Hello!

It is a bit late in coming this year, I do know that, but we still have over a week to go. Let's send Amanda Christmas greetings!

It's far more straightforward this year. I have set up a guestbook where you can leave your entries. The guestbook uses the same script as the main guestbook on our site. You can simply write your message and leave it there. You will need to wait until your entry is approved.

Currently, the Christmas guestbook uses a generic template. Leave your messages there and over the next week, the design and template will be updated to reflect the Christmas mood and feeling.

The link to the Christmas guestbook:

http://www.amandatapping.com/SpecialOccasions/Christmas2009/

Our regular posting rules apply:

1. Your message has to be written and addressed TO AMANDA. Please do not write anything of the "could you wish Amanda happy birthday?" sort. I will not be rephrasing your messages.

2. You have to refrain from asking any questions. This is a birthday card of sorts, not an interview. Any questions you might ask in your letter (e.g. "What will happen in Sanctuary's season 2?" will be deleted).

3. Please go through your letter / message before you send it out. Please remember to use capital letters. Any online / mobile phrases such as "u" or "cu" will be changed to full words. If you wish to save me some work, please write in full English. Your names and with no exceptions Amanda's name have to be capitalised. If you are not English and do not speak/write English as your first language, it is understandable that you can make some mistakes, but capital letters you need to remember about.

4. Deadline is: December 22, 2009. All the entries will be approved (or in minority of cases - I hope, rejected) on December 23, 2009. It will be on December 23, 2009, when I will send the link to the pages to Amanda. No exceptions (I need Christmas, too. <g>)

5. Finally, I reserve the right to refuse a message to be included in the greetings. These would usually involve rude language, inappropriate comments or a user/visitor being disrespectful. This has happened very rarely in the past, however, so do not worry!

6. Have fun! And Merry Christmas!

Sanctuary For Kids Charity Initiative

The major event has come at last! After many months of meticulous preparation and commitment, Amanda has started (as of today) her charity initiative - Sanctuary For Kids!

Sanctuary for Kids is a not-for-profit organization that raises money for international and local children's charities, which support youth and children who are in crisis. Grown from the TV series, Sanctuary, Sanctuary for Kids will provide access to rare and experience-based auction items from the TV series to raise funds for its chosen charities. This year S4K is supporting two organizations: the Nepal Orphans Home (http://www.nepalorphanshome.org/), which attends to the welfare of children in Nepal who are orphaned, abandoned or not supported by their parents; and Watari's TTIP and TIPPY programs (http://www.watari.org/about_us.html), which work with the homeless youth population in Vancouver to help single and pregnant and parenting youth in safe, affordable housing and encourage commitment to their treatment plans.

The auctions coming up the soonest, in November 2009, according to the Sanctuary For Kids official website, are:

1. Ebay.Com auctions - November 12 (9pm PST) to November 22, 2009 (9pm PST): (a) 20 minute Skype Chat with Amanda, (b) Sanctuary set tour and lunch with Amanda for winner and three friends, (c) Sonic Stunner (a Sanctuary prop to win), (d) opportunity to name a character on Sanctuary!
2. Upcoming GABIT AT4 Convention in London, United Kingdom (November 13 to November 15, 2009 - proceeds from the auction at the event will go directly to Sanctuary For Kids.

AmandaTapping.Com has been involved in playing a small part in this project from scratch. In collaboration with Sanctuary For Kids, we have set up a forum (please follow the links below) to provide a place and safe haven for you to discuss causes you champion, charities you feel passionate about, reasons why you feel strongly about aiding others and being involved in charities and sharing your charity-related stories - and make connections with other people all over the world based on that. The forum is called Community Charity Forum. The Forum is completely endorsed by Sanctuary For Kids. You need to register there separately from this website. On top of that, we have set up a web page which is to serve as a catalogue of charities. These are your local charities, beyond the ones supported by S4K. Feel free to post them there (no membership or registration required) and hopefully, this will help create a massive directory of organizations all over the world that you care about with causes you care about. Within the directory, you will find links to the forum.

Please keep in mind that neither of these pages is about discussing Amanda's career - they are strictly about your discussion of charities and helping those less fortunate in this world - thus please refrain from discussing Amanda's work there. We hope for a lot of connections made based on what charities you support and what causes you champion.

We wish Sanctuary For Kids to have a successful start, followed by many years of successful operation, helping children all over the world lead better, easier and more successful lives!

