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Simmons & Simmons advises Equinix on acquisition and alliance
Simmons & Simmons has advised Equinix, a NASDAQ-listed data centre provider, on its acquisition of a data centre facility in Dubai and alliance with Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company to deliver data centre and interconnection services to customers in the Middle East.
The Simmons & Simmons team for the Equinix data centre acquisition was led by Nick Watson.
Alex Shepherd advised on the commercial and regulatory aspects of the alliance.
News from Simmons & Simmons
Simmons & Simmons announces employment partner appointments
Simmons & Simmons advises on £49m St Modwen share placing
Simmons & Simmons advises European Energy on wind farm power plant acquisition
Simmons & Simmons advises Grant Thornton on administration of Opal Property Group
Simmons & Simmons expands Amsterdam intellectual property team
News from The Lawyer
Clyde & Co formalises Riyadh association
Allen & Overy joins rush to South Africa
Simmons launches Chinese IP practice through Rouse hire
Allen & Overy set to launch in South Africa with senior Bowmans hires
Simmons enters South Africa with Fasken Martineau alliance
Analysis from The Lawyer
ULaw vs BPP: hostilities subside, war goes on and on
The law school war shows no signs of ending. But we have, perhaps, reached the end of the beginning.
Number crunching: Clyde & Co corporate
Earlier this year Clyde & Co revealed a 33 per cent climb in corporate revenue, from £53m to £70.7m.


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A beautiful smile can change a person's life; at least that's the hope of a local contest called "Nashville's Most Wanted Smiles".This is the third year that Dr. Michael Atchley and his team have donated thousands of dollars in free dental work to the contest winners.Monday was a lucky day for a struggling musician."The plan is we're gonna sneak in there, and he won't expect us there... I'm gonna walk over to the table and say, 'Dustin, I'm here to congratulate you because you have won the Nashville Most Wanted Smile Makeover'," said Dr. AtchleyThe ambush was an answer to Dustin Miller's prayers.He makes a living performing on stage, but couldn't afford dental restoration work."I've always wanted to do something. I used to dip and quit back in November and I've been wanting to do something like that to get my teeth fixed from all those years of abuse, and the one thing that's kept me from doing it is the cost," Miller explained.Miller's friend, Ty Brown, signed him up for the contest."I found this on the Internet. I was searching around one Sunday afternoon and saw this story and it popped up," Brown said.He added that Miller plays a lot of music for a lot of different people."Being on stage is what he loves to do. Having that type of smile on stage is gonna make all the difference in the world," explained Brown."Smiling from ear to ear from now on," Miller concluded.Nashville's News 2 will follow Miller's progress over the coming months.
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New London
Publication: The Day
I was pleased to attend the retirement celebration for my long-time friend and dedicated New London police officer, Capt. William Dittman.
It was a wonderful affair, which many persons attended.
The speeches were both light hearted and serious as they reflected a career that started out as a patrol officer and rose to the rank of captain.
Capt. Dittman was respected by the public and his peers because he respected them. He respected his superior officers. I am sure not always agreeing with them, but always respecting their position and rank.
Capt. Dittman's mission was for the safety and well being of the citizen's of New London.
How disappointing it was that there was no representation from the mayor's office or from the City Council. It was nice, however, that Rep. Ernest Hewett presented Capt. Dittman with a proclamation from the Connecticut legislature.
I am a life-long resident of the city of New London and am aware of the political unrest within the city. But come on, not a simple thank you after 35 years of service?
Capt. Dittman, enjoy your retirement and let me express my appreciation for your serving New London for 35 years.
Dennis W. Piscitello
What surprised you more, that New London did not make the Class LL basketball final or that Waterford made it to the Class M final?
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Ultra fresh. Ultra sexy.95% Cotton and 5% Spandex. This super short, low-waist style offers amazing stretch.Designed to attract attention. Special details include 3/4" waist and bottom hem with a 100% cotton.Classic black and white, nice true red and baby blue or baby pink and now also in fuchsia and lavender!


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Book your room at Crowne Plaza Portland-Lake Oswego
Standard RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child)
Room, 2 Double Beds, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Room, 1 King Bed with Sofabed, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Executive Room, 1 King Bed with Sofabed, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Executive Room, 2 Double Beds, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Hotel with an outdoor pool, in Lake Oswego (South Portland)
This hotel is located in Lake Oswego (South Portland), close to Portland Temple Visitors' Center, George Fox University Portland Center, and Live Laugh Love Glass. Also nearby are Bridgeport Village and Bridgeport Plaza Mall.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Crowne Plaza Portland-Lake Oswego features an indoor pool. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and a porter/bellhop.
Room Amenities
Televisions come with premium satellite channels. Guestrooms also feature climate control, safes, and coffee/tea makers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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At your hotel
In addition to an indoor pool and an outdoor pool, Crowne Plaza Portland-Lake Oswego provides a sauna and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink.
This 3.5-star property offers access to a business center. This business-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, gift shops/newsstands, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 161
- ATM/banking
- Number of floors - 6
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free self parking
- Sauna
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- Outdoor pool
Park your car
Free self parking
In your room
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Climate control
- Complimentary newspaper
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
Eat and drink
Crowne Plaza Portland-Lake Oswego has a restaurant on site.
Room service is available.
An indoor pool and an outdoor pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Braille or raised signage
The fine print for Crowne Plaza Portland-Lake Oswego
When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
When you leave
Check-out time is 11 AM
How you can pay
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, Discover, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
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STEVENS POINT, WI (UWSP) - The UW-Stevens Point softball team has announced the following changes to the schedule due to unfavorable field and playing conditions.
The UW-Oshkosh doubleheader, originally scheduled for April 10, will now take place April 18 at McCarty Memorial Field in Stevens Point. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.
The nonconference home doubleheader against Marian University, scheduled for April 18, has been moved up a day to April 17. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.
