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GenCon brought thousands of gamers to Indianapolis last weekend, and with them some serious geeky fun and costumery. Here's our photo gallery of the most amazing sights.
Special thanks to Shirak Agresta, Ellie Winter and Gary Sandelin for additional photography, and to Kelly Faircloth and Mary Ratliff for formatting the gallery.
Cheer up! says the most terrifying gaming miniature ever.
Lady adventurer in her amazing steampunk battlechair means business in the dealer's hall.
Steampunk weaponry was going strong at the con.
Excellent costume of Gotrek, the mohawk-blazin', troll-slaying dwarf of the Warhammer Fantasy universe.
A glorious life-sized D&D Red Box dragon guards the convention
Even Frylock escaped New Jersey for the Gen Con experience.
The cake may be a lie, but everything else about this companion cube cosplayer was truly adorable.
This Captain America can teach us all a lesson about super costumes.
It's open bar for gamers and vamps at the World of Darkness booth, which was pure party (no games in sight) with a dark glam disco vibe and full service bar.
Cosplayers at the White Wolf Vampire club.
Mini demons get a tiny but effective thrashing
Who you gonna call in the 1940's when there's something strange in the old neighborhood? This guy
Holy pacman, it's Tetris cosplay!
Muscles + claws equal instant Wolverine costuming
They recruit 'em younger every day: Babyfaced space marine prepares for battle in the Terrorwerks airsoft-gun "first person shooter" style live-action role playing game
Medic! Terrorwerks LARPers rescue a fallen soldier. Tying and un-tying knots represents combat medicine and is harder than you think when being pelted with dozens of tiny plastic pellets.
The Terrorwerks crew of space pirates, mutants and space marines in the light. They're smiling now, but trust us that you don't want to get on their bad side in a dark spaceship.
Giant sized Pass the Pigs, the beloved dice-like game of high stakes pig rolling
Gamers got in line as soon as the dealer's hall opened for the re-release of the 1990's D&D apocalyptic-fantasy setting Dark Sun retrofitted for D&D Fourth Edition.
He is Wheaton and he is a gamer.
Oodles of dice in every color make any gamer feel like a kid in a candy store
Legos goes classical with mazes and minotaurs
Creepy and cute, a baba yaga hut in loving miniature
Just like hotcakes, stacks of the latest Pathfinder supplement book Advanced Player's Guide dwindled throughout the day
Blowback, the unofficial "Burn Notice" indie role-playing game
For charity and mostly just for kicks throw your gamer pals into prison.
Fully stocked weapons racks offer treats that may present a challenge for that plane ride home.
Elf girl swings with her boffer blade. The boffer arena was center stage in the dealer's hall, an invigorating break from shopping and shmoozing.
Elf girl takes aim with her boffer blade. The boffer arena was center stage in the dealer's hall, an invigorating break from shopping and shmoozing.
Ryan Macklin (of the internet) lead project developer of the new Dresden Files RPG sourcebooks and general manager of Indie Press Revolution is a humble guy
Gen Con has a growing queer-friendly (for humans and robots) presence every year
This game master takes her Pathfinder game to the next level dressed as the chaotic good witch Feiya, a character from the role playing book series.
More Pathfinder cosplay, Amiri the barbarian
Paizo's Pathfinder role-playing game room was jam-packed with players as early as 8am and late into the evening.
This tiny barbarian brings the big fight to the smallest dinosaur.
Truth in advertising, a total gore fest in miniature for your next The Thing style game
You can almost feel the heat in this remarkable mini flaming jeep assault.
Horus Heresy, an epic new Warhammer 40k board game.
Giant-sized Ticket to Ride, the game of competing steam-driven train companies spanning from coast to coast.
Bladerunner is always in style as Pris haunts the dealer's hall.
Cobra Commander is plotting his next nasty move, or maybe he's just shopping.
Cortana returns for another year of Gen Con.
The gaming barbarian hordes await the opening of the dealer's hall
Creators of the Smallville game were on site to chat, Cam Banks design lead and editor Amanda Valentine (standing left). Note the sample stack of Leverage (not the full game, just quick start rules)
Rumors of Shadowrun falling into hard times were not apparent with Catalyst Games' sprawling booth, complete with life-sized mecha.
Dice for Munchkin Cthulhu (the popular card game that spoofs obnoxious role playing tendencies) plus a cow with face tentacles on the dice bag makes for a total win.
Nora, avid role playing gamer and her man go for a stroll in Freemarket, the transhuman role playing game set in space station orbiting Saturn
Jared Sorensen, game designer and creator of Parsley games illustrates 80's computing-style thunder and lightening during a demo of text-adventure inspired RPG Spooky Manor
A full spread of Freemarket, a limited edition indie role playing game of set in a transhuman future on a space station orbiting Saturn. Not included: in the upper left a dustbunny, an organic roomba-like vacuum cleaner that roams the space station eating dust
Pandemic, the tension-packed board game where players work together to stop city-jumping plagues, had it's first ever presentation in LARP format at Gen Con
Scrubs, goggles, biohazard kit in hand this LARPer came fully prepared for the first ever live-action role playing game based of the intense Pandemic board game
A multi-class party of elves complete with Drow Drizzt Do'Urden.
An-all business halo cosplayer clears the hallway.
Looking good in meticulously hand-crafted armor and headdress.
Jim, don't play that game with Pinhead. Just don't do it.
Homemade Settlers of Catan boards (the "new" classic board game of trading and expansion) are practically standard at gaming cons. This one was cheekily dubbed Settlers of Wisconsin, though the sea and coasts remain a mystery.
A massive battle angle presides over the Magic the Gathering playing crowds.
Card holders plan their next move with giant sized Magic the Gathering cards.
Card holders plan their next move with giant sized Magic the Gathering cards.
Jedi girls gotta stick together.
Lady Captain Shepard in (mass) effect.
We were floored by this gorgeous painting in the dealer's hall. The artist sold out of prints the first day and didn't have a business card so we only hope he will email us back. Until then we stare into her sweet face and wonder who she's going to feed her pet next.
Bunnie in a classic Chun Li stance
Doctor Octopus we presume?
Battlepods lined up for another day of virtual futuristic combat, where gamers can strap themselves in Matrix-style for multi-player warfare. The graphics are somewhat dated but still entirely playable.
Miniature gaming is a world of it's own at Gen Con: historical wargaming is represented here with Stalingrad tanks on the rumble.
Miniature gaming is a world of it's own at Gen Con. A teeny tiny witch trial is scary at any scale.
Dice with a hand-crafted ancient finish give that authentic touch to your Hyperborian barbarian campaign
One of many, many halls packed with gamers of all ages.
Just add tape and Magic the Gathering cards make excellent giant guard scorpions
Huge 20 sided die as common as dragons at the Dungeons & Dragons booth
Last remaining copy of Adventure Burner (atop role playing game Mouse Guard, based on the comic by David Peterson), the all new supplement to indie fantasy RPG Burning Wheel.
Last year's giant beholder is back and looking meaner and hungrier than ever.
Soft foam boffer swords and shields of all descriptions ready for war in the dealer's hall
Either we're getting older, or the superheroes are getting younger.


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College Football 2012 – Week Six Recap
The new rankings will look very different this week as three Top Five teams all went down to a defeat, part of a larger shakedown in college football that saw nine ranked teams all suffer losses.
Here are all the highlights from this week in the Top 25.
#1 Alabama Bye
The top-ranked Crimson Tide had the week off before returning to SEC action with back-to-back road games at Missouri and Tennessee.
#2 Oregon 52, #23 Washington 21
Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota threw for four touchdowns and the Ducks jumped out to a 35-7 halftime lead to secure their second win over a ranked conference foe this season. Kenjon Barner, already the nation's 10th leading rusher, added 122 yards on the ground for the Ducks. While Oregon's high-octane offense continued to rack up big numbers, the defense got in on the act this week, forcing five turnovers and returning a first quarter interception for a score. Oregon has beaten the Huskies nine straight times, the longest such streak in this series that dates back to 1900. All of those wins have come by 17 or more points.
