I'm working on a hardware purchase for a new firewall for home use. My primary drivers for selecting this equipment are equipment longevity/reliability, passive cooling, size, and electrical consumption. It'll be running openvpn for windows machines, IPSEC VPN for Android and iOS, serving up my 15 meg cablemodem connection, and running a captive wireless portal for guests. And maybe a few other things like SFTP/FTPS for file transfers to family. Here's the hardware I was considering. I wanted to see if anyone could spot any problems with using PFSense on this since this is my first foray into using PFSense. I have an extensive Linux background so I'm comfortable giving it a try, but I'm not at all familiar with the hardware support of the various BSD's/versions, so any comments or suggestions are welcome.
This way I can replace/upgrade the wireless card.
I read that 802.11n isn't supported yet in 2.0, not sure if that is still true or not in 2.1, I haven't read that far yet. If not, will this card work in B/G modes? The antennas are only 2.4GHZ. Can I disable the 5GHZ band in PFSense? Open to suggestions for the wireless.
The disk alternative is that the board is capable of booting from a USB stick. I could get a low profile USB and boot/run from that, which would save $100. From what I've read in the forums that should work ok for now. I'll probably go SSD or USB though for the power and cooling savings over traditional spinning disk, and it keeps this entire system to zero moving parts.
The Intel 6200 is not n the supported hardware list (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html). Most of the supported Intel WiFi adapters are not supported for operation in Access Point mode.
802.11n is not yet supported in FreeBSD/pfSense though some 802.11n capable WiFi NICs will operate in "802.11g compatibility" mode. The Tenda W311U and and TP-Link TL-WN321G are both supported WiFi USB NICs capable of operating in AP mode. External 802.11n APs are also available quite economically.
It would probably be worthwhile searching the pfSense forums for reports on the net-6501. If I recall correctly some people have had problems installing pfSense on them.
How do I know which ones are supported in access point mode? The hardware compatibility list doesn't say anything about that.
The hardware compatibility list tells you the names of drivers for WiFi devices. The man page for the driver (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi) gives the modes supported by the corresponding driver.
The web page Steve linked to is probably a better resource in its likely to provide some starting points more quickly than grinding through the man pages.
A difficulty in this area is that many of the suppliers of WiFi devices change chipsets in their devices without changing model numbers. This makes it a bit of a challenge for someone wanting to buy a supported device.
My previous reply gave a couple of USB WiFi NICS which I have used on pfSense in AP mode.
The first tab has the drivers and what modes they support, the second tab has the drivers and what part numbers/models are supposed to work with those drivers. That part is probably the least accurate, as companies love to rearrange those or re-use model numbers while changing hardware.
I'll have to update or re-do that for pfSense 2.1 when we switch to FreeBSD 9, but I'm not sure it will change a while lot.
I did search the boards, I haven't found any problems with the 6501 except as it relates to USB booting, and I found a few posts where that was working also now that the BIOS has been updated, so I think I'm ok there.
Based on the excellent info compiled by jimp I'm leaning towards the Dlink DWA-556 as its readily available and well supported by the ath driver. I've seen multiple posts where some of the newer atheros chipsets aren't supported, so I'd really like some recommendations on some currently shipping BGN cards that are known working. Preferably atheros based as those seem to be the best supported. I'm not a big fan of Dlink cards though, had several bad experiences with performance on them, so if there are any other suggestions for known working atheros based cards I'm open to suggestions. In the meantime I'll look at jimps info closer when I have more time tonight.
I'd really like some recommendations on some currently shipping BGN cards that are known working.
Lets narrow the problem space a little: PCI-Express? USB? PCI? (PCI with bus adapter?) PCMCIA? (PCMCIA with bus adapter?) Any other requirements (e.g. optional external antenna)?
Regarding "currently shipping cards known working": many (probably most) suppliers of WiFi cards quietly change the chipset, even the brand of chipset without changing the model number of the card. I might suggest a DLink xyz on the grounds that the one I bought six months ago works fine but, in the meantime, DLink has changed the xyz from Atheros chipset (supported in pfSense) to TI chipset (unsupported in pfSense). See the discussion on the TP-Link WN422G in this forum for one particular example.
802.11N support isn't really present in pfSense 2.0 or 2.0.1. Some chipsets that support 802.11N work in pfSense in 802.11G compatible mode, others maybe not. If you really need 802.11N now you would be better off with an external AP.
If you don't mind paying a bit extra you could ask a vendor selling pfSense appliances for a device known to work with pfSense 2.0 and state up front you expect to return or exchange it if it doesn't work.
