On January 24th 2023 - Burns Eve at the Dinkie Doodles Bar on Funsize Dinkies World Resort Funsize Dinkies.

Celebration of Robert Burns with Live Poetry and Traditional Scottish Songs being held at the Dinkie Doodles Bar
on Funsize Dinkies World.

Starts at 8:00AM - 10:00AM (pst)
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(DINKIES ONLY REGION)
(The Best place where all the Dinkies Hangout)

Hello everyone,
I have a few updates regarding the future of Virtual Beach grid, the grid is slowly being brought back online, you may still find a few regions offline still. but hopefully a few days it will be fully back on-line.
I am now part owner Virtual Beach and sorta taking it over, so any questions you can also message me.

I am really excited for this adventure and the future of Virtual beach so bare with me as I will be learning some new things.

hopefully with in the next few weeks we will also do some much needed maintenance and updates and when that happens we will give a heads up.

DJ Kith's Saturday Night Rockin' Blues at Rockin' The Blues!! 7:30PM!
Region: Rockin' The Blues on Wyldwood Bayou Grid
Event begins: 7:30PM grid time
Added by: Kith Whitehawk
Details:
DJ Kith is taking the stage at Rockin' The Blues tonight at 7:30 pm...and we ALL know what that means! We are gonna R O C K! DJ Kith always finds edgy, hard-drivin' blues tunes that make us jump up and dance! Gather round all you Party Animals & hurry to Wyldwood Bayou Grid where the Tribe is waiting to make you welcome!
wyldwoodbayou.com:8002:Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues

DJ Riker Starts the Saturday Night Blues Party at Rockin' The Blues! 6:00PM! (Pre-Set at 5:30PM)
Region: Rockin' The Blues on Wyldwood Bayou Grid
Event begins: 6:00 PM grid time
Added by: Kith Whitehawk
Details:
That bad boy of the blues, DJ Riker, is locked and loaded and ready to bring you incredible blues tunes...always something new and exciting! Just some good Blues, Blues Rock, Electric Blues and Covers! Sounds like a pretty special set to me! Get ready to rock the blues with this Blues DJ...and wear loose clothing! You're gonna need it to MOVE with dances picked by hostie Jillian!! You're gonna love it!
wyldwoodbayou.com:8002:Wyldwood Bayou Rockin' The Blues

Attention, Musicians, Vocalists, & Music lovers!
I am so excited to announce that I have reopened Virtual Melody Grid!

Virtual Melody Grid will be the home of Touring Musicians, Vocalists and Music lovers from across the hypergrid & metaverse! We welcome anyone who loves music and hanging in a positive, friendly, welcoming atmosphere!

We feel that if we support each other, it benefits each and everyone of us and strengthens our music community. We offer free land and home to touring Musicians and Vocalists. (limited amount - 1st come 1st served) We have a limited amount of cheap single full regions (sims) to those who wish to be a part of our new thriving community! You can have a region (sim) for just $10.usd a month with 50K prims.

We offer Support to *NEW* Musicians, Vocalists, & Venue owners to open sim and I will be hosting bi-weekly seminars inworld and on discord to show you how to promote and advertise yourselves and your venues.

Virtual Melody Grid is a fully functional commerce grid and I have both paypal tip boards and regular tip boards here for FREE.. for you to use, modify, etc.

Virtual Melody will be hosting 2 Talent Show Cases a month. 1 for Playing Musicians and 1 for Vocalists. These Showscases are PAID 20 minute spots! 1st come/1st serve basis. The show cases will be limited to only 7 performers. We will be inviting other grid owners, and venue owners, to come hear you! It will be up to YOU to sell yourself, your music, your sound, in your 20 minute spot! - This is a FUN time for everyone!

Virtual Melody Grid has 3 of it's own venues, and we are looking for playing musicians both acoustic & electric, vocalists, dj's & hosts/hostesses!

We are excited about this new way of bringing music to people from all over the virtual worlds. Music is the universal language, no mater what walk of life we are from, the color of our skin, our sexuality, where we live, MUSIC CONNECTS US! Music is something we can't touch, but it touches us, connecting us on a deep emotional level.

A huge special Shout Out & Thank You to the good folks at Hosting 4 Opensim - hosting4opensim.com (yes a shameless plug) These folks, got it together and they know their stuff! If you are wanting to start your own Grid, this business offers reasonably priced servers and top notch customer service. They had Virtual Melody up and running and fully functional with commerce and a few extra bells and whistles in 2 days! THANK YOU GUYS!

