...as GV is incapable of actually showing up for a Europe/Africa videoconference.

https://talossa.net/job/ministry-of-culture-europe-or-africa-preferably-minculture-perm-undersecretary-for-europe-africa-videoconferencing/

Sorry, Mencei, but I'm impatient and paranoid about forgetting to vote.

Për to all bills.

GV, Fiova

Check it out at the Chat Room at http://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=980.new#new

Thanks, all!

GV, MinCulture

Permanent Café Talossa thread with all upcoming dates: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=967.0

Come and join us!

Sticky this thread, please - Thx!

(Personal statement by GV and not a FreeDems party statement)

John Lupul's conduct from August 2020 through March 2021 continues to be apalling, and it is true that situation has been the direct catalyst for 55RZ21 having legs. 

But the day is inevitable when Talossa will have a future rogue monarch. 

On that day, we will be very glad 55RZ21 or something like is around.

Vote with the long eye to a post-John future. 

Votez 55RZ21

GV, Senator for Fiova

Per https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=936.new#new

Many congrats to him!

As MinCulture (assuming appointment), one of my portfolio items is thus: "We will work with SIGN to create new Talossan language learning materials and to create both translated and original literature."

In the context of what SIGN needs as well as my conversation with Tafial in last week's Europe/Africa videoconference, I now know the above is moot.  SIGN is already taking the lead on all of this.

That being said, I can think of one thing I could do: make non-SIGN / "in cooperation with SIGN" videos, and that I will do.  I can also bring together a basic wordlist, and one of my goals for this week is to find one and run with it.

Anyway, what is SIGN's overall roadmap for, say, the next two years?

Many thanks for all you do!

GV, presumed incoming MinCulture

No more 'Kafetegia Talossa' name for Europe/Africa...unless having that different name for Europe/Africa works well.

28 June 2021:
1400 Central / 1900 UTC Café Talossa (Europe-Africa)
1900 Central / Café Talossa (Americas)

Zoom links for each to be posted no earlier than one hour to the Chat Room (this forum).

This past Tuesday was wonderful, and I look forward to more fun on Monday the 28th!

GV, presumed incoming MinCulture/Defence

Voting for the new Mençei has begun tonight Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 2000 CDT and concludes on Wednesday 23 June 2021 at 2000 CDT.  This per https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=920.0

This is the one place where you can cast your vote (unless I've got the standing orders wrong).  Yes, all, you may change your vote as often as you like until the deadline next Wecnesday evening (Talossan time).

Nominations received: Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu and Béneditsch Ardpresteir

Let the games...begin.

GV

[Invite link on Chat Room forum]

At last, a video meetup for Talossans across the Pond.  For Asia-Pacific, if I can get some interest there, I'll set up a third separate Zoom meetup.

I will eventually want permanent undersecretaries (MinCulture) for Kafetegia Talossa (café in Basque) and Kawhe Talossa (café in Maori) who can handle all things about those events including platform, time, frequency, and whatever else.

For now, my next Tuesday will be spent doing Talossa with friends over videoconferencing with my horrible camera and mic.

For Kafetegia Talossa, I will post a Zoom link to Witt and the Chat Room at Noon Central for the 1pm Central meetup. 

The hope is for a 1900 Greenwich meetup.  If someone could let me know if my timezone calculations are working... 

Can't wait, all!

GV, presumed incoming MinCulture

As I am not yet MinCulture (if I am to be), I am doing this through Oraclâ magazine.

Yes, indeed, peeps, a one-hour (or longer!) time to shoot the breeze and be Talossans together, voice-to-voice, and actually see each other speak.  I am glad to get this going.

Tuesdays at 1900 is not good for Euro-Kiwi Talossans. It may be we will need a separate Café Talossa for 'odd' timezones.

Café Talossa: an apolitical meet-and-greet - can't wait to get this going.  Zoom link will go up no later than 1700 CDT on the day of the event.  Thanks, all!

GV, E-i-C Oraclâ magazine

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PamBV7mlEN2JXC3gWMvI7v0fYQPFJtDJ?usp=sharing

I realized today just how little I put onto the Talossan Public Archives aka the Library of Talossa - This includes the gigantic 2nd edition Treisour from 1997-1998

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PamBV7mlEN2JXC3gWMvI7v0fYQPFJtDJ?usp=sharing

Not until today did I realize my stuff was not available.  Now, it's up to SIGN to make sense of it all.  :-)

GV, presumed incoming MinCulture

What things the MinDef needs to do I will look up in law and my portfolio, but if there are ceremonial duties and other things to which I must attend, please, MoD, let me know, particularly in regard to the Zuaves.

I would love to Zoom with the Zuaves commander at some point this month.

GV, presumptive incoming MinDef

'A Nation Sundered' is the most-detailed retelling of the Republic's origin-story.  The big, huge thread on this forum on the 'Shocking Witt Statistics of John Woolley' gives a good deal of general history.

