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While searching the Beachbody website for a new workout program, I came across this Brazilian Butt Lift workout by Team BeachBody. I was actually looking for some type of fun cardiovascular workout to replace one of my old Beachbody fitness programs;however, this one actually caught my attention. It does have cardiovascular routines, but with an emphasis on lower body sculpting moves.
I noticed another booty transformation plan while I was doing some research on the Beachbody Brazilian dance cardio workout. My sister-in-law also told me about Zumba. Since I only want to buy one at this time, I decided to do a comparison between these three dance cardio workouts.
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Comparison Brazilian Butt Lift Reviews vs Zumba vs Booty Slide
|Brazil Butt Lift
|Booty Slide
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|Latin Dance Fitness
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|Alberto Perez
|Rebecca Kordecki
|Program Length
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|Nutrition Plan
|Yes (additional purchase)
|Fitness Guide
|Strength band, resistance bands, ankle weights
|Toning Sticks
|Booties, knee/hand pads
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|$120 (+s/h)
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Brazil Butt Lift Review
This lower body sculpting workout is designed to reduce your hips, slim your thighs, and lift your booty without the bulk. Many butt lift workouts tend to bulk up your thighs. This Leandro Carvalho workout uses the Tri-Angle Training method. This proven Tri-angle Training technique consists of signature lower body moves. World famous supermodels have taken on the challenge and received personalized booty transformation training with excellent results.
Tri-Angle Training involves working the three major muscles (medius, maximus, and minimus) of your buttocks. The muscles are worked from many different angles, which is the basis for the entire technique. Working these three major muscles actually works the heads of the muscles that are attached to your pelvic bone and your hamstrings. This is how it lifts and shapes your buttocks.
This booty transformation plan provides a unique fat-burning guide filled with easy to follow Brazilian recipes. This meal plan was created by a nutritionist allowing you to experience the Brazilian flavors without sacrificing your weight management goals.
Carvalho combines Brazilian dance cardio with these signature lower body moves to create a complete booty transformation. There are six workouts, which include:
- Basics (20 minutes)
- Bum Bum (35 minutes)
- High & Tight (35 minutes)
- Sculpt (50 minutes)
- Cardio Axe (30 minutes)
- Tummy Tuck (20 minutes)
Bum Bum is actually pronounced as boom boom and is a nickname for butt. The program also includes a bonus DVD Bum Bum Rapido (10 minutes). In the High & Tight workout program, you will need ankle weights and resistance bands for this particular workout routine. These items are not included in the program.
Visit the official Brazil Butt Lift page here.
Brazil Butt Lift Schedule
The BBL workout has four schedules that varies based upon your body type and goals. Each of them are 5 or 6 days a week and designed specifically to meet your needs.
- The Lift and Shape Schedule will help you lift and shape your booty!
- The Slim and Lift Schedule is setup to help those lose weight and also lift your booty.
- The Slim and Shape Schedule is for those be slim, get toned and add some shape to your booty!
- The Classic Schedule will lift, slim and shape! Most people who do this workout will be on this schedule.
Brazil Butt Lift vs. Zumba
I was excited to compare these two, as I was actually planning on purchasing Zumba until I came across the Beachbody website. Both are cardio conditioning workouts and both do have an emphasis on your booty; however, Zumba does not have a proven technique designed specifically as a booty transformation plan.
While they both have the same amount of dance cardio workouts, it appears that Brazil Butt Lift has a more solid program designed specifically to tone, firm, and lift your buttocks. Zumba does not come with a nutrition plan or fitness guide, while Brazil Butt Lift does provide both. I firmly believe that it takes an effective exercise plan combined with a healthy eating plan to achieve optimal health.
I really believe both of these fitness programs will be fun to actually complete;however, Brazil Butt Lift does seem to be the better choice if you are expecting a booty transformation. However, if all you want is a fun workout that will likely help in weight loss, Zumba could be a possibility for you. Both are energetic and have some amazing music that will keep you motivated.
Brazil Butt Lift vs. Booty Slide
I was particularly interested in comparing these two because they are more similar. Both focus on lower body sculpting moves through dance cardio. However, they have different techniques used to create that booty transformation.
While Brazil Butt Lift uses the Tri-Angle Training Method, Booty Slide uses a number of concepts combined to create a unique dance cardio workout program. Both provide total body conditioning with an emphasis on the lower body.
The Booty Slide concepts used are supposed to have zero impact, which can be beneficial to arthritis sufferers. These concepts include body weight resistance, yoga, Pilates, slide training, aerobics, dance, and high intensity interval training.
While Booty Slide is significantly lower priced than Brazil Butt Lift, there are only four workouts included in this fitness program. It also does not include a nutrition plan or fitness guide with the program;however, you can choose to purchase a nutrition guide as an add-on.
Booty Slide has unique equipment. You will be wearing special high performance booties along with knee and hand slider pads. These pads are designed to shape and tone your legs. You can purchase intermediate and advanced resistance bands, which leads me to believe you may need them for the workout at some point.
Final Thoughts
This was a very close decision. In the beginning, I intended on purchasing Zumba basically because my sister-in-law loves it and has seen some results. However, when I was considering Zumba, I was not really thinking about a booty transformation. I was just in the market for a fun dance cardio workout program that would help me lose weight and tone up some areas.
In fact, I did not realize there was such a thing as a booty transformation plan. I was actually intrigued by the Tri-Angle Training Method. While Booty Slide and Brazil Butt Lift are very similar, I like the fact that Brazil Butt Lift has signature body sculpting moves with a proven technique. I also like that it comes with a meal plan filled with Brazilian inspired recipes. So, I have decided to try the Brazil Butt Lift. I am excited to try it and see if it works for me!


