Emerald Crystal Golf Course In Trouble

 

 

The Emerald Crystal Golf Course is a good place to golf in Second Life. The Newser has written about it, twice (1) (2). Unfortunately, it's been having some trouble. 

On October 1, Laz Dresler, the owner, or greenskeeper, of Emerald, posted the following in the golf course's group.

I always promised I would communicate when the Situation at Emerald Crystal Golf  Course became Grim.
Its  officially Grim. This Summer i hoped  for change. I thought  maybe  everyone was on Vacation and things would turn around and we would make a come back financially. Our Traffic has been good. Sadly our donations  are no longer supporting the 25K we need by the first of each month. September  we were short by half.

If things don't change for October ...

 

 A week later, Laz stated people had been donating, for which she was grateful for, but they still needed more help.

 

You are all gems  - However, among  you we have individuals in our Group that are jewels who appreciate our history and what Emerald Crystal means to Second Life.  

FYI - We are not close to meeting our Goal for next month yet. 

Please don't forget Every Linden matters to our survival  Tiers never stop being collected,  Every month it takes  25,000 Linden to keep the sim. We are officially out of the little cushion that use to make up for our shortages.   

 

For those wishing to donate, there's a wishing well not from from the entrance at Dark Sun Island (31/59/23). Donate to that, and the Lindens will go to paying for the sim. Or you can send them to  CrystalZalari . You can also go to the weekly event at their "19th hole" every Sunday at 12:30 PM.

 

Hopefully for Emerald Crystal, soon the only scary things for Halloween will be the spooks, bats, and wolves.  

 

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dark%20Sun%20Island/31/59/23

 

Hat tip: Charlee Harmony 

 

 Bixyl Shuftan

RFL: Off-Season Kiosk At Cutlass

 

 Today marks the end of the Relay for Life's official fundraising season. But this doesn't mean the end of collections. For the Sunbeamer team, Team Captain Rita Mariner set up an off-season collection tip jar at Club Cutlass. Donations there will go to the team's fundraising season's total for next year. 

 

Club Cutlass is located at Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757). 

 

RECoyote Mindes/Richard Orth Needs Help

 

One of the longtime residents of Second Life's Sunweaver community, RECoyote Mindes, known as Richard Orth in real-life, is in need of some help. He explained his situation in a GoFundMe.

 

... I used to make a good living as a truck driver, but one frozen winter's night I fell off my truck and totally destroyed my back, requiring spinal implants which then got infected and resulted in even further damage.

Today I can just barely walk, and an in constant pain of about 30 on a scale of 1 to 10, but I live with it because others depend on me, especially all my friends on Second Life and other internet communities.

On top of all that, I have diabetes and bad neuropathy. Oh, and the kidney and lung cancer isn't helping anything either. I have to see some 16 specialists, each of whom want a $35 co-pay. I own the local hospital over $1,300,000 that I will never be able to pay. And every day my situation starts to look more and more unsustainable.

I have applied for every bit of assistance I can get to keep things going, but I already have everything I'm eligible for, and it's not enough. Every month I have overdrafts and things just keep getting farther and farther behind. If this keeps up I risk losing my house, as well as my life on the internet. And, even being in as much pain as I am, I'm not ready to disappear from the world yet. So if anyone out there would like to help I'd be much appreciative.

When he was doing better financially, RECoyote has helped others, such as paying the fee to reduce the sim tiers for the Sunweaver community. 

 

For those wishing to donate, Click Here to get to the GoFundMe, "I need extra $1,000 a month to survive. Anything you can contribute would surely help"

 

RFL Team Sunbeamers Off-Season Donation Jar

 

 

 The Relay for Life's fundraising season is over. But the Relay's team Sunbeamers is already getting ready for the next season. At Club Cutlass, the main club of the community behind the team, the Sunweavers, team captain Rita Mariner placed down an off-season donation jar. What goes there goes to the team-total at the start of the 2024 fundraising season.

This year, the Sunbeamers raised over 1,250,000 Lindens, or Ruby level. Can they do better next year?

