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"There are wee bits of wall standing ... the reality is, it's
unlikely [it can be saved].
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mine, was believed to be 103 years old. The estimated 7m long
by 3m wide single-room, dry-timber dwelling was not supplied
with electricity.
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from Auckland. No-one was hurt in the fire.
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dampen hotspots.
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structural fire. However, the fire was under control by the
time it arrived at Glenorchy Fire Station and it was stood
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Rave Dame by DevilsHavenWatch
©2008-2016 DevilsHaven
My male version's name is Damien... Damien Hatcher. DH for short XD
This is his favorite night hobby (other than LOOOOVE MAKIN'
RAVE DANCING and wearing as many glowing glow stick accessories as possible. ALL THE PRETTY GLOWING COLORSSSSSSS
I love things that glow, they make me happy 8D
I <3 how he came out. I make him look so sexalicious!
NOTE: I know I'm missing my tattoo I will work back into this... AND WILL attempt a background... maybe... LOL
This is his favorite night hobby (other than LOOOOVE MAKIN'
RAVE DANCING and wearing as many glowing glow stick accessories as possible. ALL THE PRETTY GLOWING COLORSSSSSSS
I love things that glow, they make me happy 8D
I <3 how he came out. I make him look so sexalicious!
NOTE: I know I'm missing my tattoo I will work back into this... AND WILL attempt a background... maybe... LOL
Can I use your art for my furry videos?
This is soo awesome! Cud i use this pic in one of my future videos? I'm making "a furry rave" video, sort of, and this pic wud be perfect for it !
neat colors - 13 points - techno base - 20 points - long hair - 10 points - furry guy - 113 points - awesome tail and sneaky smug grin - 100 points - in all... what the heck i LOVE it !
i like glowing colors too.
I'm not one for furry ravers.. but I do like this : )
Very cool. I can never get the anatomy right in poses like that. >:v
thats all i have to say
thats all i have to say
BAMF. i see this pic in so many rave furry vids on youtube.
wow. this is so beautiful! Rave scenes are usually all the same. But this one is really good! worthy of a + fav for sure.
this is so awesome XD!
sweet mate!
You furries are so expressive, and perhaps even taboo--but still expressive. HAH! I can definately see the carnal fun and dance funk in this pic. Nice glow. You should do a whole rave scene.
Other than than, this character emphasis is good with the color choice. Keep doing what you do.
Other than than, this character emphasis is good with the color choice. Keep doing what you do.
this is assome!! <3
gotta love raves, gotta love furry, man i need to find a combination of the two near where i live, stupid moving making me lose contacts
I am pleased that this image actually shows wrist movement in a rave setting.
*molests tail*
he's hawt. AAARGH! lookin' at all your pretty furries is makin' me want to draw mine!
he's hawt. AAARGH! lookin' at all your pretty furries is makin' me want to draw mine!
<3 Yes, my tail enjoys that. haha.
And go ahead and draw yours.
And go ahead and draw yours.
Yes. I agree with the 'sexalicious' part. XD Great work, as always.
Wonderful image; this character has a wonderful fluidity of movement about him.
THIS is the one I will buy if you make a BG. I really like the way it came out. You've been improving. ^^
hilul i'm getting the slow internet soon BUT it doesn't help much cuz no adapters work with my laptop's plug thing so i can't load the battery = can't use computer ): i really hope i get things to work soon gah. The closest electronics store is too far so i can't walk/ride a bike there. And everyone i know who has a car is busy or not in japan at the moment. Byuu miss you. Ps raves suck cocktails. I'd never go to a rave x3 discos too eww. Guarantined migraines. My lamp's switch glows in dark and it annoys me to death >x< there's a festival thing at the himeji castle and i wanna go but it's 25 min by foot from where i live and i don't know the way >A<; oh well wouldn't be any fun alone anyway.
I miss you so much. This morning, I woke up thinking about you and I miss you sooo much. I sat in my bus and cried a little because I miss talking to you and attacking you with random rps. I miss you and our kiddles are makng love to pillows by now. I REALLY hope that you get the adapter soon and that you can use your computer to talk to me and attack me with love. I miss you so much and I really wish for your happiness. I said something really deep today in psychology and I cried like a baby. You know whats funny? Today, I was talking to Yoro and I was telling her how much I missed you and I kept thinking about hugging you and holding you and making you smile and spoiled. I'd love to spoil you. All my life, I try to spoil everyone I love. Again, my mom is considering letting me go to Japan ALONE. And if you still have your apartment, maybe I can stay with you <3333333333333 I miss you and I hope you smile when you read my comment. That would make me happy. As long as I make you happy, I'll be happy. Thoughts of you keep me happy all day. I love you so much! <3333
my internet is going to be super slow though T^T and i've tried to think of how everything would work if you came here and it's impossible for you to stay at my place, for many reasons. First i only have one key and once i leave my apartment you'd have to either stay inside all day watching tv or stay outside alone, my fridge doesn't have space for two ppl's food, i don't have an extra blanket or anything so you'd have to sleep on the floor. Even if i bought something to sleep on i wouldn't have a place for it after you left and in the morn and evening you'd have to let me shower and eat first and then i'd be at school and come home to do hw all night v_v So you'd really have to stay at a hotel. And like i mentioned long ago on msn i can't get sleep well or concentrate on school stuff when someone's around (it would be weird to dress in the bathroom and wear something all the time and have to reschedule everything too) so it'd be best if you came here when i have time off school, like a national holiday. But on holidays my parents also come here. But they won't stay all holiday so you could visit later. I don't know the times yet but i know my parents are coming during my summer vacation and maybe once before that. Dad will send some stuff my cpu might work with next week but it's going to take time until it's here and the post office is very far so i might have to wait until someone can give me a ride to go get the packet when it arrives. Hmm what else...the weather changes a lot but if you came during my summer vacation it's gonna be super hot but you're used to it lol. It would really be easier if you came next year bc i'm going to be here and then we could go some place cool other than my lil city after i know how to get around. Now i'm still getting used ...and lost x'3 if you visited now we couldn't really do anything fun. it's been so rainy i want warm days >3< and i want to find a bookstore. Last time my teacher told me to try to find it myself near a place i knew in the central i got lost and never found it =3= i should study kanji now so byebye ;; i hate not being able to use my cpu. I realised that if my internet will be as slow as it will be using bittorrent will be impossible so no drama or anime for a year =x= i don't really have time to watch it when it's on tv and i don't have the channels i'd need. I wish i'll get something that allows me to move the photos on my camera to my cpu i really wanna show you and take more pics >A< -sits on-
C: That's the thing, I wont be going any time this year. Most probably it will be next year during my summer or winter break in college. I MISS YOU SO MUCH. And if I do go, I'll take your advise and stay in a hotel but visit EVERY SECOND I CAN when I'm not disrupting anything <333 I wanna spend so much time with you and hug you and spoil you GAH. By that time, I'll have plenty of my own money and I'll convert it to yen and buy you stuff you can have in your apartment to ALWAYS remember you by! I miss you so much, there's not one moment I don't think about you! I had a dream I called you all the way in Japan and when you said my name, I found it adorable and "AW'd" for like the longest time! x3 I still remember that STRANGE dream I had where we were hugging and doing stuff in this weird room full of white beds and stuff D:> I do not know lululul. I catch myself saying your name a lot when I talk to friends <333 x3 One of my friends always asks me if I spoke to you and if you have internet and if we've contacted eachother. She was the one to suggested I call you irl. XD She was all like "buy a calling card and see if it works! Get her japan phone number! It'll be cute!" LOL *cuddle* I MISS YOU AND I LOVE YOU and keep sending me comments, they make me smile <333
LS: Great work! I like the lights. They look awesome.