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On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking with it more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers. In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord's book of the same name, A Night to Remember, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the ship's final hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night to Remember is cinema's subtlest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
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En natt att minas, a forty-five-minute Swedish documentary from 1962 featuring interviews with Titanic survivors
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The Last Temptation of Christ, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly personal work of faith that it is. This fifteen-year labor of love, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's landmark novel that imagines an alternate fate for Jesus Christ, features outstanding performances by Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, and David Bowie; bold cinematography by the great Michael Ballhaus; and a transcendent score by Peter Gabriel.
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Location production footage shot by Scorsese
Interview with composer Peter Gabriel, with a stills gallery of traditional instruments used in the score
PLUS: An essay by film critic David Ehrenstein
#601/Letter Never Sent-Mikhail Kalatozov
The great Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov, known for his virtuosic, emotionally gripping films, perhaps never directed one more visually astonishing than Letter Never Sent. This absorbing tale of exploration and survival concerns four members of a geological expedition who are stranded in the bleak and unforgiving Siberian wilderness while on a mission to find diamonds. Luxuriating in wide-angle beauty and featuring one daring shot after another (the brilliant cinematography is by Kalatozov's frequent collaborator Sergei Urusevsky), Letter Never Sent is a fascinating piece of cinematic history and a universal adventure of the highest order.
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova
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The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House and changed the face of politics in the process. For this thrilling, behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, renowned cinema verité filmmakers D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus closely followed the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton's crack team of consultants—especially the folksy James Carville and the preppy George Stephanopoulos, who became media stars in their own right as they injected a youthful spirit and spontaneity into the process of campaigning. Fleet-footed and entertaining,
The War Room is a vivid document of a political moment whose truths ("It's the economy, stupid!") still ring in our ears.
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Return of the War Room, a 2008 documentary in which advisers James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, and Paul Begala and others reflect on the effect the Clinton war room had on the way campaigns are run
Making "The War Room," a conversation between the filmmakers about the difficulties of shooting in the campaign's fast-paced environment
Panel discussion hosted by the William J. Clinton Foundation and featuring Carville, Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan, journalist Ron Brownstein, and surprise guest Bill Clinton
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PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by writer Louis Menand
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Brief Encounter 1945
After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, ultimately doomed, love affair.
In Which We Serve 1942
In the midst of World War II, the renowned playwright Noël Coward engaged a young film editor named David Lean to help him realize his vision for an action drama about a group of Royal Navy sailors (roles that would be filled by Coward himself, Bernard Miles, and John Mills, among others) fighting
This Happy Breed 1944
David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noël Coward's epic chronicle of a working-class family in the London suburbs over the course of two decades.
Blithe Spirit 1945
David Lean's delightful film version of Noël Coward's theater sensation stars Rex Harrison as a novelist who cheekily invites a medium to his house to conduct a séance, hoping the experience will inspire a book he's working on.
New high-definition digital transfers of the BFI National Archive's 2008 restorations, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray editions
Audio commentary on Brief Encounter by film historian Bruce Eder
New interviews with Noël Coward scholar Barry Day on all of the films
Interview with cinematographer-screenwriter-producer Ronald Neame from 2010
Short documentaries from 2000 on the making of In Which We Serve and Brief Encounter
David Lean: A Self Portrait, a 1971 television documentary on Lean's career
Episode of the British television series The Southbank Show from 1992 on the life and career of Coward
Audio recording of a 1969 conversation between Richard Attenborough and Coward at London's National Film Theatre
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Ian Christie, Terrence Rafferty, Farran Nehne, Geoffrey O'Brien, and Kevin Brownlow

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This sculpture expresses my different reactions. The first figure is Denial: I often just want to ignore the threat of cancer in my life. The middle one -- Despair -- illustrates the way I feel when I think of the horror of my father's death, the devastation of my mother's chemotherapy, or the possibility that this silent killer is growing inside of me. The third is Determination; once I accepted the presence of cancer in my life, I decided to use it to motivate me to remain healthy.
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I just finished shooting some film on a Canon xf105 in 1080p24 on the 50mb/s setting with a shutter of 48. Every few frames it seems to be doubling the image, reminds me of deinterlaced blended frame. What is happening? I have twiked the fps playback in premiere thinking it is trying to convert up to a higher frame rate, but everything is 23.976 fps and it still does it. Could this be an effect of the rolling shutter on the camera? or maybe the camera does not capture true 24p and it is interpolating frames for some reason?
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The XF-105 will acquire native 24p video, that is 23.97 fps. 3:2 pulldown is only added to the Composite/YUV and SD/HD-SDI signal interfaces during 24p, and 2:2 pulldown during 30p.
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Does this grant immunity to status effects such as stun, charm, freeze, fear etc? Also, is this achievable?
I did it once with my monk for the fun of it, and sold the equipment later on.
The gear had approx. 81% reduction in total, plus the Perseverance rune on my Mantra of Evasion.
What happens? The frozen/jailed animation kicks in for a moment, and you are free a millisecond after that. Although, this was pre 1.03 patch. I don't know if they changed this behaviour afterwards.
Note: This is mainly to point out post-1.0.3 changes which bora didn't cover in his post; I haven't done any testing on 100% CC reduction - hopefully bora or someone else gives us more details.
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As they specifically mention chilled, I imagine it works as described for Frozen - no idea if Jailed also means you get to drag along the jail at half speed, if you have 50% reduction.
well, just tried building "max gear" for CC-redux In short: You are not able to get 100%.
When you have the cap (108% from gear) it stacks like so: Helm= 14% redux, multiplier = .86 Neck= 14% redux, multiplier = .86 Ring (left) = 14% redux, multiplier = .86 Ring (right) = 14% redux, multiplier = .86 Wrist = 4% redux, multiplier = .96 etc. it ends up to be following calculation: 1-(.86*.86*.86*.86*.96* ... ) = reduction by 68.56 (rounded - the Details window in game shows 68.55)
Anyway, since no single item has 100% reduction, you can't get 100% reduction.
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Show-and-tell used to be just for kids. Now it's in fashion. Top designers are revealing their personalities through rising social-media Web sites Instagram and Pinterest.
