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2018 Colonial Athletic Association football season
Stony Brook Seawolves football seasons
2018 in sports in New York (state)
2018 NCAA Division I FCS playoff participants
2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team
2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football
FCS Playoffs First Round, L 14–28 vs. Southeast Missouri State
FCS Coaches
7–5 (5–3 CAA)
Chuck Priore (13th season)
Co-offensive coordinator
Carmen Felus (2nd season)
Chris Bache (2nd season)
Bobby McIntyre (2nd season)
Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium
(Capacity: 12,300)
2018 CAA football standings
No. 4 Maine $^ 7 – 1 10 – 4
No. 9 James Madison ^ 6 – 2 9 – 4
No. 16 Stony Brook ^ 5 – 3 7 – 5
No. 20 Towson ^ 5 – 3 7 – 5
No. 24 Delaware ^ 5 – 3 7 – 5
No. 19 Elon ^ 4 – 3 6 – 5
Rhode Island 4 – 4 6 – 5
William & Mary 3 – 4 4 – 6
New Hampshire 3 – 5 4 – 7
Villanova 2 – 6 5 – 6
Richmond 2 – 6 4 – 7
Albany 1 – 7 3 – 8
† – Conference champion
^ – FCS playoff participant
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll
The 2018 Stony Brook Seawolves football team represented Stony Brook University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Seawolves competed as sixth-year members of the Colonial Athletic Association with Chuck Priore as the head coach for his 13th season. They played their home games at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium in Stony Brook, New York. They finished the season 7–5, 5–3 in CAA play to finish in a three-way tie for third place. They received an at-large berth to the FCS Playoffs, where they lost in the first round to Southeast Missouri State.
1 Previous season
2 Preseason
2.1 CAA Poll
2.2 Preseason All-CAA Team
4 Game Summaries
4.1 at Air Force
4.2 Bryant
4.3 at Fordham
4.4 Richmond
4.5 Villanova
4.6 at Towson
4.7 at New Hampshire
4.8 Rhode Island
4.9 at James Madison
4.10 Delaware
4.11 at Albany
5 FCS Playoffs
5.1 Southeast Missouri State–First Round
6 Ranking movements
The Seawolves finished the 2017 season 10–3, 7–1 in CAA play to finish in second place despite being predicted to finish in 8th. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Lehigh in the first round before losing to James Madison in the second round. It was their most successful season since joining the CAA in 2013.
CAA Poll
In the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Seawolves were predicted to finish in fourth place.[1]
Predicted finish
Votes (1st place)
1 James Madison 241 (21)
2 New Hampshire 206 (2)
3 Delaware 182
4 Stony Brook 169
5 Elon 168 (1)
6 Villanova 164
7 Richmond 127
8 Maine 81
9 Albany 78
10 Towson 74
11 William & Mary 55
12 Rhode Island 39
Preseason All-CAA Team
The Seawolves had two players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.
Cal Daniels – FB
Shayne Lawless – LB
September 1 2:00 p.m. at Air Force* No. 20
Falcon Stadium
Stadium L 0–38 33,415
September 8 6:00 p.m. Bryant* No. 24
Wolfievision W 50–21 5,708
September 15 6:00 p.m. at Fordham* No. 24
Coffey Field
Stadium W 28–6 6,524
September 22 6:00 p.m. Richmond No. 20
CBSI Digital/CBS SportsLive W 36–10 6,272
September 29 6:00 p.m. No. 13 Villanova No. 18
FCS/FSGO W 29–27 7,720
October 6 4:00 p.m. at No. 23 Towson No. 13
Johnny Unitas Stadium
CBSI Digital/CBS SportsLive L 28–52 4,614
October 13 3:30 p.m. at New Hampshire No. 19
Wildcat Stadium
CBSI Digital/CBS SportsLive W 35–7 17,687
October 20 6:00 p.m. No. 22 Rhode Island No. 18
W 52–14 12,701
October 27 3:30 p.m. at No. 3 James Madison No. 15
Bridgeforth Stadium
MASN/SNY L 10–13 25,244
November 10 1:00 p.m. No. 11 Delaware No. 12
CBSI Digital/CBS SportsLive W 17–3 6,667
November 17 3:30 p.m. at Albany No. 10
Bob Ford Field
Albany, NY (rivalry)
FCS/FSGO L 23–25 2,483
November 24 2:00 p.m. at No. 20 Southeast Missouri State* No. 15
Houck Stadium
Cape Girardeau, MO (FCS Playoffs First Round)
ESPN3 L 14–28 5,679
*Non-conference game
Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game
All times are in Eastern time
Source: Schedule
No. 20 Seawolves 0 0 0 0 0
Falcons 14 10 0 14 38
See also: 2018 Air Force Falcons football team
Last meeting
In the season opener, the Seawolves were held to 75 yards of total offense as they were shut out in a road loss to FBS opponents Air Force. The Falcons gained 362 yards in comparison.[2]
Bulldogs 0 7 14 0 21
No. 24 Seawolves 13 7 14 16 50
See also: 2018 Bryant Bulldogs football team
2–1 2014 L, 7–13
In the team's home opener, the Seawolves jumped out to a quick 20–0 lead. However, Bryant scored three straight touchdowns to take a 21–20 lead, helped by turnovers from the Stony Brook offense. In the end, the "Long Island Express", the nickname for the senior running back duo of Jordan Gowins and Donald Liotine, managed to wear the Bulldogs defense down. Liotine gained 107 yards and Gowins gained 146 yards. The game ended on a 95-yard pick six from Stony Brook defensive back Damarcus Miller.[3]
at Fordham
No. 24 Seawolves 7 14 7 0 28
Rams 0 0 0 6 6
See also: 2018 Fordham Rams football team
1–1 1988 W, 3–0
The Seawolves traveled to nearby Bronx to play their final non-conference game of the season. Both members of the Long Island Express gained over 100 yards again, as Gowins gained 160 yards with a touchdown and Liotine gained 106 yards with a touchdown. Stony Brook's third defensive touchdown of the year came when defensive lineman Jordan Scarbrough returned a pick six 25 yards in the first quarter. Fordham was shut out until 2:14 in the fourth quarter.[4]
Spiders 3 0 7 0 10
No. 20 Seawolves 9 7 6 14 36
See also: 2018 Richmond Spiders football team
2–2 2017 W, 27–24
In the CAA opener, Richmond took a 3–0 lead and threatened to score more, but Stony Brook defensive back Gavin Heslop returned a Richmond fumble 87 yards for a touchdown. The work of the Long Island Express helped expand the lead, as Jordan Gowins had 192 yards with two touchdowns and Donald Liotine gained 133 yards. Stony Brook ended the game by scoring 20 consecutive points.[5]
No. 13 Wildcats 7 14 0 6 27
No. 18 Seawolves 0 6 17 6 29
See also: 2018 Villanova Wildcats football team
1–1 2013 W, 35–6
Stony Brook fell behind early to Villanova, trailing 21–0 in the second quarter. A touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Carbone to wide receiver Julius Wingate scored the Seawolves' first points with 1:51 left in the half. The second half kickoff was fumbled by Villanova and recovered by Stony Brook, and Donald Liotine scored a touchdown to reduce the lead to 21–13. Carbone threw a second touchdown pass to Wingate, and a successful two-point conversion tied the game at 21. Villanova quarterback Zach Bednarczyk was called for intentional grounding in the end zone, leading to a safety that caused the Seawolves to lead 23–21. Carbone's third touchdown of the day, this time to Cal Daniels, extended the lead to 29–21 after a missed extra point. With :56 left, Villanova scored another touchdown to bring the lead to 29–27, but the Seawolves victory was ensured as the two-point conversion was batted down and the onside kick failed.[6]
at Towson
No. 23 Tigers 21 14 10 7 52
See also: 2018 Towson Tigers football team
Stony Brook's four-game winning streak came to an end in Maryland, as the Towson Tigers, led by quarterback Tom Flacco (brother of Joe Flacco) jumped out to a 21–0 lead, kickstarted by running back Shane Simpson's opening kickoff return for a touchdown. The Seawolves defense forced two Towson turnovers, scoring on both successive drives to whittle their lead down to 21–14. However, Flacco threw two more touchdowns before halftime to bring the lead back to 35–14. Donald Liotine fumbled the second half kickoff, and Towson would continue to add to their lead as Stony Brook pulled their starters and were upset on the road.[7]
at New Hampshire
No. 19 Seawolves 14 7 7 7 35
Wildcats 0 7 0 0 7
See also: 2018 New Hampshire Wildcats football team
Reeling from last week's upset loss at Towson, Stony Brook traveled up to New Hampshire with one half of the Long Island Express, Jordan Gowins, out with an injury. Donald Liotine carried the load himself, collecting 163 yards on 32 carries. The Seawolves returned both an interception and a fumble for touchdowns, helping extend their lead to 21–0 in the second quarter. Backup running back Kameron Pickett scored his first career touchdown in the fourth quarter, sealing the 35–7 victory.[8]
No. 22 Rams 0 7 0 7 14
No. 18 Seawolves 10 14 14 14 52
See also: 2018 Rhode Island Rams football team
On Stony Brook's Homecoming night, the Seawolves improved to 6–2 as they blew out No. 22 ranked Rhode Island. The Long Island Express returned to full force, with both Gowins and Liotine rushing for over 100 yards for the fourth time this season, tying a school record. Stony Brook gained 460 yards of total offense and scored five total rushing touchdowns. With 12,701 in attendance, this was the most watched home game in Stony Brook football history.[9]
at James Madison
No. 3 Dukes 7 0 0 6 13
See also: 2018 James Madison Dukes football team
1–2 2015 L, 20–38
Stony Brook traveled on the road to Harrisonburg, Virginia to face James Madison as three-touchdown underdogs. An early drive was ended in JMU territory as Joe Carbone was intercepted, and the Dukes took a 7–0 lead late in the first quarter. Donald Liotine tied the game with a 30-yard touchdown in the second quarterback, and a JMU fumble led to a Stony Brook field goal right before halftime as the Seawolves took a 10–7 lead and looked to upset the No. 3 ranked Dukes. The Seawolves drove deep into JMU territory in the third quarter, but Carbone was picked off again as Stony Brook threatened to extend their lead. Two fourth-quarter field goals by Dukes kicker Tyler Gray helped them take a 13–10 lead. Stony Brook got the ball back for one final drive, where Joe Carbone completed two passes on fourth down, including an acrobatic catch by Julius Wingate and a reception that would have went for a touchdown had Wingate not tripped and fell. With three seconds left, the Seawolves tried a 51-yard field goal, but kicker Alex Lucansky's attempt ended up short and Stony Brook's upset bid ended in defeat.[10]
No. 11 Fightin' Blue Hens 0 0 0 3 3
No. 12 Seawolves 0 3 7 7 17
See also: 2018 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The Seawolves took on first-place Delaware on a cold, windy day in New York. Early promising Stony Brook drives stalled due to an interception and a botched snap, but Delaware could not capitalize on Stony Brook's mistakes, as kicker Frank Raggo missed two field goals and botched the snap of a third. Stony Brook kicked a field goal as time expired in the first half and scored a touchdown on 4th and 8 as Donavin Washington caught a Joe Carbone pass in the third quarter. The Seawolves extended their lead as a 33-yard run touchdown by Donald Liotine made it 17–3 with 5:27 left in the fourth quarter. Outgaining Delaware 400–201, Stony Brook's tough defense prevented the Blue Hens from ever making a serious comeback attempt.[11]
at Albany
Great Danes 10 0 0 15 25
See also: 2018 Albany Great Danes football team and Albany–Stony Brook football rivalry
8–11 2017 W, 28–21
In the final game of the regular season, Stony Brook traveled up to Albany to face a Great Danes team that was winless in CAA play for the Empire Clash. The Seawolves were down early despite being 18.5 point favorites, but entered halftime tied 10–10 after a Jordan Gowins touchdown run. Carbone ran it in himself to extend the Stony Brook lead to 17–10. However, with five minutes left to play, Albany quarterback Jeff Undercuffler threw an 81-yard touchdown pass to Donavan McDonald; a missed PAT whittled the lead to 17–16. Albany got the ball back and took back the lead with 1:45 remaining on a Karl Mofor 16-yard touchdown run; a failed two-point conversion meant the lead was only 22–16. On the ensuing kickoff, Donald Liotine fumbled the ball and Albany recovered, but Stony Brook used all three timeouts and Albany's Ethan Stark missed a field goal. With 17 seconds remaining, Carbone threw a Hail Mary pass that was caught by Julius Wingate for a touchdown, and the Seawolves took a 23–22 lead. However, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during the celebration pushed Stony Brook's kickoff back 15 yards. The ensuing squib kick was returned to the Stony Brook 42-yard line, and one pass play brought Albany to the 31. As time expired, Stark's 48-yard field goal bounced off the crossbar and in as Albany pulled off a stunning upset in the rivalry game.[12]
FCS Playoffs
Southeast Missouri State–First Round
No. 20 Redhawks 0 0 28 0 28
See also: 2018 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team
Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
STATS FCS
↑ Washburn, Rob (July 24, 2018). "James Madison Favored To Win Fourth Straight CAA Football Title in 2018". Colonial Athletic Association. http://www.caasports.com/news/2018/7/20/james-madison-favored-to-win-fourth-straight-caa-football-title-in-2018.aspx. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
↑ "Stony Brook Falls at Air Force in Season Opener - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en). https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/9/1/football-stony-brook-falls-at-air-force-in-season-opener.aspx.
↑ "Offense, Defense and Special Teams All Cross the Goal Line in Stony Brook's Victory Over Bryant - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en). https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/9/8/football-offense-defense-and-special-teams-All-cross-the-goal-line-in-stony-brooks-victory-over-bryant.aspx.
↑ "Gowins and Liotine Once Again Lead the Seawolves to Victory, This Time at Fordham - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en). https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/9/15/football-gowins-and-liotine-once-again-lead-the-seawolves-to-victory-this-time-at-fordham.aspx.
↑ "The Long Island Express Rolls Over Richmond in the CAA Football Opener - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en). https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/9/22/the-long-island-express-rolls-over-richmond-in-the-caa-football-opener.aspx.
↑ "Seawolves Overcome 21-Point Deficit to Upend No. 13 Villanova - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en). https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/9/29/football-seawolves-overcome-21-point-deficit-to-upend-no-13-villanova.aspx.
↑ "Marshall Ellick's Two Touchdowns not Enough in Loss at Towson - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en). https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/10/6/football-marshall-ellicks-two-touchdowns-not-enough-in-loss-at-towson.aspx.
↑ "Two More Defensive Touchdowns Help Lead the Seawolves to Victory at UNH - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en). https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/10/13/football-two-more-defensive-touchdowns-help-lead-the-seawolves-to-victory-at-unh.aspx.
↑ "Stony Brook's Complete Game Rolls Rhode Island on Homecoming - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en). https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/10/20/football-stony-brooks-complete-game-rolls-rhode-island-on-homecoming.aspx.
↑ "Stony Brook Falls Short in Defensive Standoff at James Madison - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en). https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/10/27/football-stony-brook-falls-short-in-defensive-standoff-at-james-madison.aspx.
↑ "Seawolves Put Together a Total Team Effort to Take Down No. 11 Delaware - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en). https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/11/10/football-seawolves-put-together-a-total-team-effort-to-take-down-no-11-delaware.aspx.
↑ "Seawolves Fall in a Heartbreaking Thriller at UAlbany - Stony Brook University Athletics" (in en-US). Stony Brook University Athletics. https://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/11/17/football-seawolves-fall-in-a-heartbreaking-thriller-at-ualbany.aspx.
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meeting the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Mr. David Cameron, in Brisbane, Australia on November 14, 2014.
Ahead of the G20 Summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held his first bilateral meetings with European Union president Herman Van Rompuy and British Prime Minister David Cameron where economic cooperation topped the agenda — and ended the day with a dinner hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Modi, who flew down here earlier in the day for the G20 that begins Saturday, first visited the Queensland University of Technology and listened keenly to latest developments in agricultural research, and mingled freely with students and researchers.
Modi held talks with an EU team headed by Rompuy, who said the bloc was keen to "re-engage" with India in all areas, especially trade. Modi told him that the "EU should take advantage of the new economic environment in India".
An India-EU free trade agreement is yet to be concluded. Negotiations are stuck on key points, including the EU's demand for significant duty cuts in automobiles and tax cuts on wines, spirits and dairy products, and also a demand for a strong intellectual property regime.
The value of EU-India trade grew from 28.6 billion euros in 2003 to 72.7 billion in 2013. Rompuy tweeted after the talks: "India and EU are strategic partners with vast potential for more cooperation including economic. Good bilateral talks with India PM."
Modi's proposal for an international Yoga Day, which he suggested at the UN, got further impetus with Rompuy telling him that the 28-member EU supported his call for a Yoga Day.
About 130 countries have joined as co-sponsors to an India-led UN General Assembly resolution recognizing yoga's benefits and to commemorate an International Day of Yoga.
Modi's meeting with Cameron was another highlight of his engagements at Brisbane. Cameron, who is meeting the Indian prime minister for the first time, told him that relations with India were at the "top of the priorities of UK's foreign policy".
Also, "Your's is a very inspiring vision. UK wants to partner in any way we can", the external affairs ministry quoted the British side as saying.
The ground for better India-Britain relations was laid during the visit by British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon to India.
Britain is pushing for the European Consortium to bag the Indian deal for 126 fighter jets with its Eurofighter Typhoon if the Modi government's negotiations for French Rafale jets falls through. The European Consortium comprises Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Modi will have bilateral meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on the sidelines of the G20. He will also meet French President Francois Hollande, who is likely to push for negotiations to clinch the multibillion-dollar deal for the Rafale fighter jets, which was selected two years ago.
Cameron tweeted: "Meeting with India's PM… We talked about improving trade links, and I invited him to visit the UK."
Modi wrote on twitter: "Had a wonderful meeting with Cameron. Discussed a wide range of issues."
The dinner diplomacy with Abe was the highpoint of the day. The Japanese prime minister underlined the need to strengthen India-Japan economic ties.
Modi visited Japan in August for the annual summit.
Japan, which has a bitter dispute with Beijing over islands in the East China Sea, sees India as a friend and ally.
After the dinner, Modi tweeted: "Couldn't have asked for a better way to end the day – a dinner with my friend Abe Shinzo. Several issues were discussed during the meet."
Earlier, after arriving in Brisbane from Myanmar where he attended the ASEAN-India and East Asia Summits and met with a host of world leaders, Modi visited the Queensland University of Technology.
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Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman visits Gaza's Kerem Shalom crossing on Sunday.
Israel will reopen its only goods crossing with the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday if calm is maintained, the defence minister said, after having closed it on July 9 partly over kites carrying firebombs.
"If today and tomorrow the situation continues as it was yesterday, then on Tuesday we will allow Kerem Shalom to return to normal activity and the fishing zones will return to the same distances as before," Avigdor Lieberman told journalists on Sunday, referring to the name of the crossing.
However, Lieberman stressed that calm also meant an end to months of kites and balloons carrying firebombs over the border fence from the Palestinian enclave run by Hamas to burn Israeli farmland.
Israeli authorities say hundreds of fires have been started by the firebombs since April.
Lieberman's comments came after a ceasefire was reached following a major flare-up of violence between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel on Friday.
The escalation -- the second in as many weeks -- followed months of tension that have raised fears that a fourth war since 2008 could erupt between Hamas and Israel.
Israel announced on July 9 that the goods crossing was being closed to most deliveries partly in response to the firebombs and other incidents along the border fence.
On July 17, it further tightened the restrictions to also prevent fuel deliveries while reducing the fishing zone Israel enforces off Gaza to three nautical miles from six.
The crossing has remained open for food and medicine on a case-by-case basis.


