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Don't feel too bad if they have done very few changes, the work which has been done on the thread mostly involves only minor stuff. For what it is worth the cleaning up and replacing of gaskets/diaphragms on the pump/regulator is SOP for myself on all chinese engines and if they have a reed valve then that too gets inspected and cleaned up before the engine goes on the test stand.
most of the work has been done by Earlwb and I must thank him for his efforts as it has encouraged me to go on and make the motor work. Still a way to go but I am confident enough to now own three of these
I don't think they did anything to the engines, in China the engines all seem to be working fine, no problems. They do test run the engines along with the carbs and pump/regulators too. So maybe the engines work fine for most people. I would suggest bench test running the engine to see how it goes first. if it works for you OK then great, but if you have problems we detailed what we did to correct the problems in this thread.
One thing to note is that it appears that very few people have had problems with the engines. They seem to have sold quite a few of them so far too. If lots of people were having problems there would have been a lot more messages posted in this thread about it. But people haven't been coming in and stating they had issues.
Just tried a 12 x 6 master airscrew K Series prop. @9800 rpm, nearly pulled the stand over. Unfortunately I did not check the temp so I don't know if it was getting a little too warm.
Back home now so will finish putting stick together and go flying next week.
I haven't bought one because of all the issues seen here? Quite honestly I thought it was kind of a "work in progress", but I've just checked in here on occasion. Haven't been following it closely?
If these things are pretty much ready to go I may spring for one. I don't mind going through it to make sure it's clean, then doing a little tinkering to get the needles right, but beyond that my interest level drops off quickly. Am I understanding correctly this is where it's at now?
If necessary, would somebody mind doing a short "recap" on what one might have to do to see one of these successfully launched (assuming prior gas experience)?
Any thrust estimates? The 12x6 MA prop at close to 10k? Is that in the range of what I might expect? Target rpm to prop for, regarding good performance vs. reliability? 20:1 oil, correct?
Earl, I see you're running a Mac's header on one of yours. What was it for originally? Bolt on, or was it modded? Thinking side mount. That header would work perfectly.
Thanks, -Al
I looked through the manual and it looks like there is plenty of room on the firewall to mount the pump and plenty of room in the fuse for the ignition. Especially if you use a smaller fuel tank. The cowl gets pretty "swiss cheesed" to mount a two-stroke though.
I posted some pics and RPM measurements I got with some different propellers recently with one of my engines. It is back a few posts here in this thread. You can use the prop power calculator spreadsheet that Pe Reivers came up with from mhis website site at MVVS-NL.com. It will show you some typical thrust and speed results.
My Escapade .40 with a NGH 9cc engine was clocked at about 65 mph in the air using a Doppler Shift speed measurement program. it uses a 11x7 Master Airscrew Prop on it.
Through the efforts of several other people and myself, we came up with this list of things to do or check.
1. The motor may not be a plug and play engine right out from the box, you may need to do some work and buy some more items.
2. First is I would take off the back plate of the motor and replace the threaded pressure nipple with a larger one. 8/32 fitting from Dubro seems to be the popular one and this will require drilling and re-tapping. I also replaced the pump fuel fitting with a larger 8/32 fitting too.
3. The pump/regulator should really be pulled apart and serviced with a Walbro K20-WAT kit, this will replace the diaphragms, gaskets, metering lever and plunger needle. I would also have a look at the faces of the unit where the gaskets seal on and see if they are smooth. If not then smooth them off by putting some cutting paste on a sheet of glass and run the face over it in a gentle figure eight motion to bring the surface smooth and level. I used a fine stone at first and while this worked it created a slight curve in the face which I later had to remove. The new gasket and diaphragm will handle the newer fuels and not get out of shape quickly. I like using the white Teflon pump diaphragm but trhe blue diaphragm works fairly well too. The Black diapghragm also works good in comparison to the OEM rubber parts. You may be able to forgo the smoothing operation, it depends on how well the pump/regulator works for you and how much it leaks or seeps when the engine is running.
4. If you are really into servicing the pump/regulator then you can also replace the metering spring with a Walbro WYJ 98-3160-7. The spring is a little more short and increases the fuel pressure to the engine. If you mount the pump/regulator really close to the engine, you may not needed it though.
5. Some people have used 1/8th Viton tubing for the pulse line to minimise loss of pulse to the pump/regulator. I have seen some use a brass tube with tygon at each end to do the same thing, not a bad idea but you would want the tubing to be barbed. I had good luck just using 1/8 inch Tygon tubing though.
6. When putting the motor on the test stand, or plane, have the pump/regulator on some sort of foam mount to absorb vibration. It has to be positioned as close as you can to the carb, allowing for the exhaust pipe, 80mm is the recommended maximum distance.
7. Fuel tank can be where ever you find space and height is not an issue.
8. When fitting the prop, be sure the collar which has the earth magnet for the hall sensor is in the correct position. It can be rotated and fitted back in place 180 degrees out. I am sure all of us have made the mistake but it is easy to check, rotate engine until tdc and sensor will be near the magnet.
9. Make sure all your fuel connections are air tight and secure.
10. Fuel mix is 20:1 don't even think about 25:1. I also use a really good oil such as Amsoil Saber Pro 100:1 or Stihl Ultra oils in my engines.
11. Without the new spring on the pump/regulator my needle settings are LSN a touch more than 2 1/2 HSN just under 1. When you first start it I would put the LSN at 3 and the HSN at 1 ½ . Depending on your mods, the standard LSN needle setting is six turns out and the high speed is 1 and half turns out. Idle is typically 1/2 open of the carb. But with the mods you may have it closer to being closed though.
12. Be sure you are only supplying the correct voltage to the ignition unit 4.8v. The CDI using is rated for 6.0v maximum and they really mean it. A five cell Nicad or NMH pack exceeds 6.0v when fully charged as do LiPo packs or LiFe packs. Anyway a 4 cell 4.8v battery pack works quite well any extra voltage won't gain anything at all.
13. Before starting with the ignition off rock the prop back and forth to pump fuel up to the carb. Start the motor with about 1/2 of the barrel open. If it does not start straight away you may need to open it more to get more air into the motor. Starter motor required. Unlike the glow engines idle speed is around 1.2 open on the throttle barrel. The engine does spit fuel and it isn't running too rich like that. I have idled mine for quite a while like that and they didn't load up appreciably either.
14. Adjust your needles to best setting. I have so far with an engine that is still running in, achieved 2500 to 10500 rpm with a 10.5x6 APC prop.. Note I myself (earlwb) have been using 11x7 Master Airscrew props for the engines, but others are using different props.
15. Motor runs nicely but does sputter a bit and definitely spits fuel out as the carb is very basic and only just does the job. Work in progress with improving the performance.
16. Some people had problems trying to run it inverted and that may be the carburetor design. So it doesn't like that so far.
On my engines I wound up with idle speed being with the carb barrel about 1/2 open. So your results could vary on that.
The OEM rubber diaphragms in the pump/regulator may work much better using gasolines outside of the USA. Here in the USA they use ethanol in the fuel along with a number of other unpronounceable chemicals too. Here in the USA the SEF or Tru-Fuel premix gasolines don't deteriorate the rubber parts as fast and it may not need replacing then. The Chinese didn't have our USA gasolines to use in the engines so they wouldn't have likely encountered the problem. With USA pump gasoline the rubber parts get soft and stretch out and thus quit working on one.
Last edited by earlwb; Nov 06, 2012 at 11:51 AM. Reason: Corrections and forgot to add something
Hello Earlwb. I have many problems with this engine and now you are helping me a lot. Thank you.
I have a basic question. There are three needles engine. The HSN ok. But the other two needles do not work well. What is the correct LSN?
The other needle should be with how many turns?
For myself I am using the low speed needle set to about 6 turns out and the high speed needle set to about 1 and a half turns out. There is only the low speed and high speed needle adjustments on the engine. But it is interesting about that third set screw below the main needle. Honestly, I do not know what it is for. I have never touched it.
