From hedewigis at gmail.com Thu Oct 7 19:03:32 2010 From: hedewigis at gmail.com (L Brizendine) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 19:03:32 -0400 Subject: [Populace] New Region in the East Kingdom Message-ID: Greetings! What follows is a post from THL Owynn Greenwood, Southern Region Seneschal, East Kingdom. Effective 1 March 2011, the Southern Region will be split into two -- the land groups of New Jersey and New York will comprise the Southern Region, while the land groups of Pennsylvania and Delaware will make up the new "Western Region." More information will follow, but if you are interested in the position of Western Region Seneschal, please contact THL Owynn at the address that follows. In service, ~ Hedewigis. ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ + ~ After much discussion, Master Phillip Reed, East Kingdom Seneschal, has decided that the Southern Region will be split into two groups. The new Western Region will be comprised of the groups in Delaware and Pennsylvania, while the Southern Region will retain the groups in New York and New Jersey. This regional split will occur on March 1, 2011. To make the transition smoother for the new region, I have been directed to search for the new Western Regional Seneschal. This person would serve as my deputy for the Western Region until the split, and then assume the job of the regional seneschal. If you know of anyone interested in stepping into the role, please have them email me with their interest and relevant experience. I am also seeking a deputy for the NY/NJ region as well. Again, if you know of anyone interested, please let me know. THL Owynn Greenwood Southern Region Seneschal, East Kingdom seneschal.south at eastkingdom.org -- Linda O. Brizendine Hedewigis Ockenf??in Quod Latine dicitur altius videtur. 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We will meet up in the Newark High School lot to walk over to find our parade number around two. If you get there after two, please come over to the parade line up area (in the park across the street) and look for us at number 45.? Please bring candy to hand out to the kids, I will have some candy and our flyers/cards as well. Wear your showy garb and take a stroll through Newark!? So at a glance: Halloween parade in Newark3 pm - 6 pm, line up at 2parking available at Newark High Schoolbring candy for the kids Hope to see you there!? Yours in service,?Magdalena the MigrantChatelaine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sun Oct 31 20:36:40 2010 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:36:40 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Due to extraordinary legal expenses from an ongoing lawsuit, the SCA has determined that our best option is to raise membership fees in most classes by $8.00, effective January 1, 2011. Family membership rates will not increase, although the family cap for memberships will be raised by $5.00 effective the same time. When we indicated in 2009 that membership fees would raise gradually over the next three years, we were not fully aware of the extent and impact of the legal fees required to defend our organization. Earlier this year we received a realistic projection for legal expenses through 2011. We are committed to protecting not only the SCA Inc., but the assets of every SCA group. This lawsuit may go on for additional years and cost-cutting alone will not be sufficient. We are formulating a plan to get the SCA back on track and are selecting options to restructure our operating business model. One option is a move t= o electronic kingdom newsletters with a print-on-demand option for those who would like to get their version in hardcopy. With these changes, there are many details to consider including: legal issues surrounding the fulfillment of our current subscription liability; the development of an electronic publishing framework for use by kingdom chroniclers that supports both web-publishing and print-on-demand; writing relevant changes to governing documents, officer handbooks, and kingdom procedures; and making dramatic programming changes to the SCA website and corporate systems. The current migration of corporate and Society officer email addresses to a more robust infrastructure is a step in this direction. It is our hope that as financial circumstances evolve we will be able to re-evaluate the entire membership fee structure once the effectiveness of the restructured business model can be determined. This would include evaluating the necessity of collecting NMS as well as potential reductions in membership fees. There will be many stages in this process where feedback will be needed and solicited. We want to be completely transparent with any changes that will be made, and will share details as they become available. As every year, th= e budget will be posted on the SCA website as soon as it is approved for your review. Our job is to keep you as fully informed as possible and in that spirit we welcome any and all questions and comments. For the moment, pleas= e submit questions and comments through comments at sca.org. Finally, this process will be very difficult and take many months to complete, so please bear with us. During this time, Board members will be attempting to attend as many events as possible to be available to answer your questions. The SCA Board of Directors Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to: SCA Inc. Box 360789 Milpitas, CA 95036 You may also email comments at lists.sca.org. This announcement is an official informational release by the Society for Creative Anachronism , Inc. Permission is granted to reproduce this announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic mailin= g lists. --=20 Linda O. Brizendine Hedewigis Ockenf=FC=DFin Quod Latine dicitur altius videtur. Respect, kindness, consideration, honesty. ~ Emily Post. --001485e7c43c8b0e0304966317f7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

From the SCA Board of Directors:



Due = to extraordinary legal expenses from an ongoing lawsuit, the SCA has determined that our best opti= on is to raise membership fees in most classes by $8.00, effective January 1, 2011. Family membership rates= will not increase, although the family cap for memberships will be raised by $5.00 effective the same time.

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When we indicated in 2009 that membership fees would raise gradually over the next three years, we we= re not fully aware of the extent and impact of the legal fees required to defe= nd our organization. Earlier this year we received a realistic projection for legal expenses through 2011. We are committed to protecting not only the SC= A Inc., but the assets of every SCA group. This lawsuit may go on for additio= nal years and cost-cutting alone will not be sufficient.