"Instagram allows our fans of the label to see the casual and spontaneous side of the designer's life," says footwear designer Jerome Rousseau, who let consumers into his life by posting a recent photo of himself at a concert in Los Angeles. "It's very new and exciting, and it has really captured the excitement that Facebook used to have." Rousseau posts on Instagram about six times a week, and recently turned to it for consumer opinion on stiletto heights for spring. For instance, Jerome posted a photo of just one heel height—115 millimeters—and after receiving positive feedback, decided to stick with that style.
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For Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet, Instagram provides a strong opportunity to showcase her voice and favorite sources of inspiration. "I think of Instagram as a true extension of my eyes and what we're seeing and being inspired by," says Bendet, who recently cracked the 60,000-followers mark on the site and posts several times throughout the day. "It lets our customers and the world see things through my eyes." Bendet notes that in addition to street photography, she also posts product shots to test consumer reaction.
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For example, the designer recently revealed a photo of a footwear look and received more than 1,000 likes, confirming she was on trend. "We always notice a huge amount of interest for our product, and we're really into that as a brand," added Bendet.
Alejandro Ingelmo approaches his Instagram account in a similar fashion, on a personal level. Through the site, he showcases the design process and even the CrossFit workout events he's been attending. No wonder, then, that by revealing his personality and product, sales have risen. Bruno Alves, store manager at Ingelmo's New York location, has received requests for specific shoes that consumers saw posted on Instagram. The company estimates about a 10 percent sales increase because of the site. "We Instagram a lot of pictures in the store, showing new arrivals and customers wearing the shoes in different ways," said Ingelmo. "We've had customers come in to buy a shoe they saw on Instagram and told us they were planning to replicate the entire look. It's a very interesting way to sell."
Designers are fans of Pinterest, too, particularly its position as a shopping platform.
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Rebecca Minkoff also views Pinterest as a way to expand her business, specifically with the click-through rate on product. "Pinterest allows us to tell a story through product and inspirational images, which allows our consumers to understand more about who we are as a brand," says Minkoff. She notes that when she posted a photo of her Bettina sandal on Instagram, the product sold out online in less than two weeks.
Overall, the photography focus on both sites is key.
The sites "provide constant visual stimulation, which is something we're noticing users demand right now," says Snyder. "And despite being so content-driven, they actually take the pressure off the user to be so active."
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Iroh once visited the masters and was deemed worthy by Ran and Shaw. After being taught the true essence of firebending, he returned to the Fire Nation, where he claimed that he had fought and slain the last surviving dragon, in order to preserve the secret of Ran and Shaw's existence from the rest of the world, who would hunt them otherwise.
When Zuko lost access to his firebending, he and Aang traveled to the Sun Warriors' ancient city and discovered that the civilization, believed to have gone extinct long before their arrival, was still alive and well. The duo set out to learn the original form of firebending from the masters, Ran and Shaw. Aang and Zuko journeyed to the cave of the masters, each carrying a piece of the Eternal Flame which they would present to the masters as an offering. Both their flames were extinguished, however, before they could be presented. The two dragons flew out of their caves when they were summoned by the Sun Warriors, and began circling Aang and Zuko. After observing their movements for a while, Aang was able to deduce that the dragons wanted them to perform the "Dancing Dragon", an ancient firebending form, with them. After Aang performed this form in unison with the blue dragon and Zuko with the red one, Ran and Shaw deemed them worthy and showed them the "true" meaning of firebending by engulfing the duo in a colorful spiral of fire. Having passed on their knowledge, the dragons retreated to their respective lairs.[1]
Ran and Shaw practice a form of firebending that emphasizes the life-giving qualities of fire, unlike the aggressive and hatred-fueled methods employed by most modern benders native to the Fire Nation. They are able to communicate the true meaning of firebending, apparently through their breath, which appears as a multi-colored flame.[1] Many people have presented themselves to Ran and Shaw over the years, but the dragons have only deemed a few people worthy outside the Sun Warrior tribe, including Iroh, Aang, and Zuko. All others were presumably destroyed, as is custom when the dragons do not deem a person worthy of the art.[3]
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- Ran and Shaw are much larger in size than other dragons shown such as Roku's animal guide, Fang, or Sozin's dragon.
- Ran (燃) means "burn" or "ignite" in Chinese. Shaw, more correctly shāo (燒), means "burn" or "blaze". The characters can also be used together to mean "combustion", "flaming", or "kindle".[4]
- Two similar dragons appeared in Zuko's visions while he suffered from illness.[5] The blue dragon representing Azula was on Zuko's left, and the red dragon representing Iroh was on his right. Red and blue dragons also accompanied Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin, respectively.
- Ran and Shaw, like the spirits Tui and La, circle around each other to symbolize Yin and Yang.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 O'Bryan, John (writer) & Volpe, Giancarlo (director). (July 15, 2008). "The Firebending Masters". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 3. Episode 13. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 DiMartino, Michael Dante (October 23, 2014). Legend of Korra Live Community Q&A: Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. Avatar Wiki. Retrieved on October 23, 2014.
- ↑ From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com (link). No longer updated.
- ↑ Avatar Extras for "The Firebending Masters" on Nicktoons Network.
- ↑ O'Bryan, John (writer) & Spaulding, Ethan (director). (November 17, 2006). "The Earth King". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 18. Nickelodeon.


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6 Terrifying Bats You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
#3. Maclaud's Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus maclaudi)
Via Natalie Weber
What the fuck are we even looking at there? Can you even tell? That's not a face. That's not even an animal. If you saw it out in the wild, you'd say, that there is a goddamn mushroom, and an extremely poisonous-looking one at that. Intrigued, you'd lean forward for a closer look. And that's when the Maclaud's horseshoe bat would unfold its wings and calmly, calculatedly pee on you.