Great looking plane, but I am most interested in one more like the Great Planes Sequence, and NO PINK ! Please, quit invading our masculinity with this preposterous insult.
Needle settings will vary considerably depending on what work you have done on the carb, the quality of the needle and taper (seems to be some variance) etc. My low speed needle is set at about 2 1/2.
Had a go with a piece of tube for a velocity stack, had to change the needle settings a bit and to be honest other than less spitting I am not all that convinced of any significant change. Going to try another design and see if I can improve the carb performance, just waiting on some material but it will be very simple
I'm not entirely sure these engines are best suited for these types of planes though. Not only because of the extra weight and lower power output but the lack of a steady low throttle rpm and questionable reliability will hamper any precision aerobatics and you can forget 3D altogether. That leaves sport planes and scales with lots of wing area.
The LSN is inside the throttle arm?
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I guess I could get used to unsmoked yerba afterall… The leaves are surprisingly fragrant after adding a few drops of cool water to them. It smells piney, citrusy, and very woody. I guess I never could have noticed this sort of complexity until I let my palate reset itself after drinking only strong smoky yerba. Normally, smoke seems to meld all the flavors together in yerba, but I guess it makes the flavor more unidimensional. The complexity of this yerba, however, makes me think of walking in the woods and being surrounded by pine trees and fallen trees. Bright, piney, citrusy, combined with dark earthy and woody.
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Watch Minnesota Wild's arena ice get made, painted in 43 seconds (Video)
Fresh ice.
Fresh, clean ice, without skate marks or snot trails or the tears of players at season's end. Because this is the beginning, you see, and arenas around the NHL are laying down the frozen water and the paint in preparation for the preseason.
Watch this awesome time-lapse of the Minnesota Wild's home ice being created at Xcel Energy Center*, and know that the season's nearly here.
Nothing makes a hockey fan crave the start of the season more than seeing that first fresh Toyota advertisement in the neutral zone, right?
* We originally found this video on the Star Tribune web site, which didn't allow for it to be embedded. We had to opt for the Wild's version, to the chagrin of the Trib's advertisers, we imagine.


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5 things to love
The sensor is gigantic for a compact digital camera. It's only 20% smaller than the sensor in Canon's 7D!
Response time is phenomenal. From the time I press 'on' to ready-to-shoot is about 1.5 seconds. And the same for hitting the shutter. So fast – I won't miss a single shot due to my camera starting up.
For a DSLR shooter, this camera is an excellent addition to my kit. It has all the same capabilities as my high-end cameras so I don't feel like I'm being kept in the dark. Right down to easy-to-toggle focus point.
I found everything about this camera to be super intuitive since I've been shooting Canon for so long. I didn't need the manual for anything – I just started it up and knew exactly what to do.
I can't believe I'm saying this but the pop up flash is -like- WOW! I will actually be using it on this camera.
Ok one extra thing I love – shooting in auto actually gives fabulous results for this manual shooter. I know! Shocker!
5 things to hate
Viewfinder. Need I say more? It's a joke. If you're having a hard day, just look through the viewfinder on this camera. You'll laugh yourself happy.
The macro capabilities are also quite hilarious. Or incapability, I should say.
Get a second battery. It's astonishing how fast the battery drained.
The grip is nice unless you actually want to press the shutter button.
The camera gets hot quite quickly and makes my hands sweaty and slippery {yuck}
Overall, though, I think this camera is amazing and I'm very much looking forward to not lugging a 5D to the playground anymore.
Get a price on the Canon G1X at Amazon.
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One Direction's Louis Tomlinson and his girlfriend, Danielle Campbell were recently seen walking hand in hand during a date in Los Angeles. The two have been getting quite cozy since the past couple of days, fueling the rumors that "The Originals" actress and the 1D singer have become engaged. Although nothing official has been announced from both sides, it is to believe that either they are engaged or, at least, they plan to do so very soon.
Adoringly yours!
Campbell, 21, and Tomlinson, 24, looked adoringly at each other during their sweet night out and had eyes only for each other, says People Magazine. The English star wore a casual outfit, combining a blue jean jacket on a red skull shirt and black pants, whereas Campbell looked stunning, baring her midriff in a black blouse and red leather jacket.
Spending quality time in the French Alps
A fan managed to snap the couple snogging just a few days back. They spent quality time with each other from a couple of months. Just after Christmas, Tomlinson and Campbell were seen enjoying some leisurely hours in the French Alps.
According to Capital FM, the two could not keep their hands off each other. They keep kissing every minute.
Also Read: ZAYN MALIK WANTS TO BE FRIENDS WITH LOUIS TOMLINSON? MARKS LOUIS'S PICTURE WITH SON AS FAVOURITE
Together on casual strolls and a dog walk
Since the start of December 2015, the couple hinted of being closely in a relationship. They have been seen together bonding over ice cream in Chicago and also taking their dogs for a walk.
A flying kiss with love!
On one occasion, Louis Tomlinson was spotted giving Danielle Campbell a flying kiss when she came to drop him off at the airport to catch his flight home for Christmas. Some of the vigilant fans managed to capture the moment on camera and made it viral on the Internet.
All in the family!
A video was made viral that showed the couple singing Happy Birthday to Campbell's cousin. So, the way in which the romance between Louis Tomlinson and his girlfriend is heating up, one wonders: are they engaged?
Also Read: 'LARRY STYLINSON' STRIKES BACK! LOUIS TOMLINSON NAMED HIS BABY AFTER 'FREDDIEISMYQUEEN'?
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What was once technology used by the military to track insurgents in the Middle East is now being modified and brought back home to track gangs on U.S. soil.
According to MIT's Technology Review, software for counter-insurgency initially drew connections between the people involved with the making and movement of bombs in Afghanistan was then modified by West Point cadets and officers led by Damon Paulo into an intelligence tool for law enforcement.
The Organization, Relationship and Contact Analyzer (ORCA) "is designed to address several police analytical needs concerning street gangs using new techniques in social network analysis," the paper about the tool published late last month stated.
It can evaluate a person's "degree of membership," even identifying people who might not have even admitted being a part of a gang, based on connections with other people. It can also identify sets of more "influential individuals" in a gang. Technology Review included that it can narrow down sub-groups in gangs like "'corner crews' that deal in drugs at the corners of certain streets within their area" and identify who might be facilitators between one gang to another.
Here's more from Technology Review about the tracking tool:
Paulo and co have tested the software on a police dataset of more than 5400 arrests over a three-year period. They judge individuals to be linked in the network if they are arrested at the same time.
This dataset revealed over 11,000 relationship among. From this, ORCA created a social network consisting of 1468 individuals who are members of 18 gangs. It was also able to identify so-called "seed sets", small groups within a gang who are highly connected and therefore highly influential.
This approach has also highlighted another aspect of gang culture. The size of the seed sets varies from one gang to another and this turns out to be a useful measure of how [centralized] the [organization] is. Gangs with smaller seed sets are clearly more [centralized].
What's more, ORCA also shows that [decentralized] gangs have more clearly defined subgroups, such as corner crews. So this feature, known as modularity, is another measure of [centralization].
"Police officers working in the district have told us that gangs of Racial Group A are known for a more centralized organizational structure while gangs of Racial Group B have adopted a decentralized model," say Paulo and co adding that the results of their analysis seem to clearly show this.
Perhaps most impressive of all, Paulo and co say they did all of the number crunching for this dataset on a standard Windows 8 laptop in just 34 seconds.
"We have shown how ORCA can meet various police analysis needs to include determining degree for gang members of unknown affiliation, identifying sets of influential individuals in a gang, and finding and analyzing the sub-organizations of a gang to determine inter/intra-group relationships," the study concluded.
The tool developers' next step is to build in location and timing analysis. So far, the unnamed metropolitan police department that worked with the U.S. Military Academy team, providing them anonymized data to help develop the tool, is using it to analyze gang activity in one district.
"All that means that the counterinsurgency techniques used by the US Army in Afghanistan may soon be in operation in the urban streets of mainland USA," Technology Review stated.
