RONON/TEYLA
angelsdee
"Can't Find My Way Home" by the House Of Lords
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/239202.html

STARGATE SG-1/Dr.WHO
napalm_isis
"Coin Operated Boy" by Dresden Dolls
http://community.livejournal.com/stargatevids

SAM/JACK
Jen
"Love Story Theme" by Andy Williams
http://community.livejournal.com/stargatevids

DANIEL
jaffatech
"Here We Go Again" by O.K. Go
http://kawoosh.co.uk/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1586

HUMOUR
emergencyfan
"Gilligan's Island Theme" by George Wyle & Sherwood Schwartz
http://kawoosh.co.uk/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1584

BECKETT
buddhawitch
"Do What You Have To Do" by Sarah McLachlan
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/239079.html

TEAMATLANTIS
suki_blue
"Star Trekkin'" by The Firm
http://community.livejournal.com/sga_noticeboard/1316544.html

TEYLASHEP
johnteylafan
"May It Be" by Enya
http://johnteylafan.livejournal.com/

TEYLASHEP
LoveConquers
"Love Is" by Kenny Loggins
http://home.comcast.net/~loveconquers/Fandom_videoclips.html

SPEAK needs your support!
Demo Date: Monday 29 January 2007
Demo Time: 09.30am
Location: High Court, The Strand, London

The struggle to stop Oxford University building a massive new animal research facility, moves into a vital new phase on Monday 29 January (adjourned from Tuesday 19 December 2006) when two members of the campaigning group, SPEAK, will be at the High Court in London’s Strand, answering charges that they breached an injunction forbidding them from naming the builder involved in constructing the vivisection laboratory at Oxford University. The SPEAK duo insist that this is a fundamental breach of their right to free speech. Without being able to name the company involved in constructing the site, those who oppose the project are unable to register their complaint with the builder. SPEAK say that it is vital for as many people as possible to attend a peaceful protest on Monday outside the High Court in defence of the right to free speech and free assembly. If the case goes against them, they face a prison sentence.

TEYLA/SHEP
i am a cylon
"Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol
http://community.livejournal.com/freak_flag_fly/2736.html?mode=reply

TEAMATLANTIS
waldo
"Anxiety" by Black Eyed Peas
http://community.livejournal.com/sga_noticeboard/1315331.html

TEYLA/SHEP
tray_lord AKA Daniteel
"What You Never Know (Won't Hurt You)" by Hayley Westernra
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/238173.html

ATLANTIS GIRLS
emergencyfan
"Bitch" by Meredith Brooks
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/237932.html

ELIZABETH WEIR
Kindu
song by Mylene Farmer
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/237815.html

Our aim is to bring enjoyment and pleasure into the lives of children with special needs and disabilities and to give them the satisfaction that comes with the achievement of learning riding skills. This can only be achieved with the help of our specially trained EST donkeys, our wonderful volunteers and the teams of dedicated staff at our Sidmouth, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester Centres.

Dr. Elisabeth D Svendsen, MBE, Founder & Honorary Administrator.

http://www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/site/2/Home.html

Animal Aid has called for the man who beat and stamped on a fox while out shooting pheasants at Sandringham with Prince Philip to be prosecuted under the 1996 Wild Mammals Protection Act. The RSPCA have now announced that they are conducting an investigation with a view to a possible prosecution.

The fox ran from his cover and was blasted with shotgun pellets. He fell to the ground twitching and the un-named man then beat him over the head with a pole. Four minutes later, when the last of the birds had been shot from the sky, the man returned to the fox and stamped on him before throwing his lifeless body into a hedge.

The comments of Animal Aid's Director, Andrew Tyler were widely reported across the media. He said:

'This poor fox should not have been killed in the first place. But it is outrageous that Prince Philip and his pals carried on shooting for fun while he was in his agonised death throes.'

The incident drew universal condemnation from those who saw the shocking photos and read the account.

Foxes are just one of many victims of the shooting industry. The large numbers of pheasants and partridges inevitably attract - and, in fact, boost the populations of - predator species such as stoats, weasels, foxes and members of the crow family. Gamekeepers deliberately kill them by setting traps and snares. But species ranging from badgers to cats and dogs - even protected birds of prey like owls and kestrels - are caught and killed. Millions of animals are slaughtered every year in these 'predator control' programmes.

