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Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
July 27, 2010, 05:39 PM »
I wrote a brief Fearless SUL Tattoo review on the old forum. I'm re-posting it below with a few new comments here first in blue text.
There have been some that have had trouble with the SUL Tattoo and JLs or the 1/2 Lazy to Fade. Maybe the Fade roll out to Turtle too I'm not sure. In another thread we were discussing this and possibly it having to do with the deep Turtle of the Fearlesses. I tend to think it's not the reason having flown almost all the Fearless versions and not seeing an issue with the Turtle position on them. They all have the same deep Turtle.
Lam puts a pretty good sized chunk of weight on the tail of the Fearless, SULs included. Having spent some time playing around with weights, I would think that has a lot to do with the way the Tattoo behaves. Very light kite + lots of TW = some compromises in the way the kite tricks. There are also some benefits or people just wouldn't do it. Backspins and rolling up etc. are some tricks usually enhanced by adding more tail weight. I'm no kite design expert but I have seen this many times. To be fair if you throw the deep Turtle in to the equation who knows? I do know that when I add more weight to kites especially UL & SULs they have a tendency to loose an easy Pancake to Fade and possibly the 1/2 Lazy to Fade too.
I don't want to come across as conceited, but I really don't see much of a problem with the JL on the SUL Tattoo myself. The kite does need some precise / careful inputs at times but nothing out of the ordinary for a SUL. Different than a standard? Yeah, but easy enough.
For the JL let the kite settle back into the Turtle before the 1/2 Lazy input and pulling through to the Fade. Then just sweep, do not yank, add slack and you're in a Fade. You can also hit JLs quicker by just flicking the kite about with more of a wrist snap type input. The kite will then roll out of the Fade quickly and drop back into the Turtle quick too. Think more momentum. The kite is light but pitchy too.
A few more thoughts:
Do not over do the inputs and watch your slack especially in super low wind, too much slack & it's over, you've lost your control of the kite. Keep backing up, watch the input intensity and adjust inputs for the wind strength!
The Fearless SUL Tattoo is lighter than a Fearless SUL and tricks a little different. The SUL Tattoo takes a bit softer hand and a little more time to rotate though most tricks. The exception would be Backspins, Lazy / Multi- Lazies and over rotated Flic Flacs can be performed quickly. Standard Flic Flacs need a smooth sweep from Pancake to Fade.
I like to keep the kite lower in the window for most tricks. They just feel and look better too me.
A couple of tricks I didn't mention in the original review:
Taz - very good & easy to hit. This is a SUL so give it some time and enough slack for the rotation and it's SWEET.
Comete - Pretty straight forward but don't bang on it. You can go fast if you like but take it easy with the intensity. They look real good though.
Multi Lazies - It'll lazy until the lines bind up if you want. You can hit these fast if you like or slow them way down. Hit them hard and fast and they'll rise, slow and you'll probably loose some altitude if the winds real light. Lazy cascades are easy.
Here is the original review from 2008, I'll add a video showing some JLs too. I didn't measure the wind during the video but it was Super Ultra Light
Skysport Design's (Lam Hoac's) Fearless SUL
The SUL trickers Holy Grail? Maybe...
I have owned a Fearless SUL Tattoo version for a couple of months. The Tattoo version has a single color sail which limits the seams and causes, according to Lam, less drag. This gives it an even lower bottom wind range.
When I first got my Fearless SUL, Lam told me to fly it and get a feel for it before I tried to trick it. I had test flown one already so I ignored that advice, as if I would have listened anyway, and started flicking it around the first moment I got it airborne, no problem. I did struggle with some very bumpy winds the first couple of times out with it, though.
My impression of the Fearless SUL when I fly it is it looks very graceful and precise as it tricks..... it just flat out looks cool tricking. It definitely has a UL / SUL look / feel but still pitches about pretty easy. As easy or easier than many standards. It looks and feels like a Lam kite, not too different from a Sea Devil light or SUL I've flown. To me, Lam's kites have their own unique feel and flight qualities not quite like any others. It's not very floaty for a SUL but it will trick down to zero mph and fly with some drive in just a tickle ( much less than 1mph) of a breeze with some moving about. I only fly it when the wind is less than about 3 mph and usually even less so I can't comment on the upper wind range. The Fearless responds well to small quick inputs in most situations but be careful or you can find yourself with extra slack & no control in the lightest winds.
Top Positives of the Fearless SUL:
Fade - Super stable even in the lightest winds. Stake it stable. No wind just back peddle.
Backspin - Easy, a sharper hit flattens it out and use long pull for more of a roll type bs. It will bs endlessly or until your lines bind up. Not bad for a SUL!
Lazy Susan, Inverse - Goes back easy and rotates fast or slow high or low in the window. Good control. Sometimes it'll feel like it wants to get stuck in the turtle but just hit it and it doesn't.
Flare / Flic Flac - It has a dead spot (like many kites) if you let the nose get too high in the flare so pull back to a fade quickly. Over rotated flic flacs are excellent and once you get it pitching, just haul a$$ toward it and it can roll up twice from a Fade! Yo Flics baby!
Yoyo - Rolls up from many positions. Two pops need to hit be very even or it rolls crooked. It will roll up multiple times from a single input. Not the quickest or easiest (or hardest either!) kite to roll up (compared to a std) but it's not hard and for a UL / SUL probably the best I've tried of this type.
JL - Are very nice looking and you can flick them quick even in light wind with just a snap of the wrist or slow them down. If slow, make sure the nose is deep in the half turtle before you pull to the fade position and your golden.
Slots & 540s etc. - Really, really nice. Lines clear the wing tips without a fuss and it looks great doing these.
Wap do waps - This is a trick where you need to learn it's timing and give a bit more slack during the rotation or it won't rotate 360 deg. Once you get the touch - very nice.