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I'm literally seconds from calling it quits on this game because almost every purchase you have to make except for the medicine at the pharmacy requires you to have House credits and I can't risk spending and more USD on credits because the payments are linked to my cell phone account and I'm on a family plan that my parents are paying for so I can't risk upping the bill by constantly buying House credits because my phone bill will cost alot of money and I'm gonna risk getting in trouble for it. I think it's best if a large majority of the items in the game were being paid via Budget with the exception of the special edition or rare items since we're able to earn Budget dollars by constantly treating patients in the clinic. Jut thought I'd give you my opinion.
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Dan Chung live blogs from the Olympics with iPhone and Snapseed
Following on from the discussions about Dean Mouhtaropoulos' decision to use a Panasonic to capture the Olympics, here's further support for the 'it's the photographer, not the gear' argument. Photojournalist, videographer and dpreview contributor Dan Chung has been capturing the Olympic experience with his iPhone. In conjunction with some binoculars, a clip-on Schneider lens and the Snapseed processing app, he's been live-blogging from the games. The images are understandably small but present a fascinating, near-live insight into what's happening in London.
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Anyone can get better results with HTC
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Under poor shooting condition, gear is also important. Mr. Chung uses some binoculars because of distance issue. FYI, a high quality binocular, like a LEICA Ultravid 10x42 HD costs over US$2,000. Using a smartphone with a binocular does need very high shooting skill because you need to focus manually and it is very difficult to pan a binocular and a smartphone.
This whole thing was a viral for iphone.
The pictures are what you would expect, good for a smartphone, but nothing more.
Phtographers are the biggest snobs I have ever met in my life. If the iPhone would cost $8,000 everybody would be raving!
Some snobbery is GOOD, you know. Else, you wouldn't have someone to discriminate between Chef-Boyardee & real cooking. And the cost has nothing to do with it, I have an Olympus E-PL1 that I paid barely $210 for WITH the lens, it has to do with the fact that smartphone cameras (the new Nokia being a POSSIBLE exception) are basically glorified Chef-Boyardee machines.
Then it must be a piece-o-cake for Muhtaropoulos and his G5. And probably next Olympics will be shot entirely with mirrorless!
Can't wait!
It's like cooking a chicken in the microwave.
The points I see in this project, are:
1. This is nothing but an advertisement for Iphone.
Apple have a smart non standard and effective way to advertise their products. This article is a very good example.
2. "It's not the camera, but the lens" in this case, binocular as telephoto lens, wide angle adaptor for fish eye efects.
If Dan would like to convince me that "it's not the camera but the photographer" I suggest him to shot a wedding with a smart phone as a next project, and name it "wedding album shot with a smart phone" without mentioning the brand.
I also suggest him to use the new 41mp smart phone for abil
ity to heavy crop the images.
I only partly agree.
There are some adaptors that allow you to mount a reflex lens onto the iPhone, but they are rubbish.
What good can a professional lens do if you're limited by that cheap small plastic thing in front of the sensor?
And then you're limited by the sensor itself.
No, I think that shooting with a cameraphone, even with binoculars and fancy add-ons is still shooting with a cameraphone, all the good and the bad of it.
Way to go Dan Chung- nice to see some out of the box thinking. Shows talent + creativity + taking advantage of an opportunity = results. A few Picasso quotes come to mind: All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Also another: Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
My personal take on this is a little different and what I think is a bit down to earth.
Every now and then I'll meet another parent who makes the comment that they wish they had a "good camera" like my dSLR. They are under the impression that if they had a "good camera" they would get better pictures of their kids, and then they go on to mention how bad their compact camera is. And they don't even consider trying to take good pictures with their compact camera.
I try to tell them, with a few tips-and-tricks, their compact camera can take amazing pictures. But they aren't convinced. Which is a shame, because they are losing a lot of opportunities to get better pictures of their kids with the camera that they have now. But they just don't believe.
I'm going to share this article on my personal Facebook page with my friends to show what a professional can do with a less than "awesome" camera . . .
Gotta weigh in.
I think it's perfectly fine that a guy is taping a phone to his binoculars and posting the photos to a blog. Why not. My only worry is that there is a strong popular pressure to accept everything as "good enough". It's an extension of the "anti-intelectualism" we've been famous for since Andrew Jackson's time. And it's not just in photography, but in English - you're just being arrogant if you worry about using "your" in the wrong place. Or go to Home Depot and look at the quality of building materials available. These athletes spend a great deal of their time and energy and resources getting to the olympics. I'm happy to see Canon and Nikon rolling out their best for the occasion as well.
Yes, exactly. To far too many people, there's no sense of standards anymore. So when you clarify, even gently and respectfully, the proper usage of "its" vs "it's" when it's a statement like "That camera sure chews through its battery" (NOT "it's") you're called the "grammar police" etc. I'm more of a 2+5=7 and it's not even up for discussion sort of person, & I think we need MORE of that sometimes.
Being an ignorant ass is seen as a badge of honour these days. I get told I know nothing when I, for example, point out it's "number of people" not "amount of people". We may as well all go back to caveman-speak. After all, wasn't that "good enough" to indicate your thoughts and intentions?
Funny discussion, that is exactly the same for the french language. In fact, people who care about "good standards" in photo as well as in our ability to speak correctly, must realize they are not so isolated as they think. It's just that an "acting minority" has succedeed in just 20 years in making the "silent majority" believe they became too few to be considerated.
Perhaps that time has come to rise again, gentlemen !
I guess the return argument, and not one I necessarily subscribe too is that use of the English language should follow the rules. Spelling and grammar can either be correct or incorrect. There is not much room for opinion.
In photography, the question "Is this a good photograph" is entirely based on context and opinion. It is a question which cannot be answered without knowing why the photograph was taken and even if you know the context, you still cannot give a blanket answer which applies to every human being in existence.
>> My only worry is that there is a strong popular pressure to accept everything as "good enough".
> This is just to balance off the standard sentiment here: nothing is good enough.
It's never a good idea to balance one nonsense with another one.
And what about this photographer going the way of retro, using nothing less than a Graphlex (as far as I can see), to shoot the olympics?
Dan Chung will do anything as long as you pay him.
So many awesome pictures, to see, thank you! He is definitely a clever talented and hard-working guy (I am envious lol)!
I don't get the negativity about this. It's an interesting experiment. Obviously he's had to cheat a bit by using the binoculars, but that in itself is interesting. I didn't know that was possible. Trying different ways to get the best out of a phone cam. Showing good pics can be achieved. Most people in the crowd will be using either a compact digicam or a phone cam. This shows what can be achieved with experimentation and a good eye. There will be tens of thousands of pixel perfect images of the Olympics online for those who desire that sort of thing. This is something different. (Although it'd have been interesting to try the new Nokia Pure View 808 without the binoculars.)
By the way, do anyone knows what binoculars he is using or have suggestion on other lenses that you can use and still get decent photos with the iPhone?
This is great.
I hava a Canon 7D with lots of nice lenses, I also have a Canon S95.
But as the proverb:
"the best camera is the one you bring along"
Thats why I take a lot great pictures on my iPhone.
It is inspiring to see Dan force him self to push the limits with the iPhone.
For many purposes it is good enough!
I really like when people push the limits to make this blog or to record a whole film or record a music record only using the iPhone or such!
Dan and others , keep up the great work - never mind some people whining and nagging:)
I think this shows that
a) You don't need pro gear to take a good shot. It takes imagination and an eye and skills to use what you have well. How clever using the binoculars! Lol!
b) smartphone cameras have come long way. Todays smartphone camera is the modern box brownie.
I feel a point will be proved if he uses a smartphone solely for all pictures in a year; job and recreation. Well, is he frustrated with the device yet, or did his skills with it eventually allow him to take the most amazing photos with it?
