I'm still going to ask Iason to pick two more choices for the purposes of completeness (whenever he's ready, no rush), and I'd like to keep the vote open the full week.

Is there a way to contact a bunch of Benitians at the same time to broaden the response pool, or is this effectively a case of "you snooze, you lose"?

That said, for reference:

Quote- Have a public consultation on this forum to come up with potential new names;
- Decide on a candidate name by some kind of process of elimination, if needed;  <--- We Are Here
- Introduce and pass legislation at the provincial level amending the Constitution;
- Introduce and pass legislation at the national level amending El Lexhatx.

Quote from: Sir Lüc on March 27, 2024, 11:54:00 AMMic'haglh, seeing as we're basically making this a three-man effort to reform the province, I'd like to appoint you as:

- Arvitieir Primă, since you're the obvious candidate for the job, and the current appointee is sadly inactive;
- Maestro appointee to the provincial Senate, so you can have a voice in the provincial legislature and shepherd bills through on that side one last time, and because all other Senators are either inactive, already sit on the Assembly (me and Iason, if he maybe-perhaps-definitely is holding the NPW seats after all), or may not even be allowed to serve (Iason is technically a *current*, not a *former* national Senator)

What says you?

I accept these appointments. Let's get the work done. :)

Congrats and welcome!

In the interest of trying to keep this moving at something describable as a "pace", I thought maybe we could compile a list of the current proposals here and then each pick our three favorites. Three points for being someone's first pick, two points for being someone's second pick, one point for being someone's third pick. Then look at our top three finalists or something.

PROPOSALS:

• Belaschagă ("Beautiful-copse")
• Benschagă ("Good-copse")
• Berucă ("Crag", referring to the former ravines of Riverside Park)
• Berberïă ("Barbary Coast", a nod to a certain independent streak in our province)
• Beatifică ("That which makes one happy")
• Liberacia (Like our province, Liberace was half Italian, and was from Milwaukee)
• Cjartzara ("Oakland", for the name of the street that runs right through the province)
• Cjarföglha ("Oakleaf". There's another street in Benito by that name)
• Vittorio/Bitour
• Taliulă ("Little Italy")
• Belăcostă ("Beautiful Riverbank")
• Garibaldi

Let's keep the vote open for a week, to let people weigh in. Hopefully won't need much more time than that...

For my part, my picks are:

• Belăcostă
• Benschagă
• Cjarföglha

Edit: I completely forgot Iason's proposals, my bad.

Welcome!

Quote from: Sir Lüc on March 12, 2024, 08:09:19 PMJust a quick note that I took a much needed twoish week break from Witt and I only now saw this, Mic'haglh. I'm so glad you're back and I'm looking forwards to reading your proposals in detail tomorrow and offering my own thoughts!

Well if there's anyone around here who can understand needing a break... ;D

No rush! Take your time :)

Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on March 12, 2024, 04:00:42 PM

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on March 08, 2024, 01:58:16 AM

Quote from: xpb on March 07, 2024, 09:01:20 PM0000 (or 2300) would seem to be reasonable for CZ instead of 0230.

22:00 would be more reasonable in my opinion (I'm just suggesting)

I'd be fully on board with that. However, we do also need to keep in mind those living in America, who might prefer 17:00 over 15:00. I feel like there is a very strong argument that 2:30 am is not a reasonable time for Cézembre. I fear the case for moving to 15:00 TST / 22:00 CET would not be as strong.

Non-Cézembrien poking my head in for just a moment -- worth noting that 17:00 TST is also 15:00 Pacific Time as it is; 17:00 TST will be cutting in to workdays of most on the West Coast in the US.

I wanted to touch a bit on some of the discussion from this thread (without commenting in a dead thread) and see if we as an Assembly can think of a few things we'd like to accomplish during the remainder of this Cosa.

