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Aug 30, 2005, 8:41pm

No, not Age Sex Location. My American Sign Language school, a visual aid
program allowing two people to practice fingerspelling together and basic
words to enable 'talking' to the hearing impaired, is now copied and running
on the PG world Alliance.

The original being on an X world, I hope now being available on a PG world,
it can be enjoyed by all ages.

sweets

Aug 31, 2005, 4:57pm

Have had many questions and comments since posting about the ASL school.
Does my heart good to know people are interested. I have been interested in
sign language since very young when I read a book about Hellen Keller. I
tried when young to learn but lost interest due to not having a 'reason' to
use it or learn it.

Many years ago I decided to drive Canada and Usa, meeting 19 people from AW,
living in my van and sleeping in their driveways . Not having travelled
before, those 48,000km that I did in those 4 months was amazing and eye
opening. USA has so much to see. I only met and stayed with people that I
had known here for at least 2 years (remember please that meeting people
through internet can be very dangerous, and although I did it, I do NOT
recommend it to any others).

One family I stayed with was a deaf family. I knew then what it felt like to
be an outcast. I could not understand or make myself understood, as they all
spoke sign language. One day my friend came to me in a panic, hands flashng
so fast, and I c ould not understand. Still in a panic she had to race
around to find pencil and paper to write to me what was wrong. The baby was
bleeding and she need a ride to the hospital. I realized then how important
this language was, she should never have had to feel such panic and fear
that no one would understand her. We went to the hospital and the baby was
fine btw. I left there determined to learn. What a beautiful and important
language.

When home I started surfing for sites that could maybe help me. I found the
dictionary site with the small videos to show how each word was done. Each
morning I would wake, do the alphabet letters from A to Z, by memory but
checking if I could not remember the letter. After the Alphabet, I would go
to the dictionary site, do one letter per day (approx 20 words). I would
watch the videos for each word of that letter once through then start again
trying to remember what I had seen in the video, only checking if I c ould
not remember (whch was many). I did a letter per day, 26 days, then started
at A again to repeat....then again.....for 3 months.

The next trip there I realized I had a problem. Although I could understand
simple words, and spell my thoughts to others, I could not 'read' them. In
practicing my alphabet I had become too used to seeing the back of my own
hand. Wrong angle to 'see' what the other was saying. I felt just as dumb
after all that learning.

Feeling a bit depressed about it, I came up with the ASL room as an aid.
Dictionary words with videos on the walls and fingerspelling table for
learning the alphabet. At first just for one person, to be able to see the
letters from the proper angle. Then I thought maybe to do it to practice
with another. HAH bot scripts. I am not a bot person (smiles at Andras and
Alex) and it was one of the hardest things I have made. Ran into trouble
with the script, it worked except for one key. Contacted bot people but
they also could not figure out the problem. A good friend here finally
figured it out, and with a simple code change in the bot programming, my
dream finally came true. Now 2 people could practice together seeing what
the other was doing.

I have travelled many times since then, still meeting and staying with AW
people. Now when I visit my deaf friends I can communicate. OK not
bilingual, maybe on the level of a small child, but enough to communicate.

Yes AW can educate us, inspire us, make us better people. I just wanted to
share my dream and hope others may enjoy the feeling of 'talking' with their
bodies and hands as I have.

sweets

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Aug 31, 2005, 5:26pm

AHHH you learned in school. Now if THAT was taught in the regular schools as
a second language (or third in some Provinces, or States) we would all
benefit : ))

You are welcome to 'refresh' on Alliance anytime.

sweets

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Feb 18, 2006, 11:05pm

thanks so much for those kind words of encouragement, Legion

I do know there are many different way of signing, including the Australians
that use 2 hands to do the alphabet.

ASL is based on french language originally. So yes many things are
'backwards' as there is a difference in french and english for sentence
structure. (blue jeans = les jeans bleu LOL)

What I tried to do is give people a base, maybe a 'common' base if possible
of the most widely used. I live in a french province, so my sign language
when I used it in California had a bit of an 'accent'....but I was
understood, even with the limited amount I knew back then. I knew the
alphabet, and that is a big start to communication.

Hopefully it will encourage people to learn the sign language of their own
area. With the body motions, hand movements, facial expressions and almost a
dance with words, it has to be one of the most beautiful languages I have
ever seen.

sweets

**who knows, they may be using the sign in California that I made up in
desperation for the word Jello because I could not remember how to do the
letter J....

Feb 22, 2006, 2:56pm

I made the build to help me to learn sign language and be able to practice
on my own or with a friend when not with my deaf friends.

