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Last night I, along with a large number of my fellow Portland teachers, voted to go on strike in 10 days if the union and the district can not come to an fair compromise. I am a keep to myself, stay out of conflict, kind of gal but I had to go down and vote for this one. I have classes of kids with up to 37 kids, many elementary schools in our district have over 30 students in 1st-5th grade classes and the poor high school teachers have numbers in the 40's. I know that is not what I want for my son when he reaches school age and I don't think it is fair for any of our students. That and some really wonky health insurance threats are my main motivation behind agreeing to strike. After years and years of teacher lay offs agreeing to pay freezes and other measures to make sure that we don't loose staff our district has announced they have found a "SURPRISE" 25 MILLION dollar surplus in this years school budget but are only willing to hire 88 new teachers next year (there are about 3,000 of us in the district). At present time almost all 88 of those teachers will have to go to high schools because the high schools are currently out of compliance with state regulations for hours of student instruction. Most of our high school students are unable to take a full day of classes! For many the final period of "instructional" time they have each day is a study hall. Not too surprising that our HS graduation rates are less than impressive. I belong to a facebook group of local moms (over 2,500 of them in fact) who often post wanting to know what options they have for non public schools in our area siting concern about class size as their #1 reason for not wanting their kids to go to our local schools. If your public school class sizes are so big that parents want to leave the district then their student funding $$'s go with them and then that is bad for the district right? I am so baffled...it seems that the board/district would want to use money to add teachers to lower class sizes to keep more kids at their neighborhood schools to keep/increase funding. I just find this all very confusing and frustrating. If we go on strike this will the first time in the history of Portland Public Schools that the teachers have struck. We are the largest district in the state and I hope that we can come to resolution before the 20th because this will have a major impact on the city of Portland. My mom taught for her entire career and I watched her go on strike a few times. I can still very clearly remember the anxiety and stress in my household during those time. The sick feeling I got watching the teachers on the picket line on the tv always out in the middle of a cold Colorado winter. My mom's sadness and frustration when her classroom got trashed during each strike and the bitterness that was left behind after a contract was negotiated. I am so grateful that at only 2 years old that my son is blissfully unaware of the whole situation.
I am almost 100% sure I am the only art blogger from Portland, OR and maybe the only one in Oregon itself (frankly there are very very few art positions in public schools in our state due to funding cuts starting in the late 80's). I know many of you have gone through this in past years and I would appreciate your positive thoughts that we will achieve resolution quickly and would welcome suggestions on how to prepare my classroom if we do have to walk out.
I love my students, I love my school. I deeply want quality schools for them and my son. And I need to be able to afford to pay for his and my health insurance too!


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The Energy Department on Friday gave Freeport LNG conditional approval to broadly export domestically harvested natural gas, marking only the second time a U.S. company has won that authority and suggesting the Obama administration may grant similar licenses later this year.
The export license allows the Texas-based project to sell liquefied natural gas to Japan and other countries that do not have free-trade agreements with the United States. The company still must win approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to convert its existing Quintana Island, Texas import terminal into a facility capable of liquefying natural gas and shipping it overseas. And the Energy Department reserved the right to review Freeport's application again before issuing a final export license.
The move is the first of its kind since the Energy Department granted a similar export license to Cheniere Energy in April 2012, giving that Houston-based company the right to export as much as 2.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day for the next two decades. The Energy Department had put other export applications on hold while it considered the economic effects of more broadly selling domestic natural gas overseas.
Benjamin Salisbury, an analyst with FBR Capital Markets, called the Energy Department's move "a crucially important stepping stone," because it clarifies the way the Obama administration will review the remaining 19 applications and puts the U.S. on track for additional approvals.
A federal law dictates that the Energy Department must affirm proposed exports are in the public interest before granting licenses to sell the fossil fuel to countries that don't have free-trade agreements with the United States — a benchmark that tilts in favor of the foreign sales. Friday's decision shows the administration is sticking with that process for vetting the applications and signals that it views at least a limited amount of exports as in the public interest.
The approval "validates the transparency and creates a path to move forward with additional approvals," Salisbury said, even though "that's not to say there's zero uncertainty, or that they'll be approved right away."
The action comes just two weeks after President Barack Obama cast the decision on whether to allow more natural gas exports as an executive move under his control. Newly confirmed Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz — who has not yet been sworn into the post — also has signaled he supports broader exports of the fossil fuel.
Related story: Fight over gas exports is a prelude to oil exports brawl
Under the license granted Friday, the Freeport LNG project would be allowed to export as much as 1.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day over the next 20 years.
The export approval would cover LNG processed at all three of the liquefaction trains planned at Freeport's facility, plus about 140 metric tons per annum in excess capacity. The first two trains are already fully subscribed by BP and two of the largest natural gas and electricity providers in Japan, Osaka Gas Co. and Chubu Electric Power Co.
Four limited partners are involved in the Freeport LNG expansion project, including Freeport LNG Investments, ZHA FLNG Purchaser, Dow Chemical Co. subsidiary Texas LNG Holdings and Osaka Gas subsidiary Turbo LNG.
Michael Smith, the chief executive officer of Freeport LNG, cheered the export approval as "a key development milestone for the initial phase" of the project.
"We applaud the DOE on its thorough and balanced analysis of the public benefits of LNG exports to the United States," Smith said in a statement. "The overwhelming evidence in favor of LNG exports generated during the DOE's two- and-a-half year review, definitively confirms that the DOE should act swiftly to approve additional pending LNG export applications."
The Freeport facility launched operations in 2008 as an import terminal capable of regasifying LNG offloaded from tankers so that it could be used in the United States. But the company's timing clashed with the market; the facility went online just as domestic natural gas production started to climb. Now, the United States has little need to import the fossil fuel and instead has a glut of natural gas, largely harvested using a combination of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques.
While industry leaders cheered the decision, energy analysts cautioned it was still unclear how quickly the Energy Department would vet the 19 remaining applications to export 25 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas to countries that don't have free-trade agreements with the United States.
