Disney Epcot tribute - Celebrate the season with Nightmare Before Christmas, and Haunted Mansion Holiday! Festival of the Holidays, Spaceship Earth, Test Track, with access to mini golf.
The place is still under Trevor Sleydon and is still in the Real Dreams sim. A look at the park's group showed no announcement's in the past month, so it's safe to assume the place came back before the first of the month. The place isn't quite perfect. The "Spaceship Earth" attraction isn't quite working. But some things such as the monorail are.
The landing location is at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Real%20Dreams/42/4/105
From Rpbizzle on Nov 2015, Frets Nirvana singing "Long Live Life" while playing his guitar at Veterans Isle, "Frets Nirvana @ U.S. Military Veterans Center 11-22-2015
To learn more about Homes For Our Troops visit the website:
https://www.hfotusa.org
Please help those who sacrificed so much for the freedom we enjoy in this world.
U.S. Military Veterans Center "
Last weekend, The Peale officially opened. It is a virtual representation of the real life Peal Center in Baltimore, the oldest museum in America. With the Pandemic keeping away from the museum in real life, the virtual wing allows it to show exhibitions otherwise not accessible. Among those at the official opening was the Newser's Gemma Cleanslate. So what did she see?
The Peale in Baltimore,
which is housed in the first purpose-built museum building in the
United States, has extended its reach into the virtual world known as Second Life.
While the current pandemic may prevent many people from visiting the
Peale in person, this ambitious new project allows virtual visitors to
explore the 1814 museum building online and attend curated exhibits and
interactive events safely from the comfort of their homes.
“It
has been thrilling to develop this new experience of the country’s
oldest museum building in Second Life,” says Dr. Nancy Proctor,
Executive Director of the Peale. “Thanks to the amazing work of Linden
Lab and Virtual Ability, Inc., we are now able to welcome a huge new
community to the Peale, and share its rich history as well as the
authentic stories and creativity of Baltimore with the largest and
oldest virtual world on the Internet.”
Current highlights of the virtual museum include the 3D interactive Peale Museum building and the virtual world exhibition, “Redefine/ABLE: Challenging Inaccessibility.”
Exhibits and events will change regularly, and include playful and
surprising elements inspired by the Peale’s and Baltimore’s history and
stories – like a virtual mastodon, recalling the mastodons famously
excavated in 1801 and exhibited by the Peale family in their museums in
Philadelphia and Baltimore!
“This has been an excellent
partnership opportunity for us,” says Virtual Ability, Inc. President
Alice Krueger. “The staff of the Peale are strongly committed to
accessibility, as you can see by their choice of a first exhibition in
Second Life. Virtual Ability is happy to assist them to create an
accessible experience in their virtual museum.”
The museum was
developed in partnership with Linden Lab, maker of Second Life, who
developed extensive interior spaces for a 3D model of the Peale Museum
building that was originally created by the Imaging Research Center at
UMBC for its online map of Baltimore ca. 1815. Over time the interior of
the virtual Peale Museum building will grow to include more galleries,
both extant in the physical world and inspired by the Peale’s
programming and partners, making the Peale in Second Life a creative
hybrid of the “real” and the imaginary. The Internet’s largest virtual
world has recently experienced a resurgence in popularity as more people
seek out safe and fun social interactions online during the pandemic.
“We
are pleased to see The Peale bring an extension of its museum and
exhibits to Second Life,” says Linden Lab CEO Ebbe Altberg. “The virtual
world is the perfect home for museums that are seeking a way to extend
their reach to a global audience.”
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The museum will also be the focus of Strawberry Linden's "Lab Gab" today at 11 AM SL time, viewable on Youtube. Strawberry will interview Nancy Proctor (NancyEProctor Resident) of the Peale Center and Eme Capalini of Virtual Ability.
The Peale Museum in Second Life will officially open tomorrow, Saturday August 15 at 8 AM SL time.
For those wanting to know more about the Coronavirus, and want more than just news reports and Facebook posts, there's an information center at Inspiration Island. Here, you can read some basic facts and statistics. It was made by Briellr Coronet.
A special information area on CO-VID has been set up at the HEALTH HACIENDA on Inspiration Island by Brielle Coronet, RL Medical Librarian at a major U.S. teaching hospital in NJ, with contributions by Veronica, a RL Consumer Health Librarian in Connecticut. It will be kept up to date as Brielle attends daily official briefings. If you have questions, leave them for her in the Dropbox here:
On Saturday November 26 a new location will be opening, the Paradise Eiland Retreat and Event Center. It is a place of healing using alternative New Age therapies for bodily and spiritual ills. Becky Shamen was informed about the place and decided to see for herself how the place could help someone. So what did she think?
On May 29th, the day before Memorial Day, the US Military Veterans Center at Patriot Island held a Benefit for the Wounded Warriors Project. The event went on for several hours, from 4 to 9 PM SL time. Among the musicians were Waya Snowpaw, Pondman Haalan, Franklee Antara, Frets Nirvana, and Von Johin.
The event was packed, with the number of residents in the sim steadily remaining close to fifty. The musicians played on a stage in front of a model of the USS Missouri, and the American flag. The songs sung were a variety of tunes. Some were simply patriotic, others were cautionary tales.
The goal of the event was to raise 170,000 Lindens, collections made from two upturned helmets on either side of the stage. After the last musician got on stage, the objective was reached. But people continued to send over Lindens. The final amount raised was close to 180,000.
The Wounded Warrior Project (http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/) is a nonprofit and nonpartisan group founded to help wounded Veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. It started by simply providing “comfort items,” but grew “into a complete rehabilitative effort to assist warriors as they recover and transition back to back to civilian life.”
Patriot Island is a veteran-owned sim, with regular events, “We provide information, advocacy and outreach to active duty service members, vets and their families. When you join our group, you become part of a big family that cares about one another and shares info vital to vets. In addition, we provide space to several national Veterans Service Organizations.”
Grey Lupindo recently made a visit to the Casablanca Suites & Hotel Beach Resort, at the Casablanca Hotel sim. This luxury hotel is well detailed, where one can have a romantic dinner with a partner, rent a hall for a wedding, or rent a suite or penthouse and live in this one of a kind place.