The conference doubleheaders scheduled for April 13-14 against UW-River Falls and UW-Stout have been rearranged. UW-Stevens Point will now take on UW-Stout on Saturday, April 13 in Menomonie beginning at 3:30 p.m. on the turf at the football stadium.
On April 14, the Pointers return to Menomonie and play UW-River Falls. First pitch is scheduled for 12 p.m.


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Jasper and Amanda Warden sheltered in their shower on May 20 as an EF-5 tornado "tore their home apart piece by piece," Oklahoma City TV station KFOR (NewsChannel 4) reports. Now, the couple is rebuilding — this time, with insulating concrete forms (ICFs). (For the full KFOR report, see: "Recovering from the storms: Building a tornado-resistant home," by Ali Meyer.)
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As NationStates continues to grow in depth and complexity, I'm pleased to announce the addition of the cutting-edge Conjugator Mk IX Grammar Simulator shard to our core nation-modeling engine. With support for nouns, adjectives, and plurals, grammar has never been so much fun!
So you can specify what your people are called, instead of having the game take your nation name and stick "ians" on the end. Go to your Settings page and you'll find a new Demonym text field. There's also a little "(?)" for help and extra options for those sophisticated/persnickety nations that require total control over national grammar.
This will be used in your national description on your main nation page, and in various issues when referring to your people and national assets.
Embassies are Now Good for Something
Not that regional embassies have been pointless. They have had plenty of points. It's just that you've had to decide for yourself what those points are. Now, though, there's something regional embassies are unambiguously good for! Posting!
Delegates and Founders will find a new setting in Region Control for granting posting privileges on the Regional Message Board (RMB) to nations in embassy regions. There are two ways to go with this: opening the board up to every nation that sits in a region with which your region shares an embassy, or only Delegates and Founders. It's entirely up to each region.
Unless that setting is changed, posting on Regional Message Boards continues to be restricted to residents only.
If you're concerned about peace of mind, never fear! Nations banned from a region cannot post there, regardless of embassies.
While we're talking RMBs, did you know you can preface a nation's name with the @ sign to create [nation]-style tags? Probably not! Because it wasn't announced anywhere! But you can!
There are a ton of great new features nearing completion at the moment, so step back, buckle in, and prepare yourself for a FEATURE EXPLOSION. Maybe don't buckle in. I mean, it could be another couple of months, and then you'd just be sitting there, wondering when to unbuckle. And just as you stand up: FEATURE EXPLOSION. We don't want that.
My Book is Smaller and Cheaper
"Page-Turner of the year"
Chicago Tribune
"The year's smartest thriller"
Time Magazine
"The words brilliant and exemplary aren't adequate enough to convey the amazing craft of Lexicon."
Associated Press
The Guardian
You know the problem with novels. They're so expensive! Until, that is, they come out in neat, affordable paperback:
Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction Books the Year
Goodreads Best Books of the Year
Kirkus Best Fiction of the Year
Chicago Tribune Page-Turner of the Year
NPR Best Books of the Year
2014 Alex Award Winner
iBookstore Best of the Year
Amazon.co.uk Best Books of the Year
MaxBarry.com • Reviews • International
So now there's no reason to put off getting that awesome book everyone's talking about. By which I mean Lexicon. The book I wrote. That's the book.
brb buying ByteCoin
BitCoin has been in the news a lot lately, turning ordinary people into millionaires, then back into ordinary people again. The wonderful thing about BitCoin is it's a currency, but without any of the cumbersome government regulation that stifles innovation, facilitates tax, and prevents banks making off like bandits with all your money.
NationStates is a progressive place, so it's only right that we unveil a cryptocurrency for nations. But not BitCoin—no, we have something better. Eight times better, in fact. It's NS ByteCoin!
Getting started with ByteCoin is easy. Just navigate to your nation's home page and click the START MINING BYTECOIN button. This commences a process whereby ByteCoin is manufactured out of unicorn tears and orphan wings. It may feel strange and uncomfortable, seeing money produced out of thin air, but that's only because you don't pay much attention to the Federal Reserve. This is actually how it usually works.
Of course, you need somewhere to put your ByteCoin. It's not like you can just pop it into your pockets. It doesn't really exist. So you need to select a ByteCoin exchange to hold it. Exchanges are other nations that have completed a rigorous application process, probably right now while you're reading this, which involves paying a hefty fee. Then they can hold other people's ByteCoins! This is actually completely safe and under no circumstances is there any chance that an exchange will lose your money, unless hackers.
But that's not all. You can also swap ByteCoins into your own nation's local currency. I mean, it's not what I'd recommend. Everyone's really getting into ByteCoin these days. Selling out... well, I won't tell you what to do. But it's weird. Anyway, you can do it. And since the price of ByteCoin fluctuates, just a little, you might even be able to make a little by swapping in and out at the right times.
Good luck! And remember, ByteCoin isn't about getting rich: It's about freedom! And getting rich!
ByteCoin Marketplace • ByteCoin Activity
Update 1! Well, the servers are being destroyed by traffic. That's why everything is slow to load. Sorry about that. Of course, back in the day, we often had lag worse than this. Not because of April Fool's events. That was just what we called normal. But nowadays, a server gets slow and everyone's like, WHAAAAAAT.
However! If this is annoying you, don't worry, it will all be over soon. Soon-ish. I'm letting this run a little longer than usual, to avoid forcing US East Coasters to stay up until 3am again, and because a lot of work goes into setting these events up and I like watching them.
Update 2! I'm shocked at how little thievery there was. Oh sure, a few trillion were pilfered here and there, but for the most part, ByteCoin exchanges stayed true to their word and stole almost nothing from their customers. I have to say, I feel it's my fault. I failed to create an adequate simulation of the real world.