The half axel / cascade - Again, the Fearless gets top marks for looks on these and they're ez too.
Does (almost?) all the tricks even in SUL form!!! The limiting factor here is the pilot (me)
Super Low wind trickability - A++
Build Quality - As usual from Lam, top shelf.
Bumpy wind - It can get in awkward positions & drop very quickly especially in the bumpy stuff higher in the window.
Slack control - Not really a negative just keep an eye on your lines & limit the slack a bit more than some others.... except for certain tricks (like Wap do Waps) need just a bit more.
Crazy copter - I haven't had much luck hitting them. I just can't get it to roll forward consistently.
Cost $$$$$ - I had to sell three kites & kick in a couple extra bucks to pay for it.
For me, some tricks had a bit more of a learning curve than I initially felt they would.
Most of the other negatives I have experienced are disappearing as a get used to the Fearless SUL and are more just it's personality than anything negative. It is demanding of precise inputs in certain situations but overall not hard to trick even in the lightest winds. If you can think of a trick, the Fearless SUL can probably do it. It may take a bit to learn how to do it but it's probably not the kite if you can't. I still need more time on it but the Super Duper SUL winds have come to my area and it's just about the only kite I've flown in the last few weeks. I am so glad I have the Fearless SUL for these conditions.
The more I fly it, the more I like it. When you start understanding it, really getting it, the Fearless SUL becomes almost alive in your hands and any awkwardness seems to vanish and the tricks just flow. The Fearless SUL tricks beautifully not just for a SUL but as nice of looking tricks as any kite. ..... Super smile generator too, Yeah I'm happy.
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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July 27, 2010, 06:24 PM »
I'm one of the ones that didn't take to the Fearless right away. I got a Tattoo close to a year ago, and although I'm better with it, I'm still better with the Exile UL in the same winds. I did find that using short (50 foot) lines helps to get closer to the kite and see what it's doing. It is hard for my eyes to see the all black kite against bushes, trees and cliffs that surround my flying areas. I just flew it today, and am still having trouble with JLs. I can hit 10 rungs or more on a Sea Devil, but I'm lucky to get 3 on the Fearless.
The things I can do with the kite look great, so I doubled down on the Fearless, and got the vented light. I find it more agreeable than the SUL, but still I have the same issues. Trouble with the flic flacs and the 1/2 lazy to fade, where I can do both all day on the Sea Devils.
Those negitives aside, either kite is usually first out of the bag for the last few months, because they are fun kites. The vented light makes cr@p winds tollerable, and you don't go home grumbling. The deep turtle really spoils you for other kites, it takes remedial work to be able to backflip and trick anything else.
For what it's worth, I still have alot to learn, and the Fearless has taught me a few tricks that I've transferred to other kites, but I can understand why they're not for everyone.
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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July 27, 2010, 06:52 PM »
For my 2 cents, its the easiest SUL to JL that I've ever flown. It has the same "JL feel" that the other Fearless have.
The flick-flack takes more care than the light, etc, but other than that and other speed and timing differences due to low wind speed, I pretty much use the same inputs as for the others in the line as near as I can tell. The kite does all the tricks its siblings do, only in less wind.
Now, I can't wait to try the Transformer SUL if and when Lam makes one.
Last Edit: July 27, 2010, 07:24 PM by tpatter
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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July 27, 2010, 07:25 PM »
thanx for the wisdom and vid james .. nicely done. as usual i agree with tom on the virtues of the tat to me there is a little dead spot if you dont get the nose up in the fade.. but that is easily overcome with a little patience..although i sold the shadow i still have an inner space for slow and floaty
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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July 27, 2010, 08:19 PM »
I've got the same problem as Rob......I can get away with spanking most of the other Fearless, even in lighter winds...............but once I can tone it down, it's easier to trick.......It's just that it takes so darn long to tone it down! Too many walks to get rid of all the tangles
Looks like you've got the feel.........someday I might get it.........If I spend enough time watching Tom and Lam..........There is such a thing as osmosis, isn't there?
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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July 27, 2010, 10:51 PM »
I forgot a step in the JL explanation. The kind of important 1/2 Lazy rotation. It's fixed now.
The Vented Light also needs a little more care from Pancake to Fade but it's not nearly as picky as the Tattoo or SUL. Just use a smooth sweep type motion when you pull back to the Fade. Don't hit / pop the input abruptly or it can come back askew. Once you get a feel for it, you'll be alright and then you can maybe pop it a bit more. It will come back with a sharp input but you need to be even with both lines.
I use 2 PT LSs on the Tattoo. I made up a set of 3 PTs but I just don't use them.
The floatier kites are easier to fly and do some tricks in SUL wind. When you release a little pressure on the sail, they float more and take their time flipping about. But if you want to start hitting the pitchy stuff, that's where Fearless SUL / Tattoo come in. The downside is the kites need more attention to how and where you give slack. Too much at the wrong time and the kite flops about and into positions you had no intention doing. So easy with the inputs until you get it down. Keep the sail full of air because again, it'll flop / wrap / tangle on you very quickly. This can also be a problem with very pitchy standard kites too, even more so as the wind drops and it's easier to put slack in the lines.
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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July 28, 2010, 03:55 AM »
Hi James...
The smooth sweep motion... Tom's been trying to explain this to me, too, and I usually end up smooth sweeping the kite out of the air. I had the same problem with the Shadow, by the way. I will overcome this and eventually figure it out. I flew the vented light with 3 highly skilled pilots at Wildwood, they all had the same problem. Made me feel much better about it. My biggest problem with my slow progress is that I only get to fly with people I can learn from maybe once a year.
BTW... what's the difference between the SUL and the Tattoo, other than the lack of eyes and waves ?
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Really nothing else except the lack of applique and more weight (which meansmore mass)
I CAN spank the SUL compared to the Tattoo..................
