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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>From the Kingdom Seneschal <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Greetings, Ansteorra,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**Office Changes**<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>My office is now open for applications. If you are interested in serving Ansteorra as Kingdom Seneschal, please send your application to me, the Crown, and the Society Seneschal.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Central Regional Seneschal position is also open for applications. To apply for that office, send your application to me, the Crown, and the current Central Regional Seneschal, Mistress Colleen O’Kelly.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Decisions regarding successors for these two offices will be finalized by June 15, with the actual changeover to occur at Round Table on July 21.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I’d like to welcome Centurion Charles the Grey as the new Northern Regional Seneschal. Many thanks to Cadhla Ua Cellacháin for her dedicated service in this role.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**40th Year**<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thank you to the groups who submitted bids to host the upcoming Ansteorran 40th Year Celebration. The event, which will be held on September 19-22, 2019, has been awarded to the Province of Mooneschadowe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**Zip Code Project**<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Kingdom Zip Code Project, which aims to delineate all zip codes assigned to each group in the Kingdom, is proceeding well. Final requests for changes to zip code definitions are due to me within the next two weeks (end of April). Zip codes lists are in the hands of local seneschals and should be reviewed in consultation with Landed Nobility (where applicable) to determine if changes are needed. Once the updates are complete, we will generate population trend statistics, and I will start talking to any groups whose population counts are below Society-defined branch minimums.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**Baronial Polling Change**<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Change to the Kingdom Seneschal’s Handbook, Appendix A, “Conducting a Polling,” first paragraph:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Old: “Baronial surveys will be conducted every 3 years after a change in local Landed Nobility to gather commentary on the Nobles, unless directed otherwise by the crown. “<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Revised: “Baronial surveys will be conducted 4 years after a change in local Landed Nobility, and every two years thereafter, in order to gather commentary on the Nobles, unless directed otherwise by the crown.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**Reminder from Society**<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Please remember that Corpora (Chapter II, Section F) prohibits the performing of any religious or magical ceremony at a Society event (or in association with the name of the Society) in such a way as to imply that the ceremony is "authorized, sponsored, or promulgated by the Society or to force anyone at a Society event, by direct or indirect pressure, to observe or join the ceremony".<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>It is important to note that there are two specific issues presented by this language:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>1) the ceremony should not be performed in such a way to imply that said ceremony is authorized, sponsored, or promulgated by the Society and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>2) No one should be forced at an event, either by direct or indirect pressure, to observe-in or join-in the ceremony.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If there are any questions regarding this portion of Corpora (quoted below), please discuss it with me before planning a ceremony, in order to avoid potentially running afoul of Corpora.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>II EVENTS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>F. Policy on Religion<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>1. Having no wish to recreate the religious conflicts of the period under study, the Society shall neither establish nor prohibit any system of belief among its members. No one shall perform any religious or magical ceremony at a Society event (or in association with the name of the Society) in such a way as to imply that the ceremony is authorized, sponsored, or promulgated by the Society or to force anyone at a Society event, by direct or indirect pressure, to observe or join the ceremony.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>However, this provision is in no way intended to discourage the study of historical belief systems and their effects on the development of Western culture.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>2. Except as provided herein, neither the Society nor any member acting in its name or that of any of its parts shall interfere with any person’s lawful ceremonies, nor shall any member discriminate against another upon grounds related to either’s system of belief.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Modius, Kingdom Seneschal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>