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Texas pro wins Everstart Central Division
Davis wins points title
NATCHITOCHES, La. – When Sean Hoernke beat 2002 FLW Tour champion John Sappington by 4 ounces in the final round of EverStart Series Central Division competition Saturday, it was the next step toward making his dream come true. Hoernke caught five bass weighing 12 pounds, 10 ounces to win the Pro Division, collected $10,000 and took home a new Ranger boat.
"This feels great," said a teary-eyed Hoernke. "It's been a long time coming. This is the greatest thing in the world."
"When I was 13 years old, I dreamed of fishing as a pro," he said. "I grew up in motorcycle racing, but then my uncle got me fishing from the bank. When I turned 16 and got my driver's license, I was gone. At Texas A & M, I actually structured my college courses in marketing and public relations so that I would be specifically geared for a career in pro fishing."
It seems to have worked so far for Hoernke, who guides at Lake Fork, Texas, between tournaments. While he competed at the 2000 BFL All-American and even won a BFL Cowboy Division event in 1998, this was his first-ever top-10 appearance at the EverStart level. He has fished the Central Division sporadically since 2001, but this week's tournament was his sole entry into EverStart competition this season.
"This is the only one I've fished this year, so I wasn't in the running for the points. My plan was to win," he said.
The plan worked to a T. While Hoernke owns a regular 21-foot bass boat, he brought and used a flat-bottom, 17-foot aluminum boat all week long on the Red River. The idea was to gain access to some of the more remote backwater areas that bigger boats couldn't reach. The first two days of competition, he used that access to his advantage when he found a little backwater area off the river's heavily fished Pool 4 and made the cut. The last two days when there were fewer tournament boats, he fell back to his second scouted location, which involved a more conventional – and accessible – shallow-water pattern on nearby Pool 3. There, he shared the same water as Sappington.
"We watched each other catch fish all through the event," Hoernke said. "I knew it was going to be won out of that area. When I saw that there were just two of us in there, I poured it on because I have a lot of respect for John." Hoernke landed a total of 28 bass Saturday, eventually culling out to his winning weight. In the finals, he said he alternated between throwing a chartreuse, lime and white spinner bait and flipping a black-and-red-flake tube.
Second place bittersweet for Sappington Sappington, from Wyandotte, Okla., caught a limit weighing 12 pounds, 6 ounces in the finals and collected $10,000 for second place. He admitted to feeling slightly disappointed by the outcome if only because he fished within sight of Hoernke and because he loves Louisiana fishing, having tasted victory here before. The last time he fished a major tournament in this state, he won the 2002 FLW Championship at Cross Lake in Shreveport.
"Sean and I fished the exact same place up the river a little bit from the takeoff (at Morgan's Landing)," he said. "I kind of did think I had it (won). I felt like I caught enough fish to win it, but he caught more fish than I did so he deserved it."
Sappington used a Lake Fork craw to land the bulk of bass, but said he did lose one 5-pounder early Saturday morning that could have made the difference between first and second place, which the veteran knows can be crucial in pro fishing.
"If you would have asked me three days ago about second place, I would have said, 'great,'" he said. "But the problem with second place is that nobody remembers second place. But I've had a good tournament. There was nothing more I could do." Gulledge lands in third Danny Gulledge of Hamburg, Ark., who took a sizable lead on day one with an 18-pound stringer, finished the tournament in third place with a five-bass weight of 10 pounds, 9 ounces. He collected $9,000.
Like earlier in the week, conditions were hot, humid and blindingly sunny Saturday. That's just the way Gulledge, who used a War Eagle spinner bait, liked it.
"The sun was key for what I was doing," he said. "Anytime I could see the brim suspended, I could catch fish. My last two fish I caught in the last 10 minutes."
The high temperatures even had the locals sweating. Jerry Hester, who hails from nearby Coushatta, La., finished in fourth place with five bass weighing 9 pounds, 2 ounces. He collected $8,000. "It was hot – real hot – out there," he said. "I had a plan to save my big ones and catch them today, but they just didn't bite."
Stegall finishes fifth Roger Stegall of Iuka, Miss., also caught five bass weighing 9 pounds, 2 ounces, but finished in fifth place due to a tiebreaker. He collected $7,500.
"I'm not bragging, but I've been sort of consistent. I've had about 9 or 10 pounds every day," he said, adding that he made a grueling 50-mile, lock-to-lock run in the heat in search of a 5-pound bite. "I caught most of them on a Strike King spinner bait and June bug worm."
Rounding out the top 10 pro finishers are Lendell Martin Jr. of Nacogdoches, Texas, (sixth place, $6,500) with five bass weighing 7 pounds, 8 ounces; Craig Powers of Rockwood, Tenn., (seventh, $5,500) with four bass weighing 7-7; Randall Osborne of Mount Sterling, Ky., (eighth, $5,000) with five bass weighing 7-7; Bobby Graves of Mount Ida, Ark., (ninth, $4,500) with three bass weighing 4-14; and Slade Dearman of Onalaska, Texas, (10th, $4,000) with two bass weighing 4-6.
Jackie Davis of Willard, Mo., won the 2003 Central Division standings title when Powers finished in seventh place Saturday. Davis finished the year with 763 points and Powers finished with 757.
"Jackie Davis is a great competitor, and he's a great guy. He deserved it," Powers said. "It worked out as it should have."
The Central Division is done for the 2003 season. The next EverStart Series tournament is a Northern Division contest at the Detroit River in Trenton, Mich., June 23-26.


