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Your front flippers are too big, and your back flippers are too small.
Even other animals with flippers like sea lions and sea turtles do not swim with all four flippers, he said.
When the back flippers wove between the whirlpools made by the front flippers, they could use that excess energy to move more efficiently.
He put the flippers into a large water tank, and using different colored dyes, ran several simulations to determine under what conditions the flippers acted most efficiently.
For flippers, it's time — often a lot of it.
Because wouldn't these look great with a pair of flippers?
"For 30, 40 years I've been watching flippers," Trump said.
The guys begin to cut the flippers and the tail.
"More inexperienced home flippers with a smaller financial cushion could be a sign of an over-speculative market, but the data indicate that flippers in 2015 continued to operate within relatively conservative margins," said Blomquist.
We often see flippers get voted out immediately after their flip.
"That is the inventory flippers are competing against when they sell."
They're holding on to each other's flippers, for crying out loud.
It's not just factory workers, burger flippers, and long-haul truckers.
Ellen DeGeneres is one of the most famous celebrity house flippers.
Its flippers were crossed over its chest as it slept deeply.
That may be why the number of flippers continues to grow.
We must hope for flippers and beaks — or nothing at all.
"We don't have a lot of flippers in these plans, " Cervino said.
Yes, an actual merman, with flippers, who has been alive for centuries.
Scales and flippers be damned, this thing is morsel and a half.
Flippers are watching home prices rise, and in turn seeing returns rise.
Now, I'm out to help novice flippers get through their projects unscathed.
Here's what house flipping is really like, according to house flippers themselves.
The body was very hefty, and I distinctly saw two front flippers.
But something kept pulling us back, turning us into renovators and flippers.
The clues were in their anatomy: Seal flippers are just modified feet.
A note announces sanitizing procedures at Flippers Pizzeria in the Villages, Florida.
The system performed best when the front and back flippers both flapped.
Taraji once auditioned for a role in a full wetsuit-and-flippers combo.
With very few exceptions throughout the history of the show, people loathe flippers.
Despite the premium to buy, flippers are still seeing growing gains in profit.
They were propelled by four equal-sized flippers, unlike any animal alive today.
Lines and gear can wrap around a whale's body, flukes, flippers and mouth.
Other animals had flippers nearly severed by swimming wrapped in inexorably constricting ropes.
Burger-flippers and care-home workers do not have trade secrets to hawk.
He sees burger flippers as trapped by their jobs, not clinging to them.
And since they don't have to swim far, their flippers are shorter, too.
"The biggest mistake house flippers make is running out of capital," Denchfield said.
The product would be less appealing to house flippers, as there are prepayment penalties.
Sea turtle flippers might appear to be useful for swimming and... not much else.
Clip: I know all about flipping for 30, 40 years I've been watching flippers.
He has flippers instead of hands, a scaly back, and eyelids that operate vertically.
With so many new flippers in the market, the concern is in the craft.
When Gottlieb hung up its flippers in 1996, pinball was declared dead then, too.
"  "I've known all about flipping — for 30 or 40 years I've been watching flippers.
In 2007, when real estate was booming, civilians became property developers and home flippers.
"We are always on the lookout to sponsor high-caliber female flippers," he says.
He said the "flippers" and "rental people" weren't interested in the property at hand.
One reported reason: to stop flippers from selling merchandise featuring the late N.B.A. star.
We arrived, donned our provided flippers and snorkeling gear and plunged into the water.
Seconds later, he re-emerged, holding on to a chaotic mess of flapping flippers.
Seasoned flippers who can find properties that haven't been listed yet will fare better.
All had beluga-like flippers, narwhal-like tails and solid gray skin, he said.
Each of the connectors corresponds to one of the game's flippers, targets, or lights.
"It looked like a normal turtle hatchling, except that it had a white shell and it had little white flippers, and you could see a little bit of pink under its flippers," the group's president, Linda Warneminde, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
This past Thursday, they were seen walking along a beautiful beach carrying snorkels and flippers.
It's just like the Paul Simon song "Mother and Child Reunion," but with more flippers.
Another factor sopping up supply and increasing prices is the return of the house flippers.
Many flippers find themselves quickly voted out– Cochran in South Pacific, Candice in Heroes vs.
Usually flippers look for distressed properties either in the foreclosure process or already bank-owned.
They have been found flapping their tiny flippers off the coast of California and Japan.
So you had flippers or people that at least were convinced that they couldn't lose.
Some pieces stood on pigeon-toed feet, and others grew flippers, fins, fingers and toes.
Though not every plesiosaur had a neck like "Nessie," they all had four long flippers.
After a while, she climbs out over stones, puts on small flippers, reënters the water.
Appraisals were being inflated to push home prices higher, as investor-flippers sought big gains.
Hosts Bristol and Aubrey Marunde are flippers with decades of experience and parents to two boys.
As more amateur flippers get in the game, it's more likely there will be more violations.
The two don't consider themselves house flippers, but instead hope to improve small pockets of Indianapolis.
The table is a marvel of construction to look at, with obstacles, bumpers, and working flippers.
There are two kinds of flippers—blue, orange—and each is controlled with a different button.
Tribes that have had disaffected members at the merge have frequently been undone by those flippers.
Lending to house-flippers is another way in which Goldman can put its deposits to work.
That continued for years, but now the math isn't working so well, and some flippers are fleeing.
Are the cashier operators, and burger flippers going to retrain overnight, and become software developers and poets?
As it becomes more efficient... Same thing with ... right now, in San Francisco, we have burger flippers.
For "heavier fixers," interested parties would likely include veteran flippers, investors, and institutional buyers with deep pockets.
It also comes as the president lashes out against "flippers," or those who cooperate with federal investigators.
"We've decided that we're going to have our own show called Dirty River Flippers," she jokingly shared.
Until wages become too high, human burger-flippers and call-centre workers, like hand-spinners, will do.