North Carolina State 17, #3 Florida State 16
Wolfpack quarterback Matt Glennon hit Bryan Underwood on a fourth-down touchdown pass with just 16 seconds left to score the biggest upset of the week. Despite coming into the game ranked 97th nationally in pass defense, NC State harassed Florida State quarterback E.J. Manuel all night, sacking him four times, forcing an interception and holding him to just 218 passing yards. Florida State led 16-0 at halftime and, even after ten unanswered points by the Wolfpack, appeared to have the game in control until North Carolina State blocked an FSU punt with 2:27 left, giving the Wolfpack the ball at the FSU 43-yard line to set up the game-winning drive. Glennon finished with 259 yards and two touchdowns in the win. This is the fifth time since 1998 that a ranked Seminoles team has lost to an unranked Wolfpack in Raleigh.
#10 Florida 14, #4 Louisiana State 6
Florida running back Mike Gillislee, who came into the game second in the conference in rushing yards per game, rushed for 146 yards and two touchdowns. While LSU came into the game ranked fourth nationally in total defense, the story of this game was a Florida defense that held the Tigers to just 200 total yards (42 rushing), forced three turnovers and held LSU to 1-of-13 on third-down conversions. Florida had just 47 total yards at halftime, but came out in the second half showing a heavy package with two extra linemen and running on 17-of-18 plays on back-to-back scoring drives. The loss ended LSU's NCAA-best 18-game regular season winning streak and dropped coach Les Miles to 1-3 all-time in The Swamp.
#6 South Carolina 35, #5 Georgia 7
Gamecocks quarterback Connor Shaw was only 6/10 passing, but made the most of his throws, accounting for 162 yards and two touchdowns. He also ran for 78 yards and a score as South Carolina recorded its school-record 10th straight win. Running back Marcus Lattimore rushed for 109 yards and a touchdown, his third straight 100+ yard game against the Bulldogs. Georgia came into the game leading the SEC in yardage and scoring, but was completely manhandled by the Gamecocks, managing just 224 total yards and not reaching the scoreboard until there were less than two minutes remaining in the game. Georgia's freshman running back Todd Gurley, who came into the game leading the SEC in rushing touchdowns, was held to just 39 yards and no scores. The 28-point margin of victory was South Carolina's largest ever against the Bulldogs.
#7 Kansas State 56, Kansas 16
Running back John Hubert rushed for 101 yards and four touchdowns and quarterback Collin Klein added another 116 yards and two touchdowns on the ground as the Wildcats rolled up 346 rushing yards to power past their in-state rivals. Kansas actually held a 14-7 lead early in the second quarter, but turned the ball over five times to help the Wildcats close the game on a 49-2 run.
#8 West Virginia 48, #11 Texas 45
Geno Smith threw for four touchdowns and running back Andrew Buie rushed for 207 yards and two scores as West Virginia overcame a four-point fourth quarter deficit to record their first Big 12 road win. Smith has now thrown 24 touchdowns this season with no interceptions. The high-scoring game featured three ties and four lead changes. Texas running back David Bergeron rushed for four touchdowns and the Longhorns pulled to within 3 in the final minute, but were unable to recover an onside kick in the waning seconds. The loss dropped Texas to 2-7 in home conference games since 2010 and 0-8 in their last eight games against ranked opponents.
#9 Notre Dame 41, Miami 3
While the Fighting Irish defense has carried the load this far, Notre Dame's offense got in on the action in a big way this week. Running backs Cierre Wood and George Atkinson III combined for 241 rushing yards and three touchdowns, the first time Notre Dame had two 100+ yard rushers in the same game in 10 years. The Fighting Irish finished with 376 rushing yards, their first 300+ rushing yard game since 2003. Already off to their best start since 1988, the Notre Dame defense continued its dominance, holding a Miami squad that had put up 1,260 yards and 86 points in its last two games to just 285 total yards and no touchdowns. Notre Dame is now 5-0 for the first time since 2002.
#12 Ohio State 63, #21 Nebraska 38
Buckeyes quarterback Braxton Miller rushed for 186 yards (a school record for a quarterback) and a touchdown as Ohio State rallied from an early ten-point deficit to blow out the Cornhuskers. Nebraska was within four points early in the third quarter before Ohio State erupted for 21 unanswered points to blow the game open. Miller and running back Carlos Hyde (138 yards and four touchdowns) provided most of the offensive fireworks for Ohio State but the scoring was not limited to the offense, as the Buckeyes also got touchdowns from an interception return and a punt return. Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez accounted for 244 total yards and three touchdowns, but had four turnovers (including a career-high three interceptions after having thrown just one all season) that led to 21 Buckeye points.
#13 Southern Cal 38, Utah 28
Utah jumped out to an early 14-0 lead before USC regrouped and responded with a 38-7 run to seal the win. Quarterback Matt Barkley threw for 303 yards and three touchdowns to lead the comeback. Receiver Marquise Lee caught 12 balls (one off his career high) for 192 yards and a score, while the USC defense held Utah to just 95 rushing yards and returned a fourth-quarter interception for a touchdown. The loss drops Utah to 2-3 for the second straight year, the first time they have done that in back-to-back seasons since 1989-90.
#14 Oregon State 19, Washington State 6
Although the Oregon State offense struggled and the Beavers committed 11 penalties for 110 yards, the story of the game was the Oregon State defense. The Beavers forced five turnovers, held the Cougars to just 20 rushing yards and, despite coming into the game ranked 113th nationally in pass defense, gave up just 207 yards and no scores through the air.
#15 Clemson 47, Georgia Tech 31
Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd threw for a career-high 397 yards and two touchdowns, giving him the school record for career touchdown passes. He also rushed for 63 yards and a score and caught a two-point conversion pass. The Tigers' defensive struggles continued, however. Coming into the game ranked 81st in rush defense, that weakness showed as the Yellow Jackets were able to rack up 339 yards on the ground. The loss drops Georgia Tech to 2-4, its worst start since 1994.
Iowa State 37, #15 Texas Christian 23
Playing without suspended quarterback Casey Paschall, the TCU offense still managed to rack up 455 total yards but turned the ball over five times in the upset loss. But the real story might be the collapse of the TCU defense. The Horned Frogs came into the game ranked seventh nationally in total defense and second in scoring, but gave up 37 points to an Iowa State offense that ranked 88th in scoring. The loss snapped TCU's nations-best 12-game winning streak. This is the third straight year that Iowa State has beaten a ranked opponent on the road.
#17 Oklahoma 41, Texas Tech 20
After coming into the game ranked first in the nation in both total defense and pass defense, the Red Raiders had no answers for an Oklahoma offense that scored on six of its first seven drives. After struggling in a loss to Kansas State two weeks ago, Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones threw for 259 yards, two touchdowns and, most importantly, no interceptions as the Sooners won in Lubbock for the first time since 2003. Texas Tech quarterback Seth Doege, who had thrown for 319 or more yards in his last three games, was held to just 203 passing yards and was intercepted three times.
#18 Stanford 54, Arizona 48 (OT)
Stanford rallied from 14 points down with less than seven minutes to go to force overtime and then got an overtime interception and score to secure the victory. Cardinal quarterback Josh Nunes threw for a career-high 360 yards and two touchdowns and also ran for three short touchdowns. The Arizona offense, which scored on eight of nine possessions in a 35 minute span in the second through fourth quarters, suddenly went cold when it mattered, managing just 20 total yards and an interception on 10 plays in the Wildcats' final three possessions.
#19 Louisville Bye
The Cardinals got a week off before returning to action next week against Pittsburgh.
