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3 minutes ago, Weaklefthand4ever said:
I think I used PR's show as the model. I love PR, but last years props did absolutely (and literally,) NOTHING for the entire show.
if shows pivot their effect on props, the design is lacking as far as the scoresheets reward.
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6 hours ago, kkrepps said:
Getting firm and timely agreements from schools to host the practices is an ongoing problem.
Haven't found that in my experience when the right contacts are made and the money is clearly available and seen so that the bills are paid.
Why has this unit in the last three seasons had problems being welcomed back by schools they have used before?
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34 minutes ago, garfield said:
I would recommend you not respond to any of those. It's not my experience that financial support comes with conditions like this.
That said, I would think that your best starting point would be Spirit themselves (have you told your director that you're struggling to meet costs?), and then Spirit alums (on their FB, maybe?), and then the general fan crowd on DCI's FB pages and, after ALL else fails, come to the crusty edges of the activity that is DCP.
No conditions required at all. But my experience of sponsorship since DCI started in 1972 is that brass players tend to sponsor brass players and drummers drummers if they don't know the member personally. Agreed that Spirit should be the first one to speak with.
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14 minutes ago, Rocketman said:
OMG!
I have wanted them to do Alpine Symphony for, I don't know, two decades!
Unfortunately, it would seem too much like what Blue Stars did last year.What LaCrosse broke out the Heilemann kegs on those "huskies" the sledders used?
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2 hours ago, cybersnyder said:
Will you post copies of your bank statements online? I'm curious how you spend your money.
it would be an empty paper. My net monthly "discretionary/luxury" money after rent, transportation and medical costs is exactly $71. There are no longer any savings or assets. This is why I can no longer afford DCI. You're welcome.
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Just now, cybersnyder said:
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements
There is no requirement to make meeting notes public.I agree with you. What is right, what is proper, and what is legal aren't always the same. Has not Washington shown that all?
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6 minutes ago, garfield said:
I've answered:
I have nothing to reveal because I have nothing to hide. I'm Schultz.
I only "purport myself" (sic) to knowing who signed what and how BECAUSE IT'S IN THE PROPOSAL "LEAKED" ONLINE AT DCI.ORG. You know, the ones that are referenced in the OP of this thread??
Geesh, your imagination is VERY active!
I go back to the questions again that you fail to answer while reducing things to ad hominem slurs:
...what good reason would you raise for not granting Poppycock his wish to read through the discussion and minutes of the committee which supposedly generated these proposals? ... Why not be transparent?..."
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6 minutes ago, garfield said:
What in the world would I have to be hiding in any of this? I'm just asking for some rationality in looking at these proposals! All this tin-foil hat stuff... You're right, Poppycock is certainly entitled to state his opinion but I'm also entitled to call out BS when I believe I'm seeing it. I won't disagree that you find some of his posts "insightful" or "reasonable" - that's YOUR opinion - but, on this one, I think he's crafting reasons to foment distrust in what DCI does and assigning meaning to what is really only his negative speculation on ulterior motives. DCI can document committees and meetings and processes and SME's but, still, the opinion is that there's some nefarious alter-reason and any call out of BS is taken as an intent to hide some made up truth.
Presume Positive Intent. Start with that. Presume the SME's are there for a reason, given deference and respect, and actions were developed after consideration of their, and other, input.
To ask such is not evidence of a cover up.
You did not answer my question.
"...If you and DCI are NOT trying to hide anything, what good reason would you raise for not granting Poppycock his wish to read through the discussion and minutes of the committee which supposedly generated these proposals? You proport yourself as knowing who signed what and how. Poppycock usually seems to be reasonable, even insightful, often dramatic with his posts. Why not be transparent?..."
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2 minutes ago, garfield said:
What in the world would I have to be hiding in any of this? I'm just asking for some rationality in looking at these proposals! All this tin-foil hat stuff... You're right, Poppycock is certainly entitled to state his opinion but I'm also entitled to call out BS when I believe I'm seeing it. I won't disagree that you find some of his posts "insightful" or "reasonable" - that's YOUR opinion - but, on this one, I think he's crafting reasons to foment distrust in what DCI does and assigning meaning to what is really only his negative speculation on ulterior motives. DCI can document committees and meetings and processes and SME's but, still, the opinion is that there's some nefarious alter-reason and any call out of BS is taken as an intent to hide some made up truth.
Presume Positive Intent. Start with that. Presume the SME's are there for a reason, given deference and respect, and actions were developed after consideration of their, and other, input.
To ask such is not evidence of a cover up.
and to make the conversations publicly available will prove that.
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8 minutes ago, garfield said:
This, again, is a statement designed to hint that shenanigans are going on and that DCI actually has some nefarious intent than actually hearing from SMEs. You know, like the decibel analysis created by OSHA and submitted with their "Sound Reinforcement" proposal.
It's bizarre bordering on silly.
If you and DCI are NOT trying to hide anything, what good reason would you raise for not granting Poppycock his wish to read through the discussion and minutes of the committee which supposedly generated these proposals? You proport yourself as knowing who signed what and how. Poppycock usually seems to be reasonable, even insightful, often dramatic with his posts. Why not be transparent? What is being hidden or feared?
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Local Allentown paper (MorningCall) featured a drum corps-at summer practice photo one of its Top 10 photos of the year. (mcall.com.)
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13 minutes ago, Poppycock said:
And which organization(s) stands up and says NO! we’re not going to do that. What happens to them?
Remembering when Adolph DeGrauwe of Cavies and David Glasgow of Bloo did that with past proposals (electronix, e.g.) and eventually had to buckle under as judges rewarded the proposed changes scorewise.
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3 minutes ago, garfield said:
Don't know. But someone better tell her that she forgot to sign the Proposal Form. That, apparently and according to prior posts, is a big thing.
