Eluvatar Cover Letter

Eluvatar

Eluvatar

TNPer
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TNP Nation
Zemnaya Svoboda
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Dear Citizens of The North Pacific,

I am writing to apply for the Delegate position advertised in the news box, this election forum, and throughout the region. Thank you Belschaft, Lord Lore, Bustos, and Malvad also for the public invitations to apply, and Crushing Our Enemies and others for their counsel.

I have for some time now been a TNPer. TNP is a rare thing, an organically developing community born not of an outside incursion nor an individual's plan. I find it uncommon too in how democratically it has developed. We are diverse, an almost unfiltered sampling of NationStates. I love it.

I have of course written previously on what I would like to do and see done were you to hire me for the position. More generally, I think we've pretty much succeeded, since I campaigned on it in 2012, in becoming an actor instead of a battlefield. Am I satisfied, however? No, of course not. I think our offsite community and the regional institutions of governance staffed by it are insufficiently integrated with the broader (onsite) regional community. I think our government itself has gotten somewhat more opaque than it should be, and could stand to be more transparent to both. I think that I am well able to fight for these priorities, and so put myself forward for the role.

In attestation, I envisioned and established the Ministry of WA Affairs and its Information for Voters program. I established the elected Executive Council of 2012-2013, which was one way to ensure governmental transparency and increase public involvement. While I don't think that particular method is what we need right now, I do believe we need regular public cabinet meetings and some degree of accountability by Ministers directly to the public (and not just the Delegate). I have a complete understanding of the various methods r3n used to effectively connect to our regional residents and intend to build on those foundations.

My CV is attached, as well.

Citizens of The North Pacific, I ask you to accept my application and vote for me for Delegate.

Thank you,
~Eluvatar

Eurasia: (Resident January 6th through October 24th 2004 as Zemnaya Svoboda)
  • Delegate
  • Author of the regional constitution
  • Security Counsellor following its adoption.
The Lexicon: (Resident March 31st 2006 through January 4th 2007 as Eluvatar).
  • Senator from late spring on
  • High Councillor for Regional Security November?-December? 2006
  • Created the original Toaster system, at first for regional security and military purposes as an endorsement tracker, but then branching out to include recruitment coordination.
The North Pacific (Resident since July 11th 2006 as Zemnaya Svoboda and as Eluvataran Isles, excepting occasional absences)
  • Regional Assembly member (July 2006 on, excepting occasional absences)
  • Regent of The North Pacific University (February - August 2007)
  • Vice Delegate (January - May 2007)
  • Security Council (committee) member (May - August 2007)
  • Speaker of the Regional Assembly (May - August 2007)
  • Associate Justice (May 2008)
  • Vice Delegate (May 2008)
  • Delegate (June - October 2008)
  • Vice Delegate (September 2008 - January 2009)
  • Minister of External Affairs (September 2008 - May 2009)
  • Security Council (standing body) member (January 2009, March 2009 - February 2011)
  • Associate Justice (July 2009 - February 2010)
  • Attorney General (June - November 2011)
  • Security Council (standing body) member (July 2011, October 2011, January 2012 - September 2013)
  • Minister of Recruitment (April - May 2012)
  • Delegate (May - November 2012)
  • Deputy Attorney General (November 2012)
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs (November 2012 - March 2013)
  • NPIA Director (December 2012 - [bgcolor=black][redacted][/bgcolor])
  • Deputy Minister of World Assembly Affairs (November 2013 - February 2014)
  • Minister of Defense (February 2015)
  • Primary author of the constitutional revision of 2008 to add a Security Council
  • Author of the Revamped Legal Code of 2012
  • Author of numerous other pieces of legislation
  • Author and maintainer of the Security Council's Alerts and Records systems, the WA Development program's endorsement and data tracking infrastructure, and [bgcolor=black][redacted][/bgcolor]
  • Crucial negotiator for the security treaties TNP negotiated in 2012 including with the South Pacific, Taijitu, Stargate, the International Democratic Union, and Equilism.
  • Initial suggester, advisor and assistant with the WA Development Program
the South Pacific: (Resident on and off since November 13th 2006 as Eluvataran Outback)
  • Citizen
  • Chair of the Assembly December 2011 - June 2012
  • Minister of Regional Affairs June - July 2012
  • Deputy Minister of Security December 2013 - [bgcolor=black][redacted][/bgcolor])
  • December 2014 - February 2015: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Allied Cooperation (D)
  • February 2015: Senior Associate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Worked intensely with the NSA and regional allies to combat Milograd's coup in 2013
Taijitu: (Resident since January 4th 2007 as Eluvatar, excepting occasional absences)
  • (Interim) High Councillor of Regional Security (January - February 2007)
  • Senator (January - March 2007)
  • Minister of Regional Security (February - August 2007)
  • Supreme Court Justice (March 2007 - February 2008)
  • Minister of Defense (August - November 2007)
  • Senator (elected representative) (June 2010 - June 2011)
  • Speaker (July 2010 - June 2011)
  • Minister of Internal Affairs (June - July 2011)
  • Delegate (July - September 2011)
  • Chief Justice (September 2011 - May 2012)
  • TWA General (2012-2013)
  • Delegate ()
  • Tajitu Citizens' Militia Corporal (October 2014 - present)
The United Defenders League: (member since June 13th 2011)
  • Merryman from the beginning
  • Chief of Intelligence (September 2011 - December 2012)
  • Lieutenant (November 2011 - present)
Osiris: (Resident from October 22nd 2011 until December 10th 2013 with various nations)
  • Citizen
  • Attorney General
Balder: (Resident from November 12th 2011 on and off, more off than on since early 2012)
  • Convention Member
  • Citizen
  • Justitierad (AJ)
  • Ordforande Justitierad (CJ)
Various Accomplishments:
  • Helping The East Pacific resist The Empire and, with Gulliver, helping draft the Concordat afterward (2008)
  • A number of liberations with the UDL, NPA, TWA/TaiMil, and working with other friendly forces, including numerous operations in which I participated and in which I was a crucial tactician and/or organizer.
  • Architecting the Azure Alliance between TNP, Taijitu, tSP, and the NPO.