TEAMATLANTIS
klostes
"Uncommercial Song" by the Oyster Band
http://community.livejournal.com/sga_noticeboard/1310959.html

MCSHEP
OBFreak
"What Hurts The Most" by Rascal Flatts
http://obfreak.livejournal.com/17091.html

SAMJACK
melanie
"Opposite Souls"
http://community.livejournal.com/sj_everyday

VALA
scifi_tv_addict
"Watch Me Shine"
http://community.livejournal.com/daniel_vala

BECKETT
Speckleberry
"Amazing Grace"
http://community.livejournal.com/speckle_grafics/2763.html?mode=reply

EPISODE _ SUNDAY
xsacrifice
"Who Knew" by P!nk
http://xsacrifice.livejournal.com/40198.html?view=264710#t264710

Tesco announced today that its first own-brand supermarket in China will soon be open for business. Alongside tins of baked beans and milk, Chinese customers will be able to pick up a live turtle or two to cut up or boil at home.

Turtles and tortoises may not touch the heart of every animal lover, but millions of these animals are mutilated or boiled alive for food and medicines in China. Tesco already sells live turtles, frogs and fish in its over 30 Chinese joint-venture stores. Tesco’s justification: UK standards cannot be imposed on China. Despite receiving detailed information from UK charity Care for the Wild International (CWI), documenting the conservation and welfare horrors that are inevitably linked to this business, Tesco is unwilling to lose the tiny fraction live turtle and frog sales add to its £33.6 billion annual profit.




Amphibians and reptiles have all the neurological components for pain perception and respond behaviourally to pain. Therefore even contemplating the experience of a turtle whose shell, limbs and entrails have been cut away, but which survives in this state for hours, is unimaginable.
Up to twenty million turtles are consumed in China each year, which has depleted most native species. Turtles are a luxury food, not a source of protein for the poor. Serving them is a status symbol and prices range from a few pounds to a thousand.

Tesco claims that the turtles sold in its stores are farmed. Husbandry conditions on turtle farms can be horrendous and farming certainly fails to address the severe welfare problems associated with slaughter. Furthermore, turtle farming can damage wild populations, not only by spreading diseases, but is likely to involve the collection of wild turtles. Moreover, as wild-caught animals fetch much higher prices, this trade will continue regardless, while farming keeps demand alive.

Tesco’s written response to consumer complaints is carefully crafted to confuse, distract and mollify concerned customers with platitudes about hygienic production standards and cynical references to strict adherence to Chinese welfare standards. Problem is, there aren’t any!

In a bid to distance itself from the inherent cruelty of its activities, Tesco told CWI that it has commissioned research into the stunning of turtles, with the Chinese Institute of Science and Technology - not an obvious choice when looking for animal welfare expertise. CWI’s own research has identified dozens of scientific publications that demonstrate that turtles cannot be killed humanely for food.

ENDS

A practising neurosurgeon who gained his doctorate at Brasenose College, Oxford University, has thrown his weight behind the campaign to stop a new animal research laboratory currently being built in Oxford.

Dr. Marius Maxwell MBBChir, DPhil, launched a blistering attack on the University's new animal lab. Dr. Maxwell, a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist with two decades of research experience commented: "I feel qualified to contribute to the debate on non-human primate vivisection. The arguments of the Weatherall Committee defy much current scientific evidence, and have served only to confirm my view that the data supporting non-human primate vivisection are profoundly flawed and together with the moral case are indefensible."

The Weatherall Committee study published a few weeks ago concluded that "non-human primates" were still essential for important scientific research. "There is a scientific case for careful, meticulously regulated non-human primate research, at least for the foreseeable future, provided it is the only way of solving scientific or medical questions and high standards of welfare are maintained."

However the study was fundamentally flawed, having been sponsored by pro-vivisection groups such as The Academy of Medical Sciences, The Royal Society, The Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. All of these organisations are heavily involved with and support the vivisection industry. All four have vested interests in the continuation of primate experiments and heavily fund those that undertake research on animals.

Dr Maxwell also pointed out that "Doctors, pharmacists, and patients' groups in the Netherlands are now demanding government action after a national study has found that drug related problems caused twice as many hospital admissions as motor vehicle accidents." This also concurs with the data from the US that shows that prescription drugs kill 100,000 people each year in the US, making prescription drugs the US's fourth-biggest killer.

One of the tactics increasingly employed and favoured by the pro vivisectionists is to accuse anyone who objects to vivisection as being either anti science or even accusing their opponents of being "fanatics" or "extremists". Some are even accused of being "terrorists". However more and more scientists like Dr Maxwell are beginning to speak out against the vivisectors and the tactics they are employing in order to muddy the waters in their attempts to win the argument.