 

To make a donation, head to Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757).

 

Bixyl Shuftan

RFL Team Sunbeamer Donation Jar Update

 

 

 It's been a few months since the Relay Weekend, and a couple months since the Relay for Life's fundraising season for 2022 officially ended. But the team has been getting ready for the next season. In July, team captain Rita Mariner placed an off-season tip jar for anyone to donate money for next season. On Friday Sept 16, Rita announced the total raised so far was 125,000 Linden dollars, or $500 US dollars. "We've made Gold," she stated, meaning that the amount was what it took for a team to reach gold-level fundraising level this past season.

The 2023 fundraising season doesn't start until February. Until then, there's the Christmas Expo in December, and Making Strides which is in October. The Renaissance Festival which raises money for the later starts this Friday, September 23.

 

For those wishing to donate, the tip jar is at Club Cublass, at Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757)

Bixyl Shuftan

RFL Team Sunbeamer Getting Ready For 2023

 

While the Relay for Life's next fundraising season is many months away, already Team Sunbeamers is getting ready. Team captain Rita Mariner put out a collection jar at Club Cutlass for anyone to contribute to. The club is at Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757).
 

Announcement: Toys for Tots Donation Rally

 

KickAzz Shoutcast is committed to giving this holiday season! Our 12th year doing the Toys For Tots Drive. Starting November 1st, 2021 we will launch our Toys for Tots drive in hopes of raising as much money as possible for underprivileged children. We at Kickazz Shoutcast Stream Rental will match ALL donations up to a total of $1,000.00 US. 100% of EVERY LINDEN COLLECTED will be given to Toys For Tots. (Toysfortots.org)

We ask that our friends, coworkers, and fellow business owners here in Second Life to rally together and lend a helping hand by placing KIOSKS at your venues, (clubs, live music events, stores etc.)

If you are interested in receiving a KIOSK for your venue please contact Jayson Marjeta. Simply Drop A Notecard to Jayson requesting a Donation Box. KIOSKS ARE COPY TRANSFER, NO MOD  !

THE TOP TWO (2) INDIVIDUALS THAT THEIR KIOSKS COLLECT THE MOST LINDENS, WIN A 300 LISTENER STREAM FOR ONE (1) YEAR. If you have multiple Kiosks set out, your total is the sum of all.

You may set out as many Donation Boxes you wish, your accumulative total will be added for your total. Keep in mind, if you give out a KIOSK to someone, and they set it out, their collection account may be added to your total. You must give us their name when you pass them the kiosk, not at the end of the collection drive.

Please pick up your donation boxes on December 24 by 6PM SL time. 

At the end of the Donation Drive, the total amount collected will be given to each kiosk
owner along with the total sum of all lindens collected by all. Please allow a few days for
these numbers to be tallied up and passed out.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LORII%20CAPRONI%20ISLAND/127/55/22

If you have any questions, contact Jayson Marjeta.
 

RFL Team Sunbeamers Have Over 100,000 Lindens For Next Season

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The next Relay season in Second Life is still months away. But some teams have been raising money for the season ahead. Among them is the Sunbeamer team, of whom team captain Rita Mariner set up a tip jar onto the deck of Club Cutlass for anyone wanting to chip in for next year's team total. A few days ago, the total passed 100,000 Linden dollars. And the total keeps going up.

How much will be raised by the start of the season in February 2022? We'll have to wait to find out. 

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757).

Bixyl Shuftan
 

RFL Sunbeamer Off-Season Donation Jar

 

The Relay season is over, and RFL Team Sunbeamer's fundraising kiosks are put away until next February. But that doesn't mean the fundraising is completely shut down. At Club Cutlass, Rita Mariner set up a tip jar for those wanting to donate money between seasons, the money going to one of her alts. Once the 2022 Relay for Life in Second Life fundraising season starts, the money will go to Team Sunbeamers. 

