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~~New Appointments to Start Working on our Dispatch System~~
Hey everyone, we're about a third into the term but I've got some more appointments to make. We're gonna hopefully get things rolling with fixing up our dispatches :]
Ruinenlust, could you please appoint the following nations:
Forest Arboretum as the Forest Arboretum with powers over Appearance. This will be the new regional nation where we will get all of our important government dispatches into one account, and fix up our dispatch network in general. There will be a few people with access to this account for working on this project: Myself, Garbelia, Kannap, and Anxious and Kevin. I believe Kannap will be good for this role since they have experience in writing, and they have also been around in the region for a long time so they can be helpful with any historical stuff we may need. A&K will also be a great person to have helping out as she also has some writing experience, has been quite active recently, and is excited to help out :] Garbelia has experience in making dispatches actually look good, and they have a plan to incorporate a Discord bot so that government members may easily add things to our dispatch system. Ruinenlust will also have access to the account so that it may be passed down to future administrations.
Kannap as the Librarian with powers over Appearance. Kannap has previously expressed interest in restarting and breathing new life into our old Forest Library which has otherwise been forgotten in the recesses of our current dispatch system :P I think this would be a lovely project to revive so I look forward to seeing what they will do with it!
This unfortunately still leaves one position I had hoped to fill quickly open, in the Chief Editor position. The two people I was looking at for this position have not responded back for a while and one of which I know has gone on leave from NationStates for some time, having gotten burnt out from putting too much on their plate. I may have to get the ball on that rolling myself at some point, but with that said applications remain open for anyone who would be interested in that, and if not I may or may not be looking at entrants to our Poetry Competition for ideas :3
Hiyo there! I'm doing quite well! I hope you enjoy being tagged onto the bottom of my government post since you happened to post just early enough for me to see it :P And we are not called Foresters here, but Forestians :] I don't know so much that Foresters would be an apt name since I always associated that more with lumbering ;P I think the name does also encompass conservation to an extent, but the lumbering part is still pretty big in that field.
Done! I'd like to just add that I love the idea behind the Forest Arboretum (office) and also the Forest Arboretum (nation). We are such a culturally and historically rich region, and it makes sense to have the equivalent of a national library or archives. Hopefully this nation serves as a collection point for the curation of our region's information.
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Also, I hope everyone is doing well! I've been very busy the last few weeks with the endings of the semester and the school year, but I always make sure to check in a couple times a day and just see whether anything's happened or requires my attention. Still, I hope that things quiet down soon. I have a couple ideas for potential constitutional amendments I'd like to explore more over the summer.
Kannap, Esterild, Jutsa, Atsvea, and 5 othersMcClandia Doge 2, Zerphen, Garbelia, Greater Morvonia, and Bisofeyr
The term is "forestian" I'm pretty sure :3
I'm doing good, I would be doing better if Europe wasn't going through some stuff
That stuff being a small, annoying, largely unsuccessful raid by like 3 people? They were banned tho which is good :3
Other than that, I'm doing pretty well
I'm gonna redo the entire lore of Greater Morvonia from scratch soon (provided I actually get on the map) so I'm thinking about what to actually put in the current lore's place if that does happen
What about you?
I'm doing pretty good, I mean I did just get elected, so..
That is some :exploding-skull: news.
The Realizer - For the trivia questions, I assume you also don't want us to use any physical reference materials we have in our possession, like say a globe or a chemistry book?
Zerphen - What does the Chief Editor position entail?
For that I'll refer back to my original campaign and application opening where I outlined many of my ideas for a regional newspaper. If you have any questions or want something clarified let me know :]
Congratulations on a successful election :D I didn't realize TRR was holding elections around this time. I hope you don't mind me asking out of curiosity, but what position did you get elected to, and what are you going to be doing in that position? :]
The Forest Pollinator (my favorite)
The Forest Breeze
Forest Seeds
Not to be biased as someone who really likes wind (if my pretitle isn't already an obvious giveaway :3) but I like the sound of Forest Breeze personally :] If anyone else has some ideas I'd love to hear them, either in TGs or here on the RMB. If we have enough ideas we could put them all in a poll and vote on the name we like best :]
I mean, using a globe would just be intuition... the globe may not tell you what you need, you never know...