There was some debate about whether the ByteCoin prices were market-driven or just some dumb random algorithm. I can now confirm that a true market mechanism was always the only acceptable option for ByteCoin, up until about March 31 when I realized how hard that was to code. So it was a dumb random algorithm. Except for Titanfall, which was a plan by some big ByteCoin players to try to crash the market by all selling at once, which I caught wind of and simulated to freak them out. That was fun.
Thank you for playing with ByteCoin! If you'd like to see your final holdings, you can use the tiny "ByteCoin Status" on the right side of your nation page, or click here.
The World Assembly: Now With More (Health) Caring
This news post is by Game Moderator and World Assembly Resolution Wrangler Ardchoille. It is, of course, incomprehensible to those of us who don't closely follow the minutia of World Assembly legislation. And quite rightly so. If it were simple and easily understood, it wouldn't be the World Assembly. But here is the short version: There is a new category available to resolution authors named "Health," and the "Environmental" category has gained new options.
The World Assembly,
NOTING that a large proportion of nations never wash behind their ears,
BELIEVING that it's years since most of them cleaned their fingernails, and
TOTALLY CONVINCED that they'd live on peanut butter and two-minute noodles if we let them,
ABROGATES TO ITSELF the power to muck about to its heart's content with healthcare in member nations,
INSISTS that nations extract large sums from their citizenry in the name of aid, development and research, and
INVOKES the spirits of those renowned medicos Dr Hannibal Lecter, Doctor Doom and Doctor Moreau to gently guide international moral decisions in the minefields of bioethics.
FURTHERMORE, the WA,
FED TO THE BACK TEETH with trying to think up proposals for Trout Fishing,
MANDATES that everyone take a decent swing at miners, loggers, manufacturers and people who do things with (and possibly to) automotive machines and
TURNS A REVEALING SPOTLIGHT on the wicked practices of Agriculturalists, while still casting a beady eye on ALL BUSINESSES whatsoever, because they're probably DOING THINGS TO THE ENVIRONMENT.
FINALLY, the WA
WELCOMES anyone who enjoys starting sentences with verbs in capital letters,
PIOUSLY HOPES that one day the Secretary-General will return to us, and
THANKS the Admins and Techies who made this all possible, while
URGING all who oppose our benevolent rule to inflict any abusive emails, repeals, insultingly small bribes, etcetera, on the Secretariat, as it's
TOO LATE TO STOP US NOW mWA-hah-haaahhhh!
Interviewed on the effect of the new WA category on life, the universe and everything, a sober sapient found dancing quietly in the Strangers Bar said it would undoubtedly cure cancer, end the Spon Plague in Upper Examplestan, stop Ponies getting stones in their hooves and turn the tide in the recurrent zombie infestations.
"I can very confidently predict that it will improve the world, one Resolution at a time," he said, disappearing into a nearby blue police box.
Dispatches Are Now A Thing
In mid-2012, I promised to add more uses for dispatches than Factbooks, and sure enough, practically five minutes later, here they are! How we maintain this breakneck development pace, I do not know.
Now your nation can issue dispatches that are not merely descriptions of its own glorious state, but news, opinions, policies, or articles about whatever it chooses. These are handily collected in the new Dispatches page, which is even more handily included on the sidebar, allowing you to easily find interesting new articles from nations around the world. Or at least, that's how it will work if everyone votes up worthwhile dispatches and votes down less deserving ones. I'm assuming there will be no corruption involved.
And that's not all! Founders and Delegates can pin dispatches to their region's World Factbook Entry, ensuring that residents are exposed to whatever they think passes for vital information.
I know! Polls, new World Census Rankings, Dispatches... it's Feature February come early!
New World Census Rankings
This post comes courtesy of resident Issues Tech Kindly Professor Hell.
NationStates offers a large number of rankings, allowing nations an opportunity to boast about their impressive achievements: Most Civil Rights, Happiest Citizens, Most Apathetic Citizens, Highest Crime Rate, and so on. Today, we announce two new ways of establishing your nation's superiority.
Most Scientifically Advanced measures a nation's scientific and technological progress. We can't tell you exactly how we measure it, but, yes, rocket science is involved. Or perhaps your nation feels that man should live in harmony with the Earth, and not meddle with things beyond our ken. A trophy for Most Primitive will remind you of the good old days when illness was treated with healing herbs and crystals and when thunder was known to be the gods calling out for more virgins—before the uncouth geeks from the north took over with their alphabets, their metallurgy and their chariots, and eventually desecrated the sacred groves with huge smartphone stores.
It can sometimes happen that a nation ranks highly in both Most Advanced and Most Primitive. This situation usually means that the nation has advanced wearable computers, but uses them only to cast horoscopes.
Another ranking was introduced a while ago, but perhaps is worth mentioning now. This is the Most Developed ranking, which computes a national Human Development Index, similar to the way a certain Unspeakably Named world organization computes it. The HDI is a blend of economic well-being, literacy and lifespan. See this thread for some discussion of how it works.
We think the HDI is interesting, because maxing out your HDI is an interestingly different goal your nation can try after achieving perfect freedom, perfect equality and/or perfect misery. It should not surprise you that a high development score will likely give a boost to your scientific advancement as well.
Polls: Just What You Always Wanted, Possibly
Ever wanted to see a quick poll of your region's mood? Maybe you have. I don't know, because I've never been able to poll you. But now I can!
Polls can now be created in any region by its Delegate or Founder. You can even choose who is eligible to vote, for example restricting it to WA members, to large nations, or opening it up to the whole world (like the one above).
Naturally, the results are available in graphical form with a few interesting breakdowns. Because you can never have too many graphs. Or breakdowns.
We also have a Global List of Polls.
Return To Your Homes
Glorious victory! That's what 200,284,000,000,000 dead looks like to me. Sure, that's a lot of corpses. But last time, there were 200,506,000,000,000 dead! It's a clear improvement.
