Second Life, 7 Sep 2007. When planning your next city trip, you might include Bruges, Belgium, on your list this year. But before visiting Bruges, don’t forget to visit Virtual Bruges in Second Life. Virtual Bruges is a reconstruction of the historic city of Bruges. Walk around in a 3D virtual representation of a central part of Bruges and explore the old houses and monuments before planning your real life city trip.

During your visit of Bruges in Second Life, ask other Second Life residents information about what historical places to visit, which shops and restaurants to try out. You might not yet taste the food in virtual Bruges, but you can select those restaurants that are in a nice environment.

Residents of Second Life can participate in events the will be held in Virtual Bruges, rent a house or the more business-minded residents can open a shop in one of the houses. To rent a house or shop, contact AnnSophie Maertens in-world. The island (Belgique - SLURL) will be open for the general public on 15/Sep/2007.

On this opening weekend you can participate in the following events:

- 15 September 2007 :
9 am slt fashion show styled by the designers in the sim with live dj
12 pm slt live performance of the Belgian band Grensgeval

- 16 September 2007 :
9 am slt live performance of Dann Numbers
12 pm slt live performance of Phoenix Fisseux
1 pm slt fireworks

During the whole weekend there will be a egg hunt: you can win 20 x 125 linden dollars to spend in the shops in Bruges.

For being updated about the sim, the shops, the events and special offers feel free to join the secondlife group Bruges lovers.

Virtual Bruges in Second Life is created by Louis Platini, a long time resident, who recently brought vacature.com, a recruitment service company, to Second Life. Several other people have helped with this project by creating one or more houses: Peter13 Petermans, Magdalena Vella, Khady Amat and Arnout Sequent.

For more information contact Louis Platini in-world or visit the website http://www.louisplatini.com

SECOND LIFE, JT WORLD, 6 SEPT 2007 - In what was definitely one of Second Life's premiere parites early this evening, the SL Capital Exchange opened its new CapEx Lounge - a high-end club dedicated to jazz fans - to customers of JT Financial Bank, the SL Capital Exchange, SLReports.net, members of the Wise Metaverse Business Network, and all Second Life citizens looking for good music, good company, and great dancing.

The opening party began at approximately 7:00 P.M. SLT/PDT, with virtual bartenders and hosts, and officers and employees of JT Financial Bank and the SL Capital Exchange greeting visitors as they arrived.

The event was coordinated by  Senior JT Financial Officer Arj Friedkin, and Reina Ferraris, JT Financial President. Among the notables attending this evening were Maelstrom Baphomet (CEO Dragon Global Diversified and independent market analyst) and Second Life partner Koudoawaia Menatep. In real life, Maelstrom and Koudoawaia - residents of the US state of Kentucky - will be married on September 29, 2007.

Also in attendance were numerous Second Life investors and CEOs, including Marc Attenborough (SLEC representative and former CEO of Innovative Inc), Sando Haller (CapEx investor and owner of Salutaris Estates) Bogart Beck (CEO of SL Capital Exchange), Kadena Whitfield (JT Financial Bank Assistant Manager), Alecx Writer (WNB Italian lands CEO), Nobody Fugazi (Your2ndPlace.com) and others.

[[Reposted from the SL Capital Exchange website]] 

From Reina Ferraris
President / JT Financial Bank
VP, Ops. / SL Capital Exchange
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We are pleased to announce The Grand Opening of The Capex Lounge. Please join us this evening, September 6th, at 7pm SLT for our Gala Ball.

Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/JT%20World/101/141/63

Enjoy the deep soul sounds of Guest DJ SexyJade Echegary. Participate in our *Best in Formal* event for a chance at L$500!

The CapEx Lounge - a sophisticated Jazz Lounge located on the Third Floor of The SLCapex Building in JT World - is open to all customers of JT Financials, the SL Capital Exchange, and other SL Residents free of charge.

For more information, IM Reina Ferraris or Arj Friedkin inside Second Life.

Even though there are quite a few people who already know who I am in RL, I'm sure that there's many more who have no idea. Along with the other people that make up the SL Reports Board of Directors, in an attempt to be much more transparent, I plan on letting you know more than you ever wanted to about the guy behind Strange Ranger, Tom Simpson.

I was born in 1969, in a little town called Chicago. I lived in the Northern suburbs of Chicago until I was 14, when my family and I moved out to Loveland, Colorado. I spent most of my teenage years getting in trouble with my parents. Seven months after graduating from LHS in 1987, I made the worst mistake of my life. I ended up divorcing that mistake, five years later.

In 1994, I met the love of my life, and we've been together, ever since. We moved up to Jamestown, ND in 1996 (don't ask why... we still don't know the answer to that).