SL Video: "Wootstock 2011"

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From "Nitwacket" on July 2011, the "Wootstock" celebration in Raglan Shire. "Make waffles, not war."

Reader Submitted: "S-s-s-s-s-SKUNK!!!"

From CCWing Resident. Looks like one of the stripped residents from Luskwood has dropped in on one of the pony towns. While some might worry, the grey pony here doesn't seem to mind.

Otium and Giovanna

Gemma Cleanslate was recently at Otium, a relaxing village and beach area one can to to relax. Along with the scenery, there has been something new added, an art exhibition by Giovanna Cerise. Gemma found the combination one that was not to be missed.

Read Gemma's article in Places.

Press Release: 2nd Annual Relay For Life Farshore Field Air Show Fly-in

It’s time again for the Sunbeamers to present the Annual Farshore Field Air show and Fly-in. On April 18th this Saturday the showing will start at 8AM SLT and will run till 5PM SLT. Then the field will be close to flight operations because this year we have a twist! Starting at 6PM SLT and going till 8PM There will be a live performance by the Country Rebels a Garth Brooks Tribute band!

There will be planes of World War II on display with information about them. Steampunk airships, experimental, modern and odd-ball. Some pilots will be on hand to give rides and flight demonstrations or you can just BYOAP [Bring Your Own AirPlane].

Once you’re tired of craning your head up lower your sights and take shots at each other by taking turns dunking your partner in a nice cool dunk tank. That is after you fire a German 88mm shell into its target!! For a small donation of course, but how often do you get to shoot such an historical gun? The air show officials and Sunbeamer team are not responsible for any “misses” that hit someone.


Cynthia Farshore

Live Concert at Ragland Shire

On Sunday April 12 from Noon SL time to about 2 PM, there was a live music event at the Raglan Shire tiny community. A mix of local tinies, human avatars, and others were at the concert stage.

Russell Eponyn normally sports a human look, but for his hosts he went ahead and "tinied up." While short in stature, the locals were certainly big in enthusiasm.

There was plenty of fun to be had, especially with the tinies who could go a bit over the top with their antics. Near the end of the event, several got on stage while in the audience several did their characteristic "Riverdance."

Raglan has events going on most every day, which one can find in their event callendar: http://raglanshire.com/events/ . Next month in May is their Artwalk, which draws people from across Second Life. In August is their "Wootstock" celebration. Between the two, there may be pirate and pool events.

Raglan Shire to Close InWorldz Location

When other grids besides Second Life were opening, some from Second Life gave them a look. Others did more, expanding from the larger virtual world to make a presence there. Among them was the noted Tiny community from Raglan Shire, making it's own sim there. Five years later, it's founder Zayn Till has come to the decision that it's time to close down. So what were the reasons given for the close?

Read more in Other Grids and MMOs.

Relay for Life: "Stand Up Against Cancer" And Harmony For Hope's Egg Decorating Contest

Last weekend had a number of Relay events. Saturday had a stand up comedy routine, the "Stand Up Against Cancer," featuring noted comedian Lauren Weyland and others. Sunday had the judging for an egg decorating contest. So who got the laughs and who was the "egg-xact" winner?

Read more in Events.

Press Release: "Cowboys and Aliens" Horse Racing Contest

Teams  4mE - Vents Out presents

===========COWBOYS & ALIENS=============
                   ~Horse Racing Contest~
                  
Comes to town for the first time.

Media Sponsor ~ Team M.Y. Studios Powerhouses
Venue Sponsor ~ Team LA Designs for the Future is Now

Fill the form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yKgW53UYW8LGHwg2uBj3_j2oL3O8ILTTwXH-9ulGDb4/viewform

What is the idea?
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A Horse Racing competition. There would be three winners. Each winner would receive prize packages.

How to Enter?
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A minimal entry fee of L$10 is to be donated at the kiosk near the starting point at the time of the race for each race.
Wearable horses are available by the barn at the Venue, You may wear your own horses for the race too

Are there Vendors?
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Yes, we invite all Relay For Life Vendors to donate items, objects, horses, breeding horses, outfits and even food for the breedable horses etc in support of the theme.

We also invite others who are not a part of any team to donate item, object, horse, breeding horse, wearable horse, outfits and food for breeding horse etc. to place their donated items in either of hosting team' vendors. That is, you may ask either Team 4mE - Vents Out, or Team M.Y. Studio Powerhouses, or Team LA Designs for the Future is Now, to place your item.

All vendors will have stalls set around the race track. Each Vendor is allowed 5 prims per stall. There is no price to set up your vendor at the location. All vendors are to complete set up by 28th April midnight.