Though Dan covered several events, still once it's done he doesn't need to confine himself to the iPhone for the points to make on a blog. And as for these pics, several are good enough to make one think twice it was a phone, while most others.... yeah, no second looks
Many "photographers" here really had a big problem against iPhone or any smartphone users. Many of these "photographers" really complain on the technicalities side of photography like resolution, pixels, white balance. Is photography for these complainers is all about pixels, resolution, etc..? I guess they thought if they had the "best" and most expensive camera equipment out there, they feel like they're "professionals" and a good photographer. I guess these people complain against people using iPhones to create photographs can't create great photos from a "crappy" cameras...
BFD .... you mean the iPhony that is a rip-off of the 2007 PRODUCTION LG Prada shown 9 months before the first peek of a mock up iPhony at MW???
I look at a photo and either I like it or I don't, mostly based on composition. I think many on this site have a different method.
1. Did they nail focus
2. Is it sharp
3. Is it clean at 100% view
4. Is the white balance spot on
5. Is it high resolution
6. Was it made with the best gear? (extra points if same gear I own)
7. Is the exposure exactly right (if not, it should be pushed at least 4 stops and be as clean as if you had exposed it correctly, one speck in the shadows and it's crap)
8. How did the sensor in the camera that snapped said photo fair on DXO?
Then if those criteria are met, and only then, actually look at the subject and decide whether you like the photo or not.
Nice photos Dan.
The title says it all. Bla, bla, Guy uses iphone at Olympics, bla, bla.
When was the last time a photographer wanted to be primarily known for the camera he uses? That's right, when he's going out of his way to make a hipster comment about technology.
I'd have a lot more appreciation for his effort if he used a higher quality camera, then transferred or uploaded the pics to his phone (or other mobile device) for posting in near real time. You know, like what the umpteen thousand other professional photographers are doing because they are taking their job seriously over there.
Exactly, exactly, EXACTLY!! I wish there were not just a "like" button but a "Yes! Yes! Yes!" button, I would so be clicking it.
Since everyone else is using a high-end camera for coverage, there's no need to have anymore of those users at the games, so a few here and there playing with their phones or other toys without sweating over all the missed shots is fine, because everyone else got the shots they needed to.
@Nishi and Dames01,
How many thousands of small time news photographers didn't get a press pass, yet this guy gets to frolic around having a fun time with his cell phone?
There are entire sports in the Olympics that don't get much coverage, but at least this guy gets to press his cell phone up against the underwater viewing panes during the swimming meet.
@Suntan: Dan gets a press pass at the Olympics and you don't precisely because he can get a great picture with an iPhone, and you most likely won't even with a $5K camera. That's why a guy showing up at the Olympics with a big camera and a backpackful of lenses does not get an automatic press pass...
@Larry: That's why LeBron James will kick your b$tt with el-cheapo ball from Target, that's why Michael Phelps will outswim you even if he wears a diver suit. Its called talent, skills and professionalism, and nothing that you see flogged on DPR is going to get you any of those.
WOW this site amazes me. You call yourselfs photographers? Really? Shouldnt you be supporting a fellow photographer no matter what he used to take the photos? They are photos. Just that. Nothing more. A moment captured in time. You guys are nothing but gear heads that pixel peep and totally miss out on the big picture. I can only hope you're not like this in your everyday lives and I surely hope you don't act like this around your children if you have any. WOW.
Well, I would suggest that someone who calls himself a photographer, has front-row access to photographing the likes of Michael Phelps, LeBron James, and untold other top-notch athletes during a once-every-four-years event--and then proceeds to use a TOY camera for doing so despite having vastly better equipment readily as his disposal--I'm sorry, but that just seems silly to me, and like it or not, I'm calling them on it. It's nothing personal at all, but come on--if I were a chef & had the chance to prepare fine meals for important people at an event like this, I wouldn't heat up Chef-Boyardee in a pot on a hotplate & call myself a gourmet chef.
I am so serious about this, if I were to have a daughter getting married now (she's 5, way too soon) and I were to hire someone to photograph it vs doing so myself, I would interview them for their opinion on this topic, & if they disagree with me--I DON'T CARE how good they are, I won't hire them. I'm dead serious.
Some great images ...you guys do know these are downsized for a blog right?
But, people tend to get really defensive when they throw so much money at an item thinking it will make them better photographers.
Heard this young, talented piano player the other day. He created magic with a Pearl River. Can't wait to hear him again on a Steinway...
Hey, great shots, I'm going to put one as wallpaper on my desktop! Oh, snap, the icons on my desktop are smaller than pixels on that image...
Way to exaggerate...
I admit I wasn't scientifically accurate (if that isn't painfully obvious). It doesn't change the fact that people who appreciate photography outside of web-sized snaps going to feel some limitations with pictures taken with i-something.
To the a...holes posting snide comments about this: when was the last time you took a picture with your expensive gear that was half as good as those posted by Dan Chung? When was the last time you got half as many good pictures as are in that blog? Probably not in your whole lifetime. Losers...
Dan- Congratulations with a great image stream, you proved that gear is not a limitation when it is in good hands. Of course that goes poorly on a gadget frak site like DPR.
Well I'm one of the "a-holes" & proud of it.
Just because I wasn't hired by the AP or whoever to cover the Olympics doesn't make my opinion or the others irrelevant. This notion you're applauding is hardly new, the adage "no photographer is as good as the simplest camera" goes back decades. Even so, it's also always been the case that when a person got their first "snapshot" camera, at some point they realized that they wanted to do more, to create something that would make one go "wow." They then IMMEDIATELY set their sights on a camera better than their current Polaroid etc so as to have a camera that really matches their aspirations, and they left the Kodak Instamatics in their rear-view-mirror **immediately**. It isn't about being "gear obsessed," it's about having gear that's commensurate with your aspirations, skill level, or both.
Why deliberately dumb yourself down just to make a silly point? You don't see Michael Phelps swimming at the Olympics in an Intex pool, do you?
The point is that after a couple of cameras post-Instamatic, the vast majority of photographers have a camera that out resolves their peak competency. Yet they continue to spend untold amounts of money on gear. This is a refreshing look at a photographer whose skills out resolves the camera.
And you should be very grateful because cameras would not be half as cheap and capable if all these "a-holes" didn't buy them. However I know quite a few very capable "a-holes" who could probably do a pretty fair job as well.
I presume you drive a Trabant because you are not a paid racing driver, so your car is probably a lot faster than you.....
Quote from - larrytusaz
"Why deliberately dumb yourself down just to make a silly point?"
The reason why one would limit oneself with less capable gear is to challenge yourself....to push the gear and yourself to the limit....sometimes seeing what you can do with limited gear or tools forces you to think in new and creative ways...
I am with most here and say bravo...these are great shots....sure perhaps a bit noisy or of lower res...but the emotion and energy caught in these pictures far outweigh any technical downfalls...
Great shots overall...
Thank you for making sense and understanding the original intent of these pictures. We live in a world of nit pickers and pixel peepers who don't even know or like people like Ansel Adams and Galen Rowell. I have heard some of these fools complain about both of these photographers because they were out of focus or there was some distortion in their images.
There is no way to get through to them, either.
Well pardon me for thinking that a shot that's out-of-focus, noisy, pixelated is not just "technically sharp"--it's JUNK. Your point of view will be good news to my relatives around here who can't get a picture free from blur if you gave them a Nikon D7000 set on "green auto" mode.
"Duh, your photos aren't blurry, they're just 'different.' " Yeah, right.
Some of the best Cartier-Bresson shots are blurry, but they work because they work emotionally. There is a diference between a shot that is technically good, and a great shot, sometimes they are two different things. Just because you can make sharp properly exposed images out of the Nikon D7000 does not always make you a great photographer. You need something else, an eye and the ability to express what your eye sees in a 2D image. On the flip side, a vast majority of out-of-focus shots are indeed junk. But the point that these iPhone images prove is that you dont need to have a D7000 to bring your vision to the people. Look around at the DPR forums, they are full of perfectly composed, well-exposed and bitingly sharp photos of streets, cats, plants, and kids that are mind-numbingly boring, because people who take them have no talent, and compensate by investing mega$$s in the professional level kit. I am not against it, I have a very good camera myself.
