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(AllHipHop News) The annual Red Bull Music Culture Clash is returning to Atlanta, Georgia on August 24. This year's four-round competition will be hosted by Angela Yee of The Breakfast Club.
The battling teams are being led by Zaytoven (Zaytown Global), Mija & Kenny Beats (Don't Think), Kranium (Frequent Flyers) and Fuego (Fireboy Sound). Each crew will represent their unique cultural background and sound.
A livestream will air on RedBull.com. Music journalist Vivian Host, Atlanta Hawks organist Sir Foster, and Federation Sound's Max Glazer were tapped to kick-off the live broadcast with a pre-show at 8 pm EST.
In addition, Atlanta-born visual artist FRKO designed a limited edition Red Bull can to commemorate the event. The item will be available exclusively in the city, and consumers get the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime experience at Culture Clash.
Last year, Popcaan's Unruly unit took home the Culture Clash title for Jamaica. America's Mike WiLL Made-It, Canada's Wondagurl, and the United Kingdom's Tinie Tempah came up short in 2017, but each team leader rocked the crowd with appearances by Rae Sremmurd, Pusha T, Ludacris, Jermaine Dupri, Ying Yang Twins, Junior Reid, Crime Mob, and others.
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Camaroptera simplex é uma espécie de ave da família Cisticolidae.

Pode ser encontrada nos seguintes países: Angola, Burundi, República Democrática do Congo, Etiópia, Quénia, Malawi, Ruanda, Somália, Sudão, Tanzânia, Uganda e Zâmbia.

Os seus habitats naturais são: savanas áridas.

Referências

Camaroptera
Aves descritas em 1878

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Bible > Deuteronomy > Chapter 4 > Verse 13
◄ Deuteronomy 4:13 ►
He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.
He proclaimed his covenant—the Ten Commandments—which he commanded you to keep, and which he wrote on two stone tablets.
And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.
He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to do, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to follow, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
He declared his covenant to you. He commanded you to follow the Ten Commandments, which he wrote on two stone tablets.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
And he showed his covenant and commanded you to do ten sayings, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.
And he announced to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
The LORD said he was making an agreement with you, and he told you that your part of the agreement is to obey the Ten Commandments. Then the LORD wrote these Commandments on two flat stones.
And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, and the ten words that he wrote in two tables of stone.
The LORD told you about the terms of his promise, the ten commandments, which he commanded you to do. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets.
He told you what you must do to keep the covenant he made with you--you must obey the Ten Commandments, which he wrote on two stone tablets.
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to observe—the Ten Commandments that he wrote on two stone tablets.
And He declared unto you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even the ten words; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone.
and He declares His covenant to you, which He has commanded you to do, the Ten Commandments, and He writes them on two tablets of stone.
He proclaimed to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep: the ten words, which he wrote on two stone tablets.
And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.
He declared to you his covenant, which he charged you to observe, that is, the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two stone tablets.
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.
And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone.
An Exhortation to Obedience
…12And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; there was only a voice. 13He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow— the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone. 14At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.…
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant--the Ten Commandments.
And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.
At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
And he
Deuteronomy 5:1-21
And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them…
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Exodus 24:17,18
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel…
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
he wrote
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: …
Deuteronomy 10:1-5
At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood…
And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Agreement Commanded Commandments Covenant Declared Declareth Law Matters Perform Rules Stone Stones Tables Tablets Ten Words Writing Wrote
1. An exhortation to obedience
41. Moses appoints the three cities of refuge on that side of Jordan
44. Recapitulation
(13) His covenant . . . ten commandments.--See on Deuteronomy 5.
He wrote them.--See on Deuteronomy 10:2.
Verse 13. - His covenant; God's gracious engagement with Israel for their good, and by which they were bound to observe all his commandments. God declared this at Sinai when he uttered the ten commandments (words, דְבָרִים), "the words of the covenant, the ten words" (Exodus 34:28), which he afterwards gave to Moses on two tables of stone, written with the finger of God (Exodus 24:12; Exodus 31:18). Besides these, there were other statutes and ordinances which Moses was commanded to teach the people, and which, with them, comprised the Law given at Sinai (see Exodus 21. and following chapters).
He declared
וַיַּגֵּ֨ד (way·yag·gêḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous
אֶת־ ('eṯ-)
Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case
His covenant,
בְּרִית֗וֹ (bə·rî·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant
the Ten
עֲשֶׂ֖רֶת ('ă·śe·reṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6235: Ten
הַדְּבָרִ֑ים (had·də·ḇā·rîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause
He commanded
צִוָּ֤ה (ṣiw·wāh)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order
you to follow,
לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת (la·'ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
which He wrote
וַֽיִּכְתְּבֵ֔ם (way·yiḵ·tə·ḇêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3789: To grave, to write
עַל־ ('al-)
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against
שְׁנֵ֖י (šə·nê)
Number - mdc
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)
לֻח֥וֹת (lu·ḥō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3871: To glisten, a tablet, of stone, wood, metal
of stone.
אֲבָנִֽים׃ ('ă·ḇā·nîm)
Strong's 68: A stone
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Sarawak natives win fight to regain land taken for Baram dam
Sarawak villagers have won their bid to regain native customary land that had been earmarked for the construction of the Baram dam, according to their lawyers.
The decision meant that the nearly 20,000 villagers from up to 30 villages will now be allowed to re-enter the land that had previously been gazetted for acquisition under Sarawak Land Code to facilitate the mega-dam in the state.
The lawyer representing the group, Harrison Ngau, was informed by the state Attorney-General's Office on March 15 that the two gazettes issued in 2013 and 2015 for the acquisition were repealed in February.
"I congratulate the people of Baram for this great success and I pray that they will continue to fight for their rights and protection of the environment," Peter Kallang, the chairman of the SAVE Rivers conservation group, said in a statement.
"I would also like to thank the Chief Minister Adenan Hj. Satem who has heard the people's voice. He announced the moratorium on works for the dam on 30th July 2015 and now he has returned the land. I hope that the chapter on Baram dam is now permanently closed," added the Batu Lintang assemblyman.
The Baram dam — which was part of the state government's ambitious plan to build 12 dams under its Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) — drew strong opposition from local communities, who at one point erected barricades to stop surveyors and road builders accessing the site.
The aim of the dam network had been to produce up to 30,000MW of electricity to meet the demand of power-hunger heavy industries like aluminium smelters that will be set up within the SCORE area.
The hydroelectric Baram dam was proposed during the administration of former Sarawak chief minister Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud, who is now the state's governor.
Taib's successor, Tan Sri Adenan Satem, last year announced that the state government decided to call off the project due to opposition from affected natives and other residents.
Adenan must face a state election this year, as the Sarawak legislative assembly's mandate will expire in June.
By The Malay Mail Online