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This year marks 100 years since the passing of the Natives Land Act of 1913. This Act has had profound consequences not only for individuals and communities, but it has also, in part, determined the political trajectories of modern South Africa. This edition of Focus is devoted to the Land Question.


We dare not interfere: Little Princess buttercup was sat growling over her plate of bones. Yes, Äiti had one of her crock pot slow stews with a rack of ribs. We get to lick the pot and strip the bones. Well, some of us do.
Oh, that looks heavenly! No wonder Mesi is so fiercely guarding it.
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I'd suggest you stay away from Mesi's plate of bones!
Mesi certainly knows what she likes!
We can't believe our eyes. We hardly ever see our human eating meat, although we know that she likes meat and eats it at restaurants and friends' places. Bah. If she ever gets to Oulu, could Äiti cook her a lot of that yummy stuff and give her instructions, oh and maybe even food in bags to freeze in, so that she starts making prooooper food here? She ate vegan potatoe sallad today. VEGAN. Not even cheese or kermaviili. Sigh.


We are moving into our new, larger and stylish offices. The address remains the same but we are moving into a completely remodeled floor of the Idola business center.
Next to physically moving desks at the Open vStorage HQ, we are also moving our code from BitBucket to GitHub. We have centralized all our code under https://github.com/openvstorage. To list a few of the projects: Arakoon (our consistent distributed key-value store), ALBA (the Open vStorage default ALternate BAckend) and of course Open vStorage itself. Go check it out!
Finishing up our Open vStorage 2.2 GA release.
Adding support for RedHat and Cent OS by merging in the Cent-OS branch. There is still some work to do around packaging, testing and upgrades so feel free to give a hand. As this was really a community effort, we owe everyone a big thank you.
Working on some very cool features (RDMA anyone?) but let's keep those for a separate post.
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As you can see, many things going on at once so prepare for a hot Open vStorage fall!


Peace and Harmony Network Pakistan chairpersons Bishop Dr Andrew Francis, Allama Muhammad Zubair Abid and coordinator Mr Javaid William have jointly condemned the inflammatory anti-Islam film that has triggered world-wide condemnation and rioting across the Muslim world.
In a joint statement on Saturday, they said that anti-peace and anti-human elements were still active to create disturbance with their nefarious designs to paralyse the worldwide peace and harmony. "We are against any provocation against any religion but we are also against bloody violence in reaction as this is also not favouring anyone," they said.
"We absolutely reject content and message of the controversial Internet video," Dr Andrew Francis said. "But I think all humankind should reject vengeance in greater interest of worldwide peace and also we need unity for a harmonious society," he said. "We need to respect sentiments of all human beings," he said, and pointed out that those who desire to live in peace must give all respects to others so that tolerance and forgiveness be promoted.
Peace and Harmony Network Coordinator Javaid William urged people from different faiths to restore compassion, respect and tolerance among one another so that the society might be called a balanced one. "We have to create an atmosphere where everyone may have religious freedom," he said. "We must know that we are badly in need of interfaith and intra-faith harmony as ignorance is at its peak today," he said.
Allama Zubair Abid, who is also chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Mushaikh Council, has asked the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Countries) to discuss aftermath of this reprehensible video issue in detail in an emergency meeting in which a law should be introduced for the promotion of peace and harmony worldwide. He said that this video was reprehensible for us but violence should also not be promoted in reaction.