What Dan Chung really proved is the limitation of the iPhone. Just compare to other professional photos like those on olympics.org and you can see what's lacking:
. Resolution
. Athlete's face expressions
. Actions at their peak
. Sharpness for low light actions
. Subject isolation
Now imagine what the pics look like without binoculars and the clip-on Schneider lens, and without Dan Chung. Actually you don't have to, there are plenty of them from the audience posted on Flickr and Facebook. Horrid.
I'm next, and YOU (wrider) don't get it. You do not DARE insult photography & the potential excellence of it by deliberately using a Fisher Price-esque TOY when you're at the freaking OLYMPICS with a front-stage pass. For crying out loud man--do you see LeBron James playing hoops with $10 shoes from Payless going "I"m here to challenge myself" or "a good basketball player doesn't get obsessed about the shoes he wears, if he's any good he can play barefooted on hot concrete?"
Do you see Michael Phelps swimming in a drainage ditch saying "I want to see how good I can swim without the ideal, perfect standardized pool?" Maybe we need to see Tiger Woods (or whoever we now say is the world's best golf player) playing golf using a plain wooden pool from a broom. Maybe we should ask the marathon runners to see how fast they can run jumping in a potato sack.
The opinion of "dylanbarnhart" is dead-on, the others advocating this silliness--**YOU** don't get it. ***NEXT***
Yepp, Larry, you just don't get it. There are plenty other photographers shooting the Olympics with pro-sports kits. This is a different experiment, and you got to give Dan props for trying it, as a challenge, as an experiment. As for taking the place of other photographers, well, 100% f people on this site would never get a press pass at the Olympics, because they suck, even if you give them a 600mm Canon lens with a 1D. Dan earned his press pass an not by using an iPhone. So, chill out. As for you picking your daughter's wedding photographer based on his/her gear- well, luckily, this will be her decision, not yours, otherwise you will get crappy perfectly exposed pictures. Maybe news to you, but good photography takes talent, not just technique.
Ho Dan Chung! I hope you are having a blast! What are you proving? You are proving that no matter what camera we own, what we can afford, we can have fun with photography and create photos that we can look back on with great memories. Yes you could do better with a more "professional" piece of equipment, we all know that, but I really appreciate what you have done with what you have been given! Great talent, the oportunity to be there, and lot's of just plain hard work. I do not have a TV. I would have missed the Olympics once again. But these were a treat. Too bad you could not have been everwhere at once. :)
Thank you very much. You inspire me to work harder at my photography. After all, is'nt hard work what the Olympics are all about?
I'm sure that no matter how much I spent on clubs, Tiger Woods would whip me every time using a single, cheap 5 iron. But what if he were trying to win the open?
Professional photography is fiercely competitive, and gear helps provided you have the talent and experience to exploit it.
Dan Chung having a bit of blogger fun says more about how pointless having expensive gear is if you just post on the web. Not exactly news though, is it?
What do you think he would use if he was working for Sports Illustrated?
And when was the last time you bought Sports Illustrated (other than the swim suit issue)? All those high quality yellow cover National Geographic magazines are where? Self help stores won't even accept them for free. Point is that the way in which consumers aquire images has changed and very few people seem to care about the super high res glossy images any more. It is very sad because I am one of those people but I can't expect the people producing media for consumers to cater to the minority when I am not willing to pay the premium. So we all get stupendis amounts of medium quality images for a bargain. Just the way it is.
Well, its true that sport has now been overtaken by video, since most people catch up on video news feeds. But there are still touchlines full of long lenses.
And for that matter plenty of magazines containing great photography, just not the ones we probably all remember as being known for it.
Photojournalism on the whole is not resolution obsessed. The D4 is "only" 16MP. 12MP D3s's are still widely used. Most phonecams come quite close to that already. But at ISO3200 a phone cam cannot even make a convincing HDTV image.
And I can't see landscape photographers switching to low resolution solutions any time soon.
Can you, Yes
Will it yield pictures to share the moment, Yes
What is more interesting is how limting was the tool, did the photographer enjoy the process at all after the fact he showed he could do it.
For facebook or sharing on the web fine, for getty images, SI, or just for the callange how boring is that!
This looks more like an "I can do this with one hand tied behind my back" bet. Some of the images are great, some are mediocre, many suffer (imo) from poor subject isolation due to the large depth of field or lack of dynamic range to capture the event, and some of the really cool shots are function of the positioning afforded to pros.
I think it's an interesting study simply because it shows you what the limits are with a talented photographer. Despite a couple of really great shots, the majority have the flat look of very limited equipment. They would be useful as a way to dress up an otherwise text-only narrative but do not make for a compelling photo-blog.
(note: I have an iPhone 4 and one of the standout features is the camera. It's awesome to have "all the time," but it stays in my pocket when I have another camera with me)
OK, I checked out his pics. OK snapshots with the equivalent of a decent point and shoot. Made possible only because his employer told him "we're going to experiment here. Use your iPhone and let's see what happens", not "and make sure you get the shot". Great work if you can get it.
I would hate to have a boss like that. I'm probably being "all talk no action," but I dare say I would even REFUSE to do as he asked, I'd tell my boss "I'm not using some PHONE to take photos at the Olympics, I've got a Nikon/Canon so & so I'm using THAT. If you want iPhone pics so bad, take 'em yourself, or grab someone from the stands & have THEM do it."
Guess how many photographers used their best equipment, got superior images and no one ever hears about them? Sometimes PR is as important as the actual results - if not more so. Both the agency and the photographer got mentioned a lot, so their goal was achieved. Being better known means more future jobs / higher price taken for the same assignments. In the business sense - a job well done! As far as photography goes - meeeh...
What if it was in the hands of Ms. Dudedeleedoo from Alaska? Are it still great shots, or just ordinary cell phone pic(k)s?
(as a side note: I think mr. Dan Chung is one of the best reportage dslr videographers out there.)
Like the G5 Olympic photos, these are fine at 460px wide, and the shooter has concentrated on taking actions shots where he can easily predict the action. When I see some G5 or iPhone shots of a soccer match that rival those taken by a pro with high-end gear,I'll be impressed. Neither camera is useful for taking shots of quickly moving subjects and continous AF. I like Chung's shots, but they illustrate a very skilled shooter who is living within the limitation of his tools, not the capability of the tools.
Quite agree with you. The photographer is very good and the tool not-so-bad... so let see what can be produced when we combinate the two, something like that: http://youtu.be/hk5IMmEDWH4
Or when a Paris Opera or Vienna Philharmonic super-solist is challenged to play his best on an entry-class violin. It can be fun, even interesting but could it make the deal when it comes to high standard concerts where every client wants to get his money's worth ? The doubt is allowed.
A spate of articles lately on this site touting the use of devices other than the highest end professional ones are consistent with the "Challenges" in another area of DPR. Both groups underscore the irrelevance of equipment in making an appealing/arresting/mystifying/compelling image while also confirming that anyone is capable of making a few good pictures no matter what camera he or she uses.
The problem is that few photographers who command our ongoing interest are capable of making one let alone many series of appealing/arresting/mystifying/compelling images over a long period of time and those who do emphasize vision not equipment. What camera did Bill Brandt use? Harry Callahan? Ray Metzker? Cindy Sherman? Manuel Bravo?
As has been said countless times, the best camera in the world is the one you have with you there and then.
Saying "what wonderful photos, you must have a really professional camera" is on the level with saying "wonderful food, you must have a really advanced food processor" or "you run really fast, you must have really great shoes"...
I do believe runners make a point to get shoes appropriate for marathon or sprint running, as opposed to buying them from "Payless." I doubt you see LeBron James running up & down the court in flip-flops yelling to Coack K "hey, a good basketball player can play wearing ANYTHING." I doubt the chefs at the 5-star restaurants in London are preparing their meals using Stouffer's "Meal in a Bag" cooked in a garage-sale skillet over a campfire. I don't see Michael Phelps swimming in a drainage ditch.
