Control of the ConFurence Group was transferred to Darrel Exline in 1999, but by 2003 attendance had dwindled to 470, due to turnover among the staff and increased competition from other regional furry conventions.

* ConFurence is no more, by Darrel L. Exline ( archived version )

He attended his first furry convention, ConFurence, in January 1997.

ConFurence was the first exclusively furry convention, held annually in southern California from 1989 to 2003.

At the height of popularity in 1998, ConFurence 9 boasted the then-largest furry convention attendance of 1250.

With the demise of ConFurence, Mark Merlino and Robert Johnson Jr. teamed up to establish Califur in 2004 to continue the tradition of a furry convention in Southern California.

It is not a generic term for a furry convention, but as the original furry convention, many later cons took similar sounding names, such as the now defunct ConFurence East ( originally called Furtasticon in 1994 and took the name MoreFurCon just before its dissolution in 1997 ), and the current Eurofurence.

The final ConFurence gathering gained notoriety when television crew from the The Man Show appeared and attempted to interview attendees on camera.

This led to the test gathering in 1989, ConFurence Zero.

Attendance was doubled to 130 for the first official ConFurence convention in January 1990, proving them right.

The name ConFurence is a registered trademark of the ConFurence Group.

* ConFurence. com ( last updated 2002 )

The name of the convention derives from its American back-then-counterpart ConFurence, emphasising the European nature of the gathering.

The custom socket is created by taking a plaster cast of the stump or, more commonly today, of the liner worn over the stump, and then making a mold from the plaster cast.

In molding, a curved mold is designed and created in the optimum ( three dimensional ) shape of the sail that the sail maker wants to produce.

Watermarks are created by weaving a design into the wires in the mold.

A hard mother mold, typically made of plaster or fiberglass bandages is created overtop the initial mold to provide support.

Once a negative mold has been created, it is promptly filled with gypsum cement, most commonly a brand called " Ultracal-30 ", to make a " positive " mold.

In 1995, Judson's daughter Alice Judson Hayes ( aka Alice Ryerson Hayes ) had a fifth bronze statue created from a mold.

Savini created a plaster mold of Ari Lehman's head and used that to create prosthetics for his face.

Using a substance called VacuForm, Doug White enlarged the mask and created a new mold to work with.

A statue of Ramesses the Great stood in front of the pyramid, which was created from a mold of the actual statue in Egypt.

The characters in the novel are never defined ; they are not created from a mold.

The mold cavity is created using two hardened tool steel dies which have been machined into shape and work similarly to an injection mold during the process.

He then tried a new formula created by one of his assistants, Jacopo l ' Indaco, which resisted mold, and entered the Italian building tradition.

The McIndoe vaginoplasty technique utilizes split-thickness skin grafts that cover a mold, which then is inserted to a surgically created space, between the bladder and the rectum.

In 2000, the Talking Battle Commander mold was repainted ( sans talking backpack ) in an even darker blue, with silver highlights, with a new character " Chameleon " ( a Baroness doppelganger created to sidestep copyright problems ).

and his wife created from a different mold than most in Emporia, their living arrangements also did not sit well with some community members.

However, the sonata form, as an inherited " mold ", also created a kind of tension for Romantic composers: the desire to combine poetical expression and academic rigor, which were often seen as being in conflict.

With the matrices aligned and the space bands set to the correct measure, the machine would ' lock up ' the line with great force and the plunger would inject the molten type metal into the space created by the mold cavity and the assembled line.

The mold cavities and gate system are created by compacting the sand around models, or patterns, or carved directly into the sand.

The mold is then sent to a dental laboratory whereby a model is constructed from the mold, and a crown is created on the model ( usually out of porcelain, ceramic, gold, or porcelain / ceramic fused to metal ) to replace the missing tooth structure.

His ship shattered and broken, Poole begins dying, but at the last moment, an " anti-Xeelee " ( whom it is implied is a being created by the Xeelee to be like them, except traveling like a tachyon backwards in time, the better to mold the Xeelee's early evolutionary history ) takes a liking to Poole, and converts him into an intangible immortal being of " quantum functions ".

We began by declaring that all men are created equal.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.

Religion and the churches were institutions which had been created by man, not God.

Adams contended that once such a special class had been created it became a vested interest and sought to maintain itself by assuming exclusive control over the relationships between God and man.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

Nor does Sen. Jackson discuss the delicate situation created by the presence in the White House of a corps of presidential assistants engaged in the study of foreign policy.

a special fund created for that purpose pursuant to subsection ( A ) of this section any amounts hereafter paid, in United States dollars, by a foreign government which has entered into a claims settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

Where an opportunity to enjoy boating has not been created by bringing bodies of water to the people, means have been found to take the people and their boats to the water.

A number of unique medical problems might be created when man is exposed to an infectious agent through the respiratory route rather than by natural portal of entry.

But the form in which the claim must be stated need not be different from what the State exacts in the enforcement of like obligations created by it, so long as a requirement does not add to, or diminish, the right as defined by Federal law, nor burden the realization of this right in the actualities of litigation ''.

For the illusion of depth created by the contrast between the affixed material and everything else gives way immediately to an illusion of forms in bas-relief, which gives way in turn, and with equal immediacy, to an illusion that seems to contain both -- or neither.

Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil, and transformed by this translation, did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat, interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to, if not the illusion of, unmistakable three-dimensional identities.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

Any example of grand or exquisite diction may have been created by the poet who compiled numerous lays into the two works we possess or may be due to one of his completely unknown fellow-craftsmen.

The value of products from these industries was 15.8 billion dollars, of which about one-third was created by manufacturing processes.

In this carefree sentence he summed up the essence of the prevailin' custom of buyin' by book count, and created a sayin' which has survived through the years.

The breach created by the Selden patent doomed his proposal, but Hanch did not abandon his scheme.

The sense of perspective has been created by designing the length of the columns so that those at the far end of the colonnade are much shorter than those in front.

An equally tenable thesis is that the dearth of new thought was created by the Senate's own penchant for crucifying anyone whose ideas seem unorthodox to the next generation.

Party leaders came out of the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its own.

Existence is created and willed by God and is not the consequence of a pre-existent rebellion or of a cosmic descent from eternity into history.

That kind of poverty was regarded as the exclusive property of the East, which created depressions with their stock markets and their congested populations and their greedy centralization of industries, protected by discriminatory freight rates.

" The speech created an evocative image of the danger of disunion caused by the slavery debate, and rallied Republicans across the North.