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I am going to be showing you how to make your own standing floor mirror and give it a reclaimed and weathered wood look without having to track down and purchase reclaimed wood. If you live in an area like mine, this would be nearly impossible without knowing someone who knows someone, whose cousin used to do some such thing that allowed him to keep old wood from demo projects...you get what I'm saying...no? This will be constructed from brand new boards (unless you are able to find reclaimed, in which case you are a lucky duck!)...dimension lumber in fact, that should be readily available in your local lumber aisles at your local hardware/lumber supply stores. You are obviously not required to give this mirror a reclaimed or weathered look and it would be amazing with a beautiful stained or painted finish
Showcase: Built From These PlansI am so honored each and every time one of you fine friends builds from these very plans! If you have built this piece, please take a moment and showcase your build! We are dying to see your fabulous hard work!


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Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A. (NASDAQ:ASPS) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street's expectations, BUT came up short on beating the revenue expectation. The revenue miss is a negative sign to shareholders seeking high growth out of the company. Shares are up 7.24%.
Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A. Earnings Cheat Sheet
Results: Adjusted Earnings Per Share increased 7.84% to $1.10 in the quarter versus EPS of $1.02 in the year-earlier quarter.
Revenue: Rose 7.27% to $148.8 million from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A. reported adjusted EPS income of $1.10 per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean analyst estimate of $1.08. It missed the average revenue estimate of $166.2 million.
Quoting Management: William Shepro, Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are very pleased with our first quarter results particularly given that our Mortgage Services segment is almost fully staffed to support the near doubling of the non-GSE loans on REALServicing by the fourth quarter of 2013. We accomplished our results with only modest benefit from the Homeward servicing portfolio and no benefit from the ResCap and Ally servicing portfolios. This bolsters our confidence that our default businesses' operating margins will increase by approximately seven percentage points by year-end 2013, even after amortizing the intangible assets associated with the Homeward and ResCap transactions."
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Edalixza was able to meet cast members and enjoyed filming while OTH was in Puerto Rico. They filmed at the Conquistador Hotel. Thank you for sharing Edalixza!
Here are a few fun videos!
Can someone tell me why did they go to Puerto Rico again?
random. its going to be really weird without haley there. yeah i know that joy was on leave.
ah El Conquistador I've been there many times! Beautiful hotel! Viva Puerto Rico!!!!!
no haley? what?
@ othfantiffany, Bethany is on maternity because she has recently become a mother. that's the reason why she isn't traveling to Puerto rico.
Joy is filming there, she mentioned it on twitter
Rachel, I'm not sure what twitter account you were looking at, but Joy was not in Puerto Rico filming. It was just Sophia, Jana, Allison and Shantel.
Joy tweeted that she was not filming there. She said she would rather be at home with her baby anyway.
othfan is right, Joy did say that. she just went later than everybody else.
This is going to go down as the worst penultimate episode ever. I guess it's no surprise considering the what the show has become.
Why are they in Puerto Rico??? Again…I'm so tired of seeing Alex!!! And I thought Quinn was bad.


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This quiet wet/dry vacuum delivers superior suction power to quickly and efficiently complete the toughest tasks without disturbing those around you. A 10' suction hose and 25' electrical cord, pivoting front casters and onboard accessory storage make it easy to use and maneuver, while a high-efficiency filter and cleaning system mean less maintenance, less down time and less cleanup.
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SE 122 is rated out of 5 by 14.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Bobcatjerry from Another great Stihl product Although I haven't put this to work yet I'm very impressed with the quality. I bit the bullet on the larger unit even though it was twice the price of the smaller. I have bought numerous cheaper units with nothing but problems with burn out motors,bad switches, lack of thought of storing accessories and unbearable noise. This unit has well thought out storage for accessories, hose and power chord. The unit is super quiet so don't have to wear hearing protection to run. Time will tell on switch and motor, but if this is like the rest of Stihl products I have it will be great. My wife seen the unit after putting together and I had to get it in the shop before she made off with it. Looking forward to many years of use.
Date published: 2016-12-21
Rated 5 out of 5 by wvcanesfan from very impressed I was very hesitant to purchase this vacuum, I have dog hair in my jeep that my 2 dyson sweepers, and the local car wash vaccum has never been able to help much. I bought this unit today and in about 25 mins I had almost all of the hair removed.
Date published: 2015-12-14
Rated 5 out of 5 by Phil268 from Stihl SE 122 Hello, I have had many vacuums in the past and I own about everything Stihl makes little did I know they made a shop vac. I have been in the market for a great vacuum for quite some time. I have had many vacuums in the shop but nothing ever seemed to hold up and was noisy. I do some woodworking and also always needing a great vacuum to clean vehicles with. I would wash cars and drive them into the garage only to find a puddle of water on the floor. So now I have the right tool for the job. I was a little disappointed at first when I called the Stihl dealer and they said they had one left. I got there to make a purchase and they wheeled it out and had dust and dirt all over it like it had been sitting in the back for a few years. After I got it home and cleaned it up my wife wanted to use it in the home. It worked wonderful... She liked it better in the home then our regular sweeper. I looked on youtube and couldn't find any reviews on it. I really must say it was a little pricey but you get what you pay for a great quality sweeper that always comes in handy when you need it. I also purchased the car cleaning kit which I must say was really heavy duty. If your the type of person that does woodworking or auto detailing this is a must have. One thing they did tell me at the Stihl dealer was once I get down to a few bags make sure I call and reorder because its something they do not stock but can have as little as the next day. Also the sweeper bags are really heavy duty I noticed its like a real cloth bag not one of those paper bags and a stainless steel sweeper head and handle that can get under just about anything. The length of the hose and cord is just an added extra this thing can go anywhere and when you don't need it too its got lockable wheels. Hope this helps you decide on your purchase. It was well worth the extra money last sweeper I ever need to buy. I will suck the carpet off the floor.
Date published: 2015-05-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by Thestihlguy from Great Vaccum I was looking for a good shop vac to use to clean my car and for the house when needed. This machine fits the bill. I have never used a shop vac this good. Never had a shop vac do as good a job as this machine. Highly recommened.