The first of June 2004 was a Tuesday.  As I recall, I had a gig that day and was not home, I believe, for the Noon 'changeover'.  It was exhilarating to read Witt that day, but in retrospect, again, we needed only to kill off Ben and Amy's accounts.  I've gone into that point, already.

The movers and shakers of the founding of the Republic were Kane dal Nava and Mike Loquatsch.  And we found ourselves on 1 June 2004 without a functioning constitution, but that was being remedied.  The night before, I had put together a 'Provisional Constiution' which was amended a time or two, but shockingly for how fast I wrote it, it actually allowed us to function until our permanent constitution was finished some months later.

My first four years of college, we had a brilliant, but tempramental band director.  I always got along with him, but not everyone did.  When he took a position elsewhere, our music education guru was interim for one semester.  Old band director also did jazz band, and for that interim semester, our clarinet-saxophone teacher was the interim jazz band director.  He had played with Stan Kenton in the 1970s, and we revered him, but that's another story.

One afternoon, I happened to be around the band hall.  I can't remember why, but I walked in and interim band director decided to clean up the band hall a little and roped a bunch of us into getting it done.

It turned out for many of us to be a cathartic experience.  Not only did we clean up the years of dust under the risers, we proceeded to dismantle the risers and turn the two riser arrangements (regular and jazz bands) into a single arrangement which went on to serve both bands.

The first days and weeks of the Republic of Talossa were like that, but more intense.  I know to a tiny degree what it is to have the liberation following finding out one has been in a cult for years.  The Cult of Ben Madison.

Ián Anglatzarâ was actually a really nice person.  Miestrâ Schivâ was not the horrible, repulsive creature Ben made her out to be.  The 'traitorous libs' were not the bad people.  Dan W. in my eyes was immediately vindicated.

As the atheist Kane Gruber put it to me "Jesus was Satan, and Satan was Jesus."  Miestrâ won me over with two Witt X posts.  And John Eiffler joining us was the greatest coup of all.  I think Ron Rosais was one of our citizens (yes, that Ron).

We had a blank slate.  The baroque mustiness of the 1997 Organic Law was no longer our concern.  We were saving Ben Madison's bedroom-kingdom from the one who started it.  I really cannot explain how it was in those first two months.  It was my most magical time doing Talossa.

Eventually, we began work on our constitution.  Mike Loquatsch was our first provisional head of state.  Kane might have been our first permanent head of state, but I cannot remember.

Within six months, the first people to have been citizens of the Republic without ever having been citizens of the Kingdom joined us.  Carlüs X. was the most prominent of these, and he would go on to have a career in the reunited Kingdom.

I remember Kane looking at online resources of how the United Nations helped new countries get off the ground in terms of how they structured their constitutions, and he was an immense cog in the making of our permanent constitution.  The constitution convention was begun in autumn 2004, and in the same week Benedict XVI was elected Bishop of Rome, our new Constitution was ratified. 

The Republic of Talossa should have taken off from there, but something happened to kill it off slowly: Ben Madison succeeded in alienating almost literally the entire Kingdom against him, and in August 2005, he was gone of his own accord, taking the Republic's reason to exist with him.

I've gone through why we didn't make our return to the Kingdom right then and there, but as the Kingdom became more 'SCA', we continued to be angry, the low point being the CUG's outright rejection of any input from us concerning the Talossan language and the December 2007 Arestada, which extended the duration of the Talossan Cold War by a few years.

Starting in 2008, my activity in Talossan life begins to wane.  2009 or 2010 saw me do almost nothing, and it is not an exaggeration to say had Miestrâ not harangued me for political stuff or whatever in that year, my absent mind would have fallen off the Talossan bandwagon for good.

I was at the latter part of that period invited by Miestrâ into her political party.  At some point, I was Prime Minister for the first time, but my second stint as PM was more consequential.  I was the Reunision PM, but Miestrâ did almost all the heavy lifting.  Being the most monarchist and pro-unification Republic citizen, I was useless to our interests in the negotiations for Reunision and recused myself from the process entirely, putting Distain Carlüs X. in my place on the three-person Republic side of the table.

I missed being the last President of the Republic of Talossa by one or two votes.  My joke-campaign almost came back to haunt me.  But the country elected the right person (Miestrâ) to do that job.

Today's Kingdom ZRT-caucus in the Free Democrats is the direct political descendant of the old Republic ZRT.  I've been doing politics with Miestrâ almost ten years.  hard to believe...

20 April 2012 saw the dissolution of the 2004-2012 Republic of Talossa and the return (or first coming) of a nigh-on intact Republic community. 

GV, Founding Parent of the 2004-2012 Republic of Talossa

I have turned the election for Mençei for the 56th Cosâ into a fiasco.  Many, many thanks to SoS Nordselva for pointing that out.  Apologies to one and all for closing the original window for nominations one day too soon.

