FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday May 3, 2011 -The SL grid is turning purple!-

From May 7 to May 13 the Second Life grid will be turning purple!

Thousands of Second Life residents will be painting their stores and houses purple, wearing purple clothes, purple hair, even purple skin, in order to show their support for the Relay For Life of Second Life and to spread a purple Message of Hope.

Relay For Life® is the signature fundraiser of the American Cancer Society. Relay For Life of Second Life (RFL of SL) is an annual activity that takes place in Second Life® in July each year. Volunteers form or join teams to have fun while fundraising and raising awareness from mid-March through mid-July. In July teams build campsites and walk a track, just like in a real world Relay.

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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! Spring has definitely Sprung and New and Seasoned Mamas are celebrating Mother’s Day across the grid and around the world. Lanai Jarrico Reporting…

 To many, Mother’s Day signifies the day that we show our appreciation for the women that gave us life and nurtured us from children into our adulthood.  According to Wikipedia, my favorite source for all forms of official and unofficial, somewhat faulty and questionable knowledge, Mother’s Day was established by Anna Marie Jarvis following the death of her mother Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis on May 9, 1905. 

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What is Cinco de Mayo and why do we celebrate it?- Lanai Jarrico Reporting…

      Well…If you think it is a celebration of intoxicating proportions, you are partially right, but if you wanted to get all Wikipedia nerdy about it, Cinco de Mayo is not a National or Mexican holiday nor is it Mexico’s Independence Day, like peeps might believe it to be.

  The United States has taken over this unofficial holiday to give people more of  a reason to let go of their inhibitions and party on with drunken madness, but it has become commercialized.

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OPERA JOVEN sim is in danger of closing-GUADALAJARA, JALISCO, MEXICO - La Perla Tapatia

According to the descriptions, Jalisco is one of the most beautiful States in Mexico. Guadalajara City is the capital. This SIM is a touristic replica built by OPERA JOVEN (www.operajoven.com) a RL nonprofit cultural & artistic organization. But, it is in danger of closing its doors like many other non profits being hurt by LL's decision to cancel the 50% discount given to non profits on islands tiers.
http://tinyurl.com/sl-discount-cancelled

Moby Randt writes in a notecard, 

"This is a shame because these organizations provide SL many content and handle diverse interesting educative and cultural projects. Without this discount surely many of these organizations will abandon SL soon."

Without this discount, OPERA JOVEN cannot keep paying this sim and unfortunately it will disappear.

 However, Linden Lab offers these organizations to pay in advance up to 2 years before 2011 to still benefit of this discount. http://tinyurl.com/sl-offer-pay-in-advance

At this time, six months costs $885 dollars, equivalent aprox. to L$250,000.

From 2011 this price will be doubled.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

teleport now! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Opera%20Joven/134/84/21

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BSR Radio News: BSR Radio Show is broadcasting Live from SLE's Chill Lounge- May 3 @7pm SLT.

LIVE BROADCAST FROM THE SL ENQUIRER MEDIA CENTER'S ROOFTOP CHILL LOUNGE

TUESDAY May 3 @ 7PM slt  NuSoul NeoSoul Show with  DJ DIBOU @ Chill Lounge. 


Dress Code: Sexy, Classy, Cool.

Hostess: Charity Richez 


Enter the Drawing for a Spotlight Feature! 1 Winner will be announced at the end of the party.




Teleport Now!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/San%20Jose%20East1/208/79/42




Sponsor: SL Enquirer & BSR Radio





TUNE IN: http://blacksoulrhythms.neostreams.info:8000

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"SL's Home of Bohemia, "The Virtual Hotel Chelsea Manhattan" celebrates its 2nd Anniversary tonight, with an all evening line up of Poetry and Original Music"

Tuesday May 3rd @ 4pm slt

Come celebrate Virtual Hotel Chelsea's 2nd Anniversary with a fantastic Line Up of Sl featured Musicians

Virtual Hotel Chelsea
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lanestris/55/173/99

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Remember the Alamo!- Stacey Cardalines Reporting...

Stacey visits the Alamo, which is at the online campus of the University of Texas at Arlington.