A textbook... eh, I'll allow it. I know what you're referring to so I think, for this, it's fine. In a chemistry exam, you're allowed a periodic table so you can use the textbook.
Thanks for asking though... So long as people aren't just explicitly looking up the answer or using AI, I'm willing to he lenient.
Have a great day...
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I am new to NS, both your posts were mentioned to me by a few friends I have made recently in Europe.
I agree with both your opinions in this matter and having finally read them, I feel that certain people in Europe are terribly misinformed about the Palestinian issue.
So Vantser opinions are what I resonate with
However since it might feel perhaps too much for the Zionists, I have included Canaltia.
Not to blame but I really think that Einswenn once again, and The New Nordic Union, should read both their posts although i doubt they would change their opinions.
Wanted to add that some people think a 2 state solution, but they won't mention that Israel will never let a separate Muslim majority Palestine form in what they consider their "historical, biblical Jewish homeland" not mentioning how important Jerusalem is in both religions.
Apartheid is real, it's happening to Palestinians. Colonizers in occupied Palestine continue to religiously, racially, systematically, illegally murder and displace Palestinians from their colonies in West Bank and now in the genocide of Muslims in Gaza due to US military support and financial aid
Ending with this: Free Palestine, Stand with Palestine
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As for names for a regional newspaper.
I propose,
The Forest Fauna (Could be shortened to just the Fauna perhaps?)
The Nature Notifier/Notice
The Canopy Cover (See it's like a play on words cause you know you cover stuff in news and Canopies cover Forests.. crazy I know)
I'll try and think of some more, could be fun.
Yo, next time you quote a massive amount of stuff, be sure to delete that person's quote your quoting as it can take up a massive amount of space on the RMB, that's all lol. Then replace the text with something like *snip* or whatever.
Example:
My first thought for a newspaper name would be the 'Forest Gazette-Journal-Mirror' (brownie points to whoever gets that reference.)
Otherwise, I think we should keep the word 'Forest' in it. The name 'Forest Floor' comes to mind, but maybe that's one for a satirical tabloid. Forest Breeze sounds good out of the ones I've heard so far. Forest Fauna also sounds good.
Forest Howler maybe? Like howler monkeys?
Esterild, Calenmor, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, and 3 othersMcClandia Doge 2, Zerphen, and Greater Morvonia
I challenged for an empty officer position, and I won it. I haven't got a portfolio yet so I don't know what I'll be doing quite yet.
salutations Forest :D
As a preface: Karyo Gama, I'm not trying to single you out here or ascribe all of the following sentiments to you. Just using your post as a jumping-off point to say something I've already more or less said on Discord.
I continue to be disturbed by the style of rhetoric I see around this issue. For example, while I understand the reason for the linguistic choice of "Zionists" in preference to "Israelis" or "Jews" - which would be much too broad! - that term is also used by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists. When people refer to "the Zionists" like they're part of an enemy camp, that concerns me.
It's also not a particularly apt term here, since Zionism incorporates a lot more than the question of an Israeli state and also does NOT inherently include support of Israeli policies in/takeover of Palestine. When people in the current debate talk about "Zionism" like it's the enemy, it also leaves some (intentional??) ambiguity about what THEY mean by Zionism. Israeli settlers in Palestine? The existence of Israel itself?
I'm confused about why you would say Israel would never support a two-state solution, when Palestinians have more than once rejected such a solution, most notably after the Camp David Summit in 2000.