My apologies if I have forgotten something, which I may add in the near future.
 
Three questions for ya.

1. What have you accomplished this term as Minister of Defense?

2. How would you explain your inactivity this term? There have been times when you haven't been online for 24 hours. Is it lack of interest in your position or RL circumstances?

3. If it is RL circumstances, how are you going to be able to handle the delegacy? No offense, but no one would want to hold ANOTHER special election for delegate.
 
Democratic Donkeys:
Why did you start endorsement gathering before you announced your intention to run? Is that really necessary?
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Democratic Donkeys:
How difficult do you think it would be for you to acquire over 500 endorsements?

I ask this because even with popular support, regional telegrams, and a WFE mention, it was still incredibly difficult for our then Vice Delegate to even approach second in the region in terms of endorsements. I worry that it would take up a considerable amount of your term to even become in-game delegate.
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Syrixia:
Three questions for ya.

1. What have you accomplished this term as Minister of Defense?

2. How would you explain your inactivity this term? There have been times when you haven't been online for 24 hours. Is it lack of interest in your position or RL circumstances?

3. If it is RL circumstances, how are you going to be able to handle the delegacy? No offense, but no one would want to hold ANOTHER special election for delegate.
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As promised, a comprehensive NPA Manual is in the works. I would have liked to have completed it a bit earlier, but yes, RL circumstances interfered. In terms of my presence on the forum, however, that has a different cause: I deliberately chose to avoid involving myself in debates during my limited NS time instead of working on my plans for Defense. I had planned also to have McMasterdonia's assistance with the NPA Manual, but that wasn't possible either. I won't go into detail about the RL circumstances because that's not what I do, but I was unexpectedly faced with certain events, and then with certain weather, which disrupted my schedule. It is no longer disrupted. NS-wise I have also been backing up this forum in a more easily recoverable (and measurable) form than my previous (more simple) backups, which took about 100 times as much time and effort as I expected. I have high hopes that the backup run I started a few hours ago will successfully conclude (it has indexed 305k of 333k posts so far, which is farther than any previous run...) and then I will be able to set this up as an automated process. I will also be able to use the backup database to allow admins to more easily do certain aspects of security checks (specifically cross checking members using many IP addresses for matches with any other members). (Unfortunately, to make it possible to do a security check only through the outside database would require me to write another program using the backup program's pieces which would behave differently. This will probably not happen immediately).

In terms of the Ministry, I believe the NPA has been deployed appropriately. With McMasterdonia's replacing r3n as Delegate, it was necessary and proper to remain in the region for some time. Soon after that responsibility was concluded, a (somewhat strange) invasion attempt on Stargate was reported. This pre-empted one operation I was considering but made for a perfect time for another I had been planning: cross-endorsement in Stargate. Unfortunately, a little while after that deployment could be completed, McMasterdonia resigned as Delegate, so now the NPA needs must be deployed to The North Pacific once more.