Date published: 2015-01-04
Rated 5 out of 5 by Steve1 from SE 122 review: Good machine I've had this shop vac for 6 months, it's been quiet, reliable and provides low suction pressure at a high air flow rate. I've used it with an internal bag, so I can't attest to the self cleaning feature function; since this is a rebranded Nilfisk Alto machine I have faith it will work.I wish...1) ...it came with more accessories, specifically a really long skinny nozzle for use on cleaning refridgerator condensers- the long nozzle supplied is too fat to fit in the heat exchanger and too short to do any good.2) ...it came with a round brush attachment for cleaning baseboards and blinds. my wife has discovered it is usefull in the house instead of just the basement or shop)3) ...it had a long handle to push it with, so you didn't have to bend over when moving it. #perhaps I'll bend up some 1/2" thinwall conduit and bolt it to the case.This is a good machine. It was expensive, but the better machines are even more expensive.
Date published: 2014-11-20
Rated 2 out of 5 by YMEE from Not so reliable First the good stuff, the vac runs very quiet.The not so good stuff; after several months of use the vac would quit running. Then after a period of time it would run again then quit. To cut a long story short I dismantled the vac unit to find the "high temp switch" (HTS) which is mounted to one of the brush assemblies and is there to protect the motor from overheating was loose. After further investigation I found the switch was only soldered to the brush assembly and not mechanically fastened in place. The HTS had a "cold solder joint" which after a period of time failed causing an intermittent connection to the brush assembly. After re-soldering the unit back together it now works fine.This is a poor design and needs to be addressed by Stihl.
Date published: 2014-11-15
Rated 5 out of 5 by Nickname from Amazing Product I have been using this vacuum for a few weeks now and it is great. This is a great upgrade from my past shop vac's. It has many accessory options to choose from. Quiet and light. I am always excited when I am able to use this vac.
Date published: 2014-08-14
Rated 5 out of 5 by Bradd55 from Great Vac!!! Light weight,rolls around easily...really like the long hose and long cord. Suction is better than anything i have ever used including my shop vac's. My only complaint is the "self cleaning" for the air filter,have tried it several times and does not work as claimed. Not that big of a deal since i am use to having to take the filters out anyway on the shop vac,but for the price i was really hoping it would. Other than that,great product and highly recommend.
Date published: 2014-08-04


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San Diego Studios producer Brandon Akiaten explains how you can share content between PS Vita and PlayStation 3.
When ModNation Racers launched on PlayStation 3 and PSP in May 2010, a community of creators was born. Amazing tools gave users the opportunity to design unique tracks, karts and Mods that they could share with the world vita PlayStation Network.
Now the latest title in the series - ModNation Racers: Road Trip - has launched on PS Vita, and San Diego Studios producer Brandon Akiaten tells us how PS Vita players can access the fantastic content created on PS3 and how this will enhance their experience.
"We wanted to ensure that all of the amazing creations from the ModNation Racers community would be accessible," explains Akiaten. "While as developers we're proud of the tracks we created, we know that the real creativity and variety in creations comes from the ModNation Racers community."
As well as allowing PS Vita users to access the masterpieces created by the PS3 ModNation Racers community, the team also felt that it was important for users to enjoy them on the move. "We wanted to make sure that ModNation Racers fans were no longer tied to their living rooms and could take their creations and race experiences wherever they went in their daily lives," says Akiaten.
With such a creative community already formed and an endless string of possibilities to explore, it would have been a great shame not to share everything that ModNation Racers fans had spent so long perfecting on PS3 with newcomers to the series. "Cross-Goods gives all ModNation players who buy our game for PS Vita full access to all PS3 creations," says Akiaten. "This means not only will they have all of the content on their PS Vita to play with, but they will also have over 2 million creations made on PS3 ready for the taking from day one."
An impressive selection of tracks, Mods and karts should serve as ample inspiration for PS Vita users to start designing their own pieces with the huge number of customisation tools at their disposal, including the system's touchscreen, rear touch pad and rear camera.
However, for those who just want to jump straight in, Akiaten thinks there'll be plenty of stuff to keep everyone entertained for some time. "Within the creations there are close to 500,000 user generated tracks to race on. In other words, you can play 50 new tracks each day for the next 27 years and still not see all of the existing content, let alone what will be created on ModNation Racers: Road Trip."
You can pick up ModNation Racers in shops or download it straight to your PS Vita from PlayStation Store now. Rev your engines and let the crazy races begin.
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Leave it to Metro's own Angelo Cataldi to track down the hoagie-making, cleavage-showing Phillies fan. Turns out, she was the mastermind behind one of the greatest would-be publicity stunts in sports.
For those of you uninformed, there was a woman sitting behind home plate at Wednesday night's Phillies-Red Sox game in Philadelphia. The cameras were fixated on the woman, not only because of her close proximity to the action, but also due to her well-endowed bosom (can we say that? Too bad, we just did) displayed proudly in a low-cut tank top.
Well, the woman ignited a firestorm on Twitter, Facebook and on the talk-radio circuit. Cataldi identified her as Dana Interlante and interviewed her on his 94 WIP show Thursday morning. She has become a sort of good luck charm for the Phillies, after Domonic Brown smoked two home runs in that 4-3 win.
When Cataldi told her that "her breasts looked very impressive," Dana responded, "Thank you."
OK, OK let's cut to the chase here. Interlante was more than just a casual fan. She owns a Primo Hoagie shop in Runnemede, NJ. The tickets were given to her by Coca-Cola and she made sure to invite everyone to come down to her shop on the air.
"I kind of wish I wore a different shirt," Dana admitted. "I own a hoagie shop and I probably should have had the hoagie shop's name across my chest instead."
As for her choice of outfits: "It was 90 degrees when I was getting ready for the game ... Anybody that knows me, they know I'm not like that."
Dana actually purchased a Phillies T-shirt in the later innings and covered up.
Point is, you never know who is watching you. If you are an attractive, well-proportioned woman who owns a hoagie shop in New Jersey, please dress accordingly. Please.


