It's that time of the year again when OSFest is nearly ready to open the doors of a new grid to exhibitors, merchants, and sponsors to start placing their creations before the official opening on September 15th. I know I've been working on my new exhibit since mid July.

OSFest (OpensimFest) is a big event with tons of exhibits from multiple grids, including individual exhibitors, merchants, and artists, as well as educators and grid owners. Each year they create a grid just for the festival with multiple regions and tons of performers that lasts 2 weeks. At the end they have a large celebration just before the entire grid is taken down until the next year.

If you wish to participate as an exhibitor, performer, or merchant, please go here to register for a parcel: https://www.opensimfest.com then click Register on the top menu line. Once the grid opens you'll receive a parcel number by email.

OSFest sponsors are those who support the grid monetarily to help offset the server and technical costs of running a short-term grid. Their support ensures the grid is free to everyone. If you would like to become a sponsor, go here to register where you can choose a support level you're comfortable with: https://www.opensimfest.com/sponsors

For those of you who would like to attend, you can find the calendar of events here: https://www.opensimfest.com/calendar

To hear all the news before everyone else, join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/K7rWsJn6e9

NewLifeItaly
newlifeitaly.net:8002:NewLifeWelcome
Nella welcome potrai trovare teleport per tutte le varie land della grid e nuovi avatar costruiti dai nostri creatori.
Registrarsi è facile vieni a far parte anche tu di NewLifeItaly
In the welcome you will find teleports for all the various lands of the grid and new avatars built by our creators.
Registering is easy come and join NewLifeItaly too

Luxor is my home and a place of meditation and mystery for spiritual pilgrims. The region rewards those who are patient, still, and listening, for there are quiet songs that will play at various locations if you stand and wait. Shared environment and higher graphics will complete your experience in this place of Peace. I am here often so please say Hi if you see me

Nothing is currently for sale here but eventually I'll open a little shop of antiquities.

Fred thank you!! We have a beautiful bee to add to our collection! This bee has a built-in AO too, making it super easy to animate! I love this Bee and I love you Ferd! Thank you!! Please stop by to fly the garden! Please stop by to pick up your free BEE!!
three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Goliath Gardens

Thanks for the post-Thirza. Are you looking for something different? Check out what's been done, new possibilities, and a way to expand your grid's experiences. Reach out to Nyx Breen
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/06/nyxs-art-for-space.h...

Walking through the streets of Birch Grove during Pride month is like stepping into a vivid dreamscape. Rainbow flags sway in harmony with the breeze, adorning storefronts and lamp posts. Thank you @JamieAnnaWright for recognizing that all people matter. https://virtual-hg.com/JOpensim/index.php/2-uncategorised/...

Just wanted to give a shout out to the team that has made friends-grid totally rock!

Sometimes the techies get overlooked, and they are the people who make this virtual world possible.

friends-grid is not a simple job to run….it is probably a pain in the butt because I have a minor addiction to scripts.

These guys are how I hosted a huge party yesterday with 31 people and 8,000 scripts in that region alone…. with no lag!

Thank you hosting4opensim

Midtsommernatt i Norge
On Friday, June 23rd, from 12 p.m., we will be celebrating midsummer night in the "Lofoten" Norway.
Come and enjoy the longest day of the year and the midnight sun.
Djane Loru provides the musical entertainment and also broadcasts on her web radio http://stream.laut.fm/artdestiny.
Welcome !

Midtsommernatt i Norge
Wir feiern am Freitag, 23. Juni ab 21.00 Uhr die Mitsommernacht auf den „Lofoten“ Norwegen.
Kommt vorbei und geniesst den längsten Tag des Jahres und die Mitternachtssonne.
Für die musikalische Unterhaltung sorgt Djane Loru und sendet auch auf ihrem Webradio http://stream.laut.fm/artdestiny.
Herzlich willkommen !

hg.cc-group.cc:8002:CCI Lofoten

@FerdFrederix suggests "If you were to become a bug, you could do so by wearing an avatar that would allow you to experience the world from a bug's perspective. Imagine visiting a garden where everything is to scale, and you could truly be the bug. You would be able to explore this miniature world, see the intricacies of the plants and flowers, and feel the wind blowing through the grass virtually. You could crawl through tunnels and crevices, and even fly to new heights. Being a bug could give you a whole new appreciation for the world around you and the creatures that inhabit it." this is precisely why I adore Fred. I found a really cute ladybug that he helped to animate and for the last two days, I have been carving out a bug paradise where everything is to scale if you were a bug. I have free avatars that Fred gave us, his Rat, Blue Bird, and I am giving the ladybug so that you can experience the garden too. Please make sure you wear the avatars while visiting the 3x3 Region Goliath Gardens I will be adding new avatars too, I found a great praying mantis!! Thank YOU, Ferd!!! three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Goliath Gardens

