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"Anybody that is in the woods, there are two types of people the ones that will do it and the ones that won't," said Hoover. "You never know until you're there."

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@kiekie There's a lot of information on stimulants on NIDA's teen Web site: https://teens.drugabuse.gov. And a few more posts here that might be of interest: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/blog/?s=stimulants. Good luck on the assignment.
@amanda and ashley You can find a lot more information about stimulants on the NIDA for Teens Facts on Drugs stimulant page: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/stimulants. For information on prescription drugs that are stimulants please visit the prescription stimulant page: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/prescription-stimulants.
you should never do drugs because it can ruin your life. i know this first hand my aunt did drugs and she got her kid taken and none of our family would talk to herand i couldnt see her for years.
Mate.. Don't ever ever touch this [expletive deleted, per guidelines]. I know everyone thinks "oh i'll be fine its just a harmless liitle bit of extra energy i'll be sweet". But no! I'm 15 years old and have developed an addiction to this [expletive deleted, per guidelines] so bad, and don't try and reply saying it's not addictive because I have experienced it first hand, over a period of time you develop a tolerance to it and need to buy/loan more and more off your mate/dealer to get that buzz that you love. But the problem is the more you have the bigger the 'come down'.
when i'm not on ritalin or know that I can't get anymore it's like someones gone and kicked my happiness and positivity out the door. I feel so depressed that... well lets just say i'm lucky that I have an amazing friend that sticks by me and gives me a reason to carry on.
6 MONTHS! - of atleast 60mg a day, give or take a few days that I couldn't get it (most likely paying off the $100's of dollars of debt I rack up from borrowing money to buy it). Which brings me to my next point that it ruins friendships, family life at home, and you end up getting in trouble with the police because you just don't give a [expetive deleted, per guidelines] all you think about is your next fix of this piece of [expletive deleted, per guidelines] drug.
At one point I had lost everything, I even lost the one thing that was making me happy and that wasn't a drug it was the girl that I truly loved more than anything, she gave up on me just like almost everyone else because I just couldn't see what I had and I lied and I lied and made more and more promises.. And now I JUST WANT TO DIE. So if you don't believe me that's cool [expletive deleted, per guidlines] and try it because i'll most likely be dead soon, because [expletive deleted, per guidelines] LIFE. good luck.
So MY ADVICE - Don't go near it, and if one of your friends is on it, save them from the pain and debt they will get in the long term. tell them to stay away from this [expletive deleted, per guidelines].
And dont think like I used to after reading this, which was "oh that would never happen to me.. blah blah blah"... BECAUSE IT WILL
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Thank you for sharing your story. I am glad that you have a friend who is sticking by you. You may also want to talk with a trusted adult. If you don't feel comfortable doing that at this time, you could use anonymous resources like SAMHSA's crisis line (1-800-273-TALK) -- they help people with lots of different problems. SAMHSA also has a Treatment Facility Locator (https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov) that can help you find programs in your area.
@ashley You can find a lot more information about stimulants on the NIDA for Teens Facts on Drugs stimulant page: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/stimulants.
There are many different stimulant drugs and many of them have no medical use such as cocaine and meth, for more information about illegal stimulant drugs visit the NIDA for Teens drug facts page on stimulants: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/stimulants.
There are also stimulant prescription drugs that are often prescribed to treat ADHD. Like other stimulant drugs, prescription stimulants speed up processes in the body. To learn more about prescription stimulants visit the NIDA for Teens drug facts page on prescription stimulants: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/prescription-stimulants.
It's important to understand that ADHD medications affect people with ADHD and without ADHD differently. You can learn more about the differences in the Sara Bellum Blog post "Prescription Stimulants Affect People With ADHD Differently" here: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/prescription-stimulants-affect-people-adhd-differently.
Hi Micah, prescription stimulants like Ritalin affect people with ADHD differently from people without ADHD. That's why it's important to only take them if they have been prescribed for you and to talk with your doctor if you have any concerns about becoming addicted. You can also find out more about prescription stimulants like Ritalin at https://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/prescription-stimulant-medications-amphetamines and https://teens.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/prescription-stimulants-affect-people-adhd-differently.