With that being said.. I invite you to come check out Virtual Melody Grid! ALL performers & venue owners will need to have a Virtual Melody avatar to participate in our grid. If this is something that you are interested in, Please send me a message on Facebook, Discord, or email me info@virtualmelody.net I would love to help you!

Hugs
Rogue Galaxy
Owner - Virtual Melody Grid
Discord: https://discord.gg/ybwMt3cPGX
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/virtualmelody
Email: info@virtualmelody.net

Boa noite a todos,

Super festa começando em Terra Nova Grid!!!

FESTA EM ATLÂNTIDA!!!

Bora curtir uma noite de Tritão e Sereias!!!

No comando musical: DJ Long Spiritor

Todos estão convidados!!!

Realização:
Equipe de Festas de Terra Nova Grid

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MashUp has several floors of props, poses, and images.
This can be a great creative outlet and can be used to tell stories and express emotions. MashUp images you take can be used in your ads. virtual-hg.com:8002:MashUp

We are back up and open for visitors, though there is still a LOT of work to do, for now the museum is completed and even has a short video you can watch about the endangered Forest Elephant of Africa. There are some animals, not as many as before but they will be restored over the next few days. There is a lot of landscaping done but much more to do to make it a beautiful trip for visitors. I hope you will visit and enjoy - Much Love, Lavia

Tomorrow on the Turntables as every Sunday Djane Bella with all the great Tunes of Rock Metal and Gothic .. Party Mood at OFFWORLD .. join us from 11AM SLT til open End

Morgen Abend am Plattenteller, wie jeden Sonntag .. Djane Bella .. mit all dem geilen Sound von Rock Metal und Gothic .. Partylaune in OFFWORLD .. ab 20 Uhr gehts los

To Laika and all the four-legged astronauts who have flown in Space

"The more time passes, the more I regret what happened. We shouldn't have done it... we didn't even learn enough from this mission to justify the loss of the animal."
Oleg Gazenko, one of the leading scientists in the space animal programme, and Laika's trainer, commented.

Laika was only two years old and before she was collected for the space programme she had known nothing but the cold of the Moscow streets. Before the launch, Yazdovsky wanted to give her a little happiness and took her home to play with his children: "I wanted to do something good for her, as she had very little time left to live.

Vladimir Yazdovsky made the final selection of dogs and designated their roles. Laika was to be the "flying dog" - a sacrifice to science on a one-way mission into space. Albina, who had already flown twice in a high-altitude test rocket, was designated as Laika's backup. The third dog, Mushka, was a "control dog" - she would stay on the ground and was used to test instrumentation and life support.

Laika was placed in the satellite capsule on 31 October 1957 - three days before the start of the mission. At that time of year, temperatures at the launch site were extremely low, so a hose connected to a heater was used to keep the container warm. Two assistants were in charge of keeping a constant watch over Laika before the start of the mission. Just before take-off on 3 November 1957, Laika's coat was cleaned with an ethanol solution, and those areas where the dog would wear sensors to monitor her bodily functions were painted with iodine.

One of the technicians who prepared the capsule before the final liftoff stated that "after Laika was placed in the container and before the hatch was closed, we kissed her nose and wished her bon voyage, knowing that she would not survive the flight."

Laika died hours after launch from overheating, which was probably caused by a failure of the R-7 central sustainer, part of the spacecraft's thermal system, to separate from the payload. The true cause and time of her death was not revealed until 2002; instead, it was widely reported that she had died on the sixth day,4 ran out of oxygen, or as the Soviet government initially claimed, was euthanised before oxygen depletion. The experiment demonstrated that it is possible for a living passenger to survive being put into orbit and endure microgravity, paving the way for human spaceflight and providing scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments. Following Laika, the USSR sent eight more dogs into space, six of which returned alive to Earth.

Sputnik 2 was not designed to be retrievable, and it was always intended that Laika would die. The mission sparked a worldwide debate about the mistreatment of and experiments on animals to advance science. In the UK, the National Canine Defence League (NCDL, now the Dog Foundation) called for dog owners to observe a minute's silence in Laika's honour. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) received protests even before Radio Moscow had finished announcing the launch. Several animal rights groups protested outside Soviet embassies, others demonstrated outside the United Nations in New York, but some American scientists offered support to their Soviet colleagues, at least before Laika's death was announced.