When is the event?
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The Horse Racing event will be for 2 hours on 29th April, 2015. During this time, there will be DJ and a theme party. Time 8pm to 10pm SLT. The party may continue till late night too.

The Vendors may sell their exclusives and invite their friends, family and customers on 29th April, 2015. The exclusive sale will go on for only one day.

The teams are invited to Relay on horse backs around the track, if they so choose for the whole day of 29th April, 2015.

Remember-
Theme - COWBOYS & ALIENS
100% donations go to Relay For Life of Second Life.

Go Relay!!

Contact
Fill the form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yKgW53UYW8LGHwg2uBj3_j2oL3O8ILTTwXH-9ulGDb4/viewform

Debby Sharma Captain of 4mE- Vents Out

Cartoon of the Day

By Bixyl Shuftan

New Sponsor: Safe Waters Foundation

Second Life Newser has a new sponsor, the Safe Waters Foundation.

"Come and explore the largest underwater community in Second Life. Meet mermaids and mermen in their natural environment. You might decide to stay." 

Safe Waters Foundation is a "Not for profit group supporting the development of harmony and safety for merfolk and aquatics of Second Life, Bringing together designers, retailers, sims, merrow, mermen, mermaids, siren, aquatics and lovers of same."

Grace (Graceswf Wrigglesworth) is the head and founder of the group, and can answer any questions one has about them.

The Safe Waters Foundation is a sponsor of the upcoming Relay for Life Fantasy Faire, and more information can be read about them on the FF blog, or the Safe Water's webpage (link).

The location of Safe Waters' HQ is at Union Passage (163/232/3).

LEA2 : The History of the Vehicle

With residents being able to teleport and fly around, some might not see vehicles in Second Life as being of much use. Others can't do without their mechanical workhorses. However you see them, vehicles have been in Second Life since it's start, and have had quite a history. Sapphire Hotaling has a series of exhibits in LEA2, titled "The History of Vehicles in Second Life." Gemma Cleanslate went over to take a look.

Read Gemma's review in Design.

Press Release: Relaystock 2015

Once again The Relay Rockers invite everyone to join them on May 23 & 24th at Relay dAlliez, for RelayStock 2015, a multi team Relay For Life of Second Life event.  

The event will feature 'Team Sites' around a 60s style festival stage.  Teams are invited to bring Kiosks and Vendors, host 2 hour DJ segments on the stage and participate in one the most popular events of each relay year, the Final Round of the Relay Rocker's Celebrate Remember Fight Back Top DJ Competition. The Rockers anticipate room for about 60 teams this season, so don't wait to reserve a spot!

"The Relay Rockers have been fortunate to have participants from many teams in our CRFB Event" said Rockers Co-Founder Trader Whiplash. "RelayStock is our way of saying thank you for the huge support across the grid for the competition.  It  affords every team the opportunity to share in a super fund raising event. This is just another example of the One Team concept in Relay.  It doesn’t matter whose kiosk or vendor the donations land in, after all we are all on the same team in the end." Trader noted that in 2014, the original RelayStock event raised more than L$ 1.5 million and more than 50 teams participated.

The event will be held at Relay dAlliez.  Relay dAlliez is dedicated to the memory of Alliez Mysterio, who with Nuala Maracas and Trader Whiplash,  helped found the Relay Rockers team in 2005. Alliez was lost to breast cancer in 2013.  The sim was first made available in 2014 to any team to hold Relay For Life events. There are still several prime weekend dates open.  Team representatives can visit the Relay dAlliez InfoHub for more information and to submit a reservation request.   

Scheduled Events:

Saturday May 23

2015 CRFB Top Dj Contest  Finals  1pm - 5pm

1 - 3 pm CRFB 2nd Seeded Finalist 

3 -  5pm     CRFB  1st Seeded Finalist- 

5pm-515pm Presentation of 2015 CRFB Top DJ Trophies and Awards

    Saturday BYOK* Fever  featuring:

515pm-7pm - Madelyn Majestic - Relay Rockers / T1Radio

7pm - 9pm  - Fuzzball Ortega - Steelhead Salmon / T1Radio

Sunday  May 24

3pm - 5pm - Relay Rap

5pm - 8pm  T1Radio's TIme Machine the 60s - Trader Whiplash - Team Relay Rockers  BYOK 

Teams may reserve the stage for their own DJs  at the following times:

*ALL TIMES SLT

Saturday May 23rd:

8am-10am      

10am-12noon   

12pm-  1pm      

           Sun. May 24th

           

 8am-10am   

10am -12noon   

12pm - 2pm       

2pm - 3pm

Scheduled Events:

