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From I-95: Exit 70 at Okeechobee Boulevard, head east on Okeechobee Boulevard for approximately 1/2 mile. Take a left on Tamarind Avenue (first light, just past the railroad tracks). The Kravis parking garage will be immediately on your right.
From Florida's Turnpike: Exit 99 the Turnpike at the West Palm Beach exit (Okeechobee Blvd). Head east approximately 7 miles. Continue past the I-95 overpass another 1/2 mile, and take a left on Tamarind Avenue (first light, just past the railroad tracks). The Kravis parking garage will be your first right.
From U.S. Highway 1: Take U.S. 1 to Okeechobee Boulevard and head west approximately one quarter mile. Make a right onto Tamarind Avenue. Parking garage will be your first right.
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The Kravis Center operates a 1,200-car parking garage adjacent to the Center. Entrances are located on Irist Street and Tamarind Avenue.
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They're actually showing Cup of China this year, NBC has always skipped that one.
And they're showing Euros!!!!!!!!!
They aren't showing Pairs at Nationals? (I'm guessing they are just combined with something else.)
Pairs FS is combined with FD again this year:
This is pretty darn great, compared to recent years.
Well, hurray for Olympic seasons! They must be trying to build anticipation, or try to make sure viewers actually have some idea of who they might see in Sochi, or something.
Whaaaaaaaaaaat!???? Brian doesn't have a show this year???? Foey! Can somebody tell me if he usually carried by a network OTHER than NBC, I don't pay much attention to these things? Thanks.
I thought that Brian retired from pro skating...
Oh, I guess I missed something. Sorry. Thanks!
Then again, so did Scotty, but he still does the Kristi Y & Friends show every year as an MC. Or is that show now gone too?
There are 4 Disson shows being televised by NBC this season -- see: http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/sho...-3-(PA)-amp-9-(FL)-and-Dec-11-(NJ)-amp-14-(NY)
Brian Boitano did not have a Disson show last year either. Boitano performed in the Michael Weiss Foundation show just last month - a fancam video of his "Bring Him Home" is posted in GSD here: http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/sho...in-Laurel-MD&p=3997915&viewfull=1#post3997915
Well, I'm totally glad. Definitely going to find a VHS tape I can record over so I can make some videos.
After looking at Heather's TV schedule again, I believe I'll have to find more than one VHS tape I can record over. It's going to be like at least 5 or 6 VHS tapes. I believe I can tape over some old movies that I have on DVDs now. Totally excited about Euros being on TV again!!
NBC TV schedule in 2014 (all times Eastern; check your local listings)
Sun. Jan. 5
1-3 Disson's Skating & Gymnastics Spectacular
Sat. Jan. 11
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NBC's primetime TV broadcast of the Olympics kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 6 (includes taped highlights of Team Event); Opening Ceremony is on Feb. 7.
It was announced today that the NBCSportsNetwork cable TV channel (NBCSN) will be broadcasting all the figure skating live in the U.S., starting on February 8 -- press release: http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/2013/12/17/nbcsn-to-present-230-hours-of-sochi-olympics-coverage/
See also the news thread that was moved from GSD to the Olympics forum in Kiss and Cry: http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/sho...Olympic-figure-skating-starting-on-Feb-8-2014
Sun. Apr. 13
3-6 Worlds (taped highlights)
Well, we don't get Terry on NBC for Nationals competition events, but at least we get him for the Exhibition!
Well....grump, grump. It won't be live here on the left coast. Never is. Even SLC was tape delayed! Sadness
Go figure, the year there's a decent schedule I have to miss it all for my residency. Will have to sweet talk a relative into recording it for me.
Will NBC or Universal show any of the Nationals SP? In particular, I want to see Ladies SP and Men SP on Universal - I finally got that channel on cable.
I'm not sure, but I don't think so. The SP (Mens and Ladies) will be shown on IN, however. Here's a link to their schedule for Nationals:
Well, I have some good news and some bad news regarding IN. I called and talked to a rep. He said that what was listed was the actual schedule of all the events. The rep also said that none of the events would be shown live, but there would be videos on IN later including the Ladies SP and Mens SP.