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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July 28, 2010, 09:05 AM »
It seems we are all on the same page here. Sweep instead of yank on the fade w/in the JLs. I also found more slack - this being ... taking that one or two steps into the kite (i.e., if needed - most of the time) for more slack to ensure the Fade which I usually do not do for the SD-SUL under identical wind conditions or nearly as much should I say.
We are very demanding here
but when we fly a Lam SUL kite it should do every trick in the book - EASY
. A minor adjustment for sure ... that is an intersting thought ... I wonder what the Transformer TL (SUL) has in store for us ... its a vicious circle ...
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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July 28, 2010, 09:14 AM »
My SUL Tattoo has a lighter spine too. That takes a bit more weight off. I wanted to be able to trick in the lowest wind possible with a Fearless. When I have flown the Tattoo and the regular SUL side by side, the Tattoo feels noticeably lighter. The regular SUL is a little closer to a Light in how the kite behaves and the inputs needed. It too takes similar inputs, but you can feel a little more mass with it.
If you have trouble with the JL on the Vented Light, I'm at a loss on that. That kite rocks the JL and JL related combos.
Where is the problem with the Flic Flac on the VL, getting back to Fade, out of the Fade or? Does it come back crooked or not at all?
The standard Fearless and Light are super easy to Flic Flac and aren't critcal where you stop the nose in the Pancake.
On the VL from a Fade Pull evenly, slack - reach / lean or step toward the kite depending on wind, keep the nose flat in the Pancake. You can do this by catching or adding slight tension on the lines, then sweep evenly, slack and catch the Fade. It kind of sounds complicated when I type it out but it's really not. It'll Flic Flac all day long but just not as care free as the STD / Light. Easier than many kites though but it still needs it's own touch. It's the same with the SULs but they just need a much gentler sweep and don't let the nose up at all.
The SD SUL has more sail than a F SUL or Tattoo = more drive, more float. Flat spin tricks are flatter etc. But it takes more care to toss about, roll up, Backspin and for me (this is where I'm different from most of you) JL. Very nice though but more of a slower classic SUL feel over all.
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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July 28, 2010, 09:58 AM »
I agree totally. Will be using the 3PT and 5PT LSs and interchanging 50# and 90# line respectively with this Transformer TL kite. We shall see where this takes me ... thanks for the info ... keep reporting ...
Last Edit: July 28, 2010, 10:18 AM by asburyparkjohn
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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July 28, 2010, 06:11 PM »
Thanks, James. I try to keep the helpful advice that you & others have given me in my head, but as soon as the kite's off the ground, I find it very hard to think about what I'm supposed to be doing, I'm to busy thinking about what I am doing. The remote advice of others & videos & video taping my flying are slowly helping me to learn what I'm doing wrong. It took me about 30 hours to get to an acceptable level on the vented light, and I've probably doubled that by now. It does some things so nice, but if I try to bang off 5 or 10 flic flacs in a row, something happens around 3 or 4 and I have to bail out. Same with the JL... if I get 3 rungs in a row, it's a good day. Other than that, I have learned 3 new tricks on it, and that's one over my yearly quota, and the best flying conditions of the year are yet to come.
Thanks again for the advice & the videos.
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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November 01, 2010, 11:44 PM »
I was flying my SUL Tattoo tonight and started thinking about a couple of you that have had trouble pulling the half Lazy though to Fade on the Jacobs Ladder. So I started doing lots of JLs and continuous JLs. The Tattoo really does a nice JL. I wasn't having anymore trouble than most kites, better than many others. I know that doesn't help if your struggling so I tried playing around a bit trying different inputs to see if I could replicate the issue some are having.
So a few of things that may help:
First make sure you let the nose drop before the half lazy rotation. That will keep it lower though the rotation. I'm thinking this may be the issue. When I tried rotating before the nose dropped, the kite stayed nose high and didn't pull through as easily. Another thing you can try is using more momentum or a quicker input when you flip it back into the Turtle, then go though all the inputs a little quicker, not harder but a bit more flick to them. I know this is similar to the advise I gave above but I'm pretty sure this is where the hold up is. Make sure you let the kite rotate to a full 1/2 before you pull to Fade too.
A few other things I'd try is keeping the kite in the bottom 1/4-1/3 of the window. The lower the better. I find that most UL / SULs feel much livelier in this area of the window and most tricks seem easier too. JLs are definitely better here. The final thing is make sure you try the JLs in light wind. I know some say they fly the SUL in higher winds but it will be much easier in say 2-4 or 5 mph.
Remember this kite can JL like a champ so it has to be technique and if I can do it so can you.
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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November 02, 2010, 04:05 AM »
Thanks I will try this deeper nose. I usually take a step in to ensure very low wind resistance which helps with this part of the trick, and as you say as the wind climbs the JL becomes harder through this part of the trick.
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Re: Tricking the Fearless SUL Tattoo
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November 02, 2010, 04:46 AM »
Hey all...
I've been working with the Fearless Tattoo for a little over a year now, it has become my favorite low wind trick kite by far. I mean, like really low wind... I've actually done some 360s with it on shorter lines. I found that the kite really likes the 60' lines, thanks Tom. 75s are too long, and 50s are too short, 60' is just right. I also try to keep the other hints in mind when flying, like not letting the nose go too high in the flic-flac. It certainly isn't an easy kite to get used to, but once you do, it is a true joy to fly in less than 5mph wind. I made a video of it recently that I thought that I'd share... if you've flown the kite, you'll be able to tell this was really low wind...
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While many people are beginning to experience the tremendous health benefits that Vitamin D has to offer in the prevention of disease, according to the non-profit Vitamin D Council, along with many other prominent doctors and research experts, people may not be getting the optimal level of benefits that are possible from Vitamin D without also supplementing their diets with magnesium.