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February 11, 2003, 09:18:11 PM »
Hi there Arxhon,
Your post bounces around a few different topics ... for one thing, we're not really discussing personal takes on "my history with D&D and gaming," although it might look a little bit like that. I'm interested in what you're saying, certainly, but if you review this thread and its parent one, you'll see that the topic is pretty specific.
I'm really replying, though, to your GNS interpretations, which are pretty much in line with most people's first reading but are also inaccurate. Vampire's claim to be a "storytelling" game has nothing to do with what we've tagged as Narrativist play, and it may be that you've played very Narrativist in the past, or maybe never seen any such thing. If you'd like, we can discuss that more carefully in the GNS forum, not here.
So, thanks for chiming in - check the topic on this thread before posting to it again - and maybe kick around a GNS notion or two in that forum - and I'll see you then.
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Reply #31 on:
February 12, 2003, 01:53:22 PM »
Quote from: Paul Czege
Before this thread gets old, I just wanted to say thanks for your great and definitive post about Dragonlance.
Paul, you�re very welcome. Thanks for giving me the opportunity.
I do have another contender for the first metaplot-driven AD&D scenarios, but I'll get to them later.
Did I miss this? Perhaps a new thread?
The series I was thinking of was the AD&D �Desert of Desolation� modules: Pharaoh, Oasis of White Palm, and Lost Tomb of Martek. Pharaoh was, I always thought, one of the all-time great D&D dungeon crawls (along with the original Ravenloft, also by Tracy Hickman). But the adventures got more scripted as they went along. Looking back on the third, �Lost Tomb of Martek,� it almost seems a parody, or at the very least a blueprint of all the ways to railroad a D&D adventure. Witness:
- the module begins with the PCs watching a battle between two mighty NPCs (a djinni and an efreeti). The battle exists only as boxed text. The adventure makes it clear that nothing the PCs do can possibly affect either NPC.
- the PCs travel through a string of mini-dungeons and mini-�dimensions� � each one leads to another and there is only one way in, one path to follow, and one way to escape
- at one point the adventure as written cannot continue unless the PCs allow themselves to get captured � something we all know D&D players will often fight to the death to avoid (this scene caused me great anguish each time I ran this adventure)
- not once but twice in the same adventure the PCs find themselves �at the end of the world� - if they leave the map, they literally fall off the end of the world into the Abyss
- at the end, they bring to life a 3rd mighty NPC and then get to watch � floating above the desert in an indestructible force cube, the ultimate passive observers � as he resolves the fight between the other 2 mighty NPCs
Now I don�t know how many people played this adventure and I�m sure it didn�t have the same impact as Dragonlance, but it is interesting as a historical document, especially as it was written by Tracy Hickman (who would go on to head the Dragonlance adventures & co-write the novels), at precisely the moment before he made the jump from writing D&D adventures to writing fantasy fiction.
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February 12, 2003, 02:05:07 PM »
Rob, I'm puzzled by your claim that these are dungeon crawls. The original dungeon crawls, other than the assumption that you were going dungeon crawling, were totally non-railroaded. They were "meet the map" adventures, and you could go anywhere the passages led, or your abilities could take you. In fact, it was perhaps this element of freedom that first drew me to RPGs.
Open railroading was a later development to ensure that "stories" occured rather than just random monster bashing. That's when stuff like Ravenloft shows up with it's "pick a PC to have a dream" style of force.
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February 12, 2003, 02:05:22 PM »
I wonder if this thread is likely to get much farther in chronicling the origins of 2nd Edition AD&D, since it seems of the people here (myself included) jumped the AD&D ship before or when 2E arrived.
A thread talking about other games in a historical way might be in order. There�s always the danger of it becoming just a list of personal anecdotes, but there are worse things. I�d like to give a shout out to Paranoia, which shook down many of my assumptions about what gaming �was.� And I�d be very happy to see an intelligent defense of the early 90s White Wolf Storyteller games - they do get dumped on so - but I�m not the one to offer it.
