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scheherazadesghost
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5 minutes ago, Cadet Guardy said:
An instructor shouts and you pull out the abuse in sports handbook. You sound like someone who couldn't/didn't cut it in the activity and/or handle any kind of heat to help you become better. Let's just give everyone a first place trophy because they tried, right?
That was me with the handbook resource. TAOS is a predominant resource on the prevention of abuse in sport, so minimizing its import looks bad on you. 61% of athletes globally report abuse. Fact.
Wanna come at me with the accusation that I couldn't cut it in this activity? That also won't look good on you. The man that abused me came from the Cadets btw. Confirmed and corroborated by VMAPA.
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22 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
I think that sometimes instructors yell because they don’t know how to otherwise teach or get the point across. Not an excuse, but an observation.
Sure. Sometimes. It's therefore lazy "teaching" at best, and the enablers around them let it happen.
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38 minutes ago, Cadet Guardy said:
Yelling at times is not abuse and that comment is a reach - people are too soft now. If I could send a box of tissues with my reply they would be attached <<here>>.
The Army of Survivors disagrees.
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1 hour ago, KVG_DC said:
But ... Year of the Dragon and all. You can't tell me they haven't been planning for this year for some time...
That's riding some ancient wisdom there. Thanks for the insight. All the more excited now. 🐉
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7 hours ago, Richard Lesher said:
I already did. Rocks I never anticipated turning over are now going to get new attention.
I've seen the threats on Fb via screenshot that alum keep denying happened. You can't yell fire in a crowded auditorium, but that's what at least two alumni have done. Just cause one alum troll didn't do it doesn't mean it didn't happen. 🤯
That, coupled with behavior on this platform (un-moderated doxxing, stalking, menacing, validated victim blaming), on reddit (doxxing that resulted in an immediate ban and stalking from u/Terry_D_1161), and the un-moderated original SVVoice article are plenty to take to authorities. It doesn't matter if it's anon or different people, they all intentionally tie themselves to the org, so the org holds the weight of responsibility.
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1 hour ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
The nuance of my post was that friendly fire comes from a distance; poop from much closer. They are making their own situation worse. And those who share the foxhole will once put up with so much.
And chronic pain sucks. Neurostimulator helps a lot with some, but I’m still looking at a shoulder replacement.
Understood and thank you.
I'm a Traditional Chinese Medicine girl and integrate it into my massage therapy practice as well. Wishing you all the blessings with your shoulder. 😎
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39 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said:
So far, no bullets have been fired.
... aside from friendly-fire, yes.
I noted the friendly-fire 20 years ago. Apparently some DCPers here did too. So I defiantly put down the stupid prop scimitar at the end of 04 for a ####### reason, such that it's now sealed in film in perpetuity whether Vanguard likes it or not. I witnessed it and endured it as a kid and now again, as a professional who can call the red flags as I see them, with nationally-recognized backup resources. By all accounts from young alum I've spoken to, it never really stopped.
And here we are.
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1 hour ago, ironlips said:
I recommend holding fire.
Thank you for your service. I didn't know.
This is my take as well, as someone who wanted to join the military but whose family laughed when I brought it up. They were right. Super special summer band was tough enough for me anyway apparently. It's also part of why I listen to the military intelligence alumni (plural) that I do. I'm practically a butterfly by comparison.
Also, I never fed the military metaphors in this predicament. At best I pointed out that the alum naysayers were friendly-firing this whole time and I have the wounds to prove it. And receipts.
Respectfully to all involved, likening this to warfare cheapens the whole thing, at least as far as I'm involved. Am close to a Nam combat vet. What we're going through pales in comparison and he doesn't have to say a word about what he endured.
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Sorry to all others reading here, feel free to ignore.
Apparently my alum stalker reads everything I post here and responds menacingly under the old SVVoice article, referring to me by actual name. They are obviously afraid to respond here or other platforms because they know others will come to my defense. I have a strong sense of who they are and haven't yet gone to the authorities. Both the CEO and alum officers were made aware of this days ago though. They continue to do nothing, likely because they don't know what to do and this person is still hiding behind anonymity.
I'm asking you now to stop and leave me alone or I will go to the authorities. I'm trying to pull away from my activity here and elsewhere and failing to do so, in part, because I'm still being attacked. They are actively victim blaming and gaslighting. Still. Just as they did when they were on this platform months ago.
Leave me alone.
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6 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:
however this board has shown they're very flawed. and him calling them out on it doesn't speak well for his long term prospects.
My faith in him stems from the fact that he's likely navigated more complicated bureaucracies in his previous work. Holding your place in academia alone should provide some modicum of literacy in this stuff. But he definitely has an uphill battle.
6 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:they can do their best to sing their own praises, how covid did this to them...and their enablers will back them up. then you have those who don't buy their ######## speaking up. the kind of change needed here top to bottom- he doesn't have the power alone to make. and those that created the mess clearly chase off anyone who wants to help have the power to keep their seat at the table.
Reminder that I was encouraged to apply for the board several years back. After interacting with one director and discovering the other that heads up onboarding, I noped out of that so fast. For my own wellbeing. Little has changed, except to add that they seem to struggle with maintaining diversity at the board level. I can't bear being a token in that place again.
Edit to add: Apparently, my engaging anywhere online on any platform gives some of my fellow alum the right to continue with personal attacks while continuing to hide behind anonymity. Another reminder: stalking isn't legal.