In fact, I've been here a few times… On a weight loss journey that is. At 18 years old I became a pregnant teen going from 150lbs at a size 4-6 top and an 8 bottom to 250lbs to a size 20.
Then I lost it and gained it back in 2009-10 going from 169lbs to fluctuating between 272-276lbs when I had a major financial setback. Yep, I lost it again in 2011 going from a size 20-22 to a size 12 shown in the picture below. Well, I gained it all back AGAIN. I took off work for almost 2 years and did nothing but eat bad, sleep and chilled… sigh!
This is it, no more weight loss struggling for and going up and down for me. I've been releasing an average of 2.5lbs a week and I am determined to get the rest off and live healthier!
#1 – You have to make a decision to change. At your core, you really have to decide. I'm there now.
#2 – Your environment makes a BIG difference in getting the results you're looking for. If you have a family and you're buying junk for your kids, and trying to get healthy at the same time it's going to be hard. Remember, YOU ARE the parent. If you're trying to get healthy it's only right that you help your kids get healthy with you. My son ate what I ate or guess what, he didn't eat. So he gave in and participated in his own rescue after a good ole heart to heart chat, and unlike me, he's still in great shape till this day. As for your significant other if you have one. Ask them to shower you with support because you want to live and not die of any type of diseases, you want to be here for them, tell them how much you love them and WHY you're doing this. When you know why – the how will show up.
#3 – When you have at least 5 committed accountability partners, everything is easer. That's why I love the program that I'm doing.
#4 – Water water water… As much as I dislike it, it helps because of the benefits it provides our bodies. I keep a glass or bottle in reach at all times.
#5 – Weight loss is 80% nutrition and 20% exercise. You can't out-exercise a bad diet.
#6 – Never give up, as you see, I've given up a few times. I'd slip up and instead of getting back on the wagon with the next meal I'd say I'll start over tomorrow. Tomorrow turns into months and then I end up 20lbs heavier. This is a lifestyle that we have to create or else it's going to be a life long struggle. Who has time for that? I don't.
I hope this helps you on your health journey. As many of you know, I love hearing from our community. What kind of tips can you provide? We'd love to hear them. Let us know how it turned out in the comment section below.
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Ellen Page Calls Out Chris Pratt's Church
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At Least One Ellen Continues To Keep Chris Pratt In Check
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Ellen Page will not back down. After calling out Chris Pratt for attending and endorsing "infamously [anti-LGBTQ+]" Zoe Church last week, the Umbrella Academy star has reiterated her point of view.
"If you are a famous actor and you belong to an organization that hates a certain group of people, don't be surprised if someone simply wonders why it's not addressed," Page tweeted on Saturday. "Being anti LGBTQ is wrong, there aren't two sides. The damage it causes is severe. Full stop. Sending love to all."
She added:
"If lgbtq+ people are expressing their pain, their trauma, their experiences...maybe just try and listen? Open your heart, stop being defensive and have compassion. It's a beautiful and life changing feeling, empathy. Much love truly to all."
If you are a famous actor and you belong to an organization that hates a certain group of people, don't be surprised if someone simply wonders why it's not addressed. Being anti LGBTQ is wrong, there aren't two sides. The damage it causes is severe. Full stop. Sending love to all
— Ellen Page (@EllenPage) February 9, 2019
If lgbtq+ people are expressing their pain, their trauma, their experiences...maybe just try and listen? Open your heart, stop being defensive and have compassion. It's a beautiful and life changing feeling, empathy.
Much love truly to all.
Page is seemingly the only Hollywood Ellen willing to directly question Pratt's involvement in the church — at least in public.
Pratt appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, where he was asked hard-hitting questions like "Which Hollywood Chris is sexiest?"
This article was originally posted on February 8, 2019.
Ellen Page was not charmed by Chris Pratt's interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. The LEGO Movie 2 star stopped by to chat about what's been going on his life recently (pointedly not mentioning fiancé Katherine Schwarzenegger), which included The Daniel Fast — a fast he participated in through his church, Zoe.
"I just came off it a couple of days ago," Pratt told Colbert. "It's a 21-day fast. A lot of people are doing it. I did it through my church. It's based on the Book of Daniel...He's a guy who only ate fruits and vegetables and grains and didn't have any leavened breads or animal products. So I was inspired by my pastor. It's kind of like our lent. We give something up. So for 21 days I had no meat, no sugar, and no alcohol. It was actually amazing."
Zoe is lead by former Hillsong church pastor Chad Veach. Hillsong is an Australia-based Christian church that has attracted a number of celebrities like Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber, but that's not the only thing it's known for...
"Oh. K. Um," Ellen Page wrote on Twitter in response to the interview. "But his church is infamously anti lgbtq so maybe address that too?" Page's tweets follow her recent appearance on the same late night show where she delivered a passionate speech about protecting LGBTQ+ people in the wake of the racist attack on Jussie Smollett.
Oh. K. Um. But his church is infamously anti lgbtq so maybe address that too? https://t.co/meg8m69FeF
Page's statements appear to be referencing Beach's Hillsong past. Back in August 2015, Hillsong global pastor Brian Houston released a statement addressing rumors that the church is not supportive LGBTQ people.
"I do believe God's word is clear that marriage is between a man and a woman," he wrote, later adding, "Hillsong Church welcomes ALL people but does not affirm all lifestyles. Put clearly, we do not affirm a gay lifestyle and because of this we do not knowingly have actively gay people in positions of leadership, either paid or unpaid. I recognise this one statement alone is upsetting to people on both sides of this discussion, which points to the complexity of the issue for churches all over the world."
While Pratt has always been Christian, he's become more publicly religious in the past three years or so, attending church with his new fiancée and thanking God both on social media and in speeches.
Refinery29 has reached out to Pratt, Page, and Hillsong for comment. Watch the interview below.
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
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Smith is convinced the trophy hoisted aloft by Nottingham Forest's John McGovern after beating Malmo should have been sitting at the top of the Ibrox marble staircase at the end of a season that promised so much and ended in bitter disappointment.
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The smallest SUV in the GMC lineup is similar to many vehicles that fit this market niche. However, the Terrain is a second-generation rendition of this GMC SUV that made its introduction in 2010. The Terrain is a much smaller SUV than the Tahoe. However, it has what is needed to carry five passengers and tow up to 1500 pounds.
There are a few younger upstarts here and those that have undergone several significant changes over the years, like the Terrain. Some may be more or less expensive, and two are almost identical. However, if you are searching for a small to mid-size SUV, the littlest Jimmy is worth a look, as are vehicles similar to the GMC Terrain.
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Three cars most similar to the GMC Terrain
1. Features of the Chevrolet Equinox
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FAQs about SUVs similar to the GMC Terrain
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Available in four trim levels and two drive options, the MSRP of the base model GMC Terrain SLE is$29,795. On the other end is the GMC Denali trim that changes a very nice interior into a luxurious space.
The entry price for the top-of-the-line, all-wheel-drive Terrain Denali is $ 38,495. All models have five seats and are not an option for a third-row seat.
All trim levels of the Terrain have seating for five. They are powered by a turbocharged 1.5 L inline 4-cylinder engine. It produces 170 horsepower and 203-pound feet of torque, giving it enough grunt to tow up to 1500 pounds.
Power goes to the front wheels via a nine-speed transmission, and all-wheel drive is available on all models except for the SLE trimmed Terrain. The lack of all-wheel drive available for every model puts the Terrain at a disadvantage against many of its competitors.
Mileage is 25 city and 30 highway miles per gallon for the SLE. Mileage with all-wheel drive will be a bit lower. The speed from 0-60 mph for the GMC Terrain is 9.3 seconds, except for the Denali, which takes a time of 9.5 seconds. The slower time is likely due to the standard all-wheel drive of the Denali.
The Chevrolet Equinox shares the same platform as the GMC Terrain. However, they have different prices and features than their siblings. For example, the Buick Encore is slightly smaller, with less power, but offers all the utility of the other two in a smaller package. However, it is also easier to maneuver and has the same five-passenger capacity as the Terrain does.
They may be built on the same platform. However, Equinox has a different attitude than GMC Terrain. To me, it is sportier, and the GMC is more upper-end. Also available in four trim levels, the Equinox can be purchased as an LS, LT, RS, and Premier. It, too, is a five-seater with no option for a third-row seat.
The price range for a new Equinox has a base MSRP of $27,695 for the LS. The Premier, when equipped with all-wheel drive, is $34,495. Like the Terrain, the Equinox gets the option of all-wheel drive on one trim level. Expanding this option across all of the models would make the Equinox more appealing against the competition.
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The difference in mileage between the two is negligible, and the Equinox fuel mileage is 26 city and 31 highway miles per gallon, slightly higher than the entry-level Terrain.
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The Buick Encore Essence is powered by a turbocharged 1.3 L engine that produces 155 horsepower. Fuel mileage for this model is 29 city/ 32 highway and 30 combined miles per gallon. Both models have seating for five with no option of a third seat. The zero to 60 times for the Buick Encore is 9.0 seconds.
Selecting a third vehicle similar to the GMC Terrain wasn't easy. However, I recently followed a BMW X1 down the highway, and they are as attractive as any vehicle on this list.
However, the base price of a BMW X1 sDrive28i is roughly the same as a GMC Terrain Denali and comes in at $36,600. The highest-priced trim level, the BMW xDrive28i, has an MSRP of $37,400. For the price, however, you get more power and features. For example, fuel mileage for the X1 is 24 city /33 highway and 27 combined miles per gallon.
The standard power of both BMW trim levels comes from a 2.0-liter inline four-cylinder with a TwinPower turbo. With 228 horsepower on tap, the BMW X1 can run from zero to 60 in 6.2 seconds. The X1 also has a better towing capacity of 3500 pounds when properly equipped, which opens the door to larger toys.
Like the BMW X1, the price of the Audi Q3 is closer in price to the top line Terrain than the base model. The starting MSRP of an Audi Q3 is $36,400 for the 40 Premium and $42,000 for the Audi Q3 45 S line Premium.
