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Butler University is an independent university founded in 1855 and widely recognized for its dedication to teaching and research. A noted academic institution nestled in a residential area of Indianapolis, Butler's coeducational enrollment totals 4,667 students. Rooted in traditions of excellence, Butler's cultural and civic impact is considerable.
Students from nearly every state and 52 foreign countries make up the undergraduate and graduate and student body. The University has six degree-granting colleges-Liberal Arts and Sciences, Education, Communication, Business Administration, Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and Fine Arts. The 244 fulltime instructional faculty members allow an undergraduate student-faculty ratio of 11-to-1.
Butler University is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Counseling and Consultation Services (CCS) is administratively responsible to the Dean of Student Services and the Vice President for Student Affairs. CCS is the only agency on campus offering clinical services to the undergraduate and graduate student body. CCS is accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services. Although clients present with varying degrees of severity, from adjustment issues to mood disorders and characterological issues, CCS staff strive to address these concerns within a developmental framework. While many cases are undeniably complex, we value efforts to avoid pathologizing client behavior and to focus instead on client resources and strengths as they negotiate this challenging phase of life.
The most frequent presenting concerns of our clients are anxiety, depression, relationships, family issues and eating disorders. Other common therapeutic issues include stress management, substance abuse, trauma recovery, grief and loss and academic concerns. CCS is located within the Health and Recreation Complex on campus. Each intern office is equipped with digital videotaping equipment and a computer. The center currently has no fee for service and operates primarily within a short-term model, although interns have the option to see clients longer-term if clinically indicated.
During the hours of operation, CCS has at least one clerical/support staff who answers phone calls, handles scheduling appointments, greets clients, and handles the collection of basic client information. This person is also available to help interns fax documents, prepare documents to be sent, make copies, and perform other clerical tasks as needed. Technical support for the interns is provided by Butler's Information Technology department, which can be accessed by phone or in person by interns for computer assistance.
Aspire Indiana is a not-for-profit comprehensive mental health center with several offices located throughout central Indiana. Aspire Indiana offers an array of services including adult outpatient counseling services, child and adolescent counseling and case management services, 24 hour crisis services, drug and alcohol services, community support, and residential and employment services for chronically mentally ill clients. Aspire Indiana currently serves over 600,000 persons in Madison, Hamilton, Boone and northern Marion Counties.
Doctoral Psychology Interns primarily work at Aspire Indiana outpatient clinics. Outpatient clinics are multidisciplinary service units, and during their hours of operation, there are one or more clerical/support staff present to greet consumers, answer phone calls, help with scheduling appointments, and distribute/collect basic client information forms. Additionally, Aspire Indiana has an access office that is primarily dedicated to coordinating/scheduling new appointments across all service locations. Aspire also has an Information Technology (IT) department that provides interns with assistance/troubleshooting associated with computing resources (email, use of the electronic medical record, etc.)
Aspire Indiana is the result of a recent merger between two Indiana mental health agencies, BehaviorCorp and The Center for Mental Health. The staff is composed of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses and other mental health professionals. There are several outpatient offices throughout Indianapolis and the surrounding area. Interns are typically assigned to the Willowbrook and Carmel sites which both provide a wide array of clinical experiences for interns. The Carmel office is located approximately 30 minutes north of the Butler campus, whereas the Willowbrook office is located approximately 15 minutes east of Butler. For more information, you can access Aspire Indiana's website at http://www.aspireindiana.org/.
The IU Health Charis Center's mission is to provide eating disorders prevention, early intervention, and treatment for the community at large and for patients and their families. Located on the west side of Indianapolis, the IU Health Charis Center offers a comprehensive approach to treatment including medical, psychological, and nutritional services for patients. Services are provided in outpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization settings for children, adolescents, and adults with eating disorders. The IU Health Charis Center provides the only partial hospitalization program for eating disorders in the state of Indiana. The IU Health Charis Center serves patients in Indiana and the surrounding states. The Charis Center is part of Riley Hospital for Children, and members of the clinical treatment team hold faculty appointments with the Indiana University School of Medicine. A multidisciplinary treatment focus is utilized in the treatment of eating disorders. The IU Health Charis Center treatment team is comprised of medical doctors specializing in adolescent medicine, internal medicine, and psychiatry as well as psychologists, dietitians, master's level therapists, and an art therapist.
All of the doctoral psychology intern duties are performed within this team, and they have access and utilize the same clerical and technical support as other staff members. There are 2 clerical/support staff who greet patients, schedule appointments, and manage client information forms. The IU Health Charis Center for Eating Disorders is located within the larger IU Health System. The IU Health System Information Technology Department provides the interns with assistance on all computer needs (network access, email, database access, etc.). For more information, you can access the IU Health Charis Center website at http://iuhealth.org/methodist/behavioral-health/charis-center-for-eating-disorders.
Indianapolis is a dynamic city offering a variety of cultural and recreational opportunities. Professional basketball and football teams provide seasonal excitement at Conseco Fieldhouse and Lucas Oil Stadium. Residents enjoy a wide variety of restaurants, concerts and entertainment throughout the community. Cultural facilities abound, notably Clowes Memorial Hall, a 2,200-seat performance facility on the Butler campus; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the seventh largest in the country, just a few blocks from Butler; the Indiana Repertory Theater; the Children's Museum, the largest of its kind in the United States; the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Klipsch Music Center.
The cost of living is reasonable in comparison to other cities of this size. Residential areas surround Butler University, Aspire, and Charis Center, making housing within convenient driving distance a definite option. The city also offers a number of employment opportunities for psychologists in both the private and public sectors.


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San Marin, BASKETBALL, FRESHMAN
What she did: The Mustangs point guard, who is the the team's leading scorer (11.7 points per game), had a quiet game Tuesday in a victory over Branson with three points, five rebounds, four assists and four steals before piling up the points on Thursday and Saturday. Against Redwood, she had 21 of San Marin's 34 points, then followed Saturday by scoring 15 points in a victory over Drake. For the week, she finished with 39 points, 21 rebounds, 10 steals and seven assists as San Marin (16-8, 7-5) won two of three games.
What she said: "I didn't think I was going to make it this far as a freshman," she said of making the varsity. "I didn't think I would fit in" because of her youth. "But it's a lot of fun. There's a little pressure, but I'm comfortable with it. I like how we're playing and I like the team."
What's next: When the high school season ends, she won't have much of a break from basketball before rejoining the Strictly Hoops club program, where she hopes to play on the Elite-level team this spring. Her ambition is to play against the best players in the Bay Area to push her own game to a higher level.
Off the court: With the goal of playing college basketball after she graduates from San Marin, she says she has gotten even more focused on her class work, which along with basketball takes up much of her time. She does, however, find time to watch movies. Included on her favorites list are "Coach Carter" and "Love and Basketball."
Trivial matter: Before focusing strictly on basketball, she spent three years playing youth football, where she was a running back and receiver from age 8 to 11. "They thought it was kind of cool," she said of her teammates' reaction to having a girl on the team. "But I couldn't play when I got older."
Coach Dan Lucia: "She's meant the world for us from the standpoint that she's made us a contender in this league, and not only for a playoff spot. I think we can beat anybody and she's a big reason for that at the point. She can control games, she can score, she can rebound really well so she's just a real good talent that I think is going to be a very good player. She is now and we think she'll continue to get better."
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The Pitch Season 2, Episode Three: Status Chart — A New Kind of Resume
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Twenty New York startups are competing to be featured in the second season of our web series The Pitch. But only 10 will move on for a chance to pitch investors–Steve Schlafman of Lerer Ventures and Nikhil Kalghatgi of SoftBank Capital–and win funding for their idea. And you get to decide!
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Airbnb Is a Belieber Early this week, CEO Brian Chesky tweeted out a photo of Justin Bieber, whose startup cred apparently extends to Airbnb renter. The Instagram shot was taken by Mazy Kazerooni, cofounder of #DominateFund, Ben Parr's still hush-hush, celebrity-focused micro-VC. Gee, wonder who their LPs are?