That's because flippers today largely use cash — 71 percent did in the first quarter of this year.
And they kept rolling on their sides and backs and lifting their flippers out of the water.
Today flippers are seeing the best returns in Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and New Haven, Connecticut.
Far smaller than oceangoing marine turtles, terrapins lack flippers, and consequently remain very turtle-like in appearance.
"They can use their flippers like a machine rifle and have a nasty bite," Mr. Watts said.
"When we got there, the flippers were already chopped up," said Budi Prasetyo, a marine police officer.
How could you even capture somebody you wanted to torture with just your flippers and your mouth?
And the flippers are now selling their properties, and they are being bought by long-term buyers.
That&aposs helped consolidate the domestic real estate market, especially for house-flippers, under its own banner.
Sensing defeat, he vented his frustration as another ball slipped between his flippers and ended his chances.
On the secondary market, flippers were asking — and getting — five times what they had paid in stores.
Lego flippers have also noted that sets are more likely to be resold if they are sealed.
Burger flippers, pizza tossers, and latte frothers, watch your backs: Gordon, Sally, and Kona are coming for you.
There are fewer of those today, so flippers are moving to the mainstream market, creating that new pressure.
JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers, the engaged break-out stars of "The Bachelorette," are also experienced house flippers.
Flip flippers need not apply The idea that this district could flip blue is still considered a stretch.
After spending some time out in the cold Wisconsin winter, Phillip the duck's flippers were frostbitten and damaged.
Jischke's classroom houses a 3D printer, which would be the perfect tool to make Phillip some new flippers.
And an entire economy — of buyers, sellers, middlemen, professional flippers, and marketplaces — has sprung up around Instagram accounts.
But soon, "it latched its flippers onto my leg, it was its last bit of energy," he said.
It takes Big Dick Energy to be both aquatic and flightless, a bird whose wings are just flippers.
Christina and Tarek El Moussa and HGTV's slew of famous house flippers may soon have some new competition.
The creator of Active Shooter is, according to Valve, one of the more enduring asset flippers on Steam.
The Times conveniently forgot all the froth as the lefties got their flippers flapping to oppose Ebell's appointment.
On the beach, Mr. Kiponda measured and weighed the creature, and put metal identification tags on his flippers.
The warehouse was a game, the products little more than flippers in search of a pinball to thwack.
Those skills include quick reflexes, patience and hair-trigger timing with the flippers to best direct the ball.
Trilobites True's beaked whales look a bit like weird dolphins with big foreheads, fat bellies and small flippers.
If the other buyers of the artist are speculators, short-term art traders or flippers, you should avoid them.
Instead of using his hands to flip the cups, he'll have to use his fingers and the plank's flippers.
Flippers are often the next people voted out, and Sarah risks earning the eternal animosity of her former tribe.
Vacation queen Kourtney Kardashian waved her flippers in the air with friends on a snorkeling outing, as you do.
Instead of using your hands to flip the cups, you'll have to use your fingers and the plank's flippers.
Perhaps today's remaining manual professions, from burger flippers to bricklayers, will be memorialised the same way in a century.
I remember the day he showed up in a World War II surplus wet suit, stumbling over the flippers.
Instead of using their hands to flip the cups, they'll have to use their fingers and the plank's flippers.
There were influencers, drivers, mentors, and life coaches; persuaders, house-flippers, mom-preneurs, deprogrammers, and real estate all-stars.
The murres' short wings act as flippers underwater, allowing them to swim nimbly and swiftly in search of fish.
Craigslist will be flooded with iPhone 7 Plus stock from "flippers" who are looking to make a quick profit.
Some brokerages, like Empire Flippers, charge sellers a a fee and take a 2100% on the sale of the business.
This condition, triggered by a turtle-specific herpes virus, causes disfiguring tumors around the eyes armpits, genitals, neck and flippers.
The number of active home flippers last year was the highest in nearly a decade, and it is only growing.
It had paddle-like flippers, a small head and a mouth with teeth, including large canines, perfect for snaring fish.
The ball constrains the bug from doing anything but moving left and right, but fortunately, there are flippers all around.
Create an agreement My son is into gymnastics and loves watching "flippers" — teenagers doing double flips at extreme trampoline parks.
Flippers turned around more than 49,000 homes in the first quarter, according to real estate research firm Attom Data Solutions.
Home flippers saw an average gross return of $67,516 in the second quarter, representing a 48.4 percent return on investment.
"Plesiosaurs definitely used all four flippers for propulsion and that made them more efficient and effective swimmers," said Dr. Muscutt.
And like magic you can play it, a tiny ball drips onto your drawing to be batted around by the flippers.
On the other hand, not everyone wants or can afford a huge, new, expensive home, and that gives flippers the edge.
Its origin, they explained, was a strange creature, evenly grey, with flippers like a beluga but a tail like a narwhal.
The app features at least one game that looks kind of like pinball, except you control the flippers with your penis.
Chip and Joanna Gaines aren't the only house flippers out there — plenty of other celebrities have gotten in on the game.
Today, we're being literal and thinking about the back of a quarter, which is also known by coin flippers as TAILS.
Its long body and tail were rigid, affording little flexibility, so it had four flippers to help it swim and steer.
Despite the challenges that many first-time flippers face, El Moussa believes that house flipping can be lucrative in may ways.
Today's flippers, however, are nothing like those of a decade ago, who used cheap and easy money to finance their trades.
There is also a supply crisis, especially on the lower end of the market where flippers usually make their best returns.
Luckily, the flippers that walruses use to swim through the frigid ocean can also easily reach down and stroke whatever needs stroking.
Plus, the tuxedoed birds tend to huddle together to create warmth while conserving heat by keeping their flippers close at their sides.
This is a robot that's designed to be loved and looked after — kind of like an advanced Furby with wheels and flippers.