In a news release announcing the Freeport decision Friday, the Energy Department affirmed it would consider the application on a case-by-case basis, going in the order the proposals were filed with the government. Next up is Lake Charles Exports LLC, Carib Energy LLC and a proposed expansion of the Dominion Cove Point LNG terminal in Maryland.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the head of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said he expects the Energy Department will use those case-by-case reviews "to assess the market impacts of each export decision after it announced, to ensure American consumers are not harmed by large-scale exports."
Bill Cooper, president of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, noted that Freeport's approval comes nearly two and a half years after the company first applied for an export license.
"It is significant, because they have acted," Cooper said. "The industry as a whole has waited a long time for this."
"What I really find encouraging is the issuance of an order that adheres to the statutory regulatory framework" for reviewing these applications, Cooper said. "They convey regulatory certainty in this order — in the way they view these applications — but knowing the timelines would provide the additional regulatory certainty that the applicants needed."
Related story: Senators grapple with free trade questions surrounding natural gas exports
Christopher Smith, the acting assistant secretary for fossil energy, has stressed that in reviewing the export applications, regulators were considering a wide array of factors, including trade, jobs, energy security, environmental issues, the effects on price and the impact on businesses that heavily use the fossil fuel.
A study commissioned by the Energy Department last year concluded that the United States would score a broad net economic gain even if regulators allowed unlimited natural gas exports. Critics said the report relied on old data and papered over the potential job losses and economic damage to domestic manufacturing and other sectors.
On Friday, Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., cast the Energy Department's decision as premature.
"The Department of Energy still doesn't even know what the impact of natural gas exports will be on domestic businesses and consumers, but they are approving more exports anyway," Markey said. "We need a robust debate about whether it is in the public interest to reduce one of our biggest competitive advantages in the global economy by exporting American natural gas before we move forward with approving exports. Right now, we're driving blind."
A coalition of manufacturers, led by Dow Chemical Co., have argued that unfettered exports could boost the price of natural gas blunting the advantage for U.S. companies that rely on the fossil fuel as a power source and as a component in products they make.
In a statement on Friday, Dow called the Energy Department's decision "a prudent step in pursuit of a measured and balanced approach to liquefied natural gas exports that will benefit producers and consumers." Dow added:
"This incremental, thoughtful approach supports an increased level of natural gas production and adds certainty for domestic manufacturers who seek to invest in the U.S. and grow jobs."
Because the company has about a 15 percent stake in the Freeport LNG facility, Dow has drawn criticism for its position against unlimited LNG exports. Some have said that if policymakers heeded the company's position, it could translate into just a few approvals for a handful of projects, including the one in which Dow is involved.
On Friday, industry representatives argued that exports would cause only a modest lift of U.S. natural gas prices — enough to sustain continued domestic drilling.
"Exporting natural gas to countries that need it will encourage production, while strengthening the U.S. trade balance and creating thousands of jobs for Americans," said Barry Russell, president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
While the United States already sells some natural gas to some of the country's free trade partners, including Brazil, Canada and Mexico, American producers have their eyes on Japan and Europe, where the fossil fuel fetches prices three to five times higher than it commands in the United States.
Some economists have argued that the costs of liquefying natural gas, shipping it by tanker across the globe, and regasifying it would eat into potential margins and ensure a market-based limit on how much LNG the U.S. ends up selling overseas. To transform natural gas into a liquid for transport, it first must be chilled to 256 degrees below zero.
Kenneth Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University, told senators in February that fears of excessive exports as overblown, especially since the current global market for liquefied natural gas is around 30 billion cubic feet per day, roughly the same amount companies are seeking to export from the U.S. Even if every pending license were granted, those requested exports would never fully materialize, Medlock said.
Export supporters urged the Energy Department to move quickly through remaining applications.
"One export permit is a step in the right direction, but many more job and revenue creating projects are still waiting for approval," said Erik Milito, upstream director for the American Petroleum Institute. "DOE should now move forward with the approval of the remaining applications without delay because the law presumes that all applications should be granted."


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Dash Project
Project Dash is a place where the community itself can collaborate on tools for community awareness and collaboration in support of our ultimate objective of committer quality and cooperation. The Commits Explorer and the Foundation Portal are the two current major efforts of Project Dash. We would expect that common build infrastructure and tooling will eventually be added. (See also the project info page.)
Themes and Plan
See our project plan. We use bugzilla to manage our plan.
Project Dash is the open source team and Dash-prime is the closed source team. Dash-prime implements server-side tools for the Eclipse Foundation on behalf of the larger Eclipse community, but for privacy and security reasons, the Dash-prime tools are not open source. However, the same Dash project team works on both the open and closed sides and thus these project pages and plans cover both efforts.
Note that even through the Dash-prime source is closed, the project planning and tracking and progress is all open: we plan and discuss and argue and file bugs for everyone to see and participate in.
Current Dash Efforts
- Commits Explorer - Who, What, Where & When of Eclipse Project Commit Stats
- Foundation Portal - The Member/Committer Interface with the Foundation
- Ganymatic - Building a Better Coordinated Release Train
- Dash Project/Submission System - the (final?) submission and conference management system for Eclipse Foundation conferences
- Common Build Infrastructure - a new system to run small/simple builds on build.eclipse.org. See Build Workshop 2: Build Harder
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What CU Leaders Need to Know for the Coming Year
Planning should include mobile, antibank sentiment, awareness, earnings, and staffing.
The economic recovery remains slow but is gaining momentum.
That brings some good news for credit unions, who can expect stronger earnings for the first time in many years, according to CUNA's newly released 2012-2013 Credit Union Environmental Scan. Allowances for loan losses should decrease as lending demand picks up and credit quality improves.
The wave of new members spurred on by Bank Transfer Day means a greater emphasis on your onboarding efforts and member retention strategies, too.
The E-Scan identifies 10 issues as critical for credit union strategic planning discussions. In the first of a two-part series, the first five topics are examimed including: mobile banking, antibank sentiment, consumer awareness, earnings rebound, and staffing.
Monitor the implications of these issues, and develop strategies to address them in the coming year.
Mobile banking
Mobile banking is going maintstream, but it won't completely replace online banking. Mobile banking is listed as the top technology priority for credit union CEOs. If your credit union doesn't currently offer mobile banking, it should be on your priority list for the upcoming year.