Sooooo cuuutee!!!...^^ love your male V. ...X3
I like the arms muscular definition, the clothes and the lights effects.... mainly everything on it....=3
I also love glowingsticks... I practice Poi and have been presenting in some bars and clubs.... it's just awesome.....
Got to this!!!..
I like the arms muscular definition, the clothes and the lights effects.... mainly everything on it....=3
I also love glowingsticks... I practice Poi and have been presenting in some bars and clubs.... it's just awesome.....
Got to this!!!..
It's beautiful
I LOVE THIS!!!!! Am a raver myself and this shows the fun perfectly. the color fades are really great too <3
Awesome! ...And sexy...X3
wow that is so cool.


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Last week Glenn Smyth, Chief Architect from the Adelaide Bank presented for us at the Melbourne Architect Council.
Ostensibly, this was a talk about SOA, and how you can use capability modelling (ala Motion, now called MSBA) to guide some of your decisions about implementing service oriented architectures. But really, the talk was about good old fashioned organisational politics.
Want IT architecture to have an impact on the business? Get the role out of IT, and _into_ the business. What does this mean? In the case of Adelaide Bank, it means that architecture is a strategic group that reports directly to the CEO. They have a voice with the business, and are seen as adding strategic direction and business value to the organisation rather than simply being seen as 'governance' and 'standards'.
This also means that to be truly effective, enterprise architects MUST understand the business, which further implies that the business itself must be able to articulate what their actual business strategy is. This might seem trite, but quite often it's the case that the business has trouble with this. It's not enough to say "increase market share" or "improve customer retention and monetisation" or even "maximise profits through improved execution and reduced costs". The strategy needs to be more specific than this, and include a clear view of the business intent of the organisation as well as some clear thoughts on the business operating model (ala the thinking from Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution).
The upshot is that if, as an enterprise architect, you aren't armed with a clear view of the business intent, strategy and operating model, you are more or less working in the dark as you try to align your architecture (and services) to the business.
It was a great session, with plenty of food for thought. I've attached Glenn's very useful annotated deck to this post - feel free to grab it and have a look at how capability mapping can help your thinking around SOA and working more closely with the business.


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Skip to comments.--> The Cult of Evolution the Opiate of the Atheists
Posted on 08/16/2005 11:23:20 AM PDT by woodb01
The Cult of Evolution the Opiate of the Atheists
evolution is based on superstitious religious secular fundamentalism
for the week of August 15, 2005 - NoDNC.com staff
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Evolutions basic premise is that all life on the planet miraculously emerged through a bunch of accidents. Current evolution teaches that natural selection is how we continue to evolve.
Unfortunately for evolutionists their recent beliefs have been challenged on interesting grounds. A new theory has come about to challenge the blind faith orthodoxy of the evolutionists, that theory is intelligent design.
Think of it like this, evolution believe that if you have a deck of 52 cards and two jokers, and then shuffle the deck thoroughly, and throw the entire deck up in the air as high as you can, that eventually all of the cards will land, in perfect order, and perfectly aligned. The probability of this even happening one time in a billion years approaches zero. Then, to believe evolutionary "theory," you have to accept on blind faith that this same miracle of perfect order from total chaos has repeated itself millions of times to account for each of the plants, animals, and life on earth. We'll leave it there for now. It gets a WHOLE LOT MORE COMPLICATED for the evolutionary cult. On the other hand, intelligent design says that after the evolutionist throws the cards up in the air and makes a mess, the intelligent designer comes along and carefully picks up each card and stacks them all up together, in sequence, and properly aligned.
Stepping back from evolution long enough to use critical thinking skills not taught much in public education these days, it becomes quickly apparent that evolution is nothing but a silly religious belief a type of secular fundamentalism demanding cult-like superstitious faith in the impossible. If I have your attention, lets take a careful look at what evolution requires us to accept on complete blind faith:
These are just a few of the major problems for the cult of evolution. They are certainly not the least of the problems. For example, under the accidents of evolution, where do emotions come from? Where does instinct come from? Why do humans have the ability to reason and understand right from wrong? And the list goes on. None of these innate characteristics can be explained by evolution.
Evolution is not science, because it can not be tested, verified, and there are no false results. The only false result to evolution is Intelligent Design (ID) because the theory of ID proves that evolution is false and therefore evolution adherents attack ID proposals with zealous fundamentalism.
Has anyone ever seen how zealously these evolutionary secular fundamentalists irrationally attack competing theories without answering the underlying problems with their beliefs?
Evolutionists routinely dodge issues like the origins of the universe because they know that if you stop and think hard about these issues, evolution falls apart as nothing but a widely held religious belief. If you can't explain where the raw material for the inputs to the "evolutionary process" come from, then you have no process. If you can't tell me how life started, and where its components came from, what the specific components were, what specific accident created life, then you have no process, only religious belief.
When you refuse to evaluate the inputs to a process, you have an incomplete process, it is unverifiable, and therefore un-provable, un-knowable, and an un-testable theory from a scientific perspective. You MUST at that point insert your suppositions and BELIEFS (i.e. secular fundamentalist religious beliefs) into the process. This is where it is no longer science, but superstition and blind religious faith.
It is understandable evolutionists would avoid many of these difficult questions because it exposes the preposterous "blind faith" required to accept evolution.
The cult of evolution is the opiate for the atheists.
Evolution is an atheists way to excuse their denial and rejection of god, it is their religion. To the degree that evolutionists dodge the difficult questions, like the origins of life's raw materials, how the five senses came about (how did one-celled organisms get the "idea" that senses were even needed?), how or why or where emotions come from, or a whole host of other questions, proves that it is not science, but secular fundamentalism. To the extent that evolutionists challenge competing theories such as Intelligent Design rather than answering the difficult questions or admitting that their theory has holes, it is not a scientific theory subject to the scientific process, but a cult based on zealous secular fundamentalism.
And on one hand, evolutionists expect you to believe that through a bunch of "accidents" life happened and "evolved" and then later, just the OPPOSITE takes place in the form of "natural selection." In other words, the "accidents" of life lead to deliberate selection. Under "natural selection" the "great god of evolution" decides who is the strongest and smartest and everyone else must be subjected to the superior race. Sounds a lot like what Hitler's National SOCIALISTS believed to me.
No amount of proving atheism, er, I mean evolution wrong will ever satisfy the secular fundamentalist religious cult of evolution. Even when those who support the theory of Intelligent Design are willing to engage in a dialog on the issue, the secular fundamentalists come out of the woodwork and shriek from the high heavens about how they refuse to prove one iota of their religious philosophy, but demand that ANYTHING that dares challenge their orthodoxy must be proven beyond any doubt. This is the essence of religious zealotry and blind religious fundamentalism--, it is the opiate of the atheists...
If those who adhere to evolution are genuinely interested in science, then they must evaluate the whole process, and if the inputs to that process, or many of its components such as the senses or emotions do not support the process then they must reject that theory (evolution) as unworkable. To do anything less is no longer science. But then again, evolutionists are not really interested in science.
Call me weak minded but I just don't have the blind, zealous, fundamentalist faith to believe that nothing created everything (the "Big Bang") and that life just spontaneously erupted from rocks, water, and a few base chemicals (evolution) through a bunch of "weird science" accidents. Step back, stop and actually THINK about the leaps of un-provable, totally blind-faith that evolution requires and unless you're one of its religious zealots, you too will reach the conclusion that evolution is a FRAUD!