Yea uses a lot of invisible ink.
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11 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:
maybe. new leadership may have new ideas
Is that your platform?
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Just now, Weaklefthand4ever said:
Correct. The Sisters of Mercy were attached to the Jesuits from the Nashville Diocese. They weren't quite as evil as the Jesuits were. More like the the Diet Coke of Evil...Evil Lite. They still would give you a good rap across the knuckles if you broke a word in cursive or whatever. I survived because I was funny in my irreverence. Like when I stole the clicker the used to signal when to sit/stand/kneel in mass. In my defense...it was pretty #### funny to try and make a human wave during mass.
I think you need the Sisters of Charity.
Your devious diversion from the ire about the Rules Proposal is only temporary.
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19 hours ago, Terri Schehr said:
I can’t believe I marched with the person who proposed woodwinds.
did she get the idea from the 1980 Guardsmen? Something about using kazoos???
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8 minutes ago, Weaklefthand4ever said:
LOL. It didn't. But basically this is "what had happened was...."
In every Jesuit Catholic School, there is a supposed to be a crucifix above every door. So we're sitting is Sister Mary Rebecca's class having our weekly Satan discussion when a new kid walks in and slams the door. The crucifix falls off the wall and hits the floor. Jesus' head breaks off...rolls across the floor and hits Sister Mary Rebecca in the foot. For whatever reason, in that moment, any semblance of self control I had was lost and I started laughing. Sister Mary Rebecca reaches down to her nun "Bat Utility Belt" and busts out a vial of holy water and proceeds to douse me with it, screaming "Don't laugh...that's what Satan wants you to do!"
True story
but all Jesuits are only male. She was a hireling.
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On 1/1/2020 at 6:08 PM, Kyle neal said:
Hey guys i need help to make my summer possible. Im marching my second summer with spirit of atlanta and i need help with fundraising!
Probably on DCP you should state that you are NOT a woodwind😣.
What caption are you marching and why was last summer a good experience for you?
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9 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:
this has been said with all of the other changes, and look at the growth the last 10 years.
don't get me wrong...i do not want woodwinds. sadly dci has made me realize they're gonna do what they're gonna do, my feelings be ######
what are you judging as "growth?"
128>135>150>154? Certainly not the number of competing units? Probably not the number of paid attendees at championships (vs. Buffalo, Boston, Montreal; ok, more than Florida.)
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1 minute ago, Weaklefthand4ever said:
Or Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and The Green Night, etc. I think we did them all in Brit-Lit at one point. But we also had to learn Latin (and it wasn't our elective language,) which was taught by one of the Jesuit Sisters of Mercy (or Sisters of No Mercy in my case.) I had holy water thrown on me once....long story.
it didn't work apparently.😂
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I haven't spoken with Director Bonfiglio about this but I am wondering: Is the proposal about color guard judging and fine skills vs. general impression but a foot in the door to have eventually 2 color guard judges on each panel, one doing the effect, the other doing the fine skills? Similar to the other captions having two judges at least. As today's "guards" (who don't guard anything anymore) are usually compromised of at least as many mms as there are in percussion sections and half the size of the usual WC brass section, each which have multiple judges on each panel, would the guardsters be having another moment of perceived unfairness?
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11 minutes ago, Weaklefthand4ever said:
You would think that with the number of sports camps (both professional and AA,) cheer camps, etc., housing for large groups would still be available. But I have also heard that a lot of bridges were burned in the 80's and 90's. I know we heard rumors on tour but I didn't lend them much credence.
and at what $$$ cost (sports camps don't do 10 weeks on the road, now do they?)
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14 hours ago, 2muchcoffeeman said:
At the end of the day that you describe, there are still 154 participants on the field. How does that square with the stated rationale of providing the experience to a larger number of young people?
If that indeed is the purpose of this proposal, then without a concurrent proposal to increase the size of the unit, it's a hollow statement. 154 = 154 = 154 all day long. You're just replacing current young people with other young people and the overall number of young people participating in the activity remains unchanged. You don't get "new participants and new revenue" from that -- unless this is all some cynical ploy to double the audition numbers by creating false hopes for thousands of young WW players.
Now, if the rationale were revised, and instead it were put this way . . .
"Opening the drum corps activity to young musicians currently excluded, and closing the drum corps activity to young musicians currently included, is consistent with the DCI mission to offer the opportunity of the life-enriching benefits and enjoyment of marching music performing arts to a wider pool of young people worldwide.”
. . . then we'd have a more honest statement of intent, one with a vision of changing the nature of the activity, not some fig leaf about bringing more youth into it.
yes that is always the key pivot and too often the problem.
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Some joke that the D in DCP stands for Dinos, but quick reviews of other discussion sites/platforms, etc. about the proposed changes don't differ widely from the feelings expressed on DCP threads that the Black mark proposal by Kathy is not worthy of passing, the electronics/amping/soundscapes are worthy of good discussion, color guard judging is getting mixed reactions, limiting judging to 6 off the field is not being positively backed, and other tweeking is worthy of review. Boomers, millenials, geriatrics, and cmms don't seem to be that different from the fmms, alumni, donors, and thread posters here. Look for yourself.
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Santa Clara Vanguard - 2020
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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This is the week of the holiday season I always enjoy re-hearing Al Reid's composition, whether you like SCV's or Crossmen's version best. To all my Greek, Russian, Turkish and Orthodox friends, Merry Christmas. To the rest, Happy Epiphany.
And since it's a new year, here's both:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n33KOXXRYDk&list=RDn33KOXXRYDk&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYp1fG_TDEs&list=PLiOy0YArE6dB3HuGRgi5dCdefnU2xWgjU