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Thursday May 15, 2096

This month: Entertainment Colony is our COTM. View the action and activities listed in the Cybertown Virtual News! The news is served up here for YOU, our readers!!

Two today: May 15 Mark38 (7th) and twohot (8th) WTG!! Congratulations! Scheduled for midnight(12 AM): is "On May 16 say Happy Birthday to icyty!" No other Happy birthdays or VirtDays are posted until tomorrow. If we missed yours we are truly sorry. twohot has again generously responded and posted several more birthdays and anniversaries. We wickedly wonder if any other colonies might add to that total! We most sincerely appreciate the posted birthdays and anniversaries !! We DO check daily!

Click for the CVN birthday listings Please post any May, June, or July birthdays .... and VirtDays too, as we still only have Megan's old spreadsheet and we do try to add other dates to it!! And thanks will go to any other peeps who do send them to us too!!

Please DO post your special day or even your small or large activity to the Board! We wish a special "Happy Birthday or Happy VirtDay" to any Cytonian celebrating today who forgot to tell us!

Please note that at all events and activities are posted in CyT (Cybertown Time).

Cybertown wishes to thank citizens for independently creating colony-related websites. As the sites are outside of Cybertown, Cybertown is not responsible for the content on those websites.

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Heard and Seen Around Town

These are being dusted off and updated. Consider this a second call to citizens for urls, information etc., It took us a while to understand that we are consistently receiving help. lol! Thanks to all who have made suggestions and sent us stories we could have placed on secondary pages. Old news will be kept there and new added. lol Now we have added two links and updated two pages in the past six months! A third update is coming. Please note that a harmless javascript is used to pull up these pages.

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Headline News

Game Warming Up In Inner Realms

From the Inner Realms Colony Message board:
From: mickeyw
Subject: Enough!!!
Feeling every animal and tree that has been injured i walk out of the inn. Summoning the power of the Realm itself i transform in to crinos form. Letting the power flow into and back out of me i heal those that are harmed. "You will not harm the innocent, that i will not allow!" Moving as only a Gurahl can, striking fear in to any that would oppose me i start the hunt. "Let he that knows fear feel the pain they have caused. So speaks the power of Mother Oak! B1, no longer are you the hunter. Here in my realm you are now the hunted."

Citizens' May Anniversaries
Megan Cho
We present our Third SET of May Anniversaries AND Congrats to you all!

Seagirlie May 15, 1999
twohot May 15, 2000
katie24 May 15, 2001
johnny4181 May 16, 1999
BIGE2000 May 16, 2001
Havoc_Chaos May 16, 2001
Brookie May 17, 1999
Kathie May 17, 1999
ethericdouble May 17, 2000
RC274 May 17, 2000
Darkmjh1 May 17, 2001
Asobo May 17, 2002
DonRon May 18, 2000
Mr_Poirot May 20, 1999
magpiex May 20, 2000
alleys29 May 20, 2001
kitharodos May 20, 2001
Inhabitans May 21, 1999
Longhunter May 21, 2000
Mack_Bolan92F May 21, 2000
Thor10386 May 21, 2000

Cybertown: TwoDay!!

Thought for the week: "You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. "
-found on the Adventure Colony board, posted by Pippi88.
E! Colony is COTM Colony for May!
PartyLine has all the events set up so far COTM Month.

Thursday May 15, 2096 (that's 2008 for Earthsiders):

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM VIrtual Worlds Draw and Guess
Click the image or this link for the rules: http://www.vwcolony.com/dg/dg_rules.htm We've link it to basic rules so people can get a chance to draw even when they are not in the event. IsTheLionK tells us "The good thing about the rules page is that it has two different links to the board depending on the computer user."

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM 9Ds Slots


9th dimension Colony
9:00PM - 11:00PM
Everyone Wins!