A friend of mine (Lora Chadbourne) is a well-knows builder of historic things on SL. Her earlier works include Plimoth Plantation and the Mayflower. She even did the Apollo 11 sim I visited back in the day. When she told me she had a new sim opening May 3rd, I had to check it out.

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Join us for the live simulcast talk of Jamie Shea Director of Policy Planning - NATO His topic is: View from Europe- Firery Broome

Wednesday May 4, 2011 @ 4:30 PT

University of Delaware

http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/56/151/26

?
IM Firery Broome for help getting to the event.
This is a live simulcast

****   Jamie Shea - Director of Policy Planning - NATO   ****

Dr. Jamie Shea is Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels. Previously, he was Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General from 2005 to 2010. He is responsible for NATO’s work in areas such as non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, cyber defense, counter terrorism and energy security.  He also oversees strategic analysis and forecasting.

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University of Delaware - Electrical & Computer Engineering - Distinguished Lecture Series -Firery Broome

Professor Richard Baraniuk - Rice University

Wednesday May 4, 2011

12:00 pm SLT

University of Delaware

http://slurl.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Delaware/55/150/26

“Compressive Sensing”

Sensing and imaging systems are under increasing pressure to accommodate ever larger and higher-dimensional data sets; ever faster capture, sampling, and processing rates; ever lower power consumption; communication over ever more difficult channels; and radically new sensing modalities.

The foundation of today's digital data acquisition systems is the Shannon/Nyquist sampling theorem, which asserts that to avoid losing information when digitizing a signal or image, one must sample at least two times faster than the signal's bandwidth, at the so-called Nyquist rate.  Unfortunately, the physical limitations of current sensing systems combined with inherently high Nyquist rates impose a performance brick wall to a large class of important and emerging applications. 

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SL ARTS & LITERATURE: The Fruit Islands Embraces Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland May 7th & 8th

All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little skill,
By little arms are plied,
While little hands make vain pretense
Our wanderings to guide. . .

Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out--
And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.

Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Plucked in a far-off land.

Lizzo Dreamscape is one of the best Events Coordinators in the Virtual World.  This is not a subjective opinion, this is fact.  Lizzo manages events for the Fruit Islands – an estate with 115 sims and the biggest private sea in SL.  There are more than 40 public sims to enjoy in the estate: diving, golf, horseback riding or surfing. It is a handful for the most talented events manager with daily events, like concerts, sailing lessons, ballet, art expos and film festivals. Only someone with Ms. Dreamscapes skill and talent could manage a schedule this bold and weave together a Wonderland themed weekend chocked full of diverse activities: Literature, Music, Dance, Art.

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SL ARTS & LITERATURE: Prim Perfect Magazine Celebrates 4th Anniversary and New Headquarters

Photo by P.J. Trenton for Prim Perfect Publications

The SL Enquirer has a new neighbor in Costa Rica.  Prim Perfect Magazine has taken up residence on San Jose East on the quarter sim immediately to the north of SLE.  The magazine and its attendant publications is not a noob to the Second Life grid.  Sunday, May 1 they celebrated their 4th Anniversary with a four hour long party that included performances by DRUM, Ceci Dover, Joaquin Gustav, and Christopher135 Quan.  The enthusiastic gathering met the ultimate standard of all amazingly successful events in SL – it crashed the region.

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*UNITED* UPDATE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

“UNITED” is underway with teams building war strategies and the theater seating getting fluffed.  This ground breaking fundraiser got a huge fashion industry nod when the real life in SL “ Fashion Research Institute in New York” founded by Shenlei Flasheart agreed to host the event on Sims that houses her Equestrian Community. Not only will this event have a prestigious location…where else could it be, but it will have some impressive surroundings with this flourishing community. Here is the background on the Locatin Host of “UNITED, The Ultimate Style Card Fashion Show and Competition for Relay for Life. And details about the amazing location for this event.

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SL ARTS & LITERATURE UPDATE: Avatar Repertory Virtual Play Buffet Tonight!

