annually.
Built into the school's world are unique positions, like Jodi Tejcek's.She is the "freshman transition leader" responsible for helping ninth-graders pick an academy. The academy's acronyms also have become adjectives in the community's lexicon as even adults debate and joke about their own inclinations. Tejcek says, for instance, that she has some very HHS tendencies, whereas Brigitte Shipman, the school's academy coordinator, is "so CAB."
Paraphrasing a student, Shipman says career academies have "three separate doors instead of cramming everybody through one big door."
'We have such a voice'
Other high school career academies exist around the country, but Mountain Home is convinced its longevity is an endorsement of its model. While Mountain Home maintains support from community and students, other career academies have faltered.
The school also prides itself on focusing on student-driven projects, such as CAB students making videos about classroom etiquette or ACME students building a pavilion for outdoor gatherings. Although the school was partially inspired by local businesses concerned about an aging workforce, students are not guided toward particular careers to meet the needs of industries in town.'Digital toolkit': Three open doors to a successful career
"When I was here I had so many opportunities to grow," said Holly Campbell, a 2012 Mountain Home grad now in college studying for a career in parks and recreation. "We have such a voice at this school."
Mountain Home, at which about half of students are eligible for free or reduced priced lunch, consistently outperforms state averages on standardized tests and the ACT. In the 2011-2012 school year, its students averaged a 22 on the college readiness test, higher than the statewide average of 20 and the national average of 21. Only about 3 to 4 percent of students drop out each year, mostly because of family and financial pressures, according to Shipman. Nationally, 7.4 percent students dropped out in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
But although 70 to 80 percent of Mountain Home graduates go on to two- or four-year colleges, 30 to 40 percent of them end up in remedial courses in college, according to the school's data. Nationwide in 2008, 44 percent of students enrolled in two-year schools took at least one remedial course, and so too did 27 percent enrolled in four-year colleges. Principal Dana Brown said college remediation was a problem the school needed to address and was indicative of a disconnect between high school standards and college expectations.
Other graduates enter the military or a certificate program, or get a job. Guidance counselor Nancy Parish estimated that roughly 20 students in any given class of about 300 have no plans at the end of high school. The school has started tracking students two years after graduation. Although administrators have no formal data yet, so far the majority of students seem to be sticking with their original plan, Parish said.
Parish stresses to students that they have many options. "When you say the word 'college,' you've got a certain percentage of kids who turn off," Parish said. "[We tell them,] we want you to have training."
On the first day of an Algebra 2 class this school year, Wham broke her students into small groups, each with a different problem posed by a "manager."
"This is a problem your company is solving," Wham said as she walked around the room. "You can't go ask the boss. You've got to work with the group."
'Prepared for reality'
At Mountain Home, aspiring vets practice giving shots to large animals brought to the school by local professionals. Engineers-to-be learn computer drawing programs. Students interested in communications might film and edit video while geometry classes figure out how many stones are needed to pave areas of the school.
"We've just had so many opportunities going through all this to be prepared for reality," senior Megan Cantrell said.
Many seniors are also placed in internships for school credit at local businesses. Each semester, 20 to 25 go to Baxter Regional Medical Center, for instance. Cantrell, an HHS student, will be shadowing a doctor this spring. Teachers spend time out in the business world as well, attending daylong "teacher externships" to pick up new real-world ideas to bring back to class, said Shipman.Education Nation: Read more and make your voice heard
Some 100 Mountain Home residents also sign up to mentor a small group of students. They come once a month, bringing in guest speakers from different fields, arranging field trips to nursing homes or prisons, and playing games geared to lessons in how to give a good interview. Mentors also coach the school's award-winning robotics team.
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Community support is the biggest challenge to having a successful career academy, many administrators, business leaders and school board members said. Mountain Home, with a large retirement community, has a wealth of professionals in many careers nearby, but they often have no connection to the school. It's up to the staff to educate the community about what career academies mean, administrators believe, and residents are receptive.
"We find mostly all you have to do is ask," Shipman said.
Another challenge is the misconception that students are asked to pick a career in ninth grade. Faculty argue that students are given time to experiment and find out what they like and — just as important — what they don't like.
Those who do go to college find themselves ahead of their peers from other schools, said Kathy Gonten, ACME's leader. "Their other friends are trying to figure out what their interests are," she said. But Mountain Home students "go to college with pretty set ideas, and they're based on fact, not fantasy."
