What Holidays Are Coming?
by jdb_educator, CVN Editor and holidays.net

Thursday February 24

• Curling Is Cool Day
• Inconvenience Yourself Day
• Iwo Jima Day
• Army and Navy Day (Russia)
• National Day (Brunei Darussalam)

Real World News
by jdb_educator
---Updated Daily 2100--- News links for today and everyday.

CYBERTOWN IS FREE!
CNN (US):http://www.cnn.com/
MSN (US): http://www.msn.com/
BBC (Great Britain): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
CBC(Canada:)http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Canada: http://www.canada.com/
Guardian (Great Britain)http://www.guardian.co.uk

CVN Movies Feature
by jdb_educator
---Updated Daily 2100---Send us a review, if you go to the movies!

Check the sites below for trailers, stories, and box office results.

You can see what the current cash cow results look like at the box office by clicking: http://boxofficemojo.com/ Reviews are also available!

Anyone want to write reviews? One or two lines are enough to present an opinion. What do you go see? Tell us at CVN! To post at the Editor's inbox:
http://www.cybertown.com/home/jdb_educator . To email him at jdb_educator@msn.com What are the coming movies that you are waiting for their release? Please use Movies as your subject!

http://www.movies.com/
http://www.comingsoon.net/
http://movies.yahoo.com/
http://movies.msn.com/?ocid=ENTSP-Movies
http://www.hulu.com/recent/film_trailers?h=6&has_captions=0&has_free=0

This Day In History?
by jdb_educator
---Updated Daily 2100--- Take a look and find out what happened today, in history, at http://www.history.com/

We'll always remember you, Halee!
by Skye-hook
---February 21 2100 --- For Our Haleeween
May all the bells in heaven ring,
May all the angels sweetly sing,
May someone give her pretty wings,
To welcome home our Haleeween.

CVN Memorial Page
by jdb_educator, CVN
We are beginning developpment of our memorial page on halleeween and encourage those who want to add their memories and thoughts to Email the editor at jdb_educator@msn.com
Please use halleeween as your subject!

Sad News
by jdb_educator, CVN
---February 20 2100 --- Cybertown posted on facebook: "Sad news friends and neighbours. A light in the dark of our online world has been extinguished and has gone on to meet our Maker. May we all be forgiven if we find the world a little darker after the news. But we must mourn Lee Ann Hume, our Haleeween, Halee and Leelee before we can feel her light again. Let's hope she was sped from this plane straight into the comfort found in the presence of our Creator. Condolences and heartfelt feelings go out from us here at Cybertown to her husband, Jay, her family and her other friends."
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/West-Liberty-Woman-Killed-in-Crash-139630433.html

West Liberty Woman Killed in Crash
www.kcrg.com

MOSCOW, Iowa – A West Liberty woman died in a crash in Muscatine County Saturday night. According to the Iowa State Patrol, 19 year old Eric Boots from Muscatine didn’t stop at a stop sign on an intersection on Hwy 6 near Moscow.
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Chris Gravesite posted Its very sad and seems unfair that we can not pick and choose who leaves our lives. R.I.P Leeann Hume / haleeween, you will be truly missed. Big Hugs To My CT Family AS We Mourn Our Good Friend Haleeween.
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Doug Black was the first to post . He posted on Cybertown Anonymous at Facebook.
If anone hasn't heard the news, last night Cybertown's beloved haleeween (Leeann Hume) passed away in a car accident! Our prayers go out to her husband Jay and the rest of the family! Like · · 247 ·

No More Noticeable Changes Found
by jdb_educator, CVN
---February 20-23 2100 --- We do not see any other changes yet. We did analyze one of the error web pages that comes up and note that it reveals a "database error".
---February 19 2100 --- There does seem to be some confusion about yesterday's post, so we will attempt to clarify that. The only login page working is the redirect we always use. Our login is: http://www.cybertown.com/home/jdb_educator and we can only get forbidden or the "no index" page after logging in. When we type in an incorrect password, the application tells us so.

The immigration page is also on the redirect page. Try it without logging in and you'll probably see that same page we see.

If you do not usually use the redirect login:
it is a combination of this address followed by your Cybertown nick.

http://www.cybertown.com/home/ (Then type your nick)
You can -when CT works- use any citizens name and go to their house, after logging in. Of course that ability is not working right now.

---February 18 2100 --- Good Morning. It is Saturday and we discovered that the immigration page is up. The quick help page does not just say no index, but then we have images of both for you today as we document what appears to be progress. Still no access but, at this time minor progress.:

• signin works
• immigration page is up
• quick help page may be responding differently.