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Two Google searches 'produce same CO2 as boiling a kettle' Two Google searches 'produce same CO2 as boiling a kettle' Making two internet searches through Google produces about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle, it has been estimated. By Jon Swaine Last Updated: 8:46AM GMT 12 Jan 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph...e_1236593c.jpg A typical search through the online giant's website is thought to generate about 7g of carbon dioxide. Boiling a kettle produces about 15g. The emissions are caused both by the electricity required to power a user's computer and send their request to servers around the world. The discovery comes amid increasing warnings about the little-known environmental impact of computer and internet use. According to Gartner, an American research firm, IT now causes about two per cent of global CO2 emissions and its carbon footprint exceeded that of the world's aviation industry for the first time in 2007. Dr Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist from Harvard University who is leading research into the subject, has estimated that browsing a basic website generates about 0.02g of CO2 for every second it is viewed. Websites with complex video can be responsible for up to 0.2 g per second, he believes. On his website, CO2stats.com, Dr Wissner-Gross wrote: "Websites are provided by servers and are viewed by visitors' computers that are connected via networks. "These servers, clients and networks all require electricity in order to run, electricity that is largely generated by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. "When fossil fuels are burned, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, which contribute to climate change. Dr Wissner-Gross believes that Google's unique structure - which sees it send searches to multiple servers around the world and give which ever response is returned quickest - causes its searches to produce more emissions than some other sites. He told a newspaper: "Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal of power. "A Google search has a definite environmental impact. "Google are very efficient but their primary concern is to make searches fast and that means they have a lot of extra capacity that burns energy," A separate analysis by John Buckley, of carbonfootprint.com, a British environmental website, put the CO2 emissions of a Google search at between 1g and 10g. Chris Goodall, the author of Ten Technologies to Save the Planet, said that assuming the user spends 15 minutes on their computer, the carbon emission of a Google is between 7g and 10g. Google claimed that the number was "many times too high" and one Google search is equivalent to about 0.2 grams of CO2. A spokesman for Google said: "We are among the most efficient of all internet search providers." |
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You can savor Spot Dessert Bar's smartly conceived Asian-accented sweets à la carte for $8 or $9 a plate. Or you can gather some friends and go all in on the $50 chef's sampler: six dessert plates and a selection of six cookies, brownies, cupcakes, or ice creams.
bigjeff chose the latter route and doesn't regret it. The dessert plates, known as "tapas," were beautifully composed and rich in texture, color, and flavor without being overly sweet. The best was the sesame pear crisp, a "supremely crispy thing" with pomegranate seeds, basil ice cream, and a squiggle of chocolate ganache. Other winners were the Macoun apple Tatin, a composition in fruit, caramel, and chocolate with black miso ice cream; a white miso semifreddo with raspberries, olive oil, and an almond tuile; and the Yuzu Eskimo (a hit during last summer's CHOW Tour): slices of frozen citrus-scented cream with blackberries, raspberry foam, chocolate pearls, and crushed Oreos. Among the smaller bites, standouts included clean-tasting apple mint mojito sorbet, a crisp milk chocolate cookie, and a chocolate chip–coconut cookie ("a monster that was at least 65% chocolate").
Overall, jeff adds, your $50 will be well spent: "it's a great sampler and you cover all of their ground." But be prepared for a wait; Spot is squeezed into a cozy downstairs space. And given the tight quarters and some plates that aren't easy to share, "make sure you are eating with some close friends!"
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India and Israel have decided to step up the counter-terrorism strategy besides boosting agriculture cooperation through technology. SM Krishna, the first Indian external affairs minister to visit Israel in over a decade, met Israel's top leadership on Tuesday.
The two countries also signed an extradition treaty and a pact on transfer of sentenced prisoners as Krishna wound up his two-day visit here.
During his stay in Israel before travelling to Palestine, Krishna met the top leadership including Israel President Simon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, besides holding elaborate talks with his counterpart Avigdor Lieberman.
Both countries decided to increase their cooperation on counter terrorism.
"I think we will have to work out a strategy as how we address ourselves to the scourge of international terrorism, which has become a curse for the entire humanity. I think our efforts should be to checkmate it and ultimately eradicate terror from the face of the earth," said Krishna.
Describing India as a natural ally of Israel in all frontiers of science, the minister said he looked forward to an increased economic content to the existing areas of cooperation.
Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu, who hosted a breakfast meeting for Krishna, said, "India and Israel were two ancient peoples, seizing the future, in technology, in innovation, in enterprise. I think we can seize it even better by our cooperation."
Krishna said terrorism was a problem that was being commonly faced by Israel and India. Netanyahu responded by saying he was looking forward to discussing areas of cooperation.
Krishna had also called on President Peres, who described India as the greatest democracy. He also said Israel wanted New Delhi to become a permanent member of the UNSC.
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How did you hear of BZPower?
Posted Feb 17 2013 - 10:37 PM
Posted Feb 17 2013 - 10:57 PM
Years ago, I was browsing through the BIONICLE Gallery on LEGO.com (I don't look through it anymore) when I stumbled upon an MNOG Kit creation. The creator said he made the image on "bzpower". Curious, I googled it and easily found this forum. Like Sumiki, I lurked for a while before I decided to join the fun.
Posted Feb 17 2013 - 11:02 PM
Just call me FF or Veigar no matter my current username.
"I wish... you taken my hand... and no one ever found that
teapot in the first place..."
~ Jay, Ninjago
Posted Feb 17 2013 - 11:17 PM
Posted Feb 17 2013 - 11:46 PM
[font="'trebuchet ms', helvetica, sans-serif;"][color=#ff0000;]I was looking for Kardas instructions and found this site. I joined a few years after I found it though...[/color][/font]
Looking for a Voya Gold Kraahkan!
Posted Feb 18 2013 - 12:12 AM
I believe I first saw BZP's name on Bionicle.com. I checked it out, and have been visiting ever since. (And as almost everyone has said, I lurked for a while before joining. )
Everyone is one choice away from being the bad guy in another person's story.
Check out my Bionicle short stories The Agori and A Skakdi Horror Story.
Also check out my comedy series Adventures of the Bara Magna Sets!
