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https://i.ibb.co/dp2FQT0/2024-Bracket-Mens-BB.jpg only by 7 do I obviously have A&M winning. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The DJ is is right. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
***** Texas March Madness Announcement ***** Texas, March Madness is upon us! Texas, and guests from our friends and allies, we have a new game in town. It is an old and familiar game to most and Texas is proud to offer it again for the sixth time and the first time since 2019. It is March Madness 2024 NCAA Bracket Picking! And, best of all (to some), there is absolutely NO WAGERING! This is just going to be good clean fun for bragging rights. It is just for fun and not for profit. And speaking of those bragging rights, Furry felines of Texas currently holds them as Winner of the 2019 tournaments! We have updated the web pages we used last year. It is located here: Like Texas Chat, participation is open to all Texans, friends of Texans and all our allies as well. The more the merrier! Please use your nation name when you Create Bracket! WooHootie, there are no Texas Teams at the moment! Go Texas teams! Note: Brackets Are Open! Sign-up and bracket picking will end just before the tip-off of the first game on Thursday, March 21, 2024. If we get nobody, we will reopen it, maybe. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Want to know why Democrats should not be allowed to even suggest nominees for the US Supreme Court? Here's why: "Your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods. The government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country... by encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Put in a bracket! Also, you have the south and west regions in the wrong place for the final four. Might want to adjust that. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Horizon League school won a March Madness game, and it wasn't my school. ...and it ruined my 9-0 start to the tourney. BOOOOOOOOOOO!!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Miss State ruined my bracket but how about Oakland beating Kentucky that one was a win for me. so far I'm 7 wins 5 losses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dagnabbit IE! You are exactly right. Let us see what we can do. What a mess! Thank you for pointing that out and for submitting a bracket. Three Texans are duking it out. Sorry Gig 'Em, we are suspect of TAMU taking it all! Brackets are now closed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I wouldn't know where to start with a bracket, so I never fill one out. I finally got things squared away with Tech support for the pharmacy website. I was using the wrong e-mail address, but the site never told me that. It appeared to log me in, then simply said there was an error. Never told me my username/password was incorrect. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 people have finished the Barkley Marathon this year, including the 1st woman who finished with a time of 59 hours, 58 minutes and 12 seconds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Well there goes my final 4 with Grambling losing to Purdue. I had Grambling playing A&M in the Final 4 dang it | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
***** Texas Saturday Breakfast ***** Tacos, Delivered All Day and All Night! Are you ready for some Saturday Breakfast, still All-Fresh? Bring out the Drones! The NewTexas Happy Taco Stands, in conjunction with the NewTexas Incendiary Corporation, has approximately 1 trillion of the fastest, lightest drones you have ever seen. This fleet is specially designed to deliver tacos to every man, woman, child, whatever, in Texas, all 2,295,811,000,000 of you. Today's special breakfast will Saturday Bacon & Egg & Potato Breakfast Tacos [COVID-19 Week CC Edition]! The commissary has been busy all night with the Head Smoker at The Big Tex Happy Taco Stands of NewTexas doing double-duty on the smoker and the cast-iron skillets both smoking and frying double-cut in-house Hickory-Smoked Pepper Bacon and sizzling up Lightly-Browned Skillet Potatoes just for you, Texas. He is a true master of smoke and skillet! These yum-yums are paired with organic, hand-picked, farm-fresh Texas Grade AA Eggs, scrambled to perfection, and all rolled up in a hot, homemade, Texas-sized flour tortilla. Peasy-Easy. Remember, a whole egg in every taco!® Today's Special Salsa is Pico de Gallo - a Texas tradition! If you do not know what Pico is, well it is only five ingredients, ripe red Roma tomatoes, white onion, jalapeño, cilantro, lime, and salt. A sealed cup of Texas-made Longhorn Cheddar Jack cheese is also included in case you need a cheese fix. The taco is hermetically sealed in a Stay-Warm® pouch that is wrapped in the same ol' aluminum foil we are all so familiar with for our breakfast taco. We are trying to keep it real, peeps. For your beverage accompaniment, a packet of Sanka, Tang and a Lipton Tea bag will be included with every delivery as well as salt and pepper and a napkin. Yes, it is different, but it works and you do not even have to leave your residence. Woo! And, watch out for the drones! Start your day off the right way; munch out and go back to sleep. You know you want to!