The approach I took a few years back (and still take) is to purchase cheap adapters that have been known to use supported chipsets, keep clear of the big suppliers (Netgear, DLink, Linksys, BELKIN) because they have a record of changing chipsets without changing model number, and take my chances. TP-Link devices have given me good service. The chipset in the WN321G (USB) changed some time ago from a supported Ralink chipset to a supported Ralink chipset (different pfSense driver) that needed a small pfSense tweak to get working so that change didn't inconvenience me greatly. The PCI TP-Link card I bought has Atheros chipset and it has worked fine but seems to be no longer available and I haven't tried its replacement.
I'm happy to make some more specific suggestions when I see some more details of your constraints.
Yeah, I saw that about the suppliers changing chipsets. That's why I'm putting in some effort up front to try and find a card that I know will work so I don't have to mess around with it or do returns.
It has to work in the Soekris Net6501, so my limitations are either PCI Express X1 or mini PCI Express. And I want the ability to do multiple SSID's also so I can have my normal wireless network and a simultaneous guest network, which is why I wanted the Atheros chipset. I don't really want a USB as those tend to have more transmit signal loss or less sensitive receive antennas, IE less range, or not have the multiple radios. I was originally looking for mini PCI but I haven't seen a mini PCI to PCI Express X1 adapter card like the PCI Express to mini PCI Express like the one in my first post, so I've got to be PCI express format. Otherwise it'd be somewhat easier. Seems like the majority of mini/PCI Express cards are N or some version including N which I know doesn't work, so between that and PCI Express I'm having a difficult time finding a good card.
There are mini PCI Express cards on Ebay based on Atheros AR5006EXS chipset for about US$12. This post (http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-6816.html) in 2009 suggests the chipset probably works in FreeBSD 8 and hence probably works in pfSense. (To what extent is the AR5006EXS the same as AR5006?) Does it support multi-APs?
It doesn't appear to have 802.11N support so that removes a possible complication.
Worth a try? If you try it, please report back on the outcome.
OK, after more research I found several posts about AR9280 support working on FreeBSD 8.1. I also found a page where the Ubiquiti SR71-E (AR9280) is listed as working well, although that page was in the development branch. Unfortunately there was no date on that particular page but I found several references to regression testing of fixes to AR9280 support in 8.1 RC series which indicates support came prior to 8.1. It's also ABGN. Sounds like that's a good place to start.
If I'm going to take my best shot and try one I might as well try one that's got N support in the hardware so I don't have to replace the card when PFSense 2.1 comes out. In the meantime I can use BG modes.
I'm assuming I can disable the 5 GHZ band radios in PFSense?
OK, so now I have all my hardware and have it assembled and on my desk. I'm REALLY struggling with the install however. I can't use the memstick installer because it requires VGA, and there is no option I can find on the nanobsd images to install to hard drive. I currently have no way of hooking up a CDROM, and even if I could I can't install that way either because of the lack of video card. I found a post that says how to enable the serial console of the memstick, but I have no way to mount the FS to make the modifications. The only way I can get it working currently is to write one of the nanobsd images to a USB stick, then boot/run from that, which I don't really want to do.
How do I do a serial install to a hard drive via USB with no VGA??? Thanks!
I saw that… For a project that supports embedded hardware, to have to take the hard disk out and put it in a full computer to do the install seems awfully complicated when all I need is install media that supports serial console. I thought I had to be missing something.
As that kind of hardware gets more common we will probably work on supporting that more. It wasn't until just a few weeks ago that the Soekris net6501 even supported booting from USB, and the Hamakua didn't as far as I'm aware, so even if we had worked on a way to make that function, we didn't have a way to test it.
Took a while, but I finally have most things running. I ordered the wrong disk adapter board at first… there's a difference between Micro SATA and mSATA. Go figure. Fantastic naming convention there by the way. Not confusing at all. I found the correct one on the second try and did the full install in a computer, remounted the SSD on the Soekris box, then fired it up. Worked like a charm.
I finally configured the wireless in the last hour, and though I have barely used it yet I have succesfully connected and browsed a few web pages using the Ubiquiti SR71-E as the wireless card. So I can confirm that works. Or has so far, anyway. I am only running it in G mode, NOT N or A modes as I don't have any wireless hardware that runs those two modes to test with.
I have OpenVPN setup and was able to successfully send traffic across the tunnel one time out of 10 attempts so far... I haven't tried again since that one success. I did notice that while I was able to successfully connect prior to that success, I wasn't able to pass traffic across the VPN connection until I did a full reboot on the firewall. Obviously something is not loading correctly. I spent two nights working on it, and finally out of desperation I tried a restart and it just starts working. YEAH!!!!
TX Power setting, I'm not sure what to set that at, so I'm reading up on that.
IPSEC VPN from my android tablet: so far have been unable to make any connection at all.