Tonight at 5pm SLT will be the latest servings from the Avatar Repertory Theater's Virtual Short Play Buffet.  If you are lover of theater, this is a "Do Not Miss" Event.  Avatar Repertory Theater received 113 short plays to their call for submissions for ten minute plays. At A.R.T.’s Plays Around, Fridays at 5 pm PDT, 30 of the plays are being read from March 25-May 13. The audience votes their favorites each week. The votes of the A.R.T. troupe will be included in the final tally for the 5-6 plays to be fully produced during July.  You can view a list of the plays and see some  of the tally of votes at http://www.avatarrepertorytheater.org/node/70

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The Official Launch of "The Village" and "Club Graffiti" - Friday April 29, 2011 1PM SLT.- Contact Kalli Birman

The Village, Second Life's newest hot spot, will be having The Official Launch on Friday April 29th at 1PM SLT. Owned by Mankind Tracer and KalliBirman, The Village is modeled after Greenwich Village, NYC of the 1970's and will be home to some of the best couture boutiques Second Life has to offer including House of RFyre, Gizza, Paris Metro, Tres Beau, Bliss Couture, Vogue, Blacklace.

The Village is also home to the new underground rock venue, "Club Graffiti". It is inspired by one of the most famous clubs in Greenwich Village, CBGB's and the area where the whole punk movement of the 1970's began. Artists such as David Bowie, The Ramones,Blondie, The Talking Heads and many others made their way through CBGB's to begin a new revolution in music.

Club Graffiti will host weekly shows by top SL musicians. Mankind Tracer, one of Second Life's most well known live performers and co-owner of The Village, will also perform every Sunday night at 9PM SLT.

The launch will be opened by the popular band The Follow at 1pm slt and will continue at 2pm slt with a performance by Mankind Tracer.  It is asked that all attendees remove any attachments and scripted objects prior to arrival to help reduce lag.

The sim will open at 12:30PM SLT to allow time for guests to arrive.

12:30PM SLT - guest arrival
1:00PM SLT - The Follow performs -http://www.thefollow.com
2:00PM SLT - Mankind Tracer performs -http://www.sethregan.com

TELEPORT NOW! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Good%20Day%20Sunshine/143/74/21

Press Contact: Kalli Birman in SL or via email atkalli@sethregan.com

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(RP) NEXUS NEWS: April 28th @ 4pm SLT Everyone interested in the creation, development, and management of role-playing games in Second Life and OpenSim grids is hereby invited to a presentation and discussion at the Role Play Nexus. - Cursa Charisma

LOCATION:http://slurl.com/secondlife/Mul/64/224/1001/

EVENT:
 "The Decline & Fall of the Linden Empire"
Speaker: Edward Gibbon
Date & Time: Thursday, April 28, 2011  4pm (1600) SLT
Place: Role Play Nexus, Mul

Edward Gibbon will present his thesis of the downfall of Linden Lab and Second Life, and what will come after, with reference to the data presented at: http://www.gridsurvey.com/index.php

Transcripts of past events are available at the Nexus and at http://slnexusnotes.blogspot.com/

The Role-Play Nexus exists to facilitate the exchange of experiences, information, questions, fun stories, collaboration, and good will by providing a meeting point and information hub, and holding events with themes related to RP in SL and Opensim grids.

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MachinUWA III: Journeys

The 3rd UWA Machinima Challenge is rapidly drawing to a close, in fact the closing date 1st May 2011.

The University of Western Australia (UWA) themed their latest machinima challenge simply 'Journeys'. With an amazing prize pool of $L530,000 broken down as follows:

1st Prize $L100,000
2nd Prize $L70,000
3rd Prize $L50,000
+ L$310,000 in other prizes

Entrants were told that defining what a ‘journey’ was, was entirely up to them; A journey through Second Life; A journey of self discovery; A journey within; A journey from SL too RL, or vice-versa; A journey through space, through time, a journey of hope, a journey of despair; Their own journey or a journey by someone else seen through their eyes... or... through Second Life in 80 Days, whatever they could imagine.

Jayjay told me that they have had a fantastic response to their ‘Journeys’ challenge with entries being received from all around the world.