Friday May 16, 2096 (that's 2008 for Earthsiders):

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Adventures Write your Check
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Games Bubblegum Bingo

One Person Does Make a Difference
jdb_educator, CVN
The following link on MSNBC news describes an incredible story, worth your taking a moment to click. The world knows that America has a long history of celebrating individualism. Individuals make up teams, right. Small schools often have difficulty finding enough students to field a team. Qualifying for State level competition usually means members of the team must meet certain standards to be allowed to compete. Here we have a most unusual state contending track team.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/24558252/

GAS PRICES GO CRAZY!!!!!
presented by editme on the Sci-Fi Board
Sometimes the news doesn't roll in the way we would like. Then, we go and try to chase down something (ok, anything!) of interest . We all know about gas prices going through the roof, but what if oil wasn't what we used to power vehicles. Here is some thought provoking information Sci-Fi Colony leader editme dug up somewhere:

If you were to fill up the tank of your car with Hewlett-Packard or Lexmark ink, it would cost $100,000.

If you filled an Olympic-size swimming pool with ink from HP or Lexmark inkjet cartridges, it would cost $5.9 billion with a B.

Here is the math:

One fluid ounce equals: 29.5735 milliliters, one black cartridge contains around 15 milliliters and it costs $30 - $35, so around $60 - $70 per ounce. Multiply by 128 ounces per gallon and you have $8000 a gallon.

IR Gamer's News!
by jdb_educator
Takeovers, text battles, wild characters and situations. All this and an enemy you can really hate. This open ended role play game is active in Inner Realms and now you can see what the buzz is all about!

To return from the folloeing page, just click back.... http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/000/fistcity/index.html

Places Job Fair Coming This Weekend !!!
by Riva28

Join us for Places Twist this month on Saturday, May 24 7-9pm CyTime at the Clubs Plaza to play Twisted Pyramid & get a shot at over 250K!!!!
Game Rules/Description: http://ctcolonies.com/Dazzle/Events/twistedpyra.htm

Become a CT Ambassador!
by LadySilverSplash
( There is NOW no minimum or maximum experience point limit for applicants.)

~ Now Accepting 2008 Ambassador Applications ~ Be sure to check out the new UPDATED 2008 Requisites before applying! Ambassador Applications END at midnight CyTime on Tuesday May 27! Join us at the Ambassador's Ball on Sunday June 15, 2008 when our new Ambassadors will be announced! I now return you to your regularly scheduled CT program....

Garden Party Contest Extended
by Tickles.
Details can be found here :) June 12th is the new deadline.
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/dreampotion/GPCAda.jpg

Realms Gamers Resist Rule!

In a text game posted on Inner Realms' Colony Message Board we find the following, slightly edited:

From: b1a1b
All Hail the King

The crowd all over the realms was large and growing larger beside the throne of the stone fist. The fake mickey was smiling and waving to his adoring fans as the fake cheercoach proudly stood beside him.

All around ,the men in black cloaks stood with weapons at the ready just in case someone from the inn decided to make an appearance. The pictures of the cohorts in the inn had been passed around to all the guards, as well as the spies in the realms. The sky was filled with the black dragons brock had summoned from the hills, although they had long ago been banished for their evil ways. But the new king had made them a deal. Defeat the inn, defend the king, rule the realms!

From all over the realms the druids council had been summoned and were now in attendance, Brock transformed his appearence into one of them. Ladysilversplash approached the throne with the crown of the realms and crowned fake mickey. The druids all clapped with grim faces as the arrows notched and aimed at their heads directed.

The new King was crowned and, as discussed, his first order of business was to declare all inside the inn enemies of the state. The army, black guards and brocks personal spies all set out to "bring in those not loyal to the stone fist". In the city council those same actions were rubber stamped, made legal and the realms colony was declared an emergency area. They were told, "The ones in the inn must be caught, and taken into custody." All over the city more and more black cloaks began to pour forth.

From: o0rion
Prelude to b1's fate......

I peer down from my perch in the skies, watching over the realms. I see all of the Blasphemy, Lies, and complete Deceit, I see more than I can take.