As of the writing of this brief, there's a little more than 10,000 Linden dollars in the tip jar. How much will there be when the season starts? We'll see.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757)
 
Bixyl Shuftan
 

Crowdfunder To Save Hangars Liquides Sims

In a further development on the continuing story about the Hangars Liquides cyberpunk-themed sims in danger of closing at the end of the month, it was announced in the group that a crowdfunder to save them had been launched on indiegogo.com.

We have just launched our crowndfunding campaign to save the city.

You can donate anything you feel like, keep in mind the 100 EUR perk is like the regular rentals yearly.

Djehan Kidd is offering two perks for people do donate. For a donation of $112 USD, you'll get an apartment in Hangars for a year. For a donation of $1122, you get one of four platinum rooftop lofts.

As of the writing of this article, $1257 of the $6735 goal had been raised.

Stay tuned for more updates.

Bixyl Shuftan

Addition: As of 1PM SL time, the amount donated is $1572 USD.

RFL Team Sunbeamers Reach Silver

The Relay for Life's team of the Sunweaver community has gone up a notch. On Wednesday night, the total amount of Lindens raised for the Sunbeamers reached 50,000, or Silver rank, followed by an announcement. 

Beamers:  We are now SILVER level and both Bixyl and Liska are now tagged with going 4 weeks each, on their BID MEs.  Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As Team Captain Rita Mariner hinted at, much of the money came from donations to the "Bid Me Human" and "Bid Me Deer" fundraisers. The team total has continued to grow, as of the writing of this article, almost 53,000 Lindens. A number of other teams have also reached Bronze and Silver ranks.

So what happens after March 15 for the two volunteers? Time will tell.

Rescuing Deepmarsh

On late Thursday night, September 27, I was informed about Deepmarsh, a beautifully-designed sim that apparently was in trouble and in danger of vanishing. Given a name, Honor Woodget, I messaged her, and the following day got in contact with her. She told me she was an estate owner, "The lady that rents from me has had this place for ages. Her display name is River, but her account name is Moya McCallen. She set it up as a relaxation sim, come hang out calm down, take photos, etc. As you can see, she's done a wonderful job."

"About three weeks ago, the sim went past due. Because she'd been here a long time and it was such a well done place, I was patient instead of reclaiming it. At eight days late, I managed to catch her online. She said real-life work had kept her really busy, and she was having trouble getting online. As she was TPing to the tiles to pay rent, she crashed. (I) haven't seen her since."

"Now, she had a good friend who was listed as co-owner of the place: Bigticket Resident. He couldn't afford to pay rent on it, and offered to let me spam the group for help." She directed my attention to the donation box in the building in the middle of the sim, "At two weeks late, I put up that ugly box you see behind you (laughter) for donations." I asked how much was raised. Honor answered, "Visitors and group members paid me enough to pay the two back weeks rent, plus this past week." As we spoke, someone came into the sim, dropped a little cash into the box, and left, Honor saying, "And there's another 200L$"

"So tier is due again today (Sept 28)," she went on, "and I'm hoping to keep it going another week. ... From 11 L to 2000L donations, every single bit goes to the rent." Honor told me most was coming from other members of the group, saying they really wanted the sim to stay, "they love it."

"I'm just hoping Moya aka River comes back soon," Honor commented, "I think she'd be amazed at how people stepped up to help." She had no idea when that might be, "Two people have email addresses and have updated her, but no reply yet." They are considering the possibility she might not be back, "Right now, the community is weighing its options. ...to confirm the rumor, last weekend I did a donation matching thing for a bit. (We) got 4k in donations in 1 hour, which I matched. I might end up doing a dance here. But the 20 avatar limit bites. But yeah a fund raising event is possible. And there may be a buyer for it who would keep it as is."

"It's a great place for photo shoots or just zoning out. I mean I decorate some, as a land lady, but this place rocks."

Those who want to check out the sim for themselves, donate, or both, can head to: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Beck/114/148/21. There's also a Flickr group for pictures. 

Bixyl Shuftan

Press Release: Homes For Our Troops June 2017 Total Donations

On this historic weekend when we celebrate the founding of our country, it is once again a joy to announce that we were able to send Homes for Our Troops  $850 because of our efforts in June 2017 in Second Life.  The total for this year now comes to just over $5600 for 2017 as a result of many kind people in Second Life.

