The Vixen Controlled Library's Sweden "Master" mirror is going to shut down according to system admin Ch'marr in a post to the VCL Livejournal community. This is due to their Sweden host, Linkoping University, asking them to ether remove erotic material or shut down. Blame politics and public relations issues. The US Mirror will still be up, but slow, until they can ether get expanded bandwith for it or a new mirror. "Can anyone lend a T1?"

Morphicon 2005 "Growing Pains": May 6-8, 2005
Radisson Columbus-Worthington, OH

Artist Contest: http://morphicon.org/conbook.htm
The contest ends in five weeks! Artists: apply now for a chance at a free Patron Membership to the 2005 convention.

Registration: http://morphicon.org/register.htm
Early registration ends soon (end of February). Register now and save!

Charity Events: http://morphicon.org/charity.htm
Please donate items to our charity auction! Your donation of art or furry goods can help save puppies and kitties in the SW Ohio community.

Visit our website for more information, including on the quickly growing Dealer's Den and scheduled programming. We'll see you in May!

Trickster

Megaplex Room Block

Well, Megaplex is coming soon, and the room block is filling up! The deadline is the 10th of February to get your room now at the Megaplex rate.

The hotel will not extend this, as they expect to sell out the rooms for this time of year. After the 10th, the possibility of getting a room will be slim. Right now, the rooms are going for $99.00 a night + taxes under the Megaplex rate.

Are you interested in a bigger room? We do have 1 bedroom suites available to upgrade to in our room block as well. Contact The Sheraton hotel at (800) 327-0363, and remember to use reservation code MEGAPLEX.

Also the 10th is the deadline for pre-reg, so get your registration in now, and save $10.00 online! Go to our website at www.ppmp.info for more info, and see you in March!

A Swiss motorist who thought he struck a dog discovered he had actually hit a man in a dog costume. The victim had earlier attended a stag party and passed out on the road while walking home. He was dragged about 120 feet after being struck but was not seriously injured due to the thick, padded costume.

Full story from Ananova.

The Associated Press is carrying a brief article on Further Confusion. You can see it on several websites, including ABC News.

SOUTHERN TAILS
The official newsletter of Furry Weekend Atlanta
January 2005

In this issue...
- Pre-registration deadline at hand!
- Hotel update
- Art Show update
- Charity announcement!
- Programming update
- Programming Spotlight: Sub-level 03
- Programming Spotlight: How to Survive a Zombie Attack
- Volunteers Needed

In this final issue:

1. Contacting us
2. Important Times
3. Sign-up Events
4. Second Floor Walkway
5. Mini/PDA Schedule

With the arrival of the New Year also comes another year's anniversary for Flayrah.com. We've been publishing for four straight years now, and in that time have posted 1,992 stories, with 3,820 comments between them. Not bad for a website that's done little direct advertising. I'm pretty happy with what I've been able to do with Flayrah.

Yerf, one of furry fandom's most prominent archives of art has recently experienced a catastrophic hard drive faliure. They're currently looking for donations towards getting a data recovery service to look at the disk, as there was no backup of the data. You can find out more information, including where and how to donate on the Yerf Community.

Two Evansville, Indiana Wal-Mart employees who police say followed a manager's orders to shoot and kill a stray cat have been charged with federal animal cruelty.

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Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned — the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.

[Read Article]

Hello everyone!

It gives me great pleasure to announce that C-ACE finally has ONLINE REGISTRATION! You can now fill out the forms online and get your pre-registration, sponsorship, dealer table, art show panel and even past years' t-shirts paid with PayPal!

Of course, we still accept payments through regular mail with cheques, through printed text or pdf forms, like usual.

Remember that you can still save if you register before February 5, 2005 at the low rate of Cdn$30 for the whole weekend! You can also show your support by buying a Sponsorship at $80 and above, which gives you a free t-shirt,a free print by our Artist guest and a free lunch Saturday with our Guests of Honours - as well as our many thanks!

Don't forget about reserving your hotel room too! Just call the Best Western Victoria Park Suites at (613) 567-7275 or toll-free in North America at 1-800-465-7275, and mention Group Reservation #153544 to get our special rate of $109 for semi-suite and $119 for a Queen suite, all with kitchenettes included!

We hope to see many of you next June!

Niall MacConaill
Chair, C-ACE 2005
chair@c-ace.org

Get yer comics here! From Doodles: "It may be colder than hell for us right now, but as far as Diamond is concerned, Spring is here!"

In this issue:

1. Travel Assistance
2. Pre-Registration cut-off date
3. Our hotel is full!
4. Dealers Room hours and list of merchants
5. Art show hours and list of exhibitors
6. Other opening hours of note
7. Furly Edition #0 Deadline
8. Fursuit Badges
9. Single Day Registration costs
10. Sign-up Only Events

Twosune Forums is now open for business! The forum allows furs to talk about art, games, and general news, as well as acting as a virtual flea market for furs.

Besides allowing artists to sell non-auction items and services, artists can also ask and be asked for commissions, as well as discuss art itself, such as drawing and writing techniques, as well as participate in ongoing contests! Come by and try us out!

Happy Holidays!