As I begin to transend myself from the skies letting everyone know that i'm very displeased with the current workings. I begin to draw my bow, aimed at the (fake) mickey. Meanwhile everyone around readies their arms, planning for what seems to be the inevitable.

I then realize and pause, saying to (fake) mickey "You are undeserving of this arrow. You are nothing more than a pawn in a twisted game. Now step down from the throne and let the real mickey take his rightful seat." I hand him over to the knights and centaurs of the realms.

"No more games b1, No more hiding, come out of your cowardice and fight like a man."

Places Nominations - May
by LadySilverSplash, Places Liaison

Now accepting Places nominations for May!!!!!

Nominations end May 27 ~ be sure to get yours in!

Thank you for your interest in CT's Places!!

I now return you to your regularly scheduled CT program....

Clubs Showcase Winner!
by Excel07

The Clubs is proud to announce the new Clubs Showcase of the Month to be:

MS Support

Congratulations to Sarumen and all club's staff and members. The club has been chosen because of its neat message, where it gives support for Cybertown citizens with MS and disability. Visit the club and give your support.

Department: Nobody Never Tells Us Nothing!!!
by jdb_educator We can't even get our CVN writers to post the birthdays and anniversaries!! *sigh* We just discovered dusttodust, cvn writer extraordinaire, celebrated his anniversary recently: Saturday, May 6 2000. Happy belated Virtday anyway!! *grumble grumble*

Do You Remember??!!

As several members chase down the history of Cybertown, the search often leads in strange directions. Vialle sent us this one. It is not a cybertown history url. However it will provide some nostagia for our older members and perhaps provide images and music that could provoke questions from our younger members.

http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm

Places Award Recipients!
by LadySilverSplash, Places Liaison

CONGRATULATIONS to our (FIRST) Places Award Recipients!!!!!!!! POM: Security Place of the Month COM: sylphie Chief of the Month DOM: Cybertress Deputy of the Month HAM: coffinpest Ham of the Month Miss the Gala? Check out the log & see what all you missed! Those who missed getting their awards at the Gala can pick them up at club PlacesGalaAwards. Awards are removed after a month! THANKS TO ALL WHO ATTENDED!!! I now return you to your regularly scheduled CT program....

Cybercrime Continues

jdb_educator, CVN
The arrest, prosecution and guilty plea of Cyber Spam King Robert Alan Soloway of Seattle is merely skimming one fly off of the ocean. See: http://tech.msn.com/security/article.aspx?cp-documentid=6679669&icid=tg6679669>1=40000

Playing with A Chat in Software

jdb_educator, CVN
The difference in sizes is amazing. I tried several approaches for the places gala. First I copy/pasted the entire chat into word and changed the color of text to black. The result: 233kb. Then I saved that as an rtf file. I was shocked to see that file come out as 465 kb. I guess Microsft discorages that option from Word. Then I saved the original doc in .txt format. The result was a far more manageable 61kb. So I took that file and threw it in coffeecup, my editor software of choice, added break tags at the start of each speaker-and a little spacing- and got a most satisfactory 66kb html page result to present to our readers. Here is the chat from the Places Gala held on May 3rd at the Cybertown City Hall. The only text changes made were additions and corrections to my own typooed chat.(we have long ceased and desisted from typos, and only type pooh these days!(typoo). I added the text we missed to our html pages from the text log provided by Places, posted by LadySilverSplash, and that brings the file size up to 69kb: The html page may be accessed here http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/000/places_gala1.html.

The text download from Chiefs is here: Places Award Dowload for those who prefer that.