Saturday May 23

2015 CRFB Top Dj Contest  Finals  1pm - 5pm

1 - 3 pm CRFB 2nd Seeded Finalist 

3 -  5pm     CRFB  1st Seeded Finalist- 

5pm-515pm Presentation of 2015 CRFB Top DJ Trophies and Awards

Saturday BYOK Fever  featuring:

515pm-7pm - Madelyn Majestic - Relay Rockers / T1Radio

7pm - 9pm  - Fuzzball Ortega - Steelhead Salmon / T1Radio

Sunday  May 24

3pm - 5pm - Relay Rap

5pm - 8pm  T1Radio's TIme Machine the 60s - Trader Whiplash - Team Relay Rockers  BYOK 

For More Information Contact Ariel Stormcrow, Relay Rockers Co-Captain, 

ariel@relayrockers.t1radio.com

*BYOK=- Bring Your Own Kiosk ( All Teams Invited to Place Kiosks during this time)

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.

What a Weekend

Quite a bit happened this weekend. The Relay Team Sunbeamer reached Silver rank (story below), tiny community Raglan Shire hosted a live music event, there were a number of Relay events, including a egg decorating contest and a stand-up comedy show with Lauren Weyland and other comedians, "Yuri's Night" in the Sci-Lands of which the second half took place at a planetarium (pictured above), and more.

Stay tuned for more on these events.

Club WELGELEGEN ( Club The Right Spot )

Wesley Regenbogen has another club review up. In his most recent article, he takes a look at Club Welgelegen. This club is part Wild West influence and part Dutch scenery. So what did Wesley think of the venue?

Read Wesley's article in Places.

Tresi Nonno and the Ainu Village

A few weeks ago, Bixyl Shuftan ran into a Tresi Nonno, who identified herself as an Ainu, or one of Japan's original inhabitants. She showed him a build of a traditional tribal village, and talked a little about her journey in Second Life.

Read more in People.

Team Sunbeamers Pass 100,000 Lindens Raised, Reach Silver Rank

On Friday night, April 10, Relay for Life's Team Sunbeamer, the team of the Sunweaver Estates reached a milestone for this year's season. It was then that the 100,000 Linden mark was passed, getting cheers from Relay chat.

[2015/04/10 20:06] Rita Mariner: Sunbeamers made Silver tonight
[2015/04/10 20:06] Trader Whiplash-Ballinger (Trader1 Whiplash): Yay Rita!!!
[2015/04/10 20:06] Madonna Daehlie (Madonna Milena): Yay Rita and the Sunbeamers!
[2015/04/10 20:06] Trader Whiplash-Ballinger (Trader1 Whiplash): congrats!
[2015/04/10 20:06] Ariel Goldrozen: YAY sunbeamers!!
[2015/04/10 20:06] Rita Mariner: On to Gold now
[2015/04/10 20:06] OldeSoul Eldemar (OldeSoul Resident): WAY TO GO SUNBEAMERS!!!!
[2015/04/10 20:07] OldeSoul Eldemar (OldeSoul Resident): that's right Ms. Rita
[2015/04/10 20:07] Melodie Jigsaw: woooo yay rita!!!
[2015/04/10 20:07] OldeSoul Eldemar (OldeSoul Resident): GO GO GO GO RELAY
[2015/04/10 20:33] RosePoison: GO GO GADGET RELAY
[2015/04/10 20:34] Lomgren Smalls sends micro hugs to everyone!
[2015/04/10 20:34] Fuzzball Ortega: Hey, Lomgren
[2015/04/10 20:34] Fuzzball Ortega: LOMGREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Special thanks go to Rayven Tentigo, whose grand reopening of Castle Primal Passions and the AC/DC tribute concert raised close to half of the total raised.

Stay tuned for the Country Rebels concert in five days on April 19 in the Pacific Waters sim.

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Aero Pines Park. Looks like this lady found someone friendly enough to offer a ride, though he might be a little too friendly.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Classic SLN Cartoons

From 2009, presumably at a moment when my avatar somehow ended up at 0,0,0 when trying to port somewhere.

Bixyl Shuftan

SL Video: "Seth Regan / Mankind Tracer - Behind The Second Life Music"

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From Mankind Tracer / Seth Regan on July 2012, produced by Kaya Angel,  "Following 20 years of professional touring as lead singer and guitarist for both original bands and cover bands, Seth Regan has been performing live music in Second Life, as Mankind Tracer, since November 2006. In this video, taken from some of his live unplugged acoustic Second Life performances, Seth also shares some of his insights on Second Life and the SL music scene."

Website: http://www.sethregan.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sethreganmusic
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sethreganmusic