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  1. "So if your spouse works for you, your “sexual relations” are, by your definition, assault? " It could be. It could also be consensual. Facts determine the result. My post is a simplified statement of the applicable law. It is not "my" definition.
  2. Any contact of a sexual nature between a person in a position of ascendancy and a subordinate is not consensual. It is an assault. Profs, teachers, lawyers, cops, coaches, doctors, etc. cannot risk a sexual relationship of any sort with someone who is a minor or a subordinate unless they want to be charged and sued. Some jurisdictions have yet to recognize that non-consensual sexual contact is under reported for psychological, monetary and other reasons, which also often relate to the power imbalance. The same rules apply when physical power or presence is used to obtain contact for a sexual purpose. If you were a victim of any such treatment and any of it happened when your corps was travelling in Canada, you may still have a right to redress. In Canada, there is no limitation period that prevents the victim of sexual assault from suing. I invite those American victims who are unable to get redress in their own country to consider contacting a Canadian law firm that does class action cases. This can be done directly or through your American attorney. The perpetrator, the corps, the corps director, corps management and the governing body should all be added as defendants. "Corporate" defendants are more likely to have assets and insurance. Those corporate defendants should be found responsible for the acts and omissions of their underlings, as well as their own negligence in failing to protect the victim(s) by implementing safeguards. Canada has a complicated cap on damages for pain and suffering (just under $300K USD at present). All other reasonable losses are fully compensated. Collection of Canadian judgments in US courts fall under various reciprocal enforcement of judgments laws. You would need to consult with your US attorney on collection. Hope this helps, even if it is only one person.
  3. Sorry Brasso, but this type of jingoism is offensive to many. I presume you got your information from a less than reliable or accurate source. That does not forgive your insult to many countries in your rant. Rabid nationalism nor blind pride excuses false statements about other societies, their laws or their cultures. Shame. You might want to study where these various countries rank in terms of freedoms. Many studies conducted by respected U.S. authorities - those without an agenda - put many of these countries ahead of the U.S. in freedoms, including freedom of expression and speech. You may also want to take a look at the charters and constitutions of the countries which are your G7, G20, and NATO allies. Of course, some of these countries had or have outdated laws still on the books, many of which have been declared void by various higher courts. Finally, look around your city and look at the involvement of government in everything - size of curbs, width and location of roads, welfare payments, subsidized housing, fire and police, school standards, surveillance, use of private property, how businesses operate, build and market their products, etc. Is the U.S. more or less socialist than some of the "Socialist Countries" ? Your discussion has nothing to do with the topic nor should it appear in a drum corps forum. That you have used this form to insult many of the nationalities from which drum corps fans or members are drawn is inappropriate. Some response was warranted.
  4. Colour guard becomes art at Toronto's Luminato. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/david-byrne-lifts-little-known-colour-guard-sport-to-new-level-at-luminato-1.3115806
  5. 1969 - Aquinas Stadium, Rochester. As a young kid I had spent many a night listening to the 1966 Dream and Brass by Night albums. I was in my third year of junior corps. Toronto hosted the Shriners International (won by Kilties over Boston) and the North American Invitational (won by Troopers over Des Plains). Every kid in the province who was not in one of the competing corps did their best to make the trip down the 401 to Hogtown to see those shows. Come Labour Day weekend, I was given a last minute offer to take in the DCA prelims. My first senior show. We arrived at Aquinas Stadium just as the Hurricanes were finishing their show. Getting out of the car, on the street, opposite the concert side of the stadium, the sound was louder than anything I had ever heard at any junior show...and it was good. Really good, for that era. Hurcs exited the stadium near our parking spot. To a young kid, they looked like a muscle corps...these guys were men. They were relaxed professionals, not robots, like the junior corps I was so used to. Totally different than the type of corps one sees today. I finally got in the stadium to watch the prelims and found most of the shows lacking after that introduction to the senior scene. The one notable exception - I had already missed Hurc, Sky and Cabs - was Yankee Rebels. The first half of their show was just OK. I was not into their music selections, nothing I could recognize at the time...but the second half was light years ahead of the pack, junior or senior. Half the guard were in Confederate uniforms, half in Union (even as a Canadian kid, we watched Disney every week and were hooked on the civil war stuff). When they started their War Between the States...well, no one had ever done anything like it. It ought to be required listening for every corps designer and music director, even today. They packed difficulty, emotion, repetition and simplicity into one great piece of music. Sorry, Bridgemen, your Civil War a decade later was great, but not as great as what those guys laid down that day. I can only imagine how every American in the crowd must have bursting with pride and choking it back a bit when they hit the Battle Hymn finish. A Battle Hymn that dwarfed Troopers and Cavies. Think of it in these terms, when did you last or ever get goosebumps and cheer as the citizens of another country foisted their history and flag on you? I am die hard proud of my country, but that was my experience. I have no recollection of the corps finish of When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Perhaps my brain was stuck on what I had just heard before the finale. Listening back at the recording of the finals, one could also surmise that I have no recollection of the finish because it simply could not be heard from the stands - the crowd noise was that thunderous. Neither the Hurcs nor Yankee Rebs became a favorite for me, but on one day in 1969, WOW.