#20 Mississippi State 27, Kentucky 14
Mississippi State's hot defensive start continued, as the Bulldogs held Kentucky to just 228 total yards. MSU quarterback Tyler Russell threw for 269 yards and two touchdowns and the Bulldogs jumped out to a 20-7 second quarter lead from which Kentucky could never recover. Mississippi State is off to its first 5-0 start since 1999.
#22 Rutgers 19, Connecticut 3
Rutgers' defense held the Huskies to just 244 total yards (53 rushing) and forced five turnovers, returning one fourth quarter interception for a touchdown. Running back Jawan Jamison led the Scarlet Knights with 110 rushing yards, his sixth straight 100-yard game. The win moved Rutgers to its first 5-0 start since 2006.
Penn State 39, #24 Northwestern 28
Penn State scored 22 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to rally from an 11-point deficit and secure the upset win. Nittany Lions quarterback Matt McGloin threw for 282 yards and two touchdowns. He also ran for the go-ahead five-yard touchdown with 2:37 to go. The Penn State defense stepped up in a big way, holding the Wildcats to just 247 total yards and limiting quarterback/receiver Kain Colter, who racked up 292 total yards and four touchdowns a week ago, to only 41 total yards.
California 43, #25 UCLA 17
After completing just 32 percent of his passes last week against Arizona State, Cal quarterback Zach Maynard was almost flawless against the Bruins, going 25/30 for 295 yards and four touchdowns (one interception) and rushing for another score to lead the Bears to the upset win. UCLA running back Johnathan Franklin, the nation's third leading rusher, ran for 110 yards. But he was the Bruins' only bright spot as the offense that came in averaging almost 37 points per game was held to just 17 points and turned the ball over six times. Cal now has a seven-game winning streak against the Bruins.


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90% of all my new energy audit customers now expect reduced or 'free' service. BPI has sites listing participating contractors who offer free audits. BPI has advertised rates of $250 for a whole house assement and audit.
As a professional who has been in the construction business since 1972; I feel this is an attack on the industry from administrators who are micro mannaging the industry. A blower door with all diagnostic equipment now costs around $6,000. Level 1 IR training and a 120 x 120 pixel IR camera, (one that meets the anticipated RESNET standards0, is approaching another $10,000. Add insurance, advertising and overhead; the $250 audit fee is a major income loss.
Perhaps the audit/sales/install business is what is pushing out the independent auditors. That spells loss of competiton and more expense for the home owner. Handy men and home owners who want to do their own retrofits will be out in the cold.
As with any government run enterprise; This business is going to be over influenced, controlled and limited to the big players at the independents and consumers expense.
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Hi Allen,
This is an often discussed topic and one for which I have a good answer, we need to be more professional. First, understand that there is no such thing as a free audit, somebody is paying for whatever services are provided. A well educated customer, and education is a major part of our job, will recognize that these full service companies are just shifting the cost from the audit to the retrofit.
When you play with the retrofit numbers you realize we need to be improving homes at about 10X the current pace. One, people just aren't motivated to make improvements and two, (get this) the government needs to create more jobs, yes, we are a big part of the jobs program. And THREE, we can call this the "home owner financed stimulus program". It's a case that "home owner equity" is simply too much money not in circulation and circulating money is what drives our economy. So the win/win/win/win for our government, the economy, the home owners, and global warming is, by whatever means, push those home owners to make improvements and spend some of their nested equity, and in the end, reap all of the related benefits. We can hate all of this, but the irony is, it's all good.
Now, staying in business when you are up against what they call "the stake holders" or big players, is not all that difficult. If you have read the guidelines for the new SCORE program being promoted by DOE and LBL, it is a joke (sorry but true) and extremely easy to work against. You see the big players just want to get in and get out and shake down the home owners for as much as they can as fast as they can. You and I are building a long term business where we want to establish a relationship with our customers, you know, because we care.
This government takeover of the energy efficiency business doesn't make our job as easy as we would have wanted, but it is still one of the best opportunities available. IMO, we each need to invest 30% of our time into education. Polish your communications and put yourself on the road talking to anyone and everyone you can. Don't exactly slam the competition, but be sure your audience understands the importance of taking the time to do an audit right. Remember, you are there to discover what improvements will work best for them, not just sell a bunch of improvements because that's what your company thinks everyone needs.
My prediction, having competition that is bad, is good for business.
Hi Bud,
Great reply, I learned from it.
Thanks, ken
You bring up very good points about all of the expenses that we encounter and the need to recouperate them. The fact is that if we do our job correctly, and work gets done to save energy, someone is saving money, and they need to pay their part. Auditors who just sell reports to folks who don't get work done aren't doing anyone any good. Follow through is the key to making sure energy gets saved as a result of the audit, and the people benefiting are happy to pay what it is worth.
Hi Allen,
Educating your customer is key to long term success and a relationship with your customer for most businesses. My perspective as a newbie to this industry, but very experienced as a contractor is, when the Energy Auditor establishes himself/herself as the trusted advisor/consultant, they are right where they want to be. Working as a roofing contractor I was often able to establish myself as the trusted advisor. It would often mean they would use my roof proposal as the job specification to order more bids from other contractors. Yes, I was not getting paid to write the job specification. Nor did I get every job that I bid. But, by establishing myself as the trusted advisor I did close more roofing projects than most and built long term business relationships.
Regarding providing the Energy Audit without being a contractor as well. As the trusted advisor you supplied the now well educated property owner with an unbiased Energy Audit/Job Spec. I would think that the property owner is now in a much better position to get bids on energy upgrades and get the most value for their investment. Instead of getting caught up in a large company's one call close process. One call closes usually work out much better for the contractor than the property owner. Even as the property owner may have had to pay you several hundred dollars more for an unbiased audit, they now have the knowledge and power to get competitive bids. The ability to compare apples to apples and probable save thousands on the upgrades. Spend a couple hundred more now to save a couple thousand in a few months and potentially thousands more over the life of the energy saving improvements. Hmmm…. For the thinking individual that should be an easy choice.
Look at other ways to make your business profitable. Line up contractors that will pay a referral fee. Business pay a lot of money to advertise to get a customer. What does it cost them for each customer. There is also value to the customer as they dont have to search for contractors who will do the job right.
Our local utility has a policy that theycannot refer any contractors to a homeowner. They hand the audit results and recommended upgrades to the homeowner. How often do you think the owner doesnt follow through or they find a contractor that doesnt do the work correctly,etc.
I see homeowners call contractors and getting bid for what the contractor recommends. I was at another site and the owner is seeking advice, he was in DFW and had a big 2 story home. His problem was keeping the 2nd floor cool. He radiant barriers contractors, roofers (venting) and insulationcontractors out giving him bids. The home had some cathedral ceilings on the 2nd floor and ducts in the attic. He was trying to sort out all the conflicting information. Wouldnt it have been better for an auditor to work with him and help him get the right contractors in to do things correctly.
I see no problem with this business model. I think in the end you can get the homeowner the resluts they deserve at a fair price.
About the facet you bring up, free energy audits might impede alot of would be
energy auditors--- This solution served me well - becoming a LIGHTING AUDITOR-
would this work for everyone- no , however I took my twin concerns- Logical energy
use and the LOVE of quality LED lighting and started
specializing in just lighting audits. There is very little competition for doing this
subset of energy audits. The problem identification process and the ability to provide
LED lighting solutions has been both lucrative and fulfilling + very gratifying. Also
since millions if not Billions of lights will be changed out in short time the
task of need identification is great. The challenge would be to have a good
grasp on lighting principals, have good analytical skills, have very good diagnostic
tools -AND to be able to speak to LED performance issues- as well as knowing
about other types of lighting and where those are appropriate. The point I would make
is that there are options and facets to energy auditing - I encourage erstwhile
energy auditors to add to their "energy auditing skill sets" by looking in to becoming
a lighting auditor . Again as I see it there are few concerned with identifying the
kWh waste regarding lighting- few Energy auditors even address energy waste in lighting
so the market is ripe for those inclined to explore it- My advice gain acumen in this
area of energy use assessment, differentiate your biz by having abilities to define
lighting needs and by having knowlege about the role of solid state lighting. I bet it's
an option few would think to explore and excel at. Consider it !