About 50% of the mobile devices in the U.S. are smartphones. Members will want to use PCs and online banking at home for basic services such as budgeting and money management. But they'll also want access via mobile devices when they're traveling.
Your mobile banking system should integrate with your online banking system to ensure a consistent member experience between channels.
Antibank sentiment
Trusted Strategic Planning Resources
Although budgets are tight, forcing tough spending decisions, strategic planning is not the place to take short-cuts. The future of your credit union depends on it!
Gain all the resources you need with the Credit Union Environmental Scan (E-Scan) — the trusted resources for credit union strategic planning for more than 25 years.
E-Scan Report: Purchase a copy for all board members and senior management so everyone comes prepared and focused.
PowerPoint Presentation: Prepare detailed PowerPoint presentations by selecting from over 100 slides filled with content and graphs from the E-Scan Report.
DVD: Use this fast-moving 35-minute overview to present the insights of the E-Scan Report in a concise way that is sure to stimulate discussion.
E-Scan Research & Advice Portal.
E-Scan Newsletter: Receive strategic updates each month! Stay up-to-date on industry developments and trends by subscribing to this newsletter.
Visit our E-Scan website for more information.
Bank Transfer Day brought credit union onboarding strategies to center stage. After years of anemic membership growth, most credit unions were ill-prepared for the influx of new members. About half of consumers' attempts to open and fund credit union accounts online fail, according to Javelin Strategy and Research.
Regardless of whether your credit union is focusing on new or existing members, your product penetration could be better. Your members still do a lot of their financial business with your competitors.
It's time to convince new and existing members to move beyond solitary account relationships to multiple relationships.
Consumer awareness
Among a disturbingly large portion of the U.S. population, credit unions are still the best-kept secret. About 37% of all nonmembers are "not at all familiar" with credit unions. And that percentage skyrockets to 69% when you ask consumers younger than age 25.
This doesn't bode well for long-term membership or loan growth. Increasing your credit union's awareness, especially among young nonmembers, must be a top priority.
Earnings rebound
Return on assets will increase to 0.9% (after stabilization expenses) in 2012 and 2013. Lower loan loss provisions will increase net income in 2012, as credit unions let their allowance for loan loss accounts decline.
Loan delinquency and charge-off rates will fall as job growth accelerates. Provisions for loan losses as a percent of assets will fall to 0.4% in 2012—below the 0.43% recorded in 2007.
NCUA assessments should equal nine basis points (bp) of insured shares in 2012 (an approximate 10 bp improvement over 2011) and loan growth should help boost asset yields slightly.
Modest growth and stronger earnings will mean capital-to-asset ratios will increase from 10% today to approximately 11% by year-end 2013, approaching the record level of 11.5% set in 2006—the year before the onset of the recession.
Layoffs, cutbacks, salary freezes, and other belt-tightening measures have left a legacy of low postrecession morale. As essential as these painful measures were a few years ago, they're making it difficult to motivate employees today.
There could be consequences—lower productivity, less engagement, poor member service, and an exodus of top talent—if you don't offer incentives and take workplace stress down a notch or two.
Fewer employees quit their jobs in the first nine months of 2011 than in any comparable period in the past 50 years. Expect to see a slight increase in employees changing jobs during the months ahead, but turnover is expected to remain low until hiring picks up.
In the second part of this series the final five topics are examined including: lending, governance, membership growth, technology, and compliance.
CUNA: 2012-2013 Credit Union Environmental Scan: 100-page report, DVD, PowerPoint, Strategic Planning Guide, and monthly newsletter.


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MichaelG needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Starting a new blog that hightlights new businesses from around the globe that have been started by relatively young (30's) entrepreneurs. Generally these companies are looking to license their technology worldwide and I want to feature them. The look and feel of the logo should be cool but not in your face, using great colours (no green) that signifies trendiness is inside. Please give something more than just wording and different fonts.
Next On The Scene
As noted, the site will focus on up and coming companies that have create everything from fast food organic restaurants to custom cereal to technologies which block cell phone signals in movie theatres. Needless to say it will cover a wide variety of cool new technologies. The site will include reviews and interviews with the business owners. It will be a learning site for the topical entrepreneurial businesses and also an opportunity for those who are looking to license a business concept to bring it to their geographic location.
In terms of design, I require a landing page logo that is trendy (head over to trendwatching.com), it can really be anything so long as you get the words Next On The Scene.com (or dot com or something of the sort) on the page. Ideally there will be something more than just words but I am not a designer so I really leave it to you.
I will also need a smaller image of the logo or maybe just some good looking wording that can fit in a 468x60 size
- Item 1...I hate the colour green for logos
- Item 2...I require two different sizes and the larger size can be more complex with the second fitting into a 468x60 size and just including the wording
- Item 3...It would be a huge bonus if the large image could be good enough to put on clothing down the line (but this is not the major focus)
- Item 4...Think trendy and look at http://www.trendwatching.com
- Item 5...Please make this a logo and not just the words...They can be the smaller size.
- REMEMBER - I am looking for a large landing page image (which is why I want a logo) and a smaller image that could just be the words.
- Item 1...Nothing in Green
- Item 2...I do not want just variations on fonts, please try to be more creative
- Item 3...I do not want to copy other logos
- Item 4...I do not care if this logo prints well in black and white, only that it looks cool
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Test out your automotive intellectual fortitude by figuring out what car this is before you click through. Sure, you'll say you got it right in the comments, but you'll know the truth.
If you guessed the Mk1 1983 Volkswagen Golf GTI - good for you. Now take a gander at the official specs below.
Engine: Fuel-injected, 1.8 liter four cylinder
Power: 90HP
Transmission: 5-speed manual
Base price: $8000
0-60 MPH: 9.7 seconds
Though the GTI was more renowned for it's handling and straightforward simplicity, it debuted with the free running 1.8-liter four cranking out 90 HP when the 2.3 liter Mustang actually made two fewer ponies and weighed a whole lot more. This particular example was found on VW Vortex where the owner was selling this very well maintained example for an ambitious but probably fair $10,000. It's pretty hard to find Mk1 GTI's in conditions rivaling factory perfect. [VW Vortex]


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Ladies and Gents, it is time to tear up the East Coast in celebration of your favorite Bastard's 10th anniversary!! put on your drinking shoes, and line up your Designated Drivers, because we're going all out!!