Dr. John Cannell, Executive Director of the non-profit Vitamin D Council discusses the nutrients required for proper vitamin D metabolism, citing the importance of magnesium along with several studies that illustrate this point.
"Magnesium... is essential for the normal function of the parathyroid glands (parathyroid glands and the parathyroid hormone it secretes control the amount of calcium in the blood and within the bones), metabolism of vitamin D and adequate sensitivity of target tissues to [parathyroid hormone] and active vitamin D metabolites." 1.
Additional studies reveal: "Magnesium has been found to influence the body's utilization of vitamin D in the following ways: Magnesium activates cellular enzymatic activity. In fact, all the enzymes that metabolize vitamin D require it." 2,3
"Low magnesium has been shown to alter, by way of decreasing, production of vitamin D's active form ..." 4
"Magnesium is needed to exert positive influence over the human genome (a genome is the entirety of an organism's hereditary information encoded into DNA/RNA) and may be involved in the genetic actions of vitamin D. Magnesium possibly has a role in vitamin D's effect on the immune system." 5
"Animal studies have shown magnesium is also necessary for vitamin D's beneficial actions on bone." 6,7
Magnesium supports calcium absorption by activating vitamin D into form that enables it to interact with calcium. While most osteoporosis treatment and prevention research has zeroed-in on increased calcium and vitamin D intake, a 2005 study published in the "Journal of the American Geriatrics Society" discovered that out of 2,038 women and men between the ages of 70 to 79, the Caucasian individuals who consumed the most magnesium had the greatest bone density and the lowest risk of developing osteoporosis. The researchers conclude that increasing magnesium intake may be an even more effective preventative measure against bone-thinning than vitamin D treatment in Caucasians.
In another study entitled "Vitamin D resistance in magnesium deficiency", researchers conclude, "All these data would suggest that adequate amounts of magnesium are required for the optimal expression of pharmacological vitamin D action and parathormone on bone mineral release." 8
According to Marc Sorenson, author of Solar Power For Optimal Health, "Osteoporosis is closely correlated to heart disease. Vitamin D deficiency could certainly be a factor in both, because there is a strong inverse relationship between vitamin D levels and artery calcification; the more D in the blood, the less the calcification. Artery cells have vitamin D receptors (VDR), which when stimulated by vitamin D, inhibit the incursion of calcium."
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"Magnesium stimulates a particular hormone, calcitonin, which helps to preserve bone structure and draws calcium out of the blood and soft tissues back into the bones, preventing some forms of arthritis and kidney stones."
Dr. Scott Whitaker, in his book MediSin, tells us how modern day farming methods including the use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides have depleted our soils and foods of magnesium and other vital nutrients. "The end result of our domestic food production has been 'quantity' rather than 'quality'. The human body can thrive on fruits and vegetables that are grown on vital rich soil but not on soil that is artificially pumped up with chemicals." Thus today our soils and foods are demineralized and do not allow us to get enough minerals from diet alone leaving us the alternative of supplementation.
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1. Zofková I, , Kancheva RL. The relationship between magnesium and calciotropic hormones. Magnes Res. 1995 Mar; 8 (1): 77-84.
2.Zofková I, , Kancheva RL. The relationship between magnesium and calciotropic hormones. Magnes Res. 1995 Mar; 8 (1): 77-84.
3. Carpenter, T. O. Disturbances of vitamin D metabolism and action during clinical and experimental magnesium deficiency. Magnes Res. 1988 Dec; 1 (3-4): 131-9.
4. Saggese, G. Bertelloni, S. Baroncelli, G. I. Federico, G. Calisti, L. Fusaro, C. Bone demineralization and impaired mineral metabolism in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. A possible role of magnesium deficiency. Helv Paediatr Acta. 1989 Jun; 43 (5-6): 405-14.
5.McCoy, H. Kenney, M. A. Interactions between magnesium and vitamin D: possible implications in the immune system. Magnes Res. 1996 Oct; 9 (3): 185-203.
6.Risco, F. Traba, M. L. Bone specific binding sites for 1,25(OH)2D3 in magnesium deficiency. J Physiol Biochem. 2004 Sep; 60 (3): 199-203.
7.Risco, F. Traba, M. L. de la Piedra, C. Possible alterations of the in vivo 1,25(OH)2D3 synthesis and its tissue distribution in magnesium-deficient rats. Magnes Res. 1995 Mar; 8 (1):27-35.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- In the Amharic language, Addis Ababa, named when the Ethiopian capital moved to the highland city at the end of the 19th century, means "new flower."
It is a fitting name for the host city of a conference whose aim is to encourage the new blossoming of another plant. The first Wheat for Food Security in Africa conference has gathered here to address a growing issue in the continent: Too many Africans are eating products made from wheat, and not enough are growing it.
Sudan, for example, produces roughly 1 ton of wheat at home for every 4 tons of wheat it imports from abroad.
"This is about 1.7 million tons covered by importing," said Abdelraheem Hussein, national coordinator for the wheat research program of Sudan's Agricultural Research Corp., to cover the country's bread, pasta and flour needs.
The environmental constraints are predictable, said Hussein: water scarcity, high heat, poor soil fertility and diseases like the Ug99 strain of stem rust that was first discovered in neighboring Uganda. The government must also provide a clear strategy and policy to wean itself, at least partially, off imports.
Tackling both social and biological problems together could generate life-changing results for the Sudanese.
"If they are put together, we can realize self-sustainability and actually have a surplus," Hussein said.
Overall, North Africa imports about half of the global wheat trade, according to Abdelkader Benbelkcem, a researcher with the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Tunisia.
As populations both grow and move in droves to the cities, the popular diets of Africans have shifted increasingly to wheat products. This year, African countries will spend $12 billion on wheat imports, according to a study released on the opening day of the conference yesterday by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Research Center (CIMMYT).
