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I'm not victim blaming but all generalizations are false, even this one.
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It does.
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PC and Tablet ded, send help
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I lived the land of no internet
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Yeah, basically finding pictures now. Could be a while :<
That was a really nice CS for being new to the site. Snazzed it up with coding and did more than just copy and paste the abilities. Nice job. ^.^
Eldarin exaimed the path. Well. He wasn't sure where they were going was any better, but the only real option they had was to keep moving forward. Shaking his head slightly Eldarin began walking down the path, keeping an eye out for an ideal spot to rest. That blood may have down wonders for healing his wounds and even restoring his fatigue to some extent, but he was still tired mentally at the very least, and more than ready to take a nap.
The idea of peak oil and the associated consequences of this theoretical, but commonly accepted as true, idea, are both far-reaching and vital to our everyday life. The website, (peakoil.com), is a website that allows people who access it to explore and share ideas relating to peak oil and methods of dealing with it when it occurs. The site is interesting in the fact that it allows users to create posts rather than merely offering information for consumption. In my opinion this is a valuable resource as it allows for better spread of ideas, more perspectives, and an overall better learning experience. The ideas discussed here are inevitably similar to those that Richard Heinberg discusses in The End of Growth. That is to say, that the economy can not progress in the same way it has endlessly and that it will reach a limit, the difference being the website is more focused on oil.

Naturally many people have concerns over the economy and in particular one of the driving forces behind it, oil. Therefore it is no surprise to find many websites and other information sources dedicated to exploring this topic exclusively. The website (peak-oil.org) is one of those many sources. This website is dedicated to both producing and sharing articles that are related to oil, naturally focused on changes in its production, availability, and price. The website offers insights on a wide variety of oil related information such as market prices, investment advice and warnings, analyses of upcoming and past events, as well as speculation about the constantly shifting market. Much in the way that anything focusing on oil or the economy does, the ideas discussed by Richard Heinberg become relevant. Most of the information on this website is about the growth and lack there of, for oil. And most of it seems to indicate a downward trend in availability. This would agree with Heinberg's assertion that constant growth is impossible and that sooner or later it must come to an end, especially in regards to an economy fueled by a non-renewable resource.

The article, "This Time, Colin Kaepernick Takes a Stand by Kneeling" by BILLY WITZSEPT, was written and posted on September 1, 2016. It was distributed through "The New York Times", which is a fairly large organization by all counts. The paper's print version has the second-largest circulation in US cities, is owned by The New York Times company, and is generally accepted to be liberal oriented.

The main subject of the article, as one might guess from the title, is the recent behavior of football player Colin Kaepernick. More specifically, his actions after his famous act of sitting during the national anthem and his newest display of taking a knee during it. The author uses frequent quotes and pictures, as well as a video to support his information. The author sources the associated press for his images and nothing else. The tone of the article is mainly objective, however through the events they were chosen to be portrayed and information given, it can be asserted that the author supports Kaepernick. This stance is subtle, not expressed directly in word choice, but rather information given. The article only lists positive aspects of his decisions, not giving serious though as to whether his actions were anti military. In addition most of the quotes used are Kaepernick saying positive things, or positive things being said about him. Further more his donation to charity was mentioned as well as his successful performance at one of his games despite the negative crowd. Though the article makes no mention of political parties, it can be garnered that those of a right political view dislike Kaepernick for several reasons, such as his high-income undermining his point and the argument that his stand was anti-military and anti-veteran. Most media seems to support his decisions and by virtue of the right disliking his stand, we can assume that the left-minded individuals approve. Information missing from this article are more perspectives of disapproval and their reasons for such, as well as expressing how relatively little he stood to lose from this. This article does a fair job of stating what the original protest was about, as well as how it had devolved from that into meaningless squabbles about political correctness. The author's intended audience seems to be those divided on the issue, seeking information, or slightly opposed. I find myself feeling mixed about the author's stance on it. While I agree that standing against injustice is important and that he did so effectively, I can't help but feel there was a better, less flashy way to go about this. The way it was done inevitably caused widespread confusion the amount of attention garnered seems to have removed focus from the original intent.
Eldarin shook his head and stared at the blood. So. That was what happened. Eldarin'd had his suspicious but that was a rather abrupt and jarring confirmiration of them. Apparantly drinking from the river was truely a mistake, leading to fates like this, worse than death. Facing Vane he gave a half-hearted grin and a thumbs up. Now that the blood was drained Eldarin intended to take another drink and leave with his full bottles and the key so they could finally get out of here. They'd spent entirely too long here already. "Let's get going."
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Megan gave a cheery grin, not at all dissuaded by the Colonel's fierce yelling. "Sir yes sir!" She barked out, throwing up a salute. After that she would head into the changing booth to change into a swimsuit. Unfortunatly she hadn't brought her own on account of it being a freaking desert so she had to use a generic earth dorm one piece. Its drab colors were totally boring and Megan made a mental note to get her parents to send her swimsuit to the academy. Coming out Megan looked from familair faces and saw Haas praticing along with a bunch of other people already in the pool.