I've decided it is best to re-open nominations for another week ending next Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 2000 CDT.

Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu has put his name into nomination, and while it might seem logical for me to step down and let someone else handle this, I don't want to add another step to what has become a convoluted process.

Thus, the timetable for electing a new Mençei is as follows:

Nominations open until next Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 2000 CDT - At this point, nominations will be closed.

Voting for the new Mençei begins next Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 2000 CDT and concludes on Wednesday 23 June 2021 at 2000 CDT.

At this writing, I've received nominations from Béneditsch Ardpresteir and Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu, but the window for more people to put their names in the ring is open until the above-prescribed time.

As for my previous declaration of Béneditsch Ardpresteir as the winner, that is null and void, though he may end up winning for real in the end.  I did not allow for a confirmation time because I did not feel it was necessary because I had only received Béneditsch's nomination.  Of course, I was wrong to not have that confirmation vote, and again, I was wrong to end things a day too soon originally.

With apologies to all,

GV

Azul, todos perçoneseu de Talossaeu.  Como essere je joineu il SIGN?

Meu Talossán c'est muy mál.  Necessito lernen mehr Talossán.

Gratzì

WHEREAS on 4 June 2021 via https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=910.0 the King requested "We would suggest to Our incoming Ziu, further, that it would be proper to elevate the precedence of Dr. Nordselva's office.  The office and role of the Chancery has changed over time, and so too should its honour.  While the Table of Precedence is a ceremonial device, We feel that it is not in keeping with the dignity or importance of Our Secretary of State for them to rank below every other official at the national level, and We suggest that el Lexhatx be amended so that the head of the Chancery follows the Senior Justice."

WHEREAS the current Secretary of State, Dr. Txec Nordselva has already proven himself more than fit for the most difficult job in Talossa,

WHEREAS the King is absolutely right to suggest this fix,

WHEREAS 34RZ12, proposed by Marcüs Cantaloûr, was the original 'Table of Precedence' and was incorporated into statute law as 34RZ12, which in 2014 was one of the bills the text of which was absorbed into El Lex,

THEREFORE, the ZIU repeals the whole of Lex F.1 and replaces it with the following

Lex F.1.0. The following Table of Precedence shall be used in any circumstances where it is deemed appropriate or desirable to do so. Amendments to the Table of Precedence may be made from time to time as may be necessary. (34RZ12)

    1.1. The Sovereign

    1.2. The Consort of the Sovereign

    1.3. Children of the Sovereign in birth order

    1.4. The Prime Minister

    1.5. Senior Justice of the Uppermost Cort

    1.6. The Secretary of State

    1.7. The Mencei of the Senate

    1.8. The Speaker of the Cosâ

    1.9. The members of the nobility and knighthood in order of their rank and tenure

    1.10. Cabinet members according to the seniority of their ministries

    1.11. Provincial Constables

    1.12. Premiers of Provinces

    1.13. Puisne Justices of the Uppermost Cort in order of their appointment.

    1.14. Senators

    1.15. MCs

    1.16. Admiral of the Talossan Royal Navy

    1.17. Speakers of the various provincial legislatures in order of their appointment

    1.18. Provincial Cabinet members in order of their date of appointment

    1.19. Members of Provincial legislatures

    1.20. Recipients of Talossan Honours

    1.21. Talossan citizens in order of their naturalisation

Uréu q'estadra så:
Gödefrïeu Válcadác'h, Senator - Fiôvâ

<end of bill text>

Edited by GV on 5 June 2021 per ADavinescu's suggestions in this thread

AD: Note my nomenclature 'F.1.0'.  It is my opinion all such introductory 'passages' or clauses when separated from the rest of their title by way of numbering should be so numbered with the redundant digit for future clarity.  Definitely not an urgent thing!  The Scribe has enough to do, but I'm throwing it out here.

[This is the original thread for 56th Cosâ Mençei nominations.  I've modified the thread subject to avoid a second thread declaring nominations closed and all-that. - GV]

As the first Clark will be in July (unless I'm completely fuzzled), I shall hereby and forthwith (and with no objection) appoint myself as 'Acting' Mençéi pending the election of a new one, or my return to office for this coming Cosâ.

Nominations for Mençéi for the 56th Cosâ are open until Wednesday 9 June 2021 2000 CDT at which point I will open voting.

I nominate myself for Mençéi for the 56th Cosâ. 

Welcome, one and all, to the Senäts for the 56th Cosâ!

GV, Mençéi in the 55th Cosâ

Today is your favorite day of the year - the anniversary of the founding of the most evil and satanic organization to have ever been.  Yeah, this is worse than the Illuminati, Roman Catholic Church, or the Protestant Reformation.

Good grief, it's even worse than the Democratic Party!

Dare Something Worthy, John.  ;-)