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A Laika y a todos los astronautas de 4 patas que llegaron al Espacio

«Cuanto más tiempo pasa, más lamento lo sucedido. No debimos haberlo hecho... ni siquiera aprendimos lo suficiente de esta misión como para justificar la pérdida del animal.»
Comentó Oleg Gazenko, uno de los principales científicos del programa de animales en el espacio, y entrenador de Laika

Laika tenía solo dos años y antes de ser recogida para el programa espacial no había conocido más que el frío de las calles moscovitas. Antes del lanzamiento, Yazdovsky quiso obsequiarla con un poco de felicidad y se la llevó a su casa para que jugara con sus hijos: “Quería hacer algo bueno por ella, ya que le quedaba muy poco tiempo de vida”.

Vladimir Yazdovsky hizo la selección final de perros y designó sus roles. Laika iba a ser la «perra voladora» —un sacrificio a la ciencia en una misión de ida al espacio. Albina, que ya había volado dos veces en un cohete de prueba a gran altura, se designó como reserva de Laika. El tercer perro, Mushka, era un «perro de control» -se quedaría en tierra y era usada para probar la instrumentación y el soporte vital.

Laika fue colocada en la cápsula del satélite el 31 de octubre de 1957 —tres días antes del inicio de la misión. En esa época del año, las temperaturas en el sitio de lanzamiento eran extremadamente bajas, por lo que se usó una manguera conectada a un calentador para mantener caliente el contenedor. Dos asistentes estaban encargados de vigilar constantemente a Laika antes del comienzo de la misión. Justo antes del despegue, el 3 de noviembre de 1957, se limpió el pelaje de Laika con una solución de etanol, y le pintaron con yodo aquellas áreas donde la perra llevaría sensores para vigilar sus funciones corporales.

Uno de los técnicos que preparó la cápsula antes del despegue final declaró que «después de la colocación de Laika en el contenedor y antes de cerrar la escotilla, le besamos la nariz y le deseamos buen viaje, sabiendo que no iba a sobrevivir al vuelo.»

Laika murió horas después del lanzamiento por sobrecalentamiento,​ que probablemente fue ocasionado por un fallo del sustentador de la central R-7, que forma parte del sistema térmico de la nave, al separarse de la carga útil.​ La verdadera causa y tiempo de su muerte no fue revelada sino hasta 2002; en cambio, fue ampliamente informado que había muerto al sexto día,​ se quedó sin oxígeno, o como el gobierno soviético alegó inicialmente, fue sometida a eutanasia antes del agotamiento del oxígeno. El experimento demostró que es posible que un pasajero vivo sobreviva al ser puesto en órbita y soportar la microgravedad, allanando el camino para los vuelos espaciales humanos y proporcionando a los científicos algunos de los primeros datos sobre cómo los organismos vivos reaccionan a los entornos de los vuelos espaciales. Tras Laika, la URSS envió ocho perros más al espacio, de los cuales seis regresaron con vida a la Tierra


El Sputnik 2 no fue diseñado para ser recuperable, y siempre se tuvo la intención de que Laika muriera. La misión desencadenó un debate mundial sobre el maltrato y los experimentos con animales para avanzar en la ciencia. En el Reino Unido, la Liga Nacional de Defensa Canina (NCDL, actualmente Fundación para los Perros) pidió que los dueños de perros guardaran un minuto de silencio en honor a Laika. La Real Sociedad para la Prevención de la Crueldad contra los Animales (RSPCA) recibió protestas incluso antes de que Radio Moscú hubiera terminado de anunciar el lanzamiento. Varios grupos protectores de los derechos animales protestaron frente a embajadas soviéticas. Otros se manifestaron frente a las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York;​ sin embargo, algunos científicos estadounidenses ofrecieron apoyo a sus colegas soviéticos, por lo menos antes de que se anunciara la muerte de Laika.

DJ Macy's Friday Night Blues Party at Rockin' The Blues!! 6:00PM!
Region: Rockin' The Blues on Wyldwood Bayou Grid
Event begins: 6:00PM grid time
Added by: Kith Whitehawk
Details:
It's finally Friday! And time for those merry mischief makers, DJ Macy and her hosties Pixie and Amara! Macy has the upbeat, feel good blues you love all wrapped up in laughter and lively chat with the Blues Tribe! Macy searches out the most fun blues tunes for you every week! Her library contains the happiest tunes...the ones you need to get your weekend started!! Come on down to the swamp and let's Rock those blues!!!
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Littlefield Grid has just overhaled their Welcome Region with an all new layout including a nice hangout area! We have also added a set of HG portals for some of the dances and stores on other grids. We hope you like the new layout!

Littlefield Grid's monthly State of the Grid meeting. - IMPORTANT for residents to attend!! All Residents and HG Visitors are welcome!