Posted Feb 18 2013 - 01:45 AM
I was on BioSector (found BioSector after searching for the Toa Mahri Movie) when the MakutaFest add came on. I clicked it and found out about BZPower. Joined the next day.
Posted Feb 18 2013 - 06:31 AM
Hmm, I found out about BZP ages ago, most likely also from BioSector, which I found through Googling '[something Bionicle-related] wiki'.
Didn't join though, since I wanted to maintain my 'no more than 2 forums at once'-policy, because if I try to be reasonably active on more than 2 at once, I tend to fail miserably and die. ('die' as in 'completely inactive', BTW. I'm not a zombie......... or am I? >=D )
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Posted Feb 18 2013 - 09:12 PM
[font="'comic sans ms', cursive;"][color=#ff0000;]Hm...I am pretty sure that I first heard of BZPower in 2004, which I believe was back when Bionicle.com actually had a link to this place on the main website (I imagine that annoyed quite a few of other Bionicle forums around at the time. So as result, LEGO removed the link to here after a year so.). [/color][/font]
[font="'comic sans ms', cursive;"][color=#ff0000;]I didn't join though until like a year afterwards since at that point in time, I have very limited internet access since my younger brother and older sister would hog the only computer with internet in our house. Eventually when we moved, the old Gateway got internet, so I decided join a forum since I could use it and all. [/color][/font]
[font="'comic sans ms', cursive;"][color=#ff0000;]I actually originally was going to join a Star Wars forum (Thankfully I didn't do that since I probably would not got along with many people there since I personally didn't think the new trilogy was a pile of trash. But to each his own, I guess.), but my younger self was a newbie to the internet, so that didn't happened. And well, I thought of what else I was interested in and Bionicle came to mind, so I end up "rediscovering" BZPower and had my sister help me get through sign up process. [/color][/font]
[font="'comic sans ms', cursive;"][color=#ff0000;]She asked me what username I wanted and I, being uncreative, said, "How about about Jedi Master J.? (Which was basically just me taking my first initial in my name and added Jedi Master to front of it.)" And well, the rest is history. I been here for several years now and I personally plan to stay on this site until the end since I honestly love the community here and I really don't have anywhere else to go since this is only forum that I use regularly. [/color][/font]
[font="'comic sans ms', cursive;"][color=#ff0000;]If anything, it is only place that feel comfortable, on the internet, expressing myself really. That and well, it is the only place that I can really say I have friends in to certain degree. That's kind of sad, but it is true. But anyway, I think I said enough to answer your question about how I learn of BZPower. You got my backstory as a bonus, I guess. lol [/color][/font]
[font="'comic sans ms', cursive;"][color=#ff0000;]- JMJ 2013[/color][/font]
Posted Feb 18 2013 - 09:59 PM
I think I first heard of BionicleStory.com through the Lego Message Boards back in 2010, and that got me wanting more in-depth info, which drew me to BioSector01 via Google, and then here. Although, like many above me, I didn't try to join for a little while. Unfortunately, I tried to join when the forums were down. I then proceeded to wait until March of 2012 to join.
Posted Feb 19 2013 - 12:58 AM
I found it in early 2005, through Toysrus of all things. I was looking up older sets and if you could buy them, when it linked me to BZPower. I lurked here until early 2007, when I finally joined as takadox barraki of cheese(random blue character and... I guess being like, 9 influenced that)
I remember mostly coming here for new set info, like when we got to see pics of "Ignitors" (I can't spell that) in early 2006.
My Brickshelf, please don't copy!
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Looking for shiny Regirock, Articuno, and Virizion!
(Can trade most any legendary for them!)
My 3DS friend list is full, sorry!
Posted Feb 19 2013 - 03:28 AM
google search -> bionicle -> bionicle news -> BZPower
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Posted Feb 19 2013 - 07:06 AM
I was searching on BS01 and found BZP. I lurked the website for a few years before joining it and then I decided to join it. I haven't been online for 11 months after I joined BZP.
Posted Feb 19 2013 - 07:30 AM
Links from Biosector about stuff Greg made canon here and stuff like that.
I used to have a banner here.
But that RPG is dead.
What now?
Posted Feb 19 2013 - 08:50 AM
- Gata
Please don't use my avatar or signature without permission, thanks!
Posted Feb 19 2013 - 09:13 AM
I've visited this website since 2007 for the Marhi reviews and I quickly fell in love with the site, I never knew how to sign up tho. Until recently this January (I know that it took me a long time) I decided to join the community full of people who also love Bionicle/Hero Factory/Ninjago/Chima.
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Posted Feb 19 2013 - 06:17 PM
As far as I recall it was either from simply Googling Bionicle or from seeing people discussing the place on the old Lego Messageboards. I'm fairly glad I left that place.
I wrote stories once. They were okay.
Posted Feb 19 2013 - 07:57 PM
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Posted Feb 19 2013 - 08:02 PM
Posted Feb 19 2013 - 08:10 PM
Oh, and I think a friend also mentioned something about a dedicated Bionicle-forum being a thing.
Yes, I discovered BZPower twice. Simultaneously.
Posted Feb 20 2013 - 05:04 AM
Around four years ago, when I was about 10 years old or so, I was messing around on the school computers, and decided, hey, I wonder if there's a wiki for BIONICLE. So I went to Yahoo (I was a Yahoo! guy back then) and starting searching. I found the other wiki, which had a slightly better sounding name back in the day, which, in its article on how it had been created, mentioned BS01. A month or so later, I decided to check BS01 out, and from there, I learnt of the Core War short story contest thing.
I promptly popped over here and signed up.
Never actually submitted a story though, heh.
Posted Feb 20 2013 - 08:04 AM
Found it out from my brothers about a year before I joined.
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Posted Feb 20 2013 - 08:47 AM
"Why can't I dream that I'm alone?" "That is not a dream, that is a substitute for reality"
"So where is my dream?" "it is a continuation of reality"
"But where is my reality?" "It is at the end of your dream"
Posted Feb 20 2013 - 09:12 AM
I was googling stuff about Bionicle, back in 2006 or so. Found out about BZP, and frequently lurked.
Eventually I made an account and showed up.