Friday flashback This week the revamped Digg got an unexpected celebrity thumbs-up: Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit fame (infamy?) tweeted at developer Robert Tolar Haining, "I love Digg. Great job and beautiful interface." "Why thank you sir!" Mr. Haining replied, because what else are you going to say when Fred Durst compliments your UI? Read More


text: Banker Update: Subcommittee Clears Reg Relief, Takes No Action on ILCs The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit this week approved H.R. 1375, the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act. However, no action was taken to modify or remove a controversial provision in the bill that could allow commercial firms like Wal-Mart to purchase an industrial loan company (ILC) or industrial bank and open branches providing deposit and loan services in all 50 states. The bill was introduced by Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and contains a number of items requested by the banking agencies, as well as provisions helpful to thrifts and credit unions. There is little in the bill for community banks. One of the so-called "banking provisions" would remove the authority from the states to determine whether or not to allow de novo interstate branching, permitting institutions to open de novo branches across state lines irrespective of whether or not the laws of the host state allows it. Unfortunately, this provision also would allow ILCs to branch de novo into new states, opening the door for a company like Wal-Mart to purchase an ILC and use this new authority to put branches in each of its retail locations nationwide. This would breach the banking and commerce wall, undermining the long-standing policy that prohibits mixing banking and commerce as reaffirmed in the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act. In a letter to congressional leaders, ICBA President & CEO Ken Guenther wrote: "We believe states should be free to continue to make decisions regarding de novo interstate branching, because they know best what the banking structure in their state should be. This is even more critical in light of the threat to the separation of banking and commerce posed by the ILC charter." The ICBA Executive Committee voted to oppose the reg relief bill if the ILC issue is not addressed. The next step for this bill is full committee markup, which will occur sometime after the April 14-25 Spring recess. House Members will be in their home districts during this period. Please use this opportunity to lobby your representative on this critical issue. Wal-Mart on two separate occasions has tried to use "loopholes" to enter the financial services arena. Both times they were thwarted-once by a change in federal law and once by a change in state law. The ILC issue represents yet another loophole for Wal-Mart, and any other commercial firm, to exploit. It, too, must be closed. Remind your representative what Wal-Mart did to local hardware, toy and grocery stores. Given the opportunity, they could do the same thing to community banks, diverting deposits and lendable funds out of local communities. If your representative is on the House Financial Services Committee, urge him/her to support any amendment to close this loophole by striking or amending Section 401 of the reg relief act. If your representative is not on the HFSC, alert him/her to watch for this issue on the House floor. Members of Congress are much more accessible in their home districts than they are in Washington, where floor votes and committee meetings occupy much of their day. Please don't miss out on this opportunity. Call the district office nearest you and ask for an appointment. Grass roots helped produce the overwhelming 411-11 vote on deposit insurance reform. Grass roots can help produce victory on the ILC issue as well. Thank you in advance for your efforts. |


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LOS ANGELES — Years of trying to do too many things with too little money have put NASA at risk of ceding leadership in space exploration to other nations, according to a new report that calls on the space agency to make some decisions about its long-term strategy.
As other countries — including potential adversaries — are investing heavily in space, federal funding for NASA is essentially flat and is under constant threat of being cut.
Without a clear vision, that uncertainty makes it all the more difficult for the agency to make progress on goals such as sending astronauts to an asteroid or Mars while executing big-ticket science missions, such as the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, says the analysis released Wednesday by the National Research Council.
"These problems are not primarily of NASA's doing, but the agency could craft a better response to the uncertainty," wrote the report's authors, a group of 12 independent experts led by Albert Carnesale, former chancellor at UCLA.
"If the United States is to continue to maintain international leadership in space, it must have a steady, bold, scientifically justifiable space program in which other countries want to participate, and, moreover, it must behave as a reliable partner."
The report, commissioned by NASA at the behest of Congress, said the agency lacked a long-range agenda that enjoyed widespread support from government and the public. The authors also made plain that many of the problems boil down to money.
"NASA cannot execute a robust, balanced aeronautics and space program given the current budget constraints," the report warns. "There is a significant mismatch between the programs to which NASA is committed and the budgets that have been provided or anticipated."
To address the "mismatch," the report committee laid out four options for getting NASA's goals in line with its resources. It acknowledged that the most appealing plan — getting more money from Congress — was unlikely.
Other possibilities include relying more on partnerships with other countries and private companies; undertaking an "aggressive restructuring program" that eliminates jobs and facilities; or giving up one of its main focus areas, such as the astronaut program or its studies of deep space.
The authors did not weigh in on which course NASA should choose. But they emphasized that Congress and the Obama administration couldn't afford to ignore an uncomfortable truth: "NASA's distribution of resources may be out of sync with what it can achieve relative to what it has been asked to do."
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Mage v. Warlock going to a higher level in WotLK
Hmmm. Little concrete information, but this is one of the few times that a Blizz dev has openly acknowledged just how powerful certain classes are in relation to others. While they've made no secret of the fact that they don't balance PvP around 1v1 battles, and admitted at BlizzCon that warlocks are essentially the best dueling class, it's still unusual to see official commentary on specific class rivalries.
And, let's face it, the Mage versus Warlock smackdown is practically the stuff of legend. With these tidbits appearing on the forums about class and talent changes in Wrath, keep checking back; we're likely to hear about more of these soon.
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Greetings friends and fans,I am very pleased and honored to have been asked to compose a piece for the purpose of promoting the noble efforts of my friend
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- Founder and father of Aikido. Samura Spain, devotes himself to the noble cause of instilling these tenets in the hearts and minds of all with whom he crosses paths, though specifically he is famed for his tremendous success with the innocence of youth. His success in helping to instill the foundation elements of Aikido, "The Way of Harmonious Spirit" are widely praised and respected throughout the world, and his efforts are key to helping to spread these ideals to the new generations of our youth, that they may grow and flourish throughout humanity for time immemorial as O'Sensei, 'The Great Teacher' would wish it. It is a cause that is most worthy of support and one which promises rich rewards for all who embrace it.Together; Samura Spain, and all of the children of O'Sensei strive to make this world a better place. In respect of this great work, I am hard pressed to imagine a better way to effect the changes we so desperately need to embrace one another in peace and love, the very foundations of these philosophies.Please visit the links I have provided to Samura Spain's pages, bear witness to the nobility of this cause, and share in the enrichment of his life's work.A video release to compliment this composition is currently in production, and should be unveiled soon. Thank you for your consideration and support! By purchasing a copy of this production, (at just $1.29) 100% of the proceeds will be split between supporting the efforts of Samura Spain's teachings, and my own effort in supporting the
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Nightmare House 2 is a free, horror-themed first person shooter modification, and the direct successor of "Nightmare House".
The story resumes with the player lost and confused in a hospital known as "Never Lose Hope". With no understanding of how you came to be there, there's only a vague memory of the mysterious, haunting girl from Nightmare House. Soon it will be difficult to determine between a dream and reality. How long will it take you to realize that escape is not an option?
- Title: Nightmare House 2
- File Name: hl2-ep2-sp-nightmare-house-2.7z
- Size : 243.15MB
- Author: We Create Stuff
- Date Released: 22 August 2010
Download to your HDD [243.1MB]
- Copy the NH2 folder into your SourceMods folder.
- Restart or start Steam.
- Nightmare House 2 should now be listed in your Library tab.
If you require more help, please visit the Help page.
The mod features extensive use of Easter Eggs and an unofficial list can be found on this Face Punch thread.
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For starters, sorry for my poor English.
Everything below is my personal "gamer opinion".
First of all this mod is constant rip-off. You could name exactly every game which is quoted there. F.E.A.R., Condemned, Silent Hill etc, etc. Have you played them through? If your answer is yes, well… you'll be bored with direct quotes – in scares, I mean. Oh, did I mention they are repetitive?
And second thing — the script. Personally I had a feeling it existed just to tie up the whole box of quotes. It could be way better and original.
Overall 5 of 5 for level design and technical stuff, 3 of 5 for gameplay and script.P.S. Find good script writer and game designer and you could create a bomb, guys! Just don't stop!
P.P.S. Right now, horror fans should wait for Cry of Fear, upcoming mod from Rumpel, creator of Afraid of monsters DC.-
It's hardly a rip-off when the mod is free and no one benefits. I think you mean "homage'.