Hear! Hear!
Any audit should be independant of the contractor - period (this is not to cast doubts on the contractor in any way, shape or form).
In a sense this is an essential part and parcel of the very notion of an audit.
Just because it's a home energy audit doesn't or shouln't make it any different.
It's ok if the contractor wants do do an audit for his own purposes in accomplishing his weatherization or building work.
It just ain't a real audit in any sense of the word if it isn't entirely independant.
Hi Randy, it's called jobs creation and we can't really blame someone for jumping into one of the hottest business sectors available. If customers can't tell the difference between this newbie and you, that's not his fault. Your web page should be documenting that experience and listing the half a dozen certifications you have received since the first. It's like the old Will Rogers quote "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
There's no doubt this is a tough business to be in and difficult for many to make a living, but so are many professions in these times. Do you really think this 6 day wonder is going to be making $50,000 a year? I don't, but if he does, I want to know how. Remember, he was a car salesman and half of what we do is selling.
Get your foot back onto the gas pedal and maintain that distance between yourself and the competition as he won't be the last one who decides they want to play in our back yard.
Unfortunately, that 6 day wonder is tarnishing everyone's reputation and confidence in what we do. If we are to be an "industry" we must establish standards in terms of knowledge, workmanship and ethics. I have been a green builder for 20 years; my company invests a lot in education, much of it dealing with building science. I just sent an employee to BPI training. While the training seemed to have been intensive enough, it was out of context. I sent this employee with specific technical questions to get answered. Based on the answers that came back, it seemed clear that the instructor probably had very little field experience. It seems that a base knowledge of regional building science and building techniques should be a requirement of both instructor and students. It was difficult to find a class to send an employee to. Some of the better advertised national BPI training programs were clearly sham operations with little knowledge of anything, including business. When I called BPI they were completely unable to be of assistance in helping find a competent trainer. BPI seems to be the standard. The industry (i.e. us) needs to take responsibility to either improve BPI's business and training model or find and promote an alternative.
I agree 100% If you have never built or remodeled a structure in your life you have ZERO EXPERIENCE in Buildings. By the way I have just finished a 6 day course in plastic surgery anybody want to be my first customer? I can show you a piece of paper with my diploma
Become a proctor to pass on your gained knowledge and improve the curriculum---if anything, earn extra income from the "certification puppy milling". Knowledge is the seed that sprouts wisdom, but, nothing grows if knowledge isn't shared.
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35 Years Ago: California Jam 2 Takes Place
Bringing together a variety of acts from across the rock and roll spectrum in front of a crowd of more than 300,000, California Jam 2 featured scorching performances from some of the biggest names in '70s rock music. The concert - which took place on March 18, 1978 -- helped to pave the way for all-day festivals to become the routine big-business events they are today.
Planning a sequel to the California Jam that occurred at the Ontario Motor Speedway in 1974, the organizers had the benefit of learning from some of the past festival disasters that had proceeded from slipshod planning and resulted in violence, death and the failure to maximize profits.
Fans enjoyed a day of music from such top acts as Ted Nugent, Heart, Santana and Dave Mason. Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch was joined on stage by Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood during his set, while Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush and Foreigner also rocked the crowd. A funk-rock act called Rubicon -- featuring a young bassist/singer named Jack Blades -- rounded out the lineup.
Like its predecessor, the concert was staged at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, Calif. But unlike the first Cal Jam -- at which featured act Deep Purple had to leave the premises in a helicopter to avoid furious promoters after guitarist Ritchie Blackmore attacked a television camera with his guitar -- the second concert came off relatively without a hitch.
Though initial media reports incorrectly reported three fatalities and a large number of arrests, journalist Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times reported that the event was mostly peaceful and well-organized. Hilburn noted that the promoters repeatedly admonished the crowd from the stage in order to control potential problems before they could arise.
The festival drew more than 300,000 fans, and also spawned a successful soundtrack album and a television special. The event's precise organization -- and the profits derived from doing the job correctly -- would help to usher in a new business model in which festival rock concerts were enjoyable, safe and profitable.
Watch Stevie Nicks Join Bob Welch for 'Ebony Eyes' at California Jam 2


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Built for long days outside, the Boys' Toddler Nike Woodside 2 High Boots have everything your little tyke needs to take the wilderness (or backyard) by storm.
Steep, muddy hills are no match for these boots. A thick, non-marking rubber outsole grips the ground like nobody's business, while a synthetic leather and rubber upper protects tiny feet from even the most monstrous of elements. Ice and snow? Fuggetaboutit. These tough boots are built to last through it all.
He'll be super cozy when the temperature drops with the warm textile lining that delivers cushiony comfort for every outdoor excursion. Rugged construction, and secure lace-up closure complete the package for a durable boot he'll reach for over and over. The icing on the cake? A fun pop of bright color of the eyelets, midsole and outsole for an extra dose of style. Good luck reeling him back in from the great outdoors!
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Grant: Michael Young may be most difficult to replace in Rangers' clubhouse
A rough two days for the Rangers stretched into a nightmarish long stretch Monday.
Three days of one fist-to-the-forehead moment after another. On Saturday, just as the Rangers thought they were getting ready to sign Zack Greinke, he gave them the slip and went to the Los Angeles Dodgers. On Sunday, their backup plan for Greinke, Tampa Bay's James Shields, moved to Kansas City because the Royals were willing to give up their top prospect.
Yes, if you are keeping score at home, the Rangers have lost free agent catcher Russell Martin to the Pittsburgh Pirates this winter and Shields to Kansas City. We're talking about two teams who have combined for exactly one winning season since 1995.
Monday afternoon, while management was scrambling to see if it could still patch together a trade for Justin Upton, Michael Young was reminding everybody why the team — and particularly manager Ron Washington — will miss him.
Young held a 30-minute news conference — at his own expense — at the Park Cities Hilton to discuss his time in Texas and to discuss his ouster in a trade to Philadelphia. That he held the presser wasn't so revealing, but rather how he handled himself.
He did, he said, because he wanted to look media members in the eye, wanted to shake hands, wanted to give people a chance to ask about everything from his feelings toward management — "there is no relationship there" — to his own admitted mistakes in the way he handled being told he was moving from shortstop to third base to make room for Elvis Andrus.
It was Young at his best. Whether in a sweater and jeans and talking to the media or in Skivvies and a cup talking to teammates, he was always confident, measured, approachable and persuasive.
"I always just tried to be myself," Young said when asked about the unfortunate "Face of the Franchise" moniker dropped on him by former owner Tom Hicks. "I think the name somehow came with the contract."
The contract was the $80 million deal Young signed during spring training of 2007 when he was just getting to know Washington, the rookie manager.
The duo quickly became a team. After a rough first season together in which the Rangers strategically tore the team down and Young occasionally told the manager not to mope so much, the rest has been glorious Rangers history. Four consecutive seasons of improvement. Three 90-win seasons. Back-to-back World Series appearances.
Washington spoke with passion and energy. Young made sure his message got across in the clubhouse.
"I feel like we had the opportunity to make each other better people," Young said. "He's a great manager and a great person."
Washington, of course, said a day earlier that if crying were allowed in baseball, he'd cry over the loss of Young.
In 2007, Young endorsed the rebuilding program which the Rangers undertook midway through the season and sold it to a skeptical clubhouse. In 2008, at the request of GM Jon Daniels, he led a procession of teammates to stand and support Josh Hamilton as he told his story of drug and alcohol abuse during the outfielder's introductory press conference.