This particular breed of horseshoe bat, discovered in 2007, resides in remote regions of eastern Guinea. Its neglected floral arrangement of a face is actually rather typical among the various different species of horseshoe bat in the Rhinolophus genus. All horseshoe bats have these leaf-like protuberances on their faces, in varying sizes and shapes. The effect can sometimes be relatively innocuous, but usually results in Lovecraftian absurdity.
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OK, who gave the Thing mushrooms?
If you're lucky, you might even catch a female Maclaud offering its children the ugliest transportation of all time: Maclaud girl-bats come equipped with two crotch-nipples where the baby bats cling for their first few days of life. So, if one day you're hanging in Guinea, avoid LSD at all costs. Seeing a fungus-snouted bat monster fly by, boob-towing two smaller versions of itself that go "Whee!" is a difficult enough experience with a clear head.
Via Dr. Peter John Taylor
She didn't say yes. You're just making her head bob up and down with your fingers.
#2. Tube-Nosed Fruit Bat (Nyctimene rabori)
Via Piotr Naskrecki/iLCP, Conservation International
If there's ever been an animal that screams "Photoshop!" it's this smug-looking bastard right here. There's no way that thing is anything but a photo-op construction -- right away, we can spot bits of squirrel, seal and goat, to name but a few. Hell, someone's even thrown in a Santa beard for good measure. That Shrek-ear nose is a tough one, mind you. Maybe someone played with filters? Hell, we give up. Let's zoom the camera out a bit, and see what the whole animal looks like:
Via Mike Trenerry
The satisfied smile is because your soul just tasted delicious.
Oh, goddammit.
Once you get past the self-satisfied, unnerving stare, the main thing that stands out on the tube-nosed fruit bat is the feature for which it's named. There's no solid information as to why these bats' noses took this particularly cocaine-friendly form, but it is assumed they use them more or less as face-grafted echolocation vuvuzelas.
This particular species, discovered in 1984, is endemic to the Philippines and critically endangered. Hunting isn't a problem for them, as they are so covert that it was found that not even the locals were aware that it existed. So we're forced to assume that the reason for their dwindling numbers is that their sex face looks like this:
Via Rainforest Explorer
And its orgasm sounds like that noise Jim Carrey made in Dumb and Dumber.
#1. Hammer-Headed Bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus)
Dr. Bruce J. Hayward, Western New Mexico University
There's a multitude of things that spring to mind upon seeing the hammer-headed bat, and all of them are variations of "WHAT THE SHIT IS THAT?" That animal is to the generally accepted natural order of things like fingernails are to chalkboards. It scoffs at everything you hold dear and beautiful with its never-ending face that looks like it was designed by a toddler who ransacked his mom's medicine cabinet.
Of course, the absurdity of a face that just begs for a special-needs helmet becomes horror incarnate when you see the body it's attached to:
Via Bob Golding
Suddenly it's a bat-winged horse.
Holy shit, that's the spitting image of a devil in at least half of the world's belief systems. You could show a picture of that bastard to us in a cryptozoology book between "photos" of Nessie and Bigfoot, and we'd think it was the worst designed of the three.
Thank goodness, then, that the hammer-headed bat is just a tiny, goofy herbivore. Right? Please?
Via Jack Bradbury/Cornell University
"It's a trap!"
But of course not! The hammer-headed bat is a bona fide, grade-A bloodsucker of the worst kind. What's more, it just so happens to be easily the largest bat in its native continent of Africa. With a wingspan that reaches over three feet, they meet the qualification of "megabats." These guys are scientifically supersized.
Of course, these giant satan-bats are also aggressive enough to attack livestock in order to drink their blood, and yes, they're also prime suspects for initiating hideous Ebola virus outbreaks.
Via Bob Golding
"How's about a kissssss?"
And while we're on the subject of hideous things, let's discuss the creature's sex life.
The whole elongated snout thing is because of sexual dimorphism -- only the males sport a devil face, formally known as a rostrum, and it's totally a sex thing. The long face allows their mating calls a much greater volume and resonance -- the racket they can produce using this "instrument" during mating season rivals a car alarm in both loudness and repetitiveness. Because what a giant, Ebola-spewing, blood-sucking, devil-looking bat monster really needs is the ability to shriek like a dive bomber as it swoops at you.
But that's not what you really need to know about the hammer-headed bat. What you really need to know is what one looks like with its mouth open:
Via Alain Devez
Sweet dreams!
For more animals you should probably be scared of, check out 6 Animals That Just Don't Give A F#@k and 13 Real Animals Lifted Directly Out of Your Nightmares.


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Now up on the homepage is Michael Higgins's "Larger than Legend: Saving Chesterton from the Chestertonians," which laments the simplification of GKC's thought by some of his most ardent admirers. He was called the Prince of Paradox for a reason. Or rather, for a couple of reasons. For Chesterton, the paradox wasn't just a rhetorical device (though of course it was that tooand that too often in some of his later work). He was a paradoxical thinker. Higgins writes:
[Chesterton's] biographies of Blake, Dickens, Robert Browning, and others amply demonstrate his ability to weave a big tapestryof work, life, and legacythat introduces us afresh to figures we thought we already knew. But Chestertons true mtier, his genius really, was to probe, prod, and prognosticate. His analysis of the unchecked damage inflicted by market capitalism and Socialist statism looks impressively prophetic after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and the global economic collapse that continues to afflict us. In The Well and the Shallows Chesterton makes clear the reasons for his detestation of capitalism: it undermines the family unit, corrupts domestic values, corrodes morality, usurps the right order of relationships by making the employer more important than the parent, and encourages "for commercial reasons, a parade of publicity and garish novelty, which is in its nature the death of all that was called dignity and modesty by our mothers and fathers."
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Anyone, Chesterton's biographies mentioned above are available on Kindle for a buck or two. I downloaded "William Blake."