® Stay Safe Texas. Stay Well. Hang in there! ***** Texas March Madness Update ***** After the first round of March Madness, Of the 32 projected winners (based on seedings), 21 stepped up and did it, leaving 11 overjoyed underdogs advancing. There is truly some Madness brewing! Onto Round 2! Good luck rivals! ***** Texas Chat Reminder ***** The Texas Weekly Chat Session will be Saturday (TODAY) at High Noon Texas Time (CDT) ***Saturday***. And, if you can't be there right at Noon, that is Ok, Texas Chat usually runs 3, 4, or 5 hours with some Chats running as high as 7 or 8 hours. The Texas Chat Site is here: http://texasregion.net/blab70/login.php Please register with your nation name. This is an excellent opportunity for nations old and new to Texas to find out what is going on! We chat, debate, and talk about the weather, stuff we like, stuff we hate, random stuff, and more. But, it is never stuffy. Usually, it is about meeting your fellow Texans and discussing the latest and most interesting stuff in NationStates. But then again, sometimes NationStates does not even come up. It is wide-open chatting with peeps from around The World both IRL and NS. It is Texans, EuroTexans, WannabeTexans, ex-Texans, VirtualTexans, and plenty of Friends of Texans. We have it all and all are welcome. We have added a new feature to Texas Chat, Texas Movie Chat! Chat with Texans while watching a movie. Fun stuff! So far we have watched Halloween, Shootout at the OK Corral, Red, and recently a few new Star Trek series episodes. Want to watch something together? Texas Chat, 981 weeks and running! For the math-challenged, that is over 19½ years! Check it out! Good stuff! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hey New Texas I looked at my bracket and the teams are all out of whack a lot of the teams are in the wrong spots causing me to have guessed wrong. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A last second three pointer saved us so we could fall 95-100 but what a game. I now lower my bracket into the ground and bury it 6 feet under. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My guess is that Max had a whole bunch of new banners made? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Howdy y'all! I've got some news for everyone: Current Texas Cabinet: Governor / WA Delegate: Changes to the Texas Cabinet: Talitha macer Resigned as Texas Representative Council member :-( Current Forest Cabinet: Governor: Changes to the Forest Cabinet: This is the Sixteenth Cabinet of Forest :-)
The Forest Trivia competition has started! So how does it work? The questions will be released every Saturday These questions will be in the style of the popular quiz show, Only Connect so that participants cannot simply google the answer.
From that point onwards everyone, residents of Forest or embassy regions, has One Week to answer the questions Answers Must be submitted by Telegram to Only Telegram submissions will be accepted. Any answers posted on the Forest RMB will be suppressed, and could lead to further consequences/punishments as it would spoil the whole point of trivia and disrupt the thoughtful discussions occuring on the RMB. Most importantly Have Fun! For more information on results, prizes and a few helpful tips see this dispatch which should hopefully explain any questions you have... . . .  Forest Trivia Rules . . . Trivia Rules The questions will be released every Saturday These questions will be in the style of the popular quiz show, Only Connect I shall post the dispatch with the questions in on the RMB From that point onwards everyone, residents of forest or embassy regions, has One Week to answer the questions Answers Must be submitted by Telegram Only Telegram submissions will be accepted. Any answers posted on the RMB will be suppressed. ABSOLUTELY NO GOOGLING OF ANSWERS IS ALLOWED if you are suspected of googling, a point will be deducted. Repeat offenders will have more severe sanctions ABSOLUTELY NO USAGE OF AI IS ALLOWED if you are suspected of using AI, a point will be deducted. Repeat offenders will have more severe sanctions Results After the week has concluded, I shall release the answers to the previous week's questions in the same dispatch. There will also be explanations as to how you could have reached the answers, in case anyone is interested Alongside this, there shall be a two leaderboards compiled. One weekly leaderboard and one overall leaderboard. Prizes! The person(s) who get the most correct answers each week will share the "prize pot" equally which shall be equal to 20.00 DV At the end of each month, the person at the top of the overall leaderboard shall receive a legendary! The person who is at the top of the overall leaderboard at the end of the term, shall receive a grand prize of 5 legendaries! Helpful Tips If you don't know the answer, just have a guess! There's no harm in having an educated guess, you might just be right! Watch out for a word question! If the clues seem so random that you just can't find a connection, it could be that it's a word question! The words themselves could be the connection! If you aren't sure about the answer to the question, when you're submitting them, try to explain your thinking to me! If your thinking is correct but you don't quite get the answer, you'll get half of a point. They all count in the long run! Take your time! There's no rush... You have a week to answer the questions so you have plenty of time to think and trivialise! And most importantly... Have fun! And here are the all important questions for week one of the Forest Trivia! . . . Forest Trivia Week One . . . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 1 - What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues? - Brezhnev - Andropov - Gorbachev - Medvedev ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 2 - What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues? - Armourers - Legends - Headlights - Kneeling ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 3 - What would come 4th in this sequence? - Laura - Michelle - Melania - ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 4 - What would come 4th in this sequence? - Earth - Wind - Fire - ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 5; DOUBLE POINTS! - What would come 4th in this sequence? - Skateboarding - Speed Climbing - Surfing - ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you have any questions, feel free to ask Good luck everyone! The Region That Has No Big Banks (TRTHNBB) and Forest agree to co-host Chess Arena! We are very excited to announce, TRTHNBB and Forest have agreed to co-host the Chess Arena as previously mentioned back on March 13th. This collaboration brings the total number of regions participating to ten including; The Union of Democratic States, Sol Aeternalis, Colonia Apollonis, Democratic Socialist Assembly, Wintercrest, Aurora, RGBN and Alcris participating so far. If your region is interested in taking part please contact The competition will take place on Saturday 27th April, and will be open to Nations across NS. There will be three trophies available with member regions competing for Best Scoring region, Best Average scoring region, and all nations competing for best scoring Individual Nation. To sign up for the Chess, or for any further information please check out the dispatch here: General The Region That Has No Big Banks and Forest is excited to present our first inter-regional blitz chess competition, seeking to bring together chess players across NationStates to participate! Who can participate? The event is open to all member regions participating, and open to all NS chess players (with the exception of any problematic members regions/nations, at the discretion of the organisers) We currently have 13 regions participating and counting! Contact New United Common-lands if you are interested to join! Arena Link Arena link - Feel free to join in our Voice Chat and Text chat on TRTHNBB Discord whilst the event is ongoing! Date and time The Arena will take place on Saturday 27th April starting at 9pm British Summer Time or 4pm Eastern Daylight Time, lasting 3 hours. Check Feel free to drop in for parts of the event you do not need to be avaliable the whole 3 hours Format The format for the Arena is 5 mins + 0s increment (5+0) and hosted via lichess. Contact If you have any questions or would like your region to participate, please contact New United Common-lands Trophies avaliable Medals Avaliable! (Special thanks to Velichye for the great artwork!)
Good luck everyone! Max a.k.a. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unrelated to anything, but everytime I see your name I get excited that I could at some point see a Jaguarundi (assuming they come back...ever) if I ever go back to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. I almost had study animals there but couldn't find any during my surveys a few years ago. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
https://youtu.be/Xq3hEMUeBGQ?si=tCsI05FzDzAveMnv It's Baseball season ya'll! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Philly blew their opener against Atlanta. Let's hope that's not a trend for the season. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For those with an interest in listening to fire department communications (like listening to scanners), here is a time compressed recording of the fireground communications surrounding the Key Bridge collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKqgkpgXmw What a freakin' nightmare. NewTexas, Trecdom2, and Texas Jaguarundi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
https://youtu.be/BnUDqibR_W4?si=wBfR6520ep-zCtMN Happy Easter weekend everyone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
