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The Kentucky Derby

Orb Wins with an amazing stretch run. Watch the race replay from NBC:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22825103/vp/51776398#51776398

Saturday, Yesterday, was the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby. The Triple Crown of racing began with the Derby, and the annual Race for the Roses has begun. Post time (and TV time) was 6:24 p.m. ET on NBC, which was running over 14 hours of coverage for this event.

Here is the field of 19 horses scheduled to run. See the odds and reasons why each of the listed horse might have won, and reasons why each might not. The second Crown is the Preakness Stakes in June, followed by the third jewel of racing, the Belmont Stakes.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horses/2013/05/03/kentucky-derby-field-19-horses/2132515/

Here is the featured USA Today story of the winning trainer of the Kentucky Derby, before he won:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horses/2013/05/03/trainer-mcgaughey-returns-to-churchill-with-favorite-in-tow/2133553/

Here were the picks by the Sports writers. See how many got their pick right:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/horses/2013/05/03/kentucky-derby-picks-expert-writers/2129055/

Star Wars Day

May Fourth was Star Wars Day. Dang, guess I need to add that date to my calendar. My focus was on the Kentucky Derby! So here it is Sunday and I guess we are celebrating three different orbs today! Here is our second orb story, and may the fourth be with you. There are links to four Star wars parodies in the story below, although one is just collected references from 30 Rock. All here, and all obviously orbit within the Star wars universe. So ... "May the Farce be with you"

http://www.today.com/entertainment/may-fourth-be-you-also-these-great-star-wars-parodies-6C9682723

CVN Changes

And finally let us take a look at some historic orbs discovered in Mexico from Yahoo! a couple of days ago. We think there may be a book or movie in this discovery:

Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Mysterious Metallic Orbs Below Mexico’s ‘Temple of the Feathered Serpent’

"We can not yet establish its role because it is an unprecedented discovery. They should have a sphere, ranging from 4 to 12 inches and have a core of clay with organic matter, then covered them with pyrite, a mineral that underwent a process of oxidation and became jarosite, hence have a tone yellow," archaeologist Jorge Zavala said, according to the National Institute of Archaeology and History.

http://news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-hundreds-mysterious-metal-orbs-below-mexico-temple-170036545.html

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 3 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