Evolution, the opiate for atheists and the biggest hoax and fraud ever perpetrated on the Western World in History...
Additional Resources:
DNA: The Tiny Code That's Toppling Evolution (DNA is PROVING that evolution is a hoax)
The controversy over evolution includes a growing number of scientists who challenge Darwinism. (The fraud of Darwinism...)
Einstein Versus Darwin: Intelligent Design Or Evolution? (Most LEGITIMATE Scientists do NOT agree with Evolution)
Whats the Big Secret? (Intelligent Design in Pennsylvania)
What are the Darwinists afraid of? (The fervent religious belief in evolution)
The Little Engine That Could...Undo Darwinism (Evolution may be proven false very soon)
Individual posts have reached this depth, but considering the quantity we have here -- the sustained quantity -- I'm sure this thread, and it's lead article, have achieved the all-time record. It's a classic.
"Why do humans, and all other life, die at all? "
Why did God kill all the firstborn of Egypt?
"And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle." - Exodus 12:29
This piece is a nice summary on a few pages that ranges from the fact that someone climbed Mt. Everest to the claim that DNA demonstrates evolution impossible. Yeah, right.
Compare that to Ichumon's DNA post, where he assumes that everyone already knows that Mt Everest has been climbed, and starts right in explaining the mechanism of the smoking gun in DNA that proves a common ancestor between primates and humans.
The contrast between the two is just amazing. Propaganda vs. a genuine understanding of the science.
Nay, nay sirruh. I am that most feared of humans, a thoughtful, logical, questioning, human just as you apparently are. Besides I just like stirring the s**tpot periodically.
I can ask those questions because I believe in God and pray to Him at least twice a day, and rely upon Him for my very daily life.
I just know that he doesn't want blind obedience or slaves.
To all you Creationists out there...God gave you the brains (through evolution) try using them.
You are really freaking me out.
You just didn't get my point at all, did you?
I'll try again.
If God was perfect, then everything He did would be perfect. When God created imperfect humans and other creatures, it proves that God is not perfect (and strongly hints that maybe He's just a figment of your imagination).
When Christians stop pushing religion in public schools, then challenges to their beliefs will stop.
Evasionist claptrap. You are not perfect, why not?
These are excellent questions - I've pondered them before and have a working theory based on, yes, evolution:
1. The reason we care to live is that we are descendents of organisms that developed defense mechanisms in order to avoid predation by other organisms. Imagine the immense competitive advantage afforded to the first organisms that developed the ability to prey on other organisms as a means of gaining energy.
Until a random mutation occurred that provided a form of defense, there was no reason for any organism to 'care' whether or not it survived. Once it developed, however, it in turn gave organisms such a competive advantage that those traits can be found in every living organism today (plant or animal).
We can see firsthand how the survival instinct is deeply seated: try to capture and kill a fly; notice its desire to escape and survive. It obviously can't think, so why does it care? Because its genes are pre-programmed to 'care', no differently than ours.
2. The reason we care to explore, think and debate is also based on evolution. At some point long ago, human development became predicated on intelligence. This does not come without a cost; the energy requirements to fuel our brains is many times higher than pure physical brawn.
However, once that evolutionary path was followed (ie intelligence traits were passed down through generations of successful ancestors), we became dependent on thought for our very survival. Over time, a small percentage of the population (through purely random mutation and then selective breeding) became extremely intelligent, to the point that they possessed the ability to address (and attempt to answer) difficult philosphical and scientific questions.
People who care about science have as much ability to ignore discovery and thought as they have the ability to fly. That is, they have no choice - it's in their genes, which are themselves present due to succcessful survival strategies based on intelligence that were developed millions of years ago.
Yeah, why isn't life a multiple choice test instead of an essay?
Hey who shuffled them, that's what I'd like to know?
can you say RAW DEAL?
" You just didn't get my point at all, did you?"
Actually I was trying to reinforce your point.
There is some interesting stuff on your anti-evolution wevsite, such as the claim that there is as much information in the genome of a bacterium as ther is in a human. While this is not exactly true, it would contradict the claim that evolution would have to increase the quantity of information to change from a bacterium to a human.
To the extent that science does need protecting is merely a demonstration of the lunacy of it's attackers. Anti-scientists can't challenge science via the truth of their arguments, but must do so via government rule.
Very true. Sad, but true.
Nope. Sorry.
Ok, class, that's all there is to science. I'll pass out the final grade at the door.
Don't get eaten by a lion on the way home to the cave.
DNA has lots of junk in it. Your skin cells contain the recipe for your toenails in them. If bacteria has a large percentage of junk in their DNA, so what?
Perfect description of religion, though.
Great website and thanks!
later pingout.
Evolutions basic premise is that all life on the planet miraculously emerged through a bunch of accidents.
No it isn't. This is a dishonest statement.
The Cult of Evolution the Opiate of the Atheists
The Cult of ID - the Last Best Hope of the Religious Fundamentalist Fanatics.
The Cult of Evolution the Opiate of the Atheists
The Cult of ID - the Last Best Hope of the Religious Fundamentalist Fanatics.
In fact this guy's posting history is a treasure of delights. How about this for an original argument against evolution:
"So either evolution is false, or the Newton's laws, etc., are false."
Is he any relation to Malcom Wallop?
So either evolution is false, or the Newton's laws, etc., are false.
It's the beginning of the Intelligent Design Inquisition. No one expected this.
Whoever wrote it needs to go back to school. Or maybe he hasn't got there yet.
Or maybe just occupied space in a school for awhile, like desks do.
God failed to make perfect life. Therefore God is imperfect.
Is the grammar school serving Holy Communion again?
No, but some will soon be reaffirming Genesis though.
When Christians stop speaking out on issues relative to society, culture, and government then the challenges will cease because they'll just disappear into the mire.
There are plenty of cultural issues that Christians can, and should, get involved with. But making Christians, and conservatives, look like idiots with Santa Claus versions of science is not one of those.
Whether you like it or not, not all Christians agree that evolution is false. This is a religious dogma fight taking place in courtrooms and politics. It will do nothing but damage for both Christians and conservatives and their ability to get real change accomplished.
Let me put it another way: When Christians are effectively silenced in the public arena, then you'll be happy.
When Christians stop interfering in science and science education, then I'll be happy. Many other things they do I approve of wholeheartedly.
Evolution is not science, because it can not be tested, verified, and there are no false results.
Fossil evidence that human beings were contemporaneous with T-Rex would certainly be a "false result" that would cause the TOE major problems.
But then, don't let logic get in the way of your fantasy and ruin the buzz.
ROFLOL. Thanks. You made my day.
I appreciate the link and the smile that came with it, but, unfortunately, it's not really funny.
What's tongue in cheek often has the unfortunate tendency to show up later as gospel.
"Evolutions basic premise is that all life on the planet miraculously emerged through a bunch of accidents."
Since this is untrue and neither Darwin nor educators today have anything to say about origins of life based on Darwins teaching, everything else this person has to say is suspect. Natural selection is an established fact and can be readily observed in nature over as little as a few generations.
Its funny because it hits the nail absolutely square on the head :o)
What's tongue in cheek often has the unfortunate tendency to show up later as gospel.
Like bad SNL skits, right.
Religion's basic premise is that all "life" on the planet miraculously "emerged" through a few waves of a magic wand.
Sounds about equally stupid, I think.