As for the name of the School, it is a little play on words.....Academy of
Sign Language spells ASL .....and yes highschool is spelled wrong also to
read Hi-School, also a play on words (school to teach you to say 'hi')

sweets

Oct 8, 2005, 6:47am

why, oh why, would she WANT to hear them? LMAO
sweets

Oct 17, 2005, 1:06pm

You may wish to check out my world Taurius. The Ancestral Lands include
Disaster Road, Graveyard, full showing of the movie Night of the Living
Dead, and a haunted castle. Although not made for Halloween as is a year
long build, it maybe found quite interesting by some.

Also a trip to Heaven ending at a Wiccan build with the rules, Sacred
Mountain and a full scale representative model of Stonehenge. The true
meaning of Halloween in the hearts of Wiccans. Also year long builds, not
seasonal, they may be appreciated by people during this season

Although these builds are basically PG rated, Taurius is an X rated
world....so please only adults

Be Ye Well Come
sweets

Hallowmas is the most solemn festival of the witches' year. On November Eve
we honour dead souls, bid farewell to the moon and welcome the sun to rule
once more in her place. Those of Celtic tradition call the holiday Samhain
and with it mark the beginning of winter...the dark of the year. On such a
night it is easy to sense the unseen forces abroad, and only proper to pay
them homage. But solemnity is never part of a witches' world for long, and
joy returns as soon as the sacred rites are completed.
Blessed Be

Nov 12, 2005, 3:25am

This MUST be the only time you have had nothing to say.....I am shocked!
sweets

Nov 12, 2005, 6:23pm

go ahead...tell the truth, you usually have nothing to say even when you
have something to say *grins
sweets

Nov 26, 2005, 12:32am

I recently had the same thing happen to me. I got the run convert notice,
and not knowing what that meant I went and updated my world server. Alas
that wiped out the world but did not solve the convert. I finally found the
file Convert in the main aw file folder so clicked on that. A black Bios
screen appears momentarily then disappeared. When I tried to connect the
world server I still got the same notice. I clicked on the world to open it
and that seemed to work and I was able to connect.
The world was empty, gone, only the street piece left. Not having a recent
prop dump (one week old LOL) I reinstalled using the World Server Backup
File (which I had copied to desktop before updating the server).
The world server must be closed down in order to replace or copy this file
or it will corrupt the files *(thank you m0e). Close the server, replace the
files from the World Server Backup into the main server file overwriting
them, restart the server, and all was back as it was before this disaster.
Seems to work better than prop dumps as it was up to date automatically.
sweets

Dec 3, 2005, 7:47pm

Really nice specials have to say and nice to see they 'award' the older
cits...decent real decent
Not to sound picky but would have been nice a special for the older worlds
that are not increasing size but have old cit numbers attached to them....
Our world is p40 and 5 yrs old or so....our 2 cits as old or older than
that.....we find p40 large enough and wouldnot want to have to pay renewal
later for a larger world or lose the new builds when the size goes back to
p40. Due to our cits being attached to the world price, there is no deal
there for any of us old world owners.
LOL would have been nice to renew the world for half the price *winks
sweets

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Dec 9, 2005, 3:26am

You have spent a total of 74.2% your life in Active Worlds since you
registered
You have spent a total of 8.1% your ENTIRE life in Active Worlds as a
citizen

guess that does not count the years as tourist or other accounts used or etc
etc etc that am too old to remember to calculate in....heh
AND I COULD NOT THINK OF A BETTER WAY TO SPEND MY TIME!
I LOVE ACTIVE WORLDS!

*winks
sweets

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Jan 1, 2006, 5:47pm

funny....I grew up in a city of over 2 million people...all ages. Hearing
swear words was just a fact of life. And as children we KNEW what we could
or couldn't say to the "older generation"

Cultural differences you say?....Culturally when I hear the word Hell or
Damn I think of cities...educated....people of the world in heavy
discussions....

When I hear Heck, Darn (or dagnabbit) all I can think of is Lil
Abner....what you americans call rednecks....farmers....uneducated people.

I know am wrong, as using the 'proper' words is supposed to be a sign of
education, but being intelligent and educated is a state of mind, isn't it?

I am very educated LOL and believe me I use any swear word I can at the
appropriate time if it will give me the 'shock' value I need to slam a deal
into place.

Hell, yes....

sweets

Jan 1, 2006, 9:02pm

Guess you never attended a Board Meeting *chuckles....or....Inventory
Day....

Yes it is very interesting all the cultures...what makes AW so damned
addicting *winks

sweets

Jan 2, 2006, 3:57pm

Racy?...risqué?....I don't think so....maybe for a G room but not even then.