Digital Enhancement

As more and more people go digital, The silliness and downright scariness of altering photos becomes apparent. Newsweek has a wonderful feature that tells you more than you really want to know. The route to losing weight and bulking up is just clicks away, in your photo editor: http://www.newsweek.com/id/135166?GT1=43002

Meta-Search Engines and More

In our Internet travels we often run into useful information. University of California Berkley has a teaching guide that provodes all kinds of information on looking for information on the Internet:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html

Free Stuff

101 Fantastic Freebies are offered by by Preston Gralla and Erik Larkin, PC World site at http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143642/article.html has it all. They have even selected their best of the best for your consideration One possibility may appeal to music lovers ( http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143642-page,15-c,webservices/article.html) , and a there is a download news reader for mobile users. Of course there is lots more to explore too. As has been pointed out on the site, not all of these are completely free.

May Is Here

Today is the first day of May. The E! Colony and many activities-both virtual and real- will be arriving. "The month may have been named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May. See:-Months in various calendars

In Japan, there is a so-called 'May sickness', where new students or workers start to be tired of their new schoolwork or jobs. (In Japan school years and fiscal years start on April 1st.)

In any given year, no other month starts on the same day of the week as May. The same is true for June. Our source-and to read more-:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May


PartyLine has all the events set up so far COTM Month. Have a GREAT TODAY!

Creators Choice Awards 3
A Huge Success!!!
morning.star for CCA
The whispery quiet of the Museum's Lobby was broken with the sounds of Cybertown folks arriving for the 2008 CCA3 Ceremony last Saturday night. All manner of folks drifted in and mingled.

The Curator thanked coffinpest and the Mall staff for assisting in the preparations; Columns and cheercoach for their creative efforts in fashioning this year's trophies and objects; all of those who voted on the 145 entries; everyone attending the Ceremony; and this year's CCA Team who pitched in without complaint everywhere where it was needed! The Curator continued ...

The Curator informed attendees: "This evening we are awarding 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place trophies, the number of trophies awarded in a category depend on the number of entries in that category. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners also receive cc prizes! 1st place ... 1 mil cc!!! 2nd place ... 500k cc!! and 3rd place ... 250k cc!"

Our winners in the Third Annual Creator's Choice Awards are ....

http://home.cogeco.ca/~keystoimagination/awards/cca3_vote.htm

Those Entrants and voters who were unable to attend the Ceremony will find an inboxed link to a pickup area for their trophies, awards, and pressies :)

And our full story of the CCA Event here:http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/000/CCA042608.html

Solutions Superguide: 529 Tips for Better Computing
by jdb_educator
We just found out our weekly editor, deb44, has joined the Vista crowd. Our sympathies, prayers and encouragement go to her as she fiddles with the operating system as so many have. Our hope is that deb becomes one of the few whoo experience no problems. We imagine we will migrate to Vista too... some day... unless we can successfully keep avoiding it!

We think it would be really cool if one or more events were dedicated to helping Vista users adapt to Cybertown.

If you are one of those people using Windows Vista, this article appears to be for you. PC Mag has gathered up all kinds of information that may make your use of that operating system easier. Please let us know if you find the article useful. Send to CVNDaily AT cybertown.com Please use the subject: 529 tips.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2282468,00.asp

Free Gifts For New Citizens!
by CTSpirit

Greetings New Resident!! Welcome to Cybertown!
I have some presents to help get you started here. Go to my house, where you will see a storage called "Gifts For New Citizens". Click that link and pick 10 items. I will give them to you as a welcome gift.
Just inbox me your list. :o)

http://www.cybertown.com/home/ctspirit

*~ CTSpirit ~*
Cybertown Spirit

Do You Remember?
The Good Old Days: 2058!
by jdb_educator You remember 2058? Oh yeah those were indeed the good old days. Take a look at this feature from MSNBC from old Earth on how the world looked in the year 2058. Kids today tend to pay no attention to history, but this might spark some interest. It is recent, only 38 years ago. Ah for those days when men were men, women were women and nanobots filled them both. Such changes since then. So take a quick look: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/18/915263.aspx

Security, Always Problematic
CVN and others are constantly telling their readers of dangers. Did you know "nearly half the Internet users queried in a new survey said they use just one password for all their online accounts." Read on from USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-04-16-repeat-passwords_N.htm

The Campus Colony Leader Blogs!
b1a1b continues blogging. He tells us, "I am certainly liking the blog". b1 is using it to discuss a variety of subjects ranging from Cybertown, the city council to personal life. In the latest entry he says: " People who have never been depressed will not understand depression, they will not understand the raincloud that follows you around or how all you want to do is stay in bed. " He explains one possible solution.