That's a very good piece on GKC. His reputation, IMO, has sort of replicated George Orwell's. A man of the right in his day (as Orwell was of the left), GKC was too independent and (as he would say) sane to hew to the smelly orthodoxies on his side of the aisle. The phrase "smelly orthodoxies," of course, comes from Orwell, who was similarly too swayed by facts and too disrespectful toward the ideology to be comfortable for his associates.When they died they left behind, respectively, Chestertonians on both the right and the left and Orwellians on both the left and the right. Subsequently, the left was too mentally lazy to absorb what they had to offer. But the right enthusiastically, although without any intellectual rigor, re-baptized both of them and slammed them into the Procrustean bed of right-wing ideology.In the marvelous unlikelihood that either would be elected to the House as a Republican these days, he would be primaried by a tea partier in the first available election. But as long as they are safely dead, conservative pundits will raise their (selected) thoughts for consideration.With slight amendments and adjustments, the foregoing could also be said about Albert Camus. One would then have covered all the 20th Century political thinkers most worth thinking about.
Chesterton was overrated. His work does not hold up. Some (much? most?) of it is embarrassing now. (Does anyone still read him?)
Gerelyn locuta est; causa finita est.
I don't agree with Douthat very often, but I did agree with his criticism of Gopnik in The Atlantic:http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2008/07/gopnik-on-chesterton...'s the Gopnik article, subscribers only: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2008-07-07#folio=C1 And here's a little video of Chesterton at Holy Cross. Note the slam of "Mohammedans" at the end. His prejudices were wide-ranging. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4wUYTMcXBE
Tom Blackburn, have you forgotten to consider Raymond Aron, Maritain, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, etc?Whatever Chesterton's merits, and they are not few, he's not in the league of the people I've mentioned when it comes to 20th century political thinkers.
Bernard, I gave some thought to Maritain, but the last time I picked up Man and the State I didn't finish. Aron might qualify as a fourth, at least for not staying safely orthodox. I thought about Hannah Arendt, too. But then I thought, no.
P.S. (sorry) But unlike Gerelyn's, my word is far from final.
Gerelyn loquens steered me to the Douthat article, for which: gratias ei ago.
I have not read Chesterton for some years but he is very popular among some undergraduates here at Notre Dame.I believe there is a student inspired discussion group dedicated to his writings.
I only like reading poems and stories (maybe memoirs if they're not too deep), so I tried reading Chesterton's Father Brown stories. I found them charmless.I also have a colleague, who discovered I was fallen away and is trying to get me to Catholic up by e-mailing me quotations from Chesterton. Just this week he sent me: "Original sin is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved." Wasn't sure if that was some sort of threat or observation on the Boston bombing or what. He always sends these things without further comment. So I am inclined to dislike Chesterton, but appreciate Mr. Higgins' refresher. Maybe I should read GKC's life of Blake, whom I number among my many personal patron saints.
I have not read much Chesterton. But I have heard very good things regarding his books on Thomas Aquinas and on Charles Dickens. Has anyone read either of these works?
Farther Imbelli, I just (inspired by Higgins) started rereading his Aquinas. It is a sort of bookend to his book on Francis of Assisi. Each is short and tells you as much about GKC as about the subject. But I recall Aquinas as being a model of popularization; Chesterton always wore his learning lightly. I've never read his Dickens, but Orwell -- who disdained the Catholic renaissance authors of his time but made slight allowances for Chesterton -- thought it was excellent.
I'm not sure what's wrong with "popularizing." (Caution: Tangential rant follows.)My medieval lit prof hated John Gardner for "popularizing" the Middle Ages, particularly his bio of Chaucer. But so long as a reader understands there is no new academic ground being broken and that the book is written for the layman, isn't there a place for these types of works? (My scientific knowledge would be far poorer without the popular science I learn on my favorite TV show, "Secrets of the Dead.") Why should the academics get to hog some fundamental knowledge about Chaucer? My guess is that somebody who runs a liquor store, tells dirty stories to his customers, and knows how to run a successful tax dodge probably innately understands Chaucer better than most academics. And if I were writing a book about Chaucer, I would put that in there.
Jean, It may interest you to know that a million years ago Marquette University offered a graduate course (journalism) titled "Popularization" and may still. The main text was Lincoln Barrett's "The World and Dr. Einstein." There are tons of examples of scientific popularization that could be used for the purpose today, but back then there weren't so many. When I read Shakespeare I marvel at what the liquor store owners of his day laughed at, but there were no medieval lit professors like yours around to tell them it was over their heads.
Here's an extensive bibliography of Chesterton works online, including addresses. Everything from "Orthodoxy" to "The Oracle of the Dog" :-) Great site.http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/
"I tried reading Chestertons Father Brown stories. I found them charmless."I couldn't agree more.
My question is: how did the English educational system of their day manage to produce thinkers such as Chesterton and his friend GBS who were serious yet funny and civil at the same time? What did the Victorians do that we don't?
They repressed, Ann. They repressed and sublimated. It wasn't all bad, apparently.
Jean --Hmm. Are you saying that humor depends on repression and sublimation? Could be -- humor releases what's been closeted away but in a socially acceptable, civil form? Intriguing.
Sure. Laughter relieves tension, doesn't it? And how can you have tension if you're not neatly packed up and on your best behavior most of the time? Thousands of sociologists and psychologists have also noted the close connection between humor and tragedy. A guy falls down, breaks his back, and it's a tragedy. Put a red nose on him and a bottle of Dixie Belle gin in his hand, and it's a comedy.
Yes, that accounts for a lot of laughter, but what about the comic -- does relief of tension account for his/her production of the comic? I suspect there are several motives involved in some case. For instance, some humor is meant to *cause* tension or pain. Mean jokes (see satire) are often funny *because* they're both true to life *and* funny. That's why they're often particularly mean. Sigh. I wonder if "the comic" is one of those pesky transcendental terms, one of those ultimate family resemblance terms.


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I recently started playing David Parlett's Quizl. It's a word game that is something like a cross between a word search and Battleship, and I really enjoy it. It's a two-player game, but I was wondering if anyone has adapted it for more players, along the same lines as multiplayer Battleship or Salvo. I did some searching, but all I found were some solitaire grids.