Its a cute av and you are having fun learning it and rearranging it. That is
what counts.

The only ones with a bad comment are maybe ones that have never been to a
beach area. The only ones with comments like 'too much skin' seem to like to
consider what a woman wears as too much or too less. The parts that SHOULD
be covered are covered and if they aren't, there is a huge market for
uncovered avs as well.

Too many prudes, too many sexist pigs, too many hmmm children with nothing
good to say. Maybe you did a good job but some cannot see past the pixel
skin to the work you tried to do

Good Job....and please continue your efforts on this line, AW needs to be
brought up to date. I personally am tired of the clothing up to the neck
with the hint of bullestic cone shapped breasts 'Madonna' style (they will
put your eye out LOL). It has been many many years since commercials for
bras had to show the bra OVER the shirt. This is no longer 1950.

sweets

Jan 4, 2006, 9:00pm

oh give me a break....the ruler measure of skirt hems went out long long
ago....its 2006 now....Happy New Year everyone : )

sweets
PS: Imagine, we can even wear bikinis on the beach now....don't die of shock
with this bit of G rated news...

Jan 5, 2006, 3:06am

Maybe we should wear large sheets over our heads to the ground, woth holes
cut for the eyes, like some women have to in some countries.

Maybe we should cover our elbows and necks as the hassidic jews do because
our flesh is corrupt to see.

Maybe we should stay home because men cannot control themselves if they see
a bit of flesh.

Get real....yes I do believe in protecting children...but from what in this
case...a bit of human female skin? legitimate skin?....Skin that as
Canadians and Americans we have been showing for the last 20 years?

In my father's time, men had to cover their chests completely when swimming
in public places, women had to be fully covered, neck to knee. G Rated

In my time, men could bare their chests in public and even donned the
horrible Speedo. Women wore one piece suits showing upper thigh and some
upper chest. But we had to wear a 'cover' to walk on the street half a block
to the beach. G rated

This Generation has bikini, thong, short skirts, pants, shorts, with minimum
of skin covered....we rake leaves in bikinis, visit friends in short shorts
and halter tops
(yes and their children)....G rated....

Times have changed....but the G rating still covers nipples and crotch. The
G rating is still protecting children in public places, but times have
changed so much that is time for you to reevaluate that G rating and get
into modern times.

sweets

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Jan 6, 2006, 5:27am

a few days ago, while surfing (and avoiding sex sites LOL) I clicked on one
of the search addy's. Immediately on the page opening my computer went
haywire. I was not loading a picture or any form of file. I just opened the
address. BAM notices started flying.....a download flashed by.....alarms
went off.... I had a trojan (or 2 as it turned out)

Norton advised me that I was infected. They also advised me that they could
not fix the file as access was denied.

Safemode did not help when I tried scans. It found nothing. Windows
malicious software removal tool found nothing also.

The wallpaper I usually have disappeared to be replaced by a blue screen
with a large notice sayng YOU ARE INFECTED. When I went to control panel to
get rid of it using Display, I noticed that all the choices of wallpapers
were blued out, no access, the 'infected' wallpaper had to stay.

Immediately following a notice from windows appeared, saying I was infected,
click here for updated antispyware. I was advised not to click even though
that message looked real. A friend happened to recognize the symptom of the
wallpaper and yelled DON'T CLICK ANYTHING. I was lucky, who knows what else
I would have gotten

when I tried to X out programs a banner would appear, saying I was infected,
click here, popping down from top of monitor and covering the X for my open
windows. I almost hit that but missed when I saw it appear.

Well done fake windows messages continued to appear, SpySheriff had been
installed. Nasty. Ad-Aware took care of the missing wallpaper, but it could
not take care of the banner or the fake windows messages. It said that it
could not delete the trojans as they were running. Safemode they were not
found at all. On restart it would all start up again.

It has taken me 2 days and much help from people here at AW to clean this
whole mess up, and the last 24 hours has been good. Thanks people : )

If you see anything with the name SpySheriff....or your wallpaper goes
screwey....get ready for a fight.

I loaded 3 programs recommended by Microsoft....free programs....to scan for
trojan. Surprise though although they find them, they want your money in
order to remove them. Uninstalled.

This one is a bitch as it gets in without you doing anything wrong. Into a
fully protected computer, past antivirus, past firewalls. Only a pay program
can remove it. Or screwing with your registry (heh yeah good for some)....

anyway that's the story....SpySheriff....evil

sweets

Jan 6, 2006, 6:42am

I went to microsoft yesterday and no updates available....saw your notice so
went back today and there it was....not exactly sure what it is or what it
does but after this week am definately not taking chances....its done
thanks : )
sweets

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Jan 9, 2006, 5:37pm

I recently told you all about a Trojan SpySheriff I recently had to fight.
Looking at the scan logs I was quite surprised today to see the results.