Actually, the real victory was in Survivor numbers, which climbed from a mere 18.7 trillion in April to a healthy-ish 55.1 trillion today. That's a survival rate of just a tick over 20.0%. Final numbers of infected were well down, from 35.9 trillion in April to 19.8 trillion today.
During the apocalypse, nations deployed a grand total of 1.6 million zombie actions (Cure Missiles, TZES strikes, and Horde attacks). To put that in some kind of perspective, the number of non-zombie actions on an average day in NationStates is around 100,000. I'm glad we got that new server up recently, because we wouldn't have survived without it.
Some of the same regions scoring glory on this year's Z-Day Tally Board were the same as last time; some fell to the hordes; others rose on the backs of mechanized zombie kill squads and Mk V Cure Missiles. Perhaps the biggest difference is there were a lot more regions that managed to be completely infection-free by the final bell. A glorious achievement indeed, although perhaps the survivors sometimes wonder... could they have done more? There were a lot of closed borders out there. Such times test us all.
Thank you for being part of NationStates-Z2. Happy Halloween!
Apocalypse In Progress
I'm not even talking about the zombies. I'm talking about what you all just did to our server. But most of the fires are out now and we're standing by with extinguishers and blankets.
A new global infection has indeed taken hold, as expected. It seems to have initially reached 10% of the population, which is mildly concerning, since last time it started at only 5%. But, as mentioned, back then it took us a while to figure out what was happening, whereas now we are completely prepared.
In further good news, the new infection doesn't appear to be more virulent than before, so it won't spread any quicker. However, early analysis suggests it is more resistant to a cure, and may require a greater collective research effort to defeat. But everyone is prepared, right? So no problem.
Update! The Z-Day Tally Board is up!
Update 2! Superweapons! We have them. Unfortunately, they have them, too. Cure Missiles, Zombie Hordes, and Tactical Zombie Elimination Squads are flying in all directions.
Unfortunately, things aren't looking too good for the world. I have a feeling we're looking at a post-apocalyptic wasteland again. Those huge regions are really just zombie buffets right now.
But there are pockets of hope! Check the Z-Day Tally Board for the latest information, but as I write this, Texas is doing well, Wysteria is hanging in there (for now), and Versutian Federation is doing a fine job. Maybe once a few regions like these have cured themselves, they'll lead a fightback to reclaim other zombie-ravaged areas of the globe! Or maybe when there are 125 trillion drooling undead out there, it's wisest to stay at home.
Update 3! Good news! A defective part was just identified in some Cure Missiles Mk II that was interfering with their guidance system. Expect slightly improved zombie conversion rates!
Update 4! Things are looking up! As the cure fightback continues, the number of survivors has surpassed the number of infected. The hordes were well in control for a while there, but globally we now have 51.5 trillion survivors (18.9%) vs 50.0 trillion (18.4%) infected. Plus 170.6 trillion dead (62.7%). We won't speak of those.
As threatened, a zombie apocalypse is likely to occur this Halloween. This is the continuation of an annual NationStates tradition that begins this year.
Apocalypse begins in:
On April 1, 79% of the world population perished, 7% survived, and the remainder were infected. But that outbreak took us by surprise, whereas now we're fully prepared. We even have a countdown timer. So there's little to fear.
What You Need to Know
The apocalypse will begin began 337 days ago.
It will run for 30 hours, ending 335 days ago.
You have three options: attempt to exterminate zombies with military force, try to research a cure, or totally join forces with the zombies.
Infection rates are region-based. If a region contains many nations with high zombie numbers, all resident nations will become infected quicker. If there are few zombies in the region, few citizens in your own nation will become infected.
Extermination quickly converts your zombies into dead citizens.
Cure research slowly reduces your region's infection rate, and can send it below zero, converting zombies into survivors.
Embracing the zombie hordes quickly increases your region's infection rate.
The extermination and the research options are more effective the more survivors you have, being fairly ineffective if you leave them until your military and scientific experts have mostly been eaten. Similarly, pro-zombie nations are more dangerous the more zombies they have.
During the apocalypse, Founders and Delegates can close the region's borders at no Influence cost. There will be a special Z-Day Border Control feature available to facilitate this (unlike last time, when regular regional password changes were reversed at the end of Z-Day).
As I mentioned, though, the only reason we lost trillions of lives last time was the apocalypse kind of snuck up on us. Forewarned is forearmed! So I'm confident we can look forward to a relatively calm and orderly global undead pandemic. Good luck.
Don't Quote Me
A few little things: Firstly, we're shifting servers (again), and there will be a little downtime, starting with the Forum in just a few moments (EDIT: All done now!). Hopefully this will be brief, but, really, who knows. These things are like wrestling grizzly bears. If we don't come up again, it was nice knowing you all.
A couple of new features: You can quote posts from your Regional Message Board using a faint, barely-detectable button on the right. And Regional Influence accumulated in what we call Feeder and Sinker regions now lasts six months only, in order to recognize the importance of recent activity as well as longevity. More details available here.
Also, it was pointed out in the forums that my previous post about the new NationStates Activity page really left an NSA joke on the table, just begging to be made. I want to say I regret that.
That's it for now! I'm sure our downtime will be brief, and our revival filled with new features. But don't quote me.
Active Surveillance
What with all the news of mass government surveillance programs lately, it seems only right that we unveil: the NationStates mass surveillance program! Or, as we like to call it, "Activity."
The new Activity page allows you to keep tabs on the entire world, or whichever particular part of it is of interest to you. Watch as the cumulative actions of thousands of nations scroll by! It's kind of addictive.
You can also watch an updating feed of global activity at the bottom of the World page.
The new Activity page replaces the old "REPORTS," so if you're peering at the sidebar thinking WHERE THE HECK DID THAT LINK GO, this is why. You can access reports similar to before via Activity links from your Dossier.
If you run a region, you can make it a little more welcoming with the new "Welcome Telegram" feature! Available to Founders and Delegates via Regional Control, a Welcome Telegram is automatically wired to all new arrivals in your region. There's no need for telegram stamps and no limit on the number that can be sent.
