Regular Season Wrap-Up
Marko Mäkelä
The largest and most exciting regular season of Uralican football has finally come to a close, with SiPS doing the expected and claiming their third consecutive Shield of Honour as they won the Bolakliiga by five points. The big difference this season is who their number-one rivals were, considering that Dinamo Kirov finished a surprisingly low fourth. Instead, it was the Komi-Menno Derby between SiPS and Telekom Pazhga that turned out to be the big story th
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Salomäki: "I Made An Ass Of Myself"
SYKTYVKAR - in a press conference today, Jarkko Salomäki publicly apologised for a snafu he made by appearing to take sides in the latest world conflict between the Sirius bloc and the AcTi alliance, as well as renaming the conflict article on the Robertian World News Network website, www.rwnn.org.bob, without an international consensus.
"Yeah, I made an ass of myself," Jarkko said. "Vaido [Kuik] and Ovdey [shlomov] both gave me hell for it, I h
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Snowfall Already?
KOLOSJOKI - Yes, it's snowing already in the northernmost parts of Uralica.
The year's first snowfall was recorded in Belushya Guba, on the South Island of Novaja Zemlja, near the beginning of the month, however it was overnight, and it turned to rain in the afternoon.
But last night was a different story entirely. Several major centres in Uralica's northern areas got blanketed with an average of about two inches of snow. Although Uralican vehicles are equipped
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Campers Head North To Beat The Heat
KHALMER-YU - The mayor of Khalmer-Yu was mocked by foreign mayors for having his infrastructure built up to be able to support fourteen thousand people - roughly four times the town's population. But he stuck to it, and he's glad he ignored the naysayers, because there has been a rush northward in an effort to beat the heat in the southern half of the country - as a result, tourism in Khalmer-Yu has exploded.
They are hardly alone in this regard
...you talk about CN-speak in a major sociolinguistics paper and get full marks for that particular section.
I got 44/50 on the paper in total, but 6/6 for this section.
Now I obviously over-simplified some things, but this was a paper on my personal speech and what motivates it, not a paper strictly on CN. Anyway, I should be back to writing IC blogs come next Sunday.
Yes, I am still alive. I'm having my nation sat, though. PlanckBorn is da man.
For anyone wondering where I am, I'm at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, studying linguistics.
So no new IC blogs now until mid-August. Most I'll be investing into CN is streamlining my Wiki (I had 25 articles deleted today) because school has to take priority over CN drama. I may post a linguistics paper in my blog though.
[wʌɾ ɪz θɪs aj downt ivən]
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Plesetsk Cosmodrome Nearing Completion
MIRNYY - According to Reijo Muurinen, the refit of Plesetsk Cosmodrome should be complete in around two weeks.
"All the equipment we need is now in the area," said the Uralican leader of the international team of TOOL specialists working on the Cosmodrome to replace outdated and occasionally inoperable equipment. "We got our last shipment from Fish Master two days ago. The real trick now is to get the stuff installed, but we have a lot of peo
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Final Reports Issued Regarding Waste Cleanup
USOVUORI - although the cleanup of a toxic spill just outside of Koslan, Northwest Uralica, was finished nearly a week ago, the final paperwork regarding said spill, the causes, and the measures taken to clean it up, was only handed in yesterday, and released to the public this morning.
The spill, which was first detected in mid-April by some loggers in the area, cost Uralica two and a half million dollars and close to fifteen square ki
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Grand Monument Erected In Perm'
PERM' - An obelisk with the names of the first five hundred members of the Uralicist Movement was finally erected early this morning in downtown Perm' after months of fashioning out of one of the last slabs of Uralican white marble. The names themselves are made of inlaid obsidian, and were very meticulously crafted by three dozen of Uralica's finest stone sculptors.
Included amongst the names are many prominent Uralican Tribal Council members, such
(OOC: Curses, late again Ah well, I have an excuse this time. My church barbecue and me being completely dead-tired yesterday in general)
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Plesetsk Cosmodrome To Reopen In June
MIRNYY - It would seem Uralica has spacefaring ambitions.
For the last two months, the Uralican Air Force has been working around the clock on getting the famous Plesetsk Cosmodrome, which is actually closer to former "closed town" Mirnyy within Northwest Uralica, up and running again.
"A lot of the equip
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Salomäki: "Let Him Go."
SYKTYVKAR - all it took to end a bitter rogue campaign against an alliance that has garnered a bit of a reputation for attacking others randomly was three words.
Jarkko Salomäki returned late last night after having gone to TOOL War Command in the nation of Dodoboots. The nation of Philantia, who had attacked NorsaLan without provocation and continually baited TOOL members who came to that nation's defence, is finally at peace officially, although a ceasefi
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Operation Mustavesi May Soon End
BELGRADO, DODOBOOTS - After being counterattacked by three TOOL nations, it seems the once-defiant President Hyland is now ready to talk peace.
The war with the Black Water Military Contracting alliance began on 28 April when the same Hyland ordered an unprovoked attack on the nation of NorsaLan. The counter took a "painfully long" time to come, but when it did, TOOL nations Exarchy, Stachelstein, and FreeForAll were up to the task.