What an awesome memorial day! TJ & I had smoked chicken, boston butt, and pork ribs, with potato salad, slaw, macaroni salad, texas toast, bbq baked beans, sweet tea and pecan pie. Tonight we played the board game clue which i picked up at walmart, along with some uno cards. Then I got busy in the kitchen and made a tiramisu cake, vanilla & chocolate petit fours, and white chocolate chip cookies. I sent TJ to the store for butter pecan icecream and we had a rare sweets supper while playing Clue (tm). Just all in all a fun memorial day!

A newly discovered supernova can be watched as it develops in real-time, online and for free.

This particular galaxy and supernova can be difficult to view in the night sky without the right conditions or telescope, however. Luckily, the Virtual Telescope Project will livestream the cosmic explosion on its website and YouTube channel as it develops via its power robotic telescopes based in Rome, Italy. The online event will kick off at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT) on Friday, May 26 2023. Note that this event is weather dependent and could be delayed or cancelled due to poor conditions. https://www.space.com/new-supernova-pinwheel-galaxy-livest...

What is a metaverse? I believe it is a virtual universe, where anything can happen! A place of magic and fun and joy. Just like the real universe the metaverse has many planets (grids) and thanks to the wonderful and amazing work of Sir Fred Beckheusen, the creator of dreamgrid, now anyone can have their own entire planet!
There are currently well over 7,000 planets (grids) in the metaverse! It is more populated than we realize. People from other countries with their own customs, languages, and beliefs have set up their own worlds, for others to explore.
I believe this trend will continue and people will spread out farther than ever before creating their own unique places and leaving an indelible mark of their existence upon the virtual cosmos! A complete decentralization of power and authority. No longer subject to the laws of the lindens and secondLife. No one place having authority over all the others. Everyone is free to explore thousands of worlds and make new friends.
With that said, you may also make a few enemies, but it doesn't matter, even if you get banned from an entire world, there are many thousands more out there... I have been exploring worlds of people I never knew existed, meeting new people, and making new friends.
The metaverse is a new frontier, a decentralized place created for us, and there is room enough in it for everyone, regardless of race, color, sex, sexual preferences, disabilities, and other separatist categories.
Thanks to Fred's brilliant work, setting up a grid in windows is as easy as clicking a button, and filling out a few questions. If you would like to set up your own dreamgrid, or grid on linux and need any help, I will help you. Just find me and send me an IM.

New! New! New!
C&C Worldwide Mall proudly brings you this weeks New release today 21.05.2023
The Sunroom
This beautiful selection is comprised of :
Lounger , Hanging benches all adult scripted and dining table and chairs with food giver & pg dining poses. Included also Lamp & Artwork.
Today we are doing a special music event with the release .
Hurry and collect these Items and hear DJ Crazy mix his Special Mashup and Dance sounds for you !
If you in a good mood join the Outdoor Party at the Mall Center Plaza - you are most welcome !
Don't forget to wear your Group Tag to shop .

Taxi:hg.osgrid.org:80:C&C Worldwide Mall

Neu! Neu! Neu!
C&C Worldwide Mall präsentiert euch heute,
am 21.05.2023, stolz die Neuveröffentlichung dieser Woche
Der Wintergarten
Diese schöne Auswahl besteht aus:
Liege, Hängebänke, alles für Erwachsene gescriptet, Esstisch und Stühle mit Essensgeber- und PG-Essposen.
Im Lieferumfang sind auch Lampe
und Kunstwerke enthalten.
Heute machen wir mit der Veröffentlichung ein besonderes Musikevent.
Kommt vorbei in unserer Mall und holt euch das Release ab und hört dabei, wie DJ Crazy seine speziellen Mashup- und Dance-Sounds für euch mixt! Vielleicht habt ihr Lust auch das Tanzbein zu schwingen dann kommt zum Mall Zentrum zur Outdoor Party.
Vergesst nicht, beim Einkaufen eueren Gruppentitel zu tragen.

Taxi:hg.osgrid.org:80:C&C Worldwide Mall

** FUNSIZE DINKIES WORLD RESORT **
Dinkies Friday happens every Friday from 8:00am - 10:00am on the Alternate Metaverse Grid
DINKIES ONLY REGION & HG Friendly at Location: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Funsize Dinkie
Come on Over (DINKIES) and Hangout with us all on the Resort ..