The talent of our fellow SL residents is astounding, take the link below to see for yourself.
http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2011/02/machinimuwa-iii-journeys-it-begins.html

The judges for the challenge are:

1. Professor Ted Snell (RL) - Director, Cultural Precinct, The University of Western Australia
2. White Lebed (SL) - Former Lead of Burning Life Art Department, Director of Special Projects @ UWA
3. Jayjay Zifanwe (SL) - Owner of The University of Western Australia (SL), Creator & co-host of the UWA 3D Art& Design Challenge
4. Yesikita Coppola (SL) - Official Machinimatographer for UWA 2011
5. Laurina Hawks (SL) - Reigning UWA MachinimUWA Champion
6. Raphaella Nightfire (SL) - Snr Writer Best of SL Magazine, Owner Sanctorum Gallery (SL)
7. FreeWee Ling (SL) - Curator, UWA 3D Open Art Challenge
8. LaPiscean Liberty (SL) - CEO AviewTV and UWA Media Advisor
9. Nazz Lane (SL) - Journalist and Author
10. Rowan Derryth (SL) - Art & Design Historian; Writer for Prim Perfect Publications
11. Apollo Manga (SL) - examiner.com Writer & Novelist
12. Dr. Phylis Johnson (RL) - Media Professor, Southern Illinois Uinversity, Author - Machinima: Aesthetics and Practice (a.k.a, Sonicity Fitzroy, SL Virtual Journalist)
13. Lowell Cremorne (SL), Owner & Editor-In-Chief, The Metaverse Journal
14. Mal Burns (SL), Metaverse News Aggregator and Broadcaster
15. Paisley Beebe (SL), CEO of Perfect World Productions TV
16. Flimsey Freenote - CEO of Metamix TV (Mixed Reality Television)

The Winners will be announced by the 30th of May 2011 at a special gala function, so in the meantime we wait in anticipation to see who the winners will be.

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"SoHo Glam"

Presents

Emery - "SoHo Glam"

When: Saturday, April 30th @ 2pm SLT

Where: Costa Rica Sims Fashion Loft

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Old%20Costa%20Rica/110/67/1501



This Saturday, April 30th @ 2pm SLT, Costa Rica Sims Productions (CRSP) presents the designs of the amazingly talented Sunami Beck.
Emery Mainstore @ Costa Rica Sims: SLurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Heart%20Of%20Glass/233/108/24



Join us at the beautifully appointed, upscale Costa Rica Sims Fashion Loft. Invite a friend, order a Lychee martini, and rub elbows with the beautiful people as the CRSP Models showcase the glam rock Emery collection.

Featuring the following CRSP Models: Willy Oakleaf, Jock Whitfield, Brendan Macarthur, Pheonix Reyer, Sydney Bonde, Veronica Krasner, Roe Woodford, and Devine Hunt.

For more information please contact:
Nisa Constantine, Director - Costa Rica Sims Productions
nisa@costaricasims.com

Costa Rica Estate Website: : http://www.costaricasims.com

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FYI Talk ~~ Serena Numanox & To Write Love on Her Arms

If you've read any of my articles and commentaries here on SLE, then you know I'm a fan of taking part in things in Second Life that move beyond the metaverse and that connect with tangible things in the "actual" world. In the actual world, I am a pen pal to a few young girls who are brilliant, creative, and have great futures ahead of them. It's something I do because I think it's important to connect with our young women (and men) and help them to see that there are positives in life and that even through trials, we can overcome them. In my actual life, I spend a great deal of time connecting with those who need an ear, a word, something that can help them get over the trials that afflict them.

Being this way, it's no wonder that I would finally learn about the incredible organization To Write Love on Her Arms [TWLOHA] and to learn that there is an SL group that helps to foster the mission of TWLOHA.

So, me being me, I went in search of the founder of the SL organization, Serena Numanox, and wrangle some time away from her to talk about TWLOHA and what others can do to help the mission.

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The Time Machine Show hosted by DJ SonicBlu @ SLE's CHILL LOUNGE -April 27 @ 6pm slt

Join us for an evening of easy listening tunes through the years with   DJ SonicBlu. He will be taking requests & dedications.  Everyone is welcomed to come hang out on the rooftop of the media center or take a tour of the facility. Feel free to ask any of the SLE family any questions you may have about spotlight features or advertising your business in our newspaper!

*Contest*

Enter the drawing for a Spotlight Feature in the SL Enquirer

Location:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/San%20Jose%20East1/208/79/42

Dress: Come as you are.

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Virtual Scotland

Stacey Goes To Virtual Scotland

Scotland is a place that I'm never likely to visit in the real world, but that doesn't mean that I can't visit them.