The images:
Quick help not available: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/ct020912003.jpg
Immigration: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/ct020912001.jpg

What Happened to CT?!
by Vaille, CVN
---February 16 2100 --- "CT became very unstable... kept going down more and more. IVN chose to change providers (went to AT&T) and there's been a slew of problems with the move. The most recent has something to do with permissions and that's causing the "forbidden access" type of page that's coming up now when we try to go there. On February 10th I was told it could take 2 weeks, but I don't consider that a promise that nothing else could go wrong to delay things further.

I seem to be able to get to at least a partially migrated subscription page, but to be honest I don't know if any changes I make there will translate to the actual member database so I think it best to wait until CT is back up. I'd hate to mess anything up more! :o)"

Vaille urges those who want their free subscription to "Keep your eye on Facebook and when you see that the city is back up contact me again, okay?"

FREE Course from MIT!
by jdb_educator, CVN
---February 16 2100 --- You can read a bit more at: http://www.mitx.mit.edu/
---February 15 2100 --- This is going to be amazing!! MIT is giong to offer a FREE course online to everyone. We found this on BBC. And encourage you to read and ponder the technology behind it and to consider if you might be willing to participate.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17012968

Our Recent Archives!!
by jdb_educator, CVN
---February 20 2100 --- We have been saving our previous days page by merely adding the month, day and year. So Sundays's index page becomes http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/index021912.html and they go all the way back to http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/index010112 . Missing may be a few days when the Daily page was working in Cybertown.

Sharing!!
by jdb_educator, CVN
---February 10 2100 --- Cybertown citizen Lilly03 contacted us on Facebook to check on the city's progress. She shared with us screenshow she created. You can see those pictures here:
http://lilly03.free.fr/beauport/abbaye.html

She allowed us to use it in the news. Lilly told us "it's the night here in Brittany near the sea. 3:10 am here in Brittany near Lannion. very old abbay in Brittany. Photos by me."

Her main? site can be found here : http://www.wix.com/lilly03/armor

Cybertown Rising?
---February 14 - 23 2100 --- We are exploring with additional city links. We find no huge changes .
---February 13 2100 --- no changes .
---February 12 2100 --- no changes noted.
---February 11 2100 --- I got the redirect page again. The log in is apparently working. I tried a wrong password and it was identified as an incorrect password. However, trying to get the "quick help page" off of the redirect page has resulted in the usual: no index page

---February 10 2100 --- In our clicking around exploration today, we discovered the new member page displays, but without images, like the other few pages. Attempting to log in still does not work, and any saved link may just take you to the redirect sign in page or one of the other pages that go no where.

---February 9 2100 --- We got our usual navigation cancelled this morning, so we refreshed and discovered the redirect page! No images were loading, but we tried logging in anyway, getting a black blank page and finally ended up with the no index page but there were CYBERTOWN Pages! We took screenies so you can see what we saw. Several individuals have reported similar experiences to us.

Redirect: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/ct020912001.jpg (114 kb)

Black: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/ct020912002.jpg (66 kb)

Forbidden: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/ct020912003.jpg (80 kb)

No index page:http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/ct020912004.jpg (72 kb)

---February 8 2100 --- Yesterday, we had a bit of a shock when we clicked our Cybertown link late this morning. (12:50 PM CYT). This is what we saw: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Cybertown/ctpage020812.jpg (151 kb)

FREE BOOKS!


We love free things and big provided us with this adorable page for free books AND other free stuff. What made it especially cool, was I could send the page to my daughter for a birthday present. Now it becomes a present to all our readers too:
http://www.bing.com/editors-picks/category?q=free+e-books&publ=REWARDS&crea=TEXT_MFEINA_DailyOffers_Editor'sPick_Feb08_1x1&form=B8MP40&pc=B8MP

Early Recorded Sounds


---February 9 2100 --- Early inventions to record sound have been laying around in museums. Many appeared lost, some were ruined by unknowing neglect, but those that exist are changing our view of history. CNN reports, and it is an amazing read...and listen.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/08/us/earliest-recordings-sound/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1

There is more to explore at http://www.firstsounds.org/

Schools of the Future?!


---February 8 2100 --- Over the next several years you can expect to see the commercialization of education. This has been going on for years. Wherever profit can be found, the business sector will jump in. We've seen privitization, where businesses take over schools, and there have been several scandals over testing and other issues at some of those schools as well as in the public sector. Consumers of these products will decide. Here are two stories we found that will expand your awareness:
http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/07/students-go-at-own-pace-at-school-without-boundaries/?hpt=hp_bn1
http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/30/virtual-schools-on-the-rise-but-are-they-right-for-k-12-students/?iref=obinsite

What a World!
by jdb_educator

We have been busy keeping the news going, creating a couple web pages, getting involved in party politics once again, working as a substitute teacher, and of course, spending way too much time playing games on Facebook.

Want to contact us?:
WAYS TO CONTACT: Leave a facebook message for John D. Boyden or email him at jdb_educator@msn.com
Please include your ct nick and use CT as your subject!