A year later, coming off winning a Gold Glove at short, he moved to third for Andrus. Yes, it was begrudging and, yes, be briefly demanded a trade. In the end, though, he made Andrus' rookie season transition seamless. In 2010, after Washington admitted to his team that he'd used cocaine, Young was the first player to offer his vocal support of the manager.
Along the way he'd tell C.J. Wilson to shut up, Derek Holland to grow up, Hamilton to occasionally hustle up. And he did it all without ever ridiculing a teammate in front of others or in front of the media's prying eyes.
In today's game, where heavy-duty statistical analysis seems to be the trend, leadership and communication are traits that often carry little weight with management. The theory: If it can't be measured, it can't be important.
Ron Washington is an old-school baseball guy, though. In Young, he had an old-school clubhouse cop. In Washington's mind at least, that translated to helping the team maximize success.
Washington may find himself another in Adrian Beltre or Andrus or David Murphy.
On Monday, though, what became clear is that, while the Rangers may still need an arm for the rotation and a bat for the lineup, they also have a big hole to fill when it comes to cop in the clubhouse.
Follow Evan Grant on Twitter @Evan_P_Grant.


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The United States, Iran and Russia may be at odds over issues including Syria's civil war and Tehran's nuclear ambitions, but on Tuesday their wrestling teams formed an unlikely coalition at the United Nations to keep their sport in the Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee's 15-member executive board sparked outcry in February when it voted to recommend that wrestling be dropped from the 2020 Olympic program in a bid to modernize the event.
The committee will make a final decision in Buenos Aires in September on which sport will get the final spot in a revamped line-up for 2020. Wrestling is battling against baseball and softball, karate, rollersports, wushu martial arts, wakeboarding, squash and climbing.
Wrestlers from Russia, Iran and the United States held a news conference at U.N. headquarters and weighed in ahead of a competition at New York's Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday designed to draw attention to a global "Keep Olympic Wrestling" campaign.
"Sport provides a common bond for countries who do not always see eye to eye," said Mike Novogratz, chairman of Beat the Streets, a wrestling program for disadvantaged New York City children that will benefit from funds raised by the competition.
"Sport is the foundation for good," said Rich Bender, USA Wrestling Executive Director. "Russia, the United States and Iran really are the three best wrestling nations ... and certainly our friendship goes pretty deep through wrestling."
Wrestling was contested in the first modern Olympics in 1896 and was part of the ancient Games in Olympia. It is still on the Olympic program for 2016 in Rio.
"Where I come from wrestling is not just a sport, it is a part of culture and history," said Iranian wrestling coach and Olympic gold medal winner Rasoul Khadem. "In order to save wrestling in the Olympics it is the want and the desire of people that have lived the sport ... for hundreds of years."Last Mod: 15 Mayıs 2013, 11:23


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On this page you will find information pertaining to e-learning courses taken through the AFIT School of Systems and Logistics, such as course information and how to enroll, local system requirements, technical issues you may experience while taking an e-learning course and frequently asked questions. If you cannot find the information that you need on this page, please feel free to contact us and we will get back with you as soon as possible. We are committed to ensuring that your experience provides you with the training that you need when you need it.


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The Medical Center hosts the NICU Reunion to provide former Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) patients and their families the opportunity to reunite with physicians, nurses and staff members who were closely involved with their child's hospital stay. It is a heartwarming time for staff, parents and children to reconnect and see each child's growth and development progress. The reunion features an afternoon of food, games and fun.
For more information, call (270) 796-2144.
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Due to issues with Ripple we are no longer using it in the class. We will be working straight from the browser, but you may want to install the Window Resize extension.
The days are rapidly approaching. Here are all the steps necessary to prepare your development environment so that you can save time the day of class.
- What you will need:
- Chrome browser with the following extensions
- Advanced Rest Client
- Ripple Emulator (beta)
- jQuery version 1.9.1
- jQuery Mobile version 1.3.1
- Handlebars.js version 1.0.0-rc.3 or greater
- A text editor
- Notepad++ (PC)
- Text Wrangler (Mac)
There are probably an unlimited number of ways to get started developing jQuery Mobile applicaitons. I have chosen this way because it makes you productive in the shortest number of steps and is also cross platform. The steps listed here should work for PC, Mac, and even Linux machines.
One of the first things that savvy readers will notice is there is no need for a web server. Eliminating the need for a server solves one the trickiest things that causes novices to have problems. For those of us who have been doing web development for a while, it is easy to forget, what a pain it was the first time we had to set one up. Also since we are working only with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, we don't even need a compiler. So let's set up our environment.
The first thing that you must do is download and install the Chrome browser for your OS. I am not going to give the steps necessary here since this is something Google explains far better than I can. Here is the link to download Chrome:
Install Chrome Extensions
One of the nice things about most modern browsers is that they allow for the installation of extensions, also referred to as plug-ins.
- Visit the store at http://chrome.google.com/webstore. You can also reach it by clicking the icon in the "Apps" section of the New Tab page.
- Search for the "Advanced REST Client"
- Select it from the list which appears.
- On the extension's details page, click the Add to Chrome button.
- A dialog appears, letting you know about the types of data that the extension will be able to access. ClickAdd in the dialog to grant the extension access to the data described. Learn more about the different types of data that extensions may access.
- Repeat steps 2 through 5 for the "Ripple Emulator (Beta)".
Setup Your Project Folder
In order to give our application and to make sure that we are all on the same page we will create the following folders for app:
- Create a route folder named, cc, for Coffee+Coffee.
- From within the cc directory, create three subfolders:
- css
- img
- js
- Within the js folder create a subfolder, libs
Installing JavaScript Libraries
This step is a bit of a misnomer since there really isn't an installation of the JavaScript libraries. What we will do is download the files and place them in the correct folders.
If you want to save time here, you can download the files from GitHub at:
Or you can set everything up yourself by downloading the following libraries:
- jQuery version 1.9.1
- Copy the file, jquery-1.9.1.min.js, to js/libs
- jQuery Mobile 1.3.1
- Copy the file, jquery.mobile-1.3.1.min.js to js/libs
- Copy the file, jquery.mobile-1.3.1.min.css to css
- Copy the folder images to css
- Handlebars version 1.0.0-rc.3
- Copy the file, handlebars.js, to js/libs
- When you are finished, your files should look as follows:
- css
- jquery.mobile-1.3.1.min.css
- images
- images
- js
- libs
- jquery-1.9.1.min.js
- jquery.mobile-1.3.1.min.js
- handlebars-1.0.0-rc.3.js
Create index.html
With the skeleton of our application it is time that we put a face on it. We need to create an HTML page to hold our markup and by convention this page is called, index.html. Using your text editor of choice create index.html in the root of the cc folder. Then copy the following markup to it:
<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
<link href="css/jquery.mobile-1.3.1.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Launching Our App
With that our application has a displayable page, let's check it out. Before you double-click the Chrome icon, stop.
From the cmd prompt type:
~/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe --allow-file-access-from-files
- Right click on the chrome icon
- Then right click on "Google Chrome"
- Click on Properties
- In the Target: text box add " --allow-file-access-from-files" after chrome.exe. Please note there is a space before "--".
From terminal type:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --allow-file-access-from-files
The command line switch: --allow-file-access-from-files, is what tells Chrome it is OK to serve files from the file system.
Once Chrome is running we will need to point it to our index.html file. It will need the full path with the file:// as the protocol. For me it looks like:
At this point you should see our app in all of its jQuery Mobile glory. It will be stretched out since it is not yet running in the Ripple Emulator. If you don't see your app in jQuery Mobile styling, odds are that you did not turn on the ability to serve files. If that is the case, see the steps above.