Whatever, you still got the point
I thought the good horror, the subtle stuff came AFTER where phillip got up to.
Im talking about the shadow people, the SWAT guys turning into skeletons and the mannequins.
The mannequins in particular were excellent.I also liked The bit with the coridor that got smaller and smaller, then when it was as close as possible….you look up and she's right above you
The spoiler tags never worked for me, lets hope they do this time.
All in all, yeah the combat isn't great, detail in some areas is sparse, but if you're looking for a horror game, this is number one on the list.
First of all I'm not going to "pick this apart" What's the point?? I finished this up (with lots and lots of quicksaves) the other nite, this was only played with lights out, I have a backlit gamming keyboard so the "effect" was great!! The battle was just right for me, the not knowing where you are scenes that reminded me of the 60's (hehe) The reference in the game to F.E.A.R and Silent Hill were great!! A nice touch was the author included "Nightmare House 1″ that rolled into "Nightmare House 2″!! I love this type of mod/game, Nice and scary! All in all a personal favorite for me, and a must replay! But hey what do I know, I'm just an old man!! (64)
looks great. I awoke after wrecking my truck, I find the house. but find nothing to break the celler door. any hints.
Look fo an axe!!!
thanks I shall look for a axe. any hints on near where? I walked around in the woods and could not find a thing.
Turn up the brightness in the menu.Otherwise you may not see the other structure.
As for the MOD I give it personal fave for horror mods.It was great.Only time I needed to make a save was the Boss ending as I didnt know how to kill it.Once I figured that out out it easy sailing.I played it in the afternoon and still had a few parts make me jump.
If I could give this mod 3 or 4 Personal Faves, I would. I actually think it IS the best mod of the year, bar none.
The suspense and shock-value moments of this mod are way beyond what I'd expect out of a typical half life story, which is nice, because even if it's not a "standard" mod designed around hl2, it's utilizing the Source engine and many textures in unique and very clever ways.
Had me leaping out of my seat several times, but always with the intent to get past whatever scare was there.
The easter eggs are AMAZING and EVERYWHERE.
All in all I'm kind of disappointed that folks don't think more strongly about this being in the running for best mod here. I seriously doubt we'll be seeing much better than this, from anyone, this year anyway.
I've never played, and probably won't be able to afford to play FEAR or STALKER or whatever else I'm missing .'s out of, though I did play Bioshock and the most scary bits in that were BLOWN AWAY by the same ideas in this mod for me.
The technical genius that Hen shows in manipulating visuals, spaces and mood really deserve the kudos. He's just the best, honest and for true…
The positives outweigh the negatives for this mod. It is well done and as good as some commercial games I have played.
I have played F.E.A.R and it wasn't as good as or atmospheric as this mod.
Right now it is my favourite mod.
@planetphillip: I would strongly recommend finishing the rest of the mod.
My only complaint was that it went on too long before the story started to progress and that's around Chapter 5 or so. Even then, it's on a curve but I think it's well worth it.
I'm only a moderate fan of horror games, mostly because most of the tricks don't scare me. This one, well I think it works a lot better than most and is clever in so many places. Are the kinds of scares repetitive? I guess so and if I'd focused on that I'd have probably lost my suspension of disbelief too much. If that's what happened for you, I could see where you ended up with it.
Still, I think you may find the ending satisfying.
This blew me away more than a hundred single-player Antion-centric maps ever could.
I see a lot of concerns about this mod and its originality… and to me I welcomed the cheeky play on AAA titles and AAA horror games like FEAR. Like I said on Podcast 17 this mod doesn't take itself seriously in all the right areas… for example the ending battle – it was cliche and corny… just like every other horror mod.
Sometimes I like to just sit down and play something I'm familiar with… I don't always want anything too off the wall or too experimental. In the Half-life community when someone does a AAA rip-off… they usually come out bland or boring. I think NH2 did a great job keeping itself unique while still holding true to common gameplay mechanics.
I'm a little shocked phillip that you thought this mod was so repetitive… I felt every chapter had it's own theme and there was a nice ballance between the action chapters (with the SWAT) and the freak chapters (where the SWAT basically abandons you).
I'm also a little disappointed that you labelled it an ALT mod thereby baring it from any nominations for this years awards, but I understand your restrictions.
Either way – for me this mod was excellently produced – I was a little shocked by your review, but like you said… horror mods are not your genre.
I LOVED THE GAME! It Freaked me out everywhere I went! Such a super good Horror mod! I'd Say this game should be a OFFICIAL Game, Maybe should be a free mod at the STORE! This game is so fun! I suggest you should play it!
Whilst I can see why Phillip would have made the decision to stick NH2 in Alt. Mods, it's a great shame that this is not included in the running for Mod Of The Year, as it's absolutely awesome. OK, so it's not obviously set in the Half-Life universe crawling with Combine, antlions and headcrabs, but I only hope he relents in his policy decision to keep it out in the cold, because it's right up there with Minerva: Metastasis, Mission Improbable, and Research And Development for its design, gameplay, and sheer inventiveness.
Yes – sometimes it's difficult to play because you're heart's thumping, and your entire being wants to quit playing and run away. It's a natural "fight-or-flight" response, and one which the game authors (who really should be working for Valve or a movie studio) have designed the gameplay to generate – it's a horror mod – Get over it!
Yes, sometimes the effects are sometimes repetitive and over-done (flickering corridor lights, doors locking whilst an effect takes place, torch refusing to stay on so you've got no idea where you are), but some of the fresh ideas for creepy ideas to keep the adrenaline pumping easily outweigh the negatives.The mannequins and the missing SWAT guy, the SWAT team mysteriously transforming into skeletons whilst you're in the vent and then back, and the ever-compressing corridor with Emily making a surprise appearance at the end, were just some of the ideas which, although they may have been done elsewhere, were new to me, and I loved them. Full marks to the We Create Stuff team for being so imaginative in getting me to "wasn't-expecting-that" jump clean off my seat at least a couple of times…
I can only recommend you download this and stick it out 'til the end. as it's worth it, and all of a sudden the general cut scene weirdness and terror will all make sense. Storytelling at its best.
Personally, having had to play this mod in twenty-minute sessions (as I couldn't take being creeped-out for much longer), I'm going to keep this top of my personal favourites list.
Still working my way through it, but it is definitely a great mod and very scary. Very enjoyable.
Fantastic! Loved almost every minute of this
The pacing is great with a good mix of squad based fighting and corridor crawling.
There were some issues I had with the mod however:
Some of the tongue in cheek writing could have been left out as it takes you takes you out of the game in a bad way. Just my personal preference though.
Also the story was so derivative I couldn't really get into it(although even having a story is rare in mods these days so this is a minor quibble)The set pieces and script work are the real highlight of this mod. I was very rarely "scared" since I'm fairly jaded but there were so many moments in this map that had me grinning ear to ear with how clever and inventive they were The missing swat guy and mannequin scenes for example . I could go on but any fan of fun inventive and extremely well produced mods need to download this now. This was obviously a labor of passion and love for the makers and it shows through in almost every aspect.
Well, I thought it was brilliant, played it yesterday in one go…took me a while to spot how to win the end battle…but good, really good.
Well I liked it….
* Play it now * -
Honestly I have to say that this mod was a HUGE letdown. NH1 is one of my favorite mods of all time, it is one of very very few that I have replayed SEVERAL times. NH1 truly scared the everliving crap out of me and had a few puzzlish parts that confused me. NH2 seems like a big-budget Uwe Bolls capitalization on the success of the first. The mod is completely transformed from a horror adventure to an action-FPS. It is no longer scary, only a small few moments made me jump. The idea for the setting was good and the level design clean but the implementation poor: it lacked atmosphere I felt. That type of location should do very well for horror but it felt so safe!
Last but not least was the ending, it was interesting, story wise, but there was sort of this massive explosion of story that should have weaved more through the mod. Everything was explained all at once, and had that quality that bad sci-fi has where the writers attempt to squeeze fifteen paragraphs of information into a few sentences. Not to mention the voice acting at the end was goofy, as was the contraption. The whole ending had a feeling of disjointed sillyness to it, it was as different from the rest of NH2 as NH2 was different from NH1. Plus the game mechanic was a bit confusing and had frustrating quirks that made if very difficult at times. I died dozens of times trying to beat it.