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As the Graphic Novel Medium Matures, Older Readers Are Seeing their Lives Reflected in Panels and Prose
Authors and illustrators, now being recognized by literary prize juries, are embracing stories about dementia, nursing homes and growing old disgracefully / BY Nathalie Atkinson / May 20th, 2022
While comics and graphic novels are an increasingly important part of the cultural conversation and publishing landscape, they were thrust into the zeitgeist recently after a Tennessee school board banned a key text. In January, the McMinn County Board of Education voted to remove Maus, American author Art Spiegelman's acclaimed 1980 graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its curriculum, "because of its unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and its depiction of violence and suicide."
The book, about his father's concentration camp experience and the author's relationship with the aging survivor, broke ground on many fronts, including widespread recognition for the medium. It's a formally innovative graphic novel – in some ways, one of the first attempts to use the comics form for a novel-length story. Spiegelman, now 74, was awarded a special Pulitzer citation in 1992 for the book and, with the recent headlines, Maus raced up the bestseller list once again.
In this editorial cartoon by American artist Andy Marlette, he skewers a Tennessee school board's decision to ban "Maus," Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about his father's Holocaust experience, in which he depicts Nazis as cats and Jewish prisoners as mice. Photo: Reuters
Biff! Bang! Pow!
This isn't a "Hey! Comics Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!" article. That headline was ubiquitous 20 years ago, and I would know, because I've been covering comics, reviewing them and profiling authors since the beginning of my journalism career. Once upon a time, I was also the founding writer of Graphica, the first dedicated graphic-novel review column in an English-language newspaper, for the Globe and Mail. Now there are many more, including at the Guardian and the New York Times, as well as in trade publications like Publishers Weekly. The comics beat is also how I met my partner, Peter (almost 20 years ago to the day), who runs The Beguiling, a renowned Canadian bookseller of comics, graphic novels and manga.
The category has matured in the past couple of decades. Now acclaimed stand-alone specialty houses like Fantagraphics in Seattle and Montreal's own Drawn & Quarterly have risen in prominence, and most major publishing houses have graphic novel imprints, such as First Second at Macmillan, for example.
Because of my bona fides, I'm often asked for advice on graphic novels. Now seems a good time for a primer, not only because of Maus – or because Canada has more than its share of internationally acclaimed luminaries in literary graphic fiction – but because comics are flourishing, and they are, more than ever, exploring relevant themes and issues facing our aging population.
Perhaps you noticed that I said comics — by all means, yes, it's fine to call them that. Most authors and cartoonists do, and almost none call themselves graphic novelists. The publishing industry likes to use that term to differentiate a book with a spine and an ISBN (International Standard Nook Number) from the traditional, serialized pamphlet-like comics on spinner racks (which still exist at comic book shops). Rest assured, it's the same sequential art form as superhero comics and newspaper funnies. The graphic novel classification has just become a way to convey gravitas and suggest that, regardless of subject matter, what's between the covers should be taken seriously as literature.
But let's get one thing out of the way right now: call them comics, call them graphic novels, but do not call it a genre — it's a medium – because it covers everything from historical fiction and memoir to social issues and true crime.
For a deep dive, there's Scott McCloud's foundational work, Understanding Comics, a guide that explores the formal aspects and visual language, and takes the form of a comic book itself. But if you've ever read a comic strip in a newspaper, you'll instinctively get the hang of it — really, you can just start reading. Most European and North American comics can be read like any other book: you start in the top left-hand corner and read from left to right, making your way down the page.
With that orientation out of the way, here are a few new outstanding titles to start your TBR (to be read) pile.
Canadian Content
Canada has an established canon from its own talent, which began in the 1990s with homegrown cartoonists who rose to fame as the medium matured. Chester Brown reimagined the possibilities of historical biography in 2003 with Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, for example, as did cartoonist Ho Che Anderson's landmark 1993 graphic novel biography King, in which the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn in expressionistic style.
Fast forward a couple decades to 2020, when Clyde Fans by one-name-only author Seth (a magnum opus about a failing Canadian family business, drawn and written over 20 years) was the first graphic novel long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. (The Guelph. Ont.-based author hosted a Giller panel on the medium last spring.) In the fall of 2021, Joe Ollmann's Fictional Father made the shortlist for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. There have been recent international laurels, too: In March, Quebec cartoonist Julie Doucet was honoured with the Grand Prix d'Angoulême, the annual French festival's top career honour. (She's only the third woman to receive it).
Medical non-fiction has become a significant sub-genre of memoir and non-fiction, and graphic novels are no exception. It is interesting that they are often created by nonprofessional artists and, in some cases lapsed artists, or hobbyists rediscovering their love of the comics medium. It's a case where being slightly rough around the edges isn't a drawback, since it emphasizes the intimate and personal nature of the projects.
Start with Dying for Attention, Halifax visual artist Susan MacLeod's recent graphic memoir about navigating nine years of long-term care for her 90-year-old mother, from Nova Scotia-based comics publisher Conundrum Press. "My thinking was, I'm at this age, I want to use it," she says of renewing and expanding her relationship with drawing. After publishing this, her first graphic novel, in her 60s, she did wonder whether it would be widely read by middle-aged women. New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast's bestselling graphic memoir, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, about coping with the aging and loss of her parents, "was my inspiration to keep going," says MacLeod.
Dying for Attention is a candid look at the failings of the elder care system (and its fallout on her personal life), but MacLeod also interviews experts, like family therapists, and it's surprisingly lighthearted. The memoir comes with actionable prompts for those facing the daunting process of shepherding a parent into a nursing home. Anticipating reader response, MacLeod created how-to podcast episodes with titles such as, What to Think of Before the Move, Navigating an Unnavigable System and How to Downsize. "This is the book I that I would have wanted to have," MacLeod has said.
Caregiving and Self-Care