"Now that investors or traders or flippers are beginning to pay outrageous multiples to sales, not earnings, but sales, beware," he said.
Speaking to Financial Times (via Eurogamer, as FT is paywalled), Fils-Aime made a firm appeal to fans: Don't reward the flippers.
Others were smaller home flippers, like JP Patel, who was still buying properties at a crowded auction event in Houston last October.
KKR – The private-equity firm is increasing its investment in Toorak Capital Partners, a firm that buys loans made to home flippers.
At 52, he now stars in "O," wearing a loosey-goosey sailor suit, a clown nose and shoes the size of flippers.
Technology is also making it easier for flippers to find the services they need and at the same time keep costs low.
Then they settle in and dig a little chamber with their back flippers, into which they may lay more than 100 eggs.
And then there are the rudimentary details of how this world works, like the cars with fins and flippers propelling them along.
Then the kids go scuba diving with actual flippers on their actual feet, totally going rogue inside of their friend's bacterial infection.
She once played a duck — in a tutu and flippers — in Mr. Mizrahi's production of "Peter and the Wolf" at the Guggenheim.
Plungers, targets, flippers, and ramps are activated as the player fights against gravity to keep the steel ball bounding around the playfield.
The clamor of bells, bumpers and flippers batting steel balls echoing merrily off the walls creates a near constant buzz in the space.
The dialogue is hacky, the cast's musical abilities uneven, and there's a scene involving flippers that gives me so much second-hand embarrassment.
In a post shared on Instagram, Kuznetsov wears a black biniki, flippers and a snorkel mask for a swim in the clear water.
Propped against the wall is a pair of flippers that Perry bought himself in anticipation of a planned family trip to the Bahamas.
The still-untitled show will follow El Moussa, 37, as he mentors rookie house flippers and helps them renovate homes for a profit.
Rising home prices are bringing more house flippers out of the woodwork, and that may be a sign of an overheating housing market.
While large-scale investors scooped up foreclosures and turned them into rentals, smaller investor-flippers had to sit out the housing crash years.
When the timer runs out, the flippers freeze up, giving every player a dramatic hail mary opportunity to quickly rack up some points.
For that reason, swimmers here are not allowed to use flippers and are urged to swim as slowly and gently as they can.
Una was brought back to SeaWorld Orlando 10 years after her first rescue with both of her flippers tied by a fishing line.
Inside the cart are a couple of large water bottles, a towel, a swim cap, goggles and flippers to strengthen her back kick.
The process taught the student a valuable lesson, and one that he would pass on to other young home flippers: Don't cheap out.
Its forelimbs were shaped less like wings and more like flippers, similar to those used by marine reptiles like the plesiosaur to swim.
Competition is fierce among flippers, because the returns are falling, hitting the lowest point in eight years during the first quarter of this year.
"Price increases in 2016 were the quickest in about 3 to 4 years," McLaughlin said, adding that gives flippers a potential layer of protection.
A team of researchers studying turtles observed a few cases of turtles using their flippers as arms, for things like digging and pushing off.
Most memorable here is Wyatt Fenner as Mercutio, who gets to ride a bike, tramp about in flippers and revel in theatrically emotional complexity.
There is literally nothing in this world more romantic than the sight of two penguins holding flippers as they walk along a beach together.
But for old-timers, neophytes, and casual flippers alike, I present it to you: 10 sterling stand-outs in a year chockfull of them.
They hired the services of the website resale company Empire Flippers to sell the account for them, which they did for more than $73,000.
Vaquitas, which translates to "small cow" in Spanish, have a gray or white complexion, a tall dorsal fin, dark eye rings, and long flippers.
Look at the labored skid marks from mama turt's flippers as she dragged herself to complete a lengthy journey fueled by maternal turtle love.
This baby sea turtle felt the waves on his flippers for the first time during a January release ceremony at the Gulf of Guinea.
Add house-flippers to Goldman Sachs' ever-expanding roster of potential clients as the Wall Street firm hunts for new ways to make money.
They contend that those predictions, combined with old-fashioned economies of scale, will allow them to be far more efficient than traditional home flippers.
She notes that Elise has always marched to the beat of her own drum, a personality trait that seems to apply to most flippers.
" Chapo's lawyers didn't use the word "flippers" in any quotes that appeared in print, but they did call the DEA's tactics "unethical or illegal.
In that novel, human beings develop smaller brains — our big ones were leading us to destroy the world — as well as flippers and beaks.
"Having four big flippers like that is rather strange," said Luke Muscutt, a biomechanist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southampton in England.
When the pair of flippers work harmoniously, the back flipper can increase its thrust by approximately 60 percent and its efficiency by 40 percent.
Torres uses his own resources, design savvy and years of experience to rescue inexperienced home flippers who are on the verge of losing everything.
McDonald's pays burger-flippers in Caracas a bonus of $20203 a month, which is more than treble the minimum wage of 300,000 bolívares ($6).
The aggressive Mueller techniques have yielded the most crucial element for white-collar cases: flippers — wrongdoers who agree to testify against their co-conspirators.
Give the medical science community a few more years, and Phillip could be walking around on flippers just like the ones he was born with.
There is plenty of demand from home flippers and landlords looking for great deals, but they get most of the good properties the courthouse auction.
House flippers in the second quarter of this year saw an average gross profit of $62,000, up from $103,900 in the second quarter of 2015.
Some flippers are turning historic homes into modern, hybrid treasures, but others are slapping cosmetic fixes on truly troubled properties, ignoring mechanical and structural issues.
Tarek also talks about going solo -- he's filming a pilot where he mentors rookie house flippers -- but most importantly, he's amped about being cancer free!!!
Of the flippers I asked, most said they didn't feel particularly bad about taking items away from collectors, particularly since they were often collectors themselves.
In a Fox News interview that aired this morning, the president decried "flippers" (people who take immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying against others).