"Cyberstalking behaviors may include tracking down someone’s personal and private information and using it to make them afraid ... or posting about them incessantly and without their permission." https://cyberbullying.org/cyberstalking
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12 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said:
I wouldn’t let them stop me from going. They usually talk a big game on the interNUT, but when you run into them eye-to-eye, they have pee dribbling down their leg because they’ve encountered you.
💪🏽 Ty Terri. It means a lot to hear that from you, genuinely.
Beyond them, the whole experience has still proven very triggering for me so we will have to see. Flo might be it for me for a while. 6-8 hrs one way just to be triggered is a tall order. An old timer Troop vet comforted me last time though, which was nice.
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9 minutes ago, Brian1313 said:
while putting aside previous conflicts-- petty or otherwise, to try to save their corps
A lovely idea. But this is a giant barrier. This stuff is enmeshed and engrained over decades and so many of us have given up. Myself included now after a recent public and humiliating spat with another alum. Their drive to humiliate and friendly-fire other alum they disagree with seems endless. I want nothing to do with them and feel less safe to attend a show now than ever.
I hope others still standing are stronger than me.
Cue the trolls crying "me me me" in response to my sharing of my own experiences, which is all I have left now.
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On 1/21/2024 at 6:55 AM, OldSnareDrummer said:
SCV troubles
threadsFTFY. This messenger's riddled with enough metaphorical bullet holes.
Plenty of great music out there for a unique show for 2024. For example, I'm a little jealous of 'Scades repping Les Mystere des Voix Bulgares, but I'll get over it. Those dissonant chords have been aching to
be put onreturn to* the field for decades.*just did my homework, and BK did this back when I marched, good stuff!
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1 hour ago, arabica said:
And this right here is the deeply-rooted, institutional cancer that I want to see driven out of any future SCV.
Or, as some alumni put it, "nothing to see here" and "which messenger do we shoot next?" 😪
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FWIW I don't think this design team will go retro. It would be a major departure from everything else they've done.
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3 minutes ago, Bruckner8 said:
The forces of darkness within me
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2 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
Do you dream the impossible dream?
More on-topic. A Don Quixote show has potential.
Only really if Liam Neeson is singing
I would love this, but I'm young to be a fan of this musical. It would need quite the face lift.
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2 hours ago, ironlips said:
A sweet thought. I am trying to recall the last time any DCI program designer prioritized this.
I do admire your idealism.
😁 Quixotic is my middle name.
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48 minutes ago, JimF-LowBari said:
Oh wait we’re going to worry about the members? 😈 (Really kidding as I bring up the same point on other social media.)
Ok we’re going to play something from before you were born. Can’t you just feel the history. 🥱🥱🥱
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On the flip side, it's possible we could be totally surprised by a craving for nostalgia from gen Z. I mean, who wouldn't want to wear the Xmas colors and an aussie, for example? There's so much cool rep in our past. Have one friend who's fantasized about Vanguard doing a FULL retro show (rep, drill)... possibly slightly updated, but with lots of elements kept in. Do you know how cool that would be, scores be ######? Talking about being the season's darling corps!
On the other other flip side, not looking back and advancing with new, wild ideas is always gonna be a winner in my book. ::weeps in Pathways::
So yeah, what do the members want? Give 'em what they want.
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24 minutes ago, JimF-LowBari said:
Reminds me of Fiddler on the Roof but…. How many fans in the stands would know about SCVs history of Fiddler. IOW how far back does the fans memory go?
And, possibly more importantly, what do the members want? 😎
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3 hours ago, Jurassic Lancer said:
I was in accounting for 15 years.
This is the first qualified opinion I have ever seen. And yes, it means SCV’s accounting is really ####ed up.
Just did my homework on the types of opinions. So, there are two more "worse" kinds of opinions. Does that present any kind of hope? It doesn't seem like the firm is flying red flags or distancing themselves, per se, right?
Guess this is for you and @Rudy18 and RL.
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16 minutes ago, Richard Lesher said:
My mission in life right now is egging on SCV in a direction to get fixed.
Wait wait wait hollup. I thought you were an ######## who wanted to destroy our beloved corps. What gives?
/sarcasm
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1 minute ago, Jeff Ream said:
where is the full doc viewable?
1 hour ago, scheherazadesghost said:The full document is available here https://rct.doj.ca.gov/verification/web/Search.aspx by searching Vanguard Music and Performing Arts; next page click RCT number 009838; next page click Audited Financial Statement 2022.
😞👍🏽
Troopers guard
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Posted · Edited by scheherazadesghost
I bring it up when it applies, but thanks for including the small dig. It cheapens your apology. I still regularly have to explain to people I marched alongside that it happened, so I'm not sorry this space gets an earful.
Not everybody has had the life experiences by the time they march that enable them to bounce back from what you minimize as yelling once or twice. They should still be welcome in the activity. And some of us were taught by world class educators without yelling before we got to corps, so standards were set and not met. And obviously, false accusations should be investigated and outright liars should be held accountable. But unfortunately yelling can be and has been a tell tale sign of worse behavior across the activity and its history.
Zero tolerance for a behavior that several other posters here have already affirmed is unnecessary and potentially harmful. Life is tough enough without it. Yelling to toughen someone up to "prepare them for life" is abusive.
BD doesn't shout at their members. Bloo doesn't shout at their members. I hope there are more. Be like them and reap the rewards.
I expressed concern about the Troop guard after my first viewing last season. Knew nothing of the instructors. Some of us can see undue challenge in performance.