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I've not seen any multiplayer versions before, but why couldn't you play this the same way that you play multiplayer battleships?
I've played a few variations of multiplayer battleships. One where you select a square in a single opponent's grid, another where all shots hit all grids. I've even played a version where your shots hit all opponent's grids, but not your own (which made it very tempting to shoot at your own ships).
Players would score for guessing a password as in the original game. You could implement a score penalty for an incorrect guess, otherwise there would be significantly less benefit in revealing an opponent's square.
If you want to enlarge the search space (for example, if playing that all shots hit all grids) then each player could create several 5x5 grids, only one of which contains a five letter word.
There is a single-player version available here. However, I do not believe it's available in a multiplayer version anywhere.
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When you are doing it with your lady, you cum/wait until her mouth is full of drool and/or load so she's foaming at the mouth, like Old Yeller. Then, once she is foaming at the mouth, you take her and shoot her with your load and she wimpers, thus putting her out of her misery. Shooting noises are optional, but really add the effect.
Guy: (to girl) why is your face so red?
Girl: I got Old Yeller-ed.
Guy: Sucks to suck.
Girl: I got Old Yeller-ed.
Guy: Sucks to suck.
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verb: To put something out of it's misery. As in the ending of the Disney film Old Yeller, where the young boy puts a bullet between the eyes of his beloved pooch who's gone rabid or old or something.
This girl I hooked up with the other night thinks we're in love or something, I'm gonna hafta old yeller her.
by shaunsdu September 08, 2008
when you take yourself for a walk to (vomit) in private.
I thought i was going to (die) , so i took myself for an old yeller.
by wynner November 24, 2009
verb: a sex act where one person grabs a males testicles stretching them through his legs until he can reach the anus, whereupon he fingers the male.
I gave Todd an Old Yeller, last night, and he howled like a dog.
by trudy hankshaw August 28, 2012
The act of completely filling someone's mouth with jizz until overflowing, leaving the recepient drooling and foaming at the mouth, just like Old Yeller
This girl was such a dirty slut, I gave her the old yeller and she just smiled through it all.
by MF Tim May 18, 2008
A ruthless beer bong that will take down anyone who stands in it's way. Only conquered by The Council. Old Yeller has made many puke and many forget.
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The "ax+b group" is the group of affine transformations of $\mathbb R$. It is a locally compact non unimodular group.
Its space of irreducible, continuous unitary representations has been described by Gelfand and Neumark in this 1947 paper.
I am not very familiar with this subject, but in my understanding there are now several proofs to this result. My question is: where can I find a "modern" and accessible presentation of this result?


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We never said being a lawyer was going to be easy (because it's really not). We also never said it was going to be cool or interesting, either, but do you know who did? Hollywood. And even though we've been cool with Hollywood's lies before (the crappiest Indiana Jones movie is still a hundred times more exciting than the most interesting real-life archaeologist), when it comes to making movies about lawyers, Hollywood's goofs are so inexcusable that we wonder if anyone even bothered to Google "lawyer," "law" or "real life" before starting their screenplay ...
#7. Matthew McConaughey -- A Time to Kill
In A Time to Kill, Samuel L. Jackson is on trial for murdering the two racist white men who raped and beat his 10-year-old daughter in rural Mississippi. Jackson hires hot-shot lawyer Matthew McConaughey to defend him in court and, while Jackson did kill those dudes, Matt's plan is to argue "not guilty" on the grounds of temporary insanity. Whether he has a case or not is irrelevant, because the real problem is that this movie is set in rural, racist Mississippi, and getting a fair trial in a town full of active participants in the KKK is fairly difficult (and even non-clansmen were still, like, casual racists). Despite all of that racism, McConaughey beats rival lawyer Kevin Spacey and convinces the jury of Jackson's innocence with a heart-wrenching closing statement. Boom: Lawyered.
We've already discussed how idiotically illegal that heart-wrenching statement is in the film, but in terms of courtroom procedure, that's really up to Kevin Spacey to object to it, and he's not portrayed as anything more than a slime ball trying to up his street cred. McConaughey, on the other hand, is supposed to be a pretty sharp lawyer, even though he seems so ... Matthew McConaughey-esque.
"I think I know just what this courtroom needs: a little more law!"
Early on, McConaughey realizes that with the deep-rooted racist sentiment in Mississippi, there's no way in hell a black man will get a fair trial, even if that black man is Samuel L. Jackson. Not wanting to "pull a Finch," he wisely submits a motion to change the venue of the trial, which the judge, who is being pressured by the KKK, summarily denies. Distraught about this, Matt mopes for a while before Sandra Bullock (his spunky, ambitious legal assistant) points out that the judge overlooked a legal precedent in the change of venue motion. Armed with this new information, McConaughey resubmits his motion ... and has it denied again.
"Damnit. I thought I had all the law. He just lawyered the pants off of me."
Now, the first time the judge denied McConaughey's request to move the trial (without checking the legal precedents), it was a screw-up on the part of the judge. When a judge fails to consider all the evidence in a legal motion, this is called a "reversible error" (which, in legalese, means the judge done crapped him the bed something fierce). Bad enough, in fact, for the whole show to be declared a mistrial, meaning the defendant gets a brand-spanking-new trial. McConaughey has two options: 1) tell the judge that he made a mistake and give him a chance to correct it or 2) don't tell the judge; keep the information a secret and hold onto it. McConaughey chose option 1. He informed the judge of the screw-up and gave the judge a new opportunity to review the information. And he still got rejected.
Here's what McConaughey should have done: nothing. When you see a judge has committed a reversible error, you shut the hell up. That's the ace you hold up your sleeve, the one you don't play until the last minute. McConaughey should have kept quiet about the reversible error until after the trial, because a judge making a reversible error is grounds for a mistrial. Let's say Samuel L. Jackson lost the trial -- that's when McConaughey should play the "reversible error" card and get a brand new judge, jury and trial. Holding onto a reversible error is like having a mulligan, or a Get-Out-of-Death-Penalty-Free card. He could have just waited for the outcome of the trial and then said, "Nah, I don't like that. Do over."