"how does an "accident" suddenly develop a detailed system for a very SPECIFIC purpose"
That's not what evolution requires. Things like eyes evolved over hundreds of millions of generations. Under evolutions you get small changes over many generations that gradually add up to very complex systems.
Does the end product look more like an accident or an artifact?
Exhibit A - The Elephant Man.
LOL! Are you a drama queen?
I'd like to know the inputs into the formula for how the author calculated the odds of this happening. I won't hold my breath waiting to know. I never got past this tidbit.
For once, I'd like to read a pro-ID article from someone that actually understands science and evolution.
LOL! Are you a drama queen?
No. Just a Neo-Nazi.
All humor has to have a bit of truth in it.
This does.
If it's about evangelism, then it's about the Church of Evolution having a proselytizing monopoly.
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Results of Anatomic Lateral Ankle Ligament Reconstruction with Tendon Allograft
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Chronic ankle instability can be addressed surgically through direct lateral ligament repair, non-anatomic reconstruction, or anatomic reconstruction. The goal of this study was to assess the radiographic, functional, and clinical results of patients undergoing an anatomic lateral ankle ligament reconstruction using an anterior tibial tendon allograft. Eleven patients (12 feet; mean age, 48.9 ± 11.4 years) undergoing lateral ankle ligament reconstruction were followed at a mean of 3.5 ± 1.7 years after surgery (range, 1.2 to 5.0 years). Indications for surgery were previous failed repair (i.e., Broström; one case), hyperlaxity (seven cases), and high-demand patients (four cases). Subjective outcomes including the Foot and Ankle Outcome Score (FAOS), SF-36, and activity level were assessed. Mortise and lateral ankle stress radiographs were performed. The FAOS daily activity and sports activity subscores were 93.4 (range, 77.9 to 100) and 78.6 (range, 30 to 100), respectively. The SF-36v2 physical health and mental health components were 50.4 (range, 30.6 to 65.7) and 45.0 (range, 24.8 to 68.0), respectively. Four patients (five feet) reported no restriction; six patients reported mild restrictions, and one patient reported moderate activity restrictions. Tibiotalar tilt improved significantly from 20.2° to 4.6° after surgery (p < 0.01). The radiographic anterior displacement of the talus from the tibia was 6.5 mm postoperatively. The technique described restores mechanical stability in patients with chronic lateral ankle instability and may be considered in a select group of patients.
Keywordschronic ankle instability lateral ligaments anatomic ligament reconstruction allograft anterior tibial tendon
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Jeanette's card is loaded with techniques! She sponged the background with burnt umber and yellow ink, heat-embossed the gift with gold embossing powder and finished off her card with Spirelli punches and gold thread for the sunburst greeting. I love how the Spirelli punches mimic the flowers in the color inspiration photo!
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|"Trinity" #26 on sale now
âTrinityâ #26 arrives in comic book stores today, meaning DC Comicsâ third consecutive weekly series has hit the halfway mark.
Multiple Eisner Award-winner Kurt Busiek (âAstro City,â âMarvelsâ) writes the main 12-page story, drawn by superstar artist Mark Bagley, for each issue and frequently co-writes the 10-page backup feature with long-time pal Fabian Nicieza. A rotating team, consisting of Scott McDaniel, Tom Derenick and Mike Norton, provides the art for the backup portions.
The epic events unraveling in âTrinityâ predominantly tell the tale of what the DC Universe would be like without its three greatest legends, after a spell cast by Morgaine le Fey, Enigma and Despero creates an alternate timeline void of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Trouble is, Despero was actually classic Justice League nemesis Kanjar Ro in disguise, so even the villains didnât get what they expected.
CBR's weekly TRINGENUITY feature spotlights and analyzes every issue of "Trinity," and with the series now and its halfway mark, we spoke with Busiek himself from his home in Vancouver, Washington about the incredible canvas DC has provided him with, and how the fan favorite writer plans to use every inch of the fabric, front and back, before May 27, 2009.
CBR: With âTrinityâ #26 in stores this week, have you almost finished writing the series?
Kurt Busiek: No, no, no. Let me put it this way, weâre not in danger of shipping late, but I fully expect that by the time weâre done, we will get there. The idea was that we needed plenty of lead time so that we would have the time we needed to cover the fact that Mark Bagley really canât draw 12 pages a week. He can come close to it. Some weeks he can actually do it, depending on whether Iâve dumped a million characters fighting in the Parthenon on him this week [laughs]. But the expectation is that we are going to lose time on schedule as we go along. And I expect -- this series ends in May -- by late April I wonât be doing anything but âTrinity.â When a new page comes in, itâs got to be scripted [laughs].
|Pages from "Trinity" #26
Have you enjoyed the experience so far? Is it what you were expecting?
Itâs varied. I have some medical issues. I have some fatigue problems that come and go. And when the fatigue problems are strong, itâs difficult to get stuff done. And when theyâre not, thatâs when I try to get ahead. So theyâre have been times, and this is another thing that I fully expected when I went in, when itâs like this is the greatest assignment in the world and times when itâs like, I want to kill everybody who didnât stop me. [laughs]
Seriously, I keep talking to Mark Bagley and he keeps mentioning that he gets to draw everybody. And I think that I get to write everybody. And we get to go anywhere and do anything and weâre not having to change this, that and the other thing because we have to tie-in to whatever series is going on. Weâre telling a big, big novel of the DC Universe that gets to stand on its own. Itâs not like it doesnât build on what came before and itâs not like there wonât be repercussions, but you donât have to go somewhere else to understand the story.
It sounds like the lack of editorial limitations is pretty liberating.
Having that kind of canvas is great. And apparently the series is doing well enough and people are happy enough with it â nobody at the office is messing with us. Theyâre not telling us we have to change our plan. Theyâre saying, âHey, every week another issue goes off to the printer. And we like it. Keep going.â
What issue are you scripting right now?
I donât want to say that. I just completed the outline for the third act to the series. Weâre wrapping up the second act and heading into the third â thatâs nicely non-specific.
Over the course of the project, have you developed a greater fondness for any characters? Or are there any you canât stand now?
|Pages from "Trinity" #26
I really like comics and like the big sprawl of the DC Universe, so Iâm not going to say, âI decided I hate this guy.â Itâs not how my mind works. But it has been fun, when we went into this, we figured these characters, Gangbuster, Tarot, Kovikt, these are our important secondary characters. And as we have gone along, we thought John Stewart was going to be important and he turned out to be even more important than we thought. But we didnât know Firestorm was going to be important. He just kind of appeared in the story because we needed somebody to go looking for John and we needed someone who would ask questions because he didnât know this stuff and that was Firestorm. And that sort of set up this relationship between Firestorm and John Stewart that ended up being important later and itâs going to be important again later on.
So having things like that, we didnât know going into it that Hawkman was going to be as key a character. But, because we have this big sprawling, 1,000-plus page story, we have room for it. âWhat this character is doing is valuable and interesting to the story so letâs bring this up and devote a little space to it. And use him or her to build towards what we are doing in the third act.â That part of the experience has been great.
âTrinityâ #25 came out last week, if this was a monthly comic, this would be the end of our second year. So in order to get this much stuff, weâd be working on this book for four-and-a-half years. But weâre doing it all in one. Itâs great to be able to build that kind of structure and develop it and watch it grow and work with the stuff that comes up thatâs surprising on the kind of pacing schedule that weâve got.