A lot of people have this implicit belief that America is becoming basically a nation of three groups: tech entrepreneurs, burger flippers and welfare recipients.
Spinball is pinball with Sonic himself as the ball, except for in its bonus stages, when Sonic is at the flippers of a regular machine.
Once in the water, the turtle flapped his flippers powerfully, becoming a rippling blur as he disappeared into the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean.
The rescue highlighted in the video took five hours to complete after the whale got lines wrapped around both its flippers and through its mouth.
Profits generated by home flipping also hit a 2179-year high, with home flippers netting an average $2778,22007 per sale before renovation and transaction costs.
It's going to take some time to get used to his new flippers, but he seems to be getting the hang of the way they feel.
Researchers noticed that Spirtle had kept her distance from the other dolphins, potentially to avoid physical social behaviors such as rubbing each other with their flippers.
"The whales were just rolling onto their sides, lifting their flippers out of the water, doing headstands, lifting their tails out of the water," she said.
Previous news reports and other publicly available information, including the Justice Department's own press releases, have made the deals these "flippers" made the government public information.
In this work of satire and science fiction, Vonnegut imagines a human species that has evolved to have smaller brains, flippers and beaks for catching food.
The number of home flippers rose to levels not seen since 5.53, while the number of home flips per individual investor fell at the same time.
Taking its winning Flip or Flop formula to a Northern California town that's actually called Paradise, Flip or Flop Paradise will star flippers David and Chenoa Rivera.
That helps keep most flippers conservative, but it also exacerbates the problems for entry-level homebuyers, who are facing one of the tightest housing markets in history.
Read: The case against El Chapo: Drugs, murder, and some guys Trump calls "flippers" In the end, seven women and five men were selected for the jury.
It's all just part of the job for Eric and Lindsey Bennett, the stars of HGTV's Desert Flippers, a home renovation show set in sunny Palm Springs.
"What it shows is there are obviously a number of flippers and IPO valuation was probably stretched," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Cresset Wealth Advisors.
Wearing a wetsuit and flippers, he takes a last drag of his cigarette before pulling a mask down over his face, and slipping into the dark water.
A couponing site performed the best, but he got bored with the idea and posted it on Empire Flippers, a site for buying and selling online businesses.
Leo and his model boo, Camila Morrone, were snorkeling in Nerano, where the couple threw on their flippers and goggles for a peek under the deep blue.
In other words, once you've done the drills and built the strength, you've got to go for it — or "huck it," as flippers and freerunners sometimes say.
Like many of his fellow flippers, as they call themselves, he says he is often teased at school, subject to eye-rolls from kids and parents alike.
Murder House Flip: From the executive producer of CSI, this unscripted home renovation show sees expert flippers Mikel Welch and Joelle Uzyel tackle locations with dark histories.
Many of those lower-priced areas also have strong rental markets, giving flippers a consistent pipeline of demand from buy-and-hold investors looking for turnkey rentals.
To single out one strand, recall the stories of flippers who would buy a house, fix it up, and resell it within months at a huge profit.
After the epic housing crash, flippers poured in, buying up distressed properties at bargain prices, fixing them up and flipping them either to residents or to other investors.
Cohen went on to explain that the very public spat between the former house flippers was "very upsetting" to him because of the trio's long-standing history together.
One such middleman, Empire Flippers, told BuzzFeed News it brokered 58 deals last quarter, including the sale of an athletics company in February that went for $1.7 million.
An orange or yellow party hat strapped around your face will work for a beak, and if you have similarly colored shoes or boots, those are your flippers.
It retails for $80, but it's also very hard to find — so of course eBay flippers are already charging outrageous prices for something they don't even have yet.
I thought of my big, disgusting Size 11 feet, which are wide and flat and have the look of scuba flippers and which designers have shod only begrudgingly.
And you add something else onto that, which is like a beak, flippers, and you live in the sewer and you drool black crap out of your mouth.
Reena Aggarwal, a Georgetown University business professor and IPO expert said many of these investors are not flippers and do look at holdings on a longer-term basis.
While Fannie Mae will back as many as 10 investor loans per flipper, it is still very strict with underwriting, so flippers are increasingly going to private lenders.
Home flippers realized an average gross profit of more than $58,000 in the first quarter of this year, the highest since the third quarter of 2005, according to RealtyTrac.
Hopefully all these potential daters match up smoothly this year or else the Academy may have a Real Penguins of San Francisco-type situation on its flippers, er, hands.
There&aposs also no word yet whether the league&aposs other teams plan to follow suit, and rename themselves the Connecticut  Water Bottle Flippers  or the Brooklyn Chocolate Rains .
As the late-summer sun began to set on Bocas del Toro, Panama, Marah Hardt slipped into a mask and a pair of flippers and swam out to sea.
Among the show's most memorable pieces is one shaker shaped like a penguin that has golden flippers and feet, as well as another fittingly shaped like a watering can.
Last but perhaps cutest, the AirPenguin is a chubby silver blimp-bot with flippers that help it glide forward through the air, and moveable tail fins and a beak.
After the hatchlings got the feel of sand under their flippers, Mr. Agung directed the crowd to walk forward, pick up a turtle and carry it to the surf.
If the image of a young Kenan Thompson wearing flippers and speaking bad French in a bubble bath elicits waves of nostalgia, you're probably a child of the '903s.
By testing robotic replicas of plesiosaur flippers in a water tank he has shown that all four flapping up and down is by far the most efficient and powerful arrangement.
Burger flippers, truck drivers, and cashiers are going to be out of work in the coming decades, thanks to the accelerating pace of robotics and automation technology, some experts warn.
Within moments, one of the massive ancient animals surfaced and dragged itself to the shore, raising itself on its flippers to stare at us staring silently back, 30 feet away.
Flippers, in fact, saw record profits in 2016, with a gross flipping return on investment of 49 percent, according to Attom Data Solutions, a real estate listing and analytics company.
