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Anshe Chung Banned

BREAKING NEWS:
We have just recieved word that Anshe Chung, the Ginko-hating land barron, was banned earlier today by Linden Labs due to her withdrawing $50,000 USD and then stating she was planning on starting Anshe$, a currency to compete against the falling Linden Dollar. Since this happened early this morning, Linden has re-enabled her account. More details to follow once we collect them.

This has been a Times News Break

Ginko Financial ATM Installed!

ANNOUNCEMENT

A Ginko Financial ATM has been installed at our office. To visit it, click the teleport link on the left hand side of the page.

To sign up for a Ginko account, visit the ATM and pay it any amount of Lindens. To furthur manage your account, visit http://www.ginkofinancial.com.

Quick list of commands (Just say these in front of the ATM)
Check Balance - /balance OR /100 /balance
Transfer Funds - /transfer NAME AMOUNT (I.E. /transfer Simon Lameth 100) OR /100/ transfer NAME AMOUNT
Withdraw Funds - /withdraw AMOUNT OR /100 /withdraw AMOUNT

For a complete list, touch the ATM.

Starboards Yacht Club Expands

Shannan Baucom
Second Life Times Staff

The Starboards Yacht Club has expanded. Nber Medici, officer of the yacht club, explained why they expanded. "We expanded to expand your sailing space and experience." The expansion is a 4 Sim expansion, and is a new product from Linden Labs. The club now has four sailing courses and the maps can be found at the docks. MarkTwain is the driving force behind this new sailign expansion, and will surely help you if you need anything.
There are many things to do at the club besides sailing, such as, have a drink at the bar, hang out with friends, or even take s stroll around The Walk of Fame. Located right next door is the Graumans Chinese Theater, where you can find movie information and trivia located on the second floor. This is great place to relax and meet some new friends. Their is no membership fee, and you can even dock your boat there for free.

They have sailboat racing every Sunday from 1-4 so come out and join a race, or come watch the fun. You can?t go wrong going to this beautiful spot in our Second Life World. IM MarkTwain White, Commander, or Nber Medici, Co-Commander, for a TP.
So go out and join the fun at the Starboards Yacht Club. Hope to see you there.

Real Art in Second Life

The Phoenicia Gallerey located in Areumdeuli (Just north of the Metaverse Media Building)

By: Simon Lameth

Editor-In-Chief

On Saturday I had the chance to visit the Phoenicia Gallerey and Studio, Owned and operated by Victor Newchurch, a Real-Life Photographer. His latest work, named Heavenly Bodies, is not his first in a virtual world. His first back in the 1990's was in a world like "Myst" (Myst was a world that was supposed to be "3D"). "Heavenly Bodies" features figure and erotic photography that Newchurch (A.K.A. DJ Hacker) and his RL friend Michael Delugg took.

The exhibit is located inside a large museum style building, with multiple exhibition halls. Newchurch says that the Phoenicia Gallerey will be used for works like the current exhibition, and he is working on another gallerey that will exhibit different styles. Victor says that he is always looking for some, uh, art to put in the new gallerey, and said he doesn't mind recieving IM's. Heavenly Bodies will run for the next few months, or untill another show comes along. Either way, Newchurch said he would put some of it into a permenent collection when it is finished. All of the photography in the Gallerey is for sale for L$600.

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Content providers determined to provide, with or without Linden's help

By: Jon Venkman
Times Assistant Editor

The gap between content providers and Linden Lab seems to be larger than ever as result of the elimination of the popular 'Developers Incentive', a program created to assist providers in their quest for free and accessible content. A group of independent content providers recently had a meeting with Robin Linden, one of the initial members of Linden Lab. This meeting was initiated and organized by content provider Bladyblue Bommerang, who herself is owner of a mall with casino, only to be able to afford the costs of organizing an event. According to Robin Linden, the company does not have a responsibility towards content providers, and thinks that money should be made by charging visitors instead of depending on Second Life's owners. The providers however, felt differently: "If some are free and we charge, no one will come. Clubs and most events are frequented by new players, who usually have basic accounts," Bladyblue told the Second Life Times. The meeting, which lasted no less than ninety minutes, had no apparent results. Linden claims to be working on a replacement of the Developers Incentive, but refuses to release any information on what this new program would consist of. But Bladyblue is set to continue her services, and is currently in the process of setting up a new project, the 'SL Content Providers Association'. A website will be created as well, to give new and existing providers a chance to promote their events. The independent content providers feel left in the cold, while Linden Lab does seem to provide associations as the FIC and the FFRC with the required financial help to survive, or at least take them seriously.Bladyblue expects for Linden Lab to change their minds: "The Lindens will see that their plans - like so many of their plans in the past - turn into a mistake of grand proportions."But if that is not the case, the new association has a backup plan. Bladyblue has several 'Real Life' sponsors in mind, such as Pepsi and Philip Morris: "We need to make te best deals we can get. A pool of money administrated by the SL Content Provider Association will be used to: Give funds to those venues that display advertising from our sponsors, offer start up funds for those that want to become a content provider - thus encouraging new innovative events in Second Life, and support our website and fund free festivals put together by a collaboration of content providers."
Bladyblue invites new content providers to send her an Instant Message in-world, and join the SL Content Provider Association group to get their venues listed on the website.

Grid Crashes

From Mick Linden...

Second Life became inaccessible at approximately 7:30am Sunday 17th February. Our grid technicians are aware of the issue and have restored service at at 7:50am. There may be some delays before all regions are available, we expect full functionality to be restored shortly.
Cause of the outage is still under investigation. We apologise for any inconvenience,

Urizenus Sklar Announces Retirement

Second Life Herald (http://www.secondlifeherald.com) owner and Editor-In-Chief Urizenus Sklar announced his retirement Wednesday. In a statement in the article, Uri says that the blog would go to longtime friend and Herald Editorial Director Walker Spaight. Additionally, Urizenus will also leave Second Life. Prokofy Neva had this to say in the articles comments:

This is awful. And I don't get it. I hope Uri will take some acid or something and come back in a few weeks refreshed and rethink this.
Why is it awful? Because Uri gets it about these games in ways that others don't. Precisely because he isn't a journalist in RL, he can be a virtual editor and journalist with a great deal more credibility.
God, I never thought we would lose our freedom of the press because Uri would leave; I thought it would be something like Herald reporters getting kicked from SL, or there'd be a ban on linking to third-party sites or something...

The Times is sorry to see Uri go.

Prim Art

Explore the grid at any given moment, and I gurantee that you will not find an art museum better than the one I found tonight. Located at Ginko City (148, 177), the Penny Arcadia Museum of Art has some of the most creative use of prims in SL. It's so good, I don't want to post pictures of it, You really need to visit it to experence it.

By the way, They're #1.