Turning on the Emulator
- In the upper right hand click the "Customize and control Google Chrome" button
- Then click Tools -> Extensions
- Scroll down the page until you see the entry for Ripple Emulator (beta)
- Check the box titled, Allow access to file URLs
- Back on the tab holding our application, right click on the page, Emulator -> Enable
- If you see a dark page titled, "Are you ready for this?!?!", click Mobile Web (default)
The page should switch over to emulator view. Congratulations, you are now ready to begin mobile development with jQuery Mobile.


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South Dakota Wants to Change 'Negro' & 'Squaw' Names
Here in South Dakota some folks in the legislature are trying to change the names of some geographical sites that contain "Negro" and "Squaw" in the titles.
This includes about 18 creeks, canyons and mountain ridges with names like "Negro Wool Ridge" and "Negro Gulch".
The state asked the federal government for the go ahead, but it turns out that there is a an obscure federal body called the "U.S. Board on Geographic Names" that so far doesn't like the suggested name changes. This includes changing Negro Creek to Medicine Mountain Creek.
June Hansen is a member of the South Dakota Board of Geographic Names. She says "It is hard for us to come up with a good name and there is some pretty strict criteria for what the name has to be."
Apparently the federal body does not consider the word "Negro" or "Squaw" to be offensive.
This brings up a couple of questions.
One: Who is paying to fund these federal boards?
Two: Who is paying to fund these federal boards?


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One year ago Friday I was on a railroad photography expedition in Vader, WA with some good friends. As you saw on dogcaught.com this was a visit to record action under the soon to disappear cantilever signals. It was a busy night and we enjoyed all sorts of trains to photograph with the signals.
As it ends up these photographs were my last.
17 days after this expedition my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. As you saw in a post I chose to take a break from railroad photography so I could focus on my wife's treatment. With changed priorities I chose to set some of my hobbies aside.
That was a tough choice but I felt my commitment to her was the most important thing. I still escaped on most Sundays for rail fanning around town with my daughter. Heck, we even made it out the Sunday after Tammy's surgery. I used my iPhone periodically to photograph interesting things but for the most part this period was photography free. Thanks to Facebook and my great railfan friends I kept up on the happenings around the area.
Skip ahead one year. Today Tammy feels wonderful. She recovered from chemo, surgery and radiation and as a far as I'm concerned is back to normal. She feels occasional aches and pains but they are minor. She's healthy and cancer free so I feel like the mission is accomplished!
I haven't recovered my photography interest though. I'm not sure why but the idea of enjoying life through the viewfinder isn't as appealing as it once was. I know that having a health issue refocuses your creativity. She and I spent lots of time problem solving and planning which used all the creativity we could muster. The result? My creativity feels exhausted. My motivation is lost.
For now I will continue my hiatus from photography. I do plan to enjoy railfanning and hanging out with railfan friends since my interest in trains and railroading hasn't waned at all. When my motivation and creativity return I will once again drag my camera along.


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Alpine Meadows and Snow Park Technologies Present Lake Tahoes Mile-Long Terrain Park
[Alpine Meadows, Calif.] February 12, 2013 Park fiends in Tahoe, get stoked. The much-anticipated mile-long park is now open at Alpine Meadows. Located in North Lake Tahoe, Alpine Meadows has always been on the cutting edge of park setups, but this season is set to be the best yet. Designed under the guidance of Alpines Terrain Park Manager, Jonahs David, and Snow Park Tech (SPT) Project Manager, Corley Howard, Alpine's park is a mile-long consecutive run in Tahoe including more than 40 features (all of Alpines combined parks offer more than 80 features total). Named the " Firing Line" the intermediate to advanced park accessed via the Summit Chair, includes a series of jumps, jibs, wall rides, hips, and just about any type of feature one could imagine.
"You'll be able to get really creative with your lines and ride the park in a lot of different ways," said Squaw and Alpine team rider, Pat Moore. "I'm excited to have a lengthy park to get long, fun runs with my friends. Having a mile-long park means more opportunities to learn tricks and less time on the chairlift."
The mile-long park is the only one of its kind in Tahoe, and will resemble a slopestyle course with different sizes of jumps side-by-side, and many unique jib features that won't be found anywhere else. Features currently installed include a large S-rail, canon tube, wrecking ball, hitching post, oil drum, and various rails and boxes. Some features are built with recycled snowmaking pipe, lending another unique touch by incorporating a sustainable material. There will certainly be no shortage of lines to choose, making this one of the most advanced and technical parks for learning new tricks. If a rider doesn't want to lap the entire mile-long run and the upper advanced section, they can opt for just the lower section of the Firing Line, accessed via the Round House chairlift. For those that prefer an option with small to medium features, there is still a mile-long run if riders take Loop Road and hit the Side Winder park, then continue through Hot Wheels Gully and hit The Bunker near the base.
Terrain Park Manager, Jonahs David, has worked closely with his crew and SPT, the leader in snow park building for more than 15 years, to ensure the best flow and setup throughout the lengthy run.
"Ive always liked the idea of a long park with a ton of options," said David. "Our goal is to have a top-to-bottom park that rivals any other park out there. We are trying to match our world-class terrain with a world-class terrain park."
David and his on-site crew of 17 will continue around the clock, testing the setup and changing out features to keep it interesting and exciting throughout the season.
"Our goal is to provide many options with a good flow," said David. "We have a foundation of jumps and snow features that we set all our jibs around. We try to swap jibs out every couple weeks to keep it from getting stale." David also said they are planning on doing a big rebuild in spring to match the snow conditions. In addition to the Firing Line, Alpine also has a separate small progression park for beginners called Cannonball and a jib arena, dubbed The Barracks, at the base of the mountain. There is also a start park, Boot Camp, which is a dedicated teaching terrain with micro-features, gentle transitions, soft pitches and signage that explains how to ride the features. With endless park options this winter, it looks like Alpine is definitely the place to check out.
About Snow Park TechnologiesSnow Park Technologies (SPT) is the worlds leading consulting team for special projects on snow. SPTs wide range of expertise includes designing and building some of the most renowned resort terrain parks and halfpipes, high profile ski and snowboard competition courses and countless on-snow productions. Please visit www.snowparktech.com.
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Alpine Meadows seven powder bowls, summit-to-base groomed slopes, and authentic hospitality are among the many attributes that have made the resort a favorite of the local community and visitors alike. Alpine Meadows offers skiers and riders access to more than 100 trails across 2,400 skiable acres serviced by 13 lifts. With its high annual snowfall, the resort boasts one of Tahoes longest skiing and boarding seasons.
Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows joined forces in November 2011, bringing the two ski resorts under common ownership. Skiers and riders can access 6,000 skiable acres, 43 lifts and 270+ trails at Squaw and Alpine Meadows on one lift ticket or season pass. For more information about Squaw Valley or Alpine Meadows, visit www.squaw.com or www.skialpine.com or call 1.800.403.0206.


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Thursday, 12 January 2012
Iron Bridge
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What times we had playing on and around the Iron Bridge- swinging from the arch, walking up and down the bridge walls and just standing still when a steam train went under blowing the steam all over us, then down into Bears Wood to make a swing on the trees or dam up the stream pretty tame for todays kids but it kept us happy
- Thursday, 12 January, 2012
- westarsteve said...
we had some great fun on that bridge we used to have our bonire at the back of coombes ave and we use to sneak over that bridge to raid the rufford ave bonfire
also its a nice picture as the bridge still had its smoke shields on the bridge
also jumping across the posts at the bottom of the steps happy days
- Thursday, 12 January, 2012
- Wilmer Geraci said...
It's not only the happy days, Westarsteve. Those were the days when life was so simple and peaceful. But I'm not saying that it isn't peaceful in our present time. However, we can see the difference instantly if we come to think about it, right? Not only that, the construction of the bridge is different as well. That doesn't look that sturdy compared to bridges today, but it's good enough to support those people walking across to the other side.