Dr Maxwell states that "Many of my Oxford colleagues in world-class scientific laboratories, and in the humanities, are privately aghast at the ability of a small group of media-savvy vivisectionists to hold the debate hostage and thereby besmirch the international reputation of their University."

Unfortunately because most of the organisations funding research are controlled by the vivisectors themselves, Dr Maxwell comments that his "colleagues" are "unwilling to broadcast their opinions because of the perceived danger of recrimination by the University and funding bodies."

Dr Maxwell also takes a swipe at the excessive biased media reporting stating that; "The 'spin' perpetuated by overly credulous and biased media reporting that opponents of animal experimentation are 'anti-science Luddites' is hollow. How on earth can an animal researcher still claim to be pro-science while wilfully ignoring the vast body of current evidence undermining broad swathes of animal research?"

Dr Maxwell urges Oxford University to change their minds as to what work should be carried out in the new lab when work is completed stating that: "the South Parks Road building be made into a world-class medical imaging and research centre. The explosion of imaging techniques over the past decade (functional MRI being but one) has alone obviated the need for non-human primate vivisection especially in the neurosciences. Humans can and are being studied in ways that would have been unimaginable only ten years ago. The eighteen million pounds for the animal research building could be better spent by Oxford University with a more inspired, rational and forward-looking appreciation of the trajectory of medical research technology."

Oxford University have refused to comment on the stinging rebuke from Dr Maxwell.

For those wanting to read Dr Maxwell’s article click on: http://www.vero.org.uk/press7.asp

A new initiative to educate school children about how their food is produced has been announced today by David Miliband, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The Year of Food and Farming will involve all schools in England, and run from September 2007. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will act as Patron for the initiative. The goal is that young people will make more informed decisions about the food they eat, how this affects their health, the environment, and climate change.


Defra claim that their aim is sustainable development, but to achieve this they need to look at the bigger picture and consider the impact that British animal farming has on the global environment, not simply its impact on the local UK environment.

The scheme which has been heavily influenced by the Farmers Union (an organization which promotes the interests of British livestock farmers) involves telling school children that locally produced meat, eggs and milk is good for the environment because British animal farmers are increasingly giving over their land to wildlife habitat and because locally produced food builds up fewer ‘travel miles.’

However, the reality is that land is only ‘freed up’ by adopting the farming practice of ‘zero grazing’ or other forms of factory farming and by importing animal feeds. Factory farming involves the destruction of wildlife habitats (including rainforests) in the developing world to grow the feeds for the European factory farms. And locally produced meat, eggs and milk can build up as many travel miles as imported animal products because the animals’ feed has been imported.

Furthermore, children should know that if they eat crops directly, rather than through the intermediary of an animal, they use one fifth as much land and one fifth as much water. This is because farmed animals consume several times more protein than they produce: most of the protein and other nutrients from their plant feeds is used for bodily functions and not converted to meat, eggs or milk. More water and land is therefore needed to grow crops for farmed animals to eat, leading to deforestation, water scarcity, soil erosion and increased pesticide use. It should be explained that the average vegan’s ecological footprint is much smaller than the average meat-eater’s. In a world where hundreds of millions of people don't have enough to eat, it is a terrible tragedy that so much food is wasted in this way.

The Vegan Society believes that it is important that children are given all information so that they can make informed choices.

http://www.captiveanimals.org/


Arts Council of Ireland funds animal circuses
December 2006

CAPS has again expressed concern that the Arts Council of Ireland has once more given funding to animal circuses, shortly after a major report by CAPS detailing the poor conditions animals are subjected to in Irish circuses.

Details announced for the Arts Council's 2007 funding show that the following amounts have been given to animal circuses:

Circus Gerbola - €45,000 (£30,000)
Duffy's Circus - €57,500 (£38,500)
Fossett's Circus - €57,500 (£38,500)

This is an increase of €65,000 given to these circuses at the beginning of 2006.

All three circuses used animals in their 2006 performances, including tigers, crocodiles, snakes, horses, dogs, camels, llamas.

In addition to funding, the circuses will be able to use the Arts Council logo on publicity material, a move which the circuses see as a stamp of approval offering them more credibility than any amount of money could buy.

