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February 8 2098

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Our celebrations calendar is almost empty

Our birthdays celebrated this past weekend were deb44 on Saturday February 6, armandii and jdb_educator on Sunday February 7. jdb_educator posted "Gee and they scheduled the SuperBowl just for armandii and me!" Our next celebration is February 15.

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 January, February or March birthdays .... and add those VirtDays too! Our thanks DO go to those who do send or post them to us!!

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

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... The Campus is C.O.T.M. for Februrary ... Stay tuned to CVN! Our Play Off pool Ends! Who won? Find out right Here in CVN!

Glitch Time!
jdb_educator

We regret the non-publication on Friday and are invesigating what happened. Our biggest regret is not publishing in time for the birthdays. deb44's was Saturday, February 6. armandii and jdb_educator celebrate Sunday February 7. Sunday we rushed to publish the weekend edition at our alternate site, posting the link on all the Colony Boards and Announcements. We will leave all stories in this Monday edition edition too, adding our new stories :) Sorry all!

Super Bowl Contest WINNERS
jdb_educator

What a contest! What a game! The game went down to the final 3.24 minutes before New Orleans could breath easy for the Big Easy! The New Orleans Saints prevailed once again by pass interception, just as they did against the Vikings in the Conference Championships. And yes, it was the same Saints cornerback, Tracy Porter. Porter flew 74 yards to set the final score at 31-17, securing the win for the Saints over the Indianapolis Colts. This was the first Superbowl win in franchise history for the Saints.

In our CVN contest ferretlady takes top prize. We posted on January 11: "contestants pursuing ONE MILLION CCs for the best prediction record through the Superbowl!" ferretlady did not post to The Campus and so her winnings do not double, but she wins the contest with 8 points earned througout the playoffs. mamamia, Hawkeye320, and Toila all scored 7 points and came in second, and also did not post to The Campus, so their unannounced winnings do not double! Each of them win 200, 000 CCs (since we don't have to pay out millions and millions. Had any one of our second place winners posted or reposted their prediction to The Campus they would have won the contest!

Finally, the only "analysts" to pick the Saints missed on the scores, so neither the 10 nor the 20 million doubled CCs prize will be awarded this year, even though some did post to The Campus! However we DO want to note that ferretlady, Doug_Black, mamamia, Hawkeye320, Toila, vialle, AuntBee, Smitty_The_Kid , Riva28, and Jasonrocks72 all correctly predicted the Saints would win! WTG!!! CVN missed the boat, the ocean and this Mutiversal version of Earth with our 17-10 Colts win prediction.

Campus College Trivia Contest Winners!
jdb_educator

We had a wonder week of College Trivia on the Campus. We thank everyone who responded. A new series of College Trivia will be posted around town today. All answers must be posted on The Campus Message Board to qualify for the 2K prize.

Our College Trivia winners are listed by the posted number of the question. We congratulate our winners and especially Shady_Lady, who snatched three correct answers with her quick, accurate posting. If you just want to see the questions, dash over to the Clubs, they are easy to find. Otherwise scroll though the Campus MB for the questions AND the answers.

1.Shady_Lady
2.markjut
3.VeganLad
4.CharizardII posted Arizona State, We've requested proof: Our source says Ohio State
5.Shady_Lady
6.Shady_Lady

February House Contest STILL Open

Our February house contest now has 4 judges, 8 entries in the professional division, raising the prize money fund to 8 million CCs. We now have our first entry into our non-designer section beginning the prize at One million CCs. Nominations close Wednesday and houses need to be finalized for presentation and judging by 11:59:59 PM CyT ! Judging will start on the 14th and continue probably through the 16th depending on responses from our judges. Links will be updated tomorrow as we clean out and update our stories in CVN.

From: CharizardII
I have to go with my prediction from right after the Conference Championships with the Colts winning... I'm going to say the score will be 32-26... I'm going to go even further and say that Manning will be named the MVP... Though he may not deserve it, as was the case in Super Bowl XLI.

But that's neither here nor there... Indy really proved to me that they deserve to be here and want to be champions again... It's tough overcoming an 11-point deficit... It's even tougher to overcome that deficit against the #1 defense in the league. I haven't seen the desire from the Saints yet this post-season... They won handily against the Cardinals, but limped to the Super Bowl in a game that could have turned into a blow-out, but from every opportunity they received from Minnesota, they really couldn't do anything. Indy's D is just as good if not better than Minnesota's. With all the hype going into this game about Manning vs. Brees... Definitely look for and enjoy this game panning out that way... It should live up to expectations, but look for Indianapolis' Defense to come up with at least one... maybe two key stops that will allow Manning and that offense a little bit of breathing room. And watch for the New Orleans' Defense to show signs of trouble when faced with having to contain that very, very efficient Indy Pass offense right after those big stops by the Colts' D.