I'm just hoping the rep knew what he was talking about!
The good news is he didn't. That schedule is the original one the LOC posted on their website about a year ago. It has changed since then but they haven't updated the times (I hope at least their tech crew on-site knows when/where they're supposed to be ). And considering that they've been promoting the live coverage as part of their subscription, I would say yes, the events will be shown live, except for the groups shown live on NBC on Sat and Sun - those are usually posted the Tues or Wed after.
I don't know about Universal, but NBC usually shows some of the men's and ladies' SPs during breaks/holds in its live coverage. Based on past years, I think we will see some of the ladies on Sat aftn or evening (before they show the FS) and some of the men either Sat evening or Sun aftn before they go to the live comp. It's possible they may even show 1 or 2 of the pairs/dance SP/SD during Sat aftn, depending on how the events flow.
Debbie, I sure hope you're right about this. The rep checked the blackout list, and then said that it wasn't listed. He said that meant that none of the U.S. Nationals would be shown live on IN. After that, he said that they would add videos of the Ladies and Mens SPs., etc. later on after the events were shown on NBC. I even asked him to check again because I wanted to be sure that at least the videos would be added since we wouldn't see anything live on IN. He told me once more that the videos would definitely be added.
In the past IN has always shown the parts that were not shown on NBC live. The parts that are shown on NBC are not shown live. That includes novice and junior, and early groups of the seniors. I thought it would be that same way this year.
Thanks, AJ Skatefan. I'm still worried about the parts that IN will show. I found that blackout list, and it shows what's available in the United States and US territories only. The 2014 US Championships isn't listed, and that's what the rep was trying to explain to me.
The 2014 US National Championships is listed on the season pass, however. I definitely believe they haven't updated other portions of the website which makes it totally confusing, and that's awful! They should have updated it a long time ago.
The US Championships are listed here:
I really think that it'll be shown live except for the parts shown on NBC. That's how it's been in the past few years.
Just saw that, too! I just don't understand why they can't do something as simple as updating that website!
I thought U.S. Nationals can be viewed by subscribers outside the U.S.? That's why it's not listed among the blackout events.
I assume that the IN staff will be updating the Nationals event schedule for live viewing soon.
I hope so, Sylvia. I guess that the rep I talked to got confused when he saw the blackout list. He really thought it meant that Nationals wouldn't be shown at all on IN. What you just posted makes way more sense.
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Canisius College freshman golfer Cory Cullen posted his first career top-10 finish, sophomore Andrew Romano tied for 12th in the field and the Golden Griffins placed seventh as a team as the Blue and Gold wrapped up their weekend trip to the Cornell Invitational in Ithaca, N.Y. Canisius shot 301 in Sunday's final round to post a three-round tally of 911.
Cullen shot a two-over par score of 73 in the third round to post a tournament score of 223 for 54 holes. Romano also shot a 73 on Sunday to finish the event with a score of 224, which tied him for 12th. Sophomore Hunter Sagar tied for 28th after he shot a 77 in the final round.
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On Sensitivity Part II: Constraining Cloud Feedback without Cloud Observations
Guest Commentary by Karen M. Shell, Oregon State University
Clouds are very pesky for climate scientists. Due to their high spatial and temporal variability, as well as the many processes involved in cloud droplet formation, clouds are difficult to model. Furthermore, clouds have competing effects on solar and terrestrial radiation. Increases in clouds increase reflected sunlight (a cooling effect) but also increase the greenhouse effect (a warming effect). The net effect of clouds at a given location depends the kind of clouds (stratus, cumulus etc.), their distribution in the vertical and on which radiative effect dominates.