We checked and the blog is pretty regular. The URL below allows all our readers to view the blog without signing into the city, we think.



We dash over every now and then and... continue to read the entries! Check out the link on the Campus Portal. :) CVN did: http://www.campuscolony.com/portal/blog.php



Cybertown History Underway

Over the weekend the council decided that using one of the cybertown servers is the place to go. Wovencroft set up the site so now we have two wikis. jdb_educator was cheerfully handed the keys, told to get busy and even more cheerfully told by wovencroft not to make extra work for him. jdb_educator chuckled as he told CVN: "I take that as a personal challenge." and is busy figuring out ways to use a couple of hundred hours of wovencroft's time.

The originl wiki site below will be used as another presence on the web to celebrate Cybertown and will eventually begin to refer readers to our simplified Cybertown based wiki once jdb finishes playing around with it and figuring out how it works. The Cybertown wiki eliminates advertisements and is plain-text based, providing better security. Links to all the history pages the project can find will be linked there. As soon as there is an actual front page, we will publicize its location.

The Cybertown History project has been slowly growing. The council has been kicking in ideas and reminiscing. MauveCat set up a site and named jdb_educator administrator. Since then we've all begun thinking and posting. Right now a first discussion on the introduction is underway. We have several topic areas set up by MC, and we are still looking for writers. Writers must be invited. So let us know your preferred email address for this project and email us at CVNDaily AT cybertown.com using the subject Cybertown History or you can send to jdb_educator's address or inbox.
See the early action at http://cthistory.wetpaint.com/
Currently there are nine writers on the project. Its colorful and is growing.

Mad Gab!
The Kingdoms Hood in Games is hosting Mad Gab!
Just simply guess the mad gab posted on the Kingdoms MB!
If you know it, all you have do it is reply to the post and you win a prize! It's that Easy!!
So have fun and good luck!!!

Volcanos in Inner Realms?
Wizard Attacks
The game scenario builds in Inner Realms. Everything seems to be going bad....-editor
Anger at himself for letting the fae escape, knowing that now that mickey is taken care of cheercoach is the only one left that can stop him.

Waving his hand he sends one of his undead minions to check at the gate

*Dark sees only a skeleton armed to the hilt when she opens the door, she is unable to lie to it but could fight it*

"How can I help you young one" says the skeleton

Back in the town b1 begins his inhuman chant again and summons up a volcano in the middle of the realms, if they wouldn't respond to ice, maybe to fire. The lava is heading directly for the inn

Inner Realms: cheercoach posted
Subject: Calling Forth
As I sit 'neath Mother Oak once more gazing into the past, remembering old friends and victories, a cry rings out in the air.

Startling me from my reverie, I jump up, grabbing my bow, loading it, and gazing through out the clearing. Odd sounds erupt...

Cries of terror, arms booming, the smell of smoke and destruction.

A sending, I must ... call forth Bahamut from his lair. He lights with the ease of many years. I leap aboard and send him a message to fly to the Council chambers as fast as his wings will go...

Landing in front of the doorway, I place my hands upon the door, vision blurs and images flash through my head, despair, crying, bodies lay about me...Slowly I fall, head banging upon the doors....

cheercoach

The Campus: darksidhe75 posts:
Subject: Sneaks in To spy out this territory called the Campus, worries for her fellow fae and all those who were stolen from within the realms...

Could this be the hand of stone or perhaps an old enemy...worries for the wee fae who lies beneath the doors of the council, worries more for the myriad creatures of this plane... Perhaps I dare sneak into the home of the one called b...