Posted Feb 20 2013 - 12:10 PM
As far as I recall it was either from simply Googling Bionicle or from seeing people discussing the place on the old Lego Messageboards. I'm fairly glad I left that place.
Googling Bionicle, huh? Glad to know I'm not the only one xD
I actually started looking at this site because of the short story "The many deaths of Toa Tuyet", if I remember right. And after some time of lurking I actually joined... one of the best decisions I ever made ^^
Posted Feb 20 2013 - 02:17 PM
I used to Google Bionicle and guess what came up? Back when I was young I used to think they as some affiliation with the BNP which stopped me from joining in its early years. I got into Bionicle again in 2012 so I joined this lovely site.
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Posted Feb 20 2013 - 11:19 PM
Through a friend back in elementary school, I wasn't allowed to join websites such as this back then though, so it took me a few years after (I think 4 or so years) to actually join up, lol.
Posted Feb 21 2013 - 12:24 AM
I learned about it from the old LEGO message boards.
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Posted Feb 25 2013 - 06:57 AM
BS01: The Stasis Toa contest.
Posted Feb 25 2013 - 01:25 PM
"Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst, and corrupts the best. [...] It is only given to those who are ready to lower themselves to pick it up." - Floki
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Posted Feb 26 2013 - 02:03 AM
Many, many years ago back in '01. In a feverish search across the internet for any news on the upcoming Bionicle line, I stumbled upon a teaser for an under-construction website called Kanohi-Power. I believe the site was partnered with the message board "BionicleZone" at the time. This was before the Kanohi-Power/BionicleZone merger, of course.
If anyone is interested, I dug up an old snapshot of the early days of Kanohi-Power.
Posted Feb 27 2013 - 12:37 AM
Didn't I start this topic many years ago? Anyway, heard about it on the message boards.
This is an ancient fanbase. Is anyone on here even still a kid?
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Posted Mar 01 2013 - 02:17 AM
Literally found a pic on Google.
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Posted Mar 01 2013 - 03:31 PM
I heard of it via another bionicle-crazed friend of mine. Both of us were (and still are) very much interested in spriting, and he showed me the cool bionicle sprites found here. At first i just lurked around looking at the cool sprites and comics, but eventually i became interested in the other things discussed here and i joined.
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Asus P5Q Deluxe: Intel P45 has arrived
Published on 28th May 2008 by Richard Swinburne
1 - Asus P5Q Deluxe
2 - Board Layout
3 - Rear I/O and BIOS
4 - ExpressGate and DriveXpert
5 - Testing Methods
6 - Power Consumption and Asus EPU 6-Engine
7 - Subsystem Testing: Audio Performance
8 - Subsystem Testing: Memory Performance
9 - Subsystem Testing: Drive and USB Performance
10 - Image Editing and Video Encoding
11 - File Compression and Decompression
12 - Gaming Performance: Single Card
13 - Gaming Performance: Multi-GPU
14 - Stability, Overclocking and Final Thoughts
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Putting the current climate of political shenanigans aside for a while, let's look at the first P45 board on our bench with a mature BIOS. It seems everyone in Taiwan is busily tweaking and improving their boards on a daily basis but Asus was first out the hat for us with a complete product that worked as expected.
This year's iteration of the Intel chipset craziness has seen some vast improvements in features from Asus – every P45 board now comes with the ExpressGate Linux software and the Asus EPU as standard.
The P5Q Deluxe is a DDR2 board with plenty of features, but without the extreme price overhead of the WiFi-AP @n boards. But does the new, more advanced EPU add any significant benefit and how appealing is the ExpressGate software – has it changed since we first looked at it?
After spending quite a bit of time in the last few weeks with several P45 boards the evident thing is that things are changing for the greener and for the more fulfilled – we're seeing the Republic of Gamer level BIOS tweaks filter down to mainstream level across the board, and we're being told from every motherboard manufacturer that overclocking and system tweaking is changing with this final front side bus chipset. But embrace it and have some fun – we'll tell you which board manufacturer makes the experience the most intuitive and easiest to learn.
Just look at all those features below and then consider that all that is for a non-too expensive £120? If the performance matches up – do we have our next inevitable upgrade?
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It's all new on the Intel front. Well, by new, I mean
an update to tradition
– here we have the very last mainstream chipset that will use the antiquated front side bus. Since the modern CPU began (where ever you attribute that to be), this interlink been the stable diet of communication between processor and memory controller. Finally we've reached the end of the front side bus' lifetime and Intel has realised that it can no longer draw out performance – this is why it's changing the way its CPUs work with Nehalem, by integrating the memory controller into the CPU itself.
That's not to say there's still some life in the old dog yet as P45 has been greatly updated from P35 – it features an "unlocked" PCI-Express x16 lane which has been upgraded to 2.0 speeds, so a balanced, dual x8 for CrossFire is far better option. Unlike the latest revisions of the X48 chipset which
we were told by Intel
would also be 65nm but as far as we can tell have also turned out to be 90nm, the P45 is the first 65nm chipset for Intel.
When we last saw it, the chipset is identical in
size and shape
to the G45, literally because the two chipsets are identical but with certain parts disabled – this saves time in designing multiple products and also has lead people to believe Intel might try the same Hybrid Graphics power saving technique like AMD and Nvidia with future motherboards, however this depends on Intel's discrete graphics parts or working with someone else.
The ICH10 south bridge is pretty much identical to the ICH9 for the most part, there are no more USB ports and we're still limited to six PCI-Express 1.1 connections for extra peripherals. There's no Wireless, Firewire or even WiMAX option too, the only new feature is more advanced Wake up on LAN (WoL) options for remote access, if that's your thing.
While we heard about Intel's Extreme Tweaking Utility epochs ago (in Q3 last year) it has yet to rear its head. This piece of software was meant to launch with X38, yet, it has been continually pushed back. We saw it again during CeBIT and IDF Spring 2008, but still no motherboard manufacturer has yet to include it and we haven't heard a peep out of Intel. While every board you buy will ship with some form of overclocking software these days, both AMD (OverDrive) and Nvidia (nTune) ship a standard set of software for their hardware.