"Only this time, we all wear party hats."
Instead, McConaughey helpfully pointed out the error in the early stages, giving the judge an opportunity to fix it, which also eliminates the possibility of a mistrial and puts Samuel in the express lane for death row.
We love being the ones to say this: For the sake of this movie (and maybe all movies, actually), Matthew McConaughey should always just shut the hell up.
#6. Al Pacino -- And Justice for All
When we see an obviously guilty criminal being defended, we wonder why the defense attorneys don't just roll over on their client and get his ass thrown in prison. We're sure some lawyers fantasize about jumping up and declaring their douchebag client guilty. But that's us. We make dick jokes for the Internet, we'd be terrible at lawyering. Please don't ever ask us to represent you in court.
In And Justice for All, Al Pacino's character, evidently channeling Cracked.com's Spirit of Crappy Lawyerdom, decides to screw over his own client. After spending the entire movie having his idealistic views of law crushed, he is forced to defend his arch nemesis, a judge accused of rape, played by John Forsythe. While initially believing him innocent, he soon discovers Forsythe is paying people off to give him a false alibi. During his opening statement, Pacino suddenly snaps and declares that his client is guilty before famously accusing the whole damn system of being out of order. The final scene shows him sitting outside the courthouse, having kamikazed his legal career. But at least he's got a clear conscience and he's ensured Forsythe will go to jail.
"Now, to pay the rent with ethics."
Actually, all he did was ensure Forsythe a competent defense. By refusing to represent his client, Pacino commits a breach of contract and is guilty of legal malpractice, which means the current proceedings would be declared a mistrial. Forsythe would get a whole new trial with a new attorney, probably one who doesn't share Pacino's moral hang-ups. Pacino's outburst would be inadmissible in the retrial and have no impact whatsoever.
"Also, you're all fat! So suck it!"
But, still, Pacino didn't want to represent a lying scumbag, so he didn't really have much of a choice, right? Wrong. If Pacino knew that Forsythe was guilty outright and was planning to submit false evidence, the American Bar Association rules state that Pacino is completely within his rights to notify the presiding judge. Pacino can go to the judge and say, "Hey, I know we're about to start this trial but, real quick, I just wanted you to know that my client arranged for a bunch of witnesses to lie for him. Right to your face. Everything they say is, and I want to be clear here, definitely not true. Anyway, have a good trial!" The judge in question, who is shown earlier to be somewhat fond of Pacino, could declare the false testimony inadmissible. Then even if Forsythe fires Pacino as his attorney, the fake alibis would still be inadmissible, since firing your attorney does not get you a retrial, nor would any judge grant a retrial simply because an attorney prevented his client from committing perjury.
Instead, Pacino loses his mind, goes for the grand effect and gets himself in deep legal trouble while ensuring that Forsythe almost certainly gets acquitted. What a weird move. Al Pacino normally seems so level-headed and reasonable.
This is actually just him ordering lunch.
#5. Tommy Lee Jones -- Double Jeopardy
In Double Jeopardy, Ashley Judd is wrongly convicted of murdering her husband to death. Later, we find out that the husband actually faked his death, just so he could abscond with Judd's son, her best friend and his own insurance money. While in prison, one of the inmates (claiming to be a lawyer) says that if Judd can get out of prison, she can murder her husband with no consequences because the legal doctrine of "double jeopardy" says a person can't be tried for the same crime twice. Judd immediately sets out to do just this, because who better to take legal advice from than convicted felons?
"You can also kill an extra person if you want."
Judd gets paroled and manages to track down the duplicitous bastard in New Orleans, with Tommy Lee Jones hot on her heels (when is he not chasing down fugitives?). Tommy, Ashley and the douche ex-husband all end up together, where Tommy (a professor of law) confirms that Ashley is totally within her rights to pump his two-timing guts full of lead, right before she does, with no ramifications.
This is an easy one. Even we thought the whole "double jeopardy" defense was suspect, and we're not very bright at all.
"Free murder? Thanks, the Law!"
Maybe Tommy has been retired from teaching for a while, or maybe he just really likes seeing people go to jail, but either way, he's totally wrong. Double jeopardy does stop someone from being tried for the same crime twice, but she's committing an entirely new crime. If you're wrongly convicted of stealing a TV and then you go and actually steal that same TV, do you really think they won't throw you in prison again? Another exception is "separate sovereigns," which says that double jeopardy doesn't apply if you're tried in two different jurisdictions; Ashley is initially convicted in Washington before cruising down to Louisiana to have a .38 caliber chat with her hubby. With an eyewitness and a motive, she would be back in jail faster than she could say "Should've Googled that."
"Oh. Really? Um ... my bad."
#4. Howard Duff -- Kramer vs. Kramer
In one of the first mainstream movies to examine the role of gender in family law, Kramer vs. Kramer tells the story of a father (Dustin Hoffman) suddenly left to raise his son by himself after his wife, Meryl Streep, leaves him. Several months later, Meryl returns and demands custody of the boy. Having become accustomed to French toast and Saturday morning cartoons, Hoffman says hell no and the two go to court.
After a bitter and harsh legal battle, primary custody is awarded to Meryl, based on the "tender years doctrine," which states that preference in custody is given to the mother. Hoffman initially wants to appeal the ruling and continue to fight for his son, but Howard Duff, who plays Hoffman's lawyer, says that he'll have to put his son on the stand if they appeal. Unable to put his son through that, Hoffman tearfully concedes custody to Meryl.
Oh, burrrrrn.
