[Ponte Alto] There WILL be practice!!!!!

[Wilchamor1 at aol.com]

Max you are wrong. We allow the person in charge of the practice to  decide 
if it is safe to do the practice. If you did any combat you could  get the 
Barony's ability to hold any practice removed. Were their any  wavers  needed to 
be signed? If this was not done you have put us in such  jeopardy. None of us 
likes to have the practice canceled but it is how we  do things here.
Cosimo of Venice 
 
 
In a message dated 8/29/2008 1:06:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
maxntropy at att.net writes:

Cosimo:

Connor is the Knight Marshal of the Barony.  I,  like Duncan, am a  
Deputy Knight Marshal of the Barony.

To my  knowledge, I do not believe we have an official policy for who  
has  the "right" in their office for canceling practice and thus I do  
not  believe there is an official policy for un-canceling practice --   
other than at the discretion of the Knight Marshal (I'm assuming).   I  
do not think we need any such policy.  We had discussed a few  times  
(notably after the last time practice was cancelled early on  threat of  
rain) that it would *not* be policy to cancel practice  last minute  
because of rain (particularly the chance of rain).   In fact, Duncan  
and I just had a discussion about not canceling  practices last minute  
on Sunday at the Baronial meeting.  I am  certain that the discussion  
was simply forgotten and with the  announcement of the cancellation of  
the Rapier practice, Duncan  reacted with a perhaps more traditional or  
historic response.   Communications are often imperfect (quite often  
when I'm involved),  and everyone forgets things (again... me most of  
all).  I think  we've been balancing duties, responsibilities, and  
authorities  pretty well, all things considered, and I consider it a  
personal  boon and blessing to have Duncan doing such Yeoman's work for  
us all  as a Deputy.

Our practice is currently in a public park where we are  authorized to  
engage in our activities on our practice dates.   We need to have a  
Marshal present.  With me there, we have a  Marshal there.  With Baron  
Jurgen there, we had two Marshals  there.  To hold our practice, we  
just need to ensure that  conditions were not dangerous, that those  
present have waivers  signed, and that there is a warranted Marshal.   
These  conditions were all easily met.  Conditions are not inherently   
dangerous because of the chance of rain or even because of rain.   They  
are dangerous when rain becomes electrified by the presence  of  
lightning.  The Northern Army of Atlantia's policy is to  fight in the  
rain unless and until there is lightning -- wherein the  rain becomes  
dangerous.  We have discussed the same policy here  (as above).   
Naturally those who choose not to come out in the  rain are always free  
to do so.  But as long as we have a  Marshal willing to be at practice  
regardless of the rain, than we  should not deny fighters the chance to  
fight and learn simply  because they might get a little wet.  I don't  
mind Marshaling,  training and/or fighting in the rain if it helps at  
least one other  person... and I believe today (as previously), it did.

Baron Jurgen,  Demian, Sophia, Kat, and Semja (who was driving down  
from  Philadelphia for the practice and was significantly looking  
forward  to fighting and interacting with our folks) all showed-up and  
got  good tutoring and exercise work in today and Kat passed her  
Scholum  final examination -- there wasn't a drop to be seen, and it  
was  quite lovely (particularly after Ledo's).  We know that at the   
very least Ru and Lauren who would've shown up for training failed  to  
do so because of the cancellation -- and their presence was  sorely  
missed.  I wish we could've shown Semja a better time  for all his  
driving with some fighting, but we did the best we  could, given the  
circumstances.

I'm pretty sure you'll find  that those who managed to attend found the  
practice rewarding  (particularly Kat who is now a Legionnaire with  
successful  completion of the 101 Curriculum along with Dem, Jurgen,  
Sophia,  Sian, Corey, etc...) -- though I'm sure they can speak for   
themselves if they so choose.

In service,

Max Von  Halstern
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