Ladies and Gents, it is time to tear up the East Coast in celebration of your favorite Bastard's 10th anniversary!! put on your drinking shoes, and line up your Designated Drivers, because we're going all out!!
It's time to celebrate 10 years of the unstoppable party machine all of you beautiful bastards made possible!! As we approach this tour, be on the lookout for some added acoustic shows beforehand, and an added week up the west coast.
Announcing our upcoming Washboards and Pirate Swords Acoustic Tour!! We have also added 2/19 at Coaster's Fort Walton Beach.
Come catch your favorite Bastards as we tear New Year's Eve in Florida a new one!
Wes picked up a sponsorship from PRS Guitars.
Wes Driscoll of The Bastard Suns receives endorsement deal from Lace Pickups. Click here for more info.
Check out our tour dates page for the details.
Check out our tour dates page for the details.
Ladies and Gentleman, children of all ages, after months of writing, recording, rehearsing and training new band-members, it makes me incredibly proud to finally announce the triumphant return of The Bastard Suns.
Although The Suns haven't performed live in some time, rest assured we've been busier than ever. After our last National tour, things were looking bleak. We had just said goodbye to our rhythm guitarist Kevin the year before, and now we were losing our bassist Levon as well. The bottom line is that we have never had any financial help from labels and very little from sponsors, and nine self-funded cross-country tours have left their financial and mental mark. As Levon put it when he said farewell, "I just thought we would've gone farther than we did." And the tough thing about it is, he's absolutely right. So what does one do when all signs seem to say, "STOP!"? How do you proceed when you've come so close so many times, only to fall a little bit short? When you can't even afford to finance a new album even though the material is already written?
Well if you're the band that has preached, "Never Say Die", and, "Hold Fast" for over eight years, you certainly don't give up.
Instead, we enlisted the help of the preeminent financial startup website Kickstarter and began a month-long promotion to raise $12,000 in order to record and distribute our new album and fund a subsequent National Tour. At the end of the month, we had over $16,000 in fan donations and, more importantly, a renewed sense of purpose. Our music actually means something to actual people, and let's be honest, when you have that kind of fan base backing you up, label execs and big-time promoters start mattering a whole lot less.
We also found our saving grace in a big, lovable bass player named Mongo. It's almost like the guy was sent by the rock gods to make sure we didn't give up. We knew from the first song in the first practice that this guy was the one in a million that could fill Levon's formidable shoes. My fiancé and long-time collaborator Whitney Carite has also become a big part of our new sound, and it's great for me to try writing duets and female leads.
As for the new album, we just finished a month-long recording session with our third godsend, Jason Andrews at Spotlight Sound in Atlanta. This guy has worked on everything we have done in the past six years, and he's a HUGE part of what makes the new one sound amazing.
So that brings us up to the present, and as I type this, we're preparing to start sending all the prizes for all our loyal Kickstarter friends. (And believe me, there are plenty of those!) Also, we're beginning rehearsals for our first small tour starting Oct. 3 and planning our National Tour scheduled for early next year. At the moment, the future is bright for your trusty heroes, and thanks to our new-found good fortune and amazing new members, (Haha, I said 'members') we've all got a renewed feeling of purpose, and it came exactly when we needed it most. (I guess that's what happens when you're on God's I-Pod. It's called the GodPod just in case you were wondering.)
That's all I've got for now, Bastard Suns, HOOOOOO!
Hello everyone, and greetings from The Bastard Suns! If you're wondering why we've been unusually quiet lately, it's because we've been writing a new album! The title is Long Live Song and we're incredibly proud of it so far. There's punk, bluegrass, reggae and, of course, another awesome cover and we're climbing the walls waiting to get started! If all goes well, we'll enter Spotlight Sound Studio with our longtime collaborator Jason Andrews in August, but touring and recording has taken its toll on our financial situation and we could really use some help. That's where you come in! In order to fund this album and the subsequent national tour, we've set up a kickstarter.com account, and we're hoping you'll check it out. There's a hilarious video and a TON of limited edition artwork, rare audio tracks, personal acoustic performances and merch up for grabs, so PLEASE help us keep our band alive. If you donate $15 or more you'll be listed on the 'Thank You's' inside the CD cover, and if we make our quota, it will ensure that we'll be touring through your neck of the woods VERY soon.
We've never attempted to raise funds in this way before, and if we fail that may be all she wrote for The Bastards, so help us if you can, and remember that we are, and have always been completely self-funded and self-run.
Thanks in advance, and LONG LIVE SONG! -Clay & the rest of the Bastards
Click here to visit our Kick Starter campaign home page
Hey folks, we got a new sponsor, Atomic Buzzard. They design and sell really cool t-shirts. They are helping us out with some t-shirt and album art.
Check out and like their FB page:https://www.facebook.com/AtomicBuzzard.
We are coming out of our song writing sessions in May to play some shows to pay the bills while we make the next album. Check out the tour dates page for details.
The online merchandise store is up, here is the link http://www.thebastardsuns.com/store/. We have limited stock at first, so be patient. What we have is our latest design and we have a few in most sizes of t-shirts and even less in hoodies. This is temporary and just the start of things. Unfortunately, it costs money to stock up our merch selections and we ain't exactly Scrooge McDuck swimming in our money safe over here. But, we now have the ability to sell merch on our website and the selection will only grow starting after the new year. We will be adding more designs, more color selections, more sizes, and other stuff like custom SSV vaporizers.
New Years Eve with The Bastard Suns in Atlanta, GA.
Get your tickets today: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E0049584CBFDBA9?wt.mc_id=aff_BUYAT_97249&camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_97249
As many of you may already know, we said farewell to longtime bass player Levon recently. Don't worry though. Wes, JayTea and myself are not remotely ready to give up the ship just yet. We're actually just taking a few months to make some money, finish writing the new album, and try out some prospects for the vacant position.