Welcome Telegrams can be canceled at any time, and are automatically canceled if their author loses executive power in the region.
Top 5 Questions About NationStates
Today I answer your questions about NationStates!
Also, almost coincidentally, my new novel is out!
Lexicon by Max Barry
"A dark, dystopic grabber" —The New York Times
"The words brilliant and exemplary aren't adequate enough to convey the amazing craft of Lexicon." —Associated Press
"★★★★★ A resounding success" —SFX Magazine
maxbarry.com • Lexicon • Reviews • International
If you like good books, or supporting authors who make web games in their spare time, please check it out!
Minor Anniversaries!
NationStates was founded in November 2002, so we're now working our way through 10-year anniversaries of various cool things. I thought I would point some out, if you're interested. Or even if you're not, really. This is happening either way.
Ten years ago:
335,000 nations had been created. (Now: 3.48 million.)
We had just added more "feeder" regions (regions where new nations begin). At first, there was only the Pacific. But it accumulated so many nations that it began to cause server performance problems. Some people weren't happy about adding new feeders (the West Pacific, The North Pacific, The East Pacific, and the South Pacific) because it made it even harder for player-created regions to make it into the list of top regions by population. Also, some people liked having 10,000 nations in a region. But the server was not one of those people.
We added Game Moderators. First we had no moderators, and that was fine for a while, but then it wasn't, so we had Forum Moderators. But this taste of power wasn't enough for them so they forced me to extend their authority into gameside, even though there wasn't any need for it. Typical mods. No, wait. That didn't happen. We did need game mods. Some names from those days: Reploid Productions, Scolopendra, Menelmacar, Ineptia, The SLAGLands, Neutered Sputniks, [mantle], Enodia, Melkor Unchained, Yavin, Amerigo the Mod, TJHairball, and Demoness... and probably a few more I don't have recorded. And that was just the first batch! Some of these are still going, which is really impressive, or scary, or something.
We added the ability for Delegates to eject nations from their region. Before that, you just had to live with troublemakers. Which had its pros and cons. But mostly cons. Founders still couldn't eject anyone, though, because there was no such thing as Founders.
We fixed some display bugs in Netscape Navigator. I feel old just typing that.
The World Assembly was called the United Nations, because we hadn't received the Cease & Desist order yet.
Regional Message Boards only kept the most recent 10 messages. If you wanted to see any older messages, you couldn't. Actually, this is a pretty recent feature; we've only had that for two years.
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The forum server passed away. Let us take a moment to silently reflect on all it has done for us. Never did it complain, except in the administrator logs, and yet it bore our burdens day after day.
So it's now in pieces and expert techs are gently probing each piece, to see where it hurts. We don't know how long it will take to put back together, or whether it will truly be the same afterward. You know, spiritually.
Updates will be posted to the NationStates Twitter page.
Update: It's back. It has a new drive. You probably can't tell. The server won't make a big deal about it. It never does.
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I'm abusing the News page for a second non-NationStates item in a row. Sorry about that. It's especially annoying because there are several important NS features that are like 95% implemented, and just need me to finish them off. But am I doing that? No! I am selfishly spending my time on NON-NS things.
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It's just been released as an advanced sneak on iTunes and On Demand, and is locked in a vicious struggle to the death for the #1 Indie Movie spot. It's also broken into the Top 50 for Comedies.
If you are in the US, you should totally rent it. I'm not just saying that because it would be awesome for my career. I figure there is at least a 50-50 chance that if you like a website I made, you might like a movie I helped make, too. So it's win-win.
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As my day job, I write books. I'm not sure if you knew that. Anyway, my first novel, Syrup, is becoming a film, and now it has a trailer:
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A few nations are reporting a mild uptick in infection rates of a flu-like illness, it seems. But this is nothing to worry about. Everyone should remain calm.
Update: The illness seems to be more widespread than previously thought. But it's okay. The important thing is not to panic.
Update 2: It's time to panic. The infected are everywhere. Unless you take immediate action, they will destroy us all.
To assist efforts to contain the outbreak, we have made available Infection Charts for the world and for each individual nation and region. You may click on the labels (e.g. "Survivors") to add/remove a line from the graph, which is useful for identifying horrifyingly geometrical trends in the underlying data.
We have also established a Zombie Emergency Command Center for co-ordinating defense strategies.
Good luck.
Update 3: Oh, the humanity! The dwindling, infected humanity!
Here's what we know:
The fastest way to reduce the number of infected in your nation is to turn the military against them. This converts infected citizens into dead citizens.
The infected can spread between nations within the same region. In very infectious regions, it may become impossible for nations to hold off the zombies via military force alone.
Several regions have managed to contain the outbreak by having multiple nations research a cure. When only a small minority do research, however, this appears less successful.
Both the military and research options become decreasingly effective the fewer survivors you have.
Some (current) success stories: Nederland, The Vast, Esquarium, Holdania, The NationStates Community.
Some horror stories: The Moon, The Kodiak Republic, Haven, Equinox.
Update 4: Well, the world seems to have divided neatly into regions where the infected population is small, controlled, and well cared for, and regions being devoured by endless zombie hordes. There's not much middle ground left out there.
But I have good news! The end is in sight! Cure research will soon make a solution available on a global level! This means...
The apocalypse will end in ended 1 year 182 days ago.
In the meantime, I present: The Z-Day Tally Board! Which regions will have the most survivors by the end of the apocalypse?
Update 5: The Z-Day Tally Board now also ranks regions by "Most Survivors with No Infected." Currently leading is Noctur, a safe haven for 110 billion people. But that's a fragile ranking! It only takes one infected to cross the border...
Update 6: It's over! It's over! At long last, the nightmare is over!