Commission down-zones another Queens neighborhood. On April 13, 2005, the Planning Commission approved another of the Bloomberg administration's down-zoning initiatives by rezoning 40 blocks of Kissena Park, a small residential neighborhood directly north of its namesake, the 235-acre Kissena Park.
The down-zoning, commenced at the urging of the Kissena Park Civic Association, would be the first rezoning plan passed since 1961 in this predominately one and two-family home residential neighborhood. Designed to match the context of the area's buildings, the action proposed replacing the current R3-2 zoning with three districts (R2, R3A and R3X) that would generally limit future development to one and two-family homes on all 40 blocks. The current zoning allows rowhouse and large apartment development. The proposal would impact an area generally bound by 45th and 46th Avenues and Parson Boulevard to the east, Rose Avenue and Colden Street to the south and Mulberry Avenue, Union Street and Kissena Boulevard to the west.
No one opposed the rezoning at the March 30, 2005 Commission hearing and the Commission unanimously approved, finding the action necessary to protect Kissena Park's character and low density.
ULURP Process The Planning Commission, as lead agency, issued a negative declaration on December 6, 2004. Community Board 7 and Borough President Helen Marshall approved. City Council review is pending.


Our whole lifes we have been eating slices of truffles in our dishes, making them more flavorful and more into gourmet standard. But what if we tell you that most of this ways of serving was for the look and aroma than the flavor? Yes! specially on black truffles.
As specialists of truffles, we always told our customers that "in order to release the black truffles (or truffles in general) flavors" the idea was to "put slices of truffles in contact with just prepared hot food" because the thiner the slices were, the most flavors they will release".
Enjoy this video, and try out this new method. We are sure you will agree with us after trying it.


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Shhhhh… Key West Transit Has Quietly Changed Their Routes
By Chris Hamilton, May 20, 2020
Why this information is so hard to come by, we don't know. But Key West Transit has ditched the old, meandering, hard to understand Red, Orange, Blue and Green Routes (Yay!) and replaced them with two simplified North and South routes that intersect with the "Free and Frequent" Duval Loop. While the routes are simpler to understand, with only 10 trips in and 10 trips out per day, the frequency is still rather dismal at about one and a half hours between trips. Less on weekends.
We hope the frequency issue is temporary, but there isn't any information on the Key West Transit or City website indicating what's happening and what's next. We'll try to find out and keep you informed.
Please read our story Reimagining Key West Transit and find out the bright future for getting around the island by bus and why we think we need to speed up that plan this summer/fall. Below you'll find the new routes and schedules.
New Lower Keys Transit Schedule.
Here's a two-page printable version of the new City schedule from Key West Transit. And here's the Lower Keys Shuttle schedule.
The old and won't be missed Red, Orange, Blue and Green routes. Click to enlarge.
This is the new North Line route map.
This is the new North Line schedule.
This is the new South Line route map.
This is the new South Line schedule.
Chris Hamilton
A native of the District of Columbia, where for a couple decades+ he led the nationally renown Commuter Services unit for Arlington County, VA's DOT, Chris has lived in Key West since 2015. He lives downtown and works and volunteers for a couple non-profits.
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Nancy Arndt
So we seniors down here at Amelia and Emma no longer have access closer than United and Duval. Sad


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Music has been a signature program at Kurn Hattin since the early 20th Century! Virtually all children participate in regular vocal concerts, and older children learn to play an instrument of their choice and may choose to join the marching or jazz band. The homes have been known throughout the northeast for producing first-rate bands and choirs that perform frequently throughout the region. The Homes' bands regularly play in the Big E Parade in Springfield, MA; in the Strolling of the Heifers in Brattleboro; and at the Burlington Jazz Festival. The choirs have sung the National Anthem at Fenway Park for the Red Sox; in Portland, ME for both the Red Claws semi-pro basketball and the Pirates semi-pro hockey; at Dartmouth and UVM basketball and hockey games; and at Lincoln Center Plaza in NYC. Kurn Hattin hosts an annual Choral Invitational for middle and high school choirs each spring as well as a marvelous Jazz Invitational featuring the talents of middle and high school ensembles along with semi-professional and professional jazz artists – it is an evening not to be missed for jazz aficionados! Often, beginning dance opportunities are also offered to children in the MS years.
The visual arts program at Kurn Hattin functions primarily during the academic day. Art is offered for all students as a part of the academic program and features drawing and painting, 3-D creations, clay sculpting, pottery wheel opportunities, art theory, and some art appreciation. Some children pursue additional art options during their free-time through an Art Club.


Illinois law requires that the original will of a deceased person be filed within 30 days of the date of death with the Clerk of the Circuit Court in the county where the decedent resided at the time of their passing. Although legal proceedings exist to use a copy of a will in lieu of the original, failure to have the original will be costly and will negate one of the primary reasons for having a comprehensive estate plan, avoiding probate court.
Under current law, there is no public body available to accept the filing of a will while a person is still alive. Thus it is very important that your named executors and your heirs be able to easily locate your will at the time of your death. We recommend that our clients keep a safe or fire proof box in their home and that they give a key or the combination to their family members. Bank safe deposit boxes can be used to store important legal documents but it is important that you have other people authorized to access the box after you pass away.
Keep all of your estate planning documents (will, trust, powers of attorney for health care and property, living will, etc.) in one place. Make sure your executors and backup trustees know where those documents can be found. We also recommend that you compile a list of all your assets and liabilities and that you update that list at least once a year. Doing so will make the difficult task of handling a decedent's estate a little bit easier for your heirs.
If you need to create an estate plan or to update an existing plan, feel free to contact us. We can help guide you to make your passing as easy as possible for your family and loved ones.