Older History
Waiting For Cybertown
by jdb_educator

--- February 8 2100 --- (7:44 AM EST) the usual checks. Not found.
--- February 7 2100 --- (7:20 AM EST) the usual checks. Not found.
--- February 6 2100 --- (6:18 AM EST and several times through the day) Routine checks, only blank, "not found" pages. We will continue to check
--- February 5 2100 --- A few more checks yesterday and this morning. No change. Nothing found. We can only wait and hope that everything gets working again

--- February 4 2100 --- Three more checks yesterday with no page found. At 6:48 AM CyT(EST) Saturday morning, we still find oureselves reporting nothing found.

--- February 3 2100 --- As of 7:08 AM Friday, we still find "not found" when we search. We will continue daily reports, now and watch for citizen reports.

--- February 2 2100 --- As of 7:16 AM we could not acess the city yet. But there is Good News: from IVN, late yesterday "...they are having a tough time getting our line up and running. I am scheduled to speak with them and their technical team today so that we can resolve this problem. I anticipate that service should be restored sometime soon during the week. Will keep you udated."

--- February 1 2100 --- Welcome to a new month. As of 6:30 CYT, we are still unable to pull up any cybertown pages. We will continue to check and report as news comes in.

--- January 31 2100 --- February starts tomorrow. As of 7AM CyT(EST) the site was still not showing up in our browser. However we did receive good news this morning around 8 AM EST. Wovencroft tells us "The new IP is there I can ping it after clearing my ipconfig cache. The city platform is not running yet." Our take is that IVN techs are trying to resolve problems associated with the move. Even though we cannot currently access Cybertown, it IS nice to know the site continues, even in the current limbo of the inaccessible.

--- January 30 2100 --- Unbelievable to our mind, but perhaps others are in fact finding Cybertown? We urge you to email us or contact us on Facebook, if and when you discover Cybertown online. We have been checking several times during the day since Cybertown began this transition. It could be that the trusted site designation is causing problems too, we just do not know. As of ths writing, our browsers are very quick to tell us simply "Not Found."

--- January 28 2100 --- The ISP Change is underway. We will continue to report here for as long as Cybertown remains offline. It should not take more than 24 - 48 hours for the new ISP host to spread its ID numbr through the Internet. The old number we used, we gathered today. It was was 38.119.86.136. Our efforts to contact people to alert them garnered us one email of thanks. You can tell when CT is back by clicking this URL and seeing if the news anchor image has returned or just click your URL for Cybertown.

--- January 27 2100 --- IVN says: "Please alert CT members that the migration will now be taking place on Friday January 27 sometime after 3:00pm PST. Thanks" (6 pm EST or CYT!)
--- January 24 - 26 2100 --- No word. We will update you when we hear or know. lol This is definitely a non-story!

--- January 23 2100 --- Still no word on the ISP Change.
--- January 20 2100 --- No news on change, no news on what happened to yesterday's effort to upload the news. We will send another file today.
--- January 19 2100 --- Still nothing new in our inbox, but the Daily News URL appears to be working.

--- January 18 2100 --- No additional information is available on when the IP change may happen. We did discover another crazy thing that has happened. We found the weekly news link has poofed from Cybertown. It was set up as a page link in the magazine folder, but no longer can be found. Beyond that we were astounded to see our update of the weekly has vaporized too. That could be something as simple as not publishing it, when we thought we did. The blog is supposed to replace the basic index.html at the cvnweekly site.
--- January 17 2100 --- We have powdered egg dust on our CVN faces folks! We believed the change had occurred from reports. In our hands this morning was an explanation that the IP shift has not happened for what appears to be good reason. We will continue to follow this wild and crazy (typical) Cytonian adventure and report on it.

Our Cybertown mayor gives us all excellent advice (thanks dazz!): "A good rule of thumb is to expect downtime soon, know that, and that when it happens, know the migration is likely taking place. For confirmation and/or updates as they are received, stay tuned to Cybertown's FaceBook Fan Page."

Thank you all for your patience and understanding.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled CT program....

Short Movie Reviews!
by jdb_educator, CVN Editor and deb44

---January 24 2100 ---

The Devil Inside Review

deb44: This movie is really scary, Its also a bit gory. I would suggest seeing this movie if you like scary movies.

I would give this movie 5 out of 5 stars *****

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Review

jdb_educator: Good fun, action packed, great characters, amazing history make this movie worth seeing! Excellent popcorn movie.

I would give this movie 4 out of 5 stars ****

Submit YOUR review: Post the Editor's inbox:
http://www.cybertown.com/home/jdb_educator
or email him at jdb_educator@msn.com
Please use Movies as your subject!

CVN'S EMERGENCY SERVICE
by jdb_educator, CVN Editor

The Weekly News still serves as Emergency Notification System URL: http://www.cvnweekly.50megs.com