Instead of saying, âThatâs a great bit. We could pay that off in a year.â We can say, âThatâs a great bit. We could pay that off in 10 issues, which is only two-and-a-half months.â
Has the story of âTrinityâ changed much since originally envisioned?
|Page from "Trinity" #26
Weâre pretty well staying the course. We started out with an outline for the series, but it was a loose outline. We were going to hit these points; we were going to end here. It was the spine of the story and as long as weâre serving that story spine, if we found out, âHey, we can use Hawkman to do this.â Then great, weâre using Hawkman. We needed him to do that anyway, we just hadnât specifically decided on how that particular element was going to be brought through.
Each third of the book, each act of the story, weâve done a tighter outline. And then worked our way through that and then done our next outline. And now, itâs outlined tightly all the way to the end. But thereâs still room in it for inspiration. But weâve got to the point where we know all of the dominoes weâve set up. We knock them all down in a way so that theyâre useful. So that Character X over here, who Iâve introduced into the story doesnât disappear. He needs to fit into the conclusion. As I was going over the final bits of the outline with Fabian [Nicieza], we hit one bit that was just perfect. We needed to do something with one character by having them interact with these other characters. And it allowed them to do exactly what we needed but we hadnât figured out how to do it yet. They had to do something that showed X. That showed these emotions. And I laughed, âItâs almost liked we planned this thing out from the beginning.â
The fact is thatâs a real fun way to work. Thatâs how I did âAvengers Forever.â That was only 12 issues instead of 52, but even back then I told [editor] Tom Brevoort, âGoing into it this, I might need 13 issues.â I said, âWe have a lot of stuff to do and I think weâll get it done in 12 but we have at least enough outline going on that if we need the extra issueâ¦â And he said, âIf you need the extra issue, you can probably have it.â [laughs]. I donât think Marvel would have complained about another issue that would have sold well. But itâs nice to have that kind of freedom and latitude so that you can explore.
And in the case of âTrinity,â there is no question that 52 issues is what we needed and as we get towards the end of it, I might be going, âOh, if we only had another 10 issues.â But Iâm not looking at that right now.
You knew Mark Bagley and Fabian Nicieza before you started on this project. Have you enjoyed working with them again?
|"Trinity" #27 on sale next week
Itâs been a thrill. I spent three years working with Mark on âThunderbolts,â and with Fabian, weâd done a little co-writing before but Iâve mostly worked with him on an editorial basis. He was an editor at Marvel and Iâd done a couple of things for him. And then he was Editor-in-Chief of Acclaim and I did âNinjakâ there. Weâve always got along and we have a similar enough sensibility so Fabian is the guy I call up on the weekends and go, âIâm stuck. What do I do?â
And weâre always talking out the plots for the back chapters, so Fabian is a terrific sounding board, heâs a great collaborator on the backup stories and heâs sort of serving as, I donât want to say story editor, because thatâs Mike Carlin. But he serves in that kind of role. Mike probably has 12 or 13 books going at any one time. Fabian and I are so deep into the âTrinityâ story that if I have a problem with something thematic or a bit that could set up here and we were going to pay off here but if maybe we should do it this way instead -- I have to spend ten minutes explaining the setup to Mike.
And if I say to Fabian, âOh, you know that bit in Tel Avivâ and he goes, âYep.â Or, âwhat if weâ¦â âYeah, that would be good.â Or, âI donât know. What if we did this?â
I work best when I work with somebody I can talk to a lot. Whether thatâs an artist like Alex Ross, or an editor like Tom Brevoort, or when I was doing âConan,â the guy I talked to with all the time was Scott Allie and that worked out great. With âTrinity,â itâs Fabian and thatâs worked out perfectly.
And Mark can draw anything. And I am making him prove it. He went into this knowing he was going to be drawing Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman and a bunch of other guys. I donât know if he expected just how many âother guys.â But he shows no signs of not liking it. He keeps telling me that this is a great way to enter the DC Universe. He gets to do everybody.
|"Trinity" #28
I was just thinking, off the top of my head, we havenât had him to the Metal Men yet. But yeah, we did, the evil Metal Men. [laughs]
And then thereâs the other guys working on the backups, Scott McDaniel, Tom Derenick and Mike Norton. Mike Carlin brought them in because theyâre fast, theyâre dependable and theyâre good. But put that aside â and those are all good things that you need on a book like âTrinityâ â Scott McDaniel is great at gritty crime action and spooky mood stuff. Mike Norton is great at clean, straight-forward storytelling and sort of sunny day, superhero stuff and ordinary people drama. And Tom Derenick is great at big, bold super action and cosmic spacey stuff and science fiction. And weâve got all of that in the backup. So itâs really easy to say, âOh, this chapter here should go to Mike Norton because itâs a Mike Norton type of story. Oh these two issues are going to be back-to-back and they have to be Tom Derenick because theyâre that kind of story and hereâs a story that has to be Scott McDaniel.â
Having that variety and having those guys available is a terrific advantage. I am trying to think, I hadnât worked with Norton, I never worked with Derenick and I have been spending the last three years telling editors that I want to work Derenick, âCan we have him do a Superman fill-in?â And McDaniel, Iâve never worked with him and itâs been a revelation working with all three of them. Itâs been wonderful and Iâd be happy to work with any one of them again.
Do you know what project youâll be doing next? We spoke with Mark Bagley at Fan Expo in Toronto back in August and he said he already knew his next project.
No, I donât what I am doing next. See, Mark has an advantage in that heâs an artist. So he sits there drawing all day and that takes a lot of mental work but it also means you are drawing fire hydrants and curbs in the background and youâve got lots of time to think. [laughs]
|"Trinity" #29
Maybe only two or three weeks ago, Mike Carlin called me up and said, âWhen you are done with âTrinity,â what are you going to do next? We should talk about that if you going to do something here. If you are going to do something for another editor or if you are going to do something that we have to set up with [Executive Editor] Dan [DiDio]. But you should start thinking about it.â
So Iâve started thinking about it and weâve talked about a few things â nothing is actually set but then thatâs that other advantage of being an artist is while Mark Bagley and Fabian and I and the other guys are finishing âTrinity,â whoever the writer is on Markâs new project can already be working on scripts, so when Mark turns in my last page, Iâm sure heâs going to want to sleep for a week but when that week is done, he has work waiting for him.
In my case, I am going to want to sleep for a week, maybe two weeks, then Iâll start thinking about my next project. And that wonât be until next May or June.
Whatâs coming up in âTrinityâ in the months and weeks ahead?
Weâll see who and why Tarot is the way she is. Itâs a big important thing. Weâve dropped the hints of where we are going several times and this one, answers that question in a big way â although not without managing to get some obscure DC continuity in there that a few people will recognize. There are a couple of bits in there that I donât expect anybody to recognize. But thatâs just the way I am.
|"Trinity" #30
What weâve been seeing in the second act is the spell that was supposed to change the world went wrong. It changed the world but in the way people thought it was going to. So we are now dealing with the changed world as people find out. Weâve got several stories happening on one side. Carter Hall and the Justice Society have brought the Justice League in to team up with them and deal with the reality changing around them in a direct and super-heroic way. Alfred Pennyworth has put together a team, for lack of a better term, Fabian and I call the Supporting Cast Squad, to pursue things in a different way and Tarot and Charity in Opal City are trying to deal with the roots of it from Tarotâs experience.
Meanwhile, Morgaine le Fey and the villains are off to Europe taking their own steps. Youâre going to see more reality changes; you are going to see people figuring out how the reality changes work and why.
For good or for ill, Konvikt returns and gets a name. Dreambound returns in some odd ways and youâll see the motivational secrets of pickled herring.