All that said the mod is well made and stands better on it's own. If it was not the sequel to NH and I did not know it was made by the same person/team I would have enjoyed it more. The first Nightmare House was a MASTERPIECE, but this, this is average.
Horror! wow and wow!
Wenn ich Nightmare House starte,
folgt eine Ladebalken und dann stürzt das Spiel ab.
Half Life 2.exe reagiert nicht mehr und steam support aantwortet nicht.
Gruß Jürgen.


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Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant will undergo surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder, the team said Monday. A timetable for his recovery won't be known until after the procedure.
The Lakers said the surgery will take place Wednesday. ESPN reported on Friday that Bryant is expected to miss the remainder of the season.
"Now we know Kobe is probably not going to play [the rest of the year]," Lakers coach Byron Scott said at practice Monday.
It would be the third consecutive season-ending injury for the 36-year-old Bryant, a five-time NBA champion and former league MVP, raising more questions about his future. The 19-year veteran has one year remaining on his contract with the Lakers, during which he is set to be paid $25 million.
After taking the weekend to mull his options after Lakers team doctor Steven Lombardo found a significant tear in his right shoulder, Bryant met Monday with Dr. Neal ElAttrache, another Lakers doctor, who advised Bryant should have the surgery.
Bryant suffered the injury during last week's loss to the New Orleans Pelicans, though sources told ESPN on Friday that he has been dealing with the injury since the preseason.
He played just six games last season as he recovered from Achilles and knee injuries, meaning he's missed 75 percent of the Lakers' games over the past two seasons.
Bryant played 35 games with the Lakers this season, averaging 22.3 points -- almost three points below his career average -- over 34.5 minutes per game. He shot only 37.3 percent from the field, the worst percentage in the last 50 seasons for any player averaging at least 20 points per game.
He also was averaging 5.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists for the Lakers, who are 12-33 and ahead of only Minnesota in the Western Conference standings.
Kobe Bryant has long idolized Michael Jordan, the player to whom he has been compared throughout his career. Years ago, he had plans to play alongside his mentor.
According to a Washington Post report on Monday, Bryant more than a decade ago wanted to leave the Los Angeles Lakers and play for Washington Wizards, where Jordan was winding down his career.
"That's true," Bryant told the Post. "A long time ago? Yeah."
Said Bryant, "I've always been very big on having mentors, on having muses, and I've been really, really big on that, being around guys who have done it before and done it at a high level and always tried to pick their brains and always tried to absorb knowledge. Obviously, being in that situation [with the Wizards], it would've helped having to be around him every day and so on."
McHale on Kobe: 'It happens to everybody'
But McHale didn't seem so sure the 36-year-old Bryant would be able to rebound from another potential season-ending injury, this time a torn rotator cuff in Bryant's right shoulder suffered last week in a loss at New Orleans.
"Eventually, this catches up to you, man," McHale said Sunday before the Rockets beat the Lakers 99-87 at Staples Center. "Kobe's a great player, but I've seen other great players. When your time's up, your time's up, man. It's too bad, but it happens to everybody.
"I wish him all the best. I've always admired him. I think he's a hell of a competitor, but everything comes to an end. In my case, my body just said, 'You weren't playing anymore,' and I said, 'OK.' "
Bryant was expected to decide as early as Monday whether to have shoulder surgery. If it causes him to miss the rest of the season, it will mark his third straight season ended early by injuries. Achilles and knee injuries ended his previous two seasons prematurely.
After benching, Lin just happy to play again
"I'm thankful I played," the Los Angeles Lakers reserve point guard said Sunday after a 99-87 loss to the Houston Rockets at Staples Center.
"A DNP will change your perspective on things."
Lin was referring to Friday, when he was a DNP-CD (did not play - coach's decision) in a road loss to the San Antonio Spurs, his first healthy scratch since Feb. 2, 2012, even before "Linsanity."
Both before the game and after, Lin reflected on his roller-coaster season and more.
"In terms of my career, the only thing that's really been consistent is the amount of inconsistency that I've had in my life," Lin said. "I've gone from getting cut to the D-League to starting to playing heavy minutes -- a different role every week, it seems like. I've just got to keep trying to stay aggressive when I get out there -- if I get out there."
His healthy scratch in San Antonio was disheartening, of course.
"I'm human," he said. "I've got emotions, too. I show up and do my best to play and work hard and stuff, but it definitely hurts. It's discouraging sometimes. It's disappointing. All those emotions."
Lin and Lakers coach Byron Scott chatted Sunday morning about Lin's role, and it was the same message Scott has said all season: He wants consistency.
"The effort has been great," Scott said. "That hasn't been a problem with Jeremy. It's just a matter of being consistent each and every night, trying to get into a flow each and every night. That's what we talked about again today."
Lin has gone up and down more than an elevator since joining the Lakers.
He has been a constant target of praise and criticism from Scott and Kobe Bryant.
He has been moved from the starting unit to the bench.
He has gone from second-string point guard to third-string point guard, behind Ronnie Price and rookie Jordan Clarkson
And he has gone from playing heavy minutes to not playing at all, such as Friday.
"The only thing that you can really get used to is the fact that you don't know what's coming next," Lin said. "That's kind of been true this whole season."
None of it is fun, mind you, and Lin hasn't looked happy much if at all this season, even though he has done his best to present himself as upbeat.
Is Lin trying to use his minutes to make his case that he deserves more?
"No, we've been down this road before," he said with a laugh. "[Sunday night], I was just enjoying the game."
He repeated that message a few times.
"I was out there having fun just attacking and really just enjoying the experience of getting to play team basketball -- try to get everybody involved and do the best we can," he said. "It was fun. Losing is not fun, but just playing again is fun."
And that's what the season has been reduced to for Jeremy Lin.
He's just trying to have fun in a situation, and in a season, that is anything but fun.
Nick Young benched, avoids media
LOS ANGELES -- Nick Young was a no-show in the second half for the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday at Staples Center, benched by coach Byron Scott after struggling in the first half.
The Lakers' reserve guard was then a no-show after the Lakers' 99-87 loss to Houston, leaving without speaking to reporters after going scoreless for the first time for the Lakers in eight minutes of playing time -- his fewest as a Laker.
It was an unusual move for the jovial Young in avoiding the media after the game, as "Swaggy P" relishes the chance to provide colorful quotes.
Either way, Scott said he wasn't happy with Young's effort.
"It looked to me that he didn't want to be here," Scott said.
"At halftime, we showed stuff on the tape where he was guarding [Houston swingman Corey] Brewer in the corner. I asked [Young], 'What were you thinking on his play?' The answer he gave me, I couldn't figure it out. So I just felt with his body language that he didn't want to play tonight, so I chose not to play him."
The Lakers are scheduled to practice Monday, when Young will likely be available to address his benching.
James Harden gets 37, Rockets rout spiraling Lakers 99-87
LOS ANGELES -- James Harden had 37 points and eight rebounds, and the Houston Rockets rolled to a 99-87 victory over the Lakers on Sunday night, sending Los Angeles to its eighth straight defeat.
Harden hit four 3-pointers, and the NBA's leading scorer added five assists in the Rockets' third victory in four games.
Josh Smith and Jason Terry had 11 points apiece as Houston cruised to its fourth straight road victory over the Lakers even without Dwight Howard, who sat out after injuring his right ankle two days ago.
Carlos Boozer scored 18 points for the Lakers, who are on their longest losing streak in nearly 10 years.
The Lakers weren't terribly competitive until the fourth quarter of their latest game without Kobe Bryant, who could be out for the season.
Rockets 99, Lakers 87: 8 straight losses
Yes, Staples Center offered pretty much nothing worth watching Sunday night in a 99-87 victory by the Houston Rockets. Even Rockets fans probably tuned out after their team had doubled up the Los Angeles Lakers after the first quarter (30-15).