I'm not very happy with my performance however in these respects: the Stargate deployment could have been better organized to pursue the priorities I intended. I could have bitten the bullet and held certain exercises before the utilities I'm working on were ready to make them easier and our forces more effective. I will plead that I honestly did not expect McMasterdonia, r3n, and myself to all be hit by unexpected RL circumstances at roughly the same time, but ultimately the Defense responsibility lies with me and I ought to have taken more steps to adjust my plans to circumstances.

Democratic Donkeys:
Why did you start endorsement gathering before you announced your intention to run? Is that really necessary?
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Yes :P
 
What are the ten most over-used and/or annoying words in the English language that, were you dictator of the Universe, should be banned and or reported to the Ministry of Aesthetic Deletions? :P
 
Dear Eluvatar,

We were impressed by your credentials, and your cover letter was charming, if a little odd. Would you be available for an interview with our voter pool sometime over the next few days?

If so, please respond with your available dates and times, and submit an answer to the following, designed to test your skills in several key competencies of the position:

Please provide an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Times New Roman in various contexts, touching on both online and print uses. For a document whose title is in Times New Roman, please pick a font for the subtitle which would complement it, and explain your choice.

Sincerely,
SillyString
Vice President of Security, Counterintelligence, and Pancakes
 
Democratic Donkeys:
Eluvatar:
Yes :P
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Why? Is it really that necessary for the Delegate to have endorsements? Can't you just let SillyString take care of things game side?
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To be fair, I began the endorsement exchange process only a few hours before formally announcing candidacy. Not a big difference. :fish:
Romanoffia:
What are the ten most over-used and/or annoying words in the English language that, were you dictator of the Universe, should be banned and or reported to the Ministry of Aesthetic Deletions? :P
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Assuming that somehow my opposition to prescriptivism (telling people what they're allowed to say) were magically erased, I would prohibit:
  1. like (when not used to mean "similar to")
  2. bro
  3. y'know
  4. own (in the sense of defeating or conquering)
  5. pown (corruption of the previous)
  6. gangsta
  7. shizz
  8. literally (when used to mean figuratively)
  9. yolo
  10. nucular

SillyString:
Dear Eluvatar,

We were impressed by your credentials, and your cover letter was charming, if a little odd. Would you be available for an interview with our voter pool sometime over the next few days?

If so, please respond with your available dates and times, and submit an answer to the following, designed to test your skills in several key competencies of the position:

Please provide an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Times New Roman in various contexts, touching on both online and print uses. For a document whose title is in Times New Roman, please pick a font for the subtitle which would complement it, and explain your choice.

Sincerely,
SillyString
Vice President of Security, Counterintelligence, and Pancakes
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Dear SillyString,

It would be my pleasure to attend such an interview. I should be available any time between elevens tomorrow, and between nines the day after. I would prefer to leave Sunday open.

Regarding your question, in brief Times New Roman is a classic serif font which shares the advantages of social acceptance (due to perceived superior readability) in large blocks of text and the impression of formality with most such fonts. On screens serif fonts often suffer more from pixelation than sans serif fonts do, which is definitely a disadvantage for Times New Roman. (It is not adjusted to compensate for this.) If selecting a subtitle to a Times New Roman title I would probably select an italicized Times New Roman or similar font. I would be most influenced by the set of fonts available for the task.

Thank you,
~Eluvatar
 
Eluvatar:
Romanoffia:
What are the ten most over-used and/or annoying words in the English language that, were you dictator of the Universe, should be banned and or reported to the Ministry of Aesthetic Deletions? :P
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Assuming that somehow my opposition to prescriptivism (telling people what they're allowed to say) were magically erased, I would prohibit:
  1. like (when not used to mean "similar to")
  2. bro
  3. y'know
  4. own (in the sense of defeating or conquering)
  5. pown (corruption of the previous)
  6. gangsta
  7. shizz
  8. literally (when used to mean figuratively)
  9. yolo
  10. nucular
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Good man! Your list nearly coincides with my list! :clap:
 
You've missed two things, so I'll have to be a tad difficult:

the South Pacific:

December 2014 - February 2015: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Allied Cooperation (D)
February 2015: Senior Associate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

*flies off*
 
Lord Ravenclaw:
You've missed two things, so I'll have to be a tad difficult:

the South Pacific:

December 2014 - February 2015: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Allied Cooperation (D)
February 2015: Senior Associate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

*flies off*
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You know what, you're right :-$

I'll confess I used my declaration of past regional involvement when I last reapplied for formal citizenship in the South Pacific as my checklist for that CV, and obviously the ministerial involvement after that declaration wasn't on it :-$
 
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