RFL Sunbeamer Carnival

 

 On Saturday May 23, The Relay for Life's Sunbeamer team would hold it's Carnival event. This was an event involving a number of rides, and hours of music by three DJs. So what were the details?

 

Read more in Events. 

Cartoon of The Day: Double TPing

 

 Taken at the RFL Team ACTS Privateer's Ball. Exactly how two avatars got stuck together, who knows. But one thing came to mind.

 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Jenni Greenfield Stepping Down From Cutlass, Taking Break From SL

 

Jenni Greenfield has been a familiar sight at Club Cutlass, the main club of the Sunweaver community for many years. But she recently announced she will be taking a break, possibly a permanent one.

 

Had to make a hard decision, but decided to hang it up with SL. The reasons for this is my health is declining, and I have actually become bored with the internet. As you may know, I was recently in the hospital, and they misplaced the meds I took with me. they said they would set me up with new prescriptions, but they seem to be having a problem getting them through. Without them, I have medical issues and a near total lack of energy. Thank you all for putting up with me all these years. 

 

Talking with her, Jenni wasn't sure if this was a hiatus in which she would be back, eventually, but a lasting one, bringing up her lack of energy.

 

Hopefully her health problems will resolve soon and she'll soon be back.

 

Best wishes Jenni,

 

Bixyl Suftan 

RFL Sunbeamers: Bid Me Ringtail Results

 

The results of what are likely to be the last of the Relay for Life's Team Sunbeamers Bid Me fundraisers are in. "Bid Me Ringtail" concluded on Saturday May 23, at 8PM SL time.:

 

Stay Foxy: 350L

Go Ringtail: 19,000

Six weeks as a ringtail (when not covering the news or representing the Newser). Somebody must really want a second ringtail who puns around the clubs. ;-)
 

So it looks like for a month and a half, when not doing Newser duties, yours truly will be having "ring around the tail.  

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

Events This Week at the Sunweaver and Montecito Bay Clubs, Furry Fashion, Urban Furry, and Club Scorn

 

Here's what's going on at the Sunweaver, Montecito Bay, Furry Fashion, Urban Furry, and Scorn clubs.

Club Cutlass: Beach Party, Spectral Shadows, TBA

Happy Vixen: DJ Scratch, DJ Malit, TBA, DJ Khyra

Club Zero Gravity: DJ Snowy - 

 

Bouncing Bunny Beach Club:  DJ Snowy - 

Xanadu: DJ Jesse 

 

Montecito Bay:  CAYA, After Dark

Club Scorn: Th 8-12, Sat 2-12

 

Furry Fashion: Beach Party, Leather Lace & Latex, Fur Vs Feathers

 

Urban Furry :  DJ Charlee, DJ Emma, DJ Emma

 

Read the schedules in SL Clubbin'

 

It Came From Relay (Discord) Chat: "'The Hair' On The Moon"

 

 

From Fuzzball Ortega when he was at the Thursday May 21 Moon Dance, "The Hair spotted on the moon." 

 

Cynthia Farshore would respond, "Yes and he had a rather 'hairy' landing."

 

Memorial Day

 

 It's Memorial Day in the United States, when the country honors it's veterans who died in the line of duty from major conflicts such as the World Wars, the Civil War being the deadliest with over 600,000 dead in a nation of thirty million at the time, to training and smaller conflicts, including the War with Iran still going on today which has claimed thirteen American soldiers so far, and not long ago the Afghan War in which 2400 US servicemen died, and 4500 in the Iraq War. 

 

Second Life has some memorials to America's fallen. This includes it's replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, located high in the Veterans Isle sim which was rebuilt here in 2022, and has all 58,000 names on the original. With one's avatar looking so small compared to that massive list of names, each one an American veteran who had their hopes and dreams and usually with family who would never see them alive again, it's a sobering reminder of the price of war. 

 

The Vietnam Wall is at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Veterans%20Isle/177/185/2485 

 

"We shall remember,"

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Cartoon of The Day: "Pony Up"

 

 

Taken at the Sunbeamer Carnival. Penny Shuftan  (Deaflegacy) meets a new pony friend.

 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

 

SL Video: "The Pilgrim's Forest Quest - Final Sequence"

 

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From Akiko Kinoshi on May 16, a recording of the final part of the Fairelands Quest, "the final sequence once you enter the hedge..."

 

Ministry of Trance

 

Netera Landar recently stopped by the Ministry of Trance. As a venue, it certainly left an interesting first impression with it's forest setting and DJ Puddles on a unicorn as she played the music. When Netera had a talk with her later, it turned out she was the owner and she didn't found the club, but took it over as a labor of love when it was about to shut down. Then there's the radio stream, and the Fairytale Palace. Netera would ask about these, and more. 

 

Read Netera's article in Design. 

 

RFL Announcement: Sunbeamer Carnival 2026

 

 Come and enjoy the Sunbeamer Carnival with BYOK dances Saturday May 23rd. Gates open at 8am SLT and close at 5pm SLT. Enjoy the rides, contest, and dances.

On the grounds will be Roller Coaster, Ferris wheel, Bicycle Blimp contest, Avatar Cannonball with free Wild For A Cure parachute, Explosive Combat Bumper Cars, Plenty of games and rides. At close will be fireworks

BYOK dances all day, schedule is:
9am to 11am      DJ Cynthia Farshore of the Sunbeamers
12 noon to 2pm DJ Primi Giles-Harding-Ronin of ACTS
3pm to 5pm       DJ Kayle of Roos With A Dream

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunlight%20Bay/112/169/22

 

Stand By For An Announcement

 

We at the Newser have been busy in both Second Life and real life, and in Gemma's case recovering. So that sometimes means not much time to write. But one of the things we've been busy with has had results. Stay tuned to hear what it is.

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

This Saturday at The Science Circle

 

 Saturday May 23

 

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At 10 AM PST  

 

"Bamboo and rice as nonhuman models to understand the role of non-neuronal acetylcholine and the molecular basis of disease"

By Chandrakanth Emani, Phd.

 

SURL: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Science%20Circle/59/128/29

 

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    NOTE: Non-members required to register once

    IM Jes Cobalt or Nymf Hathaway

╚══════════════════════════════ The Science Circle (72,129,30) ═╝  

RFL Announcement: Team ACTS Privateers Ball

 

 Saturday May 23

2 - 4PM SL time

 

Music by Magda Kameneva 

 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse%20Bayou/49/201/21