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This week we are taking a look at the innovative niche of maternity roleplaying in Second Life. For those who are curious, the Family Roleplaying section of the Destination Guide is a great place to start exploring options for your potential virtual family. Babies of all skin tones and ethnicities can be found at inworld adoption agencies, and vendors can help you find a bundle of joy that looks like you or even a combination of you and your partner. Once your love bug has arrived, feel free to go all out with tiny clothing and accessories! Chat away the new parent jitters with others at various family-themed regions. Carrie Tatsu has been one of the leading contributors to inworld maternity products for several years, with her first product line, Zooby Babies. This week her new product line, AvatarLove, is releasing the Love Momma: the first avatar capable of a live birth in Second Life. The body is streamlined to make it easier to use for Residents, with only one mesh layer. One of the key features is a HUD for both parents that aids in the baby’s growth and provides a mood meter for her partner. The partner and/or friends can do sweet things to boost the pregnant avatar’s mood or help her feel more comfortable. The layers of interactivity that have been woven into the creation of the Love Momma culminate in a meaningful shared experience. “I don’t want to say real and not real, I’ll say physical and virtual, because everything is real,” says Carrie. The roleplaying of relationships that Residents find in Second Life can mean many different things to people. Carrie points out that people often “reveal more about themselves in a virtual space than they necessarily reveal about themselves in real life,” and says that she creates these products to provide a segway into a unique type of emotional intimacy. “Communicating with each other is the ultimate connection,” she says. Just as we often say it takes a village to raise a child, it took over a year for Carrie and her extraordinary team to bring this latest model to life. Piscine Mackenzie is one of the Lead Developers, and Brias Stardust is the Senior 3D Artist. Other 3D and texture artists that contributed are chobii Resident, ming lu, NODNOL Jameson, Astralia Resident, blaiseowl Resident, Aurore Clarity, benjaminlucas Resident, Katarzyncia Resident, Hoshi Kimono. She would also like to thank YouTuber/Blogger Mousy "The Ultimate Clout Chaser” and Customer Service and Product Testers Anne Whimsy, cindy kiyori, RoseSilverShadow Resident, and lilymai1 Resident. The real life couple you see in today's video illustrating the live birth is Ayambi, a contributing 3D artist and owner of Lovies Maternity Clinic, and Lord Ra. Carrie invites other creators to play around with the mesh kit on Blender, and join the AvatarLove Group (secondlife:///app/group/fce15a14-4747-977d-e06d-65fc502547b7/about). Video Production Credits: Draxtor Despres

Crescent Falls is holding it's first ever Halloween Extravaganza! Join us Saturday October 31st in Crescent Falls, we will have DJ Cookie playing the most Spooktacular tunes perfect for dancing the night away. We also will be holding a Costume Contest where the winner will WIN 2000 LINDEN! The winner of the Halloween Decoration Contest held for our residents will be announced as well, the winner winning A FREE WEEK OF RENT! Crescent Falls is a family friendly role play community. We have rentals available and we are running a rental special just for Halloween! If you Buy 3 weeks get 1 week free! This is for new and current renters and will be valid until October 31st. Take the taxi and come join our growing community! Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crescent Ridge/196/114/21 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrescentFallsSL

Saturday: 5pm SLT Town Alvinawind Job Fair! (PAID POSITIONS) - Town Alvinawind is hosting a Job fair event @ 5PM SLT TOMORROW JAN, 10TH. All are invited. All departments of services in the community are NOW HIRING and seeking for fully committed Rolepalyers\Employees. Departments: - Police Department: Assistant Chief, Captain, Lieutenant, Swat Director/trainer, general police officers, Dispatch operator. - Fire Department: Lieutenant's, Firefighter's and Emergency Medical Staff Note: If you have prior experience I would consider that a sign on bonus - Hospital \ EMS - DOT - Public works - Town Hall The purpose of the event is to provide a means to help our community. LANDMARK: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Direwind/22/170/22