We don't mean to say that Howard Duff is a moron, but Howard Duff is a moron. Appeals are based on material fact and written records from the original trial, not on new evidence. The notion that Dustin's son would be forced to testify is utterly ridiculous. Even if a retrial was ordered, the worst that would happen would be that the judge would gently ask Dustin's son a few questions about his daily life with his dad in the judge's private chambers, which is hardly the traumatizing grilling Duff makes it out to be. Additionally, while the tender years doctrine was the prevailing standard of custody arguments for many years, it had been falling out of favor for nearly a decade by the time Kramer vs. Kramer came along in 1979. Any ruling based on an outdated legal principle would provide ample fodder during the appeals process and could easily come out in Hoffman's favor. Instead, Dustin torpedoes the entire thing based on excruciatingly imbecilic advice from his lawyer and winds up losing custody of his son.
"Whatever. It's not my kid."
(It's a really sad movie that we've now made much, much sadder. Sorry.)


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We have one of these (the Halo, purchased before the name change)
These are definitely worth the money. If you have an infant, are expecting a child, or have close friends or family who are expecting, you should get one of these.
I wonder if it can detect this:
It looks nice but at $85 you can find much better options. Shoot!! for $85 you can get a video monitor...
@notoriouscheech: The problem is a video monitor won't detect if you baby has stopped breathing. And this seems to be a pretty good price for this one.
@notoriouscheech: This would be used in addition to a video monitor. Something of note: It only takes one false alarm of this thing to make your life a living hell. Expect sleepless nights hallucinating the sound of the alarm.
Bought one of these a couple months ago...man, I'm regretting it now. $85 is totally worth it. A few friends had recommended it, so I jumped the gun a bit too early. Being able to sleep without worry is worth the money though.


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A snow emergency is declared for downtown Nebraska City on Thursday night so crews can pick up snow.
Dan Giittinger, public properties director, said there was not a lot of snow but the sleet earlier Wednesday evening left plenty of ice.
The city parking lots will be available for people to park. During a snow emergency, parking is not allowed on downtown streets. Gittinger said snow removal should go from 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. on Friday.
Law enforcement reports only a few "slip offs" on roadways following this winter's first snow event.
Schools were closed.
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In the series Seinfeld, why does Jerry not change his character's name?
The similarities between the real Jerry and the fictionalized Jerry are subtle. Since his life as a comedian was the show's core, there was great reason to tie the real and fictionalized characters together. They did so using the name of the character.
Also, I am sure there was a bit of ego involved.
According to a documentary I watched seinfeld didn't change his name because he has based it on his life, he also used the series to showcase his standup comedy talents
I mean, the show is called Seinfeld. I think much of the basis of the show is that it is an exaggerated interpretation of his own life. A viewer is meant to believe that the Jerry we watch in Seinfeld is the same Jerry we see doing stand up comedy.


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Because 2015 Is The New 2014
Rick and I are still enjoying the comforts of our fancy-pants hotel in Kathmandu. We've just finished eating breakfast in bed (because fancy-pants hotel), and are contemplating venturing out to wander the streets of the Thamel district to get some delicious coffee from Himalayan Java. It's a rough life, but someone has to live it.Read more "Because 2015 Is The New 2014"


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Amateur press association
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An amateur press association (APA) is a form of self-publishing in which all of the members of the association submit multiple copies of printed material to a central person. That person collates the individual submissions and sends the collated copies back out to the contributors.
APAs differ importantly from fanzines in that APAs are not intended to be sold by producers to consumers. Their memberships are closed groups in which almost all of the small number of issues produced go back only to the members. The only way to obtain copies is to maintain membership with the APA, generally requiring a minimum quota of submitted pages rather than simple payment. "Minac" (short for "minimum activity") is the rate of submitted work which an APA requires of its members. Failure to meet minac results in loss of membership and no further collations being received. In effect, the difficulty of meeting minac is a barrier to entry which guaranteeing to each member that the collated work they receive comes from similarly dedicated creators. This social dimension of APAs was very much in tune with the mood of the funny animal fandom which preceded the furry fandom. The attitude at that time was that if you weren't sufficiently dedicated to funny animals to create them yourself, you weren't a real fan.
A collating party is a combination of social gathering and working bee undertaken by APA or fanzine groups. The tedious job of hand-assembling books is eased by inviting a large number of friends to help, and it's an opportunity for people sharing the publication's special interest to meet.
APAs tend to have a fixed number of memberships, with new places only becoming available as existing members drop out. There is typically a waitlist of queued individuals who have been accepted for eventual entry and are awaiting a vacancy. Popular APAs occasionally see their waitlist become large enough to form their own second-tier APA. A furry example of this happening is The Dallas Brawl.
With the advent of the Internet, the popularity of APAs has faded significantly. Notable examples of APAs in furry fandom have included Huzzah and Gallery, both of which have ceased publishing.
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TEMPLE (October 9, 2012)-The City of Temple is the recipient of a grant from the Clean Start Propane Refueling, Vehicle Incentive & Outreach Program provided by Texas State Technical College (TSTC) and its partners CleanFuel USA (CFUSA) and Public Solutions Group (PSG).
Funding for the grant has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to promote the use of alternative fuels to preserve the environment.
The grant will provide approximately $99,500 to convert eleven vehicles to propane autogas (LPG).
Currently, the city has four vehicles operating on LPG.
The opportunity will allow Temple to continue its program of converting the majority of its fleet to an appropriate alternative fuel, under its Sustainability Management Plan, a city spokesperson said.
The plan was adopted in January and commits the city to a clean, safe, and healthy environment by exercising sustainable practices.
The eleven vehicles converted under the grant opportunity will run on a bi-fuel system that operates primarily on propane autogas and uses gasoline as a secondary fuel option.
The city says they anticipate an annual savings between $2,500 and $3,000 per converted vehicle.
With the use of LPG, Temple expects to decrease gasoline use by approximately 1,600 gallons annually per converted vehicle.
The City of Temple owns and operates its own LPG fueling station, on-site, at its Fleet Services Center.
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