Thank you once again goes out to those who made extra efforts for this cause in June.  A big round of applause goes out to:

Russell65 Resident (Wildcat Country/The Generation)
Cayleen Linette (Cay's at Woodland Lake)
Lexia Benelli (SummerGreen Island)

Other regular contributors continued their dedicated effort:

Littlebit31okla  (Saddles Canyon Country)
Sunnyskies McMahon (Bama Country)
Ninja Aldrin( Array/Meadow Creek)
BellaRose Restless (Midnight Cowboy/Marble Hills and StormWind)
Zack221 Friller (Tropical Delight)

And then our monthly benefit at Veteran's Isle could not have gone on without the help of Bri Mcmahon and GJackie Winkler.

And of course we cannot forget the performers and their management who donated their valuable time. Thank you all for your kind hearts and great talent:
Waya Snowpaw DJ
FunkyFreddy Republic
Shannyn Fall
Ganjo Mokeev
SRV4U Conacher/ Da Bluez Preacher
Solana Python
Gina Stella
Jorrdan Jarman, Keighleigh Galaxy and WintersFleur Resident (Whispering Sands)


Thank you once again Second Life for  making a difference in our wounded veteran lives!

Frets Nirvana

RECoyote Mindes' Mother Ill With Cancer, Donations Needed

As a trucker in real life, RECoyote Mindes, or "Rec" as he's known to friends, has been a man of few words, letting his actions speak for him. Long known for being the coowner of Perri Prinz's Xanadu classic rock club in HV Community, more recently he's been known for helping out his fellow Sunweavers. He helped out two residents by buying them new tablets and computers (one of whom passed down her old equipment to a third resident when her machine went down). He helped the Sunweaver and Angel sims by paying the fees to Linden Lab to acquire them the "grandfathered" rates, which meant lower rents for the tenants.

Behind the trucker is a real life family, and his mother has fallen ill with cancer. Nydia Tugsten posted the news last night as a group announcement.

Reco's Mom went into ICU Saturday.  They're now there with her. Small cell cancer in her lungs, brains and a couple other places.
She is on her second day of kemo today, one more day of it they will need to wait at least a week to see if the mass in her lung breaks up.

Reco, we are all here for you, if you need anything, let us know and we will help in any way we can.

Earlier today, RECoyote had this response.

Ok, I do need help. This has used up all of my money and I can use any money any of you can spare me. Please help.
paypal recoyote@pld.com Thank you y'al.
Please help if you can

Now the one who has helped many finds himself in need of help. Those who have some cash to spare are asked to help out a little.

Once again, the requested donations can be sent via Paypal to recoyote@pld.com .

Bixyl Shuftan

Relay for Life's Team Sunbeamers Reach Platinum Rank

The Relay for Life's Sunbeamer Team has never known when to quit. Born from the ashes of the Passionate Redheads after the longtime successful Relay team folded, the "beamers" have strove to continue their success. While they had something of a bumpy start as a team in their first year, 2013, they did manage to reach Silver level in fundraising. In every year after that, the team would strike gold. At the beginning of this season, the team would have a slow start due to the economic troubles of some members and personal problems of a few, reaching only 50,000 Lindens by May. But by the end of the month, it had reached Silver rank, and by mid-June, it had reached Gold.

But the team still kept making fundraising efforts, members such as Skylark Lefavre and Cynthia Farshore appearing at multiteam events and setting up a kiosk. While the Relay Weekend means the end to the fundraising efforts of many teams, the leaders of the Sunbeamers saw a chance to make one more rank: Platinum. While the Passionate Redheads had reached the level a number of times, this would be a first for the "beamers."

Beamers:  We have a chance to reach Platinum, by AUG 14th, Cynthia and I are willing to kick in a major amount of cash to get there, but we would like help from the team and others to help us out.  We need $345 worth on Lindens to make Platinum.  So please give what you can into the kiosks, ASAP. Cynthia and I will make up the balance.

