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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.
Some Past July 4th Editions http://www.cybertown.com/places/news/magazine/dailynews/index070406.html
A Touch of History
jdb_educator
http://www.cybertown.com/places/news/magazine/dailynews/index070405.html
http://www.cybertown.com/places/news/magazine/dailynews/index070204.html
http://www.cybertown.com/places/news/magazine/dailynews/index070303.html
Friday's VirtDays
posted by ClubsBank
to the following Club Owners
- Icemanbernie turns 11 years old today.
- Byrdi turns 8 years old today.
- ICIC turns 8 years old today.
- frankster200 turns 8 years old today.
- pochiegaloo turns 8 years old today.
- cannon4a turns 4 years old today.
- mydnite. turns 4 years old today.
- Fleabite turns 2 years old today.
Congratulations to you and thank you for being a Club Owner!!
The Clubs Team4th of July
posted by KYTATTOOMAN
Everyone have a safe and fun 4th of July Weekend
Cybertown TwoDay See one list at: http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/july.htm
July Holidays!
jdb_educator
Email us your thoughts on our ezine, June, lol anything that might be a story! Send to: CVNDaily AT cybertown.com (Please use "July comments" as subject, include your Cybertown nickname or a nickname you would like to use for bylines. Citizens can also inbox jdb_educator at home: http://www.cybertown.com/home/jdb_educator
Our second thought for July :
- "Nothing is as precious as one's freedom. Dreams, aspirations, and ideals mean nothing if one does not have the freedom to pursue them."
You can watch PartyLine as events pop up on the : calendar.
Qwestor posts the Bubblegum Bingo Card Link Bingo link on the Games Colony Board with game times: M-W-F 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm city time
Please do not get a game card while Bubblegum Bingo is in progress. Doing so may lock up the game for people currently playing and it wouldn‘t be fair to the ones already playing a game. Players obtaining a card after a game has started will be disqualified.
Honors applications are now being compiled. Next filing, December.
Friday July 3 2097 (that's 2009 for Earthsiders): 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM IRs My Numbers Up - LE Requested
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Bubblegum Bingo
Honors applications are now being compiled. Next filing, December.
Saturday July 4 2097 (that's 2009 for Earthsiders): Get out and celebrate, send ecards, Enjoy the day. Nothing scheduled on PartyLine. No Inner Realms Events!
Sunday July 5 2097 (that's 2009 for Earthsiders): 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM IRs In Other Words - LE Requested
Some Cool Thank Yous For bubbasmurf's "Good Morning Adventure" Lambsy posted:
Are Being Posted!
jdb_educator
Cool, a lil of the Boss! Thanks so much for bringing us the music every day, and this is for you.... And Lambsy received one for her updated Adventure message board, from lolena!
Wow! What a Message Board...
Thanks Lambsy! It's beautiful, truly...
Rebus Puzzles Lambsy is posting these curious puzzles on the adventure board. Once - mebbe - we knew what they were, but ... we had to go searching into the realm of puzzles to actually find out so we donned our search engine and flew to:
Searching!
jdb_educatorhttp://www.fun-with-words.com/rebus_puzzles.html
We found out that these "rebus" puzzles are "popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings to solve from the pictogram."
Exploring some of the links we found one of our favorite word games: "Malapropisms"!! Here is one example from the above site!Don't is a contraption.
The Elkhart Project Have you visited? Or Revisited this project? There is a LOT going on.
by jdb_educator
A town of 51,000 people, 19% unemployment and a news website to follow how the Great Depression of 2007 affects them. With three visits by the President of the US, it is reasnable to consider this a test case for all the plans made for recovery. MSNBC seems to believe that too, since they have created this project. You can follow it here, and CVN will too.
http://elkhartproject.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/07/2648590-why-elkhart
Unlimited Lottery!!
Millionaire Winner!!!