Then again, even the Rockets looked bored most of the night, just watching and waiting for the seconds to tick away in a game that they led by as many as 25 points.
The Lakers suffered their season-high eighth straight loss, their longest skid since they dropped eight in a row from March 14 to 27 in 2005. They sit at 12-33.
Bryant was absent with a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder, and Howard was out with a sprained ankle, which meant no scuffles between the ex-teammates who had a sour relationship at best.
Player of the game: L.A. native James Harden barbecued the Lakers, though some of his shots were more well-contested during pregame warm-ups than in the actual game. The Rockets' star guard finished with 37 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, and though he technically broke a sweat, it seemed like he wasn't trying that hard all night.
Lin in action: Jeremy Lin came off the bench in the first quarter, his first action after receiving a DNP-CD (did not play -- coach's decision) Friday at San Antonio, his first healthy scratch since Feb. 2, 2012. He finished with 14 points on 2-of-9 shooting to go along with six assists in 28 minutes.
Swaggy P in the doghouse: Lakers coach Byron Scott benched Nick Young in the second half. Young played just nine scoreless minutes all told, missing both of his field goal attempts.
Lone bright spot: Carlos Boozer provided 18 points and 11 rebounds off the bench for the Lakers. There wasn't much else that the Lakers did worth mentioning.
Video: Kobe getting his shoulder examined
Bryant met with team doctor Steven Lombardo in Los Angeles on Friday. The Players' Tribune has the video from the visit, where Bryant was told, "It's torn, and it's pulled off the bone."
Exclusive Video: @kobebryant gets a diagnosis on his injured shoulder. http://t.co/KPDF63QB6S pic.twitter.com/f9a0FIna9E
— The Players' Tribune (@PlayersTribune) January 24, 2015
Lakers didn't treat aging superstar properly
SAN ANTONIO -- Kobe Bryant might have said it at a practice or a game, and he might have said it a month ago, or maybe longer. Byron Scott doesn't quite remember.
What the Lakers coach does remember is his star guard saying that his shoulder was bothering him.
"You all right?" Scott said he asked Bryant.
"I'm all right," Bryant replied.
The two never talked about the issue again, Scott said.
Then Wednesday, in a loss to the New Orleans Pelicans, Bryant tore the rotator cuff in his right shoulder, an injury that will likely sideline him for the rest of the season, though a final decision on that will be made early next week, likely Monday.
But Friday, before the Lakers' 99-85 loss to the San Antonio Spurs here, Scott recounted two rather serious missteps regarding Bryant's health that Scott said could very well be tied to Bryant's latest ailment.
The first issue is well known: Scott simply played the 36-year old Bryant way too many minutes earlier this season -- a team-high 35.4 per night during the team's first 27 games -- even though he said Bryant asked to play fewer minutes from the start.
Scott said he apologized to Bryant via text.
"His response was like, 'No, that ain't it,'" Scott said. "He tried to make me feel better."
Then Scott discussed Bryant's nagging shoulder issue, which hadn't been made public, and they brought it up again this week after Bryant appeared to tear his rotator cuff on what seemed to be a no-frills baseline dunk against the Pelicans.
"You remember when I said it?" Bryant said, according to Scott.
"Yeah, I remember," Scott said.
"I think it was kind of hurting then and I just re-aggravated it on a much higher level," Bryant replied.
Bryant has played through numerous injuries and said so again Wednesday.
"I've played on a torn labrum before," he said. "I'm not too concerned about it."
Bryant also basically played with just his left hand after suffering the injury Wednesday but said that wasn't unusual. He said that he had played entire games left-handed before too, in 2003, 2004 and 2006 because of a separated shoulder.
But that was years ago. He's aged plenty in NBA years, put on many more NBA miles and suffered two recent major injuries (Achilles and knee). So much is different.
Yet Kobe is still Kobe.
He still believes he can overcome because, well, he always has, even against great odds. The people around him -- namely Scott -- believe the same. At times, though, everyone seems to forget that Kobe Bryant is, first and foremost, human.
The usual protocol for a nagging injury, Scott said, is for a player to go talk to the team's trainer, Gary Vitti. Does Scott know if Bryant ever did that? "I don't," Scott said.
In hindsight, these issues appear greatly troubling, because just as Bryant must treat every aspect of his health, training and diet so seriously at this age just so he can perform, so too must the Lakers, and especially Scott, be ever so cautious with him.
That's all the more true because Bryant is the Lakers' sole attraction during an awful season, the lone reason for fans to tune in or attend games, all they really have to look forward to until the draft lottery. From a business sense, Bryant is their cash cow -- their extremely well-paid cash cow -- and thus missteps are extremely costly.
Where does blame lie? Certainly some falls on Bryant. He's as powerful as any figure within the Lakers' organization and as powerful as any player within any NBA franchise. If he wanted to play fewer minutes, he could have. If he wanted to get his shoulder examined earlier, he could have. The only person who could've stopped Kobe was Kobe, but he didn't, because Kobe is Kobe. He believes he will overcome.
So the blame truly falls on Scott, who hasn't been shy about admitting his fault in the issue. And, to a greater degree, the blame truly falls on the entire organization for not stepping in at some point earlier on when Bryant was playing all those minutes.
If the Lakers wanted a good lesson in how to handle superstars late in their careers, they only needed to glance down the sideline Friday.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said he started resting Tim Duncan after winning the championship in 1999 "because the following year Timmy had a bad knee going into the playoffs. We had to make a decision."
Duncan was 23 years old at the time and had just played his second NBA season.
"The docs cleared him, he could probably play, but I didn't let him," Popovich said. "I held him out. I did that with the thought of wanting him to have as long of a career as he wanted to. I didn't want to take a chance to send him out there and do more damage to it. We had playoffs. So it started way back then."
Fast-forward to Friday, and Duncan, now 38, had 14 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks in 20 tidy minutes as the Spurs rolled to a double-digit win.
Scott has talked about the Spurs being the "blueprint" for how to properly rest players, and Popovich talked about that blueprint, the one the Lakers didn't follow.
"You have a long view in the sense that you think about it, you look at the schedule at the beginning of the year, that kind of thing," Popovich said. "Because it depends on how much people played in the last three days or last night and what's coming up in the schedule or who else is hurt or injured.
"It's never about wins or losses, it's not about that," Popovich said. "You don't overplay somebody to get the win. Sometimes you're in circumstances where it happens, like the two triple-overtimes we had. That really skewed things for us. I hated watching those guys play all those minutes, but I guess it would have been sweeter if we won. In general, it's a process and you talk about it daily and weekly."
The phrases "It's never about wins and losses" and "You don't overplay somebody to get the win" appear to be exactly what the Lakers didn't do with Bryant early on this season, even though this season was never headed anywhere to begin with.
Either way, Bryant is now hurt, likely gone for the season, facing yet another rehab, and it's not clear how this will affect what should be his final season in the NBA.
"Nobody wants to see that happen," said Spurs guard Manu Ginobili. "It sucks. The league needs him. He's one of the best players that ever played."
"When somebody like that of that stature goes down, it's not good for everybody, obviously for his team but for the league and you miss guys like Derrick Rose for instance, the last couple of years, or Kobe or anybody else like that," Popovich said.
"It's a loss for the league, for fans, for all of us. I can think of a lot of shots Kobe's made that's basically knocked us out, and in an odd, weird sort of way I still enjoy it. When you see a talent like that, when they don't play anymore then you say 'Wow, I got to see so and so play.' He's one of those kind of guys."
Spurs guard Tony Parker agreed.
"When I first came here, Spurs-Lakers, that's all we talked about," Parker said. "It was a huge rivalry, with him and Shaq. Those were great years.
"They always say good stuff has to have an end, but hopefully we can see him one more time next year and he'll be healthy and finish on a high."
Hopefully, that will be the case. Hopefully, Bryant can recover and go out on his own terms, whatever those may be. But considering he's now facing his third consecutive season-ending injury, a storybook ending may simply not be possible, even for someone with such an iron will as Kobe Bryant.
He'll have his five rings, but a graceful exit could elude him, and it's hard not to look back at this season and wonder why more wasn't done to help him achieve that.