***** Texas Saturday Breakfast ***** O Boy-o! Yummy Tacos 4 Texas! Are you ready for some Saturday Breakfast, still All-Fresh? Bring out the Drones! The NewTexas Happy Taco Stands, in conjunction with the NewTexas Incendiary Corporation, has approximately 1 trillion of the fastest, lightest drones you have ever seen. This fleet is specially designed to deliver tacos to every man, woman, child, whatever, in Texas, all 2,297,243,000,000 of you. For your dining pleasure, today's special breakfast will Saturday Ham & Egg & Cheese Tacos [COVID-19 Week CCI Edition]! This is your delicious morning wake-up call Texas! We have been baking hams all night so we can dice them up for this delectable ham and egg taco! 100% Texas-born and bred piggies plus Grade AA jumbo, free-range, farm-fresh, brown eggs, scrambled to perfection, equals breakfast taco heaven. The super-juicy ham is flash-fried to give it just a hint of browning on the flat top right before they are gently scrambled into the fluffy eggs. These two simple, expertly prepared ingredients are hand-rolled in a hot, fresh flour tortilla made on the premises multiple times daily. That is all you need right there, but we will spice it up to include the Make It Holler kit, a cup of freshly roasted green chilis you can add to your taco. And, ham just screams for cheese as do eggs, so we are including a cup of Texas' own Longhorn Jack cheese to boot. For a little fun, there is a special red cup of Habanero Jack if you really want to holler. Today's Special Salsa is a Texas Two-Fer - Chile Quemado - our fiery roasted salsa made from tomatoes, onions, garlic, and jalapeños roasted fresh on the grill. Additionally, we will include another red cup of - Sweet Mango Habanero Salsa - roasted tomatoes, bell peppers, habanero peppers, jalapeño peppers, mango, and a touch of cilantro and lime juice, only to be tried by the exceptionally brave. The tacos are hermetically sealed in a Stay-Warm® pouch that is wrapped in the same ol' aluminum foil we are all so familiar with for our breakfast taco. The Juice Bar will not be possible this week. But, for your beverage needs, a packet of Sanka, Tang and a Lipton Tea bag will be included with every delivery as well as salt and pepper and a napkin. Yes, it is different, but it works and you do not even have to leave your residence. Woo! And, watch out for the drones! Start your day off the right way; munch out and go back to sleep. You know you want to!® Stay Safe Texas. Stay Well. Hang in there! ***** Texas March Madness Update ***** With all the bracket busting in the second and third rounds of March Madness, the Texas March Madness winner has been decided despite the unfortunate error in the Final Four listings. Despite all the busted brackets, there are still a couple of #1 seeds alive in the form of UConn and Purdue. And the one non-Top 8-rated team left is #11 North Carolina State. Good luck to all playing at home. Out of the 22 million bracket peeps posted on ESPN, none are perfect anymore. We hope you did better. ***** Texas Chat Reminder ***** The Texas Weekly Chat Session will be Saturday (TODAY) at High Noon Texas Time (CDT) ***Saturday***. And, if you can't be there right at Noon, that is Ok, Texas Chat usually runs 3, 4, or 5 hours with some Chats running as high as 7 or 8 hours. The Texas Chat Site is here: http://texasregion.net/blab70/login.php Please register with your nation name. This is an excellent opportunity for nations old and new to Texas to find out what is going on! We chat, debate, and talk about the weather, stuff we like, stuff we hate, random stuff, and more. But, it is never stuffy. Usually, it is about meeting your fellow Texans and discussing the latest and most interesting stuff in NationStates. But then again, sometimes NationStates does not even come up. It is wide-open chatting with peeps from around The World both IRL and NS. It is Texans, EuroTexans, WannabeTexans, ex-Texans, VirtualTexans, and plenty of Friends of Texans. We have it all and all are welcome. We have added a new feature to Texas Chat, Texas Movie Chat! Chat with Texans while watching a movie. Fun stuff! So far we have watched Halloween, Shootout at the OK Corral, Red, and recently a few new Star Trek series episodes. Want to watch something together? Texas Chat, 982 weeks, and running! For the math-challenged, that is over 19½ years! Check it out! Good stuff! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Howdy y'all! Happy Easter to everyone in Texas! :-)
The first week of the trivia competition has finished! Thank you to everyone who took part The answers and full leaderboard for week one can be found in . . . Forest Trivia Answers Week One . . . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 1 - What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues? - Brezhnev - Andropov - Gorbachev - Medvedev Answer 1 - - Answer = They are all former USSR/Russian leaders. - I am aware that Medvedev was in fact a leader after the USSR fell whereas the other 3 were pre-USSR. That was a slight mistake on my part there so I apologise (thanks to Verdant Haven for pointing that out) - Other Accepted Answers = anything along the lines of the above answer - Will NOT accept = They are all Russian or They all end in "V" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 2 - What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues? - Armourers - Legends - Headlights - Kneeling Answer 2 - - Answer = They all have human body parts at the start of the word. - Armourers - Other Accepted Answers = N/A - Will NOT accept = They are all related to medieval Knights ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 3 - What would