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We are formulating a plan to get the SCA back on track and are selecting options to restructure our operating business model. One option is a move to electronic kingdom newsletters with a print-on-demand option for those who would like to get t= heir version in hardcopy. With these changes, there are many details to consider=

including: legal issues surrounding the fulfillment of our current subscription liability; the development of an electronic publishing framework for use by kingdom chroni= clers that supports both web-publishing and print-on-demand; writing relevant cha= nges to governing documents, officer handbooks, and kingdom procedures; and maki= ng dramatic programming changes to the SCA website and corporate systems.

The current migration of corporate and Society officer email addresses to a more robust infrastructu= re is a step in this direction.

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It is our hope that as financial circumstances evolve we will be able to re-evaluate the entire membership fee structure once the effectiveness of the restructured busines= s model can be determined. This would include evaluating the necessity of collecting NMS as well as potential reductions in membership fees. <= /p>

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There will be many stages in this process where feedback will be needed and solicited. We want to be completely transparent with any changes that will be made, and will share details as they become available. As every year, the budget will be posted = on the SCA website as soon as it is approved for your review. Our job is to ke= ep you as fully informed as possible and in that spirit we welcome any and all questions and comments. For the moment, please submit questions and comment= s through comments at sca.= org.

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Finally, this process will be very difficult and take many months to complete, so please bear with us. During this time, Board members will be attempting to attend as many events= as possible to be available to answer your questions.

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The SCA Board of Directors

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Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to:
SCA Inc.
Box 360789
Milpitas, =A0CA 95036

You may also email comments at lists= .sca.org.

This announcement is an official informational release by the Society=20 for Creative Anachronism , Inc. =A0Permission is granted to reproduce this announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic=20 mailing lists.

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Linda O. Brizendine
Hedew= igis Ockenf=FC=DFin

Quod Latine dicitur altius videtur.

Respe= ct, kindness, consideration, honesty.=A0 ~ Emily Post.
--001485e7c43c8b0e0304966317f7-- From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sun Oct 31 20:36:40 2010 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:36:40 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: As the Directors and Corporate Staff informed the membership of the SCA in April of this year, the SCA, Inc. has been named in two civil suits based o= n alleged sexual misconduct of an adult toward minors. Unfortunately, the individual accused of the misconduct was a member of the SCA. The SCA did not sanction the alleged misconduct, had no prior knowledge of the misconduct, and had never received any complaints concerning the adult involved prior to his arrest. The adult involved has since been subject to absolute banishment from the SCA. As an update, the Director's and Corporate Staff want to inform the membership that the SCA, Inc.'s insurance company has denied coverage for both suits (based on a child abuse exclusion in the policy, which is a normal exclusion in corporate insurance policies). We further wish to infor= m the membership that the insurance company has filed a lawsuit against the SCA, Inc. to enforce the exclusion. This action is normal in a case such as this. The loss of coverage applies only to the above mentioned civil suits and does not affect the SCA's insurance coverag= e for other activities. The Directors and Corporate Staff cannot comment further on the coverage action, or on any other pending legal action. However, we will continue to update the membership of the SCA as appropriate. Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to: SCA Inc. Box 360789 Milpitas, CA 95036 You may also email comments at lists.sca.org. This announcement is an official informational release by the Society for Creative Anachronism , Inc. Permission is granted to reproduce this announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic mailin= g lists. ______________________________ _________________ Announcements mailing list To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit: http://lists.sca.org/listinfo/announcements --=20 Linda O. Brizendine Hedewigis Ockenf=FC=DFin Quod Latine dicitur altius videtur. Respect, kindness, consideration, honesty. ~ Emily Post. --005045015a63f1eaf50496a0b93b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sun Oct 31 20:36:40 2010 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:36:40 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: 19, 2007 by the President at the time, Patrick Anderson.=A0 The Directors= =20 have asked that this be re-posted for informational purposes.=A0 If you=20 have any questions or comments, please feel free to forward those.=A0 Just remember that comments should be placed into the body of your post, and not as an attachment, as attachments are scrubbed.

To: announcements at sca.org
From the Board of Directors and President:

As the Directors and Corporate Staff informed the membership of the SCA in April of this year, the SCA, Inc. has been named in two civil suits=20 based on alleged sexual misconduct of an adult toward minors.=A0=20 Unfortunately, the individual accused of the misconduct was a member of=20 the SCA. The SCA did not sanction the alleged misconduct, had no prior=20 knowledge of the misconduct, and had never received any complaints=20 concerning the adult involved prior to his arrest. The adult involved=20 has since been subject to absolute banishment from the SCA.
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As=20 an update, the Director's and Corporate Staff want to inform the=20 membership that the SCA, Inc.'s insurance company has denied coverage= =20 for both suits (based on a child abuse exclusion in the policy, which is a normal exclusion in corporate insurance policies). We further wish to inform the membership that the insurance company has filed a
lawsuit against the SCA, Inc. to enforce the exclusion. This action is normal=20 in a case such as this. The loss of coverage applies only to the above=20 mentioned civil suits and does not affect the SCA's insurance coverage= =20 for other activities. The Directors and Corporate Staff cannot comment=20 further on the coverage action, or on any other pending legal action.=20 However, we will continue to update the membership of the SCA as=20 appropriate.

Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to:
SCA Inc.
Box 360789
Milpitas, =A0CA 95036

You may also email comments at lists= .sca.org.

This announcement is an official informational release by the Society=20 for Creative Anachronism , Inc. =A0Permission is granted to reproduce this announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic=20 mailing lists.

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Respect, kindness, consideration, honesty.=A0 ~ Emily Post.
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