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February 12, 2003, 02:21:40 PM »
Rob, I'm puzzled by your claim that these are dungeon crawls. The original dungeon crawls, other than the assumption that you were going dungeon crawling, were totally non-railroaded. They were "meet the map" adventures, and you could go anywhere the passages led, or your abilities could take you.
Well, I was just using "dungeon crawl" to mean an adventure in which the PCs are in a dungeon, moving from room to room. But your description does to me describe Pharaoh and even some of the early Dragonlance adventures for the most part. And my memory may just be failing me, but I don't remember any "pick a PC to have a dream" in the original Ravenloft adventure. (Though there is the Very Big Stick of the fact that the PCs are trapped there by the mists until they can kill the vampire.)
I was drawing a distinction between these "transitional" adventures (that combined scripted introductions and endings with elements of standard go anywhere dungeon crawls) and later "railroaded" adventures, where the amount of PC freedom declined considerably.
In these later adventures, you can literally see the railroading on the map.
That is, the map from Keep on the Borderlands or Expedition to the Barrier Peaks or Pharaoh looks very different from the map in Lost Tomb of Martek. The former has rooms and tunnels going all over the place, the latter is a straight line.
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Reply #35 on:
February 12, 2003, 02:31:30 PM »
True enough, Rob.
The transitional adventures, as you call them, are kinda schitzophrenic. They have maps and whatnot, but there is also the timeline or other metagame set of events that keep them going. So, in Ravenloft (I played the original modules; maybe it was the second one that had the dreams), you have this interesting 3D map of the castle, but I never used it. What was the point? The players entered the castle and said we look for the entrance to the lower level. Was I really going to describe things room-by-room when they were mostly empty anyhow? No, the description was more like, "After a while of searching about, you discover the stairway down in one of the turrets (or wherever it was). The room detail just wasn't important to the plot that the rest of the adventure provided.
I remember now thinking how odd the whole thing was.
BTW, I played these adventures out using a homebrew system and set in a corner of a world of my own creation, long after I had stopped playing D&D.
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February 12, 2003, 07:53:22 PM »
Greetings Rob,
Quote from: Rob MacDougall
I wonder if this thread is likely to get much farther in chronicling the origins of 2nd Edition AD&D, since it seems of the people here (myself included) jumped the AD&D ship before or when 2E arrived.
If you can find a site with a comprehensive index for the old
magazine (or if anyone here has a link they'd like ot share) that would probably be the best source for public, if not behind the scenes, info. (I do recall reading about this in there, long long ago.) From what I recall a new edition was announced in its pages well in advance of 2E which was, if memory serves, nothing at all like what the original intimation was it would be. Also there was a promo-primer-advanced preview insert in one issue of 2E.
Much luck.
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I suppose I should post my war story before this thread gets stale. Please excuse me if I ramble.
I got into RPGs -- and D&D -- with the Red Box D&D set with the Erol Otis cover. I don't remember how old I was -- I'm pretty sure I was in grade school. Ironically, at first, I understood roleplaying, in some ways, better than I would subequently, according to some people's tastes. I didn't fully understand the rules, but I understood them enough to run my cousin (abou the same age) through a faux-fantasy adventure, using the rules more as inspiration than anything else. We used the crayon that came with the game to write the character sheet, not to ink the numbers on the dice.
The most notable thing I remember about this adventure is I
didn't use the dice
. I just winged it. My cousin asked what the dice was for, and I still remember what I said: "I dunno. I guess they're used for more advanced play."
Unfortunately, this marked my decent into rules-lawyering, "it must be this way" kinda play. I became determined to understand how to play
. Those rantings from Gygax in Dragon? I took them seriously. I got into hardback AD&D by buying the books at Waldenbooks, and I was running AD&D avidly, off and on, for my friends, about the time Star Frontiers came out.
