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Scout-It Tour du Grid -Check out this week special THANKSGIVING Group Tour 09

Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. It is a holiday celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States.

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. This harvest meal has become a symbol of cooperation and interaction between English colonists and Native Americans. Although this feast is considered by many to the very first Thanksgiving celebration, it was actually in keeping with a long tradition of celebrating the harvest and giving thanks for a successful bounty of crops. Native American groups throughout the Americas, including the Pueblo, Cherokee, Creek and many others organized harvest festivals, ceremonial dances, and other celebrations of thanks for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in North America.

What foods topped the table at the first harvest feast? It's safe to say the pilgrims weren't gobbling up pumpkin pie or playing with their mashed potatoes. Following is a list of the foods that were available to the colonists at the time of the 1621 feast. However, the only two items that historians know for sure were on the menu are venison and wild fowl

 Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members and friends.

So we would like to thank our great Scout-It members and would like to do a Scout-It Thanks Giving Group Tour to have fun together at some places.

WHEN: Thue 24 Nov - 2pm SLT (inworld of Second Life)
Like to join?  pls drop a notecard to DolphinScoutina Bailey with your name  till midnight of Monday (23 Nov) -(minimum 5 people to run the tour)

Also don't miss this weeks always the Dolphin Statue wing holds the Tour notecard just an inworld TP away. We got some great highlights to discover, bring some glamour dresses for a stunning Re-Opening of the FLW (full programme),immerse into some human body or get the control in some underwater sci-fi.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fishermans%20Cove/19/84/22

Happy Scout-It ing

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Question #44: A connected world

We think of the Internet as a world, "the online world", or a different life "IRL". Is it apt as a: world; country; city; solar system; other?

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GTA4 Time-Lapse: 15 Days in Liberty City

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Scout-It Tour du Grid -Check out this weeks Travel-News! # 46 .

We got some cool explorer tips at our flipper wings again for you to check out some jaw stunning spacey spot, bringing back childhood retro memories at sea and Must Sees Highlights before gone for good and more great Events

Tour du Card are excerpts from our big personal guided tours selection
.As always the Dolphin wing holds the Tour notecard.

Don't ya miss it and TP over and meet some others
If you like send us some snaps to put on our cork wall

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fishermans%20Cove/19/84/22

Happy Scout-It-ing

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a husband has a virtual girlfriend

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The App Economy

There are roughly 20 times more people playing FarmVille these days than there are actual farms in the U.S.

via businessweek.com

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Scout-It Tour du Grid -Check out this week SPOOKTACULARE HALLOWEEN 09

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on Oct 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints.
On All Hallows’ eve, the ancient Celts would place a skeleton on their window sill to represent the departed.

We have collect some of the most spooktaculare halloween themed places, some halloweenfun hunting places for humis & tinies and hillariouse event on halloween day.

Additional we would like to do a Scout-It Halloween Group Tour to have fun together at some places.
WHEN: Thur 29 Oct - 2pm SLT (inworld of Second Life)

Like to join?  pls drop a notecard to DolphinScoutina Bailey with your name (minimum 5 people) till midnight of wednesday.

As always the Dolphin Statue wing holds the Tour notecard just an inworld TP away.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fishermans%20Cove/19/84/22

Happy Scout-It-ing

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Anncouncing Photo Contest Winner - Broadway Live Island (in SL)- Sunday 25th of Oct

A special Broadway Live Show to announce the winners, hand out the prizes and
break open a bottle of Champaigne while dancing on the Time Square street.

 Sun, Oct 25th, 2pm SLT
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Broadway%20Live%20Island/138/200/2

Here the 5 FINALISTS  from each of the 3 categories (listed in alphabetical order)
 who suceeded out of the many application  to be selected by a stern jury

MOST REALISTIC:
Delphina Audina - taxi in time for audition
Gareth8 Albatross -  Foggy Day On Patrol
Mauro Trenkins- Times Square
Nil McCallen 1 - ROXY SIGN
Nil McCallen 2 - Taxi

MOST IMAGINATIVE:
Eymerich Lane - Tamra performance in purple
Flash Gottesmann - Spinning Dreams of the Limelightght
Leissl Sands - On Top of the World
Mystique Sassoon - BROADWAY LIVE
Nil McCallen 3 - Tamra mantage

BEST TOURIST:
Cowboy Popstar - The Naked Cowboy
Goose Wycliffe - TAXI!!! On Broadway
Goose Wycliffe - Skyline at Dusk
Mazzie Babii- DJ flash
mtmercydave McDonnell - tkts sign

*SPECIAL Mention" goes to Ayesha Lytton for her book of
" BROADWAY CHARACTERS - where are they now?"

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You always wanted to be a pilot -No problem you can now

Hop on the SCOUT-IT passenger seat from one of our various airplanes inworld Second Life
- you don't need your own sport-gears!! Learn with us what's needed before you go take off yourself.

But there is more then ordinary  modern or old-timer planes
A great and fun way to surprise  friends or your loved one with

- "The Elephant Flying"
- "Whale-Watching-Flying" or
- "The Romantic Ballooning"

Come and check it out also a great personal GIFT!!

*SCOUT-IT Sport Action Tour (Dive Fly Sail Ride)
Arrange a Booking today:
Tour-Schedules:
( working-days between 12pm -15.00 SLT)
(weekend-tours: between  6am -14.00 SLT)

Here to assist & guide you for a great SL-time

Happy-Scout-It-ing

     

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Dedicated Servers

In this day and age of cloud servers and virtualisation, you could be lead to believe dedicated servers (as in physical hardware to host web sites and applications) are thing of the past.

And you would be right, most of the time.

Dedicated servers still provide the best bang for buck processing power and storage (In New Zealand at least) compared to cloud or virtualisation and are perfect in scenarios such as:

• Heavy processing requirements (e.g. 4+ cores, heavily utilised).
• Mass storage of easily archived data.
• Your disaster planning allows for slower data recovery than offered by virtual servers.
  
• You need hardware plugins (dongles, VPN etc..)
  

Virtualisation is definitely the way forward, various cloud and virtual server offering all provide scale, redundancy and disaster recovery that is impossible with dedicated hosting however if you need good old fashioned hardware check out Web Drives new dedicated servers.

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