Not only is it difficult to correctly represent clouds in climate models, but estimating how clouds and their radiative effects will change with global warming (i.e., the cloud feedback) is very difficult. Other physical feedbacks have more obvious links between temperature and the climate variable. For example, we expect and have strong evidence for the increase in water vapor in a warmer climate due to the increased saturation specific humidity, or the reduced reflection of sunlight due to the melting of snow and ice at higher temperature. However, there isn't a simple thermodynamic relationship between temperature and cloud amount, and the complexities in the radiative impacts of clouds mean that an increase in clouds in one location may result in net heating, but would correspond to a cooling elsewhere. Thus, most of the uncertainty in the response of climate models to increases in CO2 is due to the uncertainty of the cloud feedback.
So how cool is it then that the recent paper by Fasullo and Trenberth estimates the net climate sensitivity without getting into the details of the cloud feedback then? Quite cool.
Figure 1 from Soden and Held (2006) showing ranges for each model for each of the key atmospheric feedbacks for the CMIP3 models.
The complexity of the cloud feedback means that it is difficult to observe and evaluate. Ideally, we would have accurate global observations of clouds for a number of decades to compare to the climate models. However, without that, we have to estimate cloud feedbacks using the shorter high-quality observational record, and then try to relate the short-term behavior to long-term (century-scale) cloud feedbacks. For some feedbacks, such as the water vapor and ice-albedo feedbacks, there has been some success in evaluating models directly using observations. For example, the modeled water vapor feedback in response to the eruption of Pinatubo agrees with the satellite data (Soden et al., 2002), while modeled Northern Hemisphere (NH) snow and sea-ice feedbacks underestimate the observed feedback (Flanner et al., 2008). Evaluation of cloud feedbacks has been less successful, due to the difficulty of obtaining homogenous global cloud properties from either satellite or surface-based observations. Many assumptions (such as for cloud droplet size or vertical distribution) must be made for these retrievals, and instrument and calibration errors may still be significant. Additionally, there isn't an obvious correspondence of the short-term cloud behavior with the long-term behavior in climate models (Dessler, 2010; Masters, 2012).
Correlation of zonal mean relative humidity against sensitivity, and the definition of two key regions.
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- J.T. Fasullo, and K.E. Trenberth, "A Less Cloudy Future: The Role of Subtropical Subsidence in Climate Sensitivity", Science, vol. 338, pp. 792-794, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1227465
- B.J. Soden, and I.M. Held, "An Assessment of Climate Feedbacks in Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Models", Journal of Climate, vol. 19, pp. 3354-3360, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3799.1
- B.J. Soden, "Global Cooling After the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo: A Test of Climate Feedback by Water Vapor", Science, vol. 296, pp. 727-730, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.296.5568.727
- M.G. Flanner, K.M. Shell, M. Barlage, D.K. Perovich, and M.A. Tschudi, "Radiative forcing and albedo feedback from the Northern Hemisphere cryosphere between 1979 and 2008", Nature Geoscience, vol. 4, pp. 151-155, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1062
- A.E. Dessler, "A Determination of the Cloud Feedback from Climate Variations over the Past Decade", Science, vol. 330, pp. 1523-1527, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1192546
- T. Masters, "On the determination of the global cloud feedback from satellite measurements", Earth System Dynamics, vol. 3, pp. 97-107, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-3-97-2012


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Which leads me to my next point, a unicorn doesn't have to be a good car. One of my coworkers saw one of those little DIY lawnmower engined cars they used to advertise in the back of Popular Mechanics 50 years ago, and he was astonished. He didn't think they actually existed outside the ads. Those are not particularly good, but they've probably been darn near non-existant since they came out!
Unicorn status of older, affordable, performance cars is generally reserved for mint versions of that model. Just because your buddy, acquaintance, dad, co-worker, etc has a Galant VR4 doesn't mean it's a unicorn. IF one of those people had a 10k miles 93 SHO that was showroom fresh? Yeah, to people who really like those cars, that's definitely a unicorn. And people will pay a lot more for them. It's the same thing with cars like mkII GTI 16v and Corrados. You can easily buy either one of those cars right now if you wanted to. But to buy one that hasn't been molested or poorly repaired or in an accident? And with low mileage and excellent original paint? That would take years to find (especially the GTI) if you started from scratch. And certainly would be unicorn if you found one. I can't tell you the last time I saw ANY mkII GTI 16v or Corrado on the road--much less a mint one.
