CVN Publications
Collected Virtual News ~~ News, Creative fun and Resources

Welcome to CVN Publications.

Publications full of creativity, exploration, resources, and having fun .

CVN Announces a New Short Story

We formatted and set up the Orax yesterday. Our new short story offering can be seen at our Short Stories site.

We have also begun our archives folder. It is set up by month (05) day (01) Year (13) Now there are two:

http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/00/Archives/index050113.html
http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/00/Archives/index050213.html

It is nice to be back to some basic reporting! We will try to present you three stories each day here. Our daily blog is a companion piece at jdb's Daily Activity Blog Please become a subscriber and comment.

Gadget Quiz

We ran across this one on CNN, and did not do so well. Give it a try and see if you can beat our score of 4.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/02/tech/innovation/cool-gadgets-quiz/index.html

Star Trek Boldly Goes...

Here is a nice article from Yahoo!:
J.J. Abrams said, "We were there just trying to shoot a movie, but all around us, these innovative scientists are working on technologies that will likely help the whole world." Abrams said he was intrigued not just by the work being done at NIF to develop renewable, clean energy sources, but at the influence "Trek" had on people's lives. He said, "So many people told us Star Trek inspired them to get involved in science."
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/star-trek-boldly-goes-unlikely-real-life-locations-153158175.html

The article closes with: "Star Trek Into Darkness" opens on May 17, but come back to Yahoo! Movies on Monday for an entire week of new and exclusive "Trek" content.

A Music Parody: Bohemian Rhapsody

The music is, of course, incredible. The parody is funny and the page has the benefit of having both the parody and Queen's version linked on the same page!! What a delight to watch and compare them both. The parody group: Humor Whores, did an incredible job of both filming and performing: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/syracuse-comedy-group-makes-clever-parody-song-called-142439618.html

Here is the original, official version, by Queen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ

CVN Changes

We do have several older, ongoing projects that need work on and they are listed below. Each will be changing over the next year. We will alert you when they are ready. Anyone want to help?

--- News Sources --- jdb's Fiction --- http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Heroes/ --- http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Memorials/ --- Early Changes Coming: Our New Daily Home: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/00 AND to http://cvnweekly.50megs.com ---

Browser Use and Navigation

As we experimented browser use with HTML 5, we discovered that Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Slimbrowser work very well. Internet Explorer always asks us to run Active X script, then does a good job once that is approved. Without the Active X script running, the page reformats incorrectly. We suspect that may not be true with newer versions, but IE 8 is the latest edition we can currently use. Anyone using a different browser, we would love to hear from you about your experience browsing our pages.

We Are Recruiting Writers, Graphic Artists, Tech specialists and Collaborators!

Sure, it's a dream! We all have dreams. Everyone wants something and we are no different.

We are currently looking for all the free help we can get. Over the years, we have discovered a lot of talented people who never thought they could write, edit, or have the fun of producing web stories people would read. We offer free training and publishing opportunities.

We have always recruited. and always will. Unpaid jobs are ALWAYS available.

There is always the possibility that we will come up with a project idea that will pay, and participants in such a project would also get paid. So bring your dreams and let's chat!

See our "You Can Contact us" section for ways to get in touch. The section is located at the very top in the left column. Once you contact us, we also have Skype and a phone # for possible follow up.

You Can Contact Us

WAYS TO CONTACT: Leave a Facebook message for John D. Boyden or email him at jdb_educator@msn.com( jdb_educator@msn.com )
Please include any nickname (or your real name) you want to use and please state CVN as your subject! Thank you in advance.

CVN'S EMERGENCY SERVICE ENDS
by jdb_educator, CVN Editor

The Weekly News has served as an Emergency Notification System URL for information relating to Cybertown:
http://www.cvnweekly.50megs.com.
It will now serve other purposes, unless Cybertown magically reappears.

Our Alternate Daily location has long been (2012-2013) located at:
cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/
It is now the Cybertown Daily News Archive.

CVN's New Voyage
by jdb_educator, Editor

We now begin our new voyage of discovery with CVN publications. The number of publication sites will expand as new writers, bloggers, and commentators join us. Each project we create or in which we are involved will have its own page linked to the indexes of our publications.

We DO need your help to spread the word to anyone interested or your friends and acquaintances who might be interested. Please Help! Send them to our new home at http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/00