The "Survivors" numbers were starting to rise at the end there... so it's a happy ending! I mean, not for the dead. Which is 79% of the global population. But for everyone else, excluding those infected in overrun nations who will now starve to death, it's pretty happy! Happiness is relative.
Thanks for being a part of another April 1st on NationStates! For the next few days, infection data and charts will remain available via little "Z-Day" links on nation and region pages. Then they'll go away. So if you want a permanent record, you might want to screenshot that.
A complete log file of the crisis, which includes numbers for every nation and region in the world, hour by hour, will also be made available soon. This will be enormous and difficult for anyone to process, but it will be there. Because analysis is fun.
Should we do this again? I'm just putting it out there. Because this time, it would actually be practical to run a Z-Day on a regular basis... say, annually for Halloween. I think we would need to ramp up the potency of zombie exporters, since everybody would be better prepared for the apocalypse. But it could be done.
Special thanks this year to our moderators! They put a lot of work into this day each year, including BRRAAAAINstorming ideas, which I then just pick the eyes out of. So to speak.
And congratulations to those regions that managed to fend off the threat! The Z-Day Tally Board changed a lot at the end, as regions jostled for position. There were some devious moves. Some exchanging of moral virtue for higher rankings. But it's life and death. You have to make hard decisions.
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jjbreen7 February 18, 2014 5:51:56 PM CET
Wow, thanks for all the responses and I mean that! Thank you.
Now here is the thing:
"Time is the teller of all tales, great and small."
Here is my very safe prediction:
This story will die, except in some of the "Believer Only Groups". But it won't die because of some "Big Bad Government Cover-Up". No it will die because people lost the ability to engage common sense and good science. Because people JUMPED on the HYPE with little to no facts and when the facts are made known, it will be found to 'boring' basic science. (Just wait and watch)
But let me back up my prediction with a little brief history lesson:
How many remember: "THE ALIEN AUTOPSY", video (hoax)?
Remember all the hype? Remember all the "Experts" claiming, "Finally the smoking gun!!" Remember all the 'believers' jumping and running and tripping over themselves with excitement? I do.
Now understand I give them total KUDOS for pulling off such a great HOAX. They did one hell-of-a-job!! They obviously earned their $$$ on this one and rightly so.
But I think it was about 1 1/2 years later, they finally came clean with the hoax. Yes, they came clean with it. Provided the actors that played the "Doctor's" – who were all amazingly YOUNG for supposedly being done in the 40's/50's and they also provided the 'star attraction', THE ALIEN prop used in the video.
No government cover-up, no "top secrets", no "smoking gun", just a good old fashion – "GOTACH HOAX!!" And, yes indeed, it was a GOOD HOAX!
How many of you JUMPED on that one too? I have a feeling, if you are honest a few of you….
The as I pointed out the Doctor that made the bogus claim that we had "Junk DNA that was alien" … He even came clean and admitted it was to get a few more $$$ and he did. He got some extra income from that scam.
Then we have the Evolutionary "Missing Link" scams. Where actual PROFESSIONALS … well LIED about their missing link findings. What? Lied? And yet, people believed them and jumped on the band-wagon and rode it to SHAME and SHOCK.
I could go on, with other history lessons. How about the Planet X / Niburu scams? And yet that "Ghost Planet" has a really bad and rude, I might add, habit of being a NO SHOW, with every single prediction of it - FINALLY COMING HERE! Again – good science has been used to try and explain why this is not ever going to happen. But the believers keep plugging their ears and crying – NON-BELIEVER!!!! DIS-INFORMATION AGENT!!! And yet …. In the past 20 years of various predictions, even from supposed "aliens" out there, have been DEAD WRONG! No dis-information agent, no 'non-believers' – just people ignoring seriously BAD SCIENCE and I might add again: COMMON SENSE!
So with-in six months, if that long. This story will be DEAD. It will be 'last page, lower section' – "claims of this were found to be common DNA after all and confirmed. The DNA has simply been contaminated and broken down over the centuries." (Yes, DNA can be contaminated – just look at the current Paternal Tests and such that were found to be not-accurate at times. It does happen.)
I rest my case. Please go find your Common Sense and re-engage it before it becomes ENDANGERED … Please???
Michael777 February 15, 2014 4:42:59 AM CET
@ iphonehome "Eat that Christianity".. Huh? What does this mean? Perhaps nobody has informed you that the Bible has revealed "alien" visitation from the beginning - the bene ha elohim. The problem is people insist on fitting all this information into a "evolutionist" worldview, even though evolution has never been observed, nor has it ever been replicated even at the earliest stage, and even under idea conditions not so much as creating the necessary building blocks has been accomplished - not once! Thereafter the odds of combining all those 'building blocks' into a coherent single cell (which needs to occur within a protective cell membrane) is [according to Sir Fred Hoyle] 10 to power of x40,000 (number of atoms in universe is 10 power of x80). So any proof of half-human giants just confirms what the OT has told us thousands of years ago. So start eating... .
segundoasensiosuarez February 12, 2014 3:34:13 AM CET
bueno ya te han contestado acertadamente solo decirte que los que estan trabajando en ello seguro que estan mas preparados que tu...jjbreen. asi que vuelve a leer la noticia y la entrevista, haber si te enteras
NOTSEWKP February 11, 2014 8:19:36 PM CET
to jjbreen7,
You can just continue to live in your little box, it must be very comfy in there.
Maybe it doesn't confirm where, what or who the DNA is from but it tells us what its not, and that is, its not human, which you conveniently ignored in your little closed minded rant. nuff said
Hipjipc February 11, 2014 8:11:27 PM CET
@jjbreen7 The skull in question was covered with hair. Can not dna be extracted from hair? The dna did not match "normal" human dna and it doesn't matter if it isn't a "Nephilim". The dna showed the skulls were normal to the "being" in that they did not bind their head or use other methods of changing the natural growth of their skulls. Whoever or whatever they were, there are not many that have been found. I find that intriguing unto itself. Sometimes the truth isn't logical. Common sense is only common to the one that thinks it and critical thinking can sometimes get you stuck in a box. Your use of judgmental adjectives gives away the fact that you are not as intelligent as you think and if I were a psychologist I would diagnose you with narcissistic personality disorder. That's a tough one. Most with this disorder never recover. I wish my best to you in your endeavors.
jjbreen7 February 9, 2014 6:38:53 PM CET
Seriously - people will believe just about anything these days - Really kind of SAD, to be honest.