Adventure: The CL Talaskian posted:
Subject: Calling Forth... As I stand within the sacred temple of Adventure I faintly hear the cries coming from Mother Oak in Inner realms. I release my pet weir dragon talon into the air to seek out her cries... Talon returns with word of fire around her along with the despair of the little fae that lays in front of the council doors. Awake Adventure! We've word of war at hand!

Tired of Bad News?
jdb_educator

We are! Some days we dread opening up the many news sites we survey. People killed, people killing, and all those scandals, slavery stories, terror here and there, drugs, catastrophe, Global warning, Ice age coming, etc. etc. It gets kind of repetitive and depressing doesn't it? MSNBC has a solution! We have bookmarked a site, for those days when we want to read good news. That meant of course we had to do a quick search for others as well:
MSNBC: Wonderful World at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13282721/

Goodnews Weekly Newsletter and site
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
Then there are a number of religion specific sites. But two sites against a million, ain't bad!

US Doctors Make Major Errors

by Hawk, Cybertown Founder
Hawk brings CVN readers this very recently posted second article:
"Many centuries ago, superior Chinese physicians were only paid when their patients were well and not paid when they were ill. So they treated combinations of symptoms in such a way that, rather than suppressing them, they worked to re-balance the body so that it could heal itself.

Imagine if US medical doctors were held to the same standard - they'd be broke!" To read more on "the major errors that US medical doctors routinely make, as a direct result of the narrowness in how they are trained" go to: http://www.foodkills.org/medicalmyths/symptoms1.html

[Hawk began this website series on health -with documentation and resources- and CVN brings it to our readers. Here was the first article in case you missed it.-editor]: http://www.foodkills.org/medicalmyths/
The base site is: br> http://www.foodkills.org/

BM Discount Store!

The Black Market Discount Store is open for business!

Be sure to read the information posted on the Inbox before making any requests as most of your questions should be answered there.

Thank you!
BM Staff

ATTENTION NEWCOMERS TO CYBERTOWN
*~ CTSpirit ~*

Welcome to Cybertown!

I have some presents for you. Go to my house, you will see a storage called "Gifts For New Citizens". Click the link and pick 10 items. I will give them to you as a welcome gift. Just inbox me your list. :o)

http://www.cybertown.com/home/ctspirit
(Log into the City or already be in the city to use this link)
*~ CTSpirit

Your mission - search your memory and storage banks. If you know whodunnit, you can win 10k for each object you correctly identify the creator for!!!

Access the COLD CASE VRML FILES and rules at nick : TheCurator (Virtual Worlds/PointWorld/Education/CURATOR'S VAULTS) on the message board, then post your answers attached to the correctly numbered item on the message board. There are tons of objects for which the Museum has not been able to determine with certainty who the creator was.

The COLD CASE VRML FILES will remain open until all of the creators are identified - there is no time limit. More items will be added from time to time. Play as often as you like :)


Silhouette FAQ

Be sure to read this FAQ that covers the no-obligation Silhouette deal! We read it with interest, having already signed up/pre-registered! CVN Congratulates IVN on a well prepared FAQ! It helps a lot! No obligation means just that! Sign up NOW!

The link to the FAQ is: http://www.cybertown.com/SilFAQ.html

IVN/CT POLICY

Did you know? Any Cybertown citizen can purchase space in the top frame for things like events & special announcements (b'days, anniversaries, etc.) The current rate is $20 per week, $60 per month.

These are special rates for, NON-commercial ads and as always, all banners must be Founder approved before they can be uploaded. Advertisements for businesses are handled differently at different rates.

IVN/Cybertown thanks Holodoc, ND of Star Trek Hood in Sci-fi, who not only helped in the planning stage is also the creator of the first banner to take advantage of this new option!

This will not affect the cotm (Colony of the Month) banners or any that are already up there.

Interested parties should contact me at billing@integratedvirtualnetworks.com