And there's NO reason that YOU couldn't be one of those prospects! (As long as you're an amazing bass player with an unbelievable singing voice and the ability to learn music like Rain Man counts toothpicks.) But seriously folks, if you've ever wanted to see the country and you think you've got the chops, we're about as equal-opportunity as any employers you're likely to meet. If you know the songs, then you know there are some mighty big shoes to fill. So contact us via the website and give it a go-it could be the best decision you ever make.
Cheers and Happy Holidays from The Bastards!
The "All or Nada Armada" Tour has been great so far. Tonight we have a huge show in Denver and we'll be on the west coast for most of the rest of the month.
The rest of the tour dates are listed below. We do need street team members to help us spread the word in all the cities listed below, send us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com if you can help. We will put you on the guest list to the show you help us promote.
|City, State
|Denver, CO
|Colorado Springs, CO
|Black Sheep
|Ketchum, ID
|Whiskey Jaques'
|Spokane, WA
|A Club
|Seattle, WA
|Studio 7
|Portland, OR
|Hawthorne Theater
|Redding, CA
|Modesto, CA
|Copper Rhino
|Sparks, NV
|The Alley
|Sacramento, CA
|The Boardwalk
|Hollywood, CA
|Roxy Theater
|Riverside, CA
|Mission Tobacco Lounge
|San Diego, CA
|The Griffin
|Tempe, AZ
|Club Red
|Tucson, AZ
|The Hut
|Ft. Worth, TX
|Denton, TX
|Andy's Bar
|San Antonio, TX
|New Orleans, LA
|Howlin' Wolf
|Ft Walton Beach, FL
|Jacksonville, FL
|Jack Rabbits
|Satellite Beach, FL
|The Sports Page
|Palm Beach Gardens, FL
|Swamp Grass Willy's
|Daytona, FL
|Frank's Front Row
|Sanford, FL
|The West End
|Vero Beach, FL
|Filthy McNasty's
|Sarasota, FL
Check out the first leg of the Fall Tour starting this week. Of course the hometown show in Atlanta will be huge but we can't wait to head out on the road. We have a special reason to stop in Denver this trip. Some friends are getting married and decided to throw a Bastard Suns show as the reception for their wedding. I know, how many of you wish you thought of that! To say the least we are honored to be included in their festivities and can't wait for the show. It is in Denver at Casselmens on Oct. 13th, don't miss it.
|Atlanta, GA
|The High Watt
|Nashville, TN
|Springfield, MO
|St Louis, MO
|Vaudeville Mews
|Des Moines, IA
|320 South
|Breckenridge, CO
|Hodi's Half Note
|Fort Collins, CO
|Carbondale, CO
|Denver, CO
|Black Sheep
|Colorado Springs, CO
The Bastard Suns are hitting the road this fall with a slew of dates from the East to the West coast and back again! As always, The Bastards will be bringing their earth-shaking live show to over 40 different markets all across this great nation. The tour kicks off in epic fashion at The Masquerade in Atlanta, and continues through October and most of November, covering ground from Florida through Texas and Colorado, all the way to California and Washington. The boys are teamed up with west coast heavyweights Knock-Out for the "All or Nada Armada" Tour. With help from tour sponsors Silver Surfer Vaporizers and Sacred Custom Percussion, the Armada will be sailing towards a city near you very soon.
Click here to see the tour dates
We have been asked to provide entertainment for the 2012 BelMar Surf Pro in New Jersey! We will be playing on Saturday September 15th around noon during the surf contest, then again at the official after-party at 10th Ave Burrito around 11pm.
We will be playing a few shows on the way to and from the contest
We're kicking off the fall tour at home. The rest of the tour dates will be announced soon!
September 28th - The Masquerade / Atlanta, GA
Wes and Jay Tea just posted blogs on their personal blog pages, click here to check them out.
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We have some more summer shows coming up, check our Tour Dates page for more info.
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We are very sorry to announce the show tonight in Vienna, VA at Jammin Java has been canceled. Our tour van broke down and we can't get it fixed in time to make it to the Vienna tonight. We are very sorry to all of our fans that were looking forward to coming to the show tonight and we promise to make it up to you with a kick-ass show next time we are in the area.
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Hello again everyone, its good to be back behind the keyboard.
Firstly, I must apologize for being so lax about finishing the tour blogs. (That is, of course, assuming anyone is actually reading this stuff in the first place.)
This particular blog will quickly explain why I've taken a few days for myself, so allow myself to explain...
Clay posted a blog about the Spring Tour, check it out here...
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You read that right, some of the early run iMacs being delivered to users include the same text printed on the iMac iFixit received for their teardown. The back of the iMac reads Designed in California, Assembled in USA.
This wouldnt be such a big deal if Apple hadnt closed all of its US production facilities previously located in places like Elk Grove and Fremont, California and Fountain, Colorado. Apples products are designed in California, but have not been manufactured state side in some time.
Sorting the whole mess out is something Apple can explain better than the rest of us, but 9toMac has been able to confirm earlier generation iMacs have come in boxes with Assembled in USA printed on the side. The US Federal Trade Commission is very clear on what it takes for a product to earn the "Assembled in USA" stamp.
A product that includes foreign components may be called 'Assembled in USA' without qualification when its principal assembly takes place in the U.S. and the assembly is substantial. For the 'assembly' claim to be valid, the product's last 'substantial transformation' also should have occurred in the U.S. That's why a 'screwdriver' assembly in the U.S. of foreign components into a final product at the end of the manufacturing process doesn't usually qualify for the 'Assembled in USA' claim." FTC
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Polish national Marek Daniluk, 41, pleaded not guilty to harassing the 24-year-old "Pirates of the Caribbean" star, Britain's Daily Mail reported. He will reportedly stand trial in June.
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—Christina Haag, Grottoes, Virginia
Total TimePrep: 50 min. Bake: 15 min./batch
Makes20 cookies
- 1 cup shortening
- 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon yellow paste or gel food coloring
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 5-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons baking cocoa
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch salt
- 1 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips, divided
- In a large bowl, cream the shortening, peanut butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and food coloring. Combine milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with milk mixture, beating well after each addition. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- For chocolate dough, cream shortening and sugars in a small bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg yolk, milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in 1/4 cup of chips. Shape chocolate dough into 20 balls. Shape yellow dough into 180 balls, about 3/4 in. each.
