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Thursday
September 2 2098



Cybertown Virtual News ... CVN is here for our citizens!!!

" Welcome to the future: The current year is 2098!"

NO celebration posted. Any more posters out there??

None posted for today



Our grateful thanks to our posters. Content can be hard to find.
We do offer you a Happy VirtDay or a Happy Birthday, if today is your day and you didn't tell us.

Any more posters? Our thanks, as always, go to our citizens for posting these celebrations.

If you posted your celebration and we missed it, we are truly sorry. Because of time zones and checking, we can miss anything posted for 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM. We recommend setting anniversaries, birthdays and events for 11:55 PM. Include any specific times in the entry. We most sincerely appreciate the posted birthdays and anniversaries provided for our use in informing all members!! We DO check daily!

Click for the CVN birthday listings Please post any August, September or October birthdays .... and add those VirtDays too! Our thanks DO go to those who do send or post them to us!!

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


Please note that 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.

[CVN Daily News is provided for the people, and in many cases BY the people! So our mailbox is wide open, ready for -and interested in- reading all your submissions, whether a classified ad, activity announcement, or suggestion for content!]
CVNDaily AT cybertown.com


Heard and Seen Around Town

Thanks to all who have made suggestions and sent us stories that we are placing on our secondary pages below. Old news will usually be kept in the archives, special items on page two. New stories will be added on top, in most cases. We are looking at additional ways to expand our secondary pages. Pets and faces of Cybertown are updated and open for business! Still another update is coming. Please note that a harmless javascript is used to pull up these Cybertown pages into your browser.


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Fun Every Saturday

Celebrate today September 2: Bison-Ten-Yell Day, Calendar Adjustment Day, V-J Day, Birthday - Christa McAuliffe (teacher/astronaut), and Independence Day (Vietnam)

Cybrita Group Story in SciFi
by jdb_educator
---September 2, 2089---

Cybrita started the story line and several people are jumping in to write a story, one line at a time. If you haven't looked, jump on over to the SciFi message board and read this humorous yet intriguing little story. And... toss in a line of your own while you are there.

Bank Dividend Coming
posted by editme
---September 2, 2089---

Its September already!!!

Yes another month has passed and September is the final month of the 3rd quarter. This means that all stock transactions made in this quarter will receive the dividend on October 15th.

Also don't forget the Stock split coming up:

Effective September 4, 2010, the stock The Plaza (PLZA) will split 4 shares for every 1 share.

Happy Banking folks

August Birthday Calendar Changed
by jdb_educator
---September 2, 2089---

It's September! Wow! And time to change our monthly Calendar in the "Around the Town" section up above. Some of the birthdays this month are:
  • 1994 Jasmine Sagginario (16)
  • 1975 Scott Speedman (35)
  • 1973 J.D. Fortune (37)
  • 1957 Gloria Estefan (53)
  • 1950 Dr. Phil McGraw (60)
  • 1946 Barry Gibb (64)
  • 1939 Lily Tomlin (71)
  • 1935 Seiji Ozawa (75)
  • 1933 Conway Twitty (77)
  • 1923 Rocky Marciano (87)
  • 1922 Yvonne DeCarlo (88)
  • 1922 Vittorio Gassman (88)
  • 1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs (135)

All these were September 1st. Wonder whose birthday is today? Check it out.

Internet Threats
by jdb_educator
---September 2, 2089--- Internet threats are treated much like Real life terror threats with color coding. Each antivirus site has their own take on the state of the internet. Do you ever look? Here is your chance to explore one of those sites:
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/trendwatch/current-threat-activity/index.html

Ever heard of the "Underground Economy"? Trend Micro has a watch list that will tell you the value of stolen information. Wonder what your stolen credit card might be worth? Take a look:
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/trendwatch/current-threat-activity/underground-economy/index.html

Loax to Begin
Weekly Parks Contest
posted by Loax
---September 1---

Greetings my name is Loax

I am the new Parks Director

As I am like a Parks Ranger, like Ranger Smith..
..I have two mascots..

YOGI


and Booboo

I will be starting a weekly Trivia Treasure Hunt
Starring Yogi & Booboo
In the Parks District
Which are the following places:

1. Sunset Beach
2. Outlands
3. Fun Park
4. Theme Park
5 Water Park
6. The Stadium
7. Flyby's Park

The 2 mascots will be travelling from #1 - #5 Parks
(not including The Stadium or Flyby's Park)
Find the Mascots each week
Correctly answer the Trivia they have
And win 50,000 cc's!