Creators Group's Amazing New Contest
posted by EmmySky
EmmySky posted on the 3D objects board the Unlimited Lottery Winner
S._Miles! Congratulations, you are the winner of the 1 million ccs!![]()
BlackMarket Chief Opening Closes Soon!
webdoc, Places Liaison Assistant ~ Mayor's Secretary
The position of Black Market Chief is now open!If you have a friendly, hands on approach, the ability to lead and motivate such an exciting place, and can pass a standard background security check, then you could be who we're looking for!
Apply here: Places Chief Application Applications will be accepted through midnight CyTime on June 30, 2009.
Be sure to keep check on your email after you've applied!
Interviews will END by July 10, 2009.Thank your for your time and interest in CT's Places!
Happy Canada Day! Canada Day formerly Dominion Day is a "celebration of Canadian nationalism, heritage and pride. Canada became self-governing on July 1st, 1867, with the passage of the British North America Act (BNA Act) in the British Parliament. The holiday was originally known as "Dominion Day". It was changed to Canada Day by the Canadian Parliament on October 27, 1982." July 1st is celebrated as Canada Day (except when it falls on a Sunday. Then it is celebrated the next day. (our source is http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/july.htm )
Welcome to July !
jdb_educator
Vacations Yes, Many people are taking vacation time this month (and last month too). Students not in summer school in the US, are celebrating their summer vacation.
jdb_educator
Lambsy shareed her vacation with ACE in its current edition and we have pulled that page out for you here:http://bubbasmurf.com/Ace/Events.html
The ACE is still up, if you haven't llook, it is a click away! Articles ranging from old time cures, a recipe for Hungarian Goulash by ACE cook Ceil, to a trip to the Amish Colonies by Lambsy, and Humor, and music, and and Kids Corner. Another successful presentation. See the New ACE from bubbasnurf at: http://bubbasmurf.com/Ace/
Are you willing to share your vacationing with the city? Got pictures? Had fun? Send to: CVNDaily AT cybertown.com (Please use "vacation" as subject, include your Cybertown nickname or a nickname you would like to use for bylines. Citizens can also inbox jdb_educator at home: http://www.cybertown.com/home/jdb_educator
New Message Board Images! My goodness, there is patriotism in Adventure, "Ain't no stopping us" in Inner Realms -the baby is soooo cute-, Summer at the 9th dimension beach, and there is a neat flag addition to Games. Take a moment or two to browse the colony message boards too!
It's July !
jdb_educator
Anything Butterfly Contest! Cyberhood has had some great creations for this event, and soon our judges will be getting together to cast their votes! Thanks to all of you for your help and support in this project! We have a great team here at CH!!! woot! Does happy granny dance! Tx:))
posted by TxBornVaNow
CCA4 Some months we are slow to figure out where things are. We went looking for the winners, after not receiving responses to our rquests. These things happen when peeps are moving at light speed through tasks. It finally occured to us to check out the museum and there it was. The results! So, we bring them to you in case you missed the ceremony, wondeed who won and didn't know. http://home.cogeco.ca/~keystoimagination/awards/cca4_vote.htm
Winners!
by jdb_educator
TWO MORE FOR Over this last weekend in June, CVN discovered CameoViola.: 75089 - Club Owner September 09, 2000 and maxheadroom: 75050 - Wizard December 22, 1999 both passed the 75k Cybertown Experience level. CVN and Cybertown congratulate both of these Cytonians for their participation and contributions to the city.