  6. In 1971 there were 11 corps at the RCA Championships, two of which also competed at DCA prelims (Pittsburgh Rockets and Guelph Royalaires). That suggests there were at least 26 senior corps in 1971, a few more than 2011. There were more than that of course, some simply did not show up for championship shows for fiscal reasons. Nonetheless, considering the decimation in the junior ranks, a considerable accomplishment. The juniors ate their young, while the seniors stuck to their knitting?
  7. Of course, but there is a differnce between a draconian penalty and one that is well known, fair and regularly enforced in a consistent manner. Appropriate penalties are proportionate to the offence and accepted by the particpants as being reasonable, not oppressive Our dicussion has been interesting, but it has run it's course. Have a good one.
  8. Not at all. In corps world, the equivalent of a face mask would and should earn a points penalty.
  9. Two wrongs don't make a right. If, and only if, there is evidence that an advantage was obtained by the breach of the rule, should the advantage obtained be taken away. If there was no advantage achieved, no innocent kid was "beaten in competition" by the breach of the rule. The penalty then remains the problem of those who are most culpable...the adults who made it happen. Appropriate sanctioning of the organization - not the kids- responds to concerns of presumptive advantage and to deterrence.
  10. Of course. Wrong minded is wrong minded.
  11. To respond to the "win as team, lose as a team" mantra....did the entire team particpate in the cheat? The adults that were in charge, were in charge. They, and only they, held the power to determine whether the rules would be followed....not some 15 year old kid playing cymbals. The corps director ought to have been banned for life and the organization that chose not to implement appropriate procedures to ensure they had honest adults involved with their kids ought to have had sanctions imposed that were appropriate to the infraction. It is terribly wrong minded for a youth actvity to impose the penalty upon the kids, for what was done by the dishoest adults who stood in a fiduciary relationship with them.
  12. Who were the soloists? Did they go on to play elsewhere? Sky? What is the name of the tune where the sop and the french/bari go back and forth? Any info much appreciated.
  13. Does that mean that the demographics of the crowd has changed?
  14. I have been involved since 1967. I was there in Montreal when Phantom had to pass out pamphlets to say what Spartacus was all about...and the response was tepid. Now, that type of show is the norm and gets the scores. The more accessible the show is to the audience - and not just drum corps geeks - the bigger and better the response. It is not the best musicianship, execution or marching that wins the heart of the audience.
  15. I can comment on this only by saying how I lost interest in competing and why I don't buy tickets any more. I made the decision to go senior when DCI began to emerge. I was not in a particularly good corps. At times we were pitiful. One thing has always stood out in my minds' eye. We played and performed music for the crowd...not the judges. Listen to some of the corps from the late 60's and early 70's .... the crowd often sounds like they are at a hockey game...screaming and cheering for their team. Our corps was able to get the crowd out of their seats at least twice during any good performance. Our favorite placement at retreat was when we lost the show but the crowd had us in first place. If we got them out of their seats half way through the show, once at the ending plus during the passing in review, it was a win for us. In the early to mid 70's the DCI effect rambled over to the seniors. Our corps was like the rest....weak instructors and designers played the judging game - as if egos are related to scores. We had to play music that the system would reward. We went from crowd pleasing to judge pleasing. We started to hear shouts of "boring" from those who knew what we had been. It sucked...but our scores went up because drum corps had become figure skating...it was becoming inaccessible to the masses. As other corps became more boring, so did we. There were valiant efforts to reconstruct what the corps had been, with some modicum of success, but by then the downward spiral was in full force, for both the corps and the activity. As all corps became figure skaters crowds withered and died. Corps withered and died. It is amazing that a random panel of citizens are intelligent enough to judge a murder trial but not smart enough to know what entertains them. Why not have the local radio station empanel 6 jurors at each show to judge the corps? Let them hand out up to 5 points per corps on any criteria they select...so long as they know they are out to choose the winner. Let the crowd know the judges scores and then, the final placements after adding in jury scores. Add some drama and controversy to retreat. If the jury pulls a "homer" who cares? If it was close, the home crowd will leave happy and will want to come back next year. If the jury pulls a real stinker, the crowd will let them know. Either way, it is drama, the type that gets people talking and buying tickets. Eliminate on field warm ups and reduce props. Both are time consuming, wasteful and distracting. Get on the field and get it done. When the public buys a ticket to any other type of paid performance they do not expect to have to watch the warm up and be put through the annoyance of watching the performers unload and load their props. Get to the entertainment...fast. Rule changes should be about putting bums in the seats. Force show designers to pander to the public and budget restraint...not the Russian and French judges. I was at Edinburgh this past year on a cruise. I did not go the tatoo, but those who did were absolutely thrilled by it all. It was simple, light on props, no warm ups, and accessible. It will run forever to sold out crowds. Will this activity?
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