Special Exits, by American underground cartoonist Joyce Farmer, deserves a shout-out here because the 2010 book was among the first to tackle caring for elderly parents in failing health. Likewise, Spanish artist Paco Roca's Wrinkles is set in a home for the elderly, the follow-up to his graphic novel, House, about downsizing the parental home, healing broken relationships and the memories of childhood. In Wrinkles, the story revolves around a retired bank manager who's thrust into assisted living when his Alzheimer's disease becomes too much for his son and daughter-in-law to handle. Roca offers insights into dementia and its vagaries by shifting the point of view and narrative subjectivity from father to son to daughter-in-law. In 2014, Wrinkles was also made into an animated drama with Martin Sheen voicing the main character.
Like many comics in this sub-genre, these books deal with aging and resistant parents whose children have conflicted feelings, from guilt to responsibility. In No One Else, R. Kikuo Johnson – a cartoonist and illustrator from the Hawaiian island of Maui – creates a family drama and explores the relationship dynamics of a self-sacrificing daughter, her son and her deadbeat brother. Charlene is a conscientious nurse who's left to care for her aging father alone. It explores sibling indifference, and the milestones, recriminations and challenges children face as their parents age. Bleak yet empathetic, it's engrossing and full of both anguish and serenity – or maybe something more like resignation. It came out in December 2021, more than 15 years after Johnson's acclaimed debut, Night Fisher, because he had since become a noted illustrator (you'll recognize his style from many New Yorker covers). It was well worth the wait; if it were any more restrained, Chekhov himself would have drawn it.
If the diversity of material covered by North American and European comics seems vast and overwhelming, it's even more so with manga in Japan. Manga (the Japanese term for comics) exist on any imaginable subject, and one of the juggernaut genres is called BL, which stands for boys' love, a.k.a gay romance, which is aimed at a female audience.
It's sometimes more challenging to find an entry point for older audiences, but now BL Metamorphosis, the award-winning, five-book series by Kaori Tsurutani, has been translated into English. It's the closely observed story about an unlikely cross-generational friendship that forms between an elderly woman and a teenage girl. The 75-year-old inadvertently buys BL manga one day, and she and the bookstore clerk develop a friendship through their shared fandom that's quirky and uplifting, and allows them both to grow in unexpected ways.
Growing Old Disgracefully
The Old Geezers by Wilfrid Lupano and Paul Cauuet was such a huge hit in its native France that they made it into the movie, Tricky Old Dogs, in 2018. It's about three septuagenarians who have been friends since childhood, and toggles between the 1950s and present day to examine political, social and cultural upheaval. It's broadly comedic (think: a political Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and, told in vignettes and stories, it's drawn in the Franco-Belgian comics style familiar to those who grew up reading Asterix – it has both the same line quality and element of humorous caricature.
Moms by Yeong-Shin Ma was inspired by the cartoonist's mother and her circle of friends, which is a brave thing to admit, because to call the rivalries and romantic entanglements of these Korean women in their 50s and 60s engaging is an understatement. They're like Real Housewives of Seoul, if the housewives were living paycheque to paycheque as night janitors or in other working-class jobs. And I've recommended Hiromi Goto's Shadow Life before, but the Japanese-Canadian author's work is worth a reminder. Her story of a strong-willed mother who opts for independent living in Vancouver's gay village over an assisted living facility is a rousing ode to defiant older women.
Some of these graphic novels may catch your imagination by description alone, but what matters is that the visual style resonates. When it comes to overall effect, there's as much variety in the medium as there is between the spare style of Rachel Cusk, a Gary Shteyngart satire and the lush high modernism of Zadie Smith; the artist's hand is no different than the prose writer's voice.
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The Fairy Tale Ends: Cap'n Crunch And Maxine Waters Have Filed For Divorce After 27 Years Of Marriage
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Though celebrity marriages come and go, there are those rare few that seem built to stand the test of time—the ones where the couples are so adorably head-over-heels for one another that it gives you hope in the power of true love. Sadly, one of those seemingly perfect celebrity unions has now come to an end: Cap'n Crunch and U.S. congresswoman Maxine Waters have officially filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage.
This is so heartbreaking. The two of them seemed so happy together.
For nearly three decades, Crunch and Rep. Waters have been one of America's most beloved celebrity couples, living out a fairy tale romance on red carpets and in tabloids. The pair first met at a Weight Watchers meeting in 1989, but absolutely hated each other, and only started dating after they discovered they shared a mutual dislike for little kids who fly kites in public parks. Over the course of 30 consecutive dates to the dog pound, the two gradually became enamored with one another, and it wasn't long before they fell deeply in love. Their relationship took off just as Waters' political star was starting to rise, and soon the glamorous duo became darlings of the national media, with Time famously declaring them "America's Loudest, Most Sexually Adventurous Couple" in a 1990 cover story.
Maxine Waters and Cap'n Crunch's 1992 wedding was a star-studded, internationally televised affair, attended by A-listers such as Eddie Murphy, Beetlejuice, and Mia Farrow, and was officiated by Nelson Mandela. In the decades that followed, their storybook love became an object of public obsession, with celebrity gossip rags breathlessly documenting their every move, whether they were furiously dry-humping at the Jumanji premiere, furiously dry-humping at the '02 Winter Olympics torch lighting, or furiously dry-humping at Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony.
In a relationship that featured no known scandals or extramarital affairs, Crunch and Waters were often looked to as a shining example of a strong, healthy marriage, making the sudden announcement of their divorce all the more shocking. In a statement released through his publicist, Crunch opened up about the split:
"After 27 years, I have decided that I must divorce my old wife, and the reason for that is that yesterday she said, 'I'm going to pinch you, Cap'n Crunch,' and chased me up and down the stairs for three hours, scaring me greatly. I no longer feel safe in the same house with her, so now I am divorcing her."
However, in a statement of her own, Waters offered a seemingly different explanation for the breakup:
"I divorced Cap'n Crunch because he looks weird. I think he might be a Muppet or something."
Whatever the true reason for the divorce, it's nonetheless sad to see a union that for years was vaunted as a model of marital stability come to such an abrupt conclusion. This is undoubtedly a difficult time for Cap'n Crunch and Maxine Waters, but both have made it clear that they're looking forward to the next chapter in their lives, with Crunch indicating that he's going to become a missionary in China, while Waters says, "I am going to sit in my La-Z-Boy and read a Where's Waldo? book until I pass away."
While it's heartbreaking to see them split, we wish both Crunch and Waters the best of luck in whatever their futures hold.