That was the case during the housing boom in the mid-2000s, but at that time flippers were putting next to no money into their investments, instead using cheap credit.
But unlike serial celeb flippers like Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Garner and Jeremy Renner, Berkus and his husband, designer Jeremiah Brent, haven't bought and sold homes in quick succession — until now.
But while many flippers said they viewed reselling as a way of subsidizing their collecting habits, most also told me that they sold well beyond that, making a nice profit.
Current and former fast-food executives have said a $15 hourly wage would force restaurants to replace workers with kiosks, robotic french fry baggers, automatic pancake flippers and other technology.
Karina Moore of the Devonport City Council tells Mashable Australia that the visitor notified council workers at the cemetery, after discovering the tired and grumpy ball of fur and flippers.
Although Eric and Lindsey Bennett have never met Chip and Joanna Gaines, HGTV fans are quick to make comparisons between their show Desert Flippers and the Gaineses show Fixer Upper.
In general, moving very large volumes of water relatively slowly, as a fish's tail or a diver's flippers do, wastes less energy than having to swiftly accelerate very small amounts.
He crafted the foot-long robotic flippers using photographs of plesiosaur fossil specimens as well as from geometric data collected from today's flippered-creatures like penguins, turtles and sea lions.
Prosecutors don't obtain search warrants for the homes of "flippers" because cooperators are doing everything within their power to help the government, and would consent to a search if asked.
Paleontologists studying an unusual fossil have identified a new dinosaur, related to the velociraptor, that had a neck like a swan, a snout like a goose and forelimbs like flippers.
It has a trio of wheels for scooting around your home, and a pair of flippers that it can use to show surprise, affection, or even beg to be picked up.
She arrived to a rocky cove in colorful swim leggings, a straw hat and a bikini top, and toted a bright green diving mask and snorkel, and a pair of flippers.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Pulling on their scuba gear and flippers at a swimming pool in Brussels, Nicolas Mouchart and his wife Florence are not just going diving - they're going out for dinner.
In one of the most extreme examples, Phoenix businessman Scott Menaged set out to be the king of house flippers, buying up foreclosed properties with abandon following the 2008 financial crisis.
Like so many other flippers, Nealy is self-taught, trains hard to learn new tricks on her backyard trampoline, and was originally inspired by the popular YouTuber and flipper Tanner Braungardt.
Young Flippers Embrace Gtramp, a New Sport for the Instagram Set War Without End A 'Generationally Perpetuated' Pattern: Daughters Do More Chores The Marines Didn't Think Women Belonged in the Infantry.
In "Instant Family," Byrne and Mark Wahlberg play Ellie and Pete, upper-middle-class house flippers who delayed having children and, now hovering around 40, decide foster parenting is the solution.
After porpoising toward shore, a group of kings would come running headlong up from the breakers, their flippers outstretched and fluttering, as if the water had got too cold for them.
Then consider this: For the 2017 road model, Ford introduced an extensive application process to ensure its "halo car" wouldn't fall into the hands of collectors, car flippers or even museums.
"We thought of ourselves as serial flippers," said Mr. Feldman, 52, the founding partner of the San Francisco-based firm Feldman Architecture, where Ms. Lougee, 51, works as an interior designer.
"It was like they were flash-frozen, flippers in all weird positions, like they were swimming," Robert Prescott, director of Massachusetts Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, told the Cape Cod Times.
It's a unique economy filled with avid collectors, product-flippers, scam artists, thieves, automated bots and entrepreneurs that seek to cash in on a market with massive demand and potentially high returns.
Their initial investment price can be high, and flippers are often competing against local builders, who may want to tear the house down and put something up that is twice the size.
On the show Burns wrote that he would watch house flippers nickel and dime over building costs, but eat thousands of dollars in closing fees to ensure they would receive title insurance.
My friends take out a video camera and put me in an inner tube, flippers, a bikini, and a diving mask, and I have to walk around the city and sell hugs.
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, sightings of her may go back to the Pict (ancient people who lived in eastern Scotland), as stone carvings of a "mysterious beast with flippers" have been discovered.
The marine reptile dug a deep hole in the sand and laid 128 eggs, scraping sand with her flippers over the nest to hide it, and she lumbered back to the sea.
One butcher described the gruesome, 226-minute process for me: He first cut off the flippers, then separated the meat from the shell and at the end removed the heart, still beating.
The Pembina Gorge dig near Canada excavated a species of mosasaur, a sea creature similar to a very large Komodo dragon with flippers, which had never before been found in North Dakota.
As players warmed up amid a cacophony of clacking flippers and bonus-point bells, plungers were pulled back and released, sending silver balls springing into rapid routes and ricocheting off blinking bumpers.
In that sense, I and my fellow theatergoers, who all but purr watching Arthur become almost human, are making the same mistake that Anna does, placing our hearts in an automaton's flippers.
Fujii pointed out that otters are social animals who may teach one another other ways to use their flippers, and sea turtles are rather solitary but still have figured out a similar behavior.
These markets were hardest hit during the housing crash more than 10 years ago, as thousands of homes were purchased by flippers, who were using subprime mortgages and later defaulted on their loans.
In the consumer space, this could be financing for home flippers, school loans, high-deductible health plans or even Uber drivers who want to buy new cars as a means of earning income.
"We are getting a lot more Amazon FBA, because a lot of people who started these businesses are bearing enough fruits to sell," Greg Elfrink, content manager for Empire Flippers, told BuzzFeed News.
A combination of low interest rates, tight inventory and a booming economy has created near-ideal conditions for house flippers who buy property, fix it up, then sell it for a quick profit.
Dr. Muscutt used a 3D printer to create two faux flippers to represent one side of a plesiosaur and attached them to a mechanical device that aimed to mimic how the creature moved.
The idea then was this: Big-time converters with deep pockets would buy apartment buildings and convert the rental apartments to owner-occupied condos, selling units to diverse individuals, some of them flippers.