I also don't like the insistent language I see everywhere about "colonizers" and "settler-colonialists," and especially when it's tied to the sentiment that, well, sure, violence is bad and all, but what can you expect when you're being oppressed by colonizers? It seems dehumanizing, like calling cops "pigs" or illegal immigrants "illegals." It seems designed to erase all nuance from the discussion, when the situation is a lot less simple than just "oppressors vs. oppressed."
None of this is intended to take away from the fact that Israel's response to the October attack is wrong. I don't think anybody, at least in Forest, disputes that.
I would just ask people to consider their language a little bit more carefully, to consider what impact their words might have on Jewish people reading them, to consider whether their language might unintentionally encourage anti-Semitism, and to remember that this is a nuanced situation with humans AND bad behavior on BOTH sides.
Einswenn, Rhodevus, Calenmor, Jutsa, and 7 othersAtsvea, Ruinenlust, Window Land, McClandia Doge 2, Zerphen, Nordustra, and Greater Morvonia
Thank you for posting this.
Honestly, when I see such debates with intentionally chosen [label] words that define the camp of the person, I just skip reading or listening to them any further since those are radically biased and in fact aren't open to dialogue. Be that antisemites, homophobes, general racists, or anyone else who chooses aggressive phrasing with certain words, not so rarely dogwhistles.
I stand with Israelis who support peace and cooperation, and I stand with Palestinians who also support peace and cooperation. After reading and hearing too much about this conflict, I don’t need anything else to be proven to me anymore since everything else takes the world further from said peace and cooperation.
Esterild, Rhodevus, Calenmor, Ownzone, and 4 othersAtsvea, McClandia Doge 2, Zerphen, and Greater Morvonia
I think it's dubious at best to argue that use of the word Zionism is a dogwhistle. It's the same as the OK hand sign meme.
Obviously the actual Nazis are going to pick widely-used terms to argue their point/identify each other/etc. It's a deliberate tactic. That doesn't mean we should retreat into ever-smaller subsets of human behaviour in order to avoid "doing what the Nazis do". That's their goal. That's how they win.
If the normal humans start talking in circles and avoiding language, the actual Nazis get to say "Look at me, I can just tell it how it is. They're persecuting me for using $normal_word, they're the real bad guys."
Thank you Zerphen! Very excited to work with you, Garbelia, and Anxious and Kevin to get our region's dispatches in order and looking nice.
Also super excited to take on the role of Librarian and get the Forest library up and running again. I'll be sure to post here in the RMB as work on that progresses.
Esterild, Verdant Haven, Calenmor, Jutsa, and 5 othersAtsvea, Ruinenlust, McClandia Doge 2, Zerphen, and Garbelia
It is helpful to have a word for the Jewish nationalist movement that seeks a Jewish state in the lands associated with the Biblical kingdom of Israel. If you go to an encyclopedia you'll find that the word is Zionism.
It's true that the word can be misused, sometimes as an insult with antisemitic overtones, but that doesn't strip the term of meaning. American conservatives often incorrectly describe things they don't like as socialist or communist, relying on those terms having negative connotations of the USSR and/or lack of patriotism. That's unfortunate, but it doesn't change the fact that socialism and communism are meaningful terms when used correctly.
The idea of a state that's primarily for people of a particular ethnic group is deeply troubling, especially when lots of people who aren't members of that group live within the state's borders. This is what we need to be talking about, and it doesn't help if naming it is considered negative labelling or antisemitism.
There is indeed a lot of nuance and many grey areas in the Israel/Palestine question. What's been going on in Gaza these last few months is not nuanced or complex, however. A whole population is being indiscriminately killed and systematically starved. The historical precedent is not so much Apartheid as the Holocaust, and I don't mean that as hyperbole. The similarity of recent events to the liquidation of the ghettos is hard to deny.
So let's not get too lost in "well, it's complicated" and "there's fault on both sides." Whatever longterm political settlement comes after, the current situation is not complicated, and it needs to stop now.
~~Forest Trivia Week Seven~~ |
And another week is done!
Week Six! Thank you to all the people who have participated in any week and especially those who have participated in all the weeks! I really appreciate it and I hope you have fun...