It really all about relative rarity over total production numbers, IMO. It's also very subjective. Some people on here would probably go nuts for a low mileage 87 Celebrity eurosport in showroom condition. That would be a unicorn to them. Saying that something is more of a unicorn that something else is silly then. Either it is or it isn't. There's no levels of unicorness.
And yes, I haven't seen a minty MK2 on the road in AGES.
Once in a while someone will show up with something truly bizarre, like a Volvo 240 Bertone, Lamborghini Jalpa, or a Porsche 928 and that's where my "whoa, that's special and unusual" light starts to light. I guess everyone's threshold for "unicorn" falls somewhere different based on their surroundings.
And Barry, that little car you posted is exactly what I was talking about. One of my coworker's neighbors just bought one and it's been puttering around, sitting in his driveway and on his trailer for a few weeks. Neat thing to see, for sure!
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I took this picture Sunday 30 September 2012 in Point Loma area of San Diego, outside a livery company:
wish i had noticed you can't see the double rear wheels; 2 axles, not dually...
just did an image search and plenty of examples appear (below), but i'd never seen one before.
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I knew this thread is gonna derail after 10posts. Someone should start a poll on defintion of unicorn car and make it TLC law. To many homers posting cars that don't belong and to many pages of bickering.
I also agree with FT's comment about the XJ220 in colors other than silver.
saw lots of rarish ferraris at VIR earlier this year. this was probably the rarest:
I've posted these in the past but they both qualify as legit unicorn status. Both were limited production cars, both were seen on the public streets, and both had to jump through hoops to be in the U.S..
Mclaren F1....you know the stats.
Aston DB7 Zagato. 99 produced, this was one of five in left had drive.
I think the automotive "unicorn" would include some level of actual desire by most auto enthusiasts to see one. Would you sprain your neck trying to see it? Maybe u-turn and go back for a pic?
XJ220 is one of those cars.
The SHO is not. They are "cars of note", but not hard to find by any means.
I saw this a few months ago and may have posted a thread. It wasn't at a GTG but it was probably at supercar sunday that day.
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In Gone in 60 Seconds, (which I admit isn't exactly the zenith of modern cinema), Cage's unicorn was a 1967 Shelby GT500. Not as rare as an XJ220, but still special to him.
"A unicorn is the one car that no matter how many times you try to boost, something always goes wrong."
the ****? this is your working definition of a unicorn?
yeah, but nic cage, yo.
nicolas MOTHER BLEEPING cage. you change your definition of unicorn to conform to the cage NOW!!!!!
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The National Lupus Patient Registry at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will receive the largest appropriation in the program's history…$5.5 million. This is a $1.9 million dollar increase over the FY 2013 post-sequester appropriation of $3.6 million for the largest lupus prevalence study ever conducted. Funds allocated to date for the program now exceed $30 million.
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|In addition to the pirates, the common people make their living providing support (ie food, shelter and so forth). And it is certainly in the realm of possibility that some governmental agencies in the region are also supporting them. That said, this is probably the poorest area in the world and Somalia has had no government for more than a decade. I just read the posting about the private security company. Although the piracy occurs in international waters (this is a contributing factor as no country wants to take the responsibility and the UN has no teeth) I would not be surprised to hear that the US government (and other governments) object to the use of private security. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see violence used on the private security that would never be used on the pirates. After all, we just need to understand how the pirates feel......
Peace s achieved through fire superiority
One week ago today I had the privalege of listening to a gentleman who is both a member of the management team, and an operator of a firm in San Antonio which puts men aboard vessels to prevent them from being taken by pirates. He made a number of interesting points.