Yes the Trojans were found and destroyed, along with other miscellaneous.
Most were located in my Documents, System or registry. The regular shit
LOL....

But I was surprised to see the following mention on the quarantine list:

Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgatesn\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Deleted,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN
01/21/2005,0502168000,00-00-00-00-00-00,Donald Gardner,C:\Active
Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgatesn\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Deleted,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN
01/26/2005,0502667856,00-00-00-00-00-00,Donald Gardner,C:\Active
Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgatesn\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Deleted,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN
02/01/2005,0503278049,00-00-00-00-00-00,Donald Gardner,C:\Active
Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgatesn\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Deleted,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN
02/02/2005,0503372375,00-00-00-00-00-00,Donald Gardner,C:\Active
Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgatesn\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Deleted,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN
02/09/2005,0504068684,00-00-00-00-00-00,Donald Gardner,C:\Active
Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgatesn\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Deleted,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN
02/15/2005,0504670148,00-00-00-00-00-00,Donald Gardner,C:\Active
Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgatesn\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Deleted,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN
03/04/2005,0506343648,00-00-00-00-00-00,Donald Gardner,C:\Active
Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgate3\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Ignored,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN
04/20/2005,0511074978,00-00-00-00-00-00,Donald Gardner,C:\Active
Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgate3\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Deleted,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN
05/22/2005,0514219230,00-00-00-00-00-00,Donald Gardner,C:\Active
Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgate3\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Deleted,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN
07/12/2005,0519370873,00-00-00-00-00-00,Donald Gardner,C:\Active
Worlds\cache\art\objects.activeworlds.com-awgate3\sounds\egyptian.mid,Cracking
Tool,991936588,Ignored,d12da306e8b1f31caaebe2eb0bb45a84,DEN

no other aw files were mentoned, nor any other music files, personal files
etc. After a few other virus mentions these lines do show again as further
entries (approx 20 of the 40 'threats' were AW)....always the same
egyptian.mid in the cache.

Anyone care to explain why AW seems to be compromised? Why this one file
shows up over and over in my quarantine listing or deletion listing?

Donald Gardner is the signature of the Trojan SpySheriff, a nasty one. These
listings started happening after infection, why this one aw file?

thanks
sweets

Jan 10, 2006, 12:11am

ok thanks...it just seemed strange of all the midi files in that file it
kept attaching to that one.
That cache is in my backup browser that I have not used for months, using
another browser on another drive. I deleted the cache.
I did not have the tool before this January to find or remove the troubles.
All of those were found in one scan in one day....all as seperate instances
on the list. It is only marked as Date, not explaining what those dates are,
but the scan was only run once, January 6, 2006 (44 found), then again
January 7, 2006 (none were found)
seems strange to a non tech that that many 'instances' of threats (approx
20) found in one day, could all be attached to one AW midi file....and no
other music audio data files....
gotta love puters heh
sweets

Jan 11, 2006, 5:31pm

Yup....that is what they used to say about jpg....didn't they
Seems we cannot predict anymore what a virus will do. Not like these hackers
actually have to follow any rules of conduct. They just get more and more
slick....we are doomed
sweets

Jan 12, 2006, 2:33pm

Well I went to see this amazing 4.1 and must say (get ready flamers) that I
am totally disappointed. Hopefully they plan better for what we will get but
somehow I doubt it.

Everyone compares it to SL, but I don't even see that comparison. Yes we can
adjust the avatars looks, but extremely limited. They all have the same
bodies, just the hair or clothes change, and that in itself is also limited
(clothing choices for males even worse than AW regular avs), ugly hair, ugly
shoes, very small choices of chothing, so we all walk around looking
basically the same, in different colours

The avatar females are all short, the avatar males are all tall....no other
choices. They all have 'great bodies' of 18 year olds. So I stood with my
grey hair and my 48 year old 5'9" height jammed into tiny young body LOL
.....I dont even want to discuss the ugly shoes they had (no bare feet
permitted)

The choice of skin colour you can have dark or white....and no shading in
between. I was superwhite, othrs super brown....2 races of people only
LMAO....female hair could be short, or ponytail only

This cannot at all compare with the abilities they have there to rearrange
the avs sizes, colours, nail polish, etc with Second Life. Comparing,
Stagecoach (and AW) is pretty crude. The only comparison I could see what
both systems have horrible lag, worse than any over-built world here,
including my own heh

The avatar eyes do not even blink....which takes me back about 10 years.