Anyway...
Congratulations to Atsvea for getting 6 out of 6 this week! It's proving to be a tight run race between Atsvea and Verdant Haven at the top but there's still plenty of time to catch up for others!
Thankfully life has cleared up a bit for me so I'll try and get prizes going again very soon for Week 8 - another bumper edition!
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Without further ado, here are the answers for week six -
Forest Trivia Week Six
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Question 1 -
What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?
- Bar
- Can
- Truck
- Sorry
Answer 1 -
- Answer = They are all Vehicles with their first letter changed
- Other Accepted Answers = Anything like the above...
- Will NOT accept = Anything else, lol
Question 2 -
What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?
- Forest
- The Rejected Realms
- Hell
- The MT Army
Answer 2 -
- Answer = They have all been commended by the Security Council
- Other Accepted Answers = Points for creativity for Aequus "their banners contain one of the four classic elements". Not exactly what I was looking for but I'm feeling kind today :)
- Will NOT accept = N/A
Question 3 -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- Helium
- Neon
- Argon
- ?
Answer 3 -
- Answer = Krypton
- Explanation = These are the noble gases on the periodic table in order from the smallest atom getting larger...
- Will NOT accept = Anything else
Question 4 -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- Qin
- Zhou
- Shang
- ?
Answer 4 -
- Answer = Xia
- Explanation = These are the first dynasties of China in order from the 4th to 1st
- Other Accepted Answers = N/A
- Will NOT accept = N/A
Question 5; DOUBLE POINTS! -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- Beijing
- Kinshasa
- New Delhi
- ?
Answer 5 -
- Answer = Tokyo
- Explanation = They are the most populous capital cities in order (with Beijing the most populous)
- Other Accepted Answers = N/A
- Will NOT accept = Anything else...
Aequus (Wintreath)
Aequus (Wintreath)
Logophilia Lyricalia(Haiku)
Kissinger-Monroe (TBOTCOER)
Wan Nyan (Yggdrasil)
Texas Jaguarundi (Texas/Forest)
The Washington Federation (TRTHNBB)
Almonaster Nuevo (Canada)
America the Greater (TRTHNBB)
Krayo29 (TRTHNBB)
Macrasetia (XKI)
South Miruva (TLA)
Szaki (Canada)
Orcuo (TRR)
New United Common-lands (TRTHNBB)
MountAye (Philosophers)
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And here are the questions for week seven! -
Forest Trivia Week Seven
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Question 1 -
What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?
- Hot Air Ballooning
- Cricket
- Lacrosse
- Tug-of-war
Question 2 -
What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?
- Teach Addition
- Teach In America
- Super Unusual
- Armchair Antics
Question 3 -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- ?
Question 4 -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- Johann II
- Rama IX
- Elizabeth II
- ?
Question 5; DOUBLE POINTS! -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- London - Perth
- Auckland - Doha
- Newark - Singapore
- ?
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And a reminder of the rules as per usual -
Forest Trivia Rules
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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!
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~~Forest Poetry Fantasia~~ |
A reminder that there's only a WEEK LEFT to submit poems for our Forest Poetry Fantasia... We're still yet to have any submissions from Forest so if you're feeling creative, give it a go!
Here's the dispatch with all the information you need -
Forest Poetry Fantasia
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Poetry has been a form of sharing stories since the beginning of time. In the 3rd millennium BCE, the oldest surviving poem was written - "The Epic of Gilgamesh". This ignited a spark which led to some of the most famous poems ever, such as Homer's "The Odyssey" and "The Iliad", being written.
As empires fell and new languages were developed, poetry remained an integral part of culture. Poetry became a way of recording history and sharing tales of gods and goddesses. Poets would often share their epics at large gatherings and festivals where hundreds of people would come to listen. Throughout time, poetry has continued to be a way of bringing people together, particularly in the Roman times when poems would be recited in front of thousands in famous amphitheatres.