The Q3 gets its power from a turbocharged 2.0 L inline four-cylinder that produces 184 horsepower. This power will launch the Audi Q3 from zero to 60 in 8.5 seconds. Consider, however, that the Audi is an all-wheel drive SUV, which explains the course time.
Fuel mileage for Q3 is 25 city/ 30 highway and 26 combined miles per gallon. Towing capacity falls between the Terrain and X1 at 4,400 pounds.
With a similar price and size, the Ford Escape prices range from $27,185 for the Escape S model to $40,700 for the Ford Escape Titanium Plug-in hybrid, which is not similar to the Terrain. The Escape S's base model is the most similar model to the GMC Terrain in size and price.
A turbocharged 1.5 L three-cylinder engine powers the three models fueled by gas alone. It produces 181 horsepower. This power will take the Escape S from zero to 60 miles per hour in 7.7 seconds. The Ford Escape has a front-wheel drive standard, or you can opt for all-wheel drive.
Fuel mileage for the Ford Escape S is 28 city/ 31 highway and 28 combined miles per gallon. The towing capacity of the Ford Escape is 2000 pounds for the mentioned trim level.
Like the GMC Terrain, the Honda CRV has been around for many years. However, it has changed from looking like a breadbox to the sleek little SUV it has become. There are five trim levels for the Honda CRV, and the base price of the CRV is LX is $26,800 and ranges to $36,600 for the CRV touring, which has all-wheel drive as a standard feature.
Power for the Honda CRV comes from a turbocharged 1.5 L 4-cylinder engine that produces 190 horsepower across all trim levels. In addition, the EX and EX-L trim levels are available with the gas engine and hybrid assist. The gas-powered front-wheel drive Honda CRV is 28 city/ 34 highway and 30 combined miles per gallon.
The CRV can make the run from zero to 60 in 7.8 seconds, which is more in line with the BMW X1 than the Terrain. In addition, the towing capacity of the Honda CRV is 1,500 pounds when properly equipped.
The Hyundai Tucson is an older concept than the GMC Terrain. First sold in 2005, its third generation began in 2015. As the years have gone by, the shape of Tucson has changed and has a more flowing modern appearance than its ancestors.
Available in five trim levels, the price range of the Tucson is from $25,800 for the Tucson SE to $35,300 for the Tucson Limited. All gas-powered trim levels of the Tucson are powered by a 2.5 L inline 4-cylinder that produces 187 horsepower. Fuel mileage for the Hyundai is 26 city/ 33 highway and 29 combined miles per gallon.
The zero to 60 times for Tucson is 8.8 seconds. The towing capacity is 2000 pounds, which places it a little higher in towing ability than the Terrain.
Another icon, the Jeep Cherokee, is very similar to the Terrain. However, the price range of the Cherokee ranges from $29,995 for the Cherokee X to $39,345 for the Jeep Cherokee Limited.
Although similar to the Terrain, the most significant difference between the two is the Cherokee has an option of a third-row seat that increases your passenger capacity to seven. The Jeep Cherokee is also available with three different engines, as opposed to one, which gives you more options.
The standard power for the Cherokee is a 2.4 L inline-four-cylinder engine that produces 180 horsepower. However, the two optional engines are a turbocharged 2.0 L 4-cylinder that produces 270 horsepower and a 3.2 L V6 that produces 271 horsepower.
With the base engine, the Cherokee gets 20 city and 29 highway miles per gallon, placing it close to the bottom of the list for fuel mileage. The added horsepower only gives the Cherokee the capacity to tow 2000 pounds.
Available in 12 trim levels, you get options with the Mitsubishi Outlander, as well as the option for a third-row seat. The extra seating will allow your Outlander to carry seven passengers instead of five. Pricing for the Outlander ranges from $29,545 for the SE model to $32,645 for the Outlander SEL, 2.5 with a seven-seat capacity.
Power for the Outlander is provided by a 2.5 L inline 4-cylinder engine that produces 181 horsepower. The time for the Outlander to run from zero to 60 takes 8.6 seconds. Fuel mileage is 24 city and 31 highway miles per gallon. The towing capacity of this SUV is 2000 pounds.
Like the Jeep Cherokee, seating capacity is the most significant difference between the Outlander and the Terrain.
Available in eight trim levels, the Mazda CX-5 price range is $26,250 for the base 2.5S model to $39,000 for the 2.5 Turbo Signature. The six lower trim levels get their power from a 2.5 L 4-cylinder that produces 187 horsepower.
The 2.5 Turbo Signature squeezes 227 horsepower from the same 2.5-liter engine by adding a turbocharger. The zero to 60 times for the naturally aspirated engine is 7.2 seconds, and the turbocharged model makes the run in 6.1 seconds.
Fuel mileage for the base model is 24 city and 30 highway miles per gallon for the CX-5 base. The turbocharged engine returns 22 city and 27 highway miles per gallon. Towing capacity for the Mazda CX-5 is 2000 p0unds, placing it solidly in the competition.
The Rogue has become a top-rated SUV for many good reasons. The base MSRP of the Nissan Rogue is $27,150 for the entry-level FWD S model. The Platinum is at the other end of these four trim levels, with a base MSRP of $36,930.
Power for the Nissan Rogue comes from a 1.5 L VC-Turbo™ engine that produces 201 horsepower. Fuel mileage is 30 city/ 35 highway and 33 combined miles per gallon when equipped with front-wheel drive. This is the best mileage of any SUV on the list.
The Rogue can make it from zero to 60 miles per hour in 8.2 seconds and has the power to tow 1500 pounds.
Another SUV that has been on the roads for several decades, the RAV4, has changed quite a bit over the years. It is a little larger, has more power, and it's a Toyota.
With six trim levels, there are now more choices than ever when shopping for a Toyota RAV 4. These models range from $26,975 for the LE to $35,475 for the RAV 4 Limited.
The base engine for the RAV4 is a 2.5 L inline 4-cylinder that produces 203 horsepower. However, a mild hybrid version uses the same engine and develops 219 combined horsepower. Fuel mileage for the base RAV 4 is 26 city/ 35 highway and 30 combined miles per gallon. The hybrid, however, returns 41 city and 38 miles per gallon highway.
The zero to 60 times of the RAV4 with the base engine is eight seconds. Its towing capacity, like the Terrain, is 1500 pounds.
Like all cars, the Terrain may have problems. However, GMC makes a good product and stands by its quality.
Sixty years ago, a car would do well to reach 100,000 miles. However, today's cars are logging up to 200,000 miles and more before falling apart.
Some of them are, but when one is added to some mid-size SUVs, the seat is only suitable for smaller adults and children.
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This article appeared in: Volume XIX, Number 1, Winter 2019
avid Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, asked staff writer Lawrence Wright to "explain Texas." Why would Wright choose to live there? "I hope this book," says Wright, "answers the question." But the book—God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State—does not explain Texas. It does not even explain why Lawrence Wright of the New Yorker chooses to live in Texas, a question of limited interest. It is not, as it proposes to be, a meditation on the culture and politics of Texas and their influence on the wider American scene. It is an overflowing slop-bucket of ignorance, laziness, and snobbery in the shape of a book.
The structure of the work will be familiar to those obliged to read books produced by columnists and broadcast-media figures: a series of mostly disconnected essays and vignettes repackaged as a monograph, lightly stitched up with newly written connective material and punctuated every fourth page or so by something the author doesn't realize is hilariously stupid or obviously wrong. As with chainsaw sculpture, the process leaves its mark on the product: columns and essays are arranged in a particular order and then written through (sometimes by the author, often by a junior editor) two or three times until the recycled material smells fresh enough to put a cover and title on. Wright has spent decades writing about the politics and personalities of Texas, and this book is a kind of greatest-hits album underneath a thin wash of the now-familiar indignant moral hysteria induced in the NPR crowd by the Age of Trump.
The book begins with Wright and his friend Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo (2000), riding their bicycles through one of the ugly stretches that sprawl between Texas cities, just as they sprawl between most American cities. Wright is disappointed by the scenery. "The actual vista in front of us was an unending strip mall hugging a crowded interstate highway," he writes—a sentence that could have been written about nearly identical scenes in almost any of these United States. This is somehow the fault of the oil business, which left Texas with "cruddy strip shopping centers, garish beach communities, the ugly sprawl of car lots and franchise chicken joints and prefab warehouses that issued out of the heart of every city and crawled along our highways like poison vines."
They stop at Buc-ee's, a Texas-based chain convenience store that sells fudge and kolaches and kitsch along with the usual gas-station fare, and which (accurately) advertises the remarkable cleanliness of its bathrooms in humorous billboards along the vast ghastly asphalt lengths of Eisenhower's Folly. Buc-ee's is not Lourdes; it is a place dedicated to urination and defecation and the acquisition of things that later will be urinated and defecated, and to gasoline: go with the flow, and flow with the go. It is bigger and stranger than, say, those excellent Autogrills straddling the Italian Autostrade serving strong espresso and salami sandwiches, and it is over-engineered compared to those stunted and hobbled little gas stations on Manhattan's west side, but it is recognizably an example of the same genre: it's a gas station. Wright concludes from his visit that Texas is "a lowbrow society…that finds its fullest expression in a truck stop on the interstate." The areas alongside intercity highways tend, for obvious reasons, to be home mostly to the unsentimental, un-quaint, unlovely, high-volume/low-margin businesses that serve people in transit through places that do not have much of a sense of community because there aren't any communities there. The interstate isn't where you're going, it's how you get where you're going—a means rather than an end. This is true in Texas, as it is true in Southern California, New Jersey, Maine, Ohio, and any other blasted and blighted slice of exurbia where three gas stations rub up against an Applebee's and a Burger King.
Even as Wright sneers at Texas for the sin of having ugly commercial and transit zones indistinguishable from those in Connecticut or Oregon, he misses the story in front of his face. Convenience-store owner Arch "Beaver" Aplin III ("Beaver" and "the Third" coming together to form one of those wonderfully unlikely American names) built Buc-ee's out of almost nothing in the 1980s, a time when the highways already were well stocked with gas stations selling fuel and fare (in Texas, the gas-station burrito is a food genre all its own, perfected by Allsup's) and the market apparently saturated. How is it that Aplin (who is the opposite of the stereotypical businessman braggart and hardly an emissary from "a lowbrow society") went from owning one convenience store to owning a business with hundreds of millions of dollars in sales in such a mature market, while turning up his nose at a huge share of high-paying customers (Wright calls it a "truck stop," but Buc-ee's in fact excludes commercial trucks from its facilities) and paying remarkably high wages ($15 an hour) to car-wash attendants and cashiers? How many chain gas stations have admiring articles written about them in Bon Appétit? And how does a reporter in possession of a Pulitzer Prize stand there in the middle of that story and never even think to ask a question?
