I want to extend my gratitude on behalf of the entire government to His Majesty for his thoughtful and timely attention to his duties.  I can safely say that His Grace has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to be proactive in challenges that face the country, even while also striving to be nonpartisan.  It has been a pleasure to work with him this past term.

On a personal note, I'd also like to sing the praises of the Ziu in general this past term.  There have been some challenging moments such as when a key figure of the Progressive Alliance was unable to fulfil their duties due to illness, and the URL in particular extended grace and "paired" to prevent disruption from this unfortunate turn of fate.  Everyone should remember this and act with the same grace in the future.

This has been an extraordinarily productive Ziu session, with many landmark pieces of reform legislation passing to help lead Talossa into the future.  Right from the start, big bills sailed through the Clark into law, and now many of them will go to the people for affirmation.

As we move into the election, let us remember that our grand democratic tradition has been hard-won.  Let us treat it with the dignity that such a prize merits.  With a hearty and respectful election, no matter who wins, we all win.

Nope, you're not misunderstanding.  I wanted to also change the last thing, but His Majesty requested that we leave that prohibition in place.  I probably should have deleted that whereas clause, in retrospect.  But it passed overwhelmingly, so I guess it wasn't a fatal flaw.

The changes will eliminate any loophole allowing an extralegal change in a provincial constitution and will eliminate the prospect of a military governor.

Anyone out there looking for a TL;DR: the Prog minority government made some bad calls due to excessive partisan antipathy, which led to them bring less-qualified people into posts of responsibility. The next Union-led government will strive to put policy and competence over "team sports".

Stage 18  »  Voiron  ›  Orcières-Merlette

We already got today's results! The first of three mountain stages goes to the breakaway, and specifically to Richard Carapaz (BDC/CHX/CJO), who battled for summit points with Valentin Paret-Peintre (CHX/GHS) for most of the stage, but unlike the Frenchman, who had to settle for fourth, he still had plenty of energy on the final climb to distance him and four other fellow attackers.

These included EVC's Matteo Jorgenson, ultimately third, and Tobias Halland Johannessen (GHS/VFL), who finished fifth. The GC contenders had to settle for eighth onwards, with Evenepoel (CFA/CJO/REX/VFL) 9th and Pidcock (REX/EVC) 10th being the other two top 10 TCAT riders. It was indeed Evenepoel's team who paced for much of the finish, unlike the usual Pogacar-UAE show; but it was not the day for Pogacar's team to attack, with teammate McNulty abandoning due to a potential illness, and other teammate Yates (MMM) struggling as well; rival Evenepoel will no doubt try to exploit these manpower issues in the next two stages.

TCAT-wise, the win goes to Cyclohexane, who retakes third place in the standings, ahead of Cjovani and GHST.

Standings after stage 18:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	8284	+352
2nd	(=)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	7917	+316
3rd	(+1)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	7806	+683
4th	(-1)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	7657	+502
5th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	7191	+324
6th	(=)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	6761	+446
7th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	6164	+426
8th	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	5767	+396
9th	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	5589	+516

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on October 14, 2025, 01:57:49 PMVolume 4 of the Talossan Book of Cuisine is now available!
I will be issuing the call for submissions to Volume 5 later this year. I hope we can get some interesting recipes for this next edition.

As mentioned earlier this year, I am planning to soon open submissions to Volume 5 of the Talossan Book of Cuisine.

@Mximo Malt You submitted an oatmeal recipe some time ago so I wanted to re-confirm your wish to include it.

Also, our friendly visitor @varoneglan enquired on submitting to the Book of Cuisine. You are still welcome to do so!

Azul, I was preparing the database for the election and I noticed that 62RZ15 essentially repeals two arguably desirable provisions (no provincial constitution without a referendum, no provincial laws contradicting OrgLaw/national statute) while leaving untouched the one that I assume its final WHEREAS purported to fix (no same person can be Cunstavál in one province and premier in another).

Am I misunderstanding this?

Two more strong groups. In group 7 the 3 and 2 points are clear for me, but most of the remaining songs could have gotten the final point (and I feel like a bad Cézembrean for not giving points to Tri Martolod :( )
In group 8 the top 3 I all like about equally and again there are more songs that would deserve points.

Group 7
Subdivisions - 3
Psycho Killer - 2
Stroke - 1

Group 8
I Wear Your Ring - 3
België - 2
While My Guintar Gently Weeps - 1

Group 7

3 - Incubus
2 - Stereophonics
1 - Aerosmith

Group 8

3 - Simon and Garfunkel
2 - Gloria Gaynor
1 - Joy Division

-Txec R

FINAL UPDATE

Points scored in semifinals
Lüc 8
Glüc 8
Braneu 0
AD 0
þerxh 0
Danihel 16
Breneir 0


Points scored in final
Lüc 0
Glüc 0
Braneu 0
AD 0
þerxh 0
Danihel 13
Breneir 0

Not only did Danihel get the winner right, he also got both finalists correct, resulting in the following final score:


Danihel 125
Lüc 107
Glüc 96
Braneu 86
Breneir 84
þerxh 83
AD 58


Congrats Danihel!

And congrats to Spain of course. Conceding only a single goal for the whole tournament makes them the deserved winners. Not one of the teams I rooted for from the start, but Im happy they won over Argentina.

Niiiice, a stage win for the Posse!