I wish Common Sense was not on the ENDANGERED LIST of Extinction.
What? What do I mean? First off - you have to have a DNA SAMPLE to compare a DNA sample with. Paternity Test - the swab to tell if the child is or is not the father's child. They NEED the dad's DNA to compare it with.
Get it yet?
So just where did they get a "NEPHILIM" DNA? Since they have been EXTINCT for 100's of 1,000's of years w/not even a remote sample of them even had existed.
This reminds me of the Genetic Doctor that worked on the Genome Project and claimed "JUNK DNA PROVES WE COME FROM ALIENS" ... he was laughed out of the community and rightly so - because he was asked one simple question: "Where is your DNA Sample to prove this?"
>>> He did not have any and he was shamed big time for making such a STUPID statement and again - RIGHTLY SO.
People - look before you leap. Engage what common sense and critical thinking skills you have left - please ... for your sake.
Prediction: This fantasy will die a silent death. Watch and pay attention and you will see, this was HYPE and FICTION that you jumped on ... and the author of the said piece will leave quietly in SHAME for having a moment of stupid.
What length people will go through to get their 5 minutes of fame - only suffer a life time of shame. Once on the net - forever on the net.
iphonehome February 7, 2014 3:53:17 PM CET
Eat that, Christianity!
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As a student hear I must say, that being here since 4th grade i have very well enjoyed this school up until 6th grade. The school is fine and everything except they have a really bad tendency with fights and bullying. But the staff is really nice and the bullying isn't too bad actually. We have parent conferences for the parents to keep in touch with their children. And Mr. Malik (7th\8th grade math) is a wonderful teacher. There is plenty of good reviews about him. So my advise to a new kid is to have fun because it's a really nice school.
I have nothing but good things to say about this school. Our children have been honor students every year, all reaching 4.0 GPA's. They have been encouraged to join athletic/music activities and have developed great friendships among peers...The teachers have been very reachable if there are any questions...staff has always been polite. The new principle is a firm believer in keeping our kids 'on track' and that good old fashioned firmness is what every school should have looking over our kids.... I am a very proud parent of kids who attended A.K from kindergarten to graduation....
The thing I like most about August Knodt is the fact that the teachers are really great and they do student follow ups every year.
I transfered my kids over to August Knodt from Great Valley because it was closer to our house and I had heard great things about the school. After only three days I am ready to move my kids back to Great Valley. First day of school I had to wait in line for over 25 minutes along with 40-50 other parents whose children's names had not been put a classroom. These children consisted of transfers, new students, and even returning students. I have never seen such a mess. Everyone of those students were pre-registered and there was no excuse for them to have not been already assigned a teacher. Due to their awful planning- three days into school they had to move my son in a 1st/2nd class. After he had already made friends, learned the new routines, and was enjoying his new teacher. Extremely unacceptable in my opinion.
This school is absolutely terrible. The kids here are raised by parents who commute to the Bay Area to work and have no time to teach their children how to behave. My daughter went here for only a half of a school year until my neighbor told me about Aspire Public Charter Schools. It's off of B-Street (not close to Weston Ranch) but well worth the drive.
Mrs.Mason is a great teacher..Some teachers are nice most of them and they teach well.
The staff here really cares for the students. I have one in K and the other in 8. We have lived here for 8yrs.Nothing but great teachers! They really lookout for the best in you child.
For the most part this school is great. There are a few areas that could use some improvement such as a few of the teachers need to be let go but for the most part, the teachers are really nice and care about the students. One other thing that isn't very good is there is no after school sports program.
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***UPDATE 4-22-12*** : Coliseum Authority Vice President Jimbo Thiels told News Channel 5's Brooke Buford that all nine board members were originally allows to co-sign checks with Neal-Townley.
As Neal-Townley did the booking for the Coliseum, Thiels said it was easy for the board to overlook where money was going...as well as easier to steal it.
Neal-Townley resigned in February 2013, and the investigation began in August 2013. The investigation wrapped up this past February and resulted in Neal-Townley's arrest earlier this week.
Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office Lt. Tommy Carnline said, "Initially, our detectives looked into the information of the possible misappropriation of funds. After they saw tendencies that lead them to believe there was a crime committed, that's when they involved the legislative auditors. The legislative auditors do this type of investigation all the time. It was a dual investigation. Our guys wanted to make sure their information. Our guys wanted to make sure their information was correct and obviously was."Thiels said the auditor gave them suggestions as to how they could prevent this from happening again .Suggestions include having only one person cosign from the board and have the police jury do the bookkeeping.___________________________________________________________________________________________
ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB News Channel 5) - Kimberly Neal-Townley, the former executive director of the Rapides Parish Coliseum was arrested on April 21.
In April 2013, the RPSO Criminal Investigations Division began an investigation after receiving a letter from the Rapides Parish Coliseum Authority Chairman, Murphy Rachal that included allegations of "financial and illegal improprieties committed by individuals." Detectives investigated the Coliseum's financial records and requested an audit by the Louisiana Legislative Auditors Office to confirm the results.
The audit began in August 2013 and concluded in January 2014 and showed Neal-Townley paid herself more than $30,000 in payroll checks and unearned leave time. It also revealed she gave herself an unauthorized pay increase, which was not approved by the coliseum.