It's important to note that I was living in West Virginia, isolated from anyone who played -- any new player was introduced to the hobby by me. To get any sort of "peers", I had to turn to the rules themselves, and I became good at the minutae -- tho even I ignored the rules for different penalties and bonuses to different ACs depending on weapon in the PHB. But I became very snotty and superior about the right way to play, as I learned to play straight from Mr. Gygax, as it were.
During this time period, as I went into Junior High, I had my first and only encounter with the sort of females from this period who didn't care about hanging with younger males that other people mentioned. My Gifted Program teacher played D&D. At the time, I thought she was very hot, and I remember hearing rumors about her getting into trouble with the boys years after I left that town...
Ahem. It's important to note, however, I didn't see any enthusiastic female members of the hobby from that point until I discovered Vampire.
Anyhoo, as I grew older, in High School, I started to drift into other games, but I was still very much an Old School AD&D player. My parents sent me to High School in Pittsburgh, PA, and I got a lot wider exposure to things there, including a new peer group of gamers, who played all sorts of games from Battletech to Twilight: 2000, and were largely Gamist, while I was slowing moving in a more Simulationist direction.
This was when I started to drift away from AD&D. The reasons were many:
1) What I called the "new look" of D&D. I'm still a big fan of the Erol Otis artwork -- I hate Elmore's work with a passion. I really didn't like this "family-friendly" version of the game that I had loved. The first signs of this was the renaming of the "Dieties and Demigods" tome to "Legends and Lore", and culminated with the release of D&D 2E -- which didn't have demons in it. AD&D wasn't the game I remembered anymore. My friend Cormac had the 2nd ed rulebooks, and I played a few times -- I liked the rules okay, but I didn't like where the game was going, theme-wise, tho I would have never been able to articulate that at the time. Superficial? Yeah, but I was in high school, after all.
2) Ironically, part of my drift was because I liked some of the "new school" books that DIDN'T have the full whitewash treatment. I liked "Unearthed Arcana", because I liked the new options, including being able to play a Drow, and the proficiency system, which gave AD&D a skill system I thought it needed. "Oriental Adventures" had all the flavor that all the other new stuff lacked, while still remaining very much "AD&D", and took AD&D out of the dungeon, which, as an odd sort of Gyaxian Simulationsit, I was tried of. See, by this point, I'd been exposed to Traveller and GURPS and Runequest and Twilight: 2000 -- I was starting to appreciate a solid Simulationist design, particularly a skill system, and a system without character classes.
3) Genre. Fact of the matter is, I grew up watching Star Trek re-runs. In my earlier years I started out reading mystery novels, and then shifted to SF. I was never very big into Tolkien or any other kind of fantasy -- in fact, most of my interest in fantasy came from D&D. I really, really wanted to play "Star Frontiers" but no one else was interested, except my little brother, who was five years younger than me. Increasingly, there were games on the market that supported SF or horror, which interested me more than any form of fantasy.
I owned the original Dragonlance novel, but never ran them. I could have cared less about railroading at that point -- but I think I sensed, without being to articulate it, the lack of power for the GM. I didn't feel there was much for me to DO. This is pretty amazing when you consider I mainly ran from pre-prepared modules -- but I improvised to connect them. Plus, I was very invested in -- and liked -- Greyhawk, and I didn't like the idea of a whole new world. In fact, I remember being pissed off when I opened the first module and found I couldn't use it with any of the other modules I owned.
Dunno if any of this is helpful, feel free to poke me about any aspect of it if it seems useful. In a sense I was a good control group until High School. My sense of dates are terrible, but if it helps to understand that chonology, I was born in '72.
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New Orleans' All-Star forward would have difficulty convincing the Hawks.
Davis had 34 points, including 13 in the Pelicans' fourth quarter, and New Orleans beat Atlanta 111-105 on Friday night.
Atlanta led 71-69 before New Orleans scored 42 points in the final period. The Pelicans took the lead with a 12-0 run that began at the end of the third quarter.
Davis led the scoring but Luke Babbitt and Austin Rivers combined for 15 points off the bench in the fourth quarter.
"Guys stepped up — Luke, Austin — and that's we're going to need when guys go down," Davis said.