Youâll also see Lex Luthor, Tomorrow Woman, Dark Arcana and the creation of a universe.
And youâre going to find out where the Trinity is. [laughs] Thatâs going to be a big part of whatâs going on.
âTrinityâ #26 is on sale now from DC Comics.


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11 April 2012 - 04:02 AM
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11 April 2012 - 01:24 AM
I'm really honestly puzzled as to why you're using an evolutionary algorithm for pathing, when pathing is a very well understood problem with a number of extremely good solutions.It kind of strikes me as similar to using a sandwich to hammer in nails. If you're incredibly patient and have really cooperative nails, you might get somewhere before you die of old age... but it seems to me like you should trade the sandwich for a hammer and just get the job done.
10 April 2012 - 05:04 AM
@Apoch: I thought of mentioning influence maps, but they seem much less useful when using the "pick x random locations" approach to navigation as opposed to A*. Calculating the influence map would dwarf selecting a location if you only consider a handful of locations each frame and enemies can move.I do definitely agree that enemy influence needs to drop off. Many functions that are asymptotic to zero would be fine, because otherwise the weights of a few enemies anywhere on the map could totally overwhelm the goal-seeking behaviour.Lastly I would suggest reconsidering using a better pathfinding method unless there's a good reason. Imagine this scenario:- Goal G is at (0,0).- Enemy E1 is at (50,0).- Enemy E2 is at (0,50).- Player P is at (50,50).For values of c >= 0.5, P will almost never reach G, instead being repelled by E1 and E2. In fact the same applies if P starts anywhere on the map outside the triangle G, E1, E2. You may think that tweaking the value of c will fix the problem, but if you keep adding enemies it will break again.
10 April 2012 - 03:44 AM
I have to ask... why generate candidates randomly? It's an unusual approach to pathfinding.
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Ukraine's prospects of signing a historic deal with the European Union suffered a severe blow Wednesday after parliament failed to agree a bill that would allow the release of jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko.
The release of the opposition leader is a key condition set by EU leaders for Ukraine signing an Association Agreement — a first step towards EU membership. But an extraordinary session of parliament ended without deputies even taking a vote on the issue.
Ukraine may have a final chance to agree the bill when parliament convenes again on November 19, but this is one day after a meeting of top EU diplomats that was meant to decide if Ukraine can sign the deal at a November 28-29 summit in Vilnius.
Speaker Volodymyr Rybak declared the parliamentary session closed after a working group of the ruling Regions Party and opposition failed to agree a joint text for the bill.
Rybak's announcement was followed by cries of "Shame!" from the staunchly pro-EU opposition, who accused President Viktor Yanukovych of never wanting to sign the agreement in the first place.
The bill would have allowed convicts to leave Ukraine for treatment abroad and thus permit Tymoshenko, who suffers from back pain, to go to a clinic in Germany.
"The authorities do not want to sign the Association Agreement," said the leader of the opposition UDAR (Punch) party, world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko.
The European Parliament's two special envoys on Ukraine, Poland's former president Aleksander Kwasniewski and former European Parliament president Pat Cox, were present in Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, to witness the failure of the session.
However Kwasniewski put on a brave face afterwards, saying that the two envoys understood that it had not been possible to agree and hoped that a final decision could be taken on November 19.
But he warned that November 19 was the "last moment to do everything that needs to be done."
'Time for delivery is short'
Lithuania, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, said Yanukovych could still salvage the deal. "I believe President Yanukovych can still save the EU deal if he assumes leadership and responsibility," Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told AFP.
In Brussels, a spokesman for EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said the bloc was still committed to signing the deal but time was running out for Ukraine to fulfil its obligations.
"The time for delivery is short. There must now also be a decisive move to address the issue" of Tymoshenko, the spokesman said
The Association Agreement is a free-trade deal and marks a first step on the road to EU membership. If signed, it would signal a historic integration with Europe for the country of more than 40 million people, and also a break from Kiev's former Soviet masters in Moscow.
Amid growing pessimism over the chances of signing the EU deal, Ukraine's union of industrialists late Tuesday called on Yanukovych to delay the signing of the agreement by one year, saying it was damaging trade relations with Russia and Kazakhstan.
In televised remarks, Yanukovych told the industrialists that he took their concerns seriously. "I will attentively read your letters and suggestions. I share your concern about the situation in the country," he said.
The prospect of Ukraine signing the agreement had infuriated Moscow, which wants Kiev to join its Customs Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, and has raised the prospect of retaliation on the already battered Ukrainian economy.
Ukraine's EU integration hopes had already been dealt a blow by a sudden criminal probe opened against Tymoshenko's lawyer Sergiy Vlasenko on suspicion of beating his now ex-wife in 2010.
Vlasenko was allowed to go free on bail but Tymoshenko's supporters decried the probe as brazen political repression at the crunch moment for the EU agreement.
Opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk has already called for an investigation into whether Yanukovych committed state treason by travelling to Russia at the weekend for apparently secret talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Right from the start Yanukovych did not want to sign anything with the European Union," Yatsenyuk wrote bitterly on Twitter.
Signing the Association Agreement has been held up by the 2011 jailing of Tymoshenko for seven years on contested abuse-of-power charges she says were ordered as political revenge by Yanukovych.


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In advance of CHPA's 2014 Annual Executive Conference, DSN sat down with Scott Melville, CHPA president and CEO, and Jim Mackey, CHPA chairman, to discuss what's in store for the OTC industry.
DSN sat down with Scott Melville, CHPA president and CEO, to discuss the Consumer Healthcare Products Association 2013 Annual Executive Conference and how the conference will focus on "consumer centricity," in this exclusive podcast. In addition, senior-level executives attending the sold-out conference will learn how CHPA is extolling that value on Capitol Hill. "OTCs are demonstrating their value everyday because consumers are purchasing them with their own dollars," Melville said. "The challenge has been for policy-makers to understand the value that OTC medicines bring." But that may change this year, Melville said, as CHPA continues to lobby around that OTC value quotient.
"Game change." That's the theme leading up to the Consumer Healthcare Products Association's 2012 Annual Executive Conference given the shifts in consumer demand and legislative focus. DSN caught up with CHPA's president and CEO Scott Melville before the meeting to get a sense of where the business of consumer healthcare products stands today, and what the association is working toward tomorrow.
Is this the year that restrictions on the use of over-the-counter medicines in conjunction with a flexible savings account are lifted? If you consider the value proposition — the $102 billion saved each year by the use of OTC medicines — and that health care is moving toward a more value-based, outcomes-driven system, it would certainly seem so.
Former Combe Inc. chairman awarded CHPA's lifetime achievement award named after his father.
In preparation for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association's 2015 Annual Executive Conference being held in Bonita Springs, Fla., this month, Drug Store News sat down with both Scott Melville, CHPA president and CEO, and Patrick Lockwood-Taylor, CHPA chair and VP personal health care, North America, for Procter & Gamble.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association urged the president to support changing the mandate that consumers obtain a prescription in order to utilize FSAs and HSAs to purchase over-the-counter medicines.
According to Nationwide Children's Hospital researchers, 63,000 children under the age of six years experienced out-of-hospital medication errors annually between 2002 and 2012.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association on Monday announced that Brian Green will join CHPA as VP, finance and operations and CFO.