After being their for awhile, the avs started changing. Males changed to
females, females changed to males. We switched them back to our choices
(which had to be redone step by step as the av choices are not saved
anywhere for easy access, only to have this happen over and over for about
an hour before we all gave up and quit. We could not retain our VR bodies.
Either there was a huge glitch in the system as this affected the 5 people
that I could see, someone had hacked the process, or the owner whoever it
was was playing with our minds.....whichever the choice, although funny at
first became annoying very fast. I did not like being forced to be male LMAo

On closing it down, I received an error message from Windows. yeah ok that
happens....but not often....
So although it is amusing and entertaining, I can see people getting bored
with the new features very fast. Hopefully AW will improve this, but I dont
feel it is even close to what we have been waiting for all this time

sorry
sweets

Jan 12, 2006, 6:58pm

I never once slammed the system, except stating exactly what happened on
that first visit. If this was a preview, it was disappointing.

I am basically slamming anyone that compares the improvement to what is
offered at Second Life. It is a small improvement over what we have, nothing
more, nothing mind boggling as we all dreamed of.

Maybe it will get better and I do see potential....right now it has many
big bugs to work out. The ability to keep our av bodies on and not have them
removed 15 times in 15 minutes and turned to another sex (one young boy was
almost in tears because he could not figure it out and had become a girl,
javascript error or something, and nobody around able to help), intense lag
not helped by the fact that gz minimum visibility is set at 70 and not 30 or
40 allowed as option, and the fact that most there either froze or crashed.
In my case I only received a freeze, and
an error report in shutting it down....not bad for a pentium4, eh? LOL (not
counting their server going down leaving us all in void for a bit)

THAT was my experience with the new 4.1....demonstration or whatever you
want to call it.

Don't take me wrong, I am loyal to AW and always was. I always enjoyed
checking out 'new systems' as they came and went, comparing, and yet I
always remain at AW. My computers have gotten better and better over the
years to keep up with the welcome improvements. I have a 2,000$ AW
machine....LOL I do not surf.

I do have a cit at SL but I may only visit there for an hour or so maybe
once a week, if that. It is amazing what is possible with the avs, but, not
many computers, even a good one like mine, can take the strain.....I still
spend about 60 hours a week at AW, my home.

So I am not slamming the system. I have ALWAYS seen the potential in AW. I
am slamming those that have the nerve to say it is the best, or amazing, or
wonderful.....it is good, but it could be better.....and will get better,
hopefully not better than the average computer can manage without crashing.

You can all say how wonderful it is but I just could not agree. I do not
want people to have their hopes up too high because they have seen the mind
boggling abilities of av changes in SL....it is not the same....and maybe
for that I am thankful....my computer would not be able to handle AW anymore

ANYWAY....who said it is for kids?.....they sell corsets to kids? usually?
heh
Gambling.....kids?

sweets

Jan 12, 2006, 7:11pm

LMAO well I am 5'9 at the doctor, makes me stand straight.....and can do
down to about 5'7 in slouch mode when with short people....but that av was
not more than 5'5 LMAO and man did that feel soooo wrong....
sweets
ps: cannot wear high heels even in VR

Jan 12, 2006, 8:28pm

to me....same difference....13-19 are kids....gambling is not exactly...for
kids....or, as you call them, teens....

and why if made for teens do they offer grey hair? LOL

And do you really think a company like Wells Fargo only wants business from
teens? ...nope,...they want your parents business not yours....adults with
the bucks....dont fool yourself,,,,you are only the bait. I expect the
bodies to age in time as kids lead their parents into the big business
machine....believe it

the 'kids' will just be another little annoyance in another of many
chatrooms.....tolerated in the hopes they can get your dollars when you
finally grow up and get a job.

sweets

Jan 13, 2006, 1:33am

I sure hope so Rossy....because you really did not look very comfortable
yesterday in that girl's body *winks.....
sweets

Jan 14, 2006, 4:01am

read my lips heh

> So I am not slamming the system. I have ALWAYS seen the potential in AW. I
> am slamming those that have the nerve to say it is the best, or amazing,
or
> wonderful.....it is good, but it could be better.....and will get better,
> hopefully not better than the average computer can manage without
crashing.

Jan 21, 2006, 6:25pm

They lost me long ago....and I started this thread LMAO
sweets

Jan 12, 2006, 3:19pm

well, Sir....you called us women hookers last night in Stagecoach....I don't
know you, but if that is indication of your personality maybe you should be
banned....
respectfully
sweets
LMAO

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