I'm not a professional, merely a "hobbyist," but when I went to the Ozark Mountains last week, knowing nice landscapes awaited me, I used an Olympus E-PL1 and Nikon D5100, NOT my phone's camera--not even for silly snaps of us eating in a cafe. Such is beneath decent photography if you ask me. Call me an "elitist" all you want, I don't care. And no, saying "if you really cared, you'd taken a D800 or medium format" is NOT saying the same thing.
Like I said with the G5. All you people out there that think if you guy the best gear available you become a good photographer. Think again. It does not matter what you use. A good photo is a good photo regardless of what you use. I have seen some terrible photos taken with D4's and 1D's using the best glass. And....welcome to the digital age, where 90% of your photos will be viewed at around 2 megapixels. When was the last time you printed one of your photos larger than A3 ?
Sadly so many of you miss the point...
And have been missing it for ages.
Many of the readers of this site are camera users first, and photographers a far distant second, if at all.
For us taking a good photo is entirely secondary to the experience of owning the gear that would be capable of taking a good photo - should we for some strange reason desire to do so - oh and if we had the technical and aesthetic skills to do so.
Now try and tell us it's not the gear!!
And as for "the best camera is the one you have with you".
The best camera has superlatively large or small numbers in the specification section of brochure or catalog and more acronyms than a bowl of alphabet soup.
An iPhone in the pocket is not worth a D4 in the locker.
Anything else is falls within the purview artists or - gasp - photographers and we want nothing to do with it or them.
Why would you want to sully a perfectly good - or, even better, superlatively good camera with photography?
I was among the critics of the "Moutharopoulos stunt", but here I must acknowledge that the photos are so masterfully taken that their quality is not so important anymore.
Ok, they are small and all that, but boy, are they beautifull! This man is a talent - and he wants to become a videographer (and at least reduce his commitment with "pure" photography), as he stated before!
I also imagine that here he was the one to chose his tool, not Panasonic marketing office, and I see the advertising message as less intense or at least less direct: the iphone stands for "smartphone with a camera", it's not even the one with the better camera out there.
Two thumbs up!
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Franchi, I.A.; Baker, L.; Bridges, J.C.; Wright, I.P. and Pillinger, C.T.
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Meteorites preserve a wide range of oxygen isotopic signatures from the time of the Solar System's formation. Most of these rocks record complex histories, each phase of which has the potential for overwriting initial oxygen signatures. The unequilibrated ordinary chondrites reveal evidence of hydrothermal alteration through isotopic disequilibrium within chondrules and in secondary magnetites, which we can now constrain to temperatures of 140-180°C. The effects of this alteration are progressively obliterated by later thermal metamorphism. Further heating leads to melting (shown in achondritic meteorites), producing well-defined mass-fractionation lines using high-precision analyses. The oxygen from low-temperature minerals in carbonaceous chondrites reveals high levels of isotopic uniformity, suggesting that the aqueous alteration occurred under open-system conditions. The initial isotopic composition of the water from the ordinary chondrites is quite distinct from that in the carbonaceous chondrites, but both fall on a single line of slope 1.0, as do the initial anhydrous silicate compositions. This is taken to show that a process generating a mass-independent fractionation was responsible for most of the oxygen-isotopic variation seen in meteorites. Subsequent aqueous alteration of the meteorite parent bodies involving these components is then capable of producing the full observed variation.
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It's the end of an era now that Sandra Oh has announced she is leaving Grey's Anatomy. But fans of the acerbic Dr. Cristina Yang have at least the upcoming 10th season to prepare to bid her farewell.
Oh announced she will exit the series to pursue other opportunities, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go," Oh told THR. "It's such an interesting thing to play a character for so long and to actually get the sense that she wants to be let go as well. [Cristina] wants to be let go, and I am ready to let her go. We have to start the process, story-wise, for the Grey's writers to think of why she's going to go."
Since the show's premiere in 2005 Oh's Yang has been an integral piece of the Grey's universe as a nearly impenetrable but brilliant heart surgeon who is also Meredith Grey's (Ellen Pompeo) "person."
The departure is something Oh has considered for some time, according to THR. She announced she'd be leaving to fellow cast members at a table read last week.
Grey's creator Shonda Rhimes has known about Oh's decision for some time and has fully supported her, Oh told THR.
There is no word yet as to how the writers will write Cristina out of the show, but we're confident Rhimes and Co. will find some new and tragic way to send her off.


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I e-mailed Rep. Paul Broun recently, challenging him to explain the threat that he contends same-sex marriage would present to traditional marriage. His response totally ignored the question, stating only, "We know from natural law that marriage - as it has existed for all of Earth history - is indeed a union between one man and one woman."
He offered no justification for that statement. Even if he based that argument on the Bible - surely part of "Earth history" - it obviously would be erroneous. The most casual Bible reader knows that many of its great heroes had many wives and concubines, including Jacob, Solomon and many others. Actually, the true enemies of marriage are those like former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and current Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr. Each married often, casting aside successive wives of whom they tired.
Perhaps Broun will read this and respond, though I'm confident he can offer no evidence that same-sex marriage possibly could pose any threat to the traditional variety. Incidentally, my spouse and I have been wed for 52 years.
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As looks go, last night's Maple Leafs game ranked right up there with Cinderella's sisters.
The final score, though, was a thing of beauty: Toronto 3, Alex Ovechkin 0.
And, so, with the home win -- only the 13th of the season -- against the Washington Capitals, the Maple Leafs now hold a share of the final playoff spot.
"I don't think we were solely responsible for the sleeping pills," coach Paul Maurice said. "With a 3-0 shutout we should be smiling, but there wasn't much buzz about it. It was a bit like the outdoor practice we had this week."
Kinda ugly. Dull even. But, oh so profitable.
One of the biggest grins afterward belonged to Andrew Raycroft. A week ago he was booed off the ice. Last night he set aside 24 shots, including one superb stop on Ovechkin halfway through the third to earn his second shutout, and a career-high 30th win, of the season. It earned him the first star -- and a one-game reprieve from fans' ire.
"You know, you just roll with it," Raycroft said. "There's nothing you can do about (being booed). Besides, I'm my worst critic. It's something you learn to deal with because you don't have a choice. I'm not going to sit in my room and sulk and worry about it. Coming off last year there were a lot of questions around me. To win 30 it means I'm doing all right."
In the first period, when the game still was in doubt, he stopped Alexander Semin as both Chad Kilger and Yanic Perreault failed to clear the zone. Raycroft stymied Semin again from the slot near the halfway mark. Semin, knocked down in the slot, made his bid for goofiest play of the year when he tried to throw the puck toward the net with his gloved hand and had it go off the crossbar.
As chapters in the season go, this was a good one, but Raycroft knows it isn't the last one.
"We've still got a long way to go," Raycroft said "Tonight was one step. It wasn't an easy game."
In the goalless first, if Mats Sundin had spent any more time cruising around Capitals goalie Fred Cassivi, they would have had to have gotten married. Sundin and his linemates Nik Antropov and Alexei Ponikarovsky had a half dozen good chances. Cassivi, making his first start for Washington, had his own pressure to deal with: His mom in Montreal told him prior to the game he had to win so her favourite team could keep ahead of the Leafs and he matched Raycroft for 20 minutes.
Then the Leafs kicked it into gear, got the forecheck working, sent players to the net and pretty much made Ovechkin disappear. Darcy Tucker opened the scoring three minutes eight seconds into the period when John Pohl broke in on the right wing. Cassivi made a stick save but the puck rebounded high into the slot where Tucker happened to be cruising. It bounced off his shoulder and into the net.
"After we scored we were quite a bit better; skated better, pressured better," Maurice said. "But as coaches you worry so much about a game like this because you have to win."
The Leafs play four of their final 16 games against teams with inferior records -- and last night was one of them.
"It would've been an ugly night if we hadn't won," Maurice said. "We got the business done but as games go that's about it."
Perreault scored his first goal in his third reincarnation as a Maple Leaf at 14:39 of the second when he cut in on the left wing, skated across the crease and flipped a backhand over the glove of Cassivi.