In October, CAPS launched the findings of a major study of animal circuses in Ireland this year. The report and video, based on visits to circuses by CAPS investigators and a vet found:

102 animals being used in circuses, 43 of whom were of wild / exotic species. These included 6 elephants, a giraffe, a rhino and a hippo,
Some of the animals are imported from across Europe, facing gruelling journeys of up to 1,000 miles,
A hippo kept solitary, housed in a small tank of dirty water, unable to even fully submerge.
Both CAPS and the Dublin-based Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) have called into question the Arts Council claim that circuses have to provide a copy of their 'animal welfare policy' when applying for funding. The Arts Council have refused to give CAPS copies of the policies and AFAR believe they do not exist.

"We would prefer to see the Arts Council recognise that animal circuses by their very nature cannot provide for the needs of animals and to instead fund circuses to convert to all-human acts," CAPS and AFAR told the press in a joint statement.

A major report on Irish circuses published by CAPS notes that:
"Also of concern to CAPS is that the person employed by the Arts Council to act as their 'artform specialist' on circuses, Verena Cornwall, has close links to organisations defending the use of animals in circuses.
"Cornwall is an Honorary Board member of the Association of Circus Proprietors of Great Britain, the trade body for circuses. She is also the Chair of the Circus Arts Forum, a UK organisation that is also opposing the [UK] government ban on wild animal acts."

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Please contact the Arts Council, asking them not to fund animal circuses:
Mary Cloake, Director, The Arts Council, 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland
E-mail: info@artscouncil.ie


If you live in Ireland and want to get active in our campaign against animal circuses, Contact us for details.
The most important thing anyone can do to end circus animal suffering is simply to avoid any circus using animals. Instead, visit one of the many excellent circuses that rely totally on human skills - there are many more all-human circuses than ones using animals. Contact us for a list.
Become a CAPS supporter - you can help to make a difference

© Captive Animals Protection Society

RONON
yokiem
"Hot In Herre" by Nelly
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/236395.html

NIAM/REPLICARTER
samus mcaslan
"Marvin The Robot" by Dr. Demento
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/236281.html

SHEP
obsessed101
"I Try" by Nelly Furtado
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/235607.html

SHEP/TEYLA
obsessed101
"Eyes Open" by Snow Patrol
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/235223.html

MCKAY
martoufmarty
"I Am A Scientist" by Dandy Warhols
http://martoufmarty.livejournal.com/631402.html

VALA/TOMIN
tray_lord AKA Daniteel
"She's So" by Tobias Regner
http://community.livejournal.com/stargatevids/144181.html

BECKETT
obsessed101
"Kites" by U2
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/234439.html

TEAMATLANTIS
obsessed101
"Angels" by Sarah McLachlan
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/234199.html

DANIELVALA
scifi_tv_addict
"Something To Sleep To"
http://community.livejournal.com/daniel_vala/?skip=10 (Jan 16th)

SHEPPARD
jivefish
"You Know My Name" by Chris Cornell
http://jivefish.livejournal.com/146503.html

Press Release; Eu ban on cat and dog fur proposed following gruesome evidence
© CWI

21st November 2006
Cat and dog fur imports into the EU are to be banned. Yesterday’s announcement of the proposed ban, which will also cover the production, marketing and export of the skins of cats and dogs, has been eagerly awaited by animal welfare campaigners.


UK-based charity Care for the Wild International (CWI), first confirmed the availability of pelts from cats and dogs in the Britain last year. CWI found that cat and dog skins are just a mouse click away over internet and will be delivered right to your door. The skins of man’s best friend costs just £10, including post and packaging, whilst cat skins were readily available for a mere £2.60. “Chinese suppliers offered us entire sheets made of dozens and dozens of cat skins - all in matching colour patterns of tabby, ginger, black and white or tabby and white”, says Dr Barbara Maas, CWI’s Chief Executive. “Most of them boasted about existing exports to European countries.”
“We presented a comprehensive portfolio of evidence to DTI and DEFRA officials and have been liaising with them about a strong, proactive UK stance on this issue within the EU”, says Maas.

It has taken almost seven years to get as far as this on the proposed EU ban. Given that an estimated 5,400 dogs and cats are slaughtered for their pelts each and every day in China, it can’t come into effect soon enough.


© 2007 www.careforthewild.org

To anyone else, Freddie would've been turned away without a second thought. He was the neighbourhood's smelly old tramp, been knocking around for years and gotten old with the rest of us. He had trusting green eyes, a battle-scarred muzzle and tufts in his fur. His pale ginger coat was, most times, streaked with oil. He slept under cars.

When we brought the kittens, Henry & Sophia, into the house for the first time, Freddie came to check them out. He never bothered the twins but hung around long enough to eat the unwanted cat food then go merrilly on his way. He must've been four years old even then.