Support for 65nm and 45nm Intel socket LGA775 05B, 05A and 06 processors from families including Core 2 Extreme, Quad, Duo, Pentium Extreme, 4 and D.
Asus EPU 6-Engine and 16 phase CPU power design
Intel P45 north bridge
Intel ICH10R south bridge
Four DDR2 DIMMs supporting 667/800/1,066 and 1,200MHz memory up to 16GB in dual channel
Two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (in either x16/x1 or x8/x8 arrangements)
One PCI-Express x16 slot (at x4 bandwidth)
Two PCI-Express x1 slots
Two PCI slots
Six red ICH10R SATA 3Gbps ports supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5
Two orange Silicon Image Sil5723 SATA ports supporting "Super Speed" or "EZ Backup" with DriveXpert
One Marvell 88SE6121 controller supporting one IDE channel and one eSATA 3Gbps port
One Marvell 88E8056 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet
One Marvell 88E8011 PCI Gigabit Ethernet
ADI AD2000B 7.1 channel High-Definition audio codec
LSI L-FW3227 PCI IEEE1394a Firewire controller supporting two ports
Ten USB 2.0 ports (four through pin-outs, six on the rear I/O)
Asus ExpressGate SSD
Asus DieHard BIOS, Q-Shield, Q-Connector, AI Booster with Precision Tweaker BIOS function and AI Suite
Box Contents
Eight red SATA cables including four with 90 degree connectors
Two Molex to four SATA power connectors
Asus Q-Shield soft rear I/O cover
Asus Q-Connector
Manual, case badge and driver DVD
IDE and floppy cables
Optional heatpipe cooling fan
Two USB port and one 4-pin Firewire PCI bracket
The extra features are pretty much all encompassing – just what we'd expect from a Deluxe model. With a full complement of SATA cables and niche features like the Q-connectors and Q-shield, Asus has the edge on the competition here. If you care for it, it's missing the RS232 serial port and an extra pair of USB ports on a PCI bracket, but those USBs are usually routed to the front of a case and very few people outside of industry use serial ports these days anyway.
1 - Asus P5Q Deluxe
2 - Board Layout
3 - Rear I/O and BIOS
4 - ExpressGate and DriveXpert
5 - Testing Methods
6 - Power Consumption and Asus EPU 6-Engine
7 - Subsystem Testing: Audio Performance
8 - Subsystem Testing: Memory Performance
9 - Subsystem Testing: Drive and USB Performance
10 - Image Editing and Video Encoding
11 - File Compression and Decompression
12 - Gaming Performance: Single Card
13 - Gaming Performance: Multi-GPU
14 - Stability, Overclocking and Final Thoughts
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British actor Damian Lewis is living in an alternate world of sorts. While it surprised him more than anyone when he snatched the Emmy as best actor for his role as the inscrutable ex-prisoner in Showtime's "Homeland," he admits that such characters are a subliminal part of him.
"I come from a tradition where I believe that acting is the inverse of lying," he says over a salad, which he wolfs down quickly.
"It's not lying and trickery. It's truth and honesty and sincerity. You occupy an alternative reality, and you commit to that reality utterly and honestly. And that's what will be conveyed to an audience, if you do it right," he says.
So far he's done it right. Americans first noticed the tall redhead in "Band of Brothers." Lewis portrayed a lieutenant who's forced to take command of Easy Company when American paratroopers storm Normandy. His American accent was so flawless that his fellow actors refused to believe he was British.
In a complete turnaround, he next played the acquisitive and uptight Soames Forsyte in the "The Forsyte Saga." And later starred in his own American series, "Life."
But it's his role in "Homeland" that has set him apart. "If you capture the essence of someone really conflicted at the heart of a serious drama, with elements of tragedy in it possibly, I think they register with an audience just that much more strongly than lighter comic roles," he says.
"I think if I am attracted to those sorts of characters – intense characters or serious characters – I think it's not so much that they're intense and serious, I think I'm interested in people who are conflicted. That's the most interesting character to play. It allows you to explore subtext. It means there is a subtext … I'm really just drawn to good writing – what's concealed and not revealed. Perhaps that's a particularly English thing, as the English don't let their emotions out that much.
"But it's those things, which are concealed, and I think it's always far more interesting to watch an actor try NOT to reveal something than that moment of revelation."
But for a long time Lewis, 41, despaired of ever revealing his face on film or television. "I was filled with the most doubt just after I'd done two years at the Royal Shakespeare Company," he recalls.
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Stripped allen head, 226 adjustable sights.
There are two allen head set screws in the rear sights used to adjust windage. They were really stuck when I bought the gun used and only one would come out. The other just slipped with the allen wrench. They are tiny. How can I get it out? I'm thinking if I can get it out I'll just drill and tap them for bigger set screws.
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take a punch and slightlycave in the edges of the socket in the screw head. Then take an allen key that is a separate screwdriver bit, place over the hole and rap it with a hammer. This will re-swage the hole.
Allen keys wear and have to be ground down occasionally to get to a sharp section. If moderate pressure still doesn't move it, then take a soldering iron and heat the screw - it is possible someone locktited it. If these fail consider the same technique with a torx bit that is a hair larger than the hex hole. Drill it out only as a last resort, and even then there is no need to drill out the sight to a larger size, you can drill just the minor diameter of the screw then clear out the slag with a tap.
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Use a new one, or touch it up on the grinder to get to the sharp splines. This has saved my ass more than once. Tap it in with a small hammer and make sure it goes in straight.
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Or, go to the very next size up in Metric (or Inch size if the existing screw is already metric) and drive it in as suggested by GP. This will form a new slightly larger hex in the screw. After doing this, I would also suggest the use of a soldering iron to soften or loosen possible Loc-Tite. Even if none was used, the heat will help to break any bond that has taken by crud and gunk over the years.
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Spoiler "Beautiful Mind" Jang Hyeok's tears tell the truth
Jang Hyeok cried at the13th episode of the KBS 2TV drama "Beautiful Mind".