Trump has previously praised Manafort as a "brave man" for refusing to back down despite the charges against him, and railed against "flippers" who share dirt with investigators about their bosses under legal pressure.
But since this particularly origami robot is designed to function inside the human body, which is made mostly of water, it's also been augmented with tiny fins to help propel it along like flippers.
"While an increasing number of flippers are financing their purchases, more than two-thirds are still using cash to purchase compared to about one-third using cash to purchase back in 2006," said Blomquist.
Today's house-flippers - those buying properties and selling them within 12 months - are mainly contractors and professional renovators who buy run-down properties in promising neighborhoods and fix them up, boosting the resale value.
At a sidebar out of the jury's earshot, the lawyer, Kafahni Nkrumah, explained that he wanted to tell the jury about President Trump's criticism of cooperating witnesses — "flippers," as Mr. Trump had called them.
"Home flippers are employing a number of strategies to give them an edge in the increasingly competitive environment where flipping yields are being compressed," said Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at Attom Data Solutions.
Before it started, the initial group had been divided using different color wristbands, effectively separating participants into teams, and then some were told to watch on a hidden camera as the coin flippers cheated.
Diadora will release around 10 limited-edition sneakers this year, many of which will sell out in minutes, some of which will appear on the secondary market as flippers look to make a quick buck.
In an upcoming report, the nonprofit Center for NYC Neighborhoods found that flippers who bought in central Brooklyn in 2014 and 2015 paid 30% to 40% less than sales of comparable properties in the neighborhood.
Luxury real estate agent Albert Garibaldi said in a phone call that house flippers often buy historic homes, renovate them to a more modern design, and sell them to tech millionaires ready to move in.
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Indeed, girl flippers tend to cite the same things they love about parkour or Gtramp that boys do: the community, the fact that they can progress on their own, and the absolute freedom of movement.
It was not the parade of evolutionary transformations and innovations to their bodies (the refashioning of forelegs into flippers or the appearance in some species of baleen, for feeding, for example) that made them big.
Okay, so flippers and a wet suit might have been more practical outfit on a Texas-bound plane, and maybe some sweatpants would have helped her sneakers and baseball hat seem less expensive and elitist.
The most imaginative passages involved changes of footwear — into bare feet, then flip-flops, then flippers, with one hapless dancer (Ginner Whitcombe) most fully equipped for an ocean dip in a snorkel mask and inflatable armbands.
The line, probably attached to crab traps trailing beneath the surface, appeared to be caught around one of the whale's front flippers and looped over its tail, Milstein said, encumbering its ability to swim and feed.
"The biggest winners here are a host of stocks that simply don't have a lot of flippers; there is not much profit-taking because at least so far there isn't much profit to take," Cramer said.
They've used a combination of amphetamine, arsenic, and chemicals to ensure their children are deformed in a way that sells — for example, Arturo the Aquaboy has flippers instead of limbs, Iphy and Elly are conjoined twins.
Everyone at CIMWI has their hands and flippers full, so Shedd, a partner aquarium, is providing the "animal care experts, veterinarians, vet techs and volunteers" working to save these baby animals with some much needed assistance.
The trend, popularized on TV series like HGTV's "Flip or Flop" and "Flipping Out" on Bravo, is attracting the interest of Wall Street: Last week, Goldman Sachs bought Genesis Capital, a leading lender to house flippers.
In Pittsburgh, home flippers made a gross profit of 162.7 percent on average during the second quarter of this year, while in Buffalo, the average gross return came in at 107.5 percent, according to ATTOM data.
Market statistics do not distinguish between casual investors and pros, but the high share of cash deals in the top-performing markets suggests they are a domain of full-time house flippers such as Kris Bennett.
President Trump's run of big, unorthodox bets — ranging from negotiating with a nuclear madman in North Korea to depending on friends who turned out to be "flippers" — is looking riskier and less winnable by the day.
A study he published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B provides further evidence that the hind flippers were key to the plesiosaur's underwater moves, and were not just limbs used for steering.
PITTSBURGH — In 21996, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here filled with cafes, hyped restaurants and brick rowhouses being renovated by flippers.
Nationwide, flippers saw an average return on their investment of about 39% during the first three months of 2019, down from 42.5% in the previous quarter and nearly 123% a year ago, according to Attom Data Solutions.
"Efforts to haul whales off beaches can cause more harm to the animal as strong pressure on the tail or flippers can result in internal injuries, and put people involved at risk," it said in a statement.
Flippers are generally pretty lame weapons—watching two robots try to flip each other over without causing any real damage is a snorefest of a fight—but Apollo proved they're effective when used properly (take note, Foxic).
Single-family homes that today are sold to flippers or to yuppies looking to undertake a gut renovation project would instead tend to get sold to small-scale apartment developers who would refashion them as denser structures.
Luxury real estate agent Albert Garibaldi noted that house flippers tend to buy old, historic Silicon Valley homes, renovate them, and sell them to tech millionaires who don't have the time to take on a project themselves.
The trend, popularized on TV series like "Flip or Flop" on HGTV and "Flipping Out" on Bravo, is attracting the interest of Wall Street: Last week, Goldman Sachs bought Genesis Capital, a leading lender to house flippers.
When the land-dwelling ancestors of today's whales and dolphins slipped into the seas long ago, they gained many things, including flippers, the ability to hold their breath for long periods of time and thick, tough skin.
Or a pair of young males, excitedly tottering after an undecided female, would pause to see which of them was the more impressive craner of its neck, or to whap at each other ineffectually with their flippers.
However, it's common practice for property flippers to evict a building's tenants, or to intimidate them into leaving, before putting it up for sale, thereby making the property more attractive to landlords intent on charging higher rents.
If you want to be a neon pink, zebra-striped cat wearing a silver crown, a knockoff Infinity Gauntlet, a heavyweight champion belt, a brown mustache, and yellow flippers, then, I have to say, you have exquisite taste.