Someone might have saved poor David Remnick some effort and mystification with this simple explanation: Wright doesn't live in Texas—he lives in Austin, the world capital of extended adolescence. Wright's ruminations on Texas are those belonging to a familiar kind of permanent teenage holden-caulfieldism associated with that city. Wright is a son of privilege who attended all-white schools in suburban Dallas—his wealthy father was a socially prominent bank executive who was waiting to lunch with John Kennedy when the president was assassinated by a Marxist in Dallas in 1963. Wright's the worst kind of angry lefty: he cannot forgive American capitalism for giving him a life of opportunity and ease. Hence his sophomoric ranting about "corporate fascism" and his weakness for phony "authenticity." He argues that Dallas's post-assassination humiliation not only was good for the city but that it in effect saved the city's soul. A similar campaign of humiliation is what he seems to have in mind for Texas.
There is less thinking here than posturing. Channeling the same aw-shucks cornpone offered up by other rich, liberal Texans such as Molly Ivins (the California-sourced daughter of a River Oaks millionaire who enjoyed taking her private-school pals yachting before she developed that ridiculous put-on accent native to no place in Texas), Wright insists that he does not live in New York City or Washington because he is "too much of a rustic." But he's a funny kind of rustic: a rustic from one of the least rustic backgrounds imaginable, a rustic who grew up with the founder of Neiman Marcus as a family friend, a rustic who lives in a city with a metropolitan population north of 2 million, a rustic with a sideline business in Hollywood. The quest for authenticity often leaves one vulnerable to fraud, and Wright has fallen for the very ersatz Texanism that he here intends to expose and flay—the idea that the "real" Texas is to be found at some quaint out-of-the-way steakhouse rather than in a Dell facility or Panhandle hydrocarbon cracker.
God Save Texas is full of sloppy writing of the kind that raises the question of what exactly it is that book editors are for: using staunch when Wright means stanch, careen when he means career, jealousy when he means envy, nonplussed when he means uninterested; deriding "Daddy Warbucks capitalism" as "heartless, rapacious, and predatory"—the opposite of the benevolent ethic of Harold Gray's self-made philanthropist in Little Orphan Annie; repeating the myth that Texas enjoys a unique right to subdivide itself into five states (Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution confers the right of subdivision on all states, assuming legislative cooperation); classifying Louisiana as a Saudi-style petro-state without considering that health care and education employ about ten times as many people in the state as oil or wondering why its economy has sunk while Texas thrives. Those errors come alongside some truly strange assertions. Wright complains that he knew no liberals and hardly any Democrats growing up in a state that was at the time almost uniformly Democratic and whose political foundation was New Deal liberalism. (I myself grew up not far from New Deal, Texas, surrounded by cotton farmers who would barely spit the word "Republican"—but then, I worked at 7-Eleven and think Buc-ee's is pretty interesting, so I suppose I have unfair advantages.) Only four of Dallas's 59 theoretically nonpartisan mayors have been Republicans, and none served before the 1980s. Rick Perry first held office as a Democrat (his CV does not emphasize his energetic support for the presidential campaign of Al Gore) and Texas did not go all meshuga Republican until the 1990s. The state didn't have a Republican governor between Reconstruction and the Reagan era. If Wright didn't know any Democrats, he wasn't looking very hard.
This book is full of evidence of not having looked very hard. Wright goes tottering here and there with potted biographies of Texas political and cultural figures, half-understood anthropologies of Houston and Dallas, reminiscences of a space program about which he evinces almost no knowledge at all (and a strange contempt: he recalls his disappointment at the pitiable sight of a space shuttle being carried by an airplane), and a fair bit of padding that adds nothing to what purports to be the argument. It has the feel of a collection of memoirs that should have been written by someone else. The book's final chapter finds Wright shopping for a cemetery plot, which seems appropriate. Whatever power he may once have enjoyed as a writer has been expended. If this is what Wright can do, it would be better if he did not do anything at all. Let him retire to his fajitas and bicycling, and tell his LBJ anecdotes to whoever will listen.
Or perhaps to a hermitage where he might be more contented, maybe up around Woodstock or Big Sur. Texas, as it is—as it actually exists—does not suit him. And it plainly does not interest him, either, except as a vessel for his contempt and disappointment, neither of which seems to have a great deal to do with Texas per se. Wright repeatedly returns to the physical ugliness of Texas's public spaces, and what he abominates as the low tastes of its cultural powers. He mocks museums and galleries for boasting of the "largest display" of this and the "finest collection" of that, the "largest Robert Rauschenberg painting," the "largest painting by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo." Oh, here he's got 'em! "Only in Texas is Large Art an aesthetic category."
Because I, too, am a beneficiary of American capitalism, I read those words while sitting on a beautiful terrace in Rome with an arresting view of the Pantheon. Do you know how the Romans describe the Pantheon—what they boast of? That almost two millennia after its construction, it remains the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. They boast that the Coliseum was the largest amphitheater of its time. Paris boasts of having the world's largest number of annual visitors…and the largest bicycle-sharing program outside of Asia. The world's great cities compete to have the tallest building and the tallest examples of certain categories of buildings. Wright and his New Yorker colleagues surely must recall a certain New York City property developer boasting (inaccurately, as is his habit) that after the 9/11 attacks one of his buildings became the tallest in Manhattan. The Dallas curators' pride in their collection of Chinese porcelain is relatively modest. It is King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and Aventura, Florida, duking it out for the title of nation's largest shopping mall—Houston's Galleria is way down there in a four-way tie for seventh.
Wright follows his fusillade against largeness with a sustained sneer at Wendy Russell Reves, the former model and philanthropist who donated a splendid collection of European art to a fledging Dallas museum but attached an "intransigent demand that her residence be faithfully reproduced in order to showcase the art." If that seems strange to you, consider that Albert Barnes did approximately the same thing with his storied Barnes Foundation, specifying in the institution's charter that his eccentric arrangement of Matisses and Cézannes be displayed just as he left them, a request that was honored until the clowns to whom he entrusted his bequest ruined it. The difference is that Barnes was an East Coast physician with an Ivy League education, and Reves a hick from Texas. When the Barnes Foundation went to court and broke its indenture, overturning Barnes's ban on loaning out his paintings, it took its famous collection on tour. The first stop was Fort Worth, Texas, where they no doubt boasted of just how many Renoirs were in the holdings.
There is an interesting story to be told about Texas, and, contrary to what many of my conservative friends insist, it is not without exception a success story. Something weird did happen in Texas around the turn of the century, when its partly prideful and partly self-deprecating sense of Texan-ness curdled and mutated into the strange and distasteful thing it is now. Wright almost gropes his way there with his comparison between AM Texas and FM Texas, which is to say, the Texas represented by right-wing talk radio and the Texas of well-heeled NPR-listening progressives in Austin (or Winnetka Heights or Montrose). But Wright would have to get out of himself a little bit to tell that story, which is, as reality tends to be, more complicated than the just-so stories political partisans like to tell themselves. (Texas's leading talk-radio figure is my friend Michael Berry of tiny Orange, Texas, and the University of…Nottingham, U.T. Austin's sister school. He's a politically moderate lawyer who once served as Houston's youngest city councilman, married to an Indian-American woman who served as Texas's secretary of state. The us-vs.-them, white-hats/black-hats progressive story breaks down when confronted with the realities of Texas political life.) Wright, unfortunately for his readers, is almost entirely self-absorbed. His great takeaway from his account of the flooding following Hurricane Harvey is that it interfered with the premiere of a play he had written. There are remarkable stories related to that episode, and Wright's is not one of them.
What to make of Texas? Don't ask poor Lawrence Wright. He just lives there.
Draining the Swamp
By: Michael Anton
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The Last New Dealer
By: Michael Barone
Hubert Humphrey played a critical role in the rise and decline of 20th-century liberalism.
Are Corporations People Too?
By: David E. Bernstein
To what extent the government may limit corporate political speech?
Morality and Happiness
By: Mark Blitz
What today's neuro and evolutionary scientists teach us about morality.
Camille Paglia against the feminists.
The Goddess in the Mist
Why the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend is better than the book.
Hero Traitor
In the end, readers must find Benedict Arnold guilty as charged.
Defending the Nation
Why we need nationalism, now more than ever.
Correspondence, Winter 2019
Aristotle and America; Jaffa's Vitality; Racism at Home and Abroad; Telling the Truth about Communism
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Reshaping the Right.
Consistently Original
Antonin Scalia's lasting effect on jurisprudence.
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Soul, Man
The soul is the most paradoxical thing in the world.
Ruined by His Own Glory
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The twists and turns of Alcibiades' life.
Securing the Constitution and Union
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Without Marshall, the judiciary would have been a withered branch.
The Insider's Guide to the Hebrew Bible
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The first Orthodox Jewish presentation of the Pentateuch likely to interest a broad audience.
Tribes 'R' Us
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Global citizenship's promises aren't appealing to the masses.
Seven Shades of Gray
By: Khalil Habib
Gray's book arrives like an uninvited guest to a premature celebration of God's death.
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Is the Pope Catholic?
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What Francis hath wrought.
Best of Enemies
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Gordon Wood's method presumes that there is not a robust or transhistorical human nature.
Ye Shall Be as Gods
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Modern Christianity has failed to distinguish itself fully from humanism.
The Last of the Founders
By: Michael M. Uhlmann
John Marshall is the least appreciated Founding Father.
Battle for a Continent
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Francis Parkman's politically incorrect history.
Conservatism after Trump
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Insights, challenges, and opportunities.