New Orleans guard Eric Gordon did not return after leaving the game in the first quarter. Coach Monty Williams said Gordon's tendinitis in his left knee flared up. Williams said he hopes Gordon can play on Saturday against Miami.
Tyreke Evans had 21 points for New Orleans, which completed a two-game sweep of the season series.
Davis set career highs with 40 points and 20 rebounds in New Orleans' 121-120 overtime win over Boston on Sunday and then missed a loss to Toronto on Wednesday with a respiratory infection.
"I'm still under the weather, but I didn't want to miss any more games," Davis said.
The Hawks' five-game winning streak ended as they failed in a chance to move into a seventh-place tie with Charlotte in the Eastern Conference.
Jeff Teague led Atlanta with 26 points and eight assists. Paul Millsap had 20 points.
Led by Davis, the Pelicans outscored the Hawks 42-34 in the fourth period. With Davis scoring on three jams in the fourth quarter, the Pelicans made 12 of 16 shots from the field and 16 of 17 free throws in the period.
Brian Roberts had 16 points and Babbitt had 11, while making three 3-pointers.
Hawks guard Kyle Korver was held out with back spasms which developed during pregame warmups. Shelvin Mack scored 18 points as Korver's replacement.
Atlanta's DeMarre Carroll said the late lineup change "kind of threw us for a loop. Kyle is a big part of our team."
Mack's 3-pointer at the end of the first half pulled Atlanta into a 44-44 tie after New Orleans led most of the half.
Atlanta used an 11-0 run, including seven points by Teague, to take its big lead at 67-60 in the third quarter.
Babbitt entered the game late in the third quarter and made a 3-pointer to start the 12-0 run. He opened the final period with another 3-pointer to give the Pelicans the lead. A steal and jam by Davis capped the run which left New Orleans with a 78-71 lead.
"At the end of the third quarter and the start of the fourth quarter, our defense didn't execute," Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer said. "Luke Babbitt came in and hurt us and of course Anthony Davis hurt us all night."
Babbitt's driving basket and 3-pointer from the corner pushed the lead to 93-85. Davis added to the lead, grabbing a rebound of a miss by Babbitt with his right hand and jamming the ball on the same motion.
New Orleans outscored Atlanta 43-27 from the free-throw line.
"We just didn't give the effort we needed to give," Carroll said. "We weren't aggressive. It backfired on us tonight."
NOTES: Hawks G Lou Williams had two points and two turnovers after missing seven straight games, including one when he was not with the team. ... New Orleans blocked six shots, including two by Alexis Ajinca. ... The Pelicans' 42 fourth-quarter points were the most allowed in any quarter by Atlanta this season. ... The Pelicans open a four-game homestand against Miami on Saturday. ... The Hawks honored Robin Roberts, a former Atlanta TV sports reporter and host of ABC's "Good Morning America," for her battle with myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare blood and bone marrow disease, and her efforts in promoting bone marrow donations.


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The tomb that Elvis Presley was originally buried in following his death in 1977 will go up for sale on June 23.
Located about five miles from Graceland, where the King's remains are now, the opening bid for the tomb will be $100,000. The winner of the auction will also be able to open and close the tomb for a burial service and will receive a memorialization inscription.
Although this was the initial place where Presley was laid to rest, his body was moved to Graceland two months later. A statue which commemorates his brief stay at the tomb is the only hint that Presley was ever there. Darren Julien, who is running the auction for his Beverly Hills-based Julien's Auction House doesn't think that will affect the sale of the crypt.
"I just consider that if you're an ultimate fan of Elvis Presley, it's an opportunity. It's definitely a conversation piece," Julien told The New York Times. Only one person can say, 'Hey, I'm going to be buried where Elvis Presley was.'"
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Jets needed someone to save the game, and possibly their season.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Jets needed someone to save the game, and possibly their season.
Tim Tebow was unavailable, so Rex Ryan turned to third-string quarterback Greg McElroy, who stepped in for a struggling Mark Sanchez and energized the Jets and their fans.