Living at the mercy of world markets
As a result, every time there is a price spike in the global commodities marketplace, Africans suffer disproportionately compared to citizens on other continents. When Russia -- which produces about 15 percent of the global supply of wheat -- created a worldwide shortage two years ago by banning exports as a result of a heat wave and fires, wheat prices shot up between 60 and 80 percent.
But independence, or at least near-independence, from exports is possible, says the CIMMYT study. Across the continent, farmers are growing between 10 and 25 percent of what is possible and profitable.
In an analysis of climatic, soil and economic data from 12 sub-Saharan African countries, the researchers found potential yields to be highest in Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda. The best soils are in Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. In southern Africa -- Mozambique, Angola and Zimbabwe, specifically -- irrigation would be required for a profitable crop to grow in the winter. Currently, Zimbabwe generates very productive wheat yields, but relies on irrigation.
In addition, another world region's climate loss could be Africa's gain. South Asia, one of the top wheat-producing areas in the world, could lose its advantage as climate change makes conditions more difficult, said Thomas Lumpkin, director-general of CIMMYT.
Nigeria is one nation that has addressed the issue head-on. Authorities announced this year it would seek to become fully self-sufficient in growing its 3.7-billion-ton annual consumption -- essentially banning imports from bread baskets around the world -- by 2016.
But there is a lot to overcome before then, said Augustine Langyintuo, senior policy officer at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. The lack of advanced breeding and biotechnology tools; no accessible existing high-yielding, heat-resistant varieties; poor practices in water and fertilizer use; and scant lending venues leave consumers at the mercy of markets.
This is what more than 250 scientists, farmers, policymakers and economists have come to discuss in Addis Ababa, to seriously consider for the first time what was once, in a time when wheat prices were low, merely a wish.
Hans-Joachim Braun, director of CIMMYT's Global Wheat program, said he had a hard time promoting the development of wheat fields in Africa when wheat prices were low. But times have changed.
International donors would say, recalled Braun, "wheat is not for Africa. You should grow tea, or rubber, or flowers."
"Five years ago, it was another story," he said.
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500


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The next head-turning women's fashion tech accessory is a pair of headphones.
At least that's what L.A.-based music world stylist/fashion designer Andrea Lieberman and Encinitas-based electronics brand Frends are hoping. They've collaborated on two new styles of fashionable headphones that will be sold exclusively at the Intermix boutique on Robertson Boulevard and at Intermixonline.com beginning May 29.
Drew Barrymore, Anne Hathaway and other celebs have already been photographed sporting Frends' stylish "Layla" and "Taylor" headphones plugged into their portables, with jewelry-inspired rose or yellow gold ear caps. But the limited-edition A.L.C. for Frends collaboration takes the "Layla" ($225) and "Taylor" ($275) styles into new territory, with quilted leather ear caps in black or white. Think of them as something akin to a go-anywhere, little black (or white) quilted bag.
"We are all connected through technology and our hand-held devices," says Keir Dillon, a former pro-snowboarder who co-founded Frends in 2006 and launched its first women's headphone styles in 2012. "With our headphones, we want to give women another way to express themselves, and we hope they will want to have multiple pairs to match their outfits."
For Lieberman, who established Jennifer Lopez as a fashion figure by putting her in that plunging green Versace dress at the 2000 Grammys and helped create Gwen Stefani's style persona and L.A.M.B. fashion collection before launching her own A.L.C. label in 2009, the project was a no-brainer. "They're fashionable but low key," she says of the headphones. "They fit into our modern black-and-white aesthetic. And a leather jacket was one of the first pieces we started with at A.L.C., so quilted leather headphones felt so natural."
Personally, I hope this is the start of many more designer headphone collaborations.
Incidentally, hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre, who created the popular Beats by Dre headphones in 2008, is also turning an ear toward the fashionable female customer, with the Beats Mixr headphones ($249.95) now available in limited-edition neon colors for summer.


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Zoya Danilina, who owns some 700 shares in Gazprom , says investors don't have to look far to understand that Russia's most powerful company has lost its way.
Danilina remembers when her shares were worth over 300 roubles each. Now they fetch about 100 roubles.
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"There have been much better days, when tables were served with black and red caviar," she said on the sidelines of Gazprom's annual general meeting in Moscow on Friday, looking at a plate of boiled buckwheat, a popular staple food in Russia.
In the caviar era, Gazprom head Alexei Miller, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, was overseeing a company with the world's third-largest market value at $360 billion. In 2007, he promised to boost it to $1 trillion.
Fast forward several years and Gazprom, still the world's largest gas producer and holder of 15 percent of global gas reserves, is worth $77 billion and could fall further as it faces a series of setbacks.
The biggest blow came from a shale gas revolution that has unlocked vast reserves in the United States.
U.S. prices have crashed, closing America as a prospective market for Gazprom, diverting cheaper liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes not needed in the United States to Europe, undermining Gazprom's position in its core market.
Europe, tied to Gazprom by a Soviet-built pipeline network, has balked at its contracts that tie gas prices to more expensive oil.
Last year, Miller was forced to offer billions of dollars in what Gazprom described as "rebates" to European buyers.
On Thursday, Germany's RWE said it won an arbitration case against Gazprom, which further loosened the price link to oil and raised the prospect of more price concessions.
Gazprom expects its 2013 earnings to fall by 10 percent, marking a second yearly decline.
The stock market now values Gazprom - the world's third-biggest company by earnings behind ExxonMobil and Apple - at only two times its 2012 earnings of $38 billion. That makes it the cheapest large-cap stock on an already cheap Russian market.
Investors could possibly forgive those setbacks if they were confident Gazprom could expand in the fast growing global LNG markets, while charging rising prices at home.