SAN ANTONIO -- Tony Parker scored 17 points and the San Antonio Spurs never trailed in rolling to a 99-85 victory Friday night over a depleted Los Angeles Lakers team that potentially has lost Kobe Bryant for the season.
Kawhi Leonard had 15 points and 14 rebounds, Manu Ginobili scored 15 points and Tim Duncan added 14 points for San Antonio.
Nick Young scored 17 points to lead the Lakers, who lost their seventh straight. Rookie point guard Jordan Clarkson, a San Antonio native, had 11 points and four assists in his first career start.
Bryant tore his right rotator cuff Wednesday in New Orleans. The injury will be re-examined Monday before the Los Angeles Lakers decide whether the superstar guard needs potentially season-ending surgery.
Spurs 99, Lakers 85: No Kobe, inspiration
SAN ANTONIO -- Remember Dec. 23, versus Golden State? The Lakers blew out the team with the NBA's top record, and they did so without Kobe Bryant, creating plenty of chatter about whether they play better without their 36-year-old star, as many advanced statistics indicate.
Friday night wasn't like that. Sure, the Lakers were again playing against top competition, the defending champion Spurs, and they were again without Bryant, who likely won't play again this season after tearing the rotator cuff in his right shoulder this week.
But instead of playing inspired ball without their top attraction, as they did in December against the Warriors, the Lakers were simply bulldozed out of the AT&T Center, as they lost their season-high seventh straight game, dropping them to 12-32 this season.
Turning point: the Spurs led 9-0 from the start and by as much as 23 in the first half. The Lakers did cut the Spurs' lead to 10 early in the fourth quarter, but the Spurs reasserted themselves and put the Lakers away for good. The Lakers never led.
Player of the game: Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard scored 15 points on 6-of-12 shooting to go along with 14 rebounds. He didn't seem to be trying that hard either.
New starting lineup: Lakers coach Byron Scott trotted out Jordan Clarkson at point guard, Wayne Ellington at shooting guard, Ryan Kelly at small forward, Jordan Hill at power forward and Robert Sacre at center. Only one of those players scored in double figures: Clarkson, the rookie, who made his first NBA start in his hometown and finished with 11 points on 5-of-9 shooting in 29 minutes.
No love for Lin: For some reason, Scott decided not to play Jeremy Lin, who was healthy and available. It was a surprising move considering the game was such a blowout.
Top scorer: Nick Young led the Lakers with 17 points on 5-of-11 shooting off the bench.
The Los Angeles Lakers expect star Kobe Bryant to miss the remainder of the season with a torn rotator cuff, sources told ESPN's Ramona Shelburne.
Bryant met with team doctor Steven Lombardo in Los Angeles on Friday, and Lombardo found a significant tear in the rotator cuff in his right shoulder. Bryant is expected to take the weekend to decide whether to undergo surgery and has an appointment with Dr. Neal ElAttrache, another Lakers doctor, on Monday.
Bryant suffered the tear during the second half of Wednesday night's loss to New Orleans, though sources said he has been dealing with the injury since the preseason.
Lakers coach Byron Scott didn't hide his concern about Bryant's future before Friday's 99-85 loss to the Spurs.
"Yeah, I'm worried," Scott said. "We all in the organization are worried about it."
Bryant, who has one year remaining on his contract with the Lakers for $25 million, apparently aggravated the injury with 4:14 left in the third quarter against the Pelicans when he drove baseline for a two-handed dunk.
"It felt fine when I went up, didn't feel too good when I came down," Bryant said after the game.
The 19-year veteran grabbed his shoulder as he ran back down the court and checked out of the game a few minutes later.
Bryant checked back in with five minutes left in the fourth quarter and immediately favored his shoulder. He tried to rebound and dribble with his left hand, but it became clear something was wrong when he shot and made a turnaround 14-foot jumper with just his left hand.
"Obviously after I saw that everything he did was with the left hand, I knew then, let's get him out of there," Scott said after the game.
Bryant tweeted Friday about the injury.
Scott said Friday that he believed Bryant, who played just six games last season after recovering from Achilles and knee injuries, could rehab another injury if need be.
"This is one of the toughest guys I've ever been around as far as dealing with injuries and things like that and being able to come back," Scott said. "Everybody said he was done after the Achilles and he came back pretty strong.
"Knowing him the way I know him, I know he doesn't want to go out this way. I think he'll rehab it if that's the case and then we'll have to wait and see."
Bryant, who was voted in as a Western Conference All-Star starter
Kobe Bryant
Rebounds | J. Hill | 7.9 | ||||||||||
Assists | K. Bryant | 5.6 | ||||||||||
Steals | R. Price | 1.5 | ||||||||||
Blocks | E. Davis | 1.2 |


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Just look at it, a valley so beautiful Frank Capra used it to represent Shangri-La in his film Lost Horizon. No, forget Lost Horizon: the movie that comes to mind in Ojai today is Pleasantville, in which two kids get sucked into a fifties sitcom. Where else will you find a downtown where the locals actually hang out, an independent department store, fast-food restaurants that don't advertise on national television?Shops are staffed by well-adjusted youths; cars stop religiously for pedestrians. But in other ways, Ojai's been updated: there's a film society, a farmers' market (fresh fenugreek!), countless cafés offering soy milk, and something called a yogaversity. How's this for a perfect example of small-town trust?The night before the Fourth of July parade, everyone marks a place with a chair and leaves it there overnight.
Perfection on that level is dull, though, and Ojai (pronounced "oh-high," by the way) delivers on the quirky front, too. The Ojai Valley, you see, has long drawn people yearning to go deep. "The magnetic center of the earth is here," the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1878. "Spirit-minded people come to reach the God centers in themselves." A partial list of the groups that have called it home: Church of Tzaddi, Life Divine Center, Sufi Order, Vortex Institute, Science of the Mind, Siddha Yoga Dham, ECKANKAR, Church Universal and Triumphant, Sathya Sai Baba. On top of that, you have a layer of hippies and artists; ceramist Beatrice Wood—often called the Mama of Dada—lived in Ojai, where she was a follower of resident Jiddu Krishnamurti, thought by some to be the next messiah. Krishnamurti, with Aldous Huxley and others, founded the Happy Valley School here in 1946 (it's one of at least 20 private schools in the area). Then there's a thin layer of celebrity frosting. Anthony Hopkins, Bill Paxton, Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche all have houses here.
When I proposed to the editor of this magazine that I write a story on Ojai she smiled beatifically. She looked away or inside or somewhere but definitely not at me, and whispered, "Ojai." Then she paused. "I had such a wonderful bike ride there." Pause. Smile. Pause. I had to know: What is it about this town that blisses people out?
Way back when, the peaceful Chumash Indians ruled the valley; they were conquered by the Spanish, who were conquered by the Americans. By 1923, the town had been conquered by one Edward Libbey, a glass manufacturer from Toledo, Ohio. He first came in search of a winter retreat, and proceeded to commission the post office tower, the arcade of shops, the pergola, the Ojai Valley Inn, the El Roblar Hotel (now the Oaks, a spa), Civic Center Park (now Libbey Park), and several other buildings. "Without Libbey," says David Mason, florist and unofficial historian, "Ojai would just be another little Western town."
So why isn't the town called Libbey?Because it was originally named after Charles Nordhoff, a travel writer who toured California in 1871. His pied-piper prose brought so many tourists that valley residents were inspired to incorporate as Nordhoff. The name lasted until World War I, when Nordhoff sounded too German for comfort and was changed to Ojai, possibly a Chumash word for "the nest" or "moon," depending on whom you ask.
Local Hero, one of Ojai's three independent bookstores, becomes my preferred place for coffee breaks. "Be careful," says a clerk after I tell her my theory that this is heaven on earth. "You might have an accident like I did and end up staying. I came for a month and I've been here four years." I figure her for the town malcontent until she points out that it's a hard place to live if you're in your twenties, since 30 percent of the residents are retired.
That could suck. So I wait a full hour before deciding that I'm going to move here. I've got it all figured out. I'll take a year off, soak up the vibe, maybe work at Local Hero, and write a book not unlike John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Berendt stayed on the hardcover best-seller list for four years, and this place is so kooky I won't even have to fudge the truth the way he did. All I need is a drag queen and a murder.