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Q: Q: Disable access to default vhost and through server IP on Apache 2.4.10 I'm trying to get Apache 2.4.10 on Debian 8 "Jessie" up and running with multiple websites hosted on it. This might be an obvious and already answered question but I've never had the need to set-up a dedicated web host (usually just drop a WAMP server for development needs or pick up a web hosting service) and so far I have not had any luck finding an answer to my problem (I've found the complete opposite answers of what I'm trying to achieve). I need to get this working because apart from just hosting a couple of websites, there will be additional software set-up, for which, a regular web hosting service won't do.
Everything seems to be working as intended but the only problem is that I can't seem to find an optimal configuration which wouldn't just block access to default vhost with 403 - Forbidden. What I need is Apache to ignore requests (not just return a 404 document but tell the browser there's nothing there) from anyone accessing the default vhost or by accessing the server directly through it's designated IP. The designated IP should be left for SSH access only (since I don't have any kind of physical access to this server).
Basically, the web server should be accessible from a web browser through "FQDN-1" and "FQDN-2" (each located in their individual directories) and access to any other web address on this server should be ignored (invoking browser "404 not found" instead of returning a server error document, which would indicate that something is there).
my current vhost files:
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName FQDN-1
    ServerAlias www.FQDN-1
    ServerAdmin mail@FQDN-1
    DocumentRoot /var/www/FQDN-1/public_html
    ErrorLog /var/www/FQDN-1/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/FQDN-1/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

And
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName FQDN-2
        ServerAlias www.FQDN-2
        ServerAdmin mail@FQDN-2
        DocumentRoot /var/www/FQDN-2/public_html
        ErrorLog /var/www/FQDN-2/logs/error.log
        CustomLog /var/www/FQDN-2/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

The default vhost has been disabled through "a2dissite 000-default"
Iptables block everything except tcp port 80 and 22 (SSH access is whitelisted in iptables to just few specific iPs).

A: You can let the built-in name-based vhosting do the work for you.  You can simply setup an additional (non default / non-first listed for *:80) virtualhost with
ServerName your-ip

and put a simple rule like
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^ .* [F]

or
Redirect 403 /

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Most visual artists dream of getting an agent that can market their work, achieve collectors for them, and assist them by doing all that tedious, non-artsy stuff like advertising and promoting. 2,000 Degrees: A Fireplace Odyssey is a 3-dimensional exhibition that options whimsical hand-built ceramic sculptures by Japanese artist Kensuke Yamada and beautiful glass creations by Danville native Stephen Rolfe Powell, and highlights new collaborative pieces created by the artists specifically for this show.
At the turn of the 20th century and before the Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain, the term 'Artwork' or 'Artist' referred solely to the sector of Positive Arts (like painting, sculpture, or print making), and not Craft or Applied Media. Sidewalk Studio consists of artists painting utility boxes (see under).
The Visible Arts Program is interdisciplinary and presents an MFA diploma in Visual Arts rather than in a single particular medium. Nonetheless, when utilized in an inventive sense it means the use of this activity together with drawing , composition , or other aesthetic considerations in order to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner.
The nationwide media arts standards have been created by arts educators from across the field of arts training with illustration from visual arts, dance, music and theater. The curriculums are intensive and are designed to result in a four-12 months Artwork diploma program.
Programs taught within the Arts Division at Minneapolis Faculty will embrace the formal, technical and expressive qualities of high-quality artwork. Bishop Miege High School has a robust tradition of providing a variety of visual art classes and opportunities, including acrylic portray, drawing, graphic design and perspective drawing.


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Q: Error reading from large Cassandra table with Spark, getting "Remote RPC client disassociated" I set stand alone spark cluster (with cassandra) and i did it but when i read data i get error.My cluster has 3 nodes and each node has 64 GB ram and 20 cores. I'm sharing some Spark-env.sh configuration like spark_executor_cores: 5, spark_executor_memory:5G, spark_worker_cores:20 and spark_worker_memory:45g.
I want to give another information, when i read small table there is no problem but when i read big table i get error. Error description at below. Also when i start pyspark i use this command:
$ ./pyspark --master spark://10.0.0.100:7077
    --packages com.datastax.spark:spark-cassandra-connector_2.12:3.1.0
    --conf spark.driver.extraJavaOptions=-Xss1024m
    --conf spark.driver.port:36605
    --conf spark.driver.blockManager.port=42365

Thanks for your interest
ERROR TaskSchedulerImpl: Lost executor 5 on 10.0.0.10: Remote RPC client disassociated. likely due to containers exceeding threshold, or network issues. Chec driver logs for WARN messages
WARN TaskSetManager: Lost task 0.0 in stage 0.0 (TID 0) (10.0.0.10 executor 5): ExecutorLostFailure (executor 5 exited caused by one of the runnning task) reason: remote RPC client disassociated.
WARN TaskSetManager: Lost task 0.1 in stage 0.0 (TID 1) (10.0.0.11 executor 2):Java.lang.StackOverflowError
 at java.base/java.nio.ByteBuffer.position(ByteBuffer.java:1094)
 at java.base/java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.get(HeapByteBuffer.java:184)
 at org.apache.spark.util.ByteBufferInputStream.read(ObjectInputStream.scala:49)
 at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.read(ObjectInputStream.java:2887)
 at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFully(ObjectInputStream.java:2903)
 at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readUTFBody(ObjectInputStream.java:3678)
 at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readUTF(ObjectInputStream.java:3678)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readString(ObjectInputStream.java:2058)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1663)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2490)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2384)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2222)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1681)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2490)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2384)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2222)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1681)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2490)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:2384)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:2222)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1681)
at java.base/java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:2490)
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A: The problem you're running into is most likely a networking issue.
It's highly unusual that you need to pin the driver ports with:
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You'll need to provide background information on why you're doing this.
Also as I previously advised you on another question last week, you need to provide the minimal code + minimal configuration that replicates the problem. Otherwise, there isn't enough information for others to be able to help you. Cheers!