- Thursday, 15 November, 2012


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After the Fred Smoot-reported kneepocalypse, we finally have an actual report on the state of RG3's injury. The Washington Post cites sources who have seen the test results, and says the MRI indicates Griffin has partial tears of his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and lateral collateral ligament (LCL).
What does this mean for his recovery time? It's not clear. In his press conference earlier today, Mike Shanahan said there was some confusion about the MRI—whether the tears were suffered yesterday, or if they were old injuries. (He had been playing on what was termed a sprained LCL for weeks.) Griffin will see Dr. James Andrews at his Florida clinic tomorrow, an examination that might include exploratory surgery to see just how badly he's hurt.
Griffin partially tore the same ACL in the third game of his sophomore year at Baylor, and missed the rest of that season. He returned fully healthy to start 2010.


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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
|Buffy the Vampire Slayer
|Joss Whedon
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a television series created by Joss Whedon, based on the 1992 theatrical movie of the same name. (Whedon wrote the screenplay, but did not direct the film, and he was not fully satisfied with it.[1])
It premiered on the WB network in March 1997, although an unaired pilot was created before that. The first season ran for 12 episodes; it was a marginal success for the fledgling network and was brought back for a second season beginning in September 1997. It ran for five seasons on the WB before moving to another small startup network, UPN, for its final two seasons. Star Sarah Michelle Gellar was eager to move on from the show, and after some controversial developments and character arcs, ratings had deteriorated.
After the third season of Buffy, in 1998, one of the series' primary characters, vampire-with-a-soul boyfriend-of-Buffy Angel, was spun off into his own series on the WB.
Buffy is considered by many critics and viewers to be one of the best television series ever made. It combined horror, fantasy, drama, humor, teen angst, and action in a way no other series ever had. Buffy Summers was created as a sort of anti-archetype by Whedon; the small, seemingly defenseless blond girl who turns out to have enormous power—and enormous responsibility. The initial seasons began with a prologue that included information about what a Vampire Slayer was: "Into each generation, a Slayer is born. One girl, in all the world, a chosen one. One born with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires, to stop the spread of evil..." to which Buffy responds, in the first episode, with: "...blah blah, I've heard it, okay?" This was typical of the way the series skewered even its own seriousness. Most of the time, Buffy simply wanted to be a regular American teenage girl, like her friends Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, and not the one carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. In the season finale of the first series, she even rejects her calling when she finds out a prophecy predicts she'll die that night, weeping that she never wanted to be the Slayer, and that she was "only sixteen" and too young to die. Nevertheless, like all true heroes, Buffy does do her job.
The series continues officially in the "season"ed comic book adaptations, starting with Season 8, as well as the one-shots Tales of the Vampires and Tales of the Slayers. It also has been continued in virtual seasons through a number of fanfic projects. Fray, a graphic novel published in 2001-2003, concurrent with seasons five, six, and seven of the television show, is also part of the canon.
Merchandising products associated with the show and with Angel include a large number of episode adaptations, novels and short story collections (generally considered not to be canon), many non-canon comics, script books and other factual material such as guides to the monsters, collectible figures and other toys, board games, computer games and a tabletop role playing game.
As one of the first shows to have an active Internet presence, fannish participation was a virtual smorgasbord for fen, with multiple fannish websites, email groups, and forums. Thanks to satellite programming, some fans had an early jump on the show, before its regularly scheduled air time and date, and posted complete episode transcripts online before receiving cease and desist orders.
The fandom is the reason why thefanlistings.org exists, since someone had wanted to find out how many Buffy fans were out there on the Internet, leading to the first fanlisting.[citation needed] The Fanlistings Network was originally founded by Janine, a Buffy fan who is credited with creating the first online fanlisting. Her site Slayer's Empire was opened on May 3, 2000 and connected Buffy fans. The Fanlistings Network was also founded by Janine in 2000, and aimed to connect fans from multiple fandoms. Janine later stepped aside in 2002 to focus on her other sites.[2]
Ships and Pairings
Het Pairings
- Buffy/Angel
- Buffy/Spike
- Giles/Jenny
- Faith/Spike
- Willow/Angel
- Cordelia/Wesley
- Darla/Angel
- Buffy/Xander
- Xander/Cordelia
- Spike/Dawn
- Dawn Summers/Ethan Rayne
Slash Pairings
Femslash Pairings
Threesome and Moresome Pairings
- Buffy/Angel/Spike
- Angel/Willow/Spike
- Buffy/Giles/Willow/Xander
- Rupert Giles/Joyce Summers/Ethan Rayne
- Fanged Four
Joss Whedon and Buffy Fandom
Creator Joss Whedon has been involved with his fanbase more than most showrunners. Himself a fan, he's put his own experiences into his series, especially on Buffy, even making a reference in one seventh-season episode to posting fanfic online. He frequently interacts with fans on the site devoted to his work, Whedonesque [1]. One of his most famous instances of support for fans came in 1999, regarding the 18th episode of season three and the season finale. The Columbine school massacre had recently occurred, and the WB decided to pull both "Earshot," which dealt with Buffy's sudden ability to hear people's thoughts—one of which is someone planning to kill people on the Sunnydale school campus—and the season finale, "Graduation Day Pt. 2" (because of violent activities—including blowing up the school library). When the series was aired in Canada on schedule, bootleg copies of the latter episode became widely available, and Whedon was quoted as encouraging people to get it, saying "Bootleg the puppy."
He says he has an ambivalent relationship with fanfiction, both liking it and also feeling concerned about it, but he has frequently shown his appreciation for fan-made vids of Buffy and his other series. In the early days of Buffy fandom, Whedon spoke out against Fox's attempts to shut down fan web sites devoted to Buffy and other Fox shows, such as The X-Files.
Whedon became so infamous for introducing surprising (and often heart-wrenching) plot developments and character backstories in Buffy that fan writers invented a term to describe when new canon contradicted what they had written: to be Jossed. The more heart-wrenching plot twists also resulted in the oft-repeated mantra "Joss is evil."[3]
In 2005, an attempt was made by Fox lawyers to stop the live-action showing of the musical episode "Once More, with Feeling," despite the fact that Whedon had publicly stated he had no problem with the event.
Academic Fandom
Many academics were/are fans of Buffy and devoted enough scholarly attention to it with papers, edited collections, and conferences that the term "Buffy studies" was coined. See The Encyclopedia of Buffy Studies(Archived Link).
Some have accused the early Buffy conferences of being fan conventions in disguise.[4]
Buffy the Patriarchy Slayer: many links to academic articles.
More possible topics for expansion
- The neverending Spike discussion: Spike/Buffy vs Buffy/Angel, "Seeing Red" and the attempted rape, etc.
- The Kitten Board and the controversy surrounding Tara's death
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Season 8 and surrounding controversy
- The UCSL and pioneering (in some circles) a freer approach to pairings
- One of the earliest fandoms to "grow up" entirely online, effects of? ie, higher tolerance for experimental/short/unusual styles of writing (see also The X-Files)
- Issues with general dislike/bashing of Buffy the character, esp among slash fans
- Sites with screencaps and transcripts etc. attacked by Fox
- Tropes e.g. Halloween costume fics.
Challenges, comms, and sites from the last 4 years or so) (please expand!)
- The Sunnydale Herald
- Bloodclaim
- Femslash_Minis
- Maleslashminis
- Secret Slasha
- Buffyverse1000
- The Buffyverse Dialogue Database
- Fall for SX
- Summer of Giles
- The Forbidden Awards
Older communities:
- The Bronze posting board on the now-defunct buffy.com
Vidding related: The Buffy and Angel fandoms had a strong digital vidding community. Among them:
- Nummy Treat - a Yahoo Mailing List For Vidders
- Buffyverse Music Video Database
- Sunnydale Stories - Vid Awards
- Video Elite's Buffy Music Video Listings
- Art of Vidding Music Video Awards (Multiple Fandoms but includes both Buffy and Angel)
The Buffy vidding community also offered vidders numerous awards, some of which are archived here.