McElroy threw a touchdown pass to cap his first NFL drive early in the fourth quarter, leading the Jets to an ugly 7-6 victory Sunday and sending the Arizona Cardinals to their eighth straight loss.
"It's just something that I sensed, that I felt," Ryan said. "When you're around this game long enough, you get that feeling that, 'You know what? I've seen enough, and it's time to make that change.'"
With Tebow inactive as he heals from two broken ribs and the Jets needing to win their last five games to even have a chance of making the playoffs, Ryan pulled Sanchez for McElroy late in the third quarter — as the crowd cheered wildly.
McElroy then led the Jets (5-7) to their only points of the day with an impressive 10-play drive, rolling to his right on a bootleg and tossing a 1-yard pass to a wide-open Jeff Cumberland in the end zone 5 seconds into the fourth quarter.
"I'm really happy for the team, and really happy for Greg," Sanchez said. "He came in and played his butt off."
Fans chanted "Mc-El-Roy!" throughout the first three quarters as Sanchez went 10-of-21 for 97 yards and three interceptions, including two by former Jets safety Kerry Rhodes.
"It's tough to kind of gauge the energy," McElroy said, smiling. "Obviously, I didn't have, like, a decibel meter where I could tell what the crowd noise was, but I was excited about getting a shot to get in there."
As McElroy got the offense moving, Sanchez stood on the sideline along with Tebow and next to offensive coordinator Tony Sparano.
McElroy, reading the plays off his left wristband after getting few snaps in practice all week, was cheered with each completion, including a 13-yarder on third down to Jeremy Kerley with 3 minutes left that helped seal it. McElroy finished 5-of-7 for 29 yards vs. the Cards (4-8).
Sanchez left with 4:48 left in the third quarter and the Jets trailing 3-0 after a third-down pass was batted down by Ronald Talley. Sanchez was told by Sparano that his day was over, and then met Ryan on the sideline as McElroy began to warm up.
"From the get-go, from the first play, it just wasn't my day," Sanchez said.
It should make for an interesting week around the Jets' facility. If Tebow is healthy, he could be in line to start next week at Jacksonville.
If not, Ryan will have to take a hard look at McElroy, a 2011 seventh-round pick out of Alabama who missed last season with a thumb injury.
"I'll let you guys know who's going to be the quarterback when I'm ready to," Ryan said. "We'll look at our situation and evaluate as the week goes on."
On McElroy's second drive, he completed a swing pass to Kahlil Bell, who fumbled deep in Jets territory. Ryan Lindley connected with Michael Floyd on a 16-yard gain, but things stalled and Arizona got a 35-yard field goal by Jay Feely, another ex-Jet, that made it 7-6 with 10:39 left.
Things started on an ominous note for the Jets as Sanchez was intercepted by Rhodes on the Jets' first offensive play. Ryan criticized Rhodes in his book "Play Like You Mean It" last year for being a "selfish" player, and the Jets traded him after the 2009 season.
"It's a tough situation for him now where everyone is pretty much against him," Rhodes said. "Whatever he does that's not positive will be taken like it was today. I talked to him during the game when he got benched. I went over there and talked to him on the side and told him to keep his head up."


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An -EX, which stands for Explained, SCP is one which we have figured out. It is an SCP that is no longer an SCP, either because it has become common place, we worked out the rules behind it, or that it has just become a complete non issue.
The difference between a regular SCP and an SCP-EX are, mainly, three. First, the -EX designation. Any SCP made as an -EX needs to have a page title of SCP-###-EX. Second, the containment protocol. While I would still like to see the old containment protocols, perhaps striked out, -an EX no longer needs to be contained, for whatever reason. And, number three, at the end of the article, there needs to be a section detailing HOW it went from normal to -EX.
— Bright
For more information on what an -EX SCP is, please check out the full forum thread. If you write one, please link your -EX articles here so others can see your work!