come 4th in this sequence? - Laura - Michelle - Melania - ? Answer 3 - - Answer = Jill - Explanation = They are all the first names of the last four US first ladies. So we have - - Laura Bush - Will NOT accept = Practically everything else, lol ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 4 - What would come 4th in this sequence? - Earth - Wind - Fire - ? Answer 4 - - Answer = Water - Explanation = They are the four elements of life... Enough said really. Some people were asking why it was that I used "wind" instead of "air" which is entirely valid. I have heard both used but I decided to go with wind for this since that is the most commonly used that I've heard. Apologies for any confusion on this one... - Other Accepted Answers = September, the great song by Earth, Wind and Fire... Well done on the two people who recognised that... I will also accept "air" due to what I've mentioned above... - Will NOT accept = I think everyone got this so well done! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 5; DOUBLE POINTS! - What would come 4th in this sequence? - Skateboarding - Speed Climbing - Surfing - ? Answer 5 - - Answer = Breaking/Break-Dancing - Explanation = They are the most recent sports added to the Olympics - Skateboarding (Tokyo 2020) - Other Accepted Answers = Karate as that was also introduced in 2020. Either answer is acceptable really... - Will NOT accept = Swimming... It may look like they are in alphabetical order which a lot of people went for but unfortunately Squash would disrupt that sequence. I genuinely thought I had messed up and put two answers in there so thanks to all those who gave me a mini heart-attack, hehe... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We've had a few full marks so congrats to: And... As one week ends, another week starts! So you can find week two's questions here: . . . Forest Trivia Week Two . . . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 1 - What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues? - Cloak - Splash - Balder - Midfielder ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 2 - What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues? - Demeter - Hera - Athena - Artemis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 3 - What would come 4th in this sequence? - Tuvalu - Nauru - Monaco - ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 4 - What would come 4th in this sequence? - Garbelia - Uan aa Boa - Einswenn - ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Question 5; DOUBLE POINTS! - What would come 4th in this sequence? - Pre-Cambrian - Palaeozoic - Mesozoic - ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For the rules and some helpful tips, you can check out this dispatch: . . . Forest Trivia Rules . . . Trivia Rules The questions will be released every Saturday These questions will be in the style of the popular quiz show, Only Connect I shall post the dispatch with the questions in on the RMB From that point onwards everyone, residents of forest or embassy regions, has One Week to answer the questions Answers Must be submitted by Telegram Only Telegram submissions will be accepted. Any answers posted on the RMB will be suppressed. ABSOLUTELY NO GOOGLING OF ANSWERS IS ALLOWED if you are suspected of googling, a point will be deducted. Repeat offenders will have more severe sanctions ABSOLUTELY NO USAGE OF AI IS ALLOWED if you are suspected of using AI, a point will be deducted. Repeat offenders will have more severe sanctions Results After the week has concluded, I shall release the answers to the previous week's questions in the same dispatch. There will also be explanations as to how you could have reached the answers, in case anyone is interested Alongside this, there shall be a two leaderboards compiled. One weekly leaderboard and one overall leaderboard. Prizes! The person(s) who get the most correct answers each week will share the "prize pot" equally which shall be equal to 20.00 DV At the end of each month, the person at the top of the overall leaderboard shall receive a legendary! The person who is at the top of the overall leaderboard at the end of the term, shall receive a grand prize of 5 legendaries! Helpful Tips If you don't know the answer, just have a guess! There's no harm in having an educated guess, you might just be right! Watch out for a word question! If the clues seem so random that you just can't find a connection, it could be that it's a word question! The words themselves could be the connection! If you aren't sure about the answer to the question, when you're submitting them, try to explain your thinking to me! If your thinking is correct but you don't quite get the answer, you'll get half of a point. They all count in the long run! Take your time! There's no rush... You have a week to answer the questions so you have plenty of time to think and trivialise! And most importantly... Have fun! Please remember that Only Telegram submissions to Any and all feedback is welcome! Please TG them to Once again, good luck and Happy Easter to everyone in Texas! Max a.k.a. NewTexas, Atsvea, and The Realizer |
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