- MZP's Buffy: The Virtual Continuation - the Scoobies relocate to Cleveland
- Slayer Academy - follows young Slayers at the newly-formed Rupert Giles Academy
- All About Spike (Spike centric; no longer being updated)
- Anywhere But Here (second-person Giles fic)
- Better Buffy Fic List and Archive
- Bodice Ripper (Giles-centric archive)
- Bright Minds and Dark Magics (Willow/Giles fic)
- The BtVS Writers' Guild (an archive with fic resources)
- Buffy Fan Fiction Archive and Awards Master List (lists active and inactive fan fiction archives along with lists of active/inactive awards)
- Buffy Fiction Archive (large automated archive)
- Buffygiles.com eFiction (a slayer and her watcher)
- The Buffy/Giles Fanfiction Archive (Buffy and Giles as a couple)
- Buffy'n'Faith (Fuffy; Buffy/Faith slash)
- Chaos Child (Ethan Rayne fic, no longer updated)
- Chasing Daylight (Dawn Summers/Faith Lehane slash)
- Cordy Slash (Cordelia Chase slash fanfiction)
- The Crypt (organized by author)
- Crypt of Fic (BtVS & AtS stories)
- The Darker Side of Sunnydale (link) (darkfic; no longer being updated)
- Elysian Fields (Spike/Buffy shipping)
- Exquisite Coalescence (femslash)
- The Fanfic Status Network is a web page that hosts updates about the current status of fic archives for Angel and Buffy fandom
- Hairy Eyeball (Willow/Giles archive)
- History Lesson (link) (past Slayers)
- I Kind of Love You (Buffy/Willow fanfic archive)
- I Need a Parrot (Xander zone of the BtVS Writers' Guild)
- Kennedy Fanfic (Kennedy Prescott slash)
- Land of Denial (Buffy/Angel archive)
- Loaded (Giles and Oz site)
- The Mystic Muse (BtVS and AtS fiction)
- Near Her Always (Willow Zone of the BtVS Writers Guild)
- Nocturnal Light (Spike/Buffy fiction)
- Poetic Attraction (Buffy and "William the Bloody") (partial archive) (alternative archive link)
- Sinister Attraction (Spike and Buffy fiction)
- A Slayer, A Hacker (Buffy/Willow)
- The Slayer's Fanfic Archive 1997-? (now defunct)
- Slayersville Fan Fiction Archive (small independent archive)
- Through the Looking Glass (Willow/Tara story archive)
- When the Clock Strikes challenge (link)
- Willow Femslash (defunct)
- Squared (Faith fiction)
- Spander Files (Spike/Xander slash)
- SpuffyRealm (Buffy/Spike adult fiction)
- Twisting the Hellmouth is a site devoted primarily to BtVS crossovers.
- Unconventional Relationshippers (BtVS in a wide variety of pairings)
- Unprodigal Daughter (Tara Maclay fiction)
- Unsung Heroines (Anya, Cordelia, Dawn, Faith, Fred and/or Tara)
- Xander Zone (Xander-centric)
Neither Buffy nor Angel fandoms were fanzine-centric and the majority of the fan fiction and artwork is published online. There are several e-zines in the form of fan fiction publications and/or newsletters. A partial list can be found here.
For a list of Buffy fanzines on Fanlore go: Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer/Fanzines
Various fansites were created for the Buffy fandom.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online
- BuffyWorld
- BuffyGuide.com
- Much Ado About Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Laugh Lines, Love Lines
- All Things Philosophical on BtVS and AtS
- Fanlisting
Meta/Further Reading
- feminist community in BtVS; archive link by heresluck (2005)
- That Girl: Bella, Buffy, and the FeministEthics of Choice in Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Catherine Coker, for Slayage
- Every Argument About "Buffy" On The Internet, From 1998 Until Now; archive link, spikesjojo.tumblr (May 26, 2017?)
- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Reimagined by Its Fans, Carla Correa and Neil Genzlinger for nytimes.com (March 27, 2017)
- ↑ "That character had been brewing in me for many years. I finally sat down and had written it and somebody had made it into a movie, and I felt like -- well, that's not quite her. It's a start, but it's not quite the girl." Interview with Whedon on Dark Horse website linked via the wayback machine. (Last accessed August 2, 2009.)
- ↑ TFL 101 on fanlistings.org, accessed May 17 2019.
- ↑ For example, see Joss' Evil Plans for Xander (Spoilers up to 7.18). April 24, 2003, post on BABoards. See also this Flickr image by Which Witch, joss is evil, uploaded May 7, 2006
- ↑ a blog somewhere. help?


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That's where the inspiration for these whoopie pies came from. Chris had a whoopie pie sundae months ago and I always thought it would be fun to make some homemade ones. Well, that got put on the back burner, only to be reincarnated as what had the potential to be the most delicious whoopie pie ever.
I wanted to make up this recipe myself instead of using someone else's, so I started reading articles online in order to figure out how to incorporate cocoa powder into my recipe (I remembered reading somewhere about baking soda), which ended up leading me to another blog. David Lebovitz, an expert on everything relating to chocolate and ice cream, cleared up some confusion between Dutch-processed cocoa powder and natural cocoa powder. Cocoa beans are acidic in nature, and Dutch-processeing neutralizes the acidity from the cocoa beans, while natural cocoa powder has not been neutralized. Therefore, in baking recipes, natural cocoa powder is paired with baking soda because it helps neutralize the cocoa and keep it from giving your confections a bitter taste (the more you know...). The supermarket didn't have Dutch-processed powder, so I picked up some natural powder and a box of baking soda.
To modify my recipe, I removed some of the flour and replaced it with the cocoa powder and added equal parts of baking soda and powder. I also decided to use buttermilk instead of regular milk because I have to use up that powdered buttermilk. Plus I read it's supposed to give desserts a richer and sweeter taste so I figured why not. What's wrong with making chocolate richer and sweeter?
|See how the batter is coming up around the tip?
Leave the tip in the batter as you pipe.
Once all of your little chips are baked and cooled, match them up according to size. Affix another piping bag with the same tip (cleaned, of course) and fill with the butterscotch frosting. Pipe the frosting onto the bottom side of one of the "chips" in the same manner that you piped the batter onto the baking mat. Match the chip up with its pair and ta-da! You have your whoopie pie.
|They kind of look like roses, right? Right?
The cake was rich and delicious, and the butterscotch came through in the frosting. Definitely do not skimp on the frosting when filling your whoopie pies and keep your whoopie pies small, there's less of a chance they'll break apart when handling. Stick them in the fridge or freezer for a cold treat or top them with ice cream and drizzle chocolate sauce or extra butterscotch ganache over them. The possibilities are endless! These are so delicious and I can't wait to experiment with different flavor combinations. Next step - macarons! Well, at least once this heat/humidity dies down.
Butterscotch Whoopie Pies
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Group1 Paste
2 lemongrass (sliced)
2 pieces galangal (cut finely)
2 red onions
1 clove garlic
2 tsp. shrimp paste
1 tsp. kiffir lime skin (sliced)
5 dried red chili peppers
Group 2
1 cup cooked shrimp (peeled and de-veined) squid and cooked snapper meat (slice and take out the bone)
1 egg (beat)
½ cup thickest part of coconut cream
1 cup soft coconut meat (sliced)
2 tbsp. milk
½ cup sweet basil
2 tbsp. fish sauce
½ tsp. sugar
Cooking Instruction:
Making the paste by grounding everything in group 1 ingredients together.
Heat the pan and put olive oil. Then, add the paste and stir it for 30 sec.
Add coconut cream. Mix it together.
Now, put shrimp, squid and fish. Add fish sauce and sugar.
Lastly, put coconut meat and mix it with beat egg. Then add milk and sweet basil.
Serve it on coconut shell.


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