Explained SCP Series
- SCP-067-EX - "Rurik Inn"
- SCP-711-EX - Man From The Future Present
- SCP-920-EX - Evil Workgroup Printer
- SCP-1841-EX - Lisztomania
- SCP-1851-EX - Drapetomania
- SCP-1974-EX - Hallucinogenic Dice
- SCP-2600-EX - Furred Trout
- SCP-3005-EX - Nothing to Hide
- SCP-4023-EX - A Chemical Compound
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- Breathe. Take 10 to 20 deep breaths a few minutes before you're going to speak. (Step into a handy stairwell or restroom if you don't want to be observed.) It's a physiological way to calm your body so it responds better while you're speaking.
- Sip. Starting an hour or two before your talk, hydrate your vocal chords. For preference, choose water rather than caffeinated beverages, and avoid alcohol if you're an after-dinner speaker. Got a cold or sore throat? Try hot water with lemon.
- Stretch. Make sure you're limber before a speech. Stretch your arms and legs (that stairwell, again) and do some shoulder rolls and neck stretches to keep your body looking and feeling calm.
- Re-open. You'll never have a higher level of attention than at the start of your speech, so use it. Practice your opener several times, so that you can do it without referring to your notes and make early eye contact with the audience.
- Annotate. If you're working from a text, take the time to plan and write in stage directions to yourself: "pause here," "gesture toward audience," or just underscoring words you want to emphasize will help you add grace notes to your speech.
- Center. Find your core, your center of gravity, and the best stance that will hold you steady when you're not moving around the stage. You want to be able to stand in a relaxed stance, without swaying or hanging on to the lectern, to look most authoritative--and to keep attention on your words.
- Smile. Smiling helps in two ways, relaxing your mind and your body. Bring a funny picture, child's drawing, or photo that only you can see at the lectern to start your speech with a welcoming face.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. administration has not determined whether it has legal authority to delay Obamacare's individual mandate, which requires most Americans to enroll in health insurance or pay a tax penalty, a senior Treasury official said on Tuesday.
Mark Iwry, senior adviser to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, told U.S. lawmakers the administration sees no reason for delay given that the law allows for exemptions and provides financial assistance for those unable to afford health coverage on their own. He said the provision also underpins reforms that protect sick people from discriminatory market practices.
"If we don't believe that it is appropriate to be delaying that provision ... then we don't reach the question of whether we have legal authority," Iwry said in testimony before the Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee's Health subcommittee.
The administration has delayed numerous segments of the 2010 law known as Obamacare during four years of implementation and continues to face speculation about possible new postponements for provisions, including the individual mandate.
Iwry's testimony provided the most detailed evidence to date that the administration was not moving toward delay.
Republicans have called repeatedly for a delay in the individual mandate since last summer, when the White House gave employers extra time to comply with a sister provision that requires midsize businesses with at least 50 full-time workers to offer health coverage to their employees or pay a penalty.
Administration officials have consistently rejected the idea of postponing the individual penalty, describing the employer mandate delay as a response to employers who said they needed more time to meet the law's requirements.
Hoping to turn the topic into a campaign issue in November's election battle for Congress, Republicans have pressed officials to learn whether the administration could delay the provision under the law, if it chose to do so. The individual mandate is one of the most unpopular provisions of a law that is unpopular with large numbers of voters.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires the government to penalize individuals who violate the law. The administration has delayed the enforcement of other provisions required by the law, including one that bans insurance policies that offer substandard benefits.
"The American people still have not been given an adequate answer about questions of fairness. We understand the mandate on businesses is costly and that is why you gave big business a break. But why is it fair to not give the same break to individual Americans and their families?" said Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, the Health panel's Republican chairman.
Brady asked Iwry more than half a dozen times to clarify whether the Treasury Department has analyzed the question of legal authority or reached a decision on whether it can take action.
"That is a question that we don't reach because we do not believe that we have any cause to," Iwry said.
The administration official said he would seek further guidance from Treasury's legal staff and report back.
The exchange between Brady and Iwry puzzled the panel's senior Democrat, Representative Jim McDermott of Washington.