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Air park faces hurdle in FAA rule
By Gary Huffenberger
The Wilmington Air Park needs to be named a National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) airport to get federal funds to pay for upgrades to keep its Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operating certificate but there's a complication, facility officials said Wednesday.
The county airport on North Curry Road already is NPIAS-eligible and the FAA says the two airports are too close to both be NPIAS-eligible.
"We've raised it with the White House and the federal administration. We've raised it with I believe Senators Brown and Portman and we've had that discussion with Congressman Turner's office as well," Clinton County Port Authority Executive Director Kevin Carver reported Wednesday to the Port Authority board.
The FAA "consistently" has told the Port Authority that it will not allow two NPIAS-eligible airports within a certain radius of each other and the two airports in Clinton County are within that radius, said Carver.
"So, that's the challenge. We'll continue to work on it, both locally and at the federal and state levels," he added.
He reminded board members that NPIAS is the "access point" for larger federal grants that come through the FAA. NPIAS is also the "entry point" for an entitlement grant program through which Clinton Field on Curry Road receives funding, said Carver.
As previously reported, the consultants who recently completed a master re-use plan for the air park listed as their top concern the possibility the facility could lose its FAA airport operating certificate.
The air park has a valid FAA Part 139 operating certificate, but the FAA has said the certificate's long-term status is in jeopardy unless costly safety and security upgrades are made.
Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services (AMES), a current air park tenant, has indicated it would be unable to stay in business at the air park if the site loses its FAA certificate, master redevelopment plan Project Manager Dan Riedy said in December.
Carver said after Wednesday's Port Authority meeting that he has met with Clinton Field board members on at least three occasions concerning the matter.
He said both the Port Authority and the Clinton Field board are trying "to consider potential options to resolve the situation."
Port Authority officials believe the air park is going to need access to federal and state funds to assist paying an estimated $4.6 million in improvements required to keep an FAA operating certificate.
Carver and Jim Osborne, director of airport operations at the air park, met last week with the Ohio Department of Transportation's (ODOT) Division of Aviation about funding.
"We were informed we were eligible to apply for grant money – that's the good news. The bad news is they (ODOT) have less than a million dollars available for more than 90 general aviation airports in the state of Ohio," Carver advised the Port Authority board members.
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Source: Wilmington News Journal