Friday 1/06/2022 1:30PM Pacific

Today's Topics:
Luminaria Party, Inworld Review Interview, All Things Must Pass video/region, New Littlefield Welcome Region and Hangout for 2023.

Wir starten in diesem Jahr wieder mit unserer Sauna-Party ab 20:00 Uhr. Für einen frischen Aufguss wird gesorgt und DJane Biene wird uns musikalisch mit Musik der 80er, 90er bis heute zusätzlich erfrischen. Es ist keine FKK-Party (auch wenn es in der Sauna stattfindet). Badeklamotten, Handtuch, Bademantel o.ä. sind erwünscht aber kein muss. Normale Klamotten sind auch völlig ok (ihr müsst dann nur mehr schwitzen) ?

Anyone who enters the University as a child avi will now be banned. Never thought I would have to do this but had a child avi come in twice and also told me how pretty I was as if they were trying to get with me. if it wasn't for that last part I would just nicely ask them to change to adult or leave.

Lioness Den - the wildlife preserve will be off line until we get some technical issues corrected. Thank you for your patience and we'll be open again as soon as we can. Also doing some remodeling as in major makeover. We will notify you as soon as we're open for visitors again. And we apologize for any inconvenience.

MashUp is now completed with several floors of props, poses, and images.
This can be a great creative outlet and can be used to tell stories and express emotions. MashUp images you take can be used in your ads. virtual-hg.com:8002:MashUp

Thank to Verna Avril and that suzan von otter for finding a bug that causes Local accounts to be banned even though they are not on the list, if the list contained spaces or a null line with just a carriage return line feed. Version 12 is released in their honor and contains this new function. Special thanks to princeofAmor for suggesting to ignore npc's. That cuts out 5 additional operations per iteration making the device faster if you have npc's on your land. :)

NEW VERSION 12. By popular request, it now also tells the person as well as the owner why a person was banned. Also flying is ON by default.
Presenting the OVERWATCH SENTRY. What does it do? Well, you can enter a list of grids to ban, people to ban by name, ip, or key. It also monitors each person that comes into your sim, and if they are wearing too many scripts to try and crash your sim, it bans them. If they are using too much sim memory and eating up all system resources, it bans them. If they are flying and you turn off flying in the system, it bans them. If they are too tall or too short, it bans them. So it does a lot, and it's all settable by you. I didn't do ban by age because avatar age is unreliable and can return a 0 day age. Not to mention that we all sometimes have to start over. The device is by the christmas tree at cyberdatastorm.com:8002/wizardry. It's a different kind of device from a security system. Security systems ban everyone except those you allow in. This lets everybody in - but it checks them to make sure they are not hacking or trying to hurt your sim, but it can also ban people from a list. It's really simple to use, just add the name to the appropriate list in the objects inventory, then just click to turn it on. Only the owner can turn it on or off.

Some New items at the Star Jinn Palisade Mall, our shopping region. A full Kitchen and Dining set complete with a working oven that has a light, exhaust fan and working broiler drawer and oven rack. The sink has a functioning dishwasher and the washer and dryer can be turned on and off with a simple "fade" command. There are cupboards in different sizes and arrangements and a full set with "glass" doors. These items are boxed and ready to go with rez instructions included. The entire region of Masala Al Kohav (which means wish upon a star) is, in fact, Star Jinn Palisade Mall. As we grow and add you will find everything from homes to furniture to clothing and avatars as well as gardening items. Specialty Shops like Star Ravenhurst Designs and Falls For You featuring items by Dusty Falls. From Castles to Cabins, Mansions to Mud huts, Closets, Cupboards, Cabbage and Carrots, we have it all. With Love - Lavia

Hello brothers and sisters :-) here awaits you
a Viking "Lothbrok Farm" and long walks or on horseback, whatever you guys or maiden like ;-) there are also Viking clothes and some useful things for a farm or Viking followers available. Have fun exploring ..Odin be with you!!!

Well they're here, after a long battle with those ornery rabbits, the carrots are ready! You can find Gram-Z's carrot patch at our Mall region.... "grid.genesis-roleplay.org:8002:Masala Al Kahov" .... the box comes with a single carrot, a carrot bunch, a row of 6, two rows of 6 and 10 rows of six, all of them only 1 prim each, so you can have your little carrot patch as big or small as you like. They make nice additions to "prep" scenes and they're just fun. I had such fun making them and I hope you'll enjoy using them for your garden, farm or kitchen scenes. Blessings - GramZ