Wedded Bliss Wedding Set-Floral Band with Three Stone Ring-This Floral Band is a silhouette of my Solid Floral Wedding Band-They are similar in design but the bands are different. This you will find in the Wedding Rings dept of the store.virtual-hg.com:8002:Monentes Jewelry

Peace & Love, Brothers, and Sisters. It is the dawning of the Age of Pangea!
It will be time to Keep on Trucking at this Groovy event with Zowie Maui and Wavey Gravey as we Boogie to the jams of the '60s. Psychedelics provided by Nyx Breen that Cool Head is righteous and bodacious. Don't be Bummed Out Man and miss this Shindig.
Coming Soon!

Les couleurs d'opensim changent ! Encore en beta-test, le nouveau viewer de Linden change son modèle colorimétrique. Nous ne savons pas si et quand ces modifications seront portées sur Firestorm. Opensimulator a d'ores-et-déjà intégré les fonctions llLinear2sRGB et llsRGB2Linear. Les testeurs intrépides d'Atlasgrid se sont jetés dessus et les ont décortiquées. Sur le nuancier de gauche, les anciennes couleurs. Sur celui de droite, les nouvelles.

The colors of opensim are changing ! Still in beta-test, the new Linden viewer will incorporate a new color model. We don't know when and if it will be ported to Firestorm. But Opensimulator has yet implemented the LSL functions llLinear2sRGB and llsRGB2Linear. Fearless Atlasgrid's testers has dived in. Left colorchecker : old colors. Right : new colors.

Mind Odyssey art exhibit is a spectacle of vibrant colors and animation. If you are free this weekend, please consider taking the time to visit this exhibit. Art is presented by these artists:

Cherry Manga
Amaranthim Talon
Shirl Tainted Angel
Nyx Breen

Bibiana has beautiful pieces about too!
virtual-hg.com:8002:Mind Odyssey

You can find my work at these locations:

Wolf Territories Grid:
Gloebit Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store
Podex Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Podex

Many of my items are also available on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705

Carpe Noctem Mall II is open but it will be under construction as i will be working on new things continuously.
The things at this mall are new textured or new uploaded. You will find things for holidays (Valentine, St. Patrick, Easter,
x-mas, halloween...) fashion for female and male. Decoration products, furniture, Wall hangings and more.
You also find an Artgallery at this place. If you need a break you can use the cafe or seddle down at the farm beside the
market.

Please be patient as im still working on this place to offer you new things in future. I will add them as soon as i have
products ready so check back often.

If you are a creator without own place contact me and you may have a shop for your things at my mall for free.

I wish you a nice day with shopping and walking around. Enjoy your stay if you need something just write i will answer as soon as possible.

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Carpe Noctem 2/285/336/3000

Ok I have a question for the users who read these posts. This region is clothing for Athena rigged clothing and I was wondering how many of you would be interested in my also releasing the same designs for the Legacy body?? If there is enough intrest for the legacy outfits I will start getting the textures etc ready and do some legacy releases as well as the ongoing Athena releases.

Nautilus Cape Cod has reopened its Fish House Restaurant! Have a romantic Dinner or grab a lunch after sailing and exploring the Nautilus Ocean waters. The Restaurant is across from the Marina that has many free boats that work effortlessly on the Nautilus waters. The Restaurant has charming views of Cape Cod which has long term residents. There are free cottages to call home, the last one just became available and sits on its own private Island. ENJOY!


https://opensimworld.com/hop/88735
hg.osgrid.org:80:Cape Cod

From walter.bankovitch@stanfordalumni.org Tue Aug 13 16:10:39 2002
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:40:46 -0000
From: Walter Bankovitch
To:
Subject: Management Course
Status: RO

Lesson One:
A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit
saw the crow & asked him, "Can I also sit like you & do nothing all day
long?" The crow answered: "Sure, why not." So, the rabbit sat on
the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared,
jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Management Lesson?
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high
up.

Lesson Two:
A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to
the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the
energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied
the bull. "They're packed with nutrients." The turkey pecked at a lump of
dung, found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest
branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he
reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, he was
proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was promptly spotted by
a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Management Lesson?
Bull Shit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.

Lesson Three:
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird
froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying
there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay
there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was.
The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and
happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing
and came to investigate. Following the
sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung
and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Management Lesson?
1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!

Here endeth your management course.


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