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Thus far, I've seen that hierarchies are available, but not really applicable to this scenario.  We have a hierarchy-based workflow in use for the purchase requisition approvals -- but looking at that one hasn't illuminated an answer.
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Halo Wars 2 Reaches Waypoint
By Mat Growcott
Feb 18, 2016 01:39 EST
Halo Wars is perhaps the most underrated entry in the popular sci-fi, and yet it did so many unexpectedly great things. The sequel, cleverly called Halo Wars 2 as to avoid confusion, will be coming this year, but we're not entirely sure when. That could be changing very soon.
Progress is clearly being made, as the Halo Waypoint website now has its very own Halo Wars 2 section. There's a simple description, a logo picture and, well, not much else. Most details have yet to be revealed.
Microsoft's description reads:
Halo Wars 2 is an exciting new strategy game packed with fast-paced action, massive battles, and an all-new Halo story, coming to Xbox One and Windows 10. Developed by Creative Assembly, a SEGA company and the creators of the popular Total War™series, in partnership with 343 Industries, Halo Wars 2 is the sequel to the game that redefined real-time strategy on consoles.
It would be wrong to say that Halo Wars revolutionised the RTS on console. It's not accurate because Age of Empires 2 was already pretty rad (although not quite as quick), and because it didn't actually change anything. Despite proving it could be done, nobody really seemed to want to follow it up with anything.
Halo Wars 2 will probably have a similar fate, but will be worth watching nonetheless when it's released on Xbox One and PC (or Windows 10 anyway) later this year.
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Home ► US News ► Fight with Republican Party looms as Jeffries taps Adam Schiff, Eric 'Bang-Fang' Swalwell for House Intel panel
Fight with Republican Party looms as Jeffries taps Adam Schiff, Eric 'Bang-Fang' Swalwell for House Intel panel
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is defying House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and has submitted Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric 'Bang-Fang' Swalwell (D-CA) for the powerful Intelligence Committee, despite both being considered security risks by Republicans.
McCarthy has vowed to block both suggestions to the committee, setting up a fight between the left and right in the House.
Democrats are also reportedly planning to seat Representative Ingrate Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to a source who spoke to The Hill. If the move takes place, Republican Party leaders will take it to a floor vote to keep her off the committee.
Unlike the Intelligence panel, McCarthy does not have the power to block members of the Foreign Affairs Committee unilaterally. Republican Party leaders are expected to vote to remove her from the panel.
.@RepJeffries in letter to @SpeakerMcCarthy: if Santos gets to be committees, Schiff/Swalwell should get to stay on Intel.
"The apparent double standard risks undermining the spirit of bipartisan cooperation that is so desperately needed in Congress."https://t.co/K3dDxLBn9u pic.twitter.com/SeM4yLTWeh
— bryan metzger (@metzgov) January 23, 2023
Jeffries sent a letter to McCarthy on Saturday informing him that he considers Schiff and Swalwell to be both "eminently qualified" to continue their service on the committee, according to Punchbowl News. He requested that the men be seated on the committee… a request that will almost certainly be rebuffed.
"Together, these Members have over two decades of distinguished leadership providing oversight of our nation's Intelligence Community, in addition to their prosecutorial work in law enforcement prior to serving in Congress," Jeffries told McCarthy in his letter.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has special rules that empower the speaker to assign members to the panel, in consultation with the minority leader. Which means he can also reject them without a full House vote.
Adam Schiff openly and repeatedly lied to the American public.
The House Intelligence Committee is no place for politics. I'm going to restore it to its original role of keeping our country safe. pic.twitter.com/M3i0ZGTaD5
If you got the briefing I got from the disgraced FBI, you wouldn't have Eric 'Bang-Fang' Swalwell on 𝘢𝘯𝘺 committee. pic.twitter.com/2H19pezF9M
Following Democrats removing Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) from their committee assignments, Republicans are not in a tolerant mood when it comes to Schiff, Swalwell, and Omar. McCarthy intends to keep his word and keep all of them off committees.
Jeffries tried to thread the needle on the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats on the issue, "This action was taken by both Democrats and Republicans given the seriousness of the conduct involved, particularly in the aftermath of a violent insurrection and attack on the Capitol. It does not serve as precedent or justification for the removal of Representatives Schiff and Swalwell, given that they have never exhibited violent thoughts or behavior."
He also invoked Representative George Santos (R-NY), whom Jeffries called a "serial fraudster."
"The apparent double standard risks undermining the spirit of bipartisan cooperation that is so desperately needed in Congress," Jeffries wrote, attempting to sway McCarthy.
"What I am doing with the Intel Committee [is] bringing it back to the jurisdiction it's supposed to do. Forward-looking to keep this country safe, keep the politics out of it," McCarthy told reporters. "So yes, I'm doing exactly what we're supposed to do."
Schiff, who is a former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, led the witchhunt into former President Trump's non-existent ties to Russia, and Republicans have accused him of lying during the course of that investigation.
Proud to be nominated by @RepJeffries as the top Democrat on the Intel Committee.
McCarthy's threat to remove me — to placate his right-wing — will damage the committee's independence.
Along with his committee on conspiracy theories, he is doing grave damage to national security. pic.twitter.com/h42Er5r01w
Swalwell has ties to a suspected Chinese spy and is thought to have been caught up in a honeypot trap. She helped fundraise for Swalwell's 2014 reelection campaign. He claims he cut ties with the Chinese national and claims McCarthy's decision to remove him from the Intelligence Committee is "purely vengeance."
Honored to be re-nominated by @RepJeffries to the Intel Committee. McCarthy's threat to remove me, out of political vengeance, destroys the committee's independence. Worst, his justification is based on lies @washingtonpost's fact-checker gave 4 Pinocchios. He has no credibility pic.twitter.com/rO9z3cNzQc
— Representative Eric 'Bang-Fang' Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) January 23, 2023
Schiff served as a lead House manager for Trump's first impeachment trial, while Swalwell served as a manager for the second one. The chances of either man getting back onto the committee are reportedly nonexistent.
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The Blue Jays announced that right-hander Danny Barnes has cleared waivers and been assigned outright to Triple-A Buffalo. He'll be in Major League Spring Training as a non-roster invitee. Barnes, 29, was designated for assignment when the organization signed Freddy Galvis last week. Barnes pitched to a 3.55 ERA with 8.5 K/9 and 3.3 B/9 through 66 innings of relief for the 2017 Jays but saw those numbers plummet to a 5.71 ERA with 8.4 K/9 against 4.8 BB/9 in 41 innings this past season. As an extreme fly-ball pitcher with a relatively modest fastball, home runs have been especially problematic for Barnes over the past couple of seasons (1.43 HR/9).
Left-hander Pat Dean announced on Instagram this week that he's returning to the Twins organization on a minor league contract after spending the 2017-18 seasons pitching for the Kia Tigers of the Korea Baseball Organization. Originally a third-round pick back in 2010, Dean ascended to the Majors with the Twins as a 26-year-old in 2016 but was hit hard; in 67 1/3 innings, Dean was tagged for a 6.28 ERA with 6.7 K/9 against 3.1 BB/9. That represents his only MLB experience to date, though Dean does have a lifetime 3.50 ERA in 306 1/3 innings at the Triple-A level. Dean had a solid first season in the hitter-friendly KBO before struggling to a 6.26 ERA there in his second season. He'll give the Twins some left-handed depth in the upper minors — be it as a starter or reliever.
First, David Robertson is his own agent, and now Pat Dean is handling his own press releases. Waiting for a guy to announce his own at bat, with in game mics.
There's more than one way into the HOF.
Could the player who carries own bags be around the corner?
Danny Barnes, what a good bullpen guy until he got hurt. Impinged shoulder. What a nightmare injury.
No wonder he started to slide. I hope he gets it back.
He has blown every save opportunity he's gotten with the Jays. Referring to him as "…a good bullpen guy…" is false advertising. He was okay. At best. At times.
Barnes had his ERA under 2 heading into May, and was sent down with a 2.57 ERA. Part of the numbers had to be psychological; you are a reliever pitching for a team that thinks nothing of you, you perform and you're still sent down.
That's the hard truth about Danny Barnes. This is now the 3rd GM regime in a row that has no problem punishing success and rewarding failure. And Jays fans still wonder why this team does not win consistently.
By that logic, your criticism of the jays management of RP with options is literally how every team operates. It's a byproduct of teams not wanting the SP to go 3rd time through the order.
Your point has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. Your last line is obvious. Yes SP are pulled early. My point was the organization didn't care for Danny Barnes regardless of how well he was pitching. They could have made another move elsewhere and chose not to. This organization has made a habit of helping bad players and demoting performing players. That's a simple fact.
One good thing about Pat Dean was his K/BB ratio last season.


