Senagod
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Looking for 2 tickets for Finals. Reply or DM me. Thanks.
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Just saw it yesterday...
For those of you who will be traveling south on the PA turnpike Northeast Extension that Saturday night, the turnpike will be closed between Quakertown and Lansdale in both directions from midnight until 6 am on Sunday.
My advice would be to pick up Route 309 in Allentown and ride that all the way down to Lansdale and then pick up the turnpike.
FYI.
In other news, a Big Woodys sports bar is under construction right across the street from the Ham Fam. It won't be open in time for DCI East, unfortunately.
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I guess I'm just an elitist snob these days then (and have been for years apparently). I DESPISE guards not having any work for 1/2 or 3/4ths of the first show or the first few weeks. I've made no bones about it here too for quite a while. I don't give a #### if it is clean yet but don't walk around through the drill with no equipment in your hands, or worse yet, go sit down on the sideline, for a good portion of the show. I don't care if you do 100 straight counts of drop spins, but visually SOMETHING is better than NOTHING (IMO).
(And yes, I know most DCA guards have a month or so to learn the entire show once winterguard ends. Yet somehow the drumlines are getting together practicing with the corps in the winter and they have winter percussion......this one confuses me and bothers me greatly, to the point I worry that soon there won't be guards with complete guard books out there until August.)
Liz,
I think the difference is that there are WAY more indoor guards out there than indoor percussion units in general, and especially in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. When it comes to independent units (who generally take up more of a weekend than scholastic units do in practice time), there are way more independent guards than independent percussion units. That's why the DCA drumlines can get together during the winter for practice more than the guards can. And as you know all too well, in the mid-Atlantic region, indoor guard doesn't end after WGI. It's going to be the second weekend in May before DCA guards can really get going if they have members who perform in TIA.
The key is being smart with the time that you do have to practice and learn the show, IMHO.
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Rest in peace, Ron. Drum corps heaven just gained another great member.
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I know several members of the Bucs perform with "The Guard" a Sr guard that competes in TIA. I'd imagine it can't help but help the groups as it keeps hands, feet etc sharp.now for any percussion in WGI, there is an age cap, so not everyone in MBI for example may be able to participate
And you also get to learn from the Bucs guard caption head when you march The Guard. He writes all the drill, writes all the work, teaches the work and also performs. Stevie's pretty much Superman.
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I wouldn't advise flying into Allentown airport, simply because not a whole lot of flights serve the airport and it will be expensive. Your best options are either flying to Philly or flying into Newark.
No rail service. Bieber Buses do run buses from Philly and NYC. I've been on them. They're decent. As far as cabs, they do exist, but they're not all over the place like you would expect in large cities.
Allentown does have an art museum downtown. I've never been there. The Crayola factory is in Easton, which is about 15-20 miles east of town. If you like history, Bethlehem is a quaint city (about 6 miles east of Allentown). Bethlehem also has some really good upscale restaurants.
Hope this helps.
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I've never taken 15 all the way up, I always take 180/220. I went to Mansfield University so I was up there fairly frequently (including this summer).
For those that haven't been in the twin tiers in a while look for the marcellus shale operations that are destroying the landscape and environment up there... very sad.
I know a lot of folks like 180, but I rarely use it south of the Lycoming Mall. When there's no construction, getting off on Route 15 at I-80 is quicker than you may think and it's a more direct route. There's only 2 red lights between the interchange with 80 and South Williamsport. If you go that way, you do have to figure out the Market Street bridge, and the new design of that is odd.
I'll be sure to share with my sister your comments about the Marcellus Shale. She works HR for one of the gas drilling companies. My mom rags her about it every time somebody's well goes bad. It is sad...especially since that seems to be the only way to make any money in that area that's legal.
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Another area of Route 15 construction is northbound as you go up the mountain that takes you into South Williamsport. For those of you that are familiar with Route 15 northbound, it's after you go over what I like to call the little mountain north of Allenwood. Once you start up the big mountain past the A-Plus market on your right and the surplus grocery store on the left, the passing lane is no longer available. This is the start of a long project to put a divider on that road. Hopefully you won't be stuck behind an 18-wheeler or a natural gas drilling company truck. The construction ends as soon as you get to the top of the mountain. You can pass the trucks going down the mountain into South Williamsport, but watch out for the South Williamsport police. They like to sit in hidden driveways to your left as you're going down the mountain.
There are ways to detour around it, but none of them are any good. It's either a mountain road that you'd really have to be a local to know about (I don't know it that well myself, and I was born and raised there) or take 180. You may be better off just crawling up the mountain behind the trucks.
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GOD I LOVE THE FRIDAY BEFORE THE LAST WEEKEND BEFORE FINALS
(just for you Vicki)
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Let's hope that Hurricane Danny doesn't affect the Hurricanes' fanfare on Saturday. Brigs, Bush, Empire and the Hurcs could all lose out on improving their seeding in Rochester. Not sure how Danny will affect the Buc's show, if at all.
That being said, I'll never forget performing during Ernesto's run through Rochester in'06.
The Philly weather forecasts have been saying that it's going to be a rainy Saturday because of Danny, so the Bucs show might get some of that.
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It just might matter to the guard members. They've never taken that caption at championships since they've started this run of theirs. I would think it is something they'd really want, especially after they were announced as Best Guard and it was greated by audible dismay from the crowd, and then the announcement came that it was a mistake they were awarded that.
Just get this vibe that the guard members feel they have something to prove...
Liz,
Bucs guard did take the caption once during this current run, in 2005. They haven't won it since.
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Shouldn't this say:
GOD I LOVE THE LAST FULL MONTH BEFORE FINALS!!!