"Our goal is to control around 15 percent of the global market for liquefied natural gas," Miller, 51, told the annual general meeting on Friday.
But such hopes were dealt heavy blows over the past month.
Putin signaled last week the gradual end of Gazprom's monopoly on exports of LNG and opened the way for rivals Novatek and Rosneft to compete for huge new Asian markets.
"We offer to lower restrictions gradually on liquefied natural gas exports," Putin said in a speech at an economic forum in St Petersburg, both his and Miller's hometown.
Putin also said that monopolies would be able to raise prices only in line with inflation, reducing hopes for much higher returns on the domestic market.
Gazprom's domestic industrial customers pay $114 per 1,000 cubic meters - little more than half of the $201 it receives for exports after being adjusted for transportation and duties.
"Investors are structurally underweight Gazprom as they do not believe in significant change at the company," said Kingsmill Bond, chief strategist at Sberbank Investment Research in Moscow.
Under Miller, hired by Putin in 2001, Gazprom often served as a Kremlin political tool, as described by EU officials.
"The Kremlin has decided that Gazprom is part of Russia's national security and geopolitics - not a commercial company," said Chris Weafer, founder of Macro Advisory, a Russia-focused consultancy.
"We are going back to Soviet days, when Gazprom was a government ministry. The market is valuing it like a ministry."
Using Gazprom as a weapon has proved to be a double-edged sword, poisoning relations with Ukraine, the transit route for most of Gazprom's Europe-bound gas, after several pricing disputes, which cut gas flows to Europe during several winters.
Gazprom is now investing billions of dollars in new export routes to circumvent is ex-Soviet neighbor - Nord Stream to Germany and the still-to-be built South Stream to Italy.
Investors fear those projects may never pay out.
Finally, Gazprom has failed to sign a supply deal with China, the world's largest energy market, despite first signing a memorandum of understanding as long ago as 2006.
Should the deal be signed before the end of the year, it may still not be enough to revive the appetite of investors, who have long criticized Gazprom's for overspending.
"The mega-projects will guarantee rapid growth in costs, while future revenues are absolutely uncertain," said Mikhail Korchemkin of consultancy East European Gas Analysis.
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(Additional reporting by Denis Pinchuk and Douglas Busvine; Editing by Dmitry Zhdannikov and Jane Baird)


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A big part of the success Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles had during his breakout 2013 season went back to his on-field connection with DeSean Jackson.
Jackson was Foles' top receiver, leading the team in catches, yards and touchdowns. Jackson, of course, took all that production to the Washington Redskins after his surprising release last month, leaving Foles without one of the weapons that helped make him so effective.
"You know, it's surprising," Foles said to CSN Philly's Derrick Gunn. "But at the same time, you learn that it's a business. It's a tough business, at times. We develop a lot of friendships on a team and I've had many of my close teammates let go. It's very tough, but at the same time, you know it's part of the game, part of the business."
Foles didn't have any issues with Jackson's personality. It's believed the wide receiver's temperament helped grease the skids for his exit.
"He was a great teammate to me," Foles said. "We had a great relationship on and off the field. Everybody has other things going on, but to me personally, I really enjoyed playing with him and I'm excited that he landed on his feet. He's a heck of a player."
If the Eagles don't get off to the same kind of start on offense this season, you can already hear the criticisms for letting Jackson walk away -- to a division rival no less.
In the latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast," the guys discuss the 2014 NFL Draft with guru Bucky Brooks.


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The nation's corn and soybean crops are experiencing declining yields due to drought conditions in parts of the country. The U.S.D.A had projected a record harvest, but officials say as much as 60 percent of the corn crop is facing moderate to extreme drought. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has rejected a proposal to allow unlimited mountain lion hunting in parts of the Black Hills. Amy Richards has a report. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.


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Cloud application development is different from established, enterprise software development. And that's one reason why Rackspace is taking its strategy of supported cloud computing and extending it to developers.
Rackspace is making available software development kits (SDKs) for Java (frequently used for enterprise applications) and PHP, Python and Ruby (frequently used in Web applications), and making them available in the Rackspace Cloud. It's also making Microsoft .Net languages, such as C#, available as well. They are used both in the enterprise and on the Web.
PHP, Python and Ruby are all interpreted languages. Applications developed with them go through an interpreter each time they're run. That means a change to the code is picked up immediately with the next run of the application, making interpretative languages good for addressing frequently changing business conditions. Java and .Net are both more mature and more strictly defined in how they work with data and what they can do, giving them greater predictability and stability. Both sets of attributes are needed in cloud-based applications and both types of languages may be used in building different parts of a cloud application.
The move makes Rackspace into more of a platform-as-a-service for developers instead of strictly infrastructure-as-a-service for compute workloads.
[ Want to learn more about how Rackspace expects to create a global presence in cloud computing? See Rackspace Launches Global OpenStack Expansion. ]
Rackspace is looking to expand the use of its Rackspace OpenStack-based cloud, and developers are a good source of business. Once they develop an application in a given cloud environment, chances are high they will run it there as well, using the environment with which they are already familiar. Over several years, Amazon Web Services supported the use of many languages. It serves as the host environment for a wide range of developer-based services, including the Heroku platform-as-a-service, owned by Salesforce.com, and the OpenStack developer cloud, OpenShift, owned by Red Hat.
Rackspace was early to market and a founder of the OpenStack open-source project. But analysts, such as Jillian Mirandi at Technology Business Research, have pointed out that Rackspace over the last year has migrated existing customers off its old infrastructure onto its OpenStack cloud, a process that has occurred steadily, but at the expense of acquiring new customers.
In Rackspace's first-quarter earnings call May 8, CEO Lanham Napier said 2.6% growth over the previous quarter represented a slowdown in its cloud-revenue expectations. "The primary source of slower growth in the first quarter came from slower-than-expected sales to our enterprise customers," he said, according to a transcript of his remarks.