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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or...
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You know what's really scary? Getting sick while you're reading the first part of
. Just try running a fever, going through a box of tissues and guzzling the better part of a bottle of NyQuil while Stephen King describes the grisly deaths of almost every one on Earth from a superflu. On top of feeling like crap, you'll be terrified. Bonus!
After a bio-engineered virus that acts like a revved up cold escapes from a U.S. government lab, it takes only weeks for almost all of humanity to suc
After a bio-engineered virus that acts like a revved up cold escapes from a U.S. government lab, it takes only weeks for almost all of humanity to succumb to the disease. A handful of survivors are mysteriously immune and begin having strange dreams, some of which are about a very old woman called Mother Abigail asking them to come see her. More disturbing are nightmares about a mysterious figure named Randall Flagg also known as the Dark Man or the Walkin' Dude.
As they make their way through an America almost entirely devoid of people, the survivors begin to unite and realize that the flu was just the beginning of their problems. While some are drawn to the saintly Mother Abigail in Boulder Colorado who tells them that they have been chosen by God, others have flocked to Flagg in Las Vegas who is determined to annihilate all those who refuse to pledge their allegiance to him.
If King would have just written a book about a world destroyed by plague and a small number of people struggling in the aftermath, it probably would have been a compelling story. What sets this one apart is the supernatural element. Flagg is the embodiment of evil and chaos. He's a mysterious figure who has been giving the wrong people the push needed for them to make things worse for everyone, and he sees the plague as his chance to fulfill his own destiny as a wrecker of humanity.
And on the other side, we have God. Yep, that God. The Big Cheese himself. But this isn't some kindly figure in a white robe with a white beard or George Burns or Morgan Freeman. This is the Old Testament God who demands obedience and worship while usually rewarding his most faithful servants with gruesome deaths.
King calls this a tale of dark Christianity in his forward, and one of the things I love about this book is that it does feel like a Biblical story, complete with contradictions and a moves-in-mysterious-ways factor. Stories don't get much more epic than this, and King does a great job of depicting the meltdown of the world through the stories of a variety of relateable characters. (Larry Underwood remains among my favorite King creations.)
One of my few complaints is that this features a lot of King's anti-technology themes that he'd use in several books like
series. We're told repeatedly that the 'old ways' like trying to get the power back on in Boulder are a 'death trip'. The good guys gather in the Rocky Mountains, but if they try to get the juice going so they won't freeze to death in the winter, they're somehow acting in defiance of God's will and returning to the bad habits? Not all tech is bad tech, Mr. King. Nature is a bitch and will kill your ass quicker than the superflu.
Here's another thing I'm not wild about. When this was published in the late '70s, the bean counters at King's publishers had decided that the book as written would be too pricey in hardback and no one would pay a whopping $13 for a Stephen King hardback. So King cut about three hundred pages.
Around 1990 after it had become apparent that King could publish his shopping list as a best seller, he put those pages back in and released the uncut version. Which I'm fine with. The original stuff was cut for a financial reason, not an editorial one, and there's some very nice bits of story added in. If King would have stopped there, we would have had a great definitive final version as originally created by the author.
Unfortunately, he seemed to catch a case of Lucasitis and decided to update the story a bit and change its original time frame from 1980 to 1990. I'm not sure why that seemed necessary to him. Yes, the book was a bit dated by then, but it was of its time. He didn't rewrite the text (Which I'm grateful for.), but just stuck in some references to Madonna and Ronald Reagan and Spuds McKenzie.
This led to a whole bunch of anachronisms. Would students in 1990 call soldiers 'war pigs'? Someone in New York picks up a phone book to look up the number to call an ambulance instead of dialing 911? A song called Baby, Can You Dig Your Man is a huge hit? None of it quite fits together. There's also a layer of male chauvinism and lack of diversity that you can overlook in a book written in the late '70s, but seems out of place for a book set and updated for 1990.
The things that irritate me are still far outweighed by one of my favorite stories of an apocalyptic battle between good and evil.
I'm also glad to get a long overdue audio edition of this book. Great narration and 40+ hours of end of the world horror make for a damn fine listening experience.
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I never get tired of reading this book. It's my absolute all time favorite reads. Every once in a while I have to go back and read it again and again....and it's just as good as the first time I read it those many years ago.
The end of the world where humanity takes a stand between good and evil.
I am a Stephen King fan and whilst I have read most of his books, The Stand has remained my all-time favorite. I read it when it was first published in 1978 and I was really happy when a longer
I am a Stephen King fan and whilst I have read most of his books, The Stand has remained my all-time favorite. I read it when it was first published in 1978 and I was really happy when a longer and uncut version came out in 1990 and have since read it many times. It remains an incredible, riveting and unforgettable story. The ultimate post-apocalyptic/horror/fantasy and thought provoking novel.
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail -- and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
In 1978 Stephen King published "The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, "The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.
Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. "The Stand: "The Complete And Uncut Edition includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending.
What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.
For hundreds of thousands of fans who read "The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading "The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.
This is one book that's left a lasting impression on me and I love picking it up and reading it all over again and again. How quickly and easily greed, corruption and playing the Hand of God can bring humanity to its knees and even with the possibility of their total extinction. That thought is not that far fetched with all the stuff that's being done today, all in the name science.
The plot line which is divided into three parts/books follows the experiences of the plague survivors before, during and after the catastrophe and the roles they play in the story. It's dark, intense, terrifying and uplifting…there's hope, faith, religion, love, hate, fear, fate and redemption. A suspenseful and emotional build-up to the final face-off of good versus evil. There's a meaning to everything that happens in the story – the betrayals, the dreams, death and births. There is nothing random in anything.
But it's the realistic and deep characterization that's astonishing. Complex and well developed characters that leap off the pages. It gives us a deeper understanding using the viewpoints of many of the characters – their back stories show the differences in the morality of humankind.
The vivid descriptions make the plot and characters so real and believable.
There are so many great characters in this story that some have left a lasting impression on me.
Stu Redman, a quiet, moral and unassuming character that inspires people to continue their fight against evil.