Themed, "20-20 Vision," the 2014 Consumer Health Products Association held its Annual Executive Conference, March 17 to 19, at the Ritz Carlton in Amelia Island, Fla. "Predicting the future is never easy, but a clear-eyed view of the landscape does sharpen our ability to see where the road is going," CHPA president and CEO Scott Melville told attendees of this year's event.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association on Tuesday awarded the Ivan D. Combe Lifetime Achievement Award to George Quesnelle, former president, North America, Consumer Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, during the association's Annual Executive Conference.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association this year will be focusing on restoring OTC eligibility under flexible spending accounts and helping to finalize OTC monographs, Scott Melville, CHPA president and CEO, told attendees of the 2014 CHPA Annual Executive Conference Tuesday morning.
Abuse of the cough ingredient dextromethorphan among high school seniors is down, according to this year's Monitoring the Future survey, which measures drug use and attitudes among the nation's eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association on Friday submitted a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, thanking the Administration for its recent efforts to enhance flexible savings arrangements' benefits, the association announced.
U.S. Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Mary Landrieu, D-La., on Tuesday introduced legislation that repeals a portion of Obamacare that prohibits people from using their medical savings account funds to buy over-the-counter medications.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday signed legislation to prohibit pharmacies and stores from selling dextromethorphan to any person younger than 18 years unless they have a prescription.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association joined Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller, state Rep. Larry Bucshon, as well as local officials and leaders from the Indiana Pharmacists Alliance, the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council, the Indiana Retail Council and the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, at a press conference to launch the state's new voluntary retail Anti-Smurfing Campaign.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association on Wednesay applauded Delaware Rep. Rebecca Walker, the Delaware legislature and Gov. Jack Markell for passing and signing House Bill 130, an anti-methamphetamine bill.
Pennsylvania last month became the 29th state to employ the National Precursor Log Exchange in the fight against the diversion of products containing pseudoephedrine into methamphetamine. State No. 30, Delaware, is expected to sign real-time stop sale technology into law this summer.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association announced that Lisa Murphy Early will join the association as VP finance and administration and CFO.
Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Ark., on Friday introduced the Preventing Abuse of Cough Treatments Act of 2013, which would require retailers to restrict the sale of dextromethorphan-containing products to adults.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association officially elected James Mackey, SVP U.S. region head for Merck Consumer Care, as the association's chairman.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association's Annual Executive Conference was sold out for the first time since 2001, CHPA president and CEO Scott Melville told a packed morning session, and that is a strong prognosticator as to the health and vitality of the self-care industry.
Nearly 98% of primary care physicians, nurse practitioners and pharmacists trust and recommend over-the-counter medicines to their patients, according to a new survey released Wednesday by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association on Friday released a statement regarding a poll released last week by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.


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Shortstop Corey Toups blasted a towering home run that started a four-run fourth inning, as Sam Houston beat A&M-Corpus Christ 9-2 and got a step closer to a third straight Southland title. The Bearkats (38-15, 20-8 SLC) stand alone at the top of the league standings and need just one more win to guarantee at least a share of the conference championship.
"The only message I gave our guys is that we haven't accomplished anything yet," head coach David Pierce said. "We need to make sure we get our rest tonight and come to the ballpark with a chip on our shoulder ready to play tomorrow."
The Kats and Islanders will play game two Friday at 6:30 p.m. The Islanders, along with Northwestern State and Nicholls each sit one game back of Sam Houston in the conference standings.
Starter Tyler Eppler had another great outing and picked up his fourth consecutive win. The junior tossed eight innings and allowed one run on six hits. Eppler struck out six batters and walked just two.
"That was a big game for us," Eppler said. "The offense started out slow but they figured that guy out pretty quick and exploded for some runs in the middle innings. That gave me a lot of confidence out there on the mound. I just pitched to my strengths and pitched to my defense."
A&M-Corpus took the lead in the top of the third inning on a sacrifice fly by third baseman Brandon Tierney. Designated hitter Zach Gibson led off the inning with a single and was erased on a fielder's choice ground out. Left fielder Jordan Lee doubled to right field to put runners on second and third ahead of Tierney.
SHSU catcher Anthony Azar led off the fourth with a single to left field and it appeared he was destined to be stranded there after a pair of fly outs by first baseman Ryan O'Hearn and third baseman Carter Burgess.
Toups was able to deliver with two outs, driving his seventh homer of the season and keeping the inning alive. Second baseman Shea Pierce and left fielder Luke Plucheck each worked two-out walks and advanced on a wild pitch.
"When they got that first run the momentum was definitely with them," Toups added. "But we bounced back and stayed with our brand of baseball and got the win. I was looking for something straight and hard and I got it and it happened to go over the fence."
Right fielder Travis Lee delivered a single up the middle to drive them both in and give the Bearkats a 4-1 lead.
The Kats were back at it again in the fifth and it was a single by Azar that sparked more offense. O'Hearn and Burgess each followed with singles to plate Azar before Toups drove an RBI double to the gap in left center.
Toups finished the game 3-for-3 with three RBI and two runs scored. Azar was 2-for-5 with two runs scored.
Lee delivered another big two RBI hit in the eighth after Toups walked and Plucheck doubled. The junior outfielder finished the game 3-for-3 with a career-high four RBI.
"Travis has been playing great and I'm really happy for him. He's stepped up big time for us playing in right field. Hopefully he can keep it going for us," said Toups.
Nolan Riggs came out of the bullpen with the bases loaded and no outs in the ninth inning. The right hander got a strike out, a pop out, and a groundout to strand all three runners.


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Nestled on the beach, this Colonia La Madera hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of La Madera Beach and La Ropa Beach. Kioto Plaza and Municipal Market are also within 10 minutes.
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Spend the day relaxing on the beach or pampering yourself at Hotel Aura del Mar's full-service spa.
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Spend the day at the beach and work on your tan with sun loungers (chaise longues) or relax in the shade with umbrellas. Pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa and enjoy amenities at Hotel Aura del Mar like an outdoor pool and a health club.
The hotel offers a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This beach hotel also offers a steam room and a rooftop terrace. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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English breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 11:30 AM.
Bistro del Mar - This beachfront restaurant specializes in seafood and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool, a health club, and a sauna.
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MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATION AT GLENMOOR RETIREMENT COMMUNITY -- Monday through Friday the talents and gifts of the Glenmoor members will be on display. You will have a unique opportunity to see first-hand how talented many of these folks are. You are invited to view the exhibits of arts and crafts that will be on spread throughout Creighton Hall. Monday, Memorial Day, at 11 a.m. all the residents of Glenmoor who served their country will be honored. Also National Guard historian Greg Moore will speak to the group. On Tuesday, St. Augustine Mayor Joe Boles will be speaking on the "Gifts of Age," and Barbara Bishop, owner of Soul Focus Resources of Ponte Vedra will tell about "Mindful Meditation for All Ages." At 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, the public is invited to see the great movie "Casablanca" along with our neighbors of Glenmoor. Hopefully you can attend part or all of this day's events. This group of people know how to enjoy themselves, so come join in the fun.
RIDING INTO HISTORY: MOTORCYCLE CONCOURS D'ELEGENCE was MAY 17: I can't venture a guess as to how many motorcycles were on the streets of World Golf Village May 17. But, I can tell you the streets were packed. If all the people here paid the $10 charge, which benefited Buddy Check 12, a partnership between First Coast News and Baptist Health Center, this fund-raiser was a magnificent success. Congratulations on all the funds raised for this worthwhile cause that will benefit many people.
WORLD GOLF VILLAGE 10-YEAR CELEBRATION -- as most of you are probably aware, World Golf Village has been and is still celebrating our 10-year anniversary. How time flies when you're having fun.