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Joe Krovoza - Former Davis Mayor, Associate Director for The Institute of Transportation and The Energy Efficiency Center.
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Kathleen Dean Moore speaks about "Moral Ground: Ethical Actions for a Planet in Peril." Introduced by Geology graduate student Julie Griffith.
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Opening to the Third Annual 2015 Interfaith Climate Conference. Recorded by Davis Media Access at the University Covenant Church, March 7, 2015.
Kathleen Dean Moore on the "Moral Urgency of Climate Action"
Kathleen Dean Moore speaks on the "Moral Urgency of Climate Action" on March 6th at the Davis Veterans Memorial Theater.
This event was sponsored by Cool Davis and recorded by Davis Media Access.
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Autumn Labbe-Renault hosts Pieter Pastoor, Volunteer TV Producer/DJ and Sam Hawk, Volunteer TV Producer.
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Imposition/Dark Mysticism/2016 Full Length Review
Imposition are a band from Australia that plays and ambient form of black metal and this is a review of their self released album "Dark Mysticism".
Ambient style synths start off the album and also adds in touches of dungeon synth and after the intro the music goes into a heavier and melodic direction and blast beats can also be heard in the faster sections of t he songs and they also mix the heavy and atmospheric parts together and the vocals are mostly grim black metal screams.
Most of the music is heavily rooted in the early 90's and you can also hear all of the musical instruments that are present on the recording and the fast riffs also use a decent amount of tremolo picking which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling and psychedelic elements can also be heard at times and guitar leads are also used briefly and a couple of the tracks are long and epic in length and they also bring in an ambient instrumental before closing the album with a heavier track.
Imposition plays a musical style that takes and early 90's style of black metal and mixes it in with elements of ambient to create something different, the production sounds very raw and old school while the lyrics cover dark and occult themes.
In my opinion Imposition are a very great sounding ambient black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Sons Of The Full Moon" and "Dark mysticism". 8 out of 10.
Source : http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.com/2016/12/impositiondark-mysticism2016-full.html
Wormlight Interview
Wormlight is a melodic black metal band from Sweden formed in 2014. By King Antichrist and Deafeathered.Soon Lator Mortis joined them and they recorded and released their first demo/Ep "An Ancient Enemy" that same year. Shortly after the release Arktos joined the band. After some major changes in the band I joined in time for the recording of the "Bloodfields" Ep. After the recording of the Ep Nordlyst left the band and I took up the vocals as well.
2.So far you have released 2 ep's, how would you describe the musical sound that is presented on both of the recordings?
The first Ep "An Ancient Enemy" was a "no-budget" recording that served its purpose to give form to shapeless ideas and to give the band an identity.
"The Bloodfields" was recorded in a studio, which gives the Ep a different sound quality and character compared to the first. The re-recording of "The Bloodfields" was a result of big changes within the band, yet it serves as a transition. The tracks "Pitch black hatred" and "Towards Impious Domination" can be seen as the death of Unhallowed , as the "Wormlight" and "The Bloodfields" can be seen as the birth of Wormlight. And with this rebirth the lyrical themes and visions for the band has seen some changes.
On "An Ancient Enemy" the lyrical theme was more centered on Anti Christianity and Devil worship. On "Bloodfields" the transition to the themes surrounding death and the anti-cosmic begun. An essence that will permeate the coming albums, even when the lyrical theme itself may take the focus elsewhere. The next album will primarily focus on some of the creatures of the old Norse mythology and folklore.
4.Originally the band was called 'Unhallowed', what was the cause of the name change and also the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Wormlight'?
In 2015 when I joined the band after Deafeathered's departure, there were already plans for the recording of the Bloodfields Ep. And we entered the studio shortly after. Some time later Nordlyst chose to depart, and i took the role of vocalist as well as guitar. This left us with a new band structure, influences and sound. A name change came natural to represent this rebirth.
The name itself symbolises the death, eating away the blind eye of man, so that you may once again see far beyond the false light and stare into the void.
5.What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and also how would you describe your stage performance?
The best show we have had so far is the most reason one. The show we played to celebrate the re-release of our EP and its physical release on the third of December together with some other acts at "Klubb:Fördärv" with sold out tickets.
The performance acts as a threshold. It is best experienced at the shows.
6.Do you have any touring or show plans for the future?
We have some shows planned for next year. But since we are in the middle of recording our full length album, and just finished the work with the bloodfields, we try to put all our energy into the album.
7.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to you music by fans of black metal?
I have gotten positive feedback from those attending the shows, especially on the new material. And the reviews for the "Bloodfields" Ep that we just released worldwide has been great so far.
8.When can we expect a full length album and also where do you see the band heading into musically during the future?
As I stated earlier, we are recording the album at the moment and it will be released in 2017, that much I know. We have performed some of the material live, so a taste of the album can be heard online.
The upcoming album has been written by me from the start to the end, which gives it a consistent sound all the way throughout the record. The album will contain heavier and faster tracks, As well as slower, more melodic parts than before. My voice will change the atmosphere of the vocals, which will affect the interpretation of the sound, yet the essence of the sound remains. We are working on new material for the future and are always planning ahead. But for now all our focus are on the completion of the full lenght album set for release in 2017.