Sure, people claim your future work will sell better once auction prices go up (as if they never go down), but there's no guarantee — and dealers, flippers, and collectors are getting rich off of you in the meantime.
The purchase laws would apply specifically to properties facing foreclosure, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, as those properties are often targeted by so-called "flippers" who seek to renovate them and sell them at a higher price.
After the city issued the show's co-hosts Alison Victoria and Donovan Eckhardt several stop-work orders due to many building violations, the house flippers are beginning to resume work on multiple properties, Block Club Chicago reported Tuesday.
Some variations of money flippers ask for access to an empty bank account, depositing bad checks to make the mark believe they're getting paid, then withdraw the money before the bank or the customer realizes the checks were counterfeit.
Examples of these markets include San Antonio, where Blomquist says flippers are actually purchasing at a 7.8 percent premium above estimated full market value, as well as Austin, Texas; Salt Lake City; Naples, Florida; Dallas and San Jose, California.
The Wi-Fi-connected, battery-powered, and app-controlled robot has an onboard camera that acts as the eyes for its human operator, flippers that move to reflect its user's moods, and a microphone that projects the user's voice.
I was entranced by her majesty and determination, by her slow plod away from the water, and the delicacy with which she worked her hind flippers through the sand and created a hole in which to lay her eggs.
"From the esteemed asset flippers and shovelware pumpers that brought you gems such as ISIS & Suicide Simulator, comes another zero effort cash grab aimed at the fat wallets of edgelords and memesters," the description of Asset Flip Simulator reads.
"Among all the private investment opportunities, real estate typically outperforms other asset classes and is usually less volatile," said Brian Dally, CEO and co-founder of Groundfloor, a firm that lends investor money to house flippers and other developers.
By the default of the level, hitting the red button activates both the right paddle and the fan, but because the fan needs to be on constantly to solve the puzzle, it requires mapping both flippers to the same button.
In effect, the workforce bifurcates into two groups doing non-routine work: highly paid, skilled workers (such as architects and senior managers) on the one hand and low-paid, unskilled workers (such as cleaners and burger-flippers) on the other.
Set down on the white sand, the turtle used her foot-long, mosaic-patterned flippers to heave herself into the sea's frothy waves, seemingly eager for another chance to live a long life that could last up to 80 years.
Now, in a new, original series called "Flipping 101 w/Tarek El Moussa," the real estate investor will share his insights to help would-be home flippers succeed in the competitive business of buying fixer-uppers and renovating them for profit.
"I know all about flipping, 30, 40 years I have been watching flippers," Trump told "Fox & Friends" in an interview that aired Thursday, before the Pecker news broke, as he reflected on the Cohen episode, which leaves him dangerously exposed.
The revelation that Manafort has joined the growing list of "flippers" in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's 2016 election interference is a massive development, Chris Cillizza writes -- bringing investigators ever closer to the President and his inner circle.
I've never been impressed by this sort of mechanism (the flippers tend to slow down, or even stop, when pressed into the body, meaning if you're super turned on you might end up turning off your toy), but it's definitely different.
"A competitive housing market with just trace amounts of distressed deals available is a challenge for home flippers because the traditional flipping model depends on a steep discount when the home flip is purchased," said Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at Attom.
Today, an Ama's kit can include a wetsuit, goggles, flippers, gloves, a chisel, a floatation device, a barrel or net to hold the catch and a white bonnet, which is said to make them more visible to fisherman and to scare off sharks.
And your equipment outside of the classic sword is a fun bundle of mischief: flippers to allow you to swim, a cup of coffee that helps with an early quest, a camera that allows you to snap screens to your heart's desire.
There's a real tactile satisfaction of hitting the flippers, seeing the ball rocket off the bumpers, even giving it a cheeky tilt, that no PS4 or PC pinball game will ever be able to recreate, no matter how realistic its ball physics get.
"You hear @realDonaldTrump blithely dismissing crimes as business-as-usual, maligning 'flippers' and denouncing the AG for a lack of loyalty and he sounds more like Tony Soprano than the @POTUS," wrote Axelrod of the HBO character played by the late James Gandolfini.
With flippers and fishing poles poking out of a top-down rental, I'd chased sunsets over the 42 bridges of the Overseas Highway a half dozen times over the years but had never seen the darker side of the tropical ocean's split personality.
Single-family homes and condos flipped in the third quarter of this year brought an average gross profit of $66,448 per flip, representing a 47.7 percent return on investment for flippers, according to Attom Data Solutions, a real estate data and analytics company.
When a submersible belonging to an undersea observation outfit is attacked, Jonas is coaxed off his island retreat and pressed back into service — much to the annoyance of Suyin (Li Bingbing), who doesn't want him sticking his flippers into her rescue mission.
Among the more modern machines were ones devoted to "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Wizard of Oz." They had elaborate computerized graphics, illuminated figurines and the capacity for competitors to play five balls at once with multiple sets of flippers.
Art galleries and house flippers have moved in and longtime tenants have received eviction notices, raising the specter of "Ikea catalogs in the barrio," as Josefina López, the artistic director of Casa 0101 Theater and the writer of "Real Women Have Curves," put it.
BAY OF PLENTZIA, Spain (Reuters) - For many discerning drinkers, the walk down stone steps into a cool, dark cellar is an essential part of visiting a winery, but with one Spanish winemaker such an inspection is more likely to involve an oxygen tank and flippers.
She made him get a tails jacket and black vest, spent over an hour figuring out what shoes looked like the most like flippers, and then made me special order a shade of orange bow tie that most closely matched the penguin's little scruff thing.
Instead of the day-traders of the 1990s dot-com craze or the house-flippers of the mid-2000s, small-scale investors say they are looking for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin to deliver the outsized returns they no longer believe the stock market can deliver.