So visit the Parks
Starting Soon!
And Have Some Fun!

Top 50 Sites
From Time Magazine
by jdb_educator
---September 1--- Like our earlier story from PC Magazine on top sites, it is always fun to see which sites people think are the verty best of all the sites available. We ran across this item from time and thought we should share it with you.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2012721,00.html

CVN National Dog Day Contest Ends!
by jdb_educator
---September 1--- In honor of National Dog Day (Thursday) we offered the following CVN contest to our readers! "Post us a picture of your dog for 10, 000 CCs or post us any real or imaginary conversation you've had with your dog for 25, 000 CCs. And THERE IS MORE: do both for 50,000 CCs." This contest closed Tuesday, August 31 at 11:59:59 CyT(Site) time with no entries. In September we will run the same contest for those who are owned by their cat. :D Send your answers to the Editor's Inbox jdb_educator at home in Cybertown or email us at jdb_educator at msn.com

CVN Football Contest!
by jdb_educator
---UPDATED September 1--- College and Pro American football is starting once again. College games begin this weekend. Wives everywhere are rolling their eyes, and a few women are smiling with all the rest of the football fans... So here is The PRO Contest. Who will win the AFC and the NFC (not the super bowl) Correct answers will wait until the winners are named, BUT It is worth 2 million CCs if you have the correct answer NOW!! This contest closes on September 30th!!

This level of award is ONLY available to readers of CVN. Later we will post to the Colony boards cutting the prize in half to only ONE MILLION CCs. So respond quickly! When we post to the Colony boards NEXT WEEK the prize level falls... Send your answers to the Editor's Inbox jdb_educator at home in Cybertown or email us at jdb_educator at msn.com

To get you started here is a "sleeper pick" to make the playoffs!: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/official-sleeper-pick-NFL-2010-season-082410

Events!
by jdb_educator
---September 1 2098---
Wednesday
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Games Bubblegum Bingo

Saturday, September 4
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Back to Back Fun for EVERYONE


Join us every Saturday for tons of back-to-back FUN & your chance to win LOTSA cityca$h!!!


City Auction or Bingo, 6-8pm
CT is FUN, 8-10pm


FUN for EVERYONE, every Saturday night in City Hall!!!! Come win millions ~ & have a BLAST doing it!!!


See you there!

CVN's Delphine
Brings Three New Stories
by Delphine, CVN
---Updated Aug 30 2098--- Delphine has tossed us another 3 stories. They are posted. In You can catch up and begin conversations on all her stories over at http://www.ipeet.net/ontheline/ to read, join, and comment.

Today we have two true life stories The Truth about Puntenel and a touching tale of A Dolphin’s Gift from Del's porch. And thee is a sad, perhaps terrifying story from the Night Chills section called Today I removed my nipple piercings . Delphine looks forward to your comments.

New Parks Director!
by Seductivey, Places Leader
---Aug 31 2098---
Please help me congratulate and welcome,
our newest addition to the Places Team…

Loax
The Parks District Director

Congrats on your new position Loax, it much deserved. I look forward to your continued growth and activity within the Places, and also the many wonderful things you will bring to the Parks.

-Sed

New Clubs!
by Seductively, Places Leader
---Aug 31 2098---
Please help me congratulate and welcome,
our newest addition to the Places Team…

GreatGodBal
The Clubs Chief

Most of you already know GGB from his many dedicated years with Security and his willingness to help all our citizens in need. He is a great asset to our community and the Places are happy to have him and his experience joining our team.

Congrats to you GGB, on your new position. We look forward to the future with you and the great things you will do.

4-1 Stock Split!
by editme
---Aug 31 2098---

*** Stock Split Notification ***

Effective September 4, 2010, the stock The Plaza (PLZA) will split 4 shares for every 1 share.

Fabulous Space Screenshow!
by jdb_educator
From hurricanes on the sun, to robots in space to floods on Eath, the pictures and stories show much of what is happening that never cross our mibnds or flit by so fast we don't giveit much thought. See what you think about as you gaze and read:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38820790/ns/technology_and_science-picture_stories/?gt1=43001

Hurricanes This year!
by jdb_educator
The hurricane season has been going on for a while and reports are likely to increase from now to November. We gathered a few sites for you to explore to see if they might be useful or worth your time. We know that we will be checking the first two often.

1. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
2.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26295161/ns/weather
This third URL is good for basic explanations and the variety of links probvided for younger students and those who do not want lots of detail:
3. http://www.fema.gov/kids/hurr.htm

High Holy Days!
by jdb_educator and holidays.net



hiho10Shanah Tova!
Happy New Year!

With the Jewish season of the High Holy Days upon us, we are delighted to invite you to come join our High Holiday Day celebrations at Holidays on the Net.

The Jewish High Holy Days refer to the ten-day period between the first day of the Jewish month of Tishrei, when Rosh Hashanah begins, and the tenth day of the month, when Yom Kippur falls.

These two holidays are the most significant in the Jewish calendar, a time rich in religious, spiritual and historical symbolism. On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish people celebrate the beginning of a new year. The holiday is commemorated with special services, such as Tashlich (casting off of one's sins), and the blowing of the shofar (and here). Rosh Hashanah is also a sacred time for ritualized family gatherings and sweet festive meals. And make your celebration a sweet and tasty one with our delicious holiday recipes.

Get the little ones interested in the holiday with our selection of fun and entertaining Rosh Hashanah crafts and holiday related coloring pictures. Send holiday greetings to your friends and family with our Rosh Hashanah eGreeting Cards.

Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the Days of Awe. During this ten-day period, the Jewish people stand before G-d, praying for forgiveness for their sins and hoping to be inscribed in the Book of Life. Then on Yom Kippur, which is also called the Day of Atonement, the Jewish people fast for 25 hours, during which they atone for their sins.

We hope that you will find something at Holidays on the Net that will help you better enjoy and appreciate these High Holy Days. We really look forward to seeing you at our High Holy Days celebration!

Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Wednesday September 08. Yom Kippur begins at sundown on September 17.

Happy Holidays and Shanah Tova!

Louie and the Elves
Holidays on the Net




Come and celebrate your holidays with Holidays on the Net!

You can now follow our Holiday Invites, and all our holiday tweets, on Twitter - @holidaysnet or http://twitter.com/holidaysnet

Celebrate your Holidays with Holidays on the Net. Join us as we celebrate the holidays of the year - one day at a time.
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A Hero for Our Time!
by favercoal, CVN reporter, CL The Campus
--- Aug 27 2098--- "Superheroes make us look at the world around us, and drive us to change it for the better. They stirred feelings of great ambition in me as a child. But, what about the many circumstances that we realize cannot be changed? Cancers, relationship problems, financial difficulties cannot be removed by pure ambition. So, are there any heroes who can show us how to approach them? Are there any heroes who can show us how to remain at peace while all is falling apart? " Read more at http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/favercoal/Etty.html

Latest Internet Hijack!
by jdb_educator
---UPDATED Aug 27 2098--- Every time you turn around there is another computer threat. This one is for users of Windows XP and should be required reading!! We discovered this blog now has several entries so scroll dow to August 24, 2010 5:34 PM PDT : Windows DLL bug hits dozens of apps

http://news.cnet.com/security/?tag=hdr;snav

Cybrita's Moose Attack!
Fairbanks, Alaska in 1972

by jdb_educator, CVN Editor
---Updated Aug 25 2098--- Today we learn about A moose attack. Cybrita continues her journey down Memory Lane in 1972 :) WE have yet another story in editing that will show an Alaska winter to our readers. Stay tuned to CVN!

You can read about this moose attack in Fairbanks, Alaska back in 1972 by clicking http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/cybrita/Alaska2.html or Cybrita takes us back in time and offers our readers a short tour of Fairbanks Alaska in 1972. So join us and see what the city looked like. Thursday, we will have a related story from Cybrita, about a Moose Attack. This little narrative will help prepare you for that story. This is a lighter story after the previous darker ones we published, and listed below.

You can read about Fairbanks, Alaska in 1972 by clicking http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/cybrita/Alaska.html or Cybrita's index page

Cybrita explores a darker world than you may live in, with her previous tale of "Little Kisses". Read her fiction listed on the index at http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/cybrita/.