This story, "Education Nation: Career academy puts emphasis on learning style," was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education-news outlet based at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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NFL.com's Albert Breer reported Tuesday that, barring any late setbacks, Hernandez will play Thursday against the New York Jets, per a source briefed on his condition.
Hernandez was limited in practice Tuesday, but has made progress in his recovery from an ankle injury that has cost him six of the last eight games. Hernandez was last on the field in a 29-26 win over the New York Jets in Week 7.
When healthy, Hernandez is a versatile offensive threat who can beat defenders with both his size and speed. Hernandez -- armed with a fat new contract -- was set up for a big season in Bill Belichick's offense before he suffered a nasty ankle sprain in Week 2.
Hernandez attempted to return to the lineup after a three-week layoff, but he wasn't moving well despite decent production in two games. If Hernandez returns on Thursday, he'll be coming off a 32-day layoff in game action.
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We want students who are willing to compete at a high level and be willing to accept challenges in practice and in competition in order to allow us to compete at the highest level possible. It is our goal to not only have exceptional student/athletes but to also have students who excel in every aspect of the classroom. We want to give our students experiences that will allow them to learn, mature and lead. We want to challenge our students hard enough in practice so that when they get in a competition they can handle any adversity that they are faced with. We also want to do this in an environment that allows freedom for students to make decisions and the guidance for them to be able to make the right choices and to correct mistakes.
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MADRID – Six Somalis who allegedly attacked a Spanish warship in 2012 off the coast of Somalia went on trial in the Spanish capital, with prosecutors seeking a 23-year sentence for each defendant.
A National Court spokesman said Monday the six are charged with piracy, weapon possession and membership of a criminal group.
The six were arrested in January 2012 following a shootout when they allegedly tried to board the Patino vessel. The Defense Ministry said the attackers possibly mistook the warship for a freighter.
The six claim they are fishermen and had approached the ship for help.
The Patino formed part of a European Union flotilla fighting piracy in the Indian Ocean.
The trial is expected to end Wednesday.
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From Middle English spirit, from Old French espirit ("spirit"), from Latin spīritus ("breath; spirit"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- ("to blow, breathe"). Compare inspire, respire, transpire, all ultimately from Latin spīrō ("I breathe, blow, respire"). Displaced native Middle English gast ("spirit") (from Old English gāst ("breath, soul, spirit")), whence modern English ghost.
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spirit (countable and uncountable, plural spirits)
- The soul of a person or other creature.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
- 1967, MacCormack, Woman Times Seven
- […] a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.
- A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
- A wandering spirit haunts the island.
- John Locke
- Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark.
- Enthusiasm.
- 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, "Sunderland 2-2 West Brom", in BBC Sport:
- The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.
- School spirit is at an all-time high.
- The manner or style of something.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
- In the spirit of forgiveness, we didn't press charges.
- Alexander Pope
- A perfect judge will read each work of wit / With the same spirit that its author writ.
- (usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
- Energy; ardour.
- Fuller
- "Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired.
- Fuller
- One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
- a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit
- Dryden
- Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.
- Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.
- to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be down-hearted, or in bad spirits
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- God has […] made a spirit of building succeed a spirit of pulling down.
- (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
- Spenser
- For, else he sure had left not one alive, / But all, in his Revenge, of Spirit would deprive.
- Spenser
- The mild air, with season moderate, / Gently attempered, and disposed so well, / That still it breathed forth sweet spirit.
- Spenser
- (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
- Ben Jonson
- Be it a letter or spirit, we have great use for it.