My Craft Spot: More fun with TBBM2 - Milk carton!
More fun with TBBM2 - Milk carton!
I have always wanted to cut out a milk carton, but didn't want to try to score the lines! So, with the new TBBM2 cartridge I just pop in the scoring tool. Yay! This makes it sooooo fast! I love it!
I can't remember what size I cut the flowers out at. It was leftover from another project, so I pulled it out of a little drawer I have filled with die cuts that were the wrong color or size for the project I was working on at the time.
I used my Crop-a-dile to punch two small holes in the top of the milk carton and tied a bow with HoneyDew Bakers Twine.
Did you know that the TBBM2 cartridge comes with a separate booklet with assembly instructions?!?!
What a wonderful box, Kimberly! And the flowers ARE perfect - size, colour, style!! How funny that they were actually meant for another project!
Beautiful milk carton, I love that you used those flowers that were meant for another project - they are perfect!!
Love it! I can't wait to get that cart no one has it though. Love that stamp.
Oh i love it.. i have the old TBBM - i didn't know they have a TBBM2... and the flowers are great with it..
Oh my gosh, this is so adorable! I love this cute lil milk carton...looks so sweet with the flowers!
SO cute! I need this cartridge REALLY bad. I can't find it. I love the sentiment you used-just perfect. Adorable!
The milk carton is wonderful. Like that you saved & used some flowers that go perfectly with the project.
This is so fabulous! You have coordinated everything so PERFECTLY! It's just wonderful!!
What a fabulous milk carton!! I just got my TBBM2 and cannot wait to play with it!! TFS!!
I'm loving this new cartridge, and 3-D objects are sooo much fun! You milk carton is super cute!
It looks great!!! Love the adorable little flowers!
So cute. This cartridge is on my wish list. I am so glad that they included a how to put together handbook .
What is the scoring tool?
They are so cute! Does the cricut have a scoring tool now?
Kimberly, I absolutely love this milk carton! I just got the TBBM2 cart and am having trouble getting the top part of the milk carton to go together. Do you have a tutorial on how to do this?
I don't have a tutorial on this one, but I do know you have to be really careful to make sure the score lines are correct, especially the two that fold in. Hope that helps!
Your comments make my day. Thanks so much!
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OKCon, now in its sixth year, is the interdisciplinary conference that brings together individuals from across the open knowledge spectrum for two days of presentations and workshops.
Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a wide range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology. Opening up access to content and data can radically increase access and reuse, improving transparency, fostering innovation and increasing societal welfare.
This is a time of great change. In addition to high profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth among open knowledge projects and communities at all levels. Moreover, in the last year, many governments across the world have begun opening up their data.
And it doesn't stop there. In academia, open access to both publications and data has been gathering momentum, and similar calls to open up learning materials have been heard in education. Furthermore this gathering flood of open data and content is the creator and driver of massive technological change. How can we make this data available, how can we connect it together, how can we use it collaborate and share our work?
Join the conference to discuss all of this and more! Link to the conference site here.
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Besides the visual arts, Santa Fe also has a vibrant and diverse music scene. This coming summer there will be plenty of live music to hear with a variety of festivals and special concerts. Take a look at a few of the events happening in June and July that are worth listening to.
This annual festival in Americana and roots music offers a range of local talent and national touring acts. Santa Fe Sol is located just south of Santa Fe, and proudly boasts an outdoor performance space in addition to it's indoor stage. This year's lineup includes: Mary Gauthier, Sister Carol, The Legendary Shack Shakers, and many more! Concurrently, there will be an arts & crafts exhibit happening.
The three day event examines the theme of "Music as Environmental Consciousness," conceived in homage to popular modern composer, John Cage. The festival will include several new works by young composers who are continuing on with Cage's tradition of hearing all the world as music. While you may not walk away humming any catchy melodies, you'll surely be intrigued by the variations in the sounds produced.
This is a worldwide 'Day of Music' taking place for the first time in Santa Fe. Originally started six years ago in New York as a day long event for amateurs and professionals to create music in public spaces. Santa Fe's version will take place at the Railyard Park and feature a children's music presentation, a brass quintet, Anthony Leon & the Chain, Havana Son, and The Attitudes.
Santa Fe's premier wind ensemble presents their second concert of the season, "It's About Time". Rather than have a permanent music director, Concordia Santa Fe features a guest conductor for each performance. For this concert, Dr. Paul Shewan from Roberts Wesleyan College will be leading the group.
This free summer music festival presents a wide range of performers on the Santa Fe Plaza Bandstand. Concerts are Monday through Thursday at 6pm, and noon on Monday and Wednesday.