Free Software!
by jdb_educator
We were impressed. It works fast and seemed to improve our speed and security in widows 7. Next up is trying it in Windows XP. Look for our report Monday. Check it out :)

http://www.iobit.com/download.html#freesoftware
This is the application we are using: http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html

COC?!!!
Chain of Command

by jdb_educator
---Aug 23 2098--- Long ago, in the beginnings of Cybertown the structure was clearly feudal. It went from the top to the bottom. It hasn't changed despite many experiments in creating democracy, popular votes, elections, and numerous other entertaining and instructive efforts. We believe started in Virtual Worlds, as we were there and an active participant in many. And today? Even in modern Real Life government, businesses, social organizations -that range in governance from dictatorship to pure democracy to anarchy- there is a chain of command. Here is the chain of command for Cybertown:
http://www.cybertown.com/orgchart2.html

What you say there is no chain of command in anarchy? Tell that to the ones ordering you around to create, maintain, or change the face or appearance of anarchy. There is always someone...

Got comments or questions? Inbox jdb_educator at home or email us at jdb_educator at msn.com

Cybertown City Guides Hiring!
by b1a1b, Community Center Director
---Aug 20 2098---

Cybertown City Guides are pleased to announce we are now hiring new city guides. If you have the drive, the will and the experience to serve in one of the most honored and fun positions in the city, please click the image to see the application.

A Strange Millionaire Family!
The Clarks

by jdb_educator
---Aug 20 2098--- We are continuing to follow this story because it is full of strangeness, sadness, surprises ... and reminds us of the sheer wierdness of Howard Hughes passing and the stories that came out way back the 1976

Our link is really a mini-site on the Clark family with lots of pictures available from a previous photo essay.

"Huguette Clark was already a mystery. Now there are new glimpses into the life of the reclusive heiress." Read the rest of the story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38719231/ns/business-small_business/

Making a Difference
MSNBC VIDEOS
by jdb_educator, CVN Editor
---Aug 18 2098--- Every now and then we dip into this growing series. These are stories of individuals and families. Just regular people who are making a difference.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/38730389#38730389

Are you making a difference? What difference would you like to make? Tell us at jdb_educator AT msn.com or drop by the editor's house and inbox him at http://www.cybertown.com/home/jdb_educator

The Campus is Hiring!
posted by Favercoal


City Guides
posted by b1a1b, Community Center Director

Cybertown City Guides are pleased to announce we are now hiring new city guides. If you have the drive, the will and the experience to serve in one of the most honored and fun positions in the city, please click the image to see the link!

CITY WIDE
Bot Contest!

by OfficialCityPost


CH Is Hiring!!!!
Join Us!

posted by TxBornVaNow

We're looking for some hard working, dedicated workers to fill positions all across the board. Think you got what it takes to work at the darker side of town? Fill out the application below, and we'll see you in the Cyberhood!

http://www.ctcolonies.com/cyberhood/application.html

Newcomer Home Furnishings
posted by OfficialCityPost


How is the City Changing?
Here is a visual look

by jdb_educator

http://ctcolonies.com/city/Places/

Our Mayor Lady Silver Splash (Dazzle) wrote us saying, " Thought maybe we can share it with the City at this point."

Change Comes to Cybertown
by jdb_educator

We have all the changes announced at the town meeting on Sunday by Dazzle and the Town Meeting chat and Question and Answer session are all here in today's edition!.

LadySilverSplash (Dazzle), Cybertown Mayor, announced the changes at Sunday's Town Meeting and then conducted an unprecedented Open Question and Answer session that also included visitor questions!

Her Announcements of Cytonian Progress( a brief overview) included :

  • Town Meetings every three months
  • A question & answer session to follow Town Meeting
  • Places structure reorganized
  • The Places Liaison becomes Places Leader-- more responsible, more experience & pay.
  • OFFICIAL Places Assistant title.
  • Ambassador, City Guides, & CERB being reexamined
  • Deputy Mayor, Jolinth is back in the hot seat!
  • THREE Mayors Secretarys: Seductively, playingby, & chiromancer (still need 1-2 more! inbox me if interested!!!)
  • We now have a Mayor's Mascot!
  • A successful Fan Page was created on Facebook
  • Areas of the city cleaned up and or fixed, more repairs to come
  • Cytizen Proposals are being worked on & implemented
  • Weekly "Salaries," implemented
  • EVERY resident now has 15 storage bins per nick--you can add up to FIVE more per nickname!!!!
  • MAJOR home deletions have begun!!!!!!
  • Every week, all Cytizens have a chance to win over one million ccs playing CT is FUN! join us every Saturday from 7 to 9pm & find out! :)
  • Every 2nd & 4th Sunday, we have a City Auction, half of the proceeds are divided equally among the 10 colonies, & half are added to the City Coffer!
  • Here is the text of her announcements from that meeting chat: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/meeting051610/dazz.htm
    Here is the Question and Answer session: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/meeting051610/QandA51610.html
    Here is the complete CVN recorded Chat:
    http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/meeting051610/Public051610.htm
    We have prepared two images of the places consolidation chart for your viewing, hoping these will be of -at least- modest help.
    http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/000/ctimages/Places2098.html