I head over to the Krotona Institute of Theosophy to do some research. Krotona was founded by Albert Powell Warrington, a Virginia lawyer who thought Ojai was "impregnated with occult and psychic influences." This leads me to think about Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow, and that Vidal Sassoon haircut that was supposed to be a sign of her madness but instead made her look pretty darn chic. Suddenly, a bird flies into the picture window and stumbles off, dazed. A sign?But of what?
The main spiritual figure in Ojai history is Krishnamurti, who came to town in 1922 and died in 1986. Originally trained by the Theosophists, he never claimed to be a prophet, writing instead that "truth is a pathless land." If the photo on the wall is any indication, his resemblance to Tyrone Power might have inspired more than one follower.
The librarian, Lakshmi, comes over. I explain my quest to find out why Ojai makes people so happy. "I believe it was the Chumash's peaceful way of living that has brought us all here," she says.
"The Indians?" I say, forgetting that it's not kosher to call Native Americans "Indians," especially to someone from south Asia. I change the subject. "I'm hoping the weather holds," I say. "I want to see the pink moment." The pink moment, when the sun bounces off the mountains at dusk and bathes the valley in pink light, is a matter of intense local pride.
"We will pray," she says.


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I'm not going to offer any commentary on these quotations, I only want them to stimulate thought. For those who are interested in my own take on this issue, my theses on sexual identity and Christian ethics should give you a good idea.
The difference between members of a same-sex couple is not "merely psychological," but also an embodied difference, if only because sexual response is nothing if not something done bodily. Difference cannot be reduced to male-female complementarity, because that would leave Jesus a deficient human being. Jesus did not need a female other half to be fully human. (This point raises the issue of what singleness is for, but that's a question for another day.)
If this account is correct, then it turns out that conservatives wish to deprive same-sex couples not so much of satisfaction as of sanctification. But that is contradictory, because so far as I know no conservative has ever seriously argued that same-sex couples need sanctification any less than cross-sex couples do. It is at least contradictory to attempt in the name of holiness to deprive people of the means of their own sanctification,
Conservatives often claim it's dangerous to practice homosexuality, because it might be a sin. I want to propose that the danger runs both ways. It is more than contradictory, it may even be resisting the Spirit, to attempt to deprive same-sex couples of the discipline of marriage and not to celebrate same-sex weddings. I don't mean this kind of rhetoric to insult others or forestall discussion. I just mean that the danger of refusing to celebrate love is real.
The call of the gospel will make different demands on different persons because every individual carries his or her own set of biological or social baggage and has a unique role in God's overall redemptive plan. Was it Jesus' "bad luck" to be the Messiah and to have imposed on him the "added burden" of dying on the cross for the sins of the world? Paul had the "bad luck" of being called to a life of hardship that few, if any, followers of Jesus have had to face. Was it fair of God to impose on Paul the "added burden" of denying, on a daily basis, his basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, and protection from severe social abuse and violence, all for the cause of the gospel? Some persons have the "bad luck" of turning out to be exclusive pedophiles, or of having seemingly uncontrollable desires for multiple sex partners, or of growing up without the kind of stable family environment that nurtures a capacity for lifelong sexual commitment, or of finding sexual stimulation only in coercive sexual activity, or of having a strong disposition for alcoholism, or of being afflicted with a strong sense of insecurity and distrust that makes faith in Christ difficult, or of being far more susceptible to feelings of covetousness than most. On and on we could go. It is wrong to be callous to the particular sufferings that people experience as they "work at their own salvation with fear and trembling" amidst God's gracious work in them (Phil 2:12-13). But it is equally wrong to give the impression that one person's particular "bad luck"… justifies a circumvention of the gospel's call or to convey that a particular constellation of intense desires constitutes "who you are" and establishes an inviolable, God-given "destiny." A person who does not experience homoerotic desires may be beset by other types of sinful impulses that impose even greater burdens on an obedient Christian life. Yet no one gets an exemption as regards death to self, whatever the particularities of one's individual life experiences.
The hope of the gospel message is that our identity is not found in "who we are" in the flesh but rather in who God is shaping us to be in the Spirit of Christ. Any other message, including a message of moral-biological determinism, is a false gospel.
Both sides of the church find themselves sick of the other side's lies. The affirming church looks at the lies of the traditionalist church with its modernist "fix- it" techniques of orientation change, marrying the opposite sex, or the claim that homosexuals have a special "superpower" called "the gift," and says, "If you've got to tell so many lies, how can you claim to have good news? You must have forsaken the gospel." And the traditionalist church looks at the affirming church and says, "Gosh, if you're preaching sex outside of marriage what you are preaching is just Enlightenment liberalism dressed in drag. You must have given up on scripture."
… As both sides try to articulate an ethic that "everyone" can do, we end up telling lies and betraying the gospel. As both sides repent, and stop telling lies, then I suspect that the stakes won't seem so high, and that may make it more possible to actually talk. But just as the Christian criteria for ethics is not that it be possible for everyone, a Christian ethic must be possible for someone, in some specific place. …So the question becomes, if you argue that a homosexual ought to be celibate, is that miracle more possible in your congregation than elsewhere? Or, if you argue for homosexual marriage, is that miracle more possible in your congregation than elsewhere?


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Columbus, OH: Writing About Food Morphed From Hobby to Job
By KEVIN PARKS | ThisWeek Community News
One thing keeps leading to another for Jim Ellison.
The 43-year-old longtime Clintonville resident was majoring in psychology at Ohio State University when he started writing about food.
"Food's kind of my natural thing," Ellison said.
In fact, he created a "food book," a combination of recipes and commentary, and had copies printed at a Kinko's.
"It was my emergency present when I forgot to get someone a present," he said.
Ellison showed the self-published work to his instructor in a writing class at OSU. Shannon Arnold Jackson, then editor of Ohio Magazine, promptly invited him to become a freelance writer for her publication. Ellison went on to write about food, travel and even high-tech subjects for a variety of publications all over the state.
In 2006, Ellison said he was halfway through with a writing project when his publishing company went out of business, leaving him with lots of content and no place to put it.
A friend suggested he start a blog.
"This was the early days before it got super popular," Ellison said.
Through the blog, he got to know people in the then-fledgling food truck movement in Columbus, and in 2009, he collaborated on creating the website tacotruckscolumbus.com.
"That just took off like crazy," Ellison said. "That really opened me up to mobile food and what you could do with it and some of the possibilities."
Today, he writes for four different local food websites and has a talk show on the subject on WCBE on Saturdays.
"It just spiraled out of control to make sure I don't ever have any free time," he said.
Ellison is also coordinator of the nonprofit Economic and Community Development Institute's Food Fort Program, which initially provided startup capital and parking for mobile food vendors and more recently, expanded to provide commercial kitchen space.
What led to that job was another thing.
In early 2011, Ellison had an idea for a business venture that he took to officials at ECDI, which provides loans, training and grants to help budding entrepreneurs get started.
Further research led Ellison to conclude his business concept wasn't going to fly, but by then, institute officials realized how familiar he was with the local restaurant scene and how well-connected he was to the food truck community.
They brought him on board to get the Food Fort going.
"I was definitely ready to leave my job," Ellison said. "The timing was great."
The Food Fort and the burgeoning food truck scene in Columbus are very different from the "street meat vendors" people might remember from bar areas in college towns, he said. These are portable operations offering unique menu items for breakfast, lunch and dinner that have really grown in the past two years.
"I saw that it was something that was going to take off and something that's been good for our community," Ellison said. "It's not one thing. It's a combination. Part of it is the novelty … and then with the economy, restaurants have always been shaky, so people have had to either defer their dreams or find a different path for them.
"The success of one encourages other people to try to do the same thing," he said. "With a truck, you can drive around until you find the people who connect with what you do."
On National Talk Like a Pirate Day, set Wednesday, Sept. 19, Ellison said one of the Food Fort vendors plans to turn his truck into a pirate ship on wheels, offering a "completely off the wall menu for the day."
"You can't very well do that at a Wendy's," he said.
