Dragon Sighting and Dress the Lady Competition at Mystery

The Mystery sim continues to be the place for surprises when at a huge red dragon makes an appearance. Also, the staff feels it's time for a new look for the club greeter, and wants YOU to help out in the "Dress the Lady" contest.

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Clothing Fair 2009 Photo Contest

How would you like the chance to be the first one to experience the 9 sim, 172 designer experience that is the SL Clothing Fair 2009? Keep reading to find out how.

We've been working very hard to put together the biggest and best fair yet. Our theme this year is "Pirates" and what better way to get geared up but to dig out all that pirate gear you've got stashed...find a killer sim...and take some photos to upload to Flickr. What's in it for you?

A judging panel of 5 people...all connected with the fashion and photography industries in SL... will choose the best 10 photos of all the entries and the 10 winners and a guest will receive an exclusive invitation to tour the clothing fair sims one day before opening to shop lag free and help us stress test the sims. With 172 of SL's best designers participating, this is an opportunity you won't want to miss!

Just some basic rules to remember...1. all photos must be PG rated...absolutely NO nudity...2. To be fair to all participants...no post processing...3. Focus of the photo must be a pirate...4. Only one entry per person...5.Have fun!

We reserve the right to remove any questionable or inappropriate photos. All duplicate entries will also be removed. Entries are due in by 11:59pm SLT on March 10th. Winners will be selected and notified on the 14th and listed on the SL Clothing Fair blog.

Upload your entry to http://www.flickr.com/groups/slclothingfair09photocontest/

And The Winner is.......

Miss Italy, Mimmi Boa

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MISS VIRTUAL WORLD 2009

On Saturday, December 6th 2008 (TODAY!), at 10:30 am SLT, 18 beautiful ladies will take the stage to compete for the crown and the title of MISS VIRTUAL WORLD 2009.

MISS VIRTUAL WORLD 2009
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1) Chalice Carling - MISS AUSTRALIA
2) Sally Yachvili - MISS BRAZIL
3) Alexa Trefoil - MISS CANADA
4) Maxie Daviau - MISS COSTA RICA
5) Lacey Alderson - MISS CZECH REPUBLIC
6) Aleida Rhode - MISS DENMARK
7) Candi Dreamscape - MISS EGYPT
8) Tiffany Dragonash - MISS FINLAND
9) EmmZ Tzara - MISS FRANCE
10) ZoeAnastasia Aeon - MISS GREECE
11) RhiannaLynn Lane MISS IRELAND
12) Mimmi Boa - MISS ITALY
13) Haruka Kish - MISS JAPAN
14) Isis Seville - MISS SPAIN
15) kate Stockholm - MISS SWEDEN
16) Barbarella Fuosing - MISS UNITED KINGDOM
17) Arabella Graves - MISS USA
18) Kyrinnia Desmoulins - MISS VENEZUELA

A more experienced Frolic Mills promises to raise the bar for this type of events as he envisions a 4 sim theatre with real life-like stages, state of the art light effects and amazingly choreographed live performances.

Also, expect over 40 never seen before couture gowns as the ladies compete for the crown of all crowns!

WINNERS! and Thank you

What an amazing week! Here I will hand over to james to tell you all about the winners!
JamesT Juno:
Welcome everyone on the Prize Giving ceremonies for The celebration week of SL-Newspaper.
Thru the week we had a few contests and a lot of parties.
Tonight we will let you all know who has won the building contest and who has won the Fashion design contest.
First let me start by thanking the following persons / companies and organisations....
Foremost to everyone that has come along and enjoyed our events or taken part in the contests.
BNT Holdings for the sim !
Skybeam estates for combining their own 2 year celebrations with us and holding events here as well as donating a huge part of the prize. Skybeam, especially Charlene, Nevar and Amethyst, have gone above and beyond to make this celebration a success
M&M Creations for the huge prize packages
Styles of Edo for not only donating a prize but also getting up very early to help judge the Design contest
Best of SL Magazine and Boulevard agency, Frolic Mills and his team made a fantastic effort to get the fashion show off the ground. Their help shows that truly there are people out there that will do something just to be able to help and gives me hope for the future of SL
Another company that has gone above and beyond is Annette Wider and her partner Mahala Bing from Wilder PR who have helped us get the word out thank you both for your hard work.
And personally I want to thank my P.A. Dana Vanmoer for working day and night to make you all feel at home here and organise 99.9% of everything you see here.

A prize pack in total worth of over 90,000 L$ will be given away to Two winners for SLN and Three more winners for the SkyBeam photo contest.
Winners of the SL-Newspaper Building Contest. The mission was to build an office environment where a reporter would feel at home. Also should it be possible to actually place it into one of our newspaper offices. Max prim count was 25.

In fourth place is : Jangle McElroy
In third is : Leesa Back
Second is : Qwark Allen
And the winner of : a 10,000 L$ sponsorship pack from SL-N / 3000 L$ cash from Edo Tone, owner of "Styles of Edo" / 7000 L$ cash from SkyBeam Estates and finally a 10,000 L$ prizepack from M&M creations issssssss ....................

!!!! Sassy1 Fizzle !!!!!

Winners of the SL-Newspaper Fashion Design Contest. The mission was to design a free give-away costume for sl-newspaper using our logo or newspaper related textures. A wonderfulll fashion show we had yesterday brought us the following results ;

Joint second place were : Lemania Indigo designs AND Analog Jun.
Congratulations ....... !

The winner of : a 10,000 L$ sponsorship pack from SL-N / 3000 L$ cash from Edo Tone, owner of "Styles of Edo" / 5000 L$ cash from SkyBeam Estates / 3,000 L$ photoshoot voucher from Memories by Mystique and finally a 10,000 L$ prizepack from M&M creations issssssss

!!!!! Nany Piaggio !!!!!