(come on Vicki, I know you saw this)
Yes, I did
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I met Doc once when I was tabulating the Scranton show. I was apprehensive because I had heard stories about how he was an "acquired taste," but he was very nice to me. I remember him joining me in looking through a pile of trophies so I could figure out which specialty awards were being given.
RIP, Doc.
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Do many TOB bands go to Grand Nats? Just curious...you can count the USSBA bands that attend, or have attended recently, on the fingers of one hand and not use them all up.
No, they really don't. I can't think of any TOB band that's gone to Grand Nats in recent years. Maybe Governor Thomas Johnson, but I'm not sure without looking it up. You can probably count the number of TOB bands that have gone to the Towson regional on one hand, maybe two.
Why? I'm not sure. IMHO, it could be that TOB does not produce big bands in terms of size, and in my limited knowledge of BOA, it seems that big bands are the majority, although Northwestern Lehigh did win Class A at Grand Nats in 1996 with only 65 members (of course, they weren't a TOB band at the time.) It seems like a lot of the BOA bands have well over 100 musicians. In TOB, that's a rarity these days.
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Ah! I enjoyed what I saw on video this year. Wish I could see them in person.
BTW-- I'll be in PA for a USSBA show on Oct. 25th! :-D
It's cool that you'll be back in PA! Of course, I'll probably be working that weekend. It's our busiest weekend.
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weren't they automatically promoted to A for winning @ Wildwood last year?
Nope. They scored an 88.0, which is the overall promotion score, but they didn't get promotion numbers from 3 of the 5 judges. You need both the overall number and the numbers from 3 of the 5 judges to get promoted.
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I remember getting an e-mail not too long ago that Cpex was still a going concern, so that could still be an option. I will echo others and highly recommend Classics and Sitao. Classics are doing their first rehearsals this month. They're an Intermediate A guard in TIA. She'll get trained well there.
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Good point, though it's possible that ASD will get an insurance settlement for Dieruff, so the two repairs may not be mutually exclusive.
Good point as well. I was taking it from the angle that this is an urban school district with probably not much wriggle room in the budget for unforeseen disasters. Wasn't even thinking about insurance. Good call!
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Personally, I'm not counting on the upper deck being fixed. Dieruff High suffered damage a few weeks ago from a tornado that came through the area as a result of a remnant from one of the hurricanes. It closed the school for two days and the last I heard, it was going to cost $1 million to fix the damage. Unless the money to fix the upper deck is earmarked solely for that purpose and it can't be used for anything else, I would think that they would repair the school first with any extra money floating around.
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[quote name='jwillis35' date='Sep 6 2008, 08:57 AM' post='2383489
Travel is another issue. Most college bands, even the big schools, cannot go to many away games. It costs an extraordinary amount of money, because you don't have public funded school buses and such, we must get charters. Our band needs 3 of them, so on average we need $3,000 or more just to leave campus, and another $500 or more to feed the kids if we are gone for any length of time. So it depends on your budget.
Agree but at the same time, my band here at Syracuse almost never travels, i've asked some of the seniors and they've said they've traveled to if they're lucky one away game a year. Needless to say however, Syracuse is a wealthy university with many rich benefactors and they can afford to get two coach buses to take our awful football team from their practice facility to a hotel two miles from campus, put them in a hotel over night and feed them and then use the coach buses to transport them back from the hotel to the Carrier Dome and then from the Carrier Dome back to their apartments in South Campus, if they can afford this they can afford to send the SUMB to at least one away game, it would actually be putting coach buses to good use rather than using them as a shuttle for our awful football team
It's a good thing you weren't around back in the days when Syracuse had a good football team and they went to bowl games. The reason I never joined the Syracuse marching band was because I found out that you had to pay your own way to go to the bowl game and I just couldn't afford that (plus the fact that bowl games were during the holiday break and I had to work). It amazed me that a school that rich wouldn't shell out the money for the band to travel.
Sunsnare, for your sake, I hope you're not poor or Syracuse's definition of poor, because if it's the same kind of place that it was in the '90s when I went (and I'll bet that it is), you're going to have a tough time there. Syracuse is all about the money, and if you don't have it, you're screwed. Good luck!
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I feel for your wife man. Not saying this is the case here at all.She may very well be qualified to receive the tags and is deserving of it.
Ive got Fibromyalgia and many of the early signs of Lupus still be diagnosed and some days I have a hard time getting out of bed and other days I jump right up and Im good to go.I am certainly not going to go doctor shopping and get some handicap tags so I can take away someone that genuinely needs it.There is minimal handicap spots available almost everywhere and much too often I see people taking advantage of the situation when they could clearly walk the extra bit to get to the gates or even have someone drop them off at the gate.
Doctor shopping for tags is a conman thing now days and it really hacks me off.
My mom is 82 now and has had degenerative arthritis for about 20 years and under TN guidelines she never qualified and was turned down year after year.Bless her heart if she can walk the extra 100 ft across the walmart parking lot to get to the front door so can a lot of these dead beats that doctor shop.
If anyone on here is genuinely handicapped I feel for you.I truly do.
Ed, I know what you mean. I've been diagnosed with fibro as well. Thankfully it's pretty mild.
I'm a court reporter. Anybody who thinks that doctor shopping doesn't go on should be a fly on the wall on the workers' comp depositions I've written. There are a lot of people out there that will claim a work injury is a lot worse than it really is.
If you've got the license or the placard on your dashboard that says you're disabled, then I usually don't judge. It's people who don't have them and park in the spots that really cheese me off, but that didn't happen in Rochester and that's a whole other story.
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