    Vialle Returns to IVN
    jdb_educator

    Cybertown's Vialle, who helped IVN in January with reports, and has worked with them before, has returned to work with them again, on a part time basis. Here is what she had to tell us:

    "I'm back in IVN employ. It's only part time.... 2 hours a day Mon-Fri, usually 3pm-5pm but occasionally earlier. I'll be checking the toll free number for voice mail messages, and if someone calls the office while I'm logged on the calls will be patched through to me. When there's nothing to do, I'll be in the Plaza :) Oh, and of course there's always email :o). No changes in the current contact info that's in the Daily News."

    Stay in Touch
    posted by editme

    Cybertown now has an active placement in Facebook. You can click and join or ignore the whole thing! (we are there along with old friends and current members)

    .


    New City Announcement Nickname!
    posted by OfficialCityPost

    editor's note: Among the many changes going on in the city, Cybertown now has a new city nickname for official posts. "OfficialCityPost" is expected to to be used for many announcements.

    Annual Subscriptions to Cybertown

    jdb_educator

    CVN received an email request called " annual renewal cost" that asked us to
    "Please add the cost for those of us who send checks for our renewal.
    I have the address, but can't find out how much to send for an annual renewal.
    tks
    WalkerBoh"

    Here's the information:
    Cybertown Subscription Fees
    1. The Basic Monthly subscription fee for one primary user ID is $5.00.
    2. The Basic Annual subscription fee for one primary user ID is $49.95. 3. The Family Monthly rate is $10.00 for one primary user ID and 5 family member IDs.
    4. The Family Annual rate is $99.95 for one primary user ID and 5 family member IDs.
    5. Sponsors may designate the nicknames of those whom they would like to sponsor.
    6. Additional nicknames are $1.00 a month each or $10.00 a year each.
    7. Additional Nicknames must be purchased for the same term as your primary account.
    8. As an alternative, sponsors may donate to a general sponsorship pool for Cybertown or for a particular Colony, neighborhood or block of Cybertown.
    You can make subscription payments via PayPal or by mailing a check or money order.
    Citizens or new members may call the working Toll Free Phone number : 800-557-2500

    Cybertown's subscriptionSnail Mail:address is

    Integrated Virtual Networks
    2049 Century Park East
    Suite 2740
    Los Angeles, CA 90067


    Our Source:
    http://www.cybertown.com/cgi-bin/cybertown/register?backurl=/index.html#moreinfo
    http://cyber.cybertown.com/cgi-bin/process.cgi?action=fees

    IVN's Toll Free Contact Number

    posted by stone_98

    IVN has opened up their Toll Free Number for use in resolving problems Cybertown Subscribers may have with their accounts. The number, 800-557-2500, can be reached during their business hours, 11am to 8pm, Cybertown Time.

    The Billing Representative may not be available at all times but you can leave a message for her attention.

    This is great news as we come in to the New Year when many accounts are coming up for renewal.

    Stone

    Cybertown helps IVN With Thanks

    posted by stone_98

    As the year ends, the workload always seems to increase. The same is true for Cybertown. Cybertown veteran, Vialle, has agreed to help the IVN representative, Emsquared, for a few hours here and there through the end of the year. Vialle will be focusing on a review of sponsorships and responding to e-mails but wont be available on the phones or to take payments. Vialle asks that citizens help spread the word for "everyone to make sure their main nick (if sponsored) has a valid email address." This, of course, is true for all main accounts, as well.

    Please note that your e-mails should continue be sent to billing AT integratedvirtualnetworks.com and we have the toll-free phone number for subscriber issues: 800-557-2500.

    Thank you, Vialle, for helping out this way and thank you to Emsquared for all that you do to keep our subscribers' questions answered. You are both greatly appreciated!

    Thanks,
    Stone

    How Do We Pay Our Subscriptions?

    by jdb_educator

    Cybertown citizens are asking how do we pay for Cybertown now that the telephone number is not working. CVN discussed this with the mayor and discovered a few recommendations.

    Paying for your subscription using your paypal account is probably the easiest and most effective way. From what we understand, if someone uses paypal, the account is automatically credited and the subscription updated.