And as a bonus Best of SL Magazine has offered to do a full page spread for the winner Nany.

For the prize giving ceremonies of the skybeam photo contest I ask the representative of Skybeam to steal the microphone from me ........

Amethyst Starostin takes the stage

Amethyst Starostin:
Good Evening Ladies and Gentleman. One of the events as part of the SL-Newspaper Celebration was a photo contest sponsored by Skybeam Estates. The theme for this photo contest was Celebration and could be taken anywhere on the Estates.
We had 13 wonderful entries and the judges had a very difficult time this morning choosing the winners. I would like to now announce those winners and award the prizes.
In 3rd place - Phoenix Rising by Phoenix Ember!!
Phoenix has won a $5000L Sponsorship pack from the SL Newspaper and $3000L cash
Now, for our 2nd place winner - In Celebration- One Millionth Meter by Mystique Sassoon!!
Mysti has won a $5000L Sponsorship pack from the SL Newspaper and $4000L cash

And our first place winner...receiving a 10,000L Sponsorship pack from SL Newspaper and $5000L is Slink Dreadlow with Sendoff!!
Charlene Trudeau, Nevar Lobo and I would like to thank you for allowing Skybeam Estates to be a sponsor of this event and look forward to many more. *smiles* Thank you.

Dana Vanmoer shouts: Thank you SKYBEAM!!!!
JamesT Juno: Thank you Amethyst
Now the official part of this ceremony is done, I ask you to please join us in a dancing celebration and enjoy the rest of the evening.
But not before I Thank Gemma Cleanslate and DJ Qwark Allen for their wonderfulll help and everyday hosting of sl-newspapers week-event.
Special compliments go to Quark for the fantastic varied music collection.

LETS PPPPP AAAAA RRRRR TTTTT YYYYY !!!!!!!

Thank you everyone for joining us don't forget one last blast LIVE with Labgraal at 1pm SLT
Teleport HERE

Ever wonder what the Lindens get up to?

At 9am SLT this morning this is what quite a few of the Lindens were doing - at Teller motor sports sim on the dirt track Jeska Linden started a 200 lap race.

Pathfinder was a good driver although this sideswipe below could be called questionable!

Emma Linden declared herself not a good driver - but I must admit it takes a certain level of skill to be able to drive in laggy SL. Most of the lindens looked like they were having a great time and soon went off to explore the other levels and tracks continuing the race as they went.

Are you allowed to put objects on your land for sale?

Seems a simple enough question doesn't it?
If your land is for sale can you place objects on it?
Can you make it look appealing and pretty by adding a few trees maybe a house to show the space to best advantage?
Well be VERY careful if you own a lot of plots of land if you do any of these things.
A few instances have happened that have seemed to show that Linden Lab is cracking down and even setting a price cap on land prices.
I went along to the G-Teams office hours to see if the questions being raised could be answered and I can't say I was impressed for nearly an hour the words were bandied around and the simple question remained unanswered - Socrates Linden did a great job of evading a straight yes or no answer.
A week ago Tyrian Camilo has his alt account (Mainostaulu Tomorrow) suspended for setting his land for sale at too high a price! Meaning that the G-Team decided that his land was set for sale at too high a price!
My question was when did Linden Lab decide to set price limits? Where was this information, which surely we should all know about, be found? Where was the clarification or announcement of these new price caps?
[2008/10/25 12:10] Tyrian Camilo: I had an parcel due to which one of our company accounts was suspended for 7days, and i had an Linden confirm to me that the reason was too high selling price, which was by 2 G-Team members together decided
[2008/10/25 12:13] dana Vanmoer: can you be banned/suspended for selling land for too high a price and who decides that price limit?
[2008/10/25 12:25] dana Vanmoer: Tyrian was suspended for setting his land for sale at too high a price - when or where does it set a limit and shouldn't we at least know there IS a limit and what it is
[2008/10/25 12:37] Lavender Siamendes: I think we missed whether LL has a cap on prices for mainland and private sims/ parcels could that be addressed before this meeting is over. I personally do not wish my account put into jeopardy by infringing on any tableted rules and regs so could I have some clarity.
[2008/10/25 12:42] dana Vanmoer: socrates this is a simple question - is there or is there not a limit on land sale prices if so where can we find that information
[2008/10/25 12:42] Lavender Siamendes: Socrates or teagan may feel free to answer this and we would like an answer as we are all potentially in jeopardy when selling our pieces of land, is there a price cap or not set by LL
Eventually;
[2008/10/25 12:43] Socrates Linden: Absent of other issues there is no set price limit.
[2008/10/25 12:45] dana Vanmoer: if there are no ban lines and no ads or objects for sale on a small plot then shouldn't i be able to sell it at whatever price someone is willing to pay?
[2008/10/25 12:46] Teagan Linden: Dana, yes. Absent other issues, you can attempt to sell your land for whatever price you choose.
[2008/10/25 12:46] Jin Amiot: So why was our Mainostaulu account banned for selling too high
[2008/10/25 12:47] Teagan Linden: We can't discuss individual cases at office hours, but you can file a support ticket (appeal) if you feel action was taken that should not have been, it will be reviewed
This is by no means the only example of the G-team arbitrarily suspending/banning accounts that have actually not broken any known rules. One of the main problems is that the G-Team are unaccountable for their actions and the appeals process is also overseen by the head of the G-Team. So it comes down to who governs the governance team? If the G-Team get it wrong how can you appeal against their decision? Right now if you have a problem/complaint about the G-Team it is the G-Team who would deal with your complaint.