"You decide, is there something we should do to make this thing work, and then you look to see if you have authority to do that, is that a fair shortcut to the answer?" McDermott asked the Treasury official.
"Mr. McDermott, I'm in general agreement with the way you're approaching this," Iwry replied.
Under the healthcare law, President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, most Americans who do not enroll in health coverage for this year will pay a penalty when they file their 2014 income tax returns next year.
Iwry said a delay is unnecessary partly because the penalty phases in over three years. It rises from the greater of $95 per adult or 1 percent of family income for 2014 to $695 per adult or 2.5 percent of income for 2016.
Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Jonathan Oatis


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WORCESTER — Halifax Media Group has closed the deal to purchase the Telegram & Gazette. The acquisition of the T&G expands the reach of Halifax Media Group outside of the Southeast, home to the majority of its newspapers.
WORCESTER — Halifax Media Group has closed the deal to purchase the Telegram & Gazette.
The acquisition of the T&G expands the reach of Halifax Media Group outside of the Southeast, home to the majority of its newspapers.
"The T&G has a special connection with the Worcester market and its readers and advertisers," said Michael Redding, chief executive officer of Halifax Media Group. "We understand and celebrate the importance of staying connected to the communities we serve and have a strong commitment in continuing that tradition in Worcester."
Leah Lamson, the editor of the Telegram & Gazette since 2009, told the newsroom that she was leaving her position "for personal and professional reasons."
Not all employees were offered employment at the newspaper on Monday. The paper now has a staff of about 156 employees. Mr. Redding indicated that new positions will be added in the near term.
"It has been an honor and a privilege to have served as the editor of the Telegram & Gazette for the last five years," Ms. Lamson said in a prepared release. "I have had the good fortune to have worked for the newspaper for 36 years and feel that for both personal and professional reasons, it is time to leave. This newspaper is one of great accomplishment with a proud heritage, and I am confident that it will endure for many years to come."
Karen Webber, the T&G's managing editor, will lead the newsroom.
"All of it is unfortunate," Mr. Redding said of the layoffs. "You never want to be a part of it. For the future of the business, we needed to right-size. We put it in a staffing position that compares to our papers in the South. But I want to say, this will not impact our news coverage in any way."
Halifax Media Group's other acquisitions include HarborPoint Media, Freedom Communications Florida and North Carolina, and former The New York Times Regional Newspaper Group. The T&G becomes the fourth-largest newspaper owned by Halifax Media Group, and the only one located in the Northeast. The T&G will become part of Halifax's south group, which includes similarly sized Florida papers located in Sarasota, Lakeland, Winter Haven, Gainesville, Ocala, and Daytona Beach.
Mr. Redding told T&G staffers in a newsroom meeting Monday that Halifax Media bought the paper, seeing it as similar to the 16 newspapers that were part of the New York Times regional group.
"The fact is, the T&G should have been part of this group to begin with," he said. "There are lots of similarities between those papers and this one."
Also appearing in the newsroom to answer employee questions was Jim Doughton, regional publisher of the south division of Halifax Media Group; Allen Parsons, retired publisher of the Ocala Star-Banner, and had most recently served as interim publisher of The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida; and Lori Catron, business development and corporate communications director for Halifax Media.
Mr. Parsons was named interim publisher of the T&G, replacing interim publisher James Hopson, who had led the paper as it was being sold by billionaire John Henry to Halifax Media.
The sale marked the third owner for the T&G in less than two years; it had been owned by the New York Times Co., then for a short time by Mr. Henry, and now Halifax Media.
"The sale of a property is a stressful time, and the paper has been through two in a short time," Mr. Redding said. "Despite that significant distraction, the quality of the news went all the way through (both sales). We noticed that."
The sale price of the T&G was not disclosed.
Mr. Redding said Halifax Media purchased the T&G because it has a bright future, and a lot of value.
"With the right leadership and the right strategy, it will be profitable," he said.
Mr. Redding was asked if Halifax Media Group is pursuing other newspaper sales in the northeast.
"If the opportunity presents itself, I'm sure we would," he said.
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