Star Ravenhurst @MelodyStar

This is the news everyone tried to guess what it was. Virtual beach region which is our current welcome region is getting a major upgrade!

I would like to thank Darci Viper and Lilly Sparks from OS grid for doing the complete rehaul and putting up with me. They have put a lot of effort in the region, I have done a few things but the credit really goes to them.

Also i want to thank Cuetulala artis aka bloom peters for working on a special project in there i cant yet reveal.

When it is finished, there will be a reveal party, stay tuned for details.

Teleporting Issues?

I just became aware of a major flaw with firestorm and the solution that is on the Firestorm download page. I have been unable to TP unless I relog for last 3 days. After much research I realized this was a Firestorm SLURL issue.

Go to the firestorm download page and you will see the above information.

I have not changed my viewer settings or added any new viewers; but it appears some upgrade (probably windows) caused the SLURL function in Firestorm to no longer work properly.

As I follow up....I am teleporting perfectly now after installing this.

I am encosing the notes from firestorm :

What is this ?
SLURL Proxy is an application that will handle SLURLs on your Windows system. Clicking a SLURL on the web,
will open SLURL proxy, which will forward the SLURL to the viewer you have chosen.

Why is that interesting ?
Various Second Life viewers you might, or may already have installed, modify the way SLURLs are handled on your system,
and often cause problems when you uninstall certain viewers.

SLURL Proxy provides a user friendly way to correct this.

Upon start up, SLURL Proxy will check to see if it's the default SLURL handler.
If it is not, it will inform you about that, and ask you if you'd like to use SLURL Proxy as default instead.

When you have set SLURL Proxy as default,(or even before that) you can simply drag one or more viewer shortcuts onto the application window,
and they should be listed with viewer name, and icon.

SLURL Proxy allows you to add several viewers, and one always needs to be the default viewer to use.
The default viewer is the one where the checkbox is checked.
If you would like to change the default viewer, simply click the viewer of your choice in the list.

That's it.

If you wish to set a viewer as default SLURL handler instead of SLURL proxy, then you simply need to click
Set other SLURL handler in the menu, and drag the shortcut of your favourite viewer onto the window.

Requires .NET 3.5 and only runs on Windows

Happy weekend everyone. I want to show you
another original animesh highlight from Kimm Star from Kitely . THE BARBER SHOP Singers. You can see them singing inside the luxury shop on the sim. Available on kitely market place in her shop "virtual vignette".

Thanks to all who came on Safari this week to visit Karsten and Lavia's great builds! For the full story, do check out the Safari blog, or watch Lifted Pixel's walk through of the event on Youtube
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/05/karstens-crafts.html
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/05/haven-of-memories.ht...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj-8-kSaLUk

Hello and welcome to Mermaid's Cove! I have a little peek for you at what awaits you here! We've got a swimshop in the shopping center with freebie swimwear and beachwear for Mermaids and Mermen! Grab yourself a bikini or a mermaid costume and come for a swim with the fishies! BEWARE the killer sharks, eels and manta rays tho! They like to "play" with the visitors! And no fishing please! Enjoy your stay!
hg.osgrid.org:80:Mermaid's Cove
Huggggs!

This little house at Mirkwood contains now fullperm bed with several contents. it is up to 4 people, also contains NPC-s, some of them are soundy, soundboxes are included PMAC2.5 is used. Little wooden box is located next to rezzed bed.

The LIVE Poets Society- Alternate Metaverse Grid

The LIVE Poets Society is an aArchive of Poets & Poetry throughout history, Old & New, Deceased & Living, including an archive of OpenSim Poets

This is my little contribution to the Arts & Literature in OpenSim, To keep the works of masters alive and available, and to provide free readable poetry to anyone in OpenSim who wants to curl up by the fire with a few good poems.

The Archive currently contains multiple poetic works by 40 Poets and many more to come soon!

I will be also adding poetry from writers throughout OpenSim so please send me yours!! The best way is via Email to admin@alternatemetaverse.com, this way you can reach me from any grid, though my home and the archive are located at Alternate Metaverse.

The Live Poets Society is lovingly dedicated to my Real Life Partner Chris, Known here as Yeats Xi.
We first met over poetry and have lived together for 25 happy years!

I hope you will visit this fabulous Archive that Chris and I worked on creating together!

Sincerely, Cataplexia Numbers, A living poet

alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Softly (141, 168, 23)

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Softly/400/405/23

Click the LM twice to avoid the preset landing point
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Archive of - Well known Poets throughout History
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Allen Ginsberg 1926 - 1997

Anais Nin 1903 - 1977

Anne Sexton 1922 - 1974

Billy Collins 1941 - Present

Carl Sandburg 1872 - 1967

Charles Bukowski 1920 - 1994

D.H.Lawrence 1885 - 1930

Dorothy Parker 1893 - 1967

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 - 1950

Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886

Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1867

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882

Herman Melville 1819 - 1891

Khalil Gibran 1883 - 1931

Langston Hughes 1901- 1967

Margaret Atwood 1939 - Present

Maya Angelou 1928 - 2014

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 - 1273

Ogden Nash 1902 - 1971

Oscar Wilde 1856 - 1900

Philip Larkin 1922-1985

Roald Dahl 1976 - 1990

Robert Bly 1926 - 2021

Robert Burns 1759 - 1796

Robert Frost 1873 - 1963

Robert Service 1874 - 1958

Rudyard Kipling 1265 - 1936

Ruth Stone 1915 - 2011

Sappho c.620 BCE - c.570 BCE

Sara Teasdale 1884 - 1993

Sarojini Naidu 1879 - 1949

Shel Silverstein 1930 - 1999

Sigfried Sassoon 1886 - 1967

Sylvia Plath 1837 - 1963

Tatamkholo Afrika 1920 - 2002

T.S. Elliot 1888 - 1965

Topak Shakur 1971 - 1996

W.H.Audin 1907 - 1973

William Butler Yeats 1865 -1939

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Archive of OpenSim Poets
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Cataplexia Numbers