That's just my two cents...
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The Super Bowl is this Sunday! Our special fund for the Super Bowl prediction contest was TEN MILLION CCs!!! IF you predict AND post the actual winner and the actual score for the Superbowl to The Campus message Board, YOU could win TWENTY MILLION CCs!!!

The Vegas line today is 4.5 to 5 points in the spread, favoring The Indianapolis Colts. for example if you take the New Orleans Saints and the spread, if they win by 5 or more or they lose by less than 5 points you win. "Spread betting is any of various types of wagering on the outcome of an event, where the pay-off is based on the accuracy of the wager, rather than a simple 'win or lose' outcome, such as fixed-odds (or money-line) betting or parimutuel betting. A spread is a range of outcomes, and the bet is whether the outcome will be above or below the spread." (Our source ishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_betting)

We'll use a 4 point spread for this one:
"If the gambler bets on the "underdog", he is said to take the points and will win if the underdog's score plus the spread is greater than the favorite's score:
" The eventual score is Saints 31, Colts 33: then 31 + 4 >35, so the gambler wins;
The eventual score is Saints 31, Colts 37: then 31 + 4 < 35, so the gambler loses.
"If the gambler bets on the "favorite", he gives the points and will win if the favorite's score minus the spread is greater than the underdog's score:
" The eventual score is Saints 28, Colts 33: then 33 - 4 > 29, so the gambler wins;
The eventual score is Saints 38, Colts 37: then 37 - 4 < 33, so the gambler loses.

According to Fox's unscientific poll 57% believe the Colts will win. (861,652 votes when we checked.)

You can follow the news at-or at many other sites- http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/6840160/ns/sports-super_bowl_xliv

As usual, just post your choice beneath our most current and now final "Super Bowl" post on any colony board, the Clubs MB, the Flea MB, or under Announcements on the feedback boards. You can even inbox me with your choices, or more rarely, catch me in chat or by IM...

Today marks our fourth post of College Trivia. Today's question! For 2k: "What is the largest University in the United States and what is its enrollment?"

We will be posting through the weekend! Thanks for your terrific response. Markjut was the first to post the correct answer to our question: "What was the first college to grant degrees to women?" Here is our answer link to yesterdays question:http://www.wesleyancollege.edu/About/FirstforWomen/tabid/133/Default.aspx We will post to all the boards with today's question. The answer must be posted on The Campus under our post!

CVN started Campus Trivia and there will be other MB game posts that will run through the month of February. This week we are only posting "College Trivia" so have some fun and guess by posting your answer below our post! All questions remain valid until the correct answer is given, and our confirming response posted, or until next monday's post.

We have SEVEN houses so far entered in the professional division. That makes our current Professional division Prize fund 7,000,000CCs. We are hopeful some inexperienced people will jump in for our beginners contest, but have had no entries so far. CVN presents one, very special, non-professional, love example, 3D only. It is http://www.cybertown.com/home/News_Slush_Fund
lol we reread our own rules and will add an image at the entrance, as well as double count our images in the single room devoted to webdoc

Houses must be completed by February 13 at 11:59.59 AM. The reason is simple, so that anyone in the world, at home on Valentine's Day/Night, can visit and enjoy what our fabulous home designers put together.

The contest will have TWO sections for Professional designers and non-designers who just want to play without hours of effort.

The prize fund depends on the number of entries in each contest. Each entry brings 1,000,000 CCs into one of the prize funds. So those interested have a quick guide :Here you go:

Professional:
64 items max
All 2D boards and 3D house
Yes, links too! Those may be used on either the links board or in Information)
Music! We demand your fav Love song! or anything suitable
Clear, consistent theme of Love

Non-designer:
Clear, consistent theme of Love in selected items, total of six items
One room in the house you have, or buy/exchange, etc.
One item at or near to the entrance to your home (hallway, door, yard etc.)
No more than five items in the selected room.

How Do You Enter The Contest?
It is really very simple! Contact:
jdb_educator at msn.com (Please use "February house" as the subject, include your Cybertown nickname or The nickname you would like to use for this contest-the one associated with the house being used. Citizens can also inbox jdb_educator at home with the same information: http://www.cybertown.com/home/jdb_educator Please use "February house" for your subject heading!

We went searching and found what some people think are "The Ten Best Valentin Gifts for"
Men:
http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/articlemc.aspx?cp-documentid=23293952
Women
http://honeymoons.about.com/od/greatvalentinesgifts/tp/valentinewoman.htm

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