Ponikarovsky scored two minutes 47 seconds into the third.
"This is a game that meant a lot to us," Sundin said, "and maybe not so much to them."
It showed.
B+ Forwards: Just one week earlier, Darcy Tucker was in street clothes and Perreault was a Phoenix Coyote. Last night, both hit the scoresheet.
B Defence: Despite getting windburn a couple of times as Alexander Ovechkin breezed by them, Leafs defenders, for the most part, played a sound game.
A Goaltending: Loudly booed during his previous start at home, Andrew Raycroft posted his second shutout as a Leaf.


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How does Orlando's weekend dealings affect your lineup?
There are many ways to play fantasy basketball — rotisserie, head to head, lineups that can be changed any time and lineups that lock just prior to Monday night's tip. With that in mind, Athlon Sports will give you the Fantasy Dime each week. These are 10 things to assist you before you have to lock in that lineup for the week.
A three-team trade involving the Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns and Washington Wizards went down over the weekend and of course that means a shakeup for the player who was traded, the rest of the roster for the team he is coming to and the rest of the roster for the team he departed.
First, for Orlando, which did all the dealing, welcomes four new players (Yahoo eligibility in parenthesis).
• Jason Richardson (SG/SF) from Phoenix — Was the Suns' leading scorer and shouldn't slow down in Orlando.
• Hedo Turkoglu (SG/SF/PF) from Phoenix — Had his best numbers in previous Orlando stop.
• Earl Clark (SF/PF) from Phoenix — Has no fantasy value as of now.
• Gilbert Arenas (PG/SG) from Washington — Will still come off the bench.
Second, is Phoenix, which received three players from Orlando.
• Vince Carter (SG/SF) — Being with Steve Nash can't be all that bad.
• Marcin Gortat (C) — Could vie for the starting center job.
• Mickael Pietrus (SG/SF) — Solid defender and 3-point shooter.
Third, for Washington, is the one-for-one trade with Orlando.
• Rashard Lewis (SF/PF) — I wouldn't expect much outside of 3s.
There are plenty of opinions on how it will affect the players traded and how it will affect what's left on the rosters of the three teams involved. So here's half a Fantasy Dime, a Fantasy Nickel if you will, to give you all the angles of the trade.
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With the news that point guard Brandon Jennings will be out 4-6 weeks with foot surgery, Keyon Dooling is expected to step in. The 10th overall pick in the 2000 draft, Dooling has played just 17.3 minutes per games this season, scoring 5.2 a game on .356 from the field, .310 from beyond the arc and .864 from the line. He averages two assists and one rebound. For his career, Dooling averages 19:30 minutes per game, 7.1 points and 2.2 assists. On top of that, the Bucks are the worst scoring team in the league at 91.6 points per game. So keep the Bucks' scoring woes and Dooling's career averages in mind before you run out to the waiver wire and add him.
Anderson Varejao was the fourth-best player in nine-category leagues. In four games, the Cleveland forward-center averaged 37 minutes and 15.7 points while shooting .563 from the field and .917 from the stripe. He also posted 12.7 rebounds, 2.0 blocks, 1.7 assists and a steal over the last week. He is still available in 33 percent of Yahoo leagues. The Cavs play three games this week.
Ty Lawson was the 12th-best player in nine category leagues last week as he filled in for starting Denver point guard Chauncey Billups. While Billups is expected to return midweek, Lawson should still be a safe play this week. He is still available in 74 percent of Yahoo leagues, and if you have a deep enough bench he is certainly worth holding on to. Lawson averaged over 35 minutes in four games over the last week, scoring 18 points per game with 7.3 assists, 3.3 rebounds, 1.3 steals and just 1.0 turnovers. The Nuggets play three games this week against San Antonio, Oklahoma City and a resurgent Philadelphia, so they will need all the offense they can get.
Kyle Lowry has filled in nicely for Aaron Brooks at the starting point guard spot for Houston. Lowry was the 13th-best nine-category player last week. He averaged over 33 minutes during the four-game stretch, scoring 14.3 points, dishing out 9.3 assists, collecting 2.8 steals and dropping in 1.8 3-pointers a game. Brooks returned to action Dec. 19 and will eventually resume his starting role. The Rockets have just two games left this week, so using either Lowry or Brooks is not suggested if you have better options. But keep an eye on Lowry, available in 44 percent of Yahoo leagues. He has started 19 of 23 games for the Rockets this season for Brooks who has been out since Nov. 6 with an ankle injury. Houston was 0-5 with Brooks as a starter.
Reggie Williams posted the 23rd-best nine-category week in three games played for Golden State. The guard-forward played over 38 minutes a game, averaging 20.3 points on 3.0 3-pointers a game with 5.3 boards and 3.7 assists. WIlliams also shot .538 from the field and .714 from the stripe. He is still available in 51 percent of Yahoo leagues for a Warriors team that has three games this week — two at their home court against Houston and Portland and one that might as well be when they travel to Sacramento Dec. 21.
Washington's Kirk Hinrich, who has eligibility as a point and shooting guard in both Yahoo and ESPN leagues, is available in 51 percent of Yahoo leagues and 59 of ESPN leagues. The time to go snag Hinrich is now if you haven't already. Constant injuries to rookie guard John Wall, along with his dual eligibility, should have had Hinrich on your roster weeks ago. But now with Wall out indefinitely due to a knee injury and Gilbert Arenas traded away, the minutes are going to continue to be there for Hinrich. He is scoring 10.6 a game on .447 from the field and .850 from the free throw line to go along withh 4.9 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 1.2 steals.
Mehmet Okur has returned from his Achilles injury, but the Utah Jazz are easing him into the rotation. In his two games back, the center has logged 11 and 13 minutes. He averages 29 minutes, 13.8 points, 7.1 boards, 1.7 assists for his career, but it is not known how he will be used in the Jazz frontcourt. The acquisition of Al Jefferson in the offseason and the play of Paul Milsap gives Utah a formidable starting inside presence as it is. But solid centers are scarce in fantasy basketball, whether they are coming off the bench or not. Monitor Okur's progress. He is available in 89 percent of ESPN leagues and 60 percent of Yahoo leagues.
Robin Lopez also returned from injury for the Phoenix Suns. He missed 14 games with a sprained MCL and PCL. Lopez has company in the form of Channing Frye and the newly acquired Marcin Gortat at the center spot for the Suns. Lopez was averaging under 20 minutes prior to the injury, but has played no less than 21:52 in his three games back. He is available in 47 of Yahoo and 78 of ESPN leagues, so like Okur, monitor how he, Frye and Gortat work for Alvin Gentry's Phoenix squad.
Marcus Thornton was supposed to be a nice sleeper for the New Orleans Hornets this season. Then Marco Belinelli earned the starting 2 guard spot to start the year, the Hornets went on a winning tear and Thornton seemed lost in the mix for the first quarter of the season. But he started to turn it on last week — scoring 19 points and playing nearly 24 minutes on back-to-back occasions. He cooled off Dec. 19 with three points in 13 minutes played in a close loss to Detroit. Thornton can be the occasional spark off the bench, which is where he has been all season, but that spark has also seen 10 occasions in which he saw no minutes and eight others where he didn't register at least 12 minutes of action. He's another monitor and hope that he lives up to his potential as the season wares on.
You'd never sit him unless you have better options or in a one-center league, but I just need a place to overreact about the underperforming Marc Gasol. I drafted Gasol as my first center in a two-center league in the fourth round of the Athlon Sports draft. I was so secure that he would follow up his 2009-10 season of 28 double-doubles that I felt confident that the only legitimate frontcourt partner he would need was JaVale McGee. I took a flier on McGee in the eighth round, not expecting him to be the dependable one — 9.6 points, 8.4 boards and 2.4 blocks. Gasol is averaging 11.6 points 7.6 rebounds, 1.4 blocks and has just four double-doubles. He has shot .273, .125, .333 and .250 from the field in the last four games. In the month of December alone last season, Gasol averaged 14.5 points and 10.1 boards. McGee has seven double-doubles already this season, shoots a higher percentage from the field and has turned it over 18 fewer times. I'm not giving up on Gasol, but they are not the numbers I expected from a player I thought was going to raise his game to another level this season.