Shaquita Johnson

Star Ruby

Potato Poetry (coming soon)

Dear Lily Sparks. I don't know if you will see this, but I made you a special version of my mesh object vendor. It is just for textures. All you do is copy & paste the textures into it. That's it. No renaming, No muss, No Fuss. It just works and is very low lag and super low cpu usage. :) It's at cyberdatastorm.com:8002:SandBox Make sure to get the one that has the textures on the face, there are TWO vendors there one for objects and one for textures and they look just alike. The texture vendor I stuck some seamless elven wallpaper textures in so you could tell them apart. :) Your Friend Cyber

TOMORROW!! May 1st, the HG Safari gang will be touring our very own Haven Of Memories region. This region is dedicated to preserving the beautiful memories of those loved ones, family members and friends, human or pet, who have gone through the portal of the ages and crossed over the rainbow bridge, not with a goodbye but "Until We Meet Again". Join HG Safari for this tour of a beautiful region that is created and designed with special consideration and love for others. The whole Safari begins with with a trip to Pangea grid where Karsten Runningbear invites everyone to explore his vehicle workshop, where he scripts all kinds of transportation - bike, car, plane, and boat - even a special seaplane that lands realistically on water! Bring your physical vehicle script questions, and be ready to crash a few times. After that, I will guide you through a tour of genesis grid's memorial region where people can go to remember loved ones. I will explain the motivation behind the build. Join us for the HG Safari tour. Wednesday, May 1st beginning at 12 noon pacific (SLT aka grid) time. The tour start point is hg.osgrid.org:80:HG Safari - grab a notecard with the LM list on it and jump in the tour. I look forward to seeing you all there!

What is this little island?

Dreams

This little island can help people live their virtual dreams:
terraforming
building
landscaping

yes...this island is Dreams

approx 1 sim in size,
water is connected to entire grid for amazing sailing
10,000 prim
rent free!

However, we are very selective about who we add at friends-grid. We do not want house collectors who get free land on every grid...then never use it. That is a waste of our time and resources.

If you want to make this your main home and be an active part of a growing community , then maybe we should talk.....

about this little island making YOUR dreams come true.

https://friends-grid.com/

Contact @zuzubahro or @safinemahoe2 for details.

Dear friends of fairy tales
Cloudshead Worldheart
will be closed for a few days,
due to a major grid update
As soon as all work is completed,
we will let you know!
Thank you for your understanding!
Warm greetings
Lampithaler
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Liebe Märchenfreunde,
Cloudshead Worldheart
wird für ein paar Tage geschlossen sein,
wegen einem großen Grid Update.
Sobald alle Arbeiten abgeschlossen sind,
werden wir es euch wissen lassen!
Vielen Dank für euer Verständnis!
Herzliche Grüße
Lampithaler

Dear friends of fairy tales
Cloudshead Worldheart 2
will be closed for a few days,
due to a major grid update
As soon as all work is completed,
we will let you know!
Thank you for your understanding!
Warm greetings
Lampithaler
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Liebe Märchenfreunde,
Cloudshead Worldheart 2
wird für ein paar Tage geschlossen sein,
wegen einem großen Grid Update.
Sobald alle Arbeiten abgeschlossen sind,
werden wir es euch wissen lassen!
Vielen Dank für euer Verständnis!
Herzliche Grüße
Lampithaler

You are welcome to attend the monthly Worlds Fair planning meeting on Saturday, April 27th (today) @ 12 noon grid time at Wolf Territories.

grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/OpenSim Worlds Fair/1025/1023/4001

*if that link isn't working for you IM me (Koshari Mahana) in world and I'll send you a LM.

The "What Are You Looking For?" Six Month Round-up.
What's Been Found & And What's Not Yet Been Found

Here is another opportunity to comment to thank the people who helped you find what you were looking for. Extra credit bonus points if you also say what it was that you were helped to find.

And, here is an opportunity to ask for what you are still looking for. Please comment, (because we can't read your mind - yet).

Week 11: Lets start building a home. pick a home you would like tobuild from the plans at https://www.houseplans.com and send the plans and exterior shots to Esse. This will be an ongoing build, with small lessons every Saturday, like Lighting, Planar texturing, and some scripting. Start time 10am

These Textures are out of this world!

"Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula" by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

Come see the 17 new Nebula textures taken by NASA and other photographers.

Textures Trees & Scripts

A new season of Safari began on Wednesday - thanks to all friends, old and new, who joined us to visit CyberGlo on Wizardry and then Jimmy Olsen on Europa, with Xenon Darrow guiding us around Jimmy's build - both spectacular and informative places.
Here's the Safari blog posts, telling our story - plus, a few pics of the really lovely build by Lampithaler that premiered yesterday.
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/04/safari-magic.html
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/04/safari-on-europa.htm...
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/04/lampis-legends.html

This week a resident commented to me:

"I cannot believe people here actually talk to eachother...these are real people!
This is not like where I used to live......the people there were not real people"


friends-grid......we are a collection of real people and cultures.

*friends-grid does use animesh for atmosphere, but does not and will not use bots to alter traffic counts. I applaud the grids and regions who refuse to use fake traffic!

You are welcome to attend the monthly Worlds Fair planning meeting on Saturday, April 27th @ 12 noon grid time at Wolf Territories.

grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/OpenSim Worlds Fair/1025/1023/4001

*if that link isn't working for you IM me (Koshari Mahana) in world and I'll send you a LM.