    Wovencroft warns "I am not sure it is such a good idea for anyone to be emailing credit card information to any place, even IVN. Emails are notoriously insecure and almost always transmitted in plain text. Might want to consider removing that idea from CVN." We did consider woven's request. Instead we will urge you to have a small amount secure card for use with internet purchases, IF at all possible. Sadly woven is exactly correct, emailing credit card info is dangerous, and using routing numbers even more so unless you create a separate account strictly for Cybertown payments. We are very sorry that this seems to complicate life. Nothing is ever easy in our unsafe world of real life.

    Citizens can also e-mail IVN with payment information (ie, credit card info, but be cautious. Best is paypal or snail mail your payment to the IVN address. At present we are unsure if IVN can do electronic transfers with routing info, etc., so we will seek to find out if that is a possibility.

    Mayor stone told us "a number of people that have contacted me have not tried the e-mail, they have only tried the phone number". We understand that IVN is continuing to look into getting the phone service restarted but it has taken longer than we'd hoped.

    Therefore it is clear to us, and we hope it is clear to our readers that you should start with an email to IVN at billing@integratedvirtualnetworks.com.

    CVN thanks Beca for bringing this to our attention and stone_98 for discussing the issue with us. And thanks to wovencroft for his wise warning. We hope this story helps our readers.

    Sponsorships to Cybertown!

    by jdb_educator

    A couple of days ago, a longtime friend and active Cybertown resident wrote me:
    "my access to CT is up soon, and i haven't heard from my sponsor, without a sponsor i can't return to CT, but i don't wanna leave CT :(, plz help if you can".
    I sent off a couple of emails and found by reply:
    "The best option and the one I usually give is to post on the Sponsorship Club board(http://www.cybertown.com/cgi-bin/cybertown/place?. I know there are those who regularly check there to see if someone needs assistance. I don't know of anyone right now that is offering to pay for sponsorships but I know that there are those who will often consider it when they know who needs one."
    Before I could write that to my friend, I got a quick note:
    "I'm saved! i found a sponsor, but thanks for helping "
    That intrigued me so I asked what had happened and discovered the answer:
    "i just wandered into the fleamarket and i said 'anyone know someone who sponsors?' and then the sponsor (not telling the name) said 'who needs a sponsor?' and i said 'I do' and then i was sponsored"
    That's Cybertown!

    Avoiding Free Trial Abuse!
    Security Helpful Tips

    We all know that long term members have an issue with storage. Right now, there is only one way to increase the storage capacity on your member account and that is to add another nickname. However, a few members have accidentally initiated a free trial account when trying to add another nickname and increase storage and this puts them in danger of a Unified Ban Policy penalty for Free Trial Abuse.

    Avoiding this is relatively easy. First, immigrate as per usual for a new account. Fill in the application, making sure to include a valid email address. When you get an email that your new account has been accepted on the Cybertown server, do NOT log in using the activation code. That will automatically open up a free trial account. Instead, go to the second step as advised here and contact billing@integratedvirtualnetworks.com, or phone IVN at 1-888-557-5611 (between 10am - 5pm EST ), and let them know you are trying to add a new nickname.

    Billing issues are generally, though not always, answered by Vialle. Whoever replies will be happy to guide you through the next few steps of adding the new nickname to your account. It's only a buck more a month unless you pay for a family account, which is $99.95 a year and allows you have to one main nickname and up to 5 others.

    Some people realize old members have come back under the free trial and try to help them re-establish themselves in Cybertown under the new name. But this isn't fair to either the old member or to IVN which operates this site.

    Old members could be sponsored for up to 30 days by IVN if they follow the proper protocols. That is, if an old member who has been out of CT for at least six months contacts IVN and asks for a free month to evaluate a potential return, there is a possibility this will be granted, as long as the former member has no security record. This is the best of both possible worlds. The returning member not only gets a month in CT for free, they also get all of their cc back and get to have back all the objects in their BP and their storage units. These objects are often rares when a former member returns and could be worth untold riches if sold in the Flea.

    Otherwise, if they try to hide under a free trial nickname, they will be banned for Free Trial Abuse once Security discovers them. And everything that was given them to re-establish themselves will be lost as a free trial ban is punishable by a permanent ban both on the new and old nicknames.

    No one likes to do these kinds of bans. For that reason, returning members may also contact ABluEyedBrunette, our Security Commissioner, for help to obtain this possible free month.


    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


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