Rackspace also reversed course Feb. 22 when, after saying it wouldn't compete with AWS on price, it lowered prices on storage and bandwidth use to match those of Amazon's. The combination drove its stock price down 20%.
At the same time, more developers are looking for compatible cloud environments in which to develop applications, and Rackspace is seeking to capture its share. They tend to have different characteristics from the typical previous generation of enterprise applications, as explained by Eucalyptus Systems' Marten Mickos in The Washington Post .
Among other things, cloud applications need to assume the hardware might fail underneath them and have failover instructions to another instance of the application ready to be executed at a millisecond's notice. Demand for the application might expand and contract unpredictably, and therefore it has to be designed with load-balancing characteristics that can be applied automatically. Additional servers might need to be spun up to maintain the appropriate response times to customers, another cloud application characteristic.
Such changes occur in a scale-out fashion, where more virtual servers are added to a cluster to handle the load, as opposed to taking over more of a single large server or small cluster of them.
Developers who choose to use the Rackspace Cloud will get support from Rackspace's own expertise in use of the SDKs and application programming interfaces. Rackspace is known for its willingness to support cloud customers both by email and directly on the phone, whereas Amazon Web Services offers only email support. Amazon competitors point out you can't find a phone number to call for support on the AWS site.
Rackspace support will help a developer figure out where his application code is interacting with a Rackspace cloud API or run-time environment for the language used by his application. It will help identify coding errors and advise on best practices for invoking the SDK or API.
Given its experience in building cloud infrastructure, Rackspace support personnel can advise when a given application in the Rackspace Cloud needs to scale out; when to automatically generate more servers based on the application logic; when you need a custom monitoring script to check the status of a MySQL database replication; and so forth.
"Rackspace Developer Support marks the first time we will officially support your application code. When you're programming your application to interact with the Rackspace Cloud powered by OpenStack, we want to make sure it is as easy as possible," Moorman wrote.


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Despite having a marketing plan that wowed investors, top people leading the development team, and a market seemingly bursting at the seams, a 30,000 million gallon per year biodiesel plant in Mount Olive, N.C., is not going to happen.
The Mount Olive plant is testament that not all efforts to build biofuel plants will be successful. Increased demand for alternative fuels, a national euphoria over being able to supply our own energy needs, even an endorsement from the President of the United States won't make bioenergy an economic success, until technology and price merge to make biofuels competitive with hydrocarbon fuels.
Speaking at the recent annual meeting of the Southeastern Feed and Grain Dealers Association, Jeff Edwards, an officer with J&J Commodities in Greenville, N.C., shared his story about how a plan once so bright and optimistic for a biodiesel plant in eastern North Carolina has now burned out before it was ever started.
In 2005, Edwards was part of a group that had raised $43 million to build a $32 million, 30 million gallons per year biodiesel plant in Mount Olive, N.C. Their business plan showed plenty of profit for investors and was so good that despite doing a poor job of identifying investors, they raised the $43 million in a few months.
In the interim between getting the necessary permits and developing engineering plans, the ethanol boom hit and several of the original investors began looking at ethanol, instead of biodiesel, because of the higher profit potential.
"By February 2006, we had lost much of our cash, and we were ready to disband," Edwards says. The business plan still looked good, but most of the original team had moved on, so the decision was made to disband in early 2006.
Instead of disbanding, a few of the original members of the investment group, including Edwards, decided to give the project one more shot.
"I was elected CEO, primarily because no one else wanted to do it," Edwards recalls. "We literally went door to door contacting influential people in the agriculture industry. Unlike the first attempt at money-raising, we did it right this time, and we were successful," he says.
Within a few months they had cash reserves built back up to $16 million and had commitments from solid investors for $52 million to build the plant. "By the time we got back in the game, the cost of building the plant had jumped to $50 million. Building costs had soared, but so had the cost of engineers, bioenergy consultants and anyone else who could provide input on building these plants.
"Technology for biodiesel and ethanol production is changing so fast that no proven technology or affordable technology is available," Edwards contends. "We saw plenty of high tech equipment. When we asked for examples of how this equipment worked in actual operations we heard the same story — you will be the first to buy this technology," Edwards says.
Working around the clock, the group struggled, but finally succeeded in cutting costs to build the plant back to $41 million. They had the cash on hand for operating costs, and by mid-year of 2006, they were optimistic the plant would be built.
When they applied the costs of building and operating the plant in 2007 to their business plan that looked so good in 2005, it was clear they would lose money faster than they had raised it.
For example, Edwards says, glycerin that in 2005 would have generated a million dollars or so of income was now going to cost us over $3 million to remove and dispose of. The business environment had changed dramatically in less than three years, making a plan that had no holes in it as late as 2005 financially impossible in 2007.
On February 19, 2007, the investment group officially disbanded. "My last duty as CEO was to write refund checks to our investors," Edwards says reluctantly.
Jim King, who is a financial officer for J&J Commodities in addition to managing several agribusinesses, and also a member of Edwards' financial group, says "We are in the risk taking business, but we would never take risks like operating the biodiesel plant because you can't measure or quantify a risk in uncharted waters like this. We don't know what the negative market is for biofuels. If oil is $60 a barrel, it's a blood bath. It's not whether you can run a biodiesel plant for two or three years, you can't run it for six months at that rate before you are completely broke."
King says it is highly unusual to have the money raised and still have the project fall through. In retrospect, he contends, not building the biodiesel plant in Mount Olive was the best thing.
Despite the failure of the Mount Olive plant to come into production, there are four operating biodiesel plants in North Carolina, as of January 2007. One group, Piedmont Biofuels, has established a small plant in Pittsboro, N.C. A company spokesman says, after years of successfully resisting the urge to go into commercial biodiesel production, we have finally succumbed, and have incorporated Piedmont Biofuels Industrial, LLC.