- For each cookie, place a chocolate ball on a greased baking sheet; flatten to about 1-1/2-in. Sprinkle with remaining chocolate chips. Form nine yellow balls into rounded oval shapes; place around chocolate dough so the ends of the ovals just touch the chocolate center. (Place only two or three flowers on each baking sheet.) Repeat with remaining dough.
- Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on wire racks.
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|Team USA at the World Championships in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic
Thanks for tuning in to my first blog for Team USA! I am excited to be among the group of athletes blogging here this year, and I hope that I can provide some good entertainment. My goal for these blogs will be to give readers some insight into one of Europe's most popular winter sports – biathlon. Along the way, I will tell personal stories from both on and off the ski course as our team strives to win US Biathlon's first Olympic medal.
To bring you up to speed, here is a quick recap of the season so far:
My competition season thus far has been one of up and downs. I started the season strongly and achieved my first podium in nearly two years before the holiday break. I went home for the holidays confident that I was on track for a solid year of racing. Unfortunately, when racing resumed, I struggled a lot with my health and I just could not seem to get things rolling again.
|After finishing the race in second place at worlds
|Me with my silver medal, gold medalist Martin Fourcade from
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After a disappointing mid-season, I was determined to get things back on track for World Championships. I had a great training camp proceeding world champs, and I went there extremely confident that I was in top form and capable of achieving a podium result. To my surprise, the first two races were simply awful: my shooting was well below average, and I felt plain out tired skiing. I was totally frustrated and confused as to why things were going so poorly. Going into the third race, I had no idea what to expect. Shortly after the start, I realized that my body felt much better and, perhaps, most importantly, my targets were falling. I crossed the finish line in second place after the best race of my life. This was truly something that I had worked towards since I was a child. It's hard for me to actually put into words what this medal means to me, but know that I am still smiling weeks later anytime I think about that race.
I was immensely proud to win US Biathlon's first world championship medal since 1987. I unquestionably could not have done this without a great team behind me. To be at the top in biathlon, it takes perfect coaching, fast skis, committed training partners and so much more. The US Biathlon Association has done a formidable job at lining up all of these intricate aspects, and they have provided everything that we as athletes need to succeed. This has not always been the case, and it has been immensely rewarding to see our team evolve over the last seven years. We have developed from a team that competed, to a team that is a true medal threat.
After nearly five months on the road, I am truly looking forward to my own bed and spending time with my family and friends. Spending so much time away from home is undoubtedly one of the hardest aspects of what we do, but it is one of the sacrifices that you have to make as an American competing in a predominantly European sport. Hopefully our team can help change that in the future.
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Legendary singer/songwriter and painter Joni Mitchell has influenced many people with her unique sound and heartfelt lyrics. It comes as no surprise that San Francisco's SFJAZZ will honor Mitchell with their Lifetime Achievement award at their annual gala on May 8th! New to Joni's sound? Check out our Joni playlist of songs spanning from the […]
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Walsh visits New Ulm
NEW ULM – The business of the NFL can be a cruel and unpredictable road between players and front office staff for their respective teams.
After going 3-13 in the 2011 season, the Minnesota Vikings were ready to go through a rebuilding process, which meant getting rid of some higher-priced veterans and replacing them with younger but unproven talent.
Vikings fans were surprised when the team selected University of Georgia kicker Blair Walsh in the sixth round, because the team already had a proven kicker in Ryan Longwell.
Walsh struggled in his senior year at Georgia, hitting 21-of-35 (60 percent) of his field goals. The former Top 5 kicker on the ESPN high school rankings had a tough senior year, but the Vikings front office saw something in him and took the chance, releasing Longwell shortly after the draft.
"I knew about Ryan's season and I knew about his career, he's such a great kicker," Walsh said. "When they drafted me and they released him, I knew I really had a chance to prove myself, it was a nice vote of confidence by them. It made me wanna work that much harder to prove them right."
On Wednesday, Walsh was at the New Ulm Menards for the store's Grand Opening celebration. He signed autographs from 6-8 p.m. and posed for pictures with fans. Menards will have a similar event tonight when Brad Radke visits the store and he will sign autographs from 6-8 p.m.
After being drafted in the sixth round by the Vikings, Walsh moved on and he set numerous NFL and Vikings records in the process. For Walsh, the change of scenery and a slight change in his mechanics made the big difference.
"After that season, my senior year, I was able to just put it behind me," Walsh said. "I figured out the stuff I had to fix in my approach and my overall swing and I fixed it. I performed well at the combine and at my private workouts and my pro day and I just turned it into the season I had. I was surrounded by a bunch of great people."
Walsh's first season with the Vikings was indeed one for the record books. He set a team rookie record for most points in a season (141), breaking the previous record held by Randy Moss (119 in 1998). He also holds the team record for most field goals of 50 yards or more in a season with 10, most field goals of 50 yards or more without missing in a season (10), highest field goal percentage by a rookie kicker (92 percent) and consecutive games with making a 50-plus yard field goal (3).
He holds the NFL record for most field goals of 50 yards or more in a season, most field goals of 50 yards in a season without missing, most field goals of 37-plus yards in a game (5), highest field goal percentage and most field goals made in a season.
The records are obviously something he's proud of and his success eventually led to him being named to the Pro Bowl, quite a rarity in the NFL for a rookie kicker.
"Records are always nice to have, but my feeling about records is that they're always meant to be broken, somebody's always going to try to challenge it or break it at some point," Walsh said.
As for the Pro Bowl?
"It's awesome," he said. "Being able to go in your first year in the league, the first time you're eligible for it, it made it that much more special and to be surrounded by guys that are the best of the best is a dream."
While the Vikings are in the middle of the offseason, it's not time to relax for the kicker. Walsh is busy with his offseason schedule, juggling a few different tasks each week.
"Just continue to work out, work on the strength and conditioning program," he said. "They put out manuals for you to abide by and I do a lot of running and try to stay in the best possible shape that I can and kick two or three times a week."