On Saturday July 30th, the day of the Sunbeamer's Road Rally, donations came in throughout the day and night, and not just at the racetrack. After the event, donations continued to come in, 15,500 Lindens were dropped in by Oriana Sun alone at the party in Club Cutlass that night. At 8:22PM SL time, Cynthia Farshore announced, "SUNBEAMERS JUST HIT PLATINUM!!!"

Finally, the team had achieved what it's members hadn't seen since the days of the Redheads. If Gold meant proof we were among the big leagues, Platinum was confirmation. As of the writing of this article, the team has raised a total of 571,160 Lindens, or $2,285 US dollars. This makes them the 19th highest ranking team, having raised almost as much as one of the major events: the Relay's Science Fiction Convention.

But, I did have to make good on an avatar challenge I had set up if we reached this level.

Beamers thanks to generosity of Cynthia, Oriana, Dusk and your bunny boss, along with what we made at the Road Rally and Pool Party.  The Sunbeamers are now officially PLATINUM!  Bixyl get that pony ready!  LOL

My friend Skylark Lefavre is a "My Little Pony" fan, and has kept asking me to wear one of the MLP avatars in Second Life. This was the one type I had never worn. Finally last year, I told her if the team ever reached Platinum rank, I'd wear one for a week. And since Skylark "ponied up" so much time, and Rita "ponied up" so many bucks, I went ahead and went through my end of the bargain. I can still change out of it briefly for interviews and similar circumstances. But when just going about, it's on horseshoes, at least until Saturday.

So far, there's been a number of reactions. Among them, Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs). "Poor Bix is gonna be saddled with equine puns." Oh well, reporters always have to deal with the occasional "neigh"sayer.

Bixyl Shuftan

Caspertech Vendor Collecting Donations For Victims of Pulse Massacre

On Sunday morning in Orlando Florida, the Pulse nightclub was attacked by a killer whom gunned down a number of people and took several hostages before finally being shot and killed by police. With 49 people dead (not counting the killer) and 53 injured, the event was one of the worst cases of mass-murder in the United States. The gunman, the son of immigrants from Afghanistan, pledged loyalty to the ISIS terrorist organization. As Pulse is a gay nightclub, the incident is being described as both a hate crime and an act of terrorism.

In Second Life, Casper Warden of Caspertech has made a kiosk to help residents donate to a fund to help the victims of the crime. The money collected goes to a GoFundMe page set up by Ida Vishkaee Eskamani of Equality Florida, a political activist and nonprofit organization. Linden Lab mentioned Caspertech's kiosk in the official Second Life blog.

The Second Life community comes together in incredible, compassionate ways that serve as a badge to show what amazing, diverse, and accepting communities we have all over the grid. ... In light of the tradegy that struck Orlando nightclub, Pulse this past weekend, Casper Warden of CasperVend has set up a kiosk in his mainstore to collect donations for the GoFundMe set up by Equality Florida to benefit and support the victims of this horrific event.

The vendor includes a disclaimer that the withdraw fees for converting Linden dollars to real-world currency will be applied to funds collected. All charities collecting money from Second Life wishing to avoid the fee need to contact Linden Lab and work out an exemption.

The Lab has also included the location of Caspertech in the Destination Guide, which is located at Izanagi (184/81/134).

Casper has also made his kiosk available on the Second Life Marketplace for free, which can be found (here). Already others have gotten copies of and making use of them, such as Furry Fashion.

In light of the tragedy that struck Orlando nightclub Pulse this past weekend, Casper Warden of CasperVend has set up a kiosk in his mainstore to collect donations for the GoFundMe set up by Equality Florida to benefit and support the victims of this horrific event. FF is also getting involved with donation kiosks set up across the sim ...

As of now, Furry Fashion has at least one kiosk set up at Furry (203, 197, 59). There will almost certainly be other locations publicized in various groups and websites. Hamlet Au and Strawberry Singh have also written about the kiosk. 