- Ben Jonson
- Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
- the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document
- (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
- Chaucer
- the four spirits and the bodies seven
- Chaucer
- (dyeing) stannic chloride
Derived termsEdit
- community spirit
- despirit, dispirit (verbs)
- free spirit
- Holy Spirit
- in good spirits
- in spirit (adverb)
- in the spirit it was meant (idiom)
- kindred spirit
- methylated spirit
- moving spirit
- party spirit
- petroleum spirit
- poor in spirit
- proof spirit
- pyroacetic spirit
- rectified spirit
- shad-spirit
- spiritdom
- spirited
- spiriten
- spirit-filled
- spiritful
- spirit gum
- spirithood
- spiritish
- Spirit Lake
- spirit lamp
- spiritless
- spirit level
- spiritlike
- spiritling
- spiritly
- spiritness
- spirit of hartshorn
- spirit of salt
- spirit of the law
- spirit of turpentine
- spirit of vitriol
- spirit of wine
- spiritous
- spirit rapper, spirit rapping
- spiritship
- spiritsome
- spirit stove
- spiritual
- spirituality
- spiritually
- spirit world
- spirit writing
- surgical spirit
- team spirit
- that's the spirit
- the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- white spirit
- wood spirit
- zombie spirit
supernatural being
manner or style
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spirit (third-person singular simple present spirits, present participle spiriting, simple past and past participle spirited)
- To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
- 2009 February 8, Dave Kehr, "Buñuel at His Wildest, in Circulation Again", in New York Times[1]:
- God does not make an appearance, but the Devil (Ms. Pinal) emphatically does: first in the guise of a schoolgirl who tries to lure Simon down with the sight of her shapely legs; then as a bearded but blatantly female Jesus carrying a lamb; and finally as a stylishly coiffed woman who succeeds in spiriting Simon off, by means of a jet, to a Manhattan discotheque — Buñuel's persuasive idea of hell.
- Willis
- I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity.
- To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.
- Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.
- Jonathan Swift
- Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.
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Borrowed from Latin spiritus. Compare also spiriduș.
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- spirit (physical form of God)
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Reflections on a Growing Local Food Movement
In April, more than 20 people from Seattle and surrounding King County attended the Kellogg Foundation's annual Food and Community Networking Conference in Phoenix, Ariz. The conference, which brings together more than 600 local food activists from around the country, promotes healthier communities by furthering the growing transformation of the American food system. Seattle and King County's goal is to move towards a model that is healthier, more local, less chemical and pesticide intensive, integrated with healthy lifestyles, and aligned with the principles of social justice.
I had the good fortune to be asked to attend in my role as the sponsor of Seattle's Local Food Action Initiative and cheerleader for the many community efforts around Seattle that are transforming our local food systems. Although many attendees reported that they had the support of their local elected leaders—Michelle Obama even made a video appearance to cheer us on—I was one of only two elected officials at the conference. In my closing remarks to the group, I urged participants to broaden their reach and help make this social movement into a political movement.
Here are some key observations I took away from the event:
- The national environment for this work has never been more promising. The full engagement of the White House—and new legislative initiatives moving through Congress—may not get much notice in the mainstream media, but the support is real, and there is leadership from the federal government in ways that have never existed before.
- There is great momentum and enthusiastic response from youth engaged in this work. Seattle's own youth movement—the Food Empowerment, Education, and Sustainability Team—based in the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association, is a great example of this. About 100 of the conference participants were youth delegates, and their consistent message was: "Work with youth, don't just talk at them."
- Transforming the food system will require careful analysis and understanding of food chains in order to truly bring about change. It's easy to suggest, for example, that buying local food will reduce your ecological footprint, but that's only true if the local growing and transportation system is designed to minimize the use of fossil fuels. For example, local farmers carrying their produce directly to consumers in pick-up trucks is often less efficient and ecologically positive than bringing farmers together to pool their resources and use larger, more fuel-efficient trucks. The details really do matter.
- Innovative and flexible business models that can fit into the existing system make a huge difference. Farmers, wholesalers, and food users can count on the current food supply chain to be reliable. That reliability is critical to farmers, and it is risky to try to create a whole new supply chain. It often works better to figure out ways to insert healthy local food sources into the existing chain.
- Social justice is a critical element of a successful new food system. The current system uses workers who are underpaid and often here illegally; many are exploited because of their legal status (what recourse does an undocumented immigrant have if the employer cheats him on the paycheck?). There are models for producing and distributing food that do not rely on this unjust pattern, but in order to get more food produced under socially just conditions, the production, distribution, and marketing systems must be designed to achieve that goal.
At one of the concluding sessions, a representative of the Pima Indian Nation reminded us that even the vocabulary of change can often reflect values that are in conflict with local sustainability. She noted that urban areas that do not have stores that carry healthy food are referred to as food deserts. "This seems odd to us," she remarked, "who have been living on the bounty of the desert for hundreds of years! And, of course, in many of these communities, urban agriculture is even easier than it is in our desert."
- : Turn a lawn into lunch, boost food security, and live the good life.
- : Citizens and local policymakers join up to get fresh foods to schools and neighborhoods.