Yeong-oh (Jang Hyeok) checked the video of Jo Yoon-ho (Lee Jae-woo), whom he promised he would save, earlier than he died. Yoon-ho told Yeong-oh, "You are the primaryuser to have listened to me". Then Yeong-oh began crying.
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Born in Newark, N.J., she was a daughter of the late Richard and Patricia (Shanley) Carswell.
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#1 The Benghazi Transcripts: Top Defense officials briefed Obama on attack, not video01-14-2014, 11:15 AM
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God I can't stand Fox's POS website. It makes getting info off it
into a nightmare. They must be using ACA's programmers...May the FORCE be with you!
Obama bots will really be going after Rosen now. But then, maybe he's untouchable now. As SR said in another thread, payback is a bitch.
" To the world you are just one more person, but to a rescued pet, you are the world."
"A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!"
01-15-2014, 10:46 PMMinutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation's top civilian and uniformed defense officials -- headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama -- were informed that the event was a "terrorist attack," declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the president's Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward.
Don't blame the fucking military guy. Ask the question the way it should be asked "why did Obama and other senior Obama administration officials press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward".
But...what difference does it make.Be Not Afraid.
Exactly. On what planet does a subordinate officer "allow" the president to set policies? The POTUS is commander-in-chief. We don't get to decide what he says in public, he tells us what the policies are. We may not like them, but we follow orders, or we get out. The advisors didn't have the option of tackling Obama and not letting him say what he was going to say. They did their jobs.
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Would it be exploitative to run a commercial showing a phone, ringing, at 3 AM, Hillary picking it up, saying nothing, hearing screams and cries for help on the other end and then nervously putting the phone down with that deer in the headlights look? Yeah, it's been mentioned elsewhere, I know.
If so, can we also create one where she gets the same call on her cell, laptop, notepad, notebook, iPad and from the girl that Bill was in bed with at the time it all went down.Be Not Afraid.
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text: This Wednesday, Hawkeye and dog detectives are in your neighborhood comic shopCyriaque Lamar7/31/12 8:45pmFiled to: Comics we craveComicstweet19EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink What's up comic-wise for the first day of August? Marvel has a litany of new books on the stands tomorrow, including issues of Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe ("What if everthing you thought was funny about Deadpool was actually just disturbing?"), Neal Adams' The First X-Men (interview about that here), and Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye series: With ex-Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he's out to prove himself as one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes!The one-shot Neighborhood Watch also compiles recent tales featuring Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson's pet detectives, the absolutely wonderful Beasts of Burden ("The four-legged occult-investigating team-a heroic gang of dogs and one cat-are doing their best to protect their home, Burden Hill, from a chicken-stealing goblin, a frightful basilisk, and a strange lost herd of sheep!") Other debuts include Howard Chaykin's erotic thriller Black Kiss II and the IDW horror series Infected. In the grab bag of returning books, there are new issues of Avengers vs. X-Men, Dial H, The Boys, Daredevil, Mind MGMT, Action Comics, Animal Man, Before Watchmen: Nite Owl, Swamp Thing, Sweet Tooth, and the final issues of both iZombie and Jeff Smith's RASL. Advertisement Advertisement For graphic novels, we have the first volume of Greg Rucka's Punisher on trade paperback and the most recent collection of Kaja and Phil Foglio's Girl Genius ("Agatha Heterodyne And The Hammerless Bell") out to boot.As usual, here's the list of everything being released to comic stores tomorrow, and you can find your nearest comic retailer here. Happy reading, gang!Reply19 repliesLeave a reply


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I have a pretty decent little collection of knives. I finally got a good-sized stilletto a year or two ago...(they are illegal here) and I like the action on it.
For practical,quick action purposes I always carried my punch knife on my hip.
But I am past that stage now and live in a city where it is really not neccesary to carry one unless you run in certain circles, which I do not anymore." If one wants to have a friend one must also want to wage war for him: and to wage war one must be capable of being an enemy." - Fr. Nietzsche 'On The Friend' Thus Spake Zarathustra
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--You're right, my comment on the Emerson knives was bullshit. I was trying to be humorous (something I definitely failed at), and in retrospect it was a pretty fucking stupid thing that I can see offending someone. I offer my apologies if I offended anyone in the thread, it really was not my intention. A failure on my part to properly alliterate my point does not constitute a failure on anyone else to understand me. I'll endeavor to think a lot harder about my posts before I start typing in the future. Sorry again.
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Strider tanto style...or an Emerson utility. Not really picky...as a $10.00 chinese spyderco ripoff would do the job, if worse came to absolute worst. :eusa_doh:
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Q My wife and I click on just about every level—parenting, money, religion, politics, etc—except for sex. After our last child was born, my advances were increasingly rejected. In an attempt to avoid pressuring her, I stopped initiating. One week passed, nothing. A month passed, nothing. A year passed, nothing. Depression and anger set in. But I was committed to being the "perfect husband," so I still didn't pressure her, hoping her libido would return. It didn't. Our "happy" life continued, and if you were a friend or neighbor, you'd have no idea this was going on. After two years, I finally lost it and confronted her. I expected that an open dialogue would improve the situation, but a month passed and she never brought it back up.
She's a stay-at-home parent, so she does most of the shopping, laundry, etc, but I contribute to the housework. We live in a large house, so we also have housecleaners and landscapers. Additionally, our kids are respectful and have been taught to pick up after themselves. The bottom line is that I've removed all of the obstacles I can think of.
I realize I'm lucky to be happy and fulfilled in just about every area of my life, but I've become fidgety, short-tempered, and hypersensitive. I don't want to have an affair, and I don't want a divorce. I love my wife and our children, but I'm at a loss as to what to do. Knowing there are women out there in the world who actually enjoy sex is devastating (it kills me to listen to you field a call from a sexually confident woman on your podcast). I am mourning the loss of intimacy and connection with another person. —Please Advise Troubled Husband
A I'll get to you in a minute, PATH, but first . . .