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The Top 8 Headlines You Might Have Missed / Haaretz Newsline, April 29
From a top Israeli official's confirmation that the Syrian army has used chemical weapons against rebels, to the Supreme Court's decision to postpone the evacuation of the West Bank outpost of Amona yet again, Haaretz brings you the top 8 headlines you might have missed.
A senior Israeli official said on Monday that intelligence services have concrete and unequivocal evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad's military has used chemical weapons against rebels.
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halki survived a bomb attack that targeted his convoy in central Damascus, according to a television channel run by Hezbollah, which is close to Assad. According to initial reports, six people were killed in the attack.
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnuah) has informed prominent settler leaders that she intends to take stern measures to curb the incidence of "price tag" attacks, often carried out by extremist settlers against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank.
The former managing director and editor of Israel's Channel 2 News company had warned journalist Emmanuel Rosen about his allegedly inappropriate behavior toward young female employees at the company, Haaretz has learned. The police have been following reports about allegations of improper behavior and harassment on Emmanuel's part, but have not yet decided whether to launch an investigation.
The Supreme Court granted on Sunday a request by the state to postpone the evacuation of the illegal outpost Amona until July 15. In 2011 the state said Amona would be evacuated by the end of 2012.
An immigrant to the United States who plotted to blow up synagogues in New York City has been sentenced to five years in jail.
The State Comptroller's report for 2013 is slated to feature a long chapter devoted to the issue of sexual harassment in academia. The report mentions several cases in recent years at state-funded institutions of higher education, including the large universities, in which senior male faculty members sexually harassed female students.
A Dutch chief rabbi said his community is "vexed" because a farewell event for the Dutch queen is scheduled for Yom Kippur. "Jews are again faced with a reality in which they don't belong, and that is painful," Holland's chief interprovincial rabbi, Binyomin Jacobs, has said.
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Brace yourselves: Soon, you'll see assertions that U.S. housing is losing "affordability," the leading cause of slowing sales asserted by those who have never sold a home, or provided a loan for one. There are two legitimate economic moments when homes become unaffordable, both temporary. First, when the Fed and or inflation force up mortgage rates beyond the ability or willingness of buyers to pay. The subsequent recession always fixes that problem. The second circumstance is related: In recessions, unemployment rises, and the unemployed can't afford much of anything. Sometimes it takes a long time for jobs to come back, sometimes short; sometimes a lot of jobs lost or a few, but they always come back. [graphiq id="evRBWnjd3db" title="U.S. Housing Affordability Index" width="600" height="608" url="https://w.graphiq.com/w/evRBWnjd3db" link="http://places.findthehome.com" link_text="U.S. Housing Affordability Index | FindTheHome"] Every other aspect of afforda...
- Affordability is a self-correcting, circular issue in the housing market.
- At the heart of affordability circularity: If buyers could not afford the prices being paid in any given market area, they would not pay them.
- The odds are that construction now is slow to recover like everything else after the Great Recession, but will recover. Higher prices are less "affordable" but will encourage more supply.
- Maybe there is some dysfunction -- credit, regulation, other impediment to development -- but not likely.
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Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 | 5:35 p.m.
Area of baseball bat beating
A Las Vegas man admitted to beating his father to death with a baseball bat earlier this month and surrendered to authorities Monday in Arkansas, where he is awaiting extradition, Metro Police say.
Las Vegas residents Richard Heron Jr., 32, and Richard Heron Sr. began to argue late Nov. 18 at a condo in the 1900 block of North Torrey Pines Drive, police said in a report released Tuesday. Heron Jr., who had been living in the condo with his father after a dispute with his girlfriend over custody of their 8-year-old son, thought the argument was over when his father swung a bat at him, the report said. The bat first hit a wall, and then Heron Jr. was hit in the back of the head.
Heron Jr. told authorities: "I remember grabbing the bat from him and hitting him back."
A neighbor heard a number of loud noises and then heard a voice yell "Dad," repeatedly, and then "Daddy," a number of times shortly after, police said.
The neighbor did not call 911 because the son walked from the apartment calmly, and the neighbor thought he would have called for help if something had been wrong, the report said.
Sunday, Heron Jr. sent his girlfriend a text reading, "I'm so sorry," the police said. In a brief telephone conversation that followed, Heron Jr. confessed to his girlfriend that he killed his father, the report said. His girlfriend then urged him to surrender to authorities.
Monday, Heron Jr. told his girlfriend he was going to turn himself in, the report said. She then drove toward Heron Sr.'s home around 9:30 a.m. and found a police officer nearby. She told him about the slaying, and authorities entered the condo shortly after and found Heron Sr. dead with a baseball bat nearby.
Around noon Monday, Heron Jr. called police in Sheridan, Ark., where he had gone for Thanksgiving and turned himself in at the station. He confessed on a conference call with Sheridan police and Metro Police, the report said.


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Although I have to admit I have a soft spot for Sister Hazel because I saw them at Street Scene many moons ago, tonight's Casbah show is the winner of the night. It has been a while since Lady Dottie has graced the Casbah's stage and, with the Beautiful View celebrating their album release, you might want to think about feighning ill on Friday. Sundrop Electic will bring the rock, too, and my favorite Fresno band, Strange Vine, will be opening the night, which means you should plan on getting here early and staying late.
Thursday, Jan. 12:
- Lady Dottie & the Diamonds, the Beautiful View (album release), Sundrop Electric, Strange Vine @ Casbah
- Sister Hazel, Chelsea Bain, Todd Carey @ Belly Up
- Everyday Sunshine: Story of Fishbone movie viewing @ Whistle Stop -- read Tim Pyles' preview here
- Ghostline, Glitter Wizard, Sister Mary Challenger, Moon/Echoes @ Soda Bar
- Kill the Moon, Brian Ellis Group, Glitterwizard, Joy @ Tin Can
- Andy Lund, Jesse Payo, Zane Carney @ Lestat's
- The Natives, the Last Years, Kodiak, Trailec @ Eleven
- Rat City Riot, Dirty Filthy Mugs, the Booze Hounds @ The Shakedown Bar
- Oceanside Sound System @ The Griffin
- Missy Andersen @ Marble Room
- Sista Monica Parker @ Anthology
- The Gamer Girls present Nerdcore Night, with Doc Awk, El Gun Legro, Zealous 1, Ckalkskin @ Ruby Room
- Kill Quanti @ Kava Lounge
- L.E.D. presents Brodinski & Gessaffelstein, Deth Hertz @ Voyeur
- Buzz Campbell & Hot Rod Lincoln @ Valley View Casino
- Moonlight Serenade Orchestra @ The Lucky Star Restaurant
- Polynesian Underground presents Thrive, the Room Down Stairs @ Winston's
- Rockola @ Humphreys Backstage Live
- Lee Rainey & the Midnight Players @ Patrick's Gaslamp Pub
- Sinizen @ Gallagher's Irish Pub
- iParty Thursdays @ Henry's Pub
- Club '80s @ Club Kadan
- Dave Booda Trio @ Tiki House
- Rob Bondurant @ Coyote Bar & Grill
- Safety Orange @ Hennessey's Pacific Beach
- Freako Suave, Taken By Canadians, Christian Taylor @ Boar Cross'n
- Live Band Karaoke @ 710 Beach Club
- Soul Jazz @ Croce's
Rosemary Bystrak writes about the San Diego music scene, events and general musings about life in San Diego on San Diego: Dialed In. Follow her updates on Twitter or contact her directly.
Published at 12:00 AM PST on Jan 12, 2012 | Updated at 4:56 PM PST on Jan 11, 2012


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Apr 13th 2011
Some things we can improve, such as our respective credit scores. Only 13 percent of the U.S. population has a credit score of 800 or more. Other bits of life we really can't do beans about, such as possible government office shutdowns or the Fed's interest rate swings.
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