• Agreed that the province needs renaming. I know I've proposed "Garibaldi" in the past but in light of the fact that it was intended to be a name of a merged province (as Garibaldi helped lead the Unification of Italy) -- and in light of the fact that we already have a Garibaldi Canton -- I would propose something else. Maybe something like Vittorio/Bitour? Taliulă (Little Italy)? Or, keeping with the "Be-" theme as discussed here, Belăcostă ("Beautiful Riverbank")
• Also agreed on a simplified legislative structure. I'm not necessarily opposed to an elected unicameral legislature but I think given activity levels it makes sense to consider the citizens as a whole the province's legislature and perhaps institute some sort of elected executive. I'll admit to admiring Fiova's model, though that's probably because I will carry the torch for the directorial model until my dying breath. Going this route could likely mean abolishing the Arviteir Prima office entirely, rendering the grammatical correctness of the title moot.
• The above point means we could likely just do with adopting an entirely new constitution. Ours isn't the worst ever but if we want to really overhaul things it might make sense to just start fresh.
• I'm glad that Luc mentioned the unicameral MMP Ziu as easing the pathway to provincial mergers, as that was one of the secondary reasons I think it's a good move. That said, I'm not sure the various proposals I've seen to have provinces share governments passes Organic muster. Org.IX.1 states "They are administered by constitutional governments elected democratically within the Province." If provinces share governments, that means the governments elected are not elected within the province in question. I think I've been pretty clear in my support of mergers, though -- I support bottom-up mergers, but I support well-considered bottom-up mergers.
• Hard agree on catchment reform (though the big issue has evidently been rectified since I originally wrote this up). I've actually attached a few maps to this post. The first shows the catchment areas as they currently stand -- and no, Maine being gray is not a mistake on my part. It is currently unassigned in El Lexhatx. (Ctrl-F "Maine" only returns one result, as part of the word "remained".) On top of that, Vuode -- though no longer controlling rightful Benitian clay in Ohio -- is assigned two of the three largest cities in the US (New York and Chicago), which just frankly feels a little stacked. So I've got two proposals to fix several catchment issues all at once:
  
  • The "Split East" moves Maine and Connecticut to Ataturk, making that province's US catchment area coterminous with New England. Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey all are reassigned to Benito. Personally I'm in favor of this method, as it moves multiple states known for their Italian populations (NY, NJ, and to a lesser extent PA) to the province that was twice named for the Italian heritage of its Talossan neighborhood. It also results in a slightly cleaner map, as Michigan is not separated from the rest of the Vuode states. (Note: I see the "Florencia <3 Vuode Act" currently under a vote on this month's Clark, which very much would make this by far the more sensible of the two options.
  • The "Split West" method still results in ME and CT going to Ataturk. It also results in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa moving to Benito. However, it better reflects the arrangement of Benito and Vuode proper (BE to the west, VD to the east). It also results in a more sensible map should Florencia and Benito ever merge to create Garibaldi. (If Garibaldi results from a BE-VD merger, this is obviously less important...)
  • I will admit that it also feels a little sad that neither Fiova nor Cezembre get any states whatsoever, but that's less of a Benito-centric issue and so I'll leave it to the Ziu to do what they want on that front. Frankly given some of the recent bills it seems like a large-scale catchment realignment (at least pertaining to state-level assignments) might be in order, but there's likely a good way to do that without in a coordinated manner it feeling too "top down".
  
  

Count me in.

RZ24: CON
RZ25: PER
RZ26: AUS

VoC: NON

Welcome!

Quote from: Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat on July 28, 2023, 08:23:37 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on July 27, 2023, 08:58:45 PMAnyway. Carlus I am wondering why I am able to see the Twitter plugin working fine and Miestra as the one reported user having issues can not see it working. Are others reporting issues?

It is really strange that you are seeing it because it is broken for me as well. Is anyone else still seeing the Twitter feed on the website? Please let us know!

I am not, I get the same thing as Miestra. I'm using Chrome on Windows 10, same as Breneir, so presumably this is a Twitter issue.

Twitter: we're renaming ourselves X, because that's how you should think of us.

Quote from: Carlüs Éovart Vilaçafat on July 28, 2023, 10:06:18 AM

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, SMC MC EiP on July 27, 2023, 10:18:44 PMI can confirm that La Tascaragnhă Nouă is returning to production, been drafting a few articles over the course of the week.

That's wonderful news! (no pun intended!) I can't wait to see what you and Zach have in store!

Just me, at least for now :P

As Maestro, I can confirm that the Benitian Assembly election instructions are accurate.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on July 27, 2023, 12:20:56 AMYeah, I like them more because they come from Finnish and are therefore "quirkier"

Mmmm, non-Indo-European languages