The Vikings' offseason has been interesting. The two obvious highlights include the trade of Wide Receiver Percy Harvin and the signing of free agent WR Greg Jennings from the rival Green Bay Packers.
"I think the Percy situation was a tough situation to handle, but I think they handled it the best that they could," he said. "I wish him the best in Seattle, he's a [heck of a] player and it definitely helps getting a guy like Greg. We have those two first round picks and I'm sure Rick Spielman will do a great job in the draft and continue to build."
The playoff loss to Green Bay was tough, but Walsh and the Vikings remain positive.
"We're a playoff team and now we gotta prove it again," Walsh said. "Now that everyone knows what we're capable of doing, people are going to be gunning for us. I think last year we took people by surprise and I think some teams didn't realize how good we could be. I think we are a team that can make a deep run again this year and that starts in the offseason."


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Coffee Chronicles: Coffee Labs in Tarrytown, NY
You may not have expected artisanal coffee up in Headless Horseman country, but lo! Tarrytown's Coffee Labs has been roasting coffee and providing a cozy cafe space for humans and their dogs for nearly a decade. (Though inside dogs got the cafe kibosh by the Department of Health recently, the owners are looking to overturn this—the "Labs" in their name is not short for "Laboratories".)
And indeed, it's only half-nerdy in here. The low-key Hudson Valley tourists-and-locals set is happy with gigantic lattes or with siphon brewed single origin coffees, and Coffee Labs provides both. Step around the 12-kilo Diedrich coffee roaster and sacks of green coffee in the middle of the room and you can admire the array of coffee-geek toys—V60 pourover bar, state-of-the art environmentally friendly Marco Eco Boiler, La Marzocco GB5 espresso machine, and an elaborate spiraling Kyoto iced coffee dripper adorned with color-shifting LEDs (!)—but you would get no snobbery here if you slunk out with only a mocha and a dog biscuit.
Available throughout the Hudson Valley, the fruits of their roasting have spread downstate, appearing recently in new cafes like Birch Coffee and WTF Coffee Lab in Brooklyn. The coffees skew towards darker roasts and somewhat more traditional flavor profiles—we sampled a safe, chocolatey macchiato with a little bit of siltiness along with its silkiness. The whole bean coffee menu changes with stock and season, and is bagged on the spot and available for takeaway purchase in any quantity. We liked the Rwandan COOPAC (a sustainable cooperative organization) beans we took home, with their dark sour cherry notes and a smooth finish.
Stop by Coffee Labs next time you're headed north from the city to see what roastery-cafes have been up to since long before they became new-fangled in Brooklyn.
Coffee Labs
7 Main Street, Tarrytown NY 10591 (map) 914-332-1479; web.mac.com/coffeelabsroasters
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Make some room in your life for Poetry
Guest Blog Post by Gina Gort
I was ecstatic when Debbie Diesen sent me an email to inform me that I had won the drawing for her Michigan Notable Books reading Challenge. Like most people I never win anything and signed up because I wanted to read a number of books on the list anyway. So first of all thanks to Deb for hosting such a great contest. Second of all I have already spent my $50 at Literary Life Bookstore, a great little independent in Grand Rapids, MI.
One of the books I agreed to read was Songs of Unreason, the latest poetry collection by Jim Harrison. I have to preface this by saying that I am a poetry fanatic. In fact, poetry saved my life but that's a whole other blog post.
I first was introduced to Harrison by a college friend. And I found his work much like an ex-boyfriend you just can't let go. He can be gruff and brutally honest but he can also say the exact right thing when you need him to and you end up inviting him right back into your life.
In this collection he explores the world in a way only he can and maybe because the old curmudgeon has grown on me over the years or it could be his many references to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (where I grew up) that endear him to me but I found it riveting. There is a certain somber sway to the book that I found much like a lullaby. And even when I am not fully embraced by a certain poem, I can still appreciate the song being sung.
So I would recommend that you find a place in your poetry heart for Songs of Unreason by Jim Harrison. Here is a stanza from River II , that I have been chewing on since I got the book.
Once on our nighttime farm on a moonlit walk
the clouds pushed by a big western wind
became a school of whales swimming hard
across the cold heavens and I finally knew
that we walk the bottom of an ocean we call sky.
the clouds pushed by a big western wind
became a school of whales swimming hard
across the cold heavens and I finally knew
that we walk the bottom of an ocean we call sky.
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Gina Gort is a contributor on Swagger Writers blog, bookseller emeritus at Literary Life Bookstore and lives, loves poetry.


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My analysis is purely financial and doesn't take the emotional aspect into consideration but since a large chunk of money is involved, I think it makes sense to figure out some numbers.
Notice that "committing" to a 12 month subscription does not require you to pay for the entire 12 months in advance. Nor does it require you to buy a 6 month package which is the highest one you can buy. This means that you can go month-by-month if you wish, but you'll have to engage in some sort of digital contract with Blizzard where they can be certain you will uphold your end of the bargain.
Currently you can pay month-by-month at $15 a month, for 3 months at $14 per month or for 6 months at $15 per month. My calculations are based on the two extremes but if you want to take this deal, the best thing is to go with two 6-month subscriptions, if you can afford it.
1. Month-to-month
Cost per month: $15
Cost for 12 months: $180
Real cost for 12 months (-$60 the value of Diablo 3): $120
@ $15 / month you will have to play $120 / $15 = 8 months of WoW to break even
2. 6 month subscription x 2
Cost per month: $13
Cost for 12 months: $156
Real cost for 12 months (-$60 the value of Diablo 3): $96
@ $13 / month you will have to play $96 / $13 = 7.4 months of WoW to break even
It sure seems like a long time to play WoW before you can call this a good deal. But wait, there's more. The "package" also includes an exclusive mount and access to WoW's next expansion (still not sure if this means Mists of Pandaria or the one after that, whatever that may be). While we can put a tentative value on the mount (mounts are $25 in Blizzard's store), beta access is a more subtle thing, something that can be either useless or priceless, depending who you ask.
So let's adjust our amounts by subtracting $25 for the mount.
