I'm spending the day with my family, so I'll review this in detail tomorrow.

Ok. Hope you have fun !

Bringing this back!

Here's my article:

Random Musings
ProfessorHenn

Random Musings is the place where guest writers will make a reflection on important issues that affect NationStates in general and the South Pacific in particular. For this issue, I wanted to reflect on the South Pacific Regional Games and their success.

At the beginning of my term as Minister of Regional Affairs, I made a promise to re-create TSP's Regional Games and to do them once a month. Doing them once a month was out of the question due to activity issues and that fact that it wouldn't really be interesting each time, but re-creating them was something special. In the Games that just finished up, we had over 25 participants in 3 teams, Team Rose, Team, Orchid, and Team Chrysanthemum, with 15 gold, silver, and bronze medals being handed out at the Closing Ceremony. Overall, it was a hugely successful event, with people from across NationStates coming together in the name of friendship and cooperation. I hope the ties made in the past few weeks will continue to hold long after these events.

To keep up the spirit, The Ministry and I are planning something special for next month, October. Stay tuned for more information!

If you'd like to make any changes, go ahead. LEt's get this posted folks!

Orchid has a capital where it shouldn't, but that just a typo but otherwise it looks really good.

Is this still happening or is it dead ?

Yesterday I had enough time to write an article on the judicial reform:

Kris Montresor Wrote:

Assembly Votes on Judicial Reform
by Kris Montresor

In keeping with its unspoken tradition, the Assembly has been debating once again on judicial reform, following the proposal of Delegate Kris Montresor to abolish the Appellate Court and transfer some of its responsibilities to the High Court. This debate was prompted by the previous Appellate Justice losing citizenship, after which the Delegate questioned whether the realities of the region made it necessary to have an appeals system, considering the fact that judicial decisions are never actually appealed.

Several proposals for reform were presented, mainly the citizens who had served as Chief Justices or as High Court Justices, though several other citizens were quite active in the debate. There were three main proposals: one from Minister of the Army QuietDad, another from former Chief Justice Farengeto and the third from former High Court Justice Rebeltopia:

• QuietDad proposed abolishing the Appellate Court and letting the Assembly vote on appeals to High Court rulings, 75% votes being necessary to overturn a decision.
  
• Farengeto proposed having the Assembly appoint a Justice to hear appeals for specific cases, rather than having a permanent Appellate Justice.
  
• Rebeltopia proposed electing four justices to the High Court, instead of the current three, but making one of those justices refrain from participating in each decision, on a rotating basis. That justice could then hear appeals.

Vice Delegate Arbiter submitted on Friday a draft adopting Rebeltopia’s proposal to abolish the Appellate Court and transfer its responsibilities to a four-member High Court, which was then seconded by Penguin. This will hopefully improve what has already been called one of the best judicial systems that the region has ever had, and end the continued practice of reforming the judiciary every few months.

I'll write two more articles today, on (1) recent SPSF missions and Henn's appointment as General and (2) the lower endorsement cap. It would be awesome if someone could write something in Llamas' appointment as Deputy MoRA, perhaps including soundbites from Henn and Llamas, on their future plans and such.

(10-05-2014, 05:51 PM)Kris Kringle Wrote: It would be awesome if someone could write something in Llamas' appointment as Deputy MoRA, perhaps including soundbites from Henn and Llamas, on their future plans and such.

I suppose I'll do it. Feel free to poke me about it tonight if I have seemed to have forgotten.

Would you be able to be on IRC tonight Henn and Llamas? I may have a use for you.

I'm on tonight.

Quote:Random Musings
by ProfessorHenn

Random Musings is the place where guest writers will make a reflection on important issues that affect NationStates in general and the South Pacific in particular. For this issue, I wanted to reflect on the South Pacific Regional Games and their success.

At the beginning of my term, I made a promise to bring back the fun event that was TSP Regional Games. In it's current adaptation, it's known as the South Pacific Regional Games. They started on the 7th of September, and continued until the 21th of September. It consisted of Team Rose, Team Orchid, and Team Chrysanthemum, over a period of 3 challenges. On the outside, they were a huge success, what with over 20 people competing in three teams, but the real victory was not with winning challenges. It was the precious bonds made by the people who competed in them. The amount of co-operation that was present at the Games is few and far in this world, and I must thank the participants for that. I hope that long after these Games end, those friendships are still there, and still growing.

To finish this thought, I would would like to point our heads not to the past, which is a fine example of the kind of friendship that can be made, but to the future, where they can be deepened. I myself am planning an event for later this month to bring together all sorts of NationStates go-ers in a huge little event. If the past is any indication, the future will be a doorway to new ideas and things, and new people.

(Can't really focus on this too much. Open to editing.)

Will we bother with my article on the Lazarus and Osiris War ? As it is very old. I don't mind if we scrap it but I may not be able to do another article until next week, as I'm pretty busy right now.