Abigail Freemantle, 108 years old and believed to be the oldest person and survivor in the world and claims to be God's prophet and is instrumental in bringing the good forces together.
And a fine answer to why God had chosen her to be the messenger of God
And then there's Randall Flagg also known as the Dark Man, The Walking Dude, friendly, smiling and helpful… but one can sense the evil and darkness behind that facade – a true villain.
Because humanity never learns from his mistakes. Bad things that happen are quickly forgotten pushed aside as memories past…and so the circle begins again. An eternal and never-ending battle where neither side wins or loses.
Stu & Frannie, at the end say it all………….
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I first read THE STAND in the early 80's. It was during the Christmas break- I lived out in the boonies with my family, and after the holiday hoopla was over -I planted myself in my favorite chair and sat there for 4 days devouring every page-(only leaving for bathroom breaks, meals and sleep).
30+ years later my reading experience was a little different. I read it with my Goodreads friend Lisa- who had the uncut version, while I had the original- I stopped and started
30+ years later my reading experience was a little different. I read it with my Goodreads friend Lisa- who had the uncut version, while I had the original- I stopped and started as she caught up- there were huge amounts of messages back and forth- on the characters, the differences in editions, who we loved- who we hated, and everything and anything we could think of to discuss. It was a month long read...
...but the one thing both experiences did have in common was- I LOVED IT each time!!
At a remote U.S. Army base, a strain of influenza is accidentally released. Despite a lock down- soldier Charles Campion is able to escape with his wife and child. By the time the military is able to track his whereabouts- Campion has spread the disease around parts of Texas- triggering a pandemic which kills off 99 percent of the population.
The one percent are left in survival mode- spread out over the entire country and plagued by strange dreams about two individuals which eventually draw some to Nebraska and some to Las Vegas.
Hemingford Home, Nebraska- Is the home of Abagail Freemantle— "Mother Abagail" a 108 year- old woman who receives visions from God. She is the embodiment of good.
Las Vegas, Nevada- is where Randall Flagg has set up shop- Randall is also called The Dark Man and The Walking Dude. He lives to cause death and destruction and has supernatural powers which allow him to be human, animal or demon. He is the embodiment of evil.
King said that he "wanted to write a fantasy epic like The Lord of the Rings, only with an American setting"- and that is just what he did. THE STAND is a wonderful epic fantasy adventure about good vs evil- One that I would recommend to anybody who hasn't read it yet, and even to those who have!
M-O-O-N. That spells "Damn, what a great book!"
I knew King had it in him, I am a fan of his brilliant 1977 haunted house thriller
, but I did not expect this.
The best post apocalyptic novel ever?
Maybe, that is a broad category teaming with great work from talented writers, but King's The Stand is an epic, genre defining work.
My friend Michael has a profile statement, something to the effect of finding our next 5 star rating. I like that sentiment, and am excited by the opportunity th
My friend Michael has a profile statement, something to the effect of finding our next 5 star rating. I like that sentiment, and am excited by the opportunity that our next favorite book is out there waiting to be read; a new best friend of an author to whom we've yet to be introduced. Here's mine. I'm late to the party, just reading this for the first time in 2015. I think I was always a little intimidated by the length. It's a beast, and I was a glutton for punishment reading the 1990 extended version, weighing in at a heavyweight 1153 pages. But it's a runaway train, grabbing the reader up and taking him or her where Stephen King wants to take you.
Yes, it's a book about a devastating plague, but also so, so much more. King weaves in an allegory about the viruses amongst us. There is also the spiritual quality of the book, King shows how we are sinners in the hands of an angry God, and that dreamers will survive – and survivors can still dream.
I could not help making a comparison with the
series, and associating Flagg to Nicholai Carpathia – though King's characterization is far more complex and well rounded, and like Milton's Satan, the most interesting character here is the villain. This makes me appreciate his
series and I want to search out Flagg and read more about him.
This is also an American epic and in its context an American eulogy. King shows us the good the bad and the ugly of what we are and what we can be. An observant reader will see references to Ursula K. LeGuin (word for world is woods), to Jim Morison, Edgar Allan Poe, Woody Guthrie, and hell even Rod McKuen.
I know Mr. King and have enjoyed many of his works and I have now been amazed by his finest.
Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin
Wow!! So I have had this awesome paperback door stopper for some time. (Gift from friend) I decided to get the audio through the library and of course now I have added it to my Audible wishlist. The narration is freaking awesome! The whole damn book is freaking awesome!
The thing is, I didn't think I would like it because I barely remember the movie and am not sure I liked it. That was a long time ago and who the hell knows! I'm just extremely happy I finally read it.
Yeah! It's long, but most b
Yeah! It's long, but most books I read or listen to are so that's neither here nor there. I just loved reading about all of the people and events. And I did laugh at times. YES, scary stories do have some comedy at times. Lol.
Anyhoo, enjoy peeps!!
Mel 🖤🐾🐺
Emily (Books with Emily Fox)
I caught it twice in the month it took me to read this book. Twice! I'm rarely sick so it's clearly a thing.
Post-apocalyptic book where most people die from a super flu. That part was my favorite.
It then becomes a battle between Good and Evil. Some fantasy elements were included. This part was still solid. I liked how we got to follow the characters and get to know them. I felt some similarities to Station Eleven so if you like The Stand I would give this on
It then becomes a battle between Good and Evil. Some fantasy elements were included. This part was still solid. I liked how we got to follow the characters and get to know them. I felt some similarities to Station Eleven so if you like The Stand I would give this one a shot too!
Chelsea Humphrey
I'm not sure what I can say about this massive tome that hasn't been said before, but I came, I read, and I conquered. I also really enjoyed it along the way, which says a lot due to my struggle with committing to massive books. :) Does anyone know if there will be a new book-to-screen adaptation of this one in the near future, or if the old mini series is worth the time? Anyway, I'm satisfied and a tiny bit relieved to be finished. <3 Thanks to everyone who pushed me to make 2019 the year I
I'm not sure what I can say about this massive tome that hasn't been said before, but I came, I read, and I conquered. I also really enjoyed it along the way, which says a lot due to my struggle with committing to massive books. :) Does anyone know if there will be a new book-to-screen adaptation of this one in the near future, or if the old mini series is worth the time? Anyway, I'm satisfied and a tiny bit relieved to be finished. <3 Thanks to everyone who pushed me to make 2019 the year I picked up
and for all the people who cheered me on along the way.
Dear Stephen,
I'm sorry. I just don't like you in that way. I know we've been friends for a long time, but I just never developed those kind of feelings for you, even after eleven hundred pages. I feel like we only moved forward in fits and stops, and we were just never able to sustain a kind of even-handed development of the kind of chills and thrills a person really likes. Shock someone enough times with snot running out of their nose, and it just becomes a little meaningless. And there are onl
