Xanadu is Back, Official Re-Opening Tonight

Some good news for fans of Club Xanadu. After being closed for months, the venue is back in operation. After some time in hiatus, co-owner and operator Perri Prinz felt it was time to bring the place up and running. She had planned for Monday night to start things up.

But then the unexpected happened. When Sunweaver Estate owner Rita Mariner tried to restart Sunweaver Bay where Club Cutlass was, the sim wouldn't come back online. So when it was time for the Saturday night party, the event was moved to Xanadu.

The theme was "Doctors and Nurses" as a salute to those on the front line combating the global Coronovirus epidemic. 3000 Lindens was on both the male and female boards, and the place soon had a number of people dancing away.

The contest was won by Zorro Wuramunga and Mieka May (MiekaRueon Resident) for men and women respectively.

Perri would write about the event on her Facebook page.

Credit: Perri Prinz

Surprise event at Xanadu last night because Club Cutlass was down from server issues. I was scheduled to DJ the Doctors & Nurses event at Cutlass. So we just brought everybody over to my club, and I got a bit of a bath of fire at getting back into club running, as nothing seemed to work at first. But nobody else seemed to notice any problems I was having.


The official Grand Re-opening is tonight, April 6, at 8PM SL time. For now, the club will be open three days a week from Monday to Wednesday 8-10 PM.

Xanadu is jointly owned by Perri Prinz and Recoyote Mindes. The building is a classic rock club named for the movie in which the Pan Pacific Auditorium is restored to a nightclub. There have been a few periods of hiatus when real-life interfered with the management, but the building has always stood there since it's construction.

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Press Release: Second Annual Knowledge Mobilisation Forum

KNOWLEDGE MOBILISATION FORUM - Second Life Conference

SAVE THE DATE: April 13th and 14th 2015 - HealthLands Island and in Edinburgh, Scotland (Free to attend in SL)
http://tinyurl.com/ukkmbf15

AT THIS SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/HealthLands/102/138/129

Note: This conference will have interactive breakout sessions in RL and SL with feedback into the main conference. Checkout the website for full conference details.

Following on from the success of last year’s event, the 2nd Annual Knowledge Mobilisation Forum is being held on 13th-14th April 2015 at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

The more effectively we use the knowledge we produce through research and practice the better our services, processes and products will be.  The Knowledge Mobilisation Forum provides a space for knowledge producers, knowledge brokers and knowledge users to come together to learn from each other, sharing good (and bad) practice about improving what we do and help maximise the impact of all types of knowledge in practice.


Who should attend?
If you're a teacher, healthcare practitioner, energy supplier, lecturer, director, funder or policy-maker - or anything else - you are welcome. We are looking for people who are passionate about finding better ways of mobilising, exchanging, utilising or transferring knowledge, evidence, research or ideas in any sector. You might be working in a knowledge brokering role, researching evidence into practice or perhaps you're a practitioner of any kind who wants to find ways of identifying and delivering best practice. Most importantly, you're not interested in more talk. You want to make a difference by working with colleagues from different sectors.

Press Release: Discussion on Interprofessional Health Care Education at Virtual Ability

Presenters will discuss their learning and experience from the recent All Together Better Health (ATBH) conference in Kobe, Japan. They will link the information from ATBH to key concepts of health literacy that they have used in Second Life in the Garden of Healthy Aging. They will also discuss new developments in health literacy for clinical environments in real life.

Presentation and discussion in text only. Powerpoint slides will be shown illustrating the ideas discussed.

PRESENTER BIOS:
Zsuzsa Tomsen (RL: Susan Toth-Cohen) is the Director of the Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program and Professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She has extensive experience instructing in Second Life, where her most recent project is “The Garden of Healthy Aging,” a gerontology resource project. Her numerous publications focus on occupational therapy, consumer health, and gerontology as applied in virtual worlds for professional and program development and evaluation.

ALiesel is an occupational therapy student at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She works with Zsuzsa Tomsen as a graduate assistant in the Garden of Healthy Aging, with a focus on applying health literacy principles to this project. Earlier this month she co-presented her work in health literacy at the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association conference.

SUN Nov 4, 2012, 1:00pm SLT/Pacific
The Sojourner Auditorium, Virtual Ability

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/53/172/23

Future Medicine in Second Life

Despite Linden Labs dropping it's discount for education-themed sims, some universities continue to keep a presence in Second Life. Reporter Any1 Gynoid checks out the UNCP campus, where college students use the Grid to telecommute to class on courses in nursing.

Check out the story in Extra.