1. Month-to-month
Cost per month: $15
Cost for 12 months: $180
Real cost for 12 months (-$60 the value of Diablo 3): $120
- $25 the cost of the mount: $95
@ $15 / month you will have to play $95 / $15 = 6.3 months of WoW to break even
2. 6 month subscription x 2
Cost per month: $13
Cost for 12 months: $156
Real cost for 12 months (-$60 the value of Diablo 3): $96
- $25 the cost of the mount: $71
@ $13 / month you will have to play $96 / $13 = 5.5 months of WoW to break even
As you can see, at the very least you will have to play 5 and a half months of WoW in order to break even on this deal.
There are more factors to consider at this point.
If you're not into Diablo 3 and you don't care about the other rewards, skip this deal.
If you're not into Diablo 3 but would like the mount and/or beta access, the deal is still good. Plus, you can donate your free copy of Diablo 3 to someone else.
If you are a die-hard WoW player and would also like to try Diablo 3, meaning that you are guaranteed to play WoW for at least 6 months, if not more, then this deal is killer. This is especially sweet if you know you'll be playing for another year.
If you're the type who gets bored with WoW 3 months into a new expansion, skip this deal. Just go month-to-month and buy Diablo 3 separately.
If you are still playing WoW between now and when Mists of Pandaria is released, now would be a great time to buy the deal. Just think about it. Assuming MoP is released around mid-2013, that gives you 6-8 months of solid play. When MoP hits, you have already broken even. From then on it's pure profit! Not to mention that you would have (presumably) also played a few months of free Diablo 3.
The bottom line is that you must think really hard if WoW will be fun for you for at least 6 months, or else you'll be throwing money out the window. There's also the matter of the guaranteed access to a future beta. If that is priceless to you, then by all means, get the deal.
At any rate, all this applies mostly if you are both a WoW and Diablo fan but you need to be aware that at some point in 2012 both games will be out and both will compete for your attention at the same time. Also, Mists of Pandaria will cost an additional $40, so take that also into consideration.
For me this deal is out of the question. Had Diablo 3 come out when Cataclysm was released, I might have been tempted. As it happens, I quit WoW for good about 2-3 months after the last expansion. I won't be returning to it any time soon.


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Seiji Liu and the Crimson return to action at The MacDonald Cup Sept. 29-30 (Harvard Athletic Communications).
By Kevin Rhoads, Head Coach
The Harvard Men's team traveled to Chicago September 22-24 for the Windon Memorial hosted by Northwestern. The event was played at Skokie Country Club. The course was designed by Thomas Bendelow in 1904, and reworked in 1914 by Donald Ross. In addition to the beautiful rolling topography, like all Ross courses, the greens were heavily sloped, usually from back to front. And like most Chicago-area courses, the greens were fantastic - smooth and true, but also very fast and difficult.
In Saturday's practice round the Windy City lived up to its name, and things continued that way for all three tournament rounds. Temperatures for Saturday's practice round started in the low 40's with wind. Sunday's temperatures were similar, and started calm, but the wind came up by the time Harvard teed off in the last wave in the morning. Like any Donald Ross course with fast greens and windy conditions, the effective green sizes shrank considerably. Additionally, because the wind was swirling, distance control became part skill-execution and part educated guesswork. Harvard along with the majority of the field found that combination challenging.
Akash Mirchandani ('15, Louisville, Ky.) led the Crimson in the first round, shooting an impressive 73 in which he had one birdie and three bogeys. Almost every player in the field had some holes on which they recorded a double-bogey or worse. Given the severity of the greens, wind, and pin positions, unless one left their ball 'under the hole' or not short-sided, a score higher than bogey was a distinct possibility. Captain Theo Lederhausen ('14, Chicago, Ill.), was even par through 13 holes, but lost a couple shots on the tough finishing holes to finish with 75.
Seiji Liu ('14, Beverly Hills, Calif.) was only 2 over through 10, but settled for an 81. Kevin McCarthy ('14, Lynn, Mass.) had the opposite experience: a tough start through 6 holes, but was only 2 over for his last 11 holes in shooting 81. Un Cho ('16, Ancaster, Ont.), playing in his first collegiate tournament, also had a rough start but settled nicely on his last 11 holes, and he shot 82. Harvard totaled 310 in the first round, which left them in 13th place, and 3 shots out of 9th place.
Sunday was a 36-hole day and play was continuous from the first to the second round. Lederhausen again started strong, shooting 1-over on the front side. Mirchandani was also off to a good start – sitting at 2-over through 15 holes. The rest of the team's scores were a bit higher. But daylight was starting to fade, and everyone knew that Harvard's groups wouldn't finish their second round before the light. By the time play was called due to darkness, Lederhausen, playing in the last group, had only finished 13 holes. Harvard and their playing partners needed to come out Monday morning to finish their 2nd round, then re-pair the groups, then play their last round as a shotgun start.
Monday morning turned out to have a frost delay! The scheduled 7:30am start was delayed to 9:00am. And the calm conditions that Harvard had seen in the last ½ hour of play on Sunday became gusty, swirly winds to go with very cold temperatures. Given that the last 3 holes included a 250-yard par 3, a 455-yard dogleg left par 4, and a 464-yard uphill par 4, it was tough to have to start the morning with those holes in cold and windy conditions. Lederhausen shot 77 and Mirchandani 78, while Liu, Cho, and McCarthy shot 81, 81, and 84 respectively. The Crimson were collectively 17 over par on those 3 holes while trying to finish off the last round, and shot 317.
Through the last round Harvard played quite solidly and managed their games pretty well. They shot 307 - better than a number of teams that finished ahead of them overall. But they were too far back to make up ground. Lederhausen and Mirchandani shot 76's, Cho and Liu shot 77 and 78, and McCarthy 84. They finished in 14th place – but with a lot of positive lessons learned.
Interestingly, eventual champion Ohio State shot 306 in the first round – only 4 shots better than Harvard. Impressively, they were able to adjust to both weather and the golf course. They showed that although doing so is difficult – it is possible. We will try to learn from that lesson and others, and will keep striving to improve every week. The Crimson gets to play on more familiar ground this weekend, returning to Yale for the MacDonald Cup Sept 29-30.