Figured, it was best to train right away if you were serious about winning something. Megan eagerly entered the water and gazed down the lane. One deep breath and she was off, racing thorugh the water using a generic crawl stroke, the movements easy from years of pratice. As she reached the other end of the pool she smoothly did a flip turn and continued back to the other side. Having finished Megan grinned and shook her hair a little, she hadn't even bothered timing herself, seeing no need for it right now. Having gotten a bit of a practice race in, Megan drifted to a corner of the pool, out of the way of any other swimmers, and relaxed.
Moros Vorsickle


Moros glanced at the princess as attention shifted to her, pausing for a moment from his bone breaking bash to listen, er, watch. Then things began to get worse, with more skeletons appearing, as well as a fierce larger monster. What had happened to just having a nice tournament for glory and fame hm? The larger one was quickly set upon by a Song Knight who looked as though he may not be the best canidate for the job, but if he believed in his ability to combat it, then it was surely no buisness of Moros's to say otherwise. To his relief someone summoned crows to help keep the skeletons in check, greatly reducing their ability to set upon the mostly gone civilians. Still they weren't handling all the new Dissonance's on their own and Moros anticpaited most knight either moving to help the princess or take down the big guy. Someone had to help keep the weaker ones under control, least they become to great in number and destruction caused. With a sigh of resignation Moros crushed a stray skull beneath his foot, savoring the crunch, and once again began attacking the skeletons scattered around the area. Nasty things Dissonances. Weren't they supposed to be somewhat rare at worst? Yet here they were, that odd little girl dropping them like some sort of deranged pinata.
Eldarin staggered backwards and let his blade drop to the ground from his numb hands in utter exhaustion. That had been the most hellish fight he'd ever been in. "Good work Vane." He managed to pant out as he sank to the ground. The clink of disturbed bottles reminded him of the blood letting kit he had and how he'd drained pretty much everything he'd gotten from the wolf. No time to rest, he needed to fill up and get moving. It was probably best to get this kind of stuff fresh. For a moment he was sickened by what he was doing, collecting blood from a fallen monster to mantain his own condition and keeping as some sort of prize, literally feeding on the life of his dead enemy to sustain himself. But with a fierce shake of his head Eldarin continued with his grim purpose. He intended to get a drink for both himself and Vane and leaving with full bottles, as well that dratted key.
Dorisma grunted. Why were they all stuck on something a stupid human had said? He was probably addled in the head after being hit so hard. She spat at his body and they moved on. It seemed no one was jumping to set up camp which meant she would do it. After all, she had plenty of experience traveling on her own for so long, though she usually went without a fire. "Me." she said in response to Robert's question and set about getting camp ready to sleep in, clearing an area around the campfire, making sure there was room to sleep and what not. It wasn't overly difficult, if not overly exciting either. "Stop worry about human game." Dorisma said dismissively at Deravan's question to the princess. Just a waste of time was what it was.
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