Bixyl Shuftan

Press Release: Typhoon Haiyan Fundraiser in Second Life

Dear designers and friends,

As you know, in the past few days we have seen very devastating news where Typhoon Haiyan hit several countries. Typhoon Haiyan is known as the strongest storm that ever happened and it has been reported to cause more than 10,000 death and more than 9 million people are affected. At the moment, there's no electricity, no water and no food. And they need our help.

I am Jammeh Resident, the owner of T o r o and I am Filipino. I am very devastated to see my friends, my family and fellow Filipino affected by this awful disaster.

I am currently setting up a fundraiser to help our fellow Filipinos through this hard time.  Donation will go directly to the International Red cross in the Philippines.

We are inviting each of you to donate 1 or 2 items to help this cause. Any items as long as it is yours would be acceptable.

Terms:

1. Please fill in the following form if you are interested to participate:

Name:

Brand Name:

SLURL:

Flickr url:

I hereby state that I agree to donate (1 or 2) items to Typhoon Haiyan Fundraiser and the proceed will be donated to TyphoonHaiyan Resident in the period of 15 - 30 November 2013. (Yes/No)

Please return this application in a note card to Jammeh Resident before November 13th - mid SLT.

2. You will receive a donation kit that will include:

- Vendor with script (all sales goes to TyphoonHaiyan Resident)

- Donation Box that you can place on your store (all proceed goes to TyphoonHaiyan Resident)

- Picture templates where you can add the images of items that will go on sale. We will post this picture to our flickr groups, website, facebook page and inworld groups.

3, You will be invited to Typhoon Haiyan Fundraiser group.

4. Donation period: 15 November (mid) - 30 November 2013 (11.59pm SLT)

Timeline:

1. Application Deadline: 13 November - mid SLT

2. Logo and items picture received: 14 November - mid SLT

3. Last day of the donation program: 30 November

Please note that all proceeds that go to TyphoonHaiyan Resident will be posted to our website and it will be transparent.

If you are not able to donate 1 or 2 items, you can still get a donation box that can be placed at your store and is only 2 prims.

Remember that only 1L will help the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.

Feel free to contact me, Jammeh Resident , if you have any question.

Website: http://typhoonhaiyansl.tumblr.com/

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/typhoonhaiyansl/
 

Inworld Group: Typhoon Haiyan Fundraiser

  secondlife:///app/group/2257c21e-aebc-1083-aefb-5f3ad740fba7/about

Thank you so much for your support.

Jammeh Resident

Hat Tip: Second Life Enquirer

Coming Events: SL8B and Burn2

All of a sudden, I feel like I am caught in a time warp.

I am a greeter for the SL8B. That begins as you know on June 25. Building is underway, performers preparing, stage managers ready, greeters meeting , and the electricity is in every step. I spent some time in a machinima changing avatars and spinning on an avatar wheel. It was great fun and you will be able to view it soon.

In the midst of this, I had a notice to come to a meeting for Burn2, 2011! Wow.. I thought that was a long way off. Well, it is not until October, however work is beginning. Emcee Widget filled everyone in on the plans for this year's Burn2 Rites of Passage. It will be held October 1 through 9. There will be 8 sims to begin. However there is a plan this year to ask for “donation” of sims for 90 days. They will be moved to the 8 sims and then returned to the donors.

There are hopes that donations will also help provide more sims even up to 18. They will also taking donations for sims that will be purchased for 2000L. If you donate to he purchase of a sim it will be done in increments so that if the 2000L is not reached your donation amount will be returned to you . That means there can be more creative plots available to those who wish to participate. The information tent is open on Deep Hole so you can visit: Burning Man- Deep Hole (241, 89, 24).

Plots are ready for purchase or, for 100L you can enter a lottery for a plot. Right now is the time to look at the volunteer positions that are open . There are many fun jobs you can do . Here is a list of volunteer positions you can read about and on the page you will find a link to the application: http://www.burn2.org/open-jobs.

There will be more information coming as the build time starting in August approaches and I will keep you apprised. It is early yet but time passes so quickly in Second Life!

Burn On!!

Gemma Cleanslate