9.What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?
Dissection and Behemoth have been the biggest influences for me of all the bands out there. I have always been drawn to black metal and bands like Ofermod, Watain, Fides Invesa,Funeral Mist, and so on. Lately I've been listening a lot to Summoning.
10.How would you describe your views on Paganism and Anti Christianity?
Paganism has always been an interesting subject to me. Especially the Norse and Hellenistic religions with its gods,creatures and magic of old. The Chaos-Gnosticism being the foundation of my studies together with the anti-cosmic Satanism, the doorway to the mysteries of the creation of the true Norse gods is open. The occult studies takes you to the most far out corners of all that is known and unknown. So the defiance towards the sole creator that the word "pagan" represents, is indeed important to me.
Most of my spare time evolves around music in some way, either i play,compose or listens to music. Or I am reading a lot of books to find inspiration for lyrics. Since I also write music and lyrics for my other band Sons Ov Omega, music is given most of my time.
We will play a show in Umeå on the 18th of February as support for the release of Sons Ov Omega's debut album. Keep a lookout for the next Wormlight album. The title of the album
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Source : http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.com/2016/12/wormlight-interview.html
Nachtzeit/Sagor I Natten/Nordvis Produktion/2016 EP Review
Nachtzeit are a solo project from Sweden that plays a very minimalistic, monotonous and primitive form of Nordic black metal and this is a review of his 2016 ep "Sagor I Natten" which will be released on December 23rd by Nordvis Produktion.
A very fast and raw black metal sound starts off the ep along with a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats and the music is also very heavily rooted in the 90's second wave tradition and after awhile high pitched screams make their presence known on the recording and the riffs also bring in a small amount of melody.
Most of the songs stick to a very fast musical direction and the music sounds like it could of easily been recorded and released more than 20 years ago and there is also a brief epic synth instrumental before closing the ep with a heavier track and none of the songs ever use any solo and leads and the last track is long and epic in length..
Nachzeit plays a style of Nordic black metal that is very raw and heavily rooted in the 90's second wave tradition, the production sounds very raw and old school while the lyrics are written in Swedish and cover nature and philosopshy themes.
In my opinion Nachzeit are a very great sounding minimalistic, monotonous and primitive Nordic black metal solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Ett Fjarran Minne" and "Dar Allting Har Sin Borjan". 8 out of 10.
Source : http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.com/2016/12/nachtzeitsagor-i-nattennordvis.html
Siberian Hell Sounds/Svengali/Art As Catharsis Records/2016 EP Review
Siberian Hell Sounds are a band from Australia that plays a very raw form of blackened crust/grind and this is a review of their 2016 ep :Svengali" which was released by Art As Catharsis Records.
Spoken word samples and amp sounds start off the ep before going into more of a dark yet melodic direction and when the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats and tremolo picking can be heard which also gives the music more of a raw feeling along with some high pitched black metal screams.
Crust and hardcore style shouting is also used on a regular basis and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with some d beat elements and the faster sections of the tracks also brings in the raw energy of grindcore and spoken words are also used on other songs as well as well as a small amount of death metal growls and the music also adds in touches of noise and power violence.
Siberian Hell Sounds plays a musical style that takes raw black metal, crust, grind and post hardcore and mixes them together to create a sound of their own, the production sounds very dark, raw and heavy while the lyrics are a concept album based upon the sacrifice of one's own body to the mind of the other.
In my opinion Siberian Hell Sounds are a very great sounding blackened crust/grind band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE 'Seed" and "Svengali". 8 out of 10.
Source : http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.com/2016/12/siberian-hell-soundssvengaliart-as.html
Maldoror/In Saturn Mystique/Rude Awakening Records/2016 CD Re-Issue Review
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Maldoror where a band from Italy that played an occult form of black metal and this is a review of their 2000 album "In Saturn Mystique" which was re-issued in 2016 by Rude Awakening Records.
Melodic Gregorian chants and keyboards start off the album and after the intro the music starts getting more heavy and melodic while also keeping the keys and adding in high pitched black metal screams and the solos and leads also use a great amount of melody and most of the tracks are very long and epic in length.
Ritualistic spoken word parts can also be heard at times and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to t hem and death metal growls are also used at times and when the music speeds up a decent amount of blast beats can be heard and the music has a style that was very common during the mid 90's and tremolo picking can be heard in some of the faster riffing and there is also a brief use of industrial elements on a couple of songs.
Maldoror played a keyboard orientated style of black metal that was very common in the 90's while also being more ritualistic, the production sounds very powerful for the era it was recorded while the lyrics cover Occultism and Esoteric themes.
In my opinion Maldoror where a very great sounding keyboard orientated occult black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this re-issue. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "E.O.N Mysterium" "Osiris Elettro Mantrum" and "Hod". 8 out of 10.
Source : http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.com/2016/12/maldororin-saturn-mystiquerude.html
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Lasius alienus é uma espécie de insetos himenópteros, mais especificamente de formigas pertencente à família Formicidae.