First if the pirates are already on board your vessel the situation is very difficult if not impossible to deal with. Second, if a "resuce vessel" is only a few miles away when they recieve a distress call, it probably is already too late, given the time necessary for the rescue vessel to load their crew, power up, get underway, and get there. Thirdly, the pirates are not only after money, but also after the prestige when they get back to their villages. He put it "money, position, and the girls. He remarked the pirates are incredibly fast in actually boarding a vessel. In just a short minute or two they go from a dozen yards off to being over the rails and on board. In other words, revention of boarding must be taken before the pirates are alongside.
His firms plicy is three shots. First a general warning shot (a air burst), second a warning shot across the bows, and then no messing around, the third shot is for effect. All members of their on board crews have performed well under fire. A team consists of 4 men.
Their business is growing. Their only advertising is word of mouth. The least cooperative/supportive government is the USA. They are therefore in the process of establishing offshore bases.
I have attempted to report as accurately as possible some of the comments of a man who has been there, done that, and is going back for more. Perhaps becasuse his wife accompanied him, he graciously declined to share any specific stories, though he did have a number of interesting slides.
He did state that when a crew boaarded a vessel which had crew who had benefited from having a protective crew on board before, the protective crew had very little work to do, as the vessel crew voluntarily took over welding in place the protective measures.
Theres an interesting episode from south park where Cartman becomes a Pirate. Its really funny. YouTube - Somalian pirates (OFFICIAL SOUTH PARK SONG)
Seriously tho, Because the stakes are so high with piracy, Its necessary to eliminate it asap.
Originally Posted by StoneAge View Post
I certainly do not agree that the pirates in Somalia ought to be doing what they are doing, but the circumstances that caused this aren't discussed very often. The commercial ships coming out of Suez are creating a dead zone in Somali Fishing territory and the Somali fisheries are all but dead. This was their major livelihood and the major shipping companies have completely disrespected Somali territory.
These people are desperate and need to feed their families. They see the attacks on the ships as a sort of revenge for destroying their way of life. I certainly feel for them. I don't condone what they do, but I understand why they do it.
When it comes to Pirates or Terrorism, one needs to ask how bad do you want to win? Either you want to win against evil or you don't. The problems we have now are caused by people who did not want to win bad enough. Its much better to deal with it when it is a small problem. The softer we are now, means the problem will be worse for those who follow after us.
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Just recently came off a war ship hunting pirates. I will say this, although I understand where they are coming from and why they are doing it, they also understand the consequences. That said, the only thing that they deserve is a shot to the head. If you disagree, then that is ok, but they won't hesitate to put one through yours.
Stay away, and when in danger, open fire. If you cannot defend yourself or do not want to, then stay far far away. Remember, this is not a new thing.
Quick question:
What is the RoE for the Coalition Maritime Campaign Plan in terms of a vessel in distress? Ie. A Sailing Vessel being fired at 25nm away.
If you call for help are you going to see a gunship come to your aid? Or are there some strict rules about sinking pirates by CMCP participants?
I have seen videos and read about say the dutch actively recovering a vessel from the hands of pirates and others of not offering to resolve the solution at all.
Just recently came off a war ship hunting pirates. I will say this, although I understand where they are coming from and why they are doing it, they also understand the consequences. That said, the only thing that they deserve is a shot to the head. If you disagree, then that is ok, but they won't hesitate to put one through yours.
Stay away, and when in danger, open fire. If you cannot defend yourself or do not want to, then stay far far away. Remember, this is not a new thing.
|does anyone know of any convoys going east? That is from the red sea towards the maladives?
|OK so with all the international legal distress concerning firearms that one might potentially use to battle pirates, if the **** hits the fan and all other options are sinking does anybody know if there are equally rigid laws regulating crossbows/repeater bolt-throwers/flamethrowers/molotovs/mustard gas etc...
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Liberal people are living in a fantasy world... Wake up IDIOTS...
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Nicely said...
You could have made the same point without adding "IDIOTS."
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