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Louis van Gaal could rival Jose Mourinho as the Premier League's 'Special One' if, as expected, the Dutchman is appointed Manchester United manager, according to his former assistant.
Shota Arveladze, who worked with van Gaal when he led AZ Alkmaar to Eredivisie glory in 2009, said the Netherlands coach would bring something different to English football, threatening the Chelsea manager's 'special' title.
Speaking to the BBC, Arveladze said: "[Van Gaal] is very honest and very straight, and the people around him think 'this is something special that he has'.
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United had been expected to appoint van Gaal on Wednesday, but ESPN understands no announcement will be made until after Sunday's game at Southampton at the earliest.
The former Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager has a reputation as a disciplinarian, but Arveladze played down suggestions that his presence in the changing room is akin to that of a dictator.
"On first impression, he is really hard and, I hear, like a dictator, but this is absolutely not the case," he said. "What he really dictates is the way he wants to play, the way he sees the game. He is the best at showing [the team] how to play football and how to succeed."
Arveladze contrasted van Gaal's style with that of former United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, whose infamous 'hairdryer' treatment resulted in high-profile changing room confrontations with players such as Wayne Rooney.
"I believe I have had around 20 coaches in my career, all of them very famous and very successful. But there was only one who could come inside and give us three or four minutes to say what we had to do to win," Arveladze said.
"It can be hard to read him. When you think everything is going well and that you can relax a bit, then he can be hard. But when you think he will come and smash things and make a mess of the dressing room, he knows how to treat [players to make them] win."


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I figured it would be useful to post this here since there are currently 79,000 patients in the U.S. with these recalled leads. If you have a Riata or Riata ST, I'd encourage you to stay informed and ask your doctor if he has a plan for the management of your leads.
This manuscript became available yesterday. It's an assessment of the deaths of patients with Riata and Riata ST leads that have been reported to the FDA in an attempt to determine if these deaths were due to lead malfunction.
The analysis was done by Dr. Robert Hauser of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. The report claims 22 deaths caused by the St. Jude Riata lead failure. Dr. Hauser concludes that no deaths were caused by externalized wires, the problem most commonly associated with the Riata. Rather, the deaths were caused by short-circuits between high voltage components. This could prove ominous for the Durata lead as well. The Durata lead is currently being implanted worldwide and is not a subject of any recalls or confirmed externalizations. But it's similar in design to the Riata, apart from its Optim insulation. Watch a St. Jude Medical video about the benefits of Optim insulation.
Adverse events (deaths and injury) are voluntarily reported by hospitals and doctors into a public FDA database called MAUDE. Manufacturers are required to report deaths and injuries, however, there are an unknown number of delays in adverse event reporting by the manufacturer. So, adverse events reported into MAUDE is incomplete. By some accounts, only 5% of all adverse events are ever reported (watch Dr. Rita Redberg, UCSF, in this video at 16:57).
Dr. Hauser believes the information in MAUDE is accurate but incomplete. His study classifies 50 deaths as indeterminate because important information was not reported (see page 22). He says that the number of deaths is likely being underestimated.
We need the reporting of adverse events to be mandatory and for a public registry to be created in the U.S. with data flowing in from all remote monitoring platforms. It's the only way for us to know for sure what's going on when there's a recall. Patients should have the right to access this information in a way that is timely and easy to understand.
Dr. Hauser's manuscript:
Deaths Caused By the Failure of Riata and Riata ST Cardioverter-Defibrillator Leads.


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It's getting to be that time of year — Thanksgiving, Christmas, snow, etc. Big whoop! The MUCH MORE IMPORTANT NEWS (duh!) is that it's time to present the 2012 edition of my annual Tennessee Family Law Update seminars to Tennessee lawyers and family law mediators! I am already hard at work preparing for the seminars. They are approved for two general CLE credit hours.
Thus far, I am scheduled to deliver the following presentations:
Friday, December 7, 2012 — Knoxville, Tennessee (Advanced Family Law Mediation)
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 — Chattanooga, Tennessee (Chattanooga Bar Association)
Friday, December 14, 2012 — Jonesborough, Tennessee (Advanced Family Law Mediation)
Tuesday, January 15, 2012 — Knoxville, Tennessee (Knoxville Bar Association)
You can register by clicking the links above. I hope to meet many regular readers of this blog at the seminars!
Information provided by K.O. Herston: Knoxville, Tennessee Matrimonial, Divorce and Family Law Attorney.