"Home flipping profits continue to be squeezed by a dwindling inventory of distressed properties available to purchase at a discount and increasing competition from fair-weather home flippers often willing to operate on thinner margins," said Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at Attom Data Solutions.
Trump's "flippers" comment came up recently in a different federal drug trial in Manhattan, but Jeffrey Lichtman, who previously defended mob boss John Gotti Jr., told VICE News that he never planned to mention the president in the courtroom as part of Chapo's defense.
PARIS (Reuters) - In a change of scene, Santa Claus is donning flippers and a diving mask along with his traditional red-and-white outfit to scuba dive in a Paris aquarium as he teaches kids about global warming and climate issues during the festive season.
A precursor to today's flippers, Skyler didn't hold on to it for long, trading it in 1971 for a painting by Peter Young, a somewhat obscure Op art painter who at the time seemed to have better odds of becoming a household name than Warhol.
Some Disney fans are pleased that the company has started to crack down on black-market merch resellers, arguing that flippers ruin the fun for other fans by buying the items in bulk, thereby ensuring that they're sold out before others can get their hands on them.
In his home in Pottstown, Pa., Mr. Price was surrounded by photographs of his son — as a boy in scuba mask and flippers in the bathtub, as a standout high school football player and wrestler, and as a young SEAL team member in camouflage, holding a gun.
The big picture: Regardless of where the blame lies — whether it's with StockX, sneaker flippers or capitalism, itself — the outcome is the same: "A culture lives and dies with the passion it inspires in its participants, and the passion is draining from the most devoted," writes Taylor.
For example, the green swimming flippers followed the squeaky frogs that occupied the final ranks of turquoise, while the puzzles depicting glaciers—maroon at the earthen base of the photograph—brought the rainbow full circle by joining their snowy peaks with volleyballs and stuffed white lions.
Year after year he has witnessed the cruelties inflicted by fishing gear that most of us will never see: lines tightly cinched around flippers, fins and bodies, cutting through blubber, muscle and even bone; rope pulled through their mouths, fouling their baleen so they can't easily eat.
He has called people "dogs" and has routinely insulted the intelligence of his enemies, whom he has claimed have a "low IQ." Many experts also look at his intimidation tactics used against government witnesses and his criticism of cooperators as "flippers" as reminiscent of a mafia kingpin.
Everything is strictly linear—while each stage is full of murky corners and jellyfish-filled caves to poke around in, flap your flippers too far from where the game needs you to be and a kind of tractor beam emerges from the diver's chest, redirecting them toward the goal.
With Flipppaper, the virtual pinball machine the pair engineered and built, you don't need any technical know-how to bring a complex table design to life—just the ability to draw with a set of four colored markers that define barriers, speed boosters, flippers, and other gameplay obstacles.
For instance, trying to fish out the final guest of a hotel, in order to obtain the pair of flippers next to the rooftop pool, involves listening to the hotel owner's hint and thinking hard about how it might apply according to the game's temporal and rule-oriented logic.
She's applied this finding to non-athletic people as well, showing that giving people a tool to reach for something can decrease a perceived distance, giving flippers to swimmers made underwater targets appear closer, and that chronic pain and being obese can both increase your perception of distance.
Out in the footpaths, the hedgerows and bridle paths, you've seen their work — an explosion of pheasant and nildro feathers, all along the dark ground; a tiny dead mouse, flattened near a gate; and the dead mole, a baby with its little pale flippers upturned, flashing toward the sky.
"The house flippers are looking for that deep discounted price, foreclosure properties, but now distressed property sales are miniscule in the marketplace, so it's much tougher for people who are just purchasing and looking to flip in the next few months," said Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the Realtors.
But that definition would cover people we don't think of as flippers: a small-scale general contractor who remodels two homes a year; a family that buys a home for an aging parent who later dies; a landlord who herself faces financial distress and must get out of the business.
The influx of new workers is boosting demand for urban homes in areas that have some of the oldest housing stock in the nation and not much new construction, creating richer opportunities for flippers than in Las Vegas or Miami at the height of the housing boom more than a decade ago.
A sea turtle surrounded by a swarm of cleaner fish is the subject of an image of both symbiosis and physical equilibrium: Attended by its retinue, which are feeding on its dead skin, the turtle hangs in the water in a state of neutral buoyancy, its flippers flaccid, its eyes half shut.
And I often tell people, yes, it would be great if everyone could go to college, but we're still going to need bedpan emptiers, we're still going to need hamburger flippers, maybe that will be robotized, or someone at the McDonald's counter, and they shouldn't starve because they haven't gone to college.
Their origins can be traced to the housing bubble and the proliferation of DIY programs like HGTV's House Flippers, and McMansions differ from older versions of suburban tract housing such as Levittowns and Sears Catalog Homes because, in those cases, houses came in one of just a few styles, with relatively few options for customization.
Outbreaks of new viral diseases are like the steel balls in a pinball machine: You can slap your flippers at them, rock the machine on its legs and bonk the balls to the jittery rings, but where they end up dropping depends on 22019 levels of chance as well as on anything you do.
In the erectness of their bearing, and in their readiness to drop down on their bellies, the flinging way they gesture with their armlike flippers, the shortness of the strides with which they walk or boldly scamper on their fleshy feet, they resemble human children more closely than does any other animal, not excepting the great apes.
If anyone should understand how far television often is from reality, it would be the producers of home improvement shows — the ones who spend months following celebrity flippers around with a camera, setting up the drama and delivering the Big Reveal, the moment when the homeowner gets to see the ugly duckling re-emerge as a beautiful swan.
Fundamentally, however, the main thrust of Sanders's thinking on housing appears to be anti-market — other provisions include a call for a stiff new tax on house-flippers, an expansion of inclusionary zoning regulations, and a special tax on vacant properties — even as he remains formally committed to a sweeping zoning reform that the candidate does not seem particularly interested in talking about.
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