I live in New England. I'm also French, pretty much 100%. I was an import. This pretty much eliminates any desire I have to go to Scotland, with one exception (see below)

Nothing against Scotland... the Scots are cool people, responsible for giving us golf and Scotch whiskey. It's just not different enough from New England or France to justify going to it. In New England, you use vacation time to go somewhere warm.

But a virtual visit is just what I need. Thank the Gods that someone made virtual Scotland.

When you go to Scotland, you start off in this useful information hub that sort of fluffs you for the journey.

Scotland has some cool stuff to check out. I made a point of visiting the Boleskine House. This house was owned, at different times, by noted spooky occult figures Aleister Crowley and Jimmy Page. The house is spooky enough IRL that Page brought in someone to exorcise ghosts.

You also have Inverness, which is both a city and a castle that MacBeth lived in before he went big-time. Both are represented ehre. There are actually several castles you can f*ck around in. Well, not literally "f*ck," but you know what I mean.

The highlight of the visit is the Nessie Hunt. The Loch Ness Monster is, to my knowledge, Scotland's most famous resident. You don't go to Scotland and fail to visit Nessie. It's like going to Pizza Hut for pasta otherwise.

I was also looking for William Wallace, but I never really paid enough attention to that movie to know where to look for the man. IMHO, Braveheart would have been a better movie if the Loch Ness Monster was in it.

I'm not going to give anything else away, so you can see for yourself. Go visit those Socts!

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A Winner has been chosen for SLE's 2011 Easter Egg Decorating Contest!

This year contestant from across the grid participated in our second annual Easter Egg decorating contest.

Entrants were given decorating kits that included an egg template and instructions. No Scripts, no advertising and created with a max of 10 prims.  From creative graphics to elegantly sculpted stands and accessories. Each avatar put in their creativity and came up with some great ideas.  Clearly imaginations run free in Second Life and here at the SL Enquirer, they sure did.

After a weekend of judging and tallying up votes, The SL Enquirer unanimously agreed that Fiery Bloom created by Queen Edman is this years winner!

Congratulations to Queen who received 2000 Lindens, a spotlight feature and an official SLE "Recognized for Excellence" Award.

Thank you all for participating in this event!

To find out when we have other contests and events, join our SL Enquirer Media Group in world or subscribe to our website.

~Lanai Jarrico

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SL ARTS & LITERATURE: The Play Buffet Feast Continues . . .

Several weeks ago I wrote about the Avatar Repertory Theater’s Virtual Short Play Buffet.  Avatar Repertory Theater received 113 short plays to their call for submissions for ten minute plays. At A.R.T.’s Plays Around, Fridays at 5 pm PDT, 30 of the plays are being read from March 25-May 13. The audience votes their favorites each week. The votes of the A.R.T. troupe will be included in the final tally for the 5-6 plays to be fully produced during July.  You can view a list of the plays and see some  of the tally of votes at http://www.avatarrepertorytheater.org/node/70

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Have you ever wondered what the Easter Bunny does the rest of the year? Happy Easter from SLE

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The 2nd Annual SLE Easter Egg Contest is Full to Capacity! Thank you all for participating this year, the creativity is awesome and will make it very difficult for us to pick a winner! - Lanai Jarrico

From April 1 Until April 20^th, avatars from around the grid had the opportunity to decorate an Easter Egg and submit it into this year’s contest.  The prize is a spotlight feature in The SL Enquirer valued at 3000L, 2,000 in cold hard Lindens and an authentic SLE Award for Recognition of Excellence 2011 issued by yours truly.

Participants were asked to design an egg with the template provided, using a maximum of 10 prims. What they submitted was an assortment of creations from grand accessories to colorful and creative graphics.

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CLUB FLOW & L&H COUTURE PRESENTS... LADIES NIGHT WITH DJ DETROIT- 4/20 5PM SLT

WEDNESDAY APRIL 20- 5PM SLT

CLub FLow and L&H Couture Present  DJ Detroit
One of the best SL DJs  in Second Life & Official DJ of the SL Enquirer

Come join us this evening, Its Ladies Night!  L&H Couture will treat you good ladies, so come and listen

*Spotlight Feature Giveaway, Courtesy of The SL Enquirer & CLUB FLOW

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ferraris%20Estates%2029/190/87/26

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