In the passing years, we took on Jack & Danny, originally both Toms themselves, who'd followed Freddie's lead through the catflap and decided to stay. There followed a time of adjustment, the four cats vying for a space on the cat social ladder, on which Sophia reigned over the boys. Henry was a hard fought second-in-command with Jack & Danny still fighting it out.

We saw Freddie'd taken a liking to our greenhouse, snuggling up on the bench, nestled in the old newspapers for warmth or taking over Jack's favourite doughnut bed for the long summer days. Eventually Jack gave up his treasured bed to our wanderer and we bought Freddie his own insulated cat kennel for the colder spells. We'd often thought of taking Freddie off to the vets, getting him cleaned up, checked out, neutered. But the little guy was much too wise for that. It seemed every time we considered making him one of the family, he'd mindread and disappear for a few days at a time. So we fell into a way of welcoming him home when we saw him and counting the days when we'd not seen him for a time. He was the wayward boy in the house.

These last couple of winters Freddie discovered that, when he tentatively entered the catflap, we didn't turn him out. So he just made himself at home. He always treated Sophia with the utmost respect, gave way to Henry when passing by, accepted Jack and avoided Danny at all costs. His favourite place was under the small table in the living room or dozing on a protected sofa. Freddie,a cat of the road, at 18, was looking a little well travelled. He spent less time wandering and more time curled up on the sofa. Only thing to do now was to get him cleaned up, get those teeth checked and let him retire at home with us all.

We knew something was wrong when he allowed me to pick him up to get him off to the vets.

Freddie was a master of his own destiny. He came and went as he pleased, had a place to call his own, was fed organic food with the others, no scraps for him in quite a while. He had people whom he could trust would never hurt him, cat company even if it was the passing by kind, and a warm place for the winter months.

We'll miss him.

A second silverback gorilla has been killed in Virunga Naitonal park in the space of 10 days. A local farmer said he was ordered to help rebels, under the command of local warlord Laurent Nkunda, collect the meat of the gorilla.


The killing has caused deep concern among conservationists. Ian Redmond, Born Free Wildlife Consultant and Chief Consultant for GRASP, the UN Great Apes Survival Project stated, "in a population this small, every individual counts -- and the loss of a trusting young silverback is tragic on many levels." Redmond worked with Diane Fossey for many years at her research camp on the Rwandan side of the gorilla habitat.

Redmond agrees that motivation for the killings is unclear. "It (motivation) could range from panic, to profit to hunger. Panic, because men with guns expecting any moment to meet opposition forces are likely to react to a silverback bark by shooting -- even just a rustle in the bushes might be interpreted as an enemy. Profit, because meat and infant sales can bring money, and hunger, because Nkunda's troops may well include people who do regard apes as good eating."

"These rebels are merciless. We have never met such depravity, but this latest killing will make us more determined to protect the gorillas. We will be mounting an operation in the coming days,” said Paulin Ngobobo, senior warden with the Congolese wildlife authorities.

Mountain Gorillas are critically endangered, with only 700 remaining in the world, about 380 in the Virunga Volcanoes Conservation Area (shared by DRC, Rwanda and Uganda) and 320 in the nearby Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda. Despite the continuing conflict in the area, their decline has been reversed thanks to international support and courageous conservationists and wardens.

For more information visit www.wildlifedirect.org/gorillaprotection






© 2007 Born Free Foundation. Charity registration no.1070906

TEAMATLANTIS
mayatawi & mrsronweasley
"Come Out And Play" by The Offspring
http://community.livejournal.com/sga_noticeboard/1295801.html

SHWEIR
rory_elizabeth
"How We Know Each Other" by Vienna Teng
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/233610.html

JACK/DANIEL
brihana25
"Hate Me" by Blue October
http://community.livejournal.com/stargatevids/143422.html

DANIEL/VALA
brihana25
"Far Away" by Nickelback
http://community.livejournal.com/stargatevids/143422.html

RONON
ebinia
"Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" by Greenday
http://community.livejournal.com/atlantis_vids/233338.html

MCSHEP
Spacedmonkey
"I Luv U" by The Ordinary Boys
http://community.livejournal.com/mckay_sheppard/tag/spacedmonkey

MCKAY
scout78
"I Am Superman" by REM
http://scout78.livejournal.com/ (22nd Dec)

TEAMATLANTIS
Ltcolshepjumper
"Into The West" by Annie Lennox
http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=20850&page=104