The 75k Club!
by jdb_educator
Security tight at The Campus! Colony Leader b1a1b of The Campus tightened security there by offering security their own block in the colony. The block is called "Scales of Justice" and located in the Liberal Arts hood. As a result, well ablu says it so... " Thanks for having us here in Campus! We are all enjoying living on the same block. It was very nice of B1 to give us this opportunity.
by jdb_educator
ABlu"
Sunset Beach Images Contests Two big contests! 1.25 M cc's in total winnings. Contest dates: from June 25 to midnight of July 15. Contest 1 - 2D image for Sunset Beach chat area. Still or animated images (swf) welcome provided they fit the theme of fun at the Beach. Winning entry to receive 750,000 cc's. Contest 2 - Sunset Beach Message Board image. Same theme. Winning entry to receive 500,000 cc. Send entries to: rudykemp_ctsec@yahoo.com Please label email with Sunset Beach Contest. Failure to label entries as 2D chat or MB will be cause for disqualification.
posted by rudykemp
Sunset Beach Seeking Deputies Sunset Beach is actively seeking deputies to fill out our staff. We plan to have a new look soon, along with a growing list of activities in the weeks ahead. Applicants should be people-oriented and actively interested in the future of Sunset Beach specifically and in Cybertown's progress generally. Please reply with an inbox at Sunset Beach or by email to: rudykemp_ctsec@yahoo.comFor emails, please specify "Deputy position" in subject line.
posted by rudykemp
New Chief Announcement!
posted by webdoc, Places Liaison Assistant ~ Mayor's Secretary
CT's Places is pleased to welcome a new Performing Arts Center Chief! Congratulations to.....
*drum roll*Woodlands_Satyr
We know Woodlands will do a wonderful job and look forward to an exciting future in the Performing Arts Center under his care and guidance!!!!!!Sunset Welcomes New Deputy
Names Technical Assistant for Sunset
posted by rudykempI'm happy to announce that we have a new staff member on board here at Sunset Beach, one who displays an enthusiasm for life on the beach and make an important contribution to our future. Please make welcome our new deputy, Katerie. Welcome aboard!
Just letting you know that I've taken the liberty of making an appointment of a technical assistant to help with some redesign work for Sunset Beach. Unless he shoots me for doing this, welcome webdoc to his new assignment. They say that if you want something done, ask the busiest person you can find! Webdoc probably should qualify right up there on that one. Btw, thanks for some of your valuable input on Sunset already. That's why I gave you another job. LOL!
Big News from Sunset Beach. Two Major Sunset Beach contests are coming. Sunset Beach will be redesigned soon -- and that will be YOUR opportunity to win some big cybercash. There will be TWO major contests, one to create a new 2D design for Sunset Beach, with the other for a new design for its message board.
posted by rudykemp
Both contests will be open to all Cybertown residents. There will be over a million cc's up for grabs to the winners. Full details will be released within the next few days! Join in the fun as we bring a new look to one of the hottest spots in CT's history!
The Wall
posted by KaterieVisit today for a listing of some of Cybertown's most elite private stores!
Beam to TheWall
Also check out the items for sale in TheWallStore, all proceeds donated to the 9th Dimension, the home of TheWall.
Clubs Announces Communication Director The Clubs is happy to announce the appointment of the New Communications Deputy KYTATTOOMAN. Megan-Cho posted in clubs on this Subject: New Commmunications Director!
Opportunities for our Citizens!
jdb_educator
"Please join me in welcoming KYTATTOOMAN to the Clubs Team as Communication Director! "
We asked KY what about his plans for the future of The Clubs.
Q. As communication director what do you see the clubs need?
A. I would like to see the citizens and leaders of Cybertown realize the uses of the clubs, and that they can be used to host events and provide meeting spaces for their activities.
Q. How do you plan on promoting clubs?
A. I see getting out more information on clubs to the masses and helping anyone wanting to use them for more then storage. I remember back in the early days of Cybertown, citizens would use their clubs for their offices with their positions and most events were held in clubs.
We had many auction in clubs and people used to manage their stores and were there and ready to help you make purchases on the spot. We have now gotten to the point where they drop their items for sale and you leave a message and make a offer.
Q. Anything else you would like to see happen?
A. I want more benefits to go to citizens who use their clubs, such as cc's for the most activity and perhaps providing cc's to club owners for prizes, if they hold their events in the clubs.
In closing, I would like to say just keep your eyes open for many great things to happen in The Clubs and we look forward to working with all citizens.