In celebration of the 10th anniversary, guests can take advantage of lots of activities celebrating our 10 years -- the official opening was May 19, 1998. The Slammer & Squire and King and Bear Golf Courses have had special offers to guests -- discounted fountain drinks and draft beer in the clubhouse restaurants and 10 holes of golf for $10 after 5 p.m. The IMAX Theater served complimentary ice cream and cake in the lobby (courtesy of Cold Stone Creamery) for patrons visiting IMAX on May 18. Also, a $10 combination ticket was available to the moviegoers.
The St. Augustine Record compiled a great World Golf Village Celebration booklet explaining in detail what this fabulous neighborhood is all about. The publication covered 10 years of WGV news. Needless to say we are very proud of our neighborhood, and we appreciate all the many accolades. Jim and Sherry Davidson got lots of credit in the article and as most everyone knows they worked hard and deserve each and every compliment.
ANNIKA SORENSTAM -- Most of you have heard by now that Annika is retiring from competitive golf -- we will all miss her. However, she has wonderful reasons for this decision, She is actually getting her priorities in order. One of the priorities I'm sure is her engagement. This I feel certain played a big part in her decision. Also, Annika stated she and her fianc, Mike would like a family. She plans to continue her businesses -- including her academy, her foundation, golf course design projects and hosting golf tournaments, etc. We all wish Annika well in all of her endeavors and commend her on her many accomplishments.
DAVIDSON'S BLOOD DRIVE WILL BE JUNE 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Please make an effort to stop by the Davidson Parking lot across from Publix and give blood to save lives. The blood drives are held at this location every two months. We have been very lucky. Our residents of WGV and many of our friends from other neighborhoods have participated in the blood drives. We have several cancer patients in WGV and other surrounding areas -- one of my close friends -- Arlene Yohman -- has leukemia -- my husband and I will give our blood in Arlene's name. If you know someone you would like to help by donating blood - please do so. If you don't know anyone in need of blood, there are still great shortages at the local hospitals. Also, you can adopt my friend as you donor friend. Please drop by June 7 and help those in need.
MAY HAPPY HOUR - SERENATA BEACH CLUB: This is one of our favorite happy hour locations -- the atmosphere -- the food, of yes the food -- it is always fabulous. Steve Harrison does an outstanding job, but outstanding just isn't quite good enough to describe our happy hours at Serenata. I'm sure Steve gets a little help from the chefs and all the others employees there. Thanks to all at the Serenata Beach Club who help make this evening so special for the World Golf Village residents.
We look forward to visiting again -- enjoying the ocean and seeing all our many friends at Serenata and tasting the food.
MAY HAS BEEN A BUSY MONTH FOR MY FAMILY -- We had two grandsons graduate this month -- Matt (Matthew Baughan Davidson) and Sam (James Semuel Davidson) - Matt from college -- UNF and Sam from high school -- Episcopal. Way to go guys, we are all proud of you. The children of many friends graduated this year also, so congrats to all of you. Good luck on all your accomplishments.
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I run a Buying food co-op, we have members. We take orders and delivery to drop off locations once a week. at the moment I use a google form to collect the order, which puts the data into a spreadsheet that I copy into my excel spreadsheet. The members will pay in different ways (cash, cheque, e-transfer, or pay extra and run an account). We also have return deposits on bottles, included in the google form as a quantity to be deducted from the total. The problem is the google form is not secure, and it does not verify orders or give order totals.
I am building the site, I bought a Woo Theme that I found most suitable. But i still feel that the commerce portion is too complex for our needs and not really suitable. Most of these e-commerce sites are all geared toward a kind of e-commerce, mostly the same.
I am still new to this, and it seems the most important part that we need is the order management portion. I am not sure how these plugins look on the back end. can they consolidate data, where the orders for the different farm goods can be sent to the different farms to prepare for pick-up?
I just need a member to log in, choose what they want, calculate a total for them to verify, identify how they will pay and which location to drop it off, send a verification to the member email, and have the order information added to a spreadsheet that can work with excel.
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Alice Vanderbilt Morris
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Alice Vanderbilt Shepard Morris (December 7, 1874 – August 15, 1950) was a member of the Vanderbilt family. She co-founded the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA).
Alice Vanderbilt Shepard was the daughter of Elliot Fitch Shepard (1833–1893); and Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt (1845–1924), the eldest daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam. In 1895 Alice married David Hennen "Dave" Morris (1872–1944), who later became the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium.
Alice was known to her family as "Angela" because of the sweetness of her disposition and the beauty of her face, well-demonstrated by her attached portrait. She was no true angel, however, and climbed a tree against her father's specific interdiction and fell out fracturing her thoracic spine. Her father, a hard man, refused to call the doctor to punish her disobedience. She grew up deformed in Woodlea, a mansion on the Hudson now occupied as the clubhouse of the Sleepy Hollow Country Club.
She was courted for sometime by Dave who saw her face around the funnel of the steamer to France and knew at once that he must marry her. When he pursued her more closely, he saw that she had a deforming scoliosis which did not change his ardor one bit. When he presented himself to ask for her hand in marriage, her father (the hard man), told him he would never amount to anything good and asked him to leave and have no further contact with the family. When he was allowed to say good-bye to her in the hall, he asked her to elope with him. She climbed out the window that night for an extraordinary life. Her sister later packed up her clothes in a trunk and sent them on by Railway Express. Mr. Shepard was infuriated at the insubordination of yet another daughter and refused to speak to her for a year, as the family story goes. The couple had six children: David, Jr., Louise, Lawrence, Noel, Emily and Alice.
She attended the Radcliffe College of Harvard University. She was an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. She also received an honorary doctorate in Literary Science from Syracuse University "as special recognition of the field of study that you have made your own, the field of the international auxiliary language." She was Vice President of the World Service Council of the YWCA United States.
From her youth, Morris was troubled by ill health and was forced to spend much of her time on a sofa. Despite her illness, she initiated what was probably the most extensive linguistic research undertaken to date. During her stay at a clinic, Morris found a brochure on the artificial language Esperanto. She became interested in the idea of a neutral auxiliary language that could facilitate communication among diverse groups of people. Frederick Gardner Cottrell, later a well-known American chemist, persuaded Morris to tackle the problem of an auxiliary language, but objectively and scientifically.
In 1924, Morris and her husband founded the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). Morris had studied Esperanto, so the neutrality of IALA was often a dilemma for her. Nevertheless, she succeeded in remaining neutral. In 1945, she co-authored with Mary C. Bray the General Report of IALA. Morris was actively involved in the association – and remained its honorary Secretary – for the rest of her life.
Morris died in 1950 in New York. She was 75. About six months later, the Interlingua-English Dictionary was published, presenting to the world her life's work, Interlingua.
In 1999, Julia S. Falk of Michigan State University published the book Women, Language and Linguistics – Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century (320 pp.). The women portrayed were Gladys Amanda Reichard, E. Adelaide Hahn, and Alice Vanderbilt Morris.
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- Biographias: Alice Vanderbilt Morris, Interlingua: Communication Sin Frontieras Durante 50 Annos, 2001, revised 2006.
- Gopsill, F. P., Le historia antenatal de Interlingua. Panorama, 1991, January–February, March–April, and April–May.
- Dennison, Frances Ferry, Oral narrative on personal history by Morris' great niece on July 14, 2011
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- Oil Portrait of Alice as a girl of 13, painted by John Singer Sargent
- Oil Portrait of her mother Margaret, also painted by Sargent
- Bust of her father Elliot, sculpted by John Adams Quincy Ward
- Union Mundial pro Interlingua