"As avid recyclers, and dedicated scrounges, we could not resist taking a run at this project. The industrial park contains four buildings, of which we only require one for biodiesel. We plan to recycle it into a million gallon per year plant," the source says.
Whether or not smaller scale biodiesel plants will spring up in the state remains to be seen. North Carolina produces over a million acres of soybeans annually, by far the largest acreage in the Southeast. While the financial incentive may not be there, the raw product to make biodiesel is available.
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Don't start yelling at me and telling me that I'm blind before you've checked if I'm right. If it turns out that I'm wrong, I apologize for wasting your time.
I'm able to find the specialization for all other classes in the game in their spellbook, but it's missing from my paladin's spellbook and that of all the paladins I have asked. I've even read through every single ability available to my paladin including the ones in the general tab, and I still couldn't find it. I haven't checked if the passive spell is simply invisible, or if it's completely gone, but it could explain why people are whining so much about paladin lately.
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TURIN, Italy — She didn't want to be there.
The dramatic thing about Sasha Cohen on Thursday night wasn't the way she skated her spins and spirals, it was her shudder.
She didn't want to be there.
Difficult to believe, devastating to watch, but as true as that wet patch on her leggings and those ice chips under her fingernails.
She didn't want to be there.
Cohen was the leader before the long program at the Olympic women's figure skating championships, yet she treated her potential triumph as if it were prolonged torture.
She was distracted and eccentric during group warmups. She was reluctant and reticent before her skate.
She took to the ice as uncomfortably as if it were melting. She bounced off her rear on her first jump, fell to her hands on her second jump, and that was that.
Four years, gone in 45 seconds, with an explanation as simple as six words:
She didn't want to be there.
And she basically admitted it.
"I think I was not nervous, but apprehensive, knowing that I missed a lutz and flip in the warmup," she said. "You know, when you go out there and have all the people watching … and you know that your practice hasn't gone completely right, it's hard to feel like you're getting churros at Disneyland."
Hard for silver medalists, perhaps, but easy for champions.
When their team is trailing by a basket in the final seconds, champions want the ball. Just ask Michael Jordan.
When their team trails by two runs in the bottom of the ninth, champions want the bat. Just ask Derek Jeter.
When the going gets tough, for champions, that is Disneyland.
The legacy of Sasha Cohen is that she sees it differently, and thus America will see her differently.
Once thought to be Tim Duncan, she is instead Chris Webber.
Once destined to be Joe Montana, she is instead Peyton Manning.
Looks great in everything but sweat.
She's only 21, and already she has blown first-place leads after the short programs in four major championships.
Many places in America, including this space, were buzzing after Tuesday's short program triumph about her recent maturation and newfound resiliency.
Two days later, the cry from the Palavela was a familiar SOS.
Same Old Sasha.
Sasha Silver.
"No, I didn't cry," she said late Thursday. "I don't usually cry unless I'm very angry."
And this didn't make you angry?
If you'd stayed on your feet for four minutes, you would have won an Olympic gold medal, yet you're not angry?
The weirdness actually started Wednesday, when Cohen was the only skater among the final six to not show up for practice.
Her coach, John Nicks, wanted her to work out and stay sharp. She told him no.
"I was just very, very tired from the short [program] and ultimately, I'm not going to learn anything new," she explained.
Maybe she really wanted to avoid the public scrutiny and heat that comes with being the Olympic halftime leader.
It sure seemed like it Thursday.
During the group warmup, she skated dizzily around the rink, as if being chased.
She fell on one practice jump, stumbled on another, nearly collided with Shizuka Arakawa, and skated away holding the bridge of her nose as if suffering from a migraine.
About six minutes later, summoned back before her program, she slowed to a halt. Standing by the boards, she grabbed Nicks' hands and wouldn't let go.
She took one breath, then another, then stopped herself and took one more before taking center ice.
It was painful to watch.
It only got worse.
Within the first minute of her performance, she was receiving the sort of pity cheers usually reserved for some 16-year-old rookie from Estonia.
By the third minute, the crowd quieted, its energy drained, the realization apparent that she had blown another lead and lengthened a legacy.
Of the idea that she is only a first-half skater, she said, "I would never let myself believe that…. I'm a stronger athlete than that…. I've done [good long programs] before, I'll do them again."
Ever accountable and unwilling to make excuses, also give her credit for blanching when asked about a possible leg injury.
"It's been a rough time for me," she said. "I've been dealing with lots of little things, nagging things…. I've done my best to push through them. Tonight, I had enough medication where I felt good."
Some will say that it is unfair to criticize a silver medalist, but let's be as honest as Cohen here.
She didn't deserve the silver medal. She should have finished fourth.
After Japanese champion Arakawa, second place should have gone to Irina Slutskaya, the bronze medalist who skated a more dazzling program and stumbled only once.
Third place should have gone to Fumie Suguri of Japan, the fourth-place finisher who was the most athletic of them all.
And Cohen knows it.
"I think it was a gift," she said.
And her coach agreed.
"She said she was lucky and I said, 'You're right,' " Nicks said.
Some will also say that it is unfair to criticize an athlete representing America in a competition with the ideals of the Olympics.
But Cohen isn't just a rink skater from Orange County. She is a handsomely paid professional with endorsement deals and touring contracts and a pad in Corona del Mar.
This is not about picking on the flaws of a little girl. It's about chronicling the finish of an elite professional.
If the Dodgers can get zinged, so can Sasha Cohen, and she deserved it Thursday night.
She didn't want to be there.
She didn't want to be there?
Bill Plaschke can be reached at email@example.com. To read previous columns by Plaschke, go to latimes.com/plaschke.
TURIN, Italy — She didn't want to be there.