Fast forward a few thousand years and poetry has evolved from the epics of old to the shorter forms which we know and love today. It's these shorter forms which we are celebrating in this competition. We invite everyone across the NationStates community to channel their creativity and let their imagination run wild!
Format
- The competition shall start on 5th May
- Participants have until the 21st May to submit their poems
- The results will be announced on the 26th May
Categories
- Haiku
- A Haiku is a poem that comprises of seventeen syllables across three lines. With line one having 5 syllables, line two 7 syllables and line three having 5 syllables.
- Although Haikus traditionally are about the natural world, your Haiku can be about whatever you wish
- Freeverse
- A freeverse (or freeform) poem is a poem that has no set structure or length, no consistent rhyme scheme and no set metrical pattern. In other words, you can do whatever you like!
- Your freeverse poem can be about anything you like! This is more of an open category for you to let your thoughts run wild
- The Environment
- This can be in any form you want! The choice is entirely yours!
- The only requirement for this category is that it must be about the environment. You could write about anything from forests to mountains, from pigeons to cheetahs! It's completely up to you! Let your imagination run wild!
- Vision
- Again, this can be in any form you want! The choice is entirely yours!
- The only requirement for this category is it must be about vision. This is a broad topic so let your imagination run wild! You could write about what you see, visions of the future, how lucky we are to be able to see, perhaps even Eurovision! There are no constraints and with such a broad topic, I'm sure you could write a moving poem...
Submissions
- Participants can submit a maximum of 5 poems across the 4 categories
- However, each participants may submit only 2 haikus
- Participants do not have to submit all their poems at once. You can submit them one at a time if you so wish!
- To submit a poem(s), participants should telegram Forest Poetry Judge. You can either attach a dispatch with the poem(s) in or write out the poem(s) in the telegram - either is fine...
- All poems shall be proudly displayed in a dispatch throughout the event
- The deadline to submit poems is 21st May
Judging
- All poems shall be judged based on three criteria by a panel of 7 judges, comprised of forestians and foreign trees alike...
- Each of the three criteria shall be marked out of 10, with each poem receiving an overall total out of 30. The criteria are as follows:
- Effectiveness
- How effectively is the point gotten across?
- Is it clear what the poem is talking about?
- Are there certain techniques the writer has used to get the point across?
- Thought
- How much thought has been put into writing the poem?
- Has the writer thought about the words they have used?
- If there is a rhyme scheme, are the rhyming couplets forced?
- Has the writer included any literary techniques?
- Resonance
- Has the writer thoughtfully used literary techniques to make the point more meaningful?
- Is the poem moving in any way? Does it resonate with the reader?
Judges
We're still waiting on confirmation from a few judges from our embassy regions but here are the judges we have so far -
Our esteemed Forest Keeper... Having been hailed as a "literary genius" by all, Zerphen is a great choice to be on this judging panel. |
An ex-Forest Keeper and our current Deputy Forest Keeper! There are rumours that Garbelia may be a direct descendent of William Shakespeare! Those literary skills have definitely passed on through the generations and that's why Garbelia is an integral part of the judging panel... |
They're not a Forest Keeper, or a "literary genius" BUT they do have an 8 at English GCSE. And that's why they are the best, worst part of this judging panel... |
The Region That Has No Big Banks's foreign minister and chess master. Their poem "Back to Banks" has been lauded as one of the best poems of the 21st century by many and that is why we are honoured to have them on our judging panel. |
Rules
As with all great writing comes a few rules...
- Participants must write the poems themselves. NO AI SHALL BE ALLOWED, it won't help you anyway and ruins the point of the event...
- Do not plagiarise the work of others
- Keep all writing PG-13, in line with NationStates's T&Cs
- And most importantly, Have fun!
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Good luck for all the competitions running!
Have a great day...
Esterild, Jutsa, Atsvea, Zerphen, and 3 othersFurilisca, Greater Morvonia, and Forest Arboretum
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