A autoridade científica da espécie é Foerster, tendo sido descrita no ano de 1850.

Trata-se de uma espécie presente no território português.

Referências
 Lasius alienus - de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2013) Fauna Europaea version 2.6. Web Service available online at http://www.faunaeur.org (consultado em 14 de janeiro de 2014).

Ligações externas

 Lasius alienus - Biodiversity Heritage Library - Bibliografia
 Lasius alienus - NCBI Taxonomy Database
 Lasius alienus - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
 Lasius alienus - Encyclopedia of Life

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Today – yes, today – is my fiftieth birthday. I've been celebrating all weekend with my best friend, and there's a party tonight. But right now, I'm taking a bit of time alone, with cat, and being me, I'm reflecting.
Many authors have written on that theme, and I can't best them, so I'm not going to try. My reflection today is about how different fifty seems now that I've reached it than when the women who shaped my life were reaching this age.
When my mother and my aunts turned fifty, it was unimaginably old. They were quite definitely grown-ups – fun grown-ups, but grown-ups. Now I wonder if they felt as I do – that the kid in me is still dominant. And I don't only mean in terms of playing, but in doubt, and fear, and especially, hope. Did they doubt the choices they had made and were making? Did they fear as I do that they have not achieved what they "should" (whatever the hell that means), or that they were not the woman they had wanted to be? Did they still hope for more, more, more? Did they still want to try new things with the abandon of a child, or did they hold back, because they were adults, and they weren't "allowed"?
Well, now it's my turn. And for future reference, I still doubt, and fear, and hope, and play. There is fear, but also joy. And damn, fifty is feeling good.
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Right now, I am sitting in a hotel room in Las Vegas. I've been up for hours, due to the time difference, and unable to do much due to pain from a recurring injury. So, I'm watching Law & Order (thank God), reading, playing on the iPad, and trying to form coherent thoughts. No, not simultaneously.
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Dreamsongs: Volume II, by George R. R. Martin
Dreamsongs: Volume II
Dreamsongs: Volume II was originally the second half of the limited edition GRRM: A Rretrospective from Subterranean Press. Dreamsongs collects a wide range of George R. R. Martin's short fiction, including some never before published work as well as his juvenilia.
Volume II opens with two of GRRM's Haviland Tuf stories, "A Beast for Norn" and "Guardians". The first story was a bit of a slow opener as I tried to work out why GRRM was so enamored with this characters and what about Tuf would merit a series of stories as well as a published collection of Tuf stories. "A Beast for Norn" was similar to some of Martin's earlier SF work, which evinced a coldness of tone and setting. Tuf brokered deals to sell exotic beasts to various sects on a planet, to catastrophic results. "A Beast for Norn" did not quite get into the head of Haviland Tuf or really get into his motivations. But, it was interesting enough. "Guardians", however, was a much stronger story. This time our intrepid ecological engineer maneuvers his way into assisting a planet under siege by never before seen sea creatures. Finally we understand who Tuf is and how he acts, though there is an untold backstory just waiting to be explored. "Guardians" was a much stronger, richer story than "A Beast for Norn" was.
The next section contains two screenplays. The first is an unaired Twilight Zone episode written by GRRM, the second the original version of the pilot episode to a show called "Doorways". The Twilight Zone ep was interesting enough. It contained some chills with the thought of a mysterious man in the daughter's room that nobody else can see, and the by the end we get what felt like a typical Twilight Zone twist, but the screenplay was a short, decent read. I think I would rather read a story treatment of this ep instead of the ep itself, but the chance to read some of Martin's Hollywood work is a treat.
Better still is the original pilot to Doorways. The episode was filmed, but not this original version. Think of a different, less campy version of Sliders and you'll have an idea. There are doorways between alternate realities, which is always entertaining, only this time there are men hunting another (the woman, Cat) first into our reality, and then across others. In this episode we see the Cuban Missile Crisis gone far wrong, and another where America has devolved into warring states. There are so many options, but Martin tells a tight story, keeps things focused, and really delivers with this pilot to "Doorways". Well done, sir.
Section IV is two excerpts from the Wild Cards mosaic novels, one about The Turtle, another from Book IV, the Journals of Xavier Desmond. I'll confess that I skipped this section. I've read the Turtle story from Wild Cards I and I plan to read Wild Cards IV soon. The Turtle story is a good one. I'll say that much.
Martin closes out the set with the fourth and final Section which he introduces as stories of "the heart in conflict with itself". Overall I was less impressed with this set than some of Martin's earlier work, except for two stories. Not surprisingly, I was impressed with "The Hedge Knight", the first Ice and Fire prequel story. "The Hedge Knight" was originally collected in the Legends anthology, but I had not read the story before (despite having read most of that anthology), and revisiting Westeros in an earlier time was a treat. I want to know more of Dunk and Egg. The second story I wanted to note was "The Skin Trade", Martin's werewolf story which is less about werewolves and more about identity – mixed in with violence and brutality. The other stories, even the odd painting story to close out this volume, were less memorable to me.
Overall, the two volumes of Dreamsongs should be required reading for anyone who only knows George R. R. Martin as the guy who writes the Ice and Fire novels. The man's career is much deeper and broader than that. So many of his stories are worth the time to read and there is no better chance than the Dreamsongs collections as his previous short story collections are difficult to find and this is a career retrospective containing his best and more representational work. It's damn good.
With that said, I think Volume I is a stronger set than Volume II. There is more fiction, and the stories stand out more in Volume I than in Volume II. I enjoyed Volume II, but I am more likely to pick up Volume I to re-read and if I had to give a recommendation for only one, it would be the first. But find them both, if possible. It's quality reading. Good Mr. Martin is quite a damn fine writer.
Whenever GRRM finishes Ice and Fire, I would love to see what he writes next. Whatever it is, it'll be something none of us expect. Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy...most likely it'll be a blend of all three. And more.
Thoughts on Dreamsongs: Volume I
Posted by Joe on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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Q: Error While calling a function in PySpark I created a simple function in PySpark which swaps the key,value pair and return it.
def swap(x):
    swapped = lambda x: (x[1],x[0])
    return swapped

