Oscar AKA Oski-Poo’s
How unfair, the newest addition to the family wasn’t even announced on here, bad humans, baaaaaad humans.
World Meet Oscar, Oscar meet world.
Oscar joined us recently as his previous loving owners were emigrating to Australia, and didn’t want to put him through all the strict quarantines which can be lengthy and stressful process for any animal so they allowed us the priliage of re-homing him, I know I hate just going through the airports so imagine how a dog feels being locked up for long periods of time.
We are delighted to have him with us, he settled in very quickly and occasionally likes to chase the cats to the bottom of the stairs, not sure how they like that though, lol.
He also loves rides in the car, amongst many other things.
More photo’s can be found in our ‘Photo Gallery’
Demonoid.com has gone but for how long?
Ohh man Demonoids gone, they left the following message though:
The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.
I wonder how long till they return.
It’s a great way to sample something before you buy it, and doesn’t really damage sales like they claim.
The way forward is for everyone to stop buying their DVD’s, CD’s and any other merchandise.
Couldn’t find much info except:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/09/demonoid_cria
Popular BitTorrent site Demonoid.com has been taken offline after legal threats to its webhost by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).
A message on the Demonoid front page reads: “The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.”
According to Demonoid’s IRC channel, the BitTorrent trackers themselves have not been affected by the latest legal sabre rattling, and it’s thought the site will return, according to reports.
Six weeks ago Demonoid was forced to close because of CRIA legal pressure. The site and trackers returned, but with a block on users from Canada.
Clearly, the CRIA doesn’t pay any heed to a report commissioned by the Canadian government that said P2P is having no negative effect on CD sales.
In a speech in February, CRIA boss Graham Henderson bemoaned Canada’s “culture of piracy”.
The shuttering of Demonoid, however temporary, marks a further escalation of recent international record industry moves against file sharers. OiNK was raided in October in the UK, eDonkey servers in Germany were seized in September, and the RIAA scored a huge legal victory when Minnesota woman Jammie Thomas was fined $220,000. ®
The Great British Ghost Hunt – Make-A-Wish Foundation®
Halloween’s passed and you thought it was all over, well your wrong as here comes another paranormal event, perhaps even the event of the year.
Make-A-Wish Foundation® have teamed up with Fright Nights to bring you what could be the paranormal event of the year raising funds for a charitable cause.
I was contacted by Francesca Towson today whom was looking to promote this good cause, now although I’m no fan of commercial companies such as ‘Fright Nights’, I still see and understand the need to raise funds and whom better than Make-A-Wish foundation®.
Anyway she wanted me to post a press release so here are the details from their website.
Oh one last thing, if you can’t make their event, then why not consider just donating direct to them, every penny counts, if you do manage to attend their event you’ll have a hard decision to make, and that would be which on of the fantastic locations to go.
Charity Registration No. 295672
The Great British Ghost Hunt
For one night only, 15 allegedly haunted locations across the UK will be taking part in a unique and truly hair-raising event.
Make-A-Wish, in association with the Fright Nights Team, invites you to come along to one of the following locations and take part in the first-ever competition to find the UK’s Most Haunted Location.
Each attendee will join experienced mediums and clairvoyants, with their help and with the use of authentic ghost hunting and psychic equipment gather information on haunting activity from each site, which will be collated to identify the UK’s most haunted venue.
The exciting night will be taking place on Saturday 15th December 2007 across the various locations as follows:
Scotland – Niddery Street Vaults in Edinburgh and The RRS Discovery in Dundee – for further information contact Amanda Hillhouse on 0141 8890220 or email amanda.hillhouse@makeawish.org.uk
Northern England – Ordsall Hall in Salford, Bolling Hall in Bradford and Stanley Palace in Chester – for further information contact Francesca Towson on 01904 567319 or email francesca.towson@makeawish.org.uk
Eastern England – Galleries of Justice in Nottingham and Peterborough Museum in Peterborough – for further information contact Natalie Martin-Loat on 01733 894495 or email natalie.martin-loat@makeawish.org.uk
South East England – Buckingham House in Portsmouth –for further information contact Frances Heath on 01962 820302 or email frances.heath@makeawish.org.uk
South West England – West Country Inn in Bideford and Woodchester Mansion in Stroud – for further information contact Natalie Taylor on 01179 678819 or email natalie.taylor@makeawish.org.uk
Wales & Western England – Pembroke Castle in Pembroke SW Wales, Oxford Castle in Oxford, The Commandery in Worcester, Bordesley Hall in Alvechurch Nr. Redditch and Woodchester Mansion in Stroud – for further information contact Jennie Mould on 01527 64406 or email jennie.mould@makeawish.org.uk
Northern Ireland – TBC for further information contact Darren Fowler on 02890 805580 or email darren.fowler@makeawish.org.uk
At the same time as being frightened out of your wits you will be raising money to grant magical wishes.
There website is here: http://www.make-a-wish.org.uk