I'm sorry. I just don't like you in that way. I know we've been friends for a long time, but I just never developed those kind of feelings for you, even after eleven hundred pages. I feel like we only moved forward in fits and stops, and we were just never able to sustain a kind of even-handed development of the kind of chills and thrills a person really likes. Shock someone enough times with snot running out of their nose, and it just becomes a little meaningless. And there are only so many ways to view a dead body before one gets kind of numb instead of apprehensive. Using the journal device to move things forward seems a little crude, when what we really need to do is talk.
I have to confess, I've felt kind of uncomfortable watching you struggle with religion and spirituality. You sparked my interest when you posited that this might be the battle between the age of reason and that of "irrationalism," and the dark man was the last vestige of doomed rationalism. I thought for a few minutes we were headed somewhere really special, but you didn't seem very confident, and the theme fell apart.
I will say there were a few surprises along the way, which I found pleasant. I appreciate you avoiding the obvious character arcs, especially when it comes to redemption. I was glad to meet most of your friends, especially Joe/Leo, Stu and even Kojak. Your military friends bored me out, though, especially Starkey; I don't even get why you like spending any time with those guys. Such a bunch of fossils. I do have to say, I was really impressed with how you must have studied disease modelling and progression--I almost felt like was there.
Sometimes I get the feeling that you don't really see me as a person, just a baby-maker. You even have an extended soliloquy about it, as if I wasn't even here reading your words. It bothers me, because you took the time to develop nuanced male relationships (Larry, Stu, Lloyd), but the women were about reproducing or were cannon fodder. Since you allowed technology to remain, I'm not going to buy into your lowest most-functional society mentality, no matter how many sociological theories you throw at me. And then there's the elderly black woman as representation of all that's spiritual. Perhaps even Mother Earth? If I'm rolling my eyes, it's because it's another aspect of compartmentalizing women as either maiden, matron or crone, and people of color as closer to God(s)(being savage and all, as you so helpfully illustrate in your "The Circle Closes" afterward). Honestly, it's kind of juvenile, and a little disappointing when I know you are capable of so much more.
It's time for me to move on. I'm sure you'll find someone special eventually, Stephen, because you are such a really great guy. And so unusual, too.
With Three Stars,
Your Friend Always.
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Petrik
This is the biggest single book I've ever read in my life so far—It's 470k words and it's even bigger than Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson—and although it doesn't go into my personal favorite list, I enjoyed the majority of the book.
The Stand is totally not what I expected. I really thought this would be a super thrilling plot-driven with a lot of actions book due to the nature that the story revolves around a plague out
The Stand is totally not what I expected. I really thought this would be a super thrilling plot-driven with a lot of actions book due to the nature that the story revolves around a plague outbreak. As it turns out, The Stand is a HIGHLY characters' driven book with the plot moving at a very slow pace, and as great as it was, sometimes it did get a bit excruciating.
One of the two that stands out the most from this book—other than the gigantic size—in my opinion was the theological nature and the classic tale of a battle between good versus evil.
There are a lot of symbolism to the aspect of light versus darkness here. To give one example of many, with the country being ravaged by the outbreak, the survivors ended up joining either Mother Abagail's group (the good) or Randal Flagg's group (the evil); Mother Abagail is located in the East (where the sun rises every day) and Randal Flagg is located in the West (where the sun set). I enjoyed reading almost all the characters' perspectives and survivor's tales and I really think if you love a HEAVY theological talk in your fiction, this is a must-read.
Other than the theological talk, the characters were almost absolutely delightful to read. The characters developments in this book were astounding to say the least and it was awesome to see how far these characters changed from where they began. Plus, Stephen King writes very unconventional and memorable characters in The Stand such as Nick, Tom Cullen, Randal Flagg, Harold, Larry, and Mother Abagail to name a few.
Now, the parts that didn't work for me. First being Stephen King's prose took quite a while for me to get used to. Second, and probably my major problem with the book, The Trashcan's man chapters were atrocious. I didn't enjoy any moment reading his POV, it was messy, felt juvenile, and during my time reading it, I knew immediately this his meeting with the Kid was going to be the one that was cut out from the first published edition of this book, and I was right. It was a painful 70 pages chapter which in my opinion offer close to zero points to the story. Finally, with a book this HUGE, I really expected the ending to blow me away but the ending ended up being anti-climactic. I also can't help but think that the first edition of this book (the 800 pages one) would probably be a better experience. Stephen King received the title "word diarrhea" for a great reason and a lot of the words in this book in my opinion definitely deserves to be flushed.
Overall though, I think The Stand is still overall a great book. Even though it's not a genre that I dive into frequently, I found myself amazed by the characterizations and compelled to read what happened to most of the characters. It's unfortunate that there were a few hiccups with the pacing and ending but I still will recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed a heavy theological discussion and memorable characters in their read. Thank you also to my good friend, Celeste, for giving me this book as a late birthday present!
goodness me, this book was a chore. it took me nearly a month to finish and by the 12 day mark i was really regretting reading the unabridged version. and along the way, i realised that this is a classic case of me liking the idea of the book so much more than the book itself, which is so unfortunate.
i thought the beginning started off really strong. i was enjoying seeing how the plague affected everyone differently and the lengths everyone had to take to survive the mass confusion and looming
i thought the beginning started off really strong. i was enjoying seeing how the plague affected everyone differently and the lengths everyone had to take to survive the mass confusion and looming death. oh, and nick. nick is the best thing to come out of fiction since i dont know when. and although an attachment to a character is enough motivation to finish a book, its sometimes not enough to actually enjoy the book entirely.
what really made me check out was when the dreams started becoming a major focal point to the plot. i just could not get behind the whole mother abigail vs. randall flagg story line. i understand that stephen king has wonderful and deep messages in his books, but if im not really engaged with the story, then im not going to invest the extra time to try to analyse everything. so i know i missed out there, but i cant bring myself to care more about it.
so what began as an interesting story turned into a very religious subtext of good vs. evil. its an ambitious story, but one i just wasnt quite feeling by the end.
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The Stand by Stephen King
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or......
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