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The Kentucky Derby

Saturday, today, is the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby. The Triple Derby and Race for the Roses begins today. The Derby will be the final race of the six stakes races on Saturday. Post time (and TV time) is 6:24 p.m. ET On NBC, which is running over 14 hours of coverage for this event. We'll tell you the winner, tomorrow!

Here is the field of 19 horses scheduled to run. See the odds and reasons why each horse might win, and reasons why each might not win:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horses/2013/05/03/kentucky-derby-field-19-horses/2132515/

Here is the featured USA Today story of one trainer All the links in our story come from this page:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horses/2013/05/03/trainer-mcgaughey-returns-to-churchill-with-favorite-in-tow/2133553/

Here are the picks by the Sports writers:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horses/2013/05/03/kentucky-derby-picks-expert-writers/2129055/

The Solar Impulse Plane
An American Journey

NBC has a cool story on this solar journey across the United States. Solar Impulse plans to fly from San Francisco to Phoenix to Dallas-Fort Worth, to St. Louis, to Washington, then to New York, arriving around July 4. The projects ultimate goal will be to circumnavigate the Earth with solar power in 2015.
Borschberg and Piccard will be taking turns in the pilot's seat for a months-long series of flights that should end up in New York around the Fourth of July. Each leg of the odyssey will be covered with streaming video, and the project plans to collect thousands of names that will be added to a "Clean Generation" list of supporters carried in the cockpit.
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/solar-impulse-airplane-begins-fuel-free-odyssey-across-america-6C9761186

Germs! Are They Coming for You?

Be Very Scared ! (or not) Read the story link below to see the #1 top dirty spot in your kitchen. What do you think it is? We'll tell you it is not one of the following:

Blenders, rubber spatulas and can openers were tainted with traces of E.coli, salmonella and listeria, according to swab samples from 20 home kitchens tested by NFS International, a global health and safety organization originally known as the National Sanitation Foundation. Nasty bugs were even found inside the refrigerator vegetable drawers.
http://www.today.com/health/germiest-spots-your-kitchen-where-you-least-expect-them-6C9744643

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 Weekly Home in about 4 days: to http://cvnweekly.50megs.com ---

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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.

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.

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