Saturday March 29th at 12 pm SL time [PDT] there will be an inauguration ceremony of the St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt. The Monastery contains icons, manuscripts, the Basiclia, the Library and many others of the precious items from the RL monastery. It also includes information on each item. The Monastery is one of the oldest monasteries in Christendom and is one of the UNESCO world heritage sites. . The Monastery is located at the London College of Communications sim. Once you land there, you have to fly NE to arrive at the Monastery.
You cannot miss it because of its high, fortress-like walls. The SLURL is: http://slurl.com/secondlife/LCC/175/184/28/?img=http%3A//slurl.com/_img/default.gif&title=St.%20Catherine%27s%20Monastery%20-%20Sinai%20-%20Egypt or just search for LCC. The Monastery is the work of Ilike Fall and Sucha Jewell.

Submitted by Ilike Fall

Avatars are flocking to the new MMC island, built by Slovenia’s public broadcaster in cooperation with community consultants Artesia and virtual world architects Beta Technologies. MMC island is a place where SL residents can socialize and have fun in exploring the island’s hidden corners.
The more active ones can spend time fishing, flying kites or racing around in a chopper. But the primary purpose of the MMC island is as an event venue, organized and administered by the users themselves. The events are organized by four Editorial boards (covering News, Culture, Music and Fun), staffed by the Second Life users, and include an editorial building and an event space each. The events can be anything - from classes on building or scripting to live music or DJ events.
The event organizers are free to collect tips, and the editors are allowed to maintain residential skyboxes and customize the editorial and event spaces. Main focus of the MMC Island is on the local users, but all Second Life users are welcome to visit or become a part of the community. To help new users with Second Life, the main building on the MMC island houses tutorials, instructional videos and freebies. Content creators, interested in promoting their work and shops, are invited to donate a freebie or two - they will be distributed with info notecards and landmarks. There is also an option of a free HUD, which comes in two languages - English and Slovenian. The HUD keeps the users updated with the latest news and upcoming events, and allows the conversion between Linden dollars and Euros and Central European time zone and Second Life time, and the Slovenian version has an added feature of pairing users with the MojSplet web community account.
The official grand opening of the MMC island is scheduled for Saturday, 29th of March from 18:00 to 0:00 CET (10AM to 4PM SLT). The opening event will include music performances by DJ Rush Roff and several Trauma DJs, a presentation of SL art by Hatris Panacek and several presentations of the MMC community project in Slovenian and English. Come check out the new MMC island (simply type “MMC” in the Map search) or, better still, come to the party!

Submitted by IYan Writer