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Just back from seeing the cousins in the newest Star Wars movie, these 66 are ready for the 2015 trip to Paris by way of California.

obvously not a Bocook arrangement, ha, ha.

Thanks. These old eyes had a hard time deciphering those 50 shades of grey and white.

Since no sound on Vine, I am teased. Do I have to pay Mark Arnold another quarter for that???

I guess <<<Fluffernutters>>> will have to be the new nickname in 2015 for any and all who misdirect this thread from discussion of Cadets 2015 and the Power of Ten.

Ready to rumble the Berets and the Gendarmes caps for the tops of the Regiment '15.

Ah, who could forget St. William's of Dorchester, St. Anthony's Revere, etc. etc. I had enough trouble trying out how to say Dominic Bianculli; this little guy wrongly thought everyone in Bahston was Irish.

I knew Bobby Thompson and George Tuthill (who also taught the L.I. Kingsmen in my time there.) You have great drum corps DNA.!!! Now looking for a great chapter with The Power of Ten and Cadets 2015.

About the same for me. Funny sidebar. My folks taught in public schools on L.I. but sent their kids to Catholic schools. As an elementary school age fan of drum corps I felt guilty that I liked the Garfield Cadets music and style better than I liked Blessed Sacrament (the obviously Catholic corps.) Only later in h.s. did I learn about the Holy Name aspect of the corps. Needless anxiety we thrust upon ourselves, ha, ha. Neat thing in high school was that the h.s. library was headed by a Religious from Greater Boston, so of course the Boston diocesan newspaper was on the shelves weekly. It included two columns weekly dedicated to the CYO drum corps circuit and all things drum corps/color guard/drill team in Massachusetts. Many "study" hours dedicated to learning about the larger drum corps world. Ah the times, they have so changed.

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Good catch, Tekk. Will you be changing your name to "Ten" for the season??? And you are right on the money about the "it's too hot, it's too cold, blah, blah, blah" crowd. It's always easier to tear down others rather than build a masterpiece oneself.

Hmm. 80+70=150. 80-5=75. 75+70=145= needs 5 females. Ahhh.... You're doing that Power of 10 thing, ha, ha.!! How appropriate for 2015, O HockeyDad. [Go Islanders!!!]

That French Foreign Legion hat might just work for PR '15 Paris if the berets are too wind-driven.

That must be worth marking!

Cappy, Im just saying you are a very tough marker, that's all. Nothing disparaging there. Enjoy the music and the show.

I am deliberately overstating an image to pull the pendulum from its static position; your pull the other direction counter-balances. Hopefully, where it stops at its new position will be a better place than what we now have. 1 female named every 7 years for a total of 6 in 42 years is really a max injustice I think even a Flatlander like yourself would agree.

Doesn't one have to be dead for Dante's Inferno???

Oddly, Tekk"s #954 link on Cadets '15 thread when opened has a sidebar link to Spirit's unveiling of its' new snares. Sweet.

This link in original post #954 worked for me; go there. Must mean I've been given an Ok on Tekk's approved list. Thanks man. Capp, Sure glad you are not in a green shirt and khaki pants officially (yet.) While technically amazing and exhausting, the phrasing of the music shows that it is designed for the feet to be featured. With this link, we don't yet see the Sacktigovitch drill but when it is added this will be an awesome piece, even to impress you O Great One. This will be an amazing Cadet finale. Less than two months to go!

Yup, that is up-North. (You spelled it like a Canadian, eh?)

And yet, quite ironically there has been another development which may not be as well applauded. There is much more individual work as opposed to ensemble work in today's version of shows. The tick system would have penalized ensemble work which was not simultaneously precise. Individual work was a way around those simultaneous ticks. Some would say that today's shows actually lack precision and have fallen to a least-common-denominator for its effects. For instance, a guard no longer has to throw a flag to a marcher at an exact spot but throw "in the area" of the marcher; if no catch/not caught there is no error since each marcher is doing a separate rep that cannot be compared to another two. (rule of 3 similar was necessary under tick judging) (cf. Felini, '14)

cf. Madison Scouts, pre-show entrance, Band of Brothers show for another example.

Great weather for camp today although a bit chilly for some (45-60, winds of 10 mph) not used to the Northeast's Magnolia Frost. (i.e., just as the Magnolia trees bloom and blossom here, the temps annually take a dip and the Magnolia blossoms end up all over the lawn. Sorry Spirit '14.) Should be sunny and dry throughout. Corps will begin outdoor experiences today, learn new ballad, and dabble in new HoFer Jeff Sacktig's winter visions for this summer.

Title 9 is the standard in college sports and other programs where if a dollar is spent for the guys per person, the same amount has to be spent for the gals. It is a well known standard for college students today, the same age demographic which gives us todays MMs. (I am paraphrasing here, not speaking legalese so no attacks because I am not a civil lawyer.) As NCAA has its national office in Indy and Indy has been at the forefront of the debate about inclusion, recognition, and discrimination, it would seem common sense that DCI with its HQ also in Indy would be super alert to use the Title 9 principal in all its activities including HoF and Jim Jones. Unfortunately, common sense isn't always so common.