MTV, a cable channel that has been broadcasting music videos in a continuous loop since the summer of 1981, has elected to speed the moral collapse of the United States by putting me on television. My upcoming sex-advice program is tentatively titled Savage U. (My preferred title for the show—Dan Savage's Alaska—was rejected by the program's co–executive producer, Piper Palin.) This news has upset not only my son, who's been in the MTV stage of his development for roughly three years, but also Maggie Gallagher, the head of the National Organization for Marriage, who has been stuck in the raving-bigot stage of her development for nearly three decades.
"Renowned sex columnist Dan Savage, who is an openly gay man," Gallagher wrote on her blog, "will be taking his popular sex and relationship advice column to MTV in a show appropriately called 'Savage U' where he intends to educate your college student about the importance of honesty over just about anything else, including fidelity."
Gallagher, who once had a child out of wedlock, speaks for the fidelity-over-anything-else crowd (fidelity over honesty, reality, statistics, biology, ability, etc). Now, some people are capable of abstaining before marriage and being faithful to one partner for life—some people, but not Maggie—but these people represent a tiny minority of sexually active adults. And while those who make this aberrant lifestyle choice should not be discriminated against, the rest of us—the majority of sexually active adults—should be free to engage in grown-up conversations about sex and desire and the more reality-friendly ways in which we define fidelity without being shouted down by the monogamously correct.
I'd like to address Gallagher's two main objections to Savage U in some detail:
"Savage, for all his experience, does not know what women are like," says Gallagher.
I may not know what women taste like—I've never gone down on one—but I do know what women are like. My mother was a woman, my sister is a woman, my favorite bartender is a woman, my first sex partners were women, and many of my friends, neighbors, and coworkers are women. And as someone who is attracted to men and is in a long-term relationship with a man, I know what straight women have to put up with.
Ironically, Gallagher is a practicing Catholic who cites her faith as a reason for her opposition to same-sex marriage. But not knowing what women taste like has never stopped the pope from offering his unsolicited advice to women—no birth control, no abortions, no oral, no anal, no hand jobs—and it seems a little hypocritical of Gallagher to suggest that I'm not qualified to offer advice to women, since I don't fuck 'em, without first telling that old fag in Rome to STFU already.
"The possibility of taming one's sexual desire for the sake of another, or of a vow, is not in the Savage moral imagination," says Gallagher. "Libido will have out, and honesty about that is the best policy."
The possibility of taming one's sexual desire for the sake of another most definitely exists within the Savage moral imagination. I frequently discuss the "price of admission," that is, the personal sacrifices, large and small, that make long-term relationships possible. For some, the price of admission—what it costs to ride a particular ride—includes "taming one's sexual desire for the sake of another." If anal sex is something you enjoy but you're in love with someone who doesn't do anal, going without anal is the price of admission. If you're not into monogamy but you're in love with someone who insists on it, then monogamy is the price of admission.
Yes, libido will have out—but "libido will have out" doesn't translate into "Dan 'Doesn't Fuck Women' Savage says anything and everything goes." Two people in a long-term, committed relationship should be open and honest with each other about their sexual interests, turn-ons, drives, etc, because, yes, libido will have out—meaning sexual compatibility and sexual satisfaction have a huge impact on the health of our relationships and marriages, particularly if your spouse is your sole source of sexual satisfaction and release. People who can be open and honest with their partners—whether the relationship is monogamous or not—are likelier to have their needs met and likelier to meet their partners' needs. And when needs are met, people are less likely to cheat and more likely to stay married.
Openness and honesty don't automatically translate into everyone gets everything everyone wants. Not all needs can be met. But sometimes just having the sacrifices we've made for the good of our marriages acknowledged—getting a receipt after paying the price of admission—is good enough. Getting some credit for going without anal, along with the green light to jerk off to anal porn now and then, can make going without anal easier. Indeed, it can make going without anal virtuous, something that speaks well of the going-without-anal partner's character and priorities.
But there are times when monogamy—its pressures, its discontents, its unquestioned acceptance—can destroy an otherwise decent marriage.
Take PATH's marriage. If his wife doesn't come around—if her libido doesn't kick back into gear after mental or medical intervention—this couple is surely headed for divorce. PATH is not only feeling depressed and resentful, he's also contemplating an affair (even if he's in the dismiss-that-idea stage). Sooner or later, he's going to cheat or walk. But this marriage, a marriage that works on every other level ("parenting, money, religion, politics, etc"), could be saved if Mr. and Mrs. PATH were encouraged to openly and honestly discuss their sexual needs and their sexual disconnect. If Mrs. PATH is done with sex—for now, perhaps forever—Mr. and Mrs. PATH should be encouraged to come to a reasonable, mutually agreeable accommodation, one that allows Mr. PATH to get his needs met elsewhere if that's what he needs to stay sane and stay married.
I'm not sure what to call someone who places a higher value on preserving monogamy within a particular marriage over preserving that marriage itself, Maggie, but I wouldn't call that person a defender of marriage.
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More than 25 hands-on science activities are provided in classroom-ready pages for both teachers and students for exploring Earth, the planets, geology, and space sciences. |
Intro to Solar System | Planetary Properties | Volcanology | Impact Craters |
Exploring Planets in the Classroom was a long-running summer workshop in Planetary Geosciences offered at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for the state's K-12 educators and librarians under the direction of Dr. G. Jeffrey Taylor. Hands-on activities in this course were developed and/or tested by the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium in cooperation with educators statewide. In 1996 the workshop transformed into this website to assist educators and resource specialists around the globe to find hands-on activities that match science standards in elementary, middle, high school, and college classrooms. These on-line activity pages are formatted for printing and direct classroom use. The original layout was developed by a team of educators in 1994 while producing NASA Publication EG-1997-10-116-HQ (first published as EP-306) Exploring the Moon: A Teacher's Guide with Activities for Earth and Space Sciences. Free Use Policy 1. The author's name. In our case it's Hawaii Space Grant Consortium. 2. Date of publication, in parentheses. A date is listed at the top of every activity. 3. Full title of the document. 4. Title of the complete work, in italics. 5. Full URL. 6. Date you accessed the web page, in parentheses.
Example: Hawaii Space Grant Consortium is located at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. LINKS TO STANDARDS (Links open in new windows.)
Release date: 14 May 1996.
Last update: 24 July 2014. Enhanced with JavaScript. |
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