I have an RDD which gives the count of words in a file:
wordsCount = wordsSplit.reduceByKey(lambda a,b: (a+b))

Now, when I call the function to swap key,value pairs, it throws an error:
wordsCountSwap = wordsCount.map(swap)
wordsCountSwap.collect()

Error:
Caused by: org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonException: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/sumit/spark-2.2.0-bin-hadoop2.7/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/worker.py", line 177, in main
    process()
  File "/home/sumit/spark-2.2.0-bin-hadoop2.7/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/worker.py", line 172, in process
    serializer.dump_stream(func(split_index, iterator), outfile)
  File "/home/sumit/spark-2.2.0-bin-hadoop2.7/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/serializers.py", line 272, in dump_stream
    bytes = self.serializer.dumps(vs)
  File "/home/sumit/spark-2.2.0-bin-hadoop2.7/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/serializers.py", line 447, in dumps
    return pickle.dumps(obj, protocol)
TypeError: expected string or Unicode object, NoneType found

Can anyone help me out?
P.S.: I'm able to perform the same task by using a simple lambda expression!
swap = lambda x : (x[1],x[0])
wordsCountSwap = wordsCount.map(swap)
wordsCountSwap.collect()

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PS: I'm able to perform the same task using simple lambda expression!

And that is a perfectly valid way to do what you want.
rdd.map(lambda x : (x[1], x[0])).collect()

The def approach is simply replacing lambda with def, and adding a return, not adding another function in between.
def swap(x):
  return x[1], x[0]

rdd.map(swap).collect()

To see it more visually, take the Scala approach
rdd.map(_ => swap(_))

Becomes
rdd.map(swap)

Where the map argument (a single RDD record) is passed implicitly to the function, which only accepts one parameter

A: In your swap function, you didn't call the swapped lambda function to return the swapped tuple but returned the lambda function itself.
A simple fix would be:
def swap(x):
    swapped = lambda x: (x[1],x[0])
    return swapped(x)
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Delicate Flowers of Carved Wood by Yoshihiro Suda Spring Out from Cracks
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Concerned with the ways artworks relate to their surroundings, Yoshihiro Suda often tucks his naturalistic flowers inside small cracks and holes where they'd grow naturally. While his pieces are remarkable comparisons to living florals, though, their compositions differ: Suda carves each African violet, rose, and morning glory completely out of wood.
The Japanese artist includes intricate details like leaf veins and small punctures in the petals, adding to their realistic qualities. "I think art can change our perspective and ways of thinking. It encourages us to see things that we otherwise might miss," he said in a statement.
Suda was raised in the Yamanashi prefecture near Mt. Fuji in a region full of natural beauty, prompting his admiration for "nature, materials, details, and small objects." He works within the tradition of Japanese woodcarving and invokes the art of netsuke, the miniature sculptures that came into fashion in the 17th century.
If you're in Tokyo, stop by The Ginza Space before March 22 to see Suda's work in person. Otherwise, see which delicate pieces he has available on Artsy. (via Spoon & Tamago)
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