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  1. 17 hours ago, ironlips said:

    In a very real sense, Tracy is Joni's musical daughter. As the great Louis Armstrong once remarked, "All music is folk music", and the best of it conveys profound meaning.

    Well done in both instances here.

    This is true.  I was struck by Tracy's absolute comfort in singing that song and being on stage now.  Her younger years didn't have that comfort.  That it came while sharing that stage and song with another made it even more awesome.  

  2. Yeah Avon and Carmel are of similar cultures inasmuch as they're that rivals in the same city.  The intensity of what they do in the Fall for band season + their scholastic WGI demands are a LOT on those bodies, adding a summer season is a physical ask that some students might throw themselves into with youthful exuberance without realizing the cost its going to have 10 years later.

    Dunno if they'd open that policy to DCI, ISSMA and BOA, WGI scholastic, WGI independent....pick any two that don't happen concurrently sort of thing.  Cause that doesn't contain their talent pool to their programs primarily heh.  

  3. 5 hours ago, saxfreq1128 said:

    Ya Phantom guard is going to be just fine - their caption head Eryn Boone is young and accomplished, she runs Carmel’s guard program and they took WGI last year (yet again); if she can walk into a high stakes program like that, with all those crazy Indiana band parents who are used to being the best in the country, and still not drop the ball, I think she can carry PR pretty far. 🙂

    If anything I just wish the actual guard design, of late, had more presence — that’s one thing PR’s guard has historically had on everyone else. Classic Cadets had the technique, BD had the style, and PR always had that intangible something … a classical elegance and stature that no one else had. I do miss that.  

    Yah. Carmel guard on the field has always been S tier design and execution as well. If Phantom can get a pipeline from Carmel to a summer with Phantom going, things will get interesting!

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  4. 40 minutes ago, Jurassic Lancer said:

    Well, you did it to me again, first BD beats Bloo then 49ers beat my Lions.

    All this, and I still count you as a friend.

    My cousins are Lions fans.  I told them, "I feel for you, after all its only once every 20 years or so you get to have hope."

    It's somewhat tempered by the fact that they're also U of M alums and went to both games.

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  5. 4 hours ago, Boss Anova said:

     Its still early, but I'm pretty sure you're gonna win the DCP internet today😊

    So far so good

    https://www.drumcorpsplanet.com/forums/index.php?/leaderboard/&time=today

    8 points was enough to carry recent days too so.   Yeah, this is likely to happen. haha

    @cixelsyd

    OH and the other posters chasing are for posts responding to that...so yeah. Definitely winner.

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  6. There was a Vanguard yell for Force of Nature in 2016 that started sort of organically.  I remember people posting videos of 'do it here or do it there?'  once the spot was decided, it caught on fairly quick.

    The other organic thing recently I recall is when Bloo added the Hey Jude tag and it went from a jam to a singalong that lingered in the crowd as they left the field by finals night.  I was at BLL in the theater that year for quarters and there were some of us singing along too.

  7. 6 minutes ago, JimF-LowBari said:

    If nothing else it shows proof what happened and who was responsible. And the victims were not lying or blowing smoke. IOW can bring closure to the victims 

    It's a classic Theory of Justice question.  What does justice look like for someone who was victimized not only by an individual's actions but a system that enabled and protected the individual who did it? 

    Restorative justice theories would point toward listening to the victim and letting their needs for healing guide the process of what is required of perpetrators.  

    But that's really often not an option under our laws.  While legal mediation efforts are a thing, they're often re-traumatizing to the point they are not restorative.  The only other options in our legal system are punitive.  The closure a victim might feel from a punitive verdict and sentence may not be entirely restorative for them either.

    And consideration of that is a fairly 'newish' rationale for things like the death penalty and rape charges.  For a very long time the victim and their family wouldn't even know the verdict or be involved in the case as the state brought the charges, not the victim. The point was the state's interest in punitive action to deter others from doing that.  

    In this. case its a civil case so the victim is typically involved, but the dynamics of restorative v. punitive frameworks (nd other theories) are still in play largely because its how we are culturally constructing the idea of justice around the question that opens my post here.

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  8. 40 minutes ago, TheOneWhoKnows said:

    Stating this as respectively as possible since we can’t obviously know the exact intentions, but it’s why I don’t fully understand the point here. We already know there’s no money for the Cadets to pay out. Which as you stated happens pretty often. So is it to just destroy the organization? I guess I just don’t see how that avenue creates a greater good and better future for everyone. Probably going to get blowback for stating this. 

    The idea behind punitive damages from a legal perspective (which differ from the compensatory damages) is to send a message to others, "don't let this be you, it WILL end you."   So in this case the message is to the other corps (and youth non-profits in some regard) "DTFK. Seriously. This is real business. Stop it or you'll be stopped."

    Whether its actually a deterrent or not...

  9. 9 hours ago, Sideways said:

    Still waiting for Coats take on The Talking Heads…so much potential lol.

    I'd go for whatever Thrower wants to do with Angelique Kidjo's cover of their Listening Winds!  Some polyrhythmic stuff going on in that.  Now that Bloo has shown with Bump that some deep polyrhythmic stuff can be done on the field, read coherently by fans, and rewarded by judges....lets go!
     

     

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