KYTATTOOMAN
Communications Director
The Clubs
New BANK MANAGER
Named!
sylphie, Places Liaison
On behalf of Mayor stone_98, Cybertown City Council and CT's City Places, I am pleased to announce the new
BANK MANAGER!Congratulations to.....
*drum roll*
Don_HWelcome aboard, Don! We're confident that you will be a great success!
FV Creations & QB shop restocked
posted by Fire-ValkyrieIt's been a shamefully long time, but both my clubs are now restocked and I hope to keep them stocked too, because I need to clear some space in my storage!
The Quality Bargains store is stocked with my QB series and a few items from the amrta series, all at 75 CC a piece.
The FV Creations store is stocked with all sorts of things (first restock features mostly art) including a few freebies.
Enjoy!
Join the Creators Group VRML Wiki
Subscriber Services Change! CVN received the following email announcement from IVN through the Cybertown City Council. Several citizens have posted on the various boards regarding this announcement. Toila's comments seem representattive (and we totally agree too): "Many thanks to our beloved Vialle for all her wonderful years of service to IVN. She is always a joy to speak with no matter the circumstances. I am so happy to hear she will continue to be part of the CT family."
jdb_educatorBecause of increasing Real Life commitments, a few days ago Vialle realized that she would need to step back from handling the subscriber services for IVN. However, she will remain involved in other aspects of her “behind the scenes” support for Cybertown and intends to remain active in town.
Vialle is currently working with IVN to train a new billing representative and more information on this will be released as soon as the details are worked out.
Until then, your best option for contact remain the billing@integratedvirtualnetworks.com address. Paypal will likely be the best alternative for a quick transaction until the new arrangements are fully implemented.
We can only thank Vialle for the many, many hours of work she has put in helping our members with their subscriptions, making what could be a confusing process so enjoyable.
Come visit us at Cybertown
Samuel's Memory! We discovered these next two posts by Lady_D on our trek through colony boards. Samuel's Memory is a wonderful read about the trail of tears. Take the time and read this powerful first person story.
posted by Lady_D
http://cherokeehistory.com/samuel.html
Scottish Poetry! Chuckle with us as you read Lady_D's post of the "The Wedding of Shon MacLean". The word fou, we looked up, finding the definition "drunk" among the many presented.
posted by Lady_D
http://www.rampantscotland.com/poetry/blpoems_shon.htm
Liquidation Auction
at Shop For All
posted by katerie
A Shop For All Liquidation Auction
When: Monday, June 29th 2009, 7PM CT Time
Where: A Shop For All in the ClubsFor a list of available items click here.
To request specific items please inbox me.
June VirtDays Our thanks to tala who keeps sending us updates! We encourage other Cybtonians to contribute to our listings here.
e-mailed by Talaskian (in May)
Colonel_Klink June 2 1999
Akasha64 June 4 1999
Fujy June 7 2000
Lord_Knight June 8 2000
zealous June 8 2000
Sgt.Morin June 10 2007
IHadALoveOnceToo June 11 2002
Peachies June 14 1999
Mariobro June 15 2007
Lat567 June 18 2005
Jason_RC June 19 2001 In Memory of a Cytonian
Bashkirtsev June 22 2000
Thor June 24 1998
Innocent_Lov June 25 2004
2night June 27 1999
Sebastian321 June 30 2007
Lotto To Do in June...
Games Lotto Wants YOU
posted by EmmySky
click image for details
Click here to pay for your lottery ticket!
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Congratulations Dixie *hugss* and thanks especially to Morning.star, without him there wouldn't be a CCA4 team. And thank you to the rest of the CCA4 team members, who worked very hard to set it up and pull it off !
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 unsecure 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. And the mayor added "If you continue to have problems, you can also e-mail me at stone98ct@phazite.com " use subscription payment problems as your subject.
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! A couple of days ago, a longtime friend and active cybertown resident wrote me:
by jdb_educator"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 intriqued 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! 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.
Security Helpful Tips
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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