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Hi there Rosie, I guess gone are the years of writing letters. I used to enjoy writing and receiving letters. I am so sorry about your husband, the Lord is holding you up I can see, stay strong. As i am trying to memorize Psalms 139, or at lease a few of the verses, God knows when we sit down and when we rise up and all our thoughts. Yahoo to all that. I just have to cling more to God , stay strong with Gods help, bye. Cathy.


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Q: How to use the merge function with excel files? So I have an excel file that contains a long list of ID numbers and batch numbers. I also have 3 other excel files that contain ID numbers that I need to find batch numbers for. Basically, my boss wants me to merge all 4 excel files together in R using the merge function in order to find the batch numbers for the 3 excel files that are missing batch numbers. I've never used the merge function before and I have no idea where to start.

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*Import excel files into the data frame read_excel

*Use the left_join function

See the example below
library(tidyverse)
dfExel1 = tibble(
  ID = 1:10000,
  batch = ID*2
)

dfExcel2 = tibble(
  ID = sample(1:10000, 10)
)

dfExcel2 %>% left_join(dfExel1, "ID")


Vodafone sign Network Enhancement Contract.
10 year deal signed by Vodafone to Arqiva's CityCell solution. Vodafone's 2G and 3G coverage will be enhanced via Arqiva's fully managed distributed antenna system (DAS).To improve their conventional network coverage, Vodafone will operate across 10 Arqiva CityCell nodes – discreet, low power antennas specifically designed for urban use.
Vodafone signed a 10-year deal with Arqiva to provide a fully managed 2G and 3G solution, encompassing design, implementation and maintenance.
To provide fast and secure connectivity, CityCell's street-level antennas connect back to a central base station 'hotel' through an existing fibre-optic network.
Capacities for data application services such as mobile internet and email, as well as video and music services have been added due to demand.
"We've seen an increasing demand for 3G services since the launch of the technology and we are committed to delivering improvements to our customers," said John Townsend, Vodafone.
"We have worked closely with the mobile operators to provide a practical and highly cost-effective solution to enable high-quality network coverage and capacity. By centralising all base-station equipment, network capacity can be increased within hours and managed in real time. Above all, we aim to deliver simplified access to expandable 3G coverage," commented Bob Slorach, Arqiva.
The quality of service for both mobile operators and their customers is enhanced by Arqiva's multi-operator solution.
Mobile users will benefit from fewer dropped calls and seamless coverage whilst roaming round the city, by simplifying the handover between cars.
As a way to decrease the deployment time and cost of providing good quality indoor coverage the CityCell system can be easily linked to Arqiva's InBuilding systems.