Ellison was born in Columbus and has lived in Clintonville since 1971.
"Not my entire life, but most of it," he said.
He attended the former Glenmont Elementary School, Clintonville Academy — which his parents helped found — and Bishop Watterson High School.
"I've been able to walk to school my whole life," he said.
The first in his family to attend college, Ellison was partway toward earning a master's degree in psychology.
"But then I worked in the field long enough to know that I didn't want to pursue that," he said.
And since then, things have led to other things.
Ellison isn't married but shares his home with an "Appalachian porch hound," a rescue dog named Toby.
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Re: FOR COMMENTS - 4- IRAQ - Withdrawal Series - Kurds
Released on 2012-10-19 08:00 GMT
Email-ID | 89539 |
Date | 2010-02-16 00:18:34 |
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pov in the lead up to elections, which must address these issues. It=20=20
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> There will be a separate piece on the Turkish angle. This is about=20=20
> how the needs of the Iraqi Kurds and their dealings with the Shia=20=20
> and Sunnis could upset the U.S. exit strategy. It is not meant to go=20=
> into too many details. We can always links to many pieces we have=20=20
> done before. The idea is to succinctly show the various factors (in=20=20
> this case the Kurds) could affect the American drawdown timetable.
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> On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:58 PM, "Kamran Bokhari" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> wrote:
>> Iraq=E2=80=99s Kurdish region in the north of country has served as a un=
>> que
>> enabler for the U.S. war effort in the country. Following the end o
>> f the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the United States working with the Iraq
>> i Kurds had established an autonomous zone protected from the reach
>> of the Baathist regime.
> Well, not totally protected..
>> The area served as a major launchpad of sorts for the U.S. move to
>> effect regime
> Change?
>> in Baghdad in the spring of 2003.
>> The Kurdish areas came together as part of the autonomous federal
>> zone called the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the post-
>> Baathist political arrangement. Furthermore, the ethnic difference
>> with the Shia and the Sunnis allowed the Kurdish areas to remain
>> largely free of the militia violence that ravaged the rest of the
>> country during the 2003-07 period. With the Obama administration
>> wanting to stick to its military withdrawal timetable, there are
>> serious questions about the relative calm that has prevailed in
>> Iraqi Kurdistan.
> Need a better intro leading into the piece. The piece needs to be=20=20
> set up
>> At the intra-communal level the Kurds have far fewer schisms than
>> those among the Shia and the Sunnis. In fact, in recent months there
>> has been considerable movement to overcome the rivalry between the
>> two main Kurdish factions, KRG President Masoud Barzani=E2=80=99s Kurdis=
>> Democratic Party and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani=E2=80=99s Patriotic =
>> nio
>> n of Kurdistan. The move motivated by the desire to prevent a third
>> Kurdish force from gaining ground has resulted in the merger of Pesh
>> merga militias (previously organized along partisan lines) as the un
>> ified security force of the KRG.
>> Closer KDP-PUK cooperation may help with improved internal cohesion
>> within Kurdistan but it doesn=E2=80=99t address the security concerns em=
>> nat
>> ing from outside KRG territory.
> It's a response to the security concerns outside of KRG territory.
> We've written On this
>> At a time when the triangular ethno-sectarian tensions are heating
>> up in the country this becomes even more of an issue. Ideally, the
>> presence of U.S. forces in the country suits the interests of the
>> Kurds, given that they are more concerned about their regional
>> autonomy (than national sovereignty), which is best secured with a
>> long-term American military presence in the country.
> The need for an external security guarantor could be explained a lot
> better
>> But the Kurds have long known that the United States would
>> ultimately leave Iraq and have been planning for it. At the same
>> time though, and in their pursuit of ethnic interests, the Kurds
>> continue to exploit the sectarian faultline that runs between the
>> Shia and the Sunni. That said, they themselves remain bitterly at
>> odds with both the Sunnis with whom they have territorial disputes
>> and the Shia who seek to consolidate their nascent domination of the
>> country and are thus at odds with Kurdish ambitions for greater
>> autonomy.
>> Control over energy resources pits them with both communities as
>> well. The dispute over the future status over the oil-rich Kirkuk
>> region to a great degree is a Sunni-Kurd issue.
> I understand what you're saying here but this is a lot to assume from
> the avg reader
>> The Shia who dominate the central government also don=E2=80=99t want the=
>> Kur
>> ds getting a hold a Kirkuk but they also want to limit the extent to
>> which the Kurds can export oil and gas on their own from KRG territ
>> ory. This is why we can see limited Shia-Sunni cooperation because o
>> f the common need to ensure that the Kurds are kept in the box.
>> Each of these contentious issues have been in play ever since the
>> post-Baathist system began to take shape but have been kept in check
>> =E2=80=93 to a great extent due to the presence of U.S. forces in the co=
>> ry. Additionally, the resolution to the issues stemming from the Kur
>> dish bid for autonomy have been deferred to the new coalition govern
>> ment which could take a few months to be formed assuming the March 7
>> vote goes through without too many problems. Thus the outcome of th
>> e vote itself will not just determine whether or not the United Stat
>> es can stick to its exit timetable, the formation of a government an
>> d one that can resolve the thorny issues that pit the Kurds against
>> the Arabs (Shia and Sunni), will also be a determining factor.
> Writing isn't as clear as it could be. Not seeing what in particular
> we're adding to our coverage with this piece. If we are rewriting the
> analysis we've done on how the Kurds are reacting to internal pressure
> within krg territory and external pressure in Iraq and region (the
> latter was never addressed), then let's restructure it accordingly so
> the ideas flow better. This should clearly lat out the vulberabilties
> the Kurds face in the lead-up to elections and explain how the Kurds
> are dealing with them. The Pesh unification is just one thing. How are
> they positioned in the political alliances abd coalition building
> negotiations for the elections? What guarantees are they seeking from
> the US? How do they deal with the Turks?explain the compromise they're
> trying to strike on energy so they can get investment, ie. A security
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The Veggie Table: Favorite Vegetarian Cookbooks
by Janel Ovrut Funk in The Veggie Table, September 22, 2012
While I typically pull most of my recipe inspiration from vegetarian food blogs or websites, sometimes I like to curl up on the couch with a hot mug of tea and thumb through my collection of cookbooks to menu plan for the week ahead. Here are the top three vegetarian cookbooks in my collection:
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
I've been a fan of Mark Bittman ever since I read his book, Food Matters, and started following his blog posts on the New York Times Blog. He has a witty, easy-to-like writing style that I knew I'd enjoy in his cookbooks as well. I couldn't wait to dive into How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food. Bittman's cookbook speaks to not only vegetarians, but omnivores as well. He states in his introduction that his goal isn't to convert readers to vegetarianism but to, "Increase the proportion of non-meat items in your diet," by making vegetarian items more appealing. His recipe I can't get enough of? The chocolate pudding made with tofu and a kick of spice from chili powder. It's decadent with a protein boost!
Vegan Brunch
Isa Chandra is one of my all time favorite vegan bloggers. I have no idea how she does it, but she manages to come up with vegan recipes that are even better than their meat or dairy containing counterparts. Because I find it hard to come up with creative dairy and egg-free breakfast ideas, I purchased Isa's Vegan Brunch and immediately dog-eared about half of the recipes. Her brunch recipes are great for any meal of the day, especially if you love breakfast for dinner. My all-time favorite is the recipe for Tomato Rosemary Scones, which are even better than traditional butter-heavy ones.
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
When I first went on a veg diet, my sister got me a copy of Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. While the book size is overwhelming, the recipes are not. The simple ingredients come together to create complex-seeming dishes with fresh flavors.Madison uses easy-to-find ingredients and has recipes that range from simple to more advanced, meaning you will be able to use this book throughout your entire vegetarian cooking journey. I love how much information is jam-packed into this cookbook, from the little sidebars explaining a handful of ways to best cook tempeh, to ingredient swap options.
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Janel Ovrut Funk, MS RD LDN, loves experimenting with vegetarian and vegan cooking. Read her food blog, Eat Well with Janel, and follow her on Twitter @DietitianJanel. Catch up on her previous posts here.
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