Neal-Townley was booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center and charged with malfeasance in office, theft over $1500, two counts of false accounting, and two counts of filing false public records. Neal-Townley remains in jail at the time of this release as bond has not been set on all charges.
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More pain for housing stocks?
A sustained recovery in home prices and homebuilding shares remains elusive.
Thanks to a combination of ultralow interest rates and massive government support, homes prices started to climb early last year -- ending three years of pain that cut 30% off of the peak values reached in 2006. For many, it seemed as though the housing implosion was finally over.
Unfortunately with many of these supports about to end, and with the underlying supply-demand relationship still soft, another round of price declines looks inevitable. This is the opinion of the global economics team at Deutsche Bank doesn't expect home prices to put in a definitive bottom until 2011 as the inventory of vacant homes remains high and foreclosures continue to mount.
Even if you have a low opinion of economists and their forecasts, the stock market is singing the same sad tune about the housing market. Right now, after testing resistance at the top of a seven-month trading range, homebuilder stocks like D.R. Horton (DHI), Toll Brothers (TOL), and Lennar (LEN) have stalled out and are starting to roll over.
There is good reason for this. The Federal Reserve has already started to tighten policy, raising the interest rate it charges banks on Thursday. Next month, the central bank will also stop buying up mortgages -- which has helped keep mortgage rates low, boost affordability, and keep home prices from falling.
As a result of all this, Barclays Capital expects mortgage rates to climb by at least 1.5% by the end of the year -- which, according to their research, will dampen housing demand by more than 11%.
Also, the federal government's support to housing will soon end. The first-time homebuyer tax credit will end April 30. The FHA is expected to tighten lending standards. All of this suggests demand for new homes will remain at low levels for the homebuilders.
Adding insult to injury has been the recent rise in lumber prices -- which are up 96% since the beginning of 2009 as wood mills cut production in response to the housing meltdown. This doesn't bode well for homebuilder profitability.
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To take advantage of the situation, I've added a short position in Lennar to my portfolio at Wall Street Survivor. Also, after riding the market higher this week (previewed in my previous post on Tuesday), I've closed out the majority of my long positions.
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Public works director Steve Banham told city council at their January 24 meeting that 4.9 inches of rain fell in Blaine on January 17, coming on the heels of an already rainy weekend. Crews had already deployed temporary storage bladders next to the old storage tank on Marine Drive. "We filled the bladders and the tank, then we emptied them when we could, but then on the 17th it was just too much," Banham said. For 40 minutes overflowing wastewater ran into the bay.
"The unfortunate part of it was it happened on an incoming tide," Banham said. "The concern there was that some of what we spilled came into the harbor on the tide." That led the department of health to close shellfish harvest in the harbor until the end of the month, which meant the community oyster farm had to wait two weeks to pick up baskets of already picked oysters waiting out on the mud flats.
"With the combination of rain and sewage we've lost half a month," lamented oyster farm program manager Geoff Menzies. Menzies said the volunteer oyster farmers go out on nighttime low tides every other week and three $800 loads of jumbo oysters, two which they process and ship to their buyer in China and one they hold for the following week. However, the department of health has put a conditional approval on shellfish harvest in the harbor, which had been closed to harvest due to fecal coliform pollution for a decade. They found that fecal coliform levels in the harbor were safe in dry weather but went up when it rained, so every time a half-inch or more of rain falls, shellfish harvest is shut down for five days. "We had big plans for January until those big rains," Menzies said. "Then what killed the month was the overflow." He said the farm had through June to harvest the crop remaining in the harbor, the proceeds of which will be used to improve water quality.
Banham said engineers were starting work this week on a project destined to eliminate overflows even in torrential rains – a 700,000 gallon tank under Marine Drive to hold wastewater in excess of the system capacity. The current temporary bladders and old tank hold 260,000. "It almost triples our capacity which get us out of sleepless nights," he said.
A new $18 million sewer treatment plant on Marine Drive, planned to start operating in August of 2008 according to the completed facility plan presented to city council January 24, will also double the city's capacity for treating wastewater.
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As one of two bicycle officers serving in the UC Merced Police Department [1], Officer George Gongora tends to stand out. He likes it that way — it helps him do a better job serving the campus community.
"On the bike, I'm accessible to everybody," Gongora said. "We don't have that barrier of the car or the window; people feel free to come up and ask questions. People still do that in the car, but it's easier while I'm on the bike."
Gongora said the bike lets him move around more easily on campus, too, and access places that are more difficult for a car to reach. Using pedal power on the job isn't a problem for the fitness-oriented officer, who runs and trains in his spare time.
A native of nearby Los Banos, Gongora has gotten well acquainted with the UC Merced campus community since he joined the force in 2007. But a university community naturally has a high rate of turnover — every spring, a portion of the population graduates and leaves, and then new students enter the university in the fall.
"Because UC Merced has evolved so much and continues to evolve, it can be a big challenge to provide the level of service that is both demanded and deserved by our faculty, staff and students," Gongora said. "I think we meet that challenge in the police department by constantly working together as a team. And we're constantly meeting new people."
Gongora has enjoyed the variety of challenges inherent to working in law enforcement since he joined the Police Explorers program with the Los Banos Police Department and the Merced County Sheriff's Department as a teen.
"We did ride-alongs, performed community service and attended regular meetings where officers came in to teach about law enforcement topics," he said. "Something in all of that really appealed to me. I liked helping people."
He attended Merced College and California State University, Stanislaus, and now proudly holds degrees in criminal justice and political science as well as a master's degree in public administration. Before joining the force at UC Merced, he served in the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department. When an opportunity opened up on campus, he welcomed the chance to get back to the Merced area. He has since married and lives in Merced with his wife, Andrea, and their two dogs.
In May, Gongora's department recognized his standout service by naming him Officer of the Year.
"We have so many talented and skilled individuals in our department — officers, dispatchers, office staff — that I feel especially honored to have been chosen from among them to receive that recognition," Gongora said.
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