At first, Hyla
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Tribal Council Condemns "Cowards," Sends NorsaLan Aid
SYKTYVKAR - The nation of Germans' polite decline of an aid package left room open for Uralica to act decisively in an urgent TOOL situation. Two days ago, the nation of Philantia, of the "Black Water Military Contracting" micro-alliance, attacked the lower-level TOOL nation of NorsaLan, whose ruler is dhawk - best known in TOOL for his financial exploits.
A furious Jarkko Salomäki decried the attacks as "cowardly," and was eve
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Uralikan Yliopisto Dubbed "Great University"
Uralikan Yliopisto, Uralica's vaunted state university, has finally made the elite, it seems.
Last night, the Robertian Council of Universities and Colleges, the world academic "watchdogs," bestowed the honour upon the Christian university, calling it "one of the most balanced Christian universities in the world" and "long overdue" for the dubbing.
The institute was founded in April of 2008 by many of the same intelligentsia that were
Lamuella brought this up in the \m/ Announcement thread, and I thought it was too good an idea to not run with
Lam actually had four ideas, but one was kinda implied by the thread it was in
So what are your ideas? What would be a sure sign, in your mind, that Planet Bob was soon to come to an end?
Total list:
*\m/ stopping tech-raiding (which has happened, sort of. They've only suspended it.)
*GPA declaring on someone for no reason
*RV joining GOONS
*that OOC thing about Norway and No
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City Assessment Complete
SYKTYVKAR - well, it's finally done. After sifting through all 113 applicants for city status, the Uralican Tribal Board has again made a decision concerning who does and does not obtain city status on 1 May 2010. Most cities in the published list of non-cuts that was done nine days ago were cleared. The number of cities in Uralica now sits at 173, nearly double what it was before. Although these are rounded to the nearest five hundred, the following lists
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113 Settlements Apply For City Status; 22 Already Rejected
SYKTYVKAR - On Monday, an article was posted about the fact that the Uralican Tribal Council felt "swamped" by towns applying for city status. However, we did not yet know the full extent of this, until yesterday, when Council representative Meri Vanhanen brought a digest of statistics to us.
A grand total of 113 settlements applied for city status, which is more settlements than the number that already has it (there are 9
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Easter Celebrations Fill The Streets
By TOOL Tourism's Petr Hrdlicek
SYKTYVKAR - Who would have thought that Easter would be so rambunctious?
Yesterday proved to be one of the most amazing times I've ever had. Most years it's just a bunch of kids scrambling around looking for chocolate, then after that, they're back to their daily routines the next day.
But then there's Uralica. This is being written both for publishing in their newspaper, and for TOOL Tourism Monthly, and for t
I've been thinking lately, and I haven't taken the time to thank the people who have helped me out with my Wiki projects, whether in a big way or a small way. But they really do deserve the props. So I shall do so here.
- The current Wiki moderating team (Michael von Prussia/Preußen, Locke, and Pikachurin) deserves a huge round of applause. All three have kept my redirects in check, helped me when I needed help, and given me pointers and ideas here and there.
- General Mazur (wherever you are
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Uralican Aid Train Continues To Run
VORKUTA - Ulrike Didriksen said she's never been busier in her life, but she has no trouble with that fact.
In co-ordination with TOOL Hand of Finance PlanckBorn and Uralican Tribal Council finance specialists Esa Miettinen and Riita Perttunen, the 45-year-old Mennonite German has been making trips by air every few days from Pazhga Regional Airport to Vaido Kuik International Airport in Vorkuta (where the ERHDC Headquarters is) to co-ordinate t
(OOC: Another late one. Got too tied up in KOTOR Will probably do another one Monday or Tuesday.)
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National Research Institute Opens In Nevyansk
NEVYANSK - Although it was an inevitability that a national research laboratory complex was going to open in Uralica, much to many people's surprise, it didn't end up being in Nizhny Tagil after all. Although the large city is considered the technology capital of Uralica, it was in the much smaller, nearby city of Nevyansk in which the Ur
Second Constitution Day Celebrated With Great Fanfare
SYKTYVKAR - Happy second birthday, Uralica.
Revellers were out in full force yesterday (which, as a statutory holiday, meant that there was no UDN published yesterday) to celebrate Constitution Day, the day that the "Founding Fathers And Mothers" (not just the nine immortalised in bronze in Uralic Square downtown, but all thirty-one of them) signed the constitution of the Tribal State of Uralica, bringing it into existence. Each of them was
Yes, you read that right. I haven't been around as long as some of the "old farts," like Slave2Jesus (jatutt) from CCC, whose fourth year in CN is marked in early May. But, it was on this day 2 years ago that I got curious about this "Cyber Nations" advertised on Fazak Studios' forum.
(Just for the record, Fazak Studios is the project of then-MCXA member D.A.D.1, and I'm probably one of the few people who knows what D.A.D. actually stands for )
So I made a nation and received a crapton of rec
(OOC: Sorry, late again.)
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Surprising March Blizzard Hits Mordoviya
SARANSK - Snow is nothing new to anyone in Uralica. From October to February, in fact, it's very much expected. Even in March, the odd bit of snow is expected. However, with temperatures dipping below the average lows for March, Mordovia and parts of Chuvashia got hit with a barrage of snow and cold winds last night, leaving most of the residents in the area staying indoors.
In some places, most notably Orozai, po