Let Amanda's spirit - spirit of good will and random acts of kindness - prevail!
Kamil Trzebiatowski
Webmaster of AmandaTapping.Com

Sanctuary for Kids - http://www.sanctuaryforkids.org
Community Charity Forum - http://www.amandatapping.com/Scripts/CharityForum/
Charity Directory - http://www.amandatapping.com/Scripts/CharitySFK/

The website celebrates Amanda's immense talent at all times. Below is a list of awards Amanda has won over the years with links to image slideshows (available in our galleries). Click on the links next to the images to be taken to the slideshow / galleries.

Year / Award	Image	Links
Leo Awards 2002: Best Lead Performance: Stargate SG-1: Ascension		Gallery Slideshow
Leo Awards 2004: Best Direction: Stargate SG-1: Resurrection		Gallery Slideshow
Saturn Awards 2004: Best Supporting Actress On Television		n/a
Leo Awards 2005: Stargate SG-1: Threads		Gallery Slideshow
Canadian Comedy Awards 2007: Best Actress (Film): Breakdown		Gallery Slideshow
Leo Awards 2009: Best Lead Performance by a Female: Sanctuary: Requiem		Gallery Slideshow

Hello everyone,

This is only to let you know that the birthday greetings you all sent for Amanda's 2009 birthday are now easily downloaded off the site. Just follow the link below.

Please understand that greetings of anyone who has sent those after the official deadline have not been included. The images have also not been included as that was specified in the official announcement.

The greetings this year were only in the standard no frills form, we'll make up for it around Christmas!

The link to the PDF Birthday Greetings file.

And thank you for participating in the project yet again!

Kamil

Hello all!

Some exciting news first! Amanda's show, Sanctuary, has just received a nomination for Emmys 2009 for Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series! Congratulations to everyone working on the show. The specific crew who worked on the visual effects for Sanctuary who are nominated are:

(according to Emmys.com) Lee Wilson, Visual Effects Supervisor; Lisa Wilson, Visual Effects Producer; Sebastien Bergeron, Digital Effects Supervisor; Les Quinn, CG Supervisor; Matt Belbin, Visual Effects Coordinator; Mladden Miholjcic, CG Artist; Ken Lee, CG Artist; Philippe Thibault, Compositor; Lionel Lim, Compositor 

These are obviously nominations at the point. The other shows nominated for the same award are Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Fringe, Ghost Whisperer. Clearly, Sanctuary is up against some serious competition, but we are sure that Amanda's team is going to prevail. The winners will be presented on September 20, 2009 and broadcast on CBS in the United States. You will find this date in our calendar as well.

Another bit of good news is that Stargate SG-1: Children of Gods Final Cut has just been released in the US and the UK will see its release on the 27th of July this year (so within less than a week). The new and improved Children of the Gods has been re-cut into movie format, some new material has been added and new special visual effects have been added. This title is available through our Amanda DVDs section within our Online Activities section, so you don't have to look for it on the Amazon.Com or .Co.Uk pages to find it.

Amanda is also in the cast of two new Stargate movies, currently in pre-production and development. One is Stargate: Extinction movie, which is a Stargate Atlantis feature film, set to be released in 2010. The other one is a Stargate SG-1 movie, currently unnamed, although it has been referred to before as Project Terzo. The release date is yet unknown and, in fact, it has only been just announced and is not in production just yet. 

And finally, Amanda's Birthday is coming up next month. So - as is our annual tradition and has been so for the last 10 years (yes, we first started it in 1999!), I am inviting you to send Birthday Greetings for Amanda. Some things you should remember about:

1. Your message has to be written and addressed TO AMANDA. Please do not write anything of the "could you wish Amanda happy birthday?" sort. I will not be rephrasing your messages.

2. You have to refrain from asking any questions. This is a birthday card of sorts, not an interview. Any questions you might ask in your letter (e.g. "What will happen in Sanctuary's season 2?" will be deleted).

3. Please go through your letter / message before you send it out. Please remember to use capital letters. Any online / mobile phrases such as "u" or "cu" will be changed to full words. If you wish to save me some work, please write in full English. Your names and with no exceptions Amanda's name have to be capitalised. If you are not English and do not speak/write English as your first language, it is understandable that you can make some mistakes, but capital letters you need to remember about.

4. No images this year. I am sorry, but it tends to cause considerable problems with formatting when all the greetings are put together.

5. Deadline is: AUGUST 22, 2009. I will start working on the actual pages on August 23, 2009.

6. Send an email to webmaster@amandatapping.com. Type "Amanda's Birthday 2009" in its subject line.

7. Finally, I reserve the right to refuse a message to be included in the greetings. These would usually involve rude language, inappropriate comments or a user/visitor being disrespectful